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Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast, doesn't two Purple History History

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Speaker 1: is Welcome to the Around the NFL Podcast, the first

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Speaker 1: ever Week eighteen preview. Rejoice. Dan Hands is here with

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Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal and Mark Sessler. My heroes get excited. Hey,

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Speaker 1: I don't care if it's the first week eighteen or not. Like,

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Speaker 1: just it's worth rejoicing that we've hit the end of

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Speaker 1: the regular season. This is this is a flash point.

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Speaker 1: We uh, it's the beginning of the end. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's of the end of this year. The playoffs are better.

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Speaker 1: Our little weekly format will slightly change next year, I

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Speaker 1: mean next week. Like that. These are all things to

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Speaker 1: celebrate as our um, the retirement of all these teams

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Speaker 1: At least they're seasons. Yeah, I think that some of them.

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Speaker 1: You know, we've tried to give every team it's due

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Speaker 1: to some degree, but when you really really rot um,

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Speaker 1: the storyline has become a bit you know, redone overcooked,

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Speaker 1: and we are ready to send some of them back

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Speaker 1: present it in Yeah. Yeah, that's well said Mark. I

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Speaker 1: think it's uh, it is part of the cycle, every

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Speaker 1: team must die, some don't die until Super Bowl Sunday. Um,

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Speaker 1: only one team could be immortal and live forever. So

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Speaker 1: I know this is by the time you get to

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Speaker 1: this part of the season, if you're gonna be a

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Speaker 1: because we're not gonna some of the games. You know,

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Speaker 1: you know, not all these games are bangers. A lot

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Speaker 1: nothing other than worst draft position by winning. So not

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Speaker 1: every team is gonna get the love that you may want.

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Speaker 1: But at the same time, you're probably burned out on

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Speaker 1: this team if they're already eliminated. Then you get to

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Speaker 1: spin forward to the pods in a couple of weeks

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Speaker 1: a month or so, when it's all reborn. It's all reborn.

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Speaker 1: That's the cycle of life, that's the cycle of the NFL.

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Speaker 1: It's very organic. Um. And you know, I know for

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Speaker 1: adding a little element just to this Week eighteen preview,

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Speaker 1: Dan like it's just a little a little a little

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Speaker 1: bit of spice. UM. Each game will have its own

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Speaker 1: um unique tagline. And what why I am doing this

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Speaker 1: with us on a Sunday, for instance, about let's say

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Speaker 1: the Jets Bills game, and they go into rich detail

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Speaker 1: pattern and a completion like, don't even worry about that.

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Speaker 1: What you do is because we you know, we diligently

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Speaker 1: look at every every tech tweet that comes our way.

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Speaker 1: Each game will have a very sustinct um tagline. You

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Speaker 1: just simply say, like guy in green through nice past.

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Speaker 1: green must be Zack Wilson. You don't need to add

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Speaker 1: the rich detail. I'll I well, well, we will do

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Speaker 1: the work for you. If that makes any sense at all?

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Speaker 1: Did you follow that? Not total sense? But I like

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Speaker 1: That's for the listeners. That part of the bargain we

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Speaker 1: so and just like in the spirit of unsolicitated advice here,

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Speaker 1: if you're setting up a bit thus, Lee, just say

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Speaker 1: last week's game feeling like they're absolutely back and they're

427
00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:39,440
Speaker 1: back and refocused. And I think to the team, which is,

428
00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:41,720
Speaker 1: you know, I think the worst Patriots team maybe that

429
00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:44,800
Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl, that team lost two games in

430
00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:47,000
Speaker 1: our own December, and then they beat up on some

431
00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:49,240
Speaker 1: Patsy's the last two weeks of the season and came

432
00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:51,080
Speaker 1: into the playoffs playing well. I don't think this team

433
00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:53,320
Speaker 1: is headed to a super Bowl necessarily, but I think

434
00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:56,000
Speaker 1: they have a shot. Like I think, I think basically

435
00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:57,960
Speaker 1: almost every team in the ANFC that makes the playoffs

436
00:21:58,080 --> 00:21:59,480
Speaker 1: I think has a shot. But I don't think. I

437
00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:01,920
Speaker 1: don't view the Patriots have had that much worse of

438
00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:05,240
Speaker 1: a shot today than I did in Week eleven. I I've,

439
00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:07,200
Speaker 1: at least as a fan, I've been kind of consistent

440
00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:09,400
Speaker 1: where I I think they got a shot, but they're

441
00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:11,240
Speaker 1: gonna They're gonna need some breaks, They're gonna need some

442
00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:13,080
Speaker 1: great game plans they I mean there are thing is

443
00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:15,800
Speaker 1: they don't trip up against lesser opponents. I mean, you know,

444
00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:18,680
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville game is instructive that they went and just

445
00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:21,080
Speaker 1: absolutely took them apart. I know that's a bad team,

446
00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:24,360
Speaker 1: but I would be shocked if Miami pulled another trick

447
00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:27,240
Speaker 1: scenario here. You're not gonna have Ryan Fitzpatrick, you know,

448
00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:29,639
Speaker 1: having someone jump on his back and carry him off

449
00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:31,960
Speaker 1: the field like it was a year ago. Do I

450
00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:33,920
Speaker 1: have to say instructive now? In the next five minutes

451
00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:37,520
Speaker 1: the rule of threes? Oh? Did Greg also say that, Yes,

452
00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:40,760
Speaker 1: we've just become one being Do you want the tagline

453
00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:46,679
Speaker 1: for this game. We always want the taglines Ricky hit it, tagline,

454
00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:56,400
Speaker 1: colon tell me I'm bad. It's like another router just exploded. Well,

455
00:22:56,480 --> 00:23:01,159
Speaker 1: it's a nice window into Mark's subconscious enjoying it. I

456
00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:04,520
Speaker 1: think he likes to be told these bad ideally by

457
00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:10,639
Speaker 1: a female trained assassin. Must not trained though. If the

458
00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:14,400
Speaker 1: assassin is untrained, do not tell him dead. If she's

459
00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:20,600
Speaker 1: been highly trained, yes, there, absolutely, thank you for saying that.

460
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,000
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a break and then we move

461
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Speaker 1: to Greg. Alright, we're back, Greggy, you're on the board.

462
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:35,000
Speaker 1: Psych got your baby because I'm chumping you chumping your baby.

463
00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:48,360
Speaker 1: I mean, this is uh a classic, a classic move

464
00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:49,960
Speaker 1: by a guy who forgot to use it in a

465
00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:53,399
Speaker 1: better spot wakes until week eighteen. You know, it's like

466
00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:56,000
Speaker 1: the second pick. It's like you just checked in your

467
00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:59,160
Speaker 1: your free ice cream cone coupon was running out today.

468
00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:02,120
Speaker 1: You're not even hungry, but you just gotta use it now. Anyway,

469
00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:10,680
Speaker 1: I'm enjoying one of the it's it's now being remembered

470
00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:14,439
Speaker 1: by football historians and podcast historians. Is like the herschel

471
00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:17,560
Speaker 1: Walker trade. Whatever it was that Greg gave to me,

472
00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:20,600
Speaker 1: I gave to Greg it always building towards us. I've

473
00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:22,720
Speaker 1: jumped him three times. I remember what it was. It

474
00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:26,520
Speaker 1: was a Ravens Bengals game. Um that the Ravens got waxed.

475
00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:32,879
Speaker 1: And now here we are. Somehow Mark doesn't take the

476
00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:35,119
Speaker 1: best game off the board. He he stuck around in

477
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Speaker 1: the a f C East. He loves Belichick worked out

478
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:39,880
Speaker 1: for me, So obviously I'm going to grab the game

479
00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:41,720
Speaker 1: of the week, one of the games of the year,

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Speaker 1: the forty nine at the l A Rams NFC West

481
00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:50,800
Speaker 1: on the line huge steaks. That is when I would

482
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Speaker 1: have taken by the way. I just transparency. I want

483
00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:56,879
Speaker 1: to show that in future, you know cases when I

484
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Speaker 1: deny that you got me like this is I'm frightful here? Yeah?

485
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:03,000
Speaker 1: Of course. What what's with your whole trying to sell like, oh,

486
00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:05,159
Speaker 1: you got your little ice cream ticket? No, bro, this

487
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 1: was well orchestrated and carried out. Do you think that

488
00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:10,600
Speaker 1: maybe I'm nice enough where I I left that for

489
00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:15,879
Speaker 1: one of my two fellow pasters. Okay, but I am

490
00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 1: looking forward to your tagline. All right, here we go.

491
00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:22,760
Speaker 1: Interesting game, fascinating game, Greggy. Where are we at on

492
00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:27,240
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo? I know he was practicing this week, and

493
00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:30,480
Speaker 1: you know Kyle Shannon wants Garoppolo to play. It's it's

494
00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:33,200
Speaker 1: been laid out there for weeks and weeks that he

495
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:35,960
Speaker 1: trusts Jimmy G on some level more than the kid.

496
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:39,320
Speaker 1: What are we hearing? You know that he practiced, he

497
00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:43,720
Speaker 1: was limited, that he's still feeling pain. But there was

498
00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:46,080
Speaker 1: some video of him throwing the ball and to my

499
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:50,080
Speaker 1: untrained I look look pretty good. Well, maybe we're watching

500
00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:54,040
Speaker 1: the same video where George Kittle was taking passes from

501
00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:56,480
Speaker 1: each of this, but it's like, I don't know, he's

502
00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:58,920
Speaker 1: out there throwing. So he makes the catch and then Kittle,

503
00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:01,560
Speaker 1: who's a w W E character, it's like, oh yeah,

504
00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:06,360
Speaker 1: that was a good ball. That's funny. Um, so let's

505
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:09,680
Speaker 1: say Jimmy G starts. Um, I think that's where this

506
00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:12,720
Speaker 1: is heading. But don't discount Trey Lance having a big role,

507
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:16,400
Speaker 1: whether it's coming in or some type of tandem thing here. Um,

508
00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:19,760
Speaker 1: the Rams, it's all in front of the Rams here. Uh.

509
00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:22,520
Speaker 1: They win their first NFC West title since two thousand

510
00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:25,760
Speaker 1: eighteen with a win here, and what I'm looking to

511
00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:27,880
Speaker 1: see here in San Francisco has got a top five

512
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:31,720
Speaker 1: rank defense this year. Um, Which version of Matthew Stafford

513
00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:36,919
Speaker 1: shows up in this game? Because the turnover late in player,

514
00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:39,680
Speaker 1: that's a problem. In the playoffs, they're going to the

515
00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:43,200
Speaker 1: dancing either way the Niners. Where are we at on

516
00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:46,480
Speaker 1: the Niners? There nine and seven they will clinch a

517
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:48,840
Speaker 1: playoff birth of the win or in New Orleans lost

518
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:51,080
Speaker 1: at Atlanta in week eighteen. So those are the stakes

519
00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:53,600
Speaker 1: in this game. They're very high. Which version of matt

520
00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:56,520
Speaker 1: Stafford shows up? Mark Well, I think that you know,

521
00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:59,880
Speaker 1: the Matthew Stafford experience includes both. I mean the pick

522
00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:04,680
Speaker 1: six um stuff happened. It started in that romp, the

523
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:08,200
Speaker 1: San Francisco romp, where basically it put it put the

524
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:11,159
Speaker 1: Niner the Rams into a fourteen nothing hole that they

525
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:13,480
Speaker 1: never escaped from. And that was because of the Stafford

526
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:18,200
Speaker 1: mistakes and also San Francisco's ability, um M. Shannahan's ability

527
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 1: against Sean McVeigh to orchestrate long clock chewing drives that

528
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:25,040
Speaker 1: really kept the Rams in that game, specifically in the dirt,

529
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:26,960
Speaker 1: and it was the game that kind of left people

530
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:29,240
Speaker 1: wondering or the Rams finesse. Now, I do think that

531
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Speaker 1: Stafford last week, after the initial mistakes, I mean, he

532
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:35,640
Speaker 1: went what fourteen for fourteen, he was pretty pristine down

533
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:37,720
Speaker 1: the stretch. So I think it's the other part of Stafford.

534
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,560
Speaker 1: I'm with you a pcent because if it's Jimmy G,

535
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:44,160
Speaker 1: it's also a quarterback whose mistakes could unspool this team.

536
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 1: And we've seen that a couple of different times. So

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Speaker 1: I'm wondering if we get a little bit of Jimmy

538
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Speaker 1: G and maybe a little bit more of tray Lance

539
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Speaker 1: because I know it. I know that games started a

540
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 1: little rough for them against Houston a week ago, but

541
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:57,919
Speaker 1: I thought the tray Lands started to really feel more

542
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:00,200
Speaker 1: comfortable as the game went on. See see the field

543
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,840
Speaker 1: a little better and that touchdown a Deebo Samuel, It's like,

544
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 1: do you want that X factor in a game like

545
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 1: this when the Rams have very little tape on this guy,

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00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:08,959
Speaker 1: I think it's just a t B D. And I mean,

547
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:10,720
Speaker 1: you know, Shannahan said that this is gonna be a

548
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 1: game time decision at quarterback for competitive balance reasons. So

549
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:16,600
Speaker 1: I wonder if we finally get that mix that we've

550
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:19,720
Speaker 1: been looking for. Yeah, I I would be afraid of

551
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:21,840
Speaker 1: Trail Lance a little bit if I was the Rams,

552
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:24,719
Speaker 1: because that's how the forty Niners have beat him over

553
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:26,640
Speaker 1: the years. For the most part is the running game

554
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 1: and Trey Lance, Elijah Mitchell and Deebo Samuel together on

555
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:34,639
Speaker 1: the same field. That's a lot to deal with. When

556
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:37,240
Speaker 1: when tray Lance was starting earlier in the year, players

557
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 1: were injured, auk wasn't up to speed, Mitchell wasn't Mitchell,

558
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 1: Kittle wasn't himself. And I think it's tough and I

559
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 1: think we will see more of tray Lance even if

560
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:49,280
Speaker 1: Jimmy G does start. Now, Jimmy G's undefeated against the Rams,

561
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 1: He's five and Oh McVeigh hasn't won a game against

562
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:55,000
Speaker 1: this forty Niners team. One of the reasons I think

563
00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 1: is they haven't been able to hold up defensively, and

564
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:00,760
Speaker 1: that's where I've seen the biggest change with this Rams team.

565
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 1: I know Von Miller hasn't like lit the sky on fire,

566
00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 1: but he's great at setting the edge. He's been a

567
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:12,080
Speaker 1: plus starter. And you've seen Leonard Floyd, a Sean Robinson

568
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:16,360
Speaker 1: gains and then especially Aaron Donald going from like good

569
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:19,280
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald season, which is you know, pro bowler, all

570
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 1: pro to otherworldly Aaron Donald again, which is you know

571
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 1: where he is and like the Inner Circle Hall of Fame,

572
00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:27,600
Speaker 1: and that's the kind of runnings on now and so

573
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:30,959
Speaker 1: I think that's a problem for the forty niners. Uh.

574
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:34,400
Speaker 1: And a difference between when these two money pushed back

575
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 1: UM on power ranks this week, I had the Rams

576
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:40,840
Speaker 1: at number two overall, UH, and I actually put I

577
00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:44,680
Speaker 1: put a lot into UM how that game ended. I

578
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 1: thought it was very interesting, UM that they had this

579
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:51,640
Speaker 1: game where they struggled, where the quarterback was making bad throws,

580
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 1: and then for them to be able to close the

581
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:56,440
Speaker 1: way they did, it was a championship close. Uh. The

582
00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:59,160
Speaker 1: seventy five yard drive. Uh. And Mark, you kind of

583
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:02,360
Speaker 1: hit on this, like the precision that Stafford through the

584
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:04,600
Speaker 1: ball with and that every ball was exactly where it

585
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:06,720
Speaker 1: needed to be ending with the Beckham touched that. And

586
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:09,760
Speaker 1: then von Miller is Greg mentions he's um he's had

587
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:12,080
Speaker 1: a positive impact on this team. He's not von Miller

588
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:14,480
Speaker 1: two thousand fifteen, but he doesn't necessarily need to be.

589
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,640
Speaker 1: He makes the biggest play of his Rams career, that

590
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:21,280
Speaker 1: crushing sack of Tyler Huntley keeps Justin Tucker off the field.

591
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:24,000
Speaker 1: So while that was an imperfect game, that closes what

592
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 1: really good teams do even on days that aren't so hot,

593
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:28,720
Speaker 1: And isn't it fair to think that it was going

594
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 1: to take time for Stafford to kind of find his

595
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:33,040
Speaker 1: way in this offense a little bit? I mean, I

596
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:35,080
Speaker 1: just think when you see the Rams in that in

597
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 1: that late period of that game, the Rams at their

598
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 1: heights are a super Bowl team. Now, if you get

599
00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:42,720
Speaker 1: bungled up with a bunch of mistakes, and we've seen

600
00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 1: it happen a couple other times where they the Stafford

601
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:48,160
Speaker 1: issues um which shouldn't come as a surprise to longtime

602
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:51,239
Speaker 1: Stafford viewers, they could not overcome those. And so I mean,

603
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:53,560
Speaker 1: the Niners I think are a bad opponent. If you

604
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:57,240
Speaker 1: get mistakes plus the Niners executing on offense, that's the

605
00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 1: Rams team. That's the team the Rams have not been

606
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 1: able to figure out and solved, which would be the

607
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 1: scary you know, end of the of the bargain here.

608
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:06,200
Speaker 1: But I think this you're right that its Game of

609
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:09,160
Speaker 1: the Week material if it plays out as expected. I mean,

610
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:11,880
Speaker 1: I don't I sometimes look at these games and think, actually,

611
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:13,600
Speaker 1: this game could be thirty eight to ten and the

612
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 1: third quarter to the who's winning though, Who's winning that game?

613
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:26,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with my heart and goes San Francisco three.

614
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:31,040
Speaker 1: That hard has betrayed you this year. Mark. I took

615
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 1: the Rams on my game picks on the site four,

616
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:36,600
Speaker 1: which is a thread the needle. It's like under the

617
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:38,880
Speaker 1: point spread which started at five, and I think it's

618
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 1: down to four and a half or four now. But

619
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 1: this is such a coin fla. They could play again

620
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 1: next week to like if there is a scenario if

621
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 1: the Saints lost, especially in the Rams one, that they

622
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:52,120
Speaker 1: could play again next week, which would be highly annoying.

623
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:54,680
Speaker 1: And uh, I think that the man knocking out the

624
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: would be an emphatic way to end this little streak here.

625
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 1: And I do think the two seed really does matter.

626
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 1: Dan the Cowboys would pass the Rams if the Cowboys

627
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 1: one in the Rams lost um and and who knows

628
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 1: if the Bucks could pass them to uh potentially, I

629
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 1: think they think the Rams have the tiebreaker there. It

630
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:16,400
Speaker 1: depends on if it's three, because they beat them but right,

631
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:18,520
Speaker 1: but if it's a three wave comes down to conference

632
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:20,520
Speaker 1: record and the and the Cowboys get it. So it's

633
00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:24,240
Speaker 1: a lot at steak for both teams. I got thirty Rams,

634
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:27,200
Speaker 1: but I think this is gonna be a really good game. Um.

635
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:30,200
Speaker 1: And if the Rams do get in with a win

636
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:33,280
Speaker 1: and all that and the momentum that goes with that, um,

637
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 1: look out they really cam Akers could be back. We

638
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:38,600
Speaker 1: should mention cam Akers, who I think as good as

639
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 1: Sonny Michelle has been, he is not a pass catching back.

640
00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 1: Acre is a little more complete. So I think the

641
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:45,520
Speaker 1: combination of those two guys would would be great for them.

642
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:47,120
Speaker 1: But I would give you a little. I'll give you

643
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 1: a little. Gregg is Um the Niners the number two

644
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:52,480
Speaker 1: run defense d v O A wise right now, So

645
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 1: that's a small factor. Um bummer though about that, Greg,

646
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 1: because you actually stepped on tagline there his tagline for

647
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 1: this game as cam Acres could be back. No, it's not.

648
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,160
Speaker 1: You want to know what it is? Well, yes I do.

649
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:16,719
Speaker 1: Ricky hungry for chocolate, Okay, all right, there's there's definitely

650
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 1: a an uncomfortable sensuality that's really creeping into the that

651
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 1: is diet, Harry item. I mean most children enjoy Chocolate's

652
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:29,240
Speaker 1: got some sensuality. Pop, you're adding your own. You're adding

653
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 1: your own. Not my thing. I don't do that. You're

654
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:36,560
Speaker 1: adding that's not where it is. I didn't come in

655
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 1: with that layer necessarily. Greg's wife's a chef. I don't know.

656
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:49,800
Speaker 1: Tell me now you're up, Greig third pick. Yeah, you really,

657
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:51,960
Speaker 1: you really have a boxed me in a corner here,

658
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 1: because you know the best games are in the afternoon,

659
00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 1: and yet it doesn't matter. I gotta admit the game

660
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:01,720
Speaker 1: I want to watch it's called Jags, and I know

661
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 1: it could be a blowout, but I don't care. It's

662
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 1: the game that matters the most in the early window,

663
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:10,360
Speaker 1: and it's also the game where if it is close

664
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 1: in the third quarter, it's easily, uh, the most important

665
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 1: game of the week because if if that happens, then

666
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:22,120
Speaker 1: suddenly the Ravens and Steelers are alive. Uh. It changes

667
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 1: the steaks for the Chargers. It also would be like

668
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:29,120
Speaker 1: an epic uh disappointment for the Colts to even be close,

669
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:31,040
Speaker 1: and and the tension could be high. So even though

670
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:32,520
Speaker 1: I kind of think it will be a blow I'm

671
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:35,359
Speaker 1: gonna take Colts Jags, and remember that the first time

672
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:38,239
Speaker 1: these teams played it was very close. I made a

673
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:40,600
Speaker 1: mistake on the podcast previously. I was thinking about a

674
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:44,680
Speaker 1: Colts Texans game, the Colts Jaguars game back and I

675
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:48,800
Speaker 1: think it was Week ten was maybe the most complete

676
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 1: game the Jaguars played all year. They lost it by

677
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:54,080
Speaker 1: six points. There was a punt return touchdown by the Colts.

678
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 1: It was one of the better games by the Jaguars offense.

679
00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,959
Speaker 1: The Colts offense did nothing after scoring a touchdown early

680
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 1: and then getting this punt block touchdown to go up big.

681
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:06,279
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's necessarily telling, but I think

682
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:08,360
Speaker 1: it's more telling than the fact that, you know, they

683
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 1: haven't won in Jacksonville in six years. I don't care

684
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:13,399
Speaker 1: about those old Jaguars teams, but this one did play

685
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:15,560
Speaker 1: its best game of the year against the Colts. And

686
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:17,840
Speaker 1: you know, could Carson Wentz be squeezing the ball a

687
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:20,239
Speaker 1: little tight coming out a halftime? If if this game

688
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 1: is actually close, I'm curious to see at least, I mean,

689
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:29,759
Speaker 1: the Carson Wentz thing came back had COVID. We're now

690
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:33,720
Speaker 1: familiar in this podcast realm with the effects of COVID

691
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 1: and it is crazy. There's This was reported um Stephen

692
00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:42,920
Speaker 1: Holder from the Athletic Um. One of the things that

693
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:45,320
Speaker 1: NFL training staffs are learning this year is that the

694
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:47,919
Speaker 1: after effects of COVID are felt most when the body

695
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:51,319
Speaker 1: is pushed to its limits. I think we underestimate its

696
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:54,239
Speaker 1: impact on the entire NFL this season. To be perfectly honest,

697
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:55,880
Speaker 1: I thought that was a good tweet. That was interesting.

698
00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 1: Um it made me think of Tyreek Hill when he

699
00:35:58,120 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 1: came back from COVID a couple of weeks back and

700
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 1: had o roll or made no impression in that game

701
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:05,320
Speaker 1: for the Chiefs on a day where they, you know,

702
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 1: lit up their opponent offensively, And it just makes me think, man,

703
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:13,080
Speaker 1: we're all it's I know, I'm like, maybe too much

704
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:14,799
Speaker 1: of a defender of Wentz, but at the same time,

705
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 1: he's one of those guys where he just people don't

706
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 1: like Wentz. They and they, there's a celebration when went struggles.

707
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:23,440
Speaker 1: I think it's a little bit of confirmation bias for

708
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 1: all of Twitter when he struggles, and I think maybe

709
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 1: not enough was put into him coming back as quickly

710
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:34,800
Speaker 1: as he did, uh from having COVID not being vaxed.

711
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 1: And I'm just wondering, like, is that a throwout game

712
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:40,000
Speaker 1: or is that more reason to be concerned that he's

713
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:41,879
Speaker 1: an up and down guy Because before he got sick

714
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 1: in Arizona, he led them on a couple of drives

715
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:47,279
Speaker 1: that were absolutely money and had me feeling super sky

716
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:50,680
Speaker 1: high about the Colts. I'm willing to maybe before that

717
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:52,759
Speaker 1: was one of his worst games of the year, you know,

718
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:56,279
Speaker 1: I kind of mask so that he's been consistent this year.

719
00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:58,879
Speaker 1: I think overall he has not been that roller coaster,

720
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:00,800
Speaker 1: but the last three weeks he's in that roller coaster.

721
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 1: I mean, that was against the Pats, though, I will

722
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:04,920
Speaker 1: say that, I mean, that's one of the best defenses

723
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:07,799
Speaker 1: if you if you knew, like because we spent all

724
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:12,440
Speaker 1: offseason projecting Carson Wentz as a potential success because of

725
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 1: the environment, frank right, all that stuff, if you looked

726
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 1: at his overall season, we would call it a success.

727
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:19,840
Speaker 1: I just think that his low moments kind of have

728
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 1: the ability. You know, we just talked to Matthew Stafford.

729
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 1: If you get too many low moments of Wentz in

730
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:25,759
Speaker 1: a game, that's the end of the Cults when they

731
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:27,920
Speaker 1: get into the playoffs. In this game, I think the

732
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:30,439
Speaker 1: X factor, I mean, it's it's not don't even nope,

733
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 1: it deserves a letter. But the Jacksonville offense has just

734
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 1: been getting worse and worse and worse, and the season

735
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:40,759
Speaker 1: cannot end soon. Enough for Trevor Lawrence. They are defunct,

736
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:44,319
Speaker 1: they are inoperable. I don't see a game playing out

737
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 1: the way it did last time when I called Jacksonville

738
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 1: the Berserker team after that close Cults game, because it

739
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:51,960
Speaker 1: really made you think were they coming together finally? But

740
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:54,840
Speaker 1: they were not. And if I'm Indie, I just like, basically,

741
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:57,879
Speaker 1: you ride Jonathan Taylor early, you get an early lead

742
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:00,840
Speaker 1: in this game and you never look back. It's inexcusable

743
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:02,719
Speaker 1: to lose this. And I don't think they were they

744
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:05,359
Speaker 1: they know, Darius Leonard said, we were practicing much better

745
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 1: this week. Last week was lack of days ago. Darius

746
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:11,240
Speaker 1: Leonard who who West always loved him some? Darius Leonard.

747
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:14,960
Speaker 1: He's forced ever been a part of twelve turnovers this year.

748
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:19,480
Speaker 1: Darius Leonard punch from an off ball linebacker position. He

749
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 1: could be in the mix of defensive player of the

750
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 1: year mixed too. I mean he's not quite there for

751
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 1: me with with Donald and Parsons and what, but he's not.

752
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:32,080
Speaker 1: He's not far off. He did it again last week.

753
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:35,120
Speaker 1: It didn't result in a turnover, but it almost was huge.

754
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:39,240
Speaker 1: Um just punching that ball out. He has that skill

755
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 1: like Peanut Tilman that it's just it's such a weapon,

756
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:44,279
Speaker 1: and you wonder why more guys don't do it. It's

757
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:47,120
Speaker 1: probably hard to do um Trevor Lawrence to your point, Mark,

758
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:50,800
Speaker 1: he had that garbage time screen pass touchdown at the

759
00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:52,840
Speaker 1: end of the Patriots game and that ended a streak

760
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 1: of one eight four pass attempts without a touchdown. I

761
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,759
Speaker 1: don't think any team has a more important offseason in

762
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 1: front of it then the Jaguars and the playoff scenario.

763
00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 1: The Cults clinch a playoff birth with a win over

764
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:09,360
Speaker 1: the Jags, so that's the easy way in, or they lose,

765
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 1: which would be, as we're saying, it would cause chaos

766
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 1: in the a f C. If they lose, they only

767
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 1: make the playoffs if Pittsburgh loses at Baltimore and New

768
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 1: England loses at Miami, plus Chargers lose it Vegas. So

769
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:24,239
Speaker 1: basically Cults are cooked if they don't win this game,

770
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:27,520
Speaker 1: but they should. You got a tagline, Mark, Yes, Ricky

771
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 1: Aircraft to cheer Nobil, Aircraft to cheer Nobil. I get

772
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:40,319
Speaker 1: that one. By the way, Ricky privately messaged me saying

773
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 1: it's starting to annoy her that you keep calling for

774
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 1: the drop she's a professional. She'll hit it once. I

775
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:51,680
Speaker 1: t you up, don't let's I'm listen Like this is

776
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 1: a new project. I'm open to um in progress critique

777
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:57,279
Speaker 1: and I will I will attempt that next time. And

778
00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:01,480
Speaker 1: she told Dan that she was annoyed. Why not just

779
00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:04,480
Speaker 1: tell me Betrade your confidence there? But I just want

780
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:07,239
Speaker 1: to make sure we're running a very soon, wasn't Yeah,

781
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:11,239
Speaker 1: that wasn't exactly what I said. Um, but I was like,

782
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:13,759
Speaker 1: doesn't you don't have to say Ricky every time? Mark

783
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 1: Like I get timing of a drop because gorgeous gorgeous

784
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:20,279
Speaker 1: girls do their job the right way. All right, Well,

785
00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:23,360
Speaker 1: I stand heavily corrected. It was not a necessarily a

786
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:26,480
Speaker 1: take on your ability to do what you do. But

787
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:32,200
Speaker 1: now Ricky, I get your teen reference. Yeah, thanks Bud.

788
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 1: Gorgeous gorgeous girls, stay up with the pop culture. Erica

789
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:39,399
Speaker 1: trying to convince Dan to do it before the show.

790
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:46,080
Speaker 1: But it's funny because you're an old dad. All right,

791
00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:49,480
Speaker 1: let's see, it's back to the old zoo, sir. In

792
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:54,359
Speaker 1: the big spot. I will take jets of Buffalo. Same

793
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:57,719
Speaker 1: kind of vie here obviously with Indy Jacksonville. Is it

794
00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:00,359
Speaker 1: a great game. No. Could it be a blood by

795
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:03,000
Speaker 1: the end of the first quarter, Yes, but what if

796
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:06,880
Speaker 1: it's not. What if it's not the Jets coming off, Yes,

797
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:09,400
Speaker 1: they got their hearts ripped out there um at the

798
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:11,719
Speaker 1: end of the game by Tom Brady. It's happened many

799
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:15,080
Speaker 1: times in franchise history. It's just he's wearing a different uniform. Now.

800
00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:17,320
Speaker 1: It doesn't hurt the same when it's when he's not

801
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:20,800
Speaker 1: wearing a Pittre uniform, I gotta say, but still not pleasant.

802
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:22,680
Speaker 1: Did help them in terms of keeping them in the

803
00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:24,399
Speaker 1: top five of the draft, So I try to keep

804
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:29,279
Speaker 1: that in perspective. And most importantly, Zack Wilson and Greg

805
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:31,440
Speaker 1: we talked about it last Thursday. That did not set

806
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 1: up well for Wilson to play well with Todd Bowles

807
00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:36,759
Speaker 1: coming in and and the Bucks having all their UH

808
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:40,560
Speaker 1: playmakers on defense. Well, the boy fared very well in

809
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:43,279
Speaker 1: that game, and in fact, when it ended the way

810
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:47,399
Speaker 1: it did on that controversial fourth and two call where

811
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:49,880
Speaker 1: there was a bit of a miscommunication and led to

812
00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:52,880
Speaker 1: a QB sneak that failed, that's set up the loss.

813
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:55,800
Speaker 1: That bumped me out because I really thought, you know,

814
00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:58,800
Speaker 1: let Zach win this game in the fourth quarter, but

815
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:00,799
Speaker 1: they really kind of reined him in, so we didn't

816
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:03,160
Speaker 1: get to see that really dramatic ending. But I thought

817
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:07,600
Speaker 1: that was his first clean, good game. Positive. But one reason,

818
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:10,200
Speaker 1: you know, they he didn't throw as much, it was

819
00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:12,120
Speaker 1: in short yards because the running game was so good

820
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:14,239
Speaker 1: and they had reason to believe in it. And and

821
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:17,880
Speaker 1: they've had a pretty good running game in general this season,

822
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:22,080
Speaker 1: especially the last month, and in in that and Wilson's confident,

823
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:23,680
Speaker 1: that was not just his best game I thought. I

824
00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:28,840
Speaker 1: thought it was by far because he was just so confident, comfortable.

825
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:30,880
Speaker 1: Maybe it was the running plays a week before just

826
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:33,960
Speaker 1: like gave him this feelings like oh yeah, I'm a badass,

827
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:36,200
Speaker 1: I belong here. And he just started, you know, throwing

828
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:40,640
Speaker 1: the ball much better. Um. I really love that for him,

829
00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:42,680
Speaker 1: and I want to see him have another good game.

830
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 1: This is another really tough test. But you can look

831
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:47,400
Speaker 1: good this week, man, you just have. This is what

832
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:50,279
Speaker 1: late season football can be about. For losing teams, to

833
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:52,320
Speaker 1: go into the off season with two games like that

834
00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:54,120
Speaker 1: or three games like that would be really so. I

835
00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:57,240
Speaker 1: also think like he lacked some confidence after he was injured.

836
00:42:57,360 --> 00:43:00,400
Speaker 1: I mean like they verbally acknowledged that looks like a

837
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:03,160
Speaker 1: different player last week, and if you look at this game,

838
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:06,520
Speaker 1: it's like the Bills romp on bad teams. Talking about

839
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:08,719
Speaker 1: run game, I think Buffalo has been able to run

840
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 1: the ball better. Their offensive line against New England and

841
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:13,359
Speaker 1: last week against Atlanta has come together. I think it's

842
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:16,360
Speaker 1: a big good It's a positive sign for the playoffs.

843
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:18,279
Speaker 1: I mean, they ran for two hundred plus a week ago,

844
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:21,040
Speaker 1: so I like that element of Buffalo's offense becoming a

845
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 1: little more balanced. But they kind of remind me of

846
00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:26,160
Speaker 1: teams were saying like Dallas, like some of these others

847
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:29,240
Speaker 1: going with some momentum, Like I think that they're determined

848
00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:31,480
Speaker 1: to drop a mega hammer on New York and get

849
00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:33,200
Speaker 1: out of this thing, winning the division and kind of

850
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:35,600
Speaker 1: getting back to where people viewed them a couple of

851
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:37,840
Speaker 1: months ago before some ups and downs. That would be

852
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:40,319
Speaker 1: my pick two in the Desert thinks that as well.

853
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:43,560
Speaker 1: I think the Jets are close to fifteen point underdogs

854
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:46,480
Speaker 1: or the second straight week um. But at the same time,

855
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:50,320
Speaker 1: I was deeply unimpressed by the Bills against the Falcons,

856
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:52,520
Speaker 1: another team you thought they were going to trounce in

857
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:56,200
Speaker 1: their building and Josh Allen through interceptions on three consecutive drive,

858
00:43:56,280 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 1: Stefon Diggs dropped a touchdown pass. Uh, they the Falcons

859
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:02,480
Speaker 1: could just execute a little bit better in a couple

860
00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:05,239
Speaker 1: of spots. It's a totally different game. I mean, so

861
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:09,080
Speaker 1: the fifteen I think it was final score was misleading. Um,

862
00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:13,400
Speaker 1: we'll see. And just to uh put a bow on

863
00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:17,280
Speaker 1: the Wilson talk. From my end, not only has he started,

864
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:20,520
Speaker 1: he hasn't done an interception in four games, which is interesting.

865
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:24,040
Speaker 1: He also has not um he's starting to hit the

866
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:26,560
Speaker 1: layups as Solid calls him. And he had a couple

867
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:29,480
Speaker 1: of a couple of throws where it was like, oh, damn,

868
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:31,479
Speaker 1: there it is. That's the throw. Those are the throws

869
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:33,800
Speaker 1: that we saw and heard about where he threads the

870
00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:37,920
Speaker 1: needle and throws an absolute laser. So again, as I said, Greg,

871
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:40,480
Speaker 1: I Mark, you weren't here for it, but I I

872
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:43,359
Speaker 1: said that I I'm scarred. Obviously as a Jets fan,

873
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:46,120
Speaker 1: I maybe jumped the gun on on writing the boy off,

874
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:49,880
Speaker 1: just trying to take a more of a macro viewpoint

875
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:52,279
Speaker 1: and and sit back and let it develop more because

876
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:55,439
Speaker 1: I know how much around him this structure is not great.

877
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:59,120
Speaker 1: Around him, But seeing these signs really makes you hopeful,

878
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:01,720
Speaker 1: and we'll see what happened against the Bills. Does anybody

879
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:05,080
Speaker 1: else agree that the Buffalo The Buffalo performance against the

880
00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:07,279
Speaker 1: Falcons was a little dicey, and you wonder if that

881
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:09,799
Speaker 1: team could show up in a couple of weeks. Yes,

882
00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:12,439
Speaker 1: I felt that way about Buffalo for months that said,

883
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:15,120
Speaker 1: I'm not I don't I'm gonna personally choose not to

884
00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:18,880
Speaker 1: overreact to the three picks and four passes because you know,

885
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:21,400
Speaker 1: I mean, it's there's a tickdown with Josh Allen on

886
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:24,560
Speaker 1: some levels from from his year ago. But I kind

887
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:26,120
Speaker 1: of feel like this is sort of who you're gonna

888
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:28,160
Speaker 1: get at moments with Josh Allen, and he still is

889
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:31,719
Speaker 1: essentially the sun. They revolve around one like picular game,

890
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:34,279
Speaker 1: I'm not that worried about. Yeah, he's like Pete Cam.

891
00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:36,760
Speaker 1: We're better because he's a little better as a thrower

892
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:40,080
Speaker 1: in that like his baseline is still high because they

893
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:42,600
Speaker 1: won that game partly because of his running ability. That

894
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:45,160
Speaker 1: once they threw those interceptions, they stopped throwing the ball

895
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:48,000
Speaker 1: and he had eighty two yards rushing. He's such a

896
00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:50,800
Speaker 1: good red zone runner. He's such a good runner in general,

897
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:53,280
Speaker 1: and and Mark, I think your point about them getting

898
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:55,440
Speaker 1: their run game together is big because on days like that,

899
00:45:55,560 --> 00:45:57,880
Speaker 1: well maybe when Alan's not feeling it, maybe you can

900
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:00,680
Speaker 1: still win a playoff game because of his legs, because

901
00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:03,520
Speaker 1: of their running you can you can only survive like

902
00:46:03,640 --> 00:46:05,160
Speaker 1: one of those games. And I was gonna say, I

903
00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:07,719
Speaker 1: don't know if I buy into their running game based

904
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:11,239
Speaker 1: on the Atlanta game, just like if he's taken off

905
00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:14,399
Speaker 1: ten times, he's the frightening guy. He's and it happened

906
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:16,719
Speaker 1: against New England to some degree the week before too,

907
00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:18,400
Speaker 1: so I mean it just arrow up after it was

908
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:23,480
Speaker 1: a big issue. Al Right, Greg, you're hold on, Oh sorry,

909
00:46:27,440 --> 00:46:31,759
Speaker 1: make sure Mommy signs your report card. There's a theme here.

910
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:36,680
Speaker 1: There's a theme. What that's just that's something that happens

911
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:39,600
Speaker 1: when you're when you don't you're a responsible child. You

912
00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:42,759
Speaker 1: make sure that. Yeah, but you made it sound um yeah,

913
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:47,200
Speaker 1: you a sensuality back and listen to I'm not i

914
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:49,880
Speaker 1: don't have a lot of experience at reading taglines, so

915
00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:51,640
Speaker 1: I'm probably learning how to be. I'm not trying to

916
00:46:51,719 --> 00:46:54,839
Speaker 1: put my own emphasis on it. You're just naturally essential guy,

917
00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:58,440
Speaker 1: and it's coming out in these taglines. I haven't done

918
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:02,239
Speaker 1: it yet, but I will. I'm going to ask that means, well,

919
00:47:02,719 --> 00:47:04,560
Speaker 1: it just was something I was thinking about that when

920
00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:07,280
Speaker 1: you were a child, remember getting UM one one grade

921
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:10,160
Speaker 1: that was quite hideous in you know, not shocker. I

922
00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:12,440
Speaker 1: don't know. I understand that. I understand that. I mean,

923
00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:15,000
Speaker 1: I understand the idea of having to take a report

924
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:18,000
Speaker 1: card home to your mother that maybe is the dicey

925
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:20,360
Speaker 1: grade or whatever. But like, how does that connect to

926
00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:24,680
Speaker 1: the game in Orchard Park this weekend. Well, that's not

927
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:26,480
Speaker 1: up for me to decide. I did not claim that

928
00:47:26,520 --> 00:47:28,960
Speaker 1: they all have like sort of deep gridiron links to

929
00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:32,399
Speaker 1: the actual UM just looking for any lenk. That's Zach

930
00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:36,080
Speaker 1: Wilson's report card matters. He has proved some of his grades.

931
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:38,280
Speaker 1: There you go. I like it, all right. I promised

932
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:40,480
Speaker 1: not to ask anymore. You don't have to explain about

933
00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:43,920
Speaker 1: that one. I was just more curious about Greg. I'm

934
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 1: going to take the Seahawks Cardinals, uh, which is an

935
00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:49,880
Speaker 1: important game for the Cardinals still trying to win UH

936
00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:53,560
Speaker 1: the NFC West. I don't think there's like a lot

937
00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:57,279
Speaker 1: separating these two teams right now. I like the way

938
00:47:57,360 --> 00:48:00,680
Speaker 1: that Arizona stood up last week, but it also just

939
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:03,719
Speaker 1: took a lot of extraordinary plays and I don't know

940
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:06,480
Speaker 1: if that's a repeatable thing. The way that Seattle's been

941
00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:10,120
Speaker 1: moving defenses in terms of their offensive line for Rashad

942
00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:13,480
Speaker 1: Penny has been pretty impressive. They've been an unlucky team

943
00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:15,839
Speaker 1: this year. Obviously, Russell Wilson hasn't been at his best,

944
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:18,160
Speaker 1: but he's coming off his best game of the year too.

945
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:21,560
Speaker 1: And I'm just curious about this Cardinals team going into

946
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:24,520
Speaker 1: the playoffs. They should get Connor back. It sounds like

947
00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:27,399
Speaker 1: this week he's been limited in practice, but now Chase

948
00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:30,319
Speaker 1: Edmonds looks like he's out again, so they haven't been

949
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:34,200
Speaker 1: able to stay healthy. And I wouldn't be totally shocked

950
00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:38,360
Speaker 1: if the Rams were able to back into winning this division.

951
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:42,800
Speaker 1: Because the Cardinals lose this game, well, I guess you

952
00:48:43,080 --> 00:48:45,080
Speaker 1: were waiting to see it. With ron Dale Moore, who

953
00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:47,960
Speaker 1: was you know, he's practiced on a limited basis. They've

954
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:50,520
Speaker 1: they've been without some of these guys, and I still

955
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:54,040
Speaker 1: see a Cardinals offense that they can dazzle you, but

956
00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:56,719
Speaker 1: they are working through some of their own issues at

957
00:48:56,760 --> 00:48:58,200
Speaker 1: a weird time in the year to be doing that.

958
00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:01,640
Speaker 1: It wasn't a nice performance last week for the most part,

959
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:04,120
Speaker 1: but they still at times UM leave you a little

960
00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:05,839
Speaker 1: bit guiled, and they feel like a team that could

961
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:08,440
Speaker 1: get picked off. UM in this playoff phrase, they're just

962
00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:11,279
Speaker 1: they they feel like they peeked, like when's the last time,

963
00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:13,160
Speaker 1: by the way, just you brought him up, like when's

964
00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:15,680
Speaker 1: the last time Rondel Moore made a play? Well, he's

965
00:49:15,719 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 1: been out of the mix, but you're right that he wasn't.

966
00:49:17,719 --> 00:49:21,040
Speaker 1: He seemed to be like the juicy X factor that

967
00:49:21,160 --> 00:49:23,640
Speaker 1: made their offense overwhelming at times. But you take him

968
00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:25,880
Speaker 1: out of the mix, there's no DeAndre Hopkins. It seems

969
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:28,680
Speaker 1: like they've got injured running backs every week, and you

970
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:31,160
Speaker 1: know they were missing Rodney Hudson as center. I thought

971
00:49:31,160 --> 00:49:33,160
Speaker 1: that created a ton of chaos. He's back at least,

972
00:49:33,239 --> 00:49:35,680
Speaker 1: but they're not the healthiest team and they don't seem

973
00:49:35,719 --> 00:49:38,239
Speaker 1: to be the most UM in sync. That was an

974
00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:41,759
Speaker 1: important obviously vitally important for their confidence. But I'm I'm

975
00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:45,520
Speaker 1: with you, Greg, I think Seattle and I'd like them

976
00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:47,840
Speaker 1: to lose because I wanted that that draft picked to

977
00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:50,920
Speaker 1: stay in the top ten. But it feels like playing

978
00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:53,200
Speaker 1: with nothing to lose. They're gonna be loose. They just

979
00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:56,360
Speaker 1: had that game where they got the offense going in

980
00:49:56,440 --> 00:50:01,120
Speaker 1: a big way dropping the fifty burger. Um, we'll see.

981
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:04,319
Speaker 1: I've been kind of doubting the Cardinals all year after

982
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:07,719
Speaker 1: that seven or no start, and it's been correct for

983
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:09,920
Speaker 1: the most part. And I guess I'm doubting them again.

984
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:12,560
Speaker 1: So I if I was in the Greg Rosenthal, I

985
00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:14,880
Speaker 1: have to pick the game mode. I am picking Seattle

986
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:19,040
Speaker 1: here to win. Um, and they are like six point underdogs,

987
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:21,600
Speaker 1: so you know, you could, you could really, you could

988
00:50:21,640 --> 00:50:24,040
Speaker 1: really clean up if you take take that the money line,

989
00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:25,880
Speaker 1: you know, just as a straight upset. Now, that's you.

990
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:28,280
Speaker 1: I don't put a raincoat on. That's you. That's your world,

991
00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:31,400
Speaker 1: and I stay away from your your your realm, and

992
00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:32,960
Speaker 1: you know, and I respect it. I mean it's not

993
00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:35,160
Speaker 1: like totally you know, if you like them to win,

994
00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:36,880
Speaker 1: you like them. But I love that. I love that.

995
00:50:36,960 --> 00:50:40,360
Speaker 1: I love them yet covering that for sure, that's pointing

996
00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:43,640
Speaker 1: for Arizona if that becomes a reality. Very all right,

997
00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:47,440
Speaker 1: do you have anything else that? Yeah? Just the tagline?

998
00:50:47,719 --> 00:50:50,640
Speaker 1: Did you have any Oh? Yeah, just the tagline of course. Actually,

999
00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:54,080
Speaker 1: before the tagline, Well know, what's the drop happens? Is it? Well,

1000
00:50:54,360 --> 00:51:00,160
Speaker 1: you can we're into the tagline tagline two plus two

1001
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:04,400
Speaker 1: equals Hey there, sailor. Okay, let's see there's a theme here.

1002
00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:10,400
Speaker 1: They're gonna have to put some type of mature rating

1003
00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:14,160
Speaker 1: on this podcast for this episode the Beholder. I mean,

1004
00:51:14,360 --> 00:51:16,719
Speaker 1: you know, Tipper Gore may not like it, but someone

1005
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:20,160
Speaker 1: else might. I can't wait for the Senate hearing where

1006
00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:25,480
Speaker 1: d Snyder of Twisted Sister is he's testifying on our behalf.

1007
00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:29,960
Speaker 1: There's no like of our listeners are are not into

1008
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:34,719
Speaker 1: the Tipperger reference. Well, it's you're right about your all right,

1009
00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:37,160
Speaker 1: let's take a break and we will continue the draft.

1010
00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:42,800
Speaker 1: All right, we are back. It is Mark Sessler on

1011
00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:46,840
Speaker 1: the board. Alright, I'm gonna go Titans and Texans. It

1012
00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:49,879
Speaker 1: kind of feels to me like the Brother or Sister

1013
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:52,640
Speaker 1: game to cults Um Jaguars work and I just can

1014
00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:54,960
Speaker 1: I just jump in real quick. This week is kind

1015
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:57,920
Speaker 1: of annoying because it's like all these teams with a

1016
00:51:58,040 --> 00:52:02,319
Speaker 1: lot on the line, playing these stiff teams where if

1017
00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:06,240
Speaker 1: just things, I mostly blame the Browns and the Ravens. Honestly,

1018
00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:08,920
Speaker 1: if we just had a couple other teams step up

1019
00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:10,480
Speaker 1: in the last couple of weeks. This would have been

1020
00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:14,320
Speaker 1: a wild considering the way this year went for ninety

1021
00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:16,840
Speaker 1: five percent of the season, we should have had a

1022
00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:20,320
Speaker 1: Week A team that was the craziest Week A team ever. Instead,

1023
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:22,560
Speaker 1: we're like, well, maybe the Houston Texans will pull it

1024
00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:25,000
Speaker 1: together and pull off a major upset. It's like, now,

1025
00:52:25,520 --> 00:52:27,480
Speaker 1: probably not. There's not a lot of juice here. There

1026
00:52:27,520 --> 00:52:30,600
Speaker 1: should have been more juice. Alright, there's like two great games.

1027
00:52:30,680 --> 00:52:33,080
Speaker 1: You're right, there's two like really important games, and the

1028
00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:35,680
Speaker 1: rest of them. You're right, you're quick fix like league.

1029
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:37,680
Speaker 1: I mean, I think we could have even like known,

1030
00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:40,560
Speaker 1: at you know, eight months ago, Let's have the Texans

1031
00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:43,520
Speaker 1: play the Jaguars. Uh, and let's have the Cults play

1032
00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:47,600
Speaker 1: the Titans in Week A team but I mean, just

1033
00:52:47,719 --> 00:52:50,279
Speaker 1: like I like the division game aspect, but we knew

1034
00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:52,600
Speaker 1: the South. We knew what the South was, so this

1035
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:55,120
Speaker 1: is relatively annoying. Um. I would say this is different

1036
00:52:55,160 --> 00:52:59,759
Speaker 1: though than playing the Jaguars because this Texans team, I

1037
00:53:00,239 --> 00:53:02,080
Speaker 1: think we kind of thought we knew what they were

1038
00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:04,319
Speaker 1: for a long period of time. But in that David

1039
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:06,879
Speaker 1: Culli was maybe a dead man walking. I mean, they're

1040
00:53:06,880 --> 00:53:09,719
Speaker 1: weeks removed from putting it on the Chargers, and they

1041
00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 1: played the Niners tough, like they like they're just they

1042
00:53:13,080 --> 00:53:15,839
Speaker 1: hang around and and like they're not incompetent and they're

1043
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:18,560
Speaker 1: they're playing real hard. So the Titans, you know, they

1044
00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:20,959
Speaker 1: you've got a g Brown back. You're gonna get Derrick

1045
00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:23,840
Speaker 1: Henry back at something very soon here, Like we're beginning

1046
00:53:23,920 --> 00:53:26,160
Speaker 1: to look at the Titans team that we once knew.

1047
00:53:26,160 --> 00:53:27,919
Speaker 1: And I would just remind people because I know there's

1048
00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:30,319
Speaker 1: all this hubbub about should they get the number one

1049
00:53:30,360 --> 00:53:33,000
Speaker 1: seat or not, and that if they falter here, someone

1050
00:53:33,080 --> 00:53:35,440
Speaker 1: else steps in and probably grabs that. But this is

1051
00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:37,880
Speaker 1: a team that in four consecutive weeks when they had

1052
00:53:37,920 --> 00:53:41,840
Speaker 1: everyone beat the Bills, the Chiefs, the Cults, and the Rams.

1053
00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:44,160
Speaker 1: I mean that's a playoff run. That's a super Bowl

1054
00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:47,040
Speaker 1: run right there. So I take them seriously. I think

1055
00:53:47,080 --> 00:53:49,160
Speaker 1: that we've seen them heat up. I mean, they were

1056
00:53:49,239 --> 00:53:52,239
Speaker 1: so physical against Miami last week on defense, the way

1057
00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:54,279
Speaker 1: they ran the ball on Miami, which is a good

1058
00:53:54,360 --> 00:53:56,840
Speaker 1: run defense right there, that I don't think that this

1059
00:53:57,080 --> 00:54:00,480
Speaker 1: is a make pretend necessarily. Number one need we just

1060
00:54:01,840 --> 00:54:04,279
Speaker 1: they're early wins put them in this position they've done

1061
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 1: and now the rounding into shape. I don't there's this

1062
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:10,719
Speaker 1: there's an idea not to keep going back to the

1063
00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:13,680
Speaker 1: Titans fans being upset, but like there's an idea that

1064
00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:16,160
Speaker 1: people don't think they're deserving number one seed. I don't

1065
00:54:16,200 --> 00:54:17,920
Speaker 1: think that. I think a lot of people that are

1066
00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:21,359
Speaker 1: following the the league they don't think that it's kind

1067
00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:23,840
Speaker 1: of worked out in a positive way for them. But

1068
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:26,920
Speaker 1: once we do get to January football and the playoffs,

1069
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:29,000
Speaker 1: the playoffs, I think they could beat any of these

1070
00:54:29,040 --> 00:54:31,680
Speaker 1: teams in the a f C, especially this year. But

1071
00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:34,040
Speaker 1: the difference is like when I look at the number

1072
00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:36,880
Speaker 1: one seed in the NFC, the Packers, like that's a

1073
00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:40,360
Speaker 1: powerhouse and teams having to come into their building to

1074
00:54:40,520 --> 00:54:42,960
Speaker 1: beat them in one of two games. That's gonna be

1075
00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:45,160
Speaker 1: very tough. I don't feel that way about the Titans.

1076
00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:47,040
Speaker 1: But it doesn't mean I don't think they're a real team,

1077
00:54:47,160 --> 00:54:48,880
Speaker 1: or I think they're a paper champion, none of that.

1078
00:54:49,360 --> 00:54:52,360
Speaker 1: It's just it's there. Is there levels they're like, it

1079
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:54,719
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be black or white, it could be

1080
00:54:54,800 --> 00:54:56,279
Speaker 1: somewhere in the middle and that's where I am on

1081
00:54:56,360 --> 00:55:01,120
Speaker 1: the Titans. Maybe they're just h have scar tissue, these

1082
00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:04,839
Speaker 1: Titans fans, not just from being overlooked by the national media,

1083
00:55:04,960 --> 00:55:07,960
Speaker 1: but from two thousand and eight one of the weirdest

1084
00:55:08,120 --> 00:55:12,520
Speaker 1: number one seeds of all time Carrie Collins Tennessee Titans

1085
00:55:13,080 --> 00:55:17,560
Speaker 1: thirteen and three. Uh and that was the storyline that year,

1086
00:55:17,680 --> 00:55:19,600
Speaker 1: was like, is this Titans team really any good? And

1087
00:55:19,680 --> 00:55:21,920
Speaker 1: then they went out meekly in their first playoff game

1088
00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:24,600
Speaker 1: to the Ravens. Uh So, So maybe it's Titans fans

1089
00:55:24,640 --> 00:55:26,200
Speaker 1: remembering all the way back then. I don't think they

1090
00:55:26,239 --> 00:55:27,880
Speaker 1: have to worry too much about this week. But they

1091
00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:30,840
Speaker 1: did lose to the Texans, you know, fairly convincingly the

1092
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:33,080
Speaker 1: first time around. Now they were they were about at

1093
00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:35,600
Speaker 1: their low in terms of player availability than a G.

1094
00:55:35,719 --> 00:55:38,040
Speaker 1: Brown wasn't in and out of that game. But that

1095
00:55:38,200 --> 00:55:41,120
Speaker 1: was the week Ravel like wasn't even practicing because they

1096
00:55:41,120 --> 00:55:44,200
Speaker 1: couldn't They couldn't, you know, fill an entire roster of

1097
00:55:44,280 --> 00:55:47,279
Speaker 1: healthy players. It wasn't COVID. It was like injuries and

1098
00:55:47,480 --> 00:55:50,360
Speaker 1: it was a turnover fast. Tannehill ended up throwing a

1099
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:52,160
Speaker 1: bunch of picks right at the end of that game

1100
00:55:52,239 --> 00:55:55,080
Speaker 1: that the Texans defense has been pretty tough to the

1101
00:55:55,080 --> 00:55:57,640
Speaker 1: point where you could imagine it being somewhat close for

1102
00:55:57,719 --> 00:56:00,080
Speaker 1: a while. But I'm with you, Mark, like there's so

1103
00:56:00,239 --> 00:56:03,840
Speaker 1: physical on both lines. They should just like push the

1104
00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:06,560
Speaker 1: Texans around and and make this thing, this is a

1105
00:56:06,560 --> 00:56:09,600
Speaker 1: playoff game, for like, make this thing very boring because

1106
00:56:09,760 --> 00:56:11,760
Speaker 1: you win this game, you advance around in the playoffs.

1107
00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:15,160
Speaker 1: That's what these teams like your to your point, You've

1108
00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:17,400
Speaker 1: got a team with something that has to go and

1109
00:56:17,640 --> 00:56:19,600
Speaker 1: accomplish something, verse a team that's sort of, you know,

1110
00:56:19,680 --> 00:56:21,600
Speaker 1: got a bunch of people thinking about the fact they'll

1111
00:56:21,600 --> 00:56:23,759
Speaker 1: be in a rubat, you know, twenty four hours later

1112
00:56:23,840 --> 00:56:27,000
Speaker 1: after after the final whistle blows. You cannot falter here.

1113
00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:29,520
Speaker 1: You just gotta take care of business. It's a The

1114
00:56:29,680 --> 00:56:32,680
Speaker 1: rest of the football world is completely forgotten about the

1115
00:56:33,280 --> 00:56:36,319
Speaker 1: Brett Farve was on the Jets season, but Jets fans,

1116
00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:38,680
Speaker 1: there are moments of that season that were so much fun.

1117
00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:41,279
Speaker 1: And one of them is when the Jets went um

1118
00:56:41,640 --> 00:56:45,879
Speaker 1: to Tennessee and beat up the Tennant, oh Titans, handing

1119
00:56:45,920 --> 00:56:47,960
Speaker 1: their first loss of the year. I remember that game

1120
00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:50,239
Speaker 1: like it was yesterday. Watching that at Birds in West

1121
00:56:50,320 --> 00:56:54,320
Speaker 1: Hollywood or in Hollywood. Um, that was a nice memory.

1122
00:56:54,440 --> 00:56:57,680
Speaker 1: The other one was the Thursday night game against the Pats,

1123
00:56:57,800 --> 00:56:59,919
Speaker 1: Greg which I know you remember the Matt Castle Pats

1124
00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:03,160
Speaker 1: Um then at all I was there. I was there.

1125
00:57:04,080 --> 00:57:05,880
Speaker 1: That was the last game I went to as a

1126
00:57:05,960 --> 00:57:09,440
Speaker 1: fan until this Rams game with the family. Is that

1127
00:57:09,560 --> 00:57:15,040
Speaker 1: Matt Castle Jets game catch at the end of regulation

1128
00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:18,280
Speaker 1: to send it to overtime and then um, I think

1129
00:57:18,360 --> 00:57:20,560
Speaker 1: Nick Folk hit the field goal for the Jets to

1130
00:57:20,680 --> 00:57:23,200
Speaker 1: win the game. But that he is, all these years

1131
00:57:23,280 --> 00:57:27,320
Speaker 1: later Patriots legend. He is a great kicker. N Folk.

1132
00:57:27,400 --> 00:57:31,080
Speaker 1: All right? Any other thoughts about this game, gentleman, No

1133
00:57:31,240 --> 00:57:34,280
Speaker 1: other than Donte Foreman. I think will be a factor

1134
00:57:34,320 --> 00:57:36,960
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, even if the Derrick Henry's back. Henry's

1135
00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:40,040
Speaker 1: practicing a little bit this week. Foreman has been great.

1136
00:57:40,240 --> 00:57:43,200
Speaker 1: This was a high draft pick that was coming on

1137
00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:45,480
Speaker 1: late in his rookie year Torres Achilles a couple of

1138
00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:48,640
Speaker 1: years ago. He's a pretty talented guy. I don't think

1139
00:57:48,920 --> 00:57:51,800
Speaker 1: he has been a fluke, and so I think with him,

1140
00:57:52,080 --> 00:57:54,000
Speaker 1: when Henry is back, you don't have to give Henry

1141
00:57:54,040 --> 00:57:56,840
Speaker 1: the ball thirty times necessarily. Maybe Foreman is mixed in

1142
00:57:56,920 --> 00:57:58,720
Speaker 1: he's been really I don't think it's just been the

1143
00:57:58,760 --> 00:58:01,000
Speaker 1: old line. He personally, he has been really good. I

1144
00:58:01,040 --> 00:58:03,000
Speaker 1: don't know how many running backs have come back from

1145
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:07,120
Speaker 1: an achilles scenario look as powerful and fast as he's looking.

1146
00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:08,520
Speaker 1: And it took him a few years. I think that's

1147
00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:10,800
Speaker 1: what explains why why is was this guy on the

1148
00:58:10,880 --> 00:58:13,800
Speaker 1: streets because he didn't look very good coming off the Achilles.

1149
00:58:13,840 --> 00:58:15,640
Speaker 1: But now he's a few years removed from it. I

1150
00:58:15,680 --> 00:58:17,800
Speaker 1: think it's two and a half years removed from it.

1151
00:58:18,320 --> 00:58:22,080
Speaker 1: The Tennessee offensive line is healthy and all together for

1152
00:58:22,160 --> 00:58:24,480
Speaker 1: the first time now, so these it all seems to

1153
00:58:24,560 --> 00:58:27,280
Speaker 1: be kind of coming together for them. And that's one

1154
00:58:27,320 --> 00:58:30,440
Speaker 1: thing I don't think most people realized, even when they

1155
00:58:30,480 --> 00:58:33,320
Speaker 1: were kind of scuffling before these last two wins. The

1156
00:58:33,840 --> 00:58:35,920
Speaker 1: run game has pretty much been there all season with

1157
00:58:36,080 --> 00:58:38,920
Speaker 1: or without Henry, So it can only get better with

1158
00:58:39,120 --> 00:58:45,960
Speaker 1: the big Dog, and you never ever fade the big Dog. Mark, Oh, Mark,

1159
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:53,680
Speaker 1: give us a tagline, breezy shopping spree in Eastern Iran

1160
00:58:55,840 --> 00:59:01,040
Speaker 1: shopping eastern night? Right? Is the Are you relating Houston,

1161
00:59:01,120 --> 00:59:09,200
Speaker 1: Texas too? I ran it feels like a blowouts, so

1162
00:59:09,400 --> 00:59:13,520
Speaker 1: people of uh Texas in the Houston area. That's what

1163
00:59:13,640 --> 00:59:18,120
Speaker 1: he was saying. I'm gonna to code that for you. Well,

1164
00:59:18,160 --> 00:59:21,200
Speaker 1: I would typically want to counter that, but we can

1165
00:59:21,280 --> 00:59:24,960
Speaker 1: move on. Do you think I had that right, Greg?

1166
00:59:25,240 --> 00:59:29,560
Speaker 1: I think you nailed that. Yeah, well, okay. I like Houston.

1167
00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:33,160
Speaker 1: We went there for a super Bowl, had some amazing seafood.

1168
00:59:34,960 --> 00:59:37,600
Speaker 1: I bet a couple of super Bowls in Houston is

1169
00:59:37,600 --> 00:59:39,680
Speaker 1: a nice, nice super Bowl town, nice super Bowl town.

1170
00:59:40,360 --> 00:59:45,560
Speaker 1: All right, Mark Snakes, do you Lancer line took us out?

1171
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:50,160
Speaker 1: Lance knows Houston? Yes to that UFO bar with with

1172
00:59:50,320 --> 00:59:52,920
Speaker 1: West and the crew too, had a wonderful time there.

1173
00:59:52,920 --> 00:59:55,280
Speaker 1: I do not consider it the equivalent of Iran. I'm

1174
00:59:55,280 --> 01:00:01,120
Speaker 1: gonna go Packers at Lions early game bust. Not much

1175
01:00:01,160 --> 01:00:03,920
Speaker 1: at stake here, all right, this schedule is rough if

1176
01:00:03,960 --> 01:00:07,760
Speaker 1: this is getting drafted, but at this point I'm looking

1177
01:00:07,800 --> 01:00:10,600
Speaker 1: at here, um, I mean, look at the line. Still

1178
01:00:10,640 --> 01:00:12,160
Speaker 1: have a chance for the number one pick. If the

1179
01:00:12,240 --> 01:00:15,320
Speaker 1: Jags ever, you know, won that game against the Cults.

1180
01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:17,560
Speaker 1: I don't see that happening, but I you know, I

1181
01:00:17,600 --> 01:00:19,640
Speaker 1: guess we'll just we'll see how long. For me, it's

1182
01:00:19,680 --> 01:00:22,040
Speaker 1: like how long did the Packers play? I guess you

1183
01:00:22,360 --> 01:00:24,760
Speaker 1: got Aaron Rodgers. You know he's practicing. It sounds like

1184
01:00:24,800 --> 01:00:27,880
Speaker 1: they're gonna essentially be out there to start get a lead.

1185
01:00:27,920 --> 01:00:30,440
Speaker 1: You think it's manageable and just roll because there's no

1186
01:00:30,640 --> 01:00:33,920
Speaker 1: reason to put anyone into harm's way, I mean longer projection.

1187
01:00:34,000 --> 01:00:37,520
Speaker 1: It's like David Baktier's practicing Jaire Alexander has come back,

1188
01:00:37,600 --> 01:00:39,960
Speaker 1: I mean at some point here. So they're getting healthier,

1189
01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:41,439
Speaker 1: and they've done all this with a bunch of guys

1190
01:00:41,520 --> 01:00:44,280
Speaker 1: not playing. So this is a nice little warm up

1191
01:00:44,600 --> 01:00:46,680
Speaker 1: to what comes ahead. And I thought it was interesting

1192
01:00:46,760 --> 01:00:50,520
Speaker 1: that Aaron Rodgers said, um today or there's at least

1193
01:00:50,520 --> 01:00:54,000
Speaker 1: comments that I read today about Brian Goodencoust that it's

1194
01:00:54,040 --> 01:00:56,680
Speaker 1: been a really nice fall in winter, that he appreciates

1195
01:00:56,720 --> 01:01:02,680
Speaker 1: his approach, how it's been. So there we are. I

1196
01:01:02,760 --> 01:01:04,920
Speaker 1: think this. I think, you know Greg Mention the other night,

1197
01:01:04,960 --> 01:01:07,920
Speaker 1: that's just the way that Aaron Rodgers is talking. It

1198
01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:11,439
Speaker 1: sure sounds like he's sticking around. And uh, I thought

1199
01:01:11,520 --> 01:01:13,640
Speaker 1: some of these comments might have might have sealed it.

1200
01:01:13,680 --> 01:01:16,000
Speaker 1: He said the grass is greener where you water it.

1201
01:01:16,440 --> 01:01:17,520
Speaker 1: I don't know if he got that out of his

1202
01:01:17,600 --> 01:01:19,240
Speaker 1: one of his books, but did he use it. Well,

1203
01:01:19,320 --> 01:01:22,200
Speaker 1: did you see I hope you give credit to where

1204
01:01:22,240 --> 01:01:27,720
Speaker 1: he said that on the Atom Shine podcast. That's right exclusively. Wait,

1205
01:01:27,840 --> 01:01:30,919
Speaker 1: Shine got Rogers. Yeah, Shine got Rogers, And I read

1206
01:01:30,960 --> 01:01:34,080
Speaker 1: those quotes and he asked a good question there. You

1207
01:01:34,160 --> 01:01:37,280
Speaker 1: know that you know about GOODA Cuns very specifically in

1208
01:01:37,360 --> 01:01:40,800
Speaker 1: their relationship, and yeah, he said he really appreciated how

1209
01:01:41,160 --> 01:01:44,280
Speaker 1: Goodacuns met him halfway. I don't know exactly what that meant,

1210
01:01:44,320 --> 01:01:47,280
Speaker 1: but that that was promising for Packers fans for sure.

1211
01:01:47,600 --> 01:01:51,120
Speaker 1: Did you see the thing that um Rogers really doing

1212
01:01:51,120 --> 01:01:53,560
Speaker 1: a lot of media. By the way, Rogers was doing

1213
01:01:53,640 --> 01:01:57,240
Speaker 1: his weekly spot on the Pat McAfee show, and he

1214
01:01:57,520 --> 01:02:01,200
Speaker 1: told McAfee that he put the Atlas Shrug Book in

1215
01:02:01,280 --> 01:02:03,880
Speaker 1: his background and referenced it just to trigger people who

1216
01:02:04,360 --> 01:02:07,680
Speaker 1: who he thought would go after him as they then predictably.

1217
01:02:07,760 --> 01:02:09,640
Speaker 1: Did Did you see that? I did? I mean we

1218
01:02:09,800 --> 01:02:11,240
Speaker 1: I think it would have helped if we had caught

1219
01:02:11,320 --> 01:02:14,000
Speaker 1: that before our Tuesday discussion. But um, you know that

1220
01:02:14,200 --> 01:02:17,720
Speaker 1: was the next level troll move there that seemed to

1221
01:02:18,240 --> 01:02:23,240
Speaker 1: um get the desired effect by Rogers. Right. That's well,

1222
01:02:23,320 --> 01:02:25,240
Speaker 1: that was news. That's news to me. I didn't hear

1223
01:02:25,320 --> 01:02:28,919
Speaker 1: that um, that seems like just something you would say

1224
01:02:28,960 --> 01:02:31,920
Speaker 1: after the fact, don't you think too like he he

1225
01:02:32,160 --> 01:02:35,040
Speaker 1: he has. He has put himself out there politically as

1226
01:02:35,120 --> 01:02:38,240
Speaker 1: like a libertarian and Joe Rogan fan and stuff in

1227
01:02:38,320 --> 01:02:41,240
Speaker 1: that book is like a bible to libertarians in the

1228
01:02:41,280 --> 01:02:46,720
Speaker 1: political views. I'm saying, he seems like a person who

1229
01:02:46,800 --> 01:02:49,840
Speaker 1: has lost enough to because he feels small in that moment,

1230
01:02:49,960 --> 01:02:52,240
Speaker 1: then to make up a new thing and and say

1231
01:02:52,320 --> 01:02:56,040
Speaker 1: like I did that to trigger Peter calling him a liar. Well,

1232
01:02:56,240 --> 01:02:59,919
Speaker 1: I mean that is obvious. He he says, lies Roger,

1233
01:03:00,040 --> 01:03:03,080
Speaker 1: he's a liar. So Ricky could pull that quote. We don't.

1234
01:03:03,200 --> 01:03:05,760
Speaker 1: We don't want to make Greg here go now to

1235
01:03:05,920 --> 01:03:11,440
Speaker 1: one and Greg he has this deliberately misled the public

1236
01:03:11,840 --> 01:03:15,680
Speaker 1: about his iron Rand views. Is it iron? Is that

1237
01:03:15,760 --> 01:03:17,520
Speaker 1: what it is? I think it is? Yeah, I'm not sure,

1238
01:03:17,640 --> 01:03:20,880
Speaker 1: but yeah, all right, that's good. Good talking that game.

1239
01:03:21,040 --> 01:03:29,120
Speaker 1: Let's move on tagline hurts rental vehicle taken out by

1240
01:03:29,240 --> 01:03:36,200
Speaker 1: laser fire. I hate that game. How do you put

1241
01:03:36,280 --> 01:03:38,680
Speaker 1: that game? Where is laser technology? Yet? By the way,

1242
01:03:39,880 --> 01:03:42,600
Speaker 1: didn't you think by now by two thousand twenty two,

1243
01:03:43,240 --> 01:03:47,520
Speaker 1: there'll be a bunch of soldiers just like eviscerating each

1244
01:03:47,520 --> 01:03:49,800
Speaker 1: other with laser fire. I don't want to see war

1245
01:03:50,120 --> 01:03:52,680
Speaker 1: seem like it never really it never really advanced past,

1246
01:03:52,800 --> 01:03:55,040
Speaker 1: like the guy with the laser pointer in the stands

1247
01:03:55,080 --> 01:03:57,640
Speaker 1: at football games that occasionally, you know, a noise ref

1248
01:03:58,040 --> 01:04:03,120
Speaker 1: by lasers. Santa brought the Boys Nintendo Classic. It's like

1249
01:04:03,160 --> 01:04:06,040
Speaker 1: a mini Nintendo that has comes loaded with thirty of

1250
01:04:06,120 --> 01:04:09,400
Speaker 1: the classic games. And I've probably played it more than them.

1251
01:04:10,080 --> 01:04:14,600
Speaker 1: Um and Contra is one of the games, and and

1252
01:04:14,800 --> 01:04:18,320
Speaker 1: and it's follow up, it's n sequel, Super Contra. I mean,

1253
01:04:18,360 --> 01:04:21,680
Speaker 1: these are great games. They had lasers in that, and

1254
01:04:21,840 --> 01:04:25,880
Speaker 1: lasers were absolutely you know, you want to take care

1255
01:04:25,960 --> 01:04:29,000
Speaker 1: of some aliens, you shoot your laser gun, which had

1256
01:04:29,040 --> 01:04:30,800
Speaker 1: to be earned. You had to work up to get

1257
01:04:30,840 --> 01:04:33,760
Speaker 1: to the laser. I would just say, like the U. S.

1258
01:04:33,880 --> 01:04:36,800
Speaker 1: Military and all it's might at some point if we

1259
01:04:36,840 --> 01:04:41,120
Speaker 1: could develop laser tech, yeah, maybe we won't have to

1260
01:04:41,120 --> 01:04:43,240
Speaker 1: worry about isis anymore. Maybe we won't have to worry

1261
01:04:43,240 --> 01:04:47,280
Speaker 1: about you know, certain military skirmish is going sideways. And

1262
01:04:47,360 --> 01:04:49,840
Speaker 1: I think you're also you know, to the Super Contra point.

1263
01:04:50,280 --> 01:04:53,160
Speaker 1: Um you're telling aliens or alien technology like we're on

1264
01:04:53,280 --> 01:04:58,400
Speaker 1: your level, like we we can bring a weapon which

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01:04:58,440 --> 01:05:02,400
Speaker 1: we are unable to do. It's quarter to what we know. Instead,

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01:05:02,440 --> 01:05:04,360
Speaker 1: they come down in the UFOs and they just look

1267
01:05:04,400 --> 01:05:14,920
Speaker 1: at our military facilities and laugh. Lasers lasers. Humans have

1268
01:05:15,080 --> 01:05:23,760
Speaker 1: no lasers. They go back to the New Year's resolution

1269
01:05:23,840 --> 01:05:26,560
Speaker 1: for the United States Military more lasers. All right, Greg,

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01:05:29,200 --> 01:05:32,600
Speaker 1: I'm up. Let's let's wrap up with Steelers Ravens. Greg

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01:05:32,800 --> 01:05:36,560
Speaker 1: sits out the laser discourse. I didn't have much to add.

1272
01:05:36,600 --> 01:05:40,200
Speaker 1: I thought it was fun, you know some some of these.

1273
01:05:40,240 --> 01:05:43,040
Speaker 1: You gotta let the heavy hitters take take the ball here,

1274
01:05:43,400 --> 01:05:48,240
Speaker 1: Steelers Ravens. What a rivalry, what a matchup? I I

1275
01:05:48,840 --> 01:05:50,640
Speaker 1: think this is Uh. I think this is gonna be

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01:05:52,240 --> 01:05:54,880
Speaker 1: a game where everyone in the a f C North

1277
01:05:54,960 --> 01:05:59,080
Speaker 1: gets a moral victory, even the Browns. Maybe this week

1278
01:05:59,200 --> 01:06:01,840
Speaker 1: with with Case and playing against the Bengals backups, we

1279
01:06:01,880 --> 01:06:03,480
Speaker 1: haven't gotten to that game yet. But I think this

1280
01:06:03,600 --> 01:06:08,880
Speaker 1: game matters more to the Ravens. I think they felt

1281
01:06:08,960 --> 01:06:11,120
Speaker 1: like the Steelers, that is that they kind of won

1282
01:06:11,200 --> 01:06:15,440
Speaker 1: their playoff game on Monday night. It's a short week. Uh,

1283
01:06:15,480 --> 01:06:18,280
Speaker 1: there's no Deante Johnson, he's on the COVID list. They're

1284
01:06:18,280 --> 01:06:20,640
Speaker 1: starting center who they were also without Monday night, so

1285
01:06:20,720 --> 01:06:22,720
Speaker 1: that they're used to that. Kendrick Green also onto the

1286
01:06:22,800 --> 01:06:27,640
Speaker 1: COVID list for Pittsburgh. And I just think the Ravens

1287
01:06:27,680 --> 01:06:30,000
Speaker 1: are a little bit better of a team anyways, and

1288
01:06:30,080 --> 01:06:32,800
Speaker 1: that they have a better quarterback right now. I liked

1289
01:06:32,840 --> 01:06:35,280
Speaker 1: what their defense did last week in terms of playing

1290
01:06:35,320 --> 01:06:39,120
Speaker 1: against type, playing very conservatively, got the running game going,

1291
01:06:39,160 --> 01:06:42,640
Speaker 1: which should work against the Steelers. I mean, why not

1292
01:06:42,920 --> 01:06:44,840
Speaker 1: just lock this game up? Why not let's lock up

1293
01:06:44,880 --> 01:06:46,919
Speaker 1: the Ravens? Are you locking him up? I forgot about

1294
01:06:46,960 --> 01:06:49,880
Speaker 1: the locks? And uh, this seems nice. It's all right.

1295
01:06:49,880 --> 01:06:51,680
Speaker 1: You are not alone on this one. Let's check in

1296
01:06:51,800 --> 01:06:56,400
Speaker 1: with Westling Lock Company. Hello, heroes, it's Nick and I'm

1297
01:06:56,440 --> 01:06:59,480
Speaker 1: back after a three week hiatus last week, you guys

1298
01:06:59,520 --> 01:07:02,360
Speaker 1: mentioned has done the last three weeks and is getting

1299
01:07:02,360 --> 01:07:04,800
Speaker 1: a little stale. I want to apologize for leaving you

1300
01:07:04,880 --> 01:07:07,840
Speaker 1: with the boring brother. You aren't the only ones asking

1301
01:07:07,920 --> 01:07:10,440
Speaker 1: where the rest of us are? People reached out from

1302
01:07:10,440 --> 01:07:13,600
Speaker 1: all over asking what happened Nick? Where are you? We

1303
01:07:13,680 --> 01:07:16,280
Speaker 1: can't listen to the monotone sounds of your brother anymore.

1304
01:07:16,600 --> 01:07:18,920
Speaker 1: And by the way, what happened to Tim and Larry well,

1305
01:07:19,000 --> 01:07:21,400
Speaker 1: you loved them, and I thought Chris had six brothers

1306
01:07:21,520 --> 01:07:24,720
Speaker 1: to the other two even exist. People want answers. First,

1307
01:07:25,120 --> 01:07:28,360
Speaker 1: I can't confirm there are six brothers. Second, I reached

1308
01:07:28,360 --> 01:07:31,320
Speaker 1: out to the other four Ed, Tim, Larry, Am Mike.

1309
01:07:32,320 --> 01:07:35,520
Speaker 1: They issued a joint statement which reads as follows, no

1310
01:07:35,760 --> 01:07:38,720
Speaker 1: longer will the four of us allow the oppressive A

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01:07:38,920 --> 01:07:43,440
Speaker 1: t M podcast use our voices without proper compensation. The

1312
01:07:43,520 --> 01:07:47,800
Speaker 1: bound downloads up said podcast have consistently increased since the

1313
01:07:47,840 --> 01:07:51,760
Speaker 1: Westling brothers evelyn their voices without even a hint of

1314
01:07:52,120 --> 01:07:57,800
Speaker 1: monetary recompense. Close quote, What the hell is monetary recompense?

1315
01:07:58,120 --> 01:08:01,120
Speaker 1: What the hell is going on? Who are these people? First?

1316
01:08:01,320 --> 01:08:03,480
Speaker 1: N I l deals in the n c A. Now

1317
01:08:03,640 --> 01:08:06,400
Speaker 1: this I don't even know what's going on, but did

1318
01:08:06,480 --> 01:08:08,920
Speaker 1: get me thinking should I join in this boycott of

1319
01:08:08,920 --> 01:08:13,760
Speaker 1: the podcast? Ask through it. We're taking the Ravens over

1320
01:08:13,840 --> 01:08:17,719
Speaker 1: the Steelers. Lock it up, all right, guy? That's twenty

1321
01:08:17,720 --> 01:08:22,880
Speaker 1: two is better than one From your lips to God's ears,

1322
01:08:22,960 --> 01:08:26,919
Speaker 1: my friend. Well, they become difficult. They're becoming more difficult.

1323
01:08:27,240 --> 01:08:30,800
Speaker 1: That's good though, they're like they need you know, it's

1324
01:08:30,880 --> 01:08:35,640
Speaker 1: important that they understand their value and their employer or

1325
01:08:36,120 --> 01:08:40,479
Speaker 1: the people that provide the platform respond to that and

1326
01:08:41,120 --> 01:08:43,680
Speaker 1: take care of them. They've also done a terrible thing

1327
01:08:44,600 --> 01:08:46,960
Speaker 1: because it's like you're gonna get paid a certain amount

1328
01:08:46,960 --> 01:08:49,320
Speaker 1: of money, but you're gonna have to split it between

1329
01:08:49,479 --> 01:08:52,960
Speaker 1: like two people. It's like that you it's I mean,

1330
01:08:53,040 --> 01:08:58,240
Speaker 1: it's too many by six? What is that? Well? Zero

1331
01:08:58,400 --> 01:09:01,360
Speaker 1: by six carry the one. Oh, you're getting nothing, Nick.

1332
01:09:05,080 --> 01:09:09,519
Speaker 1: We do give them an international platform to give people

1333
01:09:09,560 --> 01:09:13,559
Speaker 1: an insight into just this wacky world. That's like, first

1334
01:09:13,640 --> 01:09:17,160
Speaker 1: you get that, then you have lifetime or whatever coming

1335
01:09:17,200 --> 01:09:19,600
Speaker 1: to you to do. Like how about you know the

1336
01:09:19,640 --> 01:09:23,639
Speaker 1: wall Burgers that the Wallberg family opening up a Hamburger business?

1337
01:09:23,720 --> 01:09:25,960
Speaker 1: What if we do with the Westling's like that, we're

1338
01:09:26,040 --> 01:09:30,560
Speaker 1: providing you the platform to gain a higher level of notoriety.

1339
01:09:30,920 --> 01:09:35,559
Speaker 1: Like does that have value? I think it does. There

1340
01:09:35,600 --> 01:09:38,559
Speaker 1: are a lot like the Wahburgers. If you're just missing

1341
01:09:38,680 --> 01:09:41,800
Speaker 1: like the international movie star and the member of like

1342
01:09:41,920 --> 01:09:44,080
Speaker 1: one of the biggest boy bands ever. But other than that,

1343
01:09:44,280 --> 01:09:46,960
Speaker 1: there's there's a couple of Donnies in there. I wouldn't

1344
01:09:47,000 --> 01:09:52,920
Speaker 1: say there's a Mark. I don't see a Mark, all right, Mark,

1345
01:09:53,000 --> 01:09:58,840
Speaker 1: I see you with a tagline tagline, here we go,

1346
01:10:00,160 --> 01:10:02,960
Speaker 1: oh you oh, Ricky was laid on the queue and

1347
01:10:03,080 --> 01:10:05,640
Speaker 1: Mark gave an eye roll. That was good. Well we

1348
01:10:05,720 --> 01:10:07,439
Speaker 1: knew it would happened, but it's but she's done in

1349
01:10:07,479 --> 01:10:13,880
Speaker 1: an exemplary job. Tagline chewing on plums from the seventh dimensions.

1350
01:10:13,920 --> 01:10:18,679
Speaker 1: From the seventh dimension, that one feels like class class

1351
01:10:18,720 --> 01:10:21,120
Speaker 1: accessler or nonsense. I don't think there's any way to

1352
01:10:21,200 --> 01:10:24,479
Speaker 1: tie that to the game. No, unless j J or

1353
01:10:24,560 --> 01:10:26,960
Speaker 1: t J. Watt were to, you know, somehow get the

1354
01:10:27,120 --> 01:10:29,800
Speaker 1: sack record, maybe we'd all be doing that. This is

1355
01:10:30,120 --> 01:10:31,840
Speaker 1: this game does have something at stake. We should just

1356
01:10:31,960 --> 01:10:33,920
Speaker 1: point out the scenario for the Ravens, because the Ravens

1357
01:10:33,960 --> 01:10:36,600
Speaker 1: have not been knocked out. They need to win. They

1358
01:10:36,720 --> 01:10:39,840
Speaker 1: need the Jaguars to beat the Colts. They need the

1359
01:10:39,920 --> 01:10:43,719
Speaker 1: Pats to beat the Dolphins, and they need the Raiders

1360
01:10:44,240 --> 01:10:48,679
Speaker 1: to beat the Chargers, you know, the the Jags part. Obviously,

1361
01:10:48,720 --> 01:10:50,960
Speaker 1: it is important to to the Steelers to the Steelers

1362
01:10:51,000 --> 01:10:54,000
Speaker 1: stay alive. If the Jags beat the Colts and the

1363
01:10:54,080 --> 01:10:58,479
Speaker 1: Steelers witness games, crazier things have happened than the Steelers,

1364
01:10:58,600 --> 01:11:00,600
Speaker 1: you know, winning this game and making the playoffs. The

1365
01:11:00,960 --> 01:11:04,200
Speaker 1: Ravens are really counting on on a lot, including those Jaguars.

1366
01:11:04,240 --> 01:11:06,240
Speaker 1: But if they got the first one, it put a

1367
01:11:06,320 --> 01:11:09,360
Speaker 1: little extra juice even into that that Sunday Nike. The

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01:11:09,479 --> 01:11:13,120
Speaker 1: most simple or the most likely outcome, of course, is

1369
01:11:13,240 --> 01:11:15,880
Speaker 1: that the Cults are blown out the Jaguars in the

1370
01:11:15,920 --> 01:11:19,880
Speaker 1: second quarter. And this game also one pm Eastern. Everyone

1371
01:11:20,000 --> 01:11:23,479
Speaker 1: knows it, and by the second half, it's just like, alright,

1372
01:11:23,520 --> 01:11:26,880
Speaker 1: see you later, big Ben, you know, like hard bought,

1373
01:11:26,920 --> 01:11:28,760
Speaker 1: and I don't know, I feel like they want something

1374
01:11:28,800 --> 01:11:30,880
Speaker 1: to celebrate here. This is this is kind of their

1375
01:11:30,960 --> 01:11:34,120
Speaker 1: super Bowl, after all these close losses against pretty good teams.

1376
01:11:34,439 --> 01:11:36,760
Speaker 1: Get this win and at least you feel a little better.

1377
01:11:37,000 --> 01:11:40,000
Speaker 1: I don't need another week of Pittsburgh, but we we

1378
01:11:40,080 --> 01:11:42,240
Speaker 1: are in that reach of that eight eight and one scenario.

1379
01:11:42,439 --> 01:11:45,320
Speaker 1: Just to track that what we need, we need a loss.

1380
01:11:45,520 --> 01:11:47,080
Speaker 1: That's I mean that you talk about things that are

1381
01:11:47,160 --> 01:11:49,880
Speaker 1: very doable. The Steelers losing this game is very doable,

1382
01:11:49,920 --> 01:11:56,439
Speaker 1: and we have all right. Finally, I'm thinking about the show,

1383
01:11:56,520 --> 01:11:59,000
Speaker 1: of course, but I can't imagine bringing myself to watch

1384
01:11:59,120 --> 01:12:01,519
Speaker 1: Chicago at Minister Oda or Washington the Giants. I just

1385
01:12:01,560 --> 01:12:06,280
Speaker 1: can't do it. Um So I will grab and I'm

1386
01:12:06,320 --> 01:12:08,240
Speaker 1: surprised still here, but I know Nick Shook will have

1387
01:12:08,320 --> 01:12:09,439
Speaker 1: eyes on it. But I want to. I want to

1388
01:12:09,479 --> 01:12:16,519
Speaker 1: watch New Orleans at Atlanta because this is fun. Greg

1389
01:12:17,200 --> 01:12:21,040
Speaker 1: you love the NFC South, You love the Saints and

1390
01:12:21,960 --> 01:12:25,960
Speaker 1: the Falcons. Rivalry is nasty, they do. Those fan bases

1391
01:12:26,000 --> 01:12:29,479
Speaker 1: do not like each other at all. And I think

1392
01:12:29,600 --> 01:12:35,920
Speaker 1: back two after Marty Gros. New Orleans was a couple

1393
01:12:35,960 --> 01:12:39,839
Speaker 1: of days later and it went viral that they actually

1394
01:12:39,920 --> 01:12:44,719
Speaker 1: had a the Young and the Ringless Marty Grass float

1395
01:12:46,040 --> 01:12:48,400
Speaker 1: in New Orleans and a big pictures you know, was

1396
01:12:48,439 --> 01:12:53,800
Speaker 1: a artistic rendering of Matt Ryan's face and Julio Jones's face.

1397
01:12:54,640 --> 01:12:59,920
Speaker 1: The Saints completely devoid of any Super Bowl heroism, the

1398
01:13:00,080 --> 01:13:02,080
Speaker 1: self out of the playoffs by that point. No super

1399
01:13:02,080 --> 01:13:04,240
Speaker 1: Bowl ring was the Patriots, of course, who won the

1400
01:13:04,320 --> 01:13:07,799
Speaker 1: Lombardi that year, and yet they had a parade float

1401
01:13:08,200 --> 01:13:11,640
Speaker 1: celebrating the Falcons, lowest moment in the history of their franchise.

1402
01:13:12,760 --> 01:13:16,880
Speaker 1: Fast forward to the present. Now, Atlanta, you're a bad team.

1403
01:13:17,160 --> 01:13:18,960
Speaker 1: We all know you're a bad team, but you've won

1404
01:13:19,000 --> 01:13:21,560
Speaker 1: a lot of close games and then you have a

1405
01:13:21,680 --> 01:13:25,639
Speaker 1: chance here to just absolutely break the hearts of Saints Nation,

1406
01:13:26,240 --> 01:13:30,640
Speaker 1: get some revenge, Get petty as hell, go for it

1407
01:13:30,760 --> 01:13:35,040
Speaker 1: in your building, knock off the Saints and their season.

1408
01:13:35,200 --> 01:13:38,719
Speaker 1: No Kyle Pitts in practice this week is a big concern.

1409
01:13:39,520 --> 01:13:42,080
Speaker 1: This offense is is limited. We saw it when they

1410
01:13:42,120 --> 01:13:45,320
Speaker 1: were without Cordail Patterson. How just taking one piece away

1411
01:13:45,479 --> 01:13:49,120
Speaker 1: because to me, you know, Patterson, Gauge and Pits are

1412
01:13:49,160 --> 01:13:53,280
Speaker 1: the entire offense and that hurts and the Falcons. One

1413
01:13:53,280 --> 01:13:56,519
Speaker 1: of those closest wins was against the Saints earlier this season.

1414
01:13:56,560 --> 01:13:59,599
Speaker 1: But I think what's different about this Saints defense now

1415
01:14:00,040 --> 01:14:01,760
Speaker 1: it wasn't the case early in the year. Was their

1416
01:14:01,760 --> 01:14:04,240
Speaker 1: pass rush is just so much better now. Cam Jordan

1417
01:14:04,320 --> 01:14:07,880
Speaker 1: went from just very quiet for half a season to

1418
01:14:08,240 --> 01:14:10,920
Speaker 1: wreck and shop Davenports out of practice. But he's been

1419
01:14:10,960 --> 01:14:13,800
Speaker 1: amazing and that could have a pass rush with this

1420
01:14:13,960 --> 01:14:17,120
Speaker 1: much to play for. I just think there's a much

1421
01:14:17,200 --> 01:14:19,439
Speaker 1: better chance than people realize that the Saints playing on

1422
01:14:19,560 --> 01:14:21,479
Speaker 1: wild Card weekend, even if no one wants to see it,

1423
01:14:21,479 --> 01:14:24,040
Speaker 1: because I I kind of wish I locked this game up.

1424
01:14:24,080 --> 01:14:26,000
Speaker 1: Maybe I will, let's switch it. I don't even know,

1425
01:14:26,920 --> 01:14:30,840
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter exactly, I keep switching it. Uh, they're

1426
01:14:30,840 --> 01:14:32,880
Speaker 1: gonna I think they're gonna win this game. And uh,

1427
01:14:33,240 --> 01:14:35,760
Speaker 1: and I think the forty Niners are fifty at best.

1428
01:14:35,800 --> 01:14:38,040
Speaker 1: You know, they're they're an underdog in Los Angeles, and

1429
01:14:38,120 --> 01:14:40,400
Speaker 1: that's all the Saints need to make the playoffs. Yeah,

1430
01:14:40,400 --> 01:14:42,280
Speaker 1: I mean, their path is as clear as anyone's. And

1431
01:14:42,439 --> 01:14:45,680
Speaker 1: and you know, I think Atlanta and Arthur Smith, I

1432
01:14:45,760 --> 01:14:47,800
Speaker 1: give them credit for the close games they've won, that

1433
01:14:47,840 --> 01:14:50,000
Speaker 1: they've hung around, and they've done it kind of week

1434
01:14:50,080 --> 01:14:52,759
Speaker 1: after week with you know, you never had Calvin Ridley

1435
01:14:52,880 --> 01:14:56,559
Speaker 1: at post London game. You've been compromised. I mean, Cordarrell

1436
01:14:56,600 --> 01:14:59,920
Speaker 1: Patterson fried the Saints and kind of beguiled that defense

1437
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:01,519
Speaker 1: the first time they met. And I don't think that

1438
01:15:01,840 --> 01:15:04,400
Speaker 1: has a chance of happening a again, just because the

1439
01:15:04,479 --> 01:15:07,400
Speaker 1: Saints defense is rounded into such a nasty being. But

1440
01:15:07,520 --> 01:15:09,600
Speaker 1: also if Kyle Pitts isn't in there, it just I

1441
01:15:09,640 --> 01:15:12,040
Speaker 1: don't know, you just want the bodies and they can't

1442
01:15:12,040 --> 01:15:13,680
Speaker 1: stop the runs. So I mean, I don't like this

1443
01:15:13,760 --> 01:15:16,040
Speaker 1: New Orleans offense on any level. I mean, we get

1444
01:15:16,120 --> 01:15:18,800
Speaker 1: that they're super compromise. They've scored like thirty points in

1445
01:15:18,880 --> 01:15:21,840
Speaker 1: three weeks. But that said, maybe you can run the

1446
01:15:21,880 --> 01:15:24,640
Speaker 1: ball against a terrible run defense and win a game like,

1447
01:15:25,120 --> 01:15:27,600
Speaker 1: you know, fifteen to nine or something. That's how I

1448
01:15:27,680 --> 01:15:30,240
Speaker 1: see these Saints games. I'm keeping my eye on this

1449
01:15:30,400 --> 01:15:32,519
Speaker 1: one too. I knew shook was so I'm you know,

1450
01:15:32,600 --> 01:15:34,760
Speaker 1: I still am going to I mean, I know, I

1451
01:15:34,760 --> 01:15:37,120
Speaker 1: gotta gotta watch this. Tastem has been better you get

1452
01:15:37,240 --> 01:15:38,799
Speaker 1: you know, you guys used to be on the tastom

1453
01:15:38,840 --> 01:15:42,760
Speaker 1: corner and I was against it. He's getting too much.

1454
01:15:43,439 --> 01:15:45,679
Speaker 1: I'm taste some agnostic. I've never had a real taste.

1455
01:15:45,920 --> 01:15:47,360
Speaker 1: I just like him in the role he what was

1456
01:15:47,479 --> 01:15:50,519
Speaker 1: before where he added a lot of creativity and juice

1457
01:15:50,560 --> 01:15:52,360
Speaker 1: to the office. It was you and West versus me,

1458
01:15:52,520 --> 01:15:54,840
Speaker 1: I guess back in the day. But West would also

1459
01:15:54,880 --> 01:15:57,360
Speaker 1: look at this and says played himself out of starting

1460
01:15:57,439 --> 01:16:01,200
Speaker 1: quarterback conversation at this point. Outside to the outrageous contracts

1461
01:16:01,240 --> 01:16:03,080
Speaker 1: they keep giving them. Getting a little better though, is

1462
01:16:03,120 --> 01:16:05,760
Speaker 1: what I'm trying. This is a great lock, Greg. It

1463
01:16:05,880 --> 01:16:07,479
Speaker 1: is too little, too late for you, but it's still

1464
01:16:08,000 --> 01:16:10,200
Speaker 1: I think this is money in the bank. Maybe the

1465
01:16:10,320 --> 01:16:12,920
Speaker 1: rainmakers involved here, I don't know. Because the Saints have

1466
01:16:12,960 --> 01:16:14,800
Speaker 1: allowed less than ten points a game for the last

1467
01:16:14,840 --> 01:16:17,720
Speaker 1: four weeks. The Falcon's offense stinks. Now. Kyle Pitts did

1468
01:16:17,800 --> 01:16:22,040
Speaker 1: return to practice on Thursday in a limited fashion, but

1469
01:16:22,680 --> 01:16:25,519
Speaker 1: that's a hamstring. It's late in the season. We'll see

1470
01:16:25,640 --> 01:16:27,640
Speaker 1: what if he plays, or how much he plays, or

1471
01:16:27,640 --> 01:16:30,360
Speaker 1: if he's able to stay on the field. I just think, um,

1472
01:16:31,120 --> 01:16:33,280
Speaker 1: this is going to be a game where the Falcons

1473
01:16:33,320 --> 01:16:35,559
Speaker 1: are gonna have a lot of trouble scoring ten points.

1474
01:16:36,120 --> 01:16:38,439
Speaker 1: And as much as I don't love the Taysom Hill

1475
01:16:38,560 --> 01:16:41,960
Speaker 1: led Saints offense, I think the urgency of it all. Yes,

1476
01:16:42,120 --> 01:16:44,920
Speaker 1: this this feels like a twenty four to nine type win.

1477
01:16:45,360 --> 01:16:47,880
Speaker 1: Maybe Matt Ryan's last game as a Falcon. Probably not,

1478
01:16:48,360 --> 01:16:50,160
Speaker 1: but something to keep an eye on there. I haven't

1479
01:16:50,200 --> 01:16:53,160
Speaker 1: really heard much about that recently, but they seem to

1480
01:16:53,200 --> 01:16:55,160
Speaker 1: be a team that could go in a different direction

1481
01:16:55,680 --> 01:16:59,240
Speaker 1: as Arthur Smith goes into year two. Um, but I

1482
01:16:59,320 --> 01:17:01,280
Speaker 1: do like the Saints a lot here, and then they

1483
01:17:01,320 --> 01:17:03,120
Speaker 1: need help. As you said, we'll see if they get it.

1484
01:17:04,680 --> 01:17:07,720
Speaker 1: All right, I got some few more games to get

1485
01:17:07,760 --> 01:17:09,960
Speaker 1: to and then we'll hit the Sunday night football all right.

1486
01:17:10,160 --> 01:17:15,960
Speaker 1: Need tagline? Yeah, No, I'm just I've been doing it

1487
01:17:16,040 --> 01:17:18,519
Speaker 1: one way for like twenty years, so I'm not used

1488
01:17:18,560 --> 01:17:20,240
Speaker 1: to the tagline, so don't take it. Doesn't mean I

1489
01:17:20,280 --> 01:17:22,200
Speaker 1: don't want to hear it. I really do, I just forget.

1490
01:17:22,560 --> 01:17:24,920
Speaker 1: I also told you, you know, minutes before the show

1491
01:17:25,000 --> 01:17:28,800
Speaker 1: that this anyways, the tagline is head of cabbage patch

1492
01:17:28,880 --> 01:17:33,519
Speaker 1: doll found in gutter. Doesn't sound good for the Falcons.

1493
01:17:34,640 --> 01:17:37,760
Speaker 1: You can read in the fans. Fill that building. I

1494
01:17:37,880 --> 01:17:39,720
Speaker 1: know you probably don't want to or don't plan to,

1495
01:17:39,880 --> 01:17:41,599
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be a lot of Saints fans there,

1496
01:17:42,520 --> 01:17:45,160
Speaker 1: but fill that building and get some revenge. This is

1497
01:17:45,200 --> 01:17:51,080
Speaker 1: your chance. They're that building. Yeah, probably not. Probably not.

1498
01:17:51,200 --> 01:17:54,200
Speaker 1: That's why I'm trying to implore them to greg and

1499
01:17:54,400 --> 01:17:58,040
Speaker 1: really make life hard for the Saints who have designs

1500
01:17:58,080 --> 01:17:59,679
Speaker 1: on a playoff Berth. All right, let's take a break

1501
01:17:59,720 --> 01:18:03,360
Speaker 1: and then finished the games. All right, here we go,

1502
01:18:03,520 --> 01:18:06,879
Speaker 1: let's hit the a f C. North Here the Bengals

1503
01:18:07,080 --> 01:18:11,640
Speaker 1: at the Browns. This game means nothing because Cincinnati is

1504
01:18:11,680 --> 01:18:14,719
Speaker 1: not going to play Joe Burrow. They're not playing Joe Mixon.

1505
01:18:15,160 --> 01:18:17,880
Speaker 1: The Browns aren't playing Baker Mayfield. Case Keen and finally

1506
01:18:17,920 --> 01:18:20,240
Speaker 1: gets in the lineup and the season's over. That that's

1507
01:18:20,280 --> 01:18:23,799
Speaker 1: still that annoys me. But that's the road they decided

1508
01:18:23,840 --> 01:18:27,200
Speaker 1: to go down. Um, so there is a possibility here, Mark,

1509
01:18:27,280 --> 01:18:29,960
Speaker 1: with Baker going under the knife, that he's already played

1510
01:18:30,000 --> 01:18:32,720
Speaker 1: his final game as a Brown I still don't believe it.

1511
01:18:32,800 --> 01:18:35,160
Speaker 1: Greg Fields the other side, Uh, do you want it

1512
01:18:35,240 --> 01:18:36,840
Speaker 1: to be do you want it to be over? No?

1513
01:18:36,960 --> 01:18:39,479
Speaker 1: I don't you know. I was thinking about like that

1514
01:18:39,960 --> 01:18:42,280
Speaker 1: there were for all the ups and downs with Baker

1515
01:18:42,360 --> 01:18:44,080
Speaker 1: and the and some of the poor play that I

1516
01:18:44,200 --> 01:18:46,479
Speaker 1: just think it's who he is that there have been

1517
01:18:46,560 --> 01:18:49,240
Speaker 1: moments that have been the best quarterback play the Browns

1518
01:18:49,280 --> 01:18:51,280
Speaker 1: have had in twenties something years. I mean, he looked

1519
01:18:51,520 --> 01:18:53,800
Speaker 1: as a rookie, like the next big thing, and I

1520
01:18:53,880 --> 01:18:55,800
Speaker 1: thought that what he did last year it kind of

1521
01:18:55,880 --> 01:18:58,599
Speaker 1: just to me as a Browns fan. It's like, for instance,

1522
01:18:58,640 --> 01:19:02,120
Speaker 1: today Mary Cake Habit put out a story basically saying

1523
01:19:02,160 --> 01:19:05,760
Speaker 1: that Baker Mayfield must resolve his differences with Kevin Stefanski

1524
01:19:05,880 --> 01:19:07,880
Speaker 1: soon if they want to coexist next season. It was

1525
01:19:07,920 --> 01:19:13,160
Speaker 1: the tweet and then Baker I will read his response.

1526
01:19:13,240 --> 01:19:16,160
Speaker 1: He you know, he quote tweeted her and said clickbait.

1527
01:19:16,680 --> 01:19:19,160
Speaker 1: You and many other Cleveland local media continue to be

1528
01:19:19,320 --> 01:19:23,480
Speaker 1: drama stirring reporters with no source or facts. Don't put

1529
01:19:23,560 --> 01:19:25,600
Speaker 1: words in my mouth, so you can put food on

1530
01:19:25,680 --> 01:19:28,479
Speaker 1: your table. I'm not your puppet. Now. I like, I

1531
01:19:28,640 --> 01:19:32,000
Speaker 1: like the wording, I like his tweet ability. But it

1532
01:19:32,200 --> 01:19:34,760
Speaker 1: just kind of because at one point Brandon Weed and

1533
01:19:34,880 --> 01:19:38,519
Speaker 1: of all people, quote tweeted Baker Mayfield to say, you

1534
01:19:38,560 --> 01:19:40,720
Speaker 1: know stuff about Mary Kay Cabot that he had got

1535
01:19:40,880 --> 01:19:44,080
Speaker 1: got lost under the American. They've found him, he's emerged,

1536
01:19:44,200 --> 01:19:46,000
Speaker 1: and I mean in this scenario of all things. So

1537
01:19:46,360 --> 01:19:48,560
Speaker 1: it kind of just takes you back to um, the

1538
01:19:48,680 --> 01:19:52,240
Speaker 1: darkest possible place where Cleveland is dysfunctional. If anything, it's

1539
01:19:52,280 --> 01:19:55,280
Speaker 1: the contrast of who you're playing this week, the team

1540
01:19:55,360 --> 01:19:57,840
Speaker 1: that had been more dysfunctional, you inside of your own state,

1541
01:19:57,920 --> 01:20:00,160
Speaker 1: the only bragging rights you had, and the ben those

1542
01:20:00,200 --> 01:20:01,720
Speaker 1: do have something to play for. They can still get

1543
01:20:01,760 --> 01:20:04,360
Speaker 1: the number one seed if a bunch of other stuff happens.

1544
01:20:04,400 --> 01:20:06,720
Speaker 1: But they look to me like the the next big

1545
01:20:06,800 --> 01:20:08,320
Speaker 1: thing in the a f C, which is what Cleveland

1546
01:20:08,400 --> 01:20:10,120
Speaker 1: was meant to be, and cannot get out of their

1547
01:20:10,160 --> 01:20:14,040
Speaker 1: own way. The wrong is Joe Burrow maybe playing. No,

1548
01:20:14,320 --> 01:20:17,439
Speaker 1: he's out there. They don't care about the game. Well,

1549
01:20:17,479 --> 01:20:21,439
Speaker 1: they know to the Chiefs will they'll know what's up

1550
01:20:21,520 --> 01:20:25,040
Speaker 1: Saturday night too. Yeah, they'll clinch being ahead of the

1551
01:20:25,080 --> 01:20:28,680
Speaker 1: Bengals in the standings. Now they can and probably will

1552
01:20:28,840 --> 01:20:32,760
Speaker 1: fall from the three to the four. Uh. And then

1553
01:20:32,840 --> 01:20:35,639
Speaker 1: if like the a f C favorites East, favorites one,

1554
01:20:35,720 --> 01:20:37,759
Speaker 1: or if the Bills won. You know that that basically

1555
01:20:37,880 --> 01:20:42,280
Speaker 1: locks in a Bengals Patriots game. So that's interesting, just that,

1556
01:20:42,760 --> 01:20:44,400
Speaker 1: not that they're going to try to like set up

1557
01:20:44,439 --> 01:20:47,280
Speaker 1: their opponent, but they will fall in the in the standing.

1558
01:20:47,600 --> 01:20:51,719
Speaker 1: The Baker thing, though, I don't love him hitting out

1559
01:20:51,840 --> 01:20:56,040
Speaker 1: at the at Mary Kay that much because ultimately she's

1560
01:20:56,080 --> 01:20:58,639
Speaker 1: reporting something which she also did about a month ago,

1561
01:20:59,240 --> 01:21:01,200
Speaker 1: and she one thing he left out Mark was that

1562
01:21:01,520 --> 01:21:04,519
Speaker 1: she said that you know, he might, uh, he might

1563
01:21:04,600 --> 01:21:07,120
Speaker 1: request the trade if if things don't get cleaned up.

1564
01:21:09,160 --> 01:21:11,800
Speaker 1: She's reporting what Michael Silver said on our air a

1565
01:21:11,920 --> 01:21:14,200
Speaker 1: year ago in the off season actually, which was kind

1566
01:21:14,240 --> 01:21:16,000
Speaker 1: of like that he liked the idea of Alex Van

1567
01:21:16,080 --> 01:21:19,280
Speaker 1: Pelt as a play caller more than than Kevin Stefanski

1568
01:21:19,520 --> 01:21:22,840
Speaker 1: for whatever reason. Uh, she's not coming it's not coming

1569
01:21:22,880 --> 01:21:26,040
Speaker 1: out of nowhere. She's been doing that job for twentysomething years.

1570
01:21:26,320 --> 01:21:29,400
Speaker 1: She's getting that information from somewhere. It's probably not a

1571
01:21:29,439 --> 01:21:32,720
Speaker 1: secret to Kevin Stefanski. They're probably very annoyed to see

1572
01:21:32,760 --> 01:21:35,360
Speaker 1: these reports. Now, whether it's from Baker Mayfield's camp or not,

1573
01:21:35,720 --> 01:21:38,200
Speaker 1: who knows. Maybe it's something that's just been passed around,

1574
01:21:38,520 --> 01:21:41,680
Speaker 1: but it's very possibly from you know, Baker Mayfield's camp

1575
01:21:41,760 --> 01:21:44,640
Speaker 1: that the information is even coming or started to go

1576
01:21:44,760 --> 01:21:47,120
Speaker 1: around in the first place. So it reminds me a

1577
01:21:47,160 --> 01:21:49,120
Speaker 1: little bit of the Russell Wilson stuff last year where

1578
01:21:49,120 --> 01:21:52,320
Speaker 1: he starts blaming the media for things that he his

1579
01:21:52,479 --> 01:21:55,240
Speaker 1: agent literally put up. Now that was on the record.

1580
01:21:55,400 --> 01:21:58,040
Speaker 1: This is not who knows who her sources are, but

1581
01:21:58,160 --> 01:22:02,840
Speaker 1: I ultimately trust that she didn't make get up, you

1582
01:22:02,920 --> 01:22:06,680
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So it seems like split right

1583
01:22:06,760 --> 01:22:10,639
Speaker 1: if anything. I think the Browns are will be ready

1584
01:22:10,720 --> 01:22:13,240
Speaker 1: to move on if they at all can, and Baker

1585
01:22:13,720 --> 01:22:16,480
Speaker 1: he's in his feelings right now, which is totally understandable

1586
01:22:16,760 --> 01:22:28,800
Speaker 1: considering where he's at. Tagline, Mark, nobody knows about my

1587
01:22:28,920 --> 01:22:36,160
Speaker 1: hidden second apartment. That's just like a fact. Yeah, it's

1588
01:22:36,200 --> 01:22:40,520
Speaker 1: just Mark wish casting about a reality that's an impossibility.

1589
01:22:40,560 --> 01:22:43,120
Speaker 1: But he did have that motel for a little while

1590
01:22:43,560 --> 01:22:48,120
Speaker 1: early in Can you even imagine let's say we got paid,

1591
01:22:49,400 --> 01:22:52,800
Speaker 1: you know, and like the equals like the reach of

1592
01:22:52,840 --> 01:22:56,919
Speaker 1: the show is how we got paid. Imagine Mark's other apartment.

1593
01:22:57,320 --> 01:22:59,280
Speaker 1: I mean, where would it be? Is it in l A.

1594
01:22:59,640 --> 01:23:01,280
Speaker 1: Is it in the outskirts of the city. Is it

1595
01:23:01,400 --> 01:23:04,040
Speaker 1: up in Malibu like a little shack. He obviously has

1596
01:23:04,080 --> 01:23:07,840
Speaker 1: a second residence. Um, that's just for him. But where

1597
01:23:08,000 --> 01:23:09,720
Speaker 1: is it? That's the question. I think it would be

1598
01:23:10,280 --> 01:23:13,160
Speaker 1: Um in the Hollywood regions to some degree, the vibrant

1599
01:23:13,200 --> 01:23:16,920
Speaker 1: part of the city. You want to be where action is, Yes,

1600
01:23:18,720 --> 01:23:21,240
Speaker 1: but it's not. It couldn't be from reality. It's like

1601
01:23:21,280 --> 01:23:23,720
Speaker 1: I'm meeting like pizza crossed off my children's plate. That's

1602
01:23:23,800 --> 01:23:25,920
Speaker 1: you really want to be the forty six year old

1603
01:23:25,960 --> 01:23:28,320
Speaker 1: guy rat to two kids that gets the apartment in

1604
01:23:28,400 --> 01:23:31,600
Speaker 1: Hollywood to be where the action is. Yeah, I do.

1605
01:23:31,760 --> 01:23:33,280
Speaker 1: But I also would say that it would be It

1606
01:23:33,280 --> 01:23:35,960
Speaker 1: wouldn't be a secret. I wouldn't invite many people around

1607
01:23:36,000 --> 01:23:38,559
Speaker 1: to it. It would just be a second like operations center,

1608
01:23:39,160 --> 01:23:41,400
Speaker 1: Like I love I love that too, But I just

1609
01:23:41,520 --> 01:23:43,439
Speaker 1: I understand where I am at my life now, and

1610
01:23:43,520 --> 01:23:46,000
Speaker 1: I just I'm not saying you don't I'm just I

1611
01:23:46,120 --> 01:23:49,559
Speaker 1: definitely do not so like I would definitely mine would

1612
01:23:49,600 --> 01:23:52,920
Speaker 1: be the Malibu kind of little hideaway. It's very leafy.

1613
01:23:53,080 --> 01:23:55,200
Speaker 1: It's almost like, whoa, there's some there's a place back there,

1614
01:23:55,800 --> 01:23:58,479
Speaker 1: and that's it's my little place. But my children will

1615
01:23:58,560 --> 01:24:00,599
Speaker 1: never see it. Mine is super chick one like looking

1616
01:24:00,640 --> 01:24:03,240
Speaker 1: down over all of Los Angeles. You know, I spent

1617
01:24:03,479 --> 01:24:06,120
Speaker 1: all of my life living down there, and now you'd

1618
01:24:06,120 --> 01:24:09,479
Speaker 1: be living high above it in the Hollywood hill. Oh,

1619
01:24:09,680 --> 01:24:13,680
Speaker 1: I'm talking like Beverly Hills, Hollywood Hills intersection where you

1620
01:24:13,760 --> 01:24:15,840
Speaker 1: can just hear like a pin drop in the middle

1621
01:24:15,880 --> 01:24:20,840
Speaker 1: of the night. So it's not like room place. It's

1622
01:24:20,880 --> 01:24:23,880
Speaker 1: way better than your actual place. It would be way better.

1623
01:24:24,400 --> 01:24:26,040
Speaker 1: Mark where you at these days. I'm right behind the

1624
01:24:26,120 --> 01:24:30,320
Speaker 1: viper room. Uh, it's really loud and dangerous. But higher up,

1625
01:24:30,760 --> 01:24:34,040
Speaker 1: higher up in the hills. Baby, all right, let's move on.

1626
01:24:35,280 --> 01:24:40,479
Speaker 1: Bears Vikings. Are both of these teams looking for new

1627
01:24:40,560 --> 01:24:45,640
Speaker 1: coaches in a week? Greg? Yes, wait, Black Monday's coming up.

1628
01:24:45,760 --> 01:24:49,000
Speaker 1: Darn shoot, we haven't even I thought about that. It's

1629
01:24:49,000 --> 01:24:51,799
Speaker 1: gonna be busy. Next week will be busy. Kirk Cousins

1630
01:24:51,880 --> 01:24:54,400
Speaker 1: is back. Justin Fields is not. He's on the COVID list.

1631
01:24:54,560 --> 01:24:57,639
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton's gonna start again. It looks like good timing.

1632
01:24:57,760 --> 01:25:02,719
Speaker 1: Kirk way to go, Bud. I'd be kidding me, dude,

1633
01:25:04,120 --> 01:25:06,840
Speaker 1: doesn't It feels like the game the Vikings are gonna

1634
01:25:06,880 --> 01:25:08,920
Speaker 1: win like forty to ten and show us how much

1635
01:25:08,960 --> 01:25:12,920
Speaker 1: potential they had. It was this was the worst primetime

1636
01:25:13,000 --> 01:25:17,120
Speaker 1: game of the year about four weeks ago. Remember, I

1637
01:25:17,200 --> 01:25:19,200
Speaker 1: thought about locking this game and I was like, no, no, no,

1638
01:25:19,400 --> 01:25:23,080
Speaker 1: that's just residual echo of when I liked the Vikings

1639
01:25:23,120 --> 01:25:25,000
Speaker 1: and I thought they were capable of doing special things.

1640
01:25:25,040 --> 01:25:28,240
Speaker 1: But it also is very on brand that the Vikings,

1641
01:25:28,680 --> 01:25:32,599
Speaker 1: like Mark saying, would absolutely savage the Bears, and Kirk

1642
01:25:32,640 --> 01:25:34,360
Speaker 1: would pad the hell out of his stats to get

1643
01:25:34,400 --> 01:25:37,479
Speaker 1: to thirty four thirty five touchdowns and Jefferson would go

1644
01:25:37,479 --> 01:25:40,840
Speaker 1: over two hundred and it wouldn't mean a damn thing,

1645
01:25:41,640 --> 01:25:44,160
Speaker 1: but it would definitely help Kirk Cousins, uh, you know,

1646
01:25:44,360 --> 01:25:47,080
Speaker 1: bargaining when he gets back to the table, whenever that

1647
01:25:47,200 --> 01:25:49,920
Speaker 1: may be. I think Kirk is more likely to be

1648
01:25:50,040 --> 01:25:53,479
Speaker 1: back with the Vikings than Zimmer, but they could easily

1649
01:25:53,520 --> 01:25:56,960
Speaker 1: both be gone. What about Kirk Cousins on the Browns Mark.

1650
01:25:57,320 --> 01:25:59,439
Speaker 1: You know, I've seen little reports about like that the

1651
01:25:59,520 --> 01:26:05,439
Speaker 1: Fancy that you know, what kind of quarterbacks I like

1652
01:26:05,640 --> 01:26:07,880
Speaker 1: and don't like, And if if, if they take the

1653
01:26:08,000 --> 01:26:10,639
Speaker 1: team that I grew up with and stick Kirk Cousins

1654
01:26:10,720 --> 01:26:14,000
Speaker 1: on it, it's a hard out. I don't want to

1655
01:26:14,000 --> 01:26:15,560
Speaker 1: put you in the tough position because I know this

1656
01:26:15,720 --> 01:26:19,920
Speaker 1: is a knotty question, But Kirk Cousins or Deshaun Watson,

1657
01:26:20,000 --> 01:26:22,960
Speaker 1: who do you want? Well, from a player angle, the

1658
01:26:23,000 --> 01:26:26,720
Speaker 1: answer is easy. I think that I would rather the brownsation.

1659
01:26:26,720 --> 01:26:28,560
Speaker 1: I mean I don't. I don't well, I mean I

1660
01:26:28,600 --> 01:26:31,960
Speaker 1: would I don't know, Like if if Deshaun Watson was

1661
01:26:32,000 --> 01:26:33,880
Speaker 1: found to have done nothing, which will not happen, I

1662
01:26:33,880 --> 01:26:35,720
Speaker 1: would want to Shaun Watson. I don't really like that

1663
01:26:35,800 --> 01:26:38,040
Speaker 1: for the Browns because it will probably turn ugly anyways,

1664
01:26:38,240 --> 01:26:40,599
Speaker 1: He's not gonna want to go there. And what does

1665
01:26:40,640 --> 01:26:42,920
Speaker 1: it say about in the front office that I thought

1666
01:26:43,000 --> 01:26:45,360
Speaker 1: highly of. I'd rather just stay away from that, to

1667
01:26:45,439 --> 01:26:48,560
Speaker 1: be honest. Yeah, My thing is that the Fancy is

1668
01:26:48,600 --> 01:26:51,720
Speaker 1: not going anywhere. This front office isn't going anywhere. Neither

1669
01:26:51,800 --> 01:26:55,040
Speaker 1: one of them brought in Baker that that's part of

1670
01:26:55,080 --> 01:26:56,960
Speaker 1: the that's part of the equation. They try to make

1671
01:26:57,000 --> 01:27:11,559
Speaker 1: it work um self realization on al Qaeda Avenue. All right,

1672
01:27:11,680 --> 01:27:14,960
Speaker 1: I think I followed that one Washington football team the

1673
01:27:15,080 --> 01:27:19,400
Speaker 1: last game as the football team. Maybe maybe they announced

1674
01:27:19,439 --> 01:27:23,000
Speaker 1: now that would be an amazing troll job, Greg if

1675
01:27:23,040 --> 01:27:26,000
Speaker 1: they do this whole like build up to the February

1676
01:27:26,120 --> 01:27:31,000
Speaker 1: second reveal and it's like we're keeping the name, like,

1677
01:27:31,160 --> 01:27:33,680
Speaker 1: I don't think that happens. I mean I would like that,

1678
01:27:34,360 --> 01:27:38,360
Speaker 1: but man, I don't think many people would. That would

1679
01:27:38,360 --> 01:27:42,200
Speaker 1: be the equivalent of you know, your your rails collapsing

1680
01:27:42,280 --> 01:27:44,439
Speaker 1: and you're falling all over your fans. I don't know.

1681
01:27:44,880 --> 01:27:47,960
Speaker 1: Are both of these teams mark replacing their head coach

1682
01:27:48,000 --> 01:27:52,479
Speaker 1: in a week we're looking to Well, No, Washington, I

1683
01:27:52,560 --> 01:27:55,479
Speaker 1: think is is absolutely dug in with Ron Rivera, and

1684
01:27:55,520 --> 01:27:58,200
Speaker 1: I think that he's, you know, he is this important

1685
01:27:58,360 --> 01:28:00,280
Speaker 1: head coach in terms of what he does. Is anyone

1686
01:28:00,320 --> 01:28:03,360
Speaker 1: in the league, because like there's direction list without them,

1687
01:28:03,400 --> 01:28:07,040
Speaker 1: So no, the U, the Giants. M hmm. I think

1688
01:28:07,080 --> 01:28:08,680
Speaker 1: the Giants that because because you know what we talked

1689
01:28:08,720 --> 01:28:10,760
Speaker 1: about with Matt Rule, it was like, just keep your

1690
01:28:10,800 --> 01:28:12,720
Speaker 1: head down, get out of this season, and don't do

1691
01:28:12,880 --> 01:28:15,360
Speaker 1: anything else. That becomes like a meme or goes wild

1692
01:28:15,680 --> 01:28:18,439
Speaker 1: like the Joe Judge speech from you know, coming out

1693
01:28:18,479 --> 01:28:21,240
Speaker 1: of last week is exactly what we're talking about. He looks,

1694
01:28:21,280 --> 01:28:24,720
Speaker 1: he looks nutty to most people and disengaged, and he's

1695
01:28:24,840 --> 01:28:27,360
Speaker 1: making claims about the Giants that don't on any way

1696
01:28:27,439 --> 01:28:29,639
Speaker 1: line up with the product we've been seen for years.

1697
01:28:29,680 --> 01:28:35,559
Speaker 1: On end, I'm looking at the NFL Research Week eighteen notes,

1698
01:28:36,240 --> 01:28:40,280
Speaker 1: which is a great tool, uh in my position, and UH,

1699
01:28:41,280 --> 01:28:43,560
Speaker 1: they usually have they have, you know, a breakdown of

1700
01:28:43,560 --> 01:28:46,599
Speaker 1: the schedule and where they rank in various team rankings,

1701
01:28:46,640 --> 01:28:49,599
Speaker 1: and then below it the first category storylines, and then

1702
01:28:49,600 --> 01:28:53,040
Speaker 1: they usually have three different storylines that, you know, all

1703
01:28:53,080 --> 01:28:55,080
Speaker 1: things to keep an eye on in the game. For

1704
01:28:55,160 --> 01:28:58,280
Speaker 1: this game, it's just one bullet, uh, and the bullet

1705
01:28:58,320 --> 01:29:03,920
Speaker 1: reads as follows matchup of eliminated NFC East Phols. Well,

1706
01:29:04,000 --> 01:29:06,880
Speaker 1: it's like it's like I could always be worse game.

1707
01:29:07,040 --> 01:29:09,560
Speaker 1: I mean, I think Washington's gonna wipe the floor with

1708
01:29:09,680 --> 01:29:13,479
Speaker 1: the Giants. I'm not gonna rainmaker this, but I do

1709
01:29:13,680 --> 01:29:15,920
Speaker 1: like the Washington win by a lot. It's like they

1710
01:29:16,000 --> 01:29:18,719
Speaker 1: they're gonna feel good about themselves because they're not the Giants.

1711
01:29:18,760 --> 01:29:21,799
Speaker 1: They are keeping their coach, They are a more functional

1712
01:29:22,320 --> 01:29:25,120
Speaker 1: football team at the moment, they have a much better quarterback.

1713
01:29:25,200 --> 01:29:27,599
Speaker 1: You're right, that Judge rant the Jojo Drant I think

1714
01:29:27,640 --> 01:29:31,200
Speaker 1: had the exact opposite impact of what he intended. Like

1715
01:29:31,760 --> 01:29:34,640
Speaker 1: Will Brinson and Bill Barnwell on Bill Barnwell's podcast, an

1716
01:29:34,800 --> 01:29:39,320
Speaker 1: entire podcast just breaking down that's what which is like

1717
01:29:39,439 --> 01:29:43,640
Speaker 1: hilarious and a great, great idea, great content, um, but

1718
01:29:43,880 --> 01:29:47,599
Speaker 1: it's just like it's just it's just a disaster. At

1719
01:29:47,680 --> 01:29:49,360
Speaker 1: one point during that raint, I had missed this the

1720
01:29:49,400 --> 01:29:51,639
Speaker 1: first time around. He said he was on a staff

1721
01:29:52,200 --> 01:29:55,519
Speaker 1: where everyone was gonna the two thousand eighteen staff, which

1722
01:29:55,560 --> 01:29:58,479
Speaker 1: he was on the Patriots, where everyone was getting was

1723
01:29:58,640 --> 01:30:00,479
Speaker 1: getting ready to fire us. We we're all going to

1724
01:30:00,560 --> 01:30:02,840
Speaker 1: be on our way out. But we we stuck together

1725
01:30:02,960 --> 01:30:05,080
Speaker 1: and we rallied and then we won the Super Bowl.

1726
01:30:05,640 --> 01:30:08,840
Speaker 1: Like what you had just made it to two straight

1727
01:30:08,920 --> 01:30:11,920
Speaker 1: Super Bowls and you had a like a pretty good

1728
01:30:12,000 --> 01:30:14,080
Speaker 1: record the whole time. I mean, it was never like

1729
01:30:14,160 --> 01:30:18,639
Speaker 1: a disastrous So he's literally just like making things well,

1730
01:30:19,280 --> 01:30:22,599
Speaker 1: that's well. Your boy from the Boston Globe, Ben Vellin

1731
01:30:23,120 --> 01:30:25,240
Speaker 1: did chime in on that and said that there were

1732
01:30:25,800 --> 01:30:28,400
Speaker 1: there's a lot of behind the scenes menace that season.

1733
01:30:28,800 --> 01:30:34,080
Speaker 1: Patriots care I'm just saying I'm from somebody that was

1734
01:30:34,120 --> 01:30:36,280
Speaker 1: their boots on the stretching, and just why are you

1735
01:30:36,360 --> 01:30:39,719
Speaker 1: talking about this stuff? I hope we see Will Brinson

1736
01:30:39,760 --> 01:30:42,280
Speaker 1: here in l A for the super Bowl. CBS doesn't

1737
01:30:42,320 --> 01:30:45,240
Speaker 1: send Will. I hope we see the super Bowl here

1738
01:30:45,280 --> 01:30:49,400
Speaker 1: in l A. And the super Bowl. It's like, I

1739
01:30:49,439 --> 01:30:53,280
Speaker 1: didn't want to talk about that storyline, but you're right,

1740
01:30:53,439 --> 01:31:00,120
Speaker 1: all right? Tagline mark a little little slow, like a

1741
01:31:00,160 --> 01:31:05,240
Speaker 1: beat slow, Ricky. Let's let's clean it up at the text, okay.

1742
01:31:05,320 --> 01:31:09,759
Speaker 1: Tagline man asked wife, do I look fat in these jeans?

1743
01:31:11,160 --> 01:31:12,880
Speaker 1: The man asked the wife, yes, you know, because I

1744
01:31:12,920 --> 01:31:15,200
Speaker 1: didn't go well, you know, you shouldn't say. It's like

1745
01:31:15,360 --> 01:31:18,400
Speaker 1: the man is asking if he if he appears that way.

1746
01:31:19,200 --> 01:31:21,960
Speaker 1: You've definitely have you asked Simone if you've ever looked

1747
01:31:22,000 --> 01:31:23,680
Speaker 1: fat and jeans? Have you ever asked her that? What

1748
01:31:23,800 --> 01:31:27,040
Speaker 1: about fat? But I've occasionally asked, like does this match

1749
01:31:27,160 --> 01:31:29,920
Speaker 1: with this? And I wouldn't call either one of us

1750
01:31:30,040 --> 01:31:33,320
Speaker 1: like fashionistas. And sometimes there's not a very clear answer,

1751
01:31:33,400 --> 01:31:35,600
Speaker 1: and I might have to think about going elsewhere. For

1752
01:31:35,680 --> 01:31:39,920
Speaker 1: feedback on that front, taking shots. And I think I

1753
01:31:40,040 --> 01:31:42,400
Speaker 1: lacked skills in many areas, and I like we all

1754
01:31:42,560 --> 01:31:45,360
Speaker 1: as humans, we all sometimes do and we have skills

1755
01:31:45,400 --> 01:31:50,760
Speaker 1: in other areas. Different needs. Carolina at Tampa Bay Final one, right,

1756
01:31:51,400 --> 01:31:54,280
Speaker 1: this is the last one before Sunday at football. The

1757
01:31:54,400 --> 01:31:57,080
Speaker 1: Panthers are one of the very worst teams in football,

1758
01:31:57,720 --> 01:32:00,759
Speaker 1: led by Sam Donald, who is not you seeing the offense.

1759
01:32:01,000 --> 01:32:03,320
Speaker 1: It's a big old mess. Matt Rule another guy who

1760
01:32:03,400 --> 01:32:05,200
Speaker 1: could be in a little bit of trouble here. We'll

1761
01:32:05,200 --> 01:32:08,479
Speaker 1: see how the off season shakes out. The Bucks, of course,

1762
01:32:09,280 --> 01:32:12,760
Speaker 1: coming off that big comeback win over the Jets. And

1763
01:32:12,880 --> 01:32:16,760
Speaker 1: let me just check in here. The Bucks enter Week

1764
01:32:16,880 --> 01:32:19,240
Speaker 1: eighteen at twelve and four. They're the three seed in

1765
01:32:19,240 --> 01:32:21,000
Speaker 1: the NFC. They can move up to the two seed

1766
01:32:21,080 --> 01:32:23,599
Speaker 1: with a win and a Rams loss to the Niners,

1767
01:32:23,680 --> 01:32:27,360
Speaker 1: so that is in play, and I think that could

1768
01:32:27,479 --> 01:32:30,839
Speaker 1: matter to them the NFC. I think all these teams

1769
01:32:30,920 --> 01:32:34,439
Speaker 1: should want to win too, because the Rams are just

1770
01:32:34,560 --> 01:32:37,720
Speaker 1: such a possible l in in Week eighteen and they

1771
01:32:37,840 --> 01:32:40,280
Speaker 1: play in you know, in the late afternoon window at

1772
01:32:40,320 --> 01:32:43,360
Speaker 1: the same time as this game, and getting a two

1773
01:32:43,439 --> 01:32:45,400
Speaker 1: seed for a team that's undefeated at home and is

1774
01:32:45,439 --> 01:32:48,160
Speaker 1: a past happy team and like warm Weather. To me,

1775
01:32:48,280 --> 01:32:51,400
Speaker 1: that totally matters rather than possibly getting stuck at the

1776
01:32:51,479 --> 01:32:53,760
Speaker 1: four seed and going to Green Bay. So I think

1777
01:32:54,280 --> 01:32:56,360
Speaker 1: I think Tom Brady will play a lot of this game,

1778
01:32:56,520 --> 01:32:59,799
Speaker 1: maybe play the entire game, and that they'll be careful

1779
01:32:59,840 --> 01:33:02,160
Speaker 1: with guys who are already hurt. I mean, Shack Barrett's

1780
01:33:02,160 --> 01:33:05,040
Speaker 1: going to be out again, Jpps out, Lavante David has

1781
01:33:05,080 --> 01:33:08,280
Speaker 1: been out. They definitely missed those guys. But otherwise, I

1782
01:33:08,360 --> 01:33:11,000
Speaker 1: think the Bucks are gonna try to win this game,

1783
01:33:11,120 --> 01:33:14,120
Speaker 1: and they should. They've They've beaten the Bucks their panthers

1784
01:33:14,280 --> 01:33:17,120
Speaker 1: and under bat rule by at least twenty points every

1785
01:33:17,160 --> 01:33:19,240
Speaker 1: time they've played them. So that's that's a pretty good

1786
01:33:19,240 --> 01:33:21,160
Speaker 1: little And if you look at Tampa's home in a way,

1787
01:33:21,240 --> 01:33:24,040
Speaker 1: splits like there's something real to it. We have a

1788
01:33:24,080 --> 01:33:26,400
Speaker 1: full season to look at it, and I think they

1789
01:33:26,439 --> 01:33:30,240
Speaker 1: absolutely want every possible home advantage they can have versus

1790
01:33:30,320 --> 01:33:33,000
Speaker 1: going to unfriendly weather. I mean, this should be a

1791
01:33:33,400 --> 01:33:35,240
Speaker 1: layup for them. Like if you look at you, I

1792
01:33:35,320 --> 01:33:37,120
Speaker 1: know they're banged up and everyone talks about that, but

1793
01:33:37,240 --> 01:33:41,560
Speaker 1: right Robby Anderson was not practicing Thursday Terrace Marshall's on

1794
01:33:41,680 --> 01:33:44,200
Speaker 1: I R. She Smith is on the COVID list. It's

1795
01:33:44,240 --> 01:33:46,560
Speaker 1: like d J. Moore and a bunch of maybe like

1796
01:33:46,680 --> 01:33:50,240
Speaker 1: practice squad guys catching passes from a quarterback who's totally

1797
01:33:50,280 --> 01:33:53,000
Speaker 1: in f behind a terrible offensive line. So if you

1798
01:33:53,080 --> 01:33:55,000
Speaker 1: can go do what Tom Brady did on that final

1799
01:33:55,160 --> 01:33:57,479
Speaker 1: drive with the guys he was throwing too, I see

1800
01:33:57,520 --> 01:33:59,400
Speaker 1: no problem with them taking care of business here in

1801
01:33:59,439 --> 01:34:01,960
Speaker 1: a game that they It only puts the Carolina Panthers

1802
01:34:02,000 --> 01:34:05,000
Speaker 1: in deeper darkness. Seven losses in a road to close

1803
01:34:05,040 --> 01:34:08,160
Speaker 1: the season would be as ugly as one could imagine. Uh,

1804
01:34:08,320 --> 01:34:10,200
Speaker 1: this will be a slaughter. The Bucks will take care

1805
01:34:10,240 --> 01:34:12,280
Speaker 1: of business. They of course, we're a wild card last

1806
01:34:12,360 --> 01:34:14,439
Speaker 1: year and won three road games to get to the

1807
01:34:14,479 --> 01:34:17,920
Speaker 1: super Bowl, which was played in their building. Uh in Tampa,

1808
01:34:18,360 --> 01:34:20,600
Speaker 1: So there they can win on the at home or

1809
01:34:20,720 --> 01:34:22,400
Speaker 1: on the road. But you're right, you always want to

1810
01:34:22,439 --> 01:34:24,760
Speaker 1: play in your building when you can. Just to put

1811
01:34:24,800 --> 01:34:31,519
Speaker 1: a button on the Antonio Brown Melo drama. Brown came

1812
01:34:31,560 --> 01:34:35,080
Speaker 1: out and said the reason why I left is because

1813
01:34:35,120 --> 01:34:37,640
Speaker 1: I was essentially fired on the sideline for refusing to

1814
01:34:37,760 --> 01:34:40,519
Speaker 1: go back in the game on a bad ankle and

1815
01:34:40,640 --> 01:34:43,040
Speaker 1: He's been all over with a long statement on Instagram,

1816
01:34:43,160 --> 01:34:45,960
Speaker 1: all very exhausting. But that was his side of the story.

1817
01:34:46,080 --> 01:34:48,839
Speaker 1: And then Bruce Arians came in for his press comments

1818
01:34:48,880 --> 01:34:51,439
Speaker 1: on Thursday and gave his side of it, which sounded

1819
01:34:51,640 --> 01:34:55,920
Speaker 1: very much like the truth. Let's hear that. Obviously, we

1820
01:34:56,120 --> 01:34:59,920
Speaker 1: let Antonio go today. Um, just to clear you up

1821
01:35:00,080 --> 01:35:03,080
Speaker 1: on some things that happened. At no point in time

1822
01:35:03,240 --> 01:35:08,040
Speaker 1: during that game did he ever asked the trainer or

1823
01:35:08,080 --> 01:35:12,040
Speaker 1: a doctor about his ankle. He never went through. That's

1824
01:35:12,080 --> 01:35:15,040
Speaker 1: the normal protocol. You go through protocols during games. I

1825
01:35:15,200 --> 01:35:20,600
Speaker 1: was never notified of it. So obviously that was the

1826
01:35:20,920 --> 01:35:22,840
Speaker 1: disturbing thing. When we were looking for him to go

1827
01:35:22,960 --> 01:35:26,800
Speaker 1: back into the game, all right, we always had uh.

1828
01:35:27,000 --> 01:35:30,559
Speaker 1: He was very upset at halftime about who was getting targeted.

1829
01:35:31,240 --> 01:35:34,640
Speaker 1: Got that calm down, players took care of that. It

1830
01:35:34,720 --> 01:35:38,400
Speaker 1: started again on the sideline. We called for the personnel

1831
01:35:38,439 --> 01:35:41,160
Speaker 1: group that he had played in the entire game. He

1832
01:35:41,320 --> 01:35:44,040
Speaker 1: refused to go in the game. That's when I looked

1833
01:35:44,080 --> 01:35:48,320
Speaker 1: back and saw him basically wave off the coach. Um.

1834
01:35:50,560 --> 01:35:53,040
Speaker 1: I then went back approached him about what was going on.

1835
01:35:55,080 --> 01:35:58,960
Speaker 1: I ain't playing. What's going on? I ain't getting the ball.

1836
01:36:00,080 --> 01:36:02,439
Speaker 1: That's when I said, you're done, get the f out

1837
01:36:02,520 --> 01:36:05,320
Speaker 1: of here. And that's the that's the that's the end

1838
01:36:05,360 --> 01:36:09,800
Speaker 1: of it, and we're working. We're working on Carolina. That's

1839
01:36:09,800 --> 01:36:13,880
Speaker 1: the end of the story and hopefully it ends today.

1840
01:36:16,360 --> 01:36:19,599
Speaker 1: I guess that that's the price he's they're paying the price.

1841
01:36:19,720 --> 01:36:23,439
Speaker 1: Note the bill always comes due an old frances is Um.

1842
01:36:23,800 --> 01:36:26,320
Speaker 1: The bill came do here for the Bucks and they're

1843
01:36:26,320 --> 01:36:28,560
Speaker 1: having to do this ugly clean up. And now it

1844
01:36:28,680 --> 01:36:31,320
Speaker 1: certainly seems as if Brown is going to enter into

1845
01:36:31,360 --> 01:36:33,439
Speaker 1: some type of litigation to try to get his money

1846
01:36:33,840 --> 01:36:36,200
Speaker 1: from the Bucks. So they're paying the price for getting

1847
01:36:36,240 --> 01:36:38,320
Speaker 1: in bed and being loyal to a guy who's never

1848
01:36:38,400 --> 01:36:43,800
Speaker 1: been loyal to anyone but himself. That's where we're at. Yeah,

1849
01:36:43,840 --> 01:36:47,000
Speaker 1: they cut him officially too. I I don't I don't

1850
01:36:47,040 --> 01:36:51,280
Speaker 1: doubt any of that particular sequence as it happened during

1851
01:36:51,360 --> 01:36:54,080
Speaker 1: the game. I don't doubt the Brown brought in all

1852
01:36:54,120 --> 01:36:56,080
Speaker 1: this stuff that he was playing through torn ligaments and

1853
01:36:56,560 --> 01:36:58,639
Speaker 1: felt pressure to play, which a lot of NFL players

1854
01:36:58,720 --> 01:37:01,559
Speaker 1: kind of feel in general role and he's gonna have surgery,

1855
01:37:01,640 --> 01:37:03,600
Speaker 1: Like I don't doubt that he was playing injured, but

1856
01:37:03,960 --> 01:37:07,320
Speaker 1: it seems pretty clear that if if players are having

1857
01:37:07,360 --> 01:37:09,559
Speaker 1: to calm him down because he's not getting enough targets

1858
01:37:09,720 --> 01:37:11,760
Speaker 1: during the game, that whatever you're talking about, what the

1859
01:37:11,840 --> 01:37:14,400
Speaker 1: injury message and that you never called the trainer over,

1860
01:37:14,479 --> 01:37:18,400
Speaker 1: gets totally muddled. Plus, we had feet on the ground

1861
01:37:19,240 --> 01:37:22,679
Speaker 1: in the Meadowlands last week by special Around the NFL

1862
01:37:22,760 --> 01:37:25,240
Speaker 1: correspondent Mike burk Awitz, who said he was about five

1863
01:37:25,360 --> 01:37:28,200
Speaker 1: rows up watching this whole and he said Bruce Arians

1864
01:37:28,280 --> 01:37:32,040
Speaker 1: did not do a throat slash gesture like Antonio Brown

1865
01:37:32,160 --> 01:37:34,560
Speaker 1: said that. He pointed to the locker room, which you

1866
01:37:34,600 --> 01:37:36,400
Speaker 1: can can see in the video too. He points to

1867
01:37:36,439 --> 01:37:38,519
Speaker 1: the locker room, like go to the locker room. You're

1868
01:37:38,600 --> 01:37:40,560
Speaker 1: you're done here. Well, And one little thing, it's like

1869
01:37:40,600 --> 01:37:45,280
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown is on Instagram calling out Alex Guerrero Brady's

1870
01:37:45,320 --> 01:37:50,240
Speaker 1: TV twelve guys. It's like it's the classic thing where

1871
01:37:50,280 --> 01:37:53,639
Speaker 1: he is hitting out at the people that, if anything,

1872
01:37:53,720 --> 01:37:56,280
Speaker 1: try to support him. And so it's it is, you're right,

1873
01:37:56,360 --> 01:37:58,880
Speaker 1: the bill has come to You could argue, I'm not

1874
01:37:58,920 --> 01:38:00,720
Speaker 1: saying that they want a super Bowl because of him,

1875
01:38:01,000 --> 01:38:03,400
Speaker 1: but he was a contributor to that. I would think

1876
01:38:03,439 --> 01:38:06,320
Speaker 1: that from a football angle cool, but at this point,

1877
01:38:06,479 --> 01:38:08,960
Speaker 1: like this is not that shocking, and I hope we

1878
01:38:09,000 --> 01:38:10,920
Speaker 1: don't discuss this guy again for a while. I just

1879
01:38:11,520 --> 01:38:14,639
Speaker 1: it's on Brady though, to be fair, I mean it really,

1880
01:38:14,920 --> 01:38:17,080
Speaker 1: you know, he didn't face too much tough question now,

1881
01:38:17,080 --> 01:38:20,560
Speaker 1: and it's like Brown was kind of his responsibility. He

1882
01:38:20,680 --> 01:38:23,840
Speaker 1: pretty clearly strong armed arians who had terrible track record

1883
01:38:23,920 --> 01:38:26,040
Speaker 1: with him into doing it, and yeah, it worked for

1884
01:38:26,080 --> 01:38:28,160
Speaker 1: a while, and then it didn't work. And now he's

1885
01:38:28,240 --> 01:38:31,880
Speaker 1: he's saying that Alex Guerrero, Brady's trainer, didn't do anything

1886
01:38:31,960 --> 01:38:34,120
Speaker 1: for the hundred thousand dollars that Brown gave him. And

1887
01:38:34,200 --> 01:38:37,200
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, this is this is what you get, taglinemark?

1888
01:38:43,360 --> 01:38:50,679
Speaker 1: Ok is this a was that a bit to make me? Wait? Okay?

1889
01:38:51,120 --> 01:38:57,960
Speaker 1: Uh please give me a domestic chore to accomplish. We're

1890
01:38:58,000 --> 01:39:04,360
Speaker 1: getting back into the realm of the uncomfortably sensual or

1891
01:39:04,560 --> 01:39:08,439
Speaker 1: just the grievances of a frustrated man or just take

1892
01:39:08,479 --> 01:39:13,720
Speaker 1: out frustrated middle aged family man. Um. Finally, Sunday night football, Oh,

1893
01:39:14,120 --> 01:39:18,520
Speaker 1: Sonna and I I the Chargers. Here we go, Superchargers.

1894
01:39:18,600 --> 01:39:22,320
Speaker 1: It's all in front of you, a star crossed franchise.

1895
01:39:23,240 --> 01:39:27,960
Speaker 1: Uh An organization with a fan base that's understandably fatalistic.

1896
01:39:28,240 --> 01:39:31,960
Speaker 1: And you look at this game and you say, oh man,

1897
01:39:32,280 --> 01:39:35,040
Speaker 1: we're going to Vegas. They've won three in a row.

1898
01:39:36,560 --> 01:39:39,519
Speaker 1: It's a winning in. This is the first true playoff game,

1899
01:39:40,080 --> 01:39:42,720
Speaker 1: even if it's not officially a playoff game. This is

1900
01:39:42,800 --> 01:39:45,240
Speaker 1: the playing game like they have in the n C

1901
01:39:45,400 --> 01:39:48,759
Speaker 1: Double A, the playing game to get into the bracket.

1902
01:39:48,840 --> 01:39:52,679
Speaker 1: That's what this is. Chargers Raiders, and um, I'll start

1903
01:39:52,800 --> 01:39:58,120
Speaker 1: right here, boys, Chargers of the better team, the Charges

1904
01:39:58,160 --> 01:40:00,960
Speaker 1: of the better quarterback. Why every one of the Raider

1905
01:40:01,040 --> 01:40:03,639
Speaker 1: games this year I wrote them off a month ago.

1906
01:40:04,439 --> 01:40:07,840
Speaker 1: I was wrong. But I also it's important that we

1907
01:40:08,000 --> 01:40:11,920
Speaker 1: have some nuance to this conversation about the Raiders. They

1908
01:40:12,000 --> 01:40:18,240
Speaker 1: get absolutely stomped by the Chiefs. They're cooked with the Browns.

1909
01:40:18,960 --> 01:40:23,360
Speaker 1: Uh going to Cleveland. The Browns get absolutely savaged by

1910
01:40:23,479 --> 01:40:27,000
Speaker 1: COVID and injury and all that. They somehow steal that game,

1911
01:40:27,840 --> 01:40:30,120
Speaker 1: and then they do it essentially two more times, getting

1912
01:40:30,160 --> 01:40:32,519
Speaker 1: breaks every step of the way. This three game winning streak,

1913
01:40:32,560 --> 01:40:35,160
Speaker 1: as much as it's been commendable, even the Colts win,

1914
01:40:35,479 --> 01:40:38,120
Speaker 1: you're getting Carson Wentz and all the drama around the

1915
01:40:38,240 --> 01:40:40,960
Speaker 1: COVID diagnosis and just making it back into the lineup.

1916
01:40:41,479 --> 01:40:43,200
Speaker 1: What was the week before that? What was the break

1917
01:40:43,240 --> 01:40:45,600
Speaker 1: they caught? They got Drew Lock, basically. I mean, now,

1918
01:40:45,640 --> 01:40:48,519
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're it's an argument for Teddy Bridgewater,

1919
01:40:48,600 --> 01:40:51,000
Speaker 1: but they got a defunct. They got Drew Lock, who

1920
01:40:51,400 --> 01:40:53,200
Speaker 1: hasn't won a game in his whole life. It feels

1921
01:40:53,240 --> 01:40:55,880
Speaker 1: like I'm probably wrong about that, but I'm sure it

1922
01:40:55,880 --> 01:40:59,760
Speaker 1: doesn't have a ton of wins. Um So, in my mind,

1923
01:41:00,240 --> 01:41:05,080
Speaker 1: the Raiders are in my mind, the Chargers are gonna

1924
01:41:05,160 --> 01:41:07,760
Speaker 1: have a moment here in my mind with the lock

1925
01:41:07,920 --> 01:41:12,400
Speaker 1: championship within sights, I'm locking up the Chargers to take

1926
01:41:12,439 --> 01:41:15,960
Speaker 1: care of business. Football Gods be damned, you know what

1927
01:41:16,000 --> 01:41:18,320
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do, because I was going to lock a

1928
01:41:18,360 --> 01:41:20,519
Speaker 1: different team, but I at this point I have to

1929
01:41:20,920 --> 01:41:22,960
Speaker 1: throw the hail Mary to even stay alive in this.

1930
01:41:23,120 --> 01:41:25,360
Speaker 1: I'm gonna rob. I don't believe they're gonna win. I'm

1931
01:41:25,360 --> 01:41:29,320
Speaker 1: just doing this for weirdness. I'm locking the Raiders just

1932
01:41:29,560 --> 01:41:32,880
Speaker 1: to see what happens. Very interesting. I think it's a

1933
01:41:33,600 --> 01:41:36,400
Speaker 1: it's I guess it would be a sensible PA. I'd

1934
01:41:36,400 --> 01:41:39,560
Speaker 1: love to hear what the um what like the analytics

1935
01:41:39,640 --> 01:41:43,080
Speaker 1: community would say about this because you're two games back

1936
01:41:43,240 --> 01:41:48,880
Speaker 1: right now, he's only two back? Is it okay? And

1937
01:41:49,200 --> 01:41:51,400
Speaker 1: if if I, if I win a lock off here,

1938
01:41:52,000 --> 01:41:54,519
Speaker 1: it's pretty much a wrap. It's almost like this is

1939
01:41:54,760 --> 01:41:58,000
Speaker 1: the super Bowl of the lock Championship. Um, and if

1940
01:41:58,080 --> 01:42:00,720
Speaker 1: that's the case, I do like my chances. Well, I

1941
01:42:00,960 --> 01:42:03,840
Speaker 1: think it's you know, let's continue to add juice where

1942
01:42:03,880 --> 01:42:05,920
Speaker 1: we can to Week eighteen. UM, I know I could

1943
01:42:05,920 --> 01:42:08,559
Speaker 1: take it, you know, for three more three games back

1944
01:42:08,920 --> 01:42:12,479
Speaker 1: mark three backs. So yeah, I'm three So it's like

1945
01:42:12,640 --> 01:42:16,200
Speaker 1: I have to be honest, Like um, our organization behind

1946
01:42:16,240 --> 01:42:18,640
Speaker 1: the scenes is kind of we're looking towards the offseason.

1947
01:42:18,800 --> 01:42:21,000
Speaker 1: On one level, it's felt there's been a calm not

1948
01:42:21,080 --> 01:42:23,879
Speaker 1: having to worry about the locks. But if this occurs

1949
01:42:24,240 --> 01:42:26,160
Speaker 1: on two back, and I'm going to take a different

1950
01:42:26,200 --> 01:42:29,200
Speaker 1: strategy in the playoffs, right because there's you know, there

1951
01:42:29,240 --> 01:42:32,040
Speaker 1: are five playoff weeks and those are not necessarily easy

1952
01:42:32,080 --> 01:42:35,040
Speaker 1: games to pick either. The Raiders aren't huge underdogs here,

1953
01:42:35,120 --> 01:42:37,760
Speaker 1: so it's not a crazy idea. They're three point underdogs.

1954
01:42:38,080 --> 01:42:40,840
Speaker 1: It feels like the right line for this game. Uh.

1955
01:42:41,000 --> 01:42:43,240
Speaker 1: When the Chargers of the Road team and the Chargers

1956
01:42:43,280 --> 01:42:46,720
Speaker 1: are the better team overall, but I do think if

1957
01:42:46,760 --> 01:42:49,919
Speaker 1: they could get it, you know, to the latter stages

1958
01:42:50,000 --> 01:42:52,240
Speaker 1: of the fourth quarter, I'm not worried about like the

1959
01:42:52,520 --> 01:42:55,599
Speaker 1: Chargers mojo. You know, I know they had a tough

1960
01:42:55,720 --> 01:42:57,720
Speaker 1: loss and against the Chiefs, but they've had some good

1961
01:42:57,800 --> 01:43:00,280
Speaker 1: late wins too. But I do think the Raiders have

1962
01:43:00,400 --> 01:43:04,240
Speaker 1: a positive late game mojo that that could matter here.

1963
01:43:04,320 --> 01:43:07,120
Speaker 1: That they feel confident in their quarterback and the way

1964
01:43:07,200 --> 01:43:10,280
Speaker 1: they've closed games out that would really help them if

1965
01:43:10,320 --> 01:43:12,479
Speaker 1: they're in a spot where they get the ball down four,

1966
01:43:12,600 --> 01:43:14,439
Speaker 1: you know, with a couple of minutes to play at

1967
01:43:14,520 --> 01:43:16,439
Speaker 1: that point, I would be I would be worried if

1968
01:43:16,479 --> 01:43:18,320
Speaker 1: I'm back in the Chargers and I am hoping the

1969
01:43:18,400 --> 01:43:21,160
Speaker 1: Chargers win this game. They just got to attack. You

1970
01:43:21,200 --> 01:43:24,439
Speaker 1: look at the Raiders cornerbacks. They're playing Brandon Facon, He's

1971
01:43:24,439 --> 01:43:26,960
Speaker 1: a guy who couldn't make the Chargers. He's like it

1972
01:43:27,080 --> 01:43:30,000
Speaker 1: was like their sixth cornerback. And they're playing Desmon Truffont,

1973
01:43:30,040 --> 01:43:33,800
Speaker 1: whose career was all but over. Um, you know these

1974
01:43:33,840 --> 01:43:37,200
Speaker 1: are their cornerbacks. And you've got Justin Herbert, you got

1975
01:43:37,240 --> 01:43:39,280
Speaker 1: an aggressive play you know, play caller. I think this

1976
01:43:39,360 --> 01:43:41,320
Speaker 1: is a game where they handed to Herbert and he's

1977
01:43:41,320 --> 01:43:43,720
Speaker 1: going to throw it about forty five times, and they're

1978
01:43:43,720 --> 01:43:45,680
Speaker 1: gonna see if the Raiders can keep up. Because in

1979
01:43:45,760 --> 01:43:51,360
Speaker 1: this whole Raiders winning streak, everything's been six fourteen games

1980
01:43:51,439 --> 01:43:53,760
Speaker 1: like that, and if the Chargers can put up a

1981
01:43:53,800 --> 01:43:55,720
Speaker 1: lot of points, I don't think the Raiders can keep

1982
01:43:55,720 --> 01:43:57,800
Speaker 1: it with you did you pull every a f C

1983
01:43:58,080 --> 01:44:00,720
Speaker 1: playoff team and ask them which team they want to

1984
01:44:00,760 --> 01:44:03,519
Speaker 1: win this? They don't want the Los Angeles Chargers in

1985
01:44:03,560 --> 01:44:05,800
Speaker 1: the playoffs because on the right day, I think they

1986
01:44:05,840 --> 01:44:10,120
Speaker 1: could puncture anyone. The Raiders I'd see them like as

1987
01:44:10,160 --> 01:44:12,439
Speaker 1: the team I'd much rather less see one more week

1988
01:44:12,520 --> 01:44:14,800
Speaker 1: of Although I give Derek Carr, I mean he's kind

1989
01:44:14,840 --> 01:44:17,120
Speaker 1: of tugged them this whole way. You know, this has

1990
01:44:17,200 --> 01:44:19,320
Speaker 1: not been a full job like those other seasons. It's

1991
01:44:19,320 --> 01:44:22,120
Speaker 1: a different narrative. They missed Corey Lindsley last week. The

1992
01:44:22,200 --> 01:44:24,400
Speaker 1: Chargers have a Pro Bowl center in Corey Lindsey. He

1993
01:44:24,479 --> 01:44:26,360
Speaker 1: was not out. And what's been a strength for them

1994
01:44:26,479 --> 01:44:28,639
Speaker 1: or a big improvement in terms of their offensive mine

1995
01:44:28,680 --> 01:44:30,280
Speaker 1: looked a little leaky. That could be a bit of

1996
01:44:30,320 --> 01:44:34,719
Speaker 1: a problem for them this week. Um. Yeah, the unless

1997
01:44:34,760 --> 01:44:38,000
Speaker 1: the charges offense completely shoots itself in the foot and

1998
01:44:38,120 --> 01:44:43,200
Speaker 1: doesn't show up um or COVID steps up and rears

1999
01:44:43,240 --> 01:44:46,080
Speaker 1: its ugly head. I just don't like the Raiders as

2000
01:44:46,120 --> 01:44:48,679
Speaker 1: good as the defense has been the last three weeks.

2001
01:44:48,760 --> 01:44:51,160
Speaker 1: And again the opponent has to be factored into that.

2002
01:44:51,720 --> 01:44:53,920
Speaker 1: Since the week ate by. Here are their point totals.

2003
01:44:53,960 --> 01:44:56,920
Speaker 1: This is how much I've scored sixteen fourteen thirteen. Yet

2004
01:44:56,960 --> 01:45:01,200
Speaker 1: the thirties six against Dallas on Thanksgiving and in fifteen nine,

2005
01:45:01,479 --> 01:45:06,800
Speaker 1: sixteen seventeen. They just can't Smiler is practicing, which is

2006
01:45:06,920 --> 01:45:10,080
Speaker 1: huge if they but he's also not just the injury.

2007
01:45:10,200 --> 01:45:13,040
Speaker 1: He's coming off COVID. And again we're seeing these guys

2008
01:45:13,120 --> 01:45:15,360
Speaker 1: coming off COVID. You can't just pencil him in to

2009
01:45:15,520 --> 01:45:19,840
Speaker 1: immediately be impact guys. Yeah, Bosa too said, who is

2010
01:45:19,880 --> 01:45:23,760
Speaker 1: coming off Codavid COVID and his unvaccinated said he was

2011
01:45:24,160 --> 01:45:26,639
Speaker 1: struggling to get his breath back this week. He admitted

2012
01:45:26,680 --> 01:45:30,479
Speaker 1: it in practice. Um while accepting the Good Guy Award

2013
01:45:31,160 --> 01:45:34,760
Speaker 1: for sportsmanship and dealing with the Los Angeles media. So

2014
01:45:34,880 --> 01:45:39,400
Speaker 1: applaud Joey Bosa for that. And by the way, uh sportsmanship,

2015
01:45:40,040 --> 01:45:42,360
Speaker 1: there is a sound bite if you go back to

2016
01:45:42,680 --> 01:45:46,120
Speaker 1: the first meeting between these two teams where Bosa goes

2017
01:45:46,240 --> 01:45:49,920
Speaker 1: out of his way to titanically buried Derek Carr and

2018
01:45:50,000 --> 01:45:52,680
Speaker 1: he makes a comment along the lines of, we you know,

2019
01:45:52,840 --> 01:45:54,200
Speaker 1: we know he's had a good year, but we know

2020
01:45:54,320 --> 01:45:55,880
Speaker 1: the way that guy is. If we put a little

2021
01:45:55,920 --> 01:45:58,400
Speaker 1: pressure on him, he goes into a shell, like just

2022
01:45:59,000 --> 01:46:02,000
Speaker 1: savaging car uh and calling him out essentially as a

2023
01:46:02,080 --> 01:46:06,360
Speaker 1: weak professional football player. And I'm saying I like that stuff.

2024
01:46:06,360 --> 01:46:08,240
Speaker 1: I think there's not enough of that in sports anymore,

2025
01:46:08,360 --> 01:46:10,280
Speaker 1: just players mixing it up and having fun and just

2026
01:46:10,400 --> 01:46:13,120
Speaker 1: you know, you're playing football here. Uh. But it it

2027
01:46:13,520 --> 01:46:16,320
Speaker 1: certainly was notable because I remember Car when you know

2028
01:46:16,439 --> 01:46:18,200
Speaker 1: he was asked about it, he was like, WHOA, did

2029
01:46:18,280 --> 01:46:21,400
Speaker 1: this guy watch the wrong game? Because in the first matchup,

2030
01:46:22,160 --> 01:46:24,439
Speaker 1: the Raiders came on strong at the end of the game,

2031
01:46:24,479 --> 01:46:27,479
Speaker 1: they didn't fade as things went. It was what was

2032
01:46:27,560 --> 01:46:32,240
Speaker 1: the final of that game, lost to the Chargers. So

2033
01:46:32,520 --> 01:46:35,760
Speaker 1: that was that lightning um lightning delay game. I do

2034
01:46:35,920 --> 01:46:38,280
Speaker 1: like that. Bosa didn't back off it too much this week.

2035
01:46:38,360 --> 01:46:42,120
Speaker 1: He was just like, yeah, I just think um kind

2036
01:46:42,120 --> 01:46:43,800
Speaker 1: of goes into a show when he gets hit. Like

2037
01:46:43,880 --> 01:46:48,040
Speaker 1: a lot of quarterbacks, it's like, okay, very interesting, he's

2038
01:46:48,040 --> 01:46:50,479
Speaker 1: all right. I mean he's probably right, right, Mark, That's

2039
01:46:51,240 --> 01:46:55,120
Speaker 1: that's huge. That's the championship right there. Yeah. No, I

2040
01:46:55,240 --> 01:46:57,760
Speaker 1: and you know, I reserve the right to change my pick,

2041
01:46:57,800 --> 01:46:59,599
Speaker 1: but I don't see myself change. I think that's smart.

2042
01:46:59,640 --> 01:47:01,720
Speaker 1: I think analytics would say that's a good stat It

2043
01:47:01,840 --> 01:47:04,040
Speaker 1: is three. It's a three point spread. You're down three

2044
01:47:04,160 --> 01:47:06,960
Speaker 1: with six to go. You know, it was much more.

2045
01:47:07,960 --> 01:47:10,920
Speaker 1: It was much more controversial if it was two games.

2046
01:47:11,080 --> 01:47:13,439
Speaker 1: But once you said it was three, yes, that it

2047
01:47:13,560 --> 01:47:16,000
Speaker 1: does feel like it is time to hit the emergency lever,

2048
01:47:16,800 --> 01:47:20,000
Speaker 1: in this case, back the Raiders and their fugasy winning streaks.

2049
01:47:20,000 --> 01:47:22,759
Speaker 1: So I feel good about this. How about a tagline

2050
01:47:28,080 --> 01:47:32,479
Speaker 1: kitty bites? Yeah, you knew he's saving that one for

2051
01:47:32,600 --> 01:47:38,080
Speaker 1: the gross So gross? How does it gross? Maybe? I

2052
01:47:38,120 --> 01:47:40,439
Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe Erica says that I don't find it gross,

2053
01:47:40,600 --> 01:47:44,479
Speaker 1: but when you do, oh well, I don't think in general,

2054
01:47:44,560 --> 01:47:47,760
Speaker 1: i'd be. It's something that I would jump. I think

2055
01:47:47,800 --> 01:47:54,439
Speaker 1: the learning to read these lines. Everybody clear the runway, Erica,

2056
01:47:54,600 --> 01:47:56,800
Speaker 1: I'm doing a test. It's an A B test. Mark,

2057
01:47:56,880 --> 01:48:00,400
Speaker 1: you go first, say it again, kitty bites. That's not

2058
01:48:05,160 --> 01:48:08,840
Speaker 1: all right now, Ricky Okay, Dan, close your eyes. Oh,

2059
01:48:09,160 --> 01:48:16,080
Speaker 1: kitty bites. Obviously that's preferable. Thank you, gorgeous, gorgeous girls

2060
01:48:16,360 --> 01:48:23,160
Speaker 1: love to say kitty bites. That's a w for Hollywood.

2061
01:48:24,479 --> 01:48:27,760
Speaker 1: All right. That's it. That is Week eighteen. That is

2062
01:48:27,880 --> 01:48:32,559
Speaker 1: the first ever Week eighteen preview. How about that? Well,

2063
01:48:32,600 --> 01:48:35,240
Speaker 1: it's the longest season ever. It's the longest preview show ever.

2064
01:48:35,400 --> 01:48:36,880
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is about us at home.

2065
01:48:37,000 --> 01:48:40,800
Speaker 1: We're just can't can't stop talking. We're lonely man who

2066
01:48:40,920 --> 01:48:44,960
Speaker 1: need need to get back together. We want to get

2067
01:48:44,960 --> 01:48:47,040
Speaker 1: back in the studio. We're just looting for the go ahead.

2068
01:48:47,120 --> 01:48:49,519
Speaker 1: Just so everybody knows. We haven't been given the clearance yet.

2069
01:48:49,800 --> 01:48:52,320
Speaker 1: But once we do, we'll be back together in person.

2070
01:48:52,840 --> 01:48:57,880
Speaker 1: But that's not happening yet. All right, anything else? Oh,

2071
01:48:58,040 --> 01:49:02,280
Speaker 1: no TV show this week? Also, COVID related that that

2072
01:49:02,920 --> 01:49:05,320
Speaker 1: we're working on the show is going to be back

2073
01:49:05,400 --> 01:49:09,280
Speaker 1: for sure next Friday, hour long format breaking down each

2074
01:49:09,320 --> 01:49:12,200
Speaker 1: of the playoff rounds. So make sure you check in

2075
01:49:12,840 --> 01:49:15,080
Speaker 1: the DVR next Friday if you don't see it on

2076
01:49:15,120 --> 01:49:17,719
Speaker 1: the DVR or you're hearing like the West coast, for instance,

2077
01:49:17,760 --> 01:49:21,000
Speaker 1: and you get up at three am and you put

2078
01:49:21,080 --> 01:49:23,320
Speaker 1: a pot of coffee on the kettle there, and then

2079
01:49:23,840 --> 01:49:26,400
Speaker 1: you gotta sit down and watch your favorite football show

2080
01:49:26,880 --> 01:49:31,040
Speaker 1: is not coming on. Don't panic, don't panic, don't throw

2081
01:49:31,080 --> 01:49:33,479
Speaker 1: your coffee on the ground, don't scream and run into

2082
01:49:33,520 --> 01:49:37,360
Speaker 1: the street half nude. Just understand. We'll be back next Friday.

2083
01:49:37,439 --> 01:49:40,160
Speaker 1: Peter Schrager's son is going to be very disappointed by

2084
01:49:40,240 --> 01:49:43,400
Speaker 1: this development. Well you you show him a repeat, because

2085
01:49:43,479 --> 01:49:45,320
Speaker 1: our true fans will go back and watch what we

2086
01:49:45,400 --> 01:49:47,920
Speaker 1: had to say in week eleven perhaps or or prior

2087
01:49:48,000 --> 01:49:52,800
Speaker 1: to that. Alright, good stuff, all right, everybody, we'll see

2088
01:49:52,840 --> 01:50:00,680
Speaker 1: you on Sunday. Enjoy the football, heed the call. S

2089
01:50:00,680 --> 01:50:18,840
Speaker 1: S S S S S