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You can also track all of Howard\'s picks throughout the season with Brayton Wilson\'s picks tracker on X:\xa0<a href="https://twitter.com/BraytonJWilson">@BraytonJWilson</a>.', '_version': 2, 'componentVariation': 'paragraph'}, 'original_ref': 'www.audacy.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cm1ql7t98002s357m510usfn7@published'}, {'data': {'url': 'https://twitter.com/BraytonJWilson/status/1841093775822618900', 'html': '<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A two-loss swing is not so bad after Sunday night's trouncing by Baltimore...<a href="https://twitter.com/hsimon62?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@hsimon62</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyWGR?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JeremyWGR</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/SneakyJoeSports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SneakyJoeSports</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/schmity47?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@schmity47</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/WGR550?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WGR550</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HowardPicksTheBills?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HowardPicksTheBills</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HowardHater?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HowardHater</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HowardHomer?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HowardHomer</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bills?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Bills</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BillsMafia?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BillsMafia</a> <a href="https://t.co/TnqowcVtdZ">pic.twitter.com/TnqowcVtdZ</a></p>— Brayton J. 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