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Speaker 1: the game that Kirk Cousins maybe played worse than I thought,

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Speaker 1: and Arizon he played fine. Yeah, that pressure got to him.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of pressure on Kirk Cousins last week,

429
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Speaker 1: and they got to be concerned with that lot of injuries.

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Speaker 1: Huge if they get Jordan read back. I mean, I

431
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Speaker 1: think that he is the centerpiece of that offense. He

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Speaker 1: is Cousin's security blanket on many levels. And I I'm

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Speaker 1: with you. Guest wrote a great piece on Carson wentz

434
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Speaker 1: Uh this week about his issues, his many issues. But

435
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Speaker 1: it's it's it's like the Eagles feel like the seasons

436
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Speaker 1: a little bit of a rap. I don't I don't

437
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Speaker 1: quite know where they're going at this point. They've got

438
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Speaker 1: a lot to address in the offseason. I'm gonna give

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Speaker 1: you a little fantasy fantasy corner. I'm going on the corner.

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Speaker 1: Been over here in Awhile picked up a little nugget.

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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz leads the NFL and past attempts over the

442
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Speaker 1: past three weeks, but he ranks twenty four and fantasy output.

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Speaker 1: What's your conclusion. My conclusion is if you think in

444
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Speaker 1: your little fantasy playoffs, which hopefully ends soon enough, that

445
00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:07,520
Speaker 1: you're going anywhere with this guy in your team, nobody's

446
00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:13,879
Speaker 1: starting Carson Wentz. So that's quarter. Listen, this time there

447
00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:16,760
Speaker 1: were no There were no clear homicides on the corner

448
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Speaker 1: this time, which is an upgrade from August. So what

449
00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:22,159
Speaker 1: part of town are you hanging out in? I don't know.

450
00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:24,000
Speaker 1: They need to They dropped me off here in a cab.

451
00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:26,800
Speaker 1: I was blindfolded. They gotta keep they gotta keep working

452
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Speaker 1: with the wins in the off season. They gotta get

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Speaker 1: some weapons, which I'm sure they will. There's been some

454
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Speaker 1: buzz about the Sean Jackson making a Philly return, which ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: Here's the stat Carson wentzas zero touchdowns and seven interceptions

456
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Speaker 1: on downfield throws in his last nine games, so they

457
00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:43,919
Speaker 1: obviously need somebody to stretch the field to help this

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Speaker 1: kid out. So that's keep an eye on, Uh what

459
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Speaker 1: happens next with young Carson Wentz moving on unlocked that

460
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Speaker 1: one up? Oh, I have to pick a lot the showman.

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Speaker 1: This is all. This is all willie nilly to me.

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Speaker 1: You know, you know I don't take it serious. Just

463
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Speaker 1: everyone makes sure everyone knows that I don't take it

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Speaker 1: serious at all. Yeah, you did, you picked it last

465
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Speaker 1: Sunday nights. I'm scaring. I'm now trying to find I

466
00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:15,920
Speaker 1: see right through the Arizona Cardinals at Miami Dolphins. Uh,

467
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Speaker 1: look out for the Cardinals, I say, Greg Rosenthal team

468
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Speaker 1: that uh really was looking like them old they're old

469
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Speaker 1: selves against Washington last week, and then he got the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins on the other side. Uh, you know, big big

471
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Speaker 1: spot for them. Uh, the old Zeus are predicted December swoon.

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Speaker 1: They certainly looked like that in week thirteen. We're gonna

473
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Speaker 1: see more Dolphins suckage this week, I think. So it

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Speaker 1: really shows you how little we believe in the Dolphins

475
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Speaker 1: because it's one of the games that we picked on

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Speaker 1: our NFL pick Them show airing every Saturday eight thirty Eastern,

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Speaker 1: then twelve thirty Eastern, and then one thirty in the

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Speaker 1: morning Eastern. I was told I had the wrong times

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Speaker 1: last week. Week you guys gave me. That explains the rating.

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Speaker 1: You've got to prioritize this show. It's the holiday season.

481
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Speaker 1: It's a nice time to be his children and wives

482
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Speaker 1: and husbands. Ditch them and watch all three episodes. Lock

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Speaker 1: it in all day long. Tell them to go to

484
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Speaker 1: the mall. Yeah, DVR, it's all good. Season. We all picked.

485
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Speaker 1: We all picked the Cardinals, and I don't think we

486
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Speaker 1: need to, you know, stay away from spoiling this game.

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Speaker 1: It's because we want to believe in this card A.

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Speaker 1: We want to believe in this Cardinals team. We we

489
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Speaker 1: see what they did last week and it gets our

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Speaker 1: juices flowing because they were aggressive like they were last year.

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Speaker 1: They blitzed Kirk Cousins like crazy, and for the most

492
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Speaker 1: part at work, they knocked him out of his rhythm.

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Speaker 1: They go for it on fourth down in their own ends.

494
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Speaker 1: They were aggressive offensively, and you're thinking, maybe this team

495
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Speaker 1: is not done yet. The worst part about this when

496
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Speaker 1: we all agree on a game is that we think

497
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Speaker 1: we're always wrong. No, the listeners always think that, like

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Speaker 1: we have strong feelings on it, and we don't. Really.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that the Cardinals are a lock to

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Speaker 1: beat Miami at all. I think this is a pick

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Speaker 1: them game. I think it's a coin flip. I just

502
00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:59,200
Speaker 1: kind of like, like you said that the Cardinals were aggressive.

503
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Speaker 1: They were going for the juggular late in that game.

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00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:04,040
Speaker 1: And if you haven't seen David Johnson's run in the

505
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Speaker 1: middle of the field where he looked like a gazelle

506
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Speaker 1: on snow skis like Kent Summer's, the Arizona Republic said,

507
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Speaker 1: I've never seen a running back slow him down the

508
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Speaker 1: field before. I've never seen a running back make that

509
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Speaker 1: move before. It was incredible. You know, Mark to not

510
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Speaker 1: to go on your corner. But my fantasy season ended

511
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Speaker 1: without a playoff earth because of my Marcus Mariota decision.

512
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Speaker 1: But I will say, well, having David Johnson, that was

513
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Speaker 1: my favorite fantasy season I've ever had from a player.

514
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Speaker 1: What a brilliant year for twelve straight thirteen straight weeks.

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Speaker 1: What a stud And he'll go number one in every

516
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Speaker 1: draft next Yeah, and Miami is the worst, the second

517
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Speaker 1: worst run defense at home of any team in the league.

518
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Speaker 1: So the idea that David Johnson's gonna finally get shut down.

519
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Speaker 1: What He's a hundred plus yards of scrimmage twelve games

520
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Speaker 1: this season. Why doesn't anyone try to treat him the

521
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Speaker 1: way Belichick did with Marshall falk Back and what was

522
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Speaker 1: its Super Bowl thirty six or something. Can't stop this man,

523
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Speaker 1: this can't It'll be interesting to see how the Dolphins

524
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Speaker 1: are bond. I mean, they were overmatched physically. I never

525
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:05,760
Speaker 1: would have seen that coming. I know you you thought

526
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:08,359
Speaker 1: the Dolphins might crash, but thirty eight to six. Whoever

527
00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:10,919
Speaker 1: heard of us a team on a six game winning

528
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:14,520
Speaker 1: streak losing thirty eight to six? And they were pushed

529
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 1: around how current NFL? Why is anything that's surprising? I'm

530
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:21,960
Speaker 1: just being honest, And it was like, none of these

531
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:25,719
Speaker 1: results are that surprising. When I think wins and losses

532
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:28,720
Speaker 1: aren't surprising, beat downs like that where both sides of

533
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:32,000
Speaker 1: the ball were absolutely destroyed, was surprising and maybe it

534
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:35,280
Speaker 1: exposed something. Kiko Alonso's now out in this game, and

535
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:38,520
Speaker 1: their linebackers were so bad as it was in the

536
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Speaker 1: first place. Here's some of their their here their linebackers

537
00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 1: right now, Spencer Pay, singer Mike Hall, and Donald Butler,

538
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:48,360
Speaker 1: who's been on three different teams lately. So you can

539
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:50,480
Speaker 1: you can expose this group. I mean Dan loves this

540
00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:54,960
Speaker 1: because Dan with an ongoing issue with our friend nfl

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Speaker 1: uk hand candas on any of your lists, No, he's

542
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Speaker 1: he's off. He's on your he's not on your I

543
00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 1: don't he's on my positive list. But I mean it's

544
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:05,600
Speaker 1: kind of sticks in my crawl a little bit that

545
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Speaker 1: every time I go up to the third floor, the

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Speaker 1: I t s up there on my keyboard, Uh ran

547
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:13,760
Speaker 1: out of batteries today, and I see not one but

548
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:18,720
Speaker 1: two young two young servants bringing multiple food dishes into

549
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Speaker 1: Henry's office. Yeah, so ridiculous. Well, I don't know what

550
00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:24,919
Speaker 1: to call them. They're where they the guys like the

551
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Speaker 1: greased up, muscle bound guys with just the bow ties on.

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Speaker 1: One was male, one was Female's very well dressed. He's

553
00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 1: not gonna like this. Henry is not gonna like this

554
00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:35,920
Speaker 1: coming up again. I'm just gonna let you know he's

555
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,960
Speaker 1: becoming more and more powerful in this company, and I'm

556
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:41,560
Speaker 1: distancing myself right now. Now, let me tell you something here.

557
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:45,680
Speaker 1: The Dolphins. Who are Hanks team? Uh yeahty six? Who

558
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 1: saw that coming? But the Dolphins, for all their glory run,

559
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:52,120
Speaker 1: weren't really you know, kicking anybody's But during that stretcher

560
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 1: they have some good players they made. Yeah, they have

561
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:55,760
Speaker 1: some nice players, but it wasn't like they were playing

562
00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 1: out of their minds. Uh during that winning streak, they

563
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:00,959
Speaker 1: just are straighten together. Was a nice job by them.

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Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what, Wait a second, I did

565
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 1: it last week. WHOA what's coming here? And I never

566
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 1: looked back. I said the Dolphins in December dung, and

567
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:13,800
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna continue to be dung. And you

568
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:16,400
Speaker 1: know what else, I think you're gonna do it? Well,

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Speaker 1: Greg already said the Carlins are gonna that. I said

570
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 1: the Carlins are gonna way. But I'm gonna lock it up.

571
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:29,960
Speaker 1: Lock it up again. Come at me, Dolphins fans. You

572
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:32,920
Speaker 1: don't want that. I didn't say you were. I didn't

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Speaker 1: know you were gonna lock it up. I locked it up.

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Speaker 1: Can I offer a rejoinder to the fantasy community, Yes

575
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:43,080
Speaker 1: what head out to the core? Yeah, yes, slum it

576
00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:44,960
Speaker 1: out on the corner. Go ahead, let me yell this

577
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:46,720
Speaker 1: from the shop. I thought you're you're in the lab,

578
00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:48,120
Speaker 1: aren't you. You don't need to go to yell this

579
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 1: from the mountain from the building tops for the common

580
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 1: If you would have listened to the Around the NFL

581
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 1: Fantasy preview this summer, you would have drafted David Johnson

582
00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 1: first overall. You group think fantasy community. Oh, we can't

583
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,440
Speaker 1: drill David Jones because he hasn't broken out yet. Give

584
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 1: me a break. He should have been the number one

585
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:06,200
Speaker 1: overall pick in August if you would have if you

586
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:07,720
Speaker 1: would to listen to our podcast to you would have

587
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:14,400
Speaker 1: taken Blake Portals in the third round. That is not true. Um,

588
00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:17,280
Speaker 1: but we didn't get everything right. But definitely David Johnson

589
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:21,120
Speaker 1: is a stunt. Let's move on the Minnesota Vikings. Oh

590
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:28,360
Speaker 1: they are the team. Still almost forgot that was not

591
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:31,480
Speaker 1: the right drop either. Let's face it. Um, well, don't

592
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:33,680
Speaker 1: have any concerns this week. Yeah. I haven't even spoken

593
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:36,960
Speaker 1: to the Vikings. It just feel like, you know, like, well,

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Speaker 1: you know what. Thank you, it's over. Shout out to

595
00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 1: the Vikings Twitter account, who sent out a tweet this

596
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:49,200
Speaker 1: week that said Rosenthal Colan Vikings can still make the playoffs.

597
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:53,600
Speaker 1: Thanks I'm not giving it up on you desperate, desperate

598
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:55,960
Speaker 1: two people that know the truth, but I don't want

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00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:57,680
Speaker 1: to see it. All right, Well, let's talk about the

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00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:01,280
Speaker 1: Vikings for a second here, because they have They had

601
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 1: the best defensive performance I think you could argue by

602
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 1: any team in the NFL all season in a primetime game,

603
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:10,720
Speaker 1: and it just kind of for it was quickly forgotten.

604
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:14,040
Speaker 1: I know they're special teams in their offense, I know,

605
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:16,800
Speaker 1: but it was a special team. I mean, they handed

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00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:19,480
Speaker 1: it to the Cowboys. Don't they get any credit for

607
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 1: absolutely man handling this offense that all we've done all

608
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:26,080
Speaker 1: season is give them credit. I mean, they were more physical.

609
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 1: They essentially gave up ten points on thirteen drives against them.

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00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:32,360
Speaker 1: All of their guys really played well. I think maybe

611
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 1: they were inspired. For Mike zimmer I I really thought,

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00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 1: maybe I'm biased here, Maybe that's a performance you can

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00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 1: build on that we're that good blo touchdowns a game

614
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 1: and that's right, build on it, build on it to wear.

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00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:49,600
Speaker 1: That's the problem. I mean, I I think I appreciate

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Speaker 1: I don't see that that that positive and they did

617
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 1: not difference between other than the Cowboys, who who are

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00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:57,240
Speaker 1: a really good team in the Seahawks. It's like, I

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Speaker 1: don't know anyone. I think the Vikings have offense found

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00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:03,480
Speaker 1: ways to to fall out of these games too. It's

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Speaker 1: just as much that as there is their defense. You're right,

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00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 1: they're gonna beat a team in Jacksonville because Jacksonville. I

623
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Speaker 1: sat through this game last night on game Pass watching them,

624
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 1: and I gotta tell you something. Talk about a team

625
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 1: with zero identity right now. That's that's the number one

626
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:23,840
Speaker 1: reason why coaches are are whisked out utterly on offense.

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00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 1: Zero identity. You've got You've got guys that you didn't

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Speaker 1: even know we're on the roster making catches, leading the

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Speaker 1: team and catches last week. You know it's weird too,

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Speaker 1: and you don't hear about this. Minnesota is ranked third

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Speaker 1: overall defense, Jacksonville the number four ranked defense. In the

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Speaker 1: end of that, part of the tragedy of this season

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Speaker 1: for the Jags is Gus Bradley's defense is coming together.

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00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:48,640
Speaker 1: I know they're not forcing turnovers, but they've been a

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00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:51,280
Speaker 1: very good defense for the last six or seven weeks.

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Speaker 1: And that's all going to be thrown out the window too,

637
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 1: because he's gonna get fired. Yeah, but you know, before

638
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 1: we go and pick the Vikings here, to take a

639
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 1: team that defense that's playing very well and put him

640
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:03,200
Speaker 1: against the Vikings offense that doesn't score points, I wouldn't

641
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 1: assume here the Vikings gonna waltz the victim. It could

642
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:09,400
Speaker 1: play out victory. Looks like every team does against the

643
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 1: Blake Bortles. I wanted to kind of for once not

644
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 1: talk about Blake Bortles during our Jaguars segment. Saw say

645
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 1: Telvin Smith deserves to make the Pro Bowl, and now

646
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 1: I'll talk about Blake Borders because here's what happened in

647
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 1: this game. Down seventeen to ten, with five minutes left

648
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, the Jaguar is called a third

649
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 1: and ten run right down, one touchdown, then the next

650
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 1: possession with two minutes and seventeen seconds left, they punted

651
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 1: on fourth and six and they got the with two

652
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:43,240
Speaker 1: minutes and seventeen They have zero faith in their quarterback. Well,

653
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:45,520
Speaker 1: they're running the ball much more over the last three weeks,

654
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 1: which is a direct reflection of what you just said, right,

655
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:49,680
Speaker 1: And t J. Yelden is not not playing well. There's

656
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 1: a lot of teen is such a just a guy,

657
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:54,480
Speaker 1: He's a jack Blake Bortles is so bad that how

658
00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 1: can you evaluate a player like t J Yelden. How

659
00:33:57,520 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 1: do you know if he's good? I totally agree with

660
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,320
Speaker 1: Telvin Smith. By the way, in the Broncos game, he

661
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 1: had two or three plays that we're amazing. He has

662
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:05,320
Speaker 1: been incredible the second half of the season, and this

663
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 1: defense has kept them in one score games pretty much

664
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,480
Speaker 1: every week. Last week, you know, at the very end

665
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 1: that got away from them. Then Marks finally made some

666
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 1: place too. So they're defense play well. You would expect

667
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:17,200
Speaker 1: this game to be close, and yet I just have

668
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:20,200
Speaker 1: I just have ultimate faith in this Vikings team. I

669
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:23,520
Speaker 1: have ultimate faith in I mean I have ultimate faith.

670
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:25,480
Speaker 1: They've won one game in two. I don't think this

671
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 1: is not scared of this team is done yet or

672
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:30,799
Speaker 1: Neil Sterling. And that's why I think when they go

673
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:34,239
Speaker 1: on the road, I think it's gonna happen. I don't

674
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:41,839
Speaker 1: know where I've gotta ay lock it up. That was

675
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 1: interesting was now he works shopped at he workshopped at

676
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:51,759
Speaker 1: Live and locking up a team against How did that?

677
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 1: How far have the Vikings sunk that we're allowed to

678
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:58,480
Speaker 1: lock up the Vikings again? You know, the men in

679
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:00,880
Speaker 1: the Desert. This isn't exact this than like a blowout

680
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:03,640
Speaker 1: type of By the way, Harrison Harrison Smith not playing

681
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 1: in this game might not be playing the rest of

682
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:08,799
Speaker 1: the year. That's a bad ankle injury. Uh So keep

683
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 1: an eye on that. Let's move on, guys. We've gotta

684
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:12,759
Speaker 1: keep moving, you know why because there's a lot of

685
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:15,720
Speaker 1: football to talk about. Still. The Houston Texans at six

686
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:19,520
Speaker 1: and six, um lot losers are the last two games,

687
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:23,920
Speaker 1: including green Bay last week. Now travel to Indianapolis to

688
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,759
Speaker 1: face the Colts. We all know what happened with the

689
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 1: Colts on Monday night against the Jets. They destroyed New York.

690
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:33,160
Speaker 1: But you would think Houston will put up a bigger fight.

691
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:36,479
Speaker 1: This has big ramifications. Chris Westling in the AFC South,

692
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 1: It has huge ramifications. And I'm looking at this game

693
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 1: wondering if there's a single reason why I should pick

694
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:47,600
Speaker 1: the Texans to win. Can anyone help me out? Their

695
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 1: Their defense is better, you know, significantly than you might.

696
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:55,400
Speaker 1: I'm struggling here, but you know they they've got a

697
00:35:55,400 --> 00:36:00,319
Speaker 1: better team defense, certainly than than the Colts. How about this? No, yeah,

698
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:02,879
Speaker 1: I mean, Cults are not a consistent team, but there's

699
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 1: still at home. If this is in Houston, I would

700
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 1: maybe be able to play that angle up. But on

701
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 1: the road this I mean, remember this game the first time.

702
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:13,160
Speaker 1: The Colts absolutely dominated them for fifty five minutes. One

703
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:16,320
Speaker 1: of the craziest comebacks of the season that that Houston

704
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 1: pulled off, or else they'd really be buried in this division. Yeah,

705
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:22,239
Speaker 1: the Colts really manhandled them in that game, and and

706
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 1: they well, I want to say they deserved to win,

707
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:26,240
Speaker 1: but they outplayed them and then just gave it away.

708
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:29,000
Speaker 1: You know, do you think Bill O'Brien is a good coach?

709
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:32,960
Speaker 1: I think over the not this season, but the two

710
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,920
Speaker 1: previous seasons he did a lot with a little on offense.

711
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:39,920
Speaker 1: He he's had good defensive talent all along. I think

712
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:43,560
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien is certainly someone they should keep around. I

713
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 1: don't think he's a bad coach. They've been They've been

714
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 1: handcuffed by a terrible quarterback situation and at one point

715
00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 1: there were six and three with no J. J. Watt.

716
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:52,799
Speaker 1: I could give him a pass, but he's gonna get

717
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 1: just like the GM and the head coach, they're all

718
00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:58,360
Speaker 1: gonna get flushed out of town of this bast do

719
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:01,719
Speaker 1: you think Jimmy Johnson is a good coach? Yeah, of course.

720
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:04,799
Speaker 1: Jimmy Johnson said the worst thing you can do as

721
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:07,640
Speaker 1: a coach is not admit a mistake, because then you

722
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:11,440
Speaker 1: have to look at it every day. O'Brien refuses to

723
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:13,279
Speaker 1: admit a mistake. I don't know if he has the

724
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:17,840
Speaker 1: choice right camp. He does have a choice. Everybody, everybody

725
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:19,920
Speaker 1: is giving him a pass. He does have a choice.

726
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 1: He's a nice one right, by the way, it isn't

727
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,240
Speaker 1: a nice when we're right about something, since it almost

728
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:27,160
Speaker 1: never happens that when they're six and three and we're

729
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:28,879
Speaker 1: just saying this is the worst team we've ever seen,

730
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:30,480
Speaker 1: and now they've come back to six and six, so

731
00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:33,879
Speaker 1: thank you. The one thing whenever you talk to I mean,

732
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:38,840
Speaker 1: relationships matter more than anything inside the building. And Bill O'Brien,

733
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:41,799
Speaker 1: I don't think he can just necessarily say what we

734
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:44,400
Speaker 1: want him to say about brock Osweidler when there's a

735
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:47,400
Speaker 1: lot more the owner. If the owner is backing, here's

736
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:49,880
Speaker 1: brock Ostwiler. You can't just go rogue as a coach

737
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:52,880
Speaker 1: and say no, this is a huge mistake. It doesn't

738
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:56,160
Speaker 1: work that way. Here's my problem with Bill O'Brien hard

739
00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 1: knocks the summer before this past summer, sat there and

740
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:03,600
Speaker 1: told everyone, nobody respects our quarterbacks. I'm gorm with Brian Hoyer.

741
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 1: It's his job. It took him three quarters in the

742
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:09,720
Speaker 1: season opener to pull his starting quarterback. Then he spent

743
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:13,399
Speaker 1: the entire season vacillating between quarterbacks, and now because they

744
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:16,760
Speaker 1: sunk a windfall into Brock Osweiler, all of a sudden,

745
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:19,040
Speaker 1: he's loyal to his starting quarterback. The only thing, though,

746
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:21,160
Speaker 1: that doesn't connect there is that you're saying if you

747
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 1: don't want to stare at the face of mistake. He

748
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 1: acted too quickly on Brian Hoyer initially last year and

749
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:27,960
Speaker 1: thought he made a mistake, only to learn that he

750
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,040
Speaker 1: acted too quickly in that case, and we were killing

751
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:32,359
Speaker 1: him for pulling Brian Hoyer that quickly by the time

752
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:35,120
Speaker 1: Hoyer came back and played well last It's easy. It's

753
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:37,200
Speaker 1: easy to admit your mistake when you haven't sunk a

754
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:39,000
Speaker 1: bunch of money into it. It's a lot harder when

755
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:42,279
Speaker 1: you say we've got a thirty siza heist. I hear

756
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 1: what you're saying. But the problem is it's not just

757
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:47,799
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien's mistake to own himself if he if he's

758
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 1: going to own it for the whole organization, there needs

759
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:52,160
Speaker 1: to be buying from the owner on down. If the

760
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 1: owner is four days away from saying our quarterback is fine,

761
00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 1: you see the fix that Bill O'Brien is in. Brian's

762
00:38:58,040 --> 00:38:59,879
Speaker 1: got a coach for his job, doesn't have a lot

763
00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:01,880
Speaker 1: of season left here. If they could somehow win this

764
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 1: game the Texans, which I don't, I wonder if they'd

765
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 1: be they have a sweep over the Colts and they

766
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:09,920
Speaker 1: get the Jags and Bengals at home in Houston the

767
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:11,839
Speaker 1: next two weeks. It's they'd be in good shape if

768
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:13,839
Speaker 1: they could win this game. I still wonder how much

769
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:17,440
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien, who met Brock Osweiler the day of the

770
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:20,520
Speaker 1: introductory press conference, how much he even had a role

771
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:24,319
Speaker 1: in the Brock Ostler coming to Houston narrative situation in

772
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 1: the first place. It's just a messy situation there. He

773
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:29,000
Speaker 1: sat there and said, I scouted him. I looked at

774
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:30,640
Speaker 1: every throw and he checks all the box. What's he

775
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 1: supposed to say, Well, I don't think he would have

776
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 1: said I watched every game and every throw if he

777
00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:37,520
Speaker 1: wasn't on board. I think the biggest beneficiary is all

778
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:39,799
Speaker 1: the teams that might shy away from doing the same

779
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:42,760
Speaker 1: thing this offseason with the next version of brock Os Swoidler.

780
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 1: Big big game. Also for Andrew Luck He's you know,

781
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:48,839
Speaker 1: me and him, we've been talking later. He's noticed he's

782
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 1: been climbing up the QB indext. He's like, you know,

783
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 1: you want he could maybe get the NFL Network green room.

784
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:55,600
Speaker 1: He could maybe get up to number one by the

785
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 1: end of the year of the ways website tweeting this

786
00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:01,200
Speaker 1: out about you you know, we need to check in

787
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:04,200
Speaker 1: on the QB index perhaps next week. Let's move on

788
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:08,480
Speaker 1: an interconference matchup here between the San Diego Superchargers, who

789
00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:11,399
Speaker 1: blew their season last week against the Bucks. They're five

790
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:13,240
Speaker 1: and seven, need to win out and get all sorts

791
00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 1: of help most likely now to make the playoffs. They

792
00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:20,120
Speaker 1: travel to Carolina, UH to face the Panthers, who got

793
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:24,880
Speaker 1: whipped and and look bad doing it on Sunday night

794
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:29,759
Speaker 1: against the Seahawks. And you have to wonder, Greg at

795
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: this point, is Caroline is just gonna pack it in

796
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:35,440
Speaker 1: this season? Yeah, this game, you know, we we might

797
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 1: need to catch up a little We're a little behind pace.

798
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 1: I mean, this game has no impact anymore. The Chargers

799
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:43,160
Speaker 1: have no chance to come back. And the most interesting

800
00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:44,640
Speaker 1: thing I think right now is to watch of Cam

801
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:46,919
Speaker 1: Newton how he plays the rest of the year, because

802
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:50,919
Speaker 1: I hate being the sort of Cam Newton criticism guy.

803
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:54,319
Speaker 1: It's one of my favorite what I would be new right,

804
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 1: I'm saying he's one of my favorite players, but he's

805
00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 1: not playing well, and I think it's it's a weird

806
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:01,360
Speaker 1: career when he goes from the m v P to

807
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:03,360
Speaker 1: a guy that no one would make the cases playing

808
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:05,920
Speaker 1: like a top ten quarterback. This yeah, I saw disturbing

809
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:09,279
Speaker 1: nugget in our NFL research packet that Newton is the

810
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:12,879
Speaker 1: first QB to complete fewer than his throws in three

811
00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 1: straight games since a quarterback in two thousand third team

812
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 1: named Josh Freeman Josh Wow. According to Pro Football Focus

813
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:25,960
Speaker 1: is adjusted completion percentage, the three least accurate quarterbacks in

814
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 1: the NFL this year are Colin Kaepernick, Josh McCown and

815
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:31,760
Speaker 1: Cam Newton. Now, I think part of it is they

816
00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 1: guys haven't been making place for him. I think that's legit.

817
00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:37,200
Speaker 1: The offensive line have been making plays either they keep

818
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 1: dropping his interception. They also asked him to make tough throws,

819
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:42,959
Speaker 1: but he's just throwing off his back foot and yep,

820
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 1: wild and high and what he does. Let's track Cam Newton.

821
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:49,279
Speaker 1: Here's another game with not much riding on it, but

822
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 1: we will talk about at the Cincinnati Bengals at four

823
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:55,200
Speaker 1: seven and one travel to Cleveland to face the Browns,

824
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:58,720
Speaker 1: and Mark we were talking about this downstairs. The Browns

825
00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:01,279
Speaker 1: now running out of time to get that that that win,

826
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:05,359
Speaker 1: to avoid infamy. Uh, this to you might be their

827
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:08,359
Speaker 1: last best chance. Oh it might be because after that

828
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:10,799
Speaker 1: you play the Steelers, that's a loss. You go on

829
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:14,319
Speaker 1: the road to to the Texans, which okay, possibly, then

830
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:16,759
Speaker 1: you're home against the Ravens. So you know, you you

831
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:18,600
Speaker 1: would have thought at this point you'd be dealing with

832
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:22,040
Speaker 1: three playoff type A f C North teams. The Bengals

833
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:23,680
Speaker 1: are not that right now. I still don't like the

834
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:26,840
Speaker 1: matchup for Cleveland, and I I understand why they're playing Griffin.

835
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:28,399
Speaker 1: They want to get a look at him, and Hugh

836
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:31,879
Speaker 1: Jackson desperately wants to win. But as a Browns fan,

837
00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:33,800
Speaker 1: and I may not know the Browns fans may disagree

838
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:35,600
Speaker 1: with me. I don't know. I don't understand the same

839
00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:38,359
Speaker 1: way you don't really see Fitzpatrick on the Jets having

840
00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:40,120
Speaker 1: any use at this point for New York. I don't.

841
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 1: I don't see Griffin is the future of the Browns.

842
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 1: I don't know what they're doing. I think maybe, if

843
00:42:44,239 --> 00:42:45,719
Speaker 1: if I had to take a guess at it is

844
00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:49,560
Speaker 1: Hugh and he's emotional and everyone is feeling the pressure now,

845
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:52,360
Speaker 1: he still believes that r G three can be a

846
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:54,839
Speaker 1: guy that can provide a spark and thinks maybe he's

847
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:56,920
Speaker 1: the guy to steal this win. Well, you've been through

848
00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:58,960
Speaker 1: every other quarterback and he was your Week one starter

849
00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:00,960
Speaker 1: that went out by injury. I think that that you

850
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:05,399
Speaker 1: know this is a bad matchup Cincinnati. It's worth noting

851
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 1: in that Week one I think plenty of quarterbacks for

852
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 1: Cleveland have had better starting weeks than r G three

853
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:13,120
Speaker 1: did in Week one. We have no reason to believe

854
00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 1: that r G three is a good quarterback, nor do

855
00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:16,840
Speaker 1: we have any reason to believe he can stay healthy

856
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:20,239
Speaker 1: for four quarters of a football game. And one note

857
00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:23,520
Speaker 1: on the Bengals. They benched UH two thousand for fifteen

858
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:26,080
Speaker 1: first round right tackle Cedric A. Buller and for the

859
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:29,000
Speaker 1: first time oh year did not allow a sack. A

860
00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:31,400
Speaker 1: real optimist could point that. Let me you know, no

861
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:34,279
Speaker 1: A J. Green. Here, you get Tyler Boyd, who looked

862
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:36,759
Speaker 1: good the last few weeks. Maybe Cody Core becomes something.

863
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:38,759
Speaker 1: You know, maybe you build up something in these last

864
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:42,080
Speaker 1: few weeks, get them something. I think Tyler Eifert will

865
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:44,120
Speaker 1: blow up. One quick note, I talked to our friend

866
00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:48,319
Speaker 1: Peter Schraeger from Good Morning for listens to the show. Well,

867
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:49,920
Speaker 1: he listens to the show, and he remembered that you

868
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:52,239
Speaker 1: mentioned in a couple of shows ago Greg, but he

869
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:55,319
Speaker 1: was down on the Bengals sideline and he said that

870
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:57,040
Speaker 1: you get it. You get a different perspective of some

871
00:43:57,080 --> 00:43:59,040
Speaker 1: of the players down there. He talked he saw Vante's

872
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:01,280
Speaker 1: perfect and said that it was the most disruptive player

873
00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:05,040
Speaker 1: that he's maybe ever seen in person na game. Last week,

874
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:10,560
Speaker 1: Perfect come back to us, WHOA what is that? Vontes

875
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:15,120
Speaker 1: Berck had a pretty good game. Interesting little shot. Even

876
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:19,080
Speaker 1: four quarters of Vontes Bervick wasn't even close to what

877
00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:22,439
Speaker 1: Justin Houston did in one quarter at Denver. Well, he said,

878
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:25,239
Speaker 1: paid West West. He said of games he's been to

879
00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 1: in person so you know, in context, my friends Fair

880
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:31,360
Speaker 1: and Peter is doing a great jobs. I mean, you know,

881
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 1: you know, you try to help a friend out and

882
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:36,200
Speaker 1: West just pulls out the knives in the axe, he

883
00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:41,440
Speaker 1: said of games he's seen in person. Apologies Peter Schreger,

884
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:43,120
Speaker 1: who was a heck of a nice guy and good

885
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:47,640
Speaker 1: at his job. Let's move on the Chicago back pedaling.

886
00:44:47,680 --> 00:44:51,840
Speaker 1: They're like Peter, I don't want to get on his bandside.

887
00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:58,359
Speaker 1: I like him. Um, he's a vengeful man. Well now

888
00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:01,120
Speaker 1: now you're casting a spursion on his carroc Notice how

889
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:03,960
Speaker 1: any of the enemies that ever propped up around Trego's

890
00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:06,960
Speaker 1: life have disappeared. He doesn't like to be called Trego either.

891
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:09,799
Speaker 1: And the authorities they don't even like look into because

892
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:12,640
Speaker 1: they know they they the authorities are not strong enough

893
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:14,439
Speaker 1: as a group to deal with that. Remember the other

894
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:17,120
Speaker 1: original cast member of Good Morning Football who wore a

895
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:19,200
Speaker 1: lot of sweaters? Would he? Where where is that guy?

896
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:24,480
Speaker 1: Guy's gone? That guy's in the meadow lands underneath. Let's

897
00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:28,200
Speaker 1: move on. The Chicago Bears are three and nine and

898
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:30,840
Speaker 1: uh they stink. And now they travel to Detroit to

899
00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:33,960
Speaker 1: face the Lions. Look out the Lions after a really

900
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:37,960
Speaker 1: nice effort in uh taking down the Saints at the

901
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:42,240
Speaker 1: Superdome or eight and four leading the NFC North, and uh,

902
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:45,000
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, Chris Wesley, is it time to

903
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:50,240
Speaker 1: believe at Motown? I think it is. And the reason

904
00:45:50,320 --> 00:45:54,560
Speaker 1: why is Tarall Austin's defense. Would you believe that the

905
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:56,879
Speaker 1: Seahawks have allowed more points over the last six weeks

906
00:45:56,880 --> 00:46:01,080
Speaker 1: than the Detroit Lions. Wow, the have not allowed more

907
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:03,919
Speaker 1: than twenty points in a game since mid October. Played

908
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:07,000
Speaker 1: a lot of bad defenses, but then they played New

909
00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:08,759
Speaker 1: Orleans and that kind of takes that away. Well, I

910
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:11,920
Speaker 1: think it's fair to doubt. Okay, you stopped the Blake Bortles,

911
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:15,720
Speaker 1: you stopped Brockoswhiler, you stopped the Minnesota Vikings offense twice,

912
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:18,600
Speaker 1: and now you stopped the Saints, So that gives it

913
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:21,080
Speaker 1: some legitimacy. I think so too. And but it's like, Okay,

914
00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:23,879
Speaker 1: you played some bad offenses, but what what we were

915
00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:27,640
Speaker 1: thinking about Detroit's defense two months ago was an utter disaster.

916
00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:30,960
Speaker 1: They have a legitimate playoff chance, you know, maybe even

917
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:33,040
Speaker 1: a bye because of their defense, not just their offense.

918
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:35,640
Speaker 1: And it was I thought Matthew Stafford last week watching

919
00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:38,319
Speaker 1: that Saints game. So many of the things that made

920
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:41,040
Speaker 1: him such a frustrating quarterback to watch in the past

921
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:44,000
Speaker 1: are gone. And Golden Tate. I don't know if it's

922
00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:45,920
Speaker 1: you've got to not have Marvin Jones on the field,

923
00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 1: but Golden Tate did some incredible things. That one catch

924
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:53,239
Speaker 1: against Delvin bro Is he leaves the league in yards

925
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:55,160
Speaker 1: after the catch, which he seems to do that every

926
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:57,959
Speaker 1: well on the ball about just based on the first

927
00:46:57,960 --> 00:47:02,880
Speaker 1: four weeks of the seasons league in uh, being pleased

928
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:05,600
Speaker 1: with himself after everybody I saw that that look, that

929
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:09,520
Speaker 1: look that he has, Like, yep, I'm awesome. It's weird

930
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:13,120
Speaker 1: because Stafford this season, everyone always uses a you know,

931
00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:16,280
Speaker 1: the thing they don't say about him is his underrated athleticism.

932
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:18,399
Speaker 1: They basically, you know, announcers say that about every white

933
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:21,239
Speaker 1: quarterback basically in the league. But I think that Stafford

934
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:25,440
Speaker 1: truly does have underrated running skills. He's running better and

935
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:28,680
Speaker 1: he makes so many plays running away. It's He's ranked

936
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:32,600
Speaker 1: as the fifth best or most valuable running quarterback in

937
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:37,000
Speaker 1: the league according to QBR. Give I know we love

938
00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:40,200
Speaker 1: Do you like Cooter? I love that Couter always have

939
00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:42,480
Speaker 1: you know, Bill Walsh in the seventies when he was

940
00:47:42,560 --> 00:47:44,560
Speaker 1: with the Bengals. You can see this in my long

941
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:49,799
Speaker 1: form NFL dot com slash Ohio River offense says, when

942
00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:51,719
Speaker 1: you gain four yards on the ground against the D,

943
00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:54,239
Speaker 1: they think you're kicking their ass. When you gain four

944
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:56,719
Speaker 1: yards in the passing game against the D, they think

945
00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:59,480
Speaker 1: they're kicking your ass. Four yards is four yards. They'll

946
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:02,279
Speaker 1: take it anyway, get it, and Jim Bob Cooter is

947
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:04,919
Speaker 1: the logical extension of that. He has such a wide

948
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:08,640
Speaker 1: variety of passing formations and calls designed to get four

949
00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:11,319
Speaker 1: to eight yards. It's the substitute for the running game,

950
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:13,319
Speaker 1: and it's one of the reasons why Stafford's having such

951
00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:15,640
Speaker 1: a great year. Hit it go ahead. It's kind of

952
00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:19,120
Speaker 1: like the Ravens. They have a really strong armed quarterback

953
00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:22,160
Speaker 1: with a horizontal offense, and we don't like it because

954
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:23,799
Speaker 1: it doesn't work for the Ravens, but it works for

955
00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 1: the Lions. It does. I mean T. J. Jones. He

956
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:29,120
Speaker 1: was hitting on these quick sideline routes. And this is

957
00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:33,480
Speaker 1: a team that has not had a hundred yards rushing

958
00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:37,480
Speaker 1: in ten consecutive games, which is the longest Lions franchise

959
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:42,319
Speaker 1: record going back to but it doesn't really matter if

960
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:45,640
Speaker 1: you're finding a way to essentially mask that with this

961
00:48:45,719 --> 00:48:47,799
Speaker 1: kind of past, and they're they're a tough defense to

962
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:51,000
Speaker 1: think on defense that they're really that exciting because they're

963
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:54,000
Speaker 1: big time players. You know, Darius slay Is is good,

964
00:48:54,040 --> 00:48:56,399
Speaker 1: but you know Zeke Goans has had a quietyear playing

965
00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:59,080
Speaker 1: a little better tackle. But one of the reasons why

966
00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:01,640
Speaker 1: you don't know any of them. They had ten different

967
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:05,200
Speaker 1: defensive linemen last week. Get ten snaps in that game.

968
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 1: Who has a ten man rotate? No wonder, you don't know.

969
00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:09,560
Speaker 1: And even because they're all just in and out for

970
00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:13,120
Speaker 1: fifteen twenty plays, but it really works like two cowboys

971
00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:15,279
Speaker 1: talking about Jeerge. I mean, Jimmy Johnson used to have

972
00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:18,000
Speaker 1: his waves of defensive lineman. But ten they did lose

973
00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:20,840
Speaker 1: to the Bears. It's worth noting in week four that happened.

974
00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:25,280
Speaker 1: And yet we'll head into the third week of December

975
00:49:25,280 --> 00:49:29,440
Speaker 1: barring a catastrophe. Browns nine and four. Yes, I just

976
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:31,759
Speaker 1: wanted to jump in here about halfway through, and we

977
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:34,880
Speaker 1: have not mentioned our lovely sponsors Terrible. I thought you

978
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:37,680
Speaker 1: were going to lock it up. Maybe Sydney would have

979
00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:41,600
Speaker 1: been something ziggy as is gonna finally get his first year.

980
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:44,760
Speaker 1: I locked things up and it dooms an entire season

981
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:48,120
Speaker 1: for a player. So thank you, Thank you for the reminder.

982
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:52,440
Speaker 1: Mr Flames, Economics class in the Hague, the Netherlands your

983
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:57,279
Speaker 1: source for all the economics needs you meet need in

984
00:49:57,360 --> 00:50:10,359
Speaker 1: that part of the country. Let's move on all your

985
00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:12,919
Speaker 1: economic needs and that part of the country. I think

986
00:50:13,520 --> 00:50:14,960
Speaker 1: you know Mr f is gonna be thrilled with that.

987
00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:17,520
Speaker 1: He's also more global with his website. Would you find

988
00:50:17,560 --> 00:50:21,040
Speaker 1: that Flame class dot net? I think honestly, uh. He

989
00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:23,600
Speaker 1: mentioned that his hits on his website have gone up

990
00:50:23,640 --> 00:50:25,960
Speaker 1: to such a degree that I think it's the kind

991
00:50:25,960 --> 00:50:27,880
Speaker 1: of thing that like government sources will look at. It

992
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:30,000
Speaker 1: looks like it's a cover or a shell operation for

993
00:50:30,080 --> 00:50:34,160
Speaker 1: something very nefarious when suddenly this random high school economics

994
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:37,880
Speaker 1: class blows up hits. Wise, you shouldn't need your economics

995
00:50:37,920 --> 00:50:41,319
Speaker 1: class to need some kind of shell operation to get

996
00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:45,359
Speaker 1: you more money. Well that's what economics. Money is made

997
00:50:45,360 --> 00:50:48,759
Speaker 1: through shell operations, and that's why you should sign up

998
00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:53,400
Speaker 1: for Mr Flames Economics class in the Hague, the Netherlands

999
00:50:55,040 --> 00:50:58,799
Speaker 1: for all your needs. I just like this is a

1000
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:04,680
Speaker 1: transition in the Lake games onto the late games. The

1001
00:51:04,680 --> 00:51:06,799
Speaker 1: New York Jets are three and nine. They stink, we

1002
00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:09,279
Speaker 1: all know it. They head to San Francisco to face

1003
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:13,640
Speaker 1: the Niners, who have not won since um, Monday night

1004
00:51:13,760 --> 00:51:16,920
Speaker 1: of the first week of the season, one and eleven. So, uh,

1005
00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:19,800
Speaker 1: this is a stinker of a matchup, Greg, Uh, here's

1006
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:22,360
Speaker 1: my concern. Well, I'm I'm I'm a little you know,

1007
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:26,640
Speaker 1: torn as a Jet fan because I want Bryce Petty

1008
00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:28,560
Speaker 1: to have a nice game in the second start of

1009
00:51:28,600 --> 00:51:30,160
Speaker 1: the season. But I also would like the Jets to

1010
00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:32,840
Speaker 1: lose at this point and sneak. What an indignity to

1011
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:35,319
Speaker 1: lose to thet I don't care about that. What does

1012
00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:40,279
Speaker 1: it game me to win at this point? For a

1013
00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:43,080
Speaker 1: little bit of recent Jets history of people may have forgotten,

1014
00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:45,520
Speaker 1: the Jets are all lined up to get either Marcus

1015
00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:49,600
Speaker 1: Mariotta or Jamis Winston a few years back too meaningless

1016
00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:52,920
Speaker 1: December games at the end of the season. That thank you,

1017
00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:56,360
Speaker 1: Rex Ryan, Yeah, that's the final his final f you

1018
00:51:56,480 --> 00:51:59,120
Speaker 1: to John Iszi. That's a great call. I'm surprised. So

1019
00:51:59,160 --> 00:52:00,640
Speaker 1: I don't want to do that a get Yeah, No,

1020
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:02,799
Speaker 1: that makes sense. This Jets team. It doesn't matter. Bryce

1021
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:05,920
Speaker 1: Petty doesn't look good. Nick Mingolds shut down for the season.

1022
00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:09,680
Speaker 1: It sounds like and uh, the one thing, the one

1023
00:52:09,719 --> 00:52:13,799
Speaker 1: thing I'm interested in is it's not just Rivus and

1024
00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:16,080
Speaker 1: and some of the older player Mohammed Wilkerson has had

1025
00:52:16,080 --> 00:52:18,759
Speaker 1: a disastrous here, and Sheldon Richardson has had a disastrous year.

1026
00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:22,280
Speaker 1: Or he's a guy last week that that that didn't

1027
00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:23,680
Speaker 1: even play in the second half of that game. So

1028
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:27,239
Speaker 1: I'm wondering about their future. I think Wilkerson I don't

1029
00:52:27,239 --> 00:52:29,919
Speaker 1: know if he's ever been right physically after the broken leg,

1030
00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:33,000
Speaker 1: and also has had some attitude issues. Richardson, I don't

1031
00:52:33,040 --> 00:52:35,400
Speaker 1: think he's gonna be back. I don't he's on the

1032
00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:38,160
Speaker 1: trade market. I think it's amazing. You had the deepest,

1033
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:41,719
Speaker 1: most ferocious defensive line for years in football, and now

1034
00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:44,839
Speaker 1: one by one these guys are vanishing. I'm gonna question

1035
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:49,000
Speaker 1: Len Williams though having lear Williams making the leap cauntidate

1036
00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:51,120
Speaker 1: actually came throw. That's true, but you need more than

1037
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:53,799
Speaker 1: one person along the defense. Just ask the Lions. They

1038
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:57,200
Speaker 1: have ten of them. What were you gonna say, Oh,

1039
00:52:57,239 --> 00:52:58,920
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask this question. I feel like I've

1040
00:52:58,920 --> 00:53:00,279
Speaker 1: asked us with the Jets with a pull in a

1041
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:03,560
Speaker 1: couple of different situations. I I just don't like love

1042
00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:05,880
Speaker 1: the way they're built right now? Sorry, Dan, but would

1043
00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:09,400
Speaker 1: you rather from scratch you can have the Niners roster

1044
00:53:09,680 --> 00:53:14,279
Speaker 1: or the week game? Well, could you always say absolutely not,

1045
00:53:14,280 --> 00:53:16,400
Speaker 1: I'll take the Jets roster. Could you always name like

1046
00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:18,239
Speaker 1: the worst team in the league whenever you do this,

1047
00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:20,120
Speaker 1: I think I'd have to take the Jets. I take

1048
00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:23,080
Speaker 1: the Jets Jet. I think the forty Niners might be

1049
00:53:23,160 --> 00:53:25,879
Speaker 1: thirty two out of thirty two in that department, worse

1050
00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:29,440
Speaker 1: than the Browns. Yep, I don't know about that. You

1051
00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:31,440
Speaker 1: got I know Joe Thomas is getting up there. But

1052
00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:34,600
Speaker 1: you got Joe Thomas, Corey Coleman, Terrell Prior. You know

1053
00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:40,240
Speaker 1: you've got some running backs? Yeah, I mean that Boddy Calhoun.

1054
00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:42,960
Speaker 1: Here's players I like I like on the Jets, Brandon Marshall,

1055
00:53:43,120 --> 00:53:49,880
Speaker 1: Quincy and Noon, Leonard Williams, Eric, Eric deckerd uh Well, Wilkerson,

1056
00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:54,759
Speaker 1: Sheldon Richardson. Alright, what are you like this or or

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Speaker 1: the core of your team right now? What are the

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00:53:56,520 --> 00:53:58,759
Speaker 1: Niners have some pieces, a lot of holes, but some

1059
00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:04,520
Speaker 1: pieces seriously term the Niners. That was a disaster. They

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00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:08,000
Speaker 1: they they handled the Jim Harbaugh thing terribly and it

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00:54:08,040 --> 00:54:10,719
Speaker 1: seems like the football gods have smited them ever since.

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00:54:11,160 --> 00:54:12,680
Speaker 1: And I don't think they're close to out of the woods.

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00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:16,600
Speaker 1: Is this the tank bull m I mean Bryce Patty

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00:54:16,680 --> 00:54:19,160
Speaker 1: starting for one team and then the other team. One

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00:54:19,160 --> 00:54:21,400
Speaker 1: of the best all around football writers in the country

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00:54:21,920 --> 00:54:24,200
Speaker 1: sent Greg and I message asking if we thought the

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00:54:24,239 --> 00:54:29,640
Speaker 1: forty Niners tank last week in Chicago. They're punting and

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00:54:29,880 --> 00:54:32,640
Speaker 1: decision making. It was like a team almost China. But

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00:54:32,680 --> 00:54:35,799
Speaker 1: who who? On whose orders? Chip Kelly's not asking chim

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00:54:35,840 --> 00:54:38,680
Speaker 1: Kelly's not coming back? Was I think that a few

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00:54:38,719 --> 00:54:41,560
Speaker 1: players I've seen. That's a big grenades a lot by

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00:54:41,600 --> 00:54:43,840
Speaker 1: the team. I just don't think Kaepernick's a snow quarterback.

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00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:47,520
Speaker 1: I don't think they're tanking. But nine are much better

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00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:50,719
Speaker 1: at home than Let's let's move on, maybe not much,

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00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:53,480
Speaker 1: let's try to find some relevance on the schedule. The

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00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:56,880
Speaker 1: five and seven Saints, who you know, they had it,

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00:54:56,920 --> 00:54:59,320
Speaker 1: They had the season in their hands at home against

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00:54:59,320 --> 00:55:01,359
Speaker 1: Detroit and let it slip away. So now they're in deep,

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00:55:01,360 --> 00:55:04,560
Speaker 1: deep trouble at five and seven, they travel to Tampa

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00:55:04,600 --> 00:55:06,680
Speaker 1: to face the Bucks, and you know the Bucks are

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00:55:06,760 --> 00:55:09,680
Speaker 1: now everybody's Darling Mark Sessler at seven and five. But

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00:55:09,719 --> 00:55:11,680
Speaker 1: are they gonna Are they gonna kind of come down

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00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:13,680
Speaker 1: to earth and make everybody seem silly for getting so

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00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:16,120
Speaker 1: excited about him in the last couple of weeks. I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't think this is last year's Tampa Bay team

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00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:20,960
Speaker 1: in that way where they got up into the NFC

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Speaker 1: Wild Cards standings. I don't. I don't see that at all.

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00:55:24,120 --> 00:55:27,399
Speaker 1: I think Winston's really over the last month been a

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00:55:27,440 --> 00:55:31,520
Speaker 1: phenomenal quarterback. And if there there's one player that I'm

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Speaker 1: watching and if he's healthy and he comes back, and

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00:55:33,800 --> 00:55:36,960
Speaker 1: it's Charles Simms, and it allows that running game to

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Speaker 1: be more versatile. You know, Dirk Cotter came out and

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00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:41,279
Speaker 1: called that that ground game out this week. I think

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00:55:41,320 --> 00:55:44,239
Speaker 1: he's that it's not what they had last year. So

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00:55:44,280 --> 00:55:47,000
Speaker 1: to see Winston playing the way is without Doug Martin

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00:55:47,040 --> 00:55:49,919
Speaker 1: being Doug Martin, without Charles Sims in the lineup that

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Speaker 1: I I you know, you get him back and you

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00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:54,200
Speaker 1: have Mike Evans, this this team is not gonna crumble

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Speaker 1: at home. I'd be concerned if it were in New Orleans,

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Speaker 1: but not at home. Well, Doug Martin didn't seem to

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Speaker 1: be healthy at the end of the game. They're talking

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Speaker 1: up to Quiz Rodgers getting a bigger role this week.

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Speaker 1: I don't see the Buccaneers making noise making the playoffs

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00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:11,799
Speaker 1: without a Doug Martin being Doug Martin like maybe they

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00:56:11,960 --> 00:56:13,839
Speaker 1: if they, if they, if they go too and two

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Speaker 1: down the stretch and go nine and seven, that is

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00:56:15,440 --> 00:56:18,040
Speaker 1: a huge victory for this organization this year. Even if

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Speaker 1: they go one and three and they've they finished eight

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00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:23,359
Speaker 1: and a. To me, the expectations they've already exceeded exact. Well,

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Speaker 1: you've got that if you're the Bucks, You've got the

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Speaker 1: Saints game, You've got the Cowboys, then you I don't

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Speaker 1: like when they do this. You've got the Saints again, yawn,

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00:56:30,280 --> 00:56:32,120
Speaker 1: and then um, then you got the Panthers to close

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00:56:32,160 --> 00:56:34,359
Speaker 1: it out. About three games right there that you could

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00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:36,359
Speaker 1: if you're the better, if you're the team people think

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00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:39,080
Speaker 1: you are, you win those three games. Here is a

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00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:42,680
Speaker 1: big stat that explains their turn partly explains their turnaround

1118
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Speaker 1: for the Media Guide. The Buccaneers have a plus twelve

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00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:47,960
Speaker 1: turnover differentials this week. Five that's the best in the

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Speaker 1: league in the first four weeks, negative nine, which is

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Speaker 1: thirty first league. So they completely turned that on. I

1122
00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:55,920
Speaker 1: think you'd see most worms in the league flip their

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00:56:55,960 --> 00:56:58,480
Speaker 1: win loss to some degree when you see that kind

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00:56:58,520 --> 00:57:01,040
Speaker 1: of a turnover split. Well, that game flipped on a

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00:57:01,080 --> 00:57:05,960
Speaker 1: bad call when Hard Graves absolutely interfered with Tyrelle Williams

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Speaker 1: on Lavante David's pick six, and they got away with

1127
00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:10,360
Speaker 1: a game, game changing call. And they got away with

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Speaker 1: a drop from Travis Benjamin on one of the best

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00:57:12,520 --> 00:57:14,520
Speaker 1: throws of the year by Philip Rivers that have been

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00:57:14,560 --> 00:57:16,840
Speaker 1: an eight yard touchdown, a little bit of luck. But

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00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:19,560
Speaker 1: I think the turnovers, you have to give Mike Smith

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00:57:19,600 --> 00:57:22,120
Speaker 1: some credit, their defensive coordinator. That's what he did in

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00:57:22,160 --> 00:57:25,400
Speaker 1: Atlanta to they always forced turnovers. It's kind of playing

1134
00:57:25,400 --> 00:57:28,200
Speaker 1: that safe defense, that old bear style, and it's working.

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Speaker 1: And let's give a little credit to Mark Ortega's boy.

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00:57:30,280 --> 00:57:32,480
Speaker 1: Gerald McCoy tried to make the case that he was

1137
00:57:32,520 --> 00:57:35,880
Speaker 1: better than Aaron Donald Dago works on our desk downstairs.

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00:57:35,920 --> 00:57:38,720
Speaker 1: For people that don't know him personally, yeah, or follow

1139
00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:41,720
Speaker 1: his excellent uh music blog. Oh yeah, give him a

1140
00:57:41,720 --> 00:57:44,000
Speaker 1: follow on Twitter. He's great on music. He is great.

1141
00:57:44,080 --> 00:57:46,920
Speaker 1: Jerald McCoy is playing like a superstar in the last

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00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:49,040
Speaker 1: five or six weeks, so he deserves a little love.

1143
00:57:49,200 --> 00:57:52,560
Speaker 1: We've seen a lot of quarterbacks, young quarterbacks compared to

1144
00:57:52,640 --> 00:57:54,880
Speaker 1: a young big bend over the list a few years.

1145
00:57:54,920 --> 00:57:57,920
Speaker 1: I like Greg in his Quarterback Index compared Jamis Winston,

1146
00:57:58,360 --> 00:58:00,280
Speaker 1: and I see that every time I watch him play,

1147
00:58:00,360 --> 00:58:03,800
Speaker 1: because he shakes off sackers so easily in the pocket

1148
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:06,760
Speaker 1: so routinely. He waits until late in the down to

1149
00:58:06,880 --> 00:58:08,640
Speaker 1: throw the ball or waiting to play late in the

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00:58:08,640 --> 00:58:11,160
Speaker 1: play to throw the ball, and he attacks downfield like

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00:58:11,200 --> 00:58:12,880
Speaker 1: Big Ben did when he was younger. I see so

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00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:14,840
Speaker 1: many I think he's one of those guys like you

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00:58:14,840 --> 00:58:17,520
Speaker 1: hear Big Ben in the in the clubhouse. Any kind

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00:58:17,520 --> 00:58:19,920
Speaker 1: of game you take out, he's winning that game. Cornhole,

1155
00:58:20,360 --> 00:58:23,280
Speaker 1: free made up free throw shooting. He's just a natural athlete.

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00:58:23,760 --> 00:58:26,640
Speaker 1: People say Winston doesn't seem as athletic as some other quarterbacks.

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00:58:26,640 --> 00:58:28,320
Speaker 1: I bet he's one of the best athletes in the league.

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00:58:28,560 --> 00:58:31,200
Speaker 1: Maybe not from a leaping and running standpoint, but just

1159
00:58:31,240 --> 00:58:33,840
Speaker 1: an incredible innate athlete. And if people you know, if

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Speaker 1: you you want to get on Blake Bortles, you've gotta

1161
00:58:35,760 --> 00:58:38,960
Speaker 1: wander wear his heads at Lately, it doesn't seem like

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00:58:38,960 --> 00:58:41,480
Speaker 1: Blake Bortles is advertised as sort of an all in

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00:58:41,680 --> 00:58:46,520
Speaker 1: type dude who lives, eats, breeds, sleeps football. Winston portals

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00:58:46,560 --> 00:58:50,600
Speaker 1: like have this come back around on thee. But that's

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00:58:50,600 --> 00:58:52,440
Speaker 1: a guy who I think a lot in a game Blake.

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00:58:52,960 --> 00:58:54,880
Speaker 1: In the last summer, people would have said, maybe you

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00:58:54,920 --> 00:58:58,000
Speaker 1: take Blake Bortles over over Jamis Winston some people. And

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00:58:58,160 --> 00:59:00,400
Speaker 1: Winston though, from day one, and we don't care about

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00:59:00,400 --> 00:59:02,040
Speaker 1: as much as coaches do and as much as they

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Speaker 1: care about the locker rooms. They say, this guy's leadership

1171
00:59:04,760 --> 00:59:08,120
Speaker 1: is second to none. We care. Oh and remember the

1172
00:59:08,160 --> 00:59:10,320
Speaker 1: biggest bust on him or knocking him going into the

1173
00:59:10,360 --> 00:59:12,000
Speaker 1: draft is that he was a knucklehead. That's the thing.

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00:59:12,040 --> 00:59:14,600
Speaker 1: I mean, the way he was legs with all these

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00:59:14,600 --> 00:59:17,200
Speaker 1: other things that were going on behind the scenes, some

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00:59:17,200 --> 00:59:20,120
Speaker 1: some more serious things as well, some allegations that they faced.

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Speaker 1: But he's turned into a guy. It seems like a

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Speaker 1: real leader in that locker room. And despite all that,

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00:59:25,240 --> 00:59:26,720
Speaker 1: this is a pick um game. I know the Saints

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00:59:26,720 --> 00:59:29,120
Speaker 1: are coming off just about their worst performance of the year,

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00:59:29,160 --> 00:59:31,000
Speaker 1: they have not been a different team on the road

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00:59:31,040 --> 00:59:33,640
Speaker 1: and home. This year they've been basically the same team.

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00:59:33,720 --> 00:59:36,360
Speaker 1: And these are two evenly matched teams. It would not

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00:59:36,400 --> 00:59:38,080
Speaker 1: it would not surprise me to see the Saints not

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00:59:38,120 --> 00:59:39,800
Speaker 1: come on to two things, and then we'll move on

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00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:42,960
Speaker 1: to the next game. Mark Ortega's blog, which is very good.

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00:59:43,040 --> 00:59:45,640
Speaker 1: He goes to bore concerts than anyone I know, past

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Speaker 1: the Oggs, dot CEO O o U x uh and

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Speaker 1: number two. I liked it much better when West didn't

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Speaker 1: like Jameis Winston and there was a lot of heat.

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00:59:55,880 --> 00:59:58,080
Speaker 1: Now you're coming around on him, and now you got

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00:59:58,120 --> 01:00:00,680
Speaker 1: all the scientists are kumbaya together. I like the better

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Speaker 1: when there was heat that was all used starting to

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01:00:02,880 --> 01:00:05,280
Speaker 1: pot I never disliked Jameis Winston. I just didn't think

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Speaker 1: he he hard to be mentioned every time. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if it was a bit, but there was certainly

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01:00:12,760 --> 01:00:15,280
Speaker 1: podcast heat, and we've got the tape to prove it.

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Speaker 1: So you know, yes, you guys are getting along more,

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Speaker 1: and it's bad for you guys. You guys aren't like

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Speaker 1: very they're both they're both playing too well. How could

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01:00:24,600 --> 01:00:26,560
Speaker 1: how can you find something else to get mad at?

1202
01:00:26,560 --> 01:00:30,440
Speaker 1: Each other. Sorry quarterback in text, which involves twenty or

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Speaker 1: so hours of work writing and watching and has done

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Speaker 1: spectacularly every week. Is there anyone else's battle you want

1205
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Speaker 1: to slap? We've got We're getting down on the desk.

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01:00:38,320 --> 01:00:40,360
Speaker 1: We're doing it for each other. Anything else we want

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Speaker 1: to do before we get onto the next a lot

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Speaker 1: of service today Cults website? Anyone else the excellent work

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Speaker 1: on that Colt's website. The Atlanta Falcons are seven and five. Um,

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01:00:50,440 --> 01:00:54,600
Speaker 1: they're coming off lost to Kansas City, a wretched loss

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Speaker 1: on a two point in diversion run back. Oh my god,

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Speaker 1: what loss? And now they travel to Loss Angels to

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Speaker 1: face the Rams and you know West, I'll say this,

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Speaker 1: go watch this game live. West. Falcon's gotta be careful here,

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Speaker 1: thank you. Dalcin's gotta be careful you and I know

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Speaker 1: that they don't their favorite here. I'm saying they've now

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Speaker 1: lost enough of these close games. Now they're seven and five,

1218
01:01:17,160 --> 01:01:20,680
Speaker 1: they're not They're not totally safe here. They need to

1219
01:01:20,720 --> 01:01:23,960
Speaker 1: pick up some wins and get into safe playoff position.

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Speaker 1: They're fine. They're facing off against like Bryce Petty's older

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Speaker 1: brother this week or something. The number one pick in

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Speaker 1: the draft. You hate prospects. That's that's what quarterback like

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01:01:34,120 --> 01:01:36,280
Speaker 1: I I make it. Make a decision on the quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Don't give them a chance to develop. They stink. All right,

1225
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Speaker 1: I got you west Hey, you you picked the Rams

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01:01:41,280 --> 01:01:43,240
Speaker 1: to win every week, and see how you do. I'm

1227
01:01:43,280 --> 01:01:45,480
Speaker 1: not gonna do that. Stand beyond Jeff Fisher. I don't

1228
01:01:45,520 --> 01:01:50,640
Speaker 1: think anybody understands the extent of the dysfunction in this franchise.

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Speaker 1: Read Albert Brier's column on Monday Monday Monday Morning. Quarterback

1230
01:01:54,560 --> 01:01:57,000
Speaker 1: really got it. It's it's being talked about behind the scenes.

1231
01:01:57,080 --> 01:02:00,000
Speaker 1: Is uh L a Junior High? Rams Junior High? Right now,

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01:02:00,080 --> 01:02:03,200
Speaker 1: let's talk about some of the investments they've made. They

1233
01:02:03,240 --> 01:02:06,200
Speaker 1: trade for Nick Fools, who has the worst QBR in

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01:02:06,240 --> 01:02:08,919
Speaker 1: the league. They start Case Keenum, who has the worst

1235
01:02:08,960 --> 01:02:12,360
Speaker 1: QBR in the league. They trade a windfall for Jared Goff,

1236
01:02:12,600 --> 01:02:14,840
Speaker 1: who's worst in case Keenum and has the worst QBR

1237
01:02:14,920 --> 01:02:18,520
Speaker 1: in the league. They trade up. They they select Todd Gurley,

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01:02:18,560 --> 01:02:21,400
Speaker 1: they select Trey Mason, they select Isaiah Pete. They have

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01:02:21,480 --> 01:02:23,680
Speaker 1: no running game, They have the worst rushing attack in

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01:02:23,720 --> 01:02:26,760
Speaker 1: the league. They select trade Tavon Austin. They trade up

1241
01:02:26,760 --> 01:02:28,840
Speaker 1: for him. He's one of the least productive whiteouts in

1242
01:02:28,880 --> 01:02:31,120
Speaker 1: the league, one of the most overpaid players in the league.

1243
01:02:31,240 --> 01:02:33,880
Speaker 1: Are these bad players or is it bad coaching? Because

1244
01:02:33,920 --> 01:02:36,360
Speaker 1: I think there's some talent on this team and they

1245
01:02:36,400 --> 01:02:38,920
Speaker 1: continue to put out the worst players at the position

1246
01:02:39,240 --> 01:02:43,240
Speaker 1: on offense every single year, no matter who's coordinating this attack.

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Speaker 1: They made one point though, that Jeff Fisher keeps hiring

1248
01:02:46,920 --> 01:02:50,480
Speaker 1: ultra inexperienced play callers. And it's not just play callers.

1249
01:02:50,520 --> 01:02:54,120
Speaker 1: Your coordinator runs the show, runs meetings, and it goes down.

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01:02:54,200 --> 01:02:56,800
Speaker 1: If you don't have an experienced coordinator, you don't hire

1251
01:02:57,080 --> 01:03:00,960
Speaker 1: experienced position coaches underneath them, And then where is the development.

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01:03:01,080 --> 01:03:04,080
Speaker 1: It's not that these players are poor. You know, we

1253
01:03:04,160 --> 01:03:06,400
Speaker 1: see other teams do this. You take trash off someone

1254
01:03:06,440 --> 01:03:09,880
Speaker 1: else's roster and suddenly that player that's right and in

1255
01:03:10,160 --> 01:03:14,240
Speaker 1: the rams on offense, on defense, yes, on offense, no,

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01:03:14,600 --> 01:03:17,320
Speaker 1: there's no developmental players have that and that's you know,

1257
01:03:17,360 --> 01:03:20,320
Speaker 1: they talk about Fisher's asset is kind of a leader

1258
01:03:20,360 --> 01:03:23,439
Speaker 1: of men, you know, stability a topic organization. But part

1259
01:03:23,480 --> 01:03:25,240
Speaker 1: of that, you know, such a big part of that

1260
01:03:25,320 --> 01:03:28,840
Speaker 1: is hiring the right people and the hired coaches that

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01:03:28,880 --> 01:03:32,320
Speaker 1: have led the team to very last place in first downs,

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01:03:32,480 --> 01:03:35,760
Speaker 1: yards and points. My question is, you're one of the

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Speaker 1: longest tenured coaches in the league, and why would you

1264
01:03:40,440 --> 01:03:44,400
Speaker 1: not have the ability to get one of the better

1265
01:03:44,440 --> 01:03:47,480
Speaker 1: play callers. Why would you not be getting the pristine,

1266
01:03:47,600 --> 01:03:50,320
Speaker 1: premier offensive guys that want to come in and pair

1267
01:03:50,360 --> 01:03:53,200
Speaker 1: with what you bring on defense. It just looks very

1268
01:03:53,200 --> 01:03:56,080
Speaker 1: suspect over the last couple of boars didn't quite pass

1269
01:03:56,120 --> 01:03:58,480
Speaker 1: the smell test when watching hard knocks the season. I

1270
01:03:58,480 --> 01:04:01,120
Speaker 1: don't know enough about his schemes to say that he's

1271
01:04:01,160 --> 01:04:03,520
Speaker 1: a good or bed offense coordinator, but it's not working out.

1272
01:04:04,240 --> 01:04:07,720
Speaker 1: The previous offensive coordinator was a private eye that they

1273
01:04:08,360 --> 01:04:12,560
Speaker 1: asked to be a football coach. Obviously got Frank Signetti

1274
01:04:12,760 --> 01:04:16,520
Speaker 1: private eye. Um, and prior to that, I believe it

1275
01:04:16,600 --> 01:04:20,440
Speaker 1: was a shoddy right bright Shottenheimer, who was nobody's example

1276
01:04:20,520 --> 01:04:23,880
Speaker 1: of a a shining light uh in schemes. But you know,

1277
01:04:23,920 --> 01:04:25,960
Speaker 1: at least he had some experience. Well, it's worth noting

1278
01:04:26,040 --> 01:04:28,960
Speaker 1: Julio Jones's status is up in the air as we're

1279
01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:31,480
Speaker 1: taping this. I mean, that's a that's a pretty that's

1280
01:04:31,480 --> 01:04:33,760
Speaker 1: pretty important. Mohammed San News status is up in the

1281
01:04:33,760 --> 01:04:36,000
Speaker 1: air as we're taping this. I mean, I think the

1282
01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:37,840
Speaker 1: Falcons are going to find a way to win this game.

1283
01:04:37,880 --> 01:04:40,680
Speaker 1: Maybe it's Vic Beasley, h West so you had on

1284
01:04:40,760 --> 01:04:43,680
Speaker 1: your your guys who deserved the first time Pro Bowl nod.

1285
01:04:44,120 --> 01:04:46,480
Speaker 1: Another another thing, why is it not their offense the

1286
01:04:46,840 --> 01:04:50,040
Speaker 1: up forty something points when the Rams gave up forty

1287
01:04:50,120 --> 01:04:53,120
Speaker 1: something points two weeks ago? And and honestly we're just

1288
01:04:53,760 --> 01:04:57,000
Speaker 1: watching the Patriots against the Rams. They just ran right

1289
01:04:57,080 --> 01:05:01,360
Speaker 1: through them. I I don't think the Falcons should have

1290
01:05:01,400 --> 01:05:03,280
Speaker 1: any problem with this game. Now, I agree, but if

1291
01:05:03,400 --> 01:05:05,840
Speaker 1: if Julio and Sinua are both out, that's that's a

1292
01:05:05,840 --> 01:05:09,640
Speaker 1: factor on the road. Falcons lost last week for two reasons.

1293
01:05:09,680 --> 01:05:13,120
Speaker 1: They blew their chances and the Chiefs created chances. They

1294
01:05:13,160 --> 01:05:15,320
Speaker 1: got out. Coach was the second reason, Andy Reid out

1295
01:05:15,320 --> 01:05:19,000
Speaker 1: coach Dan quinn. Uh. Here's this Sunday Fox Game of

1296
01:05:19,040 --> 01:05:22,440
Speaker 1: the Week. The Seattle Seahawks eight three and one, but

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01:05:22,560 --> 01:05:25,320
Speaker 1: now without Earl Thomas, who's out for the year after

1298
01:05:25,400 --> 01:05:29,320
Speaker 1: suffering suffering a fracture of his lower leg. Uh travel

1299
01:05:29,440 --> 01:05:31,880
Speaker 1: to Green Bay to face the Packers, who are um

1300
01:05:32,680 --> 01:05:35,240
Speaker 1: looking a lot better these days. Now six and six,

1301
01:05:35,280 --> 01:05:37,600
Speaker 1: but six. But this is a big test right here,

1302
01:05:37,640 --> 01:05:41,160
Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal Ken, the Packers sustained it against a good

1303
01:05:41,160 --> 01:05:44,200
Speaker 1: Seahawks team playing without one of their very best players.

1304
01:05:44,200 --> 01:05:46,440
Speaker 1: I I am really excited for this game, more so

1305
01:05:46,520 --> 01:05:48,880
Speaker 1: than the than the Sunday night game. Not that that's

1306
01:05:48,880 --> 01:05:51,760
Speaker 1: some bold statement. I mean, this is a rematch of

1307
01:05:51,960 --> 01:05:54,919
Speaker 1: one of the all time playoff collapses. It's a it's

1308
01:05:54,920 --> 01:05:57,040
Speaker 1: a matchup really of the best two teams in the

1309
01:05:57,160 --> 01:06:01,080
Speaker 1: NFC this decade, uh to, you know, or organizations, and

1310
01:06:01,120 --> 01:06:03,320
Speaker 1: there's a lot there's more at stake in this game

1311
01:06:03,800 --> 01:06:06,280
Speaker 1: because the Packers they gotta they gotta get this one,

1312
01:06:06,360 --> 01:06:09,400
Speaker 1: and this is an ultimate test of Aaron Rodgers playing

1313
01:06:09,440 --> 01:06:11,680
Speaker 1: this well. But you gotta go up against the defense

1314
01:06:11,960 --> 01:06:14,280
Speaker 1: that I know they don't have Earl Thomas, but you're

1315
01:06:14,280 --> 01:06:17,280
Speaker 1: getting career year out of kJ right probably kJ Wright

1316
01:06:17,320 --> 01:06:19,680
Speaker 1: and Wagner have never been any better as a tusome

1317
01:06:19,720 --> 01:06:22,560
Speaker 1: together a to. You know, you got Bennett back April.

1318
01:06:22,920 --> 01:06:26,440
Speaker 1: You've got plenty going on here to shut down any offense.

1319
01:06:26,520 --> 01:06:28,560
Speaker 1: And so it's just a great test of a great

1320
01:06:28,600 --> 01:06:31,520
Speaker 1: player in Rodgers who's kind of peaking against this defense.

1321
01:06:31,880 --> 01:06:33,720
Speaker 1: I think when I leave this industry, it will be

1322
01:06:33,760 --> 01:06:37,640
Speaker 1: out of frustration for things like people obsessing over Cam

1323
01:06:37,680 --> 01:06:41,920
Speaker 1: Newton's tie in this game. When you've got Thomas Rolls

1324
01:06:41,960 --> 01:06:45,960
Speaker 1: and Tyler Lockett explosive playing like they did in two

1325
01:06:46,000 --> 01:06:49,040
Speaker 1: thousand fifteen, that should have been the story of this night,

1326
01:06:49,400 --> 01:06:52,600
Speaker 1: because that's good football. And now the Seahawks might have

1327
01:06:52,680 --> 01:06:56,320
Speaker 1: their most explosive offense of the Russell Wilson area. And

1328
01:06:56,320 --> 01:06:59,160
Speaker 1: and and you're right. I was thinking if Rawls Rawls

1329
01:06:59,200 --> 01:07:02,720
Speaker 1: look great in that game, just his movement. He's almost

1330
01:07:02,720 --> 01:07:05,680
Speaker 1: the second or third most valuable guy in that team

1331
01:07:05,720 --> 01:07:08,560
Speaker 1: at this point, because if you lose him, you're just

1332
01:07:08,640 --> 01:07:10,960
Speaker 1: taken away this whole element. But now it feels like

1333
01:07:11,040 --> 01:07:13,160
Speaker 1: they've got their running game back with him, which is

1334
01:07:13,200 --> 01:07:16,160
Speaker 1: just a massive and locket played through an m c

1335
01:07:16,400 --> 01:07:18,600
Speaker 1: l or earlier in the year, he was not explosive

1336
01:07:18,680 --> 01:07:21,600
Speaker 1: until this game. He's all the way back. Now They've

1337
01:07:21,640 --> 01:07:25,000
Speaker 1: got so many weapons. Jimmy Graham, Doug Baldwin is always

1338
01:07:25,000 --> 01:07:27,080
Speaker 1: one of the most underrated players in the league. This

1339
01:07:27,160 --> 01:07:29,560
Speaker 1: is this is gonna be a tough game for the Packers.

1340
01:07:29,800 --> 01:07:33,920
Speaker 1: I have already relinquished the fact you guys can preview

1341
01:07:33,960 --> 01:07:36,560
Speaker 1: it and review it when it's over. I already know

1342
01:07:36,680 --> 01:07:38,720
Speaker 1: Green Bay is going to the playoffs and they're gonna

1343
01:07:38,720 --> 01:07:41,520
Speaker 1: win this game. Wow, wait, where are you the same

1344
01:07:41,560 --> 01:07:45,000
Speaker 1: guy who like four weeks ago said the Packers were done?

1345
01:07:45,040 --> 01:07:47,720
Speaker 1: You were done with them? But exactly like I, I

1346
01:07:47,800 --> 01:07:51,480
Speaker 1: realized that it was you know I was. I was

1347
01:07:51,560 --> 01:07:53,959
Speaker 1: wishing that to happen, and it won't. They were making

1348
01:07:53,960 --> 01:07:56,680
Speaker 1: the playoffs the Seahawks, by the way, it was kind

1349
01:07:56,680 --> 01:07:58,160
Speaker 1: of snuck up on me a little bit. The Seahawks

1350
01:07:58,200 --> 01:08:00,720
Speaker 1: clinch the NFC West with a win here in an

1351
01:08:00,720 --> 01:08:04,560
Speaker 1: Arizona loss, so they are they have everything to play for.

1352
01:08:04,600 --> 01:08:07,160
Speaker 1: They're playing for that bye bye is massive. You know

1353
01:08:07,280 --> 01:08:08,800
Speaker 1: they're not going to get the one seed, but they

1354
01:08:08,800 --> 01:08:10,560
Speaker 1: can they can get to buy We haven't even mentioned

1355
01:08:10,560 --> 01:08:13,760
Speaker 1: the biggest story of this game, revenge. Revenge game. You

1356
01:08:13,800 --> 01:08:18,240
Speaker 1: knew where I was going. Kristen Michael, see what takes

1357
01:08:18,240 --> 01:08:21,559
Speaker 1: out the Seahawks and his his final act as super

1358
01:08:21,640 --> 01:08:25,679
Speaker 1: here By. I would be fine with less Kristen Michael story.

1359
01:08:27,040 --> 01:08:29,800
Speaker 1: I won't talk about Victor Cruze ever again. If Sea

1360
01:08:29,840 --> 01:08:31,840
Speaker 1: Walk doesn't do anything in this game, if you guys

1361
01:08:31,880 --> 01:08:34,559
Speaker 1: stop talking about this it's fair. He looked okay last

1362
01:08:34,560 --> 01:08:37,559
Speaker 1: week when hard to tell in the snow, but he

1363
01:08:37,680 --> 01:08:40,360
Speaker 1: certainly was more explosive than James Starks, and they gave

1364
01:08:40,439 --> 01:08:42,479
Speaker 1: him more carries than anyone else, and they he'll run

1365
01:08:42,520 --> 01:08:45,439
Speaker 1: for d in the CFL, and we'll be doing news

1366
01:08:45,479 --> 01:08:47,160
Speaker 1: items on the guy. You got you gots a big

1367
01:08:47,200 --> 01:08:50,960
Speaker 1: seawalk fan. I'm sticking by I've got a I've got

1368
01:08:50,960 --> 01:08:53,439
Speaker 1: a theory that the Packers should root for it to

1369
01:08:53,560 --> 01:08:56,840
Speaker 1: snow for this game, because I feel like Aaron Rodger,

1370
01:08:56,920 --> 01:09:00,320
Speaker 1: if you're thinking of a you want the snow, just

1371
01:09:00,400 --> 01:09:02,439
Speaker 1: kind of making things up running around as you go.

1372
01:09:02,680 --> 01:09:04,400
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers and the guy. Well, yeah, one thing we

1373
01:09:04,439 --> 01:09:07,040
Speaker 1: said Sunday night that all these other players were slipping

1374
01:09:07,080 --> 01:09:10,000
Speaker 1: in that game, and he was. He seemed absolutely fine,

1375
01:09:10,000 --> 01:09:12,280
Speaker 1: And that's snowy in the snowy footage. Like having Aaron

1376
01:09:12,360 --> 01:09:15,240
Speaker 1: Rodgers back and and Jordy Nelson back. I know the

1377
01:09:15,360 --> 01:09:18,000
Speaker 1: numbers have been okay throughout the season, but I really

1378
01:09:18,040 --> 01:09:19,920
Speaker 1: feel like he's starting to look a little more like

1379
01:09:20,360 --> 01:09:22,920
Speaker 1: that leaping catchy had at the end of last week's game.

1380
01:09:22,960 --> 01:09:25,639
Speaker 1: Was Aaron Rodgers has not lost a home game in December.

1381
01:09:25,680 --> 01:09:28,120
Speaker 1: Since two thousand and eight, when Greg was twenty three.

1382
01:09:28,640 --> 01:09:32,000
Speaker 1: I have in my notes tread here Rogers arm strength.

1383
01:09:32,240 --> 01:09:34,599
Speaker 1: Are you going with that? That I'm young? I wish

1384
01:09:34,840 --> 01:09:38,719
Speaker 1: Rogers arm strength of backfoot on Adam's throw, Wow, all weather, QB,

1385
01:09:38,960 --> 01:09:41,400
Speaker 1: all balance throw to Jordy, No issues with the elements.

1386
01:09:42,240 --> 01:09:45,479
Speaker 1: That was impressive, Aaron Rodgers list. Let's check in on

1387
01:09:46,600 --> 01:09:48,840
Speaker 1: the notebooks, mark no notebook this yet? You just had?

1388
01:09:49,120 --> 01:09:52,040
Speaker 1: What I do? Is that is I bring it? I don't.

1389
01:09:52,120 --> 01:09:55,880
Speaker 1: I can't read my own writing, so I just I'm

1390
01:09:55,920 --> 01:10:02,120
Speaker 1: just ringing highlighted more and west. You're journal is looking immaculated,

1391
01:10:02,160 --> 01:10:08,879
Speaker 1: pretty very nice, really nice handwriting, no shakes at all,

1392
01:10:08,920 --> 01:10:14,240
Speaker 1: clearly very straight. Uh. Greg's cards. In addition, it looks

1393
01:10:14,240 --> 01:10:17,200
Speaker 1: like a madman. Your net cards are much better handwriting

1394
01:10:17,200 --> 01:10:20,000
Speaker 1: than normal. Yeah, I just right in all caps if

1395
01:10:20,040 --> 01:10:23,000
Speaker 1: I really want to be able to read it. Uh.

1396
01:10:23,120 --> 01:10:28,040
Speaker 1: Let's talk Sunday Night football. The Dallas Cowboys eleven in one. Wow.

1397
01:10:28,080 --> 01:10:30,880
Speaker 1: That's a that's a long winning streak. Eleven straight now

1398
01:10:30,960 --> 01:10:34,000
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. And now they play the only team

1399
01:10:34,520 --> 01:10:36,559
Speaker 1: that has beaten the Cowboys this year, and it was

1400
01:10:36,600 --> 01:10:39,799
Speaker 1: the New York Giants were eight and four the Giants.

1401
01:10:40,320 --> 01:10:44,639
Speaker 1: UH came down to earth against Pittsburgh last week teen

1402
01:10:44,720 --> 01:10:49,160
Speaker 1: loss the Cowboys, as Greg was getting all excited about,

1403
01:10:49,439 --> 01:10:53,320
Speaker 1: really struggled UH to move the ball against Minnesota, but

1404
01:10:53,400 --> 01:10:55,719
Speaker 1: that that's been a rarity of this season. They've basically

1405
01:10:55,720 --> 01:10:58,519
Speaker 1: done what they wanted almost against everybody else. So I

1406
01:10:58,600 --> 01:11:02,280
Speaker 1: love this game. Mark Sessler, how do you see it? Well?

1407
01:11:02,320 --> 01:11:06,000
Speaker 1: I think it's fascinating how how different this matchup is

1408
01:11:06,040 --> 01:11:08,439
Speaker 1: than what we saw in earlier in the year when

1409
01:11:08,439 --> 01:11:10,200
Speaker 1: these teams played and we didn't really know what the

1410
01:11:10,280 --> 01:11:15,439
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys would become. I I don't see any issue

1411
01:11:15,479 --> 01:11:18,760
Speaker 1: for Dallas to win this game. We've asked the Cowboys

1412
01:11:18,800 --> 01:11:21,519
Speaker 1: week after week to come up against opponent A, B

1413
01:11:21,720 --> 01:11:24,880
Speaker 1: or C, deal with whatever the team's strength is, and

1414
01:11:24,960 --> 01:11:26,960
Speaker 1: come out on the other side before they, you know,

1415
01:11:27,080 --> 01:11:29,920
Speaker 1: prove to us that that they're the NFC's best team.

1416
01:11:29,920 --> 01:11:31,479
Speaker 1: I think at this point it's all very clear to

1417
01:11:31,560 --> 01:11:33,960
Speaker 1: us that they are, and they're probably you know, you're

1418
01:11:33,960 --> 01:11:36,120
Speaker 1: dealing with the Giant team that doesn't have Jason Pierre

1419
01:11:36,120 --> 01:11:39,840
Speaker 1: Paul and the Cowboys. At this point, it's a huge loss.

1420
01:11:40,600 --> 01:11:42,680
Speaker 1: It's a huge loss, and the Cowboys are running the

1421
01:11:42,680 --> 01:11:45,080
Speaker 1: ball consistently week after week, Right, you weren't You weren't

1422
01:11:45,080 --> 01:11:47,000
Speaker 1: in love with they with what they did against the Ravens.

1423
01:11:47,000 --> 01:11:48,800
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying the Ravens did about as good

1424
01:11:48,800 --> 01:11:51,639
Speaker 1: a job as anyone containing Elliott about until the last

1425
01:11:51,640 --> 01:11:53,880
Speaker 1: few minutes. And the point is, I mean, if that's

1426
01:11:53,880 --> 01:11:56,800
Speaker 1: containing the cowboys, that's not enough to beat the cowboys.

1427
01:11:56,880 --> 01:12:00,200
Speaker 1: And so I I just I think Dallas takes care

1428
01:12:00,200 --> 01:12:03,559
Speaker 1: of business here, and the Giants, according to West, are

1429
01:12:03,600 --> 01:12:07,880
Speaker 1: heading you know, big time south as it is, They're

1430
01:12:07,880 --> 01:12:11,240
Speaker 1: gonna wish they were in the South because winter is

1431
01:12:11,320 --> 01:12:15,960
Speaker 1: upon us. Winter is here, Winter is here to the

1432
01:12:16,040 --> 01:12:21,280
Speaker 1: extent that what what are you going to do? This? Look,

1433
01:12:21,560 --> 01:12:31,120
Speaker 1: it's gonna be lit. I'll locking it up the showman. Alright,

1434
01:12:31,200 --> 01:12:41,000
Speaker 1: the lock is lit. Everyone clearly feeling the pressure. Uh,

1435
01:12:41,200 --> 01:12:44,160
Speaker 1: you like the Dallas Cowboys in a lock? You know,

1436
01:12:44,439 --> 01:12:48,439
Speaker 1: That's that's fair, That's fair. But I see this as

1437
01:12:48,479 --> 01:12:50,120
Speaker 1: a close game. I don't know if I can pick

1438
01:12:50,160 --> 01:12:52,600
Speaker 1: the Giants, that's that That would be real ballsy to

1439
01:12:52,600 --> 01:12:54,479
Speaker 1: pick the Giants. Well, if you were, if you were,

1440
01:12:54,560 --> 01:12:58,280
Speaker 1: what would be here? Here's the strength of the giants defense,

1441
01:12:58,720 --> 01:13:00,600
Speaker 1: uh is against the run. They're ranked fifth in the

1442
01:13:00,640 --> 01:13:03,320
Speaker 1: league against the run, so mans been good. Slow down

1443
01:13:03,800 --> 01:13:07,000
Speaker 1: doesn't surprise me, slow down, Ezekiel Elliott. Uh, it is

1444
01:13:07,040 --> 01:13:09,679
Speaker 1: in prime time at Giants Stadium. I don't I don't

1445
01:13:09,720 --> 01:13:11,760
Speaker 1: imagine that Giants are gonna get the doors blown off

1446
01:13:12,000 --> 01:13:14,880
Speaker 1: in that in that scenario. And yeah, as big as

1447
01:13:14,920 --> 01:13:19,120
Speaker 1: a problem as ELI has had at times this season,

1448
01:13:19,760 --> 01:13:22,559
Speaker 1: Uh do would it blow my mind if Odell Beckham

1449
01:13:22,640 --> 01:13:25,120
Speaker 1: had a big game here under the lights against the

1450
01:13:25,120 --> 01:13:28,240
Speaker 1: Cowboys and we're we're staring at a really good game

1451
01:13:28,280 --> 01:13:30,439
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. I see it as a close game,

1452
01:13:30,800 --> 01:13:33,280
Speaker 1: and I'd probably pick the Cowboys because the Cowboys are

1453
01:13:33,360 --> 01:13:35,080
Speaker 1: great this year. But I don't think this will be

1454
01:13:35,120 --> 01:13:37,559
Speaker 1: a cake walk. I think this is this could be

1455
01:13:37,600 --> 01:13:41,080
Speaker 1: the last truly big game left for the Cowboys if

1456
01:13:41,120 --> 01:13:43,200
Speaker 1: they win. If they win, I mean they could end

1457
01:13:43,280 --> 01:13:45,559
Speaker 1: up clinching home field this week with a few things

1458
01:13:45,560 --> 01:13:47,880
Speaker 1: breaking their way. Certainly by next week, it's only a

1459
01:13:47,920 --> 01:13:50,640
Speaker 1: matter of time. Uh. And I think They're gonna be

1460
01:13:50,680 --> 01:13:52,559
Speaker 1: so up for this game. I think this is a

1461
01:13:52,600 --> 01:13:56,599
Speaker 1: really important month for the Cowboys to continue playing at

1462
01:13:56,680 --> 01:13:59,360
Speaker 1: their extremely high level. And I have no reason to

1463
01:13:59,400 --> 01:14:01,599
Speaker 1: think that they won't do it in this game, and

1464
01:14:01,640 --> 01:14:04,479
Speaker 1: I think they'll want to prove after last week's game

1465
01:14:04,479 --> 01:14:07,600
Speaker 1: against Minnesota that they can get back on track offensively.

1466
01:14:07,600 --> 01:14:11,320
Speaker 1: It's two straight games where their formula has not been

1467
01:14:11,360 --> 01:14:13,800
Speaker 1: there for them. In the last two games, they the

1468
01:14:13,880 --> 01:14:16,400
Speaker 1: other team has had the time of possession win thirty

1469
01:14:16,439 --> 01:14:19,240
Speaker 1: three to twenty seven. The last two games, the Redskins

1470
01:14:19,240 --> 01:14:22,240
Speaker 1: and the Vikings had twenty more plays each. They won

1471
01:14:22,280 --> 01:14:25,479
Speaker 1: the games. They deserve credit. Dak Prescott keeps making the

1472
01:14:25,800 --> 01:14:29,160
Speaker 1: right decisions, but that's not their formula because their defense

1473
01:14:29,240 --> 01:14:31,040
Speaker 1: just isn't that good. I think they want to get

1474
01:14:31,040 --> 01:14:32,599
Speaker 1: back to doing what they do and I think they

1475
01:14:32,640 --> 01:14:34,360
Speaker 1: can do it. I think they can dominate even a

1476
01:14:34,479 --> 01:14:37,519
Speaker 1: very good Giants. It's such a to win. If this

1477
01:14:37,640 --> 01:14:41,040
Speaker 1: becomes a twelve game win streak, that is remarkable and

1478
01:14:41,080 --> 01:14:43,720
Speaker 1: to be a Cowboys franchise record, which is saying a

1479
01:14:43,760 --> 01:14:46,040
Speaker 1: lot considering how decorated this franchise has been. I think

1480
01:14:46,080 --> 01:14:48,320
Speaker 1: along the way, you're gonna win some games to pull

1481
01:14:48,400 --> 01:14:50,320
Speaker 1: you out of your for formula. You don't want to

1482
01:14:50,439 --> 01:14:52,519
Speaker 1: end the season with five or six. Like totally agree.

1483
01:14:52,560 --> 01:14:54,519
Speaker 1: You got the Buccaneers next week. If your cow if

1484
01:14:54,520 --> 01:14:56,720
Speaker 1: your Cowboys, then the Lions and the Eagles, that the

1485
01:14:56,760 --> 01:15:00,320
Speaker 1: next two weeks are not easy and they're not in

1486
01:15:00,360 --> 01:15:03,120
Speaker 1: a threat to lose the number one seed necessarily, But

1487
01:15:03,280 --> 01:15:07,120
Speaker 1: if the Seahawks clean house down the stretch, Dallas is not,

1488
01:15:07,320 --> 01:15:09,240
Speaker 1: they can't coast yet They've got they've got to probably

1489
01:15:09,280 --> 01:15:11,559
Speaker 1: seal up the next two I really don't think people

1490
01:15:11,600 --> 01:15:14,200
Speaker 1: realize the extent to which the Giants offense is broken.

1491
01:15:14,680 --> 01:15:16,760
Speaker 1: We talked about Odell Beckham because he's the face of

1492
01:15:16,800 --> 01:15:20,720
Speaker 1: that offense. This offense ranks with the Browns and Bears

1493
01:15:21,600 --> 01:15:25,120
Speaker 1: in the NFL since mid season, since Week six, they're

1494
01:15:25,120 --> 01:15:28,840
Speaker 1: broken and they're trying to take deep shots the last

1495
01:15:28,880 --> 01:15:31,400
Speaker 1: few weeks. I've watched it. Certainly in the Cleveland game,

1496
01:15:31,479 --> 01:15:34,760
Speaker 1: they have one of the worst offense. They're just they're

1497
01:15:34,760 --> 01:15:36,960
Speaker 1: trying to take deep shots because I think they realize

1498
01:15:36,960 --> 01:15:38,600
Speaker 1: that they can't survive and think of that, but they're not.

1499
01:15:38,600 --> 01:15:41,800
Speaker 1: They don't hit any of them there. I mean, do

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01:15:41,800 --> 01:15:44,760
Speaker 1: you think anything has to do with teams realize him

1501
01:15:44,800 --> 01:15:49,519
Speaker 1: that the Giants run eleven personnel on essentially percent of

1502
01:15:49,560 --> 01:15:53,040
Speaker 1: their plays this season, that maybe they're easier to prepare

1503
01:15:53,080 --> 01:15:54,760
Speaker 1: for than some of these teams that show you so

1504
01:15:54,800 --> 01:15:57,760
Speaker 1: many different looks. I think you'd have to ask a

1505
01:15:57,800 --> 01:16:01,760
Speaker 1: coach or player that I really don't know, Dan, I know,

1506
01:16:02,040 --> 01:16:03,840
Speaker 1: because they would have mixed up their personnel if they

1507
01:16:03,880 --> 01:16:06,200
Speaker 1: thought it was a major problem. There's your answer. I'm

1508
01:16:06,240 --> 01:16:10,960
Speaker 1: a coach. Nice. Finally, a little Monday Night football. The

1509
01:16:11,000 --> 01:16:17,240
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens seven and five, uh just dismantled the Miami

1510
01:16:17,680 --> 01:16:21,040
Speaker 1: Dolphins in Week thirteen, and now they have a big

1511
01:16:21,080 --> 01:16:23,600
Speaker 1: test ahead of them. They travel to Gilette Stadium to

1512
01:16:23,640 --> 01:16:28,160
Speaker 1: face the Pats, who are tenant to Chris westling Um.

1513
01:16:28,200 --> 01:16:30,800
Speaker 1: This is a game where the Pats will not have

1514
01:16:30,880 --> 01:16:34,080
Speaker 1: Rob Rob Gronkowski, but there's still the Pats and that's

1515
01:16:34,080 --> 01:16:36,280
Speaker 1: why you love them in this game, don't you, Wes?

1516
01:16:36,600 --> 01:16:41,240
Speaker 1: I don't, Oh, I don't. I'm I love this game.

1517
01:16:41,479 --> 01:16:43,320
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to this game big time. I think

1518
01:16:43,360 --> 01:16:45,320
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a fun one to watch. I think

1519
01:16:45,360 --> 01:16:47,559
Speaker 1: it could be a preview of January, but only if

1520
01:16:47,560 --> 01:16:49,719
Speaker 1: the Ravens win, because they have to win this game

1521
01:16:50,200 --> 01:16:52,280
Speaker 1: and the Patriots do not want to see the Ravens

1522
01:16:52,280 --> 01:16:55,439
Speaker 1: in January. Because this Ravens team is number one in

1523
01:16:55,479 --> 01:16:58,400
Speaker 1: the NFL and a lot of defensive categories. They're coming

1524
01:16:58,439 --> 01:17:00,719
Speaker 1: off their best offensive game in the year, and there's

1525
01:17:00,800 --> 01:17:03,920
Speaker 1: reasons to believe that that offense is about to break

1526
01:17:03,960 --> 01:17:06,320
Speaker 1: out because we've been waiting for it all year. They

1527
01:17:06,360 --> 01:17:10,040
Speaker 1: have the talent, the offensive line is finally healthy. The

1528
01:17:10,120 --> 01:17:13,080
Speaker 1: veteran receivers are playing well. Breshad Perriman has been inches

1529
01:17:13,120 --> 01:17:15,360
Speaker 1: away from big plays, had a big play last week.

1530
01:17:15,880 --> 01:17:17,880
Speaker 1: I think I think this Ravens team is for real

1531
01:17:18,000 --> 01:17:19,960
Speaker 1: right now, and they're hitting their straw if they need

1532
01:17:20,000 --> 01:17:22,640
Speaker 1: to show that that was a sign of things to

1533
01:17:22,680 --> 01:17:25,400
Speaker 1: come last week, because it looked like a team getting unlocked.

1534
01:17:25,560 --> 01:17:28,240
Speaker 1: Then again, you know we've what we've seen for eleven weeks.

1535
01:17:28,400 --> 01:17:30,200
Speaker 1: You can't just ignore that. But this team, to me,

1536
01:17:30,280 --> 01:17:33,559
Speaker 1: has such a high ceiling because the players are there

1537
01:17:33,960 --> 01:17:37,200
Speaker 1: and the defense is absolutely there. So if the players

1538
01:17:37,240 --> 01:17:39,920
Speaker 1: on offense just get them to be average, to me,

1539
01:17:39,960 --> 01:17:42,000
Speaker 1: they're as good as any a f C and the best,

1540
01:17:42,120 --> 01:17:44,479
Speaker 1: the best kicking game in the Leaette, which we should

1541
01:17:44,520 --> 01:17:47,880
Speaker 1: not overlook in close games in December. Justin Tucker is

1542
01:17:47,960 --> 01:17:50,920
Speaker 1: having in a historically great season this year. Uh not

1543
01:17:51,040 --> 01:17:54,040
Speaker 1: only has not missed any kicks, is burying kicks from

1544
01:17:54,080 --> 01:17:57,160
Speaker 1: fifty yards on a weekly basis now, so that could

1545
01:17:57,160 --> 01:17:58,960
Speaker 1: be a major factor. And the kicker on the other

1546
01:17:58,960 --> 01:18:00,640
Speaker 1: side of New England, we're gonna see what happens with

1547
01:18:00,720 --> 01:18:02,880
Speaker 1: him down which he's been a problem. Well, he played.

1548
01:18:03,000 --> 01:18:05,479
Speaker 1: He had a good game last week and and I

1549
01:18:05,520 --> 01:18:07,760
Speaker 1: know it was against the Rams, but obviously for a kicker,

1550
01:18:07,800 --> 01:18:10,360
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. They had a lot of encouraging performances

1551
01:18:10,360 --> 01:18:13,760
Speaker 1: from guys that they want to see down the street.

1552
01:18:13,840 --> 01:18:17,080
Speaker 1: Jabaal sheared, Guskowski had a really good game, which was

1553
01:18:17,160 --> 01:18:20,120
Speaker 1: nice to see. It's been a while. Uh Rob Ninkovich,

1554
01:18:20,120 --> 01:18:22,280
Speaker 1: who has been very quiet this year ago is your boy.

1555
01:18:22,280 --> 01:18:26,120
Speaker 1: Barkiva Smingo doing he doesn't do anything. And Kyle van Noy,

1556
01:18:26,280 --> 01:18:28,759
Speaker 1: guy they got from Detroit, has been a big factor

1557
01:18:28,840 --> 01:18:31,360
Speaker 1: for them. So they've had some people gave victory there.

1558
01:18:31,360 --> 01:18:34,479
Speaker 1: That was the most. He's nothing, he's a special team.

1559
01:18:34,640 --> 01:18:37,320
Speaker 1: The most encouraging performance out of everyone was Malcolm Mitchell

1560
01:18:37,439 --> 01:18:39,240
Speaker 1: that you can see Tom Brady trust him and with

1561
01:18:39,280 --> 01:18:42,559
Speaker 1: Gronk out, he's being targeted as much as anyone. Also,

1562
01:18:42,640 --> 01:18:45,880
Speaker 1: he's great. He's I got a little excited over Kenbrell

1563
01:18:45,920 --> 01:18:47,880
Speaker 1: Tompkins when he was a rookie. This could be the

1564
01:18:47,880 --> 01:18:50,960
Speaker 1: best outside receiver they've drafted. Malcolm Mitchell is going to

1565
01:18:51,080 --> 01:18:53,639
Speaker 1: have a playoff game where he crosses the two hundred

1566
01:18:53,720 --> 01:18:57,000
Speaker 1: yard barrier. We're gonna find ways to be teams inside,

1567
01:18:58,760 --> 01:19:02,439
Speaker 1: which is a loss. I s no. I appreciate all this,

1568
01:19:02,600 --> 01:19:06,639
Speaker 1: all this Ravens praise. I will not tolerate the Ravens

1569
01:19:06,640 --> 01:19:10,920
Speaker 1: going to the Super I will not tolerate it. I've

1570
01:19:10,920 --> 01:19:13,800
Speaker 1: already been there to see them win a Super Bowl.

1571
01:19:13,880 --> 01:19:18,120
Speaker 1: It's not happening again. This defense is enough, is super

1572
01:19:18,160 --> 01:19:20,880
Speaker 1: Bowl worthy. People. There's a perception that this isn't as

1573
01:19:20,880 --> 01:19:22,800
Speaker 1: great as some of those old Ravens defense as well,

1574
01:19:22,840 --> 01:19:26,000
Speaker 1: it's not as great ASO, but in terms of a

1575
01:19:26,000 --> 01:19:28,559
Speaker 1: lot of the great Ravens defenses, it's there. In terms

1576
01:19:28,600 --> 01:19:31,400
Speaker 1: of the run defense, it's historically good. And it's because

1577
01:19:31,400 --> 01:19:35,479
Speaker 1: they're top players. Maybe aren't as as sexy, but they

1578
01:19:35,760 --> 01:19:39,559
Speaker 1: have such incredible depth. Like their seventh starter, their eighth

1579
01:19:39,560 --> 01:19:42,800
Speaker 1: best defensive starter, their ninth best player, Tavon Young, who's

1580
01:19:42,960 --> 01:19:45,840
Speaker 1: a fourth round rookie, is playing incredible. Zach Or is

1581
01:19:45,840 --> 01:19:48,640
Speaker 1: playing better than c. J. Mosley, Timmy Joern. Again, like

1582
01:19:48,960 --> 01:19:52,679
Speaker 1: they just got people coming coming out. Newsome was tiring

1583
01:19:52,720 --> 01:19:55,439
Speaker 1: of hearing about John Elway is the best GM over

1584
01:19:55,439 --> 01:19:58,120
Speaker 1: and over, and I'm gonna quietly rebuild this deepest how

1585
01:19:58,200 --> 01:20:00,439
Speaker 1: Ladarius Webb and one of the best inner options of

1586
01:20:00,439 --> 01:20:02,360
Speaker 1: the year. It's just like every guy's a factor. I

1587
01:20:02,400 --> 01:20:04,880
Speaker 1: don't wanna be reckless here, but I'm gonna connect the

1588
01:20:04,920 --> 01:20:08,800
Speaker 1: dots a little bit. Mark just threatened the Ravens and

1589
01:20:08,920 --> 01:20:11,000
Speaker 1: has been on record saying that there will be no

1590
01:20:11,120 --> 01:20:15,679
Speaker 1: final in Super Bowl fifty one. Oh okay. I also

1591
01:20:15,800 --> 01:20:21,120
Speaker 1: threatened to build a train called the Mouser, a scattered

1592
01:20:21,760 --> 01:20:25,320
Speaker 1: Scattered Ravens franchise to pay for this train that goes

1593
01:20:25,360 --> 01:20:28,400
Speaker 1: from essentially Los Angeles to where to hucka poos for West, Right,

1594
01:20:29,080 --> 01:20:32,200
Speaker 1: that was actually that was last year's Christmas gifts. We

1595
01:20:32,240 --> 01:20:35,639
Speaker 1: had did a secret Santa Um. That was Mark's gift

1596
01:20:35,640 --> 01:20:37,479
Speaker 1: to West. We'll do that again. We're gonna run that

1597
01:20:37,520 --> 01:20:40,360
Speaker 1: back at the end of this month for Christmas. You

1598
01:20:40,360 --> 01:20:42,760
Speaker 1: know what, Mark, that was a more thoughtful gift than

1599
01:20:42,800 --> 01:20:45,360
Speaker 1: any of my ex girlfriends have ever given me. Well,

1600
01:20:45,400 --> 01:20:48,120
Speaker 1: I mean probably not, unlike your ex girlfriends. The gift

1601
01:20:48,160 --> 01:20:52,559
Speaker 1: doesn't actually exist yet. So let's pick this game and

1602
01:20:52,680 --> 01:20:56,800
Speaker 1: the score mark, and then we're going home. Patriots thirty eight,

1603
01:20:57,640 --> 01:21:07,320
Speaker 1: Ravens three at West Ravens Patriots twenty. I love it

1604
01:21:07,320 --> 01:21:08,840
Speaker 1: and I'm afraid of it, and I love it. The

1605
01:21:08,880 --> 01:21:14,799
Speaker 1: Patriots will fall. The Ravens are hot and getting hotter.

1606
01:21:15,240 --> 01:21:17,080
Speaker 1: I don't feel good about this one. You guys know

1607
01:21:17,200 --> 01:21:19,680
Speaker 1: my rules. I don't pick against the Patriots, so so

1608
01:21:19,720 --> 01:21:24,519
Speaker 1: they win seventeen. But I don't like Martella's ben It's

1609
01:21:24,560 --> 01:21:26,959
Speaker 1: not healthy. Eric Rowe, who has been their starting quarterback,

1610
01:21:27,000 --> 01:21:32,080
Speaker 1: he's not healthy. Pay Okay, their offensive line. I wanted

1611
01:21:32,120 --> 01:21:34,120
Speaker 1: to say, it's been getting better throughout the season, and

1612
01:21:34,120 --> 01:21:36,479
Speaker 1: they're gonna need it. The Ravens are gonna lose. They're

1613
01:21:36,479 --> 01:21:38,519
Speaker 1: gonna be seven and six and two weeks from now

1614
01:21:38,520 --> 01:21:41,040
Speaker 1: when they lose to the Steelers, we're gonna be singing

1615
01:21:41,040 --> 01:21:44,000
Speaker 1: a different tune in this room. You'll be singing, Yes,

1616
01:21:44,040 --> 01:21:46,960
Speaker 1: I will. How about you actually singing if the Patriots

1617
01:21:48,200 --> 01:21:51,120
Speaker 1: beat them on Sunday and then they lose again to

1618
01:21:51,320 --> 01:21:55,800
Speaker 1: the Steelers, will you sing for us? Yes, you have to. Sure,

1619
01:21:55,880 --> 01:21:57,559
Speaker 1: not for a long period of time, but I'll sing

1620
01:21:57,600 --> 01:22:00,639
Speaker 1: a few notes. I mean money sing report, I mean

1621
01:22:00,960 --> 01:22:04,320
Speaker 1: Sydney is really the breakout singer of this group. She

1622
01:22:04,439 --> 01:22:07,120
Speaker 1: now charges for that because everything is about money for

1623
01:22:07,160 --> 01:22:12,600
Speaker 1: her now. It's ridiculous. Um, I think I want it

1624
01:22:12,600 --> 01:22:14,800
Speaker 1: would be great if now if all our interactions with

1625
01:22:14,880 --> 01:22:18,040
Speaker 1: Sydney she's in song, you know it's like a musical

1626
01:22:18,160 --> 01:22:20,080
Speaker 1: like that would be maybe get annoying after a while,

1627
01:22:20,120 --> 01:22:23,519
Speaker 1: but I love the idea as well. I thought, get

1628
01:22:23,560 --> 01:22:27,519
Speaker 1: him trying me some wraps from Hamilton's. I'll wrap everything

1629
01:22:27,600 --> 01:22:30,720
Speaker 1: from here and out. Are you listening, Lynn Manuel, I

1630
01:22:30,720 --> 01:22:32,559
Speaker 1: thought you're gonna say if all of our interactions have

1631
01:22:32,640 --> 01:22:36,080
Speaker 1: to go through her agent now money because of that? Sae.

1632
01:22:36,120 --> 01:22:39,040
Speaker 1: All right, We'll be back on Sunday night, our flagship

1633
01:22:39,080 --> 01:22:42,440
Speaker 1: show where we recap all the games that we just previewed.

1634
01:22:42,479 --> 01:22:46,080
Speaker 1: Thanks to everyone for listening, and uh make sure you

1635
01:22:46,160 --> 01:22:51,960
Speaker 1: leave comments and uh stars on the iTunes page. It

1636
01:22:52,000 --> 01:22:54,720
Speaker 1: means a lot and makes a difference. Let's go home.

1637
01:22:54,800 --> 01:22:59,000
Speaker 1: This is Dan Hansas. Well we're not going home. Maybe

1638
01:22:59,040 --> 01:23:03,280
Speaker 1: marks going home? Signing off four Quiet Storm, The Mailman,

1639
01:23:03,400 --> 01:23:23,080
Speaker 1: The Boss and New Money Behind the Glass until Sunday

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01:23:32,840 --> 01:23:32,880
Speaker 1: m