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Speaker 1: You know, j Mac you you are always very critical

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Speaker 1: of Barkley. You see he's complaining he's not getting on

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Speaker 1: the air anymore. ESPN buried that show.

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Speaker 3: Why am I? Why am I critical of of Barkley?

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Speaker 3: He was critical of the league. Yeah, but what did

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Speaker 3: Barkley say? I don't think I saw He doesn't he

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Speaker 3: wishes he worked more. And my my feeling is this

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Speaker 3: is just conjecture, is that ESPN has a great relationship

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Speaker 3: with the NBA, and they said, yeah, we'll bring that

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Speaker 1: You won't see it as much. Put it on the

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Speaker 1: shelf a little bit, huh.

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Speaker 3: I mean that during football season? No, sorry, nobody's you know,

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Speaker 3: nobody's caring but NBA. From February, March, April, May, June.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure he'll be on a lot, right. I haven't

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Speaker 3: seen a second of it this season. I watched the games.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, know I did. It felt very very

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Speaker 1: big at one time, and now it's invisible. So I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I you know, I'm just saying conjecture. But

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Speaker 1: I know there were people upstairs in the NBA office

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Speaker 1: that didn't like how they had lampooned the league and

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Speaker 1: some of the players. You've been talking to Adam Silver

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Speaker 1: there just I would say people upstairs didn't love Sometimes

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Speaker 1: they would say NFL shows don't make fun of the players.

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Speaker 1: Why are we making fun of the players? I heard

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Speaker 1: that before Shelley.

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Speaker 3: That might have might have started here.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm an originator.

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Speaker 3: Okay, what can we do?

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying it's just Charles is complaining. It's like

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Speaker 1: it feels obvious to me that you know, you have

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Speaker 1: these new deals and there's a lot of understandings that

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Speaker 1: don't have to be contractual. There's David Stern didn't like

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Speaker 1: when people were critical of the NBA either, that they're

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Speaker 1: very sensitive in the NBA. Remember I Adam Silver saying

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Speaker 1: my players are miserable Twitter. It just feels it feels

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Speaker 1: like it's a thing. But you know, you're right in February.

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Speaker 1: They could be on every night. We'll see J Mack with.

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Speaker 2: A news No, no, this is the herd line news

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Speaker 2: all right, shout out to our staff.

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Speaker 3: They keep finding these interesting nuggets. How about this one.

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Speaker 3: The New England Patriots in their franchise history, rich history,

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Speaker 3: zero to four in postseason games in Denver all time.

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Speaker 3: Now it's a line of four and a half. I'm

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Speaker 3: seeing some fours emerge in the desert. I'll have my

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Speaker 3: pick here shortly. There isn't an altitude situation in Denver

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Speaker 3: that has to be addressed. You know, New England has

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Speaker 3: looked they got fat and happy playing at home against

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Speaker 3: bad offensive lines. Will they look as good on the road?

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Speaker 3: I mean, now, maybe maybe anybody can look good against Stitty.

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Speaker 3: I can't believe we're calling him that. But this is

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Speaker 3: a big home field advantage for Denver. And I'm assuming

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Speaker 1: Right, Well, I think if you have a quarterback that

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Speaker 1: isn't as athletic. You know, bo Nicks picks up some

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Speaker 1: little deal position edge because the Denver offense isn't quite

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Speaker 1: that is huge. Also, Denver's defense gets a lot of sacks.

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Speaker 1: I don't consider it close to Seattle. I don't think

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Speaker 1: Denver's defense there's there's ways, there's ways to move the

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Speaker 3: I am curious, like, I don't know how you game

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Speaker 3: plan for Stidham. It's you're the Patriots again. He hasn't

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Speaker 1: If they come out I think you in play here.

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Speaker 1: I think you look at Sean Payton's schemes and Sean

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Speaker 1: I mean, Stidham is somewhat athletic, he can move and

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Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna ship It's too late in

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Speaker 1: the season. You don't have enough practice time. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: install some new No, you're not. You're just you're gonna

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Speaker 1: play what you do. You're gonna do what you do

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Speaker 1: and and hopefully Stidham can make you know because bow

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Speaker 1: Knicks had two huge downfield throws for touchdowns instead of

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Speaker 1: the game. I mean, the line's only four.

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Speaker 3: Let's move on to a team that stinks. The Miami Dolphins, Colin.

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Speaker 3: They are in a rebuild mode. Tua was benched for

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Speaker 3: Quinn Ewers over the final three weeks of the season,

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Speaker 3: but he's still under contract. At the Dolphins press conference yesterday,

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Speaker 3: new GM john Eric Sullivan, I acknowledge that the team

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Speaker 3: is still undecided about what to do at quarterback moving forward.

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Speaker 1: I have a lot of respect for Tua. He's a

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Speaker 4: He's accomplished a lot in this league. I think, whether

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Speaker 4: it's whether it's two or anybody else, it's unfair and

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Speaker 4: irresponsible for me to sit up here and talk about

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Speaker 4: anything specific before I've talked to the player himself.

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Speaker 1: That's fair, that's a reasonable answer. I mean, you've got

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Speaker 1: the draft in ninety days, so I mean you're you're

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Speaker 1: going to take a quarterback at some point, maybe second

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Speaker 1: third round maybe may listen, that wouldn't mean where's Miami drafting?

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Speaker 3: Not high enough to not high enough to get Mendoza happily.

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Speaker 3: Look very serious there. I mean, he looks like he

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Speaker 3: just got a haircut, looks like he's going to basic

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Speaker 3: training about I mean, he is. Do you see Let

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Speaker 3: me do that, guy, Let me throw this at you.

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Speaker 1: Rams have like what Atlanta's pick number eleven or something

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Speaker 1: they still have another number one pick where they can

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Speaker 1: address corner and offensive tackle. Their real needs are offensive

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Speaker 1: the Rams in the buildings say, listen, we view him

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Speaker 1: as about the twenty third best player. We have two picks.

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Speaker 1: Let's reach on ty Simpson and then we'll just get Stafford,

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Speaker 1: to have two first again. We've only had one first

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Speaker 1: we have him as like the twenty third, but we're

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Speaker 1: not going to be in this position again because next year,

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Speaker 1: if you say to yourself, no, let's get a tackle

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Speaker 1: the top two quarterbacks next year? Give up multiple first

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Speaker 1: So it could be the Rams are too good. So

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Speaker 1: my take is, reach on the quarterback. Now you're not

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Speaker 1: gonna play him. Stafford comes back for a two year deal.

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Speaker 1: He plays one, maybe they move off him. But I

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Speaker 1: think it's very interesting what the Rams do with that

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Speaker 1: first pick they don't get. They rarely have first round picks.

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Speaker 1: Now they have two. If they don't get a quarterback. Now,

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Speaker 1: look at what the Rams are going to do drafting

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Speaker 1: thirty at the following year to get to the seventh pick.

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Speaker 1: Two ones, two two's. You got your draft capital.

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Speaker 3: So you know, I've been pretty plugged in on Stafford

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Speaker 3: and Rams here last few years. Gave everybody the pukah

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Speaker 3: stuff and the ugly contract you did. So I did

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Speaker 3: ask my people. I said, hey, so if Stafford wins

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Speaker 3: the Super Bowl, is it over? And they're like, uh uh,

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Speaker 3: he's cooking he wants to play again. I wonder if

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Speaker 3: that changes Colin. If he wins a super Bowl and

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Speaker 3: his wife's like, listen, come on, you go out on top,

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Speaker 3: like yeah, way, maybe he changes his mind. But if

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Speaker 3: they lose this game, I would say he's definitely coming

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Speaker 3: back next season. I just I don't see a trade

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Speaker 3: up for Tysimpson. I personally think we're overrating him because

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Speaker 3: there really aren't a lot of attractive quarterbacks after Mendoza.

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Speaker 3: Do you really believe Tysimpson's the guy like top what

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Speaker 3: he picked.

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Speaker 1: What I'm saying is if your scouting department, the Rams

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Speaker 1: scouting department's good, finds him to be like the twenty

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Speaker 1: fourth best player in your draft and whatever they're drafting,

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Speaker 1: I could see them saying, guys, in one year, there

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Speaker 1: are better quarterbacks potentially. We don't know. We thought cave

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Speaker 1: Klutnick was going to be great this year. We thought

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Speaker 1: nus Meyer was going to be great. They weren't. We

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Speaker 1: didn't think mendo I mean before the season, do we

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Speaker 1: think Mendoza was going to be an easy number? We

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Speaker 1: thought it was like arch Manning Dane More. You just

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Speaker 3: Let me ask what about we just mentioned Tua? Could

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Speaker 3: you see Tua fitting with.

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Speaker 1: The La Rams? C? J. Stroud?

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Speaker 5: Yes?

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Speaker 3: All right, final story, Let's go to Robert Salah. Everybody

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Speaker 3: likes him defensive coordinated with the Niners. Didn't really get

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Speaker 3: a good chance with the Jets because of Aaron Rodgers. Anyways,

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Speaker 3: he had a lot of interest from folks and he

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Speaker 3: ultimately picked Tennessee. Here's what Sala had to say for me,

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Speaker 3: this was the most desirable location, the most desirable team,

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Speaker 3: the team here are. The people here are unbelievable. They're

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Speaker 3: a type of people you want to work with. I'm

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Speaker 3: really excited about the city of Nashville and bringing a

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Speaker 3: nash Vegas. I think there's a world here where Sala's

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Speaker 3: pretty damn good pretty quickly. Colling, we're believers in cam Ward.

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Speaker 3: We both liked him. They just have to, you know,

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Speaker 3: they got some cap money, cap space to spend. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: they were three and fourteen. Offense wasn't great, defense wasn't great,

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Speaker 3: this is a good good spot for Sala, So do.

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Speaker 1: I I think. I mean, listen, it's been kind of

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Speaker 1: let Vrabel go. I don't think that was terribly prism Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Well? I like Seattle. I like Seattle. I like their defense.

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Speaker 1: What Stafford, You liked him when he was in Detroit.

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Speaker 5: Well? I mean, I mean he just needs another back

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Speaker 5: Yeah, now, look, I mean, teams run the ball against him.

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Speaker 5: I mean, the order could do whatever he wants to do.

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Speaker 5: It's about winning championships. And if you don't feel like

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Speaker 1: By the way, you were in the eighties, you were

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Speaker 5: I remember that when you played Washington and they play

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Speaker 1: It stays with you a long time great senior Baldi.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, thanks, Don, enjoyed the games this weekend, buddy.

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Speaker 1: You bet seventy. It's interesting when you talk about that.

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Speaker 1: Two games left and then the Super Bowl. A lot

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Speaker 1: all of them. We like to call it tomorrow's headlines

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Speaker 1: You're right.

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Speaker 3: Colin, I have the answers, the answers to the tester

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Speaker 3: right here. The headline for Patriots Broncos. Can't wait for

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Speaker 3: They thought I had Drew Brees and a superstar. You

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Speaker 3: watched it. I'm gonna cook up and I think he's

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Speaker 3: got some interesting stuff here. Fun stat that I dug

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Speaker 3: up so Peyton with backup quarterbacks in his career fourteen

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Speaker 3: and seven against the spread. Now, a lot of that

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Speaker 3: was Teddy Bridgewater in New Orleans, but I do remember,

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Speaker 3: you know, when the starter goes out, you got to

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Speaker 3: go to the backup. A lot of people want to

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Speaker 3: fade backup quarterbacks, not against Peyton. He's a really good

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Speaker 3: x's and o's guy and a schemer. I just don't

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Speaker 3: know if their offense is going to be enough to

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Speaker 3: keep up with May and Drake May is fascinating, Colin.

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Speaker 3: I think we talked about it earlier this week. So

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Speaker 3: he was the number one quarterback in EPA this year,

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Speaker 3: one of the more important stats. But EPA Ding's quarterbacks

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Speaker 3: who were sacked a lot. Drake May was sacked the

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Speaker 3: second most in the league after Herbert, So you're like,

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Speaker 3: how does that work? So what he's doing, he's like

447
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Speaker 3: a Texas hold him gambler, right, he's taking sacks, but

448
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Speaker 3: he's countering with huge plays like he's. Nobody hits explosive

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Speaker 3: plays like Drake May. However, of course Denver gives up

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Speaker 3: the fewest explosive plays with this great defense, and the

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Speaker 3: pass rush led the league in sacks. It's a really

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Speaker 3: interesting x's and o's matchup. The question is can stit them?

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Speaker 3: And they're gonna need to do it early. They can't

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Speaker 3: come out and go like three and out or punt

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Speaker 3: on the first couple drives, then it's probably over. I

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Speaker 3: think Denver keeps it close early and we're looking at

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Speaker 3: like twenty seven to twenty three Patriots.

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Speaker 1: Game of the Year. Tomorrow's headlines today Seahawks hosting the

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Speaker 1: Rams one for the Ages. Jmack, what's the headline?

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Speaker 3: Remember my first year on the show, I doubted the

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Speaker 3: Seahawks could make a playoffs. Had to shave something in

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Speaker 3: the side of my head. That was fun. Well, the

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Speaker 3: headline for Rams Seahawks. Here will be Sama Rama, Ding Dong,

464
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Speaker 3: Darnald ditched off, playoff, Porch Garry, the Rams and Chris

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Speaker 3: Us defense going into Seattle and pulling off the upset.

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Speaker 3: I like the Rams to win this out right, Colin.

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Speaker 3: This is such a great matchup. So there is some

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Speaker 3: negatives for the Rams besides the fact that they played

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Speaker 3: an overtime game last week, their defense was on the

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Speaker 3: field for eighty one plays, right, and they have a

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Speaker 3: day less because Seattle played on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: No question that worries me a lot.

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Speaker 3: That's a big one. But this is one of my

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Speaker 3: big counters, Colin. I'm not hearing anybody talk about it.

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Speaker 3: We haven't touched it. Okay, the starting left tackle for Seattle,

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Speaker 3: his backup, and the third stringer all misspractice Wednesday and Thursday.

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Speaker 3: You're left tackle going against Jared Verse. All of them

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Speaker 3: misspractice this week. Now there's hope that the starter is

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Speaker 3: able to play, but the backup plan, according to Seattle insiders,

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Speaker 3: is oh, we'll move grey Zabel, our guard out to

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Speaker 3: left tackle like the Bears did with Joe Toney last.

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Speaker 1: Week, and Tuoney did great.

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Speaker 3: Colin, Toney's a veteran All Pro Greys Abel's a rookie.

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Speaker 3: Now he's going up against Jared Verse and compounding matters,

485
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Speaker 3: you got the Zach Charbonnay injury. He's their best blocking back.

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Speaker 3: You keep him in the backfield to block against the blitz.

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Speaker 3: Kenneth Walker can't block anybody now. Kenneth Walker's explosive on

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Speaker 3: runs and pass catching. But I'm just telling you this

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Speaker 3: Rams defense with Chris Shula, I'm just blown away by

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Speaker 3: how good he is. I'm on record, I think he's

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Speaker 3: gonna be the next Pittsburgh Steelers coach. I think it's

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Speaker 3: able to be a phenomenal higher He's gonna get a

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Speaker 3: job in this cycle. He has done masterful work against

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Speaker 3: Caleb Williams, by the way, against Sam Darnold in the

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Speaker 3: last three games, Chris Shula's defense seven interceptions, thirteen sacks. Now,

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Speaker 3: one of that was when he was with Minnesota in

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Speaker 3: the playoff game and Shula just had him seeing ghost

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Speaker 3: sacked him nine times. But I like the rams here,

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Speaker 3: Devonte back Dotson full go give me the rams of

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Speaker 3: McVeigh winning.

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow's headlines today, Let's talk about a couple of these

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Speaker 1: new coaches. Oh Harbaugh the Giants. Let's see what Max J.

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Speaker 1: Mag has to say, the team he hates the most.

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Speaker 3: Obviously, the show's fun when we agree, right, but it's

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Speaker 3: also fun when we disagree. The headline for that New

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Speaker 3: York Giants next season will be big Blue Swede shoes.

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Speaker 3: New York Royalty is still waiting to be king. I'm

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Speaker 3: sorry there will be no playoffs, Colin. I'll give you

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Speaker 3: eight wins, maybe nine, But I have looked at the

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Speaker 3: opponents now. The schedule order is not out yet. This

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Speaker 3: is one of the toughest schedules in the league. Seven

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Speaker 3: of their seventeen games against playoff teams. Okay, at home

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Speaker 3: they get San fran and Jacksonville. You know timing will matter.

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Speaker 3: Jacksonville going to New York in December could be big.

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Speaker 3: These are a couple of their road games at Seattle,

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Speaker 3: at the Rams, at the Texans, and I can't read

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Speaker 3: my handwriting on the other one, but they basically have

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Speaker 3: brutal at the Eagles. Obviously they have the home and

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Speaker 3: away count. This oh Houston is the final game. This

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Speaker 3: is going to be a very tough schedule. He's got

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Speaker 3: to work out some kinks with the offensive line, it's good.

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Speaker 3: I'm not willing to call it great. You know, scam scattaboo.

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Speaker 3: Are we really banking on him being like a difference

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Speaker 3: maker like a Barkley or Stemac. I think we need

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Speaker 3: to pump the brakes a little bit. Eight or nine wins,

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Speaker 3: second or third in the division. What are you laughing at?

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Speaker 1: Okay?

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Speaker 3: Cowboys, cowboys, Washington? Who's in the cellar in the NFC East?

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Speaker 1: Not going to be the Giants?

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Speaker 5: Well? Who? All right?

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow's headlines today? Well, what about Stefanski and the Falcons.

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Speaker 1: Let's say, you.

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Speaker 3: Man, I can't quit these damn Falcons call it. I mean,

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Speaker 3: you know you laugh at me every week. I bet

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Speaker 3: on them. So now they bring in Stefanski, two time

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Speaker 3: Coach of the Year, the headline for Kevin Stefanski and

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Speaker 3: the Falcons will be NFL New Falcon League Falcons put

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Speaker 3: the fun in step Funski. Oh yeah, baby, Michael Michael

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Speaker 3: Pennick's returns. Listen, I'm just telling you this. Bjon Armstrong,

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Speaker 3: Drake London Combo. That's one of the best receiver running

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Speaker 3: back combos in the league. I looked at their free agents.

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Speaker 3: They're not losing many dudes. A couple older guys. Kyle

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Speaker 3: Pitts is the one to watch. Do they tag him?

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Speaker 3: Do they bring him back? He'll have interest from the

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Speaker 3: Chiefs and others. I just the real reason I like

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Speaker 3: this team is that the Falcons defense really shit owed

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Speaker 3: up this season.

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Speaker 5: Colin.

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Speaker 3: They got very good. Remember that win over the Rams.

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Speaker 3: At the end of the year. The kid Pierced they

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Speaker 3: drafted out of Tennessee showed well. I think this is

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Speaker 3: the division winner, clearly. I know the Saints have improved,

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Speaker 3: and you like Carolina and Baker Mayfield's over here talking

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Speaker 3: trash on Twitter. Give me Stefanski and the Falcons to

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Speaker 3: win the division.

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Speaker 1: Okay, finally, Buffalo Bills still in the middle of their

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Speaker 1: coaching search. Tomorrow's headlines today, I'm told you have a

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Speaker 1: sixth mystery headline.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, we're trying to keep that a secret Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 3: You know, I said they're Super Bowl windows closing. You

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Speaker 3: couldn't brush that off fast enough, like it was a

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Speaker 3: garbage stake. The headline for Buffalo will be the day

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Speaker 3: Bowl is in the details, hot seat finds cold comfort.

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Speaker 3: I like Brian dabol to go back to Buffalo on

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Speaker 3: this Philip Rivers stuff. Is this misdirection? What the hell's

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Speaker 3: going on here? Seems goofy. I do think the dayble

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Speaker 3: fit is good. My only concern is is that viewed

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Speaker 3: as too safe of a call. Hey Josh, it worked

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Speaker 3: with Josh, Let's bring him back. Do they need to

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Speaker 3: go away from the quote unquote family. But I think

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Speaker 3: Dabele is a really sharp offensive mind. I'll remind people

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Speaker 3: Jackson Dart didn't do it by himself.

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Speaker 7: This year.

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Speaker 3: Jackson Dart emerged and Brian Dabel had him kind of

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Speaker 3: rolling on offense. Remember they went and hung thirty two

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Speaker 3: on the Broncos in Denver. I think Dable's a sharp mind.

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Speaker 3: I think Dabel will be good with Josh Allen. I

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Speaker 3: just I don't think they're ever going to get to a.

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl, all right, I'd be disappointing. Yeah, good stuff.

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady speaking of good stuff was on for twenty

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Speaker 1: minutes earlier. It was funny because I was writing this morning.

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Speaker 1: I was looking at the Seahawks rams the ten best players,

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Speaker 1: and it is remarkable. You get to like Kobe Turner

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Speaker 1: at eleven and Devonte Adams at fifteen. I mean, Leonard

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Speaker 1: Williams Murphy the defensive tackle. I mean, Seattle is just

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Speaker 1: These teams are incredible. I mean the Rams literally have

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Speaker 1: two great interior defensive linemen. You got Young and Jared

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Speaker 1: Verse on the end, But it was the offense last

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Speaker 1: week that was virtually perfect. You know you're not no turnovers,

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Speaker 1: no drop passes.

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Speaker 3: Can I remind you DeVante Adams led the NFL in

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Speaker 3: receiving touchdowns and you had him behind Kenneth Walker.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm just I'm just telling you, I Quentin Lake,

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Speaker 1: if you were banged up for a stretch, it was

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Speaker 1: hard for me to put you on. And Davante's I

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Speaker 1: love Davonte and that dude takes shots.

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Speaker 3: I mean I started going in winning his first NFC

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Speaker 3: Championship game. He's zero and four. This is his fifth trip.

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Speaker 3: He's got to get to a super Bowl. We need

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Speaker 3: Davonte in the Super Bowl. I mean, that guy's a stud.

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Speaker 1: I'm projecting a big game from Adams. Here's Brady on

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Speaker 1: the Rams momentum going into this game.

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Speaker 7: You give the Rams coaching staff so much credit for

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Speaker 7: a performance like that in Chicago last week. You're talking

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Speaker 7: about a team that probably had a seventy degree temperature

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Speaker 7: difference from leaving LA to landing in Chicago. That lack

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Speaker 7: of penalties, obviously, no turnovers, and the drop passes, that's

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Speaker 7: just I'm very jealous of receivers that don't drop balls too.

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Speaker 7: By the way, that's a great stat for any quarterback.

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Speaker 7: But they're doing all the right things. This is a

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Speaker 7: surgical offense. They have so many weapons. Everybody touches it.

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Speaker 7: You've got to account for everybody. They have a precise

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Speaker 7: passing game, they have a ball control offense. There's a

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Speaker 7: lot of ways the Rams can win too.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's their special teams are a little dicey. It's

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Speaker 1: it is. It's just incredible. These two organizations out West

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Speaker 1: have just drafted the hell out of April. God, they

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Speaker 1: just I mean the Rams. Puka is a fifth rounder,

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Speaker 1: Kyron Williams is a fifth rounder. I mean, they have

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Speaker 1: a they have a sixth round receiver in Jordan Whittingham,

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Speaker 1: seventh round receiver from Pittsburgh. They're left tackles undrafted. Landman

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Speaker 1: was undrafted when he was at Atlanta. You know, you

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Speaker 1: know is a first rounder. Matt Stafford was a number

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Speaker 1: one pick. The Rams have found tons of talent in

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Speaker 1: the mid rounds. The Seahawks have found some of that.

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Speaker 1: But what Seattle's done well is they don't miss on

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Speaker 1: their first and second round picks. They're all studs, so

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Speaker 1: so much of this league. That's that's why the I've

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Speaker 1: always loved the NFL draft. Nobody has aced their first

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Speaker 1: two or three picks on an annual basis better than Seattle.

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Speaker 1: The Rams have not had a lot of first round picks.

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Speaker 1: They have crushed in round four and round five. Even

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Speaker 1: Cooper Cutt was a third round pick. He's now a Seahawk.

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Speaker 1: So speaking of draft, Fernando Mendoza has officially declared for it.

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Speaker 1: He will be the number one pick. I asked Tom

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Speaker 1: uh he was at the Natty, what do you make

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Speaker 1: of Mendoza.

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Speaker 7: He's played tremendous, you know, all season sixteen and zero

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Speaker 7: leading his team. And again, he's another guy that you

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Speaker 7: know when you hear him speak, you know, I allays

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Speaker 7: kind of judge quarterbacks that go, how would I have

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Speaker 7: answered that? And he's just a very mature young man

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Speaker 7: and he's got a bright future. And you know, everybody

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Speaker 7: coming into the league there's still so much room for development.

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Speaker 7: Nobody's a finished product. I don't care whether you're won

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Speaker 7: the Heisman or you're the one hundred ninety ninth pick in

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Speaker 7: the draft. It's what do you do when you get there?

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Speaker 7: How important is this to you? Are you obsessed with

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Speaker 7: your job? Are you obsessed with being the best you

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Speaker 7: can be? How can you be the best teammate? How

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Speaker 7: can you work hard? How can you play smart? How

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Speaker 7: can you play tough? How can you play well under pressure?

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Speaker 7: How well can you play in tough conditions? And then

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Speaker 7: ultimately how well can you play in championship games? And

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Speaker 7: all those things remain to be seen.

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Speaker 1: For the record in the College Football Playoff, if you

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Speaker 1: look at Mendoza's numbers, he was just incredible. Completion percentage

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Speaker 1: above seventy. And I said, I thought it was good

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Speaker 1: all year. When I saw him that road game at

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Speaker 1: Penn State, it was like in that last drive, it

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Speaker 1: was like, Wow, that is different level stuff. That is

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Speaker 1: really hard to do.

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Speaker 5: All right?

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Speaker 1: Thanks to Tom Brady, Brian Baldinger, J Mack see him money,