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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Around the NFL Podcast, presented by

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Speaker 1: New Era. I'm Greg Rosenthal in a room filled with

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Speaker 1: Pa Pats team than we've seen that's not a top

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Speaker 1: five explosive offense and trying to win games in different ways.

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Speaker 1: They still have Brady and Grounk. They still do, but like,

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Speaker 1: maybe it's the running game. Maybe it's throwing the ball

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Speaker 1: the running backs. Maybe it's your leaning on your defense

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Speaker 1: where I don't know. Before we get out of here,

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Speaker 1: you got it, Like Greg as a Patriots fan, like

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Speaker 1: this got Jawan Bentley. I think he well against Carolinias

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Speaker 1: a certain of like a buzz candidate. Yeah, that's that's

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Speaker 1: why I'm excited about this team. They have a lot

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Speaker 1: of new players. Want Batman, it looks good. Derek Rivers,

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Speaker 1: she's a fast rusher. Look good. Dietrich Wise looks a

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Speaker 1: lot better. You get done too, high tower back. It's

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Speaker 1: a nice little secondary to the inn. Okay, we get it.

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Speaker 1: Your nerds move on. Thank you. It's always Greg at

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Speaker 1: the end and always correct. Now I can't speak. I'm

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Speaker 1: going to talk about the old Buffalo Bills and three

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Speaker 1: straight minutes for three straight minutes on the quarterback situation

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Speaker 1: because Josh Allen over the weekend showed us in some

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Speaker 1: ways what an uphill battle that any Bills quarterback is

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Speaker 1: going to have, and that they were without their left

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Speaker 1: tackle Dion Dawkins, who they like, but otherwise they just

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Speaker 1: got steamrolled by the Bengals. And it was a reminder

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Speaker 1: you have guys on the outside the aren't necessarily great

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Speaker 1: receivers Corey Coleman might not even make the team reportedly,

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Speaker 1: you have Calvin Benjerman who's an okay number one. You

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Speaker 1: have no protection. And then how is Josh Allen gonna

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Speaker 1: respond to that? He couldn't do anything really over the weekend.

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Speaker 1: I didn't take that much from that performance, but it

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Speaker 1: just raised a question what do you do? Do you

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Speaker 1: go with Allen or do you just kind of throw

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Speaker 1: Nathan Peterman to the to the wolves to get punished

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Speaker 1: because it's not like he's gonna do any better than Josh.

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Speaker 1: I totally agreed, But who care? Who cares if you

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Speaker 1: ruined Nathan Peterman no offense. Nathan Peterman, who has a

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Speaker 1: he has a high upside, is a long term backup.

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Speaker 1: But they traded up for Josh Allen for a reason

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Speaker 1: because he's the one with the promising But like when

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Speaker 1: is the offensive line and the team going to be

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Speaker 1: any better. It's not like it's gonna be great by

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Speaker 1: week before. I changed my mind after this game, and

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Speaker 1: it was just as much Josh Allen's comments as it

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Speaker 1: was the interior of the offensive line which gave him

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Speaker 1: no chance, but his comments after the game about it

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Speaker 1: being eye opening the speed of NFL defenses in him

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Speaker 1: he held onto the ball too long. Yet he admitted

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Speaker 1: that a lot of those plays were designed to be

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Speaker 1: quick hitters and he didn't see what he wanted to

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Speaker 1: see before the snap. So that tells me just as

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Speaker 1: much as as the game film does that Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: doesn't feel like he's ready to beat a defense like

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Speaker 1: the Bengals right now. All of this is playing out

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Speaker 1: so much like the positive and negative of his pre

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Speaker 1: draft scouting reports, where he's gonna do some things and

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Speaker 1: he did it right out of the gate physically that

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Speaker 1: blow all of us away. And the potential is enticing,

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Speaker 1: and you want to see him in there because he's

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Speaker 1: the most exciting option of the three. But then suddenly,

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Speaker 1: when you're putting a rookie, it's the speed. The speed

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Speaker 1: is different with when you're well protected. But then the

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Speaker 1: speed is a whole different thing when you've got five

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Speaker 1: or six giant men coming at you on every play

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Speaker 1: and you're doing figure eights going behind the line of scrimmage.

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Speaker 1: I think one guy who was okay with all this

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Speaker 1: is Sean McDermott, because if if you're a quarterback that's

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Speaker 1: coming in the National Football League, you want Sean McDermott

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Speaker 1: after seeing the way he feels about Nathan Peterman, like,

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Speaker 1: get you a coach the loves you like Sean McDermott

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Speaker 1: loves Nathan Peterman because I can't imagine a quarterback coming

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Speaker 1: in under any other circumstance playing arguably the worst half

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Speaker 1: of football the quarterback's ever played. A guy gets drafted

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Speaker 1: to replace you, and still at this point in August,

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Speaker 1: you're in position to start for the football team. This

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Speaker 1: guy loves Nathan p does. But it should be pointing

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Speaker 1: out Peterman's thrown eight plus percent with basically a perfect preseason,

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Speaker 1: and he was going up against backups in this game.

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Speaker 1: But he still came in and played really well and

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Speaker 1: moved them all. So he's given him every reason. Six.

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Speaker 1: Greg is trying not to be the last one to

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Speaker 1: talk literally time, where's Dan a better answer than that,

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Speaker 1: See how I cut it off exactly at one there.

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Speaker 1: But would would Dan read this ad read as well

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Speaker 1: as I'm about to? Probably? Well, I don't know if

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Speaker 1: you want to challenge him on that, Probably a whole

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Speaker 1: lot better. But I'm just here to tell you guys,

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Speaker 1: the weight is over. Football's almost here and that means

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Speaker 1: it Fan duel season. Oh yeah, Fantasy Football's back. You've

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Speaker 1: ever play a little fan duel? West your question, you're

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Speaker 1: not allowed to gambling policy. We were sent an email

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Speaker 1: today we're not allowed to get when everyone else can.

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Speaker 1: Everyone else can, And even if you're not a fan

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Speaker 1: win each week. It locks in more importantly week to week.

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Speaker 1: You just get out there, you listen to the Around

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Speaker 1: the NFL podcast, you glean some information, and you set

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Speaker 1: your line up. I know you'd be doing it, Mark,

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Speaker 1: I mean, if I were allowed. I took a twelve

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Speaker 1: that I am not allowed to do that or bet

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Speaker 1: didn't work in the NFL for this. One reason would

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Speaker 1: now let's go to Mark, who's talking about the Cincinnati Bengals.

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Speaker 1: It's the Bengals, alright. I was scared for a completely

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Speaker 1: different team, but here we go. Yes, am I allowed

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Speaker 1: to go. It's the time that's already ticking, you know.

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Speaker 1: I see the Bengals is a little bit of pivot

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Speaker 1: point team in the a f C, which I think

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Speaker 1: is a weird conference this year number one. This will

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Speaker 1: sound unremarkable because it is, but I feel like this

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Speaker 1: can be marvinis Is. Well, I think this could be

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Speaker 1: Marvin Lewis is third best team in Cincinnati. Now, that

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Speaker 1: doesn't sound like much except you have to look at

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Speaker 1: the team which had Andy Dalton play at m v

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Speaker 1: P level and a two thousand and five team. Vation

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Speaker 1: a lot of people in the conversation, but still I

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Speaker 1: don't listen. I don't want to gush over the team

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Speaker 1: too much, but I do think that Andy Dalton could

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Speaker 1: be living his best life if he keeps up the

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Speaker 1: high octane gaffs to a minimum. Are we by I

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Speaker 1: am no one else's But if I'm not, I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to say it more than once. But I really

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Speaker 1: think the Bengals. When I was picking the playoff teams

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Speaker 1: for our website today, I really struggled because I really

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Speaker 1: wanted to put them in there, and it's hard to

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Speaker 1: because there's I don't know if you heard this as

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Speaker 1: only six a f C playoff teams, but they've almost

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Speaker 1: made the cut. Well, I put them in there, and

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Speaker 1: I took the old Steelers out just just to mix

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Speaker 1: it up. There's gotta be one really good team or

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Speaker 1: there usually is one really good team that just falls flat.

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Speaker 1: And I went with the Steelers, And I'm with you

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Speaker 1: because I like the Bengals because of their pass rush.

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Speaker 1: I think they can be uh balanced on both sides

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Speaker 1: of the ball. We saw that in the in the

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Speaker 1: Bills game. It was a reminder how many good pass

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Speaker 1: rushers they have, not just Dunlap and Gino Atkins, but

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Speaker 1: Jordan Willis and Carl Lawson and Andrew Billings. This nose

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Speaker 1: tackles looking better. It's like they got a lot of bodies. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm excited to watch them this year for the sheer

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Speaker 1: fact that they did not willingly enter the season with

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Speaker 1: an offensive line that was in NFL caliber like they

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Speaker 1: did last year. They just willingly went into the season

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Speaker 1: knowing their offensive line was going to hold him back

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Speaker 1: all year, and this year they at least attempted to fix.

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Speaker 1: I think to me that's still the number one question

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Speaker 1: though the offensive line. Is it fixed? And with wood

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Speaker 1: injury to Corty Glenn just demolished the whole thing. Everything

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Speaker 1: else seems like icing on the cake. As you said, West,

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Speaker 1: after they went into the year last year with a

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Speaker 1: plan of not having an offensive that it seems like

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Speaker 1: a goal that they want to accomplish. And I know

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Speaker 1: I don't want to get too caught up in preseason highlights,

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Speaker 1: but that's that's what I am that that's what brings

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Speaker 1: the Jews to me and John Ross shaking three guys

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Speaker 1: to get in the end zone. I like it. I

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Speaker 1: like to come back narrative. You wouldn't needn't have been

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Speaker 1: a kidnap victim not to see that highlights somewhere yesterday.

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Speaker 1: And it was an amazing catch and then what he

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Speaker 1: also been a one dimensional offense where if you can

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Speaker 1: shut down a j Green through the air, you're taking

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Speaker 1: care of the Bengals. Probably in most of these seasons passed.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that's true right now, but I do

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Speaker 1: think Mix and Joe Mixon we need a so they

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Speaker 1: if you watch the game, he also said Tyler Ifert

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Speaker 1: was back on the field, Mixon was lining up at

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Speaker 1: wide receiver. Tyler, Boy, this offense is a much different

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Speaker 1: Please please stop, just stop. This is sabotage Cleveland Browns. Browns.

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Speaker 1: Everybody is is dialed into this team because of hard knocks.

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Speaker 1: But a guy who really hasn't made that much of

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Speaker 1: an appearance on the show yet but is unquestionably one

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Speaker 1: of the best players on the field is Miles Garrett.

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Speaker 1: After that that last preseason game, he didn't have twenty

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Speaker 1: five snaps total in the game, but he got pressures

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Speaker 1: on at least seven of Nick foles pass attempts, made

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Speaker 1: him step up in the pocket forced to fumble. I

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Speaker 1: don't think it's crazy to say that he's a defensive

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Speaker 1: Player of the Year candidate, Uh candidate. Absolutely, I agree

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Speaker 1: with you. I'm not he's not in the top one.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's gonna happen breaking news. Mark Sessler

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Speaker 1: it's the first time in like two decades where I

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Speaker 1: saw a Browns player look dominant on defense. It's not happened.

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Speaker 1: They haven't had that guy, Jamir Miller for one season

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Speaker 1: years ago. That There's only so many guys that hold

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Speaker 1: your eye on the defensive line every single snap that

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Speaker 1: they're on the field. And now that guy plays for

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Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns, and I think that's a good thing.

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Speaker 1: That's exciting. That's I'm not saying he's jj A what

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Speaker 1: but when you say hold your eye, that's the type

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Speaker 1: of player who you're watching him every snap to see

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Speaker 1: what kind of havoc he reeks. And then on the

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Speaker 1: other side of the ball, the best player on the

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Speaker 1: offense hasn't even played yet. Josh Gordon. To me, he

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Speaker 1: is far and away their best offensive player. Baker Mayfield.

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Speaker 1: I love his future, but right now, Josh Gordon's a

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Speaker 1: difference maker for them. I want to see him on

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Speaker 1: the field and he's Gordon, but I feel Gordon's almost

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Speaker 1: like waiting for j. J. Watt and Jadevian Clowney to

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Speaker 1: play together for sixteen games. It is. It is a

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Speaker 1: mythical scenario where he is the most mysterious situation in

640
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Speaker 1: the league. Always with Josh Gordon, will he plays sixteen

641
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Speaker 1: games well, Plus he immediately pulled his hamstring and it's

642
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:41,760
Speaker 1: the same thing that happened to Roquan Smith. Everyone's excited

643
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 1: when Rokuan Smith returns, Everyone's excited when Josh Gordon returns,

644
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 1: and then they immediately pulled their hamstring and it's like

645
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 1: it's not that easy to just come up catch up

646
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Speaker 1: with everyone. And I hope we see that Josh Gordon

647
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Speaker 1: this year, but we it's been it's been a long

648
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Speaker 1: time since we saw that for an entire season. And

649
00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:58,800
Speaker 1: I think they hopefully they were just playing that safe.

650
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 1: They said, they said tightness, right, maybe there wasn't there

651
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 1: wasn't an actual, but there's no reason you shouldn't be ashamed.

652
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 1: Like I see the smile on your faith. There's there's

653
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Speaker 1: nothing wrong with the excited about the Cleveland. They've had

654
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Speaker 1: a great money, they've had a great money. Snayfield look good,

655
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:19,840
Speaker 1: Taylor look good, Joel but Tonio quietly moved over to

656
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 1: left tackle and like no one's really talking about that.

657
00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 1: That looks under situation in Carlos Hyde. I think the

658
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Speaker 1: fact that he just kind of blew Nick Chubb out

659
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Speaker 1: of the water and looks good and he's the starting

660
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Speaker 1: running back, Like I feel good about that. I think

661
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Speaker 1: Nick Chubb actually those has had some good tape along

662
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Speaker 1: with some concerning plays, but they haven't they haven't been

663
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Speaker 1: deep as a running back unit either. So yeah, allow

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Speaker 1: me to clarify. I'm excited about maybe three or four

665
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Speaker 1: players on this team, and I'm the opposite of excited

666
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Speaker 1: about this coaching s death was specifically the defensive coordinator

667
00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:51,560
Speaker 1: who who thought he had to take shots at Denzel

668
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:56,800
Speaker 1: Ward and make his player's injury about himself. That's true,

669
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Speaker 1: which is you know what you're gonna get from Grege.

670
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Speaker 1: It's bringing shame to the six next one? Just good time,

671
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:12,600
Speaker 1: West eure up with the Steelers. Only seven times in

672
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl era has a team made the playoffs

673
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 1: five consecutive years and then not gone on to the

674
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Speaker 1: super Bowl At some point. The Steelers are in danger

675
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:25,560
Speaker 1: of doing that because they're waiting for a dynasty to

676
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:28,720
Speaker 1: end in New England. And I want to know, is

677
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:31,360
Speaker 1: this the last ride of the Killer Bees? Are they

678
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 1: gonna miss their window because left Bell is gone after

679
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:37,040
Speaker 1: this year? I say, just enjoy this offense one more

680
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:38,720
Speaker 1: time because who knows what it's gonna be next year.

681
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 1: No Todd Haley there, which gives me faith in the

682
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Speaker 1: Browns and maybe a little concern in the Steelers just

683
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Speaker 1: because of the just because of the track record that

684
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Speaker 1: he has. But I think you're right. The fact that

685
00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:53,480
Speaker 1: James Conners looks so great this preseason makes me feel

686
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:56,000
Speaker 1: even more confident that leve Bell won't be there next

687
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Speaker 1: How are we pronouncing the offensive coordinator's name Randy Fickner. Yep,

688
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:02,680
Speaker 1: they had a little research on him when he was

689
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Speaker 1: coach at Memphis, but way back when they had d'

690
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:09,600
Speaker 1: Angela Williams at Memphis, he was famous. He was most

691
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Speaker 1: known for going up tempo no huddle before a lot

692
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 1: of other teams are doing it. Ben has been asking

693
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:16,440
Speaker 1: this and you can get a lot of background on

694
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Speaker 1: this in the excellent Football Outsiders Alma Mac. But Ben

695
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 1: has been asking for this for years and Todd Haley

696
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Speaker 1: didn't want to do it because of his pre snap

697
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Speaker 1: motions and line it up under center and all of

698
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 1: his trickery. And now I think we're gonna see what

699
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Speaker 1: Ben wanted. A lot of no huddle, a lot of

700
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Speaker 1: up tempo, which with their personnel should work pretty well.

701
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Speaker 1: I think you mentioned that that was in play, and

702
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:39,440
Speaker 1: there was a big period of time where when he

703
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Speaker 1: was with Arians, where Arians would let Roethlisberger call his

704
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Speaker 1: own plays and organize the offense the way he wanted

705
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 1: to give him a ton of freedom, and that was

706
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Speaker 1: some of the best version of Ben Roethlisberger we've ever had.

707
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Speaker 1: So maybe if we veered towards that that would be

708
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Speaker 1: successful and the relationship between Haley and Ben was always

709
00:34:57,160 --> 00:34:59,840
Speaker 1: notably very bad, to the point where they needed in

710
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 1: mediary between the two, which seems like an odd position

711
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:06,880
Speaker 1: for an offensive corporator and a quarterback to be. Probably

712
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:10,319
Speaker 1: good that he moved on, but they made it work. Um.

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Speaker 1: I keep an eye on James Washington and what the

714
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Speaker 1: Steelers have been able to do with receivers especial rookie

715
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Speaker 1: receivers coming into making plays. Uh. They sneak up and

716
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 1: grab This guy's had a I think two touchdowns uh

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Speaker 1: this preseason so far. They've They've been able to accomplish

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Speaker 1: things the pre Haley era, and I don't think the

719
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Speaker 1: post Haley era's going to be bad and they have.

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Speaker 1: They've had the same offensive line I believe for four

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Speaker 1: straight years this year heard of and there there is

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Speaker 1: no reason that this offense shouldn't be the best in

723
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Speaker 1: the league. My big question is the same one as ever.

724
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Speaker 1: It's like I thought last year was the year their

725
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:48,400
Speaker 1: their defense would finally kind of make the leap, and

726
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 1: they did for a little for a part of the season,

727
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Speaker 1: but by the end it didn't matter. And I guess

728
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:56,840
Speaker 1: I guess I've like lost faith that Mike Tomlins defense

729
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 1: is ever going to be like a difference maker, even

730
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Speaker 1: though there's some good players on it just kind of

731
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Speaker 1: there and maybe that's good enough, and they say we

732
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Speaker 1: we will find a way to mask over the loss

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Speaker 1: of ranches here, but you simply cannot do that, and

734
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Speaker 1: that the minute he went out, that entire defense and

735
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:18,799
Speaker 1: that season was lost to one great pointsler. I didn't

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Speaker 1: see it. But see what I try to do is

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Speaker 1: I tried to work with you the production staff, by

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Speaker 1: cutting my comment off right before your comment comes in.

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Speaker 1: So that was an appropriate response by you. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: I've got I've got the Baltimore Ravens up next, and

741
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:37,959
Speaker 1: my big thought is I've seen enough. I think they've

742
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:42,880
Speaker 1: had a terrific offseason, terrific training camp. Not every team

743
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 1: has a lot of things go right for them in

744
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Speaker 1: training camp, and there's a lot of optimism, but I

745
00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:52,239
Speaker 1: think the Ravens really have. They've had almost no injuries whatsoever.

746
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Speaker 1: They've did all their guys until Hayden Hurst have just

747
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:57,280
Speaker 1: been out there practicing every day. They got an extra

748
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Speaker 1: week of work. They've got John William Henry starting defensive

749
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 1: end is injured. That's right, John Brown Um John Brown

750
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 1: has looked really good. I'm thinking of like these mid

751
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:10,719
Speaker 1: August days where the Baltimore Sun kept saying over and over,

752
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 1: it's crazy, but everyone is practicing. More importantly, they have

753
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Speaker 1: a lot of young guys on the defense, and they're

754
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 1: good at developing these young guys on the defense, and

755
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:20,399
Speaker 1: it seemed to find him every year. This year. Tim

756
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:25,000
Speaker 1: Williams has been awesome in the preseason, Zadarius Smith, Kamala Korea,

757
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:27,000
Speaker 1: Who's who's been a second round pick They've kind of

758
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,359
Speaker 1: been waiting to come on. He's been coming on. And

759
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 1: you just look at all these positions and they just

760
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:34,720
Speaker 1: look deep. And I'm not buying the motivated Joe Flacco

761
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:37,279
Speaker 1: thing necessarily, but I am buying that Joe Flacco can

762
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:39,400
Speaker 1: play a lot better than he did the last three years.

763
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:42,320
Speaker 1: And that is an area that they can improve a lot,

764
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 1: is protection and their quarterback. And if they get okay

765
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:48,160
Speaker 1: quarterback play, they're going to the playoffs and they're gonna

766
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:50,200
Speaker 1: be tough to deal with. Well, I am buying, like

767
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:53,240
Speaker 1: the beyond the motivation with Joe Flacco. Man with awful

768
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:58,319
Speaker 1: back injury now does not have back in He's moving better,

769
00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:00,799
Speaker 1: He's not he East taken a lot of flat but

770
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:02,799
Speaker 1: it's almost like it's gone too far the other way.

771
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:05,960
Speaker 1: He has played terribly, But if he's healthy, he's he's

772
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Speaker 1: a He's an average starting quarterback. He's not going outside

773
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Speaker 1: of Steve Smith. They also put nothing around him for

774
00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:14,839
Speaker 1: a long stretch. The John Brown thing, because I think

775
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:17,000
Speaker 1: like John Brown was with the Cardinals was so fun

776
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:19,800
Speaker 1: to watch, and then he vanished for basically two seasons,

777
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:21,799
Speaker 1: not not the version of them that we knew, and

778
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Speaker 1: I think it's great for him and for you know,

779
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Speaker 1: the the a f C in general. If you get

780
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Speaker 1: John Brown flipping from the NFC to a f C

781
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:31,440
Speaker 1: and making this Baltimore Ravens offense exciting after it was

782
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:35,520
Speaker 1: it has been tough to watch for a while. Look

783
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:38,800
Speaker 1: really good. Gus Edwards, an undrafted guy, looks like a

784
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 1: keeper for them. Buck Allen's always good on passing downs.

785
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:44,239
Speaker 1: They're deeper than they've been year. That means you have

786
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Speaker 1: the Bengals and the Ravens as your wild card teams.

787
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:50,320
Speaker 1: I have the Ravens winning the division and the Steelers

788
00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:52,839
Speaker 1: and the Steelers not winning the division and not making

789
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 1: the logical basis behind it, just not making the playoffs,

790
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:58,440
Speaker 1: just like because things they're due. That's why I have

791
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:00,920
Speaker 1: the Ravens winning division. They're kind of you just can happen,

792
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Speaker 1: and you're stealing my go get my lunch thing for

793
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Speaker 1: this week. Wow, I didn't know that. Yes, I'm not

794
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:10,880
Speaker 1: going to reel you in the preseason for Flacco and

795
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 1: the Raiders. As you said, Greg, it is because I

796
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:15,879
Speaker 1: was all in on Lamar taking the job at some point,

797
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 1: but now I just don't think there's enough losses for

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Speaker 1: him to be able to get in them. But he

799
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:23,440
Speaker 1: played really well for anyone that watched, um, that was

800
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Speaker 1: All right? I think they're intriguing because of Luck and

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Speaker 1: I thought lux game over the weekend was after a

838
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Speaker 1: down somewhat of a down performance the week before. Another

839
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Speaker 1: sign of encouragement. Um came out of a little bit

840
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:36,239
Speaker 1: of a foot issue. But hopefully that's nothing. Here's my

841
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:39,600
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842
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Speaker 1: team that was the third best rushing team in the

843
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:46,520
Speaker 1: league and the number one team on defense against the run.

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Speaker 1: The result Super Bowl, And it's not that crazy why

845
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Speaker 1: But now you're on a team that looks like you

846
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:56,280
Speaker 1: have a backfield with no clear Kristen michael is riding

847
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Speaker 1: through August as your lead dude. With Marlon Mack injured.

848
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Speaker 1: You got a bunch of guys there, who's who's gonna

849
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:05,160
Speaker 1: help Andrew Luck for once? And then you watch yesterday

850
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Speaker 1: Alfred Morris gashed this defense on the ground when when

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Speaker 1: most of the ones were in there. It's a formula

852
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:14,319
Speaker 1: for a long season again puts a lot on Andrew

853
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:18,120
Speaker 1: Luck shoulders. I think it's the worst roster in the NFL.

854
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:21,640
Speaker 1: I probably thought that back in April and May, and

855
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:24,479
Speaker 1: then you know you got started to get excited about

856
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:26,799
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck and I am but just the more on

857
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:29,799
Speaker 1: just on paper, and it's very hard to figure these

858
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 1: things out. But when you just like, look, is that

859
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:34,959
Speaker 1: position group above or below average? Is that position group

860
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:37,840
Speaker 1: above or below? It's like they're all below average except

861
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:41,279
Speaker 1: for Andrew Luck. So that's that's problematic. Like they put

862
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:44,439
Speaker 1: in a right tackle uh over the week in Austin Howard,

863
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:46,360
Speaker 1: who they gave a one point three million dollar signing

864
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:48,920
Speaker 1: bonus too. He got Andrew Luck killed and got the

865
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:50,960
Speaker 1: running back killed in back to back place and they

866
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:53,120
Speaker 1: benched them. And he's supposedly not even gonna make the team.

867
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:55,759
Speaker 1: Austin Howard and they're just trying. They lose another guy

868
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:57,840
Speaker 1: to an injury in the second half. They just just

869
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:00,919
Speaker 1: so many problems. I don't and being the sole vote

870
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 1: voice of optimism here, we haven't seen them healthy. Like,

871
00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:06,799
Speaker 1: let's set the backfield in the offensive line healthy and

872
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 1: then let's see what they do in September and October

873
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:11,920
Speaker 1: rather than in August. They're not good right now, but

874
00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:14,480
Speaker 1: I think that's fair. I guess my on paper, I

875
00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:17,440
Speaker 1: think they're fine. On paper, the players are not productive

876
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:20,360
Speaker 1: or necessarily we see that talented on paper, you have

877
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:24,319
Speaker 1: no idea who nine him nine Jordan Wilkins like they

878
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:27,359
Speaker 1: could be really good players. I know he's fumbled four

879
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 1: times in two games, and he fumbled all throughout his

880
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:32,799
Speaker 1: college career. On paper, not to um, Why don't I

881
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:36,360
Speaker 1: hop on the positivity trails they get Malik cookerback. He

882
00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 1: looked great at safety, blew out his knee. He's back

883
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:43,920
Speaker 1: since he feels better. We'll have to see how he plays. Obviously,

884
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:46,239
Speaker 1: it takes at least a year to get back to

885
00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:50,080
Speaker 1: where you were, but there's some positivity for concern on

886
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 1: at least that part of the roster. But as you said,

887
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:54,799
Speaker 1: my bigger issue is just for the defense. I mean,

888
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:57,240
Speaker 1: I think you can you can probably cobble together running

889
00:43:57,239 --> 00:44:00,120
Speaker 1: back by committee and someone may emerge, but there are

890
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:02,600
Speaker 1: legit there's a lot of work for the front office

891
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:05,000
Speaker 1: to do with this defense. Ricky Brown looked good. I'm

892
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:07,000
Speaker 1: I'm all in on an eric Y bron Jack Doyle

893
00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:10,359
Speaker 1: I guess they're they're over there over above average at

894
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:13,799
Speaker 1: tight end, so there's there's one position. But they they

895
00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 1: hired a defensive tremader Matt Ever, who has run a

896
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:19,480
Speaker 1: four three whole career, So they had to change the

897
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:22,200
Speaker 1: whole scheme for the second straight year. It's like, as

898
00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:31,520
Speaker 1: one already, now we're scared of this end every segment,

899
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:36,400
Speaker 1: totally afraid. Clay Brown, you are next up with the Texans.

900
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:40,440
Speaker 1: So I was initially concerned about cornerback. I've watched a

901
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 1: j Boyer have his success in Jacksonville and be one

902
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 1: of the best cornerbacks in the league, and then I'm

903
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:49,439
Speaker 1: wondering what the plan is. So they bring in Honey Badger. Uh,

904
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:52,719
Speaker 1: they've moved Kareem Jackson to safety. It looks like what

905
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:56,719
Speaker 1: the plan is is to kind of have a secondary

906
00:44:56,920 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 1: of cornerbacks who play safety. But you're gonna have multiple

907
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:03,080
Speaker 1: cornerbacks back there. And I believe in Romeo Cornell and

908
00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:05,520
Speaker 1: where he had this team in position not too long

909
00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:08,280
Speaker 1: ago against the Patriots team that won the Super Bowl.

910
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:11,640
Speaker 1: They were gonna beat them with brock Osweiler, just they

911
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:13,359
Speaker 1: didn't get enough from the offense. And so I think

912
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:17,680
Speaker 1: it's Mike Frabel's departure to Tennessee doesn't scare me at all.

913
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:20,520
Speaker 1: I think they got an upgrade at the defensive coordinator position.

914
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:24,520
Speaker 1: And as far as the plan to have Kevin Johnson,

915
00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:28,000
Speaker 1: Aaron Colvin, those guys in the secondary, I'm interested to

916
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:29,680
Speaker 1: see how how it plays out. And I'm not as

917
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:33,000
Speaker 1: skeptical of the cornerback group as I was previously. Yeah,

918
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 1: I think that's an interesting point. My question would be

919
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:39,040
Speaker 1: the top two on the depth chart, Jonathan Joseph noticeably

920
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:41,840
Speaker 1: losing a few steps last year, and then Kevin Johnson,

921
00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:44,640
Speaker 1: who was just brutal last season, so he he's got

922
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:47,600
Speaker 1: to bounce back. They signed Cavon Webster over the weekend,

923
00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:51,080
Speaker 1: who's coming off a major injury himself. Jonathan Batamozy, who's

924
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:53,440
Speaker 1: a special teamer played well at times at cornerback for

925
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:55,840
Speaker 1: the Patriots last year. Wouldn't be wouldn't be surprised to

926
00:45:55,880 --> 00:45:58,040
Speaker 1: me if those guys play more as the season goes along,

927
00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:01,480
Speaker 1: and Jonathan Joseph and Van Johnson might not play as much.

928
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:03,719
Speaker 1: Kevin Johnson's a little banged up now too. I mean,

929
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:07,120
Speaker 1: I'm interested in that Week one matchup. I mean Texans

930
00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:10,279
Speaker 1: Patriots to me is a cracker of a first guy

931
00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:13,479
Speaker 1: because I'm just curious what is Deshaun Watson gonna really

932
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:15,319
Speaker 1: be like because they haven't really kind of, i think,

933
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:17,080
Speaker 1: shown what they're going to do with them in the preseason.

934
00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:19,720
Speaker 1: And also, I mean that's a situation where with Deshaun

935
00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:23,479
Speaker 1: Watson behind an offensive line that concerns me deeply and

936
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:27,040
Speaker 1: that can change a season very quickly for even a

937
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:29,200
Speaker 1: guy who looks like a comeback Player of the Year candidate.

938
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:32,239
Speaker 1: I mean, that's not going to happen again. Last year

939
00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:34,120
Speaker 1: they had a bad line and you couldn't tell with

940
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:35,960
Speaker 1: him back there half the time. I mean, he was

941
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:39,160
Speaker 1: so able to elude pressure and get rid of the ball,

942
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:41,520
Speaker 1: But can you really do that for sixteen games? This

943
00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:44,120
Speaker 1: is a bad line. They've had a lot of injuries

944
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:48,280
Speaker 1: and that Will Fuller's been hurt in camp. Just people

945
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:50,200
Speaker 1: in and out. This is the team. I feel like

946
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:52,479
Speaker 1: maybe it's just not getting covered that much. I feel

947
00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:55,319
Speaker 1: like I have the least amount of information of what's

948
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:57,840
Speaker 1: going on in Houston as anything. You said that you

949
00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:00,880
Speaker 1: thought that they had like one of the lowest floors

950
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:03,040
Speaker 1: and a high ceiling where you couldn't figure out where

951
00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:04,879
Speaker 1: they would land or you wouldn't be surprised by either.

952
00:47:05,040 --> 00:47:08,000
Speaker 1: Has that changed at all? No, because if what Clowney

953
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:12,919
Speaker 1: and Watson are all peak at their abilities, then this

954
00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:16,279
Speaker 1: team can fly. Right. I think so too. I've seen

955
00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 1: too many good teams with a lot of potential just

956
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:24,239
Speaker 1: basically blocked from success by offensive line player. And yeah,

957
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:27,799
Speaker 1: they feel better about it. They tried to address it.

958
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:30,759
Speaker 1: There's definitely different players there at Santrel Henderson and Zach

959
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:43,120
Speaker 1: Fulton three to one that were just listening to the GRDS.

960
00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:46,640
Speaker 1: Next team, we did hear that one, I mean we are.

961
00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:51,399
Speaker 1: Let's move on to the Tennessee tight Ends and their

962
00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:53,800
Speaker 1: number one fan, Chris Wesley. Yeah, let me try to

963
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:56,399
Speaker 1: sell you guys on why the Titans are interesting this year.

964
00:47:57,200 --> 00:47:58,880
Speaker 1: It's always good. Do you have to sell us on that?

965
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:02,640
Speaker 1: But's not here the way, so we're on board. Nothing's

966
00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 1: interesting if you know what the outcome is going to be.

967
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:07,399
Speaker 1: And that was the Mike Malarkey era. You know they're

968
00:48:07,400 --> 00:48:09,560
Speaker 1: gonna run on first and second down. No team ran

969
00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:12,680
Speaker 1: more on second down than the Tennessee Titans, which meant

970
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 1: that their passing game and running game weren't married, because

971
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:17,920
Speaker 1: then you go into shotgun on third down and just

972
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:20,319
Speaker 1: force Mariota to make bail out plays because you didn't

973
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:22,640
Speaker 1: get what you needed on first and second down. Now

974
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:26,160
Speaker 1: they bring in Matt Lafleur, who's from the Kubiak Shanahan

975
00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 1: McVeigh school of outside outside zone rushing attack married to

976
00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:33,640
Speaker 1: your play action passing game, And to me, this is

977
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:35,480
Speaker 1: gonna be one of the biggest mysteries in the NFL.

978
00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:39,600
Speaker 1: Can those young receivers develop Cam Mariotta bounced back from

979
00:48:39,719 --> 00:48:43,240
Speaker 1: last year's season? Have they fixed his mechanics which devolved

980
00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:46,640
Speaker 1: last year and now you've got this married passing and

981
00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:49,880
Speaker 1: running game with Lafleura calling the shots. Is he a

982
00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:52,840
Speaker 1: guy who's, you know, just a little bit below McVeigh

983
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:55,200
Speaker 1: and Shanahan or has he been riding their coat tails

984
00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:57,440
Speaker 1: for the last couple of years. We'll see. But to me,

985
00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:00,360
Speaker 1: this is an interesting it's a mystery, and know we

986
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:01,960
Speaker 1: don't know what the outcome is going to be. It

987
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:04,200
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like it would bode well to adjust to

988
00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:05,960
Speaker 1: a new offense in the same year that you want

989
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:08,360
Speaker 1: to fix your mechanics, And I think we've kind of

990
00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:12,880
Speaker 1: seen not a great preseason from Marcus right this time around,

991
00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:16,600
Speaker 1: so that that would be concerning. I. I mean my

992
00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 1: beliefs regarding Mike Rabel I kind of expressed previously. You

993
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:23,880
Speaker 1: don't sound he's skeptically high on the whole time he

994
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:28,960
Speaker 1: didn't earn the job. I, Um, I don't know. I'll wait,

995
00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:32,120
Speaker 1: you know, we get to see the results, but um yeah,

996
00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 1: I'm not sold that he's gonna come in and they're

997
00:49:35,239 --> 00:49:37,520
Speaker 1: gonna try harder and be better. He's a little bit

998
00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:40,680
Speaker 1: like Vance Joseph, which is that he got a coordinator

999
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:44,960
Speaker 1: job after the team he coordinated just had a terrible season,

1000
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:48,879
Speaker 1: because Joseph got it coming off a terrible Dolphins here

1001
00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:51,520
Speaker 1: and Brabel got it coming off the terrible Texans here.

1002
00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:52,880
Speaker 1: But I think they kind of like, you know, they

1003
00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:56,400
Speaker 1: like the cut of this man, Like the way he

1004
00:49:56,520 --> 00:49:59,080
Speaker 1: leads a room. You're not out of his chip. Yeah,

1005
00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:02,120
Speaker 1: um yeah, I guess he's got moxie and his boat

1006
00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:04,759
Speaker 1: looks good. The kind of his Jim Is that what

1007
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:07,080
Speaker 1: that means? Yeah? But it isn't like that's part of

1008
00:50:07,080 --> 00:50:09,080
Speaker 1: being a head coach though, being being being able to

1009
00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:11,520
Speaker 1: having the charisma in the leadership and getting the buy

1010
00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:14,040
Speaker 1: in from people around you. Manners when you're a head coach,

1011
00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:16,600
Speaker 1: I think less so than like, what's your defensive scheme.

1012
00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:20,480
Speaker 1: I'm I'm curious how like Dion Lewis has looked good

1013
00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:24,120
Speaker 1: in the preseason, and to me, he can be a

1014
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:26,920
Speaker 1: huge difference maker on their offense. And they've said in

1015
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:30,839
Speaker 1: practice that Corey Davis is really taking over as their

1016
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:33,360
Speaker 1: true number one and is looking amazing. But it hasn't

1017
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:35,480
Speaker 1: you know, we haven't seen it, like it didn't happen

1018
00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:38,840
Speaker 1: in the preseason something this week. I look at the

1019
00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:41,239
Speaker 1: roster on offense, and if the young receivers kind of

1020
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:44,120
Speaker 1: all become what you want, they've got a really interesting

1021
00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:49,120
Speaker 1: offensive roster. By the way, one thing, Eric Erica is

1022
00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:51,279
Speaker 1: the girl version of a nerd. I'm just gonna throw

1023
00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:57,960
Speaker 1: the well it is. I will literally pay you to

1024
00:50:58,040 --> 00:51:04,440
Speaker 1: stop talking. I'm up with the Jacksonville Jaguars who got

1025
00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:08,279
Speaker 1: bad news over the weekend when they lost Marquis Lee,

1026
00:51:08,960 --> 00:51:12,799
Speaker 1: their nominal number one receiver, certainly the highest paid guy

1027
00:51:13,160 --> 00:51:16,720
Speaker 1: UH in that receiver group, and Uh was definitely gonna

1028
00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:21,120
Speaker 1: start on that team. He's out for the season with

1029
00:51:21,239 --> 00:51:26,480
Speaker 1: a knee injury. UH and unfortunately Uh, Matt Patrick Claibon

1030
00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:29,200
Speaker 1: is out for the rest of this show with with

1031
00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:35,319
Speaker 1: the news updates. Oh my gosh, alright started a little late.

1032
00:51:35,520 --> 00:51:38,160
Speaker 1: Thank you for the work that you've done. We appreciate

1033
00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:41,839
Speaker 1: it to We will pick up the slack on your

1034
00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:45,759
Speaker 1: Broncos entry coming up. I was I'm more worried about

1035
00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:47,560
Speaker 1: you were going to read the final ad read. I

1036
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:49,719
Speaker 1: really blew it by saving you for the last one.

1037
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:51,640
Speaker 1: What would you like us to say about the Broncos?

1038
00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:57,680
Speaker 1: They got a quarterback finally? Oh? Wow, okay, wow. I

1039
00:51:57,680 --> 00:52:00,440
Speaker 1: don't know if I'm gonna be able to muster that enthusiasm.

1040
00:52:00,520 --> 00:52:02,640
Speaker 1: Uh for Case keen him, I definitely can't do it.

1041
00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:05,880
Speaker 1: For Blake Bortles, and now that he lost one of

1042
00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:09,160
Speaker 1: his top receivers. It got me thinking about something you

1043
00:52:09,239 --> 00:52:12,040
Speaker 1: said West over the weekend, which is just are they

1044
00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:15,640
Speaker 1: going the Rex Grossman route of wasting this Super Bowl window?

1045
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:18,719
Speaker 1: In the Super Bowl caliber defense? This team is is

1046
00:52:18,719 --> 00:52:21,400
Speaker 1: the best of the Lovey Smith Bears. It reminds me

1047
00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:23,719
Speaker 1: so much that you get so frustrated and pull your

1048
00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:26,160
Speaker 1: hair out that you want more for them at quarterback

1049
00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:28,799
Speaker 1: than they do that they're just settle for a guy,

1050
00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:30,960
Speaker 1: And I know that people think that I'm making it

1051
00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:34,600
Speaker 1: up about Blake Mortal's fragiicite, fragile psyche. I don't know

1052
00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:37,640
Speaker 1: if Blake bortles psyche is fragic, but everything the team

1053
00:52:37,680 --> 00:52:40,280
Speaker 1: does and says tells you that it is. They designed

1054
00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:42,799
Speaker 1: their game plans to hide him. They don't go and

1055
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:45,799
Speaker 1: get competition in the off season to hide him, Like

1056
00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:48,160
Speaker 1: why don't why is he so afraid of competition, or

1057
00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:50,960
Speaker 1: why do you think he can't take the competition. I'd

1058
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:54,319
Speaker 1: like to often just wipe away preseason quarterback play and

1059
00:52:54,360 --> 00:52:57,960
Speaker 1: say everyone just gets so clean slate. But the history

1060
00:52:57,960 --> 00:53:00,560
Speaker 1: of Blake Bortles, combined with what we've seen over the

1061
00:53:00,640 --> 00:53:03,840
Speaker 1: last three or four weeks, does create a concerning mixture

1062
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:07,040
Speaker 1: of worries about this team. And I would I would

1063
00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:11,160
Speaker 1: like to think that if they do realize how fragile

1064
00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:14,120
Speaker 1: Super Bowl windows are, how quickly they close, that if

1065
00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:17,319
Speaker 1: you really are serious, that maybe the Teddy Bridgewater thing

1066
00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:19,560
Speaker 1: makes some sense. I don't know why it would not.

1067
00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:22,040
Speaker 1: I don't know what it would cost you, But what's

1068
00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:25,400
Speaker 1: the cost of not doing something and turning into the

1069
00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:29,279
Speaker 1: a f c uh hangover team where it's hard it's

1070
00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:31,560
Speaker 1: gonna be hard to top what they did last year.

1071
00:53:31,800 --> 00:53:35,279
Speaker 1: They overshot anyone's expectations, and now you have to get

1072
00:53:35,320 --> 00:53:37,440
Speaker 1: basically back to the f C Championship and win it

1073
00:53:37,520 --> 00:53:39,600
Speaker 1: to top you did last year. I don't see that

1074
00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:41,919
Speaker 1: as an easy course at all for them. They still

1075
00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:45,000
Speaker 1: have a ton of talent on defense, and they stayed

1076
00:53:45,040 --> 00:53:47,359
Speaker 1: healthy on defense last year. That's not guaranteed to happen

1077
00:53:47,440 --> 00:53:50,319
Speaker 1: this year. The the argument for them is that in

1078
00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:53,000
Speaker 1: key spots they're young team. I mean, Keelan Cole is

1079
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:55,480
Speaker 1: probably their number one receiver now, an undrafted guy from

1080
00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:57,560
Speaker 1: a year ago. They're gonna have to count on donte

1081
00:53:57,600 --> 00:53:59,760
Speaker 1: Mine Creef to play more, but they're young at receiver.

1082
00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:02,359
Speaker 1: At the Die Westbrook, they're expecting Miles Jack, who's now

1083
00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:04,759
Speaker 1: at middle linebacker, to really take the next step. And

1084
00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:08,759
Speaker 1: that's like a crazy fun linebacker duo with him, uh

1085
00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:12,120
Speaker 1: and Telvin Smith. You're thinking, in got way can get better.

1086
00:54:12,239 --> 00:54:15,360
Speaker 1: Certainly Jalen Ramsey maybe and and Buie have another At

1087
00:54:15,440 --> 00:54:17,200
Speaker 1: least Ramsey has another level to go. And it's like

1088
00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:19,279
Speaker 1: there's a lot of young players who can just get back.

1089
00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:21,120
Speaker 1: But who are you trying to convince like, this is

1090
00:54:21,120 --> 00:54:23,080
Speaker 1: the talk. This is the problem with talking about the Jaguars,

1091
00:54:23,080 --> 00:54:25,600
Speaker 1: because everybody agrees they're loaded with talent. They just had

1092
00:54:25,640 --> 00:54:30,040
Speaker 1: a quarterback problem. To one, I wish I was listening

1093
00:54:30,080 --> 00:54:34,239
Speaker 1: to the broadcast right now. Another one, I mean one

1094
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:37,320
Speaker 1: one felt like enough, Mark, you're up with the Raiders,

1095
00:54:37,680 --> 00:54:40,960
Speaker 1: all right? The Raiders, Well, look I have one negative

1096
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:44,640
Speaker 1: and one positive. Okay. Here's my thing with them, is

1097
00:54:44,760 --> 00:54:47,839
Speaker 1: I I just I think the Khalil Max situation. It's

1098
00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:50,680
Speaker 1: interesting because in the same state you have the Aaron

1099
00:54:50,719 --> 00:54:52,680
Speaker 1: Donald thing going on with the Rams. But the one

1100
00:54:52,680 --> 00:54:54,600
Speaker 1: thing with the Rams is you feel like there's on

1101
00:54:54,680 --> 00:54:58,120
Speaker 1: both sides communication. There's this desire to get it done,

1102
00:54:58,120 --> 00:55:00,160
Speaker 1: and it's not surprising that it's gonna go in right

1103
00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:02,120
Speaker 1: before week one, but it will get done. That's just

1104
00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:04,040
Speaker 1: my feeling, and we'll see if we're right. But with

1105
00:55:04,120 --> 00:55:08,120
Speaker 1: Khalil Mac, there's just been this odd silence. There's no communication.

1106
00:55:08,239 --> 00:55:11,880
Speaker 1: Gruden's not reaching out to him, and it just reminds

1107
00:55:11,960 --> 00:55:15,720
Speaker 1: you of a team that traded for Ryan Switzer, for instance,

1108
00:55:15,719 --> 00:55:17,960
Speaker 1: a hundred and twenty one days ago and now is

1109
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:21,279
Speaker 1: trading him again today. That there's just a bit of

1110
00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:25,040
Speaker 1: discombobulation between I think again the front office and coaches

1111
00:55:25,080 --> 00:55:26,640
Speaker 1: have and it may sound like we're beating a dead

1112
00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:29,280
Speaker 1: horse at this point, but that doesn't work in the NFL.

1113
00:55:29,680 --> 00:55:32,879
Speaker 1: That creates, at some point a forced adjustment to take

1114
00:55:32,880 --> 00:55:35,400
Speaker 1: a step back. And I think if you want to

1115
00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:37,880
Speaker 1: look at the positives for them, I would say that

1116
00:55:37,920 --> 00:55:41,479
Speaker 1: if you look at their backfield depth with Marshawn Lynch

1117
00:55:41,520 --> 00:55:43,919
Speaker 1: looking the way he does with Doug Martin. We'll see

1118
00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:47,800
Speaker 1: what we get from Doug Martin. But Chris's boy, Chris Warren,

1119
00:55:48,080 --> 00:55:50,360
Speaker 1: you got him as a deep backup. You've got jayl Richard,

1120
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:53,839
Speaker 1: DeAndre Washington. That's a Gruden type backfield where he can

1121
00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:56,040
Speaker 1: hit people with the run and do what he wants.

1122
00:55:56,200 --> 00:55:59,080
Speaker 1: And I love arden Key so far has been really

1123
00:55:59,120 --> 00:56:00,879
Speaker 1: good on tape, and so that's someone that you hit

1124
00:56:00,920 --> 00:56:04,279
Speaker 1: on in this discombobulated front office. Whoever's making this traff picks.

1125
00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:07,600
Speaker 1: I don't know. The Raiders will, though, be fascinating. I

1126
00:56:07,680 --> 00:56:10,200
Speaker 1: was really annoyed with them a couple of months ago.

1127
00:56:10,480 --> 00:56:12,839
Speaker 1: I now find them fascinating and cannot wait to see

1128
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:16,200
Speaker 1: what happens. Because there is a high risk, high reward

1129
00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:19,080
Speaker 1: situation going on here with Gruden. Love that Monday Night

1130
00:56:19,360 --> 00:56:22,759
Speaker 1: UH final game of Week one Rams Raiders as the

1131
00:56:22,960 --> 00:56:25,360
Speaker 1: as the late night Monday night game, which sometimes is

1132
00:56:25,360 --> 00:56:27,960
Speaker 1: a stinker. That's a good one, Yes it is. You

1133
00:56:28,080 --> 00:56:30,680
Speaker 1: raise some good points on Khalil Mack. It's just bizarre

1134
00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:34,120
Speaker 1: the lack of communication in contrast to say O'Dell Beckham

1135
00:56:34,120 --> 00:56:37,080
Speaker 1: and Aaron Donald. And maybe they're just waiting for Aaron

1136
00:56:37,080 --> 00:56:39,480
Speaker 1: Donald's contract to set the market and then things will

1137
00:56:39,480 --> 00:56:41,880
Speaker 1: fall into place, but it does seem like they're so

1138
00:56:41,960 --> 00:56:44,600
Speaker 1: far off that they're not even talking, and maybe Art

1139
00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:47,759
Speaker 1: and Keys emergency isn't really helping Khalil Mackhm. There. That's

1140
00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:50,239
Speaker 1: there's a report, you know from Pro Football Talk that

1141
00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:53,640
Speaker 1: they're not shooting down trade offers, which I don't know

1142
00:56:53,680 --> 00:56:56,160
Speaker 1: what that means exactly, that there's four teams that are

1143
00:56:56,160 --> 00:56:59,840
Speaker 1: significantly interested. The Jets were one of those teams, according

1144
00:56:59,880 --> 00:57:03,759
Speaker 1: to the New York Daily News. I haven't really bought

1145
00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:07,040
Speaker 1: that until this point, but now that they're almost putting

1146
00:57:07,080 --> 00:57:09,759
Speaker 1: it out there that like, well, we'd listen, it makes

1147
00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:11,680
Speaker 1: you wonder or if you just know the cleel Max

1148
00:57:11,719 --> 00:57:13,879
Speaker 1: simply not going to play for you, or that you're

1149
00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:16,840
Speaker 1: not willing to give him the biggest contract defensive contract

1150
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:18,840
Speaker 1: in history, because that's's what it's gonna take. If Aaron

1151
00:57:18,880 --> 00:57:21,200
Speaker 1: Donald's getting twenty two million dollars a year, that's more

1152
00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:24,840
Speaker 1: than a lot of entrenched franchise quarterbacks are making. The

1153
00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:27,680
Speaker 1: thing is, though Mac seems worth it, Like I don't

1154
00:57:27,760 --> 00:57:31,400
Speaker 1: really get the argument around not paying him, but I

1155
00:57:31,720 --> 00:57:33,520
Speaker 1: we've been so down on a lot of things with

1156
00:57:33,560 --> 00:57:37,919
Speaker 1: bruten Not only is Arton Keelak, but Mauricehurst and p J. Hall.

1157
00:57:38,120 --> 00:57:40,720
Speaker 1: They have three rookie defensive women who have looked good

1158
00:57:40,760 --> 00:57:44,840
Speaker 1: in the preseason. That's something to get excited about. Time's up, bozos,

1159
00:57:46,120 --> 00:57:48,080
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna move on to what would have

1160
00:57:48,080 --> 00:57:50,120
Speaker 1: been Clay Bons team. I didn't know he could have

1161
00:57:50,160 --> 00:57:58,480
Speaker 1: been short on time with him. Oh my god, amazing. Literally,

1162
00:57:58,560 --> 00:58:01,040
Speaker 1: as we're getting to the bron does he runs back

1163
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:04,000
Speaker 1: up here. That was like a w w E style

1164
00:58:04,200 --> 00:58:07,800
Speaker 1: Ultimate Warrior jumping into the ring. I heard it. I

1165
00:58:07,840 --> 00:58:09,760
Speaker 1: heard you mention it. We were walking out, and I'm

1166
00:58:09,760 --> 00:58:14,880
Speaker 1: thinking I have tweeted way too much. That wasn't effusive

1167
00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:17,840
Speaker 1: praise of Case Kingdom. And then I watched this preseason guys,

1168
00:58:17,920 --> 00:58:21,240
Speaker 1: Wow and then I was touched. Really, I was touched

1169
00:58:21,280 --> 00:58:23,160
Speaker 1: with case Well. I saw I saw him throw a

1170
00:58:23,240 --> 00:58:25,480
Speaker 1: ball to Courtland Sutton, and Sutton went up and grabbed it.

1171
00:58:25,640 --> 00:58:30,600
Speaker 1: The one Josh Norman. That was it. I was not

1172
00:58:30,680 --> 00:58:32,760
Speaker 1: high enough on Case But now I am making it.

1173
00:58:32,840 --> 00:58:36,200
Speaker 1: I am making the case for our dudes. He he

1174
00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:38,480
Speaker 1: made that same throat and Adam feeling over and over

1175
00:58:38,480 --> 00:58:41,400
Speaker 1: again last year. But it seemed like the circumstances I

1176
00:58:41,400 --> 00:58:45,160
Speaker 1: wasn't ready because I am ready? Now are you? Do

1177
00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:49,120
Speaker 1: you have like a he Broncos history, like you're looking

1178
00:58:49,240 --> 00:58:56,480
Speaker 1: for a team. I know you're done talking. Uh. They's

1179
00:58:56,480 --> 00:58:58,640
Speaker 1: gotta be more fun to watch though, with case In,

1180
00:58:58,680 --> 00:59:03,080
Speaker 1: Courtland Sutton and rookies Philip Lindsay, my guy, undrafted free agent,

1181
00:59:03,240 --> 00:59:08,120
Speaker 1: He's gonna make this backfield. You like Royce Freeman, Royce Freeman, Uh,

1182
00:59:08,160 --> 00:59:11,920
Speaker 1: Courtland Sutton, Bradley Chubb, Jans Jewel. They added Pacman to

1183
00:59:11,960 --> 00:59:14,640
Speaker 1: the mix, which I honestly think is a great signing

1184
00:59:14,640 --> 00:59:16,920
Speaker 1: because this team was as thin at cornerback even though

1185
00:59:16,960 --> 00:59:18,760
Speaker 1: they have those two at the top as any team

1186
00:59:18,760 --> 00:59:21,600
Speaker 1: in the league, and Pacman Jones has basically never not

1187
00:59:21,720 --> 00:59:24,480
Speaker 1: been a solid player, whether whether he's a knucklehead or not.

1188
00:59:24,560 --> 00:59:28,840
Speaker 1: He's always good. He's ageless, more Pacman Jones than I

1189
00:59:28,880 --> 00:59:32,160
Speaker 1: expected to time. I think Bradley Chubb has looked really good.

1190
00:59:32,200 --> 00:59:35,360
Speaker 1: I mean it's like, again, these teams, it's an obvious pick,

1191
00:59:35,400 --> 00:59:36,959
Speaker 1: but they picked him and he's going to be great

1192
00:59:36,960 --> 00:59:39,760
Speaker 1: for them, and him and von Miller together are it's

1193
00:59:39,800 --> 00:59:42,520
Speaker 1: one of the scariest two man pass rushing combos you

1194
00:59:42,560 --> 00:59:45,280
Speaker 1: could imagine wouldn't want to be playing against that. Emmanuel

1195
00:59:45,280 --> 00:59:48,480
Speaker 1: Sanders looked rejuvenated to he He had a disappointing last

1196
00:59:48,560 --> 00:59:50,520
Speaker 1: year fighting through injuries, but he looked like two thousand

1197
00:59:50,560 --> 00:59:53,240
Speaker 1: fifteen Emmanuel Sanders in the last game. There's it's always

1198
00:59:53,280 --> 00:59:55,400
Speaker 1: kind of overlooked, like when you're going into seeing like

1199
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Speaker 1: veteran players that can just play better, right, I mean,

1200
00:59:58,600 --> 01:00:01,360
Speaker 1: like he can play better von Miller. Now, he maybe

1201
01:00:01,400 --> 01:00:03,760
Speaker 1: can't play that much better. He's pretty basically been at

1202
01:00:03,760 --> 01:00:05,520
Speaker 1: that level, but maybe he can get back even to

1203
01:00:05,640 --> 01:00:08,920
Speaker 1: the slightly higher defensive player of the year level that

1204
01:00:08,960 --> 01:00:11,520
Speaker 1: he was after year before. And it felt like like

1205
01:00:11,640 --> 01:00:13,240
Speaker 1: kind of dumping out of a key to leave and

1206
01:00:13,280 --> 01:00:17,200
Speaker 1: not getting that's crazy that much in response to leave

1207
01:00:17,240 --> 01:00:19,000
Speaker 1: is a little bit older, but bringing in pact Man

1208
01:00:19,280 --> 01:00:22,000
Speaker 1: makes you feel better about that in hindsight, that they're

1209
01:00:22,040 --> 01:00:24,880
Speaker 1: able to get somebody who can't contribute. And I can

1210
01:00:24,920 --> 01:00:27,760
Speaker 1: just add more pac Man Jones discussion to this podcast,

1211
01:00:28,520 --> 01:00:30,240
Speaker 1: I mean, and then one other thing on like to

1212
01:00:30,280 --> 01:00:33,360
Speaker 1: your keenom point, like the turnovers from the quarterbacks last

1213
01:00:33,440 --> 01:00:36,640
Speaker 1: year killed this defense and where they happen on the field,

1214
01:00:36,680 --> 01:00:38,840
Speaker 1: And it's like, if Keenan does not need to be

1215
01:00:39,400 --> 01:00:41,760
Speaker 1: as statistically perfect as he was last year, he simply

1216
01:00:41,800 --> 01:00:44,200
Speaker 1: won't be. But if he doesn't turn the ball over,

1217
01:00:44,320 --> 01:00:46,040
Speaker 1: there are a different type of team. I still don't

1218
01:00:46,080 --> 01:00:49,640
Speaker 1: view the Broncos as a typically scary um entry in

1219
01:00:49,880 --> 01:00:51,960
Speaker 1: a weird day of I like this Division, though I'm

1220
01:00:52,000 --> 01:00:54,320
Speaker 1: signing up. I would watch all these Division games. I

1221
01:00:54,320 --> 01:00:57,960
Speaker 1: think they're interesting. I'm intrigued the Broncos really in treating me.

1222
01:00:58,000 --> 01:00:59,920
Speaker 1: But this is another team where the offensive line could

1223
01:01:00,120 --> 01:01:03,320
Speaker 1: and everything. Are you do you get your breath back? Clay,

1224
01:01:03,840 --> 01:01:06,680
Speaker 1: I'm back like you are you literally running up the

1225
01:01:06,720 --> 01:01:08,480
Speaker 1: stairs and through the build. I spread it up the

1226
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Speaker 1: stairs pass because there's always those waves of people that

1227
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Speaker 1: you have no idea even work here. Excuse me, en

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Speaker 1: I'm already next one I want. I got a question

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Speaker 1: for you guys before we get to the next division.

1230
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1253
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Speaker 1: Let's go to Love Brands. Los Angeles Chargers and Chris Wesley.

1254
01:02:48,320 --> 01:02:50,560
Speaker 1: We were talking about how much you Greg want to

1255
01:02:50,560 --> 01:02:52,480
Speaker 1: watch this division last year because so much as it

1256
01:02:52,720 --> 01:02:55,120
Speaker 1: is up in the air. What's going on here is

1257
01:02:55,120 --> 01:02:57,520
Speaker 1: the Charges have caught the entire division in a rebuild.

1258
01:02:58,640 --> 01:03:01,760
Speaker 1: The Broncos are rebuilding from their last quarterbacks. The Chiefs

1259
01:03:01,800 --> 01:03:05,000
Speaker 1: turned it over to Patrick Mahomes and have, as Greg

1260
01:03:05,080 --> 01:03:09,360
Speaker 1: said in his latest column, maybe the least impressive unit

1261
01:03:09,520 --> 01:03:11,800
Speaker 1: in the league, the Chiefs defense. This year. We'll talk

1262
01:03:11,800 --> 01:03:14,880
Speaker 1: about stealing thunder that coming up next well, we'll have

1263
01:03:14,920 --> 01:03:17,280
Speaker 1: plenty of time to go to that and the Raiders.

1264
01:03:17,280 --> 01:03:19,600
Speaker 1: Who knows what John Gruden's gonna be. It's time for

1265
01:03:19,640 --> 01:03:23,520
Speaker 1: the Chargers to squit, to quit squandering opportunities and using

1266
01:03:23,600 --> 01:03:27,480
Speaker 1: injuries as a convenient scapegoat when you are blowing games

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Speaker 1: with poor special teams. This team was among the top

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Speaker 1: ten offenses and defenses and they were thirty first and

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01:03:34,400 --> 01:03:37,440
Speaker 1: special teams. When you are, along with the Steelers, the

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01:03:37,480 --> 01:03:40,560
Speaker 1: worst tackling team in the NFL, that the middle of

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01:03:40,600 --> 01:03:44,200
Speaker 1: your defense between Bosa and Ingram is a freeway, just

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Speaker 1: broken tackles all along. So if you've got three rookies

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Speaker 1: you might start on defense. Uchenna Nwassu, Kaiser White, Kevin

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01:03:50,840 --> 01:03:54,800
Speaker 1: White's brother, and Derwin James. This team could had a

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01:03:54,800 --> 01:03:57,120
Speaker 1: lot more speed. You've also got Justin Jones, another rookie

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01:03:57,160 --> 01:03:59,840
Speaker 1: on the defensive line. I want to see them tackle better,

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01:04:00,080 --> 01:04:02,520
Speaker 1: make field goals, and do special teams because these are

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01:04:02,520 --> 01:04:06,440
Speaker 1: all things which coaching should help. Derwin James is my

1279
01:04:06,720 --> 01:04:09,960
Speaker 1: defensive Rookie of the Year pick like and j J.

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01:04:10,200 --> 01:04:12,960
Speaker 1: Jones is gonna help special teams a lot. That dude

1281
01:04:13,080 --> 01:04:15,960
Speaker 1: is fun, and I was I would. I don't know

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01:04:16,000 --> 01:04:17,680
Speaker 1: if I was totally sold. But when I found out

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01:04:17,680 --> 01:04:20,880
Speaker 1: that Kauzier White is Kevin White's brother, now man, I

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01:04:20,880 --> 01:04:22,920
Speaker 1: didn't know fourth round pick and it looks like he's

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01:04:22,920 --> 01:04:25,560
Speaker 1: gonna start. They really like him, so that's that's huge

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01:04:25,880 --> 01:04:29,080
Speaker 1: on on paper, it's a dominant defense. Like my question

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Speaker 1: with him is like can Gus Bradley. I don't know.

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01:04:32,040 --> 01:04:34,800
Speaker 1: I almost having just a hard time imagining like a

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01:04:34,920 --> 01:04:40,280
Speaker 1: top three Los Angeles Chargers defense, But I it seems

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Speaker 1: like it can happen. They've got the players for it,

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01:04:42,960 --> 01:04:45,479
Speaker 1: and there's some injury concern with Bosa, but Anthony Lynn

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01:04:45,520 --> 01:04:47,440
Speaker 1: did say over the weekend if it was a regular

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01:04:47,440 --> 01:04:50,880
Speaker 1: season game, the Bosa would have played. They just waste

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01:04:50,920 --> 01:04:55,240
Speaker 1: him in a preseason game. So look, things could go wrong,

1295
01:04:55,280 --> 01:04:58,360
Speaker 1: but why not. Yeah, pretty soon Boss is gonna want

1296
01:04:58,360 --> 01:05:00,320
Speaker 1: to break the bank. Philip Rivers is gonna be old,

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01:05:00,440 --> 01:05:03,360
Speaker 1: and you missed your window. He is old. He hasn't

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01:05:03,400 --> 01:05:06,360
Speaker 1: really still like he's thrown from different platforms. He's he's

1299
01:05:06,360 --> 01:05:09,000
Speaker 1: evading pressure, like he's looked good in the previas. He

1300
01:05:09,000 --> 01:05:11,320
Speaker 1: he hasn't shown it. But he's the same age as

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01:05:11,400 --> 01:05:14,000
Speaker 1: you know Roethlisberger and Eli And to me, he's the

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01:05:14,080 --> 01:05:16,240
Speaker 1: number one story on the board if you're just rooting

1303
01:05:16,280 --> 01:05:20,439
Speaker 1: for an NFL story, Uh of just like someone i'd

1304
01:05:20,440 --> 01:05:22,680
Speaker 1: like to see in the Super Bowl. Philip Rivers is

1305
01:05:22,760 --> 01:05:24,920
Speaker 1: like my number one. And then at the same time,

1306
01:05:25,000 --> 01:05:28,440
Speaker 1: and it's unrelated to the roster, which is better than

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01:05:28,520 --> 01:05:31,520
Speaker 1: any other in the division. Is the environment they play in,

1308
01:05:31,560 --> 01:05:33,880
Speaker 1: which is a stadium that's going to be all season long,

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01:05:33,920 --> 01:05:37,280
Speaker 1: half filled with the opposing fan base. And it's hard

1310
01:05:37,320 --> 01:05:40,080
Speaker 1: to imagine them, you know, hosting an an f C

1311
01:05:40,280 --> 01:05:43,240
Speaker 1: championship game in a stadium half filled with the other

1312
01:05:43,280 --> 01:05:48,640
Speaker 1: teams fans, or it would be great and crazy one weird.

1313
01:05:48,840 --> 01:05:55,120
Speaker 1: Please please stop stop we will after this final team,

1314
01:05:55,240 --> 01:05:59,760
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs and Chris kind of set it

1315
01:05:59,840 --> 01:06:04,520
Speaker 1: for Army that the most concerning unit on either side

1316
01:06:04,520 --> 01:06:06,760
Speaker 1: of the ball that I saw in all of the

1317
01:06:06,760 --> 01:06:11,440
Speaker 1: preseason was the Kansas City Chiefs defense, which was quite

1318
01:06:11,440 --> 01:06:15,120
Speaker 1: bad last year, made a lot of changes, and then

1319
01:06:15,280 --> 01:06:18,360
Speaker 1: in all three weeks when the Chiefs starting defense was

1320
01:06:18,400 --> 01:06:21,080
Speaker 1: out there got run over. It really didn't matter who

1321
01:06:21,120 --> 01:06:24,240
Speaker 1: they were going against, whether it was Chase Daniel going

1322
01:06:24,320 --> 01:06:26,640
Speaker 1: for three straight touch I mean, when the Bears backups

1323
01:06:26,640 --> 01:06:28,480
Speaker 1: are going for three straight touchdowns on you, maybe I

1324
01:06:28,480 --> 01:06:31,080
Speaker 1: shouldn't overreact to the preseason, but it's not like the

1325
01:06:31,120 --> 01:06:34,160
Speaker 1: personnel really makes you feel any better. The secondary without

1326
01:06:34,280 --> 01:06:36,720
Speaker 1: Eric Berry and right now they are without Eric Berry

1327
01:06:36,800 --> 01:06:38,840
Speaker 1: hasn't practiced in two weeks. He's coming off a torn

1328
01:06:38,880 --> 01:06:41,440
Speaker 1: achilles tenant and his heel, which is the same area

1329
01:06:41,560 --> 01:06:44,880
Speaker 1: is hurt again. Is one one of the weakest secondaries

1330
01:06:45,160 --> 01:06:47,480
Speaker 1: in the league, and then you're gonna need a really

1331
01:06:47,480 --> 01:06:49,960
Speaker 1: strong front seven to make up for I don't know

1332
01:06:50,000 --> 01:06:52,400
Speaker 1: if they have that. And it's just asking a lot

1333
01:06:52,400 --> 01:06:54,760
Speaker 1: of Patrick Mahomes to try to win thirty three to

1334
01:06:54,880 --> 01:06:57,040
Speaker 1: thirty every week and that that might be what it takes.

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01:06:57,440 --> 01:06:59,640
Speaker 1: It's almost like if they had an all pro cornerback

1336
01:06:59,760 --> 01:07:05,439
Speaker 1: on the team. Yeah, yeah, I that one's a hard

1337
01:07:05,480 --> 01:07:07,280
Speaker 1: one to figure. I guess they just didn't want to

1338
01:07:07,280 --> 01:07:11,480
Speaker 1: pay him or something. They didn't tom eventually, but they

1339
01:07:11,520 --> 01:07:13,120
Speaker 1: didn't have to pay him. That was the part I

1340
01:07:13,160 --> 01:07:16,880
Speaker 1: didn't get. He was he was under contract. Maybe you

1341
01:07:16,920 --> 01:07:18,680
Speaker 1: know this year he could have tagged them next. Might

1342
01:07:18,720 --> 01:07:21,400
Speaker 1: have been the personality. I mean, there seems to tire

1343
01:07:21,440 --> 01:07:23,880
Speaker 1: of him. I do. I am encouraged by Patrick Mahomes. Rather,

1344
01:07:23,880 --> 01:07:26,640
Speaker 1: it was one of these quarterbacks that amid this sea

1345
01:07:26,680 --> 01:07:29,760
Speaker 1: of rookie quarterbacks and almost easy to forget about Mahomes

1346
01:07:29,800 --> 01:07:32,000
Speaker 1: and Trabinsky and these guys that are you know, in

1347
01:07:32,080 --> 01:07:35,360
Speaker 1: year two and in Mahomes in that last game. I mean,

1348
01:07:35,760 --> 01:07:37,760
Speaker 1: you feel like he can. He can be the engine

1349
01:07:37,760 --> 01:07:40,400
Speaker 1: behind an exciting offense, and if they aren't, then that

1350
01:07:40,400 --> 01:07:42,520
Speaker 1: team could free fall because they were gonna have to score.

1351
01:07:42,600 --> 01:07:44,320
Speaker 1: They're gonna have to use Tyreek Hill and they're gonna

1352
01:07:44,320 --> 01:07:48,000
Speaker 1: have to use Kelsey and score probably twenty seven points

1353
01:07:48,000 --> 01:07:51,200
Speaker 1: a game, if not more, to get above five. Well,

1354
01:07:51,200 --> 01:07:53,080
Speaker 1: here's the thing. Tyreek Hill said after this game, like

1355
01:07:53,160 --> 01:07:54,920
Speaker 1: he thinks they can be the number one offense in

1356
01:07:54,960 --> 01:07:58,480
Speaker 1: the league. I thought, I mean, that's not that crazy,

1357
01:07:58,560 --> 01:08:00,880
Speaker 1: but you will need Maybe that's what I mean when

1358
01:08:00,880 --> 01:08:04,040
Speaker 1: I'm saying they're gonna have to win thirty seven. Maybe

1359
01:08:04,080 --> 01:08:06,240
Speaker 1: they can. I mean, maybe it's not too crazy to

1360
01:08:06,280 --> 01:08:08,520
Speaker 1: think that they're a top two or three offense when

1361
01:08:08,560 --> 01:08:12,520
Speaker 1: the season is grinding you down. Mark in December, try October.

1362
01:08:12,920 --> 01:08:15,400
Speaker 1: In October, just thank god that your job does not

1363
01:08:15,440 --> 01:08:17,960
Speaker 1: involved trying to cover Tyreek Hill. That's got to be

1364
01:08:17,960 --> 01:08:20,120
Speaker 1: one of the toughest jobs in sport. Yeah, I would

1365
01:08:20,120 --> 01:08:21,640
Speaker 1: not I would not want that. I would love to

1366
01:08:21,680 --> 01:08:24,360
Speaker 1: see that you played a little cornerback, didn't you. I

1367
01:08:24,400 --> 01:08:27,000
Speaker 1: mean I couldn't. It was simply like this person's like

1368
01:08:27,240 --> 01:08:30,080
Speaker 1: height and weight combination don't fit anywhere. But we have

1369
01:08:30,280 --> 01:08:35,360
Speaker 1: like eighteen people cornerbacks hilly trying to get them up

1370
01:08:35,360 --> 01:08:37,200
Speaker 1: in the line and try to back off. I'd start

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01:08:37,240 --> 01:08:40,320
Speaker 1: like fifty yards deep and then like, here's the problem

1372
01:08:40,360 --> 01:08:46,000
Speaker 1: that strategy. The Cowboys tried that that didn't the end

1373
01:08:46,000 --> 01:08:48,760
Speaker 1: of the half. That didn't work. I mean even their

1374
01:08:48,920 --> 01:08:51,799
Speaker 1: their depth is good, like DeMarcus Robinson, I like Chris Conley,

1375
01:08:51,920 --> 01:08:54,040
Speaker 1: like they they've got just people falling out of the world.

1376
01:08:54,160 --> 01:08:56,800
Speaker 1: Their backup tight ends are kind of fun usually like

1377
01:08:56,840 --> 01:09:00,160
Speaker 1: they can. I love Andy reid Get put any eat

1378
01:09:00,160 --> 01:09:02,920
Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame someday and because you get

1379
01:09:02,960 --> 01:09:05,799
Speaker 1: some chance to try something different with somebody knew at quarterback.

1380
01:09:05,880 --> 01:09:10,120
Speaker 1: But you know, if we're watching Orlando scandrid get dusted

1381
01:09:10,120 --> 01:09:12,960
Speaker 1: by Kevin White for his first touchdown, it's like, maybe

1382
01:09:13,000 --> 01:09:15,000
Speaker 1: he's not a quote unquote problem in the locker room

1383
01:09:15,080 --> 01:09:18,760
Speaker 1: like Marcus Peters was, but he's getting dusted for touchdowns.

1384
01:09:18,800 --> 01:09:24,599
Speaker 1: So that sucks. To stop. Did I stutter? You did

1385
01:09:24,640 --> 01:09:27,400
Speaker 1: not and got your wish. He did a great job.

1386
01:09:28,160 --> 01:09:31,400
Speaker 1: M v P and Tam Possey, who's not here, but

1387
01:09:31,439 --> 01:09:36,400
Speaker 1: it felt like she was. He did and guess what

1388
01:09:36,439 --> 01:09:38,120
Speaker 1: they'll be back. You can, you know, leave him in

1389
01:09:38,120 --> 01:09:41,280
Speaker 1: the system or create some new ones for later in

1390
01:09:41,320 --> 01:09:44,120
Speaker 1: the week we're gonna do around the NFC. We're gonna

1391
01:09:44,160 --> 01:09:48,000
Speaker 1: look ahead, of course, to the two eighteen season. We

1392
01:09:48,040 --> 01:09:53,960
Speaker 1: have shows Wednesday and Friday before we head overseas. And

1393
01:09:54,000 --> 01:09:56,000
Speaker 1: I think that's it. We got through all of our

1394
01:09:56,040 --> 01:09:58,840
Speaker 1: ad reids and all sixteen teams and uh for your

1395
01:09:58,880 --> 01:10:02,200
Speaker 1: final thoughts, I leave it to Chris Westley see you

1396
01:10:02,200 --> 01:10:05,000
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. I just wanted to totally put what are

1397
01:10:05,040 --> 01:10:10,080
Speaker 1: you on the spot all right for Mark Sessler, Chris Wesselene,

1398
01:10:10,800 --> 01:10:13,360
Speaker 1: and Patrick Cleavon. Dan Handons will be back next time

1399
01:10:13,560 --> 01:10:32,599
Speaker 1: MVP behind the Glass see Wednesday