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Speaker 2: Good Morning Football, however you want to call it. We

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Speaker 2: love that you're here. It's Good Morning Football. PUSN of

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Speaker 2: my Tuesday, August twelfth, Jamie here at almant I teo

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Speaker 2: and a Super Bowl champion defensive shackles to Marco far

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Speaker 2: our friend at the table, Yes here in La plus

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Speaker 2: Kyle Brandt, you are in New York City. What's happening

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Speaker 2: in your neck of the woods, as our friend Al

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Speaker 2: Roper would say.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm exhausted, as Al rochers right up the street.

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Speaker 1: But I was going to spend all night watching coaches

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Speaker 1: tape on the NFC North. But I've just been on

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Speaker 1: Reddit threads reading about Taylor's new album that she announced

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Speaker 1: to the Kelsey Boys, So I'm very excited all flutter.

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Speaker 1: I's not going to have any takes on football, but

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Speaker 1: I'm just thinking about my girl.

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Speaker 2: Roll it, roll it before we get down a rabbit hole.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Good Morning Football is ent it by SPA.

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Speaker 2: That's right GMFB. Everybody, Jamie, Mantai, Kyle and DeMarco. Kyle

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Speaker 2: just mentioned it off the top. There was a graphic

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Speaker 2: that went out on the New Heights social media yesterday

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Speaker 2: with a cutout figure, and everybody's losing their minds over

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Speaker 2: who it could be. Taylor Swift. Oh, going on the

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Speaker 2: Kelsey Brothers podcast to Marko Farr.

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Speaker 3: Your thought, whoa, I can't wait to hear this. This

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Speaker 3: is going to be good. Un yes, good.

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Speaker 2: Excellently, Keep going, keep saying things like that. That's perfect, Kyle.

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Speaker 2: You obviously had an immediate response to it, and then

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Speaker 2: you lost yourself in a Reddit thread or two.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I was writing them. I was constructing the

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Speaker 1: reddit threads. It really, it's fine. It's good that the

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Speaker 1: Kelsey Boys got a publicity pop they needed that. I

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Speaker 1: haven't seen him in twenty seconds, so congratulations to them.

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Speaker 1: I will be buying the album from my daughter, and

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Speaker 1: uh that's a that's a big, big exciting thing going

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Speaker 2: There was a rumor going around that if you texted

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Speaker 2: somebody Taylor's with dot com yesterday just an image would

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Speaker 2: you would text where is Matthew Stafford dot com? An

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Speaker 2: image would come up. But with like a Backex rayling

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Speaker 2: what is happening with the Rams right now and Stafford's back.

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Speaker 2: His injury has kept him out of practice for quite

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Speaker 2: some time, including yesterday. His head coach Sean McVay says

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Speaker 2: that the plan is still to take this one day

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Speaker 2: at a time with the thirty seven year old quarterback

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Speaker 4: You know, like we've said, we're going to be flexible

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Speaker 4: there and feel good. Ultimately what ended up happening and

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Speaker 4: didn't think that was the right decision to be able

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Speaker 4: think more than anything, you know, I feel for a

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Speaker 4: to be smart, you know, but he didn't feel good enough,

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Speaker 4: today and you can.

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Speaker 2: See that care from head coach to quarterback. It's a

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Speaker 2: relationship we've seen unfold in LA for quite some time

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Speaker 2: and it's amassed an amazing amount of success. Now Sean

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Speaker 2: McVay is making a decision based on how his quarterback feels.

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Speaker 2: But this is what we feel about the NFC West

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Speaker 2: at this point, Kyle, on a scale of one to

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Speaker 1: Six six five. Maybe I don't like what I'm hearing.

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Speaker 1: I don't like this. Listen, here's the deal with the

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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford back. It's not that early anymore. So when

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Speaker 1: classic crusty old veteran in his day, bring up the tweet.

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Speaker 1: words like flare up, fluid, flexibility is. I am now

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Speaker 1: Now they got a backup in Jimmy G. But if like,

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Speaker 2: I was worried for a second. I was worried that

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Speaker 2: I don't want to hear about fluid Kyle between seven

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Speaker 3: Kyle's right, it's it's not nothing.

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Speaker 5: To have your your starter out for this long could

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Speaker 5: what makes them special. The guy's got world class arm talent.

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Speaker 5: He could have gone other places to compete for a

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Speaker 5: this is not nothing. This is it could be a

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Speaker 2: On the scale of one to nine. I want everyone

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Speaker 5: Yeah, coaches, trainers and him. So you know, you ask Matthew,

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Speaker 5: he wants to practice. Yeah, everything coach McVay said is

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Speaker 3: He wants to be out there.

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Speaker 5: But im that equally is terrifying to see a head

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Speaker 3: Isn't that scared to see?

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Speaker 3: More intensi than the players.

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Speaker 5: But you want Matthew Stafford as your starter, just it's

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Speaker 6: Little bit of time to get him out there. The

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Speaker 6: Marco you reminded me of win my daddy. So to

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Speaker 6: Now you may be asking why aren't you a zero

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Speaker 6: Now to mention that, I think that they have one

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Speaker 6: So that is why I think that on a scale

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Speaker 1: Ayb like, that's that's clever, man. I think what the

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Speaker 1: They bring them with them steaks. This is not most

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Speaker 1: of the teams in the NFL. The expectation for this

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Speaker 1: They were a play away from beating the Eagles, who

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Speaker 1: coming team, it's not the Cardinals. It's just the Rams

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Speaker 1: really represents something, and Stafford is everything. Like I don't

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Speaker 1: or ten minutes from now. Well, they can rally behind

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Speaker 1: Jimmy G. And Jimmy G has started the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: God blessed Jimmy G. Nobody likes him more than I do.

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Speaker 1: Jimmy G is not going to win the Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: for them this year. I just don't think that's gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: They need Matthew Stafford, so I don't want to have

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Speaker 1: I feel like Robert Salaz is going to tear him

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Speaker 1: About too much.

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Speaker 2: In a side part of my life, I always like

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Speaker 6: I'm the opposite when it comes to San Francisco fort

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Speaker 6: And I don't know if you've seen that game, but

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Speaker 6: it reminded me that Robert sala is back, that that

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Speaker 6: You're playing the whole that first drive without gloves in

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Speaker 7: Game looking at it, he has his gloves on.

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Speaker 6: It's the same drive guys, Patrick Shirtin as a veteran.

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Speaker 1: Well seven plays in.

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Speaker 5: Patrick Shirtan is like co boys, These boys is playing

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Speaker 3: I'm better strap.

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Speaker 6: Book, coach, give me my gloves, like, we got to really.

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Speaker 7: Play this game.

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Speaker 6: So to that point, when I saw Patrick Shirtin slip

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Speaker 1: Yeah, man, ty elaborate on that. Are you are you

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Speaker 6: Be an easy day, and then yeah, So I'm not

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Speaker 7: Like, there it goes. Yeah, first drive, run, run, ron bomb, touchdown,

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Speaker 6: It was so funny when I saw that day he

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Speaker 1: I love that observation. It kind of feels like, you know,

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Speaker 2: I like to keep my earpiece in at all times

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Speaker 1: But you're a good kid.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to hurt we new.

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Speaker 2: Listen. I heard somebody was having an issue with GMFB

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Speaker 2: now he's played enough for us to do. Big deal

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Speaker 2: edition of their depth chart. Is this a big deal

430
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Speaker 2: or is this no big deal? Manti, the fact that

431
00:19:02,748 --> 00:19:04,348
Speaker 2: he's still down there but he's getting the second started

432
00:19:04,428 --> 00:19:06,308
Speaker 2: at the Eagles this weekend, I think it's a big deal.

433
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Speaker 6: Jamie, and I think it's a big deal because now listen,

434
00:19:08,868 --> 00:19:10,628
Speaker 6: if there's a narrative that he should be the starter,

435
00:19:10,748 --> 00:19:14,748
Speaker 6: like that's false, Like Joe Flacco deservedly has that number one.

436
00:19:14,868 --> 00:19:15,548
Speaker 7: At least for now.

437
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Speaker 6: They haven't come out and said, oh, he's our starter,

438
00:19:18,388 --> 00:19:21,548
Speaker 6: but he's a starter now. I do think it's a

439
00:19:21,548 --> 00:19:24,588
Speaker 6: big deal because based on how he performed, but also

440
00:19:24,628 --> 00:19:27,468
Speaker 6: of his availability. De Marco, you know this. It's on

441
00:19:27,628 --> 00:19:31,868
Speaker 6: every wall in every locker room. Your best ability is availability.

442
00:19:32,108 --> 00:19:32,948
Speaker 7: And the only.

443
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Speaker 6: Quarterback besides Joe Flacco that was healthy with Shelder Sanders,

444
00:19:36,788 --> 00:19:39,668
Speaker 6: like Kenny Pickett, he's still not practicing and Dylan Gabriel.

445
00:19:39,748 --> 00:19:42,188
Speaker 6: I think they said yesterday or today he's supposed to

446
00:19:42,228 --> 00:19:44,068
Speaker 6: do eleven on eleven drills, but he's still going to

447
00:19:44,108 --> 00:19:47,268
Speaker 6: be monitored. So off of that, the only guy that

448
00:19:47,428 --> 00:19:49,828
Speaker 6: was on the field, the only guy that's to Jamie's point,

449
00:19:49,828 --> 00:19:53,268
Speaker 6: that has tape beside Joe Flacco in the Cleveland Browns

450
00:19:53,348 --> 00:19:55,308
Speaker 6: uniform is Shoulder Sanders.

451
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Speaker 7: So I'm not saying he should be two.

452
00:19:56,988 --> 00:19:58,868
Speaker 6: I'm not saying he should be one, but he should

453
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Speaker 6: at least be three, Like at least move up just

454
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Speaker 6: a little bit, especially after how he played and the

455
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Speaker 6: fact that he even played, So I think he should

456
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Speaker 6: have been moved up a little de Marco and at

457
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Speaker 6: least be number three.

458
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Speaker 5: Man, say, look at that picture of Schadour in a

459
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Speaker 5: Browns uniform. I mean that actually looks right to me.

460
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Speaker 5: It looks it looks like it should be right there.

461
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Speaker 5: It really does. But I'll say this is no big

462
00:20:20,148 --> 00:20:22,828
Speaker 5: deal because I'll give you for instance, there's a kid

463
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Speaker 5: on the Rams. He's a linebacker named Sean Dolac. All

464
00:20:25,748 --> 00:20:27,668
Speaker 5: he did was make every single play in that first

465
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Speaker 5: game versus Dallas. Now when he shows up to work

466
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Speaker 5: on Monday, he's still going to be the third backer

467
00:20:32,148 --> 00:20:34,468
Speaker 5: on that football team. So I don't think after one

468
00:20:34,548 --> 00:20:37,548
Speaker 5: preseason performance you get to rocket up the charts. I

469
00:20:37,628 --> 00:20:39,468
Speaker 5: was shocked that he was fourth to begin with, But

470
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Speaker 5: I don't think because you had success in one game

471
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Speaker 5: when it's a vanilla defense and you can put the

472
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Speaker 5: ball in the end zone, that you just move up

473
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Speaker 5: without the other two guys playing. So no shock that

474
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Speaker 5: he kept his depth chart spot, but I was surprised

475
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Speaker 5: he was fourth to begin with. So it's no big

476
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Speaker 5: deal that he's still a four string, right.

477
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Speaker 1: Now, well, I think it's I mean, it's a huge

478
00:21:00,828 --> 00:21:03,428
Speaker 1: deal just because I mean, we're making segments out of it.

479
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Speaker 1: The media is very hied to Shador. There's going to

480
00:21:05,988 --> 00:21:08,708
Speaker 1: be people who are incredulous about this. How does he

481
00:21:08,788 --> 00:21:11,308
Speaker 1: fourth or through two touchdowns. It's also a big deal

482
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Speaker 1: because the Browns have to do what's right by them.

483
00:21:13,388 --> 00:21:15,988
Speaker 1: It's we have to remind ourselves that. Okay, so they

484
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Speaker 1: took Shador in the fifth round, whatever the circumstances were.

485
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Speaker 1: Forty picks earlier, they took Dylan Gabriel, a guy that

486
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Speaker 1: they really liked. They drafted him in the third round.

487
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Speaker 1: Third round picks are not just something you disregard. They

488
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Speaker 1: got to see him, by the way, after Dylan Gabriel,

489
00:21:32,628 --> 00:21:34,668
Speaker 1: the Browns also picked in the fourth round, and they

490
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Speaker 1: took a running back, Like they passed on Shador over

491
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Speaker 1: and over and over. They have to see what they

492
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Speaker 1: have in Dylan Gabriel. They like Dylan Gabriel. They loved

493
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Speaker 1: Dylan Gabriel. By the way, they also traded valuable assets

494
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Speaker 1: to get Kenny Pickett. They just traded him away to

495
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Speaker 1: bring him in. So I love that Shador threw two touchdowns,

496
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Speaker 1: but it's not like there goes all our plans. We

497
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Speaker 1: put a lot of thought into the Dylan Gabriel and

498
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Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett players, at least they should have. So it's

499
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Speaker 1: not a big deal in the sense that I think

500
00:22:02,548 --> 00:22:04,828
Speaker 1: this is what they should be doing. What do we do?

501
00:22:04,988 --> 00:22:07,908
Speaker 1: My question is, Dylan Gabriel comes out and throws two

502
00:22:07,908 --> 00:22:11,108
Speaker 1: touchdowns in Lincoln Financial Field against the Eagles, does he

503
00:22:11,188 --> 00:22:13,668
Speaker 1: get anything close to the same pats on the back. No,

504
00:22:13,828 --> 00:22:16,388
Speaker 1: of course not, because he's not a sensation. But then

505
00:22:16,428 --> 00:22:18,708
Speaker 1: we have a real competition, and it's just they have

506
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Speaker 1: to see what they have. Dylan Gabriel, to me, is

507
00:22:20,788 --> 00:22:23,828
Speaker 1: such an interesting player, like he doesn't exist. But they

508
00:22:23,868 --> 00:22:26,308
Speaker 1: took him forty picks before the one that they won't

509
00:22:26,308 --> 00:22:28,508
Speaker 1: stop talking about. You have to see what you have.

510
00:22:28,708 --> 00:22:30,588
Speaker 1: I can't believe we actually have video of the guy.

511
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Speaker 1: That's him right there, number five, not number twelve again,

512
00:22:34,228 --> 00:22:37,148
Speaker 1: the third round pick of the Browns. They loved him.

513
00:22:37,268 --> 00:22:37,988
Speaker 1: We gotta see him.

514
00:22:38,068 --> 00:22:40,668
Speaker 2: Yeah, cam Ward is the phantom. According to Kyle, Dylan

515
00:22:40,668 --> 00:22:42,748
Speaker 2: Gabriel might be the ghost because we haven't seen it.

516
00:22:42,828 --> 00:22:44,908
Speaker 2: We haven't talked about him. But I don't want any

517
00:22:44,948 --> 00:22:47,668
Speaker 2: of those nicknames to be insulting like the goat is

518
00:22:47,708 --> 00:22:50,788
Speaker 2: just easily applicable to Tom Brady. Now moving over to

519
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Speaker 2: our second topic. On Big Dealer, No Big Deal, Tom

520
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Speaker 2: Brady sat down with his Fox colleague Joel Klattz on

521
00:22:56,108 --> 00:22:59,188
Speaker 2: his show which quarterback he was asked Brady was which

522
00:22:59,268 --> 00:23:02,388
Speaker 2: quarterback reminds him of himself most. And here's what Brady

523
00:23:02,428 --> 00:23:02,868
Speaker 2: had to say.

524
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Speaker 10: It's always that line about who wants to win versus

525
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Speaker 10: who's willing to do whatever it takes to win.

526
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Speaker 1: Because everyone wants to win.

527
00:23:12,428 --> 00:23:13,228
Speaker 3: Everyone wants to win.

528
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Speaker 10: But what are the habits and the daily habits and

529
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Speaker 10: the actionable things you need to do every day to

530
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Speaker 10: put your team in a position to win. So Patrick

531
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Speaker 10: mahomes me is the one that does that the most

532
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Speaker 10: offensure because who he is, I mean obviously his physical talent,

533
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Speaker 10: how he understands what he needs to do offensively, and

534
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Speaker 10: he brings a consistent winning attitude to work every single day.

535
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Speaker 10: In the biggest moments. You can depend on him the most.

536
00:23:39,668 --> 00:23:40,228
Speaker 10: That's clear.

537
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Speaker 2: There is nothing I will rely on more in terms

538
00:23:43,388 --> 00:23:46,428
Speaker 2: of Tom brady expertise in him analyzing somebody that does

539
00:23:46,508 --> 00:23:48,148
Speaker 2: the same amount of work that he did and so

540
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Speaker 2: if he's saying it's Patrick Mahomes, then it's Mahomes. At

541
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Speaker 2: this point, is it a big deal that Brady is

542
00:23:52,868 --> 00:23:55,468
Speaker 2: making this comparison, this draw between the two of them,

543
00:23:55,508 --> 00:23:58,308
Speaker 2: Brady to Mahomes that he is the quarterback closest to

544
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Speaker 2: him when it comes to that capacity.

545
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think it's a big deal.

546
00:24:01,668 --> 00:24:03,788
Speaker 6: I do, And if you haven't watched that interview, I

547
00:24:03,828 --> 00:24:06,828
Speaker 6: think it's amazing. Like Tom Brady goes throughout his career,

548
00:24:06,868 --> 00:24:08,988
Speaker 6: he also talks about guys now, but then he talks

549
00:24:08,988 --> 00:24:13,028
Speaker 6: about how those habits trick it into his now broadcasting

550
00:24:13,028 --> 00:24:14,588
Speaker 6: career and they helped me out a lot, especially as

551
00:24:14,588 --> 00:24:15,988
Speaker 6: somebody that went from football.

552
00:24:15,588 --> 00:24:18,428
Speaker 7: To broadcasting myself. But I think it's a big deal

553
00:24:18,468 --> 00:24:19,028
Speaker 7: because if.

554
00:24:18,908 --> 00:24:21,948
Speaker 6: You look at Patrick Mahomes, you look at his makeup,

555
00:24:21,988 --> 00:24:25,188
Speaker 6: you look at not just his numbers, Because in that interview,

556
00:24:26,108 --> 00:24:27,988
Speaker 6: Tom Brady doesn't talk about any numbers.

557
00:24:27,988 --> 00:24:30,708
Speaker 7: He talks about his makeup. He talks about his habits.

558
00:24:30,868 --> 00:24:35,308
Speaker 6: He talks about doing the things from an organizational standpoint.

559
00:24:34,788 --> 00:24:37,748
Speaker 1: Running your own walkthroughs, running your own meetings.

560
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Speaker 6: Those are the things that Patrick Mahomes does on a

561
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Speaker 6: consistent basis. He's not saying that the other quarterbacks don't

562
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Speaker 6: do it. He says the quarterback that does it the

563
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Speaker 6: most consistently is Patrick Mahomes. And that is why if

564
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Speaker 6: you look at their career, Patrick Mahoone's been in the

565
00:24:52,828 --> 00:24:54,868
Speaker 6: NFL for eight years. If you look at Tom Brady's

566
00:24:54,868 --> 00:24:57,948
Speaker 6: first eight years, Tom Brady had four super Bowl appearances,

567
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Speaker 6: Patrick Mahomes has five. Now they both have three super

568
00:25:01,548 --> 00:25:04,108
Speaker 6: Bowls in those first eight. So if you do the math,

569
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Speaker 6: Patrick Mahomes still has so much good football left to

570
00:25:08,388 --> 00:25:10,908
Speaker 6: be played. We had a segment we had a segment

571
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Speaker 6: a few weeks ago about do we think that that

572
00:25:13,228 --> 00:25:14,108
Speaker 6: dynasty is over?

573
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Speaker 7: Is it done that? Referring to the Kens City Chiefs.

574
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Speaker 6: Let this be an example of that there's so much

575
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Speaker 6: more left for them as long as Patrick Mahomes is

576
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Speaker 6: a quarterback and Andy Reid is a head coach. I

577
00:25:26,348 --> 00:25:28,268
Speaker 6: think it's a big deal because to hear that from

578
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Speaker 6: one of the greats, to talk about a modern day great,

579
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Speaker 6: it bodes well for the Ken City Chiefs.

580
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Speaker 3: Enormous deal, a huge deal.

581
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Speaker 5: Seen them all played against a lot of Hall of famers,

582
00:25:39,148 --> 00:25:40,708
Speaker 5: you know, a Hall of Fame quarterback or a great one.

583
00:25:40,748 --> 00:25:43,828
Speaker 5: When you see it that game in the Coliseum when

584
00:25:44,308 --> 00:25:47,908
Speaker 5: Jared Goff did battle with Mahomes, and watching Mahomes live

585
00:25:48,068 --> 00:25:50,668
Speaker 5: for the first time, I thought it dawned on me.

586
00:25:50,788 --> 00:25:52,788
Speaker 5: This is the only guy I think that could touch

587
00:25:52,828 --> 00:25:53,788
Speaker 5: Tom Brady's legacy.

588
00:25:53,828 --> 00:25:55,148
Speaker 3: Now he's got the tools.

589
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Speaker 5: The guy is a scramble perfect quarterback, and he could

590
00:25:58,788 --> 00:26:02,348
Speaker 5: be letter perfect without a rush. He's got, like you said,

591
00:26:02,428 --> 00:26:04,988
Speaker 5: he's got the start, he's got the championships. Because if

592
00:26:05,028 --> 00:26:07,148
Speaker 5: you are going to touch Tom Brady's legacy, you're gonna

593
00:26:07,148 --> 00:26:08,908
Speaker 5: have to play it into an old age, So you're

594
00:26:08,908 --> 00:26:10,908
Speaker 5: gonna have to have a lot of success early and

595
00:26:10,948 --> 00:26:12,868
Speaker 5: then sustain that for a long period of time. I

596
00:26:12,908 --> 00:26:15,228
Speaker 5: think he is capable of doing that. So I think

597
00:26:15,228 --> 00:26:17,068
Speaker 5: it's you. If Tom Brady is saying, I like the

598
00:26:17,108 --> 00:26:20,188
Speaker 5: way you prepare. That's something that you tell your mom.

599
00:26:20,268 --> 00:26:23,828
Speaker 5: Tom Brady thinks I prepare very well. That's ninety percent

600
00:26:23,828 --> 00:26:25,828
Speaker 5: of what he does. So if Mahomes is doing the

601
00:26:25,908 --> 00:26:28,548
Speaker 5: right stuff when we can't see it, and he's doing

602
00:26:28,548 --> 00:26:30,908
Speaker 5: the great stuff when we can, the only person that

603
00:26:30,948 --> 00:26:33,388
Speaker 5: can come close to touching the goat would be Mahomes.

604
00:26:33,388 --> 00:26:35,068
Speaker 3: So I think this is a huge view.

605
00:26:36,748 --> 00:26:39,108
Speaker 1: I think it's a big deal too, Sam reason you

606
00:26:39,148 --> 00:26:43,948
Speaker 1: guys do it. Any sound or video or text or

607
00:26:43,988 --> 00:26:47,708
Speaker 1: anything of Brady talking about Mahomes and Mahomes talking about

608
00:26:47,748 --> 00:26:50,108
Speaker 1: Brady could be looked at his history for years to come.

609
00:26:50,148 --> 00:26:52,828
Speaker 1: It's going to be the things that comprise NFL film

610
00:26:52,908 --> 00:26:56,508
Speaker 1: specials and documentaries and things like that, if Mahomes continues

611
00:26:56,548 --> 00:26:58,668
Speaker 1: to trend the way he's going. Now, when I heard this,

612
00:26:58,828 --> 00:27:01,548
Speaker 1: I said, yeah, Brady doesn't remind me of Mahomes at all,

613
00:27:01,668 --> 00:27:04,828
Speaker 1: or vice versa. Just totally different playing styles. And Mahomes

614
00:27:04,908 --> 00:27:08,068
Speaker 1: is doing the Nola passes and he looks different physically,

615
00:27:08,108 --> 00:27:11,148
Speaker 1: and he's different size, like just physically throwing the ball.

616
00:27:11,468 --> 00:27:13,828
Speaker 1: I would have said Brady is a Joe Burrow, but

617
00:27:13,868 --> 00:27:18,148
Speaker 1: stick with Mahomes. Mahomes continues to track this way as

618
00:27:18,228 --> 00:27:20,828
Speaker 1: a career, continues to make Super Bowls constantly like this,

619
00:27:21,148 --> 00:27:23,948
Speaker 1: there's going to be an historical goat comparison to have

620
00:27:24,028 --> 00:27:25,988
Speaker 1: you thought Brady put this thing away by playing in

621
00:27:26,028 --> 00:27:29,188
Speaker 1: ten Super Bowls and winning seven, Walhomes is already played

622
00:27:29,188 --> 00:27:32,028
Speaker 1: in five and won three, So you get five six

623
00:27:32,108 --> 00:27:34,508
Speaker 1: years down the line, you look back on this interview

624
00:27:34,508 --> 00:27:36,948
Speaker 1: with Joel Klatt where Brady said he reminds me of me.

625
00:27:36,988 --> 00:27:38,508
Speaker 1: It's the kind of thing that we put in a

626
00:27:38,548 --> 00:27:40,868
Speaker 1: vault somewhere and look back on and show our grandkids.

627
00:27:41,268 --> 00:27:43,788
Speaker 1: I'll just say it has to continue tracking this way.

628
00:27:43,948 --> 00:27:47,108
Speaker 1: I've always thought the one big disadvantage that Mahomes might

629
00:27:47,188 --> 00:27:50,548
Speaker 1: have in chasing Brady is Brady had the luxury of

630
00:27:50,588 --> 00:27:53,588
Speaker 1: having one head coach for the entire time, save for

631
00:27:53,668 --> 00:27:56,188
Speaker 1: when he went to Tampa, he had a couple decades

632
00:27:56,188 --> 00:27:59,308
Speaker 1: of Bill Belichick. I don't know if Patrick Mahomes is

633
00:27:59,308 --> 00:28:01,108
Speaker 1: going to be able to play his entire Chiefs run

634
00:28:01,148 --> 00:28:03,268
Speaker 1: with Andy Reid. Does Andy Reid have another decade with

635
00:28:03,348 --> 00:28:06,228
Speaker 1: him as a head coach that Jets. Maybe, But I

636
00:28:06,268 --> 00:28:09,868
Speaker 1: don't know. That's a big, big luxury that Brady had.

637
00:28:10,388 --> 00:28:13,628
Speaker 1: And listen, save this sound bite. This could be the

638
00:28:13,668 --> 00:28:17,548
Speaker 1: debate topic in twelve years when Mahomes decides to retire

639
00:28:17,588 --> 00:28:20,228
Speaker 1: and they both ended going to ten Super Bowls? Who's better?

640
00:28:20,428 --> 00:28:22,828
Speaker 1: It's all history. It's significant, and I love that Brady

641
00:28:22,828 --> 00:28:23,068
Speaker 1: did it.

642
00:28:24,228 --> 00:28:26,548
Speaker 5: I think he might like Matthew Stafford. I think of

643
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Speaker 5: this era, Patrick Mahomes maybe the only quarterback play in

644
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Speaker 5: close to forty Yeah, with the other styles, Josh Allen,

645
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Speaker 5: Lamar Jackson. I mean those guys, I mean, how long

646
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Speaker 5: of a career can you have. I think Mahomes will

647
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Speaker 5: be there into his forties. That's why I think he

648
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Speaker 5: has a shot at it.

649
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Speaker 2: There's always contenders, though, Kyle, as we go to break

650
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Speaker 2: on GMFB, our next guest on the show. If he

651
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Speaker 2: was on the show in the era of Tom Brady

652
00:28:48,508 --> 00:28:50,748
Speaker 2: winning all the Super Bowls, he probably just would have

653
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Speaker 2: put the the Patriots in as his pick. But what

654
00:28:53,828 --> 00:28:55,908
Speaker 2: do you think Aaron Shotts has for us? And start

655
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Speaker 2: today on GMFB.

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Speaker 1: Shots is the man. He takes his shots, He calls

657
00:29:00,708 --> 00:29:03,628
Speaker 1: the shots, and he hits his shots. He knows who

658
00:29:03,708 --> 00:29:05,348
Speaker 1: is going to win the games this year and the

659
00:29:05,388 --> 00:29:08,628
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. He's this genius, mad scientist. Don't go on anyway.

660
00:29:08,668 --> 00:29:10,868
Speaker 1: He will tell you the best teams in the league

661
00:29:10,868 --> 00:29:12,348
Speaker 1: this year and who's gonna win it all. And he

662
00:29:12,388 --> 00:29:19,188
Speaker 1: will be right Tom into the Confettian to commercial. This

663
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Speaker 1: is exciting because in August we have so many questions.

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Speaker 1: We're about to give you some answers. What you were

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Speaker 1: looking at right there is the twenty twenty five FTN

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Speaker 1: Football Almanac. It is out right now FTN for the

667
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Speaker 1: numbers and the sort of gandolfs, the all knowing wizard

668
00:29:35,908 --> 00:29:38,588
Speaker 1: of all of this, of that almanac and of all

669
00:29:38,628 --> 00:29:41,948
Speaker 1: the questions you want answers to. Is our guy, Aaron

670
00:29:42,388 --> 00:29:46,748
Speaker 1: shots from FTN, works from ESPN. He makes a living

671
00:29:46,828 --> 00:29:50,308
Speaker 1: and dare I say, a life digging into analytics and

672
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Speaker 1: studies and details, and there he is, Aaron. We are

673
00:29:53,388 --> 00:29:55,788
Speaker 1: so excited to talk to you. How's life? How are

674
00:29:55,788 --> 00:29:57,948
Speaker 1: you feeling about the superhot shot?

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Speaker 11: I'm good, good, made through another offseason. I'm ready for

676
00:30:01,828 --> 00:30:04,828
Speaker 11: the season. First week of preseason was fun. Life is

677
00:30:04,868 --> 00:30:07,668
Speaker 11: good in beautiful Massachusetts and I'm pretty happy.

678
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Speaker 1: Great Well, Massachusetts has an up and coming team in

679
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Speaker 1: the AFC East. Will see how they fare. But before then,

680
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Speaker 1: Aaron Shotts, let's get into it right off the we're

681
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Speaker 1: off the bat. Your top five teams this season. I

682
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Speaker 1: want you to break it down and tell me how

683
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Speaker 1: you landed on this and what this means. Go ahead, Yeah.

684
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Speaker 11: DVA is the main metric we use, and I project

685
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Speaker 11: it based on how teams have played over the last

686
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Speaker 11: couple of years in certain situations, personnel changes, coaching experience,

687
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Speaker 11: a few other variables. And these are my top five

688
00:30:40,628 --> 00:30:45,588
Speaker 11: projected teams for twenty twenty five. Ravens, Lions, Bills, Chiefs

689
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Speaker 11: and Commanders.

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Speaker 1: All right, So if anybody at home doesn't know this,

691
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Speaker 1: and how dare you if you don't. DVA is defense

692
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Speaker 1: adjusted value over average. And I know that because Aaron

693
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Speaker 1: told me during commercial. But here's something that jumps out.

694
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Speaker 1: Anybody who can cut through the vernacular and the details

695
00:31:01,788 --> 00:31:03,948
Speaker 1: can see a list of top five teams under any

696
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Speaker 1: circumstans going into the season, and they're going to be

697
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Speaker 1: screaming that the raining Super Bowl champion, very dominant Philadelphia

698
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Speaker 1: Eagles are not on there.

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Speaker 11: Why Aaron, because they were very dominant on defense. And

700
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Speaker 11: we talked about this a lot. Every year offense is

701
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Speaker 11: more predictable and more consistent, the defense, defense regresses to

702
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Speaker 11: the mean more heavily. The Eagles were only thirteenth on

703
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Speaker 11: offense during the regular season. They were awesome in the

704
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Speaker 11: Super Bowl, but that's just one game. It was the

705
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Speaker 11: defense that drove that team. Fantastic defense, and especially with

706
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Speaker 11: the personnel changes that they had, it's very likely that

707
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Speaker 11: that defense comes back to the pack a little bit

708
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Speaker 11: and it's more like fourth or fifth rather than number

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Speaker 11: one by a large margin.

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Speaker 2: That sounds like an insult, and I'm going to use that.

711
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Speaker 2: I don't even know what it means, but it feels good.

712
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Speaker 2: Your defense regresses to the mean more commonly like.

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Speaker 7: That is awesome.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate it. You've got the Ravens as the top team.

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Speaker 2: How does that happen for a team that we are

716
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Speaker 2: just waiting to get to a Super Bowl appearance, waiting

717
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Speaker 2: to get deeper to the playoffs. Somehow they're your number

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Speaker 2: one team. How did they edge out the competition?

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Speaker 11: Well, part of it is that we're just projecting the

720
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Speaker 11: regular season here, but they've been our number one team

721
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Speaker 11: in the regular season for two straight years. They're very

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Speaker 11: good and very balanced, top five team in all three

723
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Speaker 11: phases of the game. Lamar Jackson had one of the

724
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Speaker 11: best passing seasons in NFL history last year, not even

725
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Speaker 11: with his rushing, just talking about his drop back passing.

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Speaker 11: So our numbers love the Ravens and one of these

727
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Speaker 11: years they're going to get over the hump. The problem

728
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Speaker 11: is that one of these years the Bills are also

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Speaker 11: going to get over the hump, and they can't do

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Speaker 11: it at the same time.

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Speaker 5: Shots, My life changed today I didn't think you'd be

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Speaker 5: able to complete a top five.

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Speaker 3: List that didn't have the Eagles in it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: And if they don't, you have the Commanders in it.

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Speaker 5: Without the Eagles, how do you have that in the

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Speaker 5: top five?

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 11: I was really surprised when our numbers came out with

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Speaker 11: the Commanders so high because they were so good on

741
00:33:04,148 --> 00:33:07,908
Speaker 11: four downs last year and that is not going to continue.

742
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Speaker 12: But we really like some of the changes they made.

743
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Speaker 11: They took their biggest weakness and worked on it by

744
00:33:13,228 --> 00:33:17,228
Speaker 11: adding Laramie Tunsel. We like adding Deebo Samuel, and we

745
00:33:17,348 --> 00:33:21,908
Speaker 11: think that the Washington defense can be slightly below average

746
00:33:21,908 --> 00:33:24,668
Speaker 11: instead of bad like it was last year. Also, I

747
00:33:24,708 --> 00:33:28,188
Speaker 11: want to point out the difference in schedule where Philadelphia

748
00:33:28,228 --> 00:33:31,148
Speaker 11: has to play the Bills, the Rams, and the Buccaneers,

749
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Speaker 11: while the Commanders play the Dolphins, the Seahawks, and the Falcons.

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Speaker 11: That is a big difference in the NFC East shots.

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Speaker 6: Okay, so he had a top five, So that means

752
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Speaker 6: there's twenty seven other teams left. What team out of

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Speaker 6: those twenty seven won't live up to the hype this year?

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Speaker 12: We are not that high this year. On the Pittsburgh Steelers,

755
00:33:51,268 --> 00:33:53,948
Speaker 12: don't really like what Aaron Rodgers did in New York

756
00:33:54,028 --> 00:33:54,548
Speaker 12: last year.

757
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Speaker 11: We don't think he's one of the best quarterbacks in

758
00:33:56,748 --> 00:34:00,428
Speaker 11: the league anymore. Their defense was fourth in the league

759
00:34:00,468 --> 00:34:03,428
Speaker 11: in takeaways per drive. That is something that does regress

760
00:34:03,468 --> 00:34:06,028
Speaker 11: to the mean pretty so we think their defense is

761
00:34:06,068 --> 00:34:08,148
Speaker 11: going to decline a little bit. Now I may be

762
00:34:08,228 --> 00:34:12,468
Speaker 11: wrong about this because Mike Tomlin has magical locker room

763
00:34:12,588 --> 00:34:16,268
Speaker 11: management powers and we may not be incorporating that into

764
00:34:16,308 --> 00:34:19,228
Speaker 11: our projections, but overall, we're just not as high on

765
00:34:19,268 --> 00:34:20,548
Speaker 11: the Steelers as the public.

766
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Speaker 2: All right, So, Shots, this is the is people say,

767
00:34:24,028 --> 00:34:26,548
Speaker 2: the whole Enchilada, the reason why you uh here we go.

768
00:34:26,668 --> 00:34:29,948
Speaker 2: We bring you on here February eighth and Santa Clara

769
00:34:30,668 --> 00:34:33,788
Speaker 2: Super Bowl sixty is being played. Shots, we rely on

770
00:34:33,868 --> 00:34:36,908
Speaker 2: this to influence us in our prediction week. The public

771
00:34:37,028 --> 00:34:40,308
Speaker 2: relies on you to make your ever educated Super Bowl pick.

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00:34:40,628 --> 00:34:44,108
Speaker 2: Who do you have playing in Super Bowl sixty.

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Speaker 12: I'm hoping this is not just wish fulfillment, because I

774
00:34:46,868 --> 00:34:49,428
Speaker 12: would love to see these two fan bases get there.

775
00:34:49,508 --> 00:34:52,908
Speaker 12: But I'm going with the Bills and the Lions as

776
00:34:52,988 --> 00:34:53,748
Speaker 12: my Super Bowl.

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00:34:58,428 --> 00:34:59,628
Speaker 1: I love this matchup.

778
00:35:00,028 --> 00:35:01,708
Speaker 2: Kyle, Now your pick last year.

779
00:35:01,828 --> 00:35:05,428
Speaker 11: I remember thinks a little bit better than the Bills.

780
00:35:05,548 --> 00:35:08,708
Speaker 11: But the Bills have the easier schedule, especially that game

781
00:35:08,708 --> 00:35:11,388
Speaker 11: with the Ravens that's in Buffalo. That's going to be

782
00:35:11,468 --> 00:35:14,748
Speaker 11: so important for home field in the AFC. And I

783
00:35:14,788 --> 00:35:17,308
Speaker 11: think that the Lions are going to overcome the loss

784
00:35:17,348 --> 00:35:19,908
Speaker 11: of the two coordinators with better health on defense.

785
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Speaker 6: All right, shots, I know that my sister Jamie just

786
00:35:22,908 --> 00:35:25,828
Speaker 6: said February eighth is a very very important day, but

787
00:35:25,948 --> 00:35:29,548
Speaker 6: another important day is August twenty seventh and August twenty eighth.

788
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Speaker 6: I got a fantasy football draft with a couple of

789
00:35:32,668 --> 00:35:33,308
Speaker 6: my buddies.

790
00:35:33,748 --> 00:35:35,228
Speaker 7: Now you're the expert.

791
00:35:36,028 --> 00:35:38,348
Speaker 6: There's Bijon Robinson, Bajan.

792
00:35:38,548 --> 00:35:41,068
Speaker 7: And Saquon Barkley as a top running back.

793
00:35:41,108 --> 00:35:43,068
Speaker 6: Who do you consider out of those two the top

794
00:35:43,148 --> 00:35:44,068
Speaker 6: running back for this year?

795
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Speaker 7: I need your help.

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00:35:45,548 --> 00:35:45,788
Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 11: Jeff Radcliffe is an award winning projections guy. He does

798
00:35:49,068 --> 00:35:51,908
Speaker 11: all of our fantasy projections for FTN, and he likes

799
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Speaker 11: Bijon Robinson over Saquon Barkley in most leagues. The big

800
00:35:56,188 --> 00:36:01,068
Speaker 11: reason is receiving. Robinson has better receiving numbers and a

801
00:36:01,108 --> 00:36:04,348
Speaker 11: lot of leagues these days are either PPR or half PPR.

802
00:36:04,548 --> 00:36:07,468
Speaker 11: So those receiving numbers really matter, and that's why we've

803
00:36:07,468 --> 00:36:10,508
Speaker 11: got Jean Robinson actually as the top running back this year.

804
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Speaker 5: I need a sneaky pick. I need help on my

805
00:36:13,828 --> 00:36:16,428
Speaker 5: fantasy squad as well. Do you have a sleeper I

806
00:36:16,468 --> 00:36:17,748
Speaker 5: should be looking at right now.

807
00:36:18,748 --> 00:36:21,908
Speaker 11: I really like Matthew Golden, the rookie wide receiver in

808
00:36:22,068 --> 00:36:26,028
Speaker 11: green Bay, because a lot of their receivers have trouble

809
00:36:26,068 --> 00:36:29,268
Speaker 11: catching the ball and he is what they're looking for,

810
00:36:29,308 --> 00:36:31,668
Speaker 11: which is a clear number one. I know that Green

811
00:36:31,708 --> 00:36:34,348
Speaker 11: Bay doesn't want to give too much to a rookie

812
00:36:34,468 --> 00:36:36,628
Speaker 11: right away, but I think he's going to really break out,

813
00:36:36,748 --> 00:36:38,588
Speaker 11: especially over the second half of the season.

814
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Speaker 1: Write that down, use it, wheeld it. Shots knows this stuff.

815
00:36:44,068 --> 00:36:48,148
Speaker 1: And just in case anyone thought you weren't quite interesting enough,

816
00:36:48,628 --> 00:36:52,028
Speaker 1: you will not believe where Aaron goes next. Shots. You

817
00:36:52,148 --> 00:36:55,308
Speaker 1: were a DJ in an alt rock radio station in

818
00:36:55,348 --> 00:36:57,068
Speaker 1: the nineties. Now there's a thing going on right now

819
00:36:57,068 --> 00:36:59,588
Speaker 1: in this country where nineties rock is massive and it's

820
00:36:59,668 --> 00:37:02,348
Speaker 1: dad rock, and there's these tours and all these bands

821
00:37:02,388 --> 00:37:05,348
Speaker 1: from twenty five thirty years ago are massive again. But

822
00:37:05,548 --> 00:37:08,388
Speaker 1: you played a critical part in the immergence of one

823
00:37:08,428 --> 00:37:11,068
Speaker 1: of those bands, please tell us about it.

824
00:37:11,788 --> 00:37:15,748
Speaker 11: So I was music director at WKRO and Daytona Beach, Florida,

825
00:37:15,828 --> 00:37:18,428
Speaker 11: and the morning guys brought me a demo from a

826
00:37:18,468 --> 00:37:22,068
Speaker 11: band from Tallahassee, and I said, this is not the

827
00:37:22,188 --> 00:37:24,588
Speaker 11: kind of music I like it all, but it is

828
00:37:24,668 --> 00:37:27,068
Speaker 11: going to be so popular. I could hear it right

829
00:37:27,108 --> 00:37:29,428
Speaker 11: away how popular this was going to be. So we

830
00:37:29,468 --> 00:37:31,868
Speaker 11: put it on the air and it become our number

831
00:37:31,948 --> 00:37:36,828
Speaker 11: one most requested band and they were called Creed, and we.

832
00:37:36,948 --> 00:37:39,668
Speaker 12: Yeah, wind Up Records.

833
00:37:39,668 --> 00:37:41,868
Speaker 11: So I am one of the people who was partly

834
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Speaker 11: responsible for Creed becoming a big band in the United States.

835
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Speaker 1: All right, and we're looking at stapp and Thanksgiving Day

836
00:37:49,548 --> 00:37:52,868
Speaker 1: about twenty five years ago in the Cowboys Stadium, just

837
00:37:52,948 --> 00:37:56,148
Speaker 1: bringing the house down. But shots was the song? Was

838
00:37:56,548 --> 00:37:58,108
Speaker 1: it My Own Prison? What did you hear that you

839
00:37:58,268 --> 00:37:58,788
Speaker 1: liked that much?

840
00:37:59,028 --> 00:38:01,108
Speaker 12: It was the demo of My Own Prison?

841
00:38:01,268 --> 00:38:03,748
Speaker 11: And I'm totally not into that kind of grunge, but

842
00:38:03,788 --> 00:38:04,908
Speaker 11: I was like this, this is going.

843
00:38:04,868 --> 00:38:06,908
Speaker 12: To be huge, This is going to be huge, and

844
00:38:06,948 --> 00:38:07,548
Speaker 12: we put it on.

845
00:38:07,588 --> 00:38:10,068
Speaker 11: We were the second station to play it after the

846
00:38:10,108 --> 00:38:13,748
Speaker 11: station in Tallahassee, and they worked that popularity in with

847
00:38:13,828 --> 00:38:16,028
Speaker 11: wind Up Records and they got their record deal and

848
00:38:16,068 --> 00:38:18,268
Speaker 11: then became a huge band across the country.

849
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Speaker 1: Wow, God bless you, God bless you, Aaron Shots banging

850
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Speaker 1: my head could be Sunday awesome. I love it. You're

851
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Speaker 1: the best. Everybody. Get the FTN Football Almanac. It is

852
00:38:33,068 --> 00:38:36,028
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853
00:38:36,108 --> 00:38:39,708
Speaker 1: own prison right there in this book. Get the book,

854
00:38:39,908 --> 00:38:44,468
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855
00:38:44,868 --> 00:38:48,628
Speaker 1: It's the answer to all of your questions. I absolutely

856
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Speaker 1: love it. Read this book with arms wide opening.

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Speaker 3: That I want. I now have a Facebook