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Speaker 1: It's me Jason McIntyre. WHOA, I'm back. Happy to be

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Speaker 1: back on the radio. Three weeks out for uh kind

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Speaker 1: limitations apply. Wow, Wow, Wow, it's so good to hear

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Speaker 1: from you guys. The last few weeks, Joy Taylor filled

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Speaker 1: in did a great job, and I will say it's weird.

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Speaker 1: So I had a birthday over this three week um

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Speaker 1: sabbatical from the radio show, if you will, And it

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Speaker 1: is a joy to go on you know, Facebook, or

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Speaker 1: open up Instagram and see people saying happy birth that

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Speaker 1: people who haven't talked to in a while. I'll say this,

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Speaker 1: the immediacy of hearing from you guys. Hey man, what

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Speaker 1: the heck where are you at Saturday morning? I'm doing

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Speaker 1: my thing and you're not on the radio. That feels like,

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Speaker 1: we got a nice little community that's building now. Been

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Speaker 1: doing the show for five years, folks, and this was

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Speaker 1: the longest streak I had ever taken off the air.

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Speaker 1: I nearly took a three week vacation with the family.

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Speaker 1: We had a booked for Italy last summer. Uh, it

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Speaker 1: was gonna be incredible. Of course, a global pandemic hit

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Speaker 1: and that was that. But it is good to be back.

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Speaker 1: It has been a minute. I have missed talking about

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Speaker 1: end of the NFL regular season, whatever skeleton of a

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Speaker 1: bull season that we had. Um, you know the NBA

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Speaker 1: games that are currently discus used his games, but they

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Speaker 1: really pick up basketball. I mean there's no defense at

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Speaker 1: all in the NBA. I'm not gonna crush the NBA today.

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Speaker 1: We have some decent storylines. James Larden traded to Brooklyn,

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Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving missing an action. Trust me, we will talk

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Speaker 1: about Kyrie if you guys heard my daily podcast from

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Speaker 1: my Heart straight Fire a lot shorter than three hours. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: I have taken some shots at Kyrie Irving. There are

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Speaker 1: some jokes to be made. Obviously, Um, I missed wild

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Speaker 1: Card weekend last weekend, but picks went well on that one.

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Speaker 1: If you follow my picks on uh Fox Sports Digital.

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Speaker 1: I do the show Talk the Line with Colin Carissa,

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Speaker 1: Jeff Schwartz, Sarah Pearlman had a pretty good head up,

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Speaker 1: heads up weekend last weekend. But divisional playoff weekend ahead

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Speaker 1: right now, and it's generally considered the best football weekend

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Speaker 1: not like you're missing any plays. You get the best announcers,

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Speaker 1: presumably the best referees. And this is where legends are made,

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Speaker 1: folks in the postseason. And I feel like it hasn't

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Speaker 1: been that long, but a name I'm gonna say where

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Speaker 1: And I get people saying, you know, Jason, why don't

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Speaker 1: Rodgers family reunion. And all these green Bay fans get

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Speaker 1: Aaron Donald didn't practice at all this week. We don't

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Speaker 1: one twelve ninety five for their fifth straight victory. Donovan

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Speaker 1: Mitchell twenty six points in Utah. Well, they have won

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Speaker 1: four in a row. They beat the Hawks at one

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Speaker 1: sixteen Nino Oklahoma City, all the bulls and overtime and

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Speaker 1: twelve one or not? And as we sent it back

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Speaker 1: now to Jason McIntyre, thank you, Ralph Irvin. Back here

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Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio. It's me Jason McIntyre, and let's

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Speaker 1: welcome in our new guest. Well he's not new. I

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Speaker 1: mean I've known the guy for probably two decades. Brian Costello,

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Speaker 1: Jets beat writer for the New York Post. Brian, A

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Speaker 1: lot of people get on my case when I have

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Speaker 1: Jets writers on, Oh would you come on, Jason. You're

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Speaker 1: a national show and you're bringing on a Jets writer.

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Speaker 1: Jets have been good and forever, Brian. They don't know

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Speaker 1: about my love man, about my love for the Jets.

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Speaker 1: Now let's start here. Robert salah Am. I saying his

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Speaker 1: name right, it's like halla. That's how That's how I

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Speaker 1: keep my head like, it's like Holla, sala. Robert sala

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Speaker 1: Uh is the new Jets head coach. Apparently he's bringing

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Speaker 1: Mike lafleur Um with him, the brother of Matt Lafleur,

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Speaker 1: the Packers coach. UM. First of all, I am curious

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Speaker 1: on the big question here. Historically and meaning historically recent years,

445
00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:07,520
Speaker 1: this has become an offensive league. You hire an offensive coach.

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00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:09,919
Speaker 1: If you hire a defensive coach and the offense has

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00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:13,240
Speaker 1: any success within two years, that o C is leaving.

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Speaker 1: We're seeing it with Mike Vrabel right now in Tennessee. UM.

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00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:20,280
Speaker 1: And then you basically have your quarterback rotating through offensive

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Speaker 1: coordinators that ain't good. We saw in Philadelphia they kept

451
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Speaker 1: plucking the offensive coordinators UM from Carson Wentz. He has

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Speaker 1: struggled all of a sudden. Now Doug Peterson's an offensive guy.

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Speaker 1: But nevertheless, Brian, I this is a difficult thing for

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Speaker 1: me to grasp. Yeah. I think everyone's getting way ahead

455
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Speaker 1: of themselves with this argument. I saw this this week.

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Speaker 1: I think Mike Floria Pro Football Talk kind of started

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Speaker 1: the conversation on this. You know, if you've been a

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Speaker 1: Jet span a long time, Jason, right, they haven't made

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Speaker 1: the playoffs in ten years and five straight losing seasons.

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Speaker 1: If you get to the point where people want to

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Speaker 1: hire your offensive coordinator, he should be doing cart wheels

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Speaker 1: in your front yard like that. That means the Jets

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Speaker 1: are good. Like so across that bridge. When you get

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Speaker 1: to this, I thought, you know, yes, ideally you don't

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Speaker 1: want your offensive coordinate or changing every two years. But

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Speaker 1: look at the Titans you just mentioned them, Well, Flora

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Speaker 1: Lisa's there, goes to Green Bay and now Arthur Smith

468
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:20,159
Speaker 1: is great that he's gone, They'll still be They're still successful.

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Speaker 1: The hope is that you're coaching the coaches underneath them

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Speaker 1: and developing coaches and you can replace them. But like,

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Speaker 1: if the Jets have that problem, that's a heck of

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Speaker 1: a lot better than where they've been for the last decade,

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Speaker 1: So I wouldn't need to overly concerned with that. They

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Speaker 1: needed to get a leader in here. They need to

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Speaker 1: get someone who's gonna just kind of reinjagorate the organization.

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Speaker 1: He's obviously done it with the fan base already in TV.

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Speaker 1: Everyone seems very enthusiastic. So I think that was the

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Speaker 1: focus here, not whether he coaches offense or defense. Brian,

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Speaker 1: it sounds like this was a move like Adam Gays

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00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:56,840
Speaker 1: was a bad communicator, didn't talk to people. Um, I've

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00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:59,359
Speaker 1: still am angry at Peyton Manning for gassing him up.

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Speaker 1: That's the reason I was all in on Adam Gaze

483
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Speaker 1: because of Peyton Manning. Peyton Manning hyped him and then

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Speaker 1: he just was a poor communicator. It feels like they

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Speaker 1: wanted to get a communicator and that was the top

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Speaker 1: priority here. Um is that a good read on my part? Someone?

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Speaker 1: You know, I don't think Adam was as bad a

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Speaker 1: communicator as everybody may makes him out to the uh.

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Speaker 1: You know, the biggest problem for Adam Gates will be

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Speaker 1: the biggest problem for Robert Sale unless Joe Douglass finds players.

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Speaker 1: And it was the biggest problem for Tod Bowls right

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Speaker 1: Like Todd Bowls has had three teams requestion for a

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Speaker 1: head coaching interview right now because he's had success in

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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Agan because he has good players. Like if

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't care how good a coach Robert Sale,

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Speaker 1: if you give him the roster that the Jets had

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Speaker 1: last year, you know how much of sept even they

498
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Speaker 1: need players here? So I do think you're right. I

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Speaker 1: think they did set out for a communicator for you know,

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Speaker 1: big leadership, someone who's gonna kind of walk in the door.

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Speaker 1: Adam didn't have a commanding presence Adam wasn't a Rara

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Speaker 1: stand up in front of team, you know, give a

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Speaker 1: new Rockney speech type of guy. That wasn't him. Uh

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Speaker 1: So I think they wanted that, Like this is what

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Speaker 1: teams do, right they they they want the opposite of

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Speaker 1: what they just had. You know, when they when the

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Speaker 1: Jets fired Eric Mangini, they went to Rex Ryan because

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Speaker 1: he was the polar opposite of Eric Mangini. When they

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Speaker 1: fire Rex Ryan, they went to top bowls because this

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Speaker 1: is what they do. It doesn't always work. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think everything I've heard about Robert Salad, you know,

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Speaker 1: there's rave reviews. He seems like he's a guy who

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Speaker 1: players like to play. For that being said, he's never

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Speaker 1: done a job before, so you know, we gotta wait

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Speaker 1: and see how he does. I think it's time, Brian,

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00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:38,680
Speaker 1: you need to go officially on record. What should the

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Speaker 1: Jets do? Keep Sam Donald or draft a quarterback at two?

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Speaker 1: And I don't want to hear this, well, you got

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Speaker 1: to evaluate all the quarterbacks You've had time, sound like

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Speaker 1: the Jets have been in anything do anything the last

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks. I need to know where you stand

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Speaker 1: on this. I would move on from Sam Donald thank Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I've seen third shade games of Sam Donald and here's

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Speaker 1: where this is where I am. This is my position

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Speaker 1: on Sam Donald's you can win with Sam Donald as

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Speaker 1: or quarterback. You're not going to win because Sam Donald

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Speaker 1: desert and I want a quarterback that I'm gonna win

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Speaker 1: because he's in there, you know. So the last game

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Speaker 1: of the season, Jet to play the Patriots. They lose.

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Speaker 1: I'm sitting writing and then I'm just kind of waiting.

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Speaker 1: I know adam Us is gonna get fired, so I'm

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Speaker 1: waiting for the word that he's inspired to write my story.

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Speaker 1: And I flipped on red Zone and I watched Texans Titans,

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Speaker 1: and I'm watching the Shawn Watson move his team down

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Speaker 1: the field. Laramie tuns is not playing his offensive line

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Speaker 1: is He's all a lot of backups. He's throwing the

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Speaker 1: Chad Hanson who was a Jets practic who I watched

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Speaker 1: practice every day, and I know that's not DeAndre Hopkins

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Speaker 1: out there, and he's moving them down the field Jason

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Speaker 1: against the Titans, who are a really good team, and

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at him like that's what it looks like,

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Speaker 1: That's what a franchise quarterback looks like and I haven't

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Speaker 1: seen that from Donald once in three years a game like,

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Speaker 1: So I like him. I think Sam has a lot

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Speaker 1: of good traits. I do think. I know Jets fans

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Speaker 1: have a fear that he's gonna go somewhere and blossom.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna happen. He could win someone if you drop

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00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 1: him in right now on one of these playoff teams,

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00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:14,720
Speaker 1: Sam's gonna look a lot better than he has with

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Speaker 1: the Jets, because, again, like I said, with the coach,

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00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 1: Sam's been playing with a lot of bad players around them.

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00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:21,720
Speaker 1: He's had some bad coaching. So yeah, he's gonna be better.

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Speaker 1: But I I don't see Sam Donald ever becoming DeShawn

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Speaker 1: Watson or Patrick Mahomes. And I think if you're the

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00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:29,520
Speaker 1: Jets or any team, that's what you want, and that's

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Speaker 1: what they have to fund. Yeah, he's gonna go somewhere

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Speaker 1: and be successful. Now the question becomes, Brian, because you're

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Speaker 1: just I love this. Where does Sam end up? Uh,

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh would have to be an option. Indie San Francisco.

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Speaker 1: Who am I missing? Washington? I think I Well, to

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Speaker 1: me like Washington jumps out. I'm not exactly sure why,

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Speaker 1: but I like, obviously they need a quarterback, right, I

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Speaker 1: don't think. I don't know if Alex Agathon is gonna

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Speaker 1: come back. He's not really somebody who's can rely on

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Speaker 1: to play sixteen games at this point with his his

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Speaker 1: health issues. Um, he's in the NFC. So I think

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Speaker 1: the Jets would I think the Jets would prefer that

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Speaker 1: Sam goes to the NFC and they don't have to

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Speaker 1: see him, you know, in case he does become at

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Speaker 1: that quarterback. So I in my mind, in Washington's gonna

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Speaker 1: say won the division, They're gonna be drafting like nineteen,

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Speaker 1: I think something like that. Yeah, so they'm not going

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Speaker 1: to have a shot at one of these top quarterbacks probably,

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Speaker 1: So I don't know, it just makes it makes sense

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Speaker 1: to me that he could end up in Washington. Interesting.

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Speaker 1: Now where are you? Final question, Brian, Are you in

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Speaker 1: the Justin Fields camp or the Zack Wilson or is

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Speaker 1: there someone else I look Jason up from. I have

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Speaker 1: not watched a lot of college football, is so I,

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00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:46,720
Speaker 1: but I I liked what I saw from Fields. Obviously

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00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 1: semifinal game, he was really good. Um, you know, and

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Speaker 1: I just have heard about Justin Fields for years because

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00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:56,760
Speaker 1: even it's funny. He's Jordan's Jenkins, the Jets linebackers from Georgia.

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Speaker 1: He would tell me about Justin Fields and he's in

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Speaker 1: high school and he went and then he went to

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Speaker 1: Georgia and like Jenkins, was excited about and going there.

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Speaker 1: Um so he's the one who intreats me the most.

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00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 1: But like you know, you don't want to hear the evaluation.

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00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 1: And I too think in that aspect, Joe Douglas and

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00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 1: his staff that you gotta figure that out. That's that's

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Speaker 1: above my page. Late, I have not watched enough college

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Speaker 1: tape to understand who the best quarterback is in college

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Speaker 1: right now, other than I'm sorry, the second best quarterback

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Speaker 1: I have watched. Yes, yes, all right. Brian Costello New

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Speaker 1: York Post obviously follow him. Brian c o Z. Brian, hey, man,

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Speaker 1: now that you got the coach out of the way,

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Speaker 1: you can have some fun this offseason. I'm sure you're

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Speaker 1: gonna go global global trip. Oh we're in a pandemic.

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Speaker 1: I forgot nobody can do. I'll be certain in my

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Speaker 1: basement some more. Jus Yeah, alright, man, stay healthy, Brian,

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Speaker 1: all right, thank you, thanks, alright, Brian, take it easy.

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Speaker 1: Brian Costello, good guy, great reporter, plugged in and and

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Speaker 1: I like, I like where he's at. You've gotta get

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Speaker 1: rid of Sam Donald. And it's not a slight. I

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Speaker 1: like Sam Donald too. I was rooting for to be

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Speaker 1: his third head coach in what four years. Somebody's got

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Speaker 1: to pay him. I think Washington I had not really

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Speaker 1: considered that. With the Alex Smith stuff. I'm sure some

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Speaker 1: Washington fans will talk themselves Entertaylor Heineken, I mean Heineke.

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Speaker 1: But let's be realistic, all right, coming up next year

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Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio. So we didn't do a lot

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Speaker 1: on Alabama yet, but um, like college football needs to

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Speaker 1: Did you guys notice all three playoff games decided by

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Speaker 1: Gather and I got into it during the break. So

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Speaker 1: there's a report now that Brian Dable is the clubhouse

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Speaker 1: leader for the Charger's job. That is pretty damn good.

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Speaker 1: We will get into that second hour. That would be massive. Listen,

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Speaker 1: given what Dable has done for Josh Allen and the

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Speaker 1: pair them with Justin Herbert. Hello, success. You get a

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Speaker 1: Remember I this Chargers roster stacked. Holy cow, that would

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Speaker 1: be huge. Um. I still think watch out for Houston

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Speaker 1: those because I don't even know what the word is

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Speaker 1: Somehow I'm a character coach. Okay, all right? So I

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Speaker 1: quickly wanted to talk about Alabama and what is going

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Speaker 1: on in college football again. The numbers are pretty bleak.

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Speaker 1: In twenty one college football playoff games, seventeen to those

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Speaker 1: games have been won by Alabama, Ohio State, Clemson. It's

641
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:15,840
Speaker 1: just utter dominance. And the playoffs have gotten boring. That's

642
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Speaker 1: the problem. It's just not exciting. Now, do you sometimes

643
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Speaker 1: get an amazing game like last year's Ohio State Clemson game,

644
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Speaker 1: which was a phenomenal game. Yeah, but look at the

645
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:33,640
Speaker 1: last two years, one game out of six was remotely interesting.

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Speaker 1: L s U. I mean bludgeoned Oklahoma. L s you

647
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:40,000
Speaker 1: destroyed Clemson. Like, the games are not that competitive. So

648
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Speaker 1: how do you improve a playoff when you've got three

649
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,799
Speaker 1: juggernauts like that? Will you expand the damn thing? Now?

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Speaker 1: We've been talking about this for years. I mean, look

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Speaker 1: at how stacked Alabama is. Okay, they had three of

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Speaker 1: the five Heisman finalists. Okay, they had six First Team

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Speaker 1: All Americans. The Pack twelve had one, the Big Twelve

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Speaker 1: had three. So Alabama had more First Team All Americans

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Speaker 1: than the Pack twelve and the Big Twelve combined. Like,

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Speaker 1: do you guys understand what that is? Do you? I mean,

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Speaker 1: do you think about this? That's not fun. Now, that's

658
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:22,759
Speaker 1: not gonna go away anytime soon. That's not going anywhere, right,

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Speaker 1: Alabama is going to continue to get the best in

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Speaker 1: the brightest So how do you make it interesting? You

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Speaker 1: expand the damn thing. Even if Alabama blows out Cincinnati

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Speaker 1: in the first game, you know, and they would, or

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00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:39,360
Speaker 1: Alabama blows out Bois or whomever. Fine, but now you

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Speaker 1: at least add four more teams, and you know what,

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Speaker 1: maybe Ohio State gets caught, maybe Clemson gets surprised. You know,

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Speaker 1: And this stuff can be cyclical. Okay, we saw Duke

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Speaker 1: in North Carolina complete juggernauts in college basketball. You c

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Speaker 1: l a had to run. Okay, um, Arkansas had a

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Speaker 1: mini run right now. Kentucky was going through a great

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Speaker 1: run of the first round picks. Like this stuff can

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Speaker 1: be cyclical. The problem is Alabama's not going anywhere. Nick

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Speaker 1: Saban sixty nine years old. The dude works out two

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Speaker 1: times a day. He doesn't get worn down because he's

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Speaker 1: got like seventy four assistant coaches. He's got this great

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Speaker 1: rehabilitation program going on. If you are a coach in

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Speaker 1: football and you screw up, or you stink, or you've

677
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 1: forget how to be successful and you get fired, put

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Speaker 1: in a call to Nick Saban, or or you start

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Speaker 1: drinking or drugs, whatever it is. You go to Nick Saban.

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Speaker 1: Hey man, I know how to do football. Um, I

681
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Speaker 1: could be a leader of men. Can I come on board? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin, Sark, Bill O'Brien come on down. You know

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Speaker 1: what that means. It's less work for Nick Saban. He's

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Speaker 1: so smart, and this is what good leaders do. Nick

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Speaker 1: Saban is so smart. He was a defensive guy his

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Speaker 1: whole career, right and then what like six five six

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00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:12,959
Speaker 1: years ago he realized, Man, I can't win games six

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Speaker 1: to nine to six, uh, four to seven. That's like,

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Speaker 1: that's not modern football. The game is rigged to the offenses.

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Speaker 1: So what does Nick Saban do. I will be the

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Speaker 1: CEO of Alabama football, and I will bring in offensive

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Speaker 1: guys to teach the player's offense, and we'll run Lane

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Speaker 1: Kiffins offense and Sarks offense and Bill O'Brien's offense. Go ahead,

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Speaker 1: and Nick Saban's got a got the best job in America.

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Speaker 1: He's the biggest fish in college football. He basically runs

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Speaker 1: the state of Alabama. Whoever he says to vote for

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00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:52,279
Speaker 1: or this guy stinks politically, or what Nick Saban calls

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Speaker 1: the shots. And he's the CEO down there of the university.

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00:39:57,680 --> 00:39:59,400
Speaker 1: Like it's a great setter for Nick Saban. He's not

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Speaker 1: going anywhere college football to be interesting again and not

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Speaker 1: make this the Alabama Invitational every year, is to invite

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Speaker 1: more teams to the playoffs. Like this is very simple.

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Speaker 1: It should not be that tall of an order for Alabama,

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Speaker 1: uh or for college football to figure out the Alabama problem.

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Speaker 1: Um So that's one hour in the books and it's

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Speaker 1: good to be bad. A lot more room on this

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Speaker 1: to spread my wings than straight fire. We try to

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Speaker 1: condense that to an hour. You know, we have a guest.

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Speaker 1: We tighten it up. This is just like Boom. I'm

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Speaker 1: rolling and Gavitt has had a couple of things, and Gavin,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna get into the Chargers next hour. Coming up

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Speaker 1: next we're gonna do NFL Divisional weekend picks. It's a

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Speaker 1: tough slate. It is a brutal slate of games to

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Speaker 1: bet on. We will talk to you after the break.

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Speaker 1: from Sharp Football Analysis. T A. How are you man? Good, Jason?

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Speaker 1: How they going with your playoffs? And started off, well,

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Speaker 1: yeah they have. I took a few weeks off the show,

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Speaker 1: so we we did. We didn't do picts here with

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Speaker 1: you for a minute. Um, But last weekend, you know,

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Speaker 1: the sides were actually good for me too, and one

736
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Speaker 1: totals just totally whipped on. Did well on teasers, although

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Speaker 1: the Steelers kind of blew one up. But I this

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Speaker 1: weekend is really tough. Not a lot of market movement. Um,

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Speaker 1: which game would you like to start with? Well, we

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Speaker 1: could just go in order of the of the time

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Speaker 1: of the game. Let's let's start out. I think Rams

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Speaker 1: Packers is the opener. Um, there's some chatter this morning

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Speaker 1: that Cooper Cup is a game time decision. He and

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Speaker 1: Aaron Donald haven't practiced. I love to make a case,

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Speaker 1: uh for the Rams here getting getting seven, but um,

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Speaker 1: I don't know where are you on this one? Yeah,

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00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:31,640
Speaker 1: so it's interesting. So I just I I my favorite

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Speaker 1: probably bet of the weekend is not a straight pad.

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Speaker 1: If the teaser bad. I've got the Packers essentially had

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Speaker 1: to pick them and Ravens at eight and a half,

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Speaker 1: and really, you know, for me, uh, it comes down

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Speaker 1: to I mean, it's the obvious stuff that's you know,

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Speaker 1: I've heard I've got somebody who got a close connection

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Speaker 1: with the Rams, and what I've heard is Donald will play,

755
00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:55,759
Speaker 1: but he is not even close to no matter you

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00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:57,640
Speaker 1: know what they shoot him up with. It's like he's

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Speaker 1: not going to be as effective as you normally is.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a big deal in the middle of

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Speaker 1: that defense. And you know, for me, I just don't

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Speaker 1: know how the Rams score more than seventeen twenty points.

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Speaker 1: And um, you know, you've got Jared Goff, who has

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Speaker 1: obviously got this dissocated thumb. He didn't look great last week,

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Speaker 1: and he hasn't played well in a long time. And

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Speaker 1: he's playing, you know, this narrative that he's you know,

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Speaker 1: he's a California kids playing in you know, below freezing temperatures.

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Speaker 1: I think is legit only because he's got small hands

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Speaker 1: and he's got um that dis ocated thumb. It's like

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Speaker 1: the combination of all of that plus essentially not having

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Speaker 1: Cooper Cup in there. I mean, he's played I looked

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Speaker 1: it up. He's played two games under thirty degrees in

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Speaker 1: his entire NFL career. Book came in two thouen when

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Speaker 1: they went to the Super Bowl and it was that

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Speaker 1: you know, Sunday night game in Chicago's freezing game and

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Speaker 1: he threw four interceptions, the single worst QB rating game

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Speaker 1: of his career. He also played in Denver Um that

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Speaker 1: that season in October and was fourteen twenty eight, no touchdowns,

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Speaker 1: one interception. That was the eighth worth um QB rating

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Speaker 1: game of his career. So we've got that limited sample again.

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Speaker 1: You measured nine nine inch hands at the combine. That

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Speaker 1: was a big issue. So like, I think, how are you?

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Speaker 1: How are you gripping a frozen football with a dislocated

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Speaker 1: thumb when you already have, uh you know, an issue

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Speaker 1: with with the sides of your hands. So and if

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Speaker 1: you take away if Cooper Cup is not they're not effective.

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Speaker 1: And you've got Jagger Alexander covering Robert Woods, Like, what

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Speaker 1: are you doing? You're just running cam Akers up the middle.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. So to me, like, I have so

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Speaker 1: much respect for the Ramps defense that I'm not willing

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Speaker 1: to lay the six and a half with the Packers.

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Speaker 1: But I think when a teaser to sutually just get

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Speaker 1: them to win, I think it's the right play. So

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Speaker 1: at least in the early game. That's that's the first

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Speaker 1: leg of my teaser that I like. Yeah, I am

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Speaker 1: curious t A. The one thing that jumped out of

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Speaker 1: me is the Packers have not played a very good

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Speaker 1: defense in a while. Uh they you know, they moved

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00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:48,040
Speaker 1: the ball easily on the Saints. I think it was

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Speaker 1: like Week three Saints defense is not is significantly better

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Speaker 1: than it was back then. They could do nothing. Uh

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Speaker 1: Green Bay against Tampa. They had the thirty first rated

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Speaker 1: schedule in the league. I don't know if the fully

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Speaker 1: buying the Packers. Um, well, let me let me flip

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Speaker 1: this on you. Um how many Okay, if I how

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Speaker 1: many Top thirteen offenses do you think the Ram to face?

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00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:14,040
Speaker 1: They faced a lot of backup quarterbacks? Okay, so they

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Speaker 1: faced to the answers. They faced two Buffalo and Tampa,

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Speaker 1: and what do they do? They allowed thirty five to

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen and Buffalo they just totally shreaded them. And

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Speaker 1: they you know, they beat Tampa, but they allowed sporty

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Speaker 1: four there. You know, like I don't. I think it's

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Speaker 1: a really good defense, but I'm not sure it's you know,

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Speaker 1: this isn't the eighty six Bears defense now. And if

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Speaker 1: you've got a Aaron Donald who is like that makes

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Speaker 1: a huge difference. So, like I said, I agree, the

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Speaker 1: Packers haven't really been tested from that perspective, but I

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Speaker 1: only think the Rams have either. So I think it's

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Speaker 1: kind of a wash when you look at schedules. So

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Speaker 1: I guess at the end of the day, I think,

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Speaker 1: you know, this is something like a twenty to sixteen game,

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Speaker 1: you know, like that's the that's the type of game

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Speaker 1: that I think. Here in my Fox Sports column, I

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Speaker 1: had seen I took the under you actually don't blame

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Speaker 1: you at all. I get e vice whenever we get

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Speaker 1: NFL totals that are like under forty six, because we

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Speaker 1: saw last week. I actually ended up last minute taking

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Speaker 1: the over in that Seattle Rams game, only because it

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Speaker 1: was forty two and a half. Everyone I saw red

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Speaker 1: took the underness like, well, all you think it is

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Speaker 1: one fluky play, like a defensive touchdown, which we got. Um,

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Speaker 1: you get a muff phunt like things that it's so

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Speaker 1: easy to just to score. Um, these random play It's

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Speaker 1: just hard in the NFL these days, especially in a

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Speaker 1: playoff game where teams are fighting until the last minute

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Speaker 1: to score. They're not, you know, running the ball out. Um,

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Speaker 1: you just never know. So I hear you. I think, honestly,

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Speaker 1: the better play if you do like the under, just

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Speaker 1: take the under Rams team total. I think it's nineteen

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Speaker 1: and a half twenty. I think that's a better play

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Speaker 1: than I think that the game over, just because you

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Speaker 1: never know Aaron Rodgers could end up, you know, connecting

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Speaker 1: a couple of long ones and you know that it

842
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Speaker 1: goes over just because of that. How funny? How funny

843
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:51,120
Speaker 1: was that Seahawks Rams? You know I had the under

844
00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:53,440
Speaker 1: forty two and a half or whatever, and I go

845
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:55,399
Speaker 1: out to shoot hoops with my kids because the game

846
00:46:55,440 --> 00:46:58,640
Speaker 1: was so bad. Midway through the second quarter, it's six three.

847
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:01,360
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, this looks great, and my phone starts

848
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:04,320
Speaker 1: blowing up. Oh my gosh, pick six metcalf. Oh my goodness.

849
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:06,359
Speaker 1: I'm like, what how was your points in this game?

850
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 1: But at any rate, let's get to the Saturday night game.

851
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:12,279
Speaker 1: T A any thoughts on any lean there? Yeah, well,

852
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:14,080
Speaker 1: as I mentioned, that's the second leg of my teaser,

853
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:15,760
Speaker 1: so I do have the Ravens at eight and a half.

854
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:18,759
Speaker 1: I personally I wouldn't play either side. A gun to

855
00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:20,839
Speaker 1: my head, I might take Buffalo at two and a half,

856
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:22,600
Speaker 1: but I just I'd rather just have the teasers. I

857
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:25,200
Speaker 1: think it's a close game either way. You know, obviously,

858
00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:27,880
Speaker 1: the the advantage for Baltimore is they can run the

859
00:47:27,880 --> 00:47:31,239
Speaker 1: ball and Buffalo is the bottom five UM you know,

860
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:33,320
Speaker 1: run defense. We look at some of the advanced matrics

861
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:36,600
Speaker 1: and they haven't faced many good rush offenses uh this season,

862
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:40,600
Speaker 1: but when they have, um, those rush offenses have exceeded

863
00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:43,400
Speaker 1: their averages, so you know, they are susceptible to the

864
00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:45,759
Speaker 1: ground game. We saw last week with Jonathan Taylor and

865
00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:47,319
Speaker 1: Nicky behind. They ran the ball a lot. They had

866
00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:49,600
Speaker 1: a bunch of exposed to play, so there's clearly an

867
00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:52,319
Speaker 1: advantage there, um in the run game, and I think

868
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:55,719
Speaker 1: that's in the two opclock. Um. Now, the reason I

869
00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:57,160
Speaker 1: do like the Ravens two, I think there's be a

870
00:47:57,160 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 1: lower scoring game. I actually took the under as well

871
00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:01,680
Speaker 1: here only because the winds are expected to be I

872
00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:04,439
Speaker 1: looked it up just about an hour ago. Uh kind

873
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:08,799
Speaker 1: of twenty when you look at gus Lamar Jackson does

874
00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:11,160
Speaker 1: not have a rocket arm. So I think they're gonna

875
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:13,759
Speaker 1: really stick to the ground game. Um, They're gonna chew

876
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:15,600
Speaker 1: up as much clock as possible, and I think that

877
00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:17,800
Speaker 1: you know, Josh Don will be affected just enough against

878
00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:20,120
Speaker 1: the really good you know, the Rapids defense has really

879
00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:23,160
Speaker 1: played well lately, and they've got finally all three of

880
00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:26,880
Speaker 1: their cornerbacks healthy, so they're gonna have Peter's Humphrey and

881
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:29,520
Speaker 1: Jimmy Smith all in the field at the same time. Um,

882
00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:31,680
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a lot lower scoring than

883
00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:34,200
Speaker 1: people think. But from a side perspective, I just feel

884
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:36,400
Speaker 1: more comfortable, um getting the eight and a half. I

885
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 1: mean Lamar Jackson's career. I think he's at thirty seven starts.

886
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:41,960
Speaker 1: He's only had three losses by more than six points,

887
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:44,800
Speaker 1: so I feel pretty safe that they can cover that

888
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:46,920
Speaker 1: date and behalf. I'm just not sure, you know, straight

889
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:48,920
Speaker 1: up who I like in that one. So I I

890
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:51,560
Speaker 1: had the guy on my podcast who won the super

891
00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:54,840
Speaker 1: contest and finished second in the circle. He collected like

892
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:57,319
Speaker 1: him and his partner eight hundred thousand dollars. You gotta

893
00:48:57,320 --> 00:49:00,120
Speaker 1: listen to it on Straight Fire, and he liked the

894
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:03,560
Speaker 1: Bills here, and his explanation was solid, nothing earth shattering,

895
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:05,600
Speaker 1: and you can make a great case, as you said,

896
00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:08,480
Speaker 1: for both sides here. But then I had Mike Sando

897
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:11,640
Speaker 1: on from the Athletic and he pointed out that the

898
00:49:11,719 --> 00:49:15,000
Speaker 1: Bills are six and oh this year against top ten

899
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:18,080
Speaker 1: e PA defenses and they're averaging like thirty points a game.

900
00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:22,399
Speaker 1: And I saw that. I mean, I'm like, what on her?

901
00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:24,040
Speaker 1: How was that pot? Now the Rams were in a

902
00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:26,440
Speaker 1: weird spot. I think that was a travel nightmare for them.

903
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:28,319
Speaker 1: They were down huge in the first half and came back.

904
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:31,839
Speaker 1: But this Bill's offenses, like Brian Dable apparently is getting

905
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:33,719
Speaker 1: the charger's job. Have you heard this in the last hour,

906
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:36,359
Speaker 1: Like that would be amazing him, Dabele and Herbert would

907
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:38,759
Speaker 1: be incredible. But and what I like in anyone who

908
00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:41,359
Speaker 1: passed me on Twitter, you know the big analytics, you know,

909
00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:44,759
Speaker 1: push it, throw the ball early, throw down, don't do

910
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:47,560
Speaker 1: what the Titans, I mean the Mike Rebel offense. And

911
00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:49,600
Speaker 1: that's why I don't think it's artist, but I think

912
00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:52,480
Speaker 1: it's more rebel. Just run on first sound with Derrick Henry.

913
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:55,160
Speaker 1: Every single time the defense knows exactly what's gonna what

914
00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:57,480
Speaker 1: you're gonna do. They throw the ball a lot. The

915
00:49:57,520 --> 00:50:01,320
Speaker 1: Bills in the Chiefs are one two in early down passing,

916
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:03,480
Speaker 1: and that's what you do. That that's why Davel has

917
00:50:03,520 --> 00:50:05,480
Speaker 1: just been He's done a great job of, you know,

918
00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:08,120
Speaker 1: playing to their strength, spread the spread the defense out,

919
00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:10,440
Speaker 1: and throw the ball, especially early down. That. I will

920
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:13,600
Speaker 1: say one area that the Ravens have struggled this year.

921
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:16,120
Speaker 1: They haven't played a lot of teams that spread them out.

922
00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:18,799
Speaker 1: So in kind of four wide receiver personnel, they've only

923
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:21,520
Speaker 1: played one team and that's the Steelers um earlier in

924
00:50:21,520 --> 00:50:24,080
Speaker 1: the year that really spread them out with four receivers

925
00:50:24,080 --> 00:50:26,279
Speaker 1: and essentially no running backs, and that's a lot of

926
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:29,360
Speaker 1: what Buffalo does and Ben and Ben lawess brog actually

927
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:31,520
Speaker 1: picked them apart. I didn't go deep a lot. It

928
00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:34,160
Speaker 1: was a lot of shorter passes, but he was very efficient.

929
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 1: So that's one area that I could I could see,

930
00:50:36,719 --> 00:50:38,960
Speaker 1: you know, the Bills just kind of thinking and dunking

931
00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:41,440
Speaker 1: and then doing a double move, you know. And I

932
00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:44,000
Speaker 1: gave Davis on Marcus Peters who likes to cheat, and

933
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:46,160
Speaker 1: that's like the play, so I could see that happening.

934
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:47,360
Speaker 1: I guess that if I had a gun to my

935
00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:49,520
Speaker 1: head to probably take the Bills, just because I think

936
00:50:49,560 --> 00:50:51,960
Speaker 1: that the probably the better overall team. But just the

937
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:54,160
Speaker 1: fact that you know, the wind could be an issue

938
00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:56,719
Speaker 1: here could limit some of those deep balls by Josh Allen.

939
00:50:56,760 --> 00:50:58,520
Speaker 1: And the fact that I think the Ravens just can

940
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:01,400
Speaker 1: chew up so much clock running the ball and the

941
00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:03,920
Speaker 1: efficient doing it real quickly. Where are you? Where are

942
00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:06,719
Speaker 1: you on? Wink Martindale because he loves to blitz. They

943
00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:08,719
Speaker 1: blitz more than any team in the league this year.

944
00:51:09,040 --> 00:51:11,719
Speaker 1: Josh Allen has been amazing under pressure. I think he

945
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:14,520
Speaker 1: was third in the league in touchdowns, and he picks

946
00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:17,680
Speaker 1: apart man because digs and Beasley and Brown are so good.

947
00:51:18,920 --> 00:51:21,200
Speaker 1: You know, is Martindale gonna change it up and do

948
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:24,200
Speaker 1: any zone? He's got a bunch of man cornerbacks. I

949
00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:27,280
Speaker 1: just I have some buyer's remorse. I did bet fairly

950
00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:30,040
Speaker 1: significantly the Ravens getting three with some juice early in

951
00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:32,680
Speaker 1: the week Sunday night. But I have some I have

952
00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:35,680
Speaker 1: some concerns obviously. No, I mean I don't know what

953
00:51:35,719 --> 00:51:37,640
Speaker 1: they're gonna do. Defensively, I don't think they're gonna change

954
00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:39,799
Speaker 1: because they don't change much when they face Mahomes who

955
00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:43,000
Speaker 1: shreds blisses, right, And so that's the worries. Yeah, if

956
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:45,280
Speaker 1: you the thing with the blizz is, you know Josh

957
00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:47,359
Speaker 1: Allen actually when he looks at splits, he's not good

958
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:50,279
Speaker 1: under pressure. He has actually struggled under pressure. But he's

959
00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:52,319
Speaker 1: good versus the blitz, right, And there's a difference because

960
00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:54,000
Speaker 1: you can blitz them. But if he gets the way,

961
00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:56,400
Speaker 1: if he scrambled, he can make up big play and

962
00:51:56,440 --> 00:51:59,440
Speaker 1: really kill you. But if you get there, then he

963
00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:01,279
Speaker 1: really those right, Like if you're in his face and

964
00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:03,600
Speaker 1: he han't nowhere to go, then he might make a mistake,

965
00:52:03,640 --> 00:52:05,719
Speaker 1: he might throw it. That's where he throws his interceptions,

966
00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:08,239
Speaker 1: So it all depends. You know, you could blitz and

967
00:52:08,400 --> 00:52:10,120
Speaker 1: you know all you want, you gotta get there, like

968
00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:12,440
Speaker 1: as though there's no holding back there. All right, So

969
00:52:12,560 --> 00:52:15,319
Speaker 1: your Brown's with the upset of the weekend blew up

970
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:18,880
Speaker 1: everybody's teasers. The house loved it. Um can they can

971
00:52:18,920 --> 00:52:20,640
Speaker 1: they pull this off? First of all? And second can

972
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:23,040
Speaker 1: they cover? Well? First of all, any team in the

973
00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:25,799
Speaker 1: playoffs can pull it off. But I find it it's

974
00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:29,080
Speaker 1: just really hard with this defense, um, the way they played,

975
00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:32,360
Speaker 1: and they really haven't tased so many stud quarterbacks like Mahomes.

976
00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:35,360
Speaker 1: I find it it's difficult for me to think that

977
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:37,239
Speaker 1: they're gonna win it at the end. I do think

978
00:52:37,239 --> 00:52:39,560
Speaker 1: they could keep a close and I think the paths

979
00:52:39,560 --> 00:52:42,280
Speaker 1: of victory is kind of what they've been doing, um

980
00:52:42,280 --> 00:52:44,840
Speaker 1: silently in the last you know, two months of the season.

981
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:47,080
Speaker 1: That's everyone just assumes a great run game. So they're

982
00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:49,160
Speaker 1: just gonna pound the ball, pound the ball early. Will

983
00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:53,439
Speaker 1: know there again analytically based front office, the fancy's really smart. Die.

984
00:52:53,719 --> 00:52:56,399
Speaker 1: He believes in what you know, the way you throw

985
00:52:56,480 --> 00:52:58,800
Speaker 1: the win early, right, so he the Browns are actually

986
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:02,200
Speaker 1: the fifth we past heavy team in the first quarter

987
00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:05,239
Speaker 1: UM since Week twelve and their third best in terms

988
00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:07,760
Speaker 1: of success rate. So they've been jumping on teams early.

989
00:53:07,760 --> 00:53:10,279
Speaker 1: They did it against the Titans obviously, they did it

990
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:13,360
Speaker 1: last week against the Steelers. Like they're throwing early to

991
00:53:13,400 --> 00:53:15,640
Speaker 1: get these leads, and then you use the two headed

992
00:53:15,680 --> 00:53:18,000
Speaker 1: monster and Chubb and Hunt to essentially put the nail

993
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:19,800
Speaker 1: on the coffin. Now, you can't really do that against

994
00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:21,400
Speaker 1: the Homes in the chief because they could score in

995
00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:23,600
Speaker 1: every possession even if you have a big lead. We

996
00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:25,880
Speaker 1: saw that with Houston last week. So I actually do

997
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:28,919
Speaker 1: like the Browns um both. I like the over here.

998
00:53:29,000 --> 00:53:31,919
Speaker 1: I like the Browns over ten and a half team

999
00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:34,879
Speaker 1: total in the first half. UM, I think that they're gonna,

1000
00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 1: like I said, they're gonna start off hot. I think

1001
00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:39,080
Speaker 1: they're gonna score early. Here's the thing with the Chiefs,

1002
00:53:39,239 --> 00:53:41,440
Speaker 1: UM and I looked this up and again this is

1003
00:53:41,440 --> 00:53:43,760
Speaker 1: a small sample size, but I just thought it was interesting.

1004
00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:45,800
Speaker 1: If you look back in the last ten years, have

1005
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:49,320
Speaker 1: been six teams that have rested starters in Week seventeen

1006
00:53:49,360 --> 00:53:52,240
Speaker 1: and then had a first round by UH. Those teams

1007
00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:56,719
Speaker 1: are one in fives against the spread and UM two

1008
00:53:56,719 --> 00:53:58,440
Speaker 1: and fourth straight up and one of those teams of

1009
00:53:58,480 --> 00:54:00,960
Speaker 1: the Eagles that covered in one, they were an underdog

1010
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:04,760
Speaker 1: if you remember a couple of years back with Nick Foles. Okay,

1011
00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:08,280
Speaker 1: so you're talking about the favorite. Okay, teams that are favorite,

1012
00:54:08,280 --> 00:54:10,120
Speaker 1: and these are these are spreads that are like five

1013
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:12,799
Speaker 1: and a half. The tend points are one in five

1014
00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:15,600
Speaker 1: straight up um in these situation. We saw it last

1015
00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:17,480
Speaker 1: year with the Ravens against the Titans. There were ten

1016
00:54:17,520 --> 00:54:19,759
Speaker 1: point favorite lost outright, they got blown out, like it

1017
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:22,200
Speaker 1: happens year after year. And so that's one area that's

1018
00:54:22,200 --> 00:54:24,080
Speaker 1: a little little scary. Um. I think if you're a

1019
00:54:24,160 --> 00:54:27,640
Speaker 1: Chief supporter, and now I know that Andy Reid by

1020
00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:30,120
Speaker 1: uh stats, but this is a little different when you

1021
00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:32,200
Speaker 1: when you sit two weeks right, so I can't see

1022
00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:34,200
Speaker 1: the Browns kind of jump early, have maybe a ten

1023
00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:37,080
Speaker 1: nothing lead to start um and then have the Chiefs

1024
00:54:37,080 --> 00:54:38,759
Speaker 1: come back, and you know, I think it ended up

1025
00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:41,000
Speaker 1: being like a thirty five thirty type of game. And

1026
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:42,400
Speaker 1: when it's all said and done, I will say, here

1027
00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:44,120
Speaker 1: here a couple of stats with the Brown's defense, like

1028
00:54:44,239 --> 00:54:47,040
Speaker 1: which really worries me. Um, you know, they're twenty six

1029
00:54:47,760 --> 00:54:50,000
Speaker 1: in points per drive allowed, when you get when you

1030
00:54:50,040 --> 00:54:52,680
Speaker 1: eliminate the drives that end in a turnover. So the

1031
00:54:52,719 --> 00:54:55,480
Speaker 1: Browns have, of course the third most turnovers per drive

1032
00:54:55,520 --> 00:54:57,239
Speaker 1: in the NFL. But you know Pat Mahomes in this

1033
00:54:57,320 --> 00:54:59,160
Speaker 1: Chief's offense, they don't turn it over like they just

1034
00:54:59,239 --> 00:55:01,840
Speaker 1: never do, so you can't really you can't lean on that.

1035
00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:04,760
Speaker 1: So if you exclude those those turnover drives, there's twenty

1036
00:55:04,760 --> 00:55:07,239
Speaker 1: six in the NFL on defense, and they haven't faced

1037
00:55:07,239 --> 00:55:09,400
Speaker 1: in these a very difficult schedule, in fact, one of

1038
00:55:09,480 --> 00:55:12,000
Speaker 1: the easiest schedules in the NFL. UM And then when

1039
00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:14,680
Speaker 1: you take out those three high wind games in the

1040
00:55:14,719 --> 00:55:18,240
Speaker 1: middle of the season, which obviously the opponents like Deshaun

1041
00:55:18,239 --> 00:55:20,640
Speaker 1: Watson couldn't even throw the ball in that game, neither

1042
00:55:20,680 --> 00:55:22,799
Speaker 1: get their a car if you serve those out there

1043
00:55:22,840 --> 00:55:26,000
Speaker 1: thirty feet. So like, I find it very hard um

1044
00:55:26,640 --> 00:55:28,080
Speaker 1: for me to think that this game is going to

1045
00:55:28,120 --> 00:55:30,239
Speaker 1: be lower scoring or if they're gonna hold down the

1046
00:55:30,280 --> 00:55:32,239
Speaker 1: Chiefs long enough, you might do it for a driver

1047
00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:34,319
Speaker 1: or two, but I just think, um, for the for

1048
00:55:34,360 --> 00:55:36,080
Speaker 1: the length of the game, I think it's gonna be

1049
00:55:36,080 --> 00:55:37,840
Speaker 1: too much. I think they'll be entertainment and the Browns

1050
00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:39,759
Speaker 1: will score I think they'll keep it interesting, but I

1051
00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:40,799
Speaker 1: think at the end of the day, I think the

1052
00:55:40,840 --> 00:55:43,319
Speaker 1: Chiefs win. My only thought on the under I saw

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00:55:43,360 --> 00:55:47,640
Speaker 1: the stat that the Brown's defense plays the twenty ninth.

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00:55:48,080 --> 00:55:51,040
Speaker 1: Uh there, their man coverage drinks twenty nine in the NFL.

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00:55:51,080 --> 00:55:55,080
Speaker 1: They love the zone quarters, cover six, cover two. And

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00:55:55,160 --> 00:55:57,399
Speaker 1: if they do the good strategy, hey, we're not gonna

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00:55:57,440 --> 00:55:59,680
Speaker 1: blitz him. We're just gonna rush for at Mahomes. I

1058
00:55:59,719 --> 00:56:02,480
Speaker 1: wonder if Andy Reid makes this a Clyde Edwards Hilaire

1059
00:56:02,560 --> 00:56:04,600
Speaker 1: game the same way that he did against Buffalo with

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00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:07,200
Speaker 1: like two d and fifty yards rushing slow it down

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00:56:07,200 --> 00:56:09,239
Speaker 1: because you know, we know they can score. But what

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00:56:09,320 --> 00:56:11,200
Speaker 1: if they do. I mean, I don't know what Andy

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00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:14,120
Speaker 1: Reid's gonna do here. Like that's I mean, that's very possible.

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00:56:14,160 --> 00:56:16,440
Speaker 1: I will say, like the Bills had that strategy right,

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00:56:16,480 --> 00:56:19,359
Speaker 1: but for one Clyde Edwards Hilaire may not even play.

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00:56:19,560 --> 00:56:24,319
Speaker 1: I saw that Bells hurt too, So I don't know.

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00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:27,560
Speaker 1: I mean, you might be right and lookt again analytically

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00:56:27,600 --> 00:56:31,040
Speaker 1: based team with the Browns um they know this, and

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00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:33,520
Speaker 1: Joe Woods was the defense was the defensive backs coach

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00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:35,560
Speaker 1: with the Niners last year in the Super Bowl, and

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00:56:35,560 --> 00:56:38,200
Speaker 1: they had a similar kind of play. Play two safeties

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00:56:38,239 --> 00:56:41,239
Speaker 1: deep right and just you know, forced let them run

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00:56:41,280 --> 00:56:43,000
Speaker 1: the ball and keep everything underneath. I mean, look for

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00:56:43,040 --> 00:56:45,160
Speaker 1: a huge trump Travis Kelsey game because when you do that,

1075
00:56:45,480 --> 00:56:48,120
Speaker 1: middle field wide open, especially like that ten of fifteen range.

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00:56:48,120 --> 00:56:51,120
Speaker 1: So look for a lot of Travis Kelsey. And maybe

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00:56:51,120 --> 00:56:52,879
Speaker 1: you tried that for a little bit, and I think

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00:56:52,880 --> 00:56:55,200
Speaker 1: that's probably a smart way to go. I still think

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00:56:55,239 --> 00:56:58,280
Speaker 1: that the Chiefs are comfortable enough where they can matrical

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00:56:58,360 --> 00:57:00,799
Speaker 1: late down the field that they have to score. I mean,

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00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:02,960
Speaker 1: it's it's just conna be really hard for this, uh

1082
00:57:03,120 --> 00:57:05,120
Speaker 1: with this Brown defense. And look for by the way,

1083
00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:08,560
Speaker 1: mcpatrick Mahomes, you wanted to find a prop I think

1084
00:57:08,560 --> 00:57:13,759
Speaker 1: he can. He can clear his rushing because against a

1085
00:57:13,840 --> 00:57:16,120
Speaker 1: deep zone like that, it's gonna be wide open lanes.

1086
00:57:16,480 --> 00:57:18,880
Speaker 1: And you know, if you look at the last year

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00:57:18,880 --> 00:57:21,040
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, he really read he average almost fifty

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00:57:21,080 --> 00:57:24,240
Speaker 1: yards rushing in the playoff game. Because it's like when

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00:57:24,240 --> 00:57:25,840
Speaker 1: the game is on the when the when the season

1090
00:57:25,880 --> 00:57:27,360
Speaker 1: is on the line, he's gonna run the ball. Right.

1091
00:57:27,360 --> 00:57:30,440
Speaker 1: When it's mid season and week eight against you know,

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00:57:30,480 --> 00:57:32,240
Speaker 1: the Raiders like he's not going to try and run

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00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:33,800
Speaker 1: the ball a lot, So look for that as a

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00:57:33,800 --> 00:57:36,160
Speaker 1: potential prop. And we don't really have time for a

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00:57:36,560 --> 00:57:39,600
Speaker 1: deep dive. But any pick on Saints Bucks, I took

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00:57:39,640 --> 00:57:42,040
Speaker 1: the three. I'm sorry I gave the three with the Saints.

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00:57:42,160 --> 00:57:44,520
Speaker 1: I think the public comes in on Tampa and I

1098
00:57:44,560 --> 00:57:46,360
Speaker 1: don't love this Tampa team, but I don't love that

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00:57:46,400 --> 00:57:49,160
Speaker 1: bed either. I took out Tampa plus three and a

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00:57:49,200 --> 00:57:53,360
Speaker 1: half later, juice, here's why, real quick, um, you know,

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00:57:53,440 --> 00:57:56,080
Speaker 1: the team's underdogs that are playing the same team the

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00:57:56,160 --> 00:57:58,880
Speaker 1: third time since two thousand in the playoffs are seventeen

1103
00:57:58,920 --> 00:58:01,160
Speaker 1: and ten against spread. We saw both Browns and Rams

1104
00:58:01,160 --> 00:58:03,560
Speaker 1: cover last week and one outright. So I don't care

1105
00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:05,040
Speaker 1: that they lost the first two games people, because the

1106
00:58:05,040 --> 00:58:07,480
Speaker 1: first game, they actually outgained the Saints four point eight

1107
00:58:07,600 --> 00:58:09,760
Speaker 1: four point one yards per play. It was a fluky

1108
00:58:09,840 --> 00:58:13,040
Speaker 1: pick six, um, and also a muff hunt or a

1109
00:58:13,080 --> 00:58:16,520
Speaker 1: muff kickoff gave Saints easy points, so that game was

1110
00:58:16,560 --> 00:58:20,200
Speaker 1: essentially even. The second game was a complete annihilation. Ali

1111
00:58:20,240 --> 00:58:23,080
Speaker 1: Marpett of the Star Guard, for example, was out. The

1112
00:58:23,120 --> 00:58:26,640
Speaker 1: backup allowed seven pressures, and we know that Brady struggles

1113
00:58:26,640 --> 00:58:28,479
Speaker 1: with pressure into space. They're not gonna have that issue

1114
00:58:28,520 --> 00:58:31,040
Speaker 1: this this week. Marpett is playing, so I think that's

1115
00:58:31,040 --> 00:58:33,360
Speaker 1: gonna help. I just think it's a close game. I

1116
00:58:33,400 --> 00:58:35,240
Speaker 1: just think the three and has too many points. And

1117
00:58:35,440 --> 00:58:38,960
Speaker 1: you know, the Saints don't really impress me. Um, you know,

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00:58:39,040 --> 00:58:41,360
Speaker 1: overall they didn't impressed me last week. I think defensively

1119
00:58:41,360 --> 00:58:43,000
Speaker 1: they're good. I think this is a lower scoring game.

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00:58:43,000 --> 00:58:45,280
Speaker 1: Again if I would lean under, but I like Tampa

1121
00:58:45,320 --> 00:58:47,600
Speaker 1: here in three naps. Alright, t A follow him at

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00:58:47,720 --> 00:58:51,760
Speaker 1: cleave t a uh ta Hey continued success. Hope everything's

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00:58:51,800 --> 00:58:53,560
Speaker 1: well with the family, and we'll talk to you next week.

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00:58:54,040 --> 00:58:57,400
Speaker 1: Thanks you too, Alright, coming up next year on Fox

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00:58:57,440 --> 00:59:00,760
Speaker 1: Sports Radio. You know, I think it's time, folks, we

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00:59:00,800 --> 00:59:04,080
Speaker 1: go after Kyrie Irving and the Brooklyn Nets. What a

1127
00:59:04,280 --> 00:59:06,800
Speaker 1: situation that Kevin Durant has on his hands. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: limitations apply, so Kyrie Irving got Kevin Durant to join

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Speaker 1: him in Brooklyn, Okay. Then Kyrie Irving got the coach fired.

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00:59:41,160 --> 00:59:43,160
Speaker 1: If you remember we talked about that, you could see

1136
00:59:43,160 --> 00:59:45,800
Speaker 1: that coming a mile away. Kenny Atkinson got him fired.

1137
00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:52,480
Speaker 1: But a weird thing happened. The nets did not roll

1138
00:59:52,600 --> 00:59:54,520
Speaker 1: over and say yeah, Kyrie, you can pick your pick

1139
00:59:54,560 --> 00:59:58,439
Speaker 1: the next coach. They went out and they surprised everybody

1140
00:59:58,640 --> 01:00:03,080
Speaker 1: and got Steve Nash out. Of course, my Steve Nash

1141
01:00:03,120 --> 01:00:06,200
Speaker 1: story is that he used to live in my area,

1142
01:00:06,400 --> 01:00:10,000
Speaker 1: in my neighborhood, and that kind of walking distance but

1143
01:00:10,360 --> 01:00:16,440
Speaker 1: a walk um. And I was driving to Vegas when

1144
01:00:16,440 --> 01:00:19,240
Speaker 1: I heard the news, and I was just stunned. Driving

1145
01:00:19,240 --> 01:00:20,800
Speaker 1: to Vegas to put in bets and then turn around

1146
01:00:20,800 --> 01:00:22,280
Speaker 1: to drive home. I did that, Yes, that was a

1147
01:00:22,360 --> 01:00:24,960
Speaker 1: thing I did in August. Uh, And I signed up

1148
01:00:24,960 --> 01:00:27,760
Speaker 1: for a gambling contest, and of course I called my

1149
01:00:27,760 --> 01:00:30,880
Speaker 1: buddy who is friendly with Nash, works with him, and

1150
01:00:31,280 --> 01:00:34,040
Speaker 1: everybody was stunned, like this came out of nowhere, and

1151
01:00:34,080 --> 01:00:36,960
Speaker 1: apparently Kyrie Irving was stunned as well. He was not

1152
01:00:37,040 --> 01:00:40,000
Speaker 1: happy with this, and then he made the point of

1153
01:00:40,040 --> 01:00:43,000
Speaker 1: going on an Instagram live and saying, yeah, we don't

1154
01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:45,040
Speaker 1: really have a coach, you know, we're coaches out there

1155
01:00:45,080 --> 01:00:48,400
Speaker 1: on the court. Like he's been pushing back against Steve

1156
01:00:48,480 --> 01:00:55,040
Speaker 1: Nash from the jump. And I don't know what triggered

1157
01:00:55,640 --> 01:00:59,800
Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving. Could have been social unrested the Capitol earlier this.

1158
01:01:00,120 --> 01:01:03,760
Speaker 1: I mean, that's probably like a good excuse for him,

1159
01:01:03,840 --> 01:01:06,720
Speaker 1: But for Kyrie Irving to like pout and then just

1160
01:01:06,880 --> 01:01:09,320
Speaker 1: walk away and ghost his coach when he tries to

1161
01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:13,000
Speaker 1: reach out to him, I need a mental health break.

1162
01:01:13,040 --> 01:01:15,600
Speaker 1: I need a day off. Like, I get it. Mental

1163
01:01:15,640 --> 01:01:19,160
Speaker 1: health is a real thing. But communicate that to your employer.

1164
01:01:19,920 --> 01:01:22,160
Speaker 1: And Kyrie refused to do that because he basically wants

1165
01:01:22,200 --> 01:01:23,680
Speaker 1: to say like, yeah, I don't have to answer to

1166
01:01:23,720 --> 01:01:29,720
Speaker 1: you or anyone because he's officially an egomaniac. And I mean, listen,

1167
01:01:29,760 --> 01:01:33,360
Speaker 1: we knew Kyrie would be lost when he left Lebron

1168
01:01:33,560 --> 01:01:36,080
Speaker 1: in memor in Cleveland demanded a trade. I didn't know

1169
01:01:36,160 --> 01:01:39,440
Speaker 1: he would literally be lost. He has a vagabond since

1170
01:01:39,520 --> 01:01:41,840
Speaker 1: leaving Lebron. I'm gonna go to Boston. All things are good,

1171
01:01:41,840 --> 01:01:46,280
Speaker 1: I love it, blah blah blah, I'm staying here. Oh no, no,

1172
01:01:46,400 --> 01:01:49,800
Speaker 1: Brad Stevens. That's that's not for me, Jaylen Brown, Jason Damon,

1173
01:01:49,880 --> 01:01:54,040
Speaker 1: no thanks, I'm gonna go start upon in Brooklyn. And

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01:01:54,080 --> 01:01:56,680
Speaker 1: then Kevin Durant shows up because he got him there,

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01:01:56,800 --> 01:01:59,680
Speaker 1: and then Steve Nash Kyrie unhappy. How do you think

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01:01:59,720 --> 01:02:03,960
Speaker 1: Kyrie feels about this James Harden thing. I don't think

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01:02:03,960 --> 01:02:06,040
Speaker 1: he could be happy. Think about it this way. Kevin

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01:02:06,120 --> 01:02:09,080
Speaker 1: Durant and Nash, their relationship goes back to Golden State.

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01:02:10,320 --> 01:02:13,760
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant and Hardened, their relation goes relationship goes back

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01:02:13,800 --> 01:02:18,720
Speaker 1: to Okay. See, suddenly Kyrie Irving is the odd man out. No.

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01:02:19,680 --> 01:02:22,360
Speaker 1: We talked about this with Brian Winnhorst and he kind

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01:02:22,360 --> 01:02:24,600
Speaker 1: of laughed and was like, oh, I don't know. That's interesting.

1183
01:02:25,280 --> 01:02:29,000
Speaker 1: There is something there, folks. Kyrie is suddenly the odd

1184
01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:36,240
Speaker 1: man out on just a crazy, absurd three man super team.

1185
01:02:36,280 --> 01:02:38,000
Speaker 1: Now we'll do plenty more on this. We have a

1186
01:02:38,000 --> 01:02:40,560
Speaker 1: guest coming up now, um, but we will. I'm not

1187
01:02:40,600 --> 01:02:42,560
Speaker 1: done with this. We you gotta hear that James Harden stuff.

1188
01:02:42,560 --> 01:02:46,920
Speaker 1: By the way, we don't have Todd Gavin, but James

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01:02:46,960 --> 01:02:49,240
Speaker 1: Harden perfectly played how the heck to get out of

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Speaker 1: Houston We'll talk about that more with our guests coming up,

1191
01:02:51,360 --> 01:02:55,760
Speaker 1: but first here's Ralph Irvin with what's trending in Well.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Jason. We start with the NFL's

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01:02:58,640 --> 01:03:02,720
Speaker 1: divisional round of playoff action. It gets underway later today

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01:03:02,880 --> 01:03:07,160
Speaker 1: for thirty Eastern time as the Rams play at Green

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01:03:07,240 --> 01:03:10,240
Speaker 1: Bay Cooper Cuppy game time decision for l A Aaron

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01:03:10,320 --> 01:03:13,480
Speaker 1: Tondald off the injury list. He should be good to

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01:03:13,640 --> 01:03:16,680
Speaker 1: go again. That's at four thirty Eastern. At eight o'clock,

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Speaker 1: it's Baltimore in Buffalo. Adam Schefter reporting today that Ravens

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Speaker 1: running back mark Ingram is a healthy scratch, so he

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01:03:25,800 --> 01:03:29,520
Speaker 1: will not be playing. Reportedly, it'll all be J. K. Dobbins.

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01:03:30,760 --> 01:03:35,040
Speaker 1: That's an interesting decision. Uh. Raven's corner Marcus Peters also questionable.

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01:03:35,080 --> 01:03:38,000
Speaker 1: He's got a sore back on the flip side. Bill's whiteouts,

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01:03:38,040 --> 01:03:41,960
Speaker 1: Colby's Lee Stefon Diggs off the injury report. They should

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Speaker 1: night in the NBA, Milwaukee got thirty one from Janice

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Speaker 1: in a one twelve one o nine went over Dallas.

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01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:07,560
Speaker 1: The Bucks have won seven of their last eight games.

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Speaker 1: Andre a drama the Huge Night thirty three points, twenty

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Speaker 1: three rebounds Cleveland, Nick New York one oh six, one

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01:04:14,320 --> 01:04:16,920
Speaker 1: oh three the Lakers six players and double figures. They

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01:04:17,000 --> 01:04:20,360
Speaker 1: won their fifth straight, beating the Pelicans one twine. As

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Speaker 1: we send it now back to Jason mcinnar. Thank you, Ralph.

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01:04:24,480 --> 01:04:27,520
Speaker 1: Back here on Fox Sports Radio. It's me Jason McIntyre,

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01:04:28,120 --> 01:04:30,720
Speaker 1: and let's welcome to the guest. I think he's been

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01:04:30,760 --> 01:04:32,560
Speaker 1: on the show before, but it's been a while. Brian

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01:04:32,960 --> 01:04:37,120
Speaker 1: Smith of the Houston Chronicle. Brian, how are you man? Oh? Oh,

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01:04:37,160 --> 01:04:38,800
Speaker 1: Brian's not there yet. Okay, we'll get to him in

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01:04:38,840 --> 01:04:41,160
Speaker 1: a second. Oh, Brian is there now? Okay, all right,

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01:04:41,200 --> 01:04:45,240
Speaker 1: we got Brian Smith, Houston Chronicle. Brian busy, busy week

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01:04:45,440 --> 01:04:52,160
Speaker 1: in uh Houston. Huh really really, it's just another week.

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01:04:52,400 --> 01:04:54,440
Speaker 1: This is how this is how Houston is now. Houston

1226
01:04:54,600 --> 01:04:58,960
Speaker 1: is uh bigger, more important, more lively than l a

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01:04:59,200 --> 01:05:04,120
Speaker 1: Chicago ball Austin, Philly, New York. Yeah, combined and for

1228
01:05:04,240 --> 01:05:07,400
Speaker 1: Sport Houston Astros. Okay, we know how that. How that went?

1229
01:05:07,560 --> 01:05:10,360
Speaker 1: James Harden forced his way out of town. Deshaun Watson,

1230
01:05:10,400 --> 01:05:12,720
Speaker 1: I'm in the middle of reading another story about the

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01:05:12,760 --> 01:05:15,440
Speaker 1: Texans just dropped from Sports Illustrated. I guess where do

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01:05:15,480 --> 01:05:17,280
Speaker 1: you want to start? Brian, you're more comfortable with Harden.

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01:05:17,840 --> 01:05:20,600
Speaker 1: Um you want to go to Deshaun Watson. Where would

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01:05:20,600 --> 01:05:24,120
Speaker 1: you like to go? Let's start. You know, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do live radio. I was aware of a

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01:05:28,280 --> 01:05:30,920
Speaker 1: story that might be coming out. You can maybe help me.

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01:05:31,200 --> 01:05:33,760
Speaker 1: Is the what's the Sports Illustrated story? Because I haven't

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01:05:33,760 --> 01:05:36,080
Speaker 1: been on Twitter in the last five seconds. Uh well,

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01:05:36,080 --> 01:05:38,280
Speaker 1: I mean it was out this early this morning. Uh.

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01:05:38,600 --> 01:05:40,880
Speaker 1: And I'm just getting now of reading it. But essentially

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01:05:41,320 --> 01:05:44,240
Speaker 1: the whole Jack Easterby is not going to be part

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01:05:44,280 --> 01:05:46,880
Speaker 1: of our process. Uh oh yeah, wait is it? He's

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01:05:46,880 --> 01:05:49,400
Speaker 1: talking to the owner right after the season finale and

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01:05:49,520 --> 01:05:51,440
Speaker 1: he's on the plane with him, and I mean, this

1245
01:05:51,600 --> 01:05:54,320
Speaker 1: is just what what is the story? First of all,

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01:05:54,360 --> 01:05:57,520
Speaker 1: have you talked with Easterby? Like if he make himself

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01:05:57,520 --> 01:06:00,520
Speaker 1: available to the media. Um, how did he get the

1248
01:06:00,560 --> 01:06:06,320
Speaker 1: Billionaires year? Yeah, in some ways, and I don't want

1249
01:06:06,360 --> 01:06:08,240
Speaker 1: to blame him because he gets blamed for too many things.

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01:06:08,280 --> 01:06:10,680
Speaker 1: But in some ways this is Bill O'Brien's fault. So

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01:06:11,360 --> 01:06:18,520
Speaker 1: the the the abbreviated version is that Bill O'Brien and uh,

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01:06:18,680 --> 01:06:21,760
Speaker 1: well really Bill O'Brien wanted to bring in Jackie uster Be.

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01:06:22,360 --> 01:06:24,920
Speaker 1: Now part of this was actually was Brian Gaine, who

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01:06:25,000 --> 01:06:27,040
Speaker 1: was a GM for for about a year. But but

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01:06:27,240 --> 01:06:30,040
Speaker 1: if you go back, so power struggle for years between

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01:06:30,080 --> 01:06:32,720
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien and Rick Smith GM, longtime GM who and

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Speaker 1: Rick Smith was the McNair's favorite, and Bill O'Brien is

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01:06:37,000 --> 01:06:40,720
Speaker 1: of winning that power struggle. Rick Smith leaves. He also

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01:06:40,880 --> 01:06:42,960
Speaker 1: obviously had some you know issues with with with his

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01:06:43,080 --> 01:06:45,400
Speaker 1: wife and in health which are very serious. But but

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01:06:45,520 --> 01:06:48,200
Speaker 1: ultimately Rick Smith left because the power strugle Bill O'Brien wins.

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01:06:48,720 --> 01:06:52,440
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien at that point wanted to bring in Nick Assario,

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01:06:52,640 --> 01:06:54,720
Speaker 1: but also always had Brian Gaine who would work for

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01:06:54,760 --> 01:06:57,600
Speaker 1: the organization was was was on the rise in its

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01:06:57,640 --> 01:07:01,640
Speaker 1: back pocket as the backup. Bill Belichick says no for Cassario.

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01:07:01,720 --> 01:07:03,320
Speaker 1: This is a couple of years ago Brian Gang gets

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01:07:03,360 --> 01:07:06,640
Speaker 1: the job, and then it just didn't work out, even

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01:07:06,720 --> 01:07:09,320
Speaker 1: though the team won eleven games and they wanted the

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01:07:09,320 --> 01:07:12,440
Speaker 1: division made the playoffs. Bill O'Brien wins another power struggle.

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Speaker 1: So here's where Jack Easterby comes in, or right before

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01:07:15,080 --> 01:07:18,280
Speaker 1: Brian Yang gets fired. Jack easter Be has a falling out.

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01:07:18,520 --> 01:07:21,760
Speaker 1: From everything I've been told with the Crafts, Robert Craft

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01:07:21,800 --> 01:07:24,919
Speaker 1: obviously had an issue in Florida, right and Jack easter

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01:07:25,000 --> 01:07:26,760
Speaker 1: Be after the Super Bowl, it's a perfect time for

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01:07:26,880 --> 01:07:29,320
Speaker 1: him to leave, you know, for him to to move on.

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01:07:29,960 --> 01:07:33,160
Speaker 1: Other teams pursue him. And Bill O'Brien from everything I

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01:07:33,240 --> 01:07:35,520
Speaker 1: was told, was able to go to call McNair and

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01:07:35,640 --> 01:07:38,680
Speaker 1: basically say, hey, we need this guy. You know this

1279
01:07:38,920 --> 01:07:41,600
Speaker 1: this this guy is on the rise, We need him.

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01:07:41,600 --> 01:07:44,360
Speaker 1: They bring him in. Here's the kicker. When Jack used

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01:07:44,360 --> 01:07:46,480
Speaker 1: to Be comes in and and and this is when

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01:07:46,480 --> 01:07:50,560
Speaker 1: the Texans right now have forever changed. He does exactly

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01:07:50,640 --> 01:07:53,760
Speaker 1: what he's not supposed to do. He starts running, uh,

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01:07:53,960 --> 01:07:57,160
Speaker 1: basically a background check on the entire organization I was

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01:07:57,240 --> 01:07:59,600
Speaker 1: I was told that he he started getting you know,

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01:07:59,720 --> 01:08:03,439
Speaker 1: all files, he got all the information. At one point,

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01:08:03,520 --> 01:08:07,160
Speaker 1: Brian Gaine was like, why is Jack euster be involved

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01:08:07,200 --> 01:08:09,080
Speaker 1: in everything? You know, he's supposed to just kind of

1289
01:08:09,120 --> 01:08:11,160
Speaker 1: be a character coach. He's supposed to kind of be

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01:08:11,240 --> 01:08:13,160
Speaker 1: on the Priphrey and Jack Easterby was in the middle

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01:08:13,200 --> 01:08:16,920
Speaker 1: of everything and it has never changed since then. Bill

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01:08:16,960 --> 01:08:20,800
Speaker 1: O'Brien loses a blues his power eventually, even though he

1293
01:08:20,840 --> 01:08:23,599
Speaker 1: gets GM the GM title and gets who survives everything,

1294
01:08:23,640 --> 01:08:28,400
Speaker 1: gets who survives Bill O'Brien, DeAndre Hopkins, Brian Gaine, um

1295
01:08:28,560 --> 01:08:32,519
Speaker 1: and and maybe even DeShawn Watson, Jack Easterman. So so

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01:08:32,920 --> 01:08:36,439
Speaker 1: Jack Jack Eusterby has been the you know, the little finger.

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01:08:37,280 --> 01:08:40,280
Speaker 1: Um He's he is the Game of Thrones. I had

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01:08:40,280 --> 01:08:42,720
Speaker 1: written that six months ago before Sports illustrated that Jack

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01:08:42,760 --> 01:08:46,280
Speaker 1: Easterby is straight up Game of Thrones for the Houston Texans.

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01:08:46,840 --> 01:08:49,760
Speaker 1: It's interesting, you know, some people will say like power corrupts,

1301
01:08:49,840 --> 01:08:53,920
Speaker 1: but power really reveals who you, I think want to be.

1302
01:08:54,320 --> 01:08:56,800
Speaker 1: And it's pretty clear that Jack Easterby wants to be

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01:08:56,880 --> 01:09:00,639
Speaker 1: a power player in Houston. Now it's clear Shaun Watson

1304
01:09:00,680 --> 01:09:04,600
Speaker 1: has ticked off about this. Why Brian, There's there's no

1305
01:09:04,960 --> 01:09:08,000
Speaker 1: question that that while you know, and obviously the Hopkins

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01:09:08,040 --> 01:09:10,080
Speaker 1: tray was huge and it's gonna affect this franchise for

1307
01:09:10,120 --> 01:09:13,400
Speaker 1: maybe the next twenty years. Uh. Bill O'Brien getting firing

1308
01:09:13,520 --> 01:09:17,040
Speaker 1: was getting fired as gmad coach was huge. But one

1309
01:09:17,120 --> 01:09:19,040
Speaker 1: of the main reasons. And it's and here's the thing,

1310
01:09:19,680 --> 01:09:23,599
Speaker 1: it's not just a DeShawn Watson, it's other star players.

1311
01:09:23,760 --> 01:09:27,200
Speaker 1: It's it's it's the locker room. They don't want Jackie

1312
01:09:27,200 --> 01:09:29,800
Speaker 1: Easter to be around. On Brandon Cooks does uh, and

1313
01:09:29,880 --> 01:09:32,200
Speaker 1: he's always gotten along with with Jackie Easter be But

1314
01:09:32,320 --> 01:09:36,519
Speaker 1: if your star franchise quarterback doesn't want him around. If uh,

1315
01:09:36,840 --> 01:09:40,080
Speaker 1: an offensive lineman doesn't want him around, if defensive guys,

1316
01:09:40,120 --> 01:09:43,439
Speaker 1: if coaches, uh, if you know, on and on, if

1317
01:09:43,479 --> 01:09:45,880
Speaker 1: they if they just don't feel comfortable, if they feel

1318
01:09:45,920 --> 01:09:47,760
Speaker 1: like things are always uneven, if they feel like they're

1319
01:09:47,760 --> 01:09:50,040
Speaker 1: being judged, they can't trust you. If you if you

1320
01:09:50,160 --> 01:09:51,800
Speaker 1: can't trust the people that you work with, if you

1321
01:09:51,840 --> 01:09:55,519
Speaker 1: feel like you're always being marginalized, you're being you're being

1322
01:09:55,720 --> 01:09:59,240
Speaker 1: you know, investigated, You're you're presented one thing, but it's

1323
01:09:59,240 --> 01:10:01,759
Speaker 1: always the other saying hey man, we're friends, we're buddy, buddy,

1324
01:10:01,800 --> 01:10:04,080
Speaker 1: everything's cool. I've got your back. And then at the

1325
01:10:04,120 --> 01:10:07,240
Speaker 1: same time that person is in the owner's ear on

1326
01:10:07,400 --> 01:10:10,120
Speaker 1: the plane to go hire Nicko Sarrio and ignoring the

1327
01:10:10,200 --> 01:10:14,920
Speaker 1: search firm. That's just it's so distrust with throughout your organization.

1328
01:10:14,960 --> 01:10:17,680
Speaker 1: And so if you're DeShawn Watson, he's seen too much now,

1329
01:10:18,040 --> 01:10:20,920
Speaker 1: he knows too much. He's seen too much, and from

1330
01:10:20,960 --> 01:10:23,800
Speaker 1: everything I've been told, he does not want Jackie used

1331
01:10:23,800 --> 01:10:25,120
Speaker 1: to be too part of the to be part of

1332
01:10:25,160 --> 01:10:28,120
Speaker 1: the organization. It's a weird thing in Hollywood, Brian. You know,

1333
01:10:28,320 --> 01:10:30,479
Speaker 1: these stars call the shots, who can be on the

1334
01:10:30,600 --> 01:10:33,960
Speaker 1: set for movies, who can be in their orbit. But

1335
01:10:34,120 --> 01:10:36,560
Speaker 1: in a billion dollar sport where the quarterback is the

1336
01:10:36,640 --> 01:10:39,439
Speaker 1: most important position in all the sports, he has really

1337
01:10:39,560 --> 01:10:41,920
Speaker 1: little or no say. It's just crazy. All right, let

1338
01:10:41,960 --> 01:10:44,320
Speaker 1: me get to this J J. Watt. Uh you know

1339
01:10:44,439 --> 01:10:47,000
Speaker 1: you could hear the audio of him walking off the field. Sorry,

1340
01:10:47,400 --> 01:10:50,880
Speaker 1: we wasted another year of his career. Um, At what

1341
01:10:51,000 --> 01:10:52,680
Speaker 1: point do we say, you know, J. J. Watt and

1342
01:10:52,720 --> 01:10:55,120
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson don't like or trust this guy. You know,

1343
01:10:55,240 --> 01:10:57,960
Speaker 1: maybe we should listen to our players. Do you think

1344
01:10:58,200 --> 01:11:00,920
Speaker 1: Eric b Enemy gets in the and gets the head

1345
01:11:00,960 --> 01:11:04,320
Speaker 1: coaching job, because we know that Cesario wants his guy,

1346
01:11:04,680 --> 01:11:09,920
Speaker 1: Brian Dable. Well, I mean, if I'm married b Enemy,

1347
01:11:10,080 --> 01:11:13,799
Speaker 1: I have to be very reluctant to even have the interview,

1348
01:11:13,920 --> 01:11:16,000
Speaker 1: let alone to take this job because the problem is

1349
01:11:16,000 --> 01:11:19,519
Speaker 1: going to be and he's he's obviously qualified, he deserves

1350
01:11:19,560 --> 01:11:21,519
Speaker 1: a job. It's a damn shame that doesn't have a

1351
01:11:21,640 --> 01:11:25,120
Speaker 1: job already. But how do you take this job and

1352
01:11:25,280 --> 01:11:29,519
Speaker 1: feel confident, not on the first day, for the first year,

1353
01:11:29,640 --> 01:11:31,679
Speaker 1: the first three years, that you're not gonna get stabbed

1354
01:11:31,680 --> 01:11:33,200
Speaker 1: in the back of Jack used to be as part

1355
01:11:33,240 --> 01:11:35,519
Speaker 1: of this organization. And how do you believe that the

1356
01:11:35,560 --> 01:11:37,920
Speaker 1: owner really wants you. They can say they want you,

1357
01:11:38,200 --> 01:11:40,200
Speaker 1: they can say, hey, we screwed up, but you've you've

1358
01:11:40,200 --> 01:11:42,400
Speaker 1: gone for jobs before, I've gone for a billion jobs.

1359
01:11:42,800 --> 01:11:46,120
Speaker 1: There's it never feels right if if they don't make

1360
01:11:46,200 --> 01:11:49,800
Speaker 1: you feel like they want you at the start, right, Oh,

1361
01:11:49,960 --> 01:11:52,559
Speaker 1: you know, we went through seven people and we didn't

1362
01:11:52,680 --> 01:11:54,479
Speaker 1: want to interview you. But now we're gonna go back

1363
01:11:54,520 --> 01:11:57,200
Speaker 1: to you because we screwed it up. But we really

1364
01:11:57,280 --> 01:11:59,439
Speaker 1: want you to de lead this organization to a super No,

1365
01:12:00,439 --> 01:12:03,920
Speaker 1: it doesn't work that way, and so maybe Eric the

1366
01:12:04,040 --> 01:12:07,800
Speaker 1: Enemy fixes this. But but here's here's the thing all

1367
01:12:07,880 --> 01:12:09,880
Speaker 1: DeShawn Watson has to do at this point. We we

1368
01:12:09,960 --> 01:12:11,840
Speaker 1: we can talk about a billion things. Easter be Bill

1369
01:12:11,880 --> 01:12:14,600
Speaker 1: O'Bryan sary on it. All Shawn Watson has Watson has

1370
01:12:14,640 --> 01:12:17,240
Speaker 1: to do right now is tell Kal McNair, not Jackie

1371
01:12:17,320 --> 01:12:19,280
Speaker 1: used to be k McNair, I want to be traded.

1372
01:12:19,439 --> 01:12:22,320
Speaker 1: He hasn't said that. If he says that, that's the

1373
01:12:22,439 --> 01:12:25,639
Speaker 1: nuclear bomb that changes everything, and everything that they've done,

1374
01:12:26,439 --> 01:12:28,599
Speaker 1: everything that they've screwed up, will blow up in their

1375
01:12:28,640 --> 01:12:30,439
Speaker 1: faces and then the other part of this. And but

1376
01:12:30,520 --> 01:12:32,560
Speaker 1: he hasn't done that yet. So until he does that,

1377
01:12:32,680 --> 01:12:35,360
Speaker 1: it's all just talk and they're a part of this.

1378
01:12:35,880 --> 01:12:39,120
Speaker 1: How does J. J. Watt, who who now can sit back?

1379
01:12:39,600 --> 01:12:42,280
Speaker 1: You know, he's gone on his vacation, he's staring at

1380
01:12:42,280 --> 01:12:45,120
Speaker 1: the end of his career. How does J J. Watt

1381
01:12:45,160 --> 01:12:47,479
Speaker 1: handle this? If I'm J J. Watt and I'm not,

1382
01:12:48,080 --> 01:12:50,679
Speaker 1: but if I was, I would ask to be traded.

1383
01:12:50,720 --> 01:12:53,800
Speaker 1: I would because here's the thing Watson would be. It

1384
01:12:53,880 --> 01:12:56,000
Speaker 1: would be Hollywood drama. If he says he wants to

1385
01:12:56,040 --> 01:12:59,719
Speaker 1: be traded J J. Watt, everyone would understand it, Nobody

1386
01:12:59,760 --> 01:13:02,240
Speaker 1: would hold it against him. He's he has given everything,

1387
01:13:02,360 --> 01:13:05,120
Speaker 1: He's been everything that's to the Houston Texans. They've never

1388
01:13:05,200 --> 01:13:08,120
Speaker 1: wanted a high level they continue to screw up. If

1389
01:13:08,160 --> 01:13:10,280
Speaker 1: I'm J. J. Watt, I want to go somewhere else

1390
01:13:10,320 --> 01:13:12,080
Speaker 1: at this point in my career. Maybe go to Pittsburgh,

1391
01:13:12,120 --> 01:13:15,200
Speaker 1: play with your brothers and try to win a division

1392
01:13:15,240 --> 01:13:17,400
Speaker 1: around game, try to get to the a FC championship.

1393
01:13:17,479 --> 01:13:20,400
Speaker 1: So that's the other thing. It's not just Watson, it's J. J. Watt.

1394
01:13:20,439 --> 01:13:22,439
Speaker 1: How is he going to react to all the endless drama?

1395
01:13:22,560 --> 01:13:26,400
Speaker 1: Charcott Brian Smith, Houston Chronicle. So, Brian, Um, I don't

1396
01:13:26,479 --> 01:13:29,760
Speaker 1: know if it's indeed, Deshaun Watson's DNA to be that

1397
01:13:29,920 --> 01:13:31,840
Speaker 1: guy and say, you know what, I demanded trade like

1398
01:13:31,920 --> 01:13:33,400
Speaker 1: he just seems too nice. I don't know if it

1399
01:13:33,520 --> 01:13:35,599
Speaker 1: is either. Yeah, all right, let's get to James Harden,

1400
01:13:35,640 --> 01:13:39,120
Speaker 1: somebody who had no problems demanding a trade. It kind

1401
01:13:39,160 --> 01:13:40,720
Speaker 1: of worked out for him. I will say this, I

1402
01:13:40,960 --> 01:13:44,559
Speaker 1: didn't love the trade, uh, from anybody's point of view,

1403
01:13:44,760 --> 01:13:49,080
Speaker 1: And I'm curious, like, you know, they wanted a cornerstone player,

1404
01:13:49,120 --> 01:13:52,080
Speaker 1: an elite blue chip prospect. They didn't get that, Brian,

1405
01:13:52,800 --> 01:13:56,240
Speaker 1: like they Yeah, there There's there's no way around it.

1406
01:13:56,280 --> 01:13:58,519
Speaker 1: I wrote it in the Chronicle that that day. Uh

1407
01:13:58,720 --> 01:14:02,000
Speaker 1: j J. I mean James Arden won this trade. Uh

1408
01:14:02,280 --> 01:14:06,040
Speaker 1: not not because not because he acted like a pro,

1409
01:14:06,479 --> 01:14:08,639
Speaker 1: not because he acted like the face of a franchise,

1410
01:14:08,720 --> 01:14:10,680
Speaker 1: not because he was mature or did it the right way.

1411
01:14:10,680 --> 01:14:13,920
Speaker 1: He did the exact opposite. James Harden was absolutely horrible

1412
01:14:14,520 --> 01:14:16,559
Speaker 1: his last two months with the Houston Rockets. The problem

1413
01:14:16,720 --> 01:14:19,479
Speaker 1: was he was so bad that the locker room didn't

1414
01:14:19,520 --> 01:14:21,880
Speaker 1: want him around, the coaches didn't want him around, the

1415
01:14:22,520 --> 01:14:25,280
Speaker 1: front office, didn't want him around. And he forced his

1416
01:14:25,400 --> 01:14:29,599
Speaker 1: hands so hard, so quickly, out of shape, not caring,

1417
01:14:30,240 --> 01:14:32,799
Speaker 1: you know, showing up late to everything. I mean, DeMarcus

1418
01:14:32,880 --> 01:14:34,960
Speaker 1: Cousins of all people, calling him out for the for

1419
01:14:35,040 --> 01:14:37,839
Speaker 1: the disrespect that he showed all the rest of the Rockets.

1420
01:14:38,400 --> 01:14:40,720
Speaker 1: They knew they had to get him out. I mean

1421
01:14:40,760 --> 01:14:42,080
Speaker 1: that they didn't want him to come. They didn't want

1422
01:14:42,160 --> 01:14:45,280
Speaker 1: him to come to to the arena for practice that

1423
01:14:45,400 --> 01:14:48,200
Speaker 1: the day after he gave his little, you know, farewell speech,

1424
01:14:48,360 --> 01:14:51,760
Speaker 1: and so they didn't get the star player. They didn't

1425
01:14:51,800 --> 01:14:53,120
Speaker 1: get the best deal. I mean, but what what are

1426
01:14:53,120 --> 01:14:54,759
Speaker 1: you gonna do? Is he is he going to continue

1427
01:14:54,800 --> 01:14:57,400
Speaker 1: to bleep in your face for the for the next

1428
01:14:57,479 --> 01:14:59,599
Speaker 1: three months, and then you wait to the trade deadline.

1429
01:14:59,640 --> 01:15:03,080
Speaker 1: Nobody wants to deal with that. It becomes an untenable situation.

1430
01:15:03,120 --> 01:15:06,840
Speaker 1: You had, You had a really horrendous roommate who ended

1431
01:15:06,880 --> 01:15:09,280
Speaker 1: up taking over your house that you basically had to

1432
01:15:09,360 --> 01:15:10,960
Speaker 1: kick out the front door, and you say, Okay, well,

1433
01:15:11,000 --> 01:15:13,320
Speaker 1: we'll take whatever rent we can get. At this point,

1434
01:15:13,400 --> 01:15:15,920
Speaker 1: we're just gonna move forward in an organization. They didn't

1435
01:15:15,920 --> 01:15:17,960
Speaker 1: get the star and and people want to talk about

1436
01:15:17,960 --> 01:15:20,320
Speaker 1: the draft picks. The nuts are probably gonna be pretty

1437
01:15:20,320 --> 01:15:22,600
Speaker 1: good for the next few years. So it's not like

1438
01:15:22,680 --> 01:15:26,360
Speaker 1: your draft, your draft and number one overall in two

1439
01:15:27,360 --> 01:15:31,200
Speaker 1: Oladipo's okay, you know, he's he doesn't change your franchise.

1440
01:15:31,320 --> 01:15:33,920
Speaker 1: So the Rockets are going to have to find another

1441
01:15:34,120 --> 01:15:35,880
Speaker 1: star now, and they're not going to be able to

1442
01:15:35,960 --> 01:15:38,560
Speaker 1: replace James Harden. He he's, you know, for for his

1443
01:15:38,960 --> 01:15:42,640
Speaker 1: debatably as he is, uh, James Harden is still one

1444
01:15:42,680 --> 01:15:45,360
Speaker 1: of the best players in the NBA when he wants

1445
01:15:45,439 --> 01:15:48,120
Speaker 1: to be, when he cares, when he when he's in shape,

1446
01:15:48,160 --> 01:15:49,960
Speaker 1: and I think he's gonna go to Brooklyn. I think

1447
01:15:50,000 --> 01:15:54,000
Speaker 1: he's gonna play really well. He won he he won

1448
01:15:54,120 --> 01:15:57,280
Speaker 1: this trade by doing everything you're not supposed to do

1449
01:15:57,600 --> 01:15:59,920
Speaker 1: as the face of a franchise. All right, Brian T. Smith.

1450
01:16:00,040 --> 01:16:02,639
Speaker 1: You can follow him on Twitter at kron Brian Smith.

1451
01:16:02,720 --> 01:16:05,639
Speaker 1: Good stuff, Brian, keep up the good work. And uh man,

1452
01:16:05,800 --> 01:16:07,080
Speaker 1: you got to work cut out for you with the

1453
01:16:07,120 --> 01:16:09,120
Speaker 1: Texans here in the in the coming weeks and months.

1454
01:16:09,160 --> 01:16:11,280
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot, Thank you very much for having me on.

1455
01:16:11,400 --> 01:16:13,760
Speaker 1: Good stuff, Brian. All right, coming up next to your

1456
01:16:13,920 --> 01:16:17,280
Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio. You know we got still got

1457
01:16:17,320 --> 01:16:19,280
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff in the hopper. Um, I could

1458
01:16:19,400 --> 01:16:22,240
Speaker 1: prattle on about Urban Meyer, who whom my love? We

1459
01:16:22,280 --> 01:16:24,840
Speaker 1: could go back, go in on James Harden. Uh, we

1460
01:16:24,880 --> 01:16:27,240
Speaker 1: could go with Eric b Enemy like what the hell? Also,

1461
01:16:27,520 --> 01:16:29,120
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna read this during the break, a big

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Speaker 1: read that. But um, I think we'll come back with

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Speaker 1: uh I think it's four thirty today. It's weird. I

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Speaker 1: haven't seen Iowa Sam in a in a while. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Packers Rams four thirty Eastern. I haven't seen Iowa Sam

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Speaker 1: in a while, and usually read about this time. We're

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Speaker 1: getting ready for college football kickoff seasons over bro, it's

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Speaker 1: a little disappointing. I was Sam. Yeah, seasons over the

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Speaker 1: bull season I thought was disappointing overall. I mean to

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Speaker 1: put it mildly, you got the Rose Bowl, moved to Dallas,

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01:17:35,160 --> 01:17:38,240
Speaker 1: you know, whatever that was worth, and then, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: my Hawkeyes didn't get to play in their Music City

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01:17:40,240 --> 01:17:42,280
Speaker 1: Bowl because there was some COVID issues with Missouri. So

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Speaker 1: at least you got the Iowahaw guys basketball team. It's

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01:17:45,360 --> 01:17:48,880
Speaker 1: pretty he could be headed to the Final four. Actually,

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01:17:48,920 --> 01:17:50,800
Speaker 1: I think some guy in the media picked them, and

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01:17:50,840 --> 01:17:52,519
Speaker 1: I was like, hold the phone. They haven't made a

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Speaker 1: Final four in over four decades, So what do they

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01:17:55,560 --> 01:17:58,920
Speaker 1: make it in the eighties and like the late seventies. Yeah,

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01:17:58,960 --> 01:18:01,599
Speaker 1: it's been four it's been four two years. Yeah, we'll

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Speaker 1: get to college. I don't know. Well, maybe we'll do

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Speaker 1: college utes next week, who knows. Um. I want to

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Speaker 1: quickly revisit James harden We have some incredible sound for

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01:18:11,560 --> 01:18:15,760
Speaker 1: James Harden um his last days in Houston. I want

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Speaker 1: to preface this by saying, if you remember, harden demanded

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Speaker 1: a trade back in like was October maybe November, and

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Speaker 1: the Rockets were like, no, we're ready to get uncomfortable.

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Speaker 1: Don't say stupid stuff like that when you're dealing with

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Speaker 1: the NBA Stars. Okay, here's James harden on Like I

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Speaker 1: think it was his last night in Houston. As far

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Speaker 1: as with Houston after the bubble, after that loss, I

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Speaker 1: just wanted to reevaluate my career and in the direction

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Speaker 1: that the organization was going. And then you look from

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Speaker 1: top to bottom, from general manager leaving to Mike D'Antoni

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Speaker 1: leaving to reevaluating our personnel and see if we had

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Speaker 1: enough to compete with the best teams in this league.

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01:18:50,240 --> 01:18:52,200
Speaker 1: And you know, as time went on in free agency,

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01:18:52,240 --> 01:18:53,960
Speaker 1: and things like that started to go on. It was

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01:18:54,040 --> 01:18:56,320
Speaker 1: like I felt like we didn't have a chance. You know,

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Speaker 1: as much as I love the city of Houston, love

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Speaker 1: being there, I think at the point of my career,

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Speaker 1: it's not about money, it's not about anything else, but

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Speaker 1: having a chance of reaching the ultimate goal. It's you know,

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Speaker 1: it's the winning. It didn't go as smooth as I

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Speaker 1: would I would love this to go, but I think,

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Speaker 1: you know, both sides are happy. I wasn't disrespectful to

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Speaker 1: anyone those guys. I just got there. I've been there

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Speaker 1: for a very long time. I've been through all the

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Speaker 1: ups and downs, and I wasn't disrespectful towards anyone, you know.

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Speaker 1: I just made a comment the team as a as

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Speaker 1: a whole wasn't good enough to compete for a title.

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Speaker 1: And at the stage of my career, right where I

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Speaker 1: am now, that's what I would love see. We'd like

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Speaker 1: to be ahead of the curve. And you know, Gavin

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01:19:36,439 --> 01:19:39,280
Speaker 1: the ego and me remembers that Saturday morning where I said,

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Speaker 1: you can't tell James Harden he gets whatever he wants.

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Speaker 1: You want this coach out of here, audios, Kevin mckial,

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01:19:45,800 --> 01:19:47,920
Speaker 1: you want this coach in great, you want this player out,

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Speaker 1: you want this player, and that's what they did. They

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01:19:49,840 --> 01:19:52,200
Speaker 1: emboldened James Harden. So then when he came to them

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01:19:52,240 --> 01:19:53,880
Speaker 1: and said, you know what, I'm done here I went out,

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01:19:53,960 --> 01:19:58,960
Speaker 1: they were like, whoa, We're not acquiescing that. He's like,

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Speaker 1: why not, You've given me everything else I've won. Like,

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01:20:02,760 --> 01:20:04,400
Speaker 1: I can understand why he was a jerk about it,

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01:20:04,439 --> 01:20:07,479
Speaker 1: But the Houston Rockets shoulder a ton of blame for this,

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01:20:07,960 --> 01:20:09,800
Speaker 1: And yeah, I feel bad that their coach and their

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01:20:09,840 --> 01:20:13,160
Speaker 1: new GM. Uh new coach and new GM both had

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Speaker 1: to go through this at their first stop, like welcome

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Speaker 1: to the league. Hey, you guys got Christian would that

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01:20:17,720 --> 01:20:21,240
Speaker 1: guy looks like a keeper? Only hardcore NBA fans still

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01:20:21,280 --> 01:20:23,120
Speaker 1: know who he is right now, but he's putting on

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Speaker 1: monster numbers. Um, what are your what are your thoughts

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01:20:27,560 --> 01:20:30,280
Speaker 1: on the hall that the Rockets got? It was nothing

1544
01:20:31,120 --> 01:20:32,400
Speaker 1: like what do you got a bunch of picks in

1545
01:20:32,439 --> 01:20:34,920
Speaker 1: the twenties? You got about four first round picks? Right,

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01:20:35,040 --> 01:20:37,720
Speaker 1: you also have four picks swaps which will probably never

1547
01:20:37,840 --> 01:20:41,880
Speaker 1: get used. Yeah, I mean I don't see I don't

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01:20:41,920 --> 01:20:43,479
Speaker 1: see that as like a great Hall of the victory.

1549
01:20:43,520 --> 01:20:46,559
Speaker 1: Ladipo thing that Brian Smith talked about. I'll put money

1550
01:20:46,600 --> 01:20:49,280
Speaker 1: on a victory. Ladipot is not in huge with the

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01:20:49,360 --> 01:20:52,640
Speaker 1: Houston Rockets next season. Yeah, that was the part that

1552
01:20:52,800 --> 01:20:55,439
Speaker 1: I didn't get, is I would rather have Caris LeVert.

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01:20:55,840 --> 01:21:00,559
Speaker 1: Pacers didn't want to pay uh Oladipo because the injuries,

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01:21:00,600 --> 01:21:02,320
Speaker 1: and now Houston's gonna have to pay him. So the

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01:21:02,400 --> 01:21:04,760
Speaker 1: Rockets best path here is let's just bottom out. Maybe

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01:21:04,800 --> 01:21:07,200
Speaker 1: that's why they don't want LeVert because Lavert's a pretty

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01:21:07,200 --> 01:21:09,519
Speaker 1: good player and we don't want them. We'd rather be

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01:21:09,640 --> 01:21:12,680
Speaker 1: terrible next year. Um, and that's where they're headed to

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Speaker 1: the trash can. Coming up here on Fox Sports or Radio,

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Speaker 1: so we've done some Kyrie you, We've done some James

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Speaker 1: Harden and it's an NFL Divisional football weekend. Just some

1580
01:22:30,320 --> 01:22:34,360
Speaker 1: big stories at play. I want to quickly talk um

1581
01:22:35,240 --> 01:22:37,920
Speaker 1: about the situation with my Jets. Yes, I get to

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01:22:37,960 --> 01:22:41,880
Speaker 1: talk about my Jets a little because I think they

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01:22:41,920 --> 01:22:43,720
Speaker 1: were in a good place. Again, I don't love it.

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01:22:43,760 --> 01:22:45,280
Speaker 1: I just want to revisit. We talked about it in

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01:22:45,360 --> 01:22:48,880
Speaker 1: the first hour with Brian Cosello. Um, it feels like

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01:22:49,000 --> 01:22:52,200
Speaker 1: the end of the Sam Donald era, but you know,

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01:22:52,280 --> 01:22:55,080
Speaker 1: it was not really an era. Was an experience. Three

1588
01:22:55,160 --> 01:22:58,599
Speaker 1: years of mediocre quarterback play surrounded by no good talent.

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01:22:59,160 --> 01:23:02,880
Speaker 1: And it's funny because the coaching carousel is spinning, and

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01:23:03,160 --> 01:23:05,639
Speaker 1: you knew that the two hottest names would be Brian

1591
01:23:05,760 --> 01:23:09,559
Speaker 1: day Bole of the Bills, who's coaching the Bills offense

1592
01:23:09,640 --> 01:23:12,160
Speaker 1: this weekend? And then urban Meyer. Urban Meyer came into

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01:23:12,200 --> 01:23:15,120
Speaker 1: the mix, and it's weird. I had an interesting discussion

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01:23:15,160 --> 01:23:19,280
Speaker 1: with somebody about urban Meyer recently. I'm like, this guy

1595
01:23:19,640 --> 01:23:24,559
Speaker 1: was tremendous at Bowling Green, he was outstanding at Florida.

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01:23:24,600 --> 01:23:26,599
Speaker 1: He had some issues with his players off the field.

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01:23:26,800 --> 01:23:28,760
Speaker 1: Then he was outstanding at Ohio State. He had some

1598
01:23:28,840 --> 01:23:31,639
Speaker 1: issues with an offensive with a with an assistant coach

1599
01:23:32,040 --> 01:23:35,240
Speaker 1: who kind of lost his mind um and said and

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01:23:35,320 --> 01:23:38,679
Speaker 1: did some bad things. But I feel like, Kevin, we're

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01:23:38,760 --> 01:23:42,200
Speaker 1: not giving urban Meyer the credit that he really deserves

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01:23:42,320 --> 01:23:45,080
Speaker 1: as an x AS and OSE guy. I think he's

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01:23:45,080 --> 01:23:48,080
Speaker 1: a great hire in Jacksonville. And you know, you read

1604
01:23:48,120 --> 01:23:49,800
Speaker 1: around and people are like, hey, well what about the

1605
01:23:49,840 --> 01:23:54,080
Speaker 1: off the field stuff? Like part of that's like you know,

1606
01:23:54,360 --> 01:23:58,240
Speaker 1: recruiting and uh, the assistants taking care of these guys.

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01:23:58,840 --> 01:24:01,720
Speaker 1: There's not babysitting in the NFL. Urban Meyers not being

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01:24:01,800 --> 01:24:06,960
Speaker 1: called to babysit Jacksonville Jaguars. Players like these are professionals.

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01:24:07,040 --> 01:24:10,880
Speaker 1: If you're twenty five years old twenty seven making money, Uh,

1610
01:24:11,360 --> 01:24:14,840
Speaker 1: you gotta be accountable for yourself. And here's what Urban

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01:24:14,880 --> 01:24:17,960
Speaker 1: Meyers said this week as he was named head coach

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Speaker 1: of the Jacksonville Jaguars. You have to adapt, and those

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01:24:20,479 --> 01:24:23,960
Speaker 1: who adapt have success. Those who don't fail. I can't wait.

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01:24:24,120 --> 01:24:25,920
Speaker 1: That's the part of the game that I love, is

1615
01:24:26,080 --> 01:24:28,519
Speaker 1: to be able to adapt to the NFL player. And however,

1616
01:24:28,640 --> 01:24:31,200
Speaker 1: between white lines, I don't see a lot of difference.

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01:24:31,439 --> 01:24:34,920
Speaker 1: You know, I've studied the NFL game now for really years,

1618
01:24:35,120 --> 01:24:37,720
Speaker 1: but really studied it for the first time in my

1619
01:24:37,840 --> 01:24:40,560
Speaker 1: life for the last six months. How much did the

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01:24:41,000 --> 01:24:44,760
Speaker 1: opportunity to have the number one draft pick play into

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01:24:44,840 --> 01:24:48,800
Speaker 1: your wanting this job? Shot got very involved in the

1622
01:24:49,080 --> 01:24:51,920
Speaker 1: entire roster, et cetera. And I think it's prime. You know,

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01:24:52,000 --> 01:24:54,240
Speaker 1: I am not going to jump into a situation where

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01:24:54,280 --> 01:24:55,920
Speaker 1: I don't believe we can win. I'm not. I won't

1625
01:24:55,960 --> 01:24:57,640
Speaker 1: do that. First of all, I have to get a

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01:24:57,720 --> 01:25:00,040
Speaker 1: great staff, not a good staff, a great staff. And

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01:25:00,080 --> 01:25:03,720
Speaker 1: when people are recommending, you know, I've had multitude of

1628
01:25:04,320 --> 01:25:08,639
Speaker 1: people calling and my comment is save the recommendation unless

1629
01:25:08,720 --> 01:25:11,519
Speaker 1: that you feel that person is elite in all areas,

1630
01:25:12,120 --> 01:25:14,360
Speaker 1: because that's what Jacksonville deserves and that's what we're gonna

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01:25:14,360 --> 01:25:18,080
Speaker 1: have on our staff. Yeah. I like this Urban Meyer situation.

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01:25:18,160 --> 01:25:20,040
Speaker 1: You get the number one pick. They've got some skill

1633
01:25:20,120 --> 01:25:23,400
Speaker 1: position players on offense. You know the defense was atrocious,

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01:25:23,479 --> 01:25:26,360
Speaker 1: but you've got a ton of draft capital. Um, you've

1635
01:25:26,400 --> 01:25:30,760
Speaker 1: got some money to spend in free agency. Think about

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01:25:30,760 --> 01:25:34,200
Speaker 1: it from this perspective. Jacksonville was probably the NFL's weakest market.

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01:25:34,280 --> 01:25:36,360
Speaker 1: Every year, their attendance is poor, they get sent to

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01:25:36,439 --> 01:25:41,160
Speaker 1: London games. Basically, your weakest market. Just added a Hall

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Speaker 1: of Fame college football coach and the greatest quarterback prospects

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01:25:46,360 --> 01:25:48,439
Speaker 1: since Andrew Luck. And I'm not just tossing that around.

1641
01:25:48,479 --> 01:25:51,559
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence is incredible. Stop judging him on the Ohio

1642
01:25:51,680 --> 01:25:55,920
Speaker 1: State loss where his offensive line was pathetic. That's the

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01:25:56,040 --> 01:26:03,640
Speaker 1: worst franchise in the NFL. Adding two enormous names to

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01:26:03,800 --> 01:26:06,000
Speaker 1: the league. Like Jacksonville is gonna be in prime time

1645
01:26:06,040 --> 01:26:08,400
Speaker 1: next year, I'll guarantee that, like they usually are not,

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01:26:09,479 --> 01:26:11,120
Speaker 1: They're gonna be in prime time the game next year.

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01:26:11,120 --> 01:26:13,639
Speaker 1: They're gonna be on Sunday Night Football. They're definitely gonna

1648
01:26:13,640 --> 01:26:15,639
Speaker 1: be on Monday Night Football, that's for sure. Because ESPN

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01:26:15,680 --> 01:26:18,280
Speaker 1: doesn't get the pick of the litter. But they're gonna

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01:26:18,320 --> 01:26:21,599
Speaker 1: pick Urban Meyer and Trevor Lawrence games, that's for sure. NBC,

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01:26:22,040 --> 01:26:26,759
Speaker 1: you know they care more about markets. Um, they'll probably

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01:26:26,800 --> 01:26:28,760
Speaker 1: get one Jacksonville game. But I'm telling you right now,

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01:26:28,840 --> 01:26:31,879
Speaker 1: Jacksonville's a team to WATS next year. Like, I'm excited

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01:26:31,920 --> 01:26:35,120
Speaker 1: for them. The Jets, we've gotta see. We gotta see

1655
01:26:35,120 --> 01:26:37,080
Speaker 1: what they do at number two in the draft. Um,

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Speaker 1: Robert Salah is a marketable coach. He's a handsome guy.

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01:26:46,560 --> 01:26:51,200
Speaker 1: He's very energy filled and dynamic. Um. You know, we

1658
01:26:51,280 --> 01:26:54,240
Speaker 1: don't have a lot of uh, brown coaches in the league.

1659
01:26:54,280 --> 01:26:56,599
Speaker 1: We have a lot of African American coaches, not a lot,

1660
01:26:57,479 --> 01:27:00,799
Speaker 1: but we have. It's good to get some new blood

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01:27:00,840 --> 01:27:04,760
Speaker 1: in there, right. UM. I like I like him as

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01:27:04,800 --> 01:27:06,640
Speaker 1: a coach. I'm not in love with that. I'd rather

1663
01:27:06,720 --> 01:27:09,080
Speaker 1: have Dable. But you know, we all can't get what

1664
01:27:09,200 --> 01:27:11,320
Speaker 1: we want. Uh And I think the Jets will be fine.

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01:27:11,479 --> 01:27:15,160
Speaker 1: But Gavin, your chargers are on the clock right now,

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01:27:15,920 --> 01:27:18,760
Speaker 1: and I'm assuming your top guy for the job is

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01:27:18,800 --> 01:27:23,120
Speaker 1: Brian Dable. Yeah, I've been wanting Brian Dable all season. Um,

1668
01:27:23,640 --> 01:27:26,280
Speaker 1: the rise of Josh Allen is something I don't think

1669
01:27:26,360 --> 01:27:29,720
Speaker 1: we've seen in the NFL before. The jump he's made

1670
01:27:29,840 --> 01:27:32,880
Speaker 1: from can this guy even be a franchise quarterback to

1671
01:27:33,479 --> 01:27:38,080
Speaker 1: MVP candidate, it's unreal. My thought with Brian Dable is Okay,

1672
01:27:38,200 --> 01:27:40,800
Speaker 1: so you're gonna come into an organization that has a

1673
01:27:40,920 --> 01:27:44,960
Speaker 1: franchise quarterback already that that looks better than Josh Allen

1674
01:27:45,040 --> 01:27:47,200
Speaker 1: did his first two years, so you don't have to

1675
01:27:47,320 --> 01:27:50,639
Speaker 1: make that same jump. Um. Now, there is a part

1676
01:27:50,680 --> 01:27:53,040
Speaker 1: of me that goes, well, the Chargers last three or

1677
01:27:53,080 --> 01:27:55,960
Speaker 1: four coaches have all been offensive and it hasn't worked out.

1678
01:27:56,760 --> 01:27:59,639
Speaker 1: Do you go after a Brandon Staley, who they called

1679
01:27:59,680 --> 01:28:04,920
Speaker 1: the on McVeigh of defense, right, who Maybe Herbert doesn't

1680
01:28:05,160 --> 01:28:08,960
Speaker 1: need an offensive guru as a head coach. Maybe he

1681
01:28:09,040 --> 01:28:12,760
Speaker 1: just needs a good offensive coordinator and the team can

1682
01:28:13,080 --> 01:28:16,240
Speaker 1: raise their play with a defensive guy. You know. So

1683
01:28:16,400 --> 01:28:18,760
Speaker 1: there's I think it's down between those two, and I

1684
01:28:18,840 --> 01:28:22,160
Speaker 1: think it's fitting that there hasn't been a decision yet

1685
01:28:22,320 --> 01:28:26,160
Speaker 1: because both of the Rams and Bills are still playing. Um,

1686
01:28:26,520 --> 01:28:29,280
Speaker 1: but I do I would be very excited about Brian Dable.

1687
01:28:29,360 --> 01:28:33,000
Speaker 1: There's a connection with Tom Talsco going back to high school,

1688
01:28:33,520 --> 01:28:37,320
Speaker 1: and um yeah, I think it'll work out what we'll see. Yeah,

1689
01:28:37,360 --> 01:28:40,240
Speaker 1: I have written down here in my notes that Brian Dable.

1690
01:28:40,400 --> 01:28:41,880
Speaker 1: I think somebody came on our show and said it.

1691
01:28:41,920 --> 01:28:44,559
Speaker 1: Maybe Albert Breuer. Dable went to the same high school

1692
01:28:44,640 --> 01:28:47,080
Speaker 1: as Tom Tolesco. I guess they were two years apart,

1693
01:28:47,120 --> 01:28:52,960
Speaker 1: but both played football. Um. I just this Chargers team

1694
01:28:53,040 --> 01:28:56,280
Speaker 1: is probably gonna be the most bet on team in

1695
01:28:56,320 --> 01:28:59,760
Speaker 1: the offseason to make the playoffs, right, Um yeah, because

1696
01:28:59,760 --> 01:29:02,120
Speaker 1: they're the team that looks like they could do what

1697
01:29:02,240 --> 01:29:04,639
Speaker 1: the Niners did last year, where it's like they sucked

1698
01:29:04,720 --> 01:29:07,400
Speaker 1: the year before, but then they are actually a Super

1699
01:29:07,439 --> 01:29:09,920
Speaker 1: Bowl contender. You know. I will say that some of

1700
01:29:09,960 --> 01:29:12,160
Speaker 1: the Anthony Lynn stuff he cost him at least four

1701
01:29:12,200 --> 01:29:14,800
Speaker 1: games minimum this past year, and the idea that he

1702
01:29:14,800 --> 01:29:17,719
Speaker 1: could get an OC job reminds me of like Jason

1703
01:29:17,800 --> 01:29:22,000
Speaker 1: garrett Um leaving Dallas going to the Giants and like

1704
01:29:22,360 --> 01:29:24,719
Speaker 1: he wasn't good as an offensive coordinator for the Giants,

1705
01:29:24,800 --> 01:29:28,519
Speaker 1: Like they were one of the worst offenses all season long.

1706
01:29:28,600 --> 01:29:31,120
Speaker 1: Now I know they had Danny Dimes and the backup

1707
01:29:31,200 --> 01:29:35,639
Speaker 1: quarterback up put in there. Um yeah, Anthony Lynn didn't

1708
01:29:35,760 --> 01:29:38,280
Speaker 1: call the plays while he was a Charger's head coach,

1709
01:29:38,280 --> 01:29:41,240
Speaker 1: which always frustrated me. Like he's an offensive was an

1710
01:29:41,240 --> 01:29:43,800
Speaker 1: offensive guy. He was the offensive coordinator with the Bills.

1711
01:29:43,880 --> 01:29:45,600
Speaker 1: He actually had a good run there. I think he

1712
01:29:45,680 --> 01:29:48,280
Speaker 1: had one year where they were a really great offense,

1713
01:29:48,320 --> 01:29:51,240
Speaker 1: which is that what Tyrod Taylor? Yeah? Right, And but

1714
01:29:51,400 --> 01:29:54,560
Speaker 1: he didn't do you know, called the place with the

1715
01:29:54,640 --> 01:29:58,000
Speaker 1: Chargers offense, which when they were really struggling and and

1716
01:29:58,160 --> 01:30:01,840
Speaker 1: doing first down runs every time, he never took the

1717
01:30:02,040 --> 01:30:03,920
Speaker 1: reins and said, you know what, I got this. So

1718
01:30:04,520 --> 01:30:07,599
Speaker 1: I don't get why the Seahawks would be super excited

1719
01:30:07,640 --> 01:30:11,280
Speaker 1: about landing Anthony Lynn, who is a guy who's a

1720
01:30:11,560 --> 01:30:13,880
Speaker 1: you know, everyone in the league will tell you he

1721
01:30:14,120 --> 01:30:18,200
Speaker 1: is an high level guy. Everyone loves to play for him.

1722
01:30:18,439 --> 01:30:23,400
Speaker 1: Great individual, But I don't think he fundamentally understand some

1723
01:30:23,479 --> 01:30:25,680
Speaker 1: of the rules of the game of football. Like he

1724
01:30:26,080 --> 01:30:29,000
Speaker 1: there were moments where he would not realize he needs

1725
01:30:29,040 --> 01:30:30,920
Speaker 1: to call a time out or they're running a run

1726
01:30:31,040 --> 01:30:34,720
Speaker 1: play while the offenses in pass pro, and it's just

1727
01:30:35,600 --> 01:30:39,200
Speaker 1: it was ridiculous. So I love the guy as as

1728
01:30:39,240 --> 01:30:43,360
Speaker 1: a person, very very high level individual. But um, I'm

1729
01:30:43,439 --> 01:30:46,559
Speaker 1: excited for the future without him. So the Falcons settled

1730
01:30:46,600 --> 01:30:51,479
Speaker 1: on Arthur Smith, the offensive coordinator of the of the Titans.

1731
01:30:52,040 --> 01:30:56,479
Speaker 1: Arthur Smith's dad is the guy who started FedEx. Did

1732
01:30:56,520 --> 01:30:59,040
Speaker 1: you guys know this? I did not know that. But

1733
01:30:59,160 --> 01:31:01,479
Speaker 1: they shipped him out of Tennessee. He was the guy

1734
01:31:01,640 --> 01:31:04,719
Speaker 1: I didn't want to come to the Chargers. I'm always

1735
01:31:04,840 --> 01:31:08,160
Speaker 1: leary of guys born on third base. Um, how hard

1736
01:31:08,160 --> 01:31:10,599
Speaker 1: are they going to grind? Listen, Arthur Smith did good

1737
01:31:10,680 --> 01:31:14,280
Speaker 1: things for Tennessee this past year. Um, I mean, this

1738
01:31:14,400 --> 01:31:17,440
Speaker 1: guy is sitting on his His father is a billionaire,

1739
01:31:18,080 --> 01:31:23,080
Speaker 1: you know. Ah, well, look some people, hey, go to

1740
01:31:23,120 --> 01:31:25,400
Speaker 1: the media Anderson Cooper, right, he comes from one of

1741
01:31:25,439 --> 01:31:28,040
Speaker 1: the point wealthiest families, So some people can make it

1742
01:31:28,240 --> 01:31:31,479
Speaker 1: make it work. Um. But my thought with the Titans,

1743
01:31:31,520 --> 01:31:34,000
Speaker 1: all they had a great offense right this year and everything,

1744
01:31:34,160 --> 01:31:37,120
Speaker 1: but how much of it was just Derrick Henry? You know,

1745
01:31:37,280 --> 01:31:40,160
Speaker 1: I've never thought their past game was some elite high

1746
01:31:40,280 --> 01:31:43,600
Speaker 1: like changing the game. He was good, Yeah, but he

1747
01:31:43,800 --> 01:31:46,479
Speaker 1: also had a J. Brown, one of the best receivers

1748
01:31:46,520 --> 01:31:49,400
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Corey Davis had to you know, I

1749
01:31:49,560 --> 01:31:52,040
Speaker 1: get it, but I look, I watched their playoff game.

1750
01:31:52,439 --> 01:31:54,760
Speaker 1: This is my question, you how much stock do you

1751
01:31:54,840 --> 01:31:58,439
Speaker 1: put into a playoff game because most Titans fans were

1752
01:31:58,479 --> 01:32:01,479
Speaker 1: not thrilled with Arthur Smith lost to the race as

1753
01:32:01,600 --> 01:32:04,599
Speaker 1: good as they were last year in the playoffs. Um,

1754
01:32:05,320 --> 01:32:08,839
Speaker 1: you know, they pushed the Chiefs. They beat the Patriots

1755
01:32:08,880 --> 01:32:11,000
Speaker 1: although Tannehill through for like seventy eight yards I think

1756
01:32:11,000 --> 01:32:15,000
Speaker 1: in that game or eight yards something low. Um, yeah,

1757
01:32:15,120 --> 01:32:17,880
Speaker 1: I would say like they were that bad, like ten

1758
01:32:17,960 --> 01:32:19,880
Speaker 1: points in the first quarter and then a field goal

1759
01:32:19,960 --> 01:32:22,439
Speaker 1: the rest of the way. There was the drive of

1760
01:32:22,520 --> 01:32:24,519
Speaker 1: the game that really lost in the game was on

1761
01:32:24,640 --> 01:32:29,040
Speaker 1: the forty yard line where Rabel decided to punt. They

1762
01:32:29,080 --> 01:32:31,559
Speaker 1: couldn't get two yards. They had three downs to get

1763
01:32:31,640 --> 01:32:34,320
Speaker 1: two yards and they couldn't do it to save their

1764
01:32:34,360 --> 01:32:39,120
Speaker 1: season and they just and the Falcons hired a guy rusher. Yeah,

1765
01:32:39,320 --> 01:32:41,559
Speaker 1: And the thing is who who is the Falcons running back?

1766
01:32:42,680 --> 01:32:45,680
Speaker 1: How Gurley's contract is up? I think Girly's done. Brian Hill,

1767
01:32:45,800 --> 01:32:50,080
Speaker 1: maybe you put him on the turf. Okay, so they

1768
01:32:50,120 --> 01:32:52,040
Speaker 1: have the fourth pick in the draft. You're not using

1769
01:32:52,080 --> 01:32:55,160
Speaker 1: that on a running but maybe in the second maybe

1770
01:32:55,200 --> 01:32:57,360
Speaker 1: they get naj Harra's second round. I like him, man,

1771
01:32:57,479 --> 01:33:00,400
Speaker 1: he looked great. We never got to talk about the

1772
01:33:00,560 --> 01:33:03,720
Speaker 1: national title. Yeah, I mean, there's not a ton there.

1773
01:33:03,920 --> 01:33:06,000
Speaker 1: We'll come back to it. I'm just curious this Eric

1774
01:33:06,080 --> 01:33:09,280
Speaker 1: b enemy chatter that he may not get a job. Um.

1775
01:33:10,200 --> 01:33:12,200
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess he could get the Texans job.

1776
01:33:13,240 --> 01:33:15,320
Speaker 1: I wouldn't rule him out for the Eagles job, but

1777
01:33:15,400 --> 01:33:17,920
Speaker 1: I don't even know, Like, if he were smart, he

1778
01:33:17,920 --> 01:33:21,759
Speaker 1: would run away from the Eagles because that front office

1779
01:33:21,960 --> 01:33:25,879
Speaker 1: is like a total train wreck. Um. And Michael Lombardi,

1780
01:33:26,040 --> 01:33:29,200
Speaker 1: a guy who worked with the Patriots. I know him

1781
01:33:29,200 --> 01:33:31,479
Speaker 1: a little bit from FS one. I think he's been

1782
01:33:31,520 --> 01:33:33,720
Speaker 1: on this show before. He wrote one of the most

1783
01:33:33,880 --> 01:33:37,759
Speaker 1: brutal takedowns I've read in the NFL lately on Jeffrey Lury,

1784
01:33:37,920 --> 01:33:43,479
Speaker 1: the Eagles owner, and Howie Roseman, sorry, Jeffrey Louri, the

1785
01:33:43,720 --> 01:33:47,400
Speaker 1: owner of the Eagles, and uh Howie Rosevean, the GM

1786
01:33:47,479 --> 01:33:50,719
Speaker 1: who is total inept. I mean, that guy is a buffoon.

1787
01:33:51,479 --> 01:33:53,240
Speaker 1: And I know we want to Super Bowl. Fine, you

1788
01:33:53,280 --> 01:33:55,439
Speaker 1: give him credit, but the stuff they're doing behind the

1789
01:33:55,520 --> 01:34:00,320
Speaker 1: scenes is incredibly bad. Um, you got to go read

1790
01:34:00,360 --> 01:34:03,640
Speaker 1: Michael Lombardi's piece here's the problem. In the NBA, we

1791
01:34:03,720 --> 01:34:06,200
Speaker 1: would read savage takedowns because they happen all the time.

1792
01:34:06,720 --> 01:34:10,320
Speaker 1: But in the NFL, were the reporters protect so many

1793
01:34:10,479 --> 01:34:17,240
Speaker 1: people from agents, players, front offices, coaches, and there's only

1794
01:34:17,280 --> 01:34:20,240
Speaker 1: a handful of agents who control everything, so nobody really

1795
01:34:20,280 --> 01:34:24,360
Speaker 1: wants to take off anybody. This was a savage, brutal

1796
01:34:24,439 --> 01:34:27,680
Speaker 1: takedown of the Eagles and what's going on inside, and

1797
01:34:28,040 --> 01:34:29,800
Speaker 1: you know, we come back from the break, I'm I

1798
01:34:29,880 --> 01:34:32,600
Speaker 1: want to talk about this Carson one story. You know

1799
01:34:33,400 --> 01:34:36,880
Speaker 1: it's been pointed out now that Aaron Rodgers in Green

1800
01:34:36,960 --> 01:34:40,840
Speaker 1: Bay watched his team draft a quarterback in the first round.

1801
01:34:41,200 --> 01:34:44,400
Speaker 1: How did Aaron Rodgers respond? He won the m v P.

1802
01:34:44,600 --> 01:34:46,880
Speaker 1: I think he threw forty eight touchdown passes This year.

1803
01:34:47,600 --> 01:34:52,240
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz watched as the Eagles drafted a quarterback in

1804
01:34:52,360 --> 01:34:56,160
Speaker 1: the second round. Wentz just had the worst season of

1805
01:34:56,240 --> 01:35:00,360
Speaker 1: his career, and according to some numbers, he had the

1806
01:35:00,560 --> 01:35:06,200
Speaker 1: worst decline in passer rating for a under thirty starting

1807
01:35:06,280 --> 01:35:09,799
Speaker 1: quarterback in the last seventy years. How do you respond

1808
01:35:09,880 --> 01:35:13,439
Speaker 1: to adversity? Aaron Rodgers, bring it the bleep on. I'm

1809
01:35:13,479 --> 01:35:15,160
Speaker 1: gonna take it by the horns and take it down.

1810
01:35:15,560 --> 01:35:20,879
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz shriveled up like a frightened turtle and was awful,

1811
01:35:21,920 --> 01:35:26,360
Speaker 1: And you just picked Carson Wentz over Doug Peterson like, yikes,

1812
01:35:26,400 --> 01:35:28,360
Speaker 1: we'll talk about the Eagles coming up next year on

1813
01:35:28,439 --> 01:35:34,160
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1818
01:35:48,680 --> 01:35:50,160
Speaker 1: I want to do a couple of minutes on TV

1819
01:35:50,960 --> 01:35:54,639
Speaker 1: um A Gavin or Sam? I was Sam doesn't watch

1820
01:35:54,680 --> 01:36:00,280
Speaker 1: any streaming obviously. Uh have you seen uh Mandal orient

1821
01:36:00,360 --> 01:36:04,639
Speaker 1: season two? Yes? Yeah, we just finished it this week.

1822
01:36:04,760 --> 01:36:08,760
Speaker 1: Awesome show. I'm looking forward to season three. Uh did

1823
01:36:08,760 --> 01:36:10,760
Speaker 1: you guys stick around for the trailer or did you

1824
01:36:10,840 --> 01:36:15,320
Speaker 1: just s I saw the last credit scene. Yes, yes, okay,

1825
01:36:15,400 --> 01:36:17,120
Speaker 1: you got after the credit show You've got to stick

1826
01:36:17,160 --> 01:36:19,200
Speaker 1: around because we we fast forward it. And I was like, oh,

1827
01:36:19,240 --> 01:36:22,880
Speaker 1: wait a minute, look there's another tease and it looks cool. Um.

1828
01:36:23,479 --> 01:36:27,000
Speaker 1: I just that's just great. I love it. Awesome. I

1829
01:36:27,080 --> 01:36:31,760
Speaker 1: love it. What's the other show? Oh, Cobra Kai season three?

1830
01:36:31,800 --> 01:36:34,519
Speaker 1: Have you started? Have you watched it? No, I'm starting

1831
01:36:34,560 --> 01:36:39,519
Speaker 1: it tonight, very excited. Um flight attendant. Did you guys

1832
01:36:39,560 --> 01:36:42,960
Speaker 1: get around to that? HBO? Max never sighed? Girlfriend watches it? What?

1833
01:36:45,360 --> 01:36:49,920
Speaker 1: Um she likes Kaylee Kuoko. A lot of guys like her.

1834
01:36:51,439 --> 01:36:54,280
Speaker 1: I'm not a huge fan, but I'm a fan. Um.

1835
01:36:54,520 --> 01:36:57,080
Speaker 1: All right, this is this is random. It's Network TV.

1836
01:36:57,760 --> 01:37:02,439
Speaker 1: This is US. No, never seen it? Never seen it? Never?

1837
01:37:02,800 --> 01:37:07,599
Speaker 1: I was sam, I think I've heard of it. Well,

1838
01:37:07,680 --> 01:37:10,759
Speaker 1: it's a very popular It's like one of those popular

1839
01:37:10,800 --> 01:37:16,160
Speaker 1: shows that heart heart felt. Oh gosh, I'm not into

1840
01:37:16,240 --> 01:37:21,600
Speaker 1: that stuff. Yeah a lot. It's it's sappy. Yeah. So

1841
01:37:21,960 --> 01:37:25,479
Speaker 1: I you know, they do such a good job of

1842
01:37:25,600 --> 01:37:28,360
Speaker 1: teasing that show when you like, I wake up in

1843
01:37:28,439 --> 01:37:30,080
Speaker 1: the morning and to get like I'll do like push

1844
01:37:30,160 --> 01:37:32,280
Speaker 1: ups and stood ups in some weightlifting, and then I'll

1845
01:37:32,320 --> 01:37:34,479
Speaker 1: turn onto Today's show just to get a snapshot of

1846
01:37:34,560 --> 01:37:37,320
Speaker 1: what's going on. And they do a great shot of

1847
01:37:37,479 --> 01:37:41,040
Speaker 1: promoing This is US. So I got into it and

1848
01:37:41,560 --> 01:37:44,800
Speaker 1: I watched, you know, watch some episodes, like it's a

1849
01:37:44,880 --> 01:37:50,640
Speaker 1: good show. I gotta say, if you've got a girlfriend wife. Um, yeah, man,

1850
01:37:50,720 --> 01:37:52,360
Speaker 1: it's just like it's a good show. I'm sorry, what

1851
01:37:52,479 --> 01:37:54,639
Speaker 1: else Am I missing anything else out there? So I've

1852
01:37:54,680 --> 01:37:58,960
Speaker 1: been watching the show on National Geographic called Trafficed. Yeah

1853
01:37:59,120 --> 01:38:03,880
Speaker 1: you have, I think you traffic Seller. It is fantastic.

1854
01:38:04,000 --> 01:38:06,479
Speaker 1: There's about I think they just concluded the first season

1855
01:38:06,720 --> 01:38:08,200
Speaker 1: and I don't know how many seasons they can do

1856
01:38:08,240 --> 01:38:11,080
Speaker 1: with this show because this journalist, Marianna van Zeller, she

1857
01:38:11,120 --> 01:38:14,400
Speaker 1: gets in with like criminals, like like tracks them down,

1858
01:38:14,479 --> 01:38:17,160
Speaker 1: you know, and with you know, aliases and all this stuff,

1859
01:38:17,160 --> 01:38:19,559
Speaker 1: and it watches them do their thing. It's a fantastic show,

1860
01:38:19,800 --> 01:38:26,120
Speaker 1: traffic Like she she's intrepid, intrepid journalists. Um. Netflix justss

1861
01:38:26,160 --> 01:38:29,880
Speaker 1: premier night Stalker and this is a serial killer from

1862
01:38:30,280 --> 01:38:33,960
Speaker 1: eighties and nineties. And look, I thought night Stalker was

1863
01:38:34,000 --> 01:38:39,120
Speaker 1: like the comic You're a comic guy, comic Nightcrawler, But

1864
01:38:39,320 --> 01:38:43,200
Speaker 1: the night Stalker was local to this area, to Los

1865
01:38:43,240 --> 01:38:46,479
Speaker 1: Angeles and southern California. And actually I grew up in

1866
01:38:46,720 --> 01:38:50,760
Speaker 1: Mission viej in South Orange County, and I happen to

1867
01:38:50,880 --> 01:38:52,640
Speaker 1: know that this guy is going to make his way

1868
01:38:52,720 --> 01:38:56,519
Speaker 1: down there at some point in the documentary. Yeah, it's

1869
01:38:56,520 --> 01:38:59,479
Speaker 1: pretty good. It's very good, very well. We got some

1870
01:38:59,560 --> 01:39:02,559
Speaker 1: good stuff. Have to watch listen once NFL winds down,

1871
01:39:02,600 --> 01:39:05,760
Speaker 1: there's seven games left in the season. Um My, my

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Speaker 1: week days are gonna be freed up a little bit, right.

1873
01:39:07,960 --> 01:39:10,559
Speaker 1: I don't have to be watching lines and injury reports

1874
01:39:10,600 --> 01:39:13,360
Speaker 1: and read devouring It's just not that much info when

1875
01:39:13,400 --> 01:39:15,760
Speaker 1: there's only a handful of games. Obviously, I'll get back

1876
01:39:15,760 --> 01:39:18,679
Speaker 1: into college basketball as I see North Carolina and Florida

1877
01:39:18,720 --> 01:39:24,920
Speaker 1: State playing right now on TV here and um NBA. Yeah,

1878
01:39:25,040 --> 01:39:27,640
Speaker 1: we'll see about the NBA. I love the NBA, but

1879
01:39:27,760 --> 01:39:30,439
Speaker 1: geez hey, Gavin to go back quickly to college football.

1880
01:39:30,479 --> 01:39:33,880
Speaker 1: We didn't really get too much into Alabama and um

1881
01:39:35,680 --> 01:39:40,240
Speaker 1: Ohio State Albam. But did you notice the TV rating

1882
01:39:40,479 --> 01:39:44,519
Speaker 1: was abysmal. Yeah, and you know, we all thought that

1883
01:39:44,680 --> 01:39:46,400
Speaker 1: this was going to be a blowout. It turned out

1884
01:39:46,479 --> 01:39:48,680
Speaker 1: to be a blowout, and that's what happens. That's why

1885
01:39:49,800 --> 01:39:51,720
Speaker 1: we wanted to see Clemson in there, because they can

1886
01:39:51,720 --> 01:39:55,880
Speaker 1: actually hang and they can defeat Nick Saban. So yeah,

1887
01:39:55,960 --> 01:39:58,720
Speaker 1: it's no surprise. A lot of pros on the field, though,

1888
01:39:59,280 --> 01:40:02,280
Speaker 1: Oh my man, that's the fun way to watch it. Though.

1889
01:40:02,680 --> 01:40:04,280
Speaker 1: I'll just say one thing, on before I get to

1890
01:40:04,360 --> 01:40:08,200
Speaker 1: back to the Eagles. Um, DeVonta Smith awesome, I mean,

1891
01:40:08,360 --> 01:40:13,680
Speaker 1: ridiculous talent. Just guys, remember wide receivers who are like

1892
01:40:13,920 --> 01:40:16,800
Speaker 1: under six ft one. If you take him in the

1893
01:40:16,840 --> 01:40:20,040
Speaker 1: top ten, historically they've done very poorly. You go back

1894
01:40:20,080 --> 01:40:24,439
Speaker 1: twenty years. I mean, I've done the homework. It is

1895
01:40:24,640 --> 01:40:28,400
Speaker 1: there is some risk involved. They're just tiny guys and

1896
01:40:28,600 --> 01:40:33,680
Speaker 1: the risk of injury, um is significant. Uh, they're not

1897
01:40:33,840 --> 01:40:35,840
Speaker 1: able to dominate the way that they did at the

1898
01:40:35,880 --> 01:40:39,760
Speaker 1: college level. When they fall to like the fourth or

1899
01:40:39,800 --> 01:40:43,560
Speaker 1: fifth round, then you take to take a flyer on

1900
01:40:43,600 --> 01:40:48,439
Speaker 1: those guys. I'm just just a word of caution because

1901
01:40:48,479 --> 01:40:51,960
Speaker 1: I know you got it's obvious. Kevin Davonta Smith was ridiculous. Yeah,

1902
01:40:51,960 --> 01:40:54,200
Speaker 1: I mean when you watch him, he stands out. It's

1903
01:40:54,960 --> 01:40:57,560
Speaker 1: just the way he runs. He almost glides into the

1904
01:40:57,680 --> 01:41:00,519
Speaker 1: end zone. It's um. But who's his then, fell Camp.

1905
01:41:00,840 --> 01:41:04,560
Speaker 1: He ain't gonna be Tyree Hill, right, No, but I

1906
01:41:04,720 --> 01:41:08,360
Speaker 1: think Tyreek Hill is a pretty similar comp and that

1907
01:41:09,280 --> 01:41:15,000
Speaker 1: smaller guy right probably one Uh incredibly fast. Now the

1908
01:41:15,160 --> 01:41:19,160
Speaker 1: route running is where it differentiates. Yeah, Tyreek Hill ain't

1909
01:41:19,160 --> 01:41:21,479
Speaker 1: going over the middle. Folks, if you wanted twenty yards

1910
01:41:21,560 --> 01:41:24,559
Speaker 1: down the field over the middle. Sure, but you can't

1911
01:41:24,600 --> 01:41:28,640
Speaker 1: have him getting hurt. He's just like space guy. Can

1912
01:41:28,720 --> 01:41:31,720
Speaker 1: you do that with DeVonta Smith? Don't. You got to

1913
01:41:31,760 --> 01:41:33,320
Speaker 1: get him in the right offense and the other problem

1914
01:41:33,400 --> 01:41:35,559
Speaker 1: going in the top ten and he will. He's gonna

1915
01:41:35,560 --> 01:41:37,840
Speaker 1: be like five or six or seven or maybe three

1916
01:41:37,880 --> 01:41:40,760
Speaker 1: to Miami. Who knows to join forces with TWA. But

1917
01:41:41,200 --> 01:41:44,960
Speaker 1: it's just a weird situation when you've got an awesome

1918
01:41:45,200 --> 01:41:48,639
Speaker 1: skill position player going to a bad team, bad organization.

1919
01:41:48,680 --> 01:41:50,840
Speaker 1: You know who? He reminds me of. M On the

1920
01:41:50,920 --> 01:41:54,479
Speaker 1: negative side is Tavon Austin, like we all thought, the

1921
01:41:54,560 --> 01:41:57,840
Speaker 1: potential gadget guy. It's gonna matter where he ends up.

1922
01:41:57,960 --> 01:42:00,200
Speaker 1: Oh like, if he goes to one of these means

1923
01:42:00,240 --> 01:42:02,519
Speaker 1: it doesn't have a good offensive mind and a good quarterback.

1924
01:42:02,600 --> 01:42:04,479
Speaker 1: Think about this way. So Tavon Austin went to the

1925
01:42:04,600 --> 01:42:07,360
Speaker 1: Rams and it was terrible. Now with this version of

1926
01:42:07,400 --> 01:42:09,840
Speaker 1: the Rams, it could be great. Yeah, I don't think

1927
01:42:09,840 --> 01:42:11,760
Speaker 1: they'll get him because they're picking so late. Because a

1928
01:42:11,840 --> 01:42:14,520
Speaker 1: lot of these top ten picks they have like bad coaches,

1929
01:42:15,200 --> 01:42:17,680
Speaker 1: bad organization. They just don't know what to do and

1930
01:42:17,760 --> 01:42:20,519
Speaker 1: how to scheme these guys up like Tyreek Hill to

1931
01:42:20,560 --> 01:42:23,519
Speaker 1: Andy Reid. Oh my gosh, slam dunk home run. Now

1932
01:42:23,600 --> 01:42:25,680
Speaker 1: look who's drafting in the top ten. And some of

1933
01:42:25,720 --> 01:42:29,280
Speaker 1: these teams like you go to the wrong organization. I mean, hell,

1934
01:42:29,320 --> 01:42:32,639
Speaker 1: look at the Eagles. Look what they did. Jalen Rigor,

1935
01:42:33,400 --> 01:42:38,640
Speaker 1: spicy speedy guy carolinea Panthers at eight could be that

1936
01:42:38,720 --> 01:42:42,000
Speaker 1: could be an interesting spot that that franchise has needed

1937
01:42:42,000 --> 01:42:44,120
Speaker 1: wide receiver help for a long I can't believe Joe

1938
01:42:44,160 --> 01:42:46,400
Speaker 1: Brady didn't get a job, like he's gonna be getting

1939
01:42:46,400 --> 01:42:49,160
Speaker 1: one probably next year. Yea probably did to Curtis Samuel

1940
01:42:50,840 --> 01:42:53,320
Speaker 1: is awesome. This year he's gonna get paid. And your

1941
01:42:53,320 --> 01:42:56,919
Speaker 1: guy Robbie Anderson and look made the Jets look like idiots,

1942
01:42:57,000 --> 01:42:59,920
Speaker 1: you know, But what else is new? All right? Um? Shoot,

1943
01:43:00,160 --> 01:43:01,320
Speaker 1: I don't think we have time for me to go

1944
01:43:01,439 --> 01:43:03,519
Speaker 1: in on Carson Wentz, but I'm telling you there's a

1945
01:43:03,520 --> 01:43:06,640
Speaker 1: story in the Inquirer on Carson Wentz that is just

1946
01:43:07,160 --> 01:43:12,560
Speaker 1: absolutely brutal. Ah. I mean, at this here, I'll just

1947
01:43:12,640 --> 01:43:15,880
Speaker 1: tell you this. To quote the article, Doug Peterson would

1948
01:43:15,960 --> 01:43:20,040
Speaker 1: call a play only for his quarterback to occasionally kill

1949
01:43:20,120 --> 01:43:24,960
Speaker 1: it for no other reason. Than a personal distaste. It

1950
01:43:25,120 --> 01:43:28,720
Speaker 1: became a pissing match between the two. One of the

1951
01:43:28,800 --> 01:43:32,920
Speaker 1: sources said, that's from the Inquirer today on Carson Wentz

1952
01:43:33,080 --> 01:43:37,760
Speaker 1: versus Doug Peterson and it The story opens with Doug

1953
01:43:37,840 --> 01:43:41,920
Speaker 1: Peterson had a huge poster in his office, a life

1954
01:43:41,960 --> 01:43:46,120
Speaker 1: size poster of Carson Wentz. The GM like, what are

1955
01:43:46,120 --> 01:43:52,080
Speaker 1: you doing? Like Carson Wentz has taken six playoffs snaps

1956
01:43:52,160 --> 01:43:54,639
Speaker 1: in his career. All right, let's go to what's trending

1957
01:43:55,240 --> 01:44:00,560
Speaker 1: with Ralph Earth, thank you very much and talk about that.

1958
01:44:01,360 --> 01:44:04,400
Speaker 1: That was Howie Roseman's office with the what did I say?

1959
01:44:04,560 --> 01:44:08,240
Speaker 1: You said, Doug Peterson. I'm pretty sure Doug Peterson did

1960
01:44:08,280 --> 01:44:14,920
Speaker 1: not have that poster. Thank you. But the NFL Divisional playoffs, well,

1961
01:44:15,080 --> 01:44:17,920
Speaker 1: they will get started later today. Cooper Cup is gonna

1962
01:44:17,960 --> 01:44:20,439
Speaker 1: give me a game time decision. Aaron Donald should be

1963
01:44:20,560 --> 01:44:25,479
Speaker 1: healthy despite a rib cartilage injury. Rams playing at Green

1964
01:44:25,560 --> 01:44:28,519
Speaker 1: Bay at four thirty Eastern time. Temperature is supposed to

1965
01:44:28,560 --> 01:44:31,080
Speaker 1: be in the mid thirties, cloudy, a little bit of

1966
01:44:31,120 --> 01:44:35,120
Speaker 1: wind eight nine miles an hour, but it will be cold. Meanwhile,

1967
01:44:35,160 --> 01:44:39,479
Speaker 1: at eight o'clock tonight in Buffalo, Baltimore, playing at the

1968
01:44:39,560 --> 01:44:43,040
Speaker 1: Bills also about mid thirties, but it's gonna be windy

1969
01:44:43,880 --> 01:44:46,920
Speaker 1: winds reaching up almost a fifteen twenty miles an hour

1970
01:44:47,080 --> 01:44:49,040
Speaker 1: that could affect the passing game. The Ravens will be

1971
01:44:49,160 --> 01:44:52,120
Speaker 1: without running back mark Ingram. He's a healthy scratch today,

1972
01:44:52,160 --> 01:44:56,080
Speaker 1: according to Adam Schefter, also cornered Marcus Peters questionable with

1973
01:44:56,160 --> 01:44:59,080
Speaker 1: a sword back. Maybe his back's a little sore also

1974
01:44:59,160 --> 01:45:03,000
Speaker 1: because he was mind fifteen thousand dollars today for taunting

1975
01:45:03,120 --> 01:45:08,280
Speaker 1: the Titans last weekend after his game clinching interception. Bill's

1976
01:45:08,280 --> 01:45:11,120
Speaker 1: whiteouts Colby's least fun digs off the injury report, so

1977
01:45:11,160 --> 01:45:13,320
Speaker 1: they should be good to go. Discover matches all the

1978
01:45:13,400 --> 01:45:15,439
Speaker 1: cash back you're on your credit card at the end

1979
01:45:15,479 --> 01:45:20,000
Speaker 1: of your first year. It's amazing because Discovers accepted places

1980
01:45:20,040 --> 01:45:22,320
Speaker 1: in the US that take credit cards that learn more

1981
01:45:22,439 --> 01:45:26,719
Speaker 1: discover dot com slash Yes, Nielsen Report limitations do apply,

1982
01:45:28,040 --> 01:45:30,800
Speaker 1: and Major League Baseball once again it's gonna have seven

1983
01:45:30,840 --> 01:45:33,920
Speaker 1: inning doubleheaders and runners starting on second base and extra

1984
01:45:34,000 --> 01:45:38,040
Speaker 1: innings this coming season. That according to Bob Nightingale. Of course,

1985
01:45:38,120 --> 01:45:41,120
Speaker 1: it's pending a vote by the Players Association, the league,

1986
01:45:41,200 --> 01:45:44,120
Speaker 1: and the union, though still discussing a universal d H

1987
01:45:44,479 --> 01:45:48,759
Speaker 1: and a continuation of the expanded postseason. As we continue

1988
01:45:48,840 --> 01:45:54,120
Speaker 1: in the post world should be interesting in baseball, as

1989
01:45:54,160 --> 01:45:57,240
Speaker 1: we sent it back down to Jason mcinnig. Thank you, Ralph.

1990
01:45:57,400 --> 01:46:00,720
Speaker 1: Back here on Fox Sports Radio. It's me Jason McIntyre

1991
01:46:01,320 --> 01:46:03,639
Speaker 1: and our next guest. Uh, we gotta do a little

1992
01:46:03,680 --> 01:46:07,280
Speaker 1: bit more NBA. Brian Mahoney, NBA writer for the AP

1993
01:46:07,680 --> 01:46:10,519
Speaker 1: covers the Nets and Knicks. Brian, your job just got

1994
01:46:10,640 --> 01:46:13,599
Speaker 1: a whole hell of a lot more fun. How are you, man? Yeah?

1995
01:46:13,760 --> 01:46:17,200
Speaker 1: Pretty good? Jason, are you? I'm excellent? Uh, you know, listen,

1996
01:46:17,280 --> 01:46:19,040
Speaker 1: We're not gonna do anything on the Knicks. I'm sorry

1997
01:46:19,080 --> 01:46:21,040
Speaker 1: to disappoint you. I think they've lost what five straight,

1998
01:46:21,600 --> 01:46:23,760
Speaker 1: I think every game by double digits or something. So

1999
01:46:23,880 --> 01:46:26,200
Speaker 1: it was fun while lasted, right, five and three starts

2000
01:46:26,240 --> 01:46:29,760
Speaker 1: something like that. Yeah, I mean they had their good moment,

2001
01:46:29,840 --> 01:46:32,320
Speaker 1: they had a decent record at the beginning. They want

2002
01:46:32,400 --> 01:46:34,479
Speaker 1: three in a row at one point, and now it's

2003
01:46:35,160 --> 01:46:37,160
Speaker 1: back to the Nets and we'll see the NIXT next season.

2004
01:46:37,200 --> 01:46:40,120
Speaker 1: Pretty much. Yeah, all right, let's start with the guy

2005
01:46:40,160 --> 01:46:43,200
Speaker 1: who I just saw in a milk carton um Kyrie Irving.

2006
01:46:44,000 --> 01:46:48,960
Speaker 1: What is the latest on Kanye Irving. I'm sorry, Kyrie Irving, Um,

2007
01:46:49,880 --> 01:46:52,200
Speaker 1: is he going to suit up today? As he returns

2008
01:46:52,280 --> 01:46:56,840
Speaker 1: Steve Nash's text, what's going on? Well, he's not gonna

2009
01:46:56,880 --> 01:46:59,680
Speaker 1: play today. They've ruled him out. He is eligible to

2010
01:46:59,720 --> 01:47:01,920
Speaker 1: be bad, So I think he will be around the

2011
01:47:02,000 --> 01:47:05,479
Speaker 1: team again. Uh, you know, he certainly can probably play

2012
01:47:05,560 --> 01:47:08,360
Speaker 1: Monday night, and which would be pretty neat because that's

2013
01:47:08,560 --> 01:47:11,519
Speaker 1: they play Milwaukee, the you know, real high profile game

2014
01:47:11,560 --> 01:47:13,800
Speaker 1: obviously if that would be the first time possibly they

2015
01:47:13,840 --> 01:47:16,840
Speaker 1: can see this big three together. But uh, you know,

2016
01:47:16,960 --> 01:47:21,040
Speaker 1: it's he's been in touch with them, He's completed this quarantine. Uh,

2017
01:47:21,320 --> 01:47:23,040
Speaker 1: we just don't know why he hasn't played yet, and

2018
01:47:23,120 --> 01:47:25,640
Speaker 1: why isn't you know, he hasn't talked to us. The

2019
01:47:25,760 --> 01:47:28,360
Speaker 1: Netts say they're gonna let him speak for himself and

2020
01:47:28,920 --> 01:47:31,240
Speaker 1: to do that, so, well, he's gonna find out kind

2021
01:47:31,280 --> 01:47:33,000
Speaker 1: of where he's been and why he hasn't been around

2022
01:47:33,040 --> 01:47:35,040
Speaker 1: its movie. But it might be a couple more days

2023
01:47:35,080 --> 01:47:38,000
Speaker 1: until we get those answers. All right, let me speculate,

2024
01:47:38,040 --> 01:47:40,920
Speaker 1: which is what we love to do about the NBA. Brian, So,

2025
01:47:41,760 --> 01:47:45,320
Speaker 1: Kyrie really started this team right, He brought Kevin Durant

2026
01:47:45,400 --> 01:47:49,240
Speaker 1: to Brooklyn and they got the coach fired Atkinson last year.

2027
01:47:49,280 --> 01:47:51,840
Speaker 1: Regardless of what everybody says, everybody knows k Kyrie got

2028
01:47:51,920 --> 01:47:56,160
Speaker 1: him pushed out. Then Kevin Durank gets his guy's head

2029
01:47:56,200 --> 01:47:58,519
Speaker 1: coach and Nash and now Kevin Durke gets his buddy

2030
01:47:59,280 --> 01:48:02,320
Speaker 1: from the Okase days and James Harden. I mean, is

2031
01:48:02,400 --> 01:48:05,519
Speaker 1: Kyrie possibly ticked off that he's no longer the alpha

2032
01:48:05,720 --> 01:48:09,439
Speaker 1: or the perceived alpha in that locker room. You know,

2033
01:48:09,760 --> 01:48:11,720
Speaker 1: anything is possible, Jason, really, you know, I don't know

2034
01:48:11,720 --> 01:48:14,600
Speaker 1: if that's the reason, but you know, when you you know,

2035
01:48:14,720 --> 01:48:18,679
Speaker 1: don't speak for yourself and you stay away, Uh, speculation happens.

2036
01:48:18,800 --> 01:48:21,360
Speaker 1: And you know there's so many reasons you can wonder

2037
01:48:21,439 --> 01:48:24,559
Speaker 1: why he's not here and how he feels about this. Certainly,

2038
01:48:24,960 --> 01:48:27,160
Speaker 1: the whole idea was he came to Brooklyn too because

2039
01:48:27,200 --> 01:48:29,400
Speaker 1: he was with his good buddy, Kevin Durant. They were

2040
01:48:29,400 --> 01:48:31,680
Speaker 1: gonna play together and do this together. And all of

2041
01:48:31,720 --> 01:48:33,880
Speaker 1: a sudden, you know, James Harden is here now, and

2042
01:48:34,520 --> 01:48:37,240
Speaker 1: and you know, maybe that's not something Kyrie is a

2043
01:48:37,320 --> 01:48:39,560
Speaker 1: hundred percent outboard with. You know, maybe he is, and

2044
01:48:39,600 --> 01:48:42,080
Speaker 1: maybe don't tell us he is, uh and play that way.

2045
01:48:42,160 --> 01:48:44,559
Speaker 1: But you know, until he does, we certainly can wonder

2046
01:48:44,600 --> 01:48:47,639
Speaker 1: about that. Uh, you know, whether you know how he feels,

2047
01:48:47,680 --> 01:48:50,880
Speaker 1: whether he's all it is is probably James harden is

2048
01:48:51,880 --> 01:48:55,240
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on just Kyrie Irving? The off

2049
01:48:55,360 --> 01:48:57,920
Speaker 1: court type of player he is. This is the guy

2050
01:48:57,960 --> 01:49:00,920
Speaker 1: who forced his way out of Cleveland. Um, he gave

2051
01:49:00,960 --> 01:49:03,400
Speaker 1: all the indications he loved Boston and then he feuded

2052
01:49:03,439 --> 01:49:07,519
Speaker 1: with the young guys. Uh, leaves Brad Stevens, starts a

2053
01:49:07,560 --> 01:49:11,519
Speaker 1: thing in Brooklyn. Now just takes a sabbatical without telling anybody. Really,

2054
01:49:12,000 --> 01:49:16,519
Speaker 1: what's this guy's deal? Well, you know, I do think

2055
01:49:16,560 --> 01:49:18,360
Speaker 1: the one thing, Jason, and you know, if I was

2056
01:49:18,400 --> 01:49:19,960
Speaker 1: a next fan, that I'd be concerned about. And I

2057
01:49:20,000 --> 01:49:22,760
Speaker 1: said this from the vine to King here. Uh, you know,

2058
01:49:22,840 --> 01:49:26,200
Speaker 1: I do wonder about his commitment to what it takes

2059
01:49:26,280 --> 01:49:29,280
Speaker 1: to win a basketball championship in Brooklyn. Uh, if that

2060
01:49:29,400 --> 01:49:31,840
Speaker 1: was his big goal anymore in life. He was on

2061
01:49:31,880 --> 01:49:34,280
Speaker 1: a better team in Cleveland with Lebron, James talked his

2062
01:49:34,360 --> 01:49:36,240
Speaker 1: way out of that. He probably was on a better

2063
01:49:36,280 --> 01:49:38,639
Speaker 1: situation of Boston with the great young talent they have there,

2064
01:49:38,760 --> 01:49:41,120
Speaker 1: talked his way out of that I think his goal

2065
01:49:41,280 --> 01:49:43,439
Speaker 1: might just be, Look, I've won enough. I've already won

2066
01:49:43,479 --> 01:49:46,240
Speaker 1: a title, I've won the Olympic medals, sen that I

2067
01:49:46,320 --> 01:49:48,519
Speaker 1: just want to go be around my family and build

2068
01:49:48,560 --> 01:49:51,200
Speaker 1: my brand and do it my way. And that's fine

2069
01:49:51,320 --> 01:49:55,080
Speaker 1: if that's what his goal is, but it certainly might

2070
01:49:55,600 --> 01:49:58,360
Speaker 1: leave you to wonder how committed he is to you know,

2071
01:49:58,479 --> 01:50:00,519
Speaker 1: being a practice every day and things like that. That

2072
01:50:00,600 --> 01:50:02,240
Speaker 1: the book the Nets would love to see if they're

2073
01:50:02,240 --> 01:50:05,000
Speaker 1: gonna try to win a championship. All right, Brian, we've

2074
01:50:05,120 --> 01:50:09,120
Speaker 1: seen most Big three super teams. Somebody has to say,

2075
01:50:09,240 --> 01:50:10,680
Speaker 1: you know what, I could take a step back and

2076
01:50:10,760 --> 01:50:14,040
Speaker 1: sacrifice some of my game. Um, Koree and Clay Thompson

2077
01:50:14,040 --> 01:50:17,000
Speaker 1: a little bit when Kevin Durant showed up. Um, obviously

2078
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Speaker 1: Nash and I'm sorry not Nas, Chris Bosh, Kevin Love.

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Speaker 1: We've seen this. What's your best guess as to who

2080
01:50:24,240 --> 01:50:26,519
Speaker 1: if anybody takes a step back in Brooklyn? Because if

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01:50:26,560 --> 01:50:28,639
Speaker 1: nobody takes a step back, then we got bigger problems.

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01:50:28,760 --> 01:50:32,000
Speaker 1: Right Yeah, yeah, I mean obviously you would say Durant

2083
01:50:32,080 --> 01:50:33,640
Speaker 1: kind of knows how to do it. Haven't gone and

2084
01:50:33,800 --> 01:50:36,640
Speaker 1: done that Golden State situation, Uh, you know, if he

2085
01:50:36,920 --> 01:50:39,760
Speaker 1: becomes most of those other you know, Big three teams. Uh,

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01:50:39,960 --> 01:50:42,519
Speaker 1: there was a guy who could certainly be effective in basketball,

2087
01:50:42,680 --> 01:50:45,120
Speaker 1: you know, would be a Bosh or or Kevin Garnett

2088
01:50:45,200 --> 01:50:47,880
Speaker 1: or Love maybe you know, focusing on your rebounding more

2089
01:50:47,920 --> 01:50:50,200
Speaker 1: of those kind of things could still affect the game

2090
01:50:50,200 --> 01:50:51,880
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways. Uh. You know, I don't

2091
01:50:51,920 --> 01:50:54,720
Speaker 1: know these guys here, you know, how they can still

2092
01:50:54,760 --> 01:50:56,960
Speaker 1: be as effective if they're not having the ball. These

2093
01:50:57,000 --> 01:51:00,160
Speaker 1: are scores and sure, you know Kevin Durant blockshot. It's

2094
01:51:00,200 --> 01:51:02,400
Speaker 1: the fans. He's a great all around player. I don't

2095
01:51:02,439 --> 01:51:05,679
Speaker 1: know if James Harden is still you know, as great

2096
01:51:05,720 --> 01:51:09,680
Speaker 1: a player. Uh, you know, sacrificing shots in past. You know,

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01:51:09,760 --> 01:51:12,920
Speaker 1: he's he's a good passer as well. Uh So if

2098
01:51:12,960 --> 01:51:16,120
Speaker 1: the balls in his hands less times a game, he's

2099
01:51:16,160 --> 01:51:18,760
Speaker 1: got to find ways to still, you know, be impactful,

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01:51:18,880 --> 01:51:21,599
Speaker 1: and that'll be the challenge for him. Jug Brian Mahoney,

2101
01:51:21,960 --> 01:51:26,200
Speaker 1: NBA writer for the AP covers the Nets and unfortunately

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01:51:26,240 --> 01:51:29,640
Speaker 1: the Knicks. Brian, all right, I'll try to put this

2103
01:51:29,760 --> 01:51:32,320
Speaker 1: in perspective for the audience right now. With the trading

2104
01:51:32,320 --> 01:51:37,000
Speaker 1: of Jared Allen, Brooklyn's list of centers is DeAndre Jordan's

2105
01:51:37,120 --> 01:51:40,719
Speaker 1: and that's it. Um, he is not a thirty minute

2106
01:51:40,720 --> 01:51:44,320
Speaker 1: a game guy. He is probably not even what he

2107
01:51:44,479 --> 01:51:48,360
Speaker 1: was with the Clippers. Um, is this a tenable situation

2108
01:51:48,720 --> 01:51:51,760
Speaker 1: in the East where Janice is a big guy and

2109
01:51:51,840 --> 01:51:54,920
Speaker 1: we've seen him just eat people alive and Joel Embiid

2110
01:51:55,000 --> 01:51:57,240
Speaker 1: is looking like an m v P. Like they can't

2111
01:51:57,280 --> 01:51:59,960
Speaker 1: go into the postseason with just DeAndre Jordan at the

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01:52:00,040 --> 01:52:04,000
Speaker 1: five right. No, at some point and I thought this,

2113
01:52:04,240 --> 01:52:06,160
Speaker 1: you know, watching them before they made the treat even

2114
01:52:06,520 --> 01:52:08,240
Speaker 1: there is a whole of their lineup. They need some

2115
01:52:08,400 --> 01:52:11,360
Speaker 1: kind of enforcer, you know, a power forward guy. Uh,

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01:52:11,479 --> 01:52:14,479
Speaker 1: you know your Charles type player who, uh, we'll get

2117
01:52:14,520 --> 01:52:16,960
Speaker 1: some rebounds, bank some people around when when the game

2118
01:52:17,040 --> 01:52:19,400
Speaker 1: becomes physical and not finesse. This is you know, a great,

2119
01:52:19,400 --> 01:52:21,560
Speaker 1: great finesse team. They can you know, beat you a

2120
01:52:21,680 --> 01:52:24,760
Speaker 1: hundred thirty hundred twenty any night, but at some point

2121
01:52:24,840 --> 01:52:26,680
Speaker 1: you do have to kind of be able to get

2122
01:52:26,720 --> 01:52:29,400
Speaker 1: tough and physical and right now they don't have that, uh.

2123
01:52:29,520 --> 01:52:31,160
Speaker 1: And it certainly becomes even harder to do when you

2124
01:52:31,240 --> 01:52:34,320
Speaker 1: trade Jared Allen too. So they need to at some

2125
01:52:34,400 --> 01:52:36,160
Speaker 1: point get a guy in there. I don't know who

2126
01:52:36,240 --> 01:52:38,960
Speaker 1: that guy is gonna be, but uh, if they're gonna

2127
01:52:39,000 --> 01:52:40,439
Speaker 1: you know, you can maybe even get out of the

2128
01:52:40,479 --> 01:52:41,960
Speaker 1: East in a lot of ways, but at some point

2129
01:52:42,120 --> 01:52:44,240
Speaker 1: don't win the title. You have to get a front line,

2130
01:52:45,040 --> 01:52:47,320
Speaker 1: you know, Anthony Davis, Lebron James, and you've got to

2131
01:52:47,360 --> 01:52:48,880
Speaker 1: have a guy who can defend those kind of guys

2132
01:52:48,880 --> 01:52:51,720
Speaker 1: a little bit, and this team doesn't have that right now.

2133
01:52:51,840 --> 01:52:54,800
Speaker 1: Have you heard any names as to who could emerge

2134
01:52:55,040 --> 01:52:58,120
Speaker 1: maybe on the buyout market, Uh, somebody who's currently a

2135
01:52:58,160 --> 01:53:02,240
Speaker 1: free agent, Any names at all, not for that kind

2136
01:53:02,240 --> 01:53:04,320
Speaker 1: of position. Uh, you know, you see names out there

2137
01:53:04,360 --> 01:53:06,280
Speaker 1: for more guys who I don't think necessarily still the

2138
01:53:06,360 --> 01:53:08,240
Speaker 1: need they have. You know, certainly they had to walk

2139
01:53:08,360 --> 01:53:10,040
Speaker 1: Offert in there in the bubble a little bit. He's

2140
01:53:10,080 --> 01:53:12,360
Speaker 1: still out there, you know. I say that Thomas is

2141
01:53:12,400 --> 01:53:14,800
Speaker 1: still out there. There's guys who you know, can can

2142
01:53:14,840 --> 01:53:16,800
Speaker 1: shoot the ball and score. But as far as the

2143
01:53:16,840 --> 01:53:19,360
Speaker 1: guy who's just gonna get some rebounds and bang a

2144
01:53:19,439 --> 01:53:22,280
Speaker 1: little bit, I don't know who that player is right now,

2145
01:53:22,320 --> 01:53:24,280
Speaker 1: and I think that's what they want anything. That's part

2146
01:53:24,320 --> 01:53:26,599
Speaker 1: of the reason I think why Sean marks the GM said,

2147
01:53:26,600 --> 01:53:28,040
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna rush. He's got to look for that

2148
01:53:28,160 --> 01:53:30,920
Speaker 1: kind of guy. Yeah. My My only name that pops

2149
01:53:31,040 --> 01:53:34,360
Speaker 1: up is you know, with Jared Allen surfacing in Cleveland, now, uh,

2150
01:53:34,479 --> 01:53:38,400
Speaker 1: Andre Drummond's there, JaVale McGee perhaps becomes expendable, but again

2151
01:53:38,600 --> 01:53:41,400
Speaker 1: that's a you know, it's a guy who's tend to twelve,

2152
01:53:41,560 --> 01:53:44,519
Speaker 1: maybe fifteen minutes a night. I don't even know that

2153
01:53:44,560 --> 01:53:46,880
Speaker 1: you can come together forty eight minutes of those two bigs.

2154
01:53:47,200 --> 01:53:49,880
Speaker 1: And and you're right, Anthony Davis Yokich. If the Denver

2155
01:53:50,000 --> 01:53:52,719
Speaker 1: Nuggets somehow get to the finals, I don't see that happening.

2156
01:53:53,080 --> 01:53:56,479
Speaker 1: Um well, I guess one last question, Brian, anything and

2157
01:53:56,520 --> 01:53:59,599
Speaker 1: the East surprise you at this point, any teams either

2158
01:54:00,000 --> 01:54:02,680
Speaker 1: on the struggling front or the impressive front, anything that

2159
01:54:03,360 --> 01:54:05,519
Speaker 1: the fans may have missed out there in the East.

2160
01:54:07,360 --> 01:54:09,880
Speaker 1: You know, no one blows me away yet. But I

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01:54:09,960 --> 01:54:11,920
Speaker 1: think that's part of what I kind of figured was

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01:54:11,920 --> 01:54:13,760
Speaker 1: gonna happen here. They just didn't have enough time to

2163
01:54:13,800 --> 01:54:16,439
Speaker 1: get ready. Uh. You know, there's been some injuries, obviously

2164
01:54:16,520 --> 01:54:19,240
Speaker 1: Kemba walking out and Boston yet uh, some guys being

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01:54:19,240 --> 01:54:21,640
Speaker 1: out with protocols. Uh. I just have a feel for

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01:54:21,680 --> 01:54:24,280
Speaker 1: anyone being great. Yet Milwaukee's record is not as good

2167
01:54:24,600 --> 01:54:27,680
Speaker 1: as you would have expected. Even Brooklyn only seven and six.

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01:54:27,760 --> 01:54:29,360
Speaker 1: The way they started this season, you thought this is

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01:54:29,400 --> 01:54:31,840
Speaker 1: gonna be a great team. So I'm trying not to

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01:54:31,920 --> 01:54:33,880
Speaker 1: judge anyone yet. But but I don't see anyone right

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01:54:33,920 --> 01:54:35,240
Speaker 1: now who I would say in the East that I

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01:54:35,240 --> 01:54:37,480
Speaker 1: would say, Okay, this is the best team. Uh. No

2173
01:54:37,560 --> 01:54:40,640
Speaker 1: one's put together that kind of run yet where I say, okay, uh,

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01:54:40,800 --> 01:54:44,280
Speaker 1: they're the team. And with Jason maybe the Toronto Raptors

2175
01:54:44,320 --> 01:54:45,720
Speaker 1: at three and eight. I just had to get in

2176
01:54:45,760 --> 01:54:48,360
Speaker 1: another dig their their fan base because stuff said in

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01:54:48,360 --> 01:54:52,440
Speaker 1: the past. I mean you wonder if, uh, maybe any

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01:54:52,520 --> 01:54:55,120
Speaker 1: of their star players become trade bait as they look

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01:54:55,160 --> 01:54:58,000
Speaker 1: to rebuild and reload. But anyways, Brian Mahoney, NBA writer

2180
01:54:58,120 --> 01:55:01,200
Speaker 1: for the AP, Uh good stuff, Brian and uh continued

2181
01:55:01,240 --> 01:55:05,760
Speaker 1: success covering Kyrie Irving. That should be fun, all right,

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01:55:06,040 --> 01:55:09,200
Speaker 1: Brian Mahoney, everybody, Uh, he's got a tall order. Imagine

2183
01:55:09,240 --> 01:55:11,920
Speaker 1: you're like, yes, is here a new year? We got

2184
01:55:11,960 --> 01:55:13,680
Speaker 1: a lot of fun stuff, and then Kyrie Irving just

2185
01:55:13,840 --> 01:55:16,760
Speaker 1: leaves the team and then you're like, oh, now, I've

2186
01:55:16,760 --> 01:55:19,000
Speaker 1: got my work cut out for me. All right. We

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Speaker 1: will wrap up the show here on Fox Sports Radio

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Speaker 1: after this. Back here on Fox Sports Radio. It's me

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Speaker 1: Jason McIntyre. A couple of hours, a couple of weeks

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Speaker 1: off and uh three hours easy to roll through, but man,

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Speaker 1: I made a couple of bricks, a couple of misspeaks.

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Speaker 1: Thank you Ralph Irvin for correcting me. Thank you listeners

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Speaker 1: ben Zada Plaques, LaVar Arrington should be another fun show,

2201
01:56:08,320 --> 01:56:12,280
Speaker 1: a lot of football to talk about. Um again, we

2202
01:56:12,440 --> 01:56:15,880
Speaker 1: are what like three yeah, three and a half hours

2203
01:56:15,920 --> 01:56:19,960
Speaker 1: away from kickoff of Packers Rams. I'm trying to move, Gavin.

2204
01:56:20,000 --> 01:56:23,160
Speaker 1: Have you seen any line movement this morning? I'll check

2205
01:56:23,200 --> 01:56:26,040
Speaker 1: on that. Yeah, I've been looking. I've been reading this

2206
01:56:26,200 --> 01:56:29,920
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz story yeah, man, that's the Eagles situation is brutal.

2207
01:56:30,480 --> 01:56:32,880
Speaker 1: It's sounding increasingly that like they may just stay in

2208
01:56:33,000 --> 01:56:37,240
Speaker 1: house and get a yes man for Howie Roseman. Uh

2209
01:56:37,360 --> 01:56:40,640
Speaker 1: induced Staley, who's a long time Eagles running back and

2210
01:56:41,360 --> 01:56:44,040
Speaker 1: he's been with the organization for a while. Now. Line

2211
01:56:44,120 --> 01:56:48,720
Speaker 1: is still Packers by six and a half. I can't

2212
01:56:48,760 --> 01:56:52,200
Speaker 1: tell if it's headed towards seven. Um, but I do

2213
01:56:52,360 --> 01:56:55,440
Speaker 1: see Buffalo creeping back up to UH to three. That

2214
01:56:55,520 --> 01:56:59,480
Speaker 1: means some Buffalo money showing. That's an odd feeling. I

2215
01:57:00,160 --> 01:57:01,240
Speaker 1: I don't know, man. Do you have a pick on

2216
01:57:01,280 --> 01:57:06,440
Speaker 1: that one? Gavin on the Bills game? Uh? I believe

2217
01:57:06,600 --> 01:57:09,680
Speaker 1: I went with Bills on that one. Yeah, it's it's

2218
01:57:09,720 --> 01:57:12,120
Speaker 1: still hard to trust Lamar in the playoffs. And now

2219
01:57:12,200 --> 01:57:14,640
Speaker 1: he's in the snow, right he had that quote this week,

2220
01:57:15,080 --> 01:57:18,560
Speaker 1: Well it's gonna let's check the weather. We'll check the

2221
01:57:18,600 --> 01:57:21,920
Speaker 1: weather in Buffalo. But Lamar did have a quote this

2222
01:57:22,040 --> 01:57:24,360
Speaker 1: week that he has never played in the snow. H

2223
01:57:24,560 --> 01:57:27,400
Speaker 1: thirty six degree, so a little bit higher temperature than

2224
01:57:27,480 --> 01:57:31,560
Speaker 1: Green Bay. Never played in the snow. I've I've played

2225
01:57:31,600 --> 01:57:38,400
Speaker 1: football the snow, not NFL football, obviously. Um. Yes, so

2226
01:57:39,000 --> 01:57:42,240
Speaker 1: it should be good games. I'm you know, just for winners,

2227
01:57:42,320 --> 01:57:48,560
Speaker 1: I'll go Packers, Ravens, Chiefs, Saints. I hope you're right,

2228
01:57:48,600 --> 01:57:50,840
Speaker 1: because I told you earlier I went big on a

2229
01:57:50,960 --> 01:57:54,879
Speaker 1: money line parlay, which doesn't give you great value. Essentially

2230
01:57:54,920 --> 01:58:00,200
Speaker 1: what I've bet on without one bet, you'd win fifty eight. Right, um,

2231
01:58:00,520 --> 01:58:04,320
Speaker 1: with the Chiefs Packers money line bat It's hard for

2232
01:58:04,440 --> 01:58:06,600
Speaker 1: me to see it going the other way. Andy Reid

2233
01:58:07,000 --> 01:58:13,360
Speaker 1: off of by Is, I think, yeah, so you're you're

2234
01:58:13,400 --> 01:58:16,360
Speaker 1: almost thinking of a motivation factor for the Chiefs if

2235
01:58:16,440 --> 01:58:19,520
Speaker 1: they lost that game and the Packers, I mean, they

2236
01:58:19,640 --> 01:58:21,400
Speaker 1: just they're on a roll. And I would say Andy

2237
01:58:21,480 --> 01:58:24,760
Speaker 1: reads the best coach, right, There's no argument there, Yeah,

2238
01:58:24,880 --> 01:58:28,200
Speaker 1: no argument. That's the one area where the Rams have

2239
01:58:28,640 --> 01:58:34,320
Speaker 1: the Packers beat. I tried to rank the coaches that

2240
01:58:34,480 --> 01:58:38,280
Speaker 1: are playing, that are coaching this weekend, who best to worse?

2241
01:58:38,360 --> 01:58:40,680
Speaker 1: Tell me if you guys agree, Andy Reid number one.

2242
01:58:41,840 --> 01:58:45,360
Speaker 1: I had John Harbaugh number two, slightly over Sean Payton.

2243
01:58:46,120 --> 01:58:49,800
Speaker 1: I had Peyton three, McVey four. All those guys have

2244
01:58:49,920 --> 01:58:52,800
Speaker 1: been to a Super Bowl. Five. I had McDermott of

2245
01:58:52,880 --> 01:58:59,600
Speaker 1: Buffalo six, Stefanski seven, La Fleur eight, Bruce arians I

2246
01:58:59,720 --> 01:59:02,360
Speaker 1: think you have Arian's way too low. You who would

2247
01:59:02,360 --> 01:59:05,440
Speaker 1: you have? I love Brucing. I think he's a great coach.

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01:59:05,560 --> 01:59:08,520
Speaker 1: Yeah wow, Now again this has like he's won super

2249
01:59:08,560 --> 01:59:11,080
Speaker 1: bowls with the Steelers. I'm not counting that just as

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01:59:11,120 --> 01:59:13,560
Speaker 1: a head coach. Um. I know he went to an

2251
01:59:13,640 --> 01:59:16,840
Speaker 1: NFC title game with Carson Palmer. I just some of

2252
01:59:16,920 --> 01:59:18,840
Speaker 1: this in game stuff he's done this year. Again, Well,

2253
01:59:18,880 --> 01:59:22,720
Speaker 1: he's managing a lot of new right, new personalities, new,

2254
01:59:23,320 --> 01:59:25,560
Speaker 1: you know. And Brady talked about it this week and said,

2255
01:59:25,600 --> 01:59:28,080
Speaker 1: you know, you look at the last month or so,

2256
01:59:28,240 --> 01:59:30,880
Speaker 1: we're really starting to click on offense. Everything's you know,

2257
01:59:31,000 --> 01:59:33,560
Speaker 1: we've had more time together. Remember they had the pandemic

2258
01:59:33,960 --> 01:59:37,120
Speaker 1: you know, off season, right. So yeah, I think Peyton

2259
01:59:37,200 --> 01:59:39,720
Speaker 1: is also too low in your rankings. I would probably

2260
01:59:39,760 --> 01:59:43,960
Speaker 1: have Peyton number two. Um, everything else I think is

2261
01:59:44,080 --> 01:59:47,440
Speaker 1: is right. And McDermott could easily after this season, he

2262
01:59:47,480 --> 01:59:50,400
Speaker 1: could easily become like a an elite coach in the NFL.

2263
01:59:51,640 --> 01:59:55,560
Speaker 1: I just here's a stat for you, Gavin. How many

2264
01:59:55,720 --> 01:59:58,920
Speaker 1: teams has Tampa Bay beaten this season that ended the

2265
01:59:59,000 --> 02:00:03,240
Speaker 1: season with a winning reck So good teams? Right? Well,

2266
02:00:03,360 --> 02:00:07,600
Speaker 1: the Packers Game one that's the bull of October. The

2267
02:00:07,760 --> 02:00:10,480
Speaker 1: other teams they played that ended above five d Saints

2268
02:00:10,520 --> 02:00:14,640
Speaker 1: twice lost, the Chiefs lost, and the Rams lost. And

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Speaker 1: the weird thing is, like, I remember that Rams game

2270
02:00:17,920 --> 02:00:20,240
Speaker 1: because I bet the Rams against the Bucks. I mean

2271
02:00:20,280 --> 02:00:22,640
Speaker 1: I had Tampa in that one, and the Rams lead

2272
02:00:22,720 --> 02:00:25,440
Speaker 1: basically start to finish the second half, it was all

2273
02:00:25,560 --> 02:00:30,880
Speaker 1: Rams Chiefs. I felt like they were never in that game.

2274
02:00:30,920 --> 02:00:33,240
Speaker 1: They were like down huge early. Remember Tyreek Kelly had

2275
02:00:33,240 --> 02:00:35,640
Speaker 1: like two hundred yards in the first quarter, and like

2276
02:00:35,960 --> 02:00:37,760
Speaker 1: they were clawing back, but it was never they were

2277
02:00:37,800 --> 02:00:42,240
Speaker 1: never threatened. I just I haven't seen Tampa takedown anyone good.

2278
02:00:42,880 --> 02:00:44,400
Speaker 1: I think they're going to be the team that has

2279
02:00:44,480 --> 02:00:47,160
Speaker 1: to do it in the postseason. And look, they struggled

2280
02:00:47,200 --> 02:00:50,600
Speaker 1: against Washington last week. We didn't see that coming. Yeah,

2281
02:00:50,640 --> 02:00:52,280
Speaker 1: I mean, like to put them away. They had five

2282
02:00:52,360 --> 02:00:55,760
Speaker 1: hundred yards of offense. But you're right, Brady, pressure up

2283
02:00:55,840 --> 02:00:59,040
Speaker 1: the middle got sacked twice by the kid Payne, and

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Speaker 1: I look at the Saints up the middle on your

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Speaker 1: Mata and Rankins are going to be going against a

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Speaker 1: backup guard. Uh. The kid Alex Kappa fractured his ankle.

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Speaker 1: It's under the radar injury. Not a lot of people

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Speaker 1: are talking about it, but interior pressure on Brady really

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Speaker 1: ticks him off. Um, same thing that bothers. Drew brees

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Speaker 1: a lot up the middle. These slow guys, Uh, slow

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Speaker 1: old dudes. I like the Saints and I also think,

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Speaker 1: and I don't know if there's anything to this, but

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Speaker 1: like the coaches saving the good plays. If you watch

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Speaker 1: that sts Bear's game, you're like, where is the offense?

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Speaker 1: This is garbage, this is boring, and you just wonder

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Speaker 1: if Sean Payton has some stuff he's gonna unleash you. Jason,

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Speaker 1: I texted you a teaser on Monday this week. You

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Speaker 1: liked it at the time. How do you feel now?

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Speaker 1: Packers basically money line Chiefs minus three, Buccaneers plus ten.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I buy the Bucks ten, but

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Speaker 1: I like the other. Hey, guys, great to be back.

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Speaker 1: Thanks everybody for the show. Up next is up on

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Speaker 1: Game Enjoy it. So your next week