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Welcome to the Ringer NFL Show. I'm your host, Shiel Kapati, one final show for the week.

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It's time to go on the record with pics, predictions, final score, all that good stuff.

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So we've got our friend, Deontay Lee, from the Ringer. He will join Billy Gill and myself.

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Let's take a break. We'll come right back with Deontay and Billy.

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All right. We are back here on the Ringer NFL Show, Shiel Kapati, with Deontay Lee and Billy Gill.

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One last show before the game, Deontay. Do you have any takes that just, you know, you feel like,

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I'm going to let him out here because I got no more opportunity.

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The only take I have is that we shouldn't have to shuttle for an hour to get to play here availability.

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That's my take. That is my take.

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So Billy, he is not giving San Francisco two thumbs up as a Super Bowl host city. How are you feeling?

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Wow. How many are you giving it?

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I'm giving it one.

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One, purely nostalgic least since I'm a California native. I haven't been here since my 21st birthday, which is however many years ago at this point.

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How's your homecoming been?

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It's been good. You know, I got to spend some time yesterday doing what locals would do.

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All right. So I'm walking up and down the hills in Chinatown. I have some good food out there.

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So that part has been nice, you know, but as far as Super Bowl goes, not my favorite.

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I spent the first time yesterday too.

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What did you do? We wrapped up here at God on a trolley. I had done that once before.

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Yeah. God on a trolley. Headed down to Fisherman's War.

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Okay. Yep.

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God on a boat.

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Road the boat underneath the Golden Gate Bridge around Alcatraz.

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They were pointing out some different sites.

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There you go.

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So I got off on land. I walked over to the Jerodelli Square that they have there.

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You know, the Chocolate Company. Yeah.

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They have like a whole factory or something there. Did that.

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Then I started thinking what wouldn't my wife or family ask me did you do this while you were there?

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So I did, I got an Uber. I went to the full house house.

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Nice.

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I needed ladies as they're called that way, right?

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I did. Well, have you ever been?

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Yeah, I've seen those before. Yeah.

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But have you been to the full house house? No, inside?

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No, no, to like in front of it or whatever.

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Oh, no.

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Okay. Have you been?

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I have not been.

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So if you haven't been, don't.

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It's just, it's just a neighborhood.

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It's not even like on TV where there's like a grassy area in the front where people are like playing frisbee.

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None of that exists. It's a regular residential street.

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Okay.

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One side of the street is houses. The other side of the street is other houses.

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One of them is a full house house.

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They have a fence in front of the stairwell.

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None of the stairs have it except this house.

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Have a fence in front of it so no one will go up the steps.

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Right.

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They have a sign that says this is a private residence. Please respect for whatever.

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And then they had an Amazon package that was on the steps just waiting for them.

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All the magic was lost.

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And the Uber driver was so confused as to where it was going.

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When I got there, it's like, is this where you're going?

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And I was like, yeah.

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And I got down and he did that thing where he kind of just like lingered for a little bit to make sure.

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So I had to pretend I was actually doing something.

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So I just walked up and down the block a little bit.

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And then I called another Uber and I was like, never again.

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So I took a picture, sent it to some of my friends we're talking about going.

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I was like, tell your wives and girlfriends you were there.

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Use this picture. Don't waste your time.

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Don't waste your time.

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Now, lingering, I've never had that happen to me.

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They dropped me off and they're off to the next one.

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He could tell. He could tell that was a fish out of water.

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I took away Mo yesterday.

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Oh, you done that?

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I am terrified, so no.

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You know, at first I was a little anxious.

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If you don't stare at the steering wheel, it feels exactly like any other ride I thought.

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I thought it was fun.

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I would do it again.

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First time.

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First time. I and I sat in the front seat because my friends were in the back.

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That's my problem is that I would stare at the ceiling wheel the entire time.

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That part is weird.

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I can't not look.

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There was a man on the, I couldn't get the door open at first and there was a man on the sidewalk yelling at me.

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Don't let robots take over your life.

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Your life.

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He was under, you know, maybe some influence of some substances.

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Are you going to let robots take over your life?

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I don't know, but I will take away Mo.

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Did you go up and down the hills?

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Because that's why I wanted to, I want to take away Mo just to say I have.

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This doesn't feel like the city to do it because the hills have me a little scared.

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No, this was a short ride.

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Okay, I was good.

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All right.

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So San Francisco is a host city.

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We talked about the, does this Super Bowl have juice?

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Honestly, that conversation we just had, I feel like there hasn't been as much talk about the actual game.

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Is this like a good Super Bowl?

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Deonte.

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Like let's say, all right, you got the hipsters, you got the film grinders, you got the casual fan, you got the nerd.

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Like do you feel like this is checking the boxes of a great Super Bowl matchup?

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Or is it just that we're too far into it?

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We talked too much about it.

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It is a great Super Bowl, but maybe not for us.

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I mean, the latter part is certainly true, but I think the bigger problem, I might argue that we're more spoiled now than we were during the Brady era.

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Because of what, because of how quickly Patrick Mahomes has become the pre-eminent guy in terms of quarterback play, right?

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And to have a playoff run where there is no Patrick Mahomes, there is no Lamar Jackson.

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You get Josh Allen in and out of the playoffs relatively quickly.

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And kind of going out into rough circumstances with all this turnovers.

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I'm not going to say it's a juiceless Super Bowl.

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It is probably the lowest profile Super Bowl we've had since.

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God, I don't know.

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I don't even know when the last time you would say you would have a game that was competitive with this.

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Maybe Cardinal Steelers?

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Because Ben Rothisberger?

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He ended up being on a great game.

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Exactly.

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I mean, you're talking about the end of Kurt Warner still.

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That's still a guy that you were probably thinking was going to make the Hall of Fame by the time that game happened.

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So even in that, you know, it's tough to think about a game that's been this low profile in the Super Bowl over the last 15, 20 years.

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Yeah.

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Do you think we're trying to talk ourselves into like it could be a good game, but most of us might just be like,

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do you think this might not be all that close?

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Last year wasn't a great game.

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We're worried that's going to happen again.

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Okay, so part of my problem is that I'm a total coward.

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So when Patriots people are talking to me, I feel like I almost owe them like a little bit of plausible deniability that this game might go a certain way.

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I just left talking to Patriots people.

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I'm like, I think Seahawks buy maybe a touchdown.

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And my heart of hearts win, you know, our editor asks for a prediction.

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Well, don't give it away.

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I will give our actual predictions at the end.

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I will say I did not have it as a six-point game the way that I've said.

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Well, I've been on radio, bro.

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Nice little tease there from Beyond Taste.

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Stick around.

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No, we're not taking a break.

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Yet, Patriots, you did write about the ex-factors in this game.

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Give us one from the Seahawks where you're like, this guy, you might not be thinking about him right now.

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But Sunday night, the true ball knowers are going to go.

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Wow.

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He had a big impact in this football.

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So this one ended up being cut from the ex-factors piece.

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Oh.

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But I will say, gray's able, actually.

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The gray's able versus Milton Williams match up, or versus Christian Barmore.

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Because if there is one way that you can see New England really affecting this offense, it's going to be by blitzing enough to get those one-on-one opportunities with their interior alignment.

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A rookie lineman against two guys that have played at a pro bowl level at different points in their career.

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That is where it can get a little thorny and the rest of their interior is not as good.

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This gray's able has been at points.

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And I will say the most of gray's able's wins have been in the run game.

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Not that he's a bad pass protector, but he's much better kind of executing that zone scheme.

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So that's what I'm thinking about.

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And in the other one, and the reason I won't was able to set it this guy is because the status is up in the air.

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And that's Nicki Minori.

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Right, he's dealing with an ankle right now.

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And I might actually end up working out in the Patriots' favor if he's hobbled but still plays.

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Because now that means you're not going to have a guy who's bigger, faster, and stronger than your tight ends and slot receivers out in coverage on those guys.

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So that's kind of one of those two things that I would think would be probably the biggest expectors on the CL side.

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Yeah, I think the Seattle's interior offensive line, Mina was telling us earlier in the week, Philly.

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She's like the thing where less sort of scared about if this game goes sideways is that their defensive tackles just kind of win those battles against our interior offensive line.

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Why do you have X factors that are unknown that were cut?

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But if you were right on those and they didn't see the light of things now, I'm just so curious.

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I haven't been here long enough, so I'm just asking to know the process.

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This is not to question decisions over me.

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I'm curious what happens about it.

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To be careful, I ultimately made that call.

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I ultimately made that call.

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I honestly just was not very invested in the take as I was writing it out.

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You know what he was doing? He was saving him for the pot.

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Which is a better move.

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Like it's pick later.

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You have something you're writing and then you have something for the pot.

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Someone might be reading and listing, we hope they are, but they might not be.

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And you know what?

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Go on the wringer.com, but also go on the wringer podcast network.

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Do you have other like cutting room floor takes or X factors or things that didn't see the light of day?

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We haven't given us your Patriots.

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Yeah, Patriots.

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But he told us those were lies because he didn't want to upset Patriots.

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I'll give you an earnest one.

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I'll give you an earnest one.

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Okay.

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It would be Kyle Williams, who was in the piece.

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Kyle Williams is somebody who has been productive kind of in fits and starts for New England.

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And I think that this is also true of Travion Henderson.

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Right?

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Those are probably their two speed guys that we just probably don't see enough of making an impact in their offense.

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But specifically with the guy like Kyle Williams, they tried to take a chance against Houston.

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He totally dusted Kamari Lasseter off the boundary in complete pass.

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They came to it later in that game.

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He probably earned a pass in a fairness call that he did not get against Lasseter again.

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But you take those two reps and you think without physical Seattle wants to be out on the perimeter or playing tight coverage all the time.

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Maybe you do get those one-on-one opportunities where a guy like Keishan Bouti, who is more of a contested catch guy,

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might be gloved up by a Devon Witherspoon or a Turek woman.

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And maybe you just get a streaking Kyle Williams down the field.

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And when we talk about just like what the band of outcomes have to be for New England to win a football game of this magnitude,

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it's going to take an unexpected name like Kyle Williams getting one of those big chunk plays.

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I think to scare Seattle out of playing as much tight coverage as I think they might want to on Sunday.

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See, this is why Deontano's content.

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You're a man of media.

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Deontano may be a man of content because I haven't heard the name Kyle Williams all week.

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All we've been doing is here all week talking football.

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And here we are Thursday late afternoon and he's bringing up a guy I hadn't even thought of.

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In fairness, hands up.

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I've derailed some of this talking about underwear and such.

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Yeah, I would agree.

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I will say that maybe you could have heard about him.

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Okay.

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We're not kind of cutting off the rails a bit.

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You know what's weird is that like Deontano just mentioned Kamari Laster.

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I don't know he was here on radio.

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That is a weird part about being here is that like you could just be yelling about somebody and they could be right next door.

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It's got to be quiet.

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Like someone asked me something about Trevor Lawrence earlier and then five minutes later Trevor Lawrence was walking over there.

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These entourage are getting out of control a little bit. Am I right?

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Did he hear you?

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I don't think so.

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I think I said a nice thing about him.

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I was like what's his best trade or something and I made something up.

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Yeah.

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I saw running around here today, literally running around.

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Kirk Herb Street's dog was here.

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Please.

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Wait, that was his dog?

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Yeah.

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I almost stepped on him.

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What?

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I did see it go like a golden ring.

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No, because I didn't know it.

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You're not expecting to look down and there's a dog at your feet.

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Hold on a second.

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He did see him as friendly as he looks like on TV.

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Wait, so if my voice is gone.

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If it wasn't his dog, you would have stepped on it because it's his dog that you would have felt bad.

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No, it was going to be an accident either way, but I didn't realize I was wondering why who's dog is this?

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But very well-behaved dog.

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Very well-behaved, but still.

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Why are you running around dog?

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You don't agree with that.

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No, no.

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Be the dog.

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I'm going to be a dog.

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I was going to say, yeah, I am an accident.

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I'm an accident.

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I'm an accident.

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I love my pit lab mix at home.

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I've been watching this.

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I love you.

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You can't wait to be back.

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This was pro dogs.

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Pro dogs.

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Yes, we talked about dog adoption and Subaru's.

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But we talked about dog adoption and Subaru's at the same time.

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Very well-behaved dog.

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If my dogs were here, they would be running up and down.

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Oh, my God.

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Up and down the aisle.

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They would be peeing on cables.

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They would be probably running away from people, hiding, barking, whining.

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It'd be madness.

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This dog was not very well-behaved, but also walking around without a leash.

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I feel like Kirk's pushing it in.

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Is that a San Francisco thing?

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I've seen a lot of people walking around.

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I think it's a Californian thing.

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It is.

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I look down upon if you walk with you.

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You have a well.

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You know what?

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I was in London over the summer family vacation.

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And I noticed all kinds.

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This was one of my big takeaways.

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All kinds of dogs, not unleashes.

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But they were so well-behaved.

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No issues.

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So, Mr. Kelly.

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Is it us?

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Are we like, maybe it's the non-calibre one of the problems?

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Yeah.

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Maybe.

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I don't know.

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I like to think it has fun.

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But like, I don't.

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Well, the other thing.

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One more San Francisco thing.

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Here we go.

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Please.

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The public transportation officials are like motivational speakers.

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Have you run into this?

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No.

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I'm walking down the street.

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And the guy sitting there off the bar stop.

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You know, they're to help you if you're not sure too.

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And he says, who's winning?

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Are we winning today?

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Let's win today.

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I'm like, man, that is a big difference.

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Philadelphia.

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You say that, man.

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No one's here.

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But there were people smiling talking back to him.

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I'm like, I kind of liked it a little.

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But I'll be honest.

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What do you think?

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Did you win today?

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No.

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I don't think I did.

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But, you know what?

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The podcast is so long.

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There's always tomorrow.

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There's always tomorrow.

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Okay.

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Those are ex-factors.

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Are there any storylines, Deontay, that you feel like everyone's just talking this darn old May?

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Is there like an angle that you feel like isn't getting enough attention?

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Are there one of those storylines that you feel like this actually is the thing?

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This is the narrative that comes out of this game if X-Team wins.

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Anything like that that you can think of?

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Honestly, no.

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I think that we've hit the saturation point on all the serious stuff.

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I actually am much more invested in a very unserious thing, which is far.

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One of the last ex-factors I wrote about was kind of like this weird correlation is not causation thing,

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but between the Kubiak family and the Shanahan family when they've been in this position,

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where they have an impending head coaching job waiting on them.

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This goes back to 1987 when my Shanahan was getting a Raider job.

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I forget who they play in a Super Bowl.

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I might have been in the bucket years.

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I got blown out.

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42 to 10 before he takes a Raider job when he's leaving Denver.

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Gary Kubiak, he ended up not getting to the Super Bowl,

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but if you remember that 2005 Broncos team that had statistically one of the best offences and deepences in the league,

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they get totally dominated by Pittsburgh and the ASC championship game that year.

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And then he goes on to become the Texans head coach.

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And then obviously you have Kyle Shanahan, who, funnily enough,

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is the only coach on that staff that still has to like live with the shame of the 28-3 comeback.

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Nobody seems to ever bring it up with Dan Quinn or anybody else.

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That's true.

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That coach had never gets brought up.

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The guy who was running the defense was just getting totally shredded in the second half.

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But obviously everybody kind of knows that one, right?

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You have the 28-3 comeback.

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And now we've got Clint Kubiak in a very similar position.

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And I would say, even more so, if you were a superstitious guy,

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you have got to feel the worst that you possibly could.

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Because most people are saying that the Patriots have no shot.

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And I mean, you know this as a Philadelphiaan.

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I remember when it was Jonathan Ganon holding this seat.

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And people still to this day, you could bring them up around an Eagles fan.

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And people will go directly to that Super Bowl and talk about it almost as though

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he was intentionally sabotaging the team's opportunity.

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You wouldn't have known if he was.

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I'm just saying with the way it got hard.

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That was a shot at John Kerry.

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I'm sorry.

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I'm not here to crack you on that.

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So all right.

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You know, you had the take earlier this week, Billy, that Clint Kubiak looking ahead.

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Do you trust it?

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Do we trust him?

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Maybe they're picking up some steam that he's looking ahead.

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And that's the problem?

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That's the problem with this.

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And how we're going to write about it is like what happens when they get to the red zone

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and then the drive solves hot and you kick a pill going, you end up losing by four.

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People are going to say that Clint Kubiak wasn't focused enough.

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Is it fair to Clint?

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Yes.

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Probably not.

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Oh no.

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You know what I remember?

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That Eagles Patriot Super Bowl 2017.

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It was like a Wednesday night.

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And Bill Belichek shows up fort side to see a Minnesota Timber Wolf's game.

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I'm going.

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That had to make the round to the Eagles hotel.

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This guy thinks so little of you.

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He thinks he can go spend two and a half hours watching.

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I don't even know who's on the Timber Wolf's at that point.

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But he thinks he can spend two and a half hours doing that.

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He doesn't need to game plan for you.

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Goddamn.

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Who was on the Timber Wolf?

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Is that like Ricky Rubio era?

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I mean, you're not even talking about good Timber Wolf's play.

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No, this wasn't.

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This wasn't him, man.

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In the mix up.

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Who knows?

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The narratives will come out one way or another.

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All right.

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We're going to take a break.

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During the break, you guys think about.

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Am I ready to give my official prediction?

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I know you've probably been given 400 predictions this week.

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This is your official one that I'm going to hold feet to the fire.

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If you get it right, if you get it wrong, I'm going to bring it up Sunday night.

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And say, no, no, I don't care what else you said all week.

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That was your official prediction.

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We'll do that when we come back.

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Here on the Ringer NFL show, I gave you guys about three seconds to think about that during the break.

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That's in real time.

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Of course, the listeners had a different experience.

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I gave you guys about three seconds.

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are favored. The overrunner is 45 and a half in this game. You're right. It feels like

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everyone's picking the Seahawks, but the line's only four and a half. It's not 10 and a half

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here. What is your official pick for Super Bowl Sixth?

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God, I cannot believe I have sand this on Bill Simmons' airwaves. This is going to get

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me done so hard. I kind of have Seahawks 34 Patriots 14.

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Oh, I think this is going to be a runaway game, frankly. I would not be surprised at all

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if we get that opening script, Patriots touchdown. Oh, my goodness. Maybe Drake may

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can do this. You get to kick off to appreciate your heat in the game 7-7, right? I feel like

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it's going to be one of those kinds of games. And it's not a knock on the Patriots

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in their journey. To this point, I wrote about this last night, but you just look at all

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the things that you would typically want to see from a real legitimate Super Bowl winning

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team. And New England just hasn't been pushed enough for us to gather that data. It's

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not to say that they're incapable. We're just working off of an incomplete data set.

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We don't know what this team's personality is like if it's chasing two possessions,

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right? Because they just haven't had to spend much time in that kind of mode. We don't

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know what this team's reaction has been. I guess we do know, and it hasn't been positive,

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but it's been playing against the defense as good as Seattle's, right? They have been

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able to survive really bad offensive performances and a lot of turnovers throughout this playoff

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run because their defense on the other side has been playing like the damn 2000 Ravens.

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Yeah. And unless you believe that that's exactly who this team is, which is not what I think

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when I watch them and not what the tape would say when you're comparing the Seahawks to the

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Patriots right now, I think you're going to have a hard time laying out a case for New

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England to win, especially when comfortably, unless you're telling me that Drake May is

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going to dig into his 2023 Patrick Mahomes, mid-Aughts to late 2010s, Tom Brady asked

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top type of performance. Unless you think you're getting that on Sunday, it is just hard

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for me to paint a scenario where the Patriots end up winning a football game.

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All right. Seahawks blow out not a very entertaining game. Seahawks win 34-14, maybe early on

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like Diate said. It feels like they got some momentum. They can pull off the upset, but

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as we move along, it does not. He's not a coward. Why did he call himself a coward? Billy,

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he just picked a 20-point win. He's also a man of content because he knows if that happens

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Bill's live right after we have to be reacting to a blowout Patriots loss.

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I don't do numbers. Yeah. Yeah. That's good for the ringer as a whole, I feel like.

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Yeah. Well, what would be better? Where would people tune in more to the Bill Simmons

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podcast, which you can watch live on Netflix right after the game? If it's a blowout, or

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if it's like a last second heartbreaker, maybe the Patriots do something stupid, or Sam

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Donald engineers, a game-winning drive, what draws more viewers? This actually might be

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the biggest question. That's a great question. I think heartbreak. I think so too.

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I think you want to see live pain and live pain. Yeah, I think the shot in front, yeah.

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The Bill Simmons shot in front, I think we would draw more of an audience.

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We'll check that out either way, you know? And then like Mina said, if the sea ox

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suffer that, people who tune in to mean a couple tuning to her after.

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After. Yeah. Of course. Yeah. You can record that. Yeah.

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And that's like live. You record on your YouTube or every watch.

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Yeah. All right. 34, 14 Deontas says, Billy Gill, the man who this week brought you the

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ball hammock. Did I say that? Is that what it is?

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I think so. Okay. All right. You want to know my score? Give me your

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prediction. Yeah. All right. I'm going to go with Patriots, 29 like a sea

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hawks, 17. Whoa. Yeah. Okay. Really see. I think that we're going to have that from

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you all week. It's a surprise. Well, truth be told, I suspected that everyone's

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going to say sea hawks. So I wanted to be interesting headed down into the

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last page. So I said, you know what? Let's get, let's get a Patriots favorable

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score here. And then what I did was I crunched the numbers. And by that, I mean, I put from

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numbers one to 37 in a random number generator. And the first number that I got was 29. And

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the second number that I got was 17. Okay. So that will be the score of the game. And

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how will we get there? You ask that I had to nine. I had to I had to work that backwards

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after I had got the score. I think we're obviously going to be in store for a Sam

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Darnold regression game that we haven't seen yet. You know, I think maybe we have some broken

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plays on the defense of the sea hawks. Patriots score early. Then Sam starts getting a little

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desperate, starts saying, oh my god, am I going to get back to the Super Bowl? This is my moment.

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I don't want to make a mistake. Starts getting in his head. And that's when you guys know the

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mistakes start happening. A couple turnovers here, maybe a pick six here or there. Patriots start

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kind of running up the score a little bit. And sea hawks can't keep up, can't catch up at the end.

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To the point of me in a content expert. That's a master class right there. Get to the end and

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work your way back. Okay. That score. No, absolutely. That's 29-17. Say that's score.

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Gummy right there. Who's you going to score? Gummy. I'm a ringer NFL show. No, please.

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We're done with that. Those things are over. Sorry. So lack no more score. Gummy. All right,

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let me ask you this. This is a content media question as well. So, you know, I did not think the

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sea hawks offense was going to be good this year. I ripped their off season. I said, give me a break.

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That offensive line with Arnold. Clint Kubiak's not Bill Walsh. They're not going to be able to

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figure this out. And so, my friends, great radio station in Seattle, 7, 10 years,

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fancy at all. They had me on a couple weeks ago. And they played the clip of me giving their

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off season a C-minus. It was all in good fun. It was fun. But if what Billy says is true

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and Sam Darnold is the reason why the sea hawks lose this game,

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do I get to be like, well, see? Or is it? No, they got to the Super Bowl. She'll just don't even

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bring that up anymore. What do you think, Deontan? The petty, the little bit of pettiness I have in me,

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which I have as well. I will say you got to bring that back around. It's all good nature.

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It's all good nature. Okay. You know, but I think that it's fair to bring that back around for

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sure. All right. We'll see. Yes. 29 17 has happened 13 times in NFL history. Ever in a Super Bowl?

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Or you don't know. Never in a Super Bowl. Okay. Ever in a playoff? Once in a Super Bowl.

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Once in a Super Bowl. What Super Bowl? It was the Colts and the Bears in 2007. You are correct.

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The real game. Yep. The Devon Hester. I'm like, who is this handsome man in this school jacket?

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Who I'm going to follow up on a radio hit? Oh, Devon Hester. Okay. That was not the onsite kick.

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onsite kick was Saints Colts. That's right. Yeah. That's okay. Yeah. Colts. It's great in the first day.

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Yeah. It's great attention to all of you. That's wrong. Tens of purposes. It's Friday. Yeah.

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You're yeah. That's right. So I like what I like what you did there. All right.

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I got a week one. I wish I was more courageous, but I'm just sticking to the one I gave out

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Monday and a pick at giving out throughout the week. I do think there's a chance of a Seahawks

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blowout. So I like that we're represented on the ringer NFL show with Deontan's picked.

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The Seahawks blowout. We're represented with a Patriots upset with Billy's very scientific

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approach to this 29 17. I'm going 24 60. I think it could be a bit of a snooze of a superbowl

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fun being I hope it's not we're going to be on the ringer NFL show together Sunday night.

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So I hope we got a lot to talk about, but I actually think this could be one of those where both

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teams are a little conservative in the first half is low scoring. You get to the second half is

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I go the Patriots are in it by the score, but it doesn't really feel like they're in it.

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And then the Seahawks had a late score and they win this game 24 16. They do cover

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about the underheads there. So you know what? We didn't talk about this earlier, but I think we

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did a good job. One of us can say we're right most likely after this game, right? Yeah. I feel like

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we hit all angles. Now Deontan had a great question in our little group chat. I don't know if you

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saw this Billy. Let's finish finish the segment with this. Next year. Who are the teams maybe

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right now? Just gut feel that you feel like we could be talking about on radio row. It can't be

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the Seahawks. It can't be the Patriots. New teams Deontay. Who do you think? What is the gut say?

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I'm nothing if I'm not a caricature of myself. So I'm going to say for maybe the fourth year in a

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row that Baltimore will be here. Okay. It's got to hit one of these years. Yeah. One of these

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years. So to Billy's one, I'll give my answer. And then I'll work my way back. You get a great

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Declan Doyle offensive coordinating type of season. You get Jesse Mentor trying to call Hamilton

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into the defensive player of the year. You get a healthy, great season out of Lamar Jackson.

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And that's what we're talking about for Super Bowl 61. Okay. On the NFC side, I think you get the old

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man, Matthew Stafford comes back. They give this one more shot and they're able to get over the

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hump next year. So I think we're going to get a Rams Ravens Super Bowl 61. I like that. Billy,

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what do you think? Well, here's the thing. I was going to go with Rams, but I don't want to do that

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because I don't want to have the same teams, right? I'm going to present everyone. So every fan base

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feels like they're part of this conversation. I think the Rams are the favorites according to

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Fandall. Yeah. Because it's just like they could have gotten there either of these last two years.

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And if Stafford's back's not going to fall apart and I'm done predicting when it's going to have

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back issues, it's like they've got McVay. By the way, they've got two first round picks. They've

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got that extra pick this year. So yeah, I think that's a, I'm glad we're represented with at least

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one Rams picking. Okay. I feel like you are going to say the bills. So I'm not going to say the bills.

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I'm not. You're not going to say the bills? No. Okay. Who are you going to say? I picked the bills

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this year. Okay. So you don't want to do that again. All right. You're not going to pick the bills.

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I'll go. You want to look at yours? No, no, I got it. I got it. I got it. I'll go with the bills

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since you're not going to say the bills because that's what I believe. That's what I feel. You want to

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coach who doesn't believe in paternity leave, doesn't believe in being there when his kids are born.

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Correct. That's a football guy. I want someone who is so focused on his football family. He's not

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focused on his actual family. Yeah. That's most of them. Yeah. So well. Yeah. But he's got a good

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quarterback. Okay. Yeah. It's got it. Look. It's good. It's like it. It's got to happen

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one of these. You got a break right for Josh. At some point in time, you would think, right? Yeah.

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So let's say bills and then and this is not really going out that much on a limb. I don't think

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bears. Oh, that one. I had that one written down. I thought about that. No, I'm going to switch. I

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wrote down like for free. All right. Okay. Yeah. The bears, you know, the bears are going to be one

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of these teams that in August, you could be like in one score games. They won all these games at the

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game. They're lucky. But I'm also like Caleb Williams might be the MVP next year. And I'm Ben

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Johnson with that, you know, hairless physique. Well, knows what he can do with another year

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coaching under his belt. Yeah. Caleb Williams guy. Yeah. I was hoping we talked about him today.

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I was wearing Caleb Williams shirt underneath this. Really? You own a Caleb Williams shirt?

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Let me see. What has he got there? That's pretty cool. This is Caleb Williams. Did you buy that?

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It was at a freebie. I bought it and I expensive it at my previous job. Oh, all right. I'm going to go

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with you and bears. All right. I'm going to have about the Cowboys get over the hump next year.

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Okay. No. Now you're being silly. No. I mean, listen, they got the quarterback. I thought Brian

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Shottonheimer did a good job this year. They got, you know, Quinn and Williams laid in the season.

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They got some draft capital. Maybe the Cowboys bounce back and get to the Super Bowl for the first

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time. What's it been 30 years? 30 years. 30 years. There you go. Cowboys. And you know what? This

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is just going to be I'm going to pick the matchup that's going to make the most people upset, I

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think. Chargers. I'm taking the hipster crown from the hipsters. I'm going to say the Chargers,

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Mike McDaniel and Jim Harvaya, you're not going to be able to make those jokes about Justin Herbert

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that I make all the time anymore because they're going to get over the hump next year.

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You want to talk about the first Super Bowl that breaks records for hate watch? That is 100%

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going to be the internet. We are absolutely dunking on whoever in some blues in this game.

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Sorry. So this is good. We got six teams represented. I forgot about me. That's a good,

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that's a good AFCT to sneaky get in there. Good. I think they're going to be good. All right.

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There you go. All right. That has been this segment. Thank you both. I'm going to come right back

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and do the Ringer 107, but Billy Deonte, I will see you Sunday night as we recap Super Bowl 60,

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my friends. It's a brand new location. Brand new location. All right. We'll be right back with

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the Ringer 107. Today's Ringer 107 is brought to you by Fandall. Final five picks of the season.

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We're down one to the Ringer fantasy show, but we get to make five picks. That's the role that

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this week. So we pick the pick against the spread, the total, and then any three picks that are

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minus 25 or better. So let's get to it. You already know my pick. You heard my pick. I'm taking

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the Seahawks minus four and a half. That's my first selection. And I'm taking under 45 and a half.

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I just think both defenses have an edge. Both defenses are pretty good. I'm a little nervous

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about special teams or a defensive touchdown. But you know what? I'm still taking the under. So

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those are my first two picks. Seahawks against the spread and the under. Next pick.

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First half under 22 and a half total points. I think both teams come in and say we're not

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given this game away early. We don't need to be heroes. Let's feel out the opposing defenses

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and see how this goes. So I've got the under first half, 22 and a half total points.

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Fourth pick. Matt Collins over 24 and a half receiving yards. I feel like they're going to skim

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up one explosive play. Matt Collins. If they're down by a lot, now they got to throw the football.

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So maybe he hits that over at that point. But that's my fourth pick. Matt Collins over 24 and a half

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receiving yards and final pick. My voice is going. So I'm glad this is my final pick. I got a high

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dream before Sunday night. Remondre Stevenson under 14 and a half rushing attempts. That's minus

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122. I don't think the Patriots are going to be able to run the football in this game. I don't

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think they're really going to try to establish the run in this game. I think they're going to put

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the ball in Drake May's hand. So I like under remondre Stevenson 14 and a half rushing attempts.

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Today's Ringer 107 was brought to you by Fandall odds subject to change. All right. Great week

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