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Speaker 1: start well and prove that they are a different team. General,

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Speaker 1: there isn't. The Cardinals start this season with the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: They go to Las Vegas for the Raiders, they play

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Speaker 1: the Rams at home, they go to Carolina, they play Philly,

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Speaker 1: and they play at Seattle. Those are the six games

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Speaker 1: they'll play without DeAndre Hopkins. We know that Cliff Kingsbury

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Speaker 1: starts off the year typically well and then doesn't close well.

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Speaker 1: Could there be some noise in Arizona about Cliff Kingsbury's

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Speaker 1: future in those first six games for Arizona. Absolutely, if

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Speaker 1: they come out of the gate and struggle, even though

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Speaker 1: I expected without Op and without Christian Kurt J. J.

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Speaker 1: Watt's day to day Chandler Jones is gone, it won't

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Speaker 1: surprise me if they stumble out of the gate this year,

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Speaker 1: and there will be a lot of people at say,

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Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury's on the hot seat, and maybe this will

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Speaker 1: be different. He'll start slow and finish fast when Op

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Speaker 1: comes back after that six game suspension. All right, General

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio six ten tomorrow, your stuff in Gallery Sports

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Speaker 1: very much to herry now the pregame show on Sunday

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Speaker 1: as we get ready to rock for twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: RNK and John thank you guys very much. I'm appreciate

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Speaker 1: you guys having me on for another season. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a lot of fun. Gonna be a lot of fun, indeed.

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Speaker 1: All right, coming up, we will talk about some of

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Speaker 1: the matchups. Johnny and I break some of the stuff down.

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Speaker 1: He'll do his official picks tomorrow, but I want to

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Speaker 1: bat some of these games around. There's some injuries that

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Speaker 1: are going to play a part as well, and with

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Speaker 1: the Texans taking on the Colts, some of the new

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Speaker 1: watches of the matchup, and is tonight the last huge

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Speaker 1: Thursday night TV rating we get all year? We'll tell

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Speaker 1: you why that might be. It's Texans Radio. Stay tuned

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Speaker 1: We return to Texans Radio. All right, Mark vandamer John

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Speaker 1: Harris with you, Johnny Texans quarterbacks who won their first

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Speaker 1: start opening day, well, their first opening day start, I'll

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Speaker 1: word it that way, their first opening day start. And

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Speaker 1: obviously that would be the case for Mills because he

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Speaker 1: started Week three last year, came in in the second

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Speaker 1: half of week two. So David Carr one September eighth,

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Speaker 1: two thousand and two, Matt shob one in two thousand

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Speaker 1: and seven, he won first something start to go back

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Speaker 1: for something. What day did David Carr get it? His

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Speaker 1: wine twenty years ago. Tonight it's a twenty year anniversary

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Speaker 1: beating the Cowboys. How about that happen? It's nice day. Wow,

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Speaker 1: it's nineteen ten day, and it's that was the score

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Speaker 1: of the game. And you know, for a while, I

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Speaker 1: never had to remind people of that, but now you do,

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Speaker 1: because you know, like we have interns working in our

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Speaker 1: digital media depart and they're like, ha, what does nineteen

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Speaker 1: ten mean? Right? It's like in Texas history eighteen thirty six,

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Speaker 1: what does that mean? If you're not from here, you

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Speaker 1: don't get it right away? And with the Texans nineteen ten,

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Speaker 1: what does that mean? That's a significant score. I don't

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Speaker 1: remember scores, you know. People think I'm all geeked out

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Speaker 1: with this like photographic memory of past Texans games, and

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Speaker 1: I kind of do have one, but it's more for

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Speaker 1: how it kind of played out, who won, who lost,

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Speaker 1: what were the storylines. I don't always remember the score,

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Speaker 1: but that one you're always going to remember anyway. Shop

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Speaker 1: In two thousand and seven, Texans beat the Chiefs. Andre

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Speaker 1: Johnson had a seventy plus touchdown reception. Seventy plus yard

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Speaker 1: touchdown reception is longest of his career at that point,

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Speaker 1: he hadn't gone over fifty five and it wasn't his fault.

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Speaker 1: Let's see, the next quarterback to start on opening day

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Speaker 1: for this team didn't happen till twenty fourteen when fitz

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Speaker 1: He won his opening day start. Yeah, yeah, Brian Hoyer

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Speaker 1: did not. Okay, because that was twenty five team. Brock did.

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Speaker 1: Brock did. He won his opening day start against the

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Speaker 1: Chicago Bears. And check this out. You know, I know

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Speaker 1: that we've talked about this over the years. Brock was

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Speaker 1: two and oh against the Colts, best winning percentage against

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Speaker 1: the Colts in Texans history for quarterbacks. Obviously, shot, you're

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Speaker 1: walking right into it right now, you're walking right into it.

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Speaker 1: They're fans going, I mean, I know you spin facts,

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Speaker 1: but you're the wasn't because of although well, look, I

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Speaker 1: could say the first way that he had well, the

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Speaker 1: first the first win he had on Sunday Night Football

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Speaker 1: where they came back, that was Brock playing well in

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, Okay, and overtime. Brock played well in

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Speaker 1: that game. I will stick to that now. The one

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Speaker 1: day won later that year, up there wasn't exactly a

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Speaker 1: dynamic performance by Brock. That was a great defensive performance

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Speaker 1: by the Texans. I mean, they really did the job

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Speaker 1: in that one. Anyway, Davis Mills has a chance to

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Speaker 1: win his first opening day start when he takes on

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Speaker 1: the Cold Sun Sunday. Let's do who's better here game

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Speaker 1: style as we go over some of these contests, Johnny,

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Speaker 1: and I've asked you a version of this, but I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna do it again. Who's better? As far as the

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Speaker 1: quarterback high end rental for the Colts, Philip Rivers at

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Speaker 1: his best, okay for Indy, not in his career. Carson

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Speaker 1: Wentz at his best for Indy, remember they were going

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Speaker 1: good for a while last year. Or Matt Ryan whatever

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Speaker 1: his best will be. Who's the best of those three?

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Speaker 1: Do it? I really hope it's not Matt Ryan. I

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Speaker 1: really hope it's not because it is. Oh boy, now

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Speaker 1: I don't think it will be. I thought they achieved

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Speaker 1: a very nice level with Carson Wentz when they were

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Speaker 1: humming along there until the wheel fell off against the

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Speaker 1: Raiders of the Jaguars late. I would rather face Carson

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Speaker 1: Wentz on Sunday than I would Matt Ryan. And there's

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Speaker 1: a part of me they can't believe I'm gonna say that,

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Speaker 1: but I really don't mind facing Ryan from the standpoint

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Speaker 1: of it's the first time running that offense for a

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Speaker 1: full sixty minutes. And it's not like Matt Ryan is

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Speaker 1: sitting there with Mohammed Sanou and Julio Jones and Austin Hooper.

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Speaker 1: He's got guys that are good. Michael Pittman's are really

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Speaker 1: good receivers. Now know, Julio Jones, Alec Pierce is a rookie,

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Speaker 1: has never played in the game, although I do think

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Speaker 1: al Pierce is gonna be very good. You never know

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Speaker 1: what happens in the opener, and moa Ali Cox is

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Speaker 1: certainly not Hooper. So it's not like Ryan is just

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Speaker 1: jumping into this, you know, truly pass catcher utopia. I

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Speaker 1: think that Matt Ryan is gonna have to rely a

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Speaker 1: little bit on Jonathan Taylor, and I think that this

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Speaker 1: defense like it would against Philip Rivers. Now, the one

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Speaker 1: thing about Philip phil got the ball fast. Talking to

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Speaker 1: the guys that rushed Philip, they I mean, I remember

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Speaker 1: DJ Reader talking about it. He's like, man, he gets

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Speaker 1: rid of the ball so quick. So that was the

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Speaker 1: one thing about playing Rivers, whether he's with the Chargers

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Speaker 1: or with the Colts, he was the ball is gonna

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Speaker 1: come out. There are guys that would just barely miss Sacks.

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Speaker 1: I think Matt will hold it a little bit longer,

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Speaker 1: but I don't I wouldn't be surprised if he checks

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Speaker 1: it down early to Jonathan Taylor and the Texans second

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Speaker 1: third level defenders have just got a rally to him

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Speaker 1: and make tackles out in space. So from that perspective,

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Speaker 1: the I would probably say tougher to face Philip Rivers

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Speaker 1: just because he had that gamer quality. Man. I just

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Speaker 1: he always scared me that he was going to do

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Speaker 1: something at the end of a half or the end

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Speaker 1: of the game to find a way to get a

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Speaker 1: win somehow, some way. Yes, yes he was gonna do something,

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Speaker 1: and he didn't always do it, but I always felt

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Speaker 1: that way with him because he always had that club

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Speaker 1: in his bag. Matt Ryan, I feel, you know, confident,

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Speaker 1: he's he's gonna be a good seven seven and a

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Speaker 1: half at this point in his career. I just hope

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Speaker 1: we can take him down to a six or a

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Speaker 1: six and a half with his pass rush and Matt

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Speaker 1: Pryor's playing left tackle and Danny Panther's playing right guard,

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Speaker 1: and those are two areas in which the Texans can't exploit.

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Speaker 1: With John Grenard rushing, with Jerry Hughes rushing, with MALIEK

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Speaker 1: Collins rushing inside, those are matchups they can't exploit and

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Speaker 1: need to to get Matt Ryan on the move or

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Speaker 1: to shake him up and throw it early. So I

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Speaker 1: would say Rivers of those three, I wouldn't mind facing

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Speaker 1: Wentz because he was just a he was a meltdown

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Speaker 1: waiting to happen. And they had brought him back in

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Speaker 1: week one, Oh my goodness, it would have been awful.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the first time he went three and out,

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Speaker 1: it would be a problem. So I would say in order,

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Speaker 1: Rivers then Ryan, then wins. Okay, let's do this. Who's

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Speaker 1: better better chance to win? Carolina hosting Cleveland or Seattle

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Speaker 1: hosting Denver. Better chance to win? Carolina teams at home,

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Speaker 1: both underdogs at home. I like it too. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: like Carolina. And it's not so much Baker getting revenge

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Speaker 1: or anything like that, but I just feel like, and

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Speaker 1: we suck Carolina last year. Week three. Now, in that game,

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Speaker 1: jac Horne went down with an injury. But if Christian

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Speaker 1: Man I'm Christian mccaffree also had issues. I think it

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Speaker 1: was today with an injury, so I don't know if

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Speaker 1: he's gonna be ready to go. But if McCaffrey is

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Speaker 1: healthy and jac Horne is healthy, and they've already got

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Speaker 1: Derek Brown and Brian Burns and Dj Moore, Robbie Anderson,

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Speaker 1: that's a really talented team. And they had Akyaquanu on

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Speaker 1: the offensive line where they needed to have some offensive

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Speaker 1: line of help. And now you put in Baker. I

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Speaker 1: don't know how much more competent he is than Sam.

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Speaker 1: But if Baker's wound the way we think he's going

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Speaker 1: to be, he's gonna be dialed in on Sunday against

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Speaker 1: the Browns and the Browns starting Jacoby Brissette. I mean, look, Jacoby,

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Speaker 1: we've seen him a numerous time times and Jacoby can

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Speaker 1: be very hit or missed. Jacoby can hold on to

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Speaker 1: the football, and if you're gonna hold onto the football,

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Speaker 1: it gets that pass rush, you're gonna have issues. I

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Speaker 1: think the Panthers are really and that's why the push

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Speaker 1: for Deshaw Watson wasn't surprising. That's a really talented squad

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Speaker 1: that if it gets the right proper quarterback play, whether

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Speaker 1: it's Baker or anybody else, I think they can be

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Speaker 1: in this thing, especially in the NFC South where you

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Speaker 1: never know what's gonna happen with Brady and the Saints

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Speaker 1: don't have it settled at quarterback, and the Falcons are

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Speaker 1: still they're kind of back at square one. So the

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Speaker 1: Panthers could be there, But you know, just Baker, I

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Speaker 1: don't know, but in this one, if Baker just relaxes

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Speaker 1: in plays and I don't know if he can do that,

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Speaker 1: if he just relaxes settles in, I think the Panthers

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Speaker 1: can pull that upset Seattle with Gino Smith, like you

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Speaker 1: can miss me with that Mark, you can just forget that. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Texans fans, you got a root for the Browns to

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Speaker 1: lose every game for our obvious reasons. That improves your

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Speaker 1: draft stock because they possess one of your two first

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Speaker 1: round picks next year. McCaffrey cut a shit an injury

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Speaker 1: on his shin a cleat, caught it and cut it

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Speaker 1: and he's still practicing apparently, so he should still be available.

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Speaker 1: What about Shack Leonard? What about Shack Darius Leonard because

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Speaker 1: he was as McLain said a full participant yesterday limited today.

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Speaker 1: I like the direction this is headed in for his

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Speaker 1: own safety, Johnny, I'm not wishing to injury out anybody.

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Speaker 1: I think he needs to stay safe and not play.

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Speaker 1: I mean they've got I think it's the Jags next.

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Speaker 1: If I remember correctly, I can see them gosh, thinking, look,

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Speaker 1: let's buy you two more weeks. We can handle the Texans,

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Speaker 1: we can handle the Jags. We need you for week three.

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Speaker 1: I think week three's the Chiefs. If I remember correctly,

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Speaker 1: I could see them trying to pull that off, and hey,

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Speaker 1: let's get you a practice this, Let's get you kind

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Speaker 1: of in a lather. Let's see how you feel and

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Speaker 1: how you reagen after practice. But no games for the

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Speaker 1: first two weeks will get you and keep you ready

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Speaker 1: for the Chiefs. Now, if they pull that off and

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Speaker 1: come out of their two and oh, I mean, it'll

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Speaker 1: be a masterful stroke. I'm believing he's playing until I

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Speaker 1: see the inactive list that says Shaquille Darius Leonard not playing,

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Speaker 1: not active. The question I asked McLean earlier, and I'll

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Speaker 1: ask you the same thing. That defense without Leonard. Sure

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Speaker 1: they got Bucker, they got Grover Stewart paying and Gockway

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Speaker 1: and his stuff found Gilmore and Kenny Moore is just

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Speaker 1: a dude. Julian Blackman is one of the more underrated

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Speaker 1: safeties in the league. But without fifty three, that's a

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Speaker 1: different unit because of everything he brings to it. That's

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Speaker 1: a different defense without Shaquille Leonard. So I'm going with

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Speaker 1: the fact that he's playing. But Mark, if he's not there,

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Speaker 1: how much does it change? Oh? Obviously it changes, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think either way. Look, everyone's gonna be so hyped up.

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Speaker 1: It's opening day, and that's one thing. The energy is

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Speaker 1: then you gotta play, you know, a few snaps and

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, it's football again, right settle into

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Speaker 1: don't like. As the opponent gets turnovers, rallies, his team

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Speaker 1: other players. I don't like it one single bit. Him

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Speaker 1: not playing would be a huge help, obviously. Let's see

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Speaker 1: how it plays out. All right, we have one more segment,

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Speaker 1: Deep Steel Blue Johnny Thursday Night Football Tonight. So people

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Speaker 1: understand this Tonight is an NBC broadcast. It's really Sunday

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Speaker 1: Night Football on Thursday. Sometimes they actually call it Sunday

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Speaker 1: Night Football when they're on another night, which is weird.

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Speaker 1: that way. Whatever. But it's Tariko tonight, Mike Tariko on

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Speaker 1: seat in the number one show on television, Sunday Night Football,

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Speaker 1: and it'll call tonight's game. After tonight, it's all Amazon

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Speaker 1: all the time unless your team is in the game,

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Speaker 1: meaning the Texans and Eagles November third, battle Red Night

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Speaker 1: that will be on Fox twenty six. They got rights

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Speaker 1: to do the game locally and it will also be

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Speaker 1: an Amazon. So it's kind of weird but understandable. So

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Speaker 1: every Thursday Night gained that's not involving the Texans, which

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Speaker 1: is everything. But one week you're gonna be logging on

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Speaker 1: to Amazon after this week, because this is the opener

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Speaker 1: everybody following along. There will be a quiz on this later.

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Speaker 1: But Johnny, the rating nationally for the Texans forty nine

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Speaker 1: ers in the preseason not so hot. Locally it was good,

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Speaker 1: but not so hot nationally. And by not so hot,

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Speaker 1: I mean around a million people watch this game on Amazon.

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Speaker 1: I'm a little concerned about some of the old timers.

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Speaker 1: That would not include me, ladies and gentlemen, but some

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Speaker 1: of the people are less savvy about, Hey, where's the game?

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Speaker 1: What's the game on? If it's not on my channel? Guy,

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Speaker 1: does it even exist? Where am I going to find it?

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Speaker 1: What do you think of that as we move forward

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Speaker 1: into next week. I think that is a very important

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Speaker 1: thing that needs to be considered. We'll just get on

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Speaker 1: you'll be fine. And that's just not the way that

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Speaker 1: That's not the way that it goes for a lot

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Speaker 1: of people. Some people don't even know how to on

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Speaker 1: a computer. If you told Harris the Senior, Hey, Pops,

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Speaker 1: games on Amazon are you good with that? He'd look

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Speaker 1: at me like, yeah, how do I get it? Where

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Speaker 1: do I go? So? What do you mean? Yeah, like

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Speaker 1: Like what am I doing? It's just it's his Amazon

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Speaker 1: Prime thing? Like, well, Jayberg? But how where's the game? Um?

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Speaker 1: So yeah, there's there's definitely gonna be some of that. Um. However,

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Speaker 1: I think even in our business, what are we always

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Speaker 1: asking ourselves? How do we get to the young folks?

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Speaker 1: Not to say that the older I mean the fifty

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Speaker 1: somethings in plus and over that we are now um

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Speaker 1: you know, don't matter, but the younger crowd does. And

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Speaker 1: how do you get to the younger crowd? Well, you

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Speaker 1: go to them? And where are they? Where are they?

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Speaker 1: They're streaming, They're on YouTube. Um, and it's it was

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Speaker 1: you I say this about um about Luke, you know,

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Speaker 1: one man focus group. I mean growing up with my

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Speaker 1: When my daughter knew what was hot. I would look

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Speaker 1: over there and I'm like, what are you watching? She's like, oh,

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Speaker 1: I'm watching YouTube and just on YouTube all the time.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, well, and so they're hours. Yeah, and then

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Speaker 1: for about an about a year later, I found myself

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Speaker 1: doing it. I turn on my Apple TV, I stream

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Speaker 1: everything now, and I'm on YouTube and I find everything

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Speaker 1: I'm looking for it and doesn't and it just it

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Speaker 1: sends you down warmhosse. But the point being they're always

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Speaker 1: looking for the younger crowd, so Amazon can't get Auntie

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Speaker 1: in some sense. Well, wait, these numbers aren't that good.

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Speaker 1: Just give it time. Give it time, because more younger

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Speaker 1: people will be streaming and they'll find it, and at

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Speaker 1: that point, maybe they can do something for the you know,

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Speaker 1: fifty somethings, maybe the octogenarians out there looking for it.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how they're gonna do that, but I

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Speaker 1: think if they can help them do that, then maybe

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Speaker 1: what older folks will find is, hey, this isn't that bad.

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Speaker 1: It's just different, and maybe that's where it goes. But

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Speaker 1: I am a little concerned from that. But yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think they'll they'll be okay, Yeah, they'll promote the daylights

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Speaker 1: out of it starting next week. I think they don't

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Speaker 1: want to confuse the issue this week because this is

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Speaker 1: the opener and people are used to watching it on

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Speaker 1: NBC and all of that, so this will be a

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Speaker 1: huge number tonight and then next week. I would imagine

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Speaker 1: I have Exfinity. Of course Exffinity. I love them and

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Speaker 1: the Channel Guide. I still love my Channel Guide. I

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Speaker 1: bet they. I bet Amazon purchases one of those little

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Speaker 1: bands in the Channel Guy where you can click there

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Speaker 1: and that'll send you to the Amazon app and if

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Speaker 1: you're not a member, if you're not logged in, they'll

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Speaker 1: ask you to log in. If you are a loged

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Speaker 1: it'll just pop up and the game will be right there.

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Speaker 1: But we'll see how they handle it. There's a lot

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Speaker 1: of work to do between now and then, most importantly

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Speaker 1: on Sunday with the Texans taking on the Cults. I

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Speaker 1: cannot wait for this. Wait quick thought here thumbnail thought.

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Speaker 1: Titans and Giants. You know, we talked a bit about

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Speaker 1: nation's capital, but you have the Titans and the Giants. Man,

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Speaker 1: I would love to open with the Giants. Can't do it,

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Speaker 1: but we'll play them in November at the Mead of Lands.

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Speaker 1: That'll be cool. Do you give the Giants a snowball's

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Speaker 1: chance in this one? No? Okay? I said it with

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Speaker 1: more vitriol. No, I think. Look, I do think Sequon

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Speaker 1: Barkley bounces back. I just don't believe in Daniel Jones.

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Speaker 1: I didn't believe I believed in Daniel Jones being a tough,

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Speaker 1: gritty dude and as a quarterback. I didn't see him

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Speaker 1: And but I love his grit, his toughness, those things. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I like that about him, But I just don't see

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Speaker 1: him leading that team. And who's he thrown it too?

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Speaker 1: Lazy Kenny Galladay, Canarius Tony who couldn't stay healthy last year.

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Speaker 1: this point that's really kind of worth the darns. So

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Speaker 1: I think the Giants are building. I just don't think

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Speaker 1: And defensively, you know it's timidau ready to go. Probably

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Speaker 1: think the Titans will kind of methodically get through that one,

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Speaker 1: think they'll just methodically get through it. But I think

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Speaker 1: what will happen Mark my words like it did it

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Speaker 1: with Clemson. Kay Kobde came in and replaced dj Ungla

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Speaker 1: The Titans will do that with Willis. They'll put him

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Speaker 1: in at some point and he's gonna do something and

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Speaker 1: it's gonna get everybody in Nashville all it's Izzy. That's

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Speaker 1: what do I want to see happen? I want strife

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Speaker 1: and unrest and tension in Nashville, ladies and gentlemen. All right,

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Speaker 1: Texans called Sunday noon. Can't wait? Thank you Johnny. We'll

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Speaker 1: talk about it some more tomorrow night at six o'clock.

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Speaker 1: Lovey Smith right out of the shoot with his thoughts

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Speaker 1: on the matchup, and then a whole bunch of other

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Speaker 1: great stuff. Tomorrow evening. Go to the Texans app and

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