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Speaker 1: What is going on? Everybody threeing out podcast with me

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Speaker 1: John Middlecoff. We got a big show going. I just

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Speaker 1: press record. There's about three minutes left in this game,

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Speaker 1: but I really can't take much more of it. Uh,

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Speaker 1: course they will. We're gonna dive into a couple of

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Speaker 1: other things. Uh, some college football thoughts. You know Joe Burrow,

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Speaker 1: and then like we do on every Friday podcast, go

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Speaker 1: over all the Sunday games. You know, this week we

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Speaker 1: six thirty in the morning, tad bit early on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: But if you tell me I got football from six

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Speaker 1: And then, uh, like always Middlecoff mail bag, answer your

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Speaker 1: questions at John Middlecoff is my Instagram handle. It's you know,

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Speaker 1: the easiest way to get ahold of me at John

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Speaker 1: d m s and I will answer your questions on here.

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Speaker 1: But let's start with the Patriots. And you know they're

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Speaker 1: one of the greatest dynasties we've ever seen. That's that's

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Speaker 1: saying nothing new. Uh, I would say their greatest strength

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Speaker 1: right now. And everyone tells you this when you're young,

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Speaker 1: and you hear it a million times, Like as you

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Speaker 1: get older and you make more money and you invest diversified, diversified, diversify,

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Speaker 1: and we all see things and it's no different like

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Speaker 1: gambling on sports. But when you invest your own money

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Speaker 1: I did this recently with Netflix. About a couple of

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Speaker 1: like eight hundred dollars bout it at three fifty it's

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Speaker 1: Even during tough times, your hits will be less. I'm

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Speaker 1: watching the Patriots right now. They're pretty well diversified, like

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Speaker 1: they might have their most diversified team. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if this modern day era really since the OH seven

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Speaker 1: I'm watching them and clearly they got some offensive issues

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Speaker 1: top notch. Their defensive backfield dominates Danny Dimes through three

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Speaker 1: offense looks a little funky. I mean, Brady's numbers one

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Speaker 1: diversified Patriot team of this moder and day run. Remember

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Speaker 1: a bitch flying around. All the guys makes plays. Brett.

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Speaker 1: I have to check their schedule? But maybe Sa Kuan

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Speaker 1: out of the round possibility? I think they go sixteen. Seriously,

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Speaker 1: I mean I like the Vikings where it did when

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Speaker 1: the season started, still kind of do. But this is

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Speaker 1: a big game. To get a feel for them, will

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Speaker 1: eve into that. I'm just starting. I just go to

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Speaker 1: NFL dot com or ESPN dot com right down all

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Speaker 1: the games actually do it through the betting website I use.

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Speaker 1: So we'll start with the London game. Panthers at Tampa

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Speaker 1: in London. Uh, Panthers minus two and a half. McCaffrey

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Speaker 1: been dealing with a little bit of a back injury. Uh,

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Speaker 1: but he's having an m v P type season. There's

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Speaker 1: there's really no way around it. You got my Homes,

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Speaker 1: you got Russell Wilson, and you've got McCaffrey. It's a

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Speaker 1: three headed race right now. And I think McCaffrey has

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Speaker 1: an argument. If McCaffrey with Kyle Allen as a starting quarterback,

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Speaker 1: can keep doing what he's doing. A hundred yards on

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Speaker 1: the ground every game, a hundred yards catching the ball,

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Speaker 1: just dynamic, explosive plays and get this team to the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: With Kyle Allen, I've assume it's gonna start the rest

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Speaker 1: of the season. You might get me to vote for McCaffrey. Now,

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Speaker 1: I actually kind of like tamp in this game. Jamis,

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Speaker 1: you know, didn't play that well last week where he

447
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Speaker 1: was unreal a couple of weeks ago. I think that's

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Speaker 1: what he is. He's just an inconsistent player, still trying

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Speaker 1: to figure out with Bruce arians I, I just I

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Speaker 1: just like him in the situation. Now, a little bit

451
00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:04,359
Speaker 1: of a revenge game for Ron Rivera. But part of

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Speaker 1: the reason they lost Tampa the first time was because

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Speaker 1: Cam was so terrible. Uh. I just like Tampa plus

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Speaker 1: two and a half. Even though the games in London,

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Speaker 1: which is a little weird for us out here on

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Speaker 1: the West Coast, we got a little six thirty am

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Speaker 1: kickoff time, you know, Sunday morning. I'll get out of

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Speaker 1: bed about seven fifteen, so I'll start watching this bad

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Speaker 1: boy probably around the second, uh second quarter Bengals at Ravens. Guy,

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Speaker 1: what a terrible game. The Bengal stink. There's no way

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Speaker 1: around at the Cincinnati Bengals are an absolute disaster right now.

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Speaker 1: It might win three games, maybe all season. The Ravens

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Speaker 1: aren't playing that well either. Uh. They struggled to beat

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Speaker 1: the Steelers, who did not play well. Previously. They had

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Speaker 1: lost back to back games right to Cleveland and to

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Speaker 1: Kansas City. Lamar Jackson has come back to earth four

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Speaker 1: touchdowns five picks the last three games, and again they

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Speaker 1: should not have won last week. If Juju Smith just

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Speaker 1: hold tonto the ball, the Steelers probably win the game.

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Speaker 1: And that was a game where I think Mason Rudolph

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Speaker 1: threw for like a hundred and thirty yards. But you know,

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Speaker 1: they're eleven point favorite. I wouldn't bet this game because

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Speaker 1: I'd probably take the Bengals plus eleven. But if I

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Speaker 1: if I'm thinking about taking the Bengals plus eleven, I'm

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Speaker 1: probably just not gonna bet. So, you know, the Ravens

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Speaker 1: should win this game and be four and too, but

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Speaker 1: be a weird four and two. You know, they had

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Speaker 1: two bad losses, uh in four games, three of them

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Speaker 1: which they beat up on three of the I mean,

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Speaker 1: the worst three teams in the league, the Bengals, the Cardinals,

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Speaker 1: and the Miami Dolphins. This game is pretty good too.

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Speaker 1: You probably could throw this game in with the Eagles,

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Speaker 1: the Vikings, and the Niners in l A guy, there's

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Speaker 1: some good games this weekend. They're actually there's there's actually

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Speaker 1: several good games this weekend. Houston at Kansas City. Now,

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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson is just coming off a game where he

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Speaker 1: threw five touchdowns and looked incredible. Now as part of

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Speaker 1: that the Falcons quit, maybe, but the Shan's a really

489
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:56,920
Speaker 1: good player and when you protect him, which they did

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Speaker 1: last week. I think it's the first time he'd been

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Speaker 1: sacked since hadn't been sacked it's like Week eight last

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Speaker 1: season that he's really dynamic. And the Kansas City defense

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00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:08,160
Speaker 1: it's coming back to earth a little bit. But there

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Speaker 1: a big issue right now is Mahomes. You know from

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Speaker 1: my home standard hasn't really been that good the last

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Speaker 1: two weeks. Now the night game against the Colts. Listen,

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Speaker 1: you know that the Chiefs have a bunch of injuries.

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Speaker 1: It's not that out of the realm possibility that you

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Speaker 1: lose a game like you go thirteen and three, which

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Speaker 1: is a guaranteed playoff spot every year in the history

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Speaker 1: of the NFL. You lose three games, So the Chiefs

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00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:34,159
Speaker 1: are a four point favorite at home. Uh, it's not

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Speaker 1: an easy place to win. Again, you got it to me.

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00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:39,280
Speaker 1: It's more last week about tipping your hat to UH

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Speaker 1: to Indianapolis. The one way to beat the Chiefs is

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Speaker 1: just dominate on the ground. Well, it's Houston gonna run

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00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:46,880
Speaker 1: it all over their passing team. I like the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: in this game, but this is an interesting game. You know,

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Speaker 1: if Houston can win this thing, then all of a

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00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:54,280
Speaker 1: sudden there foreign to The Chiefs are foreign too, and

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00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:56,919
Speaker 1: you start asking yourself, are the Chiefs a lock to

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Speaker 1: be the number two overall seed? Who would have said

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Speaker 1: that a couple of weeks go. But it's a great

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00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:04,200
Speaker 1: part about the NFL, the EBB and flow. The Texans

515
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:06,320
Speaker 1: have made the playoffs, what three the last five years.

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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson has proven he's one of the best players

517
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Speaker 1: in the league. That Hopkins hasn't even been going off

518
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Speaker 1: and they've been putting up big numbers. So this I

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Speaker 1: look I get this game here locally in the Bay.

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Speaker 1: I look forward to watching it. Saints at the Jaguars

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Speaker 1: love Gordoner Minshew can't get enough of them. So I'm

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Speaker 1: just gonna keep picking the Jags as long as Minshew started.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick the Jags every week. Now the game's

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Speaker 1: in Jacksonville and they're only one point favorite. One thing

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Speaker 1: is pretty clear that the Saints are good. They're really

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Speaker 1: damn good. They have a top flight defense. Alvin Kamara

527
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Speaker 1: is one of the best non quarterbacks in the league.

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Speaker 1: You saw Michael Thomas last week kick the living crap

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Speaker 1: out of the Bucks who looked like God. Michael Thomas

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Speaker 1: looks like Julio Jones. And Teddy Bridgewater played the best

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Speaker 1: game that he's played in three years. So if the

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Speaker 1: Saints play on that level, they're gonna beat the Jacksonville Jaguars.

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Speaker 1: But as Teddy Bridgewater really gonna put back to back

534
00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:57,360
Speaker 1: high level games against the defense, that might be welcoming

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Speaker 1: back Jalen Ramsey, who has the recording of this podcast

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Speaker 1: on Thursday afternoon. Uh, it looks like he's gonna play.

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00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:06,480
Speaker 1: So if he comes back, I kind of like the

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00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,800
Speaker 1: Jaguars in quote unquote little bit of an upset, then

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00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:11,640
Speaker 1: all of a sudden. The Jags are three and three,

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Speaker 1: and this is the Houston at Kansas City and the

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Speaker 1: Saints that Jacksonville are just two excellent morning games. This

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00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:19,560
Speaker 1: is another excellent morning game and one of my personal

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00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 1: favorite Eagles at the Vikings. Now, the Eagles have had

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Speaker 1: a ton of injuries that they really have Deshaun DeShawn

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Speaker 1: Jackson again as recording of this podcast and not expected

546
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:30,480
Speaker 1: to play. But they need to get out Seawan back.

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00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:32,879
Speaker 1: They got earths, they got agil Art, they should be

548
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:35,160
Speaker 1: able to score. The Vikings secondary has been a little

549
00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 1: hit or miss, and to me, the biggest question mark

550
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:40,879
Speaker 1: in this game, Like I know what I think of

551
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:42,720
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson and what I think of Carson Wentz are

552
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:46,399
Speaker 1: pretty well established Super Bowl winner, stud play caller and

553
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:49,119
Speaker 1: beside my homes the most talented young player. To me,

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00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:52,240
Speaker 1: the questions in this game are Kirk Cousins, like, yo, bro,

555
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:55,119
Speaker 1: are you gonna start earning that twenty eight million? This

556
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:56,880
Speaker 1: is the type of game they paid you to win

557
00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:59,199
Speaker 1: because those other games they've paid you to win, you

558
00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:01,679
Speaker 1: have not come through. Well, you come through in a

559
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:04,440
Speaker 1: game like this, people get off your back a little bit.

560
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 1: And last week it's it's easy to keep crap out

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00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:10,040
Speaker 1: of the Giants. They were asking that their defense is terrible.

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00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:13,760
Speaker 1: So you throwing touchdowns? Adam feeling like, whoopy? Can you

563
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:17,199
Speaker 1: do that against the Eagles? Now? The Eagles personnel, especially

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00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:20,320
Speaker 1: in their secondary, is not great. We've seen team after

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00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:22,439
Speaker 1: team after team throw it on them. They have not

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00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 1: traded for Jalen Ramsey yet, they haven't traded for Chris

567
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:28,040
Speaker 1: Harris Jr. Yet. Their secondary is bat So can you

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00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:30,200
Speaker 1: throw it on them? You got Stefan Digs It acts

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00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:32,679
Speaker 1: like he wants out. You got Adam feeling that's a stud.

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00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:35,199
Speaker 1: Might be a little tougher, you know. It's one of

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Speaker 1: those games like Dalvin Cook probably not running for a

572
00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:40,480
Speaker 1: hundred fifty yards in this game? Can you carry the squad?

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Speaker 1: Can you throw up thirty points at home against the Birds?

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Speaker 1: I'm not confident he can, but that that, to me,

575
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:49,640
Speaker 1: is the storyline in that game I'm looking for. I

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00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:53,520
Speaker 1: wouldn't wish this next game upon my worst enemy. And

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Speaker 1: I thought about it today just as a casual fan.

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Speaker 1: If I lived in Miami, how much would you have

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Speaker 1: to pay me? And again I'm not I don't have

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00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:04,360
Speaker 1: that much money. Doing well for myself, but by no

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Speaker 1: means I would consider myself rich, especially in this state

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Speaker 1: where they take all my cash through taxes. Would you

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Speaker 1: go Redskins at the Dolphins? Redskins at the Dolphins? And

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Speaker 1: I have the number that I came up with to

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Speaker 1: to give my entire day to go to the one

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Speaker 1: of the worst NFL games we've ever seen. On paper,

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Speaker 1: I started like at first, I like thousand bucks, and

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Speaker 1: then the more I thought about it, I don't think

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Speaker 1: that would be worth it. So I'm going five thousand

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00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 1: dollars that you would have to pay me to ruin

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Speaker 1: my Sunday to spend it at the Miami Day whatever

592
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:38,520
Speaker 1: the hell they call that stadium now sun Life Stadium

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Speaker 1: to watch them play the Bill Callahan lad Redskins five

594
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Speaker 1: thousand dollars Again, wouldn't wish to something upon my worst enemy.

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Speaker 1: If I'm a Redskins fan, I stopped paying attention to

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Speaker 1: the Redskins and start watching the Nationals. If I'm a

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Speaker 1: Dolphins fan, I just refused to watch them this year

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Speaker 1: when they're taking You're gonna tank. That's fine, and I

599
00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 1: think even a smart sports fan goes. I get in

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Speaker 1: theory why you're doing it. But I'm not gonna watch

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Speaker 1: you this year. I'm gonna watch other games because I

602
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 1: refused to watch this crap. Uh So yeah, from a

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Speaker 1: football standpoint, no takes none. Dolphins are a joe, or

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00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:14,080
Speaker 1: excuse me. The Dolphins actually, at least they are acknowledging

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Speaker 1: what they're doing. The Redskins are not trying to tank,

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00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 1: and they just tank because they suck. I actually think

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00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 1: the Dolphins could win this game. The Redskins are that terrible.

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Speaker 1: This game is interesting here forty Niners at the Rams.

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Speaker 1: We got ourselves a little problem here in San Francisco.

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Speaker 1: Joe Staley out broken leg. Mike McGlinchey tore something in

611
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Speaker 1: his knee. He's out for a month. I had surgery yesterday.

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00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:40,960
Speaker 1: That's not ideal. The Niners are now starting a six

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Speaker 1: round pick at left tackle rookie, and a dude that

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Speaker 1: played in the A A F this year at right tackle.

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00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 1: That's a little bit of a problem. And then their

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Speaker 1: star fullback, which Kyle Shanahan utilizes and basically every single

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Speaker 1: offensive play, also sprained his knee. He's out. So the

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Speaker 1: Niners are missing some very very key players on what

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Speaker 1: is currently the number one rushing offense in the NFL. Well,

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Speaker 1: the Rams, who have lost two straight games. I did

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Speaker 1: a little research yesterday wrote an article on the athletics,

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Speaker 1: so I was I was doing some Google research. McVeigh

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Speaker 1: has lost back to back games in the NFL and

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Speaker 1: now Grant he has only been the head coach for

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00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:22,680
Speaker 1: two years in four games or five games one time,

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Speaker 1: and it was last year. I think it was against

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Speaker 1: the Eagles and against the Bears. They were eleven one

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00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 1: at the time, so it didn't really phase them. They

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Speaker 1: ended up finishing thirteen and three. Well, they've lost two

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Speaker 1: straight games. He's never lost three straight games. If they

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Speaker 1: if the Niners can go into Colosseum with all these

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00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 1: injuries where they're kind of ride and high, four and

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00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 1: no and beat the Rams, and the Rams are three

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00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,600
Speaker 1: and three, like, you can kiss the NFC West goodbye.

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00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:49,400
Speaker 1: But Seattle, depending on what happens in the Cleveland game,

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Speaker 1: which I'll touch on next, could be five and one

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Speaker 1: and the Niners would be five and oh, and you

638
00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 1: would have three losses with losses about those teams for

639
00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:00,320
Speaker 1: a good team. This is about as must to win

640
00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 1: as you're gonna see in the middle of October. So

641
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 1: to me, the Rams just have to win this game.

642
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 1: They it doesn't matter if you blow them out, you

643
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,560
Speaker 1: win by one point, you just you have to find

644
00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:13,120
Speaker 1: a way to win this game. Losing this game, I

645
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:15,720
Speaker 1: think we started talking about the Rams not making the playoffs. Okay,

646
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 1: let's get back to Seattle at Cleveland. Seattle's somewhat playing

647
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 1: with house money, uh winning that Thursday night game the

648
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 1: way they did against the Rams. Now, granted, despite winning

649
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 1: it a little bit, there was an element of lout

650
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 1: to due one of the best kickers in the NFL

651
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:32,760
Speaker 1: missed forty four yard field goal. They did, I thought,

652
00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 1: for the most part, outplay them all game and see

653
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:36,840
Speaker 1: how was good. I mean, they have a clear identity,

654
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 1: They run the ball, Russell Wilson makes plays, and they

655
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:43,719
Speaker 1: just do timely ship on defense. Cleveland, who I just

656
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 1: watched them live on Monday night, was as gutless of

657
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 1: a performance as I've ever seen, and I've probably been

658
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know a hundred NFL games in

659
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:57,160
Speaker 1: my life, and that was and I'm maybe the most

660
00:32:57,160 --> 00:33:00,360
Speaker 1: gutless performance I've ever seen was the Eagles one time

661
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:04,720
Speaker 1: play the Raiders and Nick Foles through seven touchdowns and

662
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:07,160
Speaker 1: the Raiders have quit by about five minutes in. That's

663
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:10,040
Speaker 1: probably the most gutless performance I've ever seen by an

664
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 1: NFL team in the history of my life. The Browns

665
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:16,360
Speaker 1: would be a close second what I witnessed Monday night.

666
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 1: So are they gonna play that bad again? There are

667
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 1: two point underdog at home now, Baker, you know the

668
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:27,320
Speaker 1: handshake gate whatever, I don't even care. They shook his

669
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 1: hand or he didn't shake his hand. He did shake

670
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 1: his hand. He's gotta play better. Freddy Kitchens, you gotta

671
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:34,719
Speaker 1: coach better. Odell Beckham, you just need to make some plays.

672
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:37,640
Speaker 1: Cleveland's gotta win this game because they're two and three

673
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 1: right now. You lose this game, you're two and four.

674
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:43,640
Speaker 1: Assuming that the Ravens beat the Bengals, they would be

675
00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 1: four and two. It would be a big little swing

676
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 1: that that'd be somewhat of a problem. So you know,

677
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 1: I wouldn't gamble on this game because I wouldn't feel comfortable.

678
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:56,960
Speaker 1: But Cleveland will probably be the bet because I think

679
00:33:56,960 --> 00:34:00,320
Speaker 1: everyone will be hammering Seattle. But this is about his Like,

680
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 1: the Rams must win because they're a really good team

681
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 1: and to make the playoffs in the NFC looks to

682
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 1: be a little more difficult. Cleveland must win in the

683
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:11,320
Speaker 1: sense that like, hey, fellas, if you're two and three,

684
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:15,480
Speaker 1: you're the Uh, you're the Cleveland Browns, not the New

685
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 1: England Patriots. Like you, you are not coming back from that.

686
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 1: That's just that's not happening. I want to double check

687
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 1: because I'm saying it out loud, like, yeah, they're two

688
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:26,759
Speaker 1: and three, So they lose this game, they'd be two

689
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 1: and four. You're telling me Freddy Kitchens and Baker Mayfield

690
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:34,440
Speaker 1: are rallying the troops at two and four, No freaking

691
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 1: chance their season is over. Now they win this, they're like, Okay,

692
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:41,839
Speaker 1: we're three and three. Uh, the division is not that great.

693
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:44,560
Speaker 1: We're only one game behind the Ravens. Again, assuming they

694
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:48,960
Speaker 1: beat the Bengals and the Ravens aren't that great, and

695
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,799
Speaker 1: we'll play him again. And then here's the problem for

696
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:54,319
Speaker 1: the Browns though, and this is what everyone was saying

697
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:55,759
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the season. This is why this

698
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:58,960
Speaker 1: game is definitely must win. Next week they're at the Patriots.

699
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:02,520
Speaker 1: So you lose to Seattle at home, you're two and four,

700
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:05,359
Speaker 1: you're gonna be two and five at least if you're

701
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 1: three and three, you beat the you lose the Patriots,

702
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:10,760
Speaker 1: you're three and four. Then you get the Broncos, the Bills,

703
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 1: the bad Steelers team, the Dolphins. Maybe you can rattle

704
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 1: off some wins, but I think Cleveland is in trouble

705
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:22,880
Speaker 1: right now. Atlanta Arizona not quite as extreme as Redskins

706
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 1: in Miami. But I don't know why you'd watch this

707
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:28,040
Speaker 1: unless you're gambling or fantasy football. You would think Atlanta

708
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:31,919
Speaker 1: would win. Uh if they lose this game, I don't

709
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:34,280
Speaker 1: think it's out of the real possibility. Fire dan Quinn.

710
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 1: You can't beat the Arizona Cardinals led by Vance Joseph.

711
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 1: You can't just find a way to outscore them with

712
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:43,720
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan, Sinew Ridley and Julio and Devonte Freeman and Hooper.

713
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:46,880
Speaker 1: What are we doing? What did I invest all this

714
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:49,480
Speaker 1: home depot money into this franchise for? We can't beat

715
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:52,960
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals led by a quarterback that's five ft three,

716
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:56,040
Speaker 1: a coach that's never won at any level, and a

717
00:35:56,080 --> 00:36:00,359
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator which is just awful. So I think dan

718
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 1: Quinn in this game, you know they fired Jay Gruden

719
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:06,560
Speaker 1: because clearly they hated Jake Ruin. I don't think Arthur

720
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:08,920
Speaker 1: Blank doesn't like dan Quinn. I think he probably likes

721
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 1: dan Quinn a lot. I think dan Quinn is a

722
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:14,600
Speaker 1: high character guy. He's well respecting the NFL. But the

723
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 1: NFL is kind of a bottom line. I mean, it

724
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:18,480
Speaker 1: is a bottom line business for a coach. Either win

725
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:21,920
Speaker 1: or you lose, and right now he's losing at rapid speeds.

726
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:25,520
Speaker 1: Like last week, they got their ass kicked, they got

727
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 1: destroyed DeShawn Watson. They scored fifty five points on So Hey,

728
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:33,399
Speaker 1: dan Quinn, I I recommend winning this game unless you're

729
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 1: trying to get fired. Cowboys and Jets. Donald's finally packed

730
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 1: from mono nucleosis. How will he look? I was thinking today, like,

731
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:44,480
Speaker 1: are the Jets really gonna go to and fourteen or

732
00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:46,880
Speaker 1: something this year? You would think they'll win some games

733
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:50,480
Speaker 1: with Sam Donald, But he's gonna be rusty. I mean,

734
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 1: he hasn't played in over a month. Uh, this is

735
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:56,000
Speaker 1: definitely a problem. Uh. The Cowboys need to get their

736
00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 1: mojo back. Their offenses look terrible. Jason Garrett, we talked

737
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:03,359
Speaker 1: about earlier this week on the podcast, was just an

738
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:06,719
Speaker 1: embarrassment the other night, Like it's just unacceptable to be

739
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 1: that clueless against the Packers and be that unprepared. Uh,

740
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:14,200
Speaker 1: it can't happen at home. But I would expect the

741
00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 1: Cowboys to be the living crap out of the Jets.

742
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:18,759
Speaker 1: I like the Cowboys might have seven in this game,

743
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 1: just because it's more of a reflection on the Jets

744
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:24,320
Speaker 1: sucked than the Cowboys. I have much confidence in the Cowboys,

745
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 1: given how they've played the last couple of weeks. Tennessee

746
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:30,360
Speaker 1: at Denver not exactly the sexiest game. I would imagine

747
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:31,960
Speaker 1: the final score of this bad Boy to be about

748
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:36,400
Speaker 1: thirteen to ten. But you would think that Mariott to Tennessee,

749
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:39,480
Speaker 1: who is one of those probably good bad teams. And

750
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 1: when I say good bad teams, like eight nine wins,

751
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:46,439
Speaker 1: but eight, uh you know six or seven of those

752
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:50,399
Speaker 1: nine wins are by a combined like fifteen points where

753
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:53,880
Speaker 1: they're just squeaking out games. Denver's not good. Uh that

754
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,400
Speaker 1: they're just not. Their defense isn't very good, Flacco is

755
00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 1: not very good. I'm not sure fan Joe is very

756
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 1: good as head coach, great defensive coordinator. But yeah, I

757
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:06,800
Speaker 1: just I don't really have any other takes before beside

758
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:09,399
Speaker 1: this pretty boring game. Steelers have the Chargers a little

759
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:11,560
Speaker 1: shocked that they kept this game. You would have thought

760
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 1: that then maybe they would have flexed the forty Niners

761
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:16,320
Speaker 1: in l A. Houston at Kansas City Eagles at Vikings,

762
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 1: but they kept this game in Sunday night. Mason Rudolph's

763
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:22,279
Speaker 1: not very good. He was bad against the forty Niners.

764
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:24,480
Speaker 1: He was not good against the Baltimore Ravens, who are

765
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:28,400
Speaker 1: not good on defense last week at home. But the

766
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:30,440
Speaker 1: Charges aren't that good either. There are two and three

767
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 1: a team I think we all expected to be. I

768
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 1: don't know eleven twelve wins, just an absolutely loaded roster,

769
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 1: but a lot changed because they get they have injuries

770
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:41,919
Speaker 1: at just a rapid rate. Once Derwin James went out,

771
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 1: I don't think any of us were as confident, but

772
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:46,359
Speaker 1: I still expected them to be a ten win team.

773
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:49,000
Speaker 1: I don't know if they are ten win lock now.

774
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:51,440
Speaker 1: I think they're a lock to win this game. While

775
00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:53,960
Speaker 1: they have no home field advantage playing in that little

776
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:59,279
Speaker 1: concert stadium, I would imagine Steeler fans because Steeler fans

777
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:02,040
Speaker 1: are just it's one of the powerhouse brands in this league.

778
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:05,319
Speaker 1: I just I don't have any faith right now. It's

779
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:08,879
Speaker 1: just in the Chargers big picture, but this game, they're

780
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 1: just superior basically at every position group and just gets

781
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 1: back to the Steelers Mason Rudolph. He just he's just

782
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 1: not good enough to beat a you know, a credible

783
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:24,319
Speaker 1: NFL team. Okay, let's go a little Middlecoff mail bag

784
00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 1: when we answer you guys questions, uh here on the podcast.

785
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:29,680
Speaker 1: You just slide up into those d m s at

786
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:33,799
Speaker 1: John Middlecoff Instagram handle, and I'll answer your questions here,

787
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:37,920
Speaker 1: John Flory one, John. If Jimmy continues to improve, do

788
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:41,240
Speaker 1: the Niners have a Super Bowl? Uh chance? Go Niners?

789
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 1: Great show. I would say we're gonna find out a

790
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:48,319
Speaker 1: lot about Jimmy these next three or four weeks. It's

791
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 1: gonna be harder for them to run the ball without

792
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 1: use check who's hurt McGlinchey and Staley out. You know,

793
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:59,440
Speaker 1: if you remember, like Tony Romo's, uh Ben Roethlisberger, some

794
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:03,719
Speaker 1: really really good quarterbacks have overcome really crappy offensive lines.

795
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:07,600
Speaker 1: Now it's difficult, and Kyle will try to avoid it.

796
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:11,080
Speaker 1: To me, for in my opinion, at all costs, Like

797
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:13,239
Speaker 1: he's gonna try to pound the run game. That's what

798
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:16,719
Speaker 1: makes Kyle Shanahan unique for younger coach. He is very

799
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 1: very he's very persistent on the ground like he doesn't

800
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:22,400
Speaker 1: he doesn't just try to throw the ball. But you

801
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:24,600
Speaker 1: might not be able to at least as well without

802
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:28,040
Speaker 1: use Check and McGlinchey because they ran behind those two

803
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:31,480
Speaker 1: guys to the right side with you Check lead blocking

804
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:34,399
Speaker 1: and George Kittle over there too, just kind of wreck

805
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:36,400
Speaker 1: and shop it. It's gonna be a little more difficult

806
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:41,279
Speaker 1: super Bowl chance, you know, I just don't know even

807
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 1: if everyone was healthy there, I don't know if they're

808
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:46,960
Speaker 1: wide receivers would be good enough. And the NFC like,

809
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,239
Speaker 1: are they better with Drew Brees and the Saints? Are

810
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:51,920
Speaker 1: they better than a fully healthy Eagles? Are they better

811
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:55,319
Speaker 1: than the Dallas Cowboys for fully healthy? Are they better

812
00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:58,239
Speaker 1: in Seattle? You know, I think it would be tough.

813
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 1: I'm currently three and two and reached out to a

814
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:04,839
Speaker 1: team that's oh and five with Lamar Jackson to Shawn

815
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:07,160
Speaker 1: Watson or this fantasy question. I was like, God, what

816
00:41:07,239 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 1: team you were for? He wants a strong wide receiver

817
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:12,200
Speaker 1: for Jackson? Straight up? I have DeAndre Hopkins, Keenan Allen,

818
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:14,800
Speaker 1: and Adam Feeling as my starters. I'm thinking of giving

819
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:17,680
Speaker 1: up Feeling or Hopkins. I think you could help me

820
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:20,560
Speaker 1: out with your opinion. Thanks, I would tend to lean.

821
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:25,160
Speaker 1: I would keep feeling because that's feels like cousins go

822
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:28,920
Speaker 1: to Guy. Uh Hopkins the one thing you see, he's

823
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 1: a great player, but he gets lost in the shuffle

824
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:34,440
Speaker 1: a little bit. I mean, he threw five touchdowns last week,

825
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 1: and I'm pretty sure that Hopkins didn't catch one. I've

826
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:40,120
Speaker 1: and I've used him in daily Fantasy like three the

827
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 1: last four weeks, and he hasn't really scored me any points.

828
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:48,359
Speaker 1: So I would keep feeling. For sure. I'd probably trade Hopkins. Hey, John,

829
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 1: enjoy the podcast wishful thinking here. But is it possibility

830
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 1: for the Niners to acquire A J. Green if Cincinnati

831
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:56,880
Speaker 1: was interested before the trade deadline? If so, who and

832
00:41:56,920 --> 00:41:58,920
Speaker 1: what would you give up? Thanks again and keep up

833
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:01,960
Speaker 1: the good work. I was talking about it in my

834
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 1: other podcast with Guy today, and I don't think A J.

835
00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:08,799
Speaker 1: Green is that tradeable. He makes twelve million dollars, he

836
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:11,279
Speaker 1: had forty five catches last year. He was hurt, he's

837
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 1: hurt again now. He had surgery earlier this year. You know,

838
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:17,200
Speaker 1: unless they'll trade him away for like a seventh round pick,

839
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 1: which the best player basically on their franchise, him and

840
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:25,160
Speaker 1: Geno Atkins in the last two decades. And like Carson Palmer,

841
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:28,080
Speaker 1: I guess they traded Carson Palm for a couple of ONTs,

842
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:29,840
Speaker 1: Like they're just gonna give away A J. Green for

843
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:32,279
Speaker 1: like a seventh or sixth round pick. I can't see

844
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 1: any team given like a third or fourth round pick,

845
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:36,560
Speaker 1: not with a guy that makes that much money, who's

846
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:39,319
Speaker 1: gonna be a free agent and he's always hurt. Like

847
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:40,920
Speaker 1: the one thing when the Eagles gave up a third

848
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Speaker 1: round pick for Golden Pate. Check out his go to

849
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:45,640
Speaker 1: his nfl dot com page. He had been one of

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00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:47,839
Speaker 1: the most consistent players in the league for like five

851
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:51,320
Speaker 1: straight years. He had in his stats for breaking tackles

852
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:53,920
Speaker 1: and everything, but he had been available, like a J.

853
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:57,000
Speaker 1: Green is not available. I get why A J. Green.

854
00:42:57,080 --> 00:42:58,959
Speaker 1: We talked about him so much and I'm always reading

855
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:02,319
Speaker 1: about him in these trade box but he I just

856
00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 1: I would not trade for him unless you'll give him

857
00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:08,880
Speaker 1: to me for nothing, basically like a you know, like

858
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:11,440
Speaker 1: a garage sale, like you can just get this, but

859
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:14,600
Speaker 1: that's not what's going on here that I can't imagine

860
00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:18,320
Speaker 1: them giving him away. Just finished listening to the Weekend's podcast.

861
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:21,400
Speaker 1: Mono is like chickenpox. Once you get it, once you're immune.

862
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:24,160
Speaker 1: Here's to the idea that maybe Donald's been too cautious

863
00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:27,560
Speaker 1: most of his life while other NFL's got it done

864
00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 1: with in high school. Okay, so you're basically saying maybe

865
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:33,480
Speaker 1: he just wasn't making out with chicks until he got older.

866
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:35,719
Speaker 1: I've never got mono, and I've made out with a

867
00:43:35,719 --> 00:43:37,719
Speaker 1: lot of chicks. How I made out with the chick

868
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:41,239
Speaker 1: last night, no motto today. I think it's more than

869
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:44,560
Speaker 1: just there was a randomness to whatever however it happened.

870
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:48,560
Speaker 1: And Sam Donald was the starting quarterback at USC, like

871
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:51,560
Speaker 1: I've spent some time on SC's campus and in Los Angeles.

872
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:54,839
Speaker 1: If you're the starting quarterback at SC, you can get

873
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:57,320
Speaker 1: a date. You know that, and you could be ugly

874
00:43:57,360 --> 00:43:59,799
Speaker 1: as me. You know, Sam Donald's decent looking dude. He's

875
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:03,399
Speaker 1: sick four again, starting quarterback at SC. Like he's he's

876
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:06,040
Speaker 1: got some dates before, Like just because he's a starting

877
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:08,640
Speaker 1: quarterback for the Jets, it's it's not his first time

878
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 1: around women. I just think that it's just unlucky. Like

879
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:15,239
Speaker 1: I said it was, it was unlucky, and people think, like,

880
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:16,880
Speaker 1: you don't know if you're blaming him now, I'm not

881
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:20,880
Speaker 1: blaming him. But in the history of at least for

882
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:25,799
Speaker 1: me watching professional sports, I don't remember a quarterback, a

883
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:30,240
Speaker 1: position player, an NBA player, a Major League Baseball player

884
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:34,719
Speaker 1: getting mono. Right, We've seen guys get chickenpox. We've seen

885
00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:39,360
Speaker 1: guys get staff infection. We've seen guys get everything you

886
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:42,719
Speaker 1: can think of aids. Matchic Johnson got AIDS. We've seen

887
00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:46,560
Speaker 1: it all. I don't remember. They google it and figure

888
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 1: it out. But a guy get motto. Because the other

889
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:52,520
Speaker 1: thing is when you get moto, you disappear. For a

890
00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:55,400
Speaker 1: starting player, maybe like a practice squad player's gotten it

891
00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:57,480
Speaker 1: and no one it never even came out, but the

892
00:44:57,520 --> 00:44:59,760
Speaker 1: starting quarterback at Monto. It's still one of the crazier

893
00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:02,200
Speaker 1: story is the year. How much do you think the

894
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:04,480
Speaker 1: Bears will stick with Mitch as their quarterback? Do you

895
00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:06,839
Speaker 1: think when he comes back and struggles the Bears will

896
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:10,680
Speaker 1: move off this season? Maybe, but they did draft him

897
00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:12,880
Speaker 1: in the first round and they drafted him two overall,

898
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 1: So this is his third year. Next will be his

899
00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 1: fourth year. I think the question mark is this off season,

900
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:20,560
Speaker 1: do they pick up the fifth year option? I would

901
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:22,840
Speaker 1: say they don't. You know, they remember a couple of

902
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:24,760
Speaker 1: years ago they didn't pick up the fifth year option

903
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:27,200
Speaker 1: on Fuller their their corner, and then he had an

904
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:30,239
Speaker 1: unreal fourth year, and then they just extended to a

905
00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:34,439
Speaker 1: huge uh, to a huge contract. I I think that's

906
00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:36,799
Speaker 1: the question mark. Will know when they pick up their

907
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:38,640
Speaker 1: fifth year option if they believe in the guy, If

908
00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:41,319
Speaker 1: they pick up the fifth year option, whenever the hell

909
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:44,239
Speaker 1: he comes back to prove himself, Uh, then we'll go, Yeah,

910
00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:46,240
Speaker 1: they're gonna give him one more year. If they don't,

911
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:49,280
Speaker 1: you might as well just say audios. Hey John, longtime

912
00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:52,520
Speaker 1: listener from Philly. Love the insights you given some of

913
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 1: the Eagles teams I grew up watching. I wanted to

914
00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:56,600
Speaker 1: hear your opinion on Carson Wentz the season. His numbers

915
00:45:56,640 --> 00:45:58,040
Speaker 1: are looking sharp and he has made a couple of

916
00:45:58,080 --> 00:46:00,400
Speaker 1: freak of nature plays. How do you think is stacking

917
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:03,040
Speaker 1: up as an MVP candidate this season? I would say

918
00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 1: m VP candidate. As of right now, he's not in

919
00:46:05,480 --> 00:46:07,759
Speaker 1: the mix, but he's clearly one of the best young

920
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:11,200
Speaker 1: players in the league. Uh. He's a little dependent on

921
00:46:11,239 --> 00:46:13,719
Speaker 1: some of these guys playing, you know, I mean when

922
00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:15,839
Speaker 1: he when he misses half his offense, there's like so

923
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:18,880
Speaker 1: much he can do. I would imagine they're gonna get

924
00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:21,960
Speaker 1: this running game going. I think he's gonna be fine,

925
00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:24,480
Speaker 1: and when all the dust settles, they'll have ten eleven

926
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:26,960
Speaker 1: wins and he'll be in the playoffs and have a

927
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:29,200
Speaker 1: good a shot as any Like I wouldn't want to

928
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:32,120
Speaker 1: play the Eagles in the playoffs, you know, I mean,

929
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:34,520
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to touch the Eagles in the playoffs.

930
00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:36,040
Speaker 1: I don't want to no part of Carson Wentz. I'd

931
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:38,600
Speaker 1: rather play like the Niners or Seattle or anything but

932
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:45,400
Speaker 1: the Eagles, especially because I would imagine in uh in

933
00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:52,040
Speaker 1: uh the next couple of weeks that you know, Howie

934
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:57,760
Speaker 1: Roseman will trade for a corner. I people keep texting

935
00:46:57,800 --> 00:46:59,239
Speaker 1: me and d M and me John. There are other

936
00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:01,160
Speaker 1: ways to get mon of that don't include making out

937
00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:04,960
Speaker 1: with someone otherwise, like your podcast, no ship, Like I said,

938
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:09,200
Speaker 1: he maybe he you know, swap drinks. Maybe he swapped

939
00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:12,279
Speaker 1: clean x is. Maybe he did. But like I keep saying,

940
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:15,160
Speaker 1: in the history of the NFL, it's never happened so yeah,

941
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:18,319
Speaker 1: maybe maybe he just took some random person's clean X

942
00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:20,440
Speaker 1: that had mono. That's that's what he did. Is that

943
00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:23,120
Speaker 1: that's what everyone wants. I don't understand. Maybe it's just

944
00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:25,719
Speaker 1: the PC culture, Like is it okay to say, yeah,

945
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:27,560
Speaker 1: he probably made out with the chicken got motto? Why

946
00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:30,919
Speaker 1: why is that such a big deal. He's back, it's over,

947
00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:34,720
Speaker 1: but he got motto that happened. I I can't believe.

948
00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:37,920
Speaker 1: I I'm just I'm floored by how many people have

949
00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:40,560
Speaker 1: been like a jod I can't believe you're jumping to

950
00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:43,960
Speaker 1: conclusions on the motto. I mean, well, he's the guy

951
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:46,759
Speaker 1: that missed the month. It didn't look like Adam Gates

952
00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:49,640
Speaker 1: is happy. Why isn't Sam Donald come out and shot

953
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:51,760
Speaker 1: down how it happened, because that we've all been making

954
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:53,279
Speaker 1: the elephant in the room as he was making out

955
00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:56,080
Speaker 1: some check he sure he sure didn't shoot that down.

956
00:47:56,640 --> 00:47:59,239
Speaker 1: So if you guys want to have conspiracy theories that

957
00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:02,480
Speaker 1: he what klean X with his I don't know his

958
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:05,080
Speaker 1: neighbor or something. I've literally never shared a clean X

959
00:48:05,160 --> 00:48:08,319
Speaker 1: in my life. I would only share a drink with

960
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:13,160
Speaker 1: like family members or girlfriend, right, So just let's just

961
00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:15,000
Speaker 1: call a spade to spade. I don't see why it's

962
00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:17,680
Speaker 1: that hard to just acknowledge the way it happened. When's

963
00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:19,439
Speaker 1: the last time a twenty four year old got mono?

964
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:24,279
Speaker 1: I'll hang up and listen. Here's a see this is

965
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:26,920
Speaker 1: a good This makes me feel good. I love the podcast.

966
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:29,120
Speaker 1: Just wanted to say thanks for bringing it and your

967
00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:31,440
Speaker 1: hot take on Sam Darnold was money. Keep up the

968
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:33,680
Speaker 1: good work. I don't even think it's a hot take.

969
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:37,280
Speaker 1: I just think it's it's pretty well established what happened,

970
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:41,720
Speaker 1: and it's funny. You know, it's NFL quarterback out mono.

971
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:45,120
Speaker 1: I can't can't we laugh at it. I'm recording this

972
00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:48,320
Speaker 1: portion while the game's still going on. It's Danny Downings

973
00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:50,120
Speaker 1: just to like a seventh interception of the game. It

974
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:52,719
Speaker 1: was I think it was literally his third. Hey John,

975
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:55,239
Speaker 1: I'm a Panthers fan and just getting back from the game,

976
00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:58,320
Speaker 1: I realized Gardner is special, just the way he rallies

977
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:02,160
Speaker 1: the team and and things don't go that, uh the

978
00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:04,160
Speaker 1: way that he wants. I would like to ask you

979
00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:06,640
Speaker 1: if you believe that Gardner Minshew is better than Baker

980
00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:11,520
Speaker 1: Mayfield was supposed to be. Uh, he's playing much better

981
00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:13,560
Speaker 1: than him right now. I think he has a much

982
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:16,320
Speaker 1: more natural feel for the pocket. I would say Baker

983
00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:19,000
Speaker 1: maybe has a slightly better arm, but they're they're both

984
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:22,200
Speaker 1: good enough. I think when you watch Gardner Minshew, his

985
00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:26,239
Speaker 1: feel for not freaking out when his offensive lineman gets

986
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:28,880
Speaker 1: smoked by a defensive lineman and just move up in

987
00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:32,840
Speaker 1: the pocket, step up, scramble away is just pretty natural.

988
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:36,520
Speaker 1: There's some innate, you know, something that became innate after

989
00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:39,239
Speaker 1: years of working on it that Baker doesn't seem to

990
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:42,000
Speaker 1: have right now. Like I said this week on one

991
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:44,280
Speaker 1: of my periscopes, which I do all the time on Twitter.

992
00:49:44,719 --> 00:49:47,719
Speaker 1: I do a daily periscope show every day of the

993
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:50,800
Speaker 1: week at about two o'clock Pacific Standard time on Twitter,

994
00:49:50,840 --> 00:49:55,360
Speaker 1: same as my Instagram account at John Middlecoff And listen, Baker,

995
00:49:55,440 --> 00:49:58,360
Speaker 1: you you're a marginal NFL athlete. You could argue a

996
00:49:58,440 --> 00:50:03,480
Speaker 1: below average NFL atlet athlete. Stop running away from the pocket.

997
00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:06,719
Speaker 1: They will catch you every single time. Like when you

998
00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:09,240
Speaker 1: were running away on Monday Night Football from the forty Niners.

999
00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:12,640
Speaker 1: Every single one of those defensive alignment is way faster

1000
00:50:12,719 --> 00:50:16,319
Speaker 1: than you d Ford could catch you running backwards. You

1001
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:20,759
Speaker 1: are slow. You're basically a midget phil Rivers. Stay in

1002
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:23,439
Speaker 1: the pocket and throw the football and if you're gonna

1003
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:25,200
Speaker 1: get hit, that's part of the deal. That's why the

1004
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:28,000
Speaker 1: Browns give you thirty five million dollars. If you do

1005
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:30,759
Speaker 1: not stay in the pocket, you will lose. You're not

1006
00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:33,480
Speaker 1: a scrambling quarterback and you're not Aaron Rodgers and Russell

1007
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:37,360
Speaker 1: Wilson outside the pocket. You are a small philip Rivers.

1008
00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:40,200
Speaker 1: Stay in the pocket or Drew Brees and throw the

1009
00:50:40,239 --> 00:50:43,520
Speaker 1: ball and if you're getting pressure, just throw the ball away.

1010
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:47,319
Speaker 1: Stop running because you're slow and you're not gonna run

1011
00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:50,759
Speaker 1: away from anyone being there live on Monday Night, Like,

1012
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:54,080
Speaker 1: where's this guy going? Who's he running away from? Baker?

1013
00:50:54,120 --> 00:50:57,799
Speaker 1: You're like slower than me. You're not fast that You're

1014
00:50:57,840 --> 00:51:01,560
Speaker 1: not playing Texas Tech anymore. Who you play? You play Seattle.

1015
00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:05,320
Speaker 1: Clowney will catch you. You can tie Clowney's legs together

1016
00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:08,520
Speaker 1: and you crawl and catch Baker Mayfield. He's just Baker

1017
00:51:08,560 --> 00:51:12,160
Speaker 1: Mayfield is a blow average NFL athlete. So when he's

1018
00:51:12,400 --> 00:51:15,240
Speaker 1: being chased by Clowney or Nick Bosa or de Ford

1019
00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:18,280
Speaker 1: or whoever the hell they're playing he's going to get caught.

1020
00:51:18,760 --> 00:51:21,239
Speaker 1: There's a reason Drew Brees and Rivers and a lot

1021
00:51:21,239 --> 00:51:23,560
Speaker 1: of these old school quarterback Brady, they don't run away

1022
00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:26,640
Speaker 1: from anyone because they can't. So as as soon as

1023
00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:30,480
Speaker 1: Baker realizes that he might have a chance, but right now,

1024
00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:34,480
Speaker 1: the way he's playing, trying to scramble away, it's it's

1025
00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:39,360
Speaker 1: a film. It's just it's not gonna work. He's not Baker.

1026
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:41,800
Speaker 1: You're not Lamar Jackson here, buddy, You're You're not running

1027
00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:45,759
Speaker 1: away from anybody. Hey, appreciate you. Do you have the Redskins?

1028
00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:48,680
Speaker 1: Do the Redskins have any hope under Snyder at all?

1029
00:51:49,560 --> 00:51:52,160
Speaker 1: And how is it plausible as him selling the team?

1030
00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:56,040
Speaker 1: It's not what would have to happen in uh for

1031
00:51:56,120 --> 00:51:59,279
Speaker 1: it to work under Snyder for him to sell the team, Well,

1032
00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:02,239
Speaker 1: there's no way on God's green Earth he's selling the team.

1033
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:06,239
Speaker 1: None these teams, a team like the Redskins probably makes

1034
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:12,600
Speaker 1: three hundred million dollars net profit, net profit. So again

1035
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:16,120
Speaker 1: that's and he's got expenses of eighty million dollar payroll,

1036
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:22,040
Speaker 1: million dollar coachings. That zero. No owner is selling NFL

1037
00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:24,920
Speaker 1: teams if they don't have to. None. So unless he

1038
00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:29,600
Speaker 1: gets caught in some like political scandal where he's you know,

1039
00:52:30,120 --> 00:52:33,200
Speaker 1: I don't know, avoiding taxes or doing shady business in Russia,

1040
00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:36,879
Speaker 1: or who knows. He ain't selling the team. So your

1041
00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:40,000
Speaker 1: only hope is that whoever the next coach he hires

1042
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:43,719
Speaker 1: can just make Dwayne Haskins decent because Snyder is not

1043
00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:45,520
Speaker 1: going away. And you read some of these stories. I've

1044
00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:47,399
Speaker 1: never met him. I really don't know that much about

1045
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:50,839
Speaker 1: him besides talk reading about like his business practice, which

1046
00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:52,880
Speaker 1: he was a great businessman before he owned the team.

1047
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:57,400
Speaker 1: Is that he makes people calling Mr Snyder like his

1048
00:52:57,400 --> 00:52:59,719
Speaker 1: his I guess he has young daughters. Maybe they're not

1049
00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:02,239
Speaker 1: that anymore, but back you know, maybe they're twenty now,

1050
00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:04,360
Speaker 1: but when they were like ten and they'd be playing

1051
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:06,400
Speaker 1: with their friends and someone would drop them, you know,

1052
00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:08,800
Speaker 1: his daughter's off and they'd say, here, Dan, here's your kids.

1053
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:11,040
Speaker 1: Are nice to see you, Dan, And he would say, like,

1054
00:53:11,040 --> 00:53:13,600
Speaker 1: call me Mr Snyder. I mean, he's just a nut.

1055
00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 1: There's just there's no where are out it. He's just

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Speaker 1: a unique character. But as long as he owns the team,

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Speaker 1: their borderline enough stink. I mean, they're just they just

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Speaker 1: consistently suck and it's pretty clear now he's the only consistent.

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Speaker 1: They change coaches, they change players, they've changed general manager

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Speaker 1: several times. There's only one consistent, and it's Daniel Snyder.

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Speaker 1: So as long as Daniel Snyder owns the team, you know,

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Speaker 1: you could argue they're screwed. And I think that's that's

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Speaker 1: just And there's just no way selling the team because

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Speaker 1: it's the greatest business investment he's ever made. Whatever he

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Speaker 1: bought it for ninety six or ninety seven, it's worth

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Speaker 1: quadruple now. But it's not even about the team's value.

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Speaker 1: It's the amount of things you run through the team

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Speaker 1: as the owner. He has no expenses every the team

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Speaker 1: pays for everything and then pays him. And it's just

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Speaker 1: it's one of the great business American businesses, and it's

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Speaker 1: not even close, not even close. Appreciate everyone listening, have

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Speaker 1: a good weekend, enjoy the football unless you're a Redskin

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Speaker 1: or a Dolphins fan. And uh, you know, don't get

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Speaker 1: don't get mono because I don't want to talk about it.

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Speaker 1: And then if people get mad about people making out,

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Speaker 1: I guess that's PC on these uh on these Twitter streets.

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Speaker 1: But I'll talk to you next week, so