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Speaker 1: play fake cough lift time fires down field and the

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Speaker 1: a Vikings touchdown. God throws over the middle of which

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Speaker 1: Jared goth As the Night of his life five touchdown

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Speaker 1: Night Football. He led the way for the Los Angeles Rams,

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Speaker 1: the erstwhile team of around the NFL, a thirty eight

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Speaker 1: to thirty one win over the Vikings, who simply could

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Speaker 1: a good fight. An incredible showing from goth and a

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Speaker 1: triple play of wide receivers who all went over a

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Speaker 1: hundred yards. Greg Rosenthal, Chris Westling, Mark Sessor, We're all

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Speaker 1: here at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, and what we

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Speaker 1: got to witness is one of the greatest shootouts in

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Speaker 1: recent primetime memory. We got to see football in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: I think the way it's meant to be played. Something

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Speaker 1: when the players are running off the field and the

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Speaker 1: crowd is going crazy. It's in a sighting brand of football.

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Speaker 1: With Sean McVeigh and Jared Goff put together about two

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Speaker 1: or three passes that were some of the prettiest passes

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Speaker 1: Everyone knows he does enough to bring this team to

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Speaker 1: the Promised Land. He's not someone I'm concerned between the

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Speaker 1: tackles unknown. I haven't been around many playoff atmospheres, but

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Speaker 1: the stadium around third, late third quarter, early fourth, you know,

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Speaker 1: the towels were waving whose house, Ram's house? This place

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Speaker 1: was going pretty wild. West. I loved what you said

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Speaker 1: around the third quarter when you basically said, this is

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Speaker 1: a football game from fifteen years from now. This is

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Speaker 1: put up forty one to forty four points and try

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Speaker 1: about Jared gofv who not for nothing, gentlemen, going into

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Speaker 1: It's such a contrast. It was such a contrast watching

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Rams. John Johnson. Welcome to the Around the

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Speaker 1: NFL podcast. How are you? I'm doing well? Thanks for

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Speaker 1: having How about that? So you had a front row

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Speaker 1: a night like that where it's just they're just going

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Speaker 1: you think it's over, but it's a seven point game

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Speaker 1: Apologize one thing though, Like you see teams around the

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Speaker 1: First of all, you're one of Greg's favorite players. He

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Speaker 1: a label John Johnson the secret Superstar. Yeah. Secondly, do

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Speaker 1: any way. John, thank you for joining us. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: when Todd Gurley and John Johnson talked that way. Because

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Speaker 1: They they could have had a pick six last week

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Speaker 1: if not for an offsides call. On top of everything

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Speaker 1: else they did to the Cardinals. One of the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: touchdown basically came one play after a Trabisky turnover, so

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Speaker 1: it wasn't even a drive. This defense is on fire,

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Speaker 1: and I think from the offensive point of view for

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Speaker 1: the Bears, the rest of the offense is getting a

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Speaker 1: free pass just because Trabinsky is struggling. But Allen Robinson

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Speaker 1: looks a little slower than I remember him in Jacksonville.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't impress me that much. They need to get

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Speaker 1: the ball in three Cohen's hands more often, I think,

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Speaker 1: because they're lacking playmaking ability, um and I don't see

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Speaker 1: any like game breakers on this offense outside of Code Well.

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Speaker 1: We were so excited about Taylor Gabriel. They don't have

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Speaker 1: a receiver over ninety yards other than Allen Robinson, who

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Speaker 1: has been solid. It's hard for me to tell because

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Speaker 1: Trabisky has such obvious limited a year, I want more

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Speaker 1: than solid, right but Trabisky has such limitations right now

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Speaker 1: that it is hard to evaluate the rest of the group.

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Speaker 1: He's thrown for five point seven yards per attempt in

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Speaker 1: a league where everyone's over seven and eight right now,

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Speaker 1: and he's so not calm in the pocket. He's so frenetic,

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Speaker 1: and that's one of the things people are worried about

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Speaker 1: with him, that Okay, this offense is quarterback friendly, but

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Speaker 1: there's a lot to take in mentally, there's a lot

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Speaker 1: to process, and that he's kind of just a little

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Speaker 1: scrambled right now, he's not processing, and it's really helping

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Speaker 1: out one of my favorite little corners of the Internet,

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Speaker 1: which is Mitchell Traubinsky can't throw left truth or Twitter.

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Speaker 1: This has been a thing that's been going This has

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Speaker 1: been going on for a few years. I feel like

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Speaker 1: I crossed his body. Essentially. This is like Christian McCaffrey

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Speaker 1: can't run through the right, except this one has incredible

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Speaker 1: statistical evidence dating back from college and right through UH

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Speaker 1: into the pros Arief Hacan, who's a good writer at

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Speaker 1: the Athletic who has the numbers, and like he right now,

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Speaker 1: Traubisky can't throw past the Linus scrimmage though was left

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Speaker 1: pretty much hasn't done it throughout it. I know everyone

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Speaker 1: brings this up, but the fact that Patrick Mahomes has

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Speaker 1: thrown four more touchdowns in eleven fewer games in Trabisky

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Speaker 1: in essentially an offense with a very similar playbook, with

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Speaker 1: similar coaches that came from the same system. I just

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Speaker 1: like the one thing about this game is at the

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Speaker 1: Bucks for all the mistakes you might get from Ryan Fitzpatrick.

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Speaker 1: If he does what he's been doing and puts up

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Speaker 1: three touchdowns, how do the Bears keep up on off?

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Speaker 1: But they're playing one of the worst defenses in the league,

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Speaker 1: and that's the biggest concern for them. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if that matters as a playoff type of team, is

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Speaker 1: that they're I think they're thirty feet and football outsiders

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Speaker 1: and defense right now, and there's not a lot of

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Speaker 1: solutions on paper. They should be better upfront, but it's

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Speaker 1: a bad secondary playing young players. I think they're thirty

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Speaker 1: thirty second and rushing offense too, so it's basically only

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Speaker 1: their passing game that's working. Erica, do we have um

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Speaker 1: more clarity on the intra inter situation? When to use

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Speaker 1: inter inter is a prefixt used to form words that

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Speaker 1: mean between or among groups. We see examples of this

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Speaker 1: prefects to use many places. The athletic conference that governs

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Speaker 1: high school sporting activities is called the inter High School

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Speaker 1: Athletic Association. When to use intra, intra is a prefix

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Speaker 1: used to form words that mean on the inside. Within contrast,

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Speaker 1: and you immediately see the difference there's no clarity that

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Speaker 1: that sounds like interconference is what you're looking for. Remember

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Speaker 1: the old intercontinental pelt. Yeah, that that meant through multiple continents,

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Speaker 1: it was not just one continent. But again, when the

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Speaker 1: definitions are this unclear even to us, why even say it?

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Speaker 1: Because too many listeners won't even know. Just pick one

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Speaker 1: and say, gets a non conference conference. I like to

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Speaker 1: go with a f C NFC showdown. Moving on, speaking

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Speaker 1: of intra no intra conference battle, the Detroit Lions or

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Speaker 1: took out Erica tamp Post He's New England Patriots on

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Speaker 1: Sunday Night football. That had a hurt. Uh so they're

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Speaker 1: feeling good at one and two. Now they traveled a

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Speaker 1: big d to face the Cowboys. Greg, you wonder how

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Speaker 1: Detroit can build off a win as momentous as Patricia

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Speaker 1: taking out his old boss, and you under the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: any good at all, especially offensively. Jason Garrett, to my mind,

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Speaker 1: hasn't taken enough criticism. It's all on Lennahan or Dak

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Speaker 1: Prescott's like this has been Jason Garrett's team and his offense. Ultimately,

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Speaker 1: he's the one that's in charge and there it's easy

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Speaker 1: to say that they're predictable. But they really are predictable.

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Speaker 1: I read it. I read a good article about how

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Speaker 1: they they always use the same play kind of as

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Speaker 1: a first half drive starter, to the point where their

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Speaker 1: radio announcers make jokes about it. It's where they, you know,

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Speaker 1: have these two tight ends crossing over the over the

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Speaker 1: middle on a bootleg from Dak Prescott and guess what

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Speaker 1: they did it to start the second quarter last week.

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Speaker 1: The Lions knew exactly what's coming, and you know they

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Speaker 1: shut it down. It's I don't know what it is.

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Speaker 1: It's it's the talent, it's the ideas, it's everything. It's

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Speaker 1: a coaching staff that I don't think it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: able to overcome bad talent. I also cannot stand teams

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Speaker 1: to try to tell you all off season we're fine

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Speaker 1: at this position group like two off seasons. So when

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Speaker 1: we heard about Trevor Simeon and Paxton Lynch, we're fine

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Speaker 1: in Denver with our quarterback situation. We're perfectly capable. And

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Speaker 1: you've poor James Palmer has to tell us seven thousand

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Speaker 1: times on NFL Network about Trevor Simeon. This is the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys this offseason telling you we don't need des Bryant.

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Speaker 1: I'm fine with that, or in this case, poor Jane's

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Speaker 1: later but telling us that this, you know, this wide

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Speaker 1: receiver group we're going to develop from within. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: be fine. And what is essentially the more passing heavy

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Speaker 1: offense league right now that we've ever seen. You cannot

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Speaker 1: survive if you can't throw the ball, and they cannot

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Speaker 1: exist that way. It's unbelievable what they're what they have

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Speaker 1: going on. I struggled a field for Jane's slater. I

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Speaker 1: look at my life and then I go on her

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Speaker 1: Instagram and I see what's going on there. It's the

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Speaker 1: life of a successful, hyper successful sports broadcaster. And then

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Speaker 1: just like the Dallas socialite scene, you're just flying. Oh

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Speaker 1: there's boat parties with like sixty to seventy very attractive

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Speaker 1: people on the boat. I would love to I'm at home,

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Speaker 1: you know, essentially watching whatever my children want to watch

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Speaker 1: on television. So I just put away the tissues for

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Speaker 1: old Jane Bear. That's all Jane Bear. Jane Bear, he

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Speaker 1: just made Uh No, my friend Jason Zummalt, his wife

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Speaker 1: is Jane Jane Bear. So maybe I'm gonna stick with

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Speaker 1: your stolen your friend's wife's nickname and and attach it

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Speaker 1: to Jane Slater. These are these are to this, I'll

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Speaker 1: pull it back. Disappointing starts, but the Lions could be

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Speaker 1: fine here if they get to two and two and

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Speaker 1: they got Kenny Golladay just popping. I love watching Kenny

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Speaker 1: Golladay right now. That's a triplet right there. The wide

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Speaker 1: receiver group. He might be their best receiver period. And

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Speaker 1: if you ever get down in the dumps watching Blake

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00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 1: Bortle's film Mechanics, wise, go watch Matthew Stafford for a while.

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00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:34,959
Speaker 1: He's got feet like a boxer, like Muhammad Ali. Moving on,

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills more inter conference battles, travel to lambeau

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Speaker 1: Field to face the Green Bay Packers. Uh, you know

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Speaker 1: what happened with the Bills last week? They shocked the

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Speaker 1: NFL and of course the Minnesota Vikings whooping up on

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Speaker 1: the bikes in Minneapolis. Now their reward is to stay

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Speaker 1: in the NFC North and go to lambeau Field. That's

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Speaker 1: a rough, rough turnaround. Is there any way right Mark

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Speaker 1: that they have another upset in store? This is two

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Speaker 1: times in a row that your inner being wants to

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Speaker 1: throw the analysis to Greg. But then because of the

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Speaker 1: schedule that we have to correct send it to me.

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Speaker 1: I have to do it. Well, this isn't actually my comment.

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Speaker 1: This comes from sports science major Gemma Olivia, who watched

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Speaker 1: the Bills last week and was basically her notes were,

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00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:24,199
Speaker 1: breakout game for Josh Allen, the game we've been looking for.

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Speaker 1: On the ground, he's hurtling players, he's running for that

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Speaker 1: first touchdown. The defense doesn't allow the Vikings to cross

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Speaker 1: the fifty yard line until the third quarter. I cannot

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Speaker 1: wait to see this game and find out if this

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Speaker 1: Bill's team, which everyone thought would be the essentially worst

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Speaker 1: than last year's Browns team, how they respond and if

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Speaker 1: they're going to turn a out to be a team

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Speaker 1: that's more like an eight and eight type club that

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Speaker 1: grits out some of these wins, or if they go

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Speaker 1: back into hibernation totally s the bed and allow the

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Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers just to roll through them. Hey, how

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Speaker 1: come you don't reach out to any mail co eds

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Speaker 1: for these assignments? I have you three? Not really way,

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Speaker 1: Mark Rowles, You're kind of like it was the first people,

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Speaker 1: the first two people who who uh applied. Okay, not

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Speaker 1: a lot of dudes on the old like Instagram messages.

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Speaker 1: You know, I have you three in my ear all day.

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Speaker 1: Check every single day. What's your Instagram handle? A bunch

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Speaker 1: of dudes. There you go, Hollywood, look her up. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Other thoughts on this game general, Yeah, all the credit

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Speaker 1: in the world to the Bills for what they did

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Speaker 1: last week, but they're not sneaking up on anybody this

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Speaker 1: time around. And the Packers there was a little too

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Speaker 1: much handwringing over their offense. Is Dan has pointed out

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Speaker 1: it was drops and drops in a rainy, wet field

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Speaker 1: condition too, so it's a little more excusable in that situation.

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Speaker 1: I thought Rogers missed a couple of throws early, but

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Speaker 1: looked really good down the stretch. I think this offense

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Speaker 1: is just fine. I like that Josh Allen last week,

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Speaker 1: not only either leading rusher on the season, which is problematic,

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Speaker 1: but not only like when he leaps over Bar that

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Speaker 1: you can pull that off, but he lets Bar know

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Speaker 1: about it afterwards and kind of trash talks in his face.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's the reason why the Bill's teammates

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Speaker 1: seemed to love Josh Allen. He is pretty fun to watch.

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Speaker 1: It reminds me a little bit of like a more

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Speaker 1: even more athletic Blake Boardles. So I think there's gonna

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Speaker 1: be some weeks where it all clicks. But the key

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Speaker 1: to the team is just the defense flying around like

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Speaker 1: you can't measure the type of effort and just the

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Speaker 1: way they were flying to the ball in Minnesota. If

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Speaker 1: you can do that week after week, you'll have a chance.

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Speaker 1: It's not every week that Anthony Barr comes across a

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Speaker 1: quarterback who's a better athlete than him. That's right, Uh,

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Speaker 1: Packers and rushing. I know you like Aaron Jones West,

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Speaker 1: they could be giving a little bit more help on

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Speaker 1: the running game as well. I was watching this game

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Speaker 1: the other day and they had a stat on the

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Speaker 1: broadcast that their offense last year average a yard and

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Speaker 1: a half more per play when Aaron Jones is on

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Speaker 1: the field and not on the field, and he just

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Speaker 1: plays at a different speed than Jamal Williams and Time Montgomery,

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Speaker 1: who are better receivers. I don't think you want Aaron

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Speaker 1: Jones to be a big part of your passing game,

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Speaker 1: but he is a difference maker as a runner. I

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Speaker 1: think they shouldn't mean the broadcast The award winning podcast

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Speaker 1: hosted by Erica Tempo seeing Emma time. When I speak

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Speaker 1: the word broadcast, it means in this situation, I'm waiting.

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Speaker 1: I haven't gotten a text in like over six days

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Speaker 1: threatening me to uh, I better retweet her podcast this morning,

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Speaker 1: because I mean, this conversation is worth more than ten

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Speaker 1: of those tweets. That's true. That's what Cig sayss like,

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna tweet it because no one's gonna really

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Speaker 1: care about it. Moving on, the Houston Texans are oh

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Speaker 1: and three joints, uh and you know they're they're they've

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Speaker 1: been all in all the games, every loss has been

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Speaker 1: been seven points or less, but oh and three and

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Speaker 1: is oh and three and now they travel to Indianapolis

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Speaker 1: to face the Colts. A lot of speaking of handwringing

641
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 1: about uh Andrew Luck and whether this is just who

642
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:51,760
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck is now, which is a mediocre or worse quarterback.

643
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:55,479
Speaker 1: So that's a that's a subplot to watch, um West,

644
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: why have Deshaun Watson and the Texans started on three?

645
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 1: What's what's going on over there? Their offensive line is

646
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 1: a mess. They get beat every week. Um and I

647
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 1: think it takes to Saun Watson a little it seems

648
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:09,280
Speaker 1: like it takes him a little bit to get into

649
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 1: the game. They're not really moving the ball until the

650
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 1: second halves of games. Now they have Bruce Ellington out

651
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:16,760
Speaker 1: and he's been a pretty good slot receiver for for Watson,

652
00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:19,160
Speaker 1: so I'm wondering who's going to be the third receiver

653
00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:21,840
Speaker 1: and Lamar Miller you gotta do better than him as

654
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 1: a start coming back. He's just not making play. They've

655
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 1: been waiting for him for a couple of years. And

656
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:27,800
Speaker 1: that bad fumble against the Giants too. I see an

657
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:30,320
Speaker 1: offense that like last year they were. It was so

658
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 1: immediately Rell you could see right away that the the

659
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:37,719
Speaker 1: offense with Watson was such a different operation. And they

660
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 1: do not seem to have an identity, right, I mean

661
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 1: they west mentioned it there by. According to pre profit

662
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 1: buff Focus, their TAC two tackles are ranked dead last

663
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 1: out of seventy seven and fourth to last out of

664
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Speaker 1: seventies seven. So that makes life difficult. Yet they're playing

665
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 1: a team they might not have to score that much

666
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 1: to win. The best unit in this game, which is

667
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:58,960
Speaker 1: shocking to me, is the Colts defense, and so this

668
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 1: is a low scoring type of game. I mean, Andrew

669
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 1: Luck the last two weeks is thrown for a hundred

670
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 1: and seventy seven yards in a hundred and forty one

671
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:07,880
Speaker 1: and the arms just not right. And I hope, I

672
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:10,320
Speaker 1: don't know what. I don't know if it's gonna get better,

673
00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:13,959
Speaker 1: if there's a thought that, like, as he keeps playing

674
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:15,640
Speaker 1: and building it up, it's going to get better, because

675
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 1: if it doesn't, it's so depressing because it's he's floating

676
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:21,800
Speaker 1: these balls in there, and you can tell on the

677
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 1: deeper out routes there everything is a touch pass. And

678
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:28,280
Speaker 1: it's crazy that Andrew Luck of all people that that like,

679
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 1: who would ever thought Andrew Luck? He's the most conservative

680
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 1: QB in the league. So far this season, he ranks

681
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 1: last in air yards per attempt, air distance per attempt,

682
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 1: and he is when you look at this season that

683
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,480
Speaker 1: he's like blame Gabbert in terms of how conservative he

684
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 1: is with the football, and it's like, whoever saw that coming?

685
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 1: It's sort of um depressing. But for the moment, I

686
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:54,640
Speaker 1: think the biggest issue is surrounding talent and that's why

687
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:58,360
Speaker 1: they're only dialing up shallow passes. Their surrounding talent is

688
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:01,320
Speaker 1: absolutely atrocious. When you see him try when you see

689
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 1: him push the bottom a bit. There are times where

690
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:05,520
Speaker 1: he needs a little arm strength right, and I wonder

691
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:07,600
Speaker 1: how much of that is not trusting his arm enough

692
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 1: to let it go. I don't know how much of

693
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:11,880
Speaker 1: that is mental versus physical, But you're right there was

694
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 1: a pass early in the third quarter where he floated

695
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:16,720
Speaker 1: it to the sideline to te why Hilton. It should

696
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:19,200
Speaker 1: have been picked off and not many quarterbacks have that issue.

697
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:22,319
Speaker 1: So I think for the moment, surrounding talents the biggest issue.

698
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:25,040
Speaker 1: But for the future, you had a guy who was

699
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:27,759
Speaker 1: the number one overall pick in the draft because of

700
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:30,280
Speaker 1: his a lot of it because of his arm talent,

701
00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:33,320
Speaker 1: and now you wonder what's his value for the future

702
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:36,439
Speaker 1: if he's not And I think he could develop into

703
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:41,319
Speaker 1: like a Chad I mean even when don't say don't yeh,

704
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:45,319
Speaker 1: don't want to get a running game. By the way,

705
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:48,799
Speaker 1: this maybe the Colts offense that he's been and he's

706
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:51,960
Speaker 1: been wouldn't make many rosters in the NFL, and he's

707
00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:54,400
Speaker 1: starting for the Cools. Let's move on to the New

708
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:58,760
Speaker 1: York Jets got a much needed break after their loss

709
00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:01,560
Speaker 1: against the Browns a Thursday night football. They get UH

710
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:04,960
Speaker 1: ten days off and now they travel UH to Jacksonville

711
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:06,919
Speaker 1: to face the Jaguars, who were coming off a real

712
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 1: bad loss at home against the banged up Titans team

713
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:12,919
Speaker 1: they lost nine six of the Jacks, you would think

714
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 1: are gonna be looking to get right against the Jets,

715
00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:19,840
Speaker 1: who um Greg One thing that I don't know if

716
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 1: a lot was made of the Jets in general, because

717
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:23,360
Speaker 1: it was such a big story with the Browns, but

718
00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:26,040
Speaker 1: that meltdown in the second half. The big the big

719
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:28,839
Speaker 1: part of it for me was they couldn't get anything

720
00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:31,719
Speaker 1: going on offense with Donald and they were going off

721
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:34,080
Speaker 1: the field real quick. And the Jets are playing their

722
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 1: third game in eleven days on a human night in Ohio,

723
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:39,440
Speaker 1: and I think that's as big a reason as any

724
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:41,520
Speaker 1: why they weren't able to get the stops down the stretch.

725
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:44,560
Speaker 1: Because I think this defense is good. I I do too,

726
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:46,600
Speaker 1: but they're still making up for a lack of a

727
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 1: natural pass rush and all their pressure is coming from

728
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:52,399
Speaker 1: defensive backs in these creative blitz his bowls if he's

729
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:54,440
Speaker 1: going out, and he might be going out. According to

730
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 1: Ralph Facciano, who's covered that team forever, there's talk around

731
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:00,399
Speaker 1: or at least that city forever that you there's talk

732
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 1: around him that he could be on the hot seat

733
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:06,840
Speaker 1: right now, that that there's already a feed that shouldn't

734
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:09,759
Speaker 1: he be five wins season? I don't know that was.

735
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:12,840
Speaker 1: I don't going into a season with a rookie quarterback

736
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:15,360
Speaker 1: and then considering either fire him in the off season

737
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 1: or pretty much let him have this season, Like wait

738
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 1: till mid December, what are you gonna get him? Well,

739
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:22,920
Speaker 1: I get not put an interim coach almost never works out.

740
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:24,719
Speaker 1: What's the point? But at the same time, like if

741
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:26,920
Speaker 1: you really do and they they're so good things on

742
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 1: defensive Darren, their defense is fine, but like, is this

743
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:31,799
Speaker 1: the guy you want attached to Sam Donald for the

744
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,400
Speaker 1: for the first five years. I don't think. I honestly

745
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:36,279
Speaker 1: don't think Todd Bowls is the problem right now. I

746
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 1: guess like that was a bad loss and people are

747
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:41,799
Speaker 1: gonna get excited about that. But I'm not thinking to

748
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 1: myself right now, Oh, if they could just fire Todd Bowls,

749
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 1: this team is gonna be. So. I was hanging out

750
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:48,760
Speaker 1: with you yesterday, Dan, and you sounded pretty confident about

751
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:50,719
Speaker 1: this game. I think coming up with Jacksonville or you

752
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 1: sound intrigued by it. You don't like trust Jack. The

753
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,480
Speaker 1: Jaguars like they could. They could roll over the Jets,

754
00:36:57,960 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 1: or they can let me be in another rock fight.

755
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:01,880
Speaker 1: Let me tell you what's going on with the Jaguars offense.

756
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:04,160
Speaker 1: They come out against the Patriots and his big plays

757
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:06,439
Speaker 1: all over the field. This week, I wrote something about

758
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:09,880
Speaker 1: Kenny Bacaro, and I felt guilty for putting the statement

759
00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:12,359
Speaker 1: in there. The Jaguars didn't have a single explosive play

760
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:15,239
Speaker 1: last week because they couldn't. Their quarterback was a mess.

761
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:18,080
Speaker 1: Their quarterback was tentative when he threw, he paused in

762
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 1: his delivery, his footwork cut worse throughout the game. And

763
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 1: this is who Blake Bortles is. One week he's on fire.

764
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 1: The next week his delivery is so awful that it

765
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 1: just holds the whole offense back. That's why, Like this

766
00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:33,480
Speaker 1: isn't gambling advice, but no, no, no, I'm shocked how

767
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:36,280
Speaker 1: big an underdog the Jets were. If I was allowed

768
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:39,640
Speaker 1: to lock up like a team, you know, proving the

769
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:42,440
Speaker 1: desert wrong and you know at least keeping the game close,

770
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:44,480
Speaker 1: this would be I would lock that up. Because so

771
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:46,440
Speaker 1: to me, this is I don't think the Jets are

772
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:47,960
Speaker 1: as bad as people think. I don't, and I don't

773
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:50,279
Speaker 1: necessarily think the Jaguars are as good. What you just

774
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 1: never know which bortles you're gonna get, So it could

775
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:54,399
Speaker 1: be a blowout, or it could be they can't move

776
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:57,719
Speaker 1: the ball defensive But how which Sam Donalds we're gonna get? Also,

777
00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:02,000
Speaker 1: but that developing quarterback? This game, to me has seventeen

778
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:04,799
Speaker 1: fourteen all over it. I don't know what I'm okay

779
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:08,920
Speaker 1: about it. Moving on a f C East showdown time

780
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:12,040
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. They just want to respect. They said, we

781
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:14,839
Speaker 1: got the Dubs, now give us the respect. And as

782
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:18,959
Speaker 1: Mark said eloquently on Wednesday's show, well here's your chance.

783
00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:23,280
Speaker 1: You're going to Foxborough, uh and go beat the Patriots,

784
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:24,640
Speaker 1: who got a lot of issues right now and they're

785
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 1: trying to figure out who they are. I think the

786
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 1: thing from Miami that that they have in their favor

787
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:33,839
Speaker 1: is a really developing secondary with Xavien Howard and Minca Fitzpatrick.

788
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:36,920
Speaker 1: You have a chance to play a banged up Patriots

789
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:39,880
Speaker 1: teams that's shorthanded. A running back does not have Julian Edelman.

790
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:43,359
Speaker 1: We don't know about Josh Gordon, and this is Miami's chance.

791
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:45,839
Speaker 1: They have not done well in in New England, not

792
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 1: unlike many other teams, but I think they have like

793
00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:49,920
Speaker 1: what one win in the past, like forty eons in

794
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 1: New England. This is as close as they've had a

795
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:55,319
Speaker 1: chance to take out New England in years. And the

796
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:58,439
Speaker 1: point yesterday would show me something. Dolphins. If you want

797
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 1: to be that team that we are to take seriously

798
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:03,960
Speaker 1: on this show and going forward, you have to do

799
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:06,800
Speaker 1: show up in this game. I think this is a

800
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,440
Speaker 1: team that has I'm not saying they have a coaching

801
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:11,799
Speaker 1: advantage against the Patriots, but I do think Adam Gates

802
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 1: is a tough guy to prepare for, and on some levels,

803
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 1: this offense is a tough team to prepare for because

804
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 1: they spread it around. There are some things they do

805
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:20,839
Speaker 1: that out almost remind me of the Patriots because they

806
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:23,480
Speaker 1: have about seven or eight guys. Kenny Stills is probably

807
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 1: the key one that you want to stop, but you're

808
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:28,000
Speaker 1: not really sure on any given play who could make

809
00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:30,319
Speaker 1: the big play. And they're very balanced. I think they're

810
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:34,279
Speaker 1: a deep team without huge weaknesses. It's if you look

811
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:36,080
Speaker 1: on both sides of the roster, it's a lot of

812
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:39,680
Speaker 1: just above average position groups. Their offenses top eight, their

813
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:41,880
Speaker 1: defenses top eight, their special teams is top eight right

814
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:44,839
Speaker 1: now according to Football Outsiders, and their tackles are both

815
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 1: playing really well protecting Ryan Tannell. It's been a great start.

816
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:50,680
Speaker 1: I don't think it's been a fluke. It's been with

817
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:52,600
Speaker 1: some weird games, but I don't think it's been a fluke.

818
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,840
Speaker 1: I wonder how much you know, when Albert Wilson signed

819
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:57,640
Speaker 1: for like eight million dollars a year, everyone was like,

820
00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 1: why did you just give Albert william million dollar? I

821
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:03,440
Speaker 1: wonder how much of it is that every quarterback guru

822
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:06,440
Speaker 1: needs to have a jet sweep, fly, sweet fake guy

823
00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:08,960
Speaker 1: in their offense, and Albert Wilson's that guy. It seems

824
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:12,080
Speaker 1: like all the best play callers have this in their offense,

825
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:14,759
Speaker 1: and Albert Wilson's was signed to fill that role. And

826
00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 1: it came up huge against the Raiders next week. By

827
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:22,040
Speaker 1: the way, Minca Fitzpatrick, who, yeah, Jordy Nelson's big game

828
00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 1: came because Patrick I was wondering where you're going with this.

829
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:28,440
Speaker 1: You're you're hitting out at the Dolphins fans. Fitzpatrick, who's

830
00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:30,320
Speaker 1: going to have a good career and he's gonna be

831
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:33,279
Speaker 1: a good player, and he's been good in many of

832
00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:37,040
Speaker 1: the games this year. He got abused by Jordy Nelson. Overall, though,

833
00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:39,280
Speaker 1: I think they've hit on this trap pick. I agree,

834
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:42,799
Speaker 1: greg Um. I just wanna I wanna throw this out

835
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:44,840
Speaker 1: there to you. You famously have never picked against the

836
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:48,440
Speaker 1: Patriots on this podcast, and I just want to let

837
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:50,359
Speaker 1: you know. And it doesn't matter what I think, because

838
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:52,880
Speaker 1: it's all about when you look in the mirror. But

839
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:54,719
Speaker 1: I I say, if you want to look in the

840
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:56,960
Speaker 1: mirror and lock up the Pats this week, I wouldn't

841
00:40:57,040 --> 00:40:59,200
Speaker 1: judge you for it. Yeah, I am. I already I

842
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 1: told jam Pot it's happening. It's rare that you get

843
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 1: a chance to lock up the Patriots. It feels like,

844
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:07,120
Speaker 1: did you did you look in the mirror? What did

845
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 1: you say? I saw one and two team with a

846
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 1: lot of problems that on paper looked a lot worse

847
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 1: than the Dolphins. So I don't feel bad about that

848
00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 1: at all. I do think they're gonna come out, They're

849
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:18,759
Speaker 1: gonna play their best. I don't like the fact that

850
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:22,120
Speaker 1: they're heavy favorites, considering like what's been going on. Are

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Speaker 1: they in the lock it up? Zone. So you've been

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Speaker 1: calibrating recently. Yeah, just at the edge, Just at the edge. Um,

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Speaker 1: I looked in the mirror and I saw Greg peeking

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Speaker 1: over my shoulder. I'm locking up the Patriots. Okay, me too.

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Speaker 1: What's the point I I can I under it. What's

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Speaker 1: the point of having the same ones as the other people?

857
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Speaker 1: I thought Greg is a Patriots fan. There was something,

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Speaker 1: there was a hook to that. You guys, I don't know,

859
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Speaker 1: but I want to lock up against the three. I

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Speaker 1: thought that was a nice moment. Okay, good luck to

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Speaker 1: the Pats. Everybody told me they're terrible. So I picked

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Speaker 1: a terrible team going to get some undefeased. I'm not

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Speaker 1: not in terrible. They're heavily favored. I mean they were

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Speaker 1: right at that edge. I've I've figured out the lock

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Speaker 1: zone is about right around the time. I'm not locking

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Speaker 1: this team up. That's that feels cheap to me. So

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Speaker 1: you're taking it back? Yeah, there you go, So taking

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Speaker 1: that one back? Can I wear my Patriots in Mondola,

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Speaker 1: Jersey this weekend? Like in spite? Or is that gonna

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Speaker 1: be if if they lose then you would have to

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Speaker 1: do a walk of shame down Free Country. Yeah? Um,

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Speaker 1: and I should on the subjects of lock I did

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00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:29,120
Speaker 1: a bad job. I missed it. Um. I want to

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Speaker 1: lock up the Texans to get off the snide and Indianapolis.

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Speaker 1: I actually and this is on my sheet of paper

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00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:38,440
Speaker 1: and completely forgot to mention this, but I locked up

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Speaker 1: the Falcons. Alright, we're all Do you know what else

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00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:45,239
Speaker 1: I saw when I looked into mer Are We were

879
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:47,520
Speaker 1: on this Patriots game, So I'm gonna throw out some Patriots.

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Speaker 1: needs of other people want to get open in order

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00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:01,840
Speaker 1: for him to get open. And and Sony Michelle, that

884
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:03,400
Speaker 1: was one of the worst games I've ever seen a

885
00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:05,800
Speaker 1: running back play. You get him an open space and

886
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Speaker 1: he can't make anyone miss hats getting Trey Flowers and

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Speaker 1: Patrick chungback. Josh Gordon. I think Josh Gordon probably plays

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Speaker 1: to talk about the team that defeated Erica's beloved Patriots

915
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Speaker 1: in the latest Super Bowl, the Philadelphia Eagles or two

916
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:48,040
Speaker 1: and one. Uh. They squeezed by the Colts in Week three,

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Speaker 1: and now they travel to Tennessee to face the Titoons.

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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz Chris westling back uh, his second game in

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Speaker 1: the lineup. When you got a chance to look at

920
00:44:57,760 --> 00:44:59,960
Speaker 1: that game tape, are you okay with how Wentz a look?

921
00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:03,640
Speaker 1: He made some mistakes. He turned it over twice in

922
00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:08,160
Speaker 1: his deep in his own territory. He missed some throws. Um,

923
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:10,759
Speaker 1: he's not quite as fast as he was. There was

924
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:12,600
Speaker 1: one play where he ran to the sideline and was

925
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:14,640
Speaker 1: forced to slide before he got to the sideline because

926
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Speaker 1: he couldn't outrun the guy to the edge. That said,

927
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 1: there were a couple of Houdini escape acts that are

928
00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:22,520
Speaker 1: trademarked to him. Um. His arm was so much stronger

929
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:25,799
Speaker 1: than Andrew lux arm in that game. Um, I think

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00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:28,879
Speaker 1: Wentz is he's getting back to who he was. He's

931
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:31,120
Speaker 1: not quite there yet, but he's still one of the

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Speaker 1: top twelve or fifteen quarterbacks in the NFL. When he

933
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Speaker 1: was running out of the pocket, did he looked slower

934
00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:37,720
Speaker 1: to you? Yes, he definitely did to me, lumbering almost

935
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Speaker 1: running towards I thought, like the physical his ability to

936
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Speaker 1: cut and make people like that, to me jumped off

937
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:47,520
Speaker 1: the screen. I was like, Wow, he's all when he

938
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Speaker 1: was when he was on the r speed. Yeah, like

939
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Speaker 1: the physical part. And I think they were and they

940
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 1: talked about it this week that. I think they're really

941
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:56,960
Speaker 1: excited about that. I think the offensive issues that we've

942
00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:00,200
Speaker 1: talked we talked about on Wednesday, that is more than

943
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:03,040
Speaker 1: just Carson Wentz. And I think that team is getting over.

944
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Speaker 1: They're gonna get Elshan Jeffrey back. It sounds like j

945
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:07,839
Speaker 1: J I practice that that's the been the issue there.

946
00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:10,320
Speaker 1: Their guys are out, and that's Jeffrey. I wouldn't imagine

947
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Speaker 1: he's going to be immediately insulted, inserted and have the

948
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Speaker 1: role that maybe he had it by the end of

949
00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:17,719
Speaker 1: last year. They're gonna work him back. But as he

950
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Speaker 1: gets more into the mix. That's gonna be a big,

951
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:21,880
Speaker 1: big addition for him. He's such an important part of it.

952
00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:24,120
Speaker 1: And that Colts game happened in the driving rain as well.

953
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:26,120
Speaker 1: I would say this watching the Eagles, I don't know

954
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Speaker 1: if it better if there's a team in the league

955
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Speaker 1: that does a better job with its tight ends in

956
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:34,279
Speaker 1: the passing game. I mean Dallas Scott. Uh. They lost

957
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:37,160
Speaker 1: Roddy McCloud for the season today or at least put

958
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Speaker 1: him on injured reserve, and that is a huge loss.

959
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:43,200
Speaker 1: He was He was an underrated, above average starting safety

960
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:45,320
Speaker 1: and they've they've had a lot of those injuries. But

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Speaker 1: I do want to mention I, like my Fletcher coxsaid,

962
00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:50,680
Speaker 1: defensive player of the Year for the season, was feeling

963
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:52,960
Speaker 1: pretty good. I do not like Marcus Mariotta in the

964
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:54,719
Speaker 1: spot he is going to start, but he still has

965
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:57,680
Speaker 1: issues with the elbow. Not that tightens a little bit

966
00:46:57,719 --> 00:47:01,000
Speaker 1: of credit the NFC. NFC South had a chance to

967
00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:04,080
Speaker 1: put them away without both starting tackles, without their quarterback,

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Speaker 1: and now Jack Conklin's participating in full practices. The right

969
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:12,640
Speaker 1: tackle Tarylor wands back UH Taiwan Taylor is probably should

970
00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:15,400
Speaker 1: get some more snaps now that Richard Matthews has requested

971
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:18,360
Speaker 1: his release, so we're gonna see some players. That was

972
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 1: an odd, an odd scenario, I thought after Vonte Davis,

973
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:22,920
Speaker 1: nothing is really odd to me. But it's very odd.

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00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:27,360
Speaker 1: It's very similar. He's literally signed similar He signed to

975
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:28,880
Speaker 1: it in the middle of a game now, But he

976
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:32,120
Speaker 1: signed a contral like a week three or four weeks ago.

977
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Speaker 1: And he had a quote just two weeks ago saying,

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Speaker 1: I'm you know, I'm coming back from injury. Whatever role

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00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:38,600
Speaker 1: they want me to use me in, I'm I'm fine

980
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:40,480
Speaker 1: with that. And then three weeks in the season he says,

981
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 1: you're not using me enough. Please cut me. Let's move on.

982
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:46,399
Speaker 1: A NFC West battle the Seattle Seahawks one and two.

983
00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:49,520
Speaker 1: They got it done against Dallas last week after back

984
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:53,480
Speaker 1: to back lusses to start the season. They travel ter Arizona. Uh,

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Speaker 1: what's the name of their stadium? Though? What are people

986
00:47:56,120 --> 00:48:00,200
Speaker 1: call the farm? Farm? Farm? To face a car those

987
00:48:00,239 --> 00:48:02,000
Speaker 1: offense that has been sent to the farm if you

988
00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:07,359
Speaker 1: catch why is he called the farm? I know, uh yeah,

989
00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:09,800
Speaker 1: but we put that offense out the pasture here it

990
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:14,800
Speaker 1: is greg The Cardinals are last in total offense, scoring, rushing, passing,

991
00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:20,120
Speaker 1: third down turnovers, big plays, yards were play. Oh my god.

992
00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:22,759
Speaker 1: But Josh Rosen is here to save the day? Is he?

993
00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:26,359
Speaker 1: It's good that he's had practice playing behind a bad

994
00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:29,000
Speaker 1: offensive line. That was the case that U. C. L A.

995
00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:31,279
Speaker 1: And I think for the most party through pretty well

996
00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:34,360
Speaker 1: against pressure. But this is this is an uphill battle.

997
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:36,320
Speaker 1: I think he's in the worst position of any of

998
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:39,799
Speaker 1: the rookie quarterbacks that that have to start. You just hope,

999
00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:43,200
Speaker 1: you hope Larry Fitzgerald is healthy and right because he

1000
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:45,839
Speaker 1: hasn't quite looked like himself yet this year. And David

1001
00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:48,120
Speaker 1: Johnson in the running game. You just hope that they

1002
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:51,560
Speaker 1: can somehow create an offensive round Rosen that everyone else

1003
00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:53,520
Speaker 1: gets better. Isn't that he's not enough to save it?

1004
00:48:53,719 --> 00:48:57,400
Speaker 1: Isn't it a harsh indictment on this offensive coaching staff

1005
00:48:57,440 --> 00:48:59,640
Speaker 1: that David Johnson is what he is after three weeks

1006
00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:03,160
Speaker 1: is And that Chase Edmonds, their backup running back, has

1007
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:06,680
Speaker 1: more receptions than their number three receiver. That Christian Kirk,

1008
00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:09,239
Speaker 1: their rookie who was built as a slot receiver, is

1009
00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:12,040
Speaker 1: leading the team at ten point one yards per reception.

1010
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:14,600
Speaker 1: There is no big play element in this offense, and

1011
00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:17,480
Speaker 1: this is a tough matchup the Seahawks defense. They've had

1012
00:49:17,520 --> 00:49:20,680
Speaker 1: a pretty good matchups, but for the most part, their

1013
00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:23,759
Speaker 1: numbers are great, and Bradley McDougald has been on fire,

1014
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:26,400
Speaker 1: so him and Errol Thomas the best safety combo in

1015
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:29,360
Speaker 1: the league. Bobby Wagner was incredible last week. Frank Clark's

1016
00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:31,200
Speaker 1: playing as well as he ever. It's like the Seahawks

1017
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:33,839
Speaker 1: defense isn't that far off of what you would want.

1018
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:36,359
Speaker 1: They they're fine, they can win this game on their own.

1019
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:39,640
Speaker 1: And suddenly there two and two H Gardens are a

1020
00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:42,320
Speaker 1: bit of a mess right now. Mark Sessler, you'd have

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00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:44,080
Speaker 1: you have something you'd like to share with the group

1022
00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:46,920
Speaker 1: in the audience. Oh well, occasionally we you know, we

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00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 1: banned phrases on this show, and anyone is is always

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00:49:50,239 --> 00:49:52,839
Speaker 1: invited to do it. But um, I've run into one

1025
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 1: that I am absolutely done with. Really, I am absolutely

1026
00:49:57,080 --> 00:49:58,960
Speaker 1: done with this phrase. And this came from that, and

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Speaker 1: I listen, I brought this up on myself, but that

1028
00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:03,640
Speaker 1: tweet about drinking bleach of Josh Gordon wound up with

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Speaker 1: a hand team. It did not also quote retweeting I

1030
00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:09,960
Speaker 1: didn't need that at all, I didn't need that at all.

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00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:12,600
Speaker 1: But one thing that I noticed, and you ever have,

1032
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Speaker 1: like you have like the the female friend that's constantly

1033
00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:19,360
Speaker 1: getting like killed, like getting millions of messages on Facebook

1034
00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:21,960
Speaker 1: or in general, and she'll complain rightly, so that like

1035
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:26,600
Speaker 1: when eighty when a hundred guys write you of them

1036
00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:29,680
Speaker 1: are hideously dumb and say the same stupid thing they

1037
00:50:29,719 --> 00:50:31,520
Speaker 1: have no and then maybe one or two people shining.

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00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:34,239
Speaker 1: It was the same thing with with this mostly um

1039
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Speaker 1: a group of people coming from western, northern, eastern and

1040
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:40,840
Speaker 1: southern Massachusetts. After this tweet over and over, there are

1041
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:42,839
Speaker 1: maybe one or two creative responses, but then I would

1042
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Speaker 1: say eight hundred to nine hundred were simply this aged. Well, oh,

1043
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:52,600
Speaker 1: that's a good one to ban that phrase. He's out.

1044
00:50:55,320 --> 00:50:57,279
Speaker 1: I think we need the cannona. We gotta fired out

1045
00:50:57,320 --> 00:51:02,040
Speaker 1: of the lexicon. I'm with you. It's gone. Sometimes people

1046
00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:05,600
Speaker 1: use it on ironically too. I've gotten that on Twitter,

1047
00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:08,200
Speaker 1: right if you are kind of old article that actually

1048
00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:10,120
Speaker 1: worked out and they said it. But even that at home,

1049
00:51:10,239 --> 00:51:13,600
Speaker 1: it's no. If you are someone that employs this typically

1050
00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:16,279
Speaker 1: on Twitter, you need to check yourself at the door.

1051
00:51:16,360 --> 00:51:19,600
Speaker 1: At the same time, there has been a bit of

1052
00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:22,160
Speaker 1: an alteration with a previously banned phrase. Can I just

1053
00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:24,680
Speaker 1: before you move on, since you were in that realm,

1054
00:51:25,360 --> 00:51:27,280
Speaker 1: let me just throw out there the idea of banning

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00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:31,320
Speaker 1: uh quote retweeting something from somebody and then just writing

1056
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:36,600
Speaker 1: this period. Yeah, just hammer the retweet right. You're adding nothing.

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Speaker 1: You are adding nothing that's in that's that's in this shist.

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Speaker 1: You anti dispire it. Add something if you're in a retweet, right.

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Speaker 1: That thing is we're cleaning up social media. That thing

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00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:49,440
Speaker 1: is out here is one um that I am. As

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00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:52,239
Speaker 1: soon as the death siren ends, I am unblocking this

1062
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:57,959
Speaker 1: phrase until October twelve, until twelve, living your best life.

1063
00:51:58,520 --> 00:52:01,959
Speaker 1: Go do it, Go enjoy yourself. This is so enjoy

1064
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:03,640
Speaker 1: it if you want to use it, Erica, you can

1065
00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:05,480
Speaker 1: use it all you want. Why why are you? Why

1066
00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:07,080
Speaker 1: are you standing down on this? I don't why only

1067
00:52:07,160 --> 00:52:10,360
Speaker 1: for two weeks? In my mind? In my mind, it

1068
00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:13,440
Speaker 1: is no. I'm allowing people to you take something away,

1069
00:52:14,239 --> 00:52:16,400
Speaker 1: find out if you really like it or not use

1070
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:18,680
Speaker 1: it liberally if you were before, and then we're going

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00:52:18,719 --> 00:52:20,680
Speaker 1: to ban it again, and you I think they'll they'll

1072
00:52:20,719 --> 00:52:22,320
Speaker 1: come around to agree, because I've gotten a lot of

1073
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:24,839
Speaker 1: flak for living your best life. Well, let's let's be real,

1074
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:28,360
Speaker 1: this has not been uh the brightest moment for the

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00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:31,640
Speaker 1: Banned word committee. This whole best There is no committe

1076
00:52:31,719 --> 00:52:35,759
Speaker 1: because since since you banned it, you've been using people

1077
00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:38,719
Speaker 1: have been using it more, and now you're unbanning it.

1078
00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:43,200
Speaker 1: This is like NFL like rules changing behavior with It's

1079
00:52:43,239 --> 00:52:45,080
Speaker 1: got a lot of criticism. One thing that you said

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00:52:45,120 --> 00:52:47,880
Speaker 1: it is incorrect. There is no committee. I am the committee.

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00:52:48,080 --> 00:52:50,920
Speaker 1: Well you said anyone is free to do. You can

1082
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:53,759
Speaker 1: operate as a one man committee. To Louis the Sun King,

1083
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:58,560
Speaker 1: you guys just that I think I posted it literally

1084
00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:01,239
Speaker 1: in my Instagram story last night and Mark took a

1085
00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:03,600
Speaker 1: screenshot and send it to me and he said, you

1086
00:53:03,719 --> 00:53:07,879
Speaker 1: truly are living your best life. The what do is you? Please?

1087
00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:12,760
Speaker 1: The The only issue is from you know, how people

1088
00:53:12,840 --> 00:53:16,680
Speaker 1: see it, Mark, how people see it as you kind

1089
00:53:16,680 --> 00:53:19,200
Speaker 1: of flip flopping a little bit, and that just here,

1090
00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:21,759
Speaker 1: here's this look that is something that you have an

1091
00:53:21,800 --> 00:53:24,560
Speaker 1: issue with. I'm trying how I'm saying what what is

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00:53:24,600 --> 00:53:27,680
Speaker 1: the public see? I think everyone around this table has

1093
00:53:27,719 --> 00:53:29,879
Speaker 1: that I do not care about the public at all.

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00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:34,600
Speaker 1: One word optics right, it's pretty rare. You're kissing cousin

1095
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:38,120
Speaker 1: buddy over there, raising eyebrows. I would just say one thing.

1096
00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:41,840
Speaker 1: If you're gonna do a hammer, drop drop the hammer,

1097
00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:47,480
Speaker 1: don't pick it up. I am the committee. The Cleveland

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00:53:47,520 --> 00:53:51,399
Speaker 1: Browns Mark Sessler won one and one big dramatic win

1099
00:53:51,640 --> 00:53:55,040
Speaker 1: on Thursday Night football. They're the new America's sweetheart and

1100
00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:57,759
Speaker 1: now they get a chance. It's on the road, but

1101
00:53:57,800 --> 00:54:02,000
Speaker 1: they get a winless Oakland Raiders team. Uh, Mark, this

1102
00:54:02,200 --> 00:54:04,800
Speaker 1: is a great spot, Baker Mayfield making his first start

1103
00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:07,120
Speaker 1: against the mediocre team. But you really want to get

1104
00:54:07,160 --> 00:54:10,160
Speaker 1: some momentum rolling on the season, go get another w.

1105
00:54:10,760 --> 00:54:13,879
Speaker 1: Double it up, right, I think so, because you can't

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00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:18,120
Speaker 1: follow up what just happened with a raging dud against

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00:54:18,160 --> 00:54:21,080
Speaker 1: a team that cannot rush the passer. And my one

1108
00:54:21,160 --> 00:54:24,080
Speaker 1: thing watching all of these Raiders games under Gruden is

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00:54:24,120 --> 00:54:26,760
Speaker 1: I see a team that does some nice stuff throughout

1110
00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:29,759
Speaker 1: but cannot finish. They cannot find a way to close

1111
00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:32,239
Speaker 1: it out in the fourth quarter of all three games. Right,

1112
00:54:32,320 --> 00:54:34,759
Speaker 1: They could not handle it against the Broncos. They mean,

1113
00:54:34,800 --> 00:54:37,080
Speaker 1: the Rams took them out late in that first game.

1114
00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:39,719
Speaker 1: But the Miami game to this team cannot figure out

1115
00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:41,759
Speaker 1: how to how to seal the deal in the fourth quarter.

1116
00:54:42,040 --> 00:54:44,719
Speaker 1: And I really think this is a nice matchup on

1117
00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:48,440
Speaker 1: paper for Baker Mayfield against the defense that cannot get

1118
00:54:48,480 --> 00:54:51,880
Speaker 1: to the quarterback. Three nice things about the Oakland Raiders.

1119
00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:55,399
Speaker 1: They score on the opening drive every week. Jared Cook

1120
00:54:55,520 --> 00:54:58,120
Speaker 1: is playing like a Pro Bowl tight end. And Leon

1121
00:54:58,239 --> 00:55:01,000
Speaker 1: Hall was one of the afterthought pick cups of the season.

1122
00:55:01,120 --> 00:55:04,080
Speaker 1: That guy was written off as like done for his career,

1123
00:55:04,160 --> 00:55:07,400
Speaker 1: and now he's their best defensive back. But Baker Mayfield,

1124
00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:10,040
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a new Tomorrow. Hope dancing and

1125
00:55:10,080 --> 00:55:13,200
Speaker 1: shoulder pads turn your whole franchise around. We know the

1126
00:55:13,320 --> 00:55:16,240
Speaker 1: range of possibilities because we've seen them. We've seen Brett

1127
00:55:16,320 --> 00:55:19,759
Speaker 1: Farve take over for Don Mikowski and then turn Green

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Speaker 1: Bay from what Buffalo is now, which is what they

1129
00:55:22,800 --> 00:55:25,560
Speaker 1: were in the late eighties early nineties, a Siberia of

1130
00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:28,959
Speaker 1: the NFL into Oh, we're going to celebrate their history again.

1131
00:55:29,360 --> 00:55:31,719
Speaker 1: We've seen Peyton Manning come to the Colts and as

1132
00:55:31,800 --> 00:55:34,359
Speaker 1: Dave Lederman said, change the skyline. These are the range

1133
00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:37,800
Speaker 1: of possibilities for Cleveland. I also, I hope they're not

1134
00:55:37,960 --> 00:55:41,839
Speaker 1: I hope they're not sucking Browns fans in because tortured franchises.

1135
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:46,040
Speaker 1: We talked about this yesterday too, Mark Sometimes tortured franchises,

1136
00:55:46,719 --> 00:55:49,160
Speaker 1: they're really good at sucking you in, right, But Baker

1137
00:55:49,239 --> 00:55:53,160
Speaker 1: Mayfield he does it because what he did in that

1138
00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:56,320
Speaker 1: first game against the Jets was totally consistent with what

1139
00:55:56,440 --> 00:56:00,200
Speaker 1: we saw in the preseason and what we saw from

1140
00:56:00,280 --> 00:56:03,560
Speaker 1: him in college, and just the confidence that his ability.

1141
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:06,080
Speaker 1: We joke about the cutting the cake and talking, but

1142
00:56:06,200 --> 00:56:07,799
Speaker 1: he can do a lot of things at once. While

1143
00:56:08,080 --> 00:56:11,120
Speaker 1: defenders are running after him. He's common enough during the

1144
00:56:11,160 --> 00:56:14,120
Speaker 1: game to be motioning to his receiver looks and what

1145
00:56:14,239 --> 00:56:16,879
Speaker 1: have we said all along? He's got to be a ghostbuster? Well,

1146
00:56:17,320 --> 00:56:19,960
Speaker 1: what's going on this week? No mention of Hugh Jackson's job,

1147
00:56:20,320 --> 00:56:23,560
Speaker 1: No mention of Josh Gordon, no mention of Tyrod Taylor

1148
00:56:23,600 --> 00:56:27,279
Speaker 1: in a quarterback controversy. He's already busting ghosts. This is

1149
00:56:28,200 --> 00:56:31,000
Speaker 1: and he's going to a team to face the defense

1150
00:56:31,040 --> 00:56:32,960
Speaker 1: in Oakland that's only given up seventeen points in the

1151
00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:34,799
Speaker 1: first half of games this year, and you've pretty much

1152
00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:37,160
Speaker 1: shut people down. And the thing that I hate is

1153
00:56:37,200 --> 00:56:39,279
Speaker 1: that they don't build a big lead it's always not

1154
00:56:39,360 --> 00:56:41,320
Speaker 1: as big a lead as possible. And it's because of

1155
00:56:41,560 --> 00:56:44,280
Speaker 1: one philosophy that gruten has that is very old school

1156
00:56:44,320 --> 00:56:46,600
Speaker 1: that wasn't picked on over the summer, and is that

1157
00:56:46,760 --> 00:56:49,520
Speaker 1: he believes in completions, like if you read if you

1158
00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:52,040
Speaker 1: read his books, that he believes completions are the most

1159
00:56:52,080 --> 00:56:55,440
Speaker 1: important stat and that's why you see these twelve fourteen

1160
00:56:55,520 --> 00:56:57,239
Speaker 1: play drives. And I just that that's not how the

1161
00:56:57,360 --> 00:57:00,400
Speaker 1: NFL works right now, Like defenses are happy to let

1162
00:57:00,440 --> 00:57:02,759
Speaker 1: you go on ten twelve fourteen play drives because they

1163
00:57:02,760 --> 00:57:04,279
Speaker 1: don't think you're gonna be able to finish it off.

1164
00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:06,040
Speaker 1: And that's what we see. They moved the ball down

1165
00:57:06,080 --> 00:57:08,000
Speaker 1: the field and then they end up kicking a field

1166
00:57:08,040 --> 00:57:09,759
Speaker 1: goal and then they don't score that many points and

1167
00:57:09,800 --> 00:57:13,000
Speaker 1: real quick like, isn't that first drive because Gruden is

1168
00:57:13,120 --> 00:57:15,080
Speaker 1: the script or he scripps that first drive and then

1169
00:57:15,160 --> 00:57:16,920
Speaker 1: it doesn't happen again. Do we all have the browns

1170
00:57:16,960 --> 00:57:19,120
Speaker 1: at the scam? I do. I was really thinking about

1171
00:57:19,200 --> 00:57:21,240
Speaker 1: locking it up because this is a great matchup for

1172
00:57:21,320 --> 00:57:24,360
Speaker 1: their defense, which is turning some balls. Turn They have

1173
00:57:24,440 --> 00:57:27,040
Speaker 1: eleven turnovers already, almost matching Lesson. I think it's gonna

1174
00:57:27,040 --> 00:57:29,000
Speaker 1: be a close game. Do we all have the Browns

1175
00:57:29,040 --> 00:57:33,040
Speaker 1: in this game? I am feet first diving into the

1176
00:57:33,080 --> 00:57:36,400
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield hype train. Yeah we do. That's never happened

1177
00:57:36,400 --> 00:57:40,280
Speaker 1: on this podcast before. Now because now are really kissing

1178
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:45,160
Speaker 1: a four across the brown to win a game. Moving on,

1179
00:57:45,240 --> 00:57:46,640
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever picked him to win a

1180
00:57:46,680 --> 00:57:52,840
Speaker 1: game on the honest forty Niners. A sad situation there.

1181
00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:56,520
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo officially diagnosed on Monday with a torn a

1182
00:57:56,600 --> 00:57:58,520
Speaker 1: c L and maybe some m c L damage, which

1183
00:57:58,640 --> 00:58:02,360
Speaker 1: was like with Carson Wentz that that's a kind of

1184
00:58:02,480 --> 00:58:05,959
Speaker 1: a a real hardcore rehab. It's gonna take some time.

1185
00:58:06,520 --> 00:58:09,960
Speaker 1: We'll see him again next September. Uh, But for now,

1186
00:58:10,160 --> 00:58:11,720
Speaker 1: the Niners kind of have to put a halt on

1187
00:58:11,800 --> 00:58:15,000
Speaker 1: all that optimism. They travel to l A to face

1188
00:58:15,120 --> 00:58:18,400
Speaker 1: the Chargers, who are off to a Charger esque start.

1189
00:58:18,640 --> 00:58:21,520
Speaker 1: Some good things, some bad things, and ultimately they're putting

1190
00:58:21,560 --> 00:58:24,320
Speaker 1: themselves in a hole at one and two. Here's a chance, though,

1191
00:58:24,880 --> 00:58:27,320
Speaker 1: h West, for them to get a w against the

1192
00:58:27,480 --> 00:58:29,560
Speaker 1: Niners team, which I'm sure isn't a bit of shock

1193
00:58:29,680 --> 00:58:31,479
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, I could not look in the mirror

1194
00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:34,000
Speaker 1: and lock this game up. Um. I saw that Greg

1195
00:58:34,040 --> 00:58:37,280
Speaker 1: tweeted that he's talking himself into c J. Bethard not

1196
00:58:37,480 --> 00:58:39,680
Speaker 1: being a total disaster, and I agree with that. I've

1197
00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:42,520
Speaker 1: I've had that talk with myself that CJ. Be beth

1198
00:58:42,680 --> 00:58:44,880
Speaker 1: beth was drafted in the third round for a reason

1199
00:58:45,440 --> 00:58:48,160
Speaker 1: that Kyle Jnham believes he shares a lot of qualities

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00:58:48,200 --> 00:58:51,560
Speaker 1: to Kirk Cousins and maybe this guy. It was hard

1201
00:58:51,600 --> 00:58:54,000
Speaker 1: to ask a backup to come in last year behind

1202
00:58:54,080 --> 00:58:57,880
Speaker 1: Brian Hoyerie and moving offense that didn't have much going

1203
00:58:57,960 --> 00:58:59,600
Speaker 1: for it at the time. It has a little bit

1204
00:58:59,640 --> 00:59:02,200
Speaker 1: more ing for it now. I'm not giving up on

1205
00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:05,680
Speaker 1: c J. Bethard making the watchable, but the Chargers are

1206
00:59:05,720 --> 00:59:08,600
Speaker 1: so much better and and it starts with that offense

1207
00:59:08,760 --> 00:59:10,800
Speaker 1: and a guy like Mike Williams who had a great

1208
00:59:10,880 --> 00:59:15,320
Speaker 1: game and it's already to me he's displaced Tyrelle Williams

1209
00:59:15,360 --> 00:59:17,320
Speaker 1: and Travis Benjamin is the number two option in that

1210
00:59:17,400 --> 00:59:20,600
Speaker 1: passing game. Yeah, the problem with the forty Niners is

1211
00:59:20,640 --> 00:59:22,680
Speaker 1: they don't have a defense. So it's one thing to

1212
00:59:22,800 --> 00:59:25,480
Speaker 1: have a quarterback like Bethard who does have a good

1213
00:59:25,560 --> 00:59:27,520
Speaker 1: running game. Right now, they're second in the league and running,

1214
00:59:28,160 --> 00:59:31,920
Speaker 1: but that they're not stopping anyone. They their lost Richard Sherman,

1215
00:59:31,960 --> 00:59:34,840
Speaker 1: who was playing well. They had already benched the Kello Witherspoon,

1216
00:59:34,920 --> 00:59:36,800
Speaker 1: who they talked up all off season as like their

1217
00:59:36,880 --> 00:59:39,280
Speaker 1: number one cornerback and they had already benched him. They're

1218
00:59:39,440 --> 00:59:41,400
Speaker 1: missing too, quis Gy Tart. They're just they're one of

1219
00:59:41,440 --> 00:59:43,440
Speaker 1: the worst defenses in the league. So that combined with

1220
00:59:43,520 --> 00:59:48,200
Speaker 1: Bethard stuff. Moving on, the New Orleans Saints uh overtime

1221
00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:52,360
Speaker 1: win over the Falcons where that offense really uh bawled out,

1222
00:59:52,920 --> 01:00:01,560
Speaker 1: as they say, just sent a message that was humorous.

1223
01:00:02,040 --> 01:00:04,640
Speaker 1: Oh how about we keep our focus on the show,

1224
01:00:06,440 --> 01:00:09,680
Speaker 1: Ricky Hollywood, Was it about another podcast? No, it's about

1225
01:00:09,720 --> 01:00:13,200
Speaker 1: a forty quarterback, the one who's not injured. Oh okay,

1226
01:00:13,920 --> 01:00:19,480
Speaker 1: um oh beat hard something about that. That's too. I

1227
01:00:19,520 --> 01:00:21,600
Speaker 1: always I'm predicting these things that you and some Walt

1228
01:00:21,640 --> 01:00:24,160
Speaker 1: would have a Star Wars podcast, And now that you

1229
01:00:24,280 --> 01:00:27,080
Speaker 1: and Ricky Hollywood are making we were going we were

1230
01:00:27,120 --> 01:00:30,720
Speaker 1: going to attempt to keep that side podcast under wraps

1231
01:00:30,760 --> 01:00:32,640
Speaker 1: for now, but that it is no longer under wraps.

1232
01:00:32,640 --> 01:00:35,200
Speaker 1: Apologies Jason. In fairness to Erica, though like it's hard

1233
01:00:35,240 --> 01:00:37,160
Speaker 1: for her to focus on a sport she doesn't really

1234
01:00:37,240 --> 01:00:41,040
Speaker 1: care that much about. For like an hour stranger, I

1235
01:00:41,360 --> 01:00:46,640
Speaker 1: like football a lot. The Saints so convincing two and one,

1236
01:00:46,760 --> 01:00:52,520
Speaker 1: travel to the metal Lands Hullulajimon who looked much better

1237
01:00:53,080 --> 01:00:58,400
Speaker 1: on offense, uh including Eli who played very well against

1238
01:00:58,440 --> 01:01:01,440
Speaker 1: the Texans in a seven twenty to win. So the

1239
01:01:01,640 --> 01:01:04,479
Speaker 1: Giants got off the mat after the own to start.

1240
01:01:04,920 --> 01:01:08,160
Speaker 1: This to me is a toss up game, Greg, How

1241
01:01:08,200 --> 01:01:10,080
Speaker 1: do you feel about it? I wouldn't call it a

1242
01:01:10,120 --> 01:01:13,000
Speaker 1: toss up game because the Saints have one of the

1243
01:01:13,040 --> 01:01:15,200
Speaker 1: best quarterbacks in the league and one of the better

1244
01:01:16,000 --> 01:01:18,040
Speaker 1: just passing attacks in the league. So I but I

1245
01:01:18,120 --> 01:01:20,280
Speaker 1: think they're on the road. Is a different guy than

1246
01:01:20,360 --> 01:01:24,200
Speaker 1: in the Dome at the numbers. That's true, that's true.

1247
01:01:24,560 --> 01:01:27,440
Speaker 1: And the Giants defense has been under the radar playing

1248
01:01:27,600 --> 01:01:31,760
Speaker 1: pretty well. James Betcher's can't come from Arizona. Not maybe

1249
01:01:31,800 --> 01:01:34,360
Speaker 1: as many name players playing well because Olivia Vernon is

1250
01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:36,960
Speaker 1: not even healthy. But they've been tough. But I still

1251
01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:39,880
Speaker 1: don't totally trust them. Then again, the Saints, and now

1252
01:01:40,080 --> 01:01:42,640
Speaker 1: you're talking me into it. The Saints defense has been ridiculous.

1253
01:01:42,640 --> 01:01:45,080
Speaker 1: They're giving up you think is gonna be amazing. So

1254
01:01:45,200 --> 01:01:47,520
Speaker 1: now they they've been giving up almost twelve yards per

1255
01:01:47,520 --> 01:01:51,440
Speaker 1: attempt this year. Ken Crawley, p J. Williams, their cornerbacks

1256
01:01:51,480 --> 01:01:54,360
Speaker 1: who played pretty well last year, I've turned into pumpkins

1257
01:01:54,400 --> 01:01:57,120
Speaker 1: and people are just attacking anyone not named Mark Marshall,

1258
01:01:57,200 --> 01:02:00,480
Speaker 1: Laddmore and Marshall. Latimore kind of hasn't been as dominant

1259
01:02:00,560 --> 01:02:03,200
Speaker 1: this year as he was a year ago. This Giant's defense,

1260
01:02:03,280 --> 01:02:06,120
Speaker 1: which I think has been a snooze fest essentially since

1261
01:02:06,200 --> 01:02:09,120
Speaker 1: that Super Bowl win, the last one. I think they

1262
01:02:09,160 --> 01:02:12,120
Speaker 1: played well last week Snacks Harrison carry win. These guys

1263
01:02:12,720 --> 01:02:14,680
Speaker 1: um are doing a nice job for the Giants. And

1264
01:02:14,880 --> 01:02:16,760
Speaker 1: the one thing about the New York team to me

1265
01:02:16,960 --> 01:02:19,600
Speaker 1: like they feel like they're not going to make the playoffs.

1266
01:02:19,640 --> 01:02:21,360
Speaker 1: To me, they're not a playoff team, but they are

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Speaker 1: going to screw some teams seasons up down the stretch

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Speaker 1: by winning some of these weird games. I think Sequon

1269
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Speaker 1: Barkley is the most interesting player I watched on game

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01:02:29,800 --> 01:02:33,840
Speaker 1: pass last week. He is, and he's wearing number twenty six.

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Speaker 1: Lamar Lamar Miller was wearing twenty six in that game,

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Speaker 1: and the difference between the two them in. The ability

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01:02:39,240 --> 01:02:42,520
Speaker 1: to make defenders miss was striking. I loved what I

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01:02:42,560 --> 01:02:45,200
Speaker 1: saw from the Giants offense. I thought Eli played really well.

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01:02:45,320 --> 01:02:47,960
Speaker 1: There was one throw off one ft early in the

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01:02:48,040 --> 01:02:50,800
Speaker 1: game where he nailed a strike to Sterling Shepherd about

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Speaker 1: twenty yard downfield. I haven't seen Eli make that playing years.

1278
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Speaker 1: Uh and then he put that touchdown right on Red

1279
01:02:56,200 --> 01:02:58,680
Speaker 1: red Ellison's hands. But I like this is a breakout

1280
01:02:58,760 --> 01:03:00,760
Speaker 1: game for the Giants offense. He does hurt to miss.

1281
01:03:00,840 --> 01:03:05,080
Speaker 1: Evan Ingram liked might go. Evan Ingram's out probably about

1282
01:03:05,200 --> 01:03:07,280
Speaker 1: two weeks at least with the m c L. Sprain

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01:03:07,600 --> 01:03:09,800
Speaker 1: Greg when we were watching in real time, you thought

1284
01:03:09,840 --> 01:03:11,720
Speaker 1: it might be An a c L. So they're they're

1285
01:03:11,800 --> 01:03:14,440
Speaker 1: thrilled that Ingram season is not over. I think Sterling Shepard,

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01:03:14,480 --> 01:03:17,160
Speaker 1: who's still kind of under the radar, I think he's

1287
01:03:17,160 --> 01:03:19,320
Speaker 1: a stud. I think he could end up becoming an

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01:03:19,360 --> 01:03:21,920
Speaker 1: even bigger part of this offense with Ingram out and Odell, Yeah,

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01:03:21,960 --> 01:03:24,240
Speaker 1: he's due for one of those crazy ass O'Dell games.

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01:03:24,360 --> 01:03:26,240
Speaker 1: One thing on the Saints, I will not forge. I

1291
01:03:26,280 --> 01:03:29,080
Speaker 1: will not forgive Sean Payton if he takes Alvin Kamara

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01:03:29,120 --> 01:03:32,000
Speaker 1: away from us by messing around on punt returns. In

1293
01:03:32,080 --> 01:03:34,200
Speaker 1: the same game, you're giving him twenty I've never seen

1294
01:03:34,240 --> 01:03:36,440
Speaker 1: a running back with twenty targets. He's third in the

1295
01:03:36,520 --> 01:03:38,280
Speaker 1: league I think in receptions, and he's in the top

1296
01:03:38,360 --> 01:03:40,880
Speaker 1: ten and receiving yards fun to watch. Do not take

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01:03:40,960 --> 01:03:43,600
Speaker 1: him away from most with this punt returned. I do love, though,

1298
01:03:43,680 --> 01:03:46,880
Speaker 1: that Sean Payton is turning Taysom Hill into more of

1299
01:03:46,960 --> 01:03:50,240
Speaker 1: a thing each and every week. At to quote Michael

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01:03:50,280 --> 01:03:53,280
Speaker 1: Thomas on Twitter, Taysom Hill is a created player. I

1301
01:03:53,360 --> 01:03:56,720
Speaker 1: have never seen something like Tasom out. They're taking Drew

1302
01:03:56,800 --> 01:03:59,480
Speaker 1: Brees off the field on Some of the biggest snaps

1303
01:03:59,520 --> 01:04:02,760
Speaker 1: of this sea is in this guy's running, he's returning punts.

1304
01:04:02,760 --> 01:04:04,919
Speaker 1: It's like every time he touches the ball, Taysom Hills

1305
01:04:04,920 --> 01:04:09,880
Speaker 1: a little bit of magic. You know what, Ricky scratch

1306
01:04:10,000 --> 01:04:14,080
Speaker 1: my lock? Oh wow, I'm starting to feel it again.

1307
01:04:15,160 --> 01:04:20,920
Speaker 1: The New York Guys Board of Jersey. Get on the

1308
01:04:21,000 --> 01:04:23,960
Speaker 1: guarded State Parkway and then I get off an exit one,

1309
01:04:24,120 --> 01:04:27,200
Speaker 1: six three, put me on route seventeen and then take

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01:04:27,240 --> 01:04:30,440
Speaker 1: me right into the meadow lands. I'm gonna look it up,

1311
01:04:30,960 --> 01:04:38,200
Speaker 1: freaking blue. What are great locks in history. What on earth? Right?

1312
01:04:38,280 --> 01:04:41,520
Speaker 1: That was so much better than your Texas lock. I'm

1313
01:04:41,560 --> 01:04:43,600
Speaker 1: like how you avoided the Tapanzee bridge on that right

1314
01:04:43,840 --> 01:04:47,880
Speaker 1: Back into the different direction, bro, I'm convinced Dan likes

1315
01:04:47,920 --> 01:04:51,880
Speaker 1: the Giants now more than the like last you are

1316
01:04:51,960 --> 01:04:53,400
Speaker 1: like a fan because last week you're like, I don't

1317
01:04:53,400 --> 01:04:55,000
Speaker 1: even want to watch the Giants. This week you watch

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01:04:55,040 --> 01:04:56,840
Speaker 1: the Giants, Greg, I need to take a week off.

1319
01:04:56,880 --> 01:04:58,800
Speaker 1: But now you're back in. You know, you know, I've

1320
01:04:58,880 --> 01:05:00,840
Speaker 1: been open about this. I don't want to be here,

1321
01:05:01,200 --> 01:05:05,360
Speaker 1: I mean California by by my job. I want to

1322
01:05:05,440 --> 01:05:07,800
Speaker 1: be on the East Coast. The Giants are one of

1323
01:05:07,840 --> 01:05:10,320
Speaker 1: those things that, oh, that's that's where I come from.

1324
01:05:10,640 --> 01:05:12,760
Speaker 1: So I have a fondest stone, if you will. Yeah,

1325
01:05:12,760 --> 01:05:14,640
Speaker 1: I have a fondness for Big Blue that I did

1326
01:05:14,680 --> 01:05:16,680
Speaker 1: not have when I moved to New York. State of mind.

1327
01:05:16,680 --> 01:05:19,120
Speaker 1: As Billy Joel would say about that's a good song

1328
01:05:19,720 --> 01:05:22,000
Speaker 1: and the Billy Joel stuff, everybody's gotta calm down about

1329
01:05:22,160 --> 01:05:24,040
Speaker 1: who is even talking about I don't think I love that.

1330
01:05:24,640 --> 01:05:26,400
Speaker 1: Never got it. I never got it. I like him

1331
01:05:26,400 --> 01:05:28,840
Speaker 1: a lot, but how often have I ever mentioned Billy Joel?

1332
01:05:28,960 --> 01:05:31,280
Speaker 1: It's not about you. Just like Billy Joel is always

1333
01:05:31,320 --> 01:05:33,560
Speaker 1: at the tip of everyone's tongue. He is just like,

1334
01:05:33,720 --> 01:05:37,600
Speaker 1: come on, you'll see at the tip of your tears

1335
01:05:37,800 --> 01:05:39,760
Speaker 1: right now. But he is in New York. He's like

1336
01:05:40,000 --> 01:05:44,160
Speaker 1: he might as well at Madison Square. I'm with I'm

1337
01:05:44,200 --> 01:05:48,320
Speaker 1: with Asily off the ground but down I don't have

1338
01:05:48,400 --> 01:05:51,400
Speaker 1: the music podcast on. You know you know about Billy

1339
01:05:51,480 --> 01:05:53,520
Speaker 1: Joel more than I do. Why are you getting upset?

1340
01:05:53,560 --> 01:05:55,200
Speaker 1: I'm not. I just it's not on a tip of

1341
01:05:55,280 --> 01:05:57,320
Speaker 1: my tongue like I I talk about Billy Joel maybe

1342
01:05:57,440 --> 01:06:01,920
Speaker 1: once so bad. I'm just saying, like, maybe my issue.

1343
01:06:02,280 --> 01:06:04,960
Speaker 1: Why do you talk about him on your throwback every

1344
01:06:05,040 --> 01:06:07,760
Speaker 1: Friday night? It's like, yes, but there is bring him

1345
01:06:07,800 --> 01:06:15,120
Speaker 1: up every Thursday. Oh yes we do, yes we uh

1346
01:06:15,720 --> 01:06:19,040
Speaker 1: and equipment. It's another job. It's a it's it's a

1347
01:06:19,160 --> 01:06:21,560
Speaker 1: thing with Billy Joel in that region. I will give

1348
01:06:21,600 --> 01:06:23,440
Speaker 1: it to you because I don't not informed. If you

1349
01:06:23,520 --> 01:06:25,480
Speaker 1: ever want to have me on to discuss the first

1350
01:06:25,560 --> 01:06:27,440
Speaker 1: three Star Wars, I'll be happy. But I've never been

1351
01:06:27,440 --> 01:06:31,120
Speaker 1: asked to be on the throwback. Of course, of course

1352
01:06:31,200 --> 01:06:34,400
Speaker 1: you will be on you In fairness, we've never had

1353
01:06:34,440 --> 01:06:37,000
Speaker 1: a guest. Then I don't think in West Fanny Project,

1354
01:06:37,080 --> 01:06:41,120
Speaker 1: I am music. We can't help come on. And by

1355
01:06:41,160 --> 01:06:43,920
Speaker 1: the way, I you know, talking with toxicity that you're

1356
01:06:43,920 --> 01:06:48,680
Speaker 1: bringing knows more about Dan and bobcast drone music combined

1357
01:06:48,960 --> 01:06:52,000
Speaker 1: has never been And by the way, West, not to

1358
01:06:52,120 --> 01:06:55,160
Speaker 1: add another wrinkle to this, but Dan yesterday invited me

1359
01:06:55,320 --> 01:06:58,439
Speaker 1: back on the show to do a top ten sort

1360
01:06:58,520 --> 01:07:00,960
Speaker 1: of banger list from the right. Maybe you can talk

1361
01:07:00,960 --> 01:07:07,080
Speaker 1: about Billy Joel. This is really taking a turn West.

1362
01:07:07,120 --> 01:07:08,600
Speaker 1: I'd love to have you have a throwback. Let's talk

1363
01:07:08,640 --> 01:07:10,920
Speaker 1: about an album. All right, let's let's talk. Let's take

1364
01:07:10,920 --> 01:07:16,320
Speaker 1: this offline. Because West gave up on music by the nineties,

1365
01:07:16,360 --> 01:07:23,600
Speaker 1: how about West? Some spin doctors an the Baltimore Ravens. Uh,

1366
01:07:23,880 --> 01:07:27,280
Speaker 1: they are two and one. They are feeling good about themselves.

1367
01:07:27,320 --> 01:07:29,080
Speaker 1: I like this Ravens team. I think they're gonna be

1368
01:07:29,160 --> 01:07:32,640
Speaker 1: involved in January. They traveling to Pittsburgh to face the Steelers,

1369
01:07:32,720 --> 01:07:34,760
Speaker 1: who held off the Bucks on Monday night. A short

1370
01:07:34,840 --> 01:07:37,360
Speaker 1: week mark two of your favorite teams in the league.

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01:07:38,120 --> 01:07:40,760
Speaker 1: Which team do you like more? Right now? In terms

1372
01:07:40,840 --> 01:07:44,560
Speaker 1: of I just like them, you hate both of them.

1373
01:07:44,920 --> 01:07:47,200
Speaker 1: I'm talking about which team two strikes you as a

1374
01:07:47,320 --> 01:07:49,360
Speaker 1: better team at this I think the Steelers could beat

1375
01:07:49,720 --> 01:07:51,280
Speaker 1: any team in the league in the right week. But

1376
01:07:51,320 --> 01:07:53,480
Speaker 1: I'll say something about the Ravens nice. For the first

1377
01:07:53,560 --> 01:07:55,920
Speaker 1: time in a long time, this is the most watchable

1378
01:07:56,000 --> 01:07:59,640
Speaker 1: Ravens offense I have seen since I believe since I've

1379
01:07:59,680 --> 01:08:02,760
Speaker 1: worked year. Outside of that January Super Bowl run, they

1380
01:08:02,840 --> 01:08:06,360
Speaker 1: are going to hang around in every single gare in

1381
01:08:06,840 --> 01:08:11,000
Speaker 1: January Super Bowl. Well that was a disgusting Super Bowl week.

1382
01:08:11,080 --> 01:08:13,360
Speaker 1: But I will tell you, I think this team is

1383
01:08:13,400 --> 01:08:14,880
Speaker 1: as fun to watch as they've been in a long

1384
01:08:14,920 --> 01:08:17,599
Speaker 1: long time to me, and they are going to screw

1385
01:08:17,800 --> 01:08:19,880
Speaker 1: some screw with some teams down the stretch. They're they're

1386
01:08:19,880 --> 01:08:23,280
Speaker 1: a playoff team. I mean they might be. There's why

1387
01:08:23,320 --> 01:08:24,800
Speaker 1: they can't be at a one seed in the a

1388
01:08:24,880 --> 01:08:26,479
Speaker 1: f C. I think the one seed in the not

1389
01:08:26,600 --> 01:08:28,920
Speaker 1: saying they will, I think there could be seven or

1390
01:08:28,960 --> 01:08:31,000
Speaker 1: eight teams that have a chance of that, and they're

1391
01:08:31,040 --> 01:08:33,280
Speaker 1: They're near the top of the list for me, YO

1392
01:08:33,400 --> 01:08:36,599
Speaker 1: might be going to the Pro Bowl. Johnny Brown, Johnny

1393
01:08:36,600 --> 01:08:39,960
Speaker 1: Brown's back, Johnny Brown all about that sickle cell. Johnny

1394
01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:43,439
Speaker 1: Brown is a real playmaker on that Ravens offense, and

1395
01:08:43,520 --> 01:08:45,719
Speaker 1: he's been he's been a big piece for them Top

1396
01:08:45,800 --> 01:08:49,360
Speaker 1: ten Afterthought acquisitions. He's number five on the list this year.

1397
01:08:49,479 --> 01:08:51,760
Speaker 1: I mean the worst, the worst group in this game.

1398
01:08:51,840 --> 01:08:55,320
Speaker 1: The biggest weakness is the Steelers defense. They're poorly coached.

1399
01:08:56,000 --> 01:08:59,760
Speaker 1: They they they missed their assigned well, well, when you

1400
01:08:59,840 --> 01:09:02,240
Speaker 1: have more than when you have ten more penalties than

1401
01:09:02,280 --> 01:09:04,400
Speaker 1: any team in the league, and then then on top

1402
01:09:04,479 --> 01:09:07,400
Speaker 1: of that, your secondary doesn't seem to know who to

1403
01:09:07,520 --> 01:09:10,080
Speaker 1: cover in terms of miscommunication, maybe they button it up.

1404
01:09:10,120 --> 01:09:12,360
Speaker 1: The Patriots have these sorts thought. Joe Hayden helped them

1405
01:09:12,360 --> 01:09:15,040
Speaker 1: a little bit absolutely last week. He did. But there

1406
01:09:15,040 --> 01:09:18,120
Speaker 1: are guys just kind of running free from mistakes in

1407
01:09:18,320 --> 01:09:20,840
Speaker 1: terms of the play calls instead of just they're getting

1408
01:09:20,880 --> 01:09:23,479
Speaker 1: beat physically. So when that happens like week after week,

1409
01:09:23,560 --> 01:09:25,560
Speaker 1: basically has every week the season, that's a problem. I

1410
01:09:25,600 --> 01:09:28,000
Speaker 1: think they missed David the Castro on their offensive line too.

1411
01:09:28,240 --> 01:09:30,000
Speaker 1: There was a lot of pressure coming up in past

1412
01:09:30,040 --> 01:09:33,719
Speaker 1: weeks right up the middle against Big Ben. Uh. Finally,

1413
01:09:33,800 --> 01:09:36,360
Speaker 1: Monday night Football, so that's the Sunday night game. In

1414
01:09:36,439 --> 01:09:38,400
Speaker 1: that game, we should we should put the Sunday Neither

1415
01:09:38,479 --> 01:09:40,439
Speaker 1: is Ravens I mean, that's a big I'm going Ravens.

1416
01:09:41,640 --> 01:09:43,519
Speaker 1: I'm going to Ravens and that's tough. That's how order

1417
01:09:43,560 --> 01:09:45,920
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh. But I think they're they're gonna do it. Yeah.

1418
01:09:45,920 --> 01:09:47,600
Speaker 1: I see this as a coin flip game. I like

1419
01:09:47,760 --> 01:09:50,200
Speaker 1: both of these teams. I'm going Pittsburgh because they're playing

1420
01:09:50,240 --> 01:09:52,479
Speaker 1: at home. I'm going Ravens. It's going Johan and Antonio

1421
01:09:52,560 --> 01:09:55,280
Speaker 1: Brown's like head exploding at halftime. If j Joe Smith

1422
01:09:55,360 --> 01:09:57,519
Speaker 1: Schuster is still leading by a hundred and fifty yards

1423
01:09:57,600 --> 01:10:04,519
Speaker 1: this season, Uh, justin uh Tucker against Chris Boswell. I

1424
01:10:04,560 --> 01:10:08,240
Speaker 1: got the Ravens. They had some special teams issues Monday

1425
01:10:08,280 --> 01:10:11,000
Speaker 1: Night Football. The Kansas City Chiefs, the high flying Kansas

1426
01:10:11,040 --> 01:10:13,880
Speaker 1: City Chiefs three and oh. They've scored thirty eight, forty

1427
01:10:13,920 --> 01:10:17,240
Speaker 1: two and thirty eight and their first three conquests and

1428
01:10:17,320 --> 01:10:20,920
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes is the runaway early leader for m VP.

1429
01:10:21,080 --> 01:10:23,200
Speaker 1: But it's too early to get excited about that. But

1430
01:10:23,320 --> 01:10:25,760
Speaker 1: if you're a Chiefs fan, you are loving life. And

1431
01:10:25,840 --> 01:10:29,200
Speaker 1: now you travel to Mile High to face the Broncos.

1432
01:10:29,680 --> 01:10:33,120
Speaker 1: The Broncos West just got by the Raiders barely in

1433
01:10:33,200 --> 01:10:35,880
Speaker 1: Week two. Uh, they look good in Week one against

1434
01:10:35,920 --> 01:10:39,640
Speaker 1: the Seahawks not so good last week at Baltimore. Uh,

1435
01:10:39,680 --> 01:10:43,200
Speaker 1: the Chief's gonna keep rolling here on the road. I

1436
01:10:43,280 --> 01:10:45,720
Speaker 1: think that's the that would be the consensus opinion. I

1437
01:10:45,760 --> 01:10:48,519
Speaker 1: don't in a rivalry like this, I'm not just gonna

1438
01:10:48,600 --> 01:10:51,439
Speaker 1: hand the Chiefs to win, and I am gonna have

1439
01:10:51,600 --> 01:10:55,000
Speaker 1: m v P ranks next week. It's not too early, baby,

1440
01:10:55,240 --> 01:10:57,280
Speaker 1: And I'm not sure that Patrick Mahomes is gonna be

1441
01:10:57,280 --> 01:10:59,400
Speaker 1: even the number one player from his team on on

1442
01:10:59,520 --> 01:11:04,040
Speaker 1: my mb people kill is one of the best players

1443
01:11:04,040 --> 01:11:06,760
Speaker 1: in the NFL, and everything that offense does is based

1444
01:11:06,840 --> 01:11:09,840
Speaker 1: on him making happen. To your point, I don't think

1445
01:11:09,960 --> 01:11:15,600
Speaker 1: Mahomes had a particularly stand out game last week. I

1446
01:11:15,640 --> 01:11:17,240
Speaker 1: think he did his job and he played well. Of

1447
01:11:17,320 --> 01:11:18,920
Speaker 1: the three games, I think it was his worst game

1448
01:11:19,000 --> 01:11:22,080
Speaker 1: by far. It was, and it was still solid. But

1449
01:11:22,200 --> 01:11:24,360
Speaker 1: it's amazing that you can put up that many points

1450
01:11:24,520 --> 01:11:27,760
Speaker 1: without your quarterback needing to do a crazy amount. I mean,

1451
01:11:27,800 --> 01:11:30,519
Speaker 1: it just shows what what they're doing on offense and

1452
01:11:30,560 --> 01:11:32,479
Speaker 1: the talent that they have. This does feel like kind

1453
01:11:32,520 --> 01:11:34,639
Speaker 1: of the game, not that the Chiefs come back to Earth,

1454
01:11:34,720 --> 01:11:36,640
Speaker 1: but that the Broncos are right in it in the

1455
01:11:36,760 --> 01:11:39,960
Speaker 1: second half because this Chief's defense is terrible. Eric Barry

1456
01:11:40,040 --> 01:11:42,439
Speaker 1: not playing this year has killed them. He has not practiced.

1457
01:11:42,560 --> 01:11:46,240
Speaker 1: That's it's a pretty under under the radar story considering

1458
01:11:46,320 --> 01:11:48,559
Speaker 1: he's like there, he's been their best player for so long,

1459
01:11:48,640 --> 01:11:49,960
Speaker 1: but he hasn't played in a year and a half.

1460
01:11:50,040 --> 01:11:52,080
Speaker 1: Now de Ford, who had been playing really well, looks

1461
01:11:52,160 --> 01:11:55,160
Speaker 1: like he might miss this game. So Anthony Hitchins they

1462
01:11:55,200 --> 01:11:57,200
Speaker 1: gave a ton of money to, has been really struggling.

1463
01:11:57,280 --> 01:11:59,400
Speaker 1: Like I think case Keendom could could go up and

1464
01:11:59,439 --> 01:12:02,000
Speaker 1: down the field. He's got the and be matching past

1465
01:12:02,479 --> 01:12:04,760
Speaker 1: in this game. Is this the best Emmanuel Sandards we've

1466
01:12:04,800 --> 01:12:07,439
Speaker 1: ever seen? I don't. I don't want to go that

1467
01:12:07,560 --> 01:12:09,880
Speaker 1: far because he was like pro bowl level in its

1468
01:12:09,920 --> 01:12:16,920
Speaker 1: pretty good. Just looks really like completely re energized. Yeah, absolutely. Uh,

1469
01:12:17,280 --> 01:12:20,240
Speaker 1: there you go. There's the preview of week four. Here

1470
01:12:20,400 --> 01:12:24,320
Speaker 1: the Billy Joel songs that are fine, quick quick recap

1471
01:12:24,600 --> 01:12:29,080
Speaker 1: piano man, it's that is a great song. Uh, the

1472
01:12:29,160 --> 01:12:32,519
Speaker 1: only the Good Die Young. I like that song moving out,

1473
01:12:32,560 --> 01:12:37,519
Speaker 1: Anthony song not bad, the Longest Time moving Okay? Uh

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Speaker 1: do you even know these songs? Like? Are you aware

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Speaker 1: of all these things? Okay? I like the ones about

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Speaker 1: like the old hometown and stuff. Coming back from the

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Speaker 1: Ballad of Billy the Kid is a great song. It's

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Speaker 1: faked by the Hollywood New York state of mind. It's like,

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Speaker 1: come on, uh, every game we just previewed, Captain Jack. Please,

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Speaker 1: if I have to hear that song one more time,

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Speaker 1: almost jay Z and Alicia Keys, it probably does. I

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Speaker 1: will see a bigger one. Right If your argument is

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Speaker 1: that he for a long period of time, all his

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Speaker 1: hits became so overplayed that it was almost like Brown

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Speaker 1: Eyed Girl by Van Morrison, where it's on every freaking

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Speaker 1: mix tape you've ever made for a girl, over received

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Speaker 1: from a girl. Please look if you may, if you

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Speaker 1: put Billy Joel on a mixtape, that's on you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm saying Van Morrison's Brown Eyed Girl like that wrong way.

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Speaker 1: You don't know how many mixtapes she made for girls.

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Speaker 1: It's always on every mixtape. Every Brown Eyed Girl is

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Speaker 1: like Van Morrison songs. And that's the thing I grew

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Speaker 1: up thinking that was like his song. It's like he

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Speaker 1: doesn't even it isn't even in the top one hundred

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Speaker 1: for me. Every game we previewed just now we will

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Speaker 1: recap on Sunday night, well except for Monday Night with

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Speaker 1: a symbolic Billy Jewel song attached to you like that Joel,

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Speaker 1: Billy Joel for the next six years. Right now, I

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Speaker 1: need like a Greg Likes rap segment right now. No,

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying this is all Billy Joel deserves. He's

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Speaker 1: got a lot of you. Continue to mention him, Greg, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: on the tip of your tongue. The Monday night game

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Speaker 1: that we just talked about will be on our Tuesday

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Speaker 1: Twitter show, and again we implore you to check that

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Speaker 1: out Tuesday's one thirty Pacific, four thirty Eastern. But that

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Speaker 1: is it for now. This is Dan hands as signing

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Speaker 1: not for me. What's up? I hit the wrong button?

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Speaker 1: Breaking news? Still learning how to run the control room.

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Speaker 1: Dan hands is signing off for the Quiet Storm, the Mailman,

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Speaker 1: the Old Boss, Ricky Hollywood behind the Glass. I will

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Speaker 1: admit that when I was nine, we didn't start the fire.

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Speaker 1: Seemed like a trenchant entry in his catalog. I don't

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Speaker 1: think that anymore until Sunday