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Speaker 1: Welcome back to another edition to Be Around the NFL Podcast.

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Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hansis and I am joined, but

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Speaker 1: room filled with heroes, Mark Sessler, Colleen Wolf and Greg Rosto.

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Speaker 1: What's up people? Hey, hey, it's happy eclipse day. Everybody?

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Speaker 1: Did you look at it? Went out there? Um, there

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Speaker 1: was a gathering of several dozen NFL Needia employees this morning. Um,

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Speaker 1: somebody handed me a pair of glasses. Really, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: looked at it. I said okay, and I went back inside.

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Speaker 1: Twelve seconds in and out. Other people spent a whole

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Speaker 1: morning out there, shutting down their work day, as if

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Speaker 1: that's appropriate. Oh, daddy's uster had to get back inside

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Speaker 1: and do some work. I'm with you. I spent most

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Speaker 1: that a lot of people essentially were just couched on

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Speaker 1: I got yelled at last night by a group. You

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Speaker 1: were included, I think, Dan, when I thought that I

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Speaker 1: afraid to even look out the window today. Of course,

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Speaker 1: there's a photo that was when you know, viral on

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Speaker 1: without anything anything sunglasses or the shades or anything. Greg,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to take a guess. I've known you for

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Speaker 1: many years now. Your official statement is who cares? No,

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Speaker 1: I wasn't involved in I like that. You know. I

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Speaker 1: mentioned how my I learned a lot about it from

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Speaker 1: my daughter's you know kids podcast that got a lot

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Speaker 1: back from her. Two quick things about the eclipse that

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Speaker 1: celestial Interstate. That's the path that Moons Sun Combo traveled on.

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Speaker 1: Is this possibly the subject of a future heat Light

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Speaker 1: podcast because I don't think so, because I my my

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Speaker 1: one feeling is the Twitter kind of kind of if

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Speaker 1: little bit. In the eclipse maybe a little overrated, just

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Speaker 1: I think in general it's a wonderful event, but when

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Speaker 1: all these people are, you know, making too much of it,

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Speaker 1: you know, I I've I could do with less of that.

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Speaker 1: Sneaky overrated. I'm kind of overrated the eclipse. That's the

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Speaker 1: official stance that they around the NFL podcast. If anybody

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Speaker 1: wants to use that for a quote, sneaky overrated. Today's show.

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Speaker 1: Nice show today. It's so, you know, one of our

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Speaker 1: halfway home. I can't believe it. Halfway home. Everybody's played

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Speaker 1: a quarterback battle is over. In fact, let's talk about

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Speaker 1: I I teased it seconds ago. A decision has been

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Speaker 1: called Simeon the clear cut winner over Paxton Lynch, who,

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Speaker 1: It's funny watching the Redskins game that Tisman talked about

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Speaker 1: and it's kitchy at this point, but I kind of

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Speaker 1: like that kitchy aspect of it. Now it's something different.

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Speaker 1: That's I mean, Sydney, If I mean, I'm sure she's

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Speaker 1: gonna be melting down when she hears this said un

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Speaker 1: bow and arrow right to the heart of Disney Disneyland

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Speaker 1: weeks ago, she says, she listens. Yeah, but shout out

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Speaker 1: to Sydney, who did send me literally a one thousand

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Speaker 1: word email explaining the best way to attack a Disneyland visit.

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Speaker 1: And that shows once again why she's a one woman

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Speaker 1: Mount Rushmore, and also that she is the number one

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Speaker 1: Disney fan. And her war strategy was right dead on.

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Speaker 1: Everything was perfect, right down to the corn dog recommendation.

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Speaker 1: I'm not even a corn dog guy, best corn dog

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Speaker 1: ever had. I don't even really know what a corn

440
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Speaker 1: dog is. I've never had one. It's stupid. Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, let's move on to the preseason game. It's

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Speaker 1: a hot dog dipped in uh her. I know what

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Speaker 1: it is, but I've never had one. I'm surprised you

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Speaker 1: don't know what a corn dog is. Hot take from

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Speaker 1: Colleen there I've never Yeah, I don't. I don't know

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Speaker 1: no more. I'm more of like if I go to

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Speaker 1: a carnival or a fair, I'm more of a youthful

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Speaker 1: corn dogs of youth. All right, Sorry, Greg, we didn't

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Speaker 1: have those in Horseham. Oh yeah, yeah. Every once in

450
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Speaker 1: a while, my mom will listens the poduct like you

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Speaker 1: tell him you had a great child. I think to

452
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Speaker 1: a moment would be quite in the front the entire

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Speaker 1: campaign to suggest it feels like she's in the right

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Speaker 1: on that one. All right, preseason games. So here we go.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna go through twelve games before the show. We

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Speaker 1: divvied up how we're going to go through them all.

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Speaker 1: So Mark, we're gonna start with you. I'm just gonna

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Speaker 1: go and Mark, now I'm going to realize that what

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Speaker 1: I told you the order that we were going to

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Speaker 1: go in is not actually necessarily going to be the order.

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Speaker 1: I will Yeah, you know you have to jump to

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Speaker 1: the line. You're gonna have to point out, say, watch

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Speaker 1: the mic. Watch the mic, And we're gonna start with

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Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs and the Cincinnati Bengals. What he

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Speaker 1: got biggest takeaway from by the way, let me set

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Speaker 1: it up for a little better and we're not gonna

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Speaker 1: get hung up on the games too much, although the

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Speaker 1: results are important. Uh So one kind of big takeaway

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Speaker 1: from each team involved in the game. All right, Mark,

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Speaker 1: I don't know how you get out of this game

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Speaker 1: without the big takeaway being, you know, following a very again,

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Speaker 1: a very sturdy Alex Smith looked great. Patrick Mahomes in

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Speaker 1: his second pro game to me, incredible progress even from

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Speaker 1: his first preseason game, starting to do things and every

475
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Speaker 1: possible way you could ask a quarterback with his feet,

476
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Speaker 1: extending plays, looking off his first option, incredible arm strength,

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Speaker 1: and not afraid to push the ball downfield. Greg, I

478
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Speaker 1: think you put it well in your Winners and Losers,

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Speaker 1: that the idea that Mahomes is a complete opposite to

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Speaker 1: Alex Smith, that it's also helping Alex Smith, but the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs are in great position at quarterback. I thought the

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Speaker 1: same thing, because Alex Smith played very well again, and

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Speaker 1: you wonder if not that he's he's a professional and

484
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Speaker 1: he's always been a a sturdy, solid quarterback, that this

485
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Speaker 1: doesn't help him, like having this real guy that's making

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Speaker 1: plays in practice and pushing him in a way that

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Speaker 1: insert bad Casey backup in past years didn't. Maybe it

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Speaker 1: makes Smith a better quarterback and makes him at least

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Speaker 1: a little more aggressive. I mean, he's had two really

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Speaker 1: good drives. They have to feel so good that they

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Speaker 1: have a twenty one year old that seems ahead of schedule.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's already has to be one of the

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Speaker 1: best quarterbacks in football. Just at when a free rusher

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Speaker 1: is coming after him that he can run away and

495
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Speaker 1: just kind of make a play on the run, because

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Speaker 1: that was the whole game. He had no protection and

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Speaker 1: he was doing it. What about the Cincinnati side of

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Speaker 1: the ball, Well, I wanted to see Joe Mixon and

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Speaker 1: he was slowed down, you know, did not get a

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Speaker 1: lot done as a runner, but a very if he

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Speaker 1: had another screen pass, where again it took the fourth

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Speaker 1: or fifth guy to get him on the ground. And

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Speaker 1: I think that he's going to be such an incredible

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Speaker 1: element to that Bengals passing game and they may need

505
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Speaker 1: the a J. Green Andy Dalton connection, which Green dropped

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Speaker 1: a couple of passes and things didn't go right, and

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Speaker 1: it again it showed you that it often slows down

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Speaker 1: when that action isn't perfect. Are you worried about it all.

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Speaker 1: Not that concerned. I mean it's you know, I think

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Speaker 1: they'll be fine'll be fine. I love cream Hunt so

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Speaker 1: high on cream Hunt. He had the ball I think

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Speaker 1: eleven times in their first place. He's there. Guy. Let's

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Speaker 1: move on to Connie Fox, who's going to start us

514
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Speaker 1: with the Saints and the Los Angeles Chargers. Let's talk football.

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Speaker 1: Connie Alvin Kamara So okay. I mean he says Kamara.

516
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Speaker 1: I think, well, his mom says Kamara and he says Kamara. Whatever.

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Speaker 1: Either one works. Listen. He started the game with a

518
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Speaker 1: huge splash play. He had a fifty yard touchdown run

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Speaker 1: on the first play from scrimmage, a twenty yard catch.

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Speaker 1: He's really versatile. He touched the ball six times at

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Speaker 1: eight one scrimmage yards and he didn't even play the

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Speaker 1: first the full first quarter, so he came out. He

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Speaker 1: looks good. Uh. No Adrian Peterson or mark Ingram in

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Speaker 1: the game. But Kamara is a star potentially, I think,

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Speaker 1: so how does that work? I would say the guy

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Speaker 1: is the real deal, and that the two established veterans.

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Speaker 1: I guess it's a good problem to have. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's it's a great problems, the perfect kind of Sean

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Speaker 1: Payton type running back. He he's talked about him as

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Speaker 1: a game changing, offense changing type of players John Peyton

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Speaker 1: and and that's what he's looking like. I think there's

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Speaker 1: plenty of snaps to go around for the three of them.

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Speaker 1: I think they got the they got the most versatile

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Speaker 1: backfield in the league. Potentially. If Peterson can be Peterson,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna, they're gonna, they gotta love. They gotta love

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Speaker 1: this preseason. Yeah, and I think uh I was watching

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Speaker 1: that on the Kamara touchdown run. Ryan ram Check through

538
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Speaker 1: a really good block too, and he's kind of thrown

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Speaker 1: into the fire right now. Rookie left tackle with Terran

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Speaker 1: Armstead out, so he had an up and down game.

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Speaker 1: But from the Chargers, I wrote way too many notes

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Speaker 1: on the Charger side of things. The offensive line cannot

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Speaker 1: catch a break, so their backup tackle broke his hand.

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Speaker 1: You already have Russell Kong and Joe Barkston out with injuries,

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Speaker 1: so I mean, I don't know. They actually made the

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Speaker 1: Saints look like they had a pass rush. That's what

547
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Speaker 1: the offensive line did in this game. Saints defense in

548
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 1: general look solid in this game. Of course, you know

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Speaker 1: Kellen Clemens is out there. That's what I can't stand

550
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:19,160
Speaker 1: about August football. It's hard to get an assessment about

551
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Speaker 1: San Diego on offense with when your best players is

552
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 1: not like, hey, l a StubHub center, here's here's seven

553
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Speaker 1: quarters of Kellen Clemens. They I don't think they scored offensively?

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Speaker 1: Did they in this game? I mean, here's no zero

555
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Speaker 1: points from our offense run game whatsoever? The rookie doesman

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Speaker 1: King looked good though, they'll be fine. I mean the

557
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 1: Rivers didn't even play just a little concerned that I

558
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Speaker 1: picked them in on on like August seven to go

559
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Speaker 1: the super Bowl might have been a little audaious thank you,

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Speaker 1: thank you Irish Times and you you promised this year

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Speaker 1: you're gonna stick with that across all I will, and

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Speaker 1: it will, and it's gonna be and it's gonna be

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00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:58,640
Speaker 1: something that people will copy and paste into like mentions

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Speaker 1: to me. And you know what, bring it be the

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Speaker 1: subject of like a bar stool article like NFL media,

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Speaker 1: Bozo don't know nothing? Moving on, Um, let's talk out

567
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Speaker 1: the cults and the Dallas Cowboys. You know who I'm

568
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:16,440
Speaker 1: interested in and you know and maybe you're listening to

569
00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:18,160
Speaker 1: this pod. You might know this, You fella is probably

570
00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:20,240
Speaker 1: no too. I love me some Dez Bryant always loved

571
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Speaker 1: as I started to get worried last year during another

572
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Speaker 1: kind of injury plague season that we might have seen

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Speaker 1: the best of Dez. Uh and he could be a

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Speaker 1: guy that goes into an earlier decline just because of

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Speaker 1: how beat up he's been. Uh, maybe he does. But

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Speaker 1: he looked really good in this game. Dak Prescott played

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Speaker 1: some significant um, got some significant playing time. Dez made

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Speaker 1: a really nice touchdown where he looked just like old

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Speaker 1: Dez Bryant, So which is good. The other kind of

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Speaker 1: takeaway I had on the Cowboys offenses, I think they're

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Speaker 1: gonna be fine getting by with Darren McFadden, how you know,

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Speaker 1: assuming he could stay on the field. I don't know

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Speaker 1: about Al Morris as much, but ran well two weeks

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Speaker 1: in around now. Yeah, McFadden. He looks like the guy

585
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Speaker 1: that ran for eleven hundred yards two years ago. So

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say he's gonna be the run DMC

587
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 1: guy that everyone thought was gonna be superstar. But I

588
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:09,400
Speaker 1: think they're gonna be okay with him, and I think

589
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:11,720
Speaker 1: that's that's good. For the Cowboys because they're probably gonna

590
00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 1: need him for at least a month and a half potentially.

591
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:15,600
Speaker 1: One of the most telling things in this game was

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Speaker 1: Dak Prescott telling the sideline reporter that Dez Bryant is

593
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Speaker 1: a much better football player than he was a year

594
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Speaker 1: ago at this time. Explain what did he explain? Oh?

595
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:28,400
Speaker 1: Talking about his health because he was not He was

596
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:30,520
Speaker 1: in an off season this year for the first Yeah,

597
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:33,120
Speaker 1: he was banged up last year. That was very public.

598
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Speaker 1: He just didn't look himself. He was battling through injuries

599
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:38,800
Speaker 1: and now it's kind of the I'm in great shape,

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Speaker 1: I'm healthy, disk I I. We talked about this on

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Speaker 1: the last show. But this Cults team, it was painful

602
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Speaker 1: to watch them. It's hard to assess how effective the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys are again in this kind of a game when

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Speaker 1: they're going up what might be the worst team in

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Speaker 1: football minus l When Andrew Luxton in seventy yards to

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Speaker 1: ten in the first quarter, when the starters are out there,

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Speaker 1: Scott Tolzen is very it's hard to watch the average

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Speaker 1: for five yards an attempt holes for McFadden. We're crazy,

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Speaker 1: it was. It was it was sad to watch by

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Speaker 1: the way, Frank Gore, Beware, he looked really good. I

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Speaker 1: think he's that team. No, he's been getting hype for months.

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00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 1: That team needs some juice, you know, Matt getting some

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Speaker 1: playing time. It's not the end of the world. Frank

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Speaker 1: gard doesn't need three carries at this stage, all right, Greg,

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Speaker 1: moving on to Mr Rosedal, Greg, let's talk a little

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Speaker 1: New England Houston. Tom Savage is where I'm gonna start,

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Speaker 1: because he all but locked up the week one starting job.

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Speaker 1: We got really excited about Deshaun Watson and his first

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Speaker 1: preseason game. Tom Savage has had three straight really good drives,

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Speaker 1: did did a little bit of everything, kind of deep throws,

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Speaker 1: red zone look good. Deshaun Watson wasn't bad in this game,

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Speaker 1: but he was up and down. He ended up being

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Speaker 1: three of ten in the game, and it just cemented

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Speaker 1: I think the decision that build O'Brien really is leaning towards,

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Speaker 1: which is that Savage is the safer pick to start

626
00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 1: eventually Watson's team. But overall, by all accounts, Tom Savage

627
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 1: has had a good training camp and he's played pretty

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Speaker 1: well in the preseason. After a couple of bad drives

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Speaker 1: in his first game, I've seen some good things from Watson,

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Speaker 1: but but again, it's it's almost like the Broncos scenario.

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Speaker 1: Unless someone completely were too outshine the guy that was

632
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Speaker 1: in there last year, you got to start with Savage

633
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Speaker 1: and he's just simply looked completely efficient, more efficient than

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Speaker 1: than he expected. Had a great throw to Jalen Strong too.

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Speaker 1: I mean he was out there without their top three receivers.

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Speaker 1: How about Bruce Ellington, Right, he got cut by two

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Speaker 1: different teams, including the Jets. Here telling me that Jets good, fantastic,

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Speaker 1: But it's he made an impressive catch and a couple

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Speaker 1: In fact, he joined the team and was starting within

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Speaker 1: a week and was like their leading receiver making places

641
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Speaker 1: is wild. Here's a really hot take. Mild take, mild

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Speaker 1: take downgrade Jimmy Garoppolo and then Jimmy Garoppolo in the preseason. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and just in general, like it's yard we we just

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Speaker 1: he never if you didn't know who he was and

645
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Speaker 1: you just watched his preseason games from the last three

646
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Speaker 1: years like that, does he really stand out? If you

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Speaker 1: put him on the Browns at say they had traded

648
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Speaker 1: him and he played the way in two starts for Cleveland,

649
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Speaker 1: the way he has for New England, there would be concerns.

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Speaker 1: I just I think it will be absolutely fine. But

651
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Speaker 1: he's had some turnovers and made some great throws too.

652
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Speaker 1: I had some great plays, but he's just been kind

653
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Speaker 1: of up and down. Um. But then' and you know,

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Speaker 1: in addition to that, bigger problems because Deonta Foreman's four

655
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Speaker 1: yard run UM with eleven minutes to play in the

656
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Speaker 1: fourth quarter was the difference. Is the Houston Texans three

657
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Speaker 1: win come back? Uh for Houston, improving him to one

658
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Speaker 1: on one big home win really gets the monkey off

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Speaker 1: their back with the Patriots and the Varsity jack and

660
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Speaker 1: the playoff loss, all that has gone. And you know

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Speaker 1: it's hard to hit that panic button because the defending

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Speaker 1: chaps oh and two when the most completely almost mathematically

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Speaker 1: eliminated from any opportunity of winning going back to back

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Speaker 1: based on I judge the preseason as a title. So

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Speaker 1: if you can't do that, there's no repeat. Even with

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Speaker 1: Rex burkehead like the most Patriots player ever, looking like

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Speaker 1: he's going to explode, it's very yeah, not a surprise,

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Speaker 1: incredibly tedious development in New English. Right, let's go around

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Speaker 1: the horn again here, Mark a little green Bay Washington cheddah, I,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if if if you want to just

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Speaker 1: look at the preseason and say nothing matters, just get

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Speaker 1: us to week one and that that there's a fair

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Speaker 1: argument there. But the Redskins offense, it has been an

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Speaker 1: absolute disaster. It looks better than it than it should

675
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Speaker 1: because of one drive right Beyoard before halftime. They kept

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Speaker 1: Cousins in until right before half because of what happened

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Speaker 1: before and interesting in itself it is, and and also

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Speaker 1: mean the look on j Grade and Jake Rudin's face

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Speaker 1: said at all. I mean it was it was one

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Speaker 1: uh punt after the next. They couldn't move at all.

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Speaker 1: They had a drive that just simply ended on downs

682
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Speaker 1: because they couldn't convert a short run. Kirk Cousins completely

683
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Speaker 1: not on the same page with guys like Terrell Prior

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Speaker 1: and I really making some interesting decisions that Kirk Cousin

685
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Speaker 1: chum about Jimmy Garoppolo not having a preseason you think

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Speaker 1: he would have. Kirk Cousins has looked very problematic so far,

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Speaker 1: and that Ravens game wasn't was an abject disaster and

688
00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:22,840
Speaker 1: this did not get them any farther along I'd be

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Speaker 1: really concernedified. I think number one, number one, you're playing

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00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:32,759
Speaker 1: deep into the first half. You want to see them

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Speaker 1: start to destroy the opposition that are putting on a

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Speaker 1: bunch of ham and eggers and they are not moving

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Speaker 1: the ball at all. Alright, what about Birthday? Green Bay?

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Speaker 1: I mean green Bay, I don't know what it's. Here's

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00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:47,040
Speaker 1: the thing, green Bay is what you want to see

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Speaker 1: from any team. They Aaron Rodgers in the offense went

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00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 1: right down the field, shredded Washington and looked like they

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Speaker 1: had been, you know, shot from a portal in mid November.

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Speaker 1: They looked absolutely warmed up and ready to go. And

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Speaker 1: their defense again, I I don't know what to tell you.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if anything happens to Aaron Rodgers, Brett Hunley

702
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Speaker 1: looked good too, So the Packers were fine, No concerns

703
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Speaker 1: Washington two and fourteen. I don't think it's anywhere near

704
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Speaker 1: that dired. This is a guy, the amount of money

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Speaker 1: that Kirk Cousins has made from the Redskins, I I

706
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:16,399
Speaker 1: don't like to see what I saw, and a little

707
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:19,279
Speaker 1: bit of a similar vibe last August and going into

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Speaker 1: the week. That's why everyone panics so much in that

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Speaker 1: week one game against Pittsburgh, right, so that that might

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Speaker 1: be part of it. But when it does combine with

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Speaker 1: a lot of reports otta Washington that the offense has

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Speaker 1: struggled throughout camp, that the defense has kind of been

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Speaker 1: dominating them, then then you do start and they called

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Speaker 1: it a soft camp where it just you know, I

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Speaker 1: don't know, you've you brought up questionable play calls. I

716
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Speaker 1: actually found this team when they were last season and

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Speaker 1: the year before. When they're when they're moving and they're

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Speaker 1: looking good, they're very interesting to watch. I I actually

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Speaker 1: they won me over last season. I don't think they're

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Speaker 1: doing the opposite right now. Um, you mentioned suspect play calls.

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Speaker 1: My favorite suspect play called the entire week was Houston

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Speaker 1: Texans in the first quoter against the Patriots. A third

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Speaker 1: and six from the eight yard line, fourth and six

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Speaker 1: from the eight yard line, knocking on the door, a

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00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:10,319
Speaker 1: little a little half back draw for two yards and someone.

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Speaker 1: It was almost like Bill O'Brien was trying to like

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Speaker 1: make Bill proud of him and be like, Hey, Bill,

728
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give about these games. Either we're cool like that,

729
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:21,600
Speaker 1: you and me, we're both like basically the same coach.

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Speaker 1: As you guys pointed out, the Patriots didn't even celebrate.

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Speaker 1: I thought they were. They were just kind of biled

732
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Speaker 1: by the Tony was on the field. Literally he like

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Speaker 1: shrugged his shoulders, like alright, moving on, Connie Fox, the

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Speaker 1: dob Bears came up with that, and the Arizona Cardinals,

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Speaker 1: good job by you. That's amazing. Um. From the Cardinal

736
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Speaker 1: side of things, Tyron Matthew, he looks like he's back

737
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Speaker 1: to being a nightmare. Back to back games. We've seen

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Speaker 1: him play like this after he just never really looked

739
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Speaker 1: like himself. He shut down Kevin White on the first

740
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Speaker 1: series and then the best play of the entire game

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Speaker 1: for him, he intercepted Mike Glennon and then had it

742
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Speaker 1: back about fifty yards I know, so that set up

743
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Speaker 1: the cardinals only touchdown of the first half. But he's

744
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:09,319
Speaker 1: so fast and when he was playing, I guess it

745
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:11,840
Speaker 1: was two years ago. He was playing so well and

746
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 1: that's when he got hurt. We were talking about it, um,

747
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:18,600
Speaker 1: I think a couple of days ago. Yeah, So it

748
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:21,279
Speaker 1: looks like he's back to that level at this point,

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Speaker 1: and it's only the priest. That's great because especially after

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Speaker 1: the second serious knee injury. Then you start to be

751
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:30,319
Speaker 1: worried will he ever get back to it? And he

752
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:34,560
Speaker 1: had it down yea, yeah, so there's that. Um, do

753
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:36,439
Speaker 1: you want to flip it over to the Bears? Okay,

754
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go Aguaya or Glennan or Drabinski here. Okay,

755
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:45,919
Speaker 1: I'm buying stock and Tarik Cohen because he looked really good.

756
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:48,760
Speaker 1: He looked so good that Bruce arians was really piste

757
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:51,359
Speaker 1: at his run defense for looking the way that they did.

758
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:54,840
Speaker 1: Cohen came out and broke off runs of sixteen, sixteen,

759
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 1: and nine totally seventy seven yards and um, the only

760
00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:02,480
Speaker 1: good play was the Robert him DJ tackle. But it's

761
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:05,880
Speaker 1: a tough spot, I think for uh, for Cohen because

762
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:08,239
Speaker 1: he looks good. But he's sitting behind Jordan Howard. But

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Speaker 1: he's what's a little different than Jordan Howard's very wiggly,

764
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Speaker 1: and I mean they're gonna need all the He really

765
00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:17,280
Speaker 1: is like he would like he sort of slipping through people.

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Speaker 1: It was just fun to watch. I thought, I mean,

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Speaker 1: five six guy with the last name Cohen. Yeah, it's

768
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Speaker 1: like I would have expected he was like an O

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Speaker 1: C character or something like that, not a rotting back

770
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Speaker 1: for the Bears. I'm always a little surprised because you

771
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:32,600
Speaker 1: were definitely plugged in on OC a little bit more

772
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Speaker 1: than I would have thought Greg would be. I would

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Speaker 1: reference SoC every like, you know, three and a half

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Speaker 1: months or so. I feel like it comes in on

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Speaker 1: OC Beverly Hills nine at two, and I like the

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Speaker 1: don't know you'd I didn't really watch any any of

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Speaker 1: the nine o two and oh stuff from Melrose Place,

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Speaker 1: but I did. I was into Dawson's Creek initially. It's

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Speaker 1: a little embarrassing. I was a big, big, early period

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Speaker 1: Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan, like me and my loser

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Speaker 1: friends um that had no girlfriends. We were like way

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Speaker 1: into Sarah Michelle Geller as like the Star to track

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Speaker 1: into the New Millennium didn't quite work out that way,

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Speaker 1: But that that show is very good early on. People

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Speaker 1: forget with nine O two one oh that it started

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Speaker 1: as a family show. I was young enough for I

789
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Speaker 1: would watch it with my parents when it would air,

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Speaker 1: and then over the course of a couple of seasons

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Speaker 1: it turned into this, you know, outrageous soap opera. I

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Speaker 1: guess this would be suddenly like, yeah, it gets dark

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Speaker 1: and you're sitting next to mom and dad while they're

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Speaker 1: just getting like bombed and drunk driving, and I think

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Speaker 1: I was just watching Saved by the Bell at this

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Speaker 1: point whole Yeah, Um, I guess I'll just share the

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Speaker 1: story real quick since Sarah Michelle Gellar came up. But um,

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Speaker 1: we had a friend of ours. I will not use

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Speaker 1: if one of those things happens where it's like Paris

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Speaker 1: Hilton showed up to them, like maybe it would happen

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Speaker 1: for uh that so he as a joke. He didn't

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Speaker 1: because he kind of had like a kind of a

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Speaker 1: nerdy sensibility but a good sense of humor. A couple

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Speaker 1: of days later, he's like, hey, guys, I wrote that letter.

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Speaker 1: And he wrote the most profane, like perverted letter possible,

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Speaker 1: like really something that like the last thing you would

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Speaker 1: So we we thought it was was funny and forgot about it.

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Speaker 1: And then like a couple of weeks later, he's like, hey, guys,

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Speaker 1: and she she just she I came home from school

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Speaker 1: and she was just sitting in the kitchen with the letter.

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Speaker 1: What is this And then like, you don't understand it

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Speaker 1: revealed his name. Okay that And then her response was

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Speaker 1: and looked up. That's so embarrassing. I was convinced that

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Speaker 1: was Jason Sumwald until you dropped someone else. I thought

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Speaker 1: it was Bob. No, not Bob either. Um, so there's

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Speaker 1: Summer in a Day, A science fiction short story by

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Speaker 1: Ray Bradbury. Ray Bradbury, first published in the March nineteen

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Speaker 1: became very popular. That was the bizarre story I was

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Speaker 1: trying to describe on Friday's podcast. A lot of reaction

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849
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Speaker 1: Now you know who doesn't have my back? To New

850
00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:48,759
Speaker 1: York Jets. Let's talk about the Jets and um the

851
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:52,719
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions game, and I guess we gotta start with Yah,

852
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:56,399
Speaker 1: let's start with the Jets and Christian Hackenburg. Uh, as

853
00:43:56,480 --> 00:44:01,439
Speaker 1: much he got kind of reserved uh positive reviews off

854
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:04,120
Speaker 1: last week, all that kind of went away. Uh in

855
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:07,719
Speaker 1: the game on Saturday, he was pretty terrible. Um. He

856
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:09,080
Speaker 1: doesn't have a lot of help. And that's the big

857
00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:11,640
Speaker 1: problem with the entire thing, because the offensive line is

858
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:14,640
Speaker 1: not settled at all. They has no playmakers. But he

859
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:17,920
Speaker 1: does not look functional at this point. And this quarterback

860
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:20,719
Speaker 1: competition is as over as the Denver one, even if

861
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:24,360
Speaker 1: Bowls is gonna wait another week before he announces it. Um,

862
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 1: just to give you a little bit of perspective, how

863
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:29,279
Speaker 1: bad they've been with Hackenburg on the field, That just

864
00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:31,560
Speaker 1: gonna be bad with whoever's on the field. By the way,

865
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:36,279
Speaker 1: but zero points in thirteen possessions against the lines not

866
00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:38,320
Speaker 1: not the eighty five Bears. They have some nice players,

867
00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:40,200
Speaker 1: but they're not the eighty five Bears. Two first downs

868
00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:44,480
Speaker 1: in forty seven yards in the entire half. He was

869
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:48,120
Speaker 1: a surprise starter before the game. After the game, Hackenburg

870
00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 1: because they took away what they did was the line

871
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:53,520
Speaker 1: sat up and took away all the short stuff That

872
00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:56,840
Speaker 1: worked for Hackenburg when he got some positive reviews last week,

873
00:44:57,200 --> 00:44:59,440
Speaker 1: and then once that happened, it was all over and

874
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:01,520
Speaker 1: Hackenburg had nowhere to go. He took a couple of

875
00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:05,320
Speaker 1: savage hits. After the game, Hackenburgh said he watched tape

876
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 1: that he believed the Lions watched tape and that's how

877
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:12,440
Speaker 1: they came up with the game plan. And then somebody

878
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:15,160
Speaker 1: in the lines that said, we didn't watch anything, not

879
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:17,719
Speaker 1: watching a second and save for these pre games. Uh

880
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:20,720
Speaker 1: so the gally the Jets are in deep, deep trouble.

881
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:23,960
Speaker 1: You know that. But uh yeah, and then uh, he

882
00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:26,480
Speaker 1: fumbled on his first pass attempt. Like you you should

883
00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:29,080
Speaker 1: have known it was going to be bad. He took

884
00:45:29,239 --> 00:45:31,120
Speaker 1: the worst sack of the weekend too. I thought I

885
00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:32,839
Speaker 1: was surprised to see him get it was it showed

886
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:35,360
Speaker 1: some toughness. He kept playing. But some people thought that

887
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 1: that's on him to kind of identify there's more rushers

888
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:41,160
Speaker 1: than there were six rushers. Well, it wasn't his blind side.

889
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:42,759
Speaker 1: I mean he was coming right out of here. He

890
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:44,880
Speaker 1: had eight plays where he went back to pass. Those

891
00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:48,400
Speaker 1: they plays created zero yards total. He's a total of

892
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:50,560
Speaker 1: zero yards and and a couple of his passes were

893
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:54,000
Speaker 1: just way off it's the plunk, yeah, and the idea that, oh,

894
00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:55,879
Speaker 1: you know, they're gonna need to get a good long

895
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:58,799
Speaker 1: look at him at some point this season. No, you don't, wait.

896
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:01,200
Speaker 1: I I think they they should get a good long look.

897
00:46:01,239 --> 00:46:03,360
Speaker 1: I think it made sense what they did in the

898
00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:05,279
Speaker 1: second preseason game. They should do it again for the

899
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:08,359
Speaker 1: fourth preseason game. I think after that you can make

900
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:12,200
Speaker 1: an evaluation where I don't know, like, I don't think

901
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:14,840
Speaker 1: his roster spot should necessarily be guaranteed just because you

902
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:16,759
Speaker 1: took him in the second round. If you're confident enough

903
00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:18,640
Speaker 1: in your valuation, this guy is never going to be

904
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:21,920
Speaker 1: a guy. Yeah, But if the season is one big evaluation,

905
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:23,960
Speaker 1: what's what's gonna hurt? Like giving him a couple of

906
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:26,640
Speaker 1: starts and then maybe if he bombs out, then then

907
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:28,839
Speaker 1: you have what else do you have to see if

908
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:30,640
Speaker 1: you get enough looks at him. I just saying I

909
00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:33,160
Speaker 1: think at this point, you know, they were able to

910
00:46:33,239 --> 00:46:35,360
Speaker 1: hide behind the excuse last year that he was in

911
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:38,480
Speaker 1: bubble wrap. He's now out of bubble wrapper a year later,

912
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:40,600
Speaker 1: and they're still saying he's like a rookie and all

913
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:43,040
Speaker 1: this stuff. No, I mean, at this point, if he

914
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:46,120
Speaker 1: doesn't show something soon. I agree, And as someone who

915
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:47,840
Speaker 1: a month ago I thought they should have just started

916
00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:50,279
Speaker 1: him to begin the season, it's clear now that he

917
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:52,520
Speaker 1: is not close to being ready, and you just you're

918
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:54,800
Speaker 1: doing a service to nobody at that point and quickly

919
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:56,440
Speaker 1: it's not my I don't know what to take away

920
00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:58,560
Speaker 1: from this game from the Detroit side because the deep

921
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:01,279
Speaker 1: maybe a little humble pie showing up for training camp

922
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:05,360
Speaker 1: late didn't really hurt them. Maybe that's coming out with

923
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:07,399
Speaker 1: But at the same time, it's like a couple of things.

924
00:47:08,160 --> 00:47:10,400
Speaker 1: How can we make any judgment at the Lions defense

925
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:13,359
Speaker 1: when they're against the Jets. Uh, That's that's my only point.

926
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:17,600
Speaker 1: They look good but whatever, um yeah, Jake Roddick, even

927
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:20,440
Speaker 1: then they might be okay. See look um as a backup.

928
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:22,720
Speaker 1: And my other point, I don't want to be negative

929
00:47:22,719 --> 00:47:26,840
Speaker 1: about the Lions. But Jim Caldwell, you know, over in

930
00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:31,000
Speaker 1: Tennessee a franchise on the rise, Mike Malarkey, what does

931
00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:33,919
Speaker 1: he do? He says, Hey, guys, let's reschedule practice, let's

932
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:37,879
Speaker 1: look at the eclipse together. What do you think our friend, Mr?

933
00:47:38,239 --> 00:47:41,040
Speaker 1: You know, I don't blink. Jim Caldwell did. What His

934
00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:44,960
Speaker 1: response Jim. He not only had practice during the eclipse today,

935
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:48,400
Speaker 1: he moved it indoors because he worried that because of

936
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:51,960
Speaker 1: the eclipse it might be hard to see well, especially

937
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:55,480
Speaker 1: if he doesn't blink. This is a major solar event.

938
00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:59,040
Speaker 1: And guess what, it's essentially he's the best, Like the

939
00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:02,160
Speaker 1: kids were the evil classmates in all summer in the day,

940
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 1: in a day, that's what Jim Caldall did to the

941
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 1: entire lines roster. Put him under a bubble. Mike Zimmer did.

942
00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 1: That's Mike Zimmer did the same thing. But he he

943
00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:15,440
Speaker 1: said legitimate medical reasons. He's only got one eye. He

944
00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:17,400
Speaker 1: doesn't want to ruin. That works well, he doesn't want

945
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:19,439
Speaker 1: to ruin. That brought him inside. All right, that's true.

946
00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:22,560
Speaker 1: Let's move on, Greg, you are up, so let's talk

947
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:25,239
Speaker 1: a little and get my paperwork together. The Rams and

948
00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:30,239
Speaker 1: the Raiders, Jared Goff is coming off the most positive

949
00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:33,560
Speaker 1: performance of his career. It's only preseason, but he hasn't

950
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:36,360
Speaker 1: had a lot of things to make the Home Crown excited.

951
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:38,080
Speaker 1: And if I was a Rams fan, I would feel

952
00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:40,759
Speaker 1: very good just that he looked competent. Okay, so we

953
00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:44,560
Speaker 1: looked for Paxton Lynch just didn't look competent, like there

954
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:46,879
Speaker 1: was no growth here. Here's Jared goff in a new

955
00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:50,000
Speaker 1: offense who was making good decisions, who was kind of

956
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:52,920
Speaker 1: going through his reads a lot of checkdowns, but ultimately

957
00:48:53,239 --> 00:48:56,359
Speaker 1: made really smart decisions all night and had a couple

958
00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 1: of really nice throws and move the ball. They had

959
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:02,080
Speaker 1: seventeen points in the half, fourteen uh points in the

960
00:49:02,120 --> 00:49:05,760
Speaker 1: first quarter, and you'd start to think, okay, like maybe

961
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:08,600
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh can bring golf up to a level where

962
00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:11,520
Speaker 1: he's a solid starter this year. Absolutely agree. Two things

963
00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:15,680
Speaker 1: happened when golf suddenly looked competent. It opened up Todd

964
00:49:15,719 --> 00:49:18,359
Speaker 1: Gurley's action on the ground. Need a couple of nice

965
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:20,360
Speaker 1: runs to the to the far side of the field,

966
00:49:20,640 --> 00:49:22,920
Speaker 1: got yardage, and you have an offense. The Rams for

967
00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:27,040
Speaker 1: years could not develop wide receivers, hurting every quarterback that

968
00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:29,360
Speaker 1: they had in there. You now suddenly in this you

969
00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:31,040
Speaker 1: did not have this ten day as we have Sammy

970
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:35,160
Speaker 1: Watkins to go with a with Cooper Cooper cuper Cup

971
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:38,239
Speaker 1: who absolutely looked like he fit in like a like

972
00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:41,400
Speaker 1: an experience veteran in that attack. Cooper Cup has a

973
00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:43,799
Speaker 1: decent chance to be their number one receiver. I think

974
00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:46,480
Speaker 1: over Sammy Watkins. I know it's crazy because just in

975
00:49:46,560 --> 00:49:49,280
Speaker 1: terms of the amount of receptions that he gets, he

976
00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:52,640
Speaker 1: he has his hype, in terms of the team around him,

977
00:49:52,719 --> 00:49:54,520
Speaker 1: and just what he's shown on the practice field and

978
00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:57,479
Speaker 1: now in both PRESECS games has been I would say

979
00:49:57,640 --> 00:49:59,680
Speaker 1: right there, with any rookie in the entire league, there's

980
00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:02,440
Speaker 1: a third round slot receiver. I would be surprised if

981
00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:05,040
Speaker 1: he doesn't catch sixties seventy past. Let Sneed could use

982
00:50:05,040 --> 00:50:06,480
Speaker 1: a hit in the middle of the rounds. Well, I

983
00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:09,399
Speaker 1: talked to let Sneed in the off season and yeah,

984
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:12,840
Speaker 1: and uh, he was so high on Cooper Cup and

985
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:14,960
Speaker 1: I was kind of thinking to myself, like, all right,

986
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:17,040
Speaker 1: is he just is he just really pumping him up

987
00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:19,600
Speaker 1: right now because he's on the rams And now I'm

988
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:22,240
Speaker 1: like seeing all of the things that he said about

989
00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:24,960
Speaker 1: him are true, which is kind of it's kind of weird.

990
00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:26,960
Speaker 1: I don't know if I trust it yet. Yeah, well,

991
00:50:27,760 --> 00:50:30,319
Speaker 1: it's more evidence that at least for me, I'm gonna

992
00:50:30,320 --> 00:50:33,560
Speaker 1: look at Jared Goff like reset button, because now it

993
00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:35,880
Speaker 1: seems like he has some players, has a coaching staff,

994
00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:38,040
Speaker 1: and he's showing signs of growth. Now let's see what happens.

995
00:50:38,040 --> 00:50:40,440
Speaker 1: Same thing with Todd Gurley. I'm excited to see what

996
00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:43,680
Speaker 1: the rams look like. Anything from the Oakland side Greg there.

997
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:46,040
Speaker 1: I really didn't have a big take away other than

998
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:49,080
Speaker 1: I was concerned about their defense on paper going into

999
00:50:49,120 --> 00:50:52,160
Speaker 1: the training camp and from what I've read in training camp,

1000
00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:55,040
Speaker 1: and they certainly didn't make me feel any better about

1001
00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:57,520
Speaker 1: him in this game. I I don't know how you

1002
00:50:57,520 --> 00:51:00,359
Speaker 1: you know, everyone sort of tickets them to get back

1003
00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:02,200
Speaker 1: to twelve and four. With what we've seen from their

1004
00:51:02,239 --> 00:51:04,680
Speaker 1: defense so far, it's it's I'm not gonna take that

1005
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:08,080
Speaker 1: judgment off a preseason, but there are problems. Last time

1006
00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:11,759
Speaker 1: around the horn mark a little Falcons Steelers, what a showdown.

1007
00:51:12,360 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 1: My takeaway for this game was that a lot of

1008
00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:17,960
Speaker 1: times when we would bring up the Falcons, beyond just

1009
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:22,319
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl hangover scenario, was the absence of Kyle

1010
00:51:22,360 --> 00:51:25,239
Speaker 1: Shanahan replaced by Steve Sarkisi and who's never called an

1011
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:28,720
Speaker 1: NFL game. I have harped on that a bunch After

1012
00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:31,920
Speaker 1: two after seeing what the starters and even even you know,

1013
00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:34,400
Speaker 1: the waves of players after the starting offense have done,

1014
00:51:34,920 --> 00:51:36,879
Speaker 1: I couldn't be more impressed with the Falcons. They look

1015
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:39,279
Speaker 1: like they're picking up right where they left off from

1016
00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:42,319
Speaker 1: last year on offense, and it has the same feel

1017
00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:44,959
Speaker 1: as last year's offense. The flow of action, the way

1018
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:48,520
Speaker 1: that plays are being called is very similar to the

1019
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:52,040
Speaker 1: last season so far, and I think that it tells

1020
00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:54,120
Speaker 1: you potentially because this is a defense on the rise

1021
00:51:54,160 --> 00:51:57,640
Speaker 1: to that the Falcons are. You know, this is continuity

1022
00:51:57,640 --> 00:51:59,719
Speaker 1: where you really really needed it. Well, how do you

1023
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:02,240
Speaker 1: playing them mark their own two records start the season

1024
00:52:02,239 --> 00:52:06,120
Speaker 1: because everything about that that's it stinks like a Super

1025
00:52:06,160 --> 00:52:08,680
Speaker 1: Bowl letdown. Yeah, in the prism of how we're assessing

1026
00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:11,720
Speaker 1: how you're assessing the preseason, that's a very fair concern.

1027
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:15,640
Speaker 1: But they shredded Pittsburgh's defense over the first twenty minutes

1028
00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:21,360
Speaker 1: or something. There. I don't put much. There's such a

1029
00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:24,200
Speaker 1: veteran team that like their offense. I I almost don't

1030
00:52:24,239 --> 00:52:26,960
Speaker 1: even want to watch it this preseason just because I've

1031
00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:29,480
Speaker 1: seen all those guys before. Let's see what they you know,

1032
00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:31,080
Speaker 1: let's see what they do in the regular season. What

1033
00:52:31,120 --> 00:52:33,120
Speaker 1: about the Pittsburgh Steelers Mark, I guess you have to

1034
00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:35,239
Speaker 1: let you have to look at James Conner, who you know,

1035
00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:38,000
Speaker 1: we've waited to see him, and he he was good.

1036
00:52:38,160 --> 00:52:40,680
Speaker 1: I I don't put him in the same place I

1037
00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:43,080
Speaker 1: would with with Mixing or or Cook on the on

1038
00:52:43,120 --> 00:52:45,960
Speaker 1: the vikings, but he's he's he gives them they didn't

1039
00:52:45,960 --> 00:52:48,719
Speaker 1: have a clear cut backup um and he's someone that

1040
00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:52,520
Speaker 1: if Levian Bell for some reason did not start the season,

1041
00:52:52,520 --> 00:52:54,440
Speaker 1: that would be a disaster. He gives you another body

1042
00:52:54,440 --> 00:52:57,080
Speaker 1: back there. Bell's usage was also off the charts last

1043
00:52:57,160 --> 00:53:00,200
Speaker 1: year once he finally came back from suspension. So if

1044
00:53:00,200 --> 00:53:03,239
Speaker 1: this guy actually can play beyond just being a fan

1045
00:53:03,320 --> 00:53:05,480
Speaker 1: favorite and a great story, that would be very good.

1046
00:53:05,520 --> 00:53:09,719
Speaker 1: One other quick thing Josh Dobbs. Josh Dobbs. At one point,

1047
00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:11,960
Speaker 1: I mean he's had it rough two weeks. He's scrambling

1048
00:53:12,040 --> 00:53:14,680
Speaker 1: to his you know, towards the sideline and just simply

1049
00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:16,920
Speaker 1: drops the ball. There's a lot of things happening where

1050
00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:19,360
Speaker 1: if there's anything that happens to be Big Ben and

1051
00:53:19,360 --> 00:53:21,920
Speaker 1: it goes to Josh Dobbs, you got problems, Colleen, A

1052
00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:26,360
Speaker 1: little Caroline a Tennessee talk. Okay, So Marcus Mariota, he

1053
00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:29,080
Speaker 1: looks better than ever. And of course that's something that

1054
00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:31,840
Speaker 1: is said a lot in the preseason. It's thrown around

1055
00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:35,160
Speaker 1: X player. Yeah, it looks better than ever, but his

1056
00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:38,480
Speaker 1: leg doesn't appear to hinder him at all. He was

1057
00:53:38,520 --> 00:53:40,880
Speaker 1: sprinting around on the second play of the game, and

1058
00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:44,880
Speaker 1: I think his passes look even prettier and better executed

1059
00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:47,000
Speaker 1: than they did last year. So it looks like he's

1060
00:53:47,080 --> 00:53:49,520
Speaker 1: actually taken a step in the off season. He's not

1061
00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:52,120
Speaker 1: only rehabbed, but I think his mechanics are better too.

1062
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:54,680
Speaker 1: Kind of like Savage, he's playing without most of his

1063
00:53:54,719 --> 00:53:57,399
Speaker 1: best receivers weren't even out there, and yeah, he's still

1064
00:53:57,440 --> 00:54:00,919
Speaker 1: dialing up plays to like Taiwan Taylor. That's who week

1065
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:03,920
Speaker 1: one might be a bigger factor than Corey Davis, who

1066
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:06,520
Speaker 1: is their top five overall pick. And we'll see if

1067
00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:08,960
Speaker 1: Corey Davis gets back on the field. But yeah, he's

1068
00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:11,640
Speaker 1: a guy coming from a small college's barely practiced as

1069
00:54:11,640 --> 00:54:13,840
Speaker 1: a pro, whereas Taylor has been on the field. Seems

1070
00:54:13,840 --> 00:54:16,239
Speaker 1: like a part of that often Greg's boy Derrick Henry

1071
00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:18,439
Speaker 1: after on the last show, you said maybe he would

1072
00:54:18,440 --> 00:54:24,360
Speaker 1: eclipse Marco Martial partial eclipse. They are trusting him to

1073
00:54:24,400 --> 00:54:32,279
Speaker 1: do a lot. You gave up on that. I thought

1074
00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:36,400
Speaker 1: you're only partially finishing the bit to reference partial acclut. Now,

1075
00:54:36,440 --> 00:54:40,200
Speaker 1: you gotta be very careful. When I was a figure skater,

1076
00:54:40,320 --> 00:54:43,160
Speaker 1: I did a routine to that song. Really is it?

1077
00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:45,759
Speaker 1: Do we have footage of it anywhere? I hope not?

1078
00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:47,400
Speaker 1: I don't think can you dig it up for a

1079
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:51,799
Speaker 1: Wednesday show? Definitely not the idea where the shot. Let's

1080
00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:57,920
Speaker 1: move on and talk Wait Panthers, Oh sorry? Oh hey? Um.

1081
00:54:58,040 --> 00:55:00,759
Speaker 1: My opinion of Colleen's on like four team shows now

1082
00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:04,560
Speaker 1: so she can just like fire off. My opinion of

1083
00:55:04,840 --> 00:55:08,640
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey just keeps getting better and better. He has

1084
00:55:08,719 --> 00:55:12,279
Speaker 1: amazing big playability. He had a really nice seventeen yard

1085
00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:15,360
Speaker 1: touchdown run um and he also was in there catching

1086
00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:19,160
Speaker 1: screen passes. He finished as the team's third leading receiver,

1087
00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:22,880
Speaker 1: So he's super versatile and obviously they're going to use

1088
00:55:22,960 --> 00:55:25,000
Speaker 1: him a ton coming up. In this thirty eight yards

1089
00:55:25,040 --> 00:55:27,880
Speaker 1: screen pass he had, I you're gonna be seeing this

1090
00:55:27,920 --> 00:55:29,960
Speaker 1: all season? Yeah, it's I It's it's another thing where

1091
00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:32,600
Speaker 1: you're like, wait, why did how did this guy not

1092
00:55:32,760 --> 00:55:34,920
Speaker 1: land on a team I would rather see succeed more

1093
00:55:34,960 --> 00:55:40,919
Speaker 1: than the Panthers, namely mine. Okay, so he's he could

1094
00:55:40,920 --> 00:55:42,600
Speaker 1: have been on your team. And now I just I

1095
00:55:42,760 --> 00:55:45,440
Speaker 1: just it just it's it's uh, he's he's going to

1096
00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:48,200
Speaker 1: be Rookie of the Year type candidate. Places. I remember

1097
00:55:48,239 --> 00:55:50,920
Speaker 1: at the combine, after he was finished with all of

1098
00:55:50,920 --> 00:55:53,960
Speaker 1: the running back drills, they then put him through a

1099
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:56,640
Speaker 1: bunch of different receiver drills too, and he was the

1100
00:55:56,680 --> 00:55:58,759
Speaker 1: only one I think that day that they did it

1101
00:55:58,800 --> 00:56:01,520
Speaker 1: with and he was puzzling everybody. Well, people said he

1102
00:56:01,560 --> 00:56:04,839
Speaker 1: had the best combine they had ever seen. So good

1103
00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:07,799
Speaker 1: job Colleen to stick up. Yeah, I apologize college like

1104
00:56:07,880 --> 00:56:11,920
Speaker 1: your apologie. I want to make my point, Dan, Can

1105
00:56:11,960 --> 00:56:13,960
Speaker 1: I share? Can I share the new like world here

1106
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:16,120
Speaker 1: at NFL Media? I don't know. I don't think I

1107
00:56:16,160 --> 00:56:19,080
Speaker 1: can't share it. I don't think so, not yet. Yeah,

1108
00:56:19,560 --> 00:56:22,399
Speaker 1: Colleen is the new play by play host for third time.

1109
00:56:23,200 --> 00:56:31,239
Speaker 1: Can you imagine she's replacing who? Is that even serious? Yeah? No,

1110
00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:34,680
Speaker 1: that's not serious. Yeah. I can't say. I'm not allowed

1111
00:56:34,719 --> 00:56:37,279
Speaker 1: to say, but Colleen is very popular around you know him.

1112
00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:40,400
Speaker 1: Not It's fine. I believe it's contrast contrast to the

1113
00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:42,720
Speaker 1: rest of the nance, at least most of the stop.

1114
00:56:44,440 --> 00:56:47,719
Speaker 1: All right, now, I will share my final thoughts on

1115
00:56:47,760 --> 00:56:52,800
Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks in the Minnesota Vikings um Russell Wilson.

1116
00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:54,759
Speaker 1: First of all, there was a big injury in this game.

1117
00:56:55,480 --> 00:56:58,640
Speaker 1: They lost their left tackle the Seahawks, George Fan uh

1118
00:56:58,680 --> 00:57:01,000
Speaker 1: and it looks like he's done for a year. And

1119
00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:03,160
Speaker 1: they had a third round pick going in for him

1120
00:57:03,200 --> 00:57:06,319
Speaker 1: after the injury. And I don't know if that's the

1121
00:57:06,520 --> 00:57:09,160
Speaker 1: maybe the last thing the Seahawks needed after a season

1122
00:57:09,160 --> 00:57:11,759
Speaker 1: in which Russell Wilson was banged up. You're losing your

1123
00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:15,200
Speaker 1: left tackle halfway through August is terrible news. So we'll

1124
00:57:15,200 --> 00:57:18,000
Speaker 1: see if they're able to find a way to uh

1125
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:20,840
Speaker 1: fix that situation. You've got a little breaking news here

1126
00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:26,000
Speaker 1: related to this. Seattle Seahawks have acquired tackle slash guard

1127
00:57:26,120 --> 00:57:30,919
Speaker 1: Matt Tobin from the Eagle Toby and the seventh round

1128
00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:32,760
Speaker 1: pick in exchange for a fifth round pick. He is

1129
00:57:32,800 --> 00:57:35,360
Speaker 1: expected to compete. He probably will still be a backup.

1130
00:57:35,400 --> 00:57:38,520
Speaker 1: I think they have this, uh younger guy whose name

1131
00:57:38,560 --> 00:57:41,240
Speaker 1: I can't quite pronounced. Well, they have it's rees Odi Umbo,

1132
00:57:42,440 --> 00:57:47,160
Speaker 1: good pronunciation mark. I liked it. Uh luke jokel um.

1133
00:57:47,280 --> 00:57:51,200
Speaker 1: There's a possibility too, I guess, I don't know. Not

1134
00:57:51,240 --> 00:57:55,800
Speaker 1: inspiring sounded like Monday, they wanted to leave him at guard, yeah,

1135
00:57:55,960 --> 00:57:58,480
Speaker 1: and try someone else at But the point I was

1136
00:57:58,480 --> 00:58:01,760
Speaker 1: gonna make is if they if they figure this out, good.

1137
00:58:01,800 --> 00:58:04,720
Speaker 1: But Russell Wilson looks so great that he's so fluid,

1138
00:58:04,760 --> 00:58:07,160
Speaker 1: and he's really fun to watch Wilson, and you kinda

1139
00:58:08,240 --> 00:58:11,200
Speaker 1: you forget how he was basically the best quarterback in

1140
00:58:11,200 --> 00:58:13,360
Speaker 1: the league at the end of the season and then

1141
00:58:13,360 --> 00:58:15,880
Speaker 1: he got all jacked up last season and the offense

1142
00:58:15,920 --> 00:58:19,320
Speaker 1: had some issues. Um, I wouldn't be surprised if he's

1143
00:58:19,320 --> 00:58:20,880
Speaker 1: an m v P guy this year. You know what?

1144
00:58:20,960 --> 00:58:23,000
Speaker 1: To me? He looked and and there was in the

1145
00:58:23,160 --> 00:58:25,680
Speaker 1: debt of July, I wrote some article about how he

1146
00:58:25,720 --> 00:58:28,440
Speaker 1: went on this entire diet. He lost his ship I

1147
00:58:28,520 --> 00:58:30,960
Speaker 1: think twelve to fifteen pounds or something good about that.

1148
00:58:31,080 --> 00:58:34,160
Speaker 1: He looks like a guy that is completely trimmed down.

1149
00:58:34,280 --> 00:58:36,840
Speaker 1: He's got his speedback, He's fully healthy. I couldn't agree

1150
00:58:36,840 --> 00:58:40,000
Speaker 1: more with your point. Um Uh the uh one quick

1151
00:58:40,040 --> 00:58:41,800
Speaker 1: Minnesota point and then I'll close with the Seattle point.

1152
00:58:41,920 --> 00:58:44,920
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook look really good again. Seven carries for forty yards.

1153
00:58:44,920 --> 00:58:47,320
Speaker 1: It looks like Minnesota hit on something there. Uh and

1154
00:58:47,360 --> 00:58:50,200
Speaker 1: there transition away from a p and then on the

1155
00:58:50,240 --> 00:58:52,680
Speaker 1: other side of the ball and running back. Uh. I

1156
00:58:52,680 --> 00:58:54,480
Speaker 1: don't know about the Eddie Lacey thing, and this could

1157
00:58:54,480 --> 00:58:57,920
Speaker 1: be a problem for the beach body umpire because I

1158
00:58:57,920 --> 00:59:00,439
Speaker 1: don't know about his body, how it's looking. Well, he's

1159
00:59:00,520 --> 00:59:02,720
Speaker 1: he's not out of shape, He's just I don't think

1160
00:59:02,760 --> 00:59:05,760
Speaker 1: he's He's not, say the guy that they are looking

1161
00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:07,920
Speaker 1: forward to start necessarily, they keep putting other people in

1162
00:59:07,920 --> 00:59:10,880
Speaker 1: there ahead of him. Yeah, he definitely there. They have

1163
00:59:11,160 --> 00:59:14,280
Speaker 1: another option, their seventh round pick, Chris Carson, who ran

1164
00:59:14,360 --> 00:59:17,280
Speaker 1: better than him and basically he looks good. Lacy looks

1165
00:59:17,320 --> 00:59:20,200
Speaker 1: potentially redundant in this offense, So I don't know, is

1166
00:59:20,200 --> 00:59:22,400
Speaker 1: it possible he's a surprise cut. Well, we'll have to

1167
00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:25,400
Speaker 1: see how it all plays out, but I'm sure other

1168
00:59:25,440 --> 00:59:28,040
Speaker 1: than that, though the offense looks great. Uh, Eddie Lacy

1169
00:59:28,280 --> 00:59:30,960
Speaker 1: maybe not so much. I never know how to take

1170
00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:33,560
Speaker 1: what to take from these Seahawks preseason games. You can

1171
00:59:33,680 --> 00:59:36,640
Speaker 1: set your clock to it that every year the Seahawks

1172
00:59:36,640 --> 00:59:39,440
Speaker 1: are just gonna mash teams in the preseason. That they

1173
00:59:39,520 --> 00:59:42,040
Speaker 1: just come out and they play so hard and they're

1174
00:59:42,080 --> 00:59:44,720
Speaker 1: like like they're so excited when they make a stop

1175
00:59:44,880 --> 00:59:49,640
Speaker 1: and they just destroy teams year after years. One last thing,

1176
00:59:49,680 --> 00:59:52,320
Speaker 1: shout out to the twelves. I have to say, because

1177
00:59:52,360 --> 00:59:56,600
Speaker 1: in the clink that was legitimately like a regular season crowd.

1178
00:59:57,680 --> 01:00:00,520
Speaker 1: They're screaming their heads off during this game and it's

1179
01:00:00,560 --> 01:00:02,480
Speaker 1: like it is week two of the preseason and they're

1180
01:00:02,480 --> 01:00:05,000
Speaker 1: acting like it's the NFC championship games. So shout out

1181
01:00:05,040 --> 01:00:07,240
Speaker 1: for the twelves. I think there maybe they love the

1182
01:00:07,240 --> 01:00:09,240
Speaker 1: preseason as much as I do. I think they see

1183
01:00:09,240 --> 01:00:11,840
Speaker 1: it the way you see it, super hyper passionate about

1184
01:00:11,840 --> 01:00:15,520
Speaker 1: the team, no matter what. Greg closes out with a

1185
01:00:15,560 --> 01:00:20,600
Speaker 1: little Denver, San Francisco. We already talked the quarterback on

1186
01:00:20,720 --> 01:00:24,240
Speaker 1: the Broncos, but I'm interested in their running back situation.

1187
01:00:24,320 --> 01:00:28,560
Speaker 1: Jamal Charles didn't play for a second straight week, and

1188
01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:31,760
Speaker 1: you wonder he's gonna play in the third preseason game.

1189
01:00:31,800 --> 01:00:36,040
Speaker 1: But D'Angelo Henderson, who is a rookie that in theory

1190
01:00:36,040 --> 01:00:38,200
Speaker 1: would have a similar role to the one you imagine

1191
01:00:38,280 --> 01:00:40,600
Speaker 1: Charles playing as kind of a third down backup change

1192
01:00:40,600 --> 01:00:44,880
Speaker 1: of pace. He's a factor. He looks good and he's healthy,

1193
01:00:44,960 --> 01:00:47,520
Speaker 1: and I think he's gonna make it tougher for Jamal

1194
01:00:47,680 --> 01:00:51,760
Speaker 1: Charles to make this team, because Henderson looks like a

1195
01:00:51,800 --> 01:00:54,520
Speaker 1: guy that's gonna be someone you want to get the

1196
01:00:54,520 --> 01:00:59,120
Speaker 1: ball behind Anderson once the regular season starts. I mean,

1197
01:00:59,120 --> 01:01:01,960
Speaker 1: they've I think with Jamal Charles, like he probably had

1198
01:01:02,000 --> 01:01:04,439
Speaker 1: to come in and wow these guys too. Maybe Will

1199
01:01:04,480 --> 01:01:06,120
Speaker 1: Maybe he'll come out next week and we don't know

1200
01:01:06,240 --> 01:01:08,760
Speaker 1: enough about it and he'll look great too. But he

1201
01:01:08,760 --> 01:01:11,439
Speaker 1: he hasn't been healthy, and so I think Henderson's gonna

1202
01:01:11,560 --> 01:01:16,960
Speaker 1: make some noise anything else. For the forty Niners, I've

1203
01:01:17,040 --> 01:01:19,080
Speaker 1: liked what I've seen out of their two rookie defenders.

1204
01:01:19,120 --> 01:01:20,960
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I don't put too much into the

1205
01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:22,960
Speaker 1: fact that they didn't move the ball at all against

1206
01:01:22,960 --> 01:01:26,280
Speaker 1: the Broncoes. I don't know. Like Brian Hoyer supposedly has

1207
01:01:26,320 --> 01:01:28,120
Speaker 1: looked good throughout camp, he looked okay in the first

1208
01:01:28,120 --> 01:01:30,320
Speaker 1: preseason week. I'm I'm willing to just throw it up

1209
01:01:30,400 --> 01:01:32,680
Speaker 1: the probably Howyers he's gonna do two things a game,

1210
01:01:32,720 --> 01:01:34,880
Speaker 1: if not more, but at least two to kill you

1211
01:01:34,920 --> 01:01:36,960
Speaker 1: and he and he did that in this game, and

1212
01:01:37,120 --> 01:01:40,840
Speaker 1: I'm I agree with you. Kyl Shanahan likes to kind

1213
01:01:40,880 --> 01:01:43,120
Speaker 1: of unveil things when they when Week one begins, but

1214
01:01:43,200 --> 01:01:47,760
Speaker 1: they had ten yards rushing over the first minutes that started.

1215
01:01:47,800 --> 01:01:49,240
Speaker 1: It's the second game in a row where the ground

1216
01:01:49,480 --> 01:01:52,919
Speaker 1: ground game under Shanahan typically you see it, you see

1217
01:01:52,960 --> 01:01:54,760
Speaker 1: the difference, and we've not seen it. And they're trying

1218
01:01:54,760 --> 01:01:56,360
Speaker 1: to figure out who who's even going to get the

1219
01:01:56,360 --> 01:01:59,720
Speaker 1: ball behind Carlos side. There's a lot of options of

1220
01:02:00,040 --> 01:02:02,120
Speaker 1: you haven't really settled on who's going to be the backup?

1221
01:02:03,480 --> 01:02:05,880
Speaker 1: Very good, All right there, it is week two of

1222
01:02:05,880 --> 01:02:10,640
Speaker 1: the preseason. Good stuff, everybuddy. We'll be back on Wednesday.

1223
01:02:11,040 --> 01:02:13,040
Speaker 1: It will be our video show, so you'll get the

1224
01:02:13,040 --> 01:02:15,360
Speaker 1: audio show and if you go to NFL dot com

1225
01:02:15,360 --> 01:02:18,640
Speaker 1: slash a t N video you also get a video show. Um,

1226
01:02:18,680 --> 01:02:21,960
Speaker 1: so that will be exciting. And uh, coming up later

1227
01:02:21,960 --> 01:02:23,320
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's not sure if it's gonna be

1228
01:02:23,400 --> 01:02:27,320
Speaker 1: later this week or next week, but it is the

1229
01:02:27,520 --> 01:02:30,560
Speaker 1: third we gotta figure this out here, we gotta button

1230
01:02:30,600 --> 01:02:35,400
Speaker 1: this one down. It is the third annual Fantasy Extravaganza.

1231
01:02:39,760 --> 01:02:44,960
Speaker 1: Very regal. Uh yeah, it's our own special version of

1232
01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:47,920
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Preview. Because we know, if you're a smart person,

1233
01:02:48,280 --> 01:02:51,479
Speaker 1: your draft should be coming up anytime after a week

1234
01:02:51,520 --> 01:02:54,400
Speaker 1: three of the preseason if it's before get your act together,

1235
01:02:54,720 --> 01:02:58,360
Speaker 1: your trash, your clown. Uh, you know, I'm gonna rain

1236
01:02:58,560 --> 01:02:59,880
Speaker 1: rain in a little bit because it's probably a lot

1237
01:02:59,880 --> 01:03:01,960
Speaker 1: Peo listen to the show that already drafted. Well, but

1238
01:03:02,000 --> 01:03:06,600
Speaker 1: you're right, you're right, But anyway, that's crazy. I mean,

1239
01:03:06,920 --> 01:03:09,680
Speaker 1: get your mock drafts in right now, but not real

1240
01:03:09,800 --> 01:03:13,320
Speaker 1: drafts up anyway. So we're gonna we want to hold

1241
01:03:13,360 --> 01:03:16,280
Speaker 1: our extravaganza right around the time where your draft is

1242
01:03:16,280 --> 01:03:19,720
Speaker 1: gonna be happening. So uh, either later this week, next week,

1243
01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:23,760
Speaker 1: get excited. Special guest Scalore and our own unique take

1244
01:03:23,800 --> 01:03:28,240
Speaker 1: on Fantasy, including the guy that built Fantasy himself, Greg Rosenthal,

1245
01:03:28,360 --> 01:03:30,760
Speaker 1: brick by brick over at roade a World, and of

1246
01:03:30,800 --> 01:03:34,520
Speaker 1: course a return to Fantasy Corner with Mark Sessler. Very

1247
01:03:34,640 --> 01:03:38,120
Speaker 1: dangerous and hot takes abound. Yeah, an ominous place to

1248
01:03:38,160 --> 01:03:41,040
Speaker 1: be more so than ever, I'm worried about you that

1249
01:03:41,400 --> 01:03:44,280
Speaker 1: real we'll be missing We'll be missing West even more.

1250
01:03:44,720 --> 01:03:46,760
Speaker 1: We miss him every show, but we we miss him

1251
01:03:46,760 --> 01:03:49,960
Speaker 1: even more during Fantasy. If favagands a week won't be

1252
01:03:50,040 --> 01:03:52,160
Speaker 1: the same with I don't even think imagine that we

1253
01:03:52,280 --> 01:03:54,720
Speaker 1: do it without him. But we This year is different, unfortunately,

1254
01:03:54,720 --> 01:03:57,800
Speaker 1: and we just got a soldier on without there. I

1255
01:03:57,840 --> 01:04:00,880
Speaker 1: have an idea we simply boycott that Fannish sea doubles

1256
01:04:02,320 --> 01:04:04,480
Speaker 1: I do. Last year, one of my favorite subplots was

1257
01:04:04,520 --> 01:04:07,960
Speaker 1: how much you despise the Fantasy Extravaganza, including the ramp

1258
01:04:08,040 --> 01:04:10,600
Speaker 1: up and planning process. Well, I mean, you know, let's

1259
01:04:10,920 --> 01:04:13,840
Speaker 1: it's it's let's see, let's see what for what it is.

1260
01:04:13,960 --> 01:04:16,880
Speaker 1: I can't wait for it, so you know, I could

1261
01:04:16,920 --> 01:04:18,920
Speaker 1: do with or without it. If it happens, I'll do

1262
01:04:19,040 --> 01:04:21,720
Speaker 1: my best. Get on that corner, put on the kevlar vest,

1263
01:04:21,720 --> 01:04:26,600
Speaker 1: and let's have some fun more alright, Roger, that's it.

1264
01:04:26,760 --> 01:04:30,920
Speaker 1: Ban Ads is signing up four Quiet Storm, Connie Fox

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Speaker 1: the Boss and to post behind the Glass till Wednesday