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Speaker 1: Around the NFL Podcast Doesn't Know about fantasy Football. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast, presented

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Speaker 1: by the United States Marine Or. My name is Dan

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Speaker 1: Hands as I'm joined in a room filled with heroes,

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Speaker 1: Mark Sessler, Chris Westling, and Greg Rosenthal. What is up? Boys? Hey?

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Speaker 1: I mean, let's be real about something. What most of

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Speaker 1: us have stepped off the idea of playing fantasy football? Right?

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Speaker 1: We don't play it. But if you just dropped any

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Speaker 1: one of us, and I'm not trying to be a

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Speaker 1: braggart here into a group of civilians and gave us

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Speaker 1: time to prepare, draft and and work on a fantasy

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Speaker 1: team week to week, we would incinerate individuals. That's how

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Speaker 1: I feel. It doesn't feel it isn't. I'll tell you one,

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Speaker 1: and I'll tell you one thing that you're showing, uh

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Speaker 1: a lack of understanding of I will have a follow

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Speaker 1: up to that comment. Um, you are still completely, on

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Speaker 1: some level vulnerable to things that you cannot control, even

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Speaker 1: if you have a great draft, like, for instance, I'll

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Speaker 1: And you know, sometimes things don't work out. You know,

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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz made perfect sense as a draft pick for me.

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Speaker 1: My I'm just I never talked about your fantasy team,

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Speaker 1: but in this case, I'm honey. You know that you

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Speaker 1: could pick a great team in August and you could

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Speaker 1: supplement it with pickups during the year, but it could

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Speaker 1: really haunt you where you can't have a dominant team

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Speaker 1: that you and I are different. The last time I participated,

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Speaker 1: I dropped an absolute mega ton bomb on nine other

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Speaker 1: haughty individuals who thought that they were all that I

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Speaker 1: played under the guise of my wife's identity and absolutely

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Speaker 1: obliterated the competition. That was five years ago. I've not

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Speaker 1: touched it since. I was gonna say do it again. Well, no,

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Speaker 1: because then my then my theory would be blown to bits.

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Speaker 1: I'd come in seventh place. I don't actually think it.

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Speaker 1: Almost always I'm in the playoffs in competitive and that

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Speaker 1: is obviously the help because of all the NFL work

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Speaker 1: we do. But you're not. You're not involved, invulnerable, You're

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Speaker 1: just not. I would I you know when I when

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Speaker 1: you know, part of fantasy is luck. It's just like gambling,

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Speaker 1: Like sixty seventy of it is luck and the really

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Speaker 1: good players you work on that other thirty percent, which

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Speaker 1: over time gives you a pretty significant, you know, advantage.

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Speaker 1: But in any one given season, forget about. Luck is

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Speaker 1: mostly the thing. Also, one other thing we learned is

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Speaker 1: that fantasy football analysts aren't really great at fantasy football,

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Speaker 1: not all of them. Some are, some are good, some

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Speaker 1: are bad. You can you can join an expert league

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Speaker 1: and win right away if you're good at fantasy football. UM.

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Speaker 1: Can't wait for the hate tweets to roll in on

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Speaker 1: this one. Wait, but I thought you just said it's

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Speaker 1: a luck No, that's I think it's like I'm just

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Speaker 1: saying that this camp over here is sort of standing

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Speaker 1: on the fact that you draft Big Ben. Well, no,

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Speaker 1: Big Jen is not someone I draft to begin with.

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Speaker 1: Let's start right there. What are you up to yesterday?

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Speaker 1: Fired out of a cannon right now? I don't know.

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Speaker 1: All right, it's gonna be an interesting show With Mark Sessler.

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Speaker 1: We are at week twelve. The preview show. Tonight, Wes

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Speaker 1: and Greg will be handling Thursday night football recap called Texans.

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Speaker 1: After that we just did before we started to a

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Speaker 1: lovely interview with Cynthia Freeland, the analytics expert UH and UM,

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Speaker 1: It's like, here's here's Cynthia Freeland you guys are gonna

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Speaker 1: get used to her. Now get ready for her model

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Speaker 1: have we have a thirteen games to get to. Uh,

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Speaker 1: I really wish I had, uh, you know, known that

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Speaker 1: go Seahawks Eagles ten am on Sunday, that first big

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Speaker 1: letting you talk. I'm gonna six game streak. Mark. What

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Speaker 1: Allen at quarterback, but Curtis Samuel hasn't gotten a hundred

426
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Speaker 1: yards in a game all season. Well, mars a more complete,

427
00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:23,320
Speaker 1: solid receiver. He's the guy that you know, Steve Smith said,

428
00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:26,639
Speaker 1: reminds me of me. Uh and he's I don't know

429
00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:28,639
Speaker 1: if he's a top ten in the NFL receiver at

430
00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:31,399
Speaker 1: any point, but he's a really good about runner and

431
00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:34,119
Speaker 1: a solid starting receiver. He makes more sense to me

432
00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:35,920
Speaker 1: as a true number one type of guy for them,

433
00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:38,399
Speaker 1: And and David Tepper says he doesn't want to do

434
00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:41,879
Speaker 1: with mediocrity. This isn't mediocrity there five and five, But

435
00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:45,320
Speaker 1: they're twenty seven in d v O A. They're down

436
00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:47,119
Speaker 1: there with the dregs of the league. It's not a

437
00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:50,480
Speaker 1: special defense. And to you know, to defend Allen a

438
00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:52,159
Speaker 1: little bit, it's like Greg Little. They put back in

439
00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:54,040
Speaker 1: the lineup last week and left tackle and he just

440
00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:56,760
Speaker 1: got destroyed. I think They're line has struggled, and sometimes

441
00:21:56,760 --> 00:21:59,920
Speaker 1: that is partly on the quarterback, Like I think Donald's

442
00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:02,240
Speaker 1: ruggles some of this year at least like a little

443
00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:05,280
Speaker 1: bit on because when you're that young, you're not used

444
00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:07,960
Speaker 1: to being able to set protections and do all these

445
00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:10,840
Speaker 1: sorts of things that a veteran like Cam Newton could do,

446
00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:13,520
Speaker 1: and you don't. You just don't even expect a second

447
00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:16,040
Speaker 1: year guy like Alan or Donald to be experts at

448
00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:20,920
Speaker 1: doing at this point, Uh, did we fork the Panthers

449
00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:25,119
Speaker 1: on two yeah with with without looking back, no no concerns.

450
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Speaker 1: They go and Mark, you're up all right? Well, uh,

451
00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:32,760
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just say this and you can disagree with me.

452
00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:35,040
Speaker 1: This slate of games this week is I feel like

453
00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:37,560
Speaker 1: the first time we've hit a point where there is

454
00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:40,719
Speaker 1: not a lot of hotness to choose from. Some of

455
00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:43,920
Speaker 1: these are matchups between two teams. All the good ones

456
00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:45,840
Speaker 1: are in the prime time games are great. I think

457
00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:48,280
Speaker 1: there's some time there are five great games for once,

458
00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:49,960
Speaker 1: but that means that there's a lot of well they've

459
00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:52,239
Speaker 1: been picked at this point. So I I'm gonna go

460
00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:54,440
Speaker 1: where my heart is, and it's you know, we talked

461
00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:57,000
Speaker 1: about another team right on the edge of existence and

462
00:22:57,040 --> 00:22:59,960
Speaker 1: potentially close to extension extinction if they don't make it happy,

463
00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:03,159
Speaker 1: and is the Browns at home against Miami, and I

464
00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:05,280
Speaker 1: what I want to see is how they respond to

465
00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:11,080
Speaker 1: obviously a Steelers game full of tumult full of chaos,

466
00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:14,040
Speaker 1: and what came out of it was the tipping point.

467
00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:16,880
Speaker 1: And I've expected this in many ways, and it's not everyone,

468
00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:20,879
Speaker 1: but for those who wanted to just finally unleash on

469
00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:24,520
Speaker 1: the Browns experience of this season for multiple reasons. The

470
00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:27,840
Speaker 1: Miles Garrett scenario at the end of Thursday Night Football,

471
00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:30,399
Speaker 1: which was a total circus, gave you full right to

472
00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:32,960
Speaker 1: because this is a team that the B line and

473
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Speaker 1: I look at the Dolphins and the Browns is very

474
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Speaker 1: different in a couple of ways. The Dolphins, you can

475
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Speaker 1: look at them the first couple of months and say

476
00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:42,840
Speaker 1: they were an absolute mess. You look at the last month.

477
00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:47,960
Speaker 1: They are disciplined. The Browns are not disciplined. The Dolphins

478
00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,960
Speaker 1: do not kill themselves with penalties. The Browns have been

479
00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:53,720
Speaker 1: doing that up until a couple of weeks ago. I

480
00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:55,920
Speaker 1: I truly wonder who the better coach in this game

481
00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:58,680
Speaker 1: is because what I'm seeing week to week and having

482
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Speaker 1: tracked the Dolphins, you know, just out of curiosity, is

483
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:03,959
Speaker 1: that Brian Flores is one thing they can build on

484
00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:06,480
Speaker 1: now that can change by next season. I just believe

485
00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:09,520
Speaker 1: in that coach and Freddie Kitchen's week after week in game,

486
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:13,040
Speaker 1: I believe has been outdueled and their defense was dominant

487
00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:16,520
Speaker 1: against a bad quarterback Mason Rudolph and again at Pittsburgh

488
00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:18,600
Speaker 1: last week. What they had to do in this one

489
00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:21,320
Speaker 1: is make up for the fact that you lost in

490
00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:25,760
Speaker 1: the course of three hours, Miles Garrett, Larry Ogunjobi your safety,

491
00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:28,720
Speaker 1: Morgan Burnett and I realized this player is not valuable,

492
00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:30,639
Speaker 1: and they made the decision on their own. But depth

493
00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:33,160
Speaker 1: of wide receiver in Antonio callaway. You've lost three core

494
00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:37,200
Speaker 1: defenders who were starters and major contributors. Myles Garrett had

495
00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:39,880
Speaker 1: a higher pressure rate than basically anyone in the league.

496
00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:42,680
Speaker 1: I was doing more for Cleveland than almost any defensive

497
00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:44,600
Speaker 1: player is doing for their own team. At this point,

498
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:47,760
Speaker 1: he is a huge unmask double loss. And at this

499
00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:49,960
Speaker 1: point you just take Nick Chubb and say we're gonna

500
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:52,520
Speaker 1: run you and use Kareem Hunt the wave in using him,

501
00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:55,359
Speaker 1: and you attack Miami from start to finish on the ground.

502
00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:57,119
Speaker 1: That's my guests, and I think it's gonna be a

503
00:24:57,160 --> 00:25:00,159
Speaker 1: closer game than anyone in Cleveland would want, and they

504
00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:02,440
Speaker 1: will take care of business. But they're not gonna win

505
00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:04,480
Speaker 1: games and blowouts. They're just not gonna do it. If

506
00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:06,639
Speaker 1: we lowered the bar of the Texans when J. J.

507
00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:08,480
Speaker 1: Watt went out, I feel like it's fair to do

508
00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:11,080
Speaker 1: the same thing with the Browns. How important Garrett is

509
00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:13,399
Speaker 1: to that defense, I'd say even more so, though, But

510
00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:15,960
Speaker 1: it's not this game. The Dolphins have an XFL caliber

511
00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:19,360
Speaker 1: offensive line, they are brutal, they are terrible, and all

512
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:22,200
Speaker 1: those players you mentioned the Browns missing, so now they're

513
00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:24,760
Speaker 1: only five times as talented as as the Dolphins, and

514
00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:26,560
Speaker 1: they've not been living up to their drive. That's my

515
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:28,680
Speaker 1: issue with Cleveland. I don't care about the talent, they've

516
00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:30,480
Speaker 1: not lived up to it outside of the running backs.

517
00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:33,199
Speaker 1: But I understand what Mark saying, because if you have

518
00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:36,160
Speaker 1: Garrett and Ogan job, this is a game that because

519
00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:40,120
Speaker 1: of that defensive line, and because Fitzpatrick, even when it's

520
00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:42,720
Speaker 1: going well, has to overcome so much. That's why I

521
00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:45,399
Speaker 1: think he's really just played outstanding this year, even a

522
00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:47,000
Speaker 1: game like last week. I mean, he this year is

523
00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:48,920
Speaker 1: a feather in his kid. He did what he could.

524
00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:51,480
Speaker 1: You would just think the Browns would dominate it so much,

525
00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:53,520
Speaker 1: kind of like they did against Pittsburgh. Then it almost

526
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:56,480
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what happens on offense, they'll get enough. Whereas

527
00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:59,679
Speaker 1: now you're missing a couple of pieces. Could Fitzpatrick make

528
00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:03,600
Speaker 1: up the plays and and make this one uncomfortable? I

529
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:06,359
Speaker 1: I respect Floris enough to think it can. He's he's

530
00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:09,560
Speaker 1: he hasn't found many players to to hold onto for

531
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:10,840
Speaker 1: next year. But one of them that he has his

532
00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:14,359
Speaker 1: Nick need Him, an undrafted free agent rookie who since

533
00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:17,520
Speaker 1: Week seven is tied for the number one cornerback in

534
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:21,679
Speaker 1: the NFL in Pro Football focuses ratings, And so how

535
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:25,040
Speaker 1: about the need Him Beckham matchup? That would be big time.

536
00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:28,080
Speaker 1: One of them is not Calin Balage. I watched him,

537
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:30,000
Speaker 1: and I want a refund. I want to watch a

538
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:32,600
Speaker 1: real running back. Nine carries for nine yards. I believe

539
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:34,920
Speaker 1: this week he has a chance to set the all

540
00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:38,240
Speaker 1: time record for yards per carry. No one over a

541
00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:41,000
Speaker 1: certain threshold, maybe it's a hundred. Uh has ever averaged

542
00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:43,240
Speaker 1: under two yards per carry? Which is where he is

543
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:45,960
Speaker 1: at for the season, So he can make some history. Uh.

544
00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:48,160
Speaker 1: And let's give a little credit to DeVante Parker after

545
00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:52,480
Speaker 1: seven different making the leaps, uh, you know offseason tropes,

546
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:55,240
Speaker 1: he's finally made the leap in his sixth season. I

547
00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 1: believe Mark Walton was a big loss in their backfield

548
00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,840
Speaker 1: when he's been did well. They needed to after what

549
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 1: happened last week. And then yeah that he had a

550
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:07,920
Speaker 1: domestic violence incident that he was connected to which led

551
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:10,160
Speaker 1: to his release. And I'm just seeing four hours ago

552
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:14,880
Speaker 1: posted on TMZ nfls Mark Walton bizarrely skips and sprints

553
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:18,800
Speaker 1: out of jail after battery arrests. So, uh, that's no

554
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:22,000
Speaker 1: something's going on there. And to be clear, we're taping

555
00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:26,080
Speaker 1: this before we know the appeal. Uh answer on Ogan

556
00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:30,000
Speaker 1: Job and Garrett, which the league plans to put down

557
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 1: or notify everyone before this game, so they'll probably have

558
00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:35,360
Speaker 1: an answer for it on Friday. Maybe there's a chance

559
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:37,400
Speaker 1: oken Job plays. By the way, I think I thought

560
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,840
Speaker 1: open Jovis was held up, but they are waiting still.

561
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:43,960
Speaker 1: On Miles Garrett, I have been I am corrected. Let's

562
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:50,120
Speaker 1: do a little breaking news. As we were taping Myles Garrett,

563
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,879
Speaker 1: it's indefinite band has been upheld and Markue's pouncey of

564
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 1: the Steelers had his reduced to two games. So little date.

565
00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:01,600
Speaker 1: There you go, Uh, Mark, let's go through it. They

566
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,200
Speaker 1: have six games to play, they've won two in a row. There,

567
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 1: four and six. Just give me win or loss? You ready,

568
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:14,359
Speaker 1: home Miami at Pittsburgh. That game is gonna be crazy.

569
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 1: Um loss? Okay? Five and seven home Cincinnati? Oh yeah,

570
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:28,720
Speaker 1: six and seven at Arizona win. I don't feel great

571
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 1: about even in seven home Baltimore loss, seven and eight?

572
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:38,480
Speaker 1: Are you going against Cincinnati on the road win? Oh? Yeah,

573
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 1: so eight and eight is what you say? Yeah, I

574
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 1: don't think they're a playoff team with the way that

575
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 1: they've gone through this season. That's not exactly going out

576
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:48,800
Speaker 1: on a limb. All right, it's snakes to you. Where

577
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:52,480
Speaker 1: do I claim? Right? Just what I see? Uh wow?

578
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:54,880
Speaker 1: In another just a corner copy of excitement to pick

579
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:57,160
Speaker 1: from here. But I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna

580
00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 1: take the late Jacksonville at Tennessee game out and now

581
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 1: you know what I'm good. Yeah, you guys are critical

582
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:09,360
Speaker 1: of my uh four pm? Anyways, go ahead, No, I mean,

583
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 1: I hope that didn't step on your toes with that pick.

584
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:15,680
Speaker 1: But I'm interested in this, and you know this is

585
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 1: low hanging fruit. But I want to see Nick Foles

586
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 1: and uh him progressing. You know, I thought about one

587
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:24,280
Speaker 1: thing is that to go through what Nick Foles went through,

588
00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 1: to suffer broken bones and come back and want everyone

589
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:30,160
Speaker 1: wanting him to light it up right away and be

590
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:32,719
Speaker 1: the super Bowl nick Foles on a team that he

591
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:34,800
Speaker 1: was with the Eagles that had the greatest you know,

592
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:36,880
Speaker 1: tight end duo in a while to play in the

593
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, and he's got nothing at that position right now.

594
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:42,520
Speaker 1: They just lost Josh Oliver has been sent to I R.

595
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:46,160
Speaker 1: They've got nobody playing at that position, and D D.

596
00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 1: Westbrook is not expected. Well, he didn't practice Thursday, so

597
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:51,560
Speaker 1: he could be out. So it's Fules and DJ Shark.

598
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,600
Speaker 1: And what concerns me about the Jaguars is how they

599
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 1: were absolutely run over stampeded last week to run defense

600
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:02,200
Speaker 1: two sixty four yards by the Colts. And now you

601
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 1: got Derrick Henry and I just trust Tennessee's I will

602
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 1: almost wanted to lock up the Titans, which I don't

603
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 1: think I've ever done on this show. But we have

604
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 1: to lock a game. We do at some point you do.

605
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,040
Speaker 1: But I, I just this feels to me. If Tennessee

606
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 1: wants to go flip flop win loss, win lost, if

607
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:20,080
Speaker 1: you at one point want to start to build some momentum,

608
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 1: this is where you do with with Derrick Henry and

609
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:25,320
Speaker 1: you get the job done. And Ryan Tannehill has been

610
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:27,520
Speaker 1: more of a big play quarterback than we've really ever

611
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:33,360
Speaker 1: seen from person number two in that position up the Titans. Yes,

612
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:37,600
Speaker 1: I I lost the lock on Titans Jaguars back in

613
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:41,160
Speaker 1: Week three, very different teams back then, Gardner Minshew and

614
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:45,640
Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota in a rainstorm that Jack's d had Jalen

615
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:48,880
Speaker 1: Ramsey back then, and although they didn't because he was

616
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 1: sitting out right, who knows. I think they really miss

617
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:56,560
Speaker 1: even as much as Jalen Ramsey Telvin Smith. Uh, that's

618
00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 1: part of like the read like their linebacker core has

619
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 1: been totally victimized in the running game and sometimes in

620
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:04,800
Speaker 1: the passing He Miles Jack is a guy who they

621
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 1: believe in as a core guy who's not having his

622
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:09,320
Speaker 1: best season, and maybe it's partly because he doesn't have

623
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 1: his tag team partner Telvin Smith, he retired out of nowhere,

624
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 1: who just made so many plays in pursuit for that team.

625
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 1: And you're right there. Their defense just isn't it's not

626
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:22,560
Speaker 1: even it's an average defense. And it's just another reminder

627
00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 1: it's tough to build around epic defenses because who have

628
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 1: been the most epic defenses in the last few years.

629
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 1: Jaguars in seventeen, Bears in eighteen. You know, those those

630
00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 1: were one time thing. It's so hard to ruin it

631
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:36,960
Speaker 1: back the next right, they ran it back that as

632
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 1: good and then now they're just now, they're just back

633
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:41,959
Speaker 1: to kind of normal. Even when the Jaguars had Telvin

634
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 1: Smith and they were the best defense in the league,

635
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 1: they had issues with the Titans. The eight and eight,

636
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 1: nine and seven Titans whatever they were, would go in

637
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:52,080
Speaker 1: and beat sweep them when they were at their best.

638
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:55,239
Speaker 1: And I think that Derrick Henry is gonna be a

639
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 1: handful for this defense, which allows I believe, five point

640
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:00,440
Speaker 1: three yards per carry on the season. One the reason

641
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:05,400
Speaker 1: Henry where Henry went off. Henry's had a good year,

642
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:07,960
Speaker 1: and uh, I think they lean on him now more

643
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 1: than ever. They don't even play Deon Lewis barely. And

644
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:13,280
Speaker 1: one of the reasons why I worry about Nick Foles

645
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:16,400
Speaker 1: keeping up in a shootout is just Cam Robinson and

646
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 1: Joan Taylor. Their two tackles are ranked fifty two and

647
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 1: sixty nine out of about eighty, you know, tackles, So

648
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 1: that's what that's also one of the worst tackle groups

649
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 1: in the league. And if you wanted to make an

650
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 1: argument for Minshew, it's it's Foals getting hit last week,

651
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 1: which he did quite a bit, just kind of standing

652
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:35,480
Speaker 1: there and it reminded me of that kind of trope

653
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 1: where people are always like those running quarterbacks. You know

654
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:40,880
Speaker 1: it's a risky they're gonna get hurt at some point.

655
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 1: It's just like guys who get hit hard a lot

656
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:47,360
Speaker 1: are the guys who get hurt. And it's like, now

657
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,280
Speaker 1: there's no rule to it, because like Tom Brady doesn't

658
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 1: get hit because he gets rid of the ball or

659
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 1: he moves. Peyton Manning was good at that. The guys

660
00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 1: like foals who have no mobility but stand there and

661
00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 1: choke some courage but then just get destroyed. I mean,

662
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 1: that's one way to get hit hurt too. Derrick Henry

663
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 1: feels underrated. He is since last December he leads the

664
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 1: league in rushing and touchdowns. He's also I believe set

665
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:16,680
Speaker 1: to be a free agent. Seems like a guy that

666
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 1: the Titans up. There's some Leonard four Nette to his game,

667
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:23,720
Speaker 1: where the script has to be to his liking in

668
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:26,080
Speaker 1: order for him to dominate, and he can disappear for

669
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:28,440
Speaker 1: long stretches of time. Better version than of four net

670
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:35,200
Speaker 1: though he's shown. Um all right to the old Zeuser

671
00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 1: Raiders at Jets is my pick easy for a couple

672
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:40,960
Speaker 1: of reasons. Um, I do want to see the Raiders

673
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 1: in a trap game once. The last time the Raiders

674
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 1: have been in a trap game two two. It was

675
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:50,480
Speaker 1: week fifteen of two thousand two. The Raiders were in

676
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:52,560
Speaker 1: the trap. No they it's been it feels like it's

677
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 1: been a minute and uh last week. That may actually

678
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:57,560
Speaker 1: be the case, unless you go back to the playoff

679
00:33:57,640 --> 00:33:59,640
Speaker 1: year from a couple and they play the Bengals last week,

680
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 1: if you wanted to make a case for that. But

681
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:03,840
Speaker 1: a trap game and you're looking ahead to the next opponent,

682
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 1: that's good. Isn't that what a trap game is? Well,

683
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:09,120
Speaker 1: I view a trap game, is you, Yeah, you look

684
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 1: at they would look past the Jets. I mean the

685
00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:13,359
Speaker 1: Bengals slung around that. It's just like a game you're

686
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:15,880
Speaker 1: expected to win, but this much more dangerous because the

687
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:18,400
Speaker 1: Jets actually have a quarterback and it's on the road. Alright,

688
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 1: So here we are here, here are the Raiders. Yeah,

689
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:24,839
Speaker 1: coming off a game against Cincinnati. Cincinnati gave up more

690
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:27,200
Speaker 1: points than anyone in the league on a weekly basis,

691
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 1: and somehow at home, the Raiders scored seventeen and squeaked

692
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 1: by UM. And I wonder what that's about, um, Because

693
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:38,920
Speaker 1: as good as a story as the Raiders are are

694
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:40,799
Speaker 1: they a team that could be vulnerable to I know

695
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:44,960
Speaker 1: they're six and four, um, but on the road against

696
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 1: a Jets team that is by no means a good

697
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 1: team but has shown flashes of confidence. And they're coming

698
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:53,120
Speaker 1: off back to back wins off teams that are combined

699
00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:56,279
Speaker 1: three and seventeen, So that's important to keep in mind.

700
00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 1: But also, um, it seems like we're starting to get

701
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:03,200
Speaker 1: some actual progress on the offensive side of the ball.

702
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 1: Their offensive line has been better. Ryan Khalil to two

703
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:10,040
Speaker 1: big swings and missus by Joe Douglas, which I don't

704
00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: kill him for because he kind of had to hit

705
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:14,359
Speaker 1: the ground running and improvised to try to find ways

706
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 1: to improve the line, and neither move worked. Colletchi assembly

707
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:20,479
Speaker 1: didn't work at guard and then it led to behind

708
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:23,840
Speaker 1: the scenes drama about an injury and he eventually was released.

709
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:26,799
Speaker 1: Matt Khalil. They gave him eight million dollars, said we

710
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:30,399
Speaker 1: need a veteran center to stabilize the line and also

711
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 1: work with our young quarterback. And on paper again and

712
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:35,799
Speaker 1: and logically it was like, oh, this is a good move,

713
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:38,400
Speaker 1: this was a smart It was a disaster. Not only

714
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:41,120
Speaker 1: was Khalil Uh not close to the player he was

715
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:45,640
Speaker 1: UH with the Panthers. Apparently his his style of play

716
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 1: in his the way he goes about the position. UH

717
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 1: led to some confusion and was part of the reason

718
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:54,360
Speaker 1: why that line seems so out of sync is what

719
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:57,000
Speaker 1: we're hearing coming out of the Jets. So Jonathan Harrison

720
00:35:57,040 --> 00:35:59,919
Speaker 1: has replaced him at center. So there's some stability now

721
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 1: UH on that line, which should help again against the Raiders.

722
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 1: Max Crosby as a guy to look out for it.

723
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:10,239
Speaker 1: You want to talk about this the baby Raiders man

724
00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:13,320
Speaker 1: every week It's it sounds like a tired storyline, but

725
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:16,200
Speaker 1: it keeps happening every week. These guys come out and

726
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:20,000
Speaker 1: have big games. And Max Crosby had four sacks last week.

727
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:23,000
Speaker 1: He had a huge Thursday night game the week before UH.

728
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 1: In terms of pressures. UH. He is a rising guy

729
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:29,960
Speaker 1: and just another example of what Mike Mayock and John

730
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 1: Gruden have been able to do building a young core

731
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:35,400
Speaker 1: very quickly. I feel like that's the difference between like

732
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:38,880
Speaker 1: the Raiders and the Jets is having a rookie class

733
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,759
Speaker 1: come in on both sides of the ball and stay

734
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 1: you know, outside of the safety, stay healthy, and contribute

735
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:47,400
Speaker 1: every one of them. They what would the Raiders be

736
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:49,879
Speaker 1: without Josh Jacobs right now? I mean they they They

737
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 1: are leaning on these guys and they're contributing. He runs

738
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:55,440
Speaker 1: downhill like the field is tilted. I get more impressed

739
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:57,879
Speaker 1: with him. Every week there's six and one in one

740
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:00,920
Speaker 1: score games the Raiders, which means they haven't won a

741
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 1: single game all year UH by more than eight points,

742
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,239
Speaker 1: which to me is a sign of a team that's

743
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 1: you know, had the right schedule and has learned how

744
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:14,359
Speaker 1: to win close games, but is beatable, that has had

745
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:16,920
Speaker 1: some good fortune. And I do think this is the

746
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 1: trap game. I picked the Jets uh in my game

747
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:22,719
Speaker 1: Picks column because I don't think the Raiders have much

748
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:24,279
Speaker 1: of a pass rush. I think if you've got a

749
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:28,520
Speaker 1: pass rush, I just don't trust this Jets offense to

750
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:31,520
Speaker 1: do anything. But I don't think the Raiders really do.

751
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:34,279
Speaker 1: I think Crosby has been really good, but he's not

752
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:35,799
Speaker 1: gonna keep me up at night. He did a lot

753
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 1: of his damage against one of the worst tackles in

754
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:40,240
Speaker 1: the league last week, and it was nice to seem

755
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 1: Sam Donald do Sam Donald things last week. A lot

756
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:44,919
Speaker 1: of beautiful throws. They got him on the move more,

757
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:49,319
Speaker 1: they're throwing the ball short more. You know, it's less

758
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:51,399
Speaker 1: Robby Anderson, which is, you know, bad for him, he's

759
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 1: having a terrible free agent uh contract a year if

760
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:57,279
Speaker 1: he was looking to get paid next year. Good for

761
00:37:57,320 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 1: the community. But I just think it's is like a

762
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 1: coin flip game. In the Raiders luck is, uh is

763
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:04,279
Speaker 1: they don't feel like a team that's gonna like win

764
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 1: every single week. It's where don't I mean, I don't

765
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:12,719
Speaker 1: feel that good about typical trap game because next week

766
00:38:12,719 --> 00:38:15,680
Speaker 1: the Raiders are at Kansas City, and think about that.

767
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:18,080
Speaker 1: If they don't, if they stumble and get beat by

768
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 1: the Jets, they're staring at six and six, uh potentially

769
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:25,600
Speaker 1: if they don't um stage a big win on the

770
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:27,480
Speaker 1: road in Kansas City. So this is a big They

771
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 1: did a nice job. They had that home stand out

772
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:32,680
Speaker 1: of that long, long, long road trip, and they swept

773
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:36,480
Speaker 1: the homestand against Lions, Chargers Bengals. But now this will

774
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 1: be a real challenge, well know, three weeks from now,

775
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:40,719
Speaker 1: whether the Raiders are a team that you know could

776
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 1: make suse I would say this flip forget. On the

777
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:45,000
Speaker 1: other side of the trap game is the Jets, who

778
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 1: are probably in the wrong division because they just went

779
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 1: three and one against the NFC East, But you could

780
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:53,359
Speaker 1: change the vibe of a season that's gotten pretty dark

781
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 1: at times if the Jets knockout Oakland. I'm not saying

782
00:38:56,680 --> 00:38:58,719
Speaker 1: that there are answers here or that you necessarily want

783
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:01,319
Speaker 1: the coach to stick around and outa casee. But if

784
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:03,319
Speaker 1: they can pick up from here, and the Raiders have

785
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:05,239
Speaker 1: been one of the teams that have given up more

786
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:08,239
Speaker 1: twenty plus completion yards and forty plus you can you

787
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:11,560
Speaker 1: can strike on them through the air. Would be a

788
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:13,640
Speaker 1: three game winning and by the way, after that, they

789
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 1: go at Cincinnati whole Miami, So yes, everything changed. The

790
00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:20,640
Speaker 1: whole narrative around this Jet season changes. If they win

791
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:24,160
Speaker 1: against Oakland's would make me lock them up like I'm

792
00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 1: that this week? Well oh yeah, let's I want to

793
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:33,000
Speaker 1: see if if this game shows us exactly why Levian

794
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:36,600
Speaker 1: Bell did not get traded, did not get the paid

795
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:39,360
Speaker 1: a he thought he was gonna get because Josh Jacobs

796
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 1: is so much better than him. I don't know if

797
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:42,759
Speaker 1: there's a more boring running back in the league to

798
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 1: watch right now than Levion Bell. A lot of three

799
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:48,680
Speaker 1: yard runs a year. There's just doesn't have a yard

800
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:52,560
Speaker 1: run uh this year. I mean you're right when you

801
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 1: when you saw Billy Powell and last week you're like

802
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 1: that a little extra Josh Adams gotta gotta carry and

803
00:39:57,719 --> 00:39:59,759
Speaker 1: I think it was called back on penalty, but he

804
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 1: shot out of a cannon compared to Levy on Bill. Alright,

805
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 1: moving on, it is now time for Chris Wesley to

806
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:09,040
Speaker 1: make a selection. I'm gonna go with the Broncos at

807
00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:13,479
Speaker 1: the Bills. Broncos at the Bill. Fun game. It could

808
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 1: be a fun game, and the Bills might be right

809
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:19,160
Speaker 1: for the picking. I liked how well they played last week,

810
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:22,959
Speaker 1: but they are riding so high, beating a bad team

811
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:26,320
Speaker 1: to a pulp, talking about comparing it to a Thanksgiving feast.

812
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:29,799
Speaker 1: That's how much we ate out there today against the Dolphins.

813
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:33,239
Speaker 1: Give me a break, Bills. That's the that's the only

814
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:35,759
Speaker 1: offensive line that could make your defensive line look good.

815
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 1: Oh wow. And they were talking up this Tremaine Edwin's

816
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:42,440
Speaker 1: speech speech and I like a second year linebacker kind

817
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:44,600
Speaker 1: of you know, stepping into a leadership role. But after

818
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:46,200
Speaker 1: the game they were talking about it like it was

819
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:49,239
Speaker 1: you know, it was new Rockney or something. Uh, yeah,

820
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:51,600
Speaker 1: you're playing the Dolphins, like if they if they beat

821
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:53,840
Speaker 1: the Broncos. I mean, it's the best team they've beaten.

822
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:56,640
Speaker 1: Is this the best team they've beaten all year? I

823
00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 1: don't know. I guess they beat the Titans. The Titans

824
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:00,120
Speaker 1: would be the best team they do. And I I

825
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:01,840
Speaker 1: expect the Bills to win at home, but I just

826
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:03,799
Speaker 1: don't think it'll be easy. I think the I think

827
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:06,840
Speaker 1: these teams are much closer than their records would suggest

828
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 1: they are. I think Denver's offense. So we've all seen

829
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:11,280
Speaker 1: this and talked about it over the last couple of weeks.

830
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 1: Their parts are starting to play the way that you

831
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:15,759
Speaker 1: would have hoped with Philip Lindsay, Cortland, Sutton has been

832
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:18,839
Speaker 1: awesome obviously. Noah font finally has woken up and had

833
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:21,480
Speaker 1: big plays. You know, this is a tough game for

834
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 1: the Bills and they've only crossed thirty points twice all year,

835
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:27,759
Speaker 1: and it's to the Dolphins built times, to your to

836
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:30,399
Speaker 1: your point right there, and you just can't trust them. Yeah,

837
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:33,160
Speaker 1: they had long touchdown drives last week and it's really

838
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:35,200
Speaker 1: the only time all season where you could count on

839
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 1: them to score touchdowns versus field goals. But the Broncos

840
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 1: can make this tough. I could see this being like

841
00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 1: sixteen to thirteen. Buffalo ekes it out, and Stephen House

842
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 1: has not exactly been an ace in the whole either.

843
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:48,640
Speaker 1: I like the aggressiveness though. Two things that the Bill's

844
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:51,839
Speaker 1: coaching staff did, which is just they blitz a lot more.

845
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 1: They're not getting much pass rush pressure, and you have

846
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 1: such a good veteran secondary get creative, which I think

847
00:41:57,600 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 1: you can do against Brandon Allen in a in a

848
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:02,759
Speaker 1: pretty bad offensive line. And then more importantly, I think

849
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:06,280
Speaker 1: they leaned into Josh Allen's running nobility a little more elastic.

850
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:08,520
Speaker 1: That's what he does best, and he sells the hell

851
00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 1: out of a fake. You know, I'm always killing Josh Allen,

852
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:12,439
Speaker 1: but man, he is one of the best that those

853
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 1: run action plays where the defense gets confused because he's

854
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 1: so great at faking it. He's very good at running.

855
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 1: That's why they're so good in the red zone. It's like,

856
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:23,880
Speaker 1: that's what he does the best. Just lean into it.

857
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:29,280
Speaker 1: Let him be Cam Newton, you know, not right, label

858
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:32,000
Speaker 1: was creative, Like that's when they've been at their most fun,

859
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:33,799
Speaker 1: and that's when I'd be the most afraid of them

860
00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:36,760
Speaker 1: is when they're running him as much as possible. Sixteen

861
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:39,560
Speaker 1: of their twenty two first downs came by his arm

862
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:42,560
Speaker 1: or his legs. He was sort of a one man gang.

863
00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:44,319
Speaker 1: I mean, John Browne had a great game too, but

864
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:47,920
Speaker 1: that was Devin Singletary's worst game, I think. And he's

865
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:51,640
Speaker 1: playing snaps and I think four straight weeks, which means

866
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:53,839
Speaker 1: Frank Gore has used, like Greg said, only in short

867
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:57,239
Speaker 1: yardage unsolicited advice to the Bills. They bought themselves a

868
00:42:57,320 --> 00:42:58,960
Speaker 1: nice little bit of rope here with the seven and

869
00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:01,680
Speaker 1: three start. Win this game, get the eight and three

870
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:04,600
Speaker 1: because it closes out pretty tough at Dallas home, Baltimore

871
00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 1: at Pittsburgh at New England home Jets. Get yourself that

872
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:10,480
Speaker 1: eighth win and give yourself a little bit of wiggle

873
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:13,359
Speaker 1: room if things get hairy in December. I think it's

874
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 1: a big week for the a f C wild Card

875
00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:17,160
Speaker 1: race because of that. The Bills and the Raiders both

876
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:19,919
Speaker 1: in spots where if they don't win this week where

877
00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 1: they're favored, then that they could really fall off the map.

878
00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:26,239
Speaker 1: And team like teams like Mars Brown's rise up. Who knows,

879
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:29,760
Speaker 1: maybe the Jets do it with that. We talked about

880
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:35,799
Speaker 1: potentially forking the Browns. They're not dead yet. Like wait,

881
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:38,239
Speaker 1: I thought you just said there eight and eighth this year. Yeah,

882
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 1: but that's a month plus from now. That's not forking

883
00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:43,440
Speaker 1: them yet. And I, by the way, I could either

884
00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:47,359
Speaker 1: for either. Well, what a lucky guy I am. I've

885
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:49,279
Speaker 1: got the best team in football still on the door.

886
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:54,080
Speaker 1: It's the Atlanta Falcons at home that I can here

887
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:56,759
Speaker 1: about this. Well, technically we haven't gotten to it. We

888
00:43:56,800 --> 00:44:02,080
Speaker 1: haven't gotten to the first ones. That was Dan, that's

889
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:04,839
Speaker 1: on you. You just look sleepy. When I looked over

890
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:08,040
Speaker 1: to you. Dan immediately name drops the producer. I'm just

891
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:10,399
Speaker 1: in the comments section. Oh, what's going on over there?

892
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:12,960
Speaker 1: Let's let's take a quick pause, Greg to check in

893
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:17,719
Speaker 1: with the comments. This is streaming live on YouTube. Get excited. Yeah,

894
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:20,520
Speaker 1: someone said I lock up Greg giving a hot take

895
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:23,319
Speaker 1: and then backing out of locking it up, and they

896
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:27,759
Speaker 1: were correct. WHOA, what do you mean? No? I mean,

897
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:29,800
Speaker 1: how is that that's not a hot time. I'm just

898
00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:32,640
Speaker 1: saying they're gonna win a game. He doesn't mean you could?

899
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:37,759
Speaker 1: Was that? Nick Wesley also trying to get right up

900
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:39,880
Speaker 1: the you know they want a lock so bad. They

901
00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:41,839
Speaker 1: want a spicy lock. Here we go. How about let's

902
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 1: go down to lock up the Falcons. You know I

903
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 1: was doing that the whole time. When you can lock

904
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:50,320
Speaker 1: up a three and seven team, you gotta do it

905
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:54,960
Speaker 1: every time. Twice on Sunday. The Falcons have a plus

906
00:44:54,960 --> 00:44:59,759
Speaker 1: sixty scoring differential since halftime of the Seahawks game to

907
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:02,160
Speaker 1: half weeks ago. How about that. I don't think they'll

908
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:04,200
Speaker 1: necessarily keep that up, but I do like the matchup

909
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:07,520
Speaker 1: against as the fantasy heads would say, a pass funnel

910
00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:10,320
Speaker 1: as strong as the Bucks, which is like you've gotta

911
00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:14,640
Speaker 1: you've gotta running. You know, great run defense, but terrible passing.

912
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:17,319
Speaker 1: That's a pass funnel. Oh you want to invite Matt

913
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:19,560
Speaker 1: Ryan to throw the ball fifty times? I love it.

914
00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:21,400
Speaker 1: I wanted to make sure Julio Jones is playing in

915
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:24,359
Speaker 1: this game. He did return to practice on Thursday. That's huge.

916
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:27,680
Speaker 1: They still without Austin Hooper, which worries me, but I

917
00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:30,680
Speaker 1: do think they're just a much more complete team than

918
00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:34,520
Speaker 1: the Bucks. Maybe they're not gonna dominate defensively the rest

919
00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:36,120
Speaker 1: of the year, but I do think Matt Ryan and

920
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:38,600
Speaker 1: the offense is gonna be really good, and they're going

921
00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:41,120
Speaker 1: up against Jameis Winston and they'll get pressure on him.

922
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:43,600
Speaker 1: And I think the most disappointing thing as a Winston fan,

923
00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:45,800
Speaker 1: based on what I thought about him as a rookie,

924
00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:48,239
Speaker 1: is his pocket presence. As West would put it, he

925
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:52,480
Speaker 1: called him a gangly giraft back there. I thought his

926
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:54,959
Speaker 1: pocket presence was kind of one of his strengths because

927
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:58,239
Speaker 1: on some place he does have that great movement where

928
00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:00,439
Speaker 1: he buys time for himself. But I think as he's

929
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 1: gotten more mature in the league, he seems more frenetic, uh,

930
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:09,680
Speaker 1: and that skill set has gotten worse. And I think

931
00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:12,560
Speaker 1: that's not gonna work. Mark that. I mean no disrespect.

932
00:46:12,719 --> 00:46:14,640
Speaker 1: You know I love you. I'm jumping out of our

933
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 1: lock and I'm jumping over to Falcons Nation. I'm I'm excited.

934
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:23,960
Speaker 1: I want it. I love this game for the Falcons.

935
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:25,480
Speaker 1: And you know what, you know what else he needs

936
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:27,759
Speaker 1: to be known right here? He's going for a double lock. Wait, no,

937
00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:30,080
Speaker 1: that's not a thing. What needs to be remembered here,

938
00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:33,479
Speaker 1: Not only there is the Atlanta Falcons defense. Now West

939
00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 1: bears some people, Um, Jamison Winston is coming up on

940
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:45,560
Speaker 1: a very Uh, sobering century milestone. He has ninety eight

941
00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:50,279
Speaker 1: turnovers in less than five seasons. He's gonna set that

942
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:53,000
Speaker 1: mark in the building where you can get a hot

943
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:56,000
Speaker 1: dog and a beer for five bucks in the in

944
00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:59,200
Speaker 1: the modern risk averse NFL, it's hard to have that

945
00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:02,280
Speaker 1: many turnovers, uh, and not get bench. They've had endless

946
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:05,439
Speaker 1: um faith in Winston to turn around. He just he's

947
00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:08,400
Speaker 1: just so sloppy. And it's it's proven now that Bruce

948
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:11,080
Speaker 1: arians as respected as he is as an offensive he

949
00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:13,719
Speaker 1: couldn't fixed him either. One of my not looking too

950
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:15,439
Speaker 1: far ahead and we're in the middle of the seas still,

951
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:18,040
Speaker 1: but who is gonna buy in on Jameis Winson in

952
00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:21,280
Speaker 1: the offseason? And what will they buy in him as

953
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:25,560
Speaker 1: as a backup quarterback or like the guy like A

954
00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:28,600
Speaker 1: with a first round pick that's ultimately gonna be the guy.

955
00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:30,839
Speaker 1: I would like to see him at some point with

956
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:33,680
Speaker 1: like A. I don't think he's the worst starter in

957
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:36,080
Speaker 1: the league. He's just he's closer to that. He does

958
00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:39,880
Speaker 1: make a lot of places. He's just they've given up twenties.

959
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:43,200
Speaker 1: Here's another record breaking day that they could have on Sunday.

960
00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:45,640
Speaker 1: They've given up twenty seven points in eight straight games.

961
00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:47,799
Speaker 1: They're only the third team ever to do that. They

962
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:50,680
Speaker 1: can break the record by giving up twenty seven on Sunday.

963
00:47:50,719 --> 00:47:53,680
Speaker 1: That's what reminds me the Bucks. To me, they are production,

964
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:57,400
Speaker 1: not wins, points not wins. It's like you get you

965
00:47:57,440 --> 00:47:59,719
Speaker 1: get these big numbers years in a row, and they

966
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:01,760
Speaker 1: see to be the same thing. This year, you're getting

967
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:05,160
Speaker 1: pass rush, but it's not changing the game either. Went

968
00:48:05,239 --> 00:48:08,440
Speaker 1: to your point on Winston, his eighteen picks are the

969
00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:11,759
Speaker 1: second most by any player through ten games in over

970
00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:15,440
Speaker 1: two decades. I mean he's killing them with his blackup

971
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:18,439
Speaker 1: pocket presence with you never keep your job this long

972
00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:21,480
Speaker 1: to be able to throw thirty interceptions. It's it's got

973
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 1: to be a couple of different factors in place to

974
00:48:23,719 --> 00:48:25,759
Speaker 1: let it happen. And that could be where we like

975
00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:28,839
Speaker 1: his tenure, unless he does get benched. Uh finally, but

976
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:32,640
Speaker 1: who knows. If his tenure ends with a thirty interception season,

977
00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:35,160
Speaker 1: it would be so fitting uh and the and two

978
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:37,960
Speaker 1: for the Bucks, as as bad as that is, and

979
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:40,239
Speaker 1: as the idea of oh my god, we invested so

980
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:44,439
Speaker 1: much time in this guy and believe them for there's

981
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:46,680
Speaker 1: no decision It's like, we're not gonna be on the

982
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:49,160
Speaker 1: fence about this guy anymore. It just didn't work and

983
00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:52,319
Speaker 1: you gotta move on. You get a compensatory pick for him.

984
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:56,080
Speaker 1: How about that one question, Greg about your Falcons as

985
00:48:56,080 --> 00:49:00,800
Speaker 1: of week? Do you have more confidence in their defense

986
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:03,440
Speaker 1: or in an offense with no running game and no

987
00:49:03,560 --> 00:49:08,200
Speaker 1: Austin Hooper. I would say the offense still because it's

988
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:11,880
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan and Julio Jones and Calvin Ridley, trust that

989
00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:14,239
Speaker 1: passing game, trust that quarter. And I never thought I'd

990
00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:17,759
Speaker 1: be asking that question, but but here we are. Don't

991
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:19,480
Speaker 1: get them to what back out of this lock that

992
00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:24,279
Speaker 1: is due? Feel really good? I felt conflicted about that one.

993
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:26,560
Speaker 1: Are our lock? Mark this one? There weren't a lot

994
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:28,920
Speaker 1: of obvious ones on the board. I don't feel this

995
00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:31,080
Speaker 1: isn't the safest one in the world. I'll agree with

996
00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:33,400
Speaker 1: that Mark. Coming out of Sunday, people are gonna be

997
00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:36,279
Speaker 1: talking about Brian Schottenheimer was getting head coach interviews after

998
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:41,640
Speaker 1: they wax the Eagles. All right, now we snake back.

999
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:47,560
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and um, I really did not do a

1000
00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:50,120
Speaker 1: good job drafting. I take I take take it back, West.

1001
00:49:50,120 --> 00:49:53,040
Speaker 1: I should have just taken that Cowboys. Uh, I didn't

1002
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:58,880
Speaker 1: see whole that's your whole story. Yeah, I blew it

1003
00:49:59,239 --> 00:50:01,560
Speaker 1: because I'm taking because I didn't realize I'd be owned

1004
00:50:01,640 --> 00:50:06,880
Speaker 1: up with three ten am games and now I'm doing.

1005
00:50:07,239 --> 00:50:10,239
Speaker 1: Now I'm doing Assessler strategy and taking the worst game

1006
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:14,240
Speaker 1: possible and that's Lions Redskins. And I'm sorry that Jeff

1007
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:16,920
Speaker 1: Driscoll that I'm saying you're involved in the worst game

1008
00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:19,520
Speaker 1: possible because you know what, You've given me a little something.

1009
00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:24,960
Speaker 1: You've made these game passes experiences without Matthew Stafford enjoyable.

1010
00:50:25,120 --> 00:50:27,240
Speaker 1: You made a lot of throws last week. Jeff Driscle

1011
00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:30,840
Speaker 1: made more quality throws last week than eight, ten, twelve

1012
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:33,480
Speaker 1: starters out there in the NFL. So credit to him

1013
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:36,120
Speaker 1: and Darryl Bevil And uh, I think Jeff Dristle is

1014
00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:38,439
Speaker 1: gonna get a win as a starting quarterback this week.

1015
00:50:38,440 --> 00:50:42,040
Speaker 1: Why not? You can move to ate some plays with

1016
00:50:42,080 --> 00:50:45,000
Speaker 1: his feet. Oh, he moved the Bengals moved him the

1017
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:47,759
Speaker 1: wide receiver. At some point, he might be the most Scarborough.

1018
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:53,240
Speaker 1: He might be the most athletic quarterback other than Lamar Jackson, Hawk,

1019
00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:57,160
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray Hawk with you know Andrew Hawkins who does

1020
00:50:57,200 --> 00:50:59,960
Speaker 1: the game to have you show with me. Bengals player,

1021
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:03,200
Speaker 1: the Bead mcgost players would just like rave about drifts

1022
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:06,719
Speaker 1: call on the basketball court and just like everything insane

1023
00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:09,000
Speaker 1: thing that he was just like the best athlete on that.

1024
00:51:09,080 --> 00:51:11,200
Speaker 1: So he's the new Josh McCown. There you go. The

1025
00:51:11,239 --> 00:51:13,600
Speaker 1: Redskins have the worst home field advantage in the NFL.

1026
00:51:13,760 --> 00:51:16,440
Speaker 1: Yes or no, Yeah, because you can get We have

1027
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:18,520
Speaker 1: people telling us and tweeting and us saying that they're

1028
00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:21,400
Speaker 1: getting into the game for like thirty bucks. This is

1029
00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:25,160
Speaker 1: a you know, in whatever. But the Redskins feel like

1030
00:51:25,239 --> 00:51:28,160
Speaker 1: an operation that almost needs to be taken over by

1031
00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:30,319
Speaker 1: the Commissioner's office at this point. The same way, wasn't

1032
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:32,640
Speaker 1: that a Milwaukee Brewers thing that happened way back when

1033
00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:36,080
Speaker 1: in baseball? Uh No, he was just the owner. He was, Yeah,

1034
00:51:36,120 --> 00:51:39,720
Speaker 1: well that was weird too, and finding nothing about baseball.

1035
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:41,799
Speaker 1: But they've done it, and I think they've done it

1036
00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:43,880
Speaker 1: in all the major sports at one time or another.

1037
00:51:44,080 --> 00:51:46,720
Speaker 1: It's a crisis bubbling up in so many different ways

1038
00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:48,719
Speaker 1: on the field, off the field, in terms of a

1039
00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:50,920
Speaker 1: great fan base that's been left by the side of

1040
00:51:50,920 --> 00:51:53,040
Speaker 1: the road like a dead corpse. I mean, come on,

1041
00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:57,719
Speaker 1: I would like to make a an apology to the

1042
00:51:57,760 --> 00:52:01,080
Speaker 1: Lions and their fans my theory that the line should

1043
00:52:01,080 --> 00:52:04,239
Speaker 1: be flexed out of Thanksgiving. People do not like that.

1044
00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:09,240
Speaker 1: It's unfair. Dave Feldman, uh, big social shadowy league figure

1045
00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:13,120
Speaker 1: here um and fellow Peloton rider. He came after me

1046
00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:16,360
Speaker 1: really hard. He was not happy with me, and it

1047
00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:19,160
Speaker 1: was a similar Everyone that has been upset has the

1048
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:21,520
Speaker 1: same thing. Don't take this from us. And then I

1049
00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:25,399
Speaker 1: thought to myself, the Lions, you know, sad franchise, my team,

1050
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:27,640
Speaker 1: the Jets. What if the Jets got Thanksgiving? Would I

1051
00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:30,680
Speaker 1: want that taken away? Now? I wouldn't. So I'm sorry

1052
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:36,799
Speaker 1: and I and listen, would it be better if Would

1053
00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:39,440
Speaker 1: it be better if the Cowboys and Patriots, for example,

1054
00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:42,799
Speaker 1: this week we're playing on Thanksgiving like a game of

1055
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:48,000
Speaker 1: that caliber. Yeah? Probably, But um, I understand traditions. So

1056
00:52:48,040 --> 00:52:51,279
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. There's no there's no jokes. I just I

1057
00:52:51,320 --> 00:52:57,320
Speaker 1: didn't mean to backhanded compliment. Well, I think you're your strategy.

1058
00:52:57,360 --> 00:52:59,520
Speaker 1: There are your comm initial comment and I got off

1059
00:52:59,520 --> 00:53:02,839
Speaker 1: Scott for because I strongly back to you and didn't

1060
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:05,439
Speaker 1: hear about it from anyone. But uh so I thank

1061
00:53:05,480 --> 00:53:07,839
Speaker 1: you for apologizing for both of us. But I thought

1062
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:11,279
Speaker 1: that was earnest and well done. Yeah, thanks man, I

1063
00:53:11,320 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 1: know you mean it too, I do. I know you

1064
00:53:13,040 --> 00:53:15,360
Speaker 1: mean it. No, I like I'm I'm happy that the

1065
00:53:15,440 --> 00:53:18,000
Speaker 1: fans of Detroit have that. I know you mean it.

1066
00:53:18,440 --> 00:53:21,080
Speaker 1: Back to this game for a second. I think Haskins

1067
00:53:21,120 --> 00:53:23,840
Speaker 1: has replaced Mason Rudolph as the hardest quarterback to watch.

1068
00:53:24,440 --> 00:53:26,399
Speaker 1: He makes a couple of plays, though, but yeah, they

1069
00:53:26,880 --> 00:53:28,680
Speaker 1: at least I don't think he knows what he's doing

1070
00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:30,960
Speaker 1: back there. They need a developmental league for guys like

1071
00:53:31,080 --> 00:53:33,240
Speaker 1: him because he is not ready to play in the NFL.

1072
00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:35,000
Speaker 1: This would be the week to get a win, though.

1073
00:53:35,040 --> 00:53:37,600
Speaker 1: Trey Flowers is hurt. He's been the only pass rush

1074
00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:39,720
Speaker 1: that they've had. He's played pretty well over the last month,

1075
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:41,719
Speaker 1: and it looks like he's gonna miss the game. They're

1076
00:53:41,760 --> 00:53:46,000
Speaker 1: missing another starter up front, and I don't know this

1077
00:53:46,080 --> 00:53:48,600
Speaker 1: line's defense. You got Darius guys in there. Your boy

1078
00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:50,520
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson, I don't know if he's ever gonna break that.

1079
00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:53,719
Speaker 1: Walter Payton now he's not getting snaps and now he's hurt.

1080
00:53:55,239 --> 00:53:57,200
Speaker 1: You don't think they'll bring him back as a sometimes

1081
00:53:57,200 --> 00:53:59,279
Speaker 1: starter for next season two, and well, he's not done

1082
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:03,759
Speaker 1: for this season. He's just gotta I mean, I think

1083
00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:07,439
Speaker 1: he entered the season three behind Peyton for the touchdown mark.

1084
00:54:07,520 --> 00:54:09,480
Speaker 1: It's not even first place. And I don't know if

1085
00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:11,640
Speaker 1: he's gotten a touchdown you this season. Maybe one. They

1086
00:54:11,719 --> 00:54:14,000
Speaker 1: might want to take that outside pitch out of the playbook.

1087
00:54:14,080 --> 00:54:20,120
Speaker 1: He's not making anybody miss laterally, it's fair dog Lighten

1088
00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:23,440
Speaker 1: lines released tackle dance skipper. I want you guys to

1089
00:54:23,440 --> 00:54:26,040
Speaker 1: know that he came across my wire. Game changer. All right,

1090
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:30,520
Speaker 1: up next, Chris westling Oh back to me. I'll take uh,

1091
00:54:30,800 --> 00:54:35,319
Speaker 1: I'll take my boy Mason Rudolf, who like, how many

1092
00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:37,880
Speaker 1: different ways can the We can West take the Broncos

1093
00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:40,520
Speaker 1: and Mason Rudolph every single week? Well, you guys are

1094
00:54:40,520 --> 00:54:42,319
Speaker 1: just gonna leave him out there. I mean, what did

1095
00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:45,240
Speaker 1: the other options take? M r Bisky? How about the West?

1096
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:48,960
Speaker 1: The guy on the roof, Um, he's still there. He

1097
00:54:49,040 --> 00:54:50,960
Speaker 1: needs that he needs that w to get off the

1098
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:54,520
Speaker 1: roof in Cincinnati. I'm not see I'm so not plugged

1099
00:54:54,520 --> 00:54:57,920
Speaker 1: into this story. Everyone keeps sending me this guy. It's

1100
00:54:58,880 --> 00:55:02,720
Speaker 1: it's a copycat. This happened in with wild Man Walker

1101
00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:05,880
Speaker 1: who lived on a billboard for sixty one days. Wild

1102
00:55:05,880 --> 00:55:09,120
Speaker 1: Man Walker a famous local entertainer. This guy just some

1103
00:55:09,239 --> 00:55:13,000
Speaker 1: jamoke walker. It's happened a few times, stuff like it

1104
00:55:13,160 --> 00:55:15,960
Speaker 1: was a trope in very Yeah, late eighties, early nineties

1105
00:55:16,040 --> 00:55:19,680
Speaker 1: attention Grabber West, usually for a radio promotion. Yeah. West

1106
00:55:19,719 --> 00:55:23,640
Speaker 1: sent me a photo um of wild men walk around

1107
00:55:23,640 --> 00:55:26,080
Speaker 1: the roof and he actually had a mailbox on the roof.

1108
00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:27,759
Speaker 1: I thought it was a really nice touch, with the

1109
00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:31,080
Speaker 1: lightful touching. You're right that that is commitment to the bit.

1110
00:55:31,280 --> 00:55:34,560
Speaker 1: And wild Man Walker was that kind of personality where

1111
00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:38,640
Speaker 1: he was from the roof. I believe he did well,

1112
00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:41,799
Speaker 1: what's the point endless hits up to the billboard in

1113
00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:44,200
Speaker 1: the business place he had, they had built like a

1114
00:55:44,239 --> 00:55:46,280
Speaker 1: man cave up there for him. He was actually living

1115
00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:49,480
Speaker 1: on the billboard. It was amazing. So West, does he

1116
00:55:49,560 --> 00:55:52,400
Speaker 1: come off the roof? This guy whoever this jamoke is

1117
00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:55,600
Speaker 1: this chooch, this guy that's just taken off the wild

1118
00:55:55,640 --> 00:56:00,359
Speaker 1: Man Walker's angle. I don't think so, because because Ryan

1119
00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:03,839
Speaker 1: Finley's bad uh Bengals quarterback. I mean, he's as bad

1120
00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:07,719
Speaker 1: as Mason Rudolph. Probably all their throws are scripted one

1121
00:56:07,840 --> 00:56:11,440
Speaker 1: read quick throws early in the game designed you know,

1122
00:56:11,480 --> 00:56:13,279
Speaker 1: this is what good coaches do, get the ball out

1123
00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:16,440
Speaker 1: of the rookie quarterback's hands, and those coaches don't go,

1124
00:56:16,560 --> 00:56:18,680
Speaker 1: those players don't go anywhere. He's off the mark on

1125
00:56:18,719 --> 00:56:22,320
Speaker 1: his checkdowns like it's it's a awful offense to watch.

1126
00:56:23,040 --> 00:56:26,160
Speaker 1: And I know Greg tweeted about this. They are Zach

1127
00:56:26,200 --> 00:56:28,319
Speaker 1: Taylor didn't really answer the question when they asked if

1128
00:56:28,360 --> 00:56:31,200
Speaker 1: he's playing his best quarterback. He's certainly not playing his

1129
00:56:31,239 --> 00:56:34,879
Speaker 1: best quarterback, not even by a long shot. So I mean,

1130
00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:38,000
Speaker 1: I understand why they wanted to get a glimpse at him,

1131
00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:40,640
Speaker 1: but that's probably what like late December is for. What

1132
00:56:40,680 --> 00:56:45,120
Speaker 1: was his answer? So they asked him, does Ryan Finley

1133
00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:48,799
Speaker 1: give the team the best chance of winning? And his

1134
00:56:48,880 --> 00:56:51,800
Speaker 1: answer was, we wouldn't play Ryan if we didn't feel

1135
00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:53,960
Speaker 1: like he gave us a chance to win, which is,

1136
00:56:54,120 --> 00:56:57,560
Speaker 1: you know, a clear non answers. It's not a bad answer,

1137
00:56:57,600 --> 00:57:00,040
Speaker 1: but it's of course he can't say that he is

1138
00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:01,919
Speaker 1: him the best chance to win because his players would

1139
00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:04,680
Speaker 1: know he's lying. I mean, of course Andy Dalton's better.

1140
00:57:04,719 --> 00:57:07,040
Speaker 1: I was willing to be surprised by Finley, but then

1141
00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:09,320
Speaker 1: he threw you know, under four yards per attempt against

1142
00:57:09,320 --> 00:57:11,600
Speaker 1: the Raiders, so that you know, Andy Dalton could have

1143
00:57:11,640 --> 00:57:13,799
Speaker 1: probably won that game if you wanted to. You know, really,

1144
00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:16,560
Speaker 1: I think he would have too. And I've killed Dalton

1145
00:57:16,560 --> 00:57:18,160
Speaker 1: and I and it's a sort of a be careful

1146
00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:20,439
Speaker 1: what you wish for, because I've wanted to see someone

1147
00:57:20,520 --> 00:57:23,160
Speaker 1: else play quarterback. But I like quarterback switches, when you

1148
00:57:23,200 --> 00:57:26,840
Speaker 1: go from type of quarterback A to something drastically different

1149
00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:29,160
Speaker 1: and try to liven up an offense that they brought

1150
00:57:29,160 --> 00:57:31,600
Speaker 1: in Zach Taylor. You know, it couldn't be more of

1151
00:57:31,600 --> 00:57:34,840
Speaker 1: an opposite Sean McVeigh effect if you tried, because nothing's

1152
00:57:34,920 --> 00:57:37,880
Speaker 1: changed has gotten worse. He seems relatively powerless to me.

1153
00:57:38,200 --> 00:57:42,320
Speaker 1: The team is so ultra lifeless and also looks no

1154
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:44,800
Speaker 1: different than the same issues and the same cast of

1155
00:57:44,880 --> 00:57:47,080
Speaker 1: characters as last year. And I don't need Trent Green

1156
00:57:47,320 --> 00:57:50,120
Speaker 1: telling me thirty five times during the game that Joe

1157
00:57:50,160 --> 00:57:52,400
Speaker 1: Mixon's family all bought tickets and how great it is

1158
00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:54,480
Speaker 1: and how they believe in the Bengals. It's like, give

1159
00:57:54,520 --> 00:57:57,680
Speaker 1: me a break. This team is going nowhere. So annoyed

1160
00:57:57,720 --> 00:58:00,280
Speaker 1: at Tred Green all last Sunday for Blow and Well,

1161
00:58:00,320 --> 00:58:04,160
Speaker 1: because they refused to even criticize an operation that is

1162
00:58:04,400 --> 00:58:08,200
Speaker 1: that is launchly saying we are not going to keep

1163
00:58:08,280 --> 00:58:10,200
Speaker 1: up with thirty one other teams. We're gonna do it

1164
00:58:10,240 --> 00:58:11,920
Speaker 1: our way, and it's gonna be a problem for if

1165
00:58:11,920 --> 00:58:13,640
Speaker 1: you're a fan of this. I don't think they're chanking.

1166
00:58:13,840 --> 00:58:16,480
Speaker 1: I don't think they're trying to lose. But as upset

1167
00:58:16,520 --> 00:58:21,280
Speaker 1: as everyone was in September about Miami, I think playing

1168
00:58:21,320 --> 00:58:23,880
Speaker 1: a quarterback that's worse and maybe they do think that

1169
00:58:23,920 --> 00:58:25,440
Speaker 1: he could have had a future and you want to

1170
00:58:25,480 --> 00:58:27,320
Speaker 1: evaluate him and now is the time to find out,

1171
00:58:27,440 --> 00:58:28,920
Speaker 1: or else you get the number one pick. It's kind

1172
00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:32,040
Speaker 1: of like win win if you're the Bengals, or I

1173
00:58:32,080 --> 00:58:34,560
Speaker 1: think that's a little more egregious that you're you're you're

1174
00:58:34,600 --> 00:58:36,960
Speaker 1: playing a guy that you pretty much know is not

1175
00:58:37,400 --> 00:58:40,600
Speaker 1: is going to hurt your team's chances of winning if

1176
00:58:40,640 --> 00:58:44,160
Speaker 1: you're not tanking, and we haven't heard that connected to Cincinnati,

1177
00:58:44,560 --> 00:58:47,439
Speaker 1: certainly not even close to the level of Miami. Uh,

1178
00:58:47,520 --> 00:58:49,760
Speaker 1: then it was just a huge mistake to bench Dalton

1179
00:58:49,800 --> 00:58:51,600
Speaker 1: because you got well, I think they are. I think

1180
00:58:51,600 --> 00:58:54,360
Speaker 1: this guy's this head coach has to win a game.

1181
00:58:54,440 --> 00:58:57,120
Speaker 1: I mean, we're now they put themselves in position by

1182
00:58:57,160 --> 00:58:59,480
Speaker 1: putting this kid in the quarterback where they can potentially

1183
00:58:59,520 --> 00:59:03,080
Speaker 1: go own sixteen and that that sticks with the organization forever.

1184
00:59:03,760 --> 00:59:08,840
Speaker 1: It's in its Cat Tarrell, who once covered the Bengals,

1185
00:59:09,240 --> 00:59:11,640
Speaker 1: suggested after I tweeted about it and now she covers

1186
00:59:11,640 --> 00:59:13,760
Speaker 1: the Saints doesn't does an awesome job on the athletic

1187
00:59:14,400 --> 00:59:18,200
Speaker 1: that it suggested to her just from the outside that

1188
00:59:18,240 --> 00:59:20,120
Speaker 1: he's the one not making that he's not the one

1189
00:59:20,160 --> 00:59:23,320
Speaker 1: making the decisions. That's the type of answer you make

1190
00:59:23,520 --> 00:59:26,080
Speaker 1: when you're not the one that making the decisions. And

1191
00:59:26,120 --> 00:59:27,760
Speaker 1: that made a lot of sense to me. And that

1192
00:59:27,880 --> 00:59:31,640
Speaker 1: goes back to why Chris Wesseling quit and on the

1193
00:59:31,680 --> 00:59:34,520
Speaker 1: Bengals all those years ago and made that dossie. I

1194
00:59:34,600 --> 00:59:37,280
Speaker 1: give Brian Flora has a lot of credit for playing

1195
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:41,520
Speaker 1: his best quarterback when the Redskins are not, the Bengals

1196
00:59:41,560 --> 00:59:46,480
Speaker 1: are not, the Steelers arguably are not. I mean, yeah,

1197
00:59:46,600 --> 00:59:48,320
Speaker 1: we gotta see a little more a Duck Hodges, but

1198
00:59:48,840 --> 00:59:51,720
Speaker 1: but but definitely, the Bengals and Redskins are not playing

1199
00:59:51,720 --> 00:59:57,439
Speaker 1: their best quarterbacks and the Dolphins are, um right, yeah,

1200
00:59:57,600 --> 01:00:01,800
Speaker 1: how many games and rude off by the way. Erase

1201
01:00:01,920 --> 01:00:05,200
Speaker 1: that stingfest that you made us watch last week, Missa Rudolph,

1202
01:00:05,200 --> 01:00:12,240
Speaker 1: please the demon two and eight at the Bears. Ooh,

1203
01:00:12,320 --> 01:00:14,640
Speaker 1: this is a rough one. This one will not be

1204
01:00:14,680 --> 01:00:19,560
Speaker 1: getting a lot of love nationally, so I will try

1205
01:00:19,600 --> 01:00:22,360
Speaker 1: to do my best for our national podcast to give

1206
01:00:22,360 --> 01:00:25,640
Speaker 1: it the respect it deserves as a game that features

1207
01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:31,160
Speaker 1: professional football players giving it. They're all, um, Mr Rbiski

1208
01:00:31,320 --> 01:00:34,800
Speaker 1: has a hit pointer, but apparently he will be playing

1209
01:00:35,000 --> 01:00:38,840
Speaker 1: this week, looks like, so we'll see where that goes. Now.

1210
01:00:40,200 --> 01:00:45,120
Speaker 1: Is the toothpaste out of the old container, as they say,

1211
01:00:45,200 --> 01:00:49,160
Speaker 1: the tube by taking him out of the game, um,

1212
01:00:49,200 --> 01:00:51,680
Speaker 1: because he could have I still think that something was

1213
01:00:51,720 --> 01:00:53,800
Speaker 1: still weird about all that. And they said, oh, he

1214
01:00:53,920 --> 01:00:58,080
Speaker 1: was injured, but the the intimate sideline exchange between Naggie

1215
01:00:58,080 --> 01:01:01,240
Speaker 1: and Trabiski and fact that you know he could have

1216
01:01:01,280 --> 01:01:03,600
Speaker 1: played for three more minutes of game time and survived.

1217
01:01:04,320 --> 01:01:07,520
Speaker 1: So I think there was some naggy dr Shall win

1218
01:01:07,560 --> 01:01:09,640
Speaker 1: in on that. What did Shall say? I need to

1219
01:01:09,880 --> 01:01:14,880
Speaker 1: other quarterbacks with more egregious aches and pains played through

1220
01:01:14,880 --> 01:01:18,720
Speaker 1: them least so James and Mitchell Trobinsky. The injury occurred

1221
01:01:18,720 --> 01:01:21,880
Speaker 1: in the second quarter. Right, So Peggy's explanation made sense.

1222
01:01:22,520 --> 01:01:26,120
Speaker 1: He pulled Trabinsky once he saw the injury started to

1223
01:01:26,160 --> 01:01:30,080
Speaker 1: affect the quarterback's decision making. Okay, that made sense to me.

1224
01:01:30,640 --> 01:01:33,720
Speaker 1: All Right, well, let's hope it's better because if this

1225
01:01:33,840 --> 01:01:36,600
Speaker 1: hip pointer comes back, I guess he'll be taken out

1226
01:01:36,600 --> 01:01:39,000
Speaker 1: of the game again with an injury. But I just

1227
01:01:39,040 --> 01:01:41,680
Speaker 1: wonder if if this is just the beginning of the end.

1228
01:01:41,680 --> 01:01:46,120
Speaker 1: We'll remember the Sunday night game and as kind of, oh,

1229
01:01:46,160 --> 01:01:48,560
Speaker 1: they are not going to get better with him. And

1230
01:01:48,640 --> 01:01:50,320
Speaker 1: this is just because that was kind of like a

1231
01:01:50,360 --> 01:01:52,760
Speaker 1: referendum game. I know they had the season had already

1232
01:01:53,160 --> 01:01:55,720
Speaker 1: kind of spun into a bad place already, but maybe

1233
01:01:55,720 --> 01:01:58,120
Speaker 1: they could have kind of gotten it back together in

1234
01:01:58,120 --> 01:02:00,520
Speaker 1: prime time and they didn't even come close. So I

1235
01:02:00,520 --> 01:02:04,280
Speaker 1: think we're seeing the end of the Trabinsky era obviously. Uh.

1236
01:02:04,320 --> 01:02:06,840
Speaker 1: And then on the Giant side of it, there's been

1237
01:02:06,880 --> 01:02:09,240
Speaker 1: a lot of talk this. You know, we've had our

1238
01:02:09,800 --> 01:02:13,440
Speaker 1: disagreements with the injury stuff, Greg about whether you should

1239
01:02:13,440 --> 01:02:15,720
Speaker 1: say a guy should you know, rest a little bit

1240
01:02:15,720 --> 01:02:19,120
Speaker 1: longer that I am all anti this. Let's shut down

1241
01:02:19,120 --> 01:02:21,680
Speaker 1: se kuon Barkley for the rest of the year talk,

1242
01:02:21,800 --> 01:02:25,160
Speaker 1: because no one is saying that he's actually um still injured.

1243
01:02:25,200 --> 01:02:27,880
Speaker 1: I don't know where that came from. That was just

1244
01:02:27,960 --> 01:02:30,080
Speaker 1: something that was being brought up a lot, I guess

1245
01:02:30,080 --> 01:02:32,680
Speaker 1: by the media and they were being asked it, and

1246
01:02:32,720 --> 01:02:35,680
Speaker 1: both side, both the head coach Pat Shermer and Sae

1247
01:02:35,800 --> 01:02:37,920
Speaker 1: Juan Barkley shot it down and said that we have

1248
01:02:37,960 --> 01:02:40,680
Speaker 1: no interest in in um shutting this thing down. So

1249
01:02:40,760 --> 01:02:43,240
Speaker 1: it will be interesting, I guess, to see how Barkley looks,

1250
01:02:43,240 --> 01:02:45,680
Speaker 1: because that has been one thing that's been missing from

1251
01:02:45,680 --> 01:02:48,760
Speaker 1: this season compared to last season, was how explosive and

1252
01:02:48,800 --> 01:02:52,480
Speaker 1: exciting on a week by week basis. Sat kuon Barkley

1253
01:02:52,560 --> 01:02:54,720
Speaker 1: is maybe he gets back his mojo against the Bears.

1254
01:02:54,720 --> 01:02:58,480
Speaker 1: Bears defense that is good but not great. Sterling Shepherd

1255
01:02:59,120 --> 01:03:01,720
Speaker 1: is on act at least to return for this game.

1256
01:03:01,720 --> 01:03:03,960
Speaker 1: It's not official. He's gotten close before and then there

1257
01:03:04,000 --> 01:03:06,480
Speaker 1: was a setback, so we'll see. That would help Daniel

1258
01:03:06,520 --> 01:03:10,040
Speaker 1: Jones a lot. Uh. I don't I don't think it

1259
01:03:10,120 --> 01:03:12,680
Speaker 1: matters like picking this game, whether Trabiski plays or not,

1260
01:03:12,960 --> 01:03:14,720
Speaker 1: there's not much of a difference. They they're last in

1261
01:03:14,760 --> 01:03:18,160
Speaker 1: the league and explosive plays. They're not using Alan Robinson

1262
01:03:18,280 --> 01:03:21,640
Speaker 1: nearly to the you know, full capability. Like Blake Bortles

1263
01:03:21,640 --> 01:03:23,840
Speaker 1: did a better job hooking up Allen Robinson with with

1264
01:03:24,000 --> 01:03:26,600
Speaker 1: big plays than than the Bears are doing. With that said,

1265
01:03:26,640 --> 01:03:29,840
Speaker 1: the Bears could be the ultimate false hope team because

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Speaker 1: I still think they're the favorite in this game, and

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01:03:32,160 --> 01:03:35,360
Speaker 1: then they're on Thanksgiving Day against old Jeff Driscoll get

1268
01:03:35,400 --> 01:03:39,120
Speaker 1: ready for that at nine thirty. Uh, and you know

1269
01:03:39,160 --> 01:03:42,120
Speaker 1: they're Bears are capable of losing any game, but they're

1270
01:03:42,120 --> 01:03:44,480
Speaker 1: probably favorites right now to go six, to get to

1271
01:03:44,560 --> 01:03:47,160
Speaker 1: six and six and still be just hanging around before

1272
01:03:47,200 --> 01:03:50,160
Speaker 1: the schedule gets very hard and then the bottom falls out.

1273
01:03:50,200 --> 01:03:52,480
Speaker 1: So in a in a painful season for Bears fan,

1274
01:03:52,680 --> 01:03:55,320
Speaker 1: I feel like they might tease them a little more

1275
01:03:55,400 --> 01:03:57,280
Speaker 1: over the next couple of weeks by beat a couple

1276
01:03:57,280 --> 01:04:00,240
Speaker 1: of bad teams. My boldest note was this game makes

1277
01:04:00,240 --> 01:04:04,080
Speaker 1: me sad, because it does because it's it's you know,

1278
01:04:04,120 --> 01:04:06,560
Speaker 1: and the Giants. So the Giants, and we're probably looking

1279
01:04:06,600 --> 01:04:09,400
Speaker 1: at the final weeks of Patch Shermer and I I

1280
01:04:09,440 --> 01:04:12,200
Speaker 1: always felt like he was brought into carry forth the

1281
01:04:12,240 --> 01:04:14,280
Speaker 1: message of ELI and the ownership and do all that,

1282
01:04:14,360 --> 01:04:16,440
Speaker 1: and I'd also think that it's been a tough situation

1283
01:04:16,520 --> 01:04:19,280
Speaker 1: for him, and I don't I hope that doesn't happen

1284
01:04:19,280 --> 01:04:22,320
Speaker 1: to him. Giants fans may disagree, but Matt Nagy, I mean,

1285
01:04:22,840 --> 01:04:25,480
Speaker 1: we are not too far removed from a last season

1286
01:04:25,920 --> 01:04:29,680
Speaker 1: and Andy Reid prior to last season singing long songs

1287
01:04:29,680 --> 01:04:33,800
Speaker 1: about the creativity and what Matt nig brings to offense

1288
01:04:33,840 --> 01:04:35,760
Speaker 1: no matter who the players are, and this has been

1289
01:04:35,800 --> 01:04:39,720
Speaker 1: one of the least interesting attacks in the league. And

1290
01:04:39,760 --> 01:04:42,240
Speaker 1: to look at the regression from last year to this,

1291
01:04:42,800 --> 01:04:45,400
Speaker 1: when you brought in Matt Nigi to light a spark

1292
01:04:45,480 --> 01:04:48,320
Speaker 1: under a Bears offense that was that fired the previous

1293
01:04:48,360 --> 01:04:51,280
Speaker 1: coach because the offense was so boring. He was brought

1294
01:04:51,320 --> 01:04:53,840
Speaker 1: in to fix mr business. He won Coach of the

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01:04:53,920 --> 01:04:57,000
Speaker 1: Year doing it, and every cause of the defense, every

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01:04:57,000 --> 01:04:59,480
Speaker 1: single position. He was one of the best coaches in

1297
01:04:59,520 --> 01:05:02,000
Speaker 1: the league. It's Trabinsky was not one of them. Not fixed.

1298
01:05:02,040 --> 01:05:05,400
Speaker 1: The whole point is Nega did an amazing job creating

1299
01:05:05,480 --> 01:05:10,960
Speaker 1: opening every single position on this offense is worse than

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01:05:11,000 --> 01:05:14,720
Speaker 1: it was last year. It's one of the craziest I

1301
01:05:14,760 --> 01:05:16,760
Speaker 1: just think it's on Trabisky, though sometimes it's not on

1302
01:05:16,800 --> 01:05:18,320
Speaker 1: the coach. I want to see him get a chance

1303
01:05:18,560 --> 01:05:21,800
Speaker 1: with the different quarterbacks. One of the craziest storylines of

1304
01:05:21,880 --> 01:05:23,640
Speaker 1: this week is when you saw it popped up. He

1305
01:05:23,680 --> 01:05:25,280
Speaker 1: was being asked, Naggie, are you going to give up

1306
01:05:25,280 --> 01:05:28,080
Speaker 1: play calling? This guy a year ago was being He's

1307
01:05:28,120 --> 01:05:30,680
Speaker 1: part of that, Sean McVeigh. The young coaches that are

1308
01:05:30,720 --> 01:05:33,800
Speaker 1: gifted with their offensive game planning. That just to me,

1309
01:05:33,920 --> 01:05:36,360
Speaker 1: in a nutshell is how awfully this season has gone.

1310
01:05:36,520 --> 01:05:38,120
Speaker 1: That's why I don't need two weeks from now. Oh

1311
01:05:38,120 --> 01:05:41,320
Speaker 1: there's six and six and they're back in the shut

1312
01:05:41,320 --> 01:05:43,320
Speaker 1: it down. It's like this, I don't need the bear.

1313
01:05:43,680 --> 01:05:46,360
Speaker 1: It's they need an off They need an off season

1314
01:05:46,400 --> 01:05:48,080
Speaker 1: as much as any team out there right now. All

1315
01:05:48,160 --> 01:05:51,760
Speaker 1: right time now for Road to Victory, presented by the

1316
01:05:52,080 --> 01:05:59,000
Speaker 1: United States Marine Corp. I love our Marines are troops

1317
01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:06,440
Speaker 1: both here and abroad. Okay, the Packer the excuse me Packers, Yes,

1318
01:06:06,760 --> 01:06:09,480
Speaker 1: oh man, the Green Bay Packers. They travel to the

1319
01:06:09,560 --> 01:06:12,640
Speaker 1: Big Ballot Bottom to face the Niners eight and two

1320
01:06:12,960 --> 01:06:15,560
Speaker 1: against nine and one. What else needs to be said?

1321
01:06:15,640 --> 01:06:18,600
Speaker 1: Chris Westling, This is has potential to be one of

1322
01:06:18,600 --> 01:06:22,240
Speaker 1: the games of the year. If the forty Niners have

1323
01:06:22,480 --> 01:06:25,280
Speaker 1: some semblance of health, sure, but I don't think they're

1324
01:06:25,280 --> 01:06:27,280
Speaker 1: the same team they were three or four weeks ago.

1325
01:06:27,760 --> 01:06:30,720
Speaker 1: When George George Kittle's not playing, Matt Breed is not playing,

1326
01:06:31,120 --> 01:06:35,200
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders is banged up. Um, Deebo Samuel has banged

1327
01:06:35,280 --> 01:06:38,400
Speaker 1: up in Deebo Samuel, I think you had eight for

1328
01:06:38,440 --> 01:06:41,160
Speaker 1: a hundred and back to back games, first time in

1329
01:06:41,200 --> 01:06:44,400
Speaker 1: franchise history. That guy was playing well, he's like a

1330
01:06:44,480 --> 01:06:47,080
Speaker 1: running back with the ball in his hands. I just like,

1331
01:06:47,080 --> 01:06:49,240
Speaker 1: who are the forty Niners? If all these guys are

1332
01:06:49,280 --> 01:06:52,040
Speaker 1: are out? Their defense has not been dominant for three

1333
01:06:52,080 --> 01:06:55,440
Speaker 1: straight weeks. I think the defense has been great, really,

1334
01:06:55,600 --> 01:06:57,840
Speaker 1: I mean they're given up twenty five points a week now. Well,

1335
01:06:57,920 --> 01:07:00,480
Speaker 1: I mean against Seattle they basically didn't have up an

1336
01:07:00,480 --> 01:07:03,160
Speaker 1: offensive touchdown until late in the fourth quarter. This the

1337
01:07:03,160 --> 01:07:05,680
Speaker 1: Seahawks had twelve thirteen drives. They couldn't move the ball

1338
01:07:05,680 --> 01:07:08,040
Speaker 1: at all. That the turnovers are putting them in a

1339
01:07:08,080 --> 01:07:10,680
Speaker 1: bad spot there. They're not compare that when they were

1340
01:07:10,680 --> 01:07:13,840
Speaker 1: giving up three, seven and zero. Right, They've they've stepped

1341
01:07:13,880 --> 01:07:16,160
Speaker 1: up in class in terms of opponent and the Cardinals,

1342
01:07:16,160 --> 01:07:18,000
Speaker 1: for whatever reason have played them well, but even the

1343
01:07:18,040 --> 01:07:20,680
Speaker 1: Cardinals have punted the ball a ton, and to me,

1344
01:07:20,720 --> 01:07:22,800
Speaker 1: it's been more on their offense. But I've got some

1345
01:07:22,840 --> 01:07:26,120
Speaker 1: news for you West. George Kittle and Deebo Samuel returned

1346
01:07:26,120 --> 01:07:31,520
Speaker 1: to practice Thursday wearing non contact jerseys, so it sounds

1347
01:07:31,560 --> 01:07:34,320
Speaker 1: like it's a baby step and they're neither one of

1348
01:07:34,360 --> 01:07:37,720
Speaker 1: them is guaranteed to play. Emmanuel Sanders did play through

1349
01:07:37,760 --> 01:07:42,280
Speaker 1: that injury. Not you know, you didn't finish the game.

1350
01:07:42,320 --> 01:07:44,480
Speaker 1: But if you have those three guys on the field

1351
01:07:44,560 --> 01:07:46,920
Speaker 1: and Kittles, the key one Kittle, to me is is

1352
01:07:47,120 --> 01:07:50,360
Speaker 1: gronk because it not only kills their passing game, it

1353
01:07:50,400 --> 01:07:53,040
Speaker 1: kills their running games. You know, some some people were

1354
01:07:53,040 --> 01:07:55,200
Speaker 1: pointing out just how the tight ends that replaced Kittle

1355
01:07:55,400 --> 01:07:57,680
Speaker 1: doing well catching some passes, but have been blown up

1356
01:07:57,720 --> 01:07:59,360
Speaker 1: in their running game and they have not run the

1357
01:07:59,360 --> 01:08:00,880
Speaker 1: ball very well. We haven't seen Green Bay in a

1358
01:08:00,920 --> 01:08:03,000
Speaker 1: ball because that there was that snow game before their

1359
01:08:03,040 --> 01:08:06,080
Speaker 1: bye week, and they two things. I thought their pass

1360
01:08:06,160 --> 01:08:08,720
Speaker 1: rush came back to life in that attack a little

1361
01:08:08,760 --> 01:08:11,600
Speaker 1: bit against Carolina, and they ran the ball well. They

1362
01:08:11,680 --> 01:08:14,200
Speaker 1: slashed Carolina's defense. And they're not the first or last

1363
01:08:14,240 --> 01:08:17,040
Speaker 1: team to do that, but that's a good formula for

1364
01:08:17,120 --> 01:08:19,400
Speaker 1: taking care of business against San Francisco. Will not be

1365
01:08:19,439 --> 01:08:21,320
Speaker 1: as easy to do that against the front of the

1366
01:08:21,400 --> 01:08:24,320
Speaker 1: Niners defense. I know. Jimmy Garoppolo had a couple of

1367
01:08:24,320 --> 01:08:28,639
Speaker 1: turnovers UM, including the second pick pick, which was credit

1368
01:08:28,680 --> 01:08:30,880
Speaker 1: to the Niners defense for getting that three and out,

1369
01:08:30,920 --> 01:08:33,960
Speaker 1: because if they don't get a three and out, the

1370
01:08:34,000 --> 01:08:36,040
Speaker 1: game is over and the Cardinals have a huge win.

1371
01:08:36,160 --> 01:08:39,760
Speaker 1: And everyone's looking at both teams a lot differently, but

1372
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Speaker 1: credit to Um that stop and then Garoppolo making the

1373
01:08:45,080 --> 01:08:48,160
Speaker 1: big drive and beating the blitz the zero blitz at

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01:08:48,200 --> 01:08:50,200
Speaker 1: the end for the touchdown to Wilson. So he's just

1375
01:08:50,280 --> 01:08:53,479
Speaker 1: been a lot more fun to watch UM for me

1376
01:08:53,600 --> 01:08:55,879
Speaker 1: the last few weeks, and I just wanted he's becoming

1377
01:08:55,880 --> 01:08:59,320
Speaker 1: a storyline to me, like not Kirk Cousins esk West,

1378
01:08:59,360 --> 01:09:03,559
Speaker 1: but kind like all right, let's figure out who Garoppolo is.

1379
01:09:03,560 --> 01:09:07,240
Speaker 1: Is he a kind of premier field general type guy.

1380
01:09:07,280 --> 01:09:10,240
Speaker 1: Is he below a Kirk Cousins type guy, Like where

1381
01:09:10,320 --> 01:09:12,120
Speaker 1: does he fit in? And we're starting to get, for

1382
01:09:12,160 --> 01:09:15,240
Speaker 1: the first time ever, an actual sample size of this

1383
01:09:15,280 --> 01:09:17,719
Speaker 1: guy because he's either been a backup to Tom Brady

1384
01:09:17,800 --> 01:09:21,439
Speaker 1: or an injured quarterback. We're finally getting a collection of

1385
01:09:21,560 --> 01:09:24,360
Speaker 1: games that is lasting months upon months, and he's just

1386
01:09:24,400 --> 01:09:26,720
Speaker 1: kind of a fun guy to see develop. He's now

1387
01:09:26,960 --> 01:09:30,599
Speaker 1: started more games this year or equal than he did

1388
01:09:30,600 --> 01:09:32,920
Speaker 1: the entire rest of his career. I mean he's he's

1389
01:09:32,960 --> 01:09:36,160
Speaker 1: started the same amount of games as Donald. That's just

1390
01:09:36,200 --> 01:09:38,439
Speaker 1: where he is. And and I think you're right that

1391
01:09:38,520 --> 01:09:40,559
Speaker 1: he's getting better each week. And I give the four

1392
01:09:40,680 --> 01:09:42,559
Speaker 1: Niners a ton of credit if you think about what

1393
01:09:42,600 --> 01:09:44,679
Speaker 1: they've lost throughout the year. It's not just this week.

1394
01:09:44,720 --> 01:09:46,920
Speaker 1: I mean they played without their tackles for a while.

1395
01:09:47,200 --> 01:09:49,320
Speaker 1: Remember Jerick McKinnon. I mean he was supposed to be

1396
01:09:49,320 --> 01:09:51,439
Speaker 1: part Remember Jason Barette, he was supposed to be part

1397
01:09:51,439 --> 01:09:55,000
Speaker 1: of it. Kwalan Alexander's long gone and Kelly with Witherspoon,

1398
01:09:55,040 --> 01:09:57,519
Speaker 1: their starting cornerbacks been in and out. Ronald Blair's on

1399
01:09:57,560 --> 01:10:01,120
Speaker 1: injured reserve. It's like d Ford's hurt. Deford's barely played

1400
01:10:01,160 --> 01:10:03,040
Speaker 1: and this team has battled through it to get to

1401
01:10:03,120 --> 01:10:06,040
Speaker 1: nine and one. That's why I've been leaning Packers all week.

1402
01:10:06,479 --> 01:10:08,840
Speaker 1: And now this news that Kittle and Samuel are back

1403
01:10:08,840 --> 01:10:11,320
Speaker 1: at practice, I think they've been the better team for

1404
01:10:11,360 --> 01:10:13,320
Speaker 1: the most part this year because of all they've withstood.

1405
01:10:13,400 --> 01:10:16,160
Speaker 1: The Packers are the exact opposite, maybe the healthiest team

1406
01:10:16,160 --> 01:10:20,120
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Have had virtually no significant injuries in

1407
01:10:20,160 --> 01:10:23,600
Speaker 1: the entire season, which is which is almost impossible. At

1408
01:10:23,680 --> 01:10:25,360
Speaker 1: least right now, all the guys on their team are

1409
01:10:25,439 --> 01:10:28,160
Speaker 1: healthy and they haven't lost anyone of real value for

1410
01:10:28,200 --> 01:10:30,519
Speaker 1: the whole season. I want to see how their defense

1411
01:10:30,560 --> 01:10:32,839
Speaker 1: plays in this game. We were down on their defense

1412
01:10:32,920 --> 01:10:36,559
Speaker 1: before the bye, uh before that Panthers game, and they

1413
01:10:36,560 --> 01:10:38,599
Speaker 1: were all right against the Panthers. But I I want

1414
01:10:38,600 --> 01:10:41,200
Speaker 1: to see in this game this defense played like they

1415
01:10:41,240 --> 01:10:44,280
Speaker 1: did in September and not in October and early November.

1416
01:10:44,280 --> 01:10:46,400
Speaker 1: I don't know if we're getting that defense again. We'll see.

1417
01:10:46,680 --> 01:10:49,720
Speaker 1: I got some news for you guys. If the Packers

1418
01:10:50,840 --> 01:10:54,040
Speaker 1: do win this week and then moved to night and two,

1419
01:10:54,360 --> 01:10:56,400
Speaker 1: I think you're there the first seed in the NFC

1420
01:10:56,640 --> 01:11:00,479
Speaker 1: after this game at Giants home, Red Skins home Bears,

1421
01:11:00,640 --> 01:11:03,439
Speaker 1: as opposed to the forty Niners, who play three straight

1422
01:11:03,520 --> 01:11:07,160
Speaker 1: teams that currently have an eight and two record. The

1423
01:11:07,280 --> 01:11:11,120
Speaker 1: Ravens and the Saints are after them, and and there's

1424
01:11:11,160 --> 01:11:13,160
Speaker 1: a lot of these matchups. We also who's after that?

1425
01:11:13,960 --> 01:11:16,920
Speaker 1: Say it? You could say it all the Falcons the

1426
01:11:17,000 --> 01:11:19,360
Speaker 1: toughest game on the schedule, yet I didn't even know that.

1427
01:11:20,800 --> 01:11:23,880
Speaker 1: And uh and we also have Seahawks forty. It's great

1428
01:11:23,880 --> 01:11:26,040
Speaker 1: that all these BY teams are all playing each other

1429
01:11:26,439 --> 01:11:29,160
Speaker 1: down the stretch, tasty Sunday night game. If you noticed

1430
01:11:29,160 --> 01:11:31,439
Speaker 1: that BY teams have not been playing well coming out

1431
01:11:31,439 --> 01:11:34,320
Speaker 1: of the By, especially the London ones. I think there's

1432
01:11:34,479 --> 01:11:36,599
Speaker 1: I think no one won coming out of there by

1433
01:11:36,720 --> 01:11:39,120
Speaker 1: after London. But if you look a lot of people

1434
01:11:39,160 --> 01:11:41,760
Speaker 1: were tweeting. If you look at who some of those

1435
01:11:41,800 --> 01:11:46,639
Speaker 1: teams played, it wasn't like the we weren't crazy. Results

1436
01:11:46,680 --> 01:11:49,320
Speaker 1: were like suddenly an a f C title type team

1437
01:11:49,400 --> 01:11:52,360
Speaker 1: doesn't show Goodbye in general is overrated as like a

1438
01:11:52,400 --> 01:11:54,920
Speaker 1: positive factor. I mean, of course it gets you healthier,

1439
01:11:54,960 --> 01:11:57,800
Speaker 1: but there's no like stats over the years that say

1440
01:11:57,840 --> 01:12:00,680
Speaker 1: it makes you better. It's just you're just the same

1441
01:12:00,760 --> 01:12:02,280
Speaker 1: team when you come back. If you if you got

1442
01:12:02,280 --> 01:12:04,280
Speaker 1: to take a week vacation, everyone's like, oh, are you

1443
01:12:04,320 --> 01:12:06,120
Speaker 1: were fresh now? It's like no, now, I just know

1444
01:12:06,200 --> 01:12:08,400
Speaker 1: that I want more vacations. You don't come back doing

1445
01:12:08,439 --> 01:12:11,320
Speaker 1: your job better, said you know who should have gotten

1446
01:12:11,320 --> 01:12:15,240
Speaker 1: a bye coming out of London. You're on the NFL podcast.

1447
01:12:15,920 --> 01:12:19,559
Speaker 1: Didn't happen, not gonna happen, did not happen. We have

1448
01:12:19,600 --> 01:12:22,080
Speaker 1: a bye coming up. We have a bye week schedule.

1449
01:12:22,880 --> 01:12:26,280
Speaker 1: That's what they want to hear from us. Uh. Next

1450
01:12:26,360 --> 01:12:30,920
Speaker 1: year they it's like, not only send us, Yeah, we're

1451
01:12:30,920 --> 01:12:33,800
Speaker 1: gonna take that next week off. Sorry, stay in London

1452
01:12:33,800 --> 01:12:36,120
Speaker 1: for another week. And that was the road to victory

1453
01:12:36,280 --> 01:12:41,679
Speaker 1: presented by the United States Marine Corps supporting your troops. Uh. Finally,

1454
01:12:41,720 --> 01:12:46,080
Speaker 1: Monday Night football, the Baltimore Ravens eight and to travel

1455
01:12:46,400 --> 01:12:48,639
Speaker 1: to the Coliseum to face the Rams. So the Rams

1456
01:12:48,680 --> 01:12:53,320
Speaker 1: get back to back primetime games here Sunday night. Last week,

1457
01:12:53,960 --> 01:12:58,680
Speaker 1: got the win against the downtrodden not quite moribund, but

1458
01:12:58,800 --> 01:13:02,240
Speaker 1: down trodden Chicago of Bears. Uh, and now they get

1459
01:13:02,240 --> 01:13:04,880
Speaker 1: the Ravens another game. I thought very hard Mark about

1460
01:13:04,960 --> 01:13:08,800
Speaker 1: locking up, because God, I mean, for who, what do

1461
01:13:08,800 --> 01:13:11,280
Speaker 1: you mean the team that wins every week and has

1462
01:13:11,320 --> 01:13:14,000
Speaker 1: the best quarterback in the league this season. I don't

1463
01:13:14,040 --> 01:13:15,920
Speaker 1: think you could look yourself in the mirror locking up

1464
01:13:15,920 --> 01:13:17,920
Speaker 1: the Ravens against the Rams. I agree with Mark on that.

1465
01:13:18,400 --> 01:13:23,559
Speaker 1: I go, I go by the Vegas test and no,

1466
01:13:23,680 --> 01:13:25,960
Speaker 1: I always go by the field goal to look in

1467
01:13:26,000 --> 01:13:28,639
Speaker 1: the mirror. Well, that would be controversial, but more per

1468
01:13:29,080 --> 01:13:31,960
Speaker 1: I've always done it. I disagree just because because of that,

1469
01:13:32,000 --> 01:13:34,559
Speaker 1: Like we think it's so predictable. But there's a reason

1470
01:13:34,600 --> 01:13:37,280
Speaker 1: that you're like halfway on the Rams payroll. So there's

1471
01:13:37,280 --> 01:13:41,000
Speaker 1: a reason though, there's a reason why. Let's say, for instance,

1472
01:13:41,040 --> 01:13:44,960
Speaker 1: the Rams or the Ravens are not that heavily favored

1473
01:13:45,000 --> 01:13:48,599
Speaker 1: in this game, because the Rams are at home, and

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01:13:48,760 --> 01:13:51,360
Speaker 1: there are six and four team that has something going

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01:13:51,439 --> 01:13:54,479
Speaker 1: on to them, and it really wouldn't be that crazy

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01:13:54,560 --> 01:13:56,920
Speaker 1: to me to see the Rams and the Ravens in

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01:13:56,960 --> 01:13:58,880
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter of this game. I know you can

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01:13:58,960 --> 01:14:01,000
Speaker 1: take every game apart like this and say the other

1479
01:14:01,080 --> 01:14:04,640
Speaker 1: team is a chance, right, because it's almost always true,

1480
01:14:04,640 --> 01:14:07,200
Speaker 1: So like we should just be able to lock every one.

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01:14:07,439 --> 01:14:09,800
Speaker 1: I say, if it's it's more than I would say

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01:14:09,800 --> 01:14:12,880
Speaker 1: this the Rams. The Rams are are the Ravens at

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01:14:12,880 --> 01:14:17,680
Speaker 1: this point, thirty thirty seven in a row. They had

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01:14:17,680 --> 01:14:19,679
Speaker 1: some issues at times. They are playing at the height

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01:14:19,680 --> 01:14:22,759
Speaker 1: of their powers right now, issuing death blows to teams

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01:14:22,960 --> 01:14:25,800
Speaker 1: midway through the second quarter. And if you tell me.

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01:14:25,880 --> 01:14:27,840
Speaker 1: You look at Jared Goff at this point in the

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01:14:27,840 --> 01:14:31,000
Speaker 1: season and what happened against Chicago last week, and you

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01:14:31,040 --> 01:14:33,240
Speaker 1: give me Lamar Jackson, and which one of these two

1490
01:14:33,520 --> 01:14:36,080
Speaker 1: is changing the lives of every single person inside the

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01:14:36,200 --> 01:14:40,160
Speaker 1: organization and about to have two hundred people fitted for

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01:14:40,200 --> 01:14:42,800
Speaker 1: Super Bowl rings. That's much closer to Lamar Jackson than

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01:14:42,880 --> 01:14:44,960
Speaker 1: Jared Goff right now. And I hear you, Greg, it's

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01:14:45,000 --> 01:14:47,920
Speaker 1: in l A. But that doesn't feel like huge November.

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01:14:47,960 --> 01:14:49,800
Speaker 1: I think is is the bigger thing. Not that the

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01:14:49,880 --> 01:14:51,960
Speaker 1: Ravens need to be worried about you. It's not like

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01:14:52,000 --> 01:14:54,679
Speaker 1: they need to play worse, but they're peaking right now

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01:14:54,920 --> 01:14:57,639
Speaker 1: and two months from now, you know, will they still

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01:14:57,760 --> 01:15:01,240
Speaker 1: be peeking. Teams change? And I think the Rams especially

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01:15:01,520 --> 01:15:03,920
Speaker 1: tried to change last week. It was against the Bears.

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01:15:03,920 --> 01:15:07,000
Speaker 1: You're not gonna go crazy, but I think they max protected.

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01:15:07,320 --> 01:15:09,720
Speaker 1: They changed the way they did some of their running game.

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01:15:09,760 --> 01:15:11,639
Speaker 1: The offensive line played well, they had a good game,

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01:15:11,960 --> 01:15:13,920
Speaker 1: and they opened up some holes. And so if you're

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01:15:13,920 --> 01:15:16,240
Speaker 1: the Rams there now kind of it's funny. They were

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01:15:16,280 --> 01:15:18,599
Speaker 1: the eight team a year ago at this point when

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01:15:18,640 --> 01:15:20,640
Speaker 1: they were on Monday NFL. Now the Ravens are the

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01:15:20,920 --> 01:15:23,160
Speaker 1: team and the Rams to me, are kind of just

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01:15:23,280 --> 01:15:26,920
Speaker 1: trying to, you know, play to their defense and run

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01:15:27,000 --> 01:15:29,120
Speaker 1: the ball and not turn the ball over, and that's

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01:15:29,120 --> 01:15:31,679
Speaker 1: probably their best route of of winning this game. Robert

1512
01:15:31,680 --> 01:15:35,240
Speaker 1: Woods not in the building right now. Practice on He

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01:15:35,280 --> 01:15:41,639
Speaker 1: returned Thursday. He returned Thursday. Brandon Cooks is going to play. Uh.

1514
01:15:41,680 --> 01:15:44,479
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley said, I guess I felt like the old

1515
01:15:44,520 --> 01:15:48,200
Speaker 1: Todd after the game, and I thought the first half

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01:15:48,240 --> 01:15:51,519
Speaker 1: was his best half of football all year. And then

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01:15:51,680 --> 01:15:55,200
Speaker 1: I went and watched Christian McCaffrey right after. Todd Gurley said,

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01:15:56,080 --> 01:15:58,559
Speaker 1: that's not the old Todd, Like, that's not the old Todd,

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01:15:58,600 --> 01:16:02,280
Speaker 1: because Christian McCaffrey looked like totally different player than than

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01:16:02,400 --> 01:16:05,400
Speaker 1: than two thousand nineteen Todd Gurley, So that guy's gone.

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01:16:05,479 --> 01:16:07,479
Speaker 1: Can the guy that's in his place be productive he

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01:16:07,520 --> 01:16:10,360
Speaker 1: was last week? I think you have total yards? Like

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01:16:10,439 --> 01:16:12,240
Speaker 1: Greg said, they changed some things up. They went with

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01:16:12,320 --> 01:16:15,000
Speaker 1: Johnny Munt their third string tight end as as kind

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01:16:15,040 --> 01:16:16,800
Speaker 1: of a lead blocker on a lot of plays, which

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01:16:16,840 --> 01:16:19,439
Speaker 1: they never did in the past. So they were trying

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01:16:19,439 --> 01:16:21,479
Speaker 1: some new things and Gurley did look good, and they

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01:16:21,520 --> 01:16:24,800
Speaker 1: protected goffwell for maybe the first time all year, and

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01:16:24,840 --> 01:16:26,960
Speaker 1: I don't know if that was what that said. Well,

1530
01:16:27,000 --> 01:16:31,080
Speaker 1: they barely passed for That's maybe not the worst idea ever.

1531
01:16:31,200 --> 01:16:33,720
Speaker 1: If if you're ahead in the game or competitive, how

1532
01:16:33,720 --> 01:16:37,640
Speaker 1: about a legit revenge game Marcus Peters revenge game. I

1533
01:16:37,680 --> 01:16:39,600
Speaker 1: think this is closer than some of the ones that

1534
01:16:39,640 --> 01:16:43,160
Speaker 1: have been tossed around as anyone who have employee play.

1535
01:16:43,240 --> 01:16:45,519
Speaker 1: I blew it because my favorite revenge game of the

1536
01:16:45,640 --> 01:16:47,719
Speaker 1: year was the one before. I'm still going to talk

1537
01:16:47,760 --> 01:16:52,800
Speaker 1: about it. Kyle Sanahan, I mean, Matt Lafleur tried to

1538
01:16:53,000 --> 01:16:57,960
Speaker 1: hire Mike Lafleur, his brother over the We're back in

1539
01:16:58,000 --> 01:17:00,599
Speaker 1: the road. Let's get on the road. Give up the Marines.

1540
01:17:01,400 --> 01:17:03,639
Speaker 1: He tried to hire his brother. What a great story,

1541
01:17:03,800 --> 01:17:06,080
Speaker 1: Mike Lafleur. We're gonna be the la Fleur brothers and

1542
01:17:06,120 --> 01:17:10,000
Speaker 1: take over the Kyle Shannon said, Nope, I've got the

1543
01:17:10,040 --> 01:17:12,840
Speaker 1: best la Fleur. I know. Mike is better than Matt.

1544
01:17:13,040 --> 01:17:15,320
Speaker 1: He's the La Fleur I want. I'm keeping him in

1545
01:17:15,320 --> 01:17:18,320
Speaker 1: San Francisco, maybe even against his wishes. He's gonna be

1546
01:17:18,360 --> 01:17:21,679
Speaker 1: my co ordainer. And now Matt Lafleur gets to commit

1547
01:17:21,800 --> 01:17:28,040
Speaker 1: trat side against his brother he's gonna kill him. I

1548
01:17:28,080 --> 01:17:31,280
Speaker 1: don't care. Hey, we have bits. Can we close out

1549
01:17:31,280 --> 01:17:33,960
Speaker 1: this Rams Ravens thing with a what's more likely? Before

1550
01:17:33,960 --> 01:17:35,880
Speaker 1: we do that, can we just give Marcus Peters a

1551
01:17:35,920 --> 01:17:39,160
Speaker 1: little bit love for how how incredible he's been on

1552
01:17:39,240 --> 01:17:41,679
Speaker 1: this events, because that was another trade that didn't get

1553
01:17:42,360 --> 01:17:44,800
Speaker 1: that much pub when it happened, was like, oh, Marcus Peters,

1554
01:17:44,840 --> 01:17:47,160
Speaker 1: the Rams aren't gonna sign him anyway, the Ravens go

1555
01:17:47,280 --> 01:17:49,880
Speaker 1: get him and he's He's not been making Fitzpatrick great

1556
01:17:50,120 --> 01:17:53,280
Speaker 1: in the secondary, but he's been an impact player. Good

1557
01:17:53,320 --> 01:18:01,200
Speaker 1: teams stay good. Bad teams stay bad. Wes, Wow, this

1558
01:18:01,240 --> 01:18:05,040
Speaker 1: one is kind of geared towards Mark Sessler. What's more likely?

1559
01:18:05,920 --> 01:18:09,599
Speaker 1: Wink Martindale wins Assistant Coach of the Year, Greg Roman

1560
01:18:09,680 --> 01:18:12,880
Speaker 1: wins Assistant Coach of the Year, another or John Harball

1561
01:18:12,960 --> 01:18:16,439
Speaker 1: wins NFL Head Coach of the years One. Well, I

1562
01:18:16,479 --> 01:18:19,320
Speaker 1: think two out of three is very possible. Assistant coach.

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01:18:19,439 --> 01:18:25,000
Speaker 1: There a voters. I don't know how if they ever

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01:18:25,040 --> 01:18:29,280
Speaker 1: went Wink Martindale and not Greg Roman and Lamar Jackson

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01:18:29,640 --> 01:18:32,639
Speaker 1: pipes this up, there would be a revolt. Just this

1566
01:18:32,720 --> 01:18:35,320
Speaker 1: is someone I think Greg Roman has not had to

1567
01:18:35,320 --> 01:18:38,639
Speaker 1: reinvent himself, just that he was a hot commodity kind

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01:18:38,680 --> 01:18:41,320
Speaker 1: of vanished into the mist, and that was back with Lamar,

1569
01:18:41,400 --> 01:18:45,000
Speaker 1: a superpowered version of anything Colin Kaepernick would have ever

1570
01:18:45,040 --> 01:18:48,000
Speaker 1: given you times ten in Lamar Jackson and Greg Roman

1571
01:18:48,240 --> 01:18:50,960
Speaker 1: was ten, let's calm down. Colin Kaepernick took the league

1572
01:18:50,960 --> 01:18:56,360
Speaker 1: by arm for six games. It's not a Colin Kaepernick thing.

1573
01:18:56,439 --> 01:18:59,640
Speaker 1: But I would say the reason that John Harbaugh deserves

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01:18:59,640 --> 01:19:02,439
Speaker 1: it is because John Harbaugh, unlike a lot of coaches,

1575
01:19:03,160 --> 01:19:05,519
Speaker 1: was able to look in the mirror and say let's

1576
01:19:05,720 --> 01:19:08,400
Speaker 1: change everything and have the boldness to do it. And

1577
01:19:08,439 --> 01:19:11,519
Speaker 1: the whole staff at least looked at Lamar Jackson had

1578
01:19:11,520 --> 01:19:13,960
Speaker 1: said he's a quarterback. I know there was the press

1579
01:19:13,960 --> 01:19:16,800
Speaker 1: release that like Greg enjoyed very much this week about uh,

1580
01:19:17,160 --> 01:19:20,479
Speaker 1: their former offensive aid. But Lamar Jackson is a quarterback

1581
01:19:20,479 --> 01:19:22,280
Speaker 1: and we're gonna roll with it when a bunch of

1582
01:19:22,280 --> 01:19:25,000
Speaker 1: other teams didn't. And also, by the way, oh Joe Flacco,

1583
01:19:25,040 --> 01:19:27,000
Speaker 1: who we are all married to and the owner loves,

1584
01:19:27,280 --> 01:19:31,760
Speaker 1: is broken down at this point. He's gone. Har Jackson well,

1585
01:19:31,800 --> 01:19:34,360
Speaker 1: but he They always were backing Flacco and it took

1586
01:19:34,439 --> 01:19:37,200
Speaker 1: it took some guts that some head coaches don't have

1587
01:19:37,479 --> 01:19:40,200
Speaker 1: to make the changes they did last year and become electrifying,

1588
01:19:40,439 --> 01:19:42,479
Speaker 1: and then a full off season of saying this will

1589
01:19:42,520 --> 01:19:45,960
Speaker 1: never carry over, Lamar Jackson doesn't do enough. Well, everyone's

1590
01:19:46,000 --> 01:19:48,479
Speaker 1: gonna figure it out and bang there twice as powerful.

1591
01:19:48,560 --> 01:19:52,480
Speaker 1: So give everyone coach a year, rum and hard Boswe Martindale.

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01:19:52,920 --> 01:19:57,320
Speaker 1: Martindale's defense is number one in UH efficiency according to

1593
01:19:57,360 --> 01:19:59,920
Speaker 1: Football Saider since Week seven, So since week seven they

1594
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:02,200
Speaker 1: have the number one defense in the NFL and the

1595
01:20:02,320 --> 01:20:06,439
Speaker 1: number one offense. I have no idea how long assistant

1596
01:20:06,439 --> 01:20:08,760
Speaker 1: coach has been around that award, but no one's ever

1597
01:20:08,880 --> 01:20:12,599
Speaker 1: no team's ever swept this, right, that's impossible, not yet.

1598
01:20:12,720 --> 01:20:16,200
Speaker 1: I think it's only been around for a few years years.

1599
01:20:19,040 --> 01:20:21,800
Speaker 1: I mean very important. This is very like. I want

1600
01:20:21,840 --> 01:20:24,720
Speaker 1: to say that the Ravens are playing incredibly right now,

1601
01:20:25,200 --> 01:20:28,439
Speaker 1: and perhaps we're getting caught up in the excitement of

1602
01:20:28,520 --> 01:20:31,800
Speaker 1: that that they they're so unstoppable and perfect right now.

1603
01:20:32,200 --> 01:20:34,720
Speaker 1: I would worry that they're peaking. Well maybe not, maybe

1604
01:20:34,760 --> 01:20:37,439
Speaker 1: they keep winning. That's finally, I totally hear what Greg

1605
01:20:37,560 --> 01:20:39,400
Speaker 1: and you were saying that it's not gonna go week

1606
01:20:39,479 --> 01:20:43,000
Speaker 1: after week after week here, But why are we starting

1607
01:20:43,040 --> 01:20:46,320
Speaker 1: to diminish them? I would never do that. I think

1608
01:20:46,360 --> 01:20:49,599
Speaker 1: it's more common on like how awesome they are right

1609
01:20:49,640 --> 01:20:52,720
Speaker 1: now that you could have this conversation and you could say, oh,

1610
01:20:52,800 --> 01:20:54,759
Speaker 1: I pick all three of them, and West would agree,

1611
01:20:54,800 --> 01:20:58,080
Speaker 1: and that the Ravens are the talk of the league.

1612
01:20:58,120 --> 01:21:00,679
Speaker 1: Right well, how awesome are they? They beat Russell Wilson,

1613
01:21:00,760 --> 01:21:04,640
Speaker 1: Tom Brady and Deshaun Watson by double digits. Bang. To

1614
01:21:04,760 --> 01:21:08,599
Speaker 1: answer your question, Dan, the assistant Coach of the Year

1615
01:21:09,040 --> 01:21:12,200
Speaker 1: has been around for five years, and uh, the Bears

1616
01:21:12,240 --> 01:21:16,439
Speaker 1: swept it last year. Next year, Naggy and Fonio. There

1617
01:21:16,479 --> 01:21:19,200
Speaker 1: you go right there, that's not special and uh, the

1618
01:21:19,320 --> 01:21:22,240
Speaker 1: first time it ever was an award. Sweet. It was

1619
01:21:22,280 --> 01:21:25,200
Speaker 1: also a sweep back in two thousand fourteen. Bruce Arians

1620
01:21:25,680 --> 01:21:29,639
Speaker 1: and your boy Todd Bowles. Wow for the two thousand

1621
01:21:29,680 --> 01:21:33,080
Speaker 1: four I would call it especially narrative driven. Well, it

1622
01:21:33,160 --> 01:21:35,759
Speaker 1: makes sense. The teams that have a great coaching staff,

1623
01:21:35,840 --> 01:21:37,680
Speaker 1: they you know, they get awards or they have a

1624
01:21:37,720 --> 01:21:40,600
Speaker 1: great year I mean assist and you go on to

1625
01:21:40,640 --> 01:21:47,320
Speaker 1: become head coach typically too. Yeah, I think almost except

1626
01:21:47,360 --> 01:21:52,360
Speaker 1: for way to think you have to be a coordinator. No,

1627
01:21:52,640 --> 01:21:55,040
Speaker 1: because Scarneckia got some votes. You know there was a

1628
01:21:55,320 --> 01:21:57,240
Speaker 1: there was like a year of some dark course. You

1629
01:21:57,320 --> 01:22:00,719
Speaker 1: know SCARNECKI a buzz, but uh, I don't think beat bowls.

1630
01:22:00,760 --> 01:22:02,880
Speaker 1: When you got him to your New York Jets, they

1631
01:22:02,960 --> 01:22:05,080
Speaker 1: didn't and that didn't work out so well. Greg Roman

1632
01:22:05,160 --> 01:22:08,800
Speaker 1: is the prohibitive favorite right now, whereas I think for

1633
01:22:08,840 --> 01:22:10,760
Speaker 1: the Coach of the Year, Sean Payton would be right

1634
01:22:10,840 --> 01:22:13,519
Speaker 1: up there for me with John Harbor. Um, all right,

1635
01:22:13,680 --> 01:22:17,160
Speaker 1: we will be back uh tonight, as I said, Colts

1636
01:22:17,240 --> 01:22:20,640
Speaker 1: Texans and then Cynthia Freeland. That's fun. And then on

1637
01:22:21,160 --> 01:22:24,280
Speaker 1: Sunday we will recap every game we just previewed. Here

1638
01:22:25,000 --> 01:22:33,439
Speaker 1: the wheel goes round and round. Stand hands to signing

1639
01:22:33,479 --> 01:22:37,360
Speaker 1: off for a quiet storm, the mailman, the old Boss,

1640
01:22:37,960 --> 01:22:42,240
Speaker 1: Ricky Hollywood, right on, Marlin, Christie Zack, who all is

1641
01:22:42,280 --> 01:23:02,600
Speaker 1: back there? Tell Sunday s