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dot com and place your nfl live bets all season long right here's what we're going to do we're going

to talk about the leaders of the pack it's a playoff picture show we're going to talk about the leaders of the pack. It's a playoff picture show. We're going to talk about the leaders of the pack, not who we think are the leaders, but who are the leaders based on what they've done on the field. Then we're going to hit teams that are chomping at the bit. Now, these are teams that are right on their heels or teams that we think are good enough to actually be considered the team to

beat. And then the team in the third segment is the team nobody wants to play. One of them

might be the team that I cover every single day in Jacksonville, David Harrison. How goes it,

my friend? And the playoffs is a wild, wow, wow scene in both the AFC and and nfc yeah i mean the you know playoff football is

december right this is the best time of year this is the beginning of the best time of year there's

multiple seasons within each NFL season and and this is one of the most exciting right and then

once we get to the end of this then we get to the real playoffs and then you know it just ramps up

a little bit more.

And I'm living in a world right now, unfortunately, where we're talking about,

well, the commanders win out and the Eagles lose out and the Cowboys only win two of their last five

and the sun rises in the south and set of the east and all this craziness.

But that doesn't mean there's not a lot of good football to watch,

even if the team you cover or cheer for is relatively or mathematically eliminated. And that's exactly what we've got coming up this month, man. Man, I have been there. Brother, I have been there in week 11. I've been there in week 11 talking about the draft and free agency the next year. I know what it feels like. So I'm in uncharted territory myself. It's not just me. So are Bears fans. Bears fans have been hibernating for a whole long time. They're real loud sometimes, but that's just a front. The Jaguar fans are loud like that. They have been sleeping in hibernating. But now Ben Johnson has gone in there and woke that crew up and they're playing real well. Here's my man, Lauren Cox. So it just feels like, boy, this was the kind of like everything comes together performance from the Bears' offense that we've been looking for. And then the defense more than did its part in a way that was even also a little bit unexpected, given the injuries and everything they had to overcome.

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