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Speaker 1: With Liam Cohen now drawing up for Trevor Lawrence, our

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Speaker 1: for this season, and only two can advance to Super

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Speaker 1: Costas in basketball. Welcome inside with the insiders alongside you,

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Speaker 1: It is our last show before Conference Championship weekend. It's

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Speaker 1: because come Monday, we'll be headed down to Mobile, Alabama

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Speaker 1: absolutely ready to roll.

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Speaker 1: Ready for to talk about the return of a legend

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Speaker 1: to the sideline. Pete Carroll is back as the Raiders

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Speaker 2: This was something that was in the works for the

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Speaker 1: Pete Carroll have been putting together staff, making a lot

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Speaker 1: which brings me to this question, Judy, you know who's

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Speaker 3: Well, first of all, I think we have to dispense

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Speaker 5: Now he has a college background at Kentucky.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, there's so many different memories of sitting down talking

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Speaker 1: Gonna be a young roster, but potentially a very veteran

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Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts is off the injury report, but is he

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Speaker 2: It's the insiders.

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Speaker 4: Brace yourselves, Philadelphia.

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Speaker 2: Did you see what I did there? Yeah? That bottom

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Speaker 5: When to see how it would progress?

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Speaker 8: How did it?

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Speaker 5: Progress? Has been progressive? All right? My coach coach said, are.

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Speaker 4: Good for Jalen to give us some information right there.

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Speaker 2: Well, you heard him right there.

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Speaker 9: Jalen Hurts, you guys was never going to not a

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Speaker 9: chance in hell miss this football game, especially since he

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Speaker 9: incredibly tough. No designation there. And what's really exciting is

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Speaker 2: But two musts.

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Speaker 9: We must do these couple things to win. Pretty simple.

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Speaker 9: As we saw with the Detroit Lions, these guys kind

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Speaker 5: You know, Stacey, It's interesting.

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Speaker 6: I was there a week sixteen in Washington with James

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Speaker 6: It's really changing the way guys rush. It's not like

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Speaker 4: Right now, Steve's trying to figure out the formula here

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Speaker 6: So Steve, you know, if they want to do that

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Speaker 6: So that's a big matchup to watch as they try to,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I would advise the commanders Dalon Carter's hard

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Speaker 2: Don't not block him.

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Speaker 4: The last two plays against the Rams, they slid the

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Speaker 4: in the NFC Championship game ahead of this one.

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Speaker 2: Baldy, you're coming back later in the show.

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Speaker 4: So coming up next, we flip it to the AFC

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Speaker 4: and get you ready for that Conference championship.

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Speaker 1: Bills Chiefs Sunday night. Cannot wait for that AFC Championship game.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Insiders, Tom Pelisaro, now joined by

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Speaker 1: Sarah Walsh, Camwolf and Adam Rank. Sarah, I'm going to

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Speaker 1: start with you here, this Chiefs defense going up against

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Speaker 1: the Bill's offense. What's the biggest thing that they've got

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Speaker 1: to be worried about in this matchup?

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Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing.

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Speaker 12: A week ago, this Chiefs defense sacks c J. Stroud

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Speaker 12: eight times, but if you look over on the Bills

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Speaker 12: side of things, the Ravens were only able to get.

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Speaker 5: To Josh Allen once.

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Speaker 12: This is a Bills offense that takes care of its quarterback,

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Speaker 12: they take care of the football. So the Chiefs know

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Speaker 12: this is a much steeper challenge to try to get

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Speaker 12: to this guy. When they faced him in week eleven,

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Speaker 12: they never sacked him once. And not only are they

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Speaker 12: very good at protecting him, but they're really good at

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Speaker 12: doing all sorts of things that really can confuse a defense.

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Speaker 12: And Chief safety Justin Reid talked this week about the

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Speaker 12: fact that they have to have eye discipline, they have

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Speaker 12: to have eye control, and he said what he means

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Speaker 12: by that is they've got tight ends in the backfield,

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Speaker 12: they've got wide receivers in the backfield, they got running

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Speaker 12: backs lining up is wide receivers, and he said that

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Speaker 12: they cannot get caught up in the trash and the

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Speaker 12: things that they're wanting you to see that they're not

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Speaker 12: going to use, but that can trick you into making

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Speaker 12: a bad read or taking a bad step. And you know,

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Speaker 12: their defensive coordinator Steve Spagnolo, who said, yeah, we have

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Speaker 12: been stressing this idea of having eye control, because again,

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Speaker 12: this is a Bills team that is not going to

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Speaker 12: make a lot of mistakes, and it is really tough

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Speaker 12: to force this team into making mistakes. Buffalo has just

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Speaker 12: eight giveaways on the season, that is the fewest in

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Speaker 12: a season since nineteen fifty. This is a Chiefs team,

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Speaker 12: and a Chiefs defense especially that knows it has its

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Speaker 12: work cut out for them.

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Speaker 13: Rank Yeah, I'm curious how they're going to approach it

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Speaker 13: because we've seen over the course of the season that

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Speaker 13: anytime that teams try to blitz Josh Allen, he has

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Speaker 13: been very successful. His passer rating is well into the

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Speaker 13: one twenties when he's being blitzed. But in Week eleven,

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Speaker 13: the Chiefs styled up the it's about thirty eight percent

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Speaker 13: of the time and they had a little bit of

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Speaker 13: a success. Josh Allen did throw a touchdown while blitz However,

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Speaker 13: he did throw an interception. His passer rating was in

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Speaker 13: the sixties. So for me, the Chiefs have to be patient. Understand,

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Speaker 13: the Bills are gonna move the football. It's not allowing

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Speaker 13: the big plays. It's going to be a great chess

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Speaker 13: match between these two teams on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Flip side of this matchup cam the Bills defense has

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Speaker 1: to try to slow down Patrick Mahomes and playoff Travis Kelcey.

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Speaker 1: I feel like he's a different guy over these last

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Speaker 1: couple of years. Here when the lights come on, when

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Speaker 1: the calendar switches to January, something turns on.

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Speaker 2: How do they stop him? Pretty hard?

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Speaker 10: That's what Bobby babb Is, the Bills defensive coidinator, said

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Speaker 10: about stopping Travis Kelcey and Patrick Mahomes. The reality is

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Speaker 10: the Bills actually have had some success stopping Travis Kelcey.

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Speaker 10: In the week eleven game, they hold him in just

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Speaker 10: two catches for eight yards. They play a lot of

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Speaker 10: too deep coverage. They bracketed him with their linebackers and

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Speaker 10: their cornerback, tearing John and their safety and trying to

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Speaker 10: limit those big plays down the field. But as you mentioned,

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Speaker 10: playoff Travis Kelsey is a different animal and they have

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Speaker 10: a big difference in this game. Taylor Rap, their starting safety,

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Speaker 10: has been ruled out with a hip injury, and so

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Speaker 10: enter rookie Cole Bishop. That's a name that fans are

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Speaker 10: going to want to get to know. The spotlight is

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Speaker 10: going to be on him a lot. Rap was the veteran,

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Speaker 10: experienced guy, a good communicator. He actually intercepted Patrick Mahomes

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Speaker 10: on his first deep pass in their first matchup. Bishop

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Speaker 10: hasn't played must this year and I talked to Bill

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Speaker 10: general manager Brandon Bean about Bishop. They had an idea

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Speaker 10: that Rap was going to be out. They said, Bishop

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Speaker 10: we drafted in the second round. We have high hopes

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Speaker 10: for him. The reality is he's not his experience, so

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Speaker 10: we'll have to live with him maybe being fooled from

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Speaker 10: time to time. But he has some athleticism that maybe

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Speaker 10: is more than the usual safety and they think that'll

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Speaker 10: benefit them. One key thing is looking at those guys

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Speaker 10: around him. You're Matt Mulono's, your Tarren Johnson's. How do

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Speaker 10: they supplement that? Because I guarantee you Patrick Mahomes, Travis

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Speaker 10: Kelce are trying to take advantage of Col Bishop. We're

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Speaker 10: going to be talking here on Monday about Cole Bishop

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Speaker 10: either having a great game or having a bad game,

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Speaker 10: and that's going to be a key part of it.

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Speaker 10: One thing that was interesting to learn this week is

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Speaker 10: Micah Hyde, their practice squad safety, has been spending a

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Speaker 10: lot of time with Cole Bishop, trying to catch him

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Speaker 10: up on things he needs to know to prep him

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Speaker 10: for this game. He certainly faced Travis Kelce quite a bit,

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Speaker 10: but Cole Bisha will be out there on his own

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Speaker 10: on Sunday.

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Speaker 13: Well, Kerem, you talk about it, you talk about playoff

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Speaker 13: Kelsey and how different he is. Yes, they did a

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Speaker 13: great job against him in Week eleven, but once you

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Speaker 13: get into the postseason, Travis Kelce has five touchdowns in

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Speaker 13: three career playoff games against the Buffalo Bills. And what

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Speaker 13: it comes down to is the matchups. Can you get

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Speaker 13: Travis Kelce matched up against the linebacker or against one

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Speaker 13: of the guys in the secondary.

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Speaker 7: That is going to be the big thing.

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Speaker 13: It's the chess pieces, it's moving him around trying to

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Speaker 13: exploit those matchups.

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Speaker 7: And so wherever you have Travis Kelce, you.

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Speaker 13: Got to be mindful who's lined up against him and

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Speaker 13: take advantage of it. And for the Bills, you know what,

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Speaker 13: I hate to do it, but I think you got

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Speaker 13: to take a page out of Taylor Swiss, Taylor Swift's playbook,

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Speaker 13: go a little fearless against them.

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Speaker 7: That's right.

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Speaker 2: I did that.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you had to go there.

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Speaker 2: You had to go there, didn't you.

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Speaker 12: Okay, So I think it's pretty well understood how respected

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Speaker 12: both of these sides are. Travis Kelce talked for the

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Speaker 12: first time this week, and he said, when it comes

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Speaker 12: to Josh Allen.

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Speaker 5: He said, Josh Allen is.

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Speaker 12: Who I dreamed about being in the NFL, And he said,

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Speaker 12: but I didn't have the arm talent, so they kicked

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Speaker 12: me over to tight end. That has worked out pretty

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Speaker 12: well for him. It's a Hall of Fame career that

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Speaker 12: he's working on there. Everyone knows that he's going to

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Speaker 12: end up in Canton. And then not that this game

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Speaker 12: needs to be hyped up anymore, because it feels like

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Speaker 12: when this season kicked off Week one, we all knew

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Speaker 12: in some shape or form, it was going to come

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Speaker 12: down to these two teams. Travis Kelce said today, this

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Speaker 12: is one of the biggest challenges we have ever had.

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Speaker 12: And when you think about that statement, given how many

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Speaker 12: Super Bowls this team has played in, how many great

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Speaker 12: games this chiefs I mean there, this is a franchise

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Speaker 12: that is a dynasty. Now to think about him saying

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Speaker 12: today that this is one of the biggest challenges they've

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Speaker 12: ever had. If that doesn't hype you up for Sunday night,

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Speaker 12: nothing else will.

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Speaker 1: Tom, Sarah Cam thank you very much, Stay warm in

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Speaker 1: Kansas City ranks, stick around because coming up after this,

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Speaker 1: you and Baldi have more on this game and the

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Speaker 1: NFC Championship game. Who are the game changers and the

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Speaker 1: game wreckers? Ranked and Baldi have the answer right after

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Speaker 1: this on the Insiders.

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Speaker 3: I'm hyped to be talking to Baldy and Adam about

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Speaker 3: Conference championship weekend. I want to hear your game changers

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Speaker 3: and game wreckers, guys. Let's start on the NFC side

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Speaker 3: and I'll start with Baldi. Give me a game changer

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Speaker 3: for that game.

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Speaker 5: You know, Judy, I'm gonna go.

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Speaker 6: AJ Brown. I don't believe he's going to be any

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Speaker 6: reading any books on the sideline. I saw him week

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Speaker 6: sixteen against this Commander team Marshaun Lattimore. I think he

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Speaker 6: had three holding calls against him. He's scored a touchdown

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Speaker 6: right here. That throw is from Kenny Pickett. In that game,

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Speaker 6: they didn't have much of an answer for A. J.

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Speaker 5: Brown. And I know he hasn't had an exciting postseason

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Speaker 5: so far.

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Speaker 6: I know he's battling a knee, but I just feel

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Speaker 6: like this is a game where AJ Brown can really

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Speaker 6: be fed and he can change the game. He had

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Speaker 6: a chance to do it last week against the Rams,

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Speaker 6: had a chance right at the pylon, just couldn't get

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Speaker 6: a handle on the ball, but he usually comes up

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Speaker 6: with those catches. I feel like AJ Brown has been

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Speaker 6: blocking at an elite level. I just think it's time

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Speaker 6: for him to be fed at an elite level because

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Speaker 6: he is a true game changer at that position. It's

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Speaker 6: easy to just say, well, I'm gonna take Saint Quon Barkley.

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Speaker 6: I think that's a given. I just think AJ Brown

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Speaker 6: is ready for this moment at him and that's where

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Speaker 6: I'm going to go with the game changer right now

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Speaker 6: for the Eagles.

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Speaker 13: Well, I love that pick, and I think that despite

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Speaker 13: the fact that he doesn't get a lot of targets,

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Speaker 13: you still have to keep an eye on him because

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Speaker 13: he has as the ability to make the huge plays.

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Speaker 13: And on the other side, for Washington, I look at

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Speaker 13: a former Eagle, Zach Ertz, and obviously, if you want

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Speaker 13: to go into the narratives going up against his former team,

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Speaker 13: he's also had some big catches against this Eagles team

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Speaker 13: as well. He got that catch right there that we're

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Speaker 13: watching right on the screen. What I really like out

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Speaker 13: of him. He's been a reliable target for Jade and

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Speaker 13: Daniels this season, and last time these two teams met,

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Speaker 13: they ran a lot his zone, and you wonder Bick

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Speaker 13: Bangeo if he's gonna switch it up, if he wants

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Speaker 13: to play a little bit of man, that kind of feeds.

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Speaker 7: Into the game for zach Ertz.

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Speaker 13: Zach Ertz has seven touchdowns against man defense this season.

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Speaker 7: He is a matchup nightmare for a lot of teams.

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Speaker 13: So I feel like if the Commanders need a big

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Speaker 13: play outside of Jaydon Daniels, zach Ertz is somebody they've

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Speaker 13: consistency consistently looked for.

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Speaker 3: All Right, Paldy, let's go with a game wrecord who

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Speaker 3: you got.

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Speaker 6: You know, Zach Bonn has been the Eagles best defensive player,

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Speaker 6: no Shaye to Allen Carter, but yeah, any guy never

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Speaker 6: comes off the field in that first matchup Judy back

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Speaker 6: in week eleven, I mean he's stuffed Jayde Daniels at

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Speaker 6: fourth and two, changed the whole course of the game

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Speaker 6: in the fourth quarter. He just knows where the ball

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Speaker 6: is going. He's filled up the stat sheet all year long.

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Speaker 6: I think he'll continue to do that. If Jade Daniels

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Speaker 6: wants to run, he's going to be met by Zach

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Speaker 6: Bawn at some point. His ability to take I don't

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Speaker 6: know if he was a geometry major at Wisconsin, but

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Speaker 6: he constantly takes great angles to the football.

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Speaker 5: I'm going to go with Zach Bond like that guy.

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Speaker 6: If he's not a candidate, a high candidate for defensive

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Speaker 6: Player of the Year, then teams have not been watching

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Speaker 6: number fifty three for the Eagles.

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Speaker 7: And yeah, they absolutely should be.

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Speaker 13: And I agree with you, he's one to watch, even

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Speaker 13: though a lot of people will spend their time looking

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Speaker 13: at Jalen Carter, who I'm going to be talking about

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Speaker 13: here for a moment, because when you watch that game

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Speaker 13: against the La Rams, Carter was amazing. He got two

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Speaker 13: sacks on Matthew Stafford, part of five total that the

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Speaker 13: Eagles had against the Rams. However, this game is gonna

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Speaker 13: be a little bit different. I don't think I'm telling

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Speaker 13: tails out of school if I'm saying that Jayden Daniels

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Speaker 13: a little bit more mobile than Matthew Stafford, which means

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Speaker 13: Jalen Carter's got to kind of tailor his game towards

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Speaker 13: the quarterback.

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Speaker 7: And Brian, you talked about this a moment.

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Speaker 13: Ago earlier on in the show, is like, you just

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Speaker 13: can't run up the field and expect to get to

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Speaker 13: the quarterback. You got to play a different style of

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Speaker 13: football where it's more contained than anything else. Don't let

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Speaker 13: Jaydon Daniels go out there and make a big play

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Speaker 13: on you. However, I think that Jalen Carter could do that,

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Speaker 13: and these two guys can absolutely be game wreckers for

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Speaker 13: the Philadelphia Eagles.

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Speaker 5: Adam.

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Speaker 6: If Jalen Carter was in a steel cage match with

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Speaker 6: a bear, I feel sorry for the bear, and so

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Speaker 6: he's my feeling about trying to block this feast.

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Speaker 5: And they're gonna have a backup guarden there.

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Speaker 6: I probably Trent Scott, who played pretty good in Detroit

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Speaker 6: last week. But anybody that has that assignment that is

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Speaker 6: a long, hard day. He's going to make plays and

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Speaker 6: it's just you know, how many of those does he

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Speaker 6: wreck your offense the way that he did against the

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Speaker 6: Rams punching the ball out of Kyron Williams last week's

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Speaker 6: hands sack and Matt Stafford on third and four when

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Speaker 6: they're going in to score the winning touchdown, hitting Stafford

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Speaker 6: in fourth and eleven, so he couldn't complete a pass

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Speaker 6: on the outside. I mean, he wrecked the game and

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Speaker 6: he finished the game for the Eagles last week, all.

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Speaker 3: Right, let's switch over to the AFC Conference Championship game.

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Speaker 3: Give me a game changer, Baldy.

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Speaker 5: I looked Judy.

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Speaker 6: I mean Adam just said in the last segment, and

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Speaker 6: I was listing carefully at him. Travis Kelsey does have

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Speaker 6: five touchdown catches in his three postseason games against this

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Speaker 6: Bill's defense, largely playing against much of the same defense,

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Speaker 6: different players. We'll see a different safety for Taylor at

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Speaker 6: We talked about that a little bit on this show,

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Speaker 6: but I mean we saw what Kelsey did last week.

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Speaker 6: He basically put the game on ice a week ago.

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Speaker 6: He knows the moment, he knows that there's gonna be

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Speaker 6: a certain friend of hits up up in a booth

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Speaker 6: waiting to cheer him on. I think there's some motivation there,

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Speaker 6: you know. For Travis Kelcey, there's a connection that we

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Speaker 6: have tried to explain. We've tried to figure out how

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Speaker 6: it happens between him and Mahomes, but it keeps happening,

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Speaker 6: and I think it will find a way to happen

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Speaker 6: again this Sunday evening.

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Speaker 5: In Kansas City. Travis Kelcey is my game changer right now.

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Speaker 7: Well, I talked about him in the last block as

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Speaker 7: you said, Bryan, so I couldn't go back to back

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Speaker 7: with him.

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Speaker 13: But I want to talk about Xavier Worthy because the

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Speaker 13: Chiefs have done a really good job of the ways

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Speaker 13: they've used him over the last number of weeks. Now,

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Speaker 13: whenever you get a player with his speed, early on

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Speaker 13: in the season, the idea was to get him the

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Speaker 13: ball deep. His average depth of target was somewhere around

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Speaker 13: twelve point eight in the early part of the season. However,

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Speaker 13: they put in a slight wrinkle, as you're seeing right there.

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Speaker 13: They now get him the ball near the line of scrimmage.

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Speaker 13: Instead of relying on Xavier Worthy to just run deep,

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Speaker 13: they're just giving them the ball quickly and letting them

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Speaker 13: go out there and do his thing.

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Speaker 7: And that's one of the.

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Speaker 13: Mastter pieces of this Kansas City Chiefs offense. It's like

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Speaker 13: Travis Kelcey doesn't necessarily run as much as he just

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Speaker 13: runs the open spots and finds a way to get open. Similarly,

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Speaker 13: Xavier Worthy's just catching the ball near the line of

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Speaker 13: scrimmage and taking it for chunk plays.

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Speaker 7: That's why this offense is so hard to stop.

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Speaker 3: All right, let's put a bow on this game wreckers

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Speaker 3: for the AFC Championship Game, Baldi, Judy.

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Speaker 6: I've watched Chris Jones take games over in big moments

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Speaker 6: year after year, and one of the reasons why they've

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Speaker 6: you know, are going for a three p is because

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Speaker 6: of the guy that goes by stone cold Jones. He

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Speaker 6: just he can line up anywhere and look, I have

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Speaker 6: as much respect for this Buffalo Bills offensive line left

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Speaker 6: to right. Aaron Promer coaches him. He's a great coach.

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Speaker 6: But Chris Jones understands the magnitude of these moments.

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Speaker 7: He just does.

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Speaker 6: And when the game is in the biggest moment, Chris

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Speaker 6: Jones just finds a way to win. And it could

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Speaker 6: be at end, it could be on a he done,

749
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Speaker 6: he could be dropping into coverage the way Steve Spagnola

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Speaker 6: has used him before. But he understands that this is

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Speaker 6: his momenting. It's not about how many sacks during the

752
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Speaker 6: season quarterback kids. He gets some of those, he saves

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Speaker 6: a lot of it for this postseason.

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Speaker 5: This is a big game.

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Speaker 6: He understands that Josh Allen is going to meet stone

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Speaker 6: called Jones at some point in this game. Sunday night.

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Speaker 13: I love that pick, Baldy, but I just noticed we

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Speaker 13: keep talking about the Chiefs, and it doesn't see it

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Speaker 13: doesn't feel like we're giving the Bills a chance. So

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Speaker 13: allow me to take an opportunity to talk about one

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Speaker 13: of the staling of the Bills defense, and I'm going

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Speaker 13: to say at Oliver is somebody who can absolutely be

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Speaker 13: a game wrecker. As a matter of fact, in Week eleven,

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Speaker 13: when these two teams combined are collided, I should say

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Speaker 13: at Oliver had a really nice game. He had four

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Speaker 13: quarterback pressures in that contest and was a pest in

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Speaker 13: that one.

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Speaker 7: And even last week.

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Speaker 13: Against the Baltimore Ravens, he still managed three quarterback pressures

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Speaker 13: against Lamar Jackson. So when we're talking about all the

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Speaker 13: game changers on Kansas City side of the football, who

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Speaker 13: can get to the quarterback? Who can disrupt it? Now

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Speaker 13: everybody knows Von Miller, but Ed Oliver to me, is

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Speaker 13: the key to all of this. And if he can

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Speaker 13: get pressure on the quarterback, that gives the Bills the

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Speaker 13: best chance to succeed.

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Speaker 5: You know, Ed is a cowboy. You know he rides horses,

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Speaker 5: he trains horses.

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Speaker 6: I mean, he just gets that lasso out there, Adam,

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Speaker 6: He's gonna get that lasso out there.

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Speaker 5: He wants to last. So you know, Patrick mahomes in

782
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Speaker 5: the worst way.

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Speaker 6: He's slippery like an eel. You can't you can't actually

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Speaker 6: get your grips into the guy. He's always on your edge.

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Speaker 6: He's a full day. Now I've got a bad pick

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Speaker 6: and all out.

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Speaker 13: When I get Baldy's seal of approval, then I know

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Speaker 13: I'm like Anthony Michael Hall at the end of The

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Speaker 13: Breakfast Club when he's proud of himself for writing that essay.

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Speaker 3: That's all I feel, all right, Cowboys Eels, It's all

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Speaker 3: coming up in conference championship weekend, guys, thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: First Super Bowl halftime show for Kendrick Lamar, first season

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Speaker 1: for Commanders quarterback Jaden Daniels.

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Speaker 2: Both working out pretty well so far.

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Speaker 1: Jayden Daniels in the NFC title Game, set to go

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Speaker 1: into Philadelphia this week and take on the Eagles, a

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Speaker 1: task that he does not take lately.

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Speaker 8: No matter if it's a home or away game, I'll

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Speaker 8: treat it the same. It's allaly good to have. Like

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Speaker 8: a Everybody tried to write like an underdog story, but

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Speaker 8: for us, it's just originally out there and playing confident

802
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Speaker 8: like No, we can compete against these guys and that's

803
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Speaker 8: a very good team. So it's nothing like I take

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Speaker 8: a little extra motivation. I'm already motivated to go into

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Speaker 8: the game, regardless if it was Week two or you know,

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Speaker 8: the NFC Championship game.

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen not his first Rodeo set to face the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs in the AFC Championship Game. Again, that means Travis

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Speaker 1: Kelsey's had a few times, both in the regular season

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Speaker 1: and playoffs over the years to take a look at

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Speaker 1: a guy that well reminds him a little bit of himself.

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Speaker 14: Gosha's who I used to dream about being like in

813
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Speaker 14: the NFL, big athletic quarterback, big on being able to.

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Speaker 2: Be a dual thread guy. Yeah, I just I never

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Speaker 2: had the arm talent that Josh had, so they kicked

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Speaker 2: me over the tight end.

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Speaker 14: And you know his ability to do everything, you know,

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Speaker 14: obviously he's you could tell he's really took the bull

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Speaker 14: by the horns and really been their leader up front

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Speaker 14: and and channeled that. You know, guys come in and

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Speaker 14: out of the building, and he's the main piece in

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Speaker 14: there making that thing go weekend, week out.

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Speaker 7: And I got so much respect for that guy Across.

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Speaker 1: Two more teams off the list of teams with a

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Speaker 1: head coaching vacancy thanks to the Jaguars Green of Turns

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Speaker 1: with Liam Cohen and the Raiders doing the same, with

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Speaker 1: Pete Carroll still awaiting the Cowboys and Saints' decisions. But

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Speaker 1: as for Pete, he was out of the NFL last

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Speaker 1: year following a party you know the ways was really

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Speaker 1: a dismissal from Seattle. He took out a new job

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Speaker 1: a week ago and apparently he's keeping it. Pete Carroll,

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Speaker 1: who was back on campus a USC, where, of course,

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Speaker 1: he coached the Trojans, will continue, according to the La Times,

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Speaker 1: teaching his class at USC game is life despite being

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Speaker 1: hired by the Las Vegas Raiders. All of which brings

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Speaker 1: me to an important question. Welcome back to the Insiders.

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Speaker 1: Tom Pella, Sero, Judy Batista, Mike Garafalo. Mike, what is

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Speaker 1: your side job that you're currently hiding from us while

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Speaker 1: also doing your job on this show?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I got nothing for you.

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Speaker 4: I think about bartending all the time, though I do

842
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Speaker 4: want to hear other people's problems, and I'm pretty good

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Speaker 4: making some drinks here and there, so I may do that,

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Speaker 4: not right now. We're too busy right now. But maybe

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Speaker 4: it may Insiders go right to the bar and just

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Speaker 4: start mixing.

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Speaker 2: I think I might. You did that, didn't you get one?

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Speaker 14: That is?

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Speaker 2: That is correct? For one day? I was awesome at

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Speaker 2: it too.

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Speaker 1: Would you log into Pete's class, Judy? Would would you

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Speaker 1: show up to Pete's class?

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Speaker 10: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Yes, as a matter of fact, can we do it now?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely? I would do that.

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Speaker 8: Yes.

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Speaker 1: I feel like online classes would have been a problem

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Speaker 1: in my day, might have helped. Like, if you can

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Speaker 1: be lazy enough to show up to class in person,

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Speaker 1: you can definitely lazy enough to not open a laptop.

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Speaker 2: Hey, we got Senior Bowl next week.

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Speaker 1: We'll be a mobile for the insiders life practicing in

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Speaker 1: Eastern every day. We'll see him