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Speaker 1: The volume What is going on Everybody? John middlecoff three

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Speaker 1: and out podcast. How are we doing? Hopefully everyone is

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Speaker 1: doing well and enjoying life. Obviously, this podcast on Thanksgiving

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Speaker 1: We uh watched a lot of football today. Also ate

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Speaker 1: a lot of turkey and some ham and some cocktails

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Speaker 1: and some sweets. So I'm ready to go to go

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Speaker 1: to sleep. But we got to tell we had a

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Speaker 1: lot going on. We had Joe Burrow returning. They destroy

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Speaker 1: the Ravens. We have the Dallas Cowboys that might be

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Speaker 1: the hottest team in the NFL. The Chiefs are now

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Speaker 1: six and six and if this weekend does not go

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Speaker 1: well for them, their playoff hopes are basically over. The

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Speaker 1: their own destiny because they still play the Bears twice.

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Speaker 1: They look pretty good. Jordan Love was fantastic. The Lions'

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Speaker 1: offense wasn't the problem, but defensively they just can't get

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Speaker 1: feel like the stories of the day are Dallas, the Packers,

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Speaker 1: obviously the Chiefs, but you know, he just watched the

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Speaker 1: Ravens game. Sol W's hit on this really quick because

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Speaker 1: big picture, with the Cincinnati Bengals, they could run the table.

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Speaker 1: They're still not making the playoffs. But I do think

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Speaker 1: what Joe Burrow said when he was interviewed right before

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Speaker 1: kickoff represents the power of the sport of football and

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Speaker 1: even the mindset of its NFL players is when they

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Speaker 1: kind of ask like, why are you doing this? You

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Speaker 1: don't need to play, and He's like, I'm paid a

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Speaker 1: ton of money to play a little kids game. If

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Speaker 1: I can play, I'm gonna play. And I was thinking, like,

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Speaker 1: how refreshing is that for the consumer? You know, they

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Speaker 1: were trying to break the record with the Chiefs Cowboy

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Speaker 1: game of potentially being around fifty million people watching, and

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Speaker 1: we'll see what the number is. But obviously this day,

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Speaker 1: millions upon millions of people are watching all three games,

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Speaker 1: even the night game, which felt even though these two

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Speaker 1: teams got Joe Burrow and Lamar Jackson almost like a

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Speaker 1: come down off the previous two games. But I mean,

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Speaker 1: you're probably talking twenty five million people sitting on their

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Speaker 1: famous guys in the league. Listen, he's not relatable in

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Speaker 1: the sense that he signed a three hundred million dollar contract,

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Speaker 1: playing football, like everything beside the seventeen weeks when you

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Speaker 1: for the majority of the year, you're not actually even

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Speaker 1: during the season, right, I'm talking like January, or I

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Speaker 1: But February, March, April, you're just like training, getting up

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Speaker 1: come out there sling it to his buddy Jamar Chase,

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Speaker 1: the Bengals to night, and I have I'm completely indifferent

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Speaker 1: Everyone's like Mike Tomlin potentially could beam John Harbaugh. But

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Speaker 1: It's a fair conversation to have with the Bengals trade

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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow, what could you do to get Listen, He's

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Speaker 1: start tanking the bag. This Thanksgiving there three and eight.

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Speaker 1: They win a night they're four and eight. You got

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Speaker 1: Six five and one. They play the Lions next week

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Speaker 1: in what could be, honestly in an elimination game. I think

426
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Speaker 1: Dan Campbell said after the game that say, Brown's not

427
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Speaker 1: out for the season, but he's definitely gonna miss next week,

428
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Speaker 1: so they're gonna be missing their best wide receiver. The

429
00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:05,120
Speaker 1: Cowboys defense ever since since getting Queen and Williams, looks

430
00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:08,080
Speaker 1: like a completely different unit. I mean, Quinn Williams is

431
00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:14,480
Speaker 1: all over the place. Clowney Jidaveon Clowney had multiple sacks today,

432
00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:18,560
Speaker 1: the dude they traded for from the Cincinnati Bengals. He's

433
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Speaker 1: been excellent, obviously, they're get overshown back, He's making plays.

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Speaker 1: Their defense just looks completely different since the trading deadline.

435
00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:30,639
Speaker 1: So like when I see Jerry on Jane's Slater's Instagram

436
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Speaker 1: or Twitter page with a huge piece of turkey in

437
00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:37,200
Speaker 1: his hand with a big ass smile, like he should

438
00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:40,280
Speaker 1: be swinging that thing around. This was an incredible Like

439
00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:44,560
Speaker 1: this is where you get credit. Like, listen, what are

440
00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:48,439
Speaker 1: most owners doing right? Not much, but they hire their

441
00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:51,640
Speaker 1: guys and lessen they ideally good ones. Give give them

442
00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:54,520
Speaker 1: the money, but like they're not wheeling a dealing like

443
00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:57,199
Speaker 1: Jerry's a huge part of this. Jerry's the ones like

444
00:24:57,240 --> 00:25:00,560
Speaker 1: Micah Parson's out. He's even kind of admitted during that

445
00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:04,719
Speaker 1: preseason game when Michaeh Parsons laid on the trading table.

446
00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:07,119
Speaker 1: I think Jerry said within the last month, He's like,

447
00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:10,640
Speaker 1: I've owned this team for whatever thirty five years, never

448
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:13,720
Speaker 1: seen that happen in my entire career. Like that really

449
00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 1: pissed him off, just like it would have pissed anybody off.

450
00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:18,560
Speaker 1: It would have pissed coaches off, owners off, gems off.

451
00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:20,960
Speaker 1: It was embarrassing. But I don't even listen Micah that

452
00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:24,440
Speaker 1: they were at odds and they split up and everyone

453
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Speaker 1: took Mike aside. And listen, the Packers don't regret it.

454
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Speaker 1: I'm watching Micah today and there was that one play

455
00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:31,919
Speaker 1: was kind of a broken play and he kind of

456
00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:34,840
Speaker 1: comes around golf kind of holds on, he crushes him.

457
00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:38,920
Speaker 1: Michael's flying around like Mike's a really good player. But like,

458
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:42,320
Speaker 1: do you think Cowboys doing that? No, this is kind

459
00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:44,640
Speaker 1: of a win win so far this year. And then

460
00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:46,880
Speaker 1: they parlayed it. I think a lot of people were

461
00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:49,520
Speaker 1: stunned when they traded for Quinna Williams. He's a twenty

462
00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:53,040
Speaker 1: seven year old elite defensive tackle. He's really really good.

463
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Speaker 1: They still have two picks. Now, are are the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: gonna make the playoffs this year? I still doubt it. Right,

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Speaker 1: even if you go best case scenario like ten six

466
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Speaker 1: and one, I doubt that gets you into the playoffs.

467
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Speaker 1: But you'd have a chance. But if I would have

468
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Speaker 1: told anyone alive that November twenty seventh, when the Thanksgiving

469
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Speaker 1: Day game, when that game ends, that the Chiefs and

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys are gonna have the same amount of victories,

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Speaker 1: there's not a soul that would have believed you. I

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Speaker 1: don't think Jerry Jones would have believed you. It's just

473
00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:32,439
Speaker 1: a remarkable accomplishment this year from the Cowboys. And one

474
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Speaker 1: thing is like, what about the penalties? What about the flags?

475
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Speaker 1: Officiating in football sucks. It's bad all the time, like

476
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Speaker 1: really really bad. There are calls that could go either

477
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 1: way all the time. There are calls that are made

478
00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:48,679
Speaker 1: that should have gone the other way. So if you

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Speaker 1: want to say that these past interferences shouldn't be called, yeah,

480
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Speaker 1: Like I'm anti pass interference called most times, let the

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Speaker 1: guys duke it out. I fucking despise. I mean despise

482
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Speaker 1: defensive holding. It's my least favorite call in sports. It's

483
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 1: so overcalled, but it's football. The Chiefs have benefited a

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00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:19,919
Speaker 1: ton over the years from calls. It happens. Like I

485
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Speaker 1: didn't watch that game of think the Dallas Cowboys won

486
00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:25,880
Speaker 1: because of the officiating. I think Dallas played a really

487
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:28,639
Speaker 1: good game, And I don't think the Chiefs were that

488
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:34,640
Speaker 1: bad either, right, I mean, what was Mahomes today? Bring

489
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Speaker 1: up that box score? He was twenty three and thirty

490
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:40,520
Speaker 1: four through four touchdowns. If I would have told you

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Speaker 1: at the beginning of the day going into the Cowboy game,

492
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Speaker 1: then Mahomes would be twenty three to thirty four for

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Speaker 1: four touchdowns and no picks. You would have probably said

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs win by four, or I mean win by ten,

495
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Speaker 1: win by double digits, because you would assume probably well,

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Speaker 1: I bet Kareem Hunckets a running rushing touchdown was probably

497
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Speaker 1: thirty five. It's like the cow offense is good, but

498
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Speaker 1: I can see the Chiefs making some plays and win

499
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:07,199
Speaker 1: that game like thirty five or thirty three. To you know,

500
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, that's not what happened. Cowboys score thirty one.

501
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:15,199
Speaker 1: And that's where going back, the thing they hang their

502
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:19,199
Speaker 1: hat on is they're so explosive on offense. And you

503
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:21,719
Speaker 1: go back, obviously the Raider game was a joke. I mean,

504
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:25,200
Speaker 1: I mean you're playing again. I mean the stories about

505
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,680
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator or as embarrassing as anything you're gonna hear.

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Speaker 1: And while I do think Tom Brady has really really

507
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Speaker 1: improved on TV, I mean dramatically. I think Tom Brady's

508
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:37,399
Speaker 1: pretty good now. He's solid, he's an easy listen. I

509
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Speaker 1: bet he was better than Tony Romo and Jason Garrett.

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Speaker 1: I mean, whatever that NBC executive is that thinks Jason

511
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 1: Garrett is like the next John Madden. I don't root

512
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:50,680
Speaker 1: for people lose their jobs, especially with AI incoming. You

513
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:53,360
Speaker 1: might never get one back. But that guy should be

514
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Speaker 1: relieved of his duties, you know, I mean, come on, man,

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Speaker 1: I respect Collinsworth has in his contract. I do not

516
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Speaker 1: worry Thanksgivings. Even though Romo works, even though Brady works,

517
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:06,520
Speaker 1: Chris collins Worth does not. Tarrico works. Tarico's gonna be

518
00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 1: doing Sunny night football. But we get Jason Garrett. I

519
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 1: take anyone else, anyone else should I take collins worse kid,

520
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:18,160
Speaker 1: I don't care. He can't give me Jason Garrett. But

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00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 1: the offense is just it's it's been unreal to watch.

522
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Speaker 1: And I don't know if he can win the MVP,

523
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Speaker 1: because I do think Stafford. If the Rams win fourteen

524
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 1: games and you know he only his stats are awesome

525
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:38,080
Speaker 1: and he's clearly just a dominant player week in week out,

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Speaker 1: I think he's gonna have a pretty good I think

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Speaker 1: I think the story matters a lot. It was kind

528
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:45,680
Speaker 1: of like Josh Allen last year. People kind of wanted

529
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Speaker 1: to vote for him. But Dack's been pretty good man,

530
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 1: and the team's been pretty good. Schottenheimer's been awesome. Jerrys.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of credit. It really does. And I

532
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Speaker 1: think when you look big picture, you go, we got

533
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Speaker 1: two first round picks next year, so we're gonna have

534
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Speaker 1: even if we miss the playoffs and win nine or

535
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Speaker 1: ten games, we're gonna have a lot of momentum into

536
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Speaker 1: next year. Clearly, our head coach is a play caller,

537
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:13,160
Speaker 1: so we don't have to worry about losing our offensive coordinator.

538
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 1: We have some young dudes on defense. Quinn Williams in

539
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 1: our contract, he ain't going anywhere. Kenny Clark's in our contract,

540
00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:23,080
Speaker 1: he ain't going anywhere. At a couple edge rushers. And

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Speaker 1: look at your division, Like Washington was the oldest team

542
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:27,520
Speaker 1: in the league. This year, they got they got a

543
00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:30,720
Speaker 1: lot of problems. Debo has been pretty productive for them,

544
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Speaker 1: Demo's a free agent. Laramie Tunzel is gonna want to

545
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:37,920
Speaker 1: get paid, so you know, can Jade Daniels stay healthy?

546
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Speaker 1: And the Giants got a long way to go Before

547
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 1: they even have a long way to go. I mean,

548
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,320
Speaker 1: we've got no clue what the hell's going on there, right,

549
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:47,240
Speaker 1: even though we all like a lot of their pieces,

550
00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:50,080
Speaker 1: like they don't even have a coach, let alone, like

551
00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:52,680
Speaker 1: who's running the draft and free agency? Like is the

552
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 1: GM gonna survive? So we'll have to see how that

553
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:59,400
Speaker 1: thing shakes out. If I'm a Cowboy fan, I'm pretty

554
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:02,040
Speaker 1: proud right now, and Jerry's taking a lot of shit

555
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:05,719
Speaker 1: and listened. They have underachieved in the playoffs and I

556
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 1: was messing around with people on Twitter during the middle

557
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 1: of the day having a few cocktails. The Cowboys have

558
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 1: been a well run organization over the last ten plus year.

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00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:19,680
Speaker 1: Really in the Dak era, they've had some really good teams.

560
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 1: The downfall has been Dak did not play well in

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00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:27,400
Speaker 1: the big games. In the McCarthy era, they had two

562
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:30,840
Speaker 1: really good teams. They lost to the forty nine Ers

563
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Speaker 1: twice with defenses that I thought could have won a

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl. And the reason they lost those games is

565
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:39,600
Speaker 1: Dak played like shit. I think he had three picks

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Speaker 1: in the two games combined. One of the games he

567
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:45,040
Speaker 1: had two picks. He was bad. He just was not good.

568
00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:48,440
Speaker 1: And obviously the game against the Packers, the defense completely

569
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:50,480
Speaker 1: fell apart, and I think you remember he threw a

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Speaker 1: pick six. But in the two Niner games, like that

571
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Speaker 1: team that lost the Packers. They had some issues the

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Speaker 1: previous two seasons. The year I guess it would have

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00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:03,280
Speaker 1: been twenty two, they were really good on defense, and

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00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 1: if DAK just played solid, they would have competed for

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Speaker 1: a Super Bowl. And obviously McCarthy and Kellen Moore, a

576
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 1: lot of people got blamed there that just didn't play well.

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00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 1: That's the thing about football. You know, in basketball, in

578
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 1: a seven game series, if I have the better team

579
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 1: than you, and I got Steph Curry, or I got

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00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 1: Jokich or some Luke on my team, they could have

581
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Speaker 1: a bad game like Game two, Luca can score seventeen

582
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Speaker 1: points and we lose by twenty whatever, See you tomorrow,

583
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:35,000
Speaker 1: see game three. Football's the playoffs are not like that.

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00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 1: It's what makes the sports so unique. You have one

585
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:41,120
Speaker 1: shitty game, you have one bad half, it could cost

586
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 1: you a Super Bowl run. And that's kind of what's

587
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:46,120
Speaker 1: happened to the Cowboys. And I've always said this about Dak.

588
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 1: Just like Jared Goff, just like a lot of the

589
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins, they're capable back to back weeks in the

590
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 1: playoffs if everything's going right, like they could throw seven

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00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:57,600
Speaker 1: touchdowns over two games and be right there in a

592
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Speaker 1: championship game or depending on their be in a Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: It's possible. We've seen it happen before. It happened with Flacco.

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00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:09,080
Speaker 1: He got red hot. Where was his team super Bowl?

595
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 1: Eli did it twice. It's gonna put him in the

596
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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame one day because he got red hot

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00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:20,680
Speaker 1: at the right time. And that's you know. I do

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00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:23,360
Speaker 1: think Dak shows this in individual games in the regular

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00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 1: season all the time, like he can play at a really,

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Speaker 1: really high level. And their success with this Dak Prescott

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00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:32,680
Speaker 1: era is like, whenever they get another opportunity in a

602
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 1: playoff game, can he just throw for like three touchdowns?

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00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 1: Not in a game two where the one playoff game

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00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:42,440
Speaker 1: that he won during the mccarthurer they were playing the Bucks.

605
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:46,480
Speaker 1: It was Brady's last year and they were just done.

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00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 1: Brady was checked out. They were terrible. They couldn't think

607
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 1: they were historically poort running the ball and Dek if

608
00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:58,600
Speaker 1: I remember correctly, through like five touchdowns and was awesome.

609
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:00,959
Speaker 1: But they need that against a team that actually, you know,

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00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 1: it's like they're equal, not a team that they're gonna beat.

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Speaker 1: And he hasn't done it, but I I think, like

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00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 1: most people that watch football, he's easy to like, he's

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Speaker 1: kind of earned. He like earned your respect over the

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00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:15,360
Speaker 1: course of his career. It's like, God, I kind of

615
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:17,719
Speaker 1: like like this guy, like washing him play just he's

616
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 1: just a good player. Now, I understand his playoff resume

617
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:22,759
Speaker 1: speaks for herself, and that's the only way that he's

618
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:26,239
Speaker 1: ever gonna be able to kind of validate everything. And

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Speaker 1: if he could just get the Cowboys to the championship

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00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:31,239
Speaker 1: game over the course of the next like three years,

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Speaker 1: because now they're kind of in a little window right

622
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:35,360
Speaker 1: they're probably not gonna make the playoffs this year. I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't completely ride them dead right now. I mean that

624
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:40,279
Speaker 1: there's there's hottest ant team in the league. I mean

625
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 1: that the four game, the four day stretch they just

626
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:44,319
Speaker 1: had to come back against the Eagles within the day

627
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:46,520
Speaker 1: is got to be one of the better four day

628
00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:50,440
Speaker 1: stretches in recent Cowboy memory, especially when you just factor

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Speaker 1: in the two teams they beat. To do that to

630
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:55,400
Speaker 1: Philly and then to do that to Kansas City. And

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Speaker 1: I understand this Kansas City team, like I actually think

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00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:00,839
Speaker 1: they're not that bad. I mean, they're defense isn't quite

633
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:04,440
Speaker 1: as good but offensively like they're playing pretty good. Mahome's

634
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:09,800
Speaker 1: playing well, Rashid Rice is dominating, Kelsey's been relatively productive.

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00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 1: I think they'd like a little bit more out of

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Speaker 1: Xavier Worthy. You know, you draft him in the first round. Now,

637
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:17,920
Speaker 1: grant it's the end of the first round. There was

638
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:21,400
Speaker 1: the big play today that he had that went for

639
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:25,600
Speaker 1: forty two yards. Is a great example. Some of the

640
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:29,840
Speaker 1: great elite speed guys Tyreek Hill, Deshaun Jackson, guys Andy

641
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:33,480
Speaker 1: have had, can take a play like that and kind

642
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 1: of look and go, I'm gonna cut this thing back

643
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:41,720
Speaker 1: and just basically play one on one with the safety instead.

644
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 1: Xavier Worthy just kind of keeps his momentum and just

645
00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:48,799
Speaker 1: keeps running and ends up running into like his other

646
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:51,160
Speaker 1: wide receiver and a dB and the safety comes over

647
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 1: and the play just kind of ends. That's a play

648
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:58,360
Speaker 1: that Tyreek Hill or DeShawn Jackson just hit the brakes,

649
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:01,440
Speaker 1: cut on a dime, take off going fifty miles an

650
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:03,319
Speaker 1: hour and score a touchdown and it's the play of

651
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:07,160
Speaker 1: the day. And he doesn't quite have that capability. Again,

652
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 1: He's not bad, but I think you'd like a little

653
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:12,880
Speaker 1: if you have that extra umph with him, with Rice,

654
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,680
Speaker 1: with the way Kelsey's playing, they would be a pretty

655
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:18,120
Speaker 1: dominant offense. But it does show you like they're very

656
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:21,960
Speaker 1: dependent on Rashid Rice, who's a pretty dominant player. I mean,

657
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 1: it'd eight for ninety two, a couple of touchdowns a day.

658
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:25,719
Speaker 1: They can give the ball in the out of the

659
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 1: backfield on end to rounds. You know, I think the

660
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:31,759
Speaker 1: running game Kareem Hunt's been really good for them in

661
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:34,239
Speaker 1: terms of short yard stuff. But do they have a

662
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:36,560
Speaker 1: true guy that they can rely on. But the offense

663
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:41,319
Speaker 1: they couldn't stop him. And you can say, oh, the penalties, penalties,

664
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:45,360
Speaker 1: I mean that wasn't that. The knock on the Chiefs

665
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 1: over the years is they get way more penalties than

666
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:51,759
Speaker 1: the other team. I just I kind of hate doing that,

667
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 1: and I get it. I mean, those couple of towards

668
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 1: the end of the game are huge. I mean the

669
00:36:56,640 --> 00:37:01,680
Speaker 1: Cowboys got well, the Chiefs got ten penalties for one

670
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:05,160
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty yards, Cowboys seven for fifty. I mean

671
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:08,480
Speaker 1: it's a really really big deal. But I don't know,

672
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:12,879
Speaker 1: I mean, I just hate, I just hate playing that game.

673
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 1: It obviously doesn't have no impact, but it's like, are

674
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:20,200
Speaker 1: the Chiefs a nine win team if they're getting better calls,

675
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 1: I think they're just not quite as good and they're

676
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 1: missing a little something on defense. And I do think

677
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:28,279
Speaker 1: that now when you start looking at the math, the

678
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:31,800
Speaker 1: playoffs are probably not gonna happen this year, and you know,

679
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 1: they'll probably end up going nine to eight or ten

680
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 1: and seven miss the playoffs. And it does feel like

681
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:38,520
Speaker 1: we're kind of at the end of the Kelsey Chris

682
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 1: Jones era. You'd think now maybe, you know, I thought

683
00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:46,239
Speaker 1: Travis Kelcey would retire after the season. Maybe if they

684
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 1: don't make the playoffs and he gets January off and

685
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:51,839
Speaker 1: he gets a much longer off season, then he comes back.

686
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:55,120
Speaker 1: Because if you're giving five six catches a game, it's

687
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:57,399
Speaker 1: not like they're gonna kick you to the curb. Right,

688
00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 1: It's not like they wouldn't want him back. They have

689
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 1: to pay for him anyway, Like, you know, he's under contract,

690
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 1: So you know, Chris Jones is a guy that still

691
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:11,319
Speaker 1: makes big time plays, but is he someone that you

692
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:13,680
Speaker 1: can just depend on on a weekly basis. I think

693
00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to find kind of their next generation

694
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:22,440
Speaker 1: of impact guy on defense, and it's hard, you know,

695
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:25,280
Speaker 1: to do it typically when you're drafting thirty first, thirty

696
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:28,799
Speaker 1: second every single year. Now maybe you draft eighteenth, maybe

697
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:30,640
Speaker 1: you get aggressive and you get up to like tenth,

698
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 1: And that's what the Chiefs are gonna have to do

699
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:38,720
Speaker 1: potentially this offseason. Is like if you're drafting eighteenth or nineteenth,

700
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 1: does Veech just go, you know what, fuck it, Let's

701
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 1: take the twenty seven to one and go from eighteen

702
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:49,239
Speaker 1: to seven and get the second best edge rusher in

703
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:51,600
Speaker 1: this draft and kind of put all of his chips

704
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 1: in the table for next year and do something aggressive

705
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 1: like that. And that's where I think the Chiefs are

706
00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 1: in a position where they can do aggressive things that

707
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:04,080
Speaker 1: other teams probably hesitant to do because I think, listen,

708
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 1: they're gonna keep battling their ass off and playing hard.

709
00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 1: But you know they were, you know, Tony was kind

710
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:11,680
Speaker 1: of breaking it down on the broadcast when you looked

711
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:15,480
Speaker 1: at the at the standings, if you just look at

712
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:19,120
Speaker 1: the conference, they are six and six right now and

713
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:22,399
Speaker 1: sitting in ninth. Well, the Texans are six and five.

714
00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:26,200
Speaker 1: The Bills are technically the seventh seed at seven and four.

715
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:29,680
Speaker 1: So if the Bills beat the Steelers this week, they'll

716
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:36,800
Speaker 1: be eight and four. The Jags play the Titans Sunday,

717
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 1: so more than likely they'll be eight and four. So

718
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 1: two teams that beat you are gonna be eight and four.

719
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 1: I think the Texans, I don't know if they're the

720
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:50,120
Speaker 1: hottest team in the league, but their defense is playing

721
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 1: as well as any unit in the NFL. They played

722
00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 1: the Colts this week. I don't know if you saw

723
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:57,400
Speaker 1: the clip on Daniel Jones. He can't move, So I

724
00:39:57,400 --> 00:39:59,880
Speaker 1: don't know about you. I'm taking the Texans in that game.

725
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:05,560
Speaker 1: You know it is they despise and like their value

726
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:08,480
Speaker 1: of Anthony Richardson is so low that they would rather

727
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 1: play a guy that cannot move against the defense that

728
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:14,960
Speaker 1: literally could break your other leg, then be like, you

729
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:16,279
Speaker 1: know what, We're gonna give him the week off and

730
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:19,240
Speaker 1: play Anthony Richardson. Who knows, maybe Anthony Richison ends up playing,

731
00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:23,280
Speaker 1: but this week could be pretty devastating for the Chiefs.

732
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 1: You lose and the Texans, the Bills, and the Jags

733
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:31,399
Speaker 1: all win. I think it's very likely that scenario plays out.

734
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:34,480
Speaker 1: The Texans, the Bills, and the Jags all win. Chargers

735
00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 1: a little bit of a wild card because they have

736
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:39,400
Speaker 1: so many injuries. But I just checked they play the

737
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:42,919
Speaker 1: Raiders this week, so I mean there's a decent chance

738
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Speaker 1: that all three of those teams Chargers, Jags, Bills are

739
00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:49,439
Speaker 1: eight and four, and the Texans win in their seven

740
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:52,759
Speaker 1: and five and they've already beat you. So it's just

741
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:56,000
Speaker 1: it's one of those scenarios where the Chiefs and this

742
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:59,040
Speaker 1: is why the Ravens are a little lucky that the

743
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:03,720
Speaker 1: Steelers are just such a disaster that their slow start

744
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:07,280
Speaker 1: doesn't completely derail their season. When you start one in five,

745
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:10,799
Speaker 1: if you are in a credible division, you have zero

746
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:13,759
Speaker 1: percent chance to win it. The only way you have

747
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:15,680
Speaker 1: a chance to win a division at one in five

748
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:19,800
Speaker 1: is if you're in a division with awful teams, because

749
00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 1: nine and eight, I mean, it's gonna be hard to achieve.

750
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 1: Right If you get ten wins in the AFC North,

751
00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:29,279
Speaker 1: you're gonna win that thing by multiple games. I'd bet

752
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 1: one thousand dollars right now. Nine and eight wins the

753
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:34,960
Speaker 1: game or it wins the division. So I think, you know,

754
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 1: you look at the Chiefs, it's like some years ten

755
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 1: and seven boom gets you the seven seed. Some years,

756
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta win some tie breakers with eleven

757
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:45,799
Speaker 1: wins to get in, and it feels like that's the

758
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:49,000
Speaker 1: case with the Chiefs. So listen, hell of a run,

759
00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:51,799
Speaker 1: five super Bowl, six years, not the end of the world.

760
00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:53,760
Speaker 1: I also think that they could flip this thing pretty

761
00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:56,000
Speaker 1: easy in the offseason, kind of transition in next year

762
00:41:56,040 --> 00:42:01,319
Speaker 1: because listen, I think Mahomes he's still really good, but

763
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 1: I think he's closer to you know, this version of

764
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:07,520
Speaker 1: Lamar obviously is not an elite guy. You know, Burrow's

765
00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:10,000
Speaker 1: been injured all season, Josh Allen's kind of been all

766
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:12,319
Speaker 1: over the map. No one's really playing of all the

767
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:15,840
Speaker 1: top guys to their elite caliber. But Mahomes is the

768
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:18,719
Speaker 1: same thing. Again, he's still really good. I would take

769
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:22,240
Speaker 1: him on my team in a freaking heartbeat over ninety

770
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:24,880
Speaker 1: five percent of these other guys. But like, he has

771
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:26,560
Speaker 1: moments in the game where it's like, oh, that's really

772
00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:28,719
Speaker 1: impressive throw, and he has other moments, right huh. I'd

773
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:32,120
Speaker 1: like a little more, and like, maybe he's just gonna

774
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:34,799
Speaker 1: be a really really good player. The days of his,

775
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:38,239
Speaker 1: you know, time being the most dominant guy is over.

776
00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:41,600
Speaker 1: He's just gonna be really good, which is fine. And

777
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:43,399
Speaker 1: now I think you know Veach would be the first

778
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:45,120
Speaker 1: to tell you. It's on me to build a really

779
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 1: good team. So me to pick the right players on

780
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 1: defense so I can get I clearly have you know,

781
00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:53,000
Speaker 1: Andy and Spags. We just need a little more mph.

782
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:58,200
Speaker 1: We need better players. I think I saw a report

783
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:02,400
Speaker 1: when I was scrolling maybe at halftime that Josh or Simmons,

784
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:06,319
Speaker 1: that's the first name. Josh broke his wrist, the star

785
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:10,839
Speaker 1: left tackle from Ohiose State. So that's not ideal. I mean,

786
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:12,560
Speaker 1: last time I checked, you break your wrist, probably out

787
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 1: for the season. It's just not their year. Okay, let's

788
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:35,280
Speaker 1: end on this. Two guys just deserved their flowers today.

789
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:39,200
Speaker 1: I thought Lafloor's who has taken a lot of crap.

790
00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 1: He's been under a lot of heat. Right, people are like,

791
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:44,640
Speaker 1: what's up with his play calling? I thought he was

792
00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:49,280
Speaker 1: excellent today. I thought, now again, he's not exactly playing

793
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:54,120
Speaker 1: the eighty five Bears. The Lions are not good on defense, right,

794
00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:57,839
Speaker 1: and then they got defensive issues. But in terms of

795
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:03,239
Speaker 1: I thought, that's as good of a game I can

796
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 1: remember Lafloor calling. They had one hundred and twenty five

797
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:08,279
Speaker 1: yards on the ground. You know, love three hundred and

798
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:11,319
Speaker 1: thirty four, but he threw four touchdowns, was excellent in

799
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:15,360
Speaker 1: the red zone. Christian Watson coming back has completely changed

800
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:18,239
Speaker 1: their offense in terms of speed. Obviously, Wix was like

801
00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:22,120
Speaker 1: star of the game, especially the one that ended the game.

802
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:24,719
Speaker 1: I did think toward the end of the game when

803
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:28,000
Speaker 1: they're in that scenario where they can't run out the clock,

804
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:32,680
Speaker 1: but it's third and whatever, third and four, third and five,

805
00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:37,080
Speaker 1: the Lions have no timeouts. If you just run the

806
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:40,640
Speaker 1: ball from like one p fifty six, you would the

807
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:44,440
Speaker 1: fourth down would come at like a buck fifteen, and

808
00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 1: they have no timeouts. They have to score a touchdown

809
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:49,840
Speaker 1: to just tie the game. So you're basically at the

810
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:52,879
Speaker 1: fifty yard line with one hundred and with a buck

811
00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:55,600
Speaker 1: twenty left or a buck fifteen. You could punt and

812
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:58,879
Speaker 1: make them try to go eighty ninety yards to score

813
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:02,279
Speaker 1: a touchdown. Right now, they're good on def or excuse me,

814
00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:04,560
Speaker 1: they're good on offense at home, I get it. They can.

815
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 1: They got explosive players even with your defense being excellent.

816
00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:12,279
Speaker 1: I understand being aggressive. I personally would have ran the

817
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:15,160
Speaker 1: ball on third down, but I'm not gonna nitpick him.

818
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:17,279
Speaker 1: Maybe he would say I'm going for it no matter

819
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:20,400
Speaker 1: what on fourth down, So who even cares I'm not

820
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:24,120
Speaker 1: necessarily playing the clock. I'd still push back even if

821
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:27,160
Speaker 1: you're gonna go for it, at least put them in

822
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 1: a position with way less time. But that being said,

823
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:33,600
Speaker 1: fourth down goes for it. Take some nuts because if

824
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:36,239
Speaker 1: you don't get it, you know, Dan Campbell, if he

825
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:39,360
Speaker 1: does score, he's going for two. And if you lose,

826
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:42,279
Speaker 1: that's one of those that would have been hard to shake.

827
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:44,840
Speaker 1: But he didn't and he got it. Love made a

828
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 1: great play. I thought Jordan Love was fantastic. Obviously, the

829
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:51,560
Speaker 1: touchdown that he threw the first touchdown of the game

830
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:55,640
Speaker 1: was just I mean, it's like a football porn. Just

831
00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 1: an absolute beautiful throw down the left side for which

832
00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:03,759
Speaker 1: his first touchdown. And how long was that play? That

833
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:07,120
Speaker 1: was thirty yards? That was beautiful pitch and catch. He

834
00:46:07,200 --> 00:46:09,759
Speaker 1: was excellent through a couple of nice red zone touchdowns.

835
00:46:10,239 --> 00:46:14,280
Speaker 1: He had the beautiful pass to Christian Watson, who again

836
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:18,680
Speaker 1: just gives them. It's like, listen, if the Lions are

837
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:21,880
Speaker 1: fully healthy. What Jamison Williams brings to the table, especially

838
00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:25,200
Speaker 1: with Dan Campbell calling, is something that you can't teach,

839
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:28,160
Speaker 1: like what he has and he showed it a couple

840
00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:30,120
Speaker 1: times a day. Is what you want out of worthy.

841
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:35,760
Speaker 1: Utilize the speed, change in direction, use angles. You're faster,

842
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:38,800
Speaker 1: and literally the other twenty one guys on this field,

843
00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:42,200
Speaker 1: you are the fastest guy. Jamison Williams knows it and

844
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:43,799
Speaker 1: he plays like it when the ball's in his hand.

845
00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 1: Christian Watson knows it a little bit too, like he

846
00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 1: can just scoot. And watching those two guys with the

847
00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:52,120
Speaker 1: ball in their hand, I mean they both can fly.

848
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Speaker 1: And I just think that today was huge. And now

849
00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:00,279
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers does feel like they control their

850
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:02,319
Speaker 1: own destiny a little bit. I mean they literally do,

851
00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:06,400
Speaker 1: because they play the Bears twice. But like I think

852
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 1: it'd be a little stunning if they don't win the division.

853
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:13,120
Speaker 1: I listen, maybe the Bears just have a magical season,

854
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:16,440
Speaker 1: but those are gonna be really hard matches for Chicago.

855
00:47:16,719 --> 00:47:20,120
Speaker 1: But even if they split, they got to go to Denver,

856
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:22,560
Speaker 1: which is tough. They got the Ravens and they still

857
00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:26,719
Speaker 1: go to Minnesota, so their schedule isn't simple, but they

858
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:30,480
Speaker 1: are gonna get the Bears next week. I guess they

859
00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:32,840
Speaker 1: only get the extra day because the Bears are playing

860
00:47:32,840 --> 00:47:36,320
Speaker 1: on Friday against the Eagles. But that was a massive,

861
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:39,400
Speaker 1: massive win and huge moment. I just thought, you know,

862
00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:41,880
Speaker 1: Jordan Love, Matt Lafleur just taking a lot of shit

863
00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:45,719
Speaker 1: right everyone, and rightfully so is been on Halfley in

864
00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 1: the defense and they fly around. I mean that front,

865
00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 1: Micah came through. I mean, Micah made big, big plays today,

866
00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:57,359
Speaker 1: but one big difference today. I mean, obviously, you know

867
00:47:57,560 --> 00:48:01,279
Speaker 1: for Dan Campbell, the first fourth down he went for

868
00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:03,760
Speaker 1: it on when they ran Jamir Gibbs up the middle.

869
00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:06,920
Speaker 1: It didn't even have a prayer. The second one worked,

870
00:48:07,520 --> 00:48:11,279
Speaker 1: Goff just missed. Jamison Williams threw it behind him. I mean,

871
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:13,200
Speaker 1: you would like a guy to make a play, but

872
00:48:13,239 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 1: that's a tough catch and he drops it. So they

873
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:18,880
Speaker 1: go zero to two on fourth downs. Meanwhile, the Packers

874
00:48:18,920 --> 00:48:22,360
Speaker 1: go three for three in these games against these teams

875
00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:26,680
Speaker 1: that are always going for it on fourth down. That's

876
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:30,040
Speaker 1: that's huge. I mean that literally was the game because

877
00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:33,000
Speaker 1: when they got the fourth down, it literally ended the game.

878
00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:35,480
Speaker 1: And if they don't get that play, which was an

879
00:48:35,520 --> 00:48:38,719
Speaker 1: incredible catch him high point in the ball, the Lions

880
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:41,880
Speaker 1: are getting the ball basically at midfield with what like

881
00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:44,840
Speaker 1: a over a minute forty five left in the game

882
00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:50,120
Speaker 1: with some elite offensive players. So that's just that these

883
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:53,680
Speaker 1: fourth down swings are huge. I mean, they're just massive,

884
00:48:53,719 --> 00:48:56,080
Speaker 1: which I appreciate. You're kind of on pins and needles,

885
00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:58,719
Speaker 1: especially as we go in the second half of these games,

886
00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:03,799
Speaker 1: because you know these people are gonna go for I

887
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:06,719
Speaker 1: think Dan Campbell's got to be a little worried because

888
00:49:07,120 --> 00:49:10,960
Speaker 1: next week against the Cowboys, which he's gonna be missing

889
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:16,160
Speaker 1: Saint Brown, everybody and their mother is gonna pick the

890
00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:22,600
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys in that game. Dallas's strength, it's like, okay,

891
00:49:22,640 --> 00:49:24,160
Speaker 1: you want to get in a shootout, they can just

892
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:26,839
Speaker 1: do what Green Bay did. We could score, you know,

893
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:29,800
Speaker 1: thirty thirty five points, no problem, but our defense is

894
00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:33,360
Speaker 1: playing really well. Saint Brown's gone, your tight end's gone.

895
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:37,279
Speaker 1: It's like, let's just focus on Montgomery and Gibbs. What's

896
00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:40,640
Speaker 1: Jameson Williams gonna do? Go for three hundred yards? So

897
00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:42,839
Speaker 1: to me, if I'm the Cowboys next week, it's just

898
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:46,879
Speaker 1: like you just somewhat neutralized Gibs a Montgomery. Which listen,

899
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:49,680
Speaker 1: both those two guys made play today. They're excellent players.

900
00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:54,000
Speaker 1: But I think this Lions season has this kind of

901
00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:56,799
Speaker 1: been weird, you know, it really has, and I think

902
00:49:56,800 --> 00:50:00,600
Speaker 1: it just gets back to defensively, they're just not very good.

903
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:02,959
Speaker 1: You just have no faith that they're gonna get any

904
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:07,840
Speaker 1: stops and they're back seven. It's just they got holes everywhere.

905
00:50:08,520 --> 00:50:11,000
Speaker 1: It just doesn't feel like their dvs make any place.

906
00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:15,520
Speaker 1: I mean their corners multiple times. Even on that last

907
00:50:15,560 --> 00:50:18,840
Speaker 1: drive before the fourth down, Christian Watson what felt like

908
00:50:18,880 --> 00:50:21,400
Speaker 1: had a third down that your thought kind of iced

909
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:23,960
Speaker 1: the game. It ended up not really, but it was

910
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:27,480
Speaker 1: just it was an easy out route on what like

911
00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:31,080
Speaker 1: third and six. It was like it felt like training

912
00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:34,680
Speaker 1: camp for the Packers. So congrats to Green Bay, massive,

913
00:50:34,719 --> 00:50:37,160
Speaker 1: massive win, and we'll get out of here on this.

914
00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:41,640
Speaker 1: I was hot today. I went three for three. I

915
00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:45,400
Speaker 1: think I don't feel great about this. I feel a

916
00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:48,480
Speaker 1: little bit like the Bengals against the Ravens, where it's

917
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:51,040
Speaker 1: like this is too many points. It does feel like

918
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:52,680
Speaker 1: the Bears have been a little bit of a team

919
00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:55,640
Speaker 1: of destiny. Love their coach Ben Johnson. They're getting seven

920
00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:59,440
Speaker 1: points on the road. The Caleb Ben Johnson verse FIC

921
00:50:59,520 --> 00:51:03,160
Speaker 1: fanjo just an excellent matchup because I want to see

922
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:07,359
Speaker 1: how Caleb can handle Fangio. Obviously the new added edge

923
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:09,759
Speaker 1: rushers to the Eagles. We know how good their interior

924
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:14,799
Speaker 1: defensive tackles are. If you can neutralize at all the

925
00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:21,279
Speaker 1: run game for the Bears, can Caleb just carry you

926
00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:24,440
Speaker 1: throwing it against the Eagles? Can he run away and

927
00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:28,479
Speaker 1: break the tackles up their defensive lineman. Just a really

928
00:51:28,480 --> 00:51:31,640
Speaker 1: really interesting matchup. I also just wonder about the psyche

929
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:37,759
Speaker 1: of this Eagles team that lost to on Sunday to

930
00:51:37,800 --> 00:51:40,160
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. It's like, are they just gonna be able

931
00:51:40,200 --> 00:51:43,040
Speaker 1: to just shake that off and keep their head up

932
00:51:43,080 --> 00:51:45,279
Speaker 1: and not even be phased by it. Listen, this is

933
00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:48,120
Speaker 1: really gonna test Sirianni, because this is gonna be a

934
00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:51,200
Speaker 1: moment where if this game is weird, if it's like

935
00:51:51,280 --> 00:51:54,400
Speaker 1: three to three or seven three Bears in the second quarter,

936
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:57,880
Speaker 1: you go three and out, like they are gonna boo

937
00:51:57,960 --> 00:52:00,560
Speaker 1: a living you know what out of you. You could

938
00:52:00,560 --> 00:52:04,640
Speaker 1: hear the booze, like if you're in Pittsburgh or Atlantic City,

939
00:52:04,760 --> 00:52:06,960
Speaker 1: They're gonna boot so loud. This play is gonna be

940
00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:09,680
Speaker 1: a little on edge coming in, not because they view

941
00:52:09,719 --> 00:52:12,560
Speaker 1: the Bears as some juggernaut, but it's more looking at

942
00:52:12,560 --> 00:52:14,879
Speaker 1: their own team. They have a really high standard. They're

943
00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:18,920
Speaker 1: the defending champs. Their offense can look really weird. Their

944
00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:21,520
Speaker 1: offensive line has not played well this year. They cannot

945
00:52:21,560 --> 00:52:24,839
Speaker 1: run the ball, the you know the rapport Jalen has

946
00:52:24,880 --> 00:52:26,719
Speaker 1: with the wide receivers. He can have series where they

947
00:52:26,719 --> 00:52:29,640
Speaker 1: look awesome and then it just disappears. So I'm taking

948
00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:33,160
Speaker 1: the Bears plus seven. I'm gonna take Rome anytime touchdown,

949
00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:36,080
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw in aj Brown, Like first series, i

950
00:52:36,080 --> 00:52:38,359
Speaker 1: could see him having a touchdown. They love getting him

951
00:52:38,360 --> 00:52:41,720
Speaker 1: involved to like try to make everyone see they're friends,

952
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:43,839
Speaker 1: and then he want to have a target the rest

953
00:52:43,840 --> 00:52:47,440
Speaker 1: of the game. So that pays a plus nine, nine

954
00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:50,439
Speaker 1: to five, so you know, almost ten to one. But again,

955
00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:53,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the Bears plus seven. Won the Eagles

956
00:52:53,160 --> 00:52:55,279
Speaker 1: just playing a lot of weird close games. I just

957
00:52:55,320 --> 00:52:58,520
Speaker 1: think this game could get weird. I'm expecting this thing

958
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:02,480
Speaker 1: to be weird, which I like, which makes for a

959
00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:06,319
Speaker 1: good podcast. Everyone enjoy the night, Happy Thanksgiving, and talk

960
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:14,400
Speaker 1: to everyone soon. The volume MHM