WEBVTT - Week 12 preview 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:08.240 The Around the NFL Podcast, now available in Pumpkin Spikes. Well, 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:10.840 welcome back to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast. 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:12.959 My name is Dan Hansas, and I am joined by 0:00:13.000 --> 0:00:16.959 a room filled with heroes, Mark Sessler, Chris Westling, and 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:22.360 Greg Rosenthal. What's up, boys, Hey Dan, she'd say, what's 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:30.320 up girl? Big development behind the glass. On Tuesday's show, Um, 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:34.520 we spoke of uh Sydney's misfortune the week prior, when, 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:38.200 upon hearing that a old Juicer f bomb had gotten 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:43.640 into the final version of our podcast. Um, she turned 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:46.400 around her car started racing back to the office to 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:50.400 make the exit, makes make the edit, and UH rear 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:54.280 ended somebody bad news and she got banged with a 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:59.480 beefy mechanic Bill And we said, well, what can we do? 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:03.280 What can I do save our Sydney? And I reached 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:06.200 out to the greatest listeners in the world and we 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:09.920 asked uh a go fund Me account, if possible, we 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:12.679 could set it up. The subreddit led by the Fearless 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:19.120 leader over there, greeby that guy he is. He's one 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:22.240 of those guys you want the Fox, the foxhol He's 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:24.559 like the wolf from pulp fiction. It's like the Wolf. 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:27.319 He's like, I've been watching a lot of YouTube videos 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:30.400 with my son this week. In The Avengers Captain America, 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:33.880 he's like the point man about Michael Clayton, the Ultimate Fixer. 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:39.680 Absolutely little Clayton, the Ultimate in a big UM. And 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:42.520 I was working at a coffee shop last night. I 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:46.840 saw David Hasselhoff there. That's not connected to this story 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:49.280 at all, but I did see that Greeby had put 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:52.480 up a go fund me and UM with a goal 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:54.960 five hundred dollars, which sid you said, that was basically 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:57.360 what you were looking at for your repair that you 0:01:57.400 --> 0:01:58.880 have to pay out to your insurance. It's called a 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:04.480 deductible deductible. And within three hours we had reached that goal. 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:08.080 And then when I woke up this morning and I checked, Uh, 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:10.200 I checked that go fund me again, Greeby had to 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:12.920 shut it down. Almost a thousand dollars raised, right, and 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:17.120 that was posted at midnight Eastern essentially it started. So 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:22.200 we should mention that, uh, mr F. Well, I want 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:27.079 to call out special attention to UM. A few people here, 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:33.080 Peter Willman, Mr F Bolt, Drop, Benjamin in a big spot, 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:40.680 Joshua Lowler fifty Bones, and then uh Bruno Gagnon, forty Bones, 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:45.920 A J. Smith, Keith Woodley, and Tom Shawn and then 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:48.680 you know everybody else. It was I believe over fifty 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:52.280 uh for fifty four exactly donations before Greeby shut it down. 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:56.320 Uh to get to that final total of I know 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:58.120 already said it, but I forgot that we had this 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:12.440 drops that was a long drum said, the floor is yours. 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:14.840 Do you have any comments for the listeners who have 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:18.639 made your life better on this Thanksgiving? You? Yeah? I mean, 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:21.160 I think it just speaks to the amazing listeners that 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:22.519 we have. I mean, I woke up this morning and 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:25.480 inside a tweet from Kevin Patra that had a screenshot 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:27.639 of like, I think eight fifty at that point, and 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:30.640 I mean, what a way to wake up. I just 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:33.160 I can't even I'm kind of in shock, and everything 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:35.320 feels very surreal at this point. Well, we had to 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:39.320 shut down before Sydney got you know, rims and tinted. 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:42.800 It's not just that she was talking up here before 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:44.720 you guys came up that. Oh it's you know, I 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:47.600 got the deductible, paid them so so thankful, but with 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:50.120 an extra four hundred and fifty, it's like I'm gonna go. 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:52.880 I have clothing to buy. I've got new sweaters at 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:55.480 some like. I'm not sure that's where the the extra 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:58.000 money should go. Yeah, I also have sandwiches to buy, 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:00.360 sandwich is to buy. I mean if we I don't 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:02.320 know and said, maybe you could figure it out that 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:04.040 that will be Maybe what do we do with the 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:05.960 excess money once you know for sure what the bill 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:08.960 is and you know, hell, you know, maybe you can 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:11.160 get the fast past of Disneyland. I don't know. I 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:13.640 guess it's your money, right, I don't know. Well, it's 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:17.719 Disney is incredibly expected. Greg's shot down immediately. Sydney having 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:20.080 the money to herself, Well, you're the one who came 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:22.240 up with the idea to donate it. I thought that 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:23.960 was a good idea. Yeah, and then Mark had the 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:28.200 idea this is all on I am a client that 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:30.960 we don't speak of. That maybe Sydney should have a 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:34.719 role in the decision making process. It is technically her fundage. 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:37.159 It is I one thing that went buried here. You've 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:42.400 you've got a second job at a coffee shop. What why? Well? No, 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:44.800 I right there, I write at the Coffee Bean. It's 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:47.440 a creepy place. It made it sound like you were 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:49.680 I mean, you have another child. You're not a barista, 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:54.800 you know, yeah, Jo Yes. In fact, you could check 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:57.840 out my latest end around column where I actually went 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:00.680 through every single NFL auction item. Last night, I was 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.360 in that coffee shop for four hours and wrote about 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:07.640 about fifteen of my favorite offerings for the NFL fan. 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:10.920 Did you run into Gunter? I didn't see Gunther there. 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:14.640 Gut is like feeling himself out in the Hollywood Hills, 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:20.520 all right. We did mention Mr f who donated a 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:23.360 hundred dollars towards Sydney's cause he is the sponsor of 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:26.960 the show, his entire economics class in the Hague, the Netherlands. 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:31.840 In fact, today's show on Tuesday show again, it's a 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:34.880 little bit of a different week because Thanksgiving here and 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:45.280 the Estados unidos is it un French? Um, we have 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:46.839 a little bit of a different schedule, so we have 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:50.320 another show right here a day later. We broke down 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:54.320 the Thanksgiving Thursday games, but there are no buys this week. 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:58.400 That means two teams, sixteen games. Nobody am by, so 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:00.960 we have thirteen more to get to. Even I can 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:04.120 do that math strong what about thirteen times too. How 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:08.919 many teams involved nailed it. What's wonderful is they have 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:12.840 us previewing games on so many different platforms that in 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:15.680 another part of the Internet, we've already previewed half these 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:20.440 games yesterday, making this show especially fresh. I'm sure for 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:23.360 the four of them, Sessler Math, there literally one one 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:25.520 game of these that we previewed ahead of What did 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:27.719 I get on a state mandated Math? Much more than that, 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:30.960 you don't want to know? What was? What did you do? What? 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:35.800 I was horrible at Math? Absolutely horrible? Okay, so we 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:38.559 have all these games to get to. Why don't we start, guys, 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:41.120 Let's get right to it. Sydney's got a glow. It's 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:43.840 actually there's like an orb around her to feel so love. 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:45.240 Did you cry when you saw it all? Did you 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:47.440 get choked up? Our emotional Yeah, you know a little bit. 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:49.880 I'm just kind of overwhelmed by the whole thing. And 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:51.760 it just kind of drove home like how lucky I 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:53.320 am to be a part of this crew and with 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:57.839 these fans, like legitimately the best listeners, our listeners, We 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:00.920 have the greatest listeners in the world. That was a 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:05.000 little trumpy, the best the best listeners in the world. Uh. 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:07.840 But uh, and they proved it again. Especially check out 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:11.000 that subreddit because a lot of the great um fun 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:14.840 stuff from the around the NFL fan base, uh, the 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:18.720 subreddit around the NFL podcast. All right, let's start in Chicago. 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:21.120 All right, we're gonna start. We're gonna kind of ease 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:23.200 into things here a little bit. Okay, So the Tennessee 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:26.040 Titans still a team that if you want to see 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:29.600 some exciting football, Uh, you can check out the Titans 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:31.480 on offense and they're probably gonna get you excited. And 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:34.880 you would expect uh them to do some things at 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:39.160 Chicago against the Bears, against Jay Cutler, uh, Greg Rosenthal 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:43.560 um and Marcus Mariota if he has any designs on 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:46.080 keeping the Titans of the mix. You gotta take care 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:49.520 business here and they should and not not against Jay Cutler, 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:52.440 of course. Uh. He was reported to be out for 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:55.800 the season. Looks like that's the Bears at least are 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:58.840 disputing that. But we're gonna get Matt Barkley in a 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:02.280 game that has playoff implications, which is terrible, which is 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:04.160 why this should be the last thing we talked about 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:06.679 with the Bears in this game. I'm excited to watch 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:10.880 Mariota against a bad defense. I was thinking when you're 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:14.120 watching Mariota last week. He is the master of the 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:19.680 mid range game. He is the equivalent of Carl Malone 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:22.880 in the NFL, or Dirk and a Whitsky. I'm trying 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:25.320 to think of someone with a nice fifteen footer. He's 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:28.720 got the fifth, He's got a feathery touch from He's 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:34.800 the mid range game. Little Dirk. That guy, now, yeah, 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:38.120 Rip Hamilton's was good. He reminds me a little bit 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:40.319 of Philip Rivers if you take away the running and 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:42.160 the movement in the pocket. I just mean in terms 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:44.160 of when he's throwing it. When I think Philip Rivers, 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:47.640 I think Mariota. I think these on point darts that 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:50.480 are right in between the zone fifteen to twenty yards 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:52.959 that that's what he does best. He will carve up 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:56.440 the soft underbelly of your defense over the right and 0:08:56.640 --> 0:09:00.120 the middle of Chicago's defense. No, Darrell Freeman, he has 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:04.319 been suspended. That was the second rated inside linebacker league 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:07.840 wide according to PFF, their best defensive player. I mean, 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:09.880 that's crazy. At first of all, that's not a good thing. 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:13.199 If Darrell Freeman's your best defensive player, Like, where's po 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:16.320 McFee doesn't even play that much for them, which is surprising. 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:19.120 He's coming off of an injury. Everything that could go 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:21.520 wrong for this Bears team has has gone wrong. How 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:23.559 about this greg to that point, and this is from 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.920 our research notes, uh, the Bears are already a talent 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:29.520 to prive team entering this season. Entering the season by 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:31.480 the end of last week's Giants games, Chicago at ten 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:33.880 of its twenty two starters at the beginning of the 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:37.400 season injured or suspended, and the bears last four first 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:41.200 round picks are also injured. Kyle Long, Kyle Fuller, Kevin White, 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:45.600 and Lenny Floyd their starting quarterback. That's that's There's no 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:48.400 teams coming back from that, especially the Bears their starting 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:51.520 quarterback Jake Cauler, their top two receivers, Alshon Jeffrey and 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:54.319 Kevin White, they're tight end Zach Miller, both Pro Bowl 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:57.720 guards Kyle Long, and just sitting. All of that missing 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:00.640 from their offense. And that's great news for the Titans, who, 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:04.120 like the Browns, are playing their twelfth game this week. 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:06.240 They're the last two teams that will have a bye 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:09.320 next week, and as bad as that last was to 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:11.880 the Colts, then they're not gonna have a tiebreaker. You 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:13.720 can win this game. You get the six and six. 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:15.920 Who knows the next time they might be playing, they 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:18.559 might be tied for first because the Texans might be six. Well, 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:21.640 and there's there's a bit of interdivisional luck for the 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:24.559 rest of the a f C South because Scott Tolzine 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:28.840 is going to be starting against the Steelers on Thanksgiving. 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:33.360 Mark it's a drop, It's part of the show. Just 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:35.120 keep going. You can do it. I I love it, 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:38.360 don't I love it? Don't tell Clay Bond. But if 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:42.040 the Titans can't beat the Matt Barkley lad Bears, they 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:47.760 don't deserves Well that's it's a little different. Tell tell 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:52.440 the hot takes on, Budsman. If you cannot beat this 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:56.640 talent deprived Bears team, you did not belong in the playoffs. Well, 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:59.120 and by the way, you'll be five and seven. You're 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:02.600 not making the playoff us. UM win the game. Let's 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:07.280 move on. Uh. Next up? Uh the Jacksonville Jaguars really 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:10.280 easing into action here today. UH two and a look 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:12.520 at it this way, we're getting all the dirt eggs 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:16.200 out of the way, and uh, not a ton of 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:19.560 great games, actually not the best. It's not a good 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:21.880 Sunday of games. I think the worst one of the year. 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:24.320 You're getting some of the good ones on Thanksgiving. Just 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:26.880 matchups didn't work out this week, all right, So here 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:29.120 you go. Here's the Jacksonville Jaguars, and we know all 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:32.200 of their troubles this year from the quarterback on down there. 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:35.560 Two and eight. Now they travel to Buffalo to face 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:38.000 a five and five Bills team that has very little 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:40.920 wiggle room. Now, um, they are two games out of 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.640 the final, a f C wild card spot, which tells 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:45.520 you everything you need to know. The division went by by, 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:48.280 as we know with the Patriots involved, so they gotta 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:51.600 win this game. Will miss will Lashawn McCoy be playing 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:53.800 this game? What are we hearing? Mark Sessler? Well, he 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:57.000 practiced on a limited basis today on Wednesday, and I 0:11:57.080 --> 0:11:59.760 think that's a huge one of the biggest injuries league. 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:03.959 Why to monitor because McCoy's season has been fascinating. I 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:07.040 think he's been uh the heart of their offense in 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:11.400 many ways. And if he's healthy. We saw when he 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:14.640 was playing against Cincinnati last week looks great, and I 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:17.440 like this Bill's offense and what they what they've done 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:20.440 in terms of we are a heavy running team and 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:23.200 we're gonna try to overpower people, and you can do 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:25.920 that against Jacksonville. Jacksonville's played some tight games over the 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:31.160 last three or four weeks. But if you're Buffalo, I 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:33.679 mean that Tennessee, you cannot slip up here. You're at 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:37.040 home after this week, you play the Raiders, the Steelers, 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:39.080 you get the Browns then, but then you have the 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:42.880 Dolphins and the Jets and the Dolphins. The Buffalo Miami 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:45.040 situation from here to the end of the season. It's 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:48.400 one of the more fascinating divisional races out there. Buffalo 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:51.360 cannot slip up this week. I think this and this 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:53.600 is not my lock of a week, I can tell 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:56.120 you that. I but I think this is going to 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:59.240 be one of the most lopside of games the week. 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:00.960 I think the Bills will come to play and I 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:03.520 think this game we're you know, we're talking to twenty 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:08.640 different some applied to fashionist as a Doug Marone revenge game. 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:12.040 The revenge goes the other way. If anything, you're the 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:14.400 you're the coach that didn't even say goodbye in person 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:17.080 to your players. You texted them and jumped out of 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:19.439 your contract. What revenge. This guy's lucky he has a job. 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:21.200 Here's a Rex Ryan how to say about that? On Wednesday, 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:24.040 Doug isn't the coach here anymore. I'm blessed to be so, 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:26.040 of course, I hope it's miserable for him and the 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:29.320 rest of the Jaguars. That's still the worst coaching move 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:35.080 you've seen leaving well, it was Hubris. Larkey did a 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:38.360 very similar thing also to Buffalo, sitting on top of 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:41.680 the NFL world. Now I was sitting. I was in 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:44.600 the news room working a a t N shift on 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:47.839 New Year's Eve when this happened. And at the time, 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:50.760 it was reported that he was well respected for the 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:54.160 job he did in Buffalo because talks to the inside 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:57.719 the Jets were supposed to were especially interested. He was 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:00.680 a Bronx native. And there there are people who believe 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:04.080 the calumnists for the Daily News Minish Meta played a 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:06.680 heavy role in Moron not getting that Jets job because 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:11.040 he completely went after um Moron in a series of 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:14.600 columns and uh, the Jets ownership does listen to what's written. Well, 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:18.440 you know what Doug Morone did in Buffalo. He led 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:21.720 them to a winning record, and no one has done 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:26.040 that for Kyle Williams. And Kyle Williams is entire ten 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:28.920 or eleven, I'm not sure what season he's on his 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:31.280 entire career. This is a guy that one day is 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:33.560 going to be in the Bill's Ring of Honor, and 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:36.000 he's having a monster season. I mean, I think he's 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:39.000 been a really good story. How good Kyle Williams has been. 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:41.280 Win one for Kyle. Send him to the playoffs. There 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:43.320 is one note in this game we should mention. Sammy 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:46.480 Watkins is back. He said that he is finally one 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:48.360 d I feel like the guy has not been fully 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:51.600 healthy in forever. He says he's one percent at the time. 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:54.200 Off was good. Real quick state of the Bills before 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:56.640 we leave this game. Do we all agree that Rex 0:14:57.440 --> 0:15:00.760 and Tyrod Taylor are both coming back into the Well, 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:03.640 let's see what happens. I would say this is Rex 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:06.520 Ryan's revenge tour from here on out, because right here, 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:08.440 I'll start with myself. I watched this guy out of 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:11.080 town a month or two ago, and he is proving 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:13.400 everyone that he could still coach. I think they have 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:15.080 to go over five and I think I gotta win 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:18.360 night games. I really do. Tyrod Taylor has definitely exceeded 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:22.320 my expectations. Their their injury situation on offense has been 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:25.520 brutal at receiver. Maybe they get walking back. I honestly 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:27.640 think if he wins two or three more games, seven 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:29.800 or eight wins, he should be good. The locker room 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:31.840 is with him this year where it was not parts 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:34.720 of it last year. That's fair. Let's uh move on 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:37.800 and talk about an a f C North game that 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:40.440 you know, A schedulemakers probably thought this had a chance 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:43.960 to be a little better when it initially the season started. 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:47.920 Here the three, six and one Bengals UH traveling to 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:52.360 Baltimore to face the five and five Ravens, and UH 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:55.320 Mark Sessler this this Cincinnati team does not have a 0:15:55.360 --> 0:16:01.000 great chance. Missing a J. Green right, A J. Green year, Bernard, 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:03.440 I think they're missing a lot more even with the 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:09.840 players Green Green is Green is a top three NFL 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:12.880 receiver and you've lost him. In last week. It felt 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:17.000 like watching them against the Bills that the Bills secondary 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:19.760 completely swallowed up anything that the Bengals wanted to do 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:22.240 through the air. One of those interceptions for Dalton were 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:25.000 not on him. It bounced off Tyler Reifford's chest, but 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:27.800 he almost third a third through a third interception because 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:30.680 there was just nobody open. And and you lose Bernard 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:32.400 in the passing game. That's big two. But I look 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:35.720 at also Jeremy Hill and stay, where's the foundational running 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:37.360 game from this offense? What is it that they can 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:40.680 go out planned to do and accomplish nothing? Because that 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:43.880 offensive line has been worked over all year and this 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:46.040 is a horrible matchup for the Bengals. The bill. The 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:49.960 Ravens are a top two defense this year in many categories, 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:52.600 and they play even better at home, as we've mentioned 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:54.920 many times. And I think their offense is starting to 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:57.080 get healthy too, with Steve Smith back and playing at 0:16:57.080 --> 0:16:59.920 a high level. Their running game did some good thing 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:03.200 that Dallas, even though they again abandon it like a 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:07.120 Derre licked helse in the middle of The Bengals are 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:10.320 so unlucky in many different ways, and one of them 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:13.720 is now you have a better Andy Dalton, and now 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:15.800 you have a worse team around and Andy Dalton. It 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:17.800 would have been nice to have this Andy Dalton on 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:20.520 the team or a healthy one last year a couple 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:22.280 of years ago, because I think it's gonna be one 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:25.960 of the toughest six weeks of Andy Dalton's career. This 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:29.000 is a tough situation. He started to look like the 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:33.640 offensive line issues are affecting him. He's becoming more hesitant. 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:37.840 It's it's natural, and you know, if things go south here, 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:39.919 it's just gonna start that whole Like, is this a 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:41.919 guy that can lift up our franchise. I don't think 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:45.000 that's gonna be fair. I think he's fine. I mean 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:47.080 I don't. I don't when I watch Bengals games, I 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:51.639 don't feel like Dalton where he was previous to two seasons, 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:54.320 two or three seasons ago, Dalton was an absolute disaster 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:57.479 in I think he's played well. I think he's not 0:17:57.520 --> 0:17:59.960 the issue, But the last few weeks I think he's 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:03.040 become hesitant. The two weeks I believe since they come 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:05.160 back from the by he hasn't quite been the same. 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:06.920 I think he's out of the woods though. As far 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:09.800 as how that organization in fan base view him, yeah, 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:12.520 and I think that like the I think we have 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:15.920 this conversation about Marvin Lewis yesterday. I think the Bengals 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:17.760 as an organization should be able to wash their hands 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:20.479 in the season and say this one just it's almost 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:23.040 like the Ravens last year. When you have this many injuries, 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:25.159 how how do you really assess what happened to all? 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:27.920 Suggs also playing really well. It's I don't know what's 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:29.600 in the Are they gonna win that the water? These 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:32.640 old defensive guys coming back from serious injuries. What Kyle 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:35.800 Williams and Terrell Suggs and it's like that it never happened. 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:38.920 Interesting theory that something's in the water. Wow, I don't 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:41.719 know modern medicine, the sports going on. I think sports 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:45.480 medicine is definitely starting to shift things. And if I'm 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:47.720 for instance, wrong, which I don't think I will be 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:51.159 about hashtag slight regression, it's time to really take a 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:54.480 close look at what's happening. That's that's maybe a long form. 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:57.639 So this is the spin cycle's half point that if 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:01.920 if slight regression doesn't occur, you're you're going to launch 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:04.760 an investigation on sports medicine. People on havel to the 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:07.960 The NFL will already launch an investigation into the Patriots again, 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:12.320 I mean Ted Wales will have a seventy three million 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:15.280 dollar report that proves not the Let's put James Harrison 0:19:15.280 --> 0:19:17.760 on the cover of that report. Well that that's my 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:20.919 long form. Will get into all these alright, waiting for 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:25.720 all these different players, Brady first and foremost. Um moving forward, 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:31.120 Arizona Cardinals. Oh boy, four or five and one? Did 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:34.960 we fork them on Tuesday? So in our opinion, it's 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:38.240 all over for the Cardinals. But I still have a 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:40.080 chance to hang around on the race if they can 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:43.520 knock off the six and four Falcons in Atlanta. The Falcons, 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:46.399 of course, last year struggled in the second half, but 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:49.520 this feels like a much different team, especially with the 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:52.720 offense they have. But I will say this, Chris Wesling, 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:55.679 Cardinals have the number one ranked defense in the league 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:59.919 right now. Uh, and perhaps that could be the difference. 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:02.960 Agree here, Well, I think if you watched it's interesting 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:05.960 you watched the Vikings game and Troy Hickman says, it's 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:08.040 been a long time since I've seen a quarterback take 0:20:08.080 --> 0:20:11.440 as many hits as Carson Palmer took today. I thought 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:13.399 the Cardinals hit even harder than the Vikings did in 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:16.359 the game. The Cardinals were swarming to the ball on 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:19.840 defense and beating the crap out of the Vikings. If 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:22.560 you look at that game, the Vikings third points came 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:27.600 on an interception return, a kickoff return, a trick play 0:20:27.640 --> 0:20:31.520 flee flicker out of the wildcat, and one long drive 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:35.040 which was three personal fouls on the Cardinals. It wasn't 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:38.119 that the Vikings were beating the Cardinals defense. It's another 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:41.320 what if? What if the last year's Cardinals had this defense? 0:20:41.920 --> 0:20:44.960 You know, that's a super Bowl team. It shows you 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:46.680 the limited I don't think they're the best defense in 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:48.160 the league, by the way. I mean, I know they're 0:20:48.200 --> 0:20:50.480 ranked into the yards allowed, but I think it's legit 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:52.600 to call them a top five group. And they've certainly 0:20:52.920 --> 0:20:55.679 won that Chandler Jones trade. I would much rather have 0:20:55.800 --> 0:21:00.600 Chandler Jones than that draft pick. Yeah, definitely. Um I'll 0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:02.560 tell you what, boys, I think the card This is 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:06.000 a wounded animal game for the Cardinals. It's basically win 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:07.879 or go home in a lot of ways for them. 0:21:08.400 --> 0:21:11.280 But I think all these flaws that we're seeing week 0:21:11.320 --> 0:21:13.639 after week where they just don't have the magic, I 0:21:13.640 --> 0:21:16.879 think it's gonna come through here with a a resounding 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:21.120