WEBVTT - All the DUBs we see in the 2023 NFL Schedule | Command Center Podcast | Washington Commanders 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.080 The views and opinions expressed by our podcast guests are 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:06.280 their own and do not necessarily reflect the views or 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:10.240 positions of the Washington Commanders or any of their representatives. 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:22.279 The twenty twenty three schedule release podcast presented by seat Geek, 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:25.960 the official primary ticketing partner of the Washington Commanders. I'm 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:29.720 Logan Paulson here with London Fletcher and Fred Smoot and 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:31.120 we're gonna talk about the schedule. 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:32.960 Guys. Glad to have you here. Hey. 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:34.480 I always good to see you, brother. I just saw 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:35.960 you the other thing. It's good to see you again. 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:38.919 See he's always coming off. 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:41.280 I'm not good to see I see you every day. 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:42.680 Man. It's good to see. 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:45.080 You, London man. That's why he got a two pay 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:49.680 and we don't. It works like that, right, all right, So. 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:52.760 Let's start off with week one. The Commanders have the 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:55.400 Arizona Cardinals at home. You guys think of that, says 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:56.320 the opening game of the season. 0:00:56.560 --> 0:01:01.160 McCoy, y'all forget in effect that Kyler Murray is hurt, 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:02.920 not only to get that. 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:04.039 Come on, yeah, you died. 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:10.680 I can look at y'all face y'all like Coyler Murray 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:14.399 Cole McCoy, it's going to be the guy that they're 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:15.440 going to play that day. 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:17.800 I think it's a game they should edge out and 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:18.520 they should. 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:20.440 Well, yeah, they definitely definitely should win that game. It's 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:24.000 a great opportunity to start the season off right at home. 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:26.800 You mentioned Kyler Murray being out. We don't even know 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:28.880 if DeAndre Hopkins gonna be on that on that team 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:32.039 that by the time that game rolls around. So when 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:34.600 you look at that, I was excited, you see, because 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:36.880 that's the first thing when the schedule comes out. Guys, 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:39.560 we all know. First thing we want to know who 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:41.959 do we open the season against? And where's that game 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:44.000 at yea, so we know it's gonna be at home, 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:46.960 and we got a game winnable game against Arizona. 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:49.400 Cause is at home or on the road? 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:52.560 Home? Home? Home? You want to be at home. 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:58.080 No that the the start of the NFL season is 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:01.360 special and it's more fashion when you're doing in that hall. 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:06.360 Almost definite, when your crowd, you get the the everything 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:08.519 the hoop lied and everything that's involved with the opening 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:10.880 of the season and the fact that you're doing in 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:12.240 front of your home fans. 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:14.040 Oh, it changed everything. 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:16.640 You want that the energy coming into the season, and 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:18.000 I can only imagine. 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:18.440 How fedix feel. 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.520 It's going to be rocking that first game and you 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:23.640 want to take that first opponent out of the game 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:26.040 as quick as you can in the in the fans 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:28.600 help you do that. And like I said, we're playing 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:30.600 a backup quarterback. We don't know if they're gonna have 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:33.200 Boodle Baker who requested a trade. We don't know if 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:35.480 they're gonna have Hopskins who re christing the trade. 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:37.000 Can we say right now? 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:39.560 Can we say right now that Arizona is in the 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:44.639 rebuilding process? So right we the perfect team to start 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:45.320 the season off with. 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:47.920 Yeah, Jonathan gotten the new head coach from Philly, defensive 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:50.200 minded guy. A lot of pieces missing on that roster. 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:51.600 So I think that we all can say it feels 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:53.720 like a good, good opening game, probably a win for them, 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:56.160 right Yeah, feel good about that. The next game is 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:58.440 at the Denver Broncos. That's a tough trip here. What 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:01.920 do you gotta think of that? 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:06.320 I like it, But one thing going out to Denver, Oh, 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:10.399 yes's extremely difficult. Man, that mind high in the altitude, yeah, 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:13.440 and being tired. It wasn't It's not the altitude like 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:18.240 as far as getting tired, getted yeah, yeah, yeah, my 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:21.440 father's drive. Yeah. So you gotta make sure you have 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:24.440 enough hydration. That's gonna be the key. I wonder if 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:26.880 that's gonna be denverse opening game of the season. 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:27.919 Though they homegame. 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:28.760 Open at home game. 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:30.400 But it's also a great test. 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:34.120 It's a great opening test because they have a quarterback, 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:37.160 they have legit wide receivers. They got Sean Payton as 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:39.000 a quarter I mean as a coach, they have a 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:42.360 legit defense. That will be a game where you test 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:45.200 yourself and don't forget. I know everybody trying to forget 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:48.680 about Russell Wilson. But with Sean Payton, Russell will returned 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:49.720 back to form. 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:53.120 A hundred be better. I know it'll be better. I 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:55.400 don't think he'll be because he looked, he looked. 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:58.920 Some of the things you hear about Russell, And I 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:05.400 talked to some some folks that were an im about 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:09.320 a Denverer. But just like one thing you want your 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:11.840 quarterback to be is what of your guys. 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:14.760 He's not a guy. He's a company man, a company man. 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:17.640 He was putting himself above he was the other guy. 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:20.120 He was and I'm not talking dinner. I'm talking. I'm 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:20.839 talking Seattle. 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:23.159 Oh no, no, that's where everything started at. 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:26.039 But come on, if you're a pretty boy, quarterback, curly hair, 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:28.720 married to Sierra, when you feel a little better than 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:32.279 most of your team, come on, man, let's not let's 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:34.360 not throw in and hate. But but Russ has never 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:38.000 been that guy's guy like, He's always been kind of nerdoush, 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:41.200 kind of to himself, kind of their family man. So 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:43.280 at the end of the day, I don't mark a person. 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:46.040 This is like Jason Campbell. We knew who Jason was. 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:47.760 Jason was very low. 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:49.640 Don't you talk about Lionel Richie. 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:53.479 You know, hey, listen, you know how I feel about 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:56.520 my guy. I loved it until he woe those heck saw. 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:59.839 Jim Duggan draws that he wokee to Tampa. 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:02.040 Bay and through everything about that man's underwear right. 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:04.560 Now, yeah we did. He left them in town man. 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:05.479 Geez Okay. 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:08.320 So Denver feels like it's really predicated on how Russell 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:12.599 Wilson progresses under Sean Payton feels like it's like a 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:13.719 very winnable game like that. 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:15.480 It's early. Next one is tough Man. 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:18.480 Buffalo Bill's at home what do you guys think, London 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:19.960 extend that's my next. 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:20.640 Team, and. 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:24.960 Think we put I think we put the league on notice. 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:29.880 Buffalo I played their great organization. Sean McDermot has has 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:32.520 that team player at a high level, but at some 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:34.280 point during the end of the year, it was like 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:39.400 missing something. They didn't add the two relying on throwing 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:42.279 the football. They didn't add a running back to the 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:46.040 to their team. In terms of being a draft, I 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:48.600 just don't think Buffalo will be as good as they 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:49.440 were a year ago. 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:51.640 Can they win the NF I mean the AFC. 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:55.640 North with AFC e's with with the Jets over there 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:59.000 and and the Dolphins over there, So with a hard division. 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:01.200 I think that's gonna be a test too with Buffalo. 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:03.840 Like we played two back to bed quarterbacks. I think 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:05.920 one trying to get back to where he was and 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:07.599 one trying to take it to the next level. 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:09.680 Well, I also think we think we win. 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:11.800 I think with Josh Allen, the thing that sticks out 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:13.400 to me about him in his season like they just 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:15.880 are putting so much on his plate. So can they 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:17.720 kind of self scout and say, hey, we need to 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:19.440 kind of diversify run the football little bit. 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:20.560 But they didn't do that. 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:23.600 That's what I'm saying. But you know, Dave all left right, 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:26.360 we'll see in the building. Can that new OC mature 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:29.000 and understand how to maximize Allan and I don't think. 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:31.800 I don't see their draft picks and then what they 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:34.360 added in a free agent free agency would have said 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:36.640 what they wanted to do. Sure, they didn't really add 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:39.160 a top flight running back to this mix. 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:42.080 There's the last couple of tight ends the draft. 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:44.480 Their first round pick was a tight end. Yep, who's 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:45.479 he's a pass catcher? 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:49.520 Yes, they got knocks there too. They still got a 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:50.480 legit tight end. 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:53.760 There is that guy, big slot receiver. 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:55.360 Catch a lot of balls? They did. They did grab 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:57.520 draft to guard o Cyrus Torrents in the second round. 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:00.320 I didn't like Osias Torrens. I thought he had hit fee. 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:03.160 I think that speaks to flushto because he is a 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:05.840 better pass protector than a run blocker. And like they 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:07.400 want to throw the football right, so get a good 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:08.960 pass protecting garden. They're help Allen out. 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:12.520 Yeah, but Buffalo is a three. Let's not act like series. 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:15.520 We're gonna lose a game out of these first three. 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:19.120 I would have to say that most definitely might be buffer. 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:21.520 So I mean you mentioned first three, I mean first 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:25.600 four games here Philadelphia Eagles, uh at Philly. That seems 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:27.680 like a very tough one week for the season. 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:28.880 Smooth. 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:30.240 What do you guys think about that? I mean, that's 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:33.280 that's the class of the division. Obviously super Bowl. 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:36.720 Last time he was in Philadelphia, we ain't fried Chicken. 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:38.120 I know, But do you think I think they're gonna 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:38.920 be ready for that. 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:42.120 They are gonna be ready, and they did. We we 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:43.360 were fried Chicken, fried Eagle. 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:45.000 So at the end of the day, no, I think 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:48.160 they're I think they're gonna be more youthful. But when 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:50.560 you take away a lot of guys, Hargrave, a lot 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:53.000 of guys that they took away, He's gonna take them 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:55.480 a minute to get on their page. Nikobe Dean gonna 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:56.520 be their staring linebacker. 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:56.960 He did. 0:07:57.080 --> 0:08:00.000 He got drafted last year, Joydan Davis got drafted last year. 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:02.640 He'll be coming up. Jalen Cardon. So they got dudes. 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:05.200 They got still got Fletcher Cox, they still got Darius Slay, 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:07.960 still got a both of they dudes. I just think 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:10.920 on defense this our office gonna have to catch them 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:11.480 off going. 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:15.160 Not wondering what what Philly's offense is gonna look like 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:18.600 under a new offensive coordinator with Shane Styk and him 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:21.640 not being the head coach and Indy you know, what's that? 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:25.520 I know Nick Siriano, he's offensive guy. He'll probably play 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:27.760 a major role in the in the in the play calling, 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:29.760 things like that. But what's that? What is that offense 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:35.520 gonna look like under under the new OC? Going into Philly, 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:39.240 beating them again in Philly, after that everything, after that 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:41.320 Monday night game, the way we ran that ball down. 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:44.520 We won't do that. We won't beat them that way again. 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:46.480 The Hogs would have been had to be proud of that. 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:47.600 They were smiling. 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:50.679 Even Chris Samius was smiling hill Way with one hundred 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:52.959 and thirty pounds, but he was even smiling. 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:55.480 Hey, he used to be that big pro Little. 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:58.840 Used to be a rapper. Now he just seen the blue. 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:02.120 It's just a Losster. What are we doing here? 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:05.360 I'm gonna go with the loss, I think smoothly towards We. 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:07.000 Listened to London already. 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:09.920 What are you saying? 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:11.720 I said, hello, I feel like. 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:13.280 We're gonna give them, but I feel like we're gonna 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:14.960 beat them at home this year, so I gotta give 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:15.439 him that game. 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:18.080 Okay. So, and you have lost the Buffalo too, right. 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:20.280 Yeah, I'm going five hundred in the first month. 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:21.839 Five hundred and the first four I gave us three 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:22.160 and one. 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:24.280 Okay, all right, where you go. 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:25.800 I'm leaning more towards Fred on that one. 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:26.640 Okay. 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:29.000 I see, I thought you try to be educated. 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:31.600 I'm I'm trying to be football. 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:34.520 That's what I. 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:36.640 Educated. 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:36.920 All right. 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:41.800 So Week five, we got the Chicago Bears at home FedEx. 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:45.960 Field Thursday night. This reminds me of last year we played. 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:49.560 The worst threw up in my mouth. 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:53.640 We played up Thursday night football in Chicago and Julia 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:55.839 Brad We're talking before the game and I tell them, 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:59.360 I say, I feel like it's gonna be an offensive explosions. 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:01.920 Gonna go off with three. 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:06.760 The halftop, like where are the fireworks? 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:10.440 They got better though the Bears got a ton they 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:11.840 got they got better. 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:13.679 I think we can win this game. 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:15.880 Not while we're there, Logan, you can get Wald to 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:20.320 Payton Becky's Kangaroos shoes a terrible sho game is terrible. 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:26.120 But I think they're going to be a challenge. I 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:28.520 think we win a game. I think we leave Soldier. 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:31.800 Field with a big games. Here is here that makes 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:32.320 it even better. 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:33.800 We're all in that game. 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:36.280 Only there. I'd say, does Justin Field's progressives a passer? 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:36.880 This he does? 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:38.240 And this is a game that I wish it was 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:39.480 a little bit later in the year because I think 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:40.719 Field is gonna get banged up. 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:46.400 Like that, because if he's going to progress, it's gonna 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:50.960 be a slow progression earlier in the year. And they 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:54.520 got they drafted a rookie, that that dog, they drafted 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:56.400 that tight end, I mean that tackle out of Tennessee. 0:10:56.640 --> 0:11:01.120 No, no, right, no, I mean how done right. 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:04.600 Everyone's been high on Darnell right, he's said. 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:05.719 He was gonna go hide in the draft, but what 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:06.160 did he go? 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:09.320 Number teen probably had him going in the second him 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:15.679 going in and Logan, I remember having this conversation with you. 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:19.280 You didn't think you he liked because you did not 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:22.000 feel like he was worth being drafted in the first round. 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:22.880 He did you right? 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:27.320 You stopped that? No, sorry, because that was early in 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:31.720 the process, and I thought, let me speak on we 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:33.520 go all right. I thought dB was going to be 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:35.680 the value at sixteen. They went dB I thought, I 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:38.320 thought Darnell right at the time was gonna be available 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:41.040 in the second round. I did, But you know, Matthew Bergern, 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:43.240 Dwan Jones, those types of guys, so I thought to me, 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:45.720 cheer them up. We'll talk about that more detail later. 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:49.320 Let's talk about the Atlanta Falcons. Got to move on. Man, 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:50.520 I hate Atlanta. 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:52.400 Foul Well, they drafted Matthew Bergern. 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:55.720 So yeah, no, I hate Atlanta. Fact that my wife 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:56.520 favorite team. 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:58.560 She held me that when we got divorced, by the way, 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:02.040 on a Falcon's faith, Oh by the way, I'll see. 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:03.160 Yeah, it was. 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:05.679 So okay Atlanta Falcons. I think they're a team that's 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:07.400 kind of on the rise. You know, they have a 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:10.360 very strong identity. I think defensively they're a little up 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:13.040 and down. Obviously they're not overly talented. Try to address 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:15.439 that this offseason. What do you guys think about. 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:16.440 How do you feel about the Big three? 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:18.280 How do you feel about Kyle Pitts, who I think 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:20.800 is one of the most talented tight ends in the league. 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:23.360 They got Drake London, they wide receiver, a big, tall, 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:24.800 six five wide receiver. 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:26.760 And now they got b John Robinson at the running 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:28.600 back it's. 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:29.720 Don't get them. 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:34.120 Really, you believe in riddle futsh just not obviously. 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:37.560 Yeah, I believe in real just doing a question I 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:38.280 believe in Really. 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:40.319 I think I think he's good enough not to lose 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:42.760 the game. And I think he's a step better than 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:43.840 Marcus Mariota. 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:47.800 That's what I said about the about the Falcons coach 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:51.680 by our guy lot Man. The Falcons they can run 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:55.160 that ball they added to their strap. There's no best money. 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:57.800 They make no mistake what their ideentity is. We're gonna 0:12:57.840 --> 0:12:59.880 run the football. We're gonna run it down your throat 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:02.000 them two backs they got out of since they just 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:13.439 added B John Robinson. But it's soldly right. But B 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:17.440 John Rodgers and that was that offensive line had success 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:18.840 against our d line last year. 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:23.120 I offen D line and they added the offensive line. 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.080 Yea. The right tackles the first round pick. There, they're 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:26.360 right guards the first round pick. 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:28.520 The center is the second round pick, the left guards 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:30.560 the second round pick, and the left tackle is Matthew 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:32.640 Jake Matthews is the first round pick. So they have 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:34.839 invested heavily in that group. I think it's going to 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:37.040 be a tough match. This is one of the games 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:38.920 that kind of ripples through the rest of the season. 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:40.800 How banged up do you get after this game? 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:41.280 Can you stay? 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:42.200 This is a pick them? 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:44.160 This is the game right here that would be won 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:48.920 by a turnover for a touchdown. Team either a special 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:52.280 teams play something odd is going to win this game. 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:54.040 I think we lose that game. 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:54.880 You think we lose that game. 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:56.120 I also think there might be a little bit of 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:57.800 regression in the run game because they don't have the 0:13:57.880 --> 0:13:59.400 rushing ability of Marcus Mariotto. 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:03.600 You got damn Desmond Ritter, but they. 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:04.840 Didn't use him that way when he was playing. 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.520 I can say he's a guy when he comes to running. 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:10.240 All right, So lost win for you? Fred? What we got? 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:14.440 He hate the Falcons, so yeah it's win. Okay, all right, 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:16.240 I'm praying for a victory. 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:18.520 Enough, right so that gets us the Week seven, we 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:21.280 got the New York Giants first time of the year 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:24.360 up at med Life. Yeap, So what do you guys 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:26.000 think about this one tough matchup for. 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:29.000 The WAT match up? You know, the the Giants were 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:31.080 a lot better football team than I thought they would. 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:37.240 I think defensively they started to uh really jail under Mardell. 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:39.920 I think that I think the Giants gonna win that game. 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:40.840 It's gonna be a tough one. 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:44.320 First of all, we ain't beat the Giants in so long. 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:47.960 Like, let's be honest, Daniel Jones, if he played US 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:50.520 seventeen games a year, would be the Hall of Famer. 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:53.360 He had something that clicks. 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:57.040 He's comfortable here, He's comfortable playing against id line, He's 0:14:57.080 --> 0:15:00.320 comfortable doing these things. I don't I don't know if 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:02.120 the Giants take a step back, because when I look 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:04.840 at a lot of their victories last year, they. 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:07.760 Could have been losses. They could have EASi been losses. 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:09.920 So out of all the teams in the NFC East 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:12.240 for me to gauge, it's the hardest team for me 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:12.600 to gates. 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:14.800 And don't forget Saquon still holding out right now. 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:18.200 Yeah, he's on the tag though. I think they also 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:20.000 did a good job of bringing back some pieces. They 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:22.680 drafted banks in the first round like they did they. 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:25.840 Traded for Darren Waller. Yeah, yeah, I think that's Week 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:29.160 seven we played, the Giants gonna be on that football field. 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:31.160 He's notice sitting out the whole year. 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:33.920 The running backs they getting moody. They ain't getting paid. 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:38.440 Well, Bell did that right today? Not great? Not great? 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:40.200 Not great? So what do we got? Win? Loss? 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:41.560 I go to them, I got with. 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:45.080 The loss, all right, and then we gave Philadelphia. 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:47.480 That's the second time we played Philadelphia in the first 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:48.920 eight games at home. 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:52.160 This time, same kind of analysis before. Do we win 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:53.120 this one? How does it go on? 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:54.160 Same analysis for me? 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:56.400 But I told you we would lose them at home 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:59.280 and we'll beat them at our home. So I'm saying 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:01.440 this is the game and we split with them because 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:03.600 I do feel and I ain't gonna run from this. 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:06.000 We split with every team in the NFC East is 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:09.440 one in one all three, I think, because I think 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:12.520 the NFC East is we an inch apart from each other. 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:12.800 It's not. 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:15.080 It's not a lot of separation from us. 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:18.520 Nobody has what I call a top five quarterback in 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:20.680 the NFL in the division, but we do have top 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:21.280 five units. 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:23.640 I think Jalen. 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:25.720 Hurts is the best quarterback in here, and he's the 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:26.760 top tier quarterback. 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:29.920 He played at the top five level last year. Can't 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:30.320 he do it? 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:31.600 That's a good point. 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:34.080 I think the Eagles. I think we win that game 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:38.160 here at home. It's gonna be week a different animal. 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:41.400 I don't expect our fans to allow those Eagles to 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:43.920 come in Eagles fans to come in here and take 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:45.560 over our stadium like they did a year go. 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:49.400 Some days over, yeah, some days over. Giant is woke again. 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:50.840 I need to point this out. I think in this 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:52.520 stretch we kind of started a tough stretch for the team. 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:54.400 We got the Atlanta Falcons, New York Giants, we've talked 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:57.160 about Philadelphia Eagles. Then we go to Foxborough, New England 0:16:57.200 --> 0:16:59.360 for Week nine. It's it's kind of it's it's a 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:02.480 rocky road here. Some good defenses, some tough, runt shig attacks, 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:04.160 and obviously some big division rivals. 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:05.200 What do you think about the Patriots? 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:07.720