WEBVTT - AFC North Preview 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:07.720 Welcome to NFL Daily, where, like Mike McCarthy, you can 0:00:07.760 --> 0:00:10.240 always go home again. I'm home in the Chris Wesleyan 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:13.280 podcast studio with my friend Jordan rod Reeg. 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:13.680 Hello. 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:17.880 This is the third division preview that we've tackled together. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:19.400 When we came up with. 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:21.639 This division preview idea, like the idea with other people 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:23.360 would be in the mix, but you're kind of just 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:25.680 hogging all the previews for yourself, and I like it 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:26.040 that way. 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:29.160 You know, I never know when you start a sentence. 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:31.080 I never know quite where you're going. If I'm gonna 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:32.800 feel bad at the end, if I'm gonna feel good 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:34.839 at the end. Thank you. I appreciate that. I like 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:35.280 being here. 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:38.120 I don't know where I'm going either, frankly, which is 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:40.720 a tough way to be when this is your profession, 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:44.519 mentioned Mike McCarthy in his return to yes his hometown 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:47.600 in Pittsburgh. They will be the last team because we 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:51.960 go alphabetical order that we mentioned in our AFC North 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:55.600 Division preview. Like I said, this is our third. We 0:00:56.360 --> 0:01:01.480 hit the Western divisions first to some contract controversy. We 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:06.880 had one very angry whoa Boston Bruins fan that was 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:10.160 like they know what they're doing. This is BS using 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:12.880 different words that you're going that you're going West first. 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:13.679 I can't believe it. 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:15.920 We're going counterclockwise. 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:21.600 Patients, We're gonna get to them all. Everyone gets literally 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:22.320 equal time. 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:24.000 They might even get better as we go. 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:26.360 But it has been a problem, I think over the 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:30.160 course of history, the East Coast bias that in terms 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:33.880 of division previews and whatnot across all sports and podcasts, 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:36.280 East always goes first. We're trying to we're trying to 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:38.240 shake that up. West Coast best Coast. 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:42.640 Too long has my life been dictated by the five 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:46.240 a m. Eastern time? There you go, Adam Schefter news break, 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:47.559 no more, no more. 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:50.640 Although we're going north next, none that. It doesn't make 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:51.040 any sense. 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:52.360 Yeah, we're going counterclockwise. 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:54.920 We just wanted to do it this way. So here 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:55.520 are the rules. 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:57.400 And if you're looking for the news of the day, 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:00.080 we're breaking up our news of the day with the 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:02.520 division previews during camps, so you can find that in 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:05.040 the feed from Wednesday, and we'll obviously be updating the 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:08.640 news on Thursday as well. The format twelve minutes per team, 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:13.280 a bunch of different categories for each team, starting with 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:17.000 the Baltimore Ravens. Let's start that clock. The first category, 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:20.840 as always, Jordan, is what is bringing us joy about 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:23.680 this team? And as always you get first DIBs on that. 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:26.440 I mean, maybe they found a center. 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:29.120 Maybe Ethan Pochick. You're starting with him to check. 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:33.120 No, wait, the whole deep into the off season problem 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:35.160 solving brought me a little bit of joy. There was 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:40.359 really only one super super glaring issue to me on 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:42.880 this roster. There's a few that we are still sort 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:44.720 of a wait and see. We have to see how 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:47.480 the receiver corps shakes out behind say Flowers. We have 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:50.200 to wait and see how the pass rush maybe improves 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:53.480 with Matta Bkay coming back. This one was the hole. 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:55.480 This was the hole, right. This was the one where 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:59.359 they mixed around like Ioni Vega and maybe thinking maybe 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:01.680 he could con to a center in his rookie season. 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:04.600 They're gonna it, sounds like play him in his preferred position, 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:07.280 which I want to see. I will be watching him 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:10.600 specifically all season over at guard instead of at center. 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:12.840 And they have a center. That was a huge, huge 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:14.760 hole and they filled it and now they're ready to go. 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:17.640 They also brought into John Simpson who used to be 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:20.880 on the Ravens, so there's some familiarity. We'll get to 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:22.959 a little bit of their running game later. But yes, 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:25.880 it is exciting. These two big guards Venga Yuana, the 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:29.160 first round pick and Simpson together. What's bringing me joy 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:32.560 is yeah, the new coaches like that. It does feel 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:34.520 like a new day. The whole idea of that John 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:36.720 Harbaugh was getting stale by the end. There was some 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:39.840 reporting around that in terms of how the players were reacting. 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:41.720 I think it's just natural. 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:45.880 It's inevitable over the longest, over a long timeline, you 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:49.280 have Jesse Minter, you have Declan Doyle, and then you 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:53.840 also have Lamar Jackson showing up in the best shape 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:55.480 of his life quote unquote. 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:57.360 It's a There. 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:59.320 Are seasons like this with Lamar that you kind of 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:02.440 can see it coming. So he's been boxing a lot 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:05.440 with Zay Flowers, saying that Zay flowers his work ethic 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:07.440 was tough for him to keep up with, and he 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:10.840 really appreciated it, and he is looking good early in camp. 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:15.920 Let's listen to Kyle Hamilton talk about Lamar at the 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:16.520 start of camp. 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:19.640 From a I guess ability standpoint, you know, I feel 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:23.080 like he's he might have gotten faster somehow. I don't 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:25.720 want agent, but he's turning a certain age next year, 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:28.840 and you know it doesn't seem like that. You know, he's, uh, 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:31.640 we'll keep the age between us, what the age he's 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:34.200 going to be, but he uh, I feel like he 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:36.080 got faster. I feel like he ran today. It was 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:37.599 really fast. I don't know if you guys saw that, 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:40.320 but maybe that's just how he always runs. But he's 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:43.440 he's just like our season. I feel like he's going 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:45.320 to get better throughout the whole year, and the more 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:47.840 comfortable he gets and what they've got going on, which 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:49.400 I have a ton of faith in. I'm talking to 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:50.800 those guys. They have a ton of faith in it. 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:52.560 So he's just gonna get that much better. 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:55.359 I actually think this is a real story because this 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:58.400 was also the story three years ago before that first 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:01.000 MVP season, when he was coming off so rough seasons. 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:02.719 It was like, oh, he kind of looks faster again. 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:05.919 He's been strucking through injuries. I'm buying it. Maybe, And 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:09.479 you know what Kyle Hamilton also talked about was how 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:11.720 he looked really comfortable with a lot of the under 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:14.520 center stuff in play action and fakes and all that 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:15.839 which is going to be part of this offense. So 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:17.640 I don't know if that's part of your scheme dream 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:21.360 that's one of our categories or not. Are you talking 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:24.039 offense at all there? That could be a transition If not, 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:25.520 I'm pretty guys, I'm. 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:27.839 Talking a little offense, but only when the things go 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:31.039 wrong category. So that's not not as positive maybe to 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:34.320 start out. But I do think that that reminds me 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:37.000 of every time that meme comes around, where it's like 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:40.440 player turns thirty, he's older than dirt, he's the most 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:43.919 sacent man alive. And then it makes the thirty plus 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:46.600 year olds and in your case, what is it forty 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:47.960 almost fifty plus year old? 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:49.279 I am forty seven. 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:52.040 Yeah, makes us, you know, just feel a little bit 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:56.320 closer to the crypt ourselves. But yeah, for me, I 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:57.960 think that it goes hand in hand. 0:05:58.040 --> 0:05:59.880 You're going crypt that you want to be put in 0:05:59.920 --> 0:06:00.400 a crypt. 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:02.880 I think that's what people are doing. I can come 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:04.160 back that way, you know. 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:06.760 Really sure they do that anywhere I don't even know. 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:08.520 I can come back and haunt you a little more 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:11.680 easily that way. I feel like Declan Doyle, I mean, 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:13.760 I know, it's like kind of obvious. We're going to 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:16.440 talk about the defense. That's to me the most important 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:19.880 thing about this team in general, but installing a new offense, 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:22.159 one that really is going to try to maximize what 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:24.920 Lamar Jackson does in his prime. Decland Doyle is the 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:29.039 youngest offensive coordinator in the NFL right now who's going 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:31.760 to be calling plays, And he's calling plays for the 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:35.240 first time. He's of the Ben Johnson system, but what 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:37.640 he's going and sort of the Sean Payton tree as well. 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:39.560 But I think he's going to probably claim Ben Johnson 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:40.839 because what he's going to do is a ton of 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:43.880 twelve personnel. It sounds like, which which is You know, 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:47.000 That's that's good because that's what the Ravens basically lived in. 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:49.440 That's how their rosters has pretty much been built. But 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:52.160 Isaiah likely is now in New York with John Harbaugh, 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:54.440 the former head coach, So they have Mark Andrews and 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:56.400 then he and he's a veteran, and they've got durham 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:59.920 smythe who's from Chicago played with under Deckland Doyle when 0:06:59.920 --> 0:07:02.040 he is in Chicago. And I think that this is 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:03.680 going to be interesting because you are going to see 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:05.760 more under center with what they like to do. You 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:07.760 are going to see more play action. When I was 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:10.920 at league meetings this spring, there was so much conversation 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:14.520 about what is a Deckland Doyle offense going to look like? 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:18.120 And how many elements of the run pass does he 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:20.280 still keep? What is the run game going to look like? 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:22.920 We know that they really preferred a two back system. 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:25.640 Ben Johnson really loved playing a two back system, So 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:27.680 what is that going to look like? You know, with 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.440 Derrick Henry and the complement of backs there, does the 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:32.400 third running back then become a little bit more of 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:34.440 a special teams player the way that it happened in 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:37.240 Chicago as well. It's all of these little tiny tweaks 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:39.880 that are going to be happening in the effort to 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:44.240 try to again maximize everything Lamar Jackson can do. But 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:47.440 then my question of things going wrong is part and 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:50.520 parcel with this a phrase you love, which is the receivers. 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:52.200 And I will talk about it in a minute because 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:54.320 I'm curious about your most important person on the team, 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:57.120 But keep a tab open on those receivers. 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:00.640 Yeah, I just want to see this run game work, 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:03.080 and if it does look they're they were a very 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:05.920 heavy run team, and I think the new offensive line 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:09.960 is fun. Poachage if he can stay healthy, shores up 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:14.760 that center spot. The getting massive guards in initially as 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:16.240 the first thing you want to do in terms of 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:19.600 your team build is very Sean Payton coded. And you 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:22.200 mentioned how Declan Doyle, the youngest OC in the league, 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:23.480 was with both those coaches. I mean he was with 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:25.600 Sean Payton for like six years, so that is a 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:27.920 huge influence. And they brought in Dwayne Ledyard, who did 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:30.240 a good job coaching the offensive line in the Lanta. 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:31.760 So to me, that's all very positive. 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:34.440 Jesse Minner, I think because of the excitement about Decklan 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:36.480 Doyle on the offense has almost been laying in. 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:37.360 The cut a little bit. 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:40.920 But twenty ninth in pressure rate last year, thirty first 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:44.200 and sacrate. These are the Baltimore Ravens, and you know 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:47.320 he's gonna bring his system, which frankly isn't that different 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:50.199 than the system they were running last year in Baltimore. 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:52.600 He's gonna have his tweaks, but he was third in 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:55.040 using dime defense last year the Ravens were second. Like 0:08:55.679 --> 0:09:00.400 they're just hoping that better players help the system oblep 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:03.040 mentor can can coach them up in a way that 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:06.880 a young DC couldn't. We've only got four minutes left already, 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:08.840 so my most important non quarterback, Trey. 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:11.280 Hendrickson is there now. 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:14.760 Remember thirty one years old, was effective before he got 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:18.240 hurt last year, has really aged incredibly well when he's 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:20.680 been on the field. But he has to be that dude, like, 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:22.960 he has to be everything that they traded for. They 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:26.280 made the decision to basically pick him over Max Crosby 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:28.559 because of the injury situation, and now you've got Travis 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:29.319 Jones next to him. 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:31.200 Madam Buik, you mentioned his next toom. 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.160 But it's pretty shaky at the other edge spot, and 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:34.679 so he's got to make it happen. He's just got 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:36.199 to kind of be the guy that we think he's 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:37.640 going to be, but I don't always assume that. 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:39.880 Yeah, with thirty one year old dead dressers. 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:42.720 And the injury history with him too, that's obviously huge. 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:45.319 Mike Green had a really bad rookie season and not 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:47.200 the one that they hoped from him in terms of 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:49.120 his production on the field, so that he has to 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:51.960 take a step forward to Jesse Minter loves to play 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:54.920 in light boxes. This is my scheme dream. It's all 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:55.960 about Jesse Mitte. 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:58.520 I thought we already did that. You were just talking off. 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:01.200 I'm I'm so I most important. I was going in order. 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:03.800 You told me to go in order, most important on quarterback. 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:06.320 My scheme dream is all about Jesse Minter. 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:08.360 I go where the emotion. 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:11.280 Well, you're steering Greg, so maybe try to bring me along. 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:14.560 I asked you. Yes, I was just like in there 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:15.240 pop around. 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:19.800 He has Anthony Weaver as his defensive coordinator, which is 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:21.880 I think great. I think that's a great pairing because 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:23.880 both of those coaches. What they do have in common 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:27.400 is the fact that they've played this Mike McDonald sort 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:29.600 of style of system, but with a lot of Vic 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:32.600 Fangio elements as well. And so this is like a 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:37.120 light box front, right, So they're playing with again, they're 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:40.079 spread out along their front and there's a either one 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:43.000 less player or two less players along their front, depending 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:44.480 on the concept than you would see in like a 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:47.240 four to three for example. And they also like to 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:50.600 play like a move player zone behind it. And one 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:52.800 of these like wrinkles that I think we're going to 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:55.240 see because he helped build out that package for for 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:57.559 Derwin James when he did it with the Chargers. You're 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:00.440 going to see perhaps either Kyle Hamilton, who can play 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:03.199 anywhere as we know, as long as the players around 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:06.560 him step up to the challenge, or you know, some 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:09.439 of the depth players or some of the extra dbs 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:11.599 that they have there that they brought in this offseason. 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.560 I think that there's real potential here for them to 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:19.280 really play that coverage dictates front to help their front, 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:21.600 at least in the short term, because they really like 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:23.440 to try to almost force you to run like a 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:27.199 either right downhill and chip away, and not many teams 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:30.000 can do that efficiently, or they want to try to 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:32.360 like spread you into a wider make you try to 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:34.040 think you can run like a wider zone, and that's 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:36.600 when the safety comes down and mitigates all of that, 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:38.720 and then all of that together will help set up 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:40.400 what the pass rush wants to do. So I think 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:42.360 that's what they're sort of banking on, is that his 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:46.199 system will elevate the coverage first and foremost and all 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:48.439 the different things that they want to do there, and 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:50.559 then that helps set up the rush into maybe a 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:52.240 more advantageous situation. 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:55.679 Yeah, I think things go wrong there if like, look, 0:11:55.720 --> 0:12:00.240 you're County on a back end where Kyle Hamilton's to 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:03.840 fix everything. Yeah, the last couple of seasons, and so 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:06.480 to me, it's more about players not plays. Nate Wiggins 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:09.000 is an improving young player. Marlon Humphrey was not great 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:11.280 last year. Malachi Starks. I think they were maybe a 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:14.680 little disappointed about Rokwan Smith was not Roquan Smith. So 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:16.640 we're talking about a lot of defensive players and then 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:18.520 the return of mat of Weekend who just need to 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:20.440 play better. 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:24.160 Jalen Hawkins is a sort of an under the radar 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:26.640 edition there that I think he could play that move 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:29.040 role as well in the Patriots from the Patriots and 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:31.079 I think that he will be quietly one of the 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:33.800 players to make an impact for them in a versatile way. 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:38.200 And you mentioned, yeah the receiver depth after Ze Flowers. 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:39.760 As we wrap up, he. 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:42.560 Had the second highest target share in the NFL last year, 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:44.440 but he had one of the top five target shares 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:47.040 of the last like twenty years according to FDN Fantasy. 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:50.280 Like he's up there with like Michael Thomas with the 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:52.679 old Saints teams. Like that's how bad it was behind them, 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:54.480 so they need some of those. 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:56.439 Sean Bateman, where are you at man? 0:12:56.720 --> 0:13:00.600 They drafted you know, a couple players Elijah Starat who 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:02.960 I kind of like that of Indiana. So you and 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:05.280 you let those tight ends go when you want to 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:07.480 run twelve like it's it's not a lot, it's not 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:10.960 enough weapons around Lamar ceiling floor is how we wrap 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:11.959 up each team. 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:14.280 Yeah, it's hard for me to talk. So look at 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:16.520 this offensive line, which still question it's center obviously, but 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:18.520 I think the offensive line got better and is going 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:21.840 to be better this year. And I'm really high on 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:25.320 Jesse Minter, on Decklan Doyle, on Anthony Weaver being there 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:29.320 as well, I'm like sky high on Lamar. I it's 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:31.920 hard for me to not say this is a deep 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:35.800 playoff team and we'll see what happens after that if 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:38.000 they can play a little bit more matchup friendly football, 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:41.560 and then their floor is exactly what we just saw, 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:43.920 you know, get to the playoffs and. 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:45.760 Not even last year though, you know. 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:48.520 Well yeah, I mean exactly like just be medium, be injured. 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:51.880 I'm trying not to factor injury injuries in there, and 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:53.719 just like kind of peter out. 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:55.839 The schedule is very favorable. 0:13:55.960 --> 0:14:00.720 People are confused, why are the Ravens the slight favorites? 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:03.040 All these teams are pretty close, but in terms of 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:06.240 best odds to make the Super Bowl right now in Vegas, 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:08.640 the Ravens are actually the favorites and they come out 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:11.080 really well. So to the Bengals and a lot of 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:14.960 these advanced metrics kind of projecting system because on paper, 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:17.920 the schedule looks pretty favorable. You get the Browns twice, 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:19.880 and you get the AFC South and you get the 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:23.280 NFC South most importantly, so to me, the floor this 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:27.680 team should be, yeah, making the playoffs seventh and or 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:29.880 else it's a disaster. And you know, I'm into Onoman's 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:34.120 first play of training camp, twenty yard downfield strike to 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:34.880 Jay Jones. 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:35.880 Super Bowl. 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:40.040 Maybe let's go to the Bengals. It's a great omen 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:42.400 just just a seed. I think it'll be good. 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:44.360 Lo Mari Year say Jones was out there. 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:46.280 I said, Jay Jones, didn't I. 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:51.320 Zay Flowers grag, you're steering man, your steedt. 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:54.360 Zay Flowers the Bengals, what's get bringing us? Joy? 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:57.280 I can't believe how much optimism there is about the 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:00.680 Cincinnati Bengals coming off a six win team. I think 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:04.440 it's born out from the Dexter Lawrence trade and the 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:06.360 fact that Joe Burrow has talked about this is the 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:09.200 best Bengals team that we've ever had, and they did 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:13.080 very on Bengals theme on Bengals things this offseason in 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:16.080 terms of signing Boy Mafe and bringing in Dexter Lawrence, 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:20.080 and it does kind of feel like, you know, if 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:24.880 not now, then when for Burrow, Chase Higgins, certainly Zach Taylor, 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:29.200 but even that threesome. So it's like, let's not just 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:32.000 be good on offense and have that record where we're 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:34.480 have a losing record where we score thirty points but 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:36.320 we lose when we blame it on the defense. Let's 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:38.720 just let's be great. Let's be the best offense in 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:41.920 the league. Let's not leave anything to chance, like do it. 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:42.640 This is the year. 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.520 I love that the thing that's bringing me joy. I 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:48.120 think this probably applies to the other three starting quarterbacks 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:51.200 in this division overall, but the fact that they're imagining 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:54.320 their reactions is just so joyful. When they don't, they 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:56.680 realize they don't have to, you know, be against Miles 0:15:56.680 --> 0:16:00.120 Garrett anymore, and when that actually sinks in when a 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:02.920 starting those games or planning for those games, and what 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:05.480 that sort of relief is going to feel like. But really, 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:07.920 what it is to me is I never really got 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:10.040 into the show's succession because I don't like TV shows 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:13.920 where I hate every character. But this Bengals team is 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:16.120 going to give me like a real life drama on 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:20.040 plot right, because the front office has put themselves in 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:22.680 a position where it cannot possibly be their fault if 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:25.160 things go wrong. This is all going to be on 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:28.040 the coaching staff. And they got the quarterback everything he 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:32.320 ever wanted, and they actually took big swings, which brought 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:34.280 me a lot of joy to see them actually swinging 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:37.360 hard for different things and taking risks and trading top 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:39.440 picks for a top player that they think is at 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:42.920 a premier position for them and a need in Dexter Lawrence. 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:46.000 They swung hard, the front office did. And so this 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:48.440 is a separation. Now, I told you last year you're 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:50.880 going to see when all of it starts. It starts 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:53.720 right here. This is the split. We did everything, we 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:56.320 did our jobs, we did everything. Now it's on you. 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:58.000 If you don't got it, you're gone. 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:01.480 Also, Joe Burrow potentially want to be gone if things 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:04.800 go poorly, like can you keep Higgins and Chase together forever? 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:07.800 I wouldn't be surprised if Duke Tobin, who's the quasi 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:09.959 general manager, has gone as well if it went poorly. 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:11.680 But I think it's set up to too well. 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:13.680 High ceiling, really high ceiling. 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:16.959 Really high ceiling team. And yeah, I will always defend 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:19.960 Kendall Roy. Definitely Shive Roy. I mean to me, there's 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:23.720 a lot of likable characters Tom I like them. You know, 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:27.560 we all have a fault. That's my succession review. Most 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:31.120 important non quarterback, I'll go Dexter Lawrence. We talked about 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:33.560 him a lot when he got traded, and it's similar 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:36.920 to how I talked about Trade Hendrickson with the Ravens. 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:40.040 He just has to be closer to where he was 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:41.800 a couple of years ago before the injury than he 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:44.639 was last year. And that's real pass rush juice. Because 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:48.280 this team does not have a lot next to him. 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:50.080 You can say, okay, you brought Boie Mafi. I like 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:53.000 boy Mafi. Boy Mafi worked well as one piece out 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:55.879 of six pretty effective US rushers, and he's gonna be 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:59.040 that for them. But those are your two main guys. 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:03.160