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Speaker 1: feeling great. Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated on various

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Speaker 1: October in Canada. So sorry, guys, we missed that fourth

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Speaker 1: Thursday of November in the US. Now, Ricky Jump in

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Speaker 1: annual preview show quiz Time. What is the And I

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Speaker 1: That's like the you know, nineteen forties to nineteen nineties

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Speaker 1: really hyper aggressive offseason beefing up that offense, but perhaps

427
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Speaker 1: financially that is not an option. But then they will

428
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Speaker 1: use the draft obviously um to add pieces because yeah,

429
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Speaker 1: with Kamara out there, ordinary if you take Ingram out,

430
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Speaker 1: who's got a bad knee and he's he didn't practice

431
00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:52,320
Speaker 1: on Tuesday after practicing Monday, which is not a great sign. Uh,

432
00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:54,840
Speaker 1: then you really get into a dark place. So I

433
00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:58,359
Speaker 1: think there's this situation here where I think Buffalo can

434
00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:02,280
Speaker 1: not necessarily overcome their offensive issues but still win like

435
00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:06,080
Speaker 1: a seventeen to ten type game. But I think uh

436
00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:08,399
Speaker 1: Bills fans might be sweating this one out. And if

437
00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:10,760
Speaker 1: you look at their schedule, man, you know, they had

438
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:13,840
Speaker 1: a great win way back in Week five on October

439
00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:19,399
Speaker 1: t they beat the Chiefs at Arrowhead thirty and that

440
00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:22,480
Speaker 1: was the fourth straight win. They had beaten the Texans

441
00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:26,399
Speaker 1: forties before that, blown out Washington Miami before that, and

442
00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:28,880
Speaker 1: they were, you know, pretty much seen as the best

443
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Speaker 1: team in the a f C. Since then, they lose

444
00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:36,000
Speaker 1: the Tennessee By by a field goal thirty one, they

445
00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:38,439
Speaker 1: hit their by, they beat Miami, and they beat the

446
00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:42,240
Speaker 1: Jets Miami when they were at their lowest, and they've

447
00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:45,720
Speaker 1: lost to Jacksonville in Indianapolis. Uh So there's just not

448
00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:47,480
Speaker 1: been a lot of signature wins for this team in

449
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Speaker 1: quite a long time. So the concern, if you're his

450
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Speaker 1: Bills fan, is real. But I'm also I'm not ready

451
00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:54,760
Speaker 1: to jump off ship here. I think this is a

452
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Speaker 1: team that it's all there, they just need to put

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Speaker 1: it together. I think that in this game, even a

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Speaker 1: week go, you know, they're being called the best team

455
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Speaker 1: in the a f C. And well that's by default

456
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:07,040
Speaker 1: though that's because the a f C is so weird,

457
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Speaker 1: right right, But default doesn't exist at this point in

458
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Speaker 1: my mind. For me, I like, I'll I'm find crowning

459
00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:14,200
Speaker 1: no one with that title this moment. But they were

460
00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:17,760
Speaker 1: like embarrassed by the Cults. They knew what the cults

461
00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:19,360
Speaker 1: were gonna do with the Cults just went and did

462
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:22,360
Speaker 1: it to them. Um, yeah, we're you know. Their defense

463
00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 1: was was a non factor it was a negative factor.

464
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Speaker 1: I just to me, I totally see what Greg is

465
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Speaker 1: saying about the variance. When they're lad, they look completely

466
00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:34,080
Speaker 1: unprepared for prime time on any level. Well, they're very

467
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:37,400
Speaker 1: lightweight team just in general. They are light fast defense.

468
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Speaker 1: And you do look at the a f C and

469
00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:42,959
Speaker 1: you look at the other teams in it Tennessee, New England, Baltimore,

470
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Speaker 1: Cleveland if they got there, these are power running teams,

471
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Speaker 1: and I think that could be a problem for for

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Speaker 1: the Bills and some matchups Colts. All right, let's start

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Speaker 1: the draft. Let's get into it. Mark, you have the

474
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Speaker 1: first overall pick. Well, I'm going to go with the

475
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:02,040
Speaker 1: game that just this is what I did last week

476
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Speaker 1: and it it delivered one of my favorite um weeks

477
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Speaker 1: of the season. I'm just gonna go after simply what

478
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Speaker 1: I enjoy the most, and it's Minnesota at San Francisco.

479
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Speaker 1: I think it is arguably the game of the week

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Speaker 1: to me. I mean this, by the way, this week

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Speaker 1: is special Week twelve. It is the first time in

482
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Speaker 1: NFL history were nine games feature one five plus team

483
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:29,159
Speaker 1: versus another five hundred plus team in Week twelve or

484
00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:31,639
Speaker 1: beyond that, we've waited for a week like this, so

485
00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:33,920
Speaker 1: let's see if it delivers or if it's history in

486
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Speaker 1: the making. Have history in the making, yes, but I

487
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:40,800
Speaker 1: think with the Vikings, you know at this point having

488
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Speaker 1: to go to San Francisco, that would scare me in

489
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Speaker 1: the past. What we are seeing right now is a

490
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Speaker 1: Vikings team playing at the height of their powers. Watching

491
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:52,200
Speaker 1: that Green Bay Minnesota game was a total delight. And

492
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:54,720
Speaker 1: justin Jefferson, I don't know what else we can say

493
00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:57,919
Speaker 1: about what he's showing on tape. Who he is. He

494
00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:01,320
Speaker 1: is one of the more fascinating athletes around today, and

495
00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:04,119
Speaker 1: that they've used the past two games to focus on

496
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,719
Speaker 1: him to such a degree it changes who they are.

497
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,720
Speaker 1: It's changed Kirk Cousins, Greg, this is notable to you

498
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:13,119
Speaker 1: that Mike Zimmer. They asked, what is going on with

499
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Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins. Are you happy with him being as aggressive

500
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:17,840
Speaker 1: as he is? And he said yes. He said, also,

501
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:21,240
Speaker 1: our relationship has changed. Greg has been tracking the Cousins

502
00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:25,040
Speaker 1: Zimmer relationship all season. It has obviously been fraught. They

503
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:27,640
Speaker 1: seem at times to be hugging slash punching each other

504
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:30,359
Speaker 1: at the same time. But Zimmer, I think is on

505
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:33,639
Speaker 1: board with what's happening, and they they can play this way,

506
00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 1: they can beat anyone in the league, and I'm willing

507
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 1: to say they can probably lose to a lot of

508
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 1: teams too, if you get the old version of the vikings.

509
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Speaker 1: But what I also find appealing is that you are

510
00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:44,600
Speaker 1: getting the Niners right now at the height of their power,

511
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 1: and their season is still hanging in the balance, around

512
00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 1: the fringe of the NFC playoff race, but very much

513
00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:52,200
Speaker 1: alive if they took this game or next. The way

514
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:55,000
Speaker 1: they've been running the ball um eating up forty minutes

515
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:57,640
Speaker 1: of time of possession a week, They've been utterly dominant.

516
00:27:57,800 --> 00:27:59,880
Speaker 1: And it wasn't just the Jaguars, it was over the ram.

517
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Speaker 1: And you've got Deebo Samuel, who's gonna want to go

518
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:05,400
Speaker 1: do what Davonte Adams did to Xavier Woods a week ago.

519
00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:07,880
Speaker 1: But Deebo Samuel so versatile that he led the team

520
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Speaker 1: in rushing a week ago, he led them in receiving

521
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:13,080
Speaker 1: two weeks ago. I think this, to me is the

522
00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:15,119
Speaker 1: greatest game out through this week. I'm all board, I'm

523
00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:18,239
Speaker 1: all about it. It makes sense to me you had

524
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Speaker 1: to take this now because it's the team of zeus

525
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:24,439
Speaker 1: til versus a team of Sestio. I think, yeah, this

526
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:27,200
Speaker 1: wasn't making it back around, kind of kind of like

527
00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:31,600
Speaker 1: your your second teams that that you both enjoyed watching

528
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:37,879
Speaker 1: an impossible game to pick. I love it. I don't

529
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,680
Speaker 1: necessarily think it's a I see San Francisco's favorite, which

530
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:45,160
Speaker 1: surprised me just because I don't know. I know, but

531
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 1: like they haven't been good at home. I know they

532
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 1: were last week, and I just feel like Minnesota has

533
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:52,920
Speaker 1: shown more this season than the Niners. But I guess

534
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:55,160
Speaker 1: you just gotta put a lot into what's happened the

535
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:57,240
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. It's a great matchup, and I

536
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Speaker 1: do I do want to see quietly Jimmy g has

537
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:04,520
Speaker 1: put together is his longest run of solid play. I

538
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:06,600
Speaker 1: know he had a terrible miss on that twenty play

539
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 1: drive it should have been a touchdown, but in general,

540
00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 1: he's been better and he's staying on the field. Um.

541
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,720
Speaker 1: I love how they're using Deebo Samuel Um. That is

542
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 1: excellent usage of him. But yeah, I think the Vikings

543
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:20,160
Speaker 1: are just a team that you know, no matter what

544
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:22,400
Speaker 1: happens here, this isn't gonna be a blowout. They've now

545
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 1: shown that this is who they are. They are going

546
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:28,880
Speaker 1: to score points. They're going to have stretches where perhaps

547
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:32,000
Speaker 1: the offense goes cold and the defense UH struggles that

548
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 1: lets teams back in games. And I think that's what

549
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:37,479
Speaker 1: makes them so fun, that they always are involved in

550
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:41,160
Speaker 1: UH high scoring affairs and they always give the other

551
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:43,680
Speaker 1: team a chance to win it. So I think this

552
00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 1: is not a game that I would lock as much

553
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 1: as I like the Vikings, because they just haven't earned

554
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:50,240
Speaker 1: the trust of the lock. But at the same time,

555
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:52,960
Speaker 1: I do like their chances because I still think they

556
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:56,400
Speaker 1: are as good as anybody in the NFC UM right now.

557
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:58,760
Speaker 1: I have them number ten in the power rankings at

558
00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:01,120
Speaker 1: five and five, which again speaks to what's going on

559
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 1: in the league right now more than anything else. That

560
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 1: there's the parody is so strong the season, but that

561
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:10,280
Speaker 1: is my feeling. I'm all in on the Bikes. I

562
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 1: like him, but I don't trust them. Well, I don't

563
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 1: trust them this week too, because that's you know, an

564
00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:19,160
Speaker 1: emotional division win, big game. You go on the road

565
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,920
Speaker 1: and you're gonna be missing two starters I assume on

566
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 1: the defensive line, one Dalvin Tomlinson, who's probably their best

567
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 1: run stopper is out. And then Everson Griffin who was

568
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 1: involved in a incident which required police, which is still

569
00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 1: unfolding as we're taping this, but he posted some messages

570
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:40,719
Speaker 1: on social media that we're disturbing and he was afraid

571
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:43,800
Speaker 1: that people were and shoot him. So he's had mental

572
00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:46,320
Speaker 1: health scares before and this seems very serious and you

573
00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 1: obviously just hope he's okay. But just like in terms

574
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Speaker 1: of the matchup, those two guys being gone versus a

575
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Speaker 1: San Francisco offensive line that's just killing it. Um p

576
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:01,160
Speaker 1: F noted, like Trent william says, the highest grade of

577
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:05,360
Speaker 1: any run blocker in history of them grading right now

578
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:08,120
Speaker 1: he is, I mean an epic season. They also are

579
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:11,840
Speaker 1: number one in e p A expected points um you know,

580
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:17,239
Speaker 1: per play. Since the moment that Kyle Shanahan was on

581
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:19,960
Speaker 1: the fence about starting Jimmy Garoppolo, the moment where I

582
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 1: think he would have gone to Trey Lance actually was

583
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 1: after that Colts game, but Tree Lance wasn't healthy enough

584
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 1: to play that week. Remember, he was like they asked him,

585
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:28,600
Speaker 1: and he was like, I would guess. So when they

586
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:30,680
Speaker 1: when he asked if Jimmy g would start but tree

587
00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 1: Lance wasn't ready that week, and since then their number

588
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:35,600
Speaker 1: one in E p A with these long, slow drives

589
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 1: that gets Marco and and it is fun to watch.

590
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:41,280
Speaker 1: It is funny though, to think of this matchup as like,

591
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:43,760
Speaker 1: you know, it's Kyle versus the one that got away.

592
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 1: You know, he's watching this Kirk Cousins having his best

593
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 1: season ever tape and being like, man, if we had

594
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:51,080
Speaker 1: that guy, we'd win the super Bowl. He was so

595
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:54,240
Speaker 1: fascinated with Husins for so long and he never got

596
00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 1: I mean, Cousins would do this in spurts, but right

597
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 1: now you're getting like an unbridled bad boy version of

598
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:02,840
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousin that, uh, he's winning me over. I used

599
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 1: to the Packers had like held onto either of those

600
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:08,720
Speaker 1: interceptions that he almost threw, and I thought he played

601
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 1: a really good game overall. But then just like the

602
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:14,080
Speaker 1: story is different coming out of that. And that was

603
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:16,760
Speaker 1: why Zimmer was asked about it, because Kirk Cousins said

604
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:18,880
Speaker 1: after the game, maybe I shouldn't have been so aggressive,

605
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 1: and and Zimmer's whole thing was and now you're getting

606
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:23,520
Speaker 1: the sense maybe it's more about Kirk than the offense.

607
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 1: Zimmer said, like We've been telling him to be aggressive

608
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 1: all season, like we want him to keep taking those

609
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 1: shots and throw it to Jefferson will be better off

610
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 1: that way. That sports. I know what you're saying. I

611
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 1: saw other people saying, Oh, it wasn't a great game

612
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:37,480
Speaker 1: by Cousins. That was a good game. The way it works,

613
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 1: it's the way it works. Sometimes you get lucky, sometimes

614
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:43,480
Speaker 1: you don't. Um they're attacking downfield and that's made the

615
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 1: offense so much better. All right, Greg, You're up next.

616
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Speaker 1: I am, and I'm gonna take the the Homer pick.

617
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Speaker 1: I'm taking Titans. I'm taking Patriots. I'm taking Vrabel versus

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00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 1: the man who taught him how to set an edge,

619
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Speaker 1: Bill Belonship. H Uh. The Titans are so weird. It's

620
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,760
Speaker 1: someone noted in like their last eight games, the team

621
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 1: that had left fewer yards you know, one six of

622
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 1: those eight. They just have these bizarre games like they

623
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,360
Speaker 1: did a week ago, and a lot of times they

624
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 1: were coming out on top of these games where they

625
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:18,480
Speaker 1: would look like they were outplayed and then they'd win

626
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 1: the game. I just think they're in a similar situation

627
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 1: right now. If A. J. Brown is out as we're

628
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:26,360
Speaker 1: taping this we don't know. But not only do you

629
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 1: lose a j Brown, Marcus Johnson, who had stepped up

630
00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 1: nicely in Julio jones absence, is out for the season. Um.

631
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 1: This team is so injured that they're doing walkthroughs on Wednesdays,

632
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 1: which is you know, some teams do that, but it's unconventional.

633
00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 1: But in Brabel doesn't want to do that. He just

634
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 1: is saying, we're so injured right now, we really can't

635
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:48,719
Speaker 1: hold like a full practice. And I think what is

636
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 1: helping to um come out now that Henry is not

637
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 1: there is that their past protection stinks. It's one thing

638
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 1: for Tannehill to try to carry this team without the players,

639
00:33:57,360 --> 00:33:59,480
Speaker 1: but this is one of the worst offensive lines in

640
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 1: the entire league in terms of protection, and that's like

641
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 1: a big change from previous years. And I think this

642
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:08,000
Speaker 1: is a Patriots team on defense with actual pass rushers

643
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 1: that can take advantage of bad offensive lines more more

644
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 1: than any Patriots team I've seen a while. This is

645
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:15,719
Speaker 1: a terrible spot for the Titans. I mean, it is

646
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 1: really bad. They you know, they're still in good shape

647
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:20,600
Speaker 1: and that division to keep an eye on the cults

648
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:24,880
Speaker 1: here surging Um. The fact that they are missing these players,

649
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:26,560
Speaker 1: the fact that they have a bit of an identity

650
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:30,480
Speaker 1: crisis post Derrick Henry, the fact that the Patriots get

651
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:33,480
Speaker 1: after you as a quarterback in Tannehill just came off

652
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 1: that game where he's throwing the ball to the other

653
00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:38,400
Speaker 1: team repeatedly when they had chances to get back in

654
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 1: that game. I just think this is a bad, bad

655
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 1: timing for the Titans. I'm locking up the Patriots here.

656
00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:46,239
Speaker 1: I think this is uh, this is a game that

657
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:49,480
Speaker 1: they are going to continue to roll. They will roll

658
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 1: into Orchard Park at eight and four and in first place,

659
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 1: because I think they're catching the Titans at the exact

660
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 1: right time. And the Titans, if they are fortunate enough

661
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 1: to make the playoffs, which they taught probably will if

662
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 1: they're healthy and they see New England again, maybe even

663
00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:06,359
Speaker 1: up in Foxboro, I might feel differently about the game,

664
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 1: but right now I think this is a really well

665
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 1: set up situation for Belichick and friends. Yeah. I mean

666
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:14,840
Speaker 1: one of the biggest non stories of the season was

667
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson, who was let go by the team. And

668
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 1: I hear you that the Saints on paper right now

669
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:23,360
Speaker 1: look like the worst offense, But the Titans are getting

670
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:26,399
Speaker 1: close with the bodies they're putting out there, and I like,

671
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:29,080
Speaker 1: who do you trust the most in this contest? I'm

672
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:32,440
Speaker 1: looking at the Patriots defense that week to week is

673
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:35,200
Speaker 1: throttling people left and right, and on offense, just keep

674
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:38,359
Speaker 1: running the ball and get you know, lower mistakes from

675
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:41,120
Speaker 1: Matt from Matt Jones than what the Titans offer. And

676
00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 1: we're good here. I mean this this really there's no

677
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:45,560
Speaker 1: excuse for New England not to win this thing. Great.

678
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:47,680
Speaker 1: I don't totally dismiss the Titans in this game because

679
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 1: their defense and Rabel's coaching has earned such a great

680
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:54,720
Speaker 1: benefit of the doubt. I'm surprised the Patriots are almost

681
00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 1: a touchdown favored in this game. It's keeps going up.

682
00:35:57,160 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 1: It's up to six and a half, which I you know,

683
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:03,239
Speaker 1: I I think I think it would be, but now

684
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:06,160
Speaker 1: it wasn't earlier. And it's just people. People see these

685
00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 1: injuries and they're and they're worried about. And yet I

686
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:12,960
Speaker 1: don't feel entirely comfortable because I do think the Titans

687
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,239
Speaker 1: have something you can't measure. They're also the team I

688
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 1: think that helped rebuild this entire Patriots organization when they

689
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:20,880
Speaker 1: beat up on the Patriots in that game, not that

690
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:23,600
Speaker 1: Tom Brady was necessarily coming back, but in that playoff

691
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:25,560
Speaker 1: game a year and a half ago, I think Bill

692
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:28,399
Speaker 1: Belichick left and hated the fact that the Titans were

693
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:33,479
Speaker 1: like the bigger, stronger, more physical team, better looking team

694
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 1: coming off a bus. Not that Tom Brady would be

695
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:36,800
Speaker 1: there now. But you look at the way the Patriots

696
00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:39,840
Speaker 1: are built now, big dudes. I think they're so different

697
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:41,880
Speaker 1: with Trent Brown in the lineup to they're just a

698
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,960
Speaker 1: mawelling group upfront, but on both sides, it's like they're

699
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:46,799
Speaker 1: they're trying to be like the Titans, and I think

700
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:48,560
Speaker 1: right now they're a little better version of what One

701
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:51,239
Speaker 1: little thing on Trent Brown and is it just me? Um,

702
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 1: he looks like an adult baby to me, Like he

703
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 1: looks like he has a baby's head on an adult body.

704
00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 1: I'll leave the comment right there, but I whenever he

705
00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:02,560
Speaker 1: is unhelmeted, is my takeaway on his appearance. I see

706
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:04,440
Speaker 1: where you're going quote. Can we get that quote to

707
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 1: Trent Brown? Well, it's, by the way, that's not to

708
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 1: suggest that he's not a good looking man. It's just

709
00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:12,479
Speaker 1: that he he has sort of a baby is face.

710
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:15,200
Speaker 1: That's not I mean, there's a difference between saying somebody

711
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:18,080
Speaker 1: has a baby face, like a Zach Wilson type and

712
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:21,399
Speaker 1: saying he actually looks like he has a baby's head. Well,

713
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 1: i can't win on this show today, but I'm not

714
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 1: trying to kill the guy just said. It is an

715
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 1: observation that I've made, and you know, it is not

716
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:31,279
Speaker 1: an attack on anyone. I wouldn't argue. And yet I

717
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:34,239
Speaker 1: also would never say that if I knew Trent Brown

718
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 1: could possibly hear it. He is six eight, he is

719
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 1: three hundred and seventy five pounds, and yet he is

720
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:43,480
Speaker 1: faster than all of us. That that is quite a combination.

721
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:47,440
Speaker 1: It's stunning to me, though, that I see a baby's

722
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:49,440
Speaker 1: head on top of a six ft eight body. So,

723
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:53,440
Speaker 1: you know, every day, just that the streets are rumbling

724
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:58,760
Speaker 1: with my you know, insanely, which powers about whichever team

725
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:03,920
Speaker 1: I lock, other one wins. And I feel like I should,

726
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:07,000
Speaker 1: you know, use this time to lock the Titans. But

727
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 1: I am actually so afraid of this game that I'm

728
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:16,399
Speaker 1: I'm actually afraid, okay, but it's working every week when

729
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:20,480
Speaker 1: you lock against True and but I just feel so

730
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:25,840
Speaker 1: bad for Justin and you know, but Dan, I love you.

731
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:28,279
Speaker 1: You you picked the Patriots, So I just feel like

732
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:33,440
Speaker 1: it's fair if I locked the Titans. You know that

733
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:37,680
Speaker 1: that always that leads to good things for the person

734
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 1: on the other side of the ledger. Another lockoff between

735
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:42,440
Speaker 1: Ricky and I. All right, let's hit pause here, we'll

736
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:44,839
Speaker 1: be right back. All right, let's move on. I will

737
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:49,000
Speaker 1: grab a eight game the Rams at the Packers. Yeah,

738
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:52,759
Speaker 1: I want to see this all, you know, after the

739
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 1: Rams hit the bye week, and the whole thing about

740
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:57,760
Speaker 1: the Rams is they can't even tackle anybody. They're so soft.

741
00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 1: There's a week and I wonder if Sean McVeigh is

742
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,879
Speaker 1: a great head coach. Uh didn't clip off a few

743
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 1: of those conversations that have been had in the mainstream

744
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:08,799
Speaker 1: media about how the Rams aren't a real rugged team,

745
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:10,680
Speaker 1: They're not a real football team. They're not gonna be

746
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 1: able to handle it uh in the crucible of the

747
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 1: playoffs and all that stuff. I mean, I feel like

748
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 1: that's pretty good motivation. UH. And now you get a

749
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:19,840
Speaker 1: test right off the bat. You go to lambeau Field

750
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:24,719
Speaker 1: to face the Packers. UM, and I just think, this is,

751
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:26,920
Speaker 1: this is a great game, and this is and I know,

752
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 1: right now, uh, you look at the NFC and the

753
00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:34,839
Speaker 1: Cardinals are deservedly so seen as the best team in

754
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:38,839
Speaker 1: that conference. But I wonder if at top gear, if

755
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:41,880
Speaker 1: the two best teams still ultimately are the Rams and Packers,

756
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 1: and whether it will play out that way in January.

757
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 1: And I'm just throwing it out there as a possibility

758
00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:51,080
Speaker 1: that that these teams have that ceiling to be playing

759
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:52,719
Speaker 1: in the NFC title game. So I kind of see

760
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:54,920
Speaker 1: that as potential preview of that. I think this is

761
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:56,799
Speaker 1: another coin flip game. It's gonna be a lot of

762
00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:59,359
Speaker 1: fun to see it. And if you're a Rams fan,

763
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:02,160
Speaker 1: you want to see Matthew Stafford rise to the challenge

764
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:04,560
Speaker 1: here after a couple of down weeks and go toe

765
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:08,399
Speaker 1: to toe with Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers with a bad toe,

766
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:11,320
Speaker 1: by the way, so you got two healthy toes against

767
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:15,279
Speaker 1: one healthy toe advantage Los Angeles. I just I'd also

768
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:19,200
Speaker 1: think toe or not. Aaron Rodgers last week looked insane.

769
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:20,680
Speaker 1: I thought one of the best games I've seen him

770
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:22,439
Speaker 1: playing a long time. I mean some of the throws

771
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:25,440
Speaker 1: he was making, the one across his body to Josiah

772
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:28,160
Speaker 1: Degra for his first touchdown ever was wild. I mean

773
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:29,799
Speaker 1: just that he was all over the place. But if

774
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:33,280
Speaker 1: you're Matthew Stafford, if you're Cooper Cup, if you're Sean McVeigh,

775
00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:35,960
Speaker 1: you have to also like what the Vikings did to

776
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:38,680
Speaker 1: that defense, You've got to think there's opportunities there. I thought,

777
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:41,400
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh, who is you know? I thought after that

778
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:45,440
Speaker 1: Super Bowl loss, we were at the combine, Sean McVeigh

779
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:48,239
Speaker 1: was up on the Good Morning Football Risers doing an

780
00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:51,520
Speaker 1: interview with Peter Schraeger and friends, and like, to me,

781
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:54,080
Speaker 1: it just seemed like it's still haunted him. There was

782
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:57,200
Speaker 1: something gone in his swagger, and you know he's gotten

783
00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:59,040
Speaker 1: it back here and there. But after that loss to

784
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 1: the Niners and going to to the bye week, his comments,

785
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:05,040
Speaker 1: where I thought, is telling and desperate and humbled as

786
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 1: i've heard a coach at least from him at all.

787
00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:10,279
Speaker 1: And I mean, I think that they probably are coming out,

788
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:13,920
Speaker 1: to your point, Dan, hyper determined to reverse the narrative

789
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:17,040
Speaker 1: that they are that they're a soft team inside this

790
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:19,520
Speaker 1: NFC playoff race. I don't buy that. I don't think

791
00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:21,279
Speaker 1: any of us truly do. We're talking about guys like

792
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:24,840
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald, but they were pushed around. Legitimately, this is

793
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:26,560
Speaker 1: not this kind of The Packers aren't going to do

794
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:28,879
Speaker 1: it to you the same way as those teams might have.

795
00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:31,640
Speaker 1: But this is a dangerous scenario because if they suddenly

796
00:41:31,719 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 1: dropped this game the Rams, a lot of questions are raised.

797
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:37,880
Speaker 1: I think the Packers like have something about them that

798
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:42,000
Speaker 1: you can't quite measure this season, you know, whether you

799
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 1: wanta called mojo or camaraderie, I don't know what it is.

800
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 1: Like They've won in such tough situations, and I think

801
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:49,200
Speaker 1: that does build up over the course of the season.

802
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:50,840
Speaker 1: I don't know if the Rams have had that. Like

803
00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:53,320
Speaker 1: the Rams seem worse than their numbers, the Packers seemed

804
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 1: better than their numbers. And yet this week, even if

805
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:57,600
Speaker 1: I like the Packers better long term, is a nice

806
00:41:57,600 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 1: week to catch Green Bay, who's kind of limping to

807
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:02,760
Speaker 1: their bye week. They have one of these late buys, Jenkins.

808
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 1: Elton Jenkins is out for the season. We know Bactr

809
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:10,000
Speaker 1: had a setback in his knee recovery and he had

810
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:12,239
Speaker 1: another surgery, and they still hope he's going to come

811
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 1: back this season, but it's not for this game. So

812
00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:16,919
Speaker 1: the offensive line is very thin, and yet I'm with you, Mark,

813
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:20,920
Speaker 1: like that that Rogers performance was at like a warning

814
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:22,759
Speaker 1: to the rest of the NFC, because I thought that

815
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:24,640
Speaker 1: was the best game he had all the season. It's

816
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:26,920
Speaker 1: been like Aaron Rodgers game manager all year, and that

817
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:30,480
Speaker 1: was just like Aaron Rodgers v I don't give an

818
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:33,239
Speaker 1: the last the last four possessions, he threw four touchdowns

819
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:35,560
Speaker 1: and like it was one of those things where the

820
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:38,840
Speaker 1: Vikings only chance was that the clock played out the

821
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:40,600
Speaker 1: way it did and they had the ball last and

822
00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:43,319
Speaker 1: they kept Rogers off the field. So yeah, I think

823
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:45,480
Speaker 1: that's that's gonna be a fun to watch. I mean

824
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:49,600
Speaker 1: he did. He did pump it up um the serious

825
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:52,160
Speaker 1: nature of the toe issue um after the game, so

826
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:54,640
Speaker 1: I guess it is worth watching. But it certainly didn't

827
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:57,799
Speaker 1: seem to bother him in that game. It seems like

828
00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:00,480
Speaker 1: Mason Crosby has ten injured toes to me, But no,

829
00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:03,279
Speaker 1: that's a whole different conversation. Know, he's only on that team.

830
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 1: Let's face it, he's been so bad. He's only on

831
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:07,680
Speaker 1: a team because of the relationships he's established there with

832
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers and the trust he's earned over being as

833
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:13,680
Speaker 1: good as he's been overall in his career, but he's

834
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:16,319
Speaker 1: become a major liability for them. You wonder if it's

835
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:19,360
Speaker 1: at this point the auditioning for kickers has to be

836
00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 1: one bad game away at this point. Um, all right,

837
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:29,839
Speaker 1: this draft really set up well here, UM, I will

838
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:33,240
Speaker 1: grab and I will run to Tampa Bay at Indianapolis.

839
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 1: Um in the early window. Great, great game the Bucks

840
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:44,000
Speaker 1: on Monday night. Uh, really it was clinical. It was

841
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:47,640
Speaker 1: exactly the type of win that you want. They started

842
00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 1: six and one, they hit that bump in the road

843
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:50,880
Speaker 1: with back to back losses. They hit the by and

844
00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:54,360
Speaker 1: then come back and just take care of a Giant's

845
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:56,279
Speaker 1: team that was totally lost. And we'll get to the

846
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:59,120
Speaker 1: Giants and the Jason Garrett news when we get to

847
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:01,439
Speaker 1: their game. But Tampa was just more of the same.

848
00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:04,560
Speaker 1: I thought that they're just taking care of business, biding

849
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:07,720
Speaker 1: their time. They're gonna get there, you know, eleven, twelve,

850
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:10,600
Speaker 1: thirteen wins, and then we'll be see you in January

851
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:13,480
Speaker 1: and they're gonna they'll be ready to roll barring any

852
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 1: serious injury. I feel so good about them on a

853
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 1: week to week basis, even with the somewhat recent struggles. However,

854
00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:23,279
Speaker 1: they go to Indianapolis and face a Cults team that

855
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:27,160
Speaker 1: fears nothing, fears no God right now because they have

856
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 1: the most unstoppable player in the league at this time

857
00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:33,400
Speaker 1: unless you, you know, want to go on Justin Jefferson

858
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:37,040
Speaker 1: corner um. Jonathan Taylor is such a beast and it

859
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:39,680
Speaker 1: will be a great challenge. I don't know where Vidavea is.

860
00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:42,080
Speaker 1: It sounds like he he sounds like he's gonna play.

861
00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:45,759
Speaker 1: He's such an important part of their run defense and

862
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:49,400
Speaker 1: really everything that Tampa does. But Taylor has I believe,

863
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:52,400
Speaker 1: eight straight games now with over one yards from scrimmage.

864
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:55,920
Speaker 1: He was completely unstoppable in Buffalo. So you have a

865
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:59,319
Speaker 1: great Bucks team, a champion on the road against the

866
00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:02,840
Speaker 1: Colts team that's feeling itself pumping in my veins with

867
00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:06,239
Speaker 1: the fourth over. Yeah, that's a great one. It's it's

868
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:09,359
Speaker 1: too really good run defenses. The Colts are top two

869
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:11,319
Speaker 1: I think right now in the in the Bucks are

870
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:14,080
Speaker 1: always great, but doesn't feel like one matters more than

871
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:15,920
Speaker 1: the other. It's like, yeah, if if you stop the

872
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:18,440
Speaker 1: Bucks riding so hot, you know, if if if the

873
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:22,160
Speaker 1: Bucks doesn't matter, if you can slow down Jonathan Taylor running,

874
00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:25,239
Speaker 1: then then they're in big trouble, even a guy as

875
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:28,120
Speaker 1: good as Jonathan Taylor. To me, it's football. It's like

876
00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:30,600
Speaker 1: he's partly a function of his surroundings. Early in the season,

877
00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:34,560
Speaker 1: the offensive lines totally banged up. He's pretty much held

878
00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:37,000
Speaker 1: in check the first month of the year. Now that

879
00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:41,040
Speaker 1: like the numbers show that he's not getting touched before

880
00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:46,160
Speaker 1: contact sometimes until four yards per carry per play, which

881
00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:48,600
Speaker 1: is insane. It's like two yards more than any other team.

882
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:51,200
Speaker 1: It's because that offensive line is playing so well, and

883
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:53,880
Speaker 1: and he's the most talented, i think, best pure runner

884
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:56,480
Speaker 1: that there is in terms of making people missbreaking tackles,

885
00:45:56,520 --> 00:46:00,160
Speaker 1: going long, so that combination is unstoppable. I don't think

886
00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:02,160
Speaker 1: the Cults will be one of those teams like the

887
00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:04,880
Speaker 1: Patriots are and other teams that that look at the

888
00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:06,879
Speaker 1: Bucks and they're like, oh, we're not gonna run. They're

889
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:08,560
Speaker 1: still going to try to run. It's just like, who's

890
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:10,319
Speaker 1: going to be better. Well, it was a week ago

891
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:13,319
Speaker 1: we were talking about Buffalo's defense and how you know

892
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:16,280
Speaker 1: the railroad probably stopped at that point for Indy. Andy

893
00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:18,400
Speaker 1: went and said, we're just gonna continue to do it

894
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:20,400
Speaker 1: more and more, and they blew the doors off of Buffalo.

895
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:23,400
Speaker 1: You know, on the blocking front, Nate Tice had to

896
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:26,240
Speaker 1: I thought he was pointed out very in good fashion.

897
00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:28,040
Speaker 1: How Jack Doyle has been a huge part of that

898
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:31,920
Speaker 1: as well for Jonathan Taylor. They they are suddenly this

899
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:33,640
Speaker 1: team that I think could beat anyone in the A

900
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:35,920
Speaker 1: f C. I mean, they look phenomenal. I don't know

901
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:40,080
Speaker 1: if it's a Hard Knox HBO type of spiritual metaphysical

902
00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:43,160
Speaker 1: bump they're receiving, but it's real, and it's the rare

903
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:45,960
Speaker 1: game where I feel like Tom Brady, this doesn't happen.

904
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:48,840
Speaker 1: It's not really the A storyline. It is Jonathan Taylor

905
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:51,239
Speaker 1: and the one thing I knowed about the Bucks, and

906
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:53,400
Speaker 1: when they get hot, they get hot, so who cares.

907
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:57,719
Speaker 1: But they have been huge variance wise in home and

908
00:46:57,760 --> 00:47:00,640
Speaker 1: away splits. They're scoring fifteen fewer points per game on

909
00:47:00,680 --> 00:47:04,200
Speaker 1: the road and allowing eleven more points per game away

910
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:06,560
Speaker 1: from Raymond James Stadium. It's been happening all year long.

911
00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:09,320
Speaker 1: So from that angle, I kind of like the idea

912
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:12,320
Speaker 1: that the Colts just can keep doing what they're doing

913
00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:14,560
Speaker 1: and say, come bring it, Tom Brady, but we're gonna

914
00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:18,440
Speaker 1: bring something back your way too. You got a disguise

915
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:20,640
Speaker 1: stuff though defensively, and they can do it more than

916
00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:22,600
Speaker 1: the Giants did Monday night. I know we didn't get

917
00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:25,360
Speaker 1: a chance to recap that game, but it's crazy just

918
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:28,480
Speaker 1: how well Brady is moving right now. And I swear,

919
00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:31,000
Speaker 1: and maybe it's just like memory, I'm maybe I'm wrong.

920
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:33,680
Speaker 1: I swear I've watched every Brady started his career right

921
00:47:33,680 --> 00:47:36,400
Speaker 1: and like he moves better now than he did in

922
00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 1: two thousand one. There's just no question. People joke about

923
00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:41,120
Speaker 1: that twelve yard game head which was all fired up

924
00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:43,640
Speaker 1: about like he is faster now I think than he

925
00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:46,239
Speaker 1: was in O one oh three oh four, and he's

926
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:49,480
Speaker 1: absolutely as good in terms of moving around in the pocket.

927
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:53,320
Speaker 1: It's it's insane. He's the m D p F. Jonathan

928
00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:57,760
Speaker 1: Taylor him. Wow, that's strong. Um, I guess I would.

929
00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:01,920
Speaker 1: I'm dubious. I would like this take the stop Watch

930
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:05,640
Speaker 1: out one or twenty four verse forty four. But at

931
00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:08,760
Speaker 1: the same time, like man who knows he's he's obviously

932
00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:11,480
Speaker 1: put in a lot of work. Um, I think maybe

933
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:14,399
Speaker 1: what makes him seem more nimble is just how much

934
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:18,080
Speaker 1: he uh you know, dominates in terms of the mental

935
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:21,839
Speaker 1: side of things and his ability to quickly react more

936
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 1: quickly than most quarterbacks, knowing when to now flee the

937
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:26,480
Speaker 1: pocket or when to step up. He just everything is

938
00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:30,279
Speaker 1: in slow motion for Brady obviously, um and he just

939
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:32,520
Speaker 1: seems more nimble as a result. I don't know, it's

940
00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:35,840
Speaker 1: it's it's obviously one of the great uh medical marvels

941
00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:39,560
Speaker 1: in the history of professional sports in our country. About

942
00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:43,719
Speaker 1: that taking it up a notch? All right, great game,

943
00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:45,640
Speaker 1: we love it. Let's pick that game. What the hell

944
00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:47,560
Speaker 1: I took the bucks on? No old the NFL dot

945
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:50,279
Speaker 1: com slash game picks do it? By the way? In

946
00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:53,000
Speaker 1: that in general, are you're having as it has to

947
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:55,080
Speaker 1: be a very difficult season to pick games obviously, I

948
00:48:55,120 --> 00:48:58,160
Speaker 1: mean it's hard to not great against the spread? Is

949
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:00,600
Speaker 1: like six or seven over, which is which is not

950
00:49:00,719 --> 00:49:03,480
Speaker 1: great but not terrible either. What's like industry average? Are

951
00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:07,200
Speaker 1: you in that in the I have no idea. I'm

952
00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:10,120
Speaker 1: sure my my straight up picks are probably badly against

953
00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:12,080
Speaker 1: the spread. I would think average would be close to five.

954
00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:15,319
Speaker 1: I'm slightly above that. Nothing. Who's killing you? Who's killing

955
00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:18,080
Speaker 1: you week after week? The team that every time you

956
00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:22,279
Speaker 1: pick them to cover, they don't? I think that I

957
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:24,680
Speaker 1: like gave up on the Eagles right when they became good,

958
00:49:24,719 --> 00:49:26,759
Speaker 1: after having way too much faith in them for a while.

959
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:29,600
Speaker 1: I mean, if you finished without a troubling record at

960
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:31,719
Speaker 1: the end of the season, what happens in house? Does

961
00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:34,840
Speaker 1: you know? Ali bun Pori? Yeah, you're taking you on

962
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:37,600
Speaker 1: the hand or something. You're taking over. You've got it

963
00:49:37,640 --> 00:49:42,120
Speaker 1: next time? Why you get two columns instead of on? Um?

964
00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:45,440
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on, Gregg. It has worked its

965
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:48,920
Speaker 1: way back to you after the snake slithers away. All right,

966
00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:52,000
Speaker 1: I'll take the remaining late game on the docket. That's

967
00:49:52,080 --> 00:49:55,400
Speaker 1: Chargers Broncos and what are you gonna do? You know?

968
00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:59,319
Speaker 1: Two teams I don't have any feel for whatsoever, like

969
00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:04,120
Speaker 1: to total old disappointments, Um. Two defenses that are very

970
00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:07,080
Speaker 1: similar in their strengths in which they don't really have

971
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:10,840
Speaker 1: right now, in their weaknesses which are built in Brandon's

972
00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:14,600
Speaker 1: Daley got to where he is because of Vick Fongio.

973
00:50:14,920 --> 00:50:17,960
Speaker 1: Came from a small college school to work for him

974
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:21,319
Speaker 1: in Chicago, uh, and then in Denver too, So he's

975
00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:24,440
Speaker 1: been on this Bronco staff. Brandon's Dalely, it's amazing how

976
00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:27,719
Speaker 1: quickly like his career rose he was like a linebackers

977
00:50:27,760 --> 00:50:30,880
Speaker 1: coach a couple of years ago, and their defenses are

978
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:33,440
Speaker 1: both terrible. And I trust Justin Herbert more in this

979
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:36,600
Speaker 1: game than I do Uh Teddy, of course, but I

980
00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:40,720
Speaker 1: kind of just expect both offenses to win. I expect

981
00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:45,040
Speaker 1: it to be a high scoring game. You can't fall

982
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:47,520
Speaker 1: here if you're if you're l A, you can't. You can't.

983
00:50:47,560 --> 00:50:50,239
Speaker 1: This is your six and four. You'd be seven and

984
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:52,080
Speaker 1: forward put you in a great spot. You've got the

985
00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:54,800
Speaker 1: Bengals and Giants after that, and then you're often running.

986
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:57,279
Speaker 1: And like Justin Herbert, which we we we watched with

987
00:50:57,320 --> 00:50:59,879
Speaker 1: our eyes live on Sunday night. I mean, I think

988
00:50:59,880 --> 00:51:01,400
Speaker 1: it's not just his arm, it's what he did with

989
00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:04,040
Speaker 1: his legs in that game. He he is someone that's

990
00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:06,200
Speaker 1: going to challenge Denver in every possible way. And I

991
00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:08,160
Speaker 1: kind of love these coaches when they know each other

992
00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:11,280
Speaker 1: this well, and it is mentor verse, you know, pupil

993
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:14,200
Speaker 1: versus teacher. Um. You know that these things don't always

994
00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:16,520
Speaker 1: amount to much, but it's kind of spicy going in.

995
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:19,200
Speaker 1: I think it's you might be trying to project that

996
00:51:19,239 --> 00:51:22,399
Speaker 1: into the world. The Broncos can engage in a shootout, Greg,

997
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:26,120
Speaker 1: I don't know. I know l A wasn't overly impressive

998
00:51:26,120 --> 00:51:29,920
Speaker 1: on defense. I mean, the Steelers just engaged in a shootout. Yeah,

999
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:33,160
Speaker 1: but Broncos are an above average offense or an average

1000
00:51:33,160 --> 00:51:35,799
Speaker 1: offense just by the numbers they put thirty on the

1001
00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 1: Cowboys a few weeks ago. I just mean, like anyone

1002
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:40,000
Speaker 1: can get in a shoot out with this Chargers defense

1003
00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:41,680
Speaker 1: right now. I know that. But if you look at

1004
00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:45,040
Speaker 1: even the game last week against Pittsburgh, Um, some of

1005
00:51:45,040 --> 00:51:49,200
Speaker 1: those drives weren't exactly marathon marches down the field for Pittsburgh.

1006
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:52,520
Speaker 1: I know they were able to tally up points. Um.

1007
00:51:52,680 --> 00:51:55,360
Speaker 1: I understand that you may not trust l A, but

1008
00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:58,000
Speaker 1: I don't think Teddy and the Broncos really have shown

1009
00:51:58,040 --> 00:52:00,120
Speaker 1: that they can go toe to toe. If it's one

1010
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:02,600
Speaker 1: of those good days for the Chargers offense, I guess

1011
00:52:02,640 --> 00:52:07,520
Speaker 1: I want to see consistency from the Los Angeles attack.

1012
00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:11,760
Speaker 1: We saw it obviously against a deeply underman Pittsburgh defense.

1013
00:52:12,160 --> 00:52:14,560
Speaker 1: That's a totally different game of t J. Watts playing.

1014
00:52:14,560 --> 00:52:17,760
Speaker 1: It's a totally different game of of making Fitzpatrick's playing

1015
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:21,000
Speaker 1: and Joe Hayden's on the field. So show it to me,

1016
00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:22,520
Speaker 1: show me that you can do it back to back

1017
00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:25,120
Speaker 1: weeks and and really start gaining some momentum in the season.

1018
00:52:25,160 --> 00:52:27,960
Speaker 1: I think it's a really important game for the Chargers

1019
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:30,160
Speaker 1: if they want us to kind of take them seriously

1020
00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:32,920
Speaker 1: as a credible a f C contender. I think it's

1021
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:36,360
Speaker 1: fair because, like they rolled against Pittsburgh five and thirty

1022
00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:38,680
Speaker 1: three yards, but that came a week after they put

1023
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:41,240
Speaker 1: up to fifty against the Vikings. They had two hundred

1024
00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:44,360
Speaker 1: against the Ravens, and this was what we thought. I mean, defense,

1025
00:52:44,640 --> 00:52:47,440
Speaker 1: we'll see, but we thought this offense had a chance

1026
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:50,759
Speaker 1: with Herbert to to shine and it's been somewhat disappointing.

1027
00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:52,719
Speaker 1: But if they look like they did last week, that

1028
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:55,640
Speaker 1: Steelers defense was seen a lot of guys too, so

1029
00:52:55,719 --> 00:52:58,640
Speaker 1: I don't put everything on that game, but they're starting

1030
00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:00,719
Speaker 1: to warm up. We should point out since we last

1031
00:53:00,719 --> 00:53:04,240
Speaker 1: talked Broncos, they've signed Courtland Sutton and Tim Patrick, both

1032
00:53:04,280 --> 00:53:06,960
Speaker 1: two big long term deals. Love Tim Patrick. What a

1033
00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:10,319
Speaker 1: story to bounced around the league. Undrafted guy gets a

1034
00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:13,240
Speaker 1: nice contract. I think a nice deal for Denver. Frankly

1035
00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:16,360
Speaker 1: was almost underpaid, but I get taken the guarantee and

1036
00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:18,919
Speaker 1: Sutton stay in long term too. And you got Jerry

1037
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:22,319
Speaker 1: Judy obviously under that rookie contract for another uh three

1038
00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:25,520
Speaker 1: years after this season if you picked up his option.

1039
00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:27,799
Speaker 1: It's almost like really well set up for them to go,

1040
00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:31,080
Speaker 1: whether you know it's a draft or free agency or

1041
00:53:31,160 --> 00:53:33,600
Speaker 1: trade to say, hey, we have pieces here, come here

1042
00:53:33,640 --> 00:53:37,120
Speaker 1: and be our Matt stafford um that they're kind of

1043
00:53:37,160 --> 00:53:40,040
Speaker 1: setting things up that way, it seems. Unless Teddy can

1044
00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:42,400
Speaker 1: go on a heater or here and keep himself in

1045
00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:44,560
Speaker 1: the mix, we shall see. Still a lot of football

1046
00:53:45,040 --> 00:53:47,160
Speaker 1: to play in the season. By the way, I asked

1047
00:53:47,239 --> 00:53:49,720
Speaker 1: Ricky to look it up for me, and she, uh,

1048
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:51,640
Speaker 1: she did it. She did a nice job with it.

1049
00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:54,000
Speaker 1: We talked about it last week, get length about how

1050
00:53:54,080 --> 00:53:57,160
Speaker 1: home teams were actually under five hundred through ten weeks

1051
00:53:57,200 --> 00:53:59,640
Speaker 1: of the season. Things did not get better in week

1052
00:53:59,719 --> 00:54:03,359
Speaker 1: or leve. Then the home teams won six games uh

1053
00:54:03,400 --> 00:54:06,440
Speaker 1: and lost nine. So six and nine they went last week.

1054
00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:09,480
Speaker 1: So they're now four games under five hundred as we

1055
00:54:09,600 --> 00:54:13,399
Speaker 1: hit Thanksgiving. So keep an eye on that. Doesn't matter

1056
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:16,000
Speaker 1: if the Broncos are home, doesn't matter that anybody's home

1057
00:54:16,480 --> 00:54:19,120
Speaker 1: in this strange What about what about the air? People

1058
00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:22,600
Speaker 1: like to talk a lot about they get tired. That's

1059
00:54:22,680 --> 00:54:25,520
Speaker 1: the advantage, all right, Mark, that's have you ever gone

1060
00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:27,560
Speaker 1: skiing or something like that in Denver as a kid

1061
00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:30,560
Speaker 1: like I didn't like you are hideously sick for about

1062
00:54:30,560 --> 00:54:33,080
Speaker 1: twenty four hours. I'm just telling you it's real, the

1063
00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:36,000
Speaker 1: real phenomenon. I know. I just feel like, um, you

1064
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:38,200
Speaker 1: don't hear as much about it when like the Broncos

1065
00:54:38,200 --> 00:54:40,600
Speaker 1: are getting drilled by the Eagles left, No, it seems

1066
00:54:40,600 --> 00:54:42,520
Speaker 1: to not play as much then, Um, all right, you

1067
00:54:42,520 --> 00:54:43,680
Speaker 1: want me to pick a game, I'll do it. I

1068
00:54:43,719 --> 00:54:46,480
Speaker 1: would like to. I'm going Pittsburgh at Cincinnati in the

1069
00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:50,800
Speaker 1: early time slot. There good old a f C North

1070
00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:54,960
Speaker 1: between two teams, and I think it's at a major

1071
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:57,120
Speaker 1: turning point for both. I mean, the loser of this

1072
00:54:58,239 --> 00:55:00,399
Speaker 1: is in a little bit of trouble. I they thought

1073
00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:02,960
Speaker 1: Cincinnati like they you know, that game was close against

1074
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:05,600
Speaker 1: the Raiders last week at the end. But Joe Mixon

1075
00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:07,560
Speaker 1: is not getting talked about enough. I don't know if

1076
00:55:07,600 --> 00:55:09,600
Speaker 1: just because there's so many other running backs that are

1077
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:12,360
Speaker 1: having good seasons, but he's quietly you know, fourth in

1078
00:55:12,400 --> 00:55:14,440
Speaker 1: the league and rushing you had a monster has had

1079
00:55:14,480 --> 00:55:16,719
Speaker 1: a couple of my Monster game last week, and I

1080
00:55:16,760 --> 00:55:18,600
Speaker 1: thought they just ran really hard and that you know,

1081
00:55:18,640 --> 00:55:21,120
Speaker 1: they didn't have him for ten games last year and

1082
00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:23,840
Speaker 1: they didn't have Burrows, So that this all leads to

1083
00:55:23,880 --> 00:55:27,200
Speaker 1: why the transformations happened a little bit on offense and Chase,

1084
00:55:27,320 --> 00:55:29,680
Speaker 1: you know, Jamar Chase. I want to see what happens

1085
00:55:29,680 --> 00:55:32,120
Speaker 1: against Pittsburgh because he's had three games in a row

1086
00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:34,680
Speaker 1: where he's been under fifty yards and you know, Mike

1087
00:55:34,719 --> 00:55:38,040
Speaker 1: Tomlin basically said yeah, because it's the product of a

1088
00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:41,040
Speaker 1: rookie showing that he's earned the respect of game planners

1089
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:43,000
Speaker 1: and like they are. There was there was a play

1090
00:55:43,080 --> 00:55:45,239
Speaker 1: last week where they threw him like a slant and

1091
00:55:45,280 --> 00:55:47,319
Speaker 1: like he had three guys on him. So it's gonna

1092
00:55:47,320 --> 00:55:49,600
Speaker 1: be a different journey for him. But Pittsburgh, you know,

1093
00:55:49,640 --> 00:55:51,400
Speaker 1: we just talked about that Chargers game and how they

1094
00:55:51,480 --> 00:55:54,920
Speaker 1: rolled over this defense. T J. Watt coming back, make

1095
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:57,840
Speaker 1: it Fitzpatrick sounds like he's coming back. Joe Hayden. That

1096
00:55:57,920 --> 00:55:59,520
Speaker 1: helps a lot. I thought last week what they were

1097
00:55:59,520 --> 00:56:02,160
Speaker 1: able to do was basically put a ton of attention

1098
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:05,160
Speaker 1: on Cam Hayward, and it mostly worked when he wasn't

1099
00:56:05,160 --> 00:56:08,680
Speaker 1: batting a past that was intercepted, or punching Justin Herbert

1100
00:56:08,840 --> 00:56:10,840
Speaker 1: in the chest while he was on the ground. Obscene.

1101
00:56:10,840 --> 00:56:12,959
Speaker 1: I don't know what even know why he's eligible this week?

1102
00:56:13,120 --> 00:56:15,480
Speaker 1: How are we getting away with that? But anyways, this

1103
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:17,040
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a blood bath right down to

1104
00:56:17,080 --> 00:56:19,839
Speaker 1: the end. I almost locked up the Steelers, but I'm

1105
00:56:19,840 --> 00:56:23,200
Speaker 1: a little too freaked out by they're like five point

1106
00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:26,960
Speaker 1: underdogs to know that. I think this is how I

1107
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:31,239
Speaker 1: see the a f C North right now. Um So

1108
00:56:31,280 --> 00:56:34,240
Speaker 1: in the power rings, I have Ravens at thirteen, Browns

1109
00:56:34,239 --> 00:56:38,719
Speaker 1: of fourteen Angles of fifteen, Steelers at nineteen. I think

1110
00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:41,239
Speaker 1: there is a difference. I think that the Steelers are

1111
00:56:41,280 --> 00:56:45,919
Speaker 1: just a tick below these teams, certainly when they're compromised

1112
00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:50,239
Speaker 1: as they were on Sunday. Um now, we'll see where

1113
00:56:50,239 --> 00:56:52,359
Speaker 1: are we at physically on their defense, or we can

1114
00:56:52,400 --> 00:56:55,239
Speaker 1: have these guys back in the field, because that makes

1115
00:56:55,280 --> 00:56:58,040
Speaker 1: obviously a big difference. But I just I don't like

1116
00:56:58,160 --> 00:57:02,200
Speaker 1: their chances. Uh. If Cincinnati's moving the ball well and

1117
00:57:02,239 --> 00:57:04,520
Speaker 1: they need big Ben in this offense to score points,

1118
00:57:04,560 --> 00:57:07,799
Speaker 1: I just don't see it on a week to week basis. Uh,

1119
00:57:07,880 --> 00:57:09,319
Speaker 1: it just seems like an old team and It really

1120
00:57:09,320 --> 00:57:11,319
Speaker 1: stood out to me. And this is you know, we're

1121
00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:14,520
Speaker 1: just talking about Tom Brady at age forty four appearing

1122
00:57:14,560 --> 00:57:16,640
Speaker 1: to be, by some eyes to be faster than he

1123
00:57:16,680 --> 00:57:19,160
Speaker 1: was when he was twenty four. Uh, Big Ben. That

1124
00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:22,080
Speaker 1: is nobody saying that about him. And I think it

1125
00:57:22,160 --> 00:57:24,120
Speaker 1: really stood out to me in that game against the

1126
00:57:24,200 --> 00:57:27,360
Speaker 1: Chargers that when a play broke down for l A,

1127
00:57:27,600 --> 00:57:29,880
Speaker 1: they had a young quarterback who was able to escape

1128
00:57:29,920 --> 00:57:31,920
Speaker 1: the pocket. He ran for ninety yards. That was the

1129
00:57:31,920 --> 00:57:35,200
Speaker 1: most yard ast you've ever seen in from a Charger's quarterback. Actually,

1130
00:57:35,920 --> 00:57:37,760
Speaker 1: And when a play breaks down for the Steelers, when

1131
00:57:37,760 --> 00:57:40,240
Speaker 1: things aren't set up perfectly right and the protection isn't there,

1132
00:57:40,280 --> 00:57:43,920
Speaker 1: it's over. It's a rap. Because Ben is maybe the

1133
00:57:44,360 --> 00:57:48,280
Speaker 1: greatest and the most obvious stone age pony marks since

1134
00:57:48,760 --> 00:57:52,200
Speaker 1: late period Dan Dan Marino at the stage. So I

1135
00:57:52,240 --> 00:57:55,120
Speaker 1: think that's a problem for Pittsburgh's offense that the quarterback

1136
00:57:55,160 --> 00:57:59,280
Speaker 1: is so immobile that it takes away just any element

1137
00:57:59,680 --> 00:58:03,560
Speaker 1: of surprise and getting plus plays out of negative situations. Well,

1138
00:58:03,520 --> 00:58:05,120
Speaker 1: and he doesn't have the big arm to make up

1139
00:58:05,160 --> 00:58:07,680
Speaker 1: for it. Now to you mentioned that play to Claypool

1140
00:58:07,760 --> 00:58:10,640
Speaker 1: last week, Greet kind of under threw him deep. That's

1141
00:58:10,720 --> 00:58:14,600
Speaker 1: that said, right, that said, I think their best to

1142
00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:16,880
Speaker 1: bend games of the year are the last two, and

1143
00:58:16,920 --> 00:58:19,800
Speaker 1: I think the offense is at least trending up. You know,

1144
00:58:19,800 --> 00:58:21,920
Speaker 1: you said like they didn't exactly light it up. Every

1145
00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:24,960
Speaker 1: drive they had was successful until the last two. I

1146
00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:27,480
Speaker 1: mean they got they got stuck at the two yard line,

1147
00:58:27,520 --> 00:58:29,440
Speaker 1: but there's only three drives they had in the first half.

1148
00:58:29,480 --> 00:58:31,440
Speaker 1: They marched right down the field against the Chargers. Then

1149
00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:33,160
Speaker 1: they put up a lot of points in short fields,

1150
00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:35,440
Speaker 1: which is lucky, and they couldn't come through in the end,

1151
00:58:35,480 --> 00:58:37,760
Speaker 1: but they did move the ball pretty well. And I

1152
00:58:37,800 --> 00:58:42,280
Speaker 1: think they there's just something beyond like who's playing who's

1153
00:58:42,320 --> 00:58:45,600
Speaker 1: not that when I see Mike Tomlins speaking on Tuesday

1154
00:58:45,640 --> 00:58:47,760
Speaker 1: and I think about like the fact he's never had

1155
00:58:47,800 --> 00:58:50,600
Speaker 1: a losing record, and I I disagree with you in

1156
00:58:50,720 --> 00:58:52,520
Speaker 1: terms of your power agains. Where I put this division.

1157
00:58:52,560 --> 00:58:56,600
Speaker 1: I put the Ravens ahead of the pack and probably

1158
00:58:56,600 --> 00:58:58,919
Speaker 1: have them as about a top ten type of team eight,

1159
00:58:58,960 --> 00:59:02,080
Speaker 1: eight or nine, and put the other three in a jumble,

1160
00:59:02,240 --> 00:59:06,680
Speaker 1: all very equal. And there's something about this Steelers organization

1161
00:59:06,800 --> 00:59:09,360
Speaker 1: that there it's not about like XS and knows that. Like,

1162
00:59:09,400 --> 00:59:11,320
Speaker 1: I just look at this and I just feel like

1163
00:59:11,800 --> 00:59:14,840
Speaker 1: there's something with this Steelers team and Tomlin that I

1164
00:59:14,920 --> 00:59:17,680
Speaker 1: just I think they're gonna overachieve in the end. I

1165
00:59:17,800 --> 00:59:20,960
Speaker 1: just in and overachieving is ten and seven and probably

1166
00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:23,600
Speaker 1: losing in the wild card round. But that that's the

1167
00:59:23,600 --> 00:59:25,760
Speaker 1: type of team I see with this, with this group,

1168
00:59:25,880 --> 00:59:28,800
Speaker 1: you know what, you convinced me. I'm gonna go stick

1169
00:59:28,840 --> 00:59:33,040
Speaker 1: with my initial instinct. I'm locking up Pittsburgh is the

1170
00:59:33,160 --> 00:59:34,760
Speaker 1: kind of game they win. It's just the kind of

1171
00:59:34,800 --> 00:59:36,600
Speaker 1: game they win. That's a good one. That's That's an

1172
00:59:36,640 --> 00:59:41,040
Speaker 1: onion hanger right there, Mary, that is I like it.

1173
00:59:41,680 --> 00:59:45,959
Speaker 1: We were going out underdogs across the board here on

1174
00:59:45,960 --> 00:59:48,960
Speaker 1: on lock so far with Dan to go, West took

1175
00:59:49,040 --> 00:59:51,440
Speaker 1: on the Westley, I got, I got a favorite, a

1176
00:59:51,480 --> 00:59:53,520
Speaker 1: heavy favorite. As it turns out, I have Erica. Oh

1177
00:59:53,560 --> 00:59:56,160
Speaker 1: that's right. Dan took the Patriots, Erica took one. I

1178
00:59:56,240 --> 00:59:58,960
Speaker 1: got the Lions. What a week and watch I'll be

1179
00:59:58,960 --> 01:00:04,360
Speaker 1: the only one who loses, especially favorites, not only our

1180
01:00:04,400 --> 01:00:06,800
Speaker 1: home teams losing favorites. I think have a losing record

1181
01:00:06,840 --> 01:00:10,160
Speaker 1: over the last three weeks to combine. So that's pretty crazy. Alright, Mark,

1182
01:00:11,080 --> 01:00:14,680
Speaker 1: you have the snake here. After this, I do have

1183
01:00:14,800 --> 01:00:18,160
Speaker 1: the snake. I'm gonna go Carolina at Miami. Um. You know,

1184
01:00:18,200 --> 01:00:20,520
Speaker 1: I I typically try to take a game that is

1185
01:00:20,880 --> 01:00:23,320
Speaker 1: like an ultra trash bag is my second early game.

1186
01:00:23,360 --> 01:00:26,400
Speaker 1: But I'm intrigued by the Panthers as much as any

1187
01:00:26,400 --> 01:00:28,919
Speaker 1: team around right now. And I don't think it's just

1188
01:00:29,360 --> 01:00:32,080
Speaker 1: Cam Newton's um arrival. I get that. So it's like

1189
01:00:32,120 --> 01:00:35,480
Speaker 1: an ultra trash bag? Is that like the quality? Is

1190
01:00:35,480 --> 01:00:37,560
Speaker 1: it like a trash bag that it's on the top

1191
01:00:37,600 --> 01:00:41,040
Speaker 1: shelf in the trash bag aisle of the grocery store

1192
01:00:41,080 --> 01:00:44,200
Speaker 1: and it's really made of the type of materials that

1193
01:00:44,520 --> 01:00:46,800
Speaker 1: it will not break, will never rip, will never let

1194
01:00:46,800 --> 01:00:49,000
Speaker 1: you down. Or is an ultra trash bag at the

1195
01:00:49,040 --> 01:00:52,240
Speaker 1: bottom shelf and it's the one that's sold by the company.

1196
01:00:52,280 --> 01:00:55,000
Speaker 1: It's like the supermarket version of it, and you put

1197
01:00:55,040 --> 01:00:56,680
Speaker 1: more than a certain amount of weight in it, it

1198
01:00:56,720 --> 01:00:58,760
Speaker 1: will just come crashing through the body. Because the top

1199
01:00:58,760 --> 01:01:02,880
Speaker 1: of the shelf scenario sounds like a compliment. Um, I'm

1200
01:01:02,920 --> 01:01:05,440
Speaker 1: thinking more like, you know, if you get your trash

1201
01:01:05,520 --> 01:01:08,200
Speaker 1: picked up and it's the first like smelly bag of

1202
01:01:08,240 --> 01:01:10,560
Speaker 1: trash you put in the trash can and it's still

1203
01:01:10,600 --> 01:01:13,000
Speaker 1: there at the bottom. Um a week later when the

1204
01:01:13,040 --> 01:01:16,080
Speaker 1: trash trucks come back again and it's probably worse than ever.

1205
01:01:16,160 --> 01:01:17,840
Speaker 1: That's well, that's it. And you know what, that's a

1206
01:01:17,880 --> 01:01:20,520
Speaker 1: different take on it. I didn't even consider looking it

1207
01:01:20,520 --> 01:01:24,000
Speaker 1: from that. So you're saying, like the physical placement of

1208
01:01:24,040 --> 01:01:27,200
Speaker 1: the trash within the bin, Okay, yeah, the stench, I

1209
01:01:27,240 --> 01:01:30,000
Speaker 1: mean the stench coming off a bad team. The first

1210
01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:31,760
Speaker 1: of all, it wouldn't be you know, rolled up in

1211
01:01:31,760 --> 01:01:33,560
Speaker 1: a nice little box. It would be it would it

1212
01:01:33,560 --> 01:01:36,120
Speaker 1: would be hideous to the nose. Um. So I almost

1213
01:01:36,200 --> 01:01:38,400
Speaker 1: you know, but then I almost went jets Houston. But

1214
01:01:38,480 --> 01:01:40,400
Speaker 1: that's just too bad. I can't deal with that. But

1215
01:01:40,480 --> 01:01:43,200
Speaker 1: I want to. I want to be interested in these teams.

1216
01:01:43,720 --> 01:01:46,160
Speaker 1: It is Carolina to me. It's like I get that

1217
01:01:46,200 --> 01:01:49,920
Speaker 1: it's Cam Newton is back, but it's Christian McCaffrey is

1218
01:01:49,960 --> 01:01:53,120
Speaker 1: the real transformation on this offense. Like the idea that like,

1219
01:01:53,520 --> 01:01:56,040
Speaker 1: you know, Donald went for weeks and weeks without him.

1220
01:01:56,040 --> 01:01:57,960
Speaker 1: He's got his own issues, but it's the perfect timing

1221
01:01:57,960 --> 01:02:03,000
Speaker 1: to have him and Cam together them exactly. Um, they

1222
01:02:03,080 --> 01:02:04,800
Speaker 1: ran a couple of trick plays last week. I think

1223
01:02:04,840 --> 01:02:06,640
Speaker 1: they're feeling themselves. But Matt Rule came out of that

1224
01:02:06,680 --> 01:02:09,320
Speaker 1: game pretty furious actually, with the fact they give a

1225
01:02:09,440 --> 01:02:11,920
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety yards rushing, saying that if you're in

1226
01:02:11,960 --> 01:02:14,600
Speaker 1: the race, good teams don't do that. They lead the

1227
01:02:14,640 --> 01:02:17,520
Speaker 1: league in penalties as well, So they're not a perfect

1228
01:02:17,520 --> 01:02:19,800
Speaker 1: team on any spy any stretch. But I think that

1229
01:02:19,880 --> 01:02:23,080
Speaker 1: they the Panthers at this point are warming up a

1230
01:02:23,080 --> 01:02:26,560
Speaker 1: little bit um, as has the Dolphins defense to some degree.

1231
01:02:26,600 --> 01:02:29,280
Speaker 1: So I'm kind of intrigued by that matchup. Um I'm

1232
01:02:29,320 --> 01:02:31,360
Speaker 1: on the fringe of not buying into the Dolphins at all,

1233
01:02:31,400 --> 01:02:33,960
Speaker 1: but these were two teams I picked for the playoffs,

1234
01:02:34,240 --> 01:02:36,600
Speaker 1: So it's my which one will I'd be more right

1235
01:02:36,640 --> 01:02:39,840
Speaker 1: on by Sunday night. The Dolphins, You're not going to

1236
01:02:39,920 --> 01:02:41,640
Speaker 1: be right on either way, because I know that we

1237
01:02:41,760 --> 01:02:44,000
Speaker 1: keep making this case. They're like playing all these bad teams.

1238
01:02:44,040 --> 01:02:46,120
Speaker 1: There's still three games back right now in the lost

1239
01:02:46,120 --> 01:02:48,920
Speaker 1: column with well, you never know you're going against type

1240
01:02:48,920 --> 01:02:51,080
Speaker 1: there by counting them out. At this point, they're still

1241
01:02:51,200 --> 01:02:53,440
Speaker 1: you know, seven six seven games together. You're right, they

1242
01:02:53,480 --> 01:02:57,160
Speaker 1: they gotta win this one. In theory, they might have

1243
01:02:57,200 --> 01:02:59,520
Speaker 1: an offense that could do okay against Carolina because I

1244
01:02:59,520 --> 01:03:01,640
Speaker 1: think to beat them in their pastors, either got to

1245
01:03:01,680 --> 01:03:03,720
Speaker 1: run the ball, and teams have done that pretty well

1246
01:03:03,720 --> 01:03:05,920
Speaker 1: a handful of times. Or you gotta just have that

1247
01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:08,880
Speaker 1: quick passing game, which is what the Patriots were so

1248
01:03:08,920 --> 01:03:11,280
Speaker 1: afraid of, this pass rush that they everything was like

1249
01:03:11,320 --> 01:03:14,040
Speaker 1: a three step drop, and no one loves a three

1250
01:03:14,040 --> 01:03:16,640
Speaker 1: step drop more than two h two is very predictable

1251
01:03:16,680 --> 01:03:18,640
Speaker 1: at this point. He is a He's really good at

1252
01:03:18,640 --> 01:03:21,000
Speaker 1: the quick game. He makes the worst offensive line in

1253
01:03:21,040 --> 01:03:23,920
Speaker 1: the league look better, which is not nothing. That's something. Uh.

1254
01:03:23,960 --> 01:03:26,000
Speaker 1: And he can't do much down the field. It's just

1255
01:03:26,080 --> 01:03:28,280
Speaker 1: like not gonna happen. But I think you could probably

1256
01:03:28,280 --> 01:03:30,920
Speaker 1: beat the Panthers that way. Thinking I would say now

1257
01:03:30,960 --> 01:03:33,400
Speaker 1: that we're starting to get a better look at to

1258
01:03:33,720 --> 01:03:36,280
Speaker 1: uh and you know, I'm keeping the door open that

1259
01:03:36,480 --> 01:03:38,840
Speaker 1: he could really play well over the last month and

1260
01:03:38,880 --> 01:03:41,680
Speaker 1: a half and and change some minds maybe in that building.

1261
01:03:41,720 --> 01:03:44,640
Speaker 1: But he doesn't necessarily strike you as a special player.

1262
01:03:45,520 --> 01:03:47,440
Speaker 1: I mean, is it too soon to make a comment

1263
01:03:47,480 --> 01:03:50,880
Speaker 1: like that. He doesn't have in the best case scenario,

1264
01:03:51,560 --> 01:03:54,400
Speaker 1: He's like a poor man's Drew Brees, which never struck

1265
01:03:54,400 --> 01:03:56,520
Speaker 1: you with physical to us, that was always his path.

1266
01:03:56,600 --> 01:03:58,160
Speaker 1: I don't know if you can get there, but that's

1267
01:03:58,200 --> 01:04:02,760
Speaker 1: his path, all right. Market was that your second? That

1268
01:04:02,880 --> 01:04:04,840
Speaker 1: was my second? That was a snake. Okay, Gregg, it

1269
01:04:04,880 --> 01:04:07,760
Speaker 1: comes back to you. I'm trying to leave a game

1270
01:04:07,800 --> 01:04:10,360
Speaker 1: open for Shook, you know, just to make it all work.

1271
01:04:10,440 --> 01:04:13,600
Speaker 1: So I'm taking Falcons Jaguars as my second game. I

1272
01:04:13,640 --> 01:04:20,200
Speaker 1: said it, Uh not because I want to. It's sad

1273
01:04:20,240 --> 01:04:23,240
Speaker 1: that when Jamal Agnew got hurt last week, he's out

1274
01:04:23,240 --> 01:04:25,520
Speaker 1: for the season for the Jaguars, it was like, Oh,

1275
01:04:25,600 --> 01:04:28,640
Speaker 1: their offense is really in trouble now. It's like this

1276
01:04:28,680 --> 01:04:31,120
Speaker 1: guy was getting cut and was a sixth receiver on

1277
01:04:31,240 --> 01:04:33,840
Speaker 1: other teams, and he's a special teamer and he was

1278
01:04:33,880 --> 01:04:36,520
Speaker 1: a really key part of their passing attack. It's been

1279
01:04:36,840 --> 01:04:38,920
Speaker 1: it's been tough to watch them. And they look at

1280
01:04:38,960 --> 01:04:41,840
Speaker 1: the Falcons this week and I'm sure they think, well,

1281
01:04:41,840 --> 01:04:43,240
Speaker 1: this is a team we can at least move the

1282
01:04:43,240 --> 01:04:46,000
Speaker 1: ball against. We should be able to protect Trevor Lawrence,

1283
01:04:46,080 --> 01:04:48,240
Speaker 1: we should have a game. We have not seen much

1284
01:04:48,240 --> 01:04:52,880
Speaker 1: progress out of this Jaguars offense, but this Falcons team,

1285
01:04:52,920 --> 01:04:57,160
Speaker 1: if they win this game, which they obviously can they

1286
01:04:57,240 --> 01:04:58,720
Speaker 1: got to be one of the worst five and six

1287
01:04:58,760 --> 01:05:01,240
Speaker 1: teams we've had in a while. They are thirty second

1288
01:05:01,280 --> 01:05:02,720
Speaker 1: in d v O A, by the way, right now

1289
01:05:02,760 --> 01:05:05,000
Speaker 1: they are They're the worst team in the NFL according

1290
01:05:05,040 --> 01:05:07,000
Speaker 1: to d v A, and yet they could be five

1291
01:05:07,000 --> 01:05:09,520
Speaker 1: and six very realistically after that. I'd ask you this

1292
01:05:09,640 --> 01:05:12,360
Speaker 1: because I've been up and down on the Falcons and

1293
01:05:12,440 --> 01:05:15,919
Speaker 1: I was proven decisively well, but my battle is over

1294
01:05:16,000 --> 01:05:17,840
Speaker 1: on the ups for the Pros to this point. Let's

1295
01:05:17,880 --> 01:05:21,720
Speaker 1: put that way, But which program under first year head

1296
01:05:21,760 --> 01:05:25,040
Speaker 1: coaches do you have more faith in going forward? The

1297
01:05:25,080 --> 01:05:29,280
Speaker 1: Falcons just because they're not the Jaguars. I mean, if

1298
01:05:31,600 --> 01:05:34,919
Speaker 1: if Ridley Hurst and Patterson were out there, I think

1299
01:05:34,960 --> 01:05:37,240
Speaker 1: you had and then you you pick some holes on

1300
01:05:37,280 --> 01:05:39,280
Speaker 1: the offensive line, you've got an offense at least you

1301
01:05:39,280 --> 01:05:41,960
Speaker 1: can cook with a little bit. But they're not out there.

1302
01:05:42,000 --> 01:05:45,000
Speaker 1: They're not Trevor Lawrence versus probably having to replaced Matt

1303
01:05:45,080 --> 01:05:50,080
Speaker 1: Ryan down right with program, And to me, I'm already

1304
01:05:50,080 --> 01:05:55,600
Speaker 1: looking forward to the next Trevor Lawrence program. This is

1305
01:05:55,640 --> 01:05:57,520
Speaker 1: it's a tough year for him. This has not been

1306
01:05:57,640 --> 01:06:00,760
Speaker 1: what he expected his rookie seat him to look like.

1307
01:06:01,160 --> 01:06:04,800
Speaker 1: I think he has eight touchdowns and three attempts uh

1308
01:06:04,800 --> 01:06:07,040
Speaker 1: this season, but he needs help and he needs things

1309
01:06:07,040 --> 01:06:08,680
Speaker 1: to get calmed down there. And there was too much

1310
01:06:08,680 --> 01:06:11,200
Speaker 1: of a circus this season as a rookie. Um. And

1311
01:06:11,240 --> 01:06:14,160
Speaker 1: we're not even to Thanksgiving yet. But he was for

1312
01:06:14,240 --> 01:06:16,640
Speaker 1: three for thirteen yards last week and the score was

1313
01:06:16,760 --> 01:06:19,680
Speaker 1: seventeen nothing. He had literally done nothing wrong. It's like

1314
01:06:19,880 --> 01:06:22,479
Speaker 1: it's it's tough to watch him because you know there's

1315
01:06:22,880 --> 01:06:26,960
Speaker 1: really promising, potential superstar there and he's just trapped in

1316
01:06:27,000 --> 01:06:29,680
Speaker 1: a bad situation. I think the Falcons and Arthur Smith

1317
01:06:30,320 --> 01:06:32,480
Speaker 1: are in a very tough spot here because Matt Ryan

1318
01:06:32,520 --> 01:06:34,520
Speaker 1: looks shot to me. I know he can do it

1319
01:06:34,800 --> 01:06:37,160
Speaker 1: when you protect him, but he is right, he's in

1320
01:06:37,200 --> 01:06:39,880
Speaker 1: that big Ben mold now as well. He's just too

1321
01:06:39,920 --> 01:06:43,080
Speaker 1: old and he's aging like the quarterbacks used to age,

1322
01:06:43,280 --> 01:06:45,200
Speaker 1: where he's in his mid thirties now, and he's just

1323
01:06:45,880 --> 01:06:47,480
Speaker 1: if you get to him with a pass rush, he

1324
01:06:47,520 --> 01:06:49,960
Speaker 1: will just get absolutely she lacked and the team will

1325
01:06:50,000 --> 01:06:52,960
Speaker 1: get blown out of the building. Um. I know he

1326
01:06:53,000 --> 01:06:56,000
Speaker 1: can put together stretches and he still has the accuracy

1327
01:06:56,040 --> 01:06:59,280
Speaker 1: and enough arm, but they own so much money still,

1328
01:07:00,120 --> 01:07:02,440
Speaker 1: but they also need to move on and get younger

1329
01:07:02,480 --> 01:07:04,800
Speaker 1: and more dynamic and get with the times that I

1330
01:07:04,840 --> 01:07:06,920
Speaker 1: think being the head coach of the Falcons at the

1331
01:07:07,000 --> 01:07:09,480
Speaker 1: end of Matt Ryan's career is not a great safe

1332
01:07:09,520 --> 01:07:13,480
Speaker 1: place to be because it's if he's the quarterback next year. Um,

1333
01:07:13,520 --> 01:07:15,400
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Like, I don't care what you build up

1334
01:07:15,400 --> 01:07:17,160
Speaker 1: around him. I think the season is gonna have a

1335
01:07:17,200 --> 01:07:19,760
Speaker 1: similar look because he's just the player and decline. It

1336
01:07:19,800 --> 01:07:22,560
Speaker 1: reminds me a little bit. The situations are not exact,

1337
01:07:22,720 --> 01:07:25,680
Speaker 1: but the tough nature of it. When Jimmy Johnson took

1338
01:07:25,680 --> 01:07:28,960
Speaker 1: over the Dolphins, like Jimmy Johnson and Dan Marino are

1339
01:07:28,960 --> 01:07:31,480
Speaker 1: gonna take over the NFC, and like Dan Marino, you know,

1340
01:07:31,760 --> 01:07:35,000
Speaker 1: like two years later lost his final game, like but

1341
01:07:35,080 --> 01:07:38,240
Speaker 1: here's the difference. This is why this is a different situation.

1342
01:07:38,320 --> 01:07:41,480
Speaker 1: Jimmy Johnson was one of the most heralded gets for

1343
01:07:41,560 --> 01:07:43,720
Speaker 1: any owner as a head coach in the last thirty

1344
01:07:43,800 --> 01:07:46,520
Speaker 1: years when he left the Cowboys and then ended up

1345
01:07:46,520 --> 01:07:49,640
Speaker 1: with the Dolphins. So he had that that that job

1346
01:07:49,680 --> 01:07:52,320
Speaker 1: security to be able to withstand the end of that

1347
01:07:52,360 --> 01:07:53,840
Speaker 1: era and then try to start a new one. It

1348
01:07:53,840 --> 01:07:57,120
Speaker 1: didn't work out, obviously, Jimmy Johnson in Miami, but Arthur

1349
01:07:57,160 --> 01:07:59,520
Speaker 1: Smith does not have the pelts on the wall. So

1350
01:07:59,560 --> 01:08:01,920
Speaker 1: I just wonder if if this season goes the way

1351
01:08:01,960 --> 01:08:04,920
Speaker 1: it's going and then he has another season where it

1352
01:08:04,920 --> 01:08:06,880
Speaker 1: doesn't go well because you have an old quarterback you

1353
01:08:06,920 --> 01:08:09,080
Speaker 1: can't move. Now, he's gonna be two years in. That's

1354
01:08:09,080 --> 01:08:10,880
Speaker 1: what I mean by I think Arthur Smith's in a

1355
01:08:10,920 --> 01:08:13,880
Speaker 1: little bit of danger based on the timing of Ryan's career.

1356
01:08:14,280 --> 01:08:16,400
Speaker 1: They have a big They're gonna have a big offseason.

1357
01:08:16,479 --> 01:08:18,559
Speaker 1: They're they're one team we could fork, even though I

1358
01:08:18,600 --> 01:08:21,760
Speaker 1: know they're right in this all that said about Matt Ryan,

1359
01:08:21,760 --> 01:08:24,360
Speaker 1: and I don't totally just I don't disagree with what

1360
01:08:24,400 --> 01:08:27,759
Speaker 1: you said, Dan, Like you put him on the Saints

1361
01:08:27,800 --> 01:08:29,840
Speaker 1: and they actually have their tackles in and stuff. It's

1362
01:08:29,840 --> 01:08:31,519
Speaker 1: like that team might go to the super Bowl. So

1363
01:08:31,560 --> 01:08:33,559
Speaker 1: it's like, I think Matt Ryan still something to give.

1364
01:08:33,760 --> 01:08:37,120
Speaker 1: I really do. Now. I think he's better now than

1365
01:08:37,200 --> 01:08:40,080
Speaker 1: Big Bend, for instance, So he's not at that level,

1366
01:08:40,360 --> 01:08:42,200
Speaker 1: but he's also it's a problem and you saw it

1367
01:08:42,200 --> 01:08:45,240
Speaker 1: against against New England for sure. All right, let's take

1368
01:08:45,240 --> 01:08:47,960
Speaker 1: a time bomb sitting on deep deep down the train

1369
01:08:48,000 --> 01:08:50,320
Speaker 1: tracks and the trains not they can't go left to right.

1370
01:08:50,360 --> 01:08:55,000
Speaker 1: It just has to go over the bomb and he s, yeah, exactly.

1371
01:08:55,040 --> 01:08:57,200
Speaker 1: He just stresses me out when he's rips off that

1372
01:08:57,280 --> 01:09:01,559
Speaker 1: helmet and he's got that red face made. It's just like, God,

1373
01:09:01,640 --> 01:09:05,200
Speaker 1: this is not gonna get better. Um, let's close it out.

1374
01:09:05,880 --> 01:09:08,639
Speaker 1: You guys left me with the two New York teams.

1375
01:09:08,640 --> 01:09:12,400
Speaker 1: Who are they post fifteen straight prime time games? Uh?

1376
01:09:12,560 --> 01:09:15,679
Speaker 1: New York Sports is in a really bad place, big

1377
01:09:15,720 --> 01:09:18,720
Speaker 1: picture wise, but specifically in the NFL. Of course, I'll

1378
01:09:18,720 --> 01:09:20,519
Speaker 1: grab the Jets at Houston. I'll be quick on this

1379
01:09:20,560 --> 01:09:22,559
Speaker 1: because we don't need to dwell on the game because

1380
01:09:22,680 --> 01:09:25,599
Speaker 1: who cares about the Texans. Good job getting that win

1381
01:09:25,760 --> 01:09:28,040
Speaker 1: last week, but you also potentially cost yourself the number

1382
01:09:28,040 --> 01:09:31,759
Speaker 1: one overall pick. So bad job the Jets. It only

1383
01:09:31,960 --> 01:09:34,360
Speaker 1: the only thing that matters is Zach Wilson's playing again.

1384
01:09:34,800 --> 01:09:39,880
Speaker 1: And it is notable that since Michael Lefloor the Brother

1385
01:09:40,040 --> 01:09:44,400
Speaker 1: the Bearded Boy um had other quarterbacks with more experience

1386
01:09:44,439 --> 01:09:48,440
Speaker 1: and had their heads on their shoulders more. Uh. Excluding

1387
01:09:48,479 --> 01:09:51,559
Speaker 1: the Buffalo game when Mike White completely bombed out, the

1388
01:09:51,640 --> 01:09:54,640
Speaker 1: offense has been better since Zack Wilson left and There

1389
01:09:54,640 --> 01:09:57,760
Speaker 1: are a lot of different factors in there that led

1390
01:09:57,800 --> 01:10:00,960
Speaker 1: to it, but the play of Zack Wilson, obviously and

1391
01:10:01,000 --> 01:10:02,760
Speaker 1: how poor it was was at the top of the list.

1392
01:10:02,800 --> 01:10:06,320
Speaker 1: Does he come back, is he a better quarterback upon

1393
01:10:06,439 --> 01:10:10,160
Speaker 1: his return? Does he grow and build uh down the

1394
01:10:10,200 --> 01:10:13,080
Speaker 1: stretch here, or does he have a really bad season

1395
01:10:13,120 --> 01:10:15,120
Speaker 1: all the way through? And then if you're a Jets fan,

1396
01:10:15,200 --> 01:10:18,960
Speaker 1: you're asking questions about, oh God, is it happening again

1397
01:10:19,240 --> 01:10:21,920
Speaker 1: at quarterback? It's too early to make any decisions, But

1398
01:10:21,960 --> 01:10:24,200
Speaker 1: I will throw one thing out there, hypothetical. Me and

1399
01:10:24,240 --> 01:10:28,160
Speaker 1: Claybourne were talking in the news room yesterday. Would you

1400
01:10:29,400 --> 01:10:31,760
Speaker 1: we see what's happening in Seattle this day? You know

1401
01:10:31,840 --> 01:10:36,479
Speaker 1: this is all nonsense, but fun Russell Wilson to the

1402
01:10:36,600 --> 01:10:41,519
Speaker 1: Jets for Zack Wilson, and they also send back that

1403
01:10:41,640 --> 01:10:44,439
Speaker 1: Seattle number one pick that they lost to Jamal Adams.

1404
01:10:44,439 --> 01:10:48,080
Speaker 1: So Zach Wilson in a one to Seattle for Russell Wilson,

1405
01:10:48,960 --> 01:10:53,080
Speaker 1: Who says yes? Who says no? I'm saying yes if

1406
01:10:53,560 --> 01:10:55,839
Speaker 1: if I'm the Jets, say no. If I was Seattle,

1407
01:10:55,880 --> 01:10:58,120
Speaker 1: I think but um, because we have to see what

1408
01:10:58,160 --> 01:11:00,599
Speaker 1: happens there. If I was the Jets I would say

1409
01:11:00,680 --> 01:11:02,599
Speaker 1: yes to the second because I think there's no more

1410
01:11:02,600 --> 01:11:08,040
Speaker 1: precious commodity in the league than a functional franchise also

1411
01:11:08,080 --> 01:11:10,680
Speaker 1: all pro type quarterback that you can build around immediately.

1412
01:11:10,720 --> 01:11:14,639
Speaker 1: I mean, Zack Wilson remains an unknown project at this point,

1413
01:11:14,720 --> 01:11:17,160
Speaker 1: like the idea of them. But but that's that's that

1414
01:11:17,200 --> 01:11:19,040
Speaker 1: gets people fired if it goes south, a little bit,

1415
01:11:19,080 --> 01:11:22,000
Speaker 1: a little bit of feisty that trade, right, I like

1416
01:11:22,120 --> 01:11:24,760
Speaker 1: it also like a lot of how what he has

1417
01:11:24,800 --> 01:11:26,680
Speaker 1: seven starts to go, so that's just as many as

1418
01:11:26,720 --> 01:11:28,880
Speaker 1: we've seen. There's a lot of runway to evaluate him.

1419
01:11:29,120 --> 01:11:31,400
Speaker 1: They were dead last in e p A when he

1420
01:11:31,479 --> 01:11:34,840
Speaker 1: was the starter. They were ninth in offensive e p

1421
01:11:35,000 --> 01:11:37,439
Speaker 1: A in the starts that he missed missed overall. So

1422
01:11:39,280 --> 01:11:41,040
Speaker 1: but there was a lot of other factors. I don't

1423
01:11:41,080 --> 01:11:43,800
Speaker 1: think that's all on him, but you you do want

1424
01:11:43,800 --> 01:11:46,720
Speaker 1: to see him keep keep it rolling that they're at

1425
01:11:46,760 --> 01:11:49,800
Speaker 1: least competent, and it's good, good start for him to

1426
01:11:50,120 --> 01:11:52,800
Speaker 1: start off with Houston. YEP. I agree, all right, we

1427
01:11:52,880 --> 01:11:55,320
Speaker 1: have to u let's we got one more game and

1428
01:11:55,360 --> 01:11:58,280
Speaker 1: then the primetime games. All right, the other Giants, the

1429
01:11:58,280 --> 01:12:01,160
Speaker 1: other New York team, the Eagles at the meadow ends

1430
01:12:01,240 --> 01:12:05,000
Speaker 1: against the Giants. Uh quick post mortem for the Giants

1431
01:12:05,479 --> 01:12:12,080
Speaker 1: after Monday night. The offense a total mess against the Bucks.

1432
01:12:12,120 --> 01:12:15,000
Speaker 1: They have multiple opportunities to make that a game, to

1433
01:12:15,080 --> 01:12:17,880
Speaker 1: maybe even steal that game, and they kept on getting

1434
01:12:17,920 --> 01:12:22,519
Speaker 1: bogged down. And people like Brian Baldinger. Baldy called out

1435
01:12:22,520 --> 01:12:25,280
Speaker 1: a specific play And I'm not saying this is what

1436
01:12:25,439 --> 01:12:28,240
Speaker 1: got Jason Garrett fired, but I thought it was interesting

1437
01:12:28,320 --> 01:12:32,080
Speaker 1: that the internet seized on that one particular play when

1438
01:12:32,080 --> 01:12:36,439
Speaker 1: the Giants against a three man rush um had three

1439
01:12:36,479 --> 01:12:40,639
Speaker 1: players all converging in the same spot eight yards down field.

1440
01:12:41,200 --> 01:12:44,200
Speaker 1: Uh and they're basically ping ponging off each other and

1441
01:12:44,280 --> 01:12:46,840
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones has nowhere to go with the ball. And

1442
01:12:47,080 --> 01:12:51,519
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett gets fired twenty four hours later. Uh so

1443
01:12:51,600 --> 01:12:55,439
Speaker 1: the Giants they're starting over on offense. And I wonder, Mark,

1444
01:12:55,479 --> 01:12:58,960
Speaker 1: if do you think that is gonna help Joe Judge

1445
01:12:59,160 --> 01:13:03,000
Speaker 1: now that Jason Garrett has been sacrificed to the fans.

1446
01:13:04,120 --> 01:13:07,360
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a terrible spot for a coach when

1447
01:13:07,920 --> 01:13:10,040
Speaker 1: you're in no, it's November and you have to start

1448
01:13:10,080 --> 01:13:14,000
Speaker 1: producing scapegoats. Not that Jason Garrett, uh, you know, didn't

1449
01:13:14,000 --> 01:13:17,040
Speaker 1: deserve to be demoted slash let go. I think that's

1450
01:13:17,040 --> 01:13:19,400
Speaker 1: been you know, in the in the soup for a

1451
01:13:19,439 --> 01:13:21,920
Speaker 1: long time. They've been talking about that happening. But I

1452
01:13:21,960 --> 01:13:24,000
Speaker 1: don't think it saves Joe Judge or is a good

1453
01:13:24,000 --> 01:13:27,759
Speaker 1: thing for Joe Judge, because the overall makeup of this offense,

1454
01:13:28,080 --> 01:13:30,960
Speaker 1: looking at who they have personnel wise, it's inexcusable what

1455
01:13:31,000 --> 01:13:33,040
Speaker 1: they produced. Um A lot of them have been injured

1456
01:13:33,040 --> 01:13:34,800
Speaker 1: though too. I think a week ago we're saying we

1457
01:13:34,840 --> 01:13:37,640
Speaker 1: can't judge Jason Garrett, we can't judge Joe Judge, we

1458
01:13:37,680 --> 01:13:40,200
Speaker 1: can't judge Daniel Jones because who's not on the field.

1459
01:13:40,200 --> 01:13:42,760
Speaker 1: And it's just like, look at at this point, like

1460
01:13:43,000 --> 01:13:45,160
Speaker 1: Joe Judge is saving his own job by getting rid

1461
01:13:45,160 --> 01:13:47,559
Speaker 1: of other people that usually now maybe not in the

1462
01:13:47,560 --> 01:13:51,160
Speaker 1: Giants organization, that usually is a stepping stone. Did weaving

1463
01:13:51,200 --> 01:13:53,800
Speaker 1: goodbye to him come January? Right? I think you know

1464
01:13:53,920 --> 01:13:57,200
Speaker 1: it only helps him if the offense improves under Freddie Kitchens.

1465
01:13:57,240 --> 01:13:59,400
Speaker 1: I mean, is that's the real big story here. It's

1466
01:13:59,439 --> 01:14:03,120
Speaker 1: the return of Freddie Kitchens to our life. Um. I

1467
01:14:03,120 --> 01:14:05,879
Speaker 1: I think you could look at Calarious Tony's usage alone

1468
01:14:06,080 --> 01:14:09,240
Speaker 1: and be like that's a fire able offense just because

1469
01:14:09,360 --> 01:14:13,200
Speaker 1: you see him and I just see a super duperstar.

1470
01:14:13,320 --> 01:14:16,320
Speaker 1: It was just his movement is exactly what every team

1471
01:14:16,320 --> 01:14:19,760
Speaker 1: in this sort of open nfls and they just haven't

1472
01:14:19,800 --> 01:14:21,599
Speaker 1: figured out how to use it. There was another play

1473
01:14:23,040 --> 01:14:27,280
Speaker 1: fourth and one where Tony Slayton and Gola Day weren't

1474
01:14:27,479 --> 01:14:29,559
Speaker 1: even on the field and they just throw the most

1475
01:14:29,560 --> 01:14:33,320
Speaker 1: predictable like passed to their backup tight end and everyone

1476
01:14:33,439 --> 01:14:35,559
Speaker 1: was covered and Jones had no chance at that place.

1477
01:14:35,600 --> 01:14:38,920
Speaker 1: So I think it made sense absolutely to change offenses

1478
01:14:38,920 --> 01:14:42,719
Speaker 1: because it wasn't working and just try something different, because

1479
01:14:42,720 --> 01:14:46,639
Speaker 1: I think everyone's getting swept out, including Judge if this continues.

1480
01:14:46,680 --> 01:14:50,400
Speaker 1: They are eighteen and forty under Gettleman and Ali talked

1481
01:14:50,400 --> 01:14:52,760
Speaker 1: about which made everyone mad, was we want to run

1482
01:14:52,800 --> 01:14:54,840
Speaker 1: the ball and we want to stop the run. They

1483
01:14:54,840 --> 01:14:57,920
Speaker 1: are thirtieth in stopping the run this year. They're terrible

1484
01:14:57,960 --> 01:15:00,519
Speaker 1: at running the ball. So even that idea, which didn't

1485
01:15:00,520 --> 01:15:03,680
Speaker 1: seem like a great idea, has not played out at all,

1486
01:15:03,760 --> 01:15:05,720
Speaker 1: and I think they're all gone if if they don't

1487
01:15:05,720 --> 01:15:08,000
Speaker 1: turn it around in some fashion. I think you're right,

1488
01:15:08,040 --> 01:15:10,720
Speaker 1: and I think they've made se Kwan Barkley boring, and

1489
01:15:10,800 --> 01:15:12,439
Speaker 1: you know he's struggled to stay on the field, but

1490
01:15:12,439 --> 01:15:14,679
Speaker 1: even when he plays, he just he doesn't pop anymore

1491
01:15:15,000 --> 01:15:17,800
Speaker 1: like he did initially. And Candarius Tony, we all see

1492
01:15:17,800 --> 01:15:19,360
Speaker 1: the same thing. When the balls in his hands, he's

1493
01:15:19,360 --> 01:15:23,480
Speaker 1: so much fun. And Kenny Golladay has been, uh previously

1494
01:15:23,479 --> 01:15:27,040
Speaker 1: in recent seasons one of the best downfield playmakers in

1495
01:15:27,080 --> 01:15:29,960
Speaker 1: the NFL when healthy, and neither of those guys have

1496
01:15:30,120 --> 01:15:33,800
Speaker 1: a single touchdown this year. So the Giants obviously, uh,

1497
01:15:33,840 --> 01:15:35,680
Speaker 1: this was in a lot of ways overdue, even though

1498
01:15:35,680 --> 01:15:38,559
Speaker 1: it happened in the middle of November. Right compared the

1499
01:15:38,640 --> 01:15:41,880
Speaker 1: development of Candarius Tony to to Vonta Smith and Philly

1500
01:15:42,240 --> 01:15:43,960
Speaker 1: who who they will see this week. I mean, it's

1501
01:15:44,000 --> 01:15:46,680
Speaker 1: just like you've got a general manager in New York

1502
01:15:46,720 --> 01:15:49,040
Speaker 1: who feels full of old ideas. They had a no

1503
01:15:49,160 --> 01:15:51,280
Speaker 1: ce who was full of old ideas, and we're not

1504
01:15:51,320 --> 01:15:53,800
Speaker 1: sure what Joe Judges ideas are. That's not a good mix.

1505
01:15:54,240 --> 01:15:57,320
Speaker 1: On the Philadelphia I don't trust any defense stopping this

1506
01:15:57,439 --> 01:16:00,559
Speaker 1: Eagles rushing attack right now unless they got something specially

1507
01:16:00,600 --> 01:16:03,000
Speaker 1: going on, and the Giants do not. It does feel

1508
01:16:03,040 --> 01:16:04,920
Speaker 1: like the Eagles, who are playing with a lot of

1509
01:16:04,920 --> 01:16:09,320
Speaker 1: confidence right now, and they have they have a personality,

1510
01:16:09,439 --> 01:16:12,400
Speaker 1: they have a mindset that they're gonna run run you over.

1511
01:16:13,200 --> 01:16:16,160
Speaker 1: I like their chances here. All right, let's say pause here,

1512
01:16:16,200 --> 01:16:19,679
Speaker 1: we'll be right back prime Time. Start with Sunday Night football.

1513
01:16:19,720 --> 01:16:23,800
Speaker 1: The Cleveland Browns head to Baltimore against the Ravens. All right, Mark,

1514
01:16:24,040 --> 01:16:25,960
Speaker 1: Well just tee it up for you, buddy. How you

1515
01:16:26,000 --> 01:16:29,240
Speaker 1: feeling on this one. I like the idea that they

1516
01:16:29,720 --> 01:16:32,800
Speaker 1: will have Kareem Hunt back, likely Jack Conklin back. I mean,

1517
01:16:33,000 --> 01:16:35,360
Speaker 1: you get back to being who they were. Maybe that

1518
01:16:35,360 --> 01:16:38,160
Speaker 1: can help Baker Mayfield coming off the worst game of

1519
01:16:38,160 --> 01:16:40,679
Speaker 1: his career. But I put a lot of what's happened

1520
01:16:40,720 --> 01:16:43,840
Speaker 1: on Baker Mayfield on Baker Mayfield, and this team is

1521
01:16:43,840 --> 01:16:46,800
Speaker 1: in chaos. To me, I don't trust them right now. Um,

1522
01:16:46,880 --> 01:16:49,200
Speaker 1: you asked who they were on our network show with

1523
01:16:49,240 --> 01:16:52,439
Speaker 1: the real Cleveland Browns. Please stand up. Uh. I think

1524
01:16:52,439 --> 01:16:55,080
Speaker 1: they are who they are. They're just a middling team

1525
01:16:55,160 --> 01:16:59,720
Speaker 1: right now that feels compared to a year ago. UM, discombobulated, disorganized.

1526
01:16:59,760 --> 01:17:02,200
Speaker 1: I don't like watching them. They make me nervous, they

1527
01:17:02,240 --> 01:17:05,479
Speaker 1: make me agitated. UM, I don't like the idea of

1528
01:17:05,560 --> 01:17:08,160
Speaker 1: them going up against the Ravens team that you know,

1529
01:17:08,240 --> 01:17:11,879
Speaker 1: when put with their backs up against the wall, losing

1530
01:17:11,920 --> 01:17:15,760
Speaker 1: the game, Tyler Huntley leads them to victory. That's who

1531
01:17:15,760 --> 01:17:19,040
Speaker 1: the Ravens are and the Browns right now. I mean that, Yes,

1532
01:17:19,040 --> 01:17:22,280
Speaker 1: they've been extremely banged up. They produced six pressures last

1533
01:17:22,280 --> 01:17:25,800
Speaker 1: week against the Detroit Lions. On defense, you just even

1534
01:17:26,000 --> 01:17:29,120
Speaker 1: even the defense it feels like is so hot and cold.

1535
01:17:29,120 --> 01:17:31,160
Speaker 1: There were a couple of weeks We're thinking this could

1536
01:17:31,200 --> 01:17:33,200
Speaker 1: be one of the best defenses in the league. Then

1537
01:17:33,200 --> 01:17:35,960
Speaker 1: they get utterly torched the next week. So I don't

1538
01:17:36,000 --> 01:17:38,800
Speaker 1: see anything consistent from week to week. Their unpredictable. I

1539
01:17:38,840 --> 01:17:40,479
Speaker 1: don't like them in this game. I don't like that

1540
01:17:40,520 --> 01:17:43,240
Speaker 1: they have this that a bye week than another Ravens game.

1541
01:17:43,680 --> 01:17:46,240
Speaker 1: I see. It's very possible they lose both and their

1542
01:17:46,280 --> 01:17:49,960
Speaker 1: season I don't care about mathematically, their seasons spiritually and

1543
01:17:50,000 --> 01:17:53,320
Speaker 1: emotionally would be over at that point. Can they surprise us?

1544
01:17:53,479 --> 01:17:55,519
Speaker 1: Can they pull it out? I'm very close to switching

1545
01:17:55,560 --> 01:17:58,080
Speaker 1: my lock to the Ravens because I'm very annoyed with

1546
01:17:58,080 --> 01:18:00,519
Speaker 1: what's happen. Really, because I was gonna locked the Ravens

1547
01:18:00,560 --> 01:18:02,880
Speaker 1: the only reason I didn't was just out of like,

1548
01:18:03,280 --> 01:18:05,920
Speaker 1: that's mean to Mark. I am locking him up forget

1549
01:18:05,920 --> 01:18:08,120
Speaker 1: to steal, un locking up the Ravens because you know

1550
01:18:08,160 --> 01:18:11,599
Speaker 1: what they put They have put me in the They've

1551
01:18:11,600 --> 01:18:13,439
Speaker 1: put me in this position at this point. Are you

1552
01:18:13,479 --> 01:18:16,240
Speaker 1: punishing the Browns right now? Well, remember what I said

1553
01:18:16,360 --> 01:18:19,599
Speaker 1: to them on our show, obey me, do not get

1554
01:18:19,600 --> 01:18:22,200
Speaker 1: whacked a couple of weeks ago against that opponent. They

1555
01:18:22,200 --> 01:18:25,040
Speaker 1: got destroyed. And it's like they don't answer the call

1556
01:18:25,120 --> 01:18:28,040
Speaker 1: of the fans. Um. I look at I love Kevin Stefancy,

1557
01:18:28,080 --> 01:18:29,880
Speaker 1: and I like the I don't answer the call of

1558
01:18:29,880 --> 01:18:31,920
Speaker 1: the fans. I mean, what do you want him to do?

1559
01:18:32,080 --> 01:18:34,360
Speaker 1: And I were just an interviewer. He said, I don't

1560
01:18:34,360 --> 01:18:36,760
Speaker 1: care about what the fans say. So I guess that checks. Well,

1561
01:18:36,760 --> 01:18:38,479
Speaker 1: that's the other thing I hear. Now, it's where at

1562
01:18:38,479 --> 01:18:41,120
Speaker 1: the point where everyone is suggesting, and I'm not saying

1563
01:18:41,120 --> 01:18:44,120
Speaker 1: it's a looney suggestion that you ride case Keenum. Now,

1564
01:18:44,400 --> 01:18:45,920
Speaker 1: the question I'd have is that is because you want

1565
01:18:45,920 --> 01:18:48,280
Speaker 1: to get Baker Mayfield healthy. If you want to try

1566
01:18:48,280 --> 01:18:50,040
Speaker 1: to get him healthy, he's got one injury that's not

1567
01:18:50,120 --> 01:18:52,400
Speaker 1: going away the season no matter what I think the

1568
01:18:52,400 --> 01:18:56,120
Speaker 1: case Keenum fetish would would quell once you get a

1569
01:18:56,120 --> 01:19:00,960
Speaker 1: couple of games of case Keenum. That I have a

1570
01:19:01,080 --> 01:19:05,040
Speaker 1: not an especially healthy comp here um in terms of

1571
01:19:05,080 --> 01:19:07,600
Speaker 1: mental health. But when I was watching Baker play this

1572
01:19:07,640 --> 01:19:11,360
Speaker 1: past Sunday, he reminded me of like Mark Sanchez when

1573
01:19:11,400 --> 01:19:15,480
Speaker 1: things really turned sour for the Jets. I mean, missing throws,

1574
01:19:15,520 --> 01:19:19,120
Speaker 1: just the offense being stuck in mud, no energy to

1575
01:19:19,200 --> 01:19:22,600
Speaker 1: the drives, no rhythm. I don't think it's crazy. I

1576
01:19:22,600 --> 01:19:25,400
Speaker 1: don't know what do we really think that Baker if

1577
01:19:25,439 --> 01:19:28,120
Speaker 1: he really is as bad as he's been. Uh, and

1578
01:19:28,160 --> 01:19:30,920
Speaker 1: a lot of it comes back to injuries. Case Keendom

1579
01:19:30,960 --> 01:19:32,599
Speaker 1: is one of the highest paid backups in the league.

1580
01:19:32,640 --> 01:19:35,320
Speaker 1: We we really don't think case Keendom can run this

1581
01:19:35,400 --> 01:19:39,960
Speaker 1: offense better than Baker in this current state. I mean,

1582
01:19:40,240 --> 01:19:44,559
Speaker 1: it's it's crazy to bench Baker because I know he's hurt.

1583
01:19:45,520 --> 01:19:48,120
Speaker 1: He moved pretty well last week at points. He had

1584
01:19:48,160 --> 01:19:50,680
Speaker 1: some dimes in that game. And so that's where I

1585
01:19:50,760 --> 01:19:55,240
Speaker 1: have at struggle with, like, well, he's hurt, so he's

1586
01:19:55,280 --> 01:19:59,680
Speaker 1: missing throws, or like the that's not why he's necessarily

1587
01:19:59,720 --> 01:20:02,000
Speaker 1: making bad decisions. Maybe it is. I don't know. Maybe

1588
01:20:02,040 --> 01:20:03,679
Speaker 1: he is to her and that's the reason to bench,

1589
01:20:03,800 --> 01:20:05,880
Speaker 1: but that that would be it. Like he had a

1590
01:20:05,880 --> 01:20:07,680
Speaker 1: couple of throws in that game that were awesome, he

1591
01:20:07,800 --> 01:20:10,200
Speaker 1: just had about fifteen more that were head scratchers. Like

1592
01:20:10,200 --> 01:20:12,280
Speaker 1: he's leaving the pocket at the first sign of trouble.

1593
01:20:12,560 --> 01:20:15,240
Speaker 1: That goes back to his his rookie year. That's not

1594
01:20:15,840 --> 01:20:19,000
Speaker 1: an injury thing. I I do think that the Patriots

1595
01:20:19,400 --> 01:20:21,680
Speaker 1: game might have exposed a couple of things too, and

1596
01:20:21,720 --> 01:20:23,960
Speaker 1: how to attack this defense up the middle. In terms

1597
01:20:23,960 --> 01:20:26,040
Speaker 1: of the running game that the Lions had some success,

1598
01:20:26,080 --> 01:20:30,800
Speaker 1: They're they're letting clown like um Garrett fly by. Clowney's

1599
01:20:31,120 --> 01:20:34,120
Speaker 1: turned totally silent. He had six games in a row

1600
01:20:34,160 --> 01:20:37,320
Speaker 1: with at least four pressures. He has three total in

1601
01:20:37,360 --> 01:20:40,000
Speaker 1: the last four, so that's been a big decline. The

1602
01:20:40,479 --> 01:20:43,679
Speaker 1: Malik's up front, Mcdoalen Jackson are kind of getting pushed around.

1603
01:20:43,680 --> 01:20:47,240
Speaker 1: I I hate this game for the Browns. I was like,

1604
01:20:47,280 --> 01:20:48,920
Speaker 1: I said, I was gonna lock it up Mark, but

1605
01:20:48,960 --> 01:20:50,640
Speaker 1: I just thought that'd be mean spirited. But now you

1606
01:20:50,720 --> 01:20:52,479
Speaker 1: just locked it upside. I was just like, well, I'm

1607
01:20:52,479 --> 01:20:54,240
Speaker 1: not like I'm not at the point where if you

1608
01:20:54,680 --> 01:20:57,240
Speaker 1: go anti Browns with a take or something else that

1609
01:20:57,360 --> 01:20:59,639
Speaker 1: I can't have disorbit, I get it, but I see

1610
01:20:59,720 --> 01:21:03,439
Speaker 1: I'm done this, you know, I'm I'm I'm so buried

1611
01:21:03,479 --> 01:21:06,080
Speaker 1: in last place that at this point I just wanted

1612
01:21:06,120 --> 01:21:08,160
Speaker 1: to like keep you, you know, stay on your good

1613
01:21:08,200 --> 01:21:13,200
Speaker 1: side seems more important Lions express if you'd like him

1614
01:21:13,280 --> 01:21:16,080
Speaker 1: right well, plus me locking is putting the stink on them,

1615
01:21:16,160 --> 01:21:18,559
Speaker 1: so maybe that's good. I don't even know the final

1616
01:21:18,600 --> 01:21:25,559
Speaker 1: games Monday Night football the Seattle Seahawks at Washington Football Team.

1617
01:21:25,800 --> 01:21:29,240
Speaker 1: All right, I mean the Seahawks basically need to We're

1618
01:21:29,240 --> 01:21:31,920
Speaker 1: getting into win out territory if they flex this. They

1619
01:21:31,920 --> 01:21:35,160
Speaker 1: did flex the Seahawks out of next week next Sunday

1620
01:21:35,240 --> 01:21:37,599
Speaker 1: Nights game. First flex of the year. But yes, that's good.

1621
01:21:37,600 --> 01:21:40,679
Speaker 1: What what got flex then? Not even a particularly great game,

1622
01:21:40,760 --> 01:21:45,200
Speaker 1: just not the Seahawks Chiefs. Not a great game, but

1623
01:21:45,280 --> 01:21:48,559
Speaker 1: it involves the Chiefs that the Seattle Seahawks travel to

1624
01:21:49,360 --> 01:21:53,960
Speaker 1: FedEx Field. Taylor Heineke coming off a excellent performance in

1625
01:21:54,000 --> 01:21:58,679
Speaker 1: that win over the Panthers, and uh, he's fun to watch.

1626
01:21:58,720 --> 01:22:02,400
Speaker 1: I that might take away watching that game was Heineke

1627
01:22:02,640 --> 01:22:06,479
Speaker 1: is just like you know, he knows his whole career

1628
01:22:06,720 --> 01:22:10,120
Speaker 1: he's been you know, look down upon and seeing as

1629
01:22:10,240 --> 01:22:13,160
Speaker 1: somebody that is not to be taken seriously, and you

1630
01:22:13,280 --> 01:22:15,240
Speaker 1: see it, and just the way he carries himself, the

1631
01:22:15,800 --> 01:22:17,639
Speaker 1: way he bounces up when he gets hit, the way

1632
01:22:17,680 --> 01:22:21,280
Speaker 1: he celebrates a big play. The guy plays as cliche

1633
01:22:21,320 --> 01:22:23,920
Speaker 1: as it sounds, with a chip on his shoulder, and uh,

1634
01:22:23,960 --> 01:22:26,360
Speaker 1: I think the team thrives off that. I think he's

1635
01:22:26,360 --> 01:22:28,840
Speaker 1: a really passionate player. I like those type of guys.

1636
01:22:29,439 --> 01:22:32,400
Speaker 1: Uh so Team Heinek, even if he is ultimately limited

1637
01:22:32,400 --> 01:22:35,200
Speaker 1: in that Ryan Fitzpatrick mold it's not all there physically,

1638
01:22:35,280 --> 01:22:37,240
Speaker 1: but I think he makes up with it, makes for

1639
01:22:37,600 --> 01:22:39,960
Speaker 1: up with it, up for it with the way he

1640
01:22:40,000 --> 01:22:43,000
Speaker 1: carries himself. But that's what I'll be watching the game

1641
01:22:43,000 --> 01:22:45,920
Speaker 1: because there's no passion coming out of the Seahawks operation. No,

1642
01:22:46,080 --> 01:22:49,360
Speaker 1: they're they're incredibly tough on the eyes. Um they're an eyebleader.

1643
01:22:49,439 --> 01:22:52,160
Speaker 1: But I could not side and agree with you more

1644
01:22:52,560 --> 01:22:54,559
Speaker 1: on Taylor Heineke. You know, we want like we watched

1645
01:22:54,560 --> 01:22:56,599
Speaker 1: these games during the week and a lot of times

1646
01:22:56,600 --> 01:22:59,000
Speaker 1: just like sitting on a couch, you know, watching in

1647
01:22:59,080 --> 01:23:02,080
Speaker 1: silence taking No, it's Taylor Heineke is like the one

1648
01:23:02,120 --> 01:23:03,639
Speaker 1: guy that got me kind of I needed to take

1649
01:23:03,680 --> 01:23:06,639
Speaker 1: a break after the game and get up and walk around. Um,

1650
01:23:06,680 --> 01:23:09,400
Speaker 1: he fired me up. I love his demeanor. I think

1651
01:23:09,439 --> 01:23:12,120
Speaker 1: that he's also fearless. He made a couple of throws.

1652
01:23:12,360 --> 01:23:16,240
Speaker 1: There was one through dense traffic to Cam Sims, uh

1653
01:23:16,360 --> 01:23:19,280
Speaker 1: touchdown pass that just showed his arm strength. Um, he

1654
01:23:19,360 --> 01:23:21,400
Speaker 1: saw the field really well on a throw to John

1655
01:23:21,400 --> 01:23:23,559
Speaker 1: Bates where he looked like he was gonna get knocked around.

1656
01:23:23,560 --> 01:23:26,000
Speaker 1: He's scrambling, he's running as he's gonna take off, and

1657
01:23:26,040 --> 01:23:28,280
Speaker 1: he saw the second third option and it's just like

1658
01:23:28,320 --> 01:23:31,280
Speaker 1: he's doing things that show growth and progression. And I

1659
01:23:31,280 --> 01:23:33,800
Speaker 1: think it's you know, they're in a place to where

1660
01:23:33,800 --> 01:23:35,960
Speaker 1: And I don't mean to always bring up Scott Turner,

1661
01:23:36,000 --> 01:23:38,200
Speaker 1: It's not a joke. I think that they found a

1662
01:23:38,200 --> 01:23:40,639
Speaker 1: way to answer drives over and over. They got more

1663
01:23:40,680 --> 01:23:43,759
Speaker 1: from the ground game. Uh, Antonio Gibson outside of the fumble,

1664
01:23:43,760 --> 01:23:46,320
Speaker 1: looked good to me. They at this point sounds like

1665
01:23:46,360 --> 01:23:50,880
Speaker 1: Curtis Samuel might finally play this week part exactly like

1666
01:23:50,920 --> 01:23:52,800
Speaker 1: he he is. He has done a nice job of

1667
01:23:52,840 --> 01:23:54,360
Speaker 1: getting paid a lot of money and not doing a

1668
01:23:54,360 --> 01:23:56,639
Speaker 1: lot for it. But getting him back would be great.

1669
01:23:56,960 --> 01:23:59,599
Speaker 1: This team is on the rise. I understand like that.

1670
01:23:59,640 --> 01:24:01,559
Speaker 1: You know they think they can start every season two

1671
01:24:01,560 --> 01:24:04,559
Speaker 1: and six. Well, it's working, and I want DeAndre Carter.

1672
01:24:04,600 --> 01:24:06,240
Speaker 1: One last guy I wanted to mention. I looked up

1673
01:24:06,280 --> 01:24:09,360
Speaker 1: because he looks so small to me. He is my height.

1674
01:24:09,479 --> 01:24:12,400
Speaker 1: He has five eight and weighs forty five more pounds

1675
01:24:12,439 --> 01:24:14,680
Speaker 1: in me, and that is not fatty tissue. So I

1676
01:24:14,880 --> 01:24:19,679
Speaker 1: that tells you how these football players are built breaking.

1677
01:24:20,600 --> 01:24:23,559
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, such a little jitterbug. And I was like,

1678
01:24:23,760 --> 01:24:25,479
Speaker 1: how tall is that guy? And it was like super

1679
01:24:25,520 --> 01:24:27,360
Speaker 1: excited that he was my height? But did he have

1680
01:24:27,400 --> 01:24:30,759
Speaker 1: a baby head? No, he did not know. It is crazy.

1681
01:24:30,840 --> 01:24:33,519
Speaker 1: I mean I remember interviewing m J D when he

1682
01:24:33,560 --> 01:24:36,880
Speaker 1: was like a Pro Bowl running back and he's he's

1683
01:24:36,920 --> 01:24:40,120
Speaker 1: five six or seven and he's like two fifteen and

1684
01:24:40,120 --> 01:24:43,040
Speaker 1: and that that was like his legs were bigger than

1685
01:24:43,720 --> 01:24:47,280
Speaker 1: in my entire body. It's wild. This is this is

1686
01:24:47,320 --> 01:24:49,360
Speaker 1: the low moment of the Pete Carroll era by far

1687
01:24:49,600 --> 01:24:54,519
Speaker 1: that almost goes without saying their their defense, Uh, just

1688
01:24:54,560 --> 01:24:56,639
Speaker 1: has so many guys you can pick on in coverage.

1689
01:24:56,840 --> 01:25:01,519
Speaker 1: Wagner is getting picked on sometimes two even Brooks certainly

1690
01:25:02,080 --> 01:25:05,080
Speaker 1: at your boy Adams with a huge penalty last week, Dan,

1691
01:25:05,240 --> 01:25:08,040
Speaker 1: like he you know, they have they play this old

1692
01:25:08,080 --> 01:25:10,479
Speaker 1: school defense where they keep the linebackers on the field

1693
01:25:10,479 --> 01:25:12,479
Speaker 1: and they kind of have a strong safety that you know,

1694
01:25:12,560 --> 01:25:14,720
Speaker 1: it's not great in coverage and it's like you can

1695
01:25:14,800 --> 01:25:18,679
Speaker 1: find mismatches and yet I don't know, there's something about

1696
01:25:18,760 --> 01:25:20,760
Speaker 1: I can't imagine them going three and eight and I

1697
01:25:20,800 --> 01:25:24,160
Speaker 1: don't know. I was not in on them last week

1698
01:25:24,200 --> 01:25:27,639
Speaker 1: bouncing back, but this, like losing this game with everyone

1699
01:25:27,720 --> 01:25:30,360
Speaker 1: watching and Russell Wilson going to three and a it's

1700
01:25:30,400 --> 01:25:34,000
Speaker 1: like a bridge too far for me. Yeah, you know,

1701
01:25:34,360 --> 01:25:37,920
Speaker 1: this is not dancing on the Jamal adams grave situation,

1702
01:25:37,960 --> 01:25:39,880
Speaker 1: but it is. It is a bit of a cautionary

1703
01:25:39,920 --> 01:25:42,759
Speaker 1: tale that because Seattle is in such a tough spot

1704
01:25:42,800 --> 01:25:45,240
Speaker 1: and obviously the Jets have only gotten worse since he left.

1705
01:25:45,280 --> 01:25:48,320
Speaker 1: But you know when you kind of say, I can't

1706
01:25:48,320 --> 01:25:50,000
Speaker 1: take the losing. I gotta get out of here. I

1707
01:25:50,000 --> 01:25:51,800
Speaker 1: don't want to be part of this operation. I want

1708
01:25:51,800 --> 01:25:54,320
Speaker 1: to go play for a winner. Well that doesn't always

1709
01:25:54,360 --> 01:25:56,479
Speaker 1: work out. I mean, we'll see if Jamal Adams is

1710
01:25:56,520 --> 01:25:58,879
Speaker 1: playing for a winner now. He just signed a huge contract.

1711
01:25:58,960 --> 01:26:00,680
Speaker 1: I think ultimately that's what it was all about. He

1712
01:26:00,720 --> 01:26:03,599
Speaker 1: wanted to get he wanted to maximize his potential as

1713
01:26:03,640 --> 01:26:06,120
Speaker 1: earning potential, and you can't sagren him for that. But

1714
01:26:06,160 --> 01:26:08,120
Speaker 1: the other part of it was I'm sick of losing.

1715
01:26:08,160 --> 01:26:09,439
Speaker 1: Get me out of here. I want to go to

1716
01:26:09,520 --> 01:26:12,640
Speaker 1: a proven winner. I don't know what Seattle looks like

1717
01:26:12,680 --> 01:26:15,559
Speaker 1: over the next five years, especially given the quarterback situation.

1718
01:26:15,640 --> 01:26:18,439
Speaker 1: But that was also a we're one player away self

1719
01:26:18,479 --> 01:26:22,160
Speaker 1: evaluation of the roster um, a very expensive move, and

1720
01:26:22,200 --> 01:26:26,000
Speaker 1: they are about twelve players fifteen players away, because that

1721
01:26:26,120 --> 01:26:29,439
Speaker 1: was the whole the whole hook of that trade was

1722
01:26:29,479 --> 01:26:31,960
Speaker 1: exactly that that we are a very good team. We

1723
01:26:32,000 --> 01:26:34,679
Speaker 1: are a playoff team, but we are one big time

1724
01:26:34,680 --> 01:26:37,599
Speaker 1: defender away from being a super Bowl team. And they

1725
01:26:37,600 --> 01:26:40,759
Speaker 1: have just went down since then. It's not adams fault,

1726
01:26:40,800 --> 01:26:44,200
Speaker 1: per se, but it is notable that they kind of

1727
01:26:44,240 --> 01:26:47,479
Speaker 1: misread the whole situation and put themselves put themselves in

1728
01:26:47,520 --> 01:26:52,800
Speaker 1: a very difficult situation. Going symbolizes it. It's after all

1729
01:26:52,800 --> 01:26:55,080
Speaker 1: that happen. I did think Russ looked better in that game.

1730
01:26:55,320 --> 01:26:57,840
Speaker 1: They put him in such tough spots. I just it's

1731
01:26:57,880 --> 01:27:00,200
Speaker 1: still funny to me in year thirteen or what. Every

1732
01:27:00,200 --> 01:27:02,599
Speaker 1: reason that like they refused to throw it when it's

1733
01:27:02,640 --> 01:27:04,559
Speaker 1: third and twenty or third and fifteen. It's just like,

1734
01:27:04,680 --> 01:27:07,679
Speaker 1: let him let him throw. So boring, they're so boring.

1735
01:27:08,680 --> 01:27:12,040
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf did not come down with a couple contested

1736
01:27:12,080 --> 01:27:14,920
Speaker 1: catches that were pretty well placed that could have helped

1737
01:27:14,920 --> 01:27:18,320
Speaker 1: out of us. I think I think he'll come around,

1738
01:27:18,439 --> 01:27:20,240
Speaker 1: is what I'm saying with Russell Wilson. I don't think

1739
01:27:20,240 --> 01:27:22,519
Speaker 1: he's gonna be suddenly terrible. If I had to pick

1740
01:27:22,600 --> 01:27:24,559
Speaker 1: one wide receiver on the field in this game to

1741
01:27:24,600 --> 01:27:27,280
Speaker 1: start a team with, it would be your boy, Terry

1742
01:27:27,360 --> 01:27:33,000
Speaker 1: McLarin It, no doubt not Metcalf. He is excellent. All Right,

1743
01:27:34,160 --> 01:27:38,640
Speaker 1: there you go, Week twelve. That's the preview show. We

1744
01:27:38,640 --> 01:27:42,040
Speaker 1: hope everybody has a great Thanksgiving if you celebrate it. Uh,

1745
01:27:42,080 --> 01:27:46,080
Speaker 1: and we'll be back on Sunday night when we recap

1746
01:27:46,720 --> 01:27:49,639
Speaker 1: all these games. Well that's actually not true. Thursday night,

1747
01:27:49,960 --> 01:27:52,920
Speaker 1: we will have our recap of the three Thanksgiving games,

1748
01:27:53,280 --> 01:27:56,240
Speaker 1: so make sure you check that out, and then Sunday

1749
01:27:56,320 --> 01:28:04,639
Speaker 1: we will complete the recaps with our flagship show. Alright, boys,

1750
01:28:04,920 --> 01:28:08,800
Speaker 1: thankful for you. You know, we got our TV show

1751
01:28:08,880 --> 01:28:11,560
Speaker 1: too on on Saturday on NFL. We're not going to

1752
01:28:11,680 --> 01:28:18,080
Speaker 1: do that that week right weekend? Tune in you DVR it. Um.

1753
01:28:18,120 --> 01:28:20,799
Speaker 1: It's on early in the morning on the East Coast

1754
01:28:20,920 --> 01:28:23,120
Speaker 1: late night. I know, I know some people that watch

1755
01:28:23,160 --> 01:28:28,920
Speaker 1: it on the Saturday night. I don't think I'm gonna go. Okay, okay,

1756
01:28:28,520 --> 01:28:31,000
Speaker 1: so are you okay, You're just not gonna show up

1757
01:28:31,000 --> 01:28:32,360
Speaker 1: at all? But that just be Greg and I have

1758
01:28:32,439 --> 01:28:34,160
Speaker 1: to do a lot more though. Yeah. I think I'm

1759
01:28:34,200 --> 01:28:36,640
Speaker 1: just gonna enjoy the holiday weekend like everybody else, like

1760
01:28:37,000 --> 01:28:42,759
Speaker 1: you know, so good luck, guys. And I'm totally bailing

1761
01:28:42,800 --> 01:28:44,720
Speaker 1: if you're not, Like, there's no way I'm going. If

1762
01:28:44,720 --> 01:28:48,120
Speaker 1: you're not going, Greg, it is your show. It's got me.

1763
01:28:48,600 --> 01:28:52,679
Speaker 1: Ricky and the Grave Digger. Actually, Ricky are you yeah?

1764
01:28:52,760 --> 01:28:56,240
Speaker 1: You available you around Friday Friday? Yeah, I'm here, Yeah, okay,

1765
01:28:56,240 --> 01:29:00,000
Speaker 1: all right. I would never miss something in football seats

1766
01:29:00,040 --> 01:29:05,839
Speaker 1: and have heard all right? Good again, Happy Thanksgiving everybody.

1767
01:29:06,400 --> 01:29:08,720
Speaker 1: Uh Dan had to starting off a quiet storm the

1768
01:29:08,720 --> 01:29:12,960
Speaker 1: old Boss Ronicky Hollywood behind the Virtual Glass sun Still

1769
01:29:13,640 --> 01:30:10,479
Speaker 1: Thursday night, He's the call eight