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Speaker 1: though they're beating bad teams. They seem sound on both

426
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Speaker 1: sides of the ball and well coached. I just don't

427
00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:43,520
Speaker 1: know how you can't be in a little bit of

428
00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:45,480
Speaker 1: a hold mode until you see what they do against

429
00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:48,840
Speaker 1: the real competitor. And I think the Ravens certainly fit

430
00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:51,040
Speaker 1: the bill. I this is a great game to look

431
00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:52,840
Speaker 1: forward to. And Week four this was going to be

432
00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:56,159
Speaker 1: my first team that I was going to sell on

433
00:21:56,280 --> 00:22:00,240
Speaker 1: the show because you look at the quarterbacks that the

434
00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:03,359
Speaker 1: teams that they be. Yeah, I am, I am because

435
00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:07,680
Speaker 1: I love you know what I do. I love Teddy Bridgewater,

436
00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:09,800
Speaker 1: Greg Um. I want you to know that. I want

437
00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:15,160
Speaker 1: you to just like the defense is very talented as well. Um,

438
00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:18,879
Speaker 1: But beating the Giants, Jags and Jets who are now

439
00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:23,240
Speaker 1: combined oh and nine, Um, that doesn't really uh inspire

440
00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:25,480
Speaker 1: a whole lot of confidence and doesn't light up your

441
00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:28,080
Speaker 1: Christmas tree cuming. It does not, That's not what it does.

442
00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:31,560
Speaker 1: I just want to see them beat teams that aren't left.

443
00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:37,840
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones, Trevor Lawrence, Zack Wilson like the Ravens absolutely

444
00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:39,840
Speaker 1: will be a better test for them this week. I

445
00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:42,840
Speaker 1: like that they have the plus three turnover margin. Um,

446
00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:44,919
Speaker 1: that's kind of what you get when you have steady

447
00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:49,680
Speaker 1: Teddy in there. But decision making in the past, he's

448
00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:52,080
Speaker 1: almost been overrated for it, like he made a lot

449
00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:55,600
Speaker 1: of mistakes considering he's not like a big playmaker and

450
00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:58,040
Speaker 1: he has been on the money. I do worry the

451
00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:01,480
Speaker 1: handler and Judy. I mean, those are your two kind

452
00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:04,760
Speaker 1: of quickness guys that get open in space. Patrick and

453
00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:06,880
Speaker 1: Sutton are similar players. They're not gonna get that open.

454
00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:08,840
Speaker 1: They're the guys on the outside, but they have a

455
00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:13,080
Speaker 1: running game. If Glasgow and m and Riisner, who are

456
00:23:13,119 --> 00:23:15,720
Speaker 1: there two guards who got hurt in that game, are

457
00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:19,480
Speaker 1: coming back, Judy gets back eventually, maybe Chubb gives you

458
00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:24,159
Speaker 1: something like their Their offense has been really good. I know,

459
00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:27,159
Speaker 1: I know the matchups have been solid, but like they

460
00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:29,840
Speaker 1: looked like the best offense so far against the Jets,

461
00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:33,160
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like they looked like they've

462
00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:36,240
Speaker 1: been very under control, well coached, and they have a

463
00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:39,440
Speaker 1: really good one to punch in Javonte Williams and Melvin Gordon.

464
00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:44,639
Speaker 1: I think that Teddy is undeniably an upgrade over what

465
00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:47,480
Speaker 1: they had last year, and and I am leaving the

466
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Speaker 1: door open to see that he's gonna actually be closer

467
00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:54,240
Speaker 1: where you saw him and be a legitimate good quarterback.

468
00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:55,760
Speaker 1: I don't think he's ever gonna win a Super Bowl.

469
00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:57,159
Speaker 1: I don't think this is a super Bowl team, but

470
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Speaker 1: I am buying in the sense that I do think

471
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,680
Speaker 1: inc with this hot start with the fact that there.

472
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:05,080
Speaker 1: They look so good. I think they can win ten games.

473
00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:07,200
Speaker 1: That's where I kind of pegged them right now. Not

474
00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:10,399
Speaker 1: a dominant team, but a solid team that might end

475
00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:12,760
Speaker 1: up eating up one of those wild card spots. I'm

476
00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:15,320
Speaker 1: just worried about the health of the team, like that's

477
00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:18,080
Speaker 1: an issue. I mean, Chubb being on I R with

478
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:21,320
Speaker 1: the ankle injury, and obviously, um, you just have you

479
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:23,080
Speaker 1: have a lot of you as another guy didn't mention

480
00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:25,960
Speaker 1: one of their highest paid players. Yeah, so I'm buying

481
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,680
Speaker 1: it like a discount is that? I mean, ten wins

482
00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:30,800
Speaker 1: is going seven and seven the rest of the way,

483
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:33,680
Speaker 1: And I know it's a tough division and you're gonna

484
00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:36,480
Speaker 1: have to play the Browns for instance, out of Division two.

485
00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:39,680
Speaker 1: But I'm more optimists. So you're buying, but you don't

486
00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:42,439
Speaker 1: feel great about the purchase. Yeah, I feel like buyer's

487
00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:45,760
Speaker 1: remorse could happen. But I also I'm not buying it

488
00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:48,159
Speaker 1: and thinking, oh, I'm gonna put this right in the

489
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:50,040
Speaker 1: middle of my living room. Now I'm thinking of them

490
00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:51,680
Speaker 1: as like some type of piece of art or something

491
00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:54,480
Speaker 1: like like a boss like this one. I'm gonna actually

492
00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:57,480
Speaker 1: put this maybe in the guest bedroom on the dress

493
00:24:57,680 --> 00:24:59,560
Speaker 1: you know, the dresser that used to be in my bedroom.

494
00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:01,280
Speaker 1: And then I got a better addresser, so I'm moving

495
00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:04,480
Speaker 1: gets all of the recycled stuff that you kind of

496
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:06,080
Speaker 1: just want to push out of where it is in

497
00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:09,520
Speaker 1: your house. So I bought like a you know, moderate vase.

498
00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:14,040
Speaker 1: The brown goes to me, all right, what about you? Okay,

499
00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:16,960
Speaker 1: So I am selling the team the last team that

500
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Speaker 1: I saw on Thursday Night football. I'm going to sell

501
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:22,720
Speaker 1: the Panthers, who are so right up the bat, the

502
00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:25,160
Speaker 1: two three and oh teams that everyone's freaking out about

503
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:29,199
Speaker 1: Connie selling on them both. And and it's like, um,

504
00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:34,399
Speaker 1: it's a light cell on the Panthers. Um, but I

505
00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:38,400
Speaker 1: just think that Sam Donald, Yes, he played he played well. Um,

506
00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:40,560
Speaker 1: he's played well this season. I liked last week he

507
00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:44,159
Speaker 1: had the two rushing touchdowns. Um. I'm just really worried

508
00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:47,840
Speaker 1: about Christian McCaffrey and this offense if he loses significant

509
00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:50,480
Speaker 1: time because when he went down in that game with

510
00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:53,520
Speaker 1: the hamstring injury in the second quarter, Uh, you could

511
00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:55,760
Speaker 1: see that Donald was a little rattled and then he

512
00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:59,280
Speaker 1: shook it off and was okay, And everyone's thinking, Okay,

513
00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:00,840
Speaker 1: it's just a Hamshire and they didn't put him on

514
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:04,880
Speaker 1: I R. But honestly, based on what I saw after

515
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:06,600
Speaker 1: the game, when I was leaving the stadium and I

516
00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:11,040
Speaker 1: saw Christian McCaffrey and he was he was on the car.

517
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:13,280
Speaker 1: It was sitting in the front seat with the driver.

518
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:15,560
Speaker 1: He had crutches, he had his hood over his head,

519
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:18,879
Speaker 1: and he the look on his face it looked like

520
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:21,720
Speaker 1: he was sick, and that made me feel sick for him.

521
00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:25,120
Speaker 1: So it's just to me in that moment looking at him,

522
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:28,520
Speaker 1: and that's that's not any inside information or anything else.

523
00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:32,440
Speaker 1: It's just a gut feeling. By looking at his facial expression,

524
00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:35,359
Speaker 1: it just doesn't seem like it's something he's going to

525
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:38,320
Speaker 1: be bouncing right back from. And I think that that

526
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:41,640
Speaker 1: will really hurt the offense. I think you're absolutely right.

527
00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:45,479
Speaker 1: I think this Sam Donald's experiment in Carolina really hinged

528
00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:48,760
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways on having cmc B be

529
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:50,920
Speaker 1: the lynchpin, and and the fact that he's not on

530
00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:53,439
Speaker 1: I R. Tells you they think they could get him

531
00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:58,000
Speaker 1: back within three weeks. However, you actually saw Christian on

532
00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:02,560
Speaker 1: the cart. I I wasn't even part of the conversation,

533
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:06,480
Speaker 1: but I overheard a conversation with a prominent retired NFL

534
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,560
Speaker 1: player UM at some point in the last twenty four hours,

535
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to right now, he was saying, like,

536
00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:17,720
Speaker 1: that's that's major. That's a problem. That's a problem because

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00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:23,080
Speaker 1: even if even if uh McCaffrey comes back, that's something

538
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,119
Speaker 1: that sticks with an athlete. If you really pop a

539
00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:28,080
Speaker 1: hamstring badly and to expect him not only to come back,

540
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:30,520
Speaker 1: but to come back and be the workhorse again, his

541
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:33,040
Speaker 1: body is probably not going to allow that. And I

542
00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:35,959
Speaker 1: would imagine a lot of McCaffrey's UM. What made him

543
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:37,680
Speaker 1: so upset that night is he missed all of last

544
00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:40,119
Speaker 1: year and now he has another injuries just making a

545
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:43,399
Speaker 1: stutter step. So I'm selling with you. And I'm curious

546
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:45,919
Speaker 1: where you stand Gregg on Donald because we haven't had

547
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 1: a really a chance to talk about him yet, and

548
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:49,680
Speaker 1: I know you've been famously kind of out on him,

549
00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 1: UM the last couple of years. I sometimes I feel

550
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:56,399
Speaker 1: like I can't even provide any real analysis with Donald

551
00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:58,520
Speaker 1: because it's just it's a little too hot for a

552
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:00,560
Speaker 1: Jets spend to try to figure out where things are

553
00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 1: at right now. I see him and I'm watching him.

554
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:05,560
Speaker 1: Was like he's definitely better than he was in his

555
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:08,080
Speaker 1: last year or two in New York. But I also

556
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:11,439
Speaker 1: see a guy that maybe five weeks from now, we're

557
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:13,320
Speaker 1: gonna have a different view of what his season is

558
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 1: with the With the Panthers, Yeah, he hasn't had to

559
00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:21,360
Speaker 1: do much beyond hit his first read, and he's done

560
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:24,000
Speaker 1: that well. Like he puts it in there, he's been

561
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:27,480
Speaker 1: pretty accurate. There was a couple of second reaction plays

562
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:29,480
Speaker 1: where he had to do something on his own. Generally,

563
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:32,560
Speaker 1: if you pressure Donald at all, he struggles. And their

564
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:35,040
Speaker 1: whole offense so far has been McCaffrey or DJ Moore

565
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:37,200
Speaker 1: on these option routes, and they're gonna have to expand that.

566
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Speaker 1: That said, I think that's great coaching. Like they they've

567
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:42,760
Speaker 1: almost put a clinic on like week one, we're gonna

568
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 1: do this, then we're gonna build it up a little

569
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 1: more than we're gonna build it up a little more.

570
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:49,280
Speaker 1: And you look at their schedule. You got the Cowboys

571
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:51,560
Speaker 1: this week. That's a tough game and a better defense,

572
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:54,200
Speaker 1: but not a defense that scares you. And you've got

573
00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:57,160
Speaker 1: a lot of winnable games until a totally brutal stretch run.

574
00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,840
Speaker 1: Their last four games is at Bills, the Bucks, twice

575
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:02,960
Speaker 1: at the Saints, which is just crazy. But I see

576
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:05,400
Speaker 1: a lot of doable games. To me, I think the

577
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 1: offense is gonna be good enough. It's whether the defense

578
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 1: can be this like otherworldly and whether that's just about

579
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 1: the fact that they've played Zack Wilson, Jamis Winston and

580
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:17,719
Speaker 1: Davis Mills. Yes, that's probably a big factor. Like if

581
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:21,800
Speaker 1: their defense can stay in the top seven defenses, let's say,

582
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:24,360
Speaker 1: all year, then they are for real. I'm just holding

583
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:27,360
Speaker 1: because I think I think they're gonna be a story

584
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:29,280
Speaker 1: all season. I think they're gonna be in the playoff

585
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 1: mix and they might. They might get to the playoffs

586
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 1: and playing the Cowboys though, with that defense, and that's

587
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 1: your biggest question to see whether or not they're sustainable.

588
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:40,160
Speaker 1: Losing J. C. Horne is a huge huge blow for

589
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 1: that defense, and we hope possibly return later this year,

590
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:45,560
Speaker 1: but he's going to have to have surgery. They just

591
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:48,000
Speaker 1: traded for C. J. Henderson to try and help, but

592
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:50,960
Speaker 1: that's that's stuff in the middle of a season. A C.

593
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:54,200
Speaker 1: Henderson has already struggled to adapt to the pro game

594
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:56,960
Speaker 1: after being the ninth overall pick. Also kind of interesting

595
00:29:57,080 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 1: that and it's one of those things where summer football

596
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:01,959
Speaker 1: tap talk, you know, the football got just laugh at

597
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 1: you all that Sam Donald Dan Arnold talk. And now

598
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:05,760
Speaker 1: that's not even the thing anymore because it's not even

599
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:12,120
Speaker 1: on a team. But obviously, um that was, Yeah, we'll

600
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:14,200
Speaker 1: see something there. I mean, that's that's a not a

601
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:17,320
Speaker 1: top ten pick four years ago. That was last spring,

602
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:20,080
Speaker 1: the ninth pick and the entire draft with C. J.

603
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:23,960
Speaker 1: Henderson a cornerback that has elite skills, so maybe a

604
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,600
Speaker 1: change of environment that could be a steal. And then

605
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:28,720
Speaker 1: if J. C. Horne gets back, whether it's this year

606
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:31,520
Speaker 1: or next year, you might have a serious nucleus in

607
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:33,600
Speaker 1: that back end. Now I am going to buy on

608
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:35,480
Speaker 1: a team because we can't just sell on everything. I

609
00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:38,840
Speaker 1: kinda show is this. We were doing our around the

610
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 1: NFL TV show the broadcast with ysh and Claybone on Friday,

611
00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:46,640
Speaker 1: and they'll be joining us again this weekend. About I

612
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:48,560
Speaker 1: don't know, Greg, it was about an hour and forty

613
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:50,320
Speaker 1: minutes to the show, and You're like, have we just

614
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:55,640
Speaker 1: been relentlessly negative in so I'm gonna do something positive

615
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 1: and and maybe we'll be more positive on the television

616
00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:01,160
Speaker 1: program Friday as well. I'm buying on these Raiders. I'm

617
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:04,960
Speaker 1: in um, I'm buying on the start. It seems sustainable

618
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:08,320
Speaker 1: to me. Um. It's been dramatic, of course, dramatic wins

619
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:10,960
Speaker 1: over the Ravens, a dramatic win over the Dolphins. That

620
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 1: was a fun, weird game, by the way. The Dolphins

621
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:19,920
Speaker 1: score fourteen, the Raiders score the next, then the Dolphins

622
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,720
Speaker 1: score the final eleven, then they trade field goals, and

623
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 1: then the Raiders win on that amazing one of the

624
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:26,960
Speaker 1: best games of the season. Great game, and UM happy

625
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:28,920
Speaker 1: that Handsome Hank was there with his son, and his

626
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 1: son got to slap Dan Reino's hand coming out of

627
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 1: the tunnel. Just a great, great thing. But anyway, the

628
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 1: Raiders are a vibe in that in that stadium. And

629
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,440
Speaker 1: now we look at their schedule. So the three and

630
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 1: all they got across the sidewalk here on Sunday, they

631
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:45,960
Speaker 1: got the Chargers. That's a tough Monday night. That's on

632
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 1: Monday night. That that that is a great game. And

633
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 1: imagine they win that game. If they ever got past

634
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 1: the Chargers this weekend. It's not crazy that they could

635
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 1: beat the Chargers. They then get the Bears at home

636
00:31:57,120 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 1: at Denver, another toughie home Eagles at aance. So I

637
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 1: think there's a very real chance at the midpoint, well

638
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:06,680
Speaker 1: what was the traditional midpoint, but now just about the

639
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:08,440
Speaker 1: midpoint of the season, they're gonna be six and two

640
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 1: or seven and one even uh, and that is gonna

641
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:14,880
Speaker 1: that's gonna play. That's gonna play to the point where

642
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 1: in a loaded AVC West you might actually have a

643
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:19,600
Speaker 1: chance to win that division. I'm not getting ahead of

644
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 1: myself there because I know what the ratives have done

645
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 1: in past years under John Gruden, but this year feels different. Yeah,

646
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 1: or n Greg, I'm buying. Yeah, I'm buying because I

647
00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:32,280
Speaker 1: think the defense, similar to Dallas, is gonna be okay enough.

648
00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 1: It's been better than that so far. They've won, you know,

649
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 1: two kind of crazy close games, so there's some variants there.

650
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:42,239
Speaker 1: Derek Carr can't play any better, but I don't think

651
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 1: that that should be used as a negative. He's just

652
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 1: playing the best that he's ever played like. He is

653
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 1: one of the five best quarterbacks in the league. That

654
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:54,320
Speaker 1: no question about it. He's someone who's been the system

655
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:57,320
Speaker 1: a long time. He's got enough weapons. Yeah, yeah, that yeah,

656
00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 1: this whole division. I'm buying the whole division. I said

657
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:02,120
Speaker 1: that last week. I was kind of trying to say,

658
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:04,600
Speaker 1: I think all these teams are good. That's possible, you're

659
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:06,600
Speaker 1: buying the whole division. I just I just bought it

660
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:11,480
Speaker 1: up the Raiders. Oh yeah, that's true. We are we

661
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 1: are the best that we try to avoid those things

662
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:16,680
Speaker 1: that we are the best time zone. I mean, our

663
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 1: sports schedules way better, pretty good. The weather is better, Yes,

664
00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:24,240
Speaker 1: West Coast biased in your time back East. I love

665
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:28,640
Speaker 1: the NFL schedule, It's great. The Raiders were the team

666
00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:32,040
Speaker 1: that I had the most questions about for this exercise.

667
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:35,280
Speaker 1: I wanted I couldn't tell if I was buying or

668
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:38,120
Speaker 1: selling or or what I should do here. And I

669
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 1: just have so many questions about them because I wonder

670
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:44,280
Speaker 1: if they can consistently outscore better offenses in the league.

671
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 1: Their defense, I think has a couple of questions with

672
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 1: the linebackers and in the secondary. Lamar definitely helped them

673
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 1: out Week one with the fumbles and Jacobi Porsette and

674
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 1: the Dolphins just took them to overtime. So I don't

675
00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:00,280
Speaker 1: know what you guys are thinking about the Dolphins, But

676
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 1: does that maybe give you a little bit of pause,

677
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 1: maybe temper any of your expectations after seeing that game.

678
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 1: It Actually what it did was remind me how smart

679
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:15,320
Speaker 1: the Dolphins are for having capable backup quarterbacks, because I

680
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:18,319
Speaker 1: thought Jake Brisket played really well there in that game. Yeah.

681
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:20,399
Speaker 1: I don't think the Raiders are obviously dominant by any

682
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:22,719
Speaker 1: stretch on defense, but they have an identity with that

683
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:25,920
Speaker 1: pass rush now, uh, and if they could just you know,

684
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:30,279
Speaker 1: make enough plays car with this offense, they have a

685
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:32,320
Speaker 1: chance to do that thing that we talked about so

686
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:35,040
Speaker 1: many teams now in the modern NFL just play okay

687
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:37,719
Speaker 1: defense and then score like hell when you have the ball.

688
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:39,239
Speaker 1: And that's what they've been able to do so far,

689
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 1: thirty three and thirty one points in the first three

690
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 1: weeks there. Yeah, their offensive line like has been a

691
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:47,560
Speaker 1: little up and down. There, a totally different team than

692
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 1: they were the last few years. They're not a great

693
00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:52,360
Speaker 1: running team. The offensive line is up and down. But

694
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 1: I do think they're getting enough contributors in the defense

695
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 1: where I'm like, Okay, I see you, guess, Bradley, it's

696
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:00,960
Speaker 1: like the race to the middle, like every I almost

697
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:04,239
Speaker 1: feel like not that defense doesn't matter. And this is

698
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:06,400
Speaker 1: this was like a hot take on PFF at one

699
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:08,320
Speaker 1: point where you know they were they were saying in

700
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:11,320
Speaker 1: an outlandish way, defense doesn't matter. But there is something

701
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 1: to the fact that defense doesn't matter as much as offense.

702
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 1: And defense is like number eight through four in the NFL.

703
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:21,000
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's that big of a difference.

704
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:23,360
Speaker 1: It's just sort of like, can you get make a

705
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:25,919
Speaker 1: couple of plays in a given week? All right, before

706
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 1: we go around one more time, let's take a break.

707
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:34,960
Speaker 1: Oh professional, Alright, we're back. Before we get to any

708
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:36,440
Speaker 1: other ones who want to throw out there, I just

709
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:41,960
Speaker 1: want to hit these oh and three teams real quick, Jags, Jets, Giants, Colts, Lions.

710
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 1: On Good Morning Football. They put up a graphic which

711
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:47,400
Speaker 1: is just and tells you the state of Big Apple

712
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:50,239
Speaker 1: is Western New York has nothing to do with this, uh,

713
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:53,359
Speaker 1: Northern New Jersey football. The Jets and Giants are tied

714
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 1: for the worst record in football since I believe the

715
00:35:57,040 --> 00:36:00,160
Speaker 1: number was seventeen and forty nine. It's it's something like

716
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:02,399
Speaker 1: that because I saw Garafolo tweet that out and think

717
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 1: about that. But of these teams, Jack's Jets, Giants, Colts, Lions.

718
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:11,080
Speaker 1: Obviously we're selling I would think on all these teams, Connie,

719
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:12,920
Speaker 1: but can you make a case for one of them

720
00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:17,319
Speaker 1: digging themselves out of the grave clawn out dirt under

721
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:22,360
Speaker 1: the fingernails? I thought, I honestly thought that before Sunday

722
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:25,560
Speaker 1: the Giants would be able to win because such a

723
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:28,600
Speaker 1: bad loss of the problems killed them bad. And that

724
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:32,520
Speaker 1: came after the Thursday night game against Washington, that they

725
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:35,359
Speaker 1: should have one and they basically had won that game

726
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:39,000
Speaker 1: seventeen different ways until they just crushed themselves with penalties,

727
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:42,000
Speaker 1: eleven penalties and obviously that one at the end that

728
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 1: was the killer. Well what about the Falcons and Dori Jackson?

729
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 1: I think we brought it up but on Sunday night,

730
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:50,480
Speaker 1: But that again, you gotta close out games. So yeah,

731
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:52,160
Speaker 1: you can make a case maybe the Giants should be

732
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:54,880
Speaker 1: actually two and one. But the problem, Connie, is then

733
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:57,200
Speaker 1: you look at their schedule coming up. They're not two

734
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:58,840
Speaker 1: on one, they are oh and three. They have no

735
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:01,279
Speaker 1: wiggle room, and they're now they got to go to

736
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 1: the Superdome, which is gonna be on fire. It was

737
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:06,279
Speaker 1: literally on fire a couple of ago. Now it's gonna

738
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:08,879
Speaker 1: be on fire emotionally with the Saints team that's gonna

739
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:11,560
Speaker 1: want to put on a show back and uh, Nola

740
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 1: do is gonna be called Nola down there? Greg, Yeah,

741
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 1: people say no, Nolan's um. That's gonna be a great

742
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:20,799
Speaker 1: vibe for the Saints and their fans. The Giants are

743
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:23,399
Speaker 1: in a lot of trouble. Yeah, the the schedule after

744
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:27,719
Speaker 1: that game, and they're not They're not cooked and they

745
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:29,480
Speaker 1: were they I think they've been the best of all

746
00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 1: these teams, like their eighteenth and d V o A

747
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 1: the Giants are. That doesn't surprise me because to me

748
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,520
Speaker 1: they've kind of looked mediocre. But the Colts would be

749
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:38,840
Speaker 1: the one. Can you buy in on the Colts getting

750
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 1: back to and making this a season again? I can yes,

751
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:47,359
Speaker 1: because of the organization, because they have moved the ball

752
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:49,800
Speaker 1: pretty well this year and more than anything, just like

753
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 1: hoping that the Titans don't run away and hide there.

754
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:55,960
Speaker 1: There are some soft spots in this schedule. You know,

755
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:59,360
Speaker 1: you've got the Texans, when you got the Jets, the Jags,

756
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:01,800
Speaker 1: you got you know, Texans twice, Jacks twice, Like you

757
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:04,439
Speaker 1: could stack up some wins, but you have to start

758
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 1: doing it. Soon. They've they've moved the ball fairly well,

759
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:10,320
Speaker 1: but like Carson Wentz on injured ankles is just not

760
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:13,719
Speaker 1: like an exciting It's so bad and I can't even

761
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 1: imagine what his mental state is after last season with

762
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 1: the Eagles getting crushed out and playing like Wow. I

763
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:26,239
Speaker 1: didn't realize Philip rivers shoes were so big to fill,

764
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 1: but I guess they were. I tried to tell you, yes,

765
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 1: we all is Phil coming back? Is that still going

766
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:36,200
Speaker 1: to happen? There was that report at the end of August.

767
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:38,840
Speaker 1: They need to be competitive because they also give up

768
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:40,440
Speaker 1: a bet. You got a root for Carson Wentz to

769
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 1: stay healthy as an Eagles, you get a better draft.

770
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:46,799
Speaker 1: They really think there will be a controversy at some point.

771
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:49,440
Speaker 1: Yeah that if they're like two and seven, they're like,

772
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:51,600
Speaker 1: oh yeah, we gotta sit went down and get him

773
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:54,440
Speaker 1: a hundred percent healthy for that getting absolutely, that's a

774
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:56,359
Speaker 1: that's a first round pick on the line and that's

775
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:58,560
Speaker 1: a good call. Greg. They will absolutely that's like a

776
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:02,320
Speaker 1: karma thing for Philly pulling its starters against the Giants

777
00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:05,760
Speaker 1: against Washington, for the Giants to lose the division especially,

778
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:07,960
Speaker 1: and it's it's so tellent because you just saw a CJ.

779
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 1: Henderson get traded as a number nine overall pick. I

780
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 1: know urban Meyer. Before urban Meyer was hired, there was

781
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:15,800
Speaker 1: no such thing as the Jaguars to urban Meyer, so

782
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:18,040
Speaker 1: there's no sense to try to work with a guy

783
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:21,120
Speaker 1: that talented. But in general, once you start to get

784
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:23,960
Speaker 1: the calendar turns over to December, and then of course

785
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:26,200
Speaker 1: through the early stage of the offseason, it's crazy how

786
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 1: draft obsessed these organizations are and how draft pick obsessed

787
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:32,759
Speaker 1: they are. And when the Colts, if they internally turned

788
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:35,440
Speaker 1: the page too, they're gonna freak out about that pick,

789
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:37,320
Speaker 1: and they're gonna say, there's no way we're giving that

790
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:42,960
Speaker 1: thing up. To ride out the string with Carson five games,

791
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:46,080
Speaker 1: which might happen naturally, they might not have to do

792
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:50,279
Speaker 1: anything messy divorce because he's gonna want to play. Okay, okay,

793
00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 1: my comeback player of the Year prediction not looking alright. Greg,

794
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:56,319
Speaker 1: Do you want to throw out either two and one

795
00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:58,799
Speaker 1: team or one and two team that has been extreme

796
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:01,360
Speaker 1: to you? Us extreme team in the league to me

797
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:03,399
Speaker 1: is the Saints in terms of just being up and down.

798
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:07,600
Speaker 1: I'm buying them at two and one. Marshawn Lattimore I

799
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 1: think could have an all Pro cornerback season. Him missing

800
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:14,480
Speaker 1: Week two was a big part of them, uh struggling

801
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:18,560
Speaker 1: so much in Carolina. Cartney Chauncey Gardner Johnson too missed

802
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:20,560
Speaker 1: that game. When they were back on the field, and

803
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:24,319
Speaker 1: Dennis Allen has that front kind of cooking. They still

804
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:27,560
Speaker 1: have the bones of a really well coached I think

805
00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:30,800
Speaker 1: difference making defense. There's only some defenses that matter around

806
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:33,400
Speaker 1: the NFL. I think they're one of them, and I

807
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:36,839
Speaker 1: think as the season goes along, they will figure out

808
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:40,239
Speaker 1: something with this offense, assuming Torn Armstead comes back at

809
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 1: left tackle, which they should get them back at some point. Uh.

810
00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:45,359
Speaker 1: The offensive line is really good, and I just think

811
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:47,680
Speaker 1: if you look at the Saints history, they often closed

812
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:51,080
Speaker 1: much stronger that by the time we get to mid November,

813
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:53,799
Speaker 1: that they can figure some things out offensively, they can

814
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:57,160
Speaker 1: stay alive in the meantime, and they have been through

815
00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:00,759
Speaker 1: a lot this year, and I think that should come

816
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:02,800
Speaker 1: out of that stronger than ever. And they're gonna be

817
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:05,080
Speaker 1: in New Orleans this week. I know the team, they're

818
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:07,880
Speaker 1: just so excited to get back home. I know Mulligan's

819
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 1: don't count in our league, but if you want to

820
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 1: give them the mulligan for week two and they had

821
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:16,319
Speaker 1: COVID issues and injury issues, and they're like five weeks

822
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:20,240
Speaker 1: into their road, like they've got like the cafeteria worker

823
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:24,560
Speaker 1: coaching up the defensive Exactly. If there was any time

824
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 1: to give a mulligan, even if you can't do it

825
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 1: in the standings, it's that. So if you take out

826
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:32,120
Speaker 1: week two, awesome, Week one against the Pack, really strong

827
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:34,600
Speaker 1: Week three against the Pats in New England, and I

828
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:36,560
Speaker 1: know that Pats aren't the same anymore, but still that

829
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:39,120
Speaker 1: was a really good effort. Uh yeah, I'm buying too.

830
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 1: I think that I think and they might not be

831
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:43,759
Speaker 1: that watch or fun. I mean, they're they're deef, They're

832
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:47,600
Speaker 1: passing game Is is a tough well. I'm buying Sean Payton.

833
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:50,640
Speaker 1: I'm buying defense defense tomorrow, but I'm not. I'm still

834
00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 1: not buying Jamis now. Unless you like a rock in

835
00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:56,239
Speaker 1: the QB index. I was gonna say, unless you can

836
00:41:56,719 --> 00:42:00,359
Speaker 1: in two thousand one build a quarterback proof team that's

837
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:02,120
Speaker 1: probably going to bang him in the end, Which is

838
00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:04,800
Speaker 1: why I have the vikings is that wanted to extreme

839
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:07,920
Speaker 1: team that I'm into because I just think again. No,

840
00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 1: you don't get anything for coming close. But they could

841
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:12,640
Speaker 1: easily be three and oh right now with a little

842
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:17,319
Speaker 1: bit luck in execution, and they were Connie. They were

843
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:21,320
Speaker 1: brilliant on offense against the Seahawks, shredding him in every

844
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:24,360
Speaker 1: direction without Dalvin Cook and Mike Zimmer sat after the

845
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 1: game it was the best offensive game he's ever been

846
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:28,840
Speaker 1: a part of as a Vikings coach. I like the

847
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:30,920
Speaker 1: Vikings going into the season. I picked him to make

848
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:33,960
Speaker 1: the playoffs over the Saints, and I think they are

849
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:36,360
Speaker 1: a better team. And I just want to give a

850
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:39,960
Speaker 1: shout out to the Vikings fans. I think we kind

851
00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:43,400
Speaker 1: of sleep on the U. S. Bank Stadium as in

852
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:46,160
Speaker 1: the conversation of best home field advantage. I love. I

853
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 1: love that stadium and I'm sure you've been in there

854
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 1: on Thursday nights when the places on fire. And I'm

855
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:51,920
Speaker 1: not just talking about the horn, although the horn was

856
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:56,520
Speaker 1: just going on constantly throughout that games down rolling up,

857
00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 1: it was it was a horn fest. Um, I always

858
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:03,200
Speaker 1: said something else, but like, it is a team that

859
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:06,399
Speaker 1: I think is going to build off that Week three

860
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:09,279
Speaker 1: performance and they will be in position like eight and

861
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 1: five as they entered December. I feel that about the

862
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 1: Vikings and buying. I was really impressed with Alexander Madison too,

863
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 1: coming in six uh for one twelve. I mean, he

864
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:23,440
Speaker 1: just it felt like he kept ripping off these runs

865
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:26,279
Speaker 1: that were pretty pretty long, just breaking off there. I

866
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:29,560
Speaker 1: just think that that that team is a little spicy

867
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:33,799
Speaker 1: and especially right I know, and that's the thing because

868
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:35,600
Speaker 1: I don't I keep being like, well, I don't buy

869
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:37,320
Speaker 1: into Kirk Cousins, but then I watched and I'm like,

870
00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 1: I don't know, Kark Cousins is like not that bad

871
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:43,000
Speaker 1: right now. And I loved the quote that he had

872
00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:44,440
Speaker 1: this week. I think it was this week when he

873
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 1: was saying that Kyle Shanahan told him that his swag

874
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:49,080
Speaker 1: is having no swag, and I was like, oh my god,

875
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 1: that's the most accurate thing I've ever seen. That's his

876
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:54,680
Speaker 1: cousins in that cube that he talked about in the summer,

877
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:57,440
Speaker 1: the plexiglass. I won't get the shot, I won't get

878
00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 1: the jab cube staying healthy because he obviously is vulnerable

879
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:04,759
Speaker 1: because he's not vaccinated. But so far, so good. This

880
00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:07,520
Speaker 1: is what Adam Phelan said. It's been a different Kirk.

881
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:10,680
Speaker 1: He's just locked in and on time. He's trusting it

882
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:13,680
Speaker 1: so that I mean that's a sometimes a narrative. You know,

883
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:16,080
Speaker 1: he's different now. It was just playing really well, but

884
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 1: he has He's throwing up some He's got some passes

885
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:21,600
Speaker 1: that I don't think he would in the past, like

886
00:44:21,719 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 1: that completion to kJ Osborne last week on the late

887
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:28,000
Speaker 1: third down. That's a ball that I feel like Cousins

888
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:31,880
Speaker 1: eats to be safer, you know, but instead he did

889
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:35,400
Speaker 1: a little Kyler Murray imitation, backpedaling and throwing it. And

890
00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:37,320
Speaker 1: he's made some plays on the run. You do have

891
00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:39,440
Speaker 1: a Thursday night game? Are you going all season to

892
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:43,280
Speaker 1: every stadium for the London game? They're gonna be hosting

893
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:48,719
Speaker 1: Steelers week fourteen? Is Kirk Cousins? Um like, would he

894
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:50,439
Speaker 1: be a good guy on the podium? Well, you gotta

895
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:53,800
Speaker 1: be on the podium before and it was awkward, I remember,

896
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:56,359
Speaker 1: because it was not your right. Yeah. Yeah, they were

897
00:44:56,400 --> 00:45:01,399
Speaker 1: having issues, but that's against the Steeler. Is like, um, yeah,

898
00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 1: you don't. You know, you want to be careful with Kirk.

899
00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:05,880
Speaker 1: But maybe he'll bring me make it go in the

900
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:08,480
Speaker 1: cube and lower him from the seat. Jokes about that.

901
00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:10,400
Speaker 1: I'm sure it'll go great. I think. I think for

902
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:13,080
Speaker 1: some of the weeks, every team is different. So sometimes

903
00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:16,080
Speaker 1: we'll have a player up with us on like the dais.

904
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:19,080
Speaker 1: Other times we'll have a player just like throwing headphones

905
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:23,040
Speaker 1: on from across the field. So maybe sometimes you Sam

906
00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:26,360
Speaker 1: Darnald and he'll just be like, this crowd is great.

907
00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 1: It was. It was even worse. It was like that

908
00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:32,319
Speaker 1: was my favorite. We're gonna get to there's a public

909
00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:34,560
Speaker 1: since you brought it up, Darnald, you guys, you have

910
00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:36,560
Speaker 1: him on the day is it's it's an exciting time

911
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:38,520
Speaker 1: the Panthers at three and oh it's a home game.

912
00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:41,160
Speaker 1: You got you know what. Two wasn't a home game.

913
00:45:41,239 --> 00:45:46,320
Speaker 1: It was just two hundred fans like right by the

914
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:49,839
Speaker 1: set and you guys t M I say, you said, Sam,

915
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:52,440
Speaker 1: look at this. They're all here for you and celebrating

916
00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:55,040
Speaker 1: with you. And then the cameras on Sam Andy goes

917
00:45:55,800 --> 00:46:00,200
Speaker 1: it's awesome. And then but then and then there's say

918
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:03,319
Speaker 1: like a three second pause from you, Steve and the gang,

919
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:04,920
Speaker 1: and you guys are waiting for Sam to give you

920
00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:07,320
Speaker 1: something else, and it just never came. And then I

921
00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:10,160
Speaker 1: don't know who it was, but there was like a chuckle,

922
00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:14,759
Speaker 1: and then I was like, Okay, well, I wasn't going

923
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:16,800
Speaker 1: to get it. I didn't even to ask him about that,

924
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:20,760
Speaker 1: but I couldn't ignore it because as soon as we stopped,

925
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:24,120
Speaker 1: the Panthers fans were just going wild for Sam Donald,

926
00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:26,040
Speaker 1: and I was like, this is a weird kind of

927
00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:28,480
Speaker 1: thing to get used to, and there were so many

928
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:30,879
Speaker 1: of them in Houston, so I had to ask him.

929
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:32,719
Speaker 1: And I thought for sure that like, this is his

930
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:36,440
Speaker 1: opportunity to be like, it's here, let's talks, let's say

931
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:39,399
Speaker 1: they are that they came out to night blah blah blah.

932
00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:41,600
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think no one had a worst

933
00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:44,480
Speaker 1: start to their career in terms of just getting beat

934
00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:48,200
Speaker 1: up physically, mentally, emotionally, being taken advantage of by a

935
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:51,279
Speaker 1: bad coaching. Sam Donald, that was a nightmare. This was

936
00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:54,800
Speaker 1: his moment to shine on prime time and when he

937
00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:56,600
Speaker 1: finally threw it to him and he had his chance

938
00:46:56,680 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 1: to get it all out there, awesome. He just seems

939
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:03,200
Speaker 1: like he's a guy that's really tightly wound, and I

940
00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:05,560
Speaker 1: think that he went through a lot of trauma and

941
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:10,520
Speaker 1: it's like, um, the America, what was the South Park

942
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:13,840
Speaker 1: Guys movie? America? Number one fours or whatever it was,

943
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:16,200
Speaker 1: and they have the Matt Damon Guide. It's just like,

944
00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:20,359
Speaker 1: I'm Matt Dame that maybe by the end of the year,

945
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:24,040
Speaker 1: if they keep winning'll loosen up as it. It's really awesome.

946
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:27,359
Speaker 1: I think he's just afraid to say the wrong thing.

947
00:47:28,080 --> 00:47:30,520
Speaker 1: He's coached up well. He's a good guy. I said

948
00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:34,600
Speaker 1: that after he got traded, like he deserves this because

949
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:37,880
Speaker 1: he went through. Hell um, we're off track. Do you

950
00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:39,759
Speaker 1: have one before we move on? Do you have another one?

951
00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:42,560
Speaker 1: We already we already covered all of the ones that

952
00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:47,480
Speaker 1: I had like prepared good talk. I I don't if

953
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:52,040
Speaker 1: that comes off raiders, if that comes off being mean

954
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:55,560
Speaker 1: to Sam Doarnold. First of all, calm down, relax, we're

955
00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:58,160
Speaker 1: just having fun here or me being bitter about it,

956
00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:02,680
Speaker 1: I'm not. There's mark uh. It's it's just kind of

957
00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:04,760
Speaker 1: funny to me because New York tried to get stuff

958
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:08,640
Speaker 1: out of Sam for years to Colleen now has tried

959
00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:13,480
Speaker 1: one day get something that it's gonna happen. And the

960
00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 1: reason Pathers fans are so excited because they don't have

961
00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:21,239
Speaker 1: to watch Teddy Bridgewater anymore. I mean, they're both undefeated's

962
00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:24,000
Speaker 1: see we'll see who finished. Also both former Jets. I

963
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:26,759
Speaker 1: mean as if it's just like a stew of pain

964
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:29,680
Speaker 1: and agony for the Jets, everybody that's ever been a quarterback,

965
00:48:30,040 --> 00:48:32,239
Speaker 1: Bryce Petty somewhere three and oh right now, I'm sure

966
00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:35,640
Speaker 1: all right before we go Thursday night football, I keep

967
00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:38,520
Speaker 1: on forgetting. I want to get the Prehnka song to

968
00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:42,400
Speaker 1: get us ready. I know you love it in my city.

969
00:48:43,239 --> 00:48:47,520
Speaker 1: Oh that's good. I'm married a Jonas guy. That's exactly

970
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:50,560
Speaker 1: how it goes. It's baking on my data day. It's

971
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:55,360
Speaker 1: this it, you have it. I'm married a Jonah. My

972
00:48:55,520 --> 00:49:04,680
Speaker 1: name is Jonah. Best Weezer song, greg Um, I don't

973
00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:06,640
Speaker 1: know the first song on the first album. My name

974
00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:11,799
Speaker 1: is Jonas. Yeah, no, that's not at the that is yeah,

975
00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 1: this is oh yeah, it's fantastic. And this is where

976
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:30,400
Speaker 1: like they would like show her superimposed in front of

977
00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:34,680
Speaker 1: like in front of Skyline Chili. You know, it would

978
00:49:34,719 --> 00:49:37,360
Speaker 1: be like suddenly Prianka is wearing a Bengals jersey in

979
00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:40,520
Speaker 1: front of Skyline ship. It was great. It was, I mean,

980
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:44,400
Speaker 1: the top of the line special effects graphics package in

981
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:47,520
Speaker 1: two thousand twelve, the best like digital city you could

982
00:49:47,520 --> 00:49:51,000
Speaker 1: have behind Um an Indian pop star. It was. It

983
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:54,840
Speaker 1: was wonderful um, but it didn't it didn't take off

984
00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:56,719
Speaker 1: the way we wanted to. We like that song. I

985
00:49:56,840 --> 00:49:58,440
Speaker 1: liked it. Yeah, it was a whole thing on our

986
00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:00,920
Speaker 1: podcast back in two thousand and we had a podcast

987
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:07,040
Speaker 1: and there before we had a producer then who at

988
00:50:07,080 --> 00:50:09,839
Speaker 1: one later stole our Stitcher award. But at this point

989
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:11,440
Speaker 1: it was like, Hey, I think we got Pank on

990
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:13,000
Speaker 1: the books, just gonna come in and do the show.

991
00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:14,320
Speaker 1: And she's like, oh, she's like one of the biggest

992
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:17,800
Speaker 1: stars in the world. That sounds pretty good. It didn't materialize.

993
00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:20,640
Speaker 1: We had we had Prok on the hook. We were

994
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:23,239
Speaker 1: told you don't still think about it though, right, never,

995
00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:25,759
Speaker 1: let me think about it all right, let's get to it.

996
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:28,640
Speaker 1: Thursday night football And on the surface, listen, Connie, you

997
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:32,560
Speaker 1: can't say it. I can feels like another dud for

998
00:50:32,640 --> 00:50:35,400
Speaker 1: the fans. Oh, who wants to watch the Cincinnati Bengals

999
00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:40,759
Speaker 1: in the Jacksonville Jaguars in prime time? But here's the thing,

1000
00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:43,719
Speaker 1: I'll sell it this way, and I don't have to

1001
00:50:43,719 --> 00:50:46,160
Speaker 1: sell it too hard. Yeah, the Jaguars are a mess

1002
00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:48,480
Speaker 1: and they're winless, but you got a chance to see

1003
00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:51,480
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence in his first primetime game. And Trevor has

1004
00:50:51,480 --> 00:50:54,520
Speaker 1: been obviously up and down, but come on, he's Trevor Lawrence.

1005
00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:56,440
Speaker 1: Is gonna be fun to watch him developed. And the

1006
00:50:56,520 --> 00:51:00,840
Speaker 1: other side, it's in Cincinnati, there two in one, and

1007
00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:03,840
Speaker 1: there's some genuine good vibes around this team when you

1008
00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:05,960
Speaker 1: look at their schedule. They have a chance here to

1009
00:51:06,080 --> 00:51:08,800
Speaker 1: get on a little bit of a run. Uh and

1010
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:12,560
Speaker 1: it starts with whipping up on a winless Jags team.

1011
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:15,399
Speaker 1: It could be a celebration Cincinnati, and I love the idea.

1012
00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:19,320
Speaker 1: Connie of Burrow obviously slam don't get him up on

1013
00:51:19,360 --> 00:51:21,680
Speaker 1: the day as if they win. And maybe Jamaar Chase

1014
00:51:21,719 --> 00:51:23,239
Speaker 1: is buddy at L s U and you could tell

1015
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:25,440
Speaker 1: that you get more than it's awesome if you get

1016
00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:27,960
Speaker 1: those two guys together. There's no question you might get

1017
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:30,840
Speaker 1: a cigar up there. Connie beaming right now thinking about it.

1018
00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:32,520
Speaker 1: I know, well now that now that you have say

1019
00:51:32,560 --> 00:51:35,399
Speaker 1: it that way, I'm very excited. First I was like, yeah,

1020
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:40,399
Speaker 1: it's a jungle cat game. Okay, cool, we got the Jags, um,

1021
00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:43,719
Speaker 1: But I'm excited to see Joe Burrow. I think that

1022
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:46,239
Speaker 1: he's played really well. Also, last week he didn't he

1023
00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:48,520
Speaker 1: had the luxury of not having to face t J.

1024
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:51,680
Speaker 1: Watt and Alex Highsmith, so he was able to connect

1025
00:51:51,719 --> 00:51:54,959
Speaker 1: with Jamar Chase a bunch, and those two have looked

1026
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:58,520
Speaker 1: really good. Their connection, it's really carried over from college.

1027
00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:02,000
Speaker 1: Demarches four touchdowns, two and twenty yards on just eleven

1028
00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:05,040
Speaker 1: catches so far this season. So I saw from NFL

1029
00:52:05,120 --> 00:52:08,240
Speaker 1: research that Chase has become the youngest player in NFL

1030
00:52:08,320 --> 00:52:11,080
Speaker 1: history with four plus receiving touchdowns in his team's first

1031
00:52:11,120 --> 00:52:15,640
Speaker 1: three games, passing Randy Moss. So he's been outstanding. And

1032
00:52:15,719 --> 00:52:18,160
Speaker 1: I really love the trio of wide receivers that they

1033
00:52:18,239 --> 00:52:21,000
Speaker 1: have there. I know Tee Higgins didn't play on Sunday

1034
00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:23,719
Speaker 1: because of the shoulder injury, and I'm not sure what

1035
00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:25,680
Speaker 1: the short week means for him. Could be a little

1036
00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:28,839
Speaker 1: dicey if he goes or not. But Tyler Boyd, he's

1037
00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:31,800
Speaker 1: sassy and I like it. He's talking some trash. I

1038
00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:34,320
Speaker 1: like what he has to say about the Steelers just

1039
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:38,600
Speaker 1: giving up at the end of the game. So that's

1040
00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:40,080
Speaker 1: I think I know what he was talking, or at

1041
00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:42,920
Speaker 1: least I thought was he talking about Tomlin kicking a

1042
00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:45,080
Speaker 1: field goal with eight minutes left, because that felt like

1043
00:52:45,160 --> 00:52:48,160
Speaker 1: given up to me after the I think it was

1044
00:52:48,239 --> 00:52:52,319
Speaker 1: because it was a fifteen play like nine minute drive

1045
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:55,239
Speaker 1: and they're like, we can't not score here. This is embarrassing.

1046
00:52:55,680 --> 00:52:57,200
Speaker 1: We have to just kick the field goal to save

1047
00:52:57,280 --> 00:53:01,920
Speaker 1: our face, save my face. And going up against this

1048
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:06,000
Speaker 1: Jaguars defense, I think that all the opposing quarterbacks have

1049
00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:08,680
Speaker 1: diced them up so far, so Joe Burrow I don't

1050
00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:11,160
Speaker 1: think will be any different. I am also really excited

1051
00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:14,000
Speaker 1: about the Bengals defense too, who look really improved from

1052
00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:17,759
Speaker 1: last year. Right that that's been their story. Looking at

1053
00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:20,080
Speaker 1: d v O, I'm guessing they've got to be in

1054
00:53:20,120 --> 00:53:24,239
Speaker 1: the top five defensively. They are fourth on defense right now.

1055
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:27,960
Speaker 1: On offense, so the first couple of games, the offense

1056
00:53:28,560 --> 00:53:31,800
Speaker 1: was starting to come together. But this is why I

1057
00:53:31,920 --> 00:53:35,080
Speaker 1: just remind me last next preseason again, and it's just

1058
00:53:35,239 --> 00:53:38,279
Speaker 1: like none of this stuff matters. It's like even early

1059
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:41,200
Speaker 1: in the season, I was overreacting a little bit to Burrow,

1060
00:53:41,400 --> 00:53:44,279
Speaker 1: but the first player last week's game against Pittsburgh, he

1061
00:53:44,719 --> 00:53:48,440
Speaker 1: escaped from the pocket um in a in a really

1062
00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:52,040
Speaker 1: great way, like legitimately upset about this thing, talking about

1063
00:53:52,120 --> 00:53:55,759
Speaker 1: the preseason letting you down well, and just that we

1064
00:53:56,040 --> 00:53:59,000
Speaker 1: talk about these topics of Jamar Chase can't catch it,

1065
00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:02,120
Speaker 1: and Burrows not confident. And I didn't think Burrow look

1066
00:54:02,160 --> 00:54:04,320
Speaker 1: confident in his knee the first couple of weeks, but okay,

1067
00:54:04,400 --> 00:54:06,879
Speaker 1: that's that makes sense. And then last week you could

1068
00:54:06,920 --> 00:54:10,000
Speaker 1: see it. On the very first play he escapes multiple

1069
00:54:10,040 --> 00:54:12,720
Speaker 1: pass rushers, he starts doing kind of the running around

1070
00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:16,120
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow thing, and you could see after that play

1071
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:19,320
Speaker 1: he was so confident. He cut on that knee multiple

1072
00:54:19,400 --> 00:54:21,880
Speaker 1: times and he looked like Joe Burrow and he started

1073
00:54:21,960 --> 00:54:25,480
Speaker 1: hitting players outside the numbers. And on that touchdown to Chase. Look,

1074
00:54:25,520 --> 00:54:28,719
Speaker 1: he hasn't completed many deep throws this year, even with

1075
00:54:28,880 --> 00:54:33,040
Speaker 1: that one, but you saw that last like five yards

1076
00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:35,719
Speaker 1: of the route where Chase just goes man. It was

1077
00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:38,040
Speaker 1: just like, Okay, that doesn't show up on the forty

1078
00:54:38,120 --> 00:54:40,279
Speaker 1: time with with Jamar Chase, but you could see it

1079
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:43,759
Speaker 1: right there. And those two guys had incredible games. That

1080
00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:45,800
Speaker 1: was one of the best games of Joe Burrow's career

1081
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:48,640
Speaker 1: still including last stood in the Rocks, and he still

1082
00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:51,279
Speaker 1: probably should have taken the tackle but if this is

1083
00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:52,960
Speaker 1: gonna be, if this is gonna be what it is

1084
00:54:53,080 --> 00:54:56,000
Speaker 1: and they really have something here, Uh, they didn't blow

1085
00:54:56,080 --> 00:54:58,520
Speaker 1: it and that's something to celebrate, and just don't don't

1086
00:54:58,560 --> 00:55:01,560
Speaker 1: mess this up. Angles. You're gonna have seventy five thousand

1087
00:55:02,680 --> 00:55:07,279
Speaker 1: West Cincinnatians and Midwesterners there do not do not below us.

1088
00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:08,360
Speaker 1: And you know who else is going to be the

1089
00:55:08,719 --> 00:55:14,880
Speaker 1: courtesy of definitely not huge, the tiny box she hooks up.

1090
00:55:15,040 --> 00:55:18,200
Speaker 1: Westling Brothers place is gonna be filthy, it's gonna be

1091
00:55:18,239 --> 00:55:22,480
Speaker 1: louding with Westling Brothers on Thursday night the Cincinnati We

1092
00:55:22,600 --> 00:55:25,239
Speaker 1: got three officially coming in. Wow, and one of them

1093
00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:28,120
Speaker 1: is Tim Westling and it's his turn to share the

1094
00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:30,000
Speaker 1: Westling Brothers lock of the week. And I think you

1095
00:55:30,040 --> 00:55:32,920
Speaker 1: know where this is going. Hey around the NFL podcast.

1096
00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:36,359
Speaker 1: This is Tim Westling. Uh, this is Chris Westling's brother.

1097
00:55:36,520 --> 00:55:40,480
Speaker 1: You know invest as west got it. Uh, it's my

1098
00:55:40,640 --> 00:55:44,680
Speaker 1: turn to pick this week. So I'm going to the

1099
00:55:44,719 --> 00:55:49,680
Speaker 1: Thursday night game in Cincinnati. It's gonna be Jacksonville versus Cincinnati. Sure,

1100
00:55:49,880 --> 00:55:54,360
Speaker 1: I'm a little biased, and I'm very much looking forward

1101
00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:58,640
Speaker 1: to seeing Trevor Lawrence play, but much more I'm interested

1102
00:55:58,680 --> 00:56:03,680
Speaker 1: in seeing show burrow into mar Chase Domini, which they

1103
00:56:03,719 --> 00:56:07,560
Speaker 1: will do again this boom. In that case, I'm gonna

1104
00:56:07,640 --> 00:56:15,000
Speaker 1: go with the Cincinnati Bengals, and I'm locking it up.

1105
00:56:17,719 --> 00:56:19,799
Speaker 1: I mean, was that the greatest thing ever? Tim West

1106
00:56:19,960 --> 00:56:23,399
Speaker 1: They all have their own Nick sounds a lot like Chris,

1107
00:56:23,840 --> 00:56:25,719
Speaker 1: which will freak you out if it catches you the

1108
00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:28,480
Speaker 1: wrong day. But Tim doesn't sound like anybody else in

1109
00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:31,800
Speaker 1: the world. And Phil as well so has like a

1110
00:56:32,040 --> 00:56:35,040
Speaker 1: little bit of West I can I can hear when

1111
00:56:35,080 --> 00:56:36,879
Speaker 1: he's I feel like we're on a westling World tour

1112
00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:39,200
Speaker 1: this season, and I'm loving it. I am loving it.

1113
00:56:39,280 --> 00:56:41,000
Speaker 1: I'm loving it so much. I won't point out this

1114
00:56:41,160 --> 00:56:43,359
Speaker 1: is actually, uh, you know, seven and a half points

1115
00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:46,000
Speaker 1: in the desert. It is over are let's look in

1116
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:49,160
Speaker 1: the mirror thing. But it's a Cincinnati home game on

1117
00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:54,160
Speaker 1: He's very weird this game in general. But you have to,

1118
00:56:54,440 --> 00:56:56,600
Speaker 1: let's give him a little accident forgiveness because they did

1119
00:56:56,719 --> 00:56:59,960
Speaker 1: lock up against the defending champion. Bucks wouldn't lost absolutely,

1120
00:57:00,040 --> 00:57:02,920
Speaker 1: you know, not giving me when you can lock up

1121
00:57:03,600 --> 00:57:06,160
Speaker 1: the worst team in football by far on the road

1122
00:57:06,280 --> 00:57:08,520
Speaker 1: on a three day week, you try to do it.

1123
00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:10,680
Speaker 1: They're all listening right now, so just know in the future,

1124
00:57:10,800 --> 00:57:12,640
Speaker 1: check out what the desert saying and try to keep

1125
00:57:12,680 --> 00:57:14,920
Speaker 1: it underneath seven points. Guess who else is going to

1126
00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:19,080
Speaker 1: be at the game with the Wes Lukisha. So we're

1127
00:57:19,280 --> 00:57:23,160
Speaker 1: the party in Cincinnati. You get well after after work,

1128
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:25,760
Speaker 1: how loose we get. We're getting wild. When do you

1129
00:57:26,040 --> 00:57:28,440
Speaker 1: get on a plane to come back. Well, I have

1130
00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:31,200
Speaker 1: to fly to Philly first, and I'm doing the Saturday

1131
00:57:31,240 --> 00:57:33,480
Speaker 1: show from NFL Films. But you have a chance to

1132
00:57:33,520 --> 00:57:34,960
Speaker 1: go out after the game and have a little fun

1133
00:57:35,040 --> 00:57:37,360
Speaker 1: a little bit. Yeah, it's usually a late like wet't

1134
00:57:37,360 --> 00:57:40,040
Speaker 1: get done until midnight or so, but yeah, it'll be fun. Right.

1135
00:57:40,120 --> 00:57:43,520
Speaker 1: I want to see Trevor Lawrence like play better. I'm

1136
00:57:43,560 --> 00:57:45,760
Speaker 1: a little worried because this Bengals defense, as you mentioned,

1137
00:57:45,880 --> 00:57:47,800
Speaker 1: is playing really well. I don't know if a Woozier

1138
00:57:47,840 --> 00:57:50,120
Speaker 1: who's played really good at cornerback is going to be

1139
00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:52,800
Speaker 1: in for them. Suddenly they're on their like third and

1140
00:57:52,840 --> 00:57:56,360
Speaker 1: fourth corners. Eli Apple played like eighties snaps, so in theory,

1141
00:57:56,480 --> 00:57:58,600
Speaker 1: maybe you could attack them. Trey Hendrickson has been great

1142
00:57:58,640 --> 00:58:03,440
Speaker 1: for Cincinnati upfront, but Trevor Lawrence it looked and everyone

1143
00:58:04,080 --> 00:58:06,280
Speaker 1: understandably saying, you know, it's gonna be fine. And he

1144
00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:08,200
Speaker 1: had like the touchdown throw at a chart last week

1145
00:58:08,240 --> 00:58:09,920
Speaker 1: that was an amazing throw. He has one or two

1146
00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:13,640
Speaker 1: of those every week. Um. But DJ Reader also has

1147
00:58:13,680 --> 00:58:15,720
Speaker 1: been really good. I don't think he gets enough love either,

1148
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:19,240
Speaker 1: But like Laurence yet, but Lawrence, it is worth pointing

1149
00:58:19,240 --> 00:58:23,920
Speaker 1: out I wouldn't expect this to suddenly get great this season.

1150
00:58:25,080 --> 00:58:28,400
Speaker 1: You know, this three game stretches worse than any three

1151
00:58:28,480 --> 00:58:32,120
Speaker 1: game stretch of some pretty good rookie quarterbacks seas, and

1152
00:58:32,280 --> 00:58:34,800
Speaker 1: so I think you'll get there eventually. But it doesn't

1153
00:58:34,840 --> 00:58:36,640
Speaker 1: seem like the scheme is helping him out much, and

1154
00:58:36,720 --> 00:58:38,800
Speaker 1: he's just really late. Back on that a little bit.

1155
00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:41,840
Speaker 1: I think the fact that you're pointing out, um correctly,

1156
00:58:41,920 --> 00:58:44,160
Speaker 1: that he's had a few while throws every week means

1157
00:58:44,240 --> 00:58:47,000
Speaker 1: that it's better than a different situation where he's not

1158
00:58:47,080 --> 00:58:49,840
Speaker 1: giving you anything, like I've seen from the number two pick,

1159
00:58:50,200 --> 00:58:52,120
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson the last couple of weeks. I think Wilson's

1160
00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:54,960
Speaker 1: played better than Trevor Lawrence over all. Right, Well, I

1161
00:58:55,000 --> 00:58:56,480
Speaker 1: see what you're saying. I had to pick. I think

1162
00:58:56,720 --> 00:59:00,440
Speaker 1: also Trevor. He might be dealing his expect Patians are

1163
00:59:00,440 --> 00:59:02,600
Speaker 1: a little inflated, but that's part of the deal when

1164
00:59:02,600 --> 00:59:04,160
Speaker 1: you're the number one pick and people say you're the

1165
00:59:04,240 --> 00:59:07,160
Speaker 1: best prospects since Andrew Luck. So I don't know. It's

1166
00:59:07,160 --> 00:59:08,920
Speaker 1: almost like I'm in a wait and see mode by

1167
00:59:08,960 --> 00:59:11,160
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence, and I would would I would love to

1168
00:59:11,240 --> 00:59:13,680
Speaker 1: see him play well in this game, because that would

1169
00:59:13,800 --> 00:59:16,480
Speaker 1: that's some juice. You could have Trevor Lawrence on the

1170
00:59:16,600 --> 00:59:19,480
Speaker 1: days two That's true, that would be interesting as well.

1171
00:59:19,520 --> 00:59:20,920
Speaker 1: I think this is a good step. Did you get

1172
00:59:21,240 --> 00:59:23,400
Speaker 1: and we check in every week on this any a

1173
00:59:23,560 --> 00:59:26,960
Speaker 1: t N easter eggs into the telecast, of course I did.

1174
00:59:27,040 --> 00:59:28,800
Speaker 1: If you guys are going to give me a challenge

1175
00:59:28,920 --> 00:59:32,040
Speaker 1: like that, I'm going to deliver. I got snow patrol in,

1176
00:59:33,040 --> 00:59:38,720
Speaker 1: I got let it snow untright. That was that was

1177
00:59:38,800 --> 00:59:42,680
Speaker 1: maybe I don't know if it's taking off, but oh

1178
00:59:42,720 --> 00:59:45,440
Speaker 1: my gosh, I asked. I totally forgot to tell you.

1179
00:59:46,200 --> 00:59:48,840
Speaker 1: So after the interview ended and we went to break,

1180
00:59:49,200 --> 00:59:51,560
Speaker 1: Sam Donald was getting off the stage and I was like,

1181
00:59:51,800 --> 00:59:55,160
Speaker 1: oh hey, wait, wait, wait real quick, just a quick question, Uh,

1182
00:59:55,680 --> 00:59:58,560
Speaker 1: is anyone in the locker room calling, referring to the

1183
00:59:58,680 --> 01:00:02,360
Speaker 1: defense at all as like either snow patrol or you know,

1184
01:00:02,520 --> 01:00:04,920
Speaker 1: like saying let it snow. And he's looking at me

1185
01:00:05,360 --> 01:00:08,880
Speaker 1: like I am insane, which I am at this point,

1186
01:00:08,960 --> 01:00:12,200
Speaker 1: and he was like Nu Ran like Irish rock band

1187
01:00:12,320 --> 01:00:18,040
Speaker 1: from the mid aut was like no um that started

1188
01:00:18,440 --> 01:00:21,400
Speaker 1: two days ago on that podcast you were on with

1189
01:00:21,640 --> 01:00:25,040
Speaker 1: no other context hasn't reached the Lacker yet, but we're

1190
01:00:25,080 --> 01:00:26,920
Speaker 1: trying to make it. Everyone is trying to make it

1191
01:00:26,960 --> 01:00:29,520
Speaker 1: a thing. Wherever Phil Snow has been so I didn't

1192
01:00:29,560 --> 01:00:32,560
Speaker 1: realize this Temple they were doing it at Baylor, they

1193
01:00:32,600 --> 01:00:35,320
Speaker 1: were doing it like the local radio station there in

1194
01:00:35,400 --> 01:00:37,680
Speaker 1: town has been trying to do it so for some reason.

1195
01:00:37,800 --> 01:00:42,440
Speaker 1: And and Donald's only four and snowshow hasn't had a

1196
01:00:42,520 --> 01:00:44,320
Speaker 1: hit for a while. But I guess I'm really curious

1197
01:00:44,360 --> 01:00:48,360
Speaker 1: this this Has Sam Donald ever heard chasing cars? Has

1198
01:00:48,400 --> 01:00:52,920
Speaker 1: you ever heard of them? By the way, can we

1199
01:00:52,960 --> 01:00:55,680
Speaker 1: do this week? Though? Here a challenge for this week? Okay,

1200
01:00:55,720 --> 01:00:59,920
Speaker 1: what do we got so Jags and Bengals or if

1201
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:01,440
Speaker 1: you want to, if you want to tweet it later,

1202
01:01:01,920 --> 01:01:03,600
Speaker 1: we can get it on the right and round. What

1203
01:01:03,640 --> 01:01:05,600
Speaker 1: about you? Greg? Got anything We're going to give you

1204
01:01:05,720 --> 01:01:08,200
Speaker 1: something to try to and also listeners will make this

1205
01:01:08,440 --> 01:01:10,960
Speaker 1: a challenge. Why don't we call it the uh t

1206
01:01:11,200 --> 01:01:14,320
Speaker 1: n the a t N t NF challenge. That's a

1207
01:01:14,360 --> 01:01:19,000
Speaker 1: little bulky for a hashtag nothing, because then it's gonna

1208
01:01:19,040 --> 01:01:20,920
Speaker 1: be like, it's gonna be tough to get it. I

1209
01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:23,240
Speaker 1: got Flying Camel spin in last week for Steve White

1210
01:01:23,320 --> 01:01:25,240
Speaker 1: and Stacy Dale's and that might have been So you're

1211
01:01:25,280 --> 01:01:27,440
Speaker 1: just doing this for everybody now, we don't feel suspecial. No, no, no,

1212
01:01:27,960 --> 01:01:29,560
Speaker 1: that was just a one week thing with them. You.

1213
01:01:29,840 --> 01:01:31,960
Speaker 1: I will always be true to This is my chance.

1214
01:01:32,080 --> 01:01:34,280
Speaker 1: Let me think on it and we'll see what we

1215
01:01:34,320 --> 01:01:36,160
Speaker 1: can do. And Ricky, if we can get things into

1216
01:01:36,200 --> 01:01:40,400
Speaker 1: the show, please pull it for Connie's next appearance on Tuesday.

1217
01:01:40,880 --> 01:01:44,520
Speaker 1: And Connie, thank you for you know step of course,

1218
01:01:45,000 --> 01:01:48,439
Speaker 1: your queen. Greg the Top five. I was a little

1219
01:01:48,480 --> 01:01:50,120
Speaker 1: distracted at one point at the end of our last

1220
01:01:50,120 --> 01:01:51,600
Speaker 1: segment because I was coming up with the top five

1221
01:01:51,640 --> 01:01:56,840
Speaker 1: Weezer songs number one The Good Life of pink In,

1222
01:01:57,480 --> 01:02:00,400
Speaker 1: number two, Island in the Sun off the Green album,

1223
01:02:00,880 --> 01:02:05,920
Speaker 1: number three, l Scorcho also off Pinkerton, number two, My

1224
01:02:06,040 --> 01:02:08,600
Speaker 1: Name Is Jonas. That is track one on the Blue album,

1225
01:02:08,760 --> 01:02:11,840
Speaker 1: and the greatest Weezer song is say it Ain't So

1226
01:02:12,120 --> 01:02:17,240
Speaker 1: don't overthink it. Don't overthink it. It's a functionally perfect,

1227
01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:20,880
Speaker 1: perfect song. I'm I'm sort of part of partial to

1228
01:02:21,040 --> 01:02:24,640
Speaker 1: undone the Sweater song, just because I remember, like when

1229
01:02:24,720 --> 01:02:27,640
Speaker 1: the video came out, it was like the album still

1230
01:02:27,720 --> 01:02:30,520
Speaker 1: hadn't come out and I and it just blew my mind.

1231
01:02:30,560 --> 01:02:33,200
Speaker 1: I was like, what is this thing? What is this?

1232
01:02:33,400 --> 01:02:35,040
Speaker 1: And me and my friend Phil went and bought the

1233
01:02:35,080 --> 01:02:38,160
Speaker 1: album like three weeks later. Then that wasn't That was

1234
01:02:38,200 --> 01:02:41,600
Speaker 1: like before, Yeah, that was before before you know, videos

1235
01:02:41,680 --> 01:02:44,760
Speaker 1: were coming out, singles were coming out before albums. That

1236
01:02:45,040 --> 01:02:48,320
Speaker 1: was an incredible song that I completely just erased from

1237
01:02:48,360 --> 01:02:51,240
Speaker 1: my memory. Scene was deleted there. But I'm with you

1238
01:02:52,400 --> 01:02:56,920
Speaker 1: how that happening. It's just I have no control over it.

1239
01:02:57,000 --> 01:02:59,600
Speaker 1: They just they're just gone. So here one day, gone

1240
01:02:59,600 --> 01:03:02,720
Speaker 1: the next. All right, good stuff too. Should we give

1241
01:03:02,760 --> 01:03:06,280
Speaker 1: any update on our London journey that we have a

1242
01:03:06,360 --> 01:03:09,640
Speaker 1: sold out show as people know, and everybody's upset because

1243
01:03:09,640 --> 01:03:11,440
Speaker 1: we keep on putting these shows on sale in the

1244
01:03:11,520 --> 01:03:13,160
Speaker 1: middle of the night in England and then they're sold

1245
01:03:13,200 --> 01:03:15,280
Speaker 1: out in minutes, which is awesome, but you know, we

1246
01:03:15,400 --> 01:03:18,440
Speaker 1: get it. We're efforting for a second show. We're not

1247
01:03:18,480 --> 01:03:20,200
Speaker 1: sure if we're gonna have it, but we're working on it,

1248
01:03:20,280 --> 01:03:24,680
Speaker 1: and if we do, we will promise you again another

1249
01:03:24,720 --> 01:03:28,440
Speaker 1: Team America callback. I promise I will never die. We

1250
01:03:28,600 --> 01:03:31,280
Speaker 1: promise you that we will give your heads up when

1251
01:03:31,280 --> 01:03:33,000
Speaker 1: the tickets go on sale. If we haven't put it

1252
01:03:33,040 --> 01:03:34,959
Speaker 1: at a specific time, it won't be in the middle

1253
01:03:34,960 --> 01:03:36,919
Speaker 1: of the night, and that then it will be fair

1254
01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:40,160
Speaker 1: for all, but even that will be fair for all,

1255
01:03:40,320 --> 01:03:43,080
Speaker 1: and then a free for all. I'm so bummed. I

1256
01:03:43,160 --> 01:03:45,080
Speaker 1: can't come with you. Guys. We're gonna have so many

1257
01:03:45,120 --> 01:03:47,720
Speaker 1: mojo moments. I know. Let me know about them. Just

1258
01:03:48,080 --> 01:03:50,880
Speaker 1: text me every five seconds. Great, all right, good, and

1259
01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:54,200
Speaker 1: the Split Ends podcast is coming. Another plug for you

1260
01:03:54,400 --> 01:03:57,400
Speaker 1: because you are you appreciate it. Just a wonderful woman.

1261
01:03:57,640 --> 01:04:00,960
Speaker 1: Thank you. What do you want? I just want you

1262
01:04:01,040 --> 01:04:03,800
Speaker 1: to be my producer until I die. I want I

1263
01:04:03,880 --> 01:04:06,000
Speaker 1: want to be ninety years old and be really bad

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Speaker 1: at talking in football. And and you're stuck to a

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Speaker 1: promise that you gave me in two thousand twenty one

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Speaker 1: that you would never leave me. That's dark. I'm not

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Speaker 1: the better my podcast. Does you know it doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: I'm leaving. Oh no, it does mean that looks you're

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Speaker 1: already trying to get out. I split ends as any success,

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Speaker 1: there will be a Greg, there's gonna be a conversation

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Speaker 1: with a shadowy league figure. It's like, I just don't

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Speaker 1: have a time to be doing the producing thing anymore

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Speaker 1: because I'm such a hit. Uh. And I mean this

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Speaker 1: is like a three year old story that Harry wanting

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Speaker 1: to get out. So yeah, that's not true. You're you're

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Speaker 1: spending false alright, and and Ricky's going to be with

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Speaker 1: us in London too. I love it all right, let's go.

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Speaker 1: Next time you hear from us Thursday the preview show

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Speaker 1: Thursday night the tn F recap with me and someone

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