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Speaker 1: Welcome to NFL Daily, where we can officially announce the

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Speaker 1: Stretch run is here.

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Speaker 2: I'm Greg Rosenthal.

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Speaker 1: Here in the Chris Wesley podcast studio with Patrick Claybah

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Speaker 1: and Jordan rod Reeg. And I like words to have

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Speaker 1: definitive meaning. Okay, I think we should define the stretch

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Speaker 1: run as the section of the season where the buys

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Speaker 1: are over. Everyone has the same record, four game sprint

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Speaker 1: can be done.

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Speaker 3: I am I am co signing this. This is the

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Speaker 3: official beginning of the stretch run. Any previous use is

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Speaker 3: thereby in val.

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Speaker 4: Okay, the architect of the conversation speaks.

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Speaker 1: These two things are connected because I think the stretch

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Speaker 1: run ultimately decides the conversation. And I made up this

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Speaker 1: definition forty five seconds ago while speaking Yeah, but I

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Speaker 1: like it.

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Speaker 2: I think it's just no.

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Speaker 3: It should absolutely stand and reminds me of famed sayer

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Speaker 3: of things, Cole Beasley saying that any dogs don't stretch

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Speaker 3: before they run. But famously you see dogs stretching all

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Speaker 3: the time, and.

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Speaker 4: Not only that big strep.

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Speaker 3: If nobody says big stretch, that never the stretch never happened.

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Speaker 1: So last week I called it the best slate of

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Speaker 1: the season, and it was. But I gotta say the

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Speaker 1: top of this slate and a lot of good matchups too,

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Speaker 1: So maybe this, I hope this is in every week thing.

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Speaker 1: I haven't I haven't looked ahead, but we got like

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Speaker 1: five or six bangers plus Philip Rivers returning to football.

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Speaker 1: Just like an amazing combination of things.

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Speaker 3: Shout out to Philip Rivers and shout out to everybody

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Speaker 3: under the age of forty four who can now A

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Speaker 3: lot of us look look up and say, hey, somebody

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Speaker 3: older than me getting back into it. So congratulations in

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Speaker 3: that aspect. But we've also got a lot at stick.

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Speaker 3: The Detroit Lions are trying to get into the postseason

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Speaker 3: as that becomes into a threat in the Los Angeles

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Speaker 3: Rams trying to maintain that course towards the number one

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Speaker 3: seed in the NFC. It is a Jared Golf annual,

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Speaker 3: Jared Goff revenge game. Greg rolsent all the Rams were

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Speaker 3: favored by five and a half points against those lines

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Speaker 3: over under his fifty five and a half Kevin Berkhart

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Speaker 3: and Tom Brady there to see these two teams go

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Speaker 3: at it.

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Speaker 5: How do you see it going?

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to watch it. I think about what

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Speaker 1: Dan Campbell said at the start of the season. It

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Speaker 1: was almost like he was trying to lower expectations. Team

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Speaker 1: might have seen what was coming that Hey, sometimes it's

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Speaker 1: not about the shiny record in the regular season. Maybe

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Speaker 1: this is gonna have to be a team that earns

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Speaker 1: its stripes. And however we get into the playoffs, the

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Speaker 1: important part is that we're playing well.

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Speaker 2: Then we're not worried about seeding. Here.

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Speaker 1: They are needing a win in the worst way in

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Speaker 1: a matchup that, yeah, they have won in the biggest

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Speaker 1: of spots. You know, they won in the playoffs, and

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Speaker 1: then they won in the following week one, and these

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Speaker 1: two teams just don't feel like those two teams anymore.

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Speaker 1: I should have mentioned Jordan by the way, we're leading

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Speaker 1: with the afternoon slate and the prime time I'm slate

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Speaker 1: this week because they're just there's so many good games

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Speaker 1: in this window and you are not going to be

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Speaker 1: the one to sign to this game. This is going

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Speaker 1: to be a Patrick claybound special.

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Speaker 2: I love Rams.

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Speaker 4: The Rams can clinch a playoff berth if they win

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Speaker 4: this game, and that is significant obviously, and I have

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Speaker 4: to say, I for one am glad that the most

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Speaker 4: important thing about this game for either team is playoff implications,

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Speaker 4: and that potentially for the for the Rams and also

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Speaker 4: the Detroit Lions fighting hard to stay alive and in

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Speaker 4: the hunt if they are, you know, on the graphic

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Speaker 4: and in the wild card consideration in the graphic right now,

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Speaker 4: not the history and layers and folds of drama that

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Speaker 4: we have talked about for years at this point about

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Speaker 4: what got Matthew Stafford to Los Angeles and got Jared

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Speaker 4: Goff to Detroit. Instead, it's let's tuck football, guys.

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Speaker 1: But isn't the matchup in terms of how Stafford right now? Oh,

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Speaker 1: it's great, maybe leading the conversation has a better match

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Speaker 1: up up and is supported crazily by a better running

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Speaker 1: by a better pass rush than the Lions. I think

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Speaker 1: that's really flipped since the last time these two teams played,

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Speaker 1: Not that there was that much of a difference, but

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Speaker 1: it felt like Patrick like the Lions were a more

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Speaker 3: Yeah, especially when you consider the once again the Lions

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Speaker 3: going through injuries in the secondary, albeit there at the

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Speaker 3: safety spot. Now where Kirby Joe's not one hundred percent

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Speaker 3: Brian branch out for the remainder of the twenty twenty

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Speaker 3: five season, where you've seen those guys for the past

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Speaker 3: couple of seasons, even when the rest of the injuries

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Speaker 3: were taking place in the secondary kind of eliminate that

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Speaker 3: mid ten to nineteen yard aspect of the field where

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Speaker 3: Matthew Stafford has been dominant, and again Stafford's dominant everywhere

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Speaker 3: with the bye for Drake May.

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Speaker 5: Ye, well, well we'll put.

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Speaker 3: An asterisk all because a lot of guys have struggled

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Speaker 3: in the elements. As you know, fans of bad football

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Speaker 3: like this, fifty four points right now has Matthew Stafford

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Speaker 3: a bye.

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Speaker 2: Out for the conversation, yes.

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Speaker 3: This because we do count the Lions as a contender

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Speaker 3: and Jamiir Gibbs has worked his way up into a

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Speaker 3: necessary aspect of the conversation where Stafford will get bonus

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Speaker 3: points for beating a contender and double those as we

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Speaker 3: get it into late this season. So we're tracking that.

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Speaker 3: We keep track of everything here, but it's hard. It's

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Speaker 3: hard to go lines. I know the Lions look great

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Speaker 3: against the Dallas Cowboys, but there's just so many other

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Speaker 5: Puka is playing insane football right now.

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Speaker 3: Like a crazy person who's actually catching everything to where

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna go rams here.

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Speaker 4: And the Lions, because of the injuries that you mentioned,

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Speaker 4: they have given up the fourth most number of explosive

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Speaker 4: because you do watch them play, and they play with

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Speaker 4: such tenacity, and they're very well coached by Calvin Sheppard

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Speaker 4: and and you know, it's a complete miss thing. To

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Speaker 4: your point, Greg, I think it's really interesting how you

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Speaker 4: mentioned some of the flipping of fates of the roster

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Speaker 4: builds of these teams. It's also the flipping of fates

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Speaker 4: in the waves of some of the offensive tendencies. And

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Speaker 4: you know, Sean McVay when Jared Goff was his quarterback,

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Speaker 4: built one of the most complete and explosive run games

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Speaker 4: with Todd Gurley and got the play action pass game going. Well.

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Speaker 4: When Matthew Stafford comes to town, it's pure drop back

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Speaker 4: and keep the defense in front of you and don't

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Speaker 4: the field, right, But no run game to speak of.

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Speaker 4: But now they've got everything and they're not They're using

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Speaker 4: Stafford in some of that play action, which is leading

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Speaker 4: they had struggled with from time to time, despite the

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Speaker 4: fact that they have injuries. And I've got a serious

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Speaker 4: eye on Warren McClendon, who's filling in at right tackle

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Speaker 4: and has for six games to this season for the

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Speaker 4: injured Rob Havenstein, because if there is a hinge point

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Speaker 4: in this game, it's right there, because Aiden Hutchinson lines

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Speaker 4: up on both sides of the defensive line and on

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Speaker 4: third downs. As Patrick clayboughn Astuteley pointed out before the show.

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Speaker 5: Jordan, I don't know why she's giving me credit.

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Speaker 4: He loads up. That's what we say. You helped me.

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Speaker 4: You helped me access the correct space to look this up.

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Speaker 4: I was like, where's the heat chart?

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Speaker 2: Damn it?

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Speaker 4: He loads up over the right side, over across from

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Speaker 4: the right tackle. Excuse me. And so that's to me,

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Speaker 4: if Warren mccleaning can keep playing at this level that

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Speaker 4: he's playing at, which is only four pressures given up

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Speaker 4: on two hundred and seven pass block Oh no sacks,

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Speaker 4: then the Rams are going to be able to protect.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they haven't had as deep and dynamic a pass

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Speaker 1: rush to the Lions as they would want. Hutchinson's obviously great,

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Speaker 1: My defensive player the year, Honking from the first half

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Speaker 1: he's obviously still a great player.

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Speaker 2: But you need more than one guy.

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Speaker 1: Alee McNeil's maybe not had the same impact that he

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Speaker 1: had pre injury after that that first week he was back,

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Speaker 1: But I really just look at the like the running game.

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Speaker 1: injury that's been bothering him all year that I think

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Speaker 1: it sounds like it's it might never go away. But

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Speaker 1: he did return to practice on Wednesday, so this might

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Speaker 1: be the week that he gives it. Ago Alex Angzeloni, though,

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Speaker 1: The thing is, when I watch this running game right now,

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Speaker 1: Rams running game, they're just getting such pushed, such cohesion,

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Speaker 1: such great running, and there's no drop off whatsoever. When

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Speaker 1: more juice to what Kien Williams did. I wouldn't say

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Speaker 1: he's better, but he Sean McVay is finally doing the

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Speaker 1: which is truly happening right. Have like two backs that

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Speaker 1: easy offense for running back and it's a second year

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Speaker 2: The on the flip side.

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Speaker 1: Though you've been talking about it all year, Jordan, as

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Speaker 1: they throw my note, card Rade, these Rams corners uh

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Speaker 1: their problem and I know there was it was a

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Speaker 1: blowout last week, but you know who's getting smoked a

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Speaker 1: lot in that game. Emmanuel Forbes for a second straight week,

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Speaker 1: and a Kello Witherspoon, who hasn't been great this season.

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Speaker 1: So if there's a strength of the Lions, like they

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Speaker 1: know how to pick on your secondary, Monro is hopefully

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Speaker 1: could be a fun little shootout.

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Speaker 4: Well, to be fair, all Witherspoon's like clavicle was broken

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Speaker 4: in half, So if he was on injured reserve for

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Speaker 4: most of the season to this point.

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Speaker 1: Well, since he came back, right, I'm saying he had

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Speaker 1: a rough week last week.

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Speaker 4: He had a bad He had a bad week last week.

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Speaker 4: And I would say Emmanuel Forbes had a really really

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Speaker 4: strong middle stretch. But we're in the stretch run, Patrick,

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Speaker 4: That's what I mean.

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Speaker 3: Once the stretch run begins, which is officially right now

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Speaker 3: because there are no more buys as to find by

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Speaker 3: Greg Rosenthal and second and third here on the show,

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Speaker 3: this is the stretch run.

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Speaker 5: So you can't clavicle or not.

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Speaker 3: If you have all your body parts and you're out

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Speaker 3: there getting torched, it's the stretch run.

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Speaker 1: We got a notice and the Rams like, yeah, they're

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Speaker 1: trying to win the division. You have the Seahawks and

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Speaker 3: December to Remember Sales event, whatever Toyota and Lex's family

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Speaker 4: I'm so happy right now?

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Speaker 4: The best thing about Jordan Love playing like this every

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Speaker 1: Matthew Golden and Jordan Morgan, No wonder y'ah, they felt

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Speaker 2: It's preposterous. How many games does he play not.

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Speaker 1: It's seven games there, I mean, that is an outrageous

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Speaker 5: The secondary a little bit better in this one.

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Speaker 3: And they actually have a pass rush unlike the Chicago Bears,

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Speaker 3: type I think that's involved here where all of these

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Speaker 5: Go down the field.

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Speaker 3: You can kind of not eliminate micro Parsons in there,

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Speaker 4: Sean Payton designs those It's like him and Andy Reid.

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Speaker 4: So this this game, I think is going to be

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Speaker 1: Before well, and Quai Walker is back, and Quay Walker

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's a perfect football player and he would

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Speaker 4: I would like to release a quick statement, Oh wow, okay.

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Speaker 4: On the See You Next Tuesday show, I referred to

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Speaker 4: What I should have said instead was Willem Dafoe that

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Speaker 5: Wow.

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Speaker 3: As you as Hansom Man, as you do, Yes, and

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Speaker 3: miss the point. It's time for the Sunday Drive presented

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Speaker 3: by Toyota. Let's go places Minnesota at Dallas. The five

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Speaker 1: I think he'll look better than he did before he

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Speaker 4: think last week, and it's been in spurts and fits, right,

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Speaker 4: but especially the beginning of the year and then all

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Speaker 4: the quarterback drama happens last week, you really saw what

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Speaker 4: this thing is, how this really can help JJ McCarthy.

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Speaker 4: That was what Kevin O'Connell and Quasia do Flamensa intended

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Speaker 4: when they made these decisions, was that, yes, we are

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Speaker 4: admitting we have to have a great system and a

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Speaker 4: great supporting cast around this quarterback as he grows up

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Speaker 4: as a human being and also in the National Football League.

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Speaker 4: And so I think that you saw, yes it's the Commanders,

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Speaker 4: and yes this was a weird game and a sad

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Speaker 4: one for the Commanders as well, but you're really seeing

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Speaker 4: these like putting the blueprint on paper, games are really

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Speaker 4: important for a football team, and they were there. Every

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Speaker 4: single one of them is important for JJ McCarthy.

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Speaker 3: I think the blueprint that we've seen for so long

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Speaker 3: that did return for the Minnesota Vikings was AVG getting

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Speaker 3: a tipped interception on the edge Harrison Smithinkle extending his

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Speaker 3: active NFL lead in terms of career players in terms

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Speaker 3: of interceptions. But the bit of the outlier against this

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Speaker 3: Commander's defense, which was faulting. And I know that they

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Speaker 3: had Dayron Payne back in this game, but the interior

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Speaker 3: pressure is a real issue for JJ McCarthy when he

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Speaker 3: can't get that full, big stride into the throws and

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Speaker 3: Quentin Williams has changed the interior situation in Dallas where

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Speaker 3: it makes it makes me worried for this whole EBB

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Speaker 3: and flow and roller coaster.

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Speaker 5: JJ McCarthy discussion nationally that we.

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Speaker 2: May be oh yes, Sunday night.

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Speaker 1: I mean that step forward was like a nice little step.

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Speaker 1: It's not going to mean anything if he has like

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Speaker 1: a bad quarter and a half. And we've seen rookies

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Speaker 1: in a tightly managed game like survive well for one

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Speaker 1: week that the test is gonna be this next month.

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Speaker 1: But I think as we saw, you know, against the Lions,

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys defense like still will have holes in the

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Speaker 1: back end.

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Speaker 2: Ron Bland's a good player.

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Speaker 1: He has given up the fourth most yard in coverage

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. Travon Diggs, like, I don't know if

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Speaker 1: he's gonna return or not. I thought it was interesting

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Speaker 1: that Brian Schottenheimer said that we need to see Travon

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Speaker 1: Diggs do everything the right way as he's coming back.

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Speaker 1: So this weird public back and forth between the team

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Speaker 1: and Digs. And yeah, I just I'm not buying in

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Speaker 1: that the Dallas defense is suddenly like a top ten defense.

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Speaker 4: No, but I love their front now. I do. I mean,

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Speaker 4: I loved it with Mike Marsons on it too. I

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Speaker 4: keep spraying at you. I'm sorry, Greg.

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Speaker 5: Tells ourself, so sorry.

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Speaker 4: It's a nautio medium. No one's seen it, nobody, nobody

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Speaker 4: would have known. I I love their front. I love

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Speaker 4: Quinn Williams. He's playing honestly, with so much joy too.

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Speaker 4: It's it's like he's he's getting to show the world

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Speaker 4: what we've always known. He's he's capable of doing and

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Speaker 4: kind of out of a sad rebuild place once again.

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Speaker 4: And I I really like this defensive front. The back

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Speaker 4: seven I don't trust one bit. Some of it's feast

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Speaker 4: or famine, and other parts of it just have fundamental

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Speaker 4: issues and some tackling and there's yeah, there's a lot

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Speaker 4: of famine in there. But I I do really like

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Speaker 4: how they've been shaping this front and they they're they're

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Speaker 4: attacking the ball. You know, guys like Sam Williams making

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Speaker 4: plays and and Quinn Williams having like the best month

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Speaker 4: and a half of his career to this point. It's

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Speaker 4: it's special to watch.

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Speaker 1: And that's the side of the ball to me that

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Speaker 1: will will be interesting and this is a good Sunday

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Speaker 1: Night game despite the Vikings record, because I think they

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Speaker 1: are about the perfect spoiler down the stretch of any team.

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Speaker 1: But the other side of the ball is where it

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Speaker 1: really gets cooking. Like Dak Prescott Bert versus Floor is,

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Speaker 1: and this young offensive line for the Cowboys, which has

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Speaker 1: mostly been good and getting better, trying to figure out

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Speaker 1: everything that they send at it, and they Tyler's Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all the Tylers got the Booker, We got Tyler Smith.

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Speaker 1: Actually we don't have Tyler Guyton, so we don't have

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Speaker 1: all the Tylers now, but we have multiple tylers, two

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Speaker 1: thirds of the Tylers, and and Dak coming off a

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Speaker 1: game where like he was up for the fight. We'll

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Speaker 1: see about Ceedee Lamb's status this week, but that that

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Speaker 1: Vikings defense on on turf and everything, like, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: I'm really looking.

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Speaker 4: Forward to, you know what. And we already got through

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Speaker 4: the first George Pickens crash out of the year and

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Speaker 4: so we're good, right, it'll be it'll be great.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the rough Pickins game being true lead from the

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Speaker 3: booth on product.

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Speaker 4: Oh my god, don't even get me started on that.

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Speaker 3: I'm wondering what George did was to Herbie specifically.

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Speaker 1: I missed that because Herbstreet is white noise to me

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Speaker 1: and I just try to block it out.

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Speaker 2: Go to the radio if you can.

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Speaker 1: But it caused ten days of conversation of like, you

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Speaker 1: know this kind of you know, can George Pickens be

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Speaker 1: trusted with a long term contract?

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Speaker 2: Does he give the great up? Yes he can.

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Speaker 4: I'll answer it for you, Yes he can.

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Speaker 1: Okay, he didn't battle for a couple of those, boss,

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Speaker 1: Multiple things can be true. Uh huh, George Pickens since

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Speaker 1: he came in the league does have more reps. Uh

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Speaker 1: that where he did not give great effort than almost

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Speaker 1: what any wide receiver since he's entered the league. Like

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Speaker 1: that was a thing on tape in Pittsburgh, which is

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Speaker 1: crazy because there's so many other snaps and obviously he's

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Speaker 1: been incredible all season where he gives somehow like more

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Speaker 1: effort than anyone else on the field. So so there,

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Speaker 1: that does just add a little.

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Speaker 4: Bit of context and also that you know who you're like,

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Speaker 4: you know who you're paying, Like, I don't think it

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Speaker 4: should affect his conversation about his contract at all, Like

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Speaker 4: have you seen what this guy the play is at,

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Speaker 4: this guy that has been making I mean you. And

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Speaker 4: by the way, you've got the right quarterback, you've got

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Speaker 4: the right receiver's room. Him and CD seem to get

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Speaker 4: along really well. And you've got the right coach that

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Speaker 4: is like Schottenheimer. I would trust, I would trust to

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Speaker 4: handle whatever comes up, honestly.

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Speaker 1: And this is a perfect matchup too, because that's the

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Speaker 1: Vikings weakness too, is that second cornerback spot whoever is

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Speaker 1: out there, like they got Byron Murphy. But they can

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Speaker 1: get picked on a little bit on the outside. They're

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Speaker 1: not a big group. It's Brian Flores like like some

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Speaker 1: like small and feisty. Before we take a break, though,

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Speaker 1: I did want to, you know, close the circle here

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Speaker 1: on George Pickens.

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Speaker 2: Who's who likes to wear the sisty.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: That the face covering popular and so popular. Brian Schottenheimer's

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Speaker 1: been doing it and you might have seen that in

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Speaker 1: Hard Knocks this week where Dak actually gave Schottenheimer a

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Speaker 1: scheisty and the Schottenheimer spoke about it actually to the

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Speaker 1: media this week.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I didn't really like it. I couldn't breathe now.

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Speaker 6: I don't know why those guys like it so much,

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Speaker 6: but I thought, hey, this is the cool thing going on.

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Speaker 5: Let me try.

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Speaker 6: It's kind of like the six seventh thing a few

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Speaker 6: weeks ago. I'm a hip guy, but yeah, I didn't.

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Speaker 6: I didn't really like it. It didn't didn't stay on

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Speaker 6: very long.

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Speaker 2: America's Cool Dad, Brian Schottenheim.

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Speaker 4: I'm like regular moms. I'm a cool mom.

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Speaker 1: I mis named him earlier when we were coming into

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Speaker 1: the studio and I called him Jason Garrett, and it

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Speaker 1: made me think he kind of is like just a

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Speaker 1: cooler Jason Garrett.

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Speaker 2: But there, you know, he's like an evolved cooler dad.

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Speaker 2: Jason Garrett.

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Speaker 4: David du Cupney.

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Speaker 2: I think he's better.

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Speaker 5: Though.

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Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break. We'll be back on the

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Speaker 1: other side with the game I really.

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Speaker 2: Want to talk about. It's Philip riversus coming back to

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Speaker 2: Back on NFL Daily, and we've hit philip Rivers in

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Speaker 2: each show this week.

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Speaker 1: Understandably, we're gonna hit philip Rivers in each show the

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Speaker 1: rest of the deal.

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Speaker 2: We can just call this Philip Rivers Daily forever more.

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Speaker 3: This is a yah hopeful the Seattle Seahawks don't hit

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Speaker 3: Philip Rivers that much. The Indianapolis Colts, Yes, and forty

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Speaker 3: four year old Philip Rivers at the Seattle Seahawks, who

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Speaker 3: are favored by fourteen points the over unders forty two

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Speaker 3: and a half. Andrew Cattle on the best, Charles Davis

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Speaker 3: and Jason mccordy, they're on the call where.

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Speaker 5: Maybe maybe Philip Rivers, maybe Tyler Warren, maybe.

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Speaker 3: Somebody's taking snaps for the Indianapolis Colts against the best

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Speaker 3: defense in the NFL.

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Speaker 5: Jordan, how does it go?

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Speaker 4: I mean, I feel like we just have to start

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Speaker 4: out right away listening to Philip Rivers. To be honest,

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Speaker 4: there's only one way to start out this Philip Rivers game,

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Speaker 4: and that is by listening to Philip Rivers first comments

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Speaker 4: to the Indianapolis media.

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Speaker 8: I've tried to make this as simple as I can.

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Speaker 8: I'll try to get emotional. Actually you asking that as

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Speaker 8: simple as as can be as a coach that I

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Speaker 8: love and an organization that I really enjoyed being with.

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Speaker 8: You know, mister Ersay believing in me in that year

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Speaker 8: in twenty twenty when it didn't go so good in

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Speaker 8: twenty nineteen, and shoot, the teammates that I was able

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Speaker 8: to we're able to play with she fourteen of them.

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Speaker 8: We're still here. Training rooms are saying. Pr guys are

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Speaker 8: the saying rooms are saying, and.

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Speaker 5: They wanted me.

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Speaker 4: I'm all the way freaking in, you know me, Ernest comments,

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Speaker 4: I'm in.

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Speaker 1: He is obviously overwhelmed. Like, we'll see what the emotions

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Speaker 1: are like if Byron Murphy is like cracking him in

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Speaker 1: the back. You know, in the first quarter of the game,

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Speaker 1: we actually don't know if Philip Rivers is even playing.

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Speaker 1: I'm assuming this on some level and I shouldn't. We

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Speaker 1: don't know if Riley Leonard is available. We do know

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Speaker 1: that Brett Rippon was signed to the active roster on Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: but they would need two active quarterbacks. Philip Rivers for

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Speaker 1: now is on the practice squad. One of my favorite

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Speaker 1: lines was in the ESPN story by Stephen Holder, who

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Speaker 1: does a good job covering the team, and he said,

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Speaker 1: according to sources, Rivers' workout was impressive. He threw the

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Speaker 1: ball well, but in he needs to improve his conditioning.

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Speaker 1: According to source, how that impacts his ability to play

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Speaker 1: this week is unclear. Like, yeah, but he knows the offense.

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Speaker 1: He was running it as a high school coach for

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Speaker 1: his kid. It was Shane Steiken's offense, Patrick.

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Speaker 5: And so there's a couple of ways to look at that. Yeah, Like, man, like.

662
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:21,640
Speaker 3: This offense is these high schoolers are getting at it,

663
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 3: or the colts are running a high school offense.

664
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:27,120
Speaker 4: Well, I think they probably said it was a slimmer.

665
00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:29,760
Speaker 1: I think they simplified that. I mean, it's been working

666
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:31,920
Speaker 1: for both. They've been both. You know, this is one

667
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:33,880
Speaker 1: of the high scoring offenses in the league. You can

668
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 1: say what you want. Patrick no working.

669
00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 3: And I love looking back at this twenty twenty video

670
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:41,480
Speaker 3: that we've shown a couple times on Fantasy Clave, like

671
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:45,680
Speaker 3: Nahim Hines, t Y Hilton, I think Trey Burton gets

672
00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 3: a reception coming up here next. If you're watching us

673
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 3: on YouTube, where I'm glad he's back. You hear the

674
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:55,920
Speaker 3: way the Chuck Amato got him at NC State when

675
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:58,880
Speaker 3: the Titan Tigers missed out on this quarterback that they

676
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 3: didn't want to play quarterback. The emotion there. He clearly

677
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:05,320
Speaker 3: loves the game, maybe a little too much. Hopefully phil

678
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 3: uh stays healthy.

679
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 1: He even said he was like he was like happy

680
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:10,480
Speaker 1: to have a real press conference and that it wasn't

681
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:11,040
Speaker 1: in a zoom.

682
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 2: That's how he kicked it all off. He he just loves.

683
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:15,960
Speaker 1: Ball and I like the people are like other and

684
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:18,240
Speaker 1: he's given up five years that he's gonna have to

685
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 1: wait five more years of Hall of Fame aled.

686
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 2: But you think Philip Rivers cares.

687
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 4: About He's like, I just love ball, man. He just

688
00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 4: he wants to be out there so bad. I love

689
00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:30,200
Speaker 4: this game and all of this we couldn't have invented

690
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:32,800
Speaker 4: a mad lib such as this, right, and this really

691
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 4: will be a game for everybody. It will be a

692
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:40,840
Speaker 4: game for the emotional poets of the world who are

693
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 4: going in and watching Philip Rivers. And it's basically all

694
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 4: heart and desperation to save the Indianapolis Colt season going

695
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 4: up against the one of the most well built, complete, aggressive, incredible,

696
00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 4: complete football teams in the NFL that we've seen in

697
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 4: a while, in the Seattle Seahawks. And so it's like

698
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:05,440
Speaker 4: when an audacious force meets an immovable object, right, and

699
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:06,560
Speaker 4: I cannot.

700
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 2: Wait for them. I'm gonna be real, I'd rather be

701
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 2: against the Titans. I know.

702
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 4: I want to ease him in.

703
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 2: Just Gill be like a Titans Saints.

704
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 1: We'll throw the Jaguars in for some fun maybe and

705
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 1: then build up to the Seahawks at the end.

706
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 4: But with Philip Rivers, he probably wouldn't want it any

707
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 4: other way. Greg that he might change his tune again

708
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:26,720
Speaker 4: when he'd.

709
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:28,680
Speaker 3: Want like a game against the Giants on Monday night

710
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 3: where Eli is calling the game and he can make

711
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 3: his a Hall of Fame came because like, waiting five

712
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:35,720
Speaker 3: years to give one speech is one thing. But we

713
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 3: we're gonna see him for the next three weeks. We'll

714
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 3: get a whole lot of Philips chance to remember.

715
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, the problem is, yeah, I know, I got

716
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 4: eleven years until I'm forty four. I don't even want

717
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:48,920
Speaker 4: to know what my body's gonna feel like.

718
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 1: Then I follow theo ash On on Twitter, and he

719
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:56,920
Speaker 1: pointed out just the ages of some notable NFL players

720
00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 1: that are forty four, like former ones like Wes Welker

721
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:02,560
Speaker 1: is forty four years old. He also also has pointed

722
00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 1: out this week Todd Gurley is thirty one years old.

723
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:06,480
Speaker 2: If you're just you're just.

724
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 1: Thinking of the comparison, I hate it. I hate that

725
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 1: it's dismatch up because the rest of the cults are

726
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 1: not playing well right now.

727
00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:13,480
Speaker 2: It should be pointed out.

728
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:15,560
Speaker 1: You know how many quarterback hits in Saxo Combuying they

729
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:16,160
Speaker 1: had last week?

730
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 2: Zero?

731
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:19,880
Speaker 1: You know how much like Jonathan Taylor has done the

732
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:22,840
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, not a lot for Jonathan Taylor.

733
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 1: Like the offensive line in general has given up a

734
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:27,920
Speaker 1: lot of pressure up the middle lately. The last two

735
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:31,480
Speaker 1: weeks on offense, actually really on the line, play for

736
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:34,400
Speaker 1: both sides has been a little concerning, and now you've

737
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:36,560
Speaker 1: got to play a team in Seattle that's healthier than

738
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 1: they've been all season. They got Julian Love back last

739
00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 1: week at safety. They got John Reid back last week

740
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 1: to add to that defensive line mix.

741
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:44,360
Speaker 2: It's just it's a tough one.

742
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:47,040
Speaker 4: And shout out to defensive Rookie of the Year candidate

743
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 4: nick im and Worry because first of all, he doesn't

744
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:51,799
Speaker 4: come off the field, and when you have to, what

745
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 4: quite obviously will be lean on a lot of scheme

746
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:58,239
Speaker 4: and a lot of you know, attempting to force mismatches

747
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:01,799
Speaker 4: for Philip Rivers. Philip Rivers, at forty four years old

748
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 4: off of the high school football field sideline does not

749
00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:07,240
Speaker 4: have to come in and play as much hero ball

750
00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 4: in this first one out. Nicki min Worri is a

751
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:14,200
Speaker 4: personnel neutralizer. And I remember sitting back here a year ago, Greg,

752
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 4: we were talking with Nate Tice about what the future

753
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 4: of some of these defenses will look like and the

754
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:22,200
Speaker 4: future of what defense is having another advantage again against

755
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:25,600
Speaker 4: offenses will look like. And nick Emon Warre is that player.

756
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:29,400
Speaker 4: And all of this to say, Nicki and Worry is

757
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:32,879
Speaker 4: also twenty one years old, which makes him over one

758
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,160
Speaker 4: nickim and worriy younger than the forty four year old

759
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:39,759
Speaker 4: Philip Rivers, and in fact, Nicki min Worri was born

760
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:43,439
Speaker 4: on February seventh, two thousand and four, just a few

761
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:47,399
Speaker 4: weeks before Philip Rivers was drafted by the New York

762
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:51,200
Speaker 4: Giants and then traded to San Diego for Eli Manning.

763
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:53,759
Speaker 4: It makes me feel a certain and.

764
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:57,479
Speaker 1: I think, multiple years after Philip Rivers is first born,

765
00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:00,279
Speaker 1: came into this world because he was a father when

766
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:00,839
Speaker 1: he got dressed.

767
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:02,680
Speaker 3: Yes, and he will if he plays, he will be

768
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:05,759
Speaker 3: a grandfather that is playing in another River's number, which

769
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:08,480
Speaker 3: is of course seventeen, which was Daniel Jones's number, which

770
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:10,560
Speaker 3: Philip Rivers is now going to war if he gets

771
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:13,319
Speaker 3: into this game. It's also been seventeen years since he

772
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 3: played in the AC Championship game on a torn acl

773
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:20,279
Speaker 3: His forty four is not your forty four if you're

774
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 3: like a on the pickleball circuit or in Greg's if

775
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:27,799
Speaker 3: you're playing a real sport like tennis. Hey, now his

776
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 3: forty four is a little bit different because he's getting

777
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 3: smashed by people. So good luck to Philip Rivers and

778
00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:34,400
Speaker 3: the Indianapolis.

779
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 1: I love that This next game is announced by Drew Brees,

780
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:41,440
Speaker 1: the man that he replaced yep in New Orleans, and

781
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:44,000
Speaker 1: Eric asks, what's the first play you want to see

782
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:44,960
Speaker 1: the Colts run on Sunday?

783
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:47,640
Speaker 2: Like a classic version. I mean, it's just simple.

784
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:50,840
Speaker 1: It's a straight drop back and it's him with that

785
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 1: intermedia throw over the middle that like Aaron Rodgers isn't

786
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:57,359
Speaker 1: making that throw ever, but that's that is the air,

787
00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:01,160
Speaker 1: the typical Philip Rivers timing throw. It's probably to Michael

788
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:02,920
Speaker 1: Pittman for about eighteen yards and.

789
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:05,760
Speaker 3: We can basically guarantee that Rivers will have a snap

790
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:09,759
Speaker 3: with the Colts down six in the fourth quarter with.

791
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:13,920
Speaker 1: Just cover the fourteen. I'm taking that as a as

792
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:14,400
Speaker 1: a victory.

793
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:20,840
Speaker 4: Can you guys imagine being Brett Rippan Over the years,

794
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 4: and some of these teams have completely altered their franchise,

795
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:29,279
Speaker 4: their franchises at the looming thread of Brett Rippon and

796
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 4: I love that guy. He's very nice.

797
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:33,320
Speaker 1: But can you imagine he's probably self aware enough to

798
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 1: be excited he's getting an active roster check this week.

799
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's what he gets for the throttling of

800
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 3: Troy University back when he was playing for the Bronc Wars.

801
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 3: The Tennessee Titans, fresh off of lighting up the Browns

802
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:49,880
Speaker 3: defense in Week fourteen, going on the road at the

803
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 3: San Francisco forty nine Ers. It is the aforementioned Drew

804
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 3: Brees and Adaman on a call. The Niners are favored

805
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:58,880
Speaker 3: by twelve and a half points. Clearly, Greg, the Titans

806
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 3: didn't move the needle so that much last week. Do

807
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:03,719
Speaker 3: you feel that that number is a bit too much?

808
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:08,840
Speaker 1: No, because I think the forty nine ers offense coming

809
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:13,440
Speaker 1: off a week off weirdly healthier right now than they

810
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 1: have been all season.

811
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:15,279
Speaker 2: Not just because they had the buy.

812
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:18,799
Speaker 1: They were actually healthier in that week before they got

813
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 1: to buy against Cleveland on both sides of the ball.

814
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:23,080
Speaker 1: Then they really had been all year. And you're not

815
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:25,840
Speaker 1: getting Fred Warner and Nick Bosa back, but this defense

816
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:27,760
Speaker 1: is playing with a lot of aggression. You're getting production

817
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:30,360
Speaker 1: out of Cleveland ferreal, getting production out of Ken White.

818
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:32,840
Speaker 1: And it's not about that number. Is not about the defense.

819
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:36,080
Speaker 1: It's about the offense ready to turn into a wagon

820
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:40,280
Speaker 1: against a team that's not complete. And I thought Purdy

821
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:43,440
Speaker 1: played great in that Browns game. That one really rewarded

822
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:47,040
Speaker 1: a rewatch because the numbers don't pop out, and he

823
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:51,840
Speaker 1: had five or six just classic sort of very difficult,

824
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 1: pretty anticipation throws throughout that game, made a couple great plays,

825
00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 1: had a couple of great decisions where he just avoided

826
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:01,200
Speaker 1: making the big mistake, and it just made me feel

827
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 1: better about what's to come. And I think what's to

828
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 1: come here is you know, a top eight offense the

829
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:06,560
Speaker 1: rest of the way.

830
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:08,000
Speaker 2: So I think they'll put it on the Titan.

831
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:10,439
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is the game we actually wish we could

832
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 4: give to Philip Rivers to onboard up because this is

833
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 4: exactly the type of game, And I don't want to

834
00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 4: demean that. The Titans, they just they are going to

835
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:22,759
Speaker 4: go through a massive organizational change here in the next

836
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:24,560
Speaker 4: couple of months, and so it is what it is

837
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:27,319
Speaker 4: at this point. But the forty nine ers basically have

838
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:30,200
Speaker 4: to take this game and use it as the wind

839
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 4: up for the rest of their sprint and their season.

840
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:37,200
Speaker 4: The remaining schedule gets really really fun for us. They

841
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:40,200
Speaker 4: get the Colts, we hope with an attact Philip Rivers

842
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:44,840
Speaker 4: Sunday Night Football. They get the Bears with NFC stakes

843
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,279
Speaker 4: that will be significant by that point, and then they

844
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:49,759
Speaker 4: get the Seahawks to close the season, and that will

845
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:52,880
Speaker 4: probably have massive playoff implications due to the fact that

846
00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:55,360
Speaker 4: the Seahawks lost to the forty nine ers early in

847
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:58,560
Speaker 4: the year, and Seattle also has the Rams one more

848
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:01,319
Speaker 4: time and already lost to the Ram once. So this

849
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:05,239
Speaker 4: is going to be an absolute like launching, or should be.

850
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 4: They should use it as this and attack as such

851
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:11,160
Speaker 4: a launch point to really barrel headfirst into the rest

852
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:11,840
Speaker 4: of their schedule.

853
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:14,000
Speaker 1: People sleep and I think on the forty nine ers

854
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 1: as a real deal team. If they were in the AFC,

855
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:19,520
Speaker 1: I would consider them a Super Bowl contender.

856
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 2: I don't quite in the NFC. Do you think that's too.

857
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:24,000
Speaker 3: What AFC division are they forty nine ers going in?

858
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:26,880
Speaker 3: I just, I just I want to play this hypothetical

859
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:29,360
Speaker 3: all the way out. So let's trade. Let's trade like

860
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:31,279
Speaker 3: the Chargers for the forty nine ers.

861
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 2: Sure, that's a good one.

862
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:34,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're actually right around like if you kind of

863
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:37,080
Speaker 1: look where they are, for instance, like Dvoa, they're like

864
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:39,680
Speaker 1: ahead of the Chargers, the Patriots, like the Bucks, right

865
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:41,839
Speaker 1: next to the Eagles. Like that all sounds about right

866
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:43,280
Speaker 1: to me. I think that's where they're at. The problem

867
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:46,440
Speaker 1: is Yeah, they're with the rams Seahawks Packers. I think

868
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:47,920
Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough to get through that tournament, so

869
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:49,840
Speaker 1: I'm putting them. Sure, put them in the AFC West

870
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:51,719
Speaker 1: as a as a wildcard. I think they could win

871
00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:52,280
Speaker 1: that tournament.

872
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they get an opportunity for a layup, you know,

873
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:58,719
Speaker 3: before before that tournament, you know, in the stretch run

874
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 3: where if you just watched the one game, if you

875
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:03,719
Speaker 3: just watched the one game, you saw cam Ward and

876
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 3: Tony Pollard and this Titans offense, like you start to

877
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:10,000
Speaker 3: believe that they only they limit Myles Garrett to one sack,

878
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:12,920
Speaker 3: And I'm wondering if the offensive, you know, if the

879
00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:15,719
Speaker 3: game plan was built around that and it led to

880
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 3: the best offensive output for the Tennessee Titans, who not

881
00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:21,399
Speaker 3: just have the chance to win the first two game

882
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:23,879
Speaker 3: win streak this season, This will be the first two

883
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:26,480
Speaker 3: game win streak for the Titans since twenty twenty two,

884
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:31,640
Speaker 3: hotly twenty two. So Cam, it's it's not you. This

885
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:33,880
Speaker 3: is franchise related. That's how they were in the position to.

886
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 5: Draft you in danger.

887
00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:38,840
Speaker 3: But hey, the pass rush of the forty nine ers

888
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:40,279
Speaker 3: is not even the Browns.

889
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:43,359
Speaker 1: That's almost as impressive or in the wrong way as

890
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:45,720
Speaker 1: the Lions. I think haven't lost how many two straight

891
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:49,719
Speaker 1: in three years? Something like that? That is horrifying, What

892
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 1: a what a sad franchise. Before we move from this game,

893
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:55,200
Speaker 1: I did want to just mention the news because we

894
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:56,960
Speaker 1: never hit it on the show, the reports that Brandon

895
00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:01,799
Speaker 1: ayuk Are is not expected to play this season and

896
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:04,320
Speaker 1: it sounds like he's just going to be on the

897
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:07,680
Speaker 1: trade block this off season. That the relationship, There's been

898
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 1: a lot of reporting out there locally athletic everything is

899
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:15,200
Speaker 1: maybe beyond repair and weird statements publicly, and just that

900
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 1: would wrap up one of the strangest contract negotiation extension

901
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:26,120
Speaker 1: situations of all time. That they didn't like each other.

902
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:28,200
Speaker 1: We've been over it before like that. There was a

903
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:30,800
Speaker 1: lot of consternation. They gave him the contract, then he

904
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:33,520
Speaker 1: gets hurt and never ends up playing, and they never

905
00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:35,719
Speaker 1: made that trade. So he'll be an interesting person to

906
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:38,680
Speaker 1: track this off season because I think there'll be plenty

907
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:40,240
Speaker 1: of trade interesting.

908
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:41,040
Speaker 4: DJ Moore to the.

909
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 1: Forty nine ers, it's an interesting grade, Bopham.

910
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:48,480
Speaker 3: How different, how different things could have been if data

911
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:51,520
Speaker 3: blocked it correctly. In the final drive, of the Super

912
00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:54,279
Speaker 3: Bowl and got Brandon Ayuku was wide open. They maybe

913
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:56,000
Speaker 3: offered him a deal or maybe an invite to Christian

914
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:56,839
Speaker 3: McCaffrey's wedding.

915
00:42:56,920 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 1: We're just taking that offer from the Steelers when they thought.

916
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:02,719
Speaker 4: They were going to maybe Kyle Shanahan just is surfing

917
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:05,719
Speaker 4: that morning and doesn't march into John Lynch's office and say,

918
00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:07,360
Speaker 4: we actually have to get this done even though you

919
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:08,360
Speaker 4: guys want to trade.

920
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:11,120
Speaker 5: Him so many what ifs.

921
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:12,839
Speaker 4: The waves were probably good that day, Kyle.

922
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 3: What ifs for fans of a team in purple in

923
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:19,400
Speaker 3: the AFC, Because on Monday Night football, the Miami Dolphins

924
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 3: are on the road at the Pittsburgh Steelers, the high flying,

925
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:26,600
Speaker 3: high octane Steelers, where Aaron Rodgers is running all over

926
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:28,880
Speaker 3: folks and throwing deep passes for the first time in

927
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:32,399
Speaker 3: several weeks. The Steelers favored by three in this one.

928
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 3: The over under is forty two and a half. It

929
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:36,120
Speaker 3: is Monday night, so it is Joe and Troy on

930
00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:39,880
Speaker 3: the call. The path is a little more constricted, Jordan.

931
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:42,759
Speaker 3: But do the Dolphins have a chance to win this game?

932
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:44,040
Speaker 3: Specifically on Monday Night?

933
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:47,080
Speaker 4: I think Miami wins this game, and you guys know me,

934
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:50,600
Speaker 4: I hate making predictions. It makes my skin crawl, But

935
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:53,680
Speaker 4: I do think that they win this game. This run

936
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:57,440
Speaker 4: game is all the way back and devonni Chan is

937
00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:01,880
Speaker 4: going to play according to Mike McDaniel, and between offensive

938
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:04,480
Speaker 4: line coach Butch Berry and tight ends coach John Embry,

939
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:06,960
Speaker 4: who is a legend. If you know, you know, they

940
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:10,480
Speaker 4: have really got that entire collective between offensive linemen, tight

941
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:13,759
Speaker 4: ends and running backs cooking in a way. That is

942
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:16,280
Speaker 4: what we had hoped. This is what we were promised

943
00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:19,960
Speaker 4: with Mike McDaniel when he first came into the league.

944
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:22,400
Speaker 4: It is their blocking combinations. It is some of the

945
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:26,040
Speaker 4: personnel decisions that they've made, Aaron Burer at center, really

946
00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 4: making the entire engine run up front and doing so

947
00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:32,279
Speaker 4: without regard for human life on the other side, and

948
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:36,000
Speaker 4: this the combination at tight end of Darren Waller and

949
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:39,960
Speaker 4: Greg Doltchit it works so well because both of these

950
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:43,120
Speaker 4: guys can do so many different things, and Mike McDaniel

951
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:46,239
Speaker 4: is not just using them in the intermediate. He's using

952
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:48,840
Speaker 4: them on a bunch of different types of leverage blocking.

953
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:52,000
Speaker 4: He's using them to create explosive plays, whether for those

954
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 4: players or for other players, and that is still where

955
00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:58,040
Speaker 4: the Steelers, as you know, as well as they can

956
00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:01,399
Speaker 4: play when their defense plays well, they have still been

957
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:06,799
Speaker 4: quite explosive to the explosive play, quite susceptible to the

958
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:12,400
Speaker 4: explosive play, particularly particularly against a team that uses a

959
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:15,800
Speaker 4: lot of interesting blocking structure and pre snap Mister.

960
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:18,719
Speaker 2: I think there, don't I really said that cleanly. Yeah,

961
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:19,560
Speaker 2: it was great.

962
00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:23,080
Speaker 1: I didn't spit, so it was as effective as the

963
00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:25,600
Speaker 1: Steelers defense against the explosive place.

964
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 4: Wow.

965
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:33,120
Speaker 1: No, I think their second to last. You said you

966
00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:36,760
Speaker 1: liked it, you know when the inner mask comes out.

967
00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:39,640
Speaker 1: I think they're second worst than the league, behind the Raiders,

968
00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:43,080
Speaker 1: and they are bad. The matchup is bad for the Steelers,

969
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:46,120
Speaker 1: and he's putting out just like I don't even know

970
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:48,120
Speaker 1: what's going on on these running plays, but a lot's

971
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:52,120
Speaker 1: going on. He's getting fancy with it. I don't trust them.

972
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:54,279
Speaker 1: I don't trust the Steelers either, especially in a game

973
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:57,320
Speaker 1: like they're quote unquote supposed to win as a slight favorite.

974
00:45:58,239 --> 00:46:01,480
Speaker 1: But they've won four straight games in maybe the worst

975
00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:04,040
Speaker 1: month of to a tongue of ILO's career. It's kind

976
00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:06,840
Speaker 1: of it's kind of amazing to me how poorly to

977
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:09,160
Speaker 1: a tongue of Iloa is playing overall, and that's just

978
00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:11,520
Speaker 1: expected and he's actually not getting any grief for it.

979
00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:15,160
Speaker 1: He's been a good quarterback since Mike McDaniel got there

980
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:18,040
Speaker 1: in terms of when he's on the field and efficient, obviously,

981
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:20,719
Speaker 1: like there's some weaknesses to his game and they're not

982
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:23,600
Speaker 1: that now. And they've had two really great games out

983
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:26,879
Speaker 1: of the division. I mean in the division. They also

984
00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:28,279
Speaker 1: had two games where it came down to the last

985
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:31,040
Speaker 1: play against like the Saints and the Commanders. So don't

986
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:34,360
Speaker 1: I don't trust them overall, but they're they're getting closer

987
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:37,040
Speaker 1: to being like a relatively complete average team because the

988
00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:39,920
Speaker 1: defense is solid, the running game is legit good. If

989
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:43,400
Speaker 1: TUA starts playing better, Patrick, I don't think they can

990
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:45,960
Speaker 1: win out. There's a reason they have a less than

991
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:47,799
Speaker 1: one percent chance to make the playoffs, and the Chiefs

992
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 1: actually have like a twelve to fifteen with the exact

993
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:53,080
Speaker 1: same record. The schedule doesn't help and the team has

994
00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:55,200
Speaker 1: its problems. But if TUA could just play better, they

995
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:56,280
Speaker 1: are they are quite dangerous.

996
00:46:56,320 --> 00:46:57,239
Speaker 5: Yeah, significantly.

997
00:46:57,400 --> 00:46:59,600
Speaker 3: I would say in this game, if you get a

998
00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:01,600
Speaker 3: good game, you tell me you get a quality to

999
00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 3: a low a game like one of his best of

1000
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:07,200
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five. I'm with Jordan, I've got the Miami

1001
00:47:07,239 --> 00:47:10,600
Speaker 3: Dolphins my inherent biases against you know, the Steelers in

1002
00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:15,120
Speaker 3: this situation, notwithstanding just because of the way that they've

1003
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:17,200
Speaker 3: had improvement in the places that they've needed to and

1004
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:18,759
Speaker 3: I understand the schedule is a big part of the

1005
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:21,000
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five season. But we talked about Jonas Savina

1006
00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:25,200
Speaker 3: right at guard, the rookie guard and having all those difficulties.

1007
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:28,839
Speaker 3: His improvement has coincided with the improvement in the run

1008
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:30,879
Speaker 3: game and the way that Mike McDaniel is able to

1009
00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:33,360
Speaker 3: reshape the line of scrimmage kind of choose where the

1010
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:36,239
Speaker 3: line of scrimmage is ultimately going to be on the

1011
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:38,759
Speaker 3: field of any given play, where Devon a Chan gets

1012
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:41,240
Speaker 3: a chance to have these like on field putt returns

1013
00:47:42,280 --> 00:47:46,920
Speaker 3: going like taking advantage of defenses that can be a

1014
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:51,520
Speaker 3: little aggressive. And that's this Pittsburgh Steelers group where they

1015
00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:54,839
Speaker 3: were releasing guys to grass last week looking like they

1016
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:56,240
Speaker 3: did at the start of the season.

1017
00:47:56,960 --> 00:48:00,000
Speaker 5: In the one game Rogers blip. That's a one game

1018
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:00,600
Speaker 5: Rogers blip.

1019
00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:03,360
Speaker 2: Maybe that's against I mean, I would tend to period,

1020
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:04,480
Speaker 2: I would know.

1021
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:07,080
Speaker 5: Pass rush whatsoever in that game against the Steelers.

1022
00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:09,560
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't think it was about like the lack

1023
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:12,560
Speaker 2: of pass rush or not. He just was on one.

1024
00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:15,800
Speaker 1: Remind me a little bit like I've heard like Serena

1025
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:18,239
Speaker 1: Williams talk about this or Federal like when you're an

1026
00:48:18,239 --> 00:48:20,200
Speaker 1: all time great and you hit your forties or whatever,

1027
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 1: like sometimes you do just have it for a day,

1028
00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:26,560
Speaker 1: but you just don't. Like sometimes you show up and

1029
00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:27,759
Speaker 1: it's just not there for you.

1030
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:28,400
Speaker 2: And he had it.

1031
00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:31,360
Speaker 1: He he was outstanding in that game. If he plays

1032
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:34,400
Speaker 1: like that, they were not high percentage throws, but he

1033
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:37,080
Speaker 1: was on one, then their upside is high.

1034
00:48:37,160 --> 00:48:38,960
Speaker 2: I tend to agree that it's a one game blip,

1035
00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:40,080
Speaker 2: but got it.

1036
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:43,000
Speaker 1: Like I'm I'm more curious to watch them play offensive

1037
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:45,560
Speaker 1: football this week after that performance by him than I

1038
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:46,120
Speaker 1: was before.

1039
00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:48,120
Speaker 2: That's for sure. Maybe he can back it up.

1040
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 5: Okay's excited.

1041
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:50,400
Speaker 2: I'm not excited.

1042
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:51,920
Speaker 5: Arthur Smith and Aaron Rodgers.

1043
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:52,440
Speaker 2: I'm not a.

1044
00:48:52,520 --> 00:48:53,480
Speaker 5: Monday night football.

1045
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:56,399
Speaker 4: Smith wishes he was moving gaps around like this run

1046
00:48:56,440 --> 00:48:58,399
Speaker 4: game in Miami's doing. Did you guys see the play

1047
00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:01,880
Speaker 4: where there were three skill plays, including tight ends lined

1048
00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:04,400
Speaker 4: up in a stack next to the quarterback with the

1049
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:06,080
Speaker 4: running back on the other side, and then there was

1050
00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:08,440
Speaker 4: a motion. So not only with the motion he's changing

1051
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:10,200
Speaker 4: the gap. I love what you said about reshaping the

1052
00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:12,960
Speaker 4: line of sacreement to Patrick, because not only does the

1053
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:15,280
Speaker 4: motion change the gap that the running back is supposed

1054
00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:17,440
Speaker 4: to run through to a different one for the defense,

1055
00:49:17,520 --> 00:49:19,320
Speaker 4: but then you don't know what it's actually going to

1056
00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:21,879
Speaker 4: be because all three of those players are splitting off

1057
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:24,440
Speaker 4: in different directions and one of them is getting the ball,

1058
00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:28,320
Speaker 4: and I just I squealed, I made noises.

1059
00:49:28,680 --> 00:49:29,239
Speaker 5: Loves ball.

1060
00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:33,160
Speaker 3: Loves ball back to being an offensive genius when it works,

1061
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:34,840
Speaker 3: but when it doesn't.

1062
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:36,840
Speaker 5: For him, it can get a little bit. I always

1063
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:38,480
Speaker 5: believe talk about.

1064
00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:42,880
Speaker 3: Up and down changes, there's the quantum superposition that is

1065
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:46,799
Speaker 3: the Carolina Panthers. They can be great, they cannot be

1066
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 3: one of those teams they have not been great against.

1067
00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:50,560
Speaker 3: Greg is the New Orleans Saints. They are two and

1068
00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:54,000
Speaker 3: a half point favorites on the road against the quarterback

1069
00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:58,440
Speaker 3: rushing machine like it was Cameron Jarrelle Newton aka Tyler

1070
00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:01,560
Speaker 3: Schuck against the Bucks on some over under is forty

1071
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:04,520
Speaker 3: and a half. Jason Bennetti and RG three on the

1072
00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:07,319
Speaker 3: call in this one, which version of the Panthers do?

1073
00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:11,000
Speaker 1: We get grit that's new, We get the version that

1074
00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:11,839
Speaker 1: should win a game.

1075
00:50:11,920 --> 00:50:12,279
Speaker 2: You can't.

1076
00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:15,279
Speaker 1: You can't get swept by the Saints. That's just unserious

1077
00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:19,640
Speaker 1: and still be in the playoff mix because they would

1078
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:20,960
Speaker 1: be even whether whether.

1079
00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:21,719
Speaker 2: They win this game or not.

1080
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:25,520
Speaker 1: This is kind of where it gets real that, Okay,

1081
00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:28,840
Speaker 1: you're hitting the stretch run, You're hitting games that you

1082
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:33,880
Speaker 1: have to win, that you are expected to win against

1083
00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:37,040
Speaker 1: the Saints because yeah, getting swept by them would be

1084
00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:38,640
Speaker 1: a little bit embarrassing.

1085
00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:41,000
Speaker 4: After this game, and they can't look ahead of this

1086
00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:45,040
Speaker 4: game obviously, but after this game, they've got Bucks, Seahawks, Bucks, Yeah,

1087
00:50:45,040 --> 00:50:49,160
Speaker 4: and all of them will have playoff implications. So you

1088
00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:51,120
Speaker 4: better put your best foot forward and your best tape

1089
00:50:51,120 --> 00:50:52,839
Speaker 4: out in this game regardless.

1090
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:54,719
Speaker 1: Right, if you lose this game, they might not all

1091
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:57,360
Speaker 1: have a playoff implications. You might be done by week eighteen.

1092
00:50:57,520 --> 00:50:57,960
Speaker 5: I'll put you.

1093
00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:00,560
Speaker 3: Guys on a theory because folks have wondered, is this

1094
00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:04,879
Speaker 3: about these Carolina Panthers? I think, what what if it's

1095
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:08,560
Speaker 3: game plan related? What if when there's this opponent that

1096
00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:11,520
Speaker 3: doesn't see a lot of Carolina Panthers Dave Canalis going

1097
00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:14,400
Speaker 3: in uh to the tape room looking at these specific

1098
00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:17,319
Speaker 3: aspects where you can attack defenses on specific plays. There's

1099
00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:21,439
Speaker 3: the micd up clip of Rico Dowdle knowing exactly where

1100
00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:23,320
Speaker 3: the rush and the defenders in the zone were gonna

1101
00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:26,880
Speaker 3: be and taking a screen to the house where they

1102
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:28,439
Speaker 3: go up against the Saints team.

1103
00:51:28,880 --> 00:51:30,320
Speaker 5: There's there's not gonna be a surprises.

1104
00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:34,640
Speaker 3: Both franchises intimately aware of others personnel.

1105
00:51:36,360 --> 00:51:39,000
Speaker 5: I just I just thought maybe sometimes David.

1106
00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:42,560
Speaker 4: Projected a project.

1107
00:51:42,239 --> 00:51:44,200
Speaker 5: Go on, like maybe it's not all player related.

1108
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:46,960
Speaker 3: Maybe this is the head coach and play caller sometimes

1109
00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:48,120
Speaker 3: need a little bit of a chain.

1110
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:52,640
Speaker 1: I do think they just have like a slimmer path

1111
00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:56,399
Speaker 1: to the way they win. It's like it's a lot

1112
00:51:56,440 --> 00:51:59,759
Speaker 1: of running on downs where you don't expect them to run,

1113
00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:01,919
Speaker 1: which which is I think, great, you got to pull

1114
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:03,440
Speaker 1: that off, like you got to hit your third and

1115
00:52:03,480 --> 00:52:06,399
Speaker 1: four runs. I'm always surprised by them running in those

1116
00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:09,640
Speaker 1: situations and yeah it didn't work. And if you're only

1117
00:52:09,640 --> 00:52:13,480
Speaker 1: counting on Bryce lately to just hit these big plays,

1118
00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:15,279
Speaker 1: but you're only throwing the ball twenty to twenty five

1119
00:52:15,280 --> 00:52:18,480
Speaker 1: plays like those plays changed the game, and he hits

1120
00:52:18,520 --> 00:52:22,080
Speaker 1: two long fourth downs on the last one. Yeah, I'm curious.

1121
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:24,440
Speaker 1: It is a good test for Canals's adjustments. I mean,

1122
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:27,319
Speaker 1: you lose by ten points to Tyler Schuck a couple

1123
00:52:27,320 --> 00:52:29,200
Speaker 1: of weeks ago, and you're playing a defense that I

1124
00:52:29,200 --> 00:52:34,560
Speaker 1: know you Jordan have noticed statistically is now, you know,

1125
00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:38,279
Speaker 1: solidly in the middle of the NFL, maybe even like

1126
00:52:38,360 --> 00:52:41,080
Speaker 1: a little better than the middle of the NFL when

1127
00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:42,920
Speaker 1: you add up all the numbers. And I went to

1128
00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:44,719
Speaker 1: check because I was like, okay, is this just like

1129
00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:47,839
Speaker 1: a schedule thing. Actually, no, they've played a very difficult

1130
00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:51,560
Speaker 1: schedule of offenses. If anything, it's more impressive that they're

1131
00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:54,440
Speaker 1: a little better than average in general. So the staly

1132
00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:56,360
Speaker 1: Sons much delayed. It's happening.

1133
00:52:56,920 --> 00:52:58,880
Speaker 4: Well, you know, I've been noticing this. I know our

1134
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:01,279
Speaker 4: friends over at the Saints blow party have also been

1135
00:53:01,520 --> 00:53:04,680
Speaker 4: noticing this improvement. Yeah, they're in terms, they're right at

1136
00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:06,920
Speaker 4: the middle, essentially a little bit higher than the middle,

1137
00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:09,719
Speaker 4: in terms of UH points per game, in terms of

1138
00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:13,160
Speaker 4: yards per game, in terms of opponent third down conversion rate.

1139
00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:16,279
Speaker 4: I know we all saw the graphic on the broadcast, Right,

1140
00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:18,759
Speaker 4: I think that there's something there. And when you have

1141
00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:22,600
Speaker 4: that improvement and you're lifting the floor of one side

1142
00:53:22,600 --> 00:53:26,359
Speaker 4: of the football, right, and then you're also getting this

1143
00:53:26,400 --> 00:53:28,879
Speaker 4: like glimmer of hope with the quarterback play, this team

1144
00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:31,440
Speaker 4: can be dangerous. And that's why I love that the

1145
00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:33,840
Speaker 4: Panthers get their bye week when they did, Right, I

1146
00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:37,040
Speaker 4: love that because this is when we're gonna really see. Okay,

1147
00:53:37,080 --> 00:53:39,640
Speaker 4: Dave Knalis, like, what are your bye week adjustments? When

1148
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:42,359
Speaker 4: you know the stakes you're in the you're in the race, man,

1149
00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:46,000
Speaker 4: Like you know the stakes are so high, Like it's

1150
00:53:46,040 --> 00:53:48,120
Speaker 4: time to show your work. And Bryce Young, if he

1151
00:53:48,160 --> 00:53:51,560
Speaker 4: could play even even a little less than how well

1152
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:54,520
Speaker 4: he played in that Rams game, they will be fine.

1153
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:56,919
Speaker 1: And just for some context, they lost to the Saints.

1154
00:53:56,960 --> 00:53:59,760
Speaker 1: It was longer ago than I remembered. It was November ninth,

1155
00:54:00,040 --> 00:54:04,160
Speaker 1: It was Week ten. The Saints doubled them up in

1156
00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:07,000
Speaker 1: total yardage plus it was three eighty eight to one

1157
00:54:07,120 --> 00:54:11,279
Speaker 1: seventy five. It was watching it as big of a

1158
00:54:11,440 --> 00:54:14,120
Speaker 1: blowout as a seventeen to seven game can be. The

1159
00:54:14,120 --> 00:54:17,440
Speaker 1: Saints offense obviously has its limitations, like they weren't going

1160
00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:20,000
Speaker 1: to put on a lot of points, but they controlled

1161
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:20,399
Speaker 1: that game.

1162
00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:22,319
Speaker 2: So revenge time show us something.

1163
00:54:22,560 --> 00:54:25,920
Speaker 3: And that was in Charlotte as well, and I'm remounted

1164
00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:29,560
Speaker 3: of the early I think it was week one last year,

1165
00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:33,680
Speaker 3: before the benching, before the Dalton conversation and all that,

1166
00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:37,759
Speaker 3: where Bryce and the offense looked miserable, miserable.

1167
00:54:37,840 --> 00:54:40,799
Speaker 5: In New Orleans in the super Dome, it's revenge against

1168
00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:41,440
Speaker 5: that as well.

1169
00:54:41,360 --> 00:54:44,160
Speaker 1: And vibes revenge game, and the vibes probably will be

1170
00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:46,719
Speaker 1: bad in New Orleans. I have an eye on how

1171
00:54:46,719 --> 00:54:48,440
Speaker 1: many people are going to be in the crowd for

1172
00:54:48,560 --> 00:54:54,120
Speaker 1: these final few Saints games. They have created, through terrible management,

1173
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:58,400
Speaker 1: apathy among one of the best fan bases in the

1174
00:54:58,560 --> 00:55:02,560
Speaker 1: entire NFL. Pelicans fan base. It's like another level. They're

1175
00:55:02,600 --> 00:55:05,879
Speaker 1: literally allowing people to go free to games and it's

1176
00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:08,920
Speaker 1: half empty. But I think I think the Benson family

1177
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:11,719
Speaker 1: might notice that, and so these games are big, I

1178
00:55:12,080 --> 00:55:14,080
Speaker 1: believe because you get blown out at home a couple

1179
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:16,719
Speaker 1: of times with empty fans like that, that catches the

1180
00:55:16,719 --> 00:55:17,800
Speaker 1: attention empty fans.

1181
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:19,960
Speaker 4: I like how you said that, because you meant empty seats,

1182
00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:21,479
Speaker 4: but empty fans is probably how they're feeling.

1183
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:23,320
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that's it. That's politic.

1184
00:55:24,440 --> 00:55:27,400
Speaker 1: We'll try to add a little poetry to all the

1185
00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:30,600
Speaker 1: early games that's going to be coming up in your feed.

1186
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:34,120
Speaker 1: We flipped it around, so stay tuned right here. Will

1187
00:55:34,120 --> 00:55:36,680
Speaker 1: be back for the rest of the preview.