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Speaker 1: It is the rare Thursday night football game where both

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Speaker 1: going to be a good one. Lions Cowboys in a

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Speaker 1: vital game for both teams as they try.

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Speaker 2: To make the postseason.

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Speaker 1: Our Judy Batista has some lingering unanswered quarterback questions looming

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Speaker 1: over the twenty twenty five NFL season and playoff race.

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Speaker 1: She's got answers too, she always does. We'll talk about

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Speaker 1: that's coming up, and Michael let Florio in the house

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Speaker 1: as he is every Thursday, and tell you who to

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Speaker 1: start in fantasy football both tonight for Thursday Night Football

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Speaker 1: and the rest of Week fourteen in the NFL. Welcome

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Speaker 1: inside with the insiders Ian Rappaport, Judy Batista and me

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Speaker 1: Mike Garrafolo joining you as we get steps for that big,

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Speaker 1: big matchup in Detroit and some other big big matchups.

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Speaker 2: In the NFL this coming weekend.

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Speaker 1: We'll break all that down and give you the latest

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Speaker 1: news around the NFL. But first, yeah, we're heading out

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Speaker 1: there going right there? Because we have got some big

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Speaker 2: We are tracking ahead of this one.

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Speaker 1: I'm and Ross Saint Brown injured in that game last

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Speaker 3: Well, it's clear that this is the injury update that

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Speaker 3: The answer is it's a game time decision. So I'll

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Speaker 4: Here's what I would say about him.

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Speaker 3: He's a gamer though in five seasons he's only missed

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Speaker 4: Now this is an ankle injury.

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Speaker 3: They have a mini buy of sorts next week. Let's

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Speaker 3: been part of teams that have started hot then faded,

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Speaker 3: but he believes this group is different, saying, quote, to

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Speaker 3: have the momentum we do right now, the confidence and

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Speaker 4: It's been fun and you're seeing that swagger. Hard knocks.

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Speaker 3: Even caught Prescott passing at turkey leg around to his

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Speaker 3: For Covid right and speaking of Jerry, give him his flowers.

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Speaker 3: He said help was coming after that Mica trade and

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Speaker 3: Dallas has gone from struggling to stop the run to

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Speaker 1: Cowboys that confidence is growing week by week, win by win.

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Speaker 1: So if they take this one tonight, it's only going

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Speaker 1: You see the Panthers and the Cowboys keeping this thing

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Speaker 1: Judy coming back to Ian here as we talk about

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Speaker 1: this game tonight what intrigues you the most? Because there's

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Speaker 6: I think that's exactly what intrigues me the most is

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Speaker 7: Three in a row.

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Speaker 6: This is a really big opportunity for the Cowboys because

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Speaker 6: It may be splim, but the Cowboys are in a

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Speaker 7: Little bit more.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it really does, Judy feel like a playoff play

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Speaker 1: The Lions offense ranked third in the NFL in both

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Speaker 1: You don't feel the Lions offense like you have previously

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Speaker 2: To continue now if this team's going to go for

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Speaker 1: Here you saw where they stand in the playoff picture.

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Speaker 1: One of the teams that we thought we could just

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Speaker 2: Here to get in.

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Speaker 1: Jalen Carter had some work done on his shoulders, both

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Speaker 2: Gonna be considered week to week.

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Speaker 1: Look that Bears team was running against the Eagles right

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Speaker 2: Friday and good to go this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Darius Slay does not sound like he's going to be

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Speaker 2: Will not report to Buffalo right away.

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Speaker 1: Now the Eagles put it a claim and this sort

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Speaker 8: Yeah, Bill's ruined everything by claiming him. Plans foiled. Now

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Speaker 8: we'll see if Darius play plays again. This guy's gonna play.

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Speaker 8: All these guys are gonna play. Baltimore against Pittsburgh gonna

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Speaker 8: be a fun one this Sunday and really gonna be

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Speaker 8: a fun division to track over the course of the

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Speaker 8: six and six, You got six and six. Everyone's got problems,

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Speaker 8: Everyone's got issues, and then there's the Cincinnati Bengals just

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Speaker 8: on Sunday. Our good friend Brian Baldinger is going to

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Speaker 8: wearing his Rob Low esque NFL varsity jacket.

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Speaker 2: Baldy, what's up?

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Speaker 8: Thanks for joining us break down the keys for this

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Speaker 8: Ravens Steelers game for us, will you please?

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Speaker 7: I don't think we have to get very complicated here, Ian.

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Speaker 9: You know, we just saw the Steelers three nine yards

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Speaker 9: rushing at home to Buffalo last weekend, and that's the

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Speaker 9: worst the Steelers have ever done at home there at

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Speaker 7: And that's what Baltimore likes to do.

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Speaker 9: They actually one of the teams in this league that

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Speaker 9: And to me, just watching the tape this weekend, the

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Speaker 7: Make the play.

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Speaker 10: Welcome back to the Insiders.

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Speaker 6: Here is our buddy, Nick Schuks Week fourteen Top ten

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Speaker 10: As we know, this.

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Speaker 6: To Jalen Hurts to get this team into the playoffs

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Speaker 11: For sure, Judy and Philadelphia fans have wanted this out

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Speaker 11: isn't the type of quarterback he is. He works best

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Speaker 11: I'll always go back to how players were in college.

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Speaker 6: Their playoff lives might depend on it, all right. The

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Speaker 10: So he is really struggling.

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Speaker 6: Jeffrey, I don't know if the Ravens can get there

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Speaker 12: Well, they can't get there if he's not healthy. And

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Speaker 12: that's really the big question I've had. He had that

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Speaker 12: raise a lot of good voys there, Judy, but the.

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Speaker 5: Fact is this team, when they've been in these.

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Speaker 6: All right, this is a question we've all been talking

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Speaker 6: be an uphill battle for sure. He's been fine last

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Speaker 11: Judy, and look, he's had his flashes. Of course, he

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Speaker 5: Let's go move the offense.

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Speaker 11: But again, taking it back to how I scouted him

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Speaker 11: But even if he does that, much like the Browns

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Speaker 6: Right, and finally, will Caleb Williams completion percentage ever become

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Speaker 6: He was sacked sixty eight times last season, only nineteen

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Speaker 6: So certainly you would expect that they would like to

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Speaker 12: Yeah, a lot of Alex Smith calla Williams game right now, Judy,

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Speaker 12: But that's not a bad thing for a team that

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Speaker 5: You look at that run game.

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Speaker 5: Years in the past.

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Speaker 6: Times they are very very good for the Chicago Bears.

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Speaker 6: Mark Jeffrey, thank you very much. You can read more

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Speaker 1: Fordfield the site of a just a huge game, a

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Speaker 2: The Lions get one more here.

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Speaker 1: The NFL likes to use this Thursday night as a

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, the final wild card team right now

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Speaker 1: You see what the Cowboys have done since the Micah

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Speaker 3: Yeah, in this game, when we talk about this improved

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Speaker 5: Jane.

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Speaker 2: And the better you are inside listen.

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Speaker 5: The better you are.

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Speaker 10: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I just reached out to a source about an hour ago, Mike,

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Speaker 3: and I was told he is truly a game time decision.

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Speaker 3: We look at Jadavian Clowney, He's kind of been understated

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Speaker 3: about what he's been able to sort of help these

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Speaker 3: guys do that this year. He's really helped solidify that front.

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Speaker 3: With some of these guys. It allows him to play

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Speaker 3: a little bit more freely.

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Speaker 7: For you.

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Speaker 4: He's been dealing with the hamstring.

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Speaker 3: Didn't practice this week. His head coach, Brian Schottenheiber told

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Speaker 3: us the focus was really just on resistance cords off

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Speaker 3: to the side. I'll be on the field pregame, so

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Speaker 3: I'll keep an eye on that one. And the thing

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Speaker 3: here I think for the Cowboys is you want to

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Speaker 3: get in Jared Goff's face. He gets really rattled when

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Speaker 3: you get up there in front of him. But Dallas

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Speaker 3: can't give up the big explosive place. Jamison Williams pulled

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Speaker 3: off a thirty seven yard touchdown pass against the Cowboys

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Speaker 3: last season. He is certainly capable of stepping up if

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Speaker 3: a manros Saint Brown can't go.

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Speaker 4: This is going to be an interesting one.

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Speaker 3: To watch because we've talked about some of the improvements

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Speaker 3: for the Cowboys. This could be a real test today

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Speaker 3: for them.

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Speaker 1: You see those numbers we just showed you defensively for

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys, certainly affected by how much yardage they gave

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Speaker 1: up early in the season. The numbers have been better

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Speaker 1: since the bye week and since the acquisition of Quinn

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Speaker 1: Williams and they hope they continue to be better tonight later.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, looking forward.

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Speaker 1: To all your coverage leading up to kickoff tonight Thursday

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Speaker 1: at Football Ian.

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Speaker 8: You got it, I do have it, And what I

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Speaker 8: got is a bunch of big time matchups this week,

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Speaker 8: Week fourteen. We're gonna see one of them tonight. That

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Speaker 8: is gonna be a fun a fun one. Cowboys lines,

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Speaker 8: a bunch of other fun ones. Have got some AFC South.

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Speaker 8: I mean, look, it's gonna be good. There's the AFC

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Speaker 8: playoff picture and so many of those games right there

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Speaker 8: are gonna figure prominently. And who's playing in January NFC

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Speaker 8: right there with the big old Chicago Bears logo, We're

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Speaker 8: gonna see some really good teams being left out of

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Speaker 8: the playoffs. Time now for marque matchups, something we do

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Speaker 8: every week, sometimes several times a week. Mark, thank you

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Speaker 8: for joining us as always, Baldy, welcome back. All right,

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Speaker 8: I want to get to some of the marquee matchups

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Speaker 8: for this week. Let's start mark with Colts Jaguars in

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Speaker 8: the AFC South. What do you see in for that one?

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Speaker 11: Well, a few weeks ago this seemed like this was

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Speaker 11: gonna be a Mike Tyson first round knockout.

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Speaker 5: For the Colts of this division.

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Speaker 11: And now we're on with an old school Ali Fraser

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Speaker 11: fifteen round slugfest between the.

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Speaker 5: Colts, the Jags, and the Texans.

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Speaker 11: And it's all due to the regression of the Colts

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Speaker 11: with Daniel Jones not really playing up to that level.

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Speaker 5: Team's figuring out, hey stop Jonathan Taylor.

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Speaker 11: They haven't been able to beat you and the Jags

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Speaker 11: with their resurgence of kind of winning ugly. But over

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Speaker 11: the last three weeks, Trevor Lawrence and that offense is

504
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Speaker 11: scoring twenty nine points per game, third in the league.

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Speaker 11: So the Colts are on the downswing. The Jags are

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Speaker 11: on the upswing. Got to mention the Texans two on

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Speaker 11: the upswing. So this is really a chance, Baldy, for

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Speaker 11: the Jaguars to say, you know what, we are the

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Speaker 11: best team in this division and we'll keep continuing this resurgence.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, well, they know you mentioned that the Colts are sliding.

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Speaker 9: They've lost three out of four the turnover battle, they're

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Speaker 9: not running the ball the way Jonathan Taylor was running

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Speaker 9: away with the rushing title. So you look at what

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Speaker 9: Anthony Campanilly. He's done with Jacksonville's defense. I mean, it's

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Speaker 9: almost the same guys as last year, and they don't

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Speaker 9: break down, they don't beat themselves. They take the ball

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Speaker 9: away at a pretty good rate. And so that's going

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Speaker 9: to be the challenge for Daniel Jones in this offense.

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Speaker 9: But I feel like, I feel like this offense is

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Speaker 9: still very viable. I mean, I think this thing is

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Speaker 9: going to be a very very close game. It's a

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Speaker 9: close division right now, but I feel like the Colts

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Speaker 9: at home right here. I think they have a little

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Speaker 9: bit of an advantage. The Jacksonville defense is good, is

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Speaker 9: not as good as what Houston was that beat Indianapolis

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Speaker 9: this week. I think they're pretty healthy. I like for

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Speaker 9: the Colts to bounce back and win this division games.

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Speaker 8: We get it, and no Sauce Gartner makes that a

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Speaker 8: challenge for sure. By the way, I was just reading

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Speaker 8: earlier today, Micah Parson's new edition for the Green Bit

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Speaker 8: Packers already says he hates the Bears, really getting into

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Speaker 8: the spirit of this rival re Mark, tell me what

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Speaker 8: you are looking forward to for Bears Packers Sunday.

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Speaker 11: Well, unbelievably, the Bears are here with the number one

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Speaker 11: seed and they're winning ugly. They'll remind me of the

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Speaker 11: two thousand and one Bears team that won thirteen to

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Speaker 11: three under Dick Jaron and kept having those spectacular finishes.

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Speaker 5: My philadelph Eagles.

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Speaker 11: Team beat them in the playoffs, but I'd aggress getting

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Speaker 11: back to the Bear.

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Speaker 5: They're formula as simple.

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Speaker 11: They've turned teams over on defense, they're plus seventeen and

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Speaker 11: the plus minus there with the takeaways and turnovers.

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Speaker 5: And they run the ball.

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Speaker 11: The most glaring game they lost against Baltimore, who had

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Speaker 11: Tyler Huntley at quarterback. They couldn't turn the Ravens over

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Speaker 11: and they ran for less than one hundred yards and

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Speaker 11: they lost that game. So it's going to be incumbent

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Speaker 11: on them to turn green Bay over. I think green

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Speaker 11: Bay at their best on both sides of the ball,

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Speaker 11: maybe the best, the most complete team in football because

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Speaker 11: of that defense has been so dominant and Jordan Love

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Speaker 11: that offense can put thirty on anybody win. They're right,

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Speaker 11: so Baldy, the Bears are going to have to turn

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Speaker 11: them over to have a chance. It's just a regular

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Speaker 11: game there. I think green Bay is just a much

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Speaker 11: more balanced team.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I would agree with that, Mark, And it's interesting

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Speaker 9: we'ent back and watch the interception reel of the Chicago Bears.

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Speaker 9: They've got seventeen they're all in zone defense. I mean,

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Speaker 9: they have good zone eyes, whether it's name Sean Wright

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Speaker 9: or Kevin Byern, whoever's out there, like they throw a

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Speaker 9: plays off his one and so they see the flight

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Speaker 9: of the balls up the Really, Jordan loves to do

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Speaker 9: what he has been doing, which is he's made aggressive

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Speaker 9: throws down the field to watch and dobbs a variety

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Speaker 9: of guys since Tucker Kraft went down, and he hasn't.

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Speaker 7: Made the mistakes. He's seeing things very clearly right now.

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Speaker 9: Great throw right there to don Tavia's wits, you know,

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Speaker 9: on Thanksgiving was a big play in that game.

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Speaker 7: He's got three good.

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Speaker 9: Targets to the outside, and the Bears have got to

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Speaker 9: be able to match it in their zone.

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Speaker 7: Looks they don't have great pass rush.

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Speaker 5: Mark.

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Speaker 9: I feel like this is Jordan Love's game to kind

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Speaker 9: of separate himself and maybe separate the Packers here.

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Speaker 7: Down the stretch from.

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Speaker 9: The Bears a little bit right here with how they

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Speaker 9: can play defense and compliment with the way the quarterback

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Speaker 9: is playing.

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Speaker 8: One more for you, Mark one more Mark Key matchup

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Speaker 8: Monday night, the Big one Chargers Eagles. Take me inside

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Speaker 8: that game.

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Speaker 11: Well, the biggest obstacle here is how healthy is Justin Herbert.

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Speaker 11: You know he had the surgery on the hands, not

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Speaker 11: the throwing hand on the off hand. But how effective

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Speaker 11: can he be? I mean it's surgery, you know, it's

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Speaker 11: still surgery. So how effective will he be? Will he

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Speaker 11: be out there? If he is, then the Chargers are

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Speaker 11: definitely have a chance. If he's not, then I think

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Speaker 11: this is the Eagles game, especially with Omarion Hampton coming

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Speaker 11: back for the Chargers and now hearing that Jalen Carter,

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Speaker 11: the defensive tackle for the Eagles, will not be playing,

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Speaker 11: So that would definitely play into the favor of the

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Speaker 11: Chargers that, hey, we've got our stud first round pick

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Speaker 11: coming back and a top ten quarterback here to go

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Speaker 11: attack the Eagles defense. And on the flip side, of course,

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Speaker 11: we can't get through a segment without talking about the

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Speaker 11: Eagles offense and Jalen Hurts and their struggles Baldy. So

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Speaker 11: this is really a game that the Chargers defense is

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Speaker 11: pretty stout against most people. Harball always has that team prepared,

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Speaker 11: and I know the Eagles are kind of favored in this,

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Speaker 11: but if Herbert's healthy, with Omarion Hampton coming back, and

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Speaker 11: there's struggles on the offense that we keep talking about this,

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Speaker 11: this could be another letdown for the Eagles.

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Speaker 9: Well, I don't think anybody that the Eagles can just

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Speaker 9: snap out of this thing.

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Speaker 7: I'd be surprised if they do.

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Speaker 9: Him it's a it's a real regression, it's a funk,

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Speaker 9: it's real. You know, we see him give up twenty

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Speaker 9: and eighty one yards rushing last week with Jalen Carter

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Speaker 9: in the live I means the run defense was awful.

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Speaker 9: And so it's it's an infection within this team right now.

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Speaker 9: And you just watch what Kamani and Vidal has done

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Speaker 9: as a fourth team running back. He's got three hundred

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Speaker 9: plus yard rushing days. They're going to figure out ways

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Speaker 9: to run the ball. And they're very good against the run. So,

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Speaker 9: you know, unless they can get sa Quon really rolling,

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Speaker 9: which it's only happened one time all year against the Giants,

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Speaker 9: mark unless they can get that running game cranked up,

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Speaker 9: and without Lane Johnson at right tackle, they've never been

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Speaker 9: very good up front.

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Speaker 7: They have not moved the line of scrimmage. That's why

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Speaker 7: they got to go to the trust push.

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Speaker 9: And so I feel like the Chargers can be in

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Speaker 9: a good position to stay in this race in the

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Speaker 9: in the AFC West by taking down the Eagles on

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Speaker 9: Monday Night.

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Speaker 10: A nice scene from last year. That's my home and

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Speaker 10: C J.

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Speaker 6: Stroud embracing after their game last season, the big game then,

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Speaker 6: and they have an enormous one this week, another big

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Speaker 6: game on the slate. Patrick Mahomes has played in some

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Speaker 6: big games. He has thoughts.

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Speaker 13: I mean, we've played a lot of big games, and

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Speaker 13: so knowing that the speed of the game speeds up

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Speaker 13: and the moment's bigger and you got to settle yourself

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Speaker 13: and go out there and play your best football. But

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Speaker 13: I mean, I don't know if we've been in this

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Speaker 13: situation as early in the season, and so I think

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Speaker 13: just learning from it together, building together, and then using

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Speaker 13: what we can use from prior seasons to hopefully make

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Speaker 13: a run of this thing and try to get ourselves

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Speaker 13: in the playoff and see where we can go from there.

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Speaker 6: All right, here is the AFC playoff picture. How weird

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Speaker 6: is it to see the Chiefs in the in the

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Speaker 6: hunt category, not just in the hunt but at the

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Speaker 6: bottom of the in the hunt category. Look at how

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Speaker 6: tightly packed the AFC race is.

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Speaker 14: Though.

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Speaker 6: Let's bring back our jeff Shedeah and Brian Baldinger to

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Speaker 6: talk about this game. Jeffrey, you know this team so well.

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Speaker 6: I mean, this is maybe a crazy question. How big

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Speaker 6: a game is this for the Chiefs and how do

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Speaker 6: they beat the Texans?

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Speaker 5: Well, I've been saying it every week now.

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Speaker 12: This is the biggest game they've been playing in Narrowhead

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Speaker 12: Stadium since Patrick Mahomes showed up. And I'm wondering if

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Speaker 12: he's like Sampson where he cut his hair. He had

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Speaker 12: a old picture last year have had the same success

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Speaker 12: that his hair got shorter. But this team is certainly

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Speaker 12: in a difficult place and they recognize the urgency of

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Speaker 12: it because if they lose this game, their playoff chances

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Speaker 12: go way down. And Mahomes has talked about just how

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Speaker 12: important is for this team to be on point and

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Speaker 12: be ready to play. And really this game comes down

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Speaker 12: to two things. Can they affect the Houston Texans quarterbacks

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Speaker 12: Taj Stroud and can they keep Mahomes protected. You know,

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Speaker 12: you look at this team on defense. They have had

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Speaker 12: a sack in the last two games, Judy. But more importantly,

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Speaker 12: they're missing three offensive line potentially in this game, and

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Speaker 12: they're going back against the Houston Texans pass rush that

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Speaker 12: is one of the best in the NFL, maybe the

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Speaker 12: best in the NFL, with the Neil Hunter and Will

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Speaker 12: Anderson and all those guys. So they know they got

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Speaker 12: a big chow ahead. Baldy, I know you're going to

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Speaker 12: talk about this, but my god, this is a tough challenge.

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Speaker 12: Let chiasse this week.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, well, Baldi, I'm sorry. I mean Jeffrey mentioned it.

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Speaker 6: That defense is really what is carrying the Texans.

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Speaker 2: C J.

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Speaker 6: Stroud is coming back from the injury. He was fine

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Speaker 6: last week, but it is the defense that has powered

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Speaker 6: this push. I know you did a breakdown, let's see it.

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Speaker 7: Well, Judy.

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Speaker 9: The thing is when Patrick Mahomes watches last week's game

688
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Speaker 9: against the Indianapolis Colts, that was the number one offense

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Speaker 9: in football, and they shut down the leading rusher in

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Speaker 9: the LEADU and Jonathan Taylor and a number one offense.

691
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Speaker 9: They held them in sixteen points. And so they're very

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Speaker 9: very simple. I mean, they are four man front, single

693
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Speaker 9: high safety there's a bullet. There's a free safety right here.

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Speaker 9: And what they do if they load the box box

695
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Speaker 9: on early downs eight man box, nine man box right here,

696
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Speaker 9: they want to stop the run. They're going to commit

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Speaker 9: extra guys there and that's the focus, and that will

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Speaker 9: be the focus against Kansas City as well, and they'll

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Speaker 9: do a lot of differentias. But you'll see everybody on

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Speaker 9: this defense tackles. Camari Lassiter is a great tackler. Stingley's

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Speaker 9: a great tackle. You give them that b gap right there.

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Speaker 9: Last's not gonna miss. He's gonna go and do his job.

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Speaker 9: They butt you up, they take you down, and you

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Speaker 9: can see it from a variety of ways. I mean,

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Speaker 9: whether they're gonna start in the two high safety, but

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Speaker 9: they're gonna cheat down here. They're gonna cheat down and

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Speaker 9: their staying right there and there's your safety and they're

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Speaker 9: gonna stop this rushing attack because what they want to

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Speaker 9: do is they want to get after the quarterback and

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Speaker 9: they want to lay their legs.

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Speaker 7: They want to hit you with big wood.

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Speaker 9: Will Will Anderson and Daniel Hunter as good at tandem

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Speaker 9: as there is.

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Speaker 7: They crush the pocket.

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Speaker 9: They continually collapse the pocket right here, there's a four

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Speaker 9: man rush.

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Speaker 7: They don't have to blitz a lot right there. Sheldon

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Speaker 7: Rankins gets the sack.

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Speaker 9: But they're doing this down with Will Anderson like they're

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Speaker 9: isolating him here on Taylor Bordolini the center by tying

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Speaker 9: up both guards, and they're gonna let Will Anderson come

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Speaker 9: with his power and his infectious energy just to collapse

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Speaker 9: his pocket on Daniel Jones. The ball comes out. Will

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Speaker 9: Anderson is an unstoppable force right now. The way that

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Speaker 9: he just energizes this team, they gets you in a

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Speaker 9: pass rush situation. Patrick Mahomes like he's a loosive. He's special,

727
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Speaker 9: but he's gonna have to have all the superpowers going

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Speaker 9: I think against this defense.

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Speaker 7: On Sunday, time.

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Speaker 1: To go inside with NFL Fantasy Lives, specifically with Michael

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Speaker 1: f Florio giving you all the starts and the CITs. See,

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Speaker 1: we had our personnel meeting earlier in the week, who

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Speaker 1: were claiming off the waiver wire.

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Speaker 2: Now we've got the coaches meeting. Who am we're starting,

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Speaker 2: who are we sitting?

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Speaker 5: What it do stop?

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Speaker 2: I'm just like some people don't watch every week.

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Speaker 5: Ian.

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Speaker 2: We're just going to teach him how it works here.

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Speaker 5: What The flow of the show.

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Speaker 1: Is Dak Prescott, Jared Goff, Jamison Williams. Some of the

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Speaker 1: big names tonight in Thursday Night Football. Are we starting?

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Speaker 1: Are we sitting? What are we doing?

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Speaker 2: Floria?

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Speaker 14: You should try to get exposure to this game tonight

746
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Speaker 14: because I expect it's an indoor game, two great offenses,

747
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Speaker 14: two defenses that have struggled. I expect a lot of points,

748
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Speaker 14: which is why you're playing both quarterbacks. Dak has scored

749
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Speaker 14: twenty or more fantasy points in three straight and seven

750
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Speaker 14: of his last nine games. But what I really love

751
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Speaker 14: he leads the NFL in yards and his fifth and

752
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Speaker 14: touchdown passes against man coverage. The Lions play man coverage

753
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Speaker 14: at the highest rate in the NFL. They have a

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Speaker 14: banged up secondary. And then Goff at home and what

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Speaker 14: could be a score fest against the Cowboys, who allowed

756
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Speaker 14: the most passing yards, touchdowns, and fantasy.

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Speaker 5: Points per game.

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Speaker 14: Two quarterbacks four of the last five QBS to face

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Speaker 14: him and scored at least twenty three fantasy points, with

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Speaker 14: the lone exception being Gino Smith. And then I think

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Speaker 14: you start who might be Jared Goff's wide receiver one

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Speaker 14: tonight in Jamison Williams. He is a must play if

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Speaker 14: a Monroe doesn't suit up because we saw him explode

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Speaker 14: last week. But I think you play him either way.

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Speaker 14: Because the Cowboys have allowed the most touchdowns, fantasy points

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Speaker 14: and third most yards two wide receiver. They also give

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Speaker 14: up the most fantasy points yards touchdowns on deep passes.

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Speaker 14: They struggle against wide receivers who play out wide. We

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Speaker 14: know that Jamison could sy field. This ceiling is so high.

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Speaker 14: He could be a top five wide receiver this week.

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Speaker 5: So yeah, get him in.

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Speaker 14: Your lineup, all right.

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Speaker 8: So that was all nice and positive, a lot of points,

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Speaker 8: a lot of fun tonight. So you're starting everyone, Are

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Speaker 8: you sitting anyone?

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Speaker 14: This one is more of a beware. It's a little

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Speaker 14: bit more option dependent. But David Montgomery is not someone

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Speaker 14: that you just have to set and forget in your lineup,

779
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Speaker 14: because in his last three games he has eight carries

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Speaker 14: or fewer in each of them. He has ran for

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Speaker 14: over fifty yards once in the last seven games. And

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Speaker 14: the Cowboys early on you could run all over them.

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Speaker 14: But in the last month they've allowed the fewest yards

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Speaker 14: and fantasy points to running backs. They have not allowed

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Speaker 14: a touchdown and Monty is touchdown dependent, so it really

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Speaker 14: depends on your options there. But if you can get away,

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Speaker 14: I think it's okay to do so. And then the defenses, right,

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Speaker 14: don't play either of them. The Lions, they've allowed the

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Speaker 14: second fewest fantasy points per game to opposing defenses. The

790
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Speaker 14: Cowboys have allowed the third few is only the Colts

791
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Speaker 14: have allowed fewer points to defenses than these two offenses

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Speaker 14: have this year. I think again I keep saying it,

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Speaker 14: a lot of points should be had, which means you

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Speaker 14: don't want to play the Legion of Whom or the

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Speaker 14: Cowboys defense tonight in fantasy football.

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Speaker 1: I heard a Ron Popele mentioned in there. He said

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Speaker 1: it and forget it. He had a lot of products.

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Speaker 2: That he pitched.

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Speaker 1: Ron Poppel he's gone to the big juicer in this guy,

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Speaker 1: Rip buddy, Justin Jefferson. As we now turned our attention

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Speaker 1: to the rest of the weekend in the NFL, Justin

802
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Speaker 1: Jefferson start or a lot of consternation. Didn't talk to

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Speaker 1: the media the other day. Is that a red flag

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Speaker 1: when it comes to fantasy Look, a lot.

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Speaker 14: Of people are going to tell you to sit Justin

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Speaker 14: Jefferson this week. I get it. He had four yards

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Speaker 14: last week. I am not one of them. I think

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Speaker 14: that this is a game that Justin Jefferson gets right.

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Speaker 14: In fact, I think he's going to have his best

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Speaker 14: game of this season this week because he is clearly frustrated. Right,

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Speaker 14: I think we're going to get a squeaky wheel game here,

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Speaker 14: could be double digit targets. What I'm hoping for is

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Speaker 14: they get him a couple of early ones, catch and run,

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Speaker 14: kind of like what the Eagles did with aj Brown

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Speaker 14: after he crashed out. And then the Commanders are top

816
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Speaker 14: six and yards and fantasy points allowed to wide receivers.

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Speaker 14: They really struggle against the deep ball. Speed has gone

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Speaker 14: to them. This is not a good defensive unit. So

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Speaker 14: I'm willing to bet on the talent that is Justin

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Speaker 14: Jefferson in this great matchup. And again, I think his

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Speaker 14: best Fantasy day of the year comes this week.

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Speaker 8: All right, let's talk about talent. Lamar Jackson is talented

823
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Speaker 8: as anyone. Been in and out of practice all season.

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Speaker 8: Didn't practice today. Sounds like he got stepped on and

825
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Speaker 8: is probably fine, But still another day of nonpractice for

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Speaker 8: Lamar Jackson in a game that the Ravens gotta have.

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Speaker 8: Are we starting or sitting Lamar this Sunday.

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Speaker 14: It's more option dependent, but I am leaning towards sitting

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Speaker 14: Lamar Jackson because he has struggled. Right Like last week,

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Speaker 14: he was a bit unlucky. I get at Flower likely fumble.

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Speaker 14: There was that Flowers OPI that took a touchdown away,

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Speaker 14: but it was his worst career game EPA per dropback

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Speaker 14: in his entire career, and it came against the Bengals

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Speaker 14: defense who get lit up weekly. And then on top

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Speaker 14: of that, he has struggled against the Steelers in his career,

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Speaker 14: one touchdown or fewer in four of six games. He

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Speaker 14: has never ran for a touchdown against them. And speaking

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Speaker 14: of running, he's not doing that right now, less than

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Speaker 14: twenty rushing yards per game since returning. I do not

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Speaker 14: think Lamar is healthy, and I think that is why

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Speaker 14: he is struggling. But if you have these are the

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Speaker 14: quarterbacks I would play over him, Alan Dak Stafford, Hertz, Burrow,

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Speaker 14: Mahomes Golf, Love Mayfield, and I even think Jacoby Present

844
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Speaker 14: has a safer floor this week. But that's a little

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Speaker 14: bit more. If you want to roll the dice on

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Speaker 14: Lamar or not.

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Speaker 1: Interesting, I am going to get back to Jacoby Brissett

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Speaker 1: in a couple of minutes here with you, now that

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Speaker 1: you threw that one out there, Christian Watson, this game

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Speaker 1: on Sunday is in Green Bay at four twenty five PM.

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Speaker 2: A high of twenty degree, so that's probably gonna be called.

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Speaker 2: It that a decent amount of win.

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Speaker 1: Take all that into consideration and tell us whether we're

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Speaker 1: starting or sitting.

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Speaker 14: Christian wants The weather is the only thing that gives

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Speaker 14: me a little bit of pause. But I still think

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Speaker 14: you could play Christian Watson this week because since Tucker

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Speaker 14: Kraft has gone down, he leads them in all receiving

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Speaker 14: cat routes, targets, yards, receptions, all of that, and the

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Speaker 14: Bears they've allowed the most yards to out wide wide

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Speaker 14: receivers since Week nine. He runs sixty five percent of

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Speaker 14: his routes out wide. They've also allowed the second most

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Speaker 14: on deep targets in that span. We know Christian Watson

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Speaker 14: is a field stretcher, so the weather is a little

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Speaker 14: bit concerning, But I also really like the Bears blitz

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Speaker 14: and play man coverage at an above league average rate.

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Speaker 14: Love leads the NFL and EPA against blitz and against

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Speaker 14: man coverage. So the weather aside this everything is there

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Speaker 14: for love and Christian Watson to have a big game

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Speaker 14: and it must win game for.

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Speaker 8: The Packers, even if Jayden Reid comes back, which he

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Speaker 8: might actually this week, we're still starting Christian wants.

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Speaker 5: That's all right.

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Speaker 8: I love me some Christian wants and he is an electric,

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Speaker 8: electric downfield threat. Roman Dunze also talented for the Chicago Bears.

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Speaker 8: Different type of receiver, but very productive, very talented. What

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Speaker 8: are we doing with romadonsay? We're starting their sitting.

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Speaker 14: I think this is a week to try to get

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Speaker 14: away from him, and I have a Dunesay in a

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Speaker 14: number of teams myself, and I've had him hit the

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Speaker 14: bench this week because since October we're talking two months now,

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Speaker 14: he's averaged less than seven targets per game on three

883
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Speaker 14: catches for forty six yards per game. That equates to

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Speaker 14: less than eight Fantasy points and the bears seventh lowest

885
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Speaker 14: pass rate since their Week five. By the run game

886
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Speaker 14: is clearly the strength of their offense. I don't expect

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Speaker 14: that to change. They're going to lean into that. Ben

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Speaker 14: Johnson came out this week and said they're winning in

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Speaker 14: spite of the passing game. And then a Dunsay fewer

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Speaker 14: than twenty yards in two of his last three games.

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Speaker 14: And the Packers defense has kind of flipped in the

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Speaker 14: last month. Six fewest Fantasy points per game to wide receivers,

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Speaker 14: but they've been week against the run. Early in the

894
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Speaker 14: year was the opposite. You could throw on them, but

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Speaker 14: you couldn't really run. The last four or five weeks

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Speaker 14: it's been the exact opposite. So I expect the Bears

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Speaker 14: to try to run as much as they can in

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Speaker 14: this game. I think it's okay as long as you

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Speaker 14: have another option you like to get away from a

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Speaker 14: duneesday this week.

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Speaker 1: All right, now to the selfish portion of the program,

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Speaker 1: where Ian and I get to ask you about our

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Speaker 1: own teams.

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Speaker 2: I mentioned Jacoby Brissett.

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Speaker 1: I got like four guys on buy this week, so

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Speaker 1: a lot of my questions are already answered. But Bo

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Speaker 1: Knicks or Jacoby Brissett.

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Speaker 14: I'm gonna go with Jacoby Brissett here because I don't

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Speaker 14: think bow Knicks against the Raiders is going to necessarily have.

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Speaker 2: To air it out.

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Speaker 14: I think they'll play it a little bit safer there.

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Speaker 14: The Cardinals probably gonna be taling against the Rams. And

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Speaker 14: second half trailing and catch up mode. Jacoby Brissett is

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Speaker 14: the best Jacoby brit Like. He might have six Fantasy

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Speaker 14: points at half, he's gonna finish with over eighteen because

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Speaker 14: he's done that in every single start he has made

917
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Speaker 14: this year, multiple passing touchdowns in all but one. And

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Speaker 14: the Outsiders need a big week to to clinch the

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Speaker 14: playoffs and the bye. So let's get Jacoby to get

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Speaker 14: you there.

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Speaker 8: Oh, Jacoby, he has been a garbage time monster this

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Speaker 8: year in fantasy all right. More importantly, let's get to

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Speaker 8: my fantasy team. So I got one flex spot, and

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Speaker 8: here are my options.

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Speaker 5: Okay, you ready.

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Speaker 8: Michael Wilson from the Cardinals, Jordan Addison from the Vikings.

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Speaker 8: You know the passing struggles they've had, so I figured

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Speaker 8: I know which way this one is going. And Isaiah

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Speaker 8: Pachecko in his second game back with the Kansas City

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Speaker 8: Chiefs but missing both offensive tackles.

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Speaker 14: I'm going with Michael Wilson there. I expect the Cardinals

932
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Speaker 14: have to throw a lot if they're trailing against the Rams.

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Speaker 14: Michael Wilson has been awesome the last I know. Last

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Speaker 14: week was a little bit of a down week for him,

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Speaker 14: but Pachecko only had a handful of touches last week.

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Speaker 14: Kareem Hunt's gonna get the goal on work and look,

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Speaker 14: I might trust Jefferson in that matchup, I'm not trusting

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Speaker 14: the secondary options for the Vikings, so I'm gonna go

939
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Speaker 14: with Michael Wilson. Feels like the safer play and the

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Speaker 14: highest upside play to me.

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Speaker 1: All Right, I got a lot of friends in control room,

942
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Speaker 1: so I'm gonna ask one for a friend.

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Speaker 12: Uh.

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Speaker 1: We got like writing questions this week, got so much

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Speaker 1: time with Florio.

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Speaker 9: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Jared Goff tonight already a holdout for I took Mahomes

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Speaker 1: on Sunday.

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Speaker 14: I have both as starts this week, and the thing

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Speaker 14: I like about Mahomes the Texans weakness is running quarterbacks.

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Speaker 14: They've allowed six over six yards per carry to quarterbacks,

952
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Speaker 14: a lot of expulsive runs. Mahomes leads all quarterbacks and

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Speaker 14: expulsive runs this year, but it's still the toughest matchup

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Speaker 14: for a quarterback in fantasy. So I'm actually going to

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Speaker 14: play Jared Goff and what I think is going to

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Speaker 14: be a very high scoring indoor game tonight, so it's close's.

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Speaker 14: I've never really sit Mahomes, but this week, I think

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Speaker 14: I would go with the indoor cat Jared Golf.

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Speaker 2: There you go.

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Speaker 1: You get your answer tonight, and whether he was right

961
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Speaker 1: or at least the first part of the equation for

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Speaker 1: all his other answers, go to NFL dot com.

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Speaker 2: Slash starts it.

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Speaker 1: His name is Michael f. Florio and the F stands

965
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Speaker 1: for fantasy. We know that I still actually don't know

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Speaker 1: what the F stands part. I hope he never tells

967
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:49,799
Speaker 1: me that so I can make it be fantasy or

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Speaker 1: something else all the time. Here's where I find the

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Speaker 1: Insiders Monday through Friday.

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Speaker 2: Today is Thursday. You know what I find us. You're

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Speaker 2: watching us somewhere tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: NFL Network, NFL Plus those are your to find us.

973
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:05,000
Speaker 1: Read the fine print wherever you find your podcasts as well.

974
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Speaker 2: No excuses to not watch or listen to the Insiders.

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Speaker 1: Thirty two of the NFL's best when it comes to

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Speaker 1: contributing to the community off the field. Here are your

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Speaker 1: Walter Peyton Man of the Year Award, presented by nationwide

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Speaker 1: nominees for the twenty twenty five season.

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Speaker 2: Great job to all these gentlemen.

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Speaker 1: They will be honored at NFL Honors the week of

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, and one of them will come away

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Speaker 1: with the most prestigious award in the NFL. Judy your

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Speaker 1: thoughts when you see these gentlemen up for the award

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Speaker 1: and the meaning of the award itself.

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Speaker 6: Well, whenever you talk to guys who are nominated, they

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Speaker 6: all talk about this is the most meaningful award in

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Speaker 6: the NFL. This they have Riddle reference for Walter Payton,

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Speaker 6: the player and the person and what this award stands for.

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Speaker 6: I look at Solomon Thomas, who is a repeat nominee.

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Speaker 6: He just got to Dallas and he has already been

991
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Speaker 6: nominated for his work. All of them exceptional, exceptional guys.

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Speaker 6: No losers there.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, Salmon Thomas has already had to fortunately go to

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Speaker 8: his area of expertise for the Dallas Cowboys. This is

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Speaker 8: a great list. This is my favorite award of the

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Speaker 8: whole year. Whenever we're sitting in NFL Honors and the

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Speaker 8: and the speech comes on, I always get altereary eyed.

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Speaker 8: I cannot wait for that. They're all deserving which they

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Speaker 8: could all win it.

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Speaker 1: Mike Texans linebacker as he's al shaer up for the award.

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Speaker 2: He will join the Insiders on Friday.

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Speaker 14: That's an interesting one.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to talk to him. Thanks for spending some

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Speaker 2: time with us.