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Speaker 1: It's the Herd wherever you may be, however you may

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Speaker 1: us part of your day. So Nick Ryde will be

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Speaker 1: on in about five minutes. Tough decision this week on

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Speaker 1: the Herd hierarchy. And I said this about the Green

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Speaker 1: Bay Packers Tuck her Craft out, Mica out, Christian Watson

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Speaker 1: out Kenny Clark in a trade out. That's for their

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Speaker 1: top six players. They're not the same team. They are

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Speaker 1: not it's the same team. They don't make the hurt hierarchy. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: well what about last week?

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Speaker 2: What about it?

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Speaker 1: They got two of their top three stars hurt, maybe

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Speaker 1: their top two stars hurt. Here we go on a Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: The hurd hierarchy.

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Speaker 3: Heard hierarchy time. Now go the top ten NFL teams

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Speaker 3: according to College.

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Speaker 2: Number ten.

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Speaker 1: I'll put Philadelphia in seven of their nine wins, though

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Speaker 1: of coming one score games, they're three and five when

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Speaker 1: allowing twenty one plus points. And in the playoffs you're

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Speaker 1: gonna face better quarterbacks. Their defense it's excellent, the roster

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Speaker 1: is excellent, but I don't trust Jalen Hurts or Nick

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Speaker 2: Again.

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Speaker 1: They play the Commanders twice in the next three weeks,

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Speaker 1: so they're gonna flex and look impressive, But this offense

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Speaker 1: feels like it's been broken.

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Speaker 2: Since week one. Number nine the Jags.

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Speaker 1: You can't run on them, and Liam Cohen has done

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Speaker 1: wonders for Trevor Lawrence's confidence.

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Speaker 2: He's running more.

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Speaker 1: They have the number one scoring offense and number two

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Speaker 1: scoring defense on their five game winning streak. Do I

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Speaker 1: trust them in a big spot? No, But this is

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Speaker 1: the closest version of the Trevor Lawrence we all fell

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Speaker 2: I have the Jags at nine. Number eight.

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Speaker 1: The Bills, listen, they got totally worked for the first

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Speaker 1: half of that game. After losing to New England, everybody thinks, well,

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Speaker 1: they scored on five straight touchdown drives. Okay, they do

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Speaker 1: run the ball, but are so overly dependent on Superman

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Speaker 1: at quarterback. Yes, Josh Allen has been very good in

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Speaker 1: And in the last couple of weeks they have almost

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Speaker 2: I have them at eight, number seven.

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Speaker 1: Elite coaching, maybe the best coaching staff this year in

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Speaker 1: the league. Sala on defense doing it with smoking mirrors

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Speaker 1: in Kyle Shanahan. Four wins in a row, all by

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Speaker 1: ten plus points. Brock pretty finally, I thought this week

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Speaker 2: Number six.

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Speaker 1: But Seattle's got a big boy defense. Sam Darnold. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I still like the Patriots. They had a bad half.

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Speaker 2: What don't they do? They're built for January.

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Speaker 1: There can be Caleb's complete percentage. Lord, he's so gifted.

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Speaker 1: I think the Texans defense is the best unit in

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Speaker 2: Number one. Listen.

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Speaker 1: The rams most complete roster in the NFL. Although I

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Speaker 1: They don't get the pass rush. I think they should

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Speaker 2: None of their.

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Speaker 1: Pass rushers outside of Puna Ford, who's a run stopper,

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Speaker 1: they don't. They're all kids. They're not in their prime yet.

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Speaker 1: I have the Rams at number one, No Packers. I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: they're not the same team today. Take out Watson, Micah,

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Speaker 1: at eleven, Chargers at twelve. With that, Nick Wright, first

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Speaker 1: things first stops by all right, herd hierarchy.

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Speaker 2: What don't you like?

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Speaker 4: Well, listen, I really like a lot of it. Most notably,

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Speaker 4: I feel like the Niners have flown under the radar

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Speaker 4: all year long. They're alive for the one seed right

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Speaker 4: now despite all the injuries. I think it's Shanahan's best

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Speaker 4: have them, Ram, Seahawks, Niners. That division them all having

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Speaker 4: ten or eleven wins is remarkable. I think the Texans

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Speaker 4: I agree with you. I only really have one real gright. Okay,

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Speaker 4: why are the Patriots ahead of the.

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Speaker 1: Bills Because we just tell me, Okay, this is not

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Speaker 1: the College Football Playoff Committee. Head to head, isn't the

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Speaker 1: be all end all? They played six quarters New England

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Speaker 1: was better significantly in six of the eight quarters they played.

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Speaker 1: New England was significantly better. I like New England's coach.

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Speaker 1: The game meant more for Buffalo the season. Sean mcdermot's

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Speaker 1: like we beat him the first time. We outschemed him

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Speaker 2: And that's my reason, man.

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Speaker 4: I feel I guess, I just feel very differently. The

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Speaker 4: first matchup is twenty to twenty with ninety seconds left,

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Speaker 4: so I don't know how we got the Patriots thoroughly

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Speaker 4: outplayed on the first four quarters of the season. That

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Speaker 4: Buffalo systematically walked to them down and I and they

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Speaker 4: did it because they have a great running game, and

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Speaker 4: now that Patrick's hurt, they have the best healthy player

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Speaker 4: in football and Josh Allen. I just think in a

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Speaker 4: wide open AFC, the Bills are very scary and deserving

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Speaker 4: and I trust them more than I trust New England,

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Speaker 4: particularly after this matchup. But other than that, Colin and

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Speaker 4: I'm not sure about Philly. Let me add one other thing, Philly.

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Speaker 4: Did Philly fix things or did Philly face the Raiders?

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Speaker 4: a really solid hierarchy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think it's like when a college powerhouse faces like

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Speaker 2: So I I said this earlier.

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Speaker 1: And if you had a gifted child that was on

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Speaker 2: I'll live with that.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to live with Josh Allen, Mahomes and Caleb

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Speaker 1: throwing some picks lower completion percentage. They're Beethoven at nine

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Speaker 1: year old. Guys, Caleb made throws this week that looked

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Speaker 1: like optical illusions. I don't care. I don't care that

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Speaker 1: he's fifty nine percent. I've watched the DJ Moore play

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Speaker 1: twenty times. I don't even understand how he threw it.

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Speaker 1: So my thing on Caleb is, Guys, it's like Josh Allen,

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Speaker 1: I would take less of a completion percentage this year

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Speaker 1: if he ever threw the ball down the field, which

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Speaker 1: he doesn't. He doesn't have a receiver. Where are you

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Speaker 1: on Caleb? And the argument that you know he's just

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Speaker 1: not accurate enough.

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Speaker 4: Well, listen, all you could have hoped for this year

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Speaker 4: was month over month progression over the course of the season,

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Speaker 4: and see could he get better at the layups while

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Speaker 4: keeping the spectacular And that's what he's done. And there

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Speaker 4: are Listen, he is still in a place in his career,

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Speaker 4: Colin where his low lights are going to be really

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Speaker 2: So that's how I look at it. With chapters.

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Speaker 4: I mean, that's one way to do it. I suppose

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Speaker 6: You know, we're getting down to the nitty gritty, Colin,

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Speaker 6: with the Cowboys, Colin, it feels like it's over. They

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Speaker 7: Definitely surprised, especially you know after the bar week, the

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Speaker 7: But all I can do is is get better tomorrow?

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Speaker 1: It's not on him. Pass Pro's not great. I do

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Speaker 1: think their future is actually pretty bright. Of course, I

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Speaker 1: think those two first round picks, what if they got

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Speaker 1: Caleb Downs at safety and the number two edge rusher.

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Speaker 2: In the draft?

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Speaker 4: Wait?

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Speaker 2: Wait, Caleb Downs, how are they getting him?

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Speaker 1: Well, if you see, there's three tackles everybody loves. There's

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Speaker 1: two quarterbacks potentially everybody loves. It's a great edge rusher draft.

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Speaker 1: There's a defensive tackle or three in the top fifteen picks.

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Speaker 1: There's a couple of wide rests. It's a huh, somebody's

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Speaker 1: gonna fall. Somebody's gonna fall. Caleb Downs falls arguably the

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Speaker 1: best total player in the draft or second third. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot of there's a lot that's good.

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Speaker 6: Okay, so let's say they get down. What do you

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Speaker 6: think happens with Pickens? Do you think they keep him?

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Speaker 2: Tagging him?

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 2: Why?

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Speaker 1: Wide receivers the one position and we know this to

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Speaker 1: be true. College football gives you about twenty a year

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Speaker 1: that can play immediately.

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Speaker 6: I don't know, man, They're hosting the Chargers this weekend.

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Speaker 6: I'm on the Chargers in this one. I love Herbert

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Speaker 6: in this spot against this awful, awful secondary of Dallas.

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Speaker 6: I think this eliminates them. If the Eagles beat Washington,

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Speaker 6: they're out.

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Speaker 2: So Dallas done. Dallas a very good home team. Oh really,

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Speaker 2: they just lost to the Vikings boy J J. McCarthy

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Speaker 2: on Sunday Football.

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Speaker 4: They couldn't stop.

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Speaker 2: JJ, who you think is rotten?

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Speaker 6: And I don't know, he's looking pretty good if I

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Speaker 6: f I saw on the last couple of games. All right,

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Speaker 6: let's move on to the Kansas City Chiefs. You know,

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Speaker 6: I don't know what Nick was drinking this early in

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Speaker 6: the morn, but he seems to think this is a

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Speaker 6: quick turnaround. Listen, Mahomes is down. It's not only the ACL,

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Speaker 6: but it's also the LCL. Colin long road back. We're

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Speaker 6: looking at maybe nine months at best case scenario.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, here's Tom Brady's advice to Mahomes.

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Speaker 8: The one you could do is folks on what's ahead

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Speaker 8: of you and not look back and just say, Okay,

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Speaker 8: this is part of what my career is going to be.

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Speaker 8: And a lot of people have gone through it and

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Speaker 8: a lot of people have overcome it.

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Speaker 2: You've just got to put.

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Speaker 8: As much diligence into the rehab process, and I always

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Speaker 8: feel like the faster you rehab, the faster you can

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Speaker 8: get back to practicing the sport that you know you love.

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Speaker 9: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: I know the optimism is out there for the Chiefs fans,

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Speaker 6: but let's be real, Colin, I'm looking at their salary

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Speaker 6: cap situation next year. Their third biggest cap hit is

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Speaker 6: Juwan Taylor, who's one of the lowest rated right tackles

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Speaker 6: in the league. Like, I don't know if you get

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Speaker 6: off that contract. I mean, Chris Jones, what do you

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Speaker 6: do with him? He showed up like every other half

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Speaker 6: for a few plays, like he had a rough. I

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Speaker 6: mean he's thirty two years old. You go look j Moore,

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Speaker 6: Remember they got him from the Niners. Oh, we got

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Speaker 6: our swing tackle. Didn't quite work out. I mean Christian Fulton,

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Speaker 6: the cornerback, he was not good. Michael Dana Pass Russ

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Speaker 6: are coming. I think you nailed this. They just don't

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Speaker 6: have a lot of good players. I'm sorry, and Reid

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Speaker 6: and Mahomes cannot continue to mask the stench of this laster.

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Speaker 1: And Mahomes has spent some of his career limping. Now

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Speaker 1: his first major surgery. Yeah, you think he'll be just

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Speaker 1: the same player. But it's Mahomes is what thirty one

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Speaker 1: years old now, I mean, and he's gone through a

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Speaker 1: lot of football and take him some hits, and he

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Speaker 1: hasn't had a good old line in the last several years.

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Speaker 1: You know, this game sneaks up on you. You get

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Speaker 1: to the end of your prime real quick.

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Speaker 6: Yeah. So I floated to Kyle Pitts to the Chiefs,

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Speaker 6: and Chiefs fans are like, no, thank you, No, They're

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Speaker 6: trying to tell me. And again they're all over me

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Speaker 6: on social media. They want Justin Jefferson.

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Speaker 2: From the Vikings.

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Speaker 6: He's unhappy with JJ McCarthy, Like, how the hell are

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Speaker 6: the Chiefs getting Justin Jefferson. That's how desperate they are.

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Speaker 6: They know, let's be real, Collin that Tyreek kill Travis

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Speaker 6: kelce prime years with Mahomes, those were the best Chiefs teams,

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Speaker 6: without question. Since they lost Tyreek, they've had to win

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Speaker 6: different ways. I think they're kind of out of AMMO.

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 6: Do you think there's a big trade in the offing

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Speaker 6: for a Pickens.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I think Mahomes gets healthy, you know, I think Travis

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Speaker 1: Kelcey retires and I think they you know, they're more

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Speaker 1: than capable of nailing four good draft picks. They I don't.

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Speaker 1: I do not believe next year Denver's out of the

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson's cap hit. They're gonna get better. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: the Chargers tackles come back. Oh yeah, they're going nowhere.

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Speaker 1: I think they come back next year. I think their

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Speaker 1: current reality is they need about six more really good,

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Speaker 1: not great, six more b plus players in their prime,

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Speaker 1: some through the draft, maybe one through a trade. But

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Speaker 1: it's again, I don't think it's a tweak.

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Speaker 2: If I don't.

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Speaker 6: The fact that the matter is the Bears. Your Bears

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Speaker 6: last year needed offensive line help. They just went and

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Speaker 6: got a couple guys because they can.

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Speaker 2: Afford Bears, the Bears.

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Speaker 1: The Bears have better players the Bears have with the

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Speaker 1: elite center, elite right guard, elite right tackle.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they stole tune. Remember Tony.

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Speaker 2: The Chiefs are like, we we couldn't afford him. We

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Speaker 2: had to lose him. He's great. That's a huge loss

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Speaker 2: for them. Yeah, Chiefs listen.

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Speaker 1: Receiving cor for the Bears. DJ Moore is better than

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Speaker 1: anybody Kansas City has.

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Speaker 2: Oh wait a minute, old, was she Rice?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 1: You trust for she Rice. I don't trust him off

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Speaker 1: the field, forget on the field.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, let's help he stays out of trouble this offseason

553
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Speaker 6: because it's a long one. All right, Let's go to

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Speaker 6: the final story. Colin and I love this. Hey, great

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Speaker 6: night in the NBA last night and Cooper Flag went off.

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Speaker 6: What a game from the eighteen year old. He had

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Speaker 6: forty two though it was only eighteen for another couple

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Speaker 6: of days. Unbelievable performance, forty two points, breaking Lebron's record.

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Speaker 2: Lebron put up thirty seven as a rookie back.

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Speaker 6: When you know two thousand and three, there was no

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Speaker 6: chat cheep, there's no Instagram or the record.

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Speaker 1: He averaged thirteen a game in October eighteen, a game

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Speaker 1: in November, he's averaging twenty for a game in December.

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Speaker 1: You are watching a star. Oh this Ken in December

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Speaker 1: right now? Seven he's shooting fifty four percent from the field,

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Speaker 1: twenty for a game. He's we always say this about

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks like this, they catch up to the speed. He

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Speaker 1: is now playing at NBA speed from college speed. He's

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Speaker 1: gonna end up this year averaging twenty one points a year,

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Speaker 1: twenty two points a year as an eighteen nineteen year old.

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Speaker 6: That's unbelievable. Here's Flag talking about the record that he's

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Speaker 6: set last night.

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Speaker 9: Oh, I mean, I'm not really focused on you know,

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Speaker 9: a lot of that stuff, and we're just focused on

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Speaker 9: being present, you know, day to day and trying to

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Speaker 9: get better and get as many wins as we can

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Speaker 9: because obviously we didn't win. So as tefan, really you

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Speaker 9: don't want to be happy or any of that, but

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Speaker 9: obviously he is court you know Si Sarah saying, you know,

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Speaker 9: trying to keep doing better from here.

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Speaker 1: I've said before his comp is a more aggressive Jason Tatum.

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Speaker 1: Look at Cooper Flagg's free throw attempts as a rookie,

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Speaker 1: he gets to the line, he is a more aggressive

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Speaker 1: Jason Tatum. That's always been the knock on Tatum, like

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Speaker 1: he had Marcus Smart and Jaylen Brown. You're like, where

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Speaker 1: Tatum go? Cooper flag On, I'm telling you he is.

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Speaker 1: You're looking at the best domestic rookie and the probably

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Speaker 1: since Lebron, I mean is he is a real player for.

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Speaker 6: The radio audience most points before turning nineteen, Lebron six

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Speaker 6: twenty five, Kobe five point thirty nine, Cooper Flag for

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Speaker 6: seventy nine to.

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Speaker 2: Most part before turning nineteen years old. That listen, man,

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Speaker 2: he's amazing. I'll just say this about Dallas.

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Speaker 3: They're gonna be.

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Speaker 2: Bad this year.

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Speaker 6: Nobody cares, but they're on Christmas agains Steph Curry. That's

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Speaker 6: gonna be fun to watch. Cooper Flagg, Colin. They have

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Speaker 6: to figure out how do we get rid of Anthony Davis.

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Speaker 6: I want to build around Cooper Flag. You can do

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Speaker 6: that pretty quickly, and then Kyrie's back next year.

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Speaker 4: I'm just telling you.

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Speaker 6: By all Cooper flagstock. If you sold it, I'm sorry.

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Speaker 6: That's like selling Tesla or in the early days. You

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Speaker 6: made a mistake. Colin, this kid is special.

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Speaker 2: Yep, no question he he is.

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Speaker 1: I mean my favorite my thing about him that I

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Speaker 1: really like is that he is a really aggressive basketball.

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Speaker 1: He's aggressive defensively, he's aggressive attacking the basket. He's aggressive

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Speaker 1: creating contact. I mean a lot of what made Michael

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Speaker 1: and Kobe great was you know, they had that like instinct.

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Speaker 1: They wanted to bang up against you, they wanted to

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Speaker 1: create conflict. I mean, that's a big part of the NBA.

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Speaker 1: I've seen so many good players come into this league.

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Speaker 1: And they're finesse players. They don't want to be uncomfortable.

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Speaker 1: Cooper Flag from Maine, he's out there fighting caribou. I

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Speaker 1: mean that kid grew up. Nobody in Maine is soft.

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Speaker 1: He is an aggressive player and I love him. Jmack

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Speaker 1: with the News.

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Speaker 3: Well that's the news. Thanks for stopping by the Herd line.

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Speaker 1: You're not living on green smoothies at sixteen years old

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Speaker 1: in Maine. You're eating trees. You're sawing trees, lumber caribou.

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Speaker 1: I mean you're like a fifteen minute walk to Nova Scotia.

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Speaker 1: We're just trying to survive.

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Speaker 3: Be sure to catch live editions of The Herd weekdays

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Speaker 3: and Noone Easter non a em Pacific.

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Speaker 6: We got a big East Big Ten battle on Fox

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Speaker 6: College Hoops Friday as Villanova takes on Wisconsin. It all

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Speaker 6: tips off Friday night at eight Eastern on Fox.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you in just a couple of minutes

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Speaker 1: something that will blow your mind. So the NFL Offensive

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Speaker 1: Rookie of the Year odds have skyrocketed toward second round

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Speaker 1: pick to the Patriots, Trevon Henderson. So he was the

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Speaker 1: fourth running back taken, which I did not understand. He

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Speaker 1: was great this weekend. So this is what I said, taken.

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Speaker 1: This is what I said immediately on Monday after the draft,

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Speaker 1: traveon Henderson being second round pick, fourth running back taken.

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Speaker 1: Trevion Henderson, the running back out of Ohio State. He

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Speaker 1: may be the steel of the draft. So of the

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Speaker 1: two Ohio State backs, he's a better receiver, he's a

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Speaker 1: better pass blocker, he's a better runner. They've got themselves

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Speaker 1: the steal of the draft a home run. I would

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Speaker 1: not be shocked if he's not a top five or

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Speaker 1: six running back in the league. Yeah, that guy smart.

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Speaker 1: For the record, anybody else notice how well New England's

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Speaker 1: now drafting offensively since Belichick left running back check, quarterback check,

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Speaker 1: left tackle check. Belichick, for the record, was not a

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Speaker 1: fan of Drake May at Carolina, complained about his footwork.

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Speaker 1: How's that working out? I mean, Bell can still spot

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Speaker 1: talent is just a different kind. It should also be

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Speaker 1: noted that Nick Cassario left Bellchick, where Belichick had his

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Speaker 1: thumb on him, went to Houston. Look at how well

652
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Speaker 1: Houston's Nick Cassario has drafted without Belichick's influence.

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00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:11,800
Speaker 2: It's unbelievable.

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00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 1: C J. Stroud first round, Will Anderson, Nico Collins, Derek Stingley,

655
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:21,920
Speaker 1: Jalen Petrie, Kamari Lassiter in the second round, Kaylon Bullock

656
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 1: third round, steel safety out of USC Woody Mark Steele.

657
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:31,760
Speaker 1: Houston has cross drafting. Nick Cassario has crushed at Houston

658
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:36,759
Speaker 1: once he moved away from Belichick. The Patriots for eight

659
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:43,480
Speaker 1: years could not draft offense. Belichick out vrabel in left tackle, quarterback,

660
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 1: star running back, the Hoodie. The hood was getting in

661
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 1: front of his draft vision. And when I hear well,

662
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 1: Belichick is up for NFL jobs, Okay, he better not

663
00:34:57,239 --> 00:35:01,839
Speaker 1: have any say on personnel. Look at Houston and look

664
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:05,320
Speaker 1: at New England now, I mean there, I mean, Houston

665
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:06,840
Speaker 1: has been one of the best draft teams in the

666
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:09,960
Speaker 1: league for three years. You know, we pay attention to

667
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:14,480
Speaker 1: the coaches and the quarterback. Nick Casario is crushing it

668
00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:23,800
Speaker 1: in Houston. Okay, So I'm gonna throw this.

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Speaker 2: This stat at you.

670
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 1: So we all know that nothing works with the New

671
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:31,760
Speaker 1: York Jets. People have been with the Jets, they leave.

672
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:34,440
Speaker 1: I mean Robert Solin now is the best coordinator in

673
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 1: the league doing it with smoking mirrors. So if you

674
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 1: take out Sam Darnold's New York experience, and you go

675
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:47,680
Speaker 1: to Carolina. So for the first time in Sam's career,

676
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 1: he did not play. He sat the first eleven games

677
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 1: in Carolina that season. That first season, if you start

678
00:35:55,880 --> 00:36:01,480
Speaker 1: November twenty seventh, twenty twenty two, He's had thirty eight starts.

679
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:07,320
Speaker 1: In those thirty eight starts, his win percentage is seventy

680
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:13,160
Speaker 1: six percent higher than Brady and Mahomes. The percentage of games.

681
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:16,040
Speaker 1: Donald has had one hundred plus passer rating in those

682
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 1: thirty eight starts, sixty six percent.

683
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:27,319
Speaker 2: Higher than Brady or Mahomes. Okay, for all of you.

684
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:33,920
Speaker 1: Terrified that he's gonna throw interceptions, the Jets are Quicksand

685
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:36,399
Speaker 1: I mean, look how good Aaron Rodgers looks this year,

686
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:38,200
Speaker 1: and how good he was in Green Bay.

687
00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:41,240
Speaker 2: None of it worked in New York. It's funny.

688
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:43,400
Speaker 1: Look how good BRT Farv was in Green Bay. Then

689
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 1: in Minnesota. It didn't really look good in New York.

690
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:50,760
Speaker 1: Nothing works in New York. Nothing. I'm not saying Aaron

691
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 1: Glenn would be Lombardi somewhere else, but I mean you

692
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:57,200
Speaker 1: kind of look at it and go whatever, Take New

693
00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 1: York out of Donald, go to Carolina. Sits late November

694
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:07,800
Speaker 1: plays that point. So Carolina, Minnesota, Seattle. Three different coaches,

695
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 1: three different staffs, three different rosters, twenty different receivers, seven, eight, nine,

696
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:17,400
Speaker 1: ten different backs. Sam Darnold is a winner. Yeah, it

697
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 1: gets a little reckless, all right, Okay, throw some picks.

698
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:27,759
Speaker 1: Not everybody can play this position and be you know,

699
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers all time most sack quarterback. Once of my

700
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:33,880
Speaker 1: staff got me today. How's that possible? Green Bay had

701
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:39,120
Speaker 1: good offensive lines. Also, it's interesting the college football playoff.

702
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:41,120
Speaker 1: Jay McK and I were talking about this during the break.

703
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:44,279
Speaker 1: It starts Friday. If you remember last year, same thing.

704
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 1: I think Notre Dame played Indiana on the Friday game

705
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:51,560
Speaker 1: and Indiana it just was overwhelmed. It was a casem

706
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:53,920
Speaker 1: I think watching that game and the takeaway was man,

707
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:56,120
Speaker 1: there was no buzz for it. I think the college

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00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:59,080
Speaker 1: football playoffs should start on Saturday because that's when the

709
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:03,440
Speaker 1: season is. On Saturday, like I tend to think NFL

710
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 1: playoffs should start on Sunday because that's when the season is.

711
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 1: But the NFL is sort of bulletproof. I would say

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00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 1: Friday is a dead zone for television. Like Friday, all

713
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:17,080
Speaker 1: work hard, you go out beers with buddies. I don't

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00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:19,200
Speaker 1: watch a lot of TV on Fridays. I mean I

715
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:21,760
Speaker 1: just don't watch a lot of TV at all on Fridays.

716
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:26,440
Speaker 1: I'm a Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday TV viewer. But it'll

717
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:30,839
Speaker 1: be interesting in the college football playoff because you see

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00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:33,399
Speaker 1: that in Miami, Texas A and M line has come

719
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:35,520
Speaker 1: way down. Now it's a field goal game. I like

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00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:37,800
Speaker 1: Miami at four and a half. Now it's down to three.

721
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:41,120
Speaker 1: Home field for Texas A and m maybe the difference,

722
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:44,759
Speaker 1: but I really really like Miami in that game. At

723
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:47,759
Speaker 1: least I did it the first number. I like Alabama

724
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:50,520
Speaker 1: to beat Oklahoma, not a lot of people do. I

725
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:53,759
Speaker 1: think they'll be fine. But I got to tell you,

726
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:55,840
Speaker 1: the two best teams I've seen this year are Ohio

727
00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:59,320
Speaker 1: State in Indiana, and the third best team is Georgia.

728
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 1: A little less insistent offensively, but it's going to be interesting.

729
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 1: Here's what is interesting to the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: What if.

731
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Speaker 1: Ohio State or Indiana, or let's just say Indiana now

732
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Speaker 1: wins the Natty and Indiana is absolutely good enough to Michigan,

733
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Speaker 1: Ohio State, Indiana, And don't tell me about your sixth

734
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:27,719
Speaker 1: best team. I think Oregon may be the most underrated

735
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:29,879
Speaker 1: team in this thing. Along with Texas Tech. They could

736
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:32,680
Speaker 1: potentially play. But it's going to be very interesting. For

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00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 1: twenty years the SEC ruled this sport. If Indiana is

738
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 1: the one to keep your eye on. If Indiana wins

739
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:41,919
Speaker 1: the Natty and it's the second or first best team,

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00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:48,319
Speaker 1: I've seen three straight years, three different teams from the

741
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:52,360
Speaker 1: Big Ten winning the national championship. The team that nobody's

742
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:56,120
Speaker 1: talking about is Texas Tech, which would be a big dud.

743
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 1: You know, it wouldn't feel as big, you know, And

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00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:02,360
Speaker 1: I guarant see of the Texas Tech staff and players,

745
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:05,280
Speaker 1: all they're hearing about is all these other great teams.

746
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:08,000
Speaker 1: Watch Texas Tech. Actually, you know, go and win the

747
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:14,080
Speaker 1: whole thing. But I can't wait for it. I think

748
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Speaker 1: Indiana is for real. I think if they met Ohio

749
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:19,520
Speaker 1: State again, I want to see. I want to see

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Speaker 1: Georgia in the mix with Indiana and the buck Eyes.