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

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Speaker 1: My name is Dan NS and I am joined by

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Speaker 1: room filled with some heroes. Mark Sessler, Patrick claibann he

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Speaker 1: Monday show. No Case of the mondays here right, Mark,

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Speaker 1: We'll actually no because your hand Mark, it's get you

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Speaker 1: last week. Thank you Tom Brady. Uh check out the

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Speaker 1: talented satellite back. Part of the reason, too, is these

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Speaker 1: guys have all been there. The offensive line is is back.

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Speaker 1: Hogan now has some experience there, like two of those

427
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Speaker 1: running backs have been in their ground. It's like the

428
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Speaker 1: continuity that McDaniels has and Brady has been in the

429
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Speaker 1: entire same system the entire time. Well, they're basically using

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Speaker 1: the Bills as a farm team too, which is annoying

431
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Speaker 1: if you're from Buffalo. A lot of things to be

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Speaker 1: admired about if you're in Buffalore. Three to one, all right,

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Speaker 1: I'll go with the Dolphins. Let's talk a little Dolphins here.

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Speaker 1: And you know, all the focuses on Jay Cutler in

435
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Speaker 1: this offseason or in the summer, and right rightfully, So

436
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Speaker 1: that's a that's a big addition following a devastating injury

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Speaker 1: to your starting quarterback. But I'm gonna assume Jay Cutler

438
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Speaker 1: is gonna be Jay Cutler, all right, and nothing in

439
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Speaker 1: this preseason has told me otherwise. He's gonna make plays,

440
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Speaker 1: he's gonna make mistakes, he's gonna be Jay. He's probably

441
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Speaker 1: gonna be maybe a little better or a little worse

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Speaker 1: than Ryan Tannehill. So to two points, I want to

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Speaker 1: make number one. The Dolphins have the Bills and the

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Speaker 1: Jets four times, and the Patriots do too, but the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins do too. So this idea of the Dolphins maybe

446
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Speaker 1: falling back now that they lost their quarterback, you're gonn

447
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Speaker 1: to have two teams in your division in the midst

448
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Speaker 1: of a major rebuild. Uh So I think that that's

449
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Speaker 1: gonna really obviously help them when if they take care

450
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Speaker 1: of business, that's four wins right off the bat. Oh

451
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Speaker 1: my goodness. You gotta love the Dolphins for that reason alone.

452
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Speaker 1: But here's the reason not to love the Dolphins. I

453
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Speaker 1: don't know if you guys caught their last preseason game.

454
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Speaker 1: They got shredded on defense. They gave up twenty eight

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Speaker 1: points in the first half, and that's what most of

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Speaker 1: their defensive starters playing in the game. Uh. And this

457
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Speaker 1: is the same team that was twenty ninth overall in

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Speaker 1: yards allowed last season. Uh. They've been bad throughout the

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Speaker 1: preseason so far. I don't want to put too much

460
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Speaker 1: into it, but bad defense last year, not looking good

461
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Speaker 1: this year. Jay Cutler is there, but if they can't

462
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Speaker 1: get stops on defense, this is gonna be a problem.

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Speaker 1: How worried are we about their d mark? Well, I

464
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Speaker 1: mean it was it was an overt concerned last year.

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Speaker 1: The best case scenario for Miami is you almost take

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Speaker 1: a Cowboys type approach where Jay Cutler I would say,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he's ever been on a team

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Speaker 1: with more weapons around him. I mean, he's got a

469
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Speaker 1: great trio of wide receivers, and if you're the Dolphins,

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Speaker 1: you use J G I and you eat up the

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Speaker 1: clock that you want to control the ground game, the

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Speaker 1: possessions and keep your defense off the field as much

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Speaker 1: as you can. J J I made it work last

474
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Speaker 1: year and the spots that he played in, and so

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Speaker 1: you wonder, obviously Maryan Tamihill is it doesn't bring the

476
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Speaker 1: same opportunities that Jay Cutler does. So it's it's gonna

477
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Speaker 1: be a totally different looking offense. But like you said, Dan,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna get Jay Cutler. I don't know what for

479
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Speaker 1: this team. Wins not any different. I think they were

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Speaker 1: very fortunate to get the amount of wins. They want

481
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Speaker 1: a lot of close games last year, they would do

482
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Speaker 1: very well to maintain a ten win type of pace,

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Speaker 1: Like I don't really see to be there at eight

484
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Speaker 1: or nine win type of team outside of that Bill's

485
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Speaker 1: Jets thing though their schedule has some brutal turns. They

486
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Speaker 1: I mean they got a playoff team type schedule. I

487
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Speaker 1: mean they have Andre Branch, Cameron Wake, William Hayes, the

488
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Speaker 1: first round pick in Charles Harris as their past that

489
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Speaker 1: that's pretty good. But right behind that, you're you brought in, uh,

490
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Speaker 1: some linebackers. We'll see if Lawrence Timmins works out. You

491
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Speaker 1: definitely have questions the secondary, Like you're right, the defense

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Speaker 1: to me worries, Yeah, but they made it work last year.

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Speaker 1: Maybe they'll make it work. It seems doable. Moving on,

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Speaker 1: you just talked about the Jets. I have to ask

495
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Speaker 1: with the Buffalo Bills if they are a legitimate threat

496
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Speaker 1: to New York's at this point not secret planned to

497
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Speaker 1: say basically chase the number one draft pick. Because I

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Speaker 1: look at a roster that we even in the last

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks. You see how how much they're turning

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Speaker 1: this roster, how differently they want the team's identity to

501
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Speaker 1: look than whatever they inherited from Rex Ryan. I see

502
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Speaker 1: a quarterback that probably is in his last year starting

503
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Speaker 1: for them, may not even finish the year as a

504
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Speaker 1: starter for them. I see Lashawn McCoy, who could be

505
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Speaker 1: traded by Halloween. Is this a team? It could this

506
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Speaker 1: be the worst team in the a f c M.

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Speaker 1: The way they're off there there that offense every preseason,

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Speaker 1: there's one offense where you heard all off season was

509
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Speaker 1: a dis after in practice, and then they get to

510
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:04,200
Speaker 1: the preseason they just can't make a first down and

511
00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:06,960
Speaker 1: it it actually does carry over and you worry about it.

512
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Speaker 1: And they are that offense this year and we didn't

513
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Speaker 1: even mention Tyrod Taylor had a concussion. I started to wonder,

514
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Speaker 1: and Bills fans are crazy. They want to start Nathan Peterman.

515
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Speaker 1: They want to start this fifth round pick who's had

516
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Speaker 1: a couple of flashes, but it's not like he's lighting

517
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Speaker 1: it up in the preseason. This concussion is very weird

518
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Speaker 1: timing wise, Like could Peterman start Week one? I thought

519
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Speaker 1: maybe they could trade Tyrod Taylor. I was starting to

520
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Speaker 1: think they might just dump him, but they can if

521
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Speaker 1: he's hurt. You gotta feel for Bills fans. They're part

522
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Speaker 1: of the sad brotherhood that they've just missed the playoffs

523
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Speaker 1: for sixteen straight years and now they're going to go

524
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Speaker 1: into a painful rebuild. Uh and yeah, I mean Reggie

525
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Speaker 1: Ragland was traded today's second round pick. Uh two year

526
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Speaker 1: or last year? Never even played it down with this

527
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Speaker 1: team blood his knee and was being used sparingly, was

528
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Speaker 1: on the roster bubble bubble, so he was sent to

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Speaker 1: k C Mark, I believe you have the scoopage on

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Speaker 1: that one, uh last month. Oh yes, that's right. You

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Speaker 1: put it in trades, you see, and well you know,

532
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Speaker 1: and it was like it was like we didn't even

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Speaker 1: know how to make this story a headline. It was

534
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:09,639
Speaker 1: like potential logical trades that couldn't make sense for some teams,

535
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Speaker 1: and it was, you know, somewhat of a laughing stock.

536
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Speaker 1: But then I nailed it. Yeah, so what do you

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Speaker 1: think about that Navy Brandon being there? GM was reading

538
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Speaker 1: and uh, there you go, that's a pretty good idea. No, no,

539
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Speaker 1: you would not. Then you would not want them to be,

540
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:25,800
Speaker 1: you know, sourcing their team plans off of like a

541
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Speaker 1: blogger on NFL dot com. They can't do that when

542
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Speaker 1: they've got a giant board and said things Doug Waley

543
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:33,879
Speaker 1: did and they're just marking off I mean, I mean,

544
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Speaker 1: for for an organization that had so much patience a

545
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Speaker 1: Doug Walley, I mean, now they're not making any any

546
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Speaker 1: bones about it. They're just stripping his legacy completely. It

547
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:46,639
Speaker 1: is a defensive coach with some talent on defense, and

548
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:48,720
Speaker 1: their defense is look great in the preseason. It's worth

549
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 1: mentioning and that they have some players. Marcel Darius got

550
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:54,800
Speaker 1: sent home over the weekend, but he's there still. Jerry

551
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:57,520
Speaker 1: Hughes had a great preseason. They love their rookie cornerback

552
00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 1: got Avius White like they could be a You have

553
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Speaker 1: to hope that. The hope is that the ownership, which

554
00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 1: is said has been a lot of tumult own under

555
00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:06,639
Speaker 1: that ownership group in Buffalo that they said to the

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Speaker 1: coach and GM, we realize it's gonna get worse. You

557
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Speaker 1: have a chance. You have a chance. You're not gonna

558
00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:12,440
Speaker 1: pull the plug on you guys in two seasons. Don't

559
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 1: undermine tyre r. Please to answer your question, I don't

560
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:17,560
Speaker 1: think they're the worst team in the NFC, but their

561
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Speaker 1: bottom Speaking of go hey, let's talk about the Jets.

562
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Speaker 1: Um So, the last time the Jets won five games,

563
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 1: it was back in nineteen sixty five. They were in

564
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Speaker 1: the a f L. Do you guys know what happened

565
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:32,560
Speaker 1: the year after that? Uh? Lass time they won five games.

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Speaker 1: They won the Super Bowl the next year, No, they

567
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Speaker 1: won six games. Keep yeah, keep hope alive. No. I

568
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 1: think they drafted Joe Namath around then, didn't they. Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Sometimes around the things things got good. There's hope. There's hope.

570
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Speaker 1: Shout out to dance Dad. There's there's good news. Uh

571
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Speaker 1: there the battle for the Snoopy Trophy, which I found

572
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:56,080
Speaker 1: out was an actual trophy. Bro It's a real thing.

573
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Speaker 1: Um So Hackenburg looked horrible. Bryce Petty came in and

574
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:02,960
Speaker 1: led this miraculous comeback. So then of course Bryce Petty

575
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Speaker 1: gets hurt. He's gonna be out for four weeks. Now

576
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:08,240
Speaker 1: he'll be okay, Let'll be okay. Heckenburga comes back in

577
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:12,600
Speaker 1: and then they ultimately lose. But so now we get

578
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Speaker 1: Josh McCown. And when I think about this Jets team,

579
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Speaker 1: and as Mark intimated the efforts to obtain the number

580
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Speaker 1: one overall pick, I think of a fictional baseball team

581
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Speaker 1: that the ownership did not want them to win, but

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Speaker 1: they rallied around an aging veteran. Josh McCown is Jake Taylor,

583
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Speaker 1: and he's gonna come in bomber moment in the locker

584
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Speaker 1: room and says, nothing left to do now but win

585
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Speaker 1: the whole thing. Wow, there you go. So you're saying

586
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Speaker 1: that Jash mccount is gonna channel Tom Berenger in a

587
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 1: big spot. Yes, not like Berenger, though, there's at least

588
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Speaker 1: a little part of Dan that suddenly just woke up

589
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 1: and was like, you never know, Well, you never know,

590
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 1: you never know, you never know. I know. In fact,

591
00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 1: the the Bryce Petty did light it up against the Giants,

592
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:02,520
Speaker 1: the third and fourth stringers. That was nice to see

593
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 1: through three touchdown passes and then of course Bryce Petty

594
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:08,760
Speaker 1: always gets hurt, he gets rolled up on. But that's

595
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:10,800
Speaker 1: just a minor spring. I think he even practiced today,

596
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:13,720
Speaker 1: so he should be ready for week one. Um, and

597
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:17,040
Speaker 1: he is going to I think get uh the most

598
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:19,360
Speaker 1: starts on this team. That's what I think. That's how

599
00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:22,080
Speaker 1: things have changed now. I think McCown was named starter

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Speaker 1: today obviously, Christian Hackenburg is I think after another dead

601
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Speaker 1: on arrival performance, I think his window is shut. You

602
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 1: don't need to evaluate him again. Yeah, I think I

603
00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 1: think that's the way they this Thursday. I mean, he'll

604
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Speaker 1: play Thursday again. I think the writings on the wall though.

605
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 1: That's just the way it seems to me. And Bol

606
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:44,000
Speaker 1: said something on Monday praising Petty which seemed to be

607
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:46,440
Speaker 1: sending a message that he's kind of setting the table

608
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Speaker 1: here because you know, h McCown is not going to

609
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Speaker 1: play more than eight games this year. I think Hackenburg's done.

610
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Speaker 1: I think Hackenburg, if he was drafted where Petty was drafted,

611
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:59,040
Speaker 1: would not make this team. And watching that game, this

612
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:04,520
Speaker 1: wasn't like the normal developmental bumps. This is watching quarterback

613
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:07,040
Speaker 1: play that you just don't normally see in the NFL

614
00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:10,520
Speaker 1: because the players are just better, you know, Like he's

615
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 1: so overwhelmed that I wouldn't shock me if they just

616
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Speaker 1: cut him, if they just decide, let's release him right now,

617
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Speaker 1: if mccag can have the moving on to the a

618
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Speaker 1: f C North. A lot of negativity around the old

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Speaker 1: Ravens this offseason, well, a lot of injuries and we've

620
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Speaker 1: been talking about no one's had any worse sluck. But

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Speaker 1: I think this Ravens team is sneaky confident because they

622
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Speaker 1: have a bunch of young defensive players that I think

623
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Speaker 1: not a lot of big names. Taias Bowser, a rookie,

624
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Speaker 1: Brent Earth, Uh Matthew, Judean, Uh, Michael Pierce, all these

625
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,240
Speaker 1: guys that are are kind of no names, and there's

626
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:55,600
Speaker 1: other the stars are still there. They're in the secondary

627
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 1: and they got thrilled Sucks. All these guys when you

628
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Speaker 1: add them all up, there suddenly very young and they

629
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 1: kind of came up together and they're fast. And I

630
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Speaker 1: think we're gonna be looking at some old early two

631
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Speaker 1: thousands Ravens style game, not that they're the two thousands

632
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 1: raven defense, but we're gonna be seeing some twelve to

633
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Speaker 1: nine ugly games that remind you of Kyle Bowler and

634
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Speaker 1: that the Ravens could still be pretty good winning games

635
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 1: like that, like the old Ravens. Shot out Kyle Bowler,

636
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Speaker 1: Big Bowler, shout out in the big spot. Hey, justin

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Speaker 1: Tucks still in the building. And I believe I think

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Speaker 1: this is a team that can win nine or ten

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Speaker 1: games for sure. Well I feel that way about the

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Speaker 1: Ravens every year because they've they've had a few, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, total stink job regular seasons, but that was

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Speaker 1: typically tied to injuries. You have to look at that

643
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Speaker 1: offense though it's it's it's possible, but that we're in

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Speaker 1: a different NFL than than year two thousand two. The

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00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:49,720
Speaker 1: league has vastly changed. And this formula where Tucker is

646
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Speaker 1: gonna hit five field goals a game and they're gonna

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Speaker 1: win fifteen thirteen, A lot has to happen for that

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Speaker 1: kind of thing to play out, Like if Flacco's back,

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Speaker 1: injury becomes an extenuating thing that goes on. And it

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Speaker 1: hasn't practiced, big problems in Baltimore. I mean, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: would be you main only be giving up twenty points

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Speaker 1: a game, nineteen points a game, but how are you

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Speaker 1: going to score them? And then the offense wasn't exactly

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00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:12,600
Speaker 1: humming with Joe Flacco last year, right, Nope. And he

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Speaker 1: said this weekend Harbough that Flacco would definitely be back,

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Speaker 1: But it's getting close, like a week and half away.

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Speaker 1: He hasn't practiced foot I don't trust any I kind

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Speaker 1: of stopped listening to them talk about the Flacco in

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Speaker 1: general by the waits Perriman had who I was excited

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Speaker 1: about this season. I don't know why he hasn't practiced

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Speaker 1: in a month either, So that they're they're pretty thin.

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Speaker 1: Ryan Mallett continues to confound me that they have not

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Speaker 1: gone out and gotten another quarterback. Are you hinting at

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Speaker 1: a certain quarterback that they haven't got out and got

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Speaker 1: Colin Kaepernick. Yeah, that would be the one, because to

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Speaker 1: the point where they talked to him and stuff, you

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Speaker 1: think they really sounded it really sounded like the coaching

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Speaker 1: staff and possibly the front office wanted him. It's gross

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Speaker 1: negligence if this turns into a situation where Ryan Mallett

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Speaker 1: starts through September and they decided to just take a

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Speaker 1: chance that Joe Flacco's back was going to get clearly

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Speaker 1: they thought would be better by now, even if they

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Speaker 1: haven't said that. But if Malad ends up starting multiple games, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you almost give yourself no chance to win. You play

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Speaker 1: the Bengals, Browns and Steelers in the first month, and

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Speaker 1: if you don't have, if you don't have, and it

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00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:16,480
Speaker 1: could be so frustrating because of Jimmy Smith and Eric

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Speaker 1: Weddle and Tony Jefferson, because they're gonna be so good

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Speaker 1: and yet they still might not be able to get wins.

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Speaker 1: Don't say anything. Doesn't know how to build an offense, right, Well,

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Speaker 1: he didn't. He didn't go out and personally injure the

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Speaker 1: twelve players they've lost in the preseason. The Pittsburgh Steelers. Okay,

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00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 1: so the Steelers are really there's there's slow playing their

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Speaker 1: their opponents on this preseason Schales, you haven't seen anything.

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Speaker 1: Big Ben's rarely played a lot of dinkin Doug stuff,

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Speaker 1: and they're mostly recent preseason game. Forgot about that though.

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Speaker 1: When the lights go up, you're gonna have left bell.

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Speaker 1: Who's gonna report in a couple of days. Uh Martavis

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Speaker 1: Bryant rejoining Antonio Brown on the outside. I have no

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Speaker 1: reason to think that Martavis won't be an immediate playmaker there.

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Speaker 1: Uh So my question is who's gonna stop this team

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Speaker 1: in a healthy stay eight from putting up thirty points

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Speaker 1: a game? And we were were bullish about the steam before.

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Speaker 1: Bryan's has spentioned last year. Now with all the pieces intact,

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Speaker 1: who's gonna stop them? How about this? Nobody until, like

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Speaker 1: every other season, Pittsburgh finds itself in the divisional game

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Speaker 1: of the a f C playoffs and they stopped themselves.

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Speaker 1: I don't. I think we've been asking this question about

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Speaker 1: the Steelers relevantly for years. It's like who who outside

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Speaker 1: of Pittsburgh is their worst? I guess my point is,

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Speaker 1: leave Bell seems to always get hurt at the worst time.

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Speaker 1: Bryant wasn't there at all. I'm just from let's say

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Speaker 1: you're an apt optimistic Steelers fans saying, Okay, all the

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Speaker 1: pieces are there. What if these guys do stay on

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Speaker 1: the field. This is this is the season the Tomlin

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Speaker 1: has turned it over, turned the defense over from le

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Speaker 1: Beau to Keith Butler, and they have a young defense

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Speaker 1: that I think is primed like this is kind of

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Speaker 1: Tomlin's defense. You're not gonna get left Bell, Antonio Brown,

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Speaker 1: Roethlisberger and Briant all in their primes together all at once.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, if you know, we're not sure if

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Speaker 1: Big Ben still his prime right now. He's got to

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Speaker 1: show that X don't have that mid season swoon where

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Speaker 1: you lose to the Browns and the and the Bills

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Speaker 1: back to back in weeks five and six. We see

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Speaker 1: these guys and we see them individually, and the idea

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Speaker 1: is once they're all there together, then suddenly there's going

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Speaker 1: to be all the points are going to happen at

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Speaker 1: the same time. But the issue is that there's only

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Speaker 1: one football and a lot of times Antonio Brown was

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Speaker 1: getting all those balls because he was really the only option,

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Speaker 1: and so I'm not exactly sure it leads to good

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Speaker 1: defensive line, though that can make up for a lot.

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Speaker 1: I mean that can n this is the goal and

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Speaker 1: then getting at mark your point, I think this is

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Speaker 1: the goal of stairs. You cannot you can't control injuries,

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Speaker 1: but you you cannot go into one of these mid

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Speaker 1: season funks which takes you into the spot where you

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Speaker 1: end up ten and six, eleven and five. You need

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Speaker 1: to play up to your potential and so when you

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Speaker 1: get to that divisional playoff game, it's in your building.

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Speaker 1: They cannot go to Foxborough again because we've seen the script.

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Speaker 1: You need to find out a way and find a

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Speaker 1: way to have a better record than the Patriots in

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Speaker 1: the regular season. Otherwise I feel like you're gonna go

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Speaker 1: down the same road again when the when the lights

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Speaker 1: are on in January. I I really think that even

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Speaker 1: though we've made fun of Broethlisberger from the beginning for

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Speaker 1: his retirement, whispers and questions, that this potentially could be

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Speaker 1: the end Hayward to its free cesir. This is the team.

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Speaker 1: They always act like they're like we're one of the

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Speaker 1: franchises like this is the year go have one of

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Speaker 1: those Fife Cordell Stewart seasons or one Rosburger type of season.

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Speaker 1: So that's what you should have. This team can take

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Speaker 1: out the Patriots. Mark Sessler. Oh, it's how to talk

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Speaker 1: your team, all right. Well, when it comes to Cleveland

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Speaker 1: all preseason, let's talk about the quarterback situation over and

748
00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 1: over and over. The biggest difference that I've observed with

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Speaker 1: this team compared to the past literally since they have

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Speaker 1: somehow figured out how to tackle players on the opposite team.

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Speaker 1: I have never seen this before in Cleveland, and I

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Speaker 1: I do also think that not that they were game planning,

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Speaker 1: that they took this preseason very seriously. They wanted to

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Speaker 1: be where they're at three and oh and show culturally

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Speaker 1: we can start to expect to win. So maybe they

756
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Speaker 1: were doing a little more game planning on defense and

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Speaker 1: some of this is a result of that. Forget the

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Speaker 1: quarterback business. Do we believe that Cleveland's defense there is

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Speaker 1: talent here, maybe is beginning to turn a corner or

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Speaker 1: is it a mirage that gets found out in Week

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Speaker 1: one when you play Pittsburgh. It's not a mirage. I

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Speaker 1: mean Myles Garrett is a spectacular football player, and we

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Speaker 1: saw him get triple teamed at times over this past weekend. Um,

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Speaker 1: they've got guys that can make plays. Not sure how

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Speaker 1: Peppers is going to translate. He's looked good. Yeah, he

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Speaker 1: was able to get Jamis Um. So it's it's uh,

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00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 1: it's it's weird that Myles Garrett being a total beast

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Speaker 1: in the preseason, one of for what it's worth, PFF's

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Speaker 1: top rated players in the preseason that's been a little

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Speaker 1: under the radar that like, hey, this number one pick

771
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:52,759
Speaker 1: is absolutely looking like a number one pick. Maybe no

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Speaker 1: want it? You know, the same way with Clowney when

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Speaker 1: he came in with such expectations. Yeah, I think they're

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Speaker 1: more talented. They're a lot more talented this year. And

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00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:04,799
Speaker 1: you can't if you have, like Joey Bosa showed last year,

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Speaker 1: how how that could have a transformation, transformative effect on

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Speaker 1: a defense, if you have a guy that's an instant

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Speaker 1: impact guy. I wouldn't put really anything into their three

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Speaker 1: in and O record. I get the logic of it,

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Speaker 1: and also the tackling thing. Uh, that's good that they

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Speaker 1: seem fundamentally sound, but I really want to see them

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Speaker 1: win a game that matters in September, because I think

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Speaker 1: if they just win their opening game or or even

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Speaker 1: split those first two games, all that stuff gets washed open.

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Speaker 1: The game is Pittsburgh, and we just announced them as

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Speaker 1: the team that can have a theory that Greg Williams

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Speaker 1: stick works best. Early in his tenure. I believe they

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Speaker 1: might have won the super Bowl in his first season

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Speaker 1: in New Orleans, especially with like a young team who

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00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:46,720
Speaker 1: kind of buys what he's in, is a little scared

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Speaker 1: of him, you know what I'm saying. So I think

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00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:51,440
Speaker 1: that's the time when Greg Williams message. So Cleveland's window

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00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:54,359
Speaker 1: begins now. Right now, we haven't even mentioned de Shaun

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00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 1: Kaiser is the week one starter, and you are buy

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Speaker 1: an incessler right now. You said don't talk about the quarterback,

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00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:01,200
Speaker 1: but give me a break. I am buying in. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think that you know number one, this is the

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Speaker 1: guy you have to evaluate before next year's draft. And

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Speaker 1: and it's why waste time on brock Oswiler. That never

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Speaker 1: felt right to make. You said that this team is

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Speaker 1: gonna be A and A on your Twitter. I could see,

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Speaker 1: I can I could see him going Nate Nate the

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Speaker 1: I mean, that would be huge human Browns just to

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Speaker 1: get there. And it was a anti Browns thing to

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Speaker 1: do to to not go with brock Os Widler. And

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Speaker 1: that's another positive sign of things are a little different

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Speaker 1: right now. It looks like a real quarter. Greg the

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Speaker 1: buzzer sounded Screw the Bengals. Screw the Bengals. The headline

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Speaker 1: for the Bengals discussion. By the way, Claiman continuing to

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Speaker 1: make his power playing Chris westling seat wants to tuck

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati had Patrick um and into west of his Perhaps, Uh,

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Speaker 1: they had real problems on the opposive line last year.

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Speaker 1: So Andrew Worth was spectacular, leaves to go to l

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Speaker 1: A and Kevin Zeisler goes to the Browns, And so

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Speaker 1: what do they do? They they're they're going with the

816
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Speaker 1: rest of the guys that they drafted in the past,

817
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Speaker 1: and we don't really know a lot about the guys

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Speaker 1: that are gonna play on the offensive line. And that's

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00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:09,440
Speaker 1: a real question. Uh, John Ross comes in, Joe Mixon.

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Speaker 1: You think a J. Green is gonna be healthy. But

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Speaker 1: if Andy Dalton doesn't have time to get the ball

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Speaker 1: deep to John Ross or to a J. Green, what's

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Speaker 1: it gonna be, what's the future going to be for

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Speaker 1: not just the team, But at the end of this,

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00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:26,880
Speaker 1: does Marvin Lewis decide, you know, this has been fun guys, um,

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Speaker 1: I'm done with this? And does the team move on

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Speaker 1: from Andy Dalton? There's a lot of questions uh to

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Speaker 1: be determined about the Bengals long term from this season.

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Speaker 1: Dalton was not protected well last year when they did

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Speaker 1: have those guys on the line. I mean he he was,

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Speaker 1: He was battered around and the sack count was ridiculous,

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Speaker 1: and son, you lose him, I think, you know, we

833
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Speaker 1: spent a lot of the offseason talking about that line.

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Speaker 1: What is hopeful to me and why I think that

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Speaker 1: you could prevent all this uh turnover, is that what

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Speaker 1: they've did, what they've added on offense makes them a

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Speaker 1: completely different cre Asian than what they were in the past.

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Speaker 1: I mean mixing and if Ross pays off, but Mixing

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Speaker 1: to me looks like he is going to be a

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Speaker 1: fantastic How about sixteen games of Tyler Eiffort, right, the connections, Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna stay healthy. But the connection that Dalton had,

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Speaker 1: I thought that that was the main difference in terms

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00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:21,120
Speaker 1: of making Andy Dalton a really good quarterback two years

844
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 1: ago is that he formed this deadly red zone threat

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Speaker 1: with Eiffort. I think he had something like thirteen touchdowns

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Speaker 1: before Dalton went down. And if you get healthy A J. Green,

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Speaker 1: I feel like I really do like the Bengals. I'm

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00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:34,480
Speaker 1: not an offensive line expert. I don't know how that

849
00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:37,279
Speaker 1: unit's gonna look when Week one starts, but if they

850
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:39,600
Speaker 1: are just proficient, as long as they are not a

851
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:42,920
Speaker 1: major liability, I think that this team could threaten in

852
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:45,719
Speaker 1: that division. I think like eleven win season and I

853
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:47,440
Speaker 1: think they're a playoff team. I'm with you. I think

854
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 1: they're a playoff team and trusting those tackles to rise up.

855
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:52,759
Speaker 1: We'll see if it works. But that's what the Bengals do.

856
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 1: Football Outsiders had a great article about them that they

857
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:59,040
Speaker 1: have more of their own homegrown players on their team

858
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:01,080
Speaker 1: than any team in the NFL. That's what they do.

859
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:03,160
Speaker 1: They draft their players, they keep it. They're kind of

860
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 1: zigging while the rest of the NFL is zagging in

861
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 1: terms of free agency. They truly are a draft and

862
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 1: developed team. Their secondary they've got first rounders barely even

863
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 1: played for them. Darkus Denard and William Jackson is now

864
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:18,800
Speaker 1: coming up. I think the Perfect injury or the suspension

865
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:21,719
Speaker 1: really really hurts them. He's kind of the centerpiece, and

866
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:23,800
Speaker 1: if West was here, he would want me to mention

867
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:26,680
Speaker 1: that Perfect deserves it because he's the dirtiest player in

868
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:31,239
Speaker 1: NFL history. According to all Right, halfway through the game,

869
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:33,000
Speaker 1: I just want we should just why don't we throw

870
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:34,560
Speaker 1: out we're all we all got the Patriots in the

871
00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:38,279
Speaker 1: a f C East, right, Yeah? Yeah, comfortably. I don't

872
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:40,440
Speaker 1: think any of us. Do we see the Dolphins going

873
00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:42,440
Speaker 1: back to the playoffs. I don't know. I don't personally,

874
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:45,280
Speaker 1: I wouldn't shock me. Um. And then in the North,

875
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:47,839
Speaker 1: where do we all stand on a division? When I'm

876
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:50,279
Speaker 1: gonna go with the Steelers personally, I'm just curious for

877
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:54,640
Speaker 1: you guys. I like the Steelers to go deep and

878
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:58,320
Speaker 1: then the Bengals to make the playoffs with you. I

879
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:00,600
Speaker 1: think that that that feels right, Man's a f C

880
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 1: North feels like the same thing to me. Over and

881
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:04,719
Speaker 1: over standing, do you have to go? Yeah? I was

882
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:07,080
Speaker 1: gonna run down and do an update. Apparently we've got

883
00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:10,360
Speaker 1: a solution in the Thursday preseason game. All right, So

884
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:12,960
Speaker 1: there you go, a little breaking news from Patrick Claiban.

885
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:15,400
Speaker 1: He's gonna put his headset up. We're gonna continue on.

886
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:19,160
Speaker 1: We're gonna soldier on and and we'll start before we

887
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:21,160
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Speaker 1: here we go. Uh, we'll start with the a f

897
00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 1: C South, Greg get us going with the defending division

898
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:05,760
Speaker 1: chant watching the preseason. If I did a power rankings

899
00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:08,600
Speaker 1: of the worst offensive lines, should not really be a

900
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:12,360
Speaker 1: big metrics scrap. I don't think, uh, Houston's under the

901
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:16,320
Speaker 1: radar here, Tom Savage, Deshaun Watson, they have had absolutely

902
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:18,719
Speaker 1: no time at all. No one seems to remember that

903
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:21,040
Speaker 1: their left tackled Dayne Brown has been holding out. I

904
00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:23,680
Speaker 1: went like googling for articles about it. No one has

905
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:26,239
Speaker 1: written about Dwayne Brown, even in Houston for the last

906
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:29,600
Speaker 1: month for some reason. It's just I guess they expect

907
00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:31,799
Speaker 1: that he'll be back. But even when he gets back,

908
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:34,239
Speaker 1: it is a rough looking group on paper, and I

909
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:39,040
Speaker 1: do worry for Savage or Watson, who under the radar

910
00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:41,920
Speaker 1: had a had a quite an up and down preseason

911
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 1: that just was typical for a rookie, but he did

912
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:46,520
Speaker 1: not look ready to play. I think these quarterbacks are

913
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:49,200
Speaker 1: in a really tough spot, really thin. That wide receiver

914
00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:51,759
Speaker 1: you got DeAndre Hopkins and really no one else and

915
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 1: a pretty poor offensive line like that is a recipe

916
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:58,120
Speaker 1: to me for this offense to be just as bad

917
00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:00,960
Speaker 1: as it was for Brock as other Maybe the quarterbacks

918
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:02,920
Speaker 1: are a little better, but I'm not sure if the

919
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:04,800
Speaker 1: offense is really going to be much and they're not

920
00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 1: noticeably better. And I realized in that Saturday night game

921
00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 1: that Houston didn't have a flood of starters in there.

922
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:13,200
Speaker 1: I mean, no starting there's top three whitelets, but they

923
00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:16,680
Speaker 1: looked ghastly. Was a bad performance. It was bad football,

924
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:19,600
Speaker 1: and if you're Houston, you spent all offseason with this

925
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:22,680
Speaker 1: quarterback battle. These are the kinds of teams where they're

926
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:25,520
Speaker 1: gonna play two, if not three quarterbacks this season. They're

927
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 1: all gonna play. They're all we're gonna see you know,

928
00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:30,560
Speaker 1: we know O'Brien. You think you think they're going to

929
00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:32,800
Speaker 1: Brandon Wheaton, Well, I think you could. You could, you

930
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:35,440
Speaker 1: could if you well, because because if it becomes some

931
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:37,200
Speaker 1: sort of a mash unit by the end of the year,

932
00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:39,400
Speaker 1: you never know. I mean, it's it just feels like

933
00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:43,080
Speaker 1: every season under O'Brien he's forced to play more than

934
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:46,399
Speaker 1: even two quarterbacks. All Right. The counter there is that, Okay,

935
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:48,640
Speaker 1: the Texans aren't a perfect team, but this is not

936
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:53,640
Speaker 1: a perfect division, and especially with Andrew lux uh situation

937
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:55,440
Speaker 1: up in the air. I know people, a lot of

938
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:57,480
Speaker 1: people think the Titans are ready to make this the

939
00:46:57,960 --> 00:47:00,400
Speaker 1: next step up. But I think the Texans, on the

940
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 1: strike of nothing else other than j. J. Watt and

941
00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:08,359
Speaker 1: Jeneveon Clowney potentially finally ready uh to both just kill

942
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:11,040
Speaker 1: it together. At the same time, I think their defense

943
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:14,440
Speaker 1: still has that ability to win games. The offense isn't

944
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:17,120
Speaker 1: gonna score a lot of points, but I think O'Brien

945
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:20,000
Speaker 1: and I know he's not a super popular figure. Uh,

946
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 1: he seems to get the most out of his team,

947
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:24,120
Speaker 1: So I think he'll find a way because it seems

948
00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:25,880
Speaker 1: like the Texans always do yes on that it's the

949
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:27,640
Speaker 1: right division to be in. If you want to go

950
00:47:27,880 --> 00:47:30,120
Speaker 1: nine and seven and be a division warner, that's a

951
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 1: great argument to receive the playoffs. It'll be interesting. It's

952
00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:36,600
Speaker 1: impossible to know how to impact the team on the field.

953
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:41,279
Speaker 1: But the the hurricane, I mean the flood rather, it's

954
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:43,759
Speaker 1: gonna be something that really shapes this season for them.

955
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:46,080
Speaker 1: We'll see how long that they're away from home, and

956
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:48,359
Speaker 1: they're already said they're playing for the city, and there's

957
00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:50,840
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of emotions and families effected. I

958
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:52,440
Speaker 1: don't I don't know what that means, but I'm with

959
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:54,960
Speaker 1: you on Watton Clowney. I can't remember being more excited

960
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:59,200
Speaker 1: to watch a duo of defensive lineman play together in

961
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:04,040
Speaker 1: in my what's better than what? In Clowney, I like

962
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:09,520
Speaker 1: that Craig coming strong, the Indianapolis cults or the Indianapolis cults.

963
00:48:09,719 --> 00:48:12,520
Speaker 1: Some other people say, all right, so let's talk about it.

964
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:15,759
Speaker 1: Claib already play about his back after only missing one team.

965
00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:18,080
Speaker 1: We did, we did the ad read Claibin while you

966
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 1: were gone. But still yeah, sorry, bro, yeah we are.

967
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:24,400
Speaker 1: What's the news. We thought that we had an update

968
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:26,239
Speaker 1: on the solution. It turns out the newsroom has just

969
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:30,040
Speaker 1: given up on getting an update from the NFL whether

970
00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:35,080
Speaker 1: this game and that's okay, all right, let's start with

971
00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:38,640
Speaker 1: the Cults. Okay, so we know the situation. We know

972
00:48:38,719 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 1: the situation that we don't know the situation Andrew Luck

973
00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:43,000
Speaker 1: is he gonna be ready for the start of season.

974
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:45,759
Speaker 1: It increasingly feels like he won't be, even though we

975
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:49,360
Speaker 1: haven't been given any official word. Scott Tolzene under center.

976
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:52,480
Speaker 1: Three first downs and a total three points in the

977
00:48:52,520 --> 00:48:56,120
Speaker 1: first two games. That's Hackenburgh esque. Uh. They were a

978
00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 1: little better against the Steelers. They scored a touchdown, they

979
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:01,600
Speaker 1: had seven for us down so there was some progress.

980
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:04,719
Speaker 1: So here's here's the big question for me if the

981
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:06,920
Speaker 1: Colts have any chance this year. First of all, Luck's

982
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:09,520
Speaker 1: got to come back sooner withouther than later. But their

983
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:13,160
Speaker 1: schedule is somewhat favorable. In the first month at Rams

984
00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:17,120
Speaker 1: home against Cardinals, home to Browns, at Seahawks home to

985
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:19,239
Speaker 1: forty nine is not a cake walk, but not a

986
00:49:19,320 --> 00:49:22,359
Speaker 1: tough schedule. Can they survive for a month if let's

987
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:25,000
Speaker 1: say that's how long we're missing luck, because it's all hypothetical,

988
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:29,200
Speaker 1: I'll just throw a month out there, Clay, Okay, they can't. Uh,

989
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:33,399
Speaker 1: the Titans are going to be better. The somebody out

990
00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:35,360
Speaker 1: in the West is going to make a push for

991
00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:38,840
Speaker 1: the wild It's it's the options for the Colts with

992
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:41,759
Speaker 1: no Luck for a month or zero. To me, the

993
00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:43,440
Speaker 1: options are that the rest of the a f C

994
00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:46,520
Speaker 1: South is bad if that happens. I don't think that

995
00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:48,760
Speaker 1: will happen, but that they that one in three doesn't

996
00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:51,000
Speaker 1: kill you. That he maybe he comes back, he misses

997
00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:53,640
Speaker 1: four games there, one in three, and he can at

998
00:49:53,719 --> 00:49:55,759
Speaker 1: least fight to bring them back into the mix. If

999
00:49:55,840 --> 00:49:58,279
Speaker 1: you're Chris Ballard, I mean, I thought he did a

1000
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:01,200
Speaker 1: lot of good things this offseason. They've had some terrible luck.

1001
00:50:01,680 --> 00:50:03,880
Speaker 1: The whole situation with Andrew Luck if you if you know,

1002
00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:06,520
Speaker 1: the whole point was to make this team not so

1003
00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:08,759
Speaker 1: dependent simply on Luck alone, that you'd have to be

1004
00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:11,359
Speaker 1: more around him. And it feels like it's almost never

1005
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:14,160
Speaker 1: been more in this direction. That because with the quarterback. Well, right,

1006
00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:17,279
Speaker 1: but it's like other teams lose quarterbacks. Like this team

1007
00:50:17,560 --> 00:50:20,200
Speaker 1: could go two and fourteen if they didn't have Luck

1008
00:50:20,239 --> 00:50:23,560
Speaker 1: in the lineup. I mean, you put Derek Anderson or

1009
00:50:24,560 --> 00:50:27,080
Speaker 1: whoever a good backup quarterback on that team, and I

1010
00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:28,520
Speaker 1: think they would have a chance. But they have so

1011
00:50:28,560 --> 00:50:30,799
Speaker 1: many question They're gonna be starting seven or eight new

1012
00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:34,600
Speaker 1: guys on the defense too. They they have injury, you

1013
00:50:34,640 --> 00:50:36,600
Speaker 1: know they have injury. Their their center is injured. Jack

1014
00:50:36,640 --> 00:50:38,719
Speaker 1: Muhor is injured right now, that they've got all sorts

1015
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:41,040
Speaker 1: of issues that Luck's not even the only one. Let's

1016
00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:44,960
Speaker 1: say he does miss that first month five games and

1017
00:50:45,040 --> 00:50:48,160
Speaker 1: they go on the tank, and he's are you gonna

1018
00:50:48,239 --> 00:50:50,400
Speaker 1: rush Andrew Luck back? If you if you put yourself

1019
00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:52,840
Speaker 1: in a really bad position early in the season, they

1020
00:50:53,120 --> 00:50:55,640
Speaker 1: and I'd be worried, or Chuck Pogano about my job

1021
00:50:55,680 --> 00:50:58,919
Speaker 1: because you've essentially you're on your second chance in Indianapolis,

1022
00:50:59,040 --> 00:51:01,279
Speaker 1: And it's a very questionable if he stays there all year,

1023
00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:03,399
Speaker 1: if they really die, but he keeps them afloat, it'll

1024
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:05,640
Speaker 1: be his best coaching job. Now he's done some fire

1025
00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:09,360
Speaker 1: and brimstone speeches already, where he's like he's he's like

1026
00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:11,239
Speaker 1: no more. They had a big headline no more and

1027
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:14,239
Speaker 1: Mr Nice Guy and they had Chuck you know, kind

1028
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:15,920
Speaker 1: of yelled at his team, and they did respond with

1029
00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:18,000
Speaker 1: a nice preseason game. I don't know if that means anything.

1030
00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:20,480
Speaker 1: This schedule they have could not be easier if you

1031
00:51:20,560 --> 00:51:23,040
Speaker 1: even look past the first month. So who knows told

1032
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:26,320
Speaker 1: me and got sucked into another terrible interception. Ryan Shayzy

1033
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:29,279
Speaker 1: Are just completely had him walk into an easy pick.

1034
00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:31,400
Speaker 1: You could just see that happening a lot if he's

1035
00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:33,240
Speaker 1: gonna put. I mean, the Colts probably see the Browns

1036
00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:34,880
Speaker 1: and think, oh, that's a Winna book game. But now

1037
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:37,239
Speaker 1: the Colts are the team that the race again, looking

1038
00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:39,600
Speaker 1: at everyone's looking at and say, hey, we got the

1039
00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:44,080
Speaker 1: Colts win. Mark Seler, you're up, all right, Let's go

1040
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:47,560
Speaker 1: to Jacksonville. Two basic questions. And we we've talked about

1041
00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:49,759
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars so much and to me feels like

1042
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:52,480
Speaker 1: nothing's changed at all. But to the one question here,

1043
00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:55,640
Speaker 1: do the Jaguars have any idea what they want to be?

1044
00:51:56,080 --> 00:51:58,320
Speaker 1: Part two? And after another hope off season, is this

1045
00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:03,680
Speaker 1: already a lost year in Jacksonville? No, not yet, but

1046
00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:07,080
Speaker 1: it's it has the marks of it. I don't like

1047
00:52:07,120 --> 00:52:11,240
Speaker 1: to say that because that fan base us the identity

1048
00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:13,840
Speaker 1: was your first question. I think they might, which is

1049
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:16,440
Speaker 1: give the ball to Leonard four Nette twenty plus times,

1050
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:19,759
Speaker 1: take the ball out of the quarterbacks hands. Which it's

1051
00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:21,840
Speaker 1: not just hinting, it's not just oh, we're picking this

1052
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:24,560
Speaker 1: up from watching preseason games. The head coach said, we

1053
00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:26,440
Speaker 1: do not want to throw the ball ever. Now does

1054
00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:30,120
Speaker 1: that work? No, But that's what they're going to try

1055
00:52:30,120 --> 00:52:35,120
Speaker 1: to do. And exactly just let everybody know. Maybe he's

1056
00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:37,320
Speaker 1: all setting everybody up, but he's gonna throw it fifty

1057
00:52:37,360 --> 00:52:39,879
Speaker 1: times a game. I don't know. But the defense, Greg

1058
00:52:40,520 --> 00:52:42,360
Speaker 1: tell me I'm right or I'm wrong. The defense was

1059
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:45,879
Speaker 1: actually pretty good last year. And if that defense takes

1060
00:52:45,920 --> 00:52:47,680
Speaker 1: the next step and four nets of the real deal,

1061
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:49,759
Speaker 1: maybe they can win some of these close games again

1062
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:51,680
Speaker 1: in a bad division. I mean, they were featured in

1063
00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:55,520
Speaker 1: two thousand seventeens making the leap. This defense. I believe

1064
00:52:55,560 --> 00:52:58,280
Speaker 1: it's the top ten group, partly because the Klais Campbell

1065
00:52:58,400 --> 00:53:00,759
Speaker 1: Man he had a monster game in in their last

1066
00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:04,359
Speaker 1: preseason game, dominated the couple of quarters that he played.

1067
00:53:04,719 --> 00:53:06,600
Speaker 1: You add him to a lot of talent around him,

1068
00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:09,680
Speaker 1: making a leap an entity with a flawless track record.

1069
00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:11,960
Speaker 1: So if you're a Jaguars fan, just sit back and

1070
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:14,239
Speaker 1: enjoy it. Went with a new strategy this year, just

1071
00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:17,040
Speaker 1: went for four groups, so it would be really easy

1072
00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:18,920
Speaker 1: to keep track of whether we got him right or not.

1073
00:53:19,080 --> 00:53:21,360
Speaker 1: At what point does does Brandon Allen not become a

1074
00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:24,560
Speaker 1: part of the conversation. I just I wonder seeing Chad

1075
00:53:24,600 --> 00:53:28,160
Speaker 1: Hinny and Blake Bordles and what they do. Um, it's

1076
00:53:28,640 --> 00:53:31,840
Speaker 1: it's perhaps time. This is the Vegas who consider Allen

1077
00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:36,880
Speaker 1: the Vegas prediction ever, But something's gonna happen here this weekend.

1078
00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:39,160
Speaker 1: There's gonna be some big trades. I don't know if

1079
00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:41,920
Speaker 1: it'll be the Jaguars necessarily, but it wouldn't surprise me.

1080
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:46,040
Speaker 1: Between the Jaguars, the Jets, the Rates, the Ravens, and

1081
00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:49,120
Speaker 1: the Colts, I feel like there's cards left to be played,

1082
00:53:49,160 --> 00:53:51,960
Speaker 1: not just Kaepernick, but just things we don't even see coming. Well.

1083
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:55,920
Speaker 1: I think we talked about potentially Bordles heading out and

1084
00:53:56,080 --> 00:53:58,600
Speaker 1: Kaepernick heading in in Jacksonville. There's still time for that

1085
00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:02,560
Speaker 1: to be correct. Very interesting. Yeah, we didn't even we

1086
00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:05,439
Speaker 1: haven't even talk since they announced them as starter, which

1087
00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:08,480
Speaker 1: seems Blake Bortles is their week started. I don't I

1088
00:54:08,480 --> 00:54:11,160
Speaker 1: don't understand how they reached that decision. I don't know.

1089
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:13,719
Speaker 1: In general, the preseason used to make a lot of

1090
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:16,879
Speaker 1: sense the way it was structured. And now whether from

1091
00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:19,879
Speaker 1: how much teams are playing their guys to now you're

1092
00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:21,879
Speaker 1: starting your guy in week three and then not making

1093
00:54:21,960 --> 00:54:24,120
Speaker 1: your week one started, things are changing, and I don't

1094
00:54:24,160 --> 00:54:26,919
Speaker 1: like what things change. Like, Henny played fine in that game,

1095
00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:29,880
Speaker 1: not great. Bordles certainly didn't play greatly through it. He

1096
00:54:29,960 --> 00:54:32,279
Speaker 1: had a terrible first drive and a bad interception on

1097
00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:36,800
Speaker 1: its decision. If you throw a touchdown against the fourth

1098
00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:39,480
Speaker 1: strength defense at the end of the game, that does

1099
00:54:39,560 --> 00:54:41,600
Speaker 1: not mean that you should now be the starting quarterback.

1100
00:54:42,120 --> 00:54:44,640
Speaker 1: What kind of coaching I think They mentioned his mobility

1101
00:54:44,680 --> 00:54:46,840
Speaker 1: with the reason, which is a nod to their lousy

1102
00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:50,120
Speaker 1: offensive line. Alright, claibon, finish out the division. Alright, So

1103
00:54:50,239 --> 00:54:55,040
Speaker 1: we've discussed Blake Bortles, Tom Savage, and Scott Tolzine. Marcus

1104
00:54:55,120 --> 00:54:57,960
Speaker 1: Mariona kind of seems to be the outlier in that

1105
00:54:58,120 --> 00:55:01,680
Speaker 1: group of guys, and you look over on the other side.

1106
00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:05,000
Speaker 1: At the defense, the front seven is largely intact. But

1107
00:55:05,080 --> 00:55:06,960
Speaker 1: they go out and they get Logan Ryan. And if

1108
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:08,800
Speaker 1: Logan Ryan can get the calls that he used to

1109
00:55:08,880 --> 00:55:12,160
Speaker 1: get in New England, he can be the guy that

1110
00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:15,480
Speaker 1: makes plays if he can be grabby um as he

1111
00:55:15,560 --> 00:55:19,200
Speaker 1: was allowed to be there. Jonathan Cyprian, they harvest him

1112
00:55:19,239 --> 00:55:23,000
Speaker 1: from Jacksonville, comes over, gets four years, five million dollars,

1113
00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:26,920
Speaker 1: and so eventually they're still gonna have some problems. Mariota

1114
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:28,960
Speaker 1: is at some point going to throw an interception in

1115
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:31,319
Speaker 1: the red zone. That streak is gonna die, and we're

1116
00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:34,200
Speaker 1: all gonna be sad when it happens. But Jack Cocklin

1117
00:55:34,320 --> 00:55:37,640
Speaker 1: had that the best rookie year from for an offensive alignement.

1118
00:55:38,160 --> 00:55:41,279
Speaker 1: UM Eric Decker is is going to come in and

1119
00:55:41,760 --> 00:55:45,680
Speaker 1: be a difference maker for Mariota that he hasn't seen before,

1120
00:55:45,920 --> 00:55:48,799
Speaker 1: Like we haven't had Marcus with that guy other than

1121
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:50,960
Speaker 1: a Delaney Walker, but now we have somebody that can

1122
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:55,440
Speaker 1: play on the outside move into the slot. UM. I

1123
00:55:55,600 --> 00:55:59,160
Speaker 1: really see so many paths in the division, but the

1124
00:55:59,480 --> 00:56:02,360
Speaker 1: most path I see wind up with the Titans winning it.

1125
00:56:02,520 --> 00:56:05,000
Speaker 1: The one thing I like about Tennessee owner John Robinson

1126
00:56:05,640 --> 00:56:08,080
Speaker 1: is that I just asked about the Jaguars. There's no

1127
00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:11,040
Speaker 1: question what the Titans want their identity to be, and

1128
00:56:11,120 --> 00:56:13,520
Speaker 1: they've done a good job in quick order of making

1129
00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:16,320
Speaker 1: that a reality versus something they just talked about. And

1130
00:56:16,719 --> 00:56:19,759
Speaker 1: it's weird. It's a weird feeling in Nashville. But this

1131
00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:22,640
Speaker 1: has to be viewed as if they if they can

1132
00:56:22,719 --> 00:56:25,600
Speaker 1: operate and improve and and and live up to their potential,

1133
00:56:26,040 --> 00:56:29,440
Speaker 1: this is their division. That's that's something that also veteran

1134
00:56:29,480 --> 00:56:31,120
Speaker 1: teams that do that year after year know it how

1135
00:56:31,160 --> 00:56:34,680
Speaker 1: attacked that those expectations. It's just a question of Tennessee

1136
00:56:34,719 --> 00:56:36,880
Speaker 1: can get it done with so many young players on

1137
00:56:36,920 --> 00:56:40,319
Speaker 1: the team. The two things that I I want to see, One,

1138
00:56:40,560 --> 00:56:43,160
Speaker 1: can Marcus Mariota stay healthy, which we haven't seen in

1139
00:56:43,200 --> 00:56:46,120
Speaker 1: the first two years. And number two, if you remember

1140
00:56:46,200 --> 00:56:48,640
Speaker 1: this time last year and the Titans were the team

1141
00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:51,279
Speaker 1: that everyone was pumping up in this division, and then

1142
00:56:51,320 --> 00:56:52,919
Speaker 1: they came out and they kind of laid an egg

1143
00:56:53,080 --> 00:56:54,719
Speaker 1: and it took them a while to get going, and

1144
00:56:54,760 --> 00:56:56,680
Speaker 1: then eventually they did and they finished nine and seven.

1145
00:56:56,880 --> 00:56:59,360
Speaker 1: But even then with that nine and seven finish, the

1146
00:56:59,560 --> 00:57:01,800
Speaker 1: game that Mariota got hurt, they were kind of taking

1147
00:57:01,840 --> 00:57:04,960
Speaker 1: a game not on purpose against the Jaguars where they

1148
00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:07,600
Speaker 1: got beat bad to basically ruin their their season. So

1149
00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:09,560
Speaker 1: I want to see this team kind of put it

1150
00:57:09,560 --> 00:57:11,600
Speaker 1: all together because it didn't happen. Lest you're despite the

1151
00:57:11,640 --> 00:57:16,040
Speaker 1: positive strides, the secondary I believe has been a huge

1152
00:57:16,120 --> 00:57:18,640
Speaker 1: problem for a long time and so they had addressed

1153
00:57:18,680 --> 00:57:21,800
Speaker 1: it aggressively. But those don't always work. Like Logan Ryan too,

1154
00:57:21,920 --> 00:57:24,200
Speaker 1: he he had a rough first Priests game. Not gonna

1155
00:57:24,200 --> 00:57:26,200
Speaker 1: get crazy about that. He's not a number one cornerback.

1156
00:57:26,240 --> 00:57:28,800
Speaker 1: To me, Door Jackson is an undersized guy who Mike

1157
00:57:28,880 --> 00:57:32,520
Speaker 1: Glennan shredded on Sunday and really picked on in his

1158
00:57:32,640 --> 00:57:34,920
Speaker 1: starting for that team. Lashawn Simms is another guy they

1159
00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:37,240
Speaker 1: might start, So to me, they have questions. They could

1160
00:57:37,240 --> 00:57:39,200
Speaker 1: really use Corey Davis to get healthy. He missed the

1161
00:57:39,360 --> 00:57:42,720
Speaker 1: entire first month. But Taiwan Taylor, He's the rookie on

1162
00:57:42,800 --> 00:57:44,960
Speaker 1: this team the third round draft picked who I think

1163
00:57:45,040 --> 00:57:47,880
Speaker 1: is gonna be a bigger factor than Corey Davis season.

1164
00:57:48,080 --> 00:57:51,000
Speaker 1: We all have the Titans winning this division. Wow, we're

1165
00:57:51,080 --> 00:57:53,360
Speaker 1: I don't like being of the same mind this much.

1166
00:57:54,440 --> 00:57:57,200
Speaker 1: I I do because I'd like one team that we

1167
00:57:57,320 --> 00:57:59,120
Speaker 1: hype up in the off season in the NFC stal

1168
00:57:59,280 --> 00:58:02,480
Speaker 1: to not be a comple disappointment, right, I'm picking the Titans.

1169
00:58:02,560 --> 00:58:05,000
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not getting off I'm close to the Texans.

1170
00:58:05,080 --> 00:58:07,200
Speaker 1: Going with the Texans to safe. It feels like the

1171
00:58:07,280 --> 00:58:11,479
Speaker 1: safe secure, you know, not in a negative way. To Okay,

1172
00:58:11,480 --> 00:58:13,280
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the Texans. All right, Finally the

1173
00:58:13,360 --> 00:58:18,040
Speaker 1: a f C West, congratulations, Uh Texans, alright, finally AFCs Greg,

1174
00:58:18,160 --> 00:58:20,240
Speaker 1: get us go with the defending. Well, they don't win

1175
00:58:20,280 --> 00:58:22,440
Speaker 1: the title last year in the division. The Raiders go,

1176
00:58:24,040 --> 00:58:27,880
Speaker 1: should be great on offense, not worried about that. Have

1177
00:58:28,040 --> 00:58:34,920
Speaker 1: a good looking, great quarterback. Hit me Derek Carr who

1178
00:58:34,960 --> 00:58:36,680
Speaker 1: should be ready. So I'm not worried. The offense is

1179
00:58:36,720 --> 00:58:40,800
Speaker 1: gonna be good. The defense, I still don't know why

1180
00:58:40,880 --> 00:58:44,240
Speaker 1: I should think they're too much, too um, why they

1181
00:58:44,280 --> 00:58:46,320
Speaker 1: should be any better. These are some of the players

1182
00:58:46,480 --> 00:58:52,560
Speaker 1: that are playing the linebacker for them. Johnny Jenkins, Tyrrell Adams, uh,

1183
00:58:53,640 --> 00:58:56,400
Speaker 1: Corey James. Like they are still figuring out who they're

1184
00:58:56,400 --> 00:59:00,480
Speaker 1: starting linebacker group is. David Amerson got hurt their last

1185
00:59:00,520 --> 00:59:02,919
Speaker 1: preseason game. They haven't seen their first round pick, Gary

1186
00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:05,000
Speaker 1: and Conley on the field really at all. They're optimistic

1187
00:59:05,080 --> 00:59:07,560
Speaker 1: you get back Sean Smith. They were saying might not

1188
00:59:07,680 --> 00:59:10,840
Speaker 1: even make the team, Like that is a weird looking

1189
00:59:10,880 --> 00:59:13,600
Speaker 1: back seven and I worry a little bit about this

1190
00:59:13,760 --> 00:59:15,960
Speaker 1: team that they had so much success and they're feeling

1191
00:59:16,040 --> 00:59:19,480
Speaker 1: themselves and and can they do it again, because it's

1192
00:59:19,560 --> 00:59:22,360
Speaker 1: not that it happens that you win eleven or twelve games.

1193
00:59:22,640 --> 00:59:25,080
Speaker 1: Not many organizations can do it year after year like

1194
00:59:25,160 --> 00:59:26,960
Speaker 1: it just doesn't happen. I don't think they're built to

1195
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:30,240
Speaker 1: go twelve and four again record wise there. I think

1196
00:59:30,280 --> 00:59:32,320
Speaker 1: they weren't a twelve and four team last year, to

1197
00:59:32,360 --> 00:59:34,160
Speaker 1: be honest, I think they were much closer to a

1198
00:59:34,240 --> 00:59:36,880
Speaker 1: ten and six team, and that's probably where to be.

1199
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:40,120
Speaker 1: I I am not in love with the assumption that

1200
00:59:40,560 --> 00:59:42,680
Speaker 1: your Marshawn Lynch is going to come in and be

1201
00:59:42,760 --> 00:59:44,560
Speaker 1: a workhorse back for you. They do have depth in

1202
00:59:44,600 --> 00:59:47,840
Speaker 1: the backfield, but they're gonna probably have to score twenty

1203
00:59:47,920 --> 00:59:50,480
Speaker 1: five points a game to get out of this division.

1204
00:59:50,560 --> 00:59:52,440
Speaker 1: This is that they're in there. Talk about some some

1205
00:59:52,480 --> 00:59:54,680
Speaker 1: of these teams in an easy schedule. Their schedule is brutal.

1206
00:59:54,720 --> 00:59:55,720
Speaker 1: If you look at they have to play in their

1207
00:59:55,760 --> 00:59:57,880
Speaker 1: own an f c West. Yeah, the number of close

1208
00:59:57,960 --> 01:00:00,920
Speaker 1: games that the Raiders won that even came down to

1209
01:00:01,160 --> 01:00:05,080
Speaker 1: fourth down conversions. Is that kind of success something that

1210
01:00:05,160 --> 01:00:07,520
Speaker 1: you can duplicate in this league year after year after year.

1211
01:00:07,640 --> 01:00:09,440
Speaker 1: And you know, the numbers show that those are the

1212
01:00:09,520 --> 01:00:12,560
Speaker 1: teams that typically have a you know, quick route in

1213
01:00:12,560 --> 01:00:15,280
Speaker 1: the other direction. I think they would What they need

1214
01:00:16,480 --> 01:00:18,880
Speaker 1: is for their offense to go from one of the

1215
01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:23,120
Speaker 1: best you know, five, six seven offenses to the point

1216
01:00:23,160 --> 01:00:25,600
Speaker 1: where they're in the mix as the best offense league,

1217
01:00:25,840 --> 01:00:29,200
Speaker 1: which is certainly possible. Like you can imagine with that

1218
01:00:29,360 --> 01:00:32,560
Speaker 1: line and car and crab Tree and the deep backfield,

1219
01:00:32,560 --> 01:00:35,120
Speaker 1: like you can imagine that they have the best offense

1220
01:00:35,160 --> 01:00:38,480
Speaker 1: in the league. To me, that's their recipe. I like

1221
01:00:38,600 --> 01:00:42,200
Speaker 1: these We didn't forget your radios. We didn't forget about

1222
01:00:42,200 --> 01:00:44,439
Speaker 1: you guys, who feel very good about you guys. Any

1223
01:00:44,480 --> 01:00:47,120
Speaker 1: other points, guys, Well, I think it's interesting that the

1224
01:00:47,680 --> 01:00:50,320
Speaker 1: you know, the announced move to Las Vegas has had

1225
01:00:50,880 --> 01:00:55,200
Speaker 1: seemingly zero impact on this team at all. Yeah, it

1226
01:00:55,200 --> 01:00:57,959
Speaker 1: would tear other other cities and their Fran fan base

1227
01:00:58,320 --> 01:01:01,800
Speaker 1: completely apart. It's had to literally no factor. I think

1228
01:01:01,880 --> 01:01:04,160
Speaker 1: Marshawn came in and fixed all that. That was kind

1229
01:01:04,200 --> 01:01:06,240
Speaker 1: of a savvy move because they kind of did throw

1230
01:01:06,280 --> 01:01:07,880
Speaker 1: it off the center. But if they go, if they

1231
01:01:07,960 --> 01:01:13,480
Speaker 1: start out two and three and the Denver Broncos, huh,

1232
01:01:13,800 --> 01:01:18,440
Speaker 1: the never Broncos boys a little bit overlooked in this

1233
01:01:18,560 --> 01:01:21,120
Speaker 1: division right now? Okay, let's let's look at it this way.

1234
01:01:21,120 --> 01:01:24,320
Speaker 1: If Trevor Simeons is a league average starter, isn't this

1235
01:01:24,440 --> 01:01:27,360
Speaker 1: defense good enough to make them a threat in this division?

1236
01:01:27,760 --> 01:01:30,840
Speaker 1: And if Trevor Simeon, as Greg seems to contend, is

1237
01:01:30,880 --> 01:01:35,640
Speaker 1: an above average starter potentially or is he we have

1238
01:01:35,720 --> 01:01:37,600
Speaker 1: to rule it out right, Calm down, I'm just making

1239
01:01:37,640 --> 01:01:41,520
Speaker 1: your point for you that he's good. Why can't they

1240
01:01:41,560 --> 01:01:43,720
Speaker 1: be a favorite to win this division? I just feel

1241
01:01:43,760 --> 01:01:47,439
Speaker 1: like they they have been become an afterthought two years

1242
01:01:47,480 --> 01:01:50,800
Speaker 1: after winning a Super Bowl. Uh, and we just we

1243
01:01:50,840 --> 01:01:52,960
Speaker 1: saw it again. We don't put a lot into the preseason.

1244
01:01:53,000 --> 01:01:56,840
Speaker 1: They shut down the Packers with their starters on the field. Uh.

1245
01:01:57,040 --> 01:02:00,320
Speaker 1: Von Miller put a spin move on Jason Spriggs should

1246
01:02:00,320 --> 01:02:01,840
Speaker 1: be illegal. It's how good it is. You still got

1247
01:02:01,920 --> 01:02:04,840
Speaker 1: the no fly zone there. I just think that this team,

1248
01:02:05,160 --> 01:02:07,480
Speaker 1: which can easily be eight and eight and the quarterback

1249
01:02:07,840 --> 01:02:10,440
Speaker 1: position would be to me the main reason why, and

1250
01:02:10,520 --> 01:02:13,320
Speaker 1: I still have doubts about them, but I'm also willing

1251
01:02:13,440 --> 01:02:15,760
Speaker 1: to say there's no reason to think that they could

1252
01:02:15,760 --> 01:02:18,600
Speaker 1: be an eleven and five, twelve and four team if

1253
01:02:18,680 --> 01:02:20,440
Speaker 1: some things go the right way on the offensive side

1254
01:02:20,480 --> 01:02:25,760
Speaker 1: of the ball. Thoughts. Kind of like the Bengals, I'm

1255
01:02:25,800 --> 01:02:28,000
Speaker 1: giving them credit to bounce back because I don't just

1256
01:02:28,520 --> 01:02:30,440
Speaker 1: I think it's luck that they made the playoffs five

1257
01:02:30,480 --> 01:02:31,920
Speaker 1: streight years. I know they didn't win a game, but

1258
01:02:32,280 --> 01:02:34,680
Speaker 1: it's not just luck that the Broncos did that hardest

1259
01:02:34,720 --> 01:02:36,360
Speaker 1: thing in the NFL to do, which just win twelve

1260
01:02:36,440 --> 01:02:39,000
Speaker 1: games a year for four or five streight years. They

1261
01:02:39,080 --> 01:02:40,720
Speaker 1: have a lot of those same players there, and there's

1262
01:02:40,760 --> 01:02:43,400
Speaker 1: things to like c J. Anderson. It's like, you get

1263
01:02:43,560 --> 01:02:46,160
Speaker 1: he kind of has the one year on, one year off,

1264
01:02:46,280 --> 01:02:48,520
Speaker 1: or like he's very different dependent. He looks like a

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Speaker 1: good CJ. Anderson. This year, Jamal Charles sowed a little

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Speaker 1: something on Saturday night and they announced that he's gonna

1267
01:02:53,840 --> 01:02:56,360
Speaker 1: make the team. I like that. And then D'Angelo Henderson's

1268
01:02:56,360 --> 01:02:58,640
Speaker 1: look good. So that's a nice little backfield they got.

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Speaker 1: Their undoing last year was you know, being dealt with

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Speaker 1: one of the worst offensive lines in the a f C,

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01:03:04,800 --> 01:03:08,320
Speaker 1: if not the entire NFL, and it costs quarterback injuries.

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Speaker 1: They couldn't run the ball at will, they couldn't stop

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01:03:10,400 --> 01:03:12,840
Speaker 1: the run with their own defense, so you've got to

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01:03:12,880 --> 01:03:15,040
Speaker 1: turn that around. I think the offensive line is key

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01:03:15,120 --> 01:03:18,720
Speaker 1: for them to have a winning record. Paxton Lynch suffered

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01:03:18,760 --> 01:03:22,080
Speaker 1: a shoulder injury and the Week three preseason game. He

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Speaker 1: is now out of the mix for multiple weeks. Um.

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01:03:25,480 --> 01:03:28,080
Speaker 1: It looks like so Trevor Simeon, you know, you never

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01:03:28,120 --> 01:03:29,880
Speaker 1: want to see a gotta go down, but there will

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01:03:29,920 --> 01:03:32,880
Speaker 1: be nobody looking over his shoulder. This is his team

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01:03:33,160 --> 01:03:35,120
Speaker 1: and his chance to run with this job, which is

1282
01:03:35,160 --> 01:03:37,400
Speaker 1: a pretty good situation for a former seventh round pick

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01:03:37,480 --> 01:03:39,640
Speaker 1: to be and especially with a team that has some

1284
01:03:40,000 --> 01:03:41,920
Speaker 1: weapons in place and a defense as good as this.

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Speaker 1: I just think the Denver Broncos should not be overlooked

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01:03:46,240 --> 01:03:48,439
Speaker 1: and they seem to be like are they the third

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Speaker 1: or fourth team that gets brought up when in terms

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Speaker 1: of like what are buzzy teams to talk about this?

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Speaker 1: Well there, I think it's just that the not the new,

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01:03:55,280 --> 01:03:57,560
Speaker 1: flashy new thing, No, not at all, And a lot

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01:03:57,600 --> 01:04:02,080
Speaker 1: of people sleep on trail exactly for a while, you've

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01:04:02,080 --> 01:04:07,439
Speaker 1: been traff. I didn't know that that's good. If Jared

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01:04:07,520 --> 01:04:10,720
Speaker 1: Goff has the season that Trevor Simeon had last year

1294
01:04:11,120 --> 01:04:14,640
Speaker 1: this year, people are gonna be like, Wow, he's really

1295
01:04:14,680 --> 01:04:18,320
Speaker 1: finally living up to his number one Sean McVeigh quarterback whisper. Okay,

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01:04:18,600 --> 01:04:20,640
Speaker 1: let's go to Kansas City, where I My issue with

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01:04:20,680 --> 01:04:23,280
Speaker 1: the Chiefs is is always the same. It's just that

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01:04:23,360 --> 01:04:26,200
Speaker 1: I feel like you're gonna go eleven and five, You're

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01:04:26,200 --> 01:04:28,480
Speaker 1: gonna lose in the playoffs. It's it's it's it's a

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01:04:29,040 --> 01:04:32,240
Speaker 1: very nagging, annoying thing to observe over the course of

1301
01:04:32,320 --> 01:04:36,160
Speaker 1: seventeen weeks. If you're Andy Reid and you're still hanging

1302
01:04:36,200 --> 01:04:39,040
Speaker 1: around in the West, or if you're not. We always

1303
01:04:39,120 --> 01:04:43,800
Speaker 1: talked about, we talked about, excuse me, Patrick Mahomes, someone

1304
01:04:43,880 --> 01:04:46,720
Speaker 1: that simply will not see the field. No, the sky

1305
01:04:46,840 --> 01:04:49,360
Speaker 1: will fall and you know, countries will take over America

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01:04:49,400 --> 01:04:52,320
Speaker 1: before Patrick Mahomes ever plays as a rookie. I ain't

1307
01:04:52,320 --> 01:04:54,880
Speaker 1: buying it. I think that, honestly, I'll always not perfect.

1308
01:04:54,920 --> 01:04:56,760
Speaker 1: He has a lot to work on that we could

1309
01:04:56,800 --> 01:05:02,960
Speaker 1: see him this season. Do you believe that's possible. It's possible. Well,

1310
01:05:03,160 --> 01:05:06,160
Speaker 1: i'd owet to take. You mean to be two games

1311
01:05:06,280 --> 01:05:09,120
Speaker 1: under five halfway through this season or later, like a

1312
01:05:09,200 --> 01:05:13,640
Speaker 1: completely healthy Alex Smith. And Andy Reid says, and they're contending.

1313
01:05:14,160 --> 01:05:16,560
Speaker 1: Andy Reid says, you know what we're going. We're going

1314
01:05:16,760 --> 01:05:20,040
Speaker 1: that something occurs where the ceiling that's typical ceiling with

1315
01:05:20,080 --> 01:05:22,880
Speaker 1: Alex Smith becomes obvious once again, and you've got a

1316
01:05:22,960 --> 01:05:26,520
Speaker 1: quarterback behind him that offers so many different traits. You say,

1317
01:05:26,560 --> 01:05:29,560
Speaker 1: the ceiling, And I get that he's not flashy, but

1318
01:05:30,040 --> 01:05:33,200
Speaker 1: it's not like gonna for instance, the last four seasons

1319
01:05:33,240 --> 01:05:35,640
Speaker 1: with Alex Smith at quarterback eleven and five, nine and seven,

1320
01:05:35,720 --> 01:05:38,120
Speaker 1: eleven and five, and twelve and four. So this is

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01:05:38,120 --> 01:05:40,120
Speaker 1: a team that they win with a head coach and

1322
01:05:40,440 --> 01:05:43,600
Speaker 1: a quarterback and and perhaps they run out of juice

1323
01:05:44,200 --> 01:05:47,360
Speaker 1: in January because they get out classed. Well, then why

1324
01:05:47,400 --> 01:05:49,680
Speaker 1: do you trade up for a quarterback? And if everything so,

1325
01:05:49,880 --> 01:05:52,760
Speaker 1: you don't even secure in Kansas because I don't necessarily

1326
01:05:52,840 --> 01:05:55,640
Speaker 1: believe you need to immediately throw the guy in the fire.

1327
01:05:55,880 --> 01:05:57,880
Speaker 1: This is the best situation for a young quarterback to

1328
01:05:57,960 --> 01:06:01,360
Speaker 1: come into. Smith is good, but not great. They get

1329
01:06:01,440 --> 01:06:03,880
Speaker 1: to the playoffs but don't win games, so they have

1330
01:06:04,000 --> 01:06:07,160
Speaker 1: the ability to kind of bring the kid in slowly

1331
01:06:07,200 --> 01:06:09,800
Speaker 1: and developed and Smith is it perfect? Just how often

1332
01:06:09,880 --> 01:06:12,040
Speaker 1: does that happen in the NFL? I think I just wonder.

1333
01:06:12,160 --> 01:06:14,040
Speaker 1: I think if they're four and six that's your answer,

1334
01:06:14,200 --> 01:06:16,040
Speaker 1: then yeah, then maybe you try it. And I think

1335
01:06:16,040 --> 01:06:18,520
Speaker 1: they want to get my home's more season. As exciting

1336
01:06:18,600 --> 01:06:21,320
Speaker 1: as he's been. I think that third preseason game in Seattle,

1337
01:06:21,320 --> 01:06:24,040
Speaker 1: if you watched them, he was very frenetic. He didn't

1338
01:06:24,080 --> 01:06:26,240
Speaker 1: he didn't seem like he was quite ready, which is normal.

1339
01:06:26,800 --> 01:06:28,960
Speaker 1: But the problem. The problem is I don't think the

1340
01:06:29,040 --> 01:06:31,600
Speaker 1: Chiefs are gonna lose enough for that to be That's

1341
01:06:31,640 --> 01:06:34,280
Speaker 1: what I was saying, Like they they've been winners with

1342
01:06:34,440 --> 01:06:37,280
Speaker 1: Smith behind center, and they've not been winning playoff games.

1343
01:06:37,360 --> 01:06:38,680
Speaker 1: But they would have to go into a funk that

1344
01:06:38,720 --> 01:06:41,800
Speaker 1: hasn't really happened since he's been there. If they get

1345
01:06:41,840 --> 01:06:44,760
Speaker 1: the real Justin Houston, which they they haven't had for

1346
01:06:44,840 --> 01:06:46,680
Speaker 1: a full season now for a couple of years, If

1347
01:06:46,680 --> 01:06:50,280
Speaker 1: they get the defensive Player of the Year candidate justin Houston,

1348
01:06:50,400 --> 01:06:52,320
Speaker 1: like that that changes who they are. To me is

1349
01:06:52,360 --> 01:06:53,880
Speaker 1: when I do I from them, I get I put

1350
01:06:54,080 --> 01:06:56,640
Speaker 1: Sherman out there, Anthony Sherman, haven't get popped by like

1351
01:06:56,840 --> 01:07:00,120
Speaker 1: major team's best defensive players week after week, drawing, you know,

1352
01:07:00,240 --> 01:07:03,240
Speaker 1: just deplete the rest of the NFL of resources, you know,

1353
01:07:03,440 --> 01:07:06,920
Speaker 1: but people just love to pop Sherman. He's just a magnet.

1354
01:07:07,280 --> 01:07:09,400
Speaker 1: Five game suspension. I don't want to pound the table

1355
01:07:09,480 --> 01:07:11,440
Speaker 1: too hard for Alex Smith, but if he's on the Broncos,

1356
01:07:11,600 --> 01:07:13,720
Speaker 1: they would have been my division pick. I think Alex

1357
01:07:13,720 --> 01:07:15,960
Speaker 1: Smith is a pretty good quarterback. You I would take

1358
01:07:16,120 --> 01:07:21,280
Speaker 1: Simon over him. People think you close it out, Patrick

1359
01:07:21,360 --> 01:07:24,280
Speaker 1: clay Bun. All Right, the two thousand and sixteen Chargers

1360
01:07:24,600 --> 01:07:27,280
Speaker 1: managed to go one and eight in single score games,

1361
01:07:27,680 --> 01:07:30,920
Speaker 1: and uh shouting out Justice Mosicata for this stat the

1362
01:07:30,960 --> 01:07:33,720
Speaker 1: first team ever to finish back to back seasons with

1363
01:07:33,840 --> 01:07:36,600
Speaker 1: a sub five DRED record in in single score games,

1364
01:07:36,720 --> 01:07:39,240
Speaker 1: and so like you had that up and you look

1365
01:07:39,280 --> 01:07:40,680
Speaker 1: at the injuries and it's like, well, this team is

1366
01:07:40,720 --> 01:07:43,880
Speaker 1: just really unlucky, like does luck exist? And so they

1367
01:07:43,960 --> 01:07:47,880
Speaker 1: have problems on the offensive line. Um they they would

1368
01:07:47,920 --> 01:07:51,040
Speaker 1: feel like they had addition by subtraction. They lose H.

1369
01:07:51,120 --> 01:07:53,840
Speaker 1: D J. Fluker in Orlando Franklin, who weren't really playing

1370
01:07:53,880 --> 01:07:56,560
Speaker 1: that well on the interior offensive line. They go get

1371
01:07:56,600 --> 01:07:59,760
Speaker 1: Forest Lamp and then promptly Forest Lamp Taters is a

1372
01:07:59,840 --> 01:08:02,520
Speaker 1: C in camp and so he's out as well. But

1373
01:08:02,560 --> 01:08:04,440
Speaker 1: there's there's still so much to feel good about and

1374
01:08:04,560 --> 01:08:06,800
Speaker 1: all the things that we liked. Year two of healthy

1375
01:08:06,880 --> 01:08:09,920
Speaker 1: Joey Bosa, a full year of Joey Bosa with no

1376
01:08:10,200 --> 01:08:13,400
Speaker 1: contract nonsense. Uh, he's able to get in. We saw

1377
01:08:13,480 --> 01:08:15,840
Speaker 1: him in Melvin Ingram team up for a sack, fumble,

1378
01:08:16,400 --> 01:08:21,120
Speaker 1: h touchdown return against the Rams. I think this offense

1379
01:08:21,200 --> 01:08:22,680
Speaker 1: is going to score a lot of points, and I

1380
01:08:22,760 --> 01:08:25,280
Speaker 1: think the defense is gonna make place. They're gonna rush

1381
01:08:25,360 --> 01:08:28,760
Speaker 1: the passer um. The Chargers are gonna be back. This

1382
01:08:28,960 --> 01:08:31,479
Speaker 1: is the back. This is why there's a lot of

1383
01:08:31,520 --> 01:08:44,840
Speaker 1: buzz about the Chargers being a potential of te t

1384
01:08:53,520 --> 01:09:08,880
Speaker 1: We're getting your three minutes. They're up super Beer. This

1385
01:09:09,280 --> 01:09:14,240
Speaker 1: is a very special honor. Anyway, they're in the mix.

1386
01:09:14,400 --> 01:09:17,120
Speaker 1: Other thoughts about the Charge don't don't underrate the Philip

1387
01:09:17,240 --> 01:09:20,479
Speaker 1: Rivers Ken Wizzen Hunt connection at this point, the two

1388
01:09:20,560 --> 01:09:23,040
Speaker 1: times that they've been together, and now they've got some continuity.

1389
01:09:23,560 --> 01:09:26,760
Speaker 1: Rivers has never had this much young talent around him.

1390
01:09:26,800 --> 01:09:28,920
Speaker 1: It's the most talent he's had period since about two

1391
01:09:28,960 --> 01:09:32,200
Speaker 1: thousand and seven. If the line is just average, you've

1392
01:09:32,200 --> 01:09:34,800
Speaker 1: got difference makers at every level of the defense, in

1393
01:09:34,920 --> 01:09:36,960
Speaker 1: terms of the pass rush, in terms of Casey, Hayward

1394
01:09:37,000 --> 01:09:39,400
Speaker 1: and Brett in the secondary. I love just like the

1395
01:09:39,600 --> 01:09:42,439
Speaker 1: top tier, top ten players on this team. This is

1396
01:09:42,479 --> 01:09:44,960
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers is time. This is the time to win

1397
01:09:45,040 --> 01:09:47,880
Speaker 1: the division. I'm when you picked then to the super

1398
01:09:47,920 --> 01:09:51,879
Speaker 1: Bowl between That's right, you're all in all between Benjamin

1399
01:09:52,040 --> 01:09:54,960
Speaker 1: and Tyrolle Williams. It's tough to find two guys on

1400
01:09:55,120 --> 01:09:59,080
Speaker 1: one team that can just flat out fly on the

1401
01:09:59,120 --> 01:10:04,360
Speaker 1: watch Keenan over the middle over. Everything looks good and

1402
01:10:04,439 --> 01:10:06,439
Speaker 1: they certainly look like a better team than the Rams

1403
01:10:08,520 --> 01:10:11,920
Speaker 1: never existed. It seems they're gonna I think if they

1404
01:10:11,960 --> 01:10:14,920
Speaker 1: start winning, they're gonna sell out their little soccer stadium

1405
01:10:14,960 --> 01:10:19,880
Speaker 1: and that will be dismissively. Well, they drew twenty one

1406
01:10:19,920 --> 01:10:22,160
Speaker 1: thousand for the first game, which was a bit troubling,

1407
01:10:22,240 --> 01:10:24,960
Speaker 1: let's be honest, But if they start winning, that will

1408
01:10:25,040 --> 01:10:27,639
Speaker 1: cure that. I would think. Uh, they just gotta put together,

1409
01:10:27,680 --> 01:10:29,599
Speaker 1: which they haven't been able to do for years now.

1410
01:10:29,960 --> 01:10:32,280
Speaker 1: And I don't want to be a doubter, but I

1411
01:10:32,400 --> 01:10:35,960
Speaker 1: gotta see it. I guess I love this division, best

1412
01:10:36,000 --> 01:10:38,560
Speaker 1: division in football. I would I would be pleased to

1413
01:10:38,600 --> 01:10:40,439
Speaker 1: just be assigned to be the a f C West

1414
01:10:40,520 --> 01:10:44,360
Speaker 1: beat writer and like cover all these four teams. Yeah,

1415
01:10:44,439 --> 01:10:46,240
Speaker 1: nerd oubt, Greg, I love it. Pick a winner of

1416
01:10:46,280 --> 01:10:49,719
Speaker 1: the division though. You got the Chargers mark they're winning

1417
01:10:49,720 --> 01:10:52,280
Speaker 1: the division to go to have them as a wild

1418
01:10:52,360 --> 01:10:59,639
Speaker 1: card team Broncos. Wow, Yeah, I'm about that. I will

1419
01:10:59,720 --> 01:11:03,840
Speaker 1: go with the Raiders. About that, well four, you didn't

1420
01:11:03,920 --> 01:11:06,040
Speaker 1: you never actually picked the team. Well, I picked my

1421
01:11:06,120 --> 01:11:08,360
Speaker 1: divisional teams in the chiefs and they're losing the playoffs.

1422
01:11:08,760 --> 01:11:10,280
Speaker 1: So there we go. We got we had all four

1423
01:11:10,360 --> 01:11:13,840
Speaker 1: divisions represented. Okay, that's it for around the af C

1424
01:11:14,040 --> 01:11:16,400
Speaker 1: forty eight minutes. Yes, and and the Chargers are in

1425
01:11:16,439 --> 01:11:19,000
Speaker 1: the mix of as team of a t l. Uh.

1426
01:11:19,479 --> 01:11:22,880
Speaker 1: We'll have to marinate any other teams we talked about. Uh,

1427
01:11:23,400 --> 01:11:26,400
Speaker 1: you know, something to think about, and then Wednesday we

1428
01:11:26,479 --> 01:11:30,599
Speaker 1: will do the NFC teams. Uh and UH, I'll be exciting.

1429
01:11:30,760 --> 01:11:34,760
Speaker 1: Patrick Laban, you've done an excellent job pinch hitting uh

1430
01:11:35,080 --> 01:11:38,280
Speaker 1: for what is a very important segment in society. Wise,

1431
01:11:38,280 --> 01:11:39,920
Speaker 1: I feel like they're going to call you down because

1432
01:11:39,960 --> 01:11:44,120
Speaker 1: they did just announced that the game, the preseason game,

1433
01:11:44,160 --> 01:11:47,840
Speaker 1: will be played in Dallas. There you go, and uh,

1434
01:11:48,000 --> 01:11:52,280
Speaker 1: let me throw something out here, uh. In terms of

1435
01:11:52,400 --> 01:11:55,400
Speaker 1: what's going on down in Houston, donations to the Red

1436
01:11:55,439 --> 01:11:58,240
Speaker 1: Cross for those affected by Harvey can be made online

1437
01:11:58,680 --> 01:12:03,400
Speaker 1: or text Harvey to nine zero nine nine nine. Donations

1438
01:12:03,439 --> 01:12:06,599
Speaker 1: to the Salvation Army can be made online as well,

1439
01:12:06,600 --> 01:12:08,960
Speaker 1: if you want to help out what's going on done there.

1440
01:12:09,280 --> 01:12:13,280
Speaker 1: Shout out to all our Houston listeners. Absolutely, stay safe,

1441
01:12:13,360 --> 01:12:16,960
Speaker 1: stay dry, uh and and good luck with everything. We'll

1442
01:12:17,000 --> 01:12:19,760
Speaker 1: be back Wednesday. As we said. Uh so, let's let's

1443
01:12:19,880 --> 01:12:22,679
Speaker 1: move forward into the week. This is Dan Hansons signing

1444
01:12:22,720 --> 01:12:27,360
Speaker 1: off for the Sizzler Get Well Soon, Buddy Claiban the

1445
01:12:27,479 --> 01:12:30,720
Speaker 1: Boss and Erica Tamposey behind the glass some call or

1446
01:12:30,720 --> 01:12:33,280
Speaker 1: a loose cannon until Wednesday