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Speaker 2: If he plays on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: What version of the Chiefs quarterback what we see against

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Speaker 1: the Texans. We'll tell you the latest out of Kansas City.

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Speaker 2: Chiefs could be.

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Speaker 1: On a collision course with the Bills again, and that

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Speaker 1: Buffalo offense is showing no signs of slowing down. Neither

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Speaker 1: is running back Ty Johnson, who ran circles around the

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Speaker 1: Lions all the way to a guest spot on tonight's show.

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Speaker 2: We are also at our best in space.

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Speaker 1: Welcome inside with the Insiders alongside Ian Rappaport and Mike Garaffalo.

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Speaker 2: I am Tom Peliicero.

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Speaker 1: It is the eve of Week sixteen in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: The Chargers and Groncos kicks things off tomorrow night, we

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Speaker 1: will talk a lot about that game. We will get

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Speaker 1: into your best fantasy options and some ones you should

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Speaker 1: avoid as well. With michae Leflorio joins the show, we

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Speaker 1: will start out in Flowering Branch, Georgia, where the Atlanta

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Speaker 1: Falcons made a seismic change last night.

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Speaker 2: Shortly after our show aired. Not that I'm bitter.

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Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins headed to the bench just about nine months

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Speaker 1: after the Falcons had given him a four year, one

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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty million dollar contract. Six weeks after that,

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Speaker 1: they drafted Michael Pennis Junior eighth. Overall, this day was

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Speaker 5: Why was it important for you to call my class night?

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Speaker 4: You know, I like to shoot elephants in the room,

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Speaker 6: My shopping with my girlfriend was at Costco and I

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Speaker 1: So Michael Pannix Junior also said he was about to

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Speaker 2: Solid Costco promo. They didn't have to pay a dime

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Speaker 1: Let's welcome in our Steve Whites to the conversation as well,

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Speaker 1: We know all this transpired, from the big money signing

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Speaker 8: They drafted Michael Pennix to be the quarterback of the future.

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Speaker 8: it's really just what are they going to do next?

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Speaker 1: Michael Pennix Junior did play six years of college football,

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Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins has a great deal of control over this

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Speaker 1: You're going to either pay me the twenty seven point

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Speaker 1: great stuff, Thank you very much. We will look forward

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Speaker 1: It's going to be Jade and Daniels versus Michael Pennigs

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Speaker 1: Six takeaways for the Bengals last week, only four of

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Speaker 1: EDVIL Network's got a triple header next Saturday, December twenty eighth.

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Speaker 2: Of all games?

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Speaker 1: Okay, have all games to get micd up for or

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Speaker 5: Absolutely?

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Speaker 11: It just came down to that self belief and have

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Speaker 8: So I was looking at your bio a little bit

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Speaker 7: Watching, Did you take a minute to just.

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Speaker 11: You, Really, it was just more so why not me?

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Speaker 1: I remember after your rookie season and Bob Quinn, who

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Speaker 11: That's all it really has been. This whole time in

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Speaker 2: Good job, Tom.

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Speaker 5: And we've seen it day in day out. This is

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Speaker 5: a guy who's.

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Speaker 11: Laying it on the line extending plays, doing he needs

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Speaker 11: to do to get either first down, get the touchdown,

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Speaker 11: extend plays. And it's just so hard to put those

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Speaker 11: that into words. To see what he's doing. He's a

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Speaker 11: generational quarterback. It's amazing to see, Like I get yelled

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Speaker 11: at we're standing around on the field when he scrambles

446
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Speaker 11: and he takes off, he's running and you know he

447
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Speaker 11: chased after the ball. But it's like, man, how can

448
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Speaker 11: you not just sit there and being all when you

449
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Speaker 11: see this guy making plays whether you're showing the ball

450
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Speaker 11: using his legs, and I think it's just a great thing.

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Speaker 11: He just comes in with a great, big smile and

452
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Speaker 11: he's just ready to do what we need to do

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Speaker 11: to get to win and put push the team forward.

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Speaker 11: So when you see him, it's just like he puts

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Speaker 11: in the work, he puts in the hours, and he

456
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Speaker 11: just has spun with it. At the end of the day,

457
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Speaker 11: he's not trying to prove anything. He's just being present.

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Speaker 11: Word speed are in the game speak for it.

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Speaker 1: So I asked you at the start of this interview

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Speaker 1: if he would manifest did that big performance last week

461
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Speaker 1: against Detroit. You have a clothing line and a pail

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Speaker 1: brand called manifest Tell me about this.

463
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Speaker 2: The inspiration for why that's a passion for you.

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Speaker 11: Really, my best friend Ike started being a pail and

465
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Speaker 11: he was really good showing me all these things, and

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Speaker 11: I really wanted to like follow this guideline up how

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Speaker 11: you made this brand, because I just wanted to create

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Speaker 11: something that people love and it actually meant something. And

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Speaker 11: just the manifestation, you know, from being in high school

470
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Speaker 11: to the college to the NFL, you know, speaking and

471
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Speaker 11: believing at the end of the day. And it's just

472
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Speaker 11: one of those things. I love attraction just speaking everything

473
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Speaker 11: and having that energy out there to bring everything you

474
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Speaker 11: want to your life that you're able to bring is

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Speaker 11: it's there, like you know, just speak for it and

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Speaker 11: put yourself in a position to receive that from the universe.

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Speaker 5: So it's really just been one of those things.

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Speaker 11: I guess we're going to create something for a lot

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Speaker 11: of guys to you know, when they wear it. It's just,

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Speaker 11: you know, I feel it like I'm I can do

481
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Speaker 11: these things as long as I put myself in a

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Speaker 11: position to receive you know, all the accolades or the

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Speaker 11: money in the world or you know, a job, anything,

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Speaker 11: Because it's not just for footballs for people, Let's have

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Speaker 11: a regular nine to five. You know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 11: And it's just you know it's out there. You know,

487
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Speaker 11: you just got to speaking and get after it and

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Speaker 11: put yourself in a position to receiver.

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Speaker 1: Best luck with that, best luck for the rest of

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Speaker 1: the season. Time manifests nothing but good things here for

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills moving forward here, you're getting real close

492
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Speaker 1: that Super Bowls less than two months away.

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Speaker 2: Thanks a lot for coming on, man, We appreciate.

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Speaker 5: It absolutely things for having me.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, man, Bill's running back Ty Johnson. We all

496
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Speaker 1: know the Bills and Chiefs. That's been the rivalry in

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Speaker 1: recent years. And the quarterback and that other team is

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Speaker 1: a little bit banged up. But will it impact him

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Speaker 1: on Saturday against the Texans. We'll discuss it next on

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Speaker 1: The Insiders. Padam Mahomes got crumpled up like a day

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Speaker 1: old newspaper in that game last week. But somehow, despite this,

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Speaker 1: it's still just it hurts me to watch this full

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Speaker 1: participant for a second consecutive day in Chiefs practice. Certainly

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Speaker 1: seems like he's tracking toward playing on Saturday against the Texans,

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Speaker 1: which apparently is music to defensive tackle Tim Settle's ears.

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Speaker 6: Pats a little banged up, so I don't know if

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Speaker 6: there he's gonna play or not.

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Speaker 5: I hope he's mobile enough because we come in Arrowhead.

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Speaker 2: Welcome in our Jane Slater to the conversation.

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Speaker 1: I'm with me, Tom Pellicero and Mike Garafullo here on

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Speaker 1: the Insiders, Jane. We know Mahomes is one of the

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Speaker 1: rare guys. Andy Reads talked about his loose ligaments and

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Speaker 1: all that stuff. A lot of guys wouldn't be able

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Speaker 1: to play. Seems like he's going to play. You're gonna

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Speaker 1: be covering that game. What more do we know?

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Speaker 12: Yeah, this can be an interesting one just because of that,

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Speaker 12: Tom and Mike.

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Speaker 9: It was Patrick Mahomes this week.

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Speaker 12: Who said, look, I'm a competitor. He wants to play,

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Speaker 12: and as we've seen, he's not a guy that typically

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Speaker 12: wants to come off the field. But we are talking

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Speaker 12: about a mild high ankle sprain. But as you said, Tom,

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Speaker 12: we sallim practicing for the second day as a full participant. Now,

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Speaker 12: with that being said, Mahomes did stress the importance of

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Speaker 12: not wanting to put his team in a bad situation.

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Speaker 12: He understands the importance of being able to be mobile

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Speaker 12: to get outside the pocket. He said he didn't want

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Speaker 12: to limit the playbook, and he says, that's why this

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Speaker 12: thing is gold. Probably go all the way up until Friday,

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Speaker 12: maybe even Saturday.

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Speaker 9: For he makes this determination.

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Speaker 12: You and I both know that's.

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Speaker 9: Not what's going to happen.

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Speaker 12: We'll probably have an idea of this one tomorrow. But

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Speaker 12: he says if he can't, of course, they've got Carson

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Speaker 12: Wentz there. Still you have to consider. Look, I know

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Speaker 12: that they are angling for that first round. By they

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Speaker 12: get a win over the Steelers and the Texans. They

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Speaker 12: get that, as Mahome sees it, that gives him time.

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Speaker 2: To heal up.

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Speaker 12: But do you risk having this thing get worse? I mean,

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Speaker 12: we're talking about an offensive line that has struggled this year,

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Speaker 12: that has got him sacked thirty five times, and now

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Speaker 12: you're dealing with a really potent pass rush with the

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Speaker 12: Texans coming into town.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, you've got the Texans who have a strong front seven.

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Speaker 9: You know they're gonna have a plan. Tim Settle says,

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Speaker 9: they've got a plan. Settle down, Tim, is what our

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Speaker 9: producer is suggesting, Like, what's the upside to Riley and

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Speaker 9: these guys like, you don't need to give them Bolton Bore,

551
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Speaker 9: just get after them the day they gave you off

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Speaker 9: the warn them that you're coming. But yes, this is

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Speaker 9: a tough Texans front that's only getting stronger, right Yeah.

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Speaker 12: I mean they don't have Jalen Peachrie of sure, so

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Speaker 12: they don't have a zees. But they did get Matt

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Speaker 12: Christian Harris, who last week had a really big game

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Speaker 12: against the Miami Dolphins. This is a guy who's known

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Speaker 12: for some of his elite speed, one of the fastest

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Speaker 12: linebackers in the league. And oh, by the way, you've

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Speaker 12: got second year player too too, who is approaching the

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Speaker 12: one hundred tackle milestone. Said, they really good about no

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Speaker 12: plan right now, and they're looking near to this one.

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Speaker 12: They are readying themselves to play against Patrick Mahomes, even

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Speaker 12: though we haven't gotten that definitively here.

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Speaker 9: He said.

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Speaker 12: The one thing that they love about Mahomes and the

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Speaker 12: one thing you've got to plan for him is the

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Speaker 12: fact that he's got such a great relationship with his receiver.

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Speaker 12: Since says, they really know how to stop on our

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Speaker 12: route and get into that open zone. So we'll see

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Speaker 12: how this one goes on Saturday. But this should be

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Speaker 12: a really good one when you consider this offense matching

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Speaker 12: up against this defense. When you look at them both offensively,

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Speaker 12: their numbers are pretty similar.

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Speaker 1: Guys, should be a great one. Jane, enjoy that game.

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Speaker 1: Look forward to talking with you again soon. Of course,

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Speaker 1: a lot of our viewers are going to be watching

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Speaker 1: that game.

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Speaker 9: And guess what if you can't get enough of Snowman

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Speaker 9: Wipes on TV, excuse me if you can't get enough

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Speaker 9: of the Chiefs on National TV, Boyd.

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Speaker 1: We got to trade for you Chiefs Steelers followed by

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Speaker 1: Ravens Tech. Since it's all on Netflix. If your kids

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Speaker 1: won't watch a game without the possibility of seeing Taylor

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Speaker 1: Swift in the crowd, if they just want to watch Beyonce,

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Speaker 1: there's something for everyone on Netflix on Christmas Day, ian.

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Speaker 8: Al, I guess theoretically door number three, you could watch

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Speaker 8: me on the pregame show.

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Speaker 9: Whatever.

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Speaker 8: Anyway, justin Herbert received some good news injury wise today.

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Speaker 7: We've been talking about.

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Speaker 8: The ankle injury that he has been battling limited participant

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Speaker 8: in the last couple of weeks. He was a full

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Speaker 8: participant today off the injury report officially good to go,

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Speaker 8: which of course is excellent news for the Chargers, not

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Speaker 8: as good news for the Broncos. There's so much at

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Speaker 8: stake for this game. Look for the Broncos, I mean,

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Speaker 8: it's pretty simple, right they could win, just win winning in.

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Speaker 8: For the Broncos, that's as real as it gets. For

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Speaker 8: the Charger they need a little more help win plus

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Speaker 8: Colts and Miami losses. So look, both these teams team

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Speaker 8: have a very very realistic chance to get in. But

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Speaker 8: as I bring in Bridge at Cony actually going to

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Speaker 8: be covering that game kind of across the way for

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Speaker 8: where she is right now at so far, this is big.

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Speaker 8: We are, bridget at the point of the season where

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Speaker 8: these games mean as much as they possibly could.

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Speaker 2: How are both these teams.

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Speaker 7: Handling the hype and just gearing up for what should

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Speaker 7: be a huge game?

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Speaker 13: And you said it, the sense of urgency is so

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Speaker 13: high for both of these teams. I asked Justin Herbert

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Speaker 13: yesterday what's it like to be playing meaningful football in

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Speaker 13: December and Jim Harbo's first year, and he said, it's

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Speaker 13: always great to have that opportunity. That's what you sign

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Speaker 13: up for, right, Like that's what all the long days,

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Speaker 13: the hard the sweat, the tears in training camp, that's

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Speaker 13: what that's preparing you for. But they still have three

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Speaker 13: more games, and yes, the playoffs are right there in

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Speaker 13: front of them, but they have to make sure they

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Speaker 13: actually perform in these three games. Like you said, the Broncos,

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Speaker 13: you win, you're in. The Chargers you win. You need

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Speaker 13: some losses from the Colts and the Dolphins, but then

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Speaker 13: if that happens, they get in as well. I talked

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Speaker 13: with offensive tackle for the Broncos, Mike McGlinchey this week,

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Speaker 13: and he told me that there is so much confidence

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Speaker 13: around this team. Think about it, Ian. They haven't been

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Speaker 13: to the playoffs since Super Bowl fifty that year, twenty fifteen,

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Speaker 13: twenty sixteen season. That's almost like a decade ago, okay,

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Speaker 13: and so they have a chance to do something they

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Speaker 13: have not done. The city of Denver, he tells me,

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Speaker 13: is believing in them. He said, it's so fun walking

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Speaker 13: around town playing at Mile High on Sundays because there's

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Speaker 13: this fire that's been ignited within the locker room. I

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Speaker 13: asked him what he thinks that's from, and he said, well,

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Speaker 13: it starts with our rookie quarterback bon Nix. He said

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Speaker 13: the way that he plays, saying he's so confident just

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Speaker 13: from what he does on the field and the way

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Speaker 13: he prepares. Because of that confidence that he plays with,

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Speaker 13: that has ignited the football team. And when you have

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Speaker 13: a guy back there that you believe in and that

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Speaker 13: you believe that you have a shot every week to

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Speaker 13: go out there and win a football game. And he said,

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Speaker 13: that's what we found in bon Nicks. I also asked him,

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Speaker 13: are you surprised that this guy's a rookie. He's like

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Speaker 13: in the NFL, you either got it or you don't.

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Speaker 13: Doesn't what year you are.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean I think bo Nicks has got it,

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Speaker 8: got it.

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Speaker 7: The Broncers are like.

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Speaker 8: The biggest house money team right now. I mean, they're

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Speaker 8: not supposed to be here. They're playing great. I can

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Speaker 8: I can understand the optimism there. Let's go to the

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Speaker 8: other side of the ball, the team that they are facing.

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Speaker 8: Our good buddy, Denzel Perman, friend of the show, also

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Speaker 8: spent some time on the hanging out in the weight

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Speaker 8: room there with the Chargers when I was in training camp.

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Speaker 8: Good dude, he is back, which I think is pretty

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Speaker 8: good news for this Chargers defense.

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Speaker 13: Uh, yeah, they need some help on defense. Did you

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Speaker 13: watch that game against the Bucks on Sunday? Hopefully you didn't,

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Speaker 13: or hopefully you had your eyemask on when the Chargers

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Speaker 13: were on defense, because they had arguably their worst game

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Speaker 13: on Yeah, you don't have an imask, You don't sleep

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Speaker 13: with one.

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Speaker 2: You gotta get one. They had arguably their worst.

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Speaker 13: Game of the season, giving up a season high forty points.

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Speaker 2: But also the run game. You see it right there.

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Speaker 13: They gave up more than two hundred yards on the ground,

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Speaker 13: a big boost for them.

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Speaker 9: Denzel Perriman, who.

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Speaker 13: Has not played the past four games, I asked him

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Speaker 13: yesterday at his locker what the plan is. He said,

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Speaker 13: the plan is to play. He's been a little bit

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Speaker 13: more cautious obviously with the groin injury because he doesn't

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Speaker 13: want to tweak it. But he believes that he will

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Speaker 13: play tomorrow night and get this. Without him, they have

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Speaker 13: been second worst in run defense over that four game stretch.

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Speaker 13: When he was with the team, they were more kind

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Speaker 13: of middle of the pack. And yes, the Broncos don't

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Speaker 13: run as much as a typical team. I think you

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Speaker 13: know we know that because of what bon Nicks can do.

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Speaker 13: But still He's like I've been watching from the sidelines.

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Speaker 13: I'm so eager to get out there and I can

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Speaker 13: bring some energy to this defense, whether the Broncos run

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Speaker 13: or not, just his his presence on the field is

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Speaker 13: going to be huge for this team. Who coaches and

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Speaker 13: players told me this week Ian that they feel like

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Speaker 13: what was lacking Sunday was their lack of energy.

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Speaker 8: It's hard to imagine one player being making that much

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Speaker 8: of an impact on defense, but perriman really really good player,

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Speaker 8: certainly does fit that.

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Speaker 7: Bill Bridget, thank you so much.

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Speaker 8: I'm sure we'll be hanging out with you tomorrow's you

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Speaker 8: gear up for that big time game.

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Speaker 7: Cannot wait for that.

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Speaker 9: We had an MVP debate going on for a while

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Speaker 9: here regarding a number of players. Seems like it's down

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Speaker 9: the Josh Allen versus Lamar Jackson as we head into

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Speaker 9: the home stretch. Here, one of the guys who used

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Speaker 9: to catch passes from Josh Allen, Stefan Diggs, Now he

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Speaker 9: has no reason anymore. He's not a team that anymore.

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Speaker 9: So this is an objective opinion here he has on

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Speaker 9: Good Morning Football on who should be the MVP?

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Speaker 2: Do you think Josh should win?

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Speaker 5: MVP.

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Speaker 14: It's impressive. I kind of somebody had said something to

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Speaker 14: me on Twitter and I was like, he definitely should win,

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Speaker 14: and he's been bothering. I mean, obviously there's no secret

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Speaker 14: that Josh Allen is amazing, you know, as far as

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Speaker 14: like seeing them gaming in a game out he's making

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Speaker 14: those plays, like you just it's not new to me

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Speaker 14: at all, he was saying, it's not new to nobody

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Speaker 14: in the league. I feel like it's just his respect

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Speaker 14: kind of coming forward circle, finally getting that credit that

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Speaker 14: he deserves. He's playing at a very high level. I

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Speaker 14: feel like I feel like.

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Speaker 5: He deserves it.

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Speaker 14: You under saying the only person that you could you

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Speaker 14: can kind of compete with is Lamar Jackson's playing out

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Speaker 14: of the ball too.

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Speaker 5: But damn it, it's.

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Speaker 14: Gonna be some tough It could be some tough decision.

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Speaker 5: Towards in the year.

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Speaker 14: Whoever making those decisions, because the boy's going crazy, Well.

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Speaker 9: Not according to those polled by our Tom Poula Sero

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Speaker 9: as we're calling him today, paul A Sarah, good job,

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Speaker 9: Andrew Groover, our guy who organizes all our information. That's

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Speaker 9: how you referred to him in the rundown because This

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Speaker 9: was his poll from anonymous general managers saying, Josh Allen

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Speaker 9: right now is the runaway MVP. There was a Saquon

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Speaker 9: Barkley moment. How about Joe Burrow sneaking in there? Burrow

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Speaker 9: could be your comeback Player of the Year once again.

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Speaker 9: But Barkley? Uh, will a running back ever get this

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Speaker 9: award ever again? Who knows? Ever is a really long time.

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Speaker 9: We don't have a ton of time though, So we've

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Speaker 9: got Steve Wischen here. We want to get right to

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Speaker 9: him on this breakdown right here and how you're looking

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Speaker 9: at They give me the case for Josh Allen to

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Speaker 9: win MVP here.

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Speaker 10: Well, if the case all started in the offseason, Mike right,

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Speaker 10: they get rid of Stefan Diggs, they get rid of

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Speaker 10: Gabe Davis, they get rid of Mitch Morrise his center,

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Speaker 10: several veteran plays leave, and you're saying, who at the

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Speaker 10: skill position is going to move the ball other than

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Speaker 10: Josh Allen and maybe James Cook. Well, they only have

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Speaker 10: the second highest scoring offense in the NFL at almost

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Speaker 10: thirty two points a game. Josh Allen's got eleven rushing

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Speaker 10: tds and no they're not touch push tds. Mike and

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Speaker 10: he also you know when you look at some of

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Speaker 10: the passing numbers that he has right there, twenty five

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Speaker 10: passing touchdowns but just five interceptions. Oh and by the way,

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Speaker 10: they're eleven and three one of the best teams in

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Speaker 10: the NFL. So I think this is one of the

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Speaker 10: reasons why, because he is doing things like this and

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Speaker 10: so many other things to lead an offense. Mike mccollins

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Speaker 10: is the Buffalo Bills leading touchdown receiver with five. Six

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Speaker 10: of his receivers have multiple touchdowns. That is a quarterback

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Speaker 10: who's playing it at the highest level.

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Speaker 9: I think along the way, you need an MVP type moment,

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Speaker 9: and we just saw it there in the snow with

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Speaker 9: him reaching for the pielon just an image in your

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Speaker 9: head as you think of an MVP season. Josh Allen

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Speaker 9: certainly provid that Lamar Jackson provided that when he has

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Speaker 9: won the MVP award in the past. Remember that's spin

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Speaker 9: in the open field against the Bengals and plenty of

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Speaker 9: other plays, and he's made a ton of this season.

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Speaker 9: I've covered that game on Sunday and he was extremely impressive.

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Speaker 9: Of your thoughts on Lamar Jackson this season.

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Speaker 10: Well, look Lamar Jackson's gonna get hurt by the fact

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Speaker 10: that he has won it before, and I think that's

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Speaker 10: going to be held against him.

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Speaker 2: But Mike on this show, you were with me.

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Speaker 9: This is the biggest reason.

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Speaker 10: Why he's probably not going to get it is Tarah Austin,

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Speaker 10: the Steelers defensive coordinator. When we asked him who's their

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Speaker 10: bigger focus, Lamar or Derrick Henry, He's like Derek Henry's

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Speaker 10: won a Lamar is one B. So people are going

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Speaker 10: to say, you know, that's going to be working against it.

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Speaker 10: But Lamar, when you look at his numbers thirty four

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Speaker 10: touchdowns but three interceptions, thirty five hundred and eighty yards,

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Speaker 10: he's got bigger numbers in the passing game than Josh Allen.

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Speaker 10: But when you factor in Allen's rushing touchdowns, things that

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Speaker 10: we used to say about Lamar, they're pretty much.

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Speaker 2: Even right here.

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Speaker 10: So we have to wait till the season plays out.

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Speaker 10: But I think the fact that Lamar has won it

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Speaker 10: and Josh Allen has not played us Allen is playing

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Speaker 10: at such an incredible level is why things are tilted.

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Speaker 10: And that scale by that general manager Anonymous that we listened.

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Speaker 9: To and those interceptions that Lamar Jackson had this season.

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Speaker 9: You've seen the clip going around where they're not necessarily

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Speaker 9: his fault, they're off the hands of as receivers or whatnot.

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Speaker 9: So that's even more impressive when you factor that in.

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Speaker 9: Steve weis always impressive. Great stuff from you this evening. Now, look,

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Speaker 9: you can have the MVP and then the Offensive Player

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Speaker 9: of the Year can be different. We've seen running backs

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Speaker 9: sneak in there. So these guys are making their case

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Speaker 9: right there. Saquon Barkley and Derek Henry. Barkley's numbers a

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Speaker 9: little bit down this past week, so that hurt his

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Speaker 9: pace with regard to his chase for Eric Dickerson, but

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Speaker 9: he's always capable of I don't know, like two hundred

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Speaker 9: or so yards and Derek Henry is always capable of

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Speaker 9: like ninety.

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Speaker 2: Five on one play.

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Speaker 9: Speaking of the Eagles in Saquon Barkley here Clutch Sports.

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Speaker 9: The players on the Eagles, represented by Clutch along with

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Speaker 9: the Eagles, had this shop with a pro at dick

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Speaker 9: Sporting Goods the other night. PLA NFL players always doing

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Speaker 9: great stuff in the community, but particularly the time of

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Speaker 9: the year. The Staley Park Panthers youth football team from Camden,

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Speaker 9: New Jersey. Surprised by these Eagles players that are represented

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Speaker 9: card for each player in the opportunity to spend time

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Speaker 9: with Josh Sweat, Milton Williams, James Bradberry, and Byron Young.

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Speaker 9: So those players stand up for your great work that

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Speaker 9: you did in the community there. Appreciate what they're doing

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Speaker 9: down there in the Philadelphia area. I always appreciate what

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Speaker 9: Michael f Florio does for my fantasy team, which has

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Speaker 9: helped me draft and set my light up every single week.

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Speaker 9: We're still alive, Florio. He's gonna help me and everybody

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Speaker 9: else set their line up for Week two of the

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Speaker 9: fantasy postseason.

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Speaker 1: Time now to go inside with NFL Fantasy Live and

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Speaker 1: our buddy Michael f Florio joining us me, Tom PILISERA

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Speaker 1: Wee and Rappaport Mike Carofolo here on the Insiders.

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Speaker 7: Michael f.

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Speaker 1: We are in the playoffs, baby, we're headed into semi

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Speaker 1: final week. We need your perfect lineup, and I want

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Speaker 1: to start with when you're looking at that lineup and

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Speaker 1: you're going, man, this is one of the guys, I've

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Speaker 1: ridden all the way here. What are a couple of

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Speaker 1: big names you should be wary of at this state?

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Speaker 15: This would have been crazy any point in the past.

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Speaker 15: But I think Travis Kelce is a trap this week.

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Speaker 15: He has averaged just nine fantasy points per game in

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Speaker 15: his last five. All of the tight end touchdowns seemingly

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Speaker 15: go to Noah Gray, the short design catch and run

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Speaker 15: plays are now going to Xavier Worthy, and the Texans

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Speaker 15: fourth fewest yards and fantasy points allowed to tight end,

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Speaker 15: So John new Smith, Hockinson Andrews, and Joku Sami would

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Speaker 15: play over him. I'd even consider like Dalton Kinkaid, which

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Speaker 15: again would have sounded crazier earlier this season.

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Speaker 9: And then Brock Perdy.

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Speaker 15: If you have Rock Perdy, your season might be over

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Speaker 15: because he has fewer than four fantasy.

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Speaker 9: Points in two of his last three games. But what

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Speaker 9: blew my mind?

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Speaker 15: One passing touchdown or fewer in nine of his thirteen

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Speaker 15: games this season, and the matchup might look appealing on paper,

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Speaker 15: but the Dolphins have allowed the second fewest fantasy points

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Speaker 15: per game to quarterbacks. Josh Allen is the only one

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Speaker 15: to finish top ten, So Drake may Aaron Rodgers and

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Speaker 15: a sneaky other option.

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Speaker 9: I would consider over him this week.

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Speaker 7: I don't know the heck you guys were talking about.

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Speaker 7: I haven't thought of fantasy football about a week since

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Speaker 7: you know I eliminated.

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Speaker 8: Anyway, give us some that's not funny, Give us some

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Speaker 8: sneaky starts for this week for you.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, just said there was another sneaky quarterback.

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Speaker 15: It's Cooper Rush this week against the Bucks who buy Cooper.

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Speaker 15: Rush has multiple passing touchdowns in three of his last

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Speaker 15: four games and has finished top ten in two of those.

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Speaker 9: But it's all about the matchup.

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Speaker 15: The Bucks have allowed the second most fantasy points per

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Speaker 15: game two quarterbacks and have allowed a top twelve finish

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Speaker 15: in nine of fourteen games. So Rush I'd play over party.

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Speaker 15: Also Patrick Mahomes and c. J. Stroud and then a

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Speaker 15: Mer Abdulla who led the Raiders and snaps and had

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Speaker 15: seven targets last week, nineteen fantasy points in that game.

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Speaker 9: He hit seventeen in the game.

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Speaker 15: Prior to Sincere McCormick taking over, And again it's about

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Speaker 15: the matchup. Jaguar's third most fantasy points per game to

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Speaker 15: running backs, top five in catches receiving yards, and touchdowns.

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Speaker 15: I'm using him as a Montgomery replacement in one league

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Speaker 15: and a McCormick replacement in another.

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Speaker 9: I've thought about fantasy football playing because Michael le f Florio,

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Speaker 9: the team that we are co gms.

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Speaker 2: Of, I elevated you.

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Speaker 9: He used to be assistant GM, now you're co GM three.

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Speaker 9: A shootout, Oh man, the Sincy defense, we could have

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Speaker 9: had another defensive touchdown on the Sincy defense dropped the

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Speaker 9: one yard line. Anyway, we're marching on, so give me

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Speaker 9: some locks. Guys ready to explode this week. But hold on,

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Speaker 9: let me pick him up as you say him go.

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Speaker 9: I don't think these guys are going to be out there.

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Speaker 15: But James Connor look multiple times on this very show

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Speaker 15: in the summer I sent to draft him in this season.

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Speaker 15: I was saying to trade for him because I thought

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Speaker 15: he was going to become a league winner.

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Speaker 9: And that is what is happening.

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Speaker 15: Last week overall RB one with thirty one Fantasy points.

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Speaker 15: Now he gets the Panthers, who've allowed more than three

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Speaker 15: hundred and seventy five rushing yards, more than any other team,

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Speaker 15: most touchdowns and fantasy points. And then Mike Evans, He's

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Speaker 15: two hundred and fifty one yards away from a thousand

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Speaker 15: with three games to go. The Bucks are going to

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Speaker 15: four speed him the ball to get to that number.

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Speaker 15: Cowboys have allowed the most passing yards since week eleven.

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Speaker 15: Baker Mayfield top four in passing yards and touchdowns.

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Speaker 9: It's all coming together. I think Mike Evan eats this week.

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Speaker 1: Michael, thank you very much. Look forward to chatting with

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Speaker 1: you again next week. Dan Quinn, well, Dave, he's got

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Speaker 1: the Commanders in the thick of the playoff. Chase might

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Speaker 1: have a kicker issue or not. Congrants to Commanders. Kickers

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Speaker 1: Greg Joseph and Zang Gonzalez both missed practice today because

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Speaker 1: they were having babies, well, their wives were having babies.

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Speaker 1: Otherwise we would have given more than fifteen seconds.

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Speaker 2: For this story. We see it tomorrow on YouTube. Good night, everybody,