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Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast,

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Speaker 1: presented by the United States Rain for My name is

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Speaker 1: and and just joined in a virtual room filled with

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Speaker 1: some heroes, Mark Sessler, Greg Rosenthal, What is up? Boys?

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Speaker 1: Feels like we made it here that the previous show

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Speaker 1: my favorite show of the week. And I used the

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Speaker 1: piece sometimes, Dan, you like to hate on the previous

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Speaker 1: show a little bit, but I love it? Does I don't,

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Speaker 1: I don't, I don't, I wouldn't. I love all things

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Speaker 1: Around the NFL podcast related. And this does feel like,

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Speaker 1: you know, the the day after we learned that the

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Speaker 1: city of Los Angeles where we live canceled Halloween. Uh,

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Speaker 1: it's good to know that some things are still around,

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Speaker 1: and that's football, which starts tonight with the Texans and

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs at Arrowhead in front of eighteen thousand brave fans.

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Speaker 1: And uh, we're going to have a late night Thursday

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Speaker 1: mini pod coming up later uh today or early Friday

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Speaker 1: that recaps that game, and hopefully it will be all

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Speaker 1: four of us with Chris westling Um and we're planning

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Speaker 1: to head over to West Manor to see Lakisha and

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Speaker 1: Link and the whole gang a little bit later. So

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Speaker 1: we're all excited and pumped up as we are every year.

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Speaker 1: I believe this is our eighth season boys uh doing

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Speaker 1: NFL Action here at the dot com. Can you believe it? Mark?

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Speaker 1: I mean yeah, I can. I think it's also when

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Speaker 1: we started this show, you thought, well, this would be great.

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Speaker 1: At this lasted for you know, a good six months

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Speaker 1: until they catch wind of what we're doing here. And

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Speaker 1: so the idea that the show has gone on for

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Speaker 1: eight months is a small miracle. I think in sports

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Speaker 1: media industry circles that that said that we couldn't even

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Speaker 1: do the podcast together when it started, like one of

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Speaker 1: us had to stay in the newsroom. That's how a

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Speaker 1: little it was thought of we. I had another boss

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Speaker 1: that told me when I got uh, if I finally

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Speaker 1: got a full time job at NFL, don't focus on

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Speaker 1: the podcast. Don't take it too seriously. Your job is

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Speaker 1: a writer. That's what you do. And we still write,

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Speaker 1: and we still love to write. But this podcast is incredible.

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Speaker 1: I think it's taken on a life of its own,

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Speaker 1: and we're all very lucky to do it for another season.

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Speaker 1: And this is Greg and your way off on that.

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Speaker 1: I love kid. By the way, where is that shadowy? Like?

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Speaker 1: Especially a week he's just biking around? Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: he's biking around the beach somewhere, nothing to do. That's

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Speaker 1: where he is. Greg connecting some dots here and maybe

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Speaker 1: so are some listeners working? All right? So what are

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Speaker 1: we doing today? You know what we're doing. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: preview every game to be played on Sunday and Monday.

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Speaker 1: And of course it's week one everyone's playing, so we

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Speaker 1: got a lot of games to get to. Very exciting.

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Speaker 1: A few ground rules to remember as well. Uh that

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Speaker 1: we will be picking uh in a dray Aft order

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Speaker 1: which will be fun, which means Gregg, as the reigning

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Speaker 1: locks champion, you get the first overall pick this year.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations on that. For the games that will be covering,

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Speaker 1: and we'll do its snake style, so look out for that.

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Speaker 1: And as I said, yes, each of us will pick

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Speaker 1: program will also be airing on NFL Network Saturday mornings

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Speaker 1: eight am Eastern, which is just a beautiful little time

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Speaker 1: slot you wake up, Uh either watch it live or

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Speaker 1: our beautiful mugs. And it's also mark, you know for

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Speaker 1: gonna be beautiful. The NFL schedule makers got this right

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Speaker 1: it's weird too that we're both locking right off the top.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's just so much to like about this

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Speaker 1: You've got to be, you know, dead inside not to

429
00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:20,000
Speaker 1: be kind of intrigued and excited by what this can

430
00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:22,840
Speaker 1: mean for a Giants team that's been a see a

431
00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:26,359
Speaker 1: really long time. All right, Well, then for the pandemic.

432
00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:31,399
Speaker 1: Help you if they make you feel something, Greg. If

433
00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:34,520
Speaker 1: Joe Judge gets into that Greg Rosenthal little heart there,

434
00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:37,640
Speaker 1: we know that Joe Judge has done his job and

435
00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:40,200
Speaker 1: we will be excited coming out a week one. Yeah,

436
00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:43,119
Speaker 1: but you know you know that with Rosenthal, like he

437
00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:46,640
Speaker 1: Joe Judge is just another turncoat from the Belichick tree,

438
00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:48,960
Speaker 1: so he roots for him to fail and doubling because

439
00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:50,800
Speaker 1: it's the Giants, because of what happened in those two

440
00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:54,320
Speaker 1: Super Bowls when Eli took down the great two headed Bohema.

441
00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:57,480
Speaker 1: I love the I love the Dimes man. Danny Dimes

442
00:20:57,520 --> 00:20:59,440
Speaker 1: has gotten into my heart. I'm just not in love

443
00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:02,679
Speaker 1: the fact that he's inherited Jason Garrett right in his offense.

444
00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:04,879
Speaker 1: I like fun football. It's been a while since the

445
00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:08,439
Speaker 1: Giants who played some fun football. Let's Greg, Jason Garrett

446
00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:10,040
Speaker 1: or Patch Schremer. I mean, are we is it really?

447
00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:11,840
Speaker 1: I mean? I think you know it best. It's it's

448
00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:14,959
Speaker 1: a draw. Lee Shermer was throwing it forty times a

449
00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:17,479
Speaker 1: game that was fun. Who it feels like a bit

450
00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:20,560
Speaker 1: of a with all due respect, like a talking heading

451
00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:24,080
Speaker 1: to just assume we're we know what Jason Garrett's We

452
00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:27,880
Speaker 1: don't it's been head coach anymore. You're right, You're right,

453
00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:31,960
Speaker 1: all right, it's snakes to me, right. You gotta make

454
00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:33,840
Speaker 1: the sound effect though, Dan, I mean that was one

455
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Speaker 1: of the national things draft. Here we go. Oh yeah,

456
00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:48,119
Speaker 1: this is a no brainer Packers Vikings. That is what

457
00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:51,199
Speaker 1: I mean. People when they have their fantasy dress, they

458
00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:54,480
Speaker 1: get bummed out when they're picking last. But when you

459
00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:57,480
Speaker 1: nail that, that snake and that turnaround like I just did,

460
00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:01,159
Speaker 1: and you're in the what do they call it, the

461
00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:04,040
Speaker 1: something bird seat, catbird seat, I don't know. We're in

462
00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:06,040
Speaker 1: your world, Dan, you you can name it whatever you want.

463
00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:08,399
Speaker 1: At this point, I think cool man. Alright. Packers at

464
00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:12,520
Speaker 1: Vikings love it. Awesome matchup lust speak of things I love.

465
00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:15,720
Speaker 1: I love the NFC North and there's so many great

466
00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:20,000
Speaker 1: sublots here. This is a Vikings team that appears ready

467
00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:23,600
Speaker 1: absolutely to contend for a Super Bowl. And the Janik

468
00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:27,200
Speaker 1: and Gockway pick up was so smart by Rick Spielman

469
00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:30,000
Speaker 1: because it filled a big need. They needed somebody that

470
00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:32,200
Speaker 1: could get to the quarterback. They needed somebody to replace

471
00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:35,080
Speaker 1: Everson Griffin and Yoni and Godway could absolutely do that.

472
00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:37,199
Speaker 1: And he doesn't have to be the only guy now.

473
00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:40,400
Speaker 1: Daniel Hunter, their other great pass rusher, went to short term.

474
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Speaker 1: I R, are we calling a boomerang? I are? Are Are

475
00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:46,240
Speaker 1: we still trying to make that boomerang boomerang? I R.

476
00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:49,080
Speaker 1: It's a thing. We're making it a thing. We're forcing people. Well,

477
00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:51,000
Speaker 1: I was just more curious for the three week version.

478
00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:52,680
Speaker 1: Is that boomerang as well? I guess it is. It's

479
00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:56,840
Speaker 1: just a shorter throw right, shorter love. Okay, Anyway, Daniel

480
00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:58,600
Speaker 1: Hunter is not gonna be playing in this game. That's

481
00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:01,159
Speaker 1: that's an issue in Gockway is getting used to his

482
00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:03,640
Speaker 1: new surroundings. He wasn't very active this summer, so that's

483
00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:07,480
Speaker 1: something to watch along the defensive line for the Vikings. Um.

484
00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:10,919
Speaker 1: But I think again with Davin Cookback. I know Stefan

485
00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:13,359
Speaker 1: Diggs is gone, but I think Adam Feelin, who's gonna

486
00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:15,480
Speaker 1: be hopefully healthy this year, is gonna have a big

487
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Speaker 1: season with Kirk Cousins. And then on the other side

488
00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:21,040
Speaker 1: of the ball, I'm fascinated. We talked about it on

489
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Speaker 1: our Sandwich Predictions show on Monday. What Aaron Rodgers. I'm

490
00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:28,480
Speaker 1: predicting he's an All Pro this year just because I

491
00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:30,359
Speaker 1: wanted to happen. I think that would be a lot

492
00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:34,560
Speaker 1: of fun if it happens, and hell happ no fury

493
00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:37,800
Speaker 1: like a legendary quarterback scorned. I think he wants it,

494
00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:39,959
Speaker 1: and I think he's gonna be better this year. Just

495
00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:43,080
Speaker 1: a hunch, but we'll see. I'm with you on Aaron

496
00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:47,000
Speaker 1: Rodgers having the correct motivation now, not that he didn't

497
00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:48,840
Speaker 1: have it before, but it's right in his face where

498
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:51,160
Speaker 1: we're We're weeks away from him telling, you know, our

499
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:54,000
Speaker 1: friend Kyle Brandt that he believed that the end in

500
00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:56,719
Speaker 1: Green Bay was, you know, was coming. That he that

501
00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:58,320
Speaker 1: was sort of the tea leaves when they went and

502
00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:00,560
Speaker 1: got love in the first round and traded up for him.

503
00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:03,120
Speaker 1: He really had only four games last year right through

504
00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:04,879
Speaker 1: for over three hundred yards. He's that's gonna have to

505
00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:06,919
Speaker 1: change for him to be m v P. And the

506
00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:09,760
Speaker 1: way that they attacked the Vikings, you know more recently

507
00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:12,840
Speaker 1: is that Aaron Jones had four hundred yards and his

508
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:15,119
Speaker 1: last three outings against Minnesota. And I look at the

509
00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:18,960
Speaker 1: Vikings defense where they completely rebuilt group of cornerbacks. It's

510
00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:21,359
Speaker 1: three new corners and Mike Zimmer is good at coaching

511
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Speaker 1: those guys up. But there are some TVD elements to

512
00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:28,240
Speaker 1: tow Minnesota's defense. There are, but I trust in Zimmer

513
00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:30,720
Speaker 1: and and people have been focused on that. Okay, they've

514
00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,399
Speaker 1: they've got these young corners. Well, the old corners were bad,

515
00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:36,800
Speaker 1: like they weren't playing well. Like getting Xavier Roads out

516
00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:39,600
Speaker 1: of there is a plus. And and zimmer is one

517
00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:42,280
Speaker 1: of the only coaches in the league that's really patient

518
00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:44,840
Speaker 1: in terms of how he brings his draft picks along.

519
00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:46,800
Speaker 1: So these guys have been around in terms of Hughes

520
00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:49,400
Speaker 1: and Holton Hill like they've been in the building. They're

521
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:52,639
Speaker 1: not rookies necessarily, and I like that they needed some

522
00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:54,840
Speaker 1: fresh But I'm a little worried, as Dan mentioned, what

523
00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:57,280
Speaker 1: they're gonna be like upfront, And I'm a little worried. Dan.

524
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Speaker 1: You remember that game, We watched it with your father

525
00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:02,600
Speaker 1: in the garage. I mean, the Vikings really didn't show

526
00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:05,040
Speaker 1: up in a big spot. So this happened. This is

527
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:08,240
Speaker 1: a chance for them, uh to maybe set a new

528
00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:11,359
Speaker 1: a new path this year because that was ugly last

529
00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:13,359
Speaker 1: year with a division on it. But you know it's weird. Greg,

530
00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:15,440
Speaker 1: I remember that. I think it was a week fifteen

531
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:19,840
Speaker 1: or sixteen game and game uh, and it basically sunk

532
00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:22,440
Speaker 1: their chances of winning the division. And we all said, ah,

533
00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:25,240
Speaker 1: the Vikings are frauds. You know, get Kirk Cousins out

534
00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:28,280
Speaker 1: of here. He's doing gender reveal parties anyway, Anybody who

535
00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:30,439
Speaker 1: does that needs to be thrown into the ocean. And

536
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:32,320
Speaker 1: then they went to the super Dome in the playoffs

537
00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:33,840
Speaker 1: in one a game. And I know they got killed

538
00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:36,320
Speaker 1: the next week by the Niners. But it's like you

539
00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:38,680
Speaker 1: never know which version shows up. You just never know

540
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:41,000
Speaker 1: you're right. But they I just find them to be

541
00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:43,280
Speaker 1: the classic good not great team and I and I

542
00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:45,280
Speaker 1: wait to see if they're a great team. I mean,

543
00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:47,919
Speaker 1: the greatest thing that came out of that total flop

544
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:51,520
Speaker 1: by Minnesota was Dan's dad referring to Matt Lafleur as

545
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:54,560
Speaker 1: a little boy with a beard. I mean that wasn't

546
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:56,680
Speaker 1: kind of the perfect indication of what I think he

547
00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:58,200
Speaker 1: kind of looked like, lash right. I think he's grown

548
00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:00,280
Speaker 1: up a little bit. And Batt Lafour is probably wanting

549
00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:02,960
Speaker 1: to show people, you know, to stop talking about this

550
00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:05,080
Speaker 1: soft thirteen and three record from a year ago, which

551
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:07,639
Speaker 1: I appointed to a hundred times. I don't like what

552
00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 1: happened in the NFC title game. They were not a

553
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:11,639
Speaker 1: thirteen and three team in that game to me. But

554
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:13,879
Speaker 1: Green Bay probably has a little bit of feelings. But

555
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:17,159
Speaker 1: they worked in general, they were in fact, they were fourteen.

556
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:19,400
Speaker 1: They were fourteen and three game team in that game.

557
00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:21,560
Speaker 1: And then I stick by the fact that, like you know,

558
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,679
Speaker 1: we've been watching football for decades, there's a hundred thirteen

559
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:26,840
Speaker 1: and three teams. They did not vibe that way to me,

560
00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:30,840
Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean they weren't a very good team.

561
00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 1: All right, anybody got the vikings in this game? I

562
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:36,840
Speaker 1: took them. You can check out my picks NFL dot

563
00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:39,920
Speaker 1: Com or game debut on Friday nights. I mean, why

564
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:42,280
Speaker 1: not you got Also Greg went sixteen and oh one

565
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:44,920
Speaker 1: week last year in his pixsl NFL dot com. I'll

566
00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:47,359
Speaker 1: tell you because he won't, but that was impressive. He

567
00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:49,199
Speaker 1: went back and changed, I'll give you I'll give you

568
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:52,399
Speaker 1: a bag. I will give you a bag of cash

569
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,080
Speaker 1: if you do that in this week. I really will

570
00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:58,719
Speaker 1: all right time now four Road to Victory, presented by

571
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Speaker 1: the US Marine Corps are mark the draft heads to you. Well,

572
00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:06,520
Speaker 1: and how about we take a little road, a little

573
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 1: trip out west to San Francisco. That's what the Cardinals

574
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:11,879
Speaker 1: are doing. They're hopping on a plane soon they're gonna

575
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:14,639
Speaker 1: get out there. And this is a classic kind of

576
00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 1: game that I that I can get up for because

577
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 1: you've got my guy, Kyle shannonhan versus Cliff Kingsbury, I

578
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,120
Speaker 1: think two of the most interesting coaches around and inside

579
00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:25,960
Speaker 1: an NFC West filled with great coaches, and this is

580
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,160
Speaker 1: gonna have to kind of show us what Kyle Shanahan

581
00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:30,520
Speaker 1: can do in a pinch. Your defense is banged up.

582
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:32,960
Speaker 1: You look at Deebo, Samuel Brandon and Yuke. We don't

583
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:34,880
Speaker 1: know what's going on with those guys right now, whether

584
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,439
Speaker 1: they'll be available or wide receiver corps a mess. So

585
00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:39,720
Speaker 1: I think you gotta do this. You gotta try to

586
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 1: keep Kyler Murray in that fast Cardinals offense fourth fastest

587
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:46,360
Speaker 1: in the league last year, off the field best you can.

588
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 1: So maybe this is a run heavy game. Maybe this

589
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,119
Speaker 1: is a game where George Kittle, if you own him

590
00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:53,240
Speaker 1: in fantasy, is gonna lead you to a win because

591
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:55,680
Speaker 1: you're just gonna funnel the ball to him all day long.

592
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:58,040
Speaker 1: What you don't want to do if you're the Niners.

593
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:00,040
Speaker 1: Is let Kenyan Drake do what he did last on

594
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 1: that he dealt with his team get about two hundred

595
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:04,639
Speaker 1: and fifty yards and his two matchups against the Niners,

596
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 1: they shut everyone down. He was someone they could not

597
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:10,200
Speaker 1: shut down. I cannot wait to see what Arizona's four

598
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,760
Speaker 1: wide receiver offense looks like in Week one. Yeah, you

599
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:16,520
Speaker 1: think of that four wide receiver sets that Kingsbury did

600
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 1: so much last year. Now he actually has four good

601
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:21,199
Speaker 1: wide receivers. So it makes you think, is he just

602
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:23,520
Speaker 1: gonna do it all the time now that he's got

603
00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:25,960
Speaker 1: Hopkins as the one? But you slide in. Christian Kirk

604
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:28,360
Speaker 1: has a two fit. Larry Fitzgerald supposedly had an amazing

605
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:31,080
Speaker 1: training camp, which is just it's funny that he's still

606
00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:34,480
Speaker 1: having amazing training camps. And well, he's the same as Frank.

607
00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:38,040
Speaker 1: These guys that everyone loves, their veterans always have great camps.

608
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 1: They they do. But I don't I don't doubt that

609
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:43,080
Speaker 1: he's out working this Cardinal secondary. Now you have Andy

610
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:46,480
Speaker 1: and Isabella and you're you're playing fast and it's totally

611
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:49,720
Speaker 1: opposite to what Kyle Shanahan really likes to do. Mark

612
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 1: so they're they're from the old school in San Francisco

613
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 1: in terms of Shanahan running these heavy sets with fullbacks

614
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:57,640
Speaker 1: and keep an eye on two tight ends. Not just

615
00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 1: George Kittle, but Jordan Read. Here's a guy who's gotten

616
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,640
Speaker 1: a little bit of camp pipe over the years and

617
00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 1: hasn't always stayed healthy. But he really would change their

618
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:10,640
Speaker 1: team if Jordan's the old Jordan Reed from Washington shows

619
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 1: up like that, to me is a major X factor

620
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:15,560
Speaker 1: in Shanahan will know how to use him. I'm sure

621
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 1: he will show up, and I'm not making light of it,

622
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 1: but the reason he has great camps is because he's

623
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 1: a gifted athletic pass catcher and playmaker. And then when

624
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 1: he gets hit, unfortunately, he's had head injuries that come

625
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,800
Speaker 1: up year after year. Hopefully he shakes that because they

626
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:31,640
Speaker 1: really need somebody else to step up right now. Greg,

627
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:34,720
Speaker 1: you've been very down on the Niners this summer. In fact,

628
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 1: in our prediction show you even said they're not going

629
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:40,000
Speaker 1: to make the playoffs. You put sandwiches on it, which

630
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:44,840
Speaker 1: just seems to me a little bit strange, but that

631
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 1: was that was our onion hangers. You gotta have one

632
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:49,440
Speaker 1: that you know isn't too likely, but it just shows

633
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:52,360
Speaker 1: that you're not afraid to take a chance. But it

634
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 1: is an interesting matchup because you're not the only person

635
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 1: that's doubting the Niners a little bit. And then you

636
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:02,000
Speaker 1: have the Cardinals, who everyone is ion. I said that

637
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:04,640
Speaker 1: I thought the Bucks were the off off season champion.

638
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:08,240
Speaker 1: The Cardinals came in second because everyone just assumes, and

639
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:10,040
Speaker 1: this is like the red flag for me a little bit.

640
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Speaker 1: Everyone assumes that Kyler Murray is now going to take

641
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Speaker 1: the Lamari and leap and become an m v P

642
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 1: type player, And maybe you will, and maybe he's in

643
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:19,560
Speaker 1: a perfect offense for it, but that's a lot harder

644
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 1: than that it looks. I know Mahomes and Lamar did

645
00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 1: it back to back years, but that doesn't happen but

646
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:28,320
Speaker 1: once a decade tip now, I would say this too,

647
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:31,000
Speaker 1: that you know, DeAndre Hopkins and Kyler Murle didn't work

648
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:33,160
Speaker 1: much together in camp really at all. They really didn't

649
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:35,000
Speaker 1: get a lot of reps, so that might take a

650
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,320
Speaker 1: couple of weeks to to iron out. But also, you

651
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 1: know Richard Sherman, one of the last guy who seems

652
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:41,920
Speaker 1: healthy in the secondary. He doesn't flip flop. I mean

653
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 1: he stays on one side, so you can kind of

654
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:46,520
Speaker 1: you if your Cliff Kingsbury's scheme around where Sherman is

655
00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 1: not with Hopkins, and maybe that creates an advantage for

656
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:54,800
Speaker 1: Arizona right there, An Sessler, you know he doesn't flip flop,

657
00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:57,600
Speaker 1: he just stick. Well, I you know, I just dropped

658
00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:00,240
Speaker 1: like massive predictions that come true in time. I don't

659
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:01,920
Speaker 1: know what you're talking about with the flip flop business.

660
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 1: That's absurd. Greg, You're up next, and I'm glad you

661
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:10,400
Speaker 1: left this Patriots Dolphins game for me. That's the one

662
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:14,360
Speaker 1: I want to watch early on Sunday. And uh, these

663
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 1: teams are kind of similar to me in some ways

664
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 1: in that they have great, you know, defensive backfields. They

665
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 1: almost want you to run the ball against them. That's

666
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 1: they're inviting you. It's not, I guess a shock because

667
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 1: Brian Flores and Bill Belichick have the same sort of

668
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:31,040
Speaker 1: defensive philosophy. But on offense, you also don't know what

669
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:32,920
Speaker 1: you're gonna get. I think you're gonna get a lot

670
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:34,840
Speaker 1: of running. I think you're gonna get a lot of

671
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:37,960
Speaker 1: option football from Cam Newton. And I think you're gonna

672
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 1: get a lot of surprises from the Dolphins too. I

673
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 1: would not be surprised to see two a tongue of

674
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 1: Vloa out there with a special package. Both these coaches

675
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 1: are so cag that you know they just want to

676
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:51,760
Speaker 1: spring something on each other in Week one in Belichick

677
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 1: is not happy that Flores went up there to Foxboro

678
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:57,280
Speaker 1: and basically ended the Tom Brady era in Week seventeen

679
00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,680
Speaker 1: last year, taking that by away. So Belichick's ready for

680
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 1: a little revenge. Was wait, you can win. You can

681
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 1: win against the Titans the next week. It wasn't over

682
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 1: at that point. Just the lost any chance, any chance

683
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 1: they had at going deep into the playoffs and maybe

684
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:17,080
Speaker 1: winning a championship, which is all they're really worried about.

685
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,480
Speaker 1: It was over the second you knew the team didn't

686
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 1: have it at that point. That's all. I think. It

687
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 1: showed like a severe chink in the armor, and it

688
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:26,320
Speaker 1: was it was you know, you had Ryan Fitzpatrick, you know,

689
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:29,320
Speaker 1: with players jumping on his on his back, he's piggybacking

690
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 1: players off the field. It just was not the way

691
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:33,680
Speaker 1: New like New England likes to close the season. I

692
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 1: thought it was interesting. The Beat writer Jeff how noted

693
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:40,040
Speaker 1: that coaches think that Cam Newton can still basically be

694
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:41,960
Speaker 1: the rusher he was in twenty seven team when he

695
00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 1: ran for a hundred and forty times or so. I

696
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 1: cannot wait to see how they scheme him and what

697
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 1: this offense looks like. You know, we got used to seeing.

698
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 1: Even if the Patriots switched up with Tombrey a little bit,

699
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 1: it just looked the same year after year. Do you

700
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 1: give the advantage to New England with with surprise or

701
00:32:57,120 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 1: Chan Gailey in Miami You hasn't coached since and maybe

702
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 1: wants to run who knows wildcat or pistol all day long.

703
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:06,560
Speaker 1: I'm going with, uh, the Patriots in the Element of

704
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:11,600
Speaker 1: Surprise game here, Jan Galiley and Ryan Fitzpatrick made magic

705
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 1: on the one Jets team that had a winning record

706
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:15,960
Speaker 1: in the last ten years. Uh So they have a

707
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 1: knowledge together and I'm really interested to see. I've given

708
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 1: Gregor hard time this offseason that the Patriots won't be

709
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:25,960
Speaker 1: special anymore. I still believe that, But Cam Newton, Cam

710
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,520
Speaker 1: Newton's playing football again, and it'll be interesting to see.

711
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 1: The thing I'm most interested in with Newton is is

712
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:34,240
Speaker 1: he gonna be running around a lot? Because you know,

713
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 1: there's conversations in that building, can he be that guy anymore?

714
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:39,960
Speaker 1: Because they kind of needed to be that guy because

715
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 1: he's never been a special passer. It's when you put

716
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 1: the two things together that that made him an m

717
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 1: VP level player. So I'll be interested to see how

718
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 1: he's deployed in Belichick's offense. I think it'll be a

719
00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 1: ton of running. I think you'll see a lot of

720
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 1: James White. I think you'll see some Sony Michelle. Both

721
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:58,360
Speaker 1: teams are gonna run. But one team, to me, is

722
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:01,000
Speaker 1: more prepared to run. They have a at her offensive line.

723
00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:04,360
Speaker 1: That's the new England Patriots. The Dolphins have so many

724
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 1: new starters. I think it's gonna be very difficult for

725
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:09,120
Speaker 1: them to not have had a preseason to get ready

726
00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:13,359
Speaker 1: for this year. Better win this game, Greg, you get

727
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 1: things off on the right foot here. I mean, I

728
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:17,719
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm not suiting up. I'm just well, I'm

729
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:19,879
Speaker 1: just watching at home. We're gonna be doing our Week

730
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:24,680
Speaker 1: one recap show regardless. You know, well, we'll still You're right, Mark,

731
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:26,919
Speaker 1: I could hear in his voice, all right, let's let's

732
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:29,600
Speaker 1: snake along. Greg. It goes right back to you. Oh,

733
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Speaker 1: I am so excited. You didn't think this was gonna

734
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 1: get taken so high. It's the Las Vegas Raiders go

735
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:38,719
Speaker 1: into Charlotte this week to face Mark's boy, Matt Rule

736
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 1: and the Carolina Panthers. A little bit of a reach,

737
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:43,719
Speaker 1: I don't think. So, you know what, I got the

738
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 1: Patriots on one TV, gonna get my attention. I got

739
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:49,239
Speaker 1: this game on the secondary TV, and I picked it

740
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 1: because there are two teams that I just I like,

741
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:53,839
Speaker 1: I don't know what these two teams are gonna look like,

742
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:56,720
Speaker 1: so I'm very curious. I mean, Rule, it's a mystery.

743
00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 1: But even the Raiders, if you look at their starting

744
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:02,880
Speaker 1: lineup right now, they have nine players that are first

745
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:07,279
Speaker 1: or second year starters that were drafted by Mike Mack.

746
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:10,239
Speaker 1: That is an outrageous number. Most teams have two or

747
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:12,320
Speaker 1: three players like that. So it's a lot of rookies.

748
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:15,280
Speaker 1: It's rookies at wide receiver, you know, Rugs and Edwards

749
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 1: for the Raiders. So even though Gruden has been there

750
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:19,840
Speaker 1: a couple of years, it's it's a lot of mystery,

751
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 1: and to me, that gets me at that gets me

752
00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:24,160
Speaker 1: going on Sundays. Maybe maybe it doesn't, you know, maybe

753
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 1: you're just already board by these teams. Dan, I am

754
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:29,600
Speaker 1: with you. I think that tell me more the Carolina

755
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 1: side Sunday mornings like that. I look at the Carolina

756
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 1: side where the mystery is. Basically, you've got like nine

757
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 1: players on the defense that we're in college a year ago,

758
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:43,080
Speaker 1: you know, studying the books and playing on Saturdays. Now

759
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:45,759
Speaker 1: they're suddenly having a deal with the Raiders offense. John

760
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 1: Gruden year three, I I flipped to the Carolina's offense.

761
00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:50,880
Speaker 1: So I mean the big name that they have it

762
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 1: all O C Joe Brady who basically turned Clyde Edwards

763
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 1: Hilaire into elis use all time leading past catching running back,

764
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 1: and now Clyde Edwards Hilaire is being taken number one

765
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 1: overall in Kansas City by fantasy heads for that reason.

766
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:06,400
Speaker 1: And they basically said, that's what we want to do

767
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:09,400
Speaker 1: with Christian McCaffrey, that there's no idea this, We're not

768
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:11,840
Speaker 1: going to diminish his role. He's basically it's more of

769
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 1: a Saints type offense. They're gonna run him the way

770
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:16,880
Speaker 1: that Alvin Kamara was used. And there are weapons on

771
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 1: this offense. You still have d J. Moore. I love

772
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:21,439
Speaker 1: that they got Robby Anderson. The idea that this team

773
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:24,279
Speaker 1: is starting from scratch entirely is not true, but we

774
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:27,359
Speaker 1: do need to see the Teddy Bridgewater experience week one.

775
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:30,400
Speaker 1: I know, Mark, you've already put Matt Rule into the

776
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:34,440
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame as an NFL head, but her Titanic.

777
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:37,440
Speaker 1: He has a Titanic challenge in front of him this year.

778
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:40,400
Speaker 1: I don't like their chances early on in the season.

779
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 1: They seem to me a team maybe kind of like

780
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:45,279
Speaker 1: how Brian Flores did in Miami last year, where they

781
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:47,279
Speaker 1: start out a little bit of a mess, and then

782
00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:49,799
Speaker 1: as the season goes along and he starts to get

783
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:52,520
Speaker 1: the team more comfortable and everybody get finds their roles,

784
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:55,359
Speaker 1: they get better. But I like the Raiders a lot

785
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:58,360
Speaker 1: in this game. I think they they have they have

786
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:00,759
Speaker 1: a better flow to them right now. They have more

787
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 1: more in place entering the season. And I I'm call

788
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 1: me the one guy out there, at least in the

789
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:09,400
Speaker 1: national media that thinks they are car could be legitimately

790
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:13,759
Speaker 1: good this year, not just the guy that everybody kicks around. Yeah,

791
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:15,399
Speaker 1: I think it's a mismatch. When they have the ball.

792
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:18,399
Speaker 1: The back seven for Carolina is pretty rough. I thought

793
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:20,120
Speaker 1: you were gonna lock it up there, but I guess not.

794
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 1: I don't want to go that far, but I will.

795
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:27,919
Speaker 1: I do have a team in mind. Mark, it's your turn, buddy,

796
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 1: all right. Well, you know I'm predictable enough. I think

797
00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:32,239
Speaker 1: that you know where I'm going here. I'm gonna go

798
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:36,319
Speaker 1: Cleveland at Baltimore. And you know this game is giving me,

799
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:40,080
Speaker 1: um some troubles internally because you know, as a long

800
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:43,799
Speaker 1: time just a few, just a few. I I don't

801
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:45,920
Speaker 1: know if I like the idea of having to roll

802
00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 1: out a whole new coaching staff and a new offense

803
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:51,719
Speaker 1: and a lot of new faces um against a Baltimore

804
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:54,759
Speaker 1: team run by John Harbaugh and essentially all the same

805
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:56,760
Speaker 1: people from last year, other than the fact that you added,

806
00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:59,719
Speaker 1: you know, Derek Wolfe and Calias Campbell and Patrick Queen

807
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:02,240
Speaker 1: to uh what should be a much better run defense.

808
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:04,279
Speaker 1: I don't know in a pandemic that I need on

809
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 1: Baltimore dropping a forty burger on the Browns um added

810
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:10,160
Speaker 1: into the spicy mix of life. But um, I am

811
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 1: hopeful about the Browns in general. I really do think

812
00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:16,799
Speaker 1: that the the b line through their entire offseason under

813
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:21,440
Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski has been hyper organization. All the players basically said,

814
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:24,920
Speaker 1: this coach is super zoned in. Everyone has very specific

815
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:28,719
Speaker 1: individual goals. Um their practices were organized us a lot

816
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:30,880
Speaker 1: to like. I think Baker Mayfield has his head on

817
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:33,399
Speaker 1: straight this year. My concern is just that I don't

818
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:35,480
Speaker 1: think you're gonna see it in week one or right away.

819
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:37,759
Speaker 1: It's gonna take time the same way it will for

820
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:40,479
Speaker 1: so many of these other teams. Maybe I'm being too

821
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:44,239
Speaker 1: uh pessimistic here, Greg, Come on, why why are you

822
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:49,240
Speaker 1: so nervous? I mean the the Ravens, it's the Baltimore

823
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:51,600
Speaker 1: Last year, it was the Browns that dropped the forty

824
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:54,240
Speaker 1: burger on the Ravens and gave him a big fat out.

825
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 1: I know you called that game of fluke. You called

826
00:38:57,480 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 1: that game of fluke when it happened, So I mean

827
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 1: I kind of vi that game is a little flukey myself.

828
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:07,880
Speaker 1: So okay, I do too. But I think if you

829
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:10,239
Speaker 1: look at the Browns roster, I'm not trying to just

830
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:13,359
Speaker 1: you know, pump you up. Okay. The Ravens are known

831
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:16,319
Speaker 1: for their backfield. Who's got the better running backs? I

832
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:18,759
Speaker 1: would take Nick Chubb and Kareem Hunt. I really went,

833
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:21,279
Speaker 1: who's got the better tight ends? It's at least the

834
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:24,840
Speaker 1: question you got in Joku. You add Austin Hooper, I

835
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:27,400
Speaker 1: know you love your boy h from the draft of

836
00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 1: Browns and Harrison Bryant. Then you have the wide receivers.

837
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:34,360
Speaker 1: Who's deeper wide. I'm just saying, I mean, this Brown's

838
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 1: team is talented, so let's puff out our chests. Last

839
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 1: year and for most of the most of the players

840
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 1: you just bought up, Greg, they were all there last year,

841
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 1: and all those Ravens guys were there last year. And

842
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 1: one team went four fourteen and two, and one team

843
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:52,240
Speaker 1: went six and ten. And the games, even the second matchup,

844
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:54,879
Speaker 1: they were ahead in that game, deep into it, and

845
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:58,359
Speaker 1: then Freddie Kitchens happened. Greg Dan, I would say this,

846
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:02,239
Speaker 1: I mean, the Browns are not the same offense. Though

847
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:04,279
Speaker 1: they actually added they didn't have a tight end that

848
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 1: was healthy at all last year. You've got three good

849
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:09,320
Speaker 1: tight ends. They're gonna run the ball. A ton Baker

850
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 1: Mayfield is gonna be involved in play action, not these

851
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:14,120
Speaker 1: you know, eleven sets all day long. I think that

852
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:17,960
Speaker 1: can make a positive effect. Yeah, I mean, but you

853
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:19,879
Speaker 1: you're also saying you think of forty Burger is about

854
00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 1: to be dropped on a flip un tootally illogical. I

855
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 1: think the Ravens have Lamar Jackson and the Ravens are

856
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 1: a super Bowl. They're in the top one, in the

857
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:32,040
Speaker 1: top two teams in the a f C. The Browns

858
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:34,080
Speaker 1: were an unknown and probably will take six weeks to

859
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:37,160
Speaker 1: get their act together. I guess for me, it's like

860
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:39,440
Speaker 1: I went through it last year as we all did

861
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:41,879
Speaker 1: with the Browns. Show me, show me that you're all

862
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:44,160
Speaker 1: these pieces actually turn into something, and they made the

863
00:40:44,239 --> 00:40:46,840
Speaker 1: right They made the absolute right move they had. Freddie

864
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:49,320
Speaker 1: Kitchens was a bit of a punching bag and a scapegoat,

865
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:51,840
Speaker 1: I thought, and everything that went wrong was put on

866
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:53,960
Speaker 1: Freddie Kitchens, and maybe a lot of it was. But

867
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:56,439
Speaker 1: Kevin Steffantsie, we'll see, he's kind of a blank slate

868
00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 1: to me too. I know he's had some success in

869
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:01,200
Speaker 1: his career, but I'm not ready to say they've fixed

870
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:05,960
Speaker 1: head coach. Kevin Stefanski's in town to do that today.

871
00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:08,680
Speaker 1: The fact, the fact that I don't trust the Browns

872
00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:12,360
Speaker 1: after last year's mess, and the fact that the Ravens

873
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 1: are the Ravens and they're playing in Baltimore. I know

874
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:18,799
Speaker 1: there's nobody there. I'm locking it up. I'm locking up

875
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 1: the defending Provision champions to take out Marx Browns and

876
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:25,359
Speaker 1: do it handily, because I get the feeling that they're

877
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:27,680
Speaker 1: probably well ahead of the Browns right now at the

878
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:30,160
Speaker 1: stage in the game. I mean, Dan just likes to

879
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:32,359
Speaker 1: he likes to make the little cut and then just

880
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 1: pour a big salt shaker of salt in it too,

881
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:37,920
Speaker 1: and that you know, I don't. I I don't appreciate

882
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:39,600
Speaker 1: this locked in, but you know what, I think you're

883
00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 1: gonna probably start one another and I don't. I don't

884
00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 1: think it does at all. But you know it doesn't

885
00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:50,920
Speaker 1: pass my personal test, which is just about number just went.

886
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 1: You went position group by position group and said the

887
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:55,719
Speaker 1: Browns were better at every position than the brown than

888
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:59,400
Speaker 1: the Ravens. So I guess to keep it close, I

889
00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:01,319
Speaker 1: am picking Browns to keep it close. And now that

890
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:03,120
Speaker 1: you did this, I'm just gonna pick. You know, I'm

891
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:08,520
Speaker 1: gonna be rooting for the Browns win it outright, all right?

892
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:13,960
Speaker 1: Any final thoughts, Mark, give me a record, Give me

893
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:15,759
Speaker 1: a record. How about this? I think they could be

894
00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:19,040
Speaker 1: nine and seven or eight and eight being conservative there

895
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:21,279
Speaker 1: maybe or maybe I'm not, But how about surprised me

896
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:23,919
Speaker 1: for once. They haven't won a season opener since two

897
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:26,520
Speaker 1: thousand and four, when Jeff Garcia was a quarterback. That

898
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:28,080
Speaker 1: was the year I've lived in l A. They have

899
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:29,640
Speaker 1: not when I moved to l A. They have not

900
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:32,719
Speaker 1: won a season opener since. Maybe it's maybe I've jinx

901
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 1: them by moving, you know, to the West coast. Um,

902
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:37,400
Speaker 1: this is how I think it's. It's it's a mess.

903
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:40,000
Speaker 1: It's a mess. Get me out of here, all right,

904
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:43,760
Speaker 1: hanging there, buddy, all right, it's time. Are we snaking again?

905
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:48,200
Speaker 1: You know, there's so many reasons why I miss west

906
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:50,839
Speaker 1: on the show on a show by show basis, But

907
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:54,960
Speaker 1: the snake comes at you fast. Three person's draft, I

908
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:58,279
Speaker 1: mean translation, Dan doesn't know what he's gonna pick. Make

909
00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 1: a choice, Dan, I well, no, this will be good

910
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:03,279
Speaker 1: for you, Mark, because I know you don't like when

911
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:05,800
Speaker 1: I say Anti Brown's thing. So now you get a

912
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:09,000
Speaker 1: chance to make seventeen Adam Gaze jokes because I'm gonna

913
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 1: pick the Jets at Buffalo Bills. The Drayman going up

914
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 1: to Orchard Park in a very difficult game assignment for them. Obviously, Uh,

915
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:23,320
Speaker 1: everyone loves these Bills and that's part of the reason. Obviously,

916
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:25,319
Speaker 1: I'm always gonna be super plugged in and want to

917
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 1: see my Jets, especially in Week one when Hope is

918
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:31,920
Speaker 1: still somewhat in the building. But what kind of Bills

919
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:34,239
Speaker 1: team are we gonna get? I mean, who who are

920
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:37,200
Speaker 1: the Bills? Because some people see them as a super

921
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 1: Bowl team and then there are other people out there

922
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:41,759
Speaker 1: and Greg Greg is one of them, and I think

923
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:44,080
Speaker 1: I am too. That's ay. Yeah, they're a super Bowl

924
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 1: team except for the guy that plays the most important position,

925
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 1: and he still needs to make improvements in Josh Allen.

926
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 1: So how does Josh Allen come out? Uh out of

927
00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:55,560
Speaker 1: the gate? Because I want to remind you guys one thing.

928
00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:57,759
Speaker 1: I'm breaking my own rule because this is ancient history too.

929
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:01,840
Speaker 1: But next year with the Bills and Jets played as well,

930
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 1: and the Jets blew the game and hideous fashion and

931
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:08,320
Speaker 1: San Donald had Mono and C. J. Mosley towards growing.

932
00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:11,120
Speaker 1: But Josh Allen was terrible in that game. I think

933
00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 1: he had four turnovers in the first two quarters in

934
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:15,560
Speaker 1: the game. And is that going to be the guy

935
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:17,080
Speaker 1: that comes out of the gate this year too, where

936
00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:19,280
Speaker 1: he's chopping, he's throwing the ball everywhere, and he's putting

937
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:21,560
Speaker 1: the ball on the ground. Because that version of Josh

938
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:24,000
Speaker 1: Alan needs to go away if we want to take

939
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:26,400
Speaker 1: the Bill seriously super Bowl contenders. He's got to be

940
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 1: better with the ball. He's gotta be more accurate, and

941
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:30,600
Speaker 1: he's gotta be you know, his head's gotta be on

942
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:32,759
Speaker 1: his shoulders because the last time we saw him, he

943
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:35,000
Speaker 1: melted down a little bit against the Texans in that

944
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:38,000
Speaker 1: wild card game. So this is his first game since then.

945
00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:40,319
Speaker 1: So we'll start with the Bills there. I think they're

946
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 1: obviously the favorite here. Uh you got what do you

947
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:45,360
Speaker 1: guys think about seeing the Bills in finally in action.

948
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:48,920
Speaker 1: I know you're excited, Mark, I mean, this is the

949
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:52,320
Speaker 1: team you've been pumping up. But I think Greg Williams

950
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:54,879
Speaker 1: is a pretty interesting challenge for Josh Allen right off

951
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:57,680
Speaker 1: the bat because he's he's not gonna cheat you for

952
00:44:58,000 --> 00:44:59,960
Speaker 1: lack of blitz is and showing you a different look.

953
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:02,120
Speaker 1: It's like he's gonna test Josh Allen. Mentally, I don't

954
00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:04,640
Speaker 1: think the Jets have the same personnel, at least that

955
00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:06,920
Speaker 1: they would like with Mosley, you know, opting out and

956
00:45:07,239 --> 00:45:10,399
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams gone um. But but I kind of flip

957
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:12,960
Speaker 1: it around and think about Sam Donald's two games against

958
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:15,319
Speaker 1: this Bill's defense, and yeah, maybe he did have mono

959
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:17,440
Speaker 1: that first game. It was a rough Week one to

960
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:19,840
Speaker 1: start Week one, you can always throw out. But I

961
00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:22,040
Speaker 1: remember that Week seven team game two when he's going

962
00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:24,960
Speaker 1: up against the Bills backups and they got three points

963
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:28,239
Speaker 1: with about seven minutes left in the game. And this

964
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:31,120
Speaker 1: is such a good secondary, it's such a veteran defense.

965
00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:34,719
Speaker 1: It's about his trustworthy of veteran defense, I think, as

966
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 1: there is in the league. So it is a big

967
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:40,320
Speaker 1: time challenge for Gayson Donald right off the bat to

968
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:43,080
Speaker 1: show that there's been a little bit of progress this offseason,

969
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:45,160
Speaker 1: because it doesn't get much tougher, I don't think than

970
00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:48,239
Speaker 1: than going up to Orchard Park. I mean, i'd also

971
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:51,360
Speaker 1: point to a different coordinator and Brian Dable, who you

972
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:54,040
Speaker 1: know in Buffalo, is one of the more creative offensive

973
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:56,520
Speaker 1: play callers around and did a lot of interesting stuff

974
00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:59,440
Speaker 1: last year, especially late in the year with pace and

975
00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:02,439
Speaker 1: timing no huddle that helped Josh Allen. So I think

976
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:05,640
Speaker 1: that those two guys grew together as the season went along,

977
00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:07,279
Speaker 1: and you know, I know other people do this, but

978
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:09,920
Speaker 1: I point to that Cowboys game is what Josh Allen

979
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:13,560
Speaker 1: is capable of, along with the games where he's mistake prone. Um,

980
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 1: but Dan, I don't, I don't just you know, think

981
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:17,520
Speaker 1: the Jets are gonna get wiped here. I think that

982
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:20,920
Speaker 1: you know, we are forgetting about someone like lev On

983
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:23,480
Speaker 1: Bell because of what happened last year, and we're forgetting

984
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:26,200
Speaker 1: at times about the fact that Sam Donald can do

985
00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:29,160
Speaker 1: things where three games in a row he he completely

986
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:31,759
Speaker 1: confirms for you, if you're a Jets fan why he

987
00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:33,880
Speaker 1: was taken where he was taken in the draft. I

988
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:36,120
Speaker 1: think he's been putting a really tough situation. Um, their

989
00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 1: offensive line should be a little bit better, but again,

990
00:46:38,239 --> 00:46:40,800
Speaker 1: it's four of five new starters that the that's the

991
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:44,560
Speaker 1: kind of thing that's gonna take time for teams to mesh. Uh. Buffalo,

992
00:46:44,719 --> 00:46:47,920
Speaker 1: you know, to me just simply is sort of stronger

993
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:50,479
Speaker 1: all over the place. And their defense has been very

994
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:53,200
Speaker 1: consistent year to year under Sean McDermott, and I don't

995
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:55,960
Speaker 1: see that going away. So it's a really big challenge

996
00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:58,719
Speaker 1: for Donald right out of the Gate. It is and

997
00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:01,120
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to because one thing with Sam Donald

998
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:04,879
Speaker 1: is there are no there will be no excuses this year,

999
00:47:05,040 --> 00:47:07,799
Speaker 1: and that same thing goes for his third year and

1000
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:10,799
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield and his third year. These guys need to

1001
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:13,879
Speaker 1: fall out. And as much as Donald kind of got

1002
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:16,399
Speaker 1: put behind the eight balls first two years, and maybe

1003
00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:19,160
Speaker 1: he's still there because Adam Gaze, I don't know, maybe

1004
00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:21,640
Speaker 1: he's just the wrong guy in Any quarterback tied to

1005
00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:23,960
Speaker 1: him is not gonna be in a good position to win.

1006
00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:26,279
Speaker 1: They did improve the offensive line. They got really good

1007
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:28,600
Speaker 1: marks from people that covered the team this summer. I

1008
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:31,440
Speaker 1: don't know if it's gonna be great and Joe Douglass

1009
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:35,720
Speaker 1: they're not the Hogs up front, but they are much better. Uh.

1010
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:38,120
Speaker 1: And there are you know, like you said Levy on Bell,

1011
00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:41,319
Speaker 1: Christopher herndon the tight end, there are hard seavers here

1012
00:47:41,360 --> 00:47:43,920
Speaker 1: that are that they're healthier than healthy at the right

1013
00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:47,960
Speaker 1: time for week one cut down stay. He needs smarter

1014
00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:50,280
Speaker 1: with the ball and he has to show the debts

1015
00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:53,200
Speaker 1: that he's got because if he doesn't, if he's not better,

1016
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:55,799
Speaker 1: the Jets are gonna stink. They're gonna be three and

1017
00:47:55,840 --> 00:47:58,759
Speaker 1: thirteen bad and then the organization is gonna have a

1018
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:01,080
Speaker 1: big decision with a high dress pick. So that's a

1019
00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:03,200
Speaker 1: lot of pressure on my boy Sam. But I do

1020
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:06,240
Speaker 1: believe in him, and I'm so excited to see him

1021
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:08,680
Speaker 1: play right off the bat. I want to see what

1022
00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:12,680
Speaker 1: he does here with my boys. He's practicing fully, he's

1023
00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:15,239
Speaker 1: Caraman's back. I'm glad because I don't want to see

1024
00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:18,120
Speaker 1: Sam Donald with you know, both hands tied behind his back.

1025
00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:20,439
Speaker 1: So I think Mims is going to be a key

1026
00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:22,759
Speaker 1: for them, and I'm excited at least that that they're

1027
00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:24,880
Speaker 1: a little healthier going into this game. I think it's

1028
00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:31,920
Speaker 1: it's interesting to see. It's interesting to see Dan's optimism

1029
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:35,560
Speaker 1: um for a Jets team that could collide into total darkness,

1030
00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:38,040
Speaker 1: and my pessimism with my team. I think it's so Dan.

1031
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:40,279
Speaker 1: I do appreciate that you kind of always start these

1032
00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:42,920
Speaker 1: years hoping for the best. We'll see where we are,

1033
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:45,359
Speaker 1: you know by Sunday night. It's supposed to be fun, Mark,

1034
00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:48,160
Speaker 1: you know, I mean I wish it were fun. It's not.

1035
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:51,000
Speaker 1: It's not the fans fault when the team goes too

1036
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:52,960
Speaker 1: and fourteen and how much fun am I supposed to

1037
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:56,719
Speaker 1: draw from that? I mean, help me, help me. This

1038
00:48:56,760 --> 00:48:58,600
Speaker 1: is fun. So I guess my point. This is the

1039
00:48:58,640 --> 00:49:01,120
Speaker 1: time where we get to have fun and just hope

1040
00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:03,200
Speaker 1: for the best, and then reality sets in and then

1041
00:49:03,239 --> 00:49:05,840
Speaker 1: we then we could be miserable and and be you know,

1042
00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:12,640
Speaker 1: nervous and all that weekend. Alright, snakes to me, snakes

1043
00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:15,920
Speaker 1: to me in a big part of doing this is

1044
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:18,759
Speaker 1: you want to make sure you don't overly populate um

1045
00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:21,560
Speaker 1: certain time spots, because we really are This is no

1046
00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:23,960
Speaker 1: no joke, This ain't no jive talk is the great

1047
00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:27,759
Speaker 1: Dama Check used to say. We will be assigned to

1048
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:30,520
Speaker 1: watching these games come Sunday for the website and then

1049
00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:33,920
Speaker 1: reporting on them for around the NFL Flagship Show on

1050
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:37,120
Speaker 1: Sunday night. Um so I have to make the choice.

1051
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:39,640
Speaker 1: I gotta pick a four pm game Eastern. It will

1052
00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:43,000
Speaker 1: be Chargers at Bangles. And it's kind of a no

1053
00:49:43,080 --> 00:49:47,640
Speaker 1: brainer for me because for two reasons. Um one, Joe

1054
00:49:47,680 --> 00:49:50,000
Speaker 1: Burrow Well I was playing this game. He's the number

1055
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:52,839
Speaker 1: one pick. Everyone's in love with them. Cincinnati has become

1056
00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:55,640
Speaker 1: a frisky team. They are, of course the team that

1057
00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:58,879
Speaker 1: we have really decided to track on a higher level

1058
00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:03,200
Speaker 1: this year. They are in the bengalship sanctuary. So you know,

1059
00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:05,920
Speaker 1: shame on us that it's even taken this long for

1060
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:09,040
Speaker 1: the Bengals to be drafted in the Week one preview draft.

1061
00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:11,920
Speaker 1: So to see how this offense was Zach under, Zach

1062
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:15,040
Speaker 1: Taylor and Joe Burrow operates right at the gate, see

1063
00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:17,680
Speaker 1: if the defense has improved, which needs to happen as well,

1064
00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:22,080
Speaker 1: and then the Chargers. UH. A month ago, I would

1065
00:50:22,120 --> 00:50:24,000
Speaker 1: have said, all right, I'm only interested in this game

1066
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:27,360
Speaker 1: because of UH Cincinnati's offense and the guy playing quarterback.

1067
00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:29,960
Speaker 1: But Hard Knocks, they did what they do, and they

1068
00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:32,120
Speaker 1: did an awesome job giving us a better idea of

1069
00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:35,120
Speaker 1: what the Chargers are about as a team and UH

1070
00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:38,600
Speaker 1: institutionally with head coach Anthony Lynn, so they're kind of

1071
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:41,440
Speaker 1: an easy team to root for. How did they recover,

1072
00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:45,160
Speaker 1: uh from the loss of Derwin James. And in the

1073
00:50:45,160 --> 00:50:49,360
Speaker 1: Hard Knocks finale, you saw how Derwin James's injury happened

1074
00:50:49,360 --> 00:50:52,040
Speaker 1: and how crushing it was inside that building. Matt money Smith,

1075
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:54,880
Speaker 1: who's the voice of the Chargers, was saying to me

1076
00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:58,640
Speaker 1: on the Power Ranking Show that there's still pieces here

1077
00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:00,799
Speaker 1: for this to be one of the better defenses in

1078
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:02,920
Speaker 1: the league. That people are getting too caught up in

1079
00:51:02,960 --> 00:51:05,439
Speaker 1: the James thing and saying that the Charges now don't

1080
00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:07,520
Speaker 1: have a chance. They still could have a very good defense,

1081
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:09,960
Speaker 1: they just lose that Celia being maybe the best defense

1082
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:12,080
Speaker 1: in the league. I don't know if I don't think

1083
00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:14,239
Speaker 1: people were getting caught up in Derwin James. I think

1084
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:17,399
Speaker 1: like it was appropriately you know, labeled a disaster for them.

1085
00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:19,719
Speaker 1: But here's how you, you know, you make up for it.

1086
00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:23,880
Speaker 1: You unleashed Joey bos Melvin ingram Lin, Vaal Joseph against

1087
00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:27,759
Speaker 1: the Bengals offensive line that has not improved um and

1088
00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:32,040
Speaker 1: I I really think that the one hit potentially well

1089
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:35,800
Speaker 1: it just got a first room that we'll see he

1090
00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:37,880
Speaker 1: didn't play last year. I mean so that he's like

1091
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:40,440
Speaker 1: a lot of other rookies playing left tackle. Where will

1092
00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:42,239
Speaker 1: you know what? I hope that works out for them,

1093
00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:44,239
Speaker 1: But the rest of their line, if you go look

1094
00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:46,320
Speaker 1: at like the PF grades and sort of just watch

1095
00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:50,120
Speaker 1: what happened last year, that is what could stunt burrows growth.

1096
00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:52,279
Speaker 1: And I don't think that's a crazy thing to say.

1097
00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:55,680
Speaker 1: I mean it caused total havoc for them a year ago.

1098
00:51:55,760 --> 00:51:57,560
Speaker 1: I mean, you're gonna need Joe probably get a lot

1099
00:51:57,640 --> 00:52:00,160
Speaker 1: of Joe Mixon early on. I think that know, you

1100
00:52:00,239 --> 00:52:02,640
Speaker 1: see where like a J. Green is going in fantasy drafts.

1101
00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:05,120
Speaker 1: People have forgotten about a J. Green if he's healthy.

1102
00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:07,200
Speaker 1: That is a huge add on too. This offense. So

1103
00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:10,120
Speaker 1: there are ways out of problems. But you're not behind

1104
00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:12,640
Speaker 1: the Cults offensive line if you're Joe Burrow. And that

1105
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:14,839
Speaker 1: is my one concern that can rattle a young guy

1106
00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:18,280
Speaker 1: big time. It's a big time concern. But I flip

1107
00:52:18,320 --> 00:52:20,560
Speaker 1: it to the Charges, to their charge. Their offensive line

1108
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:22,880
Speaker 1: does not look great on paper. I mean they're a

1109
00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:25,000
Speaker 1: little bit better at tackle now this year, but that

1110
00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:28,040
Speaker 1: at right tackle especially, I mean that left tackle might

1111
00:52:28,040 --> 00:52:29,960
Speaker 1: be the worst starter in the league, at least in

1112
00:52:30,040 --> 00:52:32,399
Speaker 1: terms of their performance a year ago. And I don't

1113
00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:34,759
Speaker 1: like teams that are one dimensional, and I am a

1114
00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:37,400
Speaker 1: little worried the Chargers offense is gonna be one dimensional.

1115
00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:40,640
Speaker 1: It's like, you look at this Bengals secondary, where they

1116
00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:43,560
Speaker 1: already lost Trey Waynes are starting a third year guy,

1117
00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:46,400
Speaker 1: Darius Phillips, and they don't have much step and you're like, okay,

1118
00:52:46,520 --> 00:52:49,120
Speaker 1: let's attack them through the air well. Is Anthony Lynn

1119
00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:51,239
Speaker 1: and Tyrat Taylor gohan to attack him through the air.

1120
00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:53,520
Speaker 1: Are they you know, if Mike Williams, their wide receiver

1121
00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:55,520
Speaker 1: doesn't play in this game, do they even have the

1122
00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:58,239
Speaker 1: receivers to attack them. You're going into a game where

1123
00:52:58,239 --> 00:53:00,600
Speaker 1: it's like you want to just keep it posts by

1124
00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:03,120
Speaker 1: running the ball. I I don't like that one bit.

1125
00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:05,440
Speaker 1: I kind of like the Bengals maybe as an upset

1126
00:53:05,520 --> 00:53:08,880
Speaker 1: home team here using all that talent that that Joey

1127
00:53:08,880 --> 00:53:14,680
Speaker 1: Burrows got around it. Interesting. Yeah, I mean that, I'm

1128
00:53:14,719 --> 00:53:18,840
Speaker 1: just going. I'm just going strictly, you know, by what

1129
00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:21,840
Speaker 1: the people in the in the desert are are telling me.

1130
00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:25,040
Speaker 1: But now you know, now Zach Taylor's got got enough

1131
00:53:25,080 --> 00:53:28,120
Speaker 1: receivers to actually run the type of offense he wants

1132
00:53:28,160 --> 00:53:30,600
Speaker 1: where he's got, you know, three wide receivers on the field.

1133
00:53:30,600 --> 00:53:32,439
Speaker 1: Like last year they were running it out there didn't

1134
00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:34,400
Speaker 1: make a lot of sense. Now they've got some players

1135
00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:38,400
Speaker 1: that can actually run this team all right up next,

1136
00:53:39,719 --> 00:53:43,800
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler, Alright, I this is a game that I

1137
00:53:43,840 --> 00:53:46,399
Speaker 1: would be surprised in days past that I would pick

1138
00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:48,520
Speaker 1: because it's probably would have been my last pick in

1139
00:53:48,640 --> 00:53:52,080
Speaker 1: years years of old. I'm gonna go uh Bears at

1140
00:53:52,120 --> 00:53:55,560
Speaker 1: Detroit Chicago. With Detroit a couple of interesting things happening.

1141
00:53:55,560 --> 00:53:58,840
Speaker 1: That's where this you know, um somewhat ridiculous quarterback competition

1142
00:53:58,880 --> 00:54:02,279
Speaker 1: in Chicago. How does Mitch Robiskie look against a team

1143
00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:04,680
Speaker 1: that he's fared really well against historically. It's like the

1144
00:54:04,719 --> 00:54:07,839
Speaker 1: one team that he's almost, you know, consistently and reliably

1145
00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:11,400
Speaker 1: um taken care of. Uh. But I think this Detroit

1146
00:54:11,440 --> 00:54:13,719
Speaker 1: defense up front is a little bit different in the

1147
00:54:13,719 --> 00:54:15,359
Speaker 1: past and hum a lot of pass rush. I think

1148
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:17,600
Speaker 1: they kind of sort of sit back and say, maybe

1149
00:54:17,640 --> 00:54:19,800
Speaker 1: come at us, But you've got a rookie cornerback in

1150
00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:22,920
Speaker 1: Jeff Okuda. Uh. For me, though, it's all about the Lions.

1151
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:25,480
Speaker 1: I I have picked the Lions as my seventh NFC

1152
00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:27,920
Speaker 1: wild Card team and I just want to see if

1153
00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:30,520
Speaker 1: there's any reality to that. Can it be real? And

1154
00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:33,560
Speaker 1: I think the running back situation is really murky with

1155
00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:36,760
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson there. Matt Patricia has been glowing over Adrian

1156
00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:39,279
Speaker 1: Peterson in practice, so that kind of tells me he's

1157
00:54:39,280 --> 00:54:40,960
Speaker 1: gonna be the dude out it right away because they

1158
00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:44,160
Speaker 1: don't seem to really trust anyone else at the moment healthwise.

1159
00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:48,560
Speaker 1: Great offense Matthew Stafford, I think could be very effective. Um,

1160
00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:50,680
Speaker 1: if you don't start want to know here. If you're Detroit,

1161
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:53,120
Speaker 1: I think you got questions. I I think you need

1162
00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:55,080
Speaker 1: to have a quick start. Um, they've got a bit

1163
00:54:55,120 --> 00:54:57,000
Speaker 1: of an issue with some of their scheduling. And if

1164
00:54:57,040 --> 00:54:59,280
Speaker 1: you're the Lions, like, let's kind of say what happened

1165
00:54:59,320 --> 00:55:02,560
Speaker 1: last year after Matthew Stafford went down was the myth? Three?

1166
00:55:02,560 --> 00:55:05,040
Speaker 1: Reality is that we can be a nine and seven

1167
00:55:05,080 --> 00:55:09,799
Speaker 1: type team with forty two Expatriots on our defense. I mean,

1168
00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:12,640
Speaker 1: you said that Trabinsky has good numbers against the Lions.

1169
00:55:12,680 --> 00:55:14,399
Speaker 1: It's like the one team he's done well. Well, it's

1170
00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:17,680
Speaker 1: because everyone has good numbers against matt Patricia's Lions defense.

1171
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:20,080
Speaker 1: I mean, you've been there three years, you got your

1172
00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:22,400
Speaker 1: you've got your own GM picking the players for you.

1173
00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:24,480
Speaker 1: It's like, show up now. I mean, just show up

1174
00:55:24,520 --> 00:55:27,319
Speaker 1: and be average on offense. We know they're gonna get

1175
00:55:27,320 --> 00:55:30,040
Speaker 1: it done, and uh, I'm curious if the Bears are

1176
00:55:30,040 --> 00:55:32,399
Speaker 1: gonna be a difference making defense still that they still

1177
00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:34,680
Speaker 1: were very good last year, so it's not an easy matchup,

1178
00:55:34,680 --> 00:55:38,080
Speaker 1: but they'll score points. But man, Patricia, it's it's time

1179
00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:41,680
Speaker 1: because if you can't stop Mitchell Trabinsky in year four,

1180
00:55:41,960 --> 00:55:44,040
Speaker 1: like you haven't been stopping him in year two and three,

1181
00:55:44,040 --> 00:55:46,399
Speaker 1: it's like, what are we doing here? Why? Why are

1182
00:55:46,440 --> 00:55:50,359
Speaker 1: you our head coach? Get it done exactly. That's why

1183
00:55:50,440 --> 00:55:53,319
Speaker 1: the optimism around the Lions, I guess, including yourself, Mark,

1184
00:55:53,320 --> 00:55:56,160
Speaker 1: you've been on that train on social media. This is

1185
00:55:56,200 --> 00:55:59,920
Speaker 1: still the same coaching staff. And just because Matthew Stafford's

1186
00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:02,520
Speaker 1: what were they three five one before he went out?

1187
00:56:02,600 --> 00:56:06,200
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess I need to defensive numbers. But

1188
00:56:06,280 --> 00:56:12,920
Speaker 1: you're right, yeah, I see it, Patricia on a on

1189
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:16,759
Speaker 1: a weekend week out basis because two years in it's

1190
00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:20,520
Speaker 1: just not been working. I mean, they nearly beat the

1191
00:56:20,560 --> 00:56:22,480
Speaker 1: Chiefs last year. I mean when they're on, they're on,

1192
00:56:22,600 --> 00:56:26,320
Speaker 1: and it's a it's a lot of nearly and uh,

1193
00:56:26,480 --> 00:56:28,960
Speaker 1: we'll see. Like Adrian, I don't know. The Adrian Peterson

1194
00:56:29,040 --> 00:56:31,480
Speaker 1: thing is fun, but it kind of weirds me out.

1195
00:56:31,520 --> 00:56:34,000
Speaker 1: It's like I was all excited about DeAndre Swift. It's

1196
00:56:34,239 --> 00:56:37,080
Speaker 1: I'm not fully confident in them, like being able to

1197
00:56:37,120 --> 00:56:40,000
Speaker 1: figure out a bit of a complicated soup on their roster.

1198
00:56:40,239 --> 00:56:42,640
Speaker 1: And it's funny how if you watch football long enough.

1199
00:56:42,719 --> 00:56:44,800
Speaker 1: And I'll use an example from the past when the

1200
00:56:44,880 --> 00:56:47,200
Speaker 1: Jets had Rich co tight and they went one in fifteen.

1201
00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:49,160
Speaker 1: They lost so many games right at the end of

1202
00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:51,160
Speaker 1: the game, and then Bill Parcels took over the next

1203
00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:53,960
Speaker 1: year and they started winning those games. Like coaching plays

1204
00:56:53,960 --> 00:56:56,520
Speaker 1: a big part in those narrow games where you need

1205
00:56:56,640 --> 00:56:58,640
Speaker 1: somebody to, you know, figure out how to get it

1206
00:56:58,680 --> 00:57:01,360
Speaker 1: down down the stretch. Don't know, Mattie p I kind of.

1207
00:57:01,640 --> 00:57:04,120
Speaker 1: Patricia is not a guy that I root against. I

1208
00:57:04,160 --> 00:57:08,080
Speaker 1: think me neither you can do it. But it's time.

1209
00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:10,880
Speaker 1: It's time big year three for him. All right, who's

1210
00:57:10,960 --> 00:57:13,440
Speaker 1: up next? I believe it's Greg with a snake back

1211
00:57:13,480 --> 00:57:17,360
Speaker 1: to you. I'm glad and thankful you left me the

1212
00:57:17,480 --> 00:57:21,400
Speaker 1: last prime time game on the board. It's Tightens, it's Broncos.

1213
00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:25,800
Speaker 1: It's late night, but they're weirdly using the ESPN number

1214
00:57:25,840 --> 00:57:28,640
Speaker 1: one team. I don't know what's going on there. It's

1215
00:57:28,720 --> 00:57:31,440
Speaker 1: Lewis Riddick. I'm excited to watch him on Monday nights.

1216
00:57:31,480 --> 00:57:34,840
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna have a better experience and I

1217
00:57:34,880 --> 00:57:38,160
Speaker 1: think he's got a fun game because I think Drew

1218
00:57:38,200 --> 00:57:40,320
Speaker 1: lock is fun and I'm not sure what we're gonna

1219
00:57:40,360 --> 00:57:42,280
Speaker 1: get out of the Titans, but it's just hard to

1220
00:57:42,280 --> 00:57:45,560
Speaker 1: be as optimistic about these Broncos since the Von Miller news.

1221
00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:48,240
Speaker 1: We have not taped the podcast since we found out

1222
00:57:48,280 --> 00:57:51,880
Speaker 1: that Von Miller is likely lost for the season, definitely

1223
00:57:51,920 --> 00:57:56,800
Speaker 1: lost for three four months. And you think of what

1224
00:57:56,880 --> 00:58:00,240
Speaker 1: the Broncos were gonna be under Vick Fongia, and they

1225
00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:02,920
Speaker 1: were really playing some good defense. He was coaching him up,

1226
00:58:04,120 --> 00:58:06,600
Speaker 1: and you're thinking it starts up front with Von Miller

1227
00:58:06,640 --> 00:58:08,600
Speaker 1: and Bradley Chubb. And now you have Von Miller's out,

1228
00:58:08,600 --> 00:58:10,760
Speaker 1: and Bradley Chubb's coming off torn a c l and

1229
00:58:10,760 --> 00:58:14,360
Speaker 1: hasn't practiced fully in weeks. And that makes me a

1230
00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:20,000
Speaker 1: little concerned going up against a very veteran Titans offense. Yeah,

1231
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:22,080
Speaker 1: I mean. And they've reached out the Broncos to to

1232
00:58:22,200 --> 00:58:24,920
Speaker 1: claim Matthews, trying to get him to join the party,

1233
00:58:24,920 --> 00:58:27,440
Speaker 1: and he declined, and there were whispers to claim Matthews

1234
00:58:27,480 --> 00:58:29,480
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna play the entire season, and they said no,

1235
00:58:29,560 --> 00:58:32,240
Speaker 1: he actually is still interested in the right situation. But

1236
00:58:32,360 --> 00:58:35,040
Speaker 1: Denver wasn't the right situation, and it seemed like the

1237
00:58:35,080 --> 00:58:37,440
Speaker 1: prime place to go and contribute right away. I mean,

1238
00:58:37,480 --> 00:58:40,480
Speaker 1: I'll flip it over to you know, Arthur Smith, the

1239
00:58:40,480 --> 00:58:44,000
Speaker 1: Titans play caller, and what he's been hearing all offseason is,

1240
00:58:44,280 --> 00:58:46,640
Speaker 1: you know, Ryan Tannehill could never be the same guy

1241
00:58:46,680 --> 00:58:49,360
Speaker 1: he was last year. There's an interesting stat from Rhodo

1242
00:58:49,400 --> 00:58:52,720
Speaker 1: World that when Mariotta was the starter, the Titans average

1243
00:58:52,800 --> 00:58:56,840
Speaker 1: point four three points per minute, when when Tannehill took over,

1244
00:58:56,920 --> 00:58:59,880
Speaker 1: its shot up to point nine nine, which is doubly

1245
00:59:00,080 --> 00:59:03,480
Speaker 1: the production point wise Mariota put on board there. Now,

1246
00:59:03,520 --> 00:59:05,040
Speaker 1: I mean we saw it with our own eyes. It

1247
00:59:05,080 --> 00:59:08,280
Speaker 1: was real, um Ken Tannehill be that guy two years

1248
00:59:08,280 --> 00:59:10,520
Speaker 1: in a row, so much later in his career than

1249
00:59:10,560 --> 00:59:12,560
Speaker 1: you could point to and say it's just simply growth.

1250
00:59:12,800 --> 00:59:14,840
Speaker 1: I think a lot of est what Arthur Smith does

1251
00:59:14,920 --> 00:59:17,960
Speaker 1: with Tannehill, and you know that way that offense is based.

1252
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:20,880
Speaker 1: I think you can still get somewhere in between the

1253
00:59:20,920 --> 00:59:23,160
Speaker 1: Tannehill from the Dolphins and what we had last year,

1254
00:59:23,160 --> 00:59:25,880
Speaker 1: which was probably a lot of statistical outliers, but still

1255
00:59:25,920 --> 00:59:28,200
Speaker 1: a player put into a much better situation than he

1256
00:59:28,280 --> 00:59:33,360
Speaker 1: was in Miami. Yeah, I think the uh, Ryan Tannehill

1257
00:59:33,400 --> 00:59:37,240
Speaker 1: situation is maybe not as dire as people are making

1258
00:59:37,240 --> 00:59:39,600
Speaker 1: it out to be because I think with the setup

1259
00:59:39,600 --> 00:59:42,320
Speaker 1: that he has here, I don't think we're gonna go

1260
00:59:42,360 --> 00:59:46,040
Speaker 1: back to seeing the Ryan Tannehill guy in Miami that

1261
00:59:46,280 --> 00:59:48,640
Speaker 1: frustrated everyone. I think he'll always be a little better

1262
00:59:48,680 --> 00:59:50,000
Speaker 1: than that at this point, as long as you can

1263
00:59:50,040 --> 00:59:52,760
Speaker 1: stay healthy, which was also an issue in his past

1264
00:59:52,800 --> 00:59:55,360
Speaker 1: that he was able to get past in twenty nineteen.

1265
00:59:55,760 --> 00:59:58,760
Speaker 1: But asking him to be that borderline dominic guy that

1266
00:59:58,920 --> 01:00:00,720
Speaker 1: he was as as he was is down the stretch

1267
01:00:00,720 --> 01:00:03,480
Speaker 1: in the regular season last year. But can they still

1268
01:00:03,520 --> 01:00:06,640
Speaker 1: be a top A f C contender if he is

1269
01:00:06,680 --> 01:00:09,280
Speaker 1: a step below what he was last year and and

1270
01:00:09,360 --> 01:00:12,400
Speaker 1: this is a perfect game too, I think show that

1271
01:00:12,480 --> 01:00:14,280
Speaker 1: he doesn't need to do that much like he takes

1272
01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:16,560
Speaker 1: a lot of sacks. I don't know if the Broncos

1273
01:00:16,560 --> 01:00:18,320
Speaker 1: are a team that's gonna be able to generate sex

1274
01:00:18,440 --> 01:00:21,040
Speaker 1: right now. They're a team that if they struggle on defense,

1275
01:00:21,080 --> 01:00:23,440
Speaker 1: it's definitely against the run that you can just imagine

1276
01:00:23,720 --> 01:00:26,160
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry having a big game. I am excited to

1277
01:00:26,200 --> 01:00:30,280
Speaker 1: watch uh Drew lock in this game. But when the

1278
01:00:30,400 --> 01:00:32,880
Speaker 1: number one thing I could come up with when picking

1279
01:00:33,560 --> 01:00:36,000
Speaker 1: for the Broncos was the altitude, which I don't know,

1280
01:00:36,040 --> 01:00:38,439
Speaker 1: after like no preseason games, it does kind of seem

1281
01:00:38,520 --> 01:00:41,600
Speaker 1: like a hard thing. That's probably not a good sign.

1282
01:00:41,640 --> 01:00:45,040
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just glad that it's not Mariota going

1283
01:00:45,040 --> 01:00:47,560
Speaker 1: because this was the gate to Denver, because this was

1284
01:00:47,600 --> 01:00:49,640
Speaker 1: the game that broke our buddy, Chris Wesley, and I

1285
01:00:49,640 --> 01:00:52,320
Speaker 1: don't know if you remember, it was sixty nothing, a shutout.

1286
01:00:52,360 --> 01:00:56,000
Speaker 1: It's the game Mariota got venched. Uh he after five years,

1287
01:00:56,000 --> 01:00:58,680
Speaker 1: he finally gave up on Mariota after this game, which

1288
01:00:58,680 --> 01:01:00,280
Speaker 1: was just a tough one to watch. So if the

1289
01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:02,840
Speaker 1: Broncos I want to feel good about anything, that's it.

1290
01:01:02,880 --> 01:01:04,920
Speaker 1: They shut out this Titans team a year ago. I'll

1291
01:01:04,960 --> 01:01:08,480
Speaker 1: be it with Mariota. I had an offseason of like

1292
01:01:09,200 --> 01:01:12,560
Speaker 1: minor key feuding with the Broncos fan base about Drew Lock.

1293
01:01:12,840 --> 01:01:14,880
Speaker 1: And that's why it's so good that football is back,

1294
01:01:14,960 --> 01:01:18,080
Speaker 1: because now we could see I'm not even saying who's right,

1295
01:01:18,120 --> 01:01:22,080
Speaker 1: because I've never said that Drew Lock stinks and games

1296
01:01:22,120 --> 01:01:26,960
Speaker 1: of games of consequence, games that matter what happens. UM

1297
01:01:26,960 --> 01:01:29,800
Speaker 1: looking forward to it, all, right, who's up, Greg, It's

1298
01:01:29,800 --> 01:01:32,280
Speaker 1: snakes back to you. It does. I don't think there's

1299
01:01:32,280 --> 01:01:35,040
Speaker 1: any way for me to avoid just have it loading

1300
01:01:35,120 --> 01:01:37,360
Speaker 1: up on early games. So I might as well take

1301
01:01:37,400 --> 01:01:43,400
Speaker 1: my Super Bowl champion prediction. Indian Apples Colts heading down

1302
01:01:43,480 --> 01:01:45,480
Speaker 1: to the fish tank, do we that's no, wait, that's

1303
01:01:45,480 --> 01:01:49,080
Speaker 1: Miami whatever they call Jacksonville where they got cool like

1304
01:01:49,280 --> 01:01:51,840
Speaker 1: in like three thousand fans. This game might be the

1305
01:01:51,920 --> 01:01:55,040
Speaker 1: least of the weekend, right, the big chlorine tank, That's

1306
01:01:55,080 --> 01:01:58,640
Speaker 1: what it is. I'm a little worried about this game

1307
01:01:59,400 --> 01:02:01,360
Speaker 1: for the Colts, I really am, because I think people

1308
01:02:01,760 --> 01:02:04,360
Speaker 1: and I see it in terms of how people are

1309
01:02:04,360 --> 01:02:07,840
Speaker 1: predicting this game and how heavy a favorite the Colts are,

1310
01:02:08,400 --> 01:02:11,560
Speaker 1: uh that people just think the Jaguars are gonna totally stink.

1311
01:02:11,960 --> 01:02:14,040
Speaker 1: And as we've talked about this show, I think Week

1312
01:02:14,040 --> 01:02:16,560
Speaker 1: one is gonna be weird. And the Jaguars actually have

1313
01:02:16,600 --> 01:02:19,360
Speaker 1: a lot of continuity on their offensive line for the

1314
01:02:19,360 --> 01:02:21,120
Speaker 1: first time ever. It's not as bad as it used

1315
01:02:21,120 --> 01:02:24,120
Speaker 1: to be. I think they have okay weapons at receiver

1316
01:02:24,520 --> 01:02:26,680
Speaker 1: and they have Jay Gruden, who I think is a

1317
01:02:26,760 --> 01:02:29,680
Speaker 1: quality offensive coordinator. So if you're gonna tell me this

1318
01:02:29,720 --> 01:02:32,360
Speaker 1: game comes down to the last drive and Philip Rivers

1319
01:02:32,400 --> 01:02:36,120
Speaker 1: needs to make one of those you know, last minute touchdowns,

1320
01:02:36,160 --> 01:02:38,560
Speaker 1: to go when it would not surprise me one bit.

1321
01:02:38,640 --> 01:02:41,080
Speaker 1: It just feels like it's a it's a tricky spot.

1322
01:02:41,200 --> 01:02:44,040
Speaker 1: It's division rivals. I'm not just assuming the Colts are

1323
01:02:44,080 --> 01:02:46,320
Speaker 1: gonna roll in there and win a game right off

1324
01:02:46,320 --> 01:02:49,960
Speaker 1: the bat by a lot. Why you laughing, Mark, I

1325
01:02:49,960 --> 01:02:52,800
Speaker 1: don't know if I I really think this offense is

1326
01:02:52,880 --> 01:02:54,919
Speaker 1: kind of set to fly Indianapolis because I think they're

1327
01:02:54,920 --> 01:02:58,840
Speaker 1: gonna be run heavy. I find it interesting that Jonathan Taylor,

1328
01:02:58,880 --> 01:03:01,480
Speaker 1: who seemed like he was just gonna take over running back,

1329
01:03:01,840 --> 01:03:04,200
Speaker 1: is now being sold as you know, we drafted him

1330
01:03:04,200 --> 01:03:06,840
Speaker 1: as a complimentary piece to Marlon Mack. That's not a

1331
01:03:06,880 --> 01:03:09,200
Speaker 1: bad thing. They must really like Marlon Mack. You know.

1332
01:03:09,240 --> 01:03:10,840
Speaker 1: I want to see too. I want to see where

1333
01:03:10,840 --> 01:03:13,200
Speaker 1: we are like in a month with that. But to me,

1334
01:03:13,440 --> 01:03:16,480
Speaker 1: I I just like teams in this weird environment that

1335
01:03:16,480 --> 01:03:18,880
Speaker 1: we're in. If you come in with the best offensive

1336
01:03:18,920 --> 01:03:21,920
Speaker 1: line in football, returning to everyone, and I mean it's

1337
01:03:21,960 --> 01:03:25,600
Speaker 1: the best tackle combination, you've got the best guard in football.

1338
01:03:25,720 --> 01:03:28,160
Speaker 1: They just resigned their center. I mean that's something that

1339
01:03:28,200 --> 01:03:30,960
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers has not had on his side in a while.

1340
01:03:31,240 --> 01:03:33,720
Speaker 1: And so maybe we move away from the environment where

1341
01:03:33,720 --> 01:03:37,160
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers, who cannot run for a for a lick

1342
01:03:37,240 --> 01:03:39,200
Speaker 1: at this point, is trying to run for his life,

1343
01:03:39,240 --> 01:03:41,720
Speaker 1: you know, against pass rushers and winging the ball forty

1344
01:03:41,760 --> 01:03:44,440
Speaker 1: yards down field. This is a better set up for him.

1345
01:03:44,480 --> 01:03:46,960
Speaker 1: I don't know what that need. I'm not sure Philip

1346
01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:50,640
Speaker 1: Rivers is necessarily still a totally functional quarterback. That's why

1347
01:03:50,640 --> 01:03:53,280
Speaker 1: we need these games. To Dan's point, but the set

1348
01:03:53,360 --> 01:03:56,560
Speaker 1: up in the whole situation screams eleven and five to me.

1349
01:03:56,920 --> 01:03:59,920
Speaker 1: The defense, by the way, in Indianapolis was really frisky too,

1350
01:04:00,040 --> 01:04:02,880
Speaker 1: and their schedule is great for a bit. The old

1351
01:04:02,960 --> 01:04:06,480
Speaker 1: Zeuser has always enjoyed spoiling for a fight with Rosenthal

1352
01:04:06,600 --> 01:04:10,880
Speaker 1: and westling to the Mailman and the old Boss about

1353
01:04:10,960 --> 01:04:14,520
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers because he seems to get the excuses that

1354
01:04:14,680 --> 01:04:17,960
Speaker 1: Eli Manning never got. Because he's great at football, because

1355
01:04:17,960 --> 01:04:20,560
Speaker 1: he's great at throwing the football on target to the

1356
01:04:20,600 --> 01:04:24,240
Speaker 1: people he's intending something to go to the other team. Yeah,

1357
01:04:24,360 --> 01:04:27,800
Speaker 1: flex Burs, Plexigo Burrs caught it on target pass. So

1358
01:04:27,880 --> 01:04:32,720
Speaker 1: did Mario manningham greg fifteen feet away from Plexico Burros

1359
01:04:32,760 --> 01:04:34,800
Speaker 1: at that time. But you're right, Eli did play well

1360
01:04:34,800 --> 01:04:42,040
Speaker 1: in those playoffs. Y is phil Rivers. I think he

1361
01:04:42,120 --> 01:04:43,720
Speaker 1: is who he is at this point, and yes, he

1362
01:04:43,800 --> 01:04:45,600
Speaker 1: needed to go somewhere. This is the best place he

1363
01:04:45,600 --> 01:04:48,360
Speaker 1: could have gone. That's the only reason of buying it

1364
01:04:48,520 --> 01:04:51,080
Speaker 1: at all is that he's gone to a place with

1365
01:04:51,120 --> 01:04:53,919
Speaker 1: a great offensive coach and Frank Wright and a great

1366
01:04:53,960 --> 01:04:56,280
Speaker 1: offense line in front of him. But there might be

1367
01:04:56,560 --> 01:04:59,200
Speaker 1: and I would say, you know, I am not locking

1368
01:04:59,240 --> 01:05:01,520
Speaker 1: in eleven and five even close to it, because it's

1369
01:05:01,560 --> 01:05:05,360
Speaker 1: like this could absolutely go sideways with Philip, where it

1370
01:05:05,360 --> 01:05:07,240
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what you put in front of him. He's

1371
01:05:07,280 --> 01:05:10,400
Speaker 1: still an old man thrown balloons into the secondary and

1372
01:05:10,440 --> 01:05:12,880
Speaker 1: hoping for the best. Uh So I see that as

1373
01:05:12,880 --> 01:05:15,760
Speaker 1: a problem, even if even if the protection is better.

1374
01:05:16,040 --> 01:05:17,640
Speaker 1: I like them in this game because I think the

1375
01:05:17,680 --> 01:05:20,960
Speaker 1: Jaguars are gonna stink. But I still think the Colts

1376
01:05:20,960 --> 01:05:24,080
Speaker 1: have a lot of questions to answer with that quarterback.

1377
01:05:24,120 --> 01:05:26,680
Speaker 1: In fact, I wouldn't even put it past the realm

1378
01:05:26,720 --> 01:05:31,760
Speaker 1: of possibility greg that Jacoby Brissette, Jake Brisket gets a

1379
01:05:31,760 --> 01:05:39,439
Speaker 1: little bit of pt Coach's decision style. By week, Jake

1380
01:05:39,560 --> 01:05:47,240
Speaker 1: Brisket yanks put a sandwich. He's making Jacoby a bit

1381
01:05:47,280 --> 01:05:49,720
Speaker 1: more money than than any backup in the league. I

1382
01:05:49,720 --> 01:05:54,400
Speaker 1: guess him and Alex Smith are paid almost like starters. Um.

1383
01:05:54,680 --> 01:05:56,600
Speaker 1: I do think Mark being a good point on this

1384
01:05:56,680 --> 01:05:58,880
Speaker 1: game specifically in terms of the Colts do want to

1385
01:05:58,880 --> 01:06:01,000
Speaker 1: be a running team, and the Jaguars like half of

1386
01:06:01,040 --> 01:06:04,560
Speaker 1: their defensive tackles opted out or retired, uh, you know,

1387
01:06:04,680 --> 01:06:07,480
Speaker 1: early in in the off season, so that that could

1388
01:06:07,480 --> 01:06:09,720
Speaker 1: be trouble when you're trying to stop the run. I

1389
01:06:09,720 --> 01:06:13,480
Speaker 1: think it's a problem. All right, Mark, you're up. We

1390
01:06:13,600 --> 01:06:15,960
Speaker 1: got two games left, so you will essentially be picking

1391
01:06:16,000 --> 01:06:20,400
Speaker 1: for me as well. Now, So just I'm gonna I

1392
01:06:20,440 --> 01:06:22,440
Speaker 1: think I'm gonna be generous to you and probably give

1393
01:06:22,480 --> 01:06:24,320
Speaker 1: you the game that you would have preferred here, but

1394
01:06:24,360 --> 01:06:26,360
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick what I want to see. For a

1395
01:06:26,400 --> 01:06:31,000
Speaker 1: couple of reasons. I'm taking, uh, the Philadelphia Eagles visiting Washington,

1396
01:06:31,160 --> 01:06:33,560
Speaker 1: the Washington football team. I kind of just want to

1397
01:06:33,600 --> 01:06:38,840
Speaker 1: see how Ron Riverican opens this very new era. You're welcome, Dan,

1398
01:06:38,920 --> 01:06:43,120
Speaker 1: You're welcome. I mean it's you know, it's no you

1399
01:06:43,160 --> 01:06:46,960
Speaker 1: have to follow the Twitter handle of the Washington Football Club.

1400
01:06:47,000 --> 01:06:51,640
Speaker 1: It's new Rivera. I like that. I'm not huge into

1401
01:06:51,680 --> 01:06:54,920
Speaker 1: that word play, but I don't feel ordered to say that,

1402
01:06:55,360 --> 01:07:01,760
Speaker 1: you know what, you are we going to Washington for everything,

1403
01:07:01,880 --> 01:07:03,880
Speaker 1: because you know, if you wanted to catch up, you

1404
01:07:03,880 --> 01:07:07,080
Speaker 1: know we we are, you know, taping this on NFL

1405
01:07:07,160 --> 01:07:09,040
Speaker 1: dot com. You can always check that out. It says

1406
01:07:09,080 --> 01:07:11,760
Speaker 1: Eagles at Washington. And I noticed that with my picks.

1407
01:07:11,800 --> 01:07:15,840
Speaker 1: They edited my picks from like Eagles twenty football team

1408
01:07:15,880 --> 01:07:18,439
Speaker 1: ten and they just changed it to Washington. I don't

1409
01:07:18,440 --> 01:07:24,000
Speaker 1: like it the way from the team. That would be

1410
01:07:24,000 --> 01:07:28,480
Speaker 1: the most journalism an old journalism school trick is in

1411
01:07:28,520 --> 01:07:31,720
Speaker 1: a sentence, if you're gonna say the city name when

1412
01:07:31,720 --> 01:07:34,000
Speaker 1: you're mentioning the other team, you should say their city name.

1413
01:07:34,080 --> 01:07:37,480
Speaker 1: To the idea of mixing Eagles with Washington, it should

1414
01:07:37,480 --> 01:07:44,920
Speaker 1: be Philadelphia at Washington, yepis sure, whenever anyone's ready for that.

1415
01:07:44,960 --> 01:07:47,240
Speaker 1: I don't think today's editors seem to care about those

1416
01:07:47,280 --> 01:07:50,160
Speaker 1: old jay school rules. Here's the thing, Like, I mean,

1417
01:07:50,320 --> 01:07:53,320
Speaker 1: the Eagles, you know, very banged up. Um, you know

1418
01:07:53,400 --> 01:07:55,800
Speaker 1: they're they're just not who they are. It's it's crazy

1419
01:07:55,840 --> 01:07:58,680
Speaker 1: that a year ago these two teams battled in Week one,

1420
01:07:58,920 --> 01:08:01,919
Speaker 1: the Eagles lost to Sean Jackson after a monster game,

1421
01:08:02,240 --> 01:08:04,520
Speaker 1: and we're never the same at that position in a

1422
01:08:04,600 --> 01:08:06,920
Speaker 1: year later. All Sean Jeffrey is not around. I mean

1423
01:08:06,920 --> 01:08:09,240
Speaker 1: he's not healthy. That you're banged up all over the place.

1424
01:08:09,320 --> 01:08:11,200
Speaker 1: Jalen Riagor is not healthy. It's like, we have to

1425
01:08:11,200 --> 01:08:14,480
Speaker 1: see what happens there. Um, But I'll flip to Washington

1426
01:08:14,520 --> 01:08:16,760
Speaker 1: and let you guys discuss the Eagles after. I just

1427
01:08:16,800 --> 01:08:19,160
Speaker 1: want to see Dwayne Haskins in this offense. I want

1428
01:08:19,200 --> 01:08:22,400
Speaker 1: to see what happens with um their backfield. You know,

1429
01:08:22,439 --> 01:08:25,960
Speaker 1: Scott Turner, he's the guy that battled for them to

1430
01:08:26,040 --> 01:08:29,280
Speaker 1: draft Antonio Gibson, who had about thirty three carries in college.

1431
01:08:29,600 --> 01:08:31,680
Speaker 1: But they are saying that he kind of fits that

1432
01:08:31,760 --> 01:08:36,120
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey role that Scott Turner oversaw in Carolina. So

1433
01:08:36,400 --> 01:08:38,360
Speaker 1: what does that mean between him and Bryce Love at

1434
01:08:38,400 --> 01:08:40,640
Speaker 1: a week one? You know, outside of Terry McLaurin, you

1435
01:08:40,680 --> 01:08:43,160
Speaker 1: really don't have much at wide receiver. But that said,

1436
01:08:43,200 --> 01:08:46,280
Speaker 1: I mean everyone's sort of just putting Washington into this

1437
01:08:46,320 --> 01:08:51,000
Speaker 1: two and fourteen bucket. Don't forget about this defensive line,

1438
01:08:51,040 --> 01:08:54,479
Speaker 1: which I think could cause absolute problems for you know,

1439
01:08:54,640 --> 01:08:57,160
Speaker 1: I know that you in in in Philadelphia. You've got

1440
01:08:57,400 --> 01:08:59,640
Speaker 1: your guy back at left tackle. But I don't like

1441
01:08:59,760 --> 01:09:02,479
Speaker 1: the those line situations in Week one right here, and

1442
01:09:02,520 --> 01:09:05,679
Speaker 1: maybe guys like Chase Young and so in the rest

1443
01:09:05,680 --> 01:09:07,320
Speaker 1: of the crew they have up front there that's a

1444
01:09:07,400 --> 01:09:10,680
Speaker 1: Ron rivera dream. So that is their one advantage I

1445
01:09:10,720 --> 01:09:13,439
Speaker 1: think they have against the posing offenses. I mean, how

1446
01:09:13,479 --> 01:09:16,639
Speaker 1: about our crack team behind the scenes here they change

1447
01:09:16,680 --> 01:09:20,160
Speaker 1: the graphic. It's now Philadelphia at Washington. Be the change

1448
01:09:20,160 --> 01:09:24,040
Speaker 1: wonderful you want to see in the world. Um, Gandhi,

1449
01:09:24,360 --> 01:09:27,000
Speaker 1: that was that was a Gandhi quote, Jason Peters, You

1450
01:09:27,040 --> 01:09:29,960
Speaker 1: guy you mentioned at left tackle. I don't even think

1451
01:09:29,960 --> 01:09:33,559
Speaker 1: it was Gandhi. Um, but my son was super into

1452
01:09:33,640 --> 01:09:37,080
Speaker 1: like this Gandhi book. He's really likes the history stuff.

1453
01:09:37,880 --> 01:09:41,720
Speaker 1: Let's get back to Jason Peters. We thought he was tackles.

1454
01:09:41,720 --> 01:09:44,200
Speaker 1: How weird is it? He's five. But they have these

1455
01:09:44,240 --> 01:09:46,640
Speaker 1: like you know, kids like history ones where it's like

1456
01:09:46,720 --> 01:09:49,559
Speaker 1: I am Gandhi. But then he wants you to do

1457
01:09:49,600 --> 01:09:51,840
Speaker 1: it in the voices and you start worrying it's a

1458
01:09:51,840 --> 01:09:53,760
Speaker 1: little racist. So you're like, no, I don't want to

1459
01:09:53,760 --> 01:09:59,480
Speaker 1: do it. In the voices, you revealed Jason Peters decided

1460
01:09:59,520 --> 01:10:01,360
Speaker 1: whether he is gonna play left tackle or not. It

1461
01:10:01,439 --> 01:10:03,639
Speaker 1: was really weird because at first he said no, wait,

1462
01:10:03,720 --> 01:10:07,360
Speaker 1: I want no, I don't do it. That's what I'm saying,

1463
01:10:07,560 --> 01:10:10,120
Speaker 1: because he listens to the audio version too, and then

1464
01:10:10,120 --> 01:10:12,840
Speaker 1: he wants me to read it separately, and he wants

1465
01:10:12,840 --> 01:10:19,320
Speaker 1: me to do it in those voices, and it's potentially problematic.

1466
01:10:19,320 --> 01:10:22,000
Speaker 1: It's a little like um, it's like a different version

1467
01:10:22,040 --> 01:10:25,200
Speaker 1: of Dan doing um Lakisha's mom. You know, it's a

1468
01:10:25,240 --> 01:10:32,680
Speaker 1: different version. It's not problematic. You figure it out. I

1469
01:10:32,720 --> 01:10:35,920
Speaker 1: do think the Eagles line will be problematic. How about that? UM.

1470
01:10:36,000 --> 01:10:39,040
Speaker 1: I think it's just so interesting that Peters didn't tell

1471
01:10:39,120 --> 01:10:41,400
Speaker 1: it was totally up to him and Doug Peterson was

1472
01:10:41,479 --> 01:10:44,920
Speaker 1: super thankful that Jason Peters came to him on Monday

1473
01:10:44,960 --> 01:10:48,040
Speaker 1: and said, Okay, I will play left tackle. Before that,

1474
01:10:48,080 --> 01:10:49,400
Speaker 1: they were just not They were just gonna go with

1475
01:10:49,439 --> 01:10:51,519
Speaker 1: a totally different plan. I mean, you gotta be like

1476
01:10:51,560 --> 01:10:55,040
Speaker 1: a Hall of Famer with a lot of pelts on

1477
01:10:55,080 --> 01:10:57,559
Speaker 1: the wall to just be calling the shots. I've almost

1478
01:10:57,600 --> 01:10:59,840
Speaker 1: never heard of anything like that. I think they'll be fine.

1479
01:11:00,080 --> 01:11:01,680
Speaker 1: Least they'll be finding this game. I don't know if

1480
01:11:01,720 --> 01:11:03,280
Speaker 1: there's any team in the league that could have used

1481
01:11:03,280 --> 01:11:06,280
Speaker 1: the preseason more than Washington. I'm giving them two or

1482
01:11:06,320 --> 01:11:09,679
Speaker 1: three weeks before I even judge them at all, because

1483
01:11:09,720 --> 01:11:12,400
Speaker 1: they just got so much going on that's new. I mean,

1484
01:11:12,400 --> 01:11:15,840
Speaker 1: there are soap opera off the field. Ron Rivera is

1485
01:11:15,840 --> 01:11:19,720
Speaker 1: fighting health issues, and then the team itself really does

1486
01:11:19,800 --> 01:11:23,760
Speaker 1: nothing for me, So thank you, Mark. Let's see how

1487
01:11:23,760 --> 01:11:27,599
Speaker 1: Washington does. But I feel like the Eagles should take

1488
01:11:27,600 --> 01:11:30,719
Speaker 1: care of business here playing this game. A little surprised

1489
01:11:30,760 --> 01:11:34,760
Speaker 1: Jalen Reagor might play. That would be huge, all right.

1490
01:11:36,520 --> 01:11:41,719
Speaker 1: Last game that leaves the Seattle Seahawks traveling to Atlanta

1491
01:11:41,760 --> 01:11:47,160
Speaker 1: to face the Falcons. An early game like it, solid game.

1492
01:11:47,439 --> 01:11:50,280
Speaker 1: The Falcons are a little bit, uh nondescript right now

1493
01:11:50,280 --> 01:11:53,519
Speaker 1: in terms of from the national spotlight perspective. You're just

1494
01:11:53,560 --> 01:11:56,200
Speaker 1: not hearing a lot about them. Uh they're flying under

1495
01:11:56,200 --> 01:11:59,600
Speaker 1: the radar. And maybe that's with good reason. Maybe this

1496
01:11:59,680 --> 01:12:03,680
Speaker 1: is a team that just doesn't have a big expectations

1497
01:12:03,840 --> 01:12:05,559
Speaker 1: and they're gonna be a middle of the PAC group.

1498
01:12:05,600 --> 01:12:08,559
Speaker 1: But let's see how it plays out, because I do think,

1499
01:12:08,760 --> 01:12:12,920
Speaker 1: at least offensively, that things could be special here. And

1500
01:12:12,960 --> 01:12:15,920
Speaker 1: I know Todd Gurley is a guy that we uh

1501
01:12:16,160 --> 01:12:18,920
Speaker 1: wrote off in many circles, and he's not the same

1502
01:12:18,960 --> 01:12:21,160
Speaker 1: guy used to be, but he's gonna have a he's

1503
01:12:21,160 --> 01:12:23,920
Speaker 1: gonna have every chance to prove people wrong. Uh in

1504
01:12:24,000 --> 01:12:27,400
Speaker 1: Atlanta in that backfield, and then you have Julio Jones,

1505
01:12:27,400 --> 01:12:30,120
Speaker 1: who's thirty one years old but still an all time great,

1506
01:12:30,400 --> 01:12:32,719
Speaker 1: and Calvin Ridley, who I really think has a chance

1507
01:12:32,760 --> 01:12:36,559
Speaker 1: to be the breakout wide receiver of this season. And

1508
01:12:36,560 --> 01:12:38,519
Speaker 1: then Matt Ryan still there, who let me down on

1509
01:12:38,600 --> 01:12:41,280
Speaker 1: my fantasy team back in two seventeen. But I'm over it.

1510
01:12:41,720 --> 01:12:47,200
Speaker 1: I've moved on. So give the Falcons a chance, and um,

1511
01:12:47,280 --> 01:12:50,519
Speaker 1: the Seattle side of the ball, Yeah, the Jamal Adams

1512
01:12:50,720 --> 01:12:53,200
Speaker 1: trade was huge and added to the piece to their

1513
01:12:53,240 --> 01:12:56,200
Speaker 1: defense that they needed. I still have no idea, and

1514
01:12:56,200 --> 01:12:58,400
Speaker 1: I would love someone explained to me how they pressure

1515
01:12:58,640 --> 01:13:01,200
Speaker 1: the quarterback this season, be as last time I checked.

1516
01:13:01,240 --> 01:13:05,839
Speaker 1: That's very important, uh in the NFL. I like Seattle,

1517
01:13:06,000 --> 01:13:07,840
Speaker 1: I don't love them, and I kind of feel the

1518
01:13:07,840 --> 01:13:09,680
Speaker 1: same way about the Falcons. I think it's a close game.

1519
01:13:11,080 --> 01:13:14,639
Speaker 1: I think you're right. And I got back to these

1520
01:13:14,680 --> 01:13:17,639
Speaker 1: two teams and I was like, to the does Matt

1521
01:13:17,760 --> 01:13:21,000
Speaker 1: Ryan sneaky own Russell Wilson because I had a vague memory,

1522
01:13:21,040 --> 01:13:22,640
Speaker 1: So I checked out the you know who needs a

1523
01:13:22,720 --> 01:13:27,959
Speaker 1: research department, checked out the old Football Reference game game Index,

1524
01:13:28,360 --> 01:13:31,240
Speaker 1: and I was right Matt Ryan's five and two against

1525
01:13:31,280 --> 01:13:34,400
Speaker 1: the Russell Wilson Seahawks and including twice in the playoffs.

1526
01:13:34,400 --> 01:13:35,800
Speaker 1: And that's why it had stuck in my mind that

1527
01:13:35,840 --> 01:13:39,000
Speaker 1: the Falcons took care of business at home against the

1528
01:13:39,040 --> 01:13:41,720
Speaker 1: Sea Seahawks team a couple of times and games that

1529
01:13:41,880 --> 01:13:43,760
Speaker 1: made a big difference. Is is that really gonna matter

1530
01:13:43,800 --> 01:13:45,880
Speaker 1: this week? I don't know, but it helped convince me

1531
01:13:46,120 --> 01:13:48,800
Speaker 1: to pick the Falcons because I'm with you, Dan that

1532
01:13:48,880 --> 01:13:52,160
Speaker 1: I don't trust the Seahawks upfront. And man, what a cliche.

1533
01:13:52,200 --> 01:13:54,160
Speaker 1: It is like you win the game in the trenches,

1534
01:13:54,280 --> 01:13:57,519
Speaker 1: and but I look at these trenches in Seattle and

1535
01:13:57,560 --> 01:13:59,840
Speaker 1: I'm not loving it. On either side. They have a

1536
01:13:59,880 --> 01:14:02,320
Speaker 1: new right side of the offensive line that's not inspiring.

1537
01:14:02,360 --> 01:14:04,000
Speaker 1: They don't seem to have much of a pass rush,

1538
01:14:04,040 --> 01:14:06,880
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, and so I thought, Okay, let's let's

1539
01:14:06,920 --> 01:14:10,400
Speaker 1: go for a slight upset here the Falcons taking care

1540
01:14:10,400 --> 01:14:14,240
Speaker 1: of business because Maddie Ice owns for us well and

1541
01:14:14,240 --> 01:14:16,719
Speaker 1: that and that would mean that Atlanta will start seven

1542
01:14:16,720 --> 01:14:18,400
Speaker 1: and oh and then lose nine in a row. Because

1543
01:14:18,400 --> 01:14:20,880
Speaker 1: they they are the streaking and NFL team as you

1544
01:14:20,920 --> 01:14:23,760
Speaker 1: can find in recent years under Dan Quinn. I want

1545
01:14:23,760 --> 01:14:26,839
Speaker 1: to see it's Seattle sticks to this, uh this business

1546
01:14:26,840 --> 01:14:29,720
Speaker 1: about you know, Russell Wilson saying, let's let's treat every

1547
01:14:29,800 --> 01:14:33,160
Speaker 1: quarter like the fourth quarter that Brian Schottenheimer's saying, you know,

1548
01:14:33,200 --> 01:14:36,800
Speaker 1: we want to start games faster. I think that they

1549
01:14:36,800 --> 01:14:39,040
Speaker 1: that they may believe that and they really want to

1550
01:14:39,040 --> 01:14:41,200
Speaker 1: do it. I mean, it's gonna take take Schottenheimer to

1551
01:14:41,280 --> 01:14:43,719
Speaker 1: kind of lift away from his DNA where you're gonna

1552
01:14:43,720 --> 01:14:46,000
Speaker 1: want to run Chris Carson thirty five times a game.

1553
01:14:46,400 --> 01:14:49,240
Speaker 1: But why not do that with Russell Wilson. You've got

1554
01:14:49,240 --> 01:14:51,559
Speaker 1: good receivers, You've got a good set up for him.

1555
01:14:51,920 --> 01:14:54,679
Speaker 1: I I like that for Seattle. On the flip side,

1556
01:14:54,680 --> 01:14:57,040
Speaker 1: I mean, to me, Girley is a huge question mark.

1557
01:14:57,360 --> 01:14:59,080
Speaker 1: And I also want to see if Hayden Hurst can

1558
01:14:59,120 --> 01:15:01,960
Speaker 1: just step into the Austin Hooper role and produced at

1559
01:15:01,960 --> 01:15:03,880
Speaker 1: the tight end position the same way, because that is

1560
01:15:03,920 --> 01:15:06,639
Speaker 1: an integral part of their attack. It has been under

1561
01:15:06,680 --> 01:15:08,880
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan for three or four years, so that is

1562
01:15:08,880 --> 01:15:11,320
Speaker 1: a key, key thing, and if you can't, like, they're

1563
01:15:11,320 --> 01:15:12,760
Speaker 1: gonna have to find other ways to move the ball.

1564
01:15:12,760 --> 01:15:14,400
Speaker 1: I don't know if I trust the wide receiver group

1565
01:15:14,400 --> 01:15:17,040
Speaker 1: if anyone gets hurt. I mean, it's not super deep.

1566
01:15:17,520 --> 01:15:22,040
Speaker 1: Um really really interesting Falcons team on offense and Bryan

1567
01:15:22,080 --> 01:15:25,000
Speaker 1: Schottenheimer and running that offense in Seattle. Chris Carson is

1568
01:15:25,040 --> 01:15:27,840
Speaker 1: I feel like one of the more underrated leadbacks. But

1569
01:15:27,920 --> 01:15:30,240
Speaker 1: he does put the ball on the carpet a lot,

1570
01:15:30,640 --> 01:15:33,040
Speaker 1: and you wonder if that is a problem that he

1571
01:15:33,120 --> 01:15:35,000
Speaker 1: can't fix, and that could be a hard problem fix

1572
01:15:35,040 --> 01:15:37,439
Speaker 1: for running backs. We talked about it with quarterbacks, which

1573
01:15:37,479 --> 01:15:39,760
Speaker 1: they could coach that out, but sometimes these guys can't

1574
01:15:39,800 --> 01:15:42,840
Speaker 1: do it. Does that affect his usage and anybody that

1575
01:15:42,920 --> 01:15:45,360
Speaker 1: drafted Chris Carson hates that I just said that, but

1576
01:15:45,479 --> 01:15:50,160
Speaker 1: just something to keep in mind as begins. All right,

1577
01:15:50,479 --> 01:16:00,920
Speaker 1: good stuff, guys, it's fine. Ricky. Are you there? Ricky? Hey, guys, er,

1578
01:16:02,000 --> 01:16:03,640
Speaker 1: how's it going. You want to let Ricky in the

1579
01:16:03,680 --> 01:16:09,519
Speaker 1: locks battle this year? Each episode? Yeah, Ricky, give us

1580
01:16:09,520 --> 01:16:12,320
Speaker 1: a lock of the week. I am going to start

1581
01:16:12,360 --> 01:16:15,200
Speaker 1: off strong here and I'm going to lock up the

1582
01:16:15,280 --> 01:16:20,160
Speaker 1: Bangles over the Chargers like that. I like it a

1583
01:16:20,160 --> 01:16:23,719
Speaker 1: little saucy, but I'm excited. And you know, Tyrod Taylor,

1584
01:16:23,840 --> 01:16:27,559
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow, Derwin James is down, who A j Green

1585
01:16:27,640 --> 01:16:30,759
Speaker 1: is feeling unhealthy. It's gonna be exciting. I'm actually excited

1586
01:16:30,760 --> 01:16:35,040
Speaker 1: to watch Michaels. I have one wish for this weird year,

1587
01:16:35,160 --> 01:16:37,559
Speaker 1: and it is that, And it's not Greg. It's not

1588
01:16:37,720 --> 01:16:41,840
Speaker 1: about you specifically, but if Erica beat Greg in the

1589
01:16:41,920 --> 01:16:45,240
Speaker 1: locks lockoff scenario, it would be one of the more

1590
01:16:46,080 --> 01:16:54,200
Speaker 1: I'm giving her a fifty fifty chance locks that would chat.

1591
01:16:55,080 --> 01:17:03,360
Speaker 1: The locks is a silly love silly She's not. I'm

1592
01:17:03,439 --> 01:17:06,120
Speaker 1: saying it's a coin flap. It's all luck. I have

1593
01:17:06,240 --> 01:17:10,719
Speaker 1: no predictive ability. That's what It's gonna get Greg's buns

1594
01:17:10,800 --> 01:17:13,000
Speaker 1: hot if he if he doesn't beat Ricky, I love it.

1595
01:17:15,360 --> 01:17:18,920
Speaker 1: What are they say? And they're like Women's ESPN, call

1596
01:17:18,960 --> 01:17:22,080
Speaker 1: it my women's ESPN. But I feel like the Bengals

1597
01:17:22,120 --> 01:17:30,760
Speaker 1: are gonna win all right. Later tonight, of course, Uh,

1598
01:17:30,880 --> 01:17:33,760
Speaker 1: the recap of Thursday Night Football that will be its

1599
01:17:33,800 --> 01:17:37,960
Speaker 1: own podcast at Lands and then Sunday night, Yes, it's time. Uh,

1600
01:17:38,120 --> 01:17:41,719
Speaker 1: the flagship program will recap every game we just previewed.

1601
01:17:41,760 --> 01:17:44,120
Speaker 1: Will also of course be live on the air on

1602
01:17:44,360 --> 01:17:48,639
Speaker 1: Sky Sports over there in the UK and in Ireland.

1603
01:17:48,720 --> 01:17:50,960
Speaker 1: So we're very excited to be part of that team

1604
01:17:51,240 --> 01:17:54,519
Speaker 1: again with Neil Reynolds and and Rob and the whole gang.

1605
01:17:54,640 --> 01:17:56,800
Speaker 1: So that's very exciting. So a new season is here

1606
01:17:57,280 --> 01:18:00,599
Speaker 1: and uh you will hear from us next tonight and Sunday.

1607
01:18:01,840 --> 01:18:05,320
Speaker 1: That's it. Stand hands a signing off for White Storm,

1608
01:18:05,720 --> 01:18:09,520
Speaker 1: the Old Boss and Ricky Hollywood in the Lost competition.

1609
01:18:09,720 --> 01:18:14,880
Speaker 1: Oh we just got some sizzle feel Sunday Night.