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Speaker 1: would be too right, So that would also not be correct.

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Speaker 1: He could have just said we're in the top portion

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Speaker 1: of that upper quartile, and I think that's where he

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Speaker 1: was going. They cut the half. He could have just

431
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Speaker 1: said we're in the top eighth of the league. Maybe

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Speaker 1: that sounds quartile is kind of ad You got to

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Speaker 1: give that well and to use it three times if

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Speaker 1: he didn't need to do that. But like, maybe that's

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Speaker 1: why they hung that that infamous banner back then. Because

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Speaker 1: in world like we are winning extremely important things. I

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Speaker 1: think they should make a new banner like top upper

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Speaker 1: quartile of the top quartesyle. That's good. Uh, get to

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Speaker 1: work on the photo shop on that one. And before

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Speaker 1: we take a break, I just want to ask you guys,

441
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Speaker 1: like I had to let Zeck go because he was

442
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Speaker 1: obviously he's getting worked hard by that team right now,

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Speaker 1: But who wants that job? Like, let's say it turns

444
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Speaker 1: out Jeff Saturday is eight and done. Who wants that job?

445
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Speaker 1: Who wants a job when the owner clearly is turning

446
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Speaker 1: into his father and he got his fingers all over

447
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Speaker 1: the operation and you know, the GM is just gonna

448
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Speaker 1: do whatever you can do to stay alive, and he

449
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Speaker 1: probably has no power either. It's like that's a tough

450
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Speaker 1: gig to walk into when you're trying to advertise like

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Speaker 1: your own company as a great employer or yourself as

452
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Speaker 1: a great boss, and like you do what he's done

453
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Speaker 1: over the last week, you're telling, like common NFL fans,

454
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Speaker 1: that place sounds extremely toxic and totally bizarre. And I

455
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Speaker 1: and do I want to step into that drama and

456
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Speaker 1: be the next person yanked around by whatever's happening. There's

457
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Speaker 1: only a few WHOA, there's only a few coaches that

458
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Speaker 1: that have options every year. So I'll give you the

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Speaker 1: boring names that everyone everyone wants. But McDaniel's big winner

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Speaker 1: in this, and he can look back and say, see,

461
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Speaker 1: I was right. It's a good thing. In fact, it's

462
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Speaker 1: it's funny that that Jeff Saturday a couple of weeks ago,

463
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Speaker 1: as an analyst, tweeted out like the Raiders stink basically,

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Speaker 1: and so now now you have to go, We'll go

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Speaker 1: find out how how much the Raiders stink with the

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Speaker 1: situation they're facing. And all seriousness too though, like that

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Speaker 1: just tells you that this was not on Jeff Saturday's radar,

468
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Speaker 1: not phe like, what do you think I'm gonna be

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Speaker 1: a head coach in in thirty days? It's a bizarre story.

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Speaker 1: But remember before we go to break, guys that it's

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Speaker 1: not that complicated. It's not We don't build rockets to

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Speaker 1: go to Mars. We're not nuclear scientists. That is none

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Speaker 1: of our jobs here. It's a very simple jobs that

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Speaker 1: we do here. We cultivate winning cultures, we cultivate toughness.

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Speaker 1: We live by our integrity about the people that we are,

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Speaker 1: and we don't ex act anything more than we expect

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Speaker 1: from ourselves. I feel motivated, I feel power. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: the spaceship driving into the night to the sun. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's take a break before we get to one of

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Speaker 1: our favorite long running segments teaser. We'll be right back.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back joining us now. So we had Zach Kiefer,

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Speaker 1: and now we have another friend of the show, NFL

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Speaker 1: Network Zone host and reporter Bridget Condon. Welcome back, Thanks

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Speaker 1: for having me. This music is incredible. Runway there you go.

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Speaker 1: That's why I like. I like what we call behind

486
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Speaker 1: the glasses known as sausage fingers because it gives you

487
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Speaker 1: an idea of the person's personality because they always say

488
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Speaker 1: what they think it sounds like like Kyle Brand as

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Speaker 1: an example, said this sounds like silk stockings on skinn

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Speaker 1: of Max back in a lot about cal Bran and Bridget,

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Speaker 1: you said, this is you on the runway? Yeah, like

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Speaker 1: slow motion walking down. Yeah. Set in the mood for

493
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Speaker 1: Sunday night? Is this a new Sunday Night football? So

494
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Speaker 1: you've been waiting all day for the Maybe I kind

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Speaker 1: of like, how are you welcome? I'm great, it's Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: You know, as good as you can be. You just

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Speaker 1: celebrated a birthday. I know I thought that get the

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Speaker 1: invite to the party. But that's cool. Well, I figured

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Speaker 1: the reason why I'm allowed on the show now is

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Speaker 1: because I'm twenty one. Finally, that's good. That's good. I

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Speaker 1: think having Bridge on the show is is to show

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Speaker 1: how much we like you. Um, you're coming on right now.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk a little t NF later. Uh, but

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Speaker 1: what we're gonna talk about right now? Hit it? Great? Digger, Yes, oh, Dave,

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Speaker 1: Damna chick on the box. There a long time segment. Bridget,

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Speaker 1: If you just turned twenty one. That means the segment

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Speaker 1: started when you were about thirteen or so. It was

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Speaker 1: early teen years I remember it. Yes, yes, pretty pivotal

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Speaker 1: in my teenage. Yeah, it was formative. I'm sure. Uh

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Speaker 1: stick a forking hum. We are at the time of

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Speaker 1: year now where it's time to figure out which teams

512
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Speaker 1: we don't need to take seriously anymore. In fact, I

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Speaker 1: would say on some level, Mark, this is your favorite

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Speaker 1: segment um as a podcast person, right because whenever you

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Speaker 1: could just throw teams into the sun, that makes life better. Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean we have different We approach these teams differently,

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Speaker 1: Greg and I certainly do. And when I see a

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Speaker 1: team sitting out there at two and seven and we're

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Speaker 1: getting deep into November by yeah, my mind is starting

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Speaker 1: to lose, um a grip on why I should spend

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Speaker 1: a second thinking about you? Right, you're thinking, like, that's

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Speaker 1: not going to make my game pass rotation. The problem

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Speaker 1: is they play other good team and then now is

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Speaker 1: the QB and decks on his play every Not only that,

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Speaker 1: when they bring in like the fourth string quarterback in

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Speaker 1: week sixteen, the teams are like almost trying to lose.

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Speaker 1: You gotta watch those guys I have learned that will

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Speaker 1: be my personal Vietnam bridget this. This second, by the way,

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Speaker 1: hasn't existed. I don't think for three or four years

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Speaker 1: that just fement and then so it goes away from

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Speaker 1: four years. Yeah, I think there was a time where

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Speaker 1: we had maybe some props, but the budget has been cut.

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Speaker 1: But what we're gonna be here? I know since you

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Speaker 1: were a team when this was launched, U, each of

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Speaker 1: us will take turns nominating a team, and what a

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Speaker 1: stick of fork and it means they have no chance

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Speaker 1: to make the playoffs. And then you could say, and

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Speaker 1: certainly a person like a Greg for instance, we'll say, well,

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Speaker 1: anybody you know that they win all their games, they

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Speaker 1: can make the most. We've gotten it wrong. We've gotten

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Speaker 1: not always, not usually. But this takes takes a little

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Speaker 1: bit of intestinal fortitude to kind of put yourself out

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Speaker 1: on a limb and be sure of a team that

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Speaker 1: is cooked. So before we get into nominating teams, that

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Speaker 1: has to be an animous. We all have to vote

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Speaker 1: a team forked. Okay, I want to throw three out

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Speaker 1: just to get get warmed up, get some blood on

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Speaker 1: our hands quickly, essay style, and you guys can let

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Speaker 1: me know if there's pushback here, but can we safely fork,

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Speaker 1: for instance, the Carolina Panthers, that that was your team

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Speaker 1: that you covered. My hesitation here is because the fan

552
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Speaker 1: base already hates me, and I hate me even more.

553
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Speaker 1: But I'm gonna fork them absolutely. I mean, if you

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Speaker 1: have p J Walker starting, and let me remind you

555
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Speaker 1: he had a zero passer rating in the first half

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Speaker 1: against the Yeah, it's not me and it's factual. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's starting over bigger Mayfield, which there is some I

558
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Speaker 1: don't know if you guys have delved into his contract,

559
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Speaker 1: there is something there to be said. They get if

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Speaker 1: he plays less than or they get a sorry fourth

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Speaker 1: rounder if he plays more than snaps fifth rounder. If

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Speaker 1: he plays, Yeah, they're cooking the books a little here

563
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Speaker 1: on the bench. That's why Donald's off the I R

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Speaker 1: I I would say I wrote in the Power Ran

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Speaker 1: because I feel like this is p J Walker's final start,

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Speaker 1: regardless of outcome. They'll probably if Donald's healthy, just run

567
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Speaker 1: him out there and hope that takes them home, especially

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Speaker 1: if you're saying it it's advantageous for their future not

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Speaker 1: to play. Make I'm comfortable forking the Panthers although it

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Speaker 1: would be the quickest you know, possible regret that we've

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Speaker 1: ever had doing this, because if when they play Thursday night,

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Speaker 1: let's say they beat the Falcons Thursday night and then

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Speaker 1: the Bucks lose in Germany, which is very falling into

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Speaker 1: your trap. I'm just saying they would only be one

575
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Speaker 1: game out of first, but I do feel comfortable that

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Speaker 1: they will not win enough to pass Atlanta or Tampa.

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Speaker 1: Over the course. It's interesting to how much a difference

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Speaker 1: a week makes, as they say, because like a week ago,

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Speaker 1: I was like, this team is frisky, walkers looking intriguing,

580
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Speaker 1: the offense has awoken, like were there much better post

581
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Speaker 1: Matt rule? And then the Bengals game happened and I

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Speaker 1: was like, you're out of here. Yeah, you're out of

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Speaker 1: my universe. I'm a big Steve Wilkes fan. I have

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Speaker 1: a lot of respect from him, and kind of he

585
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Speaker 1: seems like he doesn't care what anyone thinks, which I

586
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Speaker 1: kind of like that. Panthers, I feel like a lot

587
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Speaker 1: of times have just been worried about the outside perspective.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't care. He's doing it his way. I'm a

589
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Speaker 1: fan of him, but overall, I don't think I don't

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Speaker 1: think they do it. They always find a way to

591
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Speaker 1: get your hopes up really high and then take your

592
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Speaker 1: right back. They need that high pick. Yeah, they need

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Speaker 1: that first round. I would be on the fence given

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Speaker 1: the division they play in, had not I started p

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Speaker 1: J Walker over Davis mills Uh in Fantasy this week

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Speaker 1: and the person So for that reason alone, I also

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Speaker 1: vote there for can we quickly fork the Houston Texans

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Speaker 1: the one win Texans? We don't really need to delve

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Speaker 1: deep here, and he pushed back on that one. The

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Speaker 1: Texans are cooked? Can we fork the Cults? Can we?

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Speaker 1: I know they have three wins? I have one concern

602
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Speaker 1: about this Cults thing is that, um, they're trying so

603
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Speaker 1: hard for this to spend out. And we've covered it

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Speaker 1: in our previous segment, but what if like the greatest

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Speaker 1: sports thing ever happens of all time and Jeff Saturday

606
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Speaker 1: guides them to like a six and two mark or

607
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Speaker 1: something and they eke out like a wild card. Well,

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Speaker 1: we don't get the guillotine if that happens. I'm just saying,

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Speaker 1: like I kind of have a feeling that everything when

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Speaker 1: the whole universe is saying, oh, this is gonna go

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Speaker 1: so negatively. I don't know. Well, we do make a

612
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Speaker 1: generous donation, but I will fork them to a charity

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Speaker 1: if we get that, like that is in honor of

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Speaker 1: that city. If we get it, that is true, Greg specifically,

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Speaker 1: it depends whoever you know nominates the team. That's but

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Speaker 1: we don't want to force you into it either. Mark,

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Speaker 1: if you really think that something some funny business can happen,

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Speaker 1: but just know it might come back on you if

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Speaker 1: they get worse. I don't have a big problem forking

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Speaker 1: the Cults for the same reason as the Panthers. The

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Speaker 1: game that I just watched, I was thinking, Okay, maybe

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Speaker 1: you couldn't make an argument for the Cults because their

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Speaker 1: division is so lousy. But they've almost played all of

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Speaker 1: their division games already and they weren't good in that

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Speaker 1: those and they still the Eagles. They still have a

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Speaker 1: game at Cowboys, at Vikings, at Giants. That's a lot.

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Speaker 1: Are you buying my scenario that maybe something magical happen. No,

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Speaker 1: Like I I don't want to speak because I don't

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Speaker 1: want to get them upset with me. But I could

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Speaker 1: side with you just in a sense that it would

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Speaker 1: just be a crazy situation, right, Jeff Saturday, he's gonna

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Speaker 1: go in there and rob rob this locker room. How

633
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Speaker 1: long does that last? Room? Right? Fairly, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Maybe after they hire the thirty year old today to

635
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Speaker 1: call the plays. I want to water back my decision here.

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Speaker 1: I would love for it to happen, if only because

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Speaker 1: we do these Monday Night football recaps, and I happened

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Speaker 1: to look at the schedule the rest of the way,

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Speaker 1: and Joe and Troy are gonna be wondering what happened

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00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 1: to great late season games. The Monday night football schedule

641
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 1: the rest of the year is rough. It includes two

642
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:57,080
Speaker 1: cults games, including a cult Steelers game in week twelve,

643
00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 1: in a cult Chargers game at least the Charges. Maybe

644
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:02,840
Speaker 1: I'll be in the mix in six team makes sense

645
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 1: because there's so many of your personal apocalypse unquote safe

646
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 1: teams this year that are having a really bad season.

647
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 1: I'm guessing they're showing up repeatedly. All right, let's let's

648
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 1: now nominate them too. So we got three already forked

649
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:22,160
Speaker 1: get using bridges terrible. Okay, I'm like, where's this coming? Um? Okay,

650
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 1: I am going to fork the Packers. I know this

651
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:30,800
Speaker 1: is contin you're going to nominate the nice having you

652
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:37,480
Speaker 1: on Bridget Do I tell you it's just me because

653
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:40,520
Speaker 1: I haven't lived this much. So do I tell you

654
00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 1: why I'm nominating them? Yeah, you're pitching them? Okay, all right,

655
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:47,520
Speaker 1: I am pitching the Packers three and six. I know

656
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:51,840
Speaker 1: it's controversial. Aaron Rodgers an incredible quarterback. Never bet against him.

657
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 1: I'm betting against him. They lost to the Lions. They

658
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:56,800
Speaker 1: lost to the Lions, And not only did they lose

659
00:32:56,840 --> 00:33:00,720
Speaker 1: to the Lions, nine different players got hurt during that game.

660
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 1: They just lost for Shawn Gary for the season. Eric Stokes,

661
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 1: I don't know what the latest on him, but questionable.

662
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 1: Uh Romeo Dabbs with the ankle sprain. Aaron Jones. Of

663
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 1: course he's practicing this week. But when Aaron Jones goes down,

664
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:15,920
Speaker 1: your threat, your biggest threat on offense, I don't know

665
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:18,440
Speaker 1: what else you got. Mike McCarthy, he got choked up

666
00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:21,520
Speaker 1: yesterday talking about going back to Green Bay. I think

667
00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are going to destroy them this weekend. From

668
00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:30,720
Speaker 1: not only okay, so their next three games Cowboys, Titans, Eagles,

669
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:35,760
Speaker 1: it's just they could potentially be three and nine. I

670
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:40,240
Speaker 1: um got flamed on our Thursday preview show for suggesting

671
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:43,120
Speaker 1: that the Packers might only win seven games. Why didn't

672
00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 1: you tell me that before the show? Well, I'm with you.

673
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:49,120
Speaker 1: I'm siding with you now because you almost locked them

674
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 1: up against the lines zero. Do you being flamed? Yeah?

675
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 1: Greg was like snickering, like his own little research. Actually,

676
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 1: I think a little bit. Statement was just surprised because

677
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:05,520
Speaker 1: bridgets here, I have to slide over a little bit

678
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 1: closer to you, guys that I could feel the heat

679
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:12,880
Speaker 1: between you right now. I love what Bridget did because

680
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:17,239
Speaker 1: it is bold, and my initial instinct is to push

681
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 1: back because it's Aaron Rodgers and way watch these games.

682
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,279
Speaker 1: I don't think he's that far away. He to me,

683
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 1: he's like Tom Brady where if I had to rank him,

684
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:26,800
Speaker 1: And this is about where they are in the pf'd

685
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 1: say they're in the top twelve quarterbacks of the year.

686
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 1: Like they're around twelve each of them. They're not getting

687
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:34,920
Speaker 1: killed because of their quarterback play. And there's a lot

688
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:37,319
Speaker 1: of good players on their team, and they have a

689
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:39,800
Speaker 1: history obviously under Matt Lafleur. And so if there's a

690
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:42,880
Speaker 1: team that's gonna rally from three and six they would

691
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,480
Speaker 1: be it, but you are getting ahead of it with

692
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:48,880
Speaker 1: them playing the Cowboys, the Titans, and the Eagles in

693
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:52,240
Speaker 1: the next three weeks. Nothing that they've done this season

694
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:54,879
Speaker 1: indicates that they can go to and one in those games.

695
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:56,840
Speaker 1: And if they don't go to and one in those games,

696
00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:01,040
Speaker 1: your games behind the Vikings right not gonna win the division.

697
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:04,080
Speaker 1: The division is basically gone. In the NFC, third wild

698
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 1: card might be a little sketchy where you only need

699
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:09,279
Speaker 1: nine wins, so it's not crazy, but I I just

700
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:16,320
Speaker 1: haven't seen believe well, that's that's an issue that we

701
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:19,240
Speaker 1: have to deal with here. But the Cowboys Titens, Eagles

702
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:22,239
Speaker 1: at Bears. Let's say best case scenario there four, they

703
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:24,160
Speaker 1: go to and two, so they're five and eight, and

704
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 1: then they get home Rams at Dolphin's home, Viking. I'm gonna,

705
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna, I'm gonna Dolphins. I'm gonna for them. I'm

706
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:32,839
Speaker 1: gonna for I feel I feel like they're done. They

707
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:35,560
Speaker 1: do they stink? Are they just really unlucky? They seem

708
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:38,440
Speaker 1: very mediocre and they just find ways to lose. Close

709
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:40,440
Speaker 1: to tell me about tell me that loss was unlucky

710
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 1: against Detroit. I think it was a little unlucky hundred yards.

711
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:46,839
Speaker 1: I know, but Greg, look at what every other team

712
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 1: is done to Detroit's defense, and I I kind of

713
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:52,879
Speaker 1: it's hard to adjust to what's happening in Green Bay.

714
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:54,719
Speaker 1: It's hard to adjust to what's happening. The fact that

715
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:57,399
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is not playing very well. It's environmental. It's

716
00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:00,400
Speaker 1: not just that he's lost all his skill, but seems

717
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 1: slightly desisted, disinterested, super miffed. There's bad juju on that team,

718
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 1: and their schedule is brutal. Like you mentioned, I'm with you.

719
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:10,560
Speaker 1: I I will fork the Packers. I feel like an

720
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:13,319
Speaker 1: NFC team though, will be the team that makes us

721
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:17,120
Speaker 1: sweat and probably those charities excited because that seven spot

722
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:20,280
Speaker 1: in the NFC might only require eight or nine wins

723
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:22,600
Speaker 1: and one of these teams. The last time we did this,

724
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:25,279
Speaker 1: there was one less playoff team that got in. So

725
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:27,919
Speaker 1: there is a bigger window for teams to find a way.

726
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 1: The Raiders last year like in a in like we

727
00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:32,279
Speaker 1: did a casual exercise of it. I don't even know.

728
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:35,240
Speaker 1: All right, So now that we're all forking them, they're gone.

729
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:41,279
Speaker 1: Now they're gonna destroy the unanimate, all right? Uh? I

730
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:45,440
Speaker 1: will throw to Mark Sessler for the next nomination. Alright,

731
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 1: I'm forking the Raiders. Smell you later, Do I need

732
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 1: to explain why? Yeah, well that's our podcast. Well okay,

733
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:57,360
Speaker 1: I mean I think they're a giant mess. Uh. They

734
00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:00,839
Speaker 1: to get shut out in this league right now, which

735
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 1: they did against the Saints, and then they get shut

736
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:05,960
Speaker 1: out last week in the second half against the Jaguars,

737
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 1: just to have games given away that way, when like

738
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 1: you should if you're the Raiders, when we like them

739
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks. You have a seventeen nothing

740
00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:15,640
Speaker 1: lead on the Jacksonville Jaguars, another team learning how to

741
00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 1: win with the first year head coach, their first year

742
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:21,280
Speaker 1: head coach, and you cannot run the ball. You cannot

743
00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:25,399
Speaker 1: Derek Carr vanishes, the whole team goes into some sort

744
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 1: of other dimension and scores no points and Davante Adams

745
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:31,520
Speaker 1: has zero yardage in the second half after a great

746
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:34,480
Speaker 1: first half. You're not adjusting, the scheme is not being

747
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:36,400
Speaker 1: picked up. I don't know if it's Derek Carr or

748
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 1: if it's the Raiders or a combination of both. It's

749
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:41,000
Speaker 1: their defense. There's nothing alike. And you're in the A

750
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 1: s C. Which is gonna be a lot harder to

751
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:44,719
Speaker 1: make the playoffs in And are we gonna say they're

752
00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:47,160
Speaker 1: about to go eight and two or something or eight

753
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:49,880
Speaker 1: and one. No, I'm gonna push back on this one

754
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:52,320
Speaker 1: a little bit. I gotta I'm looking at their schedule.

755
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 1: They got the Colts next. You couldn't ask for a

756
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:57,359
Speaker 1: better matchup, so you get your third win there at

757
00:37:57,360 --> 00:37:59,719
Speaker 1: the Broncos. Not afraid of that. They also got the

758
00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 1: st Heelers on the schedule and the Rams, who are

759
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 1: obviously a mess, and I think they'll come up. Um.

760
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:08,520
Speaker 1: So while I'm not huge on the Radar Raiders, I'm

761
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 1: right now I'm not gonna officially cast the Volks. I

762
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:12,680
Speaker 1: want to see where everybody else is. But I look

763
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:14,719
Speaker 1: at their schedule like I still see a path to

764
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:17,680
Speaker 1: them being in the playoff race at the end of

765
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:21,760
Speaker 1: the same they're uh writers for instance for the Athletic

766
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:23,319
Speaker 1: and a lot of people covering the team felt like

767
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:27,280
Speaker 1: that was there into their season. I feel like pushing

768
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:29,399
Speaker 1: back to because they've played one less game, they only

769
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:32,880
Speaker 1: have six losses. Uh, they they need to get wins,

770
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 1: but they have you know, they had their bye week already.

771
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna and they did it last year. That's what's

772
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:42,080
Speaker 1: creeping me out a little bit about them, because like

773
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 1: they were a veteran team last year that we would

774
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:46,320
Speaker 1: have never expected put that in and they got a

775
00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:48,879
Speaker 1: really lucky and all that luck has gone against them

776
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:52,200
Speaker 1: this year. They are owing five now and one score games.

777
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:53,880
Speaker 1: They've been in all these games. Could they get a

778
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:56,879
Speaker 1: little luckier? I'm gonna I'm not gonna force. Ciliana looked

779
00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 1: at me like I was crazy, but I said, you know,

780
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:02,760
Speaker 1: to to blow three seventeen point leads in the league

781
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:05,120
Speaker 1: and set records, you have to have a seventeen point

782
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 1: lead first. So there is there's still the bones of

783
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:10,799
Speaker 1: a team that could go on a run here. I

784
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:12,479
Speaker 1: don't think it's gonna happen, But I also don't feel

785
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:16,840
Speaker 1: strong enough to absolutely remember Forkham. Is no chance mentioned

786
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:18,880
Speaker 1: that this last year and this magical last year that

787
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:20,640
Speaker 1: you're referring to and trying to say it's the same thing.

788
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:23,360
Speaker 1: They were five and two there, two and six, and

789
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:26,960
Speaker 1: they closed their season against the Niners and Chiefs. Yeah,

790
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 1: but are the Chiefs even playing for something there? You know,

791
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,920
Speaker 1: there's there are different things in and play even I

792
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:34,120
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm gonna how about you, Well, it sounds

793
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 1: like it's something I'm kind of torn because when your

794
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 1: quarterback goes in and s there's a lot that I

795
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:40,520
Speaker 1: want to say, you know, if I'm honest, I don't

796
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 1: want to say it here. Obviously there's tons of friction,

797
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:44,799
Speaker 1: and when the person leading your team is speaking like that,

798
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:46,600
Speaker 1: I don't think it ends well for any team. I

799
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:48,680
Speaker 1: don't think that. I don't know if I want to

800
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:50,279
Speaker 1: fork Hm though, because like you said that, the a

801
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:52,640
Speaker 1: f C West is so bizarre to me right now

802
00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:54,839
Speaker 1: that the Raiders could have won that game Week one

803
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 1: against the Chargers. I still think there's a weird thing

804
00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:59,759
Speaker 1: between the Chargers and the Raiders. I still think Raiders

805
00:39:59,840 --> 00:40:02,839
Speaker 1: could potentially win their second matchup, and yeah, they could

806
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:05,399
Speaker 1: beat the Colts, they could beat the Broncos. I don't

807
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 1: know what's going on with the Seahawks. They're way better

808
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:09,680
Speaker 1: than we all thought, but I don't know. I think

809
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:11,799
Speaker 1: at some point the pieces have to click for this team.

810
00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 1: I think maybe just because I had so much hope

811
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:15,560
Speaker 1: for them going into this season, it's really hard for

812
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 1: me to steer away from them. Davante Adams, Derek car

813
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:20,759
Speaker 1: we have to see something between them. I think at

814
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:23,080
Speaker 1: some point, I don't know, maybe you're gonna have to

815
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:27,200
Speaker 1: keep watching the Raiders. Mark. I'm sorry. I mean I

816
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:30,520
Speaker 1: enjoyed the vibrant discussion around that, so good, thank you good.

817
00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:33,919
Speaker 1: How about you? Greg nominated a team? I feel bad

818
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:38,040
Speaker 1: because the Jaguars not being a part of the season

819
00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:41,879
Speaker 1: I think is an under the radar, sad storyline because

820
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:43,719
Speaker 1: I just thought they were going to be in the mix.

821
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:46,400
Speaker 1: I understand. I just thought they were going to be

822
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:49,040
Speaker 1: part of this thing, that the a f C South

823
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:50,719
Speaker 1: was going to be so bad that they would be

824
00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:53,520
Speaker 1: in the mix and be Trevor Lawrence and just be like, oh,

825
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:55,680
Speaker 1: this is nice to have the Jaguars back. It's been

826
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:58,600
Speaker 1: a while, and they're coming off of a win, and

827
00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:00,480
Speaker 1: they are another team that's been in a lot of

828
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:02,919
Speaker 1: one score games like the Raiders, and and lost most

829
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:05,080
Speaker 1: of them, almost all of them until last week against

830
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:07,279
Speaker 1: the Raiders. But I look at their schedule and I

831
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:09,880
Speaker 1: just don't see a path. It's rough. They're at Kansas

832
00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:13,680
Speaker 1: City and they have the Ravens after there by, and

833
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:15,719
Speaker 1: that right there looks like three and eight. They also

834
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 1: have the Titans and the Cowboys, they're they're at the Jets,

835
00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:21,240
Speaker 1: they have the Titans twice, and there's just been nothing

836
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:24,839
Speaker 1: about this team to me that is special. I think

837
00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 1: they're kind of a mediocre team that's been on the

838
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:29,520
Speaker 1: wrong side of variants and they're not that far from

839
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:31,359
Speaker 1: being a five and four team. But it doesn't matter

840
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:33,600
Speaker 1: that they can't get those wins back, and I don't

841
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 1: think they're gonna rally enough with that schedule. They could

842
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:39,160
Speaker 1: lose all their games. I'm looking at their schedule now.

843
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:41,759
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe they beat the Texans. They've been in

844
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:43,799
Speaker 1: the middle. They're like a team where I've been so

845
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:46,440
Speaker 1: wrong every game. I think I've picked wrong when it

846
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:49,200
Speaker 1: comes to the Jaguars every game. They lost to the

847
00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 1: Texans already, so you're right, anything could happen there. Travis

848
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 1: Anatianna is really um he's really stepped up the last

849
00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:58,440
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, so that gives them another kind of

850
00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:00,959
Speaker 1: a real dynamic talent there. And ever, Lawrence did play

851
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:06,960
Speaker 1: well last week, so it's like, you know, like they

852
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 1: have been in close games. I don't I don't know

853
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:12,880
Speaker 1: about this one. The fact that they're playing the Chiefs

854
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:15,680
Speaker 1: in the Ravens next there what really scared me off

855
00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 1: more than anything. And and at some level it's giving

856
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:21,960
Speaker 1: from faith to grave Diggers Titans, and maybe I shouldn't.

857
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:24,399
Speaker 1: You know, if the if the Titans come way back

858
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:27,319
Speaker 1: to the pack, then the Jaguars can can be in

859
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:31,160
Speaker 1: the division mix. But I would for them. I'll do

860
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 1: it as well, because what you said, they had their

861
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:37,719
Speaker 1: chance to be in decent position uh to absorb these

862
00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:40,520
Speaker 1: next two losses most likely, but they kicked away that

863
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:46,319
Speaker 1: opportunity and it's going to be too late. Bridget. They

864
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:49,800
Speaker 1: are flying here, the fork is out and it is sharp.

865
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:52,520
Speaker 1: I will nominate We're like a er mode right now.

866
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 1: We're going to definitely pay for this. I will nominate

867
00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:59,960
Speaker 1: the defending Super Bowl champions Um controversial. It's it's one

868
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:01,520
Speaker 1: of those things. It's kind of like you were saying

869
00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:04,440
Speaker 1: with the Packers, Mark, let's not forget that they kind

870
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:07,920
Speaker 1: of stink um. And it's not the defense's fault, as

871
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:10,640
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey will point out. But the defense hasn't been

872
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 1: great shakes either. I mean they've they've struggled to get

873
00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:17,799
Speaker 1: to the quarterback, they've struggled to cover um. They have

874
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:19,759
Speaker 1: been vulnerable on that side. Of the ball on the

875
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 1: offense is a total mess. Uh. You know, would it

876
00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:25,719
Speaker 1: would it stun you if you learned that Matthew Stafford's

877
00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:28,120
Speaker 1: elbow really was a thing all season? I wouldn't have

878
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:30,960
Speaker 1: stun me. The running game obviously is bad enough that

879
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:33,640
Speaker 1: cam Akers is re entering the mix. You you know

880
00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 1: that the Rams did everything and trying. They were trying

881
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:39,560
Speaker 1: please take our first round picks, and they couldn't pull

882
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:42,760
Speaker 1: off the trades that they felt they needed to save

883
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:45,840
Speaker 1: the season. So now they're just moving forward with what

884
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:48,799
Speaker 1: feels like a broken team. So with the schedule, they

885
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 1: are three and five with the home against the Cardinals,

886
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:56,040
Speaker 1: at Saints at Chiefs home Seahawks over the next four weeks.

887
00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:58,440
Speaker 1: I just this is me going out on a limb,

888
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:01,480
Speaker 1: but I feel like they deserve to be UH put

889
00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:06,400
Speaker 1: on the board for discussion thoughts. I think whoever loses

890
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:08,920
Speaker 1: Sunday between the Rams and Cardinals season is over. I

891
00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 1: think that is a test class. It's a classic fork off.

892
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:16,000
Speaker 1: I love that because both of these teams are kind

893
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 1: of in similar positions where their seasons could end right now.

894
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:22,560
Speaker 1: And I think the Rams, again, like I said a

895
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:25,440
Speaker 1: little bit ago, with UH, I forget who we're talking about.

896
00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 1: When Jalen Ramsey says it's not our fault. Our offense

897
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 1: shouldn't come over and tell us we're gonna need you

898
00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:31,719
Speaker 1: again with a minute and a half or whatever. They

899
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:34,799
Speaker 1: mismanaging the clock. I think there's so much tension, and

900
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:37,839
Speaker 1: I really believe that that interferes with what's going on.

901
00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:40,319
Speaker 1: You can't get people on the same page. And with

902
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:43,000
Speaker 1: so many injuries to their offensive line, I just don't

903
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:44,680
Speaker 1: see them making a comeback. That's for me. It's the

904
00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:48,000
Speaker 1: it's I think they have unfixable problems. They're not alone.

905
00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:50,000
Speaker 1: There are other teams, especially in the NFC, that have

906
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 1: some unfixable problems. But the line has been such a

907
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:56,600
Speaker 1: poisonous scenario and it's uncorked everything they've tried to do.

908
00:44:56,640 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 1: They've scored under fourteen fourteen points are under and four

909
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:02,040
Speaker 1: of their last five games that came against good defenses.

910
00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:05,040
Speaker 1: But the Rams, we knew it didn't matter what defense

911
00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:06,719
Speaker 1: you played, you found your way out of it. And

912
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:09,239
Speaker 1: they had their bye week. Everyone was selling them as

913
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:11,759
Speaker 1: like Sean McVeigh and everyone's gonna go huddle up during

914
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:14,080
Speaker 1: the bye week figure all this out, and they came

915
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:16,520
Speaker 1: out and laid a massive egg against the Niners and

916
00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:20,080
Speaker 1: then lost a terrible, winnable game against the Bucks by

917
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:24,120
Speaker 1: It's sad. You know, my daughter makes this Rams shrine

918
00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:28,760
Speaker 1: every Sunday. She's gotta get she's gotta get her act together. Paraphernalia,

919
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:32,000
Speaker 1: what do you mean working? It worked last year and

920
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:35,960
Speaker 1: so she's sticking with it. It's just it. They don't

921
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:37,799
Speaker 1: pass the eye test, like more than the pack The

922
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:40,319
Speaker 1: Packers seem to me like they're not that bad, but

923
00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:43,719
Speaker 1: they just make mistakes. The Rams are just not a

924
00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:46,799
Speaker 1: good team. Their twenties seven in d v O A uh,

925
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:48,960
Speaker 1: they're one of the worst offenses in the league. At

926
00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:51,120
Speaker 1: no point this season have they looked like anything but

927
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:53,799
Speaker 1: one of the worst offenses in the league. They're only

928
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:56,399
Speaker 1: one game back, and I tend to think they'll win

929
00:45:56,480 --> 00:45:58,040
Speaker 1: this week if I had to pick it, and so

930
00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:01,200
Speaker 1: that they'd be four and five in a muddied NFC,

931
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:03,799
Speaker 1: and they got the coaching staff. I have a hard

932
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:06,399
Speaker 1: time forking them, even though I have no real faith

933
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:09,360
Speaker 1: in them at all. So I'm all right, I hear it,

934
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:10,600
Speaker 1: So you don't want to do it, so let me

935
00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:13,759
Speaker 1: quickly pivot. Then if we're talking about a fork off

936
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:17,640
Speaker 1: on Sunday, I am all in on forking the Arizona Cardinals,

937
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:19,880
Speaker 1: and ahead of time, anybody that listens to the show

938
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:21,680
Speaker 1: knows that I am not a fan of this entire

939
00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:24,800
Speaker 1: regime and the way things are structured every week is

940
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:28,759
Speaker 1: a comedy of errors. How about the Cardinals. Do we

941
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:30,880
Speaker 1: need to wait to see them lose to the Rams? Bridge?

942
00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:32,840
Speaker 1: We we did put you in a tough spot here, Bridget.

943
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:34,040
Speaker 1: Not only do you have to come on, I mean,

944
00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:38,880
Speaker 1: how like we're basically just asking you to be the

945
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:42,080
Speaker 1: most negative possible in the most negative show of the season.

946
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:46,799
Speaker 1: Sunday decides it. Do you want the Cardinals gone? Now?

947
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:51,080
Speaker 1: You you? You don't need to see anymore from the Cardinals.

948
00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:54,200
Speaker 1: They can win Sunday. I could live with the Rams.

949
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:56,719
Speaker 1: I can't live in a world where we still take

950
00:46:56,719 --> 00:46:59,279
Speaker 1: the Cardinals series. I'm with Dan that even if they

951
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:02,080
Speaker 1: win that game, that's a winnable game for the Cardinals.

952
00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:06,200
Speaker 1: I believe what's going on offensively there is so rotten

953
00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:08,960
Speaker 1: to the core, and they have a great quarterback. But

954
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:12,680
Speaker 1: we've seen what their offense is and there's nothing exceptional

955
00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:14,600
Speaker 1: about their team or their defense. It's gonna make up

956
00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:17,880
Speaker 1: for it, whether it's a coach, the defense, and nothing's

957
00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 1: getting it. We don't give them. I'm watching this show.

958
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:25,239
Speaker 1: This is gonna be intriguing. Look, but they like to

959
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:28,320
Speaker 1: your point, they've got two games left against the forty niners.

960
00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:31,399
Speaker 1: Let's say they probably lose both of those. Your three

961
00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:33,560
Speaker 1: and eight, all right, give him the hard knocks theme.

962
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:37,560
Speaker 1: I don't know everybody was plugging it out. I'm surprised,

963
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:39,440
Speaker 1: Like I get why, Like during the season it's a

964
00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:42,040
Speaker 1: it's a heavy lift, but like you don't want to

965
00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 1: see what's going on behind the scenes with this team

966
00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:45,960
Speaker 1: on a little bit good. I want to are they

967
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 1: going to show us Kylie watching film? Like I think

968
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:49,120
Speaker 1: that's all who you want to watch? With the little

969
00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:52,640
Speaker 1: clock on the side. Did Buddha Baker yelling at everybody

970
00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:56,520
Speaker 1: that he's tired of losing two to three weeks. He's

971
00:47:56,560 --> 00:47:58,480
Speaker 1: one of their best players. Their schedule at a point,

972
00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:00,879
Speaker 1: that's how you get tired of losing not be available. Well,

973
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 1: yeah that happened afterwards. Unfortunately, their schedule is one point

974
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:07,120
Speaker 1: in their favor because there they have so many division

975
00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:10,400
Speaker 1: games in at least that's in their control. That the

976
00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:12,640
Speaker 1: best team they play record wise the rest of the

977
00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:15,960
Speaker 1: entire season are the New England Patriots and the Chargers.

978
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:19,680
Speaker 1: So there's two games against the forty niners. You're not sure,

979
00:48:19,719 --> 00:48:23,400
Speaker 1: but that there are four and four team you want.

980
00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that's an easy as schedules go. It's manageable.

981
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:30,719
Speaker 1: But I I'm with Dan, I've just seen enough that

982
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:34,680
Speaker 1: I don't to take them seriously. This is like a

983
00:48:34,719 --> 00:48:36,960
Speaker 1: team I wanted to be fun like last year. I

984
00:48:37,040 --> 00:48:38,560
Speaker 1: liked them a lot, and like this is sort of

985
00:48:38,719 --> 00:48:41,200
Speaker 1: your your You guys were depressed about one of these teams,

986
00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:44,800
Speaker 1: barely watched them live because Mark claims the Cardinals every week,

987
00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 1: I'll do it, I'll do it. I like to be

988
00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:49,040
Speaker 1: daring with this because it's like, what's so bad if

989
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:50,480
Speaker 1: we lose? We have to get to charity. I don't

990
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:52,080
Speaker 1: even know if we did. Last time was a bunch

991
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:58,840
Speaker 1: of talk, but like that's terrible. It was, yeah we did. No,

992
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:01,000
Speaker 1: that's not that. For first of all, if you're listening

993
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:03,760
Speaker 1: to this, that is an absolute narrative and absolutely incorrect.

994
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:06,840
Speaker 1: Well they are listening to this. Otherwise, what are you

995
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:08,880
Speaker 1: saying you went from not knowing what happened because I

996
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:14,080
Speaker 1: was sure that we didn't donate. We certainly it was

997
00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:17,040
Speaker 1: not a team right like Matt like was pushing her

998
00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:20,480
Speaker 1: like championing like was the Los Angeles Food Bank? As

999
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:24,560
Speaker 1: I recall, I don't know what to say. So just

1000
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:28,759
Speaker 1: send your invoice to Mark Sessler. All right, listen to

1001
00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:33,480
Speaker 1: Johnny Bananas Hawthorne drive Johnny, you listener, you try to

1002
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:35,400
Speaker 1: think in your mind if you think Greg is donated

1003
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:39,359
Speaker 1: to anything, just yourself that question. All right, that's rue.

1004
00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:41,480
Speaker 1: I mean I donate, You donate to a lot. That's

1005
00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:44,319
Speaker 1: it's very hot. It's very because because you're bringing it.

1006
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:45,960
Speaker 1: I mean you, I donate to a lot of stuff,

1007
00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:48,759
Speaker 1: so that you shouldn't tell people that well when you're

1008
00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:52,440
Speaker 1: when you're confronted on it. So come down, Britta, do

1009
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:54,439
Speaker 1: you have any of the team you don't have to mind?

1010
00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:57,080
Speaker 1: Was the Texans. So we took care of the texts.

1011
00:49:57,239 --> 00:49:59,880
Speaker 1: We took care of the Texans easily. Anybody else the

1012
00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:03,560
Speaker 1: guys want to throw out there. The Cardinals were on

1013
00:50:03,680 --> 00:50:06,120
Speaker 1: my mind, but yeah, we gotta do the Steelers. I

1014
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:08,200
Speaker 1: think you could. I think you could have put them

1015
00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:13,960
Speaker 1: in the early window. They have some berserker energy, potentially

1016
00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:18,319
Speaker 1: because of Mike Tomlin berserker energy. But the fact that

1017
00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:20,320
Speaker 1: they're in the a f C and we keep eliminating

1018
00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:22,400
Speaker 1: these a f C teams, we we this would already

1019
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:25,319
Speaker 1: be what five gone, which is how we've gotten into

1020
00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:28,920
Speaker 1: trouble in the past. But I we are very certain

1021
00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:32,240
Speaker 1: who's going to the postseason on November eight. I don't

1022
00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:35,520
Speaker 1: see a path to ten wins, and I'm with Mark.

1023
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:36,920
Speaker 1: I think that's what it's going to take in the

1024
00:50:36,960 --> 00:50:39,839
Speaker 1: a f C. How about the Lions, I can't fork them.

1025
00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:45,480
Speaker 1: I'm not forking after aund around the end the song

1026
00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:50,160
Speaker 1: to the Cardinals. What about the Broncos? Can we fork them? Oh?

1027
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:54,880
Speaker 1: I happily would. I kind of would knees on the

1028
00:50:54,920 --> 00:51:01,399
Speaker 1: plane I was ready for. I happily would market. Yes,

1029
00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:04,360
Speaker 1: let's see, let's see. Let's see they have at Titans Wolf,

1030
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:08,680
Speaker 1: I don't know if Tannehill is playing us. Okay, then

1031
00:51:08,719 --> 00:51:14,120
Speaker 1: they got Home Raiders, winnable at Panthers, very winnable at Ravens,

1032
00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:17,560
Speaker 1: tough Ee Chiefs, tough e cards at I mean, I

1033
00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:21,360
Speaker 1: feel like they can get back to that's a little concerning.

1034
00:51:21,640 --> 00:51:23,080
Speaker 1: I don't know. I can't do it. I'm not gonna

1035
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:27,239
Speaker 1: do it. At some point, did we forked the Steelers there?

1036
00:51:27,840 --> 00:51:31,000
Speaker 1: I was fine. I'm just saying, yeah, if we forked

1037
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:33,080
Speaker 1: the Steelers and we've in the a f C for

1038
00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:39,319
Speaker 1: the Steelers, Texans, Jaguars, and Colts, that's not that many

1039
00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:42,239
Speaker 1: for four fields. Fair Like, the Steelers are gonna part

1040
00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:45,240
Speaker 1: ways with their offensive coordinator in about two or three weeks,

1041
00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:47,319
Speaker 1: and the floor is gonna fall out even further from there.

1042
00:51:47,360 --> 00:51:48,960
Speaker 1: A lot of changes are coming and they're not making

1043
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:51,600
Speaker 1: the playoffs. I think the a f C NFC dynamic

1044
00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:53,600
Speaker 1: is real. If you look at the a f C

1045
00:51:53,760 --> 00:51:58,200
Speaker 1: standings right now. For instance, the Colts are tenth place

1046
00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:01,040
Speaker 1: and they're but they're two and a half game is

1047
00:52:01,080 --> 00:52:03,640
Speaker 1: back of the playoff spot, which would be the Chargers

1048
00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:07,640
Speaker 1: right now, and the Dolphins are at six and three,

1049
00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:11,800
Speaker 1: Whereas in the NFC, like two and a half games

1050
00:52:11,840 --> 00:52:14,640
Speaker 1: gets you all the way back to basically the end

1051
00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:17,160
Speaker 1: of the entire conference. Carolina is within two and a

1052
00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:19,480
Speaker 1: half games of the seven spots. So to me, it's

1053
00:52:19,520 --> 00:52:22,719
Speaker 1: too far for the Steelers to catch up. I'm out

1054
00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:27,239
Speaker 1: on the Steelers, okay, yeah, alright, so they're done? Uh Broncos, Yeah,

1055
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:29,760
Speaker 1: I'm not. It was not right of me to suggest

1056
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:32,040
Speaker 1: that you don't donate to things. I know that you do,

1057
00:52:32,200 --> 00:52:37,160
Speaker 1: and you're you're a caring person. So I like it

1058
00:52:37,200 --> 00:52:39,799
Speaker 1: when we find out how Mark really feels during the show,

1059
00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:45,359
Speaker 1: how I really feel on this episode. I just feel

1060
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:46,719
Speaker 1: like I'm gonna get off here and donate right to

1061
00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:50,239
Speaker 1: all Right, anybody else want to throw a team out there?

1062
00:52:50,239 --> 00:52:52,480
Speaker 1: I want to make sure we're not missing anybody. The Commanders.

1063
00:52:53,680 --> 00:52:56,439
Speaker 1: I'm not with Taylor Heide. I don't see another team

1064
00:52:56,520 --> 00:53:01,560
Speaker 1: right now. What about the Saints? Well, right now, the Saints,

1065
00:53:01,719 --> 00:53:04,359
Speaker 1: as you could check it out on the Monday Night

1066
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:07,720
Speaker 1: recap with Jordan Rodrigue and Rose withal they know showed

1067
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:11,400
Speaker 1: on Monday Night. Um, I know the Ravens are a

1068
00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:14,719
Speaker 1: great team, but that was disheartening to say the least,

1069
00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:17,239
Speaker 1: and it makes you think that, uh, even though we

1070
00:53:17,239 --> 00:53:19,279
Speaker 1: were gassing them up a little bit last week and

1071
00:53:19,320 --> 00:53:23,440
Speaker 1: the idea that maybe there's something there, now I'm less confident.

1072
00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:25,440
Speaker 1: I feel like this might be I feel like their

1073
00:53:25,480 --> 00:53:27,960
Speaker 1: only chance now. And this is crazy because I'm not

1074
00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:31,439
Speaker 1: a huge fan of this quarterback. But get Jami's back

1075
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:33,160
Speaker 1: in there and see if it could juice them up.

1076
00:53:33,239 --> 00:53:34,920
Speaker 1: I don't like they're not going to at least this

1077
00:53:35,080 --> 00:53:37,120
Speaker 1: next week. I tend to agree it might be time

1078
00:53:37,160 --> 00:53:41,239
Speaker 1: to switch back. The autnoissance is happening. I don't think

1079
00:53:41,239 --> 00:53:45,760
Speaker 1: it The quarterback position is particularly relevant to their team

1080
00:53:46,080 --> 00:53:48,600
Speaker 1: because to me, I mean, I don't think either one

1081
00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:50,560
Speaker 1: is going to save them, and I don't think either

1082
00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:53,400
Speaker 1: one is their main problem. They have so many problems,

1083
00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:55,440
Speaker 1: and yet I'm not gonna fork them in this division.

1084
00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:57,720
Speaker 1: I am not convinced the Bucks are gonna get it together,

1085
00:53:58,000 --> 00:53:59,920
Speaker 1: and I still think the Saints and Bucks are the

1086
00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:04,920
Speaker 1: two most likely teams to win this division. They do

1087
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:07,520
Speaker 1: have a little more. They have a they have a

1088
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:10,879
Speaker 1: week fifteen tussle with the Feltons. I'm not I don't.

1089
00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:14,760
Speaker 1: I'm not on board necessarily the Saints, but I don't

1090
00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:18,759
Speaker 1: want to work them. I think I think that, and

1091
00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:21,239
Speaker 1: I think their fans have given up. Like I I

1092
00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:24,680
Speaker 1: that doesn't surprise, That doesn't matter, doesn't. I mean, like

1093
00:54:25,320 --> 00:54:27,520
Speaker 1: if they have the Steelers and the Rams, they could

1094
00:54:27,560 --> 00:54:32,399
Speaker 1: be five and six. Yeah, their schedule is favorable. I mean,

1095
00:54:32,400 --> 00:54:34,080
Speaker 1: they're not a good team, but like we're talking about

1096
00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:36,640
Speaker 1: this the worst division we've ever seen one of these

1097
00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:38,839
Speaker 1: teams that we've talked about today, whether we forked them

1098
00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:41,279
Speaker 1: or not, will be awesome in the second half. That's

1099
00:54:41,320 --> 00:54:44,440
Speaker 1: just I mean, no, I mean it's there's no question

1100
00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:47,520
Speaker 1: that that the numbers say more than one will be awesome.

1101
00:54:47,840 --> 00:54:50,120
Speaker 1: Of all the teams we've at least discussed, not necessarily

1102
00:54:50,120 --> 00:54:52,799
Speaker 1: that we forked like. That's how the NFL goes that

1103
00:54:52,840 --> 00:54:55,080
Speaker 1: one or two of these teams will catch absolute fire,

1104
00:54:55,480 --> 00:54:58,680
Speaker 1: even if it's hard to see. Just for my book

1105
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:02,080
Speaker 1: keeping here, before we close, the saga moved to TNF

1106
00:55:02,680 --> 00:55:04,520
Speaker 1: Did we where did we come down on the Raiders?

1107
00:55:04,960 --> 00:55:11,520
Speaker 1: We did not fork because I meant okay, okay, so

1108
00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:14,520
Speaker 1: all right, all right. Well then with that said, as

1109
00:55:14,560 --> 00:55:18,000
Speaker 1: per tradition, fire up the funeral Dirge and I will

1110
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:22,960
Speaker 1: now announce the teams whose seasons are over. Start of

1111
00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:26,239
Speaker 1: the fan bases, and please keep listening to this podcast. Right,

1112
00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:28,239
Speaker 1: we don't know anything. We should just do it like

1113
00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:31,160
Speaker 1: disguised voices, so nobody knows which one of us are

1114
00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:36,600
Speaker 1: working how the Green Bay Packers, the Airs on a Car,

1115
00:55:39,560 --> 00:55:51,560
Speaker 1: the juckson Ville Jackuars, the Peetsburgh's Tellers, the Indianapolis Huston

1116
00:55:51,840 --> 00:55:59,320
Speaker 1: Texans and the Carolina Panthers. So that's one tool tree

1117
00:55:59,760 --> 00:56:05,759
Speaker 1: are five six, seven teams are a lot of teams, right,

1118
00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:10,520
Speaker 1: that's almost a quartile of that's almost a cartile. They're

1119
00:56:10,520 --> 00:56:14,360
Speaker 1: all doomed, you see. I feel like we're going to regret.

1120
00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:19,359
Speaker 1: I think I think we went too hard. Well, this

1121
00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:22,759
Speaker 1: is why I I you're you've been effective at like

1122
00:56:22,840 --> 00:56:26,240
Speaker 1: shaming me into always like, well, the numbers say someone's

1123
00:56:26,239 --> 00:56:28,600
Speaker 1: gonna come back, but I just do it for the show.

1124
00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:30,120
Speaker 1: We are you most worried about it? The teams we

1125
00:56:30,239 --> 00:56:34,719
Speaker 1: just packers. SAME's. I mean, they do have the guy

1126
00:56:34,760 --> 00:56:37,840
Speaker 1: who won the end in that game, but here's what

1127
00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:40,839
Speaker 1: we did he did. Here's the thing about that game.

1128
00:56:40,880 --> 00:56:43,720
Speaker 1: Because you said you thought they've been unlucky. I thought

1129
00:56:44,920 --> 00:56:47,640
Speaker 1: that game was there, the yards were there, the points

1130
00:56:47,640 --> 00:56:51,040
Speaker 1: were there, and Rogers just no showed on like four

1131
00:56:51,160 --> 00:56:54,080
Speaker 1: or five big throws in that game. Is that unlucky

1132
00:56:54,160 --> 00:56:56,359
Speaker 1: or is that him getting older? Is it just like

1133
00:56:56,440 --> 00:56:58,400
Speaker 1: a bad day at the office. I had the final

1134
00:56:58,480 --> 00:57:00,920
Speaker 1: fourth throws. I think also like it's the opposite of

1135
00:57:00,920 --> 00:57:03,080
Speaker 1: what's happening like with two of where he may not

1136
00:57:03,160 --> 00:57:05,279
Speaker 1: be the most accurate pastor on the planet deep. But

1137
00:57:05,320 --> 00:57:08,560
Speaker 1: like your receivers Tyreek Hill or making making, you're making

1138
00:57:08,640 --> 00:57:12,279
Speaker 1: up for it. Like Aaron Rodgers not have that those

1139
00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:15,600
Speaker 1: people around him. And that was another huge play. I

1140
00:57:15,600 --> 00:57:17,560
Speaker 1: thought Rodgers put it right on him. He almost had

1141
00:57:17,560 --> 00:57:19,920
Speaker 1: it and got overturned on review. That stuff happens a

1142
00:57:19,920 --> 00:57:22,840
Speaker 1: lot with it. That's why we've forked him, right. I

1143
00:57:23,320 --> 00:57:27,800
Speaker 1: just think they have too many injuries. Point more, thank you,

1144
00:57:27,920 --> 00:57:31,400
Speaker 1: Zach injuries. Yes, as Bridget says, all right, do we

1145
00:57:31,440 --> 00:57:33,560
Speaker 1: take a break and hit TNF. Let's take a break.

1146
00:57:34,280 --> 00:57:38,680
Speaker 1: We feeling good about the seven. Yeah, we can't change it,

1147
00:57:38,840 --> 00:57:41,479
Speaker 1: but we can't change up the voices and we can't

1148
00:57:41,480 --> 00:57:44,520
Speaker 1: start pointing fingers. That's what would happen in the Packers

1149
00:57:44,600 --> 00:57:47,040
Speaker 1: locker room. We need to stick together. As for Bridget,

1150
00:57:47,120 --> 00:57:49,520
Speaker 1: this is a blood oath and because you came on

1151
00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:53,280
Speaker 1: this particular show, you are responsible and we will take

1152
00:57:53,440 --> 00:57:58,880
Speaker 1: equal play. Once old man McFadden comes on and says

1153
00:57:58,920 --> 00:58:05,200
Speaker 1: your team's name, it's Oliver for you, we'll be right

1154
00:58:05,240 --> 00:58:11,760
Speaker 1: back with a t n F P Alright, here we go,

1155
00:58:11,800 --> 00:58:15,120
Speaker 1: we're back. It's time to hit the first game, Greg,

1156
00:58:16,360 --> 00:58:21,760
Speaker 1: can you believe it? Week ten? Whoa hey, now, uh

1157
00:58:23,160 --> 00:58:28,280
Speaker 1: go so fast. It just goes so fast. It goes fast,

1158
00:58:28,400 --> 00:58:31,240
Speaker 1: It goes fast. Bridget and we have we have a

1159
00:58:31,320 --> 00:58:34,160
Speaker 1: nice matchup here between the Atlanta. It was like my word,

1160
00:58:35,240 --> 00:58:41,080
Speaker 1: my pearls clutch. Al right, here we go Falcons at Panthers.

1161
00:58:41,160 --> 00:58:45,120
Speaker 1: As you said, you have covered the Panthers, you like

1162
00:58:45,240 --> 00:58:49,920
Speaker 1: individuals connected to the team. And yet, and yet this

1163
00:58:50,040 --> 00:58:53,200
Speaker 1: same team gave up forty two consecutive points in their

1164
00:58:53,200 --> 00:58:57,560
Speaker 1: most previous game, their previous game, and the Falcons, Falcons

1165
00:58:57,560 --> 00:59:00,520
Speaker 1: we talked about in another absurd Tuesday segment earlier this season.

1166
00:59:00,840 --> 00:59:05,080
Speaker 1: Kind of spicy, right, frisky. Yeah, so you got a

1167
00:59:05,080 --> 00:59:07,439
Speaker 1: spicy Falcons team and a need to have a game

1168
00:59:07,520 --> 00:59:09,800
Speaker 1: against the Panthers team that's running out. P J Walker

1169
00:59:09,880 --> 00:59:12,440
Speaker 1: offer off the worst game of his life, I would presume,

1170
00:59:12,640 --> 00:59:16,200
Speaker 1: and a reminder. This TNF preview is presented by Prime Video,

1171
00:59:16,320 --> 00:59:21,280
Speaker 1: the new exclusive home for Thursday Night Football. Yes, and

1172
00:59:21,360 --> 00:59:24,439
Speaker 1: Steve Wilkes, the coach, like I mentioned before, UM when

1173
00:59:24,480 --> 00:59:27,000
Speaker 1: asked why he wasn't benching p J Walker, he said,

1174
00:59:27,200 --> 00:59:29,440
Speaker 1: if I went off of everybody having bad games, I

1175
00:59:29,440 --> 00:59:31,880
Speaker 1: could bench everyone. I don't really know. I don't know

1176
00:59:31,920 --> 00:59:33,640
Speaker 1: if you realize what he did there when he said that,

1177
00:59:34,400 --> 00:59:37,680
Speaker 1: um himself so, but they are going to have to

1178
00:59:37,680 --> 00:59:42,040
Speaker 1: staff a field, um so. I I just think that

1179
00:59:42,120 --> 00:59:45,400
Speaker 1: the Panthers, like I mentioned before, the details to Baker

1180
00:59:45,400 --> 00:59:48,480
Speaker 1: Mayfield's contract, I think they're going to keep him out

1181
00:59:48,520 --> 00:59:51,280
Speaker 1: to try and not have to give up good In

1182
00:59:51,320 --> 00:59:53,120
Speaker 1: that game, it was a good That was his best

1183
00:59:53,160 --> 00:59:55,360
Speaker 1: game that he played as a Panther. Just such an

1184
00:59:55,440 --> 00:59:58,240
Speaker 1: unfortunate situation that when it was it was total garbage time.

1185
00:59:58,240 --> 01:00:02,120
Speaker 1: But he quickly brought points to them. The fact becomes

1186
01:00:02,160 --> 01:00:03,720
Speaker 1: the tricky thing, and you want to know what's going

1187
01:00:03,720 --> 01:00:06,840
Speaker 1: on behind the scenes there. But like Baker after on

1188
01:00:06,920 --> 01:00:09,640
Speaker 1: that game, obviously he's he gives him a better chance

1189
01:00:09,680 --> 01:00:11,920
Speaker 1: to win. Is that what ownership in front office was?

1190
01:00:12,080 --> 01:00:14,760
Speaker 1: He alluded to a short week. I do think we

1191
01:00:14,840 --> 01:00:16,960
Speaker 1: see see Sam Donald. I'm with you Dan that this

1192
01:00:17,400 --> 01:00:21,240
Speaker 1: most likely be PG Walkers and yeah after this week,

1193
01:00:21,240 --> 01:00:23,760
Speaker 1: because they're not gonna suit up as Donald healthy. I

1194
01:00:23,800 --> 01:00:25,920
Speaker 1: know they had to take him off I r or

1195
01:00:25,960 --> 01:00:28,640
Speaker 1: the season was over. Is he even capable to be

1196
01:00:28,760 --> 01:00:30,520
Speaker 1: starting a game? I mean, we'll get well. Is he

1197
01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:34,800
Speaker 1: capable to be starting? They dominated the Falcons in that game.

1198
01:00:34,920 --> 01:00:37,640
Speaker 1: I know they ended up losing it, and we've talked

1199
01:00:37,680 --> 01:00:40,680
Speaker 1: about the PJ. Walker greatest play in the history of football,

1200
01:00:40,720 --> 01:00:43,480
Speaker 1: that broke their hearts and they couldn't recover. Now they've

1201
01:00:43,480 --> 01:00:45,160
Speaker 1: had an extra welcome to the middle of the night

1202
01:00:45,200 --> 01:00:47,560
Speaker 1: thinking about it to recover. And that was a game

1203
01:00:47,600 --> 01:00:50,800
Speaker 1: where they physically dominated Atlanta, which not many teams have done.

1204
01:00:50,800 --> 01:00:54,200
Speaker 1: They mostly stopped Atlanta's running game, not totally, but better

1205
01:00:54,240 --> 01:00:57,160
Speaker 1: than most teams. Uh. And they pushed them around when

1206
01:00:57,160 --> 01:01:00,200
Speaker 1: Atlanta tried to pass, and their offense looked awesome in

1207
01:01:00,200 --> 01:01:02,120
Speaker 1: that game. P J. Walker was a little up and down,

1208
01:01:02,160 --> 01:01:04,840
Speaker 1: but guys were getting open. Like for one week, they

1209
01:01:04,880 --> 01:01:06,880
Speaker 1: really made sense, even though they ended up losing the game.

1210
01:01:06,920 --> 01:01:09,160
Speaker 1: I mean the Falcons, if anything, I want to hang

1211
01:01:09,160 --> 01:01:13,520
Speaker 1: my hat on the offensive dv O a fourth when

1212
01:01:13,640 --> 01:01:15,439
Speaker 1: in the run we know they can do that. They're

1213
01:01:15,440 --> 01:01:18,960
Speaker 1: the twenty nine defense and the Panthers are so it's

1214
01:01:19,000 --> 01:01:21,480
Speaker 1: like that that's what happened in that other game. I mean,

1215
01:01:21,760 --> 01:01:24,240
Speaker 1: do I My thing is they so know showed last

1216
01:01:24,240 --> 01:01:27,080
Speaker 1: week um twenty one first downs in the first half

1217
01:01:27,080 --> 01:01:29,920
Speaker 1: to one the Bengals out first down them. I mean,

1218
01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:33,200
Speaker 1: what's going on here? Like that's an absolute disaster and

1219
01:01:33,280 --> 01:01:35,480
Speaker 1: p J Walker, like I was excited for what he

1220
01:01:35,520 --> 01:01:38,320
Speaker 1: was doing and he completely That's also that's this season.

1221
01:01:38,800 --> 01:01:41,200
Speaker 1: Weird stuff happens, and it's a division game on Thursday night,

1222
01:01:41,240 --> 01:01:43,640
Speaker 1: I could see the pants are scoring twenty eight points

1223
01:01:43,680 --> 01:01:46,440
Speaker 1: at home and winning the thing. That's a thing that

1224
01:01:46,520 --> 01:01:50,040
Speaker 1: you can never really count out Panthers at home. I

1225
01:01:50,040 --> 01:01:52,040
Speaker 1: could see them winning two. But I just have a

1226
01:01:52,080 --> 01:01:54,760
Speaker 1: lot more hype on the Falcons, and I think a

1227
01:01:54,800 --> 01:01:56,439
Speaker 1: lot of people do. I was there at training camp

1228
01:01:56,440 --> 01:01:58,760
Speaker 1: and there's something about them that a lot talking to

1229
01:01:59,120 --> 01:02:02,720
Speaker 1: people there, they have pieces and Cordarrell Patterson, he's off

1230
01:02:03,440 --> 01:02:06,880
Speaker 1: difference last week. I think also, what is it like

1231
01:02:07,160 --> 01:02:09,120
Speaker 1: six of nine of their games have been decided by

1232
01:02:09,280 --> 01:02:11,360
Speaker 1: how many points? Four or less? So I think some

1233
01:02:11,400 --> 01:02:14,360
Speaker 1: of those losses could be wins. I think the Panthers

1234
01:02:14,400 --> 01:02:17,560
Speaker 1: have too much going wrong. And how many times have

1235
01:02:17,720 --> 01:02:20,160
Speaker 1: we covered the Panthers over the past couple of seasons

1236
01:02:20,160 --> 01:02:22,360
Speaker 1: where they are in the middle of the pack. Then

1237
01:02:22,360 --> 01:02:24,880
Speaker 1: they get this first rounder that doesn't really maybe a

1238
01:02:24,960 --> 01:02:26,880
Speaker 1: defensive guy, yeah, Brian Burns or someone that makes a

1239
01:02:26,880 --> 01:02:29,640
Speaker 1: big difference. They need the first pick in the draft.

1240
01:02:29,720 --> 01:02:33,120
Speaker 1: They need Bryce you they need a quarterback to turn

1241
01:02:33,120 --> 01:02:38,120
Speaker 1: this around, right, So they could have had justin fields

1242
01:02:38,200 --> 01:02:40,320
Speaker 1: if they wanted, but they chose not to. Well, maybe

1243
01:02:40,320 --> 01:02:42,240
Speaker 1: if they have the I feel like they don't do

1244
01:02:44,320 --> 01:02:46,240
Speaker 1: the sixth or the eighth or the They need the

1245
01:02:46,280 --> 01:02:48,400
Speaker 1: first pick in the draft next year, and I think

1246
01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:51,320
Speaker 1: whether you want. Of course, the coaches saying we're not

1247
01:02:51,320 --> 01:02:53,680
Speaker 1: tanking it, and I'm I don't have any inside knowledge

1248
01:02:53,680 --> 01:02:55,800
Speaker 1: that they're taking it, but I think, why not tak

1249
01:02:56,520 --> 01:02:58,920
Speaker 1: do it in a secret way? Well, that happens all

1250
01:02:58,960 --> 01:03:00,800
Speaker 1: the time, and I want to say this. I'm gonna

1251
01:03:00,800 --> 01:03:03,320
Speaker 1: say two things here. First of all, Greggy, on Sunday,

1252
01:03:03,360 --> 01:03:05,320
Speaker 1: you mentioned that Mariotta was kind of driving your nuts

1253
01:03:05,320 --> 01:03:08,240
Speaker 1: a little bit with his innaccuracy. I'm pulling my hair

1254
01:03:08,280 --> 01:03:11,920
Speaker 1: out watching this game yesterday, and how many throws Mariota

1255
01:03:11,960 --> 01:03:14,400
Speaker 1: misses they win. I mean, we talk about Kyle Pitts.

1256
01:03:14,400 --> 01:03:16,720
Speaker 1: Why doesn't he get used more? Kyle Pitts is open

1257
01:03:17,360 --> 01:03:21,080
Speaker 1: for the game winning touchdown, and it's a seventy three

1258
01:03:21,120 --> 01:03:23,280
Speaker 1: yard touchdown. All Mariota's to do is just put some

1259
01:03:23,320 --> 01:03:26,240
Speaker 1: air under it and let this dynamic young tight end

1260
01:03:26,280 --> 01:03:28,160
Speaker 1: catch it and run to the ends. When he'd blown

1261
01:03:28,160 --> 01:03:32,000
Speaker 1: by the secondary and he aired him aired and overshad

1262
01:03:32,000 --> 01:03:34,040
Speaker 1: by five yards. And that happened over and over in

1263
01:03:34,080 --> 01:03:37,800
Speaker 1: that game. So it's frustrating. And I understand Arthur Smith

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Speaker 1: is not going anywhere because on balance, I think they're

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Speaker 1: building something here, but I cannot. I just struggle to

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Speaker 1: see them running this back with Mariota next year. So Atlanta,

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Speaker 1: I think, is gonna be another team in the market

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Speaker 1: for a quarterback. However, I'm gonna go ahead, you know, Thursday,

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Speaker 1: Thursday night. Dad, he's gonna have a couple of Tito's Dad,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna be relaxing. I haven't done this yet. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if anybody's done this yet, but I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: go ahead and lock up the dirty birds on the

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Speaker 1: road here. There's a fuel goal spread here, which I

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Speaker 1: feels generous to Carolina quite frankly. And I think the

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Speaker 1: Falcons are just a better team. I mean, our record,

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Speaker 1: as brothers are you he it's I think we're undefeated. Um,

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Speaker 1: I think we're like thirteen and two. I mean that's

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Speaker 1: a that's essentially that you're a team in the conference

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Speaker 1: title game with that record. I am locking it up

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Speaker 1: as well because you just get it out of the way.

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01:04:28,320 --> 01:04:30,040
Speaker 1: It's just an easy home run. You get it out

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Speaker 1: of the way. What could go wrong or it, you know,

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01:04:32,760 --> 01:04:35,520
Speaker 1: brings you total agony for three hours, even if they win,

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01:04:35,680 --> 01:04:38,560
Speaker 1: just knowing Mark and it's it's like Island game. And

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01:04:38,600 --> 01:04:40,520
Speaker 1: then we have to come back on Friday and I'll

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01:04:40,840 --> 01:04:44,080
Speaker 1: I'll mention it. But I think, I'm I think this

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Speaker 1: is a good Actually after the charity thing, you know,

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Speaker 1: he's going to come in with that. I thought I

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01:04:47,760 --> 01:04:50,680
Speaker 1: came back around on that and showed my truth cleaned up.

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Speaker 1: At most it was cleaning up. I don't know about

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01:04:53,760 --> 01:04:56,880
Speaker 1: true feelings. It's like a toxic waste. Do you think

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01:04:56,920 --> 01:04:58,680
Speaker 1: that you donate to charity because you've told me that

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01:04:58,680 --> 01:05:01,320
Speaker 1: you do before. I never to We've never talked about

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01:05:02,760 --> 01:05:05,880
Speaker 1: the person that does not share when they donate. He's like,

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01:05:05,960 --> 01:05:12,480
Speaker 1: I must share something with you girls club today. I

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01:05:12,520 --> 01:05:15,200
Speaker 1: don't mean excessively. I don't think this is any of

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Speaker 1: this is true, you know, Bridget, this is this is

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01:05:17,680 --> 01:05:20,160
Speaker 1: a chance you could lock up a game on Thursday night.

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01:05:20,160 --> 01:05:22,040
Speaker 1: It's pretty you know, just get one to know on

1300
01:05:22,080 --> 01:05:25,280
Speaker 1: the season and then you then your looks like official

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01:05:25,320 --> 01:05:28,480
Speaker 1: tabulated standings that a listener compiles, and you'd be in

1302
01:05:28,480 --> 01:05:33,560
Speaker 1: that fabulated stading and forever, and I won't be allowed

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01:05:33,560 --> 01:05:38,360
Speaker 1: back on until I getting locks was wrong. No, that's fine.

1304
01:05:38,680 --> 01:05:41,760
Speaker 1: That let's up the stakes. Yeah if you are if

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01:05:41,760 --> 01:05:44,600
Speaker 1: you lock it up successfully, return on the show. If

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Speaker 1: if the Panthers somehow pull it off, unless you're picking

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01:05:48,200 --> 01:05:52,280
Speaker 1: the Panthers, Um, that's it. It's Bridget's last show. I

1308
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Speaker 1: just think I've been to so many games this year

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Speaker 1: where I thought they were going to go one way

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01:05:56,160 --> 01:06:00,440
Speaker 1: and didn't. Interesting, it's just as tough off like I

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01:06:00,480 --> 01:06:02,480
Speaker 1: was at the Chargers Jaguars game. I was at the

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Speaker 1: Charger Seahawks game maybe to be I kind of think

1313
01:06:05,560 --> 01:06:08,120
Speaker 1: the Falcon's got the Panthers best shot two weeks ago

1314
01:06:08,160 --> 01:06:10,280
Speaker 1: and they managed to win. Anyways, And so I'm with

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Speaker 1: you guys that I think the Falcons will win this game.

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Speaker 1: But it is you know, it's a division game. You

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01:06:14,680 --> 01:06:17,840
Speaker 1: want to join us that I don't. I haven't looked

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01:06:17,840 --> 01:06:19,320
Speaker 1: at the whole slate, so I don't know what I'm

1319
01:06:19,320 --> 01:06:22,120
Speaker 1: gonna do, but I don't need to about this. He

1320
01:06:22,240 --> 01:06:25,320
Speaker 1: came off ire he was practicing today their safety. Who

1321
01:06:25,600 --> 01:06:27,120
Speaker 1: will make a huge difference. I don't think he's gonna

1322
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Speaker 1: play Thursday though that he wouldn't if getting locks was wrong,

1323
01:06:32,840 --> 01:06:35,200
Speaker 1: Like Nick Westling would never be allowed on this show,

1324
01:06:35,320 --> 01:06:38,440
Speaker 1: so you can get locks wrong. Um this is this

1325
01:06:38,480 --> 01:06:41,000
Speaker 1: is a tugboat heat check having a big season right

1326
01:06:41,040 --> 01:06:42,440
Speaker 1: now on the pics and I don't even need to

1327
01:06:42,440 --> 01:06:44,240
Speaker 1: see the rest of the schedule. Okay, I don't want

1328
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Speaker 1: to do it though I'm not. I don't like it.

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Speaker 1: When we're all together, Mark, it's a classic tugboat heat check.

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Speaker 1: It is, it's it's right. Put it, put it right

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Speaker 1: in that folder. Alright. That was the t NAF preview

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Speaker 1: presented by Prime Video. The new era of Thursday Night

1333
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Speaker 1: Football is officially here, and it's only on Prime Video.

1334
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Speaker 1: Let's see all right, you have said it all, Bridget Condon.

1335
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Speaker 1: You can follow Bridget on the old Twitter at Bridge

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Speaker 1: and condent with an underscoredge. I can't get the woman

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Speaker 1: to give me it. She hasn't been on since like

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Speaker 1: two thousand and twelve. She has no Are you guys

1339
01:07:18,160 --> 01:07:20,000
Speaker 1: gonna pay the twenty bucks for the blue check? I

1340
01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:22,560
Speaker 1: think I'll have the company pay for me. Stick it

1341
01:07:22,640 --> 01:07:25,240
Speaker 1: to him. Yeah, exactly. That will be that will be

1342
01:07:25,360 --> 01:07:28,920
Speaker 1: expensed at the very least company you. At some point, though,

1343
01:07:29,120 --> 01:07:31,840
Speaker 1: I won't it become it'll almost be embarrassing to have

1344
01:07:32,000 --> 01:07:34,240
Speaker 1: it right because they know that you're paying. I'm a mark.

1345
01:07:34,640 --> 01:07:36,800
Speaker 1: But yeah, I wonder if that is really a thing.

1346
01:07:36,920 --> 01:07:39,840
Speaker 1: What does that mean? Just like I'm a mark, kind

1347
01:07:39,840 --> 01:07:41,720
Speaker 1: of like you pay to go to your friends party.

1348
01:07:42,040 --> 01:07:44,040
Speaker 1: I thought you were throwing that at me. I mean

1349
01:07:44,120 --> 01:07:46,560
Speaker 1: like you're the guy at the poker table that people

1350
01:07:46,840 --> 01:07:48,959
Speaker 1: see as the one that they could take. I would

1351
01:07:48,960 --> 01:07:51,400
Speaker 1: be honestly, I would have no problem if Twitter just

1352
01:07:51,440 --> 01:07:53,640
Speaker 1: imploded tonight and did not exist anymore, and then I

1353
01:07:53,720 --> 01:07:56,320
Speaker 1: could live with that absolute and justice. Bridget, I realized

1354
01:07:56,320 --> 01:07:59,000
Speaker 1: I had not been following you. I just banged you know.

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01:07:59,040 --> 01:08:00,800
Speaker 1: I was gonna try and mess did you? Yes? Last

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Speaker 1: night I was like having all this anxiety about coming

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Speaker 1: on the show. I'm like, I'm gonna message him and

1358
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Speaker 1: I couldn't even are not open to just to show you,

1359
01:08:08,520 --> 01:08:10,919
Speaker 1: I'm even going to send you my phone number through

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Speaker 1: d M the show that we are. Now. What's this interesting? Though? Mark?

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Speaker 1: The way Bridget's mind work that she wanted to come

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Speaker 1: with that anxiety and find out you know to Dan,

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01:08:20,080 --> 01:08:22,160
Speaker 1: but when she realized she could DM me or you,

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Speaker 1: she was like, NA, they don't really matter. Check your

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01:08:24,520 --> 01:08:29,040
Speaker 1: d didn't we didn't really register as that relevant and

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Speaker 1: make up. Okay, that's one way to bridget you said

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Speaker 1: it all. Thank you so much, Thank you everybody for listening. Yes,

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Speaker 1: check out the Monday Night football recap with Jordan Roderig,

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01:08:39,040 --> 01:08:42,479
Speaker 1: check out our Thursday program coming up, or we preview

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Speaker 1: the rest of week ten. Until then, are you doing justin?

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Speaker 1: Thanks for asking, I'm playing the song don't Oh Tough

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Speaker 1: ending