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Speaker 1: Slash Podcasts. We look at the world of pro football

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Speaker 1: and the game called life and now Move the Sticks

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Speaker 1: with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks. What's up everybody? DJ

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Speaker 1: Buckey here Moved the Sticks on a Monday after Christmas.

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Speaker 1: I am I'm joining you from from home today. Buck.

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Speaker 1: I know you're you're doing the Lord's work in the studio.

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Speaker 1: I'm currently in my daughter's room. I've ever done a

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Speaker 1: podcast while staring at bumblebees flowers? What else we got

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Speaker 1: in here? Uh? We definitely have a lot of stuffed

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Speaker 1: butterflies as well. Yeah, that's a pretty interesting set of

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Speaker 1: your you did describing butterflies. How is your Christmas? Man?

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Speaker 1: How was it? Man? It's cool? It's uh. It was

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Speaker 1: kind of chaout of going back and forth from East

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Speaker 1: then going back. But overall man, it was pretty good Christmas.

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Speaker 1: Got a chance to watch a lot of ball, football

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Speaker 1: and basketball. And I'm excited because we are in the

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Speaker 1: midst of the Bull season. I think there's three bowl

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Speaker 1: games on today. You and I are traveling all over

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Speaker 1: check out Clemson versus Ohio State. A lot of good

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Speaker 1: ball to look at. All. We got tons of NFL

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Speaker 1: stuff to get too, Buck, But first of all, I

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Speaker 1: gotta I gotta come with Come clean here, man. This

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Speaker 1: is we have a lot. We have cool jobs, right

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Speaker 1: to me. I I get a chance to go. These

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Speaker 1: which is a huge help in the in the evaluation process.

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Speaker 1: While I'm on plane, I'm watching tape on my on

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Speaker 1: my iPad, getting more work done, and it's just you know,

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Speaker 1: years old, buck, But quietly, Sam Bradford has had a

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Speaker 1: when we're praising somebody or you launched somebody as the

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Speaker 1: best dish or the best dad. We do these top

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Speaker 1: you know ten rookies or top five this or that.

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Speaker 1: The thing that I think that a lot of people

433
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Speaker 1: miss is they have their name, you know, like they'll say, Okay, well,

434
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Speaker 1: how the heck does how does Jgi not get in

435
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Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl? Right? Heard that a bunch had a

436
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Speaker 1: great year? How does he not get in the Pro Bowl? Well, okay,

437
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Speaker 1: if you're gonna say use that statement, you have to

438
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Speaker 1: tell me who who you take out? I think that's

439
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Speaker 1: the big thing. That's the big thing. Who do that?

440
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Speaker 1: Who never do that? They never ever say that, just

441
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Speaker 1: oh this guy got screwed, that guy gets screw Well,

442
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Speaker 1: then tell me who you would take out. You're gonna

443
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Speaker 1: tell me Levian Bell, Leshawn McCoy, uh and and DeMarco

444
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Speaker 1: Murray aren't deserving, Like which one of those guys are

445
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Speaker 1: you taking out? I know, I get it all the time,

446
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Speaker 1: you know how Twitter versus everyone wants their guy to

447
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Speaker 1: be in it. And I give Jgi credit for what

448
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Speaker 1: he's done. I give Adam Gaesa tell the credit for

449
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Speaker 1: what they've been able to do. Because it looked like

450
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Speaker 1: they were gonna struggle and have a poor year, turned

451
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Speaker 1: it around and play better. But the Pro Bowl thing

452
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Speaker 1: is supposed to be for special players. And look, I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonnaing up on a tangent a little bit

454
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Speaker 1: because I did this thing in my notebook last week

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Speaker 1: where I studied Pro Bowl rosters. And I don't know

456
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Speaker 1: if you ever had to do this when you're working

457
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Speaker 1: with Baltimore any other teams, but one of the things

458
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Speaker 1: that we did when I was in Seattle and even

459
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Speaker 1: in Carolina, when the Pro Bowl was announced, we would

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Speaker 1: look at the names that comprised the roster. We would

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Speaker 1: also go look and see where those guys were drafted.

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Speaker 1: And so last Friday I wrote about this as part

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Speaker 1: of my notebook about what scouts can learn from the

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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl and what I looked and found of the

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Speaker 1: guys that are in the Pro Bowl were first round picks,

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Speaker 1: and half of those I think that is like I

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Speaker 1: think it was like forty five out of eighty six.

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Speaker 1: Half of those guys we're top ten picks. So when

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Speaker 1: you think about how we give grades, because we're about

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Speaker 1: to start grading season and the draft, and we have

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Speaker 1: a lot of discussion about how we view players and

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Speaker 1: what grades you would give on and people are gonna say, oh,

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Speaker 1: he got picked it. I see him as a first rounder.

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Speaker 1: What you're trying to do is when you put a

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Speaker 1: grade on somebody, you're trying to project how they're going

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Speaker 1: to play in the league. And that top ten territory

477
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Speaker 1: is supposed to be reserved for special players, transcendent stars,

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Speaker 1: guys that should be top five of their position, Pro

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Speaker 1: Bowl caliber players, and I think, and looking at the

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Speaker 1: roster this year, I think it bears out. So when

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Speaker 1: we talk about these quarterbacks and some of these guys

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Speaker 1: that make creep into top ten contention, I just think

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Speaker 1: it's important that evaluators understand that when you're taking someone

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Speaker 1: in the top ten, they are supposed to play at

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Speaker 1: that Pro Bowl level, and if they don't, then you've

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Speaker 1: kind of overestimated and you kind of skewed the grade

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Speaker 1: to fill a need as opposed to really great in

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Speaker 1: the player for what he is. And that's exactly I

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Speaker 1: remember being with teams exactly what we do now. We

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Speaker 1: didn't necessarily always go off of the Pro Bowl list,

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Speaker 1: but we would go off of our our Pro scout grade.

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Speaker 1: So you have your college scouting department, you have your

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Speaker 1: Pro Scouting Department. So the Pro Scouting Department not only

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Speaker 1: in charge of free agency and getting that all squared away,

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Speaker 1: they also in charge of you know, advanced scouting reports

496
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Speaker 1: for teams you're gonna play, as well as grading the

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Speaker 1: entire lead. So you know, we would go back through

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Speaker 1: and look at that. Now, the one thing that the

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Speaker 1: one issue I have with the Pro Bowl is that

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Speaker 1: I do think that the guys that were picked in

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Speaker 1: the first round tend to get the first set of eyeballs.

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Speaker 1: And what I mean by that is everybody knows who

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Speaker 1: they are, so they pay attention to him. Now, that

504
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Speaker 1: can work in your favor, it can work against you.

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Speaker 1: You can't really hide if you're not playing well at

506
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Speaker 1: the first round pick, you can get all kinds of eat.

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Speaker 1: But if you have some success, everybody knew about you

508
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Speaker 1: ahead of time, they're already paying attention, and then as

509
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Speaker 1: soon as you have your success, you're gonna get in

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Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl. Whereas you could be a guy like

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Speaker 1: Collecchio Semi who was a mid round pick who have

512
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Speaker 1: been playing pretty good throughout his whole career, but people

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Speaker 1: didn't really pay attention to him until his reputation had

514
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Speaker 1: to build. Does that make any sense for the mess

515
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Speaker 1: eyeballs on him right from the jump from a media perspective,

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Speaker 1: Now your pro stanunity department. When you're great in these teams,

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Speaker 1: you might be watching you know, you might be watching

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Speaker 1: I use another raven offensive linement, But Marcia Yonda, you

519
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Speaker 1: know you watch him year one, like, I don't care

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Speaker 1: if this guy is the third round pick. This guy

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Speaker 1: is one of the best player is in the league.

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Speaker 1: You know. But the league knew that well before the media.

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Speaker 1: I think it's figured that out absolutely absolutely, So it's interesting,

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Speaker 1: it's it's fascinating how you do that. But I was

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Speaker 1: actually I don't know if it's because we're coming up

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Speaker 1: on the new year and we talk about New Year's

527
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Speaker 1: resolutions and what you want to change and what you

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Speaker 1: want to get better at in all areas of your life.

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Speaker 1: But um, I've been looking back at a lot of

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Speaker 1: my sequence lists from the last few years and and

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Speaker 1: really trying to self scout what what what I get

532
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Speaker 1: this guy right? What do I get them wrong? You know,

533
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Speaker 1: we play hits and misses on the podcast, have fun

534
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Speaker 1: with it, but there are there are definitely things that

535
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Speaker 1: I can look at and and try and learn from

536
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Speaker 1: the mistakes that I've made, and maybe maybe we'll do

537
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Speaker 1: that on a podcast here in a couple of weeks,

538
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Speaker 1: kind of go through where you know, so some of

539
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Speaker 1: the huge mistakes that I've made over the last three

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Speaker 1: or four years and just you know it. He I

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Speaker 1: think it helps. It helps any evaluator when you can

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Speaker 1: see what you've what you've you got right, and what

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Speaker 1: you've got wrong and why that is. I think it's

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Speaker 1: a good healthy exercise now, I think it is. I

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Speaker 1: think UH as an evaluate issue. Always challenge yourself to

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Speaker 1: continue to learn and kind of see what you can

547
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Speaker 1: um your missteps, what you underestimated, why certain players playing

548
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Speaker 1: better than maybe you thought he would. And as a

549
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Speaker 1: collegiate player, is that the system has that guy improved?

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Speaker 1: Was it something that you just could not get past

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Speaker 1: that prevented you from putting the grade that maybe he

552
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Speaker 1: was worthy of. So it is important to go back

553
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Speaker 1: and look at those things and constantly challenge yourself to

554
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Speaker 1: see if you can become better as evaluated, because none

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Speaker 1: of us have it right. We're trying to hit a

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Speaker 1: fifty percent clip, and so if you can hit at

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Speaker 1: a fifty percent clip in this business, you're doing a

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Speaker 1: pretty good job. And so it is always about trying

559
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Speaker 1: to figure out where you can improve, what things you

560
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Speaker 1: can learn, and how the game is continued to evolve

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Speaker 1: as well. All right, cut more things before we get

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Speaker 1: out of here. By Aaron Rodgers, I mean I laughed

563
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Speaker 1: a little bit on this because look, we were we

564
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Speaker 1: were like everybody else. We talked about it earlier the year,

565
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Speaker 1: and I thought it was justified he was not playing

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Speaker 1: as well at the beginning portion of the season as

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Speaker 1: we're accustomed to seeing from Aaron Rodgers. We kind of

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Speaker 1: looked at it is okay, you know, at the end

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Speaker 1: of at the end of every discussion we said the

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Speaker 1: same thing. Every one of his issues is infinitely fixable.

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Speaker 1: And and I thought the number one thing I think

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Speaker 1: when even documented this in the video was just he

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Speaker 1: didn't really have the trust. He wasn't really trusting the

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Speaker 1: guys around him. And some of that maybe we're just

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Speaker 1: getting Jordy Nelson back in the fold, get him rolling again,

576
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Speaker 1: but some of the anticipation that we're accustomed to see

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Speaker 1: him from from Aaron Rodgers was there. And then obviously

578
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Speaker 1: he's corrected because there is nobody playing at his level,

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Speaker 1: and he's on when he is on like he is

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Speaker 1: right now, he is the best in the league. And

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Speaker 1: I don't think there's a close second. Now he's the best.

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Speaker 1: He's also the scariest and the reason teams are fearful

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Speaker 1: of having to face to Green Bay packages because you

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Speaker 1: know that Aaron Rodgers, single handed league can lead that

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Speaker 1: offense to forty fifty plus points and so no matter

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Speaker 1: how will you play offensively, he can put you in

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Speaker 1: buying because you just can't slow them down. What I'm

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Speaker 1: seeing from the Green Bay Packers now, all those young

589
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Speaker 1: receivers that beginning to incorporate into the mix, Davante Adams around,

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Speaker 1: the cop has been there, Jordy Nelson, but Tyer Montgomery

591
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Speaker 1: going to the backfield and being kind of like that

592
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Speaker 1: matchup nightmare from the backfield, either as a runner as

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Speaker 1: a receiver. It has given them another option. They still

594
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Speaker 1: need to be able to find a way to muster

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Speaker 1: a consistent running game, but with Aaron Rodgers being able

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Speaker 1: to play the way that he's played for years, kind

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Speaker 1: of playing in and out of the pocket, off platform,

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Speaker 1: second reaction replays, scrambled tosses, they are tough to the

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Speaker 1: fin and Jordy Nelson is becoming more comfortable with the knee.

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Speaker 1: You're seeing him begin to have big games. He and

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Speaker 1: DeVante Adams have a ton of touchdowns. The Green Bay

602
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Speaker 1: Packers are dangerous. I still don't know about their defense,

603
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Speaker 1: but offensively they are scary as any unit in football

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Speaker 1: all rlett I went back just through his game walks

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Speaker 1: for fun here starting so Week Tenant at Tennessee. They lose,

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Speaker 1: they get blown out by the typees right, he has

607
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Speaker 1: two touchdowns, two picks. Was not a great day for

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Speaker 1: him since that day that was Week ten. I'll go

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Speaker 1: week eleven through the end of the season. H Uh.

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Speaker 1: We could love and Washington three touchdowns, no picks, Philly

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Speaker 1: two touchdowns, no picks, Houston two touchdowns, no picks, Seattle

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Speaker 1: three touchdowns, no picks. Chicago they won, no touchdowns for him.

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Speaker 1: I believe he had a Russian touchdown in that game.

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Speaker 1: And then Minnesota four touchdowns, no picks. Dude has not

615
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Speaker 1: thrown an interception since November. I mean he's been on fire.

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Speaker 1: I mean, how else can you say that he's been

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Speaker 1: on fire. He's done a bunch of great things with

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Speaker 1: the ball in his hand, throwing it all over the yard.

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Speaker 1: They have picked up their play. And when you and

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Speaker 1: I talked about franchise quarterbacks, and I think that label

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Speaker 1: is kind of overused. Part of what you want when

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Speaker 1: you have a franchise quarterback is there's a belief in

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Speaker 1: the building that if you give this guy a shot

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Speaker 1: in a game, that he can get you out of

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Speaker 1: any situation. That is the belief that they have in

626
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Speaker 1: Lambeau with Aaron Rodgers. They believe in anyone and done scenario,

627
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Speaker 1: their quarterback is better than your quarterback and they can win.

628
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Speaker 1: And as they continue to win these games, that off

629
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Speaker 1: in his growth. So if they get in the tournament,

630
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Speaker 1: they're a dangerous team because that belief can spread like wildfire.

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Speaker 1: And that makes him a very dangerous team because Aaron

632
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Speaker 1: Rodgers has proven time and time again that he can

633
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Speaker 1: do it and play at a high level for us

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Speaker 1: the same period of time. Well, you know the one

635
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Speaker 1: guy that I forget. And it's funny because I do

636
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:21,919
Speaker 1: this all the time. Because of New England, Patriots have

637
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:26,240
Speaker 1: reached this status of boringly good. Um, I mean it's

638
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Speaker 1: not their games, aren't. I mean, they just beat everybody

639
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:31,520
Speaker 1: they played. When when Tom Brady is healthy, right, I mean,

640
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:33,760
Speaker 1: there's nothing more predictable than then when in their division

641
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:36,560
Speaker 1: every year, it's just about easily as predictable as them

642
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:38,400
Speaker 1: being in it's in the a f C championship game.

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady. Um, I think it's just because everything's already

644
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Speaker 1: set for them that they seem like they already have

645
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Speaker 1: their division wrapped up. Maybe we don't pay as much

646
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Speaker 1: attention to them, but I mean, I say, nobody's close

647
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Speaker 1: to Aaron Rodgers obviously, the Tom Brady belongs in that

648
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:56,360
Speaker 1: discussion and touchdowns, two picks since he came off suspension,

649
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Speaker 1: He's lost one football game since he's been there, So uh,

650
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Speaker 1: they season. I think they're the favorite, in my opinion,

651
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Speaker 1: to win the whole thing. Um and tom Brady, the

652
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:07,320
Speaker 1: trust me, he definitely belongs up in there in that

653
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Speaker 1: class there. And Rogers, well, I think he definitely does.

654
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Speaker 1: And I do believe that the favorites to come out

655
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Speaker 1: of the NFC. The thing about the Padres, and I

656
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:16,480
Speaker 1: will say this a lot of times, their issues won't

657
00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:19,680
Speaker 1: be exposed until they play a team that is super

658
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 1: talented in a playoff game, meaning last year when they

659
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Speaker 1: play not gonna be the postseason yeah, I mean, I mean,

660
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 1: you're absolutely right, because I felt like the Denver Broncos

661
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 1: with the team that matched up with them and didn't

662
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:33,640
Speaker 1: have necessarily the fear factor to slow them down. I

663
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Speaker 1: do believe that there is a point in the playoffs

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Speaker 1: where they're going to miss Rob Gronkowski because when I

665
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Speaker 1: look at the composition of their roster, I still don't

666
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 1: know on the perimeter, who is the guy that scares you.

667
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Speaker 1: Everything is about number twelve and he's able to make

668
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Speaker 1: up for it. But I still believe at some point

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Speaker 1: you have to have more talented players on the perimeter

670
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Speaker 1: in the opposition. Maybe they can get away with it.

671
00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:58,880
Speaker 1: Maybe the systematically can carve you up, because they've done

672
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Speaker 1: it throughout the regular season. In the playoffs though, I

673
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:04,840
Speaker 1: just like to believe that, like the best teams have

674
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Speaker 1: to overcome some level of adversity, and I just don't

675
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Speaker 1: know if they can overcome it without Rob Gronkowski in

676
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Speaker 1: the mix. No Rob ground Kowski, but Pittsburgh can't heat

677
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Speaker 1: him up, I know. Like That's what I'm saying. Like

678
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:20,560
Speaker 1: the match up, the matchups, the matchups are different because

679
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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh gives them the biggest challenge in terms of attacking

680
00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:27,480
Speaker 1: their defense in Pittsburgh's offense. But I would say Kansas

681
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:31,160
Speaker 1: City is probably the best matchup from a defensive standpoint

682
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Speaker 1: to be able to slow them down because Kansas City

683
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:37,040
Speaker 1: has the ability to lock them up and man demand defensively,

684
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:39,480
Speaker 1: they can heat them up up front. They have safeties

685
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Speaker 1: and Eric Berry. The problem is on offense. Can they

686
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Speaker 1: score enough points? Last year? I know a lot of

687
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:49,200
Speaker 1: people would dismissed that playoff game. That playoff game was

688
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 1: kind of competitive up in Gillette. I don't know if

689
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Speaker 1: they can do it, but I do remember kan City

690
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 1: still has confidence because a few years ago they beat

691
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Speaker 1: them down in their place. I don't think they'd be afraid.

692
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Speaker 1: I just don't know if they can generate enough points

693
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Speaker 1: to get a shootout with the Patriots. All right, Buck,

694
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Speaker 1: we're running a little on time here. One of the

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Speaker 1: things I didn't want to point out. Congratulations to the

696
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Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns. We picked them a week early, but I

697
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 1: picked him again. I picked him again last week. I

698
00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 1: picked him last week? Or did you pick him again

699
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 1: that I did because I had a little well done

700
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:22,400
Speaker 1: that should give us, like Marquee building on podcast, pick

701
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 1: them on whatever it is yeah, I don't know. My

702
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:27,120
Speaker 1: picks usually drag us down on that one. But no,

703
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Speaker 1: good good on you for for calling that when they

704
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Speaker 1: get their win, get off what the twenty games they

705
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 1: lost in a row. But but good for that. But

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Speaker 1: I will say on the other side of that, the

707
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Speaker 1: uh the Chargers bright spot terrible year might lose your

708
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 1: team is good. Yeah. Nine and a half sacks. Yeah's

709
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:49,080
Speaker 1: early year. He's already good. Nine and a half sacks.

710
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Speaker 1: I mean like they have some interesting piece and I

711
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,440
Speaker 1: know it has been kind of heating up about them

712
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:57,720
Speaker 1: probably moving on from Mike McCoy at the end of

713
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Speaker 1: the season, and it's unfortunate that injuries a kind of

714
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 1: sabotize them. But when you lose to the Browns, I mean,

715
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 1: you're gonna get all of that. But I will say

716
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:09,280
Speaker 1: it is a good job because they have young pieces

717
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:11,680
Speaker 1: that you can build around. The quarterback still turns it

718
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:13,440
Speaker 1: over a little too much from some of that is

719
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 1: expected because he doesn't have a lot at times that

720
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Speaker 1: he's playing with. But I think that's a job where

721
00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 1: in the right situation, you can turn that around. You

722
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:23,840
Speaker 1: can get back on track. Oh man, I would love

723
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 1: to see um a couple of guys I would love

724
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:28,760
Speaker 1: to see that would fit in great with the Chargers,

725
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Speaker 1: But you know that they've got you. Denzil Perriman is

726
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 1: a good player. I think man Tit Tail might be

727
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:34,880
Speaker 1: coming up on free agency. But when you look at

728
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Speaker 1: when you look at their defense right now, right if

729
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 1: you've got Joey Bosa, who's a Joey Bosa really throw anger,

730
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:44,560
Speaker 1: their whole defensive line is really good. But Joey Bosa

731
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 1: Melbaning or not a heck of a pair coming off

732
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Speaker 1: the edge right lead, it's a good player. Inside me

733
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 1: Bane is good. So they're good. They're fort front level,

734
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 1: outstanding at the at the in the secondary. Now you

735
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Speaker 1: get Casey Haer who's played great that you're going the

736
00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:00,960
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl. You get Jason Varette back off injury next year.

737
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Speaker 1: Uh now, what if you had a chance. We can't

738
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Speaker 1: go into the names of these kids because they're under

739
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 1: class but if you're the Chargers, what if you said, uh,

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Speaker 1: we'll actually this one is the sne What if you

741
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 1: what if you one got Reuben Foster in this draft

742
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Speaker 1: and threw him in the middle of that defense, absolutely

743
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:18,960
Speaker 1: would he looked good. And the other one is what

744
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 1: if you just said, all right, we're gonna get the

745
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 1: best safety, one of the top this this drafted loaded safety.

746
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 1: There a ton of difference making safeties. What if they

747
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 1: got a safety to throw in that secondary with those

748
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 1: two corners to kind of kind of clean up everything. Um,

749
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Speaker 1: there's one that we both love that can play up,

750
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Speaker 1: that can play back to say if he is the

751
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:39,920
Speaker 1: dude so uh man, that's an exciting, exciting piece they

752
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 1: could add to that defense to make it really a

753
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Speaker 1: dominating defense. And if you wanted to give the if

754
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Speaker 1: you want to give the quarterback another weapon, how about

755
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:49,040
Speaker 1: throwing uh you know, I would say his name, but

756
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:52,480
Speaker 1: he plays for Clemston and where's number seven? He looked

757
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 1: pretty good out there? He would you know the thing

758
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:58,400
Speaker 1: that I'll say, like and even thinking about the charges,

759
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 1: what I would like to see him? And I know, um,

760
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:05,480
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers is an outstanding guy. But I think, as

761
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 1: you pointed out the talent that is on their team,

762
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:10,680
Speaker 1: I think they kind of have to need to shift

763
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:13,640
Speaker 1: the way they play a little bit to be a

764
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:17,440
Speaker 1: little more and defense power football. Look, you still have

765
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Speaker 1: the big time quarterback, but let's not make it the

766
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Speaker 1: Philip Rivers show every week. Let's see if we can

767
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 1: grind it out a little bit, play good defense, and

768
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Speaker 1: then have Philip be the guy that he can. He

769
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 1: can take over if we need to. If they play

770
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Speaker 1: like that, I think they can be a team that

771
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:33,880
Speaker 1: can get right back in the postseason mix and be

772
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:35,719
Speaker 1: a legitimate team because I like the young town that

773
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:38,279
Speaker 1: they have on on defense. I just think they need

774
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:40,400
Speaker 1: to change a little bit of how they approached the

775
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:42,640
Speaker 1: game offensively, and maybe some of that has to do

776
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 1: with the offensive line and some of that stuff. But

777
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:45,400
Speaker 1: if they do that, I think they can get right

778
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 1: back in the picture. Yeah, let's just solve their problems

779
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 1: right now. Let's get one of those defensive studs we

780
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:51,360
Speaker 1: talked about in the first round. Let's come back in

781
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:54,360
Speaker 1: the second round get one of the top interior offensive

782
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:56,960
Speaker 1: linemen uh to plug in and help you out in

783
00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:59,319
Speaker 1: that regard. And then the third round, let's still get

784
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 1: another path sketcher. You're gonna get Keenan Allen back healthy.

785
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 1: You know how different that team is gonna look with

786
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen, Jason Brett, Danny Woodhead, all those different pieces. Obviously,

787
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:11,480
Speaker 1: Bovin Gordon did not play the other day at running

788
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:13,799
Speaker 1: back he had hit back healthy Hunter Henry another year

789
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,840
Speaker 1: in um. So, I mean, look that team is again

790
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 1: there's there's some optimism there and you know having a

791
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:22,600
Speaker 1: great year. We touched on a couple of teams like that, Arizona, Jacksonville,

792
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 1: San Diego. There's there's some reason for hope they're going

793
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:26,879
Speaker 1: into the future. No question hasn't been a good year

794
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 1: for those teams, but there's there's a talent there, absolutely

795
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 1: is um optimism there for a quick rebuild, a real

796
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Speaker 1: quick Before the show, we talked about Andrew Luck and

797
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Speaker 1: some of the things that you'd you'd seen from him,

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Speaker 1: disappointing or not. What's your stance on Andrew Luck and

799
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:43,799
Speaker 1: where you kind of stacks right now? Well, you know,

800
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Speaker 1: I remember the debate with Jill Flacco everybody got sick of.

801
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:49,960
Speaker 1: Is Jill Flacco leaves you know and go there. I mean, look,

802
00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:53,160
Speaker 1: I hate the word eleap, but when I stack up

803
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:56,040
Speaker 1: the best quarterbacks in the league, I don't. I don't

804
00:35:56,040 --> 00:36:00,440
Speaker 1: think Andrew Luck quite belongs in that top, top top group. Um.

805
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:02,719
Speaker 1: You know, just every game that you watch, he does

806
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 1: some unbelievable things. Um, but he has two or three

807
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:08,400
Speaker 1: just head scratching and throws. He just doesn't protect the football.

808
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:11,120
Speaker 1: The two picks again this last week against the Raiders,

809
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:12,960
Speaker 1: one of them is just kind of a head scratcher

810
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,520
Speaker 1: down there in the red zone. Um, but no, I

811
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:18,279
Speaker 1: think he's really good. I just don't think when you

812
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:23,479
Speaker 1: talk about the the manning the Rogers, I mean, yeah, sorry,

813
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 1: that man Payton's gone. But you talk about Tom Brady,

814
00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:29,120
Speaker 1: you talk about Roethlisberger, you talked about Aaron Rodgers, talk

815
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:32,360
Speaker 1: about Drew Brees, those guys up there in that mix,

816
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 1: I don't think he belongs in that discussion with that guy.

817
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:37,239
Speaker 1: I think he's in that that next tier. I mean,

818
00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:39,120
Speaker 1: we we talked about it earlier. I would take I

819
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 1: would take Russell Wilson over him right now. Uh, some

820
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 1: of those other guys are right, yeah, Because I think

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Speaker 1: I think you can make it more like Kirk what's

822
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 1: a direent swet him and Kirk Cousins right now. As

823
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Speaker 1: crazy as that sounds, I think you actually can make

824
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Speaker 1: the argument is Andrew Luck a top ten quarterback? Like?

825
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:55,840
Speaker 1: Is he a top ten quarterback? Would you rather have

826
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Speaker 1: Andrew Luck or Matt Ryan? Would you rather have Andrew Luck?

827
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 1: Or Derek Carr. You know, as you go down the list,

828
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Speaker 1: is he one of those guys that's going to be

829
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:06,320
Speaker 1: in that conversation? And I think he's kind of enjoyed

830
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:08,239
Speaker 1: a magic carper right up the top of the charts

831
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Speaker 1: where we've kind of annointed him as the as the

832
00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:12,480
Speaker 1: next coming, and some of that is due to our

833
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:15,280
Speaker 1: draft grades on him prior to But when you really

834
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:18,239
Speaker 1: look at it, what has he done the last two

835
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:21,880
Speaker 1: years to really merit being in that conversation as one

836
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 1: of those guys. How about this number right here? Uh,

837
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Speaker 1: over the last two years. Okay, Kirk Cousins last year

838
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:36,120
Speaker 1: nine touchdowns, eleven picks. Yards. He has five rushing touchdowns

839
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Speaker 1: last year, about five this year. You look at Kirk Cousins,

840
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 1: He's got forty yards with a game to go. I

841
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:45,319
Speaker 1: mean last year he completed seven past this year at

842
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:50,399
Speaker 1: seven this year touchdowns, only ten picks. He has four

843
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:52,800
Speaker 1: more rushing touches. You've got nine rushing touchdowns in the

844
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 1: last two years. So I'm just saying that people kind

845
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:58,520
Speaker 1: of have you have your bias and you're kind of

846
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:01,040
Speaker 1: married to your college dator at this what that or whatever,

847
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:03,920
Speaker 1: and uh, but I mean Kirk Cousins. You can look

848
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 1: at his numbers pretty much across the board. Um, it's better.

849
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 1: And this is my other argument, and we've talked about

850
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:12,520
Speaker 1: it before. Other people are now I think starting to

851
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:14,279
Speaker 1: point out I saw I think that right. Maybe it

852
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:17,160
Speaker 1: tweeted the doubt the other day. But to all the

853
00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 1: people out there that say the common the common thing

854
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 1: is all Andrew looks the one man ban. It's just him.

855
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:24,799
Speaker 1: That's a one that's a one win team. No no no,

856
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 1: no, no no, no, no, no, no no no. Last year,

857
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:29,359
Speaker 1: I believe they were two and five with Luck got hurt,

858
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:31,480
Speaker 1: hassleback came in there, there were something like six and

859
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:33,840
Speaker 1: three without him. Yeah, it's a nice narrative, but the

860
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:35,879
Speaker 1: story is not accurate when you talk about him being

861
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:38,760
Speaker 1: a one man gag. Um. You can you can point

862
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:41,240
Speaker 1: to the amount of picks and capitol that they surrounded

863
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 1: by the first round players that they put around them,

864
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:45,880
Speaker 1: what they've tried to do in the passing game. They

865
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 1: haven't been able to necessarily generate the running game. But

866
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:50,880
Speaker 1: he certainly has enough weapons where you can say, no, Andrew,

867
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:53,400
Speaker 1: you can't, I need more. And when you're the highest

868
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 1: paid player at the position, the expectation is to deliver more.

869
00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:59,759
Speaker 1: So I think the criticism is just I think we

870
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:02,279
Speaker 1: have to talk about him being a guy that has

871
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:05,279
Speaker 1: to play better. He needs to play better as the

872
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:07,799
Speaker 1: franchise quarterback, Like there's a level in the standard of

873
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:09,840
Speaker 1: play that you expect from a guy that has paid

874
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 1: what he's paid. And so I think we're right, and

875
00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:15,080
Speaker 1: I do believe it's debatable whether he's a top ten

876
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:18,400
Speaker 1: quarterback in our league. And by the way rushing lines,

877
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 1: they have done a better job of that lately. I mean,

878
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 1: Frank Gore's played better. There's a twenty feet rushing team

879
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:26,120
Speaker 1: in the league, okay, but that's more middle of the

880
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:27,839
Speaker 1: pack than it is that you know, they're not like

881
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:30,120
Speaker 1: thirty or thirty feet, you know, down there in that

882
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 1: in that territory twenty one. And I don't think that

883
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:35,000
Speaker 1: he's got nearly as much pressure on him. I know

884
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:36,799
Speaker 1: the sacks are high from earlier the year, but since

885
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:38,840
Speaker 1: they put the young guys in there, those stacks against

886
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:41,840
Speaker 1: that Raider group last week, I know he's under some pressure,

887
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:43,920
Speaker 1: but he has not. When you just look at the

888
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:46,320
Speaker 1: total number of stacks over the last six or seven games,

889
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:49,040
Speaker 1: not that many they've run the ball better, They've done

890
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:51,000
Speaker 1: a better job of protecting him. But I'm not saying

891
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:53,520
Speaker 1: Andrew looks not a good player. He's really good. He's

892
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:56,200
Speaker 1: just You're right when you start stacking up the list

893
00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:59,400
Speaker 1: of quarterbacks, I don't know that he's uh he's up

894
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:01,759
Speaker 1: there in that top tier group. But in looking at

895
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 1: all the numbers that we just discussed, I think the

896
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:07,719
Speaker 1: biggest wow to me, and maybe the most underrated, is

897
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:10,760
Speaker 1: that is that fact that Kirk Cousins of nine Russian

898
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 1: touchdowns in the last two years. It has bananas. The

899
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:15,000
Speaker 1: fact that they've been able to get away with some

900
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:19,440
Speaker 1: quarterback draw some zone replays more athletic than maybe people imagine.

901
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:22,160
Speaker 1: I think the big thing with with with Kirk Cousins

902
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 1: and what people have to kind of determine if you're

903
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:28,160
Speaker 1: watching and you have to figure out, how can I

904
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:30,600
Speaker 1: build a team around him, Because once he commands that

905
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:32,279
Speaker 1: kind of dollar, we have to make some decisions on

906
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:34,960
Speaker 1: the outside. Sean Jackson and Pierre Gussana up which one

907
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:36,239
Speaker 1: of those guys do we keep or do we try

908
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:39,919
Speaker 1: and find another playmaker? Uh, is just important that you

909
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:42,920
Speaker 1: give him everything that he needs to be able to

910
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:44,600
Speaker 1: play at that level, and I don't think that's any

911
00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:47,320
Speaker 1: different than any other quarterback. I just think it's important

912
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:49,919
Speaker 1: that how do they allocate their dollars to make sure

913
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 1: that if you commit the Kurk Cousins as your long

914
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:55,759
Speaker 1: term franchise quarterback, that you give him everything that he

915
00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 1: needs so he can play at the level that you're

916
00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:01,400
Speaker 1: expecting to play. A m no question. Well look that

917
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:03,839
Speaker 1: was fun, buck. I'm and by the way, one one

918
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:08,319
Speaker 1: underrated aspect of Christmas here that I did not account for. Man,

919
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:09,640
Speaker 1: how long has it bens? You have to teach a

920
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 1: kid how to write of bikes? Oh wow, lucky. I

921
00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:17,520
Speaker 1: feel like I mean, I feel like I just did

922
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:19,400
Speaker 1: squat to drop, Like I feel like I did do

923
00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:23,200
Speaker 1: some holacious weight weight workout. You don't realize when you're

924
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:25,560
Speaker 1: hunched over and and other thing. My right form is

925
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:27,640
Speaker 1: killing me because you're at the back holding onto that

926
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:31,640
Speaker 1: but you're holding on the the the bike seat so

927
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 1: that things waving. That's a heck of a forum work out.

928
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:35,880
Speaker 1: And then you're you're crouched over and we have a

929
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 1: little park with a big circle drive, you know, so

930
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:40,960
Speaker 1: I'm running around around that circle. So I'm just running

931
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:43,399
Speaker 1: around there hunched over. Oh, Buck, I feel like I've

932
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:47,880
Speaker 1: been hit by the bus. Well, hopefully they're quick studies.

933
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:49,319
Speaker 1: They pick it up real quick and you don't have

934
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:52,120
Speaker 1: to run around behind him the entire day. Yeah, no,

935
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 1: I think today, for day two, I think I switched

936
00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 1: over to the left hand and try and steady that

937
00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:57,960
Speaker 1: day that see my left hand is trying to bounce

938
00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:00,200
Speaker 1: out to work out a little bit here. But now

939
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:02,719
Speaker 1: it was. Look, it was a great Christmas for the Jeremiahs.

940
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:04,680
Speaker 1: I'm glad you guys had a great time as well. Buck.

941
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:07,600
Speaker 1: We uh, we're gonna be off and rolling here on

942
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:09,799
Speaker 1: Bowl games. Although I know you've got our previous this

943
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:11,759
Speaker 1: week we got, we got. You've got a heck of

944
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:13,920
Speaker 1: a replacement for me coming and knock these previews out.

945
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:16,520
Speaker 1: Matting back to the show, Yeah, Matt money Smith is

946
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:18,319
Speaker 1: gonna come in and stand in for you. We'll see

947
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 1: if he can hold down to four because the standard

948
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:22,360
Speaker 1: is high on this side of the room. But it

949
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:24,400
Speaker 1: should be fun. It'd be fun to chop it up

950
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 1: with money. I'm sure he will have a discussion about

951
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:29,160
Speaker 1: some off the wall topics, maybe some mascots or two,

952
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 1: and he will always have a funny story. Don't know

953
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:34,400
Speaker 1: if money is the best, so I appreciate that, appreciate

954
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:37,440
Speaker 1: him coming in there. Uh, we'll talk to the listeners

955
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:40,120
Speaker 1: before the new year, so happy New Year. We'll be back.

956
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:42,160
Speaker 1: I'll be back next week. But like you said, him

957
00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:43,360
Speaker 1: and Money and we will hold it down for the

958
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:45,439
Speaker 1: rest of this week. We have tons of college bowl

959
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:47,279
Speaker 1: games and the playoffs will be set. We'll have lots

960
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:50,840
Speaker 1: to talk about next week. But until then, thank you

961
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:54,279
Speaker 1: guys for listening, Thanks for subscribing, Thanks for leaving us

962
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 1: reviews on on iTunes. We do appreciate it, and we'll

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00:42:57,120 --> 00:42:59,800
Speaker 1: talk to you to him. Thanks for downloading Move This

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