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Speaker 1: The Around the NFL podcast is not afraid to venture

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Speaker 1: into the bearcase. From the Chris Westling podcast studio, It's

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Speaker 1: Around the NFL. I am Dan Jansas, I have heroes here,

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Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal, Mark Sessler. It is the week eleven preview episode.

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Speaker 1: Here we are And can I say, Can I say

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Speaker 1: that it's very nice? Um, when you see a talented

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Speaker 1: broadcaster like Paul Allen of Vikings Radio, go national, go

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Speaker 1: mainstream as he has this week viral, as the kids say, Um,

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Speaker 1: but it's almost for me, like fans of Nirvana in

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Speaker 1: nine in Seattle that had the Bleach record and then

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, never Mind comes out and is,

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Nirvana is not yours anymore. It's everyone's.

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Speaker 1: It's a little on my radar that it took until

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Speaker 1: now for people to be like, oh, the guy who

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Speaker 1: calls the Vikings game is amazing, when we've been talking

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Speaker 1: about that four years on this program. Give it to us.

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Speaker 1: It's a tough dynamic, um, I think for you, especially

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Speaker 1: your champion. Uh. These play by play announcers across the

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Speaker 1: across the United to US, I hear you. It's slightly possessive,

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Speaker 1: but that's okay. Yeah, I think you a little bit, Paul.

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Speaker 1: I also think Paul Allen's work he's done over the

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Speaker 1: last twenty years incredible. He had that call when Josh

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Speaker 1: McCown knocked him out of the playoffs back in two

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Speaker 1: thousand and three, which is a famous call, and I

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Speaker 1: would say his work has been much better than Bleach ultimately,

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Speaker 1: Like you listen to Bleach say it's a couple of

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Speaker 1: good songs like Calm Down about Nirvana pre you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying Allan's been at that top call there

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Speaker 1: was your take is shaky there. It's like each was

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Speaker 1: a debut record from a revolutionary band. It wasn't a masterpiece.

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Speaker 1: It was the start of something. Didn't have to be brilliant.

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Speaker 1: But totally, I'm just saying Paul Allen has been like brilliant.

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Speaker 1: He's been. He's been writing never mind on a weekly basis.

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Speaker 1: Can I tell you one when I was in college

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Speaker 1: like four thousand years ago, like Dave Matthews. So I'm

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Speaker 1: not touting his Nirvana or Paul Allen like was was

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Speaker 1: playing essentially just at U v A across the country

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Speaker 1: and my friend was sending me mixtapes and I'd play

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Speaker 1: them in my dorm and like all these people would

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Speaker 1: stop and me, like, this guy sounds gross. Then like

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Speaker 1: four weeks later, everyone's blasting him out of the window

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Speaker 1: of their dorm rooms. Does kind of sound gross and

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Speaker 1: just they just couldn't stand him. And then later they

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Speaker 1: all loved him. That's all. It's to your thing where

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Speaker 1: it's like suddenly I was like, well, it's not mine anymore.

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Speaker 1: It was my secret mission to like And that was

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Speaker 1: our weekly segment that I wonder if they'll take out

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Speaker 1: of the TV show, television show, So here we are.

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Speaker 1: Let's move on. Week eleven is upon us. Nice week

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Speaker 1: Nice And it got off to a good start. Titans

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Speaker 1: Packers Thursday Night football. Looking forward to that when you

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Speaker 1: get that recap on the Friday Fun Show tomorrow morning.

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Speaker 1: But we will start as we always do with the

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Speaker 1: primetime games, and that takes us across the sidewalk to

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Speaker 1: Sofi Stadium where the Los Angeles Chargers we'll meet the

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Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs. Now. I do remember the last time

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs were in Sofi Stadium. I was there. It

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Speaker 1: was the first football game that I took my sons

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Speaker 1: uh to um with my wife, my wife, and great

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Speaker 1: um that you took your wife. Also, that's nice that

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Speaker 1: you did. Why would be a humble because she's a woman,

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Speaker 1: she shouldn't go to the football game. Also, I mean, who,

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Speaker 1: that any would would ask? The question? Says more about you.

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't know. I don't know why we're

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Speaker 1: great game, and the Chargers should have won that game,

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Speaker 1: this he's not saving this team. There's just too much,

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Speaker 1: too much wrong with it. So they were my first

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Speaker 1: lost in November December since whoa supporting? Why? Why? I

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Speaker 1: was thinking of locking maybe, but I'm already locking. You know,

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Speaker 1: Everyone runs on the Chargers. And the Chargers have so

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Speaker 1: But they lost too defensive tackles for the season. Last

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Speaker 1: haven't been just shutting people down. People have adjusted, I

425
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Speaker 1: think getting the ball out quickly against their past defense

426
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Speaker 1: as well. And I think Minnesota's slightly getting better each

427
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Speaker 1: and every week. I know we saw them as a

428
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Speaker 1: middle of the pack team that was like getting lucky,

429
00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:56,960
Speaker 1: but you can get better, and I think they are

430
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Speaker 1: getting better. And I think that's a great matchup to

431
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Speaker 1: why and and another litmus test for the Vikings. I

432
00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:05,200
Speaker 1: know they just beat the Bills, but for the Vikings

433
00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:08,320
Speaker 1: offense and a controlled setting against this Cowboys team, I'm

434
00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:11,000
Speaker 1: really excited to see it. And I got admit I'm

435
00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:14,040
Speaker 1: excited to see how Tony Romwood calls it. From him,

436
00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:16,040
Speaker 1: that's good. And we just had Mark Sanchez on the

437
00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:19,080
Speaker 1: show learning more about the craft in the booth. This

438
00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:23,280
Speaker 1: is a really great stretch for Minnesota because obviously they

439
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Speaker 1: have this dramatic, exciting win in Buffalo. Now, as we said,

440
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Speaker 1: we have Dallas this week. We get New England next

441
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Speaker 1: week at home, then we got the Jets the week

442
00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:35,480
Speaker 1: after that, also at home. Uh. And you know those

443
00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:37,840
Speaker 1: are all games that are there's no gimmes there, so

444
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be interesting to see what Thanksgiving night they

445
00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:43,879
Speaker 1: got the Patriots. Yummy, yummy. So I'm looking forward. I'm

446
00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:47,000
Speaker 1: the same way. I mean, every anybody that had hesitations

447
00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:49,680
Speaker 1: got about the Vikings, and that included me, came out

448
00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:51,639
Speaker 1: of that Buffalo game being like, man, that was that

449
00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:54,600
Speaker 1: was impressive. But do they have it in them to

450
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Speaker 1: sustain this and really be a team that by the

451
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Speaker 1: end of the regular seasons, like, oh yeah this, they

452
00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:02,119
Speaker 1: might take the number one seed. They might win a

453
00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:04,760
Speaker 1: when get a buy and that would be interesting. But

454
00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:06,800
Speaker 1: this is a nice test I'm looking forward to. Haven't

455
00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:10,359
Speaker 1: they reversed up for me? At least? And I feel

456
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Speaker 1: like you're sort of saying the same thing the way

457
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Speaker 1: that I felt about the Vikings for the entire run

458
00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:16,800
Speaker 1: of the show. I mean, teams that are winning miracle

459
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Speaker 1: games and having incredible times on the plane ride home

460
00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:23,120
Speaker 1: become dangerous. I know that our friend Patrick Clayban doesn't

461
00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:24,840
Speaker 1: believe in momentum x Y and z. I think it's

462
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Speaker 1: there's something psychological about winning a game like that in

463
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Speaker 1: Buffalo that was so highly improbable. It was a litmus

464
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Speaker 1: test and they passed. And I don't see any reason

465
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Speaker 1: they couldn't do it against Dallas. I would be concerned, though,

466
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Speaker 1: Christian darry saw their star left tackle, who'se pffs number

467
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Speaker 1: one left tackle is in concussion particle to not practice

468
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Speaker 1: early this week. We'll just see what happens there. I mean,

469
00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:46,880
Speaker 1: that's the kind of thing where you look at Dallas's

470
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Speaker 1: defense and the way that they can disrupt Kirk Cousins,

471
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Speaker 1: whose numbers fall off a cliff under pressure. And I

472
00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:56,320
Speaker 1: think Cousins is having an enjoyable season. There's there's not

473
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Speaker 1: taking anything away from what he's done, especially in the

474
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Speaker 1: fourth quarter when he's been so clutch. But how how

475
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Speaker 1: many times has the incredible talent of Justin Jefferson saved

476
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Speaker 1: Cousins on a couple of his throws. I mean last

477
00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:09,840
Speaker 1: week was a perfect example. He did not played great

478
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Speaker 1: in that game until the end than he did in

479
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Speaker 1: the fourth And when you mentioned played that well before

480
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Speaker 1: in that game, you mentioned that that Justin Jefferson on

481
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Speaker 1: Sunday Show at that not nine receptions with a sub

482
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Speaker 1: fifty percent completion probability, and that's not just part of

483
00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:23,920
Speaker 1: that is just his talent, but that's more than anyone

484
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Speaker 1: in the next Gen stats era in a single game.

485
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Speaker 1: How about step up, Trayvon Diggs. I've been uh looking

486
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Speaker 1: forward to watching this matchup. I think Diggs has played

487
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Speaker 1: better this year. I think he's better this year, even

488
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Speaker 1: though he's not getting the interceptions. I think he's taken

489
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,600
Speaker 1: a step to you know, one of the best cornerbacks

490
00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:42,640
Speaker 1: in the league, which last year was maybe just about

491
00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,159
Speaker 1: the big place. But I think the Cowboys lost in

492
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Speaker 1: part last week because they got cute and they played

493
00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:50,920
Speaker 1: like man coverage the entire game. They played it more.

494
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,240
Speaker 1: At one point in the game, I remember next Gens

495
00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 1: that's had said than any team had for years, like

496
00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:58,600
Speaker 1: they were just daring the Packers to beat them one

497
00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:01,080
Speaker 1: on one, and it kind of happened. But I think

498
00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:03,119
Speaker 1: Digs and Jefferson, not that you're not gonna have a

499
00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:05,920
Speaker 1: safety here to help, but that's a great matchup. Yeah,

500
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:07,760
Speaker 1: And you know the thing about the defense and the

501
00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:11,919
Speaker 1: stupid question about the way it's played with Doc bag

502
00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:13,400
Speaker 1: is you know you got to look at the schedule

503
00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:15,920
Speaker 1: as well, and you know, there's a lot of factors,

504
00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:18,440
Speaker 1: but one is the schedule. So they've got since that

505
00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:21,240
Speaker 1: came back. He came back against Detroit and uh, they

506
00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:23,920
Speaker 1: played well in that game. Chicago justin fields is exploding

507
00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:26,040
Speaker 1: right now. And then you get the Packers in a

508
00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:28,359
Speaker 1: you know, desperation with Aaron Rodgers on the field and

509
00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:30,480
Speaker 1: they made play. So I'm not freaking out about that.

510
00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:32,399
Speaker 1: I think it's more about the peaks and valleys of

511
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Speaker 1: the season. There are not many eighty five Bears defenses

512
00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:39,080
Speaker 1: are two thousand Ravens defense. You're gonna have these moments

513
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:41,399
Speaker 1: where you know, you come down a little bit. The

514
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:43,919
Speaker 1: idea now is to come back up by the end

515
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Speaker 1: of the season. So I'm not concerned about the defense

516
00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:48,680
Speaker 1: at all in this game. And I it's a tough

517
00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:53,560
Speaker 1: game to pick now. You know, I saw this and

518
00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:56,840
Speaker 1: new right away I'm picking the Cowboys. I mean, I

519
00:25:56,840 --> 00:26:00,320
Speaker 1: think they're a better team. I think Ceedee Lamb is

520
00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:03,080
Speaker 1: a is a grown man who's really showing like like

521
00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:05,960
Speaker 1: he's such a strong receiver. I think Tony Pollard has

522
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,360
Speaker 1: shown what he is as a primary back. Town He's

523
00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:12,119
Speaker 1: a grown man, I'm just saying. All these players are

524
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:14,560
Speaker 1: legally adults. But you don't think a Ceedee Lamb is

525
00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:16,919
Speaker 1: like for his toughness and he man, he's tough and

526
00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:19,479
Speaker 1: Pollard two six yards of last week. I just think

527
00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:21,399
Speaker 1: they're a better team, and I think they're gonna be

528
00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:23,879
Speaker 1: hungry or coming off that loss and get that win.

529
00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:26,199
Speaker 1: I'm telling you what's gonna happen right now? Is it

530
00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:30,800
Speaker 1: Minnesota wins its second straight game and overtime? Is he?

531
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Speaker 1: Is he gonna do it? No, I'm just telling you,

532
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:37,680
Speaker 1: But you're telling I feel definitive about another game. Okay,

533
00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:40,080
Speaker 1: go ahead, I have a prediction of how this game

534
00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:43,000
Speaker 1: is gonna go. Actually, I'm gonna let Paul Allen same.

535
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:50,040
Speaker 1: I'm locking up the VI games that I love that

536
00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:55,399
Speaker 1: of that sounddrop is Paul Allen? Uh? You know he

537
00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:58,199
Speaker 1: spoke too soon premature. They ended up giving up the

538
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:00,439
Speaker 1: game tying field goal and that game went to over time. Well,

539
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:04,600
Speaker 1: he was correct, he was correct in the end. I

540
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:07,520
Speaker 1: go I'm I was. My confidence in the Cowboys were

541
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:09,920
Speaker 1: shaken by the way that game played out, both sides

542
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:13,080
Speaker 1: of the ball, and are they kind of at the

543
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:14,520
Speaker 1: end of the day, is this kind of the same

544
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:17,520
Speaker 1: old Cowboys team. But then on the flip side, it's

545
00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 1: like the Vikings, this does not this is not how

546
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:23,040
Speaker 1: it works. They are seven and oh and one score games.

547
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 1: And you could say that everything's flipped and the Vikings

548
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:27,000
Speaker 1: are a different team now, or he could say that

549
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,760
Speaker 1: no team is more in line for some aggression to

550
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:32,040
Speaker 1: hit than the Vikings. At the end of the day,

551
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:34,680
Speaker 1: I'll go with the home team in a great game,

552
00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:38,639
Speaker 1: I will go, you know, thirty four thirty one Vikings

553
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:42,080
Speaker 1: over the Cowboys. Love it. That's a good game, good

554
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:46,400
Speaker 1: number one, Picky, I wasn't I that's a slam dunk Marquis. Okay,

555
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:48,920
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask I'm gonna ask you to understand, um

556
00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:51,560
Speaker 1: why I'm picking what I'm talking us through. Okay, because

557
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:53,960
Speaker 1: one thing I've learned if you, if you're new to

558
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:55,639
Speaker 1: the show, when we picked these games, these are the

559
00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:57,440
Speaker 1: games that we watch on Sunday and have to deal

560
00:27:57,480 --> 00:27:59,560
Speaker 1: with for three and a half hours. There's only three

561
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:03,439
Speaker 1: late day with you deal with. I feel like you

562
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:05,920
Speaker 1: focus less than your games. Maybe you may think that

563
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:08,399
Speaker 1: that's not accurate. Question the strategy of your game watching

564
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:11,000
Speaker 1: on Sunday. Here's the thing either here nor there. There's

565
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:14,640
Speaker 1: only two more late games. I'm taking Cincinnati at Pittsburgh

566
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:16,399
Speaker 1: because by the time it comes back around to me,

567
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:19,080
Speaker 1: if I'm stuck watching the Denver Broncos first the Raiders

568
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 1: for three and a half hours, you're taking energy out

569
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:23,840
Speaker 1: of my Sunday. But I also like this game because

570
00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:29,080
Speaker 1: I last, well, the last time we saw these two teams. Cincinnati, Yeah,

571
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:32,560
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh and Cincinnati is the number two overall pick. Yeah,

572
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:35,679
Speaker 1: because I think the logical explained why. And I literally

573
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 1: don't care what your responses. The logic is sound. There's

574
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:42,080
Speaker 1: any great games, and we can't take Dan's Presh's Jets

575
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 1: away from like that. By the way, actually part of it, Partner,

576
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 1: I don't care you could take that game. I'm watching

577
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:50,720
Speaker 1: it anyway, so right, so I go ahead take it.

578
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:52,680
Speaker 1: It's a football. I'm also loyal to the show. I

579
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 1: want the best show, passive, and I don't want to

580
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:57,480
Speaker 1: take the Jets from you. I MR, I don't like

581
00:28:57,560 --> 00:29:02,080
Speaker 1: watching the Patriots on the game wanted to take I'd

582
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 1: say that not every week. It's like especially I I

583
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 1: want to see like like like the mixing five touchdowns

584
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 1: and he had two scrimmage yards that was like the

585
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 1: Bengals from last year. Can they sustain that against the Steelers?

586
00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 1: But t J, I'm not saying that's gonna be every week.

587
00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:21,480
Speaker 1: Can you run the ball that well? Though? The Steelers

588
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 1: had two seventy yards rushing after being one of the

589
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 1: most unwatchable ground attacks all year, So I don't buy

590
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:29,480
Speaker 1: that that that's going to happen either. But I do

591
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 1: want to see what happens with this. The Bengals are

592
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:33,480
Speaker 1: owing three in the a f C North. This is

593
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 1: absolutely a time for them to awaken or I've stopped.

594
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:39,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start to shut off on them. I'm gonna

595
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 1: lock up the Cincinnati Bengals because I believe in Pittsburgh.

596
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 1: There's no way after what happened in Week one Joe

597
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:49,480
Speaker 1: Burrow needed five interceptions for the Steelers to take that

598
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:52,320
Speaker 1: thing into overtime. There is no way this Bengals team,

599
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:54,320
Speaker 1: if they believe in themselves the way that they should

600
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 1: crumble again against the Steelers. You cannot go in two

601
00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 1: against Pittsburgh and try to convince me the you're an

602
00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:03,240
Speaker 1: item in the a f C. Well, yeah, I think

603
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 1: getting that says standings feels more important than convincing you

604
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:11,000
Speaker 1: that they're an item. Not in my world. I'm gonna

605
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:13,360
Speaker 1: lock it up to I'm with you, alright, I can

606
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:16,200
Speaker 1: see I can see it going wrong. Actually, it's a

607
00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:20,240
Speaker 1: road game. In the lock up together, it always works

608
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 1: out well. None of us was bound to change before Sunday.

609
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 1: That's what happened. I know I was. I've been torn

610
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:28,280
Speaker 1: between them and the and the Chargers. But the Chiefs rather,

611
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:33,280
Speaker 1: this is good. I don't know if I see them

612
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:36,120
Speaker 1: as like a fixed team. I think they're gonna have

613
00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:40,480
Speaker 1: their ups and downs. But yes, since but Pittsburgh is

614
00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:42,920
Speaker 1: who I'm picking in this game, I'm picking against them.

615
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:45,400
Speaker 1: Nothing that happened last week made me feel any different.

616
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:47,840
Speaker 1: I think t J. Watt being back is good. I

617
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:51,480
Speaker 1: think Naja Harris did have a little bit of uh

618
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:54,480
Speaker 1: juice to him last week that he didn't have previously.

619
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Speaker 1: And now he's dealing with knee pain. That's a positive.

620
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Speaker 1: I didn't know that, and that's uh. That's good information

621
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Speaker 1: to tell our listeners. That's a negative to counter. I'm

622
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 1: glad you read it. Throw that out there. It might

623
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Speaker 1: inform my son's fantasy, you know, decision he was what's

624
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 1: what's his record now, he's up to three and seven.

625
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 1: He's rallied. Let him down initially, but okay, I mean, yeah,

626
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 1: the value of losing. He's very you know, he also refuses.

627
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:27,720
Speaker 1: I guess I've let him down because he refuses to

628
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 1: drop Gino Smith during a bye week, even though if

629
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:33,080
Speaker 1: he doesn't do that, he'll have an empty spot on

630
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 1: his roster. I was like, that's not worth it. You

631
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:37,480
Speaker 1: just have to you have to take Mike Evans out

632
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 1: if he's off this week and drop Gino. He's like,

633
00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:42,200
Speaker 1: I'm keeping him and I'm just gonna take a zero.

634
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to convince him otherwise, but I'm not

635
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 1: going to convince myself out of this lock this. Does

636
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 1: he know that you built road World aware? He's not aware.

637
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 1: He's not aware. Can you pick it? Show me something,

638
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 1: can you pick it? I'm convinced the Steelers would have

639
00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 1: a better chance to win with Mitch Drobiski. I just

640
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,479
Speaker 1: haven't seen it from Kenny Pikett yet. It happens. It's

641
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:04,720
Speaker 1: a rookie quarterback, but I you know, I think it's fine. Like,

642
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:06,360
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know what their plan is, Like

643
00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 1: they're not they're not going to the playoffs. Like, maybe

644
00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:11,040
Speaker 1: you just give him as much. He's no worse. He's

645
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 1: certainly as good or better than some of the rookies

646
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 1: were doing last year. It's what happens. But he's not

647
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,160
Speaker 1: helping them win. And you know, it wasn't like he

648
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:21,240
Speaker 1: came into the league as a slam dunk prospect to

649
00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:25,160
Speaker 1: start with. Kenny, he's older than justin fields like he's

650
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:29,320
Speaker 1: a year older. Uh So they hit the by. It

651
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:33,280
Speaker 1: was good to see Cincinnati, obviously, um get healthy and

652
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 1: and beat up on the Panthers before they hit thereby.

653
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:39,400
Speaker 1: I know Jamaar Chase is still out of the mix. Um.

654
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 1: The last time they played a defense that was competitive,

655
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:45,080
Speaker 1: Cleveland shut him down on Halloween Night. But I think

656
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:47,160
Speaker 1: you guys are in good hands on this lock unless

657
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 1: t J. Watt, who was active but didn't make much

658
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 1: of a box score present. He made a big difference

659
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:54,560
Speaker 1: in that game. But he was very active, And I

660
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:57,440
Speaker 1: think you're only the danger you're in here is that

661
00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 1: Cincinnati offensive line that's been up and down this year

662
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 1: gets housed and gets the clown suit put on it

663
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 1: and t J. Watt changes the game. But but but

664
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:07,480
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I think these AFC North games,

665
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:10,880
Speaker 1: that's that's what happened that in Trouble, But at Akershore

666
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:13,320
Speaker 1: Stadium it's a little bit different. Let's do this thing

667
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 1: about Burrow Burrow against the ANFC North this season, five touchdowns,

668
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:20,200
Speaker 1: six picks against every other team thirteen touchdown, zero interceptions,

669
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 1: and I know a bunch that came against Pittsburgh, but

670
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:24,000
Speaker 1: that's who they're playing. I know they were so good

671
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 1: in the division last year, including a couple of romps

672
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 1: over the Steelers, but but that week one kind of

673
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 1: set the tone that they just played bad in the division,

674
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:35,520
Speaker 1: all right. The third overall pick is the New York

675
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 1: Jets at the New England Patriots. Uh from Foxboro. See

676
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:43,040
Speaker 1: what we did for you? I'm I'm saying, like I

677
00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:45,600
Speaker 1: know you don't you are you don't care about anything?

678
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:49,960
Speaker 1: But Greg and I under were intentions were nice. No,

679
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:52,520
Speaker 1: I think I think that's really swell of you guys.

680
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 1: But um ultimately sounds keep gonna watch the game and

681
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 1: talk about it on the show regardless. So I had

682
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:01,960
Speaker 1: if I in the future, if Charles Davis was on

683
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:05,000
Speaker 1: this game, I'd be watching it when I saw it

684
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:08,400
Speaker 1: was Trent Green. If it was Romo or Charles Davis,

685
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:09,920
Speaker 1: I was gonna do it. And I was like, that's

686
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:11,880
Speaker 1: a trend Green game. That's gonna be my tie breaker.

687
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:14,040
Speaker 1: I'm going over the everything. Maybe you're two reliant on

688
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:17,080
Speaker 1: like who's calling the game and not is plugged in

689
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:19,640
Speaker 1: on the teams themselves, and I try to spread it out.

690
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:22,880
Speaker 1: I'm plugged in. My point is we all have different

691
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 1: things we value. For me, that ten am game, that's

692
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:28,000
Speaker 1: the game I'm gonna watch the closest of all the

693
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:30,439
Speaker 1: games in the day. I want to be in good,

694
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:34,120
Speaker 1: good hands, all right, So I'm loyal to football. So

695
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:38,279
Speaker 1: the Patriots are typically in very good hands. Um when

696
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,719
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick is coaching against the New York Jets, a

697
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:44,840
Speaker 1: team that he has historically owned. We had Mark Sanchez

698
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:49,440
Speaker 1: on the show on Tuesday, and um he of course

699
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:52,320
Speaker 1: we discussed a little bit the last time the Jets

700
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 1: beat the Patriots in New England and believe it or not, wait,

701
00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 1: that was the last time. Yeah, grave digger, how how

702
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 1: old were you in January two thousand left? He was

703
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 1: four years old. No, I was nineteen years so you

704
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:08,840
Speaker 1: were literally our producer was a teenager. The last time

705
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:12,400
Speaker 1: the Jets beat the Patriots in New England in the

706
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:14,279
Speaker 1: playoffs since the last time they beat them in the

707
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:20,279
Speaker 1: regular season. Greggy, it was the Brett Farve year. You

708
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:23,799
Speaker 1: were and you saw the Jets winning overtime. It's Matt

709
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 1: Castle and the Patriots. Brady was out with the a

710
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:30,320
Speaker 1: c L. Randy Moss had a at the clock touchdown

711
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:33,479
Speaker 1: catch the force overtime. Great game. Thursday night. I called

712
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:36,600
Speaker 1: my dad from Big Wings in Hollywood and I said, Dad,

713
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 1: this is it. This is the year with Brett Farve.

714
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:44,040
Speaker 1: Next week he tears his uh arm like a bicept injury,

715
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 1: and that the team went down the drake doesn't matter.

716
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:50,359
Speaker 1: We spin forward. The Patriots are no longer the big

717
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:53,239
Speaker 1: bad Patriots to anybody else but the Jets. And I

718
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 1: think that is very important to keep in mind here

719
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:57,880
Speaker 1: with this matchup, because I think the Jets on paper

720
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:00,240
Speaker 1: and what we've seen this year, are the better team.

721
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 1: But I do absolutely think that New England lives in

722
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 1: the Jets heads who saw it two weeks ago at

723
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 1: the Meadowlands. When, of course Zack Wilson, who was even

724
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:11,920
Speaker 1: younger than Justin Graver the last time that Jets one

725
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 1: of the playoffs. He's not aware of the ghosts as much.

726
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 1: But at the same time, he's had two games against

727
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 1: the Pats and they've been nightmare experiences. So he's in

728
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:20,759
Speaker 1: the club with Sam Donald and all the other Jets

729
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 1: quarterbacks of the past. You know, twenty years can the

730
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 1: Jets come out not kill themselves? And we talked to

731
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:30,800
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes and how what's made him even better this

732
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:33,319
Speaker 1: year is his ability to make plays with his legs

733
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:35,799
Speaker 1: and just have incredible instincts of when to you know,

734
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 1: when to hold him and when to fold him and

735
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 1: get out of that pocket. Zack Wilson, one thing that

736
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 1: really jumped out to me in that Buffalo game was

737
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 1: instead of the pirouette spinning away, running away in a panic,

738
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:49,440
Speaker 1: throwing the ball up for grabs, sometimes out of bounds,

739
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 1: sometimes not, he used his really underrated athleticism, got out

740
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 1: of the pocket and made plays. He needs to do

741
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:59,840
Speaker 1: more of that and less overthinking things inside that pocket.

742
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:01,920
Speaker 1: I think that's a big part of this game. I

743
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:04,560
Speaker 1: was great at least that we all went into that

744
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:06,719
Speaker 1: game saying this is exactly what needs to happen with

745
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson, and he accomplished it. There was some element

746
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:13,400
Speaker 1: of more control, um less distress, less chaos, and some growth.

747
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:15,600
Speaker 1: And I look across the field and think, you know,

748
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:18,360
Speaker 1: Matt Jones is a big problem for New England. To

749
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:22,160
Speaker 1: mean Matt Jones. It's like there's been a body switch

750
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:24,080
Speaker 1: to some degree. I just don't see the guy from

751
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:27,280
Speaker 1: especially early last season. And it's their offense, which outside

752
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:30,200
Speaker 1: of like Romandre Stevenson, what are they right now? I mean,

753
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 1: that just seemed to me like this is a space,

754
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:34,719
Speaker 1: a space where the Jets, if their defense continues to

755
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:37,080
Speaker 1: do what it's been doing, there is no reason they

756
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:38,960
Speaker 1: couldn't knock out the Patriots. I was talking to our

757
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,200
Speaker 1: friend Judy Batista down in the makeup room and she said,

758
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:43,359
Speaker 1: it's so true. He said, none of the players care

759
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:47,200
Speaker 1: about this Patriots business. The coaching staff essentially wasn't around

760
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 1: for any of that. They care. But it's it's so

761
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:51,759
Speaker 1: many other people. There's so many other people in that

762
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 1: building though, who aren't the players or coaches where this

763
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 1: Patriots thing is still alive and the media. But that's

764
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 1: what they foe Gussan when they talked to the players

765
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:05,879
Speaker 1: and the coaches, and it just it perpetuates around the organization. Well,

766
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 1: and Robert Sala's own three and that's it's live and

767
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 1: that's not the two great Patriots teams. You know, they

768
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,759
Speaker 1: got all worked up and they really talked up. They're like, oh,

769
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:19,359
Speaker 1: we're mad that they put forty five on us last year.

770
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:21,319
Speaker 1: It was like that was the mac Jones Patriots that

771
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:24,799
Speaker 1: put forty five on them, and that anger didn't help them.

772
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:27,799
Speaker 1: That none of the pregame narratives helped them. What hurt

773
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:30,760
Speaker 1: them was that Bill Belichick came up with a game

774
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:37,000
Speaker 1: plan to stymy Zack Wilson into total submission. Helped out

775
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:39,120
Speaker 1: and touchdown that would have made it sevent wasn't bogus,

776
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 1: but it was had nothing to do with the play

777
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 1: and absolutely changed it. Zach Wilson got up the rid

778
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:48,040
Speaker 1: of the ball so quickly against Buffalo. He was so disciplined.

779
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:50,520
Speaker 1: His time to throw was like a second left then

780
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 1: less than it was the rest of the season. If

781
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:55,279
Speaker 1: he does that, then they're fine because he'll miss, he

782
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 1: won't make big mistakes, he'll use his legs. I think

783
00:38:58,000 --> 00:38:59,799
Speaker 1: the running games should be okay. I don't know what

784
00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:02,200
Speaker 1: that think about this Patriots defense. Their number one in

785
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 1: the league and e p a per play right now.

786
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:07,320
Speaker 1: But if you look at the opponents that they've played

787
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 1: in the in the games they've they've what they've done

788
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:14,319
Speaker 1: is truly dominate some erratic offenses, like dominate in a

789
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:19,400
Speaker 1: way teams don't in the Browns, who are good offense,

790
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:22,000
Speaker 1: but the Colts and and the Jets and in the

791
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:23,840
Speaker 1: Lions and some of these games some of them are

792
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 1: okay offenses where they just they just win. I kind

793
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:28,719
Speaker 1: of can't see them doing that again. They are a

794
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:31,759
Speaker 1: good run defense. You're gonna need better Mac Jones. And

795
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:35,280
Speaker 1: for me, like Belichick sees, football is like a problem

796
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:37,399
Speaker 1: to be solved and he just had the bye week.

797
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:39,479
Speaker 1: Maybe this is why I always think teams are gonna

798
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 1: come out of their bye week and really fix some things,

799
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 1: and it never happens. Because I've been a Patriots fan

800
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:46,399
Speaker 1: my whole life, and Belichick, I think, really does use

801
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:48,279
Speaker 1: that bye week to address things. And so how are

802
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:50,600
Speaker 1: you gonna solve Mac Jones because I don't know it

803
00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:53,040
Speaker 1: right now? These these are two of the worst starting

804
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the league right now if you just look

805
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 1: at like how they've played, and I'm shocked that Mac

806
00:39:57,239 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 1: Jones is one of them. He's not going through his reads.

807
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 1: He's like making panic decisions. He's just throwing balls up

808
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:06,239
Speaker 1: for grabs. Their often seems to be like they're trying

809
00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:09,240
Speaker 1: to be a vertical offense. He's not accurate, which seems

810
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:11,799
Speaker 1: boggles my mind, like it it doesn't seem like he

811
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:14,280
Speaker 1: suits him. So I doesn't seem like a confident quarterback

812
00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:17,440
Speaker 1: not taking his confidence away. He's been mismanaged. It's a

813
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:19,960
Speaker 1: weird thing inside New England's So that gets to what

814
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:21,960
Speaker 1: I'm saying is like, what do they come out with

815
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:24,239
Speaker 1: this week? Because they have to recognize what they were

816
00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:27,319
Speaker 1: doing wasn't working. What will they do? What will they

817
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:28,920
Speaker 1: do on the offensive line, which, oh, by the way,

818
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 1: they've benched their first round pick Cole Strange and back

819
00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:34,440
Speaker 1: to back weeks they have a rotating group of right

820
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:37,200
Speaker 1: tackles who either get benched or hurt. Now they're probably

821
00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 1: back to Isaiah Win who they had bench. But because

822
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:43,200
Speaker 1: Marcus Cannon got hurt, their offensive line hasn't been great either,

823
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:45,279
Speaker 1: and then that's trouble against the Jets. I picked the

824
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:47,600
Speaker 1: Jets to win this game online, and I have a

825
00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:51,719
Speaker 1: terrible I have a terrible Jets for you, not I.

826
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:56,640
Speaker 1: You never pick against the Patriots. I just like the

827
00:40:56,640 --> 00:41:01,680
Speaker 1: only quarterback with Christmas no no, I. I'm been a

828
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:04,040
Speaker 1: Jet supporter of this whole season, and I'm rooting for you.

829
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:05,840
Speaker 1: I just think this is this is the ghost you

830
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 1: can slay. Right here, though, the only quarterback with three

831
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 1: plus starts in a lower passer rating first Bill Belichick

832
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:15,719
Speaker 1: on Earth is Sam Donald. Sam. I don't care. That's

833
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:18,239
Speaker 1: what you have to not care about. You've got to

834
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:21,480
Speaker 1: slay those ghosts. I don't care the ghosts. This for

835
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:23,920
Speaker 1: people like me and people like the media. The Jets

836
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:26,000
Speaker 1: are the better team. They need to win this game.

837
00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:28,279
Speaker 1: The Petrid's gonna win by running the ball. I know

838
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:31,720
Speaker 1: your offensive line is suspect, but the Jets are without

839
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:34,920
Speaker 1: Sheldon Rankins, who has a dislocated elbow. He's an important part.

840
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:38,320
Speaker 1: There little a little thin um in terms of stopping

841
00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:40,160
Speaker 1: the run, and he was one of the best run stuffers.

842
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:42,440
Speaker 1: I think that will be. I think Belichick's gonna try

843
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:44,319
Speaker 1: to protect Mac Jones and hope they can get the

844
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:47,439
Speaker 1: run game going. That would be And I wonder if

845
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:50,400
Speaker 1: because Bailey's appy was not very good. Uh, the last

846
00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:52,319
Speaker 1: time we saw him. I wonder if that will calm

847
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:54,880
Speaker 1: down the natives up there in Foxborough, or if we're

848
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:57,719
Speaker 1: gonna see more garbage like booing mac Jones after three

849
00:41:57,719 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 1: and out in the first quarter and cut to some

850
00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:02,200
Speaker 1: yah who in the crowd that spent two hulls on

851
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:05,000
Speaker 1: a Bailly's happy jersey because he thinks he thinks he

852
00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:08,440
Speaker 1: gets to Tom Brady every time a backup is unheralded

853
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:10,360
Speaker 1: and takes the field. It's not how it works. A

854
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:12,800
Speaker 1: big game. Because the Jets, if they go into against

855
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 1: the Patriots, that's at his deeply disappointed. And the Patriots

856
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:18,440
Speaker 1: if they lose this game, they're in Minnesota on Thanksgiving night,

857
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:21,839
Speaker 1: and then they have the Bills on Thursday night. After that.

858
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 1: They've got three games here and pretty short span, and

859
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:27,799
Speaker 1: the next two are against two really good teams. This

860
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 1: are they going to be part of this season or not?

861
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:32,399
Speaker 1: I think this this game will make a pen It's

862
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:34,960
Speaker 1: a devastating loss. Of the Jets lose, because you've got Chicago,

863
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:37,520
Speaker 1: then at Minnesota, at Buffalo, the whole thing could go

864
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:41,680
Speaker 1: up in flames. Win this game, Win the game. Please,

865
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 1: I beg of you Jets, all right, Let's take a

866
00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:53,240
Speaker 1: break and we'll be right back. Hey listeners. Quick editors

867
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:56,759
Speaker 1: note for everyone out there. After we take this episode,

868
00:42:56,760 --> 00:42:59,320
Speaker 1: we learned that the Bills Browns game would be moved

869
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:02,840
Speaker 1: to deach Froit, so we didn't know that while previewing

870
00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:05,840
Speaker 1: this next game. I hope you will still enjoy it. Okay,

871
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:10,920
Speaker 1: now back to the show. All right, welcome back, and

872
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:13,920
Speaker 1: it is time now for the Sunday Drive presented by

873
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:23,759
Speaker 1: Toyota and it's snakes to the old juser Zeus, What

874
00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:25,919
Speaker 1: are Greg and I doing here? The new old blue Eyes.

875
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:29,480
Speaker 1: Who's hey, Zeus? Who is What is up with your

876
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:32,080
Speaker 1: short term memory? Greg? It's almost like it's been impacted

877
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:35,240
Speaker 1: through years. You can always say that, but my mom

878
00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:41,120
Speaker 1: suffers from the same thing, And don't bring your I

879
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:45,080
Speaker 1: live in the moment and I just throw away. Remember

880
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:48,920
Speaker 1: the interior of my suit. Oh yeah, that's a nickname.

881
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:56,600
Speaker 1: But that's funny. That's good like that, bro. Okay, So

882
00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:59,759
Speaker 1: here's the here's the pick, and I'll cite some of

883
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:05,319
Speaker 1: boarding from Adam Schefter. This is developing news. By the way.

884
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:15,920
Speaker 1: Five hours ago, forecasts calling for snow totals of three

885
00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 1: to six feet by Sunday in Buffalo, including possible what

886
00:44:22,239 --> 00:44:26,840
Speaker 1: mark thunder snow, snow. Last time snow forced NFL to

887
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:29,319
Speaker 1: move a game out of Buffalo. When the Jets and

888
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:31,799
Speaker 1: Bills played that Monday night in Detroit. You and I

889
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:35,319
Speaker 1: were at the Motor What was that place called Culver City,

890
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:38,400
Speaker 1: the Motor Bar and grill or the cozy in No, no, no, no,

891
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:43,600
Speaker 1: the motor Remember the motor, the garage, the garage. There

892
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:49,200
Speaker 1: are there is something that located inside a garage. Christ here, Well,

893
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:51,640
Speaker 1: the motor. It was it's a car themed it was,

894
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:54,920
Speaker 1: it was auto themed. Whatever. Yeah, I'm getting old. I

895
00:44:54,960 --> 00:44:59,120
Speaker 1: feel like I'm really high. Anyway, the Jets and Bills

896
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:02,719
Speaker 1: got moved. The NFL, according to Schefter, is monitoring. That's

897
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:05,359
Speaker 1: a tough word, the storm. They're talking to the Bills

898
00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:13,200
Speaker 1: and Browns unless fans are in peril getting to and

899
00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:16,400
Speaker 1: from the stadium. And you know those people, you know

900
00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:18,920
Speaker 1: those people in Orchard Park. How could they not be

901
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:22,400
Speaker 1: it in three to five because they're made of different materials.

902
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:26,040
Speaker 1: The people of Western New York are tough, Okay, they

903
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:29,359
Speaker 1: can handle thunder snow. They drive big old trucks with

904
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:31,799
Speaker 1: chains on them. Okay, on the same. They got to

905
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:34,399
Speaker 1: clear those roads. They good. They not only will they

906
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:37,279
Speaker 1: get to and from from the stadium safely, they'll be

907
00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:41,520
Speaker 1: tailgating in that building. Went outside it, well you could

908
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:44,640
Speaker 1: build it glues out in the out very warm, which

909
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:47,360
Speaker 1: is saying Friday, by the way, So they will have

910
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:50,440
Speaker 1: a little time to maybe replay the game in Buffalo.

911
00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:52,560
Speaker 1: This is one of the best things about the sport

912
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 1: of football is that you play in the elements and

913
00:45:55,560 --> 00:45:58,200
Speaker 1: if for nothing else, uh Mark. And this is the

914
00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:01,960
Speaker 1: last stand for the Cleveland Browns in my opinion, they're

915
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:03,880
Speaker 1: already in a deep hole right now in terms of

916
00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:07,800
Speaker 1: their when lost record. The innocence comes to a conclusion

917
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:11,560
Speaker 1: around this organization in less than two weeks when Deshaun

918
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:15,399
Speaker 1: Watson takes the field against Houston in week thirteen. So

919
00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:18,480
Speaker 1: here we are now with the Browns needing a win.

920
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:21,839
Speaker 1: And maybe, as they say, whether is the ultimate equalizer,

921
00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:24,919
Speaker 1: maybe this will help the Browns with their studily running back,

922
00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:26,880
Speaker 1: uh Nick Chubb if he gets the ball more than

923
00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:29,800
Speaker 1: twelve times and they take a w in the snow

924
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:32,400
Speaker 1: and Buffalo, I mean, these two teams played an incredible

925
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:34,920
Speaker 1: snow game way back in two thousand and seven, and

926
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 1: so it's interesting that this is what the environment could

927
00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:40,600
Speaker 1: be all over again. On the flip side, Cleveland's run

928
00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:43,279
Speaker 1: defense is the worst total defensive rushing e p A

929
00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:45,160
Speaker 1: in the league. Right now, you can run on them.

930
00:46:45,160 --> 00:46:47,800
Speaker 1: Now can Buffalo take advantage of that with their backfield?

931
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:49,960
Speaker 1: And Josh Allen. I think it's a great situation. This

932
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:52,359
Speaker 1: could be a really weird game. And you've wanted all

933
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:54,760
Speaker 1: along for Nick Chubb just to lead the league and carries.

934
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:56,400
Speaker 1: He's up there in all that business. But it's like

935
00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:58,799
Speaker 1: it's Nick Chubb or Bust. I think this game it

936
00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:02,520
Speaker 1: really is, and it's like kind's you can run on

937
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:04,120
Speaker 1: the bills. So it's like I love I love it

938
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:06,920
Speaker 1: for Cleveland. Uh In it's in a scenario where if

939
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:09,440
Speaker 1: this were in a dome, I'd hate this game for Cleveland.

940
00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:12,920
Speaker 1: This is a true equalizer. And you know Jacoby Brissette,

941
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:15,120
Speaker 1: there was that period where he was killing you late

942
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:17,000
Speaker 1: in the game with a turnover. So was their defense

943
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:20,720
Speaker 1: killing them. Jacoby Prisett has been relatively clean week after

944
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:23,680
Speaker 1: week and a pretty good backup quarterback for Cleveland. I

945
00:47:23,719 --> 00:47:26,160
Speaker 1: mean he's not been perfect at all, but I don't

946
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:29,440
Speaker 1: think he's been destroying them the way that maybe earlier

947
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:31,520
Speaker 1: in the year. No, I never thought he was because

948
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 1: even those plays, just those interceptions, partly because he was

949
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:38,080
Speaker 1: in he had put them in position in like a

950
00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:41,520
Speaker 1: thirty to thirty game. And he's a distraction to me

951
00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:44,359
Speaker 1: from what's happened to the Browns this year, which has

952
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:49,720
Speaker 1: been just an unbelievably poorly coach defense. I mean I

953
00:47:49,719 --> 00:47:53,480
Speaker 1: I think they're there maybe as the worst coaching jobs

954
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:56,080
Speaker 1: of the year, and that's partly on Stefanski. You gotta

955
00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:58,799
Speaker 1: be able to hire the right guy or change the

956
00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:02,399
Speaker 1: scheme because they have enough talent on paper and they

957
00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:09,200
Speaker 1: have games where they Okay, I'll put it on I'll

958
00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:12,400
Speaker 1: put it on the players as well, especially in the secondary,

959
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:15,319
Speaker 1: that those moves and those players are not playing well,

960
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:17,120
Speaker 1: and so there's not a lot of reason to think

961
00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:19,759
Speaker 1: that they're gonna suddenly have one of the one great

962
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:23,240
Speaker 1: game this week. But you mentioned running on the Bills

963
00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:28,080
Speaker 1: that the Bills are shockingly last in the league in

964
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:33,360
Speaker 1: terms of time of possession allowed per drive. So teams

965
00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:36,920
Speaker 1: do have a way of shortening the game against Buffalo,

966
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 1: and it only works so well. But the Browns are

967
00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:42,480
Speaker 1: as well equipped to be in the snow and their

968
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:45,319
Speaker 1: offensive line. I have a lot of confidence in them

969
00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:48,480
Speaker 1: and maybe they can run it enough that this is

970
00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:54,040
Speaker 1: a nervous game for the Browns, especially if Tremaine Edmonds

971
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:58,080
Speaker 1: is not playing. I don't believe he practiced on Wednesday.

972
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:02,160
Speaker 1: And that that Hills defense, when they have Mulana and

973
00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:05,280
Speaker 1: Edmunds out there, that's a great tandem and they've done

974
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:08,239
Speaker 1: well and I think they the whole defense is set

975
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:10,080
Speaker 1: up for those guys to make plays in the running game,

976
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:11,600
Speaker 1: and when they're missing one of them, they're just not

977
00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:17,239
Speaker 1: the same, not the same. I love this game, not

978
00:49:17,280 --> 00:49:19,239
Speaker 1: just because of the thunder snow, but I want to see,

979
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:21,760
Speaker 1: um how Josh Allen and the Bills what they should

980
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:23,920
Speaker 1: do with the bill. If the Bills are as good

981
00:49:23,960 --> 00:49:26,040
Speaker 1: as we all still think, and for instance, there's still

982
00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:28,440
Speaker 1: number one in d v o A team rankings that

983
00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:30,840
Speaker 1: they're they're viewed as a team that's going through a

984
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:35,160
Speaker 1: little bit, but also special and talented, well coached. They

985
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:37,480
Speaker 1: should destroy the Browns in this game, right like they

986
00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:41,160
Speaker 1: except for this weather expensively. Yeah. But and and Josh

987
00:49:41,160 --> 00:49:44,359
Speaker 1: Allen unless we's something we don't know about about his health,

988
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:45,839
Speaker 1: but it seems like a lot of the mistakes he's

989
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:49,800
Speaker 1: making our mental errors more than physical ones. He should

990
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:52,680
Speaker 1: learn from them. And I kind of this unless the

991
00:49:52,719 --> 00:49:55,439
Speaker 1: weather really does play havoc, I can see this being

992
00:49:55,840 --> 00:49:58,480
Speaker 1: an outrageous Josh Allen game where he runs for a

993
00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 1: hundred yards and throws for three drid and they stamp

994
00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:04,520
Speaker 1: a Brown's defense that is underperformed and they kind of

995
00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:08,879
Speaker 1: get right a little bit. Um throws interesting in thunder snow, which,

996
00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:13,040
Speaker 1: by the way, unless the weather really messes with things,

997
00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:14,839
Speaker 1: that's the only thing to me that could save this

998
00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:17,640
Speaker 1: Cleveland team is the weather, but even that might not

999
00:50:17,719 --> 00:50:19,759
Speaker 1: do it. I just feel good about this. He'll run

1000
00:50:19,840 --> 00:50:21,920
Speaker 1: so much. He's been running more this year than he

1001
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:24,440
Speaker 1: ever has in his career too, which is crazy when

1002
00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:26,000
Speaker 1: you think back to the end of that rookie year

1003
00:50:26,040 --> 00:50:28,239
Speaker 1: when he really was running well. He's on pace for

1004
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:31,160
Speaker 1: over a thousand yards. He has more rushing yards this

1005
00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:35,960
Speaker 1: season than he had in all of the COVID season,

1006
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:38,040
Speaker 1: when he almost was making a point not to run,

1007
00:50:38,080 --> 00:50:39,840
Speaker 1: like I'm not that guy, and now he's back to

1008
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:42,480
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just will join all the rest of these

1009
00:50:42,560 --> 00:50:45,440
Speaker 1: quarterbacks and just run like crazy. Um are the worst

1010
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:48,600
Speaker 1: red zone scoring percentage in the league. Buffalo. That's it

1011
00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:51,680
Speaker 1: doesn't make sense. I mean it's been his his red

1012
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:55,239
Speaker 1: zone turnovers last couple of weeks. Too, very strange. This

1013
00:50:55,400 --> 00:50:58,160
Speaker 1: is taken a unexpected turn this season. But I think

1014
00:50:58,160 --> 00:50:59,680
Speaker 1: they're just too good. I think they come out of

1015
00:50:59,680 --> 00:51:02,640
Speaker 1: this far can get hot starting here. All right. That

1016
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:06,440
Speaker 1: was the Sunday Drive presented by Toyota Mark. The draft

1017
00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:08,919
Speaker 1: is back to you, all right. UM, I just take

1018
00:51:08,960 --> 00:51:10,840
Speaker 1: games I like, and I think this is interesting. The

1019
00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:14,160
Speaker 1: Eagles at the Cults. What happened last week with the Colts?

1020
00:51:15,719 --> 00:51:18,759
Speaker 1: They are like they It is a fascinating matchup to

1021
00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:21,960
Speaker 1: me because does everything was? Was that a mirrage against

1022
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:25,480
Speaker 1: a very bad, poorly coached Raiders team? Uh, this will

1023
00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:27,360
Speaker 1: be an ascid test, no doubt about it. Well, you

1024
00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:29,439
Speaker 1: say yes, But here's the thing that here's what changed

1025
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:31,479
Speaker 1: for them that Frank Rake didn't have was he didn't

1026
00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:33,920
Speaker 1: have Matt Ryan playing his best game in the season

1027
00:51:33,960 --> 00:51:35,880
Speaker 1: or one of them. And he didn't have Jonathan Taylor

1028
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:39,600
Speaker 1: suddenly becoming Jonathan Taylor. And one thing you can do

1029
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:43,480
Speaker 1: on the Eagles is you can run. That's why I've

1030
00:51:43,480 --> 00:51:45,239
Speaker 1: been asking we got to eat what's their weakness? What's

1031
00:51:45,239 --> 00:51:48,200
Speaker 1: the weakness Eagles? They're not totally perfect. You can run

1032
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:50,160
Speaker 1: on them. And I think that right now when you

1033
00:51:50,200 --> 00:51:53,000
Speaker 1: don't have Jordan Davison there with their defensive coordinator said,

1034
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:55,680
Speaker 1: he is essentially the pivot point that our whole run

1035
00:51:55,680 --> 00:51:58,279
Speaker 1: defense and what we want to do centers around. You

1036
00:51:58,320 --> 00:52:01,279
Speaker 1: don't have them. You went and signed involved Joseph. We'll

1037
00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:03,520
Speaker 1: see what version of Lindvall Joseph you get. Because I'm

1038
00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:05,279
Speaker 1: just saying, if you want to be the Colts and

1039
00:52:05,320 --> 00:52:07,239
Speaker 1: you want to just be what you are bread and butter,

1040
00:52:07,360 --> 00:52:10,640
Speaker 1: involved Joseph Slander here from the Oh, I just don't know.

1041
00:52:10,719 --> 00:52:12,839
Speaker 1: I mean like that he he was available. So if

1042
00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:15,240
Speaker 1: he was, if he was, you know, a premier player

1043
00:52:15,280 --> 00:52:17,799
Speaker 1: at this point, he wouldn't be. Oh. You know what,

1044
00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:20,560
Speaker 1: I hear what you're saying. I just is it not interesting?

1045
00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:24,600
Speaker 1: Interesting team now? The Colts to me not It was

1046
00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:27,080
Speaker 1: the interesting last week to me because of all the

1047
00:52:27,120 --> 00:52:29,200
Speaker 1: hoopla and the circus around them. We never meet in

1048
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:31,479
Speaker 1: the middle on this. I know it's okay, but Matt Ryan,

1049
00:52:31,560 --> 00:52:34,840
Speaker 1: for instance, like he has these games in him still.

1050
00:52:34,920 --> 00:52:37,080
Speaker 1: But Matt Ryan more often than not. At this stage

1051
00:52:37,080 --> 00:52:39,440
Speaker 1: of his career, I think he's gonna just mixing stinkers,

1052
00:52:39,560 --> 00:52:42,719
Speaker 1: especially up against the bad big pass rush which the

1053
00:52:42,719 --> 00:52:45,640
Speaker 1: Eagles can bring. I don't like the Jonathan Taylor thing

1054
00:52:45,719 --> 00:52:48,839
Speaker 1: to me is more interesting. But we've been talking all

1055
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:51,680
Speaker 1: season about how bad their offensive line is, and now

1056
00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:54,160
Speaker 1: is it just magically fixed? Was Jeff Saturday played center

1057
00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:56,239
Speaker 1: in the two thousand's, I don't know. I don't think so.

1058
00:52:56,360 --> 00:52:58,120
Speaker 1: I mean, there there, it's I think it's a better

1059
00:52:58,200 --> 00:53:01,560
Speaker 1: chance that that was the one week post firing bump

1060
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:04,720
Speaker 1: that many teams get. Also us against the world. Everyone

1061
00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:09,480
Speaker 1: thinks we're team that can't. Raiders are absolute disaster right now.

1062
00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:11,319
Speaker 1: It was just like everything aligned for them to have

1063
00:53:11,320 --> 00:53:14,160
Speaker 1: a nice week. Now that said, I get why they're

1064
00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:22,440
Speaker 1: the team of STL because you like things. Um okay,

1065
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:32,440
Speaker 1: Sestio developing news. Oh all right, Ian rap report with

1066
00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:36,920
Speaker 1: the report rap sheet rap sheet they call him and

1067
00:53:37,040 --> 00:53:42,360
Speaker 1: Dominican Sue has signed with the Eagles. Um called Joseph

1068
00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:47,560
Speaker 1: and Sue and Robert Quinn. That is very interesting. That's wild.

1069
00:53:47,719 --> 00:53:51,360
Speaker 1: So now the Eagles are so funny, man, They just

1070
00:53:51,480 --> 00:53:54,040
Speaker 1: like they do all the things that all the fans

1071
00:53:54,200 --> 00:53:58,600
Speaker 1: want their team to exactly right. So Donathan Gannon has

1072
00:53:58,640 --> 00:54:02,719
Speaker 1: been quoted saying essentially like my defense doesn't work without

1073
00:54:02,760 --> 00:54:06,760
Speaker 1: a nose tackle. They are we're sort of built that

1074
00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:09,640
Speaker 1: they invite you to run and they're willing to give

1075
00:54:09,719 --> 00:54:13,239
Speaker 1: up some you know runs in exchange for being a

1076
00:54:13,280 --> 00:54:15,520
Speaker 1: better past defense. And then when they lost Davis, it

1077
00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:18,120
Speaker 1: just went crazy. I don't know if that's what Sue's

1078
00:54:18,239 --> 00:54:21,680
Speaker 1: role is gonna be or not, him and Joseph combined,

1079
00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:25,040
Speaker 1: but Sue was the best defensive player on the field.

1080
00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:29,160
Speaker 1: I always remember rewatching that Bucks Rams playoff game, and

1081
00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:31,200
Speaker 1: I was just like men and Dominican Sue, what a

1082
00:54:31,239 --> 00:54:33,680
Speaker 1: weird career. He was thirty four years old and he

1083
00:54:33,719 --> 00:54:36,440
Speaker 1: was the best defensive player on the field for the

1084
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:39,640
Speaker 1: Bucks in that game. And I heard reports he wanted

1085
00:54:39,680 --> 00:54:41,560
Speaker 1: eight or nine million dollars this year or he wasn't

1086
00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:43,719
Speaker 1: gonna play, and so he no one gave it to him.

1087
00:54:43,719 --> 00:54:46,319
Speaker 1: His buddy Lee iacco just like chopping it up. It's like,

1088
00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:48,319
Speaker 1: you don't go back unless they pay your top dollar.

1089
00:54:48,480 --> 00:54:54,480
Speaker 1: But now it's like if you're it was like on

1090
00:54:54,600 --> 00:55:02,880
Speaker 1: the car line, go ahead, It's okay. The words has

1091
00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:07,360
Speaker 1: been dead unfortunately, rest in peace. He could add something,

1092
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:11,280
Speaker 1: you're sue, I think that you're picking a Super Bowl contender.

1093
00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:17,920
Speaker 1: I'm just saying it's from the humans. We have no

1094
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:21,719
Speaker 1: respect for the legacy left behind Cocus. So Gregg had

1095
00:55:21,760 --> 00:55:23,200
Speaker 1: to come in off the top rope with an r.

1096
00:55:23,239 --> 00:55:28,759
Speaker 1: I p Anyway, I think it's you know, he's a

1097
00:55:28,800 --> 00:55:30,839
Speaker 1: death piece at this point, but I like it as

1098
00:55:30,840 --> 00:55:35,040
Speaker 1: a pivot many people. It's got to be more than

1099
00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:40,160
Speaker 1: we have a young listenership. We have an international listenership.

1100
00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:43,399
Speaker 1: I don't think people are reading. They could be into history, Greg,

1101
00:55:43,440 --> 00:55:46,520
Speaker 1: the history of the automotive industry. You don't, you don't

1102
00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:49,279
Speaker 1: know for certain that's not true. But the um I mean,

1103
00:55:49,360 --> 00:55:53,640
Speaker 1: come on now, the our team around the NFL, the

1104
00:55:53,719 --> 00:55:56,279
Speaker 1: lines from the Motor City. That's probably plugged people back

1105
00:55:56,280 --> 00:56:00,080
Speaker 1: into that aspect of the motor the bar there, the

1106
00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:03,120
Speaker 1: the garage, the garage. I don't think they have the

1107
00:56:03,160 --> 00:56:08,600
Speaker 1: same autobiography as uh I A Coca and autobiography which

1108
00:56:08,600 --> 00:56:11,480
Speaker 1: my dad had. I remember and this is the this

1109
00:56:11,520 --> 00:56:13,880
Speaker 1: is his pose on the cover of the book. He

1110
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:18,440
Speaker 1: did it hands over the head um Leedo Anthony Leia

1111
00:56:18,520 --> 00:56:21,360
Speaker 1: Coca passed away in two thousand nineteen was an American

1112
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:24,560
Speaker 1: automobile executive best known for the development of the Ford

1113
00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:27,640
Speaker 1: and Mustang my dad's first car. Yeah, I tend to

1114
00:56:27,640 --> 00:56:31,319
Speaker 1: think this won't be making it NFL Network three. The

1115
00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:35,319
Speaker 1: Ford pinto a bit of an infamous car with Ford,

1116
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:38,120
Speaker 1: and then he revived the Chrysler Corporation as the CEO

1117
00:56:38,280 --> 00:56:41,600
Speaker 1: in the eighties. That's where his fame mostly was mostly born.

1118
00:56:41,640 --> 00:56:44,160
Speaker 1: I believe he was one of the few executives to

1119
00:56:44,200 --> 00:56:46,880
Speaker 1: preside over the operations of two of the big three

1120
00:56:47,360 --> 00:56:51,440
Speaker 1: auto makers. Was a Titan. I think thank you. I

1121
00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:55,440
Speaker 1: think your cults can get interesting if they compete in

1122
00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:59,000
Speaker 1: this game. Jonathan Taylor, I thought last week looked like

1123
00:56:59,640 --> 00:57:02,239
Speaker 1: also for the first healthy and people are like, oh, well,

1124
00:57:02,560 --> 00:57:04,880
Speaker 1: Jeff Saturday fixed the offensive line is like, yeah, A,

1125
00:57:05,040 --> 00:57:07,120
Speaker 1: you played the Raiders B That's true. He did have

1126
00:57:07,160 --> 00:57:10,120
Speaker 1: better blocking, but use your eyes. If you watched early

1127
00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:12,400
Speaker 1: in the season, he did not look like Jonathan Taylor.

1128
00:57:12,440 --> 00:57:13,920
Speaker 1: There were a couple of plays where he did have

1129
00:57:14,040 --> 00:57:16,400
Speaker 1: room early in the season where he wasn't making people miss.

1130
00:57:16,440 --> 00:57:18,360
Speaker 1: He didn't look as explosive and he did last week.

1131
00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:21,880
Speaker 1: So him and then their defensive tackle combination Grover, Stewart

1132
00:57:21,880 --> 00:57:25,840
Speaker 1: and and Buckner are really creating issues there. I think

1133
00:57:25,840 --> 00:57:28,480
Speaker 1: they're probably a top ten defense right now, you know.

1134
00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:31,520
Speaker 1: And because of those two guys. All right, let's let's

1135
00:57:31,520 --> 00:57:34,560
Speaker 1: see something. So let's see something. Parks Fraser, their young

1136
00:57:34,600 --> 00:57:36,720
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator. They asked, like, oh, because he looked a

1137
00:57:36,720 --> 00:57:41,160
Speaker 1: little flustered up there. He said, West is all guy

1138
00:57:41,160 --> 00:57:44,000
Speaker 1: in Paris Campbell who year after year would like wait

1139
00:57:44,040 --> 00:57:46,160
Speaker 1: to see maybe this is the Paris Campbell. Ye, now

1140
00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:48,520
Speaker 1: it's kind of been the Paris Parks Fraser. They said, like, why,

1141
00:57:48,880 --> 00:57:50,360
Speaker 1: how did it feel it there? He just said, everything

1142
00:57:50,360 --> 00:57:54,880
Speaker 1: just felt natural. Maybe, you know what, Like we would

1143
00:57:54,880 --> 00:57:56,760
Speaker 1: love this if it were a movie. It's nice to

1144
00:57:56,760 --> 00:57:58,240
Speaker 1: be we could be as cynical as we want. But

1145
00:57:58,280 --> 00:58:00,440
Speaker 1: it's it's an interesting this is turning this not if

1146
00:58:00,440 --> 00:58:03,640
Speaker 1: they finished six ten and one, it wouldn't be a

1147
00:58:03,680 --> 00:58:08,400
Speaker 1: good movie. So isolated to the couple of weeks here,

1148
00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:11,480
Speaker 1: you're a shrewd man. And I mean that is a compliment.

1149
00:58:11,760 --> 00:58:15,520
Speaker 1: Shrewd in a collared shirt. Yeah, because one of your

1150
00:58:15,680 --> 00:58:19,000
Speaker 1: the mark things is when everyone else is bagging on something,

1151
00:58:19,120 --> 00:58:22,360
Speaker 1: you go to that thing. So when that thing surprises people,

1152
00:58:24,240 --> 00:58:27,040
Speaker 1: but then there's the real country, and then they do

1153
00:58:27,080 --> 00:58:29,040
Speaker 1: the real then they do then I do the Nirvana

1154
00:58:29,080 --> 00:58:31,480
Speaker 1: thing because everyone's gonna be the Colts two weeks from now,

1155
00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:34,120
Speaker 1: and I'm on board of it. That's that's contrarian move

1156
00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:38,040
Speaker 1: right there a little bit. But we'll see. And the Eagles,

1157
00:58:38,080 --> 00:58:40,680
Speaker 1: let's see if they get right after a frustrating loss

1158
00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:43,400
Speaker 1: their first of the season. Obviously, UH goes to you,

1159
00:58:43,440 --> 00:58:46,200
Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal. All Right, I'm going to pick a game

1160
00:58:46,840 --> 00:58:50,760
Speaker 1: that I'm surprised Mark Sessler didn't take here. Well, you

1161
00:58:50,840 --> 00:58:53,560
Speaker 1: had to get that Pittsburgh Steelers game and pick two, Well,

1162
00:58:53,600 --> 00:58:56,040
Speaker 1: I had to not get the Broncos game. I do.

1163
00:58:56,120 --> 00:58:58,600
Speaker 1: I have already explained that process to you. It's justin

1164
00:58:58,720 --> 00:59:03,320
Speaker 1: Field Sunday with six G. I love watching this guy live.

1165
00:59:03,360 --> 00:59:05,600
Speaker 1: How can you not? And I think it's gonna be

1166
00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:10,120
Speaker 1: a fun game Bears and Falcons on Sunday because both

1167
00:59:10,120 --> 00:59:13,480
Speaker 1: of these defense stank. They're kind of mirror images of

1168
00:59:13,520 --> 00:59:16,920
Speaker 1: each other right now. These two teams to run heavy

1169
00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:20,600
Speaker 1: offenses that go two hundred plus yards a week and

1170
00:59:20,680 --> 00:59:24,840
Speaker 1: two defenses that I don't trust whatsoever, And you don't

1171
00:59:24,840 --> 00:59:26,840
Speaker 1: you feel like the Bears are better at this style

1172
00:59:27,240 --> 00:59:29,960
Speaker 1: of play. You know, they keep losing right now. The

1173
00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:32,960
Speaker 1: reason I give the Falcons a chance certainly in this game,

1174
00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:35,040
Speaker 1: I mean, the Bears are not under you know, some

1175
00:59:35,080 --> 00:59:37,280
Speaker 1: great team since they've traded Robert Quitn. I went and

1176
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:40,280
Speaker 1: checked e p a per play defensively one through eight,

1177
00:59:41,120 --> 00:59:44,680
Speaker 1: Bears were just like they're fine since then dead last

1178
00:59:44,800 --> 00:59:47,560
Speaker 1: thirties second. So the Falcons should also get theirs and

1179
00:59:47,600 --> 00:59:49,680
Speaker 1: it should be a lot of offense. They should. And

1180
00:59:49,720 --> 00:59:52,960
Speaker 1: I think with the Bears, it's important to realize that

1181
00:59:53,040 --> 00:59:56,600
Speaker 1: this team with Justin Fields is just a lot different now.

1182
00:59:56,920 --> 00:59:59,440
Speaker 1: And I think that what you want to watch here.

1183
00:59:59,480 --> 01:00:10,000
Speaker 1: And Hey, Dan, Okay, who's that? It's me, God, that's

1184
01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:15,400
Speaker 1: God's That's that's how Gods. Wow, this is crazy. Hey God,

1185
01:00:16,120 --> 01:00:19,640
Speaker 1: So listen, I noticed you were really enjoying the play

1186
01:00:19,680 --> 01:00:25,200
Speaker 1: of undrafted Bears linebacker Jack Sanborne during your Monday tape

1187
01:00:25,240 --> 01:00:30,440
Speaker 1: dogging SESSH for Power Rankings. WHOA, yeah, actually, I really

1188
01:00:30,600 --> 01:00:35,360
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, you really are on that epodent, aren't you. God, Yes, seriously,

1189
01:00:36,120 --> 01:00:42,800
Speaker 1: I'm always watching. You need to know that. Anyway, Yes,

1190
01:00:42,840 --> 01:00:46,720
Speaker 1: I do love me some Sandborn. He's a high motor grinder.

1191
01:00:47,000 --> 01:00:50,800
Speaker 1: Local boy made good who's in the middle of everything, bro,

1192
01:00:51,160 --> 01:00:58,120
Speaker 1: I literally created him. So anyway, he's your guy. Now,

1193
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:04,120
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I gotta say that is that's unexpected.

1194
01:01:04,160 --> 01:01:11,480
Speaker 1: But what about you know the standard processing? Wait? Oh wow, wow,

1195
01:01:11,560 --> 01:01:14,880
Speaker 1: this is nuts. Thank you got it before you go.

1196
01:01:15,120 --> 01:01:19,000
Speaker 1: I feel like I'll kick myself forever if I don't ask,

1197
01:01:19,080 --> 01:01:21,200
Speaker 1: not just for me on behalf of the guys at

1198
01:01:21,200 --> 01:01:24,040
Speaker 1: the studio and everybody. What's it all for? I mean

1199
01:01:24,720 --> 01:01:32,600
Speaker 1: everything life said it for the theology podcast tug Boat, okay,

1200
01:01:32,880 --> 01:01:39,440
Speaker 1: even got alright? Sorry? Anything else? Tell Mark Mark Sessler?

1201
01:01:39,560 --> 01:01:47,840
Speaker 1: That is? I see him too, And man, that guy

1202
01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:58,920
Speaker 1: is a free I mean a frequently. I mean what what? What? What?

1203
01:01:59,440 --> 01:02:10,840
Speaker 1: Rack all right? Got out? Wow? Uh? Whoa you know?

1204
01:02:10,960 --> 01:02:13,840
Speaker 1: Sometimes liked It feels like God walks into the studio

1205
01:02:13,880 --> 01:02:18,480
Speaker 1: and then it actually happened. I'm left, um, feeling vulnerable.

1206
01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:21,840
Speaker 1: He's not He's not wrong. He is a freaking, freakingly freak.

1207
01:02:23,080 --> 01:02:26,400
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that. Um, the way that God works

1208
01:02:26,480 --> 01:02:28,400
Speaker 1: is that he is able to observe all things. I

1209
01:02:28,440 --> 01:02:31,760
Speaker 1: didn't know that that was the know that's what they said.

1210
01:02:31,800 --> 01:02:35,080
Speaker 1: And now that he might jump in with the Tyler

1211
01:02:35,120 --> 01:02:38,320
Speaker 1: Algier your guy update from Mark, but that's still going

1212
01:02:38,320 --> 01:02:40,480
Speaker 1: through well that I think the lead it's buried a

1213
01:02:40,480 --> 01:02:44,080
Speaker 1: little bit. But Jack Sanborne, the undrafted linebacker, is my guy.

1214
01:02:44,120 --> 01:02:47,400
Speaker 1: He's on my list, um, which is crazy that he

1215
01:02:47,400 --> 01:02:50,040
Speaker 1: would get involved with that, but it is what it is.

1216
01:02:50,560 --> 01:02:52,600
Speaker 1: And I mean, apparently God does not care about me

1217
01:02:52,640 --> 01:02:54,480
Speaker 1: in that process or I don't know what I I

1218
01:02:54,480 --> 01:02:57,280
Speaker 1: don't think so much going on with you. I think

1219
01:02:57,320 --> 01:02:58,960
Speaker 1: that he's just distracted and he hasn't been able to

1220
01:02:59,000 --> 01:03:04,320
Speaker 1: get to the Algier say I left with himnse um concern. Anyway,

1221
01:03:04,400 --> 01:03:06,800
Speaker 1: let's go on with the analysis of the game. Do

1222
01:03:06,840 --> 01:03:10,960
Speaker 1: we have to I have one sandwich prop um item here.

1223
01:03:11,480 --> 01:03:13,880
Speaker 1: I did before the season say that we would witness

1224
01:03:14,000 --> 01:03:18,360
Speaker 1: the fastest game of the year. This one on paper

1225
01:03:18,440 --> 01:03:21,000
Speaker 1: sets up where both teams they ran the ball combined

1226
01:03:21,040 --> 01:03:24,120
Speaker 1: like eighty two times. Maybe you get there, you get close.

1227
01:03:24,120 --> 01:03:25,880
Speaker 1: It's just really hard to do it because we've seen

1228
01:03:25,920 --> 01:03:29,320
Speaker 1: some greg on Sundays when we're monitoring some of these

1229
01:03:29,360 --> 01:03:32,600
Speaker 1: outliers strange games, and they're not getting close enough even

1230
01:03:32,600 --> 01:03:34,600
Speaker 1: a fast one. Yeah, they get the NFL games, by

1231
01:03:34,600 --> 01:03:36,480
Speaker 1: the way, I've gotten way faster this year. Is this

1232
01:03:36,600 --> 01:03:39,600
Speaker 1: on your radar? Dan? The time is faster than any

1233
01:03:39,680 --> 01:03:46,440
Speaker 1: year since there's I think, like I mean long drives.

1234
01:03:46,920 --> 01:03:50,320
Speaker 1: He's like the way down. But Roger Goodell and the

1235
01:03:50,400 --> 01:03:53,280
Speaker 1: league office also taking some credit, as they should with

1236
01:03:53,280 --> 01:03:58,680
Speaker 1: with much less replay time. Um on that So a

1237
01:03:58,720 --> 01:04:00,680
Speaker 1: couple of little things called at might not play in

1238
01:04:00,720 --> 01:04:04,320
Speaker 1: this game. A J. Terrell might be back and Khalil

1239
01:04:04,400 --> 01:04:07,680
Speaker 1: Herbert on in make a play. Yeah, that's a good point.

1240
01:04:07,960 --> 01:04:12,880
Speaker 1: Not as deep. Uh, make a play Mariota off script

1241
01:04:13,080 --> 01:04:16,720
Speaker 1: with with your arm. It just never happens. And when

1242
01:04:16,720 --> 01:04:20,320
Speaker 1: you have a when you have a running quarterback, which

1243
01:04:20,320 --> 01:04:23,280
Speaker 1: he ultimately is, and he's good at running, they and

1244
01:04:23,320 --> 01:04:25,800
Speaker 1: he's part of their great running game, you need to

1245
01:04:25,840 --> 01:04:27,920
Speaker 1: be able to come up with plays on your own

1246
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:30,760
Speaker 1: sometimes like playmake and he he doesn't make any plays.

1247
01:04:30,760 --> 01:04:34,120
Speaker 1: And the previous I forget who the crew was, it

1248
01:04:34,200 --> 01:04:38,120
Speaker 1: was maybe Vilma. Last week they him and Pitts. Pitts

1249
01:04:38,160 --> 01:04:40,800
Speaker 1: has to be at fault somewhat because they are never

1250
01:04:40,880 --> 01:04:43,400
Speaker 1: on the same page. Sometimes Mariota just misses him. But

1251
01:04:43,480 --> 01:04:46,600
Speaker 1: about three times a game it's just like one of

1252
01:04:46,640 --> 01:04:48,439
Speaker 1: them thinks the other is going to do something else.

1253
01:04:48,800 --> 01:04:51,240
Speaker 1: Lack of chemistry is like almost shocking. But I have

1254
01:04:51,280 --> 01:04:55,880
Speaker 1: a solution. It's terrible. I have a solution for you.

1255
01:04:55,920 --> 01:04:57,960
Speaker 1: How about make a play Desmond rid Or when I mean,

1256
01:04:58,000 --> 01:05:00,080
Speaker 1: at some when to the Falcons at some point to

1257
01:05:00,120 --> 01:05:02,840
Speaker 1: tell you, I'll tell exactly one. They're gonna stick with

1258
01:05:02,880 --> 01:05:05,720
Speaker 1: him until the season's over a week thirteen, and then

1259
01:05:05,720 --> 01:05:08,280
Speaker 1: at week fourteen they'll hit the bye and then he'll

1260
01:05:08,320 --> 01:05:10,200
Speaker 1: start starting week fift. I just wonder what it says

1261
01:05:10,240 --> 01:05:12,800
Speaker 1: about Desmon Ridder or Arthur. I don't think it says anything.

1262
01:05:13,800 --> 01:05:18,160
Speaker 1: A third round pick, yea, why not try him out? Okay?

1263
01:05:18,200 --> 01:05:21,760
Speaker 1: I think if he loses this game, Ridder starts next week.

1264
01:05:22,000 --> 01:05:25,400
Speaker 1: And two of the reasons I think that as Arthur

1265
01:05:25,440 --> 01:05:28,240
Speaker 1: Smith was indignant this week, he's like, what situation, There's

1266
01:05:28,280 --> 01:05:34,120
Speaker 1: no super Mario. And then, more importantly, Jeff Saltz for

1267
01:05:34,160 --> 01:05:37,919
Speaker 1: The Athletic, who is as plugged in as any columnist

1268
01:05:38,080 --> 01:05:41,640
Speaker 1: has been there a long time, said he thought that

1269
01:05:41,720 --> 01:05:43,960
Speaker 1: it's like getting to be game to game, that it's

1270
01:05:44,000 --> 01:05:46,400
Speaker 1: it's gonna be Ridder soon if if Mario does better,

1271
01:05:47,960 --> 01:05:50,160
Speaker 1: I just said, he's as I meant, in the country,

1272
01:05:50,200 --> 01:05:52,280
Speaker 1: he's in there. Yeah, you're right, Orlando lad better, but

1273
01:05:52,320 --> 01:05:53,880
Speaker 1: he's more of a big guy. I don't think he

1274
01:05:53,880 --> 01:05:58,440
Speaker 1: can say you know, he can't opine as much. He

1275
01:05:58,480 --> 01:06:00,680
Speaker 1: gives you the facts. Shultz just comes in and I

1276
01:06:00,720 --> 01:06:03,800
Speaker 1: don't have access to the journal constitution anymore, you know,

1277
01:06:03,840 --> 01:06:07,160
Speaker 1: which I totally respect. Why don't you support your local

1278
01:06:07,560 --> 01:06:12,760
Speaker 1: news institutions sporting literally across the country, journalist, I'll have

1279
01:06:12,840 --> 01:06:15,400
Speaker 1: a paid subscription to every newspaper in the country. You

1280
01:06:15,440 --> 01:06:18,080
Speaker 1: absolutely do. There's no way for you to check. You

1281
01:06:18,120 --> 01:06:21,440
Speaker 1: would never know, you all. You are surrounded by our paywalls.

1282
01:06:21,880 --> 01:06:25,840
Speaker 1: I I support the athletic and uh that that kind

1283
01:06:25,840 --> 01:06:27,600
Speaker 1: of gets it all done. And we think we can

1284
01:06:27,680 --> 01:06:31,000
Speaker 1: expense that. I think I thought that we could have

1285
01:06:32,080 --> 01:06:35,920
Speaker 1: among other things. Let's get on the teat al right

1286
01:06:36,080 --> 01:06:39,200
Speaker 1: before we snake. Let's take a break. God would like that.

1287
01:06:39,280 --> 01:06:41,120
Speaker 1: Thank you God, by the way, and I will be

1288
01:06:41,200 --> 01:06:48,600
Speaker 1: a good boy, all right, don't okay, it's snakes, Greggy,

1289
01:06:48,800 --> 01:06:52,480
Speaker 1: someone tweeted at me last week. I'll pay ten books

1290
01:06:52,520 --> 01:06:56,040
Speaker 1: if you know you never do the snakes out again,

1291
01:06:57,240 --> 01:07:01,040
Speaker 1: about ten million, and then the check across the table,

1292
01:07:01,840 --> 01:07:03,920
Speaker 1: and I'll light it on fire just to stick it

1293
01:07:03,960 --> 01:07:08,520
Speaker 1: to that guy. Snake forever. It's the power move. It's

1294
01:07:08,560 --> 01:07:12,920
Speaker 1: a long process, a complex power move. It is Mark's choice.

1295
01:07:13,000 --> 01:07:18,840
Speaker 1: I have made two selections in a row or apology. Yes, no, wait, no,

1296
01:07:18,960 --> 01:07:22,800
Speaker 1: you didn't know. You didn't. No, you didn't, I didn't

1297
01:07:23,080 --> 01:07:25,640
Speaker 1: know you did Chicago Atlanta. Oh my god, I made

1298
01:07:25,680 --> 01:07:28,240
Speaker 1: the wrong choice first. Well, Drew knows where I'm going

1299
01:07:28,280 --> 01:07:31,280
Speaker 1: with this. Lions and Giants. That's actually my primary game

1300
01:07:31,360 --> 01:07:34,560
Speaker 1: if you care in the morning, I'm excited about this.

1301
01:07:35,600 --> 01:07:40,160
Speaker 1: Nobody except I'm just letting you know. It's a good game.

1302
01:07:40,200 --> 01:07:42,200
Speaker 1: Though I like it, it's a good pick it. Let's

1303
01:07:42,240 --> 01:07:46,440
Speaker 1: be real. Dan Is supported the Lions incredibly. He believes

1304
01:07:46,440 --> 01:07:49,160
Speaker 1: in him with his heart. Mark not so much. But

1305
01:07:49,280 --> 01:07:52,040
Speaker 1: on Sundays, the Lions, just because of the way the

1306
01:07:52,080 --> 01:07:54,120
Speaker 1: drafts have fallen, have become the team of th h

1307
01:07:54,200 --> 01:07:56,760
Speaker 1: a l because you guys have almost not watched the

1308
01:07:56,800 --> 01:07:59,200
Speaker 1: Lions all season, because I think I've had them almost

1309
01:07:59,280 --> 01:08:02,080
Speaker 1: every week. I'm excited for them this because I think

1310
01:08:02,080 --> 01:08:04,880
Speaker 1: they're gonna go win this game in New York. This

1311
01:08:04,960 --> 01:08:07,720
Speaker 1: is a great litmus test. That's such a weird setup.

1312
01:08:07,720 --> 01:08:10,040
Speaker 1: It's like I've been completely supportive of the team. I

1313
01:08:10,080 --> 01:08:13,320
Speaker 1: did the Hard Knocks podcast. I fought with you to

1314
01:08:13,400 --> 01:08:16,320
Speaker 1: try to get That's why I wanted to point that

1315
01:08:16,360 --> 01:08:20,640
Speaker 1: I put a dagger in the middle of my I

1316
01:08:20,680 --> 01:08:23,400
Speaker 1: even just tried to point out I think it's just random,

1317
01:08:23,439 --> 01:08:25,960
Speaker 1: but I just can't. I just have the Lions every week,

1318
01:08:26,160 --> 01:08:29,519
Speaker 1: and all their games are kind of the same. They're

1319
01:08:29,560 --> 01:08:34,240
Speaker 1: not quite as compelling actually as a football operation as

1320
01:08:34,360 --> 01:08:37,400
Speaker 1: uh I think, just because they're so consistent. Like we

1321
01:08:37,439 --> 01:08:40,680
Speaker 1: know who Jared Goff is. DeAndre Swift can't figure out

1322
01:08:40,680 --> 01:08:42,439
Speaker 1: how to play more than ten snaps a week because

1323
01:08:42,479 --> 01:08:46,160
Speaker 1: he's not healthy enough, I guess, and Monroe st Brown's

1324
01:08:46,160 --> 01:08:49,879
Speaker 1: getting open again. The offensive line I think can protect

1325
01:08:49,880 --> 01:08:52,639
Speaker 1: Golf and move the ball on the ground in this game.

1326
01:08:52,920 --> 01:08:55,759
Speaker 1: The big question whenever Golf plays like a heavy blitz

1327
01:08:55,840 --> 01:08:58,599
Speaker 1: team is that he struggles with pressure, and so that's

1328
01:08:58,600 --> 01:09:01,320
Speaker 1: the big matchup there. But on paper, I like this

1329
01:09:01,400 --> 01:09:05,120
Speaker 1: Lions offensive line being tough enough, and I just I

1330
01:09:05,120 --> 01:09:07,160
Speaker 1: feel like the Giants have to have a passing game

1331
01:09:07,200 --> 01:09:09,519
Speaker 1: at some point, and I know they've coached around it,

1332
01:09:09,520 --> 01:09:11,599
Speaker 1: and Daniel Jones has done well enough for when he's

1333
01:09:11,600 --> 01:09:14,200
Speaker 1: given the opportunity, but this is a game where he

1334
01:09:14,200 --> 01:09:16,599
Speaker 1: should be able to light up the Lions defense, and

1335
01:09:16,360 --> 01:09:19,160
Speaker 1: I just think it's a rare team that won't light

1336
01:09:19,240 --> 01:09:22,679
Speaker 1: up the Lions defense. Yeah, it's like there, their strengths

1337
01:09:22,720 --> 01:09:25,519
Speaker 1: don't totally work with Detroits. Outside of the fact that

1338
01:09:25,560 --> 01:09:27,679
Speaker 1: the Lions of the thirty first run defense in the league.

1339
01:09:27,720 --> 01:09:30,439
Speaker 1: That's said, I think that that's really pretty heavily weighted on.

1340
01:09:31,080 --> 01:09:33,799
Speaker 1: Earlier in the year. They were solid against the Packers

1341
01:09:34,280 --> 01:09:36,680
Speaker 1: against their run. It's solid against Dolphins. The Dolphins on

1342
01:09:36,720 --> 01:09:38,599
Speaker 1: the in the run. They were destroyed by the Bears.

1343
01:09:38,640 --> 01:09:40,400
Speaker 1: But everyone's getting destroyed by the Bears. Not a lot

1344
01:09:40,439 --> 01:09:43,280
Speaker 1: to do with justin fields. They also had three takeaways

1345
01:09:43,320 --> 01:09:45,200
Speaker 1: against the Packers in that tight game. They had to

1346
01:09:45,240 --> 01:09:47,120
Speaker 1: pick six against the Bears in the game they lost

1347
01:09:47,120 --> 01:09:49,080
Speaker 1: by one point. They're gonna need to find a way

1348
01:09:49,080 --> 01:09:51,200
Speaker 1: to get I think a turnover to in this Daniel

1349
01:09:51,240 --> 01:09:54,439
Speaker 1: Jones hasn't thrown an interception since Week three. The Giants

1350
01:09:54,439 --> 01:09:56,800
Speaker 1: have been clean, They had been clean, and I do

1351
01:09:56,920 --> 01:09:59,639
Speaker 1: think this is a it's it's in New York. You've

1352
01:09:59,640 --> 01:10:02,200
Speaker 1: got Sekuan Barkley playing out of his mind and you

1353
01:10:02,320 --> 01:10:04,360
Speaker 1: just on leash him against Detroit. Are doing it to me?

1354
01:10:04,479 --> 01:10:06,760
Speaker 1: Really tight. But I don't know why I'm hearing this

1355
01:10:06,800 --> 01:10:08,720
Speaker 1: all over the place that the Giants this is the

1356
01:10:08,760 --> 01:10:11,920
Speaker 1: week the Giants go down. I love Wink Martindale making

1357
01:10:12,000 --> 01:10:14,920
Speaker 1: life hell for Jared only three point favorites. There are

1358
01:10:15,000 --> 01:10:17,479
Speaker 1: seven and two team against a three, and people just

1359
01:10:17,479 --> 01:10:19,920
Speaker 1: do not want to believe the Giants. Not only not

1360
01:10:19,960 --> 01:10:22,320
Speaker 1: only Lines are three and six. Their win on the

1361
01:10:22,400 --> 01:10:26,040
Speaker 1: road last week was their first in two years under

1362
01:10:26,160 --> 01:10:29,200
Speaker 1: Dan Campbell. So this is a bad road team that

1363
01:10:29,320 --> 01:10:32,000
Speaker 1: Lines don't travel well. They're very up and down. Jared Goff,

1364
01:10:32,040 --> 01:10:33,240
Speaker 1: I don't know what the weather is going to be

1365
01:10:33,240 --> 01:10:38,439
Speaker 1: in uh Northern New Jersey this weekend, but it's um,

1366
01:10:38,479 --> 01:10:40,280
Speaker 1: so keep an eye on that. I think this does

1367
01:10:40,320 --> 01:10:42,720
Speaker 1: set up well for the Giants. And you know, if

1368
01:10:42,720 --> 01:10:45,439
Speaker 1: anybody that's been listening to the show knows, I've always been,

1369
01:10:45,479 --> 01:10:47,799
Speaker 1: you know, kinder to the Giants and some other people,

1370
01:10:48,320 --> 01:10:51,639
Speaker 1: Greg and West certainly, but Mark, you've kind of taken

1371
01:10:51,680 --> 01:10:54,400
Speaker 1: the baton because yeah, I don't, and I got I

1372
01:10:54,479 --> 01:10:57,719
Speaker 1: was getting a lot of fire um in my East

1373
01:10:57,720 --> 01:11:01,000
Speaker 1: Coast text thread for having Giants at thirteen in the

1374
01:11:01,000 --> 01:11:03,360
Speaker 1: Power rankings, because there is a part of me that's

1375
01:11:03,400 --> 01:11:06,400
Speaker 1: just like, I have a lot of respect for what

1376
01:11:06,439 --> 01:11:08,559
Speaker 1: they've done to get to this point, but do I

1377
01:11:08,600 --> 01:11:10,679
Speaker 1: have to buy in that that they're actually a good team?

1378
01:11:10,920 --> 01:11:12,800
Speaker 1: And then just out of curiosity, I do not use

1379
01:11:13,040 --> 01:11:15,320
Speaker 1: UM Football Outsider as a guide when I do the

1380
01:11:15,360 --> 01:11:17,840
Speaker 1: power rankings, but sometimes, like after the fact, they'll check it.

1381
01:11:18,160 --> 01:11:20,360
Speaker 1: Giants will rank nineteenth in the league and team d

1382
01:11:20,439 --> 01:11:23,600
Speaker 1: v O A and that that to me tells the

1383
01:11:23,640 --> 01:11:26,240
Speaker 1: story also of a team that is well coached, They

1384
01:11:26,280 --> 01:11:30,240
Speaker 1: win close games, they've had a cush schedule, and this

1385
01:11:30,280 --> 01:11:32,120
Speaker 1: is again sets up well for the Giants to get

1386
01:11:32,160 --> 01:11:34,200
Speaker 1: to eight and two. So I don't know what to

1387
01:11:34,240 --> 01:11:36,160
Speaker 1: make of them, because they're gonna go to the playoffs

1388
01:11:36,160 --> 01:11:40,000
Speaker 1: and they're gonna win eleven, maybe even twelve games most likely. Um,

1389
01:11:40,040 --> 01:11:42,040
Speaker 1: but I've yet to buy in. I think a big

1390
01:11:42,080 --> 01:11:44,840
Speaker 1: part with Daniel Jones. Like Daniel Jones, what he's doing

1391
01:11:45,439 --> 01:11:47,479
Speaker 1: is what the Jets wish Zack Wilson was doing, which

1392
01:11:47,520 --> 01:11:50,400
Speaker 1: is he makes occasional plays, he doesn't turn it over,

1393
01:11:50,720 --> 01:11:52,840
Speaker 1: and he leans on other aspects of the team that

1394
01:11:52,880 --> 01:11:55,720
Speaker 1: are stronger. You gotta credit him for that. Can the

1395
01:11:55,760 --> 01:11:58,639
Speaker 1: Lions put the Giants in a situation where Daniel Jones

1396
01:11:58,680 --> 01:12:00,479
Speaker 1: needs to make plays. I don't know about that. I

1397
01:12:00,479 --> 01:12:02,479
Speaker 1: don't think this is a matchup that sets up well

1398
01:12:02,520 --> 01:12:04,200
Speaker 1: for Digital. I think like that if the Giants are

1399
01:12:04,240 --> 01:12:06,000
Speaker 1: a pet team of mind, it's more just the story

1400
01:12:06,040 --> 01:12:08,439
Speaker 1: around them. And I think Brian Dable I kind of

1401
01:12:08,479 --> 01:12:10,720
Speaker 1: love Brian Table and I think the team does and

1402
01:12:10,720 --> 01:12:13,120
Speaker 1: they're enjoyable, but they're flawed, and I think it's a

1403
01:12:13,160 --> 01:12:15,479
Speaker 1: great opening year for Brian Dable, and I could see

1404
01:12:15,520 --> 01:12:17,800
Speaker 1: them having a record next season. If they don't have

1405
01:12:18,080 --> 01:12:20,400
Speaker 1: major new elements to the team and probably a new quarterback,

1406
01:12:20,560 --> 01:12:22,360
Speaker 1: the record won't be this. It's like they're they're not

1407
01:12:22,439 --> 01:12:25,200
Speaker 1: the record. But they're also like better than people think

1408
01:12:25,240 --> 01:12:27,679
Speaker 1: on defense. I think they create more problems than people

1409
01:12:27,680 --> 01:12:30,200
Speaker 1: think on defense. They don't turn the ball over, they

1410
01:12:30,200 --> 01:12:32,519
Speaker 1: can run the ball really well, and they've been money

1411
01:12:32,520 --> 01:12:35,080
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. I think they're a tough team

1412
01:12:35,120 --> 01:12:37,600
Speaker 1: to prepare for and all these you know, as the

1413
01:12:37,600 --> 01:12:39,519
Speaker 1: coaches say, it's like a one week season, and I

1414
01:12:39,560 --> 01:12:42,800
Speaker 1: think Dable, the combination of Dable and Martindale are very

1415
01:12:42,800 --> 01:12:45,439
Speaker 1: good at game planning week to week and changing what

1416
01:12:45,479 --> 01:12:47,880
Speaker 1: they're gonna do. And that's that's a huge battle in

1417
01:12:47,920 --> 01:12:50,000
Speaker 1: a in a in a huge asset in a league

1418
01:12:50,000 --> 01:12:52,960
Speaker 1: without a lot of separation. But they're like number two

1419
01:12:52,960 --> 01:12:57,400
Speaker 1: and three receivers last week where Isaiah Hodgson's Hodgens and

1420
01:12:57,520 --> 01:13:02,360
Speaker 1: Tanner Hudson Henry Hodgson. I don't know, we are I

1421
01:13:02,400 --> 01:13:04,120
Speaker 1: am we are too hard. I am too hard on

1422
01:13:04,160 --> 01:13:06,639
Speaker 1: the Giants. We I am sometimes And they also let's

1423
01:13:06,640 --> 01:13:09,400
Speaker 1: give some flowers, which is just Dexter Lawrence is a

1424
01:13:09,439 --> 01:13:12,240
Speaker 1: Pro bowler this year. Dave Gedlman got one of those

1425
01:13:12,240 --> 01:13:14,880
Speaker 1: hog Molley's right. Took a few years, but he's playing outstanding.

1426
01:13:15,080 --> 01:13:17,920
Speaker 1: Andrew Thomas is a Pro Bowl left tackle. They hit

1427
01:13:18,000 --> 01:13:21,160
Speaker 1: on that pick too. And one example of a good

1428
01:13:21,160 --> 01:13:22,960
Speaker 1: coaching staff I like to look for, do they take

1429
01:13:22,960 --> 01:13:25,920
Speaker 1: a player the other coaching staffs had no use for

1430
01:13:26,080 --> 01:13:29,479
Speaker 1: and make them really valuable. Remember Jalen Smith Cowboys couldn't

1431
01:13:29,520 --> 01:13:31,639
Speaker 1: use them last year and the Giants with a different

1432
01:13:31,680 --> 01:13:33,599
Speaker 1: coaching staff didn't know what to do with him last year.

1433
01:13:33,640 --> 01:13:35,840
Speaker 1: He was a lost player, and he's come in for

1434
01:13:35,880 --> 01:13:38,479
Speaker 1: this Giant's team. So I would flip it around and said,

1435
01:13:38,479 --> 01:13:45,439
Speaker 1: they also apparently couldn't do anything with that. That's why

1436
01:13:45,439 --> 01:13:47,120
Speaker 1: I didn't it seemed personal. But also, I mean the

1437
01:13:47,720 --> 01:13:51,080
Speaker 1: story is not written in Kansas City, you, I mean

1438
01:13:51,479 --> 01:13:54,639
Speaker 1: on paper. Before last season, you would have thought Kenny

1439
01:13:54,640 --> 01:13:56,439
Speaker 1: Golladay would be their star wide out. He's been a

1440
01:13:56,479 --> 01:13:59,320
Speaker 1: disaster he had. I don't think there's yeah, I don't

1441
01:13:59,320 --> 01:14:02,799
Speaker 1: think there's any means. Did you know se Juan Barkley

1442
01:14:02,880 --> 01:14:08,120
Speaker 1: has nine and thirty one rushing yards east week, He's

1443
01:14:08,120 --> 01:14:10,920
Speaker 1: on pace for seventeen fifty eight at thirty five carries

1444
01:14:10,960 --> 01:14:13,200
Speaker 1: out of the by last week. I would imagine I'd

1445
01:14:13,240 --> 01:14:15,920
Speaker 1: be very surprised unless this game gets out of hand

1446
01:14:15,960 --> 01:14:18,400
Speaker 1: and they can rest him. If he gets thirty more

1447
01:14:18,439 --> 01:14:20,320
Speaker 1: touches in this game, keep an eye on it. It's

1448
01:14:20,360 --> 01:14:23,639
Speaker 1: it's actually pretty crazy. I looked it up earlier this

1449
01:14:23,680 --> 01:14:27,479
Speaker 1: week and he's up to a d carries uh in

1450
01:14:27,640 --> 01:14:34,360
Speaker 1: nine games after eight one carries in combined. Um. So

1451
01:14:34,439 --> 01:14:36,920
Speaker 1: you hope he doesn't wear down. You certainly hope he

1452
01:14:36,920 --> 01:14:39,120
Speaker 1: doesn't get injured, because you take Barkley out of this

1453
01:14:39,240 --> 01:14:43,880
Speaker 1: mix and it could be Crater City problem. It's a

1454
01:14:43,960 --> 01:14:47,360
Speaker 1: little weird just how he hasn't really leaned into that.

1455
01:14:47,360 --> 01:14:49,439
Speaker 1: All Right, there you go, so Mark, it is now

1456
01:14:49,560 --> 01:14:52,080
Speaker 1: back to you all right. Um, God knows that. I

1457
01:14:52,160 --> 01:14:56,640
Speaker 1: like chaos. Oh, God knows everything. Darkness, Um, you know,

1458
01:14:56,760 --> 01:15:02,320
Speaker 1: intrigue of that nature. Ram Saints, it could get. It

1459
01:15:02,720 --> 01:15:05,800
Speaker 1: is ugly. It is an ugly situation. I want to

1460
01:15:05,800 --> 01:15:10,760
Speaker 1: still see how Sean McVeigh because but you don't love

1461
01:15:10,760 --> 01:15:14,599
Speaker 1: the same You can still watch this now. I mean

1462
01:15:14,640 --> 01:15:18,200
Speaker 1: I think we will have someone with very large muscles

1463
01:15:18,240 --> 01:15:21,160
Speaker 1: that likes to lift weights. Watch he little still be watching.

1464
01:15:22,400 --> 01:15:24,160
Speaker 1: I hate this for the I mean, the Rams are

1465
01:15:24,200 --> 01:15:27,200
Speaker 1: just it's like kind of impressive to watch how messy

1466
01:15:27,240 --> 01:15:30,880
Speaker 1: things are. Alaric Jackson, the left tackle, was diagnosed with

1467
01:15:30,920 --> 01:15:34,160
Speaker 1: blood clots. He is out of out for the rest

1468
01:15:34,200 --> 01:15:37,479
Speaker 1: of the season. That's very serious. Chandler Brewer, the right guard,

1469
01:15:37,520 --> 01:15:39,120
Speaker 1: has a Grade three m c L. He's out for

1470
01:15:39,160 --> 01:15:41,160
Speaker 1: like three or four weeks. I mean, they have had

1471
01:15:41,200 --> 01:15:45,760
Speaker 1: ten different line combinations, stringers almost everywhere right and even

1472
01:15:45,880 --> 01:15:47,840
Speaker 1: and even in Week one when that wasn't the case,

1473
01:15:47,880 --> 01:15:50,559
Speaker 1: and many along the look across the board. They were

1474
01:15:50,600 --> 01:15:52,800
Speaker 1: a disasters. They have. It's been an unfixable issue and

1475
01:15:52,800 --> 01:15:54,920
Speaker 1: it's getting We've talked about it every week on this thing.

1476
01:15:55,280 --> 01:15:57,599
Speaker 1: While the rest of the league is embracing the ground

1477
01:15:57,680 --> 01:16:01,800
Speaker 1: game against smaller defensive players and succeeding. The Rams cannot

1478
01:16:01,880 --> 01:16:04,839
Speaker 1: run the ball. They just lost Cooper Cup, who accounted

1479
01:16:04,840 --> 01:16:08,320
Speaker 1: for thirty seven point eight percent of their receiving yards.

1480
01:16:08,520 --> 01:16:12,519
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford's passer rating to anyone not named Cooper Cup

1481
01:16:12,960 --> 01:16:16,320
Speaker 1: is this would be fine in nineteen seventy two. Two

1482
01:16:16,520 --> 01:16:18,880
Speaker 1: it's a disaster. It's seventy seven point two is his

1483
01:16:18,960 --> 01:16:23,479
Speaker 1: passer rating to anyone not named Cooper Cup? How on earth? Well?

1484
01:16:23,520 --> 01:16:26,240
Speaker 1: I mean, but seventy seven point two is awful in

1485
01:16:26,520 --> 01:16:28,519
Speaker 1: this day in age, and yet they could they could

1486
01:16:28,560 --> 01:16:31,320
Speaker 1: win this game. This is They're playing another disaster. This

1487
01:16:31,400 --> 01:16:34,000
Speaker 1: is the bad vibes Bowl of the week. There's a couple,

1488
01:16:34,280 --> 01:16:37,920
Speaker 1: but this is this is the worst vibes. I think

1489
01:16:37,960 --> 01:16:41,479
Speaker 1: the Saints Vegas Denver's raising a tan but right those

1490
01:16:41,520 --> 01:16:46,559
Speaker 1: would be the two. But Jamis Winston this week and

1491
01:16:46,680 --> 01:16:50,559
Speaker 1: what's gone on with him, I think speaks to something

1492
01:16:50,640 --> 01:16:53,120
Speaker 1: larger going on with the Saints. He had an interview

1493
01:16:53,960 --> 01:16:58,760
Speaker 1: with Mike Triplett, who now works for Nick Underhill site.

1494
01:16:58,840 --> 01:17:00,880
Speaker 1: Check it out. It's good stuff. I think New Orleans football.

1495
01:17:01,040 --> 01:17:04,679
Speaker 1: Not to be confused with Jeff Triplett, a long time,

1496
01:17:05,080 --> 01:17:08,400
Speaker 1: long time beat guy, and Jamis talked to him, and

1497
01:17:08,439 --> 01:17:13,479
Speaker 1: he he spoke about how he's not really fully healthy,

1498
01:17:13,560 --> 01:17:16,599
Speaker 1: that he hasn't been fully practicing, and so the fact

1499
01:17:16,680 --> 01:17:19,080
Speaker 1: that he hasn't been listed on the injury report over

1500
01:17:19,200 --> 01:17:22,360
Speaker 1: last month, Okay, you just told on yourself there. I

1501
01:17:22,360 --> 01:17:26,479
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if the league is checking into that.

1502
01:17:27,120 --> 01:17:29,639
Speaker 1: He also said that one of the reasons he struggled

1503
01:17:29,680 --> 01:17:31,800
Speaker 1: so much to recover from the back injury is that

1504
01:17:31,840 --> 01:17:35,280
Speaker 1: they put him on a plane to London when with

1505
01:17:35,360 --> 01:17:39,559
Speaker 1: broken backs and problems, and that really exacerbated it. He

1506
01:17:39,600 --> 01:17:42,120
Speaker 1: wasn't sitting in those seats that we were sitting in. Apparently, well,

1507
01:17:42,240 --> 01:17:46,280
Speaker 1: I think I don't think that as nice as you

1508
01:17:46,320 --> 01:17:49,240
Speaker 1: can like lie down, you know, you're saying, yeah, I

1509
01:17:49,280 --> 01:17:51,680
Speaker 1: don't know if that would solve everything of being in

1510
01:17:51,720 --> 01:17:56,320
Speaker 1: a plane for for ten hours. It sure sounds like

1511
01:17:56,400 --> 01:17:58,519
Speaker 1: to me. When Dennis Allen spoke, and I listened to

1512
01:17:58,600 --> 01:18:00,639
Speaker 1: him because I'm just like, what's going on with Dennis Allen?

1513
01:18:01,920 --> 01:18:04,680
Speaker 1: When he spoke this week, he almost kind of hinted that,

1514
01:18:04,760 --> 01:18:08,639
Speaker 1: like Jamis isn't ready to start, and that maybe they

1515
01:18:08,640 --> 01:18:10,400
Speaker 1: were ready to go back to Jamis and then he

1516
01:18:10,439 --> 01:18:12,760
Speaker 1: spoke about it with both quarterbacks and he kind of

1517
01:18:12,840 --> 01:18:14,839
Speaker 1: hinted on Monday that he was gonna go to Jamis,

1518
01:18:14,960 --> 01:18:18,200
Speaker 1: but on Wednesday it's back to Dalton. And you don't

1519
01:18:18,200 --> 01:18:20,120
Speaker 1: want to speculate too much, but it wouldn't be surprising

1520
01:18:20,160 --> 01:18:23,280
Speaker 1: if Jamis was like, nah, I'm I'm good. I think

1521
01:18:23,280 --> 01:18:26,360
Speaker 1: it's like, what kind of situation. It's just and like

1522
01:18:26,400 --> 01:18:30,240
Speaker 1: marsha On Lattimore. Remember Marshall on Lattimore. Great? What happened

1523
01:18:30,240 --> 01:18:32,080
Speaker 1: to him? Not so great. They never put any guys

1524
01:18:32,080 --> 01:18:34,720
Speaker 1: on injured reserve. They just have guys that are out

1525
01:18:34,800 --> 01:18:36,400
Speaker 1: and they're out for day to day and then they're

1526
01:18:36,400 --> 01:18:40,080
Speaker 1: out for eight weeks. Just something. Just get on the

1527
01:18:40,080 --> 01:18:41,719
Speaker 1: phone together. It's like, oh, I got a great idea

1528
01:18:41,760 --> 01:18:43,719
Speaker 1: to mess up my guys this week with their injury stuff.

1529
01:18:43,960 --> 01:18:47,640
Speaker 1: Listen to this just like conspires. Can I borrow that?

1530
01:18:48,320 --> 01:18:51,120
Speaker 1: So don't put him on IR. Yeah, he's really hurt

1531
01:18:51,160 --> 01:18:52,720
Speaker 1: and he's not anywhere close and we could free up

1532
01:18:52,840 --> 01:18:54,599
Speaker 1: roster space and give that guy. No no, no no,

1533
01:18:54,800 --> 01:18:56,519
Speaker 1: keep him in the mix, get him and get him

1534
01:18:56,520 --> 01:18:59,479
Speaker 1: on a plane, send him to Europe. Yeah, very good,

1535
01:18:59,560 --> 01:19:05,120
Speaker 1: keenan on him. It's like two bad guys. They're probably

1536
01:19:05,800 --> 01:19:08,280
Speaker 1: they're probably gonna I mean, here are some players. By

1537
01:19:08,280 --> 01:19:12,720
Speaker 1: the way, I put him in coach middle seat, that's delicious.

1538
01:19:12,840 --> 01:19:18,600
Speaker 1: Marsh On Lattimer, Cameron is so wicked. Go ahead, it

1539
01:19:18,640 --> 01:19:24,439
Speaker 1: doesn't why the way, why this game doesn't matter? I

1540
01:19:24,439 --> 01:19:28,080
Speaker 1: mean that the players out Lattimore, Cameron, Jordan's Davenport, Pete Werner,

1541
01:19:28,600 --> 01:19:31,200
Speaker 1: ram Check, some of these guys will be back place Andrews.

1542
01:19:33,360 --> 01:19:36,200
Speaker 1: It's crazy, like almost like I don't know what's going on.

1543
01:19:36,320 --> 01:19:39,120
Speaker 1: I know my my guys at Saint Twitter Pockets are

1544
01:19:39,120 --> 01:19:40,920
Speaker 1: convinced they won't win a game the rest of the season.

1545
01:19:40,960 --> 01:19:42,519
Speaker 1: That there's no way they're even winning this game. I

1546
01:19:42,560 --> 01:19:44,320
Speaker 1: don't know if it's that bad, but I gotta say

1547
01:19:44,360 --> 01:19:46,559
Speaker 1: they've been kind of on top of how bad it

1548
01:19:46,640 --> 01:19:48,479
Speaker 1: was going to get for a while, so maybe maybe

1549
01:19:48,520 --> 01:19:51,200
Speaker 1: they were onto something. I mean, I don't I know,

1550
01:19:51,240 --> 01:19:52,920
Speaker 1: you had a little Andy Dalton thing going on. I'm

1551
01:19:52,920 --> 01:19:55,000
Speaker 1: not sure what the argument was to keep with him,

1552
01:19:55,000 --> 01:19:57,559
Speaker 1: but uh, he was a disaster again. I actually am

1553
01:19:57,640 --> 01:20:01,160
Speaker 1: standing on that. Dalton and is not like he's just

1554
01:20:01,680 --> 01:20:05,120
Speaker 1: he wouldn't be solving anything, but he's just a symptom

1555
01:20:05,160 --> 01:20:07,320
Speaker 1: of what's going on? Brandon, hear me out on this.

1556
01:20:08,400 --> 01:20:11,639
Speaker 1: After Jamis gets off the planet, he throws, we have

1557
01:20:11,720 --> 01:20:16,519
Speaker 1: him load the bus all the luggage. Lift lift lift.

1558
01:20:19,920 --> 01:20:24,120
Speaker 1: Oh you're deliciously wicked. Alright, watch what I do this week?

1559
01:20:24,640 --> 01:20:30,320
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen? Oh my goodness, his hamstring is killing him.

1560
01:20:30,560 --> 01:20:36,360
Speaker 1: Put him back on the field. It works at it

1561
01:20:36,560 --> 01:20:39,080
Speaker 1: works for Dennis Allen, drinking like a big glass of

1562
01:20:39,120 --> 01:20:44,280
Speaker 1: shardon a. Oh, we are so bad. Alright, where are

1563
01:20:44,320 --> 01:20:48,280
Speaker 1: we at? Okay? I will grab because you know, uh, Mark,

1564
01:20:48,360 --> 01:20:51,360
Speaker 1: you know what, Vegas at Denver. It's not too bad

1565
01:20:51,400 --> 01:20:55,040
Speaker 1: for me. I like the drama. I don't like it,

1566
01:20:55,080 --> 01:20:57,639
Speaker 1: but you know, there is again some car crash theater here.

1567
01:20:57,680 --> 01:21:01,640
Speaker 1: The Raiders obviously having a dreadful season, and that was,

1568
01:21:01,920 --> 01:21:04,640
Speaker 1: let's face, they had given everything around the team. A

1569
01:21:04,760 --> 01:21:08,520
Speaker 1: humiliating loss to the Colts after the Colts were presented

1570
01:21:08,560 --> 01:21:12,519
Speaker 1: to the outside world as the worst organization in the

1571
01:21:12,640 --> 01:21:16,400
Speaker 1: NFL with a zero amount of um you know, big

1572
01:21:16,439 --> 01:21:18,320
Speaker 1: picture of you and how to run a football team.

1573
01:21:18,479 --> 01:21:20,960
Speaker 1: Then they go to your building and you're charging the

1574
01:21:20,960 --> 01:21:23,080
Speaker 1: fans like two hundred bucks a ticket, and then they

1575
01:21:23,120 --> 01:21:26,360
Speaker 1: just beat you. That can't happen. So then Mark Davis

1576
01:21:26,360 --> 01:21:30,120
Speaker 1: comes out, he defends um, the team. He says, this

1577
01:21:30,160 --> 01:21:32,559
Speaker 1: is we're playing the long game here. And then you

1578
01:21:32,600 --> 01:21:34,400
Speaker 1: have Derek Carr and others coming out in the media

1579
01:21:35,439 --> 01:21:38,400
Speaker 1: and saying, hey, we really needed that. That's gonna help

1580
01:21:38,400 --> 01:21:40,559
Speaker 1: in the locker room, which I wondered about earlier in

1581
01:21:40,560 --> 01:21:42,439
Speaker 1: the week, if that would have a positive effect of

1582
01:21:42,479 --> 01:21:46,080
Speaker 1: them not feeling like, uh, the walls were totally caving

1583
01:21:46,080 --> 01:21:48,280
Speaker 1: in with an owner about to fire everybody. But at

1584
01:21:48,280 --> 01:21:50,160
Speaker 1: the end of the day, there's still a mess. They

1585
01:21:50,160 --> 01:21:52,760
Speaker 1: go to Denver now to face a Broncos defense that

1586
01:21:52,880 --> 01:21:56,080
Speaker 1: is good, still good, even after they moved Bradley Chub.

1587
01:21:56,360 --> 01:21:59,559
Speaker 1: You saw that again as they shut down Derrick Henry.

1588
01:22:00,160 --> 01:22:03,680
Speaker 1: So Josh Jacob's good luck here in this game. Um

1589
01:22:03,720 --> 01:22:07,720
Speaker 1: that said, Uh, Russell Wilson, as we talked about a

1590
01:22:07,760 --> 01:22:09,920
Speaker 1: little bit um on Sunday, and as we've been talking

1591
01:22:09,960 --> 01:22:12,880
Speaker 1: about all season, it's just kind of a mess. And

1592
01:22:12,960 --> 01:22:15,519
Speaker 1: this could be a big Max Crosby game where he

1593
01:22:15,560 --> 01:22:19,320
Speaker 1: makes several huge plays. I just think Russell Wilson is

1594
01:22:19,360 --> 01:22:22,080
Speaker 1: not going to fix this offense. He's in fact, perhaps

1595
01:22:22,200 --> 01:22:24,800
Speaker 1: the problem with his offense and you're gonna see a

1596
01:22:24,800 --> 01:22:27,120
Speaker 1: low scoring game, and I think the Raiders actually win

1597
01:22:27,200 --> 01:22:30,120
Speaker 1: this game. I feel like, uh, something like you know,

1598
01:22:30,600 --> 01:22:34,960
Speaker 1: twenty two and you get a happy Derek Carr on

1599
01:22:35,000 --> 01:22:37,240
Speaker 1: the podium talking about what a relief it is afterwards.

1600
01:22:37,320 --> 01:22:41,320
Speaker 1: I mean, Russell Wilson's sack rate right now is point

1601
01:22:41,360 --> 01:22:43,519
Speaker 1: seven when he's under pressure. That is by far over

1602
01:22:43,520 --> 01:22:49,640
Speaker 1: the last for his last half decade. It speaks to

1603
01:22:49,680 --> 01:22:51,559
Speaker 1: the fact that he just looks lost out there. In

1604
01:22:51,640 --> 01:22:55,760
Speaker 1: Tyler Plumbus, the former bronco um, who said that he's

1605
01:22:55,760 --> 01:22:57,880
Speaker 1: been speaking with people inside the organization, this is a

1606
01:22:57,920 --> 01:23:01,760
Speaker 1: crazy thing that Russell Wilson has been losing his mind

1607
01:23:01,800 --> 01:23:04,040
Speaker 1: out there. He said in a quote. He's using audibles

1608
01:23:04,080 --> 01:23:06,679
Speaker 1: from the Seahawks. The guys don't know the audibles. He's

1609
01:23:06,760 --> 01:23:09,760
Speaker 1: using code words that guys don't know. That's stunning. I mean,

1610
01:23:09,760 --> 01:23:11,760
Speaker 1: it just speaks to the fact that like you would

1611
01:23:11,760 --> 01:23:15,360
Speaker 1: have thought, okay, would would the Nathaniel Hackett Russell Wilson

1612
01:23:15,720 --> 01:23:19,719
Speaker 1: duo combination experiment struggle for the first month, maybe six

1613
01:23:19,880 --> 01:23:21,880
Speaker 1: six weeks. We saw that. You think, are they gonna

1614
01:23:21,920 --> 01:23:23,600
Speaker 1: grow their way out of it? They're not. Because the

1615
01:23:23,640 --> 01:23:26,120
Speaker 1: coach and the quarterback are not up to speed, and

1616
01:23:26,240 --> 01:23:30,679
Speaker 1: I don't know what the future. Yeah once it once

1617
01:23:30,720 --> 01:23:33,120
Speaker 1: a game he makes a big play. It feels like

1618
01:23:33,160 --> 01:23:35,840
Speaker 1: now where it's like a seventy yard touchdown of some

1619
01:23:35,920 --> 01:23:37,600
Speaker 1: kind and then you're think, Okay, they're gonna build on

1620
01:23:37,600 --> 01:23:39,720
Speaker 1: a build on that, and then three quarters later they

1621
01:23:39,760 --> 01:23:43,280
Speaker 1: have like downs. They don't build on anything there. This

1622
01:23:43,439 --> 01:23:45,760
Speaker 1: is the the clay Bon team. There is no momentum

1623
01:23:45,760 --> 01:23:48,320
Speaker 1: around the Denver Broncos and what they do on offense.

1624
01:23:48,360 --> 01:23:50,200
Speaker 1: They make a couple of big plays a game and

1625
01:23:50,240 --> 01:23:53,439
Speaker 1: it is surrounded by slop um. It is. It's a

1626
01:23:53,479 --> 01:23:56,599
Speaker 1: bad situation. I just I think about what the financial

1627
01:23:56,680 --> 01:23:59,040
Speaker 1: commitment is to Wilson and what they're gonna have to

1628
01:23:59,120 --> 01:24:00,920
Speaker 1: think what the move they're gonna make Greg in the

1629
01:24:00,920 --> 01:24:03,000
Speaker 1: off season. We don't need to get there yet. It's

1630
01:24:03,000 --> 01:24:06,360
Speaker 1: still only in November, but that will be a major supply.

1631
01:24:06,560 --> 01:24:09,240
Speaker 1: Like what does new ownership do knowing they're kind of

1632
01:24:09,280 --> 01:24:12,000
Speaker 1: in deep with a guy that maybe can't play anymore.

1633
01:24:12,040 --> 01:24:14,800
Speaker 1: I don't think they have uh any choice. They also

1634
01:24:14,880 --> 01:24:18,880
Speaker 1: won't have their draft pick. I mean right now that

1635
01:24:18,880 --> 01:24:22,519
Speaker 1: would be I think the number three picks. I don't

1636
01:24:22,720 --> 01:24:24,240
Speaker 1: I could be wrong. Maybe that was the Raiders that

1637
01:24:24,240 --> 01:24:26,360
Speaker 1: were that high. Raiders do have their pick, did not

1638
01:24:26,560 --> 01:24:29,400
Speaker 1: give up their own pick for Davante Adams, so that's good.

1639
01:24:29,479 --> 01:24:31,680
Speaker 1: Davante Adams has actually come in as advertised by the way.

1640
01:24:31,720 --> 01:24:33,439
Speaker 1: He has the almost the exact same numbers as he

1641
01:24:33,479 --> 01:24:36,000
Speaker 1: did with the Packers at this point a year ago.

1642
01:24:36,600 --> 01:24:39,719
Speaker 1: But they just they don't have depth on their offense.

1643
01:24:39,720 --> 01:24:42,360
Speaker 1: They're gonna struggle. They these two teams have played before.

1644
01:24:42,400 --> 01:24:44,680
Speaker 1: It was the week we were in London, and I

1645
01:24:44,680 --> 01:24:48,280
Speaker 1: remember that was Russell Wilson's best game. He played pretty

1646
01:24:48,320 --> 01:24:51,320
Speaker 1: well against Raiders, like everyone does. It was definitely the

1647
01:24:51,400 --> 01:24:54,080
Speaker 1: Raiders best game offensively. They put up thirty. They were

1648
01:24:54,080 --> 01:24:56,360
Speaker 1: the only team that like had a great day against Denver.

1649
01:24:56,640 --> 01:24:58,559
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs had a nice day. I don't know if

1650
01:24:58,560 --> 01:25:02,360
Speaker 1: that has any meaning. The the teams are missing him

1651
01:25:02,400 --> 01:25:04,760
Speaker 1: a lot more players than they were backfields like four

1652
01:25:04,800 --> 01:25:08,120
Speaker 1: decades ago. The weather will be very different the the

1653
01:25:08,200 --> 01:25:11,479
Speaker 1: brown The Broncos are getting back Baron Browning and Justin

1654
01:25:11,520 --> 01:25:14,960
Speaker 1: Simmons on defense potentially two really good players who were

1655
01:25:15,000 --> 01:25:17,640
Speaker 1: gone last week. But on offense they're thin like the

1656
01:25:17,720 --> 01:25:19,760
Speaker 1: Raiders too, So I know we don't have to spend

1657
01:25:19,840 --> 01:25:23,479
Speaker 1: too much time, but there their second and third receivers.

1658
01:25:23,560 --> 01:25:26,479
Speaker 1: Last week, who was it? It was Justin Virgil who

1659
01:25:26,520 --> 01:25:32,800
Speaker 1: I was not familiar with previously, Jalen Virgil and then

1660
01:25:32,880 --> 01:25:35,439
Speaker 1: Kendall Hilton hitting our old friend who started that game

1661
01:25:35,479 --> 01:25:38,160
Speaker 1: at quarterback is now like a starting receiver for them.

1662
01:25:38,720 --> 01:25:40,800
Speaker 1: He had always been kind of their fifth receivers. So

1663
01:25:40,840 --> 01:25:44,280
Speaker 1: they're they're hurting, even in a disaster, and I throw

1664
01:25:44,320 --> 01:25:48,680
Speaker 1: a sexy deep ball um even for even for um

1665
01:25:48,720 --> 01:25:52,720
Speaker 1: a sad Raider season, Davante Adams makes multiple plays every week.

1666
01:25:52,760 --> 01:25:55,559
Speaker 1: You're like, man, he's so much different the way just

1667
01:25:55,640 --> 01:25:58,759
Speaker 1: not just his speed but his wiggle and his getting

1668
01:25:58,920 --> 01:26:01,760
Speaker 1: away from would be tacklers and turning seven yard game

1669
01:26:01,800 --> 01:26:05,200
Speaker 1: into a seventeen yard game. He's exactly what you're saying,

1670
01:26:05,240 --> 01:26:07,360
Speaker 1: as good as advertised. So he's just kind of it's

1671
01:26:07,400 --> 01:26:09,599
Speaker 1: weird to watch in a little bit frustrating to see

1672
01:26:09,920 --> 01:26:12,840
Speaker 1: his another great prime season of his be wasted while

1673
01:26:12,880 --> 01:26:15,640
Speaker 1: the Packers and Aaron Rodgers desperately need him. It just

1674
01:26:15,880 --> 01:26:18,560
Speaker 1: for me, there's like some type of like cognitive disconnect,

1675
01:26:18,600 --> 01:26:22,519
Speaker 1: like why isn't he back there in the past the

1676
01:26:22,840 --> 01:26:25,760
Speaker 1: football too. I think you're thinking about football. I wanted

1677
01:26:25,800 --> 01:26:27,880
Speaker 1: to play with his best friend. Well he got it

1678
01:26:27,880 --> 01:26:31,639
Speaker 1: doesn't always work out, all right, I think he'd rather

1679
01:26:31,680 --> 01:26:35,360
Speaker 1: be there. Still, let's be quirker finish this thing out. Um,

1680
01:26:35,520 --> 01:26:38,280
Speaker 1: grave digger, I want you to get involved with this one.

1681
01:26:38,320 --> 01:26:41,439
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna give you the choice of two games here,

1682
01:26:41,439 --> 01:26:49,120
Speaker 1: you ready, Commandos at Houston or the Panthers at Baltimore.

1683
01:26:50,400 --> 01:26:52,559
Speaker 1: I've got Lamar Jackson on a few fantasy teams, so

1684
01:26:52,560 --> 01:26:57,280
Speaker 1: I'm gonna choose the Can you keep keep some eyes

1685
01:26:57,320 --> 01:27:03,520
Speaker 1: on this game? Then? Justin absolutely help help me with this? Uh?

1686
01:27:03,560 --> 01:27:05,439
Speaker 1: Why are you so mad? Mark? What about this game?

1687
01:27:05,840 --> 01:27:09,160
Speaker 1: I have one more I have one more um game assignment,

1688
01:27:09,200 --> 01:27:11,320
Speaker 1: and I'm going to be stuck with the game the

1689
01:27:11,320 --> 01:27:15,800
Speaker 1: other game you mentioned? Now, thank you very much. All Right,

1690
01:27:16,479 --> 01:27:21,200
Speaker 1: you're welcome. Okay, you got the commander, you got the commanders,

1691
01:27:21,439 --> 01:27:25,840
Speaker 1: the Ravens, uh and the Panthers. So we have um

1692
01:27:25,960 --> 01:27:30,840
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield starting for the Panthers. We'll see if he

1693
01:27:30,880 --> 01:27:36,479
Speaker 1: finishes that game. And the Ravens obviously now, uh he stinks. Well,

1694
01:27:36,479 --> 01:27:38,120
Speaker 1: I guess you're right. I don't think he's gonna get

1695
01:27:38,320 --> 01:27:40,439
Speaker 1: you think you get bench for There has been reporting

1696
01:27:40,479 --> 01:27:42,880
Speaker 1: that there's people inside the Panthers org that want to

1697
01:27:42,880 --> 01:27:44,840
Speaker 1: see Donald before the end of the year. I don't

1698
01:27:44,840 --> 01:27:47,400
Speaker 1: know why, but right there is a report out there,

1699
01:27:47,400 --> 01:27:49,479
Speaker 1: So I'm just saying, I don't know if if he's

1700
01:27:49,520 --> 01:27:52,200
Speaker 1: completely going down in flames again in the first half,

1701
01:27:52,240 --> 01:27:55,439
Speaker 1: if they think Donald's healthy, he'll play. But I think

1702
01:27:55,479 --> 01:27:58,160
Speaker 1: this this game is more about again the Ravens, who

1703
01:27:58,160 --> 01:28:00,479
Speaker 1: have been just to me kind of fun to watch.

1704
01:28:00,520 --> 01:28:05,880
Speaker 1: I enjoy obviously the way Lamar plays and you know,

1705
01:28:06,040 --> 01:28:11,800
Speaker 1: they're running game is their identity because it has to

1706
01:28:11,800 --> 01:28:13,960
Speaker 1: be on some level they they're missing pieces in the

1707
01:28:13,960 --> 01:28:17,240
Speaker 1: passing game. Mark Andrews is practicing, I believe, so that's

1708
01:28:17,439 --> 01:28:21,280
Speaker 1: that's an important If they're gonna win the Super Bowl,

1709
01:28:21,360 --> 01:28:23,120
Speaker 1: Mark Andrews not only has to be on the field,

1710
01:28:23,160 --> 01:28:25,000
Speaker 1: but he has to be healthy and making plays. But

1711
01:28:25,160 --> 01:28:28,680
Speaker 1: for now, especially against lesser than teams, they could absolutely

1712
01:28:28,720 --> 01:28:32,280
Speaker 1: just Leon Lamar, who's averaging seven point four yards per

1713
01:28:32,320 --> 01:28:35,240
Speaker 1: attempt on eighty six carries. But you know, Gus Edwards,

1714
01:28:35,320 --> 01:28:37,880
Speaker 1: Kenny and Drake Justine Hill, these guys have all when

1715
01:28:37,960 --> 01:28:40,000
Speaker 1: called upon, done things as well, and a lot of

1716
01:28:40,040 --> 01:28:42,280
Speaker 1: that goes back to the offensive line and you look

1717
01:28:42,520 --> 01:28:45,959
Speaker 1: at a big time draft hit on Tyler lind Linderbaum.

1718
01:28:46,520 --> 01:28:49,439
Speaker 1: Ronnie Stanley is stabilized things on the left side. This

1719
01:28:49,520 --> 01:28:53,599
Speaker 1: team is built to roll over a lot of teams,

1720
01:28:53,640 --> 01:28:56,000
Speaker 1: including the Panthers. That's what's gonna happen here. When you

1721
01:28:56,040 --> 01:28:59,280
Speaker 1: had Jordan Rodrigan to talk about the Saints Ravens game,

1722
01:28:59,640 --> 01:29:01,120
Speaker 1: you guys did a great job because it was like

1723
01:29:01,200 --> 01:29:04,200
Speaker 1: the way that they confused New Orleans um. And there's

1724
01:29:04,240 --> 01:29:06,160
Speaker 1: this one play where I think it showed the running

1725
01:29:06,200 --> 01:29:09,680
Speaker 1: game completely opening up opportunities in the passing game for

1726
01:29:09,760 --> 01:29:12,240
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson where it looked like he was gonna sweep

1727
01:29:12,360 --> 01:29:15,640
Speaker 1: right behind like four or five giant bms and the

1728
01:29:15,720 --> 01:29:19,040
Speaker 1: Saints are preparing to deal with Lamar Jackson. Yeah, just

1729
01:29:19,080 --> 01:29:25,480
Speaker 1: like I say Behemoth, I just say it that other way.

1730
01:29:25,800 --> 01:29:27,960
Speaker 1: That's how I say it. But hold on, so it

1731
01:29:28,080 --> 01:29:31,639
Speaker 1: might be the British pronouncer came from a different world,

1732
01:29:32,880 --> 01:29:37,800
Speaker 1: from a different world. Yeah, I mean, I'm not sure

1733
01:29:37,880 --> 01:29:40,360
Speaker 1: that I can like truly charted to that, but it's yeah,

1734
01:29:40,400 --> 01:29:42,680
Speaker 1: well have to like let us know, listeners if if

1735
01:29:42,680 --> 01:29:47,160
Speaker 1: that's how it's because like controversy is definitely spoken differently

1736
01:29:47,760 --> 01:29:54,360
Speaker 1: in England controversy why don't we take the lift? Like?

1737
01:29:54,400 --> 01:29:58,479
Speaker 1: WHOA where come from? Oh? Surrey six weeks. I still

1738
01:29:58,520 --> 01:30:00,439
Speaker 1: say one thing I get flagged on all the time

1739
01:30:00,520 --> 01:30:03,760
Speaker 1: is instead of sweatpants, tracksuit pants. That's what I was

1740
01:30:03,960 --> 01:30:08,040
Speaker 1: raised to say Connecticut. I was in England till I

1741
01:30:08,080 --> 01:30:10,720
Speaker 1: was from age three to almost seven, so there's a

1742
01:30:10,720 --> 01:30:12,920
Speaker 1: lot of developmental stuff happening there. I don't know if

1743
01:30:12,920 --> 01:30:15,360
Speaker 1: you know how children work. I don't know where my

1744
01:30:15,400 --> 01:30:18,760
Speaker 1: lexicon came from. We're just a bunch of I was

1745
01:30:18,800 --> 01:30:20,880
Speaker 1: just gonna mention that on that sweep though, they're so

1746
01:30:20,920 --> 01:30:24,120
Speaker 1: focused on Lamar Jackson that he throws this incredible past

1747
01:30:24,200 --> 01:30:27,080
Speaker 1: Isaiah Likely and it's just there's their finding ways to

1748
01:30:27,200 --> 01:30:29,760
Speaker 1: open up opportunities for him, and in every possible way

1749
01:30:29,760 --> 01:30:32,400
Speaker 1: they're they're getting healthier. I think they are a great

1750
01:30:32,439 --> 01:30:34,720
Speaker 1: example of what good coaching staffs do. I think they

1751
01:30:34,800 --> 01:30:36,960
Speaker 1: figure out their team as the season goes along, and

1752
01:30:36,960 --> 01:30:39,880
Speaker 1: they start focusing on strength and they start dialing, and

1753
01:30:39,920 --> 01:30:42,000
Speaker 1: you can see the improvement from their running game in

1754
01:30:42,120 --> 01:30:44,439
Speaker 1: terms of their offensive line as the season's gone along,

1755
01:30:44,439 --> 01:30:46,920
Speaker 1: you can see the improvement from their defense as the

1756
01:30:46,960 --> 01:30:49,040
Speaker 1: season's gone along and they've kind of figured things out,

1757
01:30:49,040 --> 01:30:51,840
Speaker 1: either their defense or offense can kind of win them

1758
01:30:51,840 --> 01:30:54,200
Speaker 1: a game. And there's just not that many teams like that.

1759
01:30:54,240 --> 01:30:56,679
Speaker 1: They're very good at like changing the game plans depending

1760
01:30:56,720 --> 01:30:59,080
Speaker 1: on the half. They're only the fifth team in NFL

1761
01:30:59,200 --> 01:31:02,040
Speaker 1: history DAN to have a double double digit lead in

1762
01:31:02,080 --> 01:31:04,240
Speaker 1: each of their first nine games. How do they lose

1763
01:31:04,280 --> 01:31:06,680
Speaker 1: so many games? Right? And so that that like right

1764
01:31:06,760 --> 01:31:09,000
Speaker 1: puts them with like some of the most dominant teams ever.

1765
01:31:09,040 --> 01:31:12,000
Speaker 1: And now they're they should have a double digit lead

1766
01:31:12,000 --> 01:31:16,160
Speaker 1: in this game. They are thirteen point favorite. Baker Mayfield

1767
01:31:16,200 --> 01:31:19,759
Speaker 1: will feel the revenge from Lamargo and oh, all those

1768
01:31:19,800 --> 01:31:23,120
Speaker 1: teams took you number one overall. Oh, you wouldn't have

1769
01:31:23,200 --> 01:31:26,439
Speaker 1: liked me in Cleveland. That's not really a narrative, but

1770
01:31:26,840 --> 01:31:30,000
Speaker 1: no one was thinking about them, but they should have. Finally,

1771
01:31:30,600 --> 01:31:37,439
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler, John Harba, it is yeah, it is fitting

1772
01:31:38,040 --> 01:31:41,120
Speaker 1: that the only member of around the NFL to regularly

1773
01:31:41,560 --> 01:31:48,080
Speaker 1: go commando gets the Commandos against the Texans with those poems?

1774
01:31:48,080 --> 01:31:51,240
Speaker 1: Are you wearing underpants right now? Why did I tell

1775
01:31:51,280 --> 01:31:54,759
Speaker 1: you that? I don't know, I just never do anyways, Like, um,

1776
01:31:54,800 --> 01:32:02,280
Speaker 1: sometimes I just like yeah, uh, justin seems delighted. Christie

1777
01:32:02,680 --> 01:32:05,720
Speaker 1: stayed stone faced and professional. I see your laughing right now.

1778
01:32:05,760 --> 01:32:08,760
Speaker 1: Christie hasn't blink since you heard Drew. It's hard to tell.

1779
01:32:08,800 --> 01:32:11,240
Speaker 1: He's the six ft seven man who's never smiles at

1780
01:32:11,240 --> 01:32:17,479
Speaker 1: parting to Dan. No underpants for me, but he doesn't

1781
01:32:17,479 --> 01:32:20,719
Speaker 1: say that loud. It's in his monologue. If I weren't

1782
01:32:20,760 --> 01:32:23,960
Speaker 1: on this show, this would not be known. I get

1783
01:32:24,000 --> 01:32:27,680
Speaker 1: asked that question, answer of Mark, here's my can. It's

1784
01:32:27,720 --> 01:32:30,040
Speaker 1: almost everything that's true. It's a little personal, but you

1785
01:32:30,120 --> 01:32:32,440
Speaker 1: kind of open the door. I'm not I'm not necessarily

1786
01:32:32,439 --> 01:32:34,880
Speaker 1: required to answer them whatever. And this isn't judging because

1787
01:32:34,880 --> 01:32:38,000
Speaker 1: I'm the same way. Sometimes sometimes I will notice you'll

1788
01:32:38,040 --> 01:32:43,200
Speaker 1: wear the same jeans multiple times in a row without underpants. Um,

1789
01:32:43,479 --> 01:32:45,559
Speaker 1: I don't know, is do you wash your jeans? It's

1790
01:32:45,600 --> 01:32:47,800
Speaker 1: not everything. I don't do this every day, first of all,

1791
01:32:47,880 --> 01:32:51,559
Speaker 1: and secondly today secondly, I don't really I don't really

1792
01:32:51,600 --> 01:32:54,720
Speaker 1: care about the experience experience for anyone else. You just

1793
01:32:54,840 --> 01:32:56,800
Speaker 1: checked your watch, you gotta you got a heart out

1794
01:32:56,880 --> 01:32:58,519
Speaker 1: or no, it's just it's shaked and it said I

1795
01:32:58,560 --> 01:33:00,040
Speaker 1: have a low power a ten percent left, So we

1796
01:33:00,360 --> 01:33:02,800
Speaker 1: but we gotta get out of here. Okay, how do

1797
01:33:02,840 --> 01:33:05,160
Speaker 1: I I'm not discussing this game after all that, you

1798
01:33:05,200 --> 01:33:07,720
Speaker 1: discuss it, all right. The Commander is just coming off

1799
01:33:07,760 --> 01:33:09,599
Speaker 1: the biggest win that they've had in a long time,

1800
01:33:10,960 --> 01:33:13,200
Speaker 1: one one and there against the worst team in the league.

1801
01:33:13,600 --> 01:33:19,280
Speaker 1: But one one Commandos fan did tweet at me, Hey, Dan,

1802
01:33:20,400 --> 01:33:22,559
Speaker 1: do I know you might think that you should lock

1803
01:33:22,640 --> 01:33:25,559
Speaker 1: up the Commanders this week? Do not do it? Do

1804
01:33:25,680 --> 01:33:33,720
Speaker 1: not try? Yes, justin somebody did. Oh no, Heroes, we

1805
01:33:33,800 --> 01:33:37,680
Speaker 1: took another l Nick. We're not doing so hot. I

1806
01:33:37,680 --> 01:33:41,280
Speaker 1: guess I should say I'm not doing so well. The

1807
01:33:41,320 --> 01:33:43,880
Speaker 1: rest of the brothers won't ever give me their picks

1808
01:33:43,960 --> 01:33:46,040
Speaker 1: before I need to do this recording, so I just

1809
01:33:46,200 --> 01:33:49,479
Speaker 1: make something up on the fly now. I reached out

1810
01:33:49,520 --> 01:33:52,840
Speaker 1: to Larry because he's eight and one in the substanding.

1811
01:33:52,880 --> 01:33:54,760
Speaker 1: He waited three days, but he finally got back to

1812
01:33:54,800 --> 01:33:58,000
Speaker 1: me and gave me three picks. So I guess we're

1813
01:33:58,000 --> 01:34:01,799
Speaker 1: gonna go down to Houston and why two boring teams

1814
01:34:01,880 --> 01:34:07,680
Speaker 1: that have terrible quarterbacks that are going nowhere here. It

1815
01:34:07,760 --> 01:34:13,320
Speaker 1: is a little bit interesting close game. Commanders, probably the

1816
01:34:13,360 --> 01:34:17,000
Speaker 1: better team on the road, makes for a pretty lockable

1817
01:34:17,040 --> 01:34:21,200
Speaker 1: game for the Westlings. That's what will we do. Well,

1818
01:34:21,240 --> 01:34:24,519
Speaker 1: we're going down to Houston and we're going commando baby,

1819
01:34:25,040 --> 01:34:30,680
Speaker 1: lock it up. You know. You see they turned out

1820
01:34:30,720 --> 01:34:33,080
Speaker 1: the light on Nick. Yeah. I put this on the

1821
01:34:33,080 --> 01:34:37,479
Speaker 1: brothers because I think Nick, when it was originally conceived,

1822
01:34:37,520 --> 01:34:40,479
Speaker 1: the idea was, yeah, it's a brother's thing, you know,

1823
01:34:40,520 --> 01:34:43,400
Speaker 1: it's carrying on the legacy of that that family and Chris.

1824
01:34:44,080 --> 01:34:46,040
Speaker 1: And then one by one they just left Nick out

1825
01:34:46,040 --> 01:34:48,720
Speaker 1: in the cold. And now Nick is buried himself with

1826
01:34:48,720 --> 01:34:50,320
Speaker 1: a lot of bad picks this year. So I would

1827
01:34:50,360 --> 01:34:52,760
Speaker 1: say I would say it's partly on Nick. Sure, but

1828
01:34:52,840 --> 01:34:57,400
Speaker 1: he's Record six. He's the prodigals, prodigal son. He's wandered away.

1829
01:34:57,720 --> 01:35:01,120
Speaker 1: And what happened we know because Odd literally was in

1830
01:35:01,120 --> 01:35:04,360
Speaker 1: the room earlier when the prodigal son came home. Mark

1831
01:35:05,000 --> 01:35:09,439
Speaker 1: was he turned away by the father. The father accepted him.

1832
01:35:09,439 --> 01:35:11,960
Speaker 1: In fact, it caused a problem with the more officious,

1833
01:35:12,080 --> 01:35:14,200
Speaker 1: dutiful son because he's like, I've been here the whole time,

1834
01:35:14,600 --> 01:35:16,760
Speaker 1: doing all your chores and mowing the lawn, and then

1835
01:35:16,800 --> 01:35:19,559
Speaker 1: this guy rolls in from who knows where, and he's

1836
01:35:19,600 --> 01:35:23,719
Speaker 1: just his favorite Aszion. Perhaps the Westling brothers, Nick accepted

1837
01:35:23,800 --> 01:35:27,720
Speaker 1: need to bury their nose in the Bible and Uh

1838
01:35:28,000 --> 01:35:31,320
Speaker 1: realize it's time to forgive Nick and come together as

1839
01:35:31,320 --> 01:35:34,160
Speaker 1: a family. I don't think that would be a popular

1840
01:35:34,760 --> 01:35:41,360
Speaker 1: I don't think that's gonna podcast tug. Alright, alright, sorry,

1841
01:35:41,400 --> 01:35:44,120
Speaker 1: I think I do think that the Vikings, his Bill's

1842
01:35:44,160 --> 01:35:46,479
Speaker 1: lock over the Vikings seemed to have taken a lot

1843
01:35:46,520 --> 01:35:51,400
Speaker 1: of Yeah. Yeah, it's not fun um to see Nick

1844
01:35:51,520 --> 01:35:53,880
Speaker 1: so beaten down. He used to be so excited and

1845
01:35:53,960 --> 01:35:57,360
Speaker 1: happy each week. Hopefully we'll get a back, a better

1846
01:35:58,080 --> 01:36:01,000
Speaker 1: version of Nick, and hopefully the Commanders come through. Although

1847
01:36:01,000 --> 01:36:02,760
Speaker 1: I don't feel confident, I'm kind of with your friend.

1848
01:36:02,800 --> 01:36:05,280
Speaker 1: I was really this was the hard one of the

1849
01:36:05,280 --> 01:36:09,559
Speaker 1: hardest games. I thought it was a hard game to

1850
01:36:09,560 --> 01:36:12,160
Speaker 1: pick because the Texans gotta win a game at some point,

1851
01:36:12,160 --> 01:36:14,599
Speaker 1: and this feels like a game they could win. There

1852
01:36:14,600 --> 01:36:17,559
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter every single week. The Commanders are

1853
01:36:17,560 --> 01:36:19,799
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter every single week, so it's probably

1854
01:36:20,560 --> 01:36:23,000
Speaker 1: gonna be close. And Ron Rivera is buying time. He

1855
01:36:23,040 --> 01:36:25,400
Speaker 1: doesn't want Carson wants to play anymore. So I was like,

1856
01:36:25,640 --> 01:36:27,560
Speaker 1: take another week, take another week. He's buying time in

1857
01:36:27,640 --> 01:36:30,080
Speaker 1: multiple ways. I was thinking about that. The way this

1858
01:36:30,120 --> 01:36:35,120
Speaker 1: season was going, he was almost certain to be a casualty.

1859
01:36:35,320 --> 01:36:37,479
Speaker 1: I think if there was a change in ownership, which

1860
01:36:37,520 --> 01:36:40,320
Speaker 1: there's expected to be in March because usually coaches are.

1861
01:36:40,920 --> 01:36:44,280
Speaker 1: He was actually in the exact same situation when he

1862
01:36:44,320 --> 01:36:47,439
Speaker 1: was in Carolina, and he staved it off for like

1863
01:36:47,479 --> 01:36:49,320
Speaker 1: a year or half a year. I don't even remember

1864
01:36:49,360 --> 01:36:50,880
Speaker 1: if he lasted it year, but he did stave it

1865
01:36:50,960 --> 01:36:53,240
Speaker 1: off for that offseason. And now he's gonna be in

1866
01:36:53,240 --> 01:36:56,000
Speaker 1: a similar situation. But if they keep winning, he's auditioning

1867
01:36:56,200 --> 01:36:59,120
Speaker 1: and there's no if they win seven or eight nine games,

1868
01:36:59,160 --> 01:37:01,760
Speaker 1: I don't think he's going in anywhere. Also, like I,

1869
01:37:01,920 --> 01:37:04,519
Speaker 1: you know, Heineke at least, I think has had awesome

1870
01:37:04,600 --> 01:37:08,320
Speaker 1: chemistry with Terry McLaurin during their run together. He's turned

1871
01:37:08,640 --> 01:37:11,759
Speaker 1: scary Terry your guy into the eight most valuable Fantasy

1872
01:37:11,760 --> 01:37:14,040
Speaker 1: wide out, and they had legit chemistry. They were really

1873
01:37:14,040 --> 01:37:17,680
Speaker 1: good on third down against the Eagles. I just that

1874
01:37:17,880 --> 01:37:20,559
Speaker 1: was scheme. I like their ski like Scott Turner. He

1875
01:37:20,920 --> 01:37:23,080
Speaker 1: maybe it's too complicated, but there's a lot of fancy

1876
01:37:23,080 --> 01:37:28,760
Speaker 1: little plays and one last little command Curtis Samuel Yes,

1877
01:37:31,760 --> 01:37:35,439
Speaker 1: three yards receiving a hundred and thirty four rushing. He

1878
01:37:35,520 --> 01:37:39,200
Speaker 1: actually is kind of doing the Deebo Samuel role and

1879
01:37:39,439 --> 01:37:41,960
Speaker 1: doing it very well. Every week he has about four

1880
01:37:42,080 --> 01:37:45,160
Speaker 1: or five really key plays where you're like, wow, Curtis,

1881
01:37:45,160 --> 01:37:47,880
Speaker 1: Samuel's valuable. He actually has more yards in both of

1882
01:37:47,880 --> 01:37:51,160
Speaker 1: those categories. Samuel, that's what they signed him to be

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Speaker 1: in his first season was ruined by injury. Uh, and

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Speaker 1: after the defensive line kind of dominated and made plays

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Speaker 1: against an undefeated. Anyway, they're five and five and they're

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Speaker 1: in the they're in the playoff mix right now. Maybe

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Speaker 1: a win, maybe a win by the Commanders will help

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Speaker 1: bring the brothers together since we don't take Nick, you know,

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Speaker 1: seriously as a competitor anymore. Now we're rooting for I

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Speaker 1: don't feel that where are they in the standings are

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Speaker 1: at the at the bottom. There, very far at the bottom.

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Speaker 1: All right, thank you everybody for listening, Thank you everybody

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Speaker 1: for watching. Uh. This show is on NFL Network every

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Speaker 1: Saturday morning. Check your local listings. UM. Thank you again

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Speaker 1: until Friday and the Fun Show and then of course

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Speaker 1: the Flagship Show, in which we break down every game

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Speaker 1: we just previewed. Remember to do one thing as Chris

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Speaker 1: Westley lose know what to say? He the call, oh

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Speaker 1: the meaning of life. I mean, it's really simple. It's

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Speaker 1: in my book. Have you read my book? I mean

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Speaker 1: one foot in divinity and another foot in the world

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Speaker 1: of man. Or render under Caesar's what is Caesar's? And

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Speaker 1: render under God's what is God's? Read my book, man,

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Speaker 1: it's kind of a big deal. Ben around for a

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Speaker 1: little while, all right. I think it's still on some

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Speaker 1: best seller's list. Jesus we at least audible. It got out.

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Speaker 1: It seems nice.