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Analyzing Key NFL Injuries and Playoff Implications
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12/23/2024
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Live right here on the early
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line on Sports Green. What a
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Monday it has been. What a week
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it has been. It's Monday at 1014
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AM. We'll continue to preview
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Monday night football to
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conclude week number sixteen
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around the National Football
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League. No, because we have to
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Donnie. We have to. We have to
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Oh, let's be Doc. Come on.
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That's like, let's take a look
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at segment idea. Yeah, if we
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don't have the pro football
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doc. Yeah, we go to Dr. Donnie
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and we say that with the very
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big caveat and make sure that we
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put this out there. In fact, we
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should have a disclaimer
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probably running across the
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screen. Not an actual dog. I am
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a doctor, Dr. Donnie. All right.
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So here we go. I'm going to ask
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for your injury insight and
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analysis. DRS, I do just want
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to say, as we talked about
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earlier, really unfortunate,
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scary and significant injury to
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Tank Dell, who was having a
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great game for Houston in his
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second year, six grabs, 98
01:09
yards and a touchdown that made
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it a one possession game in the
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second half against KC, but on
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the touchdown grab collided with
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his teammate. It is a
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dislocated kneecap. It's about
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as significant of a knee injury
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as one can suffer. It is
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gruesome. It is significant.
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The setback is a big one and a
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large and long recovery process
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is now starting for Tank Dell,
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who remained in a hospital in
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Kansas City in the 24 hours or
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so after suffering the injury.
01:42
So our thoughts with Dell and
01:44
his long road to recovery. And
01:46
also like as a Houston fan,
01:48
like you're getting robbed this
01:49
season. Like how much fun did we
01:51
think Houston would be picking
01:53
them to win the division? I
01:54
thought they would do that and
01:55
say, wow, look at that
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three-headed monster at wide
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receiver. You add Joe Mixon in
02:00
the backfield. You had almost a
02:02
rookie of the year slash MVP
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last year in CJ Stroud. What
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could they do? What type of
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damage could they inflict if
02:09
they got into the playoffs? Now
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you're down to Nico Collins, who
02:12
is sensational and you saw Joe
02:13
Mixon, but does anybody think
02:15
that round one game now is like,
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Hey, if Houston wins, they might
02:18
be lucky even though they were
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at home. If you had digs out
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there and Nico Collins and a
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healthy matchy and a tank Dell
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and adult and Schultz and a
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Mixon boy, that's a fun lineup
02:27
here. And you're left with just
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Nico Collins. That's the first
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part that I look at where it's
02:31
a shame where I thought they
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might be so much fun to watch
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in the playoffs. Now it looks
02:35
like a one and done in this
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point and it's not their fault.
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It's not from bad play. It's
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just a war of attrition that
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they're losing bed. Yeah. It's
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really unfortunate. Nine and
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six is the outright record for
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Texas, for the Texans. They can
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move up the AFC playoff
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standings, but they would need
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some help really to move off of
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that four line. They will host
02:55
the opening round more than
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likely. They will get the top at
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large wild card team that at
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this current moment is
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Baltimore. They played each
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other last year, albeit in the
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charm city, the Ravens won that
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game comfortably in the
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divisional round. But here is
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really where dr Donnie excels
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when it comes to injuries around
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the calf muscle and any
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hamstring issues that might be
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out there. Donnie, Chris Jones,
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of course, one of the best
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interior defensive lineman in
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the sport for Kansas City calf
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injury on Saturday afternoon,
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Marshawn Latimer, a great game
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yesterday against the
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Philadelphia Eagles, hamstring
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injury, Drake London, hamstring
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injury that Atlanta did say he
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could have returned if it was
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even remotely close against the
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New York Giants, the RS calves,
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hamstrings, it's your time to
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shine. What's the outlook for
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Chris Jones, Marshawn Latimer
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and Drake London? You can pick
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one or talk about all three
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whenever you want. Yeah, we're
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going to talk about all three.
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Let's start here with Chris
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Jones. You got a big man who
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absolutely when the game is on
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the line, maybe the most
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dominant defensive lineman in
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football as it stands right now.
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If he has a calf injury, the
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perfect scenario for the Kansas
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City Chiefs. Hey, look, two
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games to play, got to win one
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and we're going to be the
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number one seed. How does he
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have a calf injury on a
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Saturday and then play again on
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a Wednesday? That can't happen.
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I don't think Chris Jones is
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going to be there, but I use
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this caveat. Do we actually get
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accurate reports on who's
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injured and how they're injured
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for Kansas City? So that one's
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a little bit more murky, but
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for me, I don't think we see
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him on Christmas Day. Let's get
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to the next one here, which we
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marched on Lattimore. This is
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the tough one where you look at
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Ben. This guy has fought
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hamstring injuries the entire
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way through the season, comes
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back and immediately hurts that
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hamstring again. There's a
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chance we don't see him for the
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rest of the regular season
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because Washington is probably
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going to get in. The last thing
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you need to do is your number
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one cornerback acquisition is
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put him out there in a spot that
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he could harm again. And also
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keep in mind, it's not as if
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you're playing in Hawaii or
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Miami where it's 80 degrees and
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you can get that hamstring
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loosened up. You're in a cold
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weather environment. I expect
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him to miss this week and next
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week, Ben, and hopefully try to
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get back for the playoff run.
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Same thing with Drake London.
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The one thing I love about wide
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receivers and skill position
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players is unless they've had a
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hamstring injury, they don't
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understand it because
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technically it's not all that
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painful, but the inability to
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run and make cuts and damage it
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further, they always think they
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can play through like you can
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play through an ankle sprain or
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you know, a banged up shoulder.
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You can't do that. So I don't
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care if they said, hey, look, he
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hurt his hamstring but couldn't
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come back here. You know what?
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I put the odds on Drake London
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playing next week, 50 50. And if
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he does play, Ben, he's not
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going to finish that football
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game. How about that?
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Wow. The hamstring prognosis for
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Drake London, that might have
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been the matchup DRS for our
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Sunday night football game in
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Landover, Drake London against
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Marshawn Lattimore. We shall
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see. Now I wasn't here again. I
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was out buying Christmas gifts
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as Donnie was breaking down
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Michael Pennix Jr. And his
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debut as a starter for Atlanta.
05:57
It wasn't overwhelmingly great,
05:59
but he didn't have to do all
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that much in the interception on
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that final box score and stat
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line was so much more on Kyle
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Pitts. That might've been
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Michael Pennix, his first NFL
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passing touchdown than it was on
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Pennix. It's a four and a half
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point spread in favor of the
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commanders for Sunday night,
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Washington tried to improve its
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stock in the seed line around
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the NFC and even still has a
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shot. I guess probably by that
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time, they will know if they can
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win the NFC East as
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Philadelphia just needs to beat
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Dallas earlier on Sunday to
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clinch that division. But I
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still look at the commanders,
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maybe humbling the Falcons, if
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you will, in that spot, at
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least that is my estimation. We
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don't have the doc. Unfortunately,
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we did have Dr. Donnie, should
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we still take a look at the
06:51
field views? Oh, we are awesome.
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All right, here's the field
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views on sports and central
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score.com. That is SIC score.com
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six score.com looks pretty green.
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Looks like a big Christmas tree
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out there. Yeah, big edge here,
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by the way, based on it, you
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have the you have the damaged
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New Orleans Saints coming in at
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a 68.4 rating, but then you have
07:13
the 97 radio and often 11
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point advantage toward the
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Packers tonight. Go back go.
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