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Speaker 2: Jason temp podcast as Hoops Tonight. Ant is spectacular, Like

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Speaker 2: I always felt this about and I'm not saying he's Jordan,

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Speaker 2: but he has some Jordan qualities and that's okay. Mahomes,

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Speaker 2: you know they're talking about Caleb Williams has Mahomes qualities. Yes,

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Speaker 2: he's not the best shooter, the best ball hand, he's

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Speaker 2: He just gets past everybody. So when you watch it

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Speaker 2: why how I'm watching Aunt? And even against good offenders.

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Speaker 2: I mean Jamal Murray switched off to him one time.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, this is not even competitive. Murray's a world

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Speaker 2: But I look at this and I'm like, when guys

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there's athletic and then there's athletic among the athletes.

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Speaker 4: It's like an entirely different stratosphere, right, And like that's

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Speaker 4: And the biggest thing, too, is like Minnesota hasn't been

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Speaker 4: And can't you just see it, Colin, can't you just

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Speaker 4: There has to be Minnesota should go after KD.

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Speaker 2: It's not terrible because again the great gift of KD.

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Speaker 2: you know, it's a little Klay Thompson, but obviously much better.

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Speaker 2: he willing for it. Let's pivot to that, because listen,

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Speaker 2: the Knicks are beat up. Nothing you can do. Just

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Speaker 2: set the guys down, get ready for Tuesday. Be embarrassed.

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Speaker 2: the Knicks, and it's very easy to talk yourself into

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Speaker 2: we're just a piece away, but the East is going

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Speaker 2: to get better. It's just gonna get better. Butler's gonna

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Speaker 2: maybe it has limitations if you fade. I don't think

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Speaker 2: like you look at them and you're like, this is

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Speaker 2: a well run team. They don't take I mean they

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Speaker 2: used to take, you know, big reaches on Amari Stadameyer

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Speaker 2: Like every GM in the league's like that. Amari's you know,

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Speaker 4: Or trading for Carmelo when they could have sign him

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Speaker 2: I don't know exactly what they do. I think Paul

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Speaker 2: George fits everywhere. But again, it's such a unique culture,

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Speaker 2: wait to watch. I don't. They're not a championship team.

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Speaker 1: We know it.

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Speaker 2: They're just you can't. There's too many great players, too

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Speaker 2: many good teams in this league. Nicks are not a

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Speaker 2: it's it's I just don't know. KD is. Boy. You

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Speaker 2: look at him post Golden State, It's it's he's different.

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Speaker 2: He's running through coaches, you know, and Tibbs has power

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Speaker 2: in that room. Nobody's pushing back on TIBs. I saw

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Speaker 2: but somebody said, everybody starts somewhere. Is JJ Reddick supposed

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Speaker 2: I mean I think Budenholzer would have taken the Lakers

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Speaker 2: everybody starts somewhere. Where's he going to start? He's rich,

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Speaker 2: he's not going to the G League's not taking that job.

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Speaker 2: Jason Kidd first experiment not good. Now he's established himself.

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Speaker 2: I mean, what is your take of JJ Reddick, who

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so the experience thing doesn't matter as much to

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Speaker 4: giving him a really good assistant coaching staff. As far

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Speaker 1: could argue the biggest star in the sport in Mahomes.

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Speaker 1: The Ravens were right there to go to the super

428
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Speaker 1: Bowl last year. The Texans are a trajectory like this,

429
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Speaker 1: and the Steelers are a top five brand. To me,

430
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Speaker 1: Netflix a little bit of a precursor. Are we looking

431
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Speaker 1: at the next television deal? Are there? Is there just

432
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Speaker 1: a package on Netflix on Sunday? Maybe? Because let's face it,

433
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Speaker 1: when I get in bed and she grabs the remote

434
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Speaker 1: the first we don't turn on. We have YouTube TV?

435
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Speaker 1: Which are she goes to Netflix? And I looked right

436
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Speaker 1: before we hopped on they have eighty million subscribers in America.

437
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Speaker 1: Maybe they're saying we get the NFL. Is that number

438
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Speaker 1: one hundred within a couple of years?

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Speaker 2: All throw give me a team individual, Give me a

440
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Speaker 2: couple teams individually. That jumped out to you.

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Speaker 1: Well, I heard your theory and you talking about the

442
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Speaker 1: Rogers situation. I think it's just simple. And I know

443
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Speaker 1: coaches and executives like GMS, you know the league, all

444
00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:15,960
Speaker 1: they care about is money. I mean that's their job, right,

445
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Speaker 1: so the ratings, I think Rogers is still a massive,

446
00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:24,479
Speaker 1: massive needle mover. Yeah, and like the week one, I

447
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Speaker 1: thought when I was looking at the potentials, because I

448
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Speaker 1: thought the Niners were going to get Sunday Night or

449
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Speaker 1: Monday Night football. You kind of feel once you knew

450
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Speaker 1: Thursday Night a lot of stars that we already knew

451
00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:35,440
Speaker 1: the Friday night game. We didn't know the Sunday Night game.

452
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Speaker 1: But I was like, I think the Niners are getting

453
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Speaker 1: one of those. You looked at their schedule, It's like

454
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Speaker 1: I could see them throwing the Cowboys or the Jets.

455
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Speaker 1: And then once it was reported that the Cowboys did

456
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Speaker 1: the Brady thing, which is genius. I mean, how many

457
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Speaker 1: people are going to watch that game? Thirty five million

458
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Speaker 1: people on Sunday afternoon. The Niners, I mean the Niners

459
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Speaker 1: when they're winning, or a top two or three brand

460
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Speaker 1: in the league rating wise, Yes, And Aaron Rodgers buying,

461
00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:04,600
Speaker 1: especially coming off this injury, you know, controversial to some,

462
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Speaker 1: but he's just a polarizing player. And the Jets are

463
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Speaker 1: a New York major brand. I don't know if the

464
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Speaker 1: Jets are gonna be very good. I'm sure we'll dive

465
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Speaker 1: into but you put that thing on, just like they

466
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Speaker 1: did last year. I remember, like all of us around

467
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Speaker 1: the country, sitting there, Jets Bills. It's gonna feel really

468
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Speaker 1: big and do a huge number. But tough game for him.

469
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Speaker 1: It does get a little easy off the bat. Then

470
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Speaker 1: he goes to the Titans. Then he plays the Pats,

471
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Speaker 1: who I think are gonna be terrible. Denver rookie quarterback

472
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Speaker 1: mcglinch's their right tackle. The Jets have a good pass

473
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Speaker 1: rush Minnesota. We'll see. They're in a little transitional period.

474
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Speaker 1: So the Monday night game, if they can just get

475
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Speaker 1: through that healthy, I do think they could rattle off

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Speaker 1: a couple wins early.

477
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Speaker 2: See now I saw it the opposite. My take was

478
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Speaker 2: that you can only do so much because the Jets.

479
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Speaker 2: The schedule is what the schedule is.

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Speaker 1: Right, if you know the teams, Yeah, right, right, and a.

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Speaker 2: Lot of it's baked in. You play the Bills twice,

482
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Speaker 2: Miami twice, New England twice, your conference, your division plays

483
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Speaker 2: certain divisions. But I thought they made Aaron's season as

484
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Speaker 2: tough as you could make it. So they start it's weak, right, So,

485
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Speaker 2: first of all, the last thing you want to do

486
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Speaker 2: in a rebuild a line is face the Niners defense

487
00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:17,920
Speaker 2: or front and week one that's a tough draw. Three

488
00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:22,400
Speaker 2: games in eleven days to start again with a rebuilt

489
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Speaker 2: a line. They have five short weeks and an international

490
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Speaker 2: game in weeks one through eleven. So the schedule the

491
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Speaker 2: quarterbacks they face isn't daunting. They could have done them

492
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Speaker 2: way more. Rest favors older quarterbacks and older people tend

493
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Speaker 2: to be creatures of habit as I've aged. You know,

494
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Speaker 2: I really like Peyton Manning hated Sunday night football games.

495
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Speaker 1: Hated you're waiting around all day.

496
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Speaker 2: So Aaron Rodgers, they give him three games and eleven

497
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Speaker 2: days to start, five short weeks, an international game, and

498
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Speaker 2: Niners with an line build. The quality of the opponent

499
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Speaker 2: isn't great.

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Speaker 1: It is Will Levis and Jacoby Mersett.

501
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Speaker 2: No question, I will acknowledge that the games are the games.

502
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Speaker 2: But old quarterback rebuild a line and a lot of

503
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Speaker 2: short weeks. That's it's like for older quarterbacks, like Brady

504
00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:20,600
Speaker 2: would tell you, like I want to get going. Those

505
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Speaker 2: old quarterbacks love one o'clock games.

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Speaker 1: They love them, and there is not a harder travel

507
00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:30,680
Speaker 1: that than playing Monday night football. If you're a coastal team,

508
00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:32,560
Speaker 1: but on the East coast to the West coast and

509
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Speaker 1: flying home because what time are they you know, the

510
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Speaker 1: game ends at a fifteen By the time they get

511
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Speaker 1: out of there, they're getting home at five six in

512
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Speaker 1: the morning. So it is and then it's difficult on

513
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Speaker 1: your coach. It's it's a very, very difficult stretch.

514
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Speaker 2: I also looked at the NFL with Chicago. Again, Fox

515
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Speaker 2: would love Chicago to pop.

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Speaker 1: I mean, she change target.

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Speaker 2: What do they get with a rookie quarterback Tennessee at

518
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Speaker 2: home to start new coach, new staff, and then week

519
00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:04,399
Speaker 2: five home Carolina a very winnable game against Washington early

520
00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:07,199
Speaker 2: they get a buy into it, so two weeks to

521
00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 2: prepare for a very winnable game. Those feel like wins

522
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Speaker 2: to me for Chicago. I do think again, you could

523
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Speaker 2: have stacked green Bay on the road early. You could

524
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Speaker 2: have stacked this schedule. You know, Detroit open at Detroit

525
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Speaker 2: because though you know Chicago's a big brand, they gave

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Speaker 2: them a couple of layups early.

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Speaker 1: I do think when it comes to a rookie quarterback,

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Speaker 1: let's use Jaden Daniels and bow knicks for example, they're

529
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Speaker 1: playing the long game. Sean Payton's not going anywhere. This

530
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Speaker 1: new operation in Washington's so if there's up and downs

531
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Speaker 1: and you gotta lose his confidence, takes them a couple

532
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Speaker 1: weeks to gain it back. Whatever, We're okay winning six

533
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Speaker 1: games this first year. There is tangible pressure on the

534
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Speaker 1: coach in Chicago, right, he can't afford to go seven

535
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Speaker 1: to ten or he'll be fired. Yes, I agree with

536
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Speaker 1: you on the Titan situation. But then their next three

537
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Speaker 1: games for a young quarterback who is extremely talented, Like,

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Speaker 1: it's not like he's coming off an eleven wins seasons. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I mean it was just it was a lot at

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Speaker 1: the Texans at the Colts. I think both those teams

541
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Speaker 1: are going to be really good. Yeah, they both loaded up.

542
00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:14,040
Speaker 1: You know, Indy disdrafted a pass rusher in the top fifteen,

543
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:17,439
Speaker 1: the Texans added one during free agency. And then you

544
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:20,200
Speaker 1: play the Rams like, that's just a tough early stretch.

545
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:23,960
Speaker 1: I don't care how talented you are. Young people, confidence

546
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,280
Speaker 1: can eb and flow, and the pressure of Chicago, the hype.

547
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Speaker 1: I do think that's just a tough early stretch. Now,

548
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 1: if all of a sudden they're three and two, I

549
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:34,919
Speaker 1: mean we might be looking at a ten or eleven

550
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Speaker 1: win team.

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Speaker 2: Did you notice with the Cowboys schedule and we know

552
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Speaker 2: in the last month mostly the NFL wants division games.

553
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Speaker 2: You know, you want your Miami Buffaloes, although Miami bipe.

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Speaker 1: So you're good. You're good teams, so you think are

555
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Speaker 1: going to be compete for now.

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Speaker 2: Miami Buffalo both played pretty early. But Dallas has three,

557
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:55,520
Speaker 2: you know, out of division games that are pretty tough,

558
00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:58,760
Speaker 2: the Niners, the Ravens, and the Lions. They're done with

559
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Speaker 2: all of them by week eight. So so with Dallas

560
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:08,280
Speaker 2: again McCarthy, dak this is an experienced team. They they

561
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Speaker 2: don't backload it because you know the Giants in Washington

562
00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:14,000
Speaker 2: won't be great. They get their three toughest to me,

563
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:15,600
Speaker 2: the three games that you look at and go the

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Speaker 2: three best rosters they play will probably be San Francisco, Baltimore,

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Speaker 2: and Detroit and those are all done by week eight.

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Speaker 2: So if even if you go one and two on those,

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Speaker 2: they could have stacked a couple of those, you know,

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Speaker 2: week fourteen, week thirteen, so you go into these tough, brutal,

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Speaker 2: cold weather road games and divisions. No, they got rid

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Speaker 2: of their tough games early. Again, what do I like

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Speaker 2: Harbaugh getting a two and zero start. Listen Dallas Is.

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Speaker 2: I thought it went in their favor. That was my take.

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Speaker 1: I do think that Cleveland, I'm not expecting the same

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Speaker 1: what we saw last year. I mean, obviously they're all

575
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Speaker 1: in a Deshaun Watson, his cap hit has really kicked

576
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Speaker 1: in the rosters. I don't think gonna be as good

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Speaker 1: just moving forward, obviously, and I'm not sure he's still

578
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:09,480
Speaker 1: a good player. But even if they take a huge

579
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Speaker 1: step back, we all know Week one is tough, right,

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Speaker 1: You could play the worst team in the league in

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Speaker 1: Week one. Everyone has the same hopes and dreams. They're

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Speaker 1: everyone's OH to oh, especially at home, and Cleveland is

583
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Speaker 1: a tough place to play. And the hype on that

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Speaker 1: game with Brady calling it, that's a sneaky big game

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Speaker 1: because then all of a sudden, like I think most

586
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Speaker 1: people think the Saints were really shitty last year. They

587
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Speaker 1: did go nine to eight and their offense was mainly putrid. Well,

588
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Speaker 1: they had Kubiak's kid who comes from Shanahan. I think

589
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:39,640
Speaker 1: the Saints are gonna be better, and then you got Baltimore.

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Speaker 1: It's just a tough little early stretch for a team.

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Speaker 4: That.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to say they're walking on eggshells, but

593
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Speaker 1: the McCarthy story, the Dack, if they don't extend them,

594
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Speaker 1: it could get weird, and it could get weird fast.

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Speaker 1: I just got that Cleveland game circle. I think that

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Speaker 1: is going to be very I can see Cleveland winning

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Speaker 1: that thing and Cleveland being a six to seven win team.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna make an argument and that the toughest schedule

599
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Speaker 2: in the league I saw was the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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Speaker 1: Oh it's really hard.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so you start, you have better rosters than these teams,

602
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Speaker 2: but they load them up at Atlanta, at Denver, at

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Speaker 2: Indy and Harbaugh. That's a rough start. I mean again,

604
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Speaker 2: you have better rosters than Atlanta, Denver, the Chargers, Nindy,

605
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Speaker 2: three of the four on the road, and you come

606
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Speaker 2: out of that road streak with Dallas two weeks later.

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Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers like, that's rough. And did you see the

608
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Speaker 2: last six quarterbacks Pittsburgh Faces Burrow, Deshaun Watson, Jalen Hurts,

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Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson, Mahomes and Burrow Like, good, look, Mike Tomlin

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Speaker 2: is going to be on a network broadcasting and by

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Speaker 2: the way, I predict he'll be great. I've talked to

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Speaker 2: two network execs who would hire Mike Tomlin tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Are you short in the Steelers this year?

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Speaker 2: I am short in them. I mean, did you have

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Speaker 2: to put at the end of the year the last

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Speaker 2: three quarterbacks, Lamar, Mahomes and Burrow in the last month.

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Speaker 1: Did you see the story though about Burrow's hand surgery

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Speaker 1: the percentage of it keeping You know, most surgeries are

619
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Speaker 1: ninety to ninety five percent that risk. Hand surgery is

620
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 1: like seventy to seventy five percent success rate, and then

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Speaker 1: it no matter how well it goes, there's basically guaranteed inflammation.

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Speaker 1: It's a little trickier than just your ACL or your

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Speaker 1: broken leg. I do think that's something to keep a

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00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,480
Speaker 1: heavy eye on. Now. If he plays seventeen games, I

625
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:30,160
Speaker 1: think we'd all acknowledge they're going to be one of

626
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 1: the better teams in the NFL. But if that thing

627
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:35,200
Speaker 1: crops up where it is, I mean, it would be

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Speaker 1: a major problem. I thought the moment that they signed Russ,

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Speaker 1: before we even knew their schedule or who they were

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Speaker 1: playing one. They're not financially invested in them at all, right,

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Speaker 1: They're paying them about a million dollars or even Denver

632
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Speaker 1: last year. Let's say hypothetically Sean Payton was out on

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Speaker 1: him by October. First, financially, he had to see if

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Speaker 1: he could make it work. And then the least there

635
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Speaker 1: is not going to be long. They have no draft

636
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Speaker 1: cap invested, they have nothing invested, and they do have

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Speaker 1: another guy in a one year contract who might not

638
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:07,240
Speaker 1: be good either, but at least this physically brings a

639
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 1: lot more to the table. And we saw Arthur Smith,

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Speaker 1: you know, win with Ryan Tannehill and Mark's Mariota. So

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Speaker 1: it's like, I just don't think this guy's getting a

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Speaker 1: long leash. He's not going to be Dnking and Duncan

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Speaker 1: and they're one to three and he gets to keep

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Speaker 1: his job. No, I mean, I just I look to

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Speaker 1: you move teams and they're not paying anything. He better

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Speaker 1: play well and they better have success or he will

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Speaker 1: go to the pine.

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Speaker 2: I looked at Pittsburgh today and I thought, I know,

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Speaker 2: Mike Tomlins never had a losing season. That last six

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Speaker 2: game stretch, You'll have the second best quarterback in all

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Speaker 2: of those games, all of them. You know, one of

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Speaker 2: the things I always look at is how many great

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Speaker 2: quarterbacks do you face, the Jets don't face a lot

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Speaker 2: of great quarterbacks. But again, they have seven standalone games,

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Speaker 2: six night games, five short weeks, an international game. So

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Speaker 2: the Jets schedule's pretty easy. The NFL didn't do him

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Speaker 2: any favors with Knight, standalones, international. I look at Pittsburgh

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Speaker 2: and there's just no way if the Jets have the

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Speaker 2: easiest schedule in terms of facing elite quarterbacks. The Steelers

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Speaker 2: got hosed that last month and a half. They'll be

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Speaker 2: underdogs potentially in all those games.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, if everyone's healthy, they usually could lose

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Speaker 1: to the Ravens twice. I mean the Bengals, the Eagles,

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs. Yeah, it's just that's really really brutal. And

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Speaker 1: let's face it, by that time, you're not one hundred percent,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have some injuries. They've kind of been at

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Speaker 1: a similar spot the last several years. They usually don't

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Speaker 1: have some huge margin for error, right they don't start

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Speaker 1: the seasons nine to three that They've been hovering around

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Speaker 1: five hundred right till the bitter end these last couple

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Speaker 1: of years. So I understand what they did. I would

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Speaker 1: have done with their moves at quarterback, getting rid of

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Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett, getting rid of the group they had for

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson and Justin Fields. But just because those guys

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Speaker 1: are much more famous does mean they're going to be

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Speaker 1: much more effective. And I'm not a Deshaun Watson guy,

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Speaker 1: but obviously, if Lamar is healthy and Joe Burrow is healthy,

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Speaker 1: the gap between Russell Wilson Justin Fields quarterback room is

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Speaker 1: a mile long.

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