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Speaker 1: Welcome to NFL Daily, where we're not walking on eggshells

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Speaker 1: and the Chris Westling podcast studio.

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Speaker 2: Because the Eagles won this week.

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Speaker 1: We're not afraid of you, angry Colleen Wolf. Yes, I

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Speaker 1: am so happy to be joined by Colleen Wolf and

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Speaker 1: Jordan rod Reege.

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Speaker 2: Welcome.

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Speaker 3: Ah, you know what it is. It is a good day,

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Speaker 3: a better day than it was last week this time.

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Speaker 3: So I'm not acting like a terrorist in here.

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Speaker 2: Great.

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Speaker 1: It would be fun if Colleen actually was like that,

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Speaker 1: like the type of person you couldn't bring up like

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Speaker 1: bad things around because she just acts out and lashes out.

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Speaker 4: You know what, though, Colleen, if we can't handle you

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Speaker 4: at your Eagles loss, we don't deserve you at your

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Speaker 4: Eagles win. A.

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Speaker 1: Yes, so the Eagles, they got a big win on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: I still feel like I'm riding the high from the

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Speaker 1: Monday night games were next, Jordan, I sent you.

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Speaker 4: Like one hundred texts and thirty seconds. I was so excited.

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Speaker 4: I was so freaking fired up.

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Speaker 2: That was awesome.

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Speaker 5: Even just our show, text chain was going off and

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Speaker 5: I was like, comatos on my couch.

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Speaker 3: I'll text you guys in the morning.

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Speaker 2: But that was exciting.

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Speaker 1: That did feel like I mean, I keep replacing him,

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Speaker 1: but that felt like the first the next big moment

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Speaker 1: of the season, Like that was the best thing that's

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Speaker 1: happened this season. Jade and Daniels just going off and

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Speaker 1: so you know that that inspires us. We like that

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Speaker 1: a lot, and we're going to keep it simple today.

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Speaker 1: We're going to talk about what we like so far,

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Speaker 1: stuff we like and stuff we don't like.

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Speaker 2: This season.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of like we've had a lot of I think,

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Speaker 1: big concept shows on the Connie Jordan Wednesdays. So this

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Speaker 1: is kind of like theme you know what a big

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Speaker 1: budget director he's got, you like, like Paul Thomas Anderson

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Speaker 1: has There will be blood and then you know, you

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Speaker 1: got to change a little tone. You can't just keep

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Speaker 1: You can't go higher than there will be blood. I

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Speaker 1: don't think we can go higher than we did last

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Speaker 1: So this is our phantom thread.

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Speaker 6: Okay, you're making us chill a little bit, is basically what.

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Speaker 1: You're just saying. Fandom but sometimes those are the best

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Speaker 1: fandom thread. Yeah, better than there will be bludd.

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Speaker 4: I would I think that Greg was just tired of

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Speaker 4: losing to me and Judge. Connie so this is where

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Speaker 4: we come in with this outstanding theme. I am really

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Speaker 4: excited about this because we have.

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Speaker 6: Some fun things.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we do some not so fun things, yes, And

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Speaker 1: next week we will go back to big concept because

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Speaker 1: we are officially bringing back quarterback Island. We've afard from

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Speaker 1: a lot of the listeners who have been proposing. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Jayden Daniels, he's on the island.

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Speaker 2: Good thing, Greg, you.

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Speaker 1: Didn't get Caleb Williams on the island because he would

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Speaker 1: have been being taken off. So four weeks, Jordan, I

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Speaker 1: know you're a woman that likes things to make sense,

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Speaker 1: and four weeks does make sense. For a time, we're

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Speaker 1: going to evaluate all the quarterbacks, but today we're going

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Speaker 1: to talk about what we like.

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Speaker 2: Why don't you get us going, Jordan? Why not?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: I'm excited about this.

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Speaker 4: I actually like that Offens's quarterback play passing in general

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Speaker 4: I know that a lot of people are not super

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Speaker 4: of the coaches who are actually great coaches, teachers, adjusters.

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Speaker 4: The frauds are going to exposed, and then we might

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Speaker 4: to meet this cycle of offense and of defense as

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Speaker 4: being smarter than ever where it's at right now, and

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Speaker 4: when people get hurt, obviously, but I like that some

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Speaker 4: of these coaches have also hit adversity. I see you

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Speaker 4: guys have put Sean McVay and the Rams on this too. Well.

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Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure I got Jordan with a burn book

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Speaker 5: of coaches that she's just waiting to be exposed.

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Speaker 4: It's just it's like Ryan from the office, I'm just

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Speaker 3: She has a little list that she's just watching.

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Speaker 1: It's true, though, like the same stuff never works for

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Speaker 6: Well, I like it.

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Speaker 4: My point too, I like that coach is some of

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Speaker 6: With since last season.

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Speaker 4: Really, these being forced to deal and adjust and adapt

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Speaker 6: You can see it in front of you.

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Speaker 4: You saw it the way Sean McVay completely changed the

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Speaker 4: about that on the recap show. To a twelve personnel

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Speaker 4: uploading it fresh, which is a godsend to players because

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Speaker 4: create something new on the fly. The things that Matt

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Speaker 4: floor or of the quarterback. He's accentuating where he's gifted,

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Speaker 4: and he's giving him more answers. With all that they're

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Speaker 4: increasing their motion usage, He's giving him more answers to

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Speaker 4: because defenses are smarter than ever, and these coaches are

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Speaker 4: coaches you're seeing already and you'll continue to see from

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Speaker 1: You know, let's do it in front of the scenes.

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Speaker 1: Like we got a Cowboys Giants preview coming up. Mike

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Speaker 2: But I love that.

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Speaker 1: I love that the league is always evolving in that way.

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Speaker 1: It's like it doesn't have to be off it. There

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Speaker 5: That's the most greg thing I've ever heard in my life.

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Speaker 1: It's bringing me back to some like two thousand and five,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, those were the big no.

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Speaker 1: But I just like diversity where there's there's some like

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Speaker 1: truly it's so bad it's good those type of movies,

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Speaker 5: It's like a fast and furious like you just want

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Speaker 1: But I just being like diversity, where there's there's big ups,

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Speaker 4: Here's the moment we're at right now, though. This is

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Speaker 4: like defenses are smarter than ever, they're more multiple than ever,

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Speaker 4: And I think that this is going to tell we're

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Speaker 4: And that's what I like about this is that you're

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Speaker 4: They have to change and they are, but they're bringing

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Speaker 4: what Kevin O'Connell's doing, not just with Sam Darnold, with

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's it's figuring out what your players do well.

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Speaker 1: It's like, I mean, that's in maximizing that instead of

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Speaker 4: But I like that there's a push behind them that

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Speaker 1: And let's come down about the whole like defenses they're

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Speaker 1: like great days of pass catch like points are still

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Speaker 2: It's it's fine.

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Speaker 5: You mentioned Matt Lafleur, and I know that you guys

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Speaker 5: already covered him, but I just absolutely love his tenderness

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Speaker 4: That's a like it's so bure there.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, And when he talked about how like he can't

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Speaker 5: for I mean that first week, what he had only

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Speaker 5: but you don't know. And it was just so sweet

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Speaker 2: I just like the use of the word tenderness.

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Speaker 3: That's exactly what I felt, a tenderness.

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Speaker 5: It felt like there was a real love there between

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Speaker 1: And maliqu Willis seems to be a guy that does

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Speaker 2: I think that was the case.

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Speaker 5: Like Aldamar Hamlin too last night get his first interception

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Speaker 1: The very lowest moment of last season, when it was

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Speaker 4: and that tomorrow moment was was so great. No, so

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Speaker 4: Yeah, like excessive celebrations act is what she's talking about. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: So I like the general vibes around the Bills. They're fun,

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Speaker 6: The defense is clear.

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Speaker 1: Actually, it's okay to say if it fits really my

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Speaker 4: Always really good to be reminded of when Greg is right.

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Speaker 4: But the defense that we're all worried, I mean, they're

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Speaker 4: and the skill players that all play Settlers of Katan together.

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Speaker 4: I am a Settlers of Catan player. I'm decent, good,

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Speaker 4: if you can actually get through that game at that

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Speaker 3: Have you lost friends over this game?

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Speaker 4: There's so much, like every moment is like constant strategy

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Speaker 4: it's very it's total anxiety. It's total anxiety. So I

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Speaker 5: I don't want to play a game it induces more.

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Speaker 4: But that this team can do that like together, like

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm with Colleen, like and this has literally happened.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes we're at a party and like people are kind

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Speaker 6: This be playing on your phone?

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Speaker 4: Now?

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Speaker 6: There are apps different, like come on, guys, let's get it.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, I play Jenga and like Backgammon.

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Speaker 2: That's it all right, throw us another, like Colleen.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Sam freaking I Yes we do.

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Speaker 5: Because I would love to remind you Greg that I've

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Speaker 3: Touchdowns on Sunday. Thank god. His knee is okay, by

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Speaker 5: He's the first quarterback start and win each of the

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Speaker 2: And that was the first a year though. Twenty sixteen.

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Speaker 3: Sure, sure, but outside of the At.

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Speaker 2: That hour, Sam Bradford, how could you not love.

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Speaker 3: The story of Sam Donald.

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Speaker 5: Bill Belichick was on Pat McAfee and he had said,

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Speaker 3: Like Donald except the Jets.

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Speaker 5: The people in Carolina that I talked to really liked him.

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Speaker 1: I just love that he prepped that line, and Greg,

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Speaker 1: He loves to just like stick it to the Jets.

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Speaker 1: I'd noticed he was sticking it to the Falcons. Oh

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Speaker 1: Don't think that was.

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Speaker 6: A good Oh my god, A petty TV moment for sure.

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Speaker 5: I hope Bill Belichick has a burn book. Actually probably does.

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Speaker 2: He definitely does. I think that's how he operates through life.

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Speaker 6: I love the Sam Darnald story.

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Speaker 4: I know that it's taking You're creaking into the lane

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Speaker 6: Waiting for the bottom to fall out. The other shooted drop,

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Speaker 3: Let your hair down, Greg, I don't come join me

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Speaker 2: I can recognize he's playing well.

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Speaker 4: I thought I heard you use the word awesome in

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Speaker 4: I've never been more powerful in this moment.

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Speaker 5: Actually, twitch is faced it, Greg, You're passing touchdown leaders

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Speaker 3: Baker Mayfield is is Gino up there?

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Speaker 6: He's one of my my likes that I didn't get

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Speaker 5: He probably has more backdowns because they are all tied

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Speaker 1: We're getting entering week four and tied for three touchdowns?

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Speaker 5: Is like in fourth or fifth passing some of them

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Speaker 6: The ball as a side note too, on the Viking.

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Speaker 4: half last week, and then all of a sudden they

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Speaker 4: completely flipped it on his head, on the plan on

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Speaker 4: its head, and then they totally stopped on not totally,

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Speaker 4: I mean twenty percent of time stop blitzing at that rate.

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Speaker 4: And then they just dropped everybody. So it basically is

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Speaker 4: like a blender situation.

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Speaker 1: Sure we're having a different game plan for the second

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Speaker 1: half than the first half or the second quarter then

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Speaker 1: the first.

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Speaker 2: That's what the great one.

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Speaker 5: And Sam Darnold has improved significantly against the Blitz to

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Speaker 5: your point going against Bryan Flores, because he's thrown three

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Speaker 5: of his four touchdowns against the Blitz, which is a

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Speaker 5: far cry from twenty nineteen when he threw three interceptions

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Speaker 5: against the Blitz versus New England, which was the second

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Speaker 5: most in any game eighteen.

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Speaker 3: And so he was not good before. It is healing

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Speaker 3: same Darnald is healing healing us too. Oh, I love

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Speaker 3: the drop.

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Speaker 6: We're gonna get spicy.

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Speaker 1: He is not getting on good job, and I gotta

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Speaker 1: I gotta check myself.

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Speaker 4: Greg needs a fourth in this room because the number.

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Speaker 2: Why are you available next week? Wherever you are? Okay?

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Speaker 1: I was wondering if I'm being like a little bit

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Speaker 1: of a hater watching Donald's tape every week and thinking

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Speaker 1: there are still like two or three of the Donalds

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Speaker 1: plays that I'm not putting him in like the top

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Speaker 1: five of how he's played so far this year.

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Speaker 4: And then I tried to I don't think rational people

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Speaker 4: are doing okay, okay, yeah, but the producing.

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Speaker 2: The numbers are great.

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Speaker 1: He when he holds the ball, I think bad things

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Speaker 1: still happen. So I did look at some of the numbers.

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Speaker 1: He has been great against the blitz, making quick decisions.

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Speaker 1: He has been great when throwing the ball under two

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Speaker 1: and a half seconds, So I think that's where the

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Speaker 1: offensive scheme is winning for him and he's being decisive.

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Speaker 1: But he still holds the ball a lot, seventh highest

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Speaker 1: time to throw in the league. He's not like having

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Speaker 1: these turnover worthy plays. That's good, But when he's held

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Speaker 1: the ball, he hasn't really been that effective. When he's

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Speaker 1: been out of play action, he hasn't been that effective.

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Speaker 1: It's like twelve yards per attempt in play action, like

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Speaker 1: six point eight with that, which isn't crazy, Like that's

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Speaker 1: Jared Goff. If he can turn you into if he

489
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Speaker 1: can turn into Jared Goff. He's going to make a

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Speaker 1: lot of money and have a great, great career. The

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Speaker 1: thing that makes me wonder if he is going to

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Speaker 1: develop and have so much time to play in this

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Speaker 1: system and get better. Actually, in this game against Houston,

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Speaker 1: I thought he was much better when he did hold

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Speaker 1: the ball, not making bad decisions that I think was

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Speaker 1: a problem for him for two weeks. So if that's

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Speaker 1: a sign of like progress, I thought his game against

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Speaker 1: Houston was particularly good.

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Speaker 4: And using play action has often been like the go

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Speaker 4: to cheat code for coordinators and coaches and that when

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Speaker 4: they're trying to raise the floor of a quarterback. But

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Speaker 4: actually what they're doing also in tandem with that, and

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Speaker 4: it certainly is raising the floor for Sam Darnold, is

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Speaker 4: they're actually using their motions to reset and realign formations

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Speaker 4: to pull defenders back down toward the line of scrimmage.

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Speaker 4: They're using motion as sort of the cheat code in

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Speaker 4: this way because they're changing basically the spacing on the

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Speaker 4: field with it versus just sending a guy to get

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Speaker 4: information from the defense. So it's helping Sam find more

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Speaker 4: space basically.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, like the numbers when when he is getting

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Speaker 1: rid of the ball third and completion percentage over expected

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Speaker 1: second in EPA per drop back second and success right

514
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Speaker 1: when he throws under two and a half seconds. So

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Speaker 1: that's coaching, that's Sam Darnold. And you're right about the

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Speaker 1: acid test for Brian Flores. It's like quarterbacks are taking

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Speaker 1: acid when they're playing the Minnesota can't wait to say that.

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Speaker 6: I love that for you.

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Speaker 3: What would happen? What did that look like?

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Speaker 6: Will Evis?

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Speaker 2: It might just be it might just be fun.

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Speaker 1: It might just be fun, like the month that me

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Speaker 1: and like ten of my restaurant employee friends just were

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Speaker 1: like taking acid on Martha's Vineyard one of the best

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Speaker 1: months of mine. Were you a waiter with that? I was,

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Speaker 1: let's take a quick break?

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Speaker 2: I mean it was.

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Speaker 1: It honestly felt like like this day last boy fun.

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Speaker 2: They got a quick break. Mostly back after this back

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Speaker 2: on NFL Daily. Yeah, we're feeling positive.

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Speaker 1: We're in the flow of the season week four, so

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Speaker 1: it's a lot of likes. I do have a lot

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Speaker 1: of dislikes too, but we're gonna get to that next.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna believe that we're gonna keep it ordered and

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Speaker 1: keep it with the likes why don't.

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Speaker 2: You go next, Kelly?

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Speaker 5: Okay, I love First of all, I love when brothers

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Speaker 5: are both in the NFL. It's always super fun, especially

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Speaker 5: if they play against each other. But in this instance,

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Speaker 5: we have JJ Watt and t J Watt and JJ

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Speaker 5: Watt is interviewing TJ Watt and I think it was

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Speaker 5: at the half of the Steelers game, so in case

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Speaker 5: you didn't hear it, listen to what he said.

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Speaker 8: All Right, I know you're trying to get in that

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Speaker 8: right headspace. I know you and Danny just announced that

546
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Speaker 8: you guys are pregnant and expecting your first child. Me

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Speaker 8: personally knowing what that why means and knowing how important

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Speaker 8: that is, I wanted to give you a little gift

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Speaker 8: before you head back into the locker room to say

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Speaker 8: congratulations on your new child and wish you guys all

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Speaker 8: the best.

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Speaker 2: Thanks, man, I appreciate you trying to mess up my headspace. Appreciated.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna go back.

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Speaker 8: In ten days after I had Coha, So I'm just saying,

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Speaker 8: we've seen a lot of great things. We might see

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Speaker 8: some great We.

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Speaker 2: Get it, James, we get it.

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Speaker 1: Keep pumping yourself up.

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Speaker 4: That's all.

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Speaker 3: Go back in the locker room, have a great day,

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Speaker 3: all right.

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Speaker 9: So that was on CBS's NFL today and it was

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Speaker 9: just so funny because JJ gives TJ this little tiny,

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Speaker 9: like number ninety jersey.

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Speaker 3: That says dad on the back of it. It's like

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Speaker 3: a very sweet, wholesome moment.

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Speaker 5: And then when TJ says, like, you know, I appreciate

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Speaker 5: you trying to get like mess my headspace up.

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Speaker 3: Whatever, I'm gonna go lock back in. But when he said,

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Speaker 3: as we get it, James, we get it. Keep pumping

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Speaker 3: yourself up. That is so great.

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Speaker 5: I love it so much, and TJ Watt is saying

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Speaker 5: essentially what we all are thinking all the time when

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Speaker 5: JJ does what he does, and I love to see

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Speaker 5: it alive and well within the family.

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Speaker 1: It's very little brother, big brother energy. I absolutely love it.

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Speaker 1: And it is funny because I thought I thought about

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Speaker 1: this lately and when did JJ wat get the hair

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Speaker 1: he looks completely different. I don't know why I haven't.

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Speaker 1: I haven't seen that for a while. No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: not that. But I'm just saying that the haircut he

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Speaker 1: has sort of like a CPS haircut where it just

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Speaker 1: looks very different. I haven't seen it, and I love

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Speaker 1: that because JJ Watt has made it a great transformation.

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Speaker 1: He used to be the target of a lot of jokes.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 1: On the Around the NFL podcast, Chris used to get

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Speaker 1: Wes you know who this studio is named that used

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Speaker 1: to get so mad about his self promotion and just

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Speaker 1: you know. But then I really think as he got

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Speaker 1: older and more mature in the end of his career

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Speaker 1: and he has a baby and wife and everything, he

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Speaker 1: actually became much more likable and a little more self aware.

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Speaker 2: And so I like, I still he can't help himself.

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Speaker 4: I love the sibling like I'm going to use your

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Speaker 4: thing to talk about my thing.

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Speaker 6: Yes, that's the typical.

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Speaker 4: That's a classic.

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Speaker 3: In ten games after we had co o.

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Speaker 1: At already, it's like, yeah, all right, I'm going to

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Speaker 1: jump in with a couple of Steelers likes. Okay, first

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Speaker 1: of all, I just like the Steelers team. Was not

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Speaker 1: expecting them to.

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Speaker 6: They've grown on you quite a bit. They fit Art

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Speaker 6: Smith rebrand.

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Speaker 1: They fit the whole twenty twenty four mindset, except they

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Speaker 1: can't really run the ball, so I guess maybe they don't.

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Speaker 1: But just right, just that the Steelers are doing well

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Speaker 1: in this season fit somehow defensively, but number one, they're

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Speaker 1: young defensive players. Like it annoys me that it took

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Speaker 1: them this long to get Herbig out there, Nick Herberg

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Speaker 1: out there because they don't let TJ walk at any

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Speaker 1: rest whatsoever when he could use some rest. And you

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Speaker 1: have a great third rusher. But it took Alex Heismith

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Speaker 1: getting hurt for Herbert to get out there. He gets

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Speaker 1: out there for eight snap, eight past rows snaps, he

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Speaker 1: gets four pressures, two sacks. This guy has been electric

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Speaker 1: in the preseason. Sometimes it's nice to see the preseason validate,

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Speaker 1: you know your time spent watching and he's awesome.

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Speaker 2: And then Joey Porter Junior is just he's like their nude.

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Speaker 1: How perfect Joey Porter and I know they played different positions,

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Speaker 1: but in terms of the attitude that he brings, in

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Speaker 1: the energy that he brings their defense I think feeds

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Speaker 1: off of him. And he's going one on one with

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Speaker 1: these great wide receivers.

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Speaker 2: He's a dog.

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Speaker 4: They are so classic to me, but in a very

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Speaker 4: new age way. The premium positions on this defensive roster,

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Speaker 4: pass rusher and corner, especially like elite number one corner.

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Speaker 6: That's so cool.

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Speaker 4: Classic it's vintage in a very steelersy way the way

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Speaker 4: that they play football. But it's also a very smart,

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Speaker 4: well coach team as well for what twenty four is

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Speaker 4: right now. And then the offense is catching up a

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Speaker 4: little bit on the other.

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Speaker 1: Side, Yes, Justin Fields is playing against the title in

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Speaker 1: the middle.

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Speaker 2: Like, yeah, we actually have a spray chart.

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Speaker 1: I believe that we could show if you're watching on YouTube,

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Speaker 1: by the way, appreciate you all. We've seen the numbers

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Speaker 1: go up in terms of the subscriber so like, subscribe time,

642
00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:12,840
Speaker 1: tell your friends about the podcast. Even if you know

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00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:15,840
Speaker 1: you're not a video viewer, just listen to the audio.

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00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,600
Speaker 1: But yeah, let's see the spray chart of Justin Fields.

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Speaker 1: And let's also think about Yes, he's throwing to the

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Speaker 1: middle of the field. That's one thing he hadn't done

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Speaker 1: in the past very effectively. He has the third highest

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Speaker 1: completion percentage over expected in the entire NFL this year,

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Speaker 1: so they he's hitting the throws that he's being asked

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Speaker 1: to make. And I think the reason that's so high

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Speaker 1: is because it's a lot of out routes into tight

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Speaker 1: windows where you have to have a really strong arm,

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Speaker 1: and he's hitting those. He scrambled only once last week.

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Speaker 1: That was the lowest scramble rate he's ever had in

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Speaker 1: his career. Their design run game with him has not

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Speaker 1: been effective, but I actually think it's impressive that he's

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Speaker 1: playing so well without really his run game adding that

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Speaker 1: much to the mix. He is winning from the pocket,

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Speaker 1: and yeah, if you're watching, you can you can see

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Speaker 1: the charge. It's a lot of short passes, it's a

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Speaker 1: lot over the middle, but it's because that's what the

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Speaker 1: defense was going to do. They decided not to really

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Speaker 1: rush him to protect him against scrambling, and he made

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Speaker 1: them pay in a tough matchup against the Chargers.

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Speaker 2: And then one other thing in Week two.

666
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Speaker 1: He struggled against the blitz throughout his career, and they

667
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 1: blitzed the hell out of him, the Broncos did, and

668
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 1: he was really good standing up to him. So it's

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Speaker 1: stacking all these little small improvements you can tell he

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Speaker 1: worked on in his own game, and the coaching staff

671
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Speaker 1: deserves some credit too, and it's adding up to a

672
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Speaker 1: really effective version of justin fields. I think he's a

673
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 1: top ten quarterback so far this season.

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Speaker 4: What you said about the designed run game with him

675
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:42,560
Speaker 4: is not necessarily effective. But then you know, talking about

676
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:45,040
Speaker 4: how the defense played him and so they changed their

677
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 4: game plan, show at least showing that designed run attack

678
00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:52,479
Speaker 4: or the threat of it is why the defense is

679
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 4: changing to play that, to play him like that, and

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00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 4: then him showing this extra element, Oh, we do have

681
00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:03,240
Speaker 4: another count. It is an adjustment. It is us showing

682
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 4: on tape what you're afraid of us doing, you as

683
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 4: a defense trying to counter and stop it, and then

684
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:11,160
Speaker 4: us pulling out another card. That's not something this offense

685
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Speaker 4: has been able to do before in a free years.

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Speaker 1: Which is why, like Mike Tomlin did the thing Tuesday

687
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Speaker 1: again where he's like, yeah, Justin Field is planning to

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Speaker 1: start again because Russell Wilson's not healthy.

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Speaker 2: I'll make that decision when I mean.

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Speaker 3: That's one of my dislikes.

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Speaker 5: Okay, anyone still talking about a quarterback switch in Pittsburgh?

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's fair, that's fair. Should we squeeze in

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Speaker 1: any more likes before we get to the disclay?

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Speaker 4: I have one like because I yelled about them. I

695
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:39,840
Speaker 4: think for fair reasons because they were playing atrocially on offense.

696
00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:42,400
Speaker 4: But the Carolina Panthers, there's a lot to criticize them

697
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:44,200
Speaker 4: for the first two weeks of the season. I'm going

698
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:47,080
Speaker 4: to give them some well earned love here. I mostly

699
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:53,800
Speaker 4: like the Panthers offensive line. Ikwanu is still strugglings. He's

700
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,680
Speaker 4: sort of the weak spot here. Eleven pressures allowed. That's

701
00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 4: obviously not great the left tackle, but the rest of

702
00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 4: the four offive linemen have allowed only sixteen combined pressures

703
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:05,959
Speaker 4: through these three games, and the interior of Austin Corbett,

704
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 4: Robert Hunt, and Damien Lewis have only allowed seven pressures

705
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 4: the entire season so far. And this is great for

706
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 4: the Dalton the Andy Dalton renaissance here the red haired

707
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:18,040
Speaker 4: guys in the league are apparently.

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Speaker 3: You know, you know how I love Dalton and Darnold.

709
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:23,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's really great for him in terms of

710
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 4: it's still the same. It would still be the same

711
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 4: issue that they talked about of wanting to really shore

712
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:29,720
Speaker 4: up the interior against interior pressure. That's the same thing

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00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 4: with Andy Dalton still needs that tool. And you know,

714
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 4: this offensive line I think deserves some kudos and some love.

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Speaker 6: I like them so far.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the Dalton sons doesn't really roll off the tongue.

717
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:42,200
Speaker 1: I know, the way the glow up that he's had

718
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 1: just its looks later in his career and now he

719
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Speaker 1: could match it with his on field play. Panthers Bengals.

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Speaker 1: I know it's one and two versus zero to three.

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Speaker 1: That's on my screen. That is one of my toph week.

722
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 1: That's this week, No Dalton. So exciting Dalton to bury

723
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:01,520
Speaker 1: the Bengal season at zero to four.

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Speaker 2: That's pretty de listic.

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Speaker 3: I love that.

726
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 2: I do too.

727
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 1: And yeah, they're run I'm checking out their running game.

728
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,680
Speaker 1: It's been fine, Like, okay, it hasn't been great.

729
00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 6: But the protection is there.

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Speaker 2: Last week it was fine. And so he's.

731
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Speaker 4: Throwing the ball of crap load still and product producing

732
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 4: the way that we thought other quarterbacks were going to produce.

733
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Speaker 4: Right this season and quarterback play is down and Andy

734
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,240
Speaker 4: Dalton's riding in on a on a horse and saying.

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Speaker 3: I will see it.

736
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 6: I'll save the passing game. And like his protection is there,

737
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 6: it's great.

738
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Speaker 2: Okay.

739
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 1: So you talked about anyone still talking about a quarterback

740
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,120
Speaker 1: change in Pittsburgh. That was a dislike, we'll we'll switch.

741
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Speaker 1: I'll just do a quick one first. AFC South has

742
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 1: been bumming me out. Remember how I talked it up

743
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 1: as like, oh, this is going to be the season

744
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 1: the AFC South, But they are two and eight.

745
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:46,960
Speaker 6: I remember you saying that two.

746
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Speaker 2: And eight outside the division.

747
00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:49,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know what is going on with the

748
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:50,800
Speaker 3: Jags like.

749
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 1: All the like, And it was going to be exciting

750
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 1: because the quarterbacks were going to be exciting. Trevor Lawrence

751
00:32:56,880 --> 00:33:00,560
Speaker 1: is not happening, Will Levis. It's kind of a.

752
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:02,240
Speaker 4: Way.

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Speaker 2: Even C. J.

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Speaker 1: Stroud I think has been uneven. I think he's played well,

755
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 1: but their passing game has been uneven. Their success rate

756
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 1: is very low actually as a passing attack, like they've

757
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:14,720
Speaker 1: had some big plays, but on a down to down basis,

758
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 1: they haven't been great. Not that I'm talking about the

759
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:19,560
Speaker 1: Texans when I'm talking about the struggles here and then

760
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 1: the Browns, I mean, I mean not the Browns, what

761
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:27,840
Speaker 1: the Colts and Anthony Richardson just rougher than I could

762
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 1: have imagined from a passing game perspective.

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Speaker 5: On it down to that, the Colts really thought this

764
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Speaker 5: was good.

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Speaker 3: They won the Colts.

766
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Speaker 2: They won last week. They won last week.

767
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Speaker 3: I'm sorry that was a big week.

768
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Speaker 1: Like it's it's a long season, I would say for

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00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 1: Colts especially here. I mean, Jags and Titans are in

770
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 1: a hole. But Colts, you just got to scratch out

771
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:52,720
Speaker 1: some wins and maybe it'll round into shape by November.

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Speaker 1: If you're just like three and four after seven weeks

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Speaker 1: or something, they could be fine.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: As I said in July and August and now September,

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Speaker 4: I really wanted to see not only Trevor Lawrence take

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Speaker 4: a step forward, but the coaching staff take a step forward.

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Speaker 6: That was really embarrassing.

779
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 4: Uh this this last game that they played, and it

780
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 4: just was disheveled.

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Speaker 6: It looked like not cohesive at any point.

782
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Speaker 4: And one of my dislikes, because I don't I don't

783
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 4: relish talking about this, but one of my dislikes is

784
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:29,759
Speaker 4: that this is the time of year, from basically now

785
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:32,840
Speaker 4: onward where you start to sort of, you know, do

786
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:34,480
Speaker 4: the thing where you're walking down the hall and you

787
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:37,279
Speaker 4: see someone who you know you want to avoid like

788
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:39,279
Speaker 4: having a hard conversation with, and you sort of don't

789
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:40,239
Speaker 4: make eye contact.

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Speaker 6: And this is like starting to be lame duck.

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Speaker 3: Have you fired?

792
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:47,040
Speaker 4: This is all my Katan upon its actually, this is

793
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:51,920
Speaker 4: all my This is all my settlers of Katan opponents actually.

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00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:55,279
Speaker 3: Like I avoid them. I avoid them. Jordan is ruthless.

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Speaker 2: I hear you. It is a little early for that.

796
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 1: But but now onward is we're about to talk about

797
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:04,359
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Doug Peterson I spoke about on the Monday

798
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: Night recap, how there was an edict before the season

799
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 1: they have to win and everyone in the building knows

800
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:12,879
Speaker 1: the score, and that's and you have stuff.

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00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 6: And you know what though too.

802
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:15,920
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, I cover a lot of coaching

803
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:19,240
Speaker 4: cycle stuff, and this is the time of year where

804
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:22,319
Speaker 4: you know, the agents start to gather all the materials

805
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:25,239
Speaker 4: and start figuring out who would partner with each other

806
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 4: and what jobs might be coming open. So like it

807
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:31,400
Speaker 4: or not, it happening this early. Those conversations about several

808
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:34,400
Speaker 4: several places that are sort of either teetering or you

809
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 4: get sort of an ominous sense that things are just

810
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:40,440
Speaker 4: continuing to go south. They're you know, you're you're thinking

811
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 4: about the possibility of who is going to be placed

812
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:43,480
Speaker 4: in their.

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00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 1: Next Jaguars are Yeah, that's one where people are definitely

814
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:49,520
Speaker 1: looking thinking, I chers guy, I can They're looking at

815
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence and saying I can fix them, I.

816
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:51,920
Speaker 3: Can fix them.

817
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:53,600
Speaker 5: That is I just wonder if they're going to switch

818
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 5: play callers at some point. I know Press Taylor was

819
00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:58,879
Speaker 5: calling plays last year, he's calling plays this year.

820
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:02,320
Speaker 3: But point Peterson.

821
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:06,719
Speaker 1: Won't admit it. We could see his lips moving, Doug.

822
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:09,400
Speaker 1: They have cameras, give me.

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00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 4: It's like the Geico commercial. We could see you, Carl.

824
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:13,719
Speaker 2: I have so many more dislikes, but why don't you

825
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:13,920
Speaker 2: do it?

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00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:21,400
Speaker 5: Dislike, Okay, wow, Braxton Burios in Miami getting pants. Oh,

827
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 5: that's it.

828
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:24,840
Speaker 3: I was like, where is she going with it? It was.

829
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:29,919
Speaker 5: I just first of all, as because we talked about

830
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:31,400
Speaker 5: it as soon as we walked into the studio.

831
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Speaker 2: How because put on his Instagram.

832
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,960
Speaker 4: Did Colleen Colleen walked or no, you walked into this?

833
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:40,840
Speaker 4: You've basically showed us what it was the photo And

834
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 4: I mean we've all.

835
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Speaker 1: Seen the photo, but Damna check had it on Instagram.

836
00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:46,400
Speaker 1: I know I was, and then there was no and

837
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Speaker 1: I was, how does this not?

838
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:48,600
Speaker 2: Like?

839
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:52,960
Speaker 5: How does this happen? And Greg was like pretty easy.

840
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:55,239
Speaker 5: I'm like, well then why doesn't it happen more? How

841
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 5: did this go so wrong?

842
00:36:57,360 --> 00:36:57,799
Speaker 3: For him?

843
00:36:58,200 --> 00:36:58,239
Speaker 4: Like?

844
00:36:58,600 --> 00:36:59,279
Speaker 3: I hate it.

845
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:02,520
Speaker 5: It wasn't seen on the broadcast, which is great for him,

846
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:04,840
Speaker 5: but that's just very embarrassing.

847
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:06,960
Speaker 1: I can't remember who it was, but there was a

848
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 1: player on the forty nine ers who I remember had

849
00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:12,400
Speaker 1: his pants pulled down years and years ago on the broadcast.

850
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:14,480
Speaker 2: No, no, yeah you saw.

851
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:17,239
Speaker 4: This section should not be called dislikes. It should be

852
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:19,240
Speaker 4: called things were not over the moon about.

853
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:21,080
Speaker 5: Wow.

854
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:23,040
Speaker 2: Sorry, thanks dad.

855
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 1: I did find a YouTube to a minute five second

856
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 1: long highlight reel of NFL's players pants falling.

857
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:30,720
Speaker 6: Oh on your work computer.

858
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:34,759
Speaker 2: This is not I don't. I dis like all of

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00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:36,520
Speaker 2: I dislike it. I dislike it.

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00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:41,319
Speaker 4: I dislike all the injuries that we're seeing. Yeah, there's

861
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:44,680
Speaker 4: a lot of really fun, interesting players. Injuries happen every year,

862
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:48,320
Speaker 4: it just seems like they're compounding so early in the season,

863
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 4: and you know, certainly there will be discussions about the

864
00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 4: preseason and player safety, and especially as the seasons get

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00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:56,680
Speaker 4: longer than ever and more players are putting more workloads

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00:37:56,719 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 4: on their bodies, and also as the physicality, which we've

867
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 4: talked about out of this game increases towards the run

868
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:05,719
Speaker 4: game versus a heavier passing game, you're going to have

869
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:08,520
Speaker 4: a heavier toll taken on your body over time. This

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00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:11,880
Speaker 4: is obviously like marginally marginal things over time. But if

871
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:14,320
Speaker 4: you're really talking about this, I fear that this is

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00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:15,680
Speaker 4: going to continue to be an issue.

873
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Speaker 6: Really really interesting.

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00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:19,759
Speaker 1: Any proof that there's more injured players because we go

875
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:21,800
Speaker 1: through this every year. I feel this and we're just like,

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00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:23,240
Speaker 1: there's so many injuries.

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00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:26,319
Speaker 4: It really happened as the stars do happen every year.

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00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:28,840
Speaker 4: It just seems like every week though, we're seeing like

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Speaker 4: a headliner name.

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00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, like five, Like so many teams get devastated.

881
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 1: But it's not a sport that should be played by

882
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:41,160
Speaker 1: anyone expecting to have like short term or long term health.

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00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 1: It's brutal, correct, right, I mean it's getting but it's

884
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:46,880
Speaker 1: getting more. Old fact of the sport, the off.

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Speaker 4: Season is getting less brutal in terms of you know,

886
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:51,799
Speaker 4: what they are, the toll that they're taking on their

887
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 4: in terms of like what their the CBA says that

888
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:56,040
Speaker 4: they can and can't do and practice those types of things.

889
00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:58,719
Speaker 4: That's getting less the game itself. I posit that it's

890
00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:01,279
Speaker 4: getting a little bit more because of the arc of

891
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:04,040
Speaker 4: the philosophical shift that we're seeing, and over time, you're

892
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:06,480
Speaker 4: going to see that brutality. You're going to have to

893
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:09,359
Speaker 4: adjust everyone because of the arc of the league right now,

894
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:12,880
Speaker 4: everybody eventually will have to adjust, including the sports science

895
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 4: departments and the the NFL training staffs.

896
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:20,920
Speaker 2: Well, and they can start wearing the different helmets.

897
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:24,719
Speaker 1: The Guardian, I'm kind of I'm surprised that didn't become

898
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:26,800
Speaker 1: a bigger talking point after the tu A thing, that

899
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 1: we have this technology that literally everyone could do and

900
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:34,960
Speaker 1: there's no reason that everyone's not wearing them except we

901
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:36,800
Speaker 1: don't think it looks cool. So we are kind of

902
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:40,000
Speaker 1: saying what we care about, Yeah, we don't care that

903
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:42,920
Speaker 1: much like it. And it's not going to say it's

904
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 1: going to be one hundred percent prevention for concussions, and

905
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:48,360
Speaker 1: that's only one type of injury, but so far it

906
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:49,880
Speaker 1: has had one hundred par It takes.

907
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:53,759
Speaker 5: A while for this like players to adapt to any

908
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:56,600
Speaker 5: type of change, and when you're playing at this high

909
00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:59,080
Speaker 5: of a level and you have something at like that's

910
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:00,560
Speaker 5: a signific choice out.

911
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 1: Of there, and just like the NFL could do it,

912
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:03,960
Speaker 1: they could just make they could if it was like

913
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:06,920
Speaker 1: it's going to take either a rash of concussions or

914
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:10,560
Speaker 1: something else drastically happening, and then it'll slowly happen I

915
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 1: shout out to the players that are doing it already,

916
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 1: like it is kind of cool to see the players

917
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:17,080
Speaker 1: that have taken that initiative. There aren't that many. There's

918
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:19,479
Speaker 1: a couple on the Colts I noticed, but there aren't

919
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:21,000
Speaker 1: that many. Why Why don't you give me a dislike

920
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:22,280
Speaker 1: Colleen Sad?

921
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:27,080
Speaker 3: Travis Sad? Travis Kelcey, I don't love seeing it.

922
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:30,760
Speaker 5: I he's not been involved in any of these games

923
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:33,879
Speaker 5: as as much as he was last year, and all

924
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:37,719
Speaker 5: of the shots of him just looking forlorn on the

925
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:39,160
Speaker 5: bench are just crushing me.

926
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:39,680
Speaker 2: I don't.

927
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:41,080
Speaker 3: I don't love it at all.

928
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:43,960
Speaker 4: If only that guy could get a W somewhere, you know,

929
00:40:44,239 --> 00:40:48,960
Speaker 4: somewhere in life, if only the universe thro the league is.

930
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:53,040
Speaker 3: Better and more ointaining. When Travis Kelcey is happy, I

931
00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:54,920
Speaker 3: think you're right, it'll take.

932
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:59,440
Speaker 1: It'll happen eventually. Right, he really is drying lots of coverage.

933
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:03,279
Speaker 1: I don't that's not totally made up. There was this

934
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 1: play where I saw Rashie Rice bust wide open basically

935
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:09,360
Speaker 1: because the two underneath defenders go towards Travis Kelcey. It's like,

936
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 1: you don't need to send those two defenders at Travis Kelcey.

937
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:15,000
Speaker 1: Right now, I'd send a second one with Rashid Rice,

938
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 1: who's running right past you for about sixty yards. That

939
00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:21,640
Speaker 1: is said, all right, I've got some sad ones. I've

940
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:28,400
Speaker 1: got a bunch still unfortunately, okay, all right, the Drake No, no,

941
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:30,960
Speaker 1: I'm not happy about, like laughing about the direction that

942
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:33,880
Speaker 1: Caleb Williams and Drake May's seasons are going, in particular,

943
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:38,640
Speaker 1: just in contrast to Jayden Daniels. Now, Drake May hasn't played,

944
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:42,160
Speaker 1: but the situation that's there for him to enter in

945
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:45,880
Speaker 1: New England is not good. They are dead last in

946
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 1: pass rush win rate so far. So like it's not

947
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:52,319
Speaker 1: working with Jacoby Brissette. They have no wide receivers who

948
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:54,440
Speaker 1: get open. I'm not really confident in the scheme to

949
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:57,200
Speaker 1: get them open, and the pass protection isn't good. So

950
00:41:57,320 --> 00:42:00,200
Speaker 1: when he does play, and he should play eventually, I'm

951
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:02,160
Speaker 1: just worried about how I'm not confident that they're going

952
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:04,840
Speaker 1: to come up with good solutions. And then Caleb Williams

953
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:07,799
Speaker 1: a step in the right direction. He had way more.

954
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:11,760
Speaker 1: Caleb b plays against the Colts but still bears thirtieth

955
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:14,239
Speaker 1: fifty two times. Oh right, a lot of that was

956
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:16,800
Speaker 1: a lot of it was coming back when it was

957
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:19,400
Speaker 1: effective late in the game when they were down two scores,

958
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:21,279
Speaker 1: Like he was at a fairly I mean he was

959
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:24,200
Speaker 1: at like thirty late third and then like it was

960
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:25,800
Speaker 1: working kind of in the fourth quarter. It was the

961
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:28,359
Speaker 1: best stretch he had of his career. But yeah, pass

962
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 1: rush winn't rate there thirtieth. Not sure if they're going

963
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:31,840
Speaker 1: to be able to scheme their way out of it.

964
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,960
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen's not healthy, might not be the full Keenan Allen.

965
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:36,240
Speaker 1: It's just a little bit of a bummer.

966
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:37,759
Speaker 6: There's some heat there too.

967
00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:41,520
Speaker 4: A couple of sort of social media posts whatever that

968
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 4: popped in terms of the linemen in the locker room

969
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:48,879
Speaker 4: talking about their bewilderment at the speed option call late

970
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:51,200
Speaker 4: in the game. I mean this it's starting early there,

971
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:52,680
Speaker 4: frankly is what is what I'm saying.

972
00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:56,000
Speaker 1: And the tackles are playing pretty well, but it's three interior, Yeah,

973
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:59,160
Speaker 1: interior guys, the forty nine ers. You mentioned the injuries

974
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:02,440
Speaker 1: so Hardgrave, that's part of the injury situation to me.

975
00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:04,640
Speaker 1: He has a torn triceps. He's missing the season. That

976
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:06,759
Speaker 1: was an injury that didn't exist in the sixties and

977
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:11,120
Speaker 1: seventies and eighties, and you can surmise different reasons why

978
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:14,840
Speaker 1: different muscle groups are happening to burst now or not.

979
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 1: But every you know, in terms of how you're training,

980
00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:19,400
Speaker 1: and lots of things could be affecting that. But like

981
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:21,799
Speaker 1: there are more of those types of injuries. He's out

982
00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:23,920
Speaker 1: for the season, and so the forty nine Ers defense

983
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:25,799
Speaker 1: is on my list of things. I just like, I'm

984
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:28,600
Speaker 1: gonna give you some numbers. Twenty fourth in defensive EPA,

985
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:33,880
Speaker 1: thirtieth in net yards per attempt allowed to passers, thirtieth

986
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:38,399
Speaker 1: yards per play allowed, twenty first in DVOA. In general,

987
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:40,920
Speaker 1: they're just bad and I'm thinking, like why, And I

988
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:45,320
Speaker 1: think if they're thin, like there's bigger weak spots. Leonard

989
00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 1: Floyd is not playing well for them, and he's playing

990
00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:50,839
Speaker 1: a lot uh play, Yeah, and that's probably why he's

991
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:53,319
Speaker 1: not playing well. I ter gross spot before, like there's

992
00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:56,920
Speaker 1: no rotation. Now you take away to von Hargrave. They're thin.

993
00:43:57,080 --> 00:44:00,279
Speaker 1: They have just problem spots. Isaac Yadam just picked Don

994
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:03,280
Speaker 1: by Matthew Stafford in that game. That's a really weak spot.

995
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:06,960
Speaker 1: Devandre Campbell who's playing at linebacker. They really missed Drake

996
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:10,839
Speaker 1: Greenlaw and then their coordinator Nick Sorenson. It just might

997
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:12,799
Speaker 1: be one of those things kind of that Belichick went through.

998
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:15,000
Speaker 1: We talked about the disease of more in terms of

999
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:17,800
Speaker 1: what happens to teams when you have a lot of success.

1000
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:19,799
Speaker 2: This isn't the disease and more, but I think it happens.

1001
00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:22,880
Speaker 1: To winning teams that like they're now on what Kyle's

1002
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:25,560
Speaker 1: on his sixth defensive coordinator he's ever hired. I mean,

1003
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:27,680
Speaker 1: he nailed it with those first three or four, but

1004
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:30,480
Speaker 1: then they fired Steve Wilks last year, and maybe it's

1005
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:32,640
Speaker 1: a little bit of a brain drain situation and a

1006
00:44:32,719 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 1: talent drain.

1007
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 6: There was a report that.

1008
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:38,320
Speaker 4: Came out last week too that Kyle Shanahan tried to

1009
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:41,759
Speaker 4: hire Jeff Ulbrick. Oh my gosh, the New York Jets. Yeah,

1010
00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:44,560
Speaker 4: Mikelber that reported this at the San Francisco Chronicle and

1011
00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:49,439
Speaker 4: it was Jets defense. To me, yeah, the Jets defensive corner.

1012
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:51,319
Speaker 4: To me, that was like pretty telling again that he's

1013
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:53,959
Speaker 4: thinking there is some brain drain. I know he lost

1014
00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:57,680
Speaker 4: his I'm not going to say this right continuitous guys,

1015
00:44:57,800 --> 00:45:00,080
Speaker 4: the ones who were there for a while who he

1016
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:02,600
Speaker 4: developed in house, who stuck around for a while, he

1017
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 4: lost him, their head coaches.

1018
00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:05,279
Speaker 2: And they happen to be like some of the best

1019
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 2: defense lines in right.

1020
00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:11,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, and can't find the people necessarily who too right

1021
00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:14,960
Speaker 4: or wrong to his own specifications are doing the things

1022
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:16,319
Speaker 4: that those guys did.

1023
00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:18,719
Speaker 5: Also, did you see by the way that Christian McCaffrey

1024
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:22,360
Speaker 5: is going to Germany for his Achilles toll this?

1025
00:45:22,719 --> 00:45:24,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's never a good sign either. Another thing that

1026
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:28,400
Speaker 2: wasn't happening in the seventies and eighties. But their offense

1027
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:28,879
Speaker 2: has been fine.

1028
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:30,960
Speaker 1: Brock Perty bawled out in that game that was one

1029
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:32,480
Speaker 1: of the actually I think the best games of rock

1030
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:35,439
Speaker 1: Perty's career. Weirdly, and they lost. I'm actually not worried

1031
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:37,360
Speaker 1: about their offense. Their offense, by the numbers, in by

1032
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:40,479
Speaker 1: the eye test has been fine. Yeah, the floors cooked

1033
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:42,920
Speaker 1: him up a little bit, but their offense is good.

1034
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:46,120
Speaker 1: The last one I did want to get in Deshaun Watson.

1035
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:51,799
Speaker 1: How brutal is watching Deshaun Watson play football right now?

1036
00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 1: And then my dislike is actually the media coverage of

1037
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:59,880
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson. I actually think people are so uncomfortable talking

1038
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:02,520
Speaker 1: about Deshaun Watson because of who he is as a person,

1039
00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:06,440
Speaker 1: and also because of their relationships at the highest levels

1040
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:10,719
Speaker 1: of our industry with his agent, David Mullagetta, who was

1041
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:14,400
Speaker 1: very powerful, and I think they're at that relationship that

1042
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:16,200
Speaker 1: he has with the media. I said it a lot

1043
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:18,560
Speaker 1: that I think that trade would not have happened if

1044
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:20,800
Speaker 1: there was more pushback from the media because of that

1045
00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:22,920
Speaker 1: that not only is that turning out to be like

1046
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:25,920
Speaker 1: the worst trade in NFL history, but weirdly, he's not

1047
00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:27,600
Speaker 1: getting a ton of heat.

1048
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:31,719
Speaker 2: For being the absolute like dog of a player that

1049
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:32,080
Speaker 2: he is.

1050
00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:34,759
Speaker 1: I mean, he's lost, he's holding on to the ball,

1051
00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:39,839
Speaker 1: he's not accurate, he's not athletic. Imagine, like I'm trying

1052
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:42,879
Speaker 1: to think of a good comp like someone that Young

1053
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:45,640
Speaker 1: in his career was a top ten quarterback and then

1054
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:48,600
Speaker 1: for a pretty long stretch of time last year when

1055
00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:51,000
Speaker 1: he played, you know, the year before, certainly these three games,

1056
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:53,680
Speaker 1: was not just like not what he used to be,

1057
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 1: but literally one of the worst quarterbacks in the league

1058
00:46:57,120 --> 00:47:00,800
Speaker 1: by any metric. Like last he's second to last or

1059
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:02,920
Speaker 1: third to last at everything. It's just a question of

1060
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:06,080
Speaker 1: Bryce Young's behind him and everything. Skyler Thompson is now

1061
00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:08,920
Speaker 1: behind him in some things, like and that's Deshaun Watson.

1062
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:11,680
Speaker 2: And yet there's like, weirdly, not a lot of like, hey,

1063
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:13,880
Speaker 2: why are we benching this guy? Aren't we trying to

1064
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:15,200
Speaker 2: win football games?

1065
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:17,600
Speaker 1: And I think it's because people are uncomfortable, and I

1066
00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:19,040
Speaker 1: think it's because of the agent.

1067
00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:22,000
Speaker 3: But I think he's getting baken out by a sniper.

1068
00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:25,759
Speaker 1: It's like if Trevor Lawrence was playing this bad like

1069
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:28,080
Speaker 1: and that's not even a great comp Like I'm saying

1070
00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:30,040
Speaker 1: this bad like worst quarterback in the league, wouldn't that

1071
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:31,120
Speaker 1: be leading all the shows?

1072
00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:34,200
Speaker 2: I mean, forget Dak Prescott. Imagine if Dak Prescott.

1073
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:37,239
Speaker 1: Played this bad for a month, much less for three seasons, like,

1074
00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:38,760
Speaker 1: people would go in insane.

1075
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:41,239
Speaker 4: I know it's Cleveland, but market to be fair, but

1076
00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:42,680
Speaker 4: I will I will say like or.

1077
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:45,719
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones, that's a better example. Daniel Jones has never

1078
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:49,000
Speaker 1: been close to the Heights. And again it's a different market,

1079
00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:54,719
Speaker 1: but no market. Deshaun Watson's a big superstar. We're not

1080
00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 1: talking about this superstar who is sinking this franchise because

1081
00:47:58,120 --> 00:47:58,839
Speaker 1: of the way he's playing.

1082
00:47:58,880 --> 00:47:59,600
Speaker 3: There's no upside.

1083
00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:03,120
Speaker 4: I think there's a part of the nuance here is

1084
00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:06,120
Speaker 4: that there's it seems to be a sense of helplessness,

1085
00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:10,000
Speaker 4: helplessness from the organization itself who made this decision because

1086
00:48:10,040 --> 00:48:13,640
Speaker 4: of the contract. So it's like, you know what the

1087
00:48:13,719 --> 00:48:17,919
Speaker 4: solution is, right and you know there is no sort

1088
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:22,239
Speaker 4: of uh, you can't move in this. It's suffocating you.

1089
00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:26,240
Speaker 4: You know, it's just it is one of the craziest

1090
00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 4: things I've ever seen.

1091
00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:29,960
Speaker 3: They have the ability to make a change, though, like

1092
00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:30,759
Speaker 3: I think they're going.

1093
00:48:31,239 --> 00:48:33,440
Speaker 1: I think they're going to if he plays like this

1094
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:35,960
Speaker 1: another couple of weeks. I think it's like you think

1095
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:39,080
Speaker 1: it takes two more weeks. I get why they came

1096
00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:41,800
Speaker 1: into this season like, well, let's try it again, but

1097
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:44,239
Speaker 1: this time he'll stay healthy. And you know you had

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00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:46,880
Speaker 1: you had to try it again, maybe because of the contract.

1099
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:49,279
Speaker 1: But I do think it's getting to the point he's

1100
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:52,359
Speaker 1: unplayable that you don't think the other players on his team.

1101
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:55,720
Speaker 4: I don't, and I don't think that people who general

1102
00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:59,720
Speaker 4: generally do know what they're looking at in terms of football,

1103
00:48:59,719 --> 00:49:02,360
Speaker 4: like the or they're smart people in that building. What

1104
00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:06,600
Speaker 4: I'm saying is I feel like this is a ownership situation.

1105
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:09,080
Speaker 4: We've put I feel like I feel like it's the

1106
00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 4: contract it self is holding a lot of people's hands

1107
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:13,400
Speaker 4: behind their backs in that building.

1108
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Speaker 3: Jamis Winston. Let's see, let's go.

1109
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:19,680
Speaker 2: That would be fun.

1110
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:22,880
Speaker 1: I mean, the sneaks aren't really fooling anyone. All right,

1111
00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:24,920
Speaker 1: we alred that was it for the dislikes. I have

1112
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:27,120
Speaker 1: to get that one, and let's talk about this Giants

1113
00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:29,719
Speaker 1: and Cowboys game. Will do it after the break.

1114
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:30,799
Speaker 3: I like this game.

1115
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:45,319
Speaker 1: We too. We are back on NFL Daily and yes

1116
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:48,399
Speaker 1: it is time for our tenf preview presented by Prime Video.

1117
00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:49,279
Speaker 3: Let's go.

1118
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:53,839
Speaker 1: Jordan had the temerity to ask me, as we're going

1119
00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:57,600
Speaker 1: to break, do you really like this Cowboys Giants game? Well,

1120
00:49:57,680 --> 00:49:59,759
Speaker 1: first of all, I'd be dying for this game, and

1121
00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:02,600
Speaker 1: you know, the desert of May. But second of all,

1122
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:05,120
Speaker 1: how dare you imply that I would ever be anything

1123
00:50:05,200 --> 00:50:08,240
Speaker 1: but one hundred percent genuine with the audience?

1124
00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:08,520
Speaker 5: You know?

1125
00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:11,880
Speaker 6: How dare I? And how dare I suggest that I.

1126
00:50:11,920 --> 00:50:14,600
Speaker 1: Really am excated for this game because I think losing

1127
00:50:14,719 --> 00:50:17,439
Speaker 1: teams have bigger steaks early in the season, so there's

1128
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:20,359
Speaker 1: actually a reason to it. When they enter the fourth quarter.

1129
00:50:20,640 --> 00:50:22,759
Speaker 1: In the Commanders Bengals game, I thought like, ooh, this

1130
00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:25,279
Speaker 1: is a big moment in this season. It's a real

1131
00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:28,040
Speaker 1: deal Super Bowl contender. We thought that's about to go

1132
00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:29,920
Speaker 1: to zero to three. So there's more stakes than if

1133
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:31,920
Speaker 1: you're just two and one and it's like another game.

1134
00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:35,120
Speaker 1: And for the Cowboys, this is a big spot.

1135
00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:37,760
Speaker 3: Mike McCarthy, this is a big spot.

1136
00:50:37,960 --> 00:50:42,040
Speaker 1: Yes, So Mike McCarthy has been taking some heat and

1137
00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:45,360
Speaker 1: he is starting to sound like he feels the pressure.

1138
00:50:45,560 --> 00:50:48,640
Speaker 2: His players just uniformly.

1139
00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:53,719
Speaker 1: Jordan Lewis, Michael Parsons, DeMarcus Lawrence, Dak Prescott all said

1140
00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:56,320
Speaker 1: separately that we need to do a better job with

1141
00:50:56,400 --> 00:50:59,080
Speaker 1: the details, with the preparation, as if they were sending

1142
00:50:59,120 --> 00:51:01,000
Speaker 1: a message to I don't know if it was other

1143
00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:03,839
Speaker 1: players or it was the coaches or what, but let's

1144
00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:06,520
Speaker 1: listen to Mike McCarthy asked about it on Monday.

1145
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:09,120
Speaker 10: Big Harris Bowarsar Tellingery Monday, you said, you guys don't

1146
00:51:09,120 --> 00:51:10,920
Speaker 10: have a ton of time for corrections this week. But

1147
00:51:11,040 --> 00:51:13,520
Speaker 10: with Jordan Lewis talking about details, Michael Parsons last night

1148
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:15,680
Speaker 10: talking about accountability, how do you kind of work those

1149
00:51:15,719 --> 00:51:16,400
Speaker 10: conversations And.

1150
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:18,920
Speaker 7: It's pretty dramatic there, Nick I tell you must practice

1151
00:51:18,920 --> 00:51:23,040
Speaker 7: that one. I mean, well, hey, Thursday schedule. I mean,

1152
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:25,560
Speaker 7: that's what we're on. I mean, it's, uh, we didn't

1153
00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:29,440
Speaker 7: win the game, so it's I think that's that's that's

1154
00:51:29,520 --> 00:51:32,279
Speaker 7: part of where we are. I mean, so yeah, I

1155
00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:34,600
Speaker 7: think they do a good job of, you know, answering

1156
00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 7: your questions. It's emotional after the game, so I'm not

1157
00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:40,359
Speaker 7: I'm not ever going to referee motion on the field

1158
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:41,680
Speaker 7: or after a game.

1159
00:51:43,480 --> 00:51:46,239
Speaker 3: That's some sass there from Mike McCarthy.

1160
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:49,280
Speaker 4: I thought that question was the appropriate amount of dramatic

1161
00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:50,640
Speaker 4: considering how this is going.

1162
00:51:50,840 --> 00:51:52,120
Speaker 2: It wasn't dramatic at all.

1163
00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:54,600
Speaker 1: That was said Nick Harris for asking a good question,

1164
00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:55,359
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying.

1165
00:51:55,680 --> 00:51:59,800
Speaker 5: Yeah, he accused him of practicing the question ahead of

1166
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:00,680
Speaker 5: I'm as well.

1167
00:52:01,160 --> 00:52:05,200
Speaker 1: That gave me, Oh, you're feeling some heat vibes, because

1168
00:52:05,200 --> 00:52:07,279
Speaker 1: that's just like a coach lashing out.

1169
00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:09,720
Speaker 2: It's like someone taking it out on like a preparation.

1170
00:52:09,840 --> 00:52:12,040
Speaker 4: What about being prepared to answer that question if your

1171
00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:13,680
Speaker 4: players were publicly talking about it.

1172
00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:17,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, I heard some speculation on.

1173
00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:22,560
Speaker 1: A Cowboys podcast just like you know, maybe that came

1174
00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:24,759
Speaker 1: right after a meeting with Jerry you know, what I mean,

1175
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:26,640
Speaker 1: he's just in like a bad mood.

1176
00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:27,160
Speaker 6: You could see that.

1177
00:52:27,280 --> 00:52:27,960
Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy.

1178
00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:31,520
Speaker 4: Well, also, by the way, it's genuinely like a good dude,

1179
00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:33,680
Speaker 4: seems like. But it just also is like, man, when

1180
00:52:33,719 --> 00:52:36,439
Speaker 4: you when coaches feel the heat like that, the lame

1181
00:52:36,560 --> 00:52:39,560
Speaker 4: duck conversation, you know that type of thing. Yeah, that's

1182
00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:41,879
Speaker 4: when oh man, people get real tight.

1183
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:44,120
Speaker 3: You can tell that wasn't about the actual question.

1184
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:47,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, that wasn't about the question or the person. That

1185
00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:48,600
Speaker 4: was about him and only him.

1186
00:52:48,719 --> 00:52:50,520
Speaker 2: Although maybe he would know that.

1187
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:52,759
Speaker 1: He's taking it as a shot of like we're not

1188
00:52:53,960 --> 00:52:57,800
Speaker 1: that prepped and he's in a lame duck year that

1189
00:52:57,880 --> 00:53:00,319
Speaker 1: you mentioned I mentioned earlier. Like to me, they all right,

1190
00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:03,759
Speaker 1: not like a very game plan specific type of team.

1191
00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:06,560
Speaker 1: They kind of run what they run, and I didn't

1192
00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:08,880
Speaker 1: think they attacked some of the weaknesses of the Ravens

1193
00:53:09,320 --> 00:53:11,239
Speaker 1: that well Mike Zimmers had going into the game. It

1194
00:53:11,320 --> 00:53:13,720
Speaker 1: was a prove it game, approve it game to against

1195
00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:16,800
Speaker 1: the Ring. Wow, what they prove That's what I'm saying, Like,

1196
00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:17,880
Speaker 1: especially the lineback.

1197
00:53:17,960 --> 00:53:19,600
Speaker 3: They need help with their run defense.

1198
00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:21,480
Speaker 1: In safety level. I know the Giants aren't like a

1199
00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:26,319
Speaker 1: great running team, but I think they're a little more

1200
00:53:26,400 --> 00:53:30,000
Speaker 1: specific and intentional in what they do Brian Dable on offense,

1201
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:32,799
Speaker 1: and they've had some positive things, and I think their

1202
00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:35,759
Speaker 1: offensive line is solid. I think this is the best

1203
00:53:35,800 --> 00:53:38,760
Speaker 1: offensive line the Giants have had in like a decade.

1204
00:53:38,880 --> 00:53:40,960
Speaker 1: It's like a reasonable offensive line. That's a good place

1205
00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:41,319
Speaker 1: to start.

1206
00:53:41,400 --> 00:53:44,759
Speaker 5: Devin Singletary has a juicy matchup, I think in this

1207
00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:47,799
Speaker 5: game because the Cowboys defense, as we're talking about them

1208
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:50,279
Speaker 5: right now, they've allowed one hundred and ninety and two

1209
00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:53,160
Speaker 5: hundred and seventy four rushing yards the past two weeks,

1210
00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:56,200
Speaker 5: so more than twenty two hundred and twenty of those

1211
00:53:56,320 --> 00:53:59,320
Speaker 5: yards have come before contact. They've missed thirty two tackles

1212
00:53:59,360 --> 00:54:02,680
Speaker 5: this season, and on those plays, they've allowed two hundred

1213
00:54:02,719 --> 00:54:06,360
Speaker 5: and forty one yards, which is third most. DeMarcus Lawrence

1214
00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:11,520
Speaker 5: has missed nine alone. Singletary, he's done a really good

1215
00:54:11,640 --> 00:54:16,240
Speaker 5: job making guys miss force nineteen miss tackles through three weeks,

1216
00:54:16,239 --> 00:54:19,360
Speaker 5: which is third most in the entire league. But I

1217
00:54:19,480 --> 00:54:23,239
Speaker 5: think that because Dallas can't stop the run. They've had

1218
00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:25,879
Speaker 5: no pass rush either the past at least the past

1219
00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:29,759
Speaker 5: two games, so teams they just haven't been in long

1220
00:54:29,960 --> 00:54:34,400
Speaker 5: passing situations on those critical third downs. So opposing quarterbacks

1221
00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:37,200
Speaker 5: have had a ton of time to just like picnic

1222
00:54:37,680 --> 00:54:40,520
Speaker 5: if they wanted to, and we saw it with Lamar

1223
00:54:40,640 --> 00:54:42,480
Speaker 5: Jackson and what he was able to do. Plus the

1224
00:54:42,520 --> 00:54:46,280
Speaker 5: Cowboys offense was completely asleep for the first three quarters

1225
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:49,000
Speaker 5: of that game, finally woke up in the fourth or

1226
00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:52,960
Speaker 5: I guess you could see it as the Ravens weren't

1227
00:54:52,960 --> 00:54:55,040
Speaker 5: able to close out a game once again in the

1228
00:54:55,080 --> 00:54:55,600
Speaker 5: fourth quarter.

1229
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:58,680
Speaker 4: I think this is an opportunity to for Brian Dable

1230
00:54:58,840 --> 00:55:01,000
Speaker 4: and the Giants to start doing a little bit more

1231
00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:06,279
Speaker 4: of what has been somewhat effective, especially more recently, which

1232
00:55:06,360 --> 00:55:09,879
Speaker 4: is getting designed runs in for Daniel Jones. Next Gen

1233
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:13,280
Speaker 4: says he's recorded the fifth most designed quarterback rushes this season,

1234
00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:16,400
Speaker 4: resulting in the fourth most such yards. And so if

1235
00:55:16,440 --> 00:55:19,000
Speaker 4: you can add that type of layer, that threat, like

1236
00:55:19,080 --> 00:55:21,719
Speaker 4: we talked about earlier, that threat of that type of

1237
00:55:21,840 --> 00:55:25,000
Speaker 4: run against a defensive front that's already poorous last in

1238
00:55:25,080 --> 00:55:29,560
Speaker 4: the league in yards per game rushing defense, if you

1239
00:55:29,640 --> 00:55:32,120
Speaker 4: can add that and then also just have a straightforward

1240
00:55:32,400 --> 00:55:36,240
Speaker 4: running back attack as well, that gives them all kinds

1241
00:55:36,239 --> 00:55:38,520
Speaker 4: of nightmares to think about when they're already struggling that

1242
00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:39,680
Speaker 4: much to defend the run.

1243
00:55:39,880 --> 00:55:42,560
Speaker 1: Right, let's give some love to the giants. Two weeks ago,

1244
00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:44,839
Speaker 1: were saying, is this going to be Daniel Jones's last game?

1245
00:55:44,880 --> 00:55:45,719
Speaker 2: That was me my bet.

1246
00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:49,439
Speaker 1: Two positive games, two positive games in earw you're playing

1247
00:55:49,440 --> 00:55:52,160
Speaker 1: the Browns defense. Last week he got away with a couple.

1248
00:55:52,360 --> 00:55:54,839
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones he plays, so there was some fortune there.

1249
00:55:54,880 --> 00:55:58,040
Speaker 5: I mean the way that they open that game, they

1250
00:55:58,160 --> 00:56:00,439
Speaker 5: completely put up the beginning of that game.

1251
00:56:01,280 --> 00:56:04,120
Speaker 1: Colleen, this is a program. This is the best I

1252
00:56:04,200 --> 00:56:07,520
Speaker 1: want my child, So listen now I'm kidding. You're right

1253
00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:09,040
Speaker 1: they started that game that way. But then you think

1254
00:56:09,040 --> 00:56:10,960
Speaker 1: about what Daniel Jones And yeah, he had an interception

1255
00:56:11,040 --> 00:56:13,400
Speaker 1: that was called back, but he started eighteen for twenty

1256
00:56:13,640 --> 00:56:16,600
Speaker 1: in a game against the Cleveland Browns. That's good coaching.

1257
00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:20,160
Speaker 1: I think he's played better in terms of his decisions.

1258
00:56:20,480 --> 00:56:22,640
Speaker 1: And then they have a real football guy in Malik Name.

1259
00:56:22,719 --> 00:56:24,720
Speaker 6: Oh my god, he's a miracle.

1260
00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:27,719
Speaker 2: You know what, Like the great catches are one thing.

1261
00:56:28,560 --> 00:56:31,320
Speaker 1: I really got into the fourth down, like now you

1262
00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:33,360
Speaker 1: can give him the ball on fourth down as a

1263
00:56:33,480 --> 00:56:35,680
Speaker 1: runner in a key spot. And then he had a

1264
00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:38,760
Speaker 1: pass breakup where Jones was gonna one of those Daniel

1265
00:56:38,800 --> 00:56:40,520
Speaker 1: Jones plays where it was going to be intercepted and

1266
00:56:40,600 --> 00:56:42,879
Speaker 1: Neighbors comes flying in and knocks it down.

1267
00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:44,120
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, that's a football guy.

1268
00:56:44,160 --> 00:56:45,000
Speaker 6: Oh here's what I think.

1269
00:56:45,080 --> 00:56:48,000
Speaker 4: So you're you're seeing like all of this potential here.

1270
00:56:48,040 --> 00:56:50,439
Speaker 4: They're trying different things with the quarterback in the run game.

1271
00:56:50,760 --> 00:56:52,719
Speaker 4: They're trying a couple you can, you can't, you can

1272
00:56:52,880 --> 00:56:55,000
Speaker 4: hand it off to Malik Neighbors, And what they're doing

1273
00:56:55,360 --> 00:56:58,040
Speaker 4: almost seems to hint to me like they're sneakily sort

1274
00:56:58,080 --> 00:57:01,200
Speaker 4: of setting up different types of mister plays, sweeps and

1275
00:57:01,640 --> 00:57:04,080
Speaker 4: end arounds, things like that, especially against the front that

1276
00:57:04,160 --> 00:57:07,120
Speaker 4: has just gassed on the other side, and he and

1277
00:57:07,160 --> 00:57:09,840
Speaker 4: lak Naghbors has been sent in motion on thirty one snaps,

1278
00:57:09,840 --> 00:57:12,640
Speaker 4: which is the highest of any anyone else on his team,

1279
00:57:13,160 --> 00:57:15,440
Speaker 4: and a lot of it's at snap motion, which to

1280
00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:19,400
Speaker 4: me talks about the potential down the road of taking

1281
00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:22,840
Speaker 4: these handoffs and again adding like three layers into your

1282
00:57:22,960 --> 00:57:26,280
Speaker 4: run game, three dimensions into your run game, that there

1283
00:57:26,400 --> 00:57:29,760
Speaker 4: is no way this Cowboys defense is prepared for.

1284
00:57:30,040 --> 00:57:31,560
Speaker 6: If they keep playing the way that.

1285
00:57:31,600 --> 00:57:33,920
Speaker 1: They have, giants are going to win this game, right, Like,

1286
00:57:34,520 --> 00:57:36,360
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm going that far. They're four

1287
00:57:36,400 --> 00:57:38,160
Speaker 1: and a half point underdogs.

1288
00:57:37,680 --> 00:57:40,560
Speaker 3: Which to me is way too big, and so I'm

1289
00:57:40,640 --> 00:57:41,400
Speaker 3: taking the Giants.

1290
00:57:42,720 --> 00:57:44,280
Speaker 2: I think I'm taking the Cowboys.

1291
00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:48,080
Speaker 1: It's a really important game for them, and I think

1292
00:57:48,120 --> 00:57:51,439
Speaker 1: the Giants are better, and so I'm threading the needle.

1293
00:57:51,480 --> 00:57:54,800
Speaker 1: I feel better about the Giants picking both. No, yeah,

1294
00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:57,120
Speaker 1: that's what I mean. I feel better about the Giants

1295
00:57:57,160 --> 00:57:58,320
Speaker 1: plus four and a half than I do.

1296
00:57:58,600 --> 00:58:00,440
Speaker 2: Either team win the game.

1297
00:58:00,520 --> 00:58:04,320
Speaker 1: But I ultimately I am gonna trust in talent, but

1298
00:58:04,440 --> 00:58:08,080
Speaker 1: I think game plan wise, I trust Stable to do

1299
00:58:08,400 --> 00:58:12,840
Speaker 1: more to help his players win. Then then McCarthy coming

1300
00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:15,960
Speaker 1: up with some schemes, it's like where are there other guys, Like,

1301
00:58:16,040 --> 00:58:18,600
Speaker 1: let's get a little more for I literally wrote this

1302
00:58:18,760 --> 00:58:20,600
Speaker 1: down and thought, this is not a good sign.

1303
00:58:20,880 --> 00:58:23,280
Speaker 2: We need more Turpin, we need more lip Key.

1304
00:58:23,520 --> 00:58:26,800
Speaker 1: That's their god, that's their like fourth string receiver who's

1305
00:58:26,840 --> 00:58:29,320
Speaker 1: more of a gadget guy but is so explosive. And

1306
00:58:29,440 --> 00:58:31,920
Speaker 1: then Hunter Lipkey, who's their fullback but is actually kind

1307
00:58:31,920 --> 00:58:35,440
Speaker 1: of awesome. But the Giants secondary is is Cheeks.

1308
00:58:35,600 --> 00:58:36,360
Speaker 2: It's rough.

1309
00:58:36,720 --> 00:58:39,520
Speaker 4: So if like if you get see we got quite

1310
00:58:39,520 --> 00:58:40,800
Speaker 4: a theme on this showday.

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Speaker 1: It's rough like they wanted Deontay Banks to be a

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Speaker 1: top cornwreck.

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Speaker 2: He's just not.

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Speaker 1: Dorri Jackson is hurt court like there are there are

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00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:51,320
Speaker 1: there should be guys open for the Cowboy.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna have to throw it because they can't. They're

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Speaker 4: not running it well either.

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Speaker 1: No, they're not built for twenty twenty four. I've been

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00:58:56,760 --> 00:58:58,560
Speaker 1: thinking about who are the teams not built for this

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00:58:58,800 --> 00:59:02,440
Speaker 1: new run based world we're in. Yeah, the Dallas Cowboys

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Speaker 1: might be your number one team on the list because

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Speaker 1: they can't run the ball and they can't stop the run.

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Speaker 3: They have no big plays they I mean, they can't

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Speaker 3: score touchdowns. It's a real problem, man.

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Speaker 1: It would be something Giants fans out there, I can't

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Speaker 1: remember the last time I rooted for you, but I'm

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Speaker 1: rooting for you in this game. Just same, the chaos

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Speaker 1: of it all. But I've taken the Cowboys to win

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Speaker 1: by three. Yeah, n you want to pick.

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Speaker 4: I'm I was waiting for you to introduce the my

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Speaker 4: probably losing pick because I am terrible at picking. Listeners

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Speaker 4: have not figured everyone is I am horrific at picking,

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Speaker 4: but I am picking the Giants in this one. Sorry

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Speaker 4: Giants fans if that means that your team loses, because

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00:59:38,320 --> 00:59:40,720
Speaker 4: I'm terrible at picking, but I am picking it. I

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00:59:40,800 --> 00:59:43,120
Speaker 4: just think the Giants just can do more things to

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00:59:43,240 --> 00:59:46,640
Speaker 4: antagonize this Cowboys defense. I think that that is very

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Speaker 4: This matchup is glaringly obvious for those reasons. And Brian

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00:59:49,920 --> 00:59:52,360
Speaker 4: Dable is also kind of coaching with his back against

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Speaker 4: the wall in a lot of ways.

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Speaker 1: Yep, they hate their pass rush played awesome last week,

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Speaker 1: Dexter Lawrence one of the very best and league Brian

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00:59:58,760 --> 01:00:02,120
Speaker 1: Burns coming a long against a Cowboys line that has

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01:00:02,200 --> 01:00:06,280
Speaker 1: been playing great like even Zach Martin Pac Martin's first

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Speaker 1: bout Hall of Famer, but he is not at that

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Speaker 1: high level.

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Speaker 2: You just you just see the the erosion Cowboys. Let's

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Speaker 2: let's enjoy it.

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Speaker 1: On Thursday night, I'll be with Danny Hifitz, who's a

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Speaker 1: Giants fan from the Ringer.

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Speaker 6: I really like, Oh, you're buckling in for a Giants

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Speaker 6: game with Danny.

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Speaker 1: And the Dantasy uh Fantasy Hour over at the Ringer.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm calling it, all right. That was this

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Speaker 1: week's tenf preview, presented by Prime Video. Be sure to

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Speaker 1: watch the Dallas Cowboys take on the New York Giants

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Speaker 1: this Thursday on Prime Video.

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Speaker 2: Let's uh say goodbye to you. What a great show.

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Speaker 2: Enjoyed having you guys in the Chris Wesley Podcast Studio.

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Speaker 2: Love you guys and love our preview show.

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Speaker 1: We will have like Deve, we not dislike. Yeah, like

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Speaker 1: if we like this show, we like each other. Also

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Speaker 1: like weish. Clay Bond will be with me and we'll

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Speaker 1: do the preview h for Thursday.

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Speaker 2: I'll see you then. Until then, football is back.