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Speaker 1: and out Powdcast. How's everyone doing. Hopefully everyone's having a

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Speaker 1: good day, Good Monday. Hopefully everyone had a good Mother's Day.

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Speaker 1: Here's a hat tip to your mother, your wife if

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Speaker 1: We love all the mothers. I definitely especially do. Joe Middlecoff,

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Speaker 1: great woman, biggest supporter of this podcast or you'll ever meet.

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Speaker 1: I'll promise you that my biggest number one fan. That

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Speaker 1: is for damn sure. So happy belated Mother's Day to

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Speaker 1: all the women in your life. And here's the plan.

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Speaker 1: I thought I'd just come on and talk a little

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Speaker 1: just think there are some parallels in the NFL and

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Speaker 1: the draft. It's just why it's so difficult. You know,

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Speaker 1: whether guys are high character and then you get them

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Speaker 1: it is very very difficult. You know the situation when

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Speaker 1: It's what makes the draft hard, so we'll dive into

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Speaker 1: some of that. Carson Wentz is still unemployed. And then

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Speaker 1: just a couple quick thoughts on the schedule. I actually

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Speaker 1: did go through every team schedule and we'll talk about

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Speaker 1: every game again totally kidding, but I did not do that.

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Speaker 1: But I'll just a couple of things, a couple talking

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Speaker 1: if you didn't listen because Sunday's Mother's Day, don't blame you.

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Speaker 1: I got a podcast out yesterday. There's like thirty thirty

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Speaker 1: five minutes. This is a shorter one too. Probably have

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Speaker 1: golf podcast. The Major, the PGA Championship is up in

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Speaker 1: gets to a point where you're just an idiot, you know,

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Speaker 1: cry for help, fucking showing a gun on Instagram, Give

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Speaker 1: me a break. And before you know, I haven't gone

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Speaker 1: through everyone's schedule. But talking point when it just comes

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Speaker 1: to the schedules, I do think there's things that are

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Speaker 1: important and things that are not important, and a lot

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Speaker 1: of it just gets thrown under the umbrella of this

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Speaker 1: team travels a lot Okay, Well, traveling is a major

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Speaker 1: you know, red flag on a season a team that

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Speaker 1: has to travel a lot. But one thing that is

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Speaker 1: completely irrelevant. If you are an East Coast team or

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Speaker 1: you are a West Coast team, and you have a

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Speaker 1: long road trip and you play two teams in that

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Speaker 1: time zone back to back weeks. Like if I'm Seattle

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Speaker 1: and I play the Giants one week and the Commander's

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Speaker 1: the next week, that's not a crazy travel in the

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Speaker 1: sense that I'm not flying back and forth. So I'm

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Speaker 1: cutting two trips, right because I'm going to stay out there.

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Speaker 1: And in twenty twenty three, all these teams now say

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Speaker 1: vice versa. Right, the Giants this week or I mean

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Speaker 1: week two. In week three, they play the Cardinals week two,

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Speaker 1: and then they play the forty nine Ers the following

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Speaker 1: week on Thursday Night football. They're clearly going to stay

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Speaker 1: on the West coast. So it's a long travel to

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Speaker 1: play the Cardinals, but then the following week that Thursday

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Speaker 1: Night game. That travel isn't that crazy. It's you know,

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Speaker 1: an hour and a half flight. I've made it a

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Speaker 1: bunch right to the Bay Area. Honestly, it's probably flying

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Speaker 1: up from Arizona get the win? Could you be there

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Speaker 1: an hour in twenty five minutes? So when you stay

456
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Speaker 1: games back to back, all these teams stay down. Now

457
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Speaker 1: when you have the one off situation, that is taxing,

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Speaker 1: especially when like what I would factor in, if I'm

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Speaker 1: the Giants and I play the Rams or on the

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Speaker 1: Rams and I play a Florida team and I got

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Speaker 1: to go back, who do I play the next week?

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Speaker 1: That is one hundred percent of disadvantage. All of these

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Speaker 1: international games not ideal in terms of long travel. It

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Speaker 1: depending on where you are. I guess if you're on

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Speaker 1: the Eastern Seaboard and you're playing you know, in the

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Speaker 1: you or whatever, it's no difference. It's like a five

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Speaker 1: and a half hour flight. So it's like a cross

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Speaker 1: country flight in America. But I do think the Thursday

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Speaker 1: night game I didn't see. I haven't seen it. I

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Speaker 1: guess I could have looked it up before this podcast.

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Speaker 1: I know the forty nine ers have two Thursday night games.

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Speaker 1: I would imagine they're not the only team. If you

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Speaker 1: have multiple Thursday night games, that is very, very difficult.

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Speaker 1: But the one example I will use for them, I

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Speaker 1: always say all Thursday night games are not equal. When

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Speaker 1: you play a Thursday night game. To me, I would

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Speaker 1: draw the line of delineation like right around Halloween, maybe

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Speaker 1: even a week before. If you're playing a Thursday Night

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Speaker 1: game in the first or second week of September, that

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Speaker 1: has no parallels to playing a Thursday night game in

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Speaker 1: early December, right because the wear and tear in your

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Speaker 1: body is nowhere near the same. So it is a

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Speaker 1: massive advantage for any team to play your Thursday Night

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Speaker 1: game earlier in the season. Now, one thing with a

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Speaker 1: Thursday night game is who do you play after the

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Speaker 1: Thursday night game? Because if you are able to win

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Speaker 1: the Thursday night game, if you have a difficult opponent

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs, the Bills, the Bengals, whatever, that's a pretty

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Speaker 1: big advantage for you. Obviously, if you're playing a bad team,

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Speaker 1: that'd be you wouldn't be worried about it on a

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Speaker 1: short week, let alone extra couple of days. But when

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Speaker 1: you play a good team the following week, that's a

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Speaker 1: huge advantage for your team. You could argue win or loose.

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Speaker 1: And to me, when I look at Thursday Night, it's

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Speaker 1: like are you the home team? Because if you're the

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Speaker 1: home team, especially coming off a home game like that's

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Speaker 1: not that difficult relative to Thursday night games. Now, if

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Speaker 1: you're the home team and you're coming off a road trip, like,

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Speaker 1: how far is that road trip? Cause that's a pretty

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Speaker 1: big disadvantage. And if you have a Thursday night game

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Speaker 1: earlier in the season, the other thing your coaching staff

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Speaker 1: can do is work on the games right now, that's

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Speaker 1: like a good summer you know, training camp project. I

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Speaker 1: remember when I was with the Eagles, we would have

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Speaker 1: reps in OTAs about divisional opponents, like you utilize some

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Speaker 1: of this offseason stuff to just lightly start inserting some

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Speaker 1: game plan ideas for either early season opponents or divisional opponents. Now,

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Speaker 1: the one thing with these road games right like a

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Speaker 1: if you play a Thursday night game and you're the

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Speaker 1: road team. Now, if you play a divisional game, especially

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Speaker 1: the NFC East or the AFC North, it's not that

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Speaker 1: hard to travel. But sometimes they aren't divisional games and

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Speaker 1: they are longer travels, and that can be a little

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Speaker 1: more difficult in terms of you know where you got

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Speaker 1: to go, so based on your Thursday night game, to me,

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Speaker 1: the key is road team. If you are the road team,

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Speaker 1: how far you got to go? And if you are

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Speaker 1: the road team, and it's after kind of that line

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Speaker 1: late October. That's a fucking hard game. I don't care

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Speaker 1: if you're playing a three win team or you're playing

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs. For the Bengals, that is just very difficult.

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Speaker 1: All these players talk about it, right, how difficult it

523
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Speaker 1: is to get their body right for Wednesday's practice. George

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Speaker 1: Kittle was talking about with Theo Vaughn on this podcast,

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Speaker 1: like it takes me I have to do a ton

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Speaker 1: of work day and Tuesday to be able. They're ready

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Speaker 1: to practice well. I remember Carr, Derek Carr talked about

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Speaker 1: it how serious he takes Monday and Tuesday because to

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Speaker 1: feel confident about your week of practice, you don't want

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Speaker 1: to go into Wednesday sore. And it's it's much more attainable.

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Speaker 1: I would say earlier in the season that it's just

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Speaker 1: it might be difficult. The other thing was schedules and listen,

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Speaker 1: I'm guilty of this too, not necessarily playing the win

534
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Speaker 1: loss game. But you look at games that look easier

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Speaker 1: than others. I mean, it's clear like you're playing the Chiefs, right,

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Speaker 1: you know, you're playing the Bengals, You're playing the Bills,

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Speaker 1: you're playing the Eagles. You know, certain teams are going

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Speaker 1: to be good, but like the Saints, the Saints could

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Speaker 1: be an eleven win team or they could be a

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Speaker 1: six win team. I don't know. I have no clue.

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Speaker 1: Right the Patriots, you could you convince me this is

542
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Speaker 1: the year it all kind of falls apart and they

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Speaker 1: win six or actually they're kind of competitive and it's

544
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Speaker 1: like an ugly ten. So what team you're playing past

545
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Speaker 1: the first couple of weeks, Because even if a team

546
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Speaker 1: is crappy, I mean, the Bears got the number one

547
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Speaker 1: overall pick. They beat the forty nine ers week one.

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Speaker 1: I think week one and week two a little bit,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna get a tough game. I don't care if

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Speaker 1: you're playing me or you at quarterback, or you're playing

551
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Speaker 1: Mahomes or Borough. It's hard. But as the season goes on,

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Speaker 1: a couple of things, teams that you think are gonna

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Speaker 1: be good are not as good. If I gave you

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Speaker 1: the Giants or Seattle on the schedule in twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: two and you were a decent team, you'd be like,

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Speaker 1: win win, Well, clearly it turned out they were pretty good.

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Speaker 1: The Lions, you're like, as they're not gonna be bad again.

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Speaker 1: They won nine games, right, and then you thought teams

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Speaker 1: that were a lock to be good. The Packers weren't

560
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Speaker 1: as good. Right, So you just never quite know going in,

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Speaker 1: and you never know who's gonna get hurt. Right, Not

562
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:45,880
Speaker 1: only key players get hurt, but quarterbacks get hurt. And

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Speaker 1: it might even not be a serious long term injury.

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Speaker 1: But at the starting quarterback. If Aaron Rodgers has to

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Speaker 1: miss two weeks for bad ankle sprint and Zach Wilson starts,

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Speaker 1: I think we view the Jets game a lot differently. Right,

567
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Speaker 1: We've seen it before, like when Chad Haney's to start

568
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Speaker 1: for Mahomes being out or whoever. The Rams are a

569
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Speaker 1: good example last year, Like, I don't know if the

570
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Speaker 1: Rams are going to win back to back Super Bowls.

571
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Speaker 1: I would have picked them to make a wild card.

572
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Speaker 1: By the middle of the season, they were joke. I mean,

573
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Speaker 1: they were unwatchable. All their players were hurt. So it

574
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Speaker 1: is difficult to play that game sometimes with the schedules.

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Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, I like playing it, but it

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Speaker 1: is I think sometimes, and like I said, I'm guilty

577
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Speaker 1: of this. It can be a waste of our energy

578
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Speaker 1: to really look past like you could even argue the

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Speaker 1: first month. Now, the one thing you know, good or bad,

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Speaker 1: typically your division games are going to be hard, right

581
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Speaker 1: even if you have you know you're a team that's

582
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Speaker 1: going to go five and one in the division. Like

583
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Speaker 1: last year, Chiefs I think went six to oh and

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Speaker 1: the forty nine ers went six and oh. I think

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure those are the only two teams that

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Speaker 1: swept their divisions. Doesn't mean those division games are difficult,

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Speaker 1: are hard to win. Even if you're a lot better,

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Speaker 1: something like you might blow out of the six games too,

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Speaker 1: you're going to be in a dogfight for a couple

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Speaker 1: of them. That's the way football is, which makes it

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Speaker 1: very entertaining. It's a huge part of the parody of

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Speaker 1: even when you have eight point spreads, it's pretty easy

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Speaker 1: for the team that's favored by eight to be down

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Speaker 1: in the second half. Now they still end up winning.

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Speaker 1: They don't cover why the NFL's king Baby the volume