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Speaker 1: This is straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. What is up,

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Speaker 1: straight Fire fan, It's me Jason McIntyre. Straight Fire for Monday,

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Speaker 1: September twelfth. It was a glorious Sunday in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: a tremendous week one. I spent about eight hours watching football,

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Speaker 1: and it's crazy that the most boring game of the day,

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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay nineteen dollars three, emerges with the biggest news.

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Speaker 1: It broke late last night. If you went to bed

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Speaker 1: early because you fell asleep on the sofa watching paint dry,

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Speaker 1: I mean Tampa Bay Dallas, then you didn't see it.

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Speaker 1: Dak Prescott gets his hand busted in the fourth quarter

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Speaker 1: by Shack Barrett, who's just charging with his hands up.

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Speaker 1: Dak finishes the throwing motion right into Shack Barrett's pause.

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Speaker 1: Dak broken bone of sort. It's unclear or which bone

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Speaker 1: will have to miss weeks due to surgery. Now Dallas

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Speaker 1: is keeping it very close to the vest, as you

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Speaker 1: can imagine, but they're just labeling it a few weeks.

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Speaker 1: Right now, Cowboys fans have gone from you know, should

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Speaker 1: we should we go to the ledge to oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: it's over seasoned, toast. We have to elevate a guy,

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Speaker 1: Cooper Rush, who was just cut in the preseason. They

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Speaker 1: We'll get to start against Cincinnati on Sunday, unless, of course,

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Speaker 1: unless Rob Jimmy g feels like I'm ready to go

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Speaker 1: to Dallas, and Jerry Jones says Bret, come on, now,

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Speaker 1: we need Jimmy Garoppolo to save our season. Dallas fans

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden inept showing against Tampa, only team

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Speaker 1: And now you've got to keep up with the Bengals

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Speaker 1: and what should be attracted meet after that at the

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Speaker 1: New York Giants. And how about the Giants and Brian

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Speaker 1: Day Bowl team we've hyped the hell on this podcast.

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Speaker 1: Day Bowl shows up there, down thirteen nothing, they make

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Speaker 1: a great comeback, se Kwon Barkley getting loose. Kan Barkley

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Speaker 1: this year. Uh. They were throwing a somebody named Richie James.

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Speaker 1: I never heard of him. Never heard of this guy, legit,

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Speaker 1: then the Giants, then Washington, which had a nice come

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Speaker 1: from behind win against Jacksonville. I thought Jacksonville was better. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, Rob and I have talked, we were not

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Speaker 1: really surprised by anything that happened Sunday. I think if

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Speaker 1: And for me, it was Jacksonville not being able to

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Speaker 1: have won. But Washington and Wentz. Wentz looked pretty good.

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Speaker 1: I mean he had some highs and Lowsy had some

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Speaker 1: gotta win. So now you've got to face the Cincinnati

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Speaker 1: How many of those games will that miss? That remains

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Speaker 1: to be seen. But the Cowboys have millions of problems

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Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb? Are you ready? And maybe what was the

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Speaker 1: big We knew Ceede Lamb would struggle? Right We talked

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Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb. This is staggering. Eleven targets. He had two

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Speaker 1: a horrific football weekend for the state of Texas. The

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Speaker 1: sadness to start the NFL season. Well, that's an understatement.

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Speaker 1: But the Dallas Cowboys are officially in the CD Strout

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Speaker 1: sweep stakes. In my opinion, um I I before the

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Speaker 1: bad debut in Chicago for starters, Rob, Yes, we all

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Speaker 1: converted quarterback, the kids, a great athlete. He ran right

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Speaker 1: by the Vikings cornerback, had a touchdown on the first

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Speaker 1: play of the season in his hands, and I don't

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Speaker 1: know if he lost in the sun or what, but

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00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:26,440
Speaker 1: he dropped it. Rogers was pissed and it was like,

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Speaker 1: you know, if you catch that and score completely different game,

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Speaker 1: they drop it punt. Vikings come down with a patented

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Speaker 1: first drive touchdown, and you know Green Bay was playing

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Speaker 1: catch up at after that. And you know, I mean

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Speaker 1: Rodgers's top receivers were A. J. Dillon, Aaron Jones, the

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Speaker 1: kid Romeo Dubs had a nice solid game. I'll say

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Speaker 1: I think he had one drop and then of course

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Speaker 1: Watson had had a really bad drop. But like Sammy Watkins,

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Speaker 1: Robert Tonyan looked okay. But ultimately this Packers team did

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Speaker 1: not look great. I need to see the numbers, Rob.

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00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:04,800
Speaker 1: You know, some of the things I've waited for to

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Speaker 1: come out later today is like cornerbacks in ISO coverage.

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Speaker 1: How the hell did Justin Jefferson have a hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty eight yards in the first half? Okay, and he

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Speaker 1: had eighty two yards after the catch, like he's catching

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Speaker 1: wide open, just super loose against what I thought was

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Speaker 1: a great defense. The guy finished with a four yards

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Speaker 1: two touchdowns. Probably one year fantasy game for you. Um,

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Speaker 1: he was unbelievable. And I don't know, like we were

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Speaker 1: on the Vikings this year, I didn't. I kind of

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Speaker 1: like the Packers in this game because everybody like the Vikings.

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Speaker 1: Obviously I didn't. I got a little lucky they're not

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Speaker 1: betting them. But Rob, this this Viking team looks like

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Speaker 1: it could be an eleven or twelve win team in

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Speaker 1: the NFC. And it's it's only one game, but they

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Speaker 1: look really really good. Yeah, I mean all the hype

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Speaker 1: that guys like you have put out in the off

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Speaker 1: season looks legitimate. And it goes back to the bigger

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Speaker 1: point that we've been talking about pretty much all program

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Speaker 1: is at. There wasn't anything truly shocking that took place

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Speaker 1: on on Sunday, you know, I mean, wipe out the

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Speaker 1: Rams game on on Thursday night, And and the issues

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Speaker 1: that we thought these teams would have came to fruition.

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Speaker 1: The strengths that we thought some of these teams would

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Speaker 1: have came true. And and Minnesota has always had weapons.

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Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins may not be the flashiest guy, but he's

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Speaker 1: a solid, above average quarterback. And now that you have

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Speaker 1: an offensive play caller that's willing to unleash Justin Jefferson

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Speaker 1: and Adam Feeling and Dalvin Cook outside of run run

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Speaker 1: play action, third down run run like this Vikings team

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Speaker 1: is a dark doors super Bowl contender in my opinion.

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Speaker 1: And I think even you've said that before that your

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Speaker 1: long shot Super Bowl I think was Chargers Vikings. If

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Speaker 1: I recall I, you know, I kind of I mentioned

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Speaker 1: last week that I put the tickets in a safe,

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Speaker 1: but I think I have a Nickel on the Vikings

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Speaker 1: to win the NFC, it would be a great, great payday.

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Speaker 1: Vikings played the Eagles in what could be an early

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Speaker 1: NFC championship showdown. I don't I don't know. They play

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Speaker 1: them next Monday, and what might be the best game

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Speaker 1: in next week. I did notice, Rob, As I'm going

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Speaker 1: through all the games, I noticed something that was a

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Speaker 1: damn not not a huge surprise, but a mild surprise,

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Speaker 1: Bill Belichick. Not in that the fact that the Patriots

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Speaker 1: got their asses kicked by Tah again. That's four straight

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Speaker 1: losses to Tah for the Mighty Bill Belichick. But I

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Speaker 1: read friend of the Pod Greg Bdard Boston Sports Journal,

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Speaker 1: and he was apoplectic at Belichick's comments after the game,

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Speaker 1: saying that it was a pretty even game. Two big

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Speaker 1: plays fourteen points really skewed the game, and Rob, I did.

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Speaker 1: I didn't watch this game as close as some others.

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Speaker 1: But when you look back at the play by play,

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Speaker 1: and you can watch the YouTube condensed version, you know

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Speaker 1: the Patriots were never in this game at all. They

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Speaker 1: trailed by two scores for thirty seven minutes. They were

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Speaker 1: down seventeen nothing to a first time rookie head coach.

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Speaker 1: Where is Belichick getting pretty even game from? But the

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Speaker 1: Patriots were never a threat in this game ever. And again,

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Speaker 1: if you look at the gambling market, the Dolphins took

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Speaker 1: money early in the week, and the Dolphins rolled in

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Speaker 1: this game. And that was kind of the theme throughout,

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Speaker 1: Like a lot of the gambling folks were right. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the one day were wrong on was the Jaguars. They

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Speaker 1: were right on the Browns, they were right on the Texans,

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Speaker 1: they were right on the uh Steelers, right on the Giants.

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Speaker 1: You know, like the market kind of was accurate here

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Speaker 1: and adding insult to injury. Remember Robert the draft, the

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Speaker 1: Patriots drafted this guy, Cole Strange, and everybody's like, what

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Speaker 1: the hell? And he's not in any mock drafts. Who

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Speaker 1: is this guy? First round pick? Of course, was like, wow,

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Speaker 1: it's a Patriots. Got to give it the better for

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Speaker 1: the doubt. According to Bedard, cold Strange got benched in

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Speaker 1: the first half. He was struggling that badly. And I

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Speaker 1: know we're all talking about DAC and the um fractured

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Speaker 1: thumb and the needing surgery. Matt Jones, who took a

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Speaker 1: bit of a pounding, had to get X rays because

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Speaker 1: of a back injury and duck the media on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: Rob Listen, I know I had said seven wins for

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Speaker 1: the Patriots. I'll leave you with this SAT since Tom

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Speaker 1: Brady left New England. The Patriots are seventeen and eighteen.

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Speaker 1: That's it. And on deck if Mac Jones is hurt

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Speaker 1: and his back things bad, Brian Hoyer or something named

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Speaker 1: Bailey Zappy, that's his real name. You say something is

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Speaker 1: that of someone something named that sounds like some kind

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Speaker 1: of like some kind of New age sneaker or something,

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Speaker 1: you know what. M I kind of agree with Bill

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Speaker 1: Belichick in this one. Oh you think it was. I

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Speaker 1: don't think it was as bad as the score would indicate. Um,

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Speaker 1: the first drive of the game, Patriots are moving the ball, interception,

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Speaker 1: field goal, that moving the ball again. They got a punt,

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Speaker 1: then it's a fumble touchdown for Miami. So it's tender nothing.

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Speaker 1: And on fourth down right before the half, to a

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Speaker 1: hit waddle for a squick slatin out runs the defense.

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Speaker 1: After that, Miami didn't do much of anything. It was

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Speaker 1: three and out. You have a nice drive, three and out,

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Speaker 1: three and out. So I know that Tyreek Hill was

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Speaker 1: really feeling himself after the game with how yeah, if

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Speaker 1: if you haven't, if you haven't seen the video yet,

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Speaker 1: just go watch it America. It's kind of funny you

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Speaker 1: would think that they just won the Super Bowl. It

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Speaker 1: was Pat bev Esq, you know when when he jumped

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Speaker 1: on the table for the Minnesota winning the playing game

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Speaker 1: against the Clippers. But also did you notice he he

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Speaker 1: was wearing the show and moving his head like he

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Speaker 1: was Stevie Wood. You see that? It was like, I

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Speaker 1: was like, what is wrong? What's it was normal for Tyree?

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Speaker 1: I don't remember that in kids. I don't either. He's

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Speaker 1: now South Beach Tyreek. Yeah. Well, I mean yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: just for an offense that only put up thirteen points.

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Speaker 1: You know, I didn't think that it was, you know,

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Speaker 1: as big of a beat down as I think a

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Speaker 1: lot of people in New England gonna feel like it is,

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Speaker 1: because we knew coming into this season that the offense

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Speaker 1: was going to be bad in New England. I mean

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Speaker 1: there was enough reports even coming from Beat reporters. And

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Speaker 1: we've talked about this before. Beat writers go out of

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Speaker 1: their way to be positive so that they can keep

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Speaker 1: their relationships with the teams and they can still at

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Speaker 1: access to guys like Belichick, guys like Mac Jones, whoever,

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00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:50,520
Speaker 1: and even they were saying like, look, this is embarrassing.

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00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:54,600
Speaker 1: Like every joint practice with the Raiders was another touchdown.

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Speaker 1: Oh they can't run the ball again, Raiders get another interception.

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Speaker 1: Mac Jones is is is throwing his how went on

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Speaker 1: the sidelines? Mac Jones is having to call players only

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00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 1: you know, conferences after practice to go over the offense.

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Speaker 1: Matt Patricia is gonna be calling plays and he wasn't

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Speaker 1: even a good defensive coordinator, you know, So we kind

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Speaker 1: of saw this coming. And yet you wipe away that

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Speaker 1: fumball touchdown. It's a thirteen seven game. If just just

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Speaker 1: saying you drinking at Belichick kool aid um. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure the Arizona Cardinals would probably like to play

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Speaker 1: that game. Well, you know, Homes had five touchdowns, but

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Speaker 1: but but um one one non surprise. And remember this

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00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:38,880
Speaker 1: was the game earlier in the week we said, wow,

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Speaker 1: this this line jumped from three to six and a half.

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Speaker 1: What the hell? So some professional gambler saw something. Now

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Speaker 1: I will just say this. Listen, you guys know I

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Speaker 1: kind of have a soft spot for Kyler Murray in Arizona.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna make some excuses for them that I didn't

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Speaker 1: make it for San fran Arizona was missing like five starters.

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Speaker 1: So let's just settle down with one over reaction about

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Speaker 1: the defensive game plan, right was to blitz Patrick Mahomes.

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Speaker 1: Now we've talked in life, there are some dumb things

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Speaker 1: that you can do, right, Like, you could go on

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Speaker 1: a first date and you could talk about like religion

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Speaker 1: or your ex or politics or something like. That's dumb.

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Speaker 1: Okay Um. I think getting on an e bike with

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Speaker 1: no helmet. I think that's kind of dumb. And I

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Speaker 1: say that because a lot of people in my town

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Speaker 1: at v bikes. I need to get one. But I

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Speaker 1: see people without a helmet. I'm like, you're going like

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Speaker 1: thirty miles an hour and there's a lot of people

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Speaker 1: on their phone while they're driving around. Now that's just dumb. Well,

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Speaker 1: blitzing Patrick Mahomes is insanely dumb. This is rob rob

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Speaker 1: like this, that's incredible. He has never been blitzed on

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Speaker 1: over half his dropbacks ever in his career because he shreds.

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Speaker 1: So what did Arizona do? They blitzed on over half

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Speaker 1: of his dropbacks and the result was four touchdown passes

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Speaker 1: against the blitz. Mahomes finished with three sixty yards five touchdowns,

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Speaker 1: six for six in the red zone. Kansas City rolls

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Speaker 1: like we've seen Mahomes for like four years now, Like,

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Speaker 1: that's just idiotic of Arizona. Now, I'm not gonna blame

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Speaker 1: that on Kingsbury, but that is insanely stupid to try

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Speaker 1: to blitz Patrick Mahomes. He torches it and they still

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Speaker 1: did it anyway. Um, I think Kansas City, you know,

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Speaker 1: when it's tough to say, they look the most impressive, Rob,

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Speaker 1: because they were going against a beat up Arizona team.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the Cardinals were throwing to guys like kind

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Speaker 1: of borderline practice squad dudes. So I can't freak out there.

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Speaker 1: out Rob briefly about the New York Giants prediction? Absolutely? So.

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Speaker 1: Mark Stanchez comes on to do the Herd and we're

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Speaker 1: talking and he's like, oh, yeah, I'm going to Tennessee

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Speaker 1: for um Giants Titans, and he's talking about Nashville as like, Mark,

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Speaker 1: I'm giving this to you because I like you and

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00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:09,359
Speaker 1: your former Jets quarterback Giants with the points and on

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Speaker 1: the money line, and him and Cowherd look at me

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Speaker 1: like is this guy crazy? And I quickly explained, like, listen,

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Speaker 1: Daniel Dimes, Titans are missing Landry, like there's something here.

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Speaker 1: By the end of the week, Coward had come around

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Speaker 1: on it. I don't know what Santez thought. I'll maybe

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Speaker 1: see him and find out. But the New York Times

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Speaker 1: were down thirteen nothing and on the road came back

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Speaker 1: Daniel Jones. I don't know if you saw this, rob

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Speaker 1: he this was for the lead with like eight minutes

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Speaker 1: left through a bad interception in the fourth quarter like

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Speaker 1: se Kwon Berkley comes out of the backfield and Danny

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Speaker 1: Dimes is just eyeballing him the whole time. Throws it

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Speaker 1: and of course it's intercepted and he's just like, what

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Speaker 1: the hell. So Brian Deable goes over and kind of

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Speaker 1: got pissed at him on the bench. If you haven't

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Speaker 1: seen it, look it up on social media. Dabel's kind

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Speaker 1: of animated yelling at him and he's like, and then

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Speaker 1: he points at the clock, like, you can't do that,

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Speaker 1: dumb shit. All you need to do with settle for

637
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:00,279
Speaker 1: a field, go we gotta get points there all they

638
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:02,319
Speaker 1: get a little bit lucky, get the ball back Sae

639
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:06,319
Speaker 1: Kwon Barkley, who basically has the best game of his career. Rob,

640
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:08,439
Speaker 1: I don't know. He had a hundred forty yards when

641
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:11,359
Speaker 1: he went over the left side, seventeen and a half

642
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:14,920
Speaker 1: yard to carry, and they get in position and they

643
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:16,879
Speaker 1: get the win, and then they go for two like

644
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 1: that was kind of exciting, Rob. And the Giants have

645
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 1: been one of the most unwatchable teams in the last

646
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 1: five years and that was a hell of a win

647
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:26,719
Speaker 1: for them. And I'm a jet sky, so I should

648
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 1: not root for them, but I was kind of impressed.

649
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:33,279
Speaker 1: Danny Dimes earned the nickname on Sunday let me tell

650
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:38,200
Speaker 1: you seventeen of twenty one for one, two teddies and

651
00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 1: an interest. I mean he was under pressure to your point,

652
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 1: you know what. The interception was bad. He got sacked

653
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 1: five times. But Brian Dayble, I think that it's why

654
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 1: I wasn't so quick to say that the bill should

655
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:53,120
Speaker 1: be the prohibited favorites to win the Super Bowl. Brian

656
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 1: tape Table can coach his ass off, and what he

657
00:35:56,760 --> 00:36:01,279
Speaker 1: did with Daniel Jones in one offseason is nothing short

658
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 1: of a miracle. I mean, he looked bad under the

659
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:11,839
Speaker 1: Joe Judge uh Ben McAdoo. You know, yeah, he just

660
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:15,800
Speaker 1: looked horrible. And in his first live action that counts

661
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:20,640
Speaker 1: with Brian Dable, he looked like a serviceable game manager

662
00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:22,359
Speaker 1: can do a couple of things here and there if

663
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 1: you give them the opportunity. And suddenly, you know, with

664
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 1: Dak being out and I don't know what to make

665
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 1: of Washington yet. I mean, who's to say that the

666
00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:36,279
Speaker 1: New York Football Giants can't make a run at the

667
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 1: NFC East. Yeah? No, they I think they were like

668
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 1: plus seven hundred, plus eight hundred, And I took a

669
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:44,600
Speaker 1: little nibble. Are they gonna need some injuries to the

670
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:49,080
Speaker 1: Eagles because that Eagles offense is like a juggernaut. Um,

671
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 1: they just sliced right through Detroit, which didn't put up

672
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:55,920
Speaker 1: much resistance. Um. You know, I know, Rob, the Jameis

673
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 1: Winston fans and there are like at least a dozen

674
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 1: of them are gonna be like, how do you not

675
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:05,359
Speaker 1: mention the greatest comeback in Saints franchise history. Apparently there

676
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,160
Speaker 1: was the biggest fourth quarter comeback in the history of

677
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:10,160
Speaker 1: the New Orleans Saints. They were down sixteen and the

678
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:12,200
Speaker 1: fourth and a lot of it has to do with

679
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:17,560
Speaker 1: just the Falcons being inept. Rob I saw this stat um.

680
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:22,239
Speaker 1: The Falcons are up right, there is one minute and

681
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:24,719
Speaker 1: forty seconds left, and they're on the Saints forty two

682
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:28,240
Speaker 1: yard line, third and one, and according to these wind

683
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 1: percent calculators, I don't know, do you care about those things?

684
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:35,799
Speaker 1: Make you convinced that Brandon's Dailey is a good coach

685
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:41,799
Speaker 1: with the with the Chargers. So so the Falcons at

686
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:45,719
Speaker 1: that point were nine chance to win. But on third

687
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:48,320
Speaker 1: and one Mariotta fumbles, they recover, and then of course,

688
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:51,960
Speaker 1: what does Arthur Smith do? Panics, you know what, Let's

689
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:56,359
Speaker 1: just let's just punt it, which is idiotic. You punt it, um,

690
00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:58,440
Speaker 1: You try to pin them deep. They take over their

691
00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 1: own twenty and on the first juice, Landry gets loose

692
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 1: for forty leads to the game winning field goal. Poor Falcons. Um.

693
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 1: The other thing that surprised me here during the comeback,

694
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 1: and this is for the stat nerds um and if

695
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:14,440
Speaker 1: you're you know, looking to maybe some fantasy stuff. So

696
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:16,920
Speaker 1: A J. Terrell is one of the best quarterbacks in

697
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:18,759
Speaker 1: the league. He's young, though he only gave up three

698
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:22,880
Speaker 1: touchdowns all of last season. Well, Michael Thomas, who missed

699
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:25,279
Speaker 1: all of last season but was a stud before that,

700
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 1: scored on A J. Torrell twice on Sunday. So Rob, listen,

701
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 1: I know the Saints look pretty bad for three quarters,

702
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:37,440
Speaker 1: dreadful if you will, But the fact that Michael Thomas

703
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:41,560
Speaker 1: is now beating a you know, top ten cornerback in

704
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:45,000
Speaker 1: Week one, the fact that the Saints are willing to

705
00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:48,440
Speaker 1: come back showing some grit and resilience, and now they

706
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 1: get Tom Brady, the guy who they've kind of sort

707
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 1: of dominated the last two years in the regular season.

708
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 1: Arrow pointing up on the Saints for you or no.

709
00:38:56,880 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 1: Absolutely had the Saints winning the division before it started. Um,

710
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:05,280
Speaker 1: I love that defense. I think Jamis Winston. Um, he's fine.

711
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:08,360
Speaker 1: And when you have Alvin Camaro healthy. I know we

712
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:11,560
Speaker 1: didn't have a big game yesterday, but we assumed Michael

713
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:15,279
Speaker 1: Thomas would come back and be healthy. That receiving court,

714
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:19,040
Speaker 1: to your point, is completely revamped from last season, and

715
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 1: so long as Jamis can stay healthy, which he already

716
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:26,759
Speaker 1: had a run to the medical tent on Sunday, which

717
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:28,759
Speaker 1: was terrible news. Like as soon as you saw, you're like,

718
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:33,440
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, it happening again. And so I just

719
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 1: I like, I love their defense. I think that Jamis

720
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 1: can do just enough offensively and they should be dangerous.

721
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:41,399
Speaker 1: And now when you see them, I think they get

722
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:44,799
Speaker 1: Tampa this week. Chris Godwin looks like he's probably gonna

723
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 1: be out. He was already banged up with a knee.

724
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:52,200
Speaker 1: Now he had had a hamstring situation. Yeah, and so, um,

725
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 1: the Saints are are gonna be a tough out this season. Absolutely.

726
00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:00,960
Speaker 1: I guess we can wrap up with um. I don't know.

727
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:02,880
Speaker 1: Do you care at all about the Scott Frost firing,

728
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:06,720
Speaker 1: Like they five minutes into the NFL S late Sunday,

729
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:09,279
Speaker 1: Nebraska announces we're firing the coach. It was supposed to

730
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:12,239
Speaker 1: resurrect our program. The only information that I loved about

731
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 1: it was rob if they had waited until October one,

732
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:19,160
Speaker 1: the school could have saved seven and a half million dollars.

733
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:21,920
Speaker 1: They don't. They just said we got to get him

734
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:24,879
Speaker 1: out of here. We just lost to Georgia Southern someone

735
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 1: really bad and they fired him. And it's like, you know,

736
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:31,759
Speaker 1: it feels like Nebraska's from a bygone era, right, like

737
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:35,040
Speaker 1: the NFL when running backs mattered. You know, Florida State

738
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:38,080
Speaker 1: Miami were on top, and Nebraska was you know, Tommy

739
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:40,960
Speaker 1: Fraser and and the running you know, the grounded pound.

740
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:45,440
Speaker 1: That's just that's done in college football, right Yeah, so Ober, Yeah,

741
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:47,279
Speaker 1: I guess you were like a little kid. No. I mean,

742
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:53,880
Speaker 1: I I remember the Nebraska being the greatest college football

743
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:55,920
Speaker 1: team in the country. I remember the mid nineties and

744
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:59,440
Speaker 1: how they would just run rough shot through everybody. Um.

745
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:03,800
Speaker 1: I remember Eric Crouch winning the Heisman and then promptly

746
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:05,759
Speaker 1: getting snacked. I think it was by Miami in the

747
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:09,959
Speaker 1: championship game. Um. But the one thing I'll say about

748
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:13,160
Speaker 1: Scott Frost is this is it's it's got a really,

749
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:18,680
Speaker 1: really suck when your dream job you have it and

750
00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:21,480
Speaker 1: you just completely wet the bed, Like it's one thing

751
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 1: to get fired. Like let's say he was coaching at

752
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:25,440
Speaker 1: at you know, U C l A. Whatever, it's in

753
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 1: Okay school and he just flames out, you know what happens.

754
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 1: But by all accounts, this is where he's always wanted

755
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:34,799
Speaker 1: to coach his Nebraska. It's always been his dream to

756
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:38,719
Speaker 1: be the head coach in Nebraska. He gets there and

757
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:41,279
Speaker 1: just falls completely flat, flat on his face. So in

758
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:43,480
Speaker 1: that regard, I feel bad for him, But given that

759
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:46,280
Speaker 1: they fired him before his buyout dropped like in half,

760
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:49,799
Speaker 1: it's hard to feel that bad for him. Yeah, I'm

761
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:51,480
Speaker 1: sure he's got a couple of Benjamin's that he can

762
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:55,319
Speaker 1: sleep on his um. So you know, we're not gonna

763
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 1: really talk about Baker Mayfield. He was pretty bad for

764
00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:00,160
Speaker 1: three quarters, woke up, and then they lost to the Brown.

765
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:02,799
Speaker 1: Shout out to the twenty one year old rookie kicker

766
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 1: who banged a fifty eight yarder Kade York. Did you

767
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:11,880
Speaker 1: see the kick for the win first NFL game? That's

768
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:16,879
Speaker 1: a pretty awesome story. Does suck to be Baker quit

769
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 1: fun stat So I didn't know this, Rob Did you

770
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:24,600
Speaker 1: know that Baker Mayfield led the NFL in balls batted

771
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:30,799
Speaker 1: down at the line of scrimmage from I didn't know

772
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 1: that either. Baker in the first half had four batted

773
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:37,839
Speaker 1: down to the line of scrimmage five for the game.

774
00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:41,120
Speaker 1: Now what's interesting is Kyler Murray is I think the

775
00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:44,879
Speaker 1: shortest quarterback. Why doesn't that ever happen with him? I'm

776
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:47,800
Speaker 1: sure it does, But I did not know that Baker

777
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:49,799
Speaker 1: was the worst at that And it's funny that the

778
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:52,440
Speaker 1: Browns were able to take advantage. I guess having seen

779
00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 1: him forever, they know the tendencies, and he looked really

780
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:58,480
Speaker 1: bad for three quarters. Then uncorked that bomb to Robbie

781
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:01,960
Speaker 1: Anderson um and they nearly won the game, but alas

782
00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:05,640
Speaker 1: they did not UM And then in any you know,

783
00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:11,080
Speaker 1: final thoughts on Jets Ravens, rob just there's just zero

784
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 1: talking points from the game other than that Joe Flacco

785
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:16,800
Speaker 1: attempted fifty nine passes. I think the bigger talking point

786
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,920
Speaker 1: was was actually before the game. I think the game

787
00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:23,160
Speaker 1: was that very good. I expected more from Baltimore, to

788
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 1: be honest with you, I thought that they let the

789
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:27,680
Speaker 1: Jets hang around, you know, a little bit longer than

790
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:31,360
Speaker 1: they should have. Um is Jay Glazer saying on on

791
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:35,160
Speaker 1: national television on Sunday that the Ravens have already decided

792
00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:37,960
Speaker 1: that they're going to franchise Lamar Jackson if they don't

793
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:40,520
Speaker 1: get this deal done and in the off season, so

794
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:45,080
Speaker 1: that this could be going from I don't know forty

795
00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 1: five million dollar guaranteed is bad. But it's just like

796
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:52,760
Speaker 1: not when you're when when the NFL p A is saying, Lamar,

797
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:56,360
Speaker 1: you got to hold firm and get this fully guaranteed contract,

798
00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:59,239
Speaker 1: and the Ravens are already preparing, like, well, fun, we're

799
00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:01,440
Speaker 1: just gonna franchise you. That just to me, that was

800
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:04,720
Speaker 1: kind of a downer. That kind of sucks. Yeah, it's

801
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 1: certainly it seems like it's headed that way. I saw

802
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:10,800
Speaker 1: that he was offered more guaranteed money than Russell, Wilson

803
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:13,960
Speaker 1: and Kyler, But what does he care about that? Um?

804
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 1: He did look like a different quarterback. Only ran six times.

805
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 1: By the way, the Ravens had a career uh sorry,

806
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 1: a low rushing total of the Lamar era sixty three yards.

807
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:26,640
Speaker 1: That's it now. I don't know if that was the

808
00:44:26,719 --> 00:44:29,160
Speaker 1: Jets or they saw something in the secondary they could

809
00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:33,360
Speaker 1: take advantage of. But Lamar had three long touchdown passes. Listen,

810
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:35,920
Speaker 1: the guy look good. He's easy to root for, and

811
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:38,520
Speaker 1: I just wonder are we gonna try to see because

812
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:40,759
Speaker 1: he didn't get the contract, Lamar saying, I'm sorry, I'm

813
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:42,840
Speaker 1: not putting my body on the line. I'm not rushing

814
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:46,200
Speaker 1: the ball ten times a game. Uh. I mean again,

815
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:48,080
Speaker 1: it was the Jets, so we can't read too much

816
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:50,320
Speaker 1: into it. But I don't know, Rob, I would personally

817
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 1: love to see this. It's got to be awkward, right,

818
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:56,160
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm looking at last season for Lamar in

819
00:44:56,200 --> 00:44:58,960
Speaker 1: the first game against the Raiders, twelve carries, Game two

820
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:02,960
Speaker 1: against the Chief six, then there was another game seven seven, eight,

821
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:09,359
Speaker 1: six carries is lower than any game he had last year,

822
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:11,279
Speaker 1: with the exception of the Cleveland game when he got hurt,

823
00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:13,360
Speaker 1: and that was not on a run that was like

824
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:20,879
Speaker 1: under pressure. So it's pretty clear maybe Lamar's well, let's

825
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:23,160
Speaker 1: just say we'll monitor it. It's only one game, it

826
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:26,520
Speaker 1: is the Jets. It's not that relevant. But damn, Rob,

827
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:30,040
Speaker 1: we went long, long, long on a Monday. But we

828
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:33,080
Speaker 1: could do another hour easily. But I've got to get

829
00:45:33,719 --> 00:45:36,040
Speaker 1: to the herd. Yes, I will continue to be on

830
00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:38,959
Speaker 1: there as long as you'll have me. I did sign

831
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:42,000
Speaker 1: up lengthy deal, so I guess I will be. And

832
00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 1: I thought, um, uh, you know, hold your heads high,

833
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:49,279
Speaker 1: cowboy fans. It's not the end of the world, just

834
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:53,640
Speaker 1: you know, the end of the season, real quick. Rob Denver, Seattle,

835
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:59,000
Speaker 1: you obviously are on Denver. I had bet Denver at mine.

836
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:01,840
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, like it. I think it was minus

837
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 1: five in Vegas. It's now six and a half. I

838
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:06,640
Speaker 1: think the books kind of got hit hard, although they

839
00:46:06,719 --> 00:46:10,080
Speaker 1: want on teasers. I just I don't see how Seattle

840
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 1: keeps this close. That being said, um, it's rare that

841
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:18,680
Speaker 1: we get back to back primetime blowouts. It's just the

842
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:21,560
Speaker 1: way that the NFL works is odd. And the fact

843
00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:23,800
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys did nothing leads me to believe Seattle

844
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:31,759
Speaker 1: at home will do something. Um, I will go thirty one,

845
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:39,520
Speaker 1: Denver twenty Seattle in a in a plucky showing from

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Speaker 1: Jino Smith. I hate how close we are in this situation.

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Speaker 1: I had it also Denver thirty one. No, but I

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Speaker 1: had Seattle thirty. Okay, Um, so we're kind of in

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Speaker 1: the now. I this computer is so slow. I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to look at the total for the game because my

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Speaker 1: fifties seems a little bit high. Uh. Total I'm seeing

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Speaker 1: right now is forty four and a half. So that's

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Speaker 1: way way I'm way high on that. You're a little

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Speaker 1: closer to market. I will be rooting for Russell Wilson

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Speaker 1: and uh, we'll talk to you tomorrow.