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Speaker 1: Welcome to NFL Daily, where we want to feel tender

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Speaker 1: about our restricted free agents. I'm Greg Rosenthal, I mean

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Speaker 1: the Chris Westley podcast studio. I'm with Patrick Claiban and

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Speaker 1: Jordan Rodrieg. Just one of those words in the NFL

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Speaker 1: lexicon that I always liked, just I'd like to I'd

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Speaker 1: like to be offered a tender.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: The thing about the language is you could go any

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Speaker 3: number of ways with so many different words, and tender

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Speaker 3: is one of them.

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Speaker 1: I tried to explain it. My son was asking, like, well,

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Speaker 1: what does that even mean. It's like, it's hard to explain,

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Speaker 1: but we do have I'm talking big news a restricted

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Speaker 1: free agent tender on this show. We also are gonna

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Speaker 1: make some sad fans feel a little bit happier.

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Speaker 4: Jordan's well, maybe not even sad, but maybe just maybe

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Speaker 4: nervous or maybe very vocal at this time, just like

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Speaker 4: just we're gonna just settle some people. We're gonna boost

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Speaker 4: some confidence. We're gonna give pep talks, however range of

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Speaker 4: a PEP talk one might need. I love to give

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Speaker 4: pep talks. I'm always the emotional support friend. I love

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Speaker 4: to give my friends pep talks and guess people up.

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Speaker 4: So let's do this to a couple teams.

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Speaker 3: It's a good exercise to align myself with a group

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Speaker 3: of fans who make this game so great and allow them.

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Speaker 1: To do what we do famously. You just you're not

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Speaker 1: a fan, You just watch from above.

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Speaker 3: No, I am one of them, but sometimes they like

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Speaker 3: to segment. Yes, I you know, whatever laundry you wear.

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Speaker 1: I support you, We you, and we hear you. Yes both,

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Speaker 1: we love you too. And look, we've graded every team

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Speaker 1: this week, well except for one coming up a little later.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, some people have some hard feelings. Some people

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Speaker 1: aren't feeling good, and I know the resident optimist and

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Speaker 1: executive producer Jordan Rodriegue wants to make people feel a

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Speaker 1: little better the off season. There is a lot more

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Speaker 1: to go. We will hit a couple items of news quickly. Honestly,

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Speaker 1: when the Texans signed Wyatt Teller two year, sixteen million

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Speaker 1: dollar that eliminated one of the teams, I was gonna

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Speaker 1: give a pep duck to really, yeah, because they everyone's

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Speaker 1: just all they're thinking about in Houston is the offensive line.

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Speaker 1: We haven't done enough. We trade away our best guy,

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Speaker 1: like we haven't done enough on the offensive line. And

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Speaker 1: I checked with resident Texans correspondent Seth Payne and I

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Speaker 1: was like, Okay, how are you feeling. Does it do

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Speaker 1: they even make sense for a segment like this now?

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Speaker 1: And he's like, no, I think the Wyatt Teller thing.

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Speaker 1: Now everyone feels Okay. They looked at my top one

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Speaker 1: on one free AGENC. They're like, wow, he's the highest

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Speaker 1: offensive lineman still available in the forties, two year deal,

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Speaker 1: eight million dollars per year. Everything I've heard, I've asked

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Speaker 1: people are on Cleveland thought like, look, I know he

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Speaker 1: got benched. It was a weird situation. He's playing through

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Speaker 1: injuries and stuff. But the general feeling was like he

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Speaker 1: was at a solid level. He's not maybe not a

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Speaker 1: pro bowler anymore. So they added a solid offensive lineman

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Speaker 1: and at this point at least the Texans are at

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Speaker 1: the very worst back to where they were maybe to

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Speaker 1: end last season on paper on the offensive line, and

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Speaker 1: this season offseason, I think it is going to be

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Speaker 1: a little bit more about extending their good players.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they have. For me, that was my my main

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Speaker 4: question about them was what were they going to continue

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Speaker 4: to do upfront? And they just showed us what they

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Speaker 4: were going to do and setting a baseline or setting

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Speaker 4: like a control group in free agency at a position

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Speaker 4: of need. It doesn't eliminate them from also investing at

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Speaker 4: that position in the draft coming up either, but it

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Speaker 4: just means that they're not having to reach desperately for

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Speaker 4: And so I like it. You know, I like pretty

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Speaker 4: much everything the Texans have done this offseason.

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Speaker 2: And sometimes the total five are or ultimately what matters.

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Speaker 3: The individual pieces will have success or not success in

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Speaker 3: different places. It's going to be a new group and

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Speaker 3: so we'll have a new opportunity to see what things

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Speaker 3: are going to look well.

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Speaker 1: They believe Aarone ERSII, their left tackle, played pretty well

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Speaker 1: at the end of last season. That was probably the

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Speaker 1: best part of his season. They signed Braden Smith from

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Speaker 1: the Colts. Now they get Teller in the mix. They

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Speaker 1: like at Ingram, who they just gave a lot of

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Speaker 1: money to. Blake Fisher is hanging out there kind of

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Speaker 1: but they have, you know, they signed Evan Brown, they

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Speaker 1: have Jake Andrew. They're not in a bad spot. Speaking

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Speaker 1: of teams that weren't a bad spot at a certain position,

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Speaker 1: and I would say the Lions still are. DJ Wanham

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Speaker 3: From the vaunted twenty five Carolina Panthers defense. Perhaps Brad

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Speaker 3: and company have something else going on. The draft time,

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Speaker 3: the Lions.

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Speaker 4: Were setting the table, setting the table.

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Speaker 1: They need more, they need more. Ollie helped talk me

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Speaker 1: off the ledge when we were doing grades a little

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Speaker 1: ledge that they need to do oh good more but

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Speaker 1: like like the thinking makes sense. They're trying to get

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Speaker 1: younger and we'll see what they do. Hey, step up there, yeah, hey,

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Speaker 1: what could go wrong the Lions. I don't like the

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Speaker 1: world where the Lions aren't like a favorite or the favorite,

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Speaker 1: but we'll see if they are when we get to

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Speaker 1: the season. The Vikings, I would think, and I and

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Speaker 1: I checked for the first time some odds of like

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Speaker 1: who's favorite to win the division that's coming up a

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Speaker 1: little later. Something I'm gonna mention. The Vikings were pretty

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Speaker 1: solidly like picked to come in last place. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if I agree with that, especially after they break

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Speaker 1: the ice on restricted free agency. First team of the

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Speaker 1: year to sign a tender, Ryan Van Denmark. It's a

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Speaker 1: real person. He was on the Bills, I mean, signed

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Speaker 1: to an offer sheet. I just wanted to see.

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Speaker 4: A Vikings name, Ryan Van Denmark.

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Speaker 1: I can't say I'm like overly familiar with his work,

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Speaker 1: but he's played, he started some games, and they've got

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Speaker 1: an eye on him. It's I don't even know who

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Speaker 1: their GM is. They don't have one, no kind of cool.

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Speaker 3: They didn't like the other one, and so now they

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Speaker 3: see it, they see a tender that's available if they

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Speaker 1: Right, I guess it's Kevin O'conninz Roberzinski. It's all the staff.

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Speaker 1: They pretty much just fired. QUESTI.

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Speaker 4: The more you guys say the word tender, it is amazing.

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Speaker 4: It's starting to get into that territory where like the

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Speaker 4: word moist is for me, where he's just like, I

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Speaker 4: just don't really want to hear this a lot more.

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Speaker 3: It's a tender relationship situation with the GM position, right,

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Speaker 3: so everybody, you know, these guys are all going to

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Speaker 3: the same parties now they fit in with it. Yes,

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Speaker 3: so nobody is going to be you know fired at

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Speaker 3: the at the Senior Bowl. And so that's how you

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Speaker 1: To be clear, yes, that's the biggest problem a tender offer.

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Speaker 1: You know, they were offered him this offer sheet, they

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Speaker 1: signed it, he signed it the Bills. The Bills have

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Speaker 1: five days to match it, and they don't get anything

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Speaker 1: the no cost like undrafted free agent type of type

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Speaker 1: report from the Wall Street Journal oh that the NFL

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Speaker 1: season will start in Seattle on a Wednesday. We work

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Speaker 1: for the NFL, so this isn't like officially confirmed. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure they want to announce it.

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Speaker 2: There's a there's a whole schedule release.

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Speaker 1: Right, But the whole idea of starting the season on

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Speaker 1: Wednesday is new. But it's because they can't plan on

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Speaker 1: Friday this year. There's the whole rule with not going

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Speaker 1: the last couple of years. It was just because the

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Speaker 1: first Friday fell at a different time. Because when Labor

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Speaker 1: Day is blah blah blah. The season's gonna start on Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: The Melbourne game, Damn, I'm starting to use the local.

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Speaker 1: You know, that's going to be on Thursday. But the

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Speaker 1: Seahawks will get the honor of having the NBC kickoff game.

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Speaker 1: That'll just be on a Wednesday. Opponent to be determined.

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Speaker 4: Here's my question. I understand that that's time. I'm terrible

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Speaker 4: with time zones. I'm just going to put that out

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Speaker 4: there right now for the listeners to please. I'm genuinely asking, like,

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Speaker 4: please correct me wherever I'm wrong on this. I'm terrible

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Speaker 4: at time zones. It's messed me up on travel cross

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Speaker 4: like it is, it messes with me constantly and I

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Speaker 4: for some reason, it's like a blank space.

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Speaker 1: Okay my brain.

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Speaker 4: Will it actually be a Thursday in Melbourne?

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Speaker 1: Well, that's a great question. It probably will be a Friday.

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Speaker 4: Set it up like I knew it was a dumb

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Speaker 4: Now it'll be a Friday. You gotta be a Friday,

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Speaker 4: by the way, I don't think so, I just copied it.

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Speaker 1: It'll be a Friday. They're a day ahead, you know.

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Speaker 1: here for them to be a day ahead. But for us, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it'll be Friday in Melbourne, but they'll be Thursday. They

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Speaker 2: Yes, Thursday here.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it'll be Sunday night football on on Wednesday. So

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Speaker 1: Okay, Seahawks home games by the way, let's let's have

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Speaker 1: a prediction, because you guys are doing great on that

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Speaker 1: more on that listikes, yikes. Their home opponents include the

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Speaker 1: they're going to be in Melbourne, The Cardinals and Giants,

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Speaker 1: who I'm going to say are ineligible because they were

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Speaker 1: bad last year. I mean, Giants, I guess wouldn't be

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Speaker 1: That leaves five really good candidates for this year to

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Speaker 1: play opening night, the Patriots, which would feel a little weird,

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs, Mahomes injury, and then I think the three

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Speaker 1: strongest candidates the Chargers, Bears, and Cowboys. What do you think?

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Speaker 1: Who do you think is the Week one came?

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Speaker 3: Would I would lean Bears. I think that would be

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Speaker 3: spectacular open.

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Speaker 1: That was my choice too. It just feels like something

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Speaker 1: they would do.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna swerve then I'll go Giants. I know you

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Speaker 4: ruled them out, but it's a John Harbaugh Jackson Dart

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Speaker 4: new era Giants. That wouldn't you think the league would

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Speaker 4: love to put them on TV and see how they fair?

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Speaker 1: Yes, a lot, and on Sunday Night Football plenty. Week

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Speaker 1: one is a little much for one of the worst

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Speaker 1: franchises in the league recording, you know, based on wins

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Speaker 1: and losses. We have a league where you evaluate how

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Speaker 1: the franchise is doing. Right. Why are you laughing?

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Speaker 2: Well, I loved it. I appreciated it. I thought it

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Speaker 2: was funny.

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Speaker 1: Okay, in the.

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Speaker 4: Last I'm just swerving. I've just swerve you I hear

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Speaker 4: you know. My track record is famously very good.

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Speaker 1: In the last three years combined, they've won thirteen games.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, was that a reference to me? To me?

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Speaker 4: It's all out in the open. Now Greg's Greg's Greg's

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Speaker 3: on the field, and you keep Sean Tucker as well.

435
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Speaker 3: To add into that, there's so many reasons to feel

436
00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:04,840
Speaker 3: good about Tampa. Not to mention there was a guy

437
00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:06,720
Speaker 3: who was on pace to be the Rookie of the

438
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Speaker 3: Year last year. Everything kind of fell apart when Baker's

439
00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:11,639
Speaker 3: shoulder did. I believe in Jason Light I believe in

440
00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:13,879
Speaker 3: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I'm sorry Mike's not going to

441
00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:16,240
Speaker 3: be there, but he will be back.

442
00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:22,359
Speaker 1: But they started the off season in the right place

443
00:20:22,359 --> 00:20:24,240
Speaker 1: and a good place. I go, well, they are the

444
00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:26,720
Speaker 1: favorites by the way in the NFC South goodie and

445
00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:30,480
Speaker 1: and I agree with that, But considering the world that

446
00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:34,760
Speaker 1: was out there, I'm I'm underwhelmed by Alex Angeloni, al

447
00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:38,920
Speaker 1: Kaheed Mohammad, Ashaun Robinson. It doesn't seem like a great

448
00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:42,440
Speaker 1: value or great pop. And I just wanted more from

449
00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:45,000
Speaker 1: where they where they are in their team build, that

450
00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:46,560
Speaker 1: they were in a nice position and the the off

451
00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:50,680
Speaker 1: season is not over. But to make me happy, make

452
00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:54,840
Speaker 1: their fans happy, I don't think they're happy, No.

453
00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:55,440
Speaker 4: No, But I do think that you made some good

454
00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:57,600
Speaker 4: points in your pep Tach because one of the most excited,

455
00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:00,360
Speaker 4: like my on my list of things I can wait

456
00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:04,320
Speaker 4: to see manifest this season is in the like Kenny

457
00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:07,760
Speaker 4: g and Bucky Irving in that backfield and what they

458
00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:10,240
Speaker 4: decide to do with them, you know, as a one

459
00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:13,480
Speaker 4: to two combination, especially in the past game. I think

460
00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:16,760
Speaker 4: on this show, we're really massive Mike Evins fans. And

461
00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:19,119
Speaker 4: I also think that I would like to see him

462
00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:21,560
Speaker 4: win a Super Bowl. I would like to another one.

463
00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:23,520
Speaker 4: I would like to see him thrive. What I would

464
00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:27,199
Speaker 4: like to see him etch himself not only into the

465
00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:30,520
Speaker 4: lore forever of Tampa Bay, but the work that he's

466
00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:33,320
Speaker 4: done for that community and the presence that he is

467
00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:35,840
Speaker 4: and has been. I would also like to see him

468
00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:39,680
Speaker 4: go almost take almost a career victory lap in a way,

469
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Speaker 4: and maybe start think about ending his career on a

470
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Speaker 4: positive note and being etched into the lore of these

471
00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:47,920
Speaker 4: great forty nine ers receivers that get these teams over

472
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Speaker 4: the hump.

473
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Speaker 3: Is if you're watching on YouTube, his highlight video that

474
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Speaker 3: we're showing right now starts with Mike glennon yes, and

475
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Speaker 3: then we get a chance to see Jamis. He's been

476
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Speaker 3: through a lot of course he got the greatest quarterback

477
00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:02,879
Speaker 3: of all Tom throwing them balls as well, but just

478
00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:04,280
Speaker 3: a you know, it's a.

479
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Speaker 1: Great I mean, he was there, He was there for

480
00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:12,080
Speaker 1: Josh McCown as his starting quarterback, Josh Lovey Smith as

481
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Speaker 1: his head coach. I just find that reason that we

482
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Speaker 1: want to see him win a super Bowl depressing because yeah,

483
00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:22,160
Speaker 1: because like, if he wants to win a super Bowl,

484
00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:25,200
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers should be a better option than the forty

485
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Speaker 1: nine ers if you believe in like what this team

486
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Speaker 1: has been building towards. But I hear you that there's

487
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Speaker 1: a lot to still be happy about, even if you

488
00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:34,640
Speaker 1: can pick some knits with the last couple weeks. Let's

489
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Speaker 1: take a break and we'll come back with Yes, a

490
00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:42,679
Speaker 1: team that was forgotten and I feel very bad about

491
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Speaker 1: when we did the NFC grade. We graded thirty one

492
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Speaker 1: off seasons this week, and we'll get them the curds

493
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Speaker 1: thing eagle eared listeners will not. Before the break, you

494
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Speaker 1: might have missed it. Jordan Rodrigue's favorite new dropper on

495
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Speaker 1: NFL Daily What a tree? No, what pipes? You know

496
00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:13,879
Speaker 1: we got? We gotta lean into that more on the show.

497
00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:16,520
Speaker 4: It's always when you never think anyone's actually listening.

498
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Speaker 1: Okay, so we buttered you up just to take you

499
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Speaker 1: back down. I did want to provide a little bit

500
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Speaker 1: of an update on our Matchmaker game, since three of

501
00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,800
Speaker 1: the four of us are here from free agency. The

502
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Speaker 1: dumbest thing I did, other than a lot of bad picks,

503
00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:32,080
Speaker 1: was say that it would take between four and five

504
00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:36,560
Speaker 1: correct picks to win. It's not over, but the standings

505
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Speaker 1: as of right now, I have two hits that is,

506
00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:46,399
Speaker 1: unfortunately for the group in first place. You know by myself, Jordan,

507
00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:49,240
Speaker 1: you got a hit in Devin Lloyd to the Panthers.

508
00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:54,640
Speaker 1: Y Colleen Wolf also has a hit. She got Malik Willis. Patrick,

509
00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:58,920
Speaker 1: you're sitting on a goose egg. But here's why it's

510
00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:02,879
Speaker 1: not over. Hell uh, you have Deebo Samuel to the Steelers.

511
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:08,520
Speaker 1: That could still happen. You also have one more, Nick

512
00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:11,320
Speaker 1: Westbrook Akine to the Falcons.

513
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Speaker 4: So I can't be the greatest come back of all time.

514
00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:16,400
Speaker 4: Because Patrick, if you come back to tie, you win

515
00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:17,240
Speaker 4: off height.

516
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's at this point. I will accept that as

517
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Speaker 1: the tiebreaker since it's such.

518
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Speaker 2: A happening, so we don't have to worry about it.

519
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Speaker 1: I mean, it could I had said April first is

520
00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:30,080
Speaker 1: officially the day. I technically have one sitting out there,

521
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Speaker 1: which was Tanner McKee to the Jets as a trade.

522
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Speaker 1: That's probably not going to happen, although the Eagles acquired

523
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Speaker 1: Andy Dalton in a trade, and so who knows, maybe

524
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Speaker 1: maybe they could the movie.

525
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Speaker 2: They've done it.

526
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Speaker 3: They've convinced the world that Tanner McKee is the greatest

527
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Speaker 3: quarterback of somebody's going to do it.

528
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Speaker 1: Also, Juwan Jennings I have on the board too for

529
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Speaker 1: the Raiders. Jordan. Unfortunately, you can be eliminated. None of

530
00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:57,840
Speaker 1: your none of your players are are still out there.

531
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Speaker 4: I know I was so close on Jonathan Franklin.

532
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Speaker 1: Okay, so we will be updating that as news develops.

533
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,120
Speaker 1: But I just wanted to update all the listeners. Yeah,

534
00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:09,560
Speaker 1: I'm sure and take an early victory lap. Let's go

535
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:13,359
Speaker 1: you never, I'll take it. You know, it still counts.

536
00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:15,919
Speaker 1: It's like the Patriots thirteen to three Super Bowl win. Like,

537
00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:21,040
Speaker 1: it's still you still shining that Lombardy. Let's talk about

538
00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:22,880
Speaker 1: the team I've been teasing all show.

539
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:24,120
Speaker 2: Oh who is that? Greg?

540
00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:28,560
Speaker 1: It's the New Orleans Saints. You know you matter, Saints

541
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:32,359
Speaker 1: fans Uh, yeah, we might have forgotten you. And by we,

542
00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:34,560
Speaker 1: I mean me. I didn't even write any notes down

543
00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:36,560
Speaker 1: about your off season when we were doing the grades.

544
00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:42,600
Speaker 1: Just completely forgot about you. As if the Saints need

545
00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:47,200
Speaker 1: any more talk on this program, you get plenty. But look,

546
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:50,639
Speaker 1: I don't even think this pep talk is necessary. Like

547
00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:54,120
Speaker 1: we forgot about you. But according to Saints fans, I

548
00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:55,840
Speaker 1: have a feeling like the Saints can kind of do

549
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:57,760
Speaker 1: no wrong. And that's that's the case with a lot

550
00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:01,880
Speaker 1: of teams. Right now, you are out of cap Hell.

551
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:05,080
Speaker 1: You never once admitted it. When you were in cap Hell,

552
00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 1: you always said that wasn't a real thing. It didn't

553
00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 1: bother you at all. But now that you're out of

554
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,840
Speaker 1: cap Hell and not doing void years and everything, you're

555
00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:15,240
Speaker 1: celebrating because you're a normal team again. That feels great.

556
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:18,399
Speaker 1: Just don't look at cash spending, where you might be

557
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:20,480
Speaker 1: the cheapest team in the league on average over the

558
00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:25,160
Speaker 1: last three years. Watch you have Tyler Shuck, who at

559
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:29,960
Speaker 1: this point in the minds of Saints fans is somewhere

560
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:35,840
Speaker 1: between like nineteen eighty four Dan Marino and Heath Ledger

561
00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:38,879
Speaker 1: in the Dark Night, Like that is basically what Tyler

562
00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:41,240
Speaker 1: Shuck is right now. It can't get any better than

563
00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:44,800
Speaker 1: this moment. In Tyler Schuck, everything is possible. He's thrown

564
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:49,480
Speaker 1: beads out on Marty Gar floats. He has impeccable restaurant taste.

565
00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:52,040
Speaker 1: He's always taken new teammates out the restaurants, and he's

566
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:53,800
Speaker 1: always picking the best ones.

567
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,800
Speaker 4: He just played for the Savannah Bananas.

568
00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:59,959
Speaker 1: Like he honestly is doing a better job making him

569
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 1: self part of that community than any Saints since Alvin Kamara.

570
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:06,000
Speaker 1: Like he's just he is that dude. Right now, you

571
00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:10,640
Speaker 1: have an offensive line that no exaggeration has two first

572
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:14,520
Speaker 1: round picks your last two in terms of and you're

573
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:16,960
Speaker 1: really excited about Calvin Banks and what he did, a

574
00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:20,440
Speaker 1: real deal guard that everyone believes in, David Edwards, who

575
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:24,240
Speaker 1: you signed, Eric McCoy who's been great when he's on

576
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:27,280
Speaker 1: the field, and a first round pick in Caesar Ruiz.

577
00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 1: Just don't watch the film or like talk about Fuaga's

578
00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:35,880
Speaker 1: health or McCoy's health or anything like that. You brought

579
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:40,399
Speaker 1: Kaden Ellis back. That's fun to replace the Mario Davis.

580
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:44,240
Speaker 1: But that's like fun for vibes unless you hear Cam

581
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:46,400
Speaker 1: Jordan talk about the fact that he doesn't trust any

582
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 1: Saint that goes to the Falcons, even ones that come back,

583
00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:52,399
Speaker 1: except kind of that's a little weird, and that and

584
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:54,800
Speaker 1: Kim Jordan's kind of out there shading the Saints right now.

585
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:57,040
Speaker 1: Something's out up with that. He's a free agent. You're

586
00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:01,960
Speaker 1: a cornerback factory. You got Paulson Adebo and Alante Taylor

587
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:06,240
Speaker 1: paid in back to back seasons. That's fun to do.

588
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:11,639
Speaker 1: It's the detisance is absolutely happening. And then that Derek

589
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:14,800
Speaker 1: carr on retirement. Third round picks coming any day now, right,

590
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 1: Saints fans, look, you can be told with complete sincerity,

591
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,400
Speaker 1: you are the second favorite right now in the NFC South,

592
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:25,480
Speaker 1: and I think in the minds of Saints fans, they

593
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:28,280
Speaker 1: are the favorites. If you had told all our Saints

594
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:30,720
Speaker 1: fans that we love out there, like Adam and Ryan

595
00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:33,199
Speaker 1: at the Saints Block Party podcast a year ago at

596
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:35,720
Speaker 1: this time, that you and guys would be in second place,

597
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:38,320
Speaker 1: and that the Bucks have had such a bad offseason

598
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:40,680
Speaker 1: that they needed a freaking pep talk and they're they're

599
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 1: the favorites. I don't think you would have believed it.

600
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:46,600
Speaker 1: You would have been flying high let's go Saints fans.

601
00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:47,760
Speaker 1: You didn't even need a tough back.

602
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 2: They got one.

603
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:49,880
Speaker 1: They got one on one.

604
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:51,959
Speaker 2: There it is.

605
00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 1: It's weird that mine. It's so much bigger then.

606
00:28:58,840 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 4: I don't even think I can.

607
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you, Wow, I'm excited, still going. I'm excited

608
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 1: for uh, thank you, thank you well an apologies to

609
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:14,040
Speaker 1: the Saints for not giving them. I'm gonna put you

610
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:15,680
Speaker 1: guys on the spot give them a free agency grade

611
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 1: since we didn't do that just off us this.

612
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:21,680
Speaker 3: Week considered considering they were able to, you know, snipe

613
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 3: their old coach and get a get the running back

614
00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 3: they wanted to come, come back home and give them.

615
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:27,720
Speaker 2: A B plus.

616
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, eighty six, I'm going eighty seven, Okay, B plus,

617
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:35,440
Speaker 4: firmly a B plus. I like everything that they did.

618
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:37,680
Speaker 4: I think they reset their floor in a lot of ways.

619
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,680
Speaker 4: They got younger, although not that much younger in terms

620
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:44,400
Speaker 4: of you know, thirty seven versus thirty year old defensive players,

621
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:46,800
Speaker 4: but still younger in a way that will help them

622
00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:49,640
Speaker 4: bridge to the next phase of their team built.

623
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Speaker 3: And I think keeping Alante would have been the plant.

624
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 3: They didn't know that Alante was going to be the

625
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:55,000
Speaker 3: highest paide corner through free agent.

626
00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:57,440
Speaker 1: I think they're shocked. Honestly, I don't think Saints fans

627
00:29:57,440 --> 00:29:59,480
Speaker 1: are sad about that they didn't. They were kind of

628
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 1: over it and more power to him. And you're also

629
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:06,760
Speaker 1: I should have mentioned this in the peptop, helping Travis

630
00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 1: et Gen like kind of reconnect with his roots and

631
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:14,240
Speaker 1: correct the record. And I like that their middle class

632
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 1: running back contracts are back. I think that contract's find

633
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 1: twenty four million dollars guaranteed. Edward's got forty million dollars

634
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 1: guaranteed the guard. So you're spending a little bit of

635
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:24,000
Speaker 1: money even though yes, as I mentioned, they spent the

636
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:27,320
Speaker 1: least amount of cash last year twenty eighth this year

637
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:29,239
Speaker 1: twenty seventh the year before. So that's a little on

638
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:32,240
Speaker 1: my radar. Alvin Kamara might be retiring a couple other

639
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:34,120
Speaker 1: little minor signings. I'm trying to like, do the free

640
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 1: agency great stuff here. I'm just like jamming it in

641
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:39,640
Speaker 1: ty Chandler. Fant are on the Saints now.

642
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,360
Speaker 4: They care, and they I think they ever doubted that

643
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:42,760
Speaker 4: you care.

644
00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:48,040
Speaker 1: No, And yet somehow it slipped my mind. You're up next, Patrick.

645
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:52,640
Speaker 3: Oh, I will go and I will enlist Eric.

646
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 1: He is, we put it right? Oh no, I had

647
00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:58,000
Speaker 1: put it it got.

648
00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,240
Speaker 4: Start, it got because I had two more. So I

649
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,239
Speaker 4: didn't want to go back to back. Just too much

650
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:02,880
Speaker 4: me talking.

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Speaker 3: We love you talking. Why don't you do the New

652
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Speaker 3: York Football.

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00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 1: Giant You might not have two more either.

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Speaker 4: I honestly, my one for the Giants is short but sweet,

655
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 4: because I think that the Giants fans are right now

656
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 4: are so cautiously optimistic and waiting for the other shoot

657
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 4: to drop and worrying about what could go wrong. My

658
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 4: pep talk here is like what if stuff doesn't go wrong?

659
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 4: Like I could really just talk myself into the Giants

660
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 4: being pretty solid this year.

661
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:31,720
Speaker 1: I could.

662
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 4: I could if I tried really hard, and I've been

663
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:38,880
Speaker 4: crying really really hard to talk myself in to this version,

664
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:42,200
Speaker 4: the John Harbaugh version of the New York Football Giants.

665
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:45,720
Speaker 4: And because I like that they're moving to a heavier

666
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:48,640
Speaker 4: personnel roster, bringing in the tight ends and the full back.

667
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:51,520
Speaker 4: I think it really matches well to Jackson Dart's play style,

668
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 4: camp Scataboo's running style. Particularly. I love the Denard Wilson

669
00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 4: signing excuse me as a coach. I love that he

670
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 4: had the Titans playing so creditably, creditably the defensive coordinator

671
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 4: season their new defensive coordinator. I love how he coached

672
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:10,280
Speaker 4: that team even when all was lost in general, they

673
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 4: had him playing hard, playing pretty well relative to a

674
00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 4: the roster b expectations. And see that the dumpster fire

675
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 4: all around them at that point. And I really like

676
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 4: that they have even though they only have two picks

677
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 4: in the top one hundred, they still have seven picks.

678
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 4: They have number five without needing a quarterback. It's a

679
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 4: really good spot to be if you want to trade

680
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 4: back and get more picks, and thirty seven will be

681
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 4: coveted by teams trying to jump over as these position

682
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:37,200
Speaker 4: runs start to happen on day two, or to package

683
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 4: again if a team wants to get back up into one.

684
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 4: So I'm intrigued and interested by these New York Giants.

685
00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:47,120
Speaker 4: And again I could talk myself into asking fans what

686
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 4: if just nothing goes wrong.

687
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 1: I think they're going to be a trendy worse the

688
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:54,520
Speaker 1: first pick going into the season tough to predict, like

689
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 1: what's going to be trendy? But I think it just

690
00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 1: makes sense. I think everything he said makes a lot

691
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 1: of sense. It's why I was horror like some of

692
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:03,200
Speaker 1: the reasons why I was horribly wrong about them last year.

693
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:05,440
Speaker 1: I thought they were kind of a sneaky They could

694
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:08,720
Speaker 1: be good team last year win eight nine games because

695
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:11,360
Speaker 1: their best players are awesome. And now you're adding John

696
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 1: Harbaught to that mix. Hopefully Malik Nighbors gets back healthy.

697
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 1: But like their their top tier players, you have two

698
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 1: great tackles, you have a promising quarterback, as you said,

699
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,480
Speaker 1: like your elite players, obviously on the defensive line and

700
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:27,480
Speaker 1: everything like, there's not a ton of huge holes here

701
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 1: to at least just be creditable incredibles.

702
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:35,720
Speaker 3: But I'm glad, and maybe you know John Harball, where

703
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 3: we saw things get a little bit stale, you get

704
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:42,960
Speaker 3: a combination of the structure, the experience with what it

705
00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:47,400
Speaker 3: takes to accomplish those things, combined with that talent, and

706
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:50,680
Speaker 3: a year one masterpiece could take place.

707
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 2: Let's do it.

708
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 1: I think they like they might have had Plan a's

709
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:58,560
Speaker 1: in free agency that were a little splash than the

710
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 1: Plan bs they ended up with. And yet I'm fine

711
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:03,239
Speaker 1: with what they did. I like what they did. All right,

712
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:04,960
Speaker 1: let's go Patrick, now you're up.

713
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:08,799
Speaker 3: Now I'm urry, and you know I had to reach deep,

714
00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 3: to think about connecting with the people of Arizona.

715
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:14,279
Speaker 2: So here it is. As of right now.

716
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:16,800
Speaker 3: The experts in Las Vegas have you at plus twenty

717
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 3: five thousand to win the Super Bowl. They call them

718
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:22,840
Speaker 3: experts in the desert. But you know, Cardinals fans, You

719
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:25,839
Speaker 3: know the Glendale Phoenix reason region has had zero point

720
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:27,479
Speaker 3: six inches of rainfall this year.

721
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:29,480
Speaker 2: They are showing you the respect of.

722
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:32,799
Speaker 3: Being the actual desert for your biome, much less your

723
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:35,400
Speaker 3: football team, a team that features the best tight end

724
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 3: in football. In his first four seasons, Trey McBride has

725
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:40,520
Speaker 3: more in receiving yards that you guys ready for this,

726
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:42,960
Speaker 3: Rob Gronkowski.

727
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:43,520
Speaker 2: And Antonio Gates.

728
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:46,240
Speaker 3: That's the rookie season where he had thirty nine targets

729
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 3: six games started by David blou Colt McCoy and Trace mcstory. Yes,

730
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 3: who Trace McSorley. They don't respect you, but you know

731
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:58,799
Speaker 3: the truth. You know that Jacoby Brissett, much like this franchise,

732
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:01,799
Speaker 3: has had some stewards that frankly didn't know what they

733
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:04,879
Speaker 3: were doing. At this day, some forces are actively trying

734
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:08,280
Speaker 3: to replace him with Jimmy Garoppolo, who eight years ago

735
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 3: got forty one million dollars guaranteed in one calendar year

736
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:16,360
Speaker 3: after less than one hundred dropbacks, and almost achieved greatness

737
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 3: with what we thought was the best play caller in

738
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 3: the game, before eventually leading a Hall of Fame receiver

739
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:25,440
Speaker 3: to lament his potential death due to his passes on

740
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:29,800
Speaker 3: the sideline. All this time, Jacoby Versett has been biding

741
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 3: his time, being better than the starter at almost every

742
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:35,560
Speaker 3: spot he's been, including once when a guy with.

743
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:37,439
Speaker 2: The worst contract in NFL.

744
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:39,719
Speaker 3: History, for some reason, got a chance to play with

745
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:43,960
Speaker 3: him instead. You are Jacoby Versette Cardinals fans, and he,

746
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:47,520
Speaker 3: like you, knows that Walter Nolan leads to a defensive

747
00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:49,840
Speaker 3: Rookie of the Year season if he's able to play.

748
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:52,279
Speaker 3: You know Will Johnson is on trajectory as a Pro

749
00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:54,839
Speaker 3: Bowl corner, and you know that Johnson as a name

750
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:58,359
Speaker 3: reminds you of another phallic name, Peterson, who was very

751
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:01,960
Speaker 3: good at quarterback. These are what we call foundational pieces.

752
00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:05,960
Speaker 3: You add to that foundation with Isaac Saamalo, Super Bowl champion.

753
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:08,720
Speaker 3: You see an up close and personal what Kendrick Bourne

754
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:11,440
Speaker 3: can do. Devin Duvernet adds on the return game and

755
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 3: receiving game for years across multiple regimes.

756
00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 2: The plan was to blame Kyler.

757
00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:19,799
Speaker 3: Well, Kyler's gone now and maybe other people will be

758
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:20,319
Speaker 3: gone too.

759
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:24,080
Speaker 2: But the foundation of names. Because you demand the foundation,

760
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:25,360
Speaker 2: you keep the foundation.

761
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:29,880
Speaker 3: And if Monty, Mike Nathaniel, if anybody fratens that foundation,

762
00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 3: you make them pay because the foundation is in.

763
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 2: The desert and so are you fans.

764
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:40,000
Speaker 1: Let's give it up. Let's go.

765
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 2: Official.

766
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:50,359
Speaker 5: Who hell yeah, season took a found trail now called

767
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:54,279
Speaker 5: one nine hundred Goodway on.

768
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:56,759
Speaker 4: A new episode of Flight Plan or whatever the wow.

769
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:02,400
Speaker 3: I just we talked about the exercise and I was like,

770
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 3: whom who am I standing for? I'm standing for the

771
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:07,680
Speaker 3: people who have had to deal with this and I

772
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:08,480
Speaker 3: want better for it.

773
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 1: If if if we knew that was coming, Patrick, that

774
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:13,879
Speaker 1: would have ended the show. That was it just show

775
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 1: you say thank you, it's been a great week.

776
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:18,080
Speaker 4: We should end it there.

777
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 1: No, No, I love the connections, I love the detours.

778
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:27,800
Speaker 1: I love being inside of Patrick's friends. In mind, whenever

779
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:28,880
Speaker 1: you wrote that, well people talking.

780
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:31,480
Speaker 3: About the Lakue Wolves like those twenty eighteen when Jimmy

781
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:32,920
Speaker 3: g got that contract.

782
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:35,400
Speaker 4: That's fair, not what we were you did you forget

783
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:39,680
Speaker 4: that Davante Adams was was lamenting his like overall well being.

784
00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:42,279
Speaker 1: No, I just like I just like that. In the

785
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:44,600
Speaker 1: middle of the pep talk for the Cardinals, we went

786
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:45,480
Speaker 1: down that road.

787
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 2: Randomly at somebody loved it.

788
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:52,319
Speaker 4: I am someone who loves lore. I think you guys

789
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 4: know this about me by now. The lore that you

790
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:58,239
Speaker 4: reached into, and that was incredible. It was incredible.

791
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:03,319
Speaker 1: It was beautiful. And it's why Patrick Claiban not only

792
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:06,320
Speaker 1: a host and an analyst, but a thespian, a showman

793
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:07,960
Speaker 1: back in the day. Were you ever in any school

794
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 1: plays and stuff? I could see it? Yeah, No, you were,

795
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 1: it was I didn't know that.

796
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:13,440
Speaker 2: And then seasons started to conflict.

797
00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 4: M Oh, you chose the athletic course.

798
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:18,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was actually the plot of high school musical.

799
00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:23,479
Speaker 1: All right, Jordan, wrap us up here?

800
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:26,800
Speaker 4: Oh I can't follow that, are you okay? It's okay, Well,

801
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:28,920
Speaker 4: you know, I actually which camera am I looking at

802
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Speaker 4: this one?

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00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:30,040
Speaker 1: Right here? Okay?

804
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:32,920
Speaker 4: I just I want to have more of like a

805
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:35,960
Speaker 4: heart to heart kind of pep talk here, and and

806
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,440
Speaker 4: I don't know if there's any like sad piano music

807
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:40,439
Speaker 4: or anything we could plan this right now. I probably

808
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 4: should have made a note of that.

809
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that would be my PEP doc to you

810
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:44,920
Speaker 1: tell the producers.

811
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:49,399
Speaker 2: Like two like I do. Thanks Eric.

812
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:54,480
Speaker 4: I know that a lot of Bills fans have redirected

813
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:58,239
Speaker 4: their anger and worry about the possibility of underachieving toward

814
00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:02,040
Speaker 4: our show, and particularly my criticism of their free agency

815
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 4: to this point. By the way, one week of it

816
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:07,920
Speaker 4: has passed so far, and grades were very loosely applied,

817
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 4: I just want to leave that there. Last year people

818
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:14,439
Speaker 4: were mad that I was worried about their defense. I'll

819
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:16,960
Speaker 4: just leave it there. One person even told me that

820
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:18,919
Speaker 4: I was too hard on the team because they did

821
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:22,799
Speaker 4: while considering their situation entering free agency, to which I say,

822
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 4: the same front office created the situation that they are

823
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:28,399
Speaker 4: now navigating. Both can be true. And I did talk

824
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:31,000
Speaker 4: about how much higher I am on the DJ more

825
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:34,440
Speaker 4: trade than like probably the general consensus of said trade.

826
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:37,799
Speaker 4: I love DJ Moore, I think he's fantastic. So allow

827
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 4: this to be maybe the one and only time I

828
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:44,239
Speaker 4: explained the root of my criticism. Nicely done, Air, you

829
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 4: only need to give him a minute. I am not

830
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:51,240
Speaker 4: sorry for wanting more for you, guys. I love the Bills,

831
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:53,440
Speaker 4: particularly the fan base, and you have one of the

832
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:56,759
Speaker 4: best quarterbacks we've seen and we'll see in our generation.

833
00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:58,920
Speaker 4: And I want you to know what it feels like

834
00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:04,000
Speaker 4: to walk into to a season and feel inevitable, not

835
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:07,279
Speaker 4: worried about roster holes or depth or what happens if

836
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:09,759
Speaker 4: or we still needs. I don't want the same patterns

837
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,360
Speaker 4: and the same results for you. I want you, guys

838
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:15,279
Speaker 4: to know you're going for it with everything you've got.

839
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:17,920
Speaker 4: I want you to feel the sweet, pure heat of

840
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 4: what it means to fly so close to the surface

841
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:22,920
Speaker 4: of the sun that you must either win a Super

842
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:26,759
Speaker 4: Bowl or melt into the abyss. I want you to

843
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 4: feel alive. My message to Bills.

844
00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 3: There is music came in because the first it wanted

845
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Speaker 3: to pep talking. Do people get in the face push it.

846
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:40,359
Speaker 1: They are in a tough spot and they do feel

847
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:42,000
Speaker 1: a lot. I think that's a great that's a great

848
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:45,440
Speaker 1: shout out there. It was I saw ethan hawk on

849
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:47,800
Speaker 1: the red carpet of the Oscars.

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00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:51,960
Speaker 4: To love is all that matters, he was saying. And

851
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:54,399
Speaker 4: I and I love idly love the Bills, And that's

852
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:55,640
Speaker 4: why I'm hard on that.

853
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:58,280
Speaker 1: That the sun doesn't care if the grass is noticing,

854
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 1: it's sunshine, It's it's just and yet, yeah, the Bills

855
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:04,239
Speaker 1: are in a kind of the toughest spot to be

856
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:06,600
Speaker 1: as a sports fan, where it's like, you have these

857
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:10,840
Speaker 1: incredibly high expectations and yet you're very defensive about anyone

858
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 1: poking holes at you. And yet there might be a

859
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 1: little part of your heart that has a nagging feeling

860
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:16,120
Speaker 1: that the best.

861
00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 4: Is But I think it comes out of love. Yeah,

862
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:23,839
Speaker 4: and maybe misdirected and misappropriated love turning into anger, which

863
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:27,839
Speaker 4: welcome to relationships, folks, But that just I'm just I'm

864
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 4: just gonna leave it there, because that is I love

865
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 4: the Bills hard, and I want more for them. I'm

866
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 4: talking to my friend in a troubled relationship.

867
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:38,440
Speaker 1: They've done their best, I think in the Josh Allen

868
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:41,920
Speaker 1: era in the seasons that had lowered expectations, which maybe

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Speaker 1: this will be one of them. Although I checked and

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Speaker 1: they are pretty significantly heavily favored to beat the Patriots

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Speaker 1: in that division, for instance, and there's still one.

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Speaker 2: Of those teams. Okay, they got rid of the problem.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of feeling alive and celebrating and being in the moment,

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Speaker 1: I did not intend for this to happen. But as

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Speaker 1: we were taping, I have some massive news out of Indianapolis.

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Speaker 1: The Colts have signed Nick Westbrook Akine and that means

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Speaker 1: it's over. We could call it Patrick at best. Can

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Speaker 1: get one play the music?

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Speaker 2: Please?

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Speaker 1: Oh thank you again. I am the matchmaker King.

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Speaker 3: I should have kept him in the division. It's in

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Speaker 3: the same division his whole career. What am I doing?

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Speaker 1: I want the music. Let's get out of here. Please.

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Speaker 1: What a week really fun making shows with you. I

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Speaker 1: wanted to be celebratory. This thing's over. What a great idea.

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Speaker 1: A big win for you, Patrick, and you're acting, Chops.

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Speaker 1: A big win for you as executive producer. You're going

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Speaker 1: to get all the residuals and a big win for

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Speaker 1: the listeners forgetting such great shows. I'll we will see

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Speaker 1: out Monda