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Speaker 1: I'm here presented by Oh Trap or be Jerky. We

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Speaker 1: are live in New York City. You know the three

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Speaker 1: You might know him as Kevin Malone from the office.

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Speaker 1: We know him as a massive Packers fan and a

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Speaker 1: Everybody knows what I'm talking. How does it feel to

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Speaker 1: be here? You were here as a guest. Now you're

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Speaker 1: here for two days, I believe for the full six

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Speaker 1: hour shows. Yeah, I feel like next month I'm taking

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Speaker 1: it over all right, all right, and I'm gonna evaluate

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Speaker 1: all of your performances. All right, you watch GMF. Brian,

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Speaker 1: Here we go, and we're gonna evaluate the Rams and

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals performance. Let's get after it right now. So

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Speaker 1: how about this action in the NFC West nine and

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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford after that win, hyping his head coach, I'm

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Speaker 1: dealing with adversity the top down. I thought Sean did

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Speaker 1: a great job. You know, we got some news this morning,

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Speaker 1: you know on Higbee and Jalen, and he did a

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Speaker 1: So I was happy to get to win amidst you know,

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Speaker 1: there were mistakes on both sides. But you know, we'll

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Speaker 1: talk about Matthew Stafford and Kyla Maurie'll start with the Rams.

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Speaker 1: From looking at the playoff picture, they are in the five.

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Speaker 1: See they stay there. Rather take a look at the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals that lost them from the one seed to the

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Speaker 1: three seed in the NFC. The Packers now in the

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Speaker 1: top spot, the Bucks in the two seat. Brian bum

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Speaker 1: Garner FO was pretty happy about the Packers being the

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Speaker 1: top dogs in the NFCY. But this is a huge

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Speaker 1: night for Matthew Stafford in La. It was massive. How

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Speaker 1: it has last night changed the way you view Stafford

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Speaker 1: and the Rams. Stafford was amazing last night after three

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Speaker 1: far superior to Kyler Murray on the field and looked

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Speaker 1: as good as any quarterback in the NFL. The numbers

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Speaker 1: account that, as he alluded to in the sound bite,

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Speaker 1: in the morning, they get worried, like, you guys are

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Speaker 1: gonna do without Jalon Ramsey today. You're gonna be without

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Speaker 1: of the COVID protocols. They're on the road there against

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Speaker 1: a team that kicked their butts the last time they played,

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Speaker 1: of eyeballs wondering if he could win a big one

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Speaker 1: the charisma the leadership. Stafford said, Okay, come on, let's go.

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Speaker 1: Six and sixty two. He goes into the building and

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Speaker 1: the Alpha. And amidst all that adversary adversity, he was

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Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever seen Stafford come in there

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Speaker 1: He was awesome. There was a clean game that's almost

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Speaker 1: them going into Lambo in the playoffs and beating the Packers? No? No, no, yeah,

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Speaker 1: That's not a staff that anybody wants, but that's just

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Speaker 1: Speedy recovery. Been able to somewhat hold down the fort

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Speaker 1: for the holidays. He's a big fan of stiff arms

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Speaker 1: and trucking his way through defenders. Also, we occasionally give

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Speaker 1: him a crown. So, Brian, can you talk to your

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Speaker 1: friend Mike V and maybe give him a little message

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Speaker 1: for young Derek. Well, I think it's for Derek, right,

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Speaker 1: so um, Hi, King King, Henry King, Henry the twenty

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Speaker 1: second of the Land of Tennessee listen. Rabes, I believe

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Speaker 1: we call him reached out to me. He wanted me

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Speaker 1: to say, get better soon, please as soon as possible.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they've been hanging in there, but they really

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Speaker 1: need you, King, like they need you badly because they

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Speaker 1: want to win this thing. Bryan, you're good, You're really

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Speaker 1: really good. It was well done, do you know, Rabel

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Speaker 1: I feel like the golf thing, the programs or Rabes

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Speaker 1: is amazing. If you're watching right now, Rabes you're an idiot,

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Speaker 1: but he's he should be doing better things. Yeah no,

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Speaker 1: I just mean I'm calling him an idiot if he's watching,

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Speaker 1: but if it's behind his rabel, big off the tea

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Speaker 1: the vidiots. Oh yeah, he's big. What's the craziest thing?

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Speaker 1: You've been asked for? To make a video message for

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Speaker 1: the craziest Um, I've proposed to a lot of people.

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Speaker 1: We may have talked about that before. I proposed to

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Speaker 1: a lot of people. Um, I've done a lot of

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Speaker 1: Bachelor parties. I'll leave it at that, Scott, only welcome

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Speaker 1: for the virtual breakfast. A good morning, everybody. Great to

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Speaker 1: be here, Great to be here, Scott. Let's start with

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Speaker 1: last night's game, because you've been on the show and

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Speaker 1: you're you've been having some question marks about how this

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Speaker 1: Rams team is going to just suddenly gel together. Overnight,

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Speaker 1: they finally got a really quality win on the road

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Speaker 1: down five starters due to COVID. What did you make

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Speaker 1: of the Rams victory last night over the Cardinals, Peter,

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Speaker 1: You're absolutely right. I've been a little bit rough on

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Speaker 1: them because I just haven't seen enough. But I give

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Speaker 1: him a lot of credit because last night on the

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Speaker 1: road against a good team. They won even under difficult circumstances.

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Speaker 1: But to me, the key last night I always talk

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Speaker 1: about their top players in their talent needing to play well.

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Speaker 1: Last night they got that on both sides of the ball. Defensively,

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Speaker 1: Aaron Donald was an absolute wrecking show. He had three sacks,

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Speaker 1: he had six pressures, another five QB hits. I think

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Speaker 1: he was unlockable to me. The other place he showed

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Speaker 1: up was he drew holding penalties against the offense that

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Speaker 1: were key penalties and brought plays back. Then on the

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Speaker 1: flip side, the player that they needed to play the

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Speaker 1: best was Matthew Stafford, and he did that to a t.

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Speaker 1: You know, the last couple of games, they've had zero turnovers,

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Speaker 1: meaning the last two games, and that's been the key

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Speaker 1: to their wins because again prior to that, the three

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Speaker 1: previous games they've had seven turnovers. Stafford through five interceptions,

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Speaker 1: three of those were pick six. So their best players

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Speaker 1: last night played really well. But to me, one of

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Speaker 1: the key things that happened last night was post game

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Speaker 1: in the interview with Matthew Stafford, they asked him how

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Speaker 1: important that win was. And I'm paraphrasing here, but Essentially

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Speaker 1: what he said, this win was good, not great. He

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Speaker 1: said it was good, but what we need to do

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Speaker 1: is make sure that we start winning more games and

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Speaker 1: we can't let this be a standalone. Much more work

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Speaker 1: to be done, absolutely, especially if they want to be

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Speaker 1: Tampa or Green Bay. When account Scott, speaking of Tampa,

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Speaker 1: you tweeted about the Bills one who played Tampa this weekend,

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Speaker 1: specifically about the Bills run game during their matchup, and

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Speaker 1: you talked about this. It was the strange statistical anomalies.

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Speaker 1: The first time since ninety one an NFL team has

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Speaker 1: played an entire first half without a running play from

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Speaker 1: a running back. So, Scott, are you concerned about it?

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Speaker 1: Was it a one game thing or is this a

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Speaker 1: problem moving forward? How concerned are you? Kyle? I'm pretty

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Speaker 1: concerned because late in the season we can see that

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Speaker 1: the best teams and the teams that are ascending are

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Speaker 1: developing a running game. And if you don't run the ball,

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Speaker 1: there's so many ways that impact your offense. If it

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Speaker 1: actually impacts the protection, it impacts the overall passing game

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Speaker 1: because if teams can dial in on one thing and

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Speaker 1: pin their years back and come after your quarterback that's

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Speaker 1: a problem. And it's not just the running game, because

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Speaker 1: they had a running game with Josh Allen. He was successful,

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Speaker 1: he produced yards, but they weren't using the running back.

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Speaker 1: So in order to produce the threat of the run

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Speaker 1: game to hold lindbacks who improve the passing game, they're

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Speaker 1: going to have to run the ball. And you know,

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Speaker 1: it's interesting. I understood why they drafted Josh Allen when

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Speaker 1: they did. They wanted a big, strong armed quarterback that

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Speaker 1: would be able to cut through the wind and the

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Speaker 1: weather in late November December and hopefully at home in January.

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Speaker 1: They've got that. But the other thing, again that's happening

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Speaker 1: around the league with the teams that win this time

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Speaker 1: of year, they have a running game because they know

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Speaker 1: how important it is to keep the ball on the

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Speaker 1: ground if you're going to be outdoors. Scott on Sunday

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Speaker 1: Night Football, the Packers put up forty five points on

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Speaker 1: the Bears, the second highest scoring game in the history

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Speaker 1: of the matchup. And I think you know they've played

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Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty seven thousand times. We saw a

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Speaker 1: lot of the best duo in the NFL as far

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Speaker 1: as I'm concerned. Aaron Rodgers Davante Adam. So from someone

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Speaker 1: who has been around the game as long as you have,

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Speaker 1: does Rogers two Adams remind you of the other all

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Speaker 1: time great combos Brian for as long as I have

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Speaker 1: And I'm kind of feeling a little bit of age

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Speaker 1: shade there, but yeah, I've been around about thirty years

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Speaker 1: at working and then as a fan. To me, it's

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Speaker 1: so difficult when you cross over eras and generations and

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Speaker 1: trying to compare, you know, players against other players because

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Speaker 1: the game has changed so much. But just look at

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Speaker 1: the Packers alone and you look at the players that

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Speaker 1: they've had. In terms of the duos, they've had far

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Speaker 1: too sharp far up to Driver, I mean, go back

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Speaker 1: to Bart Starr and Max McGee who played together for

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Speaker 1: eleven years. What I'm driving out here, no pun intended,

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Speaker 1: Donald Driver, is that the fact is they are one

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Speaker 1: of the best duos right now in football, and that's

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Speaker 1: what matters. The other thing that I think is helping

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Speaker 1: is are they are both great players, and I use

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Speaker 1: the word great, great players. But what's unique about this Packers'

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Speaker 1: offense is how they're using the running back. The combination

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Speaker 1: of using aj Dillon and Aaron jone out of the backfield,

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Speaker 1: they have produced over six hundred yards receiving, which is

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Speaker 1: really unique. So overall, this Packers' offense is really quite dynamic,

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Speaker 1: starting with the two players that you mentioned, Brian, so

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Speaker 1: they're the best of all time. That's what I go.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you so much, Scott. Scott. Let's talk

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Speaker 1: a little bit about coach Bill Belichick. Last week I

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Speaker 1: was listening to Peter Schreeger and Ryce Jones Drew. They

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Speaker 1: were discussing the potential of Bill being named Coach of

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Speaker 1: the Year and Executive of the Year. The last time

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Speaker 1: Bill one ape Coach of the Year, by the way,

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Speaker 1: was back in twenty ten, so it's been a long time.

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Speaker 1: Are you confident he could hold that award once again

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Speaker 1: at the end of the season. And how confident are you? Okay,

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Speaker 1: here's the deal. I don't know. You looked at the

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Speaker 1: history and you just mentioned that he last won it

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Speaker 1: in twenty ten. The reality is he's only won it

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Speaker 1: three times. We're talking about possibly again. I'm not very

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Speaker 1: objective about this. I believe Bill is the greatest coach

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Speaker 1: of all times, even though I don't like to go

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Speaker 1: across gears, but what he has done is unparalleled. And

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Speaker 1: to me, the fact that he only won it in

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Speaker 1: O three, O seven, and ten during this run that

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Speaker 1: he's had in New England, when he's clearly been the

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Speaker 1: coach of the Year so many times, it just makes

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Speaker 1: me shake by head. I look at this year and

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Speaker 1: I compare it somewhat to the two thousand and one

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Speaker 1: season when we were together. What he's taking is this

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Speaker 1: some being greater than the parts, and he's doing incredible

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Speaker 1: job of coaching. The other place I think Bill is

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Speaker 1: doing an amazing job of coaching this year is with

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Speaker 1: his assistant coaches. He's done a great job of allowing

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Speaker 1: his assistant coaches and the rest of the people in

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Speaker 1: the organization to do their jobs so well. And that's it.

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Speaker 1: Do your job. That's the slogan, Scott. You do your job,

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Speaker 1: and you do it well. And you got a brand

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Speaker 1: new article out right now in NFL dot com that

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00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:50,520
Speaker 1: talks about all the minority coaches in the league and

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Speaker 1: who should get their shot at head coaching positions this offseason.

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Speaker 1: It's an important article. Go check it out at NFL

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Speaker 1: dot com. Scott, thanks for joining us always, Thank you

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Speaker 1: every You have a great rest of your week. There's

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Speaker 1: a new book called Welcome to dunder Mifflin, and there's

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00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:09,360
Speaker 1: so many stories from the making of the show, to

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Speaker 1: the show itself, to then of course the fan reaction

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00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:15,479
Speaker 1: to the show in the years that even after it's aired,

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Speaker 1: which has been tremendous. So we wanted to ask you

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Speaker 1: a little question of sorts about how it blends in

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Speaker 1: with football. Perhaps. You know, the Office is all about

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00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:29,040
Speaker 1: teamwork and it's about making the team, and we love

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Speaker 1: the draft, we love the draft process why this player

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Speaker 1: was selected to that team. So we got to ask Bryan,

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Speaker 1: how did you get the gig as Kevin and what

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Speaker 1: was the process like when you landed the role of

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Speaker 1: a lifetime Well, I mean I could tell you that story.

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Speaker 1: I think there's another story we were talking about earlier

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Speaker 1: that's way better than mine. Phillis Phyllis Smith, who was

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Speaker 1: cast as fillin Laughing Vance. She was a casting a

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Speaker 1: spook see it on the show, So her job was

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Speaker 1: to read with the other actors who were coming in

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Speaker 1: to audition. And at a certain point many people now

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Speaker 1: have claimed credit for this, Ken Kuoppas the director, Greg

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Speaker 1: Daniels the creator. Basically they turned to each other and

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Speaker 1: said she has to work here, like she has to

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Speaker 1: be in the office. She had never acted, and in fact,

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Speaker 1: for the book she told me the story I had

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Speaker 1: never known. I told Steve Carell when I talked to him,

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Speaker 1: he had never known. The first few weeks she felt

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Speaker 1: so intimidated on set that she went to a bookstore

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Speaker 1: and bought a book on improvisation and went home and

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Speaker 1: read about improv at night so that she would feel

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Speaker 1: more comfortable on set. So one of the stories I

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Speaker 1: that she says, you know, they're like, hey, you might

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Speaker 1: have to quit your job in your career for an

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Speaker 1: picked by pilot. And she was like, I'm in. I'm yeah,

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Speaker 1: and that's what we love. Yeah, she was all in.

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Speaker 1: She was a burlesque dancer early on. That was her earliest. Yes,

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Speaker 1: there there's a We were asked when we first came

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Speaker 1: in to bring in personal items, right, they really they're

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Speaker 1: leaning into the realism, so like you know, old pictures

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Speaker 1: of yourself or you know, Oscar brought in his dog,

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Speaker 1: and Angela had her grandma Phyllis was an old burlesque

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Speaker 1: picture of her in her burlesque days in the I'm

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Speaker 1: killing it. She's part of the true ensemble. Of course,

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Speaker 1: writers and everything. If you look at the whole cast

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Speaker 1: like a team bringing into our world, who was the

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady of the Office cast? Take that any way

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Speaker 1: you want the Aaron Rodgers of the Office show. Correll,

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Speaker 1: I mean Carrel. You know, one of the questions I

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Speaker 1: asked everybody who I talked to for the book was

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Speaker 1: when when Steve left was what was the greater loss

639
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Speaker 1: for us? Was it Michael Scott or Steve Carrell? And

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Speaker 1: it wasn't Men as a joke, because the character was

641
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Speaker 1: this unbelievable creation and performance and the centerpiece of the show.

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Speaker 1: But Steve as a guy, as a leader, as kind

643
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Speaker 1: of our work, Dad boss Um, it was unbelievable. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, he truly could not have been better. And

645
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Speaker 1: and everybody's you know that you hear about bad behavior.

646
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Speaker 1: We were talking earlier, bad behavior on sets. Sometime he

647
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Speaker 1: set the example and that there was there was no

648
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Speaker 1: messing around because this is just how how the work

649
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Speaker 1: is done. And um yeah, I can't say enough about

650
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Speaker 1: him and his leadership. We love to hear that. We

651
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Speaker 1: also have great rivalries in there, you know, you and me,

652
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Speaker 1: attackers versus bears. We've talked about there is there a

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Speaker 1: show that you went up as up against as The

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Speaker 1: Office that you considered rivals and awards, ceremonies or whatever. Yeah,

655
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Speaker 1: I mean a little. I would say Thirty Rock. For

656
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Speaker 1: a time, it was not well, I mean we were

657
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Speaker 1: going for a long time, right, So then there was

658
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Speaker 1: there was Modern Family, there were there were some other shows.

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Speaker 1: I think you know what coming. We were just talking

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Speaker 1: about Steve, so I think what comes to mind. I

661
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Speaker 1: decided that awards truly do mean nothing when you consider

662
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Speaker 1: that in the decade the show was going, the nine seasons,

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Speaker 1: Steve Correll never won an Emmy really for the show,

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Speaker 1: which is this weirdly. Ricky Gervais, who I talked to,

665
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Speaker 1: he was he made some joke about about Steve and

666
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Speaker 1: Emmy and I said, you know, he never won. He

667
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Speaker 1: couldn't believe it. I mean it. When you hear that, it's,

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Speaker 1: um yeah, it's it's hard to take any of it.

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Speaker 1: Were those award parties, like as a crew, when you

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Speaker 1: guys would go all out there together and you're at

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Speaker 1: the awards and well we were just we were like

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Speaker 1: the idiot hillbillies from out of town. I mean, we

673
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Speaker 1: were not spoiler alert. We did not look like the

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Speaker 1: cast of Friends used to be invited to Hollywood parties.

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Speaker 1: So when we got our chance, we lived it up.

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Speaker 1: It was those early years. It was some of the

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Speaker 1: most unforgettable times. More Good Morning Football on the way,

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Speaker 1: Brian Bumgarner is here for the entire third hour. He'll

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Speaker 1: be back to more if your questions let us know,

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Speaker 1: edging because that was an improvisational segment. You did really well.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Good Morning Football. Play. I'll fixture on

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Speaker 1: the way. That will solve on the West coast with

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Speaker 1: the news will take it away all right, Thank you, kay,

684
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Speaker 1: and guys appreciate that well. Following Sunday's last to the Falcons,

685
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Speaker 1: after two costly turnovers, quarterback Cam Newton said he needed

686
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Speaker 1: to do a better job with the ball security and

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Speaker 1: he said that it was quote inexcusable. Now, despite the turnovers,

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Speaker 1: head coach Matt Rule saying Newton will remain the starter,

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Speaker 1: but backup PJ. Walker Wall so continue to see action

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Speaker 1: as well. Newton played forty seven snaps and Walker played

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Speaker 1: fifteen snaps against Atlanta Panthers taking on the Bills in

692
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Speaker 1: Week fifteen. Bronser coach Kevin Stefanski saying running back Krem

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Speaker 1: Hunt is not expected to play in the Week fifteen

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Speaker 1: matchup with the Raiders. Hunt injuring his ankle in the

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Speaker 1: first half of Sunday's win over the Ravens. The Browns

696
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Speaker 1: on the bubble of the AFC West playoff picture currently

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Speaker 1: sitting at eighth and as we wanted to point out

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Speaker 1: this cool moment in the Bears Packers game from this

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Speaker 1: past Sunday, backup quarterback Banker dressing for the game for

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Speaker 1: the first time in his four year NFL career. Banker

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Speaker 1: actually got into the game and took the final snap

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Speaker 1: in the victory. Formation Head coach Matt Lafleur talked about

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Speaker 1: this special opportunity. Aaron came up to me right before

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Speaker 1: that just wanted to make sure, you know, because it

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Speaker 1: was a special occasion. He's been was it, four years

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Speaker 1: in the league and first time dressing, so you know,

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Speaker 1: he's just like, hey, you know, let's let Kirk take

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Speaker 1: the the victory snaps. I said absolutely. Um so, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a well deserved honor. He works really hard and

710
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Speaker 1: he's been a really great contribution to that quarterback room.

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Speaker 1: Banker actually tweeted out a photo of himself with chalk

712
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Speaker 1: on his knee to prove that he did indeed play.

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Speaker 1: So that was definitely a cool moment. And maybe we

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Speaker 1: get Brian a banker Green Bay, Jersey and make that

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Speaker 1: a not New Jersey. Just a thought. Oh it's nice,

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Speaker 1: all right, I'll take it. That's a cool story. Let's

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Speaker 1: make it happen. Thanks. Well, there's a lot of packers.

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Speaker 1: Who's happening on the show? I wonder why let's take

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Speaker 1: a look at a playoff pictures, not with the NFC

720
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Speaker 1: we start, but with the AFC. Taking a look. The Patriots, Titans,

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Speaker 1: and Chiefs, as you can see, are atop the APSI

722
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Speaker 1: they all are at nine and four. The Patriots hold

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Speaker 1: the tiebreaker because they have a seven to one record

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Speaker 1: in conference. Things equally tied at the bottom. I think

725
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Speaker 1: this is interesting. Five teams tied at seven and six,

726
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Speaker 1: Stealers at six and six and one, Dolphins and Raiders

727
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 1: a game back at six and seven, So the Buys

728
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Speaker 1: are over a lot of teams on the outside looking in.

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Speaker 1: They won, And to hop the column over to the left,

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Speaker 1: which team are you guys watching the final four weeks

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Speaker 1: of the season closely that can make a move good

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Speaker 1: or bad? Yeah, I'm gonna go to the team that

733
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Speaker 1: you saw in person on Sunday, the Cincinnati Bengals. I'm

734
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Speaker 1: really curious what they have left in the tank. They

735
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:39,920
Speaker 1: got a really hard schedule, but they do have this young,

736
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Speaker 1: vibrant quarterback with these great receivers and like they're close.

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Speaker 1: But are they just not there this year? They have

738
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Speaker 1: to wait another year. Did they get over the hump?

739
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 1: Did they make it happen to they go on a run.

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Speaker 1: There's still four weeks left to them to decide their

741
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:54,879
Speaker 1: own fate. Two home losses in December back to back,

742
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Speaker 1: tough to stomach, though, with what they've got up ahead,

743
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Speaker 1: look at this, Peter. The next team they play is

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Speaker 1: that Denver, and I got my eye on Denver. Have

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00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:03,560
Speaker 1: you seen these guys run the ball? It's awesome, It's

746
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 1: really really awesome. And it's not just one guy. They

747
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:10,239
Speaker 1: got Javonte, they got Melvin with a huge game last week.

748
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Speaker 1: They don't really talk about because it's kind under the radar.

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Speaker 1: This guy Mike Boone. They got the offensive line, Teddy

750
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 1: Bridge Bark starting to take care of the ball, throwing

751
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:18,879
Speaker 1: two picks in the last six games. They got wins

752
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:21,280
Speaker 1: over the Chargers recently, guy wins over the Cowboys recently.

753
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Speaker 1: If you start to pay attention to who gets hot,

754
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:27,799
Speaker 1: win They're hot right now. They run the Bejesus out

755
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Speaker 1: of it and they play defense. They've got this whole

756
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Speaker 1: emotional thing going with what happened with Damarius Thomas. With

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Speaker 1: totally respect, I don't want to play Denver right now.

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Speaker 1: That is all of a sudden, a really good game,

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Speaker 1: great game, Bengals Broncos. Who would have thought in Denver?

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Speaker 1: I'm taking Denver in that game right now? Brian, who

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Speaker 1: do you like? Well, that's gonna be a tough and

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Speaker 1: it would be tough to go to Denver. It's always

763
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Speaker 1: tough to go to Denver. I the team that I

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Speaker 1: have my eye on two is actually the Bengals. And

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Speaker 1: here's why I think there's so much p Lardie. I

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Speaker 1: feel like no team, all those teams Baltimore and Cleveland

767
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Speaker 1: with SIDC they're all sort of hanging around, and I

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Speaker 1: think I think that the Bengals, with a push, can

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Speaker 1: make the playoffs. You really do. There's a lot so

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Speaker 1: much parody there in the AFC especially, there's so much,

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Speaker 1: so much open they win the division. I'm keeping my

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Speaker 1: eyes on Lamar Jackson. His status, of course, is meaningful

773
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Speaker 1: along the way. We'll have Garafolo updat us on that.

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Speaker 1: If we look at the NFC playoff fixture, guys, the

775
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Speaker 1: Packers are the one seed in the NFC. The Cardinals

776
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Speaker 1: lost us nice as they can thank them and send

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Speaker 1: them a thank you card for that. Green Bay, Tampa, Arizona.

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Speaker 1: There tie ten and three atop of the conference. And

779
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Speaker 1: just like that, or just as we saw in the AFC, guys,

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Speaker 1: it's wide open in the wild card Niners or in

781
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Speaker 1: the sixth seed there at seven and six, they beat

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Speaker 1: the Bengals. Of course, Washington holds a seventh seed for now,

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Speaker 1: winning a five way tie breaker with the other six

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Speaker 1: and seven teams. So, Peter, who's looking at here, there's

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Speaker 1: only one team in that last column. It's include all

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Speaker 1: that has an MVP quarterback, and that's Matt Ryan. I

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00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:05,839
Speaker 1: have no idea what The Falcons are a week to week.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes they lose to the Cowboys by forty and they

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Speaker 1: go and they beat a team like the Panthers handedly

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00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:15,960
Speaker 1: on Sunday in their building. Falcons really interesting. Matt Ryan

791
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:18,399
Speaker 1: has been there, he has been to a Super Bowl.

792
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Speaker 1: They pay him a lot of money. They're not there

793
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:23,480
Speaker 1: to miss the playoffs. They're looking to make the playoffs.

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00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:26,200
Speaker 1: I think Atlanta is really interesting. I love Philadelphia. They're

795
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:27,879
Speaker 1: coming off of bye. We haven't seen him in a while.

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00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:29,239
Speaker 1: They've won three out of four. I'll say the same

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Speaker 1: thing I said about the Broncos. Have you seen the

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Speaker 1: way the Eagles run the ball? And Brian, I have

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Speaker 1: to ask you just it's this random coincidence that you hear.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you've gotten the load of Nick Sirianni,

801
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:38,840
Speaker 1: their head coach, but for weeks now, having nothing to

802
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:41,240
Speaker 1: do with you, we've said he has this Michael Scott

803
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 1: type quality where he starts sentences where he doesn't know

804
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 1: where they're gonna finish, and yet he kind of has

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Speaker 1: the employees believing in him. And I'm one of them. Interesting.

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Speaker 1: I go to the Saints. I think, I think, I

807
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Speaker 1: think in the NFC likely six six of the Seeds

808
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 1: and decided I think sort of leaves Washington, certainly the Eagles,

809
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:07,480
Speaker 1: but I think the Saints as well. I think their defense,

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00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:12,720
Speaker 1: their toughness, coaching gives them the edge. It was against

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Speaker 1: the Jets, but do you feel better seeing what you

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00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 1: saw out of album Camara? Yeah? I mean Camara is

813
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 1: one of the superheroes. We'll see they gotta win. It

814
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:21,759
Speaker 1: was against the Jets, but Camara changes the whole deal

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Speaker 1: for them,