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Speaker 1: necessly was into what I I don't Uh, it's not factual.

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Speaker 1: settlement of all their issues, that's pretty low on the list.

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Speaker 1: But they don't have any cornerbacks. That's sort of what

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Speaker 1: I mean. There's other gaping holes, and I think that's like,

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Speaker 1: like that's actually a big one that is seemingly small

431
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Speaker 1: because you're like, well, injuries settlement gone, right. But Jalen

432
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Speaker 1: Mills is their number one cornerback. They're playing Jonathan Jones,

433
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Speaker 1: who's one of the best slot corners in the league

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Speaker 1: on the outside because they don't have any outside corners

435
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Speaker 1: actually kind of like their secondary. I think Belichick can

436
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Speaker 1: ski him up in game plan and that part of

437
00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:04,200
Speaker 1: the team will be a strength. And as Tom Current said,

438
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Speaker 1: I believe It's true mac Jones is the best thing

439
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Speaker 1: to happen to this team in the last few years.

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Speaker 1: Um and he'll be okay, but there's not enough to

441
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Speaker 1: make up for what I think the offensive line problems

442
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Speaker 1: are going to be. I think defending the slot is

443
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Speaker 1: more important than people think, and I think a good

444
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Speaker 1: slot like slot Corny us to be this like pejorative thing.

445
00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:22,320
Speaker 1: You were saying, he's a slot cornet used. Were old,

446
00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:24,159
Speaker 1: that's not true anymore. You need your guy to be

447
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Speaker 1: able to go inside into the slot and take care

448
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Speaker 1: of business there as well. So it scares me a

449
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Speaker 1: bit with that one. It's good. It does feel like

450
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Speaker 1: it's going to be a work in progress to start,

451
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Speaker 1: and then they'll win nine games. You're like, what the hell?

452
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Speaker 1: And that's like what I've been on the table and

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Speaker 1: response like this whole time that it still is Beljick

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Speaker 1: and mac Jones is very promising as a prospect, But

455
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Speaker 1: have they put him in the best position in year

456
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Speaker 1: two after a really great start to his career going

457
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Speaker 1: to the playoffs. I think it's fair to argue they

458
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Speaker 1: have not done a great job building around him right now. No,

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Speaker 1: I really think it's the coaching staff and what's going

460
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Speaker 1: on upfront. Like Isaiah Wind might not be on this team.

461
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Speaker 1: Like I said, Trent Brown doesn't real scheme. They're happy

462
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Speaker 1: with him. The Dolphins probably take it in. No, he

463
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Speaker 1: did not. I was watching the clock. He went about

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Speaker 1: five seconds over right. Yeah, he had to take the dart.

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Speaker 1: He had to take the trank, all right. Mark the

466
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Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins, who we've already gotten a shot from Cynthia

467
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Speaker 1: about how far the quarterback and throw it. I actually

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Speaker 1: want to talk about that because there was a very

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Speaker 1: notable two esque play against the Eagles in that preseason

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Speaker 1: game where he did connect with Tyreek Hill on a

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Speaker 1: fifty one yard laser beam. I thought it was it

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Speaker 1: was you look at it, though, two things happen. One,

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Speaker 1: Tyree Hill had to come back to the ball a

474
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Speaker 1: little bit, so it's the classic, Oh does to have

475
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Speaker 1: the arm strength. But if you watch what happened on

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Speaker 1: that play, there's something I think is a positive um.

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Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill has a defensive back about two yards upfield

478
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Speaker 1: from him when to unleash the ball to and throw

479
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Speaker 1: it into double coverage, and Tyreek made made a great catch.

480
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Speaker 1: But two as showed I thought confidence in Tyree Hills

481
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Speaker 1: gifts his speed and so it makes me think it

482
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Speaker 1: ken work because there's something differ think going on for

483
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Speaker 1: two way this year. In the last year, they had

484
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Speaker 1: the double offensive coordinator situation where the third guy, Charlie

485
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:07,760
Speaker 1: Fry into his ear half of those games. It was

486
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Speaker 1: totally confusing and on top too many cooks. On top

487
00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:13,720
Speaker 1: of it, he spent half the season hearing whispers about

488
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Speaker 1: then chasing after Deshaun Watson. Is totally messy scenario. So

489
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Speaker 1: I think the environment with Mike McDaniel, who is Tom

490
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Speaker 1: Brady on Tom Brady on a yacht. You've got Sean

491
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Speaker 1: Payton in the atmosphere, So I mean, it's just very messy.

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Speaker 1: I just like the environment for better for two uh.

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Speaker 1: And if you look at what he did over the preseason,

494
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Speaker 1: he had a very solid preseason. I think he fits

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Speaker 1: in this offense. And I have classically could just been

496
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Speaker 1: like they're going to replace him, And I've been thinking

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Speaker 1: even a month ago, we're saying, well, he is a

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Speaker 1: hot candidate to have Teddy Bridgewater take over in a

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Speaker 1: week three or four. Are we like as Americans a

500
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Speaker 1: little too low on too uh? Or is he just

501
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Speaker 1: what he is because I think he looks better in

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Speaker 1: this this summer they had question. It's one of the

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Speaker 1: biggest questions I think in the a f c UH

504
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Speaker 1: as we entered the season, like who is to h

505
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Speaker 1: he has a great team around Mac Jones is getting

506
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Speaker 1: banged a little b by his infrastructure, not to ah.

507
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Speaker 1: If he could shut out outside noise and there's plenty

508
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Speaker 1: around that organization, that's a good sign for his long

509
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Speaker 1: term ability. But then he has to be able to play.

510
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Speaker 1: Can he make this offense move? Can he stay healthy?

511
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Speaker 1: These are all fair questions. I'm I'm dubious because I

512
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Speaker 1: sometimes with all the talk through summer and then you

513
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Speaker 1: get into like, oh, we look good in this preseason game.

514
00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:23,360
Speaker 1: It's like all right, but now I want to see

515
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Speaker 1: him actually do it when it counts. We'll see what happens.

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Speaker 1: What time do we need to know about Jimmy Garoppolo,

517
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Speaker 1: Like tomorrow at four something like that day they say

518
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Speaker 1: that you would keep him, I don't believe it. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I guess like that's an interesting last minute move because

520
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Speaker 1: you could be like, oh man, and then all of

521
00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:42,360
Speaker 1: a sudden everything could be different like one second. But look,

522
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Speaker 1: I was kind of taking a shot at to it.

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Speaker 1: I love the I mean, if you want to entertain yourself,

524
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Speaker 1: like the t and on, like Reddit stuff is really funny.

525
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Speaker 1: Like Jimmy g is a good name to bring up here.

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Speaker 1: I feel confident to a can be as good or

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Speaker 1: a similar level quarterback as Jimmy Garoppolo. It's a similar

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Speaker 1: system to me. He's shown he's been an NFL quarterback.

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Speaker 1: He has legitimate strengths he makes. He's very quick on

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Speaker 1: his release. He's very accurate on the short stuff. They

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Speaker 1: are so fast, Hill Wattle, Gasicky Moster, Edmunds. He just

532
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Speaker 1: has to get the ball out of his hands and

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Speaker 1: those dudes run. I think they'll be fine. I have

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Speaker 1: him in the playoffs, playoffs. What are you doing? Greg

535
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,160
Speaker 1: has been shot two segments in a row. Invince about

536
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:28,800
Speaker 1: It's about respecting the show and the boundaries of the segment.

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Speaker 1: I was waiting for the music. Was waiting for the

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Speaker 1: music like a quarterback would watch the clock on a field.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk Jets. They have a vastly improved um roster.

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Speaker 1: They do on both sides of the ball. They have

541
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Speaker 1: a legit spicy group of receivers running backs tight ends

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Speaker 1: the offensive line, even with Becton out. Um, I think

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Speaker 1: it could be strong if it all comes together and

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Speaker 1: they stay healthy. I think the defense has a lot

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Speaker 1: of upside with solid leading. The way they got a

546
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Speaker 1: great defensive line with depth. They have a potential star

547
00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:04,080
Speaker 1: now and bring the secondary and sauce gardener. Now, Zack Wilson,

548
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Speaker 1: I know he's probably gonna miss the first week, but

549
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Speaker 1: he will enter the fray quickly if he can't play

550
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Speaker 1: the guitar. I think that this coaching staff in front

551
00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:14,760
Speaker 1: office will attempt to salvage the season rather than go

552
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:19,400
Speaker 1: down with another sinking ship being captained by a young

553
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:23,040
Speaker 1: QB who can't hack it. I think that UM, Zack

554
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Speaker 1: Wilson needs to perform, and perform early or he could

555
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Speaker 1: be in trouble. My question to you, will Zack Wilson

556
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Speaker 1: have an infinite leash in the second season as start.

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Speaker 1: I've already answered my own question, but I'm curious what

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Speaker 1: you think. Cynthia, that's a great question because I mean

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo maybe here too, like this could be an

560
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:44,640
Speaker 1: interesting spot. There is Joe Flack of the solution as

561
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Speaker 1: the backup. I don't know. I don't think pick six

562
00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:55,679
Speaker 1: wasn't so hot this week. Nice Um. I think that

563
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Speaker 1: they're going to give him a chance because I think

564
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Speaker 1: last year it feels like the old line was see

565
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Speaker 1: I think last year he was injured. I do think

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Speaker 1: he gets the full season. I don't think they're because

567
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Speaker 1: they don't have a lot of Unless they go get

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Speaker 1: like a Jimmy g or something like that, it's not

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Speaker 1: kind of worth, you know, they maybe maybe perhaps it's

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Speaker 1: time to get another quarterback. So don't try to like

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Speaker 1: figure out exactly who he is before you just he's

572
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Speaker 1: got something he didn't have last season, I believe, which

573
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Speaker 1: is like a good defense and so Han he's got

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Speaker 1: the wide receiver lost Carl last in returning and the

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Speaker 1: reports from practice game he's not the guy returning from

576
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Speaker 1: an injury, and like, oh it's a concern. It's like, no,

577
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Speaker 1: he's just back to being car Last. Quentin Williams, Franklin

578
00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:38,080
Speaker 1: Myers like they've got depth. Jacob Martin like I think

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Speaker 1: their defense will be good enough to make up for

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Speaker 1: shoddy quarterback play, no full run through account. This is premature,

581
00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 1: but I'm at the point where, like you get these quarterbacks,

582
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Speaker 1: they come in and they never miss a game for

583
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Speaker 1: seven years. Zach Wilson has had durability issues all over

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Speaker 1: the place, and I I it's not so much are

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Speaker 1: they going to stick with him? But can he stay

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Speaker 1: on the field because I think his confidence was affected

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Speaker 1: by that injury last year to to some degree, and

588
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 1: he was in a messy situation obviously. I think if

589
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 1: you're the Jets, though, because if you're Robert Sala, I

590
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:09,600
Speaker 1: would hope that there is absolutely no question that you're

591
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:11,760
Speaker 1: not going to get no matter how bad the season goes,

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00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 1: you need a third year with him like that. He

593
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:15,560
Speaker 1: has changed the Jets in a lot of good ways,

594
00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 1: and you got the defense shows up if they have

595
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:22,040
Speaker 1: the rank defense again the disaster if they have they

596
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:24,680
Speaker 1: ninth rank defense. Like you just need a full evaluation

597
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 1: of Zack Wilson every snap you can possibly get, because

598
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 1: then next offseason you can go they could have gone

599
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:32,720
Speaker 1: and gotten Russell Wilson. They can do something like that

600
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:34,280
Speaker 1: again down the road if they want to make a

601
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:36,200
Speaker 1: big move. Zach Wilson should not get a third year.

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Speaker 1: If he's a mess. Let's move on to the a

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Speaker 1: f C North Mark all right, I really can you

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Speaker 1: And I'm just was staying on this. I cannot think

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Speaker 1: of a Super Bowl team that has been more kind

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00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:56,480
Speaker 1: of casually glossed over, uh than the Bengals. I guess

607
00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:59,080
Speaker 1: it's Cincinnati versus like a team from the East or

608
00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:01,520
Speaker 1: West coast and all that business. And it's the nature

609
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 1: of how they got there. It was a magic carpet

610
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Speaker 1: ride that I think we caught us all by storm

611
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Speaker 1: to some degree. And you know, but I look at

612
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Speaker 1: their team and I think they're legit and could be better.

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Speaker 1: Their offense was hammering teams from mid season on last year. Um,

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Speaker 1: I think Lyle Collins is a bit of a wild card.

615
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 1: We need to see how that works out for them.

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Speaker 1: We know Joe Burrows Joe Burrow, but I think it's

617
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Speaker 1: their defense that raises the floor of what's going to

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Speaker 1: happen to them. Like Trey Hendrickson was one of the

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Speaker 1: best free agent signings a year ago. They were talking

620
00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 1: about when they were scrimmaging the Rams this past week.

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Speaker 1: They got off to a slow start their defense, but

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Speaker 1: then Hendrickson was dominating Joe no boom And who I

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Speaker 1: realized is not you know, Joe Thomas. I get that,

624
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:41,560
Speaker 1: but Hudobe aways a like he was dominating as a

625
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:44,960
Speaker 1: corner and shutting down Cooper Cup in Jesse Bates is back.

626
00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 1: I think it's this defense that helped them beat the Titans,

627
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Speaker 1: helped them stay in games last year in the playoffs,

628
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Speaker 1: and I don't see this that being a what flash

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Speaker 1: in the pan since scenario in Cincinnati. I think they can.

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00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:57,520
Speaker 1: They can still win the division and win more games

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Speaker 1: than they did a year ago. Can they offer a counter?

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00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:04,240
Speaker 1: I think why? Sure? People don't. Some people don't give

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00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 1: them the respect that you think they deserve. Is that

634
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 1: in some ways? I think when you watch that postseason run,

635
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:11,840
Speaker 1: which is a lot of fun obviously and for us

636
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 1: personally had significance because of wes Um. That was charmed

637
00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:18,800
Speaker 1: and that was a it was a ten win team

638
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 1: that rolled through an an f C postseason. Uh, and

639
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 1: you it's almost like for me personally, especially with the

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00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 1: Ravens back and improved, and the Steelers I think could

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Speaker 1: be better this year, and even the Browns of course

642
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Speaker 1: now at the quarterback coming back later. I think it's

643
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 1: gonna be tough for them because I don't think they're

644
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:38,880
Speaker 1: absolutely loaded like they were like ahead of the schedule.

645
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:41,920
Speaker 1: To your point, I think their defense on paper, played

646
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 1: their best at the end and looks better. It looks

647
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 1: like a good defense. They were kind of a mediocret.

648
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:49,720
Speaker 1: Even Zach Taylor needs to show us something like this

649
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:54,720
Speaker 1: is it. You've got Burrow Higgins mixing Chase Boyd altogether

650
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 1: in their primes incredibly cheap like this is now. They

651
00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:00,960
Speaker 1: should be shooting fireworks. My big question is, like is

652
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 1: their offensive line that much better? Like Collins has been

653
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 1: a little bit of a mess and all over the

654
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:07,800
Speaker 1: place in camp, like people are all excited that, like, oh,

655
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 1: we added Ted Carress. I mean they've added a couple

656
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 1: of rotational players, their second round pick from a year agoes,

657
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 1: bench Jacks and Carmen like they're starting a late round

658
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 1: rookie there. Offensive line is often about coaching, and Zach

659
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:23,520
Speaker 1: Taylor's kind of shown they haven't coached very well. So

660
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:26,320
Speaker 1: I'm not convinced that they're not that they're a decent

661
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 1: offensive Which team other team in the division as a

662
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:34,880
Speaker 1: better roster the Ravens? I think the major issues a

663
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 1: wide receiver. We have twenty seconds left. Have to tell

664
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Speaker 1: you my favorite Joe Buril stat so on a play

665
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 1: the next play after being pressured, do you know what

666
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 1: his passer rating is. It's the highest in the twenty

667
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 1: season sample, nine point one point nine. So Joe Burrow,

668
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 1: I mean he needs to get old line, but like

669
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:55,800
Speaker 1: he didn't last year. Check it out there. That dude

670
00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:59,240
Speaker 1: nailed it, by the way, right on the Triple Zeros

671
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 1: the Cleveland the Cleveland Browns, Greg are there are the

672
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 1: Browns talented? Like I guess that would just be my

673
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 1: general question. You've been banging the struggle, Okay there. I

674
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:15,600
Speaker 1: don't know who their right tackle is. Jack Conklin's coming

675
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,240
Speaker 1: off a serious injury. He hasn't you know, done it,

676
00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:21,240
Speaker 1: done much and might not be a factor. They're on

677
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:26,360
Speaker 1: their like third center, essentially their quarterback wide receiver combination,

678
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 1: which I would say is the most valuable positions in

679
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:30,920
Speaker 1: the sport. Now is your passing game? I would rank

680
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 1: in the bottom three in the NFL. It's like if

681
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 1: if they had a quality quarterback, I think this team

682
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 1: would potentially underachieve. And now I look at him, and

683
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 1: I look at him in this division, as you know,

684
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Speaker 1: potentially one of the worst teams in in the a

685
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Speaker 1: f C. Am I am I overreacting? I don't think so,

686
00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 1: because I think also Jedrick Wills is is up and

687
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:54,440
Speaker 1: down at left tackle. The center thing is a major mess.

688
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:58,560
Speaker 1: So what you pointed to with tackle like their tackle, Like,

689
00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 1: that's a lot of different spots there, Like if you

690
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 1: had good quarterback play you looked at them a year ago.

691
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:05,120
Speaker 1: Is having the best offensive line in football arguably, and

692
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,400
Speaker 1: you have Nick Chubb, you have Kareem Hunt, and you

693
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 1: can dominate the way the Browns would want to dominate

694
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:13,399
Speaker 1: in late season games. Now you're asking Jacoby Brissette, who

695
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:16,160
Speaker 1: is nothing more than a than a patch in a backup,

696
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:19,640
Speaker 1: to you're gonna need to go win seven games or

697
00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:23,000
Speaker 1: so to even be a factor when Deshaun Watson returns, which,

698
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 1: by the way, that the energy around that couldn't is

699
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,239
Speaker 1: the darkest in all approach sports. So I don't like

700
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:29,239
Speaker 1: the journey for the Cleveland Browns at all right now,

701
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 1: yuck um. I like Myles Garrett. I think that I

702
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 1: think that he was up there and I was looking

703
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:38,879
Speaker 1: to see, like who might be potential sack leaders this year,

704
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 1: But then it doesn't project for the Browns to be

705
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 1: in enough passing situations for him to be the sack leader.

706
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 1: So that's an interesting point, meaning They're probably not going

707
00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:51,120
Speaker 1: to be facing people trying to win and games are

708
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:53,319
Speaker 1: not gonna be playing with the lead in later games

709
00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:55,239
Speaker 1: sitting on the run. They have some real strengths. I

710
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:57,759
Speaker 1: can almost here Brown's fans pointing out, like they do,

711
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 1: they have real strengths, but not their wide receivers, not

712
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:03,640
Speaker 1: their defensive tackles. I like their corners a lot. They're

713
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:08,279
Speaker 1: still secondary, their past, their rushers. They've proven they can

714
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:10,839
Speaker 1: coach up offensive line and running game, and so maybe

715
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:13,719
Speaker 1: they should get the benefits that they can do things

716
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:19,960
Speaker 1: they really really like completely underrated. I think they have

717
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 1: a good offensive mind running the show. They have one

718
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:26,360
Speaker 1: two punch at running back that's as good as anybody

719
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:28,720
Speaker 1: in the league. And yeah, Clowney is an all world

720
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:32,640
Speaker 1: not Clowney, excuse me, Myles Garrett is an all world playmaker.

721
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 1: You could. I don't think you have to squid that

722
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:36,399
Speaker 1: hard to see the Browns hanging around in the North.

723
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:37,960
Speaker 1: They can hang around, but I would say they know.

724
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:39,239
Speaker 1: I don't know if any team in the a FC

725
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 1: has done a better job, but this is there's this

726
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:44,160
Speaker 1: feeling that it's two years ago and they're not that

727
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:47,400
Speaker 1: team that's a that's point well taken. I'm just saying

728
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:49,840
Speaker 1: I think they can hang around around five hundred and

729
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:51,839
Speaker 1: as much as we don't want to like talk about it.

730
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:54,279
Speaker 1: If Deshaun Watson is ready to roll when he enters

731
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:57,360
Speaker 1: the picture, but even who throwing the ball to? Like

732
00:35:57,400 --> 00:35:59,640
Speaker 1: I love Amari Cooper, but like, what about the rest

733
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 1: of them there? There? It's not deep there. Watch that

734
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 1: ra Sason game Wolf get that whoff in counting on

735
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 1: David Bell basically too. I got a call time a dog.

736
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Speaker 1: It was me, f um, I'm using the first time out,

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00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:17,920
Speaker 1: Well you only have three. You ran into Baker Mayfield,

738
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Speaker 1: the former Brown's quarterback um recently and I was hoping

739
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,719
Speaker 1: you could share an exchange that you have is after

740
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:27,280
Speaker 1: the field or on the field. After the game against

741
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:29,200
Speaker 1: the Bills this preseason game three, and I walked up

742
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:32,520
Speaker 1: and like, I'm so excited to see you, like go,

743
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:34,360
Speaker 1: you know, I was like, kicks some butt. I didn't

744
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:36,920
Speaker 1: say that word, but you know, kick the butt, kick

745
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 1: no kicks some butt. Especially week one, I like cannot wait.

746
00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 1: And he uses some expletives and I was like, I

747
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:49,440
Speaker 1: just hope you're like I'm gonna bleep them up Browns

748
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:53,359
Speaker 1: week depending on who's listening to this, and it's not

749
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 1: for people like that could be a headline across the

750
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Speaker 1: nation tomorrow because he's not said that publicly. The same

751
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:02,560
Speaker 1: way I'm gonna him up is that what his quote was?

752
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:05,359
Speaker 1: Was that? What the quote was, I don't say curse

753
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,000
Speaker 1: words on air. I don't want to get Was that

754
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:10,919
Speaker 1: the quote? You can confirm it? No, yes, I mean

755
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:22,480
Speaker 1: I don't want signed my new contract yet, so can

756
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:25,319
Speaker 1: we say curse words for Cynthia? Think it's it's you're

757
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:27,840
Speaker 1: all good, you're the one quick question in that situation,

758
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:30,040
Speaker 1: does he turn around and say, like, I really enjoyed

759
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 1: your NFL dot com article from last week. I sat down,

760
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 1: you know, and dug through that. I think it was like, yes,

761
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 1: there's are likely to win point eight games more than

762
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 1: they're over under, so I really agree with you. He's like,

763
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 1: you know, he's like, you know, I really like this.

764
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 1: I would like you to explain wind Share to me.

765
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 1: It was a little bit more in depth. What the

766
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 1: use of a time out there? That that was incredible, Cynthia.

767
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 1: And we'll go to bad for you because I know

768
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 1: you heard bad language there. You didn't say it, but

769
00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:59,840
Speaker 1: you heard it and that puts you in danger. All Right,

770
00:37:59,880 --> 00:38:02,279
Speaker 1: here we go. Let's move on to the Ravens time back,

771
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:04,759
Speaker 1: and all right, I think the Ravens. I think the

772
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:08,920
Speaker 1: Ravens want to be the Ravens again. I think that, um,

773
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:11,760
Speaker 1: that's why they were comfortable trading their number one receiver,

774
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:14,719
Speaker 1: Hollywood Brown. I think that they feel like they could

775
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:17,279
Speaker 1: win by being, you know, more physical than you that

776
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 1: kicking your ass and special teams and then relying on

777
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 1: a quarterback who is a one of one physical talent

778
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:28,239
Speaker 1: in our league. Um, my question is this is more

779
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 1: like a numbers question because I've looked at some of

780
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:33,719
Speaker 1: the stats in his career. Could Lamar Jackson become the

781
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:35,800
Speaker 1: first QB to rush two hundred times in a season?

782
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:42,200
Speaker 1: Is this team gonna be a running, absolute behemoth and

783
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:44,800
Speaker 1: they're gonna try to cap get some of that energy

784
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:47,040
Speaker 1: from the twenty nineteen season when he won m VP.

785
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:49,399
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say no, just because I don't think he's

786
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:52,759
Speaker 1: gonna run more than he did in the past. Now.

787
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:55,360
Speaker 1: Is he gonna get back to that similar life He

788
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:58,279
Speaker 1: never really stopped. He was at one seventy five, And yeah, Like,

789
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Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna shy away from it. They're

790
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:03,560
Speaker 1: going to lean in even more. He he averaged eleven points,

791
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:08,399
Speaker 1: seven decimals uh carries per game. That's MBP season, So

792
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 1: I'm just and he played fifteen games. It actually takes

793
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:12,960
Speaker 1: the right to two? Is that the game plan now there?

794
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:14,920
Speaker 1: They have a lot of running backs, they have a

795
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:16,839
Speaker 1: lot of guys that are coming back from injury, so

796
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 1: that I'm I'm banking that uncertainty in the backfield into

797
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:23,719
Speaker 1: a projection Cynthia of what he could be in there

798
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:26,120
Speaker 1: in there and you can hit the trifecta. I don't

799
00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:27,799
Speaker 1: think j. K. Dobbins is going to get a big

800
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:29,759
Speaker 1: workload out of the gate. That's what they're sort of

801
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:32,080
Speaker 1: suggesting right now. I love that they're getting Ronnie Stanley

802
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 1: back and cut in time for that, so it's set up.

803
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:38,279
Speaker 1: The environment's better and played football a couple of years,

804
00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:40,319
Speaker 1: so well, he's coming back next week and so in

805
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:42,799
Speaker 1: theory like that, he would practice and if he's good,

806
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 1: he's playing. Isaiah likely gives you a more depth at

807
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:49,239
Speaker 1: tight end. Mark Andrews is it is likely. I still

808
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: try not to make those jokes with that us and

809
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:55,799
Speaker 1: what they went through last year. And still won as

810
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:58,279
Speaker 1: many games as they did. Was like an injury apocalypse,

811
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:02,080
Speaker 1: and they survived for much of it. That's the question

812
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:03,920
Speaker 1: for me is though, is whether or not we're going

813
00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 1: to see these injuries keep piling like last year they

814
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:11,160
Speaker 1: had like a disproportion number. I was about to see

815
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Speaker 1: if you could get the the R word in there.

816
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:15,480
Speaker 1: But yeah, so, but when I when I look at

817
00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:17,799
Speaker 1: that and the fact that they've really they took this

818
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:20,680
Speaker 1: like six defensive back strategy from the draft, and you

819
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:23,120
Speaker 1: even saw them roll with it in these preseason games.

820
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:27,080
Speaker 1: A lot more defensive back rotation. Seems like they're really

821
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:29,399
Speaker 1: trying to get that right, which is a really big

822
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:31,319
Speaker 1: key to how you win in a f C because

823
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:33,680
Speaker 1: a lot of these quarterbacks have pretty dramatic splits, Joe

824
00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:36,040
Speaker 1: Burrow being one of them against you know when you

825
00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:39,279
Speaker 1: see single high safety versus to safety shells. So it

826
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:42,560
Speaker 1: feels like they have all the like little inklings they're

827
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 1: like to piece it all together. And the whole Lamar

828
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:48,520
Speaker 1: Jackson contract, whatever the heck that is all about, I

829
00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:53,359
Speaker 1: don't I think he's very incentivized to play just absolutely

830
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:56,080
Speaker 1: like lights out be it that next year he's still

831
00:40:56,239 --> 00:40:58,880
Speaker 1: raven or maybe somewhere else? Did he handle the blitzer

832
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:00,960
Speaker 1: like like was that a one year blip? And do

833
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:03,960
Speaker 1: they have any pass rush behind O like that? Those

834
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 1: are two big questions. All right, that's the we forgot

835
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Speaker 1: the Steelers, babe, did I ye? You're introl for that

836
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 1: kind of like what you did there? You tried? I'm sorry,

837
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Speaker 1: I'll use this gaff to get in there that they

838
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:23,799
Speaker 1: did win their twenty third straight preseason game. All right,

839
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:26,560
Speaker 1: how about the Steelers sent you? Okay? Um? Obviously the

840
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:29,279
Speaker 1: question mark is who's the quarterback? Who's QB one? Are

841
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:31,120
Speaker 1: we gonna see Mr Whisky or you know you? Now

842
00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:32,880
Speaker 1: you're seeing the debate canny pick. It is played well

843
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:34,319
Speaker 1: enough to start this thing, But I don't think he'll

844
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 1: do it. I think like like this is that's all

845
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 1: you hear on repeat? Right? But the exact flow in

846
00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:49,320
Speaker 1: cadence and voices. Yes because a lot of small women Steelers. Yes, goodness,

847
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:53,080
Speaker 1: what are we going to do? Um? Like the the

848
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:56,440
Speaker 1: defense is nasty on this team. Mike Tomlin doesn't lose seasons.

849
00:41:56,719 --> 00:42:00,520
Speaker 1: I'm curious to see how the quarterback situation is because

850
00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:02,920
Speaker 1: with just a little bit more space, a guy like

851
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:07,000
Speaker 1: Naji Harris will even have a more explosive second ses. Obviously,

852
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:10,360
Speaker 1: you know we saw preseason Game one, this giant touchdown.

853
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:12,600
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, the wide receivers blah blah blah buth.

854
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:15,360
Speaker 1: But I actually think that Naji Harris is primed to

855
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:18,360
Speaker 1: have like a very very monstrous In fact, he's like

856
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:20,800
Speaker 1: my number two running back if you're in a PPR

857
00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 1: fantasy league. That's how big of a season if we

858
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:26,759
Speaker 1: want to put in some context, that timely context. So

859
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:29,120
Speaker 1: I think that's interesting. And you know, I think that

860
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:32,359
Speaker 1: t J. Watt doesn't lead the insects this season because

861
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:34,040
Speaker 1: I think it's someone else. I think it's a guy

862
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:36,760
Speaker 1: in the a f C or the NFC West, but um,

863
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:39,560
Speaker 1: because there's so many pieces along that front that could

864
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:41,680
Speaker 1: also get pressure. So it's nothing. It's not a knock

865
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:43,920
Speaker 1: on t J. It's just they're really good all the

866
00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:46,719
Speaker 1: way across that defensive front. So I don't know. I

867
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:48,440
Speaker 1: think I think the Steelers are going to be one

868
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:51,440
Speaker 1: of those sneaky teams that you know, just where they

869
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:53,719
Speaker 1: were last year, like right on knocking on that door,

870
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:56,600
Speaker 1: and depending on what happens with the West, that could

871
00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 1: be that they could, you know, because the West could

872
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 1: beat each other up right and have bad records because

873
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 1: the a f C West is so good this the

874
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:06,759
Speaker 1: Steelers are as close to a playoff team from one

875
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:08,799
Speaker 1: that doesn't have a quarterback as I've maybe ever seen.

876
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:12,040
Speaker 1: Tomlin loves this. I think Tomlin loves this. The line

877
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:14,800
Speaker 1: seems like a huge problem, like it might be worse

878
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 1: than a season ago based on it's one of the

879
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 1: worst lines. Because if you take that, I'm with you

880
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:22,920
Speaker 1: really like their defense, love Tomlin. Think that could be

881
00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:26,520
Speaker 1: a top five or six even and then skill position

882
00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 1: players one through five if you count the three receivers

883
00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:31,960
Speaker 1: Pat Friar Muth and Alja Harris. I mean that is

884
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:34,400
Speaker 1: close to the Bengals to me as one of the

885
00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:37,520
Speaker 1: five best young groups in the league. I look at

886
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:39,920
Speaker 1: their schedule and I think it's bad for Mitch Robinsky,

887
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:42,440
Speaker 1: who has been pretty good this preseason behind that offensive

888
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:44,759
Speaker 1: line which has been a disaster. But there is a

889
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:46,640
Speaker 1: rough out of the gate, and so it's almost like

890
00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:48,239
Speaker 1: I would like to look where you're gonna slot in

891
00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett at some point if he's going to start.

892
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 1: It's it's a outside of like the Jets in week four.

893
00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:55,080
Speaker 1: It's kind of a weird situation for a young first

894
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:58,239
Speaker 1: quarterck but he has looked undeniable, Like if you, if

895
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 1: you are trabisky, you're going to be hearing it from

896
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 1: Steelers fans eight minutes into week one, if front work

897
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:05,880
Speaker 1: week two when they have their home debut, if you

898
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 1: aren't pristine, and he won't be Well, they're nice Midwest

899
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:12,240
Speaker 1: peaves people in Pittsburgh. I think they'll be kind until

900
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:15,719
Speaker 1: it gets untenable. And I think it's a matter of

901
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:20,840
Speaker 1: how in the Midwest. I don't know Pittsburgh's in the Midwest.

902
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:23,600
Speaker 1: I mean this is sort more of a West argument

903
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:29,680
Speaker 1: of Midwest. Yes, Buffalo, Buffalo is more West. You can

904
00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:33,200
Speaker 1: make an argument being it it's not the East coast. No,

905
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:36,880
Speaker 1: we're in this well West said like Nashville was in

906
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:39,440
Speaker 1: the Midwest, which I have never agreed with. I've just

907
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:43,239
Speaker 1: never agreed with. But he was very so um, he

908
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:45,640
Speaker 1: was so short. I'll take the trunks. But like I

909
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:49,239
Speaker 1: wonder how much rope, how much rope Mitch guests have

910
00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:54,399
Speaker 1: some respect. We don't where is Pittsburgh then? Is it's

911
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:56,919
Speaker 1: not the East coast? Now? Well, I mean I don't

912
00:44:56,920 --> 00:45:01,920
Speaker 1: know nost Rush. It's not it's no Northeast or the rest,

913
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:04,200
Speaker 1: but it's definitely not. I mean, I'm Michigan, so I

914
00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:09,880
Speaker 1: feel like at the tabletop. Let's take a break and

915
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:13,520
Speaker 1: then we will move to Grave Diggers Beloved AFC South.

916
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 1: All right, we're back South Nashville not part of the Midwest,

917
00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:28,000
Speaker 1: but the Titans are part of the a C South. Cynthia,

918
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:33,320
Speaker 1: get us going. Okay, Derrick Henry big positive coming back.

919
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:36,160
Speaker 1: Let's just start with the positive. It's big positive. Derrick

920
00:45:36,239 --> 00:45:39,799
Speaker 1: Henry will be back presumably healthy with the from all

921
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:43,080
Speaker 1: signs that we've seen. Okay, great. I don't know what's

922
00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:45,359
Speaker 1: going on with their line. Two starters from that old

923
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:48,879
Speaker 1: line are now bills and that's interesting. Right, So you're

924
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:52,759
Speaker 1: Roger Saffold and quest and Barry are both up in Buffalo.

925
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:59,800
Speaker 1: Big losses. Traylon Burke's drafted No. A. J. Brown. Difficult.

926
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:04,359
Speaker 1: It's going to be a difficult Yeah, huge shoes to fill.

927
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:06,960
Speaker 1: Then you flip it to the other side of the ball.

928
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 1: Confusion is the word that I get coming out of

929
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:14,359
Speaker 1: this team. I'm not sure what I'm going to look at.

930
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:16,520
Speaker 1: They're lucky that they're in the a f C South,

931
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 1: because there's some teams there that are very achievable wins.

932
00:46:21,160 --> 00:46:23,200
Speaker 1: I think that this is the Colts to lose this

933
00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:26,600
Speaker 1: season in terms of winning the division. But I also think,

934
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:28,719
Speaker 1: I mean, the Titans are going to have to surprise me.

935
00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:31,680
Speaker 1: I'm I'm just very confused at the strategy because it

936
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:33,640
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to be like you need to have like

937
00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:37,040
Speaker 1: a really really strong strong defense if you're gonna make

938
00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:40,160
Speaker 1: your running back do all that work right, or you're

939
00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:43,200
Speaker 1: gonna rely on a lot of pieces that are confusing.

940
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 1: And this isn't like anti Ryan Tannehill sentiment, but play

941
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:50,600
Speaker 1: action passes where he has been dominant, and yeah, you've

942
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:52,160
Speaker 1: got Derrick Henry, so that might work, but you need

943
00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:54,320
Speaker 1: someone to pass too. And I don't know if Burkes

944
00:46:54,320 --> 00:46:56,759
Speaker 1: has in college, he didn't run the entire route tree,

945
00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:59,919
Speaker 1: so perhaps that will happen. But it's full speed, full

946
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:02,759
Speaker 1: a route tree with those types of expectations, like that's

947
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:07,960
Speaker 1: not easy. So I'm confused. I it does feel like

948
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:11,919
Speaker 1: could the bubble burst because like what they've been I've

949
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:13,880
Speaker 1: found them to be one of the more interesting teams

950
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:15,800
Speaker 1: to watch in the league. But if you took A. J.

951
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:18,360
Speaker 1: Brown off that roster the last couple of seasons. What

952
00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:20,200
Speaker 1: would they accomplished. I think that would have been It

953
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:22,680
Speaker 1: would have been dangerously less. And they didn't replace him

954
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:25,200
Speaker 1: with anything that's proven. Right now, they deserve some benefit

955
00:47:25,239 --> 00:47:29,320
Speaker 1: of the doubt that just like they figured they figured away.

956
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 1: I think they their defense will kind of go as

957
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 1: their young corners Kevin Bayard, I'll give him right. I

958
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:38,480
Speaker 1: think bro they have a great safety tandem, and then

959
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:41,080
Speaker 1: they have these four cornerbacks, so they've drafted in the

960
00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 1: first two or three rounds. Who are gonna really matter.

961
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:47,959
Speaker 1: Christian Fulton who was last year, Elijah Molden who looks

962
00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:49,960
Speaker 1: like he'll probably be pretty good in the slot. McCreary's

963
00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:53,160
Speaker 1: a rookie, probably gonna start over, Caleb Farley, who's coming

964
00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:55,440
Speaker 1: off an injury. Like if they work, it is confusing,

965
00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:58,880
Speaker 1: but that's what I'm saying. Safeties, safeties in the a

966
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:01,319
Speaker 1: f C to safety set that is that is that

967
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 1: is a formula. That's great, but you have to also

968
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:06,160
Speaker 1: remember that you need a good front for that, and

969
00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:08,160
Speaker 1: they do they do mix up the front and get

970
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:10,279
Speaker 1: that those types of pressure is very variable. Like thing

971
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:12,919
Speaker 1: to do Patriots like thing to do, but I think

972
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:15,719
Speaker 1: it's a confusing team. It doesn't seem to match the strategy.

973
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:17,680
Speaker 1: I'll just say this about Derrick Henry. I hope he

974
00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:20,279
Speaker 1: has a great bounce back season, but they gave him

975
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:23,600
Speaker 1: three nineties seven touches. You know what. We've been saying

976
00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:25,200
Speaker 1: that though, since he came out of Alabama and then

977
00:48:25,239 --> 00:48:27,239
Speaker 1: his foot and he broke down last year? Did they

978
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:30,840
Speaker 1: cook the Golden goose over those a couple of year stretch?

979
00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:35,560
Speaker 1: What is that song at that? What is it? Does

980
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:41,520
Speaker 1: anyone know? Nobody smooth something producer shaking in his head

981
00:48:41,560 --> 00:48:44,120
Speaker 1: and doesn't know also what it is. It's not something

982
00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:49,720
Speaker 1: bad to the greg. My focus here is on their defense.

983
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:55,320
Speaker 1: They lost Fluce, Eber Fluce. You bringing Gus Bradley. Stephan

984
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:57,480
Speaker 1: Gilmour is one of those guys where I'm buying the

985
00:48:57,560 --> 00:49:00,760
Speaker 1: preseason height that he's shutting down every one and everything

986
00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:04,200
Speaker 1: uh in camp. I think if he can be an

987
00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:06,880
Speaker 1: all pro type of player again, and I'm not ruling

988
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:09,000
Speaker 1: that out. He was pretty effective with Carolina. I think

989
00:49:09,160 --> 00:49:11,920
Speaker 1: things fall into place. They have a great slot receiver

990
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:14,880
Speaker 1: in Kenny Moore. I like what they're doing up front

991
00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:18,080
Speaker 1: with Quitty pay and you have Buckner and you haven't

992
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:21,600
Speaker 1: got Way. It's a it's a pretty fun group. Um. Like,

993
00:49:21,719 --> 00:49:25,160
Speaker 1: I think their defense is gonna be the best defense

994
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:27,799
Speaker 1: in that division, and I think they just need to

995
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:30,200
Speaker 1: be better than they've been. And then the offense so

996
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:31,880
Speaker 1: take a little time to get going and I think

997
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:36,520
Speaker 1: they'll be fine. Nine eight, nine and eight. The same

998
00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:38,520
Speaker 1: thing is just this is what the cults, to me

999
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:40,840
Speaker 1: are the cults. It's just like, like I mentioned in

1000
00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:45,040
Speaker 1: our one headline last year, they were like they were

1001
00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:47,200
Speaker 1: a weird nine and eight where they looked like one

1002
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:49,360
Speaker 1: of the best teams in the NFL for stretches and

1003
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:52,560
Speaker 1: a disaster for us. The middle of their schedule, they

1004
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:54,600
Speaker 1: were nine and three. It was just the beginning of

1005
00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:59,200
Speaker 1: the ending that they butchered. I think they're no. I

1006
00:49:58,719 --> 00:50:00,799
Speaker 1: I think that Mike abel is one of the most

1007
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:03,600
Speaker 1: underrated coaches in the entire league, and I do think

1008
00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 1: the Titans will He's never been only winning records for Mikey.

1009
00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:10,920
Speaker 1: I didn't say he was gonna. I think there's an

1010
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:14,080
Speaker 1: assumption that Matt Ryan's going to be brilliant, and I'm not.

1011
00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:18,160
Speaker 1: I don't entirely trust that concept. Either they need that

1012
00:50:18,640 --> 00:50:21,560
Speaker 1: Michael Pittman. We talked about it in the Fantasy Extravaganza.

1013
00:50:21,640 --> 00:50:25,120
Speaker 1: I think Matt Harmon was very high on Pittman becoming,

1014
00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:27,839
Speaker 1: you know, a guy that's in the Superstar Club conversation.

1015
00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:30,120
Speaker 1: Kind of need that to happen. You need Jonathan Taylor

1016
00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:33,200
Speaker 1: obviously to stay healthy. I think Matt Ryan m v

1017
00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:35,520
Speaker 1: P is probably not coming back that guy, but he

1018
00:50:35,719 --> 00:50:38,160
Speaker 1: certainly can be an upgrade on wins. And when you

1019
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:40,839
Speaker 1: look at the collapse of in D season last year,

1020
00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:43,640
Speaker 1: it wasn't just on Carson Wentz. That's the easy way

1021
00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:45,480
Speaker 1: to like kind of pin in on him because he's

1022
00:50:45,520 --> 00:50:48,440
Speaker 1: a target for that stuff. But I think Ryan probably

1023
00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:51,520
Speaker 1: would have been a guy that would have been better

1024
00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:53,560
Speaker 1: chance that they get through those last two weeks without

1025
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:55,759
Speaker 1: a total collapse. If you had someone a little more

1026
00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:58,280
Speaker 1: stable at quarterback every single week that they play, someone

1027
00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:01,080
Speaker 1: who's very generous to opposing tight ends, You're gonna want

1028
00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:03,960
Speaker 1: to consider a Gilanni Woods for your daily fantasy lineup

1029
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:07,640
Speaker 1: because that guy, first of all, you know, huge, he's

1030
00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:10,480
Speaker 1: tight end. He came you know, out in the draft

1031
00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:12,520
Speaker 1: kind of a later round pick, and then they had

1032
00:51:12,520 --> 00:51:15,360
Speaker 1: alcohol try. He got hurt, so now Hill Jolanni Woods

1033
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:18,000
Speaker 1: has some more opportunities and he's just a huge red

1034
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:20,279
Speaker 1: area targ He scored a touchdown against the Bills in

1035
00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:23,080
Speaker 1: their first preseason game, and you saw some good red

1036
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:25,839
Speaker 1: area stuff specifically for Gilanni Woods. So it's a good

1037
00:51:25,880 --> 00:51:28,800
Speaker 1: daily fantasy nugget for your pocket. They had a weird preseason.

1038
00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:30,759
Speaker 1: They were playing Ryan a lot, I think because it

1039
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:33,080
Speaker 1: hasn't been going that well and it didn't go that way.

1040
00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:35,920
Speaker 1: They heard that they were playing him a lot because

1041
00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:39,160
Speaker 1: they had different communication stuff with their oline that they

1042
00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:42,880
Speaker 1: were working at different shack. Leonard might not play for

1043
00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:45,040
Speaker 1: a long time. Julian Blackman was a defensive Rookie of

1044
00:51:45,080 --> 00:51:46,880
Speaker 1: the Year candidate and now coming off of like a

1045
00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:55,480
Speaker 1: huge injury. A lot of questions, great, great, Greg Sailing.

1046
00:51:56,120 --> 00:51:59,440
Speaker 1: I don't know what stay with me, okay, because you

1047
00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:02,000
Speaker 1: just mentioned the Cults are vulnerable and the Titans are

1048
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:05,240
Speaker 1: you know what are the Titans? There's a mystery cynthia

1049
00:52:05,280 --> 00:52:09,480
Speaker 1: at least um. So let's say Davis Mills flashed as

1050
00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:12,160
Speaker 1: a productive NFL quarterback as a rookie. I think that's fair.

1051
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:16,640
Speaker 1: Damian Pierce, everyone's into it. He's emerged as a summer start.

1052
00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:21,200
Speaker 1: Running back Brandon Cooks is really the most consistently productive

1053
00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:25,279
Speaker 1: wide receiver one ish in the sport. Nobody talks about that.

1054
00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:29,240
Speaker 1: The offensive line has some good pieces at the tackle spots,

1055
00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:32,520
Speaker 1: especially with Tonsil and Howard. The defense has some young

1056
00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:36,760
Speaker 1: building blocks um and including a pair of defensive rookie

1057
00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:40,560
Speaker 1: of there candidates and Derek Stingley and Jalen Petre. So

1058
00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:42,800
Speaker 1: here we go playing in a murky a f C

1059
00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:46,360
Speaker 1: South with a fairly soft schedule. I think their nineteenth

1060
00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:48,880
Speaker 1: and strength of schedule. Is it crazy to think that

1061
00:52:48,920 --> 00:52:51,279
Speaker 1: this Lovey Smith led team can hang around in the

1062
00:52:51,320 --> 00:52:55,200
Speaker 1: division after Halloween? And I'm not even saying I believe this,

1063
00:52:55,520 --> 00:52:58,160
Speaker 1: but it doesn't make you think when you think about

1064
00:52:58,200 --> 00:53:01,160
Speaker 1: what the South is about, I can be convinced. Anybody

1065
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:04,080
Speaker 1: want to make the case for the Texans, Well, we've

1066
00:53:04,120 --> 00:53:06,520
Speaker 1: been We've been Texans over four and a half corner,

1067
00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:09,920
Speaker 1: over here over eight and a half, Texas eight and

1068
00:53:09,920 --> 00:53:13,319
Speaker 1: a half corner. It seems a little rich. I think

1069
00:53:13,400 --> 00:53:16,600
Speaker 1: this division, yeah, could everyone could be in it at

1070
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:20,880
Speaker 1: week thirteen, But I think for that, I think the

1071
00:53:21,080 --> 00:53:23,759
Speaker 1: defense could be better than people think. And I think

1072
00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:27,640
Speaker 1: success is just developing these players. If Stingley and Petrie,

1073
00:53:27,960 --> 00:53:30,560
Speaker 1: you got Pep Hamilton trying to, uh, you know, get

1074
00:53:30,600 --> 00:53:34,320
Speaker 1: this offense going, like with Nico Collins and maybe it's Mills,

1075
00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:37,840
Speaker 1: maybe not, but Pierce at running back. If they find

1076
00:53:37,920 --> 00:53:40,520
Speaker 1: four or five six guys that our first second year

1077
00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:42,400
Speaker 1: guys that are guys that they can build around, that

1078
00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:45,200
Speaker 1: success for them. It depends what David Mills is. But

1079
00:53:45,239 --> 00:53:47,120
Speaker 1: I saw a lot from Davis Mills this season ago.

1080
00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:50,279
Speaker 1: And you mentioned Nico Collins, Like, I know Dan's tired

1081
00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:52,359
Speaker 1: of hearing that name too, but like he has been

1082
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:55,160
Speaker 1: getting great reports all camp long. So I think they're

1083
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:58,319
Speaker 1: spicy and I think they're A year ago, they were

1084
00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:01,040
Speaker 1: a hot mess obviously, but they're They're more well built

1085
00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:04,120
Speaker 1: than people realize. I thought this was a landing spot

1086
00:54:04,160 --> 00:54:06,359
Speaker 1: for Jimmy g but I don't know. I just think

1087
00:54:06,360 --> 00:54:08,640
Speaker 1: it's too late in the game for that. But well,

1088
00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:10,400
Speaker 1: they love him, and that's like why why not if

1089
00:54:10,400 --> 00:54:12,560
Speaker 1: you're the Texans find out what he is. It's the

1090
00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:14,799
Speaker 1: same thing from Zach Wilson because you might have a

1091
00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:16,879
Speaker 1: quarterback there, you might well you have to let him

1092
00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:19,360
Speaker 1: play the whole season. I just need a pass rush.

1093
00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:21,960
Speaker 1: I mean, and also but even they have guys they're

1094
00:54:21,960 --> 00:54:24,400
Speaker 1: like green is good there. Jerry Hughes looked, I know

1095
00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:26,879
Speaker 1: as the preseason, but I was like, damn, Jerry Hughes

1096
00:54:26,880 --> 00:54:32,280
Speaker 1: is still good. Maybe, but there's a lot of maybe

1097
00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:43,080
Speaker 1: we'll have a whole swearing party. Um. I just when

1098
00:54:43,080 --> 00:54:45,879
Speaker 1: you when you look at how to generate a pass

1099
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:51,080
Speaker 1: rush and how to stop a you know, a pass,

1100
00:54:51,239 --> 00:54:54,480
Speaker 1: a passing attack. Like Derek Stingley, he was a high

1101
00:54:54,560 --> 00:54:57,520
Speaker 1: draft pick and he's got like this profile because remember

1102
00:54:57,520 --> 00:54:59,440
Speaker 1: he was hurt and then he didn't come back and

1103
00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:02,320
Speaker 1: look like this same kidding college. Is he a hundred

1104
00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:07,000
Speaker 1: percent healthy like we'd like to assume so. But Jerry

1105
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:09,160
Speaker 1: who was not the youngest guy either, Like we don't know.

1106
00:55:09,680 --> 00:55:17,680
Speaker 1: It's a little ASTIXI the Jacksonville Jaguars. It's a little

1107
00:55:17,719 --> 00:55:20,759
Speaker 1: similar to me with the Texans because this division that

1108
00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:22,520
Speaker 1: they're in and I look at them, and you know,

1109
00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:25,200
Speaker 1: the Athletics, this is sort of a Cynthia esque thing.

1110
00:55:25,520 --> 00:55:29,360
Speaker 1: The Athletics. Austin mock ran a regular season simulation of

1111
00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:34,200
Speaker 1: the AOC South A Hunt times. This is not this

1112
00:55:34,280 --> 00:55:37,280
Speaker 1: is a little that you even brought him up. He's competition.

1113
00:55:37,360 --> 00:55:40,400
Speaker 1: I thought you might be friends, are a colleague and

1114
00:55:40,560 --> 00:55:44,839
Speaker 1: I don't even know who quote. I don't know who

1115
00:55:44,880 --> 00:55:47,480
Speaker 1: that man is. But Mark with the I mean to

1116
00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:56,840
Speaker 1: bring another part. I thought it's like industry talk. I

1117
00:55:56,880 --> 00:55:59,000
Speaker 1: don't believe I did. But anyways, he ran this um

1118
00:55:59,080 --> 00:56:02,759
Speaker 1: AC South mock when a hundred thousand times and they have.

1119
00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:09,359
Speaker 1: But they have the eight point three chance to make

1120
00:56:09,360 --> 00:56:11,600
Speaker 1: the playoffs, which is one of the lowest in the league. Obviously,

1121
00:56:11,600 --> 00:56:13,719
Speaker 1: and it feels right to me. But I don't know

1122
00:56:13,719 --> 00:56:15,799
Speaker 1: why this can't be one of the better stories in

1123
00:56:15,840 --> 00:56:18,880
Speaker 1: the a f C in general, because urban Meyer's exodus

1124
00:56:18,920 --> 00:56:22,160
Speaker 1: is the biggest addition by subtraction in the NFL. I

1125
00:56:22,160 --> 00:56:24,680
Speaker 1: think Doug Peterson is is a little underrated for what

1126
00:56:24,719 --> 00:56:26,600
Speaker 1: he can do with an offense like this, this kind

1127
00:56:26,600 --> 00:56:28,960
Speaker 1: of a team. And I think Trevor Lawrence and Travis E.

1128
00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:31,120
Speaker 1: T n are like two of the biggest second year

1129
00:56:31,200 --> 00:56:34,439
Speaker 1: leap candidates out there. Trayvon Walker looks like he's for real.

1130
00:56:34,760 --> 00:56:36,799
Speaker 1: I don't really see a number one wide receiver on

1131
00:56:36,840 --> 00:56:39,800
Speaker 1: this roster, but would it be crazy not? Unlike the Texans,

1132
00:56:39,880 --> 00:56:42,840
Speaker 1: Let's say they flipped existences with your Texans Dan and

1133
00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:45,160
Speaker 1: went nine and eight. I don't think that's so insane

1134
00:56:46,080 --> 00:56:48,680
Speaker 1: in this division, it's not that crazy. I still think

1135
00:56:48,719 --> 00:56:51,680
Speaker 1: they're similar to the Texans, where just like if the

1136
00:56:51,760 --> 00:56:55,360
Speaker 1: young Bucks, uh, you know, come up, only it's a

1137
00:56:55,400 --> 00:57:00,000
Speaker 1: successful season. You mentioned a few of the them, Andre said,

1138
00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:01,879
Speaker 1: goes another one I would throw out there, Devin Lloyd,

1139
00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:05,200
Speaker 1: the rookie running back, Tyson I mean a linebacker, Tyson Campbell. There,

1140
00:57:05,480 --> 00:57:07,279
Speaker 1: their cornerback who they're really high, and they have a

1141
00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:10,080
Speaker 1: rookie starting center. If out of this big group of players,

1142
00:57:10,080 --> 00:57:12,200
Speaker 1: they're not all gonna hit, but they find five or

1143
00:57:12,239 --> 00:57:15,120
Speaker 1: six and that Lawrence is the dude, then it's a

1144
00:57:15,200 --> 00:57:18,880
Speaker 1: very successful season, I think so. I think they are

1145
00:57:18,920 --> 00:57:21,720
Speaker 1: well set up too there. I mean, listen, where's the

1146
00:57:21,720 --> 00:57:24,400
Speaker 1: bar three and fourteen last year? Back to back number

1147
00:57:24,400 --> 00:57:26,640
Speaker 1: one one overall picks. If I'm telling you that, I

1148
00:57:26,640 --> 00:57:29,000
Speaker 1: at least think that the Texans are a team that

1149
00:57:29,080 --> 00:57:31,080
Speaker 1: could win some close games and all of a sudden

1150
00:57:31,160 --> 00:57:35,160
Speaker 1: be hanging around. I think the Jaguars could too. There there,

1151
00:57:35,920 --> 00:57:37,960
Speaker 1: they have more talent, or more talent you can be

1152
00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:40,200
Speaker 1: excited about long term than the Texans. They have more

1153
00:57:40,240 --> 00:57:43,600
Speaker 1: talent than the Falcons. They have more talent than the Giants.

1154
00:57:43,640 --> 00:57:46,400
Speaker 1: They have more talent than a lot. I could name

1155
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:48,280
Speaker 1: six or seven teams and you couldn't do that the

1156
00:57:48,360 --> 00:57:50,760
Speaker 1: last few years. Like they shouldn't be a three win

1157
00:57:50,800 --> 00:57:52,960
Speaker 1: team anymore. It's like a spicy Coach of the Year

1158
00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:56,320
Speaker 1: scenario if Peterson ever did that. Now they could to

1159
00:57:56,360 --> 00:57:59,040
Speaker 1: give it the people because they be giving it to

1160
00:57:59,280 --> 00:58:01,520
Speaker 1: the Alaska while giving it to Doug, which is nice.

1161
00:58:01,560 --> 00:58:03,440
Speaker 1: They can also go four and thirteen, so it's like

1162
00:58:03,520 --> 00:58:07,280
Speaker 1: there's that reality exists. Not again. They shouldn't be pick

1163
00:58:07,560 --> 00:58:09,960
Speaker 1: the have the first pick years in a row. That

1164
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:12,560
Speaker 1: should we should make a new NFL rule. In fact,

1165
00:58:12,600 --> 00:58:15,600
Speaker 1: you should lose your first round pick if you get

1166
00:58:15,640 --> 00:58:19,320
Speaker 1: the first round pick a thirty years, which they're not doing.

1167
00:58:21,560 --> 00:58:23,560
Speaker 1: All right, let's move to the a f C West.

1168
00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:31,439
Speaker 1: Dan will start with the Chiefs. That's me uh much

1169
00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:37,480
Speaker 1: of this year's camp um has been It's changing very subtly.

1170
00:58:37,600 --> 00:58:40,400
Speaker 1: I feel like the Chiefs are quietly rebooting the machine

1171
00:58:41,040 --> 00:58:43,360
Speaker 1: um and Tyreek Hill leaving was a big part of

1172
00:58:43,360 --> 00:58:47,680
Speaker 1: that um. But I'm curious how much we will recognize

1173
00:58:47,720 --> 00:58:51,120
Speaker 1: the team the Chiefs when they take the field in

1174
00:58:51,240 --> 00:58:54,520
Speaker 1: Week one. Um, you wonder is this a team that

1175
00:58:54,680 --> 00:58:58,120
Speaker 1: could still win shootouts? Most likely? I mean, still it's

1176
00:58:58,160 --> 00:59:01,160
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelsey and Andy Reid running the show?

1177
00:59:01,560 --> 00:59:03,920
Speaker 1: Is this a team that could get to the quarterback? Well,

1178
00:59:03,960 --> 00:59:08,440
Speaker 1: we're hearing some good things about Frank Clark and George

1179
00:59:08,520 --> 00:59:11,920
Speaker 1: carloftis like, Okay, when Honey Badger left, what did he

1180
00:59:11,960 --> 00:59:14,480
Speaker 1: take with him? I mean, it's not Honey Badger. White

1181
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:16,840
Speaker 1: people love us so as it's it's his physical ability,

1182
00:59:16,880 --> 00:59:18,960
Speaker 1: but his leadership that all goes out the door. Who

1183
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:22,960
Speaker 1: are the Chiefs? How good we feel about him? Who

1184
00:59:22,960 --> 00:59:25,280
Speaker 1: are they? Said? They? Who are the Chiefs this year?

1185
00:59:25,320 --> 00:59:27,240
Speaker 1: They're the same as the Chiefs that we've come to own.

1186
00:59:27,520 --> 00:59:29,320
Speaker 1: Or is this going to feel like a different team now?

1187
00:59:29,680 --> 00:59:32,400
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna look, at least on offense a

1188
00:59:32,480 --> 00:59:35,000
Speaker 1: little bit different. I mean, no, Tyreek Hill means a

1189
00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:38,160
Speaker 1: lot of different opportunities for new wide receivers to really

1190
00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:40,200
Speaker 1: step in there. But Travis Kelsey is still there, so

1191
00:59:40,560 --> 00:59:42,880
Speaker 1: I think that they'll actually be okay. Not to them,

1192
00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:45,280
Speaker 1: it's not one of those like one addition by subtractions

1193
00:59:45,400 --> 00:59:48,280
Speaker 1: things necessarily, But I do think Andy Reid deserves a

1194
00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:50,000
Speaker 1: beoutefit of the doubt for being able to craft an

1195
00:59:50,080 --> 00:59:54,800
Speaker 1: offense with different weapons that looks dissimilar but leverage all

1196
00:59:54,840 --> 00:59:57,880
Speaker 1: the strength of Patrick Mahomes. The secondary will be interesting.

1197
00:59:57,920 --> 01:00:00,880
Speaker 1: There were some surprise pieces on that. You know, I'm

1198
01:00:01,040 --> 01:00:03,760
Speaker 1: excited to see what mc jaffee brings to the corner

1199
01:00:03,800 --> 01:00:06,400
Speaker 1: position because it might be starting two rookies week one.

1200
01:00:06,440 --> 01:00:10,440
Speaker 1: With that, Josh Williams could be a could be an

1201
01:00:10,480 --> 01:00:12,760
Speaker 1: issue that could be as a f C U West,

1202
01:00:12,760 --> 01:00:15,120
Speaker 1: I think stopping a pass is going to be It's

1203
01:00:15,120 --> 01:00:17,960
Speaker 1: the most key of of any division they do have,

1204
01:00:18,120 --> 01:00:20,960
Speaker 1: like a next gen Chiefs feel that things are changing.

1205
01:00:20,960 --> 01:00:22,480
Speaker 1: I think you're right, but I think that's for the

1206
01:00:22,520 --> 01:00:25,240
Speaker 1: most part a good thing. It's you know, they've been arrested,

1207
01:00:25,840 --> 01:00:28,080
Speaker 1: but also they have some fun young players like Nick Bolton.

1208
01:00:28,080 --> 01:00:30,840
Speaker 1: They've been looking for an off ball linebacker forever. Looks

1209
01:00:30,880 --> 01:00:33,360
Speaker 1: like to me the truth if we'll see about these

1210
01:00:33,440 --> 01:00:35,439
Speaker 1: rookie corners. You're right, but they've done a good job

1211
01:00:35,480 --> 01:00:39,480
Speaker 1: coaching up um those guys, and I think they've spent

1212
01:00:39,520 --> 01:00:42,800
Speaker 1: a whole year having to go against these defenses that

1213
01:00:42,800 --> 01:00:45,920
Speaker 1: we're making. The Chiefs moved down the field, and this year,

1214
01:00:45,960 --> 01:00:47,840
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna want to be a little more powerful,

1215
01:00:48,120 --> 01:00:50,600
Speaker 1: and they have I think answers for for that approach.

1216
01:00:50,680 --> 01:00:52,480
Speaker 1: And we saw them running like I sets and like

1217
01:00:52,520 --> 01:00:55,040
Speaker 1: there's a lot of projection. They're my biggest wait and

1218
01:00:55,120 --> 01:00:57,480
Speaker 1: see team. But I also have the most trust and

1219
01:00:57,480 --> 01:01:00,320
Speaker 1: Andy Reid almost anyone in the league to have already

1220
01:01:00,360 --> 01:01:01,920
Speaker 1: have answers that we don't even know about, that we

1221
01:01:01,960 --> 01:01:04,320
Speaker 1: haven't even seen. But you are like, you need sky

1222
01:01:04,400 --> 01:01:07,880
Speaker 1: more to be a success. You need Marcus Valdes Scantling

1223
01:01:08,080 --> 01:01:09,800
Speaker 1: to be more than he's been, and we need Juju

1224
01:01:09,880 --> 01:01:12,120
Speaker 1: to be more than Juju has been in a bad situation.

1225
01:01:13,440 --> 01:01:15,120
Speaker 1: By the way, you said, where do we put him?

1226
01:01:15,160 --> 01:01:17,920
Speaker 1: I put them in the top four, you know, one A,

1227
01:01:18,080 --> 01:01:19,280
Speaker 1: one B, with the Bills in the A f C

1228
01:01:19,440 --> 01:01:21,480
Speaker 1: and the top like three or four teams in the NFL.

1229
01:01:21,520 --> 01:01:24,280
Speaker 1: Still and their backfield, what do you think about their backfield.

1230
01:01:24,360 --> 01:01:26,320
Speaker 1: I'm a little surprised that it seems like Clyde Edwards

1231
01:01:26,360 --> 01:01:29,880
Speaker 1: Hilaire now is the guy again, there's one the guy.

1232
01:01:29,960 --> 01:01:33,439
Speaker 1: I think their OH line is going to be much

1233
01:01:33,560 --> 01:01:36,480
Speaker 1: like another year playing together. It's a big deal on paper,

1234
01:01:36,480 --> 01:01:44,400
Speaker 1: it looks great. How about the Raiders, Cynthia, Okay, look,

1235
01:01:44,480 --> 01:01:48,560
Speaker 1: Raiders have really improved their team. Obviously, Davonte Adams is

1236
01:01:48,600 --> 01:01:52,440
Speaker 1: a huge edition. Obviously their defensive frond Chandler Jones will

1237
01:01:52,480 --> 01:01:55,280
Speaker 1: be very helpful. They already brought the most pressure according

1238
01:01:55,280 --> 01:01:57,760
Speaker 1: to Next Gen Stats as a team last season, with

1239
01:01:57,840 --> 01:02:00,480
Speaker 1: Max Crosby being the number one guy in terms of

1240
01:02:00,480 --> 01:02:04,280
Speaker 1: generating his own pressure. So that's great. The question marks

1241
01:02:04,320 --> 01:02:09,240
Speaker 1: on this team interior offensive line? What is going on there?

1242
01:02:09,360 --> 01:02:13,040
Speaker 1: I do not even understand how in right tackle maybe

1243
01:02:13,120 --> 01:02:16,760
Speaker 1: two it's basically everything but left tackle right that's a

1244
01:02:16,800 --> 01:02:21,000
Speaker 1: big problem. You know, you release a guy who are

1245
01:02:21,080 --> 01:02:24,440
Speaker 1: running back who Kenyan Drake that like didn't seem to

1246
01:02:24,440 --> 01:02:27,840
Speaker 1: be It was a surprise release to most at least

1247
01:02:27,840 --> 01:02:32,680
Speaker 1: to most of us. Their secondary is confusing as well.

1248
01:02:32,760 --> 01:02:34,840
Speaker 1: It does seem like they're doing the thing that coaches

1249
01:02:34,840 --> 01:02:37,240
Speaker 1: should do and new GM should do, which is it

1250
01:02:37,280 --> 01:02:39,840
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if you're a high draft pick, We're going

1251
01:02:39,880 --> 01:02:42,640
Speaker 1: to get rid of you if you're not performing. And

1252
01:02:42,720 --> 01:02:46,360
Speaker 1: Cleveland fur All, I mean up front, he also could

1253
01:02:46,440 --> 01:02:48,880
Speaker 1: not even who knows what's going on with that? So

1254
01:02:49,280 --> 01:02:51,200
Speaker 1: it does feel like they're doing like the kind of

1255
01:02:51,240 --> 01:02:54,120
Speaker 1: necessary like trimming and getting rid of the things that

1256
01:02:54,160 --> 01:02:56,960
Speaker 1: didn't work from the previous regime. I don't think that

1257
01:02:57,080 --> 01:03:00,240
Speaker 1: nets them in wins this season, because let's be on us,

1258
01:03:00,240 --> 01:03:02,720
Speaker 1: their schedule is a nightmare. In the middle of their season,

1259
01:03:02,760 --> 01:03:04,840
Speaker 1: They've got like a month where they have only one

1260
01:03:04,880 --> 01:03:07,560
Speaker 1: home game and it's just just a nightmare. And they're

1261
01:03:07,560 --> 01:03:10,520
Speaker 1: already in the most difficult division. So while they're much improved,

1262
01:03:10,800 --> 01:03:13,680
Speaker 1: I still think that there's a decent way for them

1263
01:03:13,720 --> 01:03:17,120
Speaker 1: to go. And I you know, I think that it

1264
01:03:17,160 --> 01:03:20,000
Speaker 1: will be a really interesting test Week one here at

1265
01:03:20,040 --> 01:03:23,840
Speaker 1: so far against the Chargers to see how those pieces

1266
01:03:23,840 --> 01:03:26,360
Speaker 1: compared to what the Chargers off season moves looks when

1267
01:03:26,400 --> 01:03:28,640
Speaker 1: everyone's healthy, because we know, like the Charges problem is

1268
01:03:28,640 --> 01:03:30,920
Speaker 1: that they just can't say healthy. So Week one, when

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Speaker 1: everyone's healthy, you're gonna see the difference. I think we'll

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Speaker 1: see those differences being pretty pronounced. I love that Dave

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01:03:36,880 --> 01:03:39,600
Speaker 1: Ziegler went out and got Davante Adams, so they made

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Speaker 1: that happen. He's added talent. But it's one of the

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01:03:41,840 --> 01:03:44,800
Speaker 1: more striking examples of a coach and GM looking at

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01:03:44,800 --> 01:03:48,440
Speaker 1: the roster they inherited and what Mike Mayock did previously insane.

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01:03:48,720 --> 01:03:51,560
Speaker 1: We utterly reject most of this, Like Alex Leatherwood is

1276
01:03:51,560 --> 01:03:53,840
Speaker 1: the subject of trade talks right now. I mean their

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Speaker 1: offensive line for him or just I mean, I mean,

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01:03:57,280 --> 01:04:00,560
Speaker 1: I'm not saying, but I think they just want him

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Speaker 1: off the row. There's like they just want some of

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Speaker 1: these guys off the roster. And so it's a year

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01:04:04,680 --> 01:04:06,920
Speaker 1: where like will it be as good as a story

1282
01:04:06,960 --> 01:04:09,000
Speaker 1: as last year? I think I see a decline and

1283
01:04:09,040 --> 01:04:12,600
Speaker 1: wins on some level because of the division, thereto ever

1284
01:04:12,720 --> 01:04:15,800
Speaker 1: reacting to the Raiders like handing the Patriots their lunch

1285
01:04:15,800 --> 01:04:19,600
Speaker 1: and joint practices pre possibly, but I do think like

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01:04:20,680 --> 01:04:23,760
Speaker 1: I think mc daniels long term, but even this year too,

1287
01:04:24,120 --> 01:04:25,880
Speaker 1: like he has more of the staff that I think

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01:04:25,880 --> 01:04:29,080
Speaker 1: Belichick would want, like Mick Lombardi as his including him

1289
01:04:29,280 --> 01:04:32,480
Speaker 1: the offensive line coach who who was the handpicked successor

1290
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Speaker 1: to Scarnecki, Patrick Graham, who comes from his tree, and

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01:04:35,560 --> 01:04:39,080
Speaker 1: I think it's a really good defensive Patrick. I think

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Speaker 1: they'll be okay. I like, I like, what's okay? What's okay?

1293
01:04:43,000 --> 01:04:45,400
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't like people saying they're not a

1294
01:04:45,400 --> 01:04:50,920
Speaker 1: good team. They're good team, but like, well, we've all

1295
01:04:50,960 --> 01:04:55,720
Speaker 1: been I'm calling time out. We use our second time out. Um,

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01:04:55,800 --> 01:04:58,960
Speaker 1: you talked about last week, we got into it about

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01:04:59,360 --> 01:05:02,680
Speaker 1: what is a you know, a top all time bust

1298
01:05:02,720 --> 01:05:06,840
Speaker 1: in the draft and the Leatherwood situation is not applicable,

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01:05:06,840 --> 01:05:08,960
Speaker 1: I think because it was everyone was kind of like

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01:05:09,040 --> 01:05:11,560
Speaker 1: huh when it happened, and that was it spoke to

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01:05:11,600 --> 01:05:14,200
Speaker 1: some of the ills of the Grooten Mayak regime. You

1302
01:05:14,240 --> 01:05:16,440
Speaker 1: could say, um, did you guys happen to hear? And

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01:05:16,480 --> 01:05:19,520
Speaker 1: this isn't piling on Alex Leatherwood, but he is a

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01:05:19,600 --> 01:05:22,240
Speaker 1: public player and he's a first round pick. This was

1305
01:05:22,280 --> 01:05:27,720
Speaker 1: Matt Millen, who's on the telecast for the Raiders. That's

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01:05:27,720 --> 01:05:30,280
Speaker 1: a Lions van Cynthia Freeland speaking on the former Lions

1307
01:05:30,360 --> 01:05:36,880
Speaker 1: GM after a particularly gnarly pancake where Leatherwood ended up

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01:05:36,880 --> 01:05:41,920
Speaker 1: on his back trying to the right side. There Leatherwood

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01:05:41,920 --> 01:05:49,880
Speaker 1: gets Leatherwood's not good, so Millan okay, talent evaluator as

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Speaker 1: a GM maybe, but this guy is also, you know,

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01:05:52,120 --> 01:05:54,760
Speaker 1: one of the great players of his era, and I

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01:05:54,840 --> 01:05:57,600
Speaker 1: just it's just crazy to me. Would it be insane

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01:05:57,600 --> 01:05:59,840
Speaker 1: if Alex Leatherwood doesn't make this team was he had

1314
01:06:00,800 --> 01:06:03,360
Speaker 1: first round pick? That doesn't happen to us? Is he go?

1315
01:06:03,560 --> 01:06:06,160
Speaker 1: Is he out of the league? Like is he play again?

1316
01:06:06,480 --> 01:06:09,200
Speaker 1: Because he's had such a bad summer that you wonder

1317
01:06:09,240 --> 01:06:11,320
Speaker 1: if he doesn't make the cut or he gets maybe,

1318
01:06:13,120 --> 01:06:15,640
Speaker 1: but you're right, team, I think they can fix him

1319
01:06:15,640 --> 01:06:18,000
Speaker 1: in the and I think first round pedigree gets you

1320
01:06:18,320 --> 01:06:20,760
Speaker 1: a lot of rope in the NFL for a second chance.

1321
01:06:20,800 --> 01:06:22,360
Speaker 1: First of all, I mean, did anyone else see that

1322
01:06:22,360 --> 01:06:25,640
Speaker 1: guy as a first rounder last April? But we're talking

1323
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Speaker 1: about Greig slaying like a seventh round conditional. That's that

1324
01:06:28,640 --> 01:06:32,160
Speaker 1: that's maybe worth It's someone when it when a right

1325
01:06:32,200 --> 01:06:34,280
Speaker 1: tackle or a left tackle goes down and somewhere on,

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01:06:35,840 --> 01:06:39,640
Speaker 1: I just think Matt Millan like, come on, like thyself.

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Speaker 1: He's a good broadcaster's a great broadcaster, but he maybe

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01:06:42,760 --> 01:06:44,959
Speaker 1: he could just be like, that's a pick I would

1329
01:06:44,960 --> 01:06:50,800
Speaker 1: have made, you know, like come on, just own it

1330
01:06:50,960 --> 01:06:53,080
Speaker 1: then that you know, if you're a really great broadcaster.

1331
01:06:53,280 --> 01:06:54,480
Speaker 1: He would have that's what he would have said. He

1332
01:06:54,480 --> 01:06:56,760
Speaker 1: would have been like, listen, guys, it was a terrible

1333
01:06:56,920 --> 01:06:59,880
Speaker 1: talent evaluator and that's who I would have picked. Well,

1334
01:07:00,160 --> 01:07:02,480
Speaker 1: that's that requires a sense of humor about yourself that

1335
01:07:02,560 --> 01:07:06,240
Speaker 1: not all football guys have. But let's move on time

1336
01:07:06,280 --> 01:07:10,640
Speaker 1: back in Chargers Mark. We just thought the Raiders they

1337
01:07:10,680 --> 01:07:12,640
Speaker 1: were in their first year, but like the Charges were

1338
01:07:12,640 --> 01:07:15,160
Speaker 1: in year two of of building the roster. And I

1339
01:07:15,640 --> 01:07:18,240
Speaker 1: don't know if many teams had a bigger off season

1340
01:07:18,280 --> 01:07:21,120
Speaker 1: in terms of getting closer to what Brandon Staley wants.

1341
01:07:21,400 --> 01:07:23,680
Speaker 1: Because you got Khalil Mack, you got J C. Jackson,

1342
01:07:23,840 --> 01:07:29,120
Speaker 1: Sebastian Joseph Day, Austin Johnson, Troy Reader, you resigned Mike Williams.

1343
01:07:29,520 --> 01:07:32,439
Speaker 1: I'm looking at this. Rashaun Slater was an absolute hit

1344
01:07:32,560 --> 01:07:35,360
Speaker 1: last year. They keep hitting on draft picks. Corey Lindsley's

1345
01:07:35,400 --> 01:07:37,040
Speaker 1: better at center. The line was an issue for the

1346
01:07:37,120 --> 01:07:39,080
Speaker 1: end of the Philip Rivers time in year one of

1347
01:07:39,320 --> 01:07:42,000
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert Zion Johnson has had a great camp. Like

1348
01:07:42,200 --> 01:07:44,600
Speaker 1: I look at this, it's a two part question. Is

1349
01:07:44,640 --> 01:07:46,560
Speaker 1: this the best roster in the a f C West

1350
01:07:46,960 --> 01:07:48,760
Speaker 1: and do you trust? And this is probably more for

1351
01:07:48,840 --> 01:07:52,160
Speaker 1: Dann anyone else Brandon Staley to stir the soup into

1352
01:07:52,200 --> 01:07:54,200
Speaker 1: a playoff brew. I don't know. I think I feel like,

1353
01:07:54,240 --> 01:07:56,320
Speaker 1: first of all, they also have Michael Jordan's on their roster.

1354
01:07:56,640 --> 01:07:58,800
Speaker 1: You have to make sure. I love Justin Herbert. I

1355
01:07:58,800 --> 01:08:01,160
Speaker 1: think he's gonna be one of the best ever. For

1356
01:08:01,200 --> 01:08:03,840
Speaker 1: some reason, I your take on the Cults or you

1357
01:08:04,000 --> 01:08:05,920
Speaker 1: just go nine and eight like. That's kind of how

1358
01:08:05,920 --> 01:08:08,680
Speaker 1: I feel about the Chargers until they prove otherwise, because

1359
01:08:08,680 --> 01:08:12,000
Speaker 1: everything you're saying makes sense, Like the rosters loaded. The

1360
01:08:12,080 --> 01:08:14,560
Speaker 1: quarterback is all pro. He could be an m v

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01:08:14,600 --> 01:08:18,360
Speaker 1: P at any time now. He's that good. Uh, both

1362
01:08:18,400 --> 01:08:22,920
Speaker 1: sides of the balls, star stars everywhere is a Staley

1363
01:08:23,200 --> 01:08:25,160
Speaker 1: difference maker. I don't know if he just if he

1364
01:08:25,200 --> 01:08:27,200
Speaker 1: doesn't get in the way, they should win ten or

1365
01:08:27,240 --> 01:08:29,880
Speaker 1: eleven games or even twelve. But until I see it,

1366
01:08:29,920 --> 01:08:32,760
Speaker 1: I just assume whether it's going to be injuries or

1367
01:08:33,000 --> 01:08:35,519
Speaker 1: blowing a couple of games that he should win. To

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01:08:35,680 --> 01:08:38,400
Speaker 1: go full Chargers to charger it up, I need to

1369
01:08:38,439 --> 01:08:41,640
Speaker 1: see those demons exercised. Also, you know you're playing a

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Speaker 1: road game at home half the time at the least,

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Speaker 1: which is legitimate competitive. I think they're used to it

1372
01:08:46,840 --> 01:08:50,720
Speaker 1: by now. Competitive disadvantage they addressed with to me was

1373
01:08:50,800 --> 01:08:54,439
Speaker 1: like the Charger problems over the last handful of years.

1374
01:08:54,479 --> 01:08:56,760
Speaker 1: The offensive line, now, I think is an asset. I

1375
01:08:57,000 --> 01:08:59,800
Speaker 1: think they're gonna be good, which is crazy to say.

1376
01:09:00,200 --> 01:09:03,200
Speaker 1: And they've always missed that second pass rusher with both

1377
01:09:03,240 --> 01:09:05,719
Speaker 1: of the reports on Mac right now, and he hasn't

1378
01:09:05,720 --> 01:09:08,000
Speaker 1: been himself really the last couple of years are great,

1379
01:09:08,080 --> 01:09:11,519
Speaker 1: he's healthy. Staley has to show that he can now

1380
01:09:11,560 --> 01:09:13,719
Speaker 1: in year two with all of his guys in plenty

1381
01:09:13,760 --> 01:09:17,080
Speaker 1: of talent, like provide a schematic advantage because he didn't

1382
01:09:17,080 --> 01:09:20,480
Speaker 1: a year ago. It didn't quite follows completely different than basketball,

1383
01:09:23,040 --> 01:09:27,679
Speaker 1: not a real time comment, but it still applies, uh

1384
01:09:27,720 --> 01:09:30,960
Speaker 1: anything else on the Chargers. I think the last thing

1385
01:09:31,040 --> 01:09:33,920
Speaker 1: I'll add, I feel like you know, Derwin James seems

1386
01:09:33,920 --> 01:09:36,639
Speaker 1: to be like the Bell Weather for their for their

1387
01:09:36,680 --> 01:09:39,599
Speaker 1: season because when he gets hurt, so too do they

1388
01:09:39,680 --> 01:09:42,360
Speaker 1: kind of go down the drain and Derwin's great, but

1389
01:09:42,400 --> 01:09:44,479
Speaker 1: if he's not full Drwin. I mean, I understand there's

1390
01:09:44,479 --> 01:09:45,720
Speaker 1: a lot of other players on the field too, but

1391
01:09:45,760 --> 01:09:47,639
Speaker 1: it just it seems like a like a good foil

1392
01:09:47,760 --> 01:09:51,360
Speaker 1: for what's going on their secondaries insane like it should.

1393
01:09:51,479 --> 01:09:54,519
Speaker 1: J C. Jackson, Samuel like they love na see her

1394
01:09:54,560 --> 01:09:57,120
Speaker 1: at early. Like I asked me with the sticks, who

1395
01:09:57,160 --> 01:09:59,160
Speaker 1: would be his making the leap candidate from that team,

1396
01:09:59,160 --> 01:10:01,519
Speaker 1: and he thought na see her, Natalie, the safety next

1397
01:10:01,560 --> 01:10:04,720
Speaker 1: to James, just saying, but if he goes the way

1398
01:10:04,720 --> 01:10:08,800
Speaker 1: of their team, go the way of whatever him. By

1399
01:10:08,800 --> 01:10:11,360
Speaker 1: the way, Jeremiah is a podcast. You should check it out.

1400
01:10:11,560 --> 01:10:14,519
Speaker 1: Who's starting it out, Daniel Jeremiah. Well, good luck on

1401
01:10:14,560 --> 01:10:16,920
Speaker 1: that project. It's we should have gotten Tom Talesco's in

1402
01:10:17,200 --> 01:10:19,320
Speaker 1: because he's he's been picking, making great picks, so we

1403
01:10:19,320 --> 01:10:21,200
Speaker 1: should Tom Talesco really to the nice job with that

1404
01:10:21,280 --> 01:10:26,000
Speaker 1: job with that GM, Okay, I'll take it. Close it out.

1405
01:10:26,120 --> 01:10:28,880
Speaker 1: The final team in the FC, the Denver Broncos, Greg,

1406
01:10:29,439 --> 01:10:32,280
Speaker 1: I just want to know, like, what does this offense

1407
01:10:32,680 --> 01:10:35,479
Speaker 1: look like? Does it look like the Russell Wilson offense,

1408
01:10:36,400 --> 01:10:40,080
Speaker 1: which was what every offense in Seattle ended up looking

1409
01:10:40,120 --> 01:10:42,600
Speaker 1: like eventually, no matter how many different offensive coordinates. And

1410
01:10:42,600 --> 01:10:44,439
Speaker 1: that's not a bad thing. He was great at it.

1411
01:10:44,640 --> 01:10:49,479
Speaker 1: Broncos country Let's riot, but they always like these guys.

1412
01:10:51,240 --> 01:10:53,599
Speaker 1: Does it look like what you would expect from Nathaniel Hackett,

1413
01:10:53,640 --> 01:10:58,800
Speaker 1: like r P O s um pre snap motion. I

1414
01:10:58,840 --> 01:11:01,160
Speaker 1: don't know, like I'm cure us like how that fits

1415
01:11:01,160 --> 01:11:03,160
Speaker 1: and how long it takes for those two guys to

1416
01:11:03,240 --> 01:11:07,120
Speaker 1: kind of get what's the optimal way to run this offense,

1417
01:11:07,160 --> 01:11:09,080
Speaker 1: because I don't know because their offensive line on paper

1418
01:11:09,160 --> 01:11:11,439
Speaker 1: is not particularly good. It's not that much better than

1419
01:11:11,479 --> 01:11:13,599
Speaker 1: any of those seas well. Does he get the Peyton

1420
01:11:13,600 --> 01:11:16,640
Speaker 1: Manning treatment where it just became Peyton Manning's offense. I

1421
01:11:16,680 --> 01:11:18,400
Speaker 1: don't think so. It's be a mesh of both. Because

1422
01:11:18,400 --> 01:11:21,800
Speaker 1: you hired Nathaniel Hackett for his offense, I would I

1423
01:11:21,800 --> 01:11:24,320
Speaker 1: would presume, versus just molding it around Russell. But they

1424
01:11:24,320 --> 01:11:25,720
Speaker 1: did say didn't want it. They wanted him in the

1425
01:11:25,760 --> 01:11:28,400
Speaker 1: pocket more than in year's past. There's been reports that

1426
01:11:28,439 --> 01:11:30,400
Speaker 1: that's sort of what it will be. Asking is are

1427
01:11:30,400 --> 01:11:32,920
Speaker 1: they going to let Russ cook? Because that honestly like

1428
01:11:32,960 --> 01:11:36,080
Speaker 1: not no, It's more like, is it just gonna be

1429
01:11:36,120 --> 01:11:39,240
Speaker 1: like he doesn't really throw over the middle, he's gonna

1430
01:11:39,280 --> 01:11:42,040
Speaker 1: hold onto the ball for a long time. He's really

1431
01:11:42,040 --> 01:11:45,360
Speaker 1: gonna win on the outsides. Like it's not gonna be

1432
01:11:45,400 --> 01:11:47,200
Speaker 1: a lot of quick throws because he's not like the

1433
01:11:47,240 --> 01:11:49,280
Speaker 1: rest of the NFL, and what Hackett likes to run.

1434
01:11:49,920 --> 01:11:51,880
Speaker 1: It's quick throws, quick reeds, get the ball out of

1435
01:11:51,880 --> 01:11:54,240
Speaker 1: your hand. That's not Russell Wilson, and like they brought

1436
01:11:54,280 --> 01:11:55,920
Speaker 1: in guys in Seattle to get him to do that,

1437
01:11:56,240 --> 01:11:58,519
Speaker 1: and they didn't, and their offenses were great. So like,

1438
01:11:58,640 --> 01:12:01,920
Speaker 1: I don't know that in the season as a starter,

1439
01:12:02,200 --> 01:12:04,000
Speaker 1: I feel like you, if you're gonna go and give

1440
01:12:04,080 --> 01:12:07,000
Speaker 1: up all those assets to get Russell Wilson, I would

1441
01:12:07,040 --> 01:12:08,719
Speaker 1: say it would make sense to play to his strength.

1442
01:12:09,160 --> 01:12:11,120
Speaker 1: I know what. It wasn't always so smooth near the

1443
01:12:11,200 --> 01:12:12,559
Speaker 1: end in Seattle, but I think there are a lot

1444
01:12:12,600 --> 01:12:15,160
Speaker 1: of factors there. I think you give him the right

1445
01:12:15,240 --> 01:12:19,120
Speaker 1: surrounding talent. I think he's gonna light up defenses. I

1446
01:12:19,160 --> 01:12:21,719
Speaker 1: think so. I saw them too. They were our second

1447
01:12:21,720 --> 01:12:23,880
Speaker 1: game the Broncos, the with with the Bills, and I

1448
01:12:23,920 --> 01:12:25,680
Speaker 1: say we're because it was fun to be able to

1449
01:12:25,680 --> 01:12:30,840
Speaker 1: say we for once, um, but for us, you know,

1450
01:12:31,240 --> 01:12:32,640
Speaker 1: it was it was nice to be part of a

1451
01:12:32,680 --> 01:12:35,519
Speaker 1: team from it, um and then you know whatever. But

1452
01:12:37,200 --> 01:12:40,639
Speaker 1: I think that like we didn't. Their defense is really good.

1453
01:12:40,840 --> 01:12:44,960
Speaker 1: Like their defenses underrated their secondary specifically. I mean they've

1454
01:12:45,000 --> 01:12:49,320
Speaker 1: got players on that secondary, and that's important. I mean

1455
01:12:49,360 --> 01:12:52,680
Speaker 1: justin Simmons is safety. Obviously, you've got Pats or Tan there.

1456
01:12:52,680 --> 01:12:55,320
Speaker 1: In the second season, their whole defensive back room is

1457
01:12:55,360 --> 01:12:58,200
Speaker 1: really really good. Hatrush is extremely deep. I love their

1458
01:12:58,200 --> 01:13:01,000
Speaker 1: past exactly. So when you look get the strength of

1459
01:13:01,000 --> 01:13:05,880
Speaker 1: this defense, I just perhaps you know, Russ will be

1460
01:13:05,960 --> 01:13:08,519
Speaker 1: able to be in those favorable situations for him where

1461
01:13:08,520 --> 01:13:11,439
Speaker 1: he can pass it long because they won't be expecting

1462
01:13:11,439 --> 01:13:14,040
Speaker 1: a deep pass and you know all the like. So

1463
01:13:14,200 --> 01:13:17,000
Speaker 1: I just think that it is actually a pretty complimentary team.

1464
01:13:17,080 --> 01:13:19,320
Speaker 1: They're gonna be able to run the ball pretty well

1465
01:13:19,400 --> 01:13:21,160
Speaker 1: because everyone's gonna be like, oh God, is it Russ

1466
01:13:21,160 --> 01:13:23,479
Speaker 1: that's going to run the ball or someone else or whatever.

1467
01:13:23,520 --> 01:13:27,200
Speaker 1: So I think it'll end up working together. Well, Brat

1468
01:13:27,240 --> 01:13:33,160
Speaker 1: Bradley chub be that dude. All right, there you go.

1469
01:13:33,360 --> 01:13:35,760
Speaker 1: We didn't. We just went around the a f C.

1470
01:13:36,439 --> 01:13:37,880
Speaker 1: You should. You should have renamed the pod for the

1471
01:13:37,920 --> 01:13:42,679
Speaker 1: day exactly forty eight minutes now, like any overmatched head coach,

1472
01:13:43,000 --> 01:13:45,120
Speaker 1: we left the time out in our pocket. We went

1473
01:13:45,160 --> 01:13:47,639
Speaker 1: into the tunnel and I put that on the three

1474
01:13:47,680 --> 01:13:50,599
Speaker 1: of you. I used to when we needed to. There

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Speaker 1: was a moment in this show where someone should have

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Speaker 1: used that time out. I didn't. Actually, I don't think

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Speaker 1: I've ever historically used the time out. That was a

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Speaker 1: creation and usually like you had. Sometimes I wonder I

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Speaker 1: got to ask ahead of time, like if there's any

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Speaker 1: planned one you have, like pre planned skits and just

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Speaker 1: for the time. There was another time that I called

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Speaker 1: a time out and it agitated you because I think

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Speaker 1: that you did have something planned today. No, no, in

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Speaker 1: the past where I was like, I'm not I don't

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Speaker 1: need to do that again. I'm not the head coach

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Speaker 1: that was the we needed that time out today, and

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Speaker 1: I didn't get let me ask you a question then,

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Speaker 1: because as you sense that none of us were going

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01:14:27,880 --> 01:14:29,519
Speaker 1: to pull the trigger, why did you not call a

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Speaker 1: third just trying to be a good teammate. But now

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01:14:32,640 --> 01:14:34,760
Speaker 1: but you're you're now like land based in US, So

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Speaker 1: what's the teammate part? And then if you're winning, like

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01:14:37,760 --> 01:14:41,680
Speaker 1: if you're up, uh, twenty three to three, going with

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01:14:41,800 --> 01:14:43,600
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes left in the first half or

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Speaker 1: even at the end of the game, and that's how

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Speaker 1: I view our performance today, you don't need to use

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Speaker 1: that time out. It's just mean, it's just mean. Alright,

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01:14:51,160 --> 01:14:53,840
Speaker 1: it was okay, I see that side of it. Yes,

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Speaker 1: justin I think called every single time out in the

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Speaker 1: history of a segment with time out right, and I

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01:15:00,040 --> 01:15:07,439
Speaker 1: guess I'm just looking for little help a guy that's right.

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01:15:08,040 --> 01:15:09,960
Speaker 1: And you know what, that's a challenge directly to you

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Speaker 1: Mark for our next episode when we go around the NFC, Well,

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Speaker 1: I'll call three. I like to see it's gotta be

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Speaker 1: a race, like me, never gonna call it like I

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01:15:20,320 --> 01:15:23,400
Speaker 1: was more worried that, like like Steve Belichick, you know,

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Speaker 1: he's on the sideline just wanting to take this type

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Speaker 1: like one day he just goes rogue and takes the

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01:15:27,320 --> 01:15:34,920
Speaker 1: time out. I'd be afraid that. That's if you know

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Speaker 1: what I there's a lot of issues I have with

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Speaker 1: that commentary, but I'll just let it go and say

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Speaker 1: thank you to send you know, thanks done it again.

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01:15:43,080 --> 01:15:46,840
Speaker 1: You know we appreciate you coming. Uh you know you left,

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01:15:47,640 --> 01:15:50,600
Speaker 1: you left a therapy session early for us today. So

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01:15:50,640 --> 01:15:54,920
Speaker 1: I justly yours like we're just starting to get to

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01:15:54,960 --> 01:15:56,720
Speaker 1: the bottom of this and you're like, I gotta go.

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Speaker 1: I gotta do around the a f C and forty

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Speaker 1: eight minutes. I mean, we can we be sponsored by

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Speaker 1: better help or what like? We do need some got

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Speaker 1: that right alright? On Wednesday our next show, Steve Weisch

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Speaker 1: will join us to go around the NFC, so hopefully

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Speaker 1: he can take You think he'll pick the Rams to

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01:16:17,240 --> 01:16:19,479
Speaker 1: like win the Super Bowl. We're going to say looking

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Speaker 1: forward to I mean he can say we when it

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01:16:21,800 --> 01:16:24,520
Speaker 1: comes to the Falcons because he was on their proper

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01:16:25,040 --> 01:16:27,360
Speaker 1: probably not going to win the Super Bowl. Nice, I

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Speaker 1: think it's the bad. Will the NFC South be first

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01:16:29,640 --> 01:16:32,360
Speaker 1: on the list of teams? Grave, Digger, I think we

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Speaker 1: should do it? Do it? Sure? All right, let's lead

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Speaker 1: with the NFC South on Wednesday. We'll see if that happens.

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Speaker 1: We'll try when the show starts, set on the list

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Speaker 1: and then we'll talk a total chaos for Digger. All right.

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Speaker 1: That's it. And by the way, as a reminder of

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Speaker 1: NFL Fantasy is back, guys, did you know that? I mean,

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Speaker 1: it makes sense, I do. We've got a draft on

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Speaker 1: NFL Fantasy on the app nfl dot com with children involved.

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01:16:59,320 --> 01:17:02,600
Speaker 1: Mackie wet Selene, Chris's nephew is in the league. My

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Speaker 1: kids are in the league. Coming up Wednesday. US Fantasy

1539
01:17:07,720 --> 01:17:13,840
Speaker 1: wasn't coming back. I think lead the show with that, um,

1540
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Speaker 1: so you know, do it. Do the fantasy. It's free,

1541
01:17:16,600 --> 01:17:19,760
Speaker 1: it's easy to play. Download the NFL Fantasy app today

1542
01:17:19,840 --> 01:17:23,560
Speaker 1: or sign up at Fantasy dot NFL dot com. That

1543
01:17:23,680 --> 01:17:25,080
Speaker 1: was all just off the top of my head. I

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Speaker 1: just I knew that. The way of address, Yeah, well done.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's go untill that hard. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's just something that's right there dot com and then

1547
01:17:35,760 --> 01:17:39,839
Speaker 1: click on the fantasy link to do it. There's different methods,

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Speaker 1: but they all point to the same