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Speaker 1: in the United States. Welcome back to another edition of

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Speaker 1: the Around the NFL Podcast. My name is Dan Hansis.

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Speaker 1: I'm joined the roof field with some heroes, Mark Sessler,

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Speaker 1: Nick Shuck, Yeah you heard me, and Greg rosehal what

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Speaker 1: is up? Boys? This is me Dan. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: he's not gonna let go. This is definitely gonna be

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Speaker 1: a Colin Kaepernick replacing Alex Smith type scenario potentially ruined. Man.

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying because Nick and you just heard that

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Speaker 1: eye of the tiger. I mean, let's be honest. Thank

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Speaker 1: you Wes Is you know, out having a very important

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Speaker 1: minor procedure today. We wish him well. And it's the

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Speaker 1: idea that he would post cancer, that he would be

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Speaker 1: benched like during what a very thing. We all feel

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Speaker 1: sympathetic towards him. That did you feel sympathetic for Alex

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Speaker 1: Smith when he suffered a brain Yes, I did. When

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Speaker 1: his team was surging like this team, and then the

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Speaker 1: Well then for then, just sitting for today's show, and

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Speaker 1: we thank you for all your help all season, and

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Speaker 1: you're helping us out again today, Nick, And nothing that matters.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna get We're gonna get into week sixteen, all

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Speaker 1: the games. But I don't care. The only thing I

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Speaker 1: care about is the tweet that came out a nerness

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Speaker 1: dot com put together an expert um study of podcast popularity.

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Speaker 1: And you heard at the top of the show that

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Speaker 1: about our pocket Well, how about this according to nerdice

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Speaker 1: dot com, and this is this is indisputable. The results here.

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Speaker 1: The most popular podcast in the state of Rhode Island,

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Speaker 1: The Thing for Everyone r some people, The Around the

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Speaker 1: NFL Podcast, the most popular podcast in Rhode Island, according

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Speaker 1: to the celebrated podcast website nerdiced dot com eat it.

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Speaker 1: I have two questions here, Yeah, how does one become

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Speaker 1: an expert on podcast popularity? And how many counties are

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Speaker 1: do have Rhode Island fun facts for you. Did you

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Speaker 1: They did, haven't been pretty good right Newport Also they

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Speaker 1: the Browns out of the playoffs in two thousands, which

429
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Speaker 1: they sat Peyton manning like cowards? What happened to game? Sorgie?

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Speaker 1: What happens if the the Colts and Titans tie and

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Speaker 1: then the Browns losing Week seventeen, that would be that

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Speaker 1: would s drive my car off a clip. This also,

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Speaker 1: this is a win win game because the Bengals win

434
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Speaker 1: this game and annoy you guys, it's like that's another

435
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Speaker 1: year of Marvin Lewis. It's like groundhog Day. How is

436
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Speaker 1: that a win win? Well, then you get keep Marvin

437
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Speaker 1: Lewis and but you you also you also have Marvin

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Speaker 1: Lewis in your life. So you're saying, we want fine

439
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Speaker 1: with Marvin Lewis around. He's kind of fun. I'm saying

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Speaker 1: as a Browns fan, I think, you know, like if

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Speaker 1: they were replaced with Hugh Jacks, like groundhog Day, it's like, oh,

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Speaker 1: the Bengals get a Week sixteen Week seventeen win, that

443
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Speaker 1: means you'll see another seven years of Marvin Lewis. It's delicious.

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Speaker 1: Here's how bad it's been for Cleveland and and honestly

445
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Speaker 1: Cincinnatim anyways too. But the Browns have not swept the

446
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Speaker 1: Bengals since two thousand two, and they have not swept

447
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Speaker 1: any division opponent since that two thousand seven season. Knocking

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Speaker 1: these little that's each week because last week was the

449
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Speaker 1: Broncos thing. It's like, I don't forget the plaffs, like

450
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Speaker 1: keep doing these little things and learn how to win

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Speaker 1: week after week. And you're playing a Bengals team that

452
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Speaker 1: is super banged up, backup quarterback No A. J. Green,

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Speaker 1: They've got a bunch of players on defense out it's

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Speaker 1: in Cleveland, you have Hugh Jackson House. You have no

455
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Speaker 1: reason not to close your home slate with a big

456
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Speaker 1: old romp over the Bengals. There have been few late

457
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Speaker 1: season games where it's basically meaningless. It's safe for a

458
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Speaker 1: miracle where there will be more vitriol for an opposing team. Cleveland,

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Speaker 1: it will be ready for Hugh Jackson. And uh I

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Speaker 1: did I did a QB index this week where I

461
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Speaker 1: didn't experiment, like which quarterbacks would you take from the

462
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Speaker 1: last four draft classes got Baker Mayfield number two, behind

463
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Speaker 1: Mahomes ahead of Carson Wentz. So a couple of years later,

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Speaker 1: you know, Sashi Brown. Not saying Sasha Brown deserves all

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Speaker 1: the credit, but the process of the thought process that

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Speaker 1: he went through. It's like, right now, I think a

467
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Speaker 1: lot of people would take Baker Mayfield over Wentz anyways,

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Speaker 1: and you and you got the Denzel Ward I think that,

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Speaker 1: But didn't you only get Baker Mayfield because you went sixteen.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot. There's a lot that went into it.

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Speaker 1: You got a lot of luck. You've got a lot

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Speaker 1: of good draft picks from John Dorsey, but you got

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Speaker 1: a lot of good draft just saying I don't know

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Speaker 1: how you was like honestly the best thing that ever happened.

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, like the process, the thought process that went

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Speaker 1: behind it, that you'll get your quarterback later with the

477
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Speaker 1: better team around him ultimately came true. And the Denzel

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Speaker 1: Award pick is kind of connected through those sas. We

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Speaker 1: also can't overlook the fact that Sashy Brown bungled a

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Speaker 1: trade with the Bengals for AJ McCarn That's part of it. Well,

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Speaker 1: one Sashy draft pick who has sort of been on

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Speaker 1: the fence. Jabril Prepper, like ja Bill Prepper, has had

483
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Speaker 1: his best game of his career last week. I mean

484
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Speaker 1: he made a real difference which he had been waiting

485
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Speaker 1: for that. Garrett, that's a great draft class, all right.

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Speaker 1: Moving on, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are five and nine.

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Speaker 1: They've lost two straight. Ain't no magic in Tampa and

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Speaker 1: Dirk Cutter. Uh, this is probably the end of the

489
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Speaker 1: road for old Darky, but we'll see Nick Shook. They

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Speaker 1: travel now to Dallas to face Do you know it's

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Speaker 1: my kid brother Darky. They call him beef Dirky heard. Uh.

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Speaker 1: They traveled a big d to face the Cowboys, who

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Speaker 1: of course got humbled last week twenty three nothing shut

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Speaker 1: out lost at the hands of the Colts. Uh. So

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Speaker 1: this seems on paper and Nick to be a perfect

496
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Speaker 1: bounce back opponent for the Cowboys if they want to

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Speaker 1: lock down the NFC East and in a death march

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Speaker 1: for the Buccaneers. Right and total defense against the past

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Speaker 1: against the run Cowboys coming off not putting a single

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Speaker 1: point in the board. Yeah, I think this is a

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Speaker 1: great matchup for Dallas to get back on track as

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Speaker 1: they head towards the playoffs, and they also have to

503
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Speaker 1: hold off a pesky Eagles team they've beaten twice. But

504
00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:09,959
Speaker 1: you know, you have to worry about them in their

505
00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:11,840
Speaker 1: wild card implications that they could sneak in, so they

506
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:14,399
Speaker 1: still need to win games. I don't know the Bucks

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Speaker 1: have been playing. I mean, I think people overrate, like, oh,

508
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Speaker 1: they're not playing for this coach or this or that,

509
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Speaker 1: if you wanted to put anything into it. They had

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Speaker 1: a lead against the Saints pretty late in that game

511
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Speaker 1: two weeks ago. The Ravens game essentially came down to

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Speaker 1: the last possession. Vita veaz playing pretty well for them. Uh,

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Speaker 1: the old hard knocks buddy Riley Bullock is now starting

514
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Speaker 1: playing every snap. Levante Advid's playing pretty well. And then

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Speaker 1: you watch this Cowboys team their second in the league

516
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Speaker 1: in plays per drive in eighteenth and points. And that's

517
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Speaker 1: to me them in a nutshell. They Jason Garrett was

518
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Speaker 1: even seeing this league. We're like, we had a window

519
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Speaker 1: of problems with the offense. We just need to finish drives,

520
00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:51,280
Speaker 1: but we we've been moving it great all year. And

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking, like, you're way too happy about having ten

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Speaker 1: play drives that end up in field goals. I mean

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Speaker 1: last week they got in their own way, like that

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Speaker 1: game should not have been a shutout on any level.

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Speaker 1: They just they could not figure out in the close.

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Speaker 1: Throughout the week, everyone was like, well, this was a

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Speaker 1: great reality check to bring us back to earth, to

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Speaker 1: make us realize that we're not unbeatable. I'm like, win

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Speaker 1: a win a game by two scores once. Also, who

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Speaker 1: perceived you to be unbeatable? Right? Exactly? But that's how

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys always think when they are there's no one

532
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Speaker 1: handle success worth like beat a team by two scores.

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Speaker 1: Over the last six weeks when they've supposedly turned the

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Speaker 1: corner with Cooper, they essentially have scored as many points

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Speaker 1: as their opponent. I mean, it's like it's they're they're

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Speaker 1: better with Cooper, but Dak Prescott needs to have a

537
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Speaker 1: good game. He is not put together a complete game

538
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:35,520
Speaker 1: and why I don't know. If this is the opponent though,

539
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:37,680
Speaker 1: that's going to actually allow them to figure something else

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Speaker 1: out other than throwing it to a Mark Cooper. And

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Speaker 1: and if they don't figure that out soon, they're not

542
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Speaker 1: gonna be much threaten the playoffs. They're gonna lose the

543
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Speaker 1: Seahawks in the playoffs. I do think Zeke is running.

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00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,159
Speaker 1: He seems to be picking up steam as the season

545
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:51,240
Speaker 1: goes along. He's like a running back. The more you

546
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:53,920
Speaker 1: like he looks better now they think that he did

547
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:56,200
Speaker 1: in September. The Bucks are not an automatic out though

548
00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:58,680
Speaker 1: they like to Gregg's point from they keep hanging around

549
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:00,639
Speaker 1: in these games and it's their offense and their defense

550
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:03,520
Speaker 1: got a little bit better. So well. JPP has quietly

551
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:06,880
Speaker 1: had a nice season, his best season since the fireworks incident.

552
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Speaker 1: Us another hard knocks hero of the past, Carl is

553
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 1: it nassive or the see but passive? He's actually turned

554
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:14,720
Speaker 1: into a decent player. He a six and a half

555
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 1: sacks for the Bucks, A nice white waiver pick up there.

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Speaker 1: There's some talent on this roster, and I feel like

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Speaker 1: with a new coaching staff, they could see a nice

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00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:26,160
Speaker 1: little jump next year. We're always waiting for the Bucks

559
00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:29,399
Speaker 1: to make that jump, but it often it's the coaching

560
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:32,160
Speaker 1: switch that triggers. And it's probably gonna be Jameis Winston

561
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Speaker 1: being their quarterback again one year, and he's probably gonna

562
00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:38,960
Speaker 1: make more money than people think. Let us move on

563
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:43,719
Speaker 1: and speak of the Minnesota Vikings. Makes try to make

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Speaker 1: sense of this Vikings team who uh took care of

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Speaker 1: business at home against the Dolphins who were coming off

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Speaker 1: that miracle went over the Patriots and they get they

567
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:54,800
Speaker 1: come down to her. See that's a team being brought

568
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:57,480
Speaker 1: down to earth. It's like you're you're thinking you're special.

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Speaker 1: Of a sudden, you're in the playoff race, and it's

570
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:01,240
Speaker 1: like no, no no, no, no, you're literally pretty bad. Well

571
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:05,080
Speaker 1: they're gonna be below the earth soon exactly. Uh So

572
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 1: that improved the Vikings the seven six and one. Now

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Speaker 1: they travel to Detroit, greg another game on paper that

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Speaker 1: it looks like the Vikings will be able to stack

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Speaker 1: a win here during these precious final weeks of the season,

576
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Speaker 1: especially with Matt Stafford taking absolute beating this season and

577
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:25,760
Speaker 1: the Vikings love to get out to the quarterball. Yeah,

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00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 1: have the matchup stuff. This this, the first time these

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Speaker 1: two teams played, was one of the most dominant defensive

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Speaker 1: line performances of the season by any team, including the Vikings,

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Speaker 1: who have had quite a few And you would think

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00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 1: that's gonna happen again, and you would think some of

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00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 1: the ways that the Vikings cooked up more offense last week.

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00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 1: There was a good article in the Athletic Virifa san

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Speaker 1: They doubled the amount of play action passes that they've

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Speaker 1: had per game going into that week. Cousins has been

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00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,479
Speaker 1: one of the best play action quarterbacks in the NFL

588
00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:01,200
Speaker 1: basically for five years. Dalvin Cook's break into calls looking explosive,

589
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 1: it's all pointing to the Vikings. And yet this is

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Speaker 1: a game. I think if you're an Egos fan or

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Speaker 1: Seahawks or anyone else who has interest in the Vikings,

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Speaker 1: you think it's a road game in a division, and

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Speaker 1: crazy things happen sometimes road games in the division. It's

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Speaker 1: kind of a a logical trend that's happened with teams

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Speaker 1: that can't protect up front very well. Whenever they employed

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00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:21,800
Speaker 1: the play action they immediately become better as football and

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00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 1: sometimes it's without even running the ball. Well. Now, it

598
00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:26,200
Speaker 1: helped them last week with Dalvin Cook obviously, But yeah,

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00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:29,440
Speaker 1: this Vikings team, I can't figure them out. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they here's what I figured about them. They did to

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00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:34,880
Speaker 1: your They had nine sacks against They broke Ryan Tannehill

602
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,400
Speaker 1: last week. They broke that offense midway through that game.

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Speaker 1: And there's no reason to think they couldn't get up

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Speaker 1: until those upper reaches again against this Lion. It's a

605
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Speaker 1: huge I'm really interested to watch them this week because

606
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 1: I thought that was their best game of the season

607
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Speaker 1: by a decent amount. And if they do it again,

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00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:51,160
Speaker 1: they've got the players to be one of those teams

609
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Speaker 1: that just that just changes gears and is a different

610
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:56,320
Speaker 1: Vikings squad than we saw a season. It would be possible.

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Speaker 1: It would be a good way to build momentum going

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Speaker 1: to that week's game against Chicago. I will believe it

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00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 1: when I see it now, hecause they have they still

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Speaker 1: have Cousins has come up as small as you can

615
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:10,959
Speaker 1: come up in a lot of these primetime affairs, and

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00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 1: maybe this team just doesn't have it, but they're still

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00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 1: in the mix and they control their destiny and they

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00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 1: should be in good position going into Week seventeen. And

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Speaker 1: if they looked like they did last week against an

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Speaker 1: up and down Lions team mostly down like then you

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Speaker 1: have to wonder if the Kevin Stefanski switched it offensive

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00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 1: coordinator has a lot to do with it, because maybe

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Speaker 1: sometimes these guys, their ideas and their thought process are

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00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:32,920
Speaker 1: being kept down by someone else above them. And we've

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00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 1: seen it in Cleveland and it's if you get another

626
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:37,000
Speaker 1: game like this, you have to wonder where that what

627
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:41,160
Speaker 1: the Vikings offense had been all year long, held down,

628
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:43,040
Speaker 1: but the small sample sizes, they could go right back

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Speaker 1: to what they were. That's that was called ess No,

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Speaker 1: I'm with Dan, I like, it's so've done. You loved

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Speaker 1: John d Philippo so so much. I'm saying that we

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Speaker 1: have to wait and s keeping down have He was saying, Stefanski,

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Speaker 1: you stay in that closet. This is my I set.

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00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:09,480
Speaker 1: A sample size is minuscule. We will find out. But

635
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 1: this stuff, this happens. Come on five and nine losers

636
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 1: last week, eliminated from the playoffs, travel to Indianapolis to

637
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:23,840
Speaker 1: face the Cults. Interesting how the schedule mark is shaping

638
00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 1: up as we go through these games. A lot of

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Speaker 1: these teams that are fighting for their lives and need

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Speaker 1: to win are getting a little cupcake on their schedule. Well, yeah,

641
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:33,480
Speaker 1: it's like a mirror It's a mirror game of the

642
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 1: Titans Redskins. It's an a f C South contender playing

643
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 1: a massive trash bag from the NFC East, and so

644
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 1: you get the Giant Senies. Well the you know what,

645
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:46,920
Speaker 1: we can say that the Titans performance against New York. Oh,

646
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:51,480
Speaker 1: it doesn't count because it was in a downpour. But no, no,

647
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 1: but the Titans ran all over the Giants. And then

648
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:57,440
Speaker 1: Giants have the best running back in the NFL who

649
00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:00,040
Speaker 1: amounted for He had thirty one yards against Tennessee. I

650
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:01,920
Speaker 1: couldn't get it going. Eli Manning played one of the

651
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:05,000
Speaker 1: worst games he's played all year. That once they have

652
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 1: ten penalties, they're slopping. Let's talk forget about the Giants.

653
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 1: I'm just saying they're gonna take care of business the Cults.

654
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 1: To me right now, their offensive line has been awesome.

655
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:16,160
Speaker 1: They Marlon Mack is their clear number one back right now.

656
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 1: They ran the ball really well last week against Dallas,

657
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 1: especially in the red zone. And I like this this

658
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:26,000
Speaker 1: storyline of Darius Leonard, who we can talk about. Oh,

659
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 1: you know all these there's no such thing as a

660
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,040
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl snub. He was a snub and he's so

661
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:32,680
Speaker 1: annoyed that he told teammates he's gonna have forty tackles

662
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 1: in this game. And I would love that nothing more

663
00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 1: on the planet Earth. Tend to see him have forty

664
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:41,080
Speaker 1: tackles against I think they arrest Giants. I read that

665
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:43,080
Speaker 1: in one of his coaches. It might even been FRANKI

666
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:46,600
Speaker 1: was like, Bro, it's actually not possible to even do that, really,

667
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 1: I mean, I know it's not, but what if he

668
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 1: gets free? But I just love that the coach felt

669
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 1: the need to just say, all right, he maybe bring

670
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 1: it down a little bit. But even if he has

671
00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 1: you know, eight, you know, twenty eight tackles, that would

672
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:03,960
Speaker 1: be tremendous. Greg would be great. That's the thing I'm

673
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:06,479
Speaker 1: most excited for on Sunday, just to see what happens here.

674
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:10,600
Speaker 1: You're You're right that Marlon Max has been running well

675
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:12,239
Speaker 1: and it shows how you can build a running game

676
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:14,719
Speaker 1: in different ways. That the Colts have a pretty strong

677
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 1: running game because of the offensive line and Marlon Mack

678
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:20,480
Speaker 1: improving in his second season, whereas the Giants are are

679
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 1: up and down. Scan Barkley is great, but so many

680
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 1: of his yards are through the year. I just love

681
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:26,920
Speaker 1: how this Colts team looks like a different team than

682
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:28,440
Speaker 1: the beginning of the year. They're a vet, they look

683
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 1: like a veteran team. They use tempo better than any

684
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:33,200
Speaker 1: team in the league. I would include the Patriots even

685
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:35,080
Speaker 1: when that they're the fastest paced team in the league

686
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:36,919
Speaker 1: and usually you'd expect that to be a team that's

687
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:39,080
Speaker 1: been in the system a long time or a bunch

688
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:40,719
Speaker 1: of players who have been in the same you know,

689
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:42,960
Speaker 1: system a long time. But they've had players coming in

690
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:44,840
Speaker 1: and out all year. It's a it's a bunch of

691
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:46,799
Speaker 1: new players with a new coaching staff. They've done an

692
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:50,279
Speaker 1: incredible job. T Y Hilton's playing so tough, and the

693
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:52,520
Speaker 1: team of westl has come through for him. Well, here's

694
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 1: the thing. The Colts are the one team in that

695
00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 1: wild card pack above any other team. I think that

696
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:00,399
Speaker 1: a division winner would not want to see on World

697
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:03,440
Speaker 1: Card weekend. But Greg, as you pointed out yesterday on Twitter,

698
00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:06,239
Speaker 1: they don't control their own destiny. Despite having a nice

699
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 1: set up against the Giants this weekend, being eight and six,

700
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:11,000
Speaker 1: they could still get POPA ten. They could if the

701
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:13,680
Speaker 1: Steelers and Ravens went out, which when I sent that

702
00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 1: tweet out, everyone told me is impossible. And I don't

703
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:17,960
Speaker 1: know why. I just have like a gut feeling that

704
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 1: why is it impossible? I mean, because the Steelers play

705
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:22,319
Speaker 1: in New Orleans and Baltimore plays in l A. It's

706
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:26,799
Speaker 1: not impossible. They thought it's unlikely that both happens, which

707
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:28,959
Speaker 1: is true, they would have to win tough road games,

708
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:30,920
Speaker 1: but I think I just think that this is a

709
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:32,720
Speaker 1: time of years some of these teams, like the Colts

710
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 1: and the Ravens, are playing their absolute best, so some

711
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:37,279
Speaker 1: of these teams might win out. I'm a big fan

712
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 1: of this Colts team. Like you said, their offense is

713
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 1: extremely diverse. They can attack you in a number of ways,

714
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:43,879
Speaker 1: and they even have a nice little change pace back

715
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:46,480
Speaker 1: and Naime Hinds and right now, you're right, you know

716
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:48,879
Speaker 1: there them and if we picked between them and the Ravens,

717
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:50,760
Speaker 1: I'm taking that was a dead dome. At the beginning

718
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:53,359
Speaker 1: of the year. The Colts fans were understandably kind of

719
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 1: over this team, and now it's kind of rocking again.

720
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:57,839
Speaker 1: It's in a good football town again. I mean, if

721
00:35:57,880 --> 00:35:59,440
Speaker 1: I could look in the mirror on this game, I

722
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 1: would a lock up the Colts because they're gonna take

723
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:05,160
Speaker 1: care of business here. Even though the Giants, as bad

724
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:06,680
Speaker 1: as they've been in a lot of games this year,

725
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:08,760
Speaker 1: they are a team I think that couldn't put together

726
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:12,960
Speaker 1: a competitive effort pretty much any week. I do not

727
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:14,799
Speaker 1: think that the Cults are gonna let their season get

728
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:17,240
Speaker 1: ruined in their building by the Giants. Now you cannot also.

729
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 1: But what I do want to lock up and I

730
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:20,880
Speaker 1: forgot to do before. But I am locking up the

731
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:26,759
Speaker 1: Vikings against the lines. Let us move on. The Jacksonville

732
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 1: Jaguars are four in ten, going nowhere, Doug Moron another

733
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 1: head coach, potentially in great danger. Uh, and they travel

734
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:40,160
Speaker 1: to Miami to face the Dolphins, who, Uh we're beating

735
00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 1: up pretty good by the Vikings. Nick. Um, And before

736
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 1: I throw it to you, I want to share a

737
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 1: pretty wild stat. I always love these types of stats,

738
00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:52,960
Speaker 1: so I want to bring it up. Actually, no, let

739
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:55,160
Speaker 1: me throw it to you. While I look for that. Uh,

740
00:36:55,360 --> 00:37:00,080
Speaker 1: start talking about this game between these two. Um, we

741
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:04,040
Speaker 1: could play some soft piano jazz. This is This is

742
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:07,160
Speaker 1: not a team or a game I'm looking forward to watching. Um.

743
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 1: I hate to say it. I'm sorry. The Dolphins are

744
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:13,480
Speaker 1: very much a team that every time you see their potential,

745
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:15,719
Speaker 1: you also they get held back by having to play

746
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:17,799
Speaker 1: Brock Hoss, whether quarterback or not figuring out who their

747
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:19,960
Speaker 1: running back is. You know, last week it was suddenly

748
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,440
Speaker 1: Kylin Bullage, whereas Kenyan Drake was their guy before and

749
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 1: Frank Gore got hurt. So it's just not a team

750
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:28,719
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to watching play against. The defense that

751
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:31,719
Speaker 1: has played well in spots, but for the most part

752
00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 1: has been, you know, an extreme disappointment compared to last year,

753
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 1: and and an offense that's quarterback by Cody Kessler. I mean,

754
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:39,600
Speaker 1: this is there's not much to like about this game. No,

755
00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 1: I don't think and I mentioned it before with Josh Johnson,

756
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 1: but it it sort of got lost in the shovel

757
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 1: how completely off the rails and ugly this Jaguars season

758
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:52,040
Speaker 1: lost that they couldn't win at home against Josh. I mean,

759
00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 1: this is the best three weeks of Monish Meta's life

760
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:58,160
Speaker 1: watching What's Happened to Doug Maron? Here. Maron gets rid

761
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:02,080
Speaker 1: of Nathaniel Hackett and Blake Bortles on the same day,

762
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 1: so he doesn't know who's really causing the offensive problems,

763
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:07,879
Speaker 1: and people think like and I mentioned this, and it's

764
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:10,440
Speaker 1: gotten so much worse. They have the it's the worst

765
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 1: three game offensive stretch in Jaguar's history. According according to Yards.

766
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 1: He made that change, not like it really matters in

767
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:20,879
Speaker 1: the long run, but it kind of does because it's

768
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:23,279
Speaker 1: making Doug Moron look bad and he's probably gonna lose

769
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:25,239
Speaker 1: his job partly because of that, all these other teams

770
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:28,400
Speaker 1: are switching coordinators or quarterbacks and they get a little jump,

771
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:31,879
Speaker 1: and the Jaguars went from like a d to enough

772
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:36,279
Speaker 1: minus well and Nate Cody custom twenty yards passing. I mean,

773
00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 1: how often does that happen in an NFL game? And

774
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:41,400
Speaker 1: and just in case you are not aware of who

775
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:45,040
Speaker 1: Miniche Meda is New York Delhi news columnist who almost

776
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 1: single handedly uh destroyed and submarine Maron's chances of getting

777
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:52,160
Speaker 1: a job with the Jets after he left the Bills,

778
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:56,319
Speaker 1: and then has, like can you know, maintained an aggressive

779
00:38:56,880 --> 00:39:00,920
Speaker 1: rivalry with him on social media, suspiciously a one sided

780
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 1: rival rave but basically dancing on his grave. And unfortunately,

781
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 1: because this Jaguars scene was kind of fun to watch

782
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:09,640
Speaker 1: last year, I think they're just gonna blow it off.

783
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:12,120
Speaker 1: But don't you think and I wrote about this in

784
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:15,239
Speaker 1: my mailbag that will come out tomorrow, don't you think

785
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:18,160
Speaker 1: the Dolphins? Someone asked this question. It's a good question, actually,

786
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:20,960
Speaker 1: what would you rather have? Would you rather have a

787
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:27,280
Speaker 1: total wash out awful draft pick like a manzille Um

788
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:31,240
Speaker 1: or Ryan Leaf or have a guy like a Blake Bortles,

789
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:36,839
Speaker 1: where he's not as supremely terrible and disastrous as those

790
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 1: type of draft bus but kind of keeps your holds

791
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:43,120
Speaker 1: your hostage, your franchise hostage for a few extra years.

792
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:45,239
Speaker 1: On the worst scenario, I would want to be out

793
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:48,880
Speaker 1: of either one of those scenarios as quickly as POSTI

794
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: takes the bigger bust. I thought you were gonna say

795
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:54,920
Speaker 1: Ryan tan Hill because there's an argument that, look at him,

796
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 1: he's not at that level, but you know he They

797
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:00,239
Speaker 1: have been on the fence with him now for years.

798
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:03,320
Speaker 1: Are we sure Adam Gaze comes back to the Dolphins

799
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 1: next Well, let me just finish this point. So what

800
00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:07,520
Speaker 1: I was thinking was, aren't the Jaguars the type of

801
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:10,360
Speaker 1: team because I wrote you you definitely don't want to

802
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:13,680
Speaker 1: have the total bust guy because everyone gets fired. It's

803
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:16,839
Speaker 1: an embarrassing setback for the franchise, and he basically punt

804
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 1: to three years from your existence because you have to

805
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:22,719
Speaker 1: start over with the Jaguars there. They've had to deal

806
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:25,640
Speaker 1: with Blake Bortles, but he hasn't been so uncompetitive that

807
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 1: they haven't been able to build a contender for the

808
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:30,799
Speaker 1: last couple of years. If they go out and bring

809
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:33,120
Speaker 1: in a better quarterback. I could see this team being

810
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:35,000
Speaker 1: in the in the mix again next year. They're gonna

811
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:37,080
Speaker 1: have a nice high pick too. They're not a reboot

812
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:39,839
Speaker 1: situation just because Bordles didn't work out. They have great

813
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 1: pieces and I think that Maron probably is not. He

814
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:45,520
Speaker 1: was never driving the train on. Let's give an extension

815
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:47,960
Speaker 1: to Blake Bortles. It was foisted upon him and now

816
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:49,719
Speaker 1: the whole thing has gone south, and it's like, you're

817
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:51,759
Speaker 1: the guy we're gonna fire and say everything's you know

818
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:54,560
Speaker 1: better because because Tom Coffin's gonna step in and coach

819
00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:56,239
Speaker 1: this team, that was gonna be my option. Seed to

820
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:57,920
Speaker 1: that question was I'd rather not have a GM like

821
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,239
Speaker 1: Dave Caldwell who doesn't have the stones today a move

822
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:02,440
Speaker 1: at quarterback when he knows that's what's gonna put him

823
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 1: over the top. Here's the thing that Dolphins, you know,

824
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:06,719
Speaker 1: they just gotta beat the Jaguars and they will be

825
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:10,520
Speaker 1: in the mix most likely in week seventy long long

826
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:12,719
Speaker 1: wait much better at home. Well on that gaze thing too,

827
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:14,359
Speaker 1: I think that I think Gas is gonna be around,

828
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:16,040
Speaker 1: but I think that keeps it. It It seems like that's

829
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:18,720
Speaker 1: the buzz is that Gaze is more likely to be

830
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:23,480
Speaker 1: back than perhaps Mike Tannenbaum. But these things, you know,

831
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 1: tend to be wrong. Little reports two weeks ahead of time. Gas,

832
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:29,840
Speaker 1: who we liked when we met him in Orlando earlier

833
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:32,360
Speaker 1: this year. But he has fit right into that Miami culture.

834
00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:34,960
Speaker 1: So this is what I'm looking for earlier. The Dolphins

835
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:38,080
Speaker 1: are seven and seven the season, nineteen and nineteen in

836
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 1: their last games, twenty three and twenty three in their

837
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:43,200
Speaker 1: last forty six games, forty two and forty two in

838
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:46,760
Speaker 1: their last eighty four games, and sixty six and sixty

839
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 1: six and their last one and thirty two games. But

840
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:55,920
Speaker 1: that's outrageous in Miami. Being average and beating the Patriots

841
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:59,000
Speaker 1: at home once a year, that's enough to keep your job. Well,

842
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:01,840
Speaker 1: they're the only team in the NFL bottom five on

843
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:04,160
Speaker 1: offense and defense, and they're still they still have the

844
00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:07,879
Speaker 1: record they do. The Buffalo Bills are five and nine.

845
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:10,440
Speaker 1: They traveled to New England to face the Patriots. The

846
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:13,360
Speaker 1: big news, of course, on Thursday in the NFL is

847
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:16,960
Speaker 1: that Josh Gordon uh put up one of his Instagram

848
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:19,240
Speaker 1: posts saying that he needed to step away from the game,

849
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:22,080
Speaker 1: uh to deal with some mental issues that he was

850
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:25,919
Speaker 1: going through right now. And then very quickly after that,

851
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 1: it leaked and then became official that Gordon had passed

852
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:32,359
Speaker 1: and failed another drug test. UH So I don't know

853
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:34,680
Speaker 1: if the chicken or the egg situation, but either way,

854
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:37,960
Speaker 1: Josh Gordon is out of the mix for the Patriots.

855
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:42,440
Speaker 1: He's probably headed toward a lengthy suspension and his Patriots

856
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:45,560
Speaker 1: career is over. And you gotta wonder at this point,

857
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:50,080
Speaker 1: Greg if his football career is finally over, because he

858
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:52,319
Speaker 1: was the Patriots leading receiver this year. But I think

859
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:55,320
Speaker 1: the reason why teams like the Browns and the Patriots

860
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:58,640
Speaker 1: had so much faith in him was because of that talent,

861
00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:00,960
Speaker 1: and he hasn't been a game breaker on the field

862
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:03,520
Speaker 1: this year. We've ended his career on this show so

863
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:06,520
Speaker 1: many times that I would definitely not do it coming

864
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:10,480
Speaker 1: off of a very positive experience on the field in

865
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 1: New England where he's not as explosive, But I think

866
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:16,760
Speaker 1: he adapted to that offense very quickly, much more quickly

867
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:19,520
Speaker 1: than a lot of talented receivers and was playing some

868
00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:22,960
Speaker 1: of his best football before last week where he suddenly

869
00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:25,600
Speaker 1: was just vanished and now and now he's no longer

870
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:28,080
Speaker 1: on the team. So it's it's a big loss for

871
00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:31,439
Speaker 1: the Patriots, who have been very lucky with injuries this year.

872
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:33,760
Speaker 1: They're maybe the healthiest team in the NFL. No one's

873
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:35,759
Speaker 1: on their injury report and they barely have anyone on

874
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:39,520
Speaker 1: i R. But they were relying on Gordon because Edelman

875
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:42,040
Speaker 1: is not the same, Gronks not the same. They don't

876
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:45,200
Speaker 1: have outside receivers. They haven't been playing Patterson or Doorset

877
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:47,840
Speaker 1: really at wide out too much. And he was a

878
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 1: big part of the team and so now having gotten

879
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:53,120
Speaker 1: used to him, I think it is a big loss.

880
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:55,800
Speaker 1: Even though when he first signed, we had this conversation

881
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:57,960
Speaker 1: in this room, what are the odds he finishes the

882
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:00,279
Speaker 1: year with the team. I was saying, it's probably not

883
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:03,800
Speaker 1: even fifty fifty, whether it's injury or suspension or whatever.

884
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 1: And unfortunately that that's what happened. I mean, it has

885
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:08,800
Speaker 1: been a lot less than fifty fifty throughout his career,

886
00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:11,360
Speaker 1: and it came at the worst time. But that you know,

887
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:13,440
Speaker 1: when these things happen, and it happens with Josh Gordon,

888
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 1: It's happened so often that you really you have to

889
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:18,440
Speaker 1: say you wish him well and that he goes and

890
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:21,560
Speaker 1: deals with with this situation. But this was a risk

891
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:23,839
Speaker 1: for the Patriots and now they're they're stung by it,

892
00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:26,640
Speaker 1: and you know, they gave up a draft pick for him,

893
00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:29,560
Speaker 1: and you got a certain amount of production during the

894
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:31,319
Speaker 1: middle belly of the season, and now you go into

895
00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:34,799
Speaker 1: the playoffs with your Patriots team with no outstanding weapon

896
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:37,800
Speaker 1: on offense and a quarterback who is dealing with a

897
00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:40,480
Speaker 1: knee injury from what week, from what anybody on the

898
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:43,200
Speaker 1: injury report, but we all know that Brady, Edelman and

899
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:45,799
Speaker 1: Gronk would all beat up this year, and that's the

900
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:48,120
Speaker 1: core of this offense, along with Josh Gordon, who is

901
00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:50,120
Speaker 1: down all longer there. It's a tough situation for them.

902
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:51,719
Speaker 1: You know. I went back and watched their last two

903
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:54,560
Speaker 1: games last night, and even though he's been such a

904
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:57,120
Speaker 1: big part of the offense, I felt like at times

905
00:44:57,120 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 1: that I forgot Josh Gordon was on the Patriots And

906
00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:02,200
Speaker 1: and know if that's a product of their offense overall

907
00:45:02,239 --> 00:45:05,239
Speaker 1: and how they've just kind of struggled at times or what,

908
00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:07,600
Speaker 1: but I felt like they weren't giving him throwing him

909
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:10,359
Speaker 1: the ball enough. No, they spread it around. I think

910
00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:13,439
Speaker 1: his best weeks were, you know, the to the three

911
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:18,320
Speaker 1: games after the buy before last week's game. I'm actually

912
00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:22,759
Speaker 1: from a football perspective, it doesn't hit me as a

913
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:26,720
Speaker 1: Patriots fan as like a killer, killer loss, just because

914
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:28,799
Speaker 1: you're right. They have other issues and they've been able

915
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 1: to scheme up off and I think they're more of

916
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:33,279
Speaker 1: a running team in general. You do you do think

917
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 1: about a guy who knows he's going through this season,

918
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:38,799
Speaker 1: knowing he's one straight away from changing the rest of

919
00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:41,200
Speaker 1: his life, and this is something that's happened multiple times,

920
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:43,800
Speaker 1: and yet he still couldn't do vent that in bringing

921
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:46,480
Speaker 1: suspensions and that and then on this the on the

922
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 1: game itself, the Bills, as we know, you know, two

923
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:53,000
Speaker 1: months ago frist game, people were throwing it out there

924
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:57,200
Speaker 1: that this was a historically terrible team, and certainly on offense,

925
00:45:57,239 --> 00:46:00,880
Speaker 1: things were a mess, with Nathan Peterman prominently involved. Vante

926
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:04,359
Speaker 1: Davis earlier in the season walked away at halftime. There

927
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:07,279
Speaker 1: was a kind of a punch line situation in Orchard Park.

928
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:11,720
Speaker 1: But this is a really good, competitive uh Bill's team

929
00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:15,680
Speaker 1: with a very good defense, a frisky, mistake prone, but

930
00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:19,160
Speaker 1: can make plays. Quarterback in rookie Josh Allen and a

931
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:21,839
Speaker 1: Patriots team that's on its heels a little bit. Greg here,

932
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:26,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you where your p scale level is? One?

933
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:30,080
Speaker 1: Is your completely dry and ten? Oh my goodness, my

934
00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:33,520
Speaker 1: dipmosis All season long, I have not jumped off of

935
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:37,560
Speaker 1: one because, uh, I just this team is kind of

936
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:39,640
Speaker 1: what I think we've thought it was the whole time.

937
00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:41,759
Speaker 1: I'm at I'm at two and a half for this

938
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:46,080
Speaker 1: week because this week there's no there's almost no way

939
00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:51,439
Speaker 1: to win this game in the because like this game,

940
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:56,080
Speaker 1: it's almost all downside if they end up winning comfortably. Uh,

941
00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:57,840
Speaker 1: there's certain things you can take out of it, but

942
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:00,480
Speaker 1: that's kind of what's expected. And I think the Bills

943
00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:03,600
Speaker 1: to me, are a little dangerous. They've struggled against athletic quarterbacks.

944
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:06,520
Speaker 1: They how can you, like, how do you plan for

945
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:08,560
Speaker 1: Josh Allen? And then this is a defense which on

946
00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:11,200
Speaker 1: paper should give the Patriots about as many problems as

947
00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:13,759
Speaker 1: any defense they faced him. They gave them problems on

948
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:17,560
Speaker 1: Monday Night Football until the final final minutes. The counter

949
00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:19,279
Speaker 1: is they've been a much better team at home. I

950
00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:21,400
Speaker 1: don't know if that magically made. There is an X factor,

951
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:26,080
Speaker 1: because I do think I haven't go ahead, no, do

952
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:27,799
Speaker 1: you have to say no, but tell us what you

953
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:29,799
Speaker 1: want to say. Mine was more of a button up

954
00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:31,759
Speaker 1: on the conversation you have something you want no. I

955
00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:34,320
Speaker 1: think an X factor is Brian day Ball because he

956
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:38,200
Speaker 1: has come from the Patriots inner workings. He is the

957
00:47:38,239 --> 00:47:41,640
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator who was when he was with Eric Manginie

958
00:47:41,719 --> 00:47:44,080
Speaker 1: that they put it on on Tom Brady and the

959
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:47,440
Speaker 1: Patriots years ago. And he has been running some of

960
00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:49,560
Speaker 1: the more creative play calls that you've seen of the

961
00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:54,320
Speaker 1: last day. Early against the bar stuff. I was gonna

962
00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 1: say Greg that the Dolphins should take care of business

963
00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:01,480
Speaker 1: at home against the Jags. Yeah, the Bills somehow go

964
00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:06,960
Speaker 1: to Gillette and wipe out the paths and then and

965
00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:10,239
Speaker 1: then here comes the Jets up to Foxborough. But the

966
00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:13,520
Speaker 1: Dobbins with another cupcake themselves. That's why I think this

967
00:48:13,719 --> 00:48:17,719
Speaker 1: steal the division, Dolpins and Jets send the Pets home.

968
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 1: No playoffs, any of this excitement to build. No more playoffs,

969
00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:27,040
Speaker 1: that's that would be that would be amazing. But I've

970
00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:30,520
Speaker 1: been saying like almost nothing matters for this team until

971
00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 1: the playoffs, just because that's just who they are at

972
00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:35,200
Speaker 1: this point, it's like, you gotta get there now, and

973
00:48:35,239 --> 00:48:37,759
Speaker 1: you gotta get there and if if Philadelphia gives you

974
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:39,879
Speaker 1: a gift with beating by beating the Texans, you gotta

975
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:42,360
Speaker 1: take advantage and get that bye weeks and so if

976
00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:44,960
Speaker 1: they don't get there, nothing mattered at all the entire

977
00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:48,000
Speaker 1: time for the New England this season. The whole season

978
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:52,600
Speaker 1: just just no, it didn't happen. I mean for me now,

979
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:58,440
Speaker 1: not really. What was that? Mr Cool? Mr Cool? He

980
00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:02,400
Speaker 1: still got him though, So I'm is Mr Cool is

981
00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:04,400
Speaker 1: behind center, the patch should be okay. But I'm just

982
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:08,200
Speaker 1: saying there is a scenario how we're far fetched. I mean,

983
00:49:08,239 --> 00:49:11,880
Speaker 1: I recognize this Glee. It's the same sort of happiness

984
00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:15,680
Speaker 1: I had will watching Josh Beckett strike out the Yankees

985
00:49:15,719 --> 00:49:18,239
Speaker 1: in the World Series when he was a member of

986
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:21,640
Speaker 1: the Florida Marlins. You just you just don't realize how

987
00:49:21,719 --> 00:49:24,600
Speaker 1: much you want that lead team to get toppled. It

988
00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:26,680
Speaker 1: means something, does it? Sure does. I don't know, but

989
00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:28,879
Speaker 1: if they lost this year, it wouldn't be as much.

990
00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:34,040
Speaker 1: Haven't been a team It's time. Yeah, they're not that team. Uh,

991
00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:37,640
Speaker 1: let's move on. Yes, the New York Jets. Uh, they

992
00:49:37,760 --> 00:49:40,799
Speaker 1: are four and ten. They almost beat the Texans last week,

993
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:43,680
Speaker 1: but they did not because their defense cannot close out

994
00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:46,600
Speaker 1: a game. Their defense led by their defensive minded quote

995
00:49:46,680 --> 00:49:49,040
Speaker 1: unquote head coach Todd Bowles, who was coaching on the string.

996
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:54,240
Speaker 1: And their opponent is the Packers, another team. Uh. Surprisingly

997
00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:58,279
Speaker 1: Mark playing out the string. There was some question would

998
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:00,600
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, who's banged up again, he's dealing with a

999
00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:03,120
Speaker 1: groin issue. Uh, he finally gets over the kne issues.

1000
00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:05,400
Speaker 1: Now he's got a groin issue, and with the Packers

1001
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:07,799
Speaker 1: having nothing to play for, maybe they just sit him.

1002
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:11,200
Speaker 1: Aaron wants to play, So Aaron plays Any thoughts about

1003
00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:14,640
Speaker 1: this game? Uh, you know last week I called for

1004
00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:17,279
Speaker 1: starn to come out and you know, deliver, and he

1005
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:20,080
Speaker 1: did exactly that. We watched that game together Dan with

1006
00:50:20,120 --> 00:50:23,120
Speaker 1: a few nice drinks, and I you know, he made

1007
00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:25,560
Speaker 1: one thing about him that I think is gives you

1008
00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:27,759
Speaker 1: a lot of hope if you're a Jets fan. There

1009
00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:29,359
Speaker 1: are a couple of throws early in that game where

1010
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:31,399
Speaker 1: he's sort of making the wide receiver seemed to work,

1011
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:33,600
Speaker 1: having to come back to the ball or dive down

1012
00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:36,200
Speaker 1: to catch it. But then when he gets hot, his

1013
00:50:36,239 --> 00:50:39,080
Speaker 1: ability to throw on the run. On that touchdown drive

1014
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:42,440
Speaker 1: right before the half, Starn made two beautiful throws on

1015
00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:45,440
Speaker 1: the run and then an incredible over the shoulder touchdown

1016
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:48,160
Speaker 1: past Andre Roberts. So you start to see it. You

1017
00:50:48,160 --> 00:50:50,279
Speaker 1: start to see it if you're a Jets fan that

1018
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:53,640
Speaker 1: maybe this can happen. So why not take out as

1019
00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:56,360
Speaker 1: Act two of the final? You know, let's close the

1020
00:50:56,400 --> 00:50:58,799
Speaker 1: season well before they knock off the Patriots next week

1021
00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:01,680
Speaker 1: Act two of three. React. Closing the season out well

1022
00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:05,600
Speaker 1: would be knocking off a listless Packers team with an

1023
00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:09,560
Speaker 1: irritated quarterback and running back and Aaron Jones who's not

1024
00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:11,600
Speaker 1: on the field. You're probably not gonna have Randall Cobb

1025
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:14,920
Speaker 1: Joe philbin Is coaching the Packers. Why is this not

1026
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:18,040
Speaker 1: easy pickings for the Jets. It's the final chance for

1027
00:51:18,120 --> 00:51:20,560
Speaker 1: Todd Bowls to do something before he sent packing and

1028
00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:23,600
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy becomes the Jets coach. Nothing is easy pickings

1029
00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:25,239
Speaker 1: for the Jets, But I like it. It's actually would

1030
00:51:25,239 --> 00:51:28,759
Speaker 1: be Act three because Donald Starn already had a great

1031
00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:32,680
Speaker 1: second half comeback in Buffalo, then the great game against Houston,

1032
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:36,439
Speaker 1: and now yes it is Keep Keep it going, keep

1033
00:51:36,440 --> 00:51:40,040
Speaker 1: it going. It's cool to see Starn picking up steam.

1034
00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:43,680
Speaker 1: I think it's the most viral nicknames since the trade

1035
00:51:43,680 --> 00:51:47,799
Speaker 1: tsunami coming out of this podcast studio. It's happening, it is,

1036
00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:50,080
Speaker 1: it's I think it's it rolls off the tongue and

1037
00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:52,279
Speaker 1: it is. It's versatile, you can use in a lot

1038
00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:54,160
Speaker 1: of different ways. I want you to know that it

1039
00:51:54,280 --> 00:51:56,880
Speaker 1: polluted my mentions for a solid two hours, as it should.

1040
00:51:56,920 --> 00:52:01,239
Speaker 1: On Saturday, should be Houston Texans are in and four. Yes,

1041
00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:04,160
Speaker 1: they narrowly defeated the New York Jets at the Meadowlands,

1042
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:07,120
Speaker 1: but it wins a win. Now they go to Philly

1043
00:52:07,160 --> 00:52:11,239
Speaker 1: to face the Eagles. I um, I love this game, Nick,

1044
00:52:11,560 --> 00:52:14,759
Speaker 1: because Houston is a solid team, but not a team

1045
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:16,960
Speaker 1: that that you would imagine is going to go into

1046
00:52:17,080 --> 00:52:21,120
Speaker 1: Philly and dominate. Meanwhile, the Eagles are a flawed team.

1047
00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:23,040
Speaker 1: But this is kind of like a little bit of

1048
00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:26,080
Speaker 1: a Mojo heat check right here. After that great Sunday

1049
00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:29,200
Speaker 1: night win, can they string together another win and get

1050
00:52:29,200 --> 00:52:32,520
Speaker 1: the people of Philly pumped up? These are two teams

1051
00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:35,439
Speaker 1: that The Eagles are very Jekyll and Hyde. One week,

1052
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:37,919
Speaker 1: they play above what you expect the next week, they've

1053
00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:39,680
Speaker 1: put a clunker out there, and that's how they get

1054
00:52:39,719 --> 00:52:41,480
Speaker 1: to seven and seven at this point. But then you

1055
00:52:41,480 --> 00:52:44,640
Speaker 1: have a Texans team that they have Deshaun Watson and

1056
00:52:44,640 --> 00:52:47,600
Speaker 1: they have Lamar Miller, but they can't protect Deshaun Watson,

1057
00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:49,600
Speaker 1: and they, you know, the only way they can really

1058
00:52:49,640 --> 00:52:51,440
Speaker 1: run the ball well is is in his own scheme.

1059
00:52:51,520 --> 00:52:53,919
Speaker 1: Sometimes it works, gaps, you know, runs work as well,

1060
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:57,319
Speaker 1: but without Lamar Miller, it's they're completely lost offensively. They

1061
00:52:57,320 --> 00:52:59,080
Speaker 1: can't run the football. When they can't run the football,

1062
00:52:59,120 --> 00:53:01,759
Speaker 1: they can't move the football all because the defense is

1063
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:04,240
Speaker 1: tee off onto Shawn Watson. The offensive line is already

1064
00:53:04,280 --> 00:53:06,760
Speaker 1: not good at protecting him, so then the owners shifts

1065
00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:10,520
Speaker 1: to the defense. And I wonder, once it comes to

1066
00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:12,799
Speaker 1: playoff time, is this is this going to be a

1067
00:53:12,840 --> 00:53:15,239
Speaker 1: team that The way I look at them right now

1068
00:53:15,440 --> 00:53:18,680
Speaker 1: is they are an early exit unless they can establish

1069
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:21,160
Speaker 1: the run and sit on the lead. Now, when it

1070
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:23,760
Speaker 1: comes to this game, I don't know what to expect

1071
00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:25,719
Speaker 1: the Eagles because the whole Nick Foles thing, and I

1072
00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:27,640
Speaker 1: don't know if the Rams are actually a good barometer

1073
00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:30,680
Speaker 1: of who the Eagles are. It doesn't matter who they

1074
00:53:30,719 --> 00:53:32,840
Speaker 1: caught the rams at the right time. But still but

1075
00:53:33,120 --> 00:53:36,640
Speaker 1: having said all of that, I'm locking it up for

1076
00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:42,760
Speaker 1: the Eagles. Chucky, he's getting bold, steps into the into

1077
00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:46,880
Speaker 1: the west chair and locks it up for the defending

1078
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:50,480
Speaker 1: chap Well. I am of the if Shook ends up

1079
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:52,759
Speaker 1: only locking up one game all year and he gets

1080
00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:55,600
Speaker 1: it right, and it's such a bold pick. He's the

1081
00:53:55,680 --> 00:53:58,360
Speaker 1: he's the champion. The only reason that we are getting

1082
00:53:58,520 --> 00:54:01,759
Speaker 1: this nonsensical say Hills campaigned by Greg is that he

1083
00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:05,520
Speaker 1: is dead last in this competition. Then he wants to

1084
00:54:05,520 --> 00:54:09,000
Speaker 1: create total uproar and chaos by hand. And I and Shook,

1085
00:54:09,040 --> 00:54:10,640
Speaker 1: I would give you full props if you get this

1086
00:54:10,719 --> 00:54:13,400
Speaker 1: lock right, but a not an at bats type scenario.

1087
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:15,560
Speaker 1: I mean just Shook goes one to know and Greg

1088
00:54:15,600 --> 00:54:18,360
Speaker 1: hands the tighters and wants to catch steam on the

1089
00:54:18,360 --> 00:54:20,960
Speaker 1: Reddit boar and online. Here there's two there's two reasons.

1090
00:54:21,320 --> 00:54:25,520
Speaker 1: Three one, you know this reaction you just gave me.

1091
00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:28,480
Speaker 1: That's the number one reason. Number two is you put

1092
00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:31,360
Speaker 1: sandwiches on you winning it. So actually I have a

1093
00:54:31,440 --> 00:54:35,760
Speaker 1: sandwich on winning. So I should be rooting for the field,

1094
00:54:35,840 --> 00:54:38,680
Speaker 1: not you, Mark, and so Shook is part of that

1095
00:54:38,719 --> 00:54:40,880
Speaker 1: field and so that's exciting. You have as much of

1096
00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:43,480
Speaker 1: a chance. And then three, no one's taking me seriously

1097
00:54:43,520 --> 00:54:45,399
Speaker 1: other than you. I guess that's kind of number one.

1098
00:54:46,160 --> 00:54:48,839
Speaker 1: I have a theory for reason four. Okay, Greg wants

1099
00:54:48,840 --> 00:54:52,200
Speaker 1: to split this friendship up down there between you and

1100
00:54:52,239 --> 00:54:55,440
Speaker 1: I right down thet he always something machiavellian and decisive

1101
00:54:55,440 --> 00:54:59,239
Speaker 1: going device. You're not tied by our misery anymore. I

1102
00:54:59,239 --> 00:55:07,120
Speaker 1: didn't know you this. This just got even more juicy

1103
00:55:07,160 --> 00:55:12,120
Speaker 1: because let's hear from the Great mail Man. Hello, Bozo's

1104
00:55:12,239 --> 00:55:16,040
Speaker 1: and Ricky Hollywood. It's time for the Eagles to take

1105
00:55:16,080 --> 00:55:19,640
Speaker 1: the dirt nap they've been trying to take all year.

1106
00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:23,200
Speaker 1: It's not their fault. Injuries, the brain drain on the

1107
00:55:23,200 --> 00:55:26,440
Speaker 1: coaching staff, I get it. But it's time for everybody

1108
00:55:26,480 --> 00:55:28,840
Speaker 1: stop acting like this team has a shot at the playoffs.

1109
00:55:29,040 --> 00:55:31,200
Speaker 1: That Nick Fools is one of the best quarterbacks we've

1110
00:55:31,239 --> 00:55:34,719
Speaker 1: ever seen. It's time for the Texans to go into

1111
00:55:34,719 --> 00:55:38,520
Speaker 1: Philadelphia and lock it up. A good team beating a

1112
00:55:38,560 --> 00:55:42,160
Speaker 1: bad team. That's what we need. So January works out best.

1113
00:55:42,400 --> 00:55:45,840
Speaker 1: We need good football, we don't need bad football. By Eagles.

1114
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:49,320
Speaker 1: Dirt Nap time lock it up for the Texans West,

1115
00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:51,840
Speaker 1: who for the first time this season is not alone

1116
00:55:51,840 --> 00:55:54,840
Speaker 1: in first place in the locks because Sessler is surging

1117
00:55:54,920 --> 00:55:58,319
Speaker 1: with eight straight wins. Uh As, I wanted to give

1118
00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:00,840
Speaker 1: you the credit you deserve. You like that can be

1119
00:56:00,920 --> 00:56:03,640
Speaker 1: known that you deserve credit for this lock streak I'm

1120
00:56:03,680 --> 00:56:06,359
Speaker 1: giving you. Well, that's that's not the way I would

1121
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:08,880
Speaker 1: put that. But uh, you know you can do as

1122
00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:10,560
Speaker 1: you wish, but you are for the first time you

1123
00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:13,600
Speaker 1: caught him. Yeah, I'm two games back now because we

1124
00:56:13,640 --> 00:56:15,359
Speaker 1: all picked up a game on West and now he's

1125
00:56:15,400 --> 00:56:18,000
Speaker 1: going with This is an interesting theory from West, who's

1126
00:56:18,040 --> 00:56:19,680
Speaker 1: going with his hard a little bit. He doesn't like

1127
00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:22,719
Speaker 1: the Eagles, didn't really love that Nick Foles run last year,

1128
00:56:22,719 --> 00:56:25,359
Speaker 1: and he wants to right not get to him last year.

1129
00:56:25,520 --> 00:56:28,840
Speaker 1: I think I'm on west side. I would pick the Texans.

1130
00:56:29,440 --> 00:56:32,120
Speaker 1: This is kind of a coin flip game, but there

1131
00:56:32,200 --> 00:56:35,759
Speaker 1: is a recipe out there to beat the Texans right now,

1132
00:56:35,840 --> 00:56:38,560
Speaker 1: and it's pretty obvious. It's that they can't handle more

1133
00:56:38,600 --> 00:56:41,239
Speaker 1: than four rushers. I mean, the Jets splits them well

1134
00:56:41,560 --> 00:56:44,120
Speaker 1: the week before, who did they Who do they play?

1135
00:56:44,120 --> 00:56:46,440
Speaker 1: The week before? Who blits the heck out of Deshaun Watson,

1136
00:56:46,800 --> 00:56:50,880
Speaker 1: and the numbers are dramatic. The Montreal eliouttes the Colts,

1137
00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:54,719
Speaker 1: the numbers are dramatic when he's facing more than four rushers.

1138
00:56:54,920 --> 00:56:56,759
Speaker 1: And it's one of those things in the NFL. Until

1139
00:56:56,800 --> 00:56:59,319
Speaker 1: you show you can solve it, their teams are gonna

1140
00:56:59,400 --> 00:57:01,440
Speaker 1: keep doing it. So some of that's on Watson, who

1141
00:57:01,440 --> 00:57:04,040
Speaker 1: holds the ball forever um and you've got to figure

1142
00:57:04,040 --> 00:57:06,160
Speaker 1: out the protection. A lot of it's on the offensive

1143
00:57:06,200 --> 00:57:09,480
Speaker 1: line and coaching, which has been really pour throughout Bill

1144
00:57:09,480 --> 00:57:11,640
Speaker 1: O'Brien's run. It's kind of been his bugaboo that he

1145
00:57:11,640 --> 00:57:13,239
Speaker 1: hasn't been able to figure out the line and the

1146
00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:15,719
Speaker 1: coaching there. And you're going up against a coordinator and

1147
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:18,200
Speaker 1: Jim Schwartz who just cooked up a beautiful game plan

1148
00:57:18,600 --> 00:57:21,440
Speaker 1: that was very creative against Philadelphia. And even when he

1149
00:57:21,480 --> 00:57:24,240
Speaker 1: doesn't blitz. Right now, Michael Bennett and Fletcher Cox are

1150
00:57:24,280 --> 00:57:27,040
Speaker 1: second and third in the league and quarterback hits period,

1151
00:57:27,280 --> 00:57:30,080
Speaker 1: not just at their positions, So there there's still a

1152
00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:31,960
Speaker 1: defense and get after you. So that's the rest of

1153
00:57:31,960 --> 00:57:33,920
Speaker 1: the ugly. It up and folds hits a bomb or

1154
00:57:33,960 --> 00:57:35,640
Speaker 1: two and good night. You know what I liked was

1155
00:57:35,680 --> 00:57:37,920
Speaker 1: we still got a little bit of that holiday party

1156
00:57:38,360 --> 00:57:41,800
Speaker 1: residual grainy voice from West There not all the way.

1157
00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:43,479
Speaker 1: I feel like we should all pick this game. Mark

1158
00:57:43,520 --> 00:57:46,320
Speaker 1: and Dan, he's definitely. I'm not gonna say a hangover

1159
00:57:46,400 --> 00:57:49,520
Speaker 1: of that nature. You can stick around for two days time,

1160
00:57:49,680 --> 00:57:53,360
Speaker 1: you know. Uh, yes, I would not be surprised at

1161
00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:56,160
Speaker 1: all if the Eagles win. But I think the Texans

1162
00:57:56,200 --> 00:57:59,840
Speaker 1: against squee, I'm going Eagles. They've been win a close

1163
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:04,160
Speaker 1: games all year. Let's move on the the Los Angeles Rams,

1164
00:58:05,040 --> 00:58:08,920
Speaker 1: who have out of nowhere lost too straight, including the

1165
00:58:09,080 --> 00:58:13,080
Speaker 1: really um that really public stumble on Sunday Night football

1166
00:58:13,120 --> 00:58:16,040
Speaker 1: against the Eagles. So they're now eleven and three and

1167
00:58:16,080 --> 00:58:19,000
Speaker 1: their hopes of a one seed are just about shot.

1168
00:58:19,360 --> 00:58:21,920
Speaker 1: All they can do is control their own games, and

1169
00:58:21,960 --> 00:58:25,400
Speaker 1: they have two cupcakes to wrap up their schedules, starting

1170
00:58:25,400 --> 00:58:29,440
Speaker 1: with the Cardinals. They finished with the Niners. Uh thoughts

1171
00:58:29,440 --> 00:58:34,840
Speaker 1: on this game, Greg, Oh boy, you know everyone's thinking

1172
00:58:34,880 --> 00:58:38,960
Speaker 1: they go to Arizona and it's easy. They're two touchdown favorites. Like, okay,

1173
00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:43,080
Speaker 1: that's done Arizona at home. Their defense has played fairly well.

1174
00:58:43,520 --> 00:58:48,320
Speaker 1: Lock it up, No, I mean the offense. The the

1175
00:58:48,360 --> 00:58:50,000
Speaker 1: offense is what you're worried about with the Rams. The

1176
00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:52,520
Speaker 1: defense is actually improved statistically over the last three or

1177
00:58:52,560 --> 00:58:55,560
Speaker 1: four weeks from like mid level too, a little better

1178
00:58:55,600 --> 00:58:58,080
Speaker 1: than average and not a big difference, whereas the offense

1179
00:58:58,160 --> 00:59:00,280
Speaker 1: has fallen off a cliff And so when I look

1180
00:59:00,320 --> 00:59:02,160
Speaker 1: at this matchup and you look at the right side

1181
00:59:02,160 --> 00:59:04,480
Speaker 1: of the offensive line for the Ram struggling, and you

1182
00:59:04,480 --> 00:59:06,439
Speaker 1: you see Jared Goff kind of in his own head.

1183
00:59:06,920 --> 00:59:09,560
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily see this as a cake walk for

1184
00:59:09,600 --> 00:59:12,560
Speaker 1: them to figure it out offensively and put up thirty

1185
00:59:12,560 --> 00:59:14,640
Speaker 1: five points or anything. I think they're gonna win the game,

1186
00:59:14,680 --> 00:59:17,440
Speaker 1: of course, but I don't know they I think they

1187
00:59:17,440 --> 00:59:19,960
Speaker 1: have something to prove these next two weeks. This is

1188
00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:22,480
Speaker 1: the first bit of adversity they faced with Sean. That's

1189
00:59:22,480 --> 00:59:24,680
Speaker 1: why I kind of expect them to come out into

1190
00:59:24,720 --> 00:59:27,720
Speaker 1: this game piste off what everyone thought last week too,

1191
00:59:27,720 --> 00:59:32,440
Speaker 1: though I did they were they were almost That feels

1192
00:59:32,480 --> 00:59:34,400
Speaker 1: different where they are this week than where they were

1193
00:59:34,520 --> 00:59:37,440
Speaker 1: last week. There seems to be, especially with where Goths

1194
00:59:37,440 --> 00:59:39,560
Speaker 1: at right now. And if you still believe in Goff,

1195
00:59:39,600 --> 00:59:41,480
Speaker 1: and I do, I think it's just a slump. I

1196
00:59:41,760 --> 00:59:44,880
Speaker 1: think they're gonna come in as a focused angry team

1197
00:59:44,960 --> 00:59:47,320
Speaker 1: and lay the wood. But you would have thought they

1198
00:59:47,320 --> 00:59:49,200
Speaker 1: would have been as folks. To me, it's not about

1199
00:59:49,240 --> 00:59:52,320
Speaker 1: motivation and focus. It's just about are you good enough?

1200
00:59:52,640 --> 00:59:54,840
Speaker 1: Can you adjust to what defenses are doing? They're not

1201
00:59:54,840 --> 00:59:58,280
Speaker 1: good enough to whip up there. Took care of them.

1202
00:59:58,280 --> 01:00:00,840
Speaker 1: The Eagles offense took care of the defense too in

1203
01:00:00,840 --> 01:00:04,400
Speaker 1: the red zone with powerful runs they Wendell Smallwood scored

1204
01:00:04,760 --> 01:00:07,000
Speaker 1: at I mean, they took care of business. They were

1205
01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:09,520
Speaker 1: the tougher team. They got penetration up the middle and

1206
01:00:09,600 --> 01:00:13,120
Speaker 1: that play where Jared Goff got stepped on trips, jumps

1207
01:00:13,160 --> 01:00:14,760
Speaker 1: up to his feet and throws one of the worst

1208
01:00:14,760 --> 01:00:17,600
Speaker 1: interceptions we've seen all year. Like this Rams team is

1209
01:00:17,640 --> 01:00:20,880
Speaker 1: not typically on their heels and looking sort of lost,

1210
01:00:20,920 --> 01:00:23,440
Speaker 1: and they have for two straight weeks. This little statistical

1211
01:00:23,560 --> 01:00:26,560
Speaker 1: nug from Next Gen Stats, Jared Goff has been pressure

1212
01:00:26,560 --> 01:00:28,600
Speaker 1: at least twelve times in each of the Rams games

1213
01:00:28,600 --> 01:00:30,800
Speaker 1: since they're bye week. In Week twelve their one and

1214
01:00:30,840 --> 01:00:34,240
Speaker 1: two in that stretch, he has a horrible passer rating

1215
01:00:34,280 --> 01:00:37,080
Speaker 1: under pressure of just three point nine. That's a huge

1216
01:00:37,360 --> 01:00:40,400
Speaker 1: reason why. That's like the Sean McVeigh verse, the Steve

1217
01:00:40,440 --> 01:00:43,400
Speaker 1: Wilkes matchup here. Yeah, I mean, I'm not that worried.

1218
01:00:43,440 --> 01:00:47,000
Speaker 1: I'm just a little worried. And don't and don't forget

1219
01:00:47,080 --> 01:00:50,120
Speaker 1: the Rams. Also, they're getting pushed now by the Bears,

1220
01:00:50,120 --> 01:00:52,800
Speaker 1: who are tenant four. Uh, they're still in the mix

1221
01:00:52,840 --> 01:00:55,280
Speaker 1: for a bye and you know they're gonna take care

1222
01:00:55,280 --> 01:00:58,360
Speaker 1: of business. You know, they have the San Francisco forty

1223
01:00:58,440 --> 01:01:01,040
Speaker 1: Niners on the road now. Course, the Seahawks thought they

1224
01:01:01,040 --> 01:01:04,440
Speaker 1: were gonna take care of business Mark Sessler when they

1225
01:01:04,440 --> 01:01:06,800
Speaker 1: went to San Francisco. Didn't work out that way last week.

1226
01:01:07,400 --> 01:01:11,440
Speaker 1: But the Bears, with that defense, that should be able

1227
01:01:11,480 --> 01:01:13,760
Speaker 1: to handle their business here. They're so consistent and there's

1228
01:01:13,760 --> 01:01:18,200
Speaker 1: such a disparity between these two defenses. Statistically, it's almost

1229
01:01:18,240 --> 01:01:21,640
Speaker 1: shocking that the Bears lead the NFL with thirty five

1230
01:01:22,000 --> 01:01:25,280
Speaker 1: takeaways with eight games where they've had three or more

1231
01:01:25,880 --> 01:01:28,040
Speaker 1: and the Niners and I don't know if we've ever,

1232
01:01:28,080 --> 01:01:29,600
Speaker 1: I don't know when the last time this has happened,

1233
01:01:29,720 --> 01:01:33,120
Speaker 1: have five all season and only one at home. And

1234
01:01:33,160 --> 01:01:35,840
Speaker 1: I think the difference between what happened last week to Seattle,

1235
01:01:35,880 --> 01:01:38,720
Speaker 1: which I don't see happening against the Bears is there

1236
01:01:38,800 --> 01:01:42,680
Speaker 1: was a lot of yards after the catch with it

1237
01:01:42,720 --> 01:01:45,960
Speaker 1: was Selik had a long score, they got multiple guys open,

1238
01:01:46,320 --> 01:01:51,040
Speaker 1: and that's been fifty of Nick Mullins's yardage have come

1239
01:01:51,080 --> 01:01:53,640
Speaker 1: through yards after the catch, and so I trust the

1240
01:01:53,640 --> 01:01:55,760
Speaker 1: Bears to clamp down on that. They only allow to

1241
01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:59,360
Speaker 1: red zone opportunities per game on the road. That's by

1242
01:01:59,400 --> 01:02:01,640
Speaker 1: far the best in the NFL right now. And they're

1243
01:02:01,640 --> 01:02:03,800
Speaker 1: the same team every week. And I know Ms Robiski

1244
01:02:04,320 --> 01:02:06,360
Speaker 1: saw this thing that he hasn't had. He's had one

1245
01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:09,520
Speaker 1: pass of twenty plus are yards since he's come back

1246
01:02:09,520 --> 01:02:11,880
Speaker 1: from his shoulders, So they're not going deep with that.

1247
01:02:11,920 --> 01:02:13,480
Speaker 1: But I don't know if that's sort of just like

1248
01:02:13,680 --> 01:02:16,080
Speaker 1: each week will get a little healthier and we might

1249
01:02:16,120 --> 01:02:17,920
Speaker 1: see more of that. But they're gonna be fine. Well,

1250
01:02:17,920 --> 01:02:20,640
Speaker 1: the forty Niners d's improved, you know. They they've won

1251
01:02:20,680 --> 01:02:22,560
Speaker 1: two games in a row here at home there four

1252
01:02:22,600 --> 01:02:24,400
Speaker 1: and three at home. On the year, they haven't they've

1253
01:02:24,440 --> 01:02:26,680
Speaker 1: been a terrible road team, but they just beat the

1254
01:02:26,680 --> 01:02:29,600
Speaker 1: Broncos and the Seahawks back to back to Forest Buckner's

1255
01:02:29,640 --> 01:02:31,960
Speaker 1: coming off a good game and in the Mullins some

1256
01:02:32,040 --> 01:02:34,880
Speaker 1: of them Nick Mollins stats are a little wild. I'm

1257
01:02:34,880 --> 01:02:38,160
Speaker 1: gonna give you one. Here are the five quarterbacks in

1258
01:02:38,240 --> 01:02:41,520
Speaker 1: NFL history with a higher yards per attempt average as rookies,

1259
01:02:42,440 --> 01:02:46,560
Speaker 1: Otto Graham, Greg Cook, Bob Waterfield, Ben Roethlisberger, and y

1260
01:02:46,560 --> 01:02:49,800
Speaker 1: A Tittle. That's the list. And he's undrafted. He's already

1261
01:02:49,840 --> 01:02:52,440
Speaker 1: started more games, by the way, than any undrafted rookie,

1262
01:02:52,560 --> 01:02:56,840
Speaker 1: any undrafted rookie ever in any undrafted UH quarterback this

1263
01:02:56,920 --> 01:02:59,360
Speaker 1: decade other than Hoyer and Keenham. Has he started more

1264
01:02:59,400 --> 01:03:01,280
Speaker 1: games in his career than Jimmy Garoppolo at this point.

1265
01:03:02,480 --> 01:03:05,280
Speaker 1: But it's like not that, it's not that crazy and Garoppolo,

1266
01:03:05,560 --> 01:03:07,320
Speaker 1: I mean, you could then say, Kyle Shannahan, I don't

1267
01:03:07,360 --> 01:03:10,120
Speaker 1: think he's at that level right right, right, But Kyle Shanahan,

1268
01:03:10,200 --> 01:03:12,840
Speaker 1: Oh wow, this guy knows how to coach up a quarterback. Well.

1269
01:03:12,880 --> 01:03:15,200
Speaker 1: Garoppolo was struggling before he went down. He was the

1270
01:03:15,200 --> 01:03:18,200
Speaker 1: middle of the road type quarterback. I'm just given it.

1271
01:03:18,240 --> 01:03:20,160
Speaker 1: I just want to give him some credit. He's decisive,

1272
01:03:20,240 --> 01:03:23,240
Speaker 1: he makes some really good throws under pressure, and yeah,

1273
01:03:23,240 --> 01:03:25,080
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to do that again against the Bears.

1274
01:03:25,120 --> 01:03:27,440
Speaker 1: He was a record center at Southern Miss, which also

1275
01:03:27,480 --> 01:03:29,640
Speaker 1: produced Brett farve So you know did it? Yes, I

1276
01:03:29,640 --> 01:03:33,680
Speaker 1: have not heard that and uh and but this week

1277
01:03:33,880 --> 01:03:36,680
Speaker 1: it's the Bears. It's the Bears being a defense that

1278
01:03:40,480 --> 01:03:43,680
Speaker 1: and finally figure out how to stop George Kittle before halftime.

1279
01:03:43,960 --> 01:03:45,760
Speaker 1: I do wanna. I do want to see your Bisky

1280
01:03:45,760 --> 01:03:48,240
Speaker 1: in the offense put put in another good performance and

1281
01:03:48,480 --> 01:03:50,840
Speaker 1: go upwards. I do think he will. And that's why

1282
01:03:50,840 --> 01:03:53,880
Speaker 1: I'm locking up the team of seel once again. Alright,

1283
01:03:54,000 --> 01:03:56,560
Speaker 1: and keep in mind Greg that uh that I know

1284
01:03:56,600 --> 01:03:58,480
Speaker 1: you know this because you're the calculator man. When it

1285
01:03:58,480 --> 01:04:01,680
Speaker 1: comes to playoffs scenarios. The Bears they only have to

1286
01:04:01,760 --> 01:04:04,360
Speaker 1: catch the Rams, they don't have to surpass them because

1287
01:04:04,400 --> 01:04:08,400
Speaker 1: of that fifteen six win, uh two weeks ago the

1288
01:04:08,440 --> 01:04:10,640
Speaker 1: first tiebreakers head to head and the Bears have it.

1289
01:04:10,720 --> 01:04:13,680
Speaker 1: So if they can just catch up one more game,

1290
01:04:13,920 --> 01:04:15,520
Speaker 1: they are the two seed and get the box. And

1291
01:04:15,800 --> 01:04:18,520
Speaker 1: if you're a fan of integrity in Week seventeen games,

1292
01:04:18,560 --> 01:04:21,439
Speaker 1: you really want that scenario to stay alive, Dan, where

1293
01:04:21,440 --> 01:04:23,880
Speaker 1: the Bears have a chance to pass the ord because

1294
01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:27,160
Speaker 1: Bears Vikings is Week seventeen, and you want the Bears

1295
01:04:27,200 --> 01:04:29,280
Speaker 1: to be trying in that game. And you have to

1296
01:04:29,320 --> 01:04:32,360
Speaker 1: wonder with Matt Naggy's history under any Reid who loves

1297
01:04:32,360 --> 01:04:35,240
Speaker 1: sitting players, and the fact that the Bears would be

1298
01:04:35,280 --> 01:04:37,800
Speaker 1: staring at no bye week, whether they would rest their

1299
01:04:37,840 --> 01:04:41,160
Speaker 1: starters if they're mathematically out of the by going into

1300
01:04:41,160 --> 01:04:42,880
Speaker 1: that game. But I don't think that will happen because

1301
01:04:42,880 --> 01:04:44,280
Speaker 1: I think the Bears will win. I think the Rams

1302
01:04:44,280 --> 01:04:46,520
Speaker 1: will win, and it all stay alive. Let's move on.

1303
01:04:46,560 --> 01:04:49,720
Speaker 1: The Steelers eight five and one, coming off the biggest

1304
01:04:49,720 --> 01:04:52,800
Speaker 1: winner of their season at home triumph against the Patriots,

1305
01:04:53,160 --> 01:04:56,160
Speaker 1: got that stand deep in their own end is at

1306
01:04:56,160 --> 01:04:58,880
Speaker 1: the end of the game and kept their playoff hopes

1307
01:04:58,920 --> 01:05:01,560
Speaker 1: in their NFC a f C North title hopes alive

1308
01:05:01,600 --> 01:05:03,840
Speaker 1: and well they now travel to the Saints. Can even

1309
01:05:03,840 --> 01:05:06,680
Speaker 1: imagine what would happened, Mark, I knew you were imagining it, Shook.

1310
01:05:06,720 --> 01:05:09,240
Speaker 1: You were imagining that if the Steelers did not close

1311
01:05:09,280 --> 01:05:10,920
Speaker 1: out that Path's game and then they had to go

1312
01:05:10,960 --> 01:05:13,400
Speaker 1: to New Orleans, they would have been in great, great danger.

1313
01:05:13,920 --> 01:05:16,520
Speaker 1: Uh So there's a little bit of a um a

1314
01:05:16,600 --> 01:05:19,480
Speaker 1: reprieve for them now. But still the Saints, Nick Shook,

1315
01:05:19,840 --> 01:05:22,880
Speaker 1: are a dominant team. Maybe not an offense right now,

1316
01:05:22,920 --> 01:05:25,320
Speaker 1: but the defense has been carrying the ball lately. I

1317
01:05:25,520 --> 01:05:26,760
Speaker 1: this is a game where I want to see what

1318
01:05:26,760 --> 01:05:28,280
Speaker 1: the Saints can do through the air, because they haven't

1319
01:05:28,280 --> 01:05:29,800
Speaker 1: done much in the last couple of weeks. But the

1320
01:05:29,800 --> 01:05:31,919
Speaker 1: Steelers don't have a great past defense. Now Joe Hayden

1321
01:05:31,960 --> 01:05:35,320
Speaker 1: had a clutch interception last week, but overall, when you're

1322
01:05:35,320 --> 01:05:37,400
Speaker 1: playing a guy like Already Burns back there, you're you're

1323
01:05:37,400 --> 01:05:39,600
Speaker 1: not just not gonna be that solid and you know

1324
01:05:39,600 --> 01:05:42,400
Speaker 1: you gotta your backup. As Cody Sensiball, I mean, it's

1325
01:05:42,560 --> 01:05:45,040
Speaker 1: it's they have issues back there, and I think this

1326
01:05:45,120 --> 01:05:48,360
Speaker 1: is a Saints team that we know lack some reliable

1327
01:05:48,400 --> 01:05:51,400
Speaker 1: targets outside of Michael Thomas and here where are they

1328
01:05:51,440 --> 01:05:56,000
Speaker 1: attempted to address that? And I think this is the

1329
01:05:56,040 --> 01:05:57,720
Speaker 1: this is the week where they start to really figure

1330
01:05:57,920 --> 01:05:59,800
Speaker 1: it out going into the postseason with a team that

1331
01:06:00,000 --> 01:06:01,960
Speaker 1: could be a good test. I never thought there'd be

1332
01:06:02,000 --> 01:06:05,720
Speaker 1: a time where a Super Bowl contender was entering the

1333
01:06:05,760 --> 01:06:10,840
Speaker 1: playoffs and my big thought that they needed was, God,

1334
01:06:10,880 --> 01:06:13,840
Speaker 1: they need Ted Gain back, like that's the missing piece

1335
01:06:14,160 --> 01:06:15,840
Speaker 1: that can put them over to the top to win

1336
01:06:15,880 --> 01:06:17,760
Speaker 1: a super Bowl. But it kind of feels that way

1337
01:06:17,800 --> 01:06:20,160
Speaker 1: and they're hoping Ted Gain maybe does come off I

1338
01:06:20,400 --> 01:06:23,240
Speaker 1: R because they need that deep speed. Everyone thought it

1339
01:06:23,240 --> 01:06:25,640
Speaker 1: was cute when they had four undrafted you know, rookie

1340
01:06:25,680 --> 01:06:29,439
Speaker 1: free agents like Don passed in the same game. Uh,

1341
01:06:29,560 --> 01:06:31,360
Speaker 1: none of those guys have done anything in the three

1342
01:06:31,400 --> 01:06:33,520
Speaker 1: weeks since. I mean, then the good thing is their

1343
01:06:33,560 --> 01:06:36,560
Speaker 1: defense has become one of the best in the entire league.

1344
01:06:36,720 --> 01:06:39,400
Speaker 1: Not bad timing, No, I think it is. I think

1345
01:06:39,480 --> 01:06:41,640
Speaker 1: this is my favorite game of the week. I mean,

1346
01:06:41,680 --> 01:06:43,480
Speaker 1: these are two teams I think have a chance to

1347
01:06:43,480 --> 01:06:46,760
Speaker 1: make the Super Bowl. I put the Steelers in that class.

1348
01:06:46,920 --> 01:06:50,160
Speaker 1: And uh, I just want to see, like I want

1349
01:06:50,200 --> 01:06:52,240
Speaker 1: to see, like what the Steelers can do coming off

1350
01:06:52,280 --> 01:06:54,280
Speaker 1: that win. Maybe they can kind of figure things out

1351
01:06:54,280 --> 01:06:55,960
Speaker 1: and get it together. And I'm all in on the Saints.

1352
01:06:56,040 --> 01:06:57,760
Speaker 1: I don't want to see them slip here and then

1353
01:06:57,800 --> 01:07:03,920
Speaker 1: potentially lose somehow lose field watch the key when he rushes.

1354
01:07:04,240 --> 01:07:07,120
Speaker 1: They have a pack because Bud Dupree' is a huge disappointment.

1355
01:07:07,120 --> 01:07:08,920
Speaker 1: But when you add wat to the defensive line that

1356
01:07:08,960 --> 01:07:11,520
Speaker 1: they have, then they're so dangerous. And we don't know

1357
01:07:11,600 --> 01:07:14,240
Speaker 1: about the Saints offensive line in their health right now,

1358
01:07:14,280 --> 01:07:16,120
Speaker 1: and that's been a big reason why they've struggled the

1359
01:07:16,120 --> 01:07:18,800
Speaker 1: Steelers are gonna again be without James Conner or this

1360
01:07:18,880 --> 01:07:21,720
Speaker 1: high ankle sprain is doing what high a goal sprains

1361
01:07:21,720 --> 01:07:25,160
Speaker 1: tend to do when they're more uh, when they're serious,

1362
01:07:25,200 --> 01:07:27,960
Speaker 1: which has cost a guy a month or more. Jalen

1363
01:07:28,040 --> 01:07:31,120
Speaker 1: Samuel's who ran all over the Patriots, but that was

1364
01:07:31,160 --> 01:07:33,920
Speaker 1: the Patriots. I'd be very surprised that he had another

1365
01:07:34,000 --> 01:07:37,280
Speaker 1: outing like that. Yes, especially against the way this this

1366
01:07:37,720 --> 01:07:40,920
Speaker 1: run defense is going Sheldon ranking Samario Davis. And how

1367
01:07:40,960 --> 01:07:43,880
Speaker 1: about a little love for Von Bell playing his ass

1368
01:07:43,920 --> 01:07:49,200
Speaker 1: off this year? Not Lean Bell Bell, Von Bell. He's

1369
01:07:49,240 --> 01:07:57,600
Speaker 1: sitting on his ass kicking some state defense. Uh, let's

1370
01:07:57,640 --> 01:07:59,800
Speaker 1: pick this game. Does anybody who think the Steelers gonna win?

1371
01:07:59,880 --> 01:08:02,360
Speaker 1: I do? I think that they're gonna win this game.

1372
01:08:02,480 --> 01:08:04,680
Speaker 1: I do. I think the same. I mean, I think

1373
01:08:04,680 --> 01:08:06,880
Speaker 1: it's it's it couldn't be any closer. But I'm going

1374
01:08:06,920 --> 01:08:11,080
Speaker 1: to give the Saints a seven. I have like this image.

1375
01:08:11,120 --> 01:08:13,600
Speaker 1: This could be a Super Bowl preview even see this

1376
01:08:13,680 --> 01:08:16,880
Speaker 1: is going again interesting. I'm like the last person in

1377
01:08:16,920 --> 01:08:21,360
Speaker 1: America that believes in the Steelers not make the playoffs too.

1378
01:08:21,960 --> 01:08:25,760
Speaker 1: I'm sorry none. I think that was I think that

1379
01:08:25,840 --> 01:08:29,280
Speaker 1: was a potentially season altering win for the Steelers against

1380
01:08:29,320 --> 01:08:31,840
Speaker 1: the pay Riots, where not only did they kind of

1381
01:08:31,880 --> 01:08:34,800
Speaker 1: get back on track, they realized their potential. They can

1382
01:08:34,800 --> 01:08:37,200
Speaker 1: win a big game well, and they can. They will

1383
01:08:37,240 --> 01:08:39,519
Speaker 1: not crumble down the stretch, and I think this will

1384
01:08:39,560 --> 01:08:42,400
Speaker 1: be highly competitive. They're so ripe to have it. They're

1385
01:08:42,439 --> 01:08:44,519
Speaker 1: so ripe to crumble over the next couple of weeks.

1386
01:08:44,600 --> 01:08:48,040
Speaker 1: I guarantee you they will like that. Let's track that,

1387
01:08:48,160 --> 01:08:51,120
Speaker 1: knock it on. That would be a great lock up.

1388
01:08:51,160 --> 01:08:52,799
Speaker 1: By the way, if you think they're ripe to crumble,

1389
01:08:53,600 --> 01:08:59,360
Speaker 1: what take the Saints? Happily take the Saints. Switch my luck.

1390
01:09:00,120 --> 01:09:04,400
Speaker 1: Don't don't blame me, I don't care. Okay, well, you

1391
01:09:04,479 --> 01:09:06,000
Speaker 1: got the magic right. I might switch it to the

1392
01:09:06,040 --> 01:09:08,080
Speaker 1: Bears before we're done too. I like that lock that

1393
01:09:08,160 --> 01:09:10,639
Speaker 1: was about ten minutes left. I mean you, I mean

1394
01:09:10,680 --> 01:09:12,680
Speaker 1: it's not a bad The numbers would say, you just

1395
01:09:12,720 --> 01:09:15,200
Speaker 1: switched to a much heavier favorite. So it worked out

1396
01:09:15,240 --> 01:09:18,000
Speaker 1: well for you, right, the Saints. It worked well to

1397
01:09:18,080 --> 01:09:21,400
Speaker 1: be before the Chargers. Oh yeah, if I were you,

1398
01:09:21,439 --> 01:09:23,960
Speaker 1: I'd take the Saints anyways, compared to there you go,

1399
01:09:24,520 --> 01:09:28,439
Speaker 1: not that, Mart, I'm tempted to switch it to the Bears. Too.

1400
01:09:28,479 --> 01:09:30,640
Speaker 1: So who's in last place, though, is saying that was

1401
01:09:30,680 --> 01:09:32,360
Speaker 1: a great job by you? You're little worried about that.

1402
01:09:32,680 --> 01:09:34,720
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't. I'm not going to listen to

1403
01:09:34,760 --> 01:09:37,920
Speaker 1: any of the psychological warfare streaming over my way from

1404
01:09:37,920 --> 01:09:40,880
Speaker 1: Greg during any of this. I promise you, I'm not

1405
01:09:40,920 --> 01:09:45,000
Speaker 1: sending any warfare about the Locks, the Kansas City Chiefs.

1406
01:09:45,040 --> 01:09:46,599
Speaker 1: You want and shook to win the whole thing. What

1407
01:09:46,640 --> 01:09:50,920
Speaker 1: are you talking about? The Kansas City Thieves? Are I

1408
01:09:50,960 --> 01:09:54,080
Speaker 1: don't know, it's it's right on the line, I think. No,

1409
01:09:54,680 --> 01:09:59,920
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs, they fell in crushing, crushing fashion

1410
01:10:00,360 --> 01:10:04,360
Speaker 1: to their the rival Chargers at home. Uh it was

1411
01:10:04,360 --> 01:10:07,519
Speaker 1: a costly loss, but they still are in good position

1412
01:10:07,640 --> 01:10:11,240
Speaker 1: in the a f C. But here's another tough battle, Greg. Now,

1413
01:10:11,280 --> 01:10:13,880
Speaker 1: they got to go to Seattle to face the Seahawks.

1414
01:10:13,880 --> 01:10:16,600
Speaker 1: And and if there was a team that had a

1415
01:10:16,600 --> 01:10:18,600
Speaker 1: loss that you could put in a similar category in

1416
01:10:18,680 --> 01:10:23,200
Speaker 1: terms of heartbreaking, what you know, regrets filled with regrets,

1417
01:10:23,200 --> 01:10:25,400
Speaker 1: it is the Seahawks who could not find a way

1418
01:10:25,400 --> 01:10:28,040
Speaker 1: to beat the Niners of all teams. So here you go,

1419
01:10:28,160 --> 01:10:30,080
Speaker 1: here's another great game this week. This might be my

1420
01:10:30,120 --> 01:10:32,599
Speaker 1: favorite game of the week. How about that, Greg, Yeah,

1421
01:10:32,760 --> 01:10:35,800
Speaker 1: And then that makes sense because seeing Patrick Mahomes go

1422
01:10:35,920 --> 01:10:38,800
Speaker 1: up to Seattle another test for this Chiefs team that

1423
01:10:38,840 --> 01:10:41,719
Speaker 1: I've thought is overall the best team in the league

1424
01:10:41,720 --> 01:10:44,719
Speaker 1: and the best certainly the best offense in the league. Still,

1425
01:10:45,080 --> 01:10:48,600
Speaker 1: I think the Seahawks defense has been I wouldn't say overrated,

1426
01:10:48,920 --> 01:10:51,160
Speaker 1: but it's not. It's not a defense I think it's

1427
01:10:51,160 --> 01:10:54,000
Speaker 1: gonna be able to stop the city period. That the

1428
01:10:54,040 --> 01:10:55,960
Speaker 1: best part of their defense right now is upfront with

1429
01:10:55,960 --> 01:10:58,960
Speaker 1: Puna Ford and Drawn Read are playing really well stopping

1430
01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:00,600
Speaker 1: the run. But you know, I don't know if the

1431
01:11:00,640 --> 01:11:02,599
Speaker 1: Chiefs are gonna run the ball that much. And I

1432
01:11:02,640 --> 01:11:05,360
Speaker 1: do think, uh, you're gonna see the best of Patrick

1433
01:11:05,400 --> 01:11:07,679
Speaker 1: Mahomes and that they're in a different class of teams

1434
01:11:07,760 --> 01:11:10,120
Speaker 1: even when they're they're going to Seattle. A little concer

1435
01:11:10,160 --> 01:11:12,599
Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins is not going to play in this game,

1436
01:11:13,200 --> 01:11:16,120
Speaker 1: and they don't. They have Chris Conley, but there's not

1437
01:11:16,200 --> 01:11:19,439
Speaker 1: a lot of depth happening behind Tyreek Hill at this point,

1438
01:11:19,439 --> 01:11:21,680
Speaker 1: but they find other ways to to get it done.

1439
01:11:21,720 --> 01:11:23,559
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I think the Seahawks gave up a

1440
01:11:23,560 --> 01:11:25,840
Speaker 1: few too many big plays to the Niners last week.

1441
01:11:25,840 --> 01:11:27,880
Speaker 1: And so now what are you dealing with with Kansas City.

1442
01:11:28,240 --> 01:11:31,240
Speaker 1: I'm with you Greg as well, but I do really

1443
01:11:31,240 --> 01:11:33,800
Speaker 1: want to see how the Seahawks play against a team

1444
01:11:33,840 --> 01:11:35,640
Speaker 1: like Kansas City because they've been a team that has

1445
01:11:35,680 --> 01:11:37,559
Speaker 1: either played up to their competition or down to their

1446
01:11:37,560 --> 01:11:39,479
Speaker 1: competition for the majority of the season. I wasn't a

1447
01:11:39,479 --> 01:11:41,000
Speaker 1: big fan of them going into this year, and they've

1448
01:11:41,000 --> 01:11:43,000
Speaker 1: been a pleasant surprise. So this is one of those

1449
01:11:43,000 --> 01:11:45,640
Speaker 1: games that could be entertaining. It's a huge game I

1450
01:11:45,680 --> 01:11:48,320
Speaker 1: think for the m v P. If Mahomes plays well

1451
01:11:48,360 --> 01:11:51,719
Speaker 1: in Seattle, I just feel like he's had this season

1452
01:11:51,760 --> 01:11:55,280
Speaker 1: and that kind of puts uh exclamation point on it.

1453
01:11:55,400 --> 01:11:57,640
Speaker 1: But if he struggles or you know, they lose and

1454
01:11:57,680 --> 01:12:01,080
Speaker 1: don't score many points and rivers of something Saturday, then

1455
01:12:01,160 --> 01:12:03,240
Speaker 1: I think it's like wide open. Well, and that last

1456
01:12:03,240 --> 01:12:05,800
Speaker 1: game we talked about if it Breeze knocks out the Steelers,

1457
01:12:05,960 --> 01:12:08,920
Speaker 1: that he's right there too. Yeah, that's true. Justin Houston

1458
01:12:09,000 --> 01:12:10,840
Speaker 1: is really coming on. I mean, that's why I'm not

1459
01:12:10,880 --> 01:12:13,040
Speaker 1: that worried about the Chiefs defense. If if they get

1460
01:12:13,040 --> 01:12:15,320
Speaker 1: a little more snaps out of Eric Berry, who returned

1461
01:12:15,360 --> 01:12:17,960
Speaker 1: last week and and did okay, their second in saxon

1462
01:12:18,080 --> 01:12:21,160
Speaker 1: eighth in takeaways, Like their defense makes place. If three

1463
01:12:21,200 --> 01:12:23,000
Speaker 1: really good players in the front seven with Chris Jones,

1464
01:12:23,080 --> 01:12:24,960
Speaker 1: d Ford and and Justin Houston, and if they can

1465
01:12:24,960 --> 01:12:26,160
Speaker 1: get to help them the back end, I think they

1466
01:12:26,200 --> 01:12:27,680
Speaker 1: can turn to a good defense. And I did have

1467
01:12:27,720 --> 01:12:32,040
Speaker 1: a panicked Seahawks fan tweet me, say, please tell me, uh,

1468
01:12:32,080 --> 01:12:34,479
Speaker 1: you know, what are the chances that my team loses out?

1469
01:12:34,800 --> 01:12:36,479
Speaker 1: You'll be all right, don't worry. I know it was

1470
01:12:36,520 --> 01:12:38,920
Speaker 1: tough last week and the Chiefs, who can get popped there,

1471
01:12:39,120 --> 01:12:41,439
Speaker 1: but the schedule gods gave you a nice little cupcake

1472
01:12:41,720 --> 01:12:44,760
Speaker 1: Cardinals in your building in week seventeen. Win that game

1473
01:12:45,080 --> 01:12:48,479
Speaker 1: you're playing in January? What cupcake? What cupcake? On the

1474
01:12:48,479 --> 01:12:52,599
Speaker 1: cupcake wall? Are the Cardinals? I think theycake? There is

1475
01:12:52,640 --> 01:12:56,360
Speaker 1: I mean on the road seventeen after Like there's probably

1476
01:12:56,400 --> 01:12:59,320
Speaker 1: pregame reports that Wilkes has already you know, is on

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01:12:59,360 --> 01:13:01,360
Speaker 1: the door. That's the bag. The bags are packed. How

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01:13:01,360 --> 01:13:04,599
Speaker 1: about a little Tyreek Hill versus the poor man's Tyree Hill.

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01:13:04,720 --> 01:13:07,519
Speaker 1: Tyler Lockett, who I thinks about as close to Tyreek

1480
01:13:07,560 --> 01:13:09,200
Speaker 1: Hill as there is in the NFL right now, is

1481
01:13:09,240 --> 01:13:12,320
Speaker 1: having such an awesome season and is so important for them.

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01:13:12,520 --> 01:13:14,000
Speaker 1: And just to back me up, Greg, you are the

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01:13:14,000 --> 01:13:17,280
Speaker 1: playoff calculator. They went just get to nine wins. The

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01:13:17,320 --> 01:13:20,320
Speaker 1: Seahawks are going. Now there is a sequence I wish

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Speaker 1: I could. I wish I had it prepared. Damn if

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01:13:24,280 --> 01:13:27,519
Speaker 1: the Viking. If you're listening to the show, sir, all right,

1487
01:13:27,680 --> 01:13:30,280
Speaker 1: hanging there? It could get buppy if if the Vikings

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01:13:30,280 --> 01:13:34,120
Speaker 1: went out, If the Vikings went out and the Eagles, no,

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01:13:34,320 --> 01:13:36,400
Speaker 1: I guess I think they still would knock out. I

1490
01:13:36,400 --> 01:13:39,559
Speaker 1: think they're okay, okay, Well, if you're listening to the show,

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01:13:40,160 --> 01:13:45,920
Speaker 1: you're all good. Finally, Monday night football, Christmas Eve, hang

1492
01:13:46,040 --> 01:13:51,320
Speaker 1: up the stockings, you know, get the turkey the Christmas Ham?

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01:13:51,400 --> 01:13:53,160
Speaker 1: Is it? Yes? Christmas? I never had that when I

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01:13:53,160 --> 01:13:55,600
Speaker 1: was a kid, but some people like to have the ham.

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01:13:55,720 --> 01:13:58,040
Speaker 1: I I don't get ham, like even back when I

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01:13:58,080 --> 01:14:00,759
Speaker 1: would eat all these trays of food, like the ham

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01:14:00,920 --> 01:14:04,800
Speaker 1: is not the the you don't like meat, right? No?

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01:14:04,880 --> 01:14:06,639
Speaker 1: But I mean as a child I did up until

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01:14:07,080 --> 01:14:10,439
Speaker 1: Ham was introduced occasionally just unappealingly. See I was a

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01:14:10,439 --> 01:14:11,880
Speaker 1: big fan of him as a kid. But I'm now

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01:14:11,880 --> 01:14:15,240
Speaker 1: a Ham to turkey convert. Really Yeah, I'm proud to

1502
01:14:15,280 --> 01:14:17,280
Speaker 1: say it, and it's good for the muscle mass as well.

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01:14:19,040 --> 01:14:24,000
Speaker 1: Um the Grinch. You still Christmas roasted beast, it's referred to.

1504
01:14:24,280 --> 01:14:28,679
Speaker 1: So while people are prepping their roasted beast and getting

1505
01:14:28,680 --> 01:14:32,240
Speaker 1: ready for the beautiful holiday that is Christmas, you also

1506
01:14:32,280 --> 01:14:35,200
Speaker 1: have the opportunity to watch the six and eight Denver

1507
01:14:35,280 --> 01:14:39,040
Speaker 1: Broncos going nowhere losers are two straight against the three

1508
01:14:39,080 --> 01:14:44,920
Speaker 1: and eleven Oakland Raiders also going nowhere losers of three

1509
01:14:45,000 --> 01:14:49,760
Speaker 1: or four? Um, Mark, do you have anything to say?

1510
01:14:49,760 --> 01:14:51,759
Speaker 1: I know you're gonna be watching this game on Christmas

1511
01:14:51,800 --> 01:14:54,800
Speaker 1: Eve while your family gets excited with Santa on the way.

1512
01:14:55,000 --> 01:14:57,519
Speaker 1: I will not be watching it, but I will be

1513
01:14:57,640 --> 01:15:01,040
Speaker 1: watching to see what happens with Vance Joseph because there

1514
01:15:01,040 --> 01:15:03,040
Speaker 1: are now reports and this has been going back and

1515
01:15:03,080 --> 01:15:06,640
Speaker 1: forth all year. This is coming from Greg's former employer,

1516
01:15:06,720 --> 01:15:09,439
Speaker 1: Pro Football Talk, and Mike Florio released this report that

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01:15:10,000 --> 01:15:14,639
Speaker 1: Vance Joseph is essentially expected to be let go. We're

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01:15:14,720 --> 01:15:17,520
Speaker 1: that we're going there, but he does leave the caveat

1519
01:15:17,600 --> 01:15:20,400
Speaker 1: that lay might change his mind. But it sure seems like,

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01:15:20,520 --> 01:15:22,880
Speaker 1: uh is that a report? Like? What is that? Right?

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01:15:22,960 --> 01:15:25,760
Speaker 1: I mean, I it's that is I'm just putting it

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01:15:25,760 --> 01:15:29,519
Speaker 1: out there as a report. So Florio said that John

1523
01:15:29,520 --> 01:15:33,960
Speaker 1: Elway thinks he's gonna fire the head coach unless he

1524
01:15:34,080 --> 01:15:38,320
Speaker 1: changes his mind before. I mean, a lot of things

1525
01:15:38,320 --> 01:15:41,360
Speaker 1: could happen under that. There's umbrella of thinking it's jacky

1526
01:15:41,439 --> 01:15:44,120
Speaker 1: because these guys and Tom pallisera at a report earlier

1527
01:15:44,160 --> 01:15:47,160
Speaker 1: this week, we talked about that both coordinators are expected

1528
01:15:47,200 --> 01:15:49,760
Speaker 1: to be gone in Atlanta, and I you get the

1529
01:15:49,760 --> 01:15:53,360
Speaker 1: sense you have these sources, and but it's like they

1530
01:15:53,680 --> 01:15:55,960
Speaker 1: have jobs. Vance Joseph has a job for the next

1531
01:15:55,960 --> 01:15:58,200
Speaker 1: two weeks, and these guys have jobs for the next

1532
01:15:58,240 --> 01:15:59,920
Speaker 1: two weeks. And I don't know if they're cautioned to

1533
01:16:00,320 --> 01:16:04,759
Speaker 1: make it as soft as possible. I don't know. It's weird. Yeah,

1534
01:16:04,800 --> 01:16:07,479
Speaker 1: it's tough. How can you really report something's going to

1535
01:16:07,560 --> 01:16:09,960
Speaker 1: happen in two weeks? I guess you can. I guess

1536
01:16:09,960 --> 01:16:12,519
Speaker 1: that's the job, though, because the whole world could change,

1537
01:16:12,760 --> 01:16:14,599
Speaker 1: that's true. You can't be Yeah, you can't be too firm.

1538
01:16:14,640 --> 01:16:16,840
Speaker 1: I mean a team could get obliterator or something. He

1539
01:16:16,920 --> 01:16:22,400
Speaker 1: knows alright, mass you know, hysteria could overtake the land,

1540
01:16:22,520 --> 01:16:26,519
Speaker 1: absolutely cancel those games for Mark Um all right, So

1541
01:16:26,560 --> 01:16:29,200
Speaker 1: that's it the show. Uh. The next time you'll hear

1542
01:16:29,320 --> 01:16:32,479
Speaker 1: us is um Sunday Night. It will be our recap

1543
01:16:32,520 --> 01:16:35,360
Speaker 1: show December twenty. Some people go into operations shut down

1544
01:16:35,400 --> 01:16:37,519
Speaker 1: around this time of the calendar. No, no, no, we

1545
01:16:37,520 --> 01:16:40,120
Speaker 1: will continue to grind. We will be here for you

1546
01:16:40,200 --> 01:16:43,240
Speaker 1: after the week sixteen Sunday games. Nick, thank you for

1547
01:16:43,439 --> 01:16:48,160
Speaker 1: your helping helping us out Pinch hitting beautiful. Uh Are

1548
01:16:48,200 --> 01:16:50,840
Speaker 1: you going to replace West? I don't think so, And

1549
01:16:51,240 --> 01:16:53,960
Speaker 1: unless there's a massive public outcry, and even then, I

1550
01:16:54,000 --> 01:16:56,120
Speaker 1: think our support for West would win out and West

1551
01:16:56,160 --> 01:16:59,360
Speaker 1: would remain on the show. But even if it's not

1552
01:16:59,360 --> 01:17:02,880
Speaker 1: gonna lead to a coup, you did great work. Listen.

1553
01:17:02,920 --> 01:17:05,000
Speaker 1: You know I came in, I gave my best effort,

1554
01:17:05,120 --> 01:17:07,240
Speaker 1: and at the end of the day, it's it's hard

1555
01:17:07,280 --> 01:17:10,800
Speaker 1: to take the seat of Michael Jordan's Wow. Yeah. And

1556
01:17:11,360 --> 01:17:13,200
Speaker 1: like for all the listeners that are wondering, hey, if

1557
01:17:13,240 --> 01:17:15,760
Speaker 1: you're doing your recap show Sunday night, what about that

1558
01:17:15,840 --> 01:17:19,639
Speaker 1: Raiders Broncos game, We're actually gonna tweet out Nick's personal

1559
01:17:19,680 --> 01:17:22,439
Speaker 1: cell phone number and you can just call him throughout

1560
01:17:22,520 --> 01:17:24,800
Speaker 1: the holiday season and he'll give you a three minute

1561
01:17:24,840 --> 01:17:27,920
Speaker 1: recap of that game. Uh, just over the phone, better

1562
01:17:28,000 --> 01:17:33,160
Speaker 1: you than the robocalls. That's right, absolutely, all right, that's it.

1563
01:17:33,720 --> 01:17:39,320
Speaker 1: This is Dad has signing off. Four the Quiet Storm Shook,

1564
01:17:39,439 --> 01:17:43,360
Speaker 1: get your pump in the old Boss and Ricky Hollywood

1565
01:17:43,400 --> 01:17:49,000
Speaker 1: behind the glass until Sunday Night restate we have. Then,

1566
01:17:49,080 --> 01:17:54,960
Speaker 1: I think that I'm inclined to sacred RDI stom you

1567
01:17:55,000 --> 01:18:01,479
Speaker 1: can keep the forty night you ring Gooles, that dot

1568
01:18:01,600 --> 01:18:08,439
Speaker 1: the sky, blue waves, that pain't the rocks, water, rich wood, neptunes, life,

1569
01:18:08,520 --> 01:18:13,120
Speaker 1: the boss that lined the ducks. I see the lighthouse

1570
01:18:13,280 --> 01:18:20,240
Speaker 1: flickering to help the sailors scene. There's a place for everyone.

1571
01:18:20,520 --> 01:18:27,200
Speaker 1: Rhode Islands for me, Rhode Island over Rhode Islands, surround

1572
01:18:27,320 --> 01:18:32,360
Speaker 1: it by the sea. Some people on the Earth for home.

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01:18:32,560 --> 01:18:34,320
Speaker 1: Rhode Islands it for me