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I pick them like a pro global trial ball.
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Talk a big and roll.
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We're gonna up the score.
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Touchdown, this is not field goal.
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We the winning team champions.
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When you walk through the hall, you can play your bet with us, cause you know we gone one of them all.
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Yeah, this is a major play.
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We do it big in a major way.
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The end will be having the pick of the day.
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Here we come, don't care if you ready, we them boys.
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The gold is heavy.
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Top picks like she's no shreddy all right.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back.
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You know who it is.
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I am derrick thompson, I'm diego thompson and who are we for?
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The pick'em pros?
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We are the pick'em pros coming back at you in the house with a special episode of who you got.
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Father, son dynamic duo, how you doing, man, I'm doing good thanksgiving, yeah, it is panthers on a roll.
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Everything's great, are they?
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Oh yeah, we're on a roll are they so?
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did I miss something?
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Did the panthers actually win?
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now we were close okay okay, we're close, we're close.
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Okay, okay, so close, we're going by close champions.
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Well, I'll take that okay, okay, we're going by close now, all right, okay, new, new standard.
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new standard here on pickle Apparently when you play the Chiefs, you're not going to have the refs on your side.
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That's going to be a pretty hard game.
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All right.
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Well, we will definitely get into all of that.
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We've got an absolute fire show for you today.
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Here Be about an hour or so.
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Happy Thanksgiving to you all.
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We are going to preview week 13.
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We've got some great games this week.
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We're going to talk about the NFL MVP race.
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We're going to talk about the commanders.
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Did we overreact to the commanders a little bit?
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Who's the top rookie QB right now?
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If you were to draft today, who would that be?
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And again, the biggest news, we've got our special guest, brianna, joining us for our show this week, so we cannot wait to hear her take she's up and coming to see what we do here with Pick'em Pros.
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Not only do we pick games for pros at that, but we also are pros in picking those that are going to be big in this industry.
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You know what I mean.
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We've had our guy, christopher Davis, on many, many weeks.
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Look forward to seeing Chris on in the next week or so, but this week we are featuring another up-and-coming star, which is Brianna, so you're seeing her first here on Pick'em Pros.
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That's how we do it, man.
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That's what we do.
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You know we also being ahead of the curve.
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We are ahead of the curve with Thanksgiving.
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See, a lot of y'all are missing on how to do Thanksgiving the right way.
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See, we've already had Thanksgiving dinner.
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Yeah, we have.
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We ate it yesterday Ahead of the game.
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We ate it yesterday, so we're on leftovers right now.
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So we're going to be sitting back chilling watching the Lions have potentially a beat down today and whatnot, and we're going to be on leftovers.
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So it's kind of another part of our strategy being ahead of the curve.
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All right, well, let's get into it.
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We know you're waiting for our special guest, so, without further ado, let's go ahead and bring in Brianna.
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What's going on?
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Yeah, happy Thanksgiving.
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Happy Thanksgiving.
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Yes, yes, so you ready for a big meal later today.
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Oh yeah, I'm very excited.
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Oh yeah, I don't know what I'm going to like the most, but I'm excited for all of it.
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All of it, oh yeah, All of it Cannot go wrong.
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Yeah, we had a great Thanksgiving.
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We had plenty plenty of things.
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We even added duck to the menu.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, we added duck.
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That was a big hit.
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Big shout out to my mom Thank you for doing that.
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I know you had a lot to do and she graciously added that on and dad put the turkey on the grill so we had smoked turkey.
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Just love to introduce you to our group Again.
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We know that you are covering a lot of sports.
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We've seen some of your packages that you're working on doing a great job with that and you know, going to be going off to college and you know, I can definitely see.
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I know you said that NFL is, you know, one of your favorite sports.
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So I could, I could definitely see, you know, nfl Network, espn, you know, or just the Brianna Show so many things we can see in the future.
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So it's going to be cool to look back at this.
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You know, many years from now Not many years, but actually it doesn't take that long A few years from now and seeing that the first podcast was here on Pick'em Pros.
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But we understand you're out on the West Coast and we see the Cardinals football and whatnot.
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Tell us a little bit.
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Yeah, yeah, buddha Baker, larry Fitzgerald yeah yeah, fitzgerald, yeah, he was a legend legend out there, for sure.
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Yeah yeah, we were at camp.
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In our intro we were at the training camp.
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Last year we happened to be in Arizona during summertime.
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We were able to get by there and catch the camp, get some signed autographs and, yeah, really cool time, love to get down there and catch a game.
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But yeah, so cardinals, they're just, they're, you know, hometown team but are, do you have any, any other big teams that you pull for?
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the lions lions okay, detroit lions.
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Yeah, the family will be really happy to hear that we got some more.
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We got some more lions for us all right, cool lies, um, great, great.
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So you um tell us just, uh, you know quickly about um, you know your, your budding career and where, where you're looking to what you're looking to do over the next couple of years yeah.
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So this year I'm a senior in high school.
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Next fall I want to go to asu study in sports journalism and kind of just put my foot in the door and hopefully get a career out of this and make it big.
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You know, so all right we can.
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We can definitely definitely see it.
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Well, we can't wait to hear your takes.
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We have, when we get to our week, 13 games we have.
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There's 16 games Everyone plays this week.
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There's 11 that we agree on.
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There's five that we disagree on.
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Can't wait to hear your takes on that, as well as everything.
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But before we go into the MVP race, as many people know, with Pick'em Pros, what we do is we.
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We're not a sports gambling show, although, with our name, you might might think that what we actually do is we just want people to have more investment in the game.
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Uh, from the standpoint of causes benefiting based on our picks.
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So, um, we wanted you to pick a cause that we can all play for and team up for, uh, this week.
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Uh, tell us a little bit about the cause that you chose for us this week, yeah, so I chose Paz de Cristo.
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It's a Christian shelter really.
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They help the homeless, they feed them, they clothe them, they house them, they help them get jobs and it's pretty local.
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Here in Arizona They've helped over 22,000 people and it started in 1988.
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Wow, okay, all right.
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Well, it's going to be fun to be able to help them out a little bit.
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Now's a great time to be able to do that by being Thanksgiving season.
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So we've got the website down below.
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So I want everyone to check them out, especially, you know, donate on your own Giving Tuesday's coming up, so we want everyone to definitely send some funds their way and help them out.
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But what we're going to do, just from you being here, we've already got 200 going to this cause, so that's already set.
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That's, that's the bottom.
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So, uh, shout out for that.
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But we're gonna have different bonuses throughout the show that may add a little more than where we might be able to raise that a little bit.
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So, as we get into our picks, we'll we'll touch on that, but we're already, we're already at at 200, so we're good on that.
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Yeah, all right, okay, well, let's get into it.
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You ready to talk?
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Nfl mvp all right.
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Well, let's go, man diego, kick us off, man.
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So nfl mvp race.
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Uh, we touched on this about two weeks ago.
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I'm curious to see if you're at the same standpoint right now.
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But let's go three to one.
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I want you to give yours, then we'll go breathe, then I'll go um.
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Give us your top three for nfl mvp as of right now.
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We know it's fluid all right.
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So number three, I got derrick henry.
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Uh, and I will give a hint, he's the only raven on this list.
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I don't have lamar, what on it?
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Uh, I just think derrick henry has a bigger impact right now than lamar.
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Okay, of course, he's like second in rushing yards, second in carries 13 touchdowns, that's first among the backs, and it's just the games they've lost.
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They've lost four of them.
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He's had less than 18 carries.
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So whenever they lose, they don't give him the ball, and whenever they win, he usually gets the amount of carries he needs and Lamar.
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In the games they win, he usually gets the amount of carries he needs and Lamar in the games they lose.
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He just doesn't seem to play the same in the pressure situations, I think.
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Even though he has had a great statistical year, the pressure games, he's not quite as good in those as he was last year and their record isn't quite the same.
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So, yeah, I got Derrick Henry there, all right.
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And number two, I got Josh Allen.
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They're arguably the best team in the AFC Beat the Chiefs.
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He's really shown all he can do how much he means to the team, because they lost Diggs and he's thrown to.
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You know, shakir and Curtis, samuel and sometimes Amari Cooper, and yeah, he's just much how valuable he is to them.
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And and yeah, I gotta have number two.
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Okay, and number one I got saquon.
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Saquon barkley, oh, um, just last year they didn't quite have, uh, the that it factor.
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Last year they seemed to always just fall short last year and this year with saquon they seem like a completely different team.
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I've got getting 250 rushing yards, yeah, a few touchdowns that's pretty big and uh yeah, just his impact.
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He's made them a sewer bowl contender again, so I gotta have number one.
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Saquon now.
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Did you?
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Did you have Saquon on your list last time?
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I think you did I think I did.
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Yeah, okay, okay, all right he.
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He still has 10 touchdowns with the whole.
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Does the hurts taking?
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his rush.
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That's right hurts, is taking a lot of touchdowns, so yeah I probably have like 20 now.
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Do you think they'll actually give it to a running back because it's become a qb award?
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I think they would this year because of how big the running backs have been, because the receiving numbers haven't quite been what they've been.
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The quarterback numbers you have Burrow, but his team is bad and you have Lamar, who hasn't quite played that great in the pressure situations.
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So I think the running backs have been playing great this year.
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I think they'd give it to a running back Okay.
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All right, good list.
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Three to one there.
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No, lamar.
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That's interesting because you had where we give it to Bree.
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You had Lamar on your list last time.
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Yeah, you had him one.
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He's fallen off.
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Then I asked, I said, okay, at what point is he ineligible for the award?
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We had some debate on that, but we won't get into that right now.
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So that's your top three.
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All right, brianna, let's uh, let's hear your your top three.
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Three to one for nfl mvp yeah.
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So my three would have to be barkley um.
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He's three because you know, like diego said, he's really helping the eagles and he has a lot of rushing yards and a lot of touchdowns to like make that team known to go to playoffs and do really well.
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Um.
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My second would have to be josh allen, just because I mean he has a lot of yards this season over 2000.
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He has 18 touchdowns already this season, which I think is phenomenal.
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They beat the chiefs and the refs didn't even help um.
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So you know, I feel like he would be second because he's really good and he knows how to get out of the pocket, he knows where to throw it, he knows all of like where all his players are, you know.
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And I think number one would probably have to be lamar um, just because he also has a lot of yards.
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You know he has like 3 000 yards so far.
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He has 27 touchdowns this season.
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So you know, I feel like he's a really good yeah, contender.
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So yeah, yes, okay now.
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So I've got to ask you the follow-up that I asked diego and chris last time.
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So lamar, number one, you know, still putting up big numbers.
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I think the game, the game this week, is going to be huge to determine if he beats the Eagles.
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That'll help him a lot.
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And then again, if the Eagles win, that'll help Saquon a lot.
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So that's going to be a big one.
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But let's say the Ravens don't make it to the Super Bowl, Not even win, but don't make it to the Super Bowl next year, this year, if we go into next year and Lamar's doing the same thing, he has even better stats.
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At that point would you consider him ineligible.
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Or do you say, hey, it's a regular season award, it doesn't matter how many times he wins it.
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I'm not going to factor the playoffs in at all.
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What's your, your take?
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on that going into next um, I think he'd definitely be ineligible, because if he does the same thing every season but can't execute it, then I think it's done okay, all right, all right.
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Yeah, definitely curious.
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I like to hear everyone's threshold on on that to see okay, how many, how many is too many?
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Okay, all right.
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Well, I'm gonna give you my top three.
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Uh, it's very similar to about two weeks ago and my first one is very controversial.
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I think you both may definitely disagree, and most of the audience, but that's okay.
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This is my list, so it's my top three, all right.
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So number three.
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I've got Tua at number three.
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This is definitely your list.
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This is definitely my list.
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That's a very nice way to put it.
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I love that.
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So again with Tua, I say now do I think Tua is top three in players in the NFL?
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No, but if I'm going by most valuable, tell me three players that are more valuable to their team than Tua.
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I think we've seen, based on this season, how awful they look when he was not there, and now they couldn't even run the ball when he wasn't there.
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Now they've got their swagger back.
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Tyreek Hill has been found Again.
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He's out of witness protection.
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He was in witness protection with Dez when Dez was losing to us every week.
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So you know, now they're kind of looking like themselves and there's a chance they might get back into the playoff race.
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So that's why I've got Tua.
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I know that's a controversial one, but I've got Tua from the value that he's bringing All right.
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Number two I've got Saquon Barkley there.
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He's new on my list.
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I had Derrick Henry on my list a couple weeks ago, but I've had to go ahead and put Saquon in that spot.
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Self-explanatory, he's playing great.
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They look like a totally different team based on where they were at the end of last season to now.
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So it's looking good, can't wait to see that showdown with the Ravens and number one still, like I had two weeks ago, I've got Josh Allen.
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Uh, playing, playing, great.
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I feel that the Bills are the best team in the AFC, as I've been saying for a while yeah, I think they're best.
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Of course the Chiefs got the rest, but yeah, best peer team in the NFL uh, yeah, now, diego, I think, because we know how you hold grudges, I think you're going to be more on this Chiefs-Refs thing based on the Panthers losing to them, I think that's going to add.
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Go ahead and add to that grudge there.
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All right, thanks for all the comments too.
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Love the comments there.
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I think that concludes our MVP.
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Let us know who your MVP is right now.