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Speaker 2: I love football, so do you. I just watched every

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Speaker 2: I think the guy had some valid points, like it

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Speaker 2: you need a quarterback, and clearly the Steelers and you

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00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:36,440
Speaker 2: know the Patriots need a quarterback. Well, Mac Jones last

428
00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:40,200
Speaker 2: week was just much better, right their offense, clearly their

429
00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:43,399
Speaker 2: offensive line, got some guys back off injury, made some moves,

430
00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:48,040
Speaker 2: was much better. He's better under center, he's more comfortable

431
00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:50,840
Speaker 2: when you get rid of the ball quickly. Early on

432
00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:53,080
Speaker 2: and last year when he was falling apart and early

433
00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:57,040
Speaker 2: on this year. What bothers me about players that have

434
00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:00,679
Speaker 2: limited skill sets is when they tried to play like

435
00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:05,960
Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts or Josh Allen and Baker does this sometimes

436
00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:08,720
Speaker 2: and they like run around behind the pocket like they

437
00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:11,920
Speaker 2: are Russell Wilson in his prime. It's like, bro, this

438
00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:15,639
Speaker 2: is not your game. You might make a play one time,

439
00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:18,679
Speaker 2: scrambling around doing a three sixty getting out of the pocket,

440
00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:21,920
Speaker 2: throwing it downfield. But more often than not, with your

441
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:25,560
Speaker 2: skill set, it's gonna lead to disaster. It's gonna lead

442
00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:27,840
Speaker 2: to an interception, it's gonna lead to you getting sacked.

443
00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:31,440
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a negative play that play consistently when

444
00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:33,800
Speaker 2: you keep going back to it, even if other people

445
00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:36,199
Speaker 2: fucked up, even if your offensive line got lit up,

446
00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:39,520
Speaker 2: even if the receiver ran wrong round, just hit the ground,

447
00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:42,399
Speaker 2: live to play another down. That's how you have to play.

448
00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:45,920
Speaker 2: You have to play very, very conservatively. Josh Allen, the

449
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,960
Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts, the Patrick Mahomes. Because of their skill set,

450
00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:51,560
Speaker 2: they can play outside the pocket. Think about it, Like

451
00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:55,480
Speaker 2: Peyton Manning and Tom Brady, two guys greatest quarterback ever,

452
00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:58,320
Speaker 2: another guy in the top five. They never played outside

453
00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:02,200
Speaker 2: the pocket because they knew only bad things could happen, right,

454
00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:04,760
Speaker 2: That's it wasn't their game. So when other people screwed

455
00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:06,040
Speaker 2: up and they couldn't get rid of the ball, they

456
00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:08,919
Speaker 2: would just hit the ground. They just wave the white flag.

457
00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:12,120
Speaker 2: The problem with the guy like Mac is he's slightly

458
00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:14,840
Speaker 2: athletic enough, and you see it with Baker to kind

459
00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:17,920
Speaker 2: of take off, but more often not. That's when problems,

460
00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:21,959
Speaker 2: you know, arise, because that is not their game. And

461
00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:23,760
Speaker 2: I think you just got to keep Mac Jones in

462
00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:25,680
Speaker 2: the pocket, get the ball out of the quick and

463
00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:28,720
Speaker 2: if it's not their Mac, go down, throw the ball away.

464
00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:31,000
Speaker 2: That is the only way we're gonna be able to

465
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,280
Speaker 2: function as a team. We clearly are not explosive enough

466
00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:36,960
Speaker 2: to score thirty five points. You're not a good enough

467
00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,879
Speaker 2: player to just run around and make shit happen. Play

468
00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:42,520
Speaker 2: in the construct of the offense. And if other people

469
00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:45,679
Speaker 2: outside of you are screwing up, not open you know,

470
00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:49,440
Speaker 2: free rushers, just go down. That's fine. We'll take a loss.

471
00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:52,400
Speaker 2: I'd rather take a three yard loss. Then you throw

472
00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:54,520
Speaker 2: a pick six or you throw the ball to the

473
00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:57,920
Speaker 2: other team. Because when the Patriots were getting mollywopped by

474
00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:01,280
Speaker 2: teams like the Saints, that's what he He was just

475
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:04,000
Speaker 2: trying to play outside of his own skill sets. So

476
00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:06,840
Speaker 2: if Bill O'Brien and Belichick can just get him back,

477
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:10,760
Speaker 2: you know, contained that game's kind of interesting. Now. Tyreek

478
00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:14,240
Speaker 2: I saw today says he's gonna play this week. Was

479
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:18,280
Speaker 2: a hamstring or hip injury. Clearly he's you know, one

480
00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:20,560
Speaker 2: of the most dominant players in the NFL, So him

481
00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:23,240
Speaker 2: being in or out is a really big deal. But

482
00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:26,359
Speaker 2: we talked about this last week with the Patriots. Don't

483
00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:29,399
Speaker 2: love them against random teams, Like if you told me

484
00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:32,920
Speaker 2: next week they're playing the Jags or they're playing Seattle

485
00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:36,240
Speaker 2: at Seattle's like, do not like that matchup. But those

486
00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:40,000
Speaker 2: six games against the AFC East, you gotta like their chances,

487
00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:43,159
Speaker 2: you really do. He knows these players, he knows their

488
00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:46,360
Speaker 2: skill set. I mean, look at when they played the Dolphins,

489
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:48,560
Speaker 2: who early on in the season were lighting everyone up

490
00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:50,920
Speaker 2: like a Christmas tree, Belichick had a chance to win.

491
00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:54,280
Speaker 2: And to me, it gets back to familiarity and just

492
00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:58,160
Speaker 2: his coaching and understanding of the three teams that he plays,

493
00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:00,720
Speaker 2: you know, total times six times a year. And it's

494
00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:03,080
Speaker 2: not just when he plays the Dolphins. When he plays

495
00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:05,000
Speaker 2: the Bills and he's getting ready for the Bills, he's

496
00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:08,720
Speaker 2: watching Dolphins tape to get that game. So you see

497
00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:11,840
Speaker 2: all the cross tape, your knowledge of those players. I

498
00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:14,199
Speaker 2: say it all the time, all these divisional games. I

499
00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 2: don't care if it's like the seven to one Eagles

500
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:21,399
Speaker 2: against the winless Commanders or you know, the five and

501
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:26,600
Speaker 2: one Seattle against the winless Arizona. Those players, the comfort

502
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:29,760
Speaker 2: level they have, the schemes, the carryover. Even as new

503
00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:32,240
Speaker 2: coaches come and go, a lot of the players are

504
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:34,720
Speaker 2: the same. There's not an intimidation factor. So I think

505
00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:37,280
Speaker 2: with division games, things get weird, and things get weird

506
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:40,200
Speaker 2: very fast. So I'm I'm very fascinated to watch those quarterbacks.

507
00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:45,119
Speaker 2: A couple other Obviously, the Browns thing has gotten pretty weird.

508
00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:47,719
Speaker 2: You know, he says he's hurt. It feels like the

509
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:51,240
Speaker 2: Browns kind of say he's hurt, but also don't want

510
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:54,160
Speaker 2: to say it. But they also don't totally agree with everything.

511
00:26:54,560 --> 00:27:00,240
Speaker 2: Bizarre situation. They're going to Seattle. Seattle wins, and if

512
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:02,240
Speaker 2: it turns out Sam Darnold has to play all of

513
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:04,720
Speaker 2: a sudden Seattle, you know, the Niners would have lost

514
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:06,920
Speaker 2: three straight games and Seattle would be in first place

515
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:10,040
Speaker 2: in the NFC West. Think how crazy that would be. Now,

516
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:12,879
Speaker 2: I still think the Niners there's gonna be a kitchen

517
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 2: sink game. Kyle Shanahan threw his defensive coordinator under the

518
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:20,120
Speaker 2: bus this week, Even though what the defensive coordinator did

519
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:26,200
Speaker 2: was dumb. You just don't often see coaches publicly say like, yeah,

520
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:29,679
Speaker 2: that was a stupid call about their coordinator, especially with

521
00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 2: a new coordinator. In my theory simple is, I do

522
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 2: wonder if some of the star players and the Niners

523
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:39,720
Speaker 2: Fred Warner, Nick Bosa Ward are not really feeling this

524
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 2: like they've been with Demiko the last couple of years.

525
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,600
Speaker 2: They know what elite game plans are and this guy's

526
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:46,679
Speaker 2: game plans are a little different than what they're used to.

527
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:49,639
Speaker 2: So if he kind of just publicly did that to

528
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:52,119
Speaker 2: kind of show his locker room like, yeah, I'm not

529
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:54,360
Speaker 2: cool with it either. Even though I hired this guy,

530
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:56,160
Speaker 2: and even though I'm the Boston in any moment over

531
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 2: the headset, I can say do something else. But a

532
00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:01,640
Speaker 2: little bit of a bizarre situation the Niners, even when

533
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:04,080
Speaker 2: things are going good, things always get a little weird

534
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:07,080
Speaker 2: with Kyle in this team. Now you're getting Sam Darnold,

535
00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 2: so you know, Bengal's coming off of bye. Jamar Chase

536
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:14,600
Speaker 2: is fifty catches right now, fifty catches. They played six games,

537
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:17,600
Speaker 2: So I mean, do the mac like he's on pace

538
00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:21,000
Speaker 2: for a lot of receptions this year. Jordan Addison just

539
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 2: lit up the Niners. That's gonna be interesting, and all

540
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:28,080
Speaker 2: you know, Seattle. The thing with Cleveland is two weeks

541
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 2: ago they won with PJ Walker holding on for dear

542
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:32,160
Speaker 2: life against the Niners. I mean he could have thrown

543
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:35,720
Speaker 2: like five picks. Last week he essentially started because Deshaun

544
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:38,640
Speaker 2: got hurt early on in that game, and same type deal,

545
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:41,400
Speaker 2: they held on for dear life. Now he's starting again

546
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 2: from the from the jump in this game. Are you

547
00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 2: gonna win three straight games with PJ Walker playing the

548
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:49,400
Speaker 2: majority of the snaps at quarterback? It feels like it's

549
00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:53,080
Speaker 2: gonna be difficult, especially two road games. So this is

550
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:56,000
Speaker 2: a spot for Cleveland. They win this game, you have

551
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:59,360
Speaker 2: to wonder like would they sniff around some upgrades at

552
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:03,400
Speaker 2: quarterback given that Deshaun who knows his situation with his shoulder.

553
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:07,239
Speaker 2: So because their team, you win this game, you go

554
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:10,520
Speaker 2: three to zero with PJ. Walker. I mean, that's that's

555
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:14,720
Speaker 2: an incredible accomplishment. I don't think I wonder if there's

556
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:18,080
Speaker 2: another team like the Niners couldn't do it. The Eagles

557
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 2: maybe could do it if they just rant it every

558
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 2: play with DeAndre Swift, but even that would be hard.

559
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:28,120
Speaker 2: What Cleveland is doing right now with PJ. Walkers. You

560
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:31,440
Speaker 2: win this game just I think he got a trade

561
00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:35,480
Speaker 2: for a quarterback. And last, but not least a story. Well,

562
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:38,000
Speaker 2: I want to give a congratulates Sean McVay. He had

563
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 2: a baby today, Jordan McVay, So congrats to the McVeigh family.

564
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 2: As he said a couple of weeks ago, my son

565
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 2: knows better he will not be born on game day,

566
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:49,160
Speaker 2: and he was right. He was born in the middle

567
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 2: of the week. Sean will be coaching in Dallas.

568
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 1: Tricky.

569
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:54,720
Speaker 2: Game two is a little bit like you know those

570
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:58,160
Speaker 2: nine am kickoffs for us on the West Coast, like

571
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:00,560
Speaker 2: when Colorado early on the season kicked off at nine

572
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:05,160
Speaker 2: am with USC that bodyclock game. It's it's tough and

573
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:07,800
Speaker 2: the Rams. How often do the Cowboys play a ten

574
00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 2: am game at home? I get, you know, twelve o'clock

575
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:15,040
Speaker 2: their time, but that Rams going on the road ten am, bodyclock,

576
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:17,240
Speaker 2: but it's not on the East Coast. Kind of a

577
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 2: bizarre deal. Tough spot for the Rams for sure, especially

578
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 2: with Sean, who I would imagine has been in and

579
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 2: out of the office all week. But there was a

580
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 2: college football reporter broke a story today that that TCU

581
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:36,480
Speaker 2: got word of the Michigan cheating scandal feels a little

582
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:41,360
Speaker 2: strong sign scandal that they steal your science and they

583
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,600
Speaker 2: go to your games, even though I understand when in

584
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:47,080
Speaker 2: a conference game, when you do it because you know

585
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:49,600
Speaker 2: all your opponents, I would imagine it would have been

586
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:53,600
Speaker 2: a little more difficult with some of these playoff opponents,

587
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:56,800
Speaker 2: though I guess the Marine guy could have sent someone

588
00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:59,680
Speaker 2: to the Big twelve championship game, which I would imagine

589
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 2: they did once they kind of got an idea of

590
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 2: who they could play in the playoff game. Less they

591
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:07,760
Speaker 2: beat Ohio State, but TCU, and I would imagine it

592
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:11,040
Speaker 2: was Sonny Dike's or one of the coordinators leaked that

593
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,360
Speaker 2: they got word that Michigan was going to have all

594
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 2: their signs. So what they did is all the signs

595
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:20,520
Speaker 2: they used, they just made them all dummy signs and

596
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 2: they changed them all but they still used them on

597
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 2: game day, and they told all their players none of

598
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:28,479
Speaker 2: them work, but we're just gonna do it like we

599
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:31,600
Speaker 2: normally do. Look at it like you normally would. But

600
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,120
Speaker 2: they're all fake. And I went to the box score,

601
00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 2: it's not like Max Duggan or whoever threw for seven

602
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 2: hundred yards. But they did lose fifty one to forty five,

603
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:42,800
Speaker 2: And I do wonder if that's true. Like I understand

604
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 2: if you have the signs, why you would utilize them

605
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:49,840
Speaker 2: against Penn State, against Wisconsin, against Ohio State. But Michigan,

606
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 2: as you saw in the National Championship game. I'm not

607
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 2: saying they should have won the game seventy to seven whatever,

608
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 2: Georgia BTCU, But if you play that game Michigan and

609
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,840
Speaker 2: no one has any plays or signs, Michigan should win

610
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:05,320
Speaker 2: that game eight or nine out of ten times. And

611
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:07,920
Speaker 2: I wonder if that the way they were going about

612
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:10,920
Speaker 2: the sign stuff fucked him up in that game, because

613
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 2: you shouldn't need the signs to run Sunny Dyke's spread

614
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 2: offense when you have better players at every position. And

615
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 2: I wonder if that's something that Jim Harbus's thinking about,

616
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:23,040
Speaker 2: like especially after he lost, Like did we overthink that one?

617
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:25,760
Speaker 2: Just play the freaking game against that guy. I understand

618
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,880
Speaker 2: stealing the signs against Georgia. I understand stealing the signs

619
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 2: against Ohio State. You're gonna need those advantages to beat

620
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 2: those teams. But against TCU, and I'm not diminishing anything

621
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 2: TCU did last year. Incredible accomplishment and that's an unreal

622
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 2: win against Michigan. But I wonder if Michigan almost slowed

623
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:46,560
Speaker 2: themselves down being so obsessed with the signs against an

624
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 2: opponent that they were a heavy favorite. And I also

625
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 2: wonder where this is gonna go, because every day kind

626
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:55,920
Speaker 2: of a new story breaks. You know, he's gonna keep

627
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 2: playing these games, is gonna get vacated. In a year,

628
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:02,240
Speaker 2: he probably won't even be in college football. But this

629
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:05,120
Speaker 2: is just a story that keeps on given. And I

630
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 2: can't lie while I don't think you know. I said

631
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:11,040
Speaker 2: my piece earlier this week on the science stealing It

632
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:15,080
Speaker 2: is entertaining all the different angles that keep coming out. Okay, last,

633
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 2: but not least, bold take of the week, brought to

634
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:22,840
Speaker 2: you by my friends at Guinness, and early on I

635
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:25,800
Speaker 2: was getting really aggressive. I was trying to pick games

636
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 2: that hoping to hit a huge underdog, and he realized

637
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 2: that's gonna happen once in a blue moon. Last week,

638
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:36,200
Speaker 2: I gotta give myself some credit. I said that someone

639
00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 2: was gonna get fired in the NFL, and Frank Reich

640
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 2: essentially fired himself, demoted himself and made his offense, made

641
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:46,800
Speaker 2: the offensive coordinator gave him the play calling he was

642
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:49,239
Speaker 2: no longer to play caller. This week, I looked at

643
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 2: the slate like it was I don't love the Patriots

644
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 2: to be the Dolphins. I didn't love any huge upsets.

645
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:56,920
Speaker 2: There aren't many crazy games in college that I felt

646
00:33:56,920 --> 00:34:00,840
Speaker 2: good about. I do think with the lot of teams

647
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 2: in the NFL starting to realize, yeah, we're not that good,

648
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 2: and once this weekend happens and some of these kind

649
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:11,799
Speaker 2: of five hundred teams are three and four, but also

650
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:14,319
Speaker 2: kind of feel lifeless. I wonder if they wave the

651
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 2: white flag really good quarterback draft, really good draft in general,

652
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 2: and when I say white flag, they'd still try, but

653
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:25,920
Speaker 2: just be really open to trade veteran players. And I

654
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:28,279
Speaker 2: think we're gonna see last year it was a little

655
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 2: earlier than the trade deadline, McCaffrey got traded. We've seen

656
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:34,399
Speaker 2: Von Miller got traded. It's been a couple of years

657
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:38,280
Speaker 2: since we've seen the big a number one for a player.

658
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:42,959
Speaker 2: I think we see a first round pick traded over

659
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 2: the next four or five days for a player I

660
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 2: don't know who. I also think there's a chance for

661
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 2: there to be some players we're talking about Mike Evans,

662
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:53,799
Speaker 2: we're talking about Chris Godwin. We're talking about the same

663
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:55,720
Speaker 2: names on a lot of the teams that we see.

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Speaker 2: Are we sure there couldn't be a sleeper name? There

665
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:03,239
Speaker 2: are some guys making enormous contracts in the NFL. You know,

666
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:06,880
Speaker 2: the Rams are a good example. Would they just entertain

667
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:10,080
Speaker 2: you lose this week to Dallas, all of a sudden

668
00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:13,240
Speaker 2: you realize, yeah, we're probably not a playoff team. Could

669
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:15,960
Speaker 2: we get like a one in two twos for Aaron Donald,

670
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:18,600
Speaker 2: a guy who's getting up there in age, makes a

671
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:21,319
Speaker 2: ton of money. And I'm not advocating I wouldn't want

672
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 2: to trade them either, But you gotta think big picture.

673
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 2: And this is part of being a GM. Everything we

674
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:29,800
Speaker 2: did before worked. We blew all these picks on players,

675
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:32,080
Speaker 2: and it netted us a ton of playoff victories and

676
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,960
Speaker 2: obviously a super Bowl championship. And I'm just using them

677
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:38,799
Speaker 2: as an example, but those type players Pro Bowl, all

678
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 2: pro level players on teams going nowhere, and on teams

679
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:45,600
Speaker 2: who are just more likely to reset over the next

680
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 2: twelve eighteen months than to be in the Super Bowl

681
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Speaker 2: contention window. So I expect definitely a first round pick

682
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:58,120
Speaker 2: to get thrown around on Monday or Tuesday, and honestly,

683
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Speaker 2: Big Bets on Campus Live from Lexington, Kentucky. Stucky. What's happening?

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Speaker 2: Bro going on?

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Speaker 1: Brother? Excited for a another weekend of football? So I

708
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 1: think I can't believe it's week ate, week gate and

709
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:42,879
Speaker 1: week nine and college already? You know you the time

710
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:45,920
Speaker 1: waiting for football in the summer is so slow, and

711
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:48,520
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden you're like, Wow, we're halfway done,

712
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:50,440
Speaker 1: and then wow, we're in bowl season. Wow we're in

713
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 1: the NFL playoffs. So I wish I could weekends.

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Speaker 2: Is it already? Do they do the midnight madness already

715
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:00,880
Speaker 2: out where you are? Forentucky basketball?

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Speaker 1: Yep, that's been done. And one last hurrah for the

717
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Speaker 1: Kentucky football team. I think they win actually this weekend,

718
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:13,759
Speaker 1: I think they're getting three and a half. But they'll

719
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:15,799
Speaker 1: play Tennessee Saturday night. There's a lot of hate between

720
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:19,239
Speaker 1: those two schools. Then all the attention will officially turn

721
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 1: to basketball.

722
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:27,080
Speaker 2: Well, last week, Brandon Staley put up his show to

723
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:31,120
Speaker 2: his hand again and the Steelers offense looked good, but

724
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:35,920
Speaker 2: you know, the Ravens dominated. The Pats won outright, So

725
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:38,440
Speaker 2: you know, we held our head high this week before

726
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:41,759
Speaker 2: we dive into the NFL. It's crazy, you know, you

727
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 2: tried to, you know, give me some talking points and

728
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:48,440
Speaker 2: numbers in relation to Utah going into that game and

729
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:51,799
Speaker 2: then after they won. Really seeing the numbers of that

730
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 2: quarterback in the previous game and the difference of how

731
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:58,480
Speaker 2: he played against USC was pretty eye opening. I mean,

732
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:01,520
Speaker 2: he averaged double the amount. I think it was like

733
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 2: almost under five yards per attempt. He was over ten.

734
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Speaker 2: He looked like, you know, an NFL prospect against them.

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Speaker 2: Just just an all time loss again for the really

736
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Speaker 2: the USC defense.

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Speaker 1: Yeah no, that was a great call by you. I

738
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:17,240
Speaker 1: even had some USC minus four.

739
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:19,400
Speaker 2: I just bet, I just bet on the culture and

740
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 2: the physicality obviously. Bet he's a third string pig farming

741
00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:26,560
Speaker 2: quarterback who blit him up?

742
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, look, Kayla Williams, he wants to do

743
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:33,759
Speaker 1: the number one overall pick and part ownership of the team,

744
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:36,280
Speaker 1: have an ownership of the NFL team that drafts him,

745
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:40,759
Speaker 1: I mean, and then he's losing it at home to

746
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Speaker 1: a guy that was working at Lows a month ago

747
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:47,439
Speaker 1: because he wasn't on scholarship and he had to pay

748
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:49,400
Speaker 1: for his tuition, so he's working at Low's. Then go

749
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:53,839
Speaker 1: into practice, so yeah, bad look for Lincoln Riley. Then

750
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:56,919
Speaker 1: he doesn't make his players available to the media. Same

751
00:39:56,960 --> 00:40:00,840
Speaker 1: old story with that defense, and yeah, they were shredded

752
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:03,319
Speaker 1: through the air. On the ground, Daki had another huge

753
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:06,799
Speaker 1: day and just the USC team the you know, you

754
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:09,080
Speaker 1: speak of culture, the culture difference between those two teams

755
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:12,520
Speaker 1: is massive, and you saw, you know, Kayleb Williams looks

756
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:15,399
Speaker 1: disinterested at times. I don't know if he's already checked out,

757
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:20,799
Speaker 1: just looking forward to the NFL, but like just you know,

758
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:23,799
Speaker 1: keep eating gummy worms during the timeouts, not going to

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00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:25,839
Speaker 1: None of the players want to shake Utah's hands at

760
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:27,720
Speaker 1: the end, none of the players went to the media

761
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Speaker 1: and talk for the first time ever after a USC game.

762
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 1: You know that there's just no care about the defense

763
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:37,319
Speaker 1: from the staff and Lincoln Riley. And this is a

764
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:40,840
Speaker 1: soft team. It's the first time I bet on USC

765
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Speaker 1: under Lincoln Riley in my life and it might be

766
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Speaker 1: the last. So yeah, good call by you in the utes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think when you look around college

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Speaker 2: basketball and college football, there's you know, ten to fifteen

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00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:55,560
Speaker 2: programs that are just held to a higher standard. You're

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00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:59,759
Speaker 2: sitting around one in Kentucky basketball, USC football, Duke basketball,

771
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:04,160
Speaker 2: Alabama football, and they don't feel and starting with Lincoln

772
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:05,880
Speaker 2: like they kind of get it. I mean that body

773
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:08,840
Speaker 2: language from Caleb unless losing sucks, no one acts like

774
00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:13,200
Speaker 2: you should be smiling, right, but his body language is

775
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:17,400
Speaker 2: beyond shitty. Obviously Lincoln having I mean he was screaming

776
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:19,759
Speaker 2: at the he was having like a mental breakdown five

777
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:23,040
Speaker 2: minutes into the game. And Kyle whittingham Let's face. It

778
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:27,400
Speaker 2: is just I don't think people quite understand. You know,

779
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:31,480
Speaker 2: within twenty years they were in the whack playing San

780
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:34,160
Speaker 2: Diego State and Fresno State, like that's who they played.

781
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 2: And now they run the Pac twelve. I mean two

782
00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 2: years ago they they ended Mario Christobal, sent him run

783
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:43,920
Speaker 2: into Miami. Last year they swept USC. So they've been

784
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:46,719
Speaker 2: to back to back Rose Bulls and I don't know

785
00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:49,040
Speaker 2: if they're going to get back this year, but they

786
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 2: definitely have the opportunity starting quarterback this year, starting quarterback,

787
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:56,760
Speaker 2: their backup quarterback. Now you could argue Kyle's a little crazy.

788
00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 2: He does full on scrimmages in August where the quarterback

789
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:02,840
Speaker 2: is also and I think the guy like lacerated his kidney.

790
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:05,360
Speaker 2: So their backup quarterback for cam Rising that was supposed

791
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:08,840
Speaker 2: to be their quarterback has been like seasoned nding injury

792
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:12,360
Speaker 2: in a live scrimmage in August. But it kind of

793
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:16,439
Speaker 2: represents their program, right, how tough they are. So it's

794
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:19,120
Speaker 2: why you can't discount them this week. You know, Oregon

795
00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:23,760
Speaker 2: should beat them, but I wouldn't feel great about betting

796
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:25,760
Speaker 2: against Utah at home, would you.

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00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:29,080
Speaker 1: Nope? Yeah, I have a rule of thumb that I'll

798
00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:32,720
Speaker 1: rarely break if ever, and that's do not bet against

799
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:37,680
Speaker 1: Utah at home. Rice Ecles. There's like, it's kind of

800
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:41,799
Speaker 1: like the Steelers at home as an underdog, youth hot

801
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:44,680
Speaker 1: home as an underdog. I think Whittingham's numbers is as

802
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 1: an underdog over a field bar ridiculous. But there's just

803
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:50,240
Speaker 1: some voodoo that goes on in that statement. And obviously

804
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:53,320
Speaker 1: it's one of the best home fields home field advantages

805
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:54,960
Speaker 1: in all of college football. Even saw that at the

806
00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:57,080
Speaker 1: Pac twelve Championship down in Vegas. It looked it was

807
00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:01,520
Speaker 1: just a seed red but at home, there's just some

808
00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:05,280
Speaker 1: weird things that happen, and they play up even more

809
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 1: and teams quarterbacks just go and die there. So yeah,

810
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 1: I think Oregon probably finds a way to win. But

811
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:17,160
Speaker 1: we've seen roade Bow knicks. Bo Nix hasn't throughout his career,

812
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:19,360
Speaker 1: he hasn't played nowhere close to as well as he

813
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 1: does at home. And now you're going to rice ecles

814
00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:25,880
Speaker 1: where weird things happen. You know, those two things colliding

815
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:29,640
Speaker 1: could lead to disastrous results. So I have no money

816
00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:31,560
Speaker 1: on that game. I'll sit back and watch and enjoy it.

817
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:38,120
Speaker 2: Kills dive into the National Football League as of recording this,

818
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:39,719
Speaker 2: you know, I think it's more than up in the

819
00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:42,480
Speaker 2: air on Tyreek Hill and his hamstring injury. I mean

820
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:43,880
Speaker 2: two A kind of alluded to that when I saw

821
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 2: him talking on Wednesday about if you can't go, we

822
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:53,000
Speaker 2: step up one. Do the Patriots have life? Or was

823
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:56,080
Speaker 2: just somewhat of an outlier game slash They're just going

824
00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:59,319
Speaker 2: to play better against their divisional opponents. Well, look at this,

825
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:02,080
Speaker 2: they're playing it visional opponent. Now, I'm sure you got

826
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:04,680
Speaker 2: some numbers historically, I don't care if it's Tom Brady

827
00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:08,640
Speaker 2: I don't care if it's Tony Easton. They're not exactly

828
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 2: dominating as a franchise down south, so that would make

829
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:16,080
Speaker 2: me a little nervous. But I don't really know what

830
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:19,080
Speaker 2: to make of this Patriot team because when you watch

831
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 2: them play random teams like the Saints, they get curb stomped.

832
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:25,759
Speaker 2: Then you watch them play against a divisional opponent, and

833
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:27,600
Speaker 2: really all three games, I mean they're two wins are

834
00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:30,520
Speaker 2: against the Jets and the Bills, and they played Miami

835
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:33,040
Speaker 2: pretty tough too. They look like a different team. So

836
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:36,719
Speaker 2: I definitely give the Patriots, not just a fighting chance.

837
00:44:36,719 --> 00:44:39,120
Speaker 2: But if Tyreek kills out, we know, like you said,

838
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:41,400
Speaker 2: always say, Belichick loves to take away your number one option,

839
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:44,960
Speaker 2: so boom, he slows down Wattle, who's also dealing with injuries.

840
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:48,200
Speaker 2: And I don't know this, maybe Mac Jones's got a

841
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:49,640
Speaker 2: little positive mojo.

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Speaker 1: Rolind Yeah, I like the Patriots here. I think this

843
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:55,480
Speaker 1: line is too high, especially with the injuries. You also

844
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:58,799
Speaker 1: have Tron Armstead your star left tackle, Isaiah Win your

845
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:02,040
Speaker 1: left guard. They both just Connor Williams, your center, still

846
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:04,280
Speaker 1: dealing with an injury. You mentioned Watt on the back spasms.

847
00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:06,279
Speaker 1: They can flare up at any time. I mean, this

848
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:09,960
Speaker 1: offense is a shelve itself defense Mike, you know, is

849
00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:13,960
Speaker 1: getting healthier, but it's still not a great defense. And

850
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:16,759
Speaker 1: the Patriots already showed that they can slow down this

851
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:19,560
Speaker 1: Miami offense and they took away the big plays and

852
00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 1: that was a much healthier Miami offense. And the main

853
00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:25,799
Speaker 1: reason for this is that, look the Patriots going into

854
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 1: last week. I mentioned this on the last week's show.

855
00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 1: They weren't as bad. They were bad, but it wasn't

856
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 1: as bad as it looked. They were getting also unlucky

857
00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:36,600
Speaker 1: in turnovers, field goals, fumbles, a lot of high variant stats.

858
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:39,319
Speaker 1: But the biggest thing that happened last week that I

859
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:43,879
Speaker 1: saw is the changes on offense. Through the first six

860
00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:46,920
Speaker 1: or seven weeks, their offensive line was an out It

861
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:49,840
Speaker 1: was just an outright disaster. They had a bunch of injuries.

862
00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:52,840
Speaker 1: They had guys in there that were among the I

863
00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 1: think four guys that were amongst the bottom ten ranked

864
00:45:56,040 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 1: offensive linemen and pass blocking. I've got of like two

865
00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:01,120
Speaker 1: hundred offensive lineman playing a lot of those guys at

866
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:03,440
Speaker 1: the same time. Last week, you know, you get Cole

867
00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:05,680
Speaker 1: Strange back and it's not like these guys are all pros.

868
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 1: It's that the drop off to the replacement is huge.

869
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:12,200
Speaker 1: So you got Cole Strange back at guard. You kicked

870
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:14,520
Speaker 1: they kicked on when who out to right tackle? And

871
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:16,960
Speaker 1: their right tackle has been the worst in the NFL

872
00:46:17,120 --> 00:46:19,640
Speaker 1: think of you know, PFF had greated at twenty seven

873
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:21,680
Speaker 1: out of one hundred on the season. Barbarian Lowe and

874
00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:26,400
Speaker 1: Calvin Arrett Anderson are way below replacement level players and

875
00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:28,560
Speaker 1: that's where they were playing a right tackle. So their

876
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:34,120
Speaker 1: offensive line finally was healthy and looked competent. And Mac

877
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:36,440
Speaker 1: Jones needs that. Not the most mobile guy. If the

878
00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:41,200
Speaker 1: pocket craters, his footwork gets lost, he starts to make mistakes.

879
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:44,800
Speaker 1: So offensive line healthier. So what does that mean? Jones

880
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:46,960
Speaker 1: actually able to go through his progressions a little bit.

881
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:48,880
Speaker 1: But they were able to run the ball, set up

882
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:51,040
Speaker 1: play action. They used a ton of moment and Bill

883
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:53,680
Speaker 1: O'Brien made a number of adjustments here put Mac Jones

884
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:57,080
Speaker 1: under center more. They use motion seventy three percent of

885
00:46:57,080 --> 00:46:59,239
Speaker 1: the time. They used some ghost motion, but it's really

886
00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:02,000
Speaker 1: just hey, establish the run play action. Mat jowns. I

887
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:03,480
Speaker 1: think it was seven of eight ninety eight yards on

888
00:47:03,520 --> 00:47:06,600
Speaker 1: play action so it's a lot of let's establish the run,

889
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:10,359
Speaker 1: short passes and you know, we kick the winning out

890
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:12,600
Speaker 1: to right tackle DeVante Parker, get him out of there.

891
00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:15,239
Speaker 1: He's done, he's watched, he's he can't get separation. You

892
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:17,160
Speaker 1: get to Mario Douglas back was much better.

893
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:20,080
Speaker 2: Didn't build or didn't Bill just pay him?

894
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:23,160
Speaker 1: Yep, bad, bad, bad. He can't, he can't. He should

895
00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:27,120
Speaker 1: not be a GM anymore. So, Yeah, a lot of

896
00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:30,520
Speaker 1: the changes that O'Brien made and some of the guys

897
00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:33,160
Speaker 1: that they got back made. Their offense. Therobens is not

898
00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:34,920
Speaker 1: going to be good this year. Matchwins isn't good, but

899
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:38,839
Speaker 1: they can be an efficient, serviceable offense that can just

900
00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:40,680
Speaker 1: move the you know, rely on the run, game, rely

901
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:43,360
Speaker 1: ont play action short passes, control the clock, move the

902
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 1: ball efficiently, and their defenses. You know, it's not as

903
00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:50,239
Speaker 1: an elite old Patriots team, but it's still decent and

904
00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:52,319
Speaker 1: still going to play every weekend. Last week they were

905
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:55,200
Speaker 1: able to get a ton of pressure on Josh Allen.

906
00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:58,520
Speaker 1: They're getting a little healthier. Maybe you get Uch back.

907
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:02,359
Speaker 1: Their secondary is getting out there. So there's also gonna

908
00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 1: be very high wins here in Miami this week. And

909
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:06,360
Speaker 1: that favor is the Patriots. What the Patriots? One of

910
00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:08,440
Speaker 1: the just want to throw it short and run it.

911
00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:11,120
Speaker 1: So it's too many points in the divisional game. I

912
00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:13,480
Speaker 1: think the Patriots carry over some of the men from

913
00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:15,640
Speaker 1: last week, and a lot of that was sustainable because

914
00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:18,360
Speaker 1: of the changes that they made offensive line and some

915
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:20,239
Speaker 1: of the play calling in motion that they were using,

916
00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:22,400
Speaker 1: and some of the guys that got back throwing the

917
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:24,280
Speaker 1: Miami injuries, and I think this is too high.

918
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:27,080
Speaker 2: Well, one trend we saw last week is these division

919
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:30,279
Speaker 2: games are just highly contested. I don't care if it's

920
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:33,759
Speaker 2: two shitty teams, if it's a Bills versus the Patriots,

921
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:37,600
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter. You're just gonna get I mean, like

922
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:39,320
Speaker 2: the forty nine ers can play the Cardinals and it

923
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:41,640
Speaker 2: could be tied at half. You're just going to get opponents,

924
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:45,120
Speaker 2: even if they have new coaching staffs, that the players

925
00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:47,680
Speaker 2: know each other, you know their strengths and weaknesses. You're

926
00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:51,080
Speaker 2: comfortable going up against a guy a quote unquote big

927
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:53,399
Speaker 2: name against a smaller name. Well, if that smaller name

928
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:56,279
Speaker 2: has been a multi year starter, he's not as intimidated

929
00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:58,960
Speaker 2: going up against that all pro. Right, he's used to

930
00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:02,200
Speaker 2: seeing Aaron Donald, TJ. Watt or whoever the matchup is.

931
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:05,319
Speaker 2: And I mean the games we're talking about today are

932
00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:08,000
Speaker 2: all divisional games, and it's just I would say that

933
00:49:08,040 --> 00:49:12,239
Speaker 2: tends to favor the underdog, right like Denver Kansas City. Obviously,

934
00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:14,960
Speaker 2: everyone all year has been making fun of Denver since

935
00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:20,479
Speaker 2: season started. They've definitely looked a little more functional since

936
00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:24,000
Speaker 2: that's seventy point ass kicking. But you know, they have

937
00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:27,040
Speaker 2: a lot of defensive players who have just seen Patrick Mahomes.

938
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:29,719
Speaker 2: Now Sean Payton is a new coach, they have a

939
00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:34,040
Speaker 2: brand new coaching staff. But you know, getting seven and

940
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:37,239
Speaker 2: a half at home Mile High that the Chiefs have

941
00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:40,480
Speaker 2: definitely been known. You know that they flex their muscles

942
00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:42,640
Speaker 2: when they have to and sometimes they can just be

943
00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 2: very sleepy. Now they still win the game. Yeah, I

944
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:50,440
Speaker 2: think the Warriors have been like that for many stretches

945
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:53,200
Speaker 2: over the peak Steph Curry years, and I think the

946
00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:55,719
Speaker 2: Chiefs definitely have that. And to me, the Chargers, we

947
00:49:55,719 --> 00:49:57,600
Speaker 2: talked about it last week, why we like the Chargers,

948
00:49:57,719 --> 00:50:00,680
Speaker 2: it's like that. I think the the Chiefs in a

949
00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:02,759
Speaker 2: weird way like respect them because they've played them so

950
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:04,640
Speaker 2: tight over the years and they get it. They give

951
00:50:04,680 --> 00:50:07,719
Speaker 2: a really good effort. I can't imagine the same respect

952
00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:10,080
Speaker 2: that they have, not just for Denver in general because

953
00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:12,000
Speaker 2: they've been kicking their ass now for years, but like

954
00:50:12,040 --> 00:50:13,080
Speaker 2: this specific team.

955
00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:17,000
Speaker 1: Yep, yeah, I think there's too many points over a

956
00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:21,000
Speaker 1: touchdown even at seven. Look, yeah, that you mentioned that

957
00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:23,080
Speaker 1: the Chiefs they kind of play with their food. They

958
00:50:23,120 --> 00:50:25,799
Speaker 1: play down or up to their competition. Part of that

959
00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:28,680
Speaker 1: is and that's why one of the reasons why they've

960
00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:32,600
Speaker 1: been so bad as a bigger favorite historically with Patrick

961
00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:35,279
Speaker 1: Mahomes and Andy Reid. They also know how to run

962
00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:37,799
Speaker 1: out the clock laid. But a lot of that is

963
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:40,239
Speaker 1: that they just don't show their whole arsenal. And why

964
00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:42,719
Speaker 1: would you right, they don't show everything in the playbook.

965
00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:44,640
Speaker 1: They don't, you know, it's like, hey, we don't have

966
00:50:44,719 --> 00:50:49,080
Speaker 1: to unleash all of our our full arsenal here against

967
00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:50,920
Speaker 1: the game. We know that we're gonna win, and this

968
00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:53,080
Speaker 1: would be the perfect spot to like, hey, let's hold

969
00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:55,480
Speaker 1: things back because you just beat the Chargers, you have

970
00:50:55,560 --> 00:50:58,959
Speaker 1: the Dolphins and the Eagles coming up in your next

971
00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:01,839
Speaker 1: two games, so it is a perfect time to just say,

972
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:04,160
Speaker 1: all right, we're not going to show much. I would

973
00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:06,399
Speaker 1: say that, Look, the Chiefs probably come out a little

974
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:08,880
Speaker 1: sleepy here off of a huge win, two big games

975
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:13,680
Speaker 1: coming up, and the Broncos. Look, everyone remembers that seventy

976
00:51:13,719 --> 00:51:15,759
Speaker 1: point game. It's like how some people still remember the

977
00:51:15,760 --> 00:51:18,520
Speaker 1: Cardinals beating the Cowboys. No, the Cardinals. The Cardinals suck.

978
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:21,200
Speaker 1: They're They're horrible to get blown out by double duds

979
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:24,560
Speaker 1: every week. But in the Broncos defense is not good.

980
00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:27,080
Speaker 1: But it's not that team, and they've gotten better. I

981
00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:28,839
Speaker 1: don't know what Vance Joseph was doing over the first

982
00:51:28,880 --> 00:51:31,720
Speaker 1: forty days. I think he was on a long, extended bender.

983
00:51:32,080 --> 00:51:34,479
Speaker 1: I've been there, so I get it. But they didn't

984
00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:36,799
Speaker 1: make any changes on the defense. They finally have. They

985
00:51:36,840 --> 00:51:39,239
Speaker 1: changed some of their pressure steams, pulse are getting healthier.

986
00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:41,880
Speaker 1: You get Browning back to j Jones back. They finally

987
00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:45,560
Speaker 1: benched to Mary Mathis last week, which is massive. He's

988
00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:48,439
Speaker 1: been the worst corner in the league by far all year.

989
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:51,560
Speaker 1: You look at any and that's huge because you have

990
00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:54,239
Speaker 1: Patrick's retaining their side. So what does that mean? He's

991
00:51:54,239 --> 00:51:56,160
Speaker 1: are throwing at the other corner no matter who it is.

992
00:51:56,560 --> 00:51:58,480
Speaker 1: So you get Fabian Moreau in there, he's a veteran.

993
00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:02,000
Speaker 1: It's not an elite guy, but he's serviceable starter and

994
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:03,840
Speaker 1: they finally got to Mary Mathis out of there. I

995
00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:06,160
Speaker 1: don't know why they kept putting him out there, and

996
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:09,600
Speaker 1: he was getting burned every single week. So you know,

997
00:52:09,719 --> 00:52:12,359
Speaker 1: some guys healthier. They made some schematic changes. You got

998
00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:14,360
Speaker 1: Mathis out of there, you get moreau in at the corner.

999
00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:19,439
Speaker 1: This defense still not good, but it's serviceable and it's

1000
00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:21,080
Speaker 1: you know, the last two weeks, they held the Chiefs,

1001
00:52:21,120 --> 00:52:22,480
Speaker 1: who were kind of playing out with their feod, to

1002
00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:25,200
Speaker 1: what twenty two points at home. They held the Packers

1003
00:52:25,239 --> 00:52:28,520
Speaker 1: last week to seventeen points. So this defense is a

1004
00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:32,919
Speaker 1: little better. The offense with Look Russ is not he's washed.

1005
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:35,719
Speaker 1: It is what it is. The offensive line is getting better.

1006
00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:38,160
Speaker 1: They're healthier at the skill positions. They just got to

1007
00:52:38,160 --> 00:52:39,759
Speaker 1: come out here. It's gonna be like twenty degrees. They

1008
00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:41,960
Speaker 1: just got to run the ball and keep running it

1009
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:44,000
Speaker 1: and keep giving it to Javonte Williams, who's now at

1010
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:46,080
Speaker 1: one hundred percent health. They didn't give it to him enough.

1011
00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:48,120
Speaker 1: In Kansas City average had on five six yards to

1012
00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:52,640
Speaker 1: carry feed him. Shorten the game. Your defense isn't as

1013
00:52:52,719 --> 00:52:54,640
Speaker 1: bad as it's been. This is too many points at

1014
00:52:54,640 --> 00:52:57,719
Speaker 1: home and this Broncos scene that isn't going anywhere. They've

1015
00:52:57,760 --> 00:53:01,040
Speaker 1: lost what for ten years? They haven't beat the Cheese

1016
00:53:01,040 --> 00:53:03,279
Speaker 1: in ten years. This is pretty much their Super Bowl.

1017
00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:04,600
Speaker 1: I think you get a max S effort here and

1018
00:53:05,080 --> 00:53:08,960
Speaker 1: potentially sleepy Chiefs team. I think over a touchdowns of

1019
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:09,399
Speaker 1: play here.

1020
00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:13,799
Speaker 2: Okay, another big divisional game, Minnesota at Green Bay. I

1021
00:53:13,840 --> 00:53:17,479
Speaker 2: woke up this morning scrolling X and I saw Kurt

1022
00:53:17,520 --> 00:53:21,759
Speaker 2: Warner defending Jordan Love, breaking down the tape saying, no

1023
00:53:21,800 --> 00:53:24,560
Speaker 2: one's open. When I watch Jordan Love, even if no

1024
00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:26,759
Speaker 2: one's open, I see a guy that just doesn't look

1025
00:53:26,800 --> 00:53:29,959
Speaker 2: that comfortable. Obviously, the Packers have not played well of late.

1026
00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:34,319
Speaker 2: Minnesota incredible win on Monday night, I mean Cousins was

1027
00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:37,279
Speaker 2: fucking lights out thirty five at forty five, almost three

1028
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:40,359
Speaker 2: four hundred yards, and honestly, the eye test was better

1029
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:42,960
Speaker 2: than the numbers, especially when you factored in Jefferson's on

1030
00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:45,319
Speaker 2: the side Addison coming in and out of the game.

1031
00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:48,959
Speaker 2: He was awesome. Short week for them on the road,

1032
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:52,640
Speaker 2: divisional opponent. Kind of a kitchen sink game for green Bay, right,

1033
00:53:52,680 --> 00:53:54,120
Speaker 2: I mean, you lose this game, all of a sudden

1034
00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:56,719
Speaker 2: we start talking about are they headed toward competing to

1035
00:53:56,719 --> 00:53:58,160
Speaker 2: be a top five drafting team.

1036
00:53:58,760 --> 00:53:59,160
Speaker 1: I don't know.

1037
00:53:59,680 --> 00:54:01,919
Speaker 2: I don't quite know what to make of this Green

1038
00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:04,879
Speaker 2: Bay team. Besides, I don't think they're very good, but

1039
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:07,440
Speaker 2: they they don't. They don't feel like a team that's

1040
00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:09,800
Speaker 2: going to go for and thirteen, right. They do feel

1041
00:54:09,800 --> 00:54:12,160
Speaker 2: more like a six or seven win team. But this

1042
00:54:12,239 --> 00:54:14,520
Speaker 2: is a type game. I don't think I could touch

1043
00:54:14,560 --> 00:54:17,560
Speaker 2: this game because the bet would be Green Bay. But

1044
00:54:17,640 --> 00:54:19,800
Speaker 2: it's like, I don't know, maybe Mini's got a little

1045
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:22,440
Speaker 2: little juice. They A lot of people are like, oh,

1046
00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:24,800
Speaker 2: they're not quite dead, especially when you look at the NFC.

1047
00:54:25,400 --> 00:54:27,560
Speaker 2: But I don't know this. This is a tough one

1048
00:54:27,560 --> 00:54:27,799
Speaker 2: for me.

1049
00:54:28,040 --> 00:54:29,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is pack Packers all the way for me.

1050
00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:32,319
Speaker 1: Now you're getting plus one. This is the past five weeks.

1051
00:54:32,320 --> 00:54:34,799
Speaker 1: What will be seen. It's all the teams that have

1052
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:38,719
Speaker 1: the big win that start getting to chatter in the

1053
00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:41,799
Speaker 1: media and everyone. You know, betters are like, oh, Kirk

1054
00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:46,239
Speaker 1: Cousin's MVP Vikings playoffs like this happens, you know, I

1055
00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:47,879
Speaker 1: think this is a sixth straight week. If you pick

1056
00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:48,279
Speaker 1: out then.

1057
00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:50,960
Speaker 2: We said, we said nine ers undefeated. Now they're losing

1058
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:51,880
Speaker 2: games undefeated.

1059
00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:53,960
Speaker 1: You saw the Dolphins put up seventy, they get blown out.

1060
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:56,480
Speaker 1: You see the Bills blow them out. They get all

1061
00:54:56,520 --> 00:54:56,839
Speaker 1: the hype.

1062
00:54:56,880 --> 00:54:57,279
Speaker 2: They've lost.

1063
00:54:57,320 --> 00:54:59,720
Speaker 1: They should have lost three straight since to the Pats,

1064
00:54:59,760 --> 00:55:02,960
Speaker 1: Johns and Jags. You know, the Niners beat the Cowboys,

1065
00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:06,440
Speaker 1: they lose two straight, the lines one four straight. Everyone's

1066
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:08,480
Speaker 1: talking about them. They lose, you know, by one hundred

1067
00:55:08,520 --> 00:55:11,040
Speaker 1: and thirty in Baltimore. So I think this is another

1068
00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:13,360
Speaker 1: case where the Viking's getting a little bit too much love. Look,

1069
00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:16,120
Speaker 1: Cousins was in his bag. He has games like that,

1070
00:55:16,239 --> 00:55:18,800
Speaker 1: and he was shredding San Francisco. But I think a

1071
00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:21,600
Speaker 1: lot of that game also had to do with San

1072
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:24,879
Speaker 1: Francisco's injuries and their mistakes and party. If you look

1073
00:55:24,880 --> 00:55:27,200
Speaker 1: at Purdy's numbers, I don't know if you've seen this,

1074
00:55:27,239 --> 00:55:30,840
Speaker 1: like before and after the concussion, I saw they were

1075
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:33,680
Speaker 1: pretty alarming. So I know he had a couple of mistakes,

1076
00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:36,480
Speaker 1: and I think the forty nine Ers, even with how

1077
00:55:36,719 --> 00:55:38,920
Speaker 1: great Cousins was, still win that game.

1078
00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:43,920
Speaker 2: Didn't twa last year, it was either Thanksgiving or Christmas

1079
00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:46,279
Speaker 2: when they played the Packers, got a concussion, but they

1080
00:55:46,280 --> 00:55:48,520
Speaker 2: didn't know, and then he like threw like four picks

1081
00:55:48,520 --> 00:55:50,160
Speaker 2: in the second half and everyone's like, that's the worst

1082
00:55:50,239 --> 00:55:52,759
Speaker 2: quarterback we've ever seen. It turns out he was concussed.

1083
00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:56,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, it happens a couple of times a year. Then

1084
00:55:56,360 --> 00:55:59,080
Speaker 1: you'll be like, oh, now it makes sense, like why

1085
00:55:59,320 --> 00:56:02,440
Speaker 1: they just didn't see any linebackers or safeties and we're

1086
00:56:02,480 --> 00:56:06,040
Speaker 1: just throwing it straight ahead. So yeah, I don't look,

1087
00:56:06,080 --> 00:56:08,839
Speaker 1: I'm not overreacting to that game and what the Vikings did.

1088
00:56:09,640 --> 00:56:12,920
Speaker 1: This is a Vikings team that still cannot run the

1089
00:56:12,960 --> 00:56:14,319
Speaker 1: ball for the life of them, so they have to

1090
00:56:14,360 --> 00:56:17,400
Speaker 1: just drop back and throw it forty five to fifty times. Well,

1091
00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:19,799
Speaker 1: that's not how you want to attack the Packers. You

1092
00:56:19,840 --> 00:56:22,880
Speaker 1: want to run on the Packers their run funnel defense

1093
00:56:23,400 --> 00:56:26,040
Speaker 1: gyre Alexander who look the backers. If the Packers are

1094
00:56:26,080 --> 00:56:29,840
Speaker 1: two and four, they've had three losses by a combined

1095
00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:31,840
Speaker 1: seven points they led by in the fourth quarter and

1096
00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:35,239
Speaker 1: three of their four games. Their offense has been so

1097
00:56:35,320 --> 00:56:38,000
Speaker 1: inconsistent as you'd expect with Jordan Love and an offense

1098
00:56:38,040 --> 00:56:40,200
Speaker 1: that has injuries. Has had injuries on the offensive line

1099
00:56:40,200 --> 00:56:42,879
Speaker 1: and wide receiver for whatever reason. Their offense grades out

1100
00:56:43,120 --> 00:56:45,120
Speaker 1: dead last the NFL in the first half and number

1101
00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:47,480
Speaker 1: one in ePaper play in the second half. Makes sense

1102
00:56:47,480 --> 00:56:50,560
Speaker 1: of that because I can't. But I don't think they're

1103
00:56:50,560 --> 00:56:53,359
Speaker 1: as bad as they've looked or as people think. And

1104
00:56:54,200 --> 00:56:56,520
Speaker 1: this is a good matchup for them because Minnesota can't

1105
00:56:56,560 --> 00:56:59,040
Speaker 1: run the ball. Gire Alexander, one of the best corners

1106
00:56:59,080 --> 00:57:02,000
Speaker 1: in the NFL, didn't play last week and he's missed

1107
00:57:02,160 --> 00:57:04,560
Speaker 1: a couple of games. He's gonna play, so you can

1108
00:57:04,640 --> 00:57:08,000
Speaker 1: put him, you can shadow Addison with him. No Jefferson

1109
00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:11,680
Speaker 1: and I think that that this Minnesota offense will not

1110
00:57:11,719 --> 00:57:15,240
Speaker 1: look anywhere close outdoors to what it did last week.

1111
00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:18,160
Speaker 1: On the other side of the ball, the Green Bay offense,

1112
00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:20,080
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure what Matt with the floor is

1113
00:57:20,120 --> 00:57:22,520
Speaker 1: doing play calling wise. They're not really taking any shots.

1114
00:57:22,520 --> 00:57:23,440
Speaker 1: Granted they've had a ton of.

1115
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:26,200
Speaker 2: Injuries, but does he trust the quarterback?

1116
00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:29,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe not. But they're they're throwing there, they're running

1117
00:57:29,560 --> 00:57:31,320
Speaker 1: it too much, they're throwing it way too short. But

1118
00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:33,640
Speaker 1: guess what, that's what we'll work against. The Vikings. The

1119
00:57:33,680 --> 00:57:36,960
Speaker 1: Vikings are blitzing a ton and you can run on them.

1120
00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:40,120
Speaker 1: Vikings are twenty fifth in defensive success rate against the run.

1121
00:57:40,800 --> 00:57:42,960
Speaker 1: Maybe Aaron Jones is finally healthy. He's only getting like

1122
00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:44,280
Speaker 1: ten touches of the game. I'm not even sure what's

1123
00:57:44,320 --> 00:57:47,200
Speaker 1: going on there, even if they're a buy. But you know,

1124
00:57:47,240 --> 00:57:49,800
Speaker 1: even aj Dillon can have success getting like three four

1125
00:57:49,880 --> 00:57:52,560
Speaker 1: yards against this Vikings defense. And the Vikings what they're

1126
00:57:52,560 --> 00:57:54,800
Speaker 1: doing under floor is Look, they leave the NFL and

1127
00:57:54,840 --> 00:57:57,120
Speaker 1: blitz rate at fifty eight percent, but they also are

1128
00:57:57,160 --> 00:58:00,560
Speaker 1: taking away the explosive play. They have double the lead average.

1129
00:58:00,560 --> 00:58:03,200
Speaker 1: You know, they're double the second team and drop eight coverage.

1130
00:58:03,440 --> 00:58:06,280
Speaker 1: So what Flores is doing with this really, you know,

1131
00:58:06,440 --> 00:58:10,200
Speaker 1: this disunit that lacks and talent, he's getting the most

1132
00:58:10,200 --> 00:58:11,520
Speaker 1: out of it, but he's bringing a ton of blitzer

1133
00:58:11,520 --> 00:58:13,760
Speaker 1: and he's dropping his safety's way back. He's saying, look,

1134
00:58:13,760 --> 00:58:15,200
Speaker 1: we're going to try to get pressure on you and

1135
00:58:15,200 --> 00:58:17,200
Speaker 1: create a negative play, but we're also not going to

1136
00:58:17,520 --> 00:58:20,760
Speaker 1: let you get you know, thirty forty our games. You're

1137
00:58:20,760 --> 00:58:22,440
Speaker 1: still gonna have to earn it down the field. We

1138
00:58:22,480 --> 00:58:25,240
Speaker 1: hope that you'll make a mistake. But that's that kind

1139
00:58:25,240 --> 00:58:27,520
Speaker 1: of doesn't really work against the Packers. The Packers aren't

1140
00:58:27,600 --> 00:58:29,439
Speaker 1: trying to drip back and throw it down the field.

1141
00:58:29,440 --> 00:58:32,000
Speaker 1: They're trying to run it and they're trying to short pass,

1142
00:58:32,560 --> 00:58:37,000
Speaker 1: and that's what can work against Minnesota and Jordan Love,

1143
00:58:37,040 --> 00:58:39,440
Speaker 1: for all his shortcomings, he actually look a lot of

1144
00:58:39,480 --> 00:58:41,960
Speaker 1: variants in these numbers over you know, just six games,

1145
00:58:41,960 --> 00:58:43,680
Speaker 1: but his numbers against the Blitz are pretty good. He

1146
00:58:43,680 --> 00:58:46,760
Speaker 1: has four touchdowns, no interceptions against the glitch, seven touchdowns,

1147
00:58:46,760 --> 00:58:50,640
Speaker 1: seven interception interceptions when he's not blitzed. So I think

1148
00:58:50,680 --> 00:58:52,760
Speaker 1: this is the good by low Spot Sell High the

1149
00:58:52,840 --> 00:58:56,120
Speaker 1: Viking short week, and it's a decent matchup on both

1150
00:58:56,160 --> 00:58:57,800
Speaker 1: sides if you get into it. I just don't think

1151
00:58:57,840 --> 00:58:59,479
Speaker 1: the Vikings are as good as they looked last week.

1152
00:59:00,160 --> 00:59:02,320
Speaker 1: Aren't as bad as they happen. They're getting a little healthier.

1153
00:59:03,120 --> 00:59:06,280
Speaker 1: I think this is your Bilo Cell high Spot Divisional

1154
00:59:06,880 --> 00:59:10,880
Speaker 1: home short dog at home outdoors. Give me the pack here.

1155
00:59:11,600 --> 00:59:13,520
Speaker 2: I know you told me you wanted to get weird.

1156
00:59:13,680 --> 00:59:15,200
Speaker 2: Texans at Panthers.

1157
00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:21,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, this this is my favorite over of the week.

1158
00:59:22,200 --> 00:59:27,840
Speaker 1: And you would some people might be saying, like Texans,

1159
00:59:28,640 --> 00:59:32,720
Speaker 1: you know Panthers over. Well, here's here's the case. Well,

1160
00:59:32,760 --> 00:59:35,560
Speaker 1: first of all, the Texans are fast. They play fast,

1161
00:59:35,640 --> 00:59:37,320
Speaker 1: and they've been playing their I think top five in

1162
00:59:37,400 --> 00:59:40,360
Speaker 1: pace in the NFL, and Shroud's been good off the jump.

1163
00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:44,920
Speaker 1: Bryce Young has not been. But he showed some flashes,

1164
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:48,320
Speaker 1: you know, the two weeks before their bye week. And

1165
00:59:48,360 --> 00:59:52,560
Speaker 1: that's important because both of these teams had bye weeks

1166
00:59:52,880 --> 00:59:55,440
Speaker 1: leading up to this game with new staffs, new schemes

1167
00:59:55,440 --> 00:59:57,840
Speaker 1: and rookie quarterbacks. And if you go back thirty years,

1168
00:59:58,720 --> 01:00:02,560
Speaker 1: overs with rookie quarterbacks after a bye week are hitting

1169
01:00:02,560 --> 01:00:05,360
Speaker 1: at about sixty one percent over a thirty year time,

1170
01:00:05,800 --> 01:00:08,320
Speaker 1: which makes sense. It's like, all right, let's reevaluate the

1171
01:00:08,320 --> 01:00:10,120
Speaker 1: game might have been too fast. You get like two

1172
01:00:10,160 --> 01:00:12,480
Speaker 1: weeks to kind of reset what are we doing? Well,

1173
01:00:12,520 --> 01:00:14,640
Speaker 1: what are we not? I think Bryce Young can really

1174
01:00:14,680 --> 01:00:17,760
Speaker 1: benefit from that. But I think the biggest thing here

1175
01:00:18,240 --> 01:00:21,400
Speaker 1: is that Frank Rereich handed over play calling duties to

1176
01:00:21,480 --> 01:00:26,360
Speaker 1: Thomas Brown right before the buye against the Dolphins. And

1177
01:00:26,720 --> 01:00:29,680
Speaker 1: the most interesting thing to come out of that game

1178
01:00:29,800 --> 01:00:32,920
Speaker 1: is with Bryce Young before then the Panthers, with the

1179
01:00:32,920 --> 01:00:36,360
Speaker 1: slowest team in the NFL, that one game under Thomas Brown.

1180
01:00:36,360 --> 01:00:40,120
Speaker 1: It comes from the McVeigh tree love tempo. Bryce Young

1181
01:00:40,200 --> 01:00:44,120
Speaker 1: loved when running tempo at Alabama they were. They led

1182
01:00:44,120 --> 01:00:46,520
Speaker 1: the league in Week six in no huddle rate. They

1183
01:00:46,520 --> 01:00:48,760
Speaker 1: were one of the fastest teams that weekend, so I

1184
01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:51,520
Speaker 1: don't think the market's fully accounting for that. I think

1185
01:00:51,520 --> 01:00:55,160
Speaker 1: the Panthers, with Thomas Brown calling plays after the buye,

1186
01:00:55,800 --> 01:00:56,920
Speaker 1: I think they're going to go from one of the

1187
01:00:56,920 --> 01:00:59,200
Speaker 1: slowest teams to one of the fastest. So even if

1188
01:00:59,240 --> 01:01:01,960
Speaker 1: it's a disaster with young at least they're going fast.

1189
01:01:02,600 --> 01:01:03,920
Speaker 1: So this game, I think we'll we played a really

1190
01:01:03,960 --> 01:01:06,800
Speaker 1: high tempo. I think both book Stroud's been good from

1191
01:01:06,800 --> 01:01:09,880
Speaker 1: the jump, and he's even had a disastrous offensive line

1192
01:01:09,920 --> 01:01:12,160
Speaker 1: in front of the I mean, you're different guys out

1193
01:01:12,160 --> 01:01:15,080
Speaker 1: every week, so you have a healthier offensive line two

1194
01:01:15,120 --> 01:01:18,840
Speaker 1: weeks to reset, so I think both quarterbacks will play better.

1195
01:01:19,000 --> 01:01:20,560
Speaker 1: I don't know how much better Strouds can play as

1196
01:01:20,600 --> 01:01:22,240
Speaker 1: a rookie, but I think and this game will be

1197
01:01:22,280 --> 01:01:24,280
Speaker 1: played at a high pace. Neither defense is any good,

1198
01:01:25,480 --> 01:01:28,600
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think this has a like just sneaky

1199
01:01:28,680 --> 01:01:32,160
Speaker 1: shootout potential where it turns into like that narrative game

1200
01:01:32,600 --> 01:01:34,919
Speaker 1: where you know your two rookies are battling it out

1201
01:01:35,800 --> 01:01:38,040
Speaker 1: and it turns actually into a fun game that no

1202
01:01:38,080 --> 01:01:41,160
Speaker 1: one was anticipating being fun. But I think it's the

1203
01:01:41,240 --> 01:01:43,080
Speaker 1: pace here. I think that you're gonna see the Panthers

1204
01:01:43,080 --> 01:01:45,520
Speaker 1: offense look a little better. S not great, but just

1205
01:01:45,520 --> 01:01:47,320
Speaker 1: a little better. But most importantly, they're just gonna be

1206
01:01:47,320 --> 01:01:49,600
Speaker 1: going fast and using a lot of no huddle in tempo.

1207
01:01:50,560 --> 01:01:52,640
Speaker 2: There's some games, I mean, there are just some big

1208
01:01:52,720 --> 01:01:54,000
Speaker 2: swing games this week.

1209
01:01:54,080 --> 01:01:54,320
Speaker 1: Now.

1210
01:01:54,440 --> 01:01:57,640
Speaker 2: You know, pretty more likely out no one's cleared concussion

1211
01:01:57,680 --> 01:02:01,640
Speaker 2: protocol playing the Bengals off a buy the Browns Deshaun

1212
01:02:01,640 --> 01:02:05,160
Speaker 2: Watson situation is a disaster. He's out on the road

1213
01:02:05,200 --> 01:02:10,400
Speaker 2: at Seattle. Who if Cleveland loses and the Niners can't

1214
01:02:10,440 --> 01:02:12,280
Speaker 2: beat the Bengals, all of a sudden, Seattle would be

1215
01:02:12,280 --> 01:02:17,040
Speaker 2: in first place in the West. And then the Steelers

1216
01:02:17,080 --> 01:02:20,200
Speaker 2: like that they're playing the Jags. You would think, like

1217
01:02:20,360 --> 01:02:21,800
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago, to be like like the

1218
01:02:21,880 --> 01:02:23,720
Speaker 2: Jags in that game. But now you know, the Steelers

1219
01:02:23,720 --> 01:02:26,760
Speaker 2: got a little momentum at home. That's probably a weird

1220
01:02:26,760 --> 01:02:29,560
Speaker 2: spot for Tomlin usually as better as the underdog, but

1221
01:02:29,680 --> 01:02:33,000
Speaker 2: I this weekend could get weird, that's all I know.

1222
01:02:33,280 --> 01:02:36,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, look, the you saw the Ravens are hitting.

1223
01:02:36,600 --> 01:02:38,720
Speaker 2: The Ravens get the Cardinals, they'll kill them.

1224
01:02:38,800 --> 01:02:41,720
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So the Ravens are hitting their stride. The

1225
01:02:41,800 --> 01:02:44,760
Speaker 1: Browns are like they're I mean, if they could just

1226
01:02:44,960 --> 01:02:46,760
Speaker 1: stay healthy at quarterback.

1227
01:02:47,280 --> 01:02:50,000
Speaker 2: They just had average quarterback play, just like a top

1228
01:02:50,120 --> 01:02:54,080
Speaker 2: fifteen to sixteen guy Derek Carr, Jimmy Garoppolo when they

1229
01:02:54,080 --> 01:02:55,600
Speaker 2: were kind of good, they'd be fine.

1230
01:02:55,920 --> 01:02:59,200
Speaker 1: Right, Look, the Browns will still they're still going to

1231
01:02:59,240 --> 01:03:01,520
Speaker 1: be in the mix. And you mentioned sping games. The

1232
01:03:01,560 --> 01:03:04,720
Speaker 1: last two weeks with PJ Walker. You get the Niners

1233
01:03:04,720 --> 01:03:07,400
Speaker 1: to miss a forty yard field goal and then you

1234
01:03:07,440 --> 01:03:10,680
Speaker 1: get that p I call on a ball that landed

1235
01:03:10,720 --> 01:03:15,760
Speaker 1: in Texas and against the Colts and uncatchable. By the way,

1236
01:03:15,800 --> 01:03:18,919
Speaker 1: the uncatchable rule in the NFL, they every four weeks

1237
01:03:18,920 --> 01:03:21,919
Speaker 1: they'll say uncatchable, but or every four years, I should say,

1238
01:03:22,040 --> 01:03:24,280
Speaker 1: I always think they take the rule away, like because

1239
01:03:24,320 --> 01:03:25,960
Speaker 1: they never worry about un catchall. Then every once in

1240
01:03:25,960 --> 01:03:26,880
Speaker 1: a while they'll call and catch one.

1241
01:03:26,960 --> 01:03:28,480
Speaker 2: Like oh yeah, when we were kids, they used to

1242
01:03:28,520 --> 01:03:30,200
Speaker 2: call it all the time, didn't they all the time.

1243
01:03:30,240 --> 01:03:31,920
Speaker 1: They would have a conference and then they would do this.

1244
01:03:32,160 --> 01:03:34,480
Speaker 1: Everyone would do this on the sidelines to the coaches

1245
01:03:34,880 --> 01:03:37,280
Speaker 1: and then the ref would say pick up the flag,

1246
01:03:37,760 --> 01:03:41,400
Speaker 1: say the ball was uncatchable. It happens once at a

1247
01:03:41,440 --> 01:03:45,960
Speaker 1: more so it's crazy. But look those two games they

1248
01:03:45,960 --> 01:03:47,720
Speaker 1: could have easily lost, and they got the two wins

1249
01:03:47,720 --> 01:03:50,520
Speaker 1: with PJ. Huge because now you're four and two because

1250
01:03:50,520 --> 01:03:53,080
Speaker 1: they have C North. I mean, the Bengals are in

1251
01:03:53,080 --> 01:03:56,000
Speaker 1: the last place at three and three, and you know

1252
01:03:56,040 --> 01:03:58,760
Speaker 1: they're still gonna be underdogs this week. Who's that game?

1253
01:03:59,120 --> 01:04:00,920
Speaker 1: Your way behind the ball? I still think the forty

1254
01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:02,760
Speaker 1: nine ers seen that they lose. I think the game

1255
01:04:02,840 --> 01:04:06,920
Speaker 1: is much more important for the Bengals because the fort

1256
01:04:06,960 --> 01:04:09,520
Speaker 1: Nits still have the Seahawks twice coming up. The division

1257
01:04:09,560 --> 01:04:11,920
Speaker 1: is still weak like the Bengals. Division is brutal. Bengals

1258
01:04:11,960 --> 01:04:13,840
Speaker 1: have the heart of scheduling the NFL remaining schedule in

1259
01:04:13,840 --> 01:04:17,200
Speaker 1: the NFL if you look at strength to schedule, So

1260
01:04:17,280 --> 01:04:19,480
Speaker 1: this game is much more important for the Bengals. I

1261
01:04:19,520 --> 01:04:22,320
Speaker 1: do think that, Look, if the forty nine Ers lose

1262
01:04:22,320 --> 01:04:25,440
Speaker 1: this game, weird things can still happen. But you could

1263
01:04:25,440 --> 01:04:27,360
Speaker 1: throw out the one seed, but it doesn't really matter

1264
01:04:27,400 --> 01:04:30,800
Speaker 1: with that team. It's that they're a team that's it

1265
01:04:30,840 --> 01:04:33,760
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if if you were outdoors and weather they

1266
01:04:33,800 --> 01:04:35,080
Speaker 1: can kind of play the same way.

1267
01:04:36,960 --> 01:04:40,080
Speaker 2: Eagles would feel like a lot for the one seed, wouldn't.

1268
01:04:39,680 --> 01:04:43,280
Speaker 1: They Yep, yep, Well, I mean look the the.

1269
01:04:42,800 --> 01:04:45,640
Speaker 2: They still play Seattle. Yeah, the Eagles.

1270
01:04:46,040 --> 01:04:48,720
Speaker 1: I will say that the Eagles, they it was really

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Speaker 1: important for them with these new coordinators and they've had

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Speaker 1: some struggles, but like they could have lost to Washington

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Speaker 1: if they went if River Paddle Boa Ron went for two.

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Speaker 1: But the they have really import and to get off

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Speaker 1: to a good start because they played They're at the Commanders,

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Speaker 1: which is not a lock. Like if that gets the seven,

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Speaker 1: I'll play Washington. They're watching them. Tends to just played

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Speaker 1: them tough. But after that game, Eagles go Cowboys, Chiefs, Bills, Niners, Cowboys, Seahawks.

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Speaker 1: That is the hardest six game stretch I think I've

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Speaker 1: ever seen. I mean Cowboys twice, Chiefs, Bills, Niners, and

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Speaker 1: at Seattle to cap it all off. I mean that

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Speaker 1: is festival. So you could see them go three and

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Speaker 1: three over that stretch. So there's still a lot of

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Speaker 1: football to be played. But yeah, with only one one

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Speaker 1: seed in home field, it's there's every week is even

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Speaker 1: more important than it's ever been. So I'm looking forward

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Speaker 1: to Sunday.

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Speaker 2: And then Monday we get the Raiders. That should be

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Speaker 2: fun at Detroit.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, these primetime games, man, they when can we start flexing?

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Speaker 1: We got in prime time. We're gonna have aagent and

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Speaker 1: uh and uh O'Connell. I mean it's bad Acre tonight.

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Speaker 2: What are we doing? Okay, Stucky, Well, let's enjoy the weirdness.

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Speaker 2: Uh no, buys, I mean we got a full slate

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Speaker 2: of games. There's sixteen games this weekends, so there's you

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Speaker 2: better have multiple TVs and iPad because there's a lot

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Speaker 2: of shit going on come Sunday, So enjoy it. I'll

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Speaker 2: talk to you next week.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, have a good weekend. Brother. The volume