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Speaker 1: The Around the League Podcast, our NFL media outsiders. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to another addition of the Round the League Podcast.

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Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hansi'm joined by room filled with heroes,

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Speaker 1: Chris Westling, Mark Sessler, and Gregg Rosea Doll. What up boys?

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Speaker 1: Hey Dan, Welcome back West. Thanks good to be here,

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Speaker 1: Glad to see it return one out over the eight percent.

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Speaker 1: You know, the odds were in our favor and it

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Speaker 1: all worked out, and some of our listeners already welcoming

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Speaker 1: you got everyone's a little more excited that the office

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Speaker 1: we weren't the same without you, Monday West, one of

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Speaker 1: our worst shows ever. It's good to know that I'm

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Speaker 1: not easily replaced. No, you definitely the chair did not

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Speaker 1: beat you. You know. Um, this is a very special,

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Speaker 1: very special Round League Podcast. It is the let's see

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Speaker 1: what we're gonna call It is the scheduled release special Bonanza.

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Speaker 1: Sounds goodza extravaganza, What do we like? Bonanza, Extravaganza, extravaganza,

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Speaker 1: extrava Bonanza. It is the schedule release extrava Bonanza, Bonanza

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Speaker 1: the same thing. It is a schedule release extravaganza. About that,

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Speaker 1: Arthur Joseph would be proud of that vocal coach Arthur Joseph.

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Speaker 1: If you listen to one day's podcast, sorry you missed him. Wes. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm not sorry, and you know that I don't want

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Speaker 1: change Wes. Are we burying the lead though? What the

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Speaker 1: schedule being released? Well, more importantly, it is the birthday

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Speaker 1: of our friend and Stan Hansas. Oh best ready you'll

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Speaker 1: read now listen to the sounds round the lead song

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Speaker 1: All of a Sudden that Young Monday at Young Monday,

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Speaker 1: who was a southern California area rapper and good friend

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Speaker 1: of downstairs editor David Eally supplied that after a series

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Speaker 1: of recording sessions, so thank you at Young Monday. Check

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Speaker 1: out his stuff that I thought that was pretty professional

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Speaker 1: action as far as introductions go. That's better than any

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Speaker 1: intrance music I've ever had. That's great, And it did

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Speaker 1: take him six months to put that together, six months

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Speaker 1: generous and and David Ealely downstairs told me that Young

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Speaker 1: of the crew. I like though. The other day when

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Speaker 1: we first got this, Dan said, let's save it, Let's

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Speaker 1: save it for a day. That's really and all all on.

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Speaker 1: You knew your birthday was Come in listen, Uh, this

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Speaker 1: is this is a job I take seriously. Oh young

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Speaker 1: Monday and I are gonna become a duo Old Tuesday Bastard.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, today is the schedule release extravaganza. No, we

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Speaker 1: don't need the music again, gold Standard? Come on, how

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Speaker 1: are you? Gold Standard? I'm doing fine. Thanks, Sorry, I

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Speaker 1: got a little giddy. I know everybody's a little excited.

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Speaker 1: In fact, this is what's really exciting. The schedule is

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Speaker 1: released on Wednesday at eight pm Eastern. Can a little

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Speaker 1: a little inside baseball or inside football is maybe more appropriate.

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Speaker 1: We are recording this before the schedule release. In our

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Speaker 1: hands right here is the two thousand four NFL schedule,

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Speaker 1: And I could tell you something. It feels very good

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Speaker 1: it feels almost too good. You ask me if I

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Speaker 1: am God's an that that is my spirit animal Alec

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Speaker 1: Baldwin from Malice Um. So we have the schedule right here,

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Speaker 1: and let's get right into it. That's all the show

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Speaker 1: another free agency segment. We're not going to be talking

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Speaker 1: all schedule. Gregg Rosenthal, there is no more news. It's perfect. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is perfect timing. The NFL machine trudges on and

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Speaker 1: testing your outside NFL sports did not disappoint. Um. So, yes,

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Speaker 1: Why don't we start with Week one, gentleman, because everybody

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Speaker 1: that your team neutral, you're not anti, but this sounds

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Speaker 1: anti Bengals. Well, sometimes on anti Bengals only because I

425
00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:27,480
Speaker 1: know their proclivities. Clinton like explanation. I don't know what

426
00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:30,080
Speaker 1: that meant. Did anyone else pick the Bengals to beat

427
00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:32,320
Speaker 1: to lose to the Charges in the playoffs last year

428
00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:34,119
Speaker 1: because they knew that the Bengals aren't allowed to have

429
00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:37,119
Speaker 1: nice things? But that's what you. You have to, like

430
00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:41,240
Speaker 1: on some level, inherently root for that narrative to continue

431
00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:43,920
Speaker 1: because in your mind for you to to work out

432
00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:46,879
Speaker 1: where you said, I'm quitting this team, for really to

433
00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:49,639
Speaker 1: pay off, it has to go on in perpetuity and

434
00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:51,399
Speaker 1: they will always be that team that you felt you

435
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:54,320
Speaker 1: had to get away from. Dan, if you've ever seen Tombstone,

436
00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:56,600
Speaker 1: you know it's not about the revenge. It's about the reckoning.

437
00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:00,040
Speaker 1: I mean, you're saying a lot of smart things, but

438
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:01,680
Speaker 1: I don't know if I understand any of it right now.

439
00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:04,959
Speaker 1: I don't need a scenario to play out. This is

440
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:07,760
Speaker 1: what the Bengals do. I don't think any of you

441
00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:09,760
Speaker 1: guys understand this is what the Bengals do. It's in

442
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:11,959
Speaker 1: the faith. I think we I think we do understand.

443
00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:16,160
Speaker 1: We're just stunned that you're I guess it's just still

444
00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:19,280
Speaker 1: Bengal Anger. That's just still here after all. And it's

445
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,080
Speaker 1: all right, let's say, do you have any I'm gonna

446
00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:26,040
Speaker 1: go with something that I was sure you are going

447
00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:29,879
Speaker 1: to go with. Bro. No, I'm still involved with the

448
00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:34,280
Speaker 1: Brown so I gotta work this relationship. Uh, I'm going

449
00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 1: with Jets in New England week seven. I can't get

450
00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:41,960
Speaker 1: enough of this whole concept of the patriots of all

451
00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 1: teams stealing Durell Reevas off the open market in the

452
00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:48,399
Speaker 1: Jets saying we don't want him, We're not going to

453
00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:50,920
Speaker 1: pay for him. I just don't like that for New York.

454
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:55,359
Speaker 1: But listen, if anyone knows if there's any Achilles heel

455
00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:58,040
Speaker 1: to uh Darrell reevs, Rex Ryan would know how to

456
00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:00,240
Speaker 1: pick on them. I don't see where it is, but

457
00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:04,280
Speaker 1: a fascinating matter that Gino Smith or Michael Vick won't

458
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:06,560
Speaker 1: be picking on darrelle Revis if Darrell rivers and you

459
00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:08,520
Speaker 1: just avoid them all day long. But but I guess

460
00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:11,919
Speaker 1: he Rex would know how you would potentially attack a

461
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:19,480
Speaker 1: team that had a Revas for St Johnson, who I've

462
00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:26,119
Speaker 1: heard is on the market, just floating around whispers around

463
00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:28,520
Speaker 1: the league. I like it. And you chose the Patriots

464
00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:30,800
Speaker 1: game and not even their one against Andrew Luck another

465
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:36,280
Speaker 1: delicious prime time that is my game. I'm going late

466
00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:39,160
Speaker 1: in the season because they just have a different feel

467
00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:41,080
Speaker 1: of it. Once you get late in this season, and

468
00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:43,920
Speaker 1: it's gonna have a different feel because it's on Saturday night.

469
00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:47,680
Speaker 1: We have games on Saturday night back in the NFL

470
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Speaker 1: San Francisco, San Diego six, December twenty If that just

471
00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:56,880
Speaker 1: sounds great, Philip Rivers. You just feel like between these

472
00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 1: two teams, one of them is gonna be on the

473
00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:02,520
Speaker 1: borderline of making the playoffs or not. Two very entertaining

474
00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:05,359
Speaker 1: coaches and quarterbacks, and on a Saturday I don't know

475
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:08,200
Speaker 1: about you guys like Saturday games. It's been a while

476
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,160
Speaker 1: and it reminds me of when I just loved watching

477
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:15,040
Speaker 1: football as a kid, those Saturday late season near Christmas matchups.

478
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 1: Good stuff. You know who's gonna hate it? Our wives?

479
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:19,840
Speaker 1: Any of us cut you know, it's like an extra

480
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,080
Speaker 1: that's the one day off and now we're back. Well,

481
00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:25,520
Speaker 1: there's somewhat schooled. I'm not seeing us at all on

482
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:28,720
Speaker 1: weekends from like late August on, it's all in peril.

483
00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:34,359
Speaker 1: Finally I'll do I'll pick one more. And uh, I

484
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:36,679
Speaker 1: am having grown up on the East Coast, even tho

485
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:39,440
Speaker 1: I'm a Jets fan, I do love NFC East showdowns.

486
00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 1: And in Week fifteen. It depends what you think about

487
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,320
Speaker 1: the Cowboys this year. Um, whether they'll be in the

488
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 1: mix this year. But the Cowboys at Philly and Week fifteen, Uh,

489
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,639
Speaker 1: these divisions, the division in the NFC seems to always

490
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:54,720
Speaker 1: come down right to the end. And to me, that's

491
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 1: it's a very good chance that will get that game

492
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 1: will have a lot of value for at least one team,

493
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 1: and most like both. I like it, like Tony Romo,

494
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:05,399
Speaker 1: like the Cowboys always seem to play entertaining primetime games

495
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:07,880
Speaker 1: and this will be another one. It is an insult

496
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:14,119
Speaker 1: to human intelligence that, no matter what happens, Dallas gets

497
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:18,040
Speaker 1: five primetime games every year. It was such an obvious

498
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:23,920
Speaker 1: that again, yes, without question, that team could be three

499
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 1: and thirteen next time teams get five games. A lot

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00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:30,760
Speaker 1: of teams than the Cowboys, well that's in the same air,

501
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:33,280
Speaker 1: that's in the same little category of doesn't matter. What

502
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:36,479
Speaker 1: you've done. Well, you're on TV more than Are they

503
00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:40,240
Speaker 1: not entertaining? Are they not? The Giants have been the

504
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 1: least entertaining. The Giants entertaining lass with you, the Giants

505
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,520
Speaker 1: tea keep him off the airwaves. That Cowboys always entertaining.

506
00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:49,400
Speaker 1: They always in the mix to the end, and and

507
00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:52,960
Speaker 1: they rate every time. Every time Sessler says that about

508
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, I do feel like I need to say

509
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:57,720
Speaker 1: what Greg just said, which was, yeah, they'll probably finish

510
00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:00,080
Speaker 1: eight and eight and be a big disappointment. But re

511
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 1: game they play in prime times exciting. They have a

512
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 1: huge fan base. There's that built in drama just with

513
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:07,920
Speaker 1: the Cowboys involved. I think it's Good's about one thing.

514
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 1: It is about money. It's all about money. Well the

515
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 1: only reason because it's not the best game every week

516
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 1: that Dallas has put on there. It's not, but they

517
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:20,040
Speaker 1: put teams that are entertaining. The Steelers around five times.

518
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 1: They have a great quarterback. Don't have a problem with Steeler.

519
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 1: They're the same as the Cowboys don't have. The Steelers

520
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,360
Speaker 1: have won a Super Bowl in the last sixteen seventeen years.

521
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 1: Who cares? Who cares? Who? The Cowboys are more entertaining

522
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 1: to watching the Steelers. Name three, name three defensive players

523
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:44,720
Speaker 1: on the Cowboys, Dade. Wow, don't put me on the

524
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:49,760
Speaker 1: spot like that. West. It's my birthday, fair alright. I

525
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:51,480
Speaker 1: wasn't doing that for you. I met that as Look

526
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 1: at look at what they've lost. This is not an

527
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:56,240
Speaker 1: entertaining We've established Dan as a Yankees fan has to

528
00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:58,680
Speaker 1: like the Cowboys. That's pretty much just how they were.

529
00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:01,440
Speaker 1: All do us watch the prime time games? And I

530
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:05,240
Speaker 1: know what's good and what's not? All right, moving on,

531
00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:11,560
Speaker 1: it's a very serious ending, very stern ending. Um, all right,

532
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:14,680
Speaker 1: what do we want to hit next? Should we give

533
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:20,160
Speaker 1: our old buddy Kevin Patrick? All good call Kevin Patra

534
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 1: coming at you, our Chicago correspondent. He wrote up a

535
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:28,000
Speaker 1: piece on the around the league site, um, getting into

536
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Speaker 1: the two defending conference champions and their roads through the

537
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 1: regular season. And see, you know how the schedule makers,

538
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:40,320
Speaker 1: uh you know, treated the two conference champions. So why

539
00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:44,280
Speaker 1: don't we get him on the line, Kevin the gold standard?

540
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:48,200
Speaker 1: Would you mind bringing up our Chicago friend? Not at all?

541
00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:54,200
Speaker 1: Kevin Patrick? Are you there, buddy? And you and I

542
00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:56,840
Speaker 1: could tell everybody's got a little pep a little bouncing

543
00:30:56,840 --> 00:31:00,800
Speaker 1: their steps schedule released a the schedule releasic travela ganza.

544
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 1: Excuse me again, we're all like elves working in Santa's

545
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:09,640
Speaker 1: shop and uh. Kevin Patrick wrote about the two Super

546
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:11,840
Speaker 1: Bowl teams, So tell us, tell us what you got

547
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 1: out of examining the schedules of both the Seattle Seahawks

548
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:17,960
Speaker 1: and the Denver Broncos. Well, I mean, I think from

549
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:20,520
Speaker 1: the Seahawks perspectives, they have one of the toughest schedules

550
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 1: in the league. We knew that from looking at what

551
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:26,480
Speaker 1: their strength of schedule. Obviously they're in the toughest division. Um,

552
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 1: they start out the season, You've got failed married to

553
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:32,920
Speaker 1: do with Green Bay. Um back in Seattle. Then you

554
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:34,960
Speaker 1: have a playoff team with the Chargers, and then you

555
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 1: have the Broncos in Seattle. Again, that's pretty top right

556
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 1: before you're buy, I mean, not only do they have

557
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 1: the all the NFC West teams who got each have

558
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:45,920
Speaker 1: gotten better in their own right, Uh, they also have

559
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 1: other teams that improved there at the Redskins. They're at

560
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:51,280
Speaker 1: the Panthers, who have taken a little step back. But

561
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:53,120
Speaker 1: that's still not gonna be easy game. They almost lost

562
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:56,240
Speaker 1: there last year. Um, they're at the Eagles in the

563
00:31:56,280 --> 00:32:00,280
Speaker 1: midst of five other games. Division game is at the

564
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 1: end of the season at the end, so I think

565
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 1: they have a very tough road to get back to

566
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Speaker 1: the playoffs. That's the thing that sticks out to me.

567
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 1: Out of their final six games, five of them are

568
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 1: in the division. They don't play the forty Niners until Thanksgiving,

569
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 1: they don't play the Cardinals till the week before that.

570
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 1: They basically don't start their division schedule almost until November

571
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,800
Speaker 1: twenty three, which is pretty crazy. Yeah, it is interesting

572
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 1: that they don't play the forty Niners until Thanksgiving nine

573
00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 1: and don't don't eat a lot of turkey, guys, because

574
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:30,440
Speaker 1: you don't want to fall sleep for that match. Well played,

575
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:35,320
Speaker 1: Kevin pat been holding on to that one for years. Um,

576
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 1: all right, so what do you what do you see

577
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 1: on the Bronco side, Well, it's interesting. Similar to the

578
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:43,320
Speaker 1: to the Seahawks, they also start with three playoff teams

579
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 1: from last year. Uh, they start off with the Colts,

580
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 1: who who they lost to last year on the road.

581
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 1: That's the home game this year. So that's interesting matchup

582
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 1: with Andrew upcome right out right out of the bat

583
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:55,680
Speaker 1: and they have chief the Chiefs, who might have taken

584
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:58,840
Speaker 1: a little step back. Uh, And they go to Seattle

585
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:02,120
Speaker 1: to face the Super Bowl rematch who will which will

586
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 1: be hyped to no end um. But they from there

587
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,960
Speaker 1: they have a little bit easier schedule obviously with the

588
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:10,719
Speaker 1: n f C West. They play the Raiders twice. Uh,

589
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 1: they play the Dolphins, they play the Jets. Uh. They

590
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 1: do have a tough schedule where they have uh these

591
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:21,240
Speaker 1: three games in fourteen days or twelve days or something

592
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 1: with the Jets, forty Niners and Chargers. Uh. They so

593
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:27,840
Speaker 1: they go to the Charges on a Thursday night, coming

594
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 1: right off of home game with the fort So that'll

595
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 1: be a tough one. And they follow that up with

596
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:34,880
Speaker 1: the Patriots, So that's gonna be a tough stretch for them.

597
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 1: They do play five of their first seven games at home,

598
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 1: so getting off to a good start I think is

599
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:43,720
Speaker 1: important for that. They have a really easy schedule down

600
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 1: the stretch. And I think another advantage they have. How

601
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:49,920
Speaker 1: many times do we see the Super Bowl loser who

602
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,960
Speaker 1: was clearly the best team in its conference during that

603
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 1: year and then improved the next year. So they're better

604
00:33:56,960 --> 00:34:02,560
Speaker 1: than at least fourteen teams on their schedule already go ahead.

605
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 1: I think if you had to wait it, I mean,

606
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:07,240
Speaker 1: would you say would get back to the playoffs? I mean,

607
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 1: I think you'd have to clearly say that it would

608
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:10,279
Speaker 1: be the Broncos. I don't think this question. Out of

609
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:13,920
Speaker 1: these two teams, I would be stunned if both didn't

610
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 1: get back. And frankly, if Denver, I agree with West,

611
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:19,520
Speaker 1: they've improved. There's no reason they can't go out and

612
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:21,920
Speaker 1: roll third team victories out of the schedule. The end

613
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,120
Speaker 1: of it is easy. You always hate though. You hate

614
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:26,840
Speaker 1: to see the bye in the fourth week of the season,

615
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:29,759
Speaker 1: especially there's some veteran players on this Broncost team would

616
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:31,719
Speaker 1: be nicer if they had maybe that blow in the

617
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:34,440
Speaker 1: middle of the season. But overall you can't really get

618
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 1: too worked up about their schedule. West is making faces

619
00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 1: over there. I don't think there's anything too in earlier

620
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:41,080
Speaker 1: late boy, I'd like to see a study on that.

621
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Speaker 1: What was it that Bill Walsh said, would you read

622
00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:47,920
Speaker 1: a study? Yeah, just because that doesn't sound like it

623
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:50,920
Speaker 1: would matter at all. Well, he he did. Some studies

624
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 1: that players are Bill Walsh. Mark Sessler mentioned they'll watch it.

625
00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:58,400
Speaker 1: Some studies that players are at their most tired before

626
00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:02,319
Speaker 1: Week one, so in theory than any early by would

627
00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:05,400
Speaker 1: not be so bad because August and this is written

628
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 1: in the late nineties, so football has changed a little bit,

629
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:11,480
Speaker 1: but it makes sense. You're practicing. Ultimately, you're working harder

630
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:13,640
Speaker 1: in August than during the season, when you have more

631
00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 1: days off and later practices. Both Super Bowl teams have

632
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 1: the Week four by Denver's schedules very frontloaded. All those

633
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 1: tough games are early, and a lot of them happened

634
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:25,279
Speaker 1: to be in Denver, so they kind of looked out

635
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 1: with that. Kevin Patrick fearless prediction. Are both of these

636
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Speaker 1: teams getting a first round by? Are they both getting

637
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 1: a first round by? I think the Bronco as well.

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Speaker 1: I think the Seahawks won't. I think they'll lose a

639
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 1: few games within their division, but I think they do

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Speaker 1: make the playoffs. All right, Kevin Patrick, thank you very much, buddy.

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Speaker 1: Have a good one, fellas. All right, Thank you to

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Speaker 1: Kevin patra And now we move on. Why don't we

643
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:52,399
Speaker 1: talk about I'll throw this one to Chris Westling. Who

644
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 1: got screwed? Who got screwed? Chris Wesley take a look

645
00:35:57,160 --> 00:36:00,319
Speaker 1: at the Chargers last year, they talked to about how

646
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:03,359
Speaker 1: their playoff runs started early. They have four must win

647
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:06,680
Speaker 1: games in December to close out the season. Those were

648
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:09,239
Speaker 1: not as tough nearly as the five games they're gonna

649
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:13,160
Speaker 1: have to close out this season. Their their playoffs are

650
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:18,319
Speaker 1: gonna start in December. They get at Baltimore, home to

651
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:22,520
Speaker 1: the Patriots, home to the Broncos, at the forty Niners,

652
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:26,800
Speaker 1: and then at the Chiefs to close out the season. Oh, murderers,

653
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:32,240
Speaker 1: Row Chargers sitting home in January. Oh, you're just making

654
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 1: willy nilly predictions all over that they were the definition

655
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 1: of mediocre last year. They're gonna be mediocre again this year,

656
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:41,920
Speaker 1: and they close out with five tough games. He's right.

657
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're the people putting this together, you

658
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:46,439
Speaker 1: have to be sitting around the room saying, all right, listen,

659
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:49,759
Speaker 1: we let's be honest. San Diego just got roped here.

660
00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:52,839
Speaker 1: You thought the Chargers are the definition of mediocrity last year?

661
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 1: Weren't they eight? They were not going to playoffs by

662
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:59,839
Speaker 1: the back door. I think when they were the playoff game,

663
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:02,799
Speaker 1: were the definition of mediocrity. They lacked speed on both

664
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 1: sides of the ball. They lucked into the playoffs and

665
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:07,640
Speaker 1: they got to play The Bengals had a really good

666
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:11,319
Speaker 1: offense almost the whole season, and the defense played great

667
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 1: at the end. I think once we got into December

668
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:15,479
Speaker 1: and January, they were one of the eight best teams.

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00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:18,520
Speaker 1: They don't agree with that at all, Mark Sessler, who

670
00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:23,720
Speaker 1: got screwed. You know, looking at the St. Louis Rams,

671
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:27,800
Speaker 1: and this is a team that for all the strides

672
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:30,280
Speaker 1: they're trying to make there and already in the toughest division.

673
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:32,480
Speaker 1: So that you got that out of the gate. They

674
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 1: have a stretch coming out of their Week four bye

675
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:39,120
Speaker 1: week where they play eight games, seven of them against

676
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 1: teams that went to the playoffs last year, Real Quick, Eagles,

677
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:47,879
Speaker 1: forty Niners, Seahawks, Chiefs forty Niners again. Then your non

678
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 1: playoff team, a Cardinals team that was surging towards the

679
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:52,680
Speaker 1: end and arguably was better than some of the playoff

680
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:56,479
Speaker 1: teams that got in. Then the Broncos, then the Chargers again.

681
00:37:56,719 --> 00:37:59,759
Speaker 1: Then if you're still even in existence after that, you

682
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:02,839
Speaker 1: can to play Oakland. And then, by the way, if

683
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 1: you have any breaths chance of a playoff birth, you

684
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 1: have to go into Seattle for the second year in

685
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:12,160
Speaker 1: a row in the final game of the year and

686
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:14,960
Speaker 1: deal with that. That's rough. I will say this, and

687
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:18,360
Speaker 1: that's all fair. Can't you almost say the Rams and

688
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 1: the Cardinals are basically built in as teams that get

689
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:26,479
Speaker 1: screwed as long as they downstairs. All these NFC West

690
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:28,960
Speaker 1: teams are in that boat. But if you're Seattle, you

691
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 1: don't play Seattle. You you can throw the a f

692
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:34,279
Speaker 1: C West teams in that boat boat too because they

693
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:36,440
Speaker 1: have to play the NFC West. So really all the

694
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 1: Western teams they get a tough luck this year. Sam Bradford,

695
00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 1: I mean, you might as well put that house on

696
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:47,320
Speaker 1: the market now after here. In that and and Cessler,

697
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:50,279
Speaker 1: you say the Seattle doesn't play Seattle. Are you sure

698
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 1: about that? Because isn't it a challenge to have to

699
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:56,560
Speaker 1: face down your own victories and champions? That is true

700
00:38:56,600 --> 00:39:00,400
Speaker 1: in the world. Inner head games and personal d means

701
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:02,840
Speaker 1: that could crop up. But I'm looking more at the

702
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:05,359
Speaker 1: schedule that's been released today. I like that we see

703
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:07,799
Speaker 1: the Seahawks as a team rife with personal demons because

704
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:10,799
Speaker 1: they won the trophy. Greg Rosen, who got screwed? I'm

705
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:13,440
Speaker 1: gonna go with the Titans and the Jaguars match them

706
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 1: up together. Usually, the NFL likes to give a break

707
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:21,439
Speaker 1: two teams coming off poor seasons and have them play

708
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:23,759
Speaker 1: each other early, and they have the good teams play

709
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:26,360
Speaker 1: each other early, and that creates some surprise teams and

710
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:29,719
Speaker 1: some slow starts for good teams. Tennessee and Jacksonville don't

711
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:31,799
Speaker 1: don't have the toughest schedule ever because they're in the

712
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:34,320
Speaker 1: a f C South, but they both have tough starts,

713
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:36,400
Speaker 1: both playing three out of four on the road to start.

714
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:41,000
Speaker 1: Tennessee in Kansas City, then they have Dallas, than in Cincinnati,

715
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:45,399
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis. It's not the toughest slate ever, but it's

716
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 1: as tough as their schedule gets. And you're trying to

717
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:49,640
Speaker 1: build hope and Mark and I were talking about there's

718
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:52,799
Speaker 1: nothing worse than your team is two and six after

719
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:55,359
Speaker 1: eight games and you're you're two week nine and your

720
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:58,080
Speaker 1: games already feel meaningless. So it's gonna be tougher for

721
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:00,919
Speaker 1: these two teams, Tennessee and Jacksonville starting on the road

722
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:03,839
Speaker 1: to build any momentum early. I have a feeling they're

723
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:07,359
Speaker 1: used to meaningless games in Nashville and Jacksonville. Right Well,

724
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:09,840
Speaker 1: you want to change that around, and the league spoke

725
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:13,160
Speaker 1: about how they feel about the boring level of Tennessee.

726
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:18,439
Speaker 1: It is literally until November seventeen that they don't lock

727
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 1: in at a one pm start. Week after weeks, these

728
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 1: two teams square off against each other on Thursday night

729
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:31,799
Speaker 1: football week December. What did we do to deserve that?

730
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:36,640
Speaker 1: That is? That is a fair point, you, Johnny Football

731
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:41,759
Speaker 1: to Jacksonville. Now we're getting excited. Well, yeah, this is

732
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:44,080
Speaker 1: all the subject to change based on what happens in

733
00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:46,319
Speaker 1: a few weeks. By the way, I've totally turned into

734
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:51,440
Speaker 1: a corporate are that one word answer? Which which of

735
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:54,280
Speaker 1: these two teams do you think finishes with a better record?

736
00:40:55,200 --> 00:41:00,920
Speaker 1: I do too, Titans? Titans, but the jag Where's draft

737
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:03,759
Speaker 1: Johnny Football and going everyone keep in mind that there's

738
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:08,480
Speaker 1: no golden tate on the Titans. It's a good point,

739
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:11,040
Speaker 1: all right, Perhaps not surprisingly, I'm gonna go with the

740
00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:13,839
Speaker 1: Jets as the team got screwed. It's like the only

741
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 1: team schedules looked at. But now tell me, but now

742
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:18,720
Speaker 1: tell me if I'm wrong that this is a little

743
00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 1: bit bogus. Okay, So, and I apologize, Greg. I know

744
00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:23,680
Speaker 1: you worked very hard on the schedule with the other

745
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:27,640
Speaker 1: guys in the league office. So October five, Week five,

746
00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:31,480
Speaker 1: the Jets are in San Diego, way deep in southern California.

747
00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 1: They fly across country, uh, and they start preparing for

748
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:38,480
Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos, the defending a f C champions come

749
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 1: to town. Peyton Manning, and then you play the Broncos.

750
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 1: And then you got a short week because you're playing

751
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 1: out Thursday night football and not only playing on Thursday

752
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:50,520
Speaker 1: night football, you're going on the road. And not only

753
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:52,879
Speaker 1: are you going on the road, you're going to Foxborough

754
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 1: to play the Patriots on short rest. It's bogus. That

755
00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 1: is rough. It's not fair. It happens, Oh a day,

756
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:05,000
Speaker 1: it happens to you. Greg. You got a nice set

757
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:07,719
Speaker 1: up there. You got the Jets coming in limping after

758
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:11,840
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning goes to work on my team. This is

759
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:14,399
Speaker 1: gonna be licking his chops because Eric Decker is gonna

760
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:16,439
Speaker 1: be dragging his feet. He's got a new born at home,

761
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 1: and he's got it, you know, all these other things

762
00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:20,920
Speaker 1: going on in his life. Don't you want all your

763
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:24,200
Speaker 1: automatic losses just packed together? Now you have an excuse

764
00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:27,279
Speaker 1: for him. That's what I'm talking about What was my

765
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:29,120
Speaker 1: response when you asked me if I wanted to do

766
00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 1: the who Got Screwed? Article this morning? Well, I know

767
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:33,759
Speaker 1: you didn't want to do it. You thought you got

768
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:36,840
Speaker 1: screwed When I said, the only sentence that would right,

769
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 1: The only analysis I could give was stop winding about

770
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:44,440
Speaker 1: your team. Wasn't it last year New England? This is

771
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:46,799
Speaker 1: a real like nihilist about the schedule league. It's not

772
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:50,080
Speaker 1: his favorite day of the year. It's not at that

773
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:52,880
Speaker 1: did in New England and the Jets played Thursday night

774
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:55,919
Speaker 1: last year in one of the sloppiest affairs. It was gross. Yeah,

775
00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:58,040
Speaker 1: it was early in the season and neither team played

776
00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:00,239
Speaker 1: well in New England. That and they had the on

777
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:03,440
Speaker 1: the road on this short week and the Jets somehow overcame.

778
00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:07,080
Speaker 1: This did overcome. They were very competitive. That was about

779
00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 1: as good as it's gonna get for them. Uh No,

780
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:12,480
Speaker 1: And if you've been tracking this rivalry, it's been fairly

781
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:15,799
Speaker 1: um even considering the team's success over the past ten

782
00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:19,359
Speaker 1: years or so. That's fairy. They give Rex Ryan gives

783
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:21,920
Speaker 1: Brady more problems than any of all of this stuff

784
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:25,600
Speaker 1: that you just talked about. Means about three percent compared

785
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:29,279
Speaker 1: to injuries that happened throughout the year. Well, yeah, I

786
00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:31,680
Speaker 1: mean it's a lot of It's April. It's April. Should

787
00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:34,239
Speaker 1: we just scrap this podcast and we record and talk

788
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:36,960
Speaker 1: about Caleb Hainey signing with the Cowboys. This has been gold.

789
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:39,360
Speaker 1: By the way, Marcus true Font just signed with the

790
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:42,920
Speaker 1: Seahawks too, one day contract. It's great that he's retired

791
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:45,640
Speaker 1: in Seattle. See that's what you want to talking about.

792
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:48,520
Speaker 1: That's what you want to talk about. Maybe they brought

793
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:52,279
Speaker 1: him into, you know, help secondary for one day practice.

794
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:55,279
Speaker 1: Who is the Dalton scale of going back to your

795
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:59,000
Speaker 1: city to have your number to retire for your old team.

796
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:03,520
Speaker 1: It might be Marcus Phone. No, there was someone. There

797
00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:08,799
Speaker 1: was someone on the Jaguars that was no. No, at

798
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 1: least he was there for thirteen years something. It was

799
00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:13,200
Speaker 1: like Joe. It was like Jerry Porter went back to

800
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:16,319
Speaker 1: the Jaguars. Because I don't think he's allowed back at

801
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:18,840
Speaker 1: Jackson making that up, but I'll look for it. It

802
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:21,719
Speaker 1: was a ridiculous one. Mark. I want you to do

803
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:24,839
Speaker 1: your one day contract with the NFL when the time

804
00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:27,080
Speaker 1: comes for you to retire and come back and just

805
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:28,400
Speaker 1: announce it and we'll have a whole. We'll have a

806
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:31,799
Speaker 1: barbershop quartet like what's his name? Kid? I'm going on

807
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:36,239
Speaker 1: record falls below the Dalton scale of having your one

808
00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:39,719
Speaker 1: day retirement. Yeah, I'll buy that. That would be a

809
00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:44,320
Speaker 1: really fun, mean spirited post the worst one day contracts.

810
00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:47,560
Speaker 1: That's why it's better for podcast. Um all right, So

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Speaker 1: that is it for the Around the League Podcast Schedule

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Speaker 1: Release Extravaganza. We gotta have music this time gold centered

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00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:07,879
Speaker 1: Around League Podcast Schedule Release extravag Anza. Boom. All right,

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00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:11,240
Speaker 1: so um, enjoy it, go through it all. It's all

815
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:13,520
Speaker 1: there for you to peruse. You can look at your

816
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:16,520
Speaker 1: favorite team on the uh NFL dot com website and

817
00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:19,120
Speaker 1: then on Around the League. We have tons of insight

818
00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:23,560
Speaker 1: on the scheduling. Possibly too much potentially, but also maybe

819
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:26,920
Speaker 1: some people will say not enough. You can't make everybody happy,

820
00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:29,239
Speaker 1: but most likely yes, too much. I'm going too much.

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Speaker 1: Too much is that's our motto. Too much is not enough? Um. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So check that out and we will be back on

823
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Speaker 1: Friday and west before we go. Anything to share from

824
00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:45,120
Speaker 1: your visit to Tybee it was uh I called it.

825
00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 1: I I called it my sanctioned debauchery, my sanctioned fun uh,

826
00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:52,480
Speaker 1: vacation time I went back. I had all these great plans.

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00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:54,200
Speaker 1: My lady friend and I were gonna go out on

828
00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:56,600
Speaker 1: a boat, and then it rained and it was like

829
00:45:56,840 --> 00:45:59,600
Speaker 1: horribly windy the first few days I was there, So

830
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:01,719
Speaker 1: the only thing to do was hang out at Huckapoos.

831
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:04,239
Speaker 1: And you know, I kind of joke around that I

832
00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:06,279
Speaker 1: don't really like people that much, but that's my like

833
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:09,319
Speaker 1: little haven, so I could spread a little thin want

834
00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:10,839
Speaker 1: to go back to Tybee. It turns out that three

835
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:12,719
Speaker 1: or four nights is just about as much as I

836
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:16,480
Speaker 1: can take. Was the stormy conditions? Was that perhaps indicative

837
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:18,960
Speaker 1: of the rest of your personal life while back in

838
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:23,520
Speaker 1: the old hometown? Everything worked out fine on that Oh good, well,

839
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 1: that's good. Well, we're happy to have you back because

840
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:28,120
Speaker 1: the twelve chance that you didn't come back. Maybe if

841
00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:30,319
Speaker 1: the weather was perfect and he went sailing on that

842
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:33,000
Speaker 1: boat and you know, the sun was hitting you just right,

843
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:35,640
Speaker 1: and you had the nice bucket of SuDS kind of

844
00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:38,160
Speaker 1: like in Shawshank when they're on the roof when they're

845
00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:41,680
Speaker 1: towing the roof, and everything felt perfect, Maybe could have

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Speaker 1: become fifty one Mother Natures like I listened to this

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Speaker 1: podcast all the time. You need to prevent West from

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Speaker 1: falling in love with this Tybee Island place again. Here

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Speaker 1: comes the bad weather. It sounds like this percentage for

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Speaker 1: the next time you go back to Tybee is getting

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Speaker 1: smaller and smaller. Because I believe it or not, Leslie

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Speaker 1: missed Los Angeles and boys back in Nelly. I missed

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Speaker 1: you guys. I don't know about the city. All right, Well,

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Speaker 1: we're glad that you're back West, and um, you know,

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Speaker 1: we're happy that uh coutar no huck a poos say

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Speaker 1: they did a nice job. We called them a couple

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Speaker 1: of times and they were nice people and it seems

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Speaker 1: like a great place. We're gonna do a podcaster one day.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna get there. Gold Sanders is gonna handle all

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Speaker 1: the legwork on the setup and he's gonna pay for

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Speaker 1: our flight, so that'll be good. Um. So we'll be

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Speaker 1: back on Friday and Stilns fan hands signing up for

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Speaker 1: the Mailman, the Sizzler, and the Boss, the gold Standard

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Speaker 1: behind the glass, the guy with the credit card. Until Friday. Today,

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Speaker 1: we'll beat Dan's last birthday