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Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL podcast Just keeps on Hockey. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to another edition of the Around the NFL Broadcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: Dan Hansens. I got heroes here, Mark Sessler, Greg Rosenthal.

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Speaker 1: You know what's gonna be funny? We'll not funny, but

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Speaker 1: I guess ironic when like three weeks from now, literally

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Speaker 1: everyone in the world has COVID nineteen except for Kirk Cousins.

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Speaker 1: That's what's gonna happen. It's veering in that direction. So

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Speaker 1: I think that's a Greg will be. Greg will have

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Speaker 1: you know. Hopefully, because you you're smart, Greg, and you've

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Speaker 1: been double vaxed and boosted, you will have either mild

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Speaker 1: symptoms or you'll be asymptomatic. But you'll still think to

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Speaker 1: yourself while you're feeling a little under the weather, if

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Speaker 1: I just would have stripped my body nude, greased myself up,

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Speaker 1: and got into that glass cube, would be right now? Baby?

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Speaker 1: Well am I double backs though, because I had the

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Speaker 1: J and J and the streets are talking we should

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Speaker 1: get it backs for free. We should get an extra

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Speaker 1: one just for fun. They should let us let us

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Speaker 1: have one, get one every week. Aren't a little lifeless?

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Speaker 1: Shortcuts are are you paying for yours. I don't feel

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Speaker 1: like a lot of money has exchanged hands in the vaccination, right,

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Speaker 1: But do they allow I guess no, it's not about

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Speaker 1: the money. I just mean that are you. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if you're allowed to just like keep getting them.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if they let me, I think I'd get

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Speaker 1: one every day. I just feel like a little more

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Speaker 1: general and you know, is there something to take out

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Speaker 1: of it? Though? Greg, for you and the rest of

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Speaker 1: the J and J community. By the way, that company

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Speaker 1: is connected to the New York Jets quite directly, So

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Speaker 1: maybe that was a headsop number one number two. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, shortcuts in life, the idea I'll get one

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Speaker 1: shot and I'll be all set instead of getting the two. Well,

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Speaker 1: considering that, you know, Johnson and Johnson on average ended

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Speaker 1: up serving like um underserved in horror communities and people

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Speaker 1: of color. Um, you know, I think it's unfortunate what's happened,

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Speaker 1: Ja and Jay. You know Greg is checking today. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's the it's it's it's it's a pleasure to see Greg.

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Speaker 1: You can you checked every possible box. Can you imagine

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Speaker 1: the fly like that. I was really good, Greg Um.

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Speaker 1: By the way, Yes, Dalvin Cook this morning taping on

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Speaker 1: a Thursday, moved to the COVID nineteen list. I believe

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Speaker 1: in addition to a far greater health risk that he

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Speaker 1: he is out a minimum of ten days. Also, Taysom

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Speaker 1: the New Orleans Saints, which means Ian book will start

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Speaker 1: on Monday night. Uh and uh, I don't know about

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Speaker 1: Like where are you guys? At right now, how do

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Speaker 1: you feeling a sense of unease or what like where? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'll start with you Mark. Um. Yeah, I think it's ominous. Um.

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Speaker 1: The whole the whole feeling around it kind of brings

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Speaker 1: Eve tomorrow, I have a great gift for both you boys.

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Speaker 1: Grave Digger behind the Virtual Glass subbing for Ricky Hollywood today.

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Speaker 1: Uh and all the listeners, So just stay tuned for that.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna it's you're gonna love it. That's all gift.

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Speaker 1: We'll see each other in person tomorrow. Back in the studio,

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Speaker 1: eight of eleven games after starting the season oh and three. Um,

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Speaker 1: they just seem to have If you believe in momentum

429
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Speaker 1: as a thing, it seems they have it all. And

430
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Speaker 1: if they ever did get past the Cardinals here and

431
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Speaker 1: I think I'll pick the Cults. I won't lock up

432
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Speaker 1: the Colts, but I picked him to win this game.

433
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Speaker 1: They have Vegas, which I don't care what anybody says

434
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Speaker 1: about Vegas. That team will not be playing in the postseason.

435
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Speaker 1: And they're an easy victory at home in my opinion,

436
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Speaker 1: and then at Jacksonville to close the season. So like,

437
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Speaker 1: I find it more likely that this team is going

438
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Speaker 1: to go from oh and three to eleven and six

439
00:22:13,359 --> 00:22:16,600
Speaker 1: than the Cardinals get things right. I just feel like

440
00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:19,159
Speaker 1: the this there's a lot of things look working in

441
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Speaker 1: the favor of the road team here. And also noticed

442
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Speaker 1: that rondal Moore it sounds a game time decision as well.

443
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Speaker 1: And at that point you're starting, so is Rodney Hudson,

444
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Speaker 1: whom to me feels sometimes the key He's on the

445
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Speaker 1: COVID list. They're not sure if I'll test out. And

446
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Speaker 1: that was what struck me in that game was their

447
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Speaker 1: their protection was not set at all. They did not

448
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Speaker 1: know where free rushers were coming from. Kyler Murray was confused.

449
00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:43,359
Speaker 1: Hudson makes all the protection calls. The Cults are not

450
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Speaker 1: a heavy blitz defense at all, but still that's that's

451
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Speaker 1: like one of their most valuable players. I don't like

452
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Speaker 1: this big for you, always us talking all week about

453
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Speaker 1: what we all feel. I fin'd with you. I don't

454
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Speaker 1: like that you're kind of fading the public, which is

455
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Speaker 1: a smart which is generally smart. Everyone's on the cult

456
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Speaker 1: this And here's another thing working in your favor, Mark Carson.

457
00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:05,760
Speaker 1: Wentz is still potentially a liability there. If you watch

458
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Speaker 1: that game on Saturday night, you saw the way Frank

459
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:12,200
Speaker 1: Reich he clut he clenched his butt after that interception

460
00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:14,560
Speaker 1: and never gave his quarterback another chance to make a play.

461
00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:17,000
Speaker 1: Here's a stat from the research and notes Carson Wentz

462
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Speaker 1: to six and eighteen against opponents with a winning record

463
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Speaker 1: since two thousand and eighteen. So if the Cardinals come

464
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Speaker 1: to play and they're playing in a passionate manner in

465
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Speaker 1: the defense, can summon up some level of playmaking ability

466
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Speaker 1: which has been noticeably absent uh in recent weeks. I

467
00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:35,480
Speaker 1: could see Wentz playing poorly on the road here, So

468
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Speaker 1: I think it's you know, it's a coin flip game.

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Speaker 1: It will be fun to watch them, all right, Mark, Wow?

470
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Speaker 1: All right? You want to hit the Sunday night and

471
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Speaker 1: Monday night games before the draft, or after that's doing now? Alright,

472
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Speaker 1: the Washington football team at Dallas Cowboys, I don't know that.

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Speaker 1: You know, how's Washington playing on primetime this time of year? Um,

474
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Speaker 1: they're a team that hype technically still in the mix

475
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Speaker 1: here because their record. But at the same time, UM, well,

476
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Speaker 1: you know what, that's maybe not fair because who could

477
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Speaker 1: take anything out of that Monday night game against the Eagles.

478
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Speaker 1: You give credit to Gilbert Godfried in the offense for

479
00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:18,760
Speaker 1: hanging around. They took advantage some early turnovers, but they

480
00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:21,800
Speaker 1: were so so missing so many guys that it's like,

481
00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:24,679
Speaker 1: all right, you lost, but I can't really ding you

482
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:28,280
Speaker 1: too much for it. That Dallas Cowboys, you think they

483
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Speaker 1: win this game? Greg, right? Because of their defense more

484
00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:33,080
Speaker 1: than anything, they should be able to have their way

485
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Speaker 1: with Washington's limited attack. They should because even if Tyler

486
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Speaker 1: Heinik is back and he is expected to test out

487
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:42,800
Speaker 1: and I think he's been activated, so he's gonna play

488
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Speaker 1: in this game. Um. Antonio Gibson is now fighting a

489
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Speaker 1: turfto injury. He had been playing much better, I thought,

490
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Speaker 1: over the last month, finally looking like himself, looking explosive.

491
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Speaker 1: Then he gets hurt again and the way Rivera was

492
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Speaker 1: talking about, I, I'd be a little surprised if he

493
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Speaker 1: plays in this game. Curtis Samuel's banged up as usual,

494
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:05,040
Speaker 1: and you know it's like like we we just gotta

495
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:06,960
Speaker 1: go back all the like in our minds to kind

496
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Speaker 1: of figure out what could happen here. Oh wait, this

497
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Speaker 1: team played two weeks ago. We just locked up this game,

498
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Speaker 1: Dan me and you remember that it was seventeen nothing

499
00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:17,160
Speaker 1: Cowboys within two minutes. And it was because the the

500
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Speaker 1: Washington offensive line had just no chance against this Dallas group.

501
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Speaker 1: And to dominate Washington again that much, uh, will be difficult,

502
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:30,560
Speaker 1: but it should happen again. Like, I don't know if

503
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Speaker 1: I don't feel that comfortable with Dallas, like covering ten

504
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:36,919
Speaker 1: and a half necessarily just the way there offense is played.

505
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Speaker 1: And I think this is Washington season. They are, they're

506
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Speaker 1: officially done zo and they've been you know, at least

507
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Speaker 1: a little feisty. Maybe they keep it close, but there's

508
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Speaker 1: no there's just like no reason the talent disparity is

509
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Speaker 1: so great here. Well, it would be it would be

510
00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:53,359
Speaker 1: a terrible narrative for Dallas to fall here because the

511
00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:55,400
Speaker 1: way the defense has been playing should end this game

512
00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:58,760
Speaker 1: right away. They've had four takeaways in three straight games.

513
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Speaker 1: One of those came against Shington. To your note, to

514
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Speaker 1: your point, and I mean, I I do believe that

515
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:07,480
Speaker 1: you know the Dallas offense at some point um which

516
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:11,080
Speaker 1: has not been as disastrous as advertised, but I mean

517
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:13,760
Speaker 1: last game they had two drives for longer than forty

518
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 1: five yards, did no big plays. I mean, is it

519
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:18,760
Speaker 1: gonna come back at some point? Would this be a

520
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:21,320
Speaker 1: good spot for it? Because you know, Washington, even though

521
00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:23,199
Speaker 1: they've been they've been a little bit better on defense,

522
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:25,639
Speaker 1: they're still missing guys all over the place. And they

523
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Speaker 1: lost William Jackson and Landon Collins in that game on Tuesday.

524
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Speaker 1: So if they like those are two of their very

525
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Speaker 1: best players. I know they got Jonathan now and who

526
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:37,160
Speaker 1: made the Pro Bowl back, but it's it's rough. The Cowboys,

527
00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:39,600
Speaker 1: by the way, have a pretty really like legitimate chance

528
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Speaker 1: to get the one seat here. I mean, they're they're

529
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Speaker 1: at two, which I think has slipped under the radar,

530
00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:46,320
Speaker 1: and they just they need a little help. They might have,

531
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Speaker 1: and if you look at their schedule, they they're they're

532
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:51,120
Speaker 1: gonna be heavily favored in each of these games. Them

533
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,359
Speaker 1: is a one seat is fraudulent to me. I'll accept

534
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:57,320
Speaker 1: them anywhere else away you might not have probably why happen? Yeah,

535
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Speaker 1: I don't think their offense has been bad, but it's

536
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:03,600
Speaker 1: just not special and um, well it remains to be seen.

537
00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:06,520
Speaker 1: It was bad bad last week. I mean that was

538
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,399
Speaker 1: one of the worst games they've had in a long

539
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,679
Speaker 1: long time. They were given short fields like four times

540
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:16,560
Speaker 1: and they scored twenty one points on the Giants. Is pathetic. Yeah,

541
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 1: and I am I buying that as good as the

542
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:21,720
Speaker 1: defense has been, and really a lot of that um

543
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:24,359
Speaker 1: is connected as well to turnovers, which are very fickle

544
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:28,720
Speaker 1: about how that stuff goes. Turnovers is luck as much

545
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:31,360
Speaker 1: as his ability in a lot of ways. Uh, they're

546
00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:33,520
Speaker 1: gonna need to wake up and they have not yet,

547
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:36,400
Speaker 1: and it's time to do it. But they probably can

548
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,760
Speaker 1: coast another week on their defense against Washington. Uh. Finally,

549
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 1: Monday Night football before we get to the draft. The

550
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins, on a six game winning streak, head to

551
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 1: the Super Dome to face the Saints. As we said

552
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:54,639
Speaker 1: at the top of the show, Taysom Hill is in

553
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:57,679
Speaker 1: the COVID on the COVID nineteen restricted list and he

554
00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 1: will not be playing, so we'll be ian. Okay, I

555
00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:03,159
Speaker 1: believe fourth round pick. Uh. Is he a rookie or

556
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 1: second yar player? He is a rookie kie. I think

557
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:09,680
Speaker 1: reporters were kind of careful, like that's the plan now.

558
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,920
Speaker 1: But he was in the same room as like Taysom

559
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:16,840
Speaker 1: Hill and Trevor Simeons. Like Aaron Brooks could be the quarterback.

560
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 1: We could we could have a situation. Yeah, it's like

561
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:21,440
Speaker 1: the Celtics brought out Joe Johnson. The NBA is having

562
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:23,680
Speaker 1: some wild stuff where they're just like bringing back old

563
00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:25,679
Speaker 1: timers to play, because it would be your favorite, like

564
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,919
Speaker 1: two thousand's guy to like show up out of nowhere

565
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 1: in the m in a similar situation. I'd love to

566
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:34,080
Speaker 1: see Vinny test Of already come in and operate for

567
00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:38,480
Speaker 1: the scenes. Aaron Brooks would be fun. I think that

568
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 1: would be fun. Uh. It's a couple of days after Christmas,

569
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 1: everyone gets loose, goes watch there in Brooks. You know,

570
00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:46,760
Speaker 1: the door could be open, Greggy did he have his

571
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:49,400
Speaker 1: fight yet? Frank Gore could be waiting by that phone.

572
00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 1: Did he have his his bout? How you didn't see

573
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 1: the He became a meme Unfortunately, we're not talking about that.

574
00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 1: He didn't get knocked out but beaten. We kind of

575
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 1: predicted that we're not big m m A heads around here.

576
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:08,120
Speaker 1: But there's a lot of boxing boxing. It was boxing.

577
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 1: There's a lot of I don't put a context clues

578
00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:16,040
Speaker 1: that that wasn't gonna go old Frank's way. There's one

579
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 1: just google at an hour after or maybe even Justin

580
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 1: can bring up the photo, but it's a it's a

581
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:25,080
Speaker 1: pretty classic picture of of him looking terrified as as

582
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:28,000
Speaker 1: he's about to get punched in the face. By the way,

583
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 1: last year with Notre Dame, over twelve games through fifteen touchdowns,

584
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:36,880
Speaker 1: I mean, he's an unimpressive arm. But I'll say something

585
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:40,800
Speaker 1: keep study. I mean I did a little bit of

586
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 1: looking into him. I mean he's a bit of a mystery,

587
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:45,719
Speaker 1: all right. I mean, but this is a Sean Payton

588
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:49,160
Speaker 1: game where I just trust Sean Payton to do something

589
00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:52,360
Speaker 1: that makes this a little spicier than people expect. I

590
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:54,600
Speaker 1: see all sorts of people just giving this game to Miami.

591
00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 1: Um that said nine nothing a week ago. They scored

592
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:05,400
Speaker 1: nine points on that thought. One second, Mark Uhgger just

593
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:07,840
Speaker 1: pulled up the Frank order that's that's not the meme though,

594
00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:10,880
Speaker 1: it's not the meme, but it's it's pretty painful. It

595
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 1: looks like, yeah, I keep looking for that. Mean you

596
00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 1: go ahead, Mark, I'm good. It will really translate well

597
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Speaker 1: on audio. I um, I picked the Saints, you know,

598
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Speaker 1: on my game picks NFL dot Com slash game Picks

599
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:25,400
Speaker 1: until the book news. I really thought their defense could

600
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Speaker 1: put the clamps down on this r p O Dolphins offense,

601
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:33,240
Speaker 1: which is stationed to station, and they'd find just enough offense.

602
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Speaker 1: We we also don't know if they're on armstead of

603
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Speaker 1: ram Check. I talked about this every week, but they're

604
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Speaker 1: at tackle. I mean, it's so massive and yet like

605
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:42,640
Speaker 1: we never know on Thursday whether they're gonna play or not.

606
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:44,400
Speaker 1: And it's been unpredictable because they've been a little in

607
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 1: and out. Ram Check's been out a while now. But

608
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 1: that's massive. If it's Ian Book with two backup tackles

609
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 1: and the worst group of receiving receivers in the NFL,

610
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Speaker 1: that feels that feels impossible, unless too and the Dolphins

611
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Speaker 1: like just make enough mistakes. I don't know if like

612
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 1: Flores and and Josh Boyer and the four different offensive

613
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 1: coordinators told to it to be more aggressive after the

614
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 1: bye week. But that was a different to uh against

615
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Speaker 1: the Jets, and it was not a good different. It

616
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 1: was good different that he was way more aggressive running

617
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:15,400
Speaker 1: the ball, and like, I've been waiting for that, and

618
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 1: that was great. And he had that angry run he

619
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:20,680
Speaker 1: won that decepter from Kyle Brandt. He's flexing on the

620
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:22,560
Speaker 1: Jets and he definitely took off, like I like to

621
00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:25,600
Speaker 1: see that more. But he was way more aggressive throwing

622
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Speaker 1: the ball, and it was the worst, one of his

623
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:29,200
Speaker 1: worst games of his career. It was not a good

624
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 1: idea for him to be more aggressive. I was like, okay,

625
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:33,760
Speaker 1: go back to the five yard throws. He well, he

626
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 1: was terrible. In the first quarter. He threw an interception

627
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 1: they could have picked up, been picked off a couple

628
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Speaker 1: more times. He fumbled, fell on their ball, and then

629
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 1: got things calmed down and looked like two again. And

630
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:45,720
Speaker 1: then he threw a pick six to let the Jets

631
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:48,480
Speaker 1: tie the game late. But otherwise, uh, yeah, it was

632
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 1: a down game for him. But you know this, this

633
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 1: dolphin's winning shriek has been on my radar, So I

634
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Speaker 1: reached out to the l A researchers here the NFL

635
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Speaker 1: Media Recent Search group to do such a good job,

636
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Speaker 1: And I said, how you know fortuitous has this winning

637
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Speaker 1: streak been for the Dolphins in terms of what their

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00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:11,600
Speaker 1: competition has been uh during the streak. And according to

639
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Speaker 1: our buddy from that team, Adrian hassen Meyer UH, currently

640
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:18,800
Speaker 1: the Dolphins three ten strength of schedule over their six

641
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 1: game winning streak is the NFL's fifth lowest strength of

642
00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:25,240
Speaker 1: schedule over six game win streak in the last twenty seasons,

643
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 1: so going back to two thousand two, and so just

644
00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:31,640
Speaker 1: I I couldn't help a chuckle when I saw that

645
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 1: Ian Book would be starting against the Dolphins this week

646
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:37,280
Speaker 1: on a very short reps and in the middle of

647
00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 1: a pandemic scenario. So yes, I will be locking up

648
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins to continue to take care of business here.

649
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:48,960
Speaker 1: And really, if you can give the Dolphins anything, give

650
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:51,480
Speaker 1: them that they take care of business. So I know

651
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,320
Speaker 1: Dolphins fans are a little annoyed that I'm not giving

652
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:56,960
Speaker 1: them enough love during this winning streak, but there is

653
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 1: something to be said for a team that wins every week.

654
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:01,920
Speaker 1: There's post to win and they'll do it again. I mean, listen,

655
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:05,720
Speaker 1: to the quarterbacks. They played Tyrod, then Lamar Okay uh,

656
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:09,960
Speaker 1: then Joe Flacco, Cam Newton's first start back, Mike Glennon,

657
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:13,040
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson, and now Ian Book. I mean, that's cuts.

658
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 1: It is kind of ridiculous. Here's the meme. Oh no, Greg,

659
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 1: here's the meme. Greg. He didn't need to do this.

660
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 1: That's what hurts. He didn't need to do it. I mean,

661
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:31,040
Speaker 1: he got paid. He made it to the end of

662
00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:33,240
Speaker 1: the fight, when he played a hundred years in the NFL.

663
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 1: He didn't need the paycheck. One judge actually scored it

664
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 1: for him, which seems like it was very strange, um

665
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 1: but ultimately lost. All right, let's pause right here and

666
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:48,120
Speaker 1: take a break. We'll be right back. All right, let's

667
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 1: get to the draft. Greg, you have the first pick

668
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 1: this week, do I? Yes, you do. As we discussed

669
00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:00,280
Speaker 1: over time, I know I was asking DNA he was

670
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:02,280
Speaker 1: taking my pick. You know, I was giving him a

671
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:05,120
Speaker 1: chance here, I thought, you know, I want to wait

672
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:07,240
Speaker 1: until it's time to rip out your heart and hold it.

673
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:10,839
Speaker 1: I'll take I'll take Bills Patriots. I want to watch

674
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 1: that game live. I don't know at all what to

675
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:16,840
Speaker 1: think about this game. I guess I'm still stuck on

676
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:20,319
Speaker 1: like things I thought coming into the season about this

677
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:22,560
Speaker 1: Bills team, Like it still does feel weird that the

678
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 1: Patriots are favored to sweep the Bills. I saw a

679
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:28,760
Speaker 1: stat which blew my mind that the last fifteen Bills

680
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:34,120
Speaker 1: wins have been by double digits, which is just freaking outrageous.

681
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:35,640
Speaker 1: But that's a sign of like a good team. It's

682
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:38,360
Speaker 1: also signed either of an unlucky team that they can't

683
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 1: win a close game they're owing five this year in

684
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:44,399
Speaker 1: one score games, or or poor game management, poor late

685
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 1: game situational football, which is what Bill Belichick does best.

686
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:53,160
Speaker 1: I do think Belichick often gets touted as like he's

687
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 1: going to take away your strength, but I think the

688
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 1: Patriots more is like they're good at attacking weaknesses. That

689
00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:00,160
Speaker 1: that's what they do. And to me, the weaknesses this

690
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:04,439
Speaker 1: Bill's offensive line in their losses, that's who's come up short.

691
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 1: Didn't look good last week against Caroline. I thought their

692
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:10,480
Speaker 1: offense um did not show a lot, especially in terms

693
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:12,840
Speaker 1: of their past protection. And I do think that's where

694
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 1: the Patriots can win is winning up front their defensive

695
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:19,920
Speaker 1: line judah On bar Moore and stopping the run and

696
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 1: stopping Josh Allen, who I think will end up running

697
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 1: a lot more with design runs in this game. I

698
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:27,240
Speaker 1: think that's that's a huge key, is that New England

699
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:31,520
Speaker 1: does a good job against you know, mobile running quarterbacks.

700
00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:34,080
Speaker 1: I think they'll do that again here. Um. You know,

701
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:36,640
Speaker 1: As for the Bills, their last three wins are against

702
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:40,279
Speaker 1: the Jets, the Saints, and the Panthers. Their losses were

703
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:42,960
Speaker 1: against the Cults, Patriots, and Bucks. I know that people

704
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:46,400
Speaker 1: are having a tough time, um, adjusting to to the

705
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 1: Bills not being the a f c's top superpower. I

706
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:52,080
Speaker 1: guess I just don't see them that way because the

707
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:55,960
Speaker 1: way they matched up so poorly against um, Indianapolis, and

708
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 1: I know we you know we can. I value that

709
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 1: Monday night game to some degree. UM. More than that,

710
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:03,279
Speaker 1: I think that Greg does or others wanted to throw

711
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 1: that result out. UM. I thought the Patriots just showed

712
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:08,879
Speaker 1: their might and their will and if anything, you can say,

713
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:11,719
Speaker 1: look at Buffalo, that is notre devious white Um is

714
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 1: not the same against the past. They you know, they

715
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:15,719
Speaker 1: have a ton of tape on New England, but there

716
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:18,920
Speaker 1: hasn't really been a case where this year's Patriots have

717
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:21,399
Speaker 1: shown the Bills in person what they can do through

718
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 1: the air. I think that's a nice element of surprise

719
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:26,319
Speaker 1: to some degree, But I just don't like the way

720
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:29,680
Speaker 1: that the Bills match up against New England in general.

721
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:31,839
Speaker 1: If we get, you know, some similar looks to what

722
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:34,160
Speaker 1: we did in that last game, I want to see

723
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 1: a couple of things. I want to see who's running

724
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:40,320
Speaker 1: the ball for the Patriots. Um Stevenson, who who flopped

725
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:43,799
Speaker 1: uh in a start last week against the Cults. He's

726
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:46,279
Speaker 1: had an illness um, so I don't know if he

727
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:49,880
Speaker 1: was back on the practice field on Thursday. Damian Harris

728
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 1: has been there though, so Damian Harrison. He's been limited

729
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:55,960
Speaker 1: in practice and and he hurt that Hampshire against the Bills,

730
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 1: had a bye week and then missed another week. So

731
00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 1: you know, we'll see if they have one or both

732
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:04,600
Speaker 1: of those guys in the lineup, because I think obviously

733
00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 1: what we saw Monday night in that win was the

734
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:11,040
Speaker 1: Patriots imposing their will through the running game, and they're

735
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:13,520
Speaker 1: gonna need their guys to to make that happen. My

736
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 1: other thought about the game is, yeah, I think that

737
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:19,399
Speaker 1: the Bills need to prove something, not just to Um

738
00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:22,319
Speaker 1: skeptics at this point, but to themselves that they are

739
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:25,000
Speaker 1: the best team in this division, that they're better than

740
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:28,839
Speaker 1: the Patriots, because I think that it's pretty much neck

741
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:31,399
Speaker 1: and neck about you could you could go one side

742
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:34,520
Speaker 1: or the other. What's a better team? They're obviously very close, um,

743
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:36,280
Speaker 1: just like so many of these a f C teams

744
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 1: at the top here are really close to each other. UM.

745
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: But I wonder if there's a mental component that the

746
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:44,799
Speaker 1: Bills have to get over here, because you could you

747
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:49,439
Speaker 1: could tell how frustrating, uh that loss was against New

748
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 1: England in those terrible conditions for them, and the postgame interviews,

749
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:58,400
Speaker 1: those guys felt like they um were being dismissed and

750
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:01,800
Speaker 1: had been you know, anquished by a genius coach and

751
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 1: a team that they'll never be better than. So that

752
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:05,839
Speaker 1: can go one of two ways. They can take all

753
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:09,879
Speaker 1: that frustration and unleash it on the Patriots, or they

754
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 1: could be like so many other Patriots opponents over the years,

755
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:14,440
Speaker 1: that they kind of lose the head game before the

756
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:17,719
Speaker 1: actual game even starts. So I don't have a lot

757
00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 1: of confidence necessarily that the Bills can win, but I

758
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:22,880
Speaker 1: certainly wouldn't be surprised if they did either, because they

759
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:25,560
Speaker 1: have the ability to do it. And the Patriots, as

760
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:27,680
Speaker 1: good as story they are this year, I don't think

761
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:31,280
Speaker 1: there's some their head and shoulders above anybody talent level wise,

762
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 1: so it can't be a surprise when they lose like

763
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 1: they did last Saturday. No, they were extremely sloppy last

764
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 1: week and their line play for the most part was poor,

765
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:43,239
Speaker 1: So it shows they can get pushed around. Buffalo is

766
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:46,360
Speaker 1: probably not the team that's gonna win that way. But

767
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:49,320
Speaker 1: I do think it's worth something that these these Bills

768
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 1: have won a lot of big games. They've been in

769
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:55,759
Speaker 1: situations like this, including you know, beating the Patriots last year.

770
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:57,879
Speaker 1: I know it wasn't the same Patriots team, but they've

771
00:38:57,920 --> 00:38:59,880
Speaker 1: They've won important games, they won a playoff game, all

772
00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:02,080
Speaker 1: that stuff. This Patriots team is doing everything for the

773
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:04,319
Speaker 1: first time, and they're doing it without their two best

774
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:06,880
Speaker 1: wide receivers. I mean, to me, that's like a huge story.

775
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:10,239
Speaker 1: No Kendrick Born and no now Nelson Agila to me,

776
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 1: can can make them a lot more well one dimensional

777
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 1: than they would expect. And we don't know officially that

778
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:19,239
Speaker 1: they're both out, but agil are. Uh. Then the concussion

779
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:22,000
Speaker 1: Protocol Born. I mean Born is in the concussion protocol.

780
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 1: Aglar got hurt and hasn't been practicing. Cole Beasley is

781
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:27,320
Speaker 1: out for the Bills, but I don't think that evens

782
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 1: it out because the Bills to me, are a passing team.

783
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:31,719
Speaker 1: They're gonna pass. They have passing weapons. When you take

784
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:35,319
Speaker 1: those two guys out, it's basically Henry Jacoby Myers, who's

785
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 1: coming off one of the worst games of his career,

786
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 1: was a big reason why they lost that game a

787
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 1: week ago. He should bounce back, but they just don't

788
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:44,360
Speaker 1: have a lot of weapons, and it just again, it

789
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 1: just makes it closer. I'm with you, Dan, nothing would

790
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:48,680
Speaker 1: surprise me in this game. I took the Patriots, but

791
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:50,799
Speaker 1: I think it's a coin flip. I would argue the

792
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:52,719
Speaker 1: Bills have not won a big game since they beat

793
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:55,760
Speaker 1: the Chiefs on October tenth, and we can talk about

794
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:57,920
Speaker 1: the Patriots being sloppy last week. That a lot to

795
00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:01,320
Speaker 1: do with the cults who have the what are the Patriots?

796
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:05,560
Speaker 1: You know? Big wins? I guess like under Patriots have

797
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:08,880
Speaker 1: been transformed, you know, as the season's gone along. They

798
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:10,880
Speaker 1: came into the year with a rookie quarterback, not an

799
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:13,440
Speaker 1: m VP candidate. I'm just saying, like, who, who have they?

800
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:17,000
Speaker 1: They're similar to me in that when they've played the

801
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:20,640
Speaker 1: best teams, you know they haven't always played their best.

802
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 1: They know they beat the type a very diminished Titans

803
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:25,640
Speaker 1: team at the time. Um, but if it's not like

804
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:27,719
Speaker 1: the Patriots have stood up. What the Patriots have done

805
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 1: well this year is when they play really good teams,

806
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:33,239
Speaker 1: they have close losses, which I totally disagree. I mean,

807
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:36,480
Speaker 1: beating the Bills was a big, big win. They whipped

808
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:39,759
Speaker 1: They destroyed the Cleveland Browns and basically changed everything that

809
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:42,360
Speaker 1: we thought about the Cleveland Browns. They beat the Chargers,

810
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:44,720
Speaker 1: a team we're all obsessed with. I mean, they mowe

811
00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:46,760
Speaker 1: these teams down and aren't allowing a lot of points.

812
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 1: That sloppy affair from a week ago stands out as

813
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:52,719
Speaker 1: a rarity for them. They haven't been sloppy, They've been meticulous.

814
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:58,400
Speaker 1: So who do you I'm putting to the Patriots. I'm

815
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 1: with this. I'm exhausted with this Bill's thing where it's

816
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:04,959
Speaker 1: like every time they lose, it's like, well, next week

817
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 1: we'll find out if we really believe in them. And

818
00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:08,719
Speaker 1: every time the Patriots when it's like, well, what they

819
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:11,920
Speaker 1: do next week, then we'll Fight's like, go stomp Buffalo

820
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:14,799
Speaker 1: and end this conversation. Now, well, they will they win

821
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:17,280
Speaker 1: the division if they win and and get a Dolphins

822
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:20,960
Speaker 1: loss on Monday night. But essentially they win the division

823
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:23,680
Speaker 1: here with the victory. But if if the Bills win,

824
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:28,480
Speaker 1: Bills have a real good chance to go win this division.

825
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:30,960
Speaker 1: The tiebreakers could end up going their way if they

826
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:35,040
Speaker 1: end up winning out. So this is alkins And yeah,

827
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 1: didn't decide that much. The Bills could go do this thing.

828
00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:40,400
Speaker 1: And Mark I did say last week that I would

829
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:42,799
Speaker 1: open Sunday show with an apology to if they beat

830
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 1: the Colts on Saturday night. So I know, but that

831
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:48,960
Speaker 1: now we're using that is a way to discredit everything

832
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:53,359
Speaker 1: that they've done. And I simply who I might have

833
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:55,160
Speaker 1: fashioned a bit of a straw man right there, but

834
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:57,480
Speaker 1: I think I think, to me, I think these two

835
00:41:57,520 --> 00:42:00,520
Speaker 1: teams are like both top ten teams in the NFL.

836
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 1: It just it shouldn't. It wouldn't surprise me too much

837
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:06,000
Speaker 1: if they end up splitting that. That's all all right,

838
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:10,200
Speaker 1: Let's move on to the uh second pick. I will

839
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:14,000
Speaker 1: take the Los Angeles Rams at Minnesota Vikings. Turns out

840
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:18,400
Speaker 1: that the only way the Vikings could play a boring

841
00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:21,160
Speaker 1: ass game is if the Bears are involved, and that really,

842
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 1: in retrospect makes sense. Uh. That is the optimistic way

843
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:27,319
Speaker 1: to look at it. The pessimistic way to look at

844
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 1: this is that the Vikings have peaked and now the

845
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:35,080
Speaker 1: Vikings do not have Dalvin Cook uh in a huge

846
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:38,880
Speaker 1: game in their season against the Rams. The Vikings have

847
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 1: a quarterback and Kirk Cousins who has not played well

848
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:46,000
Speaker 1: at all for several weeks, and especially the last two

849
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:49,479
Speaker 1: weeks where he's been outright bad. I mean the fact

850
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:52,520
Speaker 1: that he threw for eighties something yards against that Chicago

851
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:56,600
Speaker 1: defense and that and it's uh compromise. State really spoke

852
00:42:56,640 --> 00:42:58,680
Speaker 1: to me. And then he pops up on the injury report.

853
00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:01,520
Speaker 1: And Kirk Cousins never misses games. Uh, so I don't

854
00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 1: expect him to be out of this game. And again

855
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:06,319
Speaker 1: I've already stated he was the only person who's not

856
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:11,160
Speaker 1: going to get Amicron. But he is a major question

857
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:14,880
Speaker 1: mark and he is the guy that really uh scares

858
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 1: me if I'm if if I'm rooting for the Vikings

859
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 1: to get to the playoffs. So now you have that

860
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:23,520
Speaker 1: situation with Minnesota and a Rams team that, yeah, they

861
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:26,160
Speaker 1: should be feeling good about themselves now. They took care

862
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:30,720
Speaker 1: of business under weird, weird circumstances on Monday. They ended

863
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:33,759
Speaker 1: a rival season, which is always fun. They took it

864
00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 1: to the Cardinals the week before, so they have a

865
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 1: real chance to make their own play for the NFC

866
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:42,840
Speaker 1: West and the top seed. Big game here. Doesn't this

867
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 1: feel the perfect way for the Zimmer Kirk era to

868
00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:51,600
Speaker 1: be reaching Like it's season four conclusion, Like it's basically

869
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:56,000
Speaker 1: a repeat of of every season that its just as

870
00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:58,600
Speaker 1: we're getting to the playoffs. It's no longer an offensive team.

871
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 1: It feels like a defensive team. I mean, I think

872
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:02,680
Speaker 1: their defense presents a lot of problems. I think it's

873
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:05,200
Speaker 1: a great test actually for the Rams offensive line, which

874
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:07,880
Speaker 1: we saw get worked. We didn't talk about that really

875
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:12,320
Speaker 1: with Gonzo or in that recap. Their offensive line struggled

876
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:14,279
Speaker 1: in that game, and Zimmer puts a lot of things

877
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:16,920
Speaker 1: in front of you coverage wise that will test the

878
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:19,719
Speaker 1: quarterback like Stafford. So I think it's a nice test

879
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:22,440
Speaker 1: for the Rams offense. But the fact that Kirk is

880
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:24,799
Speaker 1: now struggling as we're hitting the home stretch and the

881
00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:27,360
Speaker 1: defense is playing better. I just feel like this is

882
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:29,960
Speaker 1: how every Viking season feels like it ends. You know,

883
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:32,480
Speaker 1: of course, remember that game when that we watched with

884
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:36,359
Speaker 1: with your dad, uh Dan in the garage and They're

885
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:39,799
Speaker 1: struggling against the Packers and I'm looking for the fireworks.

886
00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:41,640
Speaker 1: But I it wouldn't surprise me if Kirk put up

887
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:44,320
Speaker 1: thirty in this game either. I would expect the Rams

888
00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 1: to keep rolling. I think that we are post Vikings

889
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:49,239
Speaker 1: at this point to a degree. M It's not well,

890
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:51,279
Speaker 1: I just I I still think. I mean, there's all

891
00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:53,360
Speaker 1: these teams are sort of the same at this point,

892
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:56,239
Speaker 1: but the Vikings, like the juice fields gone to some

893
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:59,200
Speaker 1: degree where the Rams, I think we're rounding into shape. Um,

894
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:01,240
Speaker 1: this is a game that you know they just simply

895
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:03,480
Speaker 1: go take. I think if you can get Justin Jefferson,

896
00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 1: if I know that Jalen Ramsey probably wouldn't naturally be

897
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:09,320
Speaker 1: on Jefferson a ton because he plays more in the slot.

898
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:10,960
Speaker 1: But if you can find a way to just remove

899
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:14,400
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson to some degree here. Um, No, Dalvin Cook.

900
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:16,600
Speaker 1: I like alexand Or Madison a lot, but I mean

901
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:19,920
Speaker 1: he's himself is coming off of a COVID situation. It's

902
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:22,160
Speaker 1: a depleted offense at that point. I mean that you

903
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 1: think theland might be back. It sounds like which would

904
00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:28,440
Speaker 1: be very helpful. But did anybody see Adam Feeling during

905
00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 1: his pregame workout, the very brief pregame workout before Monday night?

906
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:35,920
Speaker 1: He couldn't. He could barely walk without a limp let

907
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:39,240
Speaker 1: alone cut. So I'm not saying, you know, the miracles

908
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:42,360
Speaker 1: of modern medicine and a guy that's an elite athlete

909
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:45,440
Speaker 1: won't change things in six days or whatever, but I

910
00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:47,879
Speaker 1: wouldn't be totally stunted if if he's missing again, we'll

911
00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:53,240
Speaker 1: see m hm. The Vikings could probably survive a loss

912
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:56,279
Speaker 1: at seven and seven and nine and eighteen, could sneak in,

913
00:45:56,960 --> 00:45:59,759
Speaker 1: but then then they're county on tiebreaks, their county on

914
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 1: every thing going crazy. And the way the Eagles are

915
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:06,960
Speaker 1: playing now, there is a chance the Eagles finished strong

916
00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:09,560
Speaker 1: here and and you actually do need to get to

917
00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:11,520
Speaker 1: ten wins. So each one of these games is so big,

918
00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:13,840
Speaker 1: and we didn't mention with the Cardinals, the NFC West

919
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:16,040
Speaker 1: is up for grabs now. It is a it is

920
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:19,319
Speaker 1: tied and if the Rams go into Sunday, you know,

921
00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 1: knowing the Cardinals results, they might know that they could

922
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:24,319
Speaker 1: have first place to they're lonesome with two weeks to play.

923
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:29,920
Speaker 1: All right, let's keep moving on, Mark, it heads to

924
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:32,960
Speaker 1: you the draft. It is notable that I'm looking at

925
00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:35,440
Speaker 1: our options of games here that the good games are

926
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:38,520
Speaker 1: they're going away quick. There's no if this were a

927
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:40,560
Speaker 1: real draft, like there's a talent drop off. But I'm

928
00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:45,920
Speaker 1: gonna go, UM, Pittsburgh a Kansas city in the late spot. Um.

929
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:48,120
Speaker 1: There's a lot going on with this one, obviously because

930
00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:52,000
Speaker 1: we've got Travis Kelsey and Tyreek Hill on the COVID list. UM,

931
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:54,160
Speaker 1: and I at this point, with the way these things go,

932
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:56,480
Speaker 1: I just assume that they're not playing. And those aren't

933
00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:58,440
Speaker 1: the only guys. I mean, that's the headliners, but they've

934
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:01,440
Speaker 1: got a bunch of guys OVID list. Harrison Butler, who

935
00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 1: is not vaccinated, is out. I mean that matters in

936
00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:07,359
Speaker 1: a game like this. UM. Is this where Pittsburgh, though

937
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:11,240
Speaker 1: in a normal scenario, would be totally unmasked as a fraud.

938
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:13,680
Speaker 1: UM in the way this thing working is working with

939
00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:17,439
Speaker 1: COVID though, this feels like a sneaky like situation where

940
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh season continues to remain alive or undead as we've

941
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:24,720
Speaker 1: called it in the past at this point. Um, here's

942
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:26,839
Speaker 1: the thing. I wonder if Kansas City says we're gonna

943
00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:29,160
Speaker 1: try to do what other teams have done, um T J.

944
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:31,440
Speaker 1: Watt all the rest of it. The Steelers are given

945
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 1: up four hundred and forty three yards on the ground

946
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:35,920
Speaker 1: in the last two weeks, and they stunk stopping the

947
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:38,520
Speaker 1: run the previous bunch of weeks as well, So I

948
00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:40,880
Speaker 1: think there's a real weakness there. If Kansas City can

949
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 1: take advantage of it, I'm not sure that's gonna happen.

950
00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:45,879
Speaker 1: It feels like Patrick Mahomes if all these guys are out,

951
00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:48,200
Speaker 1: it's a one man band scenario where you're hoping this

952
00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:53,040
Speaker 1: defense basically neutralizes. Um, a bad Steelers offense. That's what

953
00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:55,239
Speaker 1: I mean. You just win a low scoring game. We

954
00:47:55,280 --> 00:48:00,600
Speaker 1: don't need a Steeler's Chiefs matchup where Kelsey and Hill

955
00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:03,280
Speaker 1: aren't playing, can you? I mean, can you spare us football?

956
00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 1: Can we please? I mean, the Steelers are a very

957
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:11,960
Speaker 1: annoying team because they are hanging around but offer very

958
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:14,920
Speaker 1: little in terms of entertainment value. I think even Steelers

959
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:18,640
Speaker 1: fans would tell you that for the most part, outside

960
00:48:18,640 --> 00:48:24,280
Speaker 1: the casion occasional Deante Johnson and uh T J Watt

961
00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:26,799
Speaker 1: big time play uh And I want to see the

962
00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:30,000
Speaker 1: Chiefs be able to build on this momentum that they've

963
00:48:30,040 --> 00:48:32,440
Speaker 1: been building on offense. If you take those two guys

964
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 1: out of it, you could be looking at a Tom

965
00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:37,640
Speaker 1: Brady on Sunday Night football type vibe for Patrick Mahomes

966
00:48:37,719 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 1: as great as he is, right, I was surprised, like

967
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:45,759
Speaker 1: the line didn't move that much, went from like nine

968
00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:47,920
Speaker 1: and a half to seven and a half for this game,

969
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:52,480
Speaker 1: Chiefs being favored and this Chief's offense, I guess I'm

970
00:48:52,520 --> 00:48:55,080
Speaker 1: still not sold that it's all the way back because

971
00:48:55,120 --> 00:48:59,600
Speaker 1: they had a great final three drives against the Chargers.

972
00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:02,560
Speaker 1: Even for that game, they did what they've done every game,

973
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:04,759
Speaker 1: which is a great opening drive touchdown and then get

974
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:06,760
Speaker 1: stuck in mud for about two and a half quarters

975
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:11,040
Speaker 1: and it's like players batter. Travis Kelsey and Tyree kellerre

976
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:13,560
Speaker 1: just not replaceable. Mark said it like, this is a

977
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:16,319
Speaker 1: game if every Andy Reid's like, let's just try out

978
00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:18,960
Speaker 1: that running game. We kept honking about all off season

979
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:21,560
Speaker 1: where it looks like these offensive linemen with Tuny and

980
00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:24,080
Speaker 1: Creed Humphrey could be an All Pro as a rookie

981
00:49:24,120 --> 00:49:27,120
Speaker 1: and Orlando Brown who is so great run blocking, Like

982
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:31,040
Speaker 1: they have the tools, they have the running back to

983
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:33,239
Speaker 1: to be a great zone run blocking scheme, and this

984
00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:35,799
Speaker 1: would be the game to go really heavy at it.

985
00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:38,280
Speaker 1: And you, like you said it, Mark, that Steelers stink

986
00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:40,879
Speaker 1: in terms of stopping the run. So will Andy Reid

987
00:49:40,920 --> 00:49:42,719
Speaker 1: finally do it? Like I feel like if ever there

988
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:44,960
Speaker 1: was a game for him to actually do that, this

989
00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:47,799
Speaker 1: is it. Go get a nice like ten twelve, not

990
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:51,960
Speaker 1: too flashy victory. But if if they're asking Mahomes to

991
00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:54,920
Speaker 1: go like win throwing routes to de Marcus Robinson and

992
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:58,440
Speaker 1: Pringle and stuff, I don't know, you could just this

993
00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:02,200
Speaker 1: Steeler's team. There's something to about this Steelers Tomlin group.

994
00:50:02,239 --> 00:50:06,680
Speaker 1: I don't know. Eight eight and one, it's still in play. Mark,

995
00:50:07,239 --> 00:50:10,680
Speaker 1: all right, Tod it snakes to me, I'm gonna go

996
00:50:10,719 --> 00:50:13,840
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay, Carolina. I want to see how the Bucks

997
00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:16,520
Speaker 1: um respond to what happened against the Saints. But also

998
00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:18,640
Speaker 1: a Buck's offense that you know, I feel like the

999
00:50:18,680 --> 00:50:20,400
Speaker 1: whole year for them. I know they were banged up

1000
00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:23,920
Speaker 1: on defensive bunch um, but they've relatively on offense, had

1001
00:50:23,960 --> 00:50:26,439
Speaker 1: their guys the whole way. And now you know Mike

1002
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:29,080
Speaker 1: Evans is a question mark. We know that Chris god

1003
00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:32,279
Speaker 1: when he is out. Leonard Fournett, Um, who's been better

1004
00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:34,040
Speaker 1: than his name all year long for them, is out.

1005
00:50:34,120 --> 00:50:36,480
Speaker 1: I thought Ronald Jones ran pretty well last week when

1006
00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:38,640
Speaker 1: he came in, and they've talked about him just being

1007
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:40,759
Speaker 1: the lead dog at this point. That's what Byron left

1008
00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:43,080
Speaker 1: which said, so how do you how do you operate?

1009
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:47,120
Speaker 1: They do get Antonio brown Back Um and Antonia Breshad

1010
00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:49,920
Speaker 1: Pereman may play as well. I think that matters a

1011
00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:51,319
Speaker 1: lot because if you look at the rest of their

1012
00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:55,399
Speaker 1: cast of whiteouts, um, it's depressing and I it just

1013
00:50:55,480 --> 00:50:57,520
Speaker 1: seems like it could be coming at the worst possible

1014
00:50:57,560 --> 00:51:00,799
Speaker 1: time for the Bucks to be missing, especially Oddwin, who

1015
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:03,200
Speaker 1: Tom Brady just like I can tell, you can tell

1016
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:06,200
Speaker 1: when Tom Brady doesn't like wide receivers, and you can

1017
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:08,160
Speaker 1: tell when he loves them, and he really loves quick

1018
00:51:08,239 --> 00:51:11,839
Speaker 1: Chris Godwin. So I wonder if Carolina flip side. I mean,

1019
00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 1: this is how weird things have gotten. Cam Newton is

1020
00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:17,400
Speaker 1: going to start and play the majority of the game.

1021
00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:20,479
Speaker 1: But Matt Rule, who come back to me. Matt Rule

1022
00:51:20,640 --> 00:51:22,440
Speaker 1: is saying that Sam Donald is going to be dipped

1023
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:24,080
Speaker 1: into the game to be used as well. I mean,

1024
00:51:24,080 --> 00:51:25,839
Speaker 1: what this is the NFL? What are we doing here?

1025
00:51:26,200 --> 00:51:28,920
Speaker 1: We have We're gonna hit that panther side of things

1026
00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:30,919
Speaker 1: in the second. But we have some developing news here

1027
00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:35,400
Speaker 1: to report. This just came across the NFL email that

1028
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers have placed two players an injured reserve. One

1029
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:41,080
Speaker 1: is Leonard four Nette, and he's already obviously injured with

1030
00:51:41,120 --> 00:51:44,080
Speaker 1: the hamstring, so he's not playing. But also linebacker Lavante

1031
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:47,399
Speaker 1: David has had to add it to the COVID nineteen list.

1032
00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:51,239
Speaker 1: Uh so that potentially removes another very important player at

1033
00:51:51,280 --> 00:51:53,919
Speaker 1: to Tampa Bay. Yeah. I don't. I don't think it's

1034
00:51:53,920 --> 00:51:57,120
Speaker 1: gonna be so easy for the Bucks. Maybe this week

1035
00:51:57,120 --> 00:52:00,360
Speaker 1: will be easy enough, but just in general, operating thirty

1036
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:02,560
Speaker 1: points per game offense, they're gonna need their defense to

1037
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:06,120
Speaker 1: be better and help carry this team more. It's hard.

1038
00:52:06,160 --> 00:52:08,719
Speaker 1: It's easier to game plan for with Scottie Miller and

1039
00:52:09,719 --> 00:52:12,279
Speaker 1: all these guys with a week to do it it's

1040
00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:14,560
Speaker 1: very tough when when you lose you know, Evans and

1041
00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:17,000
Speaker 1: Godwin and for Net in the middle of the freaking game.

1042
00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:21,240
Speaker 1: But it's still not easy. Like players matter, Like Godwin's

1043
00:52:21,239 --> 00:52:23,839
Speaker 1: an all Pro type guy, so so is Evans. He's

1044
00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:26,359
Speaker 1: not playing this week. There's a big drop off at

1045
00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:30,640
Speaker 1: running back. It's a division game that they should dominate

1046
00:52:30,719 --> 00:52:34,839
Speaker 1: defensively that but I don't know, Like I I do

1047
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:37,879
Speaker 1: think the the assumption that they're just gonna like keep

1048
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:41,080
Speaker 1: rolling as the Bucks with these guys not on the

1049
00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:44,160
Speaker 1: field is is like, have the evidence. We already saw

1050
00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:46,479
Speaker 1: it on Sunday Night. What could happen there? Their worst

1051
00:52:46,520 --> 00:52:49,200
Speaker 1: case scenario is that you put a defense that can

1052
00:52:49,239 --> 00:52:52,640
Speaker 1: play against him, and maybe that's not Carolina. But they also,

1053
00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:55,080
Speaker 1: you know, they have some pieces they've had stretches this year,

1054
00:52:55,400 --> 00:52:57,959
Speaker 1: and the Bucks can really struggle just like any other team.

1055
00:52:58,000 --> 00:52:59,400
Speaker 1: Like I brought it up on the Power Rank and

1056
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:02,520
Speaker 1: Show with Monday Money this week, like Tom Brady on

1057
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:06,480
Speaker 1: Sunday Night didn't look so different than what Ryan Tannehill

1058
00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:09,759
Speaker 1: Tannehills look like for weeks. And that's not saying that

1059
00:53:09,880 --> 00:53:12,520
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill is even close to Tom Brady's category. But

1060
00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:14,640
Speaker 1: it's like, it's just the way it is in football.

1061
00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:18,560
Speaker 1: If you start peeling back layers of supporting casts, it's

1062
00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:21,160
Speaker 1: not just that those guys are gone. You're putting guys

1063
00:53:21,160 --> 00:53:23,840
Speaker 1: that are not experienced and being the in these different

1064
00:53:23,920 --> 00:53:26,759
Speaker 1: roles right into the lineup in big spots, Like we

1065
00:53:26,760 --> 00:53:30,400
Speaker 1: were watching it, um Greg who is there? Uh? Former

1066
00:53:30,480 --> 00:53:35,080
Speaker 1: third round running Backshan Vaughan. I mean we were watching

1067
00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:37,319
Speaker 1: him fairly closely after he went in for for Net

1068
00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:39,720
Speaker 1: and that guy couldn't play. And it's just like, maybe

1069
00:53:39,840 --> 00:53:43,279
Speaker 1: Ronald Jones comes in and and fulfills his potential, Maybe

1070
00:53:43,360 --> 00:53:47,000
Speaker 1: Gronk shakes off a bad game, maybe Antonio Brown comes

1071
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:49,200
Speaker 1: off the shelf after ten weeks and is immediately a

1072
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:51,799
Speaker 1: playmaker again. But there's also a chance this is gonna

1073
00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:54,239
Speaker 1: put them in a situation where, yeah, they still make

1074
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:56,759
Speaker 1: the playoffs, but they kind of go into the postseason

1075
00:53:56,840 --> 00:53:59,920
Speaker 1: limping and maybe not in the postseason position that they

1076
00:54:00,040 --> 00:54:03,200
Speaker 1: thought they could be in at the beginning of the month. Yeah,

1077
00:54:03,200 --> 00:54:05,920
Speaker 1: as long as they get Evans and for Net back,

1078
00:54:06,560 --> 00:54:08,960
Speaker 1: you know, by the playoffs there hopefully for them for

1079
00:54:09,040 --> 00:54:11,880
Speaker 1: Week eighteen, then I'm not I'm not nearly as concerned

1080
00:54:11,880 --> 00:54:13,640
Speaker 1: because I do think there is potential for the defense

1081
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:15,920
Speaker 1: to keep playing better and better, and it really has lately,

1082
00:54:16,040 --> 00:54:19,160
Speaker 1: especially this week, it will going up against this rotation.

1083
00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:21,360
Speaker 1: I mean that sounded like a threat when it didn't

1084
00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:23,239
Speaker 1: sound like a promise. It sounded like a threat. When

1085
00:54:23,239 --> 00:54:26,600
Speaker 1: he's like, well, we're starting Cam, but we're bringing in Donald,

1086
00:54:26,640 --> 00:54:28,440
Speaker 1: It's like, what are you trying to make them prepare

1087
00:54:28,480 --> 00:54:32,520
Speaker 1: for more? It's like, good luck with that. I think

1088
00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:34,759
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys have picked up on this,

1089
00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:38,360
Speaker 1: because he kind of was. Rule was talking about the

1090
00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:40,959
Speaker 1: the two Minutes ural a lot with Cam, and that's

1091
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:46,000
Speaker 1: why you were seeing the dude um p J. Walker

1092
00:54:46,040 --> 00:54:48,160
Speaker 1: who was going to play last week and he never

1093
00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:51,440
Speaker 1: did right, And it's it seems like Rule is probably

1094
00:54:51,440 --> 00:54:53,960
Speaker 1: at a place where he knows Cam is not a

1095
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:56,040
Speaker 1: guy that can run his offense and he's just looking

1096
00:54:56,080 --> 00:54:57,960
Speaker 1: for anybody else that can step in and do it.

1097
00:54:58,160 --> 00:55:01,359
Speaker 1: And maybe it's Donald, because maybe Matt Rule thinks, oh,

1098
00:55:01,360 --> 00:55:03,239
Speaker 1: I remember those first three weeks of the season where

1099
00:55:03,239 --> 00:55:06,840
Speaker 1: he's proficient, Maybe comes back million dollars next year to

1100
00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:10,680
Speaker 1: into very unlikely to be on that team. I don't

1101
00:55:10,719 --> 00:55:12,319
Speaker 1: know for sure if Matt Rule is going to be

1102
00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:15,560
Speaker 1: coaching that team, but it's at least possible that Sam

1103
00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:18,560
Speaker 1: Donald is there with him next year. The Panthers, by

1104
00:55:18,560 --> 00:55:20,480
Speaker 1: the way, have a couple of their offensive linemen on

1105
00:55:20,480 --> 00:55:22,440
Speaker 1: the COVID list too, and that was already one of

1106
00:55:22,480 --> 00:55:26,240
Speaker 1: the worst offensive lines I've ever seen, so in Dominican

1107
00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:28,600
Speaker 1: su and all those guys should just that's why Tampa

1108
00:55:28,600 --> 00:55:32,560
Speaker 1: wins this game. Like maybe it's like eighteen to six

1109
00:55:32,640 --> 00:55:36,480
Speaker 1: or something, but the Carolina offense is um an absolute

1110
00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:41,520
Speaker 1: broken down mess. All right, Hey, everybody holding on hope

1111
00:55:41,560 --> 00:55:43,160
Speaker 1: that Chuba Hubbard is going to be the answer at

1112
00:55:43,200 --> 00:55:46,319
Speaker 1: running back for your fantasy team. Cut bait, go get

1113
00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:48,920
Speaker 1: Rod Joe if you could find him. Let's move on

1114
00:55:49,320 --> 00:55:54,399
Speaker 1: after this break, al right, The draft now heads over

1115
00:55:54,560 --> 00:55:59,200
Speaker 1: to AZUSA, and I will take a big a f

1116
00:55:59,280 --> 00:56:03,480
Speaker 1: C North Bay Baltimore Ravens at Cincinnati Bengals value here.

1117
00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:08,719
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. I am very curious to see. Well,

1118
00:56:08,760 --> 00:56:10,680
Speaker 1: first of all, we don't know as it is taping

1119
00:56:10,719 --> 00:56:14,000
Speaker 1: what Lamar Jackson situation is. He is still not practicing.

1120
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:17,160
Speaker 1: I don't know did he practice Thursday. He didn't practice Thursday,

1121
00:56:17,280 --> 00:56:21,759
Speaker 1: And Tyler Huntley did the media responsibilities. Lamar did not,

1122
00:56:21,840 --> 00:56:24,600
Speaker 1: so at this point, it's trending Huntley. Yeah. And you

1123
00:56:24,640 --> 00:56:27,560
Speaker 1: know what's interesting is like, if you've been watching the

1124
00:56:27,680 --> 00:56:31,800
Speaker 1: Ravens the last six weeks or so, I know Lamar

1125
00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:35,640
Speaker 1: Jackson is a superior overall player to Huntley. But Huntley,

1126
00:56:35,640 --> 00:56:37,440
Speaker 1: in addition to be able to do some things with

1127
00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:40,319
Speaker 1: his legs, he's taking care of the business when it

1128
00:56:40,320 --> 00:56:42,719
Speaker 1: comes to checkdowns and just making the throws that he

1129
00:56:42,760 --> 00:56:46,719
Speaker 1: needs to make. So while it's yes, obviously it is

1130
00:56:46,800 --> 00:56:49,360
Speaker 1: a it is a downgrade. Huntley has not made the

1131
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:51,880
Speaker 1: Ravens a bad offense. In fact, as you saw at

1132
00:56:51,920 --> 00:56:53,560
Speaker 1: the very end of that game against Green Bay, they

1133
00:56:53,560 --> 00:56:56,759
Speaker 1: could be quite dangerous, uh, in the right circumstance. So

1134
00:56:56,800 --> 00:56:59,440
Speaker 1: I think Cincinnati, even if they don't have to face Lamar,

1135
00:56:59,840 --> 00:57:02,640
Speaker 1: is really going to be up against it here potentially,

1136
00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:05,719
Speaker 1: just because they are such an inconsistent team. And if

1137
00:57:05,719 --> 00:57:08,320
Speaker 1: they think that they could take anybody for granted, and

1138
00:57:08,400 --> 00:57:10,920
Speaker 1: I'm not saying they are, uh, they will, they have

1139
00:57:10,960 --> 00:57:13,359
Speaker 1: another thing coming because they've had several losses this year

1140
00:57:13,400 --> 00:57:16,200
Speaker 1: where it's like, Okay, this setting up well for Cincinnati

1141
00:57:16,440 --> 00:57:18,760
Speaker 1: and then bang, you get the James Brown update and

1142
00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:21,000
Speaker 1: a seventeen to three at the end of the second quarter.

1143
00:57:21,120 --> 00:57:23,680
Speaker 1: So let's see where the Bengals are as a team.

1144
00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:25,680
Speaker 1: Let's see if they have some onions to hang here

1145
00:57:25,720 --> 00:57:27,680
Speaker 1: and say we are where the team that wants to

1146
00:57:27,680 --> 00:57:30,080
Speaker 1: win this division, Because if I had to guess, one

1147
00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:32,760
Speaker 1: of these two teams will win the North, and this

1148
00:57:32,800 --> 00:57:36,520
Speaker 1: game really might determine it. I mean, I look at

1149
00:57:36,520 --> 00:57:41,440
Speaker 1: the seventeen destruction and butt whipping they laid on Baltimore

1150
00:57:42,240 --> 00:57:44,200
Speaker 1: back in what was it Week seven or something, and

1151
00:57:44,360 --> 00:57:47,200
Speaker 1: I do wonder why why can't that unfold again? I mean,

1152
00:57:47,240 --> 00:57:50,680
Speaker 1: they were able to work over Baltimore's offensive line. They

1153
00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:53,560
Speaker 1: had a season high twenty three pressures on Lamar. So

1154
00:57:53,560 --> 00:57:55,880
Speaker 1: whether it's Lamar or Huntley, I kind of just like

1155
00:57:56,000 --> 00:57:58,960
Speaker 1: the way Baltimore matt or that the Cincinnati matches up

1156
00:57:59,280 --> 00:58:01,640
Speaker 1: with the raven I do. And I think that, you know,

1157
00:58:01,680 --> 00:58:04,400
Speaker 1: we saw Baltimore week ago. Um they put like two

1158
00:58:04,520 --> 00:58:07,439
Speaker 1: or three guys on Davante Adams over and over and

1159
00:58:07,600 --> 00:58:11,000
Speaker 1: they asked Wink martindale um if he would treat Jamar

1160
00:58:11,080 --> 00:58:13,520
Speaker 1: Chase this way. And I thought his quote was pretty hilarious.

1161
00:58:13,520 --> 00:58:15,520
Speaker 1: He said, Uh, Adams is one of the top two

1162
00:58:15,520 --> 00:58:17,959
Speaker 1: receivers in the league. And he's not. He's not number two.

1163
00:58:18,240 --> 00:58:20,320
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is a Hall of Fame QB. And I

1164
00:58:20,320 --> 00:58:22,200
Speaker 1: don't think we're ready to buy a gold jacket for

1165
00:58:22,280 --> 00:58:26,000
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow just yet. That said, Joe Burrow is the

1166
00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:27,919
Speaker 1: difference maker in this and I think if you get

1167
00:58:27,960 --> 00:58:30,640
Speaker 1: the best version of Joe Burrow, and they've got more

1168
00:58:30,680 --> 00:58:33,480
Speaker 1: weapons than Baltimore could ever imagine on their side of

1169
00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:35,960
Speaker 1: the ball. Right now, I like the Cincinnati Bengals in

1170
00:58:35,960 --> 00:58:38,120
Speaker 1: this game, well, yeah, you better win this game if

1171
00:58:38,120 --> 00:58:39,760
Speaker 1: you're the Bengals. Now, it's the first time they've been

1172
00:58:39,760 --> 00:58:43,960
Speaker 1: in these sorts of spots, Joe Burrow, Zach Taylor, this

1173
00:58:44,040 --> 00:58:49,680
Speaker 1: group late December Division game, a very hobbled, you know,

1174
00:58:49,920 --> 00:58:53,959
Speaker 1: decrepit Ravens roster right now. They they just added more

1175
00:58:54,280 --> 00:58:57,360
Speaker 1: COVID players to the list, and most of them were

1176
00:58:57,400 --> 00:58:59,600
Speaker 1: depth players. But it was like the depth upon depth,

1177
00:58:59,680 --> 00:59:02,520
Speaker 1: like the eyes, like Geno Stone, who was like a

1178
00:59:02,560 --> 00:59:06,360
Speaker 1: safety that couldn't ever play for them, is suddenly out

1179
00:59:06,400 --> 00:59:08,920
Speaker 1: there one of those two guys guarding Davante Adams at cornerback,

1180
00:59:08,960 --> 00:59:10,920
Speaker 1: like playing out of position. He didn't even used to play.

1181
00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:13,080
Speaker 1: Now he's playing, and he's playing out of position. These

1182
00:59:13,080 --> 00:59:15,000
Speaker 1: guys are now getting COVID and so they're going to

1183
00:59:15,080 --> 00:59:18,080
Speaker 1: like whoever they can find after that, there's no reason

1184
00:59:18,360 --> 00:59:21,760
Speaker 1: for the Bengals to lose this game. And yet I

1185
00:59:21,760 --> 00:59:24,760
Speaker 1: don't know, Like it's twenty you asked, like, why would

1186
00:59:24,800 --> 00:59:27,600
Speaker 1: the Bengals lose now when they won forty one to seventeen.

1187
00:59:27,600 --> 00:59:30,880
Speaker 1: Because it and because these are the Ravens, that there

1188
00:59:30,960 --> 00:59:34,160
Speaker 1: is something special here. Hardbas come up short with these

1189
00:59:34,520 --> 00:59:37,120
Speaker 1: decisions that haven't worked out for him. But man, I

1190
00:59:37,160 --> 00:59:40,800
Speaker 1: think he's coaching the hell out of this team and

1191
00:59:40,800 --> 00:59:43,200
Speaker 1: and I could I could see them winning this game.

1192
00:59:43,240 --> 00:59:45,440
Speaker 1: I picked them to win this game, even with Huntley.

1193
00:59:45,480 --> 00:59:48,640
Speaker 1: And it's just like a belief in the mystical, you know,

1194
00:59:48,680 --> 00:59:53,280
Speaker 1: a belief in like something bigger than that. And that's

1195
00:59:53,280 --> 00:59:55,600
Speaker 1: all that's going on. I'm with Mark and that, like

1196
00:59:56,200 --> 01:00:00,400
Speaker 1: the Bengals should take care of business. But is unad political?

1197
01:00:00,520 --> 01:00:02,720
Speaker 1: Is this is you know exactly what I'm talking about

1198
01:00:02,760 --> 01:00:05,000
Speaker 1: when I say, but these are the Ravens and those

1199
01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:07,920
Speaker 1: are the Bengals, and it is the end of December

1200
01:00:08,200 --> 01:00:11,600
Speaker 1: and the division is in play, Like whose chances are

1201
01:00:11,680 --> 01:00:14,280
Speaker 1: better to come come up big in the spot. I

1202
01:00:14,360 --> 01:00:17,400
Speaker 1: just think I just think it's Baltimore well, and I

1203
01:00:17,440 --> 01:00:19,760
Speaker 1: mean to your point, they have lost. You know, they're

1204
01:00:19,760 --> 01:00:24,160
Speaker 1: in a three game skid, three games by four points total.

1205
01:00:24,320 --> 01:00:27,360
Speaker 1: That's never happened, um in the in the history of

1206
01:00:27,400 --> 01:00:30,240
Speaker 1: the NFL. This Ravens team is the first two. I

1207
01:00:30,280 --> 01:00:32,960
Speaker 1: guess accomplished that. I'm not sure accomplishes the word, but

1208
01:00:33,120 --> 01:00:35,360
Speaker 1: they are hanging around in games. And you are right

1209
01:00:35,360 --> 01:00:37,080
Speaker 1: about one thing, because I think the Browns fan of

1210
01:00:37,160 --> 01:00:40,840
Speaker 1: me sees this too, that yes, on paper, the Bengals

1211
01:00:41,120 --> 01:00:43,480
Speaker 1: logically should take care of business. They do match up

1212
01:00:43,480 --> 01:00:46,520
Speaker 1: well with them, But the Bengals as a franchise and

1213
01:00:46,560 --> 01:00:49,760
Speaker 1: the energy around the Cincinnati Bengals, I don't know if

1214
01:00:49,800 --> 01:00:51,680
Speaker 1: I trust them to do this because none of the

1215
01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:54,360
Speaker 1: players on this roster have been in this situation. The

1216
01:00:54,440 --> 01:00:56,560
Speaker 1: coach is not. I mean, so it is a good

1217
01:00:56,600 --> 01:00:59,520
Speaker 1: matchup for them, and anyone should be beating Baltimore right now,

1218
01:00:59,680 --> 01:01:02,040
Speaker 1: and Ittimore just as too resilient. They'll be there at

1219
01:01:02,040 --> 01:01:05,000
Speaker 1: the end. Jo does change it. That's the one thing

1220
01:01:05,200 --> 01:01:07,200
Speaker 1: is like I really have been impressed last week. He

1221
01:01:07,280 --> 01:01:09,360
Speaker 1: one with his legs. It was a tough situation where

1222
01:01:09,520 --> 01:01:11,960
Speaker 1: I think the defensive coordinator Fonio got the best of

1223
01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:14,160
Speaker 1: them for a couple of quarters and then he adjusted

1224
01:01:14,240 --> 01:01:16,720
Speaker 1: and he moved. While he's eighth in the NFL in

1225
01:01:16,840 --> 01:01:19,600
Speaker 1: rushing value according to E p A, so that that

1226
01:01:19,680 --> 01:01:21,560
Speaker 1: a c l is like a distant memory, he should

1227
01:01:21,560 --> 01:01:24,160
Speaker 1: be the difference. I understand why Cincinnati believes in the

1228
01:01:24,240 --> 01:01:29,280
Speaker 1: boy there, boy, let's um before we throw to this

1229
01:01:29,280 --> 01:01:33,600
Speaker 1: Westling lock. This feels like I don't know, have any

1230
01:01:33,640 --> 01:01:35,280
Speaker 1: knowledge of it other than this is the game. This

1231
01:01:35,360 --> 01:01:37,919
Speaker 1: feels like a nick Nick Westling situation where he wants

1232
01:01:38,000 --> 01:01:41,640
Speaker 1: to grab the reins if Cincinnati is involved, and I

1233
01:01:41,640 --> 01:01:45,680
Speaker 1: could I predict fire and Brimstone against Cincinnati locking up

1234
01:01:45,720 --> 01:01:48,920
Speaker 1: the Ravens. Where do you think they come down? I

1235
01:01:49,000 --> 01:01:50,920
Speaker 1: think it depends on the Westling brother. I think the

1236
01:01:50,960 --> 01:01:54,360
Speaker 1: Bengals fans um that exist in most of them. I

1237
01:01:54,360 --> 01:01:57,040
Speaker 1: know there's some There're a little cynical about the Bengals too,

1238
01:01:57,040 --> 01:02:00,160
Speaker 1: that they see this as the moment that Cincinnati they

1239
01:02:00,160 --> 01:02:04,320
Speaker 1: finally does something nice with the city of Cincinnati. Yeah,

1240
01:02:04,880 --> 01:02:07,000
Speaker 1: if they pick cut of Ravens here, they're no longer

1241
01:02:07,040 --> 01:02:09,600
Speaker 1: allowed to even get a segment every week. I'm just

1242
01:02:09,720 --> 01:02:12,040
Speaker 1: ending that there we should be a little dark. Kind

1243
01:02:12,040 --> 01:02:14,920
Speaker 1: of depends on it does really depend on which Westling

1244
01:02:14,960 --> 01:02:19,080
Speaker 1: brother is on this message. So let's uh Gray Digger

1245
01:02:19,160 --> 01:02:23,800
Speaker 1: hit it. Hello heroes Phil again this week. Happy holidays

1246
01:02:23,800 --> 01:02:26,400
Speaker 1: to every one of the and all the listeners out there.

1247
01:02:27,400 --> 01:02:30,480
Speaker 1: At first, I was thinking Patriots over bills, but then

1248
01:02:30,560 --> 01:02:34,000
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow comes out and says that Cincinnati has no nightlife,

1249
01:02:34,320 --> 01:02:37,000
Speaker 1: so they will be healthy and well rested. They took

1250
01:02:37,000 --> 01:02:39,919
Speaker 1: care of business in Baltimore, and Nick thinks they're gonna

1251
01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:43,000
Speaker 1: win big again this week, given the city of Cincinnati

1252
01:02:43,080 --> 01:02:45,640
Speaker 1: a huge Christmas gift and the inside track on a

1253
01:02:45,640 --> 01:02:54,560
Speaker 1: playoff Berth Lock it Up, Baby, I love it, you

1254
01:02:54,600 --> 01:02:57,120
Speaker 1: know that? And that surprised Mat thought maybe Nick wouldn't

1255
01:02:57,120 --> 01:02:59,640
Speaker 1: be as bullish because since that he didn't look so

1256
01:02:59,680 --> 01:03:03,720
Speaker 1: hot Denver. But you know what, let's do it. I

1257
01:03:04,040 --> 01:03:06,080
Speaker 1: think we're all kind of Bengals fans a little bit well.

1258
01:03:06,080 --> 01:03:08,880
Speaker 1: I guess certain certain factions of the podcast can't really

1259
01:03:08,880 --> 01:03:11,920
Speaker 1: be as much, but with the Westlings attached to it,

1260
01:03:12,400 --> 01:03:14,400
Speaker 1: so I would like to see it. So let's give

1261
01:03:14,440 --> 01:03:17,760
Speaker 1: Cincinnati the Christmas gift they deserve. Markets that take to

1262
01:03:17,800 --> 01:03:20,160
Speaker 1: work out. You know, he's still for that take now,

1263
01:03:20,240 --> 01:03:22,120
Speaker 1: that take from you know, half a month ago at

1264
01:03:22,160 --> 01:03:25,520
Speaker 1: this point has been shredded. But I would just say

1265
01:03:25,520 --> 01:03:27,520
Speaker 1: to the Westling brothers because I fall for this all

1266
01:03:27,560 --> 01:03:29,480
Speaker 1: the time, perhaps even in this in this show, I

1267
01:03:29,520 --> 01:03:34,000
Speaker 1: have um. When you start to operate locks from the heart, um,

1268
01:03:34,240 --> 01:03:36,520
Speaker 1: you you get, you get banged a bunch there. It

1269
01:03:36,560 --> 01:03:39,760
Speaker 1: doesn't always work out that maybe spun the whole thing

1270
01:03:39,760 --> 01:03:43,320
Speaker 1: in Baltimore's way for me. Um. And you should know

1271
01:03:43,400 --> 01:03:45,360
Speaker 1: that the Westlings, they believe, are eight and seven in

1272
01:03:45,400 --> 01:03:47,600
Speaker 1: the law competition and they know they probably have to

1273
01:03:47,640 --> 01:03:51,840
Speaker 1: win out here, uh to take the title. So this

1274
01:03:51,920 --> 01:03:56,320
Speaker 1: is a big, big week for the Westlings. Let's move on.

1275
01:03:56,480 --> 01:04:00,920
Speaker 1: Greg heads to you, buddy, Wow, you've really left me

1276
01:04:01,440 --> 01:04:06,520
Speaker 1: Like no one wants these late games period. They're just

1277
01:04:06,560 --> 01:04:10,920
Speaker 1: sitting there, they're just saying, well, you gotta I'm not

1278
01:04:10,960 --> 01:04:13,720
Speaker 1: doing too late games, so you I don't have I

1279
01:04:13,760 --> 01:04:16,760
Speaker 1: don't I don't have to do anything for now. I'm

1280
01:04:16,800 --> 01:04:20,720
Speaker 1: just gonna take the old Chargers Texans early. Uh. Just

1281
01:04:20,840 --> 01:04:24,680
Speaker 1: watch Justin Herbert play football. There's a COVID situation going

1282
01:04:24,760 --> 01:04:29,200
Speaker 1: on with the Chargers. Both boasts out. Eckler's out, Guidans

1283
01:04:29,240 --> 01:04:31,760
Speaker 1: out like a lot of times with these with the COVID,

1284
01:04:31,920 --> 01:04:35,480
Speaker 1: it's like, alright, quality matters and quantity matters. Like when

1285
01:04:35,520 --> 01:04:37,960
Speaker 1: you lose just fifteen your trouble no matter what, when

1286
01:04:37,960 --> 01:04:41,200
Speaker 1: you lose two of your best players, uh in Ekeler

1287
01:04:41,280 --> 01:04:44,520
Speaker 1: and Bosa on top of Derwin, James still isn't practicing.

1288
01:04:44,640 --> 01:04:48,400
Speaker 1: That's a little bit concerning. You should be thankful. I

1289
01:04:48,440 --> 01:04:51,600
Speaker 1: guess that this is the week they're all out because

1290
01:04:51,720 --> 01:04:54,480
Speaker 1: you should still be able to win in Houston and

1291
01:04:54,560 --> 01:04:57,040
Speaker 1: bank of victory that that they need, Like they can't

1292
01:04:57,080 --> 01:05:00,600
Speaker 1: just count on winning this wild card spot now. Uh,

1293
01:05:00,880 --> 01:05:02,880
Speaker 1: they need to win two of their next three games

1294
01:05:02,880 --> 01:05:05,360
Speaker 1: and they should get in, and they better do this one.

1295
01:05:05,400 --> 01:05:08,440
Speaker 1: They are lucky that the Texans will be out without

1296
01:05:08,600 --> 01:05:12,640
Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks and Kami Fairbairn and a host of other

1297
01:05:12,720 --> 01:05:15,800
Speaker 1: players too. Cooks and fair Baron are the two best Texans.

1298
01:05:16,120 --> 01:05:19,000
Speaker 1: Fair Baron is on a heater that not enough of

1299
01:05:19,040 --> 01:05:21,320
Speaker 1: America is talking about. Right, Yeah, Greg and I were,

1300
01:05:21,800 --> 01:05:25,920
Speaker 1: you know, co watching fairbarn Torch The Enemy a week ago.

1301
01:05:26,000 --> 01:05:28,240
Speaker 1: I mean he was, Oh, you want to hit sixty

1302
01:05:28,240 --> 01:05:31,320
Speaker 1: in the rain Okay, let's do it. How about fifty five, Like,

1303
01:05:31,480 --> 01:05:33,840
Speaker 1: let's just go fair Baron has been getting it done.

1304
01:05:35,240 --> 01:05:37,080
Speaker 1: I respect that. I respect the hell out of a

1305
01:05:37,080 --> 01:05:40,520
Speaker 1: guy named Kayaming Fairbarn doing such masculine work in the

1306
01:05:40,600 --> 01:05:43,280
Speaker 1: National Football League. Put him in the Kerko Club, give

1307
01:05:43,360 --> 01:05:46,120
Speaker 1: him a booth bottle service. And the ladies over Mark

1308
01:05:46,160 --> 01:05:49,320
Speaker 1: that were Jake Lazer sent our way at that Super

1309
01:05:49,320 --> 01:05:52,320
Speaker 1: Bowl party of yesteryear, right, just to be clear, they

1310
01:05:52,320 --> 01:05:55,280
Speaker 1: were bartenders. That that's that's where it started it in

1311
01:05:55,400 --> 01:05:57,919
Speaker 1: and you kind of left that that's important. I'm glad

1312
01:05:57,960 --> 01:06:02,120
Speaker 1: that you clarified. Uh that, Yeah, this is another I

1313
01:06:02,120 --> 01:06:04,320
Speaker 1: don't know drafted this game. That was a panic. That

1314
01:06:04,440 --> 01:06:06,720
Speaker 1: was a panic decision. I just literally didn't want either

1315
01:06:06,760 --> 01:06:09,360
Speaker 1: of the Lake games. But well, you so that's fine.

1316
01:06:09,400 --> 01:06:13,120
Speaker 1: And uh, I thought that was a tough loss for

1317
01:06:13,160 --> 01:06:18,320
Speaker 1: the Chargers obviously on Thursday night against Kansas City, because really,

1318
01:06:18,360 --> 01:06:20,680
Speaker 1: you you watch that game and you watch how it unfolded.

1319
01:06:20,720 --> 01:06:23,320
Speaker 1: They really had no business losing it. And imagine how

1320
01:06:23,400 --> 01:06:26,520
Speaker 1: different their season looks if they had found a way

1321
01:06:26,560 --> 01:06:28,760
Speaker 1: to win that game and then get the Texans. So

1322
01:06:29,400 --> 01:06:33,040
Speaker 1: all they could do now is stack wins, take advantage

1323
01:06:33,040 --> 01:06:35,800
Speaker 1: of your your luck here. Do not let Austin Davis

1324
01:06:35,800 --> 01:06:37,720
Speaker 1: get hot on you as he's done against a few

1325
01:06:37,760 --> 01:06:40,959
Speaker 1: teams this year. Uh, and get to nine and six

1326
01:06:41,000 --> 01:06:44,240
Speaker 1: and really set yourself up well um to win that

1327
01:06:44,400 --> 01:06:47,440
Speaker 1: wild card spot. I don't think what else is there

1328
01:06:47,440 --> 01:06:50,200
Speaker 1: to say about this game? Like, if anybody has anything, well,

1329
01:06:50,920 --> 01:06:56,200
Speaker 1: purely throw it in. Now let's forge on. Greg Snakes

1330
01:06:56,200 --> 01:06:58,440
Speaker 1: to you, all right, I guess I will take a

1331
01:06:58,520 --> 01:07:03,200
Speaker 1: late game. I'll take Bear as Seahawks. I just I'm

1332
01:07:03,200 --> 01:07:06,520
Speaker 1: I'm sick of watching the Broncos live. I know that

1333
01:07:06,560 --> 01:07:09,160
Speaker 1: game matters more, but I'm just I've watched so many

1334
01:07:09,200 --> 01:07:12,400
Speaker 1: Broncos games live and I'm always wrong about them. And

1335
01:07:12,440 --> 01:07:15,040
Speaker 1: the Raiders are are not exactly enjoyable. So I know

1336
01:07:15,120 --> 01:07:18,439
Speaker 1: that game actually matters for the Outskirts, but I don't

1337
01:07:18,440 --> 01:07:20,520
Speaker 1: believe in either of those teams. I will be more

1338
01:07:20,640 --> 01:07:25,000
Speaker 1: entertained by watching Justin Fields versus Russell Wilson. I think

1339
01:07:25,240 --> 01:07:28,800
Speaker 1: there's some similarities here. Fields holds the ball forever. Uh.

1340
01:07:28,880 --> 01:07:32,200
Speaker 1: He's a physical guy. He's obviously a better runner than Wilson.

1341
01:07:32,760 --> 01:07:35,240
Speaker 1: But I think they are both really good throwing the

1342
01:07:35,280 --> 01:07:37,640
Speaker 1: ball down the field. They both you know, Wilson never

1343
01:07:37,680 --> 01:07:41,080
Speaker 1: turned into a guy who's like a good short um area,

1344
01:07:41,240 --> 01:07:43,880
Speaker 1: like quick timing thrower. And I think that's a question

1345
01:07:44,000 --> 01:07:46,800
Speaker 1: about fields. But the thing about Fields it's different to

1346
01:07:46,840 --> 01:07:50,600
Speaker 1: me than than Lawrence and Wilson this year is I

1347
01:07:50,920 --> 01:07:54,080
Speaker 1: do think you see the plays every single game, the

1348
01:07:54,360 --> 01:07:58,120
Speaker 1: really high quality throws that is mixed in with a

1349
01:07:58,120 --> 01:08:00,960
Speaker 1: lot like plenty of bad that too excited for what

1350
01:08:01,040 --> 01:08:03,880
Speaker 1: he's gonna look like with a different coaching staff. And

1351
01:08:03,920 --> 01:08:05,840
Speaker 1: so this is kind of a dead game. It's weird

1352
01:08:05,920 --> 01:08:08,240
Speaker 1: to have the Seahawks having a dead game here, but

1353
01:08:08,320 --> 01:08:10,680
Speaker 1: it feels like maybe it's a spot there six and

1354
01:08:10,680 --> 01:08:12,720
Speaker 1: a half point underdogs. I like the Bears to cover

1355
01:08:12,800 --> 01:08:14,720
Speaker 1: that I wouldn't. I think it's a spot that Bears

1356
01:08:14,760 --> 01:08:17,840
Speaker 1: maybe go have a nice rookie moment for Justin Fields.

1357
01:08:17,920 --> 01:08:20,599
Speaker 1: He has a nice big game against the dead Seahawks

1358
01:08:20,640 --> 01:08:22,240
Speaker 1: team that has nothing to play for. I'm with you,

1359
01:08:22,240 --> 01:08:24,200
Speaker 1: I could see Chicago winning this and I you know,

1360
01:08:24,240 --> 01:08:27,920
Speaker 1: I know it's sort of an unpopular opinion because we're

1361
01:08:27,960 --> 01:08:30,160
Speaker 1: done with Nick, Mattnege and the whole thing, But I

1362
01:08:30,200 --> 01:08:33,439
Speaker 1: thought to date played really hard for him and in

1363
01:08:33,479 --> 01:08:36,720
Speaker 1: general for themselves against the Vikings. I mean they I

1364
01:08:36,760 --> 01:08:39,240
Speaker 1: think for that offense, you know, they had meltdowns. I

1365
01:08:39,280 --> 01:08:41,599
Speaker 1: think it was three straight drives that ended in downs

1366
01:08:42,080 --> 01:08:44,439
Speaker 1: inside the twenty one yard line of the Vikings, one

1367
01:08:44,479 --> 01:08:45,960
Speaker 1: at the nine, and one of the four team too.

1368
01:08:46,040 --> 01:08:47,920
Speaker 1: I mean that that was sort of the difference in

1369
01:08:47,920 --> 01:08:49,839
Speaker 1: that game a little bit, along with some big mistakes

1370
01:08:49,840 --> 01:08:51,880
Speaker 1: by the Bears. But I'm with you that when this

1371
01:08:51,960 --> 01:08:56,000
Speaker 1: house is cleared justin fields, um, the moments that we've

1372
01:08:56,040 --> 01:08:58,680
Speaker 1: seen from make this an attractive landing spot to some

1373
01:08:58,760 --> 01:09:02,479
Speaker 1: degree for whoever comes back. And um, I should add

1374
01:09:02,520 --> 01:09:04,519
Speaker 1: because I it was the first thing I texted to

1375
01:09:04,560 --> 01:09:09,080
Speaker 1: you guys after we did them that bizarre Tuesday night recap,

1376
01:09:09,760 --> 01:09:14,719
Speaker 1: uh that the Seattle Seahawks, you know, very tough loss

1377
01:09:14,840 --> 01:09:17,120
Speaker 1: against the Rams ended their season. They had a second

1378
01:09:17,120 --> 01:09:22,080
Speaker 1: half lead, there was a pass interference uh play that

1379
01:09:22,600 --> 01:09:25,479
Speaker 1: passed down field that led to a turnover that should

1380
01:09:25,479 --> 01:09:27,960
Speaker 1: have been called. I understand that and understand the frustration.

1381
01:09:28,840 --> 01:09:30,679
Speaker 1: I understand if you're a little annoyed that we didn't

1382
01:09:30,680 --> 01:09:33,080
Speaker 1: bring it up. But at the same time, let's let's

1383
01:09:33,120 --> 01:09:35,519
Speaker 1: be honest that this has been a bad year for Seattle.

1384
01:09:35,600 --> 01:09:39,000
Speaker 1: This was a team that did not have the real

1385
01:09:39,280 --> 01:09:42,320
Speaker 1: bona fides of a true playoff contender anyway. So they

1386
01:09:42,360 --> 01:09:44,040
Speaker 1: are just playing out the strings and I go to

1387
01:09:44,120 --> 01:09:47,799
Speaker 1: tankathon here first time. I mean this, this is uncharted.

1388
01:09:47,920 --> 01:09:52,080
Speaker 1: Ye to be completely out of the mix before Christmas

1389
01:09:52,280 --> 01:09:54,880
Speaker 1: has never happened with Russell Wilson. But they're five and

1390
01:09:54,960 --> 01:09:57,720
Speaker 1: nine here right now. It's as I tracked this for

1391
01:09:57,760 --> 01:10:02,120
Speaker 1: New York Jets purposes, a overall pick. Why not just

1392
01:10:02,560 --> 01:10:05,720
Speaker 1: go in the tank fully Seattle? And and I don't need,

1393
01:10:06,080 --> 01:10:08,400
Speaker 1: I don't need. You don't need to win, like who cares?

1394
01:10:08,760 --> 01:10:11,120
Speaker 1: So just go in the tank, go five and twelve

1395
01:10:11,240 --> 01:10:13,640
Speaker 1: and uh, and then do the business you need to

1396
01:10:13,640 --> 01:10:15,760
Speaker 1: do in the offseason, because if there's gonna be house

1397
01:10:15,760 --> 01:10:19,080
Speaker 1: cleaning in Chicago, there could be house cleaning in Seattle

1398
01:10:19,120 --> 01:10:22,719
Speaker 1: as well. Both franchises a lot cooking behind the scenes.

1399
01:10:22,800 --> 01:10:26,200
Speaker 1: Bad vibes in Seattle. They're a bad vibe team. But

1400
01:10:26,280 --> 01:10:28,120
Speaker 1: we always talk about how you know it's going to

1401
01:10:28,200 --> 01:10:30,160
Speaker 1: come down to Wilson or Pete Carroll, one of them

1402
01:10:30,240 --> 01:10:33,640
Speaker 1: is going. But have we heard any real nuggets at

1403
01:10:33,680 --> 01:10:38,040
Speaker 1: all that Carols? No one knows anything, maybe or maybe not.

1404
01:10:38,080 --> 01:10:41,120
Speaker 1: Though I mean the Luggets are coming soon. Well, there

1405
01:10:41,240 --> 01:10:43,880
Speaker 1: you're saying that when Russell Wilson played the Giants, there

1406
01:10:44,040 --> 01:10:47,880
Speaker 1: was a SIRA is very interested in New York stuff. Again,

1407
01:10:48,000 --> 01:10:50,680
Speaker 1: that part is real, you know. The I don't know

1408
01:10:50,720 --> 01:10:53,080
Speaker 1: if it was the Giants reporters or Russell Wilson's people

1409
01:10:53,240 --> 01:10:56,160
Speaker 1: were definitely trying to to stoke that a little bit.

1410
01:10:57,280 --> 01:10:59,880
Speaker 1: Let's move to the back end of this draft. I

1411
01:11:00,000 --> 01:11:04,720
Speaker 1: will grab man what a draft for tugboat look at this?

1412
01:11:04,760 --> 01:11:09,880
Speaker 1: So we got rams Vikings too overall. Then we go

1413
01:11:09,960 --> 01:11:14,280
Speaker 1: and get Baltimore Cincinnati at five, I mean great playoff

1414
01:11:14,360 --> 01:11:16,639
Speaker 1: games essentially, and then you get Okay, it's no, it's

1415
01:11:16,680 --> 01:11:18,800
Speaker 1: not an incredible game, but it has huge steaks for

1416
01:11:18,840 --> 01:11:22,320
Speaker 1: both teams. Denver at Vegas with the penultimate pick of

1417
01:11:22,320 --> 01:11:24,920
Speaker 1: the draft. Oh yeah, what what what huge steaks? Who's

1418
01:11:24,920 --> 01:11:27,400
Speaker 1: going to have the seventeenth draft pick and who's gonna

1419
01:11:27,520 --> 01:11:31,040
Speaker 1: have the I don't rattle the narrative, Dan, I think

1420
01:11:31,080 --> 01:11:34,360
Speaker 1: you've done incredible work here. You know they like to

1421
01:11:34,520 --> 01:11:37,240
Speaker 1: great drafts, like back in US today when I'd read

1422
01:11:37,280 --> 01:11:39,720
Speaker 1: that like they grated the day after your draft gets

1423
01:11:39,720 --> 01:11:42,400
Speaker 1: an a if you if you have six minute drives,

1424
01:11:42,400 --> 01:11:47,880
Speaker 1: a field goal attempts Raiders Broncos. Um, look at you

1425
01:11:47,960 --> 01:11:51,559
Speaker 1: turning your back on the Broncos. That's tragic, but yeah,

1426
01:11:52,160 --> 01:11:54,880
Speaker 1: but you are a mercenary. Greg. Yes, I don't like

1427
01:11:55,000 --> 01:11:58,160
Speaker 1: the Broncos as a team. That's exciting, and I think

1428
01:11:58,160 --> 01:12:00,439
Speaker 1: the Raiders are cooked, as I've said multiple times over

1429
01:12:00,479 --> 01:12:03,360
Speaker 1: the past two weeks. But it is essentially a playoff

1430
01:12:03,439 --> 01:12:06,599
Speaker 1: game for these two teams, and that the loser is

1431
01:12:06,720 --> 01:12:10,120
Speaker 1: absolutely I don't know if they're eliminated mathematically, but you

1432
01:12:10,120 --> 01:12:13,160
Speaker 1: could say goodbye Teddy. Bridgewater I believe has already been

1433
01:12:13,200 --> 01:12:16,880
Speaker 1: ruled out. Uh. He suffered that scary head injury, and

1434
01:12:16,920 --> 01:12:21,000
Speaker 1: they are rightly you know. I don't know how Bridgewater

1435
01:12:21,120 --> 01:12:24,280
Speaker 1: is physically right now, but whenever you suffer a brain

1436
01:12:24,320 --> 01:12:27,880
Speaker 1: injury that makes you go in a hospital, that leads

1437
01:12:27,920 --> 01:12:31,200
Speaker 1: to you staying uh in a hospital room the night,

1438
01:12:31,560 --> 01:12:33,439
Speaker 1: you should not be playing football the next week. And

1439
01:12:33,479 --> 01:12:37,479
Speaker 1: I think we've advanced enough, uh to understand these things.

1440
01:12:37,520 --> 01:12:41,720
Speaker 1: So Bridgewaters out drew Lock, who stinks is in and

1441
01:12:42,000 --> 01:12:46,680
Speaker 1: we'll see if the Raiders um how they thank the

1442
01:12:46,680 --> 01:12:49,720
Speaker 1: football gods for one of the all time gifts of

1443
01:12:49,760 --> 01:12:53,360
Speaker 1: a victory against the Browns where they needed every ounce

1444
01:12:53,640 --> 01:12:57,479
Speaker 1: of fortuity to go their way between COVID and the

1445
01:12:57,560 --> 01:12:59,760
Speaker 1: you know, the timing of the game and having the

1446
01:13:00,320 --> 01:13:04,040
Speaker 1: a kicker that has ice water in his veins, Daniel

1447
01:13:04,080 --> 01:13:09,000
Speaker 1: Carson another underrated kicker, so Raiders at home should win.

1448
01:13:09,680 --> 01:13:13,160
Speaker 1: But I think both these teams ultimately are also rinds. Well.

1449
01:13:13,160 --> 01:13:15,320
Speaker 1: The Drew Lock thing, I think it's so it's so

1450
01:13:15,680 --> 01:13:18,080
Speaker 1: such a stroke of good luck for for the Raiders.

1451
01:13:18,120 --> 01:13:20,559
Speaker 1: I mean, who you know, weeks some of these teams

1452
01:13:20,560 --> 01:13:24,599
Speaker 1: are just surviving above water because of these scattered matchups

1453
01:13:24,640 --> 01:13:26,479
Speaker 1: that they get. And this is another example of that.

1454
01:13:26,520 --> 01:13:29,439
Speaker 1: It's not COVID related, but Drew Lock has looked like

1455
01:13:29,520 --> 01:13:32,559
Speaker 1: he's regressed. He looked terrible, and the Raiders um look

1456
01:13:32,600 --> 01:13:34,400
Speaker 1: at they. I mean, they barely got out of their

1457
01:13:34,439 --> 01:13:38,000
Speaker 1: own way in that Browns game. Some killer penalties, They're undisciplined.

1458
01:13:38,120 --> 01:13:40,240
Speaker 1: They look like a bad football team to me. And

1459
01:13:40,280 --> 01:13:42,559
Speaker 1: we're still dealing with them for a couple more weeks, right,

1460
01:13:42,640 --> 01:13:44,599
Speaker 1: Raiders Raiders fans, they want to hear about getting good

1461
01:13:44,680 --> 01:13:47,200
Speaker 1: luck either, because it's like their whole secondary is gone

1462
01:13:47,240 --> 01:13:49,760
Speaker 1: at this point. Even their replacements like face On went

1463
01:13:49,800 --> 01:13:51,759
Speaker 1: on the COVID list. They're they're going to hear because

1464
01:13:51,760 --> 01:13:55,920
Speaker 1: that was incredible. They were especially this week like getting locked,

1465
01:13:56,040 --> 01:13:59,320
Speaker 1: Like no, Darren Waller has just crushed this offense. I

1466
01:13:59,640 --> 01:14:01,519
Speaker 1: picked the Broncos to win this game. I was very

1467
01:14:01,560 --> 01:14:04,759
Speaker 1: surprised even with Lock, just because I think the only

1468
01:14:04,800 --> 01:14:07,000
Speaker 1: good thing in this game is the Broncos defense, which

1469
01:14:07,040 --> 01:14:09,559
Speaker 1: the defense we were promised coming into the season in

1470
01:14:09,680 --> 01:14:13,439
Speaker 1: terms of their their coverage and playing cohesively, and they

1471
01:14:13,520 --> 01:14:15,160
Speaker 1: do have a little bit of a pass rushan now

1472
01:14:15,479 --> 01:14:18,160
Speaker 1: I think has shown up in the last month or so.

1473
01:14:18,439 --> 01:14:21,439
Speaker 1: It just feels like the only side of football and

1474
01:14:21,520 --> 01:14:24,160
Speaker 1: either on either of these teams that's any good right now,

1475
01:14:24,280 --> 01:14:26,679
Speaker 1: so I could see them winning. Then again, Drew Lock

1476
01:14:27,080 --> 01:14:30,599
Speaker 1: is one of fifty four players to qualify for PFF

1477
01:14:30,720 --> 01:14:33,040
Speaker 1: like with at least thirty or forty dropbacks, and he

1478
01:14:33,080 --> 01:14:36,320
Speaker 1: has ranked fifty four UM and it's not close, like

1479
01:14:36,400 --> 01:14:38,799
Speaker 1: he's way behind fifty three because he's played like fifty

1480
01:14:38,840 --> 01:14:41,479
Speaker 1: snaps and he has like six turnover worthy plays, so

1481
01:14:41,520 --> 01:14:43,919
Speaker 1: he's basically been a total mess. It's a good answer

1482
01:14:43,960 --> 01:14:46,439
Speaker 1: to a trivia question, at least by that metric, who

1483
01:14:46,479 --> 01:14:49,719
Speaker 1: is the worst quarterback in the entire NFL. By that measure,

1484
01:14:49,760 --> 01:14:53,320
Speaker 1: it's Drew lock So that's the guy starting for uh Denver.

1485
01:14:53,520 --> 01:14:56,360
Speaker 1: I guess the favorite Denver Broncos on the road. Yeah,

1486
01:14:56,400 --> 01:14:58,080
Speaker 1: I was gonna say. My last thought on it is

1487
01:14:58,120 --> 01:15:00,679
Speaker 1: that Broncos have told us who they are this season

1488
01:15:00,920 --> 01:15:03,600
Speaker 1: multiple times. They have a head coach and Vic Fangio,

1489
01:15:03,760 --> 01:15:06,919
Speaker 1: and a defensive scheme that can cook up the opponent,

1490
01:15:07,000 --> 01:15:09,439
Speaker 1: and certainly the Raiders at this stage of the season.

1491
01:15:09,680 --> 01:15:12,880
Speaker 1: Without Darren Waller, UH can be cooked up. So I

1492
01:15:12,920 --> 01:15:15,479
Speaker 1: expect that. But their offense is so bad that it

1493
01:15:15,560 --> 01:15:20,400
Speaker 1: keeps them earthbound. So this this has got written all

1494
01:15:20,400 --> 01:15:23,639
Speaker 1: over it. I am totally happy with Field versus Rest

1495
01:15:24,040 --> 01:15:26,200
Speaker 1: in the late window. I don't care that it doesn't matter.

1496
01:15:26,400 --> 01:15:28,920
Speaker 1: I just you know what, after watching the Bears on

1497
01:15:28,960 --> 01:15:32,000
Speaker 1: Monday night, you couldn't well you literally have to pay

1498
01:15:32,040 --> 01:15:34,080
Speaker 1: me to watch it. The NFL will be paying me

1499
01:15:34,120 --> 01:15:36,120
Speaker 1: to watch that on Monday to write the power rankings.

1500
01:15:36,160 --> 01:15:38,800
Speaker 1: And that's the only way it's happening. It's not for

1501
01:15:38,840 --> 01:15:40,920
Speaker 1: the love of the game in this case, bar close

1502
01:15:40,960 --> 01:15:43,799
Speaker 1: it out, all right, Um, I mean talk about games

1503
01:15:43,800 --> 01:15:46,839
Speaker 1: that I need to be you know, funded generously to observe.

1504
01:15:47,280 --> 01:15:50,479
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Lions at Falcons. Uh, we don't even know.

1505
01:15:50,600 --> 01:15:53,360
Speaker 1: We may not be getting Jared Golf for Detroit Um

1506
01:15:53,400 --> 01:15:56,000
Speaker 1: because of COVID. I mean, this is just enough with

1507
01:15:56,040 --> 01:15:58,280
Speaker 1: this business. So that could be Tim Boyle. I don't

1508
01:15:58,280 --> 01:16:00,479
Speaker 1: know what their issue is with David Blow, my guy.

1509
01:16:00,520 --> 01:16:03,479
Speaker 1: They seem to deactivate him every weekend. They were very

1510
01:16:03,560 --> 01:16:06,160
Speaker 1: upset about this. Well, the newsletter. I gotta be honest,

1511
01:16:06,240 --> 01:16:10,120
Speaker 1: that newsletter. We've lost some valuable readers because they don't believe.

1512
01:16:10,200 --> 01:16:12,240
Speaker 1: And so you know, the Lions don't seem to believe.

1513
01:16:12,240 --> 01:16:14,800
Speaker 1: That's a big problem when you're writing a newsletter about

1514
01:16:14,800 --> 01:16:17,800
Speaker 1: a player. Is that officially though they kind of they

1515
01:16:17,880 --> 01:16:20,920
Speaker 1: kind of let it make, you know, made it made

1516
01:16:20,960 --> 01:16:23,360
Speaker 1: the opponent, you know, prepare for both Boil and Blow.

1517
01:16:23,680 --> 01:16:25,360
Speaker 1: I don't think they were saying here's the problem with

1518
01:16:25,400 --> 01:16:28,000
Speaker 1: the blow Hard newsletter. Unfortunately, and Mark, no one needs

1519
01:16:28,040 --> 01:16:30,040
Speaker 1: to tell you this because you're the editor in chief.

1520
01:16:30,600 --> 01:16:34,080
Speaker 1: Is that like two good drives on not even the

1521
01:16:34,080 --> 01:16:37,439
Speaker 1: most recent Thanksgiving, the Thanksgiving before that? Like, how far

1522
01:16:37,520 --> 01:16:39,719
Speaker 1: does that really take you? He does need You gotta

1523
01:16:39,720 --> 01:16:42,760
Speaker 1: give him the platform to be able to make enough

1524
01:16:42,800 --> 01:16:48,280
Speaker 1: plays to justify the existence of the newsletter counterpoint, like

1525
01:16:48,360 --> 01:16:51,679
Speaker 1: every major religion is based on someone from the deep

1526
01:16:51,720 --> 01:16:54,760
Speaker 1: past who did a lot of flashy things and we

1527
01:16:54,840 --> 01:16:58,559
Speaker 1: still remember and think about today. So I think David

1528
01:16:58,600 --> 01:17:01,719
Speaker 1: Blow fits more into sort of a Messianic um, someone

1529
01:17:01,760 --> 01:17:04,160
Speaker 1: who provides hope on who's gonna say that. I thought

1530
01:17:04,200 --> 01:17:06,760
Speaker 1: you might be with Christmas right around the corner and

1531
01:17:06,800 --> 01:17:10,200
Speaker 1: making a christ parallel to David Blow. And there it

1532
01:17:10,320 --> 01:17:13,720
Speaker 1: is with the messianic comment. Yes, okay, I feel like

1533
01:17:13,840 --> 01:17:17,519
Speaker 1: maybe if you if you check out, perhaps I don't

1534
01:17:17,560 --> 01:17:19,640
Speaker 1: know the New Testament Jesus had a little bit more

1535
01:17:19,640 --> 01:17:22,840
Speaker 1: of a track record than David Blow did in that

1536
01:17:22,920 --> 01:17:26,160
Speaker 1: quarter against the Bears, But you can make the case.

1537
01:17:26,360 --> 01:17:28,680
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that there is there is a a

1538
01:17:28,800 --> 01:17:32,479
Speaker 1: faint parallel um, and that's why I think so many

1539
01:17:32,520 --> 01:17:34,720
Speaker 1: people have subscribed to this newsletter. If he if he

1540
01:17:34,760 --> 01:17:38,200
Speaker 1: were to play against this Falcons defense um, if that

1541
01:17:38,280 --> 01:17:40,960
Speaker 1: ever were to happen, I mean, it is essentially like

1542
01:17:41,120 --> 01:17:45,280
Speaker 1: coming back to Earth from the heavens some degree. I

1543
01:17:45,360 --> 01:17:47,400
Speaker 1: just want to watch the lions though, because they still

1544
01:17:47,720 --> 01:17:50,320
Speaker 1: make me. They're enjoyable to me, and that's kind of

1545
01:17:50,320 --> 01:17:53,360
Speaker 1: what you need. In these weeks sixteen, seventeen, eighteen business.

1546
01:17:53,640 --> 01:17:56,720
Speaker 1: It's like they're the they're the worst record around, and

1547
01:17:56,800 --> 01:17:59,479
Speaker 1: I enjoy watching them. You've performed, You've you've performed. The

1548
01:17:59,520 --> 01:18:02,479
Speaker 1: valuable is this year mark because every week you pick

1549
01:18:02,560 --> 01:18:04,280
Speaker 1: the lines in every week you say the same thing

1550
01:18:04,320 --> 01:18:06,840
Speaker 1: about the Lions, uh, and we thank you for it.

1551
01:18:07,320 --> 01:18:08,720
Speaker 1: I mean, I do think it sounds like they may

1552
01:18:08,720 --> 01:18:12,840
Speaker 1: be getting DeAndre Swift back. They do make players better.

1553
01:18:12,920 --> 01:18:14,719
Speaker 1: That's like a good sign of a good coaching staff.

1554
01:18:14,800 --> 01:18:17,560
Speaker 1: Charles Harris was the first round pick of the Dolphins.

1555
01:18:17,600 --> 01:18:19,680
Speaker 1: And it's stuck in a couple of spots. Suddenly good

1556
01:18:19,760 --> 01:18:23,519
Speaker 1: there and Craig Reynolds comes off the mat. I'm hesitant.

1557
01:18:23,600 --> 01:18:27,759
Speaker 1: I'm not. You know, it can't rain in the uh

1558
01:18:27,800 --> 01:18:30,200
Speaker 1: in whatever they're calling the Mercedes Ben's Dome down there

1559
01:18:30,240 --> 01:18:32,760
Speaker 1: in Atlanta. But the Falcons are favored by six, six

1560
01:18:32,800 --> 01:18:35,760
Speaker 1: and a half in this game. If I'm not, I'm

1561
01:18:35,760 --> 01:18:37,439
Speaker 1: not going there because I don't like getting stuck in

1562
01:18:37,479 --> 01:18:40,280
Speaker 1: these The lines are gonna move and the quarterbacks may change.

1563
01:18:40,320 --> 01:18:43,519
Speaker 1: But if that sticks, and especially if golf comes back,

1564
01:18:44,040 --> 01:18:45,800
Speaker 1: I like the Lions in this game. I mean, I

1565
01:18:45,840 --> 01:18:49,479
Speaker 1: definitely like them to cover. So what the heck, graver,

1566
01:18:49,880 --> 01:18:53,360
Speaker 1: let's go. Let's go Lions. Whatever the line ends up,

1567
01:18:53,400 --> 01:18:56,719
Speaker 1: you'll worry about Tim boyle in in my life, though,

1568
01:18:56,800 --> 01:18:59,160
Speaker 1: I would like to know who's playing quarterback. But and

1569
01:18:59,400 --> 01:19:02,479
Speaker 1: you know, this is uh, this is this is off brand.

1570
01:19:02,600 --> 01:19:05,960
Speaker 1: This isn't part of the Greg Empire Rainmaker empowered. But

1571
01:19:06,840 --> 01:19:08,639
Speaker 1: the zoos up there in the mountain. He's gonna throw

1572
01:19:08,680 --> 01:19:12,040
Speaker 1: down a lightning bolt. See fantasy heads and say, guess

1573
01:19:12,120 --> 01:19:14,559
Speaker 1: what that Kyle Pitts second touchdown of the year. It's

1574
01:19:14,600 --> 01:19:18,040
Speaker 1: coming this week. Hit it. No, I don't have anything,

1575
01:19:18,080 --> 01:19:21,360
Speaker 1: but Kyle Pitts scores the second touchdown of the year,

1576
01:19:21,760 --> 01:19:24,640
Speaker 1: and uh, fantasy heads like me that have kept the

1577
01:19:24,640 --> 01:19:26,920
Speaker 1: faith will be rewarded in their semi fe's half a

1578
01:19:26,960 --> 01:19:29,120
Speaker 1: yard short. I don't know if you saw that last week. Yea,

1579
01:19:29,880 --> 01:19:32,920
Speaker 1: I saw it. We've all we all saw it, all

1580
01:19:32,960 --> 01:19:36,160
Speaker 1: the all the pits stains out there, we all we

1581
01:19:36,280 --> 01:19:38,920
Speaker 1: all saw the name of the group. That's great, that's good.

1582
01:19:40,320 --> 01:19:44,240
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a terrible that's a terrible, such

1583
01:19:44,280 --> 01:19:48,160
Speaker 1: a hey us, you know all the pits stains out there,

1584
01:19:48,200 --> 01:19:50,639
Speaker 1: we uh, we have kept the faith, and we'll see

1585
01:19:50,640 --> 01:19:52,960
Speaker 1: what happens in week sixteen. Let's take a break and

1586
01:19:52,960 --> 01:19:59,120
Speaker 1: then hit the leftovers. All right, welcome back, Let's hit

1587
01:19:59,160 --> 01:20:01,559
Speaker 1: the You know, you could argue that the two worst

1588
01:20:01,560 --> 01:20:04,840
Speaker 1: teams in the in the league, although the Jaguars probably

1589
01:20:04,840 --> 01:20:06,800
Speaker 1: earned the title that the New York football team. So

1590
01:20:06,880 --> 01:20:08,679
Speaker 1: let's get those games out of the way. They happened

1591
01:20:08,720 --> 01:20:11,519
Speaker 1: to one of them is playing the Jaguars, so buckle up.

1592
01:20:11,560 --> 01:20:13,720
Speaker 1: I can't I can't imagine there's gonna be more than

1593
01:20:13,840 --> 01:20:18,200
Speaker 1: forty seven people at MetLife Stadium for Jaguars at Jets

1594
01:20:18,920 --> 01:20:22,080
Speaker 1: the day after Christmas, in the middle of a surging

1595
01:20:22,160 --> 01:20:25,760
Speaker 1: global pandemic. I have a feeling a lot of New

1596
01:20:25,880 --> 01:20:29,200
Speaker 1: Yorkers and Northern New Jersey residents are gonna say, nah,

1597
01:20:29,520 --> 01:20:32,320
Speaker 1: we're good. We're gonna we're good on this one. Guys.

1598
01:20:32,360 --> 01:20:38,639
Speaker 1: So you have Jets hell, you know what, No, that's disrespectful. Eagles.

1599
01:20:38,680 --> 01:20:41,000
Speaker 1: I was gonna, I was gonna put them together in

1600
01:20:41,040 --> 01:20:43,439
Speaker 1: the two games. But that's not right. But any thoughts

1601
01:20:43,479 --> 01:20:46,479
Speaker 1: on Jaguars at Jets, it can't be too many. Well,

1602
01:20:46,520 --> 01:20:50,360
Speaker 1: the Jets have I think seventeen players put on the

1603
01:20:50,400 --> 01:20:52,920
Speaker 1: COVID list this week. They are the team that's in

1604
01:20:52,960 --> 01:20:55,240
Speaker 1: their head coach. This was a tough and their head coach,

1605
01:20:55,320 --> 01:20:57,240
Speaker 1: this was a tough one. Yeah, because you gotta. I

1606
01:20:57,280 --> 01:20:59,439
Speaker 1: gotta pick each one of these games. Tough one because

1607
01:20:59,479 --> 01:21:02,120
Speaker 1: I at this point I have had a policy this

1608
01:21:02,160 --> 01:21:04,160
Speaker 1: year which has served me well, which has never picked

1609
01:21:04,160 --> 01:21:07,599
Speaker 1: the Jaguars in any scenario. You know, you go thirteen

1610
01:21:07,600 --> 01:21:10,639
Speaker 1: and two doing that, the Texans swept them. Their offense

1611
01:21:10,720 --> 01:21:13,160
Speaker 1: is so bad that I I do think the Jets

1612
01:21:13,200 --> 01:21:16,040
Speaker 1: coaching staff and just somehow will find a way to

1613
01:21:16,080 --> 01:21:18,840
Speaker 1: win this game. But then you see that fifteen to

1614
01:21:18,960 --> 01:21:22,400
Speaker 1: seventeen Jets are on the COVID list, and it's it's tough.

1615
01:21:22,479 --> 01:21:24,639
Speaker 1: Do you take away fifteen players from the Jets. It's

1616
01:21:24,640 --> 01:21:27,439
Speaker 1: not a great NFL team Anyway, the Jets can catch

1617
01:21:27,479 --> 01:21:31,599
Speaker 1: the Jaguars for the number one pick, because yeah, I'm

1618
01:21:31,640 --> 01:21:34,920
Speaker 1: not absolutely rude for Jacksonville. They could, They could do it.

1619
01:21:35,120 --> 01:21:37,200
Speaker 1: This week. I was looking at it with the strength

1620
01:21:37,200 --> 01:21:40,559
Speaker 1: of scheduled let's go. If the Lions go win another

1621
01:21:40,600 --> 01:21:45,519
Speaker 1: ball game, very doable. Um, it could happen. It could

1622
01:21:45,520 --> 01:21:47,439
Speaker 1: absolutely happen. You need to get a little help. But

1623
01:21:47,479 --> 01:21:49,400
Speaker 1: the strength the schedule is gonna improve because you're about

1624
01:21:49,400 --> 01:21:53,200
Speaker 1: to play the Jaguars. All right, there you go. That's

1625
01:21:53,200 --> 01:21:54,720
Speaker 1: something to look out for, and that's to pick them

1626
01:21:54,720 --> 01:21:58,360
Speaker 1: by the way in the desert. The Giants at the

1627
01:21:58,360 --> 01:22:02,120
Speaker 1: Giants at the Eagles. Uh, Philly took care of business

1628
01:22:03,520 --> 01:22:08,840
Speaker 1: against the COVID decimated Washington football team and now their

1629
01:22:08,880 --> 01:22:12,639
Speaker 1: reward is what should be mark a total layoup against

1630
01:22:12,720 --> 01:22:15,040
Speaker 1: Giants team has already gone home for the winter. That

1631
01:22:15,120 --> 01:22:19,800
Speaker 1: has um a quarterback situation. Daniel Jones done for the year.

1632
01:22:19,880 --> 01:22:24,120
Speaker 1: I R Mike Lennon absolutely miserable. I mean good for

1633
01:22:24,160 --> 01:22:26,479
Speaker 1: the guys, set for life financially if he's made the

1634
01:22:26,560 --> 01:22:29,640
Speaker 1: right decisions, but he cannot play and doesn't need to

1635
01:22:29,640 --> 01:22:31,360
Speaker 1: be in the league as a backup too much longer.

1636
01:22:31,720 --> 01:22:34,559
Speaker 1: And then you have Jake from State Farm. Uh, this

1637
01:22:34,640 --> 01:22:38,960
Speaker 1: feels like a twenty four to three game. It should be. Uh.

1638
01:22:39,040 --> 01:22:42,439
Speaker 1: The Eagles are without Nick Sirianni, who tested positive for COVID,

1639
01:22:42,520 --> 01:22:45,519
Speaker 1: I mean, another coach not able to be on the field.

1640
01:22:45,880 --> 01:22:48,439
Speaker 1: They have a passing game coordinate named Kevin Petulio who

1641
01:22:48,439 --> 01:22:51,800
Speaker 1: will be taking over. I guess we don't we don't

1642
01:22:51,800 --> 01:22:55,000
Speaker 1: know how that seems to impact these teams because I'd

1643
01:22:55,040 --> 01:22:57,360
Speaker 1: have to check the record, but it's I think teams

1644
01:22:57,360 --> 01:22:59,760
Speaker 1: are like five and one or something when the head

1645
01:22:59,800 --> 01:23:03,599
Speaker 1: coach just not hot. Take coaches don't matter, running back

1646
01:23:03,720 --> 01:23:07,240
Speaker 1: don't matter. But it's just it's just it's not it's

1647
01:23:07,240 --> 01:23:09,679
Speaker 1: not a great look for them in general. They probably

1648
01:23:09,760 --> 01:23:11,400
Speaker 1: the crew of them would probably much rather they be,

1649
01:23:11,640 --> 01:23:14,280
Speaker 1: you know, winless in that situation. Um, I'm whither. The

1650
01:23:14,280 --> 01:23:17,240
Speaker 1: Giants are just depressing. It's it's a hot mess and

1651
01:23:17,280 --> 01:23:18,880
Speaker 1: it feels like the end of another end of the

1652
01:23:18,920 --> 01:23:21,280
Speaker 1: regime there. I don't know what the argument is for

1653
01:23:21,280 --> 01:23:23,599
Speaker 1: for Joe Judge at this point, because look at across

1654
01:23:23,640 --> 01:23:26,360
Speaker 1: the way. By week three or four, the Eagles were

1655
01:23:26,400 --> 01:23:30,679
Speaker 1: a radioactive, um a M talk radio disaster. People couldn't

1656
01:23:30,720 --> 01:23:32,720
Speaker 1: stand what was going on. And I think Sirianni has

1657
01:23:32,760 --> 01:23:34,559
Speaker 1: done a really good job. What's your argument if you're

1658
01:23:34,640 --> 01:23:36,880
Speaker 1: Joe Judge, I know there's been injuries, but you're two

1659
01:23:36,920 --> 01:23:39,360
Speaker 1: years in and there's no identity to this team on

1660
01:23:39,400 --> 01:23:43,320
Speaker 1: any level now, there's no argument. And uh Gonza made

1661
01:23:43,320 --> 01:23:45,080
Speaker 1: a good point with the Eagles that it's true that

1662
01:23:45,120 --> 01:23:47,360
Speaker 1: the schedule has broken their way with the but that's

1663
01:23:47,360 --> 01:23:49,600
Speaker 1: what the NFC East is about you're gonna have some

1664
01:23:49,680 --> 01:23:53,000
Speaker 1: good schedules, and they've they really have taken advantage, and

1665
01:23:53,040 --> 01:23:55,400
Speaker 1: they do have a good offense. Like I know, it's

1666
01:23:55,400 --> 01:23:58,240
Speaker 1: not just about the opponents. They are fourth and expected

1667
01:23:58,320 --> 01:24:01,800
Speaker 1: points added since Week eight their offense and it's mostly

1668
01:24:01,840 --> 01:24:04,320
Speaker 1: the running game. But like Miles Sanders being back and

1669
01:24:04,320 --> 01:24:08,080
Speaker 1: looking makes a difference. He had been not great and

1670
01:24:08,120 --> 01:24:11,120
Speaker 1: then gone for a while. He looks good. We've talked

1671
01:24:11,120 --> 01:24:13,840
Speaker 1: about Davante Smith a lot, and got Her is playing great.

1672
01:24:13,960 --> 01:24:17,360
Speaker 1: They jake from starting a football game here in week sixteen.

1673
01:24:17,439 --> 01:24:20,400
Speaker 1: That's uh, that's probably what we're getting. The only thing

1674
01:24:20,439 --> 01:24:23,599
Speaker 1: I'd say though, is that this game was a weird

1675
01:24:23,640 --> 01:24:27,040
Speaker 1: one obviously for Philly, but it's the one game where

1676
01:24:27,080 --> 01:24:30,080
Speaker 1: they did not surge on offense. They lost that game.

1677
01:24:30,160 --> 01:24:32,400
Speaker 1: They lost thirteen to seven. They turned it over four

1678
01:24:32,640 --> 01:24:34,960
Speaker 1: four times. That's not going to happen again with the turnovers.

1679
01:24:34,960 --> 01:24:36,600
Speaker 1: I mean, I would just assume it wouldn't feel a

1680
01:24:36,640 --> 01:24:43,360
Speaker 1: little fuky. Yeah, the Eagles, is Gonzo mentioned, have issues

1681
01:24:43,400 --> 01:24:46,320
Speaker 1: with the Giants at times, but this just feels different. Um, So,

1682
01:24:46,600 --> 01:24:48,760
Speaker 1: Eagles feel like they're in a great spot to go

1683
01:24:48,800 --> 01:24:50,720
Speaker 1: into the last two weeks. With a real shot at

1684
01:24:50,720 --> 01:24:54,080
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Um, all right, there you go. That is

1685
01:24:54,120 --> 01:24:58,679
Speaker 1: the totality of Week sixteen. By the way, again, Thursday

1686
01:24:58,720 --> 01:25:04,360
Speaker 1: night football Miners against the Titans with Grave Digger on

1687
01:25:04,400 --> 01:25:07,080
Speaker 1: the mike with Mark Sessler and Greg, I believe you

1688
01:25:07,120 --> 01:25:11,200
Speaker 1: had some you had vested interest in that game. That's right.

1689
01:25:11,479 --> 01:25:14,960
Speaker 1: I'm locking up this forty Niners team before we get

1690
01:25:14,960 --> 01:25:19,160
Speaker 1: out of here. That was very close to my lock

1691
01:25:19,240 --> 01:25:21,320
Speaker 1: as well, Greg, and that would have been three weeks

1692
01:25:21,360 --> 01:25:23,720
Speaker 1: in a row we had the same lock. But I

1693
01:25:23,760 --> 01:25:28,720
Speaker 1: thought about the Rams Grammers looking at me sideways this there. Yeah,

1694
01:25:28,720 --> 01:25:30,920
Speaker 1: I know they're a j Brown's back and Julio is

1695
01:25:30,960 --> 01:25:33,960
Speaker 1: out there, but they have not protected all year. These

1696
01:25:34,000 --> 01:25:37,360
Speaker 1: are these are two bully type teams. Graver and I

1697
01:25:37,400 --> 01:25:42,400
Speaker 1: think it's a bully getting bullied down in Nashville. Uh no,

1698
01:25:42,600 --> 01:25:46,000
Speaker 1: Taylor Law, No Saffold, right, that's correct. In the backup

1699
01:25:46,080 --> 01:25:49,519
Speaker 1: left tackle Kendall Lamb also announced on Instagram this morning

1700
01:25:49,560 --> 01:25:51,639
Speaker 1: that he has COVID so he will not be playing.

1701
01:25:51,800 --> 01:25:55,040
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll see second round pick Dylan Raden's for the

1702
01:25:55,040 --> 01:25:57,599
Speaker 1: first time this year. It is a TNF road game

1703
01:25:57,640 --> 01:26:00,519
Speaker 1: across the country. It's like that's why in the Titans

1704
01:26:00,520 --> 01:26:03,960
Speaker 1: are feisty. The Titans are feisty. They dominated Pittsburgh last week.

1705
01:26:04,000 --> 01:26:05,680
Speaker 1: I was surprised they lost that game. But I just

1706
01:26:05,680 --> 01:26:09,759
Speaker 1: think the four Niners are good? Are good? Titans not good?

1707
01:26:09,960 --> 01:26:12,320
Speaker 1: You know. I I locked the Titans the Niners and

1708
01:26:12,360 --> 01:26:14,920
Speaker 1: lost a couple of weeks ago on the same logic

1709
01:26:15,800 --> 01:26:18,800
Speaker 1: against Seattle. And now you have a similar situation here

1710
01:26:18,800 --> 01:26:20,559
Speaker 1: where they're facing a team in a little bit of

1711
01:26:20,560 --> 01:26:24,679
Speaker 1: a desperate situation. Uh, Thursday night games are super weird,

1712
01:26:24,720 --> 01:26:27,200
Speaker 1: a really tough lock in general. That about the thought

1713
01:26:27,240 --> 01:26:30,000
Speaker 1: about the Rams, but I trust that would be interesting.

1714
01:26:30,040 --> 01:26:33,120
Speaker 1: But make sure to check out that recap. And and

1715
01:26:33,240 --> 01:26:38,160
Speaker 1: on that note, I did promise a a surprise, uh

1716
01:26:38,280 --> 01:26:42,120
Speaker 1: to you boys and all the listeners. Uh, this is big,

1717
01:26:42,800 --> 01:26:45,800
Speaker 1: as you know, we've been played all season. We've been

1718
01:26:46,240 --> 01:26:51,800
Speaker 1: um celebrating the greatness of the artist Priyanka who um

1719
01:26:51,800 --> 01:26:56,080
Speaker 1: back in the year two thousand thirteen delivered a anthem

1720
01:26:56,240 --> 01:27:01,479
Speaker 1: for the ages in my city. Unfortunately, uh, pock marks

1721
01:27:01,479 --> 01:27:05,200
Speaker 1: all over the production in the form of will I Am,

1722
01:27:05,280 --> 01:27:10,320
Speaker 1: who slathered his black eyed peas ka ka ka kama,

1723
01:27:10,439 --> 01:27:13,040
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah all over the song to

1724
01:27:13,080 --> 01:27:16,040
Speaker 1: the point where the beauty of the song was lost

1725
01:27:16,360 --> 01:27:18,400
Speaker 1: and and Mark to me that felt like something that

1726
01:27:18,439 --> 01:27:22,799
Speaker 1: needed to be addressed. Yeah, you've been on the case.

1727
01:27:23,439 --> 01:27:25,640
Speaker 1: Um the will i Am thing. I don't know if

1728
01:27:25,640 --> 01:27:27,960
Speaker 1: it's gotten back to will I Am, but it is you.

1729
01:27:28,080 --> 01:27:31,479
Speaker 1: I think that, you know, anyone with a logical approach

1730
01:27:31,520 --> 01:27:34,240
Speaker 1: to music or an aesthetic approach would have to agree

1731
01:27:34,240 --> 01:27:36,840
Speaker 1: with your take. And we need a different version of

1732
01:27:36,880 --> 01:27:39,320
Speaker 1: this song. I think at some point a pure one

1733
01:27:39,600 --> 01:27:42,920
Speaker 1: get closer to purity. M hm. It really has been

1734
01:27:42,960 --> 01:27:44,599
Speaker 1: an itch that needs to you know, for a lot

1735
01:27:44,680 --> 01:27:47,439
Speaker 1: of people, that needs to be scratched. So many people

1736
01:27:47,520 --> 01:27:51,880
Speaker 1: walking around daily thinking when will they fix the Prianka song.

1737
01:27:52,200 --> 01:27:55,560
Speaker 1: Finally it's population. I think it's probably has it on

1738
01:27:55,600 --> 01:28:00,519
Speaker 1: their minds. And into the room walked Preston Smith, the

1739
01:28:00,600 --> 01:28:05,040
Speaker 1: daughter of Matt Money Smith. And no, no, you cut

1740
01:28:05,120 --> 01:28:12,479
Speaker 1: you sun, No, no you could you wait? Oh you

1741
01:28:12,600 --> 01:28:16,680
Speaker 1: gult you life on the shake. Come on to the

1742
01:28:16,960 --> 01:28:22,040
Speaker 1: map place, So come on and make some new friends.

1743
01:28:23,720 --> 01:28:28,280
Speaker 1: Show me wants to drink again. I know there's no

1744
01:28:28,439 --> 01:28:32,479
Speaker 1: place like home, but I know you're gonna like it

1745
01:28:32,640 --> 01:28:42,400
Speaker 1: in my city. Everybody's welcome here. Everybody welcome to my city.

1746
01:28:43,439 --> 01:28:50,360
Speaker 1: We ain't gonna worry an god like in my city.

1747
01:28:51,080 --> 01:28:56,120
Speaker 1: And no, your good friend and me, you ain't gonna

1748
01:28:56,240 --> 01:29:09,320
Speaker 1: wannaly so come on just come wow. Inc puts some

1749
01:29:09,439 --> 01:29:14,040
Speaker 1: hard into it. That is yes. Preston Smith, not the

1750
01:29:14,120 --> 01:29:17,160
Speaker 1: dynamic pass rusher of the Packers, the daughter of Matt

1751
01:29:17,200 --> 01:29:20,599
Speaker 1: Money Smith, a talented young singer songwriter. You could follow

1752
01:29:20,600 --> 01:29:23,920
Speaker 1: her on Instagram at p r E s t y

1753
01:29:24,280 --> 01:29:28,320
Speaker 1: N S m I t H Music. Preston Smith. I

1754
01:29:28,360 --> 01:29:30,559
Speaker 1: mean that there, it is there. That's the stripped down

1755
01:29:30,680 --> 01:29:33,440
Speaker 1: version of one of the great songs ever written, delivered

1756
01:29:33,800 --> 01:29:35,799
Speaker 1: in a way that will I am can never touch.

1757
01:29:36,760 --> 01:29:39,320
Speaker 1: She's done it. She's was beautiful. It had a lot

1758
01:29:39,320 --> 01:29:42,200
Speaker 1: of like heart to it. It almost reminds me of

1759
01:29:42,680 --> 01:29:45,760
Speaker 1: like Hallelujah, that that Leonard Cohen song. Like at this point,

1760
01:29:45,760 --> 01:29:47,640
Speaker 1: people don't really think of it as Leonard Cohen song.

1761
01:29:47,840 --> 01:29:52,880
Speaker 1: Is just something that gets sung in in important situations weddings, funerals, whatever,

1762
01:29:52,960 --> 01:29:55,880
Speaker 1: and a million great artists have redone the song because

1763
01:29:55,880 --> 01:29:58,639
Speaker 1: the song is so sturdy. I think Preston Smith might

1764
01:29:58,720 --> 01:30:02,640
Speaker 1: kick start a sim Miller this is the city. To

1765
01:30:02,720 --> 01:30:05,160
Speaker 1: extend that a little further. This is the Jeff Buckley

1766
01:30:05,280 --> 01:30:10,200
Speaker 1: version City Well in a song that's been suppressed. I

1767
01:30:10,240 --> 01:30:12,559
Speaker 1: think that most people in America would agree that this

1768
01:30:12,680 --> 01:30:16,160
Speaker 1: is close to being an American anthem um in so

1769
01:30:16,200 --> 01:30:18,679
Speaker 1: many ways. And now it's been. You know, it was beautiful.

1770
01:30:18,800 --> 01:30:21,839
Speaker 1: We filled up the gas tank. We're back. It was beautiful,

1771
01:30:22,160 --> 01:30:24,720
Speaker 1: good stuff. Thank you to Preston for the hard work.

1772
01:30:24,760 --> 01:30:27,400
Speaker 1: Thanks for Money for helping to make it happen. Money

1773
01:30:27,479 --> 01:30:30,720
Speaker 1: he's the producer on that track. And guess what, he

1774
01:30:30,760 --> 01:30:33,800
Speaker 1: didn't slather any production all over it. He just let

1775
01:30:33,840 --> 01:30:38,000
Speaker 1: the talent shine through. We thank the entire Money family.

1776
01:30:38,960 --> 01:30:44,599
Speaker 1: All right. Now, tomorrow's Christmas Eve. We have a television show.

1777
01:30:44,880 --> 01:30:46,920
Speaker 1: I mean, this is the time slot we've always wanted

1778
01:30:47,400 --> 01:30:53,559
Speaker 1: uh NFL Network Christmas Morning, four am. Santa's Coming down

1779
01:30:53,560 --> 01:30:58,000
Speaker 1: the Chimney seven on the East Coast. Seven. The kids

1780
01:30:58,080 --> 01:31:00,720
Speaker 1: might want to be opening their presence, or they might

1781
01:31:00,760 --> 01:31:03,439
Speaker 1: want to go straight to the couch, get settled in

1782
01:31:03,680 --> 01:31:06,080
Speaker 1: with a little hot chocolate and a blanket, and watch

1783
01:31:06,200 --> 01:31:08,840
Speaker 1: two hours of the Around the NFL broadcast, then open

1784
01:31:08,880 --> 01:31:12,200
Speaker 1: their gifts. That's in play. Potentially for some it's the

1785
01:31:12,240 --> 01:31:15,719
Speaker 1: one thing that probably is more enticing to children everywhere

1786
01:31:15,800 --> 01:31:18,479
Speaker 1: then actually opening gifts, and I know that we're not,

1787
01:31:18,560 --> 01:31:20,840
Speaker 1: in general not supposed to see Santa. You know, let

1788
01:31:20,920 --> 01:31:22,720
Speaker 1: him do his thing and you know, be in your room.

1789
01:31:23,080 --> 01:31:25,200
Speaker 1: But that's on how it works this time where there's

1790
01:31:25,200 --> 01:31:28,439
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of Santa encounters early morning, West Coast.

1791
01:31:28,720 --> 01:31:30,680
Speaker 1: Have we thought about this? Have we thought about a

1792
01:31:30,720 --> 01:31:35,000
Speaker 1: scenario Santa's on a tight deadline. We've all been there's writers,

1793
01:31:35,040 --> 01:31:38,679
Speaker 1: there's a deadline to hit. He's delivering presents. Someone leaves

1794
01:31:38,720 --> 01:31:41,519
Speaker 1: their television on at four am on the East coast.

1795
01:31:41,800 --> 01:31:45,400
Speaker 1: Hot damn, it's around the NFL broadcast, and Santa, totally

1796
01:31:45,439 --> 01:31:48,479
Speaker 1: transfixed by our program, pops down at the couch with

1797
01:31:48,560 --> 01:31:52,759
Speaker 1: those cookies, falls behind on his deliveries, and calamity ensues.

1798
01:31:52,800 --> 01:31:55,360
Speaker 1: So we gotta be careful don't leave the televisions on

1799
01:31:55,600 --> 01:31:57,720
Speaker 1: in case Santa is a big NFL fan. I think

1800
01:31:57,720 --> 01:32:01,040
Speaker 1: you're saying, like our job is to not too interesting

1801
01:32:01,560 --> 01:32:03,200
Speaker 1: on the show itself. It's the other way to go

1802
01:32:03,400 --> 01:32:06,960
Speaker 1: and that, yeah, it's our biggest show, because that was

1803
01:32:07,400 --> 01:32:09,280
Speaker 1: that was always a morning you know, you can't sleep,

1804
01:32:09,280 --> 01:32:11,040
Speaker 1: you're excited about getting the gifts. I would get up

1805
01:32:11,080 --> 01:32:13,479
Speaker 1: at like four or five, see what's in the stocking?

1806
01:32:13,760 --> 01:32:16,240
Speaker 1: And then you you go to the couch. What's on?

1807
01:32:16,360 --> 01:32:20,719
Speaker 1: Like infomercials at four thirty am? Usually anymore? Not anymore.

1808
01:32:21,560 --> 01:32:24,080
Speaker 1: We covered that base alright, So check out the Around

1809
01:32:24,080 --> 01:32:29,120
Speaker 1: the NFL broadcast on Saturday Christmas, and yes, Merry Christmas

1810
01:32:29,120 --> 01:32:34,760
Speaker 1: to everyone listening who celebrates, and happy Holidays to everyone. Uh,

1811
01:32:35,120 --> 01:32:37,120
Speaker 1: enjoy your time with your family, or your time off

1812
01:32:37,160 --> 01:32:40,720
Speaker 1: from work or just you know, enjoy listening to the

1813
01:32:40,720 --> 01:32:44,120
Speaker 1: show and watching our programs, and hopefully stay healthy and

1814
01:32:44,160 --> 01:32:47,519
Speaker 1: stay well. We will be back Sunday night with the

1815
01:32:47,560 --> 01:32:50,800
Speaker 1: recap of all the games we just previewed and grave Digger.

1816
01:32:50,840 --> 01:32:53,759
Speaker 1: I think the only way to say goodbye uh today

1817
01:32:53,880 --> 01:32:56,519
Speaker 1: is to give Preston Smith the floor one more time

1818
01:32:56,960 --> 01:33:01,719
Speaker 1: with her cover her version of holliy Lujah. Heard Jeff

1819
01:33:01,800 --> 01:33:06,760
Speaker 1: Buckley moment Preston Smith within my city. Uh he had

1820
01:33:06,800 --> 01:33:11,320
Speaker 1: to call everybody and no, no you could June Town,

1821
01:33:13,240 --> 01:33:19,640
Speaker 1: No no you caut June wait, oh you gultchne life

1822
01:33:20,040 --> 01:33:24,840
Speaker 1: on the shake. Come on down the mother place, So

1823
01:33:25,000 --> 01:33:29,719
Speaker 1: come on and make some new friends. Show me wants

1824
01:33:29,720 --> 01:33:34,840
Speaker 1: to drink again. I know there's no place like come,

1825
01:33:35,800 --> 01:33:40,400
Speaker 1: but I know you're gonna like you in my city.

1826
01:33:40,760 --> 01:33:48,880
Speaker 1: Everybody's welcome here. Everybody welcome to my city. We are

1827
01:33:49,080 --> 01:33:56,280
Speaker 1: gonna worry she annoying like you in my city, the

1828
01:33:56,560 --> 01:34:03,840
Speaker 1: royal good friend. Indeed, you ain't gonna wonderly. So come on,

1829
01:34:04,560 --> 01:34:07,679
Speaker 1: just come on. You ain't there. I had a party

1830
01:34:07,760 --> 01:34:10,639
Speaker 1: to him, Come to a party in a city.