Speaker 1: Welcome to the Command Center Podcast. I'm Logan Paulson here
Speaker 1: with Fred Smoot and Tantanamos. How you guys doing today?
Speaker 2: Doing good? Brother, how about yourself? You're looking good, You're
Speaker 2: looking blessed.
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Speaker 1: Off of aura of you know what, Caucasian Jesus.
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm just so content right now. You feel good,
Speaker 3: you look happy.
Speaker 2: I don't know what came.
Speaker 1: You're hyping me up. Man.
Speaker 4: I disclosed that he's the most curious man on earth.
Speaker 3: You just said, yeah, never drunk an ounce of alcohol
Speaker 3: in his life.
Speaker 1: And Teddy, you were just telling us about your new
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Speaker 1: feel like you've been doing.
Speaker 4: What I've been.
Speaker 5: No, I'm just a lot of cars, you know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying lately. But I've just been also enjoying snacks
Speaker 5: when I want to. So that's not really dyeting when
Speaker 5: you just enjoy snacks.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So now I'm gonna take the snacks out of it
Speaker 5: and then boost I mean, boost the protein up a
Speaker 5: little bit more so.
Speaker 2: He's the type that picked up gonna.
Speaker 5: Get me ready for training to Kemp like, you know,
Speaker 5: psychologically I want to add like I'm getting ready for
Speaker 5: the season. You know what, I'm all right, I gotta get
Speaker 5: informed too, you know that.
Speaker 1: You know Old speaking of getting ready for the season
Speaker 1: kind of this this time of year, Madden ratings are out,
Speaker 1: Madden twenty four. How crazy is that?
Speaker 2: We are all?
Speaker 1: I know, we are Old. It's official, We're Old. Madden
Speaker 1: rating twenty four for the twenty four seventh season is out.
Speaker 1: All right. They got the receivers here, Terry McLaurin number eight.
Speaker 1: I know you guys were talking beforehand, very very excited.
Speaker 1: Why are you guys excited about that?
Speaker 5: Well, he gets recognition, you know, you know, I just
Speaker 5: feel like Terry's been one of those guys that, no
Speaker 5: matter what he's done, he's not barking every week.
Speaker 4: You know, smooth talked about.
Speaker 5: You know, most of the guys that get recognition, who
Speaker 5: get favored, they the guys that's doing something. You know,
Speaker 5: they got some kind of crazy celebration. They're talking big.
Speaker 4: Time in the media.
Speaker 5: Terry just came in here, as a third round draft
Speaker 5: pick and just showed everybody. Every year, I'm going to
Speaker 5: show you guys that I'm number one on around here,
Speaker 5: and and when you doubt me or questioned me, I'm
Speaker 5: gonna go out there and beat the best cornerback and
Speaker 5: give my team a chance to win, you know, week
Speaker 5: in and week out. So I'm glad he's getting the recognition. Finally,
Speaker 5: I could see him rising up, you know right now
Speaker 5: he's rated what he's eighth right now amongst.
Speaker 4: A lot of great receivers out there.
Speaker 1: You know, I was about to say, like, let's just
Speaker 1: read the list real quick. We got jeff Justin Jefferson
Speaker 1: at ninety nine, Tyreek Hill ninety eight. A little bit
Speaker 1: of controversy there, but we looked it up. Justin Jefferson
Speaker 1: led the league in receiving last year, led the league
Speaker 1: in reception, so I guess he deserves that. Moniker Davante
Speaker 1: Adams led the league in touchdowns last year ninety seven,
Speaker 1: stef On Diggs ninety six. Cooper Cup you know, injured
Speaker 1: last year but comes in strong with a ninety sixspect right,
Speaker 1: I mean, won the Triple Crown ye against and then
Speaker 1: Jamar Chase ninety four. DeAndre Hopkins A little surprised by that.
Speaker 4: Honestly, he had an off year last year.
Speaker 1: It was hurt.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was suspended even.
Speaker 5: With jam He was hurt for a little bit last
Speaker 5: year too, So Chase could have easily be up and
Speaker 5: there in ninety I think Chase is ninety eight hands.
Speaker 2: Chase is the only dude that's out of spot here.
Speaker 1: So you Hopkins seven, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Most definitely I would have actually Jamar Chase above Cooper
Speaker 3: Cup and above step Fund no question. Really, Chase is
Speaker 3: the most He's the most complete wire receiver in the game.
Speaker 2: Now why do I.
Speaker 3: Say he's when you want to mix strengts, size, speed,
Speaker 3: route running and hands. And don't forget that he played
Speaker 3: college ball with this with his quarterback, so their relationship
Speaker 3: is insurmountable.
Speaker 2: There.
Speaker 3: He is the one right there. But I'm gonna tell
Speaker 3: you it's two guys that stick out on here. And
Speaker 3: this is why I love these guys, because they got
Speaker 3: the worst quarterbacks out of all these guys, and it's
Speaker 3: DeAndre Hockey and here. But listen, I respect the wide
Speaker 3: receiver that don't need Brett Farb to burn me. I
Speaker 3: respect the wire receiver that says, no matter who my
Speaker 3: quarterback is.
Speaker 2: I'm finna give you the business.
Speaker 1: What about these first three guys though, Justin Jefferson, Kirk Cousins,
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill, Tua, Yeah, Davanta Adams car who's no longer
Speaker 1: with the team. I mean, that's all three.
Speaker 5: Of those guys could have been ninety nine. I mean,
Speaker 5: I just think all those guys, they're the level in
Speaker 5: their game. They didn't need a quarterback to go out
Speaker 5: there and perform, you know, you know I lie. I mean, look,
Speaker 5: I'm a big fan of Kirk Cousins. I play with him.
Speaker 5: So people get on him about saying that he's not
Speaker 5: what Justin Jefferson needs.
Speaker 4: I don't know what they talking about, you know what
Speaker 4: I mean? Because I believe when it comes.
Speaker 5: To being precise detail a man, Kirk knows the game
Speaker 5: inside out.
Speaker 4: He's going to get you the ball where you needed at.
Speaker 1: We're getting a little off topic, but I think one
Speaker 1: of the reasons that criticism against Kirk has always love
Speaker 1: it is because of the paycheck. You know, he's made
Speaker 1: a lot of money, Like he's made more money than
Speaker 1: he deserves it. In terms of good quarterback play, he's
Speaker 1: a good quarterback. Man, he's a top ten quarterback, I
Speaker 1: would say.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: You don't think he's a top ten quarterback.
Speaker 2: I can no, he's not a tempt he's not.
Speaker 1: They need ten quarterbacks right now that are better than him.
Speaker 2: Ready you go all right, I'm gonna start it off
Speaker 2: with Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: Okay, right now, he's better than right.
Speaker 2: Now to all two I got.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna take that Prescott. You can do all the hate.
Speaker 3: You won't do all the hate.
Speaker 2: You won't. They the same guy. Basically it's black and
Speaker 2: one just white. But they just yeah, not go there.
Speaker 1: They're the same guy you went there by homes Joe Burrow, Okay,
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, Okay, I'm already.
Speaker 3: Five okay, five, all right, Lamar Jackson, they go six, uh,
Speaker 3: Deshaun Watson, they're gonna sell you.
Speaker 2: Watch it might feeling.
Speaker 1: I got veto power on vetoing that one.
Speaker 2: Next one, all right, I take that down. So I'm
Speaker 2: back here.
Speaker 1: What six?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 1: I can't even think of anybody true down. Willie kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins is the next one.
Speaker 5: You gotta be in one of those next four? You
Speaker 5: got easy, I don't want to put no want you reaching.
Speaker 2: Nothing want to make two thy twenty three, which.
Speaker 4: Let's not reaching.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a reach.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna tell you what you put your.
Speaker 2: Kirk was your quarter. I like Kirk.
Speaker 1: We've had no he's not about Matthew Stafford. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: So that's so. Now we're at seven eight, Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: you got two more guys that are better than them
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Think about divisions, right we got Arizona
Speaker 1: Cayler Murray's hurt right now, but Gino Smith.
Speaker 2: Is better when he's when he heard then Kirk Cousins, let's.
Speaker 5: Go back to Let's just go back to the real
Speaker 5: I'm not being biased at all. It's time when you
Speaker 5: can get by here man hero, when you when.
Speaker 1: You have to sit there.
Speaker 5: As a young I had these conversations before as a younger,
Speaker 5: as a rookie, I saw something in Kurt. I'm like, look, damn,
Speaker 5: I have been running plays the whole year with RG
Speaker 5: and Kirk getting in there the first play he ran
Speaker 5: with me in that same play. Never been putting that
Speaker 5: situation in the game, running in practice a couple of times,
Speaker 5: but not in the game, and hitting me dagger down
Speaker 5: the middle. Of the field seven yard touchdown. That you
Speaker 5: don't do that as a rookie, you understand. So I'm
Speaker 5: just saying, like, when it comes to a quarterback getting
Speaker 5: the guy the ball that's open, he showed me.
Speaker 2: He can do that in the Super Bowl. One drive
Speaker 2: left for that we said, we said, rate him in
Speaker 2: the top team. Drive left in the game. Your money,
Speaker 2: your house money on the line. Are you putting it
Speaker 2: on Kurt?
Speaker 5: If you if you're playing on Kirt team, you better
Speaker 5: you better hope that Kurt gonna leave you down the
Speaker 5: fielding for that touchdown.
Speaker 1: So I guess what i'd say to Fred here in
Speaker 1: this situation fields, Fred's being a hater, right, he's being
Speaker 1: a Let's call it what it is. We backed Fred
Speaker 1: into a quarter Just what Fred does, just gonna say
Speaker 1: ignorant stuff until we stop talking about it. I think
Speaker 1: he's a top for sure, top fifteen quarterback, fifteen at
Speaker 1: his best and going back and forth with at his best,
Speaker 1: he's a top ten and last year was a really
Speaker 1: good year for him, man, statistically, very good year for him.
Speaker 1: And I get what you're saying, is he ready for
Speaker 1: the big moments. That's what differentiates that top five group
Speaker 1: is they're always ready for the big moment. Everybody else
Speaker 1: is everybody else.
Speaker 4: Tell me this?
Speaker 1: Did he did?
Speaker 5: He not take a bunch of butt whoopings against us
Speaker 5: and brought that team back and beat us against.
Speaker 4: A hell of a defense, not defense was playing.
Speaker 1: Sure, you're saying, yeah, last.
Speaker 2: Year, bread Listen he played.
Speaker 1: Listen, listen.
Speaker 2: He played for my other team. I am a Minnesota and.
Speaker 4: Him went to the same two teams.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we played. We are brothers. Like when they look
Speaker 2: at us, they're like that we need to start buying
Speaker 2: the U shoes from because they ain't working out. But
Speaker 2: what I'm saying is I think Kirk is good, good,
Speaker 2: good pro.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: It reminds me of who my quarterback was there, Brian,
Speaker 3: I mean Brian BJ. So at the end of the day,
Speaker 3: he gonna he will never be out of game with bj.
Speaker 3: You will never out of game with Kurt.
Speaker 4: So I give you that.
Speaker 1: So I feel like we got to bring the back.
Speaker 1: We got a little sidetracked there. We did Cousins's sorry conversation.
Speaker 1: So Terry mclorr number eight, Yeah, A J. Brown and
Speaker 1: MARII Cooper, uh nine and ten? Are you surprised that
Speaker 1: he's ahead of A. J. Brown Terry McCorry.
Speaker 5: I'm not, but I'm I was surprised a little bit
Speaker 5: because but not, but not not a bout that much
Speaker 5: because we had this conversation before, I said, in this division,
Speaker 5: I believe A. J.
Speaker 4: Brown and Terry mcclun could be one A one B.
Speaker 5: So I feel like that nick the nick when it
Speaker 5: comes to you know, the best receivers in the NFC East.
Speaker 4: Now, the one thing that Terry mccloin has the A. J.
Speaker 5: Brown doesn't to me right now in this game is
Speaker 5: he can score from anywhere on the field. Terry, Terry can, Yes,
Speaker 5: don't you ran down to big right now.
Speaker 4: He's a beast man. But he ain't his He he
Speaker 4: ain't his counterpart from college.
Speaker 1: D d.
Speaker 2: K is not Cooper is. I am very shocked.
Speaker 5: But Cooper did it without his without a number one
Speaker 5: quarterbackround Cooper routing everybody.
Speaker 4: Up in their mama.
Speaker 5: So you got to give not I mean, I mean, look,
Speaker 5: Amari to me, has I don't understand how the Cowboys
Speaker 5: let him go.
Speaker 1: You must have like some personality.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 2: The thing about Cooper he is, he's.
Speaker 3: The guy this God's God gifted him with skills to
Speaker 3: play a game.
Speaker 2: I don't know if he loves that game, like he's
Speaker 2: that guy if you look at.
Speaker 4: It, and you know what, I don't know if he
Speaker 4: loves you know what his the mean.
Speaker 5: He's nonchalant, he's not beating his chest, he don't express
Speaker 5: any but he gonna wrote you up and don't give
Speaker 5: your daddy out there, your mama out there. He gonna
Speaker 5: rite him up, and he gonna put up. He gonna
Speaker 5: put up numbers everywhere. He's been three different places. He
Speaker 5: put up numbers and it didn't matter who his quarterback
Speaker 5: was at.
Speaker 4: You know what was that year.
Speaker 5: So that's why I like him, and I don't care
Speaker 5: about where they rank him at because I think last year,
Speaker 5: if you look at that season alone, he was out
Speaker 5: there with a guy who's here and I think highly
Speaker 5: of him as a quarterback.
Speaker 4: But he wanted them put up numbers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's true. So the other two receivers here
Speaker 1: for the Commanders obviously Curtis Samuel eighty two and then
Speaker 1: Johan Dotson's seventy seven.
Speaker 5: Yeah he was young, no, but in terms of production,
Speaker 5: they could have easily gave him eighty something they should
Speaker 5: have gave him eighty at least going to your sophomore year.
Speaker 4: He proved enough going to his sophomore year, he should
Speaker 4: be eighty five. Yeah, eighty five.
Speaker 2: You know, you just feel like he should be ahead
Speaker 2: of Curtis saying.
Speaker 5: Man, first of all, First of all, Jahann might might
Speaker 5: be one of the most shops is whide receivers in
Speaker 5: the league.
Speaker 4: Like I'm just I'm gonna put it like, if you.
Speaker 5: Had to put everybody in the line and say run
Speaker 5: every route, Jahan would come out in the yeah and
Speaker 5: catcher your ball.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So that's why I look at him that way.
Speaker 4: It's not just saying because of what he did a.
Speaker 3: Lot had to do with that injury. Let's just be
Speaker 3: on the hamstring injury. That because he was headed for
Speaker 3: Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 2: Let's get it, let's get it. Seriously, he hit it
Speaker 2: for a Rick of the year and then.
Speaker 3: He just came up missing and the other rookies started
Speaker 3: to start to get their lights they shine on and
Speaker 3: you know, like they say, the best.
Speaker 2: Ability in this league is availability, and he wasn't available.
Speaker 2: And I think this was this gut him.
Speaker 5: At the seventy seven, right, Yeah, I mean I kind
Speaker 5: of feel like, but if they watched what he did
Speaker 5: later in the season, he to me, he stamped it
Speaker 5: like this this I'm a bad man boom, I'm.
Speaker 4: Ana stamp it that game against the Giants.
Speaker 5: Giants the other game where he ended up beating somebody
Speaker 5: deep and he caught it back shoulder. I wish he
Speaker 5: would have scored on that, but that was either guy
Speaker 5: got him about.
Speaker 4: One hand or something like that. Like he put up
Speaker 4: some games laid in the season that and early in
Speaker 4: the season he caught that game winner from all wins,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: So it's you know, I think he did enough as
Speaker 5: a rookie to say this guy's eighty five right now
Speaker 5: because he might be one of the rawest talents that
Speaker 5: we have at the position.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but so much. That's so I think so much
Speaker 1: that number is like predicated on statistics. You know, I
Speaker 1: really think they've got an algorithm. Rhythm. They put everyone's
Speaker 1: stats in and then they say this is an algorithm.
Speaker 5: And that's what I hate by the computer because computer
Speaker 5: miss took me out to get a national championship in college.
Speaker 4: So I hate when you let the computer hand rate Peter.
Speaker 2: I get ready, I has come it's time. I don't know.
Speaker 5: If y'all watch, it's somebody behind them. Them computers what
Speaker 5: we're talking about.
Speaker 2: They don't push the button no more. You're just watching that.
Speaker 1: So do you think Curtis is good to Y two
Speaker 1: or do you think that's all too high?
Speaker 2: I think he should be blessed. Yeah, he should feel good.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, because he's here.
Speaker 3: Since he's been here, I must say he's been underused,
Speaker 3: all right. So if I'm underused, but they're still showing
Speaker 3: me love, come on, I'm not. I'm literally eighteen points away.
Speaker 2: From one hundred.
Speaker 4: I think I think.
Speaker 5: I think Curtis is still like the eighty two shows
Speaker 5: you that what the league say, we haven't seen the
Speaker 5: best of him yet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: And here because what he was doing in Carolina, like bro,
Speaker 5: I'm waiting and I'm not saying it's on him. It's
Speaker 5: not no indictment to him. The offense has to allow
Speaker 5: him to be that special, and I feel like this
Speaker 5: is the offense for him.
Speaker 1: So see yeah, yeah, sure, Okay, So next position group
Speaker 1: that's out of strong safety Cam Curll obviously kind of
Speaker 1: the best player at that position for this team. Came
Speaker 1: in tenth, was an eighty three percent. How do we
Speaker 1: feel about that?
Speaker 5: I'm a Cam Carol fan, are I think when it
Speaker 5: comes to the season he had last year, I'm okay.
Speaker 4: With eighty three. He was injured early, he was injured
Speaker 4: mid When he was in there, no doubt who he.
Speaker 1: You have the guys that are head of him, be
Speaker 1: any chance?
Speaker 2: Well, I know the guys you got. You got Justin Simmons,
Speaker 2: you got the honey Badger.
Speaker 1: All those guys arehead of him them.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm time to proofs ain't in the pudding.
Speaker 3: Like like you said, like his ability, his availability was
Speaker 3: off at the beginning of the year. And think about it,
Speaker 3: if he would have played the whole year, he would
Speaker 3: have been one of the reasons they've been like, oh, their.
Speaker 2: Top five defense and Cam Carroll. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: He didn't get that stump because they like, well, he
Speaker 3: didn't play, but so many like I've no lie. I
Speaker 3: know y'all ain't gonna like this. This won't be popular,
Speaker 3: but most people would have gave Defro more proper Ar's performance.
Speaker 2: I think Cameron Carroll.
Speaker 1: I think I saw somewhere that he was rated eighty
Speaker 1: two or something like that, very high rating.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we got yeah, here we go.
Speaker 3: We got Darwin James, who is my guy. Micka fitz
Speaker 3: Patrick's is the truth.
Speaker 1: I think he's getting over the hell though, Miss Micko
Speaker 1: fits Patrick.
Speaker 2: Give me some of that sentiment, those cracks smoking out
Speaker 2: of here.
Speaker 3: Then you got Kevin Beard, who is the underrated guy
Speaker 3: from uh Tennessee. Jessein Bates Booda Baker. I love some
Speaker 3: boot Baker.
Speaker 2: I think he's right. Don't you think he's a right?
Speaker 1: After looking at it, I think so, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: all right.
Speaker 5: Maybe it's some guys that that you know, you gotta
Speaker 5: just you know, hey, Well, like I say, for us,
Speaker 5: for what Cam has done, he still hasn't had his best.
Speaker 2: Year, you know what I mean, had a year last
Speaker 2: year like a year's year.
Speaker 5: Of I think what also showed with Defro is when
Speaker 5: Cam wasn't there and he was there, you could see
Speaker 5: the communication part. Cam is vital to his game, you
Speaker 5: know what I mean, Like the things that Cam Cam
Speaker 5: put Defro in situations where he made the plays because
Speaker 5: Cam was out there being his safety, being that guy
Speaker 5: that hey, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: He was that quarterback that Defro needed.
Speaker 5: We saw Defro in the situation where you know last
Speaker 5: I think it was the last game where he was
Speaker 5: sitting out there and was like, man, how he got
Speaker 5: lost in that coverage, Like he.
Speaker 4: Didn't know wh to cover the guy? You know what
Speaker 4: I mean? So Cam is vital to all those guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so. And again we've said this before
Speaker 1: on the show, but like, I think his value to
Speaker 1: this team, to this team is higher than it is
Speaker 1: on the league because of that kind of communication understanding,
Speaker 1: putting guys in the right position to be successful.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: So those are the rankings that are out that are
Speaker 1: that are relevant to the team right now. Obviously they
Speaker 1: haven't done defensive line rankings out yet, you know, linebackers secondary,
Speaker 1: or they've done secondary, but the line, o line, all
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff not done yet. So of these players, Payne, Allen,
Speaker 1: Chase Tress, who will have the highest Madden rating? Chris
Speaker 1: Wayne Baby, you think he'll be higher than John the Gold.
Speaker 2: Didn't toe Listen. He the best puna in the league.
Speaker 1: Okay, but I don't even know what the average rating
Speaker 1: for a punter.
Speaker 2: If he the best, let's just say it's ninety two.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say, John, all right, let's just say.
Speaker 3: It's ninety two. All right, So the best Puna is
Speaker 3: ninety two. Tris is ninety too. He's the bist pawn of.
Speaker 5: Hands down the best pun But I'm but im sure
Speaker 5: they're not giving pun is no more than ninety So
Speaker 5: you think what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I think I'm sure they didn't put Allen over Pain.
Speaker 4: Because because he's not that. You remember we was playing
Speaker 4: and they had the guy from Florida State.
Speaker 2: Shane leer No.
Speaker 5: Had the big foot man. He can kick almost the
Speaker 5: whole football field. Yeah, Sebastian Jenna Cassi.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I just did.
Speaker 4: I just did all the graph signing with him a
Speaker 4: couple of weeks ago. He was like ninety nine. You
Speaker 4: just knew his foot was just ridiculous. It was like,
Speaker 4: you know, not normal.
Speaker 1: So they say suggestion like Justin Tucker might be.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say it's the run Pain will be the
Speaker 3: highest all rights run.
Speaker 2: We will be the highest because he coming off the
Speaker 2: year of the boat, says.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say Alan, then most of the end of
Speaker 3: these guys, he just got the big hot contract.
Speaker 2: They usually light you up mostly awful.
Speaker 5: How consistent have you been so paining? That was his
Speaker 5: best year last year. They're gonna put two seasons together
Speaker 5: and then rate you. So you said that it's an algorithm.
Speaker 5: So if you look at what Alan did the year before,
Speaker 5: then last year came back and still was the pro bowler,
Speaker 5: Allan should easily not say that Pain of no deserve.
Speaker 4: I think he should easily top those guys you know rated.
Speaker 1: I think that applies more to kind of like the
Speaker 1: all Star stuff, like the preseason voting. But I think
Speaker 1: the tennis point, it is kind of like a two
Speaker 1: season connection there, so I would agree. I think Alan's
Speaker 1: probably going to be higher. I think Pain's probably in
Speaker 1: the high eighties, high eighties, early ninety one, something like I.
Speaker 5: Would want him at ninety. I would want him at
Speaker 5: ninety from what he showed that he was. He was
Speaker 5: our best in line in last year.
Speaker 2: My boy Sweet should be an eighty seven at least. No,
Speaker 2: I agree it should be eighty.
Speaker 1: You don't give him any love, do we.
Speaker 2: No, nobody loves my sweet like he feels like I feel.
Speaker 5: Sweat is like the other guy sweats like that twin
Speaker 5: brother that doesn't have all the juice. The other twin
Speaker 5: has no honestly, you know how it's always a one
Speaker 5: twin missing something.
Speaker 4: But he ended up being the smartest. He ended up
Speaker 4: being the one that gets paid the most, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean? So what's one of those guys. He's
Speaker 4: still in a good spot man.
Speaker 1: You know, he plays big for you see a top
Speaker 1: ten that rusher, I think so, yeah, think about it though,
Speaker 1: I mean there's some really good He's a.
Speaker 2: Top ten edge Russian that gets outshadowed on his own team.
Speaker 1: Yeah, by Chase name.
Speaker 2: Everybody like Chase is a name.
Speaker 3: When you say the name Chase Young, he carries more
Speaker 3: than Montell Swift.
Speaker 2: Yeah, even though Monte with this big you know training,
Speaker 2: I mean, what's the nake come by for?
Speaker 3: You know all this, It's just that the name of
Speaker 3: Chase Young comes behind Joey Bosa and the rest of
Speaker 3: the Bosas in this this, this this factory that Ohio
Speaker 3: State got going on.
Speaker 2: But I think he's just had one.
Speaker 3: Day, gonna continue to get better and better and better.
Speaker 3: And when we look up one year, Monte is gonna
Speaker 3: have his best year and it's gonna.
Speaker 2: Probably be a year nine.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, he got like nineteen sacks.
Speaker 1: So okay, he's all thinking be hiats player, hopefully low nineties.
Speaker 1: But chase with chasing at ranked you think if you had,
Speaker 1: if you.
Speaker 5: Had to guess, I would look at what eight eighty
Speaker 5: three somewhere like eighty three. I think he's an eighty
Speaker 5: three just off of his name alone, what he did
Speaker 5: his rookie season. People still have that in the back
Speaker 5: of their heads, like, look, this guy, this guy's if
Speaker 5: he crank up, he's in real form.
Speaker 4: We can get that out of him this year at least,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Okay, So now we've got a whole
Speaker 1: bnch of new kind of kind of budding talents on
Speaker 1: the roster. Okay, We've gotten uh, Sam Howe, We've got
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Forbes, We've got Jamie Davis, we got Logan Thomas. Right,
Speaker 1: So Logan Thomas not a budding talent, but a guy
Speaker 1: coming off of an injury, that kind of thing. What
Speaker 1: should ratings for guys like that be? Do you think
Speaker 1: Sam How I'm gonna start with Sam how What's what's Sam?
Speaker 5: You?
Speaker 3: Alright, we know they're gonna bless it. They're gonna bless him.
Speaker 3: You think no, when I say blessing.
Speaker 4: I'm not in a bad way.
Speaker 3: In a bad way, I guess I'm talking about they
Speaker 3: probably go Salem every bit of seventy s.
Speaker 2: That's that's that's giving him.
Speaker 1: Like, I get it, I get it.
Speaker 2: But he gonna have to earn every point that he gets.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so yeah, I think he's gonna be in the
Speaker 3: seventies starting off, really, and I.
Speaker 1: Mean obviously they change the matter ratings now so he
Speaker 1: can grow as the season goes. Yes, yes, yes to me.
Speaker 1: One of the most interesting ones is Jamion Davis. I
Speaker 1: think because Jamion Davis is a guy that played better
Speaker 1: as the season one on last year. The more he's played,
Speaker 1: the better he's gotten. I don't think he's gonna get
Speaker 1: a lot of love in terms of ranking to start
Speaker 1: the season, but a guy that, again I think could grow.
Speaker 3: I think Jamie's selfers from what I call regular name idis.
Speaker 3: You know in football, if your name regularly, you get love.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. You know your name is regularly.
Speaker 1: It's certainly not Fred Smooth.
Speaker 3: So you know some people have names they stick out,
Speaker 3: the mouth sticks out. He just pokes it in the
Speaker 3: face and then I come out and be like yeah,
Speaker 3: ray Lewis and him Jamond Davis, like in just a
Speaker 3: regular name.
Speaker 2: So he's gonna have to outplay his name sake.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, let me see this, okay for sure. Okay,
Speaker 1: So what is his ranking for this season? Eighty eighty
Speaker 1: eighty in the eighties. Yeah, in the eighties. I feeling
Speaker 1: like seventy nine. For some reason, he's just gonna you know, because.
Speaker 4: I feel what you're saying, because the league they respect.
Speaker 1: I think because it was four games, you're like, okay,
Speaker 1: there's that guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But other than that, it's been a growing process for him.
Speaker 5: He showed that no, that wasn't meant for me, like
Speaker 5: he was solid, and then we lost our middle lineback
Speaker 5: and he had to kind of conduct things that probably
Speaker 5: wasn't in his you know, his repertoire. But he's still
Speaker 5: handled his business, you know what I'm saying. So yeah,
Speaker 5: you know, I'm alright in the eighties, I think in
Speaker 5: the eighties.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, I buy that. We'll be Logan Thomas.
Speaker 1: I think he's I think we've talked about this on
Speaker 1: the show a ton. I think he's poised for a
Speaker 1: huge year, but injuries, I'm.
Speaker 5: Not sure if they're looking at him as one of
Speaker 5: the good great like one of the best tight ends.
Speaker 5: They'll probably give him seventy they'll probably give himself seventy
Speaker 5: seventy nine. Such a I'm a fan of Logan Tom.
Speaker 5: I think at his best physically, he could be one
Speaker 5: of the top seven ish tight ends in the game.
Speaker 5: Ye I didn't want to go to and say five,
Speaker 5: but I feel like that.
Speaker 4: One year where he got his money.
Speaker 1: He was easy like top five, you know tenn I
Speaker 1: agree he's in that kind of range.
Speaker 5: So the potential is there if we get that Logan
Speaker 5: Thomas back this year, which I believe we do because
Speaker 5: you know, you know, we all played this game and
Speaker 5: one of the one of the things.
Speaker 4: To go through is the toughest thing to go through
Speaker 4: is an injury.
Speaker 5: And not only the part of getting back, it's the
Speaker 5: part of when you got back and people looking at
Speaker 5: you as like if you ain't that guy no more
Speaker 5: because of the production or the opportunities, wasn't there. So
Speaker 5: I think he went through that last year and this
Speaker 5: offseason is probably one of those wake up like, look
Speaker 5: they finna feel me.
Speaker 4: You know, I know I went through that.
Speaker 5: I remember, and mine's happened very early. I remember going
Speaker 5: home that offseason after my first year being a rookie
Speaker 5: and like, man, they ain't seen nothing yet, Like they
Speaker 5: looking at me as just you know, mid, I'm mid Now,
Speaker 5: you know, I'm Finn.
Speaker 4: Show these guys that I'm top green, I'm I'm that
Speaker 4: cush when it comes to what we're talking about.
Speaker 2: I'm the top of the line, the red half. I'm
Speaker 2: great when it comes to what I'm what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4: So, you know, and I remember how my off season was.
Speaker 5: I went out there, it was it was it was
Speaker 5: before the Super Bowl even having and guys like you're
Speaker 5: working out already, Yeah, because I got to come with it,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean. So I believe Logan had
Speaker 5: one of those wake up calls last year because he
Speaker 5: was back and he really wasn't himself.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he wanted to show everybody this year that I'm
Speaker 4: Logan talking.
Speaker 2: He'll be back.
Speaker 1: Deserve that check, Yeah, especially because he had a great offseason.
Speaker 1: I think, yassah. So Emanuel Forbes, he's a rookie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, go no respect, He's what we got seventy five.
Speaker 1: Maybe you can't put them over Jahan, right, No, I'm like.
Speaker 2: I'm saying seventy five.
Speaker 4: Maybe, Yeah, they might give him a sixty nine seventy.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm just saying.
Speaker 1: You know how they do rookies, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: And then him being one hundred and seventy pounds, they
Speaker 3: show ain't finna give him like his strength throw there
Speaker 3: will probably be like.
Speaker 2: Three. They're gonna give him no long like I know
Speaker 2: because I'm.
Speaker 4: I am him him.
Speaker 2: Were you in Madden?
Speaker 1: Were you before Madden?
Speaker 2: Do you think I'm mad A Long?
Speaker 1: You're old though?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: Come on, man, he was. He was. He was John
Speaker 4: Lway football.
Speaker 2: Were no Tech mobile we was, Yeah, he was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man was what ninety ninety nine?
Speaker 3: You're in there?
Speaker 2: We was O one.
Speaker 1: We came out of one all pixelated and weird.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you couldn't even look at my face. But A
Speaker 2: Long with that scene, that name on the back of
Speaker 2: the jersey. We were good.
Speaker 1: I wasn't being in the game for the first time.
Speaker 2: It was crazy.
Speaker 4: It was cool, but you got to think about it.
Speaker 4: We was in college on. We was in college football game.
Speaker 4: We was on the college was on game breaker was
Speaker 4: a you know that was our college.
Speaker 1: It was because they it was before they switched it out,
Speaker 1: but but Madden was always but they didn't have the
Speaker 1: name though.
Speaker 2: Did you hear us have the name?
Speaker 5: No, we didn't have it, but you knew knew number
Speaker 5: six one on outside and you knew when he line
Speaker 5: backing the port return who that was.
Speaker 4: I mean, that was great. I mean, but Madden was
Speaker 4: like the ultimate, like that's you, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: And I didn't play the game.
Speaker 5: I would literally play the game one time with myself
Speaker 5: just to say I did it.
Speaker 4: But other than that, I wasn't Madden day did you
Speaker 4: every day?
Speaker 1: Look at it?
Speaker 2: Great point of your from the video game?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I saw. I was gonna ask you what
Speaker 1: your highest Madden rating was, but I screwed up the
Speaker 1: script and I printed them on all the scripts, so
Speaker 1: you can't guess. But Tannel, what was your highest mad rating?
Speaker 4: What the script says ninety two?
Speaker 1: It should be blank. So I'm sorry, No, it's cool.
Speaker 5: It's cool because like I you know, I shared before.
Speaker 5: I wasn't big on finding out my rating, you know
Speaker 5: what I mean? Like, I look, I'm one of my
Speaker 5: worst critics. I know what I did the season before
Speaker 5: or didn't do, you know.
Speaker 1: So just going two thousand and seven was the year
Speaker 1: you got the ninety two.
Speaker 5: And that's crazy because six I didn't have a great year,
Speaker 5: But you know what I'm saying, So for me to
Speaker 5: get there for two thousand and seven, I'm like, wow,
Speaker 5: that's great. Oh five was my best year here, and
Speaker 5: then when I was a jet O, three was my
Speaker 5: best year. So you know, it was always one of
Speaker 5: those up and down things. But the one thing, that
Speaker 5: one thing that I that mattered the most of me
Speaker 5: when it came to rating me was my speed. I
Speaker 5: wanted to make sure that I had ninety plus. It
Speaker 5: didn't have to be ninety nine. I wanted to make
Speaker 5: sure it was in the nineties all the time because
Speaker 5: I felt like that was valuable to me. Like if
Speaker 5: I could line up there and be ninety something speed,
Speaker 5: it didn't matter what my ratings was.
Speaker 4: You raising me on blocking and everything.
Speaker 5: Else, which I was ahead of a blocker for to
Speaker 5: be a five nine, to have receiver and one hundred
Speaker 5: and ninety pounds.
Speaker 4: But I wanted to make sure I flyped by.
Speaker 5: I flew by everybody and they normally had my speed
Speaker 5: up in the nineties right speeding out.
Speaker 2: I don't think this is two thousand and nine. Can't
Speaker 2: be my best one.
Speaker 3: I was headed after lead at the time eighty four. No,
Speaker 3: my highest one was probably when I was going the
Speaker 3: year at the Vikings.
Speaker 4: Just got paid.
Speaker 2: Most definitely the ninety.
Speaker 1: You think my research is wrong.
Speaker 2: Your research research come to me. It's a conspiracy.
Speaker 1: About I mean, that's what it said.
Speaker 2: That's come back completely rocked.
Speaker 4: And you said something about Logan at Hill like when
Speaker 4: you bring up your they always know.
Speaker 2: Right about him.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: And I'm not even say what my record was because
Speaker 1: it was seventy. You know, I barely was in the game.
Speaker 4: He Logan, you was a hell of a blocking tya.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna tell you. I was very impressed with what
Speaker 4: you can do.
Speaker 5: I told you often I thought that we should have
Speaker 5: just changed you to a tackle because you probably topped
Speaker 5: down tackles when it.
Speaker 4: Came to blocking.
Speaker 2: So hey, first of all, I threw the ball at
Speaker 2: you allotted, man.
Speaker 1: So appreciated.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: So now our last segment, it's called Farmer Fred, Okay Tanner.
Speaker 1: You know Fred talks about being an outdoorsy guy. Right now,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I like to go Cassie and farmer
Speaker 1: Vegetable so we're gonna see if you're ready. That's why
Speaker 1: you just took my pain I did. I took your paper,
Speaker 1: all right? Okay? Ready? Yeah? So first question, what is
Speaker 1: the difference between English and Western saddle? It's the you
Speaker 1: don't even know this, is it not?
Speaker 3: It's the hole right there the horn on it because
Speaker 3: the Olympus use English English, and it's without the horn right.
Speaker 3: The Western ears with the horns. So when I get
Speaker 3: on my horse, I grabbed the lug right there and
Speaker 3: kicking in the lee.
Speaker 2: Out of him.
Speaker 1: Now, so that is one difference.
Speaker 4: Also, he knows because I'm like this, dude, non.
Speaker 1: English saddle, you sit a little higher in the saddle
Speaker 1: right like in the Western you're like sitting on the
Speaker 1: horse right right. So hey, I wasn't. I'm impressed that boy.
Speaker 2: He knows it all allright.
Speaker 1: Round two? What is braggis?
Speaker 2: Bregas is a type of cattle. Oh my gosh, ain't
Speaker 2: it's the beef cattle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a type of beef cattle mixed in angus
Speaker 1: and brahma branis. Yeah. I am in Tanna.
Speaker 4: Did you know? I thought that was a learning school
Speaker 4: right now where you learned this from you know living.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, this one's tough if you get it.
Speaker 1: I mean it's a miracle. What are three of the
Speaker 1: five major crops from West Virginia?
Speaker 2: Oh, from West Virginia. You got corn?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: Uh is it a week? Because it is mounting. It
Speaker 2: is mountain in Lowlands.
Speaker 1: I'll give it to you.
Speaker 2: Hey, hey, you take the mountain in Lowland. So you
Speaker 2: got Hey, so you got corn mountain.
Speaker 4: I mean, hey, this The.
Speaker 1: Other ones are kind of weird, like my last it's.
Speaker 4: One of the One of them is your friend, your
Speaker 4: favorite friend.
Speaker 1: Friend usually like this. Yeah, tobacco, tobacco.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, because because Virginia.
Speaker 1: Then that was a tough one. The other one is apples,
Speaker 1: random and so apples.
Speaker 2: Most of the apples come from wind Chester.
Speaker 1: But that's in Virginia.
Speaker 2: Winchester, Virginia.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'm saying soybeans. A little surprised by soybeans.
Speaker 2: Kind of grow everywhere. Beans grow there because of the code.
Speaker 2: It's in the ground. It's in the ground, cleans the wall.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 1: I love it. Fred learning all sorts of stuff. Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't even know if I can read this question.
Speaker 1: Name two of six major types of grass, feed blue,
Speaker 1: right to nails, a couple of yeah blue rye, and
Speaker 1: then I don't even know what this is. He fixes bermuda,
Speaker 1: grass and tail. All right, Fred knocked it out of
Speaker 1: the part. I think the conclusion is Fred is a farmer.
Speaker 1: I thought I thought for sure. I thought for sure
Speaker 1: the bragus would get you, and I thought that get you.
Speaker 3: Heydu he mann, nowitch, I'm impressed, Fred, I'm impressed.
Speaker 2: Hey, you know what, man it come up with the.
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