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Speaker 1: Sarah Wats has the latest out of Tampa where the

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Speaker 1: NFC self title is.

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Speaker 2: On the line in week eighteen plus.

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Speaker 1: The Chargers already playoff bound, but can they make some

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Speaker 1: tonight too. Welcome inside with the Insiders alongside Judy Battista

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Speaker 1: and Ian rappaport I am Tom Pelisserro a new year

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Speaker 1: officially now we are into twenty twenty five, kicking off

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Speaker 1: another year of The Insiders, which by the way, is

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Speaker 1: now on five days a week, every weeknight, seven pm

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Speaker 1: Eastern Time right here on NFL Network all the way

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Speaker 1: through Super Bowl fifty nine. So much to talk about

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Speaker 1: over the next thirty nine days, including a decision, and

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Speaker 1: potentially in the record books four years to come. Saekwon

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Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni saying today that Barkley among a bunch of

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Speaker 1: Here's more on what Sirianni had to say about that decision.

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Speaker 3: It's a very special record that's that's been uh, you know,

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Speaker 3: It's a team record, you know, it's a it's a

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Speaker 1: This is obviously a delicate situation anytime you're talking about

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Speaker 1: In this case, it's a record that has stood for

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Speaker 1: a long time. Sakuon Barkley himself said he would have liked,

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Speaker 5: Well, it reflects about the state of the Egles that

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Speaker 5: You know, they made the decision that is best for

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Speaker 6: So there's a lot of different layers to this.

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Speaker 5: But of all the things you can talk about, all

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Speaker 7: Look, this is the right decision for the team. Saquon

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Speaker 6: Good point.

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Speaker 2: Why is that? Andy?

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Speaker 8: It wasn't a hard decision though.

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Speaker 1: Dolphin surely would have loved the Chiefs to play all

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Speaker 10: I'm approaching it as though I think Snooth starting today,

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Speaker 1: Snoop was twenty two to twenty six passing last week,

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Speaker 1: Here's the state of the AFC playoff picture. Chiefs, Bill's Texas.

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Speaker 1: Here is the scenario here, the Broncos win over the Chiefs,

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Speaker 2: If they both lose and the Bengals have won.

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Speaker 1: On Saturday Night, then Cincinnati, with all they've gone through,

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Speaker 1: wishing happy New Year, especially to the Chiefs. That's right,

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think this whole situation actually sets up rather

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Speaker 1: The Broncos had that opportunity in the Thursday night game

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Speaker 1: The LA Chargers are playoff bounds. Still some things know

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Speaker 1: You're in the playoffs, JK. You're healthy again, you're making plays.

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Speaker 6: Know, JK.

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Speaker 5: Well, first of all, I appreciate you taking the time

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Speaker 6: Player of the year. What does this meant for you

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Speaker 14: This, It's meant.

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Speaker 9: It's meant the world to me, to be honest, And

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Speaker 14: When I was in Baltimore, I tear my achilles.

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Speaker 9: it ain't much that's gonna stop me from getting back

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Speaker 9: It's still my first season back, you know, so I'm

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Speaker 2: Grade three is a full tear. JK.

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Speaker 1: You should you should not be Like, medically speaking, I'm

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Speaker 2: But you're back on the field. You look like yourself

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Speaker 1: I just wonder, with everything you've been through, how do

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Speaker 9: Uh yeah, Ever since I was younger. I would say

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Speaker 12: You know.

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Speaker 6: If you know, if you win, could be a five,

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Speaker 5: You thought about, like, all right, if we win and

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Speaker 1: There's also an opportunity here for you to hit free

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Speaker 14: Forget the amazing athlete that he is.

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Speaker 9: Like you he's a special talent I don't think you

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Speaker 1: Thank you a ton man. It's always a pleasure having

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Speaker 1: Okay, we'll see what more there it is there, it

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Speaker 14: Where'd you go to school?

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Speaker 6: I went to Columbia?

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Speaker 5: For me, my team has long been finished playing, but

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Speaker 1: All right man, best of luck in the playoffs. We

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Speaker 2: JK.

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Speaker 9: Yes, sir, happy again, I'll be I'll be open arms,

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Speaker 14: Happy New Year to you man, Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Great stuff with JK.

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Speaker 1: Dobbins, great stuff of late for that guy right there,

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Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield.

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Speaker 1: Can the Bucks wrap up the NFC South And how

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Speaker 7: Welcome back to the Insiders. All right, the NFC South

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Speaker 7: still up for grabs. It's very straightforward for the Bucks.

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Speaker 7: They win the division with a victory over the Saints.

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Speaker 7: The Falcons, who had been leading this division for a

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Speaker 7: while and who actually swept the Bucks during their season series.

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Speaker 7: They can still win, but they would need the Bucks

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Speaker 7: to lose and then they would have to beat the

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Speaker 7: Panthers on Sunday. So still away for the Panthers to win.

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Speaker 7: But certainly it is a much easier path for the

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Speaker 7: Bucks to win the NFC South. And let's bring in

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Speaker 7: our Sarah Walsh, who's going to be at the Bucks game.

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Speaker 7: And Sarah, I don't have to tell you this, but

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Speaker 7: I think some people would still be surprised if the

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Speaker 7: Bucks win this would be their fourth straight division championship,

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Speaker 7: which I don't think many people would have predicted after

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Speaker 7: Tom Brady retired that they'd be on this kind of run.

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Speaker 7: What sets this group apart from maybe the previous iterations

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Speaker 7: of the Bucks we've seen.

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Speaker 15: I feel like what you just mentioned there, we were

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Speaker 15: sort of talking about the same thing a season ago.

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Speaker 15: Who expected them to be here and they're in that

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Speaker 15: same position again.

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Speaker 11: Now.

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Speaker 15: The difference between this Buccaneers team and the one even

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Speaker 15: last year or go back two years ago.

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Speaker 4: This is a Bucks.

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Speaker 15: Offense right now that is really firing on all cylinders.

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Speaker 15: Specifically that has to do with the run game, because

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Speaker 15: that has been lacking in years past. That sound a

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Speaker 15: little bit like a broken record when you talk about

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Speaker 15: it in Tampa because for the last two seasons they

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Speaker 15: were last in the league and rushing well, that script

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Speaker 15: has been flipped off. Asive coordinator Liam Cohne has his

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Speaker 15: team running for an average of one hundred and forty

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Speaker 15: seven ground yards a game that is fourth best in

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Speaker 15: the league right now. Rookie, the rookie of Bucky Irving

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Speaker 15: a huge, huge reason that has been possible. He's already

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Speaker 15: gone over one thousand yards this season, and then Todd

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Speaker 15: Bowles talked about it today, the ways in which that

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Speaker 15: they can be multiple and the ways that they can

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Speaker 15: win their battles. He said, we can air it out,

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Speaker 15: we can grind it out, we can muscle pass people.

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Speaker 15: We have ways of being multiple, and that just was

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Speaker 15: not a scenario a couple of years ago and even

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Speaker 15: a season ago. And then I think again back to

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Speaker 15: Cohen deserves a lot of credit because when you say

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Speaker 15: multiple in ways that they can attack people, they've also

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Speaker 15: been multiple in the way that they use people. Because

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Speaker 15: this is a team that lost Chris Godwin for the

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Speaker 15: season halfway through this thing. They had Mike Evans off

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Speaker 15: the field for several games. That's their one and two receivers,

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Speaker 15: and they were playing without them. And yet this team

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Speaker 15: has found a way to get it done and put

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Speaker 15: itself any position to succeed. This is the second year

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Speaker 15: in a row, Judy that this team will play a

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Speaker 15: win and in game in Week eighteen. They got it

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Speaker 15: done against Carolina a season ago. If they beat the Saints,

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Speaker 15: it will happen again for them. But most importantly, it

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Speaker 15: is an offense that is going at the right time.

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Speaker 15: They have put up more than forty points in two

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Speaker 15: two of their last three games. Since Week twelve, they're

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Speaker 15: averaging four hundred and sixty four yards of offense. That

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Speaker 15: Judy is tops in the league right now.

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Speaker 7: A big part of that, obviously is Mike Evans. You

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Speaker 7: mentioned that he was dinged up in the middle of

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Speaker 7: the season, which I think makes this even more remarkable.

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Speaker 7: He's only eighty five yards short of his eleventh straight

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Speaker 7: one thousand yard receiving season. But obviously they are trying

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Speaker 7: to clinch the NFC South. So how do they balance

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Speaker 7: trying to clinch the division and getting Mike Evans that streak.

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Speaker 15: So Todd Bowles has asked that question today and he

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Speaker 15: gave a very no nonsense answer. He so, there's no

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Speaker 15: balancing it whatsoever, because we are trying to win the

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Speaker 15: game anyway we can, and I understand he should answer

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Speaker 15: that way, right He said, if in the process Mike

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Speaker 15: get gets to that milestone, they would love for that

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Speaker 15: to happen. But we are trying to win the game. Okay, understandable.

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Speaker 15: But just to give some context here to the people

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Speaker 15: that live in the Tampa Bay area, I cannot overstate

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Speaker 15: how much not only does Mike Evans mean to this community.

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Speaker 15: He's the Walter Payton Man of the Year candidate here

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Speaker 15: representing the Bucks. But how much that streak means to

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Speaker 15: people here in the community. Even if Mike Evans won't

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Speaker 15: admit how much it means to him, and he has

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Speaker 15: at times, He's been quiet in the last couple of

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Speaker 15: weeks about it for obvious reasons. But I specifically asked

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Speaker 15: Baker to give us perspective. Why does this streak record

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Speaker 15: of Mike Evans mean so much to so many here?

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Speaker 15: Here's Baker's answer, really poignant answer. I thought they're from

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Speaker 15: Baker Mayfield. So he starts Sunday with nine hundred and

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Speaker 15: fifteen yards, Judy, and this is a guy that missed

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Speaker 15: three games because of a hamstring injury. You could really

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Speaker 15: say four because when he hurt that hamstring, he went

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Speaker 15: out early, so everyone believes he would have already gone

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Speaker 15: over a thousand yards. Can he get eighty five on

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Speaker 15: Sunday to get it done? I promise you people in

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Speaker 15: the stands there Imma James Stadium are rooting for that

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Speaker 15: to go Mike's way as much as they're rooting for

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Speaker 15: a Buccaneers win. That's how much he means.

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Speaker 7: Here, everybody's going to be doing the math on their

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Speaker 7: little notepads to see how close he is. Sarah, you

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Speaker 7: better believe I know you'll be keeping track of it

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Speaker 7: on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for joining us Ian.

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Speaker 5: That's kind of a fun subplot for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 5: Michael Panix and the Atlanta Falcons have their own plots.

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Speaker 6: Took the command absolutely.

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Speaker 5: To the brink last week, but did put themselves in

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Speaker 5: a position where they can win and.

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Speaker 6: Not get in.

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Speaker 5: So here's what they need, a win and a Tampa

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Speaker 5: Bay Buccaneers loss. I'm interested in this game. I'm interested

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Speaker 5: in this matchup. So let's get to someone who is

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Speaker 5: going to be they're covering it. Falcons the Panthers. Cam, Well,

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Speaker 5: thank you very much for joining me along with Bucky Brooks.

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Speaker 6: What's going on?

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Speaker 5: Welcome to the insiders, guys. So Cam, we'll start with you.

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Speaker 5: The Falcons reality now is that they have to win.

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Speaker 6: And get help to get into the playoffs. How are

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Speaker 6: they handling.

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Speaker 14: All of this?

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Speaker 4: Well, they're handling it like you would expect.

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Speaker 2: The end.

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Speaker 16: They know they have to do some scoreboard watching and

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Speaker 16: Jesse Bates, they're veteran safety said words that I don't

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Speaker 16: think any Falcons fan would imagine them saying, we're Saints.

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Speaker 6: Fans this week, we know we need the Saints.

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Speaker 16: Our bitter rivals, to win, and we're gonna be watching

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Speaker 16: And the reality is that's our scenario.

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Speaker 4: We've got to embrace it.

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Speaker 16: Look, the Falcons are now a game back from the

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Speaker 16: Bucks after a loss to the Commanders last week, so

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Speaker 16: they need the saintsty upset the Bucks and obviously take

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Speaker 16: care of their business against the Panthers as well. And look,

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Speaker 16: they're in this boat because of some of their late

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Speaker 16: game clock management question marks at the end of the game.

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Speaker 16: And Raheem Morris, their head coach, addressed it this week

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Speaker 16: and said, you know, I'd like to have it back

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Speaker 16: and maybe have a time out there because it didn't work.

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Speaker 16: But every week you play the what if game, and

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Speaker 16: the what if game has to stop. And Grady Jarrett,

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Speaker 16: their defensive tackle who's been there essentially for the last decade, said,

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Speaker 16: the reality is we put ourselves in this situation.

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Speaker 4: We were so close. We got to let this burn.

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Speaker 4: But we still have breath.

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Speaker 16: And so as the Falcons look to handling their business,

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Speaker 16: keep an eye on Bjon Robinson to have a huge game.

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Speaker 16: They're playing the by far worst rush defense in the

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Speaker 16: league and the Panthers giving up over two hundred yards

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Speaker 16: in the last five games, So maybe they get some

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Speaker 16: of that burnout by running the ball a lot on

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Speaker 16: the Panthers this week.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Panthers defense in general has been brutal.

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Speaker 5: Now they're gonna have to play against Michael Pennis, one

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Speaker 5: of the I would say more intriguing storylines of this

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Speaker 5: entire season, Bucky. We've now seen Michael Penicks for a

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Speaker 5: couple of games, a lot of talent, big arm, big moments.

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Speaker 6: What have you thought watching him?

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Speaker 11: Look, he looks very similar to the guy that we

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Speaker 11: saw at Washington who was able to light it up

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Speaker 11: for the Huskies with a bunch of first round talent

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Speaker 11: around him. When you look at him with the Atlanta Falcons,

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Speaker 11: he's exactly what they want him to be in terms

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Speaker 11: of being a big play hunter. You can see more

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Speaker 11: explosiveness with this offense and not only opens up the

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Speaker 11: passing game because we saw Drake Lennon and Darniel Mooney

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Speaker 11: and some of the other guys have big opportunities like

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Speaker 11: cal Fits, but we saw the running game also benefits

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Speaker 11: from having someone that can push you down the field.

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Speaker 4: B Jon Robinson teller that year being able to find.

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Speaker 11: More room because now the safeties have to stay back.

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Speaker 11: It's not ideal to put your young quarterback in the

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Speaker 11: game this late in the season, but he certainly has

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Speaker 11: given this offense some pop and what you hope to

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Speaker 11: see against Carolina passes, he takes it to another level

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Speaker 11: and helps this team somehow find their way into the playoffs.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Bucky.

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Speaker 16: His growth over the last two games already has been incredible,

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Speaker 16: and the word I continue to hear talking to people

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Speaker 16: in Atlanta is poised. Only two games and he's essentially

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Speaker 16: shown the level of poise of somebody who has done

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Speaker 16: this for two years.

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Speaker 14: It's something I've been told.

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Speaker 16: And Rahee Morris was really happy and how he's played

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Speaker 16: the last two games. They won one and they took

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Speaker 16: it to overtime with the Commanders and their rookie sensation

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Speaker 16: Jane Daniels for the other one. And Drake London, his receiver,

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Speaker 16: really had a great quote this week saying he's a dog.

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Speaker 12: I could see it in his eyes.

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Speaker 4: He's our guy.

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Speaker 16: So the Falcons, regardless if they win this division and

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Speaker 16: make it or not. Feel like they found a good

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Speaker 16: starting point for their guy for many years to come.

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Speaker 16: And I thought one really interesting note for how they're

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Speaker 16: developing him Raheem Morris, that we're really working on minimizing

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Speaker 16: the amount of voices in his ear. You're hearing a

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Speaker 16: lot of Zach Robinson talking to him. We've learned from

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Speaker 16: past situations that having too much chefs in the goold

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Speaker 16: can be too much for a young quarterback, so they're

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Speaker 16: trying to keep it simple for him as he continues

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Speaker 16: to develop, and it's working out for him and them

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Speaker 16: so far.

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Speaker 5: Big one this weekend, looking forward to it. Cam, thank

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Speaker 5: you for joining us. Take the rest of the night off. Bucky,

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Speaker 5: thank you also, but you'll be back next segment to

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Speaker 5: talk about, among other things, the big time matchup on

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Speaker 5: Sunday Night.

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Speaker 2: That's a good thing.

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Speaker 1: Sam Darnold's got a week to dry out before that

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Speaker 1: Sunday night game.

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Speaker 2: Game two seventy.

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Speaker 1: Two the fourteen and two vikings at the fourteen and

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Speaker 1: two line, winner gets the number one seed homefield advantage

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Speaker 1: in a first round by loser heads on the road

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Speaker 1: as a fourteen win wild card team. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: the insiders, Tom Pila, Cerro, Judy Batista join now by

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Speaker 1: our friend Bucky Brooks.

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Speaker 2: Bucky Huge game on Sunday Night.

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Speaker 1: And the Vikings are in this position in large part

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Speaker 1: because their bet on Sam Donald as their quarterback in

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Speaker 1: the short term has paid off. The next question, after

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Speaker 1: we had passed what they hope will be a deep

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Speaker 1: playoff run, is what do they do now with Donald,

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Speaker 1: who has certainly played this way you would think into

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Speaker 1: a big payday if they don't use the franchise tag,

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Speaker 1: which is also a possibility.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, this is a tough one, but it's a good

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Speaker 4: problem to have.

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Speaker 11: The Minnesota Vikings have found a way to really benefit

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Speaker 11: from the reclamation project that Sam Donald has been. Kevin

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Speaker 11: O'Connell did a great job unlocking all of the talent

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Speaker 11: the tools that Scout saw from Sam Donald when he

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Speaker 11: was at sc Now, the Minnesota Vikings have to make

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Speaker 11: a decision. They drafted JJ McCarthy to be the franchise

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Speaker 11: quarterback of the future, but you have this quarterback right

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Speaker 11: now that's playing so well in your system. In a

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Speaker 11: perfect world, you find a way to keep Sam Donald

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Speaker 11: for another year or so.

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Speaker 14: So J. J.

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Speaker 4: McCarthy doesn't have to rush.

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Speaker 11: Back from an injury and has time to develop, much

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Speaker 11: like the division rival did with Jordan Love in Green Bay.

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Speaker 11: But if he gets to the open market, you just

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Speaker 11: think about the number of teams that need a quarterback man.

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Speaker 4: The number is going to be so big.

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Speaker 11: But Sam Donald, who has bounced around a little bit,

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Speaker 11: he has to make a decision. But I'd rather play

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Speaker 11: for a great team with great weapons and a great

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Speaker 11: coaching staff, or.

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Speaker 4: Do I want to go chase the bag.

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Speaker 11: I think given his experience, he probably leans towards being with.

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Speaker 4: A great team. Right.

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Speaker 7: Obviously, the season didn't go nearly as well for Caleb

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Speaker 7: Williams and the Chicago Bears. Caleb talked today about what

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Speaker 7: he would like to see in the next Bears head coach.

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Speaker 17: A coach that challenges myself, whether it's officecording, the head

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Speaker 17: coach challenge just myself, but also challenges you know, us

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Speaker 17: us as players. Whether it's on the field or character

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Speaker 17: doesn't matter. Just just just a coach that challenges us,

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Speaker 17: A man of his were, a disciplined coach meaning whatever

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Speaker 17: his rules are or you know, whatever you know, you

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Speaker 17: know he's he's going to bring rule wise or how

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Speaker 17: he's going to you know, control the team and manage

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Speaker 17: and you know, control the team and things like that.

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Speaker 17: Just a you know, a guy that wants to win,

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Speaker 17: you know, just just helping us and and and and

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Speaker 17: and finding ways to win.

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Speaker 7: All Right, that's a pretty broad description for a head coach. Bucky,

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Speaker 7: what kind of coach would best serve the Chicago Bears?

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Speaker 2: And Caleb Williams, I don't know.

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Speaker 4: This is Kayvin Williams.

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Speaker 11: Williams sounds like a kid who wants to be parented.

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Speaker 11: He wants a parent that is consistent and disciplined and

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Speaker 11: detailed in structure.

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Speaker 4: And I think all players want.

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Speaker 11: That, and I think for Kaylen Williams, he recognizes the

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Speaker 11: fact that his team needs a level of structure so

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Speaker 11: they can maximize their talents. And whoever the coach is,

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Speaker 11: whether it's an offensive minor coach or a defensive minded coach,

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Speaker 11: you do have to establish the culture. You do have

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Speaker 11: to make it where it's about commitment, accountability, and trust.

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Speaker 4: But more specifically, as it relates.

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Speaker 11: To him, he needs someone who can take all that

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Speaker 11: tremendous talent that he has harness it the right way

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Speaker 11: while still.

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Speaker 4: Allowing him to be himself.

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Speaker 11: So when you look across the field when they're playing

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Speaker 11: the Detroit Lions and you look at out Ben Johnson

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Speaker 11: has expanded that offense. I'm sure Kayla Williams would fondly

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Speaker 11: and would love to have that kind of coach that

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Speaker 11: would help him, nurture him and show him how to

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Speaker 11: play the game. But I think it needs to be

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Speaker 11: a very creative coach who has a system that's adaptable

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Speaker 11: to the talent that he brings.

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Speaker 1: The Bears also need a coach who can get pass

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Speaker 1: the Vikings, Lions and Packers, who this season is combined

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Speaker 1: for what thirty nine wins. It's a you got your

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Speaker 1: work cut out for you here in the near future, Bucky.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much. We will chat with you again soon.

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Speaker 1: Coming up after this, Michael f Florio is going to

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Speaker 1: be here, and whether you on your fantasy league or

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Speaker 1: you were like me for like twenty years running, can't

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Speaker 1: get even a sniff of that trophy. He's got some

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Speaker 1: awards for some of the best and worst picks of

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Speaker 1: the past season. That's next on the Insiders. Congratulations to

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, this year's official winner of the highest scoring

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Speaker 1: Fantasy Player four hundred and seven point four fantasy points

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Speaker 1: subject to a little giver or take de penny what

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Speaker 1: be scoring is in your league? No surprise, Lamar once

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Speaker 1: again the objective number one point score. As for some

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Speaker 1: of the subjective awards. That's where we're going to go

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Speaker 1: inside with NFL Fantasy Live and our buddy Michael F.

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Speaker 1: Florio making I believe his final appearance on the show.

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Speaker 1: Because it's Week eighteen and unless you're a weirdo, your

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Speaker 1: fantasy season is already over.

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Speaker 2: Florio, let's start out here on the list of your awards.

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Speaker 1: The biggest surprise in fantasy for twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 13: Look, the biggest surprise maybe in all of football this year.

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Speaker 13: Sam Donald coming into the year in the preseason, that

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Speaker 13: thought was, all right, this guy's probably gonna spend the

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Speaker 13: majority of the year backing up JJ McCarthy. Because of that,

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Speaker 13: no one was even considering drafting him. Now he is

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Speaker 13: the QB eight in total fantasy points.

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Speaker 12: He has nearly doubled.

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Speaker 13: His previous career high in touchdowns, blown past all of

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Speaker 13: his career highs and yards, and QB won in six.

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Speaker 12: Of his finals seven games.

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Speaker 13: So not just good on the year, he has come

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Speaker 13: through when fantasy managers needed him most in the Fantasy playoffs.

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Speaker 13: So yeah, big surprise, Sam Donalds, all.

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Speaker 6: Right, enough of this, flowers and roses.

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Speaker 5: Give me your biggest disappointment like my team, which of

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Speaker 5: course once again did not make the playoffs.

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Speaker 13: Maybe you had Tyreek Hill on it then, because he

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Speaker 13: was a consensus top three pick in drafts, he was

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Speaker 13: going first overall in some of them.

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Speaker 12: He did not finish as a top.

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Speaker 2: Three wide receiver in any week.

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Speaker 12: This season. He finished top ten in his.

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Speaker 13: Position just twice, and it hasn't happened in like ten

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Speaker 13: weeks since it last happened. Last year, he looked like

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Speaker 13: a cheat code player that if you didn't have, you

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Speaker 13: wouldn't win. This year, he got outscored by Jerry Judy, Cortland,

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Speaker 13: Sutton and three different rookie wide receivers.

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Speaker 2: Wow, how about.

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Speaker 1: Your unsung hero Florio for the twenty twenty four fantasy season.

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Speaker 13: Someone that helped me a lot in the fantasy playoffs

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Speaker 13: Amir Abdullah because he went out and he was the

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Speaker 13: RB seven, averaging nineteen Fantasy points per game in the

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Speaker 13: Fantasy playoffs.

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Speaker 12: In all three of those games.

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Speaker 13: He topped seventeen fantasy points. That is something that he

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Speaker 13: had done three times in his prior one hundred and

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Speaker 13: twenty one career games. And some running backs that he

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Speaker 13: outscored in the fantasy playoffs Saquon Barkley, Derek Henry, Josh Jacobs,

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Speaker 13: Devon a Chan Kyron, William Breest Hall. You know the

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Speaker 13: guys that you drafted in the first and second.

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Speaker 12: Rounds of your drafts this year.

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Speaker 5: I cannot believe I'm here Abdullah's emergence.

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Speaker 12: All right?

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Speaker 5: What about your mister reliable.

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Speaker 13: Trey McBride, Like I pounded a table for him all

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Speaker 13: year and he came through only three times this season?

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Speaker 13: Did he not finish as a top twelve fantasy tight end?

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Speaker 12: Twice? All year? He was held in single.

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Speaker 13: Digits, not counting the game that he got hurt in,

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Speaker 13: and he did all of that scoring just one touchdown.

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Speaker 13: Imagine if they got him the ball in the end

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Speaker 13: zone a little bit more, he would be the runaway

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Speaker 13: tight end one and a first round pick. But still

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Speaker 13: huber reliable and almost helped Mike Garrifolo win a championship.

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Speaker 1: He came up just sure, that was like fifteen points. Sure,

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Speaker 1: but you know he was in the neighborhood. He did

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Speaker 1: better than the Rian did through the course of the season.

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Speaker 1: All right, all comes to this, Florio, you're twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: four Fantasy MVP.

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Speaker 12: For me, it's easily Jamar Chase. He had sixty eight more.

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Speaker 13: Fantasy points than the wide receiver two justin Jefferson.

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Speaker 12: To put that into perspective.

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Speaker 13: That was the same as the gap between wide receiver

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Speaker 13: two and wide receiver ten. He had almost double the

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Speaker 13: biggest gap with any other position. From the top score

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Speaker 13: to the second top score, he scored more Fantasy points

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Speaker 13: than any player not named Lamar Jackson, scored more than

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Speaker 13: any non quarterback and triple Crown winner three games over

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Speaker 13: forty Fantasy points eighteen plus in his final seven Like

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Speaker 13: if you had Jamar Chase, you're probably celebrating this week

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Speaker 13: winning a championship because all he did the second half

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Speaker 13: of the season, which just put up video game numbers.

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Speaker 6: Must be nice, Floria.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you one of the OG's this show going

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Speaker 1: all the way back to the fast streaming platform days.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for being here every week this season. Man, we

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Speaker 1: really appreciate you. Happy New Year once again from the

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Speaker 1: NFL to you. I took like negative one days to

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Speaker 1: take down all the holiday decorations from my set. I

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Speaker 1: fully anticipate the Christmas tree will be out of the

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Speaker 1: house tomorrow. So this is this is your final happy

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Speaker 1: New Year that we're gonna give you.

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Speaker 2: Although I do the confetti wife though, I think that

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Speaker 2: that in stay.

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Speaker 1: We thought though, Judy, before we let this one go,

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Speaker 1: that in the spirit of continuing to push the insiders forward, here,

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Speaker 1: what's a resolution you have for our show in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five?

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Speaker 7: My resolution is I am going to encourage more kids

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Speaker 7: to crash the show, for instance, like your kids last night.

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Speaker 7: For example, Tom, that's great. That's the best stuff we

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Speaker 7: do when the kids join us, because they're much cuter

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Speaker 7: than we are.

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Speaker 1: Frankly, I should add too, I did not have a

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Speaker 1: third kid specifically for that.

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Speaker 2: That was a friend who was over. Still only two

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Speaker 2: for me. Ian.

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Speaker 5: Oh, congratulations, Tom, that's awesome, really great news there. My

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Speaker 5: news resolution is to break more news on this show.

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Speaker 5: The show is now five days a week.

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Speaker 6: This is good news. We have more opportunities to break news.

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Speaker 5: But it's always fun to drop some huge piece of

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Speaker 5: news right as the show is going on, or maybe

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Speaker 5: even just get it and tweet it right away as

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Speaker 5: we're on air.

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Speaker 6: I love that. Let's do that more.

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Speaker 1: My resolution is I'm hoping we can get somebody to

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Speaker 1: help Ian upgrade his wardrobe on this show, because if

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Speaker 1: you're a faithful viewer, you might remember through the course

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Speaker 1: of the season you had a lot of bright plaids

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Speaker 1: going on. There is a repetitive aspect shirt. This looks

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Speaker 1: like one of those eye tests where they're just like

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Speaker 1: Ais subbing in the same shirt over and over with

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Speaker 1: like slightly different patterns. Here's another one right now here.

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Speaker 1: If anyone watching can help Ian out, like my guy

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Speaker 1: Vincenzo helps me, please reach out to him. He's easy

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Speaker 1: to find and he loves anybody who gives him free

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Speaker 1: stump