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Speaker 1: Welcome to Week four, and welcome to another edition between

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Speaker 1: the Horn Present about your Southern California Toyota Dealers. The

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Speaker 1: Rams are two and one heading to Levi's in Santa

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Speaker 1: Clara from Monday Night Football. That means DeMarco far it

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Speaker 1: is forty Niners week. Here we go again. In fact,

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Speaker 1: these two teams are gonna be five times in a

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Speaker 1: twelve month span. Wow, JB, you gotta help me on this, man.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how to approach this because when I

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Speaker 1: Sean McVay, they kind of downplay it, right, it's just

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Speaker 1: another week but you But then listen to Aaron Donnalds

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Speaker 1: That's my mindset. So yeah, yeah, forty nine or week,

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Speaker 1: big week, it's bigger than most. Let's get it on.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you've always preached it, I've always lived it.

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Speaker 1: But I do feel like the familiarity between these teams,

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Speaker 1: the roster carryover, and the fact that they've both been

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Speaker 1: competitive now for a stretch including life Yours NFC Championship game,

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Speaker 1: means the locker rooms are finally bought in completely to

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Speaker 1: this robbery as well. Let's introduce Erica tamp pose to it, Ricky, Hollywood,

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Speaker 1: how's your week going so far? Oh it's going well.

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Speaker 1: What are you guys gonna do for Sunday? It's a

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Speaker 1: Monday night game? Like? Is Sunday just a treasured day

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Speaker 1: of watching real other games? Or are you guys just

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Speaker 1: don't even know what to do with yourselves? Demarca and

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Speaker 1: I are probably both shaking our heads similarly. Laundry, dishes, childcare, soccer, everything,

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Speaker 1: and a little dash of football. But yeah, it's it's

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Speaker 1: nice to get to watch some games or release some highlights. Yet,

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Speaker 1: how do you guys like my home decor this week?

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Speaker 1: No one's commented on the change over here at the

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Speaker 1: Long Household? What does that say? Love it? That says Rams?

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Speaker 1: That is a recycled piece of printer paper with nice

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Speaker 1: NFC West standings on it. Look you I like that.

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Speaker 1: That's the best I could do, But reinforcements are coming

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Speaker 1: and it's uh, did you get that? Yes? I did

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Speaker 1: actually custom ordered. The turnaround time is amazing. I really

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Speaker 1: do appreciate so normally I don't do this because when

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Speaker 1: everyone plays on a Sunday. I don't think it's really

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Speaker 1: worth monitoring what else is going on in other games,

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Speaker 1: right because you just kind of find out at the

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Speaker 1: end of the day. But Monday night football presents a

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Speaker 1: unique circumstance, I think, because yes, the Rams are on

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Speaker 1: top of the division and before they play in Week four,

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Speaker 1: Seattle is at Detroit, Arizona is at Carolina DeMarco. To

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Speaker 1: assume nothing, but there's a very plausible scenario whereby five

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Speaker 1: fifteen Pacific time on Monday Night, the Rams are gonna

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Speaker 1: be taken the field with a chance to go two

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Speaker 1: games up on the rest of the division, with head

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Speaker 1: to back. Wow. Remember a couple of weeks ago we're

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Speaker 1: talking about Sean mcvaye being under five hundred for the

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Speaker 1: here we are, like you said, with an opportunity to

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Speaker 1: I think they're tough. I'm not sure what Seattle is

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Speaker 1: I think it's been a weird few years for them

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Speaker 1: to mark it's weird. Yeah. So if the Rams, and

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Speaker 1: nice knowing Sunday what you have to work for on

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Speaker 1: Monday night against San Francisco. But Eric, I don't think

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Speaker 1: we've seen the best from the Rams yet. League wide

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Speaker 1: scoring is down, offensive production is down. I don't know

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Speaker 1: This might be the week. Yeah, absolutely, And you said,

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Speaker 1: you know, the whole league maybe down, But who leads

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Speaker 1: and forth, Jimmy g Is has something to prove. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm going all over the place here just like previewing everything,

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Speaker 1: looking at each matchup and unfortunate injuries and stuff that

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Speaker 1: no doubt that the Trey Lance injury was unfortunate for him.

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Speaker 1: offensive line. Look, they've done a great job mixing and

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Speaker 1: But the one thing you can't do, especially against San

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Speaker 1: know what I mean. Yeah, so play with great technique.

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Speaker 1: You've done a fantastic job mixing and match but you've

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Speaker 1: and we can dig into that in just a second.

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Speaker 1: But DeMarco, back to your point, what I'm encouraged by

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Speaker 1: This one surprised me in my study this week. Who

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Speaker 1: do you think behind Cooper cup is second in scrimmage

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Speaker 1: But the way they were finding him in the arm

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Speaker 1: Oh no doubt. And Samson has really come alive. He

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Speaker 1: But going back to that screen game and Matthew Stafford,

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Speaker 1: at that game versus Arizona. He threw it out of

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Speaker 1: The Niners are one and two, But don't blame their

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Speaker 1: But I'm quoting Yahoo here saying that the forty nine

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Speaker 1: that that Broncos forty nine Ers game was something else too,

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Speaker 1: Right to Erica's point, I thought the Rams missed at

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Speaker 1: least four touchdowns last week. One to Alan Robinson, two

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Speaker 1: So there was a lot of good there. I think

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Speaker 1: to go to a higher level point that you've been

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Speaker 1: the Rams defense who has owned San Francisco uniquely, Bobby

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Speaker 1: Francisco a lot of credit with how they run the football.

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Speaker 1: play tough ball. So I went back and watched all

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Speaker 1: this season as one of the best rushing defenses in

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Speaker 1: the National Football League. All right, one more lap around

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Speaker 1: the Horn here, final thoughts as we wrap up this

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Speaker 1: week four edition of Between the Horns. Ricky Hollywood want

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Speaker 1: were at the kickoff for charity event JB and there

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Speaker 1: and JB and I kind of got the oh, y'all

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Speaker 1: and so it was just us essentially, and then Ben

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Speaker 1: to talk with him and he is super funny and

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Speaker 1: I loved listening to his press conference when he was

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Speaker 1: I was like, oh, no, Like, what did I do

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Speaker 1: when he told him he was going to be, you know,

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Speaker 1: be playing fullback. He's got a fun personality, he's blocking

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Speaker 1: dudes crazy. I just like am rooting for him so

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Speaker 1: much harder than I think I ever would. And I

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Speaker 1: get to learn more about these players, like off the field.

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Speaker 1: I hadn't put two and two together there. That's a

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Speaker 1: good call. Table twenty six. Yes, yeah, was the spark

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Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I know, I think JB it was

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Speaker 1: you that you were like, have you ever considered fullback?

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Speaker 1: And he'd be like, oh, I'd be great at that,

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Speaker 1: But I just didn't. Yeah, you're just like, how about

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Speaker 1: you eat this fried chicken? And he goes, no, I

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Speaker 1: That's cool. Could not have asked for a better closing

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Speaker 1: thought from Unreal well done Defarty nine K preview for US. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Benny sco would be like he's to me, he always

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Speaker 1: should come out of a game with blood on him,

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Speaker 1: either his or somebody else's. That's just the way he plays. Um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's How about the secondary? Uh, the ram secondary? Can

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Speaker 1: we call them the five heartbeats? As in they do

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Speaker 1: what five does? Um? And I'm glad to see that

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Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey is back to his physical self, you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean. I mean he he dropped John Connor

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Speaker 1: right shoulder. Absolutely so, Darien Kendrick, I love his energy.

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Speaker 1: I love his excitement. You can't be trying to throw

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Speaker 1: guys over the bench, you know, on their sideline. But

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Speaker 1: you know San Francisco is gonna circle that, and Deebo's

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Speaker 1: gonna gonna look you up. So that's gonna be something special. UM.

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Speaker 1: Searching for for for Alan Robinson, gotta have it. You

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Speaker 1: guys mentioned Cooper Cup. He's tremendous. There's nothing you can

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Speaker 1: do to stop him. The Cooper Cup hate must stop.

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Speaker 1: But he needs a partner. And and Alan Robinson I

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Speaker 1: think missed some opportunities. You mentioned that earlier. So uh,

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Speaker 1: passing game, Um, I think Cooper Cup can be that

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Speaker 1: much better and it will help the offense. So the

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Speaker 1: forty nine it is forty nine er week. This is

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Speaker 1: about It's like four or five traffic, um. To get

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Speaker 1: to get through that, you know what I mean, you

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Speaker 1: got to get through them. Um. So if you have

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Speaker 1: designs on what do you say, is it defending or

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Speaker 1: raining keeping your crown? Um? You know it all begins

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Speaker 1: and ends with these guys, and it starts on Monday.

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Speaker 1: So can't be more excited? Yeah, with the long week,

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Speaker 1: we haven't seen so much as an injury report yet

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Speaker 1: for either the forty nine ers of the Rams, but

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Speaker 1: I think there's reason for optimism that hopefully LA will

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Speaker 1: go into this game with the better of that by

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Speaker 1: the time we get to Monday, and yes to market

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Speaker 1: to your point, these two rivals do play again in

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Speaker 1: week eight, October thirtieth. I'll be at Sofi Stadium. That

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Speaker 1: will be the fifth meeting between them within a twelve

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Speaker 1: month span. So there will be blood. There will be

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Speaker 1: bad blood Monday night and again before October is out. Ricky,

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Speaker 1: have good rest of your week to Marco. I'll see

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Speaker 1: a little bit here for RAMS all Access and up

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Speaker 1: in San Francisco as well. Thank you, as always for

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Speaker 1: joining us for this edition of Between the Horns, presented

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Speaker 1: by your Southern California Telly the Dealing