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Speaker 2: All right. This week on Prime Cuts, John Middelkoff on

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Speaker 2: the dominant Cowboy defense, Former coach Dave wanstat on the

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Speaker 2: future of Justin Fields in Chicago. Chad Millman Sharp or

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Speaker 2: Square in my Top Takes of the Week. I had

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Speaker 2: said this years ago. My only concern about the NFL

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Speaker 2: once they cleaned up the hitting because of the you know,

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Speaker 2: the CTE, the nine hundred million or so dollar check

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Speaker 2: the NFL wrote. They cleaned it up. You know, we

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Speaker 2: have concussion concerns, but it's the safest the sport has

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Speaker 2: been in my life. Also, the practices, there's less hitting,

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Speaker 2: fewer players, star players play in the preseason. I think

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Speaker 2: they're gonna cut the preseason down to two games. And so,

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Speaker 2: you know, if you generally look at the end of

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Speaker 2: the year, the final four teams, they're overwhelmingly healthy. Very

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Speaker 2: few players are lost for the season. Though it happens

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Speaker 2: Trayvon Diggs for the Cowboys at practice. That's just a

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Speaker 2: gutting loss for Dallas. But as a sport becomes more

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Speaker 2: quarterback centric, you're going to have these wider gaps in

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Speaker 2: point spreads. But you know, one of the things I

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Speaker 2: was thinking about this today driving home from work, is

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Speaker 2: that you know, the NFL has certain advantages on other sports.

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Speaker 2: Let's take baseball. Well, there's one hundred and sixty two

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Speaker 2: baseball games seventeen football games. So there's always been an

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Speaker 2: urgency advantage to the NFL. But as we're a more

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Speaker 2: distracted country, why has the gap in baseball and football

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Speaker 2: the ratings and interest? Why is it so great now?

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Speaker 2: And I think a lot of it is. And I've

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Speaker 2: noticed this in terms of consumption. People tend to read headlines,

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Speaker 2: they don't read entire stories. We're less patient because of

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Speaker 2: our iPhones. We want things that meetly. We want big headlines,

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Speaker 2: big stars, big brands, and people just don't have the patients.

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Speaker 2: And you have to have patients to watch baseball. And

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Speaker 2: I think we're a less patient nation. But I also

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Speaker 2: think the reality is the NFL has always thought of

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Speaker 2: itself as a football show at a TV show and baseball.

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Speaker 2: I'll give you an example. You know, in analytics, if

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Speaker 2: you can get a two percent three percent edge in baseball,

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Speaker 2: hurts the TV product that it takes a star pitcher

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Speaker 2: out of a game. Can you imagine in the NFL,

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Speaker 2: if you had a one percent advantage over the course

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Speaker 2: of a year in getting two more first downs per

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Speaker 2: game and half a point a game over the season,

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Speaker 2: If it was determined that you pull your starting quarterback

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Speaker 2: you'd on this season average and a half more first

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Speaker 2: you would do it. No, you wouldn't. In football. Part

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Speaker 2: of the drama and the fun in football and part

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Speaker 2: of what's been lost in baseball and baseball you go

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Speaker 2: to the bullpen. If the analytics say pull the starter,

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Speaker 2: it doesn't matter if he's pitching, well, it's six and

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Speaker 2: a third, it's arm fatigue. He's out. And in football,

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Speaker 2: you just play a star quarterback even if he's struggling, right,

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Speaker 2: You just do. And I think the sport of football,

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Speaker 2: you know, tonight's a prime example of you know, you

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Speaker 2: had to mismatch giants, row a lot, a lot of

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Speaker 2: injuries to deal with, beat up a little bit. This

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Speaker 2: was not your classic star quarterback, average quarterback. San Francisco

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Speaker 2: is really the only team in the league that is

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Speaker 2: a Super Bowl contender and doesn't have what's considered like

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Speaker 2: a high end quarterback. But you know, as I was

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Speaker 2: the very end tonight. Why it wasn't competitive? And I

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Speaker 2: think a lot of it is you play your stars,

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Speaker 2: don't pull them out because of analytics. You don't pull

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Speaker 2: because you know, you watch this game tonight and Christian

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Speaker 2: McCaffrey is running that football in the fourth quarter, and

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Speaker 2: And I think, like the NFL, even though this was

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Speaker 2: But I think that one of the great things about

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Speaker 2: great television show. And the stars play beginning middle end,

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Speaker 2: doesn't matter how much you lead by Kittle's getting the ball,

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Speaker 2: Deebo's getting the ball, mcafrey's getting the ball. Rock Perty's

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Speaker 2: to say that baseball doesn't have its moments, but you

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Speaker 2: And tonight is like the power of the NFL to me,

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Speaker 2: not really competitive. Ten and a half points spread. I

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Speaker 2: mean at halftime it felt like, I mean, the Giants

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Speaker 2: could not run the football. Daniel Jones trailing without one

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Speaker 2: of his better young receivers either available or playing many snaps,

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Speaker 2: no chance to win that game. But it held me.

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Speaker 2: And that's the power of football. As far as the

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Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Steelers, they won a game with nine first downs.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how long Matt Canada is going to

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Speaker 2: get in Pittsburgh. I don't get it. Five years, The

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Speaker 2: offensive line still suboptimal, the run games hit and miss.

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Speaker 2: they're all about continuity and loyalty, So Matt Canada retains employment.

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Speaker 2: I just don't see it when you watch the Rams

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Speaker 2: Dolphins where they spend their money, the coaching, the schematics,

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Speaker 2: the adaptability. They're just playing a different game than the Steelers.

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Speaker 2: They won a game. It never breaks my heart when

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Speaker 2: Deshaun Watson, who I think the creepy guy, loses a

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Speaker 2: take a year and a half to two years off

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Speaker 2: a quarterback. I just don't think he's that good. I

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Speaker 2: don't think he's a top twelve quarterback in the league.

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Speaker 2: I never loved how he threw a football. He was

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Speaker 2: a playmaker in his best years. But we've had so

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Speaker 2: don't consider Deshaun Watson an elite quarterback. You know, he

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Speaker 2: probably should have gotten the benefit of a pass interference call,

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Speaker 2: the road, you don't get the call. But the Steelers

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Speaker 2: won with nine first downs and being dominated in time

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Speaker 2: of possession. You're not supposed to win that game if

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Speaker 2: you're a star quarterback and you're Deshaun Watson Nick Chubb,

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Speaker 2: injury is gross. I saw the video once. That was enough.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to see it again. But you know,

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Speaker 2: I just I feel like they're playing a different game.

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Speaker 2: They feel very much like New England with better players.

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Speaker 2: I just don't think there's much of a ceiling offensively.

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Speaker 2: And if you don't have home run plays, if you're

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Speaker 2: the Broncos. And Russell Wilson and Sean Payton's thirty five

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Speaker 2: thirty three loss to the Commanders, but I had said

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Speaker 2: this before. I didn't think Russell played particularly well. Eighteen

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Speaker 2: Sam How's not as good as Russell Wilson shouldn't be. Also,

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Speaker 2: said this before is you don't have to be best

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Speaker 2: friends with your coach. You don't have to be Belichick

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Speaker 2: and Brady didn't have dinner for twenty years, but there

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Speaker 2: were a lot of things they did have in common.

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Speaker 2: Both were driven, aspirational, no nonsense adults. Russell Wilson and

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Speaker 2: Sean Payton have the opposite personality. One is harsh, authentic

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Speaker 2: And then there's Russell Wilson, who is polished, optimistic, refined.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, it's okay for a quarterback to

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Speaker 2: be more optimistic than pessimistic because people make mistakes. You

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Speaker 2: play with young guys. You want Brady try to be optimistic.

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Speaker 2: But sometimes optimism can veer away from realism. And so

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Speaker 2: in order for Russell Wilson and Sean Payton to work,

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Speaker 2: they have to win games. You can't go zero and

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Speaker 2: two to start the season, both games in Denver. You

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Speaker 2: can't lose to Sam Howell and Ron Rivera as a favorite.

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Speaker 2: You can't lose back to back games as a favorite

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Speaker 2: against the raid and the commanders, and so this relationship

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Speaker 2: And to the very first day he had the opportunity

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Speaker 2: He was going to look at all his plays. What

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Speaker 2: obviously saw stuff on film where he wanted somebody who

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Speaker 2: New Orleans, once Drew Brees got older, they had Taysom Hill,

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Speaker 2: cycling people through as Drew Brees aged. Well, Russell Wilson

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Speaker 2: He just simply does not move as well as he

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Speaker 2: it's confidence, emotional, no major surgeries. Thirty four, he plays

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Speaker 2: much much older than his age. Brady obviously played much

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Speaker 2: you know, again the Hail Mary makes this game look

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Speaker 2: more competitive. Very early on Denver scripted plays had some success,

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Speaker 2: that's quarterback play, that's pre snap, that's you quarterback line

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Speaker 2: of scrimmage. Quarterbacks I don't even like Daniel Jones had

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Speaker 2: very very good fourth quarter, late third quarters today, just

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Speaker 2: on athleticism and some big time throws. So I think this,

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Speaker 2: I think they're headed for major turbulence in Denver next year,

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Speaker 2: starting next year for five years. This is a massively

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Speaker 2: punitive contract to the Broncos with a coach and a

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Speaker 2: when somebody's really optimistic and there's obvious problems. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I like optimistic people. I don't like negative people. But

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Speaker 2: we're in the middle of an earthquake. I don't want optimism.

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Speaker 2: I want to figure out a way to get safe

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Speaker 2: going to get worse. The schedule's only going to get tougher.

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Speaker 2: Now they go on the road. And again, if you

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Speaker 2: It's not an offensive problem. That's not the problem. Brandon

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Speaker 2: Well look at this. So here are the quarterbacks. The

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Speaker 4: Way this thing's unraveling, but uh, you know the whole

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Speaker 4: plan here and I'm close to all those guys, Ryan

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Speaker 4: Foles and Matt Egriflus.

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Speaker 3: I'm up there all the.

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Speaker 4: Time OTA's training camp, and the blueprint.

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Speaker 3: Was the Philadelphia Eagles.

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Speaker 4: You know, two years ago people were uncertain of Jalen Hurts.

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Speaker 3: That's when they went and got a J Brown.

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Speaker 4: Uh That's that's when they kind of changed their philosophy

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Speaker 4: and they buried down. It's gonna be a quarterback o

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Speaker 4: t you know, quarterback run pass option offense that Jalen

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Speaker 4: Hurts can execute to a high level. Uh. Well, the

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Speaker 4: difference is so that's what. So they go out and

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Speaker 4: they get dj on here, absolutely outstanding. The problem is

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Speaker 4: Philadelphia Eagles got one of the best offensive lines and

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Speaker 4: last year they led the NFL in sacks. The Bears can't,

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Speaker 4: but they the strong safety was the leading socker for

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Speaker 4: the Bears last year, and you saw him against Baker Mayfield.

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Speaker 3: Even when they got in.

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Speaker 4: There, their defense couldn't get Baker on the ground. I mean,

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Speaker 4: they make no plays on defense now. So my point

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Speaker 4: is this that justin fields, Yes, he did have time.

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Speaker 3: He held the ball for once.

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Speaker 4: I was timing him over three seconds one time, it

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Speaker 4: was four seconds one time. Five seconds and he's trying

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Speaker 4: to be not a running quarterback. Last year he leads

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Speaker 4: a league in rushing calling, and there was an outcry,

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Speaker 4: we can't win a super Bowl that way.

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Speaker 3: He's got to throw it.

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Speaker 4: And I'm afraid to say, I think, you know, I

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Speaker 4: think Luke Getzi, the offensive coordinator, fell into the same

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Speaker 4: trap as Justin did.

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Speaker 3: Okay, we're going. They had one quarterback run in the

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Speaker 3: opening game. It was a quarterback sneak. That was it.

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Speaker 3: That was the only pull.

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Speaker 4: And they were averaging about ten or twelve game last year.

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Speaker 4: I thought it was too many, but they were moving

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Speaker 4: the balls and the offense was generating a rhythm.

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Speaker 3: That's all gone in this game. The opening drive.

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Speaker 4: The second week against Tampa, they have the run pass

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Speaker 4: option on the rollout. Justin keeps it, runs it in.

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Speaker 4: Dj Moore was open for a pass across the middle.

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Speaker 4: Never saw it again. They go back to the drop back.

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Speaker 4: They're kind of running. You know, Luke Getzi came from

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Speaker 4: Green Bay and it almost looks like a Green Bay

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Speaker 4: Packer type of offense, and.

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Speaker 3: We can't do that. They've got to abandon that.

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Speaker 4: Their only chance and go back to the run quarterback

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Speaker 4: run option and hope that their defense gets better. Otherwise,

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Speaker 4: this kid's got no chance, no chance.

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Speaker 2: It's like right now, the Philadelphia Eagles are a good

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Speaker 2: team that doesn't have an identity, and they won't embrace that.

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Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts is a power running quarterback. That's what he is. Baltimore,

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Speaker 2: to their credit, is allowing Lamar Jackson to be Lamar Jackson.

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Speaker 2: Russell Wilson last year in Denver stopped running. Kyler Murray

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Speaker 2: doesn't want to run to me. It doesn't matter if

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Speaker 2: it's basketball, football, or baseball. Lean into what you do.

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Speaker 2: And I look at this when I watch justin Fields. Listen,

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Speaker 2: it's Zach Wilson. He's got some gifts, but he's a big,

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Speaker 2: strong kid who moves. Kid.

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Speaker 4: This what's happening now is he's dropping back if he

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Speaker 4: doesn't like his throw, rather than running and making something positive.

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Speaker 3: DJ Moore twice was open clapping his.

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Speaker 4: Hands during the game, trying to get his attention to

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Speaker 4: throwing the ball. So you know, it's your only chance

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Speaker 4: is to go back to what they did last year

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Speaker 4: and turn them loose. Get him on the move and

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Speaker 4: in passing situations. Hope that he has improved now their

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Speaker 4: offensive line might be worse than last year. The draft

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Speaker 4: pick is a player Darnel right the right tackle, but

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Speaker 4: the right guard, the right guard. They're in their third

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Speaker 4: right guard, Davis. They signed him. He don't practice. Then

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Speaker 4: he had personal reasons. I think it was a family thing.

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Speaker 4: So they started a guy they drafted in a seventh

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Speaker 4: drawn last year never played Lucas Patrick the center. He

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Speaker 4: didn't take one snap in a preseason. He's starting at center.

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Speaker 4: The offensive line, too, is struggling bad. And so again,

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Speaker 4: by the.

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Speaker 2: Way, another another defensive coach, Sean McDermott, Mike Tomlin, Matt

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Speaker 2: eberflu struggling with the old line. Do you know in

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Speaker 2: Week one ten of the eleven top rated Old Lions

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Speaker 2: were offensive coaches. Andy Reid fixed his in an offseason.

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Speaker 2: Sean McVay this year, his in an offseason. I think

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Speaker 2: we have to be honest. Defensive coaches can fix D

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Speaker 2: lines quickly. Offensive coaches can fix O lines quickly. How

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Speaker 2: many years in a row can the Bears two? Three

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Speaker 2: years in a row? They can't get the offensive line right.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, they've used a lot of draft

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Speaker 2: capital and money on it. They've drafted a lot of

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Speaker 2: offensive linemen. Yeah, yeah, I just I think no. It's

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Speaker 2: their first round pick this year, darned. Now, right out

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Speaker 2: of Tennessee, he's going to be a player.

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Speaker 4: But from there they've got some guys that need to develop,

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Speaker 4: and they've got some older guys.

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Speaker 3: Now, it's not.

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Speaker 4: It's not conducive to giving your quarterback a lot of

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Speaker 4: time and having him sit back there.

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Speaker 3: And be able to read the field. So they can't

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Speaker 3: they can't do what they're doing.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 4: They've got to go back to the run offense, abandon

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Speaker 4: this hope their defense comes up with a few plays.

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Speaker 3: You know, we get no.

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Speaker 4: Help from our defense in Chicago because you know, the

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Speaker 4: balls on the ground, we don't do it and get it.

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Speaker 4: Against Tampa, we had chances for interceptions, we don't get them.

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Speaker 4: So the offense never gets a short field, you know,

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Speaker 4: they never get it's always drive eighty yards to score

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Speaker 4: a touchdown, and that that doesn't happen in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: The volume