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Speaker 1: The Around the NFL Podcast. It is not the official

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Speaker 1: voice of the Los Angeles Chargers. Why the hell am

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Speaker 1: I doing this? Welcome back to another edition of the

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Speaker 1: Around the NFL Podcast. My name is Dan Hanses and

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Speaker 1: I am joined by a room filled with heroes, Mark Sessler,

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Speaker 1: Chris Westling, and Greg Rosenthal. What is up? Men? Hey?

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Speaker 1: Dan Ah, Wes is here. West is here. It's so

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Speaker 1: great one West is here. West. You did some updates

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Speaker 1: um on your status as we all know if you're

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Speaker 1: paying attention, Chris Westling skin Warrior during his fight with

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Speaker 1: the Big Sea. Uh. And I know on on social

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Speaker 1: media you gave an update on your situation. Do you

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Speaker 1: care to send a message to the listener an update

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Speaker 1: to the listeners that maybe did not see that. Well.

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Speaker 1: I I'm coming up on my last chemo treatment in

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Speaker 1: two weeks, so I asked my doctor what what I

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Speaker 1: really nice guy who's about five years older than me

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Speaker 1: and went through the same surgery g I joint, which

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Speaker 1: chemo that I had, so I got a lot of

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Speaker 1: frank um talk about what I have to look forward to,

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Speaker 1: and it was a little sobering for me. Um. I've

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Speaker 1: been hoping that change was coming right around the corner,

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Speaker 1: eat semi normally. Um. I may never drink like I

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Speaker 1: did in the past. I probably will never drink alcohol

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Speaker 1: like I did in the past. So, uh, lifestyle changes

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Speaker 1: are coming and probably needed to be coming. But I'm

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Speaker 1: a person who you know, Ernest Hemingway used to say,

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Speaker 1: I drink to make people more interesting. I drink because

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Speaker 1: bars are fun and that's where interesting people hang out.

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Speaker 1: I love characters. I think life isn't tolerably dull without

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Speaker 1: interesting people. And I'm a little concerned that that chapter

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Speaker 1: of my life might be coming to a close. How

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Speaker 1: about acid work that into the mix. I've never tried Mark,

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Speaker 1: not recently, Marks and acid. Right now, I will say

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Speaker 1: I had some great experiences on acid. Uh alright, okay, Uh,

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Speaker 1: I mean West is You know, from the first week

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Speaker 1: into the higher highest echelons of bar friends I've ever had,

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Speaker 1: and so it's h it's been a quiet period on

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Speaker 1: that front, and I continue to miss West. Absolutely. I

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Speaker 1: feel the same way. And on the flip side Hemingway's

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Speaker 1: comment drinking to make other people more interesting, there is

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Speaker 1: the person that is not interesting unless they're drunk or

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Speaker 1: stoned or whatever. West, you do not fall in that

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Speaker 1: category a little. Yeah, we're not a little nervous that

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Speaker 1: I could be. No, Ye're not been so long since

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Speaker 1: I've been anything but that though. You're a dynamic character,

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Speaker 1: love you. But West, Yeah, NFL loving this episode. It's

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Speaker 1: it's amazing though s because in the um in my

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Speaker 1: And before we get into the week seventeen games, I

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Speaker 1: can fly through the night too. I wish that would be.

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Speaker 1: This game does matter for the Patriots. I think they

429
00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:44,320
Speaker 1: want to get some cohesion going into the playoffs. I

430
00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:47,440
Speaker 1: think they're gonna play. They also need to win well,

431
00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:52,920
Speaker 1: that true too, but their linebackers are so terrible and

432
00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:54,880
Speaker 1: James Harrison. I have no idea, There's no no way

433
00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:58,159
Speaker 1: to know what James Harrison has left. But people that

434
00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:01,280
Speaker 1: think that they signed him just because you know, get

435
00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:04,360
Speaker 1: intel or whatever have you got, No, they haven't been

436
00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:08,159
Speaker 1: watching what the Patriots are putting out there outside linebacker

437
00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:11,800
Speaker 1: with Trevor Riley and just picking up guys David Harris.

438
00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:13,760
Speaker 1: You know, in the biggest game of the season, you

439
00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:16,480
Speaker 1: had David Harris covering Levy on Bell one on one

440
00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:19,840
Speaker 1: and Trey Flowers covering Levy on Bell won one. It's

441
00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:22,040
Speaker 1: one of the worst position groups, I would say in

442
00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:25,040
Speaker 1: the entire NFL. You've also had a lack of cohesion

443
00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:27,560
Speaker 1: at receiver where Hogan and Amandola been in and out.

444
00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:30,119
Speaker 1: Hogan might be back this week, Malcolm Mitchell might be

445
00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:32,480
Speaker 1: back this week, which would be a huge addition. You're

446
00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:35,440
Speaker 1: throwing to Kenny Britt, Philip door Set, and Jacob Hollister

447
00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:37,359
Speaker 1: in some of the biggest games as well. As the

448
00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:40,199
Speaker 1: Patriots have done, they sort of need to get whatever

449
00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:42,520
Speaker 1: their playoff group is gonna be on the field and

450
00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:44,440
Speaker 1: I think Harrison's gonna end up being a big part

451
00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:46,919
Speaker 1: of that. We'll get to more on Harris later when

452
00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:49,000
Speaker 1: we get to the Steelers, but it's good news for

453
00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:51,440
Speaker 1: the Patriots that he was released for being a jerk

454
00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:54,879
Speaker 1: instead of that he's just completely washed up. Might be

455
00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:59,040
Speaker 1: a combination, but we'll find out. Um. Moving on, the

456
00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:03,760
Speaker 1: Washington reds Gins are finishing off a lackluster season there

457
00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:06,879
Speaker 1: seven and eight. In their reward in week seventeen is

458
00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:10,280
Speaker 1: to uh face the New York Giants. Uh in the

459
00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:12,760
Speaker 1: metal lends Giants two and thirteen. They were a loss

460
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Speaker 1: away from locking up the second pick in the draft

461
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Speaker 1: this April. And here we go again, West. I'm gonna

462
00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:24,240
Speaker 1: do another over under over under that the starting quarterbacks

463
00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:27,280
Speaker 1: involved in this game will both be with different teams

464
00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:30,560
Speaker 1: or will be with different teams in two thousand eighteen.

465
00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:36,840
Speaker 1: I'll set it at one push pushka. I think I

466
00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:38,680
Speaker 1: think Eli will be with a different team. But I

467
00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:42,040
Speaker 1: don't see the Redskins letting a franchise quarterback like Kirk

468
00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:44,480
Speaker 1: Cousins out of the building. Out of all the established

469
00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:47,320
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the NFL this year, my opinion on Kirk

470
00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:51,600
Speaker 1: Cousins has changed the most. He has shown unbelievable grit,

471
00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:55,880
Speaker 1: growth and key areas, taking a beating behind a patchwork

472
00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:59,000
Speaker 1: offensive line. Lost his two best running backs lost to

473
00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:02,240
Speaker 1: one thousand yard receivers. Never got anything out of Terrell

474
00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:05,600
Speaker 1: prior his Pro Bowl tight end goes down. He's rich

475
00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:09,879
Speaker 1: played behind twelve offensive lineman and only Brady and Breese

476
00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:12,400
Speaker 1: have more completions of twenty yards. This guy is averaging

477
00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:15,520
Speaker 1: eight adjusted yards per attempt. He's on pace for his

478
00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:19,240
Speaker 1: career best TV the interception ratio. He has carried a

479
00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:22,200
Speaker 1: decimated roster to seven wins. They ought to bring back

480
00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:24,480
Speaker 1: him and Jake Gruden because this team will be a

481
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Speaker 1: contender next year. Are you locking Kirk Cousins up? No,

482
00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:30,159
Speaker 1: I'm just saying this guy. He is one of the

483
00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:32,600
Speaker 1: most understood players in the NFL. He did not come

484
00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:35,600
Speaker 1: up big in the past couple of years. He has.

485
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,360
Speaker 1: He is not some Andy Dalton guy who can't raise

486
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Speaker 1: the level of his teammates. He has raised the level

487
00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:42,320
Speaker 1: of his team. Also, if you're Jay Gruden, or if

488
00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:45,080
Speaker 1: you're the Redskins and you let Jay Gruden out the door,

489
00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:46,960
Speaker 1: on any level, you're not gonna find a better coach

490
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,280
Speaker 1: than him this year. He just don't think So here's

491
00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:52,760
Speaker 1: my only counter. And while I would guess Cousins is back,

492
00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:57,399
Speaker 1: Bruce Allen has done made some crazy moves in the past.

493
00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:01,920
Speaker 1: Who is apparently running the Redskins and the Redskins under

494
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:05,639
Speaker 1: Dan Snyder have made some crazy moves in the past,

495
00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:08,920
Speaker 1: including their coaches, including their quarterbacks. Bruce Allen, if you

496
00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 1: go back to what he did uh in Tampa, I

497
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:15,480
Speaker 1: just don't put anything past them making a crazy, wrong decision.

498
00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:18,359
Speaker 1: That's fair. And if you look at his offseason comments,

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00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:22,000
Speaker 1: that's what I may. He've used Kirk Cousins as this

500
00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:24,680
Speaker 1: year in an option year. He that's his exact quote.

501
00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:26,560
Speaker 1: We have an option year on him. He's counting the

502
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:29,600
Speaker 1: thirty four million as an option. Now you look, if

503
00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:31,960
Speaker 1: you ever let that guy get to free agency, you'll

504
00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:34,600
Speaker 1: see the kind of contract he commands and you'll realize

505
00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:37,760
Speaker 1: the rest of the league and quarterback needy teams. Think

506
00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:40,679
Speaker 1: about the teams that are looking for an answer for years.

507
00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:46,040
Speaker 1: I think Jaguar him million guaranteed paid player in NFL history.

508
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:48,360
Speaker 1: Look what von Miller said about him after last week's game.

509
00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:51,919
Speaker 1: Teams would literally kill to get Kirk Cousins on on

510
00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:54,000
Speaker 1: their team. I mean, I hope they wouldn't literally kill,

511
00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:57,800
Speaker 1: but that's what Miller said. I don't think umlies back personally.

512
00:25:58,119 --> 00:25:59,800
Speaker 1: I think they're going to move him, and I think

513
00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:01,919
Speaker 1: they're gonna take a quarterback at number two and have

514
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,160
Speaker 1: a clean break. Now that could I think it could.

515
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 1: It might be fifty fifty or maybe the other way.

516
00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:08,800
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I just get the feeling they're

517
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:10,920
Speaker 1: gonna cut ties with it. I don't think he's a

518
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,680
Speaker 1: starter going into next season with a new coaching staff.

519
00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:16,000
Speaker 1: When they have the number two pick, they're gonna get

520
00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:18,359
Speaker 1: Josh Rose and they're gonna get one of these guys

521
00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,359
Speaker 1: that you've waited for. The timings perfect for the Giants.

522
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:24,320
Speaker 1: He's not gonna be the only Eli done in New York. Yeah,

523
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:27,960
Speaker 1: Eli Apple. Thing is pretty bad. When when Landon Collins,

524
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Speaker 1: who is a respected young star, goes on ESPN Radio

525
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:36,080
Speaker 1: and calls you a cancer. That is some hardcore stuff

526
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:39,320
Speaker 1: and everything we're hearing that's going down day before Eli

527
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:43,000
Speaker 1: Apple gets suspended for not listening to the coaches and

528
00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 1: not suiting up in the scout And that's before that,

529
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Speaker 1: Like we were just talking about Christian Hackenburg one of

530
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:51,320
Speaker 1: the worst second round picks ever, certainly in recent memory.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Eli Apple was a first round pick of

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Speaker 1: the Giants last year two thousand sixteen, and there's almost

533
00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:59,720
Speaker 1: certain there's a certainty that he won't be back. That

534
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 1: is a monster bad It's a Johnny Manziel level meltdown

535
00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:06,280
Speaker 1: for a player that a year ago had some promise.

536
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:09,520
Speaker 1: It's crazy to think because they really wanted Jack Conklin,

537
00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 1: who got taken. They a team moved up, Tennessee moved

538
00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:13,920
Speaker 1: up to take him at eight, and then they really

539
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:17,000
Speaker 1: wanted Leonard Floyd reportedly didn't get either one of those.

540
00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 1: Reese takes Apple. Now Reese has gone, Apple is probably

541
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:24,679
Speaker 1: gonna be cut, like it was just a disastrous sequence. Yeah,

542
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:26,960
Speaker 1: we never know what to do with these scattering reports

543
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:30,679
Speaker 1: because they're so diverse, and some of them on some prospects.

544
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:34,280
Speaker 1: It can be like agree difference between scouts. But one

545
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:37,840
Speaker 1: scout said this to Bob McGann before the draft. I

546
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:40,119
Speaker 1: worry about him because of the off the field issues.

547
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 1: The kid has no life skills at all, just a baby.

548
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:47,359
Speaker 1: He scares me to death. Well, he'll probably get a

549
00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 1: job somewhere from Giants general manager of the past. Let's

550
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:54,800
Speaker 1: move on and check in with the other two teams

551
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 1: in the NFC East, the Dallas Cowboys in Philadelphia Eagles.

552
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:04,040
Speaker 1: Cowboys season ended in uh flop style last week against

553
00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:08,080
Speaker 1: the Seahawks. They're playing for nothing. The Eagles are thirteen

554
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:12,320
Speaker 1: and two and they are they locked in a number one.

555
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:14,119
Speaker 1: They are I get confused about this. So they are

556
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:18,919
Speaker 1: locked in win or lose some starters? This game is

557
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:21,479
Speaker 1: we can miss this one. There's nothing to take out

558
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:24,679
Speaker 1: of this game, right. They're gonna play Nick Foles I

559
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:28,360
Speaker 1: think throughout the game because he needs the reps. According

560
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:32,920
Speaker 1: to Peterson, what if we want to watch He's been

561
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,440
Speaker 1: non Peterson has been noncommittal this week. I think that's

562
00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:38,360
Speaker 1: a mistake. Also, someone someone did a study of teams

563
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 1: that rest their starters that have a buy and you know,

564
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,160
Speaker 1: it's a small sample size, but the teams that don't

565
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:46,320
Speaker 1: rest their starters are way over five D in the

566
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:48,680
Speaker 1: divisual round, and the teams that do rest their starters

567
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:52,080
Speaker 1: are way under Oh, I don't know. You don't want

568
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 1: two weeks off and the rest of your starters is

569
00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,680
Speaker 1: completely blowing up the habits that you keep as a

570
00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:01,200
Speaker 1: team all season long. Take that Bill Bullion, and one

571
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 1: last note from the Cowboys. Dez Bryant has coming off

572
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:07,760
Speaker 1: a down season. It's his third straight year where he

573
00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:09,959
Speaker 1: has not reached a thousand yards and he's played sixteen

574
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 1: He's gonna play sixteen games. He was asked if he

575
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:14,480
Speaker 1: would take a pay cut. He's a schedule to make

576
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 1: two halve point five million next season. I haven't heard

577
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,200
Speaker 1: no talk about that, but if it comes, I don't know,

578
00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:23,800
Speaker 1: Probably not, Brian said Wednesday. Hell no, man, I believe

579
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 1: in me. I think not if he has a sixteen

580
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 1: and a half million dollar cap hit and they would

581
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:29,800
Speaker 1: save a lot by getting rid of him, I think

582
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:32,320
Speaker 1: most teams would. I think his nightmare game last week

583
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:35,240
Speaker 1: where he's calling for the ball then he fumbles right afterwards,

584
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:38,720
Speaker 1: where he drops in open past like it should do

585
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 1: him in there passing it like Deck Scott looks like

586
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:44,840
Speaker 1: a nut of you replacement. I don't know. You don't

587
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 1: pay sixteen and a half million dollars. You don't give

588
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:49,280
Speaker 1: him that contract to begin with, But you don't pay

589
00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 1: sixty and a half million dollars to okay number two receivers.

590
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 1: I told David EAE our editor, that you know you

591
00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:59,080
Speaker 1: start to form your offseason power rankings of tedious storylines

592
00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:01,440
Speaker 1: that you're gonna have to write seven billion articles about

593
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:04,560
Speaker 1: this Dez Bryant thing is at the top of my

594
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:07,160
Speaker 1: list right. It combines a lot of elements, a lot

595
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 1: of elements combined there. Yes, I think they could change

596
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:14,160
Speaker 1: both coordinators in Dallas. I think the way that Prescott's looked,

597
00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:16,920
Speaker 1: I think Scott Lanahan might be that someone's gonna have

598
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:19,400
Speaker 1: to be the fall guy for how limited and tentative

599
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 1: the passing game. That's been their biggest problem has been

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00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:24,520
Speaker 1: their pass I just had a vision by the way

601
00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:27,200
Speaker 1: that they do cut ties with Dez. That's a financial

602
00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:31,720
Speaker 1: decision primarily combined with the lack of production comparatively, but

603
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:34,560
Speaker 1: in a true Cowboys move, even though they really need

604
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:36,720
Speaker 1: to add more pieces on defense, they take a wide

605
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 1: receiver with like they move up and take a wide

606
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:42,920
Speaker 1: receiver ever six. I see them like signing Terrail prior

607
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 1: moving on the Cleveland Browns. Here we are here, we

608
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 1: are mark the Cleveland Browns our own fifteen. If they

609
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,160
Speaker 1: do not find a way against the Pittsburgh Steelers, they

610
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:57,920
Speaker 1: will become the second Oh and sixteen team in NFL history.

611
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:00,080
Speaker 1: Uh And this is a bad spot because the Steelers

612
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,880
Speaker 1: need the game. They're playing at the same time as

613
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 1: the Patriots, so they're not going to be resting anybody. Uh.

614
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:11,120
Speaker 1: So here we are Browns Steelers. They're going on sixteen.

615
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 1: You've had too many other options to prevent that, and

616
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 1: this coaching staff has shown zero ability or urgency to

617
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:23,440
Speaker 1: correct what's been wrong with this team all season long.

618
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:27,080
Speaker 1: It is an impossible team to watch. And I will

619
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 1: say this one thing from the angle of this fan

620
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:32,840
Speaker 1: base that's been through hell, that when they came back

621
00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:36,960
Speaker 1: outside of one or two seasons, they've been awful for

622
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 1: almost twenty years, and up until a couple of years ago,

623
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 1: packed that stadium full every Sunday. People kept renewing season tickets.

624
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:48,400
Speaker 1: Those people are getting old, their children no longer want

625
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 1: to attach themselves to a generational loser. And you have

626
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:54,680
Speaker 1: you have at this point, I think, gone beyond the

627
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 1: breaking point of asking people in Cleveland to continue to

628
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:01,320
Speaker 1: spend money on this product. This is an predibly important offseason,

629
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 1: but we say that about every Brown's off season. I

630
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 1: think this is the lowest point of hope that you

631
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 1: could every possibly find as a Browns fan, no matter

632
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 1: what the draft picks are, you have to find some

633
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 1: sort of belief. You have college quarterbacks saying I don't

634
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:16,480
Speaker 1: I'm going to not enter the draft or find a

635
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,240
Speaker 1: way to not get picked by this organization. It is

636
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 1: embarrassing and it is the They are the mirror, they

637
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 1: are the counter opposite of the team they are playing

638
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 1: this week and the Steelers. A year ago, Hugh Jackson

639
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:30,640
Speaker 1: said he would jump into Lake Erie if the Browns

640
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 1: went one and fifteen. Again, well they're going in six.

641
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 1: He might have out there, but he did start his

642
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 1: press conference by being proactive about the situation, bringing it

643
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Speaker 1: up himself. Here's what you had to say, really going

644
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:45,600
Speaker 1: to jump in back? Yeah? I got to, uh, well,

645
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 1: how you just jump in when it's going to be

646
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:51,160
Speaker 1: my convenience and hopefully I can get a lot of

647
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:53,479
Speaker 1: people to come out and be something that we can

648
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 1: expect to do it in junie. I don't like it,

649
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 1: don't like to do it for the reason why I'm

650
00:32:57,560 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 1: having to do it, but I have to make doing

651
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 1: my ward, and I just think that's what you do,

652
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:04,840
Speaker 1: you know, And so I do get that I made

653
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 1: a statement I got back it up. So, uh, that's

654
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 1: the type of version I am. So that's what we

655
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,840
Speaker 1: have to do. Counterpoint, don't do it here because it's

656
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:15,160
Speaker 1: not a good look. It's not I get it's fun

657
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:20,320
Speaker 1: and you're a good sport, but you're almost celebrating. Well.

658
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 1: I also think he's not gonna do it. He's gonna

659
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 1: lose because I think he's gonna lose his job when

660
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 1: he loses this game, and then there's no more like

661
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 1: cutesy jumping in lakes, which is too bad for him.

662
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:32,479
Speaker 1: But they are last in the league in points. They

663
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:35,200
Speaker 1: were second to last in points last year. He's an

664
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:38,120
Speaker 1: offensive coach. In his two years, they even thirty at

665
00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:41,640
Speaker 1: their worst in points and points allowed on both sides

666
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Speaker 1: of the ball. It's like, it's unbelievable, how how bad

667
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 1: that they have been. And I don't think there's any

668
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 1: way he's back. Do you want to hear more rumblings

669
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 1: at this point that a change will be made. I

670
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 1: just we've not heard anything. There's synergy here with him

671
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:56,760
Speaker 1: jumping in the lake. Considering you put the Bengals in

672
00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 1: a sack in the river and he could be winding

673
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 1: up back in Cincinnati. He could he could take that sack.

674
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 1: Is there a river connecting them? He can take the

675
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:08,759
Speaker 1: sack down to Cincinnati. This is this is not not

676
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:11,279
Speaker 1: a river per se, so uh save it for the

677
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 1: Body of Water podcast. On the other side, So the

678
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 1: Browns are in a heap of trouble right now. On

679
00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 1: the other side, the Steelers. Yes, a win at least

680
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:21,919
Speaker 1: gives you a shot to still get that one seed

681
00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:24,799
Speaker 1: and potentially play at home if you see the Patriots again.

682
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 1: But there's this drama now around the Steelers. Um a

683
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 1: good week for a distraction because you're playing an on

684
00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 1: and fifteen team, But in general, you don't like to

685
00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 1: have these things. James Harrison, released by the team, goes

686
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:40,720
Speaker 1: and signs of the Patriots and now uh. Steelers players

687
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:46,239
Speaker 1: have really been piling on Harrison. Uh. Marquise Pouncy, for instance,

688
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:49,680
Speaker 1: said that Harrison quote erased his own legacy. Let's hear

689
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:52,319
Speaker 1: more from Marquis. I want to be here to come

690
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:53,759
Speaker 1: out and say I'll make a look like a team

691
00:34:53,880 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 1: like as a team falling the organization. Come on, trush men.

692
00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:02,400
Speaker 1: If I wanted out, I wouldn't let the team take

693
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:03,840
Speaker 1: the playing for I tell you I I don't want to be.

694
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 1: I want to be I want to go somewhere to

695
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:08,480
Speaker 1: play differently, I want to go start somewhere else. That's

696
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:09,880
Speaker 1: me as a man like that. That's what I was

697
00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 1: gonna say. The team playing you, I want to get

698
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:15,839
Speaker 1: cut Like No, that's not what what it was. Let's

699
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:19,920
Speaker 1: also here from Bud Dupree. He's fired up. We really

700
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:22,920
Speaker 1: thought that he would be just a role model to us.

701
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:25,840
Speaker 1: You know, we we we really wanted it to happen.

702
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:27,879
Speaker 1: You know, we like him as a person, but just

703
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:30,759
Speaker 1: as a player, we just feel like he's he's just

704
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:34,040
Speaker 1: all about himself. You know, we we all were just

705
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:36,439
Speaker 1: on the same page. And then just you just heard

706
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:38,080
Speaker 1: us for real. You know, we looked at him as

707
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:41,000
Speaker 1: a real role model, as a real leader. This is

708
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:44,799
Speaker 1: from Jeremy Fowler of ESPN. Players witnessed Harrison sleeping and

709
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 1: a recliner during position meetings and snoring loudly while outside

710
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:52,279
Speaker 1: linebackers coach Joey Porter tried to teach. According to a source,

711
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 1: sometimes Harrison would skip meetings altogether, and when he missed

712
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:59,440
Speaker 1: practices for various injuries, players suspicions would rise. When Harrison

713
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:03,200
Speaker 1: conducted his famous power lifting sessions the same week or

714
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 1: day he left the bill. We at random times would

715
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 1: leave stadiums before or during games on days he was

716
00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:11,080
Speaker 1: inactive until teammates he was trying to get traded, released

717
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:14,879
Speaker 1: or placed on injured reserve. Some bad blood for a guy.

718
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:17,279
Speaker 1: That's the Steelers legend. Not a good way from the way.

719
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:19,760
Speaker 1: Joey Porter, not just his coach, but a former teammate

720
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:22,800
Speaker 1: who he said, he's close enough that he texted Porter

721
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 1: after before the Patriot signing, said Hey, should I do

722
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:31,919
Speaker 1: this or not. Harrison did come out now after the fact,

723
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:33,839
Speaker 1: after these quotes from Pounty and say he did ask

724
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 1: to be released. Uh, multiple times he thought he was

725
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:39,839
Speaker 1: gonna get playing time this year. He felt like he

726
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:42,680
Speaker 1: was signed, you know, sold the bill of goods by

727
00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:44,960
Speaker 1: the Steelers. But he is the exact you know, you

728
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 1: always hear like, what a great guy, this veteran, always

729
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:50,680
Speaker 1: showing like the young guys around like, you know, very selfless.

730
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 1: But Josh McCown James Harrison is basically the opposite that

731
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:57,239
Speaker 1: he wanted to torpedo the younger guys career and had

732
00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:00,120
Speaker 1: no interest in helping them once he wasn't playing, have

733
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 1: no idea what's left in the tank because he's played

734
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 1: about fifty snaps this year. But it's worth noting that

735
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,920
Speaker 1: he was Pro Football Focus his highest graded defensive player

736
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:12,280
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh last season, and he dominated in the playoffs.

737
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 1: Makes you wonder why they weren't getting let him on

738
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:18,080
Speaker 1: the field this year. One last note from Marquise Pouncy Palency.

739
00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 1: They were asked if he became Harrison became a locker

740
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:24,359
Speaker 1: room distraction. Towards the end, his message, I don't care

741
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:29,640
Speaker 1: by have fun and love it. Let's move on the

742
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 1: Panthers at the Atlanta Falcons. Oh yeah, Wes, I know

743
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:37,560
Speaker 1: um that this is a game that has some real

744
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:40,520
Speaker 1: juice on both sides. Your thoughts on let's start with

745
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 1: the Falcons. Your thoughts on the Falcons right now was well,

746
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:46,400
Speaker 1: I listened to your Tuesday show and I I really

747
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:49,840
Speaker 1: saw the Falcons Week sixteen games differently than the entire

748
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:53,720
Speaker 1: podcast studio did. They did show up, they had rhythm,

749
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:55,759
Speaker 1: and then the officiating took them right out of that

750
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:59,799
Speaker 1: rhythm early in the game. And as far as luck

751
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:02,799
Speaker 1: randomness in a football game, this was one of the

752
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:05,719
Speaker 1: most drastic examples you ever see. You had a butt interception,

753
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:10,000
Speaker 1: a butt fumble Vick Beasley, but but pick but pick

754
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:12,480
Speaker 1: butt fumble. Vick Beasley bats a ball straight up into

755
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:15,000
Speaker 1: the air. It could have been easily a touchdown, and

756
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 1: and he didn't even see the ball. There were several

757
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:20,799
Speaker 1: plays like that. Julio Jones got manhandled by Lattimore on

758
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 1: one occasion there was no call on that play. This

759
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:26,040
Speaker 1: game could have easily gone the other way last week.

760
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:29,960
Speaker 1: And now they're playing a Panther's defense allowing twenty five

761
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,279
Speaker 1: points per game and three five yards per game of

762
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:36,719
Speaker 1: their last five um and I think when this game

763
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:38,960
Speaker 1: hits about late third quarter and the Saints have a

764
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 1: big lead on the Bucks, the Panthers are going to

765
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 1: ease off the gas pedal and the Falcons are gonna

766
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 1: sail right past him. Ron Rivera has said, you know,

767
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:49,319
Speaker 1: they're playing all out to win, which makes sense there.

768
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:52,440
Speaker 1: You know, have a chance at a bye still with

769
00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:55,239
Speaker 1: if a lot happened, and they don't need much to

770
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 1: happen to win the division. You win this game and

771
00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:00,360
Speaker 1: the Saints lose, and suddenly the Panthers are playing a

772
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:02,759
Speaker 1: home game, so they have a lot to play for it.

773
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:05,440
Speaker 1: It it'd be hard for me to imagine them taking

774
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:07,440
Speaker 1: the foot off the gas. And I don't think Rivera

775
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:10,120
Speaker 1: thinks they're good enough to do that. I mean, they

776
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:12,880
Speaker 1: don't have any receivers. They lose the mere Bird for

777
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 1: the season now, So why not save them If it's

778
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:17,239
Speaker 1: clear the Saints are gonna win that game, bunches, if

779
00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:20,280
Speaker 1: you're entering the fourth quarter, why not save your good players?

780
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 1: I just I guess, like, what if the Saints are

781
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:24,880
Speaker 1: up by twenty, Like, what's the cut off? If the

782
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:27,399
Speaker 1: Saints are up by ten, that to me, that's not enough.

783
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:29,680
Speaker 1: We see this every year when when teams watch what

784
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 1: other teams are doing, it's it's a little different I

785
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:34,440
Speaker 1: think with the with this situation, I think the Panthers

786
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:36,160
Speaker 1: also just want to play well. I mean I think

787
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 1: I think Rivera's kind of of the Belichick mind of like,

788
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 1: we're not good enough, we need to play well, we

789
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:43,440
Speaker 1: need to do our best to win this game, And

790
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:46,279
Speaker 1: if they're down by thirteen points going into the fourth, like,

791
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 1: that's an opportunity to make a comeback and put that

792
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 1: in the bank that you could have going into the playoffs.

793
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 1: Julio Jones looked good less on these two teams. Played

794
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:57,080
Speaker 1: and this he's good. That's not the problem with them though.

795
00:39:57,080 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 1: They just Goulio Jones can't find the end zone this year.

796
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 1: They don't. They they're not. Is a great matchup and

797
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:07,040
Speaker 1: last last time, you know, there was extracurricular stuff that

798
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:10,080
Speaker 1: that went along, But that way, I'm I'm mixing it up.

799
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:12,239
Speaker 1: You're thinking of Mike Evans. I'm thinking of Mike Evans.

800
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:15,080
Speaker 1: I think the Falcons they can lose, right Greg and

801
00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:17,120
Speaker 1: still make the playoffs. They can lose, and they'd make

802
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:19,160
Speaker 1: it in if the Seahawks also. But the path to

803
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:22,120
Speaker 1: the Falcons missing the playoffs is a loss, and I

804
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:24,200
Speaker 1: want to get it started. I'm done with the Falcons

805
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:28,120
Speaker 1: this year. I'm locking up the Panthers. Take it home, Carolina.

806
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:33,040
Speaker 1: We gotta lock off off. I'm going with the Falcons. Yeah,

807
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:36,400
Speaker 1: they have been the unluckiest team in the league lately,

808
00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 1: and I think that lucky evens out here. Here's where

809
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:42,839
Speaker 1: I think their luck starts, though, is I'm not sure

810
00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 1: this is a good coaching staff like they have Falcons.

811
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:49,440
Speaker 1: They have blown so many situational games, including that Carolina

812
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 1: game where they're up ten points, and there's so many

813
00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:55,319
Speaker 1: like small things that happened within a game, and it

814
00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:57,919
Speaker 1: keeps happening over and over, and maybe they're just snake bit,

815
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:00,399
Speaker 1: but at some point I think it comes back to coach. Yeah,

816
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:01,960
Speaker 1: I think they have a good head coach. I think

817
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:04,320
Speaker 1: their offensive coordinator is a problem. Their head coach is

818
00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:08,200
Speaker 1: not done well with. I think a young, talented defensive roster.

819
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:11,560
Speaker 1: It is not a good deal. Defense was pushed around

820
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:13,839
Speaker 1: by Carolina last time in a game that they their

821
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:17,160
Speaker 1: defense is playing better than Carolina's defense. They are playing faster,

822
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 1: they're flying to the ball in Carolina. We give Steve

823
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:22,240
Speaker 1: Wilkes all this credit for his blitzing, and it's leaving

824
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 1: their secondary exposed. They got burned by big plays all

825
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:28,360
Speaker 1: throughout last week's game. And like I said, averaging twenty

826
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:31,680
Speaker 1: five points per game allowed over the last five weeks. Saucy.

827
00:41:31,719 --> 00:41:33,480
Speaker 1: All right, So we got a lock off. Moving on

828
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 1: Cincinnati bagal six and nine. UM surprisingly beat the Lions

829
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:43,400
Speaker 1: last weekending Detroit season. But now they travel to Baltimore

830
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:46,600
Speaker 1: to face arrival in the Ravens that have a path

831
00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:49,719
Speaker 1: to the playoffs. Gotta win a game here, and uh,

832
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:53,239
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna happen right right, Greg at least

833
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:55,360
Speaker 1: win this game. I expect it to happen. If you

834
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:59,000
Speaker 1: win this game, you're the five seed. Do you also,

835
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:01,680
Speaker 1: I think probably get into the playoffs even if you

836
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:03,920
Speaker 1: lose the game, because all you need is a Bill's

837
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:07,759
Speaker 1: loss or a Titans loss. So the Ravens are very

838
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:11,560
Speaker 1: likely in the playoffs. But I would be extremely disappointed

839
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 1: if they didn't win this game. There's no reason that

840
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:17,959
Speaker 1: their defense and their special teams and Joe Flacco playing

841
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:20,240
Speaker 1: better shouldn't be enough to take care of the Bengals.

842
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:24,799
Speaker 1: Eric Weddow has a million dollars riding on this game,

843
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:29,640
Speaker 1: a million. If he gets voted into the Pro Bowl

844
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 1: and the Ravens make the playoffs, he has a one

845
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:35,160
Speaker 1: million dollar incentive. He's already been voted into the Pro Bowl. Wow,

846
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:39,480
Speaker 1: he's about he's about to get it. Yeah, he's deserved

847
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:41,480
Speaker 1: to too. What a great season? He said. Did you

848
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:44,160
Speaker 1: know that if Mark appears on each of the Super

849
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:46,520
Speaker 1: Bowl week shows, it's it triggers a one million dollar

850
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:51,000
Speaker 1: escalator at his contract. That wasn't actually was trying to

851
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:53,839
Speaker 1: do what we couldn't have done. Left West missed out

852
00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:55,520
Speaker 1: on the million. Now it's your term market and we

853
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:57,360
Speaker 1: all get a chance once once a year one of

854
00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:59,839
Speaker 1: us gets that escalator. Are you gonna try to pull

855
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:02,400
Speaker 1: Tanya Harding on me and get me? It's kind of

856
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 1: like a skins thing actually in golf, where it actually doubles.

857
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:07,600
Speaker 1: So since Westminster at last year, it's now two million,

858
00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:09,440
Speaker 1: you're gonna try to get me into some sort of

859
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:11,719
Speaker 1: position where I don't make a show so that it

860
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:13,560
Speaker 1: goes to you gonna throw you in one of those lakes.

861
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:17,080
Speaker 1: I don't like that at all. Minnesota, that could be.

862
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:19,399
Speaker 1: I'm a little concerned. I'm watching the weather reports out

863
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:21,960
Speaker 1: of Minnesota. This is like a record breaking low of

864
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:24,040
Speaker 1: minus thirty seven right now. This is where they're sending

865
00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:26,160
Speaker 1: us for a week to trounce around and write stories.

866
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:30,759
Speaker 1: Shout out to listeners in Minnesota. Good people, great Nace

867
00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:33,880
Speaker 1: football team, you got there. But pretty wild that they

868
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:37,960
Speaker 1: send us in February. In January, so they lived there

869
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:40,279
Speaker 1: if people live there all year round. Shouts to Minneapolis.

870
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:42,800
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, you like the people, we like the team.

871
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:45,880
Speaker 1: What's wrong with uh? I don't know, Miami. This doesn't

872
00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:48,719
Speaker 1: sound healthy to me. Wow? What for you? I mean?

873
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:50,680
Speaker 1: I gotta or any Heney I gotta run around in

874
00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:54,239
Speaker 1: the shower just to get wet these days, I think

875
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:56,640
Speaker 1: this is an important game for the raven to get

876
00:43:56,680 --> 00:43:59,440
Speaker 1: Alex Collins going thirty carries for seventy yards over the

877
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:01,680
Speaker 1: last two weeks, and they're not nearly as dangerous if

878
00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:04,160
Speaker 1: if he's not playing well, and if they do win

879
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:07,160
Speaker 1: this game, it's gonna be Ravens at Chiefs, which probably

880
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 1: doesn't get people too excited. But I think those teams

881
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:13,400
Speaker 1: are the two teams I like that matchup, and I

882
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:15,600
Speaker 1: think those are the two teams that have the best

883
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 1: chance in the a f C of making the Super Bowl,

884
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:20,000
Speaker 1: other than the top two. Speaking of flights, we're flying

885
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:23,600
Speaker 1: to Minneapolis, UH in about a month. Greg, your wife

886
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:27,480
Speaker 1: and your two children were involved, and and this is

887
00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:29,200
Speaker 1: actually I was actually thinking about this because it was

888
00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:32,400
Speaker 1: pretty surreal. Greg. The one thing you never want to

889
00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:34,760
Speaker 1: have happen is your loved ones go on a flight

890
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:37,200
Speaker 1: and then you hear about that flight on the news,

891
00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 1: not at all, Son Away, You're fortunate because the flight

892
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 1: from l A X to Japan was a major news story,

893
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:45,000
Speaker 1: at least in l A. I don't know if it

894
00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:47,719
Speaker 1: was national. It was national, I wouldn't check CNN dot

895
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:50,120
Speaker 1: com the next morning. You want to explain to listeners

896
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:51,840
Speaker 1: who are not aware of what happened on the flight

897
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:55,719
Speaker 1: that Emmica and your two children were on. Well, they

898
00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:58,920
Speaker 1: got on a flight to Los Angeles. About four hours

899
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:02,840
Speaker 1: into the flight, I mean to Tokyo rather from Los Angeles.

900
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:05,839
Speaker 1: I dropped them off at nine in the morning, then

901
00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 1: came here to to tape our Tuesday podcast, and about

902
00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:12,120
Speaker 1: four hours into the flight, they made an announcement that

903
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 1: they were turning around, that they were flying back to

904
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:20,360
Speaker 1: Los Angeles because, in their words, someone that was not

905
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:22,920
Speaker 1: supposed to be on the plane was on the plane,

906
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:29,120
Speaker 1: and that was all the information that they got. Basically, thankfully,

907
00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 1: I didn't know about any of this until they landed

908
00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:34,920
Speaker 1: and Emma and my wife Emca texted me, Meanwhile, Chrissy

909
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:37,840
Speaker 1: Teagan and her husband John Legend are on the flight,

910
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:41,080
Speaker 1: live tweeting this to your wife. No, they they're in

911
00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:44,439
Speaker 1: first class. Unfortunately the Rosenthals are are in the back.

912
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:50,600
Speaker 1: Uh but they you know, she live tweeted the whole thing.

913
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:54,440
Speaker 1: Kind of turned it into an international incident, I would say,

914
00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:59,000
Speaker 1: and credit to Amica, who is maybe the biggest badass

915
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:01,960
Speaker 1: I've ever met. It really took it all very much

916
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:04,560
Speaker 1: in stride. Like she says she can't feel her arms

917
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 1: today because she had to carry my son Walker all

918
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:11,239
Speaker 1: the way from the gate to a bus which took

919
00:46:11,239 --> 00:46:13,799
Speaker 1: them to a hotel. And Walker is seventeen. So that's

920
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:16,920
Speaker 1: that's for a couple hours. You know, that took it

921
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 1: for a couple of hours. They didn't land in Tokyo

922
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:24,080
Speaker 1: until thirty hours after the initial flight left. Oh my god,

923
00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:28,840
Speaker 1: that is v I think that's a definitive air horror story.

924
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:31,239
Speaker 1: That doesn't involved well for all these sports reporters that

925
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:33,319
Speaker 1: like to make a cottage industry out of you know,

926
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:38,000
Speaker 1: complaining about that, but it's like plights an hour late.

927
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:41,879
Speaker 1: Your wife sent out an Instagram post at like one

928
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:43,799
Speaker 1: am saying that you had a two m flight. I

929
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:45,520
Speaker 1: was up and I saw this thing. I thought this

930
00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:48,040
Speaker 1: is a nightmare. Then the next flight that they took

931
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:50,600
Speaker 1: ended up being delayed an extra hour and left at

932
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:55,160
Speaker 1: three three am. It was, and she barely complained about

933
00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:56,879
Speaker 1: it all there. It did have a happy ending though,

934
00:46:56,960 --> 00:47:01,160
Speaker 1: and in the most Japanese way possible when they got off. No,

935
00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:04,320
Speaker 1: this is straight from straight from my wife's words. Is

936
00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:07,600
Speaker 1: very Japanese of the company A and A, which I've

937
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:09,880
Speaker 1: always had a great time on. When they left it,

938
00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:13,200
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, but they got off the plane, they

939
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:16,840
Speaker 1: were each handed an envelope with three the equivalent of

940
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:19,800
Speaker 1: three hundred dollars each. Both of your children too, the

941
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:23,280
Speaker 1: children as well. So that's that's for the family. That's amazing.

942
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:26,319
Speaker 1: Ending do we ever figure out what was going on

943
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 1: with the impostor the l A. There was a report

944
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:31,640
Speaker 1: in the Los Angeles Times that there were two people

945
00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:33,480
Speaker 1: on the flight that were not supposed to be there.

946
00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:36,200
Speaker 1: They say it was a sort of accident, but their

947
00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:39,880
Speaker 1: conspiracy theories both faced. Well one side question. You're you

948
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:43,400
Speaker 1: have a full month off at your house with no family.

949
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:47,000
Speaker 1: What happens at the Rosenthall household when Gregg has thirty

950
00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:51,360
Speaker 1: days alone to operate freely? It was not thirty, it's twelve.

951
00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:55,919
Speaker 1: But okay, Um, well, I I must say I don't

952
00:47:55,920 --> 00:48:00,359
Speaker 1: think I spoke to anyone out loud yesterday. In less

953
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:05,680
Speaker 1: they were giving me food. Uh and it was glorious. Again,

954
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:11,359
Speaker 1: that sounds so great, that sounds amazing. Um, yeah, I went,

955
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:14,480
Speaker 1: I ran some errands. Yes, my kids are both home.

956
00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:17,680
Speaker 1: My wife is on vacation home. I ran some errands

957
00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:20,839
Speaker 1: and came back in like half an hour, and then

958
00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:23,279
Speaker 1: I just sat in my car. I need a little

959
00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:25,800
Speaker 1: more time, needed a little more. I have the same situation.

960
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:29,839
Speaker 1: Throw five cats into that equation in your house when

961
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:32,320
Speaker 1: you're allergic to them. Alright, moving on the kids, Daddy

962
00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:36,280
Speaker 1: ever coming back, not anytime soon. The Kansas City Chiefs

963
00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:40,840
Speaker 1: nine and six um already. UM have locked up the

964
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:44,160
Speaker 1: a f C West, playing locked into their four seed

965
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:47,359
Speaker 1: in the a f C UM playoff picture, so they

966
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:50,560
Speaker 1: are playing for exactly nothing. Traveling to Denver the face

967
00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:54,640
Speaker 1: the Broncos. Um. Do we have any updates on is

968
00:48:54,719 --> 00:48:57,239
Speaker 1: everyone getting rested? In casey I suspect there's a chance

969
00:48:57,280 --> 00:48:59,680
Speaker 1: it all happens. Well, I mean to start with Patrick

970
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:02,720
Speaker 1: Maho Holmes is going to start. Sounds like Kareem Hunt,

971
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:06,160
Speaker 1: who's had one of the busiest three game stretches of

972
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:09,520
Speaker 1: any back in the league, will rest. Maybe Tyreek Hill.

973
00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:11,320
Speaker 1: I mean, I think if you look at the Mahomes,

974
00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:13,640
Speaker 1: and I know I was someone that thought, oh, you know,

975
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:15,759
Speaker 1: with the way that the Chiefs operate, that maybe we'd

976
00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 1: get a chance to seem at some point you could

977
00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:20,880
Speaker 1: not have dreamt up a better scenario for when you

978
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:23,239
Speaker 1: actually did see him, then it's they've locked up a

979
00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:26,239
Speaker 1: playoff Berth Alex Smith has had a Pro Bowl, if

980
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:28,640
Speaker 1: not an m v P type season, according to Son,

981
00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:32,360
Speaker 1: and he's coming in simply in a game against a lost,

982
00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:35,520
Speaker 1: rudderless Broncos team where if anything, he gets a little

983
00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:37,319
Speaker 1: bit of experience that they ever needed him in a

984
00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:39,760
Speaker 1: in a pinch in the playoffs. And it's a perfect

985
00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:42,359
Speaker 1: situation for the Chiefs. Get some some reps. That's that's

986
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:46,080
Speaker 1: It's a terrible situation for Vance Joseph because I think

987
00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:49,399
Speaker 1: the chances that he loses to the Chiefs backups are

988
00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:53,520
Speaker 1: fairly high, and there could not be a more embarrassing

989
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:56,800
Speaker 1: way to end your season and perhaps encourage a coaching

990
00:49:56,880 --> 00:50:00,399
Speaker 1: change than to lose to your big rivals backup order back,

991
00:50:00,480 --> 00:50:05,080
Speaker 1: especially with Paxson Lynch in the mix. Bad news. Let's

992
00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:08,160
Speaker 1: move on to San Francisco. Forty Niners have won four

993
00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:11,839
Speaker 1: straight since Jimmy g uh took over, and now they

994
00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:15,160
Speaker 1: can close out the season with a five game winning stree.

995
00:50:15,320 --> 00:50:17,520
Speaker 1: They could beat the Rams, and good news the Rams,

996
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:23,840
Speaker 1: they are eleven and four. They are locked in to

997
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:27,799
Speaker 1: the two seed. Correct, No, they're not locked in? Are

998
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:32,560
Speaker 1: they the three or four seeds? So this is why

999
00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:34,919
Speaker 1: I have Greg here and need Greg's guide us. They're

1000
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:37,040
Speaker 1: locked into a home playoff. They're locked into a home

1001
00:50:37,040 --> 00:50:40,239
Speaker 1: playoff game. They could be three or four, but they've

1002
00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:43,160
Speaker 1: made that decision internally that being three or four isn't

1003
00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:46,640
Speaker 1: worth playing some of your top players and maybe getting

1004
00:50:46,640 --> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 1: somebody hurt with playoff football right around the corner. So

1005
00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 1: no Jared Goff, No Todd Gurley, no Aaron Donald, uh

1006
00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:56,880
Speaker 1: no Andrew Whitworth. I think I might be missing one

1007
00:50:56,920 --> 00:51:01,279
Speaker 1: other stud but you get the picture. US are set

1008
00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:04,160
Speaker 1: up well potentially to end the season with that winning streak.

1009
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:06,680
Speaker 1: I think Sean mcvain Wade Phillips did a little nick

1010
00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:08,880
Speaker 1: fools watching, and they're not afraid of the Eagles, and

1011
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:11,360
Speaker 1: that's one of the reasons why they're arresting their players.

1012
00:51:11,880 --> 00:51:14,880
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I do I really think that

1013
00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:17,600
Speaker 1: that that chance to go into Philadelphy again nick fools fact,

1014
00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:21,760
Speaker 1: but not playing your starters barely increases that your chances.

1015
00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:24,799
Speaker 1: There's so many things out of your control. A the

1016
00:51:24,880 --> 00:51:28,040
Speaker 1: six seed can win the first game and they go

1017
00:51:28,120 --> 00:51:30,560
Speaker 1: to Philly. So it's not like you're just set up

1018
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:32,440
Speaker 1: and you're going to Philly. There's a good chance the

1019
00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:37,920
Speaker 1: Ramps keep their three seed anyways, whether they win or lose,

1020
00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:41,600
Speaker 1: because the Saints could lose this game. Uh you know,

1021
00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:44,120
Speaker 1: I was I was speaking more of their not afraid

1022
00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:47,120
Speaker 1: of the Eagles, right I I agree. I I'm saying

1023
00:51:47,400 --> 00:51:49,920
Speaker 1: I think they're thinking about what can win us a

1024
00:51:49,960 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 1: super Bowl, and they're not thinking about the Eagles. They're thinking,

1025
00:51:53,080 --> 00:51:54,719
Speaker 1: let's get to take a week off with all our

1026
00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:57,600
Speaker 1: important players. The three or four doesn't really matter. I

1027
00:51:57,640 --> 00:51:59,640
Speaker 1: don't think they can think about Philadelphia because there's so

1028
00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:02,640
Speaker 1: many factors to that, and you have no control that

1029
00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:06,200
Speaker 1: you know that you might have a tougher matchup falling

1030
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:09,000
Speaker 1: to the four let's say Carolina or New Orleans coming

1031
00:52:09,040 --> 00:52:11,160
Speaker 1: into l A than if you have the three seed.

1032
00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:14,040
Speaker 1: So like there's there's just like a million different factors.

1033
00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:16,480
Speaker 1: I don't think that would be um bummed that they aren't,

1034
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:18,520
Speaker 1: And so is Kyle Shanahan, who said that he he

1035
00:52:18,640 --> 00:52:21,359
Speaker 1: really wished that the Rams would have put their full

1036
00:52:21,360 --> 00:52:25,319
Speaker 1: team out there to challenge this forty Niners team. They

1037
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:29,319
Speaker 1: absolutely scattered the Jaguars It's amazing what they what the

1038
00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:33,120
Speaker 1: forty Niners and Jimmy g did to the Jaguars psychologically

1039
00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:36,120
Speaker 1: last week. That team was battling themselves on the sideline,

1040
00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:40,040
Speaker 1: Jaguars defensive players fighting with each other, Keena mccardinal getting

1041
00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:42,120
Speaker 1: into it with this wide receiver, and they were getting

1042
00:52:42,160 --> 00:52:43,799
Speaker 1: killed on the field. I would love to see this

1043
00:52:43,840 --> 00:52:46,040
Speaker 1: forty Niners team, I think is an plug and play

1044
00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:49,120
Speaker 1: playoff team next year, to go up against Sean mcveigh's

1045
00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:51,600
Speaker 1: Rams and do something in Week seventeen. Other than all

1046
00:52:51,600 --> 00:52:54,200
Speaker 1: these teams sitting there starters. They're starting to look the

1047
00:52:54,239 --> 00:52:56,720
Speaker 1: forty Niners offenses starting to look like the two thousand

1048
00:52:56,680 --> 00:53:00,080
Speaker 1: and sixteen Falcons, where you've got open receivers wide and

1049
00:53:00,520 --> 00:53:03,799
Speaker 1: with defined decisive throw. That was a coaching game last week.

1050
00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:07,239
Speaker 1: It was coach crushing. I'd love to be a fly

1051
00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:10,320
Speaker 1: on the wall for that. Uh. John Lynch Bill Belichick

1052
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:12,840
Speaker 1: trade discussion A little bit more came out and Albert

1053
00:53:12,840 --> 00:53:15,759
Speaker 1: Brier's call him this week. Belichick, you know we've heard

1054
00:53:15,760 --> 00:53:18,719
Speaker 1: the story that Lynch asked for Brady and Belichick was like,

1055
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:20,640
Speaker 1: are you really asking me if you can trade for

1056
00:53:20,719 --> 00:53:24,880
Speaker 1: Tom Brady? Well, Belichick told Lynch, you're gonna love Garoppolo,

1057
00:53:25,120 --> 00:53:28,759
Speaker 1: not just a special player, special person, and you're gonna

1058
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:31,359
Speaker 1: love how the team reacts to him. And we've seen

1059
00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:33,799
Speaker 1: that in San Francisco. The team really has reacted well

1060
00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:37,280
Speaker 1: to him. Let's move on and check out the Oakland Raiders.

1061
00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:41,040
Speaker 1: Six and nine, terrible season for the Raiders. Travel to

1062
00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:47,160
Speaker 1: the stub Hub Center, the Stub the stub Toe, sorry

1063
00:53:47,680 --> 00:53:51,080
Speaker 1: to face the Chargers, who um got back on track

1064
00:53:51,120 --> 00:53:53,760
Speaker 1: against the Jets last week and now have a chance

1065
00:53:53,760 --> 00:53:55,479
Speaker 1: to make the playoffs. So the win and a little

1066
00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:58,600
Speaker 1: bit of help. Greg Rosenthal and I know you're pumped

1067
00:53:58,600 --> 00:54:01,520
Speaker 1: about it. You want those bolts in the postseason. It's

1068
00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:04,120
Speaker 1: been a long build up to this moment. I mean,

1069
00:54:04,160 --> 00:54:06,719
Speaker 1: we have been hyping up this Charger Steamer I have

1070
00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:09,560
Speaker 1: and you certainly have to mark since the middle of

1071
00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:12,080
Speaker 1: the summer. They were kind of like the team they

1072
00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:16,640
Speaker 1: start owing four and they blow that game in Kansas City.

1073
00:54:16,680 --> 00:54:19,080
Speaker 1: But it all kind of leads to this moment where

1074
00:54:19,080 --> 00:54:22,440
Speaker 1: they still have a very good chance I think of

1075
00:54:22,560 --> 00:54:25,279
Speaker 1: cashing in. And I know they haven't looked great the

1076
00:54:25,360 --> 00:54:29,440
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks on offense, but their defense is

1077
00:54:29,520 --> 00:54:33,160
Speaker 1: third in the league in points allowed. If their defense

1078
00:54:33,440 --> 00:54:36,680
Speaker 1: can do anything, it can certainly control Derek Carr. I

1079
00:54:36,680 --> 00:54:39,640
Speaker 1: think you can get a get healthy game forget about

1080
00:54:39,680 --> 00:54:42,719
Speaker 1: those last two weeks. Play well offensively this week, and

1081
00:54:42,760 --> 00:54:44,520
Speaker 1: I think this is it would make such a great

1082
00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:48,399
Speaker 1: statement karma wise, if the Chargers get a little bit

1083
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:52,040
Speaker 1: of luck on Sunday with the Titans losing, and you

1084
00:54:52,120 --> 00:54:54,440
Speaker 1: get into the playoffs and and it's like, these are

1085
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:56,799
Speaker 1: the new Chargers. The San Diego Chargers were the ones

1086
00:54:56,840 --> 00:54:58,919
Speaker 1: that were all Charger and we're getting some good luck

1087
00:54:58,960 --> 00:55:02,040
Speaker 1: this time. I you know, listen, I gotta do it too.

1088
00:55:02,080 --> 00:55:03,840
Speaker 1: Of course they are going to do it. I picked

1089
00:55:03,880 --> 00:55:06,880
Speaker 1: one Super Bowl team, the Giants, who are a flaming

1090
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:09,799
Speaker 1: trash bag and one of the worst teams to buy adulthood.

1091
00:55:10,280 --> 00:55:13,880
Speaker 1: But I also picked the Chargers, and I believe so

1092
00:55:13,960 --> 00:55:17,560
Speaker 1: much that they're gonna do it. Now. I'm gonna lock

1093
00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:21,120
Speaker 1: it up, all right, and you're on a roll. So

1094
00:55:21,160 --> 00:55:23,959
Speaker 1: that's good news for the Chargers. It is good news

1095
00:55:23,960 --> 00:55:26,080
Speaker 1: for them. I don't think they'll even find out about it,

1096
00:55:26,120 --> 00:55:28,560
Speaker 1: but if they were. Gordon's ankle is something to keep

1097
00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:31,200
Speaker 1: an eye on Andy as he's gonna play, But is

1098
00:55:31,239 --> 00:55:34,440
Speaker 1: he gonna play effectively? We'll see. It's a good question,

1099
00:55:34,800 --> 00:55:38,640
Speaker 1: and run defense and rushing offense are not nearly as

1100
00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:41,280
Speaker 1: important to winning football games now as they were fifteen

1101
00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:44,400
Speaker 1: years ago. But I would like to see the Chargers

1102
00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:47,120
Speaker 1: play better against the run. Blapau have way too many

1103
00:55:47,120 --> 00:55:49,960
Speaker 1: big plays against them last week, and for them to

1104
00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:53,000
Speaker 1: run the ball to keep defenses honest. Because the Jets

1105
00:55:53,480 --> 00:55:55,600
Speaker 1: defensive line controlled the line of scrimmage and put a

1106
00:55:55,600 --> 00:55:57,960
Speaker 1: lot of heat on Philip Rivers last year. The Chargers

1107
00:55:58,040 --> 00:56:00,479
Speaker 1: running game is being inconsistent all years, and both most

1108
00:56:00,520 --> 00:56:02,720
Speaker 1: in Ingram have been very quiet the last two weeks,

1109
00:56:02,719 --> 00:56:06,120
Speaker 1: and this team just is not the same unless those

1110
00:56:06,160 --> 00:56:08,520
Speaker 1: two guys are special. I don't know if it's just

1111
00:56:08,600 --> 00:56:11,560
Speaker 1: been the matchups or it's the end of a long season,

1112
00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:14,160
Speaker 1: but they need to be excellent. You know. The great

1113
00:56:14,200 --> 00:56:16,279
Speaker 1: thing here is though they get Corey Legit back, it

1114
00:56:16,320 --> 00:56:19,799
Speaker 1: looks like they're getting Denzel Paraman back this week, and

1115
00:56:19,840 --> 00:56:24,279
Speaker 1: they're playing one of the most conservative, poorly coached, dead

1116
00:56:24,280 --> 00:56:26,759
Speaker 1: in the water offenses I've ever seen. I mean, they

1117
00:56:26,760 --> 00:56:30,680
Speaker 1: are They are huge favorites in this game, which they're

1118
00:56:30,719 --> 00:56:33,200
Speaker 1: double digit favorites, which makes me a little worried when

1119
00:56:33,239 --> 00:56:35,239
Speaker 1: you're the Chargers, But I really do think that they're

1120
00:56:35,239 --> 00:56:37,960
Speaker 1: gonna roll. I want to see at that stadium because

1121
00:56:38,040 --> 00:56:40,560
Speaker 1: this is the game you're worried about. From a stub

1122
00:56:40,680 --> 00:56:43,800
Speaker 1: Hub Center angle that l A. Whenever you go to

1123
00:56:43,840 --> 00:56:46,160
Speaker 1: a sports bar in l A still it is flocked

1124
00:56:46,200 --> 00:56:48,720
Speaker 1: filled with Raiders fans. They are all over this city

1125
00:56:48,719 --> 00:56:51,000
Speaker 1: and they're gonna be That's gonna be a home game

1126
00:56:51,320 --> 00:56:56,759
Speaker 1: for the Races. For the Raiders, it would have been potentially, well,

1127
00:56:56,800 --> 00:56:59,120
Speaker 1: we'll see, come on, charges that matter, get out, get

1128
00:56:59,120 --> 00:57:01,480
Speaker 1: a ticket. Matters for Jack del Rio, I feel like,

1129
00:57:01,600 --> 00:57:03,480
Speaker 1: and it could matter for Jack del Rio, and it

1130
00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:08,120
Speaker 1: certainly matters for their offensive coordinator Al Downing, who essentially

1131
00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:11,800
Speaker 1: got damn Todd Downing rat and the picture for the

1132
00:57:11,920 --> 00:57:14,279
Speaker 1: Dodgers who gave up a very big home run. It

1133
00:57:14,360 --> 00:57:19,200
Speaker 1: really felt like Downing got that job because he's there.

1134
00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:23,760
Speaker 1: You go change crag, blew you up there. Al Downing,

1135
00:57:24,920 --> 00:57:28,520
Speaker 1: I don't know where moved one to the hammer A c. Cowling. No,

1136
00:57:28,760 --> 00:57:33,600
Speaker 1: that's that's someone. That's someone else. I think Derek carr

1137
00:57:34,040 --> 00:57:37,360
Speaker 1: And and Downing are very close. And that was one

1138
00:57:37,360 --> 00:57:39,640
Speaker 1: of the reasons Downing reportedly got the job, and they

1139
00:57:39,680 --> 00:57:42,640
Speaker 1: decided to make the change of getting rid of Bill

1140
00:57:42,720 --> 00:57:45,960
Speaker 1: Musgrave and upgrade in and you know, getting down in

1141
00:57:46,080 --> 00:57:49,280
Speaker 1: this job, and it is backfired horribly. All right, let's

1142
00:57:49,280 --> 00:57:51,960
Speaker 1: move on the a f C East. We're back in

1143
00:57:52,120 --> 00:57:55,280
Speaker 1: and it is the Bills at eight and seven with

1144
00:57:55,400 --> 00:57:59,160
Speaker 1: a chance to get into the playoffs against the Miami

1145
00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:02,720
Speaker 1: Dolphins six and nine, not playing for anything. The Dolphins

1146
00:58:02,800 --> 00:58:05,640
Speaker 1: news of note is that Jay Cutler has let it

1147
00:58:05,680 --> 00:58:08,800
Speaker 1: be known that uh, he is not looking to stay

1148
00:58:08,840 --> 00:58:12,080
Speaker 1: in the league as a backup, which means it's a

1149
00:58:12,200 --> 00:58:15,400
Speaker 1: very good chance that Jay Cutler has played his final

1150
00:58:15,480 --> 00:58:20,160
Speaker 1: game uh in the NFL. Come Sunday night out immediately.

1151
00:58:21,880 --> 00:58:24,800
Speaker 1: This has been the most unwatchable team in the league

1152
00:58:24,880 --> 00:58:26,640
Speaker 1: in a season which the Browns are about to go

1153
00:58:26,680 --> 00:58:29,960
Speaker 1: oh and sixteen, and Jay Cutler is a big reason,

1154
00:58:30,040 --> 00:58:33,280
Speaker 1: living in his hotel room like Howard Hughes, coming out

1155
00:58:33,320 --> 00:58:35,920
Speaker 1: on Sundays just to throw short of the sticks for

1156
00:58:36,040 --> 00:58:39,440
Speaker 1: sixty minutes. I can't take Jake Cutler throwing short of

1157
00:58:39,480 --> 00:58:42,920
Speaker 1: the sticks with sloppy footwork anymore. Get him out of

1158
00:58:42,920 --> 00:58:46,080
Speaker 1: the league, well, I asked on NFL Network A couple

1159
00:58:46,080 --> 00:58:47,920
Speaker 1: of weeks ago. It was a I think it was

1160
00:58:47,960 --> 00:58:52,560
Speaker 1: we were handing out Christmas gifts and Cutler my gift

1161
00:58:52,560 --> 00:58:55,800
Speaker 1: for Colors that he'd be kidnapped and been taken back

1162
00:58:55,840 --> 00:58:58,600
Speaker 1: to southern California and it did not happen. But West,

1163
00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:00,120
Speaker 1: I think he would have agreed with that gift. I've

1164
00:59:00,120 --> 00:59:02,920
Speaker 1: always wanted to live in a hotel for a little while.

1165
00:59:04,160 --> 00:59:07,840
Speaker 1: That got a little Royal Tenenbombs Colerics quote was hilarious

1166
00:59:08,080 --> 00:59:10,920
Speaker 1: that that, like it's been okay that they don't change

1167
00:59:10,960 --> 00:59:13,400
Speaker 1: the pay per view movies. They don't rotate them enough

1168
00:59:13,680 --> 00:59:16,880
Speaker 1: in the hotel like hes guy's plugged and burns through

1169
00:59:16,960 --> 00:59:19,400
Speaker 1: him too quickly. That was, what are you doing watching

1170
00:59:19,440 --> 00:59:22,080
Speaker 1: those films? How about my in film play? I think though,

1171
00:59:22,320 --> 00:59:25,120
Speaker 1: I have a feeling that the Dolphins win this game though,

1172
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:29,480
Speaker 1: because winning in week seventeen to go seven and nine

1173
00:59:30,080 --> 00:59:32,880
Speaker 1: at home, Like, that's Dolphins football. Do you want to

1174
00:59:32,920 --> 00:59:36,280
Speaker 1: know what Dolphins football is? It's winning a meaningless game

1175
00:59:36,520 --> 00:59:39,160
Speaker 1: to get you to seven and nine and maybe not.

1176
00:59:39,640 --> 00:59:43,960
Speaker 1: Jobs are averaging almost thirteen, they're scoring thirteen more points

1177
00:59:43,960 --> 00:59:47,880
Speaker 1: a game at home. They are an unwatchable team watchable.

1178
00:59:47,920 --> 00:59:50,760
Speaker 1: He's kind of like a young Shady McCoy and Shady

1179
00:59:50,800 --> 00:59:53,200
Speaker 1: McCoy in this game. I just want to mention how

1180
00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:56,040
Speaker 1: great Shade McCoy has been all season. He kind of

1181
00:59:56,040 --> 00:59:59,280
Speaker 1: slips under the radar. He reached ten thousand yards in

1182
00:59:59,320 --> 01:00:03,200
Speaker 1: his career on fewer in the fifth fastest amount of

1183
01:00:03,280 --> 01:00:06,600
Speaker 1: carries in NFL history. The only running backs in history

1184
01:00:06,800 --> 01:00:10,360
Speaker 1: that did it in fewer carries were O. J. Simpson,

1185
01:00:10,720 --> 01:00:14,840
Speaker 1: Jim Brown, Barry Sanders, and Adrian Peterson. That's the company

1186
01:00:14,960 --> 01:00:16,960
Speaker 1: McCoy's keeping and used to hear about him, like, oh,

1187
01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:20,240
Speaker 1: can he hold up over time? This guy's missed eleven

1188
01:00:20,280 --> 01:00:23,120
Speaker 1: games in nine seasons. He is always on the field,

1189
01:00:23,320 --> 01:00:25,760
Speaker 1: he's toughest. Hell, he's running better than ever. If they

1190
01:00:25,920 --> 01:00:28,200
Speaker 1: somehow make the playoffs, he's their m v P. But

1191
01:00:28,280 --> 01:00:31,600
Speaker 1: you don't see that happening for Buffalo. You've just predicted

1192
01:00:31,600 --> 01:00:34,040
Speaker 1: a Dolphins victory. Just karma, what now? I don't see

1193
01:00:34,040 --> 01:00:36,920
Speaker 1: it happening. But Shady has been a great player, terrible

1194
01:00:37,280 --> 01:00:41,840
Speaker 1: tipper than an even worse party organizers defending then, But

1195
01:00:41,880 --> 01:00:45,680
Speaker 1: on the field he is an incredible player. Um, real quick, Greg,

1196
01:00:45,680 --> 01:00:48,520
Speaker 1: can you fire up the modem generator and tell me

1197
01:00:48,560 --> 01:00:50,880
Speaker 1: what the Bills need the Bills. The Bills need to win.

1198
01:00:50,920 --> 01:00:54,400
Speaker 1: Of course, the Bills have the worst chance of any

1199
01:00:54,440 --> 01:00:58,920
Speaker 1: of these teams because what they need is either a

1200
01:00:59,040 --> 01:01:03,440
Speaker 1: Raven's loss to the Bengals or they need the Titans

1201
01:01:03,840 --> 01:01:07,680
Speaker 1: and the Chargers to lose. That second option is probably

1202
01:01:07,680 --> 01:01:10,000
Speaker 1: better than the first. It's a little better, But either

1203
01:01:10,120 --> 01:01:12,960
Speaker 1: one of them, you can easily see a see a

1204
01:01:13,000 --> 01:01:15,680
Speaker 1: scenario where they do win and they still don't get

1205
01:01:15,680 --> 01:01:18,720
Speaker 1: in minus sixty two point differential for the Bills this year.

1206
01:01:18,720 --> 01:01:21,960
Speaker 1: They're not a good team. And one last I'd like

1207
01:01:22,040 --> 01:01:25,800
Speaker 1: to make a motion started by Jarvis Landry here, to

1208
01:01:25,840 --> 01:01:29,040
Speaker 1: get rid of the reception as a stat it's totally meaningless.

1209
01:01:29,040 --> 01:01:31,520
Speaker 1: Go with first downs as a receivers that feels, that

1210
01:01:31,560 --> 01:01:36,000
Speaker 1: feels its Look what what value is a two yard

1211
01:01:36,080 --> 01:01:38,920
Speaker 1: bubble screen to your offense? Get rid of receptions and

1212
01:01:38,960 --> 01:01:41,440
Speaker 1: go with first downs as a receip three catches for

1213
01:01:41,520 --> 01:01:44,120
Speaker 1: nine yards not not doing it for me? Are we

1214
01:01:44,200 --> 01:01:46,080
Speaker 1: sure that Adam Gates is a good coach? I mean,

1215
01:01:46,080 --> 01:01:49,120
Speaker 1: what is this guy at this point? Um? Well, you're

1216
01:01:49,120 --> 01:01:51,480
Speaker 1: settled with Jake Cutler, but he wanted Jack. They're not

1217
01:01:51,520 --> 01:01:54,160
Speaker 1: good at it. For all the grief that Cutler takes.

1218
01:01:54,480 --> 01:01:56,840
Speaker 1: They are at the bottom of the league, and in

1219
01:01:57,000 --> 01:01:59,160
Speaker 1: rushing there in the bottom of the league. In pass

1220
01:01:59,280 --> 01:02:01,240
Speaker 1: rush there the him in the league. And pass defense

1221
01:02:01,280 --> 01:02:03,080
Speaker 1: there in the bottom of league. And rush defense they're

1222
01:02:03,080 --> 01:02:04,640
Speaker 1: in the bottom of legue and special teams. So j

1223
01:02:04,800 --> 01:02:08,720
Speaker 1: Cutler is not great, but this entire organization is bad.

1224
01:02:09,600 --> 01:02:12,440
Speaker 1: There you go, and back to the Bills one second.

1225
01:02:12,760 --> 01:02:14,600
Speaker 1: They need a win, They need a little bit of help.

1226
01:02:15,600 --> 01:02:17,880
Speaker 1: So I just want to maybe a little pep talk

1227
01:02:17,920 --> 01:02:21,400
Speaker 1: for the Bills because I'm rooting for him this weekend, Lindsay,

1228
01:02:26,280 --> 01:02:29,680
Speaker 1: do it for Bills Mafia. Do it for the seventeen

1229
01:02:29,760 --> 01:02:31,919
Speaker 1: year old boy from Orchard Park at Park who wants

1230
01:02:31,920 --> 01:02:34,240
Speaker 1: to see his favorite team in a playoff game before

1231
01:02:34,280 --> 01:02:37,720
Speaker 1: he can legally purchase cigarettes. Do it for that one

1232
01:02:37,760 --> 01:02:40,880
Speaker 1: guy who suffered a compound leg fracture when he attempted

1233
01:02:40,920 --> 01:02:43,760
Speaker 1: to do a backflip off his cousin's RV on to

1234
01:02:43,840 --> 01:02:47,440
Speaker 1: a folding town. Do it for all the illegitimate children

1235
01:02:47,440 --> 01:02:50,640
Speaker 1: who have been conceived outside New Hour of Field for

1236
01:02:50,680 --> 01:02:53,240
Speaker 1: the Do it for Scott Norwood, Do it for Jim

1237
01:02:53,320 --> 01:02:57,120
Speaker 1: Kelly dal Tally, remember that guy. Do it for Steve Tasker,

1238
01:02:57,400 --> 01:03:01,080
Speaker 1: who CBS insists sticking on the sideline. Whichever NFL city

1239
01:03:01,080 --> 01:03:03,720
Speaker 1: has the most miserable weather on a given week. Do

1240
01:03:03,840 --> 01:03:06,680
Speaker 1: it for Bruce Smith finish with exactly two under sex

1241
01:03:07,400 --> 01:03:10,360
Speaker 1: right on the money, baby. Do it for Tim Russer.

1242
01:03:10,480 --> 01:03:13,400
Speaker 1: Do it for Niagara Falls its abut. Do it for

1243
01:03:13,440 --> 01:03:16,520
Speaker 1: Wade Phillips's face on that day in Nashville. Do it

1244
01:03:16,560 --> 01:03:18,880
Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Sabers who got robbed in the ninety

1245
01:03:18,920 --> 01:03:23,160
Speaker 1: nine Cup finals. Do it for O. J. Scratch. Do

1246
01:03:23,200 --> 01:03:25,640
Speaker 1: it for Jon bon Jovi, who was clocked in his

1247
01:03:25,680 --> 01:03:28,200
Speaker 1: efforts to buy the Bills, thanks in part to the

1248
01:03:28,240 --> 01:03:34,520
Speaker 1: grassroots smear campaign by none other than Donald Trump. And lastly,

1249
01:03:35,040 --> 01:03:37,280
Speaker 1: do it for every loyal Bills fan that has packed

1250
01:03:37,280 --> 01:03:39,960
Speaker 1: your stadium during a playoff drought. Not even the Cleveland

1251
01:03:40,000 --> 01:03:44,160
Speaker 1: freaking Browns can match. These people have stuck with their team.

1252
01:03:44,320 --> 01:03:48,640
Speaker 1: Football gods, reward them with a little magic on sud.

1253
01:03:50,480 --> 01:03:54,880
Speaker 1: Do it for two times Shield champion Patrick Crawling it

1254
01:03:54,920 --> 01:04:02,080
Speaker 1: for Crawley. I like this all male chorus. All right,

1255
01:04:02,120 --> 01:04:07,960
Speaker 1: let's move by Arizona Cardinals at the Seattle Seahawks. Here

1256
01:04:08,040 --> 01:04:10,600
Speaker 1: we go, Seahawks, You're still in the mix. Everybody said

1257
01:04:10,640 --> 01:04:14,000
Speaker 1: it was all over after you got embarrassed by the Rams,

1258
01:04:14,360 --> 01:04:17,600
Speaker 1: but you can do some damage still. Chris Wesling with

1259
01:04:17,720 --> 01:04:21,000
Speaker 1: a W against the Cardinals and a little help your

1260
01:04:21,040 --> 01:04:24,080
Speaker 1: thoughts on this one. Seattle's offense is broken and there's

1261
01:04:24,120 --> 01:04:25,840
Speaker 1: no way Russell Wilson should be in the m v

1262
01:04:25,920 --> 01:04:29,480
Speaker 1: P discussion because he's part of the problem. Every their

1263
01:04:29,640 --> 01:04:32,800
Speaker 1: offensive line is scapegoating every week while Wilson has a

1264
01:04:32,920 --> 01:04:37,120
Speaker 1: random attack in which they don't go with reads. He

1265
01:04:37,240 --> 01:04:40,120
Speaker 1: just runs around back there and invites pressure. And he's

1266
01:04:40,160 --> 01:04:43,000
Speaker 1: part of the problem. And as well as he's played

1267
01:04:43,000 --> 01:04:45,520
Speaker 1: this year, as much as he's carried the load this

1268
01:04:45,800 --> 01:04:47,520
Speaker 1: the first half of the last three games that the

1269
01:04:47,560 --> 01:04:52,280
Speaker 1: Seahawks have played have been broken beyond repair offenses. And

1270
01:04:52,360 --> 01:04:54,600
Speaker 1: this is not an easy matchup. I know the Cardinals

1271
01:04:54,600 --> 01:04:58,200
Speaker 1: have played an easy schedule, but they have the number

1272
01:04:58,200 --> 01:05:01,479
Speaker 1: one defense in terms of yards allowed since Week ten.

1273
01:05:01,600 --> 01:05:05,240
Speaker 1: Their defense is playing well, and this is a great rivalry.

1274
01:05:05,320 --> 01:05:07,480
Speaker 1: Bruce Arians was caught on tape, you know, saying that

1275
01:05:07,480 --> 01:05:12,480
Speaker 1: that's that's our home field up in Seattle. It's a

1276
01:05:12,600 --> 01:05:16,280
Speaker 1: really interesting game that might not end up mattering just

1277
01:05:16,360 --> 01:05:19,640
Speaker 1: because of the rivalry. But it could be arians final game,

1278
01:05:20,000 --> 01:05:22,240
Speaker 1: and it really could be the last kind of rodeo

1279
01:05:22,560 --> 01:05:25,439
Speaker 1: for this Seahawks defense, and and the fact that it's

1280
01:05:25,440 --> 01:05:28,920
Speaker 1: against each other and rivalry, you know, you know, I'm

1281
01:05:28,920 --> 01:05:31,720
Speaker 1: not I'm not giving any advice for people out there

1282
01:05:31,760 --> 01:05:34,120
Speaker 1: in the desert, but the Seahawks are heavy favorites in

1283
01:05:34,160 --> 01:05:37,000
Speaker 1: this game. And how is this game not coming down

1284
01:05:37,240 --> 01:05:40,000
Speaker 1: to the very end in one of these kickers or

1285
01:05:40,080 --> 01:05:43,840
Speaker 1: some crazy play. It's just destined for that. Dan. There

1286
01:05:43,840 --> 01:05:47,640
Speaker 1: are rumblings, according to Brian Costello from the New York Post,

1287
01:05:47,760 --> 01:05:51,600
Speaker 1: big rumblings that if Arians goes as we expect, that

1288
01:05:51,680 --> 01:05:54,040
Speaker 1: the Cardinals would like to have Todd Bowles become their

1289
01:05:54,040 --> 01:05:59,200
Speaker 1: head coach. Well, I don't think Arians sure, Arians wants

1290
01:05:59,240 --> 01:06:02,200
Speaker 1: to go to the Jet Uh. If they really want

1291
01:06:02,240 --> 01:06:05,800
Speaker 1: Todd Bowls, I think I would be okay with that,

1292
01:06:06,000 --> 01:06:09,880
Speaker 1: especially if a Jake Ruden or someone like that came available.

1293
01:06:10,320 --> 01:06:12,000
Speaker 1: I I think a lot of Jeff fans would be

1294
01:06:12,080 --> 01:06:16,480
Speaker 1: okay if Todd Bowles wasn't back m despite the relative

1295
01:06:16,560 --> 01:06:18,920
Speaker 1: quote unquote success of the season which people need to

1296
01:06:20,920 --> 01:06:23,040
Speaker 1: seven over three years and hasn't made the playoffs, so

1297
01:06:23,040 --> 01:06:26,600
Speaker 1: it's I they've been competitive in thirteen and fifteen games

1298
01:06:26,640 --> 01:06:31,400
Speaker 1: this year. But as Todd bowls like a Super Bowl

1299
01:06:31,560 --> 01:06:33,760
Speaker 1: winning coach, potentially, does he have that type of juice.

1300
01:06:33,760 --> 01:06:35,920
Speaker 1: I don't know about Todd. And in Seattle, you know

1301
01:06:35,960 --> 01:06:37,400
Speaker 1: they're gonna be playing this game at the same time

1302
01:06:37,400 --> 01:06:39,680
Speaker 1: in the Falcons. It's exciting. I mean, I wonder if

1303
01:06:39,680 --> 01:06:42,200
Speaker 1: it's the last Earl Thomas game there after what's happened

1304
01:06:42,240 --> 01:06:44,440
Speaker 1: over the last week. They asked Pete Carroll about it

1305
01:06:44,520 --> 01:06:46,520
Speaker 1: during the week. Never a good sign. He just he

1306
01:06:46,680 --> 01:06:49,440
Speaker 1: just said, well, when they asked about Earl Thomas going

1307
01:06:49,520 --> 01:06:52,800
Speaker 1: into the Cowboys locker room, he said, well, that's unusual.

1308
01:06:53,480 --> 01:06:59,520
Speaker 1: That's just Earl being Earl Earl. That's that's true. You

1309
01:06:59,560 --> 01:07:02,200
Speaker 1: know one thing about Earl Thomas, he would give you

1310
01:07:02,280 --> 01:07:04,120
Speaker 1: the shirt off his back of it was the last

1311
01:07:04,120 --> 01:07:12,320
Speaker 1: one he had. Hey, little breaking news. New York Giants

1312
01:07:12,320 --> 01:07:16,760
Speaker 1: officially have a new general manager. It is our boy, Dave,

1313
01:07:17,680 --> 01:07:21,200
Speaker 1: formerly of the Carolina Panthers. Get An, of course, had

1314
01:07:21,240 --> 01:07:23,120
Speaker 1: a lot of history with the Giants before going to

1315
01:07:23,160 --> 01:07:25,800
Speaker 1: the Panthers, and now he comes home. I like, that's

1316
01:07:25,800 --> 01:07:28,040
Speaker 1: a good hire, I think, and I think the Giants

1317
01:07:28,200 --> 01:07:31,800
Speaker 1: will um do well Ernie. Of course, he played a

1318
01:07:31,800 --> 01:07:33,520
Speaker 1: big role in this. He was a consultant for them.

1319
01:07:33,560 --> 01:07:37,440
Speaker 1: Gettleman obviously as Giants ties, and I wonder if, of course,

1320
01:07:37,440 --> 01:07:39,440
Speaker 1: he would continue to play a consulting role for them.

1321
01:07:39,480 --> 01:07:41,720
Speaker 1: And they're gonna get their quarterbacks. So much for blowing

1322
01:07:41,760 --> 01:07:47,040
Speaker 1: it up. They basically are continuing the same run of

1323
01:07:47,160 --> 01:07:50,640
Speaker 1: people in the same tree of executives that they've had

1324
01:07:50,680 --> 01:07:53,480
Speaker 1: going back to George Young in the sense the successful organization,

1325
01:07:53,520 --> 01:07:55,280
Speaker 1: which is not bad, right, I mean, I know you

1326
01:07:55,320 --> 01:07:57,280
Speaker 1: were calling for that, but this has been a successful

1327
01:07:57,360 --> 01:08:00,600
Speaker 1: organization a long time. Though the downturn and that roster

1328
01:08:00,720 --> 01:08:04,000
Speaker 1: coincided with ghet them in leaving for get. I think

1329
01:08:04,080 --> 01:08:07,080
Speaker 1: I'm building a Super Bowl team and a contender this year.

1330
01:08:07,160 --> 01:08:08,960
Speaker 1: I do what I do. Wonder what it means for Eli.

1331
01:08:09,040 --> 01:08:11,800
Speaker 1: You would think maybe it helps his chances of sticking around.

1332
01:08:12,000 --> 01:08:15,479
Speaker 1: More hog mollies are coming. The Jersey blue Goose, Pale

1333
01:08:16,000 --> 01:08:19,880
Speaker 1: blue Gooser's alright, moving on. The New Orleans Saints are

1334
01:08:19,880 --> 01:08:23,439
Speaker 1: eleven and four. Uh, they can win the NFC South

1335
01:08:24,240 --> 01:08:27,240
Speaker 1: with a w that's correct, Just win it in that's

1336
01:08:27,240 --> 01:08:31,960
Speaker 1: absolutely correct. Nice and Laura Falcons win for them. There

1337
01:08:32,000 --> 01:08:36,000
Speaker 1: you go. And the Bucks are their opponents standing in

1338
01:08:36,400 --> 01:08:40,280
Speaker 1: the way. Greggy, I don't think this is a layup

1339
01:08:40,400 --> 01:08:42,439
Speaker 1: for the Saints. First of all, the Bucks have played

1340
01:08:42,479 --> 01:08:44,679
Speaker 1: the other two NFC South teams the last two weeks

1341
01:08:44,680 --> 01:08:46,439
Speaker 1: and it's come down to the final possession, so you

1342
01:08:46,479 --> 01:08:49,000
Speaker 1: don't have to look back too far to really test

1343
01:08:49,040 --> 01:08:51,920
Speaker 1: that out. I also think the defense on in Tampa

1344
01:08:52,000 --> 01:08:55,040
Speaker 1: is healthier than it's been all year, Kwon, Alexander Levant,

1345
01:08:55,200 --> 01:08:57,920
Speaker 1: David Gerald, McCoy, Brent Grimes. They're all actually on the

1346
01:08:57,920 --> 01:08:59,960
Speaker 1: field at the same time, which is nice. And James

1347
01:09:00,160 --> 01:09:03,120
Speaker 1: Winston is easily playing his best football the year over

1348
01:09:03,160 --> 01:09:06,320
Speaker 1: the last few weeks, as as bad as Jamis has

1349
01:09:06,360 --> 01:09:09,240
Speaker 1: looked at times this year, and his numbers are better

1350
01:09:09,280 --> 01:09:12,439
Speaker 1: than he's really played. Only two quarterbacks in the league

1351
01:09:12,479 --> 01:09:15,920
Speaker 1: have a higher yards per attempt than Jamis Winston, Tom

1352
01:09:15,960 --> 01:09:18,680
Speaker 1: Brady and Drew Brees. Now that's misleading. I don't think

1353
01:09:18,680 --> 01:09:21,519
Speaker 1: he's at that level. But it hasn't been a disastrous season.

1354
01:09:21,560 --> 01:09:24,800
Speaker 1: This team can throw their at home. I just I

1355
01:09:24,800 --> 01:09:26,800
Speaker 1: don't think this is some layup for the Saints to

1356
01:09:26,880 --> 01:09:28,800
Speaker 1: just go in there and get an easy win. As

1357
01:09:28,840 --> 01:09:31,080
Speaker 1: always with Jamis Winston, you have to add the caveat

1358
01:09:31,160 --> 01:09:34,000
Speaker 1: that apparently turnovers don't apply. Well, he only has eight

1359
01:09:34,040 --> 01:09:39,040
Speaker 1: interceptions this year. Eighteen touchdown was last week alone him,

1360
01:09:39,200 --> 01:09:41,479
Speaker 1: but you have nine turn him and Jake Cutler, they

1361
01:09:41,520 --> 01:09:45,839
Speaker 1: are really struggling with the center exchange, snap and and

1362
01:09:45,880 --> 01:09:48,280
Speaker 1: stuff like sort of a basic element to playing quarterback.

1363
01:09:48,320 --> 01:09:51,200
Speaker 1: But okay, I like what man Tito threw back in

1364
01:09:51,280 --> 01:09:54,000
Speaker 1: your face last week when you said he wasn't a

1365
01:09:54,160 --> 01:09:56,080
Speaker 1: J Klein. He was. He was played a better game

1366
01:09:56,120 --> 01:09:58,800
Speaker 1: than a J. Klein's ever played in New Orleans. Man

1367
01:09:58,840 --> 01:10:02,160
Speaker 1: Titeo is stepping up is like a sign And I

1368
01:10:02,160 --> 01:10:03,880
Speaker 1: think we talked about this on The pick Um Show

1369
01:10:03,920 --> 01:10:07,360
Speaker 1: that everyone should watch on Saturday. Start watching it. When

1370
01:10:07,400 --> 01:10:09,519
Speaker 1: when you have players come off the bench and start

1371
01:10:09,600 --> 01:10:12,000
Speaker 1: playing really well for you, like, that's a sign of

1372
01:10:12,400 --> 01:10:14,720
Speaker 1: your having kind of a magical a good season, a

1373
01:10:14,720 --> 01:10:16,960
Speaker 1: good organization. The Saints have done that all year. And

1374
01:10:17,000 --> 01:10:19,439
Speaker 1: if you have not seen the pick Um Show yet

1375
01:10:19,560 --> 01:10:21,800
Speaker 1: and you were wondering, hey, what happened to all the

1376
01:10:21,840 --> 01:10:28,640
Speaker 1: Manti Teo fake girlfriend jokes? Brought that back? Bring it

1377
01:10:28,680 --> 01:10:32,200
Speaker 1: back jokes. Honestly, if the Saints lost this game, what

1378
01:10:32,360 --> 01:10:34,880
Speaker 1: a disappointment. I don't think they'll lose. I just I

1379
01:10:35,000 --> 01:10:37,479
Speaker 1: just in a division game where there's a lot of

1380
01:10:37,479 --> 01:10:40,160
Speaker 1: heat here. You know, Lattimore and Mike Evans last night.

1381
01:10:40,200 --> 01:10:42,160
Speaker 1: I just expect this game. They've had in a half

1382
01:10:42,160 --> 01:10:43,920
Speaker 1: a decade, and I think, like a trust them as

1383
01:10:44,000 --> 01:10:46,280
Speaker 1: much as I trust Pittsburgh to take care of their business.

1384
01:10:46,280 --> 01:10:49,240
Speaker 1: I think they can attack you in so many different ways.

1385
01:10:49,600 --> 01:10:53,439
Speaker 1: And this Buck's coaching staff, basically, it's already feels like

1386
01:10:53,479 --> 01:10:56,759
Speaker 1: they must know they're gonna get objector seated for John Gruden.

1387
01:10:57,160 --> 01:11:00,080
Speaker 1: You've got a wide receiver under a police investigation right now,

1388
01:11:00,400 --> 01:11:02,920
Speaker 1: and you got Mike Evans who blew up against Marshaw.

1389
01:11:03,000 --> 01:11:06,080
Speaker 1: Latimore lost time. They they outplayed the Panthers last week,

1390
01:11:06,200 --> 01:11:08,000
Speaker 1: they did in the week in the week before it

1391
01:11:08,080 --> 01:11:09,960
Speaker 1: was I think the Saints are a much better team

1392
01:11:09,960 --> 01:11:11,320
Speaker 1: than the Panthers. I think they're going to win the

1393
01:11:11,439 --> 01:11:16,439
Speaker 1: NFC South four days from now. Lock it up already, ridiculous.

1394
01:11:16,600 --> 01:11:19,800
Speaker 1: You mentioned the wide receiver with some legal issues right now.

1395
01:11:20,240 --> 01:11:22,840
Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna ask if anybody in this room was

1396
01:11:22,880 --> 01:11:27,839
Speaker 1: perhaps driving a Chevy truck on Christmas Eve down in Florida.

1397
01:11:27,920 --> 01:11:31,280
Speaker 1: Negative negative, Well, we were here Christmas Eve. Well, at least,

1398
01:11:31,320 --> 01:11:34,599
Speaker 1: well we we have an alias. Well, unless you zip

1399
01:11:34,640 --> 01:11:36,280
Speaker 1: down there on a quick flight or something. I did

1400
01:11:36,400 --> 01:11:38,559
Speaker 1: have a dodd Ram for about ten years, but it's

1401
01:11:38,600 --> 01:11:41,479
Speaker 1: been a while. West is a figure of suspicion. Well,

1402
01:11:41,520 --> 01:11:44,559
Speaker 1: Greg certainly he was trying to deflect. Greg is a

1403
01:11:44,600 --> 01:11:47,680
Speaker 1: figure of suspicions. Was having I have I filed some

1404
01:11:47,760 --> 01:11:50,080
Speaker 1: copy that night, I spent some time with the children.

1405
01:11:50,320 --> 01:11:54,519
Speaker 1: Did you really you can look at the email. I mean,

1406
01:11:54,560 --> 01:11:56,280
Speaker 1: your wife's in Tokyo. We have no idea what's going

1407
01:11:56,280 --> 01:11:59,040
Speaker 1: on in your life right now? On the board, no

1408
01:11:59,080 --> 01:12:02,960
Speaker 1: one's above suspicion. And finally, the Jacksonville Jaguars at Tennessee

1409
01:12:03,600 --> 01:12:12,240
Speaker 1: titoons Uh. Jaguars can't get into the um by territory

1410
01:12:12,280 --> 01:12:16,040
Speaker 1: after their loss um and they've already won the the division.

1411
01:12:16,120 --> 01:12:18,479
Speaker 1: So they're in the three four lock zone. Is that correct?

1412
01:12:18,640 --> 01:12:21,040
Speaker 1: They're just locked into the three. They're locked out, right,

1413
01:12:21,200 --> 01:12:23,720
Speaker 1: and they're into the three and they'll play one of

1414
01:12:23,720 --> 01:12:26,639
Speaker 1: those wild card teams and the Titans. Of course, they

1415
01:12:26,680 --> 01:12:29,960
Speaker 1: can still get in the playoffs if some things go

1416
01:12:30,160 --> 01:12:34,720
Speaker 1: their way. Chris Wesley. If I'm a Titans fan, I

1417
01:12:34,720 --> 01:12:38,200
Speaker 1: want them to lose this game. I know that sounds harsh,

1418
01:12:38,320 --> 01:12:41,320
Speaker 1: but to me, the long term benefits of putting Marcus

1419
01:12:41,360 --> 01:12:45,400
Speaker 1: Mariota with a good coaching staff outweigh winning this game

1420
01:12:45,560 --> 01:12:47,920
Speaker 1: and being a lamb to the slaughter to whichever first

1421
01:12:48,000 --> 01:12:50,080
Speaker 1: round team you are going to play, which could be

1422
01:12:50,120 --> 01:12:53,200
Speaker 1: the although it could be the Jaguars again, a team

1423
01:12:53,280 --> 01:12:55,599
Speaker 1: that they did and it was a long time ago,

1424
01:12:55,720 --> 01:12:57,960
Speaker 1: but they did drop a hammer on him back in

1425
01:12:58,000 --> 01:13:00,960
Speaker 1: week to thirty seven to sixteen. Really the high water

1426
01:13:01,040 --> 01:13:03,280
Speaker 1: mark of the Titan season was that was early when

1427
01:13:03,320 --> 01:13:06,200
Speaker 1: their offense was clicking against the Jaguars and the Seahawks.

1428
01:13:06,520 --> 01:13:09,080
Speaker 1: It had a lot in common with the Jaguars game

1429
01:13:09,080 --> 01:13:11,280
Speaker 1: against the forty niners where they didn't get out to

1430
01:13:11,320 --> 01:13:13,519
Speaker 1: a lead and the other team ran the ball down

1431
01:13:13,520 --> 01:13:17,880
Speaker 1: their throat. Titans also have a general manager with Patriots ties.

1432
01:13:18,800 --> 01:13:21,640
Speaker 1: I almost would view this job as more attractive than

1433
01:13:21,640 --> 01:13:24,720
Speaker 1: the Lions one, potentially, and Josh mcd maybe would be

1434
01:13:24,760 --> 01:13:28,280
Speaker 1: a Josh McDaniels type of spot. I think that would

1435
01:13:28,720 --> 01:13:30,439
Speaker 1: make a lot of It's a fascinating game if you

1436
01:13:30,479 --> 01:13:33,680
Speaker 1: think about it. Last year at this time, it was

1437
01:13:33,720 --> 01:13:36,120
Speaker 1: the game that knocked the Titans out of the playoffs

1438
01:13:37,280 --> 01:13:42,520
Speaker 1: and ultimately got Doug Morone this job. Their entire franchise

1439
01:13:42,640 --> 01:13:46,559
Speaker 1: history was changed by Morone kind of owning them late

1440
01:13:46,640 --> 01:13:49,400
Speaker 1: last year. He could now kind of change the Titans

1441
01:13:49,800 --> 01:13:52,519
Speaker 1: franchise by going out playing to win this game. And

1442
01:13:52,560 --> 01:13:54,400
Speaker 1: they say the starters are going to play. I think

1443
01:13:54,400 --> 01:13:57,519
Speaker 1: they want to bounce back after last week. There there's

1444
01:13:57,560 --> 01:14:00,240
Speaker 1: such a better team than the Titans. They really would

1445
01:14:00,280 --> 01:14:03,000
Speaker 1: win this game. If it's a fascinating game, it will

1446
01:14:03,000 --> 01:14:05,679
Speaker 1: be the first fascinating Titans game I've watched all season.

1447
01:14:06,280 --> 01:14:11,000
Speaker 1: Are we are putting Are we putting all of Marcus

1448
01:14:11,040 --> 01:14:15,960
Speaker 1: mariota struggles the season on his coaching staff? Yes, I

1449
01:14:16,000 --> 01:14:19,080
Speaker 1: don't know if he's not seeing things. He's certainly making

1450
01:14:19,160 --> 01:14:21,960
Speaker 1: decisions where he's reading a defense in a certain way

1451
01:14:22,040 --> 01:14:24,360
Speaker 1: and it's not coming out this way. He thinks doesn't

1452
01:14:24,360 --> 01:14:26,759
Speaker 1: have a lot of around him either. Yeah, his footwork

1453
01:14:26,760 --> 01:14:30,200
Speaker 1: has been off to and how the middle of the season,

1454
01:14:30,240 --> 01:14:33,160
Speaker 1: how they had four rookies they were trying to get

1455
01:14:33,240 --> 01:14:36,080
Speaker 1: involved in offense and they don't do much anymore. Where

1456
01:14:36,080 --> 01:14:38,519
Speaker 1: are those rookies. Well, it's like they have the smash

1457
01:14:38,600 --> 01:14:40,720
Speaker 1: mouth approach and then they've got the spread hurry up,

1458
01:14:40,720 --> 01:14:43,479
Speaker 1: which he's clearly better at, and they're trying to meld that.

1459
01:14:43,600 --> 01:14:46,320
Speaker 1: How about you just have the part that he's actually

1460
01:14:46,320 --> 01:14:48,280
Speaker 1: good at. How about you build the offense around him

1461
01:14:48,320 --> 01:14:51,080
Speaker 1: instead of trying to go with your nine nineties smash

1462
01:14:51,160 --> 01:14:54,360
Speaker 1: mouth nonsense. We will see a lot of Derrick Henry

1463
01:14:54,400 --> 01:14:58,080
Speaker 1: in this game, though, because Marco Murray is hurt and

1464
01:14:58,080 --> 01:15:01,519
Speaker 1: this was a game Derrick Henry really ran well against

1465
01:15:01,560 --> 01:15:04,360
Speaker 1: Jacksonville the first time around. Two concerns I have with

1466
01:15:04,439 --> 01:15:07,400
Speaker 1: the Jaguars. Leonard Fournette looks slow and hesitant coming off

1467
01:15:07,439 --> 01:15:10,879
Speaker 1: a series of injuries, and Blake Bordles mechanics really regressed

1468
01:15:10,880 --> 01:15:12,840
Speaker 1: in the crucible of a close game. In the fourth

1469
01:15:12,920 --> 01:15:16,559
Speaker 1: quarter several different drives, he looked like two thousand, sixteen

1470
01:15:16,640 --> 01:15:20,880
Speaker 1: blake boards taken apart by Jimmy G. This is they're

1471
01:15:20,880 --> 01:15:22,640
Speaker 1: not playing Jimmy G this week. And that was a

1472
01:15:22,640 --> 01:15:25,679
Speaker 1: coaching thing, and I just don't you know, coaches getting

1473
01:15:25,680 --> 01:15:27,640
Speaker 1: specific matchups and you just don't That's the thing. I

1474
01:15:27,640 --> 01:15:30,200
Speaker 1: don't trust Malarkey to be able to do something like that.

1475
01:15:30,360 --> 01:15:33,600
Speaker 1: They're no Marke's Lee still for the Jaguars, which is

1476
01:15:33,640 --> 01:15:35,240
Speaker 1: a big loss for them. The next time you hear

1477
01:15:35,280 --> 01:15:39,280
Speaker 1: from us will be Sunday night, New Year's Eve. In fact,

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Speaker 1: no rest for the weary mark because guess what New

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Speaker 1: Year's Eve We're doing like a an hour and twenty

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Speaker 1: minute mega wrap up and then the next morning get

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Speaker 1: on up because it's Black Monday. I love how the

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Speaker 1: calendar worked out this year. It's really beautiful, perfect for us,

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Speaker 1: very healthy. But we're not complaining. We we have good

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Speaker 1: jobs anyway. It's until Sunday night. Thank sure you check

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Speaker 1: it out. It's the flagship program and check out NFL.

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Speaker 1: Pick them which airs? I think it airs two times.

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Speaker 1: Check your local listings um and yes there is a

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Speaker 1: hot mant Teo call back. Do people still have local listings?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, just their guide. I guess on the

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Speaker 1: TVR dead signing off for a quiet storm, the mailman,

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Speaker 1: the old boss, you don't mess with the Fulton behind

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Speaker 1: the glass tell Sunday Night. Weeks seven day