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Speaker 1: Welcome back to The Insiders, Tom Telisero, Ian Rappaport, Part

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Speaker 1: two of our Monday podcast edition of the show. If

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Speaker 1: you were looking for part one, or you can listen

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Speaker 1: to part two first. Just if you want the news

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Speaker 1: updates plass on the injuries, go over to part.

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Speaker 2: One right here.

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Speaker 1: We're going to go rapid fire through a bunch of

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Speaker 1: the wild games and wild finishes that we saw throughout

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Speaker 1: the NFL on Sunday. Let's start ab out with one

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Speaker 1: ian that was not, frankly all that competitive, the Vikings

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Speaker 1: and Bengals. The first start for Carson Wentz Isaiah Rodgers,

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Speaker 1: who to this point in his career was probably best

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Speaker 1: known as one of the players who had served a

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Speaker 1: year long suspension for gambling. He had been on Vikings roster.

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Speaker 1: They've had a lot of moving parts, but kept doing

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Speaker 1: through the offseason. They were excited about him because like

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Speaker 1: the first player ever to score a fumber turn touchdown

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Speaker 1: a pick six and.

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Speaker 2: Create a third turnover.

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Speaker 1: And oh yeah, Carson Wentz, who was on the couch

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Speaker 1: like three weeks ago.

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Speaker 2: Went out and played pretty well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, first of all, on the Isaiah Rodgers thing, He's

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Speaker 3: only making like six or something million dollars this year,

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Speaker 3: like gets a pretty cheap deal, and I have so

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Speaker 3: many questions about it, and not just that it's such

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Speaker 3: an amazing value for the Minnesota Vikings.

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Speaker 4: The Eagles.

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Speaker 3: Hit almost everything. The Eagles are on it almost all

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Speaker 3: the time, and to not re sign him seems like

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Speaker 3: a very rare miss for the champs. He is a

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Speaker 3: really good, opportunistic, fun player, and you're right, Like, you know,

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Speaker 3: when I hear or see the name Isaiah Rodgers, I

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Speaker 3: immediately go back to the year's suspension and then he

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Speaker 3: ended up getting signed. I'm like, that's weird. I thought

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Speaker 3: he was probably done, but must be a pretty good player.

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Speaker 3: He is a pretty good player. I think Brian Flores

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Speaker 3: has kind of unlocked him and that is a great

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Speaker 3: value fined for the Minnesota Vikings. And you know, PFF,

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Speaker 3: I think does a really nice job. Their rankings are

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Speaker 3: not for everyone. They are not one hundred percent, but

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Speaker 3: generally you get a good feel for how good a

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Speaker 3: player is, right like, usually it's on it or relatively close.

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Speaker 3: They ranked him as their highest performing player ever, which

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Speaker 3: is whatever.

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Speaker 4: It is pretty amazing. I think that's pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: The flip side of this course, is this was the

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Speaker 1: first Bengals game without Joe Burrow. It's a complete and

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Speaker 1: total disaster. The question that becomes is this a aberration

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Speaker 1: or is this a sign of the direction the season goes.

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Speaker 1: I remember a player one time, and I always think

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Speaker 1: about this quote with games like this, which was I

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Speaker 1: asked him after the game, like, what happened?

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Speaker 2: It was just a blow loss.

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Speaker 1: He's like, sometimes games just go to bleep immediately and

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Speaker 1: there's nothing you can do about it. That was one

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Speaker 1: of those games for the Bengals. Everything that could go

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Speaker 1: wrong did go wrong. Vikings went right down the field.

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Speaker 1: The Bengals defense actually rose up for several possessions after that,

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Speaker 1: but then they didn't even have to you know, you

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Speaker 2: I don't I don't come away from.

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Speaker 1: That going they got to blow up the whole plan

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Speaker 1: There's clearly things that they've got to they've got to

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Speaker 1: for what they have to do without Burrow is just

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Speaker 3: I'm sort of with you a little bit, like sometimes

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Speaker 3: when the game just goes completely haywire right off the jump,

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Speaker 3: like I don't know how much we can take of it.

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Speaker 3: Like sometimes crushing losses are worse than like you just

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Speaker 4: I'm like, all right, just forget that.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's like the whole Bury the tape thing,

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Speaker 3: it's like, dude, just onto the next. I personally think

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Speaker 3: like it's got to go perfect to win, and when

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Speaker 4: Go perfect, you're probably gonna lose.

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Speaker 3: So I think the Bengals can be good enough to

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Speaker 3: absolutely perfect. I just want to go back quickly. Carson

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Speaker 3: he grew up rooting for the Vikings. The whole family

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Speaker 3: was all excited abou him signing. He had chances to

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Speaker 3: sign other places. But basically, and this is like a

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Speaker 4: The spot, and I mean, they're so good there.

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Speaker 3: They're just so good that like, he better watch out

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Speaker 1: I don't know what the total is for quarterbacks now

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Speaker 1: or Sean McVay for yere the Vikings are becoming that

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Speaker 1: place where hey, come in, Sam Darnold, Yeah, spend a

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Speaker 1: out and get paid later. Another game that was just

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Speaker 1: much a single game, and certainly not an early season game,

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Speaker 1: but that was probably the worst we've seen. Michael Pennock's

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Speaker 1: got way too much talent to get shut out by anybody.

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Speaker 1: Kudos to Adrio o'vero and the Panthers defense. They're starting

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Speaker 1: they balled out in that game. But if you're Atlanta,

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Speaker 1: the bar has to be higher than this, and clearly

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Speaker 1: there's some things that they're going to need to change

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I would also say, like we you spend the

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Speaker 3: this team, we sort of thought they'd be not that great.

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Speaker 3: All Right, they're not that great, you know. Like it's

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Speaker 4: And let's hold off on what they are.

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Speaker 3: The Falcons like, I sort of think that was more

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Speaker 3: They just have a terrible day and lost to someone.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I'm sure they hated everything yesterday. Losing to

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Speaker 1: Commanders one going away against the Raiders without their starting quarterback.

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Speaker 1: We would need a whole other podcast to talk about

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Speaker 1: against New England. I was there. They looked pretty competent.

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Speaker 1: They don't have big name guys, but Gino has not

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Speaker 1: played well over the past couple of weeks. I'm struck

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Speaker 1: They've got such a veteran roster. It's an older roster.

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Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota went out and played pretty good football. He

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Speaker 1: early in the week, it's Monday Ian, But do you

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Speaker 1: anticipate we see Jayden Daniels next week?

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Speaker 4: So I do believe that's the plan.

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Speaker 3: like he look good. If Jaane's not perfect, like no

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Speaker 3: Like that's you know, it's like not to go back

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Speaker 3: but they look like they're gonna get there. They are

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Speaker 3: good enough and sounds enough structurally to be like, all right,

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Speaker 3: and I think that's a very good sign for.

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Speaker 2: Washington or for the insiders.

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Speaker 1: After this, the other theme of the third Sunday of

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Speaker 2: Was block kicks.

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Speaker 1: We had three of them in a like a real

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Speaker 2: Honestly, like the early games were not super compelling, they

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Speaker 4: It was they went haywire, low scoring games.

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Speaker 2: But they went wild.

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Speaker 1: If you go to part one of the podcasts, you

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Speaker 1: the same span where the Eagles win on a walk off,

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Speaker 3: There's no name for it, right, Like I know, fix

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Speaker 2: This this is beyond it. Jordan Davis.

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Speaker 1: I think our research people said he was like the

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Speaker 1: Mike Er blocked that team right that he's never never

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Speaker 4: He really Jordan Davis.

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Speaker 3: I know this isn't what we're talking about, but like

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Speaker 3: I sort of wondered whether Jordan Davis would make He's

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Speaker 3: don't think Jordan Davis is working out. He has gotten

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Speaker 1: He's been unbelievable and by the way, probably isn't even

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Speaker 3: I'm looking for about thirty five Fantasy points from Derrick Henry.

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Speaker 4: It's not asking for that money.

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Speaker 3: So I think it's gonna be a real challenge for

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Speaker 1: so some continued pass rush issues. There a lot to

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Speaker 1: We're the Dublin well not us, Judy's there, We're not.

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Speaker 1: So Steelers are going to be there. That game live

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Speaker 2: For Ian, I'm Tom. We'll see you next.

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