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Speaker 2: know what time it is, Mitchell, you know what time

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Speaker 2: it is. Welcome back to the Richard Truman Podcast. The

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Speaker 2: schedule has been released, and my goodness, Mitchell, our Thursday

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Speaker 2: night schedule looks fantastic. I think we got twelve divisional games.

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Speaker 1: Rich Richard, the NFL does it right, man, there's really

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Speaker 1: no break ever, you know, we go right from the draft.

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Speaker 1: A couple weeks later, we got this schedule release. Everyone's

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Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine ers. They open at home against

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Speaker 1: a a Ron Rogers in the New York Jets, prime time. Richard,

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Speaker 1: this is gonna be a much anticipated game. What are

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Speaker 2: Well, it's gonna be a great game. First off, I

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Speaker 2: think that's a great matchup. Robert Tala coming back to

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Speaker 2: it's a great matchup. Figuring out what what Nick Sorenson

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Speaker 2: Brandon Staley fit in? You know, they's just dynamic of

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Speaker 2: But I think the San Francisco Ford Niners get this

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Speaker 2: always have the storyline up they should have picked him,

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Speaker 2: Everybody remembers the game last year when he zero blitzed

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Speaker 2: That's gonna be really fun, you know that, the Sherman

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Speaker 1: That might be the game of the year. And it's

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Speaker 1: a one to twenty five?

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Speaker 2: So what twenty five? Kick on? Yeah, And it's not

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Speaker 2: You know, Patrick has been the Achilles heel of this team,

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Speaker 2: I feel like they find a way to lose that game, Mitchell,

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Speaker 1: Talk about that rich. I mean two elements here. You

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Speaker 1: being a former player, you know the rigors of this season.

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Speaker 1: How important is it to have a later bye week

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Speaker 1: You come out of the bye and you play, you travel,

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Speaker 1: and we hear about it all too often more in

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Speaker 1: college football, right when these West Coast teams come East

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Speaker 1: at nine am their body time, Richard, How tough is it,

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Speaker 1: realistically you being a West Coast guy, to go and

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Speaker 2: I don't know. You try not to ever make an

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Speaker 2: where are we at? Rich?

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Speaker 1: What are your true I mean outside of you know,

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Speaker 2: Well, I think your goal is always to win a division,

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Speaker 1: They got a lot of weapons. Richard, we got to

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Speaker 1: There's already conversations started here, right rich I mean we

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Speaker 1: we got it. Mitchell, I'll take it all right. So

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Speaker 2: Well, Baker comes to town. Mitchell, I think you know

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Speaker 2: think they win that game. I think they take a

430
00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:06,119
Speaker 2: tough loss in Houston. I think that Houston team just

431
00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:09,920
Speaker 2: has something special going. I think the young quarterback is

432
00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:12,760
Speaker 2: in a realm of his own and playing really dynamic.

433
00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:14,520
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna pick up where he left off

434
00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:19,440
Speaker 2: with more weapons, more experienced tank Dale coming back into

435
00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:22,320
Speaker 2: the fold. I think they're gonna come in with a

436
00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:24,680
Speaker 2: lot of experience. I think you lose that game. I

437
00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:28,120
Speaker 2: think you beat Jacksonville because they've been Jacksonville a little

438
00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:31,359
Speaker 2: overrated for the last couple of years. I think you

439
00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:33,879
Speaker 2: go on to Indy in a tough game, tough environment

440
00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:41,159
Speaker 2: and beat them. So what are we at, Mitchell Two losses? Yeah, yeah,

441
00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:44,119
Speaker 2: I don't believe to Chicago. I think Chicago is going

442
00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:46,159
Speaker 2: to have a down year with some special plays from

443
00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:50,200
Speaker 2: Caleb Williams, but a down year overall. I think he's

444
00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:52,840
Speaker 2: gonna gonna have some tough learning curves. Even with the

445
00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:55,879
Speaker 2: talent and the weapons they have, uh In Keenan Allen

446
00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:58,199
Speaker 2: and DJ Moore and you know the guys that they have.

447
00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:00,480
Speaker 2: They have a lot of weapons, but at the end

448
00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:03,159
Speaker 2: of the day, these guys are in a different class.

449
00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:05,600
Speaker 2: I don't I didn't see them really shore up their

450
00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:08,719
Speaker 2: offensive line in a way that they needed to protect them.

451
00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:11,840
Speaker 2: Everybody who's playing justin fields. But I think everybody after

452
00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:14,199
Speaker 2: this year will understand no matter what weapons you have,

453
00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:18,280
Speaker 2: if there's nobody blocking for him, then they're not getting

454
00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:20,680
Speaker 2: that ball out. They're not gonna have success. So I

455
00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:24,160
Speaker 2: think they win that game. I think they Thursday night

456
00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:28,760
Speaker 2: in the spotlight, big stage, fifty thousand fans screaming in

457
00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:31,840
Speaker 2: a rage. I think they lose to Green Bay in

458
00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:34,160
Speaker 2: front of us. Mitchell, I'm not gonna I'm definitely gonna

459
00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:38,920
Speaker 2: pick Detroit, but I caught side in my in my

460
00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:44,000
Speaker 2: straw about that game. I think they beat Buffalo. I

461
00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:46,720
Speaker 2: think they beat Chicago again. I think they go into

462
00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:49,320
Speaker 2: San Francisco in a really tough game.

463
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Speaker 1: And he already said they're gonna win it.

464
00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:54,600
Speaker 2: They are already gonna said they're gonna win it, and

465
00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:58,119
Speaker 2: then uh, they win beat Minnesota, so they're gonna be

466
00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:02,480
Speaker 2: at what fourteen and three? Mitchell, fourteen and three? You

467
00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:03,320
Speaker 2: heard it here first.

468
00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:06,680
Speaker 1: I love it, Richard. I mean, do you think they've

469
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:10,760
Speaker 1: done enough? Obviously last season ended in heartbreaking, fantish fashion

470
00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:13,160
Speaker 1: for Detroit fans. They blew a huge lead. I mean,

471
00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:16,280
Speaker 1: the additions that they've made defensively, does it convince you

472
00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:20,600
Speaker 1: that they can withstand, you know, some of these runs

473
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:23,240
Speaker 1: in the future, because that was really what held them back.

474
00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:27,480
Speaker 1: They had no secondary Their pass rush was very mid

475
00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:32,560
Speaker 1: as the next generation, says Richard. I don't did they

476
00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:35,600
Speaker 1: do enough, because that's two positions that they did address

477
00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:36,320
Speaker 1: this offseason.

478
00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:38,800
Speaker 2: I think they did enough. I think they did enough.

479
00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:41,639
Speaker 2: I think they did enough in keeping their offensive coordinator.

480
00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:44,840
Speaker 2: Retaining their offensive coordinator was huge. That was probably the

481
00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:49,480
Speaker 2: biggest move of this whole offseason for them because I think,

482
00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:53,600
Speaker 2: you know, just another year continuity, another year of understanding

483
00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:57,240
Speaker 2: with the same players, another year what Jamir gives, another

484
00:24:57,359 --> 00:25:01,560
Speaker 2: year understanding the players that they have strengths, they're with weaknesses,

485
00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:08,800
Speaker 2: Jamison Williams getting another year even healthier, and I think

486
00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:11,120
Speaker 2: that's going to be the biggest barometer. I think they're

487
00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:12,720
Speaker 2: going to take the next step. Now. I don't know

488
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 2: about those playoffs, mitchal Those playoffs get get really wicked

489
00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:19,600
Speaker 2: out there. But I have this team having a really

490
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:20,080
Speaker 2: good season.

491
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Speaker 1: I love it.

492
00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:22,840
Speaker 2: I love it.

493
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Speaker 1: We got to talk about Dallas. I know you love

494
00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 1: Dallas so much. You actually just recorded Undisputed out of

495
00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:31,040
Speaker 1: the team facility down in Dallas. I know you love that.

496
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:31,919
Speaker 2: Richard.

497
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Speaker 1: What are your expectations of this team?

498
00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:41,000
Speaker 2: My expectations of the Dallas Cowboys. I think they I

499
00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:43,480
Speaker 2: think they got eleven wins in the mitchell I don't

500
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:47,360
Speaker 2: think they have a particularly strong schedule, so I got

501
00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:49,560
Speaker 2: the man eleven wins. So they play a lot of

502
00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:52,520
Speaker 2: these the rookie quarterbacks, the young quarterbacks. You know, we

503
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:55,840
Speaker 2: were talking about this on the other show. The Pittsburgh game.

504
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:58,560
Speaker 2: I got them winning that game. I think Pittsburgh defensively

505
00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:01,400
Speaker 2: have gotten a little beat up, a little worn down.

506
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:03,640
Speaker 2: T J Watt obviously you still have him, and he's

507
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:08,280
Speaker 2: a menace. Cam Heyward still a menace. Uh but uh,

508
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:11,640
Speaker 2: Minka Fitzpatrick really really good safety, one of the best

509
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:14,560
Speaker 2: National Football League. But I think there are some weaknesses

510
00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:17,640
Speaker 2: that can be exposed on that defense. I think offensively,

511
00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:21,400
Speaker 2: they've just been inconsistent, uh with their blocking and they're

512
00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:24,240
Speaker 2: running the football, you know, and a lot of it

513
00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:26,840
Speaker 2: was was put on the offensive coordinator this year last year.

514
00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:31,520
Speaker 2: But they'll have Russell Wilson, an experienced quarterback, not under

515
00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:36,560
Speaker 2: a ton of salary restraints, so I think they'll, you know,

516
00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:40,360
Speaker 2: they'll ride him unless something and crazy happens. I'm sure

517
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:42,280
Speaker 2: he'll get the ball to George Pekins a lot more

518
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:46,880
Speaker 2: than Kenny Pickett did. I think they got Deontay Johnson,

519
00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:49,920
Speaker 2: you know, a really good receiver, but it's just.

520
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:57,560
Speaker 1: Something he got traded Carolina. Deontay did we well, Mitchell

521
00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:01,240
Speaker 1: there they are were handed at wide out.

522
00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 2: But I don't see in that game. I don't see

523
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 2: them winning that game. I think they I think Dallas

524
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:12,119
Speaker 2: goes has eleven wins this season but still goes to

525
00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 2: the playoffs and makes me do my dance. They kept

526
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:17,320
Speaker 2: me away from my dance last year, and that's that's

527
00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:19,160
Speaker 2: a different kind of hate, to keep me away from

528
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:21,439
Speaker 2: my dance. You know, I didn't have any answer for

529
00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:27,119
Speaker 2: the wild card done, like get to the divisional and done? Richard?

530
00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:31,280
Speaker 1: Is this the last year for McCarthy if they don't

531
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:35,720
Speaker 1: win a playoff game or two? Is he out?

532
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:40,159
Speaker 2: Mitchell? Dallas has a lot more questions than that, Like,

533
00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 2: I'm with you, What the f are you guys doing

534
00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:48,120
Speaker 2: in general? Like early in the off season you're like, oh, okay,

535
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:51,119
Speaker 2: they're just taking their time, but you have yet to

536
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 2: pay the guys who play the best on your team.

537
00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 2: You have three All pros on your team, three actually

538
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:05,959
Speaker 2: four I think, and you have not paid them. You

539
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:08,479
Speaker 2: have not paid them. There be they're gonna hey, I

540
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:11,160
Speaker 2: told you guys last year, Dallas fans were yoh, yoh

541
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:13,440
Speaker 2: cd lamb, you were so wrong. I was like, oh, yeah,

542
00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 2: you guys so excited about that. I love it. I

543
00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:19,040
Speaker 2: love it. They're just not gonna be excited when he's

544
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:22,359
Speaker 2: making thirty one million dollars and you're handicapped with the

545
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:24,040
Speaker 2: rest of your roster because you're gonna have to pay

546
00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:26,640
Speaker 2: him thirty million. Then you're gonna have to pay Micah

547
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 2: what did Nicholas John Bosa get because they're gonna have

548
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 2: to pay him a little bit more than Nicholas John Bosam.

549
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:36,720
Speaker 2: So that's two players for sixty million dollars Mitchell. And

550
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 2: guess what you're gonna have to pay one more player,

551
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:43,720
Speaker 2: just one for probably sixty million dollars a year, Mitchell.

552
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 2: Guess who that is?

553
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:54,840
Speaker 1: The ConA Prescott, the Devi Miche Mitchell. I know that

554
00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:57,960
Speaker 1: the market dictates how much money these guys are gonna make.

555
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:04,240
Speaker 1: But Richard CD Lamb isn't just twenty million. Cede Lamb's

556
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 1: not just gonna make thirty million a year. Rich He's not.

557
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,240
Speaker 1: He's gonna probably be making thirty five a year. Because

558
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 1: you just saw I'm on Ross sign for thirty Immediately

559
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:15,200
Speaker 1: the next day, aj Brown signs for thirty two, so

560
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 1: you know what his agent's gonna do. Hey, I need

561
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:20,959
Speaker 1: a couple more million than that. And then Jared Goff

562
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:23,280
Speaker 1: And this is why it's a lot of money to page.

563
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:25,480
Speaker 1: We didn't even talk about the extension with Jared Goff.

564
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:29,200
Speaker 1: But the guy's making fifty three million dollars a year,

565
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:32,760
Speaker 1: which is just a ridiculous amount of money. But the

566
00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:36,240
Speaker 1: reality is a year from now, he's probably gonna be

567
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:38,960
Speaker 1: the eighth highest paid quarterback in the league, and Dak

568
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,520
Speaker 1: Prescott's probably gonna be the highest. So it's just like

569
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:46,160
Speaker 1: every season, the money keeps going up, man up and up.

570
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 1: But how do you handle this cap situation in Dallas

571
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:52,560
Speaker 1: because they don't have a running back rich they don't

572
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:55,160
Speaker 1: have they didn't draft one, they didn't sign one. I

573
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 1: don't need who's the the I don't even know who's

574
00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 1: in their running back room now. But that's a pretty

575
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 1: vital position for their team, don't you.

576
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 2: Think, Mitchell? Very vital because they need to be able

577
00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:09,960
Speaker 2: to run the ball well. But three players, Mitchell, and

578
00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 2: this is and I was being fair with all of them.

579
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:15,800
Speaker 2: I wasn't overpaying any of them. Like, maybe maybe you

580
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 2: can get Dak for fifty five million. I guess maybe,

581
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 2: I guess. So you could have three players cost you

582
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:26,479
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty million dollars of cap space. Mitchell,

583
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:30,840
Speaker 2: that's a little under half of your cap. Three guys. Yep,

584
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:38,240
Speaker 2: everybody was so excited that I was wrong. Y'all, y'all

585
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:42,200
Speaker 2: gonna be wishing I was right. You're gonna be wishing

586
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,640
Speaker 2: I was right because you're gonna spend one hundred and

587
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:48,880
Speaker 2: twenty million dollars on three guys and you have to.

588
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:50,720
Speaker 2: You have to or you let them walk. You let

589
00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:53,560
Speaker 2: them walk? Can you become a worst team? Okay, let

590
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:56,440
Speaker 2: them walk. They say they're replaceable. Tell tell me that

591
00:30:56,760 --> 00:31:01,280
Speaker 2: Michael Parsons. You can find another Michael Parsons. Let me

592
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 2: find find you another CD lamb. Yeah, go ahead find it.

593
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 2: You're not out there like that. Okay, just I guess

594
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 2: find you another franchise quarterback. He was second team All

595
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 2: Pro last year. I know you guys said he's not

596
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:16,960
Speaker 2: a winner, but nobody can tell me who the winning

597
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:20,280
Speaker 2: quarterbacks are. Nobody can tell me. Everybody tells me Dak's

598
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 2: not a winner, but nobody can tell me who the

599
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 2: winners are. Mitchell, who's the winners? Are? You gonna tell me?

600
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 2: You're gonna tell who the winners? Because y' y'all talk

601
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:32,720
Speaker 2: about you talk about him, and you talk about my guy,

602
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 2: Kirko good quarterbacks. But you say they're not winners. But

603
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:38,640
Speaker 2: who are the winners are? This is Josh Allen a winner?

604
00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 2: Where is he gone? Then? What is he won? Just hasn't?

605
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 2: I'm sorry? Who's your winners? Who's your winners? Brock Perdy

606
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 2: got as many wins as all of them, if not more.

607
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:55,000
Speaker 2: Only one you can say is Patrick Mahomes. That's the

608
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 2: winner in this league right now, Mitchell, that's the winner

609
00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 2: outside of him. Who's winning? Who's winning consistently in these playoffs? Mitchell?

610
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:08,760
Speaker 2: So when you talk about this and people always make

611
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 2: this argument, Deck's not a winner, Well until y'all can

612
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 2: tell me somebody other than Patrick Mahomes that's a winner.

613
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 2: And do not give me Joe Burrow because he is

614
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 2: right now he's on the injured injury prone list. For me,

615
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 2: you got two seasons when Lamar missed ten games two

616
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 2: seasons in a row, they said he shouldn't be paid

617
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 2: Mitchell because he was injury prone. When Joe Burrow misses games,

618
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 2: nobody tells me that he shouldn't be paid because he's

619
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 2: injury prone. He is a fantastic talent when he is

620
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:40,440
Speaker 2: on the football field. Mitchell makes that team a contender,

621
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 2: But when he is not on the field, which is

622
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:46,480
Speaker 2: which is pretty often these days, they are not as good.

623
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 2: You know what. I mean that Jake Browning did pretty

624
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:51,120
Speaker 2: good last year, he held it down, but they're a

625
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:54,520
Speaker 2: different team without him, and nobody's saying that. So can

626
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 2: you say he's a winner? I mean there were five

627
00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 2: and five when he went out, So like, what are

628
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:02,440
Speaker 2: we saying now?

629
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:07,400
Speaker 1: Reality is, you can't just let a franchise quarterback walk

630
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 1: I mean, there's gonna be debates all day where you

631
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 1: would put him in the hierarchy of QB's out there.

632
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:16,440
Speaker 1: Reality is, he's probably a top ten guy. You cannot

633
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:19,480
Speaker 1: let a top ten quarterback in this league simply walk

634
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 1: out the door. It doesn't work like that. Richard, We've

635
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 1: got to talk a little bit about the Jets. We

636
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 1: haven't talked about him. It was supposed to be this

637
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 1: amazing experience for this franchise last year. You brought in

638
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 1: one of the goats and Aaron Rodgers, and four snaps

639
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 1: into the season, he's sidelined for the season, blown out,

640
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:47,040
Speaker 1: Achilles tries to make a comeback. Obviously doesn't. But Richard,

641
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:51,960
Speaker 1: what are your expectations of Aaron Rodgers and the Jets

642
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 1: Jets Jets Jets this year.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think the best part of their schedule, Mitchell,

644
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Speaker 2: is they avoid the AFC North. That's the best part.

645
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Speaker 2: I'll give them that. That is a blessing. They get

646
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:06,120
Speaker 2: the South in seat of the North, and there's parts

647
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 2: of the South you don't want to deal with, but

648
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:10,880
Speaker 2: it's better than the North. You rather deal with the

649
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:16,520
Speaker 2: South than Burrow and lamar Or and Cleveland and everything

650
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:18,200
Speaker 2: that that has to do. Make sure that you don't

651
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Speaker 2: want to deal with that, so you instead get you

652
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:26,239
Speaker 2: get Houston, which is gonna be a very tough game

653
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:28,520
Speaker 2: for them to win. But you got Aaron, you got talent,

654
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:31,640
Speaker 2: you got you got things you could get that you

655
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 2: got them. You got Jacksonville a winnable game. You got

656
00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:41,239
Speaker 2: Tennessee a very winnable game. Menchell, what I'm saying, you

657
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 2: got Tennessee a very winnable game, and you got Indy

658
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:48,319
Speaker 2: a very winnable game. So you those are games where

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Speaker 2: you're like, hey, if you have to substitute those who

660
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Speaker 2: conferences those two divisions, you take the one you got

661
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Speaker 2: in a heartbeat. Then you got you got a game

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Speaker 2: against Denver. I think they can win that game. You

663
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Speaker 2: got a game against new you got two against New England.

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Speaker 2: I think those are two wins. I think you got

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Speaker 2: to take advantage why New England dominated this division for

666
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Speaker 2: what two decades? While they're down, you got to take

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Speaker 2: full advantage of it. You got to win both of

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Speaker 2: these games, and I think they will. I think they'll

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Speaker 2: get both of these games. I think Buffalo is headed

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Speaker 2: for a little bit of a down year, even even

671
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Speaker 2: in Josh Allen's prime. You got rid of your two

672
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Speaker 2: top two receivers and you replace them with young guys,

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Speaker 2: and I'm not sure you did enough. I'm not sure

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Speaker 2: you replaced the kind of production that you lost, and

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Speaker 2: I don't think you replaced the kind of production defensively

676
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Speaker 2: that you lost. So you got young guys that you

677
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Speaker 2: say are really to step in and make a difference.

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Speaker 2: We'll see, but I think they could get those two games.

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Speaker 2: I think in that division, Miami, it's Miami's are the

680
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Speaker 2: Jets to lose? I think that those are that It's

681
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Speaker 2: gonna come down to Miami and the Jets. Tough games, though,

682
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 2: tough games. They got tough games. Minnesota could be a

683
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:56,840
Speaker 2: toss up. These rookie quarterbacks. Anytime you're playing rookie quarterbacks,

684
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Speaker 2: I mean, you should be able to have success, but

685
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 2: sometimes they overachieved. But I think this is a very

686
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:06,880
Speaker 2: favorable schedule. I think ten wins is definitely doable for

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Speaker 2: this team. Could get all the way to twelve, but

688
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Speaker 2: I don't really want to go all the way there.

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Speaker 2: I think ten wins is fair to say for the

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Speaker 2: New York j e t S Jets, Jets Jets.

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Speaker 1: Well, let's not forget about this time last year. You

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Speaker 1: predicted the Jets to make the Super Bowl if Aaron

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Speaker 1: Rodgers can stay healthy, Richard, how realistic is that possibility?

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Speaker 2: It's it's very realistic. It's just their defense performed at

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Speaker 2: such an incredible level last year. Can they match that?

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Speaker 2: Can that defense match what they did last year? That's

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Speaker 2: the question. If they can match or or exceed what

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Speaker 2: they did last year, then oh my god, this is

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Speaker 2: I mean, this is definitely a Super Bowl contending team.

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Speaker 2: I mean, can can Breese Hall be the dynamic player

701
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Speaker 2: that he was and stay healthy? Can that all defensive

702
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:04,400
Speaker 2: line and you not lose three four tackles in one season?

703
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Speaker 2: I mean, can you stay healthy there? That? Those are

704
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Speaker 2: the questions that the line. Can they be as ferocious

705
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Speaker 2: as of a pass rush as they were last year?

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Speaker 2: Twinton Williams had a great season. So I think those

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Speaker 2: are the questions Ken salt Gardner and DJ Reed, you know,

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Speaker 2: saltan Reed, can they can they play up to the

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Speaker 2: standards that they were able to play up to last year?

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Speaker 2: So if that defense can play up to that level,

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Speaker 2: then yeah, they would be a super Bowl contender. But

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Speaker 2: that's a big if. In Aaron's performance is a big if.

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Speaker 2: You gotta I mean, we got to see coming off

714
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Speaker 2: in achilles is not an easy injury, even if it's

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Speaker 2: all the way he led up. A lot of things change.

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Speaker 1: You know firsthand about that. Speaking of Super Bowl contenders,

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Speaker 1: let's go to the Super Bowl champ, the Kansas City Chiefs. Richard.

718
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Speaker 1: What's it gonna take to knock this team off their

719
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:00,799
Speaker 1: pedestal because everyone's gonna be gounn for him this year.

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Speaker 1: They've got a very difficult schedule. They're playing on every

721
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Speaker 1: day of the week except for what is it a Tuesday?

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Speaker 2: Richard?

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Speaker 1: What are your expectations of the Kansas City Chiefs this year?

724
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Speaker 1: Will they repeat?

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Speaker 2: It really doesn't matter, honestly, Mitchell That's the thing about

726
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 2: this team, because we used to think it matter. We

727
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 2: had questions, Hey, can they do it? Can they do

728
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:26,279
Speaker 2: it from home? Can they do it away? They can

729
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:28,920
Speaker 2: they go through the gauntlet of on the road and

730
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:33,879
Speaker 2: win gag? Yes, Mitchell. The answers were emphatively, emphatically. Yes,

731
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Speaker 2: they went on the road last season in really tough environments.

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Speaker 2: And one, so they went to Baltimore, didn't they go

733
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Speaker 2: to Baltimore and wain Mitchell, Yeah, they did, so, like

734
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:52,759
Speaker 2: how can we question this team? Like so that's where

735
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:54,840
Speaker 2: it was like, Hey, they kind of lollygagged through the

736
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:57,799
Speaker 2: season last year. It was a down year. You're like, man,

737
00:38:57,880 --> 00:38:59,719
Speaker 2: even I was like, man, they looked like they're going

738
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:01,880
Speaker 2: to tea going home in January. Like they should be

739
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:04,080
Speaker 2: going home in January. The way they're playing right now,

740
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Speaker 2: they don't look like a team that's gonna win the

741
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:09,120
Speaker 2: super Bowl. And then Patrick Mahomes got into the playoffs

742
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:13,440
Speaker 2: playoff Patty Mitchell, and he willed his team to the

743
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:16,360
Speaker 2: Super Bowl. He along with that defense and Chris Jones,

744
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:19,120
Speaker 2: they made a lot of great plays throughout these playoffs.

745
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:25,839
Speaker 2: Their defense, justin Reid, their corners, their young corners, made

746
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 2: a lot of huge plays throughout this playoff. Throughout these playoffs,

747
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:32,319
Speaker 2: and it Overcunt came everything that they had to deal

748
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Speaker 2: with early on. That was a difference. That was a

749
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Speaker 2: difference the defensive scheme in the playoffs. The defense carried

750
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 2: them to a lot of wins. But I don't know, Mitchell,

751
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:44,600
Speaker 2: I mean they can be I mean, you got Carolina

752
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 2: on the schedule. You know, Carolina is not a great

753
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:48,840
Speaker 2: team right now. I mean I would guess it's the

754
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 2: two to three win team. You got multiple rookie quarterbacks

755
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 2: on the schedule. I don't know, Mitchell. You got Denver

756
00:39:55,280 --> 00:40:00,239
Speaker 2: on the schedule twice with a rookie quarterback and and

757
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:04,440
Speaker 2: traded away some of their weapons. I don't know. You

758
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 2: got Atlanta on the schedule, Kirk coming off in Achilles.

759
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:10,759
Speaker 2: They weren't a great team last year. But I think

760
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Speaker 2: I really don't think it matters for this team because

761
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:16,960
Speaker 2: they've proven that they can do it as the one seed.

762
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:21,239
Speaker 2: They've proven they can do it as if they have

763
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:23,359
Speaker 2: to go to the one seed and win, they can

764
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:24,719
Speaker 2: still make it to the super Bowl, and they can

765
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 2: still win even when they have an off year. So regardless,

766
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Speaker 2: I expect them to be in the Super Bowl. Mitchell.

767
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:31,359
Speaker 2: They can go nine to eight Mitchell, and I still

768
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:33,520
Speaker 2: think they they're gonna have a chance. They proved that

769
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:36,319
Speaker 2: to me last year. They look I'm off, I'm off

770
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Speaker 2: douting them. They shut me up.

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Speaker 1: Well, they had to make some tough decisions this offseason too, rich.

772
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Speaker 1: They had to part ways with Lagerius Snead. You know,

773
00:40:44,239 --> 00:40:47,319
Speaker 1: he was a shutdown outside cornerback, but they elected to

774
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Speaker 1: pay Chris Jones over him.

775
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:49,600
Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Then they get some discounts in the free agent market.

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00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:57,319
Speaker 1: Hollywood Brown comes over from Arizona, which just frankly was

778
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Speaker 1: not a good fit for him.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: Now ma homes get another vertical threat, another speed guy,

781
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:05,880
Speaker 1: you know, not quite a cheatah tyreek Hill, but he

782
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:08,359
Speaker 1: can kind of play that same role. Uh. And then

783
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:11,040
Speaker 1: they draft Xavier Worthy, a four point two to one

784
00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:15,000
Speaker 1: burner out of Texas. You got those two guys speed

785
00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:18,920
Speaker 1: on the outside. With Rashi Rice and obviously Travis Kelce,

786
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:23,200
Speaker 1: this team offensively, in my eyes, got better. We'll see

787
00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:26,799
Speaker 1: what happens, you know, defensively in that cornerback room if

788
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:29,759
Speaker 1: they can hold down the fort. But Kansas City, man,

789
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Speaker 1: like you said, doesn't matter the circumstances, the weather on

790
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:37,400
Speaker 1: the road, at home, when the going gets tough. Patrick

791
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:42,120
Speaker 1: Mahomes gets it going year in year out. And this team,

792
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Speaker 1: it's hard not to say, hey, yeah, they're gonna repeat

793
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:48,399
Speaker 1: three peat, although I would hate to see it.

794
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:53,759
Speaker 2: Go ahead Trip. They always let their best corner go.

795
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:55,640
Speaker 2: I don't know why. They just do it. They did

796
00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 2: it with Tarvarius Ward, they did it with Lugerious Need.

797
00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:02,279
Speaker 2: They still have Trent ma Duffy, who looks like a

798
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:06,479
Speaker 2: freaking star in Spags's defense, and they've used him really good.

799
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:10,239
Speaker 2: They got Watson on the outside, they got they They

800
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:14,799
Speaker 2: just seem to develop defensive backs really, really well. So

801
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:17,000
Speaker 2: I don't really bet an Eyelash. I'm really happy for

802
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:20,520
Speaker 2: Lagarious Need and his money. He deserved it. But I

803
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:24,400
Speaker 2: think they're going to find a way to to to

804
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:29,319
Speaker 2: cover up his loss with other players. But I mean,

805
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, Mitchell, you cannot doubt

806
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:31,480
Speaker 2: this team.

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Speaker 1: It's hard, No, it's hard, No, Richard, Let's turn the

808
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:38,840
Speaker 1: focus a little bit to Thursday night football. I know

809
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:41,480
Speaker 1: you were pumped when you saw the schedule release. It

810
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 1: seems like the NFL got things right. I don't see

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Speaker 1: a game on that schedule that I don't want to

812
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:52,960
Speaker 1: watch this this schedule is prime uh pun intended and Richard,

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00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:54,960
Speaker 1: what what what are your thoughts? I know you get

814
00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:56,840
Speaker 1: to get to go to some fun places, have a

815
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Speaker 1: have a good time every Wednesday and Thursday night when

816
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Speaker 1: you get there. What are your thoughts on this schedule?

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Speaker 2: Well, I look forward to the great games we got

818
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 2: on the schedule, Mitchell. I mean it's fun places. We

819
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:07,279
Speaker 2: get to go to the New York three times, which

820
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 2: is I mean that's a long flight every time, six

821
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:14,399
Speaker 2: hours every both plays, but the ones that catch my eye,

822
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Speaker 2: the initial Miami Buffalo game is going to be really fun.

823
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Speaker 2: The Sherman Bowl between the Seahawks and the Niners, that

824
00:43:22,239 --> 00:43:24,239
Speaker 2: can be a really fun game. I think they're gonna

825
00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:28,080
Speaker 2: both come in with great expectations, great records, a lot

826
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Speaker 2: of hype with the new coach and Mike McDonald, a

827
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Speaker 2: lot of expectations for Kyle Shanahan, a lot of pressure

828
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Speaker 2: on that team. I think it's a really good game

829
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Speaker 2: late in the season between Cincinnati and Baltimore. I think

830
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:44,719
Speaker 2: that game we got ruined last year when Burrow got hurt.

831
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Speaker 2: He heard his thumb in that game last year, exact

832
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 2: same time of the year, I believe, exact same place.

833
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Speaker 2: But it's really cool to see so many division games

834
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Speaker 2: on the schedule. I think that's what I'm really really

835
00:43:58,239 --> 00:44:01,360
Speaker 2: happy about. Obviously, going into Detroit. The Green Bay Detroit

836
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:03,680
Speaker 2: game is gonna be a really fun one. The Black

837
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Speaker 2: Friday game in Kansas City, it's gonna be great to

838
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:10,080
Speaker 2: see Kansas City play the Raiders. See what the Raiders

839
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Speaker 2: are gonna do. Uh, to see my guy Tony Gonzalez

840
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:17,200
Speaker 2: get some more love in Kansas City, you know, the

841
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Speaker 2: Kansas City legend. The Jets Houston game is gonna be

842
00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 2: a really good game in New York, you know, getting

843
00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:28,279
Speaker 2: to see c. J. Stroud in person again, that young

844
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 2: team and all their firepower. Getting to see Demico. I

845
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:34,040
Speaker 2: get to see Coach Salad three times a year this year,

846
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:36,919
Speaker 2: which is gonna be great. Or twice this year, gets

847
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:41,120
Speaker 2: see Kyle twice, get to see the Seahawks twice. So

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Speaker 2: those are some of the things I'm really excited about.

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Speaker 1: Well, Richard, that concludes our NFL schedule release show. I

850
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Speaker 1: know we're fired up to get back into the swing

851
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Speaker 1: of things here. We're gonna have some guests for you

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Speaker 1: guys along the way. Expect a lot more from the

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Speaker 1: Richard Sherman podcast going forward. Richard sign us off my friend.

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Speaker 2: Well, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages.

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Speaker 2: It's been an absolute pleasure giving you this information. If

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Speaker 2: you're a Dallas Cowboys fan, hope, pray, and wish for

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Speaker 2: your team to pay the players that deserve to be paid,

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Speaker 2: but understand, when they get paid, your problems only just begun.

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Speaker 2: The romance is not over. You got a whole lot

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Speaker 2: of guys to pay. Let's see. I gotta, I gotta

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Speaker 2: write that one down, Mitchell, I gotta you know, we

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Speaker 2: might have to we might have to tweak that one

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Speaker 2: a little bit. But you guys could be anywhere in

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Speaker 2: the world, but you're here with us and we appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: We'll see you next time with the special guest. Thanks

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Speaker 2: for tuning in the volume