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Speaker 1: Happy holidays everyone, and welcome to Between the Horns. As always,

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Speaker 1: we are presented by your Southern California Toyota Dealer's proud

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Speaker 1: partner of the La Rams. I'm JB. Long Wish she

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Speaker 1: named Merry Christmas to my friend and broadcast partner, DeMarco

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Speaker 1: far First of all, DeMarco, you're ready to go to

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Speaker 1: a wintry Midwest Minneapolis to take on the vikings? I

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Speaker 1: think so. I think I'm prepared. You know, I got

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Speaker 1: hamster trails and whatnot. So we'll be fine, right, all right,

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Speaker 1: we won't be exposed. Fair enough, we are. We are

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Speaker 1: excited about the third member of our roundtable this week,

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Speaker 1: back for an encore performance, Jordan Rodrigue of the Athletic

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Speaker 1: and Jordan, you're just in time for our second annual

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Speaker 1: Christmas Carolyne edition of Between the Horns. What does selection

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Speaker 1: have you chosen to sing for us this morning? Let's go?

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Speaker 1: Come on now, see this is me. Nobody talked about

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Speaker 1: this when we were off car here you guys just

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Speaker 1: let me ran about my internet connection for about fifteen minutes.

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Speaker 1: I tell you what would break all three of these

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Speaker 1: singing if they're not fifteen or twenty beers deep. That

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Speaker 1: would break everyone's brain. We're not going to do that. Wow.

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Speaker 1: As always, I have Mariah Carey teed up, so maybe

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Speaker 1: for the end of the show. But in all seriousness,

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Speaker 1: we love Jordan's work, and aside from her daily and

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Speaker 1: weekly coverage, a couple of really interesting personal profiles on

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Speaker 1: Van Jefferson and Leonard Floyd recently. So if the holidays

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Speaker 1: give you some extra time to pour into some reading,

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Speaker 1: highly recommend Jordan's work before we continue. Jordan, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you push you on the spot, but is there anything

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Speaker 1: else you're working on or anything about those articles that

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Speaker 1: you'd like to share with us. That's so nice of you. JB.

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Speaker 1: Thank you first of all for saying that I really

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Speaker 1: enjoy covering this team because everybody has such not to

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Speaker 1: sound like Sean McVay, but has a great way about them,

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Speaker 1: good looking, their eye. No, it's really just fascinating to

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Speaker 1: and who they are, and for Leonard Floyd especially, in

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Speaker 1: Van Jefferson. I wanted to write those last week or

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Speaker 1: two weeks ago because I feel like there's there are

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Speaker 1: so many layers to those two as they continue to

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Speaker 1: learn and grow and go on this journey. They're at

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Speaker 1: two very different places in their journeys right now, with

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Speaker 1: Van just being you know, a second year receiver and

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Speaker 1: learning as he goes, and Leonard Floyd really finding himself

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Speaker 1: and becoming who he is and who he feels he

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Speaker 1: was always supposed to be in this place, and I

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Speaker 1: just really wanted to explore more of that individually. Those

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Speaker 1: two were so gracious with their time, got a really

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Speaker 1: really cool piece. I'm excited about this week coming out

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Speaker 1: about Tory Holt, So hopefully you guys keep a lookout

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Speaker 1: for that. I know, DeMarco, that will be very near

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Speaker 1: and dear to your heart as well. So thank you

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Speaker 1: jab for giving me the opportunity to talk about this

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Speaker 1: work as I just love to do it, so I

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Well, you know, I'm fond of saying consistency

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Speaker 1: set our clock to your product. We appreciate your competitive greatness,

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Speaker 1: and so on and so I've got a good look

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Speaker 1: here we go. This is exactly what you hope for

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Speaker 1: down the stretch. Right three to play, you're tie to

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Speaker 1: have the Vikings, the Ravens, the Niners starting this Christmas Saturday.

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Speaker 1: The Arizona Cardinals have the Colts, a trip to Dallas

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Speaker 1: You're starting to play your best football now. I think

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Speaker 1: So let's hope that travels to Minnesota. This ain't going

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Speaker 1: Does feel like the narrative coming out of this week

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Speaker 1: Let's stick with that running element. Then, and you think

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Speaker 1: run blockers. So after three weeks with three different right tackles.

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Speaker 1: I never wish you know the whole COVID situation on anybody,

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Speaker 1: Rob Havenstein since college the guys, he just doesn't miss

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Speaker 1: that's fresh is awesome, especially the way you're running the

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Speaker 1: the way he runs. It's north and south. He challenges

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Speaker 1: on defense to be. I mean, you know, an attacking

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Speaker 1: action when they're actually buying it and collapsing, you've got

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Speaker 1: no chance. One on one with Cooper Cup on the

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Speaker 1: outside or in the slot, that's guaranteed. That's MVP worthy.

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Speaker 1: So if you're Minnesota and you're Mike Zimmer and you're

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Speaker 1: thinking you can just let's just call cover two and

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Speaker 1: expect our front seven to handle the run game, you're wrong.

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Speaker 1: Number two. If you think those safeties can crash down

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Speaker 1: all this and what we've seen out in Sony Michelle,

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Speaker 1: Rob back is going to be huge. But Sony Michell

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Speaker 1: this offense. To Markolavily, got one name to add to

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Speaker 1: your point about Rob Havenstein benefiting from a couple of

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Speaker 1: COVID buys. Let's just say, and we don't mean that flippantly, right, like,

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Speaker 1: their health is the most important thing and if they

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Speaker 1: are able to tread on the tires. Tyler Higby is

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Speaker 1: another name that comes to mind. Right. One miss game

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Speaker 1: a true positive. I hope that Tyler is back sooner

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Speaker 1: the most demanding roles in football, maybe in all of sports,

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Speaker 1: tight end and Sean mcvay's offense, and he's played through

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Speaker 1: two really warrior like seasons now in for this year,

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Speaker 1: he's been doing it almost single handedly. So I'll due

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Speaker 1: respect to Kennell Blanton and Bryson Hopkins, but they're not

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Speaker 1: Tyler Higby, certainly not in terms of their talent or

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Speaker 1: depth of experience in this offense. If he's right, I

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Speaker 1: think the Ramps can take it to the next level.

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Speaker 1: This transition is two. Are you guys, is it possible

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Speaker 1: for a tight end in the Sean mcmah offense to

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Speaker 1: make the Pro Bowl because of what you're asked to do? Yeah? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he did. His name's Cooper Cup. That's a good point.

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Speaker 1: Let's be a deciel eleven and a half personnel that

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Speaker 1: Cooper Cup runs and we're not going to ruin me

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Speaker 1: a holiday spirit by getting into Pro Bowl, snug, because

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Speaker 1: you have one of the best offensive lines in the

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Speaker 1: NFL and not a single individual representative is going to

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Speaker 1: that showcase. But that's neither here nor there. Let me

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Speaker 1: continue to stir things up, though, and let's transition to

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