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Speaker 1: The Around the League Podcast, controlled the ball and got

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Speaker 1: both feet in bounds. Welcome back to another edition of

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Speaker 1: the Round the League Podcast. My name is Dan Hansas,

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Speaker 1: and I'm joined by a room filled with heroes Chris Westling,

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Speaker 1: Mark Sessler, and Greg Rills at all What up? Boys?

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Speaker 1: Another day? What's happening? Another day? Another day? Division another day? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're right, a day our whole year. I feel like

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Speaker 1: we've been studying for a test. In the test is

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Speaker 1: this weekend divisional round. A lot of the teams think

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Speaker 1: they've been working up to this moment, but the real

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Speaker 1: stories us and what we've been working toward, and that

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Speaker 1: is delivering a high level podcast on Thursday and then

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Speaker 1: watching the game Sunday and evaluating them. True story. And Saturday, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and Saturday, and they're not even sure what day these

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Speaker 1: games happen. I wasn't planning on watching them, all right,

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Speaker 1: So we have a we have a obviously a big show.

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Speaker 1: This will be our proper preview of Saturday and Sunday's games.

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Speaker 1: But why don't we start with one bit of big

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Speaker 1: NFL news that is not playoff related. The Washington Redskins

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Speaker 1: couldn't be further away from the playoffs right now, but

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Speaker 1: they move forward today. NFL Media's Jeff Darlington reported Thursday

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Speaker 1: morning the Jake Ruden and the Redskins have finalized the

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Speaker 1: deal to make him the successor to Mike Shanahan. UH

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Speaker 1: rap Sheet reported that Gruden received a five year deal.

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Speaker 1: Her a source and formed of the contract five years

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Speaker 1: for Jake Ruden. It's a little surprising, right it is.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if Greg Jake Gruden will end up

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Speaker 1: I'd be depressed. You went from Mike Shanahan and his

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Speaker 1: son Old Boys Network to your g M. Bruce Allen

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Speaker 1: used to be inca hoots with John Gruden coats. You

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Speaker 1: make it sound like they were doing a legal activity.

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Speaker 1: They won a Super Bowl. Who does what kind of

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Speaker 1: legal activities they were doing? But now he hires his brother.

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Speaker 1: I thought DAMNAGEX joke was good. The Browns are about

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Speaker 1: to hire to Rico's brother. I agree with Wes. I.

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Speaker 1: I think it's tough if you're after what the Redskins

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Speaker 1: but someone's gone and got his brother who The results

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Speaker 1: big spots, Gruden just to me feels like an offense

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Speaker 1: that is unimaginative conservative. And now he's got r G three.

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Speaker 1: There's an argument to be made and some people in Tampa.

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Speaker 1: run up, Frank. If you want to make the case

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Speaker 1: So I'm open minded about Jay Gruden. I'm not that

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Speaker 1: He's been terrible. Jay Gruden. In three playoff games in Cincinnati,

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Speaker 1: I wrote this on Twitter yesterday. I feel like Jake

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Speaker 1: Gruden getting out of out of Cincinnati is like Air

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Speaker 1: Force one and Independence Day taking off with President Bill

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Speaker 1: You gotta have great attention to detail, not just on Sundays,

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Speaker 1: Let's get into the games. This is fun. We will

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Speaker 1: The Indianapolis Colts travel to Foxboro to face the New

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Speaker 1: England Patriots. Uh, you know the backstory. These teams did

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Speaker 1: Chris Wesseling, this is a soft this is a soft

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Speaker 1: the League Chicago correspondent. He is the great Kevin Patra

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Speaker 1: coming at you. Hey, great, but I'm good. You have

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Speaker 1: Kevin Patrick, we have this game coming up. The Seattle Seahawks,

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Speaker 1: They take away the big plays. They make you move

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Speaker 1: looks like he's in line to maybe play. It's obviously

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Speaker 1: on a pitch count. But what fifteen twenty snaps that

430
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Speaker 1: guy only needs a couple of plays to completely wreck

431
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Speaker 1: whatever it is New Orleans was planning to do, or

432
00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:47,399
Speaker 1: a couple of plays to wreck his hip again and

433
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Speaker 1: be at this one of the other. So what happened.

434
00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:52,800
Speaker 1: Let's you're right good, Let's give bad Santha some credit.

435
00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:56,880
Speaker 1: Two fifty six yards against a much much better offense

436
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Speaker 1: last week. I don't know how it works with the

437
00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:03,720
Speaker 1: Saints defense, but you you mentioned the home field advantage

438
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Speaker 1: being the difference, and I agree. The Saints have a

439
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Speaker 1: huge uphill battle. They were home for Arizona and they're

440
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Speaker 1: often stunk. They were home for that Week seventeen game

441
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Speaker 1: against St. Louis. It took a while for the offense

442
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Speaker 1: to pull away from St. Louis in that game. Russell

443
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Speaker 1: Wilson has not been good for a month. If you're

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Speaker 1: gonna if the Saints are gonna win this game, especially

445
00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:25,919
Speaker 1: in a rain storm, they the Saints just have to

446
00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:28,879
Speaker 1: be great on defense again and it could be a

447
00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:31,920
Speaker 1: seven to seven game at halftime and the Saints run

448
00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:34,000
Speaker 1: a little bit. I could see that happening where it's

449
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Speaker 1: close for a while because of that's not you've been

450
00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:39,840
Speaker 1: doubt in bad Santa all year West that they had

451
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Speaker 1: no chance. You're forgetting about the two pick six is

452
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Speaker 1: for the Seahawks and a fumble return for a touchdown.

453
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Speaker 1: How many games have we seen them play at home

454
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Speaker 1: where they get these defense and special teams touchdowns there.

455
00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:53,280
Speaker 1: I don't see how one of those things doesn't happen.

456
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Speaker 1: I mean, they're They're a machine at home. One thing though,

457
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Speaker 1: the Seahawks, that is their achilles heel this season, I

458
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Speaker 1: feel like is the offense is known to go into

459
00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:03,960
Speaker 1: the tank at times, which is strange because you have

460
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,800
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson and you have Marshawn Lynch and you would

461
00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:09,600
Speaker 1: think that's not gonna happen. But they have gone through funks.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's certainly possible that they aren't. Even

463
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Speaker 1: with Percy Harvard's potentially there, that they can start slow

464
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Speaker 1: again and Rob Ryan gets going on the d. This

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Speaker 1: could be closer than people think. I'm almost talking about

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Speaker 1: Seattle doesn't have an achilles heel. I've got a potential

467
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Speaker 1: weakness that might hurt them to some degree. But this

468
00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:31,159
Speaker 1: team is so heads and tails better than the Saints

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Speaker 1: that you're right, we need something crazy to happen for

470
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Speaker 1: the past protection. I think it's past protection. I think

471
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Speaker 1: they're one of the worst teams in the league. Recent

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Speaker 1: events have people deluded and into thinking the Saints are

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Speaker 1: almost as good as the Seahawks, and they're just not.

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Speaker 1: No one's saying that. And the and the problem I

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Speaker 1: think for the Saints if if you're trying to even

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Speaker 1: make a case for them, as Drew Brees is stunk

477
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Speaker 1: for three straight road games. He was bad last week

478
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Speaker 1: that got overlooked. He did not play well. He did

479
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Speaker 1: not play well in Seattle, he did not play well

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Speaker 1: in Carolina. I was kind of shocked to rewatch that

481
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Speaker 1: game and see how how poorly Breeze played against Philly.

482
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Speaker 1: And if that's a good thing for this No, no,

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Speaker 1: I'm saying that's where you can't. It's hard to make

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Speaker 1: the case for the Saints there. And if you and

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Speaker 1: we should yeah, we should say stay tethered to reality

486
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Speaker 1: that the Seahawks are a huge favorite. The Seahawks went

487
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Speaker 1: three and one against the remaining NFC playoff teams out

488
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Speaker 1: scoring them by a total to thirty six, should not

489
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Speaker 1: allow more than seven points in any of their any

490
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Speaker 1: of the wins. This is a really freaking good team

491
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Speaker 1: and they should be able to take care of You

492
00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:28,280
Speaker 1: need this to happen because you got that tweet out.

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Speaker 1: Need it. I'm gonna get it. So if the if

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Speaker 1: the Saints do in this game, we should get Patrick

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Speaker 1: or Wesley someone to agree to do something ridiculous, since

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Speaker 1: you're giving him no chance at all. Did anyone pants West? No,

497
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Speaker 1: but I'll cook sauce. Oh Man. West made some delicious

498
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Speaker 1: spaghetti sauce for me recently. It was almost a chili

499
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Speaker 1: and its consistency. Chris, we will or Kevin, we will

500
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Speaker 1: send you that sauce if if the Saints somehow win

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Speaker 1: this game. None of us picked the Saints, by the way.

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Speaker 1: We all this right, all right, Kevin, thank you very

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Speaker 1: much for joining us. And uh, you know, it's always

504
00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:06,440
Speaker 1: great to hear your voice. It's very beautiful. And try

505
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Speaker 1: to get outside every once in a while to get

506
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Speaker 1: back it's ridiculous, it's laughable. Thank you, Kevin. I feel bad.

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Speaker 1: I feel bad. This is a major story in the

508
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Speaker 1: United States the last few weeks, the weather across the country,

509
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Speaker 1: and then this little pocket of America where we happen

510
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:30,920
Speaker 1: to live in southern California, it's just glorious, seventy one

511
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:34,520
Speaker 1: to seventy four degrees with the sunshining every day. My

512
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Speaker 1: whole family and all my friends in New York are

513
00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:39,720
Speaker 1: literally dying on Facebook. And this is apparently going all

514
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Speaker 1: across America. I was a little bitter yesterday. I had

515
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Speaker 1: the day off and it was just cool enough to

516
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Speaker 1: where I couldn't go to the pool. I don't feel bad.

517
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Speaker 1: Maybe that shows how we're different. I feel lucky and

518
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Speaker 1: happy that I'm here, and that the other guy, the

519
00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:57,679
Speaker 1: other people are fools, including your loved ones, saying your

520
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Speaker 1: parents out in massachusetts's a cold wind wasting. Every human

521
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:08,920
Speaker 1: being has choices, calling fulls. That called Cincinnati's chumps, that's true.

522
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Speaker 1: Moving on the San Diego Chargers, coming off their win

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Speaker 1: over the Bengals. The Bengals West says they can't have

524
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 1: nice things. They didn't have a playoff win. So now

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Speaker 1: the Chargers move on to Denver where they are. You know,

526
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Speaker 1: they they're probably the biggest underdog this weekend. They're going

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Speaker 1: to face the Denver Broncos with Peyton manning the record

528
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Speaker 1: setting season. I will ask you, Mark Sessler, did the

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Speaker 1: Chargers have any chance of pulling out the upset? Well,

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Speaker 1: real quick. There is a convict in Pennsylvania who filed

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Speaker 1: a motion to have the Chargers removed from the playoff

532
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:50,960
Speaker 1: race because he doesn't think not only did they do

533
00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:52,480
Speaker 1: not have a chance in this game, but they don't

534
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Speaker 1: belong there in the first place. That's shoe. He filed

535
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Speaker 1: a temporary emergency injunction from a prison and and his

536
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:04,800
Speaker 1: name was my favorite part, Daniel L. Spuck. Yeah. Now listen,

537
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Speaker 1: I don't know when this guy is getting out of

538
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Speaker 1: the big house, so I don't want to say anything.

539
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:10,840
Speaker 1: To say a wonderful guy, I wouldn't say anything. He

540
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:14,280
Speaker 1: reminded yesterday I was at a FedEx and there was

541
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:18,720
Speaker 1: a guy who had weird photographs up and he had

542
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,879
Speaker 1: a letter addressed to the President and a big things

543
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:24,520
Speaker 1: that President Obama. My daughter grabbed one of his little

544
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,800
Speaker 1: photos and I was worried for our life. This sounds,

545
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:32,520
Speaker 1: it sounds to be in the same ball potentially that

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Speaker 1: there are plot elements from the old Clint Awood movie

547
00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:38,440
Speaker 1: in the Line of Fire? Did you have a plastic

548
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,760
Speaker 1: gun to be determined? And you know, look, I look

549
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:44,399
Speaker 1: at I think this game, we've we saw what the

550
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 1: Chargers have done over the last month, and really if

551
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:50,119
Speaker 1: it's a laboratory for them trying to figure out how

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00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:53,240
Speaker 1: to beat Denver, Uh, it worked in one game. I

553
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:55,600
Speaker 1: think at the first game. Wesley pointed out this morning

554
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:58,119
Speaker 1: that first game between San Diego and Denver is a

555
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Speaker 1: bit of a mirage with Denver scored a rash of

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Speaker 1: points early and the game hinged down the stretch a

557
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:07,119
Speaker 1: bit differently what they did in Thursday night five or

558
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:10,000
Speaker 1: six weeks ago was it was legitimate. In my book,

559
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:13,119
Speaker 1: McCoy coached a good game and found a way to

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Speaker 1: do what you need to do against Denver, and let's

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Speaker 1: keep Peyton Manning off the field. They've averaged thirty eight

562
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Speaker 1: minutes of possession time in the two games against Denver.

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00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:27,720
Speaker 1: That's that's the recipe we learned that plane h Madden

564
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Speaker 1: Intech mobile back in the day. Keep your high scoring

565
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 1: opponent off the field and you can you can win

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Speaker 1: games in a way that San Diego wants to. I

567
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:38,960
Speaker 1: wrote the real the write up for this thing, and

568
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 1: looked at a lot of numbers that suggested there might

569
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Speaker 1: be this possible up seven million. But then I got Mike,

570
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Speaker 1: and I picked an upset, and then I got in

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Speaker 1: my car and as if you know, human emotions and

572
00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:54,960
Speaker 1: sensibilities came back to me. I texted Greg and I said,

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Speaker 1: no way. I just think Denver also has two games

574
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Speaker 1: to stew on and think about and come back with

575
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Speaker 1: their approach. I don't love Denver's defense anymore than anyone else,

576
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Speaker 1: but Denver's gonna roll in this game. They're gonna roll

577
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 1: another blowout, another blowout. Why I even watched the games?

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00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,800
Speaker 1: West Lean says, but this is gonna be a blowout.

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Speaker 1: It's it's I don't know about blowout, but I think

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Speaker 1: they're gonna win. It's we're not gonna get Baltimore Ravens.

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Speaker 1: What have we seen from these two teams playing and

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Speaker 1: Peyton Manning's postseason history that suggests seventeen Let's see the

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Speaker 1: first game everyone's calling a close game was not a

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Speaker 1: close game. But why does the second half of that

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Speaker 1: game not count? People always say that that that they

586
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:38,520
Speaker 1: controlled the game because they were head first. The Chargers

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00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:40,360
Speaker 1: controlled the game in the second half. They had the

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Speaker 1: vall with a one score game in the fourth quarter.

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00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:44,920
Speaker 1: Of course it counts the Broncos won, right, But it

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00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:46,560
Speaker 1: was a close game, kind of like the second game

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Speaker 1: was a close game and the Chargers, well, this is

592
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 1: how people are reaching. If the Chargers play a close game,

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00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 1: it means they're gonna win. No, the Broncos are the

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00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:55,880
Speaker 1: better team. Of course, they're are better team. Peyton Manning

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Speaker 1: I went back and watched his last few games of

596
00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:01,360
Speaker 1: the season as more zip on the ball is throwing

597
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:03,480
Speaker 1: down the field more than any time I can remember

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Speaker 1: in the past three or four years. Uh, those wobblers

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00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,640
Speaker 1: that we saw here in the season, the floaters, He's

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00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:12,880
Speaker 1: not throwing those anymore. He's throwing whiz zip on intermediate

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00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 1: throws and accurately forty yards down the field, torching defenses.

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00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:19,960
Speaker 1: When they played this close game a few weeks ago,

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00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 1: West Welker didn't play. Julius Thomas was coming off an

604
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:25,239
Speaker 1: ankle injury. This is the healthiest this offense has been

605
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Speaker 1: since earlier in the year when they were smashing teams,

606
00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 1: and I expect that to continue again this week. Manning

607
00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,440
Speaker 1: was dropping bombs late in the season That's why I'm

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00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 1: a little worried about my hero pick the San Diego Chargers.

609
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:40,040
Speaker 1: I thought I thought Mark was with me, and I decided,

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Speaker 1: you know, I didn't like Rudy against the Chargers last week.

611
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:45,520
Speaker 1: I was really annoyed that I had picked against them.

612
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 1: I want to root I want to watch things and

613
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Speaker 1: root for him and pick the teams I want to win,

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Speaker 1: and I picked against Peyton Manning. So I went with

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Speaker 1: the Chargers because they're pretty good team right now. They

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Speaker 1: do a little bit of everything. They've been playing good

617
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:02,480
Speaker 1: defense lately. They have a quarterback that can go toe

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Speaker 1: to toe with Peyton Manning. I really believe it in

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Speaker 1: in his best day, Philip Rivers can do it. The

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Speaker 1: one concern is that Chargers secondary which hasn't been properly

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Speaker 1: exposed in a while, and it could show up. I mean,

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00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 1: a big weakness could show up any week. But this

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Speaker 1: is a tough minded team, this Chargers team. They've been

624
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 1: playing very well for a long time. I don't think

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00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 1: you can just ignore the fact that they won in

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00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:27,120
Speaker 1: this stadium just a few weeks ago. How is that

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00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:30,840
Speaker 1: not relevant. I'm not trying to discredit the Chargers. I

628
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:33,000
Speaker 1: think what John Pagano has done with that defense has

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Speaker 1: been excellent. I think he's shown an ability to upset

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Speaker 1: Peyton Manning's timing and to get him throwing off the

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Speaker 1: back foot, and I think that's the key to stopping

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Speaker 1: the Broncos. I just don't think they can do it

633
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 1: three times in one season. Piano, by the way six

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Speaker 1: and five against Manning as the coordinator in San Diego.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying that everyone should believe this. This is

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Speaker 1: what I believe. And both of the games they played

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00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 1: earlier year, if they were ten minutes more on the scoreboard,

638
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 1: the Broncos probably to had at least two more touchdowns

639
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 1: in both games because they just blow up at a

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00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 1: moment's notice. Well, here's here's the way I look at it.

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00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 1: I think I think the Broncos are the favorite in

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Speaker 1: this game. I think they'll win. Uh, the Chargers have

643
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:14,400
Speaker 1: a way to win this game. It's how they've been

644
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 1: winning games of late. It's ball control, it's it's Danny Woodhead,

645
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:20,959
Speaker 1: it's Ryan Matthews. But if they can't do that, if

646
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 1: they find themselves down four teen three at the end

647
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 1: of the first quarter, or down two scores after five minutes,

648
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 1: and that goes out the window, and then Philip Rivers

649
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 1: has to throw forty times. It's gonna be a blood bath.

650
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 1: So the first quarter is gonna probably tell us everything

651
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 1: about this game. Because if this game gets the halftime

652
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 1: and it's ten seven or thirteen ten, and then everybody's

653
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:44,000
Speaker 1: getting tight at the Mile High Stadium and Denver and

654
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:47,040
Speaker 1: the and Peyton Manning, they start flashing up graphics about

655
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 1: his struggles in the playoffs, then something weird could happen.

656
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 1: So I think the first quarter will determine this game.

657
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,280
Speaker 1: That's a quick question because Peyton Manning and I know

658
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 1: we don't care about this. It doesn't have anything to

659
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 1: do with this game. But he is one in four

660
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 1: in games first playoff games after the by and that

661
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 1: is the worst record of any quarterback since the wild

662
00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 1: card round was introduced in Let me just ask this,

663
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Speaker 1: if they lose this game after what happened last season,

664
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Speaker 1: how bad is the fallout in Denver? What's the reaction

665
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Speaker 1: I mean that would be Would that change your feelings

666
00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 1: about this Peyton Manning career. I don't see what would

667
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 1: possibly change. It's not like they're gonna go away from

668
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:27,840
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning. It's their quarterback. It's not like they're not

669
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Speaker 1: gonna it's not like they're gonna change their plans for

670
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 1: the two thousand and fourteen season. Yeah, I think that's

671
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 1: largely a media issue. Dave damn Check and Adam Rankle

672
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:39,680
Speaker 1: go skinny dipping off Santa Monica. Here. There will be

673
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Speaker 1: a great celebration for the nation of Peyton Manning haters.

674
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:46,040
Speaker 1: But ultimately, you know, I think it it will just

675
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 1: basically reinforce that he's the best regular season quarterback ever

676
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 1: and then a playoff liability, which is not a great

677
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 1: way to ability. It's it's not fair, but create the

678
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:57,720
Speaker 1: better team. You're right, the Broncos are a better team. Obviously,

679
00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:00,200
Speaker 1: I'm picking a big upset here, but the better team

680
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:03,240
Speaker 1: doesn't always win in the playoffs. That's the playoffs. That's

681
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 1: just sort of how it works. And you know, I

682
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:08,360
Speaker 1: had a hero pick earlier in the year for a

683
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 1: little Colts beating Peyton Manning, had one for the Patriots

684
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:14,759
Speaker 1: beating Peyton Manning. Let's get a third one. And the

685
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:17,360
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers factor. I don't think we can overlook that

686
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:19,920
Speaker 1: this is maybe the second best quarterback in the league,

687
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 1: and people use the word game manager as as a pejorative,

688
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:27,400
Speaker 1: but I think he's a game manager in the best sense.

689
00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 1: He is in control. He he had feign completions last week.

690
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,400
Speaker 1: He didn't throw the bomuch. Two of those were throwaways,

691
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,920
Speaker 1: one to miscommunication. He is controlling this thing and he

692
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:38,879
Speaker 1: can go toe to toe with Manning. Here's the mind

693
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 1: blowing stat that backs up your point. The Chargers offense

694
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:43,920
Speaker 1: had the fewest three and out drives in the NFL

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00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 1: this year with twenty three. Mannings Broncos were second with

696
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 1: thirty one three and ounce Gino Smith and the Jets

697
00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:53,720
Speaker 1: did that in Week four. I mean, that's that's crazy.

698
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 1: And that's all. The quarterback leading, leading the Charge and

699
00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 1: rivers has been awesome this year. We should say this

700
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:01,799
Speaker 1: real quick. If were Gregg and counting on a hero pick,

701
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,920
Speaker 1: the fact that Ryan Matthews couldn't play through his ankle

702
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:07,359
Speaker 1: injury in a tight game in the second half last

703
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 1: week would have me a little bit concerned. Yeah, not

704
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:14,560
Speaker 1: as much faith in Ronnie Brown. That's fair. That's fair, right,

705
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:17,640
Speaker 1: And let's move on now to what a lot of

706
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 1: people think, and I think we all agree in this room,

707
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:22,279
Speaker 1: is the best game of the divisional round playoffs to

708
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Speaker 1: San Francisco. Forty Niners travel to Charlotte to face the

709
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Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers. Uh. Two teams coming off great seasons now

710
00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:34,400
Speaker 1: and the Niners um even though they're on the road. Wes,

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Speaker 1: I ask you, are they the favorite to win this game?

712
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't have them as a favorite. I

713
00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:42,720
Speaker 1: think this is a pick um game. I'll be shocked

714
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Speaker 1: if this is not the closest game of the weekend. Uh.

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Speaker 1: First of all, they play low scoring games, so they

716
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:51,600
Speaker 1: they play close games. Uh. The forty Niners, I think

717
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:53,520
Speaker 1: are the most complete team in the NFL right now.

718
00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:57,000
Speaker 1: The Panthers have the best defense in the NFL at

719
00:35:57,040 --> 00:35:59,360
Speaker 1: home by nearly two points per game over the Seahawks.

720
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Speaker 1: I see this as just kind of a slobber knocker,

721
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Speaker 1: like the old Titans Ravens of the Laddie George Steve

722
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:08,960
Speaker 1: McNair Titans against the Ray Lewis Ravens. That kind of game,

723
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:13,440
Speaker 1: just hitting all over the field. Which front seven do

724
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Speaker 1: you think it is? Better? Go around the room here,

725
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:19,759
Speaker 1: I mean, which one do you would you take? I

726
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:23,000
Speaker 1: think if you put the Panthers front seven on the

727
00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:26,839
Speaker 1: Niners right now, I'm not sure they lose another game,

728
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:28,440
Speaker 1: they go to the Super Bowl and they win it.

729
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:31,319
Speaker 1: I would take the Panthers front seven. Greg pointed this

730
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:33,640
Speaker 1: out in his game recap. The last time these two

731
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:36,880
Speaker 1: teams played, Keiklely and Thomas Davis outplayed Bowman and Willis.

732
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:39,960
Speaker 1: I'm not saying they're better, but they did outplay them.

733
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Speaker 1: I love what Charles Johnson and Greg Hardy are doing,

734
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:45,760
Speaker 1: and then the inside pushed from Starlatula and their rotation.

735
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:52,280
Speaker 1: I like the Panthers front set. What about Alden Smith?

736
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 1: Is he back to being Aldon Smith at this point

737
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 1: or is that something we might not see until September,

738
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Speaker 1: because he, to me, is a major ex Factly, when

739
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:02,279
Speaker 1: you judge these two fronts, he's a complete nightmare. I

740
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 1: think he's better. I think he's better now than he

741
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:07,600
Speaker 1: was last year. He's been dominating. Is he the best

742
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:10,840
Speaker 1: player out of all those both sides? I don't know

743
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 1: if I won't say that, well over over Hardy, oh.

744
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 1: I think of the pass rushers, he's better. He's better

745
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:18,560
Speaker 1: than Hardy and Johnson. Although I think Charles Johnson, who

746
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:20,879
Speaker 1: hasn't gotten a lot of attention lately, is a big

747
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:22,719
Speaker 1: factor in this game. He had two sacks in their

748
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:25,319
Speaker 1: last game, uh, not against the forty had two saxs

749
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:27,800
Speaker 1: in week seventeen, and he really beat up on Anthony

750
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 1: Davis of the forty Niners. Uh last time these two

751
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:34,759
Speaker 1: teams played, I watched it and Davis really struggled the

752
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 1: whole game. So he might be someone that RIVERA. They

753
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 1: threw some blitz is at him, there was communication problems.

754
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:42,759
Speaker 1: Kaepernick got sacks six times, so I think they're going

755
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:44,520
Speaker 1: to attack that side of the line. This is one

756
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 1: game where we talked in the last podcast what's changed

757
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:49,320
Speaker 1: and and and for me, you know, the forty Niners

758
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 1: haven't lost the games since Crabtree came back. And it's

759
00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:55,120
Speaker 1: not just because of Crabtree, because it took him weeks

760
00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:58,239
Speaker 1: to kind of get warmed up. But he looked good

761
00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 1: last week and he's a huge reason that. A. He

762
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 1: caught big ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, seventeen yard catches every time,

763
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:07,719
Speaker 1: and I think he gives He's Kaepernick's safety blanket more

764
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 1: than Vernon Davis is. But they didn't have Davis last

765
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:12,200
Speaker 1: time either. He only played a couple of plays before

766
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:14,799
Speaker 1: he went out with concussion. Look at how much more

767
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:16,959
Speaker 1: this offense has than the one that scored nine points

768
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:19,440
Speaker 1: last time. I think I had a good time watching

769
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:22,239
Speaker 1: Panthers fans get themselves worked up on Twitter yesterday about

770
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:24,760
Speaker 1: all the disrespect they're getting from the media. Who cares.

771
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:27,880
Speaker 1: It's nothing to do with that. Everyone expects us to

772
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 1: be a close game, and I don't. I don't think

773
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:32,920
Speaker 1: you can blame any writer, any analysts for picking one

774
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:36,680
Speaker 1: team over the other. I think most people in the

775
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:40,080
Speaker 1: media question the Panthers offense for good reason. If they

776
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:41,680
Speaker 1: make it to the Super Bowl, they'll have the lowest

777
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:44,920
Speaker 1: ranked offense in Super Bowl history. I can blame writer

778
00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:49,200
Speaker 1: slash analysts people in this room because the Carolina Panthers

779
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:51,440
Speaker 1: were the team of a t L all season, and

780
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:53,680
Speaker 1: yet you look at our picks, and the majority of

781
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 1: us went with the Niners, but two of us, wes

782
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:59,400
Speaker 1: leyn and I took the Panthers. I'm standing strong, and

783
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 1: that makes about. That makes sense that it would be

784
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:03,560
Speaker 1: a split type of game and we should have went.

785
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 1: I'm going to enjoy it. I'm gonna Kaepernick's gonna try

786
00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:10,880
Speaker 1: to do those runs that worked against you know, Malumbo

787
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:14,920
Speaker 1: last week, and Nick Perry but here comes Thomas Davis,

788
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:17,560
Speaker 1: and here comes keekly tracking them down, and suddenly those

789
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:20,320
Speaker 1: eleven yard runs are two yard runs. It not happening.

790
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:22,520
Speaker 1: One reason Dan that I didn't real quick because we

791
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:24,279
Speaker 1: look at the Saints and it's as a road team,

792
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:28,040
Speaker 1: there's such a different organization. But San Francisco has only

793
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:30,879
Speaker 1: lost two road games all year, and I don't look

794
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 1: at Carolina as anything nearly as formidable as lambeau Field.

795
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:37,759
Speaker 1: They're gonna go in and I don't think Carolina is

796
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:40,000
Speaker 1: that tough of a place to play fair seven and

797
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:41,799
Speaker 1: one this year. The only lost day had was because

798
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:45,319
Speaker 1: D'Angel d'angela Williams fumbled against the Seahawks. Good Niners just

799
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:47,279
Speaker 1: aren't a team that crumbles on the road. I don't

800
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:49,879
Speaker 1: care where they got him at any stadium, I don't care.

801
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:52,040
Speaker 1: One of the reasons I picked the Panthers to win

802
00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:54,360
Speaker 1: is because of the crowd. In Week sixteen versus the

803
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:56,439
Speaker 1: Saints was one of the best crowds I've seen all

804
00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:58,960
Speaker 1: year in any state. But against the Niners are not

805
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 1: going to be intimidated by a crowd. I know we're

806
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 1: saying that there's it's a different forty Niners offense, and

807
00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 1: it is, it's so much better. But the level of

808
00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:13,080
Speaker 1: dominance from that first game is still something to talk

809
00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:16,400
Speaker 1: about because they got six points stuff just off the turnovers.

810
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:19,920
Speaker 1: Their offense scored three points. They had one of the

811
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:23,480
Speaker 1: worst games any offense has had against anyone. They got

812
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,920
Speaker 1: bum rushed and beat in every possible way. And I

813
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 1: hate to like boil it down to football cliches, but

814
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Speaker 1: you know, you said it was a slobber. It feels

815
00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:35,920
Speaker 1: like this is just one of those games, like who's

816
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:38,880
Speaker 1: gonna be tougher? The forty Niners could not pick up

817
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:41,440
Speaker 1: a fourth and one last time. Is that because Crabtree's

818
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:44,279
Speaker 1: not in? I don't know. It was because Carolina was

819
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:47,360
Speaker 1: just pushing them around. And if they can do that, oh,

820
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:49,840
Speaker 1: we're gonna have the Panthers going to the super Bowl.

821
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Speaker 1: It's so excited. It's adorable. When we talked to Greg

822
00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:56,400
Speaker 1: Roman at the Super Bowl last year, he talked about

823
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:58,399
Speaker 1: how and this has not been as big a deal

824
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:04,440
Speaker 1: for the Niners and yeah, this was actually this is

825
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:07,200
Speaker 1: before the Super Bowl in the airport. No, this was

826
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:10,880
Speaker 1: at media day. He basically said that we took the

827
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:13,480
Speaker 1: read option and buried it. Over the last month because

828
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:16,040
Speaker 1: we wanted teams to think that we had gone away

829
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:18,719
Speaker 1: from it, that we intentionally the the read option play.

830
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:21,480
Speaker 1: Count of runs for Captain Nose dived at the end,

831
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 1: and then in the playoffs they went back to it.

832
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:25,880
Speaker 1: We saw that against Green Bay. I don't think this

833
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:28,000
Speaker 1: team is based around that the same way that they

834
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:30,440
Speaker 1: were a year ago. But do you think that they're

835
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Speaker 1: going to unleash Kaepernick Moore in this game than they

836
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:35,000
Speaker 1: have in the past. No, because that would be a

837
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:39,480
Speaker 1: death wish. Keithley and Davis is the too fastest inside linebackers. Yeah,

838
00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:43,360
Speaker 1: Keithley and Davis would kill that. Davis is closing speed

839
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:47,400
Speaker 1: is unreal. I think Cam's running ability might be more important.

840
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 1: Did Davis get on our Comeback Player of the Year's list? Well,

841
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:53,239
Speaker 1: I thought about it, but he really wasn't coming back

842
00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:55,759
Speaker 1: this year. He came back last year, so I thought

843
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 1: it was weird to do that. What about Steve Smith

844
00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:00,759
Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the ball. I know he's

845
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 1: we don't even know what he's gonna be able to

846
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:06,280
Speaker 1: give to them. Um, they don't have a ton of weapons.

847
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:08,719
Speaker 1: Ted Ginn prominently involved. You don't want that against the

848
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:11,200
Speaker 1: Niners in a playoff game. Are we worried about the

849
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:14,000
Speaker 1: Panthers ability to move the ball and score points? Absolutely?

850
00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:16,680
Speaker 1: You want the mind blowing the stat of the year

851
00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:20,799
Speaker 1: from two thousand eleven two thousand twelve, Cam Newton's first

852
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 1: two years in the NFL, Calvin Johnson the only player

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Speaker 1: in the NFL with more past place of twenty plus

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Speaker 1: yards than Steve Smith this year. One hundred thirty five

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Speaker 1: players including Combyn. That's Jeff Cumberland for all you, every

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Speaker 1: single person, Sean McGrath, Marvin Brown, all of these players,

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Speaker 1: one thirty five players have more past places of twenty

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Speaker 1: plus yards than Steve Smith getting old. And it's what

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Speaker 1: Dan tweeted, and he's right. I mean, Smith's also not

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Speaker 1: the same guy he was a year and they're not

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Speaker 1: asking you didn't You still haven't given enough Jeff Cumberland

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Speaker 1: background for people to know who he is. He is

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Speaker 1: a height end that plays for the New York Jets

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Speaker 1: that emerged as a prominent player this year on their

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Speaker 1: middling offense. When you talked about their offense, they would

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Speaker 1: be they have the twenties six ranked offense and that's

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Speaker 1: justin yardage. I get that, but that would be the

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Speaker 1: lowest ranked offense to ever make it to a Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: I love Cam I love watching him. I feel like

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Speaker 1: I've always defended him, but after you know, I picked

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Speaker 1: the Panthers. He's the biggest concern. The passing game as

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Speaker 1: a whole is easily the biggest concern I think on

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Speaker 1: the Panthers team, because man, he misses a lot of

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Speaker 1: open passes. He did it in that forty game. The

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Speaker 1: first time he did it in Week seventeen against Atlanta.

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Speaker 1: They're not He's you don't know what you're gonna get

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Speaker 1: from him. I think he's the streakiest quarterback too, because

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Speaker 1: for a quarter or two at a time, he can

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Speaker 1: just look like no one's gonna stop him, and you're

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Speaker 1: not sure what what's gonna pop up. I thought the

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Speaker 1: game in their win was the worst he's played all year.

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Speaker 1: It was a horrible game. My bigger concern from a

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Speaker 1: humanity perspective. In statement today, Rick Flair's agency says he

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Speaker 1: has received death threats from Panthers fans following his forty

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Speaker 1: Niners pep talk on Saturday. I'm ready for that guy

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Speaker 1: to not cook back into like a seven year non

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Speaker 1: media hole. Enough with Rick Flair, enough with David seriously,

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Speaker 1: really no more death threats? We should we should mention

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Speaker 1: Greg begged d' angelo Williams earlier in the year to

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Speaker 1: make a defender miss. We should point out he's making

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Speaker 1: defenders miss over the past four or five weeks average

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Speaker 1: four point four yards per touch before Jonathan Stewart's Week

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Speaker 1: fourteen injury, Since then averaging over seven yards per touch.

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Speaker 1: Aren't they better when they don't have this three headed backfield?

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Speaker 1: Get Stewart out of there and d'El he's gonna plants

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Speaker 1: in the film? Say they're better with d' angel Williams. Now, yeah?

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Speaker 1: Anybody else have anything to add on this incredible game?

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Speaker 1: I could see? This is how I envisioned the game.

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Speaker 1: Can I'm Newton? Shown several times this year he can

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Speaker 1: win games in the final minute. I see a game

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Speaker 1: winning field goal drive with Graham Gono. Is the interesting?

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Speaker 1: I like, like a fifty five yard I'm gonna walk off?

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Speaker 1: I would be afraid. It's funny because Cam had this

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Speaker 1: really lame reputation going into the year in these close games,

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Speaker 1: which was wasn't fair to him, and yet I'd be

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Speaker 1: terrified of him at the end of games. He has

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Speaker 1: been so money in those spots. He's one of the

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Speaker 1: guys that be most afraid of. Alright, So that is

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Speaker 1: our preview of the divisional weekend. We will be back

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Speaker 1: on Sunday night to go over all four games. Very exciting.

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Speaker 1: We're looking forward to the games. We know you guys

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Speaker 1: are as well. Hey, the gold standard behind the glass.

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Speaker 1: also have been nominated for Most Seductive Producer Award. I

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