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Speaker 1: I do agree that Eagles are further along because when

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Speaker 1: you look at that defense, there's so much more talent

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Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. But we don't know what this Brown's defense

430
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Speaker 1: is gonna be. On paper, it looks like one of

431
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Speaker 1: the worst defenses in the league. I am more confident

432
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Speaker 1: in r G three and their offense than I am

433
00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:36,119
Speaker 1: in their defense, which is not not a good sign.

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Speaker 1: I mean the considering what we've last the defense was

435
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Speaker 1: the bottom three defense last year, and they've replaced a

436
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Speaker 1: few veterans they had with players that have never played

437
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Speaker 1: in the NFL, and and maybe though maybe that's how

438
00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:47,800
Speaker 1: what you should be, maybe they'll be better. You got

439
00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:51,320
Speaker 1: agbas starting. I think you're starting two rookies at outside linebacker,

440
00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:56,040
Speaker 1: Joe Sober, Like, get ready for Joe Sober. Yeah, big

441
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Speaker 1: showby fan. You know who's not picking the Browns this week?

442
00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:01,560
Speaker 1: Is Uh? I think you were here. Brian Billick. Uh

443
00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:04,440
Speaker 1: said he's he's stared at the Brown schedule and doesn't

444
00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:06,440
Speaker 1: see a win. Well, I don't think in this room

445
00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:09,000
Speaker 1: that we like to look at schedules early in the

446
00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:11,640
Speaker 1: year and go through all that exercise. But he may

447
00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:14,040
Speaker 1: not be far off. But the Browns are not building

448
00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:16,440
Speaker 1: for this season. It's down the road. The one thing

449
00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:18,240
Speaker 1: that kind of if you're a Cleveland fan and you're

450
00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:21,479
Speaker 1: scared of something, it's Wentz ripping off three touchdowns through

451
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Speaker 1: the air and running for a forty five yard score

452
00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:26,640
Speaker 1: because it's just it's it kind of it pits everything

453
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Speaker 1: that they wanted to be. There's been a lot of

454
00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:30,239
Speaker 1: hot takes coming out of this game either way. Well,

455
00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:34,639
Speaker 1: that's interesting because the Browns essentially told Tony Grossy, we

456
00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:36,959
Speaker 1: didn't see Carson Wentz as a guy who could develop

457
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Speaker 1: into even a top twenty. Wouldn't it wouldn't it be

458
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Speaker 1: something if if Carson Wentz has that week one, Like, oh,

459
00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:46,639
Speaker 1: by the way, we've been hiding what we have with

460
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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz this whole time, just like the Redskins were

461
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Speaker 1: hide in r G three back in two thousand twelve,

462
00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:53,600
Speaker 1: and you love that wrapped a bomb on the scene.

463
00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:56,800
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson hinted at that Monday's press commerence. They've been

464
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Speaker 1: doing a lot of read option, They've been doing a

465
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Speaker 1: different a lot of different faces play action pistol. Who knows.

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Speaker 1: I would have never thought the Eagles Browns, by the way,

467
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Speaker 1: would be one of the most watchable games of Week one.

468
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Speaker 1: But that's a fascinating game to me because you just

469
00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:11,200
Speaker 1: don't know anything of what's gonna happen. Let's find out

470
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Speaker 1: if it's actually watchable. You could say that for a

471
00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:16,320
Speaker 1: lot of these games too. This is a wide open week.

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Speaker 1: If you're in knockout pools, you're you're, you're, you're chewing

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Speaker 1: on the old fingerne Browns fans have about another forty

474
00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:24,840
Speaker 1: eight fifty hours to kind of bask in the glory

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Speaker 1: of the off season storylines and then the games begin.

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Speaker 1: Mark over under Trrell prior receiving yards on Sunday under

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Speaker 1: all right, Mark a lot of hope, not no believe Landing.

478
00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:38,240
Speaker 1: I believe in the long term plan. I don't think

479
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Speaker 1: that they're asking fans to ask for ten wins this season.

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Speaker 1: All right, Let's move on and talk about the Cincinnati Bengals,

481
00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:46,960
Speaker 1: who in their last game oh more, own a crushing,

482
00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:51,600
Speaker 1: crushing playoff loss, uh where they just completely collapse and

483
00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:53,639
Speaker 1: should have had a win against Pittsburgh. So now they

484
00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:55,199
Speaker 1: want to get some revenge, and they head to the

485
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Speaker 1: meadow Lands to face uh the New York Jets. Who, um,

486
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Speaker 1: this is the thing that jumps out to me in

487
00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:04,760
Speaker 1: this game right away. I'm excited about the team in general,

488
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Speaker 1: the Jets. I'm excited about the defense's potential. I want

489
00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:10,520
Speaker 1: to see Drell Rivas and I like that right out

490
00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:12,480
Speaker 1: of the gat gate, I get to see him against

491
00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:14,680
Speaker 1: one of the best wide receivers in the league, a

492
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Speaker 1: J Green, because Greg he struggled Vas did against top

493
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Speaker 1: UH wide receivers last year. And now let's see if

494
00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:25,080
Speaker 1: he's fully healthy. Will we get the old Durrell back?

495
00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:27,960
Speaker 1: Or is it old Durrell Well. I was surprised to

496
00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:31,000
Speaker 1: hear the Jets say, I believe it was Thursday that

497
00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:33,479
Speaker 1: Well Revis isn't gonna just take a J Green one

498
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Speaker 1: on one. It's not like we're just gonna leave him

499
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Speaker 1: out there and it's just gonna be one guy tracking

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Speaker 1: him around the field and he's not gonna get any help,

501
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Speaker 1: which I I don't know when you five years ago,

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Speaker 1: they're not saying that they trust Revis to do. Maybe

503
00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:47,120
Speaker 1: and why it's weird that coaches would say that at all.

504
00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:50,880
Speaker 1: Maybe they're just making making it up. But basically they're

505
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Speaker 1: saying he's not the guy from five years ago, because

506
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Speaker 1: they wouldn't have said, well, that's not a crazy thought.

507
00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:57,720
Speaker 1: I mean, he's thirty one now. Well, they talked about

508
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Speaker 1: he's They've even talked about a shift to safety at

509
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Speaker 1: some point, and maybe was even on the table for

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Speaker 1: this year. I look at this game and I feel like,

511
00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:05,520
Speaker 1: I don't think it's out of the table for this year.

512
00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:08,359
Speaker 1: I would be surprised, but but we're already seeing hints

513
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Speaker 1: of him not being the guy was before. I mean,

514
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Speaker 1: this could be a big game for someone like Jeo Bernard,

515
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Speaker 1: who you know, you got no Tyler Reiffert. If Rivers

516
00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:18,760
Speaker 1: does swallow up Green, then maybe Tyler Board and the

517
00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:21,160
Speaker 1: Tyler Boyd and the slot gets some snaps as well.

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Speaker 1: You have to go somewhere else. If Green's to getting

519
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:25,240
Speaker 1: taken care of, why not Jeremy Hill against the defense

520
00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:27,760
Speaker 1: that no longer has Snacks Harrison on the defensive line

521
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Speaker 1: another option. Do you think that's a bad run stopping group? Though,

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Speaker 1: I mean Mohamed Wilkerson, Landard Williams, those two guys are

523
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Speaker 1: great run stop I'm just saying most teams don't have

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Speaker 1: those two guys up front as run stoppers either. I'm

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Speaker 1: not saying they're bad, but I also think Jeremy Hill

526
00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:44,760
Speaker 1: look great in the preseason. This can be a good

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Speaker 1: rushing attack. I don't know what the Jets run defense

528
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Speaker 1: will look like without Damon Harrison, who was the best

529
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Speaker 1: run stuffing defensive tackle in the NFL for the last

530
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Speaker 1: couple of years. I'm more concerned about the Jets back

531
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Speaker 1: end than I am at the line. But we'll see

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Speaker 1: what happens. I think this is another game to me,

533
00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:01,960
Speaker 1: that's a toss up. The Jets at home, the Bengals

534
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:05,560
Speaker 1: trying to find their way with a new offensive set

535
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:07,960
Speaker 1: up and missing some pieces. No, Hugh Jackson, Let's see

536
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:12,200
Speaker 1: what happened. A pressure on Andy Dalton. What about Ryan Fitzpatrick. Yeah,

537
00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:14,680
Speaker 1: Ryan's gonna have another nice year, you guys just watch.

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00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 1: Not doubting you, but he's I do think he needs

539
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:19,199
Speaker 1: to get off to a nice start, and he was.

540
00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:20,760
Speaker 1: He did not look very good in the preseason. I

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Speaker 1: will say that. All right, Let's move on and talk

542
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:29,080
Speaker 1: about the Oakland Raiders, who we talked about this last

543
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:31,879
Speaker 1: week or earlier this week on the show that the

544
00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:35,119
Speaker 1: Raiders were kind of hype bunnies earlier in the off season.

545
00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:37,120
Speaker 1: Then it quieted down, which I think almost could work

546
00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:40,439
Speaker 1: out in their favor a little bit, um, Greg. And

547
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:42,639
Speaker 1: now they they head to the head to New Orleans

548
00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:46,159
Speaker 1: to face your boys, the Saints. Uh, to me, another

549
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:48,280
Speaker 1: game that could be a toss up. Yeah, these are

550
00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:51,639
Speaker 1: two teams where if they were six win teams or

551
00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:55,040
Speaker 1: ten win teams, neither would surprise me for either one

552
00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:57,359
Speaker 1: of these teams. I don't think we were just locked

553
00:26:57,400 --> 00:26:59,560
Speaker 1: in that the Raiders are gonna be a winning team

554
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:02,840
Speaker 1: right now. I think the Saints accomplished something very big

555
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:05,800
Speaker 1: this week though, with that Drew Brees contract. They threaded

556
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:10,359
Speaker 1: the needle of making him happy, extending his contract and

557
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:14,919
Speaker 1: not mortgaging their entire future in terms of counting on

558
00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:17,119
Speaker 1: him being a great player until they were forty. And

559
00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 1: I give Breeze a little bit of credit that I

560
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:20,760
Speaker 1: don't think. I think he had them over a barrel

561
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:23,239
Speaker 1: and he could have made this more complicated than it

562
00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:25,080
Speaker 1: was and he did not do that. So I think

563
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:27,120
Speaker 1: it was a It was a nice little uh, nice

564
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:29,960
Speaker 1: little week for this and more money, Yeah, more money

565
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 1: to patch up a what a defensive last year was

566
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 1: historically awful and in the one The one thing about

567
00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:38,320
Speaker 1: Sean Payton's later career in New Orleans is we get

568
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:41,200
Speaker 1: that you have an excellent offense every year and you're

569
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:44,679
Speaker 1: nice little dome, but you cannot continue to allow teams

570
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:46,679
Speaker 1: to score thirty five points on you. I mean, this

571
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:49,679
Speaker 1: is this is a team that is lacks balance and

572
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:52,360
Speaker 1: it's a great opening game for the Raiders to try

573
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:54,160
Speaker 1: to display what they want to do on awful. Maybe

574
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Speaker 1: this is the year your boy Dennis Allen two thousand thirteen.

575
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:01,360
Speaker 1: My boy, wasn't he two thousand team making the leap candidate?

576
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:03,760
Speaker 1: Now we'll make the leap as a defensive coordinator. So

577
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:07,080
Speaker 1: strange what Greg's able to remember, because some days I

578
00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:10,199
Speaker 1: wonder if you even remember your children's names, never anything,

579
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Speaker 1: And now you're remembering that Dennis Allen was making the

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Speaker 1: leap candida on our website. Help me understand how the

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00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,119
Speaker 1: Saints are on the Raiders level. The Raiders have one

582
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:21,720
Speaker 1: of the deepest rosters in the NFC. The Saints have

583
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 1: signed two players off the street in the past week

584
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:26,600
Speaker 1: who enter the starting lineup. I think the Saints have

585
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:29,399
Speaker 1: a shallow roster they don't have a good defense. No

586
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:31,440
Speaker 1: matter how you want to spin it that it's better

587
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,040
Speaker 1: than last year. They have tons of holes on this roster.

588
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,720
Speaker 1: It's not a great roster. But I think on often

589
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:39,240
Speaker 1: you said, how can they be at their level because

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00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:41,640
Speaker 1: they've got a top five six quarterback, Well, they're gonna

591
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:43,920
Speaker 1: need more than that. They have Mark Ingram, a guy

592
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:45,720
Speaker 1: you love. They have C. J. Spiller, a guy you

593
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 1: love to look very good in the preseason. They have

594
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Speaker 1: Willie Sneid who had a great, great rookie season. They

595
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:54,040
Speaker 1: have a number one receiver and Ingram and Spiller probably

596
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:56,760
Speaker 1: combined to average about one yard per carrying the preseason.

597
00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 1: But did this offensive line is a mess? Yeah? I

598
00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:01,120
Speaker 1: mean if if the offensive line plays like it did

599
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:02,640
Speaker 1: in the preseason, there in trouble. I think it's a

600
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:05,560
Speaker 1: good test for their offense because Oakland's defense, it has

601
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:08,080
Speaker 1: players at every level, and their secondary, which was for

602
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:11,760
Speaker 1: years a disaster, finally has some there. If the Saints

603
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:14,560
Speaker 1: get shut down uh in their building in the season open,

604
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 1: that's a bad sign and a very good sign for Oakland.

605
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:18,600
Speaker 1: And I, by the way, I like Kobe Fleaner more

606
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:20,200
Speaker 1: than you do this year and I know the reports

607
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:22,479
Speaker 1: haven't been going about him in this room in general,

608
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 1: hasn't been uh that high end fleaner. I think this

609
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 1: is a good set up for him. I still think

610
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Speaker 1: you're going against and playing him this week in fantasy, Well,

611
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 1: I have Jared Cook has guys. I'm not sure. I

612
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 1: might go with Cook out of respect for the man

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00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:39,280
Speaker 1: that built it. Callist hands better fantasy player than NFL player.

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00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 1: That's that's fair. All right, Let's move on now and

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00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,880
Speaker 1: the next one PM game will discuss a f C

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Speaker 1: West battle between the San Diego Chargers and Kansas City

617
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Speaker 1: Chiefs and West. Uh. Before we started the show today, UH,

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00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:58,640
Speaker 1: Greg and I were talking about how some people I

619
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:01,880
Speaker 1: don't want to get into specific who have the Chargers

620
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Speaker 1: as a very big underdog this week's second biggest underdog

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Speaker 1: in the entire NFL this week. I don't want to

622
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 1: specify where uh these type of UH comments are coming from.

623
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Speaker 1: Might be a desert area. Might have I've given away

624
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:17,920
Speaker 1: too much. I don't know West. I was in the

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00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:20,240
Speaker 1: Joshua Tree last week. That's a desert area you're talking

626
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 1: about that where people ripping the Chargers there No, no,

627
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 1: nobody's caring about the Charges. Are the Chiefs what do

628
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:29,120
Speaker 1: you remember from Joshua Tree answer the question very little.

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Speaker 1: Are the Chiefs that much better than the Charges? No,

630
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:33,680
Speaker 1: I don't think they are. I think everybody's sleeping on

631
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:37,280
Speaker 1: the Chargers, who I believe lost more games by eight points,

632
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:39,880
Speaker 1: are less than any team in history. Last year, I

633
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:42,200
Speaker 1: think it was eight or nine games that were pretty

634
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:44,880
Speaker 1: much a touchdown or less, and they have bad luck,

635
00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:48,720
Speaker 1: not just in final scores, but in injuries. Just decimated

636
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 1: that roster, especially on offense. Didn't get us, didn't give

637
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,640
Speaker 1: us a chance to see the marquee matchup in this game,

638
00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:57,920
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen versus Marcus Peters, because Keenan Allen missed both

639
00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:00,520
Speaker 1: of those games within with a kidney injury. He was

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Speaker 1: on pace to shatter the record for receptions in the

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Speaker 1: season before going down, and Marcus Peters could be joining that.

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Speaker 1: Patrick Peterson, Darrelle Revis, Josh Norman, Richard Sherman. Yeah, that's

643
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,160
Speaker 1: a great point about Alan because they were a completely

644
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 1: different team on offense when he was out of the

645
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Speaker 1: lineup ninety plus yards more per game for Philip Rivers

646
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Speaker 1: when Allen was in there. I think he's a huge

647
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Speaker 1: part of what they want to do. You add Travis

648
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Speaker 1: Benjamin to the mix, that gives you a downfield element.

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Speaker 1: I I the Chiefs. We've talked about them as a team.

650
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Speaker 1: I think they could be an a f C championship

651
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 1: type team and probably stopped there. But I don't look

652
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:37,520
Speaker 1: at the Chargers based on last season is some three

653
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Speaker 1: win just roll over you in Week one and let's

654
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:41,720
Speaker 1: look at Week two and there's a lot more going

655
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 1: on with the San Diego Chargers than that. Now, these

656
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:47,160
Speaker 1: two teams always play each other tight. They did last year.

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Speaker 1: The Chargers. I think it's a big bump. It's a

658
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:52,520
Speaker 1: big disappointment that Joey Bose is not playing in this game.

659
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Speaker 1: That he doesn't really a surprise they need him to.

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Speaker 1: But that that because if you have Bosa, I feel

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Speaker 1: like you have breakout potential at every all of your defense.

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00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:03,360
Speaker 1: You have three good cornerbacks including Jason Right, you got

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Speaker 1: Bosa in the mix. Now you have Denzel Perriman, who's

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Speaker 1: are making the leap guy. I think they really need

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Speaker 1: Joey Bosa because that is they're probably the biggest weakness

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Speaker 1: on the entire team is on that defensive line. Big

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Speaker 1: week by the way, for another person in the Desert

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Speaker 1: spice Rack, I didn't come on spice Racks for the

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Speaker 1: new listeners. No, everyone that's listening right now is listening

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Speaker 1: for three years that we're good. Spice Rack is Chris

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Speaker 1: Westling's Desert Consigliari and all matters football related, college football,

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00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 1: college football related, and um, you know it's currently banned

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Speaker 1: from the show. Uh for I didn't know that was official.

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Speaker 1: It's now official. It was a salty appearance. A little

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Speaker 1: unhinged is the word that more than a little one

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Speaker 1: that was thrown around. His initial prediction to us was

677
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 1: that Melvin Gordon was going to be all Pro stud

678
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:57,160
Speaker 1: He was a bust in year one. If Melvill Gordon

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00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:01,320
Speaker 1: runs for a thousand yards spice Rack unbanned and it

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Speaker 1: starts Sunday, it's a big year for spice wreckin. He's

681
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:08,600
Speaker 1: got a chance to reappear on the show because Brandon

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Speaker 1: Oliver is not in the lineup for San Diego no more.

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00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:13,760
Speaker 1: They're going to try to make Gordon that guy, and

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Speaker 1: he had any and he explodes for big yardage on

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Speaker 1: certain plays. We might get Spicy back in the studio,

686
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Speaker 1: much to Greg's chagrin. What is that That's not true.

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Speaker 1: I'm just stirring the pot. I'm with you, Spicy this year.

688
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 1: I got Melvin Gordon having a big year. He's coming

689
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Speaker 1: back to Spice Rack in the room together. I feel

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00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 1: like you would get along famously. Yeah, yeah, I see it.

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Speaker 1: Connect the tissue between the two moving up unhinged a

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Speaker 1: jail cell. But the next the next one PM game,

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills at the Baltimore Ravens and Mark, we

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Speaker 1: understand where you come from. You despise Rex Ryan. I

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Speaker 1: do not. In fact, when the news came out that

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Speaker 1: Rob Ryan, defensive assistant, had been targeted in an ambush

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Speaker 1: by some thugs in New Orleans who saw him as

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Speaker 1: an easy target because he wasn't a little Wayne with

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Speaker 1: a bunch of bodyguards around him. That's what the police

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Speaker 1: have a dated David said, you pumped your fist. I

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00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:10,759
Speaker 1: saw you that. That is highly inaccurate. I am not

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Speaker 1: wishing for crimes to happen to these people. I would

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Speaker 1: like them to keep their mouths closed when the teams

704
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:20,720
Speaker 1: they coach are incompetent. But let's be honest here, Bills

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00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:23,879
Speaker 1: and Rex Ryan against the Ravens, there the whole team.

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Speaker 1: There is no other matchup in the NFL that could

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Speaker 1: be more loathsome to the Mark Sessler brain. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if a giant like beam of light came down and

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Speaker 1: just sucked both franchises away, I'd be fine with it.

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Speaker 1: But I find this to be one of the more

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Speaker 1: interesting matchups because it is because we talked about the

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Speaker 1: Ravens a week ago. Is that one of these other

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Speaker 1: teams that they could go four and twelve and we

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Speaker 1: kind of get why, or they could go ten and

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Speaker 1: six and get back in the playoffs and we wouldn't

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Speaker 1: be that mystified by that. I mean, you've got a

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Speaker 1: lot of new faces. Perraman, Brashod Praman, Terence West, who

718
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:59,000
Speaker 1: you'll talk about an awakening, and Kristin Michael. Terence West

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Speaker 1: gets out of the city Cleveland and he suddenly looks like,

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Speaker 1: you know, Jim Brown's cousin. So it's ridiculous. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the guy looks like a different player to me, Like

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Speaker 1: he's he'ld be like sixties, all right, I mean, a

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Speaker 1: distant younger. Jim Brown probably has lots of cousins, not

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Speaker 1: of him. I don't know if any of them made

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Speaker 1: the NFL. I mean, I think the Ravens are interesting

726
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:20,520
Speaker 1: because it's not just all the players who got back

727
00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:22,959
Speaker 1: from last season, but they continue to bring new guys

728
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:25,359
Speaker 1: in and coaching well. And the Bills are are the

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00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:27,920
Speaker 1: one team that I look at from a coaching angle.

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Speaker 1: And it's not a rip on Rex Ryan, but all

731
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:32,760
Speaker 1: we've heard all off, it's not. It's just the reality.

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00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:34,880
Speaker 1: I think he is the one coach that sits on

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00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:38,120
Speaker 1: a burning hot seat from week one. Richie Incognito said

734
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:41,440
Speaker 1: it today or yesterday that it is playoffs or bust,

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Speaker 1: and I think bus means reorganized, that they don't get

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Speaker 1: this thing done. Let me say one thing as a

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Speaker 1: Rex Ryan historian, he's been in this position before. It

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Speaker 1: was the year when a dreadful Jet team, when eight

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00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 1: and eight? What are you're laughing at? He has read

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Speaker 1: the biography and he wrote a book pored on it. Yeah,

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00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 1: that's true. Who else read um Rex Ryan's autobiography. I

742
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 1: read a large portion of it in the Santa Monica

743
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:11,959
Speaker 1: Library and dispensed of it. It was not well written. There.

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Speaker 1: I have a sessler about this guy from the historians.

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00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 1: Let me love the historians speak on Rex Ryan. Rex

746
00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:21,759
Speaker 1: likes his back against the wall, and when he got

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00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:24,279
Speaker 1: fired from the Jets. Uh, he had no chance that

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Speaker 1: last season because it's a destroyed him. The glacier destroyed him.

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Speaker 1: But the year before when they one eight and eight,

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00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:31,880
Speaker 1: when they should have been three and thirteen, Rex circled

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00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:33,920
Speaker 1: the wagons and he got guys to play over their

752
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:36,759
Speaker 1: head for him. I think we're counting out Rex prematurely.

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00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 1: I think the Bills are gonna better. And I'll tell

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00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:40,000
Speaker 1: you something else on the other side West before I

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00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:43,920
Speaker 1: throw it to you. Baltra Ravens were gonna winstle football

756
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:46,400
Speaker 1: games in the National Football League this year because people

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00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:48,360
Speaker 1: sleep that John Harbaugh was one of the best coaches

758
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:50,800
Speaker 1: in the league, never had a losing record to last

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00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:53,319
Speaker 1: They are going to be in the playoff hunt in

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00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 1: my opinion. First of all, Rex Ryan's back should have

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00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:58,839
Speaker 1: been against the wall with Mario Williams undermining his whole

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00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:02,200
Speaker 1: program last year. That didn't happen. Nobody came out swinging

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Speaker 1: in the second half of the season. Second of all,

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Speaker 1: I've got a feeling I've got as Sessler, this game

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00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:09,759
Speaker 1: is gonna be a SmackDown. The Ravens are gonna blow

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00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:13,520
Speaker 1: out the Bills. Wow, I totally disagree. I think the

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00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:15,840
Speaker 1: Bills are gonna win this game because they're way more talented.

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00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:17,799
Speaker 1: It's not a good I think people are giving the

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00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:21,120
Speaker 1: Ravens plenty of credit because of John Harbor, because it's

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00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:23,400
Speaker 1: been a great organization, but like, they don't have an

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00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:25,799
Speaker 1: above average player other than Eric Weddle maybe in their

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00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:28,840
Speaker 1: back seven. They have question marks all over the place.

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00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:30,799
Speaker 1: One note before move on. This is a team that

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Speaker 1: took a nine and there's a nine and seven Doug

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00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 1: Marone team that went one win less last year with

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00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:38,720
Speaker 1: Rex Ryan that's back against the wall. You are less

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00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 1: successful than Doug Moron. Realted team Doug Ron didn't do

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00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:45,040
Speaker 1: too poorly before he decided to step down from I

779
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:49,840
Speaker 1: mean the way of offensive line coach for the Jaguars.

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00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:53,839
Speaker 1: Interesting career career wise, A weird move. Uh, let's move

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00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 1: on and talk about uh the Chicago Bears. You travel

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00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:00,120
Speaker 1: to Houston to face the Texans, and UM, I like

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00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:01,880
Speaker 1: the Texans this year. I think they're gonna win their

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00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:05,239
Speaker 1: division and I think, um the one thing I don't

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00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:07,800
Speaker 1: know anything about, we don't none of us do, is

786
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:10,440
Speaker 1: how brock Oswell, we're will fair, But I think he

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00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:14,200
Speaker 1: draws a pretty nice Week one matchup at home against

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00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 1: a Bears team that I don't think anybody's really scared

789
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:19,960
Speaker 1: of right now. Uh So, I expect the Texans to

790
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,279
Speaker 1: look good, and I wonder and I think this is

791
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:25,920
Speaker 1: a huge, two huge things for the On the Texans side,

792
00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 1: How will J J. Watt look? How how many snaps

793
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:30,640
Speaker 1: will he play? Will he be healthy? Will he have

794
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:33,120
Speaker 1: a a setback? I mean it's a serious injury. Is

795
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:36,960
Speaker 1: West you wrote about um yesterday on our website website,

796
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:41,520
Speaker 1: and then your boy Greg Jadeveon Clowney making the lead candidate.

797
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:43,719
Speaker 1: We're gonna get a chance to see against the bad

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Speaker 1: offensive line what this guy can do. If if J. J.

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00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:50,200
Speaker 1: Watt looks healthy and Jadeveon Clowney is healthy and making plays,

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Speaker 1: and brock As looks good and Mark Miller is gonna

801
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 1: be a breakout star, oh my god, you got Nuke

802
00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:58,879
Speaker 1: on the outside, you got the rookie on the other.

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00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:01,720
Speaker 1: I'm in on the Texas. Dan's wife is from Texas,

804
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:04,080
Speaker 1: and I think all this Texas love is starting to

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00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:08,000
Speaker 1: give me a Dean screen baby. All right, I'll calm

806
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 1: down now. J J. Watt said he's ready for anything

807
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 1: and everything. He wants to play every snap. He referred

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00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 1: to his back surgery as kind of fun. After the

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00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:22,800
Speaker 1: January grueling recovery from five torn muscles in his abdomen,

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00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 1: I think he's ready to go. And Mark and I

811
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:27,880
Speaker 1: have talked about this. If you watch the Texans defense

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00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:30,840
Speaker 1: in the preseason, flying there, flying around the ball like

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00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:36,719
Speaker 1: the two Seahawks and energetic on defense, and I feel

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00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:38,960
Speaker 1: like they're gonna shut down the Bears. Yeah and yeah,

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00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:42,440
Speaker 1: the Bears. Well, the other point here is Chicago and

816
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:44,600
Speaker 1: there's a big issue and it's called the Chicago Bears.

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00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:46,239
Speaker 1: I mean, is this gonna be one of the games

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00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:49,359
Speaker 1: where John Fox says, you know it's Thursday. I need

819
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:51,680
Speaker 1: to sit back and relax. I think a nice twenty

820
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:53,640
Speaker 1: to nothing loss is the way you start this season

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Speaker 1: because he did that in the preseason, not a single

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00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:58,360
Speaker 1: bit of effort. And last year against the Seahawks, I

823
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 1: think you gotta if you're the Bears and you're Bears fan,

824
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:03,320
Speaker 1: you've got to see something about this team to inspire you.

825
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:05,920
Speaker 1: Not a single thing in August showed you much promise

826
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:09,839
Speaker 1: about the Chicago Bears. They they are a victim like

827
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:12,040
Speaker 1: the Raiders a little bit that we have three shows

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00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:14,720
Speaker 1: all offseason long, and like when the off season started,

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00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 1: we were kind of like the Bears. The Bears actually

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00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:19,200
Speaker 1: were frisky. They're gonna be frisky, like they were interesting.

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Speaker 1: We were talking up their defense a little bit. They

832
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:24,640
Speaker 1: they looked so boring the last month that everyone sees

833
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 1: them now as the bottom three team. And I agree

834
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Speaker 1: with that. Pop quiz Mark because you were out the

835
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:32,280
Speaker 1: podcast where I broke this news. How do you pronounce

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Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator of Chicago's name? Double Logan's incorrect, double

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Speaker 1: low gains loons west end corrected loundsunds. That's true. I

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00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 1: don't think Bears fans are gonna have to remember how

839
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:53,719
Speaker 1: to pronounce that name for much longer. Wow. I had

840
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Speaker 1: the same feeling about the oh coordinator in h l

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00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 1: A after Hard Knocks. Let's move on. Well, the Rams

842
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:03,840
Speaker 1: go through coordinators like once every six months. Yeah, where's

843
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:06,040
Speaker 1: Frank Signetti? I think he's in the hard streets, you know,

844
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 1: some gritty city kind of flying from metropolis to metropolis

845
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:14,279
Speaker 1: finding lost girls and jewelry. Moving on the final one

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00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 1: PM game on the slate that we'll talk about the

847
00:41:16,239 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers traveling to Jacksonville to face the Jaguars,

848
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:25,240
Speaker 1: who are very ready to uh I believe, maybe steal

849
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:30,279
Speaker 1: the show. And I was in Miami with my new

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00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:32,719
Speaker 1: beach house. Well it was a couple of minutes from

851
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 1: the beach. I love that she owns a beach house

852
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:40,759
Speaker 1: and the four of us are renting right. Well, we

853
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:42,640
Speaker 1: did not have this figured out. You can infer that

854
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 1: she probably owns two houses, that she has a beach

855
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:47,480
Speaker 1: house in between the four of us. If you let's

856
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:49,319
Speaker 1: throw Connor in the mix. Between the five of us,

857
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:52,439
Speaker 1: we have one house that's Connors. It's like a frame

858
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:55,080
Speaker 1: around her with a sign that says most unlikely beach

859
00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:58,759
Speaker 1: house owner Jags lady more successful than us. Good. I'm

860
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 1: happy for yea, good for her. He here's the game

861
00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:02,759
Speaker 1: that I love. The sneaky good game of the week

862
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:06,879
Speaker 1: for me is yes, the Packers at the Jaguars. Listen.

863
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:08,960
Speaker 1: Everybody knows if you listen to the show. I'm bullish

864
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:12,239
Speaker 1: about the Packers, especially that offense, which I have now

865
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:15,360
Speaker 1: predicted and put sandwiches on the line, will average thirty

866
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:17,440
Speaker 1: three points a game this year, which is a lot

867
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 1: of points. Gotta get started fast. Oh, they've done it

868
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:22,880
Speaker 1: once in ninety years. Listen, there's always time for a

869
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:24,439
Speaker 1: second time, and I think it will be this year.

870
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:27,440
Speaker 1: I think they'll um Listen. I'll probably lose that wager,

871
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:29,400
Speaker 1: but I think this is a team that could regularly

872
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:31,719
Speaker 1: score thirty points a game. I think they have that

873
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:33,799
Speaker 1: type of talent, and I think it's all gonna come

874
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:36,000
Speaker 1: back together in a beautiful way. And then on the

875
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:40,160
Speaker 1: other side, you have the Jaguars, and let's let's face it, Jaguars,

876
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:43,279
Speaker 1: you gotta do something, Do something now. Yeah, I know

877
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:46,400
Speaker 1: what I do not want. I will be furious. I

878
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:50,920
Speaker 1: will step away from NFL dot Com from February until September.

879
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:54,960
Speaker 1: If they lay an egg and lose on Sunday. I

880
00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:57,920
Speaker 1: want them not only to compete against the Packers, I

881
00:42:57,960 --> 00:42:59,799
Speaker 1: want them to win the damn game, because you can't

882
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:02,120
Speaker 1: win your home opener with all this hype around you

883
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:04,480
Speaker 1: and all this talent and then this great coaching staff

884
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:06,520
Speaker 1: in this GM that everyone's like, oh, good to be

885
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 1: patient with this regime. Do something if you, if you,

886
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:13,279
Speaker 1: if you want to talk about one team that way,

887
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:15,560
Speaker 1: I think it is fair that it's the Jaguars because

888
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:18,799
Speaker 1: plenty of good teams lose Week one, and you mentioned it, Greg,

889
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:22,480
Speaker 1: we overreact to the opening week. But if you are Jacksonville,

890
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:24,880
Speaker 1: it's not just some cheesy maker statement. You have to

891
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:27,160
Speaker 1: come out and show the players that you have groomed

892
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 1: and developed making plays against a one of the most

893
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:33,400
Speaker 1: respected teams in the NFC. It cannot be an embarrassment.

894
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:36,920
Speaker 1: It needs to be an absolutely powerful showing by the Jaguars.

895
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 1: Feel like Jalen Ramsey is symbolic of this entire Jaguars

896
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:44,040
Speaker 1: team basically said this week about Aaron Rodgers, come at me, bro,

897
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:47,319
Speaker 1: I ain't afraid of you. And the Jaguars are brash, young,

898
00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:50,759
Speaker 1: talented team, confident, but they've got to go out and

899
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:53,120
Speaker 1: prove it. Maybe Jalen Ramsey can get picked on instead

900
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:55,520
Speaker 1: of well and they don't have continuity and they like

901
00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:57,719
Speaker 1: on defense, like this is a team. You know, Bill

902
00:43:57,760 --> 00:43:59,720
Speaker 1: belitic I said, you don't know your team until mid October.

903
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:01,320
Speaker 1: I don't think that the Jaguars are going to know

904
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:04,520
Speaker 1: their defense until mid October. Whatever it is mid November.

905
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 1: They're gonna need Blake Boardles to carry him or else

906
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:09,440
Speaker 1: Dan will no longer be working here. I mean that

907
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:17,719
Speaker 1: Areas Area host one seventeen his seventeenth favorite team to

908
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:21,040
Speaker 1: compete or else he believes. Now it's more like it's

909
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 1: not even about the Jaguars necessarily. It's about the nature

910
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:28,040
Speaker 1: of off season news, yes, exactly, West and the the

911
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:30,520
Speaker 1: and being in this podcast studio three times a week

912
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:32,920
Speaker 1: and getting pumped up about a team that being betrayed

913
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:36,239
Speaker 1: when real football starts. Certainly not the first year we

914
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:39,440
Speaker 1: took it to the limit. They better take it to

915
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:42,719
Speaker 1: the limit. I had some breaking news. By the way,

916
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:48,960
Speaker 1: This news comes from Sully Sullivan behind the glass. The

917
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:52,200
Speaker 1: Falcons new Dome opens next year. Yeah, I was gonna.

918
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:53,880
Speaker 1: I didn't want to, you know, I think that the

919
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,320
Speaker 1: IDIS wasn't paying attention. I would have caught that. I

920
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:58,160
Speaker 1: thought you were talking about the Vikings game. It's a

921
00:44:58,239 --> 00:45:00,600
Speaker 1: fair game. Note though, Dan, because you know, in this

922
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:02,879
Speaker 1: old dome one more year, will the people with their

923
00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:05,239
Speaker 1: with their fingers on the button if things get rough

924
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:08,239
Speaker 1: against the Bucks be compelled to pump in that fake

925
00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:10,680
Speaker 1: crowd noise one more time to get that place going

926
00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:13,520
Speaker 1: rough under the roof. I don't like people that say roof,

927
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:19,360
Speaker 1: it's roof, let's move on the late games, starting with

928
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:22,560
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins. Guys who uh doesn't even get excited

929
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:24,359
Speaker 1: about him, go ahead and have fun with it. I'm

930
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:26,839
Speaker 1: not going through at least not now. And they draw

931
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:30,400
Speaker 1: a tough matchup in Week one, uh speaking of knockout pools,

932
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:32,960
Speaker 1: because they gotta go to Seattle to face the Seahawks.

933
00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:35,840
Speaker 1: The Seahawks team that we universally believe are loaded a

934
00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:38,759
Speaker 1: ten to twelve win type team, So they're not the

935
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:40,560
Speaker 1: type of team with the twelves out that are gonna

936
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 1: drop a drop an easily winnable game against the Dolphins,

937
00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:46,680
Speaker 1: of all teams in Week one, right, this is gonna

938
00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:49,920
Speaker 1: be a cakewalk West. I'm looking for reasons to believe

939
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:53,640
Speaker 1: that the Dolphins have a chance, and I'm not finding many.

940
00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:57,399
Speaker 1: But this is a game you if you're Miami, there's

941
00:45:57,400 --> 00:45:59,520
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure to get your season started on

942
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 1: the right foot. It because in the first four weeks

943
00:46:02,120 --> 00:46:05,680
Speaker 1: they have at Seattle, at New England, Cleveland at home,

944
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:09,160
Speaker 1: and at Cincinnati. So if you say there are basically

945
00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:11,640
Speaker 1: nine Super Bowl contenders this year, they play three of

946
00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 1: them on the road in the first month, one of

947
00:46:14,239 --> 00:46:16,160
Speaker 1: them without Tom Brady. But I see your point, right,

948
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:19,640
Speaker 1: I think you could argue if you it's a it's

949
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:22,000
Speaker 1: a brutal start. But if you're gonna play the Seahawks

950
00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:24,400
Speaker 1: in Seattle, which is on the schedule week one, might

951
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:26,520
Speaker 1: be the time you want to do it. Because Seattle,

952
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:30,760
Speaker 1: at least last year started off slowly, right, but they

953
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:33,120
Speaker 1: lost to the Rams. Well, we thought they were gonna

954
00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:37,120
Speaker 1: be great last year. Their offense, especially every single year

955
00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:40,440
Speaker 1: in the Russell Wilson era, has started slow. The defense,

956
00:46:40,680 --> 00:46:43,840
Speaker 1: usually good, has started slow and then finished the season strong.

957
00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:46,800
Speaker 1: Question though, do you feel like what happened with that

958
00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:49,480
Speaker 1: offense over the second half of last year that they

959
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:51,200
Speaker 1: kind of found out who they were and there will

960
00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:54,200
Speaker 1: be less continuity issues. The concern for me with Seattle

961
00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:57,839
Speaker 1: is more. Again, we've seen them Russell Wilson thrive behind

962
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:00,880
Speaker 1: the shotty offensive line, but they've already lost their rookie

963
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:03,400
Speaker 1: guard and they're shuffling the line around. There's people that

964
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:06,799
Speaker 1: have barely played stepping in there. That's a concern because

965
00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:09,759
Speaker 1: this is a very good Miami defensive line. If people

966
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:11,840
Speaker 1: didn't have faith in Tom Cable, there is this the

967
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:14,400
Speaker 1: head coach, oh line coach, and this would be the

968
00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:17,279
Speaker 1: worst offensive line in the league on paper. Oh, I

969
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:19,440
Speaker 1: mean it is. That's a problem. But he makes it work.

970
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:21,239
Speaker 1: It seems like it doesn't matter who's out there, it

971
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:23,680
Speaker 1: just seems to work. I have zero concerns about the Seahawks.

972
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:29,319
Speaker 1: Over under West Arian Foster thirty rushing yards, Oh, I'll

973
00:47:29,320 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 1: go over comfortably. How about over under Kristen Michael rushing

974
00:47:33,680 --> 00:47:36,520
Speaker 1: yards one hundred? I think we know the answer of

975
00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 1: what West will say. Well, there's but Thomas Rawls is

976
00:47:38,719 --> 00:47:40,359
Speaker 1: healthy too. It sounds like they do want to give

977
00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:45,440
Speaker 1: him work over total yards. Okay, you're back in on

978
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:48,200
Speaker 1: Arian Foster. It sounds like you think he's an awfully

979
00:47:48,239 --> 00:47:52,279
Speaker 1: low barometer in Seattle. If you fall by, I could

980
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:54,120
Speaker 1: see them moving the ball a little bit. Think they're

981
00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:55,640
Speaker 1: gonna play a lot of hurry up because I think

982
00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:57,440
Speaker 1: they're gonna fall behind because of what you said. I mean,

983
00:47:57,480 --> 00:47:59,839
Speaker 1: the the young receiver group in Seattle is fun to watch.

984
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:02,800
Speaker 1: This secondary for Miami might be the worst secondary in

985
00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:06,080
Speaker 1: the league. Their county on Xavian Howard, who's barely practiced

986
00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:08,640
Speaker 1: as a professional to be a starter, and they have

987
00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:10,200
Speaker 1: a bunch of guys who they don't want to put

988
00:48:10,239 --> 00:48:11,799
Speaker 1: on the field that are gonna be on the field

989
00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:16,640
Speaker 1: and nicol and that's a good formula. Um, let's move on, guys,

990
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:18,719
Speaker 1: And I love this game. This is one of my

991
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:21,600
Speaker 1: favorite games of the year. Happens twice a year. Of course,

992
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:24,840
Speaker 1: you guys don't tend to like it. Giants Cowboys. I

993
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:27,279
Speaker 1: love the Giants Cowboys as a New York guy, and

994
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 1: I think Mark Sessler that there is a lot of

995
00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:32,719
Speaker 1: reasons to be intrigued by this matchup in Jerald World.

996
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:34,480
Speaker 1: Do you agree? I I do, And you're gonna like

997
00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:36,120
Speaker 1: what I have to say this time because I have

998
00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:38,800
Speaker 1: been very down on the NFC East. I'm shocked this

999
00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:41,680
Speaker 1: isn't on Sunday Night Football then replayed forty five times

1000
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 1: on that wet network on NBC AT sure their second

1001
00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:46,320
Speaker 1: matchup will be I mean, give me a break, but this,

1002
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:50,040
Speaker 1: it's for me, is the sneaky, most interesting game of

1003
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:52,879
Speaker 1: the week because of all the new faces you're gonna

1004
00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:55,840
Speaker 1: get to see Dak Prescott and Ezekiel Elliott. And I

1005
00:48:55,960 --> 00:48:58,400
Speaker 1: don't think that because Tony Romo is out that it

1006
00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:01,680
Speaker 1: interrupts necessarily what they really want to do with this offense.

1007
00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:05,279
Speaker 1: They're gonna test drive that we do bold predictions every week.

1008
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:07,480
Speaker 1: It's a sponsored piece that you have to kind of

1009
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:10,400
Speaker 1: what you know, whip out some sort of wild prediction.

1010
00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:13,239
Speaker 1: And I did. I said that this game is going

1011
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:15,920
Speaker 1: to produce gott to whip it out in writing with

1012
00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:18,319
Speaker 1: your keyboard and your or your typewriter if your house

1013
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:20,359
Speaker 1: and you hold hold the typewriter. What am I talking about?

1014
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:24,400
Speaker 1: But anyways, I said this game would produce one hundred

1015
00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:29,200
Speaker 1: and two points one and two points. If it does not,

1016
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:34,120
Speaker 1: David Eale are edited downstairs will buy roughly nine hundred

1017
00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:36,359
Speaker 1: dollars worth of Chinese food for the news from we've

1018
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:39,840
Speaker 1: outlined what he want. I am not confident that really

1019
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:41,960
Speaker 1: will not be spending money on Sunday. Can we bring

1020
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:43,759
Speaker 1: it up and if you're watching along, but we could

1021
00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:45,360
Speaker 1: explain it with you to the board right now that

1022
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:48,719
Speaker 1: that Romo graphic with and without him, I think that

1023
00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:52,319
Speaker 1: is definitely pertinent. I mean, if you look back one

1024
00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:56,400
Speaker 1: and eleven without Tony Romo, less than sixteen points a

1025
00:49:56,440 --> 00:50:00,480
Speaker 1: game with right that the first time, and they might

1026
00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:03,560
Speaker 1: have a chance to still be a top level offense

1027
00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:05,719
Speaker 1: if Dak Prescott is for real. But I don't want

1028
00:50:05,719 --> 00:50:07,359
Speaker 1: to get suckered in by the preseason, but how could

1029
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:10,399
Speaker 1: you not be Yeah, I think that graphics should also

1030
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:15,200
Speaker 1: say without a healthy does Bryant too, without Ezekiel Elliott

1031
00:50:16,040 --> 00:50:19,640
Speaker 1: and with three of the worst quarterbacks in the entire

1032
00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:23,000
Speaker 1: NFL Matt Castle, Brandon weed And and Kellen Moore. I

1033
00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:26,719
Speaker 1: I don't think you put Dak Prescott anywhere near that trio.

1034
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:28,839
Speaker 1: Of course, you don't know how tough this matchup is though,

1035
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:30,680
Speaker 1: because on on paper the Giants are one of the

1036
00:50:30,719 --> 00:50:32,719
Speaker 1: worst defense in the league last year, but with the

1037
00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 1: defensive line changes that they made, with the secondary looking

1038
00:50:36,719 --> 00:50:39,640
Speaker 1: a little deeper, Eli Apple quietly had a nice preseason,

1039
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:41,640
Speaker 1: seemed like he looked like he belonged. I mean, the

1040
00:50:41,719 --> 00:50:46,120
Speaker 1: Giants defense should be a lot better this year. Points

1041
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:47,759
Speaker 1: won't be scored in this game and they should be

1042
00:50:47,840 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 1: respectable by the way. Sunday Night Football Week fourteen, Giants.

1043
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:55,960
Speaker 1: Of course, there we go, and I'm excited. You know,

1044
00:50:56,200 --> 00:50:59,200
Speaker 1: des is my boy Peeke Dez back in the building.

1045
00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:02,839
Speaker 1: He's called himself quote unstoppable and had this to say,

1046
00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:05,799
Speaker 1: I'm going to catch anything that's thrown to me. Well

1047
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:08,239
Speaker 1: that's for that's for you for doubting him. All offseason

1048
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:16,200
Speaker 1: was done in my findings, I have found in my

1049
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:19,600
Speaker 1: finding say he was done bad feet and bad back,

1050
00:51:20,040 --> 00:51:23,719
Speaker 1: bad news. But now you're back in though. I like

1051
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:25,560
Speaker 1: what I'm hearing from that. I like this new bit

1052
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:27,160
Speaker 1: where you are contin You know, at this point in

1053
00:51:27,239 --> 00:51:30,480
Speaker 1: two shows, you've decided your findings on various issues four

1054
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:32,680
Speaker 1: or five times. You guys don't know what I'm doing

1055
00:51:33,239 --> 00:51:35,719
Speaker 1: when you're not seeing That is very true. A lot

1056
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:39,720
Speaker 1: of research. I have my own lab. I will discuss

1057
00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:41,560
Speaker 1: in a hollowood al volcano in the middle of the

1058
00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:46,760
Speaker 1: Pacific Ocean exactly in the offseason podcast, a video podcast.

1059
00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:49,839
Speaker 1: I will take everyone down into my layer where I find.

1060
00:51:49,880 --> 00:51:54,400
Speaker 1: I have findings that I find, including the police. I

1061
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:56,239
Speaker 1: have a few things I'd like to find in that layer.

1062
00:51:58,040 --> 00:52:00,640
Speaker 1: What was that? Are you hitting on me? Can we

1063
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:05,360
Speaker 1: press on? Yes? Let's move on the Detroit Lions. You know,

1064
00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:07,800
Speaker 1: we don't like the Detroit Lions as a team this season.

1065
00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:09,960
Speaker 1: If you're falling along with podcasts and we get a

1066
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:11,960
Speaker 1: lot of we're getting some pop in on in the

1067
00:52:12,040 --> 00:52:15,799
Speaker 1: Twitter world. Why are you guys disrespecting the Lions? Well, Greg,

1068
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:17,640
Speaker 1: there's a lot of holes on this team. But they

1069
00:52:17,719 --> 00:52:20,120
Speaker 1: get to go uh in Week one to face an

1070
00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:22,960
Speaker 1: Indianapolis team that has plenty of holes themselves. This is

1071
00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:25,760
Speaker 1: a great Week one matchup for the Lions to find

1072
00:52:25,880 --> 00:52:31,440
Speaker 1: the injury depleted Colts roster offensive line certainly has question

1073
00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:34,520
Speaker 1: marks for Indianapolis. I was surprised to see that, you know,

1074
00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:36,920
Speaker 1: in this in this desert town you speak of, that

1075
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:39,040
Speaker 1: they're looked at as pretty big Underdock says to me.

1076
00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:42,040
Speaker 1: I don't see the Colts as a favorite or a

1077
00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:45,359
Speaker 1: heavy favorite against any NFL team right now. I am

1078
00:52:45,480 --> 00:52:48,400
Speaker 1: excited to see what Andrew Luck comes out with. You know,

1079
00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:51,160
Speaker 1: I read this ESPN the magazine article which I recommend

1080
00:52:51,239 --> 00:52:56,160
Speaker 1: on him, which which made me start thinking, like, is

1081
00:52:56,239 --> 00:52:58,239
Speaker 1: every it's almost kind of Andrew Luck sitting there. It's

1082
00:52:58,239 --> 00:53:00,640
Speaker 1: like everyone forgot about me? Is everyone forgot about Like?

1083
00:53:00,719 --> 00:53:04,279
Speaker 1: How unbelievably exciting I am? And I could see this

1084
00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:06,960
Speaker 1: being talk about a hundred points a game where the

1085
00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:09,800
Speaker 1: offense is just go run wild back and forth. Colts

1086
00:53:09,880 --> 00:53:12,120
Speaker 1: drop forty points and the Lions in this game, everybody's

1087
00:53:12,719 --> 00:53:15,120
Speaker 1: wringing their hands over one quarter of action with the

1088
00:53:15,160 --> 00:53:17,560
Speaker 1: Colts offensive line. I think their offensive line is going

1089
00:53:17,640 --> 00:53:19,600
Speaker 1: to be better than last year. And I'm not that

1090
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:21,319
Speaker 1: worried about their line. I think this is a high

1091
00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:24,360
Speaker 1: octane offense. It's the two teams that have failed to

1092
00:53:24,440 --> 00:53:27,200
Speaker 1: produce a one hundred yard rusher for years on end

1093
00:53:27,239 --> 00:53:30,520
Speaker 1: at this point, and it shows I I don't think

1094
00:53:30,600 --> 00:53:32,359
Speaker 1: that the Cults, outside of me Andrew Luck and we've

1095
00:53:32,480 --> 00:53:34,799
Speaker 1: harped on about this, are a balanced team, and neither

1096
00:53:34,880 --> 00:53:37,040
Speaker 1: of the Lions. It's it's a great Week one matchup

1097
00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:40,600
Speaker 1: because you've got two really rather mystical teams going up

1098
00:53:40,600 --> 00:53:43,120
Speaker 1: against each other. And I think that the one reason

1099
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:46,680
Speaker 1: the so called favorite Verse underdog is because a lot

1100
00:53:46,719 --> 00:53:48,520
Speaker 1: of people that aren't following football just think, oh, the

1101
00:53:48,560 --> 00:53:50,239
Speaker 1: Cults are gonna rush right back into the a f

1102
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:53,880
Speaker 1: C championship. Now that looks back. That is not this team.

1103
00:53:54,080 --> 00:53:57,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw out something with the Lions here, a

1104
00:53:57,200 --> 00:54:00,359
Speaker 1: little you know, a little ewing theory type speculator here,

1105
00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:02,440
Speaker 1: because if you want to look possibly, this is a

1106
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:06,040
Speaker 1: good Week one matchup. No Vante Davis in that secondary

1107
00:54:06,120 --> 00:54:09,480
Speaker 1: for Indie. I really like Marvin Jones this year. I

1108
00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:11,960
Speaker 1: really like Golden Tate and neither guy's the number one receiver.

1109
00:54:12,080 --> 00:54:13,600
Speaker 1: But they're both very good. Number two is and that

1110
00:54:13,800 --> 00:54:14,960
Speaker 1: that's a lot more than you can say for a

1111
00:54:15,040 --> 00:54:18,160
Speaker 1: lot of other teams. And maybe if a mere Abdullah

1112
00:54:18,239 --> 00:54:20,000
Speaker 1: has the season we thought he was gonna have last year,

1113
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:22,919
Speaker 1: there's some reason for hope that this team can score points.

1114
00:54:23,040 --> 00:54:24,799
Speaker 1: The fun offense to watch. I think this is gonna

1115
00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:26,560
Speaker 1: be a game with a lot of possessions. This is

1116
00:54:26,640 --> 00:54:30,120
Speaker 1: back back when I did the old fantasy. This is

1117
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:32,160
Speaker 1: an everyone in the pool game. You got someone on

1118
00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:34,880
Speaker 1: one of these teams, just put them in. Because the Lions,

1119
00:54:35,320 --> 00:54:37,000
Speaker 1: the Lions and the Giants. If I had to guess

1120
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:39,720
Speaker 1: who's going to be the fastest teams in the league,

1121
00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:42,640
Speaker 1: especially early in the season, I think it's the Lions

1122
00:54:42,680 --> 00:54:44,839
Speaker 1: and the Giants. The Lions are just gonna run up

1123
00:54:44,880 --> 00:54:48,640
Speaker 1: and down, not make any substitutions. They have the offense

1124
00:54:48,719 --> 00:54:50,640
Speaker 1: to do it and see if you can outscore the

1125
00:54:50,719 --> 00:54:52,480
Speaker 1: other team. So this is the year, according to you,

1126
00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:59,359
Speaker 1: that we may finally pay some attention to Detroit, very

1127
00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:02,520
Speaker 1: little attention key to football in the NFL. Let me

1128
00:55:02,600 --> 00:55:05,320
Speaker 1: write this down. Hang on, you're ready. That's his findings.

1129
00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:08,279
Speaker 1: I found this to be true football. This was big

1130
00:55:09,480 --> 00:55:12,080
Speaker 1: double teams. Can you draw them and can you beat them?

1131
00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:14,520
Speaker 1: In the last two years, the Lions have lost one

1132
00:55:14,600 --> 00:55:18,640
Speaker 1: on offense and one on defense, Calvin Johnson and Dominican Sue.

1133
00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:21,040
Speaker 1: Who do they have left on the roster? Who draws

1134
00:55:21,280 --> 00:55:25,320
Speaker 1: or beats double teams? Maybe Ziggy Ansa Ansa. That's it.

1135
00:55:25,520 --> 00:55:29,480
Speaker 1: That's the list. All right, Let's move on, gentlemen, to

1136
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:41,799
Speaker 1: Sunday Night football on Yes, the Throne of Sleeve, because

1137
00:55:41,840 --> 00:55:44,480
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a little different this year. Greggy a

1138
00:55:44,560 --> 00:55:48,560
Speaker 1: little bit different and just Greg. It ends at the Greg,

1139
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:51,880
Speaker 1: I thought you hammered that home. Greg a little bit different.

1140
00:55:52,040 --> 00:55:54,719
Speaker 1: Terrible name, by the way, Greg, don't name your kids, Greg,

1141
00:55:54,840 --> 00:55:57,440
Speaker 1: No one does anymore. So that's it's out. It's been,

1142
00:55:57,560 --> 00:56:01,600
Speaker 1: it's been phased like carry you're Mike, Greg. Greg. I

1143
00:56:01,680 --> 00:56:04,320
Speaker 1: want to tell you that Tom Brady is not playing

1144
00:56:04,360 --> 00:56:08,800
Speaker 1: in this game. It's happening. The suspensions it held. Thankfully

1145
00:56:09,280 --> 00:56:13,200
Speaker 1: he was brought to justice West and at a streak.

1146
00:56:13,640 --> 00:56:15,320
Speaker 1: Tom Brady was brought to there's a rule for this

1147
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:19,000
Speaker 1: is fine. Well, you know who agrees with you, Carson Palmer.

1148
00:56:19,080 --> 00:56:22,239
Speaker 1: He says, hey be the punishment he's gotta do. Look

1149
00:56:22,239 --> 00:56:24,200
Speaker 1: at the full quotes from Carson Palmer. He was a

1150
00:56:24,280 --> 00:56:26,839
Speaker 1: lot more mealy mouthed about it than that. Uh well,

1151
00:56:26,960 --> 00:56:29,120
Speaker 1: just because he didn't speak well doesn't mean that he

1152
00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:31,600
Speaker 1: didn't have that opinion. But anyway, he gave about fourteen

1153
00:56:31,640 --> 00:56:34,640
Speaker 1: different opinions in one paragraph. Tom Brady started. And this

1154
00:56:34,760 --> 00:56:36,560
Speaker 1: even goes back to let's stick on the flight, Kate,

1155
00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:38,680
Speaker 1: please for three minutes we have for this game. Bill

1156
00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:41,960
Speaker 1: Simmons joining the show soon the dreaded two thousand and

1157
00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:45,880
Speaker 1: eight season opener um for the Patriots. Tommy started that

1158
00:56:45,960 --> 00:56:49,040
Speaker 1: game too, famously, of course, So fourteen straight years Tom

1159
00:56:49,080 --> 00:56:51,600
Speaker 1: Brady has been your opening day quarterback. Not the case

1160
00:56:51,680 --> 00:56:54,040
Speaker 1: this year. And now here comes Jimmy Garoppolo, and are

1161
00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:56,439
Speaker 1: finally going to get to see if this guy can play.

1162
00:56:56,719 --> 00:56:59,640
Speaker 1: And let me say something, you know, not only this

1163
00:56:59,719 --> 00:57:02,880
Speaker 1: is he gonna be in the prime time spotlight. This

1164
00:57:03,040 --> 00:57:05,800
Speaker 1: man hasn't started a football game since two thousand thirteen

1165
00:57:05,880 --> 00:57:10,279
Speaker 1: against thousand in Maryland. He's gonna be Noiven's He's gonna

1166
00:57:10,320 --> 00:57:13,279
Speaker 1: be Noiven's underrated squad in Townsend. I liked what they did.

1167
00:57:14,360 --> 00:57:19,000
Speaker 1: You know, Bill Belichick knows not just how to accentuate strengths,

1168
00:57:19,080 --> 00:57:21,160
Speaker 1: but to limit weaknesses. I don't think they're gonna put

1169
00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:24,000
Speaker 1: everything on Garoppolo talking about a team that's gonna play

1170
00:57:24,040 --> 00:57:27,480
Speaker 1: fastest weekend. I don't think they're gonna uh play in

1171
00:57:27,600 --> 00:57:29,440
Speaker 1: a huddle a lot. I think they're gonna play in

1172
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:31,160
Speaker 1: a two minute offense as much as you can. And

1173
00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:34,280
Speaker 1: if Rob Gronkowski doesn't play in this game, they're going

1174
00:57:34,320 --> 00:57:37,480
Speaker 1: to play right not sound sounds like this is very

1175
00:57:37,600 --> 00:57:40,040
Speaker 1: much up in the air. Has barely if practiced, if

1176
00:57:40,120 --> 00:57:43,720
Speaker 1: at all, called himself. Two sources tell The Boston Herald

1177
00:57:43,800 --> 00:57:46,560
Speaker 1: that Gronk will place on a barring and unexpected our own,

1178
00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:49,800
Speaker 1: our own NFL media inside er Ian Rappaport go to

1179
00:57:49,920 --> 00:57:54,640
Speaker 1: outside sources personal definitely raising some some caution flags. Gronk

1180
00:57:54,760 --> 00:57:58,360
Speaker 1: himself raising caution flags saying he's nowhere ne and will

1181
00:57:58,440 --> 00:58:00,840
Speaker 1: likely be a game time decision called self week to week.

1182
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:04,160
Speaker 1: If you don't have Tom Brady and Gronk, that is

1183
00:58:05,320 --> 00:58:08,160
Speaker 1: traditionally in New England. Without Grounk, they're an average offense, right.

1184
00:58:08,200 --> 00:58:11,120
Speaker 1: I mean that in going up going on the road

1185
00:58:11,400 --> 00:58:13,440
Speaker 1: in one of the toughest places to play against one

1186
00:58:13,480 --> 00:58:15,880
Speaker 1: of the best teams in football, it's about as hard

1187
00:58:15,920 --> 00:58:19,360
Speaker 1: a test as you could have for Bill Belichick's coaching abilities.

1188
00:58:19,520 --> 00:58:21,560
Speaker 1: I mean, if there's any staff that I trust to

1189
00:58:21,720 --> 00:58:24,760
Speaker 1: take a Jimmy Garoppolo and over the course of a

1190
00:58:24,800 --> 00:58:27,200
Speaker 1: full off two full off seasons, frankly, give him a

1191
00:58:27,240 --> 00:58:29,560
Speaker 1: lot of work and develop them. This is the staff.

1192
00:58:29,680 --> 00:58:32,800
Speaker 1: This is Bill Belichick, this is Josh McDaniels. I don't

1193
00:58:32,920 --> 00:58:34,960
Speaker 1: think that it's going to be some sort of offensive

1194
00:58:35,040 --> 00:58:37,560
Speaker 1: dud by the Patriots, but they are playing a team

1195
00:58:37,960 --> 00:58:39,720
Speaker 1: that you want to talk about. The Cardinals have their

1196
00:58:39,760 --> 00:58:42,440
Speaker 1: issues in the preseason. I mean, give me a break,

1197
00:58:42,760 --> 00:58:45,240
Speaker 1: They're going to be fine on offense. Your point is taken,

1198
00:58:45,320 --> 00:58:48,360
Speaker 1: But this coaching staff did not develop Ryan Mallett. They

1199
00:58:48,440 --> 00:58:51,320
Speaker 1: didn't develop Brian Hoyer. No, but they also didn't they

1200
00:58:51,360 --> 00:58:54,600
Speaker 1: also they also got rid of those quarterbacks they you know,

1201
00:58:54,720 --> 00:58:56,280
Speaker 1: you get used to spend a certain amount of time

1202
00:58:56,280 --> 00:58:57,919
Speaker 1: and then they make a move on them. They seem

1203
00:58:58,040 --> 00:59:00,240
Speaker 1: to think with Jimmy Garoppolo that there is a fletely

1204
00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:03,400
Speaker 1: different type of player here. They talk about him, guys,

1205
00:59:03,480 --> 00:59:05,640
Speaker 1: and I don't hear them talking about Ryan Mallett that way.

1206
00:59:05,840 --> 00:59:07,880
Speaker 1: Ryan Mallett was tucked away and no one heard from

1207
00:59:07,960 --> 00:59:10,600
Speaker 1: him for three years. Jimmy Garoppolo has right. They has

1208
00:59:10,680 --> 00:59:12,520
Speaker 1: their confidence to more of a degree he has to.

1209
00:59:12,720 --> 00:59:15,600
Speaker 1: They tried to have Mike Lombardi trade trade Ryan Mallett

1210
00:59:15,640 --> 00:59:18,600
Speaker 1: for them through NFL network airwaves. Essentially for a couple

1211
00:59:18,640 --> 00:59:20,439
Speaker 1: of years they were trying to get rid of Ryan.

1212
00:59:21,600 --> 00:59:24,240
Speaker 1: I called Mike Mayock a mouthpiece for Michael Michael Lombardi.

1213
00:59:24,280 --> 00:59:26,440
Speaker 1: I said, well, Maya was the one who was coming out.

1214
00:59:28,200 --> 00:59:31,400
Speaker 1: I'm not saying let's go down this road please. I

1215
00:59:31,480 --> 00:59:33,440
Speaker 1: want to know if Honey Badger is Honey Badger everyone.

1216
00:59:33,880 --> 00:59:36,520
Speaker 1: Maybe he is, maybe he isn't. Brandon Williams is starting

1217
00:59:36,560 --> 00:59:39,640
Speaker 1: at cornerback. It's a thin position for Arizona if Gronk

1218
00:59:39,800 --> 00:59:41,800
Speaker 1: is healthy. This is a team in the Patriots that

1219
00:59:41,800 --> 00:59:43,800
Speaker 1: are gonna want to play four or five on the

1220
00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:46,280
Speaker 1: outside the whole team and see if these cornerbacks and play.

1221
00:59:46,360 --> 00:59:49,040
Speaker 1: Brandon Williams is interesting because if Tom Brady is the quarterback,

1222
00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:52,960
Speaker 1: he is attacking him relentlessly almost every down, and I

1223
00:59:53,000 --> 00:59:55,720
Speaker 1: don't know if Garoppolo can do that. Dan, I uh,

1224
00:59:56,120 --> 00:59:59,120
Speaker 1: I went down to a laboratory to did you use mine?

1225
00:59:59,200 --> 01:00:00,959
Speaker 1: I know I gave you my spare key when I'm away.

1226
01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:03,720
Speaker 1: I I found Uh, do you know what happened the

1227
01:00:03,800 --> 01:00:05,880
Speaker 1: last time Tom Brady didn't start Week one for the

1228
01:00:05,920 --> 01:00:08,920
Speaker 1: Patriots that season? What happened? What happened? They won the

1229
01:00:08,960 --> 01:00:12,640
Speaker 1: Super Bowl? Okay, you're going all the way back in

1230
01:00:12,760 --> 01:00:18,360
Speaker 1: the time machine. Any relevance to that. Well, he was

1231
01:00:18,440 --> 01:00:20,640
Speaker 1: trying to make it sound like it's just because Brady

1232
01:00:20,680 --> 01:00:24,360
Speaker 1: doesn't start week one that they're in trouble. Little lucky

1233
01:00:24,440 --> 01:00:28,760
Speaker 1: little bit of concern on Greg's Park, concern trouble every

1234
01:00:28,840 --> 01:00:31,680
Speaker 1: time Tom Brady doesn't start a game. Uh, let's move on.

1235
01:00:31,760 --> 01:00:34,000
Speaker 1: And by the way, uh, can can we make a note?

1236
01:00:34,280 --> 01:00:38,439
Speaker 1: Said Carrie Underwood's new song debuting before this game. I'd

1237
01:00:38,480 --> 01:00:39,880
Speaker 1: like to clip that off and listen to it on

1238
01:00:39,960 --> 01:00:42,400
Speaker 1: the show. All right, I will be fine with or

1239
01:00:42,440 --> 01:00:46,600
Speaker 1: without it. You must have missed dan that that they

1240
01:00:46,840 --> 01:00:50,080
Speaker 1: released the song, I believe on iTunes for all the

1241
01:00:50,160 --> 01:00:55,240
Speaker 1: big Sunday Night song fans out there, I mean talk,

1242
01:00:56,120 --> 01:00:57,960
Speaker 1: I would be scared of the list of people that

1243
01:00:58,120 --> 01:01:00,800
Speaker 1: bought that song a week ahead of time on iTunes.

1244
01:01:00,840 --> 01:01:02,960
Speaker 1: The names under Danner. I think the name is Oh

1245
01:01:03,120 --> 01:01:07,120
Speaker 1: Sunday Night people should be on a watch list. A

1246
01:01:07,200 --> 01:01:10,560
Speaker 1: Christmas Caroline No. I mean, first of all, it's a

1247
01:01:10,640 --> 01:01:13,520
Speaker 1: Grammy Award winning song stress, so let's give her some respect.

1248
01:01:14,080 --> 01:01:16,840
Speaker 1: And number two, I even though it's on iTunes, I'm

1249
01:01:16,920 --> 01:01:18,960
Speaker 1: waiting till Sunday night because I want the whole package,

1250
01:01:18,960 --> 01:01:21,440
Speaker 1: to the multimedia package. I mean, the only positive out

1251
01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:24,200
Speaker 1: of this entire charade is that the old song has

1252
01:01:24,240 --> 01:01:26,400
Speaker 1: been deep six. Yeah, it's over for the old song.

1253
01:01:26,960 --> 01:01:29,240
Speaker 1: Enough of that. I missed the pink Joan Jett stuff.

1254
01:01:29,360 --> 01:01:31,920
Speaker 1: I like, you know, Joan Jett is a legend, but

1255
01:01:32,400 --> 01:01:34,439
Speaker 1: it's time for something new, and that's what Carrie brought.

1256
01:01:35,720 --> 01:01:39,640
Speaker 1: Moving on Monday Night Football two games. Greg loves the

1257
01:01:39,720 --> 01:01:43,440
Speaker 1: Monday Night football doubleheader week one every year, and we'll

1258
01:01:43,480 --> 01:01:47,600
Speaker 1: talk about the Steelers at Redskins first. It's you know,

1259
01:01:47,840 --> 01:01:50,760
Speaker 1: let's hear about the Redskins here, Greg, because they had

1260
01:01:51,520 --> 01:01:54,600
Speaker 1: nine wins against teams at five below last year. They

1261
01:01:54,680 --> 01:01:56,560
Speaker 1: have to beat some good teams to really get us

1262
01:01:56,600 --> 01:01:58,200
Speaker 1: to believe in them a little bit. And the Steelers

1263
01:01:58,240 --> 01:02:00,640
Speaker 1: are a good team. I don't know if we've talked

1264
01:02:00,640 --> 01:02:03,200
Speaker 1: about any NFL team less than the Redskins over the

1265
01:02:03,280 --> 01:02:05,480
Speaker 1: last three or four months. Does that seem right? It's

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Speaker 1: It's weird how how little that we've talked about for

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01:02:08,520 --> 01:02:11,600
Speaker 1: once certain drama free with Robert Griffin there. I think

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01:02:11,640 --> 01:02:14,919
Speaker 1: they've enjoyed the lack of drama there. What I don't

1269
01:02:14,920 --> 01:02:17,439
Speaker 1: think they'll enjoy is Kirk Cousins coming back to the pack.

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01:02:17,680 --> 01:02:19,800
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is the week that it happens.

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01:02:19,960 --> 01:02:23,160
Speaker 1: The Steelers have a lot of questions in the secondary.

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01:02:23,840 --> 01:02:25,760
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're gonna be a great defense

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01:02:25,880 --> 01:02:28,560
Speaker 1: this year, but I do expect Kirk Cousins to kind

1274
01:02:28,560 --> 01:02:30,320
Speaker 1: of not turn into a pumpkin, but to turn into

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01:02:30,360 --> 01:02:32,960
Speaker 1: a mid level starter. Again. Who would you say the

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01:02:33,120 --> 01:02:37,760
Speaker 1: NFL COGNIZENTI thinks will win this game? The Steelers, the Steelers.

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01:02:37,840 --> 01:02:40,360
Speaker 1: I'm calling for an opposit. I think the Redskins are

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01:02:40,360 --> 01:02:42,760
Speaker 1: gonna win this game at home, and I'm not sure

1279
01:02:43,000 --> 01:02:45,960
Speaker 1: without Levy on Bell, without Martavis Bryant, maybe the Redskins

1280
01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:47,960
Speaker 1: have a more powerful offense. I'm with you, West. I

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01:02:48,080 --> 01:02:51,120
Speaker 1: think that playing at home on Monday night, Steelers a

1282
01:02:51,160 --> 01:02:54,480
Speaker 1: little bit undermanned. I would not be surprised at all

1283
01:02:54,600 --> 01:02:56,240
Speaker 1: if the Redskins one that, and that would be my pick.

1284
01:02:56,400 --> 01:02:57,920
Speaker 1: This is one game that I think they did a

1285
01:02:58,000 --> 01:03:00,000
Speaker 1: good job with Monday Night Football because one of the

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01:03:00,080 --> 01:03:03,160
Speaker 1: biggest offseason moves was Josh Norman, who right out of

1287
01:03:03,160 --> 01:03:05,960
Speaker 1: the gate gets Antonio Brown. That's a huge part of this,

1288
01:03:06,120 --> 01:03:08,080
Speaker 1: and then in week two gets Des Bryant, Week three

1289
01:03:08,120 --> 01:03:10,520
Speaker 1: O'Dell Beckham. So we're gonna find out real quick what's

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01:03:10,520 --> 01:03:14,720
Speaker 1: going on with not gonna be shadowing Antonio Brown. And honestly,

1291
01:03:14,920 --> 01:03:17,920
Speaker 1: is Josh Norman that much better than I don't think

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01:03:17,960 --> 01:03:21,920
Speaker 1: he is? And I I want to see though, is

1293
01:03:22,240 --> 01:03:23,680
Speaker 1: We've heard a lot of good things about de Sean

1294
01:03:23,760 --> 01:03:26,120
Speaker 1: Jackson this off season. What what do Son Jackson? Are

1295
01:03:26,160 --> 01:03:28,520
Speaker 1: you getting? What Pierre Garson are you getting? Because it

1296
01:03:28,560 --> 01:03:32,400
Speaker 1: wasn't really Pierre Garson last year. Uh, Jordan Reed seems healthy,

1297
01:03:32,480 --> 01:03:34,520
Speaker 1: seems like he's gonna be a breakout player. If those

1298
01:03:34,600 --> 01:03:37,080
Speaker 1: three guys are as good as they possibly can be,

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01:03:37,360 --> 01:03:40,120
Speaker 1: then I don't think Cousins can blow this and they'll

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01:03:40,120 --> 01:03:42,480
Speaker 1: be They'll be fine, They'll win games, they'll score points,

1301
01:03:42,480 --> 01:03:44,280
Speaker 1: so they would so for the first time in two

1302
01:03:44,320 --> 01:03:47,080
Speaker 1: seasons with Kirk Cousins, they'd be a winning team. This

1303
01:03:47,200 --> 01:03:49,200
Speaker 1: is a zero zero team, I guess, but I mean,

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01:03:49,840 --> 01:03:51,520
Speaker 1: come on, like that's the one thing the Redskins did

1305
01:03:51,600 --> 01:03:53,680
Speaker 1: not do less. Ye, I'm taking the Steelers. I mean

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01:03:53,880 --> 01:03:55,920
Speaker 1: I would. I would take Ben Roethlisberger in this match

1307
01:03:55,960 --> 01:03:57,720
Speaker 1: up any time. And I think year two in this

1308
01:03:57,840 --> 01:04:00,160
Speaker 1: Steelers defense, they did change it a little a bit

1309
01:04:00,280 --> 01:04:02,800
Speaker 1: last year, they're going to be better. You want to

1310
01:04:02,800 --> 01:04:05,320
Speaker 1: bring back he picks, your boy, Ryan Shazier. I want

1311
01:04:05,360 --> 01:04:07,880
Speaker 1: to bring back hero picks, But we'd have to all

1312
01:04:07,960 --> 01:04:10,040
Speaker 1: be actually picking the games each time. We're kind of

1313
01:04:10,120 --> 01:04:13,000
Speaker 1: sometimes picking sometimes not the Thursday night game. I gotta

1314
01:04:13,120 --> 01:04:14,960
Speaker 1: the hero pick, so I might go one up on

1315
01:04:15,160 --> 01:04:17,320
Speaker 1: the whole group. Well, you're either in or out. You

1316
01:04:17,400 --> 01:04:20,920
Speaker 1: can't be honking about your hero pick. Victory point that

1317
01:04:21,000 --> 01:04:23,560
Speaker 1: game turns out your favor You gotta here's your chance.

1318
01:04:23,680 --> 01:04:25,960
Speaker 1: We don't. We're not even making picks anywhere. Where are

1319
01:04:26,040 --> 01:04:28,920
Speaker 1: you making these picks right now? We'll decide we'll make

1320
01:04:28,960 --> 01:04:32,520
Speaker 1: the picks if you're in. Are we in? If Greg

1321
01:04:32,640 --> 01:04:34,560
Speaker 1: gets back in here? But where is it even being

1322
01:04:34,640 --> 01:04:37,680
Speaker 1: kept track of on this podcast? Yeah? I think I

1323
01:04:37,720 --> 01:04:41,960
Speaker 1: think it's add a column on the website. Sorry, Nick

1324
01:04:42,760 --> 01:04:44,880
Speaker 1: picks like I have two jobs, I've got a family.

1325
01:04:46,080 --> 01:04:49,760
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll say that. Maybe not, Nick, but somebody wants

1326
01:04:50,040 --> 01:04:52,240
Speaker 1: I'll consider it during the off week. We haven't made

1327
01:04:52,560 --> 01:04:56,080
Speaker 1: this week's picks yet, so you can run it down

1328
01:04:56,200 --> 01:04:59,960
Speaker 1: right now. Too much pressure? All right, let's talk after

1329
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:05,280
Speaker 1: of the show listeners drifting away, moving on to the

1330
01:05:05,440 --> 01:05:08,280
Speaker 1: final Monday night game and the final game of the week.

1331
01:05:08,960 --> 01:05:12,480
Speaker 1: One we should talk every week. One game is especial,

1332
01:05:12,600 --> 01:05:17,120
Speaker 1: a special especial, little flowers them all. Uh the l

1333
01:05:17,200 --> 01:05:21,960
Speaker 1: A Rams open up their season. Uh, not in l

1334
01:05:22,040 --> 01:05:24,880
Speaker 1: A yet, they will. That will happen the following week.

1335
01:05:24,920 --> 01:05:29,280
Speaker 1: They will now play against the forty Niners at Levi's Stadium.

1336
01:05:29,320 --> 01:05:34,120
Speaker 1: Wes sight of Super Bowl fifty and Mark, spend me

1337
01:05:34,200 --> 01:05:36,720
Speaker 1: some gold. Why is this a game people should stay

1338
01:05:36,800 --> 01:05:39,160
Speaker 1: up late to watch? I think it's historically significant for

1339
01:05:39,280 --> 01:05:41,680
Speaker 1: the most obvious reason of all. The last time the

1340
01:05:41,840 --> 01:05:43,640
Speaker 1: l A Rams for the l A Rams and played

1341
01:05:43,640 --> 01:05:49,160
Speaker 1: a game was Christmas Eve two back when Greg was

1342
01:05:49,200 --> 01:05:52,440
Speaker 1: about six years old at seven thousand, nine thirty four

1343
01:05:52,520 --> 01:05:55,320
Speaker 1: days ago. So yes, for that alone, I think if

1344
01:05:55,360 --> 01:05:58,200
Speaker 1: you are a football historian, that matters. But I the

1345
01:05:58,280 --> 01:06:00,560
Speaker 1: note to go off what West says that really matter?

1346
01:06:02,400 --> 01:06:04,240
Speaker 1: I think it does matter. What I did right though?

1347
01:06:04,360 --> 01:06:06,360
Speaker 1: Was there? These are the two most for me, the

1348
01:06:06,400 --> 01:06:11,400
Speaker 1: two most depressing preseason journeys colliding in Week one because

1349
01:06:12,800 --> 01:06:14,680
Speaker 1: the Bears are up there, but the Bears didn't have

1350
01:06:14,760 --> 01:06:17,280
Speaker 1: the expectations. I don't think in some way because if

1351
01:06:17,320 --> 01:06:20,920
Speaker 1: you're Chip Kelly's offense, you want to see, you know,

1352
01:06:21,120 --> 01:06:24,120
Speaker 1: the forty Niners come out with a new, reimagined identity.

1353
01:06:24,360 --> 01:06:26,840
Speaker 1: We saw none of that. There's just nothing happening with

1354
01:06:26,920 --> 01:06:29,440
Speaker 1: the skill position group in San Francisco. And if you're

1355
01:06:29,480 --> 01:06:31,959
Speaker 1: the Rams, the Rams top the Niners by a million

1356
01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:33,960
Speaker 1: miles because didn't people didn't think San Francis gonna be

1357
01:06:34,040 --> 01:06:37,160
Speaker 1: very good. You're getting Blaine Gabbert versus case Keenan because

1358
01:06:37,160 --> 01:06:39,800
Speaker 1: the guy that you traded up for the number one pick,

1359
01:06:40,360 --> 01:06:43,080
Speaker 1: Jared Goff, is sitting as your number three quarterback right

1360
01:06:43,160 --> 01:06:45,760
Speaker 1: now after one of the most underwhelming summers by a

1361
01:06:45,840 --> 01:06:48,640
Speaker 1: number one pick in our lifetime. So I would be

1362
01:06:48,840 --> 01:06:51,280
Speaker 1: very concerned. If you're a fan of either team, it's

1363
01:06:51,320 --> 01:06:53,320
Speaker 1: gonna be in long autumn. Well, that makes it a

1364
01:06:53,400 --> 01:06:59,320
Speaker 1: big game though, that makes it at week two. I'm saying,

1365
01:06:59,480 --> 01:07:01,400
Speaker 1: this is a big game for these two coaching staff

1366
01:07:01,400 --> 01:07:03,400
Speaker 1: and these two teams, because if you can't pick it, Greg.

1367
01:07:03,600 --> 01:07:05,440
Speaker 1: If you can't pick off either one of them, it's

1368
01:07:05,440 --> 01:07:08,560
Speaker 1: gonna feel real hopeless. I don't think the Rams are

1369
01:07:08,640 --> 01:07:10,800
Speaker 1: so like a check sticking out of Greg's pocket with

1370
01:07:11,200 --> 01:07:13,960
Speaker 1: ESPN logo. I don't think the Rams are so talentless

1371
01:07:14,040 --> 01:07:17,480
Speaker 1: that it's crazy to imagine that defense putting together some

1372
01:07:17,600 --> 01:07:19,800
Speaker 1: wins this season. But if you're gonna be in the

1373
01:07:19,920 --> 01:07:22,560
Speaker 1: mix and not be an effing seven and nine team

1374
01:07:22,640 --> 01:07:24,200
Speaker 1: like Jeff Fisher, maybe it's not a big game for

1375
01:07:24,240 --> 01:07:25,840
Speaker 1: the forty nine. It's a big game for the Rams.

1376
01:07:26,320 --> 01:07:29,240
Speaker 1: Win this game. Go go to San Francisco or Santa Clara.

1377
01:07:29,560 --> 01:07:32,080
Speaker 1: Win that game, because if you lose that game, seven

1378
01:07:32,120 --> 01:07:34,280
Speaker 1: and nine are worst. Is almost virtually guaranteed because the

1379
01:07:34,320 --> 01:07:36,680
Speaker 1: schedule's gonna tighten up. You gotta win these types of games.

1380
01:07:37,440 --> 01:07:40,280
Speaker 1: To find it interesting that while we were recording this podcast,

1381
01:07:40,880 --> 01:07:44,960
Speaker 1: NFL media insider Ian Rappaport reported the NFL Networks Ian

1382
01:07:45,040 --> 01:07:49,360
Speaker 1: Rapp report New Branding inside the Building. NFL network insider

1383
01:07:49,520 --> 01:07:53,920
Speaker 1: Yeah rap Sheet reported that the Rams and Broncos discussed

1384
01:07:53,960 --> 01:07:57,720
Speaker 1: the case Keenom trade during the preseason, and once the

1385
01:07:57,800 --> 01:08:00,920
Speaker 1: Broncos liked how Trevor Simeon played that trade didn't go

1386
01:08:01,000 --> 01:08:04,440
Speaker 1: down the rams like Sean Mannion too. Well, we know that.

1387
01:08:05,160 --> 01:08:08,040
Speaker 1: I think that that's the only explanation for that we

1388
01:08:08,160 --> 01:08:11,120
Speaker 1: might see Sean Mannion. I wouldn't be surprised. Here's the thing.

1389
01:08:11,200 --> 01:08:13,360
Speaker 1: I'm excited to watch this game. I know that sounds crazy.

1390
01:08:13,400 --> 01:08:15,680
Speaker 1: I'm not just saying that to say I I legitimately am.

1391
01:08:15,720 --> 01:08:18,200
Speaker 1: I think the forty Niners could be fun. But as

1392
01:08:18,280 --> 01:08:22,639
Speaker 1: exciting as I think the forty Niners are so weird

1393
01:08:22,840 --> 01:08:25,920
Speaker 1: that that Chip Kelly, who I'm fascinating by, with this

1394
01:08:26,800 --> 01:08:29,560
Speaker 1: bizarre group of players, I mean, as the coaches, I

1395
01:08:29,680 --> 01:08:31,360
Speaker 1: just want to see what happened. Let me ask you this,

1396
01:08:31,560 --> 01:08:33,960
Speaker 1: is it a good idea to play the most up

1397
01:08:34,000 --> 01:08:37,040
Speaker 1: tempo offense in the league with such a talent poor

1398
01:08:37,200 --> 01:08:40,280
Speaker 1: roster that you'd be doing three and ounce over and

1399
01:08:40,439 --> 01:08:42,640
Speaker 1: over against the great front seven. And what I was

1400
01:08:42,680 --> 01:08:44,479
Speaker 1: gonna get to is it probably isn't going to live

1401
01:08:44,560 --> 01:08:46,880
Speaker 1: up to my own height because these defenses are both

1402
01:08:47,000 --> 01:08:49,360
Speaker 1: so much better than the opposing offenses. It will probably

1403
01:08:49,360 --> 01:08:52,560
Speaker 1: be nine to six stok about one last thing is

1404
01:08:52,640 --> 01:08:56,040
Speaker 1: Chip Kelly's defaut. Well, there is a lot going on.

1405
01:08:56,160 --> 01:08:58,479
Speaker 1: It's Week one, but I mean Chip Kelly's defenses have

1406
01:08:58,600 --> 01:09:01,640
Speaker 1: always suffered and a defensive players start to grumble for

1407
01:09:01,720 --> 01:09:04,360
Speaker 1: how often they're out on the field. Jim O'Neill is

1408
01:09:04,360 --> 01:09:06,519
Speaker 1: your defensive coordinator who came out of Cleveland. What was

1409
01:09:06,560 --> 01:09:09,240
Speaker 1: the resume? There? Couldn't stop the run to give a

1410
01:09:09,320 --> 01:09:11,559
Speaker 1: damn for two years in a row, and now you're

1411
01:09:11,600 --> 01:09:13,960
Speaker 1: trying to stop Todd girling Week one. There's your test.

1412
01:09:14,080 --> 01:09:15,479
Speaker 1: Let's find out what kind of defense you have in

1413
01:09:15,520 --> 01:09:18,960
Speaker 1: San Francisco. We will be back on Sunday night with

1414
01:09:19,240 --> 01:09:23,000
Speaker 1: our Week one recap show where we recap all the games,

1415
01:09:23,040 --> 01:09:26,720
Speaker 1: so make sure you check that out. Uh. But until then, uh,

1416
01:09:27,000 --> 01:09:31,599
Speaker 1: it is time everyone to watch actual football that counts.

1417
01:09:33,400 --> 01:09:37,360
Speaker 1: So let's do it until Sunday. This is Dan Janzas

1418
01:09:37,760 --> 01:09:43,960
Speaker 1: signing off four Quiet storm Dom mail Man. It's like

1419
01:09:44,080 --> 01:09:46,760
Speaker 1: the Bears to get it the Boss and La Sied

1420
01:09:46,800 --> 01:09:50,439
Speaker 1: behind the glass tell real fun