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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a learning lesson, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: Every single week in the NFL season, especially early on,

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Speaker 3: in right now alongside Kyle Rudolph, Mark Willard.

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Speaker 2: Good evening to you around the land.

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Speaker 3: Should be deep breath time, Kyle Rudolph, Let's let it

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Speaker 3: all soak in and then we'll let it all out.

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Speaker 2: Man. How you doing tonight?

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Speaker 1: I'm doing great, looking forward to another good recap of

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Speaker 1: an interesting Sunday in the NFL. Like you said, each

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Speaker 1: and every week, you think you figured it out, and

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Speaker 1: you know, some teams surprise you, and some teams come

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Speaker 1: out and do exactly what you thought they were going

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Speaker 1: to do. So I think that's one of the things

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Speaker 1: that amazes me most that I realized throughout the course

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Speaker 1: of my career, this is truly, you know, a one

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Speaker 1: week season. You hear it all the time. It's so

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Speaker 1: cliche to say it's how the players approach it. It's how

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Speaker 1: the coaches approach it. And when you go and you

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Speaker 1: watch from a fan perspective, from a member of the media,

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Speaker 1: you really see it. We talked about it a little

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Speaker 1: bit last week, how you got to move on from

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Speaker 1: week one and go out there and either get a

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Speaker 1: try to just stay hot and improve on what you

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Speaker 1: did the week before. So another exciting Sunday so far.

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Speaker 2: No doubt.

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Speaker 3: There are a few teams that we rightfully buried, and

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Speaker 3: I don't mean their season but their performance last week.

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Speaker 3: Who rallied back and made things look a little bit different,

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Speaker 3: And we'll get to that shortly coming up.

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Speaker 2: But we both wanted to start with one team specifically.

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Speaker 3: I was fascinated by a couple of different things by

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Speaker 3: and about this team this week. Because we all pray

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Speaker 3: for miracles in life, we all sing the songs Do

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Speaker 3: you Believe in Miracles?

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Speaker 2: Al Michaels.

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Speaker 3: We all talk about miracles, and I would say that

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Speaker 3: the idea of tearing your Achilles tendon and being ready

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Speaker 2: But this is what we're.

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Speaker 3: Being fed now that doctor Neil Elatrosh has got some

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Speaker 3: magic bullet with regard to the Achilles injury, and that

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Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers might be ready for January. Kyle, that would

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Speaker 3: be a miracle. The problem is, if you're a Jets fan,

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Speaker 3: I think that you're focused on the wrong miracle. The

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Speaker 3: miracle would actually be making the playoffs without Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 3: I know that the Cowboys are a very good football team.

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Speaker 3: I know that they have a very good defense. But

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Speaker 3: I right now am knee deep in quarterbacking options for

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Speaker 3: the Jets because Robert Solid can rally the troops all

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Speaker 3: he wants with the whole This is Zach Wilson's football

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Speaker 3: team thing. It's not I hate these labels. I don't

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Speaker 3: as a draft pick, this was a bust. He's not

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Speaker 3: the guy. He can't do it, certainly, at least not yet.

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Speaker 3: Three more interceptions. Today, stars like Garrett Wilson, who only

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Speaker 2: Because of his ability.

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Speaker 3: But I look at this and to me, Kyle, the

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Speaker 3: clock is ticking and ticking fast, because the Jets have

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Speaker 3: a roster that can really play in this league, but

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Speaker 3: they cannot with Zach Wilson at the helm.

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Speaker 1: No, and I don't know what the answer is. We

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Speaker 1: who's been there all offseason around Aaron Rodgers. You'd hope

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Speaker 1: be able to help Zach. But you can't go out

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Speaker 1: you can't let that defense that's the strong suit of

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Speaker 3: Kyle, I shared a text with you before the show

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Speaker 3: Carson Wentz? And you immediately were like that that's.

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Speaker 2: Not the answer either, And I get it.

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Speaker 3: Look, Carson Wentz ha been on three different rosters in

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Speaker 3: even though statistically he's better than what you would normally

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Speaker 2: Week three of the season.

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Speaker 3: So let's explore some ideas, because quite frankly, you've got

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Speaker 3: a bombshell of an idea. But let's hold that for

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Speaker 3: a second. Tell me first, why not Carson Wentz.

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Speaker 1: Well, I just think at this point, you know I

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Speaker 1: But I just I don't believe that bringing in that

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Speaker 1: And again it just to me personally, it goes back

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Speaker 1: But that's his mindset, that's his goal. If that's the

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Speaker 1: So there has to be a mentality change there that really,

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Speaker 1: that confidence that Robert Salas says is better than last year,

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Speaker 1: Like there's just yeah, you know, you just scored ten

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I'm just not a believer. I'm not

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Speaker 2: They've come out.

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Speaker 3: They've played horrible offense the whole time for two games. However,

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Speaker 3: it right in front of you, Kyle, do you know

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Speaker 3: You've got you've got to one and oh teams who

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Speaker 2: So that's it.

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Speaker 3: And they barely pulled it out against Cincinnati today. And

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Speaker 2: So much more on that later on in the show.

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Speaker 2: But this AFC, I.

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Speaker 3: Think there's already reason to look at it and think

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Speaker 2: They're gonna beat each other up.

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Speaker 3: And you know, this AFC may not offer any fourteen

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Speaker 1: Well, and I think it's even further than just the

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Speaker 1: AFC teams beating each other up. It's the AFC East

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Speaker 1: teams beating each other up. You know, the AFC East

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Speaker 3: Well, I mentioned to everybody listening that you have what

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Speaker 3: I tell you what, it is such a fascinating conversation.

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Speaker 3: You've done some really good things, but at that dollar figure,

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Speaker 1: Well, and I think that would be a great answer

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Speaker 1: it's realistic? Absolutely not. I think that's just us putting

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Speaker 1: our GM hats on and thinking, what is the ideal scenario.

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Speaker 1: What is the most interesting scenario. I think something that

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Speaker 1: would be more likely. And personally, if I'm the Jets

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Speaker 1: and we're trying to figure out what's the solution, not

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Speaker 1: name Zach Wilson. You look at some veteran backup quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: in the NFL that you could trade for who you

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Speaker 1: know I mentioned before, these free agent guys are coming

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Speaker 1: in off the street. They haven't thrown a ball in

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Speaker 1: a live rep all year. You have guys like Jacobe Burssett,

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Speaker 1: Andy Dalton, Teddy Bridgewater, Blaine Gabbert, veteran quarterbacks who and

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Speaker 1: come in and if you're saying all you got to

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Speaker 1: do is hold the patent, you know you're the placeholder

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Speaker 1: for the next four months. Get us nine wins, get

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Speaker 1: us ten wins with a super talented roster and a

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Speaker 1: really good defense. I like my chances with those guys

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Speaker 1: more than Zach Wilson.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I totally get it. I totally agree and got

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Speaker 3: to do it fast. Their schedules crazy right out of

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Speaker 3: the gate, the Viking side of this, And again, I

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Speaker 3: know you said it's not necessarily all that realistic, but

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Speaker 3: if it were to become a conversation, there's another Viking

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Speaker 3: side question to ask, which we'll do here in a

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Speaker 3: couple of minutes.

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Speaker 2: But it's Steve Desager time.

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Speaker 3: Let's get him on in here, third member of our team.

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Speaker 3: Find out everything that's going on out and about Hi.

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Speaker 2: Steve Howdy.

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Speaker 6: It's zero zero Dolphins at Patriots, about eight minutes to

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Speaker 6: go in the first quarter of the Sunday night NFL game.

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Speaker 6: New England had it first for almost five minutes, but

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Speaker 6: barely got to midfield and punted. Now it's Miami's first drive.

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Speaker 6: As far as the inactives missing an edge rusher are

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Speaker 6: the Dolphins Jalen Phillips out he heard his back in

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Speaker 6: practice week, and tackle toront Armstead is still out. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 6: for the Patriots, they get a couple of guards back,

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Speaker 6: but they're without starting tackle Trent Brown, he did not

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Speaker 6: practice all week due to a concussion, and defensive back

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Speaker 6: Jonathan Jones is out. As for the late afternoon games

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Speaker 6: to just see the finish. In Denver, Washington is two

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Speaker 6: and oh after winning thirty five thirty three over the Broncos,

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Speaker 6: who scored a touchdown at the end out a hail.

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Speaker 6: Mary had to go for two and miss the two

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Speaker 6: point pass on the final play, lost thirty five thirty three.

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Speaker 6: Washington had trailed twenty one to three late in the

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Speaker 6: second quarter on the road and got a w out

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Speaker 6: of it. Giants wanted Arizona thirty one to twenty eight.

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Speaker 6: Giants trailed twenty eight to seven late in the third quarter.

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Speaker 6: Late field goal gets in the win. Running Back Saquon

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Speaker 6: Barkley had two touchdowns but left with an ankle injury

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Speaker 6: oh and two. Record for Arizona. Dallas is two and

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Speaker 6: oh after ripping the Jets thirty to ten. Ceedee Lamb

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Speaker 6: eleven catches, one hundred and forty three yards. Dallas white

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Speaker 6: out Brandon Cooks did not play due to a knee injury.

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Speaker 6: San Francisco two and oh after beating the Rams thirty

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Speaker 6: to twenty three. Christian McCaffrey one hundred and sixteen yards

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Speaker 6: rushing in a touchdown. A lot of red in the

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Speaker 6: stands on the road there and for the chief a

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Speaker 6: lot of red in the stands on the road and

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Speaker 6: Chiefs won at Jacksonville seventeen to nine. Tight End Travis Kelce,

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Speaker 6: returned after missing the opener due to a knee injury,

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Speaker 6: did have a touchdown catch, but on nine targets, he

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Speaker 6: had four receptions twenty six yards. Baltimore's two and oh

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Speaker 6: after winning at Cincinnati twenty seven to twenty four. Quarterback

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Speaker 6: Joe burrow in the lost two touchdowns, one interception near

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Speaker 6: the end zone, and he said he aggravated his strained

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Speaker 6: calf late in the game. Overtime win for Seattle at

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Speaker 6: Detroit's overtime win for Tennessee against the Chargers, Atlantic's two

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Speaker 6: and oh after edging Green Bay twenty five twenty four,

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Speaker 6: the Falcons were down twenty four to twelve early in

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Speaker 6: the fourth quarter. Victories for Buffalo and Tampa Bay at home,

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Speaker 6: and Indy won on the road thirty one twenty at

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Speaker 6: oh to two Houston, but rookie quarterback of the cole

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Speaker 6: Anthony Richardson, who had two touchdowns, left before halftime with

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Speaker 6: a concussion. A reminder there are two games on Monday.

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Speaker 6: Colorado says two Way star Travis Hunter will miss a

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Speaker 6: few weeks. He took a late hit last night and

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Speaker 6: was taken to the hospital. Number nineteen ranked, Colorado is

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Speaker 6: at number ten Oregon on Saturday. By the way, the

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Speaker 6: PAC twelve has eight teams ranked in the new polls.

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Speaker 6: UCLA's at Utah this Saturday on Fox TV just in

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Speaker 6: time to disband. Oregon State is at Washington State. Even

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Speaker 6: those two are ranked as they get ready to play

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Speaker 6: against each other. Well, SEC has six teams ranked, and

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Speaker 6: Alabama's going to play Old Miss this weekend. But Bama

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Speaker 6: is out of the top ten for the first time

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Speaker 6: in eight years, down to number thirteen, and deservedly so

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Speaker 6: if you saw the game yesterday. But after one hundred

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Speaker 6: and twenty eight straight weeks, they are not a top

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Speaker 6: ten club. The record is still one hundred and thirty

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Speaker 6: seven straights in the top ten by the Miami Hurricanes

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Speaker 6: through nineteen ninety three. And in baseball tonight, Diamondbacks lead

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Speaker 6: three to two over the Cubs bottom of the fourth inning.

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Speaker 3: Back to here, guys, I spent the entire day at

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Speaker 3: PAC twelve Network yesterday hosting through all of those games,

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Speaker 3: and the only thing I could the only way I

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Speaker 3: can describe it is the sheepishness of the idea that

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Speaker 3: as it disbands, this might be it is set up

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Speaker 3: to be the most epic conference this year, the most

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Speaker 3: epic year in recent memory in the PAC twelve eight

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Speaker 3: ranked teams, and I don't know how many quarterbacks who

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Speaker 3: are going to.

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Speaker 2: The league, that's right. I just all looking incredible, just the.

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Speaker 6: Big four quarterbacks like USC and the Oregon quarterback and

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Speaker 6: your Washington Washington State. It's like forty touchdowns one interception

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Speaker 6: combined so far. It's ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: Right, Pennix junior at Washington incredible. Caleb Williams, we know,

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Speaker 3: probably on his way to being the number one pick

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Speaker 3: in the draft Heisman Trophy. But when you get to

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Speaker 3: cam Ward, we haven't even seen cam rising yet. On

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Speaker 3: and on like it. It is an embarrassment of riches.

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Speaker 3: As you said, Steve, just in time for everybody to leave.

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Speaker 6: There was already a suggestion late last night after the

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Speaker 6: Stanford result. They lost it home to Sacramento State on

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Speaker 6: a late touchdown. Hey, maybe sax State can give a

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Speaker 6: call and make it a pack three next year. Geographically,

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Speaker 6: you know they were great in the FCS.

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Speaker 3: It's crazy, absolutely crazy, Steve, thanks appreciate it, Kyle. Steve

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Speaker 3: also mentioned that crazy finish in Denver between Washington and

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Speaker 3: the Broncos. I don't know if you saw the last play,

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Speaker 3: the two pointer to Courtland Sutton. I definitely wanted your response.

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Speaker 3: As a past catcher, a red zone player, was that

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Speaker 3: past interference? It certainly looked like it to me, And

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Speaker 3: that was a wild finish and I would have loved

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Speaker 3: to see more it was.

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Speaker 1: I mean, certainly, you get the Hail Mary at the

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Speaker 1: end of the game and score a touchdown, it's such

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Speaker 1: a high for your team, and then all you have

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Speaker 1: to do is execute the two point conversion to send

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Speaker 1: it to overtime, and you watch the play. Guys are

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Speaker 1: crossing the field. It's it's such a small area of

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Speaker 1: the football field. There's only twelve yards. You have ten

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Speaker 1: yards of the end zone and the two yards out

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Speaker 1: in the field where the two point play takes place.

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Speaker 1: And I mean there was Courtland Sutton was running across

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Speaker 1: the field, Jerry Judy is running across the field, and

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Speaker 1: you know everybody's just crossing. You're trying to create the chaos,

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Speaker 1: ultimately hoping someone gets lost. Russell Wilson can find the

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Speaker 1: open guy, and you know, if you watch it play out,

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Speaker 1: I think Jerry Judy may have popped out the backside there,

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Speaker 1: but in that situation, in those circumstances, it's gonna was

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Speaker 1: it past interference most likely? I think that that's a play.

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Speaker 1: You know, if they would have called it on third

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Speaker 1: and two out in the field, it probably gets called.

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Speaker 1: But it's in the low red zone. There's bodies everywhere

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Speaker 1: in such a condensed part of the field. It's no

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Speaker 1: official is going to make that call. They just they

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Speaker 1: won't make that call, and it makes it tough when

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Speaker 1: you have twenty two bodies in a twelve yard area

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Speaker 1: that's going to happen.

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Speaker 3: Ty rack dot Com Studios. That's Kyle Rudolph alongside. I'm

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Speaker 3: Mark Withard and we are working our way through game two.

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Speaker 3: The interesting idea you threw out there about twenty minutes ago,

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Speaker 3: and yes, just so everyone knows, you're saying this is unrealistic,

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Speaker 3: but maybe a phone call is made. What are the

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Speaker 3: Vikings plans at quarterback going forward? And if they don't

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Speaker 3: include Kirk Cousins, if you're the Jets, do you make

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Speaker 3: a call? I have another very large looming question or

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Speaker 3: maybe large looming person that would need to be involved

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Speaker 3: in a conversation like that on the Viking side. We'll

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Speaker 3: get to that coming up next on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: All Right, ty Rack dot Com Studios with Kyle Rudolph

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Speaker 3: Mark Willard, Fox Sports Radio, Week two. As we go

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Speaker 3: into the night, Dolphins have a three to nothing lead

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Speaker 3: on New England, but the Patriots driving late in the

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Speaker 3: first quarter. Will keep you all up to date on

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Speaker 3: Sunday Night Football. Kyle, I wonder what your thought is

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Speaker 3: on this again, just kind of weaving our way through

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Speaker 3: the Jets quarterback conversation, you brought up the Vikings they're

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Speaker 3: owing to what's their plan with Kirk Cousins going forward? Obviously,

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Speaker 3: the big money deal that the Vikings are focused on

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Speaker 3: going forward will be that of Justin Jefferson. For my money,

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Speaker 3: that's the best receiver in the game. They have not

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Speaker 3: gotten it figured out as of yet. I have no

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Speaker 3: doubt that they will. But how does he and his

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Speaker 3: contractual situation factor in to a topic like this.

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Speaker 1: I think it plays a huge factor into it because

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Speaker 1: you think about moving forward, if you're going to continue

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Speaker 1: to pay a quarterback that upper Eschelon money. How can

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Speaker 1: you then go pay a receiver thirty plus million. That's

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Speaker 1: where the bar is. Tyreek Hill is making thirty million

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Speaker 1: dollars a year. Justin Jefferson should not sign for a

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Speaker 1: penny less. He is unequivocally the best wide receiver in football.

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Speaker 1: He's proved it through the first three years of his career,

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Speaker 1: and he's off to an incredible start now this year.

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Speaker 1: He's the main focus of that offense. Everything goes through him.

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Speaker 1: You watch him on tape. He's outside, he's in the slot,

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Speaker 1: he's motioning all over the field to get one on

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Speaker 1: one matchups. Everything that they do goes through Justin Jefferson.

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Speaker 1: And how you can't possibly pay him what he's worth

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Speaker 1: and what he's going to command when you have those

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Speaker 1: other contracts, like a big quarterback contract on the salary

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Speaker 1: cap as well.

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Speaker 3: Here's the thing about Justin I agree with everything you

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Speaker 3: just said, I also find this whole discussion to be

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Speaker 3: pretty scary if I'm Justin Jefferson, because not that it's

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Speaker 3: about stats.

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Speaker 2: It's obviously not.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure after watching that guy play football, he wants

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Speaker 3: to win. He wants to win as badly as anybody

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Speaker 3: But for instance, I think about Garrett Wilson a lot

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Speaker 3: right now when we started this conversation.

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Speaker 2: Garrett Wilson is.

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Speaker 3: A guy who I think, I mean, he could have

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Speaker 3: led the NFL in receiving this year.

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Speaker 2: He was a candidate to do that with Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 2: as his quarterback.

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Speaker 3: And now Garrett is going to have a hard time

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Speaker 3: getting to three or four catches per game with Zach

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Speaker 3: Wilson out there. If I'm justin, how do I feel

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Speaker 3: about the idea of not keeping Kirk Cousins and going

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Speaker 3: into that vortex of we don't have a quarterback and

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Speaker 3: we might draft someone and then you know, you put

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Speaker 3: your hands together and you hope, you hope that that

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Speaker 3: young kid can play.

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Speaker 2: That is a game changer for a wide receiver.

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Speaker 1: It is the situation that comes to mind thinking about

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Speaker 1: high paid quarterback, high paid wide receiver Tyreek Hill, Patrick Mahomes,

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Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs. Ultimately, the Kansas City Chiefs made

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Speaker 1: the tough decision to trade Tyreek Hill to the Miami Dolphins,

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Speaker 1: where he could get paid thirty million dollars a year.

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Speaker 1: Why can he be paid thirty million dollars a year?

657
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Speaker 1: Because Tua is on a rookie contract. So you know, ultimately,

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Speaker 1: I think again it goes down to what's the Vikings

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Speaker 1: plans moving forward. You know, this is a draft that

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Speaker 1: if we're already looking ahead to the draft and you're

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Speaker 1: saying that Kirk Cousins is not going to be our

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Speaker 1: guy moving forward, you know, maybe we'll try to find

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Speaker 1: a bridge guy out there in free agency this year

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Speaker 1: that we don't have to pay top dollar for and

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Speaker 1: try to get one of these three quarterbacks that are

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Speaker 1: coming out that you know, could potentially be our guy

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Speaker 1: moving forward. And now we have an opportunity because we

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Speaker 1: have a quarterback on a rookie contract, to pay justin

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Speaker 1: what he commands and what he deserves, but then also

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Speaker 1: build around him as you've seen the Miami Dolphins doing

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Speaker 1: with Tyreek Kill and the rest of that offense. Because

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Speaker 1: Tua Toungoloa is on a rookie contract.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I totally get it. Here's the thing,

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Speaker 3: and nobody wants to talk about it's the dirtiest word

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Speaker 3: in sports, which is tanking. And so I'm certainly not

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Speaker 3: going to suggest that, but you're bringing up all kinds

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Speaker 3: of interesting points here. If truly the Minnesota Vikings do

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Speaker 3: not have Kirk Cousins in their future plans, then I'm

679
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Speaker 3: going to go back to your idea and say, why

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Speaker 3: is it not realistic for them to trade him to

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Speaker 3: the New York Jets. Because if I'm the Minnesota Vikings

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Speaker 3: and I've already decided that Kirk Cousins is not going

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Speaker 3: to be in my future plans because I'm gonna spend

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Speaker 3: that money on Justin Jefferson instead of a thirty six

685
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Speaker 3: year old quarterback, well, I would argue then that losing

686
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Speaker 3: this year would help because there are a lot of

687
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Speaker 3: teams that are gonna be after the Caleb Williams of

688
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Speaker 3: the world and these other quarterbacks who are coming out,

689
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Speaker 3: and you are not going to be helped by keeping

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Speaker 3: Kirk Cousins and grinding out a nine to eight year

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Speaker 3: or a ten and seven year You're gonna end up

692
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Speaker 3: with the sixteenth pick in the draft, and that's not

693
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Speaker 3: gonna be good enough. So why wouldn't their ears be

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Speaker 3: open if they've already decided that Kirk's not in their

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Speaker 3: future plans?

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Speaker 1: Again, I think it goes to the nature of everyone

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Speaker 1: in these organizations. You never want to throw in the

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Speaker 1: towel at this point in the season and concede the

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Speaker 1: fact that all right, we're not ultimately going to reach

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Speaker 1: the goal. We're moving on. And here's where we're gonna

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Speaker 1: do it. We're gonna trade Kirk Cousins to the New

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Speaker 1: York Jets. Get some picks. I don't know what picks

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Speaker 1: they could get for him, but personally, you look at

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Speaker 1: their schedule again, zero to two Chargers at Carolina. This

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Speaker 1: Vikings team, as bad as they've been, you know, negative

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Speaker 1: six in the turnover margin, two, they still had two

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Speaker 1: cl and they could get back to in a division

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Speaker 1: that's not that great.

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Speaker 2: Fair enough, Yes, it's a it's a division.

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Speaker 3: The Bears have come out and and well the Bears,

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Speaker 3: I guess are who we thought they were. The Packers

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Speaker 3: are interesting, though they could not close the deal today.

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Speaker 3: Uh and and and the Lions today have a blemish

714
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Speaker 3: as well, trouble in Cincinnati, which is where we're going next.

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Speaker 3: Mark will and Kyle Rudolf Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: Yeah week two, and it is getting good already.

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Speaker 2: The parody throughout the league.

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Speaker 3: As we said at this hour, there's one, count them,

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Speaker 3: one two and zero teams in the AFC. We knew

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Speaker 3: the AFC was good, but maybe there's more parody across

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Speaker 3: the league than we think.

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Speaker 2: We'll get to.

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Speaker 3: That in just a moment, along with Kyle Rudolph here

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Speaker 3: Mark Willard on Fox Sports Radio all across the land.

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Speaker 3: the way tire buying should be. The Bengals went oh

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Speaker 3: to two last year, then they ended up in the

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Speaker 3: AFC Championship game. They're OH to two again this year.

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Speaker 3: But it's a very very different O and two. You

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Speaker 3: said to me last week, Joe Burrow looks like a

738
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Speaker 3: who didn't have any training camp and may or may

739
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Speaker 3: not be fully healthy. Well, now we know that he's

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Speaker 3: not fully healthy because he's had a set back with

741
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Speaker 3: that calf injury. They do not know the exact seriousness.

742
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Speaker 3: All they said was that if the Bengals had gotten

743
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Speaker 3: the ball again late, yes, he would have gone back in.

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Speaker 3: But what is his status going forward? That's a question mark.

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Speaker 3: And they're already facing another oh and two start, which,

746
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Speaker 3: as I said earlier, the metrics tell you you've only got

747
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Speaker 3: a ten percent chance to make the playoffs when you

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Speaker 3: do that. So how serious of a situation are we

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Speaker 3: looking at in Cincinnati.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting that calfs are tricky, and I think, honestly,

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Speaker 1: for me, that was something that I had worried about

752
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Speaker 1: when he had it during training camp, took the time

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Speaker 1: off rehab to come back. You see guys that have

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Speaker 1: the calf injury throughout the course of the year. It's

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Speaker 1: probably the one that's aggravated the most, even more so

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Speaker 1: than a hamstring. It's not something that just four weeks

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Speaker 1: of rehab and all of a sudden it's gone and

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Speaker 1: everything's all better for the rest of the season. So,

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Speaker 1: quite honestly, I think, first and foremost, Joe Burrow's calf

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Speaker 1: worries me a whole lot more than the and two start.

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Speaker 1: They have the Los Angeles Rams coming to Cincinnati next week,

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Speaker 1: then they go to Tennessee, then they two Arizona. So

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Speaker 1: you look at their next three games, a tough road

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Speaker 1: game at Tennessee. The Titans are always tough. They play

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Speaker 1: a tough style of football. You have a one to

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Speaker 1: one RAMS team coming to town right away this week,

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Speaker 1: and then you go to the Cardinals. And we've talked

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Speaker 1: about the Cardinals. So the and two start, they proved

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Speaker 1: last year that they can get things back on track.

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Speaker 1: And we talk about this last week almost at nauseum

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Speaker 1: that the month of September, if you can just get

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Speaker 1: to two and two, that's all that really matters. You're

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Speaker 1: not gonna win the super Bowl in September. But the

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Speaker 1: other part that I said is you certainly can lose

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Speaker 1: the super Bowl. And one way to lose the super

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Speaker 1: Bowl in September for the Cincinnati Bengals would be an

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Speaker 1: unhealthy Joe Burrow.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I look at that.

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Speaker 3: The schedule is a fascinating game to play because not

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Speaker 3: just as it rams, and that's a Monday night er,

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Speaker 3: by the way, so they do get an extra day.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if that helps, maybe even just in

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Speaker 3: some sort of a tiny way. The road games at Tennessee,

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Speaker 3: at Arizona, and then you're back home the following week

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Speaker 3: to Seattle, So you know, can you even can you

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Speaker 3: even win? Just like a couple of those, can you

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Speaker 3: end up at two and four? Can you end up

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Speaker 3: at three and three? Because if you don't, Kyle, you

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Speaker 3: get a bye week in week seven, and then you're

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Speaker 3: gonna get a road trip to San Francisco followed by

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Speaker 3: the Buffalo Bills coming to town in a one to

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Speaker 3: two punch Sunday Night football the first week in November.

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Speaker 3: Now we're getting way ahead of ourselves. That's week nine.

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Speaker 3: Who knows what in God's name is going to be

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Speaker 3: going on by then. But you get what I'm saying,

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Speaker 3: Like I'm with you, this is a different and two

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Speaker 3: than last year because it's not the oh and two

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Speaker 3: at all.

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Speaker 2: It's the calf and you've got.

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Speaker 3: Jamar Chase who has barely gotten going at all.

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Speaker 2: So far this year.

802
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Speaker 3: The frustration is going to boil up for sure, the

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Speaker 3: injury if they cannot get it healthy. I mean, that's

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Speaker 3: their bread and butter. That's why they're doing fifty five

805
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Speaker 3: million dollars.

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Speaker 2: A year for that player.

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Speaker 3: And so this next stretch of four games, if they

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Speaker 3: can't get it figured out, at least to a certain degree,

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Speaker 3: it does feel like one of the top five Super

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Speaker 3: Bowl favorites is already sort of facing a season on

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Speaker 3: the brink.

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Speaker 1: No question. And you look at the start. Oh and

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Speaker 1: two is one thing. Oh and two in the division

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Speaker 1: is a completely another thing. They lost on the road

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Speaker 1: in Cleveland and at home at Baltimore. So yes, you're

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Speaker 1: oh and two. And we've talked about the fact that

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Speaker 1: they clawed their way out of the oh and two

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Speaker 1: hole last year, but it wasn't two straight division losses

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Speaker 1: to teams who arguably are going to be probably the

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Speaker 1: two that you're competing for come December January, for that

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Speaker 1: division title, for a wildcard spot in the AFC. So

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Speaker 1: I think that's another reason why this O and two

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Speaker 1: feels a whole lot different, aside from the fact that

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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow's health is also in question. It's two division losses,

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Speaker 1: one on the road and one at home to start

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Speaker 1: the year as well.

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Speaker 3: It's just so funny we get this reminder every year,

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Speaker 3: and for some reason we need that reminder. It always

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Speaker 3: comes right around now, late September, early October. By next year,

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Speaker 3: next August, next September, we will all gather back together

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Speaker 3: and we'll go, well, well, this is who's gonna win

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Speaker 3: the eight divisions, and here are the handful of wild

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Speaker 3: card contenders this year, and it will largely be based

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Speaker 3: on what we saw the year before, and then a

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Speaker 3: few offseason editions or subtractions might change our thought on it.

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Speaker 2: And then Kyle, the season starts and we.

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Speaker 3: Go, oh, I didn't expect half of this to be happening.

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Speaker 3: I mean, look at what's happening already in the AFC. Again,

839
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Speaker 3: as we said, there's only one two to zero team.

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Speaker 3: The Bills got right today, but by the same token,

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Speaker 3: that was a rough opening for them. Aaron Rodgers doesn't

842
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Speaker 3: play football this year. Joe Burrow and the Bengals are

843
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Speaker 3: facing Defcon five. The Broncos and Chargers are both zero

844
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Speaker 3: to two. I mean, the whole thing, to a degree

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Speaker 3: already feels like it's been flipped on its head.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. I think that's the beauty of an NFL offseason, though.

847
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Speaker 1: It's all the teams positioning themselves as best they can. Honestly,

848
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Speaker 1: every team goes into the year expecting to win a

849
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl. If you don't have expectations of winning a

850
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl, then you know, why are you even going

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Speaker 1: out there, Why are you strapping it up each week

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Speaker 1: to go out on the field on Sundays and compete,

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Speaker 1: And then that therefore it trickles to the fan bases

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Speaker 1: as well. And you know, I remember during my time

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Speaker 1: in Minnesota, we had a few tough years. We had

856
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Speaker 1: some good years as well, playoff appearances. But even after

857
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Speaker 1: the tough years, in the off season, it was always

858
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Speaker 1: about next year and we're going to get back to

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Speaker 1: the playoffs next year. And you know, we got this

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Speaker 1: guy now, and we got that guy, and we're going

861
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Speaker 1: to do this. And that's the nature of NFL off seasons.

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Speaker 1: You know, you're you're talking about the teams and the

863
00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:46,799
Speaker 1: additions and oh yeah, maybe they lost this guy, but

864
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Speaker 1: they have this guy now and this is going to

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Speaker 1: make them better in these situations. And it's us in

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Speaker 1: the media, it's fans. We all do it. We all

867
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Speaker 1: look at it. And you know, honestly, when you look

868
00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:02,520
Speaker 1: at the AFC, the quarterback play amongst all of the

869
00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:07,000
Speaker 1: top teams is just so good that you look at

870
00:48:07,239 --> 00:48:09,440
Speaker 1: every team down along the line and you know, there

871
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 1: was a reason why the top three favorites in the

872
00:48:12,239 --> 00:48:17,919
Speaker 1: in the AFC, excuse me, were Kansas City, Buffalo, Cincinnati?

873
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:22,600
Speaker 1: Quarterback play? Quarterback play? Quarterback play? And now here we are,

874
00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:27,960
Speaker 1: almost two weeks through the NFL season in zero to two,

875
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:32,279
Speaker 1: one and one, one and one. Buffalo looked a lot

876
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:35,680
Speaker 1: better this week. You know, Josh Allen bounced back. He

877
00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:38,040
Speaker 1: had talked about deleting all of his social media and

878
00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:40,760
Speaker 1: not paying attention to everything that was said last week,

879
00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:42,640
Speaker 1: and he went out and he played well today. He

880
00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:46,440
Speaker 1: played exactly how the Josh Allen that you expect to

881
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:49,080
Speaker 1: lead the Bills to the playoffs and ultimately getting them

882
00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:53,399
Speaker 1: to a super Bowl should play. But Kansas City goes

883
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:56,520
Speaker 1: to Jacksonville, and you know, Travis Kelcey to me, still

884
00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:59,520
Speaker 1: doesn't look like the Travis Kelcey we all are a

885
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:02,240
Speaker 1: customed to seeing. Yeah, he got back in the end zone,

886
00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:05,400
Speaker 1: had four catches on nine targets for twenty something yards.

887
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:08,279
Speaker 1: So you know that's certainly not the dynamic Travis kelce

888
00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:12,279
Speaker 1: that we're used to seeing. So yeah, where are kind

889
00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:15,120
Speaker 1: of all these monsters in the AFC that we expected

890
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 1: in the offseason.

891
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:20,000
Speaker 3: No, they've scored thirty seven points in two games, and

892
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:24,160
Speaker 3: you can point to Travis Kelce all you want. I

893
00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:29,960
Speaker 3: don't think that one player turns them into a thirty

894
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:33,839
Speaker 3: three point per game machine when right now what you're

895
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:37,840
Speaker 3: getting is about eighteen points per game. You know, that's

896
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:42,680
Speaker 3: the Lions and the Jaguars. They're both solid enough. Those

897
00:49:42,719 --> 00:49:48,640
Speaker 3: aren't bad defenses. They're not great defenses either. Look, the

898
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:53,680
Speaker 3: big narrative last year was the Chiefs let Tyreek Hill

899
00:49:53,760 --> 00:49:57,040
Speaker 3: go and they still won the Super Bowl anyway, and

900
00:49:57,160 --> 00:49:59,920
Speaker 3: Tom Brady was famous for this year after year win

901
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:05,040
Speaker 3: the Super Bowl without superstars at receiver. But early on

902
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 3: I'd say something is missing there. Something is missing with

903
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:13,040
Speaker 3: that receiving corps. I don't know if it's just missing

904
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:16,200
Speaker 3: some experience, right even a guy like Juju Smith Schuster

905
00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:21,560
Speaker 3: leaving last year, it just looks sort of directionless. You

906
00:50:21,640 --> 00:50:24,239
Speaker 3: can't really figure out who it is that they want

907
00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:27,480
Speaker 3: to target, who they want a feature in that offense,

908
00:50:27,880 --> 00:50:30,959
Speaker 3: even the stable of running backs they've brought in. There's

909
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:34,840
Speaker 3: a dynamic flavor that we're used to with the Chiefs

910
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:37,680
Speaker 3: offense that's missing right now, and I think you can

911
00:50:37,719 --> 00:50:39,000
Speaker 3: see it on the scoreboard.

912
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:41,120
Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting that you say that, because when

913
00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:43,680
Speaker 1: I think about Tom Brady and all those New England

914
00:50:43,719 --> 00:50:47,880
Speaker 1: Patriot teams that kind of reloaded year after year and

915
00:50:48,239 --> 00:50:52,600
Speaker 1: guys would leave and they would ultimately continue to go

916
00:50:52,680 --> 00:50:56,439
Speaker 1: to Super Bowls and win Super Bowls. I think back

917
00:50:56,480 --> 00:51:01,920
Speaker 1: to some of their early starts and you know, losing

918
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:05,600
Speaker 1: to Kansas City in Kansas City, and everybody wanted to

919
00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:08,480
Speaker 1: write the Patriots off that year, and you know, Tom

920
00:51:08,520 --> 00:51:12,279
Speaker 1: Brady's done, New England, the dynasty's over, and it was

921
00:51:12,360 --> 00:51:17,239
Speaker 1: the whole Cincinnati Bengals were on to Cincinnati Bill Belichick

922
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:20,680
Speaker 1: press conference, and you know, I kind of getting that

923
00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:24,120
Speaker 1: feeling from Kansas City right now. It's it's Kansas City.

924
00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:29,279
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, you know you're gonna have a chance. You

925
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:32,160
Speaker 1: just got to figure out what your identity is on offense.

926
00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:35,640
Speaker 1: And you know, each and every week, if they can

927
00:51:35,719 --> 00:51:39,320
Speaker 1: go out and win these games that don't look pretty

928
00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:42,919
Speaker 1: and they're not scoring thirty three points a game, that's

929
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:47,080
Speaker 1: just another week where Patrick got experience with receivers that

930
00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:49,920
Speaker 1: he's bringing along. And I think you really saw that

931
00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:54,840
Speaker 1: last year. The more reps he got with those receivers

932
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:58,560
Speaker 1: in practice, the more weeks they played together, the better

933
00:51:58,640 --> 00:52:01,200
Speaker 1: they got. As the year when on and you know,

934
00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:04,040
Speaker 1: when you can go to Jacksonville, who's the favorite in

935
00:52:04,080 --> 00:52:07,920
Speaker 1: the AFC South YEP to win that division, win on

936
00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:11,200
Speaker 1: the road. It's a good win early in the year,

937
00:52:11,280 --> 00:52:14,759
Speaker 1: whether you played up to your standard or not, when

938
00:52:14,760 --> 00:52:18,480
Speaker 1: you're trying to replace those guys on the outside in

939
00:52:18,520 --> 00:52:21,920
Speaker 1: the wide receiver room and figure out what's our identity

940
00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:25,719
Speaker 1: without a healthy Travis Kelce. In my opinion, it's a

941
00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:28,400
Speaker 1: really good win early in the year as they're just

942
00:52:28,480 --> 00:52:30,600
Speaker 1: getting another week of experience.

943
00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:34,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, fair enough, certainly not trying to write the Chiefs off,

944
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:38,600
Speaker 3: Bears and Jets their next two opponents, so they're going

945
00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:41,480
Speaker 3: to be big favorites as we look forward.

946
00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:41,759
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Speaker 3: All right, we talked a little bit about Zach Wilson.

952
00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:03,800
Speaker 3: Forget about the rest of the quarterbacks in his draft

953
00:53:03,840 --> 00:53:07,040
Speaker 3: class from two years ago, because there's another QB in

954
00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:11,080
Speaker 3: that group that must be discussed tonight. We will do

955
00:53:11,120 --> 00:53:14,000
Speaker 3: that coming up next along with Kyle Rudolph. I'm Mark

956
00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:19,719
Speaker 3: Willard on Fox Sports Radio all Right with Liventhetirack dot

957
00:53:19,719 --> 00:53:22,640
Speaker 3: Com Studios with Kyle Rudolph.

958
00:53:22,680 --> 00:53:23,440
Speaker 2: I'm Mark Willard.

959
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:28,440
Speaker 3: Week two of the NFL season is upon us. You

960
00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:33,240
Speaker 3: had said last hour we were talking about the Jets,

961
00:53:33,280 --> 00:53:36,160
Speaker 3: the Vikings came up, the Kirk Cousins situation, and in

962
00:53:36,239 --> 00:53:39,280
Speaker 3: that you're like, Hey, the Vikings can't really like punt

963
00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:41,200
Speaker 3: on the season yet you know they're not in the

964
00:53:41,239 --> 00:53:45,360
Speaker 3: strongest of divisions. Detroit the sexy pick in that division.

965
00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:48,160
Speaker 3: A little bit of the shine comes off today with

966
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:51,520
Speaker 3: a home come from a head loss. But let's go

967
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:58,120
Speaker 3: elsewhere in that division. I am disappointed in what I'm

968
00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:00,000
Speaker 3: seeing from the Chicago Bears this year.

969
00:54:00,840 --> 00:54:01,400
Speaker 2: Year three.

970
00:54:01,840 --> 00:54:04,560
Speaker 3: Justin Fields, this is supposed to be the year that

971
00:54:04,600 --> 00:54:07,399
Speaker 3: we're we're going to see a thing or two, and Kyle,

972
00:54:07,480 --> 00:54:09,720
Speaker 3: it is off to a terrible start.

973
00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:11,000
Speaker 2: What do you see?

974
00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:14,759
Speaker 3: What do you see in Justin Field's game and the

975
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:17,520
Speaker 3: way that the team is setting him up for success

976
00:54:17,680 --> 00:54:18,000
Speaker 3: or lack?

977
00:54:18,040 --> 00:54:21,120
Speaker 1: They're up something that we talked about a lot last

978
00:54:21,120 --> 00:54:24,439
Speaker 1: week when I said the Chicago Bears were my most

979
00:54:24,480 --> 00:54:29,120
Speaker 1: in this disappointing team in Week one because of everything

980
00:54:29,160 --> 00:54:33,719
Speaker 1: that they did in the offseason, not because of expectations

981
00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:36,200
Speaker 1: we had. You know, we weren't expecting the Bears to

982
00:54:36,239 --> 00:54:40,120
Speaker 1: come out and run away with the NFC North. But

983
00:54:40,719 --> 00:54:45,320
Speaker 1: you know they put pieces around justin fields like DJ

984
00:54:45,600 --> 00:54:51,080
Speaker 1: Moore to allow him to take that step from year

985
00:54:51,120 --> 00:54:54,880
Speaker 1: two to year three. And we talked about last week.

986
00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:59,799
Speaker 1: It doesn't look like they trust him. The decisions that

987
00:54:59,840 --> 00:55:03,960
Speaker 1: are being made, the way the game's being called. He

988
00:55:04,080 --> 00:55:06,399
Speaker 1: through a twenty nine times today and you know most

989
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:08,879
Speaker 1: of those came the last two drives of the game

990
00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:10,920
Speaker 1: when they were trying to come from behind the fourth

991
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:15,400
Speaker 1: quarter at Tampa Bay. But you turn it over twice,

992
00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:18,520
Speaker 1: one of them for a pick six on a screen

993
00:55:18,560 --> 00:55:21,719
Speaker 1: pass by an outside linebacker. You know, those are just

994
00:55:22,239 --> 00:55:26,160
Speaker 1: those are passes and decisions that you can't make when

995
00:55:26,160 --> 00:55:30,759
Speaker 1: you're trying to get your team over the hump to

996
00:55:30,920 --> 00:55:34,560
Speaker 1: prove to this organization that I'm the guy. I'm the

997
00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:37,759
Speaker 1: person that you should build around, and I'm going to

998
00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:39,160
Speaker 1: run with this opportunity.

999
00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:42,120
Speaker 2: I think that you said something that's interesting there.

1000
00:55:42,160 --> 00:55:44,520
Speaker 3: Because it's always chicken or the egg for me, you

1001
00:55:44,560 --> 00:55:47,560
Speaker 3: seek it doesn't look like the Bears trust him, and

1002
00:55:47,600 --> 00:55:50,040
Speaker 3: then I watch him play and I go, there might

1003
00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:54,839
Speaker 3: be a reason. So when an organization doesn't trust a quarterback,

1004
00:55:55,360 --> 00:55:57,719
Speaker 3: I can tell you that the city of San Francisco

1005
00:55:57,920 --> 00:56:02,120
Speaker 3: just went through this conversation and has been for the

1006
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:04,560
Speaker 3: better part of a year with another guy who was

1007
00:56:04,600 --> 00:56:07,520
Speaker 3: in the exact same class, and that's Trey Lance. You know,

1008
00:56:08,400 --> 00:56:11,439
Speaker 3: when he broke his ankle last year running the ball

1009
00:56:11,480 --> 00:56:14,279
Speaker 3: in between the tackles, a lot of people went, why

1010
00:56:14,280 --> 00:56:16,080
Speaker 3: are you doing that?

1011
00:56:16,080 --> 00:56:17,680
Speaker 2: That's dangerous? Right?

1012
00:56:17,719 --> 00:56:20,320
Speaker 3: Why is that the sort of the way you're calling

1013
00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:23,359
Speaker 3: plays well? The way things have played out, I think

1014
00:56:23,400 --> 00:56:26,960
Speaker 3: people are starting to see to a degree, not that

1015
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:29,279
Speaker 3: it's okay to put the quarterback in harm's way or

1016
00:56:29,320 --> 00:56:32,680
Speaker 3: whether that's even what Kyle Shanahan was doing. The point

1017
00:56:32,840 --> 00:56:37,080
Speaker 3: is is they changed their offensive game plan because they

1018
00:56:37,080 --> 00:56:40,279
Speaker 3: didn't feel like Trey Lance could execute what they were

1019
00:56:40,320 --> 00:56:44,080
Speaker 3: trying to do. He was not accurate enough, his decision

1020
00:56:44,120 --> 00:56:48,200
Speaker 3: making was not strong enough, And I wonder if we're

1021
00:56:48,239 --> 00:56:51,239
Speaker 3: looking at the same thing here with justin Field. So

1022
00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:54,040
Speaker 3: when you see that, you watch a football game and

1023
00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:57,960
Speaker 3: you're like, man, it doesn't feel like the organization trusts

1024
00:56:58,000 --> 00:56:58,960
Speaker 3: that quarterback.

1025
00:57:00,160 --> 00:57:02,480
Speaker 2: You know this, Like we fans go, why don't you

1026
00:57:02,480 --> 00:57:03,040
Speaker 2: trust him?

1027
00:57:03,120 --> 00:57:05,479
Speaker 3: And the coaches are like, because we see him every day,

1028
00:57:05,960 --> 00:57:09,080
Speaker 3: Like we have a reason. So shaking to the egg

1029
00:57:09,160 --> 00:57:11,279
Speaker 3: there right, Like is if they don't trust him, do

1030
00:57:11,360 --> 00:57:13,120
Speaker 3: they have do they not have a good reason for that?

1031
00:57:14,200 --> 00:57:16,160
Speaker 1: Yeah? No, you hit the nail on the head that

1032
00:57:16,360 --> 00:57:19,880
Speaker 1: we see him every day at practice. I think that

1033
00:57:20,080 --> 00:57:24,160
Speaker 1: was a funny quote from Mike Zimmer in Minnesota a

1034
00:57:24,160 --> 00:57:27,640
Speaker 1: couple of years ago when when Vikings fans were calling

1035
00:57:28,080 --> 00:57:30,960
Speaker 1: for Kellen Munn, a third round pick for the Vikings,

1036
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:33,680
Speaker 1: to get a chance late in the year when the

1037
00:57:33,720 --> 00:57:36,040
Speaker 1: season was lost. I believe it was in the twenty

1038
00:57:36,080 --> 00:57:39,320
Speaker 1: one season, and they're like, why, you know, why don't

1039
00:57:39,360 --> 00:57:42,840
Speaker 1: we get a chance to see Kellen munt And Mike

1040
00:57:42,920 --> 00:57:45,000
Speaker 1: Zimmer said in his press conference, because I see him

1041
00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:48,600
Speaker 1: every day at practice. And it's like, is this something

1042
00:57:48,640 --> 00:57:54,320
Speaker 1: where the Chicago Bears staff just doesn't trust him?

1043
00:57:54,600 --> 00:57:54,760
Speaker 2: You know?

1044
00:57:54,800 --> 00:57:57,040
Speaker 1: Certainly you look, you look at the stats from the game,

1045
00:57:57,120 --> 00:58:02,520
Speaker 1: and there is nowhere in the Chicago Bears Keys to

1046
00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:06,120
Speaker 1: victory where it says run for sixty seven yards and

1047
00:58:06,160 --> 00:58:10,280
Speaker 1: have justin fields throw it twenty nine times as the

1048
00:58:10,400 --> 00:58:13,320
Speaker 1: way they thought they would go to Tampa and win

1049
00:58:13,360 --> 00:58:17,120
Speaker 1: a game against a good defense. That's one thing you

1050
00:58:17,120 --> 00:58:20,600
Speaker 1: know in Tampa that I think has played a huge

1051
00:58:20,640 --> 00:58:23,400
Speaker 1: part into their two and zero start. Certainly, Baker's kind

1052
00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:25,480
Speaker 1: of found lightning in a bottle down there a little bit.

1053
00:58:25,640 --> 00:58:29,600
Speaker 1: He played solid in week one. He's done exactly what

1054
00:58:29,680 --> 00:58:31,960
Speaker 1: he has to do for that team to win games.

1055
00:58:32,320 --> 00:58:35,120
Speaker 1: Then he goes out and does it again. Mike Evans

1056
00:58:35,120 --> 00:58:38,640
Speaker 1: has a huge day, six catches for one p seventy

1057
00:58:38,680 --> 00:58:41,240
Speaker 1: one and a touchdown, just doing what Mike Evans does

1058
00:58:41,320 --> 00:58:45,479
Speaker 1: year in and year out. But it's like that's that's

1059
00:58:45,520 --> 00:58:49,600
Speaker 1: where the Bears need to be living, Like you need

1060
00:58:49,640 --> 00:58:53,080
Speaker 1: to get justin fields to not throw it as much.

1061
00:58:53,640 --> 00:58:58,120
Speaker 1: Have very high percentage completions off of the run game

1062
00:58:58,600 --> 00:59:02,160
Speaker 1: and the RPO world in the play action game, run

1063
00:59:02,200 --> 00:59:04,800
Speaker 1: the ball for one hundred and twenty yards and then

1064
00:59:04,880 --> 00:59:07,200
Speaker 1: hit some shots here and there, when all of a sudden,

1065
00:59:07,360 --> 00:59:09,160
Speaker 1: the safeties have to get down in the box. They

1066
00:59:09,240 --> 00:59:12,480
Speaker 1: got to support the run. There's a recipe there, and

1067
00:59:13,240 --> 00:59:16,280
Speaker 1: it just seems like the Chicago Bears don't trust him.

1068
00:59:16,320 --> 00:59:18,600
Speaker 1: And then, like I said, this game kind of they

1069
00:59:18,640 --> 00:59:20,840
Speaker 1: got from behind and had to start throwing it around.

1070
00:59:21,160 --> 00:59:24,120
Speaker 1: He threw it twenty nine times. That's not what they want.

1071
00:59:24,360 --> 00:59:28,120
Speaker 3: Well, it's fascinating to me, my man, because I'm looking

1072
00:59:28,120 --> 00:59:30,840
Speaker 3: at Lamar Jackson's stat line right now. He threw the

1073
00:59:30,840 --> 00:59:33,680
Speaker 3: ball thirty three times, threw it for two thirty seven,

1074
00:59:33,800 --> 00:59:36,320
Speaker 3: couple of touchdowns, did not throw a pick. He also

1075
00:59:36,400 --> 00:59:39,600
Speaker 3: carried the ball twelve times for fifty four yards. We

1076
00:59:39,680 --> 00:59:45,520
Speaker 3: see what Jalen Hurts does in Philadelphia. Last year, it became, hey,

1077
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:48,440
Speaker 3: Fields is going to need to throw the ball to

1078
00:59:48,560 --> 00:59:51,800
Speaker 3: go with his running ability in order to really.

1079
00:59:51,600 --> 00:59:54,240
Speaker 2: Hit his ceiling because he's very, very good at it.

1080
00:59:54,800 --> 00:59:58,000
Speaker 3: And then I look at this stat line today and

1081
00:59:58,080 --> 01:00:03,480
Speaker 3: I'm like, well, now now I'm just confused because the

1082
01:00:03,560 --> 01:00:07,160
Speaker 3: throwing of the ball is not going very efficiently and

1083
01:00:07,200 --> 01:00:11,400
Speaker 3: he's also not running it either. Four carries for three yards.

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01:00:11,880 --> 01:00:15,320
Speaker 3: I mean, he had a touchdown in there. But I'm

1085
01:00:15,440 --> 01:00:20,480
Speaker 3: just I'm confused by the Chicago game plan. I have

1086
01:00:20,520 --> 01:00:23,160
Speaker 3: to imagine a Bears fan is beyond frustrated.

1087
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Speaker 2: Kyle.

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01:00:24,960 --> 01:00:28,320
Speaker 3: I feel like I've been alive here watching football. I mean,

1089
01:00:28,320 --> 01:00:30,640
Speaker 3: I've been alive for almost fifty years. I've been watching

1090
01:00:30,680 --> 01:00:34,640
Speaker 3: football for forty and I feel like the Bears have

1091
01:00:34,680 --> 01:00:37,280
Speaker 3: never had a great quarterback my entire life.

1092
01:00:37,520 --> 01:00:39,480
Speaker 2: And here we are again.

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01:00:39,600 --> 01:00:44,080
Speaker 3: This is decision making time. This is the year where

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01:00:44,280 --> 01:00:47,360
Speaker 3: Justin has got to take a step forward. They're zero

1095
01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:50,400
Speaker 3: and two, the stats look terrible, the offense is out

1096
01:00:50,480 --> 01:00:52,760
Speaker 3: of sync, and they're in Kansas City next week.

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01:00:53,160 --> 01:00:57,640
Speaker 2: Wow, like that got rough fast.

1098
01:00:59,040 --> 01:01:01,000
Speaker 1: Not a good time to have to go play a

1099
01:01:01,040 --> 01:01:04,000
Speaker 1: team that we were just talking about is still trying

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01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:10,040
Speaker 1: to find their identity on offense. And yes, they get

1101
01:01:10,080 --> 01:01:13,920
Speaker 1: their star pass rusher back, and you know, Chris Jones

1102
01:01:13,960 --> 01:01:16,160
Speaker 1: comes in has a sack for the Chiefs. That the

1103
01:01:16,240 --> 01:01:19,400
Speaker 1: defense looked a little bit better for Kansas City week two.

1104
01:01:20,320 --> 01:01:23,959
Speaker 1: It's not ideal for Chicago. And again I go back

1105
01:01:24,000 --> 01:01:29,160
Speaker 1: to we all know what the Chicago Bears offense has

1106
01:01:29,240 --> 01:01:34,200
Speaker 1: to look like in order to be successful. It's not

1107
01:01:34,920 --> 01:01:38,960
Speaker 1: justin Field's running it every play, but there are things

1108
01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:43,520
Speaker 1: that you can do throughout the offensive system that allow

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01:01:43,640 --> 01:01:49,400
Speaker 1: him to have very high percentage completion opportunities. You know,

1110
01:01:49,440 --> 01:01:51,120
Speaker 1: we don't need to be throwing the ball down the

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01:01:51,160 --> 01:01:53,880
Speaker 1: field every single play. Get the ball out of his

1112
01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:57,960
Speaker 1: hands in quick game, use your run game, that you're

1113
01:01:57,960 --> 01:02:02,840
Speaker 1: going to lean on run play actions and keepers and

1114
01:02:03,040 --> 01:02:06,760
Speaker 1: RPOs give him the opportunity to use his legs and

1115
01:02:06,880 --> 01:02:13,040
Speaker 1: his arm with high percentage completion opportunities instead of all right, well,

1116
01:02:13,080 --> 01:02:15,840
Speaker 1: week one, we're gonna run it almost every single time,

1117
01:02:15,880 --> 01:02:19,200
Speaker 1: even though we're down a couple scores, and then week two, okay,

1118
01:02:19,280 --> 01:02:23,240
Speaker 1: we'll let you throw it twenty nine times drop back.

1119
01:02:23,440 --> 01:02:26,600
Speaker 1: We got a double digit deficit here to try to

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Speaker 1: claw our way out of. It's just it's frustrating because

1121
01:02:32,320 --> 01:02:35,760
Speaker 1: you bring in a DJ more, you pay a cole Comet,

1122
01:02:35,880 --> 01:02:39,240
Speaker 1: you traded for Chase Claypool, you have all of these

1123
01:02:39,280 --> 01:02:43,440
Speaker 1: parts that you're putting around justin fields. It's not gonna

1124
01:02:43,440 --> 01:02:47,720
Speaker 1: look like what Lamar Jackson did today. What Lamar Jackson

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Speaker 1: did today, in my opinion, was an incredible sign of

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01:02:54,320 --> 01:02:58,080
Speaker 1: Baltimore got away from that offense they built the last

1127
01:02:58,080 --> 01:03:02,280
Speaker 1: couple of years with you know, fullbacks, multiple tight ends

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01:03:02,400 --> 01:03:06,640
Speaker 1: running the football every time, play action. You know, they

1129
01:03:06,720 --> 01:03:09,080
Speaker 1: were spreading it out and throwing the ball around, and

1130
01:03:09,160 --> 01:03:12,360
Speaker 1: Lamar looked like a true drop back passer. That's not

1131
01:03:12,480 --> 01:03:15,120
Speaker 1: gonna be justin fields. He is not going to have

1132
01:03:15,160 --> 01:03:20,120
Speaker 1: success playing the way Lamar Jackson played today, So if

1133
01:03:20,160 --> 01:03:23,360
Speaker 1: you're the Bears, you have to do everything you possibly

1134
01:03:23,440 --> 01:03:27,160
Speaker 1: can to give this young quarterback a chance at success.

1135
01:03:28,120 --> 01:03:33,040
Speaker 3: Speaking of quarterbacks using their legs, the fine line that

1136
01:03:33,160 --> 01:03:35,440
Speaker 3: must be walked, what's the right way to do it

1137
01:03:35,520 --> 01:03:38,800
Speaker 3: for a team. There's one specific quarterback in mind that

1138
01:03:38,800 --> 01:03:40,760
Speaker 3: we want to talk about, which we'll do coming up

1139
01:03:40,760 --> 01:03:44,080
Speaker 3: here in a couple of minutes, but not before Steve

1140
01:03:44,200 --> 01:03:47,040
Speaker 3: Seger gets in here with the absolute latest that's going

1141
01:03:47,080 --> 01:03:48,560
Speaker 3: on out about Hi.

1142
01:03:48,640 --> 01:03:51,200
Speaker 6: Steve, Hello again, good SoundBite for you in a moment.

1143
01:03:51,240 --> 01:03:53,800
Speaker 6: But first off, let's update the NFL Sunday night game.

1144
01:03:53,880 --> 01:03:56,360
Speaker 6: New England's on the board, Dolphins ten to three over

1145
01:03:56,400 --> 01:03:58,760
Speaker 6: the Patriots under two minutes to go in the first half.

1146
01:03:58,800 --> 01:04:02,080
Speaker 6: Forty nine yard field goal the only Patriot scoring. Mac

1147
01:04:02,200 --> 01:04:05,880
Speaker 6: Jones fourteen of eighteen passing just ninety five yards from

1148
01:04:05,920 --> 01:04:09,400
Speaker 6: Andre Stevenson six carries, just sixteen yards rushing in the

1149
01:04:09,440 --> 01:04:12,400
Speaker 6: first half. The touchdown in this game so far for

1150
01:04:12,560 --> 01:04:15,760
Speaker 6: e mostered eight yard TV run for Miami, which leads

1151
01:04:15,840 --> 01:04:18,720
Speaker 6: ten to three late first half at New England.

1152
01:04:19,000 --> 01:04:19,720
Speaker 2: Well, we did have.

1153
01:04:19,600 --> 01:04:22,880
Speaker 6: An overtime game on Fox TV earlier today at Detroit

1154
01:04:22,960 --> 01:04:26,400
Speaker 6: Seattle did wind up winning it thirty seven thirty one,

1155
01:04:26,520 --> 01:04:29,200
Speaker 6: but at one point early fourth quarter, there was this

1156
01:04:29,320 --> 01:04:32,240
Speaker 6: from referee Alex KMP trying to make the call.

1157
01:04:32,680 --> 01:04:38,800
Speaker 1: Brown here offense number seven. I'm talking to America here,

1158
01:04:38,920 --> 01:04:43,080
Speaker 1: sally In Watson Doll stuck a dollar.

1159
01:04:43,920 --> 01:04:48,040
Speaker 6: Gino Smith interrupted, say that's horrible, and the ruff says,

1160
01:04:48,160 --> 01:04:50,760
Speaker 6: I'm talking to America. Excuse me.

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01:04:51,600 --> 01:04:54,080
Speaker 3: Okay, I won't interrupt you anymore, Jeeve, because you could

1162
01:04:54,080 --> 01:04:55,160
Speaker 3: do the same thing to me.

1163
01:04:55,360 --> 01:04:58,800
Speaker 2: Right now. You're talking to America. I'm gonna get out

1164
01:04:58,840 --> 01:04:59,760
Speaker 2: your way, all right.

1165
01:05:00,040 --> 01:05:02,680
Speaker 6: Have another overtime game at Tennessee Titans over the h

1166
01:05:02,760 --> 01:05:06,120
Speaker 6: to two Chargers twenty seven to twenty four. And you

1167
01:05:06,200 --> 01:05:08,360
Speaker 6: think you know football, but there's a guy named Puka

1168
01:05:08,440 --> 01:05:11,120
Speaker 6: Nikoua who's on pay for two hundred receptions this year.

1169
01:05:11,640 --> 01:05:14,160
Speaker 6: San Francisco did beat the Rams in LA thirty to

1170
01:05:14,200 --> 01:05:18,280
Speaker 6: twenty three, but Nicuah fifteen receptions. That's a rookie record

1171
01:05:18,280 --> 01:05:20,440
Speaker 6: for a game. He had one hundred and forty seven yards.

1172
01:05:20,520 --> 01:05:24,600
Speaker 6: So through two games twenty five catches already, that's a record,

1173
01:05:24,920 --> 01:05:28,000
Speaker 6: and these fifteen catches once again a rookie record in

1174
01:05:28,080 --> 01:05:32,000
Speaker 6: the Super Bowl era, Washington thirty five thirty three winners

1175
01:05:32,040 --> 01:05:34,840
Speaker 6: at Denver, Broncos missed a two point pass on the

1176
01:05:34,840 --> 01:05:38,520
Speaker 6: final play and no no pass interference was called. Giants

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01:05:38,520 --> 01:05:40,760
Speaker 6: won at Arizona thirty one to twenty eight on a

1178
01:05:40,800 --> 01:05:43,800
Speaker 6: late field goal. Running Back Saquon Barkley had two tds

1179
01:05:43,880 --> 01:05:46,960
Speaker 6: but left with an ankle injury. No injury for Darren Waller,

1180
01:05:46,960 --> 01:05:50,200
Speaker 6: apparently he had six receptions seventy six yards in the victory.

1181
01:05:50,280 --> 01:05:52,960
Speaker 6: Dallas is two and oh after beating the Jets thirty

1182
01:05:52,960 --> 01:05:55,720
Speaker 6: to ten. Ceedee Lamb eleven catches one hundred and forty

1183
01:05:55,760 --> 01:05:58,360
Speaker 6: three yards. Baltimore two to and o after winning a

1184
01:05:58,360 --> 01:06:02,120
Speaker 6: close one at Cincinnati twenty seven twenty four. Quarterback Joe

1185
01:06:02,120 --> 01:06:05,920
Speaker 6: Burrow two touchdowns, one interception near the end zone, and

1186
01:06:05,960 --> 01:06:08,800
Speaker 6: he aggravated his stray calf late in the game. Kansas

1187
01:06:08,800 --> 01:06:12,320
Speaker 6: City won at Jacksonville seventeen to nine. Wins for Atlanta

1188
01:06:12,360 --> 01:06:15,880
Speaker 6: and Buffalo. Wins for Tampa Bay and Indianapolis thirty one

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01:06:15,960 --> 01:06:19,439
Speaker 6: twenty at Houston, but rookie quarterback Anthony Richardson with two

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01:06:19,480 --> 01:06:23,280
Speaker 6: tds left before halftime due to a concussion. There are

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Speaker 6: two games on Monday, and they start at seven fifteen

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01:06:27,200 --> 01:06:31,600
Speaker 6: pm Eastern and eight fifteen pm Eastern. New Orleans at

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01:06:31,600 --> 01:06:35,920
Speaker 6: Carolina and Cleveland at Pittsburgh. Steelers wide receiver Deontae Johnson

1194
01:06:35,960 --> 01:06:38,920
Speaker 6: out Monday with a hamstring injury. Browns wide receiver Amari

1195
01:06:39,000 --> 01:06:42,120
Speaker 6: Cooper aggravated a groin injury Saturday. He's likely out. By

1196
01:06:42,160 --> 01:06:44,400
Speaker 6: the way, there are two Monday games the next week,

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Speaker 6: also also starting at seven fifteen and eight fifteen Eastern

1198
01:06:49,040 --> 01:06:52,200
Speaker 6: to why yeah, yeah, just wait till mid December. There's

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Speaker 6: gonna be two Monday games and they're going to start

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01:06:54,160 --> 01:06:55,760
Speaker 6: both at the exact same time.

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01:06:57,000 --> 01:06:57,640
Speaker 2: Go figure.

1202
01:06:58,000 --> 01:07:00,880
Speaker 6: Colorado says two ways star Travis Hunter will miss a

1203
01:07:00,920 --> 01:07:02,960
Speaker 6: few weeks. He took a late hit last night and

1204
01:07:03,120 --> 01:07:05,800
Speaker 6: was taken to the hospital. And in baseball Sunday night

1205
01:07:05,840 --> 01:07:08,600
Speaker 6: game at Arizona, Diamondbacks lead the Cubs five to two

1206
01:07:08,760 --> 01:07:10,920
Speaker 6: bottom of the seventh once again minu and a half

1207
01:07:11,000 --> 01:07:13,600
Speaker 6: to go. In the Sunday night NFL games, first half

1208
01:07:13,680 --> 01:07:16,080
Speaker 6: at New England Dolphins ten to seven in the lead

1209
01:07:16,120 --> 01:07:16,440
Speaker 6: back to.

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01:07:16,400 --> 01:07:22,080
Speaker 3: You, and that was Steve de Seger talking to America

1211
01:07:22,200 --> 01:07:25,880
Speaker 3: and did a wonderful job with it. Kyle Rudolph, Mark Willard,

1212
01:07:25,920 --> 01:07:29,720
Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio glad you're with us, and he mentioned

1213
01:07:30,080 --> 01:07:33,760
Speaker 3: Anthony Richardson, the young quarterback for the Colts, and I'm

1214
01:07:33,840 --> 01:07:36,680
Speaker 3: fascinated by the kid, Kyle, because he looks really good

1215
01:07:37,000 --> 01:07:40,440
Speaker 3: or at least intriguing. Right, He's got the Colts offense moving,

1216
01:07:40,960 --> 01:07:43,840
Speaker 3: and for his first two games as a professional, I

1217
01:07:43,880 --> 01:07:47,760
Speaker 3: think there's a lot to be excited about. What's interesting, though,

1218
01:07:48,240 --> 01:07:50,840
Speaker 3: is he has in some way, shape or form, been

1219
01:07:50,920 --> 01:07:54,360
Speaker 3: knocked out of both games that he's played. Now, he

1220
01:07:54,400 --> 01:07:57,480
Speaker 3: came back in Week one and did fine. They lost

1221
01:07:57,520 --> 01:08:00,640
Speaker 3: to the Jags, but the story got public that Trevor

1222
01:08:00,720 --> 01:08:05,560
Speaker 3: Lawrence pulled him aside after the game and said, hey,

1223
01:08:05,600 --> 01:08:10,200
Speaker 3: congratulations on your first game. You look great, but let's

1224
01:08:10,200 --> 01:08:12,880
Speaker 3: have a conversation about the hits that you're taking out there.

1225
01:08:13,320 --> 01:08:16,200
Speaker 3: This is the league, this is different, and you're not

1226
01:08:16,200 --> 01:08:19,439
Speaker 3: going to survive doing that. And I understand that the

1227
01:08:19,520 --> 01:08:24,360
Speaker 3: concussion on the touchdown run was a little quirky in

1228
01:08:24,680 --> 01:08:25,120
Speaker 3: the way that.

1229
01:08:25,120 --> 01:08:25,760
Speaker 2: It went down.

1230
01:08:25,840 --> 01:08:28,280
Speaker 3: Not just him out in the in the open taking

1231
01:08:28,320 --> 01:08:31,880
Speaker 3: big hits, but what to do, what to do about

1232
01:08:31,920 --> 01:08:34,800
Speaker 3: Anthony Richardson so that he does not become the next

1233
01:08:34,960 --> 01:08:35,519
Speaker 3: RG three.

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01:08:38,920 --> 01:08:42,720
Speaker 1: Well, he's got to protect himself and protecting himself out

1235
01:08:42,720 --> 01:08:46,760
Speaker 1: in the field in between the tackles, out in open

1236
01:08:46,800 --> 01:08:50,360
Speaker 1: space when you've gotten the first down or you know

1237
01:08:50,640 --> 01:08:53,360
Speaker 1: you know that the play is over. Just can see

1238
01:08:53,360 --> 01:08:56,240
Speaker 1: the down go down, don't take the hits. But then

1239
01:08:56,439 --> 01:09:00,479
Speaker 1: in today's game, you see him on the edge running

1240
01:09:00,560 --> 01:09:04,360
Speaker 1: for a touchdown and he almost pulled up as if

1241
01:09:04,640 --> 01:09:07,200
Speaker 1: I know I'm going to score here. So yeah, this

1242
01:09:07,360 --> 01:09:09,599
Speaker 1: guy can come hit me and it's not that big

1243
01:09:09,640 --> 01:09:12,920
Speaker 1: of a deal. This is the National Football League and

1244
01:09:12,960 --> 01:09:19,400
Speaker 1: it's not just interior defensive lineman, defensive ends, linebackers. DB's

1245
01:09:19,600 --> 01:09:23,439
Speaker 1: can knock you out too, and you have to protect

1246
01:09:23,439 --> 01:09:27,440
Speaker 1: yourself all the way through the down. In that scenario,

1247
01:09:28,120 --> 01:09:32,280
Speaker 1: lower your shoulder, run the dB over, get into the

1248
01:09:32,400 --> 01:09:34,800
Speaker 1: end zone. You can't pull up and let that dB

1249
01:09:34,920 --> 01:09:37,400
Speaker 1: come in and just have a clean shot on your chin,

1250
01:09:38,200 --> 01:09:40,519
Speaker 1: ultimately knocking you out for the rest of the game.

1251
01:09:42,120 --> 01:09:43,479
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.

1252
01:09:45,520 --> 01:09:48,240
Speaker 3: What he does on the fly, right, Like, I get

1253
01:09:48,280 --> 01:09:53,360
Speaker 3: it because as a professional athlete, I would imagine you

1254
01:09:53,439 --> 01:09:56,960
Speaker 3: know how to play your game, and it is way

1255
01:09:57,040 --> 01:09:59,519
Speaker 3: easier said than done to just be like, well, hey,

1256
01:10:01,120 --> 01:10:05,439
Speaker 3: go half speed here, take a dive over there. There

1257
01:10:05,520 --> 01:10:08,120
Speaker 3: was a conversation with Mike Trout about this once upon

1258
01:10:08,160 --> 01:10:11,160
Speaker 3: a time because the guy played center field so hard

1259
01:10:11,640 --> 01:10:15,080
Speaker 3: that he was running into walls, and there was a

1260
01:10:15,120 --> 01:10:18,680
Speaker 3: healthy decision from the Angels and Major League Baseball of like,

1261
01:10:19,200 --> 01:10:22,680
Speaker 3: my man would almost rather those be home runs or

1262
01:10:22,800 --> 01:10:28,040
Speaker 3: doubles than have you running into walls because you're too important.

1263
01:10:28,600 --> 01:10:32,080
Speaker 3: But how do you tell a guy that whose competitive

1264
01:10:32,200 --> 01:10:35,760
Speaker 3: drive takes over in the moment and the athlete in

1265
01:10:35,880 --> 01:10:37,360
Speaker 3: him says, go get the ball.

1266
01:10:37,720 --> 01:10:39,040
Speaker 2: I've got to go get the ball.

1267
01:10:39,640 --> 01:10:43,400
Speaker 3: And so I wonder that, Like, I couldn't agree more

1268
01:10:43,720 --> 01:10:47,360
Speaker 3: with everything you're saying, But what's the way to actively

1269
01:10:47,560 --> 01:10:51,160
Speaker 3: do that sort of take away or change on the

1270
01:10:51,200 --> 01:10:53,040
Speaker 3: fly the game that he's always played.

1271
01:10:55,920 --> 01:11:02,120
Speaker 1: I think it's just having the experience as a quarterback

1272
01:11:02,160 --> 01:11:06,120
Speaker 1: in the National Football League that gives you the situational

1273
01:11:06,160 --> 01:11:10,960
Speaker 1: awareness both pre snap and at the end of the play.

1274
01:11:11,280 --> 01:11:15,160
Speaker 1: As I mentioned, whether you're out in the field between

1275
01:11:15,200 --> 01:11:18,360
Speaker 1: the tackles on the edge and you have the first

1276
01:11:18,400 --> 01:11:23,120
Speaker 1: down already, or it's third and forever and you scramble,

1277
01:11:23,160 --> 01:11:26,200
Speaker 1: you're not gonna get it, don't take a hit, go down.

1278
01:11:26,479 --> 01:11:30,200
Speaker 1: Those are decisions that can be made at full speed

1279
01:11:30,840 --> 01:11:33,839
Speaker 1: We're never telling you to not play full speed, because

1280
01:11:34,200 --> 01:11:37,519
Speaker 1: we saw how that ended today he pulled up a

1281
01:11:37,520 --> 01:11:39,559
Speaker 1: little bit at the end of his touchdown run. If

1282
01:11:39,560 --> 01:11:42,559
Speaker 1: he's going full speed there and lowers his shoulder, he

1283
01:11:42,640 --> 01:11:44,920
Speaker 1: does not get hurt and knocked out of the game.

1284
01:11:45,040 --> 01:11:48,000
Speaker 1: So it's definitely not something where you go to your

1285
01:11:48,000 --> 01:11:50,160
Speaker 1: young quarterback and tell them, hey, you know, we don't

1286
01:11:50,160 --> 01:11:52,679
Speaker 1: want you playing at one hundred percent all the time. No,

1287
01:11:52,960 --> 01:11:55,200
Speaker 1: you have to play at one hundred percent all the time,

1288
01:11:55,680 --> 01:12:01,040
Speaker 1: but you have to gain situational awareness to know enough's enough.

1289
01:12:01,240 --> 01:12:04,160
Speaker 1: And there's gonna be times where we want you to

1290
01:12:04,200 --> 01:12:09,360
Speaker 1: be a competitor an athlete going out there getting a

1291
01:12:09,360 --> 01:12:13,439
Speaker 1: big first down for us or getting a touchdown. There's

1292
01:12:13,479 --> 01:12:17,080
Speaker 1: also times where we cut our losses. We've got all

1293
01:12:17,080 --> 01:12:18,880
Speaker 1: that we can get, and I need you to go

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Speaker 1: down and not take a hit. I think it's the

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Speaker 1: same conversation that we had about Josh Allen last week,

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Speaker 1: where you don't want to take away what makes that

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Speaker 1: player so special. There just has to be more awareness

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Speaker 1: because you hear this all the time in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: It was something as a player, coaches, trainers, they're always

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Speaker 1: kind of joking around with you about it, and it's

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Speaker 1: a saying that we've all heard for all of time.

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Speaker 1: Your best ability is your availability. So it doesn't matter

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Speaker 1: how good you are, how explosive you are, how athletic

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Speaker 1: you are as a young quarterback in this league. If

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Speaker 1: you can't finish games, if you can't be out there

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Speaker 1: week in and week out, it's no good for us.

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Speaker 1: Why do we take you as the fourth overall pick.

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Speaker 1: We're not drafting you at four so you can be

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Speaker 1: in street, close on the sideline, or in the locker

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Speaker 1: room for the second half.

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Speaker 3: Totally fair points across the board ti Raq dot com Studios.

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Speaker 3: That's where we sit alongside Kyle Rudolph. I'm Mark Willard,

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Speaker 3: still ahead the most surprising division in football and coming

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Speaker 3: up next, you reference Brock Perdy's salary earlier in this show,

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Speaker 3: and our guy branded, our producer, has looked up how

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Speaker 3: many quarterbacks currently in the NFL are making more than

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Speaker 3: Brock Purdy. This answer may surprise you. We've got the

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Speaker 3: numbers for you next on Fox.

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Speaker 2: Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: Live intheti rag dot com Studios alongside Kyle Rudolph, Mark Willard,

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Speaker 3: I mean, you tell me how this affects a football

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Speaker 3: team and what it means going forward, Kyle, there are

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Speaker 3: cut them up sixty nine quarterbacks in the NFL making

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Speaker 3: more money than Brock Purty.

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Speaker 2: There.

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Speaker 1: So it's incredible. I mean, but it goes back to

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Speaker 1: the point we were making earlier. It's yeah, you can.

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Speaker 1: I mean, just look at the rest of that roster

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Speaker 1: and when he's seventieth in terms of his salary for

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Speaker 1: this year, you can pay Debo, Deebo, Samuel You, George Kittle,

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Speaker 1: Trent Williams, Christian McCaffrey, Fred Warner.

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Speaker 3: Nick Bosa, Yeah, Nick Bosa the highest pas just last week.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, ever, and you you can't do that. You know,

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Speaker 1: we are talking about moving on from Jimmy Garoppolo. If

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo is still the corequarterback of the San Francisco

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Speaker 1: forty nine ers, probably two of those names that we

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Speaker 1: just mentioned, wouldn't. You couldn't. You can't have the money

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Speaker 1: to pay everyone. And ultimately it worked out. And it's

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Speaker 1: always interesting because you fast forward, these guys aren't going

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Speaker 1: to be on rookie contracts forever, and as an organization

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Speaker 1: you want them to continue to play well. You just

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Speaker 1: don't move on from a guy because he's not on

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Speaker 1: a rookie contract anymore. But it's like, you know, where

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Speaker 1: do you go. We're talking about the Dolphins. They're playing

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Speaker 1: well again to us throwing the ball over the place,

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Speaker 1: to all the weapons he has on offense. Ultimately, they're

1347
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Speaker 1: going to have to pay to A and when you

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Speaker 1: pay to A what happens to the rest of your rosters.

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Speaker 1: So for me personally, that's one of the most fascinating

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Speaker 1: things in the NFL is just the roster management on

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Speaker 1: offense because the quarterback price tag has gotten so high,

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Speaker 1: and how do you balance the quarterback price tag with

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Speaker 1: the positions around him and being able to afford to

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Speaker 1: keep some talent. Because yes, there are a few quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: in the NFL who can make those guys around him better.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about Patrick Mahomes retooling with his new offensive

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Speaker 1: weapons year in and year out, but honestly, most guys

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Speaker 1: in the NFL are not that caliber of quarterback.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's a super fascinating topic if you ask me,

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Speaker 3: because I do wonder what's going to become in vogue,

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Speaker 3: Like is the line gonna move? You don't have to

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Speaker 3: just be good as a quarterback. Maybe you have to

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Speaker 3: be great, because that's what you're saying. If you ask me,

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Speaker 3: the data would suggest that if you have Mahomes, if

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Speaker 3: you have Alan, if you have Burrow, if you have

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Speaker 3: Lamar Jalen Hurtz, I think has certainly shown enough if

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Speaker 3: you have that player, you're not even gonna think twice.

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Speaker 3: And actually the Ravens did think twice. But you're not

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Speaker 3: in a blank. You're you're going to give up that

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Speaker 3: money and and those guys will will at least make

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Speaker 3: you relevant and at least make you a contender just

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Speaker 3: by their presence. But what if you're not that group?

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Speaker 3: And it's really hard to assess, you know what I mean? Like,

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Speaker 3: what are the Lions gonna do in the next couple

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Speaker 3: of years with Jared Goff? Are the Browns happy that

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Speaker 3: they gave Deshaun Watson that contract? Are the Broncos happy

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Speaker 3: that they gave Russell Wilson that contract? Are the Cardinals

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Speaker 3: happy that they gave Kyler Murray that contract? Are we

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Speaker 3: going to get to a point where teams go unless

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Speaker 3: you're great, we may be willing to let a good

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Speaker 3: player go just to turn that contract over into something cheaper.

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Speaker 1: You know, we were talking about it earlier with Justin

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Speaker 1: Jefferson and the fear of, well, if we don't keep

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Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins, where do we turn? And quite honestly, I

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Speaker 1: think that's the reason why all these teams are paying

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Speaker 1: these guys who aren't the Patrick Mahomes of the world,

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Speaker 1: or the Josh Allens or the Jalen Hurts, the Joe Burrows.

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Speaker 1: Justin Herbert, he's oh and two coming off the third

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Speaker 1: biggest contract, you know, in NFL history, And yes, are

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Speaker 1: the Chargers happy that they gave Justin Herbert the second

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Speaker 1: or third biggest contract in NFL history and started the

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Speaker 1: season oh and two? You know, you feel like you

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Speaker 1: have your guy and you pay him, and it happens

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Speaker 1: so fast. You know what has warranted Justin Herbert to

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Speaker 1: be a fifty plus million dollar quarterback. He's never won

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Speaker 1: a playoff game. But when you have your guy, you

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Speaker 1: have to keep them, and then ultimately that impacts the

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Speaker 1: rest of your roster.

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Speaker 2: No doubt about it.

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Speaker 3: The Chargers have to be scratching their head with the

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01:19:07,520 --> 01:19:09,760
Speaker 3: names they have on defense that they have not been

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01:19:09,800 --> 01:19:12,400
Speaker 3: able to stop the other team from scoring more than

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01:19:12,439 --> 01:19:15,960
Speaker 3: they have so far this year. Because Herbert has at

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Speaker 3: least done his part. More on Matt coming up, plus

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Speaker 3: the most surprising division in football.

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Speaker 2: We'll get to that on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 5: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

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01:19:29,120 --> 01:19:32,479
Speaker 5: the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio

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01:19:32,600 --> 01:19:36,720
Speaker 5: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to

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Speaker 5: listen live.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's rock.

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Speaker 3: It's Week two of the National Football League season. This

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Speaker 3: is Fox Football Sunday. We're recapping it all, we're breaking

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Speaker 3: it all down, we're experiencing it all. Because it is

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Speaker 3: not done yet into the second half between the Dolphins

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01:19:52,520 --> 01:19:54,840
Speaker 3: and the Patriots. We will keep you up to date

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Speaker 3: on that and there's still a ton to go through.

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Speaker 3: Mark Willard, Kyle Rudolph, if you thank you for being

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Speaker 3: with us, however you're bringing us in, Kyle.

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Speaker 2: The sum total of losses.

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Speaker 3: In the NFC South had no choice but to be

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Speaker 3: at least at the number one at this point in

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Speaker 3: the year. Because the Falcons played the Panthers last week.

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Speaker 3: Somebody had to lose the game, or at least there

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01:20:21,600 --> 01:20:23,720
Speaker 3: had to be two ties, you get it. That was

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Speaker 3: a minimum, a minimum at this point Sunday Night, week two,

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Speaker 3: there had to be at least one loss how many

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Speaker 3: total losses are there in the division?

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Speaker 2: Still just that one.

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Speaker 3: This was supposed to be the weakest division in football.

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Speaker 3: This was the division that was won by a losing

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Speaker 3: record last year. And this division right now is five

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Speaker 3: and one.

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Speaker 2: You can say anything you want.

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Speaker 3: About who they played and why and how and how

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Speaker 3: close and all of that stuff. But Falcons two and

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Speaker 3: Oh Bucks and oh oh Saints one to zero.

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Speaker 2: Unbelievable start for this division.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and we got talking about the Bucks a little

1440
01:21:08,439 --> 01:21:11,120
Speaker 1: bit earlier, and you know, talking about the style that

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Speaker 1: they have to play, Baker Mayfield finding a little bit

1442
01:21:14,520 --> 01:21:18,840
Speaker 1: of magic again, Mike Evans doing what Mike Evans has

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01:21:18,880 --> 01:21:23,000
Speaker 1: done for the last decade, and really nobody wants to

1444
01:21:23,040 --> 01:21:26,160
Speaker 1: talk about it or point out the fact that he's

1445
01:21:26,439 --> 01:21:31,120
Speaker 1: consistently one of the best wide receivers in football. They

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01:21:31,160 --> 01:21:34,439
Speaker 1: play really good defense, and it's something that Todd Bowles

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01:21:34,960 --> 01:21:38,920
Speaker 1: has made a living throughout the course of his career

1448
01:21:39,000 --> 01:21:41,800
Speaker 1: as a play caller on the defensive side of the ball,

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Speaker 1: putting tough, stout defenses out there weekend and week out.

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01:21:47,320 --> 01:21:49,439
Speaker 1: And then you go a little bit up the division

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Speaker 1: to Atlanta, and you look at Atlanta and the way

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Speaker 1: that they win football games in the style that they

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01:21:55,760 --> 01:21:58,920
Speaker 1: play with, and the rookie that they took with the

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Speaker 1: eighth overall and Bjeon Robinson, and what he adds to

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Speaker 1: that team that was already built around that type of

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01:22:08,800 --> 01:22:13,760
Speaker 1: a player. He's special to watch, just the explosiveness that

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Speaker 1: he played with today. He's gonna be a lot of

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Speaker 1: fun to watch down there in Atlanta.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt about it.

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Speaker 3: And I have to at least momentarily peel back a

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Speaker 3: little bit on an opinion I had at the start

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Speaker 3: of this year. I was like, and not that this

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Speaker 3: matters for anything, but you know, going into my fantasy drafts,

1464
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Speaker 3: I'm like, Jean Robinson, I'm in. Outside of that, I'm

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01:22:36,920 --> 01:22:40,680
Speaker 3: kind of out on any Atlanta pass catchers because I

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Speaker 3: just didn't really believe in Desmond Ritter. Partially because it's early,

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Speaker 3: but I just I wasn't loving what I had seen

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Speaker 3: from him when we did have a chance to see him.

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Speaker 3: And so far this year, sure it hasn't been like

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Speaker 3: anything overwhelming, but there has been largely smart football. He's

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Speaker 3: only thrown one interception. He's able to do some things

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Speaker 3: with his legs. Last week in the win, he had

1473
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Speaker 3: an eighty three point three percent completion rating this week.

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Speaker 3: I was very impressed by just the calm demeanor as

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Speaker 3: you're losing in the fourth quarter against the Green Bay

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Speaker 3: Packers and he's able to navigate him back Desmond Ridder.

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Speaker 2: It looks viable right now for this team.

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01:23:29,600 --> 01:23:31,800
Speaker 1: Desmond Ritters. Don't exactly what he has to do for

1479
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Speaker 1: this team to win football games, and that's just don't

1480
01:23:36,360 --> 01:23:39,519
Speaker 1: cost the Atlanta Falcons the game. Don't go out there

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Speaker 1: and turn the ball over three times. You know, we've

1482
01:23:43,800 --> 01:23:48,920
Speaker 1: talked about so many quarterbacks, whether it's Zach Wilson or

1483
01:23:49,280 --> 01:23:55,439
Speaker 1: Justin Fields, quarterbacks that have a good defense, that have

1484
01:23:55,600 --> 01:23:59,479
Speaker 1: a run game that they can lean on, and then

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01:23:59,680 --> 01:24:04,320
Speaker 1: you know, pick your opportunities. He did it today, hitting

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01:24:04,400 --> 01:24:08,439
Speaker 1: drake Lonnon for the touchdown pass, scoring with his legs

1487
01:24:08,479 --> 01:24:12,240
Speaker 1: on the big fourth down late in the game, getting

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01:24:12,240 --> 01:24:15,680
Speaker 1: the ball to Bjhon Robinson, just about every way possible.

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Speaker 1: You look at the stat sheet, and the Atlanta Falcons

1490
01:24:20,120 --> 01:24:22,720
Speaker 1: are going to win a lot of football games. When

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01:24:22,840 --> 01:24:26,160
Speaker 1: Desmin Ritter throws for two hundred and thirty seven yards

1492
01:24:26,560 --> 01:24:29,840
Speaker 1: and Bjhon Robinson runs for one hundred and twenty five,

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01:24:31,439 --> 01:24:35,880
Speaker 1: that's the formula for success in Atlanta. You gotta love

1494
01:24:36,280 --> 01:24:39,200
Speaker 1: Arthur Smith's guts at the end of the game going

1495
01:24:39,240 --> 01:24:42,720
Speaker 1: for it on fourth down endfield goal range. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm sitting there thinking, this would be interesting. If you

1497
01:24:45,439 --> 01:24:47,280
Speaker 1: don't get this fourth and short here, you have a

1498
01:24:47,360 --> 01:24:49,080
Speaker 1: chance to kick the field goal and take the one

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Speaker 1: point lead. But ultimately they get the first down, they're

1500
01:24:52,800 --> 01:24:56,080
Speaker 1: able to run another three downs off of the clock,

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01:24:56,439 --> 01:24:59,040
Speaker 1: kick the football and not really give Green Bay much

1502
01:24:59,040 --> 01:25:02,040
Speaker 1: of a chance there after they take the one point leads.

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Speaker 1: So I talk about it so much on this show,

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01:25:05,640 --> 01:25:11,120
Speaker 1: where teams know their identity, they go into the game.

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Speaker 1: You sit in that team meeting on Wednesday, and the

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01:25:15,160 --> 01:25:21,080
Speaker 1: head coach throws up the presentation on the jumbo screen,

1507
01:25:21,800 --> 01:25:24,320
Speaker 1: the keys to victory. Here's what we have to do

1508
01:25:24,479 --> 01:25:28,920
Speaker 1: to go out and win this week. Each week it

1509
01:25:28,960 --> 01:25:31,800
Speaker 1: could be different, but this week, this is what we

1510
01:25:31,960 --> 01:25:35,080
Speaker 1: have to do to go win that game. And this

1511
01:25:35,280 --> 01:25:39,000
Speaker 1: is exactly what the Atlanta Falcons would have said going

1512
01:25:39,040 --> 01:25:40,960
Speaker 1: into that team meeting on Wednesday.

1513
01:25:42,160 --> 01:25:45,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was an impressive fourth quarter for sure, down

1514
01:25:45,520 --> 01:25:48,559
Speaker 3: by twelve, end up winning it by one. Hey, just

1515
01:25:48,640 --> 01:25:50,960
Speaker 3: cuz we're talking about this team and you brought up

1516
01:25:51,000 --> 01:25:53,360
Speaker 3: his name. I do have a question I want to

1517
01:25:53,400 --> 01:25:58,160
Speaker 3: ask on the part of the fantasy football world, and

1518
01:25:58,320 --> 01:26:01,200
Speaker 3: maybe you can give them an id of what this

1519
01:26:01,280 --> 01:26:04,960
Speaker 3: feels like in a game planning session or inside the

1520
01:26:05,000 --> 01:26:07,240
Speaker 3: locker room, and why it's not done that way you

1521
01:26:07,320 --> 01:26:08,760
Speaker 3: mentioned Bijon Robinson.

1522
01:26:09,200 --> 01:26:11,200
Speaker 2: If you have not had a chance to watch this

1523
01:26:11,280 --> 01:26:11,880
Speaker 2: young man.

1524
01:26:11,800 --> 01:26:17,360
Speaker 3: Play yet, oh my goodness, Like he is so dynamic,

1525
01:26:17,800 --> 01:26:21,120
Speaker 3: it's so obvious every time he touches the ball. Now,

1526
01:26:21,320 --> 01:26:24,599
Speaker 3: he had plenty of touches in this football game. Nineteen

1527
01:26:24,680 --> 01:26:29,120
Speaker 3: carries and four catches. Twenty three touches is great, But

1528
01:26:29,800 --> 01:26:33,880
Speaker 3: there's a butt that's involved in this conversation. We've already

1529
01:26:33,920 --> 01:26:37,080
Speaker 3: heard it both times that the Lions have played. When

1530
01:26:37,120 --> 01:26:40,360
Speaker 3: people are looking at Jamiir Gibbs to the point where

1531
01:26:40,360 --> 01:26:43,200
Speaker 3: their offensive coordinator to come out before the game this

1532
01:26:43,240 --> 01:26:45,320
Speaker 3: week and go, we're going to get him way more involved,

1533
01:26:45,760 --> 01:26:49,000
Speaker 3: and then they don't. Even when David Montgomery gets hurt

1534
01:26:49,400 --> 01:26:53,160
Speaker 3: out in comes the third here comes Craig Reynolds to

1535
01:26:53,240 --> 01:26:57,120
Speaker 3: start getting carries. I don't think people thought Tyler Algier

1536
01:26:57,560 --> 01:27:00,280
Speaker 3: would be getting north of fifteen carries.

1537
01:27:00,280 --> 01:27:02,919
Speaker 2: In these football games when you've got.

1538
01:27:02,720 --> 01:27:07,479
Speaker 3: These young guys who are showing just dynastic moves on

1539
01:27:07,560 --> 01:27:12,360
Speaker 3: the field. Why aren't NFL teams feeding them more.

1540
01:27:13,320 --> 01:27:16,680
Speaker 1: It's the identity of the Atlanta Falcons. That's they know,

1541
01:27:16,840 --> 01:27:19,120
Speaker 1: that's how they have to go win football games. They

1542
01:27:19,320 --> 01:27:24,960
Speaker 1: had forty five rushing attempts today. I mean, that's that's

1543
01:27:25,040 --> 01:27:29,439
Speaker 1: unheard of in the modern day NFL world. Forty five

1544
01:27:29,520 --> 01:27:33,599
Speaker 1: rush attempts. Most of the time, it's the opposite. You're

1545
01:27:33,680 --> 01:27:37,280
Speaker 1: throwing it forty five times. That's the way they're built.

1546
01:27:37,520 --> 01:27:42,599
Speaker 1: Their patient with it, and it works when you stay

1547
01:27:42,600 --> 01:27:48,520
Speaker 1: ahead of the chains, when you stay in football games. Unfortunately,

1548
01:27:49,120 --> 01:27:52,800
Speaker 1: you know, you get down a couple touchdowns if you

1549
01:27:53,840 --> 01:27:57,280
Speaker 1: have a penalty on a drive. It's really hard to

1550
01:27:57,520 --> 01:28:00,840
Speaker 1: overcome that adversity, whether it be throughout the course of

1551
01:28:00,880 --> 01:28:04,439
Speaker 1: a drive or throughout the course of a game, when

1552
01:28:04,520 --> 01:28:07,840
Speaker 1: you have to run the ball forty five times to

1553
01:28:08,600 --> 01:28:12,640
Speaker 1: go win a football game. So you know, ultimately, I

1554
01:28:12,680 --> 01:28:18,960
Speaker 1: think that's why coordinators across the league aren't all bought

1555
01:28:19,000 --> 01:28:24,360
Speaker 1: into this Atlanta Falcons way of playing football. We had

1556
01:28:24,400 --> 01:28:28,679
Speaker 1: talked about the Baltimore Ravens and Lamar Jackson, and they're

1557
01:28:28,720 --> 01:28:32,519
Speaker 1: getting away from running the football so much and now

1558
01:28:32,520 --> 01:28:36,000
Speaker 1: they're throwing it around a little bit more. So. It's

1559
01:28:36,000 --> 01:28:38,120
Speaker 1: this fine line of you have to be able to

1560
01:28:38,200 --> 01:28:40,479
Speaker 1: run the football to win games. You have to be

1561
01:28:40,520 --> 01:28:43,960
Speaker 1: able to stop the run to win games. But if

1562
01:28:44,000 --> 01:28:46,720
Speaker 1: that's all you can do, and you have to do

1563
01:28:46,760 --> 01:28:50,799
Speaker 1: it forty five times, you ultimately have to play almost

1564
01:28:50,880 --> 01:28:54,240
Speaker 1: perfect football because you can't afford a ten yard holding

1565
01:28:54,280 --> 01:28:57,360
Speaker 1: penalty on first down. You're not going to overcome first

1566
01:28:57,360 --> 01:29:01,160
Speaker 1: and twenty. It's going to be ultimately a punt and

1567
01:29:01,400 --> 01:29:04,759
Speaker 1: the drive's gonna stall if you get down fourteen points.

1568
01:29:04,800 --> 01:29:09,200
Speaker 1: The Falcons made a great comeback today. They played really well, scoring,

1569
01:29:09,720 --> 01:29:11,960
Speaker 1: you know, thirteen points in the fourth quarter to come

1570
01:29:12,000 --> 01:29:17,360
Speaker 1: back and win. It's hard. It's really hard to come back.

1571
01:29:17,400 --> 01:29:19,120
Speaker 1: And you know, you got to give Desmond rid Er

1572
01:29:19,160 --> 01:29:22,679
Speaker 1: credit because he did play big late in the fourth

1573
01:29:22,720 --> 01:29:26,840
Speaker 1: quarter to erase that twelve point deficit and ultimately get

1574
01:29:26,880 --> 01:29:29,160
Speaker 1: the win. But that's a tough way to live in

1575
01:29:29,200 --> 01:29:31,240
Speaker 1: the NFL when you got to come from behind and

1576
01:29:31,280 --> 01:29:33,000
Speaker 1: you're built to run the football.

1577
01:29:33,160 --> 01:29:34,760
Speaker 2: No doubt about it, no doubt about it.

1578
01:29:34,800 --> 01:29:36,720
Speaker 3: I think the other side to it, though, is kind

1579
01:29:36,760 --> 01:29:39,800
Speaker 3: of what in most cities is like the death of

1580
01:29:39,840 --> 01:29:43,400
Speaker 3: the bell Cow. Everybody wants to kind of turn and burn,

1581
01:29:43,479 --> 01:29:46,040
Speaker 3: and I think there's some obvious pieces of the conversation.

1582
01:29:46,200 --> 01:29:48,960
Speaker 3: They want guys to stay healthy, but there are certain

1583
01:29:49,040 --> 01:29:55,280
Speaker 3: teams that feel like they're sort of ripping the dynamic

1584
01:29:55,400 --> 01:29:58,080
Speaker 3: nature of their offense off the field a little bit

1585
01:29:58,120 --> 01:30:00,800
Speaker 3: too much. I think you can wishing too far in

1586
01:30:00,840 --> 01:30:03,519
Speaker 3: the other direction as well. Go to that forty nine

1587
01:30:03,600 --> 01:30:06,439
Speaker 3: or Ram game and take a look at what happened there.

1588
01:30:06,840 --> 01:30:10,439
Speaker 3: Cam Akers was deactivated. They tried to trade him last year.

1589
01:30:10,479 --> 01:30:12,719
Speaker 3: Apparently that's the word they're going to do that again.

1590
01:30:13,080 --> 01:30:16,640
Speaker 3: So young Kyron Williams comes in and really plays a

1591
01:30:16,680 --> 01:30:20,360
Speaker 3: big bell cow role. Christian McCaffrey did as well on

1592
01:30:20,439 --> 01:30:22,599
Speaker 3: the forty nine er side. Do you know how many

1593
01:30:22,680 --> 01:30:26,280
Speaker 3: running backs got to carry in this game not named

1594
01:30:26,360 --> 01:30:28,360
Speaker 3: Kyron Williams and Christian McCaffrey.

1595
01:30:28,720 --> 01:30:32,080
Speaker 2: The answer is zero z row.

1596
01:30:32,240 --> 01:30:35,439
Speaker 3: They did not spell these guys with other running backs

1597
01:30:35,720 --> 01:30:40,000
Speaker 3: for carries at all. So what's the right way to

1598
01:30:40,160 --> 01:30:43,960
Speaker 3: do that? The whole idea of go with your best

1599
01:30:44,479 --> 01:30:48,760
Speaker 3: but also somehow keep them fresh load management, if you will,

1600
01:30:48,840 --> 01:30:49,719
Speaker 3: football style.

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01:30:50,439 --> 01:30:55,280
Speaker 1: It's interesting because again I think it goes to what

1602
01:30:55,360 --> 01:30:59,400
Speaker 1: are the touches? Are we handing the ball to our

1603
01:30:59,520 --> 01:31:04,639
Speaker 1: back in between the tackles twenty five times a game?

1604
01:31:05,600 --> 01:31:07,439
Speaker 1: You know, you look at the forty nine ers, Christian

1605
01:31:07,520 --> 01:31:10,920
Speaker 1: McCaffrey carried it twenty times. Are you giving it to

1606
01:31:11,000 --> 01:31:14,160
Speaker 1: him twenty times in between the tackles? Are or are

1607
01:31:14,200 --> 01:31:17,479
Speaker 1: we getting him out on the perimeter, getting him in space?

1608
01:31:18,320 --> 01:31:20,360
Speaker 1: You hand it to him twenty times, you throw it

1609
01:31:20,360 --> 01:31:23,719
Speaker 1: to him three times, so a lot like Bjhon Robinson.

1610
01:31:23,760 --> 01:31:28,400
Speaker 1: It's that low twenties touches for the game. What do

1611
01:31:28,479 --> 01:31:31,360
Speaker 1: those touches look like? Are are we getting you in

1612
01:31:31,439 --> 01:31:36,800
Speaker 1: space where you can use your athleticism and dynamic playmaking ability,

1613
01:31:37,120 --> 01:31:41,400
Speaker 1: but you're not running into inside linebackers and three techniques

1614
01:31:41,760 --> 01:31:45,559
Speaker 1: and defensive ends every single time you're handing the ball.

1615
01:31:46,560 --> 01:31:50,720
Speaker 1: Or is it you're the bellcal back like it used

1616
01:31:50,760 --> 01:31:53,400
Speaker 1: to be back in the day, and you're gonna run

1617
01:31:53,520 --> 01:31:58,360
Speaker 1: downhill like Mike Alstott, and you're gonna get tattooed twenty

1618
01:31:58,400 --> 01:32:02,000
Speaker 1: five out of your twenty eight. That's the type of

1619
01:32:02,040 --> 01:32:05,519
Speaker 1: wear and tear that I don't think these coaches want

1620
01:32:05,760 --> 01:32:11,680
Speaker 1: their playmaking backs quarterbacks. We've had this conversation with quarterbacks too.

1621
01:32:12,400 --> 01:32:15,439
Speaker 1: What's the nature of the carries, what's the nature of

1622
01:32:15,560 --> 01:32:18,519
Speaker 1: the touches, Where are we getting these guys the football?

1623
01:32:19,400 --> 01:32:23,080
Speaker 1: And ultimately, at the end of the day, I don't

1624
01:32:23,080 --> 01:32:28,240
Speaker 1: think anybody does it better than Kyle Shanahan and the Niners.

1625
01:32:28,320 --> 01:32:31,640
Speaker 1: You just see the way they use Christian McCaffrey, the

1626
01:32:31,640 --> 01:32:35,320
Speaker 1: way Deebo Samuel is almost like their third down back.

1627
01:32:35,439 --> 01:32:38,599
Speaker 1: They're guy that spills Christian McCaffrey. When when they don't

1628
01:32:38,600 --> 01:32:40,960
Speaker 1: want to hand it to Christian McCaffrey, we'll hand it

1629
01:32:40,960 --> 01:32:43,920
Speaker 1: to Debo or it'll be a quick screen to Debo,

1630
01:32:43,960 --> 01:32:46,479
Speaker 1: And it's basically an extension of the run game. So

1631
01:32:47,560 --> 01:32:52,400
Speaker 1: I think that's the perfect combination where you know, we're

1632
01:32:52,439 --> 01:32:55,400
Speaker 1: getting the ball in these guys' hands a lot, but

1633
01:32:55,560 --> 01:32:59,960
Speaker 1: it's in a variety of ways that aren't just downhill

1634
01:33:00,120 --> 01:33:03,800
Speaker 1: runs every single play where they're taking big hits. You

1635
01:33:03,920 --> 01:33:06,840
Speaker 1: see it at the end of the Giants game, handing

1636
01:33:06,920 --> 01:33:10,759
Speaker 1: Saquona Barkley the ball in between the tackles, he gets

1637
01:33:10,840 --> 01:33:14,080
Speaker 1: rolled up, ultimately leaves the game with an ankle injury

1638
01:33:14,120 --> 01:33:16,760
Speaker 1: on the second to last play of the game. That's

1639
01:33:16,800 --> 01:33:17,840
Speaker 1: not what you want to see.

1640
01:33:18,400 --> 01:33:20,519
Speaker 3: Nope, and they got a game in four days. They

1641
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Speaker 3: you and coming up next. There was one game where

1648
01:33:42,800 --> 01:33:46,960
Speaker 3: two teams last week showed us something that we found surprising.

1649
01:33:47,520 --> 01:33:50,760
Speaker 3: Then this week they showed us the exact opposite.

1650
01:33:50,840 --> 01:33:52,080
Speaker 2: So what do we know now?

1651
01:33:52,520 --> 01:33:55,280
Speaker 3: We'll get into that coming up next on Fox Sports Radio.

1652
01:33:57,439 --> 01:33:59,519
Speaker 3: Ah Ight, It's Mark Willard and Kyle Rudolph.

1653
01:33:59,520 --> 01:34:00,000
Speaker 2: Fox Sports.

1654
01:34:00,040 --> 01:34:04,479
Speaker 3: It's Radio Liventhetirack dot Com Studios. I mean, my man,

1655
01:34:04,520 --> 01:34:07,599
Speaker 3: you explained it to me. We sat here a week ago.

1656
01:34:08,360 --> 01:34:10,720
Speaker 3: We both said that the Seattle Seahawks were one of

1657
01:34:10,760 --> 01:34:12,719
Speaker 3: the most disappointing teams of.

1658
01:34:12,640 --> 01:34:13,320
Speaker 2: The day off.

1659
01:34:13,360 --> 01:34:15,960
Speaker 3: They are there at home, the home of the twelfth Man,

1660
01:34:16,560 --> 01:34:19,880
Speaker 3: the Rams, who were the Rams supposed to be. They

1661
01:34:19,920 --> 01:34:22,120
Speaker 3: come in there on Cork a twenty three to nothing

1662
01:34:22,240 --> 01:34:25,960
Speaker 3: second half and hand Seattle a terrible home loss to

1663
01:34:26,040 --> 01:34:28,519
Speaker 3: start the year, Seattle, we were all told, that's the

1664
01:34:28,560 --> 01:34:30,639
Speaker 3: team that's going to challenge the Niners in the West.

1665
01:34:31,040 --> 01:34:33,759
Speaker 3: That's the only team the Niners even need to worry about.

1666
01:34:34,080 --> 01:34:36,599
Speaker 3: All of the sudden Seattle is on and one. Now

1667
01:34:37,040 --> 01:34:39,519
Speaker 3: the forty nine ers had their hands full themselves with

1668
01:34:39,640 --> 01:34:42,800
Speaker 3: those same Rams today. So maybe the Rams, now that

1669
01:34:42,840 --> 01:34:45,519
Speaker 3: Matt Stafford's back, we probably should have given them a

1670
01:34:45,520 --> 01:34:48,120
Speaker 3: little bit more respect. And even with Cooper cup out,

1671
01:34:48,320 --> 01:34:50,360
Speaker 3: I don't even know what to do with this pooka nakua.

1672
01:34:50,439 --> 01:34:53,360
Speaker 3: Guys all over the field catching everything, and so that's

1673
01:34:53,360 --> 01:34:58,960
Speaker 3: a completely different story. But Seattle looked bad, and then

1674
01:34:59,000 --> 01:35:01,800
Speaker 3: they had to travel to a team that had just

1675
01:35:01,920 --> 01:35:06,120
Speaker 3: gone into Arrowhead and won a football game on the

1676
01:35:06,280 --> 01:35:10,840
Speaker 3: NFL opener, and they were everybody's trendy pick. And at halftime,

1677
01:35:11,240 --> 01:35:14,599
Speaker 3: just like we'd expect, Lions are up by seven. Looks

1678
01:35:14,600 --> 01:35:17,679
Speaker 3: like we're gonna hum this one on its way to victory,

1679
01:35:18,680 --> 01:35:23,799
Speaker 3: no overtime, a twenty four point second half, Gino Smith

1680
01:35:23,840 --> 01:35:27,320
Speaker 3: and Tyler Lockett waking the whole place up. Someone picked

1681
01:35:27,320 --> 01:35:29,240
Speaker 3: off Jared Goff for the first time in a year

1682
01:35:29,280 --> 01:35:32,920
Speaker 3: and a half. It was incredible, and Seattle gets the

1683
01:35:32,960 --> 01:35:36,040
Speaker 3: win and Detroit the loss. Kyle, what do we do

1684
01:35:36,120 --> 01:35:37,360
Speaker 3: with these two teams now?

1685
01:35:40,920 --> 01:35:43,000
Speaker 1: I think we still got two teams that are gonna

1686
01:35:43,000 --> 01:35:48,120
Speaker 1: be competing for playoff spots come late December January. I mean,

1687
01:35:48,160 --> 01:35:53,400
Speaker 1: you look at that game, and Gino Smith said it

1688
01:35:53,479 --> 01:35:55,519
Speaker 1: last year. You know he didn't right back, and here

1689
01:35:55,560 --> 01:35:58,639
Speaker 1: we all go just bashing him after a week one

1690
01:35:59,080 --> 01:36:02,120
Speaker 1: and talking about how disappointing the Seahawks were and their

1691
01:36:02,160 --> 01:36:06,200
Speaker 1: performance and they were awful on third down and kicked

1692
01:36:06,200 --> 01:36:09,360
Speaker 1: field goals in the red zone. You can't win games

1693
01:36:09,400 --> 01:36:14,160
Speaker 1: doing that. I mentioned last week on air that the

1694
01:36:14,200 --> 01:36:16,479
Speaker 1: best thing is just you forget about it, and you

1695
01:36:16,560 --> 01:36:19,360
Speaker 1: know that you have a short week. They had to

1696
01:36:19,400 --> 01:36:23,080
Speaker 1: come all the way across the country, you travel an

1697
01:36:23,120 --> 01:36:26,599
Speaker 1: extra day early, get here, get used to the time change,

1698
01:36:27,160 --> 01:36:30,240
Speaker 1: and then you go play against a good Lions team.

1699
01:36:30,640 --> 01:36:34,160
Speaker 1: I think it is still a good Lions team. On

1700
01:36:34,200 --> 01:36:38,160
Speaker 1: the flip side, you have that Lions team that won

1701
01:36:38,280 --> 01:36:42,280
Speaker 1: a huge game on Thursday night to open the NFL season,

1702
01:36:42,800 --> 01:36:45,200
Speaker 1: and then they had all weekend to sit around and

1703
01:36:45,240 --> 01:36:47,720
Speaker 1: hear about it and all of us tell them how

1704
01:36:47,720 --> 01:36:51,559
Speaker 1: good they were, and they're, you know, the surprise team

1705
01:36:51,800 --> 01:36:57,320
Speaker 1: they built this culture and they go out a lot

1706
01:36:57,400 --> 01:37:00,680
Speaker 1: to a good team. You mentioned jar golf throw on

1707
01:37:00,760 --> 01:37:04,200
Speaker 1: his first pick in forever, but then he responds and

1708
01:37:04,240 --> 01:37:06,120
Speaker 1: he goes right back down the field, leading him a

1709
01:37:06,160 --> 01:37:09,040
Speaker 1: touchdown drive. They kick the field goal to ultimately send

1710
01:37:09,080 --> 01:37:13,960
Speaker 1: it to overtime. And you know Gino g answers, he

1711
01:37:14,320 --> 01:37:17,080
Speaker 1: made sure that the Lions don't get the ball in overtime.

1712
01:37:17,120 --> 01:37:20,880
Speaker 1: He goes right down the field. He hits Tyler Lockett,

1713
01:37:21,040 --> 01:37:26,559
Speaker 1: who time and time again makes clutch plays in big moments.

1714
01:37:27,479 --> 01:37:30,760
Speaker 1: Tyler came up with two touchdown catches today, including that

1715
01:37:30,840 --> 01:37:33,800
Speaker 1: game winner at the end at the end there and overtime.

1716
01:37:34,400 --> 01:37:38,680
Speaker 1: And so I do still believe that the Seattle Seahawks

1717
01:37:38,800 --> 01:37:42,200
Speaker 1: and the Detroit Lions are both good football teams and

1718
01:37:42,280 --> 01:37:46,080
Speaker 1: will be in the NFC playoff picture when we get

1719
01:37:46,080 --> 01:37:48,080
Speaker 1: down the stretch in December and January.

1720
01:37:48,800 --> 01:37:50,000
Speaker 2: I don't disagree with you.

1721
01:37:50,120 --> 01:37:53,360
Speaker 3: I do wonder though, when you look at a head

1722
01:37:53,400 --> 01:37:57,160
Speaker 3: coach like Dan Campbell, and I know he played on

1723
01:37:57,200 --> 01:37:59,320
Speaker 3: the offensive side of the ball, but when you show

1724
01:37:59,439 --> 01:38:02,960
Speaker 3: up and you still are talking about Biden kneecaps on

1725
01:38:03,000 --> 01:38:06,639
Speaker 3: your first introductory press conference, it gives me the sense

1726
01:38:06,960 --> 01:38:11,960
Speaker 3: that you're someone who approaches football with a defensive mentality,

1727
01:38:12,400 --> 01:38:15,040
Speaker 3: the toughness. And he's done a great job, don't get

1728
01:38:15,080 --> 01:38:17,599
Speaker 3: me wrong. He has changed the culture and he's done

1729
01:38:17,600 --> 01:38:20,720
Speaker 3: a really good job. But the Lions get in these

1730
01:38:20,800 --> 01:38:23,559
Speaker 3: games they did this last year as well. They get

1731
01:38:23,600 --> 01:38:25,760
Speaker 3: in these games where they score thirty and the other

1732
01:38:25,800 --> 01:38:29,880
Speaker 3: team scores thirty plus. And so as much as I

1733
01:38:29,920 --> 01:38:33,160
Speaker 3: love the receiving corps, I love the way golf is

1734
01:38:33,200 --> 01:38:37,840
Speaker 3: playing very smart football. And we already established it's a

1735
01:38:37,880 --> 01:38:41,680
Speaker 3: division that shouldn't be that hard to win. Ten or

1736
01:38:41,720 --> 01:38:46,040
Speaker 3: eleven wins is gonna get that sucker done. They got

1737
01:38:46,040 --> 01:38:49,360
Speaker 3: to stop someone, They got to stop someone. Aiden Hutchinson

1738
01:38:49,479 --> 01:38:53,599
Speaker 3: is a player, but on defense, they are not able

1739
01:38:54,120 --> 01:38:57,200
Speaker 3: to get key stops when they need him. And they

1740
01:38:57,200 --> 01:38:59,680
Speaker 3: cannot rely on Kadarius Tony to show up and drop

1741
01:38:59,760 --> 01:39:00,799
Speaker 3: past every week.

1742
01:39:04,280 --> 01:39:04,360
Speaker 2: No.

1743
01:39:04,560 --> 01:39:08,599
Speaker 1: And it's funny because you just think about last year

1744
01:39:09,240 --> 01:39:14,720
Speaker 1: early in the season, they played this exact same Seattle

1745
01:39:14,760 --> 01:39:20,759
Speaker 1: Seahawks team in Detroit and scored forty five points and lost.

1746
01:39:21,240 --> 01:39:23,920
Speaker 1: And they lost forty eight forty five. So here we

1747
01:39:24,000 --> 01:39:28,040
Speaker 1: are a year later and they still have these same

1748
01:39:28,040 --> 01:39:32,640
Speaker 1: issues where offensively they do they look great. Jared is

1749
01:39:32,680 --> 01:39:38,960
Speaker 1: playing really really well under center. He makes his first

1750
01:39:39,040 --> 01:39:44,599
Speaker 1: mistake in three hundred and however many attempts, but then,

1751
01:39:44,680 --> 01:39:48,280
Speaker 1: as I said, responds and goes right back down the

1752
01:39:48,280 --> 01:39:51,559
Speaker 1: field and scores. They get to stop when they need,

1753
01:39:51,680 --> 01:39:53,439
Speaker 1: they get the field goal, they send it to overtime,

1754
01:39:53,479 --> 01:39:59,120
Speaker 1: but ultimately defense wasn't able to give Jared Goff another

1755
01:39:59,160 --> 01:40:01,720
Speaker 1: opportunity and over time to win the game because they

1756
01:40:01,720 --> 01:40:04,000
Speaker 1: couldn't get off the field. And I think, you know,

1757
01:40:04,000 --> 01:40:06,720
Speaker 1: we talked about Seattle last week third down, they were

1758
01:40:06,800 --> 01:40:11,080
Speaker 1: terrible red zone. Not so good. This week. They're around

1759
01:40:11,080 --> 01:40:13,960
Speaker 1: fifty percent on third down. So we're better on third down,

1760
01:40:14,120 --> 01:40:18,080
Speaker 1: staying on the fields, sustaining drives. But they go four

1761
01:40:18,160 --> 01:40:20,639
Speaker 1: or five in the red zone, scoring touchdowns four out

1762
01:40:20,640 --> 01:40:24,639
Speaker 1: of five times. The Detroit Lions have to get better

1763
01:40:25,120 --> 01:40:27,800
Speaker 1: in the red zone. You can't give up four out

1764
01:40:27,800 --> 01:40:29,760
Speaker 1: of five touchdowns in the red zone and expect to

1765
01:40:29,760 --> 01:40:30,679
Speaker 1: win football games.

1766
01:40:31,200 --> 01:40:31,439
Speaker 2: Yep.

1767
01:40:31,520 --> 01:40:36,000
Speaker 3: And it just goes to I think the parody that

1768
01:40:36,000 --> 01:40:38,479
Speaker 3: we're seeing that's gonna make it difficult. The lack of

1769
01:40:38,520 --> 01:40:41,880
Speaker 3: two and zero teams. I'd say the only thing that

1770
01:40:42,040 --> 01:40:45,720
Speaker 3: we showed up two weeks ago and tried to pull

1771
01:40:45,720 --> 01:40:48,519
Speaker 3: out a sharpie and put an ink. I would say,

1772
01:40:48,560 --> 01:40:51,960
Speaker 3: the only thing is maybe like the very tip top

1773
01:40:52,040 --> 01:40:55,840
Speaker 3: of the NFC, don't you think the Eagles, Cowboys and

1774
01:40:55,880 --> 01:40:58,840
Speaker 3: forty nine Ers? If I had to say two weeks ago,

1775
01:40:59,280 --> 01:41:01,599
Speaker 3: one of the few things that all of us thought

1776
01:41:02,040 --> 01:41:04,559
Speaker 3: and then it's turned out to be true, is that

1777
01:41:04,640 --> 01:41:07,719
Speaker 3: those three teams look like the class of the conference.

1778
01:41:11,439 --> 01:41:15,400
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily agree with the Philadelphia Eagles being up there,

1779
01:41:15,439 --> 01:41:18,880
Speaker 1: and now there's a few reasons why their defense is

1780
01:41:18,920 --> 01:41:22,760
Speaker 1: banged up. But when I watched that Philadelphia Eagles team

1781
01:41:22,760 --> 01:41:25,280
Speaker 1: play against the Minnesota Viking, I'm watching the game, and

1782
01:41:25,640 --> 01:41:29,200
Speaker 1: you know you're ultimately like, Philly, will you just like

1783
01:41:29,400 --> 01:41:31,640
Speaker 1: the Vikings are handing you this game? Will you just

1784
01:41:31,680 --> 01:41:33,320
Speaker 1: blow it out so we can all go to bed

1785
01:41:33,320 --> 01:41:36,000
Speaker 1: a little bit earlier on Thursday night instead of making

1786
01:41:36,080 --> 01:41:39,120
Speaker 1: me stay up till eleven o'clock at night to ultimately

1787
01:41:39,120 --> 01:41:40,960
Speaker 1: see the game end the way we all know it

1788
01:41:41,040 --> 01:41:45,479
Speaker 1: was gonna end. But it's that offense. Yeah, you have

1789
01:41:45,520 --> 01:41:48,360
Speaker 1: a new offensive coordinator. He's getting used to calling plays

1790
01:41:48,360 --> 01:41:51,599
Speaker 1: for Jalen Hurts. They look terrible in the first quarter

1791
01:41:51,640 --> 01:41:54,479
Speaker 1: and it wasn't really until they decided we're gonna turn

1792
01:41:54,520 --> 01:41:56,719
Speaker 1: the round and we're just gonna hand the ball off

1793
01:41:57,080 --> 01:42:00,160
Speaker 1: every single time until you decide that you can stop.

1794
01:42:00,600 --> 01:42:03,559
Speaker 1: They run the ball thirteen times on a scoring drive

1795
01:42:03,960 --> 01:42:09,840
Speaker 1: ultimately get a touchdown. Jalen started to find DeVante Smith

1796
01:42:09,880 --> 01:42:12,320
Speaker 1: a little bit there in the second half and started

1797
01:42:12,320 --> 01:42:15,000
Speaker 1: to get a little more comfortable. But that Philly team

1798
01:42:15,040 --> 01:42:19,320
Speaker 1: that I watched on Thursday night is nowhere near the

1799
01:42:19,320 --> 01:42:21,439
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers and the Cowboys right now, and the

1800
01:42:21,439 --> 01:42:25,000
Speaker 1: way that both of those teams are playing. And there's

1801
01:42:25,040 --> 01:42:27,360
Speaker 1: another two on o team in the NFC that none

1802
01:42:27,400 --> 01:42:30,920
Speaker 1: of us are talking about, and the Washington Commanders, it's

1803
01:42:31,080 --> 01:42:33,519
Speaker 1: you know, they're in the NFC East waving their hands

1804
01:42:33,600 --> 01:42:36,080
Speaker 1: in hold on a second, don't don't forget about us.

1805
01:42:36,360 --> 01:42:39,120
Speaker 1: We're two and o two. So you know, I think

1806
01:42:39,360 --> 01:42:43,719
Speaker 1: Philly will get healthy on defense. Their front still gives

1807
01:42:43,760 --> 01:42:47,519
Speaker 1: them a chance weekend and week out. Their ability to

1808
01:42:47,600 --> 01:42:50,639
Speaker 1: run the football gives them a chance weekend and week out.

1809
01:42:50,680 --> 01:42:53,920
Speaker 1: But I think they're still ironing out some kinks with

1810
01:42:54,000 --> 01:42:57,680
Speaker 1: a new play caller getting used to Jalen Hurts and

1811
01:42:57,800 --> 01:43:00,960
Speaker 1: the way that he plays the game and how to

1812
01:43:01,000 --> 01:43:03,960
Speaker 1: bring out the best in him, because I didn't see

1813
01:43:04,000 --> 01:43:05,479
Speaker 1: it from Philly on Thursday night.

1814
01:43:06,160 --> 01:43:08,920
Speaker 3: Okay, those are interesting comments about some of the NFC

1815
01:43:08,920 --> 01:43:11,559
Speaker 3: East teams. Let's explore that a little bit more here

1816
01:43:11,600 --> 01:43:13,439
Speaker 3: coming up in a minute, but first let's get Steve

1817
01:43:13,479 --> 01:43:16,240
Speaker 3: de Seger in here with an update on everything that.

1818
01:43:16,240 --> 01:43:20,000
Speaker 2: Has gone on is going on in more. Hello Steve.

1819
01:43:20,320 --> 01:43:22,679
Speaker 6: Not a good night for the New England Patriots. They'll

1820
01:43:22,680 --> 01:43:26,120
Speaker 6: start the fourth quarter at home trailing seventeen to three

1821
01:43:26,400 --> 01:43:30,280
Speaker 6: against the Miami Dolphin Zavian Howard with an interception in

1822
01:43:30,320 --> 01:43:33,000
Speaker 6: the red zone late third on the ground for New

1823
01:43:33,040 --> 01:43:35,960
Speaker 6: England two yards of carry so far, lad if that's

1824
01:43:36,000 --> 01:43:39,240
Speaker 6: the right word by Ramandre Stevenson at ten carries twenty

1825
01:43:39,360 --> 01:43:42,519
Speaker 6: two yards seventeen to three, the league going to the

1826
01:43:42,560 --> 01:43:44,880
Speaker 6: fourth to a tongue of Iloa with a two yard

1827
01:43:44,960 --> 01:43:48,880
Speaker 6: touchdown pass to Tyreek Hill just before halftime. Next Gen

1828
01:43:48,960 --> 01:43:51,280
Speaker 6: had the stats in the first half of this game

1829
01:43:51,320 --> 01:43:54,519
Speaker 6: that these two quarterbacks combined when any pass went over

1830
01:43:54,560 --> 01:43:58,200
Speaker 6: fifteen yards in the air, not a single one was completed,

1831
01:43:58,240 --> 01:44:02,120
Speaker 6: a combined zero for five, but under fifteen air yards

1832
01:44:02,160 --> 01:44:04,320
Speaker 6: in the first half tonight, they were twenty nine of

1833
01:44:04,439 --> 01:44:07,479
Speaker 6: thirty two for about two seventy five. So that's the

1834
01:44:07,600 --> 01:44:08,679
Speaker 6: kind of game it's been.

1835
01:44:09,360 --> 01:44:09,599
Speaker 2: Boy.

1836
01:44:09,640 --> 01:44:13,679
Speaker 6: The Patriots have just been flatbed. Two turnovers, only three points,

1837
01:44:13,720 --> 01:44:17,120
Speaker 6: no run, game down seventeen to three. Got a stat

1838
01:44:17,160 --> 01:44:19,519
Speaker 6: for you from the Niners and one from the Raiders.

1839
01:44:19,520 --> 01:44:22,400
Speaker 6: The Niners won their game in LA thirty to twenty three.

1840
01:44:22,479 --> 01:44:24,639
Speaker 6: They go to two to zero, and apparently the kicker

1841
01:44:24,680 --> 01:44:27,559
Speaker 6: is worth the draft choice now because he's on the list.

1842
01:44:27,720 --> 01:44:31,040
Speaker 6: Jake Moody of San Francisco here to go three for

1843
01:44:31,240 --> 01:44:33,960
Speaker 6: three on extra points last week and this week, and

1844
01:44:34,040 --> 01:44:36,920
Speaker 6: three for three on field goals last week and this week.

1845
01:44:37,520 --> 01:44:41,080
Speaker 6: In the last thirty years of the NFL, only one

1846
01:44:41,160 --> 01:44:43,839
Speaker 6: time had a kicker in his first two career games

1847
01:44:44,520 --> 01:44:47,400
Speaker 6: make at least six field goals at least six extra points.

1848
01:44:47,080 --> 01:44:48,920
Speaker 2: Without a miss, and that was Justin Tucker.

1849
01:44:49,520 --> 01:44:52,280
Speaker 6: That's the start that Jake Moody has had to his

1850
01:44:52,400 --> 01:44:53,839
Speaker 6: regular season career.

1851
01:44:54,720 --> 01:44:57,360
Speaker 3: And one of them was from fifty seven yards today too,

1852
01:44:57,600 --> 01:44:58,679
Speaker 3: So they weren't all cheap.

1853
01:44:58,800 --> 01:45:00,479
Speaker 2: They were not all cheap, and that.

1854
01:45:00,560 --> 01:45:03,639
Speaker 6: Was the thirty to twenty three win. And Puka Nakoua

1855
01:45:03,720 --> 01:45:06,360
Speaker 6: the Rams did have fifteen receptions in the loss a

1856
01:45:06,439 --> 01:45:07,240
Speaker 6: rookie record.

1857
01:45:07,800 --> 01:45:08,040
Speaker 1: Well.

1858
01:45:08,120 --> 01:45:11,400
Speaker 6: Las Vegas Raiders lost at Buffalo thirty eight to ten.

1859
01:45:11,520 --> 01:45:15,160
Speaker 6: Josh Allen three touchdown passes. On the Raiders side, Josh

1860
01:45:15,280 --> 01:45:18,040
Speaker 6: Jacobs did have five catches for fifty one yards, but

1861
01:45:18,120 --> 01:45:22,960
Speaker 6: on the ground nine carries for minus two and that

1862
01:45:23,080 --> 01:45:25,120
Speaker 6: includes a three yard run on one of the carries,

1863
01:45:25,120 --> 01:45:27,559
Speaker 6: which means the other eight carries or for minus five

1864
01:45:27,680 --> 01:45:31,400
Speaker 6: yards for the day, The NFL saying Josh Jacobs had

1865
01:45:31,479 --> 01:45:36,280
Speaker 6: the fewest rushing yards by any reigning rushing champ in

1866
01:45:36,320 --> 01:45:40,720
Speaker 6: the league since at least nineteen fifty. Indianapolis was a

1867
01:45:40,760 --> 01:45:43,960
Speaker 6: winner at Houston thirty one to twenty, rookie quarterback Anthony

1868
01:45:44,040 --> 01:45:46,519
Speaker 6: Richardson with a couple of touchdowns, but he left before

1869
01:45:46,560 --> 01:45:49,679
Speaker 6: halftime with a concussion. Tampa Bay's two and oh after

1870
01:45:49,720 --> 01:45:52,720
Speaker 6: beating Chicago, Atlanta's two and o after coming back to

1871
01:45:52,800 --> 01:45:57,080
Speaker 6: edge Green Bay overtime wins for Seattle and Tennessee, victories

1872
01:45:57,080 --> 01:46:00,400
Speaker 6: for Baltimore and Kansas City each on the road, and

1873
01:46:00,600 --> 01:46:03,679
Speaker 6: after beating the Jets thirty to ten, Cede Lamb eleven

1874
01:46:03,720 --> 01:46:06,760
Speaker 6: receptions one hundred and forty three yards, Giants came back

1875
01:46:06,800 --> 01:46:09,000
Speaker 6: to win at Arizona on a late field goal thirty

1876
01:46:09,000 --> 01:46:12,519
Speaker 6: one twenty eight. Running back Saquon Barkley two touchdowns, but

1877
01:46:12,600 --> 01:46:15,280
Speaker 6: he left with an ankle injury, and the Giants play

1878
01:46:15,360 --> 01:46:19,439
Speaker 6: Thursday at San Francisco. Will he be healthy enough in time.

1879
01:46:19,600 --> 01:46:23,000
Speaker 6: Washington won at Denver thirty five thirty three, Commanders two

1880
01:46:23,000 --> 01:46:25,680
Speaker 6: and o Broncos missed a two point pass on the

1881
01:46:25,720 --> 01:46:28,519
Speaker 6: final play or a minder. There are two games on Monday.

1882
01:46:28,880 --> 01:46:31,680
Speaker 6: Colorado says two way star Travis Hunter will miss a

1883
01:46:31,680 --> 01:46:34,719
Speaker 6: few weeks. He took a late hit last night. Texas

1884
01:46:34,800 --> 01:46:37,439
Speaker 6: is up to number three in the new AP College

1885
01:46:37,439 --> 01:46:41,080
Speaker 6: Football Poll, behind number one Georgia and number two Michigan.

1886
01:46:41,160 --> 01:46:44,040
Speaker 6: Voters apparently not seeing most of the Texas game last night.

1887
01:46:44,360 --> 01:46:47,040
Speaker 6: Major League Baseball at Arizona this evening, another win for

1888
01:46:47,080 --> 01:46:49,800
Speaker 6: the Diamondbacks, beat the slumping Cubs six to two. Only

1889
01:46:49,800 --> 01:46:52,080
Speaker 6: a couple weeks left in the regular season. Cubs have

1890
01:46:52,200 --> 01:46:55,559
Speaker 6: lost five in a row. Cleveland beat Texas ninety two.

1891
01:46:55,600 --> 01:46:59,200
Speaker 6: The Rangers lost clinches playoff spots for both Baltimore and

1892
01:46:59,280 --> 01:47:02,639
Speaker 6: Tampa Bay. Baltimore beat Tampa Bay in eleven innings, again

1893
01:47:02,680 --> 01:47:05,520
Speaker 6: a early fourth quarter at New England. Miami up seventeen

1894
01:47:05,600 --> 01:47:06,080
Speaker 6: to three.

1895
01:47:06,120 --> 01:47:08,880
Speaker 3: Back to you, Oh, Steve, I do want to update

1896
01:47:08,880 --> 01:47:12,080
Speaker 3: you that Ramandre Stevenson did just explode for a three

1897
01:47:12,160 --> 01:47:12,959
Speaker 3: yard run.

1898
01:47:13,320 --> 01:47:15,679
Speaker 6: So he's better than Josh Jacobs tonight.

1899
01:47:16,320 --> 01:47:20,280
Speaker 3: I just crushing it and they're on the move. But yeah,

1900
01:47:20,320 --> 01:47:23,000
Speaker 3: thanks so much, my friend, Steve Di Sega. Great stuff tonight,

1901
01:47:23,040 --> 01:47:27,320
Speaker 3: Mark Willard, Kyle Rudolph with you Tyrack dot Com Studios. Look,

1902
01:47:27,439 --> 01:47:30,120
Speaker 3: Mac Jones is fine. I think he's going to play

1903
01:47:30,120 --> 01:47:32,479
Speaker 3: in the league a long time. I'm watching this game

1904
01:47:32,520 --> 01:47:36,040
Speaker 3: tonight and this is not just based on tonight, and

1905
01:47:36,080 --> 01:47:37,320
Speaker 3: I hate doing this.

1906
01:47:37,400 --> 01:47:39,719
Speaker 2: It's still kind of early in these guys' careers.

1907
01:47:40,320 --> 01:47:45,240
Speaker 3: But this was a much discussed quarterback class two and

1908
01:47:45,240 --> 01:47:47,679
Speaker 3: a half years ago coming out in the draft. Five

1909
01:47:47,840 --> 01:47:52,320
Speaker 3: qbs in the top fifteen picks, and it was Trevor Lawrence,

1910
01:47:52,400 --> 01:47:56,840
Speaker 3: Zach Wilson, Trey Lance, Justin Fields, Mac Jones in that order,

1911
01:47:57,360 --> 01:48:00,920
Speaker 3: and Kyle. The way this is just me now exploring

1912
01:48:01,000 --> 01:48:03,120
Speaker 3: my heart and my eyes the way I look at

1913
01:48:03,120 --> 01:48:06,000
Speaker 3: this right now, I think the league got a total

1914
01:48:06,040 --> 01:48:09,599
Speaker 3: of maybe one good starting quarterback out of that group.

1915
01:48:13,560 --> 01:48:18,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's still the jury's out on a

1916
01:48:18,080 --> 01:48:21,559
Speaker 1: few of those guys, A lot of them we've talked

1917
01:48:21,600 --> 01:48:26,560
Speaker 1: about very in detail on this show. I wouldn't categorize

1918
01:48:26,600 --> 01:48:31,320
Speaker 1: Mac Jones with them just yet, and simply because of

1919
01:48:31,400 --> 01:48:37,080
Speaker 1: what he went through last year. I mean a special

1920
01:48:37,120 --> 01:48:40,400
Speaker 1: teams coordinator and a defensive coordinator, or your quarterback coach

1921
01:48:40,600 --> 01:48:44,080
Speaker 1: and an offensive coordinator, and your second year in the NFL,

1922
01:48:44,120 --> 01:48:46,840
Speaker 1: you're expected to take a step forward building off of

1923
01:48:47,160 --> 01:48:50,200
Speaker 1: what you did your rookie year. With Josh McDaniels, it's

1924
01:48:50,280 --> 01:48:53,040
Speaker 1: just not only is it a complete year where he

1925
01:48:53,120 --> 01:48:58,120
Speaker 1: doesn't develop and grow on what he did year one,

1926
01:48:59,080 --> 01:49:02,120
Speaker 1: Ultimately he goes backwards and creates a lot of bad

1927
01:49:02,160 --> 01:49:04,719
Speaker 1: habits that now Bill O'Brien comes in and you get

1928
01:49:05,160 --> 01:49:09,920
Speaker 1: a successful offensive play caller, coordinator, quarterback coach around him. Again,

1929
01:49:10,680 --> 01:49:13,680
Speaker 1: we got to fix that, like it just doesn't disappear.

1930
01:49:14,120 --> 01:49:17,200
Speaker 1: So not only do you not develop into year two,

1931
01:49:17,840 --> 01:49:21,439
Speaker 1: but you almost take a step backwards, and he isn't

1932
01:49:21,520 --> 01:49:25,080
Speaker 1: just building on the success that he had year one.

1933
01:49:25,400 --> 01:49:30,360
Speaker 1: So I don't think it's quite fair just yet to

1934
01:49:30,520 --> 01:49:34,120
Speaker 1: throw mac Jones into that category, but it certainly is

1935
01:49:34,200 --> 01:49:37,160
Speaker 1: looking more and more like it that Trevor Lawrence is

1936
01:49:37,800 --> 01:49:42,040
Speaker 1: and will be that only bona fide starting quarterback from

1937
01:49:42,080 --> 01:49:45,640
Speaker 1: that class. With five quarterbacks in the top fifteen.

1938
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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is not me saying that the other four

1939
01:49:49,040 --> 01:49:54,760
Speaker 3: are busts. You know, they are still developing and their

1940
01:49:54,760 --> 01:49:57,800
Speaker 3: careers can blossom, and they may end up in different

1941
01:49:57,880 --> 01:50:01,360
Speaker 3: situations that treat them better. Like I'll agree with all

1942
01:50:01,400 --> 01:50:04,799
Speaker 3: of that, but call it a prediction if you will.

1943
01:50:05,320 --> 01:50:09,200
Speaker 3: If I look at those five right now, and I said,

1944
01:50:09,360 --> 01:50:14,519
Speaker 3: who's getting the extension after next year from a team?

1945
01:50:14,720 --> 01:50:17,280
Speaker 3: You know, we've been talking about who wants to sib

1946
01:50:17,400 --> 01:50:21,599
Speaker 3: up to pay their quarterback thirty or forty or good lord,

1947
01:50:21,720 --> 01:50:25,360
Speaker 3: fifty million dollars out of that group of five, I'm

1948
01:50:25,360 --> 01:50:29,599
Speaker 3: gonna put my chip on on Trevor Lawrence, and I'm

1949
01:50:29,600 --> 01:50:31,320
Speaker 3: gonna bet that the other four don't get it.

1950
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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, and it's a world that we live in.

1951
01:50:37,479 --> 01:50:41,960
Speaker 1: These organizations have to make that decision on the fifth

1952
01:50:42,000 --> 01:50:45,000
Speaker 1: year option after this year. So if you look at

1953
01:50:45,000 --> 01:50:49,639
Speaker 1: those five year quarterbacks, those five first round quarterbacks, which

1954
01:50:49,720 --> 01:50:54,439
Speaker 1: ones will get that fifth year option? Certainly Trevor Lawrence

1955
01:50:54,520 --> 01:50:59,360
Speaker 1: is guaranteed, And then you go down the list, probably

1956
01:50:59,400 --> 01:51:04,360
Speaker 1: not Zach Wilson, Definitely, obviously Trey Lance is somewhere else

1957
01:51:05,920 --> 01:51:11,559
Speaker 1: justin fields mac Jones. I think if I'm a betting

1958
01:51:11,640 --> 01:51:15,439
Speaker 1: man's it's Trevor Lawrence mac Jones, you might get the

1959
01:51:15,439 --> 01:51:18,000
Speaker 1: fifth year option, and then you know, you can start

1960
01:51:18,040 --> 01:51:21,320
Speaker 1: to negotiate your contract off of that. Certainly, if we're

1961
01:51:21,360 --> 01:51:24,559
Speaker 1: talking about the extensions that we were talking about before

1962
01:51:24,760 --> 01:51:29,280
Speaker 1: in terms of those high dollar quarterback numbers, Trevor Lawrence

1963
01:51:29,400 --> 01:51:31,840
Speaker 1: is your guy. He's going to be right up there

1964
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Speaker 1: with all the other fifty million dollar quarterbacks, whether that's

1965
01:51:36,560 --> 01:51:41,479
Speaker 1: next year or the following year. The Patriots have never

1966
01:51:41,560 --> 01:51:44,000
Speaker 1: really been a team that does that. They didn't even

1967
01:51:44,080 --> 01:51:47,720
Speaker 1: pay Tom Brady top dollar when he is the quarterback

1968
01:51:47,760 --> 01:51:50,360
Speaker 1: for all those years in New England. So that'll be

1969
01:51:50,800 --> 01:51:53,479
Speaker 1: a very interesting situation as it plays out. Certainly this

1970
01:51:53,640 --> 01:51:56,040
Speaker 1: year and the way he plays this year and the

1971
01:51:56,080 --> 01:52:00,719
Speaker 1: growth that he shows this year will determine the fifth

1972
01:52:00,800 --> 01:52:03,639
Speaker 1: year option that has to be decided after year three

1973
01:52:03,880 --> 01:52:06,680
Speaker 1: and ultimately the big extension that a lot of these

1974
01:52:06,720 --> 01:52:07,679
Speaker 1: quarterbacks are seeing.

1975
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Speaker 3: He did just drive the Patriots into the end zone

1976
01:52:11,400 --> 01:52:14,480
Speaker 3: for the first time tonight, Hunter Henry with a touchdown

1977
01:52:14,560 --> 01:52:16,120
Speaker 3: catch from mag Jones.

1978
01:52:16,160 --> 01:52:17,559
Speaker 2: We've got a football game.

1979
01:52:17,400 --> 01:52:19,360
Speaker 3: And we'll keep you up to date with the Dolphins

1980
01:52:19,439 --> 01:52:22,599
Speaker 3: leading seventeen to ten. I want to dive a little

1981
01:52:22,640 --> 01:52:25,160
Speaker 3: further into your Eagles comments that you made a few

1982
01:52:25,200 --> 01:52:28,320
Speaker 3: minutes ago. Coming up next with Kyle Rudolph on Mark

1983
01:52:28,320 --> 01:52:29,840
Speaker 3: Ward on Fox Sports Radio.

1984
01:52:31,479 --> 01:52:33,639
Speaker 2: GINO is looking looking now.

1985
01:52:33,640 --> 01:52:36,639
Speaker 4: Through fourth time, it's looking does he reach the ball across?

1986
01:52:37,280 --> 01:52:41,400
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's over baby, touchdown Seahawks.

1987
01:52:41,960 --> 01:52:44,559
Speaker 5: Tyler Lockett's on a little pass out.

1988
01:52:44,320 --> 01:52:45,439
Speaker 1: Into the right side.

1989
01:52:45,479 --> 01:52:50,720
Speaker 4: Flan reaches the ball across the Pilon Heat scores game over.

1990
01:52:51,080 --> 01:52:54,360
Speaker 4: Seahawks win thirty seven to thirty one.

1991
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Speaker 3: Well, it's a good thing the Seahawks don't play on Thursday,

1992
01:52:57,720 --> 01:52:59,000
Speaker 3: because I don't think the.

1993
01:52:58,960 --> 01:53:01,599
Speaker 2: Seahawks radio network's going to be ready for it.

1994
01:53:01,680 --> 01:53:05,120
Speaker 3: Those announcers look like they're about out of voice. But

1995
01:53:05,280 --> 01:53:08,559
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1996
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1997
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1999
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2000
01:53:22,880 --> 01:53:26,760
Speaker 3: live in the tire Raq dot Com studios. Okay, so

2001
01:53:27,800 --> 01:53:31,919
Speaker 3: I said, Eagles, Cowboys, Niners. Those are the three teams

2002
01:53:32,400 --> 01:53:35,400
Speaker 3: basically who have come out and started the year as expected,

2003
01:53:35,800 --> 01:53:38,760
Speaker 3: and you set the Eagles aside. Not a perfect day

2004
01:53:38,800 --> 01:53:41,960
Speaker 3: for the forty nine ers either today they had to

2005
01:53:42,000 --> 01:53:45,599
Speaker 3: work in order to get it done in LA against

2006
01:53:45,640 --> 01:53:49,559
Speaker 3: the Rams. But I'd love to hear more about why

2007
01:53:49,600 --> 01:53:53,880
Speaker 3: you're setting the Eagles aside in a negative way, not

2008
01:53:54,080 --> 01:53:56,280
Speaker 3: on the same plane maybe as the forty nine ers

2009
01:53:56,320 --> 01:53:57,000
Speaker 3: of the Cowboys.

2010
01:53:57,520 --> 01:54:00,719
Speaker 1: I think it's just yes, their record are the same,

2011
01:54:01,800 --> 01:54:04,760
Speaker 1: they're in the same category in terms of two and

2012
01:54:04,840 --> 01:54:08,120
Speaker 1: O teams, but more so just the way the game

2013
01:54:08,160 --> 01:54:12,400
Speaker 1: played out on Thursday night. Yeah, the Rams gave the

2014
01:54:12,400 --> 01:54:16,439
Speaker 1: forty nine ers a run for their money today in LA.

2015
01:54:17,320 --> 01:54:22,040
Speaker 1: That's a division game at home. That a seven point

2016
01:54:22,080 --> 01:54:24,639
Speaker 1: win on the road in the division is a great

2017
01:54:24,680 --> 01:54:27,320
Speaker 1: win for the forty nine ers. I don't think that

2018
01:54:27,439 --> 01:54:31,320
Speaker 1: detracts from their two and oh start and their seat

2019
01:54:31,760 --> 01:54:35,160
Speaker 1: right at the top of the NFC at all. But

2020
01:54:35,240 --> 01:54:39,760
Speaker 1: when you watch that game on Thursday night and Minnesota

2021
01:54:39,800 --> 01:54:42,280
Speaker 1: turning the ball over as many times as they did,

2022
01:54:42,960 --> 01:54:48,040
Speaker 1: just handing Philly opportunity after opportunity to really blow it

2023
01:54:48,440 --> 01:54:52,560
Speaker 1: wide open. Even more of a blowout than it was,

2024
01:54:53,600 --> 01:54:59,640
Speaker 1: only to let Minnesota hang around creep back in. You

2025
01:54:59,680 --> 01:55:02,320
Speaker 1: see the tempers flare a little bit. On the sideline.

2026
01:55:02,360 --> 01:55:04,960
Speaker 1: AJ Brown's not that excited that they're running the ball

2027
01:55:05,000 --> 01:55:09,720
Speaker 1: every single play and he's not as involved. You know,

2028
01:55:09,840 --> 01:55:13,360
Speaker 1: Ultimately they got the job done. They made the big

2029
01:55:13,440 --> 01:55:16,600
Speaker 1: drive in the fourth quarter to go down and take

2030
01:55:16,640 --> 01:55:20,400
Speaker 1: the two possession lead again go back up thirteen. But

2031
01:55:20,480 --> 01:55:25,040
Speaker 1: it just didn't wow me. It certainly hasn't been like

2032
01:55:25,160 --> 01:55:30,880
Speaker 1: the Cowboys first two games, and I think it's their

2033
01:55:31,280 --> 01:55:34,720
Speaker 1: San Francisco Dallas just on a little bit different plane.

2034
01:55:35,640 --> 01:55:39,360
Speaker 1: I mentioned it. I don't think that's Panic in Philadelphia.

2035
01:55:39,840 --> 01:55:43,440
Speaker 1: I just think they're not playing as well as their

2036
01:55:43,520 --> 01:55:47,920
Speaker 1: record indicates, or that we expect them to be playing.

2037
01:55:48,520 --> 01:55:50,640
Speaker 1: Being a defending NFC champ.

2038
01:55:51,680 --> 01:55:57,120
Speaker 3: Take me inside how you viewed the conversations.

2039
01:55:56,560 --> 01:55:58,400
Speaker 2: Or if you want to call him something more than that.

2040
01:55:58,880 --> 01:56:02,640
Speaker 3: On the sideline between Jen Hurts and AJ Brown, a

2041
01:56:02,640 --> 01:56:05,680
Speaker 3: team that scores thirty four points, they have a running

2042
01:56:05,680 --> 01:56:07,840
Speaker 3: back go off for a bucks seventy five. The other

2043
01:56:08,000 --> 01:56:12,240
Speaker 3: receiver goes off and has a big night. You get

2044
01:56:12,280 --> 01:56:15,640
Speaker 3: it from a fan standpoint, that's a bad look. For

2045
01:56:15,920 --> 01:56:19,720
Speaker 3: for Aj Brown to be screaming at the quarterback when

2046
01:56:19,760 --> 01:56:23,600
Speaker 3: it seems like everything's going well except for him. But

2047
01:56:23,960 --> 01:56:26,440
Speaker 3: I'm sure you've seen this with with all your time

2048
01:56:26,480 --> 01:56:29,040
Speaker 3: on the sidelines. What was your view of that, what's

2049
01:56:29,080 --> 01:56:29,720
Speaker 3: going on there?

2050
01:56:32,280 --> 01:56:34,440
Speaker 1: Well, I've never met a wide receiver that doesn't want

2051
01:56:34,480 --> 01:56:40,120
Speaker 1: the ball every play. That's what makes elite receivers elite.

2052
01:56:41,640 --> 01:56:46,240
Speaker 1: You know, Aj Brown, I believe it's in his Instagram handle.

2053
01:56:46,240 --> 01:56:48,960
Speaker 1: He's always open, so you know he's gonna want the

2054
01:56:49,040 --> 01:56:52,800
Speaker 1: football and you know, ultimately it's it's part of the game.

2055
01:56:53,400 --> 01:56:55,800
Speaker 1: You see it all the time. It's not a good

2056
01:56:55,800 --> 01:56:58,840
Speaker 1: look when your team's winning the game and you're running

2057
01:56:58,880 --> 01:57:02,440
Speaker 1: up and down the field with the run game. The

2058
01:57:02,680 --> 01:57:07,480
Speaker 1: other receiver opposite you is putting up big numbers and

2059
01:57:07,760 --> 01:57:11,520
Speaker 1: you know you're complaining on the sideline, arguing with the quarterback,

2060
01:57:11,640 --> 01:57:15,320
Speaker 1: argue with the head coach. But that's what makes those

2061
01:57:15,440 --> 01:57:20,360
Speaker 1: elite receivers so special. They're competitive, they want the ball. Yeah,

2062
01:57:20,440 --> 01:57:23,560
Speaker 1: the offense is doing well, but I want to contribute

2063
01:57:23,600 --> 01:57:25,840
Speaker 1: as well, and you know I'm winning on my routes.

2064
01:57:25,880 --> 01:57:30,320
Speaker 1: I'm getting open. Jalen Hurts addressed it after the game

2065
01:57:30,360 --> 01:57:33,640
Speaker 1: in his press conference, he has no worries whatsoever about

2066
01:57:33,680 --> 01:57:37,600
Speaker 1: AJ Brown. I don't think it's something that would cause

2067
01:57:37,640 --> 01:57:41,280
Speaker 1: problems because, like I said, I've seen it a million

2068
01:57:41,320 --> 01:57:44,440
Speaker 1: times on my own sidelines with all of the good

2069
01:57:44,480 --> 01:57:47,320
Speaker 1: receivers I've played with. They want the ball. That's what

2070
01:57:47,360 --> 01:57:50,560
Speaker 1: makes them special to me. It was more so just

2071
01:57:51,480 --> 01:57:54,480
Speaker 1: you know, they the way the game, the flow of it.

2072
01:57:55,000 --> 01:57:58,640
Speaker 1: You know, if Minnesota could just stop the run at all,

2073
01:57:59,560 --> 01:58:02,520
Speaker 1: Philly's offense would have really been in trouble in the

2074
01:58:02,560 --> 01:58:06,760
Speaker 1: first half. And transitioning to a new play caller, figuring

2075
01:58:06,800 --> 01:58:10,000
Speaker 1: out how to use Jalen Hurts, how to make the

2076
01:58:10,040 --> 01:58:14,240
Speaker 1: most out of that offense. They've got a very favorable

2077
01:58:14,240 --> 01:58:17,440
Speaker 1: schedule here the first six, seven, eight weeks, and I

2078
01:58:17,440 --> 01:58:20,000
Speaker 1: think they'll be okay. I just don't have them up

2079
01:58:20,000 --> 01:58:23,080
Speaker 1: there right behind San Francisco in Dallas.

2080
01:58:24,000 --> 01:58:26,240
Speaker 3: My man, we just have about thirty seconds left. What

2081
01:58:26,240 --> 01:58:28,040
Speaker 3: do you think we're going to see? For an encore

2082
01:58:28,080 --> 01:58:29,560
Speaker 3: from Deshaun Watson tomorrow night.

2083
01:58:29,960 --> 01:58:32,560
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see Cleveland, you know, I mentioned I

2084
01:58:32,560 --> 01:58:36,040
Speaker 1: feel like that's a team that could be a sleeper

2085
01:58:36,080 --> 01:58:41,000
Speaker 1: in the AFC. A go as Nick Chubb goes it's

2086
01:58:41,040 --> 01:58:43,720
Speaker 1: a team that you know. Deshaun Watson's got to make

2087
01:58:43,840 --> 01:58:47,520
Speaker 1: enough plays to win the game. No, he's gotta get

2088
01:58:47,560 --> 01:58:50,040
Speaker 1: the ball to Nick Chubb, don't turn it over, be

2089
01:58:50,200 --> 01:58:53,640
Speaker 1: smart with the football. And I'm excited to see Cleveland

2090
01:58:53,720 --> 01:58:55,240
Speaker 1: follow up what they did last week.

2091
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Speaker 2: We'll see it tomorrow night.