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Speaker 1: This is straight fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is up? Straight fire? Fam, It's me Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 1: Straight fire.

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Speaker 2: For Friday, January seventeenth, NFL Divisional playoff weekend is upon us.

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Speaker 2: They call it the best weekend in football all season

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Speaker 2: because theoretically we have the best teams left. I pretty

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Speaker 2: much agree with that. I mean, I don't know. Tampa,

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Speaker 2: I guess maybe deserves a spot. The top four in

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Speaker 2: the AFC are there. I do believe the Bengals are

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Speaker 2: a better team than the Texans, but you know what,

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Speaker 2: they weren't great all season, so they're not here. Either way.

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Speaker 2: We should have a really good weekend of football. Saturday,

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Speaker 2: the first game out is one thirty Pacific, and then

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Speaker 2: there's the night game Lions Commanders. And then Sunday you

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Speaker 2: got the late start, well noon on the the West coast,

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Speaker 2: but if you're on the East coast, you gotta wait

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Speaker 2: till three for the first kickoff. Ooh Eagles Rams, followed

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Speaker 2: by Bill's Ravens at the nightcap. This is tough, guys.

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Speaker 2: This is difficult for me. You know, I got kids sports.

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Speaker 2: I got I'm coaching kids sports. They got their club

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Speaker 2: volleyball and I've got a men's league game, by the way,

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Speaker 2: A quick note on the Great Foxes. So we are

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Speaker 2: stacked in this Torrents league, which is, you know, probably

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Speaker 2: like twenty five minutes away. But it is a lot

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Speaker 2: then only five guys could show up last week and

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Speaker 2: we lost to a team only by eight, you know,

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Speaker 2: and I was like, we were missing some of our horses.

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Speaker 2: Obviously I was not there. I haven't lost a game,

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Speaker 2: been on the court for a loss in that league.

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Speaker 2: I don't think in two seasons. I'm not saying I'm

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Speaker 2: the best player on the team, obviously not. But I

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Speaker 2: do believe, you know, as the GM of the team,

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Speaker 2: guarantee you if our guys show up everybody, we will

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Speaker 2: win the championship and we'll be by double figures. Anyways,

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Speaker 2: you don't care about men's basketball. Although I'm really hyped

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Speaker 2: because last night we got our schedule for the upcoming season.

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Speaker 2: That's the league we played with Richer Jefferson. Last season

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Speaker 2: we led the championship the whole way and lost by

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Speaker 2: two in the final ten seconds, a gut wrenching loss.

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Speaker 2: But I don't know. I've been watching a lot of

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Speaker 2: hoops that started going to the gym and just besides

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Speaker 2: of shooting. I'm back, baby. I cannot wait, cannot wait

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Speaker 2: for the leagues. Yes, I'm into don't tell the wife

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Speaker 2: to start up next week. Very excited. Side note, I played.

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Speaker 2: You guys know Matt Leonard obviously college football legend, USC

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Speaker 2: who is a junior. He's going to SMU on a

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Speaker 2: town quickly. I wonder if he'll let Leonard play both sports.

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Speaker 2: good hooper. Oh my gosh. Anyways, let's get to football first.

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Speaker 2: Let me just quickly address the elephant in the room,

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Speaker 2: if you will. I don't see Dean Sanders going to Dallas.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, guys, I just I don't see it. I'm

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Speaker 2: talking about the Cowboys, having the Cowboys discussed on every

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Speaker 2: radio spots who want to see their name in the lights.

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Speaker 2: The herd. We had Jordan Schultz on, who I've gotten

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Speaker 2: And what's interest is I asked him point blank. I'm like, dude,

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Speaker 2: the headlines all the time. And this dalliance with Dion,

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Speaker 2: if you will, I'm just I Edwarder is respected, He's

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Speaker 2: on Sundays. You did a damn good job as a parent, Deon,

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Speaker 2: Ar Don't you want to go see him every week?

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Speaker 2: Don't you want to go to the games watch him?

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Speaker 2: You can't do that if you're if you're coaching, it's

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Speaker 2: Sure, Maybe they're playing on Thursday night. Huh how often

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Speaker 2: I just I don't see it. I think Dion is

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Speaker 2: That's what makes the most sense. Now, what's interesting is,

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Speaker 2: But I think it's pretty clear he's the number two quarterback.

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Speaker 2: So Cleveland drafts him. Well. Stefanski, who has been Coach

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Speaker 2: this franchise still is devoid of talent because they gave

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Speaker 2: by the way, Kellen Moore is doing three job interviews.

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Speaker 2: He did one Thursday, he'd doing one Friday and one Saturday.

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Speaker 2: hell out of Sam Darnold. How is this a good thing?

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Speaker 2: you never want to blame the offensive coordinator for interviews,

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Speaker 2: and yes, every year tons of OC's and DC's interview everywhere.

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Speaker 2: You never want to go overboard, but listen. Last weekend

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Speaker 2: I will preface this by saying, if somehow the Kansas

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Speaker 2: three teasers of mine that are significant. Now here's the

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Speaker 2: No defense has given up more yards rushing to quarterbacks

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Speaker 2: Let's go to Sunday's games. Eagles Rams. This is a

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Speaker 2: a different team? So the Rams outdoors, We're going to

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Speaker 2: remove the Seattle game. They went to the New York Jets,

428
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Speaker 2: looked awful and one nineteen to nine. They went outdoors

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Speaker 2: to the Niners and won twelve to six. They went

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Speaker 2: outdoors to New England. That was the only game where

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Speaker 2: the offense was good, and they barely won twenty two

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Speaker 2: against New England. They went to Seattle kind of sort

433
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Speaker 2: of got lucky there in overtime to pull off the win.

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Speaker 2: But ultimately this is a team. Oh they went outdoors

435
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Speaker 2: to Chicago early in the season and looked very rotten folks.

436
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Speaker 2: Five outdoor games with the starting offense and they totaled.

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Speaker 2: They see thirty thirty two points in the first half. That, yes,

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Speaker 2: is an average of less than seven points in the

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Speaker 2: first half. They can't fall behind to the Eagles because

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Speaker 2: you know what Philly wants to do. They want to

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Speaker 2: run the ball with say Quon Barkley. The Rams, what

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Speaker 2: they did last week was, oh, we're gonna sit in

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Speaker 2: the zone. We're going to mix up things for Darnle,

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Speaker 2: make him hold the ball and get get to them

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Speaker 2: with pressure. Well, that'll work against the Vikings, whose offensive

446
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Speaker 2: line was I think it graded out twenty first according

447
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Speaker 2: to Pro Football Focus. They lost Cam what's his face

448
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Speaker 2: the left hand, Darisout Christian Darris House without him, their

449
00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:05,080
Speaker 2: their offensive line struggled at the end. That being said,

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Speaker 2: the Eagles have the number one offensive line in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: Jordan Malata is the number one graded left tackle in

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Speaker 2: the league. You think versus gonna be going crazy against Mylatta? No,

453
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Speaker 2: he's all pro obviously, versus very good. But he's a rookie.

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Speaker 2: They said, monster Eagles front. If the Rams go with

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Speaker 2: the light box and play their zone with the two

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Speaker 2: I safety and say we're taking away all the big plays,

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Speaker 2: Saikwan's gonna have thirty carries and the Eagles will win easily.

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Speaker 2: So then so what do you do? Do you go? Man? Well,

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Speaker 2: then AJ Brown's gonna tear you up. How do you

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Speaker 2: get to Hurts and rattle him and make him vomit

461
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Speaker 2: up the football? And that's the tall order and I

462
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Speaker 2: don't know that the Rams defense is capable of that.

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Speaker 2: We will see about Hurts, though, I saw some success

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Speaker 2: rate numbers last week that were horrendous for Hurts. I

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Speaker 2: didn't again, I was coaching my kids in hoops. So

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Speaker 2: I missed most of that game, but what I watched

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Speaker 2: on YouTube, you know you could do the condensed version.

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Speaker 2: It's all highlights. They're not showing spray interceptions and poor play.

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Speaker 2: But they're expecting very cold weather. There are some numbers

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Speaker 2: floating around about Stafford and cold weather outdoors not great.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. Some of that might date back to

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Speaker 2: his date time with Detroit when they were terrible. But

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Speaker 2: this will not be easy for the Rams. I don't

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Speaker 2: know if they get waxed here. I remember dealing with

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Speaker 2: the fires, then had to go to Arizona, then fly

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Speaker 2: back to La now to Philly, cross country trip on

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Speaker 2: a short week. It's just it's not a great setup.

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Speaker 2: The only reason I'm concerned for the Eagles is I

479
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Speaker 2: just I don't know how healthy Jalen Hurts is, and

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Speaker 2: he has not looked sharp, certainly last week and then

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Speaker 2: in the game he was injured, he didn't look particularly

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Speaker 2: so when he got the concussion, he didn't look incredible.

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Speaker 2: I do like the Eagles here to win, and in

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Speaker 2: most money line parlays, I've got them as well. Finally,

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Speaker 2: the best game Bills Ravens. I am on the Baltimore

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Speaker 2: Ravens first half minus one, and I'm going to get

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Speaker 2: involved with the Bills full game. I don't have it yet.

488
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:06,960
Speaker 2: I have a Bill's teaser with Kansas City up to

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Speaker 2: seven plus seven for Buffalo. I don't see them getting

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Speaker 2: blown out here. It's just gonna be a great game.

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Speaker 2: And I'm not going to get into all the chess

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Speaker 2: match stuff. But the big factor here for me is

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Speaker 2: Zay Flowers is out, and I think that is enormous.

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Speaker 2: I think that is the kind of injury where Greg McDermott,

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Speaker 2: who you know, is a defensive coach and has a

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Speaker 2: tendency to stick to his guns. I wonder if he

497
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Speaker 2: will change things up, does he decide, you know what?

498
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Speaker 2: We got a really good cornerback in this kid, Christian

499
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Speaker 2: Benford Young fellas sixth round pick, one of the top

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Speaker 2: cornerbacks in the league. We trust him in man coverage.

501
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Speaker 2: We're not afraid of Rasul sorry not Rsue Bateman, Rashad Bateman,

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Speaker 2: We're not afraid of him. We got tarn Johnson back.

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Speaker 2: He missed the last one. Rasul Douglas not having great year,

504
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Speaker 2: but he's a talented cornerback. Like, is there a world

505
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Speaker 2: where McDermott says, you know what, we're gonna stack the

506
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Speaker 2: box and we're gonna play single high safety and Manda Man. Now,

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Speaker 2: they don't do a lot of that, but they are

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Speaker 2: capable of that now down the stretch they've done a

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Speaker 2: little bit of it. And I wonder if it was

510
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Speaker 2: to set up for this game and say, you know what,

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Speaker 2: lamar Hey, you're a great quarterback.

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Speaker 1: We get it.

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Speaker 2: Go ahead, beats beat us deep without your best weapons, Flowers,

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Speaker 2: let's see it. And I don't know if on any

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Speaker 2: level they're scared of and yeah, listen Batman Mayhall in

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Speaker 2: a deep touchdown that could happen. I don't know that

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Speaker 2: they're you know, you're worried about Tylan Wallace or Nelson

518
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:36,120
Speaker 2: Aguilar Aglare just drops everything. I think you're worried about

519
00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:38,520
Speaker 2: the tight ends Andrews un likely. I'll be looking at

520
00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:40,880
Speaker 2: Isaiah likely props because he played a ton last week.

521
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:44,679
Speaker 2: But they you've got to load up and stop Jackson

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Speaker 2: and Henry. And you know, you look at last year's

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Speaker 2: Ravens Chiefs game in that AFC Championship and the game

524
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:56,160
Speaker 2: plan was just freaking puzzling as hell from Todd munkin.

525
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Speaker 2: You know, there's zero chance he's not gonna be like

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Speaker 2: run run, run, run run in this one. And if

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Speaker 2: Buffalo doesn't change tendency and load the box, and yeah,

528
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Speaker 2: they're gonna get run over. I just McDermott's too smart

529
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Speaker 2: to stick to his guns and really try to win

530
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:15,960
Speaker 2: this playing at my way. That's just not smart. I

531
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Speaker 2: have seen some stuff about how, oh, well, the Ravens

532
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:20,840
Speaker 2: are playing the best football in the league. There, Oh okay,

533
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:24,600
Speaker 2: they're playing well of late. Let's just quickly go through

534
00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:27,240
Speaker 2: who they've played here down the stretch. They played a

535
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Speaker 2: Steelers team that nobody believed was good despite the record.

536
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Speaker 2: They played a terrible Cleveland Browns team. They smothered a

537
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Speaker 2: Houston Texans team that was reeling thirty one to two.

538
00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 2: The other win against the Steelers, and they beat the Giants.

539
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Speaker 2: The last time they played what I would call a

540
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Speaker 2: very good team was the Eagles, and they lost. You

541
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Speaker 2: remember that twenty four to nineteen, A difficult loss for

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Speaker 2: the Ravens. It kind of exposed some things. Now, the

543
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 2: Bills don't have the Eagles run defense, but the Ravens

544
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:58,400
Speaker 2: did lead that one nine to nothing. And I know

545
00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:02,840
Speaker 2: Tucker missed a bunch of kicks, but I'm very curious

546
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:05,320
Speaker 2: to see if Josh Allen just refuses to let the

547
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Speaker 2: team lose. I know that's a cheesy thing to say.

548
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna let him go down, but I'll be

549
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 2: looking at Josh Allen props again. I think I gave

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Speaker 2: out the over forty two and a half last week.

551
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 2: I definitely bet it, and he landed forty six. I

552
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 2: would say that could go even higher. I know some

553
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:21,720
Speaker 2: people are saying this is gonna be a shootout. I

554
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 2: can see the quarterback slugging it out, but ultimately my

555
00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:27,680
Speaker 2: guess is we're gonna see a bunch of new stuff

556
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Speaker 2: here defensively, because you know, I don't see a scenario

557
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:34,120
Speaker 2: where the Bills just say, Okay, we're gonna We're gonna

558
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 2: play our thing. And Derek Henry, if he's gonna go

559
00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 2: for a buck fifty years. I think his first touch

560
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:41,160
Speaker 2: in the first meeting, he won eighty seven yards for

561
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Speaker 2: the score. Now, they were down four defensive starters in

562
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Speaker 2: that one. At the time, I'm fairly certain Baltimore was desperate.

563
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:51,479
Speaker 2: This was a young Bill's team. Kean Coleman was like,

564
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 2: you know four games in still wet behind the Ears.

565
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:57,680
Speaker 2: They hadn't traded for Amari Cooper yet. Like, I don't

566
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Speaker 2: put a ton of stock in that one. So I

567
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:03,280
Speaker 2: have Ravens first half because they're a strong starting team.

568
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:08,800
Speaker 2: But I ultimately think Buffalo wins. I'll go something like thirty. Well,

569
00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:13,200
Speaker 2: now that's too high. I'll go twenty four twenty three.

570
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:18,160
Speaker 2: Buffalo Bells get the win and advance to the AFC Championship.

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Speaker 2: That being said, as I told Baker, the only thing

572
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Speaker 2: I care about is whichever team can beat the Chiefs

573
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Speaker 2: next week. That's why I want to win this. If

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Speaker 2: it's Baltimore, fine, I don't care. So I don't have

575
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Speaker 2: a lot invested here. I did forget one bet as

576
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Speaker 2: I look at the sheet. Here Eagles Rams first half

577
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:36,640
Speaker 2: under twenty two and a half. Too much juice for

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Speaker 2: twenty three, which is a key number. Under twenty two

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Speaker 2: and a half Rams Eagles first half. So that's all

580
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Speaker 2: the wagers, guys. Should be a phenomenal weekend. We'll do

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Speaker 2: more on the National Championship Monday. We'll talk to you then,