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Speaker 1: The Around the NFL Podcast, Making America great Again. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast.

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Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hansens and I am joined build

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Speaker 1: up some heroes, Mark Sessler, then Greg Rosenthal. What's up? Boys?

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Speaker 1: See you know what you got right for? What's up? Boys?

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Speaker 1: I know West isn't here today. Uh, And you're sitting

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Speaker 1: to my left, which is thrown off the whole chemistry.

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Speaker 1: It's in the balance here right now. I'm not one

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Speaker 1: of those versatile players that can play any position. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna be terrible today because it is odd and I'm

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Speaker 1: so used to seeing Greg in the distance over in

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Speaker 1: the corner, and now he's looking over my shoulders. So

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Speaker 1: are you're feeling some pressure? No, I'm like you. I'm

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Speaker 1: not versatile and you can't move me around and when

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Speaker 1: other people move around, I start to crumble. So we

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Speaker 1: are listen. That's what makes us so great, our lack

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Speaker 1: of versatility. Yes, this is the Sunday recap show, our

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Speaker 1: flagship show of the regular season Around the NFL Podcast,

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Speaker 1: where we're gonna break down fourteen games that we watched today. Right,

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Speaker 1: is that the right number? Right now? That Big Son

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Speaker 1: another home run Mark. I wanted before we get into

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Speaker 1: anything touch based with you. Uh. You you know we

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Speaker 1: do the NFL Game Day Blitz on NFL now every Sunday.

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Speaker 1: You were bumped today. Uh. They rolled in Larry King

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Speaker 1: uh and and put him propped him up on the

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Speaker 1: on the couch and he spoke instead of you. Was

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Speaker 1: this a career at low point? It was? It was concerning.

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Speaker 1: But if you know, fifty years from now I bumped

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Speaker 1: someone to be on television, I would consider it revenge.

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Speaker 1: That would be five decades now, because that's how old

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Speaker 1: he is. Well, but Larry King is a TV legend.

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Speaker 1: You can't feel bad about getting bummed for Larry King.

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Speaker 1: You know he did he did the dab, which you know,

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Speaker 1: enough of the enough of the dab at this point,

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Speaker 1: and they put that thing on NFL network from Game

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Speaker 1: Day Blitz. That wasn't happening. If Cessler goes on there instead,

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Speaker 1: how do you know Mark could have come on and

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Speaker 1: set something wild. I never would have done the dab

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Speaker 1: to start with. Okay, I think that's fair. Yes, there

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Speaker 1: is a lot to get to today. Uh, and another

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Speaker 1: a day where you know, now we're in the middle

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Speaker 1: on right now, a lot of big injuries to talk

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Speaker 1: about coming up. Steelers Bengals we're gonna talk about and

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Speaker 1: the injury that could change the a f C. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna have two phoners to use little industry lingo are

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Speaker 1: old friends Connor or our new Jersey correspondent, and of

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Speaker 1: course Kevin Patrick coming at you. It's been a couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks since we had Kevin, so we gotta get

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Speaker 1: him on talk some games that they watched, and uh,

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Speaker 1: finally Sunday Night football, we go live from the Throne

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Speaker 1: of Ease in Houston where the Pats and Texans squared off.

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Speaker 1: Greg always upset when they flex the Pats. The Sunday nights,

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Speaker 1: you don't get to give the game the attention you

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Speaker 1: feel a dessert. Well, plus the shipping costs for the

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Speaker 1: Throne to get it down there to Houston and listen

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Speaker 1: not on your time though, so not a major concernat

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Speaker 1: listen to Greg. By the way, everything and we'll get

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Speaker 1: to this, but everything that could break thrown a vise

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Speaker 1: way did here we go again, well, over and over again.

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Speaker 1: I mean for eight months we've said, what were the

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Speaker 1: Patriots would do they go twelve and four, roll right

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Speaker 1: into the playoffs and go to the super Bowl. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because because the season's over now, Well, if I've learned anything,

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Speaker 1: we should make a long term judgment based on one

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Speaker 1: week's event. No, no, it's not one week. It's fifteen

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Speaker 1: years and at this point we know what's going to happen.

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Speaker 1: The season just plays out as a sad procession of

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Speaker 1: commentate on it. Well, he's right, say save it for

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Speaker 1: the Patriots. And of course before we get to the

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Speaker 1: first game. This is our Sunday show, which means you

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Speaker 1: could watch this on YouTube or NFL now, but of

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Speaker 1: course you could also listen to it. You probably are

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Speaker 1: right now if you're hearing that would make sense? Comment maybe,

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Speaker 1: maybe some smarter comments on the old YouTube. It's not

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Speaker 1: asked too much. You get great comments on iTunes. Let's

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Speaker 1: out for the Bengals, who lost Andy Dalton to a

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Speaker 1: of the season feeling like Andy Dalton is so good,

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Speaker 1: But that's what it felt like today. What a costly

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Speaker 1: McCarron comes in. Now, I thought Ada McCarron showed some things.

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Speaker 1: So if there's any chance that Andy Dalton could get

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Speaker 1: crazy to think, after the way that the Bengals have

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Speaker 1: possible luck for the Bengals and a franchise that deserves better.

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Speaker 1: They've had bad luck for years upon years, and for

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Speaker 1: Dalton was gonna be one of the really fun subplots

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Speaker 1: Now that's a good chance that that's just not gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: two uneven teams. Even with McCarron on the field. The

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Speaker 1: They moved the ball up and down, The defense did

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Speaker 1: They've been lighting it up. D'Angelo Williams held for seventy

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Speaker 1: the Steelers made all the big plays when they needed to.

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Speaker 1: I'm not trying to say the Steelers were held in check.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we see no evidence of Pittsburgh slowing down

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Speaker 1: So we don't know what's going on. A lot of

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Speaker 1: a fan base that were they on the fan Pan ranking, yes,

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Speaker 1: on elsewhere in the a f C. Khalil Mack, Ladies

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Speaker 1: game you watched, uh and covered four round the NFL

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Speaker 1: on Sunday. It was the Carolina Panthers, who are still perfect.

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Speaker 1: Cam Newton and company clinched a first round by in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, a thirty eight to zip wipe out of

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Speaker 1: the d o A Atlanta Falcons. What a joke. The

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Speaker 1: Falcons are, by the way, get it together and the

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Speaker 1: Panthers are now thirteen and oh Connor was this is

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Speaker 1: one side? And is the final score indicates? Yeah? I

435
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Speaker 1: mean it was the most effortless when that that I've

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Speaker 1: ever seen. I mean, Cam Newton was was converting second

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Speaker 1: in twenties with just a flick of a risk. There

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Speaker 1: was no one within ten yards of greig Olds. I

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Speaker 1: think that was on the first or second drive. And uh,

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Speaker 1: you know the Falcons were just they were done at halftime,

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Speaker 1: and I mean they could have canceled the rest of

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Speaker 1: the game. Forget about. They did it. By the way,

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Speaker 1: the Falcons pulled off the impossible. They started five and

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Speaker 1: oh and by Christmas Eve, we won't even think of

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Speaker 1: them anymore. They've managed to become irrelevant in a shorter

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Speaker 1: period of time than you could have ever thought possible

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Speaker 1: when you win your first five games. Yeah, And and

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Speaker 1: it was weird. I mean, you know, there was a

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Speaker 1: moment and and even kind of the analysts noted it

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Speaker 1: during the game where you know, they were down twenty

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Speaker 1: one nothing and they're about to get the ball, and like,

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Speaker 1: you know, dan Quinn just called like a meeting, like

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Speaker 1: almost an entire team meeting on the sidelines, like guys,

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Speaker 1: could we please just you know, can we please just

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Speaker 1: stop this for like one second? Like four touchdown somewhat competent.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there was like a level of panic, like,

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Speaker 1: holy crap, this is way harder than I thought it was,

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Speaker 1: you know, And and I I feel like they're really

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Speaker 1: in the thick of some ugliness right now. It's amazing that,

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Speaker 1: you know, going into the season, there's a great debate

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Speaker 1: like who's the best quarterback in this this division? Is

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Speaker 1: that Matt Ryan is a Cam Newton? Is it Drew Brees?

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Speaker 1: And you look at where Matt Ryan is right now

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Speaker 1: and where Cam Newton is right now. Kim Newton only

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Speaker 1: had to throw twenty one passes to have two dred

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Speaker 1: and sixty five yards and three touchdowns. That is efficient.

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Speaker 1: I always see people use the word officiing when they're

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Speaker 1: just lousy. Oh he was efficient fifth scene for fifty

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Speaker 1: five yards and they won. Now that that was efficient.

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Speaker 1: Every other throw he has is deep down the field

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Speaker 1: to ted Din for a touchdown, and we're making excuses

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Speaker 1: by the way from Matt Ryan at this point. I

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Speaker 1: know he doesn't have the same players around him this year,

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Speaker 1: but he's having a bad year and the greg's QB

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Speaker 1: and I should reflect that. I think that Matt Ryan

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Speaker 1: right now is sort of at like pre Kevin Gilbride firing,

477
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Speaker 1: like Eli Manning, just desparations flailing at this point, you know,

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Speaker 1: like he's just sort of like whatever, I mean, this

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Speaker 1: isn't working out this year. We're just gonna love. I

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Speaker 1: love any called Connor callbacks to his beat and his

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Speaker 1: his previous light. Before we let you go, Connor, I

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Speaker 1: do want to mention and bring bring to light, you

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Speaker 1: know something that might be a little bit embarrassing, but

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Speaker 1: it's important just in terms of us being open and

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Speaker 1: with our listenership. You who have we do our picks

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Speaker 1: obviously every week, and uh Panthers have won all thirteen

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Speaker 1: of their games. You have picked against the Panthers A

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Speaker 1: even out of thirteen weeks. Uh, this season, this is

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Speaker 1: absolute madness. And when is it gonna end? I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I mean next week you got the crafty Giants coming

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Speaker 1: to town and uh, you know, I just don't know.

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Speaker 1: I mean the Giants almost upended the undefeated Patriots before

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Speaker 1: they come. Hey, picking the Giants too, this is a

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Speaker 1: bonus baby pick this weekend. I'm taking it to vague.

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Speaker 1: Third is this was the worst possible pick you could

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Speaker 1: have ever made is picking the Falcons in this game

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Speaker 1: and they lose their It's the worst pick because our

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Speaker 1: group is in battle with another editorial group in the building,

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Speaker 1: and Connors picks are attached to our group effort, and

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Speaker 1: he is an anchor taking our ship. I did some

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Speaker 1: math too, and if Connor would just pick like a

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Speaker 1: normal human being, you would essentially be tied with Mark

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Speaker 1: and I picking about six of the games correct. Instead,

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Speaker 1: he is he is the anchor or maybe the iceberg

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Speaker 1: and where the Titanic? Anyway, Well, all right, you know

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Speaker 1: next week I'll just I'll cut all the dandwiches off

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Speaker 1: my little boring life started start making him because they're

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Speaker 1: going sixteen and now they're not losing to the lousy

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Speaker 1: Giants or the Falcons or the Bucks. They're going sixty

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Speaker 1: and now it's it's it's such a great story. Um,

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Speaker 1: all right, Connor, we'll let you go. You've got a

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Speaker 1: mortgage to pay and a house to defend from goblin.

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Speaker 1: So uh, we'll catch up to you a little bit

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Speaker 1: later and talk to some madden. Right, all right, good night, guys,

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Speaker 1: Connor is out the door. Let's move on, uh and

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Speaker 1: talk another NFC battle here, this between the Dallas Cowboys

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Speaker 1: and Green Bay Packers that Lambeau Of course, the Packers

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Speaker 1: haven't been the Packers at home this season even you know,

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Speaker 1: some buzz ing around the NFL post about, uh, it's

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Speaker 1: not cold enough at Lambeau Field. Is that hurting their

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Speaker 1: home field advantage? Anyway? Forget all that. The Green Bay

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Speaker 1: Packers are alone once again in first place in the

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Speaker 1: NFC North following seven win over the Cowboys. Uh. This

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Speaker 1: is Mike McCarthy's first game back as the play call or.

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Speaker 1: He took that that gig back, and the Packers leaned

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Speaker 1: on James Starks and Eddie Lacey who all had very

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Speaker 1: nice days in the win. Mark, are the Packers back? Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, after the first half, I was ready to

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Speaker 1: say yes McCarthy. Mike McCarthy takes back the controls, calls

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Speaker 1: the plays and they looked outrageous early on, but it

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Speaker 1: started to crumble a little bit for a large period

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Speaker 1: of the second half where they punted four straight times.

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Speaker 1: The Packers still really struggled to convert third and short,

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Speaker 1: and it really was the ground game. I think it

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Speaker 1: was the commitment to the ground game two and thirty

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Speaker 1: yards rushing their most and eleven seasons. That was the

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Speaker 1: difference today. They were extremely balanced. I think McCarthy's goal was, hey,

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Speaker 1: we can't fix this offense in one game, but we

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Speaker 1: can be balanced. And there has been a lot of

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Speaker 1: faith in Eddie Lacy the last week or two with McCarthy,

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Speaker 1: and he let him go crazy, and it was Starks

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Speaker 1: as well, complimenting them. And then on the flip side

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Speaker 1: of the ball, you're dealing with Matt Castle, who has

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Speaker 1: never looked worse. I mean, this was a Matt Castle

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Speaker 1: basement game where when they needed him to throw third

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Speaker 1: and seven, he throws it for five yards, third and

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Speaker 1: eleven he throws it for seven. He cannot find anyone

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Speaker 1: beyond the sticks and really was the defense shutting down

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Speaker 1: Dallas in the second half that allowed Green Bay in

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Speaker 1: the end to just heat up, used the ground game

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Speaker 1: and punished Dallas late. Packers get eighty one plays in

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Speaker 1: this game, which is a ton, and they wore the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys down. You're right, it was only fourteen to seven

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Speaker 1: there in the fourth quarter. It looked like the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: were in this game, and they got the ball a

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Speaker 1: couple of times where you know, they could have driven

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Speaker 1: and tried to score the game in the fourth quarter,

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Speaker 1: and then there was one, you know, the touchdown drive

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Speaker 1: where Eddie Lacy and Stark started to get it going.

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Speaker 1: It really was their defense because they gave him so

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Speaker 1: many chances. If Cowboys had been moving the ball at

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Speaker 1: all throughout the day, we might be talking like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: this Packers team didn't really look that different on offense today,

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Speaker 1: but they got the job done. But the defense has

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Speaker 1: been good this year in spurts, and so if you

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Speaker 1: need a defense to win a game for you, it's

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Speaker 1: not so bad. It was a terrible game for Dez

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Speaker 1: Bryant to go completely to sleep, and I blame that

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Speaker 1: on Castle as well. At the same time, the Sam

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Speaker 1: Shields goes out and Damarius Randall, green Bay's number one

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Speaker 1: first round cornerback, had to come in. And at that

572
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,399
Speaker 1: point des Brian had one catch for nine yards. He

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Speaker 1: finished the game with one catch, three terrible drops. And

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Speaker 1: it's not all is out there. He's not fully healthy.

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Speaker 1: We know that. But it is a Matt Castle issue

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Speaker 1: and you're being too hard on that. Castle. By the way,

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Speaker 1: did you watch this car I'm saying you're you're taking

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Speaker 1: a Cowboys offense that does not have a running game.

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Speaker 1: Has Jason Witten? He was running around like a mummy

580
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Speaker 1: at this point, he can't move anymore. Des Briant clearly

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Speaker 1: isn't right. They don't really have a second receiver to

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Speaker 1: lean on. This offense isn't that good. So asking Matt

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Speaker 1: Castle to raise them beyond beyond mediocrity is asking all

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Speaker 1: hold on his way. Let me just finish. What were

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Speaker 1: they doing when Tony Romo is playing? Not much nothing,

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Speaker 1: when Brandon Weeden was playing it might not be. What

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00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 1: I say is they did get a running game today,

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Speaker 1: I mean very flat and it was. It wasn't a lot,

589
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Speaker 1: but Darren McFadden put them down at the goal line

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Speaker 1: with a chance to score and Castle throws an end

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Speaker 1: zone pick that went off his hands the game. I'm

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Speaker 1: not I I know who Matt Castle is. It's not

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Speaker 1: a shock that he's up and down each game. But

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Speaker 1: this is a quarterback that looked as dysfunctional as Brandon

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Speaker 1: Weed never did. And that was the whole point. Oh,

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Speaker 1: he's he's gives us a solid veteran presence. Well, the

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00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:10,480
Speaker 1: same thing the Bill said. And he's just not that

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Speaker 1: player Ryan fitzpat. He's also thirty five or thirty six

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Speaker 1: years old. There's you know, maybe maybe like players like

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady don't age that much, but it's like he's

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Speaker 1: been in the league a long time. You're right, it's

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00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,200
Speaker 1: time to time to get rid of Matt Castle. But

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Speaker 1: that Castle was just supposed to get them to Tony Romo.

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Speaker 1: The fact that he's had to come back in is

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Speaker 1: just almost asking a lot. It's it's just cruel and

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Speaker 1: at least I like there's a I like all the

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Speaker 1: Castle sympathy in here. I just think that he he

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Speaker 1: is not healthy. That's a very guy that's not good

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Speaker 1: for not being good. We already knew this. Well, here's

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Speaker 1: the thing, we don't have to talk about him anymore.

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Speaker 1: I know he's on NFL Network as a supporting actor

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Speaker 1: against the Jets this week, but there four four nine,

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Speaker 1: So NFL Network producers, you can stop talking about the Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: You can stop jamming them into every discussion. They're no

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Speaker 1: longer in the NFC East. We got the Packers. They're

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Speaker 1: a l team and they're in this game, and they're

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Speaker 1: looking like the most like you know, they're looking like

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Speaker 1: an NFC North type of champion. Do we jam Dallison

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Speaker 1: to NFL Network shows? Oh? Yeah, are you kidding me?

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Speaker 1: He's like, let's talk about them. Let's reporters. They're single

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Speaker 1: handedly dooming his career one word at a time. Right now,

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Speaker 1: all right, let's move on to Russell Wilson. Man, he

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Speaker 1: is continuing a dominant run of play right now. He's

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Speaker 1: he threw five touchdown passes against a decimated Ravens team.

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00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:28,840
Speaker 1: Let's be honest, but still end of the day, thirty

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Speaker 1: five seven win for the Seahawks. There's suddenly eight and

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Speaker 1: five looking very much like the Seahawks that have dominated

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Speaker 1: football for the past two years. Mark, is there anyone

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Speaker 1: on the planet playing football better than Russell Wilson? You

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Speaker 1: know you're beating up on Matt Castle. Now let's talk

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Speaker 1: about a good quarterback. Thank you. Well, it's much more

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Speaker 1: enjoyable to talk about Russell Wilson. I mean, we just

633
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Speaker 1: talked with Connor about the way that Cam Newton sort

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00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 1: of effortlessly is at the top of his game. I

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Speaker 1: feel the same way about Wilson. And it didn't just

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Speaker 1: start this week. He's got a four game run with

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Speaker 1: sixteen touchdown zero picks, and it really it comes down

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Speaker 1: to what he's doing play by play. There was an

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Speaker 1: early touchdown past to Tyler Lockett that was just beautiful.

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00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:09,120
Speaker 1: A read surveys the field throws a beautiful past, something

641
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:11,440
Speaker 1: that you know, some people wonder if Russell Wilson a

642
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:13,600
Speaker 1: year ago, two years ago is capable of that kind

643
00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 1: of development. We're seeing it. The one big thing for

644
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 1: me because listen, they blew the Ravens out today. There

645
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 1: was no question two quarters and he was gonna win

646
00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 1: this thing. But Thomas Rawls goes out with a season

647
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,640
Speaker 1: ending an injury. And you know, even in one quarter,

648
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:30,520
Speaker 1: it was in the first drive for them that he

649
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 1: had forty four yards. Looked like he was on his

650
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:35,000
Speaker 1: way to another monster game on the ground, and now

651
00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:38,440
Speaker 1: you're maybe waiting for Lynch to get back before the playoffs.

652
00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 1: No guarantee of that. Uh. Dawn Harris and Fred Jackson

653
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 1: on the ground looked absolutely miserable. So you've got to

654
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 1: reorganize that part of your offense. And that's a big

655
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 1: loss for them. No matter how Will Wilson's playing. That's

656
00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:55,640
Speaker 1: amazing to me how well Tyler Lockett is playing. Tyler

657
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 1: Locket is now one of the only two players in

658
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 1: NFL history as rookies to have five receiving touchdowns a

659
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 1: kick return TV and a punt return t D. And

660
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 1: his receiving skills are no joke. They have been coming

661
00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 1: up in the last four weeks and we've been waiting

662
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 1: for them to develop a young, you know, vertical type

663
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:16,960
Speaker 1: of receiver and they now have one they haven't and

664
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Speaker 1: Daniel like this, I won't go to town on Jimmy

665
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 1: Clauson because he actually this game is not on him.

666
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:25,280
Speaker 1: They did what they could, but they're so depleted that

667
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 1: when they announced their offensive lineup, which I don't know

668
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 1: why they went with offense before the game, and you know,

669
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 1: the last guy, the fires burning and all the flags

670
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:35,040
Speaker 1: are waving. It's supposed to be the guy that you

671
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:39,600
Speaker 1: center your entire organization. It's Marshall Yonda and he proceeds

672
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 1: to help block what two yards in the first quarter.

673
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 1: They have nobody left. He's the only good player in

674
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 1: the team. They've got no one left. And we saw

675
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:48,960
Speaker 1: a graphic if you're watching on YouTube, Doug Baldwin and

676
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:52,400
Speaker 1: Tyler Lockett two of the top Fantasy scorers, which which

677
00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:54,120
Speaker 1: is amazing. They're gonna have to be more of a

678
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:56,240
Speaker 1: pass first team. I know Marshall Lynch will come back

679
00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 1: at some point, but you can't count on him to

680
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 1: just carry the load. And in the meantime, you gotta

681
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,720
Speaker 1: win some games. It's gonna be all Russell Wilson. Meanwhile,

682
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:04,920
Speaker 1: I'm looking I was looking at the box score during

683
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:07,479
Speaker 1: the game here, and I feel like this is very fitting.

684
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 1: If you look right now, Seattle, it's got all their

685
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 1: stats on the website and it just says no Baltimore passing,

686
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 1: no Baltimore rust. It doesn't matter. They're not they're not humans,

687
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 1: they're not dot Com. Well, it's it generates in the

688
00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:26,880
Speaker 1: same place. Keep it under the table, all right. I

689
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:29,920
Speaker 1: won't tell anyone anything else on this game. Guest. Seattle

690
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 1: is in that five seed now, so they don't they

691
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:34,800
Speaker 1: don't really have to worry about other teams. You know,

692
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 1: they still have to go to Arizona. But if they

693
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:38,680
Speaker 1: go to the NFC East winner, which is how it

694
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:41,560
Speaker 1: would set up, I love it. Forget about what a

695
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 1: great way to get rid of the NFC East from

696
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 1: our lives lives is for the Seahawks to go into

697
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:51,560
Speaker 1: the meadow Lands or the Link or Landover and just

698
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:55,480
Speaker 1: absolutely drop a bomb. And and whether it's Arizona or Carolina,

699
00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 1: that is the last team you want coming in on

700
00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 1: divisional weekend, especially if if you do have that NFC schaming,

701
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:04,480
Speaker 1: maybe you don't have Marson Lynch, but you give another

702
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 1: week to get healthy, because that that is the issue

703
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 1: for me. They are they are one. They want to

704
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 1: be a run first team and they can't right now.

705
00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 1: Moving on the New York Jets. There you go, boys

706
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 1: taking care of business at the Meadowlands on Sunday. They

707
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 1: jumped out to a twenty seven nothing halftime lead and

708
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:23,760
Speaker 1: cruise to a thirty to eight win over the listless

709
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 1: Tennessee Typoons. You know, I'll tell you something about the Titoons. Uh,

710
00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:30,920
Speaker 1: you wanna talk about a team that sucked this room in.

711
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:34,040
Speaker 1: We thought that they had turned the corner. They thought, oh,

712
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:36,920
Speaker 1: they got the quarterback and they have some frisky pieces around.

713
00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 1: This team stinks and they didn't even they didn'tven look

714
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 1: like they wanted to be there by the second quarter

715
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 1: of this game. Guys making business decisions on tackles. Uh.

716
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:48,479
Speaker 1: It seems to be some loafing from my opinion, from

717
00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 1: my advantage point. Uh. And I think that Listen, is

718
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 1: there any way to fire an interim coach? No, you don't.

719
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 1: You just go through the season and you start over.

720
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 1: I'm getting there. But the Jets, they did what they

721
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:04,960
Speaker 1: needed to do. And this is why I'm starting to

722
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 1: get excited. And this is why, again, Greg, you were

723
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:09,360
Speaker 1: wrong with Ryan Fitzpatrick. I hope to see this rectified

724
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:14,760
Speaker 1: in the QB inx he has in the last three games,

725
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 1: He's got nine touchdowns, no no interceptions, passer rating over

726
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:20,840
Speaker 1: one hundred. This was supposed to be the time of

727
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:24,080
Speaker 1: the season that Ryan Fitzpatrick came down to earth in

728
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 1: the past where he starts playing poor and sinks his team.

729
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:29,800
Speaker 1: But it's the actual opposite where he's been up and

730
00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 1: down this season. With some highs and lows. He's played

731
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:36,080
Speaker 1: really smart, good football. He's on pace to throw for

732
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:40,200
Speaker 1: over four thousand yards more than thirty touchdowns. And in

733
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,719
Speaker 1: Brandon Marshall and Eric Decker you have and you can

734
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 1: make the argument, obviously, uh that Pittsburgh probably has a

735
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 1: better one two punch, but there aren't many that are

736
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 1: better than Decker and Marshall. Right now, they both had

737
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:54,879
Speaker 1: touchdowns again in this game, and they're both on pace

738
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:57,840
Speaker 1: for a thousand yards. Uh. Well, Marshall's already over it.

739
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 1: He's on pace for romift hundred double dig of touchdowns.

740
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,440
Speaker 1: That's a real one to punch. When Chris Ivory's right,

741
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:05,880
Speaker 1: this offense is good. It's the top ten offense. Let

742
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 1: me ask you something, because I think we can look

743
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:09,919
Speaker 1: at the Jets now and say that they've done enough

744
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 1: to be they'll be there in the final week in

745
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:16,840
Speaker 1: the contention for the playoffs. It's a tough situation. Got Steelers,

746
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:19,360
Speaker 1: they'll get they'll get to the final week. You've got

747
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:21,759
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, Patriots, and Bills left in your schedule. They

748
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:23,520
Speaker 1: can win two of those because the Bills feel like

749
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:25,759
Speaker 1: a lost team to me on some level. But do

750
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:27,880
Speaker 1: you see them as a team that can actually do

751
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:31,279
Speaker 1: some damage in the playoffs. I think they could hang

752
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:33,440
Speaker 1: with any team in the a f C. I really do.

753
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:36,279
Speaker 1: And yeah, I don't think there's anything especially now the

754
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 1: Bengals have been compromised. Denver you know, isn't dominating anyone

755
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:42,480
Speaker 1: right now. The Jets always play the Patriots tight. The

756
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 1: Steelers are gonna be tough for anyone, but I I

757
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:48,279
Speaker 1: think the Jets, uh could definitely at least hang with them.

758
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:49,800
Speaker 1: I think the Jets would be a tough out in

759
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:52,920
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Um so, yeah, I think they're dangerous if

760
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:54,799
Speaker 1: they get there, but the path is still hard. Chris

761
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:58,600
Speaker 1: Ivory is playing well. You mentioned Patrick. I think, yeah,

762
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:00,480
Speaker 1: you guys talk about being too hard on someone. I

763
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:02,760
Speaker 1: don't think Chris I ever really ever looked that different

764
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:05,400
Speaker 1: this season. I really think it was a string of

765
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 1: games where the offensive line wasn't playing as well and

766
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:10,320
Speaker 1: they played some better teams, and he's been running with

767
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 1: a lot of juice. You're right, Fitzpatrick was coming off

768
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 1: I think his best game of the year against the Giants.

769
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 1: They really dominated that game. I think we're unlucky that

770
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 1: they were down in it, and the Jets are a

771
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 1: complete team. I mean you mentioned Decker and Marshall. They

772
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 1: have more touchdowns than any Jets receiving tandem in Jets history.

773
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:28,080
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a it's a nice team. Uh. And

774
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 1: they're eight and five and most years ten or eleven wins.

775
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:32,960
Speaker 1: That's gonna get you right in. But you mentioned it

776
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:35,279
Speaker 1: with the Chiefs, and we'll talk about them coming. I mean,

777
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:37,480
Speaker 1: we talked about them already. And then the Steelers they're

778
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:39,360
Speaker 1: gonna they might have to win out to get in,

779
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:41,680
Speaker 1: which is very different. That's asking a lot, especially when

780
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:44,920
Speaker 1: the Patriots under schedule. And I think even though you're

781
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:48,279
Speaker 1: right Mark about the Bills being a team that's deeply inconsistent.

782
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:51,719
Speaker 1: Knowing Rex, he'll have them pumped up in Orchard Park

783
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,319
Speaker 1: in week seventeen if it's a win and go home

784
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:56,400
Speaker 1: for the Jets scenario. So I think that could be

785
00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:58,040
Speaker 1: a tough game too. So the Jets have a very

786
00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:00,160
Speaker 1: tough road. It would have been really nice of the

787
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 1: charges could have knocked off the the Chiefs today. It

788
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 1: did not happen, But listen, what else can hask our

789
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 1: first three game winning streak since two thousand and eleven,

790
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:11,880
Speaker 1: The eight and five. The team was four and twelve

791
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:14,200
Speaker 1: last year. No one gave him a shot. You did,

792
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:16,640
Speaker 1: you said top ten? I didn't. I don't win ten games.

793
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:19,000
Speaker 1: I thought they had the pieces and it's really it's

794
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 1: worked out, but not in the way I thought it would.

795
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:22,800
Speaker 1: I never thought this was gonna be a team with

796
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 1: a good offense like this is a good offense, Tan Gailey.

797
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:28,719
Speaker 1: They have that new Coordinator of the Year award. He's

798
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:30,960
Speaker 1: got to be in the mix, and he had Max.

799
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:32,759
Speaker 1: I mean, there's they have some talent, but he's doing

800
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 1: a great Yeah. I mean you look at you know,

801
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:38,400
Speaker 1: Ivory in Marshall and Fitzpatrick. These guys hadn't played together

802
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:40,400
Speaker 1: last year at one point, so they're coming together at

803
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:43,120
Speaker 1: the right time. And the last six quarters for Fitzpatrick

804
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:45,399
Speaker 1: had been outrageous. The end of that Giants game out

805
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:47,440
Speaker 1: of his mind. He deserves a lot of credit. Hey

806
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:50,959
Speaker 1: the man, I'm not talking. Although you should pay hands,

807
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:55,400
Speaker 1: pay me, but pay pay Mohammed Wilkers into Big Mo

808
00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:59,359
Speaker 1: three sacks. He has twelve on the year, just one

809
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:03,440
Speaker 1: half sacks. I have uh an old jet whose name

810
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 1: I'm blanking on Shawan Ellis who at twelve and a

811
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 1: half and two thousand three. So he's starting to get

812
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:10,399
Speaker 1: into some hollow territory and Jets his three pay him

813
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 1: get it done. The Rives contract could hurt them though,

814
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 1: with this stuff. As good as Seldon Richardson and you

815
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:18,839
Speaker 1: know expected Lennon Williams there, you know, they were kind

816
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 1: of the new exciting guys. I mean, he's the best

817
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:23,680
Speaker 1: player on the defensive line. He's a beast best player

818
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:26,759
Speaker 1: on the defense. But Ryan Fitzpatrick is the team m

819
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:28,920
Speaker 1: v P. Greg And that's why give it to Marshall,

820
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 1: a top ten offense quarterback. You gotta put him higher

821
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:34,239
Speaker 1: in your QB. Just do. Let's go, Jets rest to

822
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:36,440
Speaker 1: the podcast in thirty five minutes. Just keep it. I

823
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 1: like that. I like, don't worry, Mark, We'll get to

824
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:41,319
Speaker 1: your Browns. I'm not asking to not asking to get

825
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:43,359
Speaker 1: to the you know what you can number one. I'm

826
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:45,440
Speaker 1: we're happy for you, Dan. You don't have to have

827
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:49,320
Speaker 1: this streak of aggression about the Jets were actually feeling

828
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:51,560
Speaker 1: good for you, Like, I don't think you are feeling

829
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 1: good for me. You really don't know. I don't I

830
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:56,759
Speaker 1: actually texted Damn two days ago to say how great

831
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 1: I thought they played against the Giants. When I say

832
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 1: I think, I think the brown then we'll get to

833
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:02,880
Speaker 1: the Browns. Them winning puts you in a better headspace.

834
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:05,239
Speaker 1: When it comes to the Jets doing well, it means

835
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:08,000
Speaker 1: nothing for you. I'm actually we'll gettingly happy for my friend.

836
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:09,960
Speaker 1: But it's gonna take weeks for for the ice to

837
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:11,719
Speaker 1: melt around Dan on this one. All right, here we go,

838
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:15,879
Speaker 1: moving on. The Jacksonville Jaguars have never scored fifty points

839
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:19,239
Speaker 1: in the regular season, well at least until Sunday. Blake

840
00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:22,400
Speaker 1: Bortles through three touchdowns and the Jaguars scored a touchdown

841
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:26,000
Speaker 1: in every second half position possession, a fifty one sixteen

842
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 1: win over the Colts, A fifty burger. The cults get

843
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:32,239
Speaker 1: dropped on him. Forty burger in the second half alone. Absolutely.

844
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:34,960
Speaker 1: Jacksonville actually trailed at halftime in this game, and they

845
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 1: were getting booed by the home crowd at ever Bank Field,

846
00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:40,520
Speaker 1: which is a weird place. Then they outscored the Colt

847
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:44,759
Speaker 1: three in the last two quarters. The Jaguars alive still

848
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:48,600
Speaker 1: with the pulse. They're called stink. They have a pulse.

849
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:51,640
Speaker 1: I mean they're one game out right now. If they

850
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:55,600
Speaker 1: had just won that game against Indianapolis the first time around,

851
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:57,640
Speaker 1: which I covered, I remember it well, where they lost

852
00:39:57,680 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 1: by three and a million things went against them and Matt.

853
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:02,359
Speaker 1: It was the first time we saw Matt hasselback. They

854
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:04,720
Speaker 1: would they would be in first in this division instead

855
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 1: there one game back. And if nothing else, they have

856
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 1: some identity, and it's part of the identity is they're

857
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:13,279
Speaker 1: one of the worst defense in the league. But the

858
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:15,560
Speaker 1: other part of the identity is they're fun to watch

859
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:17,960
Speaker 1: and Allen Robinson and Blake Bortles, and they can put

860
00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:20,080
Speaker 1: up points in a Horry Hurry thirty nine points that

861
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:23,360
Speaker 1: last week, fifty one this week. Yeah, we've seen spurts

862
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:26,239
Speaker 1: of this with Jacksonville and it's not consistent and that's

863
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:28,920
Speaker 1: the issue. But if you if you want an argument

864
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:31,400
Speaker 1: to keep the GM, who found all these parts in

865
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:35,000
Speaker 1: David Caldwell and the coach question, Now I absolutely would

866
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:36,880
Speaker 1: because I don't think you blow the machine up at

867
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:40,320
Speaker 1: this point. There's too many signs of growth here, especially

868
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:42,239
Speaker 1: on offense. Well, they hit on the quarterback that was

869
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:45,359
Speaker 1: they were they they liked Blake Bortles last year. They

870
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:46,799
Speaker 1: went and they got him, I believe with a third

871
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:49,919
Speaker 1: overall pick and now in year two his progression he's ahead.

872
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 1: I know we've been I don't know, maybe a little

873
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:55,240
Speaker 1: hard on boils of time when he's had some lapses

874
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 1: in play. But when you look at the numbers, thirty touchdowns,

875
00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:01,279
Speaker 1: nine interceptions, he's gonna throw for well over four thousand yards.

876
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:04,000
Speaker 1: He is a guy in year two that's ahead of pace,

877
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:06,359
Speaker 1: and you think about what this team can be if

878
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:10,000
Speaker 1: he continues to progress. I mean, they listen, things are

879
00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:11,920
Speaker 1: looking up now in Jackson. This has been a lousy

880
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:16,359
Speaker 1: division for a while. But between Mariota, Boardles and Andrew Luck,

881
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 1: when he gets healthy and I think returns to form,

882
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:21,640
Speaker 1: it's suddenly a fun division moving forward. The question is

883
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:23,800
Speaker 1: who's gonna win this division this year? And now you

884
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 1: know the Matt Hasselbeck thing as falling apart, and they're

885
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:29,360
Speaker 1: hoping Andrew Luck is back next week. They played the

886
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:33,200
Speaker 1: text of that by the way you did. But enough

887
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:36,320
Speaker 1: of this, the Matt Hasselbeck glory boy train, it's about

888
00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:41,520
Speaker 1: about to fall off. Excellent area man predicts forty year

889
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:45,200
Speaker 1: old under no, no, no hassleback will be fine. No,

890
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:47,239
Speaker 1: I was saying, I was just giving him credit for

891
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:49,239
Speaker 1: what he did, and no matter what happens, he has

892
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:52,320
Speaker 1: had a wildly successful season to go to manage to

893
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:53,960
Speaker 1: win these games. But you can't count on him to

894
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:56,680
Speaker 1: win games for you or any quarterback behind what this

895
00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:59,879
Speaker 1: line is doing. The terrible offensive line. You know, Frank Gore,

896
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:02,680
Speaker 1: he's beat up. This is one of the more depressing

897
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:05,719
Speaker 1: teams to watch right now. And I there's no way

898
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:07,600
Speaker 1: to imagine that they're gonna go on a run. And

899
00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 1: if I'm if I'm Jim Mercy, I'm like a little

900
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:13,440
Speaker 1: nervous about even putting uh Andrew Luck back in the

901
00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:16,600
Speaker 1: lineup behind this line to take another beating. I think

902
00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:18,000
Speaker 1: this is a team in a lot of trouble. The

903
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:21,160
Speaker 1: Jaguars to me, are way more compelling team right now

904
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:23,360
Speaker 1: by far. Then and then the Colts are, which was

905
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:25,759
Speaker 1: not the way this was supposed to be. Uh so

906
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:28,880
Speaker 1: everything is going well with the Jaggers. One thing, you know,

907
00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 1: this new extra point rule. Poor Jason Myers. No one

908
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:35,920
Speaker 1: this flies under the radarchsist in Jacksonville. Their kickers missed

909
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:38,319
Speaker 1: seven extra points this season. It won't be the kicker

910
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 1: get a new kicker. Well. On the CBS telecast, it

911
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:44,840
Speaker 1: was explained that Gus Bradley had not gotten rid of

912
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:47,759
Speaker 1: Myers because he felt it was too far into the

913
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:50,479
Speaker 1: season to get rid of a kicker, which makes no sense.

914
00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:52,800
Speaker 1: So it's like, instead of yeah, a new guy that

915
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:54,800
Speaker 1: can make to integrate him into the locker room, that

916
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:57,160
Speaker 1: takes months, Yeah exactly. I mean, no one's gonna talk

917
00:42:57,160 --> 00:42:59,400
Speaker 1: to him anyways. We all spent the off season. I

918
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:01,680
Speaker 1: think we all that the extra point rule didn't go

919
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 1: far enough, but it certainly seems to have because even

920
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 1: Sebastian Janikowski's missing extra points. I mean, we're coming off

921
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:10,040
Speaker 1: a week where a ton of guys missed it last

922
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:15,359
Speaker 1: But here's the problem, because they did because they went

923
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:17,640
Speaker 1: half measure on it. We're seeing a ton of missed

924
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:20,440
Speaker 1: extra points. How exciting is that? But people aren't going

925
00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:22,959
Speaker 1: for two. I gotta put it on the one yard line.

926
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:25,279
Speaker 1: Well that's a cultural thing too, and the in the

927
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:30,160
Speaker 1: better coaches like the Steelers are doing it. The Steelers

928
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:32,640
Speaker 1: have gone through to a ton, I mean a ton

929
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:36,120
Speaker 1: compared to other teams. Then practically no one else who

930
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:39,239
Speaker 1: wins mark who wins the a f C South, Well,

931
00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:42,799
Speaker 1: who do I want to win it? Who? Who wins it? Well,

932
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:45,920
Speaker 1: I I go Texans because when I watched the Texans

933
00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:48,440
Speaker 1: versus the Cults, even though you know the Texans are

934
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:50,600
Speaker 1: the most creative team on offense and they've got the

935
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 1: most disruptive defense of the group, I don't know. I mean,

936
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:57,600
Speaker 1: barring an implosion, which is totally possible, Texans most likely

937
00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:02,560
Speaker 1: the Texans Andlts winner from next week in Indiapolis wins division.

938
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:05,359
Speaker 1: We like Jacksonville. But the winner of that Colts game

939
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:08,680
Speaker 1: gets to seven wins into Jacksonville. Is then that you know,

940
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:11,239
Speaker 1: at the very least two wins behind that team. It

941
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 1: comes down to that Colts Texans game, and man Chuck

942
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:16,240
Speaker 1: o'gon is not saving his job. Doesn't matter what happens,

943
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 1: they have to win two playoff games for even for

944
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 1: him to have a chance. So the Jets one, uh,

945
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:25,719
Speaker 1: the Steelers won the Chiefs one. So the Bills they

946
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:29,799
Speaker 1: needed to win to kind of stay afloat, but they

947
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:32,160
Speaker 1: did not. The Eagles are remained just good enough to

948
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:35,759
Speaker 1: hang around the top the NFC East. Sam Bradford through

949
00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:40,279
Speaker 1: two touchdowns, and the Bills, who saw their their their

950
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:44,040
Speaker 1: playoff hopes now virtually evaporate with this loss. Greg Lashawn

951
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:46,759
Speaker 1: McCoy's revenge game did not go to plan, did it.

952
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:50,920
Speaker 1: It did not, and it ended in such fitting fashion.

953
00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:54,879
Speaker 1: Leshawn McCoy jogging off the field without shaking anyone's hands

954
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:58,040
Speaker 1: or anything, with twelve seconds left, runs back into the

955
00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:01,880
Speaker 1: locker room, was seen by reporters, uh slamming his helmet

956
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:05,360
Speaker 1: against the wall, yelling the F word Rex Ryan. Meanwhile,

957
00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:09,799
Speaker 1: after the game, immediately, uh, you know, he just goes

958
00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:13,200
Speaker 1: in full Rex Ryan mode. Let's take a listen. This

959
00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 1: one's tough because I thought we were the better team today,

960
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:19,359
Speaker 1: but obviously we got beat. We got ourselves to blame.

961
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:24,120
Speaker 1: You can't have that many penalties, obviously in and snowbrainer

962
00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:27,719
Speaker 1: once jump offsides a zillion times, and we gotta I

963
00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 1: don't know how many holding calls, but it looked like

964
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:31,719
Speaker 1: it was a record out there. You know how it

965
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 1: affects us? You know, Uh, we're gonna be sick, I

966
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:37,400
Speaker 1: can tell you that much. If this, uh this cost us,

967
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:41,160
Speaker 1: which it probably will. I almost thought of the Jets

968
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:44,000
Speaker 1: press conference where he said that they were out of it,

969
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:46,359
Speaker 1: like he was almost trying to do that again. Well,

970
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:49,279
Speaker 1: if this hurts us, like it probably will, like he

971
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:51,200
Speaker 1: was almost trying to get that going again, and just

972
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 1: for him to say that they're the better team after

973
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:55,640
Speaker 1: another one of these tough losses, it's just too much.

974
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:58,040
Speaker 1: I don't miss this, Rex, Ryan, I mean, this is

975
00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:01,360
Speaker 1: not this is familiar ground. If you were a follower

976
00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:03,919
Speaker 1: of Rex in New York, uh, you know, the team

977
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 1: getting out playing their opponent but losing narrowly, penalties killing them.

978
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:11,680
Speaker 1: I mean it's familiar well, and and as was as

979
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:14,120
Speaker 1: was written in the post by Greg that so many

980
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:16,720
Speaker 1: of the penalties are not coming because of great effort

981
00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:20,560
Speaker 1: on defense during a play. It's happening pre snap, which

982
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:23,600
Speaker 1: is the stuff that coaching should fix. And this has

983
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:27,000
Speaker 1: been the most consistent thing about an inconsistent team is

984
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:30,319
Speaker 1: hurting themselves game after game. If you if you even

985
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:32,720
Speaker 1: had them as an average team when it came to flags,

986
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:34,480
Speaker 1: I think they have two more wins at this point.

987
00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:38,480
Speaker 1: They have outgained their opponent in six of their seven losses,

988
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:41,319
Speaker 1: which is a totally ridiculous stat And I know why

989
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:44,000
Speaker 1: Rex felt like they were the better team today because

990
00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 1: the running game was solid. Lashawn McCoy really was the

991
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:50,080
Speaker 1: best running back in this game by far. He goes

992
00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:52,919
Speaker 1: over a hundred yards from scrimmage despite having some place

993
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:56,600
Speaker 1: taken back by penalty. His offensive line was not good.

994
00:46:56,640 --> 00:46:59,080
Speaker 1: That's where Philadelphia did look good. Fletcher Cox was great,

995
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:01,840
Speaker 1: but Tyrod Taylor I think played well for three quarters.

996
00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:04,920
Speaker 1: They pretty much did what they wanted to offensively. But

997
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:07,600
Speaker 1: the Eagles give them credit. Sam Bradford is playing the

998
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:09,960
Speaker 1: best he's played all year, made some big plays down

999
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:12,440
Speaker 1: the field. They were aggressive in the Bill's mistakes and

1000
00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:15,600
Speaker 1: their game management, and just at the end, for instance,

1001
00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:18,920
Speaker 1: there's one of those pre snap penalties changes it from

1002
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:20,960
Speaker 1: a third and two or a third and three rather

1003
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:22,600
Speaker 1: to a third and eight, so they have to go

1004
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:25,320
Speaker 1: deep the next play in Tyrod Taylor throws an interception

1005
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:27,239
Speaker 1: in the game. Game all by the way, we did

1006
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:31,360
Speaker 1: get uh. We did catch up to Lashawn McCoy after

1007
00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:33,719
Speaker 1: the game. Actually a lot of people, you know, they

1008
00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:36,320
Speaker 1: were not able to get him, did catch up with him. Brandy,

1009
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:45,960
Speaker 1: can we play that little it's not there? But Howling coyote?

1010
00:47:46,160 --> 00:47:49,359
Speaker 1: Is that him? That that I don't want to hear about.

1011
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:52,840
Speaker 1: Shawn McCoy A bad another bad week in a bad season.

1012
00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:56,240
Speaker 1: He's playing well enough, He's still Leshawn McCoy as a player.

1013
00:47:56,640 --> 00:47:59,919
Speaker 1: But you know, I read a profile believe was tye

1014
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:02,840
Speaker 1: are done for the Buffalo News this morning and her

1015
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:06,440
Speaker 1: partner that I believe was meant to give, uh, you know,

1016
00:48:06,719 --> 00:48:10,279
Speaker 1: a more human face, Lashawn McCoy. I just came out

1017
00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:12,040
Speaker 1: of it thinking he's, you know, kind of like a

1018
00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:15,719
Speaker 1: selfish dude and not particularly a pleasant person to be around.

1019
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:17,440
Speaker 1: And what what he did today, it's just not a

1020
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:19,640
Speaker 1: good look. It's like, come on, Not to pound on

1021
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:22,640
Speaker 1: the point, but part of the problem is Rex Ryan,

1022
00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:26,200
Speaker 1: who players like him because he doesn't, you know, prevent

1023
00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:29,440
Speaker 1: them from talking and creating bullet board bolt and board material.

1024
00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:31,640
Speaker 1: But a perfect week when this was season on the

1025
00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:33,839
Speaker 1: line to not have your running back mouth off seven

1026
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:36,200
Speaker 1: days in a row before the game, and maybe it

1027
00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:38,400
Speaker 1: has no matter on it, but the fact that this

1028
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:42,279
Speaker 1: became about one guy versus the entire Buffalo Bills is

1029
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 1: not good. It's not a good look for Rex Ryan.

1030
00:48:44,080 --> 00:48:45,799
Speaker 1: I don't care what anyone says. So they're two back

1031
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:47,799
Speaker 1: in the wild card of three teams, which means they

1032
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:50,320
Speaker 1: are out of it. But the Eagles are right in

1033
00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:52,960
Speaker 1: it now at six and seven tie to top the

1034
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:55,640
Speaker 1: NFC East. Will see if the Giants, uh, you know,

1035
00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:59,239
Speaker 1: tie them on Monday night. But Sam Bradford, if nothing else,

1036
00:48:59,239 --> 00:49:01,279
Speaker 1: I think played probably the best game of the year.

1037
00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:04,000
Speaker 1: I mean, it wasn't perfect and there's an interception. Uh.

1038
00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:06,920
Speaker 1: They're splitting the carries now three ways between Sprawles, Matthews

1039
00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:09,120
Speaker 1: and DeMarco Murray, which is a good sign. Zach Ertz,

1040
00:49:09,160 --> 00:49:12,200
Speaker 1: who also had a costly drop, actually made a big play.

1041
00:49:12,239 --> 00:49:14,240
Speaker 1: They hit a couple plays down the field and Nelson

1042
00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:17,520
Speaker 1: Aghil Nelson Agholar sighting just I don't think they're a

1043
00:49:17,520 --> 00:49:19,239
Speaker 1: good team, but they're at least looking a little more

1044
00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:20,880
Speaker 1: like an eight and eight type of team that might

1045
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:23,680
Speaker 1: sneak away with this division. We'll see, all right, next

1046
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:25,800
Speaker 1: levelt's move on. It's get another friend of ours on

1047
00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:29,440
Speaker 1: the phone. He's based out of Chicago. It's amazing that

1048
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:32,480
Speaker 1: he's even time to watch games because his body is

1049
00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:34,879
Speaker 1: a temple and he works to make it that way.

1050
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:39,160
Speaker 1: He is Kevin patcha come on at you going on?

1051
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:42,960
Speaker 1: Fellas well? What's up, buddy? How's everything going? Oh it's

1052
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:45,239
Speaker 1: going great. The one one time once I get to

1053
00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:47,560
Speaker 1: hear your voice stand, it just makes my day. Well,

1054
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:50,040
Speaker 1: you know, we're doing your favor here because we could

1055
00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:52,360
Speaker 1: have you on to talk about your lions, but instead

1056
00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:55,399
Speaker 1: we're gonna give you the game of the day the Redskins. Okay,

1057
00:49:55,719 --> 00:49:57,160
Speaker 1: it wasn't the game of the day, but there were

1058
00:49:57,200 --> 00:49:59,800
Speaker 1: a lot of ups and downs in this Redskins Bears.

1059
00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:02,719
Speaker 1: What was your big takeaways? Well, by the way, what

1060
00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:05,520
Speaker 1: is Greg? Greg doing the setup? What's now? Just when

1061
00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:08,719
Speaker 1: I started talking and here's the here's this because we've

1062
00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:10,640
Speaker 1: got to know what the score was. We have a

1063
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:13,640
Speaker 1: system here, Greg, people have a whole thing AT's home.

1064
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:15,920
Speaker 1: You can see you move to the left, and it

1065
00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:18,800
Speaker 1: doesn't mean it changes the show. I started talking and

1066
00:50:18,880 --> 00:50:20,640
Speaker 1: then I was going to ask him a question. We're

1067
00:50:20,640 --> 00:50:24,680
Speaker 1: just yeah, I think that you know, Dan's role as

1068
00:50:24,719 --> 00:50:27,560
Speaker 1: the host typically lays these up, but Greg is my boss,

1069
00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:30,040
Speaker 1: So you know, Greg, whatever you need to do to

1070
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:32,799
Speaker 1: get your point across eyes side with Robbie Gold missed

1071
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:35,480
Speaker 1: the potential game tying field goal in the final minutes.

1072
00:50:35,719 --> 00:50:39,440
Speaker 1: The difference one lost for the Bears to the Redskins,

1073
00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:41,960
Speaker 1: who are back in the mix in the NFC right

1074
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:44,959
Speaker 1: in the middle of things. Uh with everyone else losing

1075
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:48,600
Speaker 1: at all times. NFC East go ahead, Sorry, patro Oh

1076
00:50:48,719 --> 00:50:51,760
Speaker 1: don't know Worries. I thought it was really a perfect

1077
00:50:51,880 --> 00:50:53,800
Speaker 1: ending to it, the midfield bow, because it's kind of

1078
00:50:54,120 --> 00:50:57,160
Speaker 1: like Greg said, it was back and forth. At one

1079
00:50:57,200 --> 00:51:00,920
Speaker 1: point Washington was up four keeen nothing, two separate fourteen

1080
00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:04,600
Speaker 1: point leads, and Chicago came back, and I just thought

1081
00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:07,359
Speaker 1: the main peplay for me was that Jordan Reid was unstoppable.

1082
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:12,440
Speaker 1: They no Bears linebacters could stick with them out of

1083
00:51:12,480 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 1: his cut team open all day, and when he got

1084
00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:17,680
Speaker 1: into the second game of running over depensive backs, it

1085
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:20,000
Speaker 1: was really an impressive performance to get a hundred twenty

1086
00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:22,680
Speaker 1: yards and a touchdown and should have had two touchdowns.

1087
00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:25,920
Speaker 1: He didn't drop a ball, he had nine nine touches

1088
00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:28,479
Speaker 1: on nine targets. It was just phenomenal. He's the reason

1089
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 1: they won that game. The rest of it was typical

1090
00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:34,600
Speaker 1: typical Redskins. Like fIF team played drive to open the game.

1091
00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:36,799
Speaker 1: They had a bunch of three ounces in the middle

1092
00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:38,120
Speaker 1: of the game, and they had a long drive to

1093
00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:40,759
Speaker 1: start second half where they scored a touchdown. But in

1094
00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:43,440
Speaker 1: the middle it was just long drive, short passes, some

1095
00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:46,880
Speaker 1: Kirk cousins and then they had bogged down. This is

1096
00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:49,279
Speaker 1: Jordan Reid was the only consistent factor in the game.

1097
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:51,200
Speaker 1: This is the Jordan Read by the way, that was

1098
00:51:51,280 --> 00:51:54,040
Speaker 1: on our making the list, making the leap list last year.

1099
00:51:54,040 --> 00:51:56,799
Speaker 1: I think everyone saw his ability to be this guy.

1100
00:51:56,920 --> 00:51:59,480
Speaker 1: So for him to turn into this player, that's certainly

1101
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:02,360
Speaker 1: somebody to build around in Washington. And they have a

1102
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:04,120
Speaker 1: road to win. This is the first time they've done

1103
00:52:04,160 --> 00:52:06,600
Speaker 1: it all year, you know, I know there was uh,

1104
00:52:06,719 --> 00:52:08,680
Speaker 1: there was some luck at the end that both went

1105
00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:10,840
Speaker 1: the Redskins way. You have Gold missing the kick for

1106
00:52:10,920 --> 00:52:13,600
Speaker 1: the second straight week. I mean, the Robbers could have

1107
00:52:13,640 --> 00:52:15,839
Speaker 1: a winning record possibly if Gold had hit these kicks

1108
00:52:15,880 --> 00:52:18,000
Speaker 1: instead there five and eight, and then you had another

1109
00:52:18,080 --> 00:52:20,200
Speaker 1: play that was deflected up in the air on a

1110
00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:23,360
Speaker 1: cousin's pass and then the Redskins catch it for a

1111
00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:26,759
Speaker 1: big play. But sometimes you need some breaks, and they

1112
00:52:26,880 --> 00:52:28,800
Speaker 1: just needed to win, you know, one or two of

1113
00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:31,200
Speaker 1: these road games. And I really think now that that

1114
00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:34,040
Speaker 1: Redskins Eagles game is the one to watch the kind

1115
00:52:34,080 --> 00:52:37,200
Speaker 1: of decide that the vision do you, Kevin, do you

1116
00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:41,960
Speaker 1: like watching nfc S football teams? Not? How about the Bears?

1117
00:52:42,040 --> 00:52:45,360
Speaker 1: You're like the Bears beat writer right now? Yeah, the Bears.

1118
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:48,000
Speaker 1: The Bears are kind of a really boring team to watch. Frankly,

1119
00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:51,080
Speaker 1: They're big plays mainly come on Alstan Jeffrey heaves from

1120
00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:53,759
Speaker 1: Jake Cutler, which was today when somehow the Redskins forgot

1121
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:56,839
Speaker 1: to cover fifty yards. But for the Bears, They're often

1122
00:52:57,560 --> 00:53:01,759
Speaker 1: was pretty non existent. Matt and and Langford couldn't really

1123
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:05,279
Speaker 1: get going. The The Redskins d front was dominant. They

1124
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:08,160
Speaker 1: dominated the offensive line of the Bears all all games.

1125
00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:11,360
Speaker 1: Color was under the immense pressure. He had to scramble

1126
00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:12,920
Speaker 1: a lot, and he was just playing sandlot ball and

1127
00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:14,600
Speaker 1: was just chucked it up and hope. It was pretty

1128
00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:16,719
Speaker 1: much their offense for most of it. Kirk Cousins led

1129
00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:18,120
Speaker 1: him back in the game with one of the worst

1130
00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:21,080
Speaker 1: picks ever early in early in the second half, and

1131
00:53:21,239 --> 00:53:23,440
Speaker 1: that's what got the Bears right back in the game.

1132
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:25,239
Speaker 1: It wasn't for that pick at the Way twenty yard

1133
00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:28,920
Speaker 1: line that he should never have thrown. The Redskins should

1134
00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:31,680
Speaker 1: have walked away with it, just because their fronts played

1135
00:53:31,719 --> 00:53:34,239
Speaker 1: better on both sides of the ball. Before we let

1136
00:53:34,320 --> 00:53:37,360
Speaker 1: you go, Mr Patrick, and thank you for an accurate

1137
00:53:37,440 --> 00:53:39,600
Speaker 1: summation of that game. I just I don't know where

1138
00:53:39,719 --> 00:53:43,200
Speaker 1: you were exactly when Aaron Rodgers connected on that help?

1139
00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:47,000
Speaker 1: You know, not because I'm you know, like reveling in it,

1140
00:53:47,080 --> 00:53:49,440
Speaker 1: but I'm curious one of the more crushing losses in

1141
00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:52,400
Speaker 1: lines history. Where were you tell us I was sitting

1142
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:57,640
Speaker 1: on my couch because I was at six am the

1143
00:53:57,680 --> 00:54:02,640
Speaker 1: next day? Um reaction was that happened? Of course it happened.

1144
00:54:02,680 --> 00:54:04,680
Speaker 1: Of course after the face mask you knew was gonna happen.

1145
00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:07,600
Speaker 1: Come on, it's the line everybody knew. I was actually

1146
00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:09,360
Speaker 1: not too upset about it because it means the end

1147
00:54:09,360 --> 00:54:11,520
Speaker 1: of Jim Caldwell, So I was worried about it. They

1148
00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:14,280
Speaker 1: might stick with him if he had a huge hot streak.

1149
00:54:14,600 --> 00:54:16,680
Speaker 1: So I'm glad. I'm actually it actually might work out

1150
00:54:16,719 --> 00:54:18,320
Speaker 1: for the best. So you're telling me if I go

1151
00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:23,279
Speaker 1: into your apartment in Chicago and the couch which is

1152
00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:27,280
Speaker 1: to the right of your entire home equipment workout center

1153
00:54:27,560 --> 00:54:30,040
Speaker 1: that overlooks the city, there's not gonna be a huge

1154
00:54:30,120 --> 00:54:33,000
Speaker 1: hole over the couch that you punched the wall. You're

1155
00:54:33,040 --> 00:54:35,080
Speaker 1: being honest with us here. If I'm going to punch

1156
00:54:35,080 --> 00:54:36,799
Speaker 1: a wall, it's not over a loss for a four

1157
00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:40,480
Speaker 1: win team, that's for sure. I understand that thought process. Um,

1158
00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:43,759
Speaker 1: Kevin Patrick, always good to hear from you. Uh, your

1159
00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:46,879
Speaker 1: voice sounds great. I'm sure your body looks better. I'm

1160
00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:50,200
Speaker 1: working on it, Dan, just for you. All right, there

1161
00:54:50,239 --> 00:54:53,239
Speaker 1: goes Kevin patra H, the other member of the round

1162
00:54:53,239 --> 00:54:56,080
Speaker 1: the NFL team. Uh. Family is how I like to

1163
00:54:56,160 --> 00:54:59,680
Speaker 1: look at him? Maybe that's just me? No, well that's fair,

1164
00:54:59,760 --> 00:55:02,040
Speaker 1: he of face. Not the only run you got, Colleen

1165
00:55:02,120 --> 00:55:08,000
Speaker 1: Wolf Well, I don't listen when I say family talking

1166
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:12,800
Speaker 1: about the writing fraternity of around the NFL. Let's move on,

1167
00:55:13,719 --> 00:55:17,680
Speaker 1: uh to another game. Listen, Mark, it's time. Now, it's time.

1168
00:55:18,120 --> 00:55:21,839
Speaker 1: The show begins for Mark Cessler. Because Johnny Manzel made

1169
00:55:21,920 --> 00:55:25,319
Speaker 1: the most of his belated starting opportunity, threw a touchdown pass,

1170
00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:30,680
Speaker 1: kept the sticks moving all afternoon. Ten for the Browns

1171
00:55:30,800 --> 00:55:34,280
Speaker 1: over the Niners. Mr Cessler, this is a nice start

1172
00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:38,320
Speaker 1: to Manzell's Cleveland audition. But let me ask you a question.

1173
00:55:39,440 --> 00:55:41,279
Speaker 1: Are you a little unhappy if they won this game?

1174
00:55:41,320 --> 00:55:44,279
Speaker 1: Because you're thinking big picture and draft day. I'm not

1175
00:55:44,360 --> 00:55:46,719
Speaker 1: talking about the Costner film, No, Because I think if

1176
00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:48,759
Speaker 1: you're if you're a team like Cleveland, you need to

1177
00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:51,480
Speaker 1: have something one or two things to go into the

1178
00:55:51,520 --> 00:55:54,600
Speaker 1: off season to plan around and have some hope, and

1179
00:55:54,920 --> 00:55:58,839
Speaker 1: Manzell look at he again showed that he can play.

1180
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:01,759
Speaker 1: I mean it was it wasn't perfect. He had one

1181
00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:04,520
Speaker 1: terrible pick, but he also did a nice job with

1182
00:56:04,600 --> 00:56:07,479
Speaker 1: the rest of his thirty one attempts. He moved the ball,

1183
00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:10,920
Speaker 1: found open receivers, and they for the first time all season,

1184
00:56:11,440 --> 00:56:15,399
Speaker 1: their run game was absolutely dominant. I mean, they blew

1185
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:18,080
Speaker 1: up for two hundred plus yards. And this is the

1186
00:56:18,160 --> 00:56:22,080
Speaker 1: team that was advertised to Browns fans all off season,

1187
00:56:22,600 --> 00:56:25,000
Speaker 1: and I think it actually only puts more weight and

1188
00:56:25,080 --> 00:56:28,640
Speaker 1: pressure on Petton because finally with man'zell back out there,

1189
00:56:29,280 --> 00:56:31,280
Speaker 1: you have to go back to his last win against

1190
00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:34,160
Speaker 1: the Titans in Week two, that they've gone through this

1191
00:56:34,680 --> 00:56:37,440
Speaker 1: you know, parade with all these other quarterbacks, and the

1192
00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:40,000
Speaker 1: argument was why not just put Manzel out there earlier?

1193
00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:42,359
Speaker 1: And you have to wonder if you wasted two months

1194
00:56:42,400 --> 00:56:45,680
Speaker 1: of his development because he's still making mistakes and that

1195
00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:48,319
Speaker 1: he probably would have gotten over if he had played

1196
00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:50,840
Speaker 1: all his game. Partly his fault, I mean it's partly

1197
00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:53,000
Speaker 1: his fault. It's partly his fault, but it's it's just

1198
00:56:53,120 --> 00:56:55,080
Speaker 1: the way they went into the season and he burned

1199
00:56:55,080 --> 00:56:57,719
Speaker 1: their trust in the off season. I just I look

1200
00:56:57,760 --> 00:56:59,800
Speaker 1: at it like this is almost a lost year that

1201
00:57:00,040 --> 00:57:01,680
Speaker 1: maybe in this last month you asked me, do I

1202
00:57:01,760 --> 00:57:03,440
Speaker 1: want to see this happening if you're if you're in

1203
00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:06,120
Speaker 1: Cleveland and you're rooting for this team to grow, Yes,

1204
00:57:06,239 --> 00:57:08,359
Speaker 1: you want to see a quarterback development no matter where

1205
00:57:08,400 --> 00:57:10,440
Speaker 1: you are, because forget the draft. You can you know

1206
00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:12,880
Speaker 1: they've been getting first round high first round picks for

1207
00:57:12,920 --> 00:57:15,279
Speaker 1: a decade plus and it's not it's changed nothing. Well,

1208
00:57:15,520 --> 00:57:17,640
Speaker 1: they also he also had the benefit of the run

1209
00:57:17,800 --> 00:57:21,040
Speaker 1: game and the defense that they haven't had all year,

1210
00:57:21,480 --> 00:57:23,880
Speaker 1: and the benefit of playing the team that's ranked dead

1211
00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:26,880
Speaker 1: last in Football Outsiders metrics with It's It's Browns and

1212
00:57:27,600 --> 00:57:29,400
Speaker 1: where the two teams at the bottom, and the Browns

1213
00:57:29,440 --> 00:57:32,320
Speaker 1: were dominant in this game. But I but I agree.

1214
00:57:32,360 --> 00:57:34,960
Speaker 1: I don't think you lose the development necessarily if he

1215
00:57:35,080 --> 00:57:37,520
Speaker 1: if he steps up and has a good month, that's

1216
00:57:37,520 --> 00:57:40,360
Speaker 1: gonna make a big difference in how they look at

1217
00:57:40,400 --> 00:57:42,400
Speaker 1: the off season. So it can't just be this one week.

1218
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:44,160
Speaker 1: We'll see the next three weeks. Yeah, And I think

1219
00:57:44,160 --> 00:57:46,800
Speaker 1: it'll be telling to find out when Cleveland plays Seattle

1220
00:57:46,880 --> 00:57:50,200
Speaker 1: next week where they really are because they punished Blaine

1221
00:57:50,240 --> 00:57:53,320
Speaker 1: Gabber nine sacks. This is a team that only had

1222
00:57:53,360 --> 00:57:56,280
Speaker 1: seventeen sacks coming into the year. So I don't want

1223
00:57:56,280 --> 00:57:57,920
Speaker 1: to say it was flukey, but it was just that

1224
00:57:58,040 --> 00:58:01,680
Speaker 1: they Greg's right, they were paying in a terrible basement

1225
00:58:01,920 --> 00:58:04,840
Speaker 1: feeding team and so Cleveland, yeah, you're bet you're better

1226
00:58:04,880 --> 00:58:06,800
Speaker 1: than the Niners potentially. I don't know where that leaves

1227
00:58:06,840 --> 00:58:09,240
Speaker 1: you ultimately. Oh man, we're looking at the upcoming schedule.

1228
00:58:09,320 --> 00:58:11,960
Speaker 1: It might leave you with three tough games here this

1229
00:58:12,200 --> 00:58:15,000
Speaker 1: at Seahawks, at Chiefs versus Steelers. It doesn't get any

1230
00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:17,000
Speaker 1: tougher than that for the for the Browns, so they

1231
00:58:17,040 --> 00:58:18,760
Speaker 1: have their work cut out. There's not a win there.

1232
00:58:18,800 --> 00:58:20,520
Speaker 1: I don't think Blaine Gabber. By the way, when you

1233
00:58:20,560 --> 00:58:23,600
Speaker 1: get sacked nine times, you wonder if the you know,

1234
00:58:23,800 --> 00:58:26,000
Speaker 1: if it's gonna get jittery in the pocket and maybe

1235
00:58:26,040 --> 00:58:30,280
Speaker 1: come it will start seeing that Jacksonville Jaguars blame because

1236
00:58:30,320 --> 00:58:33,040
Speaker 1: that's a tough beating to take in a game. You're right,

1237
00:58:33,080 --> 00:58:35,120
Speaker 1: I mean, in the reports going in, couldn't have been

1238
00:58:35,160 --> 00:58:38,400
Speaker 1: worse for the Browns because Ian Rappaport noted that and listen,

1239
00:58:38,520 --> 00:58:40,280
Speaker 1: this has not been a secret for a long time,

1240
00:58:40,360 --> 00:58:43,040
Speaker 1: but the coaching staff and the front officer at odds,

1241
00:58:43,120 --> 00:58:45,360
Speaker 1: they don't like the players the front office picked. The

1242
00:58:45,400 --> 00:58:47,640
Speaker 1: front office doesn't think the players are being coached well.

1243
00:58:48,080 --> 00:58:51,120
Speaker 1: So it seems as though it changes and maybe deep

1244
00:58:51,160 --> 00:58:54,800
Speaker 1: cutting changes are imminent. Once again, I think we'll find

1245
00:58:54,800 --> 00:58:57,919
Speaker 1: out more about that this week. Alright, anything else, Mark

1246
00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:02,000
Speaker 1: not really right? Well, then let's move on. Drew Brees

1247
00:59:02,040 --> 00:59:05,320
Speaker 1: through a pair of touchdown passes to Markus Colston. Marcus Colston,

1248
00:59:05,480 --> 00:59:08,320
Speaker 1: welcome back to relevance. And the New Orleans Saints stopped

1249
00:59:08,360 --> 00:59:12,800
Speaker 1: a four game losing streakin over the Bucks. Uh. Greg,

1250
00:59:12,960 --> 00:59:14,880
Speaker 1: just when we were starting to buy in on Tampa.

1251
00:59:15,160 --> 00:59:18,360
Speaker 1: There's a team that could be a sneaky playoff group here.

1252
00:59:18,560 --> 00:59:20,760
Speaker 1: They lay an egg against the Saints, probably blow up

1253
00:59:20,760 --> 00:59:24,120
Speaker 1: their season. Yeah, it's disappointing because they're gonna be on

1254
00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:26,960
Speaker 1: Thursday Night Football this week against the Rams. And we

1255
00:59:27,040 --> 00:59:30,720
Speaker 1: were enjoying this Bucks team as a relevant UH squad

1256
00:59:30,840 --> 00:59:33,840
Speaker 1: and gave that game a little relevance. And in reality,

1257
00:59:34,320 --> 00:59:36,600
Speaker 1: the Vikings are now two games up on this Bucks

1258
00:59:36,680 --> 00:59:38,800
Speaker 1: team there in the sixth spot, and it's hard to

1259
00:59:38,880 --> 00:59:43,360
Speaker 1: imagine anything but the current six combination of teams in

1260
00:59:43,440 --> 00:59:45,400
Speaker 1: the NFC. But making the playoffs, I mean you just

1261
00:59:45,480 --> 00:59:47,960
Speaker 1: have to figure the Vikings and the Packers are getting

1262
00:59:48,000 --> 00:59:51,240
Speaker 1: in and really, uh, the NFC East is the one

1263
00:59:51,280 --> 00:59:53,480
Speaker 1: thing up for grabs, and it can't be too surprised

1264
00:59:53,480 --> 00:59:56,200
Speaker 1: the Bucks haven't been dominant throughout this streaks that they

1265
00:59:56,280 --> 00:59:59,720
Speaker 1: end up splitting, uh, the season series, even vision rival,

1266
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:02,400
Speaker 1: even the games that they're winning. These these are games

1267
01:00:02,480 --> 01:00:05,240
Speaker 1: where they're just pulling them out there. They're either like

1268
01:00:05,360 --> 01:00:07,840
Speaker 1: the best bad team or the worst good team. They're

1269
01:00:08,320 --> 01:00:10,200
Speaker 1: you know, they're that in that place. But that's fine

1270
01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:12,120
Speaker 1: for this year. If they can win seven games and

1271
01:00:12,200 --> 01:00:14,640
Speaker 1: Winston makes progress there, this is a good year for them.

1272
01:00:14,760 --> 01:00:17,480
Speaker 1: It's a great year just because of Jamis Winston. Yeah,

1273
01:00:17,480 --> 01:00:21,320
Speaker 1: I mean people had Tampa earmarked going right back for

1274
01:00:21,400 --> 01:00:24,040
Speaker 1: another number one pick, and you know, there was very

1275
01:00:24,120 --> 01:00:26,360
Speaker 1: little to hang your hat on, and everyone thought maybe

1276
01:00:26,400 --> 01:00:28,720
Speaker 1: Lovey Smith could be you know, out of there, if

1277
01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:30,640
Speaker 1: not the end of the year before that even and

1278
01:00:30,720 --> 01:00:32,880
Speaker 1: so I think it's forget the playoffs. You're not gonna

1279
01:00:32,920 --> 01:00:35,080
Speaker 1: go make a big run in the NFC, even if

1280
01:00:35,120 --> 01:00:37,440
Speaker 1: you snuck in. Is the number six team probably, but

1281
01:00:37,560 --> 01:00:39,600
Speaker 1: you've got a lot to build around, and what can

1282
01:00:39,680 --> 01:00:41,720
Speaker 1: a bad team ask for more than that? You know

1283
01:00:41,760 --> 01:00:44,760
Speaker 1: what's interesting too? On the other side, Drew Brees is

1284
01:00:44,800 --> 01:00:47,040
Speaker 1: having kind of a weird season where there are weeks

1285
01:00:47,080 --> 01:00:49,439
Speaker 1: when he looks like old Drew Brees, and then there's

1286
01:00:49,440 --> 01:00:51,960
Speaker 1: weeks when he looks like old Drew Brees, and I

1287
01:00:52,080 --> 01:00:54,800
Speaker 1: think that he's going to be somebody on a States

1288
01:00:54,840 --> 01:00:57,880
Speaker 1: team that's rebuilding, and you think maybe something can happen

1289
01:00:58,440 --> 01:01:01,800
Speaker 1: somewhere else. It's hard to if you, let's say, we'll

1290
01:01:01,920 --> 01:01:03,920
Speaker 1: use I don't We'll use the Browns as an example.

1291
01:01:04,200 --> 01:01:07,800
Speaker 1: If you're the Browns, uh are you getting? Are you

1292
01:01:07,880 --> 01:01:09,680
Speaker 1: gonna make a hard play for Drew Brees and think

1293
01:01:09,720 --> 01:01:12,240
Speaker 1: he's still gonna be Drew Brees? You know well shown

1294
01:01:12,240 --> 01:01:14,120
Speaker 1: at the times, including today, it's a great question. How

1295
01:01:14,120 --> 01:01:16,840
Speaker 1: about a hard play for the combination of Sean Payton

1296
01:01:16,960 --> 01:01:20,080
Speaker 1: Andrew Brees? Right, because Breeze is one of the highest

1297
01:01:20,120 --> 01:01:22,840
Speaker 1: paid quarterbacks in the league, and if Sean Payton is

1298
01:01:22,880 --> 01:01:25,000
Speaker 1: not going to be there next year, then you start

1299
01:01:25,040 --> 01:01:27,200
Speaker 1: to worry how good is Drew Brees gonna be. We're

1300
01:01:27,280 --> 01:01:30,479
Speaker 1: just raining down on the parade of a rare st twin.

1301
01:01:30,680 --> 01:01:33,200
Speaker 1: I mean, everything about this was weird. C J. Spiller

1302
01:01:33,800 --> 01:01:36,400
Speaker 1: is still in the NFL and he had three carries

1303
01:01:36,520 --> 01:01:39,240
Speaker 1: in a game where Tim Hightower had twenty eight and

1304
01:01:39,280 --> 01:01:40,760
Speaker 1: c J. Spiller is not gonna be on that team

1305
01:01:40,760 --> 01:01:43,280
Speaker 1: from it, But that's insane. Tim hi Terrell was literally

1306
01:01:43,400 --> 01:01:45,880
Speaker 1: not in the NFL for four years. I don't I

1307
01:01:45,920 --> 01:01:47,919
Speaker 1: don't want to hear. I don't want to see one

1308
01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:51,400
Speaker 1: more story come out in any of these beats or

1309
01:01:51,520 --> 01:01:53,800
Speaker 1: on the Around the NFL page about how c J.

1310
01:01:53,960 --> 01:01:56,440
Speaker 1: Spiller is about to finally step into a bigger role,

1311
01:01:56,520 --> 01:01:59,360
Speaker 1: because I saw it popping cropping up again this week

1312
01:01:59,560 --> 01:02:04,040
Speaker 1: when Thomas went to I R, it's not gonna happen. Yeah, well,

1313
01:02:04,440 --> 01:02:07,120
Speaker 1: mark Ingram they do not like him in the scheme obviously,

1314
01:02:07,240 --> 01:02:09,480
Speaker 1: maybe he's not healthy or he's not himself. It's just

1315
01:02:09,560 --> 01:02:12,360
Speaker 1: not happened. Six touches, nine yards and I couldn't agree more.

1316
01:02:12,520 --> 01:02:14,160
Speaker 1: He's gonna have a bigger role and that's going to

1317
01:02:14,200 --> 01:02:16,560
Speaker 1: be in another city next season. And and what does

1318
01:02:16,840 --> 01:02:19,320
Speaker 1: Marcus Colston have to do to get his name pronounced

1319
01:02:19,760 --> 01:02:25,360
Speaker 1: right by Dan Hansis Players in the Hall of fame

1320
01:02:25,800 --> 01:02:29,360
Speaker 1: at the wide receiver position, Marcus Colston has more receptions

1321
01:02:29,360 --> 01:02:32,400
Speaker 1: than fourteen of them. That is a Peter King stat

1322
01:02:32,480 --> 01:02:34,800
Speaker 1: from this week. That just shows how the NFL has changed.

1323
01:02:34,840 --> 01:02:36,760
Speaker 1: But this has been a great player, an all time

1324
01:02:36,840 --> 01:02:40,400
Speaker 1: great Saint. Well has he done it in unremarkable fashion

1325
01:02:40,480 --> 01:02:43,320
Speaker 1: then to the average non Saints focused Yeah, you know

1326
01:02:43,400 --> 01:02:48,400
Speaker 1: it's kind of m A r q u E s.

1327
01:02:48,760 --> 01:02:53,000
Speaker 1: Marquise Coston outside with Dan on that one. This is

1328
01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:55,120
Speaker 1: probably his last season with the same. On the subject

1329
01:02:55,160 --> 01:02:58,720
Speaker 1: of names, got a ball, he's helling no touchdown. Oh,

1330
01:02:58,920 --> 01:03:02,720
Speaker 1: we didn't even remember Jay Mate quids in, I just

1331
01:03:02,840 --> 01:03:07,720
Speaker 1: wish man scavenger hunt coming up all over town. It's mega, man,

1332
01:03:08,160 --> 01:03:11,480
Speaker 1: it's mega. Oh yeah, we'll go to the Booze to celebrate.

1333
01:03:11,560 --> 01:03:15,160
Speaker 1: Johnny come with no John You stay home, bro, stay home, mate,

1334
01:03:15,840 --> 01:03:18,000
Speaker 1: Not good for you to come with Gary Gary quids

1335
01:03:18,040 --> 01:03:21,080
Speaker 1: in bondage. He's going out, man. I mean you leave

1336
01:03:21,120 --> 01:03:24,880
Speaker 1: us speechless with these, with these Gary Barnage narratives. Gary's

1337
01:03:24,920 --> 01:03:28,760
Speaker 1: just got such a good feel of the lexicon quids

1338
01:03:28,840 --> 01:03:33,400
Speaker 1: in Mate, got legless at the Booze, John Mazel, you

1339
01:03:33,480 --> 01:03:38,800
Speaker 1: don't come dangerous joint. I get a lot of tweets,

1340
01:03:39,120 --> 01:03:40,400
Speaker 1: a lot of people, A lot of people like it.

1341
01:03:40,560 --> 01:03:43,440
Speaker 1: In the UK, some people find it offensive, which I

1342
01:03:43,600 --> 01:03:47,760
Speaker 1: find interesting. I don't find that shocking. I apologize to

1343
01:03:47,800 --> 01:03:52,280
Speaker 1: those to find a defensive I will never stop keeping

1344
01:03:52,280 --> 01:03:57,040
Speaker 1: a real over here. Yes you are finally, Todd Gurley

1345
01:03:57,120 --> 01:04:00,240
Speaker 1: slump is over all right. The rookie and for a

1346
01:04:00,320 --> 01:04:03,080
Speaker 1: hundred and forty yards, scored two touchdowns, both in the

1347
01:04:03,160 --> 01:04:06,440
Speaker 1: second half, and the Rams snapped a long losing streak

1348
01:04:06,520 --> 01:04:12,240
Speaker 1: five games with a win over the Lions on Sunday, Mark,

1349
01:04:12,360 --> 01:04:15,880
Speaker 1: I assume the Lions remain in a vegetative state after

1350
01:04:15,960 --> 01:04:19,480
Speaker 1: what happened last Thursday night. It's hard to win with

1351
01:04:19,720 --> 01:04:22,160
Speaker 1: limited brain activity, I would think, yeah, I mean it's

1352
01:04:22,160 --> 01:04:24,680
Speaker 1: a fair comment. And you know, it's hard to comment

1353
01:04:24,760 --> 01:04:27,960
Speaker 1: on this game because it's two teams going nowhere this season.

1354
01:04:28,120 --> 01:04:31,880
Speaker 1: And if anything, maybe the hope most hopeful aspect was

1355
01:04:32,080 --> 01:04:34,640
Speaker 1: after Frank's Signetti was you know, as you said, turning

1356
01:04:34,720 --> 01:04:37,640
Speaker 1: his badge and his gun. The Rams offense a little

1357
01:04:37,640 --> 01:04:39,760
Speaker 1: bit more dynamic. I don't want to actually that's not

1358
01:04:39,880 --> 01:04:42,480
Speaker 1: the right word, but maybe a little bit less d o,

1359
01:04:42,640 --> 01:04:44,720
Speaker 1: A a little bit less of a corpse. This week. Well,

1360
01:04:44,760 --> 01:04:46,640
Speaker 1: they went over three hundred yards, but it was in

1361
01:04:46,680 --> 01:04:49,960
Speaker 1: the Jeff Fisher dream fashion. Two D and three on

1362
01:04:50,040 --> 01:04:53,640
Speaker 1: the ground. Hundred forty were from Todd Gurley who broke

1363
01:04:53,680 --> 01:04:56,479
Speaker 1: it open, and that this is just what Jeff Fisher's dreamed.

1364
01:04:56,520 --> 01:04:58,040
Speaker 1: This is what he thought this team could be, which

1365
01:04:58,080 --> 01:04:59,480
Speaker 1: is take a lead with the run and kind of

1366
01:04:59,560 --> 01:05:02,120
Speaker 1: just stipe for the other team. But it's a dreadful

1367
01:05:02,200 --> 01:05:05,520
Speaker 1: five and eight team. Um Frank Signetti, Yes, he turned

1368
01:05:05,560 --> 01:05:08,200
Speaker 1: in his badge and his gun, but as we hinted

1369
01:05:08,320 --> 01:05:12,280
Speaker 1: at last week, doesn't mean he's no longer fighting crime.

1370
01:05:12,400 --> 01:05:14,160
Speaker 1: I'll leave it at that. Well, I think you're right.

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01:05:15,080 --> 01:05:18,000
Speaker 1: We don't even say another word about that or this game.

1372
01:05:18,440 --> 01:05:21,040
Speaker 1: That's it. Why don't we talk about a little Sunday

1373
01:05:21,120 --> 01:05:26,560
Speaker 1: night football action. The New England Patriots are going back

1374
01:05:26,640 --> 01:05:30,920
Speaker 1: to the playoffs. Greg, congratulations, seventh straight playoff birth. They

1375
01:05:31,000 --> 01:05:32,840
Speaker 1: moved into the a f c S Tops about the

1376
01:05:32,920 --> 01:05:36,080
Speaker 1: number one seed because everyone else that they needed to

1377
01:05:36,200 --> 01:05:39,960
Speaker 1: lose lost, and then they took care of business six

1378
01:05:40,480 --> 01:05:43,400
Speaker 1: a largely forgettable Sunday night game for Chris and Al

1379
01:05:43,800 --> 01:05:46,840
Speaker 1: and the team over at NBC, But doesn't matter to

1380
01:05:46,920 --> 01:05:49,920
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick. Because he got what he wanted and a

1381
01:05:50,000 --> 01:05:52,680
Speaker 1: little banged up Greg Pats are a little banged up,

1382
01:05:52,720 --> 01:05:56,160
Speaker 1: but Brady connected with gronkind of touchdown. Gronk looked healthy.

1383
01:05:56,600 --> 01:05:59,080
Speaker 1: This team is, all of a sudden, after you know,

1384
01:05:59,280 --> 01:06:01,960
Speaker 1: some hand ringing over the last couple of weeks, exactly

1385
01:06:02,040 --> 01:06:04,440
Speaker 1: where they need to be. They are, and they have

1386
01:06:04,520 --> 01:06:07,600
Speaker 1: a defense that's playing exceptionally well. And you mentioned the injuries,

1387
01:06:08,240 --> 01:06:11,120
Speaker 1: which are a big concern, but I think the effective

1388
01:06:11,200 --> 01:06:13,720
Speaker 1: play of the defense is really my take away. First

1389
01:06:13,720 --> 01:06:16,000
Speaker 1: of all, just seeing Gronk back out there and looking

1390
01:06:16,120 --> 01:06:17,880
Speaker 1: like Gronk, even though he didn't play every snap, he

1391
01:06:17,960 --> 01:06:20,440
Speaker 1: looked good. That's a major plus. But this is the

1392
01:06:20,480 --> 01:06:22,480
Speaker 1: best defense I think they've had some two thousand four.

1393
01:06:22,520 --> 01:06:24,200
Speaker 1: I might have made that same statement last year. I

1394
01:06:24,240 --> 01:06:26,680
Speaker 1: think they're both true. This is a better defense that

1395
01:06:26,800 --> 01:06:29,720
Speaker 1: you can take all these injuries, and Jibaal Sheard chips

1396
01:06:30,000 --> 01:06:32,200
Speaker 1: steps up, and Dominick easily steps up, and then he

1397
01:06:32,280 --> 01:06:35,120
Speaker 1: gets hurt, and then Malcolm Brown and Malcolm Butler of

1398
01:06:35,200 --> 01:06:37,320
Speaker 1: course is playing well, and they just keep coming at

1399
01:06:37,360 --> 01:06:40,040
Speaker 1: you and waves in the front seven, and they're not

1400
01:06:40,120 --> 01:06:44,120
Speaker 1: gonna shut down a great offense like a Steelers, for instance.

1401
01:06:44,240 --> 01:06:46,360
Speaker 1: But when they play some of these bad teams, they

1402
01:06:46,400 --> 01:06:48,960
Speaker 1: can actually have a shutdown type of game and that

1403
01:06:49,080 --> 01:06:50,800
Speaker 1: hasn't really been the case for the Patriots in a

1404
01:06:50,880 --> 01:06:53,840
Speaker 1: long time. And of course it must be said, and

1405
01:06:54,000 --> 01:06:57,720
Speaker 1: in addition to both the Bengals and Steelers losing J. J.

1406
01:06:57,880 --> 01:07:00,480
Speaker 1: Watt busses Ham three days before this game, him was

1407
01:07:00,600 --> 01:07:04,000
Speaker 1: not effective. He had three tackles, no sacks, so he

1408
01:07:04,160 --> 01:07:06,600
Speaker 1: wasn't the same guy. But I will give credit, like

1409
01:07:06,760 --> 01:07:09,040
Speaker 1: you said, with the defense of the Patriots, which is

1410
01:07:09,160 --> 01:07:11,960
Speaker 1: very good. Uh DeAndre Hopkins. No one's been able to

1411
01:07:12,000 --> 01:07:15,040
Speaker 1: stop him all year. Three catchers or fifty two yards,

1412
01:07:15,120 --> 01:07:17,760
Speaker 1: and forty of those came in garbage time. So they

1413
01:07:17,800 --> 01:07:20,960
Speaker 1: were able to shut down the most explosive, explosive football

1414
01:07:21,480 --> 01:07:24,400
Speaker 1: wide receiver in football this season and let the offense

1415
01:07:24,440 --> 01:07:25,960
Speaker 1: to the rest and they didn't have to do much well.

1416
01:07:26,040 --> 01:07:29,000
Speaker 1: This combination of Logan Ryan and Devin mccordy or whoever

1417
01:07:29,040 --> 01:07:32,040
Speaker 1: they want to put with Logan Ryan, Patrick Chung, they've

1418
01:07:32,040 --> 01:07:35,320
Speaker 1: been doing that each week, shutting down opposing number one receivers.

1419
01:07:35,400 --> 01:07:37,960
Speaker 1: That that puts Logan Ryan and the Pro Football Focus rankings,

1420
01:07:38,000 --> 01:07:40,720
Speaker 1: he's the top five cornerback, which doesn't seem right to me.

1421
01:07:40,880 --> 01:07:42,880
Speaker 1: Part of the reason that is is because they put

1422
01:07:42,960 --> 01:07:46,160
Speaker 1: mccority behind him. Now, mccordy got hurt in this game easily.

1423
01:07:46,160 --> 01:07:47,960
Speaker 1: Who's been playing while got hurt in this game? La

1424
01:07:48,040 --> 01:07:51,400
Speaker 1: Garrett Blunt, who is the only decent running back they

1425
01:07:51,440 --> 01:07:53,880
Speaker 1: have left of of what I think is probably their

1426
01:07:53,920 --> 01:07:57,600
Speaker 1: worst running games since about two thousand nine, two thousand eight. Uh,

1427
01:07:57,720 --> 01:07:59,360
Speaker 1: he got hurt in this game and left, So then

1428
01:07:59,400 --> 01:08:01,680
Speaker 1: you're just stuck with James White. They could have scored

1429
01:08:01,720 --> 01:08:03,439
Speaker 1: more points in this game if they haven't running games.

1430
01:08:03,480 --> 01:08:05,240
Speaker 1: Jonathan Freeney gets hurt in this game. Who has had

1431
01:08:05,280 --> 01:08:06,560
Speaker 1: to start lately, So it's a lot of a lot

1432
01:08:06,600 --> 01:08:08,600
Speaker 1: of injuries piloting. Let's look at this what this game

1433
01:08:08,680 --> 01:08:12,440
Speaker 1: really was. It was New England's former offensive and defensive

1434
01:08:12,480 --> 01:08:17,400
Speaker 1: coordinator with Brian Hoyer the backup quarterback. At that's your

1435
01:08:17,479 --> 01:08:21,439
Speaker 1: team going up against the Master and Bill Belichick, Tom Brady.

1436
01:08:22,320 --> 01:08:24,679
Speaker 1: There's nothing that Houston could do here that isn't already

1437
01:08:24,760 --> 01:08:27,679
Speaker 1: completely known to the New England in its show Tonight. Anybody,

1438
01:08:27,880 --> 01:08:30,880
Speaker 1: unless you're a Texans homer, anybody that picked against the

1439
01:08:30,920 --> 01:08:34,240
Speaker 1: Patriots in this game, needs to get their head checked. Unfortunately,

1440
01:08:34,240 --> 01:08:36,680
Speaker 1: speaking of getting your head checked, Brian Hoyer suffered a

1441
01:08:36,720 --> 01:08:39,840
Speaker 1: possible concussion this game. T J. Yates was back in

1442
01:08:39,920 --> 01:08:42,479
Speaker 1: the game, uh near the end, So we'll see what

1443
01:08:42,840 --> 01:08:45,200
Speaker 1: that means for the Texans. And you know, they're now

1444
01:08:45,320 --> 01:08:48,680
Speaker 1: six and seven, which keeps them right, They're still in

1445
01:08:48,760 --> 01:08:50,519
Speaker 1: the mix. You get the Colts next week, so it

1446
01:08:50,560 --> 01:08:54,439
Speaker 1: could be t J. Yates versus Hasselbeck for the South

1447
01:08:54,520 --> 01:08:57,479
Speaker 1: title if Andrew Luck doesn't come back and Hoyer is out.

1448
01:08:58,000 --> 01:09:00,800
Speaker 1: Can we just take all of the ACT and all

1449
01:09:00,880 --> 01:09:03,400
Speaker 1: of the NFCY East and have them playing like a

1450
01:09:03,520 --> 01:09:05,920
Speaker 1: really low stakes tournament of some kind. I love that,

1451
01:09:06,160 --> 01:09:08,080
Speaker 1: And then the rest of like the grown up teams

1452
01:09:08,120 --> 01:09:11,080
Speaker 1: at the adult table can play real give them their

1453
01:09:11,120 --> 01:09:14,280
Speaker 1: own soccer stuff like this. Can't we just they have

1454
01:09:14,400 --> 01:09:17,120
Speaker 1: like other turns they can relegate teams. I mean, the

1455
01:09:17,200 --> 01:09:20,880
Speaker 1: Texans had seven first downs in this game. Seven first

1456
01:09:20,960 --> 01:09:23,519
Speaker 1: down That might be the least of any teams a year.

1457
01:09:23,720 --> 01:09:25,719
Speaker 1: And we're two weeks away from talking about the Texans

1458
01:09:25,800 --> 01:09:28,880
Speaker 1: as this you know, you know, dominant defense that's coming together.

1459
01:09:28,920 --> 01:09:30,280
Speaker 1: It show goes to show you that there's only a

1460
01:09:30,360 --> 01:09:32,559
Speaker 1: couple of teams in the NFL that you can count

1461
01:09:32,640 --> 01:09:34,599
Speaker 1: on week to week, and the Texans are not one

1462
01:09:34,600 --> 01:09:37,120
Speaker 1: of those teams at this point. Instead, they are vying

1463
01:09:37,280 --> 01:09:39,680
Speaker 1: for the title of the worst division in football. If

1464
01:09:39,720 --> 01:09:43,480
Speaker 1: you're not the NFC's what a competition A sexy competition

1465
01:09:43,560 --> 01:09:45,960
Speaker 1: at any levels. I think Josh McDaniels had a really

1466
01:09:45,960 --> 01:09:47,479
Speaker 1: good game. I mean, this is a Patriots team that

1467
01:09:47,520 --> 01:09:49,599
Speaker 1: had been struggling a little bit on offense. It seemed

1468
01:09:49,600 --> 01:09:51,760
Speaker 1: like he just had the Texans number. Everything that he

1469
01:09:51,880 --> 01:09:54,080
Speaker 1: was calling was looking good. Now we're getting into the

1470
01:09:54,160 --> 01:09:58,080
Speaker 1: Greg you know, gushing. Yeah. Here here it comes coming

1471
01:09:58,120 --> 01:10:02,479
Speaker 1: into the room, floating a young cherub boy with angel wings.

1472
01:10:03,200 --> 01:10:08,719
Speaker 1: Here's the harp the left latest, a big long bushel

1473
01:10:08,800 --> 01:10:11,479
Speaker 1: of grapes that Greg will have one grape after the

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Speaker 1: next put into his mouth to be nourished. And it's

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Speaker 1: grape season. All the timing is perfectly, Greg stuffing his

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Speaker 1: face with great Sessler asked me like, oh, do you

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Speaker 1: think you take, you know, too much grief for being

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Speaker 1: a Patriots fate and this whole little bit that you

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Speaker 1: guys do, it's all that's sane, is like your team

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Speaker 1: is so amazing. The only thing we can come up

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Speaker 1: with is to make fun of how good they are.

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Speaker 1: That sounds like a compliment. Greg as likable as ever

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Speaker 1: right now. I really enjoy the way you're taking that. Yes,

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Speaker 1: we were jealous of what you have. I do get

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Speaker 1: a lot of comments on the Jessel Nick podcast Rosenthal

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Speaker 1: and Justin Nick Vanity Project, which you can subs that

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Speaker 1: spot out to the end of the show. I do

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01:10:53,000 --> 01:10:54,799
Speaker 1: get a lot of comments on Twitter, which is worrisome.

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Speaker 1: You're much more likable in this podcast. I didn't really

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Speaker 1: like you on the A t L. Guess that I'm

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01:11:00,720 --> 01:11:04,000
Speaker 1: not worried. I've gotten that many times. I like you

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01:11:04,160 --> 01:11:06,760
Speaker 1: way more now. You guys want to discuss a little word.

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Speaker 1: That almost tempts me to check out that podcast. I

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01:11:10,720 --> 01:11:12,599
Speaker 1: haven't gotten around to it yet. If they could pull

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Speaker 1: that off, it must be doing. Listen to them, and

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Speaker 1: I think that you guys, you get enjoyed each other's company,

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Speaker 1: So maybe you find him more likable than the rest

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Speaker 1: of the cast. Oh, Anthony is my best friend. He's

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Speaker 1: a superstar in the comedy world. We get along so well.

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Speaker 1: I think it's because he knows about his college atmosphere,

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01:11:30,880 --> 01:11:33,520
Speaker 1: and then everyone learns about what Greg did in College's

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01:11:33,760 --> 01:11:37,360
Speaker 1: point that might be way out of this. This clearly

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01:11:37,479 --> 01:11:42,479
Speaker 1: was not a great Sunday night football game, but it's

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Speaker 1: better to keep it mysterious to the listeners. Brandon, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that that is a that is a podcast that exists.

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01:11:48,360 --> 01:11:51,160
Speaker 1: That that's my plug. That's all I need. It's on

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01:11:51,280 --> 01:11:52,720
Speaker 1: once a week, right, I don't need it from you.

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01:11:53,200 --> 01:11:57,320
Speaker 1: It's heavily edited. That's true. That's the way to prop

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Speaker 1: up your boss. Dad. Yeah, how many stitchers, by the way,

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Speaker 1: the stitcher we don't we riches, you know on our

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Speaker 1: mantel in East coast somewhere outside of Philadelphia. That's the

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Speaker 1: last thing that one. Cessler. Yeah, where have you? Where

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01:12:11,800 --> 01:12:15,200
Speaker 1: were you on the awful announcing top ten list? Your podcast?

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01:12:15,640 --> 01:12:20,280
Speaker 1: I'm glad that this podcast, the flagship program of NFL

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Speaker 1: dot com and the podcast Empire, was on the lists.

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Speaker 1: A real quick favorite podcast at NFL dot com, My

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Speaker 1: favorite podcast. Okay, that was a test. It was a

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Speaker 1: test late night grilling if you will, Yes, all right,

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Speaker 1: that is uh yeah, that's a Sunday night game and

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Speaker 1: that is the recap of all the Sunday action. Uh.

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Speaker 1: We will be back on Tuesday. I believe our good

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Speaker 1: friend Connie fox Um will be with us as well

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Speaker 1: Colleen Wolf and we will recap the final game of

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Speaker 1: Week fourteen, which is Greg Giants Giants Stop. Oh, that's

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01:12:54,800 --> 01:12:58,439
Speaker 1: a good one, Cork, Jay Gruden or John Gruden. Uh

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Speaker 1: and yeah, we'll look well look ahead to what because

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Speaker 1: he's six and seven and in first place because he's

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Speaker 1: with lousy teams like the Giants. Well that's very fair.

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Speaker 1: But until then, this is Dan Hanzels signing off for

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Speaker 1: Quiet Storm the Boss branded Behind the Glass till Tuesday. Hey,

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Speaker 1: what's up everybody? D J Bucky here from Move the Sticks,

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Speaker 1: Big Move the six episode for you to check out

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Speaker 1: this week, Bucky, what do they have? We're gonna break

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Speaker 1: down the positions and the way that you should rank

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01:13:50,560 --> 01:13:52,840
Speaker 1: him if you're building a franchise. We also take a

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Speaker 1: look at some scouting notes and get some user feedback. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: lots of lots of topics of cover. You can check

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Speaker 1: that out Move the Sticks podcast and quick shout out

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01:13:58,880 --> 01:14:02,320
Speaker 1: to the boys from around the NFL. Congratulations on being

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Speaker 1: on that list of top podcast for the year. We

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Speaker 1: give you guys a hard time, but we do love you,

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Speaker 1: and congratulations of that Award Very cool,