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It's the downbeat on ninety seven to
one, The Freak thirty minutes away.

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Another murderer let loose after spending a
little bit of time in jail. Details

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on that, a few other things
that caught my interest, including a penis

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surgery gone wrong. Mike, it
happens, It does happen, It happens.

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I have MAVs basketball tonight here on
the Freak. Who we got We

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get the Blazers again. Oh yeah, you get them back to back.

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You stomped them on Wednesday, didn't
even have to play Luca and Kyrie in

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the fourth quarter. Before we get
into formal sports at seven, because I

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think Cowboys is going to be the
main topic in NFL stuff. They said,

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there's a story about the MAVs Jazz
game on Monday night and a fan

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brought a sign that said, I'm
gonna read this quote. What the sign

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said. Okay, okay, it's
said. It's not me saying it,

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Okay, but it said I'm a
Jew and I'm proud. Well, there's

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three fans and so we don't know. I think they brought some rabbis to

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the game. There some rabbis at
the game in Utah and they're holding up

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signs that say I'm a Jew and
I'm proud. So there's a big again

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the internet. It takes off and
the idea that Kyrie had them removed from

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the game. Kyrie did not have
them removed from the game. It's another

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case of people probably throwing on their
predisposed thoughts of Kyrie out there. But

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Kyrie is like, no, I
didn't do anything. So you know,

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whatever whatever happened those guys, I
think we're asked to move, and I

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think Kyrie actually said to them Happy
New Year, so to him, so

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I think he's a real nice and
not that big of a deal. So

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that was weird. That was a
story because it immediately the Internet's like,

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Kyrie had these people removed from the
game or they're signs removed from the game,

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and they did not. So there
you go. Kyri's in the clear.

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It's good to have him back.
Twenty nine, twenty nine the other

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night, I mean, that's the
that's the cheat code for the MAVs,

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where, especially in a world right
now where the Lakers are now bottoming out,

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Darvin Ham is like their head coach
has lost the locker room and a

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year where it began, it was
like, oh, the Lakers might be

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they might have it this year.
The Suns cannot figure out how to play

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with each other yet. Devin Booker, Kevin Durant, Bradley Beal, and

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the Warriors are still farting around at
you know, they blew an eighteen point

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win last night. Yeah, they're
sub five hundred, so they're struggling.

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So the matters of eighteen and fourteen
or whatever that was the record now actually

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it's eighteen twenty and fifteen, twenty
and fifteenth. Sorry, kind of sitting

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there, and they've got a chance
to kind of get a little healthy now.

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Yeah, Kyrie missed all of December. Yeah, and they were bad

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in December. So I think that
might tell you a little more than anything

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about Luca and Kyrie playing together.
How about not have one of them miss

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a month? Do you know what
the Lively situation. I don't know if

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he's gonna play tonight or not,
but him and Grant Williams both had an

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ankle sprain. They were evaluating okay, and then they thought it was minor,

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not long term, and the hope
is they would be back. This

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is a big seven game homestand so
the Master probably beat the Blazers without Lively

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and Grant Williams if they needed to. So maybe you're resting tonight and you

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get back to it on Sunday.
But those are all quick MAVs updates with

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the Home of the MAVs and they
play the Blazers tonight. But to the

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sport that America cares about most,
let's do this' and now the sports Hell,

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yeah, boys, it is week
eighteen. And you know, when

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the NFL moved the season to seventeen
games a few years ago, I didn't

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really love that because there's something about
an even record that looks good. You

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know, eight and eight, ten
and six. I don't know when you

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have teams finishing years at eight to
nine and ninety eight, it's very odd.

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But hereek eighteen, and you're gonna
get a lot of teams who don't

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have to play their quarterbacks. Pat
Mahomes is gonna sit, Lamar Jackson's gonna

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sit. These people are just not
playing. The uh forty nine Ers and

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Rams are playing in this game could
have some playoff implications that impact the Cowboys.

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That is going to be Sam Darnold
versus Carson Wentz. So if you

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go out to twenty sixteen and twenty
seventeen, that would have been like,

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hey, there's two young quarterbacks.
Now it's just guys clinging on to backup

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jobs. Saturday, we get two
games that are gonna be one of them

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is gonna be fun because you're gonna
get Steelers and Ravens action. Ravens don't

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need anything. They're the one seed. They're not playing Lamar. Like I

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said, the Steelers could win and
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So that's why they put that game
on Saturday because technically there's a small

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amount of playoff possibility. The nightcap
on Saturday is Colts and Texans and the

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win winners in. That's the biggest
one of the weekend, right as far

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as what matters, I mean,
that's essentially just winning in. Yeah,

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man, I've still would argue Dolphins, yeah, Bills Sunday night. But

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yes, winning in and for both
teams, and you know that's nothing better

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than that. No, that's great
where you don't have to rely on other

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activity or other games. Is it
cut and dry? I think there's a

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way they could get in. Both
of them could get in through. Yeah,

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the Jaguars losing on Sunday, okay, but it's essentially heads up winning.

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You're in between the Colts and Texans. Texans should be getting more love

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for what they should. One even
glanced at a rookie QB. I saw

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some of the and they usually do. It's like the teams that make the

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biggest jump. The coach of the
year is usually that. Yeah, but

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I saw some coach of the year. There's a big pole. I don't

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know if it's gonna be. The
Vegas odds are bright. Dan Campbell was

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up there like they were supposed to
be good, So I don't know about

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that. Demiko Ryans of Houston Texans, Yeah, dude, he's first of

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all, he's awesome. Everyone loves
him and they're rare. And I'm a

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big fan of not hiring defensive head
coaches. I think you should get offensive

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head coaches who are very much involved
in helping the offense. But he's awesome,

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Like every time they get a stop, he's just fired up and fist

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bumping his dudes. And I think
kind of stays out of the offense,

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just kind of lets the offensive coaches
handle it, you know. I kind

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of like that. And then the
other one is like the Effan Browns.

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Well, Stefanski is the favorite.
The favorite, now, okay, hen

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he should be because they've had what
four or five quarterbacks. I mean,

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Deshaun Watson goes down, PJ.
Walker goes down. Who else did they

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use it quarterback? I haven't forgot
who their second quarterback? Yeah, the

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three initial Dude, Joe Flacco is
the guy, and he's playing kind of

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good, and they just basically said, screw it, we're gonna play aggressive.

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We have Joe Flacco. We don't
need to play a balance game.

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That's not his game. What does
it feel like Joe Flacco was in the

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league when I was in high school. Well, he might have been,

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Danny, you were in high school
in the eighties. He's thirty eight,

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okay, but he's been, you
know, kicking it around as a backup

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third quarterback, you know. And
to come in though, and I actually

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don't have to learn a full offense. You just have to learn that week's

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game plan care of the players we're
gonna call this week and the formations we're

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gonna call this week. But geez, their their mode has been remember with

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deep to a Marii Cooper all right, and maybe we'll get a pass interference,

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maybe we'll hit on a big play. But they're not doing a lot

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of like we're trying to do sixteen
play drives with Joe Flacco, you know,

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just like saying screw it, we're
aggressive. You know who they're just

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hammering And who's turning into like elite
level is David and Joku their tight end,

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Yes, who was a beast and
would be on the short list of

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uh wrestler bodies in the NFL.
Like this dude is jacked and he's always

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been like okay, but like kind
of an underutilized weapon, and Flacco just

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loves him and he's getting ten catches
a game and tons of yards. He

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also earlier this year had some disaster
where he fell into a fire or something

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and he was all burned up,
and he showed up to the game like

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in a ski mask and look up
David and junk fire and like big burns.

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The first like the whole first layer
with his skin was burned off bad,

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like the Gowan Loved to the third
degree? What show is that on

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the curse? Okay, that's right, Love to the third degree? You

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guys probably ducked out on that didn't
you. Yep, one episode Bye,

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hey, look that's him, like, yeah, I've seen that photo was

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yeah, crazy burned up. But
anyway, he's a good player. And

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the Browns are more interesting than you
would have expected, I think, as

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are the Colts and Texans. But
I guess somebody has to make the damn

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playoffs. So went on, Yeah, I know, And do you remember

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last year what happened when it comes
to the Cowboys? Do you remember what

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happened in Week eighteen? Probably not, because I don't remember it. I

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had to go look it up.
They lost in Week eighteen at Washington twenty

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six to six. Who cares?
They had their you know, their path

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carved out for them. Bill knew
what was gonna happen. They're gonna make

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the playoffs. They were gonna go
to Tampa Bay beat them. Kind of

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the same situation as this year.
Was what would have been if the Eagles

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would have won last week, it
would have been maybe the same situation as

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this year. You probably would have
been going to Tampa Bay and then probably

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going to San Francisco. Now,
the Eagles loss and the Cowboys getting that

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win over the Lions helped propel them
to number two. But it's something Mic

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was talking about, like we're gonna
go and we need Silly to win to

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win the division, so they're gonna
play, and you know, there's none

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of that Week eight team, Like, how do we arrest some of our

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guys? I mean, obviously you
want to kill the team and rest your

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guys, but they're playing, so
you don't get the bye week or anything

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like that, which I think can
be helpful if you're trying to get guys

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healthy, if you take care of
business, you could maybe get the by

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quarter. They're fairly healthy, you
know, if you think about it.

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Dallas, Yeah, I mean,
what is the big injury loss of the

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year outside of Treyvon Diggs, which
is a big one. Everyone's kind of

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there. Yeah, you've been in
and out with your O line. Yeah,

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you know, and you'll be evolving
door for a lot of the season.

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I was reading that the Commanders are
considering not playing anybody either. Many

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of the Commander's veterans are just gonna
chill. They're not gonna play hard.

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They can lose and be the number
two pick in the draft. Did I

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read this? I love this quote
because of exactly what you said. One

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writer up in Washington called Sunday Showdown
against the Cowboys the biggest must lose game

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in Washington history. Yeah, this
is just a great term. I can't

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i'mregainying that could be no, that's
that's your cue and if you hit yeah,

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you're sorted for a little while.
So they are dying to lose.

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We didn't talk about this other than
just mentioning it. But how in the

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hell did Philadelphia lose to Arizona.
I didn't watch that. I've seen a

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little bit of highlights, but what
was the overriding kind of theme of that

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game? Why did they lose that
game that was as much win as you

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could get for them? There's the
overwriting theme from afar. Okay, it's

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one thing to lose to them like
the Cowboys did earlier in the year when

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you're still trying to figure some stuff
out. But it's just it's so funny

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that both the Cowboys and the Eagles
had their playoff implications directly affected at getting

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snake bit by the Cardinals and Cardinals
anyway, you were saying, well that,

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for me, the overriding theme is
that the Eagles can't stop anybody,

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and the Cardinals dominated that entire game. The overriding thing a theme in Philadelphia,

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and the thing they're angry about and
doing their stupid call in shows about

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are what was Nick Sirianni doing on
that drive twenty eight to twenty eight,

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you know? And they had confusion
and it's a it's a really good,

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like two minute sequence, and someone
cut up the video of like all the

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chaos. You've got one wide receiver
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the huddle and then a tight end
and then they got they had a first

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and twenty. It's twenty eight,
twenty eight, and then there's clearly did

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not get a play called, and
Joan Hurts takes the snap, runs like

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four yards. Fans start to boo
a little bit. Second sixteen, next

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play, same thing. There's people
yelling, they're freaking out, but they

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don't want to burn their time out. Joen Hurts takes a snap, runs

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to the right again, third and
long, so then they don't end up

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getting a first down. That's settle
for a field goal, and everyone is

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booing them and there's a great crowd
show out of all these Eagles fans just

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losing their freaking mind, and they
settle for a field goal. They go

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up thirty one to twenty eight,
and then they knew they couldn't stop the

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Cardinals and Kyler Murray walked right straight
down the field. Cardinals score and Eagles

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are have enough time to score an
like it was like the defense gets stopping.

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He won and that is a but
boy, that at home and you

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can't get a play in. That
is maddening. Now I remember there's a

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thing is it's inex This is actually
is excusable. But the Dolphins in the

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playoffs last year, you know they
didn't have their quarterbacks. Skyler Thompson played

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right because Tua was banged up.
When Mike McDaniel and they were having trouble

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getting plays in. Yeah the quarterback. And it was like, you know,

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the fans start booing and things like
that. Yep, but it's like,

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I don't know they had a third
quarterback. This is the Eagles who

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should be peaking, and they got
demolished by the forty nine ers five weeks

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ago and have not been the same
ever since. And they got run all

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over by Arizona two hundred plus yards. James Connor ripped them up. Yeah,

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so it was funny to see how
quickly the Eagles fans, like we

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all everyone kind of hates Nick Sirianni, but you assume that they like him

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up there, and like, just
how quickly that how fragile that is?

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You know, Yeah, they've been
great under him, you know, went

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to the damn Super Bowl last year, but a couple losses and one bad

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loss to the Cardinals, and it
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a couple losses and as high as
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That's just funny, man, because
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was yesterday that they were a one
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and here they are on knocking on
the door of losing their division. Now,

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I think Eagles giants. So did
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or at three twenty five? I
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three twenty five two because they're gonna
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the same time, because both teams
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can only be the two or the
five. There's really nothing more or that

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they can win and get a Cowboys
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home game or they can just lose, or they can win and the Cowboys

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win, they're the five. They'll
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Bay. Now, Tampa Bay can
wrap up the four if they beat Carolina,

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sounds pretty easy. If Tampa Bay
loses, they're out like winning,

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get in again, winning be the
four because they don't reseed. You know,

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if you're a division champion, you
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if Tampa Bay loses that game and
New Orleans wins theirs, they win their

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division. Division. I mean,
it's really stupid. And the Falcons have

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a way where if they win and
the Bucks lose, then they are the

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four seed. So there's a kind
of a fun little threesome there. There's

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no winning team in that division,
no no, And I've kind of and

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the Falcons A's seven and nine are
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of with the eight and nine division
winner, just for the chaos of it.

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Yeah, and I'll probably take that
team, whoever it is and the

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points in the playoffs. It's happened. Didnt Seattle beat who? A few

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years ago? They were like seven
to nine and they won their damn the

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year they bit the Saints. That
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right twenty twelve, I think yeah, for a couple of years ago,

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for eleven years more reason than that
for the Cowboys again, they could win.

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They're the two. Very simple.
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Cowboys drop down to the five,
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an easier road game than who they'll
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seven seed, because the seventh seed
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the Rams, and then a chance
that it's the Seahawks. Packers win and

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they're in the Rams play the forty
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So a Packers win in a Rams
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I don't love the Rams right now
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What if you're a Cowboy fan?
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a better team than the Packers right
now. And because the Rams can give

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you just a good running back,
a former MVP quarterback uh and two wide

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receivers who you just have to cover
at all times, where the Packers give

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you a quarterback who's trying to learn
on the fly and he is a running

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game that's good sometimes is Christian Watson
healthy. He's gonna play this week,

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but he's been on and off because
he cares his hamstring every month. They

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have awful receivers. Well it's weird, but they're all yelling Reed and uh

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Romeo Dobbs and Christian No, Christian
Watson can be good. Yeah, that's

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the thing. Their receiver corps is
five guys who are in their first two

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years in the league. Yeah,
they're the youngest offense in the league.

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Like they all have this. They
did on purpose too. They draft all

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these young guys to go with Jordan
Love and all move forward together. But

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Christian Watson and Dobbs and Jayden Reed
are not pooking the kula how do you

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spell it? Is that a Q
hulk poking a CoA Cooper cup And then

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you know whatever form of you know, Van Jefferson you're gonna get her or

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Alan Robinson, DeMarcus Robinson. They
have a lot of hym Man Rams are

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good. So I think you probably
want if I was if I was a

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Cowboy fan, I think I probably
you want to win clearly, And then

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I think you want the Rams to
go ahead and beat the forty nine ers

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to be the six, and then
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If the Packers beat the Bears,
now the Packers lost, like,

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there's a way for Seattle to get
in eight. It's not like easy,

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and that's maybe a game that could
happen, and that would take the Bears

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winning. Yeah, if Seattle wins
and the Bears win, then Seattle's in.

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So Seattle's possible to some Packers,
Rams or Seahawks. See, the

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Cowboys will laugh unless the Cowboys lose, which, man, you can't lose

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that game when you're playing for the
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you can't come out and suck.
And there's something weird about that field and

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there's something weird about that stadium and
the way the Cowboys play them sometimes Dak

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has not had his best games in
that stadium, where it's just like,

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I g't that feels gonna be a
little closer than it needs to be,

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whether they play people or not.
It's got this like slop factor on it.

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Yep, I agree. And isn't
uh Ron rivera kind of just a

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pain the ass always? And even
if he is playing backups and he's very

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likely getting canned on Monday, Yeah, we have Black Monday right around the

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corner, which will be always fun. You know, Yeah, I might

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be a might. I mean,
dude, it's weird because the Cowboys too.

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This is where I wish I could
say this is to be the most

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prepared team in the league. If
they are, then I'll eat my words

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and give him credit next week.
I there's not an ounce of me that

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thinks the Cowboys are going to be
the most prepared, least penalized team on

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Sunday. Like I just they should
mop them up. They should. I'm

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banking on that. But I hear
what you're saying. Man, anything,

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all bets are off when you play
up there. It's like playing tech at

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home at night. Yeah, dude, you're right. Yeah, weird things

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happen in Washington. And do you
think when a franchise wants to lose a

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game, which you know, they
can't scream? But as we said earlier,

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the writer who called it the biggest
must lose game in Washington history,

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so the fans everyone knows, right. Yeah, But Ron Rivera feels like

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he might be getting canned on Monday. So is it not only this is

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my job trying to win football games. I want to middle Finger on my

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way out the door, you know, and he can fire up some of

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the backup troops who normally wouldn't get
this much playing time, and they have

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their opportunities, like, hey,
you're playing for your life. I am

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too. We saw the Slash Show, we saw the dude, I'm with

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you Houston, not Raheem Morris helped
me out here, helped me out last

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year's Houston coach. Yeah yeah,
yeah, love Smith, love Smith.

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And the fans are begging you,
dude, loose the game. So we

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get the number one pick. The
Texans go out and win one. He

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knows he's getting fired no matter what. They go win ended up getting the

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number two pick in the draft,
and it turns out that was the right

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thing to do because CJ. Stroud's
right now better than Bryce Young, had

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better parts to work with, probably, but still like CJ. Stroud looks

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like the big hit and maybe you
don't take him if you're the number one

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pick. So yeah, this kind
of fascinating. Coways didn't miss out on

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Dalvin Cook too. Dalvin Cook was
signed with the Ravens. He's gonna go

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ring chasing. There are a lot
of people around here were like, dude,

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anything to help the running game.
Tony Pollard had a big interview,

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and he's like him in the year
I expected and hadn't had many explosive plays.

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Minkle feels fine, but maybe I'll
have some explosive plays in the next

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month. And I'm like, Okay, I'm not expecting that, but yeah,

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ric O'dowdell's clearly more explosive than him, just the eye test. So

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we'll wait a hope, what's hopefully
a month till the Cowboys season ends,

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and have a Tony Pollard discussion because
what I don't know he got was weird.

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Man. Is it him or is
it them? Yeah? I don't

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know, but or does it even
matters? Not what we all expected with

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running back by numbers, with a
running back by numbers league that this is.

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Yeah, I mean you just need
a guy back there, right,

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Yes, I don't know, they'll
draft a guy. Yeah, but Tony

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Poller was just was a guy and
more potential than just a guy. Well,

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and he's proven to be just a
guy. Were his numbers this year

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better than Zeke's the year before?
Well, he was not just a guy.

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The last three years they just chose
not to give him the ball much

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because of Zeke. I mean,
if they would have chose to give to

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me bone of the ball and then
all of his yards per carry numbers definitely

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would have translated to the lead back
role like we don't know that and this

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year it would be the evidence of
fine, here you go, and it's

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well what I think, I know, we're late, almost late. But

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what Pollard needs is he needs his
own Pollard because the guys that are behind

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him really are kind of nondescript when
they get in games for the most part.

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Where Zeke, you know, when
he was backed up by Pollard,

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Pollard really shined. We're his backups
had never shined. I would give Rico

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the ball a lot personally as a
Rico Daudele fan, Which is he say,

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bag just watching it that he heard
last week. That's the problem with

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him, is he's hurt a lot. Yeah, and I thought Duce Vaughn

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was gonna save us. But neither
one of those guys, neither one of

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those guys has popped like Pollard did
backing up Zeke is my point, Crue

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Deuce fond. It looks like Barry
Sanders in the preseason, remember those good

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times, those are good days.
Let's go to look. We have a

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murderer who was just let out of
prison. I mean he shot and killed

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his wife. He's famous. I
need to know where and I need to

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know more information. Did you just
hang in? Patience is a virtue.

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Will tell you the details on this
murder case. Next on ninety seven,

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Win the Freak,