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Oh, what's going on?

Hope you're enjoying your Friday morning.

Oh, man.

We've had NFL action three games on Saturday. Full slate on Sunday.

Man, my Justin Koo left me hand last week. I was asking him for confidence pool advice.

And he had nothing for me. He's like, Brian, you're on your own. I crashed and freaking burned last week.

I don't even know what my record was.

It was either 5 and 8 or 4 and 9.

I was terrible.

You pick every game against the spread, and then you rank it based on confidence points.

So, like, 16 would be your lock if there are 16 games. 16 would be the one

your most confident in. It's the most amount of points. I was terrible. I don't know if I'm even in

contention after week 14 last week. So see if I can bribe coupe and giving me some advice in

week 15. I'll give you a sneak peek real fast. I'm not off to a good start.

Not off to a good start in week 15 after what happened on Thursday night. I'm going to circle back to the 49ers. It's been very 49er heavy.

So I want to switch gears for a little bit. Feel free to check in 877-99 on Fox is your phone number.

I will get back to the Niners beating the Seahawks and what it means for them going forward.

But let's look beyond them just for a couple of minutes here.

I mentioned a couple of minutes ago it's awesome until it isn't.

That would be the situation a few teams find themselves in.

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