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Speaker 1: to take care of business? On Sunday in Chicago, Stacey

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Speaker 1: Dale's will be there and here to tell you the

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Speaker 1: latest from Alan Park. There are so many rivalry games

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Speaker 1: this week, and none better than an AFC nor showdown

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Speaker 1: on Saturday Ravens Steelers. Some freezing temperatures in Baltimore. Playoff

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Speaker 1: football is practically underway, So clear your weekend calendar the

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Speaker 1: iPads compare it your kids for a couple of days.

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Speaker 1: Welcome inside with the insiders alongside Ian Rappaport and Mike Garafalo.

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Speaker 1: I am Tom Pelasero. We got so much action. I

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Speaker 1: just gave you a few of the games to look

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Speaker 1: forward to. We got the latest on Patrick Mahomes status

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Speaker 1: for their game on Saturday, we'll hit on some of

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Speaker 1: the other big matchups we've got Fantasy inside a whole

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Speaker 1: lot more. But let's start off by going right out

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Speaker 1: to Sofi Stadium in Los Angeles because we've got this

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Speaker 1: matchup tonight being promoted. I know those are the Oregon helmets,

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Speaker 1: we're playing up the Oregon angle, we get it. Bo

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Speaker 1: as Right now, let's go out to the field because

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Speaker 1: Bridget Condon is there. Set the same for me, Bridget

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Speaker 1: inside Sofi Stadium ahead of a really big Thursday night game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm glad you said it. I've been here in

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Speaker 2: all week. There's a big game here at Sofi Stadium. Look,

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Speaker 2: both of these teams can clinch a spot in the

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Speaker 2: into tonight, though on opposite ends of the spectrum. For

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Speaker 2: win tonight, they're into the playoffs for the first time

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Speaker 2: since winning Super Bowl fifty. Way back during the twenty

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Speaker 2: fifteen season, I talked with offensive tackle Mike McGlinchey and

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Speaker 2: he told me the level of urgency could not be higher.

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Speaker 2: He said, the belief in the locker room and in

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Speaker 2: if we don't take care of business these next three games,

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Speaker 2: trying to get into the playoffs. With a win tonight,

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Speaker 2: they would need some help a loss from the Colts

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Speaker 2: the Buccaneers on Sunday. Justin Herbert says, we play for

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Speaker 2: these kind of opportunities. Derwin James echoing that same sentiment, saying,

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Speaker 2: nobody's pointing fingers, nobody's panicking after that loss on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: But you can see there's a sense of urgency on guys'

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Speaker 1: Tom Bridget, thank you very much, a lot more from

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Speaker 1: you on this game. In just a little bit, you

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Speaker 1: mentioned those clinching scenarios for both these teams. Very straightforward.

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Speaker 1: For Denver, beat the Chargers tonight and they are back

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I was looking into promo that matchup, and obviously the

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Speaker 4: I remember looking at this game as you kind of

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Speaker 5: And then the Chargers maybe the same thing.

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Speaker 4: No, this came much much quicker for both of these

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Speaker 5: I mean, this is everything that Sean Payton looks for.

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Speaker 4: The thing that strikes me is this is too early,

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Speaker 4: I would expect a lot more Broncos talk over the

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Speaker 1: And now we got to look at this.

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Speaker 6: How good can the Chargers be after a really disappointing

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Speaker 1: I've heard it so much this year.

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Speaker 1: If you haven't already set your fantasy lineups, now would

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Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions, who seemingly have lost every member of

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Speaker 7: We're twelve and two and the sky's falling. We're going

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Speaker 7: to the playoffs. Win the damn win the tournament. Why

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Speaker 7: the hell is skyfall for us? What do we have

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Speaker 3: It's dumb.

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Speaker 4: You know, back when I covered Nick Samon at Alabama,

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Speaker 4: We will do it for them, But for them, most

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Speaker 5: Are still good. They still have a shot to do.

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Speaker 4: Everything they wanted and even with the injuries Mike, they're

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Speaker 1: That's one. Number Two is the mental toughness.

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Speaker 1: He's that good potentially.

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Speaker 6: So all that math that I just threw out there,

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Speaker 1: That's what you have to do.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned two reasons, Mike to still believe it the Lions.

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Speaker 8: You know, I think all of us, whether we got

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Speaker 8: There's you know, I when they drafted Jordan, I felt

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Speaker 3: A couple of years. So that's the way the league is.

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Speaker 8: You got to prove it you can play every single

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Speaker 1: It's would you consider taking in a pay cut? Sure,

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Speaker 6: I've got this game on Sunday, the Jets against the Rams,

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Speaker 1: The vibes. They say it's good.

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Speaker 6: Regarding Aaron Rodgers, they say he's got a little bit

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Speaker 6: He is trying to play for his job, really for

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Speaker 6: And if you see more of that connection with Devontae

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Speaker 6: hard look at that and say, well, maybe he's healthier.

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Speaker 6: Look at him, Look at how spry he is. Back

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Speaker 6: I talked to one of his offensive lineman, John Simpson

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Speaker 6: And as far as the mentoring goes, he did try

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Speaker 4: And it did sound like the Rogers relationship with Jordan

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Speaker 4: you mentioned that, you know, Rogers in unfamiliar territory playing

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Speaker 4: I remember when the page year's draft to Jimmy Garoppolo.

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Speaker 4: this was a really easy decision for the Jets, probably

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Speaker 4: move on, you have a new coach, GM, you start

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Speaker 4: with a new quarterback. If he's going to keep playing

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Speaker 5: In the first round. Well, is he going to come

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Speaker 4: If he's not, then you're going to need a bridge

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Speaker 5: And they have one.

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Speaker 4: It's just his name might be Aaron Rodgers. I mean,

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Speaker 4: his name is Aaron Rodgers. I'm just saying he might

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Speaker 4: line is going to be a far more in depth

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Speaker 1: All of a SUDD scientific data also would say the

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Speaker 1: second year after an Achilles injury, you're going to be

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Speaker 1: seems to be looking better physically over the course of

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Speaker 1: Anytime you're an older quarterback, including one coming off an

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Speaker 1: be looking for your successor Sometimes, like Rogers, you see

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Speaker 4: The Atlanta Falcons are considering Michael Pennix at number eight,

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Speaker 4: and I know they signed Kirk Cousin gave one hundred

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Speaker 9: It is all about succession at the most and more position.

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Speaker 9: A lot of people think they're going to take a

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Speaker 9: defensive flavor, maybe edge. Michael Pennix is very firmly in

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Speaker 5: How about them Apples.

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Speaker 6: I was wondering when the chaos was going to start.

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Speaker 3: Apparently now Ian said this hours ago. I brought this.

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Speaker 3: He set it up as a possibility.

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Speaker 1: This okay, this and whatever happened to the edge Rusher,

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Speaker 1: I thought that's where we were going with Atlanta.

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Speaker 6: Here we go with the eighth pig in the twenty

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Speaker 6: twenty four NFL Draft, the LANTAFL can select Michael Powell Junior.

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Speaker 5: Well, there it is why that is the first surprise.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Now, the NFL Draft, to say the.

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Speaker 1: Least, still one of the most shocking picks in recent years,

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Speaker 1: and this is a development that was surprising even to

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Speaker 1: always knew that this was a possibility, but it wasn't

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Speaker 10: I don't think they had a choice. This wasn't a

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Speaker 10: I thought that they might make this choice. We talked

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Speaker 10: looks a lot different than what we've seen from Kirk

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Speaker 10: He is in ability to escape. Michael Pennix is an

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Speaker 10: elite athlete with an elite arm. One thing though, was interesting,

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Speaker 10: you know, just watching this offense is they've been a

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Speaker 1: Out of twenty.

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Speaker 10: That's not what he was in Minnesota. But it'd be

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Speaker 10: interesting to see if he's been in shotgun because maybe

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Speaker 10: very good running attack. Vjon's having a great season. The

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Speaker 1: Part of the reason this was so shocking is the

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Speaker 1: Michael PENNICKX Junior. This is an abbreviated version of a

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Speaker 1: there's no good options. The best ones would be you

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Speaker 1: release him before next March sixteenth, because that's from another

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Speaker 1: ten million dollar bonus would end up becoming fully guaranteed.

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Speaker 1: Mark he has a no trade clause, Cousins can effective

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Speaker 1: if he's going to be your starting quarterback. The question

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Speaker 1: And does Kirk even go along with a trader just

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Speaker 11: Well, from the Falcons perspective, you're just trying to choose

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Speaker 11: first place. There always might be a team out there,

437
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Speaker 11: even though we're looking at the landscape now and say

438
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Speaker 11: there's absolutely no way other teams are watching this film

439
00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:50,960
Speaker 11: of Kirk Cousins and saying we're going to trade for

440
00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:54,800
Speaker 11: him because of the desperation of the quarterback market, because

441
00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:57,840
Speaker 11: of this draft class quarterbacks not being that great. It

442
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Speaker 11: only takes one team and one GM and one head.

443
00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:04,320
Speaker 11: Coaches say we can still salvage Kirk and as long

444
00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:07,240
Speaker 11: as Kirk and his agent Mike McCartney, the best agent

445
00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:10,040
Speaker 11: in the league, who everyone should be flogging to to

446
00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:12,040
Speaker 11: get this man all this money. As long as they say,

447
00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:14,640
Speaker 11: you know what, this is another situation where we can

448
00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:17,159
Speaker 11: go get a lot more money. You know, it's twenty

449
00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:19,560
Speaker 11: seven point five that a team will owe him next year,

450
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Speaker 11: but they could rework something there with a new team.

451
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Speaker 11: That's an option. We saw the options there, Tom that

452
00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:29,280
Speaker 11: you laid out perfectly as far as cutting him and

453
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Speaker 11: how much money Atlanta will save. So they're really talking

454
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Speaker 11: about all of this these next few weeks, and there's

455
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Speaker 11: still the option on the table, even though it doesn't

456
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Speaker 11: seem likely that they could keep him because Saint Michael Penix.

457
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Speaker 11: I know, Baldy waxed poetically about how great Michael Pennix is,

458
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Speaker 11: and I completely agree.

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Speaker 1: He could go out there and crush it. What if

460
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Speaker 1: he goes out there and plays bad and.

461
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Speaker 11: The brain trusted the falcon and say, well, wait a minute, now,

462
00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:54,680
Speaker 11: we still have to ke Kirker around here another year,

463
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Speaker 11: just to give him another chance. You know what, he

464
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Speaker 11: might be healthy next year and keep him around. Fellas,

465
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Speaker 11: still a lot of options on the table before Atlanta

466
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Speaker 11: on the rest of the year with Kerk.

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Speaker 1: I would also remind everyone we were sitting here almost

468
00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:09,920
Speaker 1: exactly one year ago talking about a former Pro Bowl

469
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Speaker 1: quarterback in his mid thirties with a bunch of guaranteed

470
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Speaker 1: money left, who looked like he was finished that ended

471
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Speaker 1: up having to get released. It's worked out pretty well

472
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Speaker 1: for Russell Wilson the Steelers having him there on a

473
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Speaker 1: minimum deal. If you're Kirk Cousins, you're thinking that might

474
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Speaker 1: be the best path for me. Where would that be

475
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Speaker 1: and can he achieve that same level? We're about to

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Speaker 1: find out. Baldi Mark, thank you very much. Lookore to

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Speaker 1: chatting with you again very soon. Coming up after this,

478
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Speaker 1: we're going to talk with this guy Uchenna Nuosu, who's

479
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Speaker 1: been through a lot over the past couple of years,

480
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Speaker 1: also doing great work that earned him a Walter Payton

481
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Speaker 1: Man of the Year nomination once he got next in

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Speaker 1: store on the field a big game against the Vikings

483
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Speaker 1: this week. Who Chenna will be with us to bring

484
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Speaker 1: it down next on the Insiders. The NFL's highest honor

485
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Speaker 1: is the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award. All

486
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Speaker 1: thirty two teams have a nominee and in Seattle. Is

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Speaker 1: this man right here, Chenna Nuwosu who got the NOD

488
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Speaker 1: this year. What do you know? China is with us

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Speaker 1: right now on the Insiders alongside me, Tom Pelasero as

490
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Speaker 1: well as Mike Garafolo Uchina. Congratulations. I know this is

491
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Speaker 1: a big deal for you. Tell me about the work

492
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Speaker 1: that you've been doing with your foundation and what this

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Speaker 1: award means and what this nomination means to you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we've been doing a lot of work.

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Speaker 12: I focus on mainly the youth, you know, the next

496
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Speaker 12: generation of kids. You know, I try to empower them

497
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Speaker 12: anyway I can. A couple of things I've done. I

498
00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:47,280
Speaker 12: was able to build a training center, athletic training center

499
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Speaker 12: in my former high school, Mama Mater, and provide them

500
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Speaker 12: with full time athletic trainer on staff. I've done camps

501
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Speaker 12: you for youth kids. I volunteered at boys and Girls clubs.

502
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Speaker 12: I've also done stuff back home and my parents hometown

503
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Speaker 12: in Nigeria, providing light there for the villagers. And you know,

504
00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:08,639
Speaker 12: the work is just getting started and we're continue to

505
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Speaker 12: grow and do more.

506
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Speaker 6: What does it mean for you to be able to

507
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Speaker 6: get back into especially internationally, right We've We've got a

508
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Speaker 6: lot of Walter Peyton nominees who do stuff domestically. For

509
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Speaker 6: you to do it overseas as well, what does it

510
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Speaker 6: mean for you? What does it do for you as

511
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Speaker 6: an individual an NFL player?

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Speaker 3: It means a lot, but honestly, it doesn't do much

513
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Speaker 3: for me. You know, it's not about me.

514
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Speaker 12: It's about you know, the people, the kids, the families

515
00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:35,680
Speaker 12: out there that are in needs. So anyway I can

516
00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:38,080
Speaker 12: try to, you know, get back to them and you know,

517
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Speaker 12: make their day a better day, whether that's here, domestically

518
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Speaker 12: or internationally.

519
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Speaker 3: You know, it means a lot, but again, it's not

520
00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:45,320
Speaker 3: about me. It's about them.

521
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Speaker 12: And like I said, we're just continuing to grow and

522
00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:49,200
Speaker 12: do more as much as we can.

523
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Speaker 1: You have tremendous perspective in that regard to Chenna, and

524
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Speaker 1: that probably has served you well over the past year

525
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Speaker 1: or so here because you've dealt with multiple pull significant injuries.

526
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Speaker 1: I can only imagine the physical, mental, emotional toll that

527
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Speaker 1: takes on anybody going through it. Take me through this

528
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Speaker 1: journey over these past couple of seasons, and also how

529
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Speaker 1: you're feeling that, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: The journey's been tough.

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Speaker 12: I would say Throughout my career, I've been a pretty

532
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Speaker 12: healthy even going back to college, I've been a pretty

533
00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:25,280
Speaker 12: healthy player, you know, So dealing with these significant season

534
00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:27,399
Speaker 12: ending injuries like I did last year, it was kind

535
00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:30,440
Speaker 12: of new for me. It was uncharted waters I didn't

536
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:33,080
Speaker 12: really know how to navigate it. You know, not you're

537
00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:35,840
Speaker 12: really not facing anything like this, but you know, trusting

538
00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:38,760
Speaker 12: the doctors, and you know my rehab plan and you

539
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:40,919
Speaker 12: know my team being around me. You know, I've always

540
00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:43,840
Speaker 12: just tried to better myself and just try to continue

541
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Speaker 12: to stay positive in these moments and knowing that you know,

542
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Speaker 12: I'll be able to play my best ball ahead and

543
00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:50,959
Speaker 12: I'll be back on that field my teammates and brothers,

544
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Speaker 12: and that's what I tried to cling onto this process,

545
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Speaker 12: and I'm happy to be back out there.

546
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Speaker 6: I saw something on the Seahawks website about you being

547
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Speaker 6: back and everything that you've been through. When you send

548
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:03,840
Speaker 6: a message, it was directly to the twelves. What kind

549
00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:06,680
Speaker 6: of relationship do you have with them? And how important

550
00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:09,479
Speaker 6: was it to you for you to tell them directly

551
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Speaker 6: via the website, Hey I'm back.

552
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Speaker 3: It was great.

553
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Speaker 12: You know, the Twelves have embraced me ever since I

554
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:19,160
Speaker 12: signed here back in twenty twenty two. You know, they've

555
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:23,440
Speaker 12: supported me throughout my career, all the injuries, and they're

556
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:24,440
Speaker 12: there for us every game.

557
00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:26,800
Speaker 3: You know, we hearing them loud and proud cheering for us.

558
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Speaker 12: You know, they're like our secret weapon out there, and

559
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:32,040
Speaker 12: you know I have to embrace them any way I can.

560
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Speaker 3: So you know it was a letter to them for

561
00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:35,520
Speaker 3: supporting me and sticking.

562
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Speaker 12: By me through my career, through my time here in Seattle,

563
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Speaker 12: especially dealing with those injuries.

564
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Speaker 3: You know, they're very supportive.

565
00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:42,480
Speaker 12: A lot of people DM me and check on me

566
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:45,560
Speaker 12: and constantly see how I'm doing. So it's only right

567
00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:47,880
Speaker 12: for me to say my grace and thanks to them

568
00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 12: for being by my side throughout these ordeals I've been

569
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Speaker 12: going through.

570
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Speaker 1: Well, you're gonna need the twelves extra allowed this week

571
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Speaker 1: because you got a Vikings team coming in that is

572
00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:01,800
Speaker 1: being red hot. That offense, Guys like Justin Jefferson and

573
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:04,600
Speaker 1: Jordan Addison, T J. Hockinson, Sam Darnold's played at a

574
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:07,360
Speaker 1: high level. What do you see from them right now

575
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 1: on tape and how do you attack them?

576
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:12,359
Speaker 12: Yeah, they're doing a lot of things. Well, you know,

577
00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:14,760
Speaker 12: they run the ball effectively. They throw the ball effectively,

578
00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:16,720
Speaker 12: you know, So it's going to be another challenge for us,

579
00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:17,600
Speaker 12: but you know that's what we love.

580
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:18,640
Speaker 3: We love good challenges.

581
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Speaker 12: So you know, just got to go out there and

582
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:23,159
Speaker 12: play our game, play our scheme, play fundamentally sound and

583
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:25,280
Speaker 12: you know, make sure you know right on the details,

584
00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:26,720
Speaker 12: and we'll be able to handle this team like we

585
00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:28,000
Speaker 12: know we can and we're capable of.

586
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Speaker 1: Mike McDonald his first year as a head coach.

587
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Speaker 6: I know that they have been impressed and feel really

588
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:36,960
Speaker 6: good about the hire. They're inside that building. The way

589
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,520
Speaker 6: the season has gone, there's been ups, there's been downs.

590
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:42,159
Speaker 6: It's like extended ups. It's almost like phases of the

591
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:46,120
Speaker 6: season that's gone along. What's impressed you as you've seen

592
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:48,879
Speaker 6: him progress as a head coach. That leads you to believe, hey,

593
00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:50,679
Speaker 6: we're in the right hands down the stretch here with

594
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Speaker 6: this head coach Mike McDonald.

595
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Speaker 3: Yeah, his resiliency. You know, he's a coach that doesn't waiver.

596
00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:57,640
Speaker 3: Nothing gets to him.

597
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Speaker 12: He's always staying positive, he's always encouraging guys, he's always

598
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:02,719
Speaker 12: coming up with new ways to try to win. And

599
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 12: you know, you love, you love, you love a coach

600
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:07,280
Speaker 12: that's constantly thinking and constantly, you know, trying to get

601
00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 12: better as not just as for himself, but as a

602
00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:12,520
Speaker 12: football team. And that's what he's always been doing. He's

603
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:14,320
Speaker 12: been doing that so far. He's done a great job.

604
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:17,760
Speaker 12: I love playing for him. He's very smart. I consider

605
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:19,399
Speaker 12: myself to be a smart player. So I feel like

606
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,440
Speaker 12: we fit and yeah, I just can't just can't wait

607
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:24,959
Speaker 12: to get back out there and see all of us

608
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,400
Speaker 12: live out there on Sunday night or Sunday afternoon.

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Speaker 1: So Mike McDonald obviously a guy from a defensive background,

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Speaker 1: he's very hands on with that group. You're looking for

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Speaker 1: that first sack of Chenn in a long time. You've

612
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:39,840
Speaker 1: been through a lot since it is Mike trying to

613
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Speaker 1: get you one. Are you gonna scheme up something here

614
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 1: to make sure you got favorable matchups to get that quarterback? Finally?

615
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Speaker 12: I mean, you can scheme up whatever you want, you know,

616
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:50,040
Speaker 12: in this league, you know, but it's up to the

617
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:52,080
Speaker 12: player to be able. It's up to me to be

618
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:53,600
Speaker 12: able to go out there and get it, you know.

619
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Speaker 12: So I'm working on myself in practice, making sure my

620
00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:58,520
Speaker 12: body is right, making sure, you know, I'm ready to go,

621
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Speaker 12: making sure I'm studying extra film so when that moment comes,

622
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:02,120
Speaker 12: you know, I don't miss it.

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Speaker 1: Ou Chenna, congratulations again on the Walter Payton Man of

624
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:09,920
Speaker 1: the Year nomination for the Seahawks. Best of luck the

625
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:12,080
Speaker 1: rest of the way, man, stay healthy, go get that sack.

626
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Speaker 3: All right, thank you?

627
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 1: All right? Coming up after this, we got other big

628
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Speaker 1: games around the league in Week sixteen, including one involving

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Speaker 1: the Broncos on Thursday Night Football. Bonnicks Justin Herbert break

630
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Speaker 1: down this matchup right after this on The Insiders. Week

631
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Speaker 1: sixteen kicks off right there across the water So five

632
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Speaker 1: Stadium in Inglewood, California. Broncos Chargers, all kinds of playoff

633
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 1: implications in this one, and if the Broncos don't win,

634
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 1: Bonnicks is gonna jump. What are we doing here? Those

635
00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 1: tiny giraffes, what are they tiny? They're tiny horses, you know,

636
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:08,280
Speaker 1: because he's a young calf himself a pony. Excuse me,

637
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:10,480
Speaker 1: I just I can't.

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Speaker 5: I can't with the.

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Speaker 1: Thursday Night posters, I just every single time they get me.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Insiders Bridge at Connon is that

641
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:19,880
Speaker 1: Sofi Stadium. We've also got Brian Baldinger with us Bridge.

642
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 1: The last time these teams met, Chargers got out to

643
00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 1: that big lead. Broncos actually made things interesting in the

644
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Speaker 1: fourth quarter.

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Speaker 2: What do we expect tonight, Well, we could expect I

646
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:31,840
Speaker 2: don't know that pitcher to replicate itself. There is a

647
00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:34,080
Speaker 2: lake across the street. But let me just talk about

648
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Speaker 2: the numbers. If you believe in numbers, we're going to

649
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:39,080
Speaker 2: see some defense here tonight. There are three teams that

650
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:42,200
Speaker 2: currently sit atop the NFL when it comes to points

651
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:46,000
Speaker 2: allowed per game, the Eagles, the Chargers, and the Broncos.

652
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Speaker 2: The Chargers' offense has to find a way to get

653
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Speaker 2: going tonight. They've scored just seventeen points in each of

654
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Speaker 2: their last three games, and they face a Broncos defense

655
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Speaker 2: that leads the leagues in terms of sacks forty nine

656
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Speaker 2: sacks so far this team has had and now I

657
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,720
Speaker 2: talked to left half of Rashaan Slater about how you

658
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:05,360
Speaker 2: get this going, and he told me, well, we have

659
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Speaker 2: to get our run game going. The team has rushed

660
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Speaker 2: for less than one hundred yards in each of their

661
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:15,560
Speaker 2: last four games. You run the ball, you control the clock,

662
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:18,200
Speaker 2: and you can open up things in the passing game.

663
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 2: Of course, their run game has been limited without JK. Dobbins,

664
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Speaker 2: who's missed the last four games with or This will

665
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Speaker 2: be his fourth game with a knee injury. But Slater

666
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:30,160
Speaker 2: tells me, I watched the tape. I know we can

667
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Speaker 2: be a good run team. I know we can dominate

668
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 2: in the run game. It just takes one thing to

669
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Speaker 2: go wrong. And that has been the focus this week.

670
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Speaker 11: Faldy.

671
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Speaker 2: Make sure they're paying attention to those small details. Try

672
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Speaker 2: to get this thing going on the ground.

673
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Speaker 4: Well.

674
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Speaker 10: Bridget hitting on a lot of things that are real.

675
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Speaker 10: I saw him last week against Tampa Bay. They didn't

676
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Speaker 10: run the ball. They looked like a seventeen point offense.

677
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 10: They can't get explosive plays in the passing game right now.

678
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 10: Got a couple early to Lad mcconki, but couldn't get

679
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Speaker 10: anything after that. But if you look at this diminishing

680
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 10: rushing attack that Jim Harball was so high on, it

681
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 10: goes right to that first half injury a JK. Dobbins

682
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Speaker 10: a month ago against the Ravens. They haven't run for

683
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Speaker 10: one hundred yards. Gus Edwards doesn't look like the explosive

684
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Speaker 10: back they need. If for Shaun Slater and all the

685
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 10: guys up front are all doing all the little things

686
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Speaker 10: right now. They're really struggling to get those kind of

687
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Speaker 10: yards and to be able to sustain offense by moving

688
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Speaker 10: it on the ground, and so it's a paramount for them,

689
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Speaker 10: whether it's Camania Badal or whoever. This year, maybe Justin

690
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:34,720
Speaker 10: Herbert runs a little bit more with some read options.

691
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Speaker 10: That's certainly been a part of their offense this season.

692
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Speaker 10: But explosive plays, they have struggled to get those, and

693
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Speaker 10: you're going to see a very good Broncos defense out there.

694
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Speaker 10: I do think this from the standpoint of the Chargers

695
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:52,120
Speaker 10: defense tonight. The Broncos don't run the ball well and

696
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:54,360
Speaker 10: they're struggling to get that. And if you just put

697
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Speaker 10: the ball in Bone makes his hands and has to

698
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Speaker 10: have him to go win the game. I mean three

699
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Speaker 10: into three interceptions last week. It was uncanny. It was

700
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 10: not really what he had been doing, but he made

701
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:07,440
Speaker 10: three terrible mistakes. They overcame it because of those sacks,

702
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Speaker 10: what Nick Benito did with the interception return for touchdown.

703
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Speaker 10: But you know, I would say that the Chargers match

704
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Speaker 10: up really well against his Broncos offense.

705
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Speaker 1: All Bridget that Chargers defense had asbout as much success

706
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Speaker 1: last week stopping the box as the windscreen on your

707
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 1: microphone has of blocking out the screaming PA announcer and

708
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Speaker 1: the techno music behind you. How do they turn it

709
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Speaker 1: around tonight?

710
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Speaker 13: Well?

711
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Tom, that was the question in the

712
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:37,200
Speaker 2: locker room. I was around this team all week. It

713
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 2: was the question of coaches, to Justin Herbert, to everybody

714
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:42,080
Speaker 2: in the locker room, how do you fix this defense?

715
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Speaker 2: Especially on a short week. You talk about a Chargers

716
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Speaker 2: defense that has led the NFL in terms of scoring

717
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:50,840
Speaker 2: defense for thirteen weeks this season. We're in week sixteen.

718
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Speaker 2: That's basically the entire season. They gave up a season

719
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Speaker 2: high forty points Sunday against the Buccaneers. Khalil Mack told

720
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Speaker 2: me it was a lack of energy, which was kind

721
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 2: of interesting to hear him say that. He said, we

722
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 2: were just going through the motions. It felt just routine.

723
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Speaker 2: Even when we made a big play, there wasn't energy.

724
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Speaker 2: So I asked him, I said, well, how do you

725
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Speaker 2: fix that? He said, I have to be the one

726
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:15,400
Speaker 2: to go out there and create the energy, bring the effort,

727
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Speaker 2: bring the energy. So I asked him again, how do

728
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:20,359
Speaker 2: you do that? Khalil Mack is not a guy that's

729
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:22,560
Speaker 2: gonna be like making a TikTok dance in the locker

730
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Speaker 2: room before the game or focusing on a turnover celebration

731
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Speaker 2: this week. And I said, is that what you mean?

732
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Speaker 2: He goes, No, the only way to create energy is

733
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:34,800
Speaker 2: to have fun and go out there and absolutely dominate.

734
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Speaker 2: And that's what they're hoping for here tonight against the Broncos.

735
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Speaker 2: And I'll leave you with this, Tom, some more fun

736
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Speaker 2: numbers for you. The last time the Chargers gave up

737
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Speaker 2: forty or more points, the next game they beat a

738
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Speaker 2: team back in twenty twenty one. That team the Broncos,

739
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:51,319
Speaker 2: very same team they play here tonight. Who knows if

740
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:53,279
Speaker 2: that means anything, but it's always fun when those things

741
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:54,080
Speaker 2: tie together.

742
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Speaker 1: Good stuff, Bridge, Thank you, Baldy, you as well. It's

743
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:04,359
Speaker 1: a rivalry rivalry week. That's a really tough phrase to say.

744
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:08,399
Speaker 1: It's a rivalry week across the NFL, and it doesn't

745
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 1: end there. We've also got a great one in the AFC.

746
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Speaker 4: Norm they don't like us, we down, but I don't

747
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:15,440
Speaker 4: like them.

748
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:16,719
Speaker 11: Ay boy coming to house.

749
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Speaker 3: Take it dealt with no time going into the mout.

750
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Speaker 1: Come on what.

751
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 5: Ducks don reeler that puts the ball right out of.

752
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Speaker 6: The money, chucks down, You got a free here.

753
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Speaker 14: It is a first time star or Lamar Jackson against

754
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Speaker 14: the Steelers. Jackson is unbelievably gifted down proven, unbelievable plastic

755
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Speaker 14: raven Steelers all kind of hitting.

756
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Speaker 11: It was tough to all bout.

757
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Speaker 14: Indeed, there's a hitting, there's some joe, there's everything we've got.

758
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Speaker 3: There would be definitely been a fasboo game.

759
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Speaker 1: The Steelers are spelling blood.

760
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 11: He got fanny fucking man.

761
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 5: They got two teams.

762
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Speaker 1: They're respecting one another, but do like one another. Everything's

763
00:35:57,200 --> 00:36:00,560
Speaker 1: done Stittsburgh and Baltimore. You don't have to say a

764
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:01,359
Speaker 1: whole lot more.

765
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Speaker 4: There was some offensive highlights there. I feel like we

766
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 4: didn't need any of that. We just needed just just

767
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Speaker 4: hit each other, right, I mean is that with this

768
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Speaker 4: rivalry is about Steelers Ravens. All it is is just

769
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:19,279
Speaker 4: them colliding into each other at very high speeds. At

770
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Speaker 4: the end, somebody wins, somebody loses. There are some stakes

771
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:25,440
Speaker 4: this weekend, though for the Steelers that is very simple

772
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:28,080
Speaker 4: as really they have seen you with clinching scenarios win

773
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:30,360
Speaker 4: and they win the North with the Ravens.

774
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Speaker 5: They can win the North with a win and some

775
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:33,800
Speaker 5: other things.

776
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Speaker 4: Oh, I'm sorry, they could clinch a playoff berth with

777
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Speaker 4: a win and some other things including a Colts and

778
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 4: Dolphins loss. So now let's bring in our good friend

779
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:46,880
Speaker 4: Omar Ruiz along with Mark Ross. Once again, Omar, we

780
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 4: will start with you. That video got you hyped, I'm

781
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:53,120
Speaker 4: sure because it got me hyped as well. These rivalry

782
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:57,239
Speaker 4: games really don't need a ton of introduction. But what

783
00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:00,319
Speaker 4: is at stake here for these two teams that gear

784
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:01,320
Speaker 4: up to play this weekend.

785
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Speaker 13: Oh and you're absolutely right about that video firing me up.

786
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:07,480
Speaker 13: I can't wait to get on my flight tomorrow. I

787
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:10,359
Speaker 13: can't wait to be at that game on Saturday. Having

788
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Speaker 13: covered a Ravens Steelers game and what feels like a

789
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:15,480
Speaker 13: decade by now, but so much at staky And like

790
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:18,880
Speaker 13: you mentioned, the Pittsburgh Steelers, it's a hat and T

791
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:21,640
Speaker 13: shirt game. Potentially if they win, they wrap up the

792
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Speaker 13: AFC North. And Minka Fitzpatrick told me a little earlier

793
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 13: today how gratifying that would be.

794
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Speaker 1: It would be huge to clinch in.

795
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Speaker 13: Their rivals building demoralizing is how he would describe it

796
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Speaker 13: if they were to win at the Ravens.

797
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Speaker 1: And this is one of the most.

798
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Speaker 13: Fiercest, intense rivalries in all of football, but the Steelers

799
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 13: have made it one sided of late.

800
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:45,200
Speaker 1: They've won eight of nine in this series.

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Speaker 13: And I asked tight end Pat Friermuth early in this week,

802
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:50,920
Speaker 13: what's been the key to that, because obviously the Ravens

803
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:53,919
Speaker 13: have been good this last four or five years, Lamar

804
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:57,759
Speaker 13: Jackson's won a couple MVPs, and Fiermuth said he attributes

805
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 13: it to the coaching style of Mike Tomlin, the way

806
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:04,360
Speaker 13: he has singularly focused on this matchup with the Ravens,

807
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:06,480
Speaker 13: the game plan, the confidence with which they go in,

808
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:09,480
Speaker 13: the preparation that they have, and they're able to execute

809
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:12,280
Speaker 13: that in this particular game. I talked to Ravens defensive

810
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:15,480
Speaker 13: lineman Nomdi Madubuke earlier this week and he said they're

811
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:17,800
Speaker 13: not focused on the history. He said the key for

812
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 13: them this week was trying to execute at a high

813
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 13: level every single practice and then hoping that that translates

814
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 13: into playing at a high level on Saturday, and then

815
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Speaker 13: the rest will take care of himself. And speaking with

816
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:33,399
Speaker 13: Rashad Bateman, the receiver, earlier on his take on why

817
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 13: this has been a little one sided. He feels that

818
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:38,240
Speaker 13: the Ravens have beat themselves in these matchups. They're typically

819
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:40,759
Speaker 13: tight when these two teams play together, So it comes

820
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 13: down to turnovers, not beating themselves, not giving the Steelers

821
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:47,799
Speaker 13: extra yardage opportunity for free with those penalties. If they

822
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:50,560
Speaker 13: can control all of that, they have a chance to

823
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 13: control the game and come out with the win and

824
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 13: mark potentially clinch a spot in the playoffs.

825
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Speaker 1: Here on Saturday.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, Obar, you mentioned all the important elements of this

827
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 11: game and it should be a lot of fun. But

828
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Speaker 11: and you mentioned Mike Tomlin's coaching philosophy.

829
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Speaker 3: What is one of his mantras?

830
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Speaker 11: He says, the standard is the standard, And even though

831
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:12,360
Speaker 11: this game is important, the standard for these two organizations

832
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:15,319
Speaker 11: is to win the Super Bowl and nothing else really.

833
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 1: And for Pittsburgh, despite.

834
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:20,239
Speaker 11: The lengthy Mike Tomlin win streak there, they had to

835
00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:23,360
Speaker 11: won a playoff game since twenty sixteen, and the standard

836
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:26,279
Speaker 11: for the Steelers fans is, Hey, that's all well and good,

837
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:28,839
Speaker 11: Mike t but you better go win a super Bowl soon.

838
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 11: Better go win a playoff game before it, but you

839
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 11: better go win a super Bowl. And then on the

840
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:36,320
Speaker 11: flip side for the Ravens, they've had tons of success

841
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:40,360
Speaker 11: as well, and under the Lamar Jackson rain here despite

842
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:44,560
Speaker 11: the two MVPs, despite the success in the regular season,

843
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 11: once they've gotten to the playoffs, they ultimately have not

844
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 11: come through the way the Ravens fans have wanted them to.

845
00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:55,640
Speaker 11: So on both teams, both different elements of we need

846
00:39:55,719 --> 00:39:59,080
Speaker 11: to prove a lot more. This game is super important,

847
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:01,920
Speaker 11: but the big your goal is for these organizations is

848
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,359
Speaker 11: the super Bowl. If not for right or wrong, that's

849
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:07,520
Speaker 11: just the standard that has been set, the standard of

850
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:09,880
Speaker 11: the standard of winning the super Bowl. This is the

851
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:12,359
Speaker 11: first step. But both of these teams had their eye

852
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 11: on a bigger picture there, guys.

853
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:16,839
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then of course to be able to get

854
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:18,759
Speaker 4: to the super Bowl or continue that march of the

855
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:20,880
Speaker 4: super Bowl, it helps to have good players.

856
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 5: It helps to have healthy players.

857
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:24,880
Speaker 4: Omar, what have we learned about the health of some

858
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:26,719
Speaker 4: key guys leading into this game?

859
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Speaker 5: TJ.

860
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Speaker 4: Watt for one, And you mentioned you talked to Rashad Bateman.

861
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 4: He's another one.

862
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:36,279
Speaker 13: Yeah, Rashad Bateman's missed practice a couple times this week.

863
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:38,800
Speaker 13: We'll have to see if he's able to go on Saturday.

864
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:41,080
Speaker 13: We know George Pickens is out for the second game

865
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:44,799
Speaker 13: in the row, the star making Steelers receiver.

866
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Speaker 5: And then you mentioned TJ.

867
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Speaker 1: Watt.

868
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Speaker 13: He is off the game status report, so he will play.

869
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Speaker 13: Despite that ankle injury that he suffered last week, he

870
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:53,360
Speaker 13: improved all week.

871
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Speaker 1: Long in practice.

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Speaker 13: He did not participate on Tuesday, he was limited Wednesday,

873
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Speaker 13: he was in full today and he said he will

874
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Speaker 13: a go on Saturday. Obviously, he is huge for this matchup.

875
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Speaker 13: The Steelers are a completely different team when they don't

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Speaker 13: have TJ. Watt on the field. They are one to

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Speaker 13: ten in games that TJ. Watt doesn't play, and he

878
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:16,319
Speaker 13: has been particularly huge in this matchup. Lamar Jackson has

879
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Speaker 13: only started five games against the Steelers in his career.

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Speaker 1: TJ.

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Speaker 13: Watt has eight and a half sacks in those five games.

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Speaker 13: So all over, Lamar and this has been a typical

883
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Speaker 13: TJ Watt season. He's leading the league in tackles for loss,

884
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:31,680
Speaker 13: leaving the league in force fumbles.

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Speaker 1: Hopes to carry that again on Saturday.

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Speaker 13: The Steelers did a great job Week eleven limiting Lamar

887
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Speaker 13: Jackson and Derek Henry's effectiveness. I talked to Minka Fitzpatrick

888
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Speaker 13: how they repeat that, and it's been do what they

889
00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:45,320
Speaker 13: do at a high level. And a couple things that

890
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Speaker 13: they do best in the NFL is getting off the

891
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:50,600
Speaker 13: field defensively. They lead the league in turnovers, they taken

892
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:53,960
Speaker 13: them all away thirty times this season, and they get

893
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Speaker 13: off the field.

894
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:55,800
Speaker 1: With three and outs.

895
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Speaker 13: More than a quarter of the possessions that they play defensively,

896
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Speaker 13: they forced three and outs.

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Speaker 1: They're hoping to do more of that on Saturday.

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Speaker 5: So many good things to look forward to.

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Speaker 4: Cannot wait for this game and the fact that we

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Speaker 4: get in a day earlier than usual just perfect.

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Speaker 5: Omar Mark, thank you very much for hanging out with us.

902
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Speaker 4: You can catch the Chiefs and Steelers at one pm

903
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:20,360
Speaker 4: Eastern is part of the doubleheader on Christmas Day, followed

904
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Speaker 4: by the Ravens and Texans at four point thirty pm

905
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Speaker 4: live on Netflix for that one. Jared Goffa. The Detroit

906
00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:32,319
Speaker 4: Lions have certainly been in the news a little bit

907
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:34,600
Speaker 4: over the past week, mostly due to injuries, but also

908
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:37,000
Speaker 4: because they are coming off the kind of game.

909
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Speaker 5: That they rarely rarely have.

910
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Speaker 4: We will get a live report from our good friend

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Speaker 4: Stacy DALs to tell us everything she knows about the Lions.

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Speaker 5: Coming up next on The Insiders.

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Speaker 1: Oh we're back, boy.

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Speaker 6: We are really sprinting to the finish line here on

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Speaker 6: The Insiders. Here on Thursday, the Detroit Lions are pack

916
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Speaker 6: in the elements. We lost Stacy Dale's She's okay. We're

917
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:06,680
Speaker 6: led to believe something happened with our camera. They're not

918
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:10,000
Speaker 6: her fault, not anybody's fault. Really, it's nobody's fault, and

919
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:12,400
Speaker 6: it's nobody's fault that the Lions have suffered so many injuries.

920
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:14,680
Speaker 6: But that being said, they have to plow for it.

921
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:17,320
Speaker 6: They have to play football. Welcome in, Ian Rappaport.

922
00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:18,279
Speaker 1: Can you hear me? Guys?

923
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:20,960
Speaker 6: And Tom Pellasari you got me? Okay, I got some knots.

924
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:21,319
Speaker 1: We're good.

925
00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:23,480
Speaker 6: Let's talk about the Lions and what they need to

926
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:26,200
Speaker 6: do and what Dan Campbell's message. You guys know, Dan

927
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:28,440
Speaker 6: can talking his message beat to the team here.

928
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:29,880
Speaker 1: Don't be talking.

929
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:30,319
Speaker 11: I can't.

930
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:33,759
Speaker 1: I can't hear them Stop talking. Come on, man, we're

931
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:34,920
Speaker 1: very sensitive right now.

932
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Speaker 6: Talk about the Lions.

933
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Speaker 1: Go Tom, listen. They've had a lot of injuries up front,

934
00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:43,520
Speaker 1: on that team. This is certainly seems like a get

935
00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:46,040
Speaker 1: right type of a matchup when you're going into Chicago.

936
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Speaker 1: Granted it's gonna be cold, you know, but that's a

937
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:51,760
Speaker 1: Bears team that's really reeling on both sides of the football.

938
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Speaker 1: They've not played the same defense. It's Matty Eberflus got fired,

939
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:57,719
Speaker 1: and I was at that game last week against the Vikings. Offensively,

940
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 1: they're just kind of disjot trying to find themselves right now.

941
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Speaker 1: Seems like a good week for the Lions to go

942
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:07,200
Speaker 1: out and remind everybody that they can outscore just about

943
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Speaker 1: any opponent, particularly one that's gone through like the Bears

944
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Speaker 1: have this season.

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Speaker 4: You know, you guys talked about this a couple of

946
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Speaker 4: segments ago, just about how good the Lions have been

947
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:19,239
Speaker 4: at finding guys to do exactly what they do. This

948
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:21,720
Speaker 4: is a really really good test Not that they wanted

949
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:23,839
Speaker 4: a test, but this is a really good test from

950
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:27,360
Speaker 4: they have used this year to get better in some areas.

951
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:29,359
Speaker 5: Out of Zadarias Smith would be one.

952
00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:32,800
Speaker 4: They're going to have to find guys off the street

953
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:35,080
Speaker 4: as they've done off other teams practice squads, off their

954
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:37,719
Speaker 4: own practice squad, put them in here, put them in

955
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Speaker 4: positions to really play, and some of these guys are

956
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:43,399
Speaker 4: going to have to like win the game for them.

957
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 4: That is what really good teams do, which is why

958
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:47,200
Speaker 4: you get out in the playoffs and you look on

959
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:49,399
Speaker 4: the field and you're like, who is that guy making

960
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:49,839
Speaker 4: this play?

961
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:51,400
Speaker 5: That's what the good teams do.

962
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Speaker 4: That is a test now for the Lions, and to me,

963
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Speaker 4: based on how strong their culture is, I would imagine

964
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Speaker 4: they're in a really good position to do that.

965
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Speaker 1: We got a triple header on NFL Network in week seventeen,

966
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Speaker 1: a lot of games with playoff implications, some of them

967
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Speaker 1: involving these same teams that you're going to be watching tonight.

968
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Speaker 1: We got Chargers, Patriots, Broncos Bengals, and then a big

969
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Speaker 1: one potentially in the NFC West Cardinals Rams wrapping things

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Speaker 1: up next Saturday, not this Saturday, Next Saturday, December twenty eighth.

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Speaker 1: Before that, you got the holiday remix. That's what we're

972
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Speaker 1: calling about it. There's gonna be candy canes on the

973
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Speaker 1: jerseys and yes, I am completely serious about that. A

974
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Speaker 1: doubleheader this Saturday than the same teams remixed facing each

975
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Speaker 1: other on Christmas Day, so they have enough time to recover.

976
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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray, the Cardinals quarterback, getting ready for a relatively

977
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Speaker 1: rare game in less than ideal weather. Here's what he

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Speaker 1: had to say about it. There's no weather on Sunday.

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Speaker 10: If it's a chillier temperature, but there's no weather, is

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Speaker 10: that a big deal? No?

981
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Speaker 3: I mean I don't I've played in cold weather before.

982
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Speaker 3: It's no, I don't know how cold is it supposed

983
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Speaker 3: to be.

984
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Ian, we all know what it's like to be cold.

985
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Speaker 1: I think we all live in the more northern climates. Here.

986
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Speaker 1: Keller had to have played in some colder weather games

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Speaker 1: somewhere along the road, right, I.

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Speaker 5: Don't know about that.

989
00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:31,960
Speaker 4: I mean, college football ends a lot earlier than the

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Speaker 4: NFL does. He's played in some plenty of indoor games.

991
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Speaker 4: I mean, look, it's I'll say this for Kyler. Here's

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Speaker 4: I have two thoughts. One, I don't like to be

993
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Speaker 4: cold either. It hurts my hands, Like, give me some

994
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Speaker 4: warm socks and gloves.

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Speaker 5: I don't like any of that. Here's the other.

996
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Speaker 4: Think there was a time early in his career, Mike,

997
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Speaker 4: when Kyler Murray was not comfortable in front of the

998
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:53,359
Speaker 4: media and maybe not very affable. He's kind of owned

999
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:55,200
Speaker 4: it a little bit. He's really coming into his own.

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Speaker 4: It's just like a personality, and that's pretty cool to see.

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Speaker 1: Mike. What's Joe Burrow doing this week?

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Speaker 6: Joe Burrow now Ian behind the scenes. Ian's like, you

1003
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Speaker 6: know a lot of these gifts that the quarterbacks give

1004
00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:11,520
Speaker 6: their offensive. Ian's always like, these are promotional things they

1005
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:14,479
Speaker 6: get for free. They're regifts basically, not this one. There's

1006
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:18,640
Speaker 6: no way Joe Burrow got authentic Japanese katana swords for free.

1007
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:21,040
Speaker 6: He surely paid for them. This is a great gift here.

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00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:23,279
Speaker 6: I don't know if it's legal. I assume it's legal.

1009
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Speaker 6: I guess you can just have a sword without I

1010
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Speaker 6: don't have no idea, but I'm not at the end

1011
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Speaker 6: of kill Bill. And what happens to Lucy Lou If

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Speaker 6: it's an authentic a Tory Junzo sort.

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Speaker 5: What happens. I haven't seen that one.

1014
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry it was Mike talking. I lost. I think

1015
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Speaker 1: I think we lost Mikes. Mike, you're in the matrix. Goodbyeybody,

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Speaker 1: but back tomorrow. See you