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Speaker 1: Black Hand Feel thirty four to twenty three, the Bengals

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Speaker 1: about the Cincinnati Bengals, the undefeated Cincinnati Bengals on NFL

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Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast.

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Speaker 1: They're going to travel three thousand miles and you're gonna

428
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Speaker 1: lock it, lock them in for a guaranteed victory. Showed

429
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Speaker 1: me something l a Chargers, so I'm allowed to lock

430
00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:07,600
Speaker 1: this game up. You know the rule, you guys. Just

431
00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:09,520
Speaker 1: you guys just told me that this was like an

432
00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:11,439
Speaker 1: even game. You tell me. Can you look in the mirror?

433
00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:14,000
Speaker 1: I think anyone you lock up anything, you guys, you

434
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Speaker 1: guys say this is I don't disappointed that. I don't care.

435
00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:21,080
Speaker 1: You can lock up whatever you want. Whatever makes your

436
00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:23,800
Speaker 1: heart content. That wouldn't make my heart content. Let's move on.

437
00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:28,600
Speaker 1: The Minnesota Vikings got their season off to a nice

438
00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:30,680
Speaker 1: start against the forty nine. Is a real nice start.

439
00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:32,119
Speaker 1: In fact, I thought they were one of the more

440
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Speaker 1: impressive teams in Week one. They now travel to Lambeau

441
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Speaker 1: to face the Packers. That the question is Greg Rosenthal

442
00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:42,679
Speaker 1: will be the Packers with the Shaan Kaiser quarterback or

443
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Speaker 1: with Aaron Rodgers. It's very much up in the air.

444
00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:49,639
Speaker 1: I was worried that the news that Ian rapp Report

445
00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:52,120
Speaker 1: or NFL Network insider broke right as we were coming

446
00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:54,960
Speaker 1: up here that the Packers might not know Roger's status

447
00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:58,560
Speaker 1: till Saturday at the earliest, which makes it sound like

448
00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:02,680
Speaker 1: either probably not playing, or at the very least they're

449
00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:05,520
Speaker 1: just drawing this out as long as possible to keep

450
00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:08,440
Speaker 1: the Vikings not knowing, because if they don't know until

451
00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:11,080
Speaker 1: Saturday at the earliest, my guests would be he's not

452
00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:14,639
Speaker 1: really going to be participating in practice much, if at all,

453
00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:17,080
Speaker 1: on Friday, and he and he hasn't yet. And it's

454
00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:19,119
Speaker 1: strange because he finished out that game last week, and

455
00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:21,119
Speaker 1: generally with a great player like that, if you finished

456
00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:23,960
Speaker 1: out the game before, you're probably gonna play the next week.

457
00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:25,720
Speaker 1: But they also have to think of the long game here.

458
00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:28,000
Speaker 1: It was great that he had that performance, but it

459
00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:30,879
Speaker 1: is a long season and they're not gonna do anything

460
00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:33,679
Speaker 1: to jeopardize Aaron Rodgers and that would basically end this

461
00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:36,320
Speaker 1: game before it started. If he doesn't play. Most likely,

462
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Speaker 1: I don't think Kaiser is ready to handle this Vikings

463
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Speaker 1: pass rush. I did like to think about that that

464
00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:44,919
Speaker 1: Kaiser gave a really good, supposedly uh inspirational speech in

465
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Speaker 1: the halftime locker room last week, but then he came

466
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Speaker 1: out and then he didn't play because they thought he

467
00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:52,840
Speaker 1: was he was playing, and he got Aaron Rodgers right.

468
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:55,359
Speaker 1: Randall cob Like said, it fired everyone up and then

469
00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:56,600
Speaker 1: they got out there and it was like, oh, actually

470
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Speaker 1: Aaron's gonna come back. Why is it that we haven't

471
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Speaker 1: heard any details on this knee? Well, essentially it's a sprain.

472
00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:05,080
Speaker 1: I mean I think that's what Rogers said, right, So

473
00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:09,400
Speaker 1: that's a detail, isn't it, And that if you want

474
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Speaker 1: to have him play through a nice sprain, we'll see. Yeah,

475
00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:15,320
Speaker 1: he was dragging that leg around. It would not surprise

476
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Speaker 1: me if he doesn't play. That was my thought watching

477
00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:19,760
Speaker 1: that game, obviously, the adrenaline and his pumping and they're

478
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Speaker 1: on this comeback and Al Chris and Michelle are watching

479
00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:25,440
Speaker 1: the game, or is Louis Cannon said before the show?

480
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Speaker 1: It was al? What was it? Alan Jake? Jake, Alan

481
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Speaker 1: Jake are the best on TV. Luis ad an ark

482
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Speaker 1: at temp post. He is very upfront that she's not

483
00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:38,560
Speaker 1: a huge NFL, that she's a huge Patriots fan, and uh,

484
00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:40,399
Speaker 1: that's fine, there's no problem. I have no issue with

485
00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:42,600
Speaker 1: similar to a lot of Patriots family. But it does,

486
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Speaker 1: it does trickle out. Sometimes you get these little fun

487
00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:47,400
Speaker 1: little a lot of deal. Mcnifico's like when she says, oh, yeah,

488
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:52,400
Speaker 1: it was on Sunday, Alan Jake made the call J Jake,

489
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Speaker 1: I love you, Louise Cannon. This is this should be

490
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Speaker 1: like the best matchup, just about divisional matchup in the

491
00:24:59,880 --> 00:25:03,040
Speaker 1: end fl right now, if Rogers play, That's what I'm saying.

492
00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:07,640
Speaker 1: It's annoying because because the Vikings defense looks potentially even better.

493
00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:10,560
Speaker 1: That's how good Sheldon Richardson looked adding him to that mix. Yeah,

494
00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:14,320
Speaker 1: where was that Sheldon richards And last year um Seattle's

495
00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:16,320
Speaker 1: wonder well he didn't have everything. Griffin and Danielle I

496
00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:19,560
Speaker 1: refused to speak during this game segment. What's up? I

497
00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:21,159
Speaker 1: don't know, you just have an issue with it? I

498
00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:22,600
Speaker 1: got no, I just got a few minutes in. I thought,

499
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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna now I'm speaking. So I totally were

500
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Speaker 1: you like low key? Do not like the Packers? No? Actually,

501
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:32,800
Speaker 1: you know what, watching the watching what happened against the Bears,

502
00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:34,679
Speaker 1: despite them being the team of at L that was

503
00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:37,480
Speaker 1: pretty incredible. You'd have to be a walking corps, which

504
00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:39,040
Speaker 1: we almost were at that point in the night in

505
00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:43,560
Speaker 1: London to not enjoy that. Um, I I like Aaron Rodgers.

506
00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:46,480
Speaker 1: Wait wait a second, they've got you through the whole preview.

507
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Speaker 1: Just get I did not do it. I did not

508
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Speaker 1: do it. Okay, we're gonna move on that. Please let

509
00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:54,679
Speaker 1: you well. I was waiting, we're gonna move on, but

510
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:58,120
Speaker 1: then it just kept going. Pretty great analysis. That's something

511
00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:01,600
Speaker 1: I'll save it for Week three. The Cleveland Browns mark.

512
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:05,560
Speaker 1: Now you're back in zero zero and one annoying head

513
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Speaker 1: to the Superdome to face the New Orleans Saints. And

514
00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:12,359
Speaker 1: this is a very interesting, uh set up for a

515
00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:15,280
Speaker 1: game mark for your Brownies because as frustrating as it

516
00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:17,080
Speaker 1: was not to close out that game, that was a

517
00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:20,160
Speaker 1: really positive step for the franchise to hang with the Steelers,

518
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:22,280
Speaker 1: to nearly beat them, And now they go to face

519
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Speaker 1: the Saints. Last year, the Saints, you would have hated

520
00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:27,720
Speaker 1: to face them from October on, uh, and you could

521
00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:29,760
Speaker 1: chalk it up as a loss. But after they get

522
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Speaker 1: walloped and give forty eight points in Ryan Fitzpatrick, all

523
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, to quote your boy Kevin Garnett, greg

524
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:39,840
Speaker 1: that anything is possible. Yeah. I mean the Saints team

525
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:42,400
Speaker 1: also has started owing to four years in a row

526
00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:47,280
Speaker 1: they gave up five hundred yards. Ridiculous that right, and

527
00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:48,920
Speaker 1: last year in Week one and Week two they gave

528
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Speaker 1: up five hundred yards before they tightened up into the

529
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Speaker 1: defense that we came to love down the stretch. I

530
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:58,080
Speaker 1: guess it's a strange game. I just I would wonder

531
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Speaker 1: what you'd have more faith than the Saints actually turning

532
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 1: around this week on defense or Cleveland's offensive line. And

533
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:06,919
Speaker 1: I know you went back and watched this too, that

534
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:09,600
Speaker 1: it wasn't just the fact that t J. Watt turned

535
00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:12,879
Speaker 1: into an absolute nightmare. Well after watching that game, bon

536
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:14,639
Speaker 1: Miller should have been defensive Player of the Week, not

537
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:17,000
Speaker 1: t J. Watt. Well, I'm fine with that, but t J.

538
00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 1: Watt did plenty to disrupt the bed. And it wasn't

539
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:21,680
Speaker 1: just the offensive line. The Browns running backs and tight

540
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:24,480
Speaker 1: ends got worked over. This was not just I mean

541
00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:28,800
Speaker 1: Desmond Harrison, who it was so weird hearing their sideline

542
00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 1: reporter Mellie Melanie Collins, Hugh Jackson said that this guy

543
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:34,640
Speaker 1: is when one of the most talented players in the team.

544
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:37,800
Speaker 1: Joe Thomas said, this guy can have a better career

545
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:40,320
Speaker 1: than me if he gets his nose, and I it's

546
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 1: like it wasn't the what maybe it was it's week one,

547
00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:44,800
Speaker 1: it was insane weather, but he had he had too

548
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:48,439
Speaker 1: than any offensive lineman in the league. They're a penalty

549
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:50,840
Speaker 1: written unit that like. I think they set them back

550
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:52,639
Speaker 1: last week big time, and do you get off the

551
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:54,800
Speaker 1: can you fix that in a dome? I don't understand

552
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,240
Speaker 1: Hugh Jackson skated by on this whole plan that he

553
00:27:57,280 --> 00:28:01,000
Speaker 1: had Joel but Tonio at left tackle all of the preseason,

554
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:03,720
Speaker 1: which was working, and then he flipped it going into

555
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,639
Speaker 1: Week one. Seemed very strange. I would be worried if

556
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:08,480
Speaker 1: I was a Browns fan that they played eighty nine

557
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:13,160
Speaker 1: snaps last week on offense and that's a heavy workload

558
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:15,240
Speaker 1: out of nowhere, and now you have to go on

559
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:18,520
Speaker 1: the road and play again the next week, right, I think.

560
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:20,360
Speaker 1: I think that's a tough matchup. That said, I think

561
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:23,359
Speaker 1: the Browns have enough defensive talent at least give the

562
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:26,800
Speaker 1: Saints problems. It's a way different defense than Cleveland's ever

563
00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:29,320
Speaker 1: brought against the Saints before. The Breeze has lost to

564
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 1: them twice, which means nothing. I get that's a long

565
00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:34,199
Speaker 1: time ago, but he's never dealt with Myles Garrett on

566
00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:37,400
Speaker 1: Cleveland's roster. Bill's Garrett like was a when a couple

567
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 1: of times when he came back up against Big Ben,

568
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:41,640
Speaker 1: it was like the shadow of a front door swallowing

569
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 1: up big Ben. I've never seen anyone on a Cleveland

570
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 1: roster do that's a big bend before. And we talked

571
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:50,480
Speaker 1: on about revenge games like this is a real revenge game.

572
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 1: I mean, Sean Payton and Greg Williams legitimately despise each

573
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 1: other help for most people. And Sean Payton and Greg

574
00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:03,960
Speaker 1: Williams seems like your mailman. I hate that man. Uh.

575
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,480
Speaker 1: So a big game for the Browns, and the Browns

576
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 1: sat and they play well. Uh and they again proved

577
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:14,720
Speaker 1: themselves to be you know, a challenge for anybody. You're

578
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 1: feeling good winner lost here. As long as they're competitive,

579
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 1: you know, I'd agree, I would not feel comfortable locking

580
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:23,720
Speaker 1: up this game. M I get that one of the

581
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:29,320
Speaker 1: teams that would be to their best start in fourteen years. Oh,

582
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:32,000
Speaker 1: you're saying because the Saints are too heavy of a

583
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:35,560
Speaker 1: favorite or because you think the Browns are a much

584
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:38,840
Speaker 1: better team. Alright, let's move. We gotta find out for

585
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:40,400
Speaker 1: right now, they're in the mix of the one with

586
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:42,400
Speaker 1: the worst defense of the league, and they have to

587
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 1: prove that this could be a bad Saints here. They

588
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 1: happen a lot the data at our disposal is not

589
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 1: limited to Week one. It also involves what they've done

590
00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 1: in their careers to date, right, and it's not it's

591
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:53,440
Speaker 1: a lot of players who have played on a lot

592
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 1: of bad defenses. All right, let's move on. We head

593
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 1: to the meadow Lands where the Miami Dolphins. They played

594
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 1: a seven an hour game in an electrical storm and

595
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 1: it was a whole mess, but they took care of

596
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:09,640
Speaker 1: business against the Tennessee Titoons. And now here come the Jets.

597
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:12,240
Speaker 1: And we talked about the Jets on Wednesday show, and

598
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:14,760
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, how there's hope has walked

599
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:18,240
Speaker 1: in the room and Sam Donald looked so great, uh

600
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:20,880
Speaker 1: against the Lions and that defense, and this is what

601
00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:24,080
Speaker 1: we're starting. We'll start with the Jets, um West, the defense.

602
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:26,040
Speaker 1: To me, Todd Bowls has been there, this is his

603
00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:29,360
Speaker 1: fourth year. But have we ever really seen the Jets

604
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,480
Speaker 1: have a identity on defense since he's been there? I

605
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:36,400
Speaker 1: would say no. But that defense against the Lions looked

606
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 1: like a team with an identity, fast, aggressive, young, and

607
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 1: that got you excited almost as much as Sam Donald playing. Well. Yeah,

608
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:47,920
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams especially, UM love watching that guy play. I

609
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 1: think the question is are they that damn good or

610
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 1: was this a product of stealing signs? They knew what

611
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:57,440
Speaker 1: was coming from Matthew Stafford. They all talked about it

612
00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 1: after the game. That is a huge factor. So this

613
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 1: is not part of the game. I was trying to

614
00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:05,240
Speaker 1: kind of decipher what that actually meant if it's part

615
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 1: of the game. When you hear that every day, you

616
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 1: don't hear teams saying that. Was unusual to hear a

617
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:10,560
Speaker 1: teams say it right after them. And it's also something

618
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 1: people have said about Jim Bob Cooter's offense before. UM

619
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Speaker 1: My question to you, Dan, you obviously have a lot

620
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:19,680
Speaker 1: of feelings about the Jets, but people don't know you

621
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:22,600
Speaker 1: kind of have some feelings about the Dolphins too. You

622
00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:24,200
Speaker 1: you'll usually have a good read on them, and you

623
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:26,760
Speaker 1: like to like foil. You'd like to be a foil

624
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 1: for Henry a little bit. Well, I have a lot

625
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 1: of animosity for the Dolphins. They're they're an old rival.

626
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 1: They go back forever. I was at the Fake Spike

627
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 1: game in ninety four. Uh, so that you know, and

628
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:38,920
Speaker 1: they've kind of been here. Uh, they've kind of been

629
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 1: on the same wavelength for the Jet with the Jets forever. Now, um,

630
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 1: do I have any I don't have anything. So my question, Yeah,

631
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 1: what is your question? The winner this team is going

632
00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:50,720
Speaker 1: to be two and up? Yes. Would you think that

633
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 1: the winner of this game is a legitimate wild card content?

634
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 1: I absolutely think so. Before the season, I I was

635
00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 1: in a mail bag. I wrote a Dolphins fan said,

636
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 1: give me anything to be excited about, and I said, listen,

637
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 1: look at the a f C. Look at what's going

638
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 1: to happen once you get past the division winners. There

639
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,480
Speaker 1: might be a wild card team that's also very good

640
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Speaker 1: at ten or eleven. One team, but from the perspective

641
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 1: of the summer, it felt like that sixth playoff spot's

642
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:17,920
Speaker 1: gonna be wide open. We're talking maybe not eight and

643
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 1: eight wide open, but a team that can win nine

644
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 1: games will get in the door. And I I think

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins are a team that is in that mix.

646
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 1: And after you see the Jets in Week one at least,

647
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:29,880
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, the Jets can absolutely be in that mix.

648
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 1: And yes, the team that starts to and know here,

649
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:33,920
Speaker 1: there's no reason to think that they won't be hanging

650
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 1: around in December. It's very exciting. Jets are a different

651
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 1: team with Quincy and na Like. I just I love

652
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 1: that guy. He adds a level of toughness. He got

653
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:47,120
Speaker 1: a huge percentage of the targets, the energy just they need.

654
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 1: They need guys like that and between him, Crowl had

655
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 1: a good game. Powell like the field position. It was

656
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 1: a pretty complete performance. Like they it was all three phases.

657
00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:58,840
Speaker 1: They did more at least to impress in Week one

658
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Speaker 1: than the Dolphins did. For it's worth that said, the

659
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:05,440
Speaker 1: Dolphins are forever getting slashed on this podcast, and largely

660
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:07,600
Speaker 1: for for good reason. In years past, I did not

661
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:09,680
Speaker 1: think they looked that bad enough. They didn't. It was

662
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:12,200
Speaker 1: also I take the last third of that game and

663
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:13,960
Speaker 1: almost throw it out the window because it was after

664
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Speaker 1: all these sillies and it it did truly turn silly.

665
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Speaker 1: But the Dolphins when they can run the ball, and

666
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:20,479
Speaker 1: you saw I'd like that. I think that you were

667
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:22,960
Speaker 1: talking about Frank Gore all last Sunday on Sky Sports.

668
00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 1: He looked younger, he looked fresh. And when you can

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Speaker 1: get like Kenny still is playing the way he did,

670
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:31,040
Speaker 1: Fit's Tannehill. To me, I get he's he is Ryan Tannehill.

671
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,160
Speaker 1: But he was not a disaster in that game outside

672
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Speaker 1: of one terrible pick. Now, he didn't get a lot

673
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Speaker 1: of attention coming back from his torn a c O.

674
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Speaker 1: But he looked he looked like Ryan Tannell, and I

675
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Speaker 1: am contractually obligated to mention Frank to the inconvenient truth.

676
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:47,960
Speaker 1: Gore is fifteen yards away from becoming the number four

677
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Speaker 1: all time leading Russia in NFL history. Emmett Smith, Walter Payton,

678
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:55,480
Speaker 1: Barry Sanders and Coral Gables High School's own Frank Gore

679
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 1: set in that mark just miles away from where he

680
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 1: grew up. You gotta love that. I feel like Greg's

681
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 1: played really to say some of these things. It's though,

682
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Speaker 1: it's a great it's a great story. It's a great

683
00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 1: story if you look good, both of the running backs

684
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,760
Speaker 1: look good, and you know, kiddingly, of course, I'm gonna

685
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Speaker 1: lock it up here. Oh yeah, let's go the jay man.

686
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:20,600
Speaker 1: You can't take that. Lock it up two and oh

687
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 1: and we fly to Cleveland for Thursday night football. That

688
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:28,600
Speaker 1: would be faced the one, one Brown, the O and

689
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Speaker 1: two Browns. That's that's a good chancey After that Thursday

690
00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:34,760
Speaker 1: night they can be number one in the entire NFL.

691
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Speaker 1: Three and oh what if Cleveland didn't everyone Cleveland does

692
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Speaker 1: not go. They did not go in sixteen. They do

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Speaker 1: not go sixteen, and know they go, oh in sixteen,

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Speaker 1: that would be that would be more amazing one in sixteen,

695
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Speaker 1: I honestly think that would be the most way would

696
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Speaker 1: be like season of all time? Would you be the

697
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:56,200
Speaker 1: number one seed in the a C. Well, according to you,

698
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 1: it's not a win. Mark didn't lock it up, so

699
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 1: obviously it wouldn't be anything would mean a thirty second

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Speaker 1: and sixteen now they would have a change, they would

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00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 1: you know, unless five you would win a tiebreaker against uh,

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00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:09,719
Speaker 1: well not at eight and eight team right, let's that's

703
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 1: never gonna happen. Wait, we've got someone's got to find

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Speaker 1: out the instant What do you mean it's it's it's

705
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:16,279
Speaker 1: five hundred. They they have a five hundred record, and

706
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 1: then after that the tiebreakers just right now, so I

707
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:21,959
Speaker 1: don't get if they were oh in sixteen there five high,

708
00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 1: I should get half a lock. Then I think it's

709
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 1: safe to say team in the place, how would they

710
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:28,880
Speaker 1: be five hundred if they have sixteen ties? That's just

711
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,839
Speaker 1: how it is, wins and lost, and I should get

712
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:37,480
Speaker 1: half half a lock for maybe of course, the Kansas

713
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Speaker 1: City Chiefs head to Pittsburgh. Yes, the Steelers also zero

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Speaker 1: hyphen zero hyphen one uh, and the Chiefs looked as

715
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:50,839
Speaker 1: dangerous as advertised against the Chargers, just lighting them up.

716
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:55,319
Speaker 1: Um at the We're the Chargers play what's the name

717
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:58,680
Speaker 1: of that place again, the Charger Stadium the stock Bill

718
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:04,319
Speaker 1: Bottom anyway, So here's a game, uh, Greg Rosenthal where

719
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 1: the Steelers really want to just play better and play

720
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:10,719
Speaker 1: better at home. But Big Ben has an injury issue here,

721
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:13,960
Speaker 1: and when Big Ben's hurt, they're not the same team.

722
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 1: He hasn't practiced Wednesday or Thursday. His status seems up

723
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:20,680
Speaker 1: in the air. But it seems like one of those

724
00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger weeks where everyone fully expects him to play. Anyways,

725
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:29,359
Speaker 1: despite Josh Dobbs getting first team snaps. Uh, it does.

726
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:31,920
Speaker 1: I think we are you as a Steelers fan, because

727
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 1: this is a sneaky good rivalry. I think the last

728
00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 1: few years played a couple of times, including in the

729
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 1: playoffs two years ago. They've been back and forth, and

730
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Speaker 1: I think it's a big game in the a f C.

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00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:44,800
Speaker 1: One of these one of these you know teams we

732
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:46,360
Speaker 1: already talked about two and oh in the a f

733
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Speaker 1: C North, and it's a tough matchup for a Steelers defense.

734
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:51,799
Speaker 1: I think that has to be concerned in the secondary

735
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 1: more than than any place on their team. And if

736
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:57,440
Speaker 1: you have problems in the secondary, this Chief's team is

737
00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:00,320
Speaker 1: the type of team to expose it. I'm not flat

738
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:03,439
Speaker 1: out calling Big Ben a drama queen, but he does

739
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:07,480
Speaker 1: have a long storied history of playing up his injuries

740
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:11,759
Speaker 1: in his defense. Randy Fair, the offensive coordinator, said, I

741
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:13,919
Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to answer that at this point whether

742
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 1: he expects Big Ben to play, so Ben's not the

743
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 1: only one playing up the injury this week. It is

744
00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 1: a good rivalry, I guess. But big Ben is six

745
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:22,399
Speaker 1: and ones and against the Chiefs, and they're the one

746
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 1: team that it hasn't been a million matchups that have

747
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 1: slowed down Tyreek Hill more than any other team the league.

748
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:30,000
Speaker 1: This feels like a different Tyreek Hill to me though,

749
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:33,240
Speaker 1: what he's being used to Patrick Mahomes, I mean, if

750
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 1: I were the Chiefs, the one thing I want to

751
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 1: see is a little bit more out of Travis Kelsey

752
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:39,400
Speaker 1: this week, because if you can have him going alongside

753
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill, I mean, I think Pittsburgh which down the

754
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:44,720
Speaker 1: stretch gave up some big passing plays against the Browns

755
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:47,239
Speaker 1: last week, hidden in a bunch of junk. Uh, they

756
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:49,680
Speaker 1: could be in trouble. West, Did you do any more

757
00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 1: journalistic deep diving on the background? How player of the

758
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:57,320
Speaker 1: week is chosen? Because I know if you so Wednesday's

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00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:00,319
Speaker 1: show or listen to Wednesday's show West on Fire, that

760
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:03,799
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes and not Tyreek Hill awarded player of the week.

761
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:06,400
Speaker 1: I had no intention of ever doing any kind of

762
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:09,040
Speaker 1: journalistic Barry Kill was the best player on the field

763
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:11,000
Speaker 1: last week. I'm with you. I sent one tweet to

764
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:13,360
Speaker 1: NFL PR guy and I have not heard back. It

765
00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:16,720
Speaker 1: was it wasn't a good performance by the Chiefs defense overall,

766
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:18,600
Speaker 1: but they did get a big game out of d Ford,

767
00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:21,879
Speaker 1: which they could really use, and Chris Jones as well

768
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,360
Speaker 1: last week. So like that, there's some little in the second,

769
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Speaker 1: you're basically waving a stake in front of the a

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Speaker 1: t N media inside er saying, Dan, you go find that,

771
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:31,000
Speaker 1: go get the ends. Well, you are a journal in

772
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Speaker 1: marks an in trepid journal and Greg you know he

773
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:37,359
Speaker 1: has done some journalism before. I don't think I've ever

774
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:41,680
Speaker 1: been a journalist Greg has done. He's hung out with journalists.

775
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 1: I don't think that the QB index is journalism. Now,

776
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:47,800
Speaker 1: none of what are uncomfortable players? What are the rules

777
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:50,840
Speaker 1: with you know, journalism. What are the rules of lockups

778
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 1: and like quarterback injuries and whatnot? Because if Ben's playing,

779
00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:56,879
Speaker 1: and I'm fully expecting him to play, If Ben's playing,

780
00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:58,839
Speaker 1: I think the Steelers rebound and I'm going to lock

781
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,360
Speaker 1: that up. But it's a fair You gotta hang with

782
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:03,440
Speaker 1: you gotta hang with whatever. If you if you lock

783
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:05,919
Speaker 1: up a team with a quarterback uncertainty, you gotta gotta

784
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,000
Speaker 1: ride the lightning. Yeah, I mean there there are people

785
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:11,560
Speaker 1: tracking this, Greg. There's a Twitter account devoted to this.

786
00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:14,120
Speaker 1: Don't we know Big Ben's gonna play? I don't know

787
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:16,840
Speaker 1: he'll play. Whether he'll be effective will be another question.

788
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:20,200
Speaker 1: Let's move on the Philadelphia Eagles up. By the way,

789
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:23,160
Speaker 1: we heard it, we got it. We had the whole

790
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 1: sound effect. The Eagles. Uh. They played last Thursday, eighteen

791
00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 1: twelve win over the Falcons. Their defense did a good

792
00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 1: job stuffing Atlanta repeatedly inside their own ted yard line,

793
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:38,319
Speaker 1: and the offense I guessed it just enough. Now they

794
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:40,560
Speaker 1: travel to Tampa to face the Bucks, who we know

795
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:43,040
Speaker 1: all about it. Uh. Speaking of players of the week

796
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:48,800
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick, who went nuts uh win against the Saints,

797
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 1: we get to see what he can do against the Eagles.

798
00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 1: Mark your thought. So, there are a few things that

799
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 1: I hate more in football West will agree than the

800
00:39:57,239 --> 00:40:00,680
Speaker 1: horrid site of Tampa's overly lit sun bla lasted field

801
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:04,360
Speaker 1: of game pass him one of the worst things around.

802
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 1: That said, there are a few things I adore more

803
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:09,920
Speaker 1: than what the Bucks did last Sunday, blowing up an

804
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:13,480
Speaker 1: off season of presumptions while Ginger bearded Ryan Fitzpatrick through

805
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 1: more touchdowns of thirty plus eight yards against the Saints

806
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:19,799
Speaker 1: than jam Jamis Winston through all last season. I can't

807
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:22,359
Speaker 1: wait to see what happens to the NFL community when

808
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:28,120
Speaker 1: they knock off the Eagles. To start to and oh

809
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:32,759
Speaker 1: he's locking it up. I thought, I really did. I

810
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:37,120
Speaker 1: really did think about it. Sorry, Eric, Erica's like, after

811
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Speaker 1: fourteen days of listening to you all talk non stop,

812
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:42,520
Speaker 1: you do this, you know, but not that I give

813
00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:44,520
Speaker 1: you guys a lot of credit that you guys that

814
00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:48,480
Speaker 1: we thought about it, Like Dan has compared us to

815
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Speaker 1: you know, incredible heroes that have fought for a country,

816
00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:54,680
Speaker 1: and I think comparison different types of hero Yeah, I

817
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:56,600
Speaker 1: was gonna say they compare someon be way off, but

818
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Speaker 1: I'm just saying even great more heroes just just like

819
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:03,799
Speaker 1: we cannot understand what it would be like to be

820
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 1: in battle, they don't understand. It was like three podcasts

821
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:09,640
Speaker 1: in one week. It's a lot to deal with. I

822
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:11,480
Speaker 1: think you guys are smart not to lock it up

823
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:13,960
Speaker 1: because the best group in this game is still the

824
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:18,799
Speaker 1: Eagles defensive. I wrote a c poem this week to

825
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:21,960
Speaker 1: the Bucks Receiving Corps Top ten Receiving Corps NFL dot

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Speaker 1: com slash west. Are they number one? They are number

827
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:28,280
Speaker 1: two behind the Chiefs. But they are like the old

828
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:31,120
Speaker 1: Bill Walsh idea that your wide receivers should be like

829
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:34,880
Speaker 1: a basketball team. You don't want like five big, tall

830
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:38,240
Speaker 1: X receivers. They should complement each other. And the Bucks

831
00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:42,239
Speaker 1: receivers complement each other as well as anyone. Tight ends

832
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:44,800
Speaker 1: are counted in this tight ends and you're receiving backs,

833
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:47,360
Speaker 1: they're all Barkins as a as your number one or

834
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:49,800
Speaker 1: two receiver, he's not the number one. Tyreek Hill is

835
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 1: one of the best receivers in the NFL. Don't give

836
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:54,920
Speaker 1: me that this Travis Kelsey is an all pro tight end.

837
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:58,400
Speaker 1: They use Kareem Hunt very well. The Chiefs are there,

838
00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:01,360
Speaker 1: the Bucks. The big winner of week one Todd Monkin,

839
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:04,680
Speaker 1: who took over play and had a great game. You

840
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:07,600
Speaker 1: compared him to kind of like the Matteneggie boost that

841
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 1: the Chiefs got last year. Greg, you compared him that

842
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 1: in your debrief. Calm and this guy, like if this

843
00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:14,719
Speaker 1: keeps up, and that's a big if, people are gonna

844
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:17,840
Speaker 1: be talking about him as a head coach. It's already Meanwhile,

845
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:21,440
Speaker 1: it's already not too soon to worry that Nick Foles

846
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:24,239
Speaker 1: is just back to being bad Nick Foles. But now

847
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 1: we'll get a good idea because the Bucks, they can't

848
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 1: defend anybody, right, is the bigger jackal and hide quarterback

849
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:32,400
Speaker 1: in this game? That's a good question. But we what

850
00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:35,560
Speaker 1: we know is that Folls look very bad. It's very

851
00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:37,440
Speaker 1: bad in week one, and if it looks really real

852
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:41,719
Speaker 1: bad and week two. I wonder how that meshes with

853
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 1: the Eagles decision about how much they're going to wait

854
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:46,600
Speaker 1: on Carson Wentz. I don't know if that can have

855
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:48,600
Speaker 1: anything to do with wins. I mean, the one thing

856
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:51,320
Speaker 1: about you got a Super Bowl in your pocket and

857
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:55,400
Speaker 1: think term saying these guys very competitive, winning and losing

858
00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:59,160
Speaker 1: stress pressure. Let's see what happens. He's got they need

859
00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:01,200
Speaker 1: him to play better. Well, this isn't the Falcons defense,

860
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:03,040
Speaker 1: so I would I would assume we would get the

861
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:05,240
Speaker 1: better Nick Foles if we don't time to be concerned.

862
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:09,560
Speaker 1: Let's move on the Houston Texans. Uh, they couldnot hang

863
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:12,040
Speaker 1: with the Patriots in Week one. I guess they hung

864
00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:13,799
Speaker 1: with him, but they just never really came close to

865
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:17,200
Speaker 1: getting over the hump. Now they travel uh to Tennessee

866
00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:20,239
Speaker 1: to face the Tytoons, who uh fell in Miami and

867
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:24,680
Speaker 1: week one. Uh, here's the game, Chris Westling, where Deshaun

868
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:27,799
Speaker 1: Watson is going to be uh looking to shake off

869
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:29,200
Speaker 1: the rust because there was a lot of it in

870
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:31,840
Speaker 1: Week one. Yeah, Tony Romo was killing him for his

871
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 1: pre snap decisions in the second half of that game,

872
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:38,319
Speaker 1: especially down the stretch, which isn't surprising. He's what got

873
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:40,239
Speaker 1: like five starts under his belt in the NFL, So

874
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:42,160
Speaker 1: it's not going up against Bill Belchick, who had an

875
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:45,240
Speaker 1: offseason to prepare for it too. But from the Titans

876
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:47,600
Speaker 1: point of view, I try not to take any grand

877
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 1: sweeping conclusions out of a game that was the longest

878
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:52,600
Speaker 1: in NFL history and the hottest game the Titans have

879
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:56,120
Speaker 1: played this century. Uh, there were some mitigating factors there,

880
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:58,839
Speaker 1: but Mariota was terrible before the injury. I was gonna say,

881
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:00,239
Speaker 1: I did not, and I think this is a one

882
00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:03,440
Speaker 1: game sample when Blaine Gabbert came in and Blaine Gabbert's

883
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:06,320
Speaker 1: playing Gabert, I did not see a major drop off

884
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:09,320
Speaker 1: in that one game from Mariotta Mariotta to to to

885
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:11,759
Speaker 1: Blaine Gabbert. The one thing I really like about this

886
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 1: year's Titans is versus the Derrick Henry DeMarco Murray pair.

887
00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:20,480
Speaker 1: The Derrick Henry Dion Lewis pair works for me. I

888
00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 1: I think this is a good They had a good

889
00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:26,279
Speaker 1: situation on the ground, and I the Titans offense part

890
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 1: of Mariota's issues. He's had what five coaches and four

891
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:31,479
Speaker 1: years or something like four and five, and they've had

892
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:34,680
Speaker 1: such low wattage skill position players. You see little moments

893
00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:36,759
Speaker 1: from Corey Davis. You see little moments here and there,

894
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:39,279
Speaker 1: and I think they could develop into something better down

895
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:40,800
Speaker 1: the stretch. I might be the only person in the

896
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:45,480
Speaker 1: country that also likes their new uniforms the horrible. I

897
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 1: like the I like the whole ones. I don't We'll

898
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:51,040
Speaker 1: see the home Yeah, and all the Titans fans are

899
00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:52,920
Speaker 1: gonna get mad because I say tytoons and stuff. Do

900
00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:55,680
Speaker 1: you think I'm just piling on? I legitimately think they

901
00:44:55,719 --> 00:44:59,640
Speaker 1: look like CFL uniforms, But that's just mys look like

902
00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:01,520
Speaker 1: a a throwback to the like the ninth I think

903
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:05,719
Speaker 1: I like it. Greg. What did you see from J J.

904
00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:07,960
Speaker 1: Watton Week one? Yeah? I think he played pretty well

905
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:10,520
Speaker 1: in the second well, yeah, second half. I looked up

906
00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:12,279
Speaker 1: in the third quarter and I was like, oh, J J.

907
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:14,359
Speaker 1: Watson there, and then he was there for the rest

908
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:16,400
Speaker 1: of the game, right, And and he talked about that

909
00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:18,720
Speaker 1: during the week too, that he felt like it almost

910
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:21,320
Speaker 1: took him a while to even get back to feeling

911
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:23,600
Speaker 1: but then feeling like who he was again as a player,

912
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:25,360
Speaker 1: and then then he was creating a lot of pressure.

913
00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:28,680
Speaker 1: I think if you're a Texans fan, you have to

914
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:31,320
Speaker 1: be excited they're at They're the healthier team here. Taylor

915
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:35,480
Speaker 1: Taylor Luan is hurt. Mariota is playing, but he's not

916
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:37,560
Speaker 1: looking right, and it's not just one game, because he

917
00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:39,520
Speaker 1: did not look right in the preseason either of Shawn

918
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:41,920
Speaker 1: Evans like. They have a lot of injuries on that Titans.

919
00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:43,760
Speaker 1: You know what else went well for the Texans. Kareem

920
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:46,799
Speaker 1: Jackson moving to safety, had a great game. Uh A

921
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:50,839
Speaker 1: fun little nug from our beautiful week two research and notes.

922
00:45:51,520 --> 00:45:56,080
Speaker 1: Jeff Greenholtz and everybody does a great job downstairs. On

923
00:45:56,200 --> 00:45:58,919
Speaker 1: game day, it will be seven and twenty eight days

924
00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:01,759
Speaker 1: since J. J. Watts left Sack. I love j J.

925
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:06,600
Speaker 1: Walk Let's stack them quarterback takedowns. Let's take a brief

926
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:09,920
Speaker 1: pause here to throw it to the quiet storm. In

927
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:13,320
Speaker 1: ninety nine, the United States Army took on a covert

928
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:18,239
Speaker 1: project to construct Camp Century, a military scientific research base

929
00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:21,320
Speaker 1: nestled below the icy depths of Greenland, then a county

930
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:24,600
Speaker 1: of Denmark, Falling under the top secret umbrella of Project

931
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:27,319
Speaker 1: Ice Warm. The complex was to serve as a launch

932
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:30,280
Speaker 1: site for nuclear missiles within an arm's reach of Soviet Russia.

933
00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:33,200
Speaker 1: Eight meters below the ice. Camp Century came laced with

934
00:46:33,239 --> 00:46:35,919
Speaker 1: a network of twenty one tunnels running more than three

935
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 1: thousand meters in length. The secret base house laboratories, a shop,

936
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:44,000
Speaker 1: a hospital, a cinema, a chapel, and accommodation for as

937
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:46,960
Speaker 1: many as two hundred soldiers. The operation was so off

938
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:50,759
Speaker 1: the radar that Danish government officials were unaware of its existence.

939
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:53,919
Speaker 1: The whole thing went south, though, when military brass jump

940
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:57,440
Speaker 1: ship on Project ice Worm after realizing the constantly moving

941
00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:00,200
Speaker 1: ice was too unstable and would have to do would

942
00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:03,920
Speaker 1: potentially deform and perhaps even collapse the tunnels below. But sure,

943
00:47:04,239 --> 00:47:06,359
Speaker 1: let's go back to discussing a sport where men run

944
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:09,160
Speaker 1: around in tights, white pants and grab grabbing at each

945
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:11,960
Speaker 1: other while doing hop scotch in the end zone. At

946
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:15,359
Speaker 1: the end of that read should I read that lass

947
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:21,080
Speaker 1: sentence again? What? What about? What about Mr Flames economics class?

948
00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:24,200
Speaker 1: That's not a Mr Flame read? Let me read that

949
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:26,680
Speaker 1: less sentence? So we're leaving all of this in though,

950
00:47:27,239 --> 00:47:29,840
Speaker 1: Go ahead, lessons, right, But sure, let's go back to

951
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:32,400
Speaker 1: discussing a sport where men run around in tights and

952
00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:34,480
Speaker 1: gather at each other while doing hop scotch in the

953
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:39,280
Speaker 1: end zone. I don't know what that lessen means. My favorite,

954
00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:41,399
Speaker 1: can we clip that's a real thing? By the way,

955
00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:43,920
Speaker 1: can we clip tampos? Saying? What are you even talking?

956
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:45,799
Speaker 1: About I feel like that would be a good sound

957
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:49,120
Speaker 1: drop in general, that would be a great sound moving

958
00:47:49,239 --> 00:47:54,080
Speaker 1: right along. The Indianapolis Cults are oh and one after

959
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:57,440
Speaker 1: loss to the Bengals in Week one, and now they

960
00:47:57,480 --> 00:48:02,880
Speaker 1: travel to Washington to face the Redskins, who looked mighty nice.

961
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:06,960
Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal against the Cards in Week one, the no

962
00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:11,040
Speaker 1: road team, Uh really was more control outside maybe the

963
00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:13,480
Speaker 1: Jets in Week one than the Cardinals than the Redskins.

964
00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:16,360
Speaker 1: Excuse me. They looked awesome. And if we hadn't already

965
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:19,200
Speaker 1: chosen the Bears of the team of a t L,

966
00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:24,640
Speaker 1: I think I would be I think I would be

967
00:48:24,680 --> 00:48:27,880
Speaker 1: promoting the Redskins as a possibility long a team that

968
00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:31,400
Speaker 1: I've basically rooted against year after we filed by you. Yeah,

969
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:33,839
Speaker 1: basically the one team I I pretty much admit I'm

970
00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:36,360
Speaker 1: just biased. I'm rooting against you don't like the operation,

971
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 1: But this this year, they just feel they feel different,

972
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:44,120
Speaker 1: and I throughout the offseason defensively but especially offensively, I

973
00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:46,040
Speaker 1: think they're gonna be really fun to watch. And I

974
00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:48,200
Speaker 1: really do believe that it's going to be them in

975
00:48:48,239 --> 00:48:50,120
Speaker 1: the Eagles for the NFC East, and I think the

976
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:53,000
Speaker 1: Redskins can be a playoff team. I'm with you. I

977
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:55,200
Speaker 1: I think everyone kind of slept on the Redskins in

978
00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:58,600
Speaker 1: the off season just because the Cowboys and the Eagles

979
00:48:58,640 --> 00:49:01,640
Speaker 1: and the Giants had maybe or sexy storylines around them.

980
00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:05,080
Speaker 1: But they look so good and week wanted and that

981
00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:07,799
Speaker 1: division if I figures to be I don't know. If

982
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:09,600
Speaker 1: there's a dominant team in that division, why can't it

983
00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:11,000
Speaker 1: be the Red Skin. I was hard to sign up

984
00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:13,399
Speaker 1: for them because for me, and I know a little

985
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:14,919
Speaker 1: bit of West as well, all of us have sort

986
00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:17,120
Speaker 1: of fallen for them for periods and then they just

987
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:20,680
Speaker 1: disappoint you while other more established teams get the job done.

988
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:23,239
Speaker 1: But to me, it's about fit because we know about

989
00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:25,439
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson, West have been talking about him for weeks.

990
00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:28,000
Speaker 1: But Chris Thompson and you get Alex Smith. The way

991
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:30,319
Speaker 1: these three pieces fit together, with Jordan Reid on the

992
00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:35,239
Speaker 1: outside too. This offense, to me, is one They dominated Arizona.

993
00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:37,200
Speaker 1: They just had their way and the way that they

994
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:39,600
Speaker 1: rent went down the field in the two minute warning

995
00:49:39,640 --> 00:49:42,080
Speaker 1: before halftime to get it to twenty one points versus

996
00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:46,160
Speaker 1: fourteen or nothing or seventeen, That to me was Alex

997
00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:48,720
Speaker 1: Smith playing at the top of his game and directing

998
00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:50,759
Speaker 1: that offense in a way where he's completely at home.

999
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:53,400
Speaker 1: And the Redskins would have been completely good team of

1000
00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:55,680
Speaker 1: a t L pick had not been the Bears. Chris

1001
00:49:55,719 --> 00:49:58,280
Speaker 1: Thompson said he's not gonna be healthy to till November

1002
00:49:58,719 --> 00:50:02,640
Speaker 1: after that devastating Legan. He looks so explosive. If he's

1003
00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:04,920
Speaker 1: not healthy, what are we? I mean like he looked

1004
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:07,879
Speaker 1: faster than like eighteen other human beings I've ever seen

1005
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:10,359
Speaker 1: in my life. They're linebackers in front. Seven look really good,

1006
00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:13,279
Speaker 1: their linebackers and it's so underrated. Yeah, and Jonathan Allen

1007
00:50:13,280 --> 00:50:15,280
Speaker 1: looks awesome. And you mentioned the fit for Alex Smith.

1008
00:50:15,320 --> 00:50:17,720
Speaker 1: It's like the fit of Jay Gruden and Alex Smith,

1009
00:50:18,280 --> 00:50:21,240
Speaker 1: to me is the most important fit. And for whatever reason,

1010
00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:25,240
Speaker 1: Jay Gruden never seemed to really wrap his arms around

1011
00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:29,399
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins. Stop. It's his revisionist history. It's total. It's

1012
00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:31,680
Speaker 1: just true, and it's the type of three straight years.

1013
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:35,160
Speaker 1: He said, Kirk Cousins is the kind of quarterback you

1014
00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:38,080
Speaker 1: build a franchise around. Consistently said that bob burying him,

1015
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 1: bob burying him off the record, that's not hard to read.

1016
00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:43,600
Speaker 1: Between the lines. Stop. Stop, this is totally wrong. It's

1017
00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:49,080
Speaker 1: it's false, it's not correct. He stood behind Kirk Cousins

1018
00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:51,759
Speaker 1: until the day he found out Kirk Cousins wasn't gonna

1019
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:54,040
Speaker 1: be there anymore, and then he turned on him. But

1020
00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:57,480
Speaker 1: Jay Gruden every time went to the met for Kirk

1021
00:50:57,600 --> 00:51:01,960
Speaker 1: while burying him behind the scenes, just not almost three

1022
00:51:01,960 --> 00:51:04,239
Speaker 1: times taking a karate chop to the head from West.

1023
00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:07,399
Speaker 1: I'm saying this is j Gruden's organization. I would put

1024
00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:08,920
Speaker 1: him in the top three or four in terms of

1025
00:51:08,960 --> 00:51:12,000
Speaker 1: head coaching power. Whatever happens in this organization is what

1026
00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:15,040
Speaker 1: Jay Gruden wants to happen. And he got this Alex

1027
00:51:15,040 --> 00:51:18,080
Speaker 1: Smith trade done. He said goodbye to Kirk Cousins. It

1028
00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:20,359
Speaker 1: is a financial thing, obviously to and all I'm saying

1029
00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:22,759
Speaker 1: is he's really excited to have Alex Smith and it

1030
00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:25,200
Speaker 1: might be a better fit. I'll tell you one good fit.

1031
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:30,840
Speaker 1: Me and this team, the Redskins locking it up. I

1032
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:35,399
Speaker 1: like it. I gotta win this one. Well, yes, Mark

1033
00:51:35,440 --> 00:51:37,239
Speaker 1: and I fell in week one in the Locks West

1034
00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:40,400
Speaker 1: and Greg uh one to oh uh so where one

1035
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:42,520
Speaker 1: game back is a lot of ball game. I mean

1036
00:51:42,719 --> 00:51:45,680
Speaker 1: I can go pool like a dozen quotes Greg a

1037
00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:49,480
Speaker 1: dozen at least, and they are more glowing than any

1038
00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:53,080
Speaker 1: coach talking in any quarterback? What are these are well

1039
00:51:53,120 --> 00:51:56,200
Speaker 1: known for being totally trustworthy when I've never seen any

1040
00:51:56,239 --> 00:51:59,680
Speaker 1: reports that like the John Gruden or Jay Gruden doesn't

1041
00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:05,160
Speaker 1: trust Kirk did cut against the grain too? Put Kirk

1042
00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:07,799
Speaker 1: Cousins in over r G three. Yeah, when that was

1043
00:52:07,840 --> 00:52:09,680
Speaker 1: not popular with a lot of fans and stuff, I

1044
00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:12,879
Speaker 1: thought that. I mean, that's some people say when two

1045
00:52:12,920 --> 00:52:14,960
Speaker 1: people that you know are kind of going at it. Oh,

1046
00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:19,080
Speaker 1: I'm uncomfortable. I'm like really comfortable when West and Greg

1047
00:52:19,120 --> 00:52:21,799
Speaker 1: start going at it. It's like I'm in like like

1048
00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:25,120
Speaker 1: a warm like wool sweater on a brisk New England

1049
00:52:25,200 --> 00:52:28,000
Speaker 1: like November morning. It's little chrispfire dust off a little

1050
00:52:28,040 --> 00:52:35,400
Speaker 1: do alright. Moving on the Cardinals. They were defeated by

1051
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:38,680
Speaker 1: the Redskins in Week one, and uh their reward for

1052
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:41,239
Speaker 1: a tepid showing at home to start the season is

1053
00:52:41,239 --> 00:52:44,400
Speaker 1: a trip to Los Angeles to face the Rams who

1054
00:52:44,680 --> 00:52:46,960
Speaker 1: whooped up on the Raiders. And we didn't really get

1055
00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:49,200
Speaker 1: a chance to talk about the late Monday night game

1056
00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:53,840
Speaker 1: on Wednesday's show. Uh So, before we get into this matchup,

1057
00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:56,680
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler, I was curious your thoughts about what the

1058
00:52:56,760 --> 00:52:59,359
Speaker 1: Rams did, specifically in the second half where they really

1059
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:01,160
Speaker 1: just turned it on. Well, that to me was an

1060
00:53:01,160 --> 00:53:03,879
Speaker 1: example of because I the Raiders surprised me to hang

1061
00:53:03,920 --> 00:53:05,759
Speaker 1: around the way they did. As long as they did,

1062
00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:08,840
Speaker 1: they're winning a half, right, But the Rams, you have

1063
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:11,400
Speaker 1: to go toe to toe the entire way because they

1064
00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:13,799
Speaker 1: have too many people that can wear you down. It's

1065
00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:16,640
Speaker 1: their defensive line, it's Todd Gurley, it's the way that

1066
00:53:16,680 --> 00:53:19,000
Speaker 1: they used Jared Goff and his wide receivers. You've gotta

1067
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:20,880
Speaker 1: be on top of it, play after play, and as

1068
00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:23,160
Speaker 1: soon as the Raiders started to show any cracks the

1069
00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:25,080
Speaker 1: this is what the Rams did last year, and this

1070
00:53:25,080 --> 00:53:26,799
Speaker 1: is why I think they'll do against the Cardinals again.

1071
00:53:26,960 --> 00:53:29,040
Speaker 1: You might keep them quiet for a quarter or two,

1072
00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:31,400
Speaker 1: but then they'll have that quarter where they dropped seventeen

1073
00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:33,520
Speaker 1: twenty points on you and there's no way to cap

1074
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:35,600
Speaker 1: catch up. And the Rams, to me, because I had

1075
00:53:35,719 --> 00:53:38,160
Speaker 1: I had questions about continuity. Are we gonna see what

1076
00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:40,560
Speaker 1: we saw last year in an improvement? I think Jared

1077
00:53:40,560 --> 00:53:43,920
Speaker 1: Goff is notable noticeably more comfortable and some of the

1078
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:45,760
Speaker 1: stuff where they had to coach him before the snap.

1079
00:53:45,840 --> 00:53:47,480
Speaker 1: He's doing something, they said, He's doing some of that

1080
00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:49,719
Speaker 1: just simply on his own. Now he's an extension of

1081
00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:52,319
Speaker 1: the coaching staff. And this Ram Rams team does not

1082
00:53:52,360 --> 00:53:54,920
Speaker 1: look any less powerful on offense. And the Cardinals who

1083
00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:57,319
Speaker 1: laid a total egg last week, how do you climb

1084
00:53:57,360 --> 00:53:59,960
Speaker 1: out of that? With the offense they showed. The Cardinals

1085
00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:03,720
Speaker 1: aren't good and Bradford played bad, but their offensive line

1086
00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:07,319
Speaker 1: and their wide receivers were even worse. This is to me,

1087
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:09,719
Speaker 1: this looks like a total rebuild year. And I had

1088
00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:12,360
Speaker 1: higher expectations than that for them. I mean, non Larry

1089
00:54:12,360 --> 00:54:16,680
Speaker 1: Fitzgerald receivers whiteouts had a total of four yards in

1090
00:54:16,719 --> 00:54:19,640
Speaker 1: that game. I mean that that's a problem. And I

1091
00:54:19,680 --> 00:54:22,279
Speaker 1: also think that Aaron Donald and the Rams as a

1092
00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:25,879
Speaker 1: whole have showed the preseason and maybe even training camp

1093
00:54:25,880 --> 00:54:28,320
Speaker 1: a little bit to be a little bit of overrated.

1094
00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:31,000
Speaker 1: If you were doing a little winners and losers, it's

1095
00:54:31,040 --> 00:54:34,279
Speaker 1: like training camp in the preseason are wildly overrated. If

1096
00:54:34,320 --> 00:54:37,200
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald and Khalil Mack and all the guys that

1097
00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:39,600
Speaker 1: essentially overrated for the best players in the NFL. Sure,

1098
00:54:39,640 --> 00:54:41,960
Speaker 1: but they showed up five or six days ahead of

1099
00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:44,120
Speaker 1: time and they play sixty five snaps. And by the way,

1100
00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:46,600
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald was awesome in that game. Don't you think

1101
00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:48,640
Speaker 1: they're the exception to the rule because they're just that good.

1102
00:54:48,760 --> 00:54:50,640
Speaker 1: If you have Sean McVeigh and Aaron Donald, you can

1103
00:54:50,640 --> 00:54:53,040
Speaker 1: get away with it. Okay. They also the Ram the

1104
00:54:53,120 --> 00:54:55,120
Speaker 1: Rams skipped it. I just think the fact that any

1105
00:54:55,160 --> 00:54:58,000
Speaker 1: of these players can show up after missing that much work.

1106
00:54:58,040 --> 00:55:02,000
Speaker 1: Earl Thomas was another one, and just we're outstanding right away.

1107
00:55:02,320 --> 00:55:06,640
Speaker 1: It's starving magnifico for the NFL. I don't know if

1108
00:55:06,680 --> 00:55:09,640
Speaker 1: it is for the whole leg. It's star players who

1109
00:55:09,640 --> 00:55:11,560
Speaker 1: know the playbook, because least used to be like, oh,

1110
00:55:11,560 --> 00:55:13,600
Speaker 1: you're a meat you're working a meat packing plant, and

1111
00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:15,520
Speaker 1: now you got to come to camp and get in shape.

1112
00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:18,719
Speaker 1: It's like these guys are in optimum shape, but of

1113
00:55:18,760 --> 00:55:20,600
Speaker 1: the players who don't are trying to get on the

1114
00:55:20,680 --> 00:55:22,960
Speaker 1: roster and trying to keep roster spots. I think it's

1115
00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:25,560
Speaker 1: more it's a separate issue. But the Rams offense sitting

1116
00:55:25,560 --> 00:55:29,560
Speaker 1: out the preseason didn't didn't hurt them either. Uh And

1117
00:55:29,600 --> 00:55:31,600
Speaker 1: I know I get it. By the way, you you

1118
00:55:31,719 --> 00:55:35,239
Speaker 1: paid Sam Bradford twenty million dollars. But let's get Josh

1119
00:55:35,320 --> 00:55:37,920
Speaker 1: Rosen on that field. You're a team for the future,

1120
00:55:37,920 --> 00:55:40,759
Speaker 1: your planet, you're building for the future. It's gonna happen soon,

1121
00:55:40,840 --> 00:55:43,520
Speaker 1: probably just because they're not very good. But that's not

1122
00:55:44,280 --> 00:55:46,719
Speaker 1: it's they're not setting up Rosen for success either. I

1123
00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:49,600
Speaker 1: know that. But at a certain point, Sam Bradford is

1124
00:55:49,640 --> 00:55:51,440
Speaker 1: one of the last guys in the whole league that

1125
00:55:51,520 --> 00:55:54,000
Speaker 1: I would pick to be shepherding a team that is

1126
00:55:54,040 --> 00:55:56,839
Speaker 1: so clearly not ready for the now Bradford, I don't

1127
00:55:56,840 --> 00:55:58,919
Speaker 1: know where Bradford fits in, maybe like the Vikings last

1128
00:55:58,960 --> 00:56:01,120
Speaker 1: year if you could have stayed healthy, But I don't

1129
00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:03,320
Speaker 1: see what they're gaining from how he's a progress stopper

1130
00:56:03,440 --> 00:56:05,239
Speaker 1: was that's what he is. I agree. When you look

1131
00:56:05,280 --> 00:56:07,839
Speaker 1: at this team, it's like, why even bother throwing, say

1132
00:56:07,840 --> 00:56:10,000
Speaker 1: a Braveford out with that offense. And we were told

1133
00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:13,160
Speaker 1: all through the pre drift process that Rosen was the

1134
00:56:13,160 --> 00:56:15,040
Speaker 1: most pro ready guy. I'm just saying, I'm sure it

1135
00:56:15,040 --> 00:56:16,600
Speaker 1: will work itself out in a couple of weeks. What

1136
00:56:16,680 --> 00:56:19,439
Speaker 1: do you think by October? I'm gonna say week four.

1137
00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:21,680
Speaker 1: I'd be surprised if he's not starting by Week four,

1138
00:56:22,160 --> 00:56:24,840
Speaker 1: that wasn't surprised. Long could be their first Rams to

1139
00:56:25,080 --> 00:56:28,319
Speaker 1: no start, I think since the early nineties. If yeah,

1140
00:56:28,360 --> 00:56:30,759
Speaker 1: if they win, and you do you do kind of

1141
00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:33,360
Speaker 1: look at the NFC in general in this division. I

1142
00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:35,520
Speaker 1: don't think. I don't think it's a great NFC West,

1143
00:56:35,560 --> 00:56:37,720
Speaker 1: and I do think the Rams. The Rams are obviously

1144
00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:40,040
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl or bus type of team. I think

1145
00:56:40,080 --> 00:56:42,359
Speaker 1: they're a team that's in a good position to get

1146
00:56:42,400 --> 00:56:44,359
Speaker 1: a buy. Well, I thought you were gonna go all

1147
00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:46,239
Speaker 1: the way and say they were into position too. Maybe

1148
00:56:46,400 --> 00:56:49,160
Speaker 1: I'm just saying it's not a bad it's not a

1149
00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:52,920
Speaker 1: bad schedule that the Rams have. I have no worry

1150
00:56:52,920 --> 00:56:56,320
Speaker 1: about them whatsoever, just because Sean McVeigh is that good alright.

1151
00:56:56,360 --> 00:56:59,719
Speaker 1: Moving on the Detroit Lions. No one looked worse UH

1152
00:56:59,800 --> 00:57:01,759
Speaker 1: in their own building than the Lions in Week one.

1153
00:57:01,800 --> 00:57:04,600
Speaker 1: They were completely outclassed by the Jets UH in a

1154
00:57:05,160 --> 00:57:09,640
Speaker 1: seventeen loss, and now they travel to San Francisco UH

1155
00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:14,120
Speaker 1: to face the forty Niners UH West. Even before that

1156
00:57:14,200 --> 00:57:17,720
Speaker 1: Lions game on Monday night, UM, I thought that there

1157
00:57:17,800 --> 00:57:20,000
Speaker 1: was a potential situation of Detroit going into a buzz

1158
00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:22,600
Speaker 1: sow with Kyle Shanahan and Garoppolo getting out of Minnesota

1159
00:57:22,680 --> 00:57:25,640
Speaker 1: and getting healthy, I feel that, well, I'm more strongly.

1160
00:57:25,840 --> 00:57:27,920
Speaker 1: My feeling about that is more strong than ever after

1161
00:57:27,920 --> 00:57:29,520
Speaker 1: what I saw on Monday night? What do you think?

1162
00:57:30,520 --> 00:57:32,479
Speaker 1: I agree? And it's the other side of the ball

1163
00:57:32,520 --> 00:57:34,640
Speaker 1: that I was going to concentrate on that The forty

1164
00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:37,960
Speaker 1: Niners defense, even in a loss, looked really good. And

1165
00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:40,400
Speaker 1: where is this Lion's running game? We heard about all August,

1166
00:57:40,520 --> 00:57:43,040
Speaker 1: all offseason that they have fixed their running game. Finally

1167
00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:45,840
Speaker 1: they got the offensive line, They've got the running backs.

1168
00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:50,000
Speaker 1: This forty Niners team held Dalvin Cook under fifty yards rushing.

1169
00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:53,919
Speaker 1: And then you're come, You're coming into San Francisco with

1170
00:57:54,120 --> 00:57:57,640
Speaker 1: your veterans complaining about a coach. And I don't know

1171
00:57:57,680 --> 00:57:59,400
Speaker 1: if Matt Patricia will ever be a good coach. I

1172
00:57:59,440 --> 00:58:01,400
Speaker 1: don't know if he's good coach now. But I do

1173
00:58:01,480 --> 00:58:04,919
Speaker 1: know these lines veterans have accomplished nothing. So why should

1174
00:58:04,960 --> 00:58:07,080
Speaker 1: I believe they know how to win? Who are who

1175
00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:09,400
Speaker 1: do you think? Who are these veterans we speak? I've

1176
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:13,560
Speaker 1: thought about Glover. Glover, Quinn is not playing as much.

1177
00:58:13,680 --> 00:58:16,720
Speaker 1: He's been probably their best player on defense. He's about

1178
00:58:16,760 --> 00:58:18,560
Speaker 1: as respected as any I'm not going to guess who's

1179
00:58:18,600 --> 00:58:22,360
Speaker 1: talking about it, none of it. They might be. I

1180
00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:25,440
Speaker 1: was really interested to see that he wasn't playing as much,

1181
00:58:25,440 --> 00:58:26,960
Speaker 1: and there's some talk that he might even not even

1182
00:58:26,960 --> 00:58:29,480
Speaker 1: be starting. I was like, wow, Glover, Clint Quinn's kind

1183
00:58:29,480 --> 00:58:33,360
Speaker 1: of been amazing. So that's like a veteran leader. That's right,

1184
00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:38,240
Speaker 1: but he doesn't fit apparently. Any other thoughts about this game, gentleman,

1185
00:58:38,640 --> 00:58:41,840
Speaker 1: any concerns at all about Jimmy G after that game?

1186
00:58:41,880 --> 00:58:43,880
Speaker 1: A couple of bad decisions, a couple of great throws.

1187
00:58:44,080 --> 00:58:45,680
Speaker 1: I think this is one of the best matchups you

1188
00:58:45,680 --> 00:58:48,760
Speaker 1: can possibly have is the Detroit Lions defense right now.

1189
00:58:48,800 --> 00:58:51,120
Speaker 1: They've shown that in the preseason and then in Week one.

1190
00:58:51,160 --> 00:58:52,800
Speaker 1: I almost feel like getting to you too, the way

1191
00:58:52,840 --> 00:58:55,320
Speaker 1: you finished last year, and it was bound to there's

1192
00:58:55,320 --> 00:58:56,880
Speaker 1: going to be all these questions when he has what

1193
00:58:57,080 --> 00:59:00,720
Speaker 1: is expectedly down to earth performance here and they're like, oh,

1194
00:59:00,880 --> 00:59:02,720
Speaker 1: you know, are we jumping ship on Jimmy G. It's

1195
00:59:02,760 --> 00:59:05,440
Speaker 1: like he's gonna be fine. Every game he makes a

1196
00:59:05,480 --> 00:59:08,640
Speaker 1: thrower two, you're like, wow. My advice to Matt Patricia

1197
00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:11,320
Speaker 1: is after seeing him on the sideline like about four

1198
00:59:11,720 --> 00:59:16,320
Speaker 1: shots from ESPN. Breathe, big fella, Maybe talk to some

1199
00:59:16,320 --> 00:59:19,080
Speaker 1: of the other other your coaches on the sideline, try

1200
00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:21,160
Speaker 1: to enjoy yourself, because he did not look like a

1201
00:59:21,160 --> 00:59:23,400
Speaker 1: guy who was having any fun in week mart Sell

1202
00:59:23,560 --> 00:59:25,480
Speaker 1: used to get nailed for that. For just sort of

1203
00:59:25,640 --> 00:59:28,480
Speaker 1: thousand yards stare for like fifteen straight minutes, where it's

1204
00:59:28,480 --> 00:59:30,840
Speaker 1: excuse me, sir, um, can we just get you back? Registered?

1205
00:59:31,640 --> 00:59:35,120
Speaker 1: Mark's good when he's not certain to play in this game,

1206
00:59:35,160 --> 00:59:37,800
Speaker 1: probably sounds like he's not in. Dante Pettis might end

1207
00:59:37,880 --> 00:59:40,040
Speaker 1: up being like the number one receiver on this team

1208
00:59:40,040 --> 00:59:42,360
Speaker 1: for this week or while Goodwin is gone, which is

1209
00:59:42,360 --> 00:59:45,479
Speaker 1: why good Week one look all right. Moving on the

1210
00:59:45,600 --> 00:59:49,960
Speaker 1: Oakland Raiders, who were outclassed in the second half of

1211
00:59:49,960 --> 00:59:52,040
Speaker 1: Monday night football against the Rams in the black Hole.

1212
00:59:52,120 --> 00:59:56,760
Speaker 1: Now they travel to Denver to face the Broncos. Um, Greg,

1213
00:59:56,800 --> 01:00:00,480
Speaker 1: I'm gonna set you up on this now, the Broncos, Uh,

1214
01:00:00,520 --> 01:00:03,520
Speaker 1: and West I on your advice because you're you're talking

1215
01:00:03,560 --> 01:00:07,320
Speaker 1: them up so much. Uh. I watched the Broncos this morning,

1216
01:00:07,480 --> 01:00:10,840
Speaker 1: and I totally agree. Actually I that I think that

1217
01:00:10,960 --> 01:00:13,000
Speaker 1: was the to me, the best game of Week one.

1218
01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:15,280
Speaker 1: It's just the fun back and fourth games in Philip

1219
01:00:15,320 --> 01:00:17,600
Speaker 1: Lindsay fun to watch. Philip Lindsay is very fun to watch.

1220
01:00:17,640 --> 01:00:19,600
Speaker 1: And Von Miller when he just stole that like a

1221
01:00:19,640 --> 01:00:22,680
Speaker 1: loaf of bread. He was awesome in the game. Emmanuel Sanders, Please,

1222
01:00:22,720 --> 01:00:25,880
Speaker 1: but that said what what I was saying on Wednesday Lacrosse.

1223
01:00:26,920 --> 01:00:29,440
Speaker 1: That guy was great. What I was saying before I

1224
01:00:29,440 --> 01:00:31,560
Speaker 1: watched the game. I feel the same. And even more so,

1225
01:00:32,240 --> 01:00:34,200
Speaker 1: my boy case Keenan could he could have thrown five

1226
01:00:34,280 --> 01:00:35,920
Speaker 1: or six interceptions in that game he got he got

1227
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:40,120
Speaker 1: hit with three, but he could easily thrown at least five. Um, So, Greg,

1228
01:00:40,200 --> 01:00:44,040
Speaker 1: I'll start there. They looked they really looked much much

1229
01:00:44,080 --> 01:00:47,120
Speaker 1: better on offense. But did Keenan terrify you at all? Watching?

1230
01:00:47,160 --> 01:00:50,040
Speaker 1: And we gets the Seahawks because he was pretty loose?

1231
01:00:50,520 --> 01:00:53,960
Speaker 1: He was he was loose. He's gonna be a little scary.

1232
01:00:54,120 --> 01:00:56,440
Speaker 1: But I kind of think that's what they're gonna just

1233
01:00:56,520 --> 01:00:58,280
Speaker 1: have to be. And I because I don't think this

1234
01:00:58,360 --> 01:01:00,320
Speaker 1: is gonna be a great defense. They had some ager

1235
01:01:00,560 --> 01:01:03,320
Speaker 1: meltdowns in the secondary. Uh, and so I think if

1236
01:01:03,320 --> 01:01:06,560
Speaker 1: the Raiders are gonna throw vertical like this is a

1237
01:01:06,560 --> 01:01:09,040
Speaker 1: week to do it. There was a miscommunication that was

1238
01:01:09,040 --> 01:01:11,240
Speaker 1: a that was a pretty dominant performance. It should not

1239
01:01:11,280 --> 01:01:14,280
Speaker 1: have been four. They doubled them up in terms of

1240
01:01:14,440 --> 01:01:17,360
Speaker 1: first downs, and so Keenum kind of kept the Seahawks

1241
01:01:17,360 --> 01:01:20,680
Speaker 1: in the game. I I don't know it should Should

1242
01:01:20,680 --> 01:01:23,080
Speaker 1: the Broncos be heavy, heavy favorites in this game. Are

1243
01:01:23,120 --> 01:01:25,120
Speaker 1: we already at the point where just we're trusting them

1244
01:01:25,160 --> 01:01:26,840
Speaker 1: to win? I guess I'm not quite there yet. They

1245
01:01:26,840 --> 01:01:30,720
Speaker 1: should be favorites to the extent that what I'm blocking

1246
01:01:30,800 --> 01:01:35,680
Speaker 1: them up. Good for you, Good for you. Broncos are

1247
01:01:35,680 --> 01:01:39,160
Speaker 1: my team this year. The Bears are my team of course,

1248
01:01:39,200 --> 01:01:40,840
Speaker 1: you know, loyal to the team of a t L.

1249
01:01:40,960 --> 01:01:44,480
Speaker 1: But not surprising, we each already have like second team

1250
01:01:44,480 --> 01:01:47,800
Speaker 1: of a t L stacked behind the Bears. The Bears

1251
01:01:47,840 --> 01:01:50,760
Speaker 1: got a show with something weak too that goes without

1252
01:01:50,760 --> 01:01:55,160
Speaker 1: saying the Raiders. Meanwhile, it will give them a little

1253
01:01:55,360 --> 01:01:58,320
Speaker 1: love is a strong word. But how did you evaluate

1254
01:01:58,360 --> 01:02:02,960
Speaker 1: their performance west On on Monday Night? They stink? That's

1255
01:02:03,120 --> 01:02:05,120
Speaker 1: I mean. Derek Carr played really well in the first

1256
01:02:05,160 --> 01:02:08,280
Speaker 1: half when ja when John Gruden was scripting the plays,

1257
01:02:08,360 --> 01:02:11,200
Speaker 1: and then his second half the knock on him even

1258
01:02:11,240 --> 01:02:13,840
Speaker 1: before he entered the league as he doesn't handle pressure well.

1259
01:02:13,920 --> 01:02:16,240
Speaker 1: And he didn't handle pressure well. And you've got Grooden

1260
01:02:16,960 --> 01:02:19,400
Speaker 1: in the days following coming out and essentially sort of

1261
01:02:19,440 --> 01:02:21,800
Speaker 1: calling out Derek Carr for not seeing a Marii Cooper

1262
01:02:21,800 --> 01:02:25,040
Speaker 1: downfield to the press, Why why do that? Although we

1263
01:02:25,080 --> 01:02:29,640
Speaker 1: know that that's a tick of Gruden. Yeah, I think

1264
01:02:29,840 --> 01:02:32,680
Speaker 1: he's just loose, you know what I mean. I just

1265
01:02:32,720 --> 01:02:35,120
Speaker 1: think he was saying what he thinks and then he

1266
01:02:35,280 --> 01:02:37,480
Speaker 1: sometimes he just gets loose and he ends up throwing

1267
01:02:37,480 --> 01:02:40,080
Speaker 1: players under the bus a little bit. In Car's defense,

1268
01:02:40,160 --> 01:02:42,360
Speaker 1: it was not a good performance by their offensive line.

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Speaker 1: And that was the thing that stuck out stood out

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Speaker 1: about the Raiders two years ago. Some of those throws

1271
01:02:46,640 --> 01:02:49,000
Speaker 1: he just threw up for Greg There's no defense for that, right,

1272
01:02:49,040 --> 01:02:51,720
Speaker 1: But Colton Miller at a bad game, assembly got worked.

1273
01:02:51,720 --> 01:02:54,280
Speaker 1: I mean everyone gets worked against Aaron Donald, but Donald

1274
01:02:54,320 --> 01:02:56,000
Speaker 1: pends on a different side and that was I'm just

1275
01:02:56,000 --> 01:02:57,800
Speaker 1: saying that was the strength of the team. He was

1276
01:02:57,840 --> 01:03:00,360
Speaker 1: protected better than any quarterback in league too years ago,

1277
01:03:00,400 --> 01:03:01,920
Speaker 1: and that doesn't seem to be the case, and that's

1278
01:03:01,960 --> 01:03:03,919
Speaker 1: going to be a problem. Shout out to Leon Hall

1279
01:03:04,000 --> 01:03:06,800
Speaker 1: written off by about eight different teams, thirty something years

1280
01:03:06,800 --> 01:03:09,040
Speaker 1: old and looked like their best defensive player in that game.

1281
01:03:09,760 --> 01:03:13,600
Speaker 1: Let's move on the New England Patriots. Life still good

1282
01:03:13,600 --> 01:03:15,720
Speaker 1: on the throne of ease. Uh. They took care of

1283
01:03:15,760 --> 01:03:19,040
Speaker 1: business at home against the Texans. All of a sudden,

1284
01:03:19,400 --> 01:03:24,400
Speaker 1: Erica plugs in. She's paying attention to Are we kind?

1285
01:03:24,800 --> 01:03:26,720
Speaker 1: Are the Is it the same watching the Pats now

1286
01:03:26,760 --> 01:03:33,040
Speaker 1: that you're beloved Danny Amendola is playing in South Beach. No.

1287
01:03:33,920 --> 01:03:37,400
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, like, it's the same. Yeah, okay,

1288
01:03:37,400 --> 01:03:40,640
Speaker 1: who is your new Danny? There isn't. I mean Edelman suspended,

1289
01:03:40,680 --> 01:03:42,880
Speaker 1: so like this, I'm just sort of cruising until week

1290
01:03:42,920 --> 01:03:47,320
Speaker 1: four five essentially. Yeah, you like those bad boys? Yeah, definitely,

1291
01:03:48,280 --> 01:03:50,680
Speaker 1: it's anyway the Pats want to know. They now travel

1292
01:03:50,760 --> 01:03:54,960
Speaker 1: to Jacksonville. This is a great, great game. It's the

1293
01:03:55,480 --> 01:03:59,480
Speaker 1: I would I hazard to guess, but it has to

1294
01:03:59,520 --> 01:04:04,160
Speaker 1: be the Phil Simms Jim Nance special Uh Pats Jags

1295
01:04:04,200 --> 01:04:07,760
Speaker 1: rematch of the a f C Championship game mark that

1296
01:04:07,840 --> 01:04:11,280
Speaker 1: the Jags let slip away. This is a good one,

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01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:17,400
Speaker 1: breaking news, Phil Sims back in the booth, I didn't

1298
01:04:17,400 --> 01:04:19,480
Speaker 1: even know Dan said that he Dan must have said

1299
01:04:19,480 --> 01:04:21,960
Speaker 1: Phil Sims. I said, Sims, Yeah, I believe. I believe

1300
01:04:22,080 --> 01:04:24,880
Speaker 1: we still have like Simson Romo at the same level

1301
01:04:24,920 --> 01:04:28,400
Speaker 1: of greatness. So sometimes I just yes, Tony Romo and

1302
01:04:28,520 --> 01:04:35,040
Speaker 1: Jim Nance. They're actually bringing Sims back for Bengals Browns. Well, good, good, well,

1303
01:04:35,080 --> 01:04:38,480
Speaker 1: good for Phil? Where is Phil these days? By the way,

1304
01:04:38,600 --> 01:04:40,960
Speaker 1: is he got inside the NFL and HBO? Yeah, and

1305
01:04:41,000 --> 01:04:44,200
Speaker 1: he's on their pregame. He's on CBS pregame show doubles. Okay,

1306
01:04:44,280 --> 01:04:47,480
Speaker 1: don't cry for Phil, Sims called. It's a reassignment. They

1307
01:04:47,520 --> 01:04:49,680
Speaker 1: move you to a different part of the media. Limb.

1308
01:04:50,360 --> 01:04:52,520
Speaker 1: Phil feels Okay, Phil's got a couple of rings coming

1309
01:04:52,560 --> 01:04:54,680
Speaker 1: for all of us, right, it's it's coming for us.

1310
01:04:54,720 --> 01:04:57,680
Speaker 1: We're gonna be doing like the I don't know how

1311
01:04:57,720 --> 01:04:59,919
Speaker 1: could we get the moded I was trying to drive

1312
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:01,760
Speaker 1: time's trying to think of, like what do they think

1313
01:05:01,880 --> 01:05:05,880
Speaker 1: less of than podcasts? But they don't. So in this company,

1314
01:05:06,160 --> 01:05:08,080
Speaker 1: I don't think there's a demotion we can get in

1315
01:05:08,200 --> 01:05:10,520
Speaker 1: terms of speaking, I can think of a few maybe

1316
01:05:10,680 --> 01:05:14,120
Speaker 1: maybe like we're just like we're in that social blue room,

1317
01:05:14,280 --> 01:05:16,400
Speaker 1: you know, like all all the young all the young

1318
01:05:16,640 --> 01:05:19,880
Speaker 1: NFL workers are in one room where they're King Bryce

1319
01:05:19,920 --> 01:05:22,560
Speaker 1: gust Of since people in the middle of magical couch,

1320
01:05:22,640 --> 01:05:26,640
Speaker 1: I know what will be producing the broadcast. We'll be

1321
01:05:26,640 --> 01:05:28,840
Speaker 1: behind the glass with only one person allowed to speak

1322
01:05:28,880 --> 01:05:32,000
Speaker 1: and naked. All right, here we go, Mark, anyway, I'll

1323
01:05:32,000 --> 01:05:34,840
Speaker 1: set you up. Tom Brady and Robert Kowski versus Jalen

1324
01:05:34,960 --> 01:05:38,880
Speaker 1: Ramsey and the Jaguars defense. Yummy. I think we were

1325
01:05:38,920 --> 01:05:41,440
Speaker 1: talking downstairs the other day or some in some room

1326
01:05:41,480 --> 01:05:44,200
Speaker 1: that this feels a lot to me like harkening back

1327
01:05:44,240 --> 01:05:48,480
Speaker 1: to the two thousand and three, two thousand and four Patriots.

1328
01:05:49,960 --> 01:05:53,040
Speaker 1: All right, all right, next game, Why don't you explain?

1329
01:05:54,440 --> 01:05:55,840
Speaker 1: I just think it is. I think you get like

1330
01:05:55,880 --> 01:05:59,440
Speaker 1: Trey Flowers and Juan Bentley and Dietrich Wise Jr. And

1331
01:05:59,440 --> 01:06:02,080
Speaker 1: then you have an offense where you've got Cordarrel Patterson

1332
01:06:02,360 --> 01:06:05,480
Speaker 1: and Philip Dorset catching the ball from Tom Brady, who

1333
01:06:05,480 --> 01:06:08,520
Speaker 1: looks like he's in about two thousand four shape. Right now.

1334
01:06:08,520 --> 01:06:11,360
Speaker 1: You look completely young to me all over again. This

1335
01:06:11,440 --> 01:06:14,200
Speaker 1: is an interesting team. I think the Patriots again, anyone

1336
01:06:14,240 --> 01:06:16,320
Speaker 1: that wanted to predict their demise, which I think I believe,

1337
01:06:16,360 --> 01:06:19,280
Speaker 1: I had a sandwich that they would not make the playoffs. Well,

1338
01:06:19,280 --> 01:06:20,919
Speaker 1: I'm gonna lose that, they're gonna make it, and they're

1339
01:06:20,920 --> 01:06:25,520
Speaker 1: gonna be about thirteen and three one gradually greater that

1340
01:06:25,880 --> 01:06:29,640
Speaker 1: it's better. It's amazing he I think when when he

1341
01:06:29,680 --> 01:06:32,360
Speaker 1: goes into Canton, like his biggest attribute is going to

1342
01:06:32,400 --> 01:06:37,120
Speaker 1: be staying power. He's just always there. Every September, every January,

1343
01:06:37,200 --> 01:06:39,760
Speaker 1: every February. He's always there, and he's always better than

1344
01:06:39,760 --> 01:06:42,080
Speaker 1: he was the previous yew Well, yeah, I wasn't being

1345
01:06:42,080 --> 01:06:44,120
Speaker 1: flipped saying he's better than two thousand four. There's no

1346
01:06:44,280 --> 01:06:47,440
Speaker 1: question he's better than he was. He his best two

1347
01:06:47,520 --> 01:06:49,919
Speaker 1: year two year stretch in the NFL is the last

1348
01:06:49,960 --> 01:06:53,280
Speaker 1: two years. Like, I don't even think it's that debatable.

1349
01:06:53,360 --> 01:06:55,680
Speaker 1: And he had a great Week one that said, this

1350
01:06:55,720 --> 01:06:57,600
Speaker 1: is as tough of a matchup as possible. I'm not

1351
01:06:57,640 --> 01:07:00,960
Speaker 1: ready to just how will they summon the power they

1352
01:07:00,960 --> 01:07:04,760
Speaker 1: are playing the best defense in the league, and the

1353
01:07:04,800 --> 01:07:06,760
Speaker 1: best defense in the league showed up in Week one

1354
01:07:06,880 --> 01:07:10,560
Speaker 1: and looked exactly like you would expected. It confirmed that, hey,

1355
01:07:10,600 --> 01:07:12,680
Speaker 1: this is gonna be Miles Jack's kind of breakout year.

1356
01:07:12,840 --> 01:07:15,040
Speaker 1: And hey, they're about as deep on the defensive line

1357
01:07:15,240 --> 01:07:17,680
Speaker 1: as any team in the NFL. You have to admit

1358
01:07:18,040 --> 01:07:19,800
Speaker 1: so like a one in thirty chance they have to

1359
01:07:19,800 --> 01:07:22,280
Speaker 1: win on Sunday with the Pets. It's a coin flip game.

1360
01:07:22,280 --> 01:07:25,680
Speaker 1: According to the Desert I mean, I think it's a

1361
01:07:26,800 --> 01:07:28,800
Speaker 1: Jacksonville wants it. I mean, this is this is the

1362
01:07:28,800 --> 01:07:33,200
Speaker 1: a f C. You're gonna They're gonna come back. They

1363
01:07:33,560 --> 01:07:36,560
Speaker 1: want to. They were up ten in the fourth quarter

1364
01:07:36,600 --> 01:07:38,360
Speaker 1: with the best defense in the league. One of these

1365
01:07:38,360 --> 01:07:40,520
Speaker 1: teams is much better than they were in January. That's

1366
01:07:40,560 --> 01:07:44,280
Speaker 1: the Patriots. Exactly look better, are you? Tony Romo said

1367
01:07:44,320 --> 01:07:48,920
Speaker 1: that Bill Belichick is super excited for this defense. They

1368
01:07:49,000 --> 01:07:51,760
Speaker 1: are much better pass rushing, like this is a this

1369
01:07:51,840 --> 01:07:54,640
Speaker 1: is a better Here's the thing, though, are they gonna

1370
01:07:54,680 --> 01:07:56,960
Speaker 1: be I don't think they're gonna be as good right

1371
01:07:57,000 --> 01:07:59,040
Speaker 1: now as they are at the end of the year. Offensively,

1372
01:07:59,080 --> 01:08:01,080
Speaker 1: I'm not ready to say, Okay, they have a great

1373
01:08:01,120 --> 01:08:03,040
Speaker 1: they have the best quarterback in the best tight end,

1374
01:08:03,120 --> 01:08:05,880
Speaker 1: but it might be a pretty uneven offense September and

1375
01:08:05,920 --> 01:08:08,640
Speaker 1: so if the Jaguars shut them down pretty pretty well

1376
01:08:08,680 --> 01:08:10,760
Speaker 1: and it's thirteen to ten in the fourth quarter, I

1377
01:08:10,760 --> 01:08:12,840
Speaker 1: don't think that should be a shock to anyone. Was

1378
01:08:12,880 --> 01:08:15,880
Speaker 1: Leonard for not playing this game game time decision. Enough

1379
01:08:15,880 --> 01:08:17,880
Speaker 1: with the game time decision, that guy and bull his

1380
01:08:17,920 --> 01:08:20,719
Speaker 1: hamstring hold up and is that you know? Oh my god,

1381
01:08:20,880 --> 01:08:24,040
Speaker 1: both backfields are in trouble. Frustrating that must Grex Burkett

1382
01:08:24,080 --> 01:08:27,240
Speaker 1: is coming off of a concussion. He was at practice Thursday.

1383
01:08:27,320 --> 01:08:29,920
Speaker 1: So we'll have to see some extremely limited Jeremy Hill

1384
01:08:30,240 --> 01:08:32,519
Speaker 1: the seas and in the Jaguars offense. Not that I

1385
01:08:32,600 --> 01:08:36,599
Speaker 1: expected them to look way different, you know, this season,

1386
01:08:36,800 --> 01:08:39,360
Speaker 1: but I think that was a pretty discouraging performance in

1387
01:08:40,160 --> 01:08:42,679
Speaker 1: New York. They didn't score a point in the second half,

1388
01:08:42,800 --> 01:08:45,400
Speaker 1: that the offense only scored thirteen points overall. I think

1389
01:08:45,439 --> 01:08:47,640
Speaker 1: t J. Elden looks pretty good, but it's not like

1390
01:08:47,760 --> 01:08:49,400
Speaker 1: you saw Blake Bortles come out in this game and

1391
01:08:49,400 --> 01:08:51,720
Speaker 1: you'll be like, Okay, this guy's maturing. It was a

1392
01:08:51,840 --> 01:08:54,680
Speaker 1: pretty poor Blake Bortles game against not a great deal.

1393
01:08:54,800 --> 01:08:56,639
Speaker 1: I got the Jags getting some revenge in this game.

1394
01:08:56,800 --> 01:09:02,280
Speaker 1: You guys got the Pats are Patriots pretty convincingly. I

1395
01:09:02,320 --> 01:09:05,519
Speaker 1: don't pick against the Patriots in big games. I famously

1396
01:09:05,600 --> 01:09:10,040
Speaker 1: picked them again, not famous big game in the Championship,

1397
01:09:10,720 --> 01:09:16,759
Speaker 1: the biggest game that's a big game, all right, Sunday

1398
01:09:16,880 --> 01:09:19,760
Speaker 1: night football. Oh yeahy you boys love this Sunday night. Man,

1399
01:09:19,840 --> 01:09:25,680
Speaker 1: they can have big games coming off that. Giants and

1400
01:09:25,760 --> 01:09:29,080
Speaker 1: Cowboys are on Sunday Night Football ratings, Baby, that's why

1401
01:09:29,200 --> 01:09:33,880
Speaker 1: it happens on one. They moved the needle at loss

1402
01:09:33,880 --> 01:09:36,240
Speaker 1: to the Jacks in Week one. Uh, did not look

1403
01:09:36,360 --> 01:09:38,679
Speaker 1: very good on offense, but it is the Jags great defense.

1404
01:09:38,760 --> 01:09:43,599
Speaker 1: They now um travel to Jaral World and the Cowboys

1405
01:09:43,680 --> 01:09:46,960
Speaker 1: have a whole mess of problems Chris Westling. But and

1406
01:09:47,040 --> 01:09:50,519
Speaker 1: surprisingly the offensive line is now a liability. Or that's

1407
01:09:50,560 --> 01:09:53,080
Speaker 1: how it looked in Week one. I never thought I

1408
01:09:53,080 --> 01:09:55,840
Speaker 1: would have said this a month ago or two weeks ago.

1409
01:09:56,560 --> 01:09:58,640
Speaker 1: But it's a big problem when the Cowboys offense is

1410
01:09:58,640 --> 01:10:02,120
Speaker 1: worse than their defense. Yes, and it could be a

1411
01:10:02,160 --> 01:10:06,599
Speaker 1: season long issue. What's the problem. What's wrong with its

1412
01:10:06,640 --> 01:10:10,200
Speaker 1: wide receiver? To start with? The offensive line got outplayed

1413
01:10:10,240 --> 01:10:12,280
Speaker 1: by the Panthers defensive line, and they're supposed to be

1414
01:10:12,360 --> 01:10:16,280
Speaker 1: the best offensive line around that that's a big they're

1415
01:10:16,280 --> 01:10:18,080
Speaker 1: not when they don't have Travis Fedwick. They didn't know

1416
01:10:18,080 --> 01:10:20,920
Speaker 1: what happens. They's time. Dak Prescott's played a good game

1417
01:10:21,400 --> 01:10:26,000
Speaker 1: about ten games ago. He hasn't been able to kind

1418
01:10:26,040 --> 01:10:28,400
Speaker 1: of rise above what's happening. And I think probably his

1419
01:10:28,520 --> 01:10:31,960
Speaker 1: best skill is those off scheduled plays down the field.

1420
01:10:32,280 --> 01:10:34,760
Speaker 1: He is one of the best deep ball throwers, kind

1421
01:10:34,800 --> 01:10:36,840
Speaker 1: of on the movies, like who's catching that pass? He's

1422
01:10:36,840 --> 01:10:38,840
Speaker 1: not even really trying those pass right now, But who

1423
01:10:38,880 --> 01:10:41,519
Speaker 1: would be catching that pass on this team, Michael Gallup

1424
01:10:42,760 --> 01:10:44,160
Speaker 1: if they don't have to, they don't have the person.

1425
01:10:44,280 --> 01:10:47,599
Speaker 1: Bill Barnwell at ESPN wrote a good piece, uh, kind

1426
01:10:47,640 --> 01:10:55,400
Speaker 1: of digging, digging into the Cowboys, who have the biggest

1427
01:10:55,439 --> 01:10:58,479
Speaker 1: competitive advantage in the sport right now because they have

1428
01:10:59,160 --> 01:11:01,120
Speaker 1: what they even even he hasn't played well maybe in

1429
01:11:01,640 --> 01:11:04,839
Speaker 1: recent times, but uh, Dak Prescott is the biggest bargain

1430
01:11:04,960 --> 01:11:07,160
Speaker 1: because he was a fourth round pick and he basically

1431
01:11:07,280 --> 01:11:10,040
Speaker 1: makes no money. It's I think he's old, maybe two

1432
01:11:10,160 --> 01:11:13,200
Speaker 1: point seven million over the balance of his contract. Uh.

1433
01:11:13,320 --> 01:11:16,320
Speaker 1: And during the last two off seasons, the Cowboys have

1434
01:11:16,680 --> 01:11:19,200
Speaker 1: not really went after any big free agents. So and

1435
01:11:19,520 --> 01:11:21,400
Speaker 1: part of the reason why they haven't it's because they've

1436
01:11:21,439 --> 01:11:24,400
Speaker 1: made so many bad deals and and have so much

1437
01:11:24,479 --> 01:11:27,320
Speaker 1: dead cap money and they and they have not handled

1438
01:11:27,360 --> 01:11:32,000
Speaker 1: their business affairs correctly. Ramo being the two biggest right that,

1439
01:11:32,360 --> 01:11:33,920
Speaker 1: But and there are a whole host of other guys

1440
01:11:33,960 --> 01:11:36,280
Speaker 1: that you completely forget that they've just been killing themselves

1441
01:11:36,320 --> 01:11:38,519
Speaker 1: with now for years, and that's kind of put them

1442
01:11:38,560 --> 01:11:40,599
Speaker 1: in this situation. You wonder, why didn't they go out

1443
01:11:41,080 --> 01:11:42,920
Speaker 1: and get some more free agents while they're a little

1444
01:11:42,920 --> 01:11:46,000
Speaker 1: bit hamstrung. Uh, And you're seeing it all the what

1445
01:11:46,080 --> 01:11:48,200
Speaker 1: do they call it the the chickens come home to roost?

1446
01:11:48,360 --> 01:11:51,800
Speaker 1: Is that a term? I think that's what's happening here.

1447
01:11:51,920 --> 01:11:55,000
Speaker 1: They yeah, there they going are there typically penned in

1448
01:11:55,120 --> 01:11:58,080
Speaker 1: on a farm to coming home and and this is

1449
01:11:58,200 --> 01:12:00,960
Speaker 1: might be a last season because of they're bad business

1450
01:12:01,040 --> 01:12:04,400
Speaker 1: practices and their inability to surround a young quarterback that's

1451
01:12:05,320 --> 01:12:09,400
Speaker 1: very cheap with real talent. Yikes, it's one it's one week.

1452
01:12:11,320 --> 01:12:15,519
Speaker 1: It's one week. You have a big part of the

1453
01:12:15,560 --> 01:12:18,080
Speaker 1: show that was that was actually a little throwback podcast act.

1454
01:12:20,240 --> 01:12:22,160
Speaker 1: That's what I have. I have a small stable of

1455
01:12:22,240 --> 01:12:27,559
Speaker 1: impressions and uh, the far Ladies guy saying one of them,

1456
01:12:28,479 --> 01:12:33,240
Speaker 1: it's it's come out more. Save it for the other show.

1457
01:12:33,439 --> 01:12:36,800
Speaker 1: You know, you have to you have to keep these alright.

1458
01:12:36,880 --> 01:12:41,320
Speaker 1: Check out the throwback podcast Randy Gregory suffered a concussion

1459
01:12:41,360 --> 01:12:42,640
Speaker 1: in Week one, and I thought he was going to

1460
01:12:42,720 --> 01:12:44,760
Speaker 1: make a big difference. There's a report that he's gonna

1461
01:12:44,920 --> 01:12:48,400
Speaker 1: have another suspension eventually anyways, but he's not. It sounds

1462
01:12:48,400 --> 01:12:49,960
Speaker 1: like he is not going to play this game to

1463
01:12:50,080 --> 01:12:54,360
Speaker 1: Marcus Lawrence is and his absence makes it even less

1464
01:12:54,400 --> 01:12:57,120
Speaker 1: likely that the defense ends up being a difference maker.

1465
01:12:57,200 --> 01:12:59,479
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith played the whole game last week. Wouldn't say

1466
01:12:59,479 --> 01:13:02,479
Speaker 1: he made it like a huge impact. They have some

1467
01:13:02,600 --> 01:13:05,320
Speaker 1: good pieces in the secondary. I don't know, like how

1468
01:13:05,720 --> 01:13:07,479
Speaker 1: how good is the Giant's offense going to be and

1469
01:13:07,520 --> 01:13:09,360
Speaker 1: how much of it was just the jack playing against

1470
01:13:09,439 --> 01:13:12,280
Speaker 1: Jacksonville idea, he didn't get bad. I didn't think. I

1471
01:13:12,520 --> 01:13:15,360
Speaker 1: think Eli's had worse games, but at that we didn't

1472
01:13:15,400 --> 01:13:19,519
Speaker 1: look bad. But there's still in an alternate it wasn't.

1473
01:13:19,640 --> 01:13:21,080
Speaker 1: I like looked at the box score and I was

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Speaker 1: thinking it's gonna be a bad eye like game, and

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01:13:22,560 --> 01:13:24,840
Speaker 1: he wasn't their number one problem. An alternate universal, the

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01:13:24,920 --> 01:13:27,760
Speaker 1: Giants have Sam Donald and Adrian Peterson right now and

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01:13:27,840 --> 01:13:31,000
Speaker 1: they have a lot of hope. That would have been

1478
01:13:31,000 --> 01:13:33,959
Speaker 1: an interesting I mean, you can't really tag them with Peterson.

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01:13:34,160 --> 01:13:36,599
Speaker 1: Everybody passed on. I'm just say Peterson would they would

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01:13:36,600 --> 01:13:38,280
Speaker 1: have needed a running back, they would have been a

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01:13:38,360 --> 01:13:42,439
Speaker 1: candidate to get it would be Sam Donald and Jonathan Stewart. Sure,

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01:13:42,479 --> 01:13:44,160
Speaker 1: I'm just saying they could have had the quarterback and

1483
01:13:44,200 --> 01:13:47,760
Speaker 1: they passed. It's that I love Siguon Barkley, I get it.

1484
01:13:47,800 --> 01:13:51,120
Speaker 1: But if they took Todd Gurley over Eric Flowers, isn't

1485
01:13:51,160 --> 01:13:53,560
Speaker 1: it a little bit early to say that Darnall was

1486
01:13:53,600 --> 01:13:56,639
Speaker 1: a better pick than things? QU think it's very early,

1487
01:13:56,680 --> 01:14:02,120
Speaker 1: but still there this week that was like, how much

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01:14:02,160 --> 01:14:07,800
Speaker 1: are the Browns and the Giants regretting passing on I've

1489
01:14:07,840 --> 01:14:10,720
Speaker 1: ever seen, But with the Giants, I think there's something

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01:14:10,920 --> 01:14:13,160
Speaker 1: to it that if Sam Donald, if we're halfway through

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01:14:13,200 --> 01:14:14,960
Speaker 1: the season and he just looks like it's just that

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01:14:15,040 --> 01:14:17,120
Speaker 1: the Giants passed on the quarterback. The Browns did not

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01:14:17,280 --> 01:14:20,200
Speaker 1: know the Cardinals of the Bills. Uh, last game of

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01:14:20,240 --> 01:14:24,800
Speaker 1: the week, Monday Night Football, the Seattle Seahawks, who like

1495
01:14:24,920 --> 01:14:27,719
Speaker 1: in that Cowboys game. I'm gonna throw that out to everyone, Alright,

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01:14:27,760 --> 01:14:30,320
Speaker 1: go ahead, I think the cow I think the Cowboys

1497
01:14:30,400 --> 01:14:32,240
Speaker 1: find a way. They're not going to be as bad

1498
01:14:32,280 --> 01:14:35,240
Speaker 1: as I think the Giants are a considerably better team.

1499
01:14:35,920 --> 01:14:38,200
Speaker 1: I think the Gyman are gonna take care of his

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01:14:38,400 --> 01:14:41,120
Speaker 1: defense played pretty well the Giants. I think the Gyman

1501
01:14:41,800 --> 01:14:44,200
Speaker 1: will roll. I think the Cowboys are working through some

1502
01:14:44,320 --> 01:14:47,639
Speaker 1: stuff right now. If they get Travis Frederick Beckett sometime,

1503
01:14:47,680 --> 01:14:49,320
Speaker 1: and that's a huge if. I have no idea that

1504
01:14:49,560 --> 01:14:52,160
Speaker 1: could help. But I think the Cowboys are lost right now.

1505
01:14:52,400 --> 01:14:55,559
Speaker 1: At the Seahawks, UH played a very entertaining game, as

1506
01:14:55,600 --> 01:14:59,599
Speaker 1: you said, against the Broncos, fell short four. UH. They

1507
01:14:59,640 --> 01:15:03,160
Speaker 1: head to Chicago to face the Bears, and Greg, Uh,

1508
01:15:03,560 --> 01:15:05,599
Speaker 1: we should talk. We should touch on the Bears because

1509
01:15:05,600 --> 01:15:07,639
Speaker 1: we haven't had a chance to talk about what happened

1510
01:15:07,680 --> 01:15:10,519
Speaker 1: to them on Sunday night. The highs were so high

1511
01:15:10,560 --> 01:15:14,000
Speaker 1: at lambeau Field, and then the lows were absolutely crushing.

1512
01:15:14,040 --> 01:15:17,280
Speaker 1: I know, you know, a loss in Week one probably

1513
01:15:17,320 --> 01:15:20,080
Speaker 1: shouldn't dictate how the rest of your season unfolds. But

1514
01:15:20,200 --> 01:15:22,800
Speaker 1: I'm wondering what the confidence level of that team is

1515
01:15:22,920 --> 01:15:26,080
Speaker 1: after what Aaron Rodgers did to them. I've seen a

1516
01:15:26,160 --> 01:15:30,000
Speaker 1: lot of that. This loss was somehow a good sign

1517
01:15:30,200 --> 01:15:32,320
Speaker 1: for the Bears. You know, the way that they played,

1518
01:15:32,400 --> 01:15:35,120
Speaker 1: the way that Khalil Mack came out, but I'm I'm

1519
01:15:35,160 --> 01:15:38,200
Speaker 1: more with you Dan that that was a massive missed

1520
01:15:38,240 --> 01:15:42,000
Speaker 1: opportunity and the number one question about this Bears team.

1521
01:15:42,760 --> 01:15:45,360
Speaker 1: UH created more questions after this game. Was not a

1522
01:15:45,360 --> 01:15:48,439
Speaker 1: good performance by Mitchell Trobiski, especially after you got through

1523
01:15:48,600 --> 01:15:52,080
Speaker 1: those scripted plays early. He struggled in the second half,

1524
01:15:52,640 --> 01:15:54,559
Speaker 1: and I think that's a I think that's a concern.

1525
01:15:54,640 --> 01:15:58,400
Speaker 1: That was a major missed opportunity by them, like it should.

1526
01:15:58,520 --> 01:16:00,920
Speaker 1: You're not getting any extra credit that you played this

1527
01:16:01,320 --> 01:16:03,760
Speaker 1: rival team tough. You gotta finish. I had. I had

1528
01:16:03,800 --> 01:16:07,720
Speaker 1: two takeaways from the end of that game. One, I

1529
01:16:08,120 --> 01:16:11,400
Speaker 1: can't there there was a reality where it should have

1530
01:16:11,600 --> 01:16:14,080
Speaker 1: played out this way for the Bears, that Aaron Rodgers

1531
01:16:14,160 --> 01:16:16,439
Speaker 1: never gets back on the field. They have third and one,

1532
01:16:17,200 --> 01:16:19,479
Speaker 1: UH inside the twenty where they end up settling for

1533
01:16:19,520 --> 01:16:22,240
Speaker 1: a field goal. They throw the ball and they throw

1534
01:16:22,280 --> 01:16:24,120
Speaker 1: an in completely past you run the ball once and

1535
01:16:24,280 --> 01:16:27,479
Speaker 1: my Bears colleague downstairs Ali made a good point to you,

1536
01:16:27,560 --> 01:16:29,960
Speaker 1: maybe you get two cracks at it because kicked the

1537
01:16:30,040 --> 01:16:32,439
Speaker 1: field goal, you send Aaron Rodgers back on the field

1538
01:16:33,000 --> 01:16:35,560
Speaker 1: down six. It was set in stone. It felt like

1539
01:16:35,600 --> 01:16:38,479
Speaker 1: almost what was gonna happen next. So that was my

1540
01:16:38,600 --> 01:16:40,759
Speaker 1: one thought, and then my other thought was after Rogers

1541
01:16:40,840 --> 01:16:43,439
Speaker 1: does the Rodgers thing and thank you by the way,

1542
01:16:43,720 --> 01:16:47,160
Speaker 1: Packers fans are sending a gift baskets Kyle Fuller because

1543
01:16:47,200 --> 01:16:48,439
Speaker 1: he should have ended the game as well with in

1544
01:16:48,439 --> 01:16:51,920
Speaker 1: a reception. But after they take the lead, the Packers

1545
01:16:52,000 --> 01:16:53,479
Speaker 1: the Bears come out of the field, and I just

1546
01:16:53,520 --> 01:16:56,400
Speaker 1: got the feeling that Mitch Drobinski, the way he looked,

1547
01:16:56,800 --> 01:16:59,400
Speaker 1: he just wasn't ready for that moment, and I think

1548
01:16:59,439 --> 01:17:01,479
Speaker 1: he played that way. He looked a little tight, and

1549
01:17:01,840 --> 01:17:05,240
Speaker 1: uh yeah, I obviously there's questions to be asked about

1550
01:17:05,280 --> 01:17:07,120
Speaker 1: Rabisky at this stage. I think we're still waiting for

1551
01:17:07,240 --> 01:17:10,160
Speaker 1: that game, even that half where Robinsky does enough to

1552
01:17:10,280 --> 01:17:13,719
Speaker 1: convince us that yes, this is the guy in Chicago.

1553
01:17:13,960 --> 01:17:16,000
Speaker 1: The search for a quarterback is absolutely over. I mean

1554
01:17:16,040 --> 01:17:18,680
Speaker 1: it's over now for a while because they're gonna work

1555
01:17:18,680 --> 01:17:20,400
Speaker 1: with them as much as they can. But the light

1556
01:17:20,560 --> 01:17:22,120
Speaker 1: is not gone on the same way you've seen with

1557
01:17:22,240 --> 01:17:27,160
Speaker 1: some other quarterbacks in the seventeen games. In that's fair. Uh.

1558
01:17:27,560 --> 01:17:30,519
Speaker 1: Bill Simmons used to call it stomach punch level loss,

1559
01:17:30,640 --> 01:17:33,439
Speaker 1: one of the worst loss level when you factor in

1560
01:17:33,479 --> 01:17:36,479
Speaker 1: the third and one, the comeback, the third and one,

1561
01:17:36,880 --> 01:17:40,040
Speaker 1: the Kyle Fuller drop, the Randall Cobb interception, and then

1562
01:17:40,080 --> 01:17:42,720
Speaker 1: that having one more chance, the Clay Matthews roughing the

1563
01:17:42,760 --> 01:17:45,200
Speaker 1: pastor giving you a new life and still falling short.

1564
01:17:46,040 --> 01:17:47,920
Speaker 1: This is about as bad as a regular season lost

1565
01:17:47,920 --> 01:17:49,880
Speaker 1: could be in Week one, and factor in if you're

1566
01:17:49,880 --> 01:17:51,840
Speaker 1: a Bears fan that all you've done in the past

1567
01:17:51,880 --> 01:17:54,519
Speaker 1: decade is getting whipped by Aaron Rodgers and the Packers

1568
01:17:54,680 --> 01:17:56,960
Speaker 1: over and over. There was that it was the pmponent

1569
01:17:57,040 --> 01:17:59,000
Speaker 1: to this is a great matchup to bounce back from

1570
01:17:59,320 --> 01:18:02,599
Speaker 1: bounce back. You're back home. You're facing a Seattle team

1571
01:18:02,720 --> 01:18:07,960
Speaker 1: that to me has all sorts of problems. Russell Wilson ran.

1572
01:18:08,240 --> 01:18:11,639
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson had a poor game for him. Missed some throws,

1573
01:18:11,760 --> 01:18:14,479
Speaker 1: made a bad interception, ran into some sacks. He he

1574
01:18:14,560 --> 01:18:18,320
Speaker 1: admitted three of the sacks were on him. And you're

1575
01:18:18,360 --> 01:18:21,320
Speaker 1: counting on Brandon Marshall to win on the outside. You

1576
01:18:21,400 --> 01:18:24,519
Speaker 1: know you're throwing late passes to Jeron Brown down the field.

1577
01:18:25,120 --> 01:18:29,800
Speaker 1: Rashad Penny was basically dismissed almost by Pete Carroll during

1578
01:18:29,840 --> 01:18:32,720
Speaker 1: the press conference this week, essentially saying like this, kid

1579
01:18:32,840 --> 01:18:34,880
Speaker 1: wasn't ready. We need to rely on Chris Carson a

1580
01:18:34,960 --> 01:18:38,479
Speaker 1: little more. And Chris Carson looked good. It's just it's

1581
01:18:38,479 --> 01:18:40,439
Speaker 1: a lot going on and you're not exactly sure who

1582
01:18:40,560 --> 01:18:42,880
Speaker 1: on defense other than Earl Thomas and Frank Clark are

1583
01:18:42,920 --> 01:18:44,599
Speaker 1: really going to carry the dead. I feel like Seattle,

1584
01:18:44,640 --> 01:18:48,679
Speaker 1: like you, finally, after all these years done at Seattle,

1585
01:18:48,880 --> 01:18:51,920
Speaker 1: you've created an offense with no identity at all other

1586
01:18:52,000 --> 01:18:54,760
Speaker 1: than Russell Wilson having to run around do figure eights

1587
01:18:55,080 --> 01:18:59,840
Speaker 1: get sacked twenty yards. But even with him in there,

1588
01:19:00,040 --> 01:19:01,800
Speaker 1: what is this offense right now? It's just it would

1589
01:19:01,840 --> 01:19:06,320
Speaker 1: help a lot. This will help a lot. That identity

1590
01:19:06,400 --> 01:19:09,680
Speaker 1: goes to the defense too. What's the defense? They've you

1591
01:19:09,760 --> 01:19:11,600
Speaker 1: stripped away all these people and it's like it's a

1592
01:19:11,720 --> 01:19:14,280
Speaker 1: nice fresh start, but really, what you is you have

1593
01:19:14,439 --> 01:19:16,160
Speaker 1: nothing to really hang your hat on if you if

1594
01:19:16,200 --> 01:19:19,799
Speaker 1: you're the Bears, you are attacking Trey Flowers and Sham

1595
01:19:19,840 --> 01:19:23,439
Speaker 1: Griffin or Shakille Griffin rather, who had a solid rookie year.

1596
01:19:23,479 --> 01:19:26,840
Speaker 1: But they were overmatched last week against the Broncos. And

1597
01:19:26,880 --> 01:19:28,600
Speaker 1: I know that's a good pair of receivers, but they

1598
01:19:28,680 --> 01:19:31,800
Speaker 1: were just people were wide open against that cornerback group,

1599
01:19:31,880 --> 01:19:33,960
Speaker 1: and so you would think Matt Naggie can cook up

1600
01:19:34,000 --> 01:19:36,680
Speaker 1: some place here for his his wide receivers who other

1601
01:19:36,760 --> 01:19:39,880
Speaker 1: than Allen Robinson didn't really do a lot last week.

1602
01:19:40,120 --> 01:19:41,880
Speaker 1: I'm taking the team of a TL on this me

1603
01:19:41,960 --> 01:19:46,000
Speaker 1: toot ride with them here. Let's go boys, bounce back,

1604
01:19:46,080 --> 01:19:48,479
Speaker 1: all right, h next time you hear from us, it

1605
01:19:48,560 --> 01:19:52,600
Speaker 1: will be Sunday night the Flagship UH Show where we

1606
01:19:52,720 --> 01:19:55,000
Speaker 1: recap all of these games that we just previewed. So

1607
01:19:55,120 --> 01:19:58,240
Speaker 1: make sure you check on with that and UM. Our

1608
01:19:58,360 --> 01:20:02,000
Speaker 1: Twitter show premiers on Tuesday, and this is fun. We're

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01:20:02,040 --> 01:20:04,479
Speaker 1: gonna part of the show and it makes sense it's

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01:20:04,479 --> 01:20:07,880
Speaker 1: on Twitter. There will be a social integration aspect to it,

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01:20:08,320 --> 01:20:12,160
Speaker 1: away from the viewers of the show to interact with us.

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01:20:12,360 --> 01:20:16,200
Speaker 1: So if you have any questions, comments, uh, if you

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01:20:16,280 --> 01:20:18,800
Speaker 1: want to send it in videos. Uh, if you want

1614
01:20:18,840 --> 01:20:22,400
Speaker 1: to do anything within the bounds of the law, I mean,

1615
01:20:22,760 --> 01:20:25,080
Speaker 1: don't break the law, or at least don't get caught.

1616
01:20:25,720 --> 01:20:29,559
Speaker 1: Hit us American law. Yeah, hit us up on Twitter. Uh.

1617
01:20:29,720 --> 01:20:32,439
Speaker 1: Any of our handles around the NFL or each of ours,

1618
01:20:32,520 --> 01:20:36,320
Speaker 1: but make sure you use the hashtag around the NFL

1619
01:20:37,479 --> 01:20:41,400
Speaker 1: around the NFL. Use that hashtag. They even said, use

1620
01:20:41,560 --> 01:20:45,280
Speaker 1: a capital letter for the in NFL. And I don't

1621
01:20:45,320 --> 01:20:47,599
Speaker 1: really know. I think it'll still get through. It will

1622
01:20:47,600 --> 01:20:50,559
Speaker 1: still well listen in these figures. What other way to say,

1623
01:20:50,640 --> 01:20:54,160
Speaker 1: we know that the listeners of this show particularly are

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01:20:54,439 --> 01:20:57,240
Speaker 1: different than NFL network viewers, different than any other thing.

1625
01:20:57,280 --> 01:20:59,519
Speaker 1: It's a smarter group. It flat out that's what they said.

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Speaker 1: It's a smart group, right, they said, we this is

1627
01:21:02,600 --> 01:21:05,320
Speaker 1: the group. We need to chime in and bring your goods, so,

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01:21:05,560 --> 01:21:07,280
Speaker 1: you know, please do not sleep through the day. They

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01:21:07,360 --> 01:21:10,680
Speaker 1: basically said, anyone who watches NFL network and responds a

1630
01:21:10,800 --> 01:21:16,080
Speaker 1: bunch of mouth breathers. But our podcast listeners are just yeah,

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01:21:16,320 --> 01:21:19,439
Speaker 1: like just you know, just beautiful people. So yes, please

1632
01:21:19,720 --> 01:21:22,800
Speaker 1: hit us up because and and watch the show because

1633
01:21:22,840 --> 01:21:25,360
Speaker 1: it's it's a big thing for us, and we promised

1634
01:21:25,439 --> 01:21:28,120
Speaker 1: to make it different and cool. Okay, let's go. This

1635
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Speaker 1: is Dan Hansons signing off for Quiet Storm, the Mailman

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01:21:33,479 --> 01:21:38,000
Speaker 1: Judgmental Greg. Remember that, No that's not a nickname. When

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01:21:38,160 --> 01:21:42,000
Speaker 1: was this? Oh yeah, last show, Louis Phil Sunday do

1638
01:22:00,080 --> 01:22:02,120
Speaker 1: it's isn't it easy just to throw it on? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: It was super easy. Everything you want is easy h.