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Speaker 1: And now Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks.

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Speaker 1: What's up everybody? Welcome back to Move the Sticks, DJ,

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Speaker 1: Bucky with you, Buck? What's going on man?

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Speaker 2: How you doing another? Man? It's a great day. We

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Speaker 2: love this part of it because now we're in the

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Speaker 2: hustle of a normal football week in the regular season,

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Speaker 2: and now that we're like four weeks in, you kind

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Speaker 2: of got your your rhythm back. You kind of know

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Speaker 2: how your Mondays and Tuesdays and Wednesdays operate. And even

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Speaker 2: though we're not in the league, there were things that

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Speaker 2: we would be doing if we were on the road

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Speaker 2: of scouts. Were you kind of fitting that part in?

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Speaker 2: And so now I'm comfortable, I'm comfortably in the season,

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Speaker 2: kind of got my little routine. I'm ready to go.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I just started getting into my rhythm.

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Speaker 1: And then the charters have a bye week this week,

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Speaker 1: so that's what kind of that's weird, changes up a

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Speaker 1: little bit on you. But I'll be up there Sunday night.

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Speaker 1: I think I don't know who that's with. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if that's with Rosa.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, game day Live they got.

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Speaker 1: You that, thankfully, not Game Day Live during the day.

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Speaker 1: Rett's holding that down for everybody that we used to

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Speaker 1: have to be on that. But it's the final so

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Speaker 1: it's the after the Niner Cowboy game little highlight d

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Speaker 2: Oh that's cool, JD. We do sometimes.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like I'm always having a fill in

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Speaker 1: for MJD taking time off. I feel like that's my

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Speaker 1: I'm the PBu for MJD. Is what I am. I'm

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Speaker 1: the primary backup there.

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Speaker 2: MJD is certainly enjoying is Ramilly ties and connections and

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Speaker 2: not host no kidding.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of that game, by the way, we're going to

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Speaker 1: get into that today, we'll preview Cowboys Niners. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: look at these rookie impact scores in just a second,

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Speaker 1: and then maybe some teams we think could be uh

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Speaker 1: could be ready to break out buck and maybe some

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Speaker 1: teams we're concerned about. But I say we start things

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Speaker 1: off as we do each and every week on the

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Speaker 1: on the pod, looking at these rookie impact scores. So

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Speaker 1: this is again our buddy Jack Andreid putting this together

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Speaker 1: for us on the research side, where you look at

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Speaker 1: the most impactful rookies, which combines playtime obviously getting out

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Speaker 1: there is a big part of it and production, so

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Speaker 1: if you look at it individually. For week four, shouldn't

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Speaker 1: Michael Wilson, we should probably talk about him a little

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Speaker 1: because someone who you know had had injuries, battled injuries

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Speaker 2: So it's funny because Michael Wilson, for me, is a

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Speaker 2: the National Football League, he finds his way. And we're

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Speaker 2: But he perfectly fits exactly what the Cardinals want to do.

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Speaker 1: So we've talked about the four fives as the magic

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Speaker 1: Thing about Cooper Cup when he was at the Senior Bowl,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we've kind of stumbled upon it. You know,

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Speaker 1: got the most impact from the Rookies, Seahawks, Rams, Colts, Cardinals.

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Speaker 2: I would say this. The Coats are an example of

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Speaker 2: and how they kind of changing the game in terms of, hey,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not cookie cutter. It's not one size fits

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Speaker 2: This, it's time for the MCS Game of the Week

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Speaker 2: presented by DraftKings Sportsbook. This week Cowboys at forty nine Ers.

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Speaker 2: This one should be all eyes. This should down all

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's I think that's a smart move.

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Speaker 1: That's what I pointed. That's my point that I wanted

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Speaker 2: So, I mean, so look, I'm gonna sit here and

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's a good one. I would I

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's why I had next. I mean, I

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Speaker 2: No, And that's what's scary about because until you until

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Speaker 2: we did the exercise, you don't realize how tilted it is.

433
00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:06,959
Speaker 2: And DJ and doing that exercise now and I think

434
00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:08,560
Speaker 2: that's a great one to do. When we come to

435
00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:12,240
Speaker 2: stacking up rosters around the league, DJ, who else is

436
00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:14,919
Speaker 2: in the forty nine ers class? They're only a handful

437
00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:18,040
Speaker 2: of teams that can legitimately go player for player with

438
00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:22,000
Speaker 2: the Niners. I mean, we're talking about guys. And we

439
00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:26,160
Speaker 2: always said this and I learned it, but what eight

440
00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:30,440
Speaker 2: to twelve blue chip players? Eight to twelve championship players

441
00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:34,040
Speaker 2: typically comprise a Super Bowl roster. We just had a

442
00:20:34,119 --> 00:20:37,520
Speaker 2: draft where six of the first eight went to the Niners,

443
00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:40,600
Speaker 2: and six of the players that we mentioned they're in

444
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Speaker 2: the conversation to be the best at their respective position.

445
00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:48,760
Speaker 2: And when we start handicapping or predicting which teams are

446
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Speaker 2: going to go to the super Bowl, if we go

447
00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:54,080
Speaker 2: by the roster, they're not many teams that can compete

448
00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:57,960
Speaker 2: one on one player for player with the rosters too deep,

449
00:20:58,080 --> 00:20:59,720
Speaker 2: the Niners too deep. Depth chart.

450
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Speaker 1: Yeah, if you just look at Javon, Hargrave and green Law,

451
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Speaker 1: I could make a case that you would take them

452
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Speaker 1: before you would take another Cowboy. So I mean you

453
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Speaker 1: could you could get to the point where you could

454
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Speaker 1: say eight if we even just take the quarter, if

455
00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:16,520
Speaker 1: we say we put the quarterbacks off to the side.

456
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Speaker 1: The top ten players in this game, eight of them

457
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Speaker 1: are forty nine ers. That's not crazy, That's that's not

458
00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:25,440
Speaker 1: crazy to say. I think you can make a strong

459
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Speaker 1: argument that that's true. And Digs being out obviously factors

460
00:21:29,119 --> 00:21:32,560
Speaker 1: into that. He probably cracks the list, but he ain't playing.

461
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Speaker 2: I mean, even if you would DJ, we would then

462
00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:40,840
Speaker 2: have questions about, from a consistency standpoint, how do we

463
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Speaker 2: put them up there with the others. And I love Diggs,

464
00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:44,480
Speaker 2: but how do we put them up there when the

465
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Speaker 2: others When we see the guys that we named, Trent Williams,

466
00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:50,920
Speaker 2: Christ McCaffrey, all those guys, from a consistent standpoint, they

467
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Speaker 2: typically have good game, good game, good game, good game.

468
00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:55,560
Speaker 2: Is red that you see him with the double agent

469
00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:58,320
Speaker 2: games where it's half good for them, half bad. And

470
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Speaker 2: you just wonder this this Marky match.

471
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Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, Tony Pollard is going to be

472
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Speaker 1: in the conversation here, but I would take Debo over

473
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Speaker 1: Tony Pollard. I would take Javon Hargrave over Tony Pollard.

474
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Speaker 1: I like Tony Pollard, but I'm Drake Greenlaw Tony Pollard. Okay,

475
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Speaker 1: maybe maybe maybe you go Poward their green law is

476
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Speaker 1: is a stud though. I mean, that's a good conversation

477
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Speaker 1: to have. So Okay, maybe we go maybe we put

478
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Speaker 1: Poward in there, and maybe you say seven out of

479
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Speaker 1: ten still seven outside.

480
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Speaker 2: It is very lopsided because even after we get to

481
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Speaker 2: the top ten DJ then when we started talking about

482
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Speaker 2: the depth, Ninus have greater depth in the Cowboys. Cowboys

483
00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:40,840
Speaker 2: has been great, but the Niners have better depth. And

484
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Speaker 2: as we think about the expectations of the Cowboys being

485
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Speaker 2: a Super Bowl team and those things, look at who

486
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Speaker 2: they have to climb over top of to get there,

487
00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:55,720
Speaker 2: the Niners, the Eagles. That's what really makes it makes

488
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Speaker 2: a really interesting discussion. It's one that maybe, look, maybe

489
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Speaker 2: maybe we're wrong, but right now on paper, it looks

490
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Speaker 2: like it could be a bit of a live sided

491
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Speaker 1: All right, one thing to do here, a little exercise

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Speaker 1: before we wrap this thing up today, Buck, I'm going

500
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Speaker 1: to go through the last place teams. We've done this

501
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Speaker 1: in the year's past. I think it's a fun exercise.

502
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Speaker 1: So I'm just going to go through the teams that

503
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Speaker 1: are currently in last place, and a percentage that you

504
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Speaker 1: think they have to make the postseason. You know, could

505
00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:49,399
Speaker 1: be fifty zero percent. You ready to go?

506
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Speaker 2: Yeah? This would okay?

507
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Speaker 1: All right? First off, here, the Jets and the Patriots

508
00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:56,480
Speaker 1: are each one and three, so let's give them each

509
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Speaker 1: a percentage. Here, start with the Patriots boom to make

510
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Speaker 1: the playoffs. I would say a ten percent chance for

511
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Speaker 1: the Patriots to make the playoffs. I'm just man, the

512
00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:07,320
Speaker 1: quarterback isn't playing.

513
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Speaker 2: Great, and macwill surprised you were that high. I mean,

514
00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:13,679
Speaker 2: you just never know, You just never know. Maybe they

515
00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:15,840
Speaker 2: can pull a rabbit out of that. But the quarterbacks

516
00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:20,000
Speaker 2: not playing well. They don't have anybody that scares you

517
00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:23,440
Speaker 2: on the perimeter on offense. And then Matt Judin being heard,

518
00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:26,439
Speaker 2: Christian Zales being heard, they trade for jac Jackson. Just

519
00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:28,440
Speaker 2: not enough for them to be able to get back

520
00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:30,439
Speaker 2: in it. There's always a punch of shance. Someone say

521
00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:32,199
Speaker 2: Belichick sometimes canna pull a rabbit out of that, but

522
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Speaker 2: I don't think it's likely this year. And for the

523
00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:38,680
Speaker 2: New York Jests, I will say this, everyone is focused

524
00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:43,840
Speaker 2: on Zach Wilson and is he able to lead this team.

525
00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:46,080
Speaker 2: Zach Wilson will be able to lead the team if

526
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Speaker 2: the defense lives up to expectation. They haven't played well

527
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:52,920
Speaker 2: the last three weeks. If the defense plays the way

528
00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:56,360
Speaker 2: that everyone expects them to play well, then Zach Wilson

529
00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:59,200
Speaker 2: can get this team to the playoffs as a game manager.

530
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Speaker 2: But until I said, is his defense playing at a

531
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:05,639
Speaker 2: top five level, the Jets chances are slim to none.

532
00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:09,000
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give them fifteen percent, but that is really

533
00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:11,600
Speaker 2: hanging by a thread. It really hinges on whether the

534
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:13,159
Speaker 2: defense can kind of fix their woes.

535
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna go probably seven and a half

536
00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:19,600
Speaker 1: percent for the Patriots. Maybe I'm gonna go twenty percent

537
00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:21,400
Speaker 1: for the Jets. Well, all no more. If the Jets

538
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:23,199
Speaker 1: lose the Broncos this week, then that number goes down

539
00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:25,520
Speaker 1: to next to nothing, So a big one for them.

540
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Speaker 1: The Cincinnati Bengals Buck. They look terrible. They're one in

541
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Speaker 1: three the division right now. Baltimore's three and one, the

542
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:32,680
Speaker 1: other two or two and two. What do you think

543
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:33,040
Speaker 1: on them?

544
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Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's over, man, I think it's

545
00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:38,160
Speaker 2: over for them. I think they had their little run.

546
00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:43,159
Speaker 2: I worry about Joe Burrow. His limited mobility takes away

547
00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:45,840
Speaker 2: a lot of the stuff that he does. And does

548
00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:49,359
Speaker 2: Zach Taylor have the ability to go to another pitch

549
00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:52,520
Speaker 2: when look it's not getting over to play The way

550
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:54,760
Speaker 2: they're playing offense right now is not effective. Does he

551
00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:57,320
Speaker 2: have anything else that he can go to. I'm gonna

552
00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:00,440
Speaker 2: say no, I'm gonna give them a twenty percent chance

553
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:01,679
Speaker 2: of being able to do it just because of the

554
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:04,480
Speaker 2: talent on their roster. Not real optimistic. Because there's so

555
00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:06,760
Speaker 2: many talented teams in a division. It's gonna be hard

556
00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:08,400
Speaker 2: for them to get to the top of the division

557
00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:10,520
Speaker 2: to give themselves a chance to get to the postseason.

558
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Speaker 1: Now, they're already zero and two in the division, oh

559
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:15,040
Speaker 1: and three in the conference, which is not a great start. Now,

560
00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:16,760
Speaker 1: the good news is they have two games I think

561
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Speaker 1: they can win before the buye if they get those

562
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Speaker 1: two now, you're three and three, come out of the by.

563
00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:24,080
Speaker 1: They got a brutal stretch. But if they can somehow

564
00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:25,840
Speaker 1: get these next two wins, I think they could fight

565
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:28,359
Speaker 1: back into it. I might just go a tiny bit higher.

566
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Speaker 1: I'll go give them a quarter just in the assumption

567
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Speaker 1: if they get to five hundred get the buy. Maybe

568
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Speaker 1: Burrow comes back, he's healthier, uh, and maybe they look

569
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:38,000
Speaker 1: like a different football team. But you know, not super

570
00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:41,320
Speaker 1: optimistic there. I'm gonna skip the AFC South because the

571
00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:44,080
Speaker 1: whole division's two and two. So, yeah, that doesn't really work.

572
00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:47,320
Speaker 1: Doesn't work with that exercise. The Raiders and the Broncos

573
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Speaker 1: are each one and three. Just kind of quickly on them.

574
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Speaker 1: I don't really see either of them as playoff teams.

575
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Speaker 2: For yeah, less less than ten percent for both teams.

576
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Speaker 2: Less than yeah, five percent maybe if that's a very

577
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:01,359
Speaker 2: generous five percent for both of them. I just haven't

578
00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:03,800
Speaker 2: seen enough out of either squad to say that they

579
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:07,399
Speaker 2: are a serious playoff team. The Raiders just can't get

580
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,160
Speaker 2: it going. Josh Jacobs hasn't been able to run the football,

581
00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:13,400
Speaker 2: and man, for whatever reason, this team just cannot win

582
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:15,560
Speaker 2: these close games, and so they're out of it. And

583
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 2: for the Broncos defensively they're terrible. You can't give up

584
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:23,560
Speaker 2: a seventy burger. Look, seventy burger. You still have flashbacks

585
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:26,719
Speaker 2: and nightmares of how bad that was. I can't imagine

586
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:28,840
Speaker 2: a team that gives up seventy points fives this way

587
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:30,200
Speaker 2: into the postseason.

588
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 1: Tourn I think it was more embarrassing what they gave

589
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 1: up to the Bears, to be honest, than the seventy

590
00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:36,840
Speaker 1: they gave up to the Dolphins. Yeah. I put five

591
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:39,239
Speaker 1: percent for each of those teams. Maybe less, maybe two

592
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:41,920
Speaker 1: and a half percent. Then we get to the NFC,

593
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:46,600
Speaker 1: the Giants at man recency bias, they're one and three.

594
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,320
Speaker 1: It's hard to feel like there's, you know, a chance

595
00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:50,919
Speaker 1: to really turn this thing around. I guess if you

596
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 1: get you know, you get your running back back, you

597
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:54,879
Speaker 1: get your left tackle back, maybe you can get better.

598
00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:58,160
Speaker 1: But they haven't inspired much confidence what we've seen thus far.

599
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:02,240
Speaker 2: No, they haven't aspires just and he's just kind of

600
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 2: worried about where there are quarterbacks not playing great. Barkley's

601
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 2: gonna beat up when he comes back. Not a lot

602
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:11,080
Speaker 2: to build him, And I'm waiting for this defense to dominate.

603
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:13,520
Speaker 2: Last of the defense was kind of able to hold

604
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 2: Rock City into the offense and pick it up in games.

605
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,119
Speaker 2: Haven't been able to do that, and their offensive line

606
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:21,960
Speaker 2: has not performed well. As much as you want to

607
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:24,400
Speaker 2: blame everything, we want to blame everything on Daniel Jones.

608
00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:26,480
Speaker 2: He needs to be protected. Everyone knows he has to

609
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:28,639
Speaker 2: have a four shield around him. They have not done that,

610
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 2: and because of that, the turnovers have started to come.

611
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Speaker 1: What do you think two and a half percent? Two

612
00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:38,320
Speaker 1: and a half All right, there you go, Bears. I'm

613
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:40,520
Speaker 1: going to go the It's hard to do it, but

614
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Speaker 1: I'm going to give him the zero percent. They have

615
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 1: no chance of making the playoffs, so they can clip

616
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Speaker 1: that and throw it back in my face if if

617
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:48,800
Speaker 1: I'm wrong, but I don't know how I could give

618
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 1: them anything other than a zero percent chance.

619
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Speaker 2: I mean zero. It's bad. It's been bad last week.

620
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:56,360
Speaker 2: They teased this for a little bit and then the

621
00:28:56,400 --> 00:29:00,480
Speaker 2: turnover showed up late for fields. They just can't man,

622
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:01,880
Speaker 2: it can't get again, like something.

623
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Speaker 1: Not just bad at some point in time. It's like,

624
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 1: we don't need to try and reinvent the wheel of

625
00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:10,120
Speaker 1: analysis here. They stink, all right, Carolina Panthers zero and four.

626
00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:13,959
Speaker 1: Any any hope there or that is that ship already sailed?

627
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,480
Speaker 2: No, no, And I am really disappointed. I thought this

628
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:19,680
Speaker 2: team would be better. I mean, I know there were

629
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 2: people that thought would be a death it's just not

630
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:24,320
Speaker 2: it's not good. And the defense is taking a step

631
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:27,239
Speaker 2: back offensively. Bryce Young's trying to figure it out. Frank Whre,

632
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:28,800
Speaker 2: He's trying to do what to do, but it's just

633
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:31,800
Speaker 2: this is not good. So zero percent chance of the

634
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:34,000
Speaker 2: Carolina Panthers making the postseason.

635
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I would probably go with you on

636
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:38,880
Speaker 1: that one. And then lastly, I think it's surprising team

637
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 1: that if you can say surprising at one in three,

638
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,400
Speaker 1: but look, their point difference is only minus fourteen. It's

639
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:47,000
Speaker 1: not it's not terrible compared to some of these other

640
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 1: last place teams. But the Arizona Cardinals here at one

641
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 1: and three, love.

642
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:53,360
Speaker 2: The effort, love the competitiveness. They're gonna win some more

643
00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:55,600
Speaker 2: games because of how hard they played. The effort and

644
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:59,240
Speaker 2: the toughness that they displayed has been really impressive. That's

645
00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 2: it here, comes to truth. Yeah, it doesn't doesn't translate anything.

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Speaker 2: Zero percent chance. They just don't have enough. They don't

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Speaker 2: have enough. Five prior to get on the street where

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Speaker 2: they can win ten games. I just can't see us

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Speaker 2: scenario where they win ten games to make it. Maybe

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Speaker 2: they get four or five, they won't get ten.

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Speaker 1: No, they're not gonna make it. I'll go two and

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Speaker 1: a half percent. But it's a competitive team, much better

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