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Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast just put up new wallpaper

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Speaker 1: and they're bunkers. Welcome to another edition of the Around

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Speaker 1: the NFL Podcast. My name is Dan Hansons. Come to

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Speaker 1: you from a virtual room filled with heroes. Mark Sessler,

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Speaker 1: Chris Wesling, Greg Rosenthal. What is up? Boys? Hey? Dan?

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Speaker 1: Week to the Flagship Show, And you know what? I

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Speaker 1: feel like it happens every year. There's always one week

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Speaker 1: where it feels like the football gods were especially cruel

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Speaker 1: and reminding of us of mankind's mortality and that we

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Speaker 1: are fragile ultimately, no matter how how much the greatest

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Speaker 1: of us builds up the body into a temple um

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Speaker 1: Nick Bosa, Salmon Thomas, Jimmy Garoppolo, Raheem Mostard. That was

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Speaker 1: just one game that I covered today. S Kwon Barkley,

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Speaker 1: Drew Lock, Paris Campbell, Malik Hooker, Christian McCaffrey, Anthony Barr.

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Speaker 1: If I'm missing any, shout him out. But that is

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Speaker 1: a lot of big time talent, and many of those

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Speaker 1: injuries are of the serious nature. It sucks, but that's football. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think we expected that going into this COVID year.

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Speaker 1: Just like that, there was for whatever reason, they're gonna

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Speaker 1: be a lot of injuries or a lot of like

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Speaker 1: which team is you know, gonna actually keep have the

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Speaker 1: roster that they expected to and then there was all

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Speaker 1: those opt outs and then they're really it's been normal

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Speaker 1: since then. I don't know if this has anything to

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Speaker 1: do with the fact there's no training camp. Who knows um,

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Speaker 1: but it was it was aggressive. I mean, seasons changed.

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Speaker 1: I mean you're right, like the Falcons, for instance, last

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Speaker 1: three starters today too, even like big time names that

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Speaker 1: maybe you know it didn't make the headlines. It felt

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Speaker 1: like every game there was three or four starters going out.

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Speaker 1: I agree with Dan. I would point to the football gods.

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Speaker 1: I think they were the ones that are behind this,

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Speaker 1: along with you know a lot of other nuisance generating

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Speaker 1: actions levers from the gods. But imagine a week ago,

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Speaker 1: if this all happened a week one, the hot takes

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Speaker 1: coming out about you know, shortened, no preseason, truncated training camps.

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Speaker 1: Let's never do it again, Let's go back to the norm. Well,

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Speaker 1: I if there's one good thing, it's you can't tie

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Speaker 1: it directly to that at all. It's just freaky nature.

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Speaker 1: A lot of great games though today a lot of

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Speaker 1: great games. You enjoy the reasons. Yeah, one of the

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Speaker 1: reasons we appreciate sports is because we all understand that

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Speaker 1: ultimately our bodies are going to betray us. But for

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Speaker 1: three hours you watch other humans game mastery over these bodies,

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Speaker 1: and um, they lost that battle today. Why would the

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Speaker 1: gods smite us? West? You're a man that you know things,

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Speaker 1: philosophical type. Tell us why did they smite us? That's

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Speaker 1: the deal we're given. You know, at birth, you don't

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Speaker 1: have mastery over your body. It has mastery over you,

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Speaker 1: and you answer to it, and we can we get

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Speaker 1: to haudience. So they must remind us to not be

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Speaker 1: so haughty. Thus the smiting. All right, Greg does point out,

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Speaker 1: and it shouldn't be lost, and it won't be lost

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Speaker 1: because we're just about to go through every game from

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Speaker 1: Sunday of week two that there was some fun football.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't all about injuries and your fantasy team being ruined.

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Speaker 1: Get off, get off your own high horse, get out

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Speaker 1: of your own world. It's not just about your fantasy team.

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Speaker 1: Oh sorry, you at se Kwon Barkley man. Come on,

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Speaker 1: that's a human being. Bro. I thought like ten or

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Speaker 1: twelve years ago, we all kind of reached the point

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Speaker 1: where we realized nobody else cared about our fantasy teams.

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Speaker 1: But this year it came back with a vengeance. Like

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Speaker 1: I have heard, I have had to hear about so

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Speaker 1: many different people's fantasy teams, even though we all know

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Speaker 1: nobody cares about it. I mean, how annoying as Eric

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Speaker 1: mad about fantasy because she's kicking your ass this weekend.

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Speaker 1: So she just a mean to let you know, like

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, now you're mad, but you're losing

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Speaker 1: pretty bad. Now. It's like, now let's not care. It's

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Speaker 1: too it's cool to not care about our team. Well,

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Speaker 1: you gotta find that happy that balance, you know. Don't

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Speaker 1: and start with an excellent game that went down to

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Speaker 1: start of pain, this getting bad and this comeback. Deserved

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Speaker 1: I mean, come on, topics forty thirty nine. Greg An

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Speaker 1: absolutely wild finish as thrilling for the Cowboys as it

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Speaker 1: worst losses I've ever seen. I mean, I know the

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Speaker 1: my larger point that you know what, Falcons, you didn't

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Speaker 1: But at no point watching this game did I think, hey,

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Speaker 1: looked very similar, which is exactly what I expected going

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Speaker 1: one direction. But the Falcons had thirty nine points and

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Speaker 1: zero turnovers, and entering today, since nineteen thirty three, teams

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Speaker 1: it was they should have way more than thirty nine.

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Speaker 1: play to B O and two. Calvin Ridley is making

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Speaker 1: They they at one point scored sixth Street positions. Then again,

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Speaker 1: They never got those points. That was actually the only

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Speaker 1: so it felt like they could have had even more.

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Speaker 1: But I still go back to Dan Quinn as a

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Speaker 1: but they still put up thirty nine points. Take that

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Speaker 1: but that all came back to be very important, just

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Speaker 1: Bones Fossil. They hire him to be special teams coordinator

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Speaker 1: I was thinking about that. How Bo owns, who's one

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Speaker 1: how that played out. I mean, what a what a

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys lost this. I mean, it's just interesting. How

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Speaker 1: I thought, there's so many different plays you could do there,

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Speaker 1: whether it's throwing it to your running back or actually

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Speaker 1: running the ball. You're right, you gotta keep it away

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Speaker 1: from him. In his defense, I think he had so much.

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Speaker 1: He had a lot of faith in his defense. And

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Speaker 1: you saw it. You saw that they only got to

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Speaker 1: kick the fifty yarder. You saw that the Chiefs were

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Speaker 1: in tough third down situations when the when Mahomes got

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Speaker 1: the ball with two minutes left, everyone including me said, Okay,

436
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Speaker 1: Mahome's gonna go score a touchdown. But you know what,

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Speaker 1: he didn't. They punted five of their first six possessions. Uh,

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Speaker 1: the charges really dominated the game. It really took Mahomes

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Speaker 1: throw to Tyreek Hill, which is one of the best

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Speaker 1: throws you ever see, and again an unbelievable catch too

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Speaker 1: by Hill, followed up by one of the best two

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Speaker 1: point conversion throws that just looked absolutely in human you'll

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Speaker 1: ever see. So that's sort of what it took. And

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Speaker 1: on on the rest of the drives of the game,

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Speaker 1: they either punted, were kicked field goals or the one

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Speaker 1: really clean drive they had was kind of like last

447
00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:07,560
Speaker 1: week where they had to go fifteen plays and everything.

448
00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:09,200
Speaker 1: So man, they made the Chief's work and it was

449
00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:11,760
Speaker 1: still a terrible decision by Lynn. I criticized that at

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Speaker 1: the time, but I do at least understand the faith

451
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Speaker 1: he had because his defense was playing. So can I

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Speaker 1: can I just say one little beef that I have

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Speaker 1: And it's not the Chief's fault at all, and it's

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Speaker 1: certainly not Patrick mahomes fault. But um, you know, Twitter

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Speaker 1: middle school is really struggling when Patrick Mahomes does the

456
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Speaker 1: new greatest thing he's ever done. Uh, no one knows

457
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Speaker 1: how to describe what he does in words in any

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Speaker 1: interesting way. It's just simply Mahomes is just so amazing,

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Speaker 1: Like thank you, thank you sports Twitter so much. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: well it's a little hard on Sunday, but I just like,

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Speaker 1: you know, people struggling to describe the physical feats to

462
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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes is um troubling to me. I'm sorry, Mark,

463
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Speaker 1: sorry that you have to deal with that. It's that

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Speaker 1: hard on Sunday. It's the perfect day. That's the day

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Speaker 1: I said that the tweets I don't read anything. Alright,

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Speaker 1: Let's let's keep on moving. Let's talk about another superpower

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Speaker 1: of the a f C fort Lamar Jackson splits out

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Speaker 1: why to the left, It'll be a direct snap to

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Speaker 1: mark Ingram running off left tackle. He's got a huge hole.

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Speaker 1: Twenty ten five touchdown or Ravens. What a play call

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Speaker 1: by Greg Roman. He went direct snap to mark Ingram.

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Speaker 1: Splitt Lamar Jackson out wide to the left. They needed

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Speaker 1: a yard they got twenty one of them at a touchdown.

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Speaker 1: Are you paying attention the Adam Cases of the world.

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Speaker 1: That's how you have to run an offense. You gotta

476
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Speaker 1: keep teams off balance, you gotta give them different looks.

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Speaker 1: You gotta keep everybody on their toes. Mark England takes

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Speaker 1: a direct snap on fourth and one and then takes

479
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Speaker 1: it to the house, and it was the dagger for

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Speaker 1: the Ravens who post with thirty three sixteen win over

481
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Speaker 1: the Texas in Houston. These just feel like two teams

482
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Speaker 1: on different levels and as cruel as the NFL was

483
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Speaker 1: to be Houston Texans for giving them at the Chiefs

484
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Speaker 1: in the kickoff game and then the Ravens in a

485
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Speaker 1: week two well, at the same time Bill O'Brien's team

486
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Speaker 1: has to show up, and this they have not come

487
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Speaker 1: ready to play. Deshaun Watson again feels like he's he's

488
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Speaker 1: got the world on his shoulders, and you could see

489
00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:19,920
Speaker 1: that strain that nothing is coming fretting easy in this offense.

490
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Speaker 1: Remember the whole will Fuller thing. Will Fuller will become

491
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Speaker 1: the number one guy. Maybe he is, but today he

492
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Speaker 1: was shut out. He had let's see, did you ever

493
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Speaker 1: have a catch? No, he never had a catch. He

494
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Speaker 1: wasn't even targeted. In fact, he had one carry for

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Speaker 1: zero yards. Thanks for playing will Fuller. Uh So, the

496
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Speaker 1: Texans offense is trying to figure out itself at average

497
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Speaker 1: three yards to carry, and the Ravens they've just picked

498
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Speaker 1: up where they left off. I mean, the January playoff

499
00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:50,040
Speaker 1: exit was ugly, but through two regular season games we

500
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Speaker 1: are now coming on. If you combine these two regular

501
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Speaker 1: season games with how they finished and really performed the

502
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Speaker 1: entire regular season last year, this is one of the

503
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Speaker 1: great dominant runs September through December that I can remember

504
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:07,840
Speaker 1: any team having no argument there. I I saw some

505
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Speaker 1: something today that it's like, Wow, the Ravens have gone

506
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Speaker 1: taken what they did last year and they've gone another

507
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Speaker 1: three steps. It's like, all right, let's slow down. That's

508
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Speaker 1: one of the greatest regular season teams I've ever seen.

509
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Speaker 1: Like you're not going three steps further, but continuing it

510
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Speaker 1: and adding new elements to it and playing a little

511
00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:27,159
Speaker 1: more consistent defense from week one on, which they were

512
00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:29,920
Speaker 1: not last year. Um, is gonna make them so hard

513
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Speaker 1: to be And they play the Chiefs next week a

514
00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:34,000
Speaker 1: little too early in the season for my taste, but

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Speaker 1: it should be fun. I mean, I think the one

516
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Speaker 1: issue was Lamar Jackson, Like if they were if you

517
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Speaker 1: wanted to point to little elements of his game they

518
00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:42,919
Speaker 1: needed help. He shored them up. I mean, he's gotten

519
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Speaker 1: distinctively better over two off seasons. And um, you know,

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Speaker 1: I around halftime and I was kind of tracking this

521
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Speaker 1: one off on the side, I was thinking looking at

522
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Speaker 1: their box score, thinking they're not really running, Like it

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Speaker 1: doesn't seem like they're dominating. They didn't have like a

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Speaker 1: hundred yards hundred and fifty yards rushing in the first half.

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Speaker 1: It was like a little bit off. And at the

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Speaker 1: end of the game they have two and thirty plus

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Speaker 1: yards on the ground. I mean, they really right, they

528
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Speaker 1: can do everything they did a year ago. They just

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Speaker 1: you throw in JK. Dobbins, you throw in a couple

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Speaker 1: of other guys. It's like they simply have more weapons.

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Speaker 1: So I think last year's last week's game against Cleveland

532
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:19,359
Speaker 1: was absolutely authentic. Today's game is absolutely authentic. This is

533
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Speaker 1: who they are. Uh, there's probably one or two teams

534
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:25,200
Speaker 1: in the league that could touch him right now. They're

535
00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:28,440
Speaker 1: so good that that they psych out other teams. They

536
00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:31,280
Speaker 1: psyched out Bill O'Brien early in the game. He went

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Speaker 1: for fourth and one on his own thirty four yard line,

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Speaker 1: And I just don't think Bill O'Brien does that against

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Speaker 1: other teams, maybe the Chiefs. And it's been a tough

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Speaker 1: measuring stick for the Houston Texans these first two weeks,

541
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Speaker 1: when you have traded your way into going all in

542
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Speaker 1: and you find out you're not nearly good enough. They're

543
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Speaker 1: definitely right now they seem a step below. But it

544
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Speaker 1: is interesting when this it is one of the toughest

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Speaker 1: starts to a season any team could have. And I

546
00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:04,160
Speaker 1: still have some faith in that that building, that end,

547
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:07,199
Speaker 1: with that quarterback and with the coaches achieved there in

548
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 1: terms of fielding winning teams that they'll get back on

549
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Speaker 1: the horse, as it were, and they'll be competitive and

550
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Speaker 1: they'll be in the mix. But right now they're just

551
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Speaker 1: I think even if they had a more favorable schedule,

552
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Speaker 1: we'd be talking about right now that the Texans don't

553
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Speaker 1: have their stuff figured out. They just seemed to be

554
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:27,200
Speaker 1: a step behind right now. I think you're right, And

555
00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:29,960
Speaker 1: the problem is, like they and we've seen what was

556
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:32,000
Speaker 1: was it two seasons ago where the Texans won like

557
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:34,600
Speaker 1: seven or eight straight to go into the playoffs and

558
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:36,600
Speaker 1: they became a different team, and so maybe there's that

559
00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:39,920
Speaker 1: ahead for them. But this schedule is what would be

560
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Speaker 1: at the end of your season two if you want

561
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Speaker 1: to be one of these playoff teams, and I'm just

562
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:46,840
Speaker 1: not They're just not there with with the higher upper

563
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:50,120
Speaker 1: echelon an FC teams, And I don't think there's any

564
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Speaker 1: six game winning street coming because teams like the Titans

565
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 1: and Colts in their division are so much better than

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Speaker 1: they were a couple of years ago. Yeah, the Ravens too.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like they lost Tavon Young, who is a

568
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Speaker 1: harder for them potentially for the season at torn A

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Speaker 1: c L feel bad for me missed. I think a

570
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 1: year and a half with a neck injury only to

571
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,880
Speaker 1: come back and and tear your a c L. But J. K.

572
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Speaker 1: Dobbins is the first thing you think of of like

573
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 1: them adding elements on on offense, but on defense man

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Speaker 1: class Campbell seems to be making a big time difference.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's like that that really makes a difference

576
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 1: for them. And at least Dan, you know, you watch

577
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 1: this closely, it looks like J the old J. J.

578
00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:27,960
Speaker 1: Watt is back. If there's a if there's a positive

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Speaker 1: for the Texans, maybe that's it. Yep, he had a

580
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:33,480
Speaker 1: couple of secks today and he's healthy and still looks

581
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 1: like that guy. Um, so that's a positive. But they

582
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:39,280
Speaker 1: just they need more and that yeah, I think the

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Speaker 1: Fuller and credit goes to Marcus Peters, who's you know,

584
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Speaker 1: obviously very good. But will Fuller getting shut out and

585
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:50,040
Speaker 1: not even target and just disappearing that that's putting Deshaun

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Speaker 1: Watson in an impossible situation, Like I don't know what,

587
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:55,680
Speaker 1: I don't know what you do in that situation, like

588
00:29:55,800 --> 00:30:00,240
Speaker 1: if you need him to become that guy. And at

589
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 1: least in week one he kind of picked up stats

590
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:07,680
Speaker 1: and garbage time. Week two he doesn't exist. Luckily, Randall

591
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:09,320
Speaker 1: Cobb at least showed up in this game, and they

592
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 1: got some other places. But this this offense has a

593
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Speaker 1: lot of work to do. And then you get to

594
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Speaker 1: go to Pittsburgh next week. You thought the schedule makers

595
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:22,080
Speaker 1: were rough. They get the three best NFC teams right

596
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Speaker 1: off the bat. That's a I mean those that's to me,

597
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:29,720
Speaker 1: those are the three superpowers of the a f C

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Speaker 1: to me right now, with all due respect to the

599
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:33,440
Speaker 1: people up in western New York, you can make a

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00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:35,719
Speaker 1: case that that's another big time team up there, but

601
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Speaker 1: that who that. I don't know if I can remember

602
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 1: another team that had it that tough out of the

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Speaker 1: gate um. All right, speaking of superpowers, Roethlisberger back looks

604
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Speaker 1: out to his left, lost one along the sideline going

605
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Speaker 1: for Chase Claypool, who catches it and strike Claypool stays abound,

606
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 1: crosses the fifty and the ten. The rookie Chase Claypool,

607
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Speaker 1: in for his first NFL touched out eighty four yards.

608
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Speaker 1: Roethlisberger to Claypool, while Ben through that long and Chase

609
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 1: Claypool ran under it. And that's that's what Chase Claypool does.

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Speaker 1: We're already two years, two games into his career at

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Speaker 1: the That's what Chase Claypool does. That was Rob King

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Speaker 1: of w d V and tounch Ilkin. The Steelers are

613
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,960
Speaker 1: looking good through two weeks. Big Ben hit Chase Claypool

614
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Speaker 1: for that long score and the Pittsburgh defense held off

615
00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 1: a stubborn Broncos attack led by backup Jeff driscoll. One

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00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 1: the final West James Connor had a big day as well.

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Speaker 1: It seems like Pittsburgh has playmakers coming out of their

618
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 1: ears right now. Well, that James Conner numbers are skewed

619
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Speaker 1: because he got loose for a very rumbling, slow fifty

620
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Speaker 1: yard run um right at the end of the aime.

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Speaker 1: So it's not like he was hammering out five six

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00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 1: yards at a time throughout the game. Um. But the

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Speaker 1: clay Pole, uh, the adding him to that offense and

624
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 1: then Deonte Johnson kind of making the leap to as

625
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,800
Speaker 1: a run after catch guy. You watch his team play

626
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 1: and they've had some stops and starts, they've had some fits,

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Speaker 1: and maybe they could have run away with this game.

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Speaker 1: Um but but I look at this team and they've

629
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:29,760
Speaker 1: got dimensions that you didn't think they had with with Claypool.

630
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 1: I thought about my oncologist after that touchdown. He is

631
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Speaker 1: a die hard, obsessive Steelers fans, and you know the

632
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:40,640
Speaker 1: type that they're not casual in their fandom. Um, and

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Speaker 1: he's gonna be I'm gonna see him on Tuesday. He's

634
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 1: gonna be talking Super Bowl because you know, with all

635
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 1: due respect to the Ravens and Chiefs, this Steelers team

636
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:51,240
Speaker 1: had the number one defense in the NFL in my

637
00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:54,840
Speaker 1: book last year. They look even better this year. Everything

638
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:57,600
Speaker 1: you could have possibly envisioned for t. J. Watton, Bud

639
00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 1: Dupri when you drafted them. They played to that level

640
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:04,440
Speaker 1: last year and and riaking more havoc this year. I

641
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 1: think Watt had two and a half sacks today. Dupri.

642
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 1: His pressure led Lock into Dupri and that's what caused

643
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 1: the fumbo and the injury. They sent Drew Lock out

644
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:17,680
Speaker 1: of the game. That injury. I mean, it's they say

645
00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 1: two to six weeks at this point, uh sprain d

646
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:23,720
Speaker 1: C A C joint. I just I don't know. For me,

647
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:27,120
Speaker 1: I was really excited about I need, like other teams

648
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:30,200
Speaker 1: to rise up and capture my fancy during the course

649
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 1: of a year and the Broncos became one of those

650
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:34,800
Speaker 1: teams on Monday Night, and um, it's a whole lot

651
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:38,000
Speaker 1: of different with Jeff Driskell under center. I feel like

652
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:41,320
Speaker 1: my excitement will be shelled for a month or so.

653
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:44,960
Speaker 1: Although I mean you said about that, you said you're

654
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 1: on collegis will be all excited. How excited should he

655
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:49,160
Speaker 1: be about a five point went over Driskell? I mean,

656
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the stats look pretty decent for dristcll

657
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 1: in this game. Well, DRIs school is what he is.

658
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:58,840
Speaker 1: He's gonna give. He's gonna make his defensive job really

659
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 1: hard because he moves the sticks inconsistently and he he

660
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:05,880
Speaker 1: forces a lot of mistakes while doing that. He's just

661
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 1: not a very good passer. Into his credit, he did

662
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:11,400
Speaker 1: move the sticks a little bit today. Um, if I'm

663
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:15,000
Speaker 1: a Steelers fan, I'm excited because the Broncos have pride

664
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:18,239
Speaker 1: and they're not untalented. Credit to them for losing their

665
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:21,799
Speaker 1: starting quarterback and still coming at the Steelers. But for me,

666
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:24,160
Speaker 1: when I look at the Steelers as a fan, I

667
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 1: would think we've got everything we expected to have with

668
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:31,040
Speaker 1: this team, and even more. We've answered questions about Ben's arm.

669
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:34,840
Speaker 1: We've answered questions with the receiving corps. We've answered questions

670
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 1: with the offensive line and our defenses lights out seven

671
00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 1: more sacks. Today they come at quarterbacks like it's the

672
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 1: nineteen eighties. Your first job is to survive four quarters

673
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 1: and stay in the game. John Elway, though, your boy, Dan,

674
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 1: I mean we this isn't second guessing. We killed It

675
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 1: was like the thing I would. I feel like we've

676
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:57,960
Speaker 1: talked about more in then on our podcast this offseason

677
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:00,360
Speaker 1: than anything else. Why is John Elways so raid to

678
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 1: sign a backup quarterback? Like what in a c in

679
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 1: a year when backup quarterbacks are all over the place.

680
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 1: You know, Andy Dalton's outside of Walmart. You know, I

681
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 1: was enough signs looking for jobs. Jamis Winston, you know

682
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:14,839
Speaker 1: there's a there's a million and in La really said

683
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:17,440
Speaker 1: like he didn't want to threaten. I don't know, it's

684
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 1: just what it was. He he kind of staked his

685
00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 1: claim that Drew Locks is guy, and he didn't want

686
00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:25,560
Speaker 1: Cam Newton in that building. He didn't want Jamis Wintson's

687
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:30,360
Speaker 1: somebody that would potentially undermine locks confidence or cause internal

688
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:33,439
Speaker 1: questioning over who the guy really is. And he got

689
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:35,319
Speaker 1: what he wanted because there is no question coming out

690
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:37,640
Speaker 1: of training camp that Drew Lock was their quarterback. But yeah,

691
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:39,719
Speaker 1: when you fly with when you're on the trap, he's

692
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 1: without a safety net. D Jeff Driscoll sometimes happened, so

693
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:46,840
Speaker 1: good luck with that could be a season breaker for them.

694
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:49,120
Speaker 1: If he's out a month, month and a half, they're

695
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:52,239
Speaker 1: already owed two. Right, it might be too late by

696
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 1: the time. We don't even know not to be labor

697
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:57,000
Speaker 1: this point, wouldn't even know if Drew Lock can really play,

698
00:35:57,480 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 1: and he might come back in a situation where they

699
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 1: have to win, you know, seven of eight games to

700
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:03,440
Speaker 1: make the playoffs. Depending on how this goes over the

701
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 1: next few years. It's it's a bad situation that could

702
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 1: have potentially been avoided, if I agree. I think we

703
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:13,359
Speaker 1: tend to think of when quarterback injuries happen, Hey he's

704
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:15,240
Speaker 1: out for the year, and you have no chance anyway

705
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:17,839
Speaker 1: they were in on offense. But sometimes it's just two

706
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:19,360
Speaker 1: to three weeks and if you can get by and

707
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:21,879
Speaker 1: stay in the race, you need a backup good enough

708
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:23,839
Speaker 1: to do that. And I question whether Driscoll was good

709
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:25,479
Speaker 1: enough to do that well in a year ago. We're

710
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:29,640
Speaker 1: coming off you know, Vic Fongio saying that Drew Lock

711
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 1: isn't even prepared to play in the NFL last summer,

712
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 1: so it's like things happen fast, and if you just

713
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:37,480
Speaker 1: go in with one quarterback, I think that you know,

714
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:39,160
Speaker 1: the Bears that had a little bit of some of

715
00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:41,719
Speaker 1: that action to where it's like we're we're protecting our

716
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,719
Speaker 1: starter to such degree, and that's fine, except your starter

717
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:47,399
Speaker 1: is not in eighth grade running a middle school Pop

718
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:50,239
Speaker 1: Warner team with a fragile psychology. If he is, he

719
00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:52,920
Speaker 1: shouldn't be an NFL starter to begin with. Bringing the

720
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:56,759
Speaker 1: best possible backup. Isn't the whole Drew Lock experience partly like, oh,

721
00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 1: he's got so much confidence, he's got great flow, and

722
00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:01,759
Speaker 1: he's rapping on the side lines and he's got moxie. Well,

723
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:04,839
Speaker 1: then if he doesn't sound like he's a flower, right,

724
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:08,319
Speaker 1: But also that also just isn't Truelock's fault. That's John

725
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:10,839
Speaker 1: Elway's issue, which I think we agree on. It's not

726
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 1: Drew Lock's fault that he sprained his A C joint either.

727
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 1: I mean, I think he has been promising, so I

728
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:19,320
Speaker 1: think the evaluation is fair Undrew Lock. But the environment

729
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 1: is what's questionable. Okay, By the way, West you mentioned

730
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:26,680
Speaker 1: use the term move the sticks a couple of times.

731
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:28,320
Speaker 1: I like that as a football term. If you like that,

732
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:31,839
Speaker 1: like a good name for a podcast. Anyway, let's move

733
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 1: on adopt that as an online persona just the thought.

734
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:41,239
Speaker 1: Makes a handoff to unclaimed deep, takes a long look downfield,

735
00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:42,800
Speaker 1: going deep again. He's got a man right up with.

736
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 1: John Brownie makes a catch, touchdown, touchdown Buffalo. John frown

737
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:52,799
Speaker 1: from Josh Allen touchdown Bills with three on nine to go,

738
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:56,239
Speaker 1: They're up by Tanna forty six yard touchdown pass. What

739
00:37:56,440 --> 00:38:06,880
Speaker 1: a play dagger? What is this? Twenties swingers? Where's the flappers?

740
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 1: At Ricky w with the call? John Murphy, Steve Tasker.

741
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:20,120
Speaker 1: Josh Allen threw for four hundred seventeen yards Rosie, four touchdowns,

742
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:23,920
Speaker 1: Rosie both career highs, and the Bills wiped out a

743
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:28,920
Speaker 1: fourth quarter depsit, knocking off the Dolphins mark. There was

744
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 1: endless talk about Josh Allen in the need for him

745
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:33,359
Speaker 1: to take the next step in his third season. I

746
00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:36,799
Speaker 1: imagine just based on this box score and where they're

747
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:39,919
Speaker 1: at right now, that Bill Bills fans are feeling pretty

748
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:41,920
Speaker 1: good about their guy right now. Yeah. I mean, if

749
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:45,239
Speaker 1: it's a roller coaster ride, Uh, this is the part

750
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:46,960
Speaker 1: of the ride where you're you know, you're up on

751
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,480
Speaker 1: the top. You can see all of Los Angeles or

752
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:52,719
Speaker 1: in this case, all of Western New York unfolding before you.

753
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 1: And it's a beautiful early September day. Even Niagara Falls

754
00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:59,879
Speaker 1: is beneath you. Sure you're above the falls, so every

755
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:03,680
Speaker 1: thing is great. Um for me, I think has a

756
00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 1: lot to do with Brian Dable, who we've mentioned before

757
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:08,919
Speaker 1: a bunch and you know he has been all over

758
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:10,880
Speaker 1: the place as in O C. But I think he

759
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:12,960
Speaker 1: helped Alan down the stretch last year. I think he

760
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,799
Speaker 1: continues to do that. Alan and I really don't care

761
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:18,520
Speaker 1: about passing totals. It just seems like a lot of

762
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:20,759
Speaker 1: it can be wacky stuff, but these are coming in wins.

763
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:24,360
Speaker 1: This isn't garbage time. He's the first Bills quarterback to

764
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:26,399
Speaker 1: throw for three d yards and back to back games

765
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 1: since Drew Bledsoe in two thousand two. I think that

766
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:32,240
Speaker 1: just tells you how low functioning some of their passing

767
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:35,279
Speaker 1: attacks have been since. But this, to me, the game

768
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:37,640
Speaker 1: I looked at the Dolphins about three quarters and now

769
00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:39,200
Speaker 1: you know, and you Greg's talking about he got a

770
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:41,759
Speaker 1: great draft. I probably had one of the worst UM

771
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 1: Weekly drafts you could you could conjure up for games,

772
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:48,919
Speaker 1: because when this thing sunk into a weather delay about

773
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:51,239
Speaker 1: an hour and forty minutes minutes into it, I thought,

774
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 1: my heavens, what have I gone on? What's going on here?

775
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:56,799
Speaker 1: The Dolphins to me looked identity free and just like

776
00:39:56,840 --> 00:40:00,480
Speaker 1: a team with really nothing special to offer at all.

777
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:04,400
Speaker 1: UM three quarters through and maybe that special element is

778
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:07,240
Speaker 1: when TWA gets on the field at some point. Not terrible,

779
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 1: I mean, they're not last year's team, but they're kind

780
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:13,759
Speaker 1: of last year's team. And Buffalo, you know, basically just

781
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:16,399
Speaker 1: plotted and moved their way to a win. Here. This

782
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:18,200
Speaker 1: is a game where I think, but this Buffalo is

783
00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:21,440
Speaker 1: not gonna win the same way that Kansas City wins

784
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:24,000
Speaker 1: or or really even Pittsburgh. I just think that they

785
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 1: are who they are. UM, it all rides on allan

786
00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 1: not to be totally cliche about it, but it does.

787
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:32,000
Speaker 1: Stefon Diggs is working out. I would say that the

788
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:36,560
Speaker 1: Diggs connection, the whole signing, there's another sliding doors world

789
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:39,960
Speaker 1: where Diggs is upset already, UM, and he's annoyed at

790
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:42,400
Speaker 1: Josh Allen is thrown in. There's eight interceptions. Off to

791
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:46,640
Speaker 1: a really good start. I like the what eventually. I'm

792
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:48,680
Speaker 1: just trying to keep it positive here. I mean, Devin

793
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:51,600
Speaker 1: Singletary and Zach Moss are an interesting backfield combo. They

794
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:53,440
Speaker 1: just had. You know, you look at where they were

795
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:55,240
Speaker 1: two years ago on offense and where they are today

796
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:58,520
Speaker 1: and how quickly they built around their quarterback. For some

797
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:01,279
Speaker 1: of these quarterbacks that are are not functional, that's part

798
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:03,759
Speaker 1: of it. And Alan had doesn't have the excuse, but

799
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:05,239
Speaker 1: nor does he need to make him. I mean, he's

800
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:07,200
Speaker 1: these are two of his better weeks around. I think

801
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:10,279
Speaker 1: the Dallas game last year was a high watermark for

802
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:13,279
Speaker 1: Allen and he's he's heading into that territory right now,

803
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:15,360
Speaker 1: and so so far, so good for a team that

804
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:18,359
Speaker 1: should win the division. Um if the Buffalo or if

805
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:21,759
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots stumbled, the Stefan Diggs move right

806
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:24,319
Speaker 1: now looks like a master stroke. And I will say

807
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:27,680
Speaker 1: it wasn't as obvious now as it seemed then because

808
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 1: when they pulled the trigger on that trade and gave

809
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:33,960
Speaker 1: a first round pick UH to the Vikings, There are

810
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:36,279
Speaker 1: a lot of people saying, why would they give up

811
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:39,720
Speaker 1: a first round pick for Stefon Diggs when the greatest

812
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:42,960
Speaker 1: wide receiver class in twenty years is coming up and

813
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 1: you can get somebody cheaper and perhaps even better than

814
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:47,960
Speaker 1: the Stefon Diggs. Well, then real football starts and you

815
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,680
Speaker 1: realize that, oh, it's good to have a twenty seven

816
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 1: year old Stefan Diggs and his prime Uh, immediately hitting

817
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:56,560
Speaker 1: your roster and playing at a high level. And that's

818
00:41:56,560 --> 00:41:58,239
Speaker 1: what this team needed. That guy to step in. And

819
00:41:58,239 --> 00:41:59,839
Speaker 1: we're gonna get to the Vikings in a little bit.

820
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:03,480
Speaker 1: A team that seems totally lost on offense without Stefon Diggs. Uh,

821
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:05,720
Speaker 1: their quarterback doesn't know what to do or who to trust.

822
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:10,360
Speaker 1: Through two weeks, he's been a monster upgrade for them.

823
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:13,839
Speaker 1: He's really good. Um. You know how Bruce Harrian's has

824
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:17,160
Speaker 1: that postgame routine where he waits for all the fans

825
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 1: to leave and then he he takes a few people

826
00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:21,040
Speaker 1: out to the old pick up truck and does the

827
00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 1: He does the real tailgate actually on Sunday nights. I

828
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 1: think if you're a Bill's front office operative, you gotta

829
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 1: hit Lake Erie and Terry Pagoula's yacht for for a

830
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:34,600
Speaker 1: postgame drink after this one. I mean, look at you

831
00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:38,680
Speaker 1: drafted a very polarizing quarterback who had as many physical

832
00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 1: gifts as any any quarterback to answer the league probably

833
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:45,399
Speaker 1: um and this is against two bad teams, But so

834
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:48,440
Speaker 1: far it's working out like your investment is paying off.

835
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:51,959
Speaker 1: And what you did to surround him with Smoky Brown

836
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:55,759
Speaker 1: and Cool Beasley and now Stefon Diggs, it's really working out.

837
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:59,400
Speaker 1: And Josh Allen seems to be improving by the week.

838
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:04,600
Speaker 1: The key is having a plan for it. I mean, look,

839
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:06,960
Speaker 1: it has been against the Jets and the Dolphins, and

840
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:09,480
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to watching this game because I saw

841
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:12,879
Speaker 1: that the sideline throw of digs On on their key

842
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:14,279
Speaker 1: drive at the end of the even that was an

843
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:16,920
Speaker 1: unbelievable touch throw by Josh Allen. And if he can

844
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:20,080
Speaker 1: keep doing those things, you know, the sky is the limit.

845
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:22,600
Speaker 1: But to me, it's a schemed up offense. And I

846
00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:25,319
Speaker 1: always say to me, he's he's the poor man's Cam Newton.

847
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:27,120
Speaker 1: And when I'm saying that, I'm talking about a young

848
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 1: Cam Newton that you know, one of the great college

849
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:32,360
Speaker 1: prospects to ever come out and one of the most

850
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:35,719
Speaker 1: physically imposing players I've ever seen. I'm talking about the

851
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:38,920
Speaker 1: young Cam Newton, and Cam Newton is ultimately kind of

852
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:41,759
Speaker 1: a scheme based quarterback that you gotta have the right

853
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:46,080
Speaker 1: system around him or else it's gonna be up and down.

854
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:48,279
Speaker 1: And right now they got the right system around now.

855
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:51,360
Speaker 1: I mean Newton had that MVP season. Hasn't been a

856
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:55,840
Speaker 1: top ten quarterbacks since because different things have have happened. Uh,

857
00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:58,840
Speaker 1: And right now it seems like with the talent around

858
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:02,320
Speaker 1: Alan that they can eat up on below average defenses.

859
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:05,440
Speaker 1: And if you look at their schedule coming up, that's

860
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:07,319
Speaker 1: all I see for a while. I mean, you got

861
00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:09,040
Speaker 1: the Patriots, I guess in a month, and we'll see

862
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:10,919
Speaker 1: how good their defense Isn't that the Rams are fine

863
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:14,840
Speaker 1: next week. But for the most part, they're an offensive team.

864
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:16,959
Speaker 1: And that's one of the reasons why I wasn't quite

865
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:20,000
Speaker 1: as trusting of the Bills, in addition to my you know,

866
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:23,000
Speaker 1: skepticism about Alan being consistent. If they can be an

867
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:26,440
Speaker 1: offensive team like then then the sky is the limit

868
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:28,960
Speaker 1: for them. And they clearly have been an offensive team

869
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:31,160
Speaker 1: through two weeks. One like five second note on the

870
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:34,680
Speaker 1: Dolphins Mike Kasicki hundred and thirty yards. We've been waiting

871
00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:36,319
Speaker 1: for this guy to kind of do it. Um he

872
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:41,839
Speaker 1: looked good today, all right. Speaking of Stefan Diggs's former team,

873
00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:44,160
Speaker 1: Let's see how they fared after the ugly week when

874
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:49,719
Speaker 1: showing against the Packers spoiler alert, they sucked Becausin's three

875
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:52,160
Speaker 1: receiver stack to the left side, empty sept. They getting

876
00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 1: his own end zone to throw, and the cults have

877
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:56,360
Speaker 1: them for a moment, and they have them now in

878
00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:59,640
Speaker 1: the intew and somehow gets out of it and he

879
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:02,839
Speaker 1: physically now he's passed the end zone at the two

880
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:06,400
Speaker 1: yard line. But taking a look at the officials town below,

881
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:09,359
Speaker 1: they have their arms up to signalize safety. That's gonna

882
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:12,640
Speaker 1: be Justin Houston and DeForest Buckner combining on the sack

883
00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:21,560
Speaker 1: of the Colt Matt Taylor w f n I with

884
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:25,240
Speaker 1: the call, Yeah, that was Kirk Cousins data nutshell, nowhere

885
00:45:25,239 --> 00:45:30,600
Speaker 1: to go, nothing to do. Failure ensues. The Indianapolis Colt

886
00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:32,400
Speaker 1: has become the second team in as many weeks to

887
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:35,080
Speaker 1: bully the Vikings. Jonathan Taylor went over a hundred yards

888
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:39,640
Speaker 1: with a touchdown in the indian defense smothered Kirk Cousins

889
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:45,719
Speaker 1: in eleven win for the Vikings. It was just another

890
00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:48,600
Speaker 1: ugly day. Cousins about this, I know you guys hate

891
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:53,280
Speaker 1: passer rating or whatever opinions. I think it's fine. Stat

892
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:56,600
Speaker 1: It's not perfect, but nothing is. Kirk Cousins at a

893
00:45:56,719 --> 00:46:01,279
Speaker 1: zero point zero passer rating late into the third quarter. UM,

894
00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:04,560
Speaker 1: there were some drops in there, but in general, the

895
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:06,560
Speaker 1: offense just cannot get in a game flow. Same thing

896
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:09,319
Speaker 1: happened last week when the defense couldn't get off the

897
00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:14,319
Speaker 1: field with Aaron Rodgers. Uh, this time Dalvin Cook again,

898
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:16,200
Speaker 1: who should be the centerpiece of this offense. But they

899
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:18,839
Speaker 1: keep on falling behind and it throws off their game

900
00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:21,000
Speaker 1: script and they end up in these situations where they

901
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 1: need Cousins to make things happen. And the problem right

902
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:28,200
Speaker 1: now is that he trusts Adam Feeling, and I don't

903
00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:30,720
Speaker 1: know if he trusts anyone else because he just doesn't

904
00:46:30,719 --> 00:46:33,720
Speaker 1: feel like he's confident going through his progressions and and

905
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:36,240
Speaker 1: and trying to move the offense which has been really

906
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:40,000
Speaker 1: at a standstill now uh for two weeks. And the

907
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:43,719
Speaker 1: defense it wasn't embarrassing as embarrassing as it was last

908
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:46,719
Speaker 1: week against the Packers, but still not a great job.

909
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:50,120
Speaker 1: They got a bunch of stops and that led to

910
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:53,319
Speaker 1: field goals that kept it from getting completely out of

911
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:57,480
Speaker 1: hand here. But you know, Indianapolis had almost seventeen minutes

912
00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:01,759
Speaker 1: advantage in time of possession and they let you know,

913
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:05,240
Speaker 1: mo Ali Cox go wild on them for five catches

914
00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:08,200
Speaker 1: for one eleven. The Colts ran forty times for a

915
00:47:08,239 --> 00:47:11,919
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty one yards. The Vikings are a team

916
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:15,080
Speaker 1: in transition right now, where their offense is trying to

917
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:17,760
Speaker 1: figure out what their identity is in a digslis world,

918
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:19,840
Speaker 1: and the defense is a bunch of young guys and

919
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:21,719
Speaker 1: they don't know what they're doing yet. And when you

920
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:25,000
Speaker 1: combine those two things against two quality opponents, that's how

921
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:27,440
Speaker 1: O and two happens. And it's not looking good right now.

922
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:30,759
Speaker 1: In transition. Sounds like a very um kind way to

923
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:33,719
Speaker 1: put it. I mean, that's what you hope if you're

924
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:35,960
Speaker 1: Mike Zimmer, that they're gonna figure it out. And I

925
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:38,239
Speaker 1: still think they will, but I mean right now they're

926
00:47:38,280 --> 00:47:42,000
Speaker 1: just not ready for prime time. They're gonna establish the

927
00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:44,920
Speaker 1: run team, and when you try to establish the run

928
00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:47,600
Speaker 1: but you don't go anywhere, keeps putting the quarterback in

929
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 1: awful situations, especially when you want to be a play

930
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:53,560
Speaker 1: action team. Well that's their identity. Last year at this time,

931
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:56,080
Speaker 1: we're talking about how great Dalvin Cooks looking, and they're

932
00:47:56,120 --> 00:48:00,239
Speaker 1: running over everybody with Madison playing behind him, right, I mean,

933
00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:03,680
Speaker 1: because I mean Cousins went back to pass thirty times

934
00:48:03,719 --> 00:48:06,920
Speaker 1: and uh they have nine yards passing. So then you

935
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:09,040
Speaker 1: can you can make up a bunch of other reasons

936
00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:11,840
Speaker 1: in terms of game script or the running game and

937
00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:13,840
Speaker 1: their defense and that those are all true too. But

938
00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:17,160
Speaker 1: that stinks. I mean, that's that's pathetic. That's you know,

939
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:21,480
Speaker 1: the worst passing attack in the league. Justin Jefferson. I mean,

940
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:23,759
Speaker 1: I'm just saying right now, they looked actually thought they

941
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:25,840
Speaker 1: looked good offensively last week. I thought it was almost

942
00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:27,919
Speaker 1: unfair to criticize the offense at all. It was such

943
00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:31,200
Speaker 1: a strange, strange game that was kind of like to me, Yeah,

944
00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 1: I I really did. They moved for three quarters last week.

945
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:38,000
Speaker 1: They moved, they moved the ball. There were some things

946
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:40,520
Speaker 1: that happened in that game obviously that they that they

947
00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:42,400
Speaker 1: fell behind, But I don't think it was a disastrous

948
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:46,359
Speaker 1: offensive performance. This this clearly was and Cousins after the game,

949
00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:49,000
Speaker 1: to me, was disastrous because they asked him how disappointed

950
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:52,719
Speaker 1: is to be oh and two and he answered it,

951
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:56,120
Speaker 1: and I like, well, of course, you know, if you

952
00:48:56,280 --> 00:48:58,719
Speaker 1: want you you set out to win each game that

953
00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:02,560
Speaker 1: you played. But then he immediately pivoted to I really

954
00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:06,560
Speaker 1: wanted to focus this season on, you know, improving a

955
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:09,160
Speaker 1: little bit more, you know, making plays off script, making

956
00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:10,719
Speaker 1: plays with my feet, and I think I've done a

957
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:12,719
Speaker 1: good job of that through two weeks. And I'm like,

958
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:14,880
Speaker 1: are you kidding me? Because I keep hearing this on

959
00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:17,200
Speaker 1: these vikings telling that's all Kirk Cousins has talked about.

960
00:49:17,239 --> 00:49:18,880
Speaker 1: It's like, well, we want to improve. You know, he

961
00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:21,360
Speaker 1: can't really make plays off script anymore. It's like, great,

962
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:24,160
Speaker 1: you ran for seven yards once last week, and you

963
00:49:24,239 --> 00:49:26,200
Speaker 1: made like one throw on the run this week or

964
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:29,560
Speaker 1: whatever happened. It's like, what are you talking about, Kirk Cousins.

965
00:49:30,280 --> 00:49:31,759
Speaker 1: He's the only guy in the world who thinks he

966
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:38,719
Speaker 1: can plan to off script exactly exactly. Didn't he didn't

967
00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:40,879
Speaker 1: He have a quote before the season that he wasn't

968
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:45,240
Speaker 1: afraid to die or something, maybe just from yeah, maybe

969
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:49,640
Speaker 1: the maybe like the streaming Kirk cousins tweets aren't the

970
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:53,239
Speaker 1: first thing the Vikings twitter feed needs to be offering us.

971
00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:56,160
Speaker 1: I want to ask you, though, Jonathan Taylor, I've we've

972
00:49:56,160 --> 00:49:58,759
Speaker 1: been excited about this guy. How did he look for

973
00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:01,799
Speaker 1: the Cult stand He wasn't. I wouldn't call it an

974
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:05,319
Speaker 1: electrifying game where he was jumping off the page, but

975
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:08,400
Speaker 1: he was absolutely like the guy. Uh. He was their

976
00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:11,440
Speaker 1: guy and and obviously the numbers back it up that

977
00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:13,600
Speaker 1: he was a part of moving and they moved the

978
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:17,280
Speaker 1: ball pretty well. The Cults, they they weren't great um

979
00:50:17,320 --> 00:50:19,719
Speaker 1: punching it into the end zone, but Philip rivers through

980
00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:21,960
Speaker 1: one pick but he was he was fine. Um. I

981
00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:25,200
Speaker 1: thought the offense overall was solid. They did get bad

982
00:50:25,239 --> 00:50:28,120
Speaker 1: news in the second quarter of Paris. Campbell, a guy

983
00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:31,279
Speaker 1: who just cannot catch a break. He had a seven

984
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:35,040
Speaker 1: yard rushing attempt near the right sideline, went down, grabbing

985
00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:37,239
Speaker 1: his knee, doing the whole thing that you never like

986
00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:40,520
Speaker 1: to see, pounding the turf and then looking distraught as

987
00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:43,080
Speaker 1: he's being carted off. It's not clear as of right

988
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:45,000
Speaker 1: now how serious it is, but it didn't look good.

989
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:49,160
Speaker 1: MALIEK Cooker, their safety former. First there was an update

990
00:50:49,239 --> 00:50:51,960
Speaker 1: on Paris Campbell. After the game, they say they believe

991
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:54,319
Speaker 1: it's not an a c O. Okay, well that's good

992
00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:57,160
Speaker 1: because it certainly looked like a season ending injury at

993
00:50:57,200 --> 00:51:00,840
Speaker 1: the time. And then Malee Cooker he had an achilles injury.

994
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:03,680
Speaker 1: I don't know how serious that is, but this comes

995
00:51:03,719 --> 00:51:06,440
Speaker 1: one week after. Of course, Marlon Mack was lost to

996
00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:11,360
Speaker 1: the year to a blown achilles But Campbell's injury story

997
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:13,839
Speaker 1: is crazy. Now. He played just seven games last year.

998
00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:17,080
Speaker 1: He was a big time player at Ohio State, but

999
00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:19,919
Speaker 1: he had a hamstring injury, an abdominal injury, a broken hand,

1000
00:51:19,960 --> 00:51:22,880
Speaker 1: a broken foot, and now a knee injury. Knee injury.

1001
00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:25,640
Speaker 1: It's just sometimes these guys, certain guys just cannot catch.

1002
00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:28,640
Speaker 1: He's been like getting great reviews from them all summer too,

1003
00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:30,640
Speaker 1: and looked good last week. And they and I did

1004
00:51:30,640 --> 00:51:33,080
Speaker 1: say though that this was sort of the DeForest Buckner

1005
00:51:33,160 --> 00:51:36,880
Speaker 1: game you could point to where he was absolutely reeking

1006
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:41,360
Speaker 1: um chaos on on the Vikings offense. I mean, Rivers

1007
00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:44,120
Speaker 1: got to stop throwing picks inside the five. This this

1008
00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:46,120
Speaker 1: is a team that kind of defined itself for much

1009
00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:47,960
Speaker 1: of last year, has a great red zone team, and

1010
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:50,520
Speaker 1: they've been getting pretty bad in the red zone through

1011
00:51:50,600 --> 00:51:52,600
Speaker 1: two weeks, so he he's got to clean that up.

1012
00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:56,600
Speaker 1: All right, let's keep moving. Rogers alone with the shotgun now,

1013
00:51:56,640 --> 00:52:01,239
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones joins him in the offensive backfield. DeVante to

1014
00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:03,960
Speaker 1: the right, single receiver left less. Argiv Is to Jones,

1015
00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:10,160
Speaker 1: I'm the middle rightist. Yes, it's gonna be secretary at

1016
00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:21,399
Speaker 1: the Delmont him chust Jone. I mean, it's so weird

1017
00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:26,080
Speaker 1: without seventy thousand screaming cheese heads there, but still an

1018
00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:30,600
Speaker 1: inspired call by Wayne Larity of w t MJ. Aaron

1019
00:52:30,680 --> 00:52:33,720
Speaker 1: Jones went off her career high a hundred sixty eight yards,

1020
00:52:33,719 --> 00:52:38,120
Speaker 1: scored three touchdowns, including that seventy five yard surge you

1021
00:52:38,239 --> 00:52:41,080
Speaker 1: just heard. Packers rally back from the early depthsit to

1022
00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:44,440
Speaker 1: beat the Lions forty two to twenty one. West Jones

1023
00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:46,719
Speaker 1: also left Green Bay with sixty eight seaving yards and

1024
00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:50,320
Speaker 1: four catches. The Packers have started this season looking legit.

1025
00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:55,719
Speaker 1: It's funny Aaron Rodgers has with a first round pick

1026
00:52:55,760 --> 00:52:57,960
Speaker 1: at his position, has one of the best games he's

1027
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:00,920
Speaker 1: ever had in Week one, and then Aaron Jones, with

1028
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:04,400
Speaker 1: a second round pick at his position, has possibly his

1029
00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:07,320
Speaker 1: best career game in Week two, and a reminder that

1030
00:53:07,440 --> 00:53:10,279
Speaker 1: oh yeah, this isn't just an Aaron Rodgers team. They've

1031
00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:12,919
Speaker 1: got a running back who scored twenty touchdowns last year

1032
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:17,120
Speaker 1: and in this game went wild. Uh the two thirty

1033
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:21,400
Speaker 1: total yards during thirty eight three touchdowns, had an awesome

1034
00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:25,359
Speaker 1: catch backward twisting, leaping catch with a cornerback and man

1035
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:28,600
Speaker 1: to man coverage down field. Had a really impressive blitz

1036
00:53:28,600 --> 00:53:32,440
Speaker 1: pick up on about as Scantling's forty one yard touchdown

1037
00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:35,040
Speaker 1: or a forty one yard catch. It was really impressive

1038
00:53:35,080 --> 00:53:38,359
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones performance and to me, a grown up game

1039
00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:42,640
Speaker 1: for the Packers where we we questioned how much of

1040
00:53:42,760 --> 00:53:45,760
Speaker 1: last year was sort of sneaking up on the people,

1041
00:53:45,840 --> 00:53:47,759
Speaker 1: taking advantage of the schedule, and how much of it

1042
00:53:47,800 --> 00:53:51,160
Speaker 1: was staying power. And to me, if you've watched this

1043
00:53:51,239 --> 00:53:53,359
Speaker 1: matchup in the previous couple of years, you know that

1044
00:53:54,040 --> 00:53:57,360
Speaker 1: Matt Matt Patricia's Lions defense really takes away what the

1045
00:53:57,360 --> 00:54:00,600
Speaker 1: Packers want to do, takes away their big plays um

1046
00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:03,719
Speaker 1: and Aaron Rodgers style to me, has always been kind

1047
00:54:03,719 --> 00:54:06,400
Speaker 1: of like a matador. He he wants everyone in the

1048
00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:08,640
Speaker 1: stadium to have the attention on him because he's he's

1049
00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:11,920
Speaker 1: out there putting on a performance. He had to kind

1050
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:14,880
Speaker 1: of like play a mature playing close to the vest,

1051
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:18,400
Speaker 1: take what the defense gives him, um and settle for that.

1052
00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:21,440
Speaker 1: Letting the running back have the spotlight look like a

1053
00:54:21,600 --> 00:54:24,120
Speaker 1: very grown up performance after the Lions jumped out to

1054
00:54:24,120 --> 00:54:26,719
Speaker 1: a big league I love you comparing him to a matador.

1055
00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:30,080
Speaker 1: I think that's a perfect uh comp for Aaron Rodgers.

1056
00:54:30,080 --> 00:54:31,600
Speaker 1: Come on, you know he wants to be out there

1057
00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:34,640
Speaker 1: with a rose between his teeth. Absolutely, I think it's

1058
00:54:34,719 --> 00:54:38,759
Speaker 1: perfect yards on offense. I mean, I would imagine if

1059
00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:41,120
Speaker 1: you dig into Matt Laflour's brain, he would rather it

1060
00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:43,880
Speaker 1: look a little bit more like this than Aaron Rodgers

1061
00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:45,239
Speaker 1: having to save the day or do it all on

1062
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:47,759
Speaker 1: his own. He wants to be run happy. I think

1063
00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:49,759
Speaker 1: that we saw that last year, and this seems like

1064
00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:53,759
Speaker 1: the perfect marriage of the two, right. I mean this, this,

1065
00:54:53,760 --> 00:54:55,880
Speaker 1: this is the best case scenario for the packer. I

1066
00:54:55,880 --> 00:54:59,080
Speaker 1: think they've had one of the most meaningful first two

1067
00:54:59,080 --> 00:55:01,440
Speaker 1: weeks of the season's so you know, we say you

1068
00:55:01,480 --> 00:55:04,319
Speaker 1: can only take so much, Well, you're there are two

1069
00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:06,800
Speaker 1: games ahead of the Vikings and the Lions. Two teams

1070
00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:09,680
Speaker 1: you know various members. I thought the Vikings would be

1071
00:55:09,760 --> 00:55:12,279
Speaker 1: very frisky. I know Dan did too. Mark like the

1072
00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:15,200
Speaker 1: line there are already two games ahead with wins in

1073
00:55:15,200 --> 00:55:18,040
Speaker 1: in hand, and they're showing some signs. I think, to

1074
00:55:18,040 --> 00:55:20,640
Speaker 1: to West's point that Okay, yeah, they got lucky to

1075
00:55:20,680 --> 00:55:22,920
Speaker 1: go thirteen and three on some level because they want

1076
00:55:22,960 --> 00:55:25,560
Speaker 1: so many close games. But there is another route towards

1077
00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:28,520
Speaker 1: UM how you you know, repeat, It's like the luck

1078
00:55:28,960 --> 00:55:31,400
Speaker 1: that you are supposed to lose doesn't matter if you

1079
00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:33,680
Speaker 1: just get better. Like if there were a significantly better

1080
00:55:33,719 --> 00:55:37,040
Speaker 1: team and they were a fairly young team on defense, UM,

1081
00:55:37,120 --> 00:55:40,279
Speaker 1: and they certainly had some areas on offense where they

1082
00:55:40,280 --> 00:55:42,520
Speaker 1: have big time talent, Like they can just be a

1083
00:55:42,560 --> 00:55:45,600
Speaker 1: better team. And if the division is shaping up early,

1084
00:55:45,719 --> 00:55:48,680
Speaker 1: how it looks like they have to feel very good

1085
00:55:48,719 --> 00:55:53,120
Speaker 1: about where they sit in mid September. Looks get better

1086
00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:57,839
Speaker 1: from from your own guys, developing UM Fox foxes Jen

1087
00:55:57,960 --> 00:56:00,680
Speaker 1: Hale sibon reporter who listens to our show and sent

1088
00:56:00,719 --> 00:56:07,200
Speaker 1: me a very nice message about my cancer battle. UM reported, Yeah, Jim,

1089
00:56:07,520 --> 00:56:11,720
Speaker 1: they got a pretty pretty stern tongue lashing Packers defense

1090
00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:15,520
Speaker 1: got a pretty stern tongue lashing in halftime. But Russian Gary,

1091
00:56:15,560 --> 00:56:17,600
Speaker 1: their first round pick, had had the game of his

1092
00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:20,520
Speaker 1: career so far, one and a half sacks in addition

1093
00:56:20,560 --> 00:56:23,360
Speaker 1: to the pressure that contributed to a pick six for

1094
00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:26,279
Speaker 1: Chandon Sullivan. So they're getting some improvement on a day

1095
00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:28,880
Speaker 1: when they didn't have Kenny Clark out there from a

1096
00:56:28,880 --> 00:56:31,520
Speaker 1: guy they drafted early last year. If you're looking for

1097
00:56:31,640 --> 00:56:35,000
Speaker 1: one potential negative to take out of Game two for

1098
00:56:35,040 --> 00:56:37,760
Speaker 1: the Packers, it's Davante Adams. Sounds like he got beat

1099
00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:40,440
Speaker 1: up an ankle issue and he got rolled up on early,

1100
00:56:40,520 --> 00:56:43,080
Speaker 1: and then there was some type of hamstring issue later

1101
00:56:43,080 --> 00:56:46,520
Speaker 1: in the game. Targeted only three times, So hopefully that's

1102
00:56:46,719 --> 00:56:49,640
Speaker 1: not too serious. West, because as much as everyone made

1103
00:56:49,640 --> 00:56:53,680
Speaker 1: a big deal about uh Lazard and MVS making plays

1104
00:56:53,719 --> 00:56:56,000
Speaker 1: in Week one, is still remains a wide receiver group

1105
00:56:56,040 --> 00:56:59,759
Speaker 1: that very much needs Davante Adams at the forefront. Hamstrings

1106
00:56:59,760 --> 00:57:03,080
Speaker 1: are now notoriously tricky. But my sense just from watching

1107
00:57:03,120 --> 00:57:06,000
Speaker 1: the game was that if they needed him, he could

1108
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:08,960
Speaker 1: have gone back out there. Um well, we'll see how

1109
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:11,080
Speaker 1: it shapes up. But he didn't seem to be like

1110
00:57:11,120 --> 00:57:13,600
Speaker 1: distraught or anything about the injury. You know, what annoys

1111
00:57:13,640 --> 00:57:15,480
Speaker 1: me about the Lions and it's it's so easy just

1112
00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:19,440
Speaker 1: pointing Mapatricia Bob Quinn, general manager. I want to put

1113
00:57:19,480 --> 00:57:20,720
Speaker 1: him in a room. I want you to tell me

1114
00:57:20,800 --> 00:57:24,240
Speaker 1: what it is you perceived to be the makings of

1115
00:57:24,280 --> 00:57:27,200
Speaker 1: a team progress. But hang on a second, mark, hang

1116
00:57:27,240 --> 00:57:30,440
Speaker 1: on you and many other national pundits were high on

1117
00:57:30,480 --> 00:57:33,120
Speaker 1: the Lions by saying that it was a roster that

1118
00:57:33,240 --> 00:57:35,000
Speaker 1: was ready to make a move. So now you can't

1119
00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:37,200
Speaker 1: come after Quinn after two losses. Wait a minute, how

1120
00:57:37,200 --> 00:57:39,640
Speaker 1: about I finish my statement, Like, first of all, you

1121
00:57:39,640 --> 00:57:42,600
Speaker 1: get into hot water and signed Adrian Peterson and suddenly

1122
00:57:42,600 --> 00:57:45,440
Speaker 1: your offense. Like when we were crowing about the Lions,

1123
00:57:45,480 --> 00:57:48,000
Speaker 1: it was the idea of these parts working together and

1124
00:57:48,040 --> 00:57:51,160
Speaker 1: DeAndre Swift being someone I thought would make a big difference.

1125
00:57:51,240 --> 00:57:54,000
Speaker 1: He has a key drop in the first week. He's

1126
00:57:54,080 --> 00:57:57,000
Speaker 1: part of a committee backfield. There are committee back fields

1127
00:57:57,040 --> 00:57:59,320
Speaker 1: that work, and their committee back fields that are there

1128
00:57:59,360 --> 00:58:02,360
Speaker 1: because the team just seems direction lists. This seems the

1129
00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:05,440
Speaker 1: ladder in me and Mina Kimes and fill in the blank.

1130
00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:08,120
Speaker 1: Jumping on the Lions in mid August feels like one

1131
00:58:08,160 --> 00:58:10,640
Speaker 1: of the dumber developments of the last year, So I'm

1132
00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:13,840
Speaker 1: not I'm not arguing for myself, but I would say

1133
00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:16,200
Speaker 1: that whether or not they were frisky this year, Bob

1134
00:58:16,280 --> 00:58:18,920
Speaker 1: Quinn acts like he's gonna sit in this chair for

1135
00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:21,720
Speaker 1: twenty five years, make it happen, or put someone in

1136
00:58:21,720 --> 00:58:23,600
Speaker 1: there who will. But I still don't know. And I'm

1137
00:58:23,600 --> 00:58:25,520
Speaker 1: not trying to cause an issue or a riff between

1138
00:58:25,520 --> 00:58:28,000
Speaker 1: you and may Mark, but I'm trying to make sense

1139
00:58:28,040 --> 00:58:31,880
Speaker 1: of your logic right now that you were high on

1140
00:58:31,960 --> 00:58:34,160
Speaker 1: them as a team that really had the ability to

1141
00:58:34,440 --> 00:58:37,520
Speaker 1: well prize people. And the Adrian Peterson signing was done

1142
00:58:37,560 --> 00:58:40,000
Speaker 1: at a necessity because the injuries, and he was pretty

1143
00:58:40,040 --> 00:58:43,760
Speaker 1: effective in week one. I mean, I don't want to

1144
00:58:43,880 --> 00:58:45,840
Speaker 1: it's reducted to put it on the head coach either,

1145
00:58:45,960 --> 00:58:48,320
Speaker 1: but that I mean, it just feels like this is

1146
00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:51,800
Speaker 1: a team that has talent that isn't coached well. And

1147
00:58:51,880 --> 00:58:54,760
Speaker 1: here we are again, oh and two, staring down the barrel,

1148
00:58:54,760 --> 00:58:57,520
Speaker 1: another double digit lawsuit from another angle, Like you know,

1149
00:58:57,840 --> 00:59:01,000
Speaker 1: Kenny Gollady is not on the field or your backfields

1150
00:59:01,040 --> 00:59:03,080
Speaker 1: not going the way it's it's meant to. And you

1151
00:59:03,120 --> 00:59:07,120
Speaker 1: were flamed last week and this week, um largely because

1152
00:59:07,160 --> 00:59:09,920
Speaker 1: your secondary is in total tatters, and your number one

1153
00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:12,320
Speaker 1: draft pick isn't on the field, so that that I

1154
00:59:12,400 --> 00:59:15,800
Speaker 1: can't put on Quinn. But in general, the overall Bob

1155
00:59:15,840 --> 00:59:19,760
Speaker 1: Queinn experience is slightly questionable. And what this the third

1156
00:59:19,840 --> 00:59:23,360
Speaker 1: year of Matt Patricia's defense. They've really invested in the

1157
00:59:23,360 --> 00:59:26,760
Speaker 1: defensive front. And where's the pass rush? I mean, it's

1158
00:59:26,800 --> 00:59:30,080
Speaker 1: not Roger's best statistical performance, but I think he might

1159
00:59:30,080 --> 00:59:32,320
Speaker 1: have got stacked once he had all day to throw

1160
00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:34,840
Speaker 1: for most of the afternoon. They just have no no

1161
00:59:34,960 --> 00:59:37,640
Speaker 1: identity on this defense. Well, their identity is a three

1162
00:59:37,640 --> 00:59:40,040
Speaker 1: man rush. I mean, no one loves a three man

1163
00:59:40,160 --> 00:59:42,760
Speaker 1: rush like Matt Patricia. No one loves a three man

1164
00:59:42,880 --> 00:59:46,160
Speaker 1: rush and in the eleven yard completion for the opposing

1165
00:59:47,040 --> 00:59:49,919
Speaker 1: offenses for a first down more than Patricia. That's that's

1166
00:59:49,960 --> 00:59:53,560
Speaker 1: his that's his identity. Let's check in with another NFC

1167
00:59:53,680 --> 00:59:57,520
Speaker 1: North squad. Plenty of time of the play clock, hard coup.

1168
00:59:57,560 --> 01:00:00,600
Speaker 1: They rushed three drop eight mission, the pocket now darting

1169
01:00:00,600 --> 01:00:04,080
Speaker 1: around thinking about what to do, resettles now flips it

1170
01:00:04,080 --> 01:00:06,600
Speaker 1: into the end zone. Left side cup of their make

1171
01:00:06,640 --> 01:00:18,640
Speaker 1: it attach touchdown bears dart Alboni, who I love an

1172
01:00:19,400 --> 01:00:23,040
Speaker 1: instrument con I mean note it is is a masculine

1173
01:00:23,040 --> 01:00:29,520
Speaker 1: sey Dan Horde w C k y with the call.

1174
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:31,920
Speaker 1: The Chicago Bears are two and oh how about that?

1175
01:00:32,840 --> 01:00:35,040
Speaker 1: Mr Bisky threw a pair of touchdowns in the first half,

1176
01:00:35,040 --> 01:00:38,200
Speaker 1: and the Chicago defense held off the late Giants comeback

1177
01:00:38,240 --> 01:00:41,320
Speaker 1: attempt at what sounds like an utterly thrilling seventy and

1178
01:00:41,360 --> 01:00:45,840
Speaker 1: fourteen final at Soldier Field. Unfortunately, the biggest story out

1179
01:00:45,840 --> 01:00:49,440
Speaker 1: of this game was an apparently serious knee injury suffered

1180
01:00:49,480 --> 01:00:55,400
Speaker 1: by say Kwan Barkley. What happened, Mark, Well, it's if

1181
01:00:55,440 --> 01:00:57,400
Speaker 1: you're a Giants fan, you know, and we both know

1182
01:00:57,480 --> 01:00:59,920
Speaker 1: a bunch of them, you gotta ask yourself if it's

1183
01:01:00,040 --> 01:01:02,840
Speaker 1: hurtins to some degree? I mean, se Kwon Barkley torn

1184
01:01:02,880 --> 01:01:07,240
Speaker 1: a c L um sterling Shepherd? Is that confirmed? Is

1185
01:01:07,280 --> 01:01:09,560
Speaker 1: it an a C L tarif for Barkley? That's what

1186
01:01:09,640 --> 01:01:12,080
Speaker 1: I read. I will it's believed. It's one of those

1187
01:01:12,120 --> 01:01:14,080
Speaker 1: where they say that's the new way to do it.

1188
01:01:14,160 --> 01:01:16,680
Speaker 1: Is we they believe it to be in the m R.

1189
01:01:16,720 --> 01:01:19,840
Speaker 1: I will confirm it, which does that's a killer and

1190
01:01:19,840 --> 01:01:22,760
Speaker 1: they actually, I mean Wayne Goldman was a healthy scratch,

1191
01:01:22,880 --> 01:01:25,640
Speaker 1: so they they were in hot water. The minute that happened,

1192
01:01:25,640 --> 01:01:30,200
Speaker 1: it happened early Sterling Shepherd hobbled off. You know, it's

1193
01:01:30,680 --> 01:01:33,840
Speaker 1: this a c l for se Kwon Barkley, one of

1194
01:01:33,880 --> 01:01:36,240
Speaker 1: the most supremely talented running backs we've seen in a

1195
01:01:36,280 --> 01:01:38,920
Speaker 1: long time. And now you're gonna blow out his knee

1196
01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:42,520
Speaker 1: after you the knee lit the ankle ligament issue last year.

1197
01:01:42,920 --> 01:01:46,160
Speaker 1: That is that is not fair. That makes football less fun. Yeah,

1198
01:01:46,200 --> 01:01:48,440
Speaker 1: and it made it made Daniel Jones a whole lot

1199
01:01:48,520 --> 01:01:50,360
Speaker 1: less fun to who um, you know, And I came

1200
01:01:50,360 --> 01:01:52,000
Speaker 1: out of the Monday night game that we all know

1201
01:01:52,120 --> 01:01:54,280
Speaker 1: he's gonna turn the ball over. He's gonna make things

1202
01:01:54,440 --> 01:01:56,960
Speaker 1: a little too interesting at times, but I find him

1203
01:01:57,000 --> 01:02:00,320
Speaker 1: exciting and I love um the Daniel Jones experiences. But

1204
01:02:00,360 --> 01:02:04,200
Speaker 1: today you got the killer interception, you got another lost fumble.

1205
01:02:04,280 --> 01:02:07,040
Speaker 1: It was the Giants just put themselves into a hole.

1206
01:02:07,080 --> 01:02:10,400
Speaker 1: The injuries mounted, and the Bears, you know, look credit

1207
01:02:10,480 --> 01:02:13,040
Speaker 1: for It was kind of the reverse of last week's

1208
01:02:13,040 --> 01:02:16,080
Speaker 1: game where the Bears were pretty good out of the gate.

1209
01:02:16,160 --> 01:02:18,919
Speaker 1: Mitch Drabinsky made a couple of darts and I'm really

1210
01:02:18,960 --> 01:02:22,720
Speaker 1: reluctant to get on the Mitch Drabinsky um bandwagon if

1211
01:02:22,760 --> 01:02:27,240
Speaker 1: there is such a vehicle roaming around, but I don't

1212
01:02:27,280 --> 01:02:29,480
Speaker 1: know if it exists, doesn't exist, and there's no way

1213
01:02:29,520 --> 01:02:33,360
Speaker 1: you would jump on it. I said, just if there was,

1214
01:02:33,640 --> 01:02:35,960
Speaker 1: you know, he's two and oh and there's people forming

1215
01:02:35,960 --> 01:02:43,360
Speaker 1: a Mitch Robinsky bandwagon. No, no, that does not exist.

1216
01:02:43,720 --> 01:02:47,080
Speaker 1: But he made a beautiful a beautiful touchdown. Um tossed

1217
01:02:47,120 --> 01:02:50,160
Speaker 1: to Darnell Mooney. Mooney the rookie. He did some good

1218
01:02:50,160 --> 01:02:51,880
Speaker 1: things and then in the second half, you know, it

1219
01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:54,880
Speaker 1: just it wasn't the same. I don't want to call

1220
01:02:54,960 --> 01:02:57,120
Speaker 1: him a soft to and oh, because you can't blame

1221
01:02:57,160 --> 01:02:59,800
Speaker 1: who you're playing. Um, you beat a banged up Lions

1222
01:02:59,840 --> 01:03:01,840
Speaker 1: to him last week, you took her of a very

1223
01:03:01,880 --> 01:03:04,040
Speaker 1: banged up giant. I mean, it doesn't get much softer

1224
01:03:04,120 --> 01:03:07,120
Speaker 1: than Swift dropping the ball in the end. No, it's

1225
01:03:07,120 --> 01:03:09,240
Speaker 1: but it's not. It's just that I think the Bears

1226
01:03:09,240 --> 01:03:13,400
Speaker 1: are probably um a competent nine and seven type team,

1227
01:03:13,440 --> 01:03:15,720
Speaker 1: and they've gotten off to a fast start. I'm not

1228
01:03:16,080 --> 01:03:17,880
Speaker 1: going to kill him, but they just you know, you

1229
01:03:17,880 --> 01:03:19,680
Speaker 1: look at how it's played out so far. I mean,

1230
01:03:20,600 --> 01:03:23,600
Speaker 1: there will say this, Yeah, I'll say this. Mark he's

1231
01:03:23,640 --> 01:03:26,680
Speaker 1: gonna start Week three for the Bears, and I I'm

1232
01:03:26,720 --> 01:03:30,200
Speaker 1: surprised that he's made it this far and maybe maybe

1233
01:03:30,200 --> 01:03:32,720
Speaker 1: he'll bomb out week three and we'll see Nick Foles

1234
01:03:32,760 --> 01:03:36,120
Speaker 1: after that. But if you're a Bears fan, you're probably

1235
01:03:36,120 --> 01:03:38,480
Speaker 1: feeling like, obviously you feel good about two and oh,

1236
01:03:38,520 --> 01:03:41,520
Speaker 1: but it's like wow, everyone probably had this in the

1237
01:03:41,560 --> 01:03:43,000
Speaker 1: back of their mind, this idea that they were going

1238
01:03:43,080 --> 01:03:44,880
Speaker 1: to create her and then they're gonna turn to Foles

1239
01:03:44,920 --> 01:03:47,280
Speaker 1: to try to save the season. But instead you're in

1240
01:03:47,360 --> 01:03:49,920
Speaker 1: like very good shape as you hit late September. I

1241
01:03:49,920 --> 01:03:52,680
Speaker 1: mean the team is I I would say, I mean,

1242
01:03:52,760 --> 01:03:56,480
Speaker 1: unless you're like a Bears fan with blinders on, why

1243
01:03:56,520 --> 01:03:58,920
Speaker 1: what do you roote? I think you've probably confused as

1244
01:03:58,960 --> 01:04:03,320
Speaker 1: to what you're rooting. Were to happen at quarterback, where

1245
01:04:03,320 --> 01:04:05,760
Speaker 1: he has the best possible he has the best possible

1246
01:04:05,760 --> 01:04:10,720
Speaker 1: opponent next week, makee the Falcons. I mean, that's the thing.

1247
01:04:10,800 --> 01:04:12,720
Speaker 1: They don't You don't have to give those wins back.

1248
01:04:12,960 --> 01:04:16,160
Speaker 1: And you know there's no asterik that uh you know,

1249
01:04:16,200 --> 01:04:18,880
Speaker 1: Shepherd and Barkley got hurt here, but this is it

1250
01:04:18,960 --> 01:04:21,480
Speaker 1: just reminds you the Giants last year. I I am

1251
01:04:21,560 --> 01:04:24,840
Speaker 1: really disappointed to hear this because because of the watchability

1252
01:04:24,880 --> 01:04:28,320
Speaker 1: factor Dion Lewis after Barkley goes out, Barkley was four

1253
01:04:28,400 --> 01:04:31,120
Speaker 1: for twenty. Dan Lewis goes ten for twenty. It was

1254
01:04:31,160 --> 01:04:33,440
Speaker 1: a weird signing. And I thought, as there as their backup,

1255
01:04:33,480 --> 01:04:35,680
Speaker 1: he just doesn't look like the same guy and then

1256
01:04:35,720 --> 01:04:37,880
Speaker 1: you're one dimensional, and I thought it was I mean,

1257
01:04:37,920 --> 01:04:40,400
Speaker 1: it was such a telling stat that this was the

1258
01:04:40,440 --> 01:04:44,080
Speaker 1: first game in Daniel Jones' career, first game where he

1259
01:04:44,120 --> 01:04:51,000
Speaker 1: took a single snap with Shepherd, Tate ingram Um and

1260
01:04:51,080 --> 01:04:54,480
Speaker 1: who am I forgetting? And Barkley all on the field

1261
01:04:54,520 --> 01:04:56,320
Speaker 1: at the same time, with with Slayton, who has been

1262
01:04:56,320 --> 01:04:58,320
Speaker 1: good like this was it? This was the first time

1263
01:04:58,360 --> 01:05:01,360
Speaker 1: that one of those guys wasn't hurt. And Barkley tears

1264
01:05:01,360 --> 01:05:04,160
Speaker 1: his a c L and Shepard gets hurt last minutes

1265
01:05:04,200 --> 01:05:06,720
Speaker 1: and I mean it's you know, you like, I like

1266
01:05:06,800 --> 01:05:09,480
Speaker 1: the way that this team has built, but availability is

1267
01:05:09,560 --> 01:05:14,160
Speaker 1: everything and they have been the opposite. Can someone clarify

1268
01:05:14,240 --> 01:05:18,480
Speaker 1: this to me? It's a modern athlete thing that pops

1269
01:05:18,560 --> 01:05:21,120
Speaker 1: up every few weeks when a when a player is

1270
01:05:21,200 --> 01:05:26,000
Speaker 1: usually surrounding a contract squabble, but in this case, se

1271
01:05:26,120 --> 01:05:30,560
Speaker 1: Kwon bar Barkley suffers a devastating injury. Today, he's obviously

1272
01:05:31,120 --> 01:05:34,120
Speaker 1: frustrated and upset. He, according to an article in The

1273
01:05:34,120 --> 01:05:37,160
Speaker 1: New York Post, went onto his Instagram that has more

1274
01:05:37,200 --> 01:05:41,080
Speaker 1: than two point two million followers and scrubbed every Giant's

1275
01:05:41,120 --> 01:05:46,560
Speaker 1: reference photo from his instagram. So I don't know what

1276
01:05:46,560 --> 01:05:49,680
Speaker 1: what that's about. But this in general, like this idea

1277
01:05:49,680 --> 01:05:53,160
Speaker 1: of scrubbing your team from your social media is one

1278
01:05:53,200 --> 01:05:55,920
Speaker 1: of the weirder ways to send messages through. This is

1279
01:05:56,720 --> 01:05:59,720
Speaker 1: our age. This is our age. But Alan Robinson on

1280
01:05:59,720 --> 01:06:02,240
Speaker 1: the other side of the field this week, Wait, tell

1281
01:06:02,240 --> 01:06:04,440
Speaker 1: me how, Tell me how that shows our age? Like

1282
01:06:04,520 --> 01:06:07,560
Speaker 1: what is that? Like? Tell me why that is something

1283
01:06:07,600 --> 01:06:12,000
Speaker 1: that happens? Like, I don't understand you're allowed to be

1284
01:06:12,200 --> 01:06:15,439
Speaker 1: very passive aggressive in today's age, where when we're growing

1285
01:06:15,520 --> 01:06:19,320
Speaker 1: up you weren't. It's almost so painful for you to be. Well,

1286
01:06:19,520 --> 01:06:22,080
Speaker 1: here's why it shows our age because we don't understand it.

1287
01:06:22,160 --> 01:06:24,480
Speaker 1: But I think if you're under thirty, it's it's some

1288
01:06:24,680 --> 01:06:26,680
Speaker 1: It makes more sense that all right, well we grew

1289
01:06:26,760 --> 01:06:30,360
Speaker 1: up in someone under thirty connected to this podcast, let's

1290
01:06:30,360 --> 01:06:33,000
Speaker 1: bring in Erica tamp Post who's gonna explain to me,

1291
01:06:33,120 --> 01:06:36,320
Speaker 1: the old man, why it is an effective way to

1292
01:06:36,440 --> 01:06:40,200
Speaker 1: express yourself rather than post something on the Players Tribune

1293
01:06:40,280 --> 01:06:42,440
Speaker 1: or or speak to a Beat reporter you trust or

1294
01:06:42,640 --> 01:06:45,400
Speaker 1: we're not saying anything at all, to delete all references

1295
01:06:45,440 --> 01:06:47,360
Speaker 1: to the team you play for from your social media.

1296
01:06:47,440 --> 01:06:51,520
Speaker 1: Help me? Well, we're talking about it, aren't we. It's good.

1297
01:06:51,560 --> 01:06:54,040
Speaker 1: I think it's also it's mysterious. We don't know why

1298
01:06:54,040 --> 01:06:58,120
Speaker 1: he did it. We especially it's completely why do you

1299
01:06:58,120 --> 01:06:59,960
Speaker 1: want to be talked about when you just tore your

1300
01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:01,800
Speaker 1: a c L. He left one post. It might not

1301
01:07:01,840 --> 01:07:03,680
Speaker 1: have anything to do with the Giants. The post was

1302
01:07:03,760 --> 01:07:06,960
Speaker 1: like Kobe Bryant, and so maybe that that's his thing,

1303
01:07:07,080 --> 01:07:09,560
Speaker 1: is like now he's he's he's getting he's getting into

1304
01:07:09,600 --> 01:07:14,840
Speaker 1: the Momba mentality. Whatever to do with when you delete

1305
01:07:14,840 --> 01:07:19,680
Speaker 1: the photos at showing his distaste in potentially the Giants organization,

1306
01:07:19,760 --> 01:07:22,560
Speaker 1: and maybe they he feels that it's their fault that

1307
01:07:22,600 --> 01:07:26,720
Speaker 1: he was He deleted everything that's personal on his page too,

1308
01:07:26,840 --> 01:07:28,880
Speaker 1: like that had nothing to do with the Giants, And

1309
01:07:28,880 --> 01:07:31,320
Speaker 1: in Alan Robinson's case, it's kind of like just I

1310
01:07:31,320 --> 01:07:34,440
Speaker 1: don't know, it's apparently the relationship so painful. It's like

1311
01:07:34,480 --> 01:07:36,240
Speaker 1: you just have to forget about you know, he was

1312
01:07:36,240 --> 01:07:43,240
Speaker 1: trying the statement now right, Robinson worked sends a statement

1313
01:07:43,640 --> 01:07:48,200
Speaker 1: an actual statements. Are we trying to argue that are

1314
01:07:48,240 --> 01:07:50,919
Speaker 1: we trying to argue that passive aggressiveness is in a trap?

1315
01:07:51,200 --> 01:07:52,960
Speaker 1: But what do you want him to do? Send a

1316
01:07:53,320 --> 01:07:57,040
Speaker 1: like a carrier pigeon lest it's honey, even some kind

1317
01:07:57,080 --> 01:08:04,080
Speaker 1: of a racing speaking addressed. He's not he how he is?

1318
01:08:04,160 --> 01:08:07,320
Speaker 1: He's got two point two million followers. We're talking, Yes

1319
01:08:07,360 --> 01:08:09,240
Speaker 1: it is. He's pissed at the giants and we all

1320
01:08:09,280 --> 01:08:12,760
Speaker 1: know it, and he doesn't want to be there. You

1321
01:08:12,880 --> 01:08:17,040
Speaker 1: can appreciate now. I could see a twenty five year

1322
01:08:17,080 --> 01:08:19,080
Speaker 1: old Dan like he had a really bad day at work,

1323
01:08:19,080 --> 01:08:20,760
Speaker 1: and it's like, we're just not sure what we're doing

1324
01:08:20,800 --> 01:08:23,720
Speaker 1: with you at this network, and Dan like scrubs all

1325
01:08:23,840 --> 01:08:27,200
Speaker 1: NFL network content from his Instagram feed and like drives

1326
01:08:27,200 --> 01:08:30,120
Speaker 1: home eighty six miles an hour. Year old Dan from

1327
01:08:30,120 --> 01:08:33,840
Speaker 1: a different world, not his world just collapse and he

1328
01:08:34,000 --> 01:08:37,040
Speaker 1: just deleted everything on his social because his world is

1329
01:08:37,160 --> 01:08:39,920
Speaker 1: very black today. I think it's a little bit of

1330
01:08:39,920 --> 01:08:41,960
Speaker 1: a jump to say has anything to do with the giants.

1331
01:08:41,960 --> 01:08:45,680
Speaker 1: He deleted everything. He's focused on rehab. That's that's what

1332
01:08:45,720 --> 01:08:50,080
Speaker 1: he's telling us. Everything else that changes the story, right,

1333
01:08:51,320 --> 01:08:55,400
Speaker 1: every one irrelevant sports book there's ever been. And uh,

1334
01:08:56,160 --> 01:08:58,760
Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, players spoke their mind a

1335
01:08:58,800 --> 01:09:01,200
Speaker 1: little bit more back in the day if they were upset.

1336
01:09:02,160 --> 01:09:04,960
Speaker 1: Perhaps maybe this is another example of guys don't want

1337
01:09:05,320 --> 01:09:10,120
Speaker 1: other people to you know, repurpose their quoting into a

1338
01:09:10,120 --> 01:09:12,479
Speaker 1: different narrative. I don't know. I guess I am too

1339
01:09:12,520 --> 01:09:15,320
Speaker 1: old to figure. I think that's a big part of it.

1340
01:09:15,320 --> 01:09:17,400
Speaker 1: It's also that there's so much money at stake now

1341
01:09:17,439 --> 01:09:19,360
Speaker 1: that they don't want to say anything that could come

1342
01:09:19,400 --> 01:09:21,680
Speaker 1: back on them. So join this is a way of

1343
01:09:21,720 --> 01:09:24,599
Speaker 1: passive aggressively saying something, Well, we better wrap this up

1344
01:09:24,600 --> 01:09:26,559
Speaker 1: because I hear say Kwon Barkley's going to the town

1345
01:09:26,680 --> 01:09:28,839
Speaker 1: square and he's gonna, you know, make a large statement

1346
01:09:28,880 --> 01:09:31,200
Speaker 1: to the group. So we would get the flutist with

1347
01:09:31,280 --> 01:09:33,320
Speaker 1: him in a little guitar player to make a big

1348
01:09:33,400 --> 01:09:36,519
Speaker 1: impact with thank you, thank you as always to our team.

1349
01:09:36,560 --> 01:09:48,360
Speaker 1: Correspondent Erica Tamposte. Let's keep moving, seconds remaining a second.

1350
01:09:50,439 --> 01:09:56,320
Speaker 1: Harold Langry, the man who patted it big Jeff the

1351
01:09:56,479 --> 01:10:00,880
Speaker 1: man who caught it, Harold Langry and them. That show

1352
01:10:01,600 --> 01:10:13,160
Speaker 1: ends as the curtain goes down seven seconds. Okay, great team,

1353
01:10:13,800 --> 01:10:16,479
Speaker 1: Mike Keith and Dave McGinnis of w g f X

1354
01:10:16,560 --> 01:10:18,920
Speaker 1: with the call. Yeah, the Titans got a forty nine

1355
01:10:18,960 --> 01:10:21,360
Speaker 1: yard field goal from Stephen Giskowski. How about that with

1356
01:10:21,560 --> 01:10:23,960
Speaker 1: a minute thirty six to play, and then Harold Landry

1357
01:10:24,760 --> 01:10:27,720
Speaker 1: snatch that fluttering Gardner Meanshew pass out of the air

1358
01:10:27,800 --> 01:10:30,120
Speaker 1: in the final minute to seal a thirty three to

1359
01:10:30,320 --> 01:10:34,160
Speaker 1: thirty victory for the Titans over the Jaguars. Greg Good,

1360
01:10:34,200 --> 01:10:36,840
Speaker 1: teams figure out a way to win close games. The

1361
01:10:36,960 --> 01:10:40,000
Speaker 1: Titans have done it twice in six days. Yeah, they have.

1362
01:10:40,240 --> 01:10:43,000
Speaker 1: And the Ghost was a key part of it. I

1363
01:10:43,040 --> 01:10:45,000
Speaker 1: mean he hit a long field goal over fifty yards

1364
01:10:45,040 --> 01:10:46,960
Speaker 1: to end the first half that came off of a

1365
01:10:48,240 --> 01:10:51,439
Speaker 1: special team's misqu by the Jaguars. That the Jaguars have

1366
01:10:51,560 --> 01:10:55,040
Speaker 1: to be kicking themselves in this one because their offense

1367
01:10:55,120 --> 01:10:58,240
Speaker 1: played so well. I was so impressed by Gardner. Minshew.

1368
01:10:58,240 --> 01:10:59,960
Speaker 1: You look at the box scorning, you see two inner

1369
01:11:00,000 --> 01:11:02,479
Speaker 1: exceptions and and you know what happened at the end.

1370
01:11:02,520 --> 01:11:04,479
Speaker 1: It was a tip pass at the line of scrimmage.

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01:11:04,520 --> 01:11:05,960
Speaker 1: We tried to fit it in and he is a

1372
01:11:06,000 --> 01:11:07,760
Speaker 1: little shorter, so I don't know if you want to

1373
01:11:07,800 --> 01:11:10,720
Speaker 1: put that on him at all, but it was bad luck.

1374
01:11:10,880 --> 01:11:13,000
Speaker 1: The rest of the snaps he took were awesome. I've

1375
01:11:13,040 --> 01:11:16,759
Speaker 1: been so impressed by their young players in general. Minshew

1376
01:11:16,840 --> 01:11:20,320
Speaker 1: being the key one. He sees where the blitz is coming.

1377
01:11:20,720 --> 01:11:23,920
Speaker 1: He's been very accurate. He's he's had some great touch passes.

1378
01:11:23,960 --> 01:11:26,600
Speaker 1: He did connect one down the field. I know they

1379
01:11:26,760 --> 01:11:29,600
Speaker 1: lost this game, um, but I watched this team with

1380
01:11:29,760 --> 01:11:34,400
Speaker 1: James Robinson really running well today. We we talked about C. J.

1381
01:11:34,560 --> 01:11:38,439
Speaker 1: Henderson last week. Uh. They just got some young players

1382
01:11:38,520 --> 01:11:40,640
Speaker 1: that I think that they can be excited about and

1383
01:11:40,800 --> 01:11:44,360
Speaker 1: and kind of in an opposite situation. Labisco Sonaut's another

1384
01:11:44,400 --> 01:11:46,000
Speaker 1: guy I wanted to mention it just wow. When he

1385
01:11:46,080 --> 01:11:47,920
Speaker 1: has the ball in his hand, he just moves a

1386
01:11:47,960 --> 01:11:49,880
Speaker 1: little different. He played a lot of running back today

1387
01:11:49,920 --> 01:11:54,479
Speaker 1: in addition to receiver uh and played great. Unlike last week.

1388
01:11:54,520 --> 01:11:56,320
Speaker 1: They they were the team that out gained and I

1389
01:11:56,400 --> 01:11:58,559
Speaker 1: thought outplayed the opponent and they found a way to lose,

1390
01:11:58,640 --> 01:12:01,040
Speaker 1: which was kind of the opposite of what happened against

1391
01:12:01,400 --> 01:12:03,320
Speaker 1: the Colts. But I think if you're a Jaguars fan,

1392
01:12:03,400 --> 01:12:06,120
Speaker 1: the defense is at least a year away. Um, But

1393
01:12:06,240 --> 01:12:08,680
Speaker 1: you're thinking that this offense with Jay Gruden and these

1394
01:12:08,760 --> 01:12:11,160
Speaker 1: young players, there's something there for this year that's gonna

1395
01:12:11,160 --> 01:12:13,960
Speaker 1: be fun to watch and uh and for the future

1396
01:12:14,000 --> 01:12:16,599
Speaker 1: because it's a really young group. You also you almost

1397
01:12:16,640 --> 01:12:20,360
Speaker 1: wonder if Jake Gruden would be given another chance that

1398
01:12:20,439 --> 01:12:22,840
Speaker 1: a head coach role at some point, um, depending on

1399
01:12:22,960 --> 01:12:25,200
Speaker 1: how this is early. For that, it's for that, I

1400
01:12:25,280 --> 01:12:27,080
Speaker 1: know it's early. I'm just saying like it's you know,

1401
01:12:27,280 --> 01:12:30,559
Speaker 1: he's he has transformed the attack a little bit. I'm

1402
01:12:30,600 --> 01:12:33,439
Speaker 1: looking at this drive chart. Outside of one punt here,

1403
01:12:33,439 --> 01:12:37,000
Speaker 1: they had a stretch where was touchdown, field goal, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown.

1404
01:12:37,640 --> 01:12:39,960
Speaker 1: I mean they this isn't doesn't sound like a flukey

1405
01:12:40,080 --> 01:12:42,640
Speaker 1: offense at all. I mean to me that, yes, the

1406
01:12:42,720 --> 01:12:45,920
Speaker 1: Titans deserve credit for pulling out two close games, but

1407
01:12:46,040 --> 01:12:49,439
Speaker 1: the Jaguars, you know, talked about fourteen days ago as

1408
01:12:49,520 --> 01:12:53,519
Speaker 1: a confirmed tank job. Um, feel like the complete opposite

1409
01:12:53,560 --> 01:12:57,280
Speaker 1: of that. The Titans do deserve credit. And there was

1410
01:12:57,320 --> 01:13:00,880
Speaker 1: a lot of skepticism of Ryan hannah Hill after the

1411
01:13:00,960 --> 01:13:03,320
Speaker 1: Titans won in the playoffs last year without him having

1412
01:13:03,360 --> 01:13:07,519
Speaker 1: to pass much. But they paid him like a franchise quarterback.

1413
01:13:07,560 --> 01:13:10,080
Speaker 1: And what tells me he's a franchise quarterback because he

1414
01:13:10,160 --> 01:13:13,599
Speaker 1: doesn't really have bad games anymore. He almost always has

1415
01:13:13,640 --> 01:13:18,160
Speaker 1: a good game. And and now with Derrick Henry bottled

1416
01:13:18,240 --> 01:13:21,519
Speaker 1: up two straight weeks with A J. Brown contributing nothing,

1417
01:13:21,600 --> 01:13:25,479
Speaker 1: he still looks good. He still moves this offense. You're right,

1418
01:13:25,560 --> 01:13:28,439
Speaker 1: they were a good offensive team. And I thought this

1419
01:13:28,600 --> 01:13:30,479
Speaker 1: was similar to last year in the way that he

1420
01:13:30,560 --> 01:13:33,080
Speaker 1: didn't have He only had like a handful of throws

1421
01:13:33,280 --> 01:13:35,479
Speaker 1: that he had to make, but he made him. And

1422
01:13:35,560 --> 01:13:39,000
Speaker 1: that was what the Titans um did so well last year.

1423
01:13:39,280 --> 01:13:43,720
Speaker 1: Tannehill's go ahead touchdown was to me, all as good

1424
01:13:43,720 --> 01:13:46,439
Speaker 1: a throw as Mahomes is. I mean, the that was

1425
01:13:46,520 --> 01:13:52,479
Speaker 1: as great a touchdown under pressure, getting absolutely hammered. Um

1426
01:13:52,680 --> 01:13:55,200
Speaker 1: put it up in the air. Uh and in a

1427
01:13:55,400 --> 01:13:57,680
Speaker 1: third and long situation, who was it that caught it?

1428
01:13:57,800 --> 01:14:00,080
Speaker 1: Now it was Adam Humphreys in the third quarter and

1429
01:14:01,360 --> 01:14:03,920
Speaker 1: he got up and he immediately like yelled out and

1430
01:14:04,120 --> 01:14:06,200
Speaker 1: one was And to me, that was such like an

1431
01:14:06,240 --> 01:14:09,680
Speaker 1: awesome like reaction by Ryan Tannell because it was a

1432
01:14:09,760 --> 01:14:11,680
Speaker 1: badass play. He only had to make a couple of

1433
01:14:11,720 --> 01:14:14,280
Speaker 1: them in this game. They protected him really well for

1434
01:14:14,360 --> 01:14:16,599
Speaker 1: the most part, so that that play was a little different.

1435
01:14:17,000 --> 01:14:20,200
Speaker 1: The Jaguars have no pass rush right now, but man Tannehill, uh,

1436
01:14:20,840 --> 01:14:22,920
Speaker 1: he can. He can spend some pretty ones when he

1437
01:14:23,000 --> 01:14:27,200
Speaker 1: gets a chance. All right, let's keep moving. Shotgun snapped to.

1438
01:14:27,280 --> 01:14:29,680
Speaker 1: Murray steps up and takes off far side of the

1439
01:14:29,760 --> 01:14:32,280
Speaker 1: twenty got room at the tan, cuts right to the five,

1440
01:14:32,640 --> 01:14:37,839
Speaker 1: jukes the defender and scores touchdown. Tyler Murray a twenty

1441
01:14:37,960 --> 01:14:41,360
Speaker 1: two yard run, his second rushing touchdown of the game.

1442
01:14:41,800 --> 01:14:45,240
Speaker 1: That defender is in multiple pieces at the five yard line.

1443
01:14:49,720 --> 01:14:52,880
Speaker 1: Dave passed. You know, Ron Wilfley always gets the glory

1444
01:14:53,040 --> 01:14:55,200
Speaker 1: for k t a r but passionate I was called

1445
01:14:55,240 --> 01:14:58,599
Speaker 1: a big spot there. Yeah. Kyler Murray right on schedule

1446
01:14:59,080 --> 01:15:02,400
Speaker 1: and he's making season. His dual threat skills off the

1447
01:15:02,520 --> 01:15:08,240
Speaker 1: charts right now. Over Washington. He threw for six yards

1448
01:15:08,760 --> 01:15:12,240
Speaker 1: and a score, but ran for two fourteen and twenty

1449
01:15:12,320 --> 01:15:15,240
Speaker 1: one yards, So he's doing it all right now. Mark

1450
01:15:15,560 --> 01:15:19,639
Speaker 1: and Washington which looks so dominant getting after Carson Wentz

1451
01:15:20,400 --> 01:15:22,559
Speaker 1: different bit of a different task for than this week.

1452
01:15:22,600 --> 01:15:24,840
Speaker 1: And it did not go well. Yeah, they followed their

1453
01:15:25,280 --> 01:15:28,599
Speaker 1: little game script, which is, let's fall down seventeen nothing

1454
01:15:28,640 --> 01:15:31,080
Speaker 1: and then see what happens. And last week it created

1455
01:15:31,160 --> 01:15:35,720
Speaker 1: a really likable story. This time around, no, and I

1456
01:15:35,720 --> 01:15:38,000
Speaker 1: don't think it's the last time they'll be down seventeen nothing.

1457
01:15:38,040 --> 01:15:41,280
Speaker 1: I think it's hard to evaluate someone like Dwayne Haskins

1458
01:15:41,760 --> 01:15:44,640
Speaker 1: right now, Um, with the environment that he's in. I mean,

1459
01:15:45,120 --> 01:15:48,200
Speaker 1: Terry mclaurin's awesome. Uh, there's not a lot else happening

1460
01:15:48,240 --> 01:15:50,559
Speaker 1: on that offense, and when you get down seventeen nothing,

1461
01:15:50,880 --> 01:15:55,200
Speaker 1: there's it's it's against this team. Especially, it felt like Curtains.

1462
01:15:55,240 --> 01:15:56,600
Speaker 1: This game felt like it went on for four and

1463
01:15:56,600 --> 01:15:59,080
Speaker 1: a half hours. I will make that personal observation. But

1464
01:16:00,160 --> 01:16:04,679
Speaker 1: Ler Murray to me, um is such an I enjoy

1465
01:16:04,800 --> 01:16:07,080
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray because it's one of the kind of rare

1466
01:16:07,200 --> 01:16:10,760
Speaker 1: scenarios where you hype someone up all off season and

1467
01:16:11,080 --> 01:16:13,519
Speaker 1: he may be doing more than in some ways than

1468
01:16:13,560 --> 01:16:17,120
Speaker 1: people expect it. Just consistently he's throwing. He threw for

1469
01:16:17,280 --> 01:16:21,160
Speaker 1: sixty eight percent completion percentage today. I mean, he just is. Um.

1470
01:16:21,400 --> 01:16:23,960
Speaker 1: He doesn't make mistakes, Uh, not a lot of them.

1471
01:16:24,240 --> 01:16:27,960
Speaker 1: Uh he he keeps a defense like Washington's completely off

1472
01:16:28,080 --> 01:16:30,559
Speaker 1: on their toes the entire game because he can do everything,

1473
01:16:31,120 --> 01:16:35,160
Speaker 1: and this offense like functions around him really well. I

1474
01:16:35,560 --> 01:16:37,120
Speaker 1: the thing I look at a little bit with them

1475
01:16:37,240 --> 01:16:39,840
Speaker 1: is just that they don't have like some of these

1476
01:16:39,880 --> 01:16:42,680
Speaker 1: other teams. Um what if I don't think they have

1477
01:16:42,840 --> 01:16:45,799
Speaker 1: like a dominant ground game, except it kind of compiles

1478
01:16:45,880 --> 01:16:48,400
Speaker 1: by the end and Drake ended up with eighty six yards.

1479
01:16:48,479 --> 01:16:50,160
Speaker 1: But you don't that part of it is that Murray

1480
01:16:50,320 --> 01:16:53,840
Speaker 1: is such an integral part of that ground attack that

1481
01:16:54,000 --> 01:16:55,840
Speaker 1: like he fits right in and you don't worry about

1482
01:16:55,840 --> 01:16:59,160
Speaker 1: the back so much. I I just look at this

1483
01:16:59,280 --> 01:17:02,080
Speaker 1: team as a playoff team. I just do. I don't

1484
01:17:02,160 --> 01:17:05,240
Speaker 1: think that this is division. No, it's a tough division,

1485
01:17:05,360 --> 01:17:07,560
Speaker 1: and it's it's also like it's probably comes down to

1486
01:17:08,240 --> 01:17:10,360
Speaker 1: health and an injury luck. And we're about to get

1487
01:17:10,400 --> 01:17:12,280
Speaker 1: to the forty Niners. Not to jump in mark, but

1488
01:17:12,360 --> 01:17:14,000
Speaker 1: we're about to get to the Niners, a team that

1489
01:17:14,439 --> 01:17:17,560
Speaker 1: absolutely got bombed out by injuries today. That changes the

1490
01:17:17,600 --> 01:17:20,400
Speaker 1: course of their entire season and potentially opens the door

1491
01:17:20,520 --> 01:17:23,200
Speaker 1: for a team like the Cardinals to step in, right. Like,

1492
01:17:23,520 --> 01:17:25,760
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that they're the you know, clear cut

1493
01:17:25,880 --> 01:17:27,720
Speaker 1: second or third best team in the NFC. But with

1494
01:17:27,840 --> 01:17:29,880
Speaker 1: the way things are going, and if they stay healthy,

1495
01:17:30,439 --> 01:17:32,680
Speaker 1: they're gonna be there in weeks seventeen. If not, like

1496
01:17:32,840 --> 01:17:35,920
Speaker 1: having sealed something and I you know, the defense switched

1497
01:17:35,960 --> 01:17:37,439
Speaker 1: people out a lot of questions. I mean, it's tough

1498
01:17:37,479 --> 01:17:40,640
Speaker 1: to tell against Washington, but the fine I just think

1499
01:17:40,720 --> 01:17:43,080
Speaker 1: this is an interesting team, really well coached and fun

1500
01:17:43,160 --> 01:17:50,280
Speaker 1: to watch. Alright, speaking of the forty Niners. And he

1501
01:17:50,360 --> 01:17:52,800
Speaker 1: gets the right edge and gets down the sideline and

1502
01:17:52,920 --> 01:17:56,200
Speaker 1: he's gone right. He mostered is gone down the sideline.

1503
01:17:56,280 --> 01:17:58,960
Speaker 1: First play of the game, there's a toss, sweep and

1504
01:17:59,080 --> 01:18:05,080
Speaker 1: a touchdown on San fran Let's go. It feels great, baby.

1505
01:18:06,520 --> 01:18:08,439
Speaker 1: At the time, it did feel great for the forty nine.

1506
01:18:08,560 --> 01:18:10,960
Speaker 1: Is Greg Papa and Tim Ryan with the call for

1507
01:18:11,120 --> 01:18:14,360
Speaker 1: k n b R. When is a win really a loss?

1508
01:18:14,760 --> 01:18:17,080
Speaker 1: The forty Niners had no problem with a future Jets

1509
01:18:17,120 --> 01:18:20,240
Speaker 1: team at the Meadow Ends, but at thirteen victory tempered

1510
01:18:20,280 --> 01:18:23,920
Speaker 1: by a host of major injuries that could doom San Francisco.

1511
01:18:24,439 --> 01:18:28,760
Speaker 1: Nick Bosa hurts his knee as he's being carted to

1512
01:18:28,800 --> 01:18:32,599
Speaker 1: the locker room. What with what Kyle Shanahan would tell

1513
01:18:32,840 --> 01:18:35,639
Speaker 1: reporters later as a likecal likely a c L tear.

1514
01:18:35,920 --> 01:18:38,639
Speaker 1: Sam and Thomas goes down the number three overall pick

1515
01:18:38,680 --> 01:18:41,880
Speaker 1: in seventeen with a like likely a c L tear.

1516
01:18:42,120 --> 01:18:45,120
Speaker 1: They go down within about five minutes of one one another,

1517
01:18:45,840 --> 01:18:48,360
Speaker 1: decimating one of the strengths of that team, the defensive line.

1518
01:18:48,400 --> 01:18:51,759
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo couldn't even move. He was sitting duck behind

1519
01:18:52,080 --> 01:18:54,880
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage uh in the first half with

1520
01:18:54,960 --> 01:18:57,800
Speaker 1: a bad ankle. And even though he had no problem

1521
01:18:57,920 --> 01:19:00,519
Speaker 1: picking the Jets apart because the Jets stink uh, he

1522
01:19:00,640 --> 01:19:02,559
Speaker 1: came out of the game at halftime. Whehee Mostard who

1523
01:19:02,600 --> 01:19:06,479
Speaker 1: you heard go untouched around the right end for eighty

1524
01:19:06,560 --> 01:19:10,080
Speaker 1: yards on the first play from scrimmage. He also has

1525
01:19:10,160 --> 01:19:13,800
Speaker 1: a ankle issue that he needs an m R I on.

1526
01:19:14,479 --> 01:19:17,000
Speaker 1: I believe it's a sprain. At this time, this was

1527
01:19:17,040 --> 01:19:20,000
Speaker 1: a forty Honors team already missing a host of impact players,

1528
01:19:20,040 --> 01:19:23,320
Speaker 1: including George Kittle, Deebo Samuel And it's hard to be

1529
01:19:23,360 --> 01:19:27,160
Speaker 1: optimistic about the defending conference champions right now. Nice, but

1530
01:19:27,720 --> 01:19:31,559
Speaker 1: what do you do from here? And where do you go? Well?

1531
01:19:31,600 --> 01:19:34,680
Speaker 1: Speaking about how old we are, I tweeted Mark that

1532
01:19:34,800 --> 01:19:37,599
Speaker 1: this was reminded me of Techmo Super Bowl back when

1533
01:19:38,240 --> 01:19:42,400
Speaker 1: you would play on season mode and they would conspire

1534
01:19:42,439 --> 01:19:44,759
Speaker 1: against you. It would be a string of injuries, fumbles,

1535
01:19:44,800 --> 01:19:48,559
Speaker 1: interceptions in the first a few games and you just say, Okay,

1536
01:19:48,560 --> 01:19:53,599
Speaker 1: I'm gonna reset this thing. Just seasons lost? Can this season?

1537
01:19:54,240 --> 01:19:57,200
Speaker 1: I know it's like everything's conspiring against him right now.

1538
01:19:58,160 --> 01:20:00,640
Speaker 1: D Ford was out of this game. Richards Herman is

1539
01:20:00,720 --> 01:20:03,320
Speaker 1: on I R. DeFord hasn't been healthy basically since he

1540
01:20:03,400 --> 01:20:06,599
Speaker 1: got there, and they're gonna need him now. I watched

1541
01:20:06,680 --> 01:20:08,800
Speaker 1: him pretty closely last week and he did not look right. Now.

1542
01:20:08,880 --> 01:20:12,599
Speaker 1: He has a neck injury which has been recurring. Uh yeah,

1543
01:20:12,640 --> 01:20:14,599
Speaker 1: it's one of the big developments of the season, especially

1544
01:20:14,680 --> 01:20:18,800
Speaker 1: Jimmy G's injury. I wonder, like we'll see, we'll see,

1545
01:20:19,120 --> 01:20:22,479
Speaker 1: um where where they got quarterback? Are they really worse off?

1546
01:20:22,600 --> 01:20:26,479
Speaker 1: Are they that much worse off? I mean, I like

1547
01:20:27,200 --> 01:20:31,800
Speaker 1: Nickles stats would tell you that he is a average

1548
01:20:32,600 --> 01:20:34,639
Speaker 1: to above average starting quarterback. I don't know if I'm

1549
01:20:34,680 --> 01:20:38,000
Speaker 1: there yet, but that's what his stats. Remember, Shanahan coached

1550
01:20:38,040 --> 01:20:39,840
Speaker 1: him up a couple of years ago. That's what I mean.

1551
01:20:42,160 --> 01:20:44,680
Speaker 1: Nick Moles had a minute on football Twitter with like

1552
01:20:44,760 --> 01:20:47,200
Speaker 1: the Greg's of the world where everybody was getting excited

1553
01:20:47,200 --> 01:20:50,880
Speaker 1: about him. So this this could he was a rookie draft.

1554
01:20:51,720 --> 01:20:55,040
Speaker 1: When we get fascinated with young quarterbacks, I guess it

1555
01:20:55,160 --> 01:20:57,000
Speaker 1: is I don't know, you seem to be very much.

1556
01:20:57,560 --> 01:21:00,719
Speaker 1: I am. Certainly I'm head over heels for Kyler Murray

1557
01:21:00,760 --> 01:21:03,719
Speaker 1: for instance. That's that's a young quarterback. But it's funny

1558
01:21:04,280 --> 01:21:06,800
Speaker 1: A No, Nick Mullins is a guy who could be

1559
01:21:06,880 --> 01:21:14,160
Speaker 1: in action because he Garoppo was really um compromised. There

1560
01:21:14,240 --> 01:21:16,559
Speaker 1: was a play in the first quarter where he went

1561
01:21:16,640 --> 01:21:19,320
Speaker 1: to plant on the bad ankle and it just kind

1562
01:21:19,360 --> 01:21:20,640
Speaker 1: of went on him. I know, I think he got

1563
01:21:20,680 --> 01:21:23,639
Speaker 1: tripped up a little bit from behind by Quinnin Williams,

1564
01:21:23,760 --> 01:21:25,960
Speaker 1: but he he just went down and I was like, oh,

1565
01:21:26,080 --> 01:21:28,360
Speaker 1: did he just suffer a serious injury. It seemed like

1566
01:21:28,479 --> 01:21:30,960
Speaker 1: the type of injury that probably could use some time,

1567
01:21:31,560 --> 01:21:34,920
Speaker 1: uh to get right. But unless they really, you know,

1568
01:21:35,040 --> 01:21:38,560
Speaker 1: feel highly that Nick Mollins could can step in and

1569
01:21:38,720 --> 01:21:41,559
Speaker 1: make plays, they need Jimmy g to be in there

1570
01:21:41,640 --> 01:21:43,160
Speaker 1: and try to carry this team right now, it's a

1571
01:21:43,320 --> 01:21:46,920
Speaker 1: very bad situation. It's not good. When Jordan read in

1572
01:21:47,040 --> 01:21:49,640
Speaker 1: his and his you know, a couple of touchdowns in

1573
01:21:49,800 --> 01:21:53,320
Speaker 1: his presence is so crucial to this team. He's turned

1574
01:21:53,320 --> 01:21:56,120
Speaker 1: into a nice signing for them. He especially the first

1575
01:21:56,160 --> 01:21:58,640
Speaker 1: touchdown showed and Greg, you had talked him up a

1576
01:21:58,640 --> 01:22:01,519
Speaker 1: little bit before the season that he still he still

1577
01:22:01,560 --> 01:22:04,320
Speaker 1: can move and he's still has athleticism. It just becomes

1578
01:22:04,360 --> 01:22:06,160
Speaker 1: an issuable his body allowed him to do it week

1579
01:22:06,200 --> 01:22:10,040
Speaker 1: after week. Nobody outside of San Francisco seems to believe

1580
01:22:10,040 --> 01:22:13,920
Speaker 1: in Jimmy g anymore. But it is worth noting they've

1581
01:22:14,000 --> 01:22:16,400
Speaker 1: played about as many games with him and without him

1582
01:22:16,600 --> 01:22:19,680
Speaker 1: in the Kyle Shanahan era, and their winning percentages over

1583
01:22:19,880 --> 01:22:23,439
Speaker 1: eighty with him and it's under thirty without him. That's

1584
01:22:23,520 --> 01:22:27,000
Speaker 1: that's fair. That's fair. And the Jets, um dan uh

1585
01:22:27,439 --> 01:22:29,000
Speaker 1: I thought they had a chance to maybe be the

1586
01:22:29,000 --> 01:22:31,439
Speaker 1: worst team in the league going into the year, and

1587
01:22:31,880 --> 01:22:34,280
Speaker 1: uh wow, that you have to be a little disappointed,

1588
01:22:34,320 --> 01:22:35,920
Speaker 1: though I know that I know you weren't expecting to

1589
01:22:36,000 --> 01:22:39,360
Speaker 1: be good, but a little this is embarrassing. I actually

1590
01:22:39,439 --> 01:22:42,280
Speaker 1: think this is. I honestly think this is the worst

1591
01:22:42,400 --> 01:22:44,560
Speaker 1: Jets team in my lifetime. I think this is and

1592
01:22:44,680 --> 01:22:47,880
Speaker 1: Gaze might be as bad as co tight was and

1593
01:22:48,080 --> 01:22:49,640
Speaker 1: I don't even want to waste any more time on

1594
01:22:49,680 --> 01:22:52,439
Speaker 1: the Jets because I'm gonna let uh my old man

1595
01:22:53,000 --> 01:22:56,280
Speaker 1: share thoughts on the Jets today. But it is an embarrassment.

1596
01:22:56,400 --> 01:22:59,479
Speaker 1: And if Adam Gaze is not fired by Thanksgiving, the

1597
01:22:59,600 --> 01:23:02,280
Speaker 1: team is out of its mind because we don't need

1598
01:23:02,360 --> 01:23:04,760
Speaker 1: to see anything else. Uh. They have the wrong guy

1599
01:23:04,880 --> 01:23:07,360
Speaker 1: leading the ship and it's bringing everything down. Keith, take

1600
01:23:07,400 --> 01:23:15,479
Speaker 1: it away now. His name is Keith. He'll doubt about it.

1601
01:23:15,680 --> 01:23:20,599
Speaker 1: He's a big Jets fan. You go to say little

1602
01:23:21,160 --> 01:23:27,240
Speaker 1: games to day, go little game today. Dan raided the

1603
01:23:27,360 --> 01:23:31,240
Speaker 1: Jets dead last in the power rankings last week. This

1604
01:23:31,479 --> 01:23:37,320
Speaker 1: is not gonna change. Defeat today was a disgrace. The

1605
01:23:37,439 --> 01:23:40,719
Speaker 1: forty Niners, with three injured players in the first quarter,

1606
01:23:41,479 --> 01:23:48,120
Speaker 1: still destroyed the Jets. The Jet offense was anemic. Notes

1607
01:23:48,280 --> 01:23:52,360
Speaker 1: rows downfield and where are these calls from Gates that

1608
01:23:52,439 --> 01:23:56,320
Speaker 1: we're supposed to be waiting for? Three and out is

1609
01:23:56,360 --> 01:24:00,599
Speaker 1: a way? Is the Jets current way of operating on offense.

1610
01:24:01,760 --> 01:24:04,960
Speaker 1: The play of the day, in my opinion, was the

1611
01:24:05,120 --> 01:24:09,879
Speaker 1: third and thirty one for and they get a fifty

1612
01:24:09,960 --> 01:24:15,559
Speaker 1: five yard run. You can't make this up. The Jets

1613
01:24:15,600 --> 01:24:31,679
Speaker 1: have been a disgrace, Dan, Next game, please, Dan. Whatever

1614
01:24:31,800 --> 01:24:34,479
Speaker 1: we're paying your dad to do, to do this, we

1615
01:24:34,600 --> 01:24:38,599
Speaker 1: need to be doubling it because the Jets correspondent um role,

1616
01:24:38,720 --> 01:24:42,519
Speaker 1: which is which he thrives at, is um concerning what

1617
01:24:42,640 --> 01:24:45,560
Speaker 1: about me? While right here you're gonna hear the gravitas

1618
01:24:45,800 --> 01:24:49,599
Speaker 1: and Keith voice. That's my Walter Cronkite right there speaking

1619
01:24:49,680 --> 01:24:55,559
Speaker 1: with purpose today fireside chat. All right, next game, thanks,

1620
01:24:55,600 --> 01:24:58,320
Speaker 1: pandoff run the ball for that slashes her way to

1621
01:24:58,360 --> 01:25:02,679
Speaker 1: the forty five, the thirty. I don't think I'm gonna

1622
01:25:02,680 --> 01:25:06,719
Speaker 1: win that sandwich shop that they're gonna be in the playoffs. Wow,

1623
01:25:06,880 --> 01:25:09,760
Speaker 1: wlashed up the gun, foul daylight put out right, and

1624
01:25:09,840 --> 01:25:15,599
Speaker 1: everybody fire. Look, Cannon's can have gone all right now

1625
01:25:15,760 --> 01:25:30,519
Speaker 1: the handoff happens. Oh but first everybody, that's Johnson calm,

1626
01:25:30,760 --> 01:25:36,960
Speaker 1: friend of natives or enemy. Hey, Chris Wessling's gonna jump

1627
01:25:37,040 --> 01:25:41,320
Speaker 1: off and jumping in the Great Nick Show. So out

1628
01:25:41,439 --> 01:25:46,720
Speaker 1: one handsome bold man in another, thank you, thank you,

1629
01:25:47,400 --> 01:25:54,760
Speaker 1: all right, taking away shuck. Tom Brady got his first

1630
01:25:54,800 --> 01:25:56,840
Speaker 1: win with the Buccaneers, and Leonard Fournette went over a

1631
01:25:56,960 --> 01:26:02,160
Speaker 1: hundred yards with two touchdowns. Sen in over the Panthers shook,

1632
01:26:02,960 --> 01:26:04,840
Speaker 1: what a great ally we have and Nick Shook, who

1633
01:26:04,960 --> 01:26:07,760
Speaker 1: knows his stuff, and watched two games. First today tom

1634
01:26:07,800 --> 01:26:10,559
Speaker 1: Brady through for two seventy yards touchdown and a pick.

1635
01:26:10,640 --> 01:26:12,719
Speaker 1: How did this offense look in the second week? Again,

1636
01:26:13,560 --> 01:26:17,040
Speaker 1: So from the start it was really encouraging because last

1637
01:26:17,080 --> 01:26:18,920
Speaker 1: week and especially in the second half of New Orleans,

1638
01:26:19,600 --> 01:26:21,400
Speaker 1: you know, the Buccaneers almost said the Patriots, but the

1639
01:26:21,439 --> 01:26:24,360
Speaker 1: Buccaneers they just didn't have enough to keep pace with

1640
01:26:24,479 --> 01:26:27,120
Speaker 1: their NFC South rival. So then they faced another NFC

1641
01:26:27,240 --> 01:26:29,360
Speaker 1: South rival to day and come out of the gate firing.

1642
01:26:29,439 --> 01:26:32,360
Speaker 1: They scored two quick touchdowns. Tom Brady connects with Mike

1643
01:26:32,400 --> 01:26:34,320
Speaker 1: Evans over the middle for a long play that that's

1644
01:26:34,360 --> 01:26:36,479
Speaker 1: up the first touchdown, which is Ronald Jones run. He

1645
01:26:36,560 --> 01:26:39,080
Speaker 1: finds Mike Evans for a score. Later, they get to halftime,

1646
01:26:39,120 --> 01:26:41,040
Speaker 1: they're up twenty one to nothing. They're rolling and I'm

1647
01:26:41,080 --> 01:26:44,479
Speaker 1: expecting an absolute blowout, and then they just got a

1648
01:26:44,520 --> 01:26:47,240
Speaker 1: little complacent. They just hit a wall and slowly the

1649
01:26:47,320 --> 01:26:49,240
Speaker 1: Panthers built their way back into the game and came

1650
01:26:49,280 --> 01:26:52,200
Speaker 1: within a touchdown before well they realized they were the

1651
01:26:52,280 --> 01:26:55,120
Speaker 1: Panthers and uh and ended up flowing behind by two

1652
01:26:55,160 --> 01:26:57,519
Speaker 1: scores and ultimately losing. But it was it was a

1653
01:26:57,520 --> 01:26:59,840
Speaker 1: step in the right direction for the Buccaneers offense. But

1654
01:27:00,000 --> 01:27:02,320
Speaker 1: I still think they have a ways to go uh

1655
01:27:02,560 --> 01:27:04,120
Speaker 1: in a number of areas. And of course they were

1656
01:27:04,160 --> 01:27:06,200
Speaker 1: without Chris Godwin who wasn't available to play, so that

1657
01:27:06,280 --> 01:27:08,920
Speaker 1: definitely played a role, but a step forward that they

1658
01:27:08,960 --> 01:27:10,760
Speaker 1: still need to be better. But I mean, I I

1659
01:27:10,880 --> 01:27:14,599
Speaker 1: read that Brady was like super super zoned in all week,

1660
01:27:14,680 --> 01:27:16,800
Speaker 1: not surprising, like it's like the only thing he does

1661
01:27:16,840 --> 01:27:19,160
Speaker 1: in his life is practiced for, you know, prepare football.

1662
01:27:19,240 --> 01:27:22,240
Speaker 1: But but then it was like he was agitated by

1663
01:27:22,439 --> 01:27:25,240
Speaker 1: the narrative and what happened last week? Did you see

1664
01:27:25,400 --> 01:27:29,439
Speaker 1: a cleaner version of Brady? Is the chemistry improved and

1665
01:27:29,520 --> 01:27:32,439
Speaker 1: maybe they just lack like the killer instinct that Bill

1666
01:27:32,520 --> 01:27:35,920
Speaker 1: Belichick wanting to wipe out civilization has in Tampa Bay

1667
01:27:35,960 --> 01:27:37,680
Speaker 1: at the moment. Yeah, I think the chemistry with Mike

1668
01:27:37,720 --> 01:27:39,639
Speaker 1: Evans has improved. I think everybody else is a little

1669
01:27:39,640 --> 01:27:42,320
Speaker 1: bit of a maybe a step behind. Rob Gronkowski still

1670
01:27:42,400 --> 01:27:44,920
Speaker 1: looks like he's old and and didn't really factor it all.

1671
01:27:44,920 --> 01:27:48,000
Speaker 1: He had one target, no catches, was a non factor. Um.

1672
01:27:48,360 --> 01:27:50,280
Speaker 1: And you know, again they were without Godwin, so that

1673
01:27:51,120 --> 01:27:53,800
Speaker 1: again this time next year on the islands is not

1674
01:27:53,880 --> 01:27:57,040
Speaker 1: gonna happen much Well, Gronck Beach version two next year.

1675
01:27:57,080 --> 01:27:59,800
Speaker 1: I'm sure sure there was a path to Uh. One

1676
01:27:59,840 --> 01:28:01,560
Speaker 1: of the backups, I can't remember the last name is

1677
01:28:01,600 --> 01:28:03,680
Speaker 1: Grayson that the ball went off of his helmet, and

1678
01:28:03,760 --> 01:28:05,960
Speaker 1: Brady was just in discuss like you've got to beginning.

1679
01:28:05,960 --> 01:28:07,560
Speaker 1: He said some things that I can't repeat here, but

1680
01:28:07,640 --> 01:28:12,439
Speaker 1: you could, yes and uh, but but ultimately yeah, you know,

1681
01:28:12,479 --> 01:28:14,160
Speaker 1: they still need to take those steps forward. One thing

1682
01:28:14,240 --> 01:28:16,880
Speaker 1: that I was encouraged by was Leonard Fournett caught a

1683
01:28:16,960 --> 01:28:19,760
Speaker 1: pass beyond the line of scrimmage and he actually set

1684
01:28:19,840 --> 01:28:23,120
Speaker 1: himself up for a rushing touchdown, which was nice. Um.

1685
01:28:23,560 --> 01:28:25,680
Speaker 1: And then four Nett served as the closer in the end,

1686
01:28:25,760 --> 01:28:28,439
Speaker 1: which was interesting. But I'm still not super impressed. You know,

1687
01:28:28,520 --> 01:28:30,320
Speaker 1: I know West just left. But I would agree with

1688
01:28:30,439 --> 01:28:32,800
Speaker 1: Wes's um summary of four Nett the last time he

1689
01:28:32,840 --> 01:28:34,800
Speaker 1: saw him playing the notes that he had tweeted out,

1690
01:28:34,840 --> 01:28:36,880
Speaker 1: which is, you know, when he gets the ball for

1691
01:28:36,960 --> 01:28:38,920
Speaker 1: the most party's unremarkable except for when he rips off

1692
01:28:38,920 --> 01:28:41,320
Speaker 1: a game ceiling forty six yard touchdown. So it's like,

1693
01:28:41,400 --> 01:28:44,120
Speaker 1: you want to be like this guy, yeah, you want

1694
01:28:44,120 --> 01:28:45,840
Speaker 1: to say he's just average, and then he ripped something

1695
01:28:45,880 --> 01:28:47,519
Speaker 1: off like that. All Right, I guess I have to

1696
01:28:47,600 --> 01:28:50,160
Speaker 1: continue to believe in him. But it was a better

1697
01:28:50,320 --> 01:28:52,799
Speaker 1: game than last week. Again, they were playing a lesser opponent.

1698
01:28:53,080 --> 01:28:57,320
Speaker 1: This this Brady versions really fascinating to me because you know,

1699
01:28:57,520 --> 01:28:59,920
Speaker 1: PFF ad him as having five big time throws, which

1700
01:29:00,160 --> 01:29:02,400
Speaker 1: you know a way that they measure things, and and

1701
01:29:02,439 --> 01:29:03,920
Speaker 1: from what I've seen and I thought this was the

1702
01:29:03,960 --> 01:29:06,519
Speaker 1: case last week. Actually the last two weeks, he's he's

1703
01:29:06,640 --> 01:29:10,160
Speaker 1: made a lot of flashy, really impressive throws, which I'm

1704
01:29:10,200 --> 01:29:12,960
Speaker 1: not surprised by. I think he was capable and did

1705
01:29:13,040 --> 01:29:15,560
Speaker 1: some of that last year. But the team's sloppy and

1706
01:29:15,720 --> 01:29:18,000
Speaker 1: like the offense doesn't have a lot of continuity. I

1707
01:29:18,240 --> 01:29:21,120
Speaker 1: I I I have a friend who sort of jumped

1708
01:29:21,200 --> 01:29:24,360
Speaker 1: to the bucks a little bit, and um, it's like

1709
01:29:24,439 --> 01:29:26,840
Speaker 1: they're frustrated by the coaching there. Like the like, it's

1710
01:29:26,880 --> 01:29:28,960
Speaker 1: a lot of penalties, it's a lot of sloppiness. It's

1711
01:29:28,960 --> 01:29:30,560
Speaker 1: a lot and I guess you can expect that a

1712
01:29:30,600 --> 01:29:33,120
Speaker 1: little early. But at least Brady is showing something that

1713
01:29:33,200 --> 01:29:35,560
Speaker 1: they're making some flashy plays. It's sort of the opposite

1714
01:29:35,600 --> 01:29:42,280
Speaker 1: of the Patriots were quietly efficient, just terribly ugly to watch. Yeah,

1715
01:29:42,360 --> 01:29:43,920
Speaker 1: kind of on that subject, there was a play where

1716
01:29:43,920 --> 01:29:45,439
Speaker 1: they ran a screen to the Shawn McCoy and it

1717
01:29:45,479 --> 01:29:47,280
Speaker 1: went for a pretty decent game that got called back

1718
01:29:47,320 --> 01:29:49,960
Speaker 1: because alignman went downfield and just blocked the guy in

1719
01:29:50,000 --> 01:29:51,439
Speaker 1: the back, I mean, didn't need to touch the guy

1720
01:29:51,560 --> 01:29:53,439
Speaker 1: and blocked him the back. It's that type of discipline

1721
01:29:53,439 --> 01:29:55,479
Speaker 1: that they're still lacking. The one thing that kind of

1722
01:29:55,520 --> 01:29:57,000
Speaker 1: stuck out with me with Brady too, and Greg, I

1723
01:29:57,040 --> 01:29:58,880
Speaker 1: think you'll be able to offer more on this than

1724
01:29:58,960 --> 01:30:01,519
Speaker 1: I will. It's like a lot of his short passes

1725
01:30:01,600 --> 01:30:03,120
Speaker 1: that he was trying to fit to guys who weren't

1726
01:30:03,160 --> 01:30:05,000
Speaker 1: even really in that tight of windows. They all had

1727
01:30:05,040 --> 01:30:06,479
Speaker 1: like a nose dive on him. And I don't know

1728
01:30:06,479 --> 01:30:08,680
Speaker 1: if he was trying to throw passes low or not,

1729
01:30:08,960 --> 01:30:10,600
Speaker 1: but there were multiple times where his guys had to

1730
01:30:10,640 --> 01:30:12,360
Speaker 1: get down on the ground to catch passes where they

1731
01:30:12,400 --> 01:30:14,800
Speaker 1: literally came out of his hand at a downward angle,

1732
01:30:14,840 --> 01:30:17,200
Speaker 1: and that was a little concerning. Yeah, pretty much. He's

1733
01:30:17,200 --> 01:30:20,880
Speaker 1: a tall man, so you know it naturally goes down.

1734
01:30:21,000 --> 01:30:22,880
Speaker 1: But I don't think that's the plan. I don't think

1735
01:30:22,920 --> 01:30:25,479
Speaker 1: you want that. You want the downward that was that

1736
01:30:25,560 --> 01:30:27,600
Speaker 1: was the analysis that you were looking for. Yeah, I

1737
01:30:27,600 --> 01:30:32,599
Speaker 1: don't think Upo is back there. He's about his tail

1738
01:30:32,720 --> 01:30:37,400
Speaker 1: end of career. Christian McCaffrey held in check. Three point

1739
01:30:37,479 --> 01:30:40,120
Speaker 1: three yards per carry, held under a hundred total yards

1740
01:30:40,240 --> 01:30:43,080
Speaker 1: was like never happened last year. And then he went

1741
01:30:43,160 --> 01:30:44,880
Speaker 1: down with an injury. What are you hearing about that?

1742
01:30:44,960 --> 01:30:47,799
Speaker 1: What have you read? So he was questionable to return,

1743
01:30:47,880 --> 01:30:49,400
Speaker 1: and then with a minute and a half left in

1744
01:30:49,439 --> 01:30:52,000
Speaker 1: the game, out of hand, he was ruled out. You know,

1745
01:30:52,080 --> 01:30:53,800
Speaker 1: what's the point of that? He had left to get

1746
01:30:53,840 --> 01:30:57,519
Speaker 1: his ankle retaped and just never showed up again. Interestingly enough,

1747
01:30:57,760 --> 01:31:00,080
Speaker 1: they got down in the red zone again late. It

1748
01:31:00,160 --> 01:31:02,280
Speaker 1: was fourth and five there, down ten, and Matt rule

1749
01:31:02,320 --> 01:31:04,559
Speaker 1: elects to kick a field goal with less than three

1750
01:31:04,600 --> 01:31:08,080
Speaker 1: timeouts around two minutes left, as if he thinks he's

1751
01:31:08,120 --> 01:31:09,920
Speaker 1: gonna get that close to the end zone again, And

1752
01:31:10,000 --> 01:31:11,640
Speaker 1: of course they didn't get the onside kick, and then

1753
01:31:11,680 --> 01:31:14,120
Speaker 1: one touchdown run ended everything. I thought that was a

1754
01:31:14,160 --> 01:31:17,519
Speaker 1: little interesting, a peculiar strategy, I think for a coach

1755
01:31:17,560 --> 01:31:20,599
Speaker 1: who's definitely operating with less than his opponent. Conspiracy theorists

1756
01:31:20,680 --> 01:31:24,760
Speaker 1: might suggest he had, um, you know, some action on

1757
01:31:24,840 --> 01:31:27,280
Speaker 1: the game or something, but it didn't even that didn't

1758
01:31:27,320 --> 01:31:28,880
Speaker 1: work out, Like why are you trying to cut the

1759
01:31:28,960 --> 01:31:33,800
Speaker 1: lead to seven? That is an interesting um accusation that

1760
01:31:34,080 --> 01:31:38,200
Speaker 1: believe in that NFL coach, but emanating out of Rosenthal headquarters.

1761
01:31:38,280 --> 01:31:43,800
Speaker 1: No less. All right, let's move on. Golf ficks the

1762
01:31:43,840 --> 01:31:45,920
Speaker 1: hand off, rolls out to his right, sets his feet,

1763
01:31:45,960 --> 01:31:48,599
Speaker 1: throws back left over the top to the end zone.

1764
01:31:49,000 --> 01:31:55,080
Speaker 1: Caught by Tyler Higby. It's a three touchdown day for Higgs.

1765
01:31:56,600 --> 01:31:59,479
Speaker 1: There is j B long our boy for KESPN with

1766
01:31:59,600 --> 01:32:05,360
Speaker 1: the call Tyler Higbee. Three touchdown passes received from Jared Goff,

1767
01:32:05,439 --> 01:32:07,719
Speaker 1: including that twenty yard hook up in the fourth quarter

1768
01:32:08,960 --> 01:32:14,479
Speaker 1: nineteen the Rams spanked the Eagles in Philadelphia. Completed his

1769
01:32:14,600 --> 01:32:17,879
Speaker 1: first thirteen passes, including a pair of tds. The Higbeet

1770
01:32:18,360 --> 01:32:20,800
Speaker 1: Rams jumped out to one three lead and the first

1771
01:32:20,880 --> 01:32:22,680
Speaker 1: half shook. It sounds like the Rams are just on

1772
01:32:22,720 --> 01:32:24,680
Speaker 1: a different level than the Eagles, right. This is two

1773
01:32:24,720 --> 01:32:26,400
Speaker 1: straight weeks for the Rams have gotten off to a

1774
01:32:26,479 --> 01:32:28,840
Speaker 1: hot start and their offense has been fun to watch again,

1775
01:32:28,920 --> 01:32:30,880
Speaker 1: which we haven't said that about them since they made

1776
01:32:30,920 --> 01:32:33,080
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. It felt last year like they were

1777
01:32:33,160 --> 01:32:35,880
Speaker 1: stuck in quicksand or mud for much of the season,

1778
01:32:35,920 --> 01:32:37,519
Speaker 1: and now that they don't have Todd Gurley, it seems

1779
01:32:37,560 --> 01:32:39,639
Speaker 1: like Sean McVeigh again feels like he has the freedom

1780
01:32:39,720 --> 01:32:41,920
Speaker 1: to call what he wants. One of their touchdowns was

1781
01:32:42,000 --> 01:32:44,400
Speaker 1: an end around or a reverse to Robert Woods for

1782
01:32:44,479 --> 01:32:47,120
Speaker 1: a rushing touchdown. Cooper Cup was a big part of

1783
01:32:47,120 --> 01:32:49,960
Speaker 1: the offense as usual, but the variety was back, and

1784
01:32:50,040 --> 01:32:52,640
Speaker 1: it really made it interesting and exciting to watch and

1785
01:32:52,760 --> 01:32:56,240
Speaker 1: it and it contrasted very well with the Eagles, who

1786
01:32:56,840 --> 01:32:58,920
Speaker 1: kind of just don't have an identity offensively right now,

1787
01:32:58,960 --> 01:33:01,000
Speaker 1: especially when they put the ball on Carson Wentz his hands.

1788
01:33:01,000 --> 01:33:03,160
Speaker 1: This is two straight weeks where he just hasn't looked comfortable.

1789
01:33:03,200 --> 01:33:05,439
Speaker 1: He hasn't made smart plays, He hasn't really made a

1790
01:33:05,520 --> 01:33:07,960
Speaker 1: lot of big time throws. And I think in a

1791
01:33:08,000 --> 01:33:10,360
Speaker 1: battle where he's facing the guy who went right ahead

1792
01:33:10,360 --> 01:33:12,160
Speaker 1: of him in the draft, Um, he definitely came out

1793
01:33:12,200 --> 01:33:15,000
Speaker 1: on the shorter rund stigma. That surprises me about um

1794
01:33:15,320 --> 01:33:18,519
Speaker 1: Wentz because I was so impressive what he did last

1795
01:33:18,640 --> 01:33:20,479
Speaker 1: year when they had all the injuries, and yet he

1796
01:33:20,600 --> 01:33:24,559
Speaker 1: kept on slinging it and kept on um piling up

1797
01:33:25,040 --> 01:33:28,439
Speaker 1: yards and and got on the page with Miles Sanders

1798
01:33:28,560 --> 01:33:30,120
Speaker 1: or they're able to kind of will that team to

1799
01:33:30,200 --> 01:33:32,960
Speaker 1: the playoffs. And now with some better health, and I

1800
01:33:33,040 --> 01:33:35,640
Speaker 1: know they're not all the way their health wise, he

1801
01:33:35,760 --> 01:33:38,800
Speaker 1: seems to be kind of really stumbling, especially in the

1802
01:33:38,880 --> 01:33:40,600
Speaker 1: second halves of these games when they need him to

1803
01:33:40,640 --> 01:33:42,840
Speaker 1: make plays. You know. I think that some of his

1804
01:33:42,960 --> 01:33:46,200
Speaker 1: offensive lines struggles have affected him, especially last week. He

1805
01:33:46,240 --> 01:33:47,479
Speaker 1: got to the point where he had been sacks so

1806
01:33:47,479 --> 01:33:49,519
Speaker 1: many times against Washington and he was stepping into sacks

1807
01:33:49,560 --> 01:33:51,280
Speaker 1: and he was trying to get rid of football and

1808
01:33:51,400 --> 01:33:53,479
Speaker 1: I think it kind of affected his rhythm again this week,

1809
01:33:53,520 --> 01:33:55,320
Speaker 1: and they just again they haven't really established much of

1810
01:33:55,360 --> 01:33:58,680
Speaker 1: an offensive rhythm, and he just doesn't look like he's

1811
01:33:58,680 --> 01:34:00,400
Speaker 1: in the flow of the game, like he trying to

1812
01:34:00,479 --> 01:34:03,040
Speaker 1: do too much. And they were operating, uh, you know,

1813
01:34:03,120 --> 01:34:05,600
Speaker 1: trying to come from behind early in this game, and

1814
01:34:05,680 --> 01:34:06,960
Speaker 1: I think that got him out of his flow a

1815
01:34:07,000 --> 01:34:08,920
Speaker 1: little bit too. And it just hasn't been a very

1816
01:34:09,000 --> 01:34:11,320
Speaker 1: pretty two weeks for the Eagles really, since they had

1817
01:34:11,400 --> 01:34:13,559
Speaker 1: got off to a nice start in Washington last week. Now,

1818
01:34:13,640 --> 01:34:15,400
Speaker 1: on the flip side, we talked about Jared Goff and

1819
01:34:15,400 --> 01:34:17,559
Speaker 1: how he started thirteen for thirteen, I'll make another video

1820
01:34:17,600 --> 01:34:20,000
Speaker 1: game comparison, since West did that recently with the Tech

1821
01:34:20,080 --> 01:34:22,880
Speaker 1: Mobil thing and Madden. Among people who play Madden, there's

1822
01:34:22,880 --> 01:34:25,759
Speaker 1: a thing called robot QB where a computer controlled quarterback

1823
01:34:25,920 --> 01:34:28,519
Speaker 1: cannot miss. He'll go perfect or near perfect for a game.

1824
01:34:28,960 --> 01:34:32,000
Speaker 1: Jared Goff was robot QB for almost the entire first half,

1825
01:34:32,080 --> 01:34:34,240
Speaker 1: which was really fun to watch. That's that's him at

1826
01:34:34,280 --> 01:34:38,080
Speaker 1: his best, and that's why you know, yes, things have

1827
01:34:38,200 --> 01:34:40,880
Speaker 1: to be right around him. In certain ways, he doesn't deal.

1828
01:34:41,040 --> 01:34:43,559
Speaker 1: You know, he's not going to create plays, but when

1829
01:34:43,640 --> 01:34:46,519
Speaker 1: he's playing well, it's pretty I mean, you can see

1830
01:34:46,600 --> 01:34:49,840
Speaker 1: why he was taken one and why McVeigh believes that

1831
01:34:50,240 --> 01:34:52,000
Speaker 1: when you're seeing the mid range game now you're seeing

1832
01:34:52,000 --> 01:34:53,960
Speaker 1: a lot of those twenty yard passes in this game.

1833
01:34:54,040 --> 01:34:56,920
Speaker 1: It was a little shorter in week one, but four

1834
01:34:56,960 --> 01:34:59,880
Speaker 1: different receivers with plays over twenty. I mentioned the pa

1835
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:01,880
Speaker 1: Ackers having a meaningful two weeks. I mean this was

1836
01:35:01,920 --> 01:35:04,280
Speaker 1: a meaningful two weeks for the Rams. I think the

1837
01:35:04,360 --> 01:35:06,519
Speaker 1: way that these NFC West teams, because it's gonna be

1838
01:35:06,560 --> 01:35:08,400
Speaker 1: a blood bath to try to win this division. How

1839
01:35:08,520 --> 01:35:11,200
Speaker 1: they manage this lousy NFC East is gonna be key.

1840
01:35:11,600 --> 01:35:14,000
Speaker 1: And and here the Rams start with the win over

1841
01:35:14,280 --> 01:35:17,880
Speaker 1: you know, presumably to the two better teams Cowboys and Eagles,

1842
01:35:18,040 --> 01:35:20,479
Speaker 1: right off the bat, that they're in nice shape to

1843
01:35:20,560 --> 01:35:22,680
Speaker 1: go four no against the NFC East. I think that's

1844
01:35:22,720 --> 01:35:25,880
Speaker 1: what it might take from the Seahawks and the Cardinals

1845
01:35:25,960 --> 01:35:28,080
Speaker 1: and and well, you know, the other NFC West team

1846
01:35:28,120 --> 01:35:30,400
Speaker 1: is like, you're gonna have to roll up winds uh

1847
01:35:30,479 --> 01:35:32,960
Speaker 1: to get into that NFC wild card to possibly win

1848
01:35:33,040 --> 01:35:35,519
Speaker 1: this division. And that that's a great, great start of

1849
01:35:35,600 --> 01:35:37,880
Speaker 1: the season for the Rams. Yeah. Another encouraging thing for

1850
01:35:37,920 --> 01:35:40,320
Speaker 1: the Rams going forward is their committee backfield teams to

1851
01:35:40,360 --> 01:35:42,600
Speaker 1: be working. They didn't have Cam acre acres today, but

1852
01:35:42,640 --> 01:35:44,479
Speaker 1: the other two running backs combined for a hundred twenty

1853
01:35:44,520 --> 01:35:46,639
Speaker 1: eight yards and a touchdown. They look effective. No matter

1854
01:35:46,640 --> 01:35:48,160
Speaker 1: who was back there, they still moved the ball on

1855
01:35:48,200 --> 01:35:50,800
Speaker 1: the ground effectively. And of course, like you said, those

1856
01:35:51,000 --> 01:35:53,800
Speaker 1: those short to intermediate throws. Cooper Cup thrives there and

1857
01:35:53,800 --> 01:35:56,160
Speaker 1: today was Tyler Higbee's day thriving there. And I think

1858
01:35:56,160 --> 01:35:57,760
Speaker 1: anytime you can get the tight end vaults. With that

1859
01:35:57,840 --> 01:35:59,960
Speaker 1: type of production, it unlocks your offense in a lot

1860
01:36:00,000 --> 01:36:01,600
Speaker 1: as you to reach greater heights, and I think right

1861
01:36:01,600 --> 01:36:03,800
Speaker 1: now they're they're trending toward that direction. It just seems

1862
01:36:03,840 --> 01:36:07,160
Speaker 1: like McVeigh has a lot of you know, the whole

1863
01:36:07,240 --> 01:36:09,760
Speaker 1: weight of having Girley in his contract a year ago,

1864
01:36:10,560 --> 01:36:13,720
Speaker 1: so much more flexibility with a committee backfield and using guys.

1865
01:36:13,760 --> 01:36:16,280
Speaker 1: I mean, I see that like not eight people had

1866
01:36:16,400 --> 01:36:19,439
Speaker 1: rushing attempts today, So he's using people all over the place.

1867
01:36:19,920 --> 01:36:22,680
Speaker 1: And the emergence of the tight end position and a

1868
01:36:22,760 --> 01:36:25,840
Speaker 1: guy like Jefferson the rookie, the rookie wide receiver, there's

1869
01:36:25,840 --> 01:36:27,679
Speaker 1: just a lot of new parts. And I give McVeigh

1870
01:36:27,800 --> 01:36:32,040
Speaker 1: credit for essentially relaunching Rams two point oh here On offense, Yeah,

1871
01:36:32,160 --> 01:36:33,920
Speaker 1: Van Jefferson is really excited to watch. He made a

1872
01:36:34,000 --> 01:36:35,880
Speaker 1: nice catch early in that game down the sideline on

1873
01:36:35,920 --> 01:36:37,919
Speaker 1: one of their first drives that set up a touchdown.

1874
01:36:38,320 --> 01:36:40,519
Speaker 1: And really, um, if you if you kind of just

1875
01:36:40,600 --> 01:36:42,920
Speaker 1: consider this offense entirely and how they operate when you

1876
01:36:42,960 --> 01:36:46,120
Speaker 1: get out of this game afterward, Sean McVeigh has gotta

1877
01:36:46,120 --> 01:36:47,720
Speaker 1: be really excited to not have to answer questions about

1878
01:36:47,720 --> 01:36:49,760
Speaker 1: why Todd Brialley didn't get enough carries. I mean, he's

1879
01:36:49,800 --> 01:36:51,880
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta get done with the game and be like,

1880
01:36:52,120 --> 01:36:54,760
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be one. I don't have questions about this.

1881
01:36:54,840 --> 01:36:56,439
Speaker 1: I can go hang out in my l A mansion.

1882
01:36:56,560 --> 01:36:59,599
Speaker 1: This is great. Meanwhile, Eagles fans would have been happy

1883
01:36:59,680 --> 01:37:01,840
Speaker 1: and not if the Cowboys hadn't made that come back.

1884
01:37:01,880 --> 01:37:03,920
Speaker 1: But now that the Cowboys made that come back, this

1885
01:37:04,360 --> 01:37:08,200
Speaker 1: is dark in Philadelphia art. Yeah, you know it's they

1886
01:37:08,280 --> 01:37:10,479
Speaker 1: pumped crowd noise in. I'm pretty sure they were pumping

1887
01:37:10,520 --> 01:37:13,920
Speaker 1: booze in today in Philadelphia. I noticed that actually after

1888
01:37:14,040 --> 01:37:19,800
Speaker 1: the last Wedentz turnover in the stadium, not in the stadium. Look,

1889
01:37:19,800 --> 01:37:23,040
Speaker 1: I I gotta give an award of the person because

1890
01:37:23,120 --> 01:37:24,880
Speaker 1: that takes some guts to do that at home. You know,

1891
01:37:24,960 --> 01:37:29,519
Speaker 1: you're really going for realism there, so experience. Yeah, that's

1892
01:37:29,520 --> 01:37:33,120
Speaker 1: the real that's peak Philadelphia right there. And let us

1893
01:37:33,200 --> 01:37:42,280
Speaker 1: now move to Sunday night football. Sunday night. Damn, he's

1894
01:37:42,280 --> 01:37:46,120
Speaker 1: gonna take it and sbody doesn't get in and then

1895
01:37:46,200 --> 01:37:49,400
Speaker 1: you're gonna win the game. Line up with the power

1896
01:37:49,479 --> 01:37:53,280
Speaker 1: formation and you've got L. J. Collier and Leno Hill

1897
01:37:53,880 --> 01:38:00,479
Speaker 1: are the two guys who were there. The Seahawks defense bends,

1898
01:38:00,560 --> 01:38:03,920
Speaker 1: but it does not break when it matters most Al

1899
01:38:04,080 --> 01:38:09,200
Speaker 1: Michaels with the call for NBC Cam Newton at the

1900
01:38:09,280 --> 01:38:11,320
Speaker 1: goal line with a chance to win it on the

1901
01:38:11,439 --> 01:38:17,960
Speaker 1: final play of the game gets stuffed. Seattle Seahawks thirty five,

1902
01:38:18,080 --> 01:38:23,080
Speaker 1: New England Patriots thirty and another instant classic between these

1903
01:38:23,120 --> 01:38:25,640
Speaker 1: two teams. I don't know if they are capable of

1904
01:38:25,680 --> 01:38:28,960
Speaker 1: playing a boring game. Certainly was the night. This was

1905
01:38:29,000 --> 01:38:33,679
Speaker 1: an awesome game, um, where both teams look like we'll

1906
01:38:33,680 --> 01:38:37,600
Speaker 1: see them deep into January, potentially because they have a

1907
01:38:37,680 --> 01:38:40,200
Speaker 1: lot of things going for them, even if only one

1908
01:38:40,240 --> 01:38:44,400
Speaker 1: team one today, Nick Shook, Uh start with you here, Um,

1909
01:38:44,560 --> 01:38:48,599
Speaker 1: you are a master of the offensive line study game Shook.

1910
01:38:48,960 --> 01:38:51,200
Speaker 1: What what were your thoughts on that last play call?

1911
01:38:52,120 --> 01:38:55,479
Speaker 1: Cam is obviously feasted near the goal line this season

1912
01:38:55,960 --> 01:38:58,679
Speaker 1: and have that great little fake for the touchdown toss

1913
01:38:58,800 --> 01:39:02,120
Speaker 1: earlier in this second half, but it did not work there.

1914
01:39:02,840 --> 01:39:05,680
Speaker 1: I mean, as an offensive lineman, as a blocker, the

1915
01:39:05,800 --> 01:39:07,559
Speaker 1: number one thing you love to do is run block.

1916
01:39:07,640 --> 01:39:09,200
Speaker 1: I mean, nobody likes to pass bot, but they love

1917
01:39:09,240 --> 01:39:11,160
Speaker 1: to line it up and go man on man and

1918
01:39:11,240 --> 01:39:13,680
Speaker 1: try to outwill your opponent move that guy? And all

1919
01:39:13,680 --> 01:39:16,320
Speaker 1: you gotta do is moving three feet there to create

1920
01:39:16,400 --> 01:39:18,040
Speaker 1: enough space for the ball carrier to get into the

1921
01:39:18,120 --> 01:39:21,439
Speaker 1: end zone. But unfortunately, Chris collins Worth, you know, called

1922
01:39:21,479 --> 01:39:23,439
Speaker 1: it prior. I mean, we all knew what was coming,

1923
01:39:23,479 --> 01:39:25,200
Speaker 1: and especially if you really think about it, with the

1924
01:39:25,280 --> 01:39:27,200
Speaker 1: stakes of this UM, I don't know if you would

1925
01:39:27,200 --> 01:39:29,160
Speaker 1: call it a rivalry, but the history that has been

1926
01:39:29,200 --> 01:39:32,080
Speaker 1: there in the past, and and the Seahawks throwing the

1927
01:39:32,120 --> 01:39:33,840
Speaker 1: ball on the goal line and the Super Bowl and

1928
01:39:33,920 --> 01:39:36,840
Speaker 1: everything else that happened there, you knew the Patriots weren't

1929
01:39:36,840 --> 01:39:38,320
Speaker 1: going to make that mistake. They were gonna give it

1930
01:39:38,360 --> 01:39:40,120
Speaker 1: to Cam and try to let him do what he did.

1931
01:39:40,240 --> 01:39:42,760
Speaker 1: But a great job by Seattle blowing it up, you know,

1932
01:39:42,840 --> 01:39:45,519
Speaker 1: not allowing the fullback to kind of create the edge there,

1933
01:39:45,520 --> 01:39:47,000
Speaker 1: seal it off and allowed Can to try to get

1934
01:39:47,040 --> 01:39:49,880
Speaker 1: over the goal line. Yeah, like everyone's immediate reactors like,

1935
01:39:50,000 --> 01:39:52,200
Speaker 1: well I would elect to them to spread it out

1936
01:39:52,320 --> 01:39:55,080
Speaker 1: and then run it into like a thinner box. It's like, well,

1937
01:39:55,160 --> 01:39:57,080
Speaker 1: what what do you know? What are you talking about?

1938
01:39:57,120 --> 01:40:01,000
Speaker 1: First of all, they ran those plays a million times

1939
01:40:01,040 --> 01:40:03,679
Speaker 1: in this game and it worked. And and their offensive

1940
01:40:03,760 --> 01:40:06,600
Speaker 1: line this is what I want as a fan or

1941
01:40:06,640 --> 01:40:08,720
Speaker 1: when I'm watching other games, go with your strength. Their

1942
01:40:08,760 --> 01:40:12,240
Speaker 1: offensive line and the guys who failed on that play

1943
01:40:12,720 --> 01:40:15,280
Speaker 1: were awesome all night. The only thing you could say

1944
01:40:15,680 --> 01:40:17,720
Speaker 1: that made it tougher is you know you're coming off

1945
01:40:17,760 --> 01:40:20,479
Speaker 1: a two straight time out, so you know, the defense

1946
01:40:20,560 --> 01:40:22,559
Speaker 1: did get a chance to kind of get their breadth there,

1947
01:40:22,640 --> 01:40:25,200
Speaker 1: get their energy up. But the seat the Seahawks won

1948
01:40:25,280 --> 01:40:30,640
Speaker 1: that play, Uh, it makes that that comeback um so

1949
01:40:30,880 --> 01:40:34,400
Speaker 1: tantalizing because for most of the second half you you

1950
01:40:34,520 --> 01:40:36,360
Speaker 1: had to think the Patriots, well, you just gotta hand

1951
01:40:36,400 --> 01:40:39,360
Speaker 1: it to them, because Russell Wilson, the touch the touchdowns

1952
01:40:39,439 --> 01:40:42,080
Speaker 1: that you throw were just so ridiculous that it almost

1953
01:40:42,120 --> 01:40:44,519
Speaker 1: felt like what a great moral victory for the Patriots

1954
01:40:44,560 --> 01:40:47,559
Speaker 1: that they found this quarterback Cam Newton, who is dragging

1955
01:40:47,640 --> 01:40:50,600
Speaker 1: a pretty lifeless group of skill position players up and

1956
01:40:50,680 --> 01:40:52,840
Speaker 1: down the field. I mean, has the worst group of

1957
01:40:52,880 --> 01:40:55,920
Speaker 1: skill position players ever put up thirty points and in

1958
01:40:56,040 --> 01:40:58,479
Speaker 1: whatever the yards that they put up, uh than Cam

1959
01:40:58,560 --> 01:41:00,880
Speaker 1: Newton and this crew in this game. Like I don't know,

1960
01:41:01,360 --> 01:41:04,599
Speaker 1: but once you got that close, the ball goes through

1961
01:41:04,800 --> 01:41:07,320
Speaker 1: Edelman's hand where they tried to uh not take the

1962
01:41:07,400 --> 01:41:09,479
Speaker 1: time out and then you get one or two yards

1963
01:41:09,520 --> 01:41:13,280
Speaker 1: short on the nikkil Harry catch. Um, it almost was

1964
01:41:13,400 --> 01:41:17,760
Speaker 1: an unreal comeback victory by Cam Newton. Well, I just

1965
01:41:18,320 --> 01:41:21,120
Speaker 1: feel like we're lucky to watch the first two Sunday

1966
01:41:21,160 --> 01:41:24,639
Speaker 1: night games have been two of the cleanest, most interesting

1967
01:41:24,720 --> 01:41:27,920
Speaker 1: games of this young season. Well, that doesn't always happen

1968
01:41:27,960 --> 01:41:30,559
Speaker 1: on prime time, So it was just like a thrill

1969
01:41:30,640 --> 01:41:32,760
Speaker 1: to sit back on the couch and watch this thing. Man,

1970
01:41:32,800 --> 01:41:36,960
Speaker 1: it felt like a clinic of awesome team preparation of

1971
01:41:37,040 --> 01:41:39,360
Speaker 1: One play that stuck out to me was when they

1972
01:41:39,439 --> 01:41:42,679
Speaker 1: hid Tyler lock at the Seahawks in the backfield behind

1973
01:41:42,760 --> 01:41:46,479
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson and behind the offensive line. Yeah, as an

1974
01:41:46,560 --> 01:41:48,840
Speaker 1: extra as an extra wide receiver that you know, And

1975
01:41:48,920 --> 01:41:51,519
Speaker 1: it was, And the Patriots are so well prepared that

1976
01:41:51,560 --> 01:41:54,600
Speaker 1: there were guys pointing that out before the snap. I

1977
01:41:54,840 --> 01:41:57,280
Speaker 1: love um. And this is going to annoy a lot

1978
01:41:57,320 --> 01:41:59,880
Speaker 1: of people, but the Patriots are so fun to watch

1979
01:42:00,120 --> 01:42:02,840
Speaker 1: right now. They've shaken off some of the old, stale

1980
01:42:02,920 --> 01:42:05,479
Speaker 1: cobwebby vibes that felt to me just like the same

1981
01:42:05,560 --> 01:42:08,000
Speaker 1: team all the time. I feel like this team is

1982
01:42:08,080 --> 01:42:10,760
Speaker 1: heading um into They are a playoff team in my book,

1983
01:42:11,200 --> 01:42:13,840
Speaker 1: and they are so well coached, and the whole idea

1984
01:42:13,920 --> 01:42:16,360
Speaker 1: that you could just take these players and put them

1985
01:42:16,400 --> 01:42:19,479
Speaker 1: under a different regime. Bill Belichick is such a difference maker.

1986
01:42:19,880 --> 01:42:22,760
Speaker 1: And Cam Newton had a string of throws tonight that

1987
01:42:22,920 --> 01:42:25,000
Speaker 1: told me his arm is all the way back. I mean,

1988
01:42:25,080 --> 01:42:27,160
Speaker 1: I'm not I don't know, I'm not talking m v P.

1989
01:42:27,280 --> 01:42:30,439
Speaker 1: You're necessarily, but Cam Newton made some incredible throws and

1990
01:42:30,520 --> 01:42:35,920
Speaker 1: Julian Edelman, who you know, like, put up career totals tonight. Um,

1991
01:42:36,280 --> 01:42:40,360
Speaker 1: they're in sync. It's just very Patriots esque. But they

1992
01:42:40,479 --> 01:42:43,280
Speaker 1: fought to the final final second. And I would never

1993
01:42:43,439 --> 01:42:46,080
Speaker 1: count this team out. The way they're constructed, the way

1994
01:42:46,160 --> 01:42:48,479
Speaker 1: that they operate week to week. They're just beginning to

1995
01:42:48,520 --> 01:42:51,880
Speaker 1: find out who they are. And Cam Newton fits. Cam

1996
01:42:52,960 --> 01:42:56,160
Speaker 1: look great, he really did. He looked like two thousand

1997
01:42:56,240 --> 01:42:59,080
Speaker 1: fifteen Cam in this game. He did. I mean he finished,

1998
01:42:59,080 --> 01:43:01,080
Speaker 1: should have thrown a pick six that almost happened. He

1999
01:43:01,120 --> 01:43:03,600
Speaker 1: had the one other interception, so he wasn't perfect, but

2000
01:43:03,800 --> 01:43:06,960
Speaker 1: he made so many big time throws uh in this

2001
01:43:07,160 --> 01:43:11,320
Speaker 1: game that again you can see it if his if

2002
01:43:11,400 --> 01:43:13,240
Speaker 1: his body holds up if he can do it, and

2003
01:43:13,600 --> 01:43:17,639
Speaker 1: he had eleven more carries today. Um, they are gonna

2004
01:43:17,680 --> 01:43:21,479
Speaker 1: be a tough out. They're gonna give the Bills a

2005
01:43:21,640 --> 01:43:24,760
Speaker 1: run for the a f c's title and they will

2006
01:43:24,800 --> 01:43:27,120
Speaker 1: not be an easy out in the playoffs. And it

2007
01:43:27,280 --> 01:43:30,879
Speaker 1: is it is interesting to me, like because the Seahawks

2008
01:43:30,920 --> 01:43:35,400
Speaker 1: have a great coach too. It's it's it's so especially

2009
01:43:35,439 --> 01:43:37,519
Speaker 1: if you root for a team that has bad coaching,

2010
01:43:37,760 --> 01:43:41,400
Speaker 1: like you you see it. You see how different football

2011
01:43:41,520 --> 01:43:45,000
Speaker 1: is when you have a team that is disciplined and

2012
01:43:45,280 --> 01:43:48,240
Speaker 1: understands their assignments and knows what they need to do

2013
01:43:48,600 --> 01:43:51,320
Speaker 1: and you see them play for each other. Uh. These

2014
01:43:51,400 --> 01:43:55,120
Speaker 1: are just two organizations that are to the best organizations

2015
01:43:55,439 --> 01:43:58,880
Speaker 1: uh in the NFL for years and years now, and

2016
01:43:59,000 --> 01:44:01,200
Speaker 1: that's why they play these great games. And that's why

2017
01:44:01,280 --> 01:44:04,320
Speaker 1: they'll both be playing in January. So yeah, well, I

2018
01:44:04,600 --> 01:44:09,080
Speaker 1: while I'm um fine with the Patriots losing, that's never

2019
01:44:09,160 --> 01:44:11,840
Speaker 1: a problem for me. You can't be two down if

2020
01:44:11,880 --> 01:44:14,040
Speaker 1: you're a Patriots fan today. You just can't because you

2021
01:44:14,160 --> 01:44:16,280
Speaker 1: know that your team is there again and this has

2022
01:44:16,320 --> 01:44:18,800
Speaker 1: all the ear marks again. If you keep your health

2023
01:44:18,960 --> 01:44:21,400
Speaker 1: of a ten to twelve win team, potential of a

2024
01:44:21,479 --> 01:44:24,320
Speaker 1: fun team, and you see the progress from Cam throwing

2025
01:44:24,360 --> 01:44:27,719
Speaker 1: the ball. But man, their their weaknesses are pretty weak.

2026
01:44:28,000 --> 01:44:30,160
Speaker 1: So you know, you guys are putting them in January

2027
01:44:30,320 --> 01:44:33,920
Speaker 1: and and coaching wise, you definitely figure that they'll figure

2028
01:44:34,000 --> 01:44:36,960
Speaker 1: things out as they go. And but they have absolutely

2029
01:44:37,040 --> 01:44:40,840
Speaker 1: no pass rush. I mean, Wilson could do what you want,

2030
01:44:40,960 --> 01:44:43,519
Speaker 1: and and the throws that they forced them to make,

2031
01:44:43,560 --> 01:44:46,320
Speaker 1: I guess maybe that they would defend that that. The

2032
01:44:46,720 --> 01:44:49,799
Speaker 1: David Moore catch was one of the most improbable catches

2033
01:44:49,880 --> 01:44:52,760
Speaker 1: you'll ever see. The DK Metcalf throw and catch for

2034
01:44:52,800 --> 01:44:55,920
Speaker 1: the touchdown was ridiculous. Really, all three, even the locket one,

2035
01:44:56,000 --> 01:44:59,160
Speaker 1: like all three of their first touchdowns were great plays

2036
01:44:59,160 --> 01:45:01,360
Speaker 1: by Wilson's so you hand it to him. But they

2037
01:45:01,400 --> 01:45:05,320
Speaker 1: have no pass rush. And I'm not kidding that Edelman.

2038
01:45:05,760 --> 01:45:08,559
Speaker 1: Look he he wore Jamal Adams out a little bit

2039
01:45:08,600 --> 01:45:11,960
Speaker 1: in coverage. But I mean their best outside receiver is

2040
01:45:12,000 --> 01:45:16,160
Speaker 1: Demere Bird to kill Harry cannot move. They're they're running

2041
01:45:16,160 --> 01:45:20,240
Speaker 1: backs went fourteen for twenty tonight. I mean, I've seen

2042
01:45:20,320 --> 01:45:22,200
Speaker 1: Cam Newton carry a team before, and they have a

2043
01:45:22,240 --> 01:45:24,960
Speaker 1: good offensive line, but it's really interesting that their weaknesses

2044
01:45:25,080 --> 01:45:28,439
Speaker 1: are so weak and at a certain point that that

2045
01:45:28,520 --> 01:45:31,400
Speaker 1: will probably be a bigger problem. I think Seahawks roster

2046
01:45:31,720 --> 01:45:34,640
Speaker 1: overall looks a lot better. Yeah, you know, I think

2047
01:45:34,720 --> 01:45:36,400
Speaker 1: he made a good point about how they have no

2048
01:45:36,479 --> 01:45:38,479
Speaker 1: pass rush any time they ever really got to Russell

2049
01:45:38,520 --> 01:45:40,519
Speaker 1: Wilsons when they brought guys down into the box who

2050
01:45:40,520 --> 01:45:42,840
Speaker 1: wouldn't typically be rushing, and they brought him off the

2051
01:45:42,920 --> 01:45:45,040
Speaker 1: edge and forced him into some situations where he realizes

2052
01:45:45,040 --> 01:45:46,680
Speaker 1: that's not a defensive end that he could outrun or

2053
01:45:46,760 --> 01:45:49,519
Speaker 1: defensive tackle, but a defensive back. But on the on

2054
01:45:49,600 --> 01:45:52,000
Speaker 1: the flip side, I think that Seattle surprise, and I

2055
01:45:52,040 --> 01:45:54,120
Speaker 1: know they gave up thirty points. I think they put

2056
01:45:54,200 --> 01:45:57,639
Speaker 1: together a fairly decent blueprint on how to fluster Cam

2057
01:45:57,680 --> 01:45:59,720
Speaker 1: Newton or fluster this offense a little bit and kind

2058
01:45:59,760 --> 01:46:02,240
Speaker 1: of short circuited at times. I mean, there was more

2059
01:46:02,280 --> 01:46:04,680
Speaker 1: than a handful of times where Cam dropped back and

2060
01:46:04,760 --> 01:46:06,880
Speaker 1: had pressure in his face or he had to get

2061
01:46:06,960 --> 01:46:08,120
Speaker 1: rid of the football and it was kind of an

2062
01:46:08,200 --> 01:46:10,439
Speaker 1: ugly result that usually didn't go for many yards, if

2063
01:46:10,479 --> 01:46:13,000
Speaker 1: any at all. And I think going forward, you know,

2064
01:46:13,160 --> 01:46:15,720
Speaker 1: not not including the final play, because we kind of

2065
01:46:15,760 --> 01:46:17,000
Speaker 1: knew how that went. But going forward, I think some

2066
01:46:17,040 --> 01:46:18,800
Speaker 1: teams could look at that tape and think, oh, well,

2067
01:46:18,840 --> 01:46:20,400
Speaker 1: maybe this is a few ways we could kind of

2068
01:46:20,880 --> 01:46:22,880
Speaker 1: defend them. But ultimately, like you said, you know, when

2069
01:46:22,880 --> 01:46:25,160
Speaker 1: you're relying on Julian Edelman to catch eight balls for

2070
01:46:25,200 --> 01:46:29,360
Speaker 1: a hundred seventy nine yards is the lifeblood of your offense.

2071
01:46:29,560 --> 01:46:31,880
Speaker 1: I mean, although you can't. You gotta have more than

2072
01:46:31,920 --> 01:46:33,920
Speaker 1: one option. They're so slow in the middle, like Jawan

2073
01:46:34,040 --> 01:46:36,040
Speaker 1: Bentley there inside lineback. It's just I'm not used to

2074
01:46:36,120 --> 01:46:40,240
Speaker 1: seeing like such subpar starters from the Patriots, and well,

2075
01:46:40,560 --> 01:46:43,120
Speaker 1: that's something that they're gonna that's something they're gonna work on.

2076
01:46:43,520 --> 01:46:45,880
Speaker 1: I'm with you, But I to Dan's point. When you're

2077
01:46:46,040 --> 01:46:49,719
Speaker 1: accustomed to watching um half baked coaches and I literally

2078
01:46:49,800 --> 01:46:53,400
Speaker 1: mean half big sometimes um running uh you know, middling

2079
01:46:53,520 --> 01:46:56,680
Speaker 1: teams there, you can point out all the weaknesses you want.

2080
01:46:56,760 --> 01:46:58,720
Speaker 1: And you know what, Seattle doesn't have a pass rush either.

2081
01:46:59,520 --> 01:47:01,560
Speaker 1: These are still two teams that I trust just to

2082
01:47:01,600 --> 01:47:04,280
Speaker 1: be there in the end and counteract um and find

2083
01:47:04,320 --> 01:47:06,920
Speaker 1: the antidote to teams that do have pass rushes. The Seattle, though,

2084
01:47:07,240 --> 01:47:09,200
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're going to confuse Cam Newton

2085
01:47:09,200 --> 01:47:10,680
Speaker 1: and cause some of the issues you have if you

2086
01:47:10,720 --> 01:47:13,960
Speaker 1: don't have Jamal Adams. I mean, and and it's it's Dan,

2087
01:47:14,080 --> 01:47:16,800
Speaker 1: it's ponderous for you to have to hear Jamal adams siloquies.

2088
01:47:16,840 --> 01:47:18,679
Speaker 1: So I'll keep it short, but I mean, you don't

2089
01:47:18,680 --> 01:47:20,599
Speaker 1: have to say that every time you bring up Jamal Adams.

2090
01:47:20,760 --> 01:47:22,200
Speaker 1: Well that's why I know it's annoying to you. But

2091
01:47:22,280 --> 01:47:24,080
Speaker 1: it's just like annoying that you keep bringing that up.

2092
01:47:24,120 --> 01:47:26,120
Speaker 1: Just talking about Jamal Adams. It's fine. Well, I think

2093
01:47:26,160 --> 01:47:28,519
Speaker 1: he's incredible and like I think for Seattle to be

2094
01:47:28,640 --> 01:47:31,800
Speaker 1: plugged into the right scheme, he's worth whatever they gave

2095
01:47:31,840 --> 01:47:33,640
Speaker 1: for him. He wouldn't have been worth it if you

2096
01:47:33,720 --> 01:47:36,479
Speaker 1: went to the you know, some other, some other operation

2097
01:47:36,600 --> 01:47:39,559
Speaker 1: for two high picks like that. But Seattle, um, who

2098
01:47:39,720 --> 01:47:41,320
Speaker 1: you know. It was like, oh, he'll be bored there.

2099
01:47:41,680 --> 01:47:43,640
Speaker 1: I didn't look bored to me. He looked um. He

2100
01:47:43,720 --> 01:47:47,000
Speaker 1: looked completely on fire, and he changes that defense entirely.

2101
01:47:47,040 --> 01:47:49,080
Speaker 1: They'd be they'd be in hot water without him, I

2102
01:47:49,120 --> 01:47:53,280
Speaker 1: mean distinctively. Two other points on the Seahawks that jumped

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Speaker 1: out to me. You mentioned Metcalf DK Metcalf holding his

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Speaker 1: own and then some against the reigning the Fensive Player

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Speaker 1: of the Year stuff on glor He's metcalf is a

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Speaker 1: special talent and he has the perfect quarterback to maximize

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Speaker 1: his skill set. And speaking of that quarterback, Ricky Hollywood

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Speaker 1: is a little annoyed before we started rolling here that

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Speaker 1: the telecast is giving so much shine to Russell Wilson

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Speaker 1: as a potential m v P guy. The reason that's

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Speaker 1: the case is that he's essentially a perfect quarterback. Russell

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Speaker 1: Wilson is a perfect quarterback. Even his one mistake today

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Speaker 1: was a pick six that was on the tight end,

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Speaker 1: not on Russell Wilson. I think he might be the

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Speaker 1: most under celebrated great quarterback of my lifetime. I think

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Speaker 1: he's just a first ballot Hall of Famer smack in

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Speaker 1: the middle of his prime. I think he's mastered the position,

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Speaker 1: and what we saw today he was just another clinic.

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Speaker 1: But he's better now than he's ever been. I think

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Speaker 1: he's a key. I don't think everyone knows Russell Wilson.

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Speaker 1: I don't know he's been a top three quarters. That's

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Speaker 1: kind of like think he should have never gotten him

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Speaker 1: v you vote, tell me the year where he was

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Speaker 1: the m v P the only vote for one person

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Speaker 1: right now playing it at a higher level than anyone

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01:49:07,520 --> 01:49:10,160
Speaker 1: can possibly play. I totally agree with he's been doing. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: He's been a great quarterback for years. But there's something

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01:49:13,640 --> 01:49:17,599
Speaker 1: right now watching him. It's he's masterful. And I think

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Speaker 1: that you cannot count Seattle out when you have someone

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01:49:20,880 --> 01:49:23,560
Speaker 1: that has mastered that position and they're right at the

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Speaker 1: peak of their powers, and they are. Their offense has changed,

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Speaker 1: they are, they're real so far about letting him you know,

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Speaker 1: because the point it almost cost him the game. They

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Speaker 1: let him throw the ball in third and one deep

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Speaker 1: and they went for it. So I don't problem with that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they're like every other throw tonight. That's why

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Speaker 1: I give you give him the benefit of the doubt, Like,

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Speaker 1: all right, he tried to win it there, what are

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Speaker 1: you gonna do? I'm sorry, but this, like, there is

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Speaker 1: this thing on the minute they the minute the broadcast

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Speaker 1: made the m v P comment how he's never gotten

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Speaker 1: a vote there it's so twitter but it was like, well,

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01:49:55,080 --> 01:49:57,640
Speaker 1: he never deserved an m v P vote. Sorry, Like

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Speaker 1: I'd have no problem with someone over one of these years,

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Speaker 1: saying Russell Wilson is an m v P level quarterback.

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01:50:04,120 --> 01:50:06,639
Speaker 1: Every year. I get that there are people in his way,

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01:50:06,760 --> 01:50:08,720
Speaker 1: like last year who it's like then you asked the

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01:50:08,760 --> 01:50:10,560
Speaker 1: person what year, what have you voted for him? And

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Speaker 1: there isn't there. Well, I'll go back and I'll go

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Speaker 1: back and find a year. I just don't think it's

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Speaker 1: judge whether a quarterback is truly one of the all

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Speaker 1: time greats by some dope m v P tropes like,

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Speaker 1: that's not really what it's about. Shook, you get the

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Speaker 1: last word. Well, I can't kill them for throwing that

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01:50:28,439 --> 01:50:30,040
Speaker 1: on third one because that's the same play that they

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01:50:30,120 --> 01:50:31,880
Speaker 1: ran to beat Filly in the playoffs last year. It

2157
01:50:31,960 --> 01:50:33,920
Speaker 1: just didn't work out this time. But you know what,

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson might not be underrated, but you know what

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Speaker 1: he is on limited very well, that's how you fun

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Speaker 1: a tap on a great Week two recap and Shook.

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Speaker 1: I know it's late where you are, it's right around midnight,

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01:50:47,439 --> 01:50:49,760
Speaker 1: but this is some characters like you. This is when

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01:50:49,800 --> 01:50:51,519
Speaker 1: you get your pumping right. This is a good time

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01:50:51,960 --> 01:50:54,000
Speaker 1: to get a little yoked and and it tells the

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Speaker 1: body never rest, never, never take it easy. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean the gym is not open right now. But if

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Speaker 1: it was, and yeah, I'd be there. I've had he

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Speaker 1: had been, I've had a key to a gym and

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Speaker 1: been there overnight making those noises. Yeah please those noises,

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Speaker 1: especially that last one. Yeah, thats like have you passed

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Speaker 1: your bowels on the gym before? All right, that's uh,

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Speaker 1: thank you Nick Shook for helping us out and uh

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Speaker 1: reminder that we'll be back on Tuesday with I believe

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Speaker 1: Colleen Wilf will be sitting in the Chris Westling chair

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Speaker 1: as the plan so look forward to that as we

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Speaker 1: turn our attention to week three. Will also be of

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Speaker 1: course on Tuesday recapping Monday Night Football, the matchup between

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Speaker 1: well it's the same thing. Yeah, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 1: From the Death Star. This is Dan Hansons signing off

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Speaker 1: for Nick Shook, the Mailman and Absentia the Old Boss,

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Speaker 1: Quiet Storm and Ricky Hollywood from what's called World Don't

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Speaker 1: Do the Night Who