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Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast takes great care over their

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Speaker 1: heiney pillow. Welcome back to another edition of the Around

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Speaker 1: the NFL Podcast, presented by Head and Shoulders. My name

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Speaker 1: is Dan Hansis and I am joined playing room filled

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Speaker 1: with heroes, Mark Sessler, Chris Westling, and Greg Rosenthal. What's

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Speaker 1: up boys? Oh yeah? West back in the studio. West

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Speaker 1: also done with chemo. Just turned my chemo pump in

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Speaker 1: about an hour ago for the last time. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: get that out of my life. The big turnaround is

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Speaker 1: coming to and for anybody that's listening a shadowy league figure,

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Speaker 1: This is not celebration by cooling the gang. This is

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Speaker 1: a song that only sounds like celebration, sounds a little

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Speaker 1: bit like it. TV used to cooling the Gang celebration

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Speaker 1: so much the only thing was left with the dry

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Speaker 1: husk of that song. West done with chemo. It's been

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Speaker 1: a long road to feel good. Done done, a pretty

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Speaker 1: big feals. So I put the jacket on today. You

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Speaker 1: look good by the way. Velvet, Uh would you describe

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Speaker 1: this jacket? What is a velvet that's beautiful? Is a

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Speaker 1: velvet teddy Bear, It's a blue blue, navy blue velvet

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Speaker 1: jacket's like a gentleman's dinner coat. I love it done.

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Speaker 1: Done with chemo, I mean, unless the cancer comes back,

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Speaker 1: knock on wood not. But this is a big milestone

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Speaker 1: for me. Chemo has you know, my doctor told me

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Speaker 1: this should be easier than the chemo I had in

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Speaker 1: my life and not living hour by hour on how

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks for the poison to totally leave my body.

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Speaker 1: But but last week when it got delayed a week,

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Speaker 1: I I felt a huge difference to timing on my

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Speaker 1: bad days happened to work out poorly for podcast purposes,

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Speaker 1: But nine days I had in the last couple of

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Speaker 1: I think my digestive system will turn around in a hurry.

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Speaker 1: I can tell that you're on the mend when you

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Speaker 1: start getting into it on Twitter with people. And it's

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Speaker 1: happened a little bit yesterday. I don't have it stopped.

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Speaker 1: But you got your you got some fighting power in you.

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Speaker 1: You want to come at me and have a nuanced

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Speaker 1: adult conversation on Twitter. I'm here for that. You want

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Speaker 1: to come in immediately with your agenda. I don't deal

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Speaker 1: well with people with agendas, especially when they're obvious, Like

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Speaker 1: take your agenda to your own Twitter feed where you

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Speaker 1: control the conversation. Don't come onto mind with your agenda.

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Speaker 1: He's back. He's back. Uh so great news for West

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Speaker 1: and and all of us and everyone who listens to

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Speaker 1: the show. Um, and unfortunately all the news is good

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Speaker 1: as we get into Championship week. UM. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if you guys know, today is also West finished Chemo.

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Speaker 1: Today was supposed to be Dan's Redkin party in New York. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: what a sacrifice you've made for the good of the podcast. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I would say of everyone here, you've sacrificed

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Speaker 1: you know what, when it came down to it, Greg,

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Speaker 1: it's about a podcast. Well, let's look at this from

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Speaker 1: a different angle. Doesn't it give you a tremendous sense

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Speaker 1: party would have been fun. So not all good news

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Speaker 1: today half and a half. Ye, you're going through a

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Speaker 1: the product today, that's clear. I am astonished at your integrity.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. It's great having uh today's jam being Ship

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Speaker 1: preview Thursday. Oh, big show every year. In fact, um, gentlemen,

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Speaker 1: Just checking in with Lindsay. This is our fifth Championship

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Speaker 1: these would have made everyone. Uh yeah, because the Patriots

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Speaker 1: most of those did came come late and some of

429
00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:16,000
Speaker 1: them were from Mariota. But the defense is absolutely different

430
00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:18,359
Speaker 1: and better than it was earlier in the year. And

431
00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:20,119
Speaker 1: you guys have kind of said all year, like, of

432
00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:22,240
Speaker 1: course they're gonna you know, the defense is gonna be finer.

433
00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:25,159
Speaker 1: They're gonna get it together, and you were absolutely and

434
00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:27,640
Speaker 1: you were absolutely right. But I think it's fair as

435
00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:29,880
Speaker 1: a fan or as just anyone who watch this football

436
00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:34,560
Speaker 1: to be still amazed that a defense with Marquis Flowers,

437
00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:42,199
Speaker 1: Eric Lee, Adam Butler, Ricky Jane Francois, James Harrison, and

438
00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:46,360
Speaker 1: Dietrich Wise like playing all massive roles. I mean, it's

439
00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:48,760
Speaker 1: not just like the average football fan doesn't know these guys,

440
00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:52,120
Speaker 1: like Patriots fans don't know these guys. And I still

441
00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:55,240
Speaker 1: think it's a little amazing to watch a team evolve

442
00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:58,560
Speaker 1: every season, season after season, where they start out not

443
00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:01,520
Speaker 1: playing so well and by the end somehow like Marquis

444
00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:05,600
Speaker 1: Flowers is doing Donta Height Towers roll pretty well like

445
00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:08,359
Speaker 1: and that and im and I'm always still surprised as

446
00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:10,479
Speaker 1: a fan. I'm still always surprised when it does come

447
00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:12,680
Speaker 1: together and it is. That was the last minute post

448
00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:15,960
Speaker 1: training camp trade with the Bengals to get a special

449
00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,879
Speaker 1: teamer and now he's playing what what which role? Did you?

450
00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:20,800
Speaker 1: I would say he's kind of the Donta Heights Tower.

451
00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:23,400
Speaker 1: He's their middle linebacker. He rushes sometimes he's doing a lot.

452
00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:25,840
Speaker 1: He had a great this Every year they pick up

453
00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:28,480
Speaker 1: a guy like a cheam Airs or whoever and just

454
00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:31,560
Speaker 1: plug him in Kyle van Noy and they becoming important.

455
00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:34,800
Speaker 1: That's why it might it's might seem lazy that Dan

456
00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:36,760
Speaker 1: and I were on you about that all season, but

457
00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:38,880
Speaker 1: in the end we were completely have one question for you, Dan,

458
00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:41,919
Speaker 1: though Doug Maron yesterday they asked him, oh do you

459
00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:43,879
Speaker 1: take not take anything away? But you know you have

460
00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:46,800
Speaker 1: Tom Coffin in the building. He's the guy that neutralized

461
00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:49,320
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick and the Patriots and two super Bowls. You

462
00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:52,400
Speaker 1: know you watch those super Bowls, obviously, you know what's

463
00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:54,480
Speaker 1: the whole thing with you? And I didn't watch either

464
00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:57,320
Speaker 1: of those super Bowls. Doug Maron, a football coach, saying

465
00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:00,639
Speaker 1: he never watched a second of either of those Super Bowls.

466
00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:02,359
Speaker 1: I had to write a postbroute that I was like,

467
00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:03,600
Speaker 1: I don't even know how to say about this, Like,

468
00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:07,200
Speaker 1: did you write that he was lying? I am convinced

469
00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:09,760
Speaker 1: that when we were at the Second Giant Super Bowl,

470
00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:11,919
Speaker 1: and I could be wrong, but I am convinced that

471
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:15,000
Speaker 1: I saw Doug Morone down in the lobby eating a salad.

472
00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:20,000
Speaker 1: I'm sure he was there, I could be completely wrong.

473
00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:22,399
Speaker 1: How do you how do you not watch a second

474
00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:24,280
Speaker 1: of the Super Bowl? If you're a pro football It's

475
00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:26,520
Speaker 1: it's a weird way, it's an unnecessary way. If you

476
00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:28,680
Speaker 1: remember in Buffalo, we got into some trouble too when

477
00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:31,760
Speaker 1: he was trying to in his way either a vague

478
00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:34,560
Speaker 1: questions or trying to take control of the situation. So

479
00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:37,600
Speaker 1: instead of just giving some nondescript answer, which is what

480
00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:39,400
Speaker 1: he should have done, he says, oh, I didn't see

481
00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:41,880
Speaker 1: the games. It's all you're lying obviously, and now everybody's like, wait,

482
00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:44,280
Speaker 1: what's wrong? And then it became a weird thing where

483
00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:46,000
Speaker 1: it's like your boss, you know, I don't. All right,

484
00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:48,520
Speaker 1: let's pick the game you know what this week? Yeah?

485
00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:52,280
Speaker 1: That Tom Coughlin, who is steeped as an offensive coordinator,

486
00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:55,119
Speaker 1: that's his background, is the only human in history, the

487
00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:58,280
Speaker 1: only football mind whoever realized the key to beating good

488
00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:02,600
Speaker 1: quarterbacks his interior pressure. How is he get all the

489
00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:04,520
Speaker 1: credit for that, for the front for a front four

490
00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:08,160
Speaker 1: getting pressure without any blitzing, which is exactly what Jacksonville's

491
00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:11,240
Speaker 1: hoping to wait West and Gregor in the room together,

492
00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:14,400
Speaker 1: and they're taking credit away from the Giants, Hey, give it,

493
00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:18,200
Speaker 1: give it the just I think Marcel Darius Malik Jackson

494
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:22,240
Speaker 1: they were a last week. You have Dante Fowler and

495
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:24,520
Speaker 1: and got Way. Maybe going up against a third string

496
00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:27,400
Speaker 1: right tackle. Never know. Let's pick the game. Here we go,

497
00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:31,080
Speaker 1: starting you to do Mark? All right. Look, I'm not

498
00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:34,200
Speaker 1: just saying this because I really loved the Jaguars. Last

499
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:35,959
Speaker 1: week was my favorite game of the season. I just

500
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:39,720
Speaker 1: had this weird feeling that the Jaguars win this game.

501
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:47,159
Speaker 1: Sticking with it. I really believe it. And you know what,

502
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:50,040
Speaker 1: I respect Mark. Your magic number is one to win

503
00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:53,880
Speaker 1: the lock offf title and you just want to gainst

504
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:57,640
Speaker 1: the Patriots in the title game. I respect it. Did

505
00:25:57,640 --> 00:25:58,960
Speaker 1: I lock it up? I don't know if I locked

506
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:00,440
Speaker 1: it up? Oh? Do didn't lock it up? Predicted it?

507
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:02,560
Speaker 1: Do you want me to lock it up? No? No, no, no, yeah,

508
00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:06,879
Speaker 1: let's want to lock it up. Let me think about it,

509
00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:10,080
Speaker 1: Let me think about it. Yeah, you just make the

510
00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:11,919
Speaker 1: decision you gotta make. I thought you were locking it

511
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:14,440
Speaker 1: up by apologize. Don't do it. I don't know. I

512
00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:17,000
Speaker 1: don't think the Marks basically want it though, I'm not

513
00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:19,080
Speaker 1: gonna lose it no matter what. But I don't feel

514
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:22,399
Speaker 1: that's not that's not what we're I'm thinking necessarily, But

515
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:24,879
Speaker 1: I do think they're gonna win. Okay, good pick West.

516
00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:27,320
Speaker 1: I think you could argue the Steelers are the most

517
00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:30,240
Speaker 1: talented roster in the NFL. They were done in this

518
00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:35,080
Speaker 1: year by brutal situational football. The Patriots the hallmark of

519
00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 1: the Belichick Brady era, especially the past half decade. They

520
00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:43,240
Speaker 1: are the best situational football team I have ever seen,

521
00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:46,480
Speaker 1: and probably are in the history of the NFL. That's

522
00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:48,720
Speaker 1: the difference in this game. And I'm locking it up

523
00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:53,600
Speaker 1: the Patriots win. Good luck West. Listen, don't think people

524
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:55,720
Speaker 1: didn't notice that you locked up the Patriots against the

525
00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:58,960
Speaker 1: Titans last week. And I have I mean the Titans

526
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:03,280
Speaker 1: team that just got done eating the Jaguars and Chiefs. Ok. Yeah, yeah,

527
00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 1: I have no problem with that. I look at it.

528
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:07,600
Speaker 1: You're just fine. I'm not into this lock shaming though. Yeah.

529
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 1: How would How is it all year? You go buy

530
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 1: a conscience and then you change it up and just

531
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:16,240
Speaker 1: take it off the board. That's what the fans told

532
00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:20,600
Speaker 1: me on the mirror is looking fine, mirror is looking

533
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 1: pretty hot. I have no qualms about that pick. At all.

534
00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:27,360
Speaker 1: It's the divisional if you make it to the divisional

535
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:31,520
Speaker 1: round of the play down to the matter, there's gravitas there.

536
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:34,240
Speaker 1: I mean every game is pickable. Yeah, I mean, it's

537
00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:37,119
Speaker 1: just it's hard to pick on. It's a shame someone

538
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:39,440
Speaker 1: for being too safe in a lot in a segment

539
00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:42,240
Speaker 1: called lock of the week where we have an aggregate

540
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 1: five hundred record like a coin flip, and we're usually

541
00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:49,360
Speaker 1: taking favorites too. So actually, like we're doing worse than

542
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:51,399
Speaker 1: you could possibly like a coin, a coin could do

543
00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:55,640
Speaker 1: better for yourself. Then I took some road teams over

544
00:27:55,680 --> 00:28:01,159
Speaker 1: and in a while, come on, Mark camp Mark, Um,

545
00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:03,480
Speaker 1: you've done a great job. I have done a poor job.

546
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:06,439
Speaker 1: In fact, I have. You've also something done, something almost

547
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:11,160
Speaker 1: beautiful though from another is there's something beautifully tragic about it. Um.

548
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:14,959
Speaker 1: I have lost six straight lockoffs in a row, and um,

549
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:16,840
Speaker 1: you know I'm a little bit proud of that. I

550
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:21,199
Speaker 1: picked five favorites in the Browns and uh, and in

551
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:25,080
Speaker 1: each case those teams lost out right. And you could

552
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 1: be making serious money by betting against Dan Hansas. So

553
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:32,320
Speaker 1: now let me say this, Uh, follow the bread crumbs

554
00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:35,040
Speaker 1: here and follow your your your wallets although we don't

555
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:42,160
Speaker 1: condone that there is no way the Patriots lose. On Sunday,

556
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:48,520
Speaker 1: Dan Hansas the lockmasta. Oh yeah, he's saying New England, Greggy,

557
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 1: New England can't lose because Dan's locking the New England

558
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:56,080
Speaker 1: Patriots up. Welcome to the super Bowl, the big Dads,

559
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 1: and Dan gives you the seal of approval. The old

560
00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 1: Zeusa says, Pat's win. Lock. I'll see what you're doing here.

561
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 1: You're t we called it on Sunday's podcast. He's got

562
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 1: to lock up the let's go Patriots, trying to throw

563
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:15,680
Speaker 1: your evil reverse modeo onto the Patriot You're putting your

564
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,440
Speaker 1: witchcraft on Fox Burro. I like it. Let's go Pasts,

565
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 1: let's go Zox. So we go. Let's not associate everything

566
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 1: to do with the Patriots. I had a good friend, Dave,

567
00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:35,040
Speaker 1: you know, who defended Scott's alex honor. After hearing us,

568
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:37,720
Speaker 1: what didn't he give up his honor? He said, there

569
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 1: he's the Patriots, Tommy Heinson. That made me think, okay,

570
00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:43,840
Speaker 1: that's not sweetening the potty's. No. The difference is Heinsen's

571
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,640
Speaker 1: a Hall of Famer. Well yeah, but he's also I

572
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 1: don't know I'll lock up the Patriots too, by the way,

573
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:52,600
Speaker 1: and why not, Oh look at the youth three? Well,

574
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:56,480
Speaker 1: what else am I gonna do? Your team? It's my team.

575
00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:59,080
Speaker 1: I am not like allowed to, uh you know, lock

576
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 1: them up most of the year because of the you know,

577
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 1: the lock shaming society going on over there was never

578
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:06,480
Speaker 1: a shaming society. It's just a mirror. If my prediction

579
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 1: it's true, and Jacksonville wins and all three of you

580
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:12,719
Speaker 1: go down in a triple lock failure, you can beautifollow

581
00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:14,800
Speaker 1: us at once right now. Yeah, that sounds like a

582
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:17,720
Speaker 1: lot of fun, doesn't That would be a first. And

583
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 1: then Mark, you know, you know you're trying to pull

584
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 1: me in you to have a chance. I'd be a legend.

585
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:28,959
Speaker 1: That's all. I'm locking it up. Baarst do it, jackson

586
00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 1: I don't can't even care about winning the same reel

587
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:35,160
Speaker 1: them in. Here's what I do every week. Like last week,

588
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:36,480
Speaker 1: I said, I did it for the fun of the

589
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:39,160
Speaker 1: show and for the high drama. It made Sunday fun.

590
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:41,720
Speaker 1: Love you, Mark, and that Jacksonville ever won this game,

591
00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:48,520
Speaker 1: three of you will never be celebrating so happy scenario

592
00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:53,680
Speaker 1: where he wins no matter what. Yes, Mark. I'm happy

593
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:57,120
Speaker 1: to I actually had I had people waiting to me

594
00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:00,840
Speaker 1: I'm crazy either. I like Greg's playing. Why the Pats

595
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 1: are up again. My vision for the game is it's

596
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 1: gonna be a great football game, and I think Blake

597
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:08,400
Speaker 1: Bortles is gonna show up. And I think they really

598
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:12,000
Speaker 1: struggle with athletic quarterbacks. They are so on athletic getting

599
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 1: to the edge against them. Bortles did make some throws

600
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 1: late in that game. I don't think you'll have to

601
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 1: make that many. But the key play of the game

602
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 1: was a bomb by Blake Bortles. Another key play was

603
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 1: to a second or third read. I think he'll be solid,

604
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 1: he'll move the ball, the defense will play well, and

605
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 1: I'm expecting one of the best a f C championships.

606
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 1: It's a nice tighten it up. Well, everything comes to

607
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:35,520
Speaker 1: an end by the end of the first quarter. The

608
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:38,920
Speaker 1: coaching staff is checking Blake Bortles. Me under, he'll be

609
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 1: in one of the tents. We'll see, yeah, have you've

610
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 1: been nothing. But they're gonna protect them, They're gonna coach,

611
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 1: they're gonna scale is gonna be at a nine and

612
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:51,000
Speaker 1: a half by three minutes into the game. Um To ten,

613
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 1: I am the Patriots. Wow, And I just realized this

614
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 1: is there's so much drama now Mark, because if you

615
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:59,680
Speaker 1: don't win, then the super Bowl you just go against

616
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:02,160
Speaker 1: Mark and we can be talking about a massive three

617
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:08,080
Speaker 1: way tie, right right. I have no problem. Well I

618
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 1: think it would here we go to lockoffs, then the

619
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 1: whole thing is the whole thing is faulty. You miss

620
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:15,680
Speaker 1: whatever we pick. I my honest thing. But you guys

621
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:17,400
Speaker 1: like oh Dan's trying to rig it so he wins.

622
00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 1: It should probably should have ended at the regular season,

623
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:21,480
Speaker 1: and maybe next year it should be that way. It's

624
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 1: kind of hard to lock in the playoffs, to be honestly.

625
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 1: It starts to get a little bit track. Then you

626
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 1: have a trophy commissioned in your honor, in your image,

627
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 1: just not in my image. And for the podcast, I

628
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:33,560
Speaker 1: was slandered because you thought you were gonna win it,

629
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:37,120
Speaker 1: so you had a trophy. There's no way that Well,

630
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 1: it's true it has been canceled. We're not going to

631
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 1: produce it anymore, but that that I don't know. I've

632
00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 1: had someone else reach out to me saying that they would.

633
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:45,719
Speaker 1: Course it is. Of course it's still being produced and

634
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:49,280
Speaker 1: because of Mark's onions. It's still up for grabs potentially.

635
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 1: Let's move on now to the NFC. The Minnesota Vikings,

636
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:59,240
Speaker 1: who are fresh off the greatest moment in franchise history

637
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:06,560
Speaker 1: case enam to Stephen Diggs sixty one yards win over

638
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 1: the Saints. Pump it up. They hit the road now

639
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:24,520
Speaker 1: and they go to Philadelphia to face the Eagles. Mark

640
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 1: Cesslor the Eagles, who everyone in the world except for

641
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler picked the Eagles to lose. Good job kissing

642
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:39,080
Speaker 1: Cousins picked the Eagles to lose against the Falcons, who

643
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 1: are kind of on the upswing it appeared, but that

644
00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 1: defense stepped up. Nick Foles made enough plays they win.

645
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:48,920
Speaker 1: They win the game. Fifteen ten. Here we go for

646
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, two teams that have never won a

647
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:55,640
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Mark squaring off with dog masks everywhere. I

648
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:57,000
Speaker 1: don't know the way I look at this game. I

649
00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:59,560
Speaker 1: think the Vikings have the better quarterback. I think they

650
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:02,520
Speaker 1: might have the best two receivers left in football right now.

651
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:06,040
Speaker 1: They've got a super Bowl level defense, fantastic tight end

652
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:08,840
Speaker 1: and Kyle Rudolph a coaching Mike Zimmer who gets the

653
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 1: most out of his players. Kai for Bath, who makes

654
00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:13,480
Speaker 1: me extremely nervous every single time I watched him warning

655
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:16,799
Speaker 1: for a kick. They've got playoff magic on their side.

656
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 1: They've got Grandma Millie years old, who's gonna go to

657
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:23,160
Speaker 1: the super Bowl and hopefully watch this thing. I wrote

658
00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 1: all this because this was the team I was gonna

659
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 1: lock up, and I'm not. But I love him. I

660
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:31,920
Speaker 1: love I love this Vikings team, and I cannot. I'm sorry,

661
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 1: Connie Fox. I'm not sure John Gonzalz is an Eagles fan.

662
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:37,520
Speaker 1: If he is, I apologize to him. But all right, well,

663
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:41,080
Speaker 1: if he is he is, I I cannot imagine the

664
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:44,279
Speaker 1: Eagles in the super Bowl personally. Vikings have so much

665
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:46,920
Speaker 1: special energy around them right now, and we're gonna go

666
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:49,000
Speaker 1: to Minneapolis. It would be the coolest thing ever to

667
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 1: watch that fan base spend Super Bowl Week with their

668
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 1: own franchise that they've suffered with for years. I wish

669
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:58,440
Speaker 1: I locked this team up. I got I should, I

670
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:00,880
Speaker 1: got bamboos, he gets E'll switch it. You can do

671
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:02,800
Speaker 1: whatever you want. That's not how the rules work. No,

672
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:06,120
Speaker 1: I'm sticking with what I did. Um here's the one

673
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:08,239
Speaker 1: counter to that. Because I feel like a lot of

674
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:11,360
Speaker 1: people feel the way you feel. Uh, are we worried

675
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:14,200
Speaker 1: about a potential hangover because that was not just any win.

676
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 1: That was uh, franchise shifting, region shifting. You're in the

677
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 1: news and I'm hanging out with us. The only thing

678
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:25,960
Speaker 1: I was worried about, yeah, finish your Yeah. The the

679
00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:29,279
Speaker 1: idea that another element or angle that was being played up,

680
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:33,400
Speaker 1: the Vikings curse, whatever that means, is over. And it

681
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 1: did bring to mind as a Jets fan when we

682
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,719
Speaker 1: beat the Pats in two thousand ten, Jets fans like, oh,

683
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:40,440
Speaker 1: we finally got over the hump, and then they went

684
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 1: up to Pittsburgh in the title game and got got romped.

685
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:45,320
Speaker 1: And I know these are totally different teams, but you

686
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 1: cannot get over compet in the spot or have some

687
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 1: type of hangover because the other team is too hungry

688
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,960
Speaker 1: and loll get you. That's my biggest concern. It's it's

689
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 1: a hard thing to ever know. But I did cross

690
00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 1: my mind when I saw Stefan jigs Is tweet around

691
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 1: Wednesday that said something to the effect of, like you

692
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 1: know that that that was fun. Now, like time to

693
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:09,960
Speaker 1: get back to work, And it was like Wednesday, and

694
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:12,560
Speaker 1: it's like they and they have and I know I'm I,

695
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:14,799
Speaker 1: of course know that they've been preparing and doing all

696
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:18,279
Speaker 1: sorts of things before that, but it just naturally is

697
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:24,759
Speaker 1: an emotional, uh game that they experienced the Eagles. It's

698
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 1: the smallest thing. But the Eagles have an extra day

699
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:30,480
Speaker 1: and they're the home team, and they're a tough, minded,

700
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:34,719
Speaker 1: talented team. You still have case Keenum and an offensive

701
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 1: line that's been good all season but didn't play great

702
00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:40,400
Speaker 1: last week, and an okay running game going up against

703
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:42,279
Speaker 1: one of the two or three best defenses in the

704
00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:45,000
Speaker 1: league and you're doing that and you're outdoors, like that

705
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:47,279
Speaker 1: game is not gonna be an easy game no matter what.

706
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 1: Like crazy, I like these teams are a lot of like.

707
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:57,319
Speaker 1: They both are top three defenses, uh, they both play

708
00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 1: well on third downs on defense, are both strong in

709
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:03,719
Speaker 1: the trenches. At various times in this year, I was

710
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 1: convinced the Vikings front four was the best front forem football.

711
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:08,520
Speaker 1: At various times I was convinced the Eagles front four

712
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:11,600
Speaker 1: was the best front book form football. There nothing sticks

713
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:14,839
Speaker 1: in my crawl this week like attempting to put case

714
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:18,840
Speaker 1: Keenum in the same lower tier bin with Nick Fools

715
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:21,759
Speaker 1: and Blake Bugles. There is a Golf of difference. One

716
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 1: of these quarterbacks is creative and makes plays, is asset

717
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:29,480
Speaker 1: to his offense. The other quarterback limits the offense they

718
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 1: had to coach around him. And the Eagles, if you

719
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:35,799
Speaker 1: take their points, their yards per games since Fools took over,

720
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:38,400
Speaker 1: they would be number thirty two in the NFL. They

721
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:41,560
Speaker 1: have no offense, they have no big play offense whatsoever.

722
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:45,680
Speaker 1: And the difference between Keenum and Fools could not be wider.

723
00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:48,840
Speaker 1: In my opinion, Fulls is a twenty three pointing rating

724
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:52,040
Speaker 1: under pressure. That's gonna there. They're going to He's gonna

725
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:53,920
Speaker 1: have to deal with pressure this week. And I look

726
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:56,400
Speaker 1: at a team that scored fit. It was an incredible

727
00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:58,239
Speaker 1: win over the Falcons, and it was something that those

728
00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:01,040
Speaker 1: Eagles fans deserved. You scored fifth team points, you had

729
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 1: two turnovers, you're and and which Vikings team? Is it all?

730
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:06,279
Speaker 1: I know what happened in the second half, but go

731
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 1: back and watch what they did in the first half

732
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:11,719
Speaker 1: against the Saints, a much more dynamic, explosive offense. That

733
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:14,080
Speaker 1: was an incredible half of defensive football. I just don't

734
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:17,239
Speaker 1: see Philly finding a way to outscore Minnesota. Here's where

735
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:19,839
Speaker 1: I would disagree with you, West is that they don't

736
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:23,000
Speaker 1: have an offense because I'm only I'm really only counting

737
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,600
Speaker 1: the playoff game, which maybe I shouldn't. Maybe you should

738
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:27,680
Speaker 1: count the Raiders. But if you, why would you not

739
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:30,400
Speaker 1: take all the data into consideration. Why I used recently, Well,

740
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 1: because they had they had, they had time to prepare

741
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:35,359
Speaker 1: for that game. There was nothing about the playoff game

742
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 1: that was impressive to me. From next there was. There

743
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:39,800
Speaker 1: was three games basically that Falls has played. They scored

744
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:41,800
Speaker 1: in the thirties and one of them they were terrible.

745
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:44,400
Speaker 1: In the other you had the couple series against the Eagles,

746
00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:46,879
Speaker 1: and you won this game against Falcons. First of all,

747
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:49,200
Speaker 1: they won all those games, and I know that doesn't

748
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:51,840
Speaker 1: sound like, Okay, they're playing these bad teams like they

749
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 1: don't get any credit. He came into the game against

750
00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 1: the Rams and they were trailing. They won. They were

751
00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:59,239
Speaker 1: trailing what seventeen points against the Giants. They won. The

752
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:02,480
Speaker 1: Raiders game is the ugliest thing ever. They found a

753
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:05,080
Speaker 1: way to win at the end. This Falcons game, it

754
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:07,439
Speaker 1: was a different sort of game. They're a tough minded team.

755
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:09,919
Speaker 1: I think that goes to the coaches. And I looked

756
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:11,600
Speaker 1: at their offense last week, and I don't think it

757
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:14,400
Speaker 1: was I don't think it was ineffective. They only had

758
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:16,640
Speaker 1: eight drives. You know, they had the volve four or

759
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:19,400
Speaker 1: five times in the first half. They scored two of them.

760
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:21,799
Speaker 1: They only had the ball four times in the second half.

761
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:23,839
Speaker 1: One of them they ran out the game. The other

762
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:26,440
Speaker 1: two were really long drives. They actually had a lot

763
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 1: of yards per drive. It's not an explosive offense, but

764
00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:32,400
Speaker 1: it's the type of offense that I think is playing

765
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:35,719
Speaker 1: to a really good defense and can be just effective

766
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,880
Speaker 1: enough to win games like this in the playoffs when

767
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:40,879
Speaker 1: you have that good of a defense. Their offense did

768
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:43,400
Speaker 1: a lot of the work last week by possessing the

769
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 1: ball in the second half and by making that I

770
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:47,960
Speaker 1: love the way that Doug Peterson coach that second half

771
00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 1: and that I think had a huge factor there. And

772
00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 1: they ran You look at the box score, it looks

773
00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:54,400
Speaker 1: like they ran the ball not well, but they actually

774
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 1: really did for during those two drives. But this is

775
00:39:57,280 --> 00:40:00,640
Speaker 1: Atlanta's defense, not a bad defense at all, a good defense,

776
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:02,200
Speaker 1: but this is the Vikings team and they don't allow

777
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 1: big plays, And how are the Eagles going to produce

778
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:06,440
Speaker 1: big plays? How are you going to score twenty one

779
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 1: seven points you're gonna need to put up to beat

780
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:12,840
Speaker 1: the Vikings. Case Keenum not a perfect gameless, but that

781
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:15,520
Speaker 1: dude is a tough quarterback. You're keeping the score lower

782
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:18,040
Speaker 1: and making it like last week. I think that's the

783
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:20,239
Speaker 1: rest of nothing. Fools did last week and pressed me

784
00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 1: at all, and I'd like to see those RPOs try

785
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:25,400
Speaker 1: to work against the Vikings. This isn't the Falcons defense.

786
00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:28,920
Speaker 1: I thought Folds was terrible last week. I don't get

787
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:31,879
Speaker 1: this where everyone's like, oh, he had one if ever,

788
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:35,279
Speaker 1: I thought about throwing out quarterback rating altogether. That's the

789
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:36,880
Speaker 1: game that's gonna make me do it because he was

790
00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:38,920
Speaker 1: terrible and had a one quarterback round. I mean, he

791
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 1: didn't turn the ball over. That's why go through his

792
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:44,440
Speaker 1: hands and bounce off. That's that's a play he got

793
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 1: hit quickly on. I don't really kill Folds for that one.

794
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:50,120
Speaker 1: He You're right that he has to do more for

795
00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 1: them to win. He did climb the pocket a couple

796
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:54,280
Speaker 1: of times on a few third downs, and the granted

797
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 1: it's a low bar, but at third and five and

798
00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:58,640
Speaker 1: a third and eight where he evades a little bit

799
00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:02,319
Speaker 1: of pressure, stepping up and he complete what he's liked

800
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:05,359
Speaker 1: what Claibn said on Twitter, everybody actually, just because Nick

801
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:07,239
Speaker 1: Foles isn't out there picking his nose, he's going to

802
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:10,279
Speaker 1: find job. Nick Foles was not. But it's a reminder though.

803
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 1: We love this Falcons team, and I think over they

804
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:15,399
Speaker 1: did a lot of good this week. You guys spent

805
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 1: the whole season tearing the Falcons apart. You loved I

806
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:19,880
Speaker 1: loved him going into this game. I loved what I

807
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:22,440
Speaker 1: saw the Laska weeks. You love and the Eagles beat him,

808
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:24,759
Speaker 1: So it gets the Falcon's not It's not all about

809
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:28,520
Speaker 1: the quarterback, right, Oh, I don't think it's all about

810
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:30,920
Speaker 1: the quarterbacking it. I think that the Eagles and Vikings

811
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:34,480
Speaker 1: are a lot alike, except they're even almost everywhere except

812
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 1: the quarterback. That's a massive advantage in the Vikings favorite.

813
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:39,000
Speaker 1: I just love that everyone just saying r p O. Now,

814
00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 1: I've never heard it more, and I don't think I've

815
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 1: ever really heard it in casual conversation and football before,

816
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:47,239
Speaker 1: and now everyone is saying r p oh whenever the

817
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:49,800
Speaker 1: analysts talks about something. It's like everyone's talking about Fletcher

818
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:51,520
Speaker 1: Cox this week, because Collins were talked about and he

819
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 1: did have a great game, and it's good. Fletcher Cox

820
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:56,200
Speaker 1: deserves the love, but it's because Collins were talking about

821
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:58,120
Speaker 1: this is the thing, this is where you should be.

822
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 1: I thought, if you were Eagles fan, you're super nervous

823
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:02,800
Speaker 1: last week, and there was. That was one of the

824
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:07,080
Speaker 1: reasons they won. There was this amazing nervous energy and

825
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:09,600
Speaker 1: excitement in that crowd, which I think is gonna be

826
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:12,080
Speaker 1: there again. They might even have a little more juice

827
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:16,320
Speaker 1: confidence why this this week? Last week, I think that

828
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:19,279
Speaker 1: nervous energy about like are we really is? This? Is

829
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:21,120
Speaker 1: this a game that we're gonna win? And now I

830
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:22,840
Speaker 1: think they're feeling himself. We'll see if the if the

831
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:26,040
Speaker 1: crowd manifests itself differently at all. But the one thing

832
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:28,320
Speaker 1: with the with the r p O and with the

833
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:30,319
Speaker 1: and get the ball out of his hand quickly, don't

834
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:32,960
Speaker 1: make him think too much. That's what Minnesota has been like.

835
00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:35,040
Speaker 1: Oh so, the way the way that guy was able

836
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:37,480
Speaker 1: to be competent, and I don't think he was great West,

837
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:40,560
Speaker 1: but competent to the point where he didn't kill them, uh,

838
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:42,719
Speaker 1: is by doing that. Let's take that away. Let's find

839
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:44,920
Speaker 1: a way good coaching steps do that. Then what happens

840
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:46,719
Speaker 1: in Nick Foles if he's not if he doesn't have

841
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:50,080
Speaker 1: that that safety net, which is what they were able

842
00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:53,120
Speaker 1: to cook in. It was offensive scheming that Doug Peterson

843
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:55,840
Speaker 1: and company really deserve credit for something. Now what happens

844
00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 1: you do something different, that's how, that's how the Patriots

845
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:00,760
Speaker 1: some quarterbacks. You don't have a lot of different options

846
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 1: you could succeed, right, you have to come I have

847
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 1: a great offensive coaching stand you have to come up

848
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 1: with another game plan. And one of the things Tony

849
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:10,840
Speaker 1: Romo said, which is it was smart but and maybe obvious,

850
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:13,239
Speaker 1: But like I think, I never really I never think

851
00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:15,680
Speaker 1: about and the average fan doesn't, is that the Patriots,

852
00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 1: for instance, last week went back to a lot of

853
00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:20,440
Speaker 1: old concepts that they used earlier in the season. That basically,

854
00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 1: you go back and throw the last four games out

855
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:25,440
Speaker 1: because that's what the team that's facing you is studying,

856
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:27,960
Speaker 1: and you go back to some things that worked earlier

857
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:29,560
Speaker 1: in the year, and you just have a couple of

858
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:31,880
Speaker 1: little wrinkles. And the Eagles, I think I trust their

859
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:33,920
Speaker 1: staff enough that in a given week they can come

860
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:36,399
Speaker 1: up with some stuff that that can move the ball.

861
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 1: But then a question if we if we all understand

862
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:41,719
Speaker 1: that a team can go back pre four weeks to

863
00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:43,640
Speaker 1: cook up a game plan that, oh, you want to

864
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:46,239
Speaker 1: say that you're getting out of everyone in season, you're

865
00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:48,160
Speaker 1: so and you're using stuff you haven't shown in I

866
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:50,880
Speaker 1: wouldn't expect any of these teams to come out rolling

867
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:53,480
Speaker 1: through with the exact same game plan they did last week.

868
00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:55,760
Speaker 1: I mean, you want you're gonna have to be especially

869
00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:57,720
Speaker 1: we're talking on the Jaguars and stuff in the Eagles

870
00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:00,160
Speaker 1: to they the one thing with me when fulls nce

871
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:03,960
Speaker 1: Fols have been on the field, every one of their weapons, Nelson, Agalore, Jeffrey,

872
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 1: all these guys that were they were surging towards Pro

873
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:10,600
Speaker 1: Bowl seasons have all disappeared and flat lined with folds

874
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 1: at quarterback. That is an indictment. They made some plays

875
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 1: in then that Giants game and since then an absent

876
00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:18,880
Speaker 1: The Eagles defensive lines is gonna have to kind of

877
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:21,239
Speaker 1: win the game, and the and the Vikings did not

878
00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:24,800
Speaker 1: did not play well late in the game, but their capable.

879
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:26,880
Speaker 1: The defensive line is capable winning the game. One of

880
00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:30,080
Speaker 1: the things that's different about their line is Brandon Cox.

881
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:34,080
Speaker 1: I mean, Brandon Graham and Fletcher Cox. They barely played

882
00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:37,200
Speaker 1: compared to other players at that level throughout the course

883
00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 1: of the season, only about six fifty snaps, only thirty

884
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:42,840
Speaker 1: forty snaps a week. In the playoffs, they're on the

885
00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:46,080
Speaker 1: field almost every down, and Cox was dominant. West. You

886
00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:49,560
Speaker 1: talk about like, what's the final level of NFL superstars

887
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:51,920
Speaker 1: that you beat double teams, and Fletcher Cox is that

888
00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:54,600
Speaker 1: kind of final level where he's beating double teams, and

889
00:44:54,719 --> 00:44:57,080
Speaker 1: that sets up Graham to make a lot of noise.

890
00:44:57,160 --> 00:44:59,080
Speaker 1: And now they're on the field every down and you're

891
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:02,320
Speaker 1: rotating and Journe again, and Long is playing well, and

892
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:04,799
Speaker 1: Derek Barnett a first round pick, and Vinny Curry had

893
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:07,359
Speaker 1: a big week last week, and the suddenly that's six

894
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:09,680
Speaker 1: or seven guys and maybe that's enough to just and

895
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 1: Keenan was under Keenum took some heat last week too.

896
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:13,759
Speaker 1: I mean, I I thought he came out as one

897
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 1: of the toughest quarterback performance as I've seen because he

898
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:18,440
Speaker 1: had a mixed rows with dudes all over him. And

899
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:20,759
Speaker 1: case Keenum, I couldn't agree more with you West that

900
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:23,480
Speaker 1: like clumping him in with the other two outside of Brady.

901
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:26,200
Speaker 1: It's just like people were looking at case keenum the

902
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:28,080
Speaker 1: name and you're not watching him play. I mean, he's

903
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:30,640
Speaker 1: been a really fun quarterback to watch and the dude

904
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:34,080
Speaker 1: to man, it's crazy because the the the thing that

905
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:36,480
Speaker 1: makes him great is like what I'm tired of, Like

906
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:43,640
Speaker 1: he's keen. I never heard you use that. Man. He's

907
00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:46,120
Speaker 1: so mentally tough though, because think about how that game

908
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:48,799
Speaker 1: ended up. He took a sack that took him out

909
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:50,919
Speaker 1: of field goal range. He threw one of the worst

910
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:53,719
Speaker 1: interceptions you ever see, and he'll throw some of those

911
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:56,200
Speaker 1: up every once in a while, and Marcus Williams made

912
00:45:56,239 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 1: the great interception on him, uh to really kick start

913
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:02,080
Speaker 1: that that uh come back and then what do you

914
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:06,000
Speaker 1: do after that? He threw three of the toughest like

915
00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:10,520
Speaker 1: one thrown against his body, another over the shoulder to feel,

916
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 1: and another over the like. He threw three of the

917
00:46:12,680 --> 00:46:16,200
Speaker 1: toughest like ball zest throw after that sequence, and he

918
00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:18,920
Speaker 1: hit him all like it's I don't know, it's about

919
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:23,960
Speaker 1: decisively winning his matchup with Marcus Lattimore, and a couple

920
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:25,960
Speaker 1: of more penalties should have been called on Lattimore in

921
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:29,160
Speaker 1: that game against Healing. He had. Somebody on Twitter says,

922
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:31,439
Speaker 1: a lot, he's the first person all year that really

923
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:33,840
Speaker 1: beat Marshall Ladder and mostly was just kind of getting

924
00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:37,200
Speaker 1: the ball in tight coverage. Someone on Twitter said Keenum

925
00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:39,160
Speaker 1: didn't deserve any credit for that last play of the

926
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:43,000
Speaker 1: game either. It's like, shut up. Well, it's like, usually

927
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:46,640
Speaker 1: I don't even respond, But in that case, I pointed out, oh,

928
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:49,680
Speaker 1: only that he spotted the receiver, put the ball exactly

929
00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:51,320
Speaker 1: where it needed to be, which, by the way, it

930
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:53,640
Speaker 1: was like forty yards on the line and led to

931
00:46:53,719 --> 00:46:56,200
Speaker 1: the game winning touch. And the guy is having one

932
00:46:56,239 --> 00:47:00,160
Speaker 1: of those special season and he had three. Maybe he's

933
00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:04,520
Speaker 1: that and the windows long since closed where you could

934
00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:07,480
Speaker 1: question is who but his case Keenum that we remember. No,

935
00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:10,920
Speaker 1: this is different, he's not. It's not like Folds and

936
00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:13,759
Speaker 1: Bordles and then Brady and Keenam. It's not like that

937
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:16,120
Speaker 1: type of setup. But like Keenum is squarely in his

938
00:47:16,239 --> 00:47:19,360
Speaker 1: own territory between those two places. So you got to

939
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:21,399
Speaker 1: look at him that way. Let it fly. Let your

940
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:24,279
Speaker 1: case keenan flag fly high. This week. That flag went

941
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:26,239
Speaker 1: up the flag pole. It's come down a couple of times.

942
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 1: That's right. It's way back early this season. I gave

943
00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:32,799
Speaker 1: you the chance to think the flag back and you didn't. West, Baby,

944
00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:35,920
Speaker 1: all right, it's back. West was an early Keenum Truther

945
00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 1: in his Texans days. It's Keenum's like, it's someone that

946
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:42,880
Speaker 1: everyone is talking about this week. But one thing you

947
00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:47,440
Speaker 1: people haven't even code. No one's talking about because you people,

948
00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:50,520
Speaker 1: you don't even go back and watch the coaches film.

949
00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:53,279
Speaker 1: And that's where the real football junkies are real. This

950
00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:57,600
Speaker 1: actually feels like in your this is not fictional. That's

951
00:47:57,600 --> 00:47:59,960
Speaker 1: where this is how Greg actually feels about At least

952
00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:06,200
Speaker 1: he was just saying that the one thing all these

953
00:48:06,239 --> 00:48:08,279
Speaker 1: teams have in common, and but I'll point it out

954
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:12,239
Speaker 1: for the Eagles especially is they're great open field tacklers.

955
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:16,360
Speaker 1: And it sounds so simple, but especially in the secondary.

956
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:21,280
Speaker 1: This safety crew of Malcolm, Jenkins and McLeod for the Eagles,

957
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 1: they stopped a lot of those Philly drives where I

958
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:25,800
Speaker 1: mean Atlanta drives where it's just one on one in

959
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 1: space and they make the tackle. And what a great

960
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:31,080
Speaker 1: matchup for tackle, I mean safety is this week you know,

961
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:35,200
Speaker 1: between Smith and Sendejo and Jenkins and McLeod and the

962
00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:37,560
Speaker 1: Eagles are have been really good all these four teams

963
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:39,719
Speaker 1: are really good at that, especially in the secondary. You

964
00:48:39,840 --> 00:48:42,000
Speaker 1: throw the ball out in the edge, it's really hard

965
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:44,480
Speaker 1: to make them miss. They get you on the ground. Well, Greg,

966
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:47,040
Speaker 1: as someone who played football at the youth level and

967
00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:49,120
Speaker 1: also in high school, I can confirm that it is

968
00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:53,279
Speaker 1: the open field. People is tough. It's played offensive line right. No.

969
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:55,440
Speaker 1: I played running back in Pop Warner and then they

970
00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:57,160
Speaker 1: moved me to cornerback because it was like where do

971
00:48:57,200 --> 00:49:01,640
Speaker 1: you think reason, which was always would anyone on the interior?

972
00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:03,600
Speaker 1: Maybe it was like a land of tiny people. I

973
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:05,799
Speaker 1: mean it's it was small people, but I was even

974
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:09,560
Speaker 1: smaller corner and a running back running back successfully cornerback

975
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:12,480
Speaker 1: buried on a roster, put into a late game on

976
00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:15,080
Speaker 1: homecoming and immediately gave up a touchdown. It was pulled

977
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:17,560
Speaker 1: right out. That's not right. I mean we were winning

978
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:22,160
Speaker 1: by time. There was another there was another play. When

979
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:24,080
Speaker 1: you're bad. When you get pulled back out when you're

980
00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:26,319
Speaker 1: winning by twenty eight points, well it was like, wait

981
00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:28,080
Speaker 1: a minute, there's still like eight minutes left in this thing.

982
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:31,000
Speaker 1: This guy's dangeum, all right. As much as save it

983
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:34,120
Speaker 1: for the Marks Football Career podcast, which I would absolutely

984
00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:40,680
Speaker 1: listen to short, let's pick the game. Vikings not as

985
00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:44,560
Speaker 1: close as the score looks. I think it's a very

986
00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:47,200
Speaker 1: even matchup all around. I have a ton of respect

987
00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:50,399
Speaker 1: for the Eagles. They're coaching staff, their defense, they're running game.

988
00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:54,239
Speaker 1: Uh what you people in this room don't realize, and

989
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:57,200
Speaker 1: what I know, I've missed a lot of these episodes,

990
00:49:58,080 --> 00:50:00,480
Speaker 1: which means that I could pull off a double and

991
00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:03,839
Speaker 1: I'm locking up the Viking. All right, listen if that's

992
00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:07,080
Speaker 1: very fat cancer and you go through two rounds of chemo, yes,

993
00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:10,759
Speaker 1: my volume stats are like marks when he we first

994
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:13,080
Speaker 1: started playing Go get my lunch, and he just abstained

995
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:15,799
Speaker 1: from a bunch of My volume stats are way down.

996
00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:18,480
Speaker 1: I gotta build it up the Vikings. And it's not

997
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:21,000
Speaker 1: even so much that I think the Keenom's gonna have

998
00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:23,160
Speaker 1: a big game. I just think so little of Nick

999
00:50:23,200 --> 00:50:25,640
Speaker 1: Foles that I'm long get that we have. That message

1000
00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:29,439
Speaker 1: has become clear. Wait, I can't wait, but you're saying

1001
00:50:29,520 --> 00:50:32,200
Speaker 1: you but if you thought he played well last week though, right, Look,

1002
00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:37,640
Speaker 1: I am done with mechanical, stiff white guy statue quarterbacks

1003
00:50:37,719 --> 00:50:41,920
Speaker 1: in the NFL, in this era where defensive lines just

1004
00:50:42,080 --> 00:50:45,000
Speaker 1: pummel bad offensive lines. I'm not doing it anymore. Um,

1005
00:50:45,239 --> 00:50:47,279
Speaker 1: the steps are. But if you let me double lock

1006
00:50:47,360 --> 00:50:49,040
Speaker 1: it up, and if I ever lost, there you go

1007
00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:56,759
Speaker 1: quadruple lock off. Yeah, well double four times. You're putting

1008
00:50:56,760 --> 00:50:58,719
Speaker 1: the Vikings on the lock. That's what I always wanted

1009
00:50:58,760 --> 00:51:02,359
Speaker 1: to do. I sure do it. Doing double long locking too.

1010
00:51:02,960 --> 00:51:06,640
Speaker 1: We're not gonna doesn't make any sense. But none of

1011
00:51:06,719 --> 00:51:09,480
Speaker 1: this makes sense we're talking about. I like that. Let's

1012
00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:11,880
Speaker 1: double lock it up. It's the biggest day of the season.

1013
00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:15,799
Speaker 1: I'm locking up the Eagles. Wow, it's nice. It's nice

1014
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:17,640
Speaker 1: that you guys are doing. That's not the rules. There

1015
00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:23,560
Speaker 1: are no it's enjoyable, made up nonsense. That's this Barney

1016
00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:28,800
Speaker 1: Fife routine town sheriff, not the rules. Um, I believe

1017
00:51:28,880 --> 00:51:31,759
Speaker 1: this will be a low scoring affair fifteen ten, just

1018
00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:35,319
Speaker 1: like the last week game involving the Eagles. Sounds right,

1019
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:37,320
Speaker 1: So let me just do that. But flip it and

1020
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:40,920
Speaker 1: the Vikings win fifteen ten and my boy kais Kai

1021
00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:45,640
Speaker 1: has another big game and the Vikings move on to

1022
00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:48,240
Speaker 1: the first Super Bowl since the nineteen seventy six season.

1023
00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:51,960
Speaker 1: One lock except for West because he had cancer. That

1024
00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:55,160
Speaker 1: was fun. Dan hated nothing more all football season and

1025
00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:57,799
Speaker 1: double lock. I don't care if Dan recognize it. I right,

1026
00:51:57,880 --> 00:52:02,400
Speaker 1: we're recognizing it. It's happening out. It doesn't matter. Sorry,

1027
00:52:04,160 --> 00:52:07,920
Speaker 1: this isn't a lot. It's not a logical pick for

1028
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:12,040
Speaker 1: the Eagles. It's just a feeling that maybe a little

1029
00:52:12,040 --> 00:52:14,239
Speaker 1: bit of the emotional fall off, but more that it's

1030
00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:17,120
Speaker 1: at two teams that are pretty evenly matched. There the

1031
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:21,680
Speaker 1: home team and sometimes just you don't get what you

1032
00:52:21,719 --> 00:52:23,920
Speaker 1: want as a football fan. Is that it's anti climent.

1033
00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:25,839
Speaker 1: It would be so anti climactic of the Vikings. I'm

1034
00:52:25,880 --> 00:52:27,719
Speaker 1: kind of rooting for the Vikings, but I just have

1035
00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:31,080
Speaker 1: a feeling that this is a tough minded Eagles team

1036
00:52:31,120 --> 00:52:33,360
Speaker 1: where things can happen right for them. And it's just

1037
00:52:33,600 --> 00:52:36,960
Speaker 1: in this weird season that's been defined by like players

1038
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:39,640
Speaker 1: who are missing and us kind of being annoyed by

1039
00:52:39,719 --> 00:52:43,359
Speaker 1: that Nick Foles leading the Eagles to the super Bowl

1040
00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:47,520
Speaker 1: instead of Carson Wentz. It somehow feels right, Greg, cynicism

1041
00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:50,160
Speaker 1: is poison. Choose. That's not cynicism. I just said that

1042
00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:52,839
Speaker 1: we can't get what we want as fans, and your

1043
00:52:52,840 --> 00:52:58,560
Speaker 1: cynicism is poison. Will choose joy that it pots well,

1044
00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:03,160
Speaker 1: it gives us two weeks of hyper tedious Eagles Patriot reach.

1045
00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:06,919
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm hoping for the vikings for our city

1046
00:53:07,160 --> 00:53:10,759
Speaker 1: as I cannot hear two more weeks of r p O.

1047
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:15,880
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna hear it anyway. All right, there

1048
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:19,719
Speaker 1: you go. We will be back on Sunday, Sunday night,

1049
00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:22,239
Speaker 1: right after the games. Gregg, you will be heading to

1050
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:28,360
Speaker 1: Philadelphia to write for NFL dot com. West Mark and

1051
00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:31,920
Speaker 1: myself will be in the studio hopefully. It was sounds

1052
00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:33,840
Speaker 1: like you will be got a good feeling I got

1053
00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:36,319
Speaker 1: assessily you'll be here all right, but well, I guess

1054
00:53:36,360 --> 00:53:39,160
Speaker 1: we gotta just hold their breath. I'll be here Sunday

1055
00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:40,600
Speaker 1: after the games. I don't know if I'll be here

1056
00:53:40,600 --> 00:53:43,160
Speaker 1: before the games. We'll tell anything I get you in

1057
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:47,839
Speaker 1: the studio for the podcast. Yeah, I'll be great. I'm

1058
00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:52,560
Speaker 1: gonna give it. Oh that's a good percent. So there

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Speaker 1: you go. That that will be um the NFC and

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Speaker 1: a f C Championship game recap show, a big one,

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Speaker 1: a big flat ship show. So make sure you come

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Speaker 1: back for that. Uh and also check out NFL Pick

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Speaker 1: Them and NFL Network. We got Mark in an interrogation room.

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Speaker 1: I've watched this Pickum segment. Erica Tamposey previewed it. It

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Speaker 1: is the best one that that largely to do with

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Speaker 1: her technical prowess, but also our acting ability. That the

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Speaker 1: three of us killed really really all came together. Best

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Speaker 1: episode yet for really there You are you ever gonna

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Speaker 1: watch NFL pick Him? And? I believe it's on four

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Speaker 1: times time again, lindsay, do you have any of the

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Speaker 1: times for us? Yeah? Um, Actually, the network decided that

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Speaker 1: it was a good idea to replay last week's games

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Speaker 1: before Sunday's games, So we got cut down to one

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Speaker 1: no Eastern time. This vehicle is so eight am Eastern time,

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Speaker 1: five Pacific, five and Pacific check out NFL pick them,

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Speaker 1: set your DVRs. All right, they just came up with

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Speaker 1: that idea. Now they already knew those games we're gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: That's a very very odd decision. Maybe they didn't feel

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Speaker 1: the way we did about our segment. We're being phased out. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, who who do want to rewatch those games

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Speaker 1: when you've got us in our acting chaps Mark in

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Speaker 1: a literal interrogation room, that's what you're you have to

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Speaker 1: look forward to once, not four times before al we

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Speaker 1: signed of If I wanted to thank Charlie Barker and

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Speaker 1: his family from England, they sent me this really nice

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Speaker 1: no marchemo card from their trip when they had the

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Speaker 1: Mailman his back poster all over awesome. Look at the

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Speaker 1: look at the production cause yeah that's pretty nice and

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Speaker 1: nice little note on the inside. They sent me a record,

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Speaker 1: So what's the record? It is right? Track by Billy Butler?

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Speaker 1: All right, the former Royals. Royals loved him, had him

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Speaker 1: on my fantasy team every year. Well it couldn't field

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Speaker 1: really but but yes you could vegas cutting records LPs.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get out of here. Dan hads a

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Speaker 1: signing off for a Quiet Storm, The Mailman, the Boss

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Speaker 1: or the Old Boss and Lindsey Fulton behind the glass

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Speaker 1: tell Chappyship Sunday m