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Speaker 1: What is going on Everybody? John Middlecoff Three and Out podcast,

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Speaker 1: How are we doing a little Saturday special? Because we

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Speaker 1: but it was not a very good game that looked

429
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Speaker 1: much more like over the course of the game, like

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Speaker 1: the first half of last year, than it did the

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00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:09,399
Speaker 1: second half of last year when he became one hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty million dollar player. And this is what I

433
00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:15,560
Speaker 1: always say, why it's so hard to become a star,

434
00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:19,000
Speaker 1: because becoming a star is not doing something for a year.

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Speaker 1: And even though I projected him to keep being good,

436
00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:26,640
Speaker 1: I bought into it. How could you not, But it's

437
00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:28,760
Speaker 1: hard to do it year after year. So there's gonna

438
00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:31,399
Speaker 1: be pressure on him one just to get healthy and

439
00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:34,600
Speaker 1: just play more consistent because with that many skill guys,

440
00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:37,520
Speaker 1: there aren't excuses. And here's the other thing, like Division's

441
00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:43,080
Speaker 1: tough man, so it's this was a road game into Brazil,

442
00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:45,199
Speaker 1: not the end of the world by any means, but

443
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Speaker 1: I think individually, when you look at him, makes you

444
00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:49,840
Speaker 1: scratch your head a little bit. And then, last but

445
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Speaker 1: not least, I talked about it coming into this game

446
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Speaker 1: on Thursday's podcast, The Defense, The Defense, The Defense, and

447
00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:01,280
Speaker 1: you hired Jeff Haffley, who like, listen with Vic Fangio, like,

448
00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:04,400
Speaker 1: he has a long resume of doing this and they're

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00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:07,200
Speaker 1: paying him five million dollars for a reason. They feel

450
00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:10,760
Speaker 1: very confident he knows what he's doing now, whether that

451
00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:13,679
Speaker 1: actually comes to fruition over the course of the season,

452
00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:17,199
Speaker 1: only time will tell. But Jeff Haffley has been a

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Speaker 1: defensive coordinator in the NFL zero years of his career.

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Speaker 1: He's been a defensive coordinator at a Power five college

455
00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:27,520
Speaker 1: one year of his career, and I'm pretty sure he's

456
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Speaker 1: a co defensive coordinator now. There is a chance, Like

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Speaker 1: they've gone through a lot of defensive coordinators over the

458
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Speaker 1: Rogers in Love era now and most of their defenses

459
00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:43,880
Speaker 1: have looked pretty similar mistackles, dbs, running behind guys and

460
00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:47,560
Speaker 1: getting gashed in the run game. So there is a

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Speaker 1: chance it's the players. They've invested a lot of money. Obviously,

462
00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:54,159
Speaker 1: Kenny Clark's a really good player, and so is ra

463
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Speaker 1: Shan Gary. But it feels like the defense reminded me

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Speaker 1: a lot of the previous couple of years when the

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Speaker 1: Green Bay Packer fans were like, get this Joe Berry

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Speaker 1: guy off my sideline, which I understand as a fan,

467
00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:12,240
Speaker 1: when you watch an offense or defense suck, you want

468
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:15,959
Speaker 1: that coordinator gone. No different than a player, like this

469
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Speaker 1: guy can't play, Let's draft another guy. There is no

470
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Speaker 1: guarantee that the guy you draft is gonna be any better.

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Speaker 1: And Jeff Haffley like, the jury's still out because tonight

472
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Speaker 1: they were getting shredded, and I like, I don't give

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Speaker 1: him that much credit for some of the interceptions. Jalen

474
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:36,440
Speaker 1: Hurts is throwing it right to you, right, just awful

475
00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:40,160
Speaker 1: decision making. So I think if you're a Packer fan,

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Speaker 1: Lafour's proven, Jordan Love's proven that they can mentally handle

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Speaker 1: some bumps in the road. They did it last year.

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Speaker 1: I would feel pretty good about over the course of

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Speaker 1: the year, as long as Love is healthy, that our

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Speaker 1: offense will be better. And they score twenty nine points

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Speaker 1: tonight and actually had a couple awful red zone trips.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they easily could have scored forty if they

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Speaker 1: were better in the red zone. But the defense man,

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you're an Eagle fan, it's like, we've like,

485
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Speaker 1: we got some big ass dudes up front. Let's figure

486
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:14,480
Speaker 1: something fucking out here. You're the Packers, You're like, can

487
00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:17,440
Speaker 1: any of our guys play in our back seven? Kwy

488
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:20,920
Speaker 1: Walker made a couple plays, but like, are guys good enough?

489
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Speaker 1: And does our coordinator know what he's doing? Our division's

490
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:27,439
Speaker 1: really hard. The expectations for this team are high. The

491
00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:30,040
Speaker 1: hype on this guy is high because we stole him.

492
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Speaker 1: He was a head coach in college and he came here.

493
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Speaker 1: It's like, this guy's gonna save us. And then the

494
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:38,400
Speaker 1: first night Eagles run for one hundred and forty four yards,

495
00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:42,520
Speaker 1: throw for two hundred and eighty and you're not feeling great.

496
00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:46,080
Speaker 1: You know you're You're really not. So this is what

497
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Speaker 1: the cool part about the last two nights. You're watching

498
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Speaker 1: four teams that should be lock playoff teams with the

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Speaker 1: talent they have. But beside the Chiefs, Ravens got issues.

500
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Speaker 1: Eagles defense has some question marks. Obviously Jalen and the Packers.

501
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:04,399
Speaker 1: Now the defense looks kind of the same, Like it

502
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:08,199
Speaker 1: looks exactly the same, and I think that that is

503
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Speaker 1: gonna be the pressure and the test put on this

504
00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:14,760
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator, like can he fix it? Because we've seen

505
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,520
Speaker 1: this before, Well, this next guy's gonna fix it, and

506
00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:21,160
Speaker 1: then he can't. So to me, for the Packers, who

507
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:24,400
Speaker 1: I thought were Super Bowl contender, no chance, Like, if

508
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:27,199
Speaker 1: you're gonna play defense even in this in this world,

509
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Speaker 1: it's not possible. And to me on the Eagles to

510
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Speaker 1: be a super Bowl contender, obviously Jalen cannot turn the

511
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:36,679
Speaker 1: ball over in these big spots. But it's like, is

512
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:40,560
Speaker 1: there a linebacker play good enough? And beside the rookie dB,

513
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 1: can they cover well enough? Because it is difficult in

514
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Speaker 1: this modern day NFL like the one. The huge advantage

515
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Speaker 1: the Chiefs have is they're great cover team. They have

516
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:56,560
Speaker 1: DB's four days. Well, it's a passing league, so it's

517
00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:59,280
Speaker 1: like perfectly made. And they have the greatest quarterback. So

518
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,000
Speaker 1: you're like, well they got the greatest quarterback and they

519
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:05,359
Speaker 1: got a great pass defense. It's like kind of works.

520
00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 1: It's kind of the formula in twenty twenty four. You know,

521
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:11,960
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety six, you better be able to run

522
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:13,760
Speaker 1: the ball and you better be able to stop the run.

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Speaker 1: I'm watching the Packers a night now. Listen. It's a

524
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 1: tough matchup AJ Brown DeVante Smith. Those two guys are

525
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:21,399
Speaker 1: making a lot of money, but they had no shot.

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Speaker 1: I mean it should have been worse. So little overreaction

527
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Speaker 1: Week one, big game, but that's part of the deal,

528
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Speaker 1: especially like we're not watching the Giants and Panthers here.

529
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Speaker 1: These are two teams that have like NFC Championship, Super

530
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Speaker 1: Bowl aspirations, and these are their players, right. It's not

531
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Speaker 1: like reinforcements ain't coming like Dion Sanders or Warren sapp

532
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:48,280
Speaker 1: or like these players ain't walking through the door in

533
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Speaker 1: the middle of the season. That's not the way it works.

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Speaker 1: So you either coach these guys up or you have

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Speaker 1: this deficiency that you try to overcome all season long. Okay,

536
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Speaker 1: I wanted to dive into something that I saw today

537
00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 1: that I didn't get to notice because when we go

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Speaker 1: and record right after the game, it's not like we

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00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 1: sit and wait for the press conferences in everything to

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00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 1: come out to then dissect. I mean, this is kind

541
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Speaker 1: of the game ends and the record button and I'm

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Speaker 1: firing off takes and thoughts on the game. Within I

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00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 1: would say no more than five to seven minutes, so

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00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:31,800
Speaker 1: it's pretty rapid fire. And then when I'm laying in

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Speaker 1: bed scrolling around, you see all these comments from the

546
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 1: Ravens and everyone's just crushing them, essentially calling them delusional

547
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 1: and I want to defend the Ravens for a little

548
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 1: bit because I think anyone can relate to this. When

549
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:49,600
Speaker 1: you are chasing someone, and I would say most of us,

550
00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 1: in our different lines of work, are always chasing someone

551
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:58,360
Speaker 1: or something. There's always people ahead of you, more than

552
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:02,680
Speaker 1: likely in an industry. If you run a company, companies

553
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 1: doing better than you. If it's individual positions, people you

554
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:09,680
Speaker 1: aspire to be, and the only way to get there,

555
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 1: obviously you gotta work hard, you gotta produce. I do

556
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Speaker 1: believe you got to be a little delusional. I think

557
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:19,000
Speaker 1: of most of us, and I throw myself in there.

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Speaker 1: If I just listed on a weekly basis my career aspirations,

559
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Speaker 1: my financial aspirations, you would probably think I was a

560
00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:30,240
Speaker 1: delusional lunatic. And I would imagine if I put a

561
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Speaker 1: mic in front of your mouth and ask for the same,

562
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Speaker 1: especially someone very competitive, someone very aspirational, someone that wants

563
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Speaker 1: to achieve a lot, you might sound crazy too to

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Speaker 1: a lot of people. So when the Ravens lose and

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Speaker 1: Lamar says they're not my kryptonite, I believe we scored

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Speaker 1: a touchdown Isaiah. Likely that's if that's their best shot.

567
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Speaker 1: Good luck to them in the future, meaning we'll see

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Again. It's easy forever everyone to take

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Speaker 1: a giant dump on everything they're saying, but doesn't bother

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00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 1: me as much. I don't like delusion when you have

571
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 1: no success and you have no chance of success in

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00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 1: the near future. So when bad teams top craziness as

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00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:21,440
Speaker 1: the season goes on, it's like you guys are out

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00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 1: in the wilderness. But the Ravens are good, and over

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00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 1: the Lamar era, they've been really good. The problem for

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Speaker 1: them has been these big games, obviously the Chiefs and

577
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 1: just other playoff games. But the only way that they're

578
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 1: ever going to get over the hump from a mental

579
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:42,360
Speaker 1: standpoint is believe they can win. And before you can

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00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 1: actually do something, you have to kind of believe it. Now.

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Speaker 1: I don't think this version of Lamar can beat the Chiefs,

582
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Speaker 1: and I do believe darics kryptonite. Why because he can't

583
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:54,760
Speaker 1: throw on them. There was a period during the game

584
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:59,240
Speaker 1: last night collins Worth mentioned this his average throw length

585
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 1: was like one year pass the line of scrimmage. It

586
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 1: ain't gonna work. You have to hit these big plays

587
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 1: or just bigger chunk plays, and they can't just be

588
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 1: these freak lucky You hit Isaiah likely, which is a

589
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:14,840
Speaker 1: good pass and a good play, but then he does

590
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:17,960
Speaker 1: the rest like. Part of what makes the Chiefs and

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00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:21,600
Speaker 1: gives their advantage over good teams is they can sustain

592
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 1: a drive at any moment throwing the ball, and Lamar

593
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:28,600
Speaker 1: simply against the best cannot. He makes up for it

594
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:31,239
Speaker 1: and keeps you in games like last night. With his

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00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:35,120
Speaker 1: exceptional athleticism and running ability. It's like he turns into

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Speaker 1: Barry Sanders. It's remarkable to watch, and I saw a

597
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:40,240
Speaker 1: lot of people today nitpicking if he takes too many

598
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 1: hits and over the course of time, I agree, but

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00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: it doesn't feel like he gets hit hard that many times.

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00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 1: I know he's part of collisions, but I would tend

601
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 1: to agree. You can't sustain running around getting hit, but

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00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:57,120
Speaker 1: you have to be delusional, you really do. And I

603
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 1: think they're franchise. The only way to get past the

604
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 1: big dogs, specifically the Chiefs, is they're gonna have to

605
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 1: have this. Only they're gonna believe because if they play

606
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:12,240
Speaker 1: again in January, one they're gonna be the underdog, and two,

607
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:17,360
Speaker 1: nobody and I mean nobody is gonna pick them to win.

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Speaker 1: Or believe they can win outside of that Ravens locker room,

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Speaker 1: and I would imagine there will even be some people

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Speaker 1: inside the Ravens like, can we really do this? But

611
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 1: if their best players are delusional about their opportunity to

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00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 1: figure this thing out, they got no fucking chance, right,

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Speaker 1: Just like if you don't believe in yourself, good luck

614
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:42,200
Speaker 1: in life, right, Because trust me, a lot of people

615
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 1: not only don't care that, they're not thinking about you

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00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:48,440
Speaker 1: or believing in you. So you have to have the

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00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:52,960
Speaker 1: most belief in your success. I believe that big time

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00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:56,960
Speaker 1: and listen. Are their comments to the casual person kind

619
00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 1: of crazy given what we've witnessed these last two games,

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00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:03,160
Speaker 1: of course they are. But like this team's aspirations as

621
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 1: a franchise and then one of the more clearly higher

622
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:10,080
Speaker 1: level franchises in the league. Lamar has flaws, but he's

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Speaker 1: still a better player than like ninety eight percent of

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00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:15,120
Speaker 1: the league. Just happens. The gap between him and Mahomes

625
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:18,360
Speaker 1: is pretty wide and not really debatable at this point.

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00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:22,799
Speaker 1: Flawed player, but luckily his flaw, the Chiefs have been

627
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:24,799
Speaker 1: the team that can really take advantage of it. Maybe

628
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 1: they get a chance for the Chiefs get knocked out

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Speaker 1: in the second round by someone else, they don't have

630
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 1: to play them. I don't know how it plays out.

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Speaker 1: I'm not betting on this Ravens team winning a super Bowl,

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00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 1: but if they don't believe they can, what's the point

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00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:39,440
Speaker 1: of even doing this? And I also think when you

634
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:43,160
Speaker 1: work really hard to do something and you spend months

635
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:47,319
Speaker 1: as a football player, right, you lose a devastating game

636
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:49,480
Speaker 1: in the ANFC Championship game at home, and then you

637
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 1: basically have nine months to think about it. Every day

638
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:56,240
Speaker 1: you're training, you have OTAs, and then you have training camp.

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Speaker 1: All you're talking about is this game, especially the starters,

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Speaker 1: like they're not discussing the preseason everything from the moment

641
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:06,239
Speaker 1: the pads come on in training camp to even work

642
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:08,840
Speaker 1: it on. Shit in the OTAs is built for that moment.

643
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 1: And then you lose, Like it sucks, but you kind

644
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:15,200
Speaker 1: of got to warp your mind. You can't just wave

645
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,640
Speaker 1: the white flag. Some people might push back on that,

646
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:23,880
Speaker 1: but I wasn't like thinking these guys are insane for

647
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:28,120
Speaker 1: having what many believe to be delusional beliefs, because I

648
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 1: think you kind of have to to ever achieve, to

649
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:34,680
Speaker 1: ever give yourself an opportunity to achieve anything. I wanted

650
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:36,240
Speaker 1: to just hit on a bunch of stuff this weekend.

651
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 1: I was thinking about, like, you know, what I haven't

652
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 1: done in a while is like grab a six pack.

653
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:42,799
Speaker 1: You know, the older you get, you think back, you're

654
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:46,440
Speaker 1: like God simpler times. You know, you're just young. You

655
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 1: just grab a six pack each with a buddy and

656
00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:51,840
Speaker 1: you just cash it while you watch TV. And I

657
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:53,959
Speaker 1: was thinking, like, let's do a little weekend six pack

658
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 1: of things on Sunday that I am looking forward to,

659
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,440
Speaker 1: and I'm looking forward to like anyone. The best part

660
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 1: about Week one is even the bad games are very

661
00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 1: watchable because we don't really know. We have a decent idea,

662
00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 1: but some teams are going to be better than we thought.

663
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 1: Some teams are gonna be worse than we thought. But

664
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Speaker 1: everyone starts at as zero zero slate and anything's possible.

665
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:16,359
Speaker 1: And as I talked about with Stucky, week one can

666
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 1: get weird, and it can get weird fast. I saw

667
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:25,200
Speaker 1: this clip go viral from inside the NFL, which Belichick

668
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:29,640
Speaker 1: has joined with Ojo Chris Long and I think Ryan

669
00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:33,360
Speaker 1: Clark and I want you to listen to something that

670
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:36,440
Speaker 1: Belichick said that I think, you know, went pretty viral

671
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:39,799
Speaker 1: on the internet streets. Whoever they played against in preseason,

672
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Speaker 1: it wasn't the best players on the other team.

673
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Speaker 3: So what you're saying is, coach, we can't plan a

674
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Speaker 3: parade because Caleb was so accurate in the preseason.

675
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Speaker 1: But it wasn't accurate. It's ten for twenty.

676
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 3: Shit, you didn't watch the twenty throw?

677
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Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, come on, there's a reason he's excited. It's

678
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 1: throw and we.

679
00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 3: Got to think how good the ten word that will

680
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 3: complete it.

681
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,480
Speaker 1: There was a couple of highlight players weren't that good.

682
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:08,480
Speaker 3: And no one's saying he might not be great. But

683
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 3: what we're saying is it's just you need the context.

684
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:12,919
Speaker 3: It's like when I hear somebody's lighting it up in camp,

685
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 3: I'm like, is he running with the twos?

686
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 1: Is he?

687
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 3: Is he going against the two defense? Is a quarterback

688
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:19,719
Speaker 3: struggling because he's got the two offensive line? There's just

689
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:20,680
Speaker 3: a lot we don't know.

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Speaker 1: First and foremost, I think everyone's like, damn, it's kind

691
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:27,920
Speaker 1: of crushing Kleb. Well, old school coaches don't get on

692
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:32,680
Speaker 1: their knees and slurp somebody. It's a rookie. I don't

693
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 1: care who it is. You have to prove it. I'm

694
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:39,480
Speaker 1: not necessarily in that camp. Like I'm pretty hyped up,

695
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 1: but like Belichick's not a big hype guy. He doesn't

696
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:44,480
Speaker 1: give a crap about that. And I've been saying this

697
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:47,360
Speaker 1: about Caleb. I think we've kind of jumped the shark

698
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 1: a little bit. There's still a lot of unknown. Now.

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00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 1: I get it from a Bear stand fan standpoint. I

700
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:58,160
Speaker 1: understand the Bears Barrek quarterbacks really low. I totally understand that,

701
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:01,360
Speaker 1: but I think I mean rights picking him to compete

702
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 1: for the Super Bowl. I sue people picking this guy

703
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 1: to be like MVP and them to win the division.

704
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:08,400
Speaker 1: It's like, guys, let's just see if, like back to

705
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 1: back weeks when film's out, he can beat you from

706
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:13,640
Speaker 1: the pocket. And I think Belichick is just saying, like

707
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:18,560
Speaker 1: those preseason highlight tape plays that he put on tape

708
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 1: mean nothing to me. Now they mean something to me

709
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 1: because he has the capability but to be a high

710
00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:29,319
Speaker 1: level team. Those players are gonna come and they go.

711
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:32,319
Speaker 1: We knew he had that capability when you watched him

712
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:35,120
Speaker 1: play at USC for the Bears to be good, and

713
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:37,799
Speaker 1: I kind of like Titans this weekend, not necessarily to win,

714
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:40,480
Speaker 1: but three and a half. I think everyone like, we

715
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Speaker 1: just need to pump the brakes on the Bears a

716
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:44,720
Speaker 1: little bit because I always say, playing as a rookie

717
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:48,960
Speaker 1: quarterback and then you quadruple the hype on it is

718
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 1: really really hard to live up to. Like ultimately CJ. Stroud,

719
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:55,319
Speaker 1: who had one of the great rookie seasons we've ever seen,

720
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:57,920
Speaker 1: I think statistically the best kind of got to fly

721
00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:00,279
Speaker 1: under the radar despite being a number two over pick

722
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:02,839
Speaker 1: because everyone thought his team was gonna suck. And that's

723
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:06,600
Speaker 1: how most young guys get to play, right, they get

724
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 1: to just even bow Knicks the over runner for the

725
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:11,879
Speaker 1: Denver Broncos like five and a half, and most people,

726
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 1: if you just pulled like the average football fan, I

727
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:15,920
Speaker 1: think the Broncos'd be pretty as the kids would say,

728
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 1: mid pretty average plow five hundred. So if he has

729
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:21,719
Speaker 1: some good games some bad games, we'd be like, oh,

730
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:24,719
Speaker 1: bo Nicks is really might have something there where It's

731
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:27,520
Speaker 1: like if Caleb Williams isn't competing to be a pro bowler,

732
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:31,400
Speaker 1: immediately it's gonna feel like a leaddown in Chicago. So

733
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:35,239
Speaker 1: when Belichick's comments everyone's like, geez, what's your hater. He's

734
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:37,640
Speaker 1: just saying, like, I watched the guy throw some balls

735
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:40,520
Speaker 1: in the pocket and it didn't look great, and all

736
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 1: he has to go on now he's only played one

737
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 1: you know, he skipped the Bowl game, so he doesn't

738
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:46,840
Speaker 1: play a game till some of these preseason games. And

739
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:50,799
Speaker 1: then he's going up against vanilla defenses and backups. So

740
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:53,440
Speaker 1: I think everyone's just expecting three or four touchdowns, and

741
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:55,160
Speaker 1: that might be the case. I'll be fun to watch,

742
00:39:55,960 --> 00:40:00,319
Speaker 1: but I think it's a little more difficult than away.

743
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:05,000
Speaker 1: The discourse is gone. So if Belichick is gonna like

744
00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:08,319
Speaker 1: throw some zingers and talk a little shit, I'm all in.

745
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 1: Speaking of rookie quarterbacks, another game I like is the

746
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:15,920
Speaker 1: Broncos this week. Not to win the game, but they're

747
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:19,400
Speaker 1: getting six points. And I think just one of the

748
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:21,920
Speaker 1: more fascinating stories a lot like Caleb and the Bears,

749
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:25,399
Speaker 1: is just Sean Payton in this quarterback like how does

750
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:28,879
Speaker 1: it look? Does it actually work as seamlessly like the other?

751
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 1: One difference between Caleb and bow Knicks is like bo

752
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:36,719
Speaker 1: Knicks in the preseason succeeded running a lot of the

753
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:39,120
Speaker 1: stuff Sean Payton's gonna ask him to do quick throws

754
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:42,520
Speaker 1: in the pocket, snap go. You know, Caleb's success came

755
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 1: with kind of run around and making plays, which, again

756
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Speaker 1: my comp forum has always been like prime Russell Wilson,

757
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:51,440
Speaker 1: not true pocket quarterback, like run around, and you can

758
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:54,799
Speaker 1: win and make the playoffs with that version. But the

759
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 1: guy they won the Super Bowl with was really much

760
00:40:57,040 --> 00:41:00,719
Speaker 1: more of a game manager who who asionally would do

761
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:04,160
Speaker 1: some spectacular shit. But bo Nicks is going to play

762
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:09,920
Speaker 1: much more like you know, historically not I'm not comparing

763
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:12,759
Speaker 1: him to Drew Brees here, but ball snapped balls out

764
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:15,880
Speaker 1: pretty quick, and there's a tough test on the road

765
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:19,840
Speaker 1: Spiritual High in Seattle. That place will probably probably be rocking.

766
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:23,680
Speaker 1: I would imagine raising that twelve. I'm just fascinated to

767
00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:27,359
Speaker 1: watch kind of this team operate. And Sean, who I've

768
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:29,520
Speaker 1: watched a decent amount of his press conferences during this

769
00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:35,280
Speaker 1: during training camp, pretty upbeat. I think he likes his team,

770
00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:38,440
Speaker 1: and it's one thing for a coach that's never done

771
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:40,080
Speaker 1: anything to like his team like this guy kind of

772
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:41,680
Speaker 1: has a decent idea what a good and a bad

773
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:44,319
Speaker 1: team looks like. And last year part of it was

774
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:47,920
Speaker 1: he clearly did not like Russell Wilson. I mean, let's

775
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:51,319
Speaker 1: look back on that. Remember the discourse in the conversation

776
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:54,520
Speaker 1: when he screamed at Russell Wilson. It's like, you can't

777
00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:56,800
Speaker 1: do that. You can't. He's a coach as the player.

778
00:41:57,280 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 1: I've been watching football, depending on how old you are,

779
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:04,680
Speaker 1: our entire lives. Isn't that pretty normal? I mean Tom

780
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:07,719
Speaker 1: Brady and Peyton Manning screamed at coaches like this is

781
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 1: the big Leagues. Was Wilson's making forty plus million dollars,

782
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 1: John Payton's making eighteen twenty You're allowed to yell at him,

783
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 1: especially when you don't think he's any good. Now, I

784
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:20,080
Speaker 1: think the question mark is the Pittsburgh game. Like Russell's,

785
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:21,839
Speaker 1: We'll see if he ends up playing in that game

786
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 1: because the calf injury is back. Number three, the much

787
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:29,879
Speaker 1: awaited It's been a long long time, and I lived

788
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 1: in the Bay Area when the forty nine ers mutually

789
00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:37,680
Speaker 1: departed with Jim Harbough. It's probably one of the bigger

790
00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:40,319
Speaker 1: stories on a negative side in the history of the

791
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:44,920
Speaker 1: Bay Area. I mean, the forty nine ers got torched

792
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:48,400
Speaker 1: for it, and I listen, they regretted it. For a

793
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 1: while at Kyle and John kind of saved the day.

794
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 1: But then Jim went to Michigan and in a weird way,

795
00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:57,680
Speaker 1: felt like he was underwhelming because he wasn't like competing

796
00:42:57,680 --> 00:43:00,319
Speaker 1: to win national championships. It couldn't beat Ohio State. And

797
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:02,480
Speaker 1: these last couple of years kind of validated it all.

798
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:05,800
Speaker 1: And now he's back, and now he has a quarterback.

799
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Speaker 1: Now is his team good enough? I don't know, but

800
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 1: I do believe one is. There's just zero chance on

801
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:18,279
Speaker 1: God's green Earth you could bet against Jim Harbaugh and

802
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert against Antonio Pearson, Gardner, Minshew. So he has

803
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:26,400
Speaker 1: a clear advantage in this first game, and I expect

804
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:28,879
Speaker 1: charge to win. And I'm just glad that we're gonna

805
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:30,920
Speaker 1: have Jim kind of walking up and down an NFL

806
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:37,720
Speaker 1: sideline number four. This has gotta be the most anticipated

807
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:44,840
Speaker 1: broadcast debut in a long long time. Anytime the Cowboys

808
00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:48,880
Speaker 1: play Week one, it's a highly anticipated game for a

809
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 1: lot of the last twenty years because the Giants had

810
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 1: been good. It felt like the Giants and Cowboys played

811
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:58,680
Speaker 1: a lot on Sunday Night football. And now they're playing

812
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:01,319
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns, wholast year, made the playoffs, had a

813
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:03,839
Speaker 1: fantastic year, have a really good team, even though they're

814
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:07,000
Speaker 1: a little banged up. In that game alone, like me

815
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:09,760
Speaker 1: and you could be calling it and people would be interested.

816
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:13,480
Speaker 1: I like the Cowboys in that game simply because quarterback

817
00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:17,120
Speaker 1: advantage Dallas and there's some question marks with the Cleveland's

818
00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:20,360
Speaker 1: offensive line. I would expect Mike Zimmer and that defense

819
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:24,319
Speaker 1: to be pretty good. But to me, this game, it

820
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:28,880
Speaker 1: feels different because Tom Brady's calling it. And is he

821
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:33,320
Speaker 1: gonna be good? I sure hope so, because like most people,

822
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:36,600
Speaker 1: you end up watching with the sound on, regardless how

823
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:40,720
Speaker 1: many TVs. You have a lot of Sunday afternoon Fox games,

824
00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:43,880
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be you know, we'll see how he

825
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:46,600
Speaker 1: can navigate some of these restrictions. Maybe he won't give

826
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:50,400
Speaker 1: a shit. I hope he just is himself. Obviously he

827
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:53,279
Speaker 1: knows football. I think he has this incredible way to

828
00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:59,120
Speaker 1: balance like being relatable despite being super famous, super rich.

829
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:02,640
Speaker 1: You know, he's at least in America, I don't know worldwide,

830
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:05,719
Speaker 1: Like he's like our male Taylor Swift or something in

831
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:09,560
Speaker 1: terms of his fame. But can he balance like being

832
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:13,880
Speaker 1: pretty entertaining? People can say, Gruden's a little sticky, and

833
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:17,800
Speaker 1: he can be, but I've watched some of his YouTube videos,

834
00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:20,759
Speaker 1: him just showing me his office. Gruden can keep my

835
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:24,360
Speaker 1: attention and he kind of has that John Madden magic.

836
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:27,840
Speaker 1: He's different than John, but he's just cameras on, lights

837
00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:31,239
Speaker 1: are on. The dudes a showmen and Tom always was

838
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:34,319
Speaker 1: as a player, and him and Peyton obviously have done

839
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:36,760
Speaker 1: a lot of ads over the years, so they've played

840
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:41,040
Speaker 1: that role in that in the commercial standpoint, but calling

841
00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:43,680
Speaker 1: a game the pressure, I mean, you're gonna have twenty

842
00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:47,600
Speaker 1: five million people watching this thing easy, It'll be interesting

843
00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:50,560
Speaker 1: to see the reaction. Everyone's gonna have an opinion. To me.

844
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:55,160
Speaker 1: I all these guys know football, Like, I'm not looking

845
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:58,040
Speaker 1: for you to break down the coverage every play. Most

846
00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:02,960
Speaker 1: people do not care. We want to be entertained. And

847
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 1: the two best entertainers by a mile were John Madden,

848
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:09,600
Speaker 1: Who's the best of all time and listen, hate him

849
00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 1: or love him, like Gruden was good at his job.

850
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:13,520
Speaker 1: There was a reason they were paying him ten million

851
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:16,160
Speaker 1: dollars a year and Monday Night fell off a cliff

852
00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:19,280
Speaker 1: when he took the Raiders job because he was entertaining

853
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:23,920
Speaker 1: and this is not about like this job breaking it

854
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:28,000
Speaker 1: down to the hard hardcore that wants to know every route.

855
00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:30,920
Speaker 1: Like you can't get too into the weeds in football.

856
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:35,040
Speaker 1: It's too confusing for like the twenty nine million people

857
00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:40,320
Speaker 1: that watched the game last night on Thursday night. Football

858
00:46:41,239 --> 00:46:44,520
Speaker 1: couldn't tell you five routes on the route tree, couldn't

859
00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:47,560
Speaker 1: tell you the difference of a three technique and a

860
00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:53,239
Speaker 1: nose tackle. They just can't. And it doesn't matter. That's

861
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:55,719
Speaker 1: not what makes football enjoyable. Like College Worth just kind

862
00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:58,399
Speaker 1: of has a good time, you know, he's just an

863
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:01,440
Speaker 1: enjoyable hank. I think Troy Aikman has kind of got

864
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:04,560
Speaker 1: a swag back. He's just an easy hang. Obviously you

865
00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:07,680
Speaker 1: can do some nerdy football stuff, but like part of

866
00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:11,080
Speaker 1: it is like you're an entertainer. And I think Peyton

867
00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:14,920
Speaker 1: is really good at this, but like his thing with

868
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:18,240
Speaker 1: Eli is a little more looser, and doing a game

869
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 1: is a little different. Short sound bites. It's hard, and

870
00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:24,239
Speaker 1: I know they've practiced a lot, but they're just gonna

871
00:47:24,239 --> 00:47:25,640
Speaker 1: be a lot of people watching. There are gonna be

872
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:30,120
Speaker 1: a lot of opinions on his performance. I was kicking

873
00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:33,200
Speaker 1: myself last night I thought about trying to get my

874
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:35,200
Speaker 1: five thousand dollars at the Raven stole from me in

875
00:47:35,239 --> 00:47:38,640
Speaker 1: that AFC Championship game, and I was gonna live bet

876
00:47:38,719 --> 00:47:42,319
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. And I didn't pull the trigger to get

877
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:44,319
Speaker 1: my five k back. I was like, yeah, I'm still

878
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 1: kind of risky trying to do a backyard. I gotta

879
00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:49,120
Speaker 1: redo the pool. We got a wedding coming up, but

880
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:51,440
Speaker 1: I do want my money back. So I think what

881
00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:54,600
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do is take a thousand dollars and bet

882
00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:57,040
Speaker 1: on my favorite money line team or you know, my

883
00:47:57,239 --> 00:48:00,000
Speaker 1: favorite underdog, and just put the money on them straight up.

884
00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:02,320
Speaker 1: And there were three games that jumped out to me,

885
00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:06,359
Speaker 1: Dallas on the road in Cleveland, Pittsburgh on the road

886
00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:09,680
Speaker 1: in Atlanta, and the Jags on the road with the Dolphins.

887
00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:11,960
Speaker 1: And I kind of ended up like Cleveland can be

888
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:16,080
Speaker 1: a tough place to play, and obviously Pittsburgh the quarterback

889
00:48:16,120 --> 00:48:19,759
Speaker 1: situations up in the air. Not a huge Atlanta guy

890
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:22,239
Speaker 1: but that, and I understand Tomlin's one of the great

891
00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:26,120
Speaker 1: underdogs embedding history, but that's probably just gonna be a

892
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:28,399
Speaker 1: stay away from me. So it kind of came down

893
00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:30,759
Speaker 1: between the Cowboys and the Jags, and I think I've

894
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:33,880
Speaker 1: settled on the Jags, and I don't like the Dolphins

895
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:36,000
Speaker 1: this year. I don't think they're gonna win two games,

896
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:40,040
Speaker 1: but I think their playoff days are over, and I

897
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:43,080
Speaker 1: don't like If you just look at the Jags and

898
00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:47,120
Speaker 1: you go, well, a huge advantage for Miami early in

899
00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:50,720
Speaker 1: the season is what they play outside, and it's humid,

900
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:53,360
Speaker 1: and most people aren't used to the Florida crazy humidity,

901
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:55,560
Speaker 1: especially some of these teams coming from different areas in

902
00:48:55,560 --> 00:49:01,000
Speaker 1: the country, or the Jags play Florida two I understand.

903
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:03,640
Speaker 1: Like I like Peter Schrager, I like Kevin Clark a lot.

904
00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:08,399
Speaker 1: Those guys love Mike McDaniel. I like Mike McDaniel as

905
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:11,120
Speaker 1: an entertainer. I think he says funny shit and he

906
00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:15,600
Speaker 1: clearly knows football right. He's he's a very very good

907
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:19,239
Speaker 1: offensive mind. Kyle Shanahan loved him for a reason, and

908
00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:22,799
Speaker 1: he's been good for TUA. But he hasn't really won

909
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:26,080
Speaker 1: that many big games. He actually you could argue, hasn't

910
00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:29,760
Speaker 1: won any And so if you look at the two coaches,

911
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:34,640
Speaker 1: you go, well, Doug Peterson's record, his resume speaks for itself.

912
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:39,000
Speaker 1: I mean Belichick in a playoff game, and I got

913
00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:41,239
Speaker 1: a lot of question marks with these two quarterbacks, but

914
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:43,520
Speaker 1: I don't think the gaps that wide. If you tell me,

915
00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:46,879
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence just outplace Tua. So what I think I'm

916
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 1: gonna do. You can get the Jags right now plus

917
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:53,600
Speaker 1: one forty as of Friday. I think I'm gonna put

918
00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:57,160
Speaker 1: a little coin on the old Jacks to win straight

919
00:49:57,239 --> 00:49:59,320
Speaker 1: up in that game, and then we'll just kind of

920
00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:00,920
Speaker 1: let it ride for couple weeks and see what we

921
00:50:00,920 --> 00:50:06,600
Speaker 1: can build up to last but not least, let's cash

922
00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:11,400
Speaker 1: this bad boy. The craziest part about Week one is

923
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:13,680
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it doesn't determine much.

924
00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:18,520
Speaker 1: Right the Chiefs lost Week one last year, they won

925
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:21,600
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, won three straight games on the road as

926
00:50:21,640 --> 00:50:26,240
Speaker 1: a dog, so Week one does not make or break

927
00:50:26,280 --> 00:50:28,560
Speaker 1: your season. A couple of years ago, the forty nine

928
00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:30,880
Speaker 1: Ers went to the NFC Championship Game. They lost on

929
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:33,279
Speaker 1: the road to the Chicago Bears, and justin field with

930
00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:35,800
Speaker 1: Trey Lance. By the end of the year, Brock Purdy

931
00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:39,360
Speaker 1: was starting and helping them make a run. Things changed

932
00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:42,879
Speaker 1: dramatically in the NFL. That's why all these coaches talk

933
00:50:42,920 --> 00:50:45,640
Speaker 1: about the fifty three man cutdown, like, I think we

934
00:50:45,719 --> 00:50:48,279
Speaker 1: get too caught up now in the fifty three the

935
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:51,440
Speaker 1: season is a game longer. Our practice squad is way bigger.

936
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:55,040
Speaker 1: A lot of these practice squad guys will eventually be

937
00:50:55,160 --> 00:50:57,440
Speaker 1: on the big roster and half of them be starters

938
00:50:57,960 --> 00:51:00,640
Speaker 1: by middle to the end of the year. The team,

939
00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:03,320
Speaker 1: all this stuff is so fluid because of the injuries,

940
00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:08,000
Speaker 1: but because of the setup of football, you only play

941
00:51:08,040 --> 00:51:10,160
Speaker 1: once a week. Like I always had a hard time

942
00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:12,239
Speaker 1: when I worked in radio. I was like, it's a

943
00:51:12,280 --> 00:51:16,120
Speaker 1: big baseball game to night, So John, this is game

944
00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:20,000
Speaker 1: ninety four. It actually doesn't mean anything. So if the

945
00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:23,640
Speaker 1: ace goes nine innings, awesome. If you get shelled and

946
00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:27,759
Speaker 1: they yank him after three, it doesn't determine much. And

947
00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:30,160
Speaker 1: that's part of the reason baseball has fallen out of

948
00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:33,080
Speaker 1: the landscape of all of us talking about it, because

949
00:51:33,120 --> 00:51:36,160
Speaker 1: it's not it's a bad talk radio sport, it's a

950
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:40,520
Speaker 1: bad podcast sport. Football is made for this because every

951
00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:43,960
Speaker 1: game means so much, and when you have an entire

952
00:51:44,040 --> 00:51:47,799
Speaker 1: offseason and everyone has hope, there are gonna be some

953
00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:52,799
Speaker 1: teams that just look atrocious and whether everyone thought you

954
00:51:52,840 --> 00:51:55,000
Speaker 1: were gonna be bad, or whether you're a team like

955
00:51:55,080 --> 00:51:59,040
Speaker 1: the Bears and you lose to the Titans or whoever.

956
00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:02,000
Speaker 1: You know, the Giant were to lose to Minnesota at home,

957
00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:05,719
Speaker 1: people just freak out and there's gonna be a team

958
00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:08,480
Speaker 1: or two. Like it's one thing to lose. The Ravens lost,

959
00:52:08,719 --> 00:52:11,000
Speaker 1: that's a loss. You can keep your head up. You

960
00:52:11,040 --> 00:52:13,239
Speaker 1: lost by a touchdown you didn't cover, but whatever. I mean,

961
00:52:13,280 --> 00:52:15,880
Speaker 1: you're right there at the end and it's against the Chiefs.

962
00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:18,960
Speaker 1: But there are gonna be some losses by double digits

963
00:52:19,040 --> 00:52:23,440
Speaker 1: where it's like, you guys looked like shit. And I

964
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:25,239
Speaker 1: think the problem with that is and this is where

965
00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:29,160
Speaker 1: the fans and whoever's covering your team and it's like

966
00:52:29,239 --> 00:52:31,200
Speaker 1: you've had nine months to get ready for this game

967
00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:37,239
Speaker 1: and you lay an egg. I love over reactions or

968
00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:41,960
Speaker 1: proper reactions. When a team just gets housed and worked

969
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:44,960
Speaker 1: in Week one, it's one thing. Listen, you're gonna get beat.

970
00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:47,719
Speaker 1: You're gonna have lay eggs throughout the season. When that

971
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:52,440
Speaker 1: happens on Week one, fair or not, people react to

972
00:52:52,520 --> 00:52:59,120
Speaker 1: it like your season's over before it even began. The

973
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Speaker 1: volume