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Speaker 3: You get the big bodied man out of Seattle. Dk

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Speaker 4: He absolutely owned the night, like the Pittsburgh Steelers dk

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Speaker 4: and they threw aside Miami's small playoff chances like dk

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Speaker 4: On Tuesday morning, I thought this was going to be

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Speaker 4: was a great game. I would even say the best

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Speaker 5: M Okay, so I don't need to throw cold water

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Speaker 2: Sorry was week seven.

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Speaker 5: They completely quit in inclement weather in Cleveland that day

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Speaker 5: But that does not discount the fact that the Steelers

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Speaker 5: And it's they're headed in the right direction at the

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Speaker 2: And just a few weeks after Steelers.

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Speaker 2: They want to play renegade again.

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Speaker 4: That is so true. It's so Steelers, it's so Tomlin.

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Speaker 4: they might not even need to win that Week eighteen

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Speaker 4: be very Pittsburgh Steelers Mike Tomlin to look so good

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Speaker 4: like this on Monday Night football. They're twenty three, you know,

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Speaker 5: We're going to take the ball in our hands and

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Speaker 5: Really they didn't need to tonight, and they played within

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Speaker 4: It was rough. There just weren't a ton of possessions.

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Speaker 4: those double whammies, like bad decision, bad execution, and then

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Speaker 4: fourth quarter like early, it was sixty plays to twenty six,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.

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Speaker 2: It was not. It was a very lopsided game.

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Speaker 5: And you're right about Tua's propensity for throwing interceptions. In fact,

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Speaker 4: it is that they come up short in the cold

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Speaker 4: I want to get to a bit of a hot take.

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Speaker 4: It is time for Who Delivered, presented by Uber Eats,

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Speaker 4: and I'm giving it to two men tonight, and it's

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Speaker 4: the great buddy comedy of the last five years. Yes,

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Speaker 4: it's Arthur Smith, the offensive coordinator of the Steelers, and

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Speaker 1: Let's listen is a left tackle here for this year

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Speaker 3: I think the Steelers won that trade.

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Speaker 4: But a great call there by Arthur Smith and by

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Speaker 4: to point out that Jalen Ramsey had a nice night.

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Speaker 4: Johnny Smith has been in the crosshairs for Steelers fan.

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Speaker 5: Greg And I'm gonna take this moment to offer you

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Speaker 5: an opportunity to, I don't know, repent apologize for your

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Speaker 5: critique of my placement of Trevor Lawrence in the top

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Speaker 5: ten of QB Index, because man, I.

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Speaker 4: Won't do it because as of last week that was

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Speaker 4: too high. What you're just doing it off of, like

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Speaker 4: what you think is gonna happen.

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Speaker 5: A little bit of projection. It's not involved, but it

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Speaker 5: tends to come true. It tends to come true with

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Speaker 5: some of these drinking Someone might say, I have a

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Speaker 5: little bit of foresight on my side because Trevor Lawrence

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Speaker 5: balled out of control on Saday, accounted for six touchdowns,

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Speaker 5: he threw for five. He threw three of them to ETN.

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Speaker 5: He was absolutely lights out dialed in Brian Thomas Junior

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Speaker 5: threw the hands of two defenders for a touchdown. Sitting

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Speaker 5: in the pocket, Survey getting loose. Nobody's open because somebody's

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Speaker 5: getting held down. A flag is on the field. He says,

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Speaker 5: forget this, I'm taking it myself down the sideline for

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Speaker 5: a touchdown. This is how Trevor Lawrence has played for

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Speaker 5: most of the last month, if not longer. This is

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Speaker 5: what I've been watching in these Jags games that maybe

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Speaker 5: a lot of people aren't paying attention to but need to.

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Speaker 5: Now it's not just his arm. He's kind of shaken

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Speaker 5: off the interception tendency that he's had for most of

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Speaker 5: his career, and he's getting busy with his legs. And

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Speaker 5: this was the peak of his powers in this game

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Speaker 5: against the Jets. And yet it was against the Jets.

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Speaker 5: And yes, they've had a bit of a soft schedule

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Speaker 5: as of late. But I am a believer in the

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Speaker 5: Liam Cohen and Trevor Lawrence partnership that it is propelling

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Speaker 5: him to new heights, heights unseen since the first year

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Speaker 5: that he played under Doug Peterson. And while this AFC

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Speaker 5: is wide open, I cautioned to everybody who just counts

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Speaker 5: out the Jags because they're the Jags and they play

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Speaker 5: in Jacksonville. Don't overlook them because that guy right there

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Speaker 5: is playing some really good football. And if he's playing

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Speaker 5: good football and he's got the talented core around him,

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Speaker 5: they could go place this.

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Speaker 4: Yes, thank you, great Joah professional. He stuck it to

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Speaker 4: me at the beginning, and he stuck the landing. The

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Speaker 4: only knit I have to pick with any of that,

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Speaker 4: because you were a seer, was that he's been playing

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Speaker 4: like this for a month. If he was playing like

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Speaker 4: that in terms of how he looked on Sunday for

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Speaker 4: a month straight, I might put him in the MVP mix.

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Speaker 4: I mean, that was one of the best performances by

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Speaker 4: any quarterback all season long. And you look at six

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Speaker 4: touchdowns and you think Jets, and you see a couple

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Speaker 4: of the touchdowns where it's you know, etn over the middle,

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Speaker 4: wide open and a screen pass. You think, oh, like,

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Speaker 4: maybe that was just easy and schemed up. No, like

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Speaker 4: he was in rhythm from minute one. You mentioned tight windows.

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Speaker 4: It was every kind of throw was over the middle.

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Speaker 4: It was some crossers to Brian Thomas Junior, it was

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Speaker 4: a deep pass, and then if it wasn't for Caleb Williams'

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Speaker 4: pass over the weekend. I think that shot from Lawrence

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Speaker 4: when he is sprinting left to Parker Washington would get

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Speaker 4: more attentions. That's in the top five throws of the year.

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Speaker 4: We just watched it at the end of that montage.

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Speaker 4: Great job by Chris there. That's a top five throw

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Speaker 4: of the year, no question it is gonna be. It

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Speaker 4: might right now be on the podium. And everything you

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Speaker 4: said was just on point thirty one points in the

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Speaker 4: first half. He's running more. I really am looking forward

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Speaker 4: to how he finishes out the season.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: You know, when I watch these games, I'm obviously taking notes,

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Speaker 5: but sometimes I just have some mental notes that are

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Speaker 5: burned into my brain because of how great the plays

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Speaker 5: are made. And I know exactly when that throw to

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Speaker 5: Washington was. It was just outside of three minutes or

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Speaker 5: just inside of three minutes left in the first half,

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Speaker 5: and it was one of those There's probably two or

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Speaker 5: three throws I see from quarterbacks every week that make

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Speaker 5: me get up out of my chair or off my

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Speaker 5: couch and just say wow out loud. And I said wow,

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Speaker 5: And at that point I realized, this man is playing

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Speaker 5: the best football of his career. He's completely comfortable, and

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Speaker 5: I'm kind of scared to see what happens to a

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Speaker 5: team that runs into the Jags and doesn't realize who

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Speaker 5: they're facing.

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Speaker 2: He is because of him saying that, well, he's playing

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Speaker 2: that way.

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Speaker 4: They got the Broncos Sunday. It's not a great slate.

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Speaker 4: I had the Sunday slate overall, like the daytime with

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Speaker 4: the prime time games are fantastic. This week. You know,

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Speaker 4: you got Philip Rivers next Monday Night against the forty

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Speaker 4: nine ers. That's just fun. Two teams battling for the playoffs.

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Speaker 4: You have the Ravens and the Patriots. That's a great game.

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Speaker 4: And Thursday nights, you know, one of the games of

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Speaker 4: the year Ram Seahawks. But the Sunday game slate really

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Speaker 4: is dry except for that Jaggs Broncos game. That is

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Speaker 4: a real great test. So we'll be talking about that

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Speaker 4: throughout the course of the week. But I'm excited. I

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Speaker 4: think he's at another level. And it's interesting to think

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Speaker 4: back to the offseason, who are the big two targets

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Speaker 4: in terms of coaches, Who are the two guys that

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Speaker 4: was like they could make a big time different. I

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Speaker 4: guess Rabel was in that mix too, But in terms

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Speaker 4: of offensive masterminds at this time last year, who could

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Speaker 4: go and fix an offense and it was Liam Cohen

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Speaker 4: and Ben Johnson. They're both delivering like their young quarterbacks

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Speaker 4: are getting better and better. Took a little longer with Trevor,

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Speaker 4: but it's happening.

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Speaker 5: And Liam Cohen has overcome that terrible duve All moment

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Speaker 5: in his opening press conference that was light years behind

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Speaker 5: in history now because of how they're they've really done

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Speaker 5: a really good job too of overcoming the hole that

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Speaker 5: they dug themselves, just emotionally from that collapse against Houston.

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Speaker 5: I thought that was the beginning of the end for

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Speaker 5: this team. They have responded in the opposite direction, affirmatively,

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Speaker 5: as in, this is not going to bury us. This

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Speaker 5: is just the moment where we realized we needed to

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Speaker 5: reset and get our stuff in order, and they've played

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Speaker 5: really good football Stincent and I think another key part

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Speaker 5: of this, and this is gonna be a great test

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Speaker 5: against Denver this weekend. Jacoby Myers has been such a

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Speaker 5: great addition for this receiving cores and it's gonna be

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Speaker 5: a great test of how he can make a difference

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Speaker 5: with them because you're gonna have pats Ertani's probably gonna

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Speaker 5: be over Brian Thomas Junior for much of this game.

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Speaker 5: But I'm just really curious to see how well can

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Speaker 5: this offense function against the defense like that? And how

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Speaker 5: big of a role is Meyers is gonna play, because

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Speaker 5: he's played a big one lately.

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Speaker 4: Got a couple questions before we leave in the chat

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Speaker 4: and yes, that once again was Quarterback Keeper presented by Snapdragon.

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Speaker 4: Learn more at snapdragon dot com slash laptops. A question,

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Speaker 4: Liam Cohen Coach of the Year, He's got it. If

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Speaker 4: you won out, he's gonna have a chance. There's a

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Speaker 4: lot but between him, Ben Johnson Vrabel, I think Kyle

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Speaker 4: Shanahan's in the mix. Like there's a lot of great

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Speaker 4: options right now. Another question, is Tyreek Hill a Dolphin

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Speaker 4: next season? No chance. I was a little surprised they

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Speaker 4: carried him onto the roster this year, but that was

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Speaker 4: partly because it would have been really tricky to get

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Speaker 4: rid of him, and they weren't able to really have

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Speaker 4: even a chance to trade him because of the injury

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Speaker 4: that happened. Tua is more complicated because of his contract,

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Speaker 4: but there's always a way. There's always a way if

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Speaker 4: you don't want him on the roster. I just think

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Speaker 4: it would be awkward if he is there as a

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Speaker 4: potential backup for the Dolphins next year, and I just

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Speaker 4: don't think they're going to go into next year with

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Speaker 4: Tua as their starter. We'll be talking about that all

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Speaker 4: off season, like a million shows this week. In fact,

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Speaker 4: while we're taking questions, I'll remind all the people watching

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Speaker 4: now and listening if you listen into it early in

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Speaker 4: the morning, you can send us questions. We're doing a

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Speaker 4: mail bag holiday themed mail bag, but also football questions

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Speaker 4: on Tuesday's show. Hit the Music, Chris Pabona. We're getting

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Speaker 4: out of here. Appreciate everyone who is here on Monday

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Speaker 4: Night football. Nick Schuck's been killing it all season long.

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Speaker 4: He'll be back. We have two more Monday Night footballs

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Speaker 4: to go before we get to the playoffs. Looking forward

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Speaker 4: to those as well. I'm Greg Rosenthal. Like I said,

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Speaker 4: send us your questions on Blue Sky on Twitter. We'll

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Speaker 4: have them Tuesday. See you the