WEBVTT - 2018 Week 17 Preview 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:05.000 Be Around the NFL Podcast is still waiting for an 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:08.800 update on the Portman River Hall. Welcome back to another 0:00:08.960 --> 0:00:12.840 edition of the Around the NFL Podcast. My name is 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:15.360 Dan Hands and I'm joining the room filled with some heroes. 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:19.160 Chris Wesley to my left, Greg Roosevelt to my right. 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:24.079 What is up? Boys? Mark Sessler back to boomerang. I 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:29.880 r with a throat issue. We're hearing he is not 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:32.760 able to make it today, but he will be chiming 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:36.520 in to our Twitter show via Twitter. So if people 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:39.040 when they listen to this podcast just want another hour 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:43.199 of content from us, find that online on our Twitter accounts. 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:47.720 Busy day, UH, Merry Christmas in the in the rear view. 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:50.280 That was a Merry Christmas, West. Did you get what 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:52.760 you wanted for Christmas? I sure did, had great time. 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:56.000 What did you want you? I wanted people to come 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:57.880 to my house for Christmas Day and they did. It 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:00.160 was pretty It was pretty great. I went over there 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:05.000 late afternoon on Christmas because my family's in Japan right now. 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:08.600 First we did fake We did our own family Christmas 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:11.480 a week before, and it was it was a different experience, 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:14.559 but it was quite delightful just being around UH friends 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:16.600 and getting a little loose on Christmas. Did you do 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:20.920 any Christmas related activity? Was there any mistletoe or egg 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:24.040 nog or anything like that? Well, it's Christmas related to 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:28.240 like smoke meats and drink alcohol. Right, watch the little 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:31.440 NBA action a bunch of hoops. Yeah, yeah, I think 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:33.319 there was. There was Christmas related. It was like a 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:37.440 podcast crossover because I brought Anthony Jess Yeah, Jessel Nick 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:39.640 and Rosenthal vany project and it was a lot of fun. 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:42.760 A celebrity. Well, we would open our doors to anybody 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:45.960 without a family. So right, you're almost like an orphanage 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:51.680 of l a Great West. Um. So much to get 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:56.240 to today because Week seventeen is upon us and because 0:01:56.320 --> 0:02:00.000 of that, no Thursday games, no Saturday games, no Money 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:05.480 Day game. It is sixteen football contest uh, mostly in 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:07.920 the one o'clock at four o'clock hour, and of course 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:09.880 the one Sunday night game, which will be a play 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:12.359 in game of course uh in the a f C 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:15.080 South to decide that division. And we're gonna get to 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:16.480 that at the bottom of the show. But we have 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:20.160 so much uh to talk about, so many games, Greg, 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:23.639 and I know you're excited. I like Week seventeen. It's 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:27.200 a weird It's always a strange week. It's impossible to predict. 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:31.560 There's like motivational problems, but usually there's a few surprises. 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:33.360 Like we went into a Week seventeen last year. No 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:35.200 one thought the Titans were making the playoffs. No one 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:37.640 thought they were gonna beat Jacksonville or get the like 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.080 three things that needed to happen for them to make it, 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:42.360 but they didn't. That always seems to happen in weeks. 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:45.080 Did you say motivational problems? Have you ever heard a 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:49.440 Chris Spielman monologue? Every game counts to these men, They 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:52.080 are leaving it all on the field one through seven. 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:54.959 I mean, I'm even getting Spielman says, So I'm even 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:57.880 getting into like the point spreads of it all, Like 0:02:57.960 --> 0:02:59.760 do you get some wacky ones this week? Because like 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:02.440 one knows if the Cowboys are gonna try. The Bear 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:05.320 say they're gonna try, but no one totally believes them, 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:07.040 and you know, so that's stuff like that. You don't 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:09.320 know what to do. There's a reason Week seventeen only 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:11.880 counts in your fantasy league if you're an idiot, because 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:15.480 these things come into play. New Orleans comes to mind 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:18.440 in other cities around the NFL. Let's get into the 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:22.160 first game, a game that doesn't have any playoff ramifications. 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:23.760 We're just gonna go through the one o'clocks, then the 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:27.079 four o'clocks. First up, the Miami Dolphins and the Buffalo 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:31.280 Bills to a f C East also rans squaring off 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:35.000 an ending UH disappointing seasons. UH. West will start with 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:37.920 you on this one. The Dolphins forever a five hundred team, 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:40.280 it feels like now they can get to five with 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:42.600 a win. UH. And it's starting to look like if 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:45.560 you if you read reports out there that this could 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:48.960 be Ryan Tannehill's farewell in Miami. The Miami Herald is 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:51.720 reporting it as if it's a done deal that Tannehill 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:54.400 will not even be back. I believe his cat number 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:57.000 is twenty six point six million next year and they 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:59.120 don't want to pay that. And I don't blame them 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:01.320 well the reason that much though, because they gave him 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:03.640 a contract before this year. So that's what terror That's 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:07.280 what bad franchises do. They pushed money into the future 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:11.400 to save some cap room because they're like, well, Tannehill 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:12.960 is our guy for at least a few more years 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:15.000 and now he's not. In that article if I'm a 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:18.040 Dolphins fan, was very concerning because you did not have 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:20.400 to read too far between the lines to realize it 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:24.240 was ownership that wants Tannehill out, ownership that says he's out, 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:26.720 and like, oh, the coach in the front office, Like 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:29.480 we're not even sure who that's gonna be, but basically 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:32.479 the owner that was how I read it. Used to 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:38.360 be a huge Tannehill fan, jo, I believe it's above No, yeah, 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:41.400 you don't really hear rock a little, the hard rock. 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:45.359 That's sort of the Williams sisters. The reed that because 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:47.640 they realized how bad it seemed that the owners were 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:49.839 a bunch of celebrities and like someone wrote an article 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:52.640 that was like, yeah, they popped in like twenty bucks each, 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:56.000 Like it was like they were so not the rockets 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:59.280 have that decided they basically got like a free and 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:02.159 called him an owner. Strange move. I will ask you 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:04.839 this because Tannehill will be elsewhere. I think there's a 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:07.680 chance he will be Vante Parker too. This is probably 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:10.320 his last game. But Tannehill is interesting to me. Let's 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:13.080 just say there's a scenario where Drew Brees retires after 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:15.760 winning the Super Bowl this year. Uh. If you took 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:19.240 Ryan Tannehill out of the den of mediocrity that is Miami. 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:22.000 Uh And I understand you can make the case that 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:25.400 Tannehill is indeed a den of mediocrity in the quarterback world. 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:26.720 But if you took him out of Miami and put 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:29.160 him on a real team with a great coach, do 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:30.839 you think the Saints would have a really good offense 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:34.800 with Ryan Tannehill. I think if you think he might 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:36.760 be better in a better situation based on the stab 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:40.080 established principles of mediocrity, I think the Saints would then 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:42.560 become mediocres. I think they would be better they he 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:44.680 would be better, though, I I see what you're saying, 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:46.760 Like I I wrote an article this week for QB 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:48.440 and Necks trying to like figure out who you would 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:50.920 want this offseason, Like, so, who would you want? Bridge, 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:56.720 Bridgewater falls, then there's Tannehill, maybe Jamis Winston. You know 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:00.159 tanne I don't know Tannehill's I don't think he is 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:04.359 feeling so far behind the other guys as group. In 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:07.560 that group, Blaco, one of the same questions, you would 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:10.640 have a Teddy Bridgewater can he stay healthy. Tannehill has 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:13.760 not been healthy for a long time, and he takes 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:15.920 too many hits because I think he has the same 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:19.520 spatial awareness thing that Mariota has. Tannehill takes entirely. He 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:21.839 hasn't gotten any better. So I had to answer my 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:24.599 own question. I'd rather have Teddy and falls because I 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:27.080 do think that Tannehill is the same guy he was 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:29.000 as a rookie, which was pretty good as a rookie, 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:31.000 but now it's like six years later, I don't think 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:34.400 he's changing. Also think this might be Lashawn McCoy's last game. Yes, 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:37.039 he's had a falling out with head coach Sean McDermott. 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:39.360 The Bills I would think would win with that defense 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:42.599 at home, but that would mean Dolphins finished seven and nine, 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:44.880 not eight and eight. So that's why I feel like 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:47.520 the Dolphins that game last week ended like three different 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:52.240 quarterbacks careers in Jacksonville, Miami. Cody Kessler, Blake boardles An Tannehill, 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:55.920 We're all gone costly. Moving on the Detroit Lions, they 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:59.520 too are finishing off a disappointing season after back to 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:03.520 back nine in seven years UM under Jim Caldwell. There 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:06.279 five and ten entering weeks seventeen, and they have a 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:09.480 tough assignment going to lambeau Field to face the Packers. 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:13.160 Greg Aaron Rodgers, who has not been quite Aaron Rodgers 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:17.000 all season, looked like Aaron Rodgers against the Jets and 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:20.360 they're fat defense. Um, do you think he finishes this 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:22.960 season out strong? Here? Yeah? I mean he's throwing it 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:25.160 as well as he has all year. He says, healthy 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:27.280 and moving as well as he has all year, and 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:29.840 he's playing a team that's just the wheels have come 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:32.480 off with the Lions. There's now you know these stories 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:36.040 this week about how Matt Patricia's late to things often. 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:39.320 He has not been on time to a press conference 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:41.920 briefing all season, to the point where the beat writers 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:44.880 call it Patricia standard time, right, And then he was 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:47.840 eighty five minutes late to the to the call with 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.560 the Packers one, so they wrote about it was supposed 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:52.440 to be right. So that's the whole and they asked 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:55.600 him about it and just everything. It's just I don't know, 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:57.520 I know, I got I got shouted down a few 0:07:57.520 --> 0:07:59.840 months ago when I brought this up. But if there's 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:03.640 n shocking dismissal on black Monday, Patricia, I mean to 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:06.680 go from a playoff team to a competitive nine and 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:08.560 seven team to a five and eleven team where no 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:10.640 one seems to really like the coach and there seems 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.320 to be going in a bad direction. He like he 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:14.720 to me, stands out as a guy if you have 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:17.120 to throw somebody that hasn't been connected at all, and 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:19.280 he spoke to them. He spoke on that this week, 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:22.160 saying ownership, he's he has weekly meetings and they seem 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:24.600 to be like they seem to support him and like him, 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:26.600 so he's probably safe. But it has not been a 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:29.600 good for as year. From that, Patricia, it hasn't and 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:31.720 a lot of that is injuries, but it's also he's 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:34.040 trying to institute a culture change, which is gonna take 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:36.880 more than one year. And if part of the culture 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:38.920 changes him not showing up for things on time, I 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:41.040 don't know how that works. The reason I don't think 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:43.480 he's at any risk is just because of the combination 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:47.280 of ownership and the GM that I just don't sense 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:49.400 the Ford family is gonna want to start a total 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:52.160 other rebuild, which I think the only way that Patricia 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:54.400 gets fired is if the GM, Bob Quinn, who's also 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:57.360 from the Patriots, gets fired too, and just just doesn't 0:08:57.360 --> 0:08:59.920 seem like Jimbob Couder will probably be the sac of 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:02.800 Michel Lamb here the offensive coordinator, which I can I 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:06.040 can never figure this stuff out because everyone's doing backflips 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:08.040 over Jim Bob. Did that mean the league just caught 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:10.720 up to Jim Bob or Patricia somehow rubbed off negatively 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:13.240 on Jim Bob because Jim Bob went from hot shot 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:15.200 with the best name in the league two guys gonna 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:17.080 be a kick to the curb in a week. Sometimes 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:18.960 I lose traffic. It's tough to be a Lions fan. 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:21.680 I remember you saying in this studio that you would 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:24.000 be like when you draft when they drafted Donald, like 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:27.480 even a Stafford level guy, that would be amazing. But 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:30.200 here we are, like eight nine years into the Stafford era, 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:33.199 and so I think the Lions fans are pretty pretty frustrated. 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:36.600 Get all there is. I think a Lions fan, a 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:38.880 serious fan, could break this down much better. But my 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:41.240 read on this is that Jim Bob Cooter a couple 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:45.319 of years ago turned Stafford's career around with this quick 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:48.080 passing game, and then Patricia came in and wanted to 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:50.960 establish a ground attack, which the Lions have been missing. 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:53.120 So they were gonna be a ground attack and throw 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:55.720 the ball down the field type of team, switching everything 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:58.720 up from what Cooter had had installed. And then the 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:02.120 injuries at wadn stever have made them a quick passing 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:04.400 team again, so they don't really have an identity because 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:07.000 they wanted to be running and throw and now they're 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:10.280 trying to go back to what he's been hurt playing hurt. 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:12.839 All right, let's move on, and we have plenty of 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:15.920 time to talk about Rogers and the Packers future, and 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:19.360 we will have I believe a Black Monday special podcast 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:22.480 coming up next week. Um, so we're gonna get into 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:24.920 what's going on around the Packers. They they're gonna be 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:28.439 big game hunting Greg as they say for a head coach. 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:31.120 Is that what they do? They're going for big names. 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:35.080 I mean they did interview Chuck Pagano and Jim Caldwell already. 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:37.720 Oh well, there you go. That backs up what I said, 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:42.120 doesn't it. I don't know that's former head Coach of 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:45.680 the Year Chuck Pagana to you. I was like, did 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:47.719 called called one might have won one of those. It's 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:52.160 hard to keep tracking, is uh? Moving on? The Jacksonville Jaguars, 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:54.920 another team wrapping up a deeply disappointing season. They are 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:57.520 also five and ten. I think they were knocking out 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:01.160 these uh sleazy teams. All sleazies not right word. It's 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:03.400 not like they have some type of we're giving them 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:06.360 respected past. You don't hear on anyone else breaking down 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:10.520 Lions Packers in week seventeen, and now here are the 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:12.720 Jaguars like well, because that's not a good idea for 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:16.280 a podcast. Shut up. Every team gets its due. The 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:19.840 Jags traveled to Houston to face the Texans. The Texans 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:22.400 clinched the a f C South with a win. The Colts, 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:24.400 of course we have won eight of nine, are right 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:28.440 behind them. But if the Texans win number eleven West, 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:31.760 nobody can catch them, and that would be a home 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:34.840 game in the playoffs and maybe even if things broke 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:38.120 the right way. By your thoughts, I've got so much 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:41.400 to say about this matchup. The Texans to me, are 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:43.840 a much worse team presently than they were a month 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:45.839 ago when we were really interested with their back to 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:49.280 back wins over the Titans and Browns um they lose 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:52.560 to Marius Thomas, they had already left Will Fuller. Outside 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:56.160 of DeAndre Hopkins, they don't have an active receiver, tight end, 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:59.600 or running back with over three yards receiving this season. 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:02.760 They're all Dejandre Carter, who was cut by who he 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:05.280 was waived by the Eagles by the Eagles is their 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:08.400 number two receivers, and they don't have a running game 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:11.160 at the moment. Their offensive line, which had shown some 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:14.160 signs of progress throughout the year, has taken another step 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:17.760 back over the past month. Uh and their defense, the 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:21.800 cornerbacks are just getting injured. They're not They don't have 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:24.880 the firepower in their secondary or on their offense right now. 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:26.959 I don't think to stack up against the a f 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:30.840 c's best teams, but how much can like Deshaun Watson 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:35.600 and new Hopkins carry one team? Because that's what I'm saying. 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:38.720 That was one of the best kind of I can 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:42.679 survive the crucible young quarterback moments we've seen in the 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:46.480 last few years. That was an incredible performance by by 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:49.560 Watson and Nuke to me, is the most valuable receiver 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:51.640 in the league. I've said it a few times. They 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:55.280 were unbelievable, and just because their defense uh couldn't couldn't 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:57.320 stop Nick Foles late, they didn't get the credit. So 0:12:57.400 --> 0:12:59.680 I I sort of don't doubt because I just believe 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:03.160 in just Ton Watson's supernatural abilities that he'll get through this. 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:05.480 Yet they had no reason to be hanging around in 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:07.400 that game and almost winning the damn thing. If their 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:10.440 defense makes a stop, you you think that the side 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:12.959 of the team that's healthier, and they have Honey Badger 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.880 and J. J. Watt and Jadavian Clowney, they can't get 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:18.319 it done. But maybe the best game of his career 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:20.720 in that game. What was talking about the last possession? 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:24.679 But yeah, I just thought, I just mean, yeah, they 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:26.480 need to get a little They haven't been able to 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:31.080 combine like a Watton Clowney. I think they can do 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:32.839 even more, and this should be a game they can 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:36.240 because Blake Bortles is back and the offensive line for 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:39.360 the Jaguars has been gone all year, and uh, I 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:41.960 give the Jaguars a better chance with Boordles than with Kessler, 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:44.560 but their line is so bad that I just think 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:47.040 they'll get overwhelmed. Their line is bad. But the biggest 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:50.520 disappointment in a very disappointing Jaguar season. Is Leonard from 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:55.439 Nette who is so slow right now, cannot make anyone 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:58.920 miss and he looks like molasses running up hill in January. 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:02.319 He is so damn slow. If you if he were 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:05.040 to enter the draft right now, what round would you 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:08.920 take Leonard Fournette? And I think he'd go undrafted? Wow, 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:11.480 if just based on just based on the tape he's 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:14.920 put out. Put that on your tweet social, let me 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:18.040 let me clarify to if you watch last week's game, 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:22.120 Leonard Fournett would go undrafted based on that performance? Was 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:24.640 that slow? What's interesting too, is that when he came back, 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:26.680 he missed weeks and weeks and weeks with what was 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:29.800 that hamstring injury? Um, he missed weeks and weeks. He 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:32.920 comes back and he was putting up pretty solid production numbers. 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:35.520 Is he hurt again or is this just he's just 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:38.360 not something. So when he came back, he was getting 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:41.120 thirty carries and every in doing about two point seven 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:43.680 yards per clip with them, So he was putting up 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:47.200 volume numbers. But he's he's admitted he's not in good shape. 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:49.680 He has said all of us guys who came into 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:53.440 camp without putting in the work. That's not gonna happen 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:56.480 next year. I mean, he's basically said, I I came 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:58.760 into camp out of shape, and look at the way 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:01.160 he's running now. He looks up out ten pounds overweight 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:03.800 and he can't make anyone miss. I'm surprised that it 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:05.960 sounds like Doug Maron is gonna keep his job where 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:09.240 you know, you don't know for sure. But Tom Coughlin upstairs, 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:12.400 the military man himself, Sergeant Tom, you would think he 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:15.160 would not be uh loving hearing quotes like that. What 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:16.800 kind of culture is going? There's a few of those 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:20.720 expected to stay. Reports about coaches, there's probably three or 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:23.480 four of about their gaze at Louis and like one 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:25.640 of those is gonna be wrong. That's just that usually 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:28.200 is my prediction, because that's why you say expected to 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:31.240 because things can change. Also, Calais Campbell, playing every bit 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:33.600 as well as last year, almost single handedly wrecked the 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:36.600 Dolphins last week. Oh damn. Moving on in the a 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:39.040 f C East, the last place in New York, Jets 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:42.800 four and eleven uh travel to Gillette Stadium to face 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:46.680 the Patriots. A tenant five. It's a weekend Patriots team 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:51.560 greg compared to recent years, but they hold their own 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:55.840 destiny here in terms of getting an unprecedented straight first 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:58.720 round by in the playoffs. If they beat if they 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:00.840 beat the wretched Jets who can not close out a game, 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:03.440 who compete but can't close out games, you will finish 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:06.520 eleven of five and skip wild card weekend once more, 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:08.960 which they did in two thousand one, which was one 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:11.280 reason they were able to win that Super Bowl that year. 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:13.760 Was eleven and five got them a bye in a 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:16.400 in a home game, which helped. It helps him measurably. 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:18.280 I mean, Brady said it. It It sounds like a cliche 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:20.840 this week that this is a playoff game for them, 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:22.840 and it seems like, Okay, that's just something you say. 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:26.040 But I guess how confident he feels about the team. 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:28.640 But he said that, I think in similar circumstances, like 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:31.720 we can advance one round of the playoffs by winning 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:34.400 that game, and so the chances of winning an eight 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:38.840 team tournament as a home team in the quarterfinals versus 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:41.800 a row, you know, versus having to play in a 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:45.120 twelve team tournament where you're on the road in the quarterfinals. Theoretically, 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:47.400 it's so much harder. I mean, especially for a deeply 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:50.000 flat team. I'm afraid of the Jets. I mean, I 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:52.360 can't remember the last time I was as afraid of 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:56.840 the Jets in a because of Sam Donald. Donald so 0:16:56.880 --> 0:17:01.000 well the last two weeks especially, he played really um 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:03.720 against Buffalo in the last in the second half and 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:06.840 then Houston Green Bay. He's everything that you wanted Donald 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:09.240 to be. As a Jet fan, You're you're really pinching 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:11.560 yourself about he's not having the year or even close 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:13.840 to it that Baker Mayfield is. But if you just 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:16.479 look at since he came back from that ankle injury, 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:20.480 he's as advertised for Jets fans, and that gives me 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:22.280 a lot of excitement as well as everyone else that 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:25.840 supports the team. UM different quarterbacks since he came back 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:30.159 totally differently mentally, his ability to keep plays alive, his 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:33.359 ability to um avoid the type of mistakes that he 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:36.879 was making regularly before he got injured, seeing it and 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:39.960 just throwing it right. And he shows good arm strength. 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:41.760 I mean, he's to me right now, he looks like 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:44.600 the total package. And I'm really excited now why New 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:47.159 English should be worried The Jets typically do hang with 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:51.000 the Patriots and they their offense, the Jet offense is 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:53.679 playing with confidence right now. Uh, And I think they 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:57.160 would love in terms of motivation Jamal Adams and they're 0:17:57.200 --> 0:17:59.520 these guys are playing hard for bowls if nothing else. 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:01.960 Down the wretch. They love the idea, what if we 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:04.560 can go out with the win and bang the Patriots. 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:06.520 So I don't think it's gonna be a walkover, Erica. 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:08.239 I just don't think it is. Ricky, I don't think 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:10.560 it's going to be at all. I'm nervous. If I 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:12.639 was the other team, I would want the Patriots to 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:15.439 keep giving a lot of snaps to Rex Burkhead, who 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:17.840 I don't know why he's taking snaps from James White, 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:19.760 who was their offensive m v P for the first 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:23.920 half of the season, or Sony Michelle. Rex Burkehead is 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:26.719 not playing well and he's committing mistakes. I I do 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:29.840 wonder are the Patriots gonna stay buttoned up this week 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:33.159 in terms of their approach last week, and they've I 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:35.320 think they've probably been at their best this season when 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:39.280 they go heavy on tight ends Duyne Allen playing every snap. 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:41.840 I mean, they had Duyne Allen and James Devlon on 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:44.880 the field and five offensive lineman for most of last 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:47.320 week's game. And I think that's kind of who they are, 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:50.760 it's kind of who they have to be. But I 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:52.879 don't know, do you do you keep doing that or 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:56.240 do you want to get Tom Brady some some looks 0:18:56.280 --> 0:18:58.639 here and some improvement in the past and game before 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:01.760 the playoffs and the Jets, you know, if they do that, 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:04.120 if they if they start putting three or four wide out, 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:06.879 they're just gonna blitz blitz Brady because that's what the 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:09.439 Jets do, and that's what's worked on Brady the books. 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:11.200 I don't know if the books out, but it's working 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:13.600 and it didn't used to work. Gronk, by the way, 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:15.840 he's averaging less than four catches a game this year, 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:19.120 has three touchdowns all year. I know it's been covered 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:22.480 that he's slowed down, but it is. It's sad because 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:24.399 he's a he's a fun player. Even as a Patriot, 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:26.360 he was fun to watch as a dominant player. He's 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:28.720 just he's not that guy anymore. He's just not the 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:30.280 guy he's like, and he's not even close to the 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:32.119