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Speaker 1: Welcome back to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast.

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Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hansus and I'm joined by Room Felled.

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Speaker 1: We had heroes Mark Sesler, Chris Westling and Greg Rosenthal.

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Speaker 1: What's up byes? Hey? Dan? Oh yeah, it is the

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Speaker 1: big preview show for the first time. Um this season,

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Speaker 1: week as well next week as well. But I said

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Speaker 1: first time, no Thursday night football, first time. You don't

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Speaker 1: hear that at the top of a Thursday's show. Um,

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Speaker 1: and Greg, you're gonna we're gonna really need the Greg

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Speaker 1: Rosenthal playoff uh calculator online today. We gotta make sure

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Speaker 1: no one picks up a phone in a different room.

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Speaker 1: We need that fifty six K to hook up because

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Speaker 1: this is where you make your money. Great off comp.

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Speaker 1: I like the nugget about someone else picking up the

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Speaker 1: phone that would constantly throw me off line back in

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Speaker 1: the in those ages that was an automatic automatic disconnected

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Speaker 1: just would it would yep, an absolute nightmare, Like what

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Speaker 1: the hell are you talking about? It's called history. Um, Yes,

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Speaker 1: sixteen games to talk about and what's your favorite game.

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Speaker 1: What gave me looking forward to the most mark in

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Speaker 1: week sixteen, Brownie is getting that w I I have

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Speaker 1: my eye on that game. I will leave it. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if if if what I'm looking forward to

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Speaker 1: is how I'd put it, but it's on my radar.

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Speaker 1: I have my eye on it. With a lot of

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Speaker 1: games with no juice, that kind of it doesn't really matter.

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Speaker 1: It's like that game matters. It does nothing else. The

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Speaker 1: Browns are playing games that matters. I I think West

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Speaker 1: so I've Jacks Niners sneak um. All right, you guys

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Speaker 1: want to get into it, let's get in. We're here

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Speaker 1: to talk football. Right by the way, big ups to

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Speaker 1: our group. We encountered our our show is beginning a

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Speaker 1: little bit late because we encountered a studio riddled with

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Speaker 1: and money and Cynthia and and uh handsome Hank. They

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Speaker 1: what happens. It happens to us too sometimes. But then

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Speaker 1: the actual mouthpieces crumbs all over it, which is a

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Speaker 1: little bit it's on the pale. That's a little bit

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Speaker 1: beyond borders there with the mannerisms. I'll have to tweet

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Speaker 1: Everybody ready. Now, last, I see your Valor suit jacket.

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Speaker 1: What is that velvet? That's beautiful. It's velvet that is

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Speaker 1: pure sex, is what that is. This was picked out

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Speaker 1: by me and not the paramore. Really, yeah, I've had

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Speaker 1: to because of the massive weight loss I've hit by

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Speaker 1: a compass for fashion as well. Alright, well, I'll say

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Speaker 1: one thing. I feel like Greg put a nice effort

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Speaker 1: a funeral on Christmas Eve. Greg often reminds me of

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Speaker 1: Johnny Cash. Uh yeah, strong, silent type. Let's get into

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Speaker 1: the games. Here we go, Let's start in order. We

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Speaker 1: always go in honor, and this is the one week

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Speaker 1: over all these games. But the Week sixteen games play

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Speaker 1: eleven travel to Baltimore to face the Ravens, who are

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Speaker 1: eight and six. Ravens lost that heartbreaker against Pittsburgh two

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Speaker 1: Here's a bummer game. When we were tweeting a little

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Speaker 1: fans probably don't feel like the luckiest fans in the world.

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Speaker 1: Last year, won a lot of close games, had some

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Speaker 1: excitement with a pretty uneven team, ended up making the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: This year, you're playing the Bengals at the perfect time,

430
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Speaker 1: and you play the Packers next week with Brett Hunley

431
00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:20,400
Speaker 1: at the perfect time in week seventeen, and I think

432
00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:22,840
Speaker 1: the Lions have a very good chance to sneak into

433
00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:25,520
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Let's hit that calculator here. It's not that tough.

434
00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:31,359
Speaker 1: They are the team with I'm just it's happening. They

435
00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:35,399
Speaker 1: are the team with all the NFC tidebreakers than all

436
00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:37,800
Speaker 1: you gotta do. It's real. Simply win these two games

437
00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:40,600
Speaker 1: against two dead teams and watch the Falcons lose two

438
00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:43,960
Speaker 1: in a row against the problem. Yeah it is, but

439
00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:46,760
Speaker 1: against in New Orleans and then home for Carolina. Those

440
00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:51,080
Speaker 1: are two tough games team. I think it's half Falcons

441
00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:53,639
Speaker 1: to lose out and I think it's gonna happen. So

442
00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:56,400
Speaker 1: then then Detroit's reward for that and for their fan base,

443
00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:57,960
Speaker 1: which is not just had a bit of a tough

444
00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,840
Speaker 1: time that family's has been through. Utter endless hell gets

445
00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:05,760
Speaker 1: Jim Caldwell again next season quite possibly and what a

446
00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:08,119
Speaker 1: as Chris would say, apric victory of sorts. It's a

447
00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:10,720
Speaker 1: good point um before we move out to the next game.

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Speaker 1: On Tuesday's episode, which I heartily endorsed and you should

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Speaker 1: check out. With Connie Fox in the studio, we went

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Speaker 1: around the room and nominated UH players former players that

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Speaker 1: we'd like to see their numbers retired by their respective teams.

452
00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:28,600
Speaker 1: I thought it was a really good exercise for Chris Wesling,

453
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Speaker 1: who wasn't here, so now let's give him the opportunity,

454
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Speaker 1: well nominate somebody. I have broken up with the Bengals,

455
00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:38,840
Speaker 1: but I maintain a deep appreciation and fondness for the nineties,

456
00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:43,320
Speaker 1: seventies and eighties teams. Anthony Munos is, in my opinion

457
00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:45,840
Speaker 1: and the opinion of many people who study the game,

458
00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:49,159
Speaker 1: the best offensive lineman in NFL history. The Bengals have

459
00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:53,280
Speaker 1: retired one number ever, a center named Bob Johnson, who

460
00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:56,840
Speaker 1: played in the seventies. Anthony Munos, who is way better

461
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Speaker 1: than Bob Johnson, does not have his every time. That's weird.

462
00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:01,960
Speaker 1: What did they did? They just put a lot of

463
00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:05,159
Speaker 1: the freeze on because some of these teams, Johnson that

464
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Speaker 1: much better than other. I'm not too you know, clued

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Speaker 1: into his history, but you truly the second best, let's say,

466
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Speaker 1: Bengal of all time. No, he won a couple of

467
00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:16,360
Speaker 1: he went to a couple of Pro Bowls. This stems

468
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Speaker 1: from Mike Brown and I talked to Solomon Wilcot's about

469
00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:23,320
Speaker 1: this a couple of years ago. Mike Brown, Um, sort

470
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Speaker 1: of has a nineteen thirties mentality. I'm sure his opinion is,

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Speaker 1: you don't do these rings of honor. You don't retire numbers,

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Speaker 1: you don't celebrate your history because you don't put one

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Speaker 1: player above the other, eleven on nets of the ball,

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Speaker 1: the other twenty two on the team. He thinks it

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Speaker 1: takes away from the team aspect of football. Patriots will

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Speaker 1: now run out of the tunnel as a team, sir.

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Speaker 1: He's a lot of fun at the holiday party. Anthony

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Speaker 1: Moone is a Hall of Famer. I don't know what

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00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:51,360
Speaker 1: else we need to do here. Um, all right, there

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Speaker 1: you go. There's Wester's nomination. Let's now move on the

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Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins six and eight. The charade that they were

482
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Speaker 1: in the mix is no longer there because the Bills

483
00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:05,200
Speaker 1: beat him uh handily last week. Now they go to

484
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Speaker 1: Kansas City again. This is interesting this week so far,

485
00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:11,080
Speaker 1: not in terms of like intrigue as much, but a

486
00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:12,879
Speaker 1: lot of these teams that have a path to the

487
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:16,960
Speaker 1: playoffs or are in the mix have a nice path

488
00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:19,040
Speaker 1: to get there if they just take care of business.

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs are another team. They're home to Miami at Denver. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, now Truvi Simeons out of the mix is

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Speaker 1: brocost while I'm gonna keep playing Well, I don't know,

492
00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:30,399
Speaker 1: but first things first, you gotta beat the Dolphins at home.

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Speaker 1: How do we feel about that? Greg? I feel great

494
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Speaker 1: if I'm a Chiefs fan because they win the division

495
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Speaker 1: with a victory. Chargers are done. Magic number is one.

496
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Speaker 1: They the Chiefs only need one, you know. Combination of

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Speaker 1: a loss by the Chargers are win by the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: And I don't really see many reasons to buy into

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins on the road. I have never seen a

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Speaker 1: quarterback or a team in general, but especially a quarterback

501
00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:57,480
Speaker 1: look colder than Jake Cutler did last week in Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: He just he looks like me and a cold just

503
00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:02,880
Speaker 1: like he sort of hunched over, and it's just like

504
00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:05,359
Speaker 1: you just can see the misery on on his face

505
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:07,280
Speaker 1: and the and the rest of that team. He he

506
00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:09,480
Speaker 1: belongs in your power rankings. So people waiting for the

507
00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:12,160
Speaker 1: season to end and probably wishing it never started. Well,

508
00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:14,200
Speaker 1: he looked, mean, you should have retired on the Monday

509
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Speaker 1: night football. It would have annoyed all the Dolphins, but

510
00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:20,200
Speaker 1: it would have been because he looked plenty motivated ten

511
00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:23,840
Speaker 1: days ago or whenever it was the cold weather. He's like,

512
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Speaker 1: maybe that's why he went to Miami. What a weird

513
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Speaker 1: season for Alex Smith, who has been one of the

514
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Speaker 1: least effective deep ball passers throughout his chief's tenure. Then

515
00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:37,159
Speaker 1: this year starts and for the first quarter of the

516
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:39,320
Speaker 1: season he's the best deep ball passer in the league

517
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Speaker 1: by efficiency metrics. He goes through a mid season slump

518
00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:46,080
Speaker 1: where people are actually calling for his benching for some

519
00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:49,479
Speaker 1: bizarre reason, and since Matt Naggie took control the offense,

520
00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:51,359
Speaker 1: he's back to being the best deep ball passer in

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00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:54,040
Speaker 1: the NFL again, and he's got the pressure of knowing

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Speaker 1: very likely that this could be his last chance to

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Speaker 1: make a long run as the Chief, I mean with

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Speaker 1: with Naggi and their thirty and thirty points, the offense

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00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:06,479
Speaker 1: looks different. It's back to what it looked like, you know,

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00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:10,760
Speaker 1: before the leaves came off the trees. And is it?

527
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,679
Speaker 1: Is it Andy Reid still running the show with this offense?

528
00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:15,680
Speaker 1: What is it that he's doing? Do you think that's

529
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:19,120
Speaker 1: so different? Why means he calling literally completely different game

530
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:21,480
Speaker 1: plans than Read would have. Who knows the offense so well?

531
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Speaker 1: It's it's a bit hard to discern what the differences

532
00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:26,919
Speaker 1: between Read and Niggie. I don't know as far as

533
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 1: specific play calls, but they're definitely run blocking better and

534
00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 1: running better. And then I think that has helped dial

535
00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:35,520
Speaker 1: up those deep shots again. Romo. Tony Romo mentioned it

536
00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:38,480
Speaker 1: removes all your tendencies in one move. That's true, and

537
00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:41,240
Speaker 1: so for three or four weeks teams have a trouble

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00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:44,440
Speaker 1: kind of knowing what those tendencies are. By the way,

539
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:48,760
Speaker 1: this Chiefs versus Ravens is the most likely playoff matchup

540
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,880
Speaker 1: at sixty seven chance of happening. Is that your playoff

541
00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:54,280
Speaker 1: calculator that is not mine? I read that somewhere else.

542
00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:57,600
Speaker 1: Chief's exciting you know the entire NFC. The top five

543
00:26:57,640 --> 00:26:59,399
Speaker 1: seeds in the NFC aren't going to get back to

544
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Speaker 1: the playoffs. Are right now are teams that weren't even

545
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 1: there a year ago. It's like the Chiefs in the end,

546
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:06,200
Speaker 1: are probably gonna get back with a home playoff game.

547
00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:09,720
Speaker 1: They still in their mind at least have to feel

548
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:11,240
Speaker 1: like everything is in front of them and they get

549
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:13,320
Speaker 1: a shot. All right, let's move on now in a

550
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:15,680
Speaker 1: f C East game, here's some steaks for you. The

551
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills haven't been in the playoffs in almost twenty years,

552
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:22,000
Speaker 1: and now they have a shot. But they gotta go

553
00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:25,199
Speaker 1: to New England and beat the Patriots. And that is

554
00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:29,400
Speaker 1: a tall order, Mark Sessler, because the Pats, coming off

555
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:32,280
Speaker 1: that win over the Steelers, are now lined up for

556
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:33,840
Speaker 1: that one seed and they're not gonna want to give

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00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 1: that up. I don't know about having a shot. If

558
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:38,720
Speaker 1: you're Buffalo. You look at the they are right now

559
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:41,760
Speaker 1: the sixth seed. As you said, among those current playoff teams,

560
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:46,040
Speaker 1: they're the last and point differential yardage differential sack differential

561
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:48,640
Speaker 1: points per game, and they are the second in points allowed.

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00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:52,359
Speaker 1: Worst among the current playoff quarterbacks, Tyrod Taylor is worst

563
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:55,439
Speaker 1: in passing yardage, touchdowns, yards per attempt, and sacks taken.

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Speaker 1: I think this is the end of the Bills three

565
00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:02,920
Speaker 1: days away. They're done, probably. I mean Tom Brady's twenty

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Speaker 1: eight and three against the Bills, not that that matters

567
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 1: in this matchup, but they played it a couple of

568
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:10,879
Speaker 1: weeks ago. McDermott goes with his own defense. They slowed

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Speaker 1: the Patriots down, but ultimately Brady did what he wanted

570
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,240
Speaker 1: in that game. It just took a while for them

571
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Speaker 1: to score on these long drives, and don't I just

572
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:21,600
Speaker 1: don't see why they would have enough answers unless Leshawn

573
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:25,720
Speaker 1: McCoy and Tyrod Taylor as runners just take over the

574
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Speaker 1: game and kind of make it into a low scoring

575
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 1: game that that both teams are scoring yards in that

576
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:35,520
Speaker 1: that first match that they lost twenty three to three.

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00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 1: He's gonna have to have. I watched the Bills last

578
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks. I'm just not impressed with their offense

579
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:44,520
Speaker 1: on any level. I will ask you this greg Um question.

580
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:49,600
Speaker 1: So the touchdown drive, the ultimate game winning touchdown drive

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Speaker 1: where Gronk just went nuts and Brady and Gronk connected,

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Speaker 1: Um obscures maybe the fact that they weren't explosive against

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Speaker 1: the Steelers, and if you go back to week third,

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00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,080
Speaker 1: now they are kind of a middling unit and all

585
00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:06,080
Speaker 1: the major UH statistical rankings. Do you have any concerns

586
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,960
Speaker 1: that the offense is not quite right right now or

587
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,800
Speaker 1: did you see enough down the stretch against Pittsburgh. I

588
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 1: felt really good about that in terms of the offense

589
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,280
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh. They moved the ball. That was a game

590
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:19,160
Speaker 1: of a low amount of possessions. They basically did what

591
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:20,840
Speaker 1: they want. They had the same yards to play as

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00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 1: the Steelers. I think that was an offense dominated game

593
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:25,520
Speaker 1: despite the score. And the same thing happened against the Bills.

594
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 1: They were missing Chris Hogan, They're missing Rex Burkehead. Now

595
00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 1: maybe Hogan's back. I'm not too worried about the offense.

596
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:32,960
Speaker 1: What is the Birkhead situation? He is out this week

597
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 1: and and we'll see it's a serious things. People need

598
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:38,960
Speaker 1: to rewatch that Steelers game. First of all, it was

599
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:41,680
Speaker 1: a great game to rewatch. Second of all, it was

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Speaker 1: one of Brady's best games of the year. His ball

601
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:47,400
Speaker 1: placement was phenomenal, and do he did not look like

602
00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 1: a struggling quarterback, and they did not look like a

603
00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 1: struggling offense. I will this is more sports, not takedown

604
00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 1: of what what West just said. But he threw a

605
00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:58,920
Speaker 1: ball right in the hands of a defender that went

606
00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 1: a short service tip that a line of scrimmage. Yeah,

607
00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:02,600
Speaker 1: it was tipped at the line of scrimmage. And I

608
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 1: never hold that against the quarterbacks. What quarterback the tip

609
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:09,640
Speaker 1: the tip balls. Anything can happen on a tip ball.

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00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 1: I mean, if it's something that's like a regular problem,

611
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I'm not gonna use your boy on

612
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:17,480
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati in the Super Bowl dropped the ball in

613
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 1: the end zone, Joe Montana. That was the It was

614
00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 1: Louis Billops. We used to call him third in Billops

615
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,160
Speaker 1: because you knew if it was the third dam pass,

616
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 1: it was going to be complete against Louis bill That

617
00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:36,040
Speaker 1: is one of the most crushing Super Bowl losses. Crumbrai

618
00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:38,880
Speaker 1: having the worst Super Bowl injury in history and then

619
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 1: refusing to go to the hospital while his legs broken

620
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:43,800
Speaker 1: in half. They had to say, hey, if we don't

621
00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 1: get you out of here, you're gonna go into shock.

622
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 1: Then you can lose your leg. And that's what got

623
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 1: him finally out of uh Joe Robbie Stadium. I believe

624
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 1: it was before we move on to just something. I

625
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:56,440
Speaker 1: was just gonna He reminded me about the Calvin Benjamin

626
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:01,160
Speaker 1: Chris Wesley reminded me the Kelvin Benjamin trade has not

627
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:02,520
Speaker 1: worked out too well. He has a hundred and twenty

628
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:04,680
Speaker 1: yards in four games. That Jordan Matthews trade did not

629
00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 1: work out well. Basically didn't do anything. The two of

630
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 1: them have combined for under five hundred yards this season

631
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:11,040
Speaker 1: and what's been kind of a full season out of

632
00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 1: two after they're both they're both banged up this year,

633
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:19,040
Speaker 1: but banged up all year. Before we move on, I

634
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 1: liked this um little subplot going around around the Patriots

635
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:25,720
Speaker 1: that report from the Boston Globe that Tom Brady's trainer,

636
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:29,760
Speaker 1: Alex Guerrero, who has actually a facility or a shop

637
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:33,200
Speaker 1: in the mall where they play their games the Patriots, Uh.

638
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 1: And there apparently is a rift between Guerrero and Belichick,

639
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 1: according to the Globe, and it's reached the point where

640
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:43,760
Speaker 1: the Patriots of banned Guerrero from treating other players that

641
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:47,640
Speaker 1: aren't Brady. He's also reportedly banned from boarding the Patriots

642
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 1: team Jets and his sideline accent access was revoked. Saucy,

643
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:56,120
Speaker 1: what's going on behind the scenes? First of all, your

644
00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 1: thoughts on that, Gregor's well, let's get the assension, and

645
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 1: first let's get the fact streak he is treating, well,

646
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 1: he's treating plenty of Patriots players. They just have to

647
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:07,680
Speaker 1: go to his office, which just five minutes away. So

648
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 1: he wasn't banned from treating them during the game. He

649
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:12,240
Speaker 1: he was banned from treating them. He's still in the

650
00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:15,440
Speaker 1: locker room. He's still like Tom Brady's guy. Clearly, Bill

651
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 1: Belichick felt like at some point it was it sounded

652
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:21,280
Speaker 1: like it was becoming a conflict between his training staff

653
00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:23,480
Speaker 1: and Guerrero, and he decided to shut it down. And

654
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 1: Belichick before his talk, when they've asked about Brady's diet

655
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 1: and Brady's X, Y and Z, he has pointed to

656
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 1: his own Patriots training staff over and over. I think

657
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:34,120
Speaker 1: that he's being loyal to his own guys. He's no

658
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 1: longer permitted to treat players other than Brady in the office, right,

659
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:40,440
Speaker 1: which makes sense. But they just now they take a

660
00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 1: little a little cart that brings him ten minutes, you know,

661
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 1: it's like down down the mall or whatever. Anyway, some said,

662
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 1: some brave um doomed soul decided to ask Belichick about

663
00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 1: the situation. And here's the one thing that you need

664
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 1: to know. Because maybe I don't know who the reporter was,

665
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 1: maybe he is a veteran of the Belichick beat um,

666
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:04,200
Speaker 1: but what he what you need to know if you're

667
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:07,880
Speaker 1: gonna ask Belichick something, especially something that probably isn't gonna

668
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 1: sit well with him, which is most things, but especially

669
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 1: something where you know it's something that's maybe in the

670
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 1: news and is negative or critical about the Patriots, that

671
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 1: you better have a very um concise question. Don't give

672
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 1: Brady Belichick anything to pick apart and distance himself. And

673
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:26,000
Speaker 1: that's what this reporter made the mistake of doing. Let's

674
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 1: listen to how Belichick got out of this one coach,

675
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:33,239
Speaker 1: would you say that Thomas his trainers, like if your

676
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 1: adult son was child who's hanging out with somebody who

677
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 1: didn't really care for all that much? I mean, don't

678
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:42,200
Speaker 1: what you're supposed to say. I'm not really sure with

679
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 1: the question. I mean, talking about my children. I don't

680
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:49,040
Speaker 1: don't think that's appropriate here. I'm trying to coach a

681
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:51,920
Speaker 1: football team all. I didn't need to make it. I

682
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 1: was just thinking, what are we talking about here? I

683
00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:59,560
Speaker 1: just meant, is it something that kind of frustrates you

684
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 1: because it takes the focus off of him taking coaching

685
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 1: from you? In your opinions, A lot of pronouns are like,

686
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:11,239
Speaker 1: I don't even know who's talking about? What cut that?

687
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 1: Lindsay we want that pronoun drop it's cut. I would

688
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:20,920
Speaker 1: just run out of the room because here's the thing.

689
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:22,759
Speaker 1: I like the sorry for Belichick at the end, and

690
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:26,440
Speaker 1: then he walked off. He wasn't Belichick. And that's the thing.

691
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:29,840
Speaker 1: Belichick knows exactly what the guy's asking. He knows exactly

692
00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:31,920
Speaker 1: what he was getting at. But if you give him

693
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:34,319
Speaker 1: that window where you can pick apart your question, if

694
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:36,759
Speaker 1: it's a little clunky, it's a little bit of fat

695
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:39,560
Speaker 1: the question that's pretty clunky, then you're never going to

696
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:41,839
Speaker 1: get an answer at all, and you're gonna be made

697
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:44,840
Speaker 1: fun of. Essentially the follow up question. The guy seemed

698
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:47,960
Speaker 1: to be utterly terrified. I don't know, the last sentence

699
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 1: he spoke was so timid. How fast could I get

700
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 1: out of you? And just kind of wondering, maybe a

701
00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 1: lot of pronouns are. What I like about this situation

702
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 1: is the contortionist to act. People are puoying off to

703
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 1: relate it to Jimmy Garoppolo's recent success. Heard a lot

704
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:07,120
Speaker 1: of uh oh yeah, and all these reservations now that

705
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 1: the Patriots must be having about going with Brady over

706
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 1: Jimmy G. Well, maybe they could. The reservation is not

707
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:16,279
Speaker 1: that to me, but maybe could we got more than

708
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,319
Speaker 1: a second round pick for this guy? Well he's still

709
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 1: kind of thinking that's and limiting from what I've read.

710
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:25,600
Speaker 1: Belichick did not want to trade him to an a

711
00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:27,320
Speaker 1: FC team. He did not want to send him to

712
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 1: Cleveland because he respected him too much to deal with

713
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:35,080
Speaker 1: Cleveland's uh mass of an organization. Yeah, I think that

714
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 1: Cleveland was not an option for him. And he likes

715
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:39,799
Speaker 1: Jimmy G so much. He respects him so much that

716
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 1: he wanted him in the NFC. I think the plan

717
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:43,479
Speaker 1: was to keep him, I really do. John Lynch said

718
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 1: on the radio on the Rich Eyes and Show Thursday

719
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 1: that we called them a couple of times in the

720
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:50,399
Speaker 1: off season and Belichick was just like, nah, We're keeping him.

721
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 1: There was no talk then, but they couldn't get a

722
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 1: contract done. If I was Big Mac, I would have said,

723
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 1: a Billy, this is like you're the GM episode. I'll

724
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:01,520
Speaker 1: give you a second and a seventh. Let's let's make

725
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 1: some magic. I don't think the extra seventh capital he

726
00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:11,080
Speaker 1: traded Bledsoe to the Bills, but that was a different situation.

727
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:14,360
Speaker 1: Bled was done. That was a trick. Let's move on

728
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:18,959
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons nine and five. Uh. They have won

729
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 1: five of six somewhat quietly, and they got by Tampa

730
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:25,560
Speaker 1: Bay on Monday night and now on a short week,

731
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 1: they travel to New Orleans to face the Saints, who

732
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:33,359
Speaker 1: didn't play incredibly well against the Jets, but they took

733
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:35,759
Speaker 1: care of business to get to tenant four. So it's

734
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:39,640
Speaker 1: a one game UM lead over the Falcons. Also the

735
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:42,000
Speaker 1: Panthers in the mix there. This is gonna be a

736
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:45,799
Speaker 1: great battle West, or is it? Well? I think the

737
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 1: Saints are undoubtedly the superior team in this matchup, and

738
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:52,200
Speaker 1: even though the Falcons have won five of six games,

739
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 1: they have not looked good doing it. They've had their

740
00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:58,440
Speaker 1: fair share of luck. That said, I have warned against

741
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:01,880
Speaker 1: people giving this vic threw to the Saints, especially with

742
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 1: Tevin Coleman coming back. DeVante Freeman coming off his best

743
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 1: game of the year, and the Saints run defense being

744
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:11,719
Speaker 1: picked on lately, even by the Jets. The st the

745
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:15,359
Speaker 1: Saints rank twenty six in Football Outsiders run defense metrics.

746
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 1: You can beat them on the ground, and it would

747
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:21,759
Speaker 1: not surprise me to see this Falcons offensive personnel all

748
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:24,719
Speaker 1: back to full health now have have a comeback game.

749
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:27,160
Speaker 1: I know Julio and Matt Ryan are struggling with their connection,

750
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:30,480
Speaker 1: but but a one fifty yard game, even against Marshawn

751
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:33,600
Speaker 1: Latimore would not surprise me. Wow. Kenny Vacaro, by the way,

752
00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 1: not going to play in this game or any other

753
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:38,080
Speaker 1: game that will help the Saints defense. Yeah, he is

754
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 1: out for the season, going to I do not think

755
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:42,279
Speaker 1: that helps the Saints defense. Have you been watching him

756
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 1: getting picked on him? He has the defensive pass interference

757
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:47,200
Speaker 1: He's still better than the next guy, and he plays

758
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:49,920
Speaker 1: he's good and run defense. I think he's been playing

759
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:52,239
Speaker 1: injured and people have been picking on him quite a bit. A. J.

760
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 1: Klein was a big injury for this team. He is

761
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:57,440
Speaker 1: now on injured reserve. He got hurt in the first

762
00:37:57,640 --> 00:37:59,799
Speaker 1: Falcons game, but he was put on i R. He

763
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:03,799
Speaker 1: has really improved their team overall, and man te Tao

764
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:06,439
Speaker 1: replacing him is not something that makes me feel better.

765
00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:08,879
Speaker 1: And they've really missed alex okafor this is not the

766
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:12,240
Speaker 1: same Saints defense that was kind of surprising us early.

767
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:14,960
Speaker 1: I was gonna lock up the Saints West and your

768
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:17,359
Speaker 1: argument scared me for a way from doing it. I'm

769
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:19,279
Speaker 1: no longer gonna do it. Is that a first for

770
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:21,359
Speaker 1: the lock I think so. And I was gonna lock

771
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:25,440
Speaker 1: up the Saints too, I don't know. Suddenly I started like,

772
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:28,840
Speaker 1: you know what, You're no hero, really, I just started

773
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 1: king what you're saying and it's gonna be And this

774
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:33,400
Speaker 1: is like the great it's a great rivalry game. Oh

775
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:35,960
Speaker 1: I knew I could appeal to that. You love this rivalry.

776
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 1: I mean Sean Payton literally made a choke sign at

777
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:42,160
Speaker 1: Davante Freeman during the last game. I mean that acted

778
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:44,520
Speaker 1: like he didn't remember doing it, and then yesterday had

779
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:46,480
Speaker 1: to acknowledge that he that had haunted him for the

780
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:48,960
Speaker 1: rest of the game. Okay, whatever, buddy, Shanon Payton. But

781
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 1: let me tell you something. Matt Ryan could have had

782
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:54,439
Speaker 1: five picks when they played two weeks ago. Talks about

783
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 1: the Drew Brees interception at the end, Matt Ryan, we

784
00:38:57,719 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 1: was throwing the ball all over the place in the

785
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 1: wrong way. That game you got into like a carnival

786
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:04,080
Speaker 1: Barker cadence there for a second. I don't know what

787
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:08,600
Speaker 1: that is. Tell you something. It was like the most

788
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:12,400
Speaker 1: shried up, the most monkeys, we've got elephant. That was

789
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 1: the most Sean Payton narrative you could ever imagine. Claiming

790
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 1: that he doesn't remember doing a choke sign to an

791
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:20,759
Speaker 1: NFL player, I would remember that. I think if I

792
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:23,040
Speaker 1: were a coach, you get flat, you get fine for

793
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:25,239
Speaker 1: that game for running out onto the field, and then

794
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:27,560
Speaker 1: you then this week you say like you don't remember

795
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:29,880
Speaker 1: any of it happening, and now you do. Come on, chomped.

796
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:33,799
Speaker 1: We got flying monkeys, we got sad donkeys. Stop up

797
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:40,440
Speaker 1: for the bearded lady, cotton, candy and popcorn. You got

798
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:42,759
Speaker 1: me thinking, West, this is gonna be shoot out. Well,

799
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:46,040
Speaker 1: what's wrong, bar what's wrong? You don't like? Continue on?

800
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 1: He had an incident at the circus as a kid.

801
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:51,960
Speaker 1: I actually, I don't think I've ever been to a circus.

802
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 1: Really A lot of large one maybe one little tiny

803
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:58,719
Speaker 1: one in the field or something. That's why they've been

804
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 1: kind of wiped out. This is the game. I mean,

805
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:03,480
Speaker 1: Saints offense gotta win it on their own because I

806
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:05,840
Speaker 1: don't trust the defense quite enough. Michael Tomas, I'm a

807
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:08,560
Speaker 1: little worried that they don't have secondary receivers. Michael Thomas

808
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 1: has a higher percentage of I believe yards in receptions

809
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:15,760
Speaker 1: than any Saints receiver in the Drew Brees era. Brandon

810
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 1: Coleman fumbles the ball a couple of times last week

811
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 1: that in bed gains kind of disappeared. They I think

812
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:23,520
Speaker 1: they missed Kobe Fleaner a little bit just to have

813
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:26,160
Speaker 1: a tight end. Didn't play last week because he had

814
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:28,439
Speaker 1: a rib injury. I think he's supposed to play this week.

815
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:30,839
Speaker 1: That what helps good. But Michael Thomas is a true

816
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:33,640
Speaker 1: number one. He's great. So the Falcons just need one

817
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 1: of these last two games. I don't know why it

818
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:37,080
Speaker 1: sounded so negative. I still think the Saints are gonna

819
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:39,319
Speaker 1: win this. You're you're doubting yourself now now I think

820
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 1: the Saints are gonna win. I'm not gonna lock it

821
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:42,840
Speaker 1: up because I think you're right. It's gonna be a

822
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:44,759
Speaker 1: close game. I was feeling, I was really feeling like

823
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:49,040
Speaker 1: they're gonna run away with little Yeah Falcons and control

824
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:51,520
Speaker 1: their own destiny if they lose this game, still yeah,

825
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:53,560
Speaker 1: because they gotta They just need one win in the

826
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 1: final two games, and they really they make it a

827
00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:59,240
Speaker 1: lot more simple in terms of the Seahawks and the Cowboys,

828
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:01,239
Speaker 1: and they win the A if they win out, yeah,

829
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:05,359
Speaker 1: there there there that happen. That would be crazy. There's

830
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:07,359
Speaker 1: some crazy. I mean the Panthers still have they still

831
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:08,759
Speaker 1: have a chance. Do they have a chance for a

832
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:11,080
Speaker 1: buy in theory? It's not gonna happen because if Vikings

833
00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:14,319
Speaker 1: are gonna lose, but they're still right in it. As

834
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:17,359
Speaker 1: as as weird as this season has been, right there,

835
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:21,520
Speaker 1: same record as they have last year. After um, yes,

836
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:24,399
Speaker 1: and then they won every game and then uh something

837
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 1: bad happened in February, but it's caused Sean Payton to

838
00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:31,439
Speaker 1: make a sign that monthly all comes together. Moving on,

839
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 1: here's a team, um that let this room down. The

840
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:39,880
Speaker 1: Chargers laid a big stinking egg on Saturday night at Arrowhead.

841
00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:43,319
Speaker 1: So now there's seven and seven, which means they have

842
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:46,000
Speaker 1: almost uh well, they still have a shot to make

843
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:48,000
Speaker 1: the plays, but they gotta win out. That starts with

844
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:52,480
Speaker 1: going to the Meadowlands to beat the Jets. The Jets,

845
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:56,840
Speaker 1: despite having on balance a season that's been a modest

846
00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:00,840
Speaker 1: success by the by the standards set by the football cognoscenti,

847
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 1: entering the season still five and nine and have lost

848
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:09,040
Speaker 1: uh six of eight. So the Chargers here a good spot,

849
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 1: right great spot in terms of their matchups and their scenario,

850
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:16,400
Speaker 1: which I don't. I think they're the a f c

851
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:19,359
Speaker 1: S version of the Charge of the Lions, where it's

852
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:21,680
Speaker 1: not that tough. I don't think you beat the Jets,

853
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:25,040
Speaker 1: you beat the Raiders, the Bills. You just need them

854
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:28,360
Speaker 1: to lose in New England this week and uh, and

855
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:31,040
Speaker 1: you watch the Titans lose two straight against much better

856
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:35,720
Speaker 1: competition Jacksonville and the Rams and the Chargers are sliding

857
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:38,440
Speaker 1: right into the playoffs, and we should watch them. We

858
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:40,719
Speaker 1: should want them over Buffalo. I mean they I get

859
00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:44,120
Speaker 1: that they last week, but over the span of the

860
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:46,239
Speaker 1: last month plus they've been one of the most fun

861
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:48,719
Speaker 1: teams to watch in football. There's a lot of re

862
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:51,719
Speaker 1: overreaction to their loss at Kansas City, combined with the

863
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:56,000
Speaker 1: Jets playing the Saints tougher than people expected. I kind

864
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:58,439
Speaker 1: of thought the Saints would have blown out the Jets

865
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:01,560
Speaker 1: if not for those two Brandon Coleman zoom fumbles. But

866
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 1: the Chargers are clearly the better team. And how many

867
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:08,279
Speaker 1: wins do you think the Chargers would have right now

868
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 1: if say Belichick or Andy Reid was the head coach

869
00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:15,239
Speaker 1: at least ten? Yeah, eleven, because they would have figured

870
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 1: they wouldn't have got the kickers. I just can't imagine

871
00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:20,320
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick having that kicker situation. He would have planned

872
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:22,680
Speaker 1: a head better. They just signed another kicker this week.

873
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:25,439
Speaker 1: By the way, they have another brand new kicker. I

874
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:28,480
Speaker 1: I Belichick more than read. With read maybe flipped the

875
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 1: record with Kansas City. The Chargers aren't the same team

876
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:32,880
Speaker 1: that they were though the Hunter Henry is out for

877
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:35,160
Speaker 1: the season. You called them a top five tight end.

878
00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:37,960
Speaker 1: I totally agree with that. Wesseling called him a top

879
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 1: five tight end. Corey Legit is out for this game,

880
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:43,719
Speaker 1: and Denzel Perriman, who turned around their run defenses, out

881
00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:45,800
Speaker 1: for this game. So even if they can win against

882
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:48,480
Speaker 1: Bryce Petty, who didn't look that good last week, that's

883
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:50,560
Speaker 1: not the same team. If those three guys aren't coming back,

884
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:52,319
Speaker 1: and Henry we know is not coming well, they are

885
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 1: playing Bryce Petty, which means I'm locking it up. I

886
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:01,719
Speaker 1: mean that's ice. Petty made two throws the whole game

887
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:04,640
Speaker 1: last week with the Chargers. I like it. That's your teams. Yeah,

888
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 1: I'm not afraid. This is a bold statement. I don't

889
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 1: I'm I don't believe in curses. I'm not a Charger's

890
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:12,200
Speaker 1: gonna charge your guy. They're a good team. They'll beat

891
00:44:12,239 --> 00:44:13,920
Speaker 1: the bad team. They're not going to charge her against

892
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:16,680
Speaker 1: the Jets. I think they're gonna make the playoffs. Like

893
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:19,200
Speaker 1: Greg said, they're They're route to the playoffs is much

894
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 1: easier than people think. We'll see. I don't know if

895
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:26,359
Speaker 1: I believe in curses, but some organizations just mess up

896
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:28,279
Speaker 1: a lot. Yeah, the bank Guards are one of them.

897
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:32,120
Speaker 1: I believe in the Bengals have ghosts. Uh to other

898
00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 1: Moe Wilkerson who got benched after showing up late to

899
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:38,359
Speaker 1: another practice. Uh, he is back practicing, but I don't

900
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:40,239
Speaker 1: think they're gonna play him because they are going to

901
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:42,440
Speaker 1: dump him after the season and they don't want him

902
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:44,880
Speaker 1: to get hurt because then the money becomes guaranteed. And

903
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:48,960
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen and we all know how important Keenan Allen is. Uh.

904
00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:53,080
Speaker 1: He is off the injury report, and miniche Meta had

905
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 1: a report that Sheldon Richardson and the Jets might get

906
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:57,880
Speaker 1: back together. I don't know, Maybe we should just let

907
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:01,440
Speaker 1: that one lie. Yeah, I don't know that that defensive line,

908
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:03,719
Speaker 1: which was so stocked a couple of years ago, is

909
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:06,799
Speaker 1: essentially it was just head cases. Yeah, well they still

910
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 1: got Leonard Williams. But yeah, big cat. They got the

911
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:13,320
Speaker 1: big cat. Let's move on. Week sixteen. Here we go, Sunday,

912
00:45:13,320 --> 00:45:17,800
Speaker 1: one pm. Start the Los Angeles Rams, the great team

913
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:25,920
Speaker 1: of around the NFL. Oh. Yes, they destroyed a reckoning

914
00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:30,240
Speaker 1: in Seattle. They destroyed the Seahawks. They are tenant four.

915
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 1: They leave the NFC West, they can get a top

916
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:36,960
Speaker 1: seed still in the NFC, and now they go to

917
00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:41,080
Speaker 1: Tennessee to face the Tytoons, who have lost two straight

918
00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:43,960
Speaker 1: and look every bit like a team that's gonna limp

919
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:46,760
Speaker 1: their way out of the playoff picture. Do they stop

920
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:52,960
Speaker 1: the bleeding in Week sixteen? Mark Sessler the Titans. No,

921
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:55,080
Speaker 1: I mean it's Rams team. You look at their point

922
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:59,080
Speaker 1: out point every week they are pouring on thirty forty.

923
00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:01,000
Speaker 1: They crossed fifty points at one point. I mean they

924
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:04,759
Speaker 1: are destroying teams with their offense, and you watch go

925
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:08,680
Speaker 1: back and watch how Jimmy G with nothing around him,

926
00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:11,879
Speaker 1: carved up this defense in the final quarter, he took

927
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:14,279
Speaker 1: the lead twice there were the Titans do not have

928
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:17,000
Speaker 1: a terrible defense, but they could not get anything. They

929
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:19,080
Speaker 1: could not stop Jimmy G. I don't see them stopping

930
00:46:19,080 --> 00:46:21,680
Speaker 1: the Rams. It has been They're gonna get a home

931
00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:24,759
Speaker 1: playoff game for the first time since nine. I think

932
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:26,600
Speaker 1: we can all get behind that because we may go

933
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 1: to it too. But this Rams team has got to

934
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:30,880
Speaker 1: be looked at, with all the injuries in the NFC,

935
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:34,040
Speaker 1: as the team that I think is the most dangerous outfit,

936
00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:36,520
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be the toughest to take out. I

937
00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:39,719
Speaker 1: really hope the Titans lose their last two games, uh,

938
00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:41,960
Speaker 1: and it'll be so fitting that Matt Castle will have

939
00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:44,319
Speaker 1: cost them the playoffs and we can have a frank

940
00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:49,400
Speaker 1: discussion about the fetishizing of veteran security blank up quarterbacks

941
00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:53,239
Speaker 1: instead of a better backup quarterback situation. Matt Castle should

942
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:55,440
Speaker 1: have never been on this roster. It's gonna cost them.

943
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:58,000
Speaker 1: They would have won that Dolphins game because the Dolphins

944
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:01,279
Speaker 1: played so awfully with any other quarterbacks I'm sure, but

945
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:04,320
Speaker 1: they and no way deserve it anyways, and ultimately they'll

946
00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:07,839
Speaker 1: if that happens. They've lost four straight games to end

947
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:10,600
Speaker 1: the play to end their regular season with Mariota, and

948
00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:12,479
Speaker 1: I think it's because they get out coached every week.

949
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:17,160
Speaker 1: Bruce Arians outcoached him, Mike Malarkey, Kyle Shanahan out coached

950
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:19,720
Speaker 1: Mike Malarkey. Now he's got to go up against McVeigh

951
00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:22,279
Speaker 1: and Wade Phillips good luck, and then I think if

952
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:24,239
Speaker 1: they go eight and eight there, there could very well

953
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:26,799
Speaker 1: be a change from Marcus Mariota in the head. And

954
00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 1: the one time that they went up against a true

955
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:33,120
Speaker 1: a f C power, the Steelers, it was an embarrassment.

956
00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 1: They got wiped out in that game and they've not

957
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:38,200
Speaker 1: shown anything since. They moved the ball really well once

958
00:47:38,239 --> 00:47:40,280
Speaker 1: they went to hurry up last week, and Richard Matthews

959
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:42,879
Speaker 1: kind of complained about the coaching staff there at least

960
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:45,239
Speaker 1: that we gotta let Marcus call the plays more often

961
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:47,320
Speaker 1: and do that. The second they did that about midway

962
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:49,720
Speaker 1: through the second quarter, they basically did whatever they wanted

963
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:52,000
Speaker 1: on offense too, So maybe we'll see a little more

964
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:54,600
Speaker 1: of that this week. A little under the radar um

965
00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:57,280
Speaker 1: this week. But it's it's a big deal because Greg's

966
00:47:57,280 --> 00:47:59,000
Speaker 1: oirline who has been one of the best kickers in

967
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:02,240
Speaker 1: the NFL of this season. He's he was just elected

968
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:04,759
Speaker 1: to the Pro Bowl. He's done for the season, herniated

969
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:07,200
Speaker 1: disc in his back, and the Rams now have signed

970
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:11,000
Speaker 1: Sam Faking to be his replacement. It sounds like a

971
00:48:11,040 --> 00:48:13,320
Speaker 1: made up name for a kicker, and you're gonna insert

972
00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:16,480
Speaker 1: this guy, this no name, into the middle of a

973
00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:22,280
Speaker 1: Super Bowl chase and we'll see what happens. Shane Greg

974
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:24,880
Speaker 1: the leg was going to break David Akers single season

975
00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:28,240
Speaker 1: record for points by a kicker. He only needed I believe,

976
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 1: eight more points of the final two games to do it.

977
00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:32,800
Speaker 1: They still might have the best punter in the league,

978
00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:34,680
Speaker 1: and they still might have the best return man in

979
00:48:34,719 --> 00:48:36,680
Speaker 1: the league in Pharaoh Cooper. The best special teams in

980
00:48:36,719 --> 00:48:39,319
Speaker 1: the league slipping under the radar, But the reason they

981
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:41,399
Speaker 1: scored all those points last week, it was more about

982
00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:44,600
Speaker 1: the special teams in the defense and Pharrell Cooper especially

983
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:46,480
Speaker 1: setting them up on the other side of the fifty

984
00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:50,120
Speaker 1: every single possession. My one last plea for Sean McVeigh

985
00:48:50,239 --> 00:48:53,200
Speaker 1: Coach of the Year. The Rams seven team point three

986
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:55,680
Speaker 1: points per game difference from last year is the highest

987
00:48:55,719 --> 00:48:57,720
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl era by more than two points

988
00:48:57,719 --> 00:49:01,319
Speaker 1: per game. They have the greatest increasing yards per drive,

989
00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:04,840
Speaker 1: scoring rate per drive, and TD per rate per drive

990
00:49:05,239 --> 00:49:07,480
Speaker 1: of any team in the league. This year, the Redskins

991
00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:10,480
Speaker 1: have the greatest decreasing yards per drive and the third

992
00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:12,960
Speaker 1: greatest decrease. That's the offense he was running last year.

993
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:15,000
Speaker 1: He has made that much of a difference in the

994
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:17,560
Speaker 1: NA Don't we think he's wrapped that up. I keep

995
00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:20,160
Speaker 1: hearing from Mike Zimmer fans and Doug Peterson and Doug

996
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:22,399
Speaker 1: Marown fans, and that's fine, But we see what those

997
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:25,400
Speaker 1: guys do every year. We see those kinds of coaching

998
00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:27,759
Speaker 1: jobs every year. We don't see what McVeigh. I've never

999
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:32,280
Speaker 1: seen what McVeigh has done. Alright, seventeen to seventeen NFC

1000
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:37,360
Speaker 1: Divisional Playoffs, Lions hanging around the Rams at the Coliseum.

1001
00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:42,719
Speaker 1: Everyone's shocked. Wild card, Yeah, wild card? Excuse me? And

1002
00:49:43,880 --> 00:49:46,920
Speaker 1: here we go forty five yard attempt by the Rams

1003
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:49,680
Speaker 1: to win it at the end of regulation. Do you

1004
00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:55,719
Speaker 1: trust Sam Fiking or Johnny Hecker. I'm sending Hecker out there.

1005
00:49:56,760 --> 00:49:59,319
Speaker 1: That guy can kick he could punt, he could kick,

1006
00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:02,239
Speaker 1: I'm dressed John Fossil. Whatever he does and sprinkles on

1007
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:05,000
Speaker 1: his special teamers, it all works. Yeah, you never know

1008
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:07,000
Speaker 1: what he'll be good. You never know what kickers. The

1009
00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:09,960
Speaker 1: Chiefs picked up Harrison Bucker and he was an improvement

1010
00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:13,120
Speaker 1: on the guy they had before moving out on Viker.

1011
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:16,360
Speaker 1: I got I got a feeling about the Biker, you know,

1012
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:18,719
Speaker 1: because the team of a t L we we feel

1013
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:22,280
Speaker 1: close to them. I don't want some outsider, this Viking

1014
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:25,440
Speaker 1: character ruining everything, as kickers tend to do. I'm just

1015
00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:28,040
Speaker 1: nervous about it. Is his name really pronounced Viking or Ficking?

1016
00:50:30,680 --> 00:50:35,400
Speaker 1: The Denver Broncos are five and nine. Um Brockos Widler

1017
00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:38,480
Speaker 1: played really well against the Colts, but it was against

1018
00:50:38,520 --> 00:50:42,120
Speaker 1: the Colts. Now he goes to Washington play the Redskins West. Uh,

1019
00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:44,080
Speaker 1: we don't have to talk about this one for that long.

1020
00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:46,399
Speaker 1: But what what is something to watch for in this game?

1021
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:49,400
Speaker 1: You think will Paxton Lynch play or not? Does he

1022
00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:52,239
Speaker 1: have a two game window here to do something anything

1023
00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:56,719
Speaker 1: to make John Elwade have second thoughts about addressing the

1024
00:50:56,800 --> 00:51:01,160
Speaker 1: quarterback situation. But I think the here's my idea for

1025
00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:04,719
Speaker 1: a game like this week sixteen weeks seventeen. Let's start

1026
00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:09,439
Speaker 1: experimenting with the broadcast. This isn't radio. We don't need

1027
00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:12,239
Speaker 1: some somebody man splaining the game of NFL football to

1028
00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:14,440
Speaker 1: us while we're watching. Is it's a good time? Like

1029
00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:18,520
Speaker 1: with technology changing, people going streaming, you need like a

1030
00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:21,200
Speaker 1: mystery science theater three thousand type of feel to these

1031
00:51:21,239 --> 00:51:23,919
Speaker 1: games just for the entertainment value. Nobody wants to watch

1032
00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:27,560
Speaker 1: Broncos versus a depleted Redskins team right now. Let's start

1033
00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:30,359
Speaker 1: experiment with a broadcast. What do you want them to do?

1034
00:51:30,760 --> 00:51:33,160
Speaker 1: Like I said, some kind of mystery science theater three

1035
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:36,640
Speaker 1: thousand things like just four four guys in a podcast,

1036
00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:40,759
Speaker 1: an idea, four guys in a podcast. Alright now you're

1037
00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:43,960
Speaker 1: cooking with a gas a little you know, subversive, maybe

1038
00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:47,040
Speaker 1: a little irreverent um, a little bit of mirth, a

1039
00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:49,920
Speaker 1: little bit of mirth in the booth, you know, I mean,

1040
00:51:49,960 --> 00:51:52,160
Speaker 1: I like to plan. You've there's a lot of great

1041
00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:55,120
Speaker 1: games this weekend, and you just essentially assigned the four

1042
00:51:55,160 --> 00:51:58,200
Speaker 1: of us to watch Broncos Redskins as a group. The

1043
00:51:58,239 --> 00:52:02,759
Speaker 1: massive I'll if there's cash attached to it, I'll watch it.

1044
00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:09,360
Speaker 1: And it removes Catalano and Lofton from the shots fired.

1045
00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:12,399
Speaker 1: I thought Catalan has been okay, you got a problem

1046
00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:17,719
Speaker 1: with Catalan. I don't think the duo works well. What

1047
00:52:17,800 --> 00:52:21,040
Speaker 1: about the guy downstairs? Tasker done a nice job in

1048
00:52:21,080 --> 00:52:25,600
Speaker 1: the blizzard because usually taskers with with the old burline

1049
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:29,000
Speaker 1: in McCarthy, that's a that's a. I like McCarthy Tasker

1050
00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:32,600
Speaker 1: was at the snow game. Though with loft In, they

1051
00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:36,160
Speaker 1: have to bring out the old Bills heroes. Sometimes he

1052
00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:42,800
Speaker 1: does sideline reporter, but sometimes he's a third totally special

1053
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:46,560
Speaker 1: team's ace. Let's move on the Jacksonville Jaguars tenant for

1054
00:52:47,719 --> 00:52:50,799
Speaker 1: they have won seven with eight oh man and they

1055
00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:55,440
Speaker 1: still still can get into that top two seed territory

1056
00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:58,000
Speaker 1: to grab a bye if some things go their way

1057
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:01,120
Speaker 1: and they take care of business. It starts on Christmas

1058
00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:05,840
Speaker 1: Eve against the forty Niners, who are three and oh

1059
00:53:06,080 --> 00:53:10,919
Speaker 1: with Jimmy Garoppolo as they're starting quarterback. But consider this

1060
00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:15,240
Speaker 1: a major test for the young passer because the Jags

1061
00:53:15,280 --> 00:53:19,520
Speaker 1: defense has been making qbs look silly all season. They

1062
00:53:19,520 --> 00:53:22,759
Speaker 1: have so many guys that like Malik Jackson, I feel

1063
00:53:22,760 --> 00:53:24,319
Speaker 1: like I don't know if he's been mentioned on this

1064
00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:26,640
Speaker 1: show at all this year, just about and he has

1065
00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:29,839
Speaker 1: been dominating for We've actually mentioned him constantly every week

1066
00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:32,319
Speaker 1: every show. I mean, they have so many guys you

1067
00:53:32,320 --> 00:53:34,200
Speaker 1: don't know who to talk about unique and Goakway has

1068
00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:37,120
Speaker 1: eleven sacks and six force fumbles. He's like the modern

1069
00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:40,200
Speaker 1: He's the new Robert mathis shaped a little different, but

1070
00:53:40,239 --> 00:53:42,840
Speaker 1: just that speed around the edge and getting the forced fumbles.

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00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:47,120
Speaker 1: Jimmy g has been great. But I don't know, I

1072
00:53:47,320 --> 00:53:50,120
Speaker 1: don't I see that streak ending this week. And that's

1073
00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:55,480
Speaker 1: why I shall lock this game up ten and four,

1074
00:53:55,600 --> 00:54:00,719
Speaker 1: locking up against the four and ten theory Aaron around here.

1075
00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:02,840
Speaker 1: I mean in theory, that's a lot closer. That's the

1076
00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:05,719
Speaker 1: same point spread as Bears Brown's, or it's lower than

1077
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:09,239
Speaker 1: uh I locked up. I've locked up a team that's

1078
00:54:09,239 --> 00:54:12,000
Speaker 1: won one game. It's a little bit less say it

1079
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:13,919
Speaker 1: sort of been a bigger favorite. You know the rules.

1080
00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:16,520
Speaker 1: It's no one's saying anything. It's you gotta look in

1081
00:54:16,560 --> 00:54:19,560
Speaker 1: the mirror. Did you look in the mirror? Yeah, I'm good.

1082
00:54:20,320 --> 00:54:22,719
Speaker 1: I'm sort of jealous of forty Niners fans right now

1083
00:54:22,760 --> 00:54:26,560
Speaker 1: because they get to experience one of the greatest perks

1084
00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:30,239
Speaker 1: of being a sports fan, the endless possibilities of having

1085
00:54:30,280 --> 00:54:34,719
Speaker 1: a young, franchise altering talent. And that's what Jimmy G

1086
00:54:34,880 --> 00:54:38,560
Speaker 1: looks like to me. And let me work forty Niners

1087
00:54:38,640 --> 00:54:43,560
Speaker 1: fans into a little uh hysteria here when I watched

1088
00:54:43,640 --> 00:54:46,160
Speaker 1: Jimmy G play. These are some of the names that

1089
00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:49,120
Speaker 1: I think of. He has Joe Montana footwork on ruleout.

1090
00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:53,160
Speaker 1: He has Aaron Aaron Rodgers ability to throw quickly and

1091
00:54:53,320 --> 00:54:56,520
Speaker 1: with accuracy off off platform. He doesn't need to set

1092
00:54:56,520 --> 00:54:59,919
Speaker 1: his feet. He like Kurt Warner. He has a quick

1093
00:55:00,040 --> 00:55:02,480
Speaker 1: release and hits people in stride so they can run

1094
00:55:02,520 --> 00:55:05,040
Speaker 1: and make plays out the catch. Like Tom Brady. He

1095
00:55:05,080 --> 00:55:07,399
Speaker 1: has ice water in his veins in the two minute drill,

1096
00:55:07,880 --> 00:55:10,600
Speaker 1: And like Tom Brady, he spreads the ball around to

1097
00:55:10,760 --> 00:55:13,480
Speaker 1: eight or nine different guys and moves the chains instead

1098
00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:16,200
Speaker 1: of scoring really quickly. He knows how to keep his

1099
00:55:16,239 --> 00:55:20,000
Speaker 1: defense off the field. He's got some elements of He's

1100
00:55:20,040 --> 00:55:22,200
Speaker 1: not a guy who's killing teams outside the numbers and

1101
00:55:22,239 --> 00:55:24,120
Speaker 1: down the field, and I don't think he's ever gonna

1102
00:55:24,160 --> 00:55:26,600
Speaker 1: be that guy, but he does have some elements of

1103
00:55:26,640 --> 00:55:31,719
Speaker 1: some great quarterbacks that the NFL films Wired Piece. I

1104
00:55:31,719 --> 00:55:35,480
Speaker 1: think that they aired on Turning Point. Is that the

1105
00:55:35,560 --> 00:55:37,360
Speaker 1: right name for the show was. It was fantastic The

1106
00:55:37,360 --> 00:55:40,080
Speaker 1: way that he coaches up the receivers to me, like,

1107
00:55:40,120 --> 00:55:43,200
Speaker 1: that's how you make your teammates better. That he's speaking

1108
00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:45,440
Speaker 1: very specifically in terms of the coverage and the routes

1109
00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:47,879
Speaker 1: that they're gonna see and coming up with a plan

1110
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:50,480
Speaker 1: to help Trent Taylor and whoever else did is Kendrick

1111
00:55:50,480 --> 00:55:53,959
Speaker 1: Borne get open? I mean, that's that's it. That's quarterback player.

1112
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:55,600
Speaker 1: That was the best part of that film was him

1113
00:55:55,640 --> 00:55:59,120
Speaker 1: talking to the receivers. I agree. Uh. Moving on, the

1114
00:55:59,160 --> 00:56:02,600
Speaker 1: New York Giants two and twelve travel to Arizona to

1115
00:56:02,600 --> 00:56:05,400
Speaker 1: face the six and eight Cardinals, one of three games

1116
00:56:05,719 --> 00:56:11,160
Speaker 1: on the schedule with no playoff implications. Mark, if you

1117
00:56:11,320 --> 00:56:13,480
Speaker 1: got a sign to this game on Sunday, what would

1118
00:56:13,520 --> 00:56:15,480
Speaker 1: you be watching for? Well, I guess what I'd be

1119
00:56:15,520 --> 00:56:19,000
Speaker 1: looking for is really the future, because there's nothing at

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Speaker 1: this point outside of New York's draft picks status to

1121
00:56:21,719 --> 00:56:23,840
Speaker 1: to latch onto in this game. How about a little

1122
00:56:23,880 --> 00:56:28,080
Speaker 1: game of what's more likely? Oh yeah, let's do it

1123
00:56:28,920 --> 00:56:33,840
Speaker 1: more all right, what's more likely? The Giants keep Eli

1124
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:36,480
Speaker 1: Manning for one more season. Let's say some coach comes

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00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:38,520
Speaker 1: in there and reverse his course and says, I love

1126
00:56:38,560 --> 00:56:42,600
Speaker 1: Eli Manning. Or Bruce Arians stays in Arizona for one

1127
00:56:42,600 --> 00:56:47,040
Speaker 1: more year, or the Giants dump Eli is expected, but

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Speaker 1: he winds up with Arians in Arizona? Well, is Arians back?

1129
00:56:53,360 --> 00:56:55,279
Speaker 1: I'm going with Eli? States Well, that's one of them.

1130
00:56:55,320 --> 00:56:58,040
Speaker 1: Is one of the options? Was just Eli in New York? Right?

1131
00:56:58,080 --> 00:57:00,279
Speaker 1: I do not expect the Arians back, and I think

1132
00:57:00,320 --> 00:57:03,480
Speaker 1: there's a decent chance Eli is back. I don't expect it,

1133
00:57:03,719 --> 00:57:06,320
Speaker 1: but when you have the owner on the record saying

1134
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:08,920
Speaker 1: I want Eli back, there's gotta be a chance for

1135
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:11,520
Speaker 1: him to be back. What did it makes sense? Let's

1136
00:57:11,520 --> 00:57:13,719
Speaker 1: say the Giants end up and if they're smart, they

1137
00:57:13,719 --> 00:57:16,520
Speaker 1: stay right where they are. They get the number two picks.

1138
00:57:16,520 --> 00:57:19,160
Speaker 1: So then if they really want a quarterback, and you

1139
00:57:19,200 --> 00:57:21,600
Speaker 1: know Rosen and Donald are the two guys you would

1140
00:57:21,640 --> 00:57:24,400
Speaker 1: get one of them if if your organization was looking

1141
00:57:24,400 --> 00:57:27,880
Speaker 1: in that direction. Elik it's probably not the worst guy

1142
00:57:27,920 --> 00:57:30,840
Speaker 1: to have in the building when you have a young quarterback.

1143
00:57:30,960 --> 00:57:32,840
Speaker 1: And maybe it goes wrong because Eli is such a

1144
00:57:32,880 --> 00:57:34,920
Speaker 1: stalwart and all that, but I don't get the the

1145
00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:38,280
Speaker 1: feeling that he would be Brett Farvean. Would it be

1146
00:57:38,280 --> 00:57:40,760
Speaker 1: the worst thing to have Eli for another year, had

1147
00:57:40,840 --> 00:57:43,680
Speaker 1: the kid in the building, maybe transfer over mid season,

1148
00:57:43,720 --> 00:57:47,000
Speaker 1: which wouldn't make nearly as a big wave now because

1149
00:57:47,040 --> 00:57:49,560
Speaker 1: the consecutive game streak is over, because there's a real

1150
00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:52,400
Speaker 1: in house young kid and not Gino Smith. There's some

1151
00:57:52,560 --> 00:57:55,240
Speaker 1: logic to that. You have to make that decision in February, though.

1152
00:57:55,280 --> 00:57:56,760
Speaker 1: You have to decide, and let's say they have the

1153
00:57:57,040 --> 00:58:00,400
Speaker 1: number two pick, whether they're taking that quarterback in February,

1154
00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:03,040
Speaker 1: because if not, then then what are you doing? Like

1155
00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:05,640
Speaker 1: you you have the free agency period first, and you

1156
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:07,280
Speaker 1: have to make that decision that no, we're not going

1157
00:58:07,360 --> 00:58:09,600
Speaker 1: to look around at what's available in trades and free

1158
00:58:09,640 --> 00:58:16,000
Speaker 1: agency now. Bruce Arians as a complex relationship to um

1159
00:58:16,240 --> 00:58:19,520
Speaker 1: truth and lies. He's admitted before that he's willing to

1160
00:58:19,520 --> 00:58:22,320
Speaker 1: lie if it serves his purposes. But when the reports

1161
00:58:22,360 --> 00:58:24,920
Speaker 1: came out that he was retiring in October, he tweeted

1162
00:58:25,560 --> 00:58:27,880
Speaker 1: news to me, nothing could be further from the truth.

1163
00:58:29,120 --> 00:58:31,880
Speaker 1: So I don't maybe I don't know. I tend to

1164
00:58:31,920 --> 00:58:34,560
Speaker 1: think that Palmer, Fitzgerald, and Arians are all coming back

1165
00:58:34,760 --> 00:58:38,320
Speaker 1: He has two assistants, Bruce Arians on his staff that

1166
00:58:38,400 --> 00:58:41,040
Speaker 1: I think are a combined age about a hundred and seventy.

1167
00:58:41,520 --> 00:58:44,520
Speaker 1: Tom Moore, yeah More, is one of them, and I

1168
00:58:44,560 --> 00:58:46,200
Speaker 1: forgot the name of the other, but it's it's like

1169
00:58:46,320 --> 00:58:48,760
Speaker 1: he's around coaches. He does not have a super young

1170
00:58:48,840 --> 00:58:51,640
Speaker 1: coaching staff. His peers are his age and older. In

1171
00:58:51,680 --> 00:58:54,520
Speaker 1: many cases. His book made me think he was retiring

1172
00:58:54,560 --> 00:58:57,600
Speaker 1: more than anything, because he first of all, he basically

1173
00:58:57,600 --> 00:59:00,240
Speaker 1: wrote that he like one more year sounds good. Just

1174
00:59:00,560 --> 00:59:02,960
Speaker 1: the toll that the health takes, the health has been

1175
00:59:03,040 --> 00:59:06,400
Speaker 1: taken on him, and the excitement he has about living

1176
00:59:06,400 --> 00:59:09,640
Speaker 1: the rest of his life with his wife and experiencing

1177
00:59:09,680 --> 00:59:12,240
Speaker 1: things with her before health, you know, really knocks him down.

1178
00:59:12,440 --> 00:59:14,640
Speaker 1: He was pretty adamant about that in the book, and

1179
00:59:14,640 --> 00:59:16,000
Speaker 1: that's why I thought, I've been thinking this is the

1180
00:59:16,080 --> 00:59:18,480
Speaker 1: last year. Yeah. I I talked to somebody in September

1181
00:59:18,520 --> 00:59:20,840
Speaker 1: that somebody that's close to the game and is plugged in,

1182
00:59:20,880 --> 00:59:23,440
Speaker 1: and he said this, Everyone was aware of this, that

1183
00:59:23,520 --> 00:59:26,120
Speaker 1: this is the end for Arians. Now. Was that true?

1184
00:59:26,160 --> 00:59:28,080
Speaker 1: I don't know. Could he have changed his mind from

1185
00:59:28,120 --> 00:59:31,160
Speaker 1: then until now, That's also possible, but I guess, well,

1186
00:59:31,200 --> 00:59:32,880
Speaker 1: I don't know if this Cardinal season would have done

1187
00:59:32,920 --> 00:59:36,440
Speaker 1: to change done much to change his mind. But that's uh.

1188
00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:39,160
Speaker 1: To answer your question, mark, what's real likely? What's more likely?

1189
00:59:39,280 --> 00:59:41,520
Speaker 1: I think Eli being back? That would be my responser

1190
00:59:41,840 --> 00:59:44,400
Speaker 1: did you give? Your response? Was mine? Is Eron's returning

1191
00:59:45,520 --> 00:59:51,160
Speaker 1: and Eli being Eli will quarterback somewhere else the Cardinals. No,

1192
00:59:51,280 --> 00:59:52,720
Speaker 1: that was a third option. I don't think it was

1193
00:59:53,080 --> 00:59:55,680
Speaker 1: triple I don't think I think Bruce arians would much

1194
00:59:55,720 --> 00:59:58,880
Speaker 1: rather have Carson Palmer back than Eli Manning. Moving on.

1195
00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:04,160
Speaker 1: The Seattle seaw losers of two straight and uh they

1196
01:00:04,200 --> 01:00:07,440
Speaker 1: got decimated by the Rams, of course, uh at the

1197
01:00:07,520 --> 01:00:12,240
Speaker 1: clink on Sunday. Now travel to Dallas to face the Cowboys,

1198
01:00:12,520 --> 01:00:16,680
Speaker 1: one of those true loser goes home matches. West. I

1199
01:00:16,720 --> 01:00:19,320
Speaker 1: know you're excited. Yeah, it's you don't get to see

1200
01:00:19,320 --> 01:00:21,440
Speaker 1: the loser goes home match very often and this one

1201
01:00:21,520 --> 01:00:25,480
Speaker 1: definitely the loser. You're done for the season. Um, I

1202
01:00:25,520 --> 01:00:28,840
Speaker 1: feel better about the Cowboys. All this talk that Alf

1203
01:00:28,920 --> 01:00:32,520
Speaker 1: Morris is somehow close to Zeke Elliott is foolish to

1204
01:00:32,840 --> 01:00:39,080
Speaker 1: the nth degree. Dak basically is sub J Cutler without Zeke. Uh,

1205
01:00:39,120 --> 01:00:42,720
Speaker 1: and he's in the phil Rivers big Ben range with

1206
01:00:42,720 --> 01:00:45,960
Speaker 1: with Zeke, so there's a major difference there. He's thirtieth

1207
01:00:45,960 --> 01:00:48,960
Speaker 1: in touchdown to interception ratio. Since Zeke went out, the

1208
01:00:49,000 --> 01:00:53,040
Speaker 1: Cowboys have seventy five total yards per game fewer and

1209
01:00:53,120 --> 01:00:56,080
Speaker 1: ten points per game fewer fewer. Without Zeke in the lineup.

1210
01:00:56,360 --> 01:00:59,160
Speaker 1: He is as important as any running back in the NFL.

1211
01:00:59,160 --> 01:01:01,479
Speaker 1: I think it's Elliott through passing game two. He makes

1212
01:01:01,520 --> 01:01:06,240
Speaker 1: incredible plays and it's right, you have to gain plan

1213
01:01:06,400 --> 01:01:09,200
Speaker 1: for Zekiel Elliott, completely different than Alfred Morris in the

1214
01:01:09,280 --> 01:01:11,880
Speaker 1: yardage totals. That had a lot to do with just

1215
01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:14,200
Speaker 1: game planning and how they had to attack with Dak

1216
01:01:14,200 --> 01:01:16,160
Speaker 1: Prescott not seen the same thing down the field, but

1217
01:01:16,200 --> 01:01:18,080
Speaker 1: without without Zeke on there, I mean, it's just like

1218
01:01:18,520 --> 01:01:21,400
Speaker 1: he's a incredible acid and he looks like the guy

1219
01:01:21,400 --> 01:01:23,880
Speaker 1: could have gone away and not kept his body in shape.

1220
01:01:23,880 --> 01:01:27,480
Speaker 1: He did the opposite. But this Cowboys team doesn't look

1221
01:01:27,520 --> 01:01:29,240
Speaker 1: like a good team. It's not a good it's not

1222
01:01:29,280 --> 01:01:31,520
Speaker 1: a particularly good defense, and they don't have a particularly

1223
01:01:31,560 --> 01:01:33,880
Speaker 1: good passing game. And the fact that they fell apart

1224
01:01:33,920 --> 01:01:36,280
Speaker 1: without Zeke, I mean, they weren't great, they weren't consistent.

1225
01:01:36,360 --> 01:01:38,960
Speaker 1: Really throwing the ball even with Zeke, especially the Doz

1226
01:01:39,080 --> 01:01:42,600
Speaker 1: Bryant Cole Beasley. Like these two teams, if they were

1227
01:01:42,600 --> 01:01:44,720
Speaker 1: playing anyone else, I picked them to lose. I feel

1228
01:01:44,760 --> 01:01:46,800
Speaker 1: like they're two teams kind of waiting to be put

1229
01:01:46,800 --> 01:01:49,800
Speaker 1: out of their misery. But the Seahawks are even more

1230
01:01:49,880 --> 01:01:53,480
Speaker 1: miserable right now in terms of their injuries. Michael Bennett's

1231
01:01:53,480 --> 01:01:55,280
Speaker 1: on the field right now, but he does not seem

1232
01:01:55,320 --> 01:01:58,200
Speaker 1: like Michael Bennett. He's playing hurt. He was blocked out

1233
01:01:58,200 --> 01:02:01,200
Speaker 1: of plays by Tyler Higbee last week. Like even the

1234
01:02:01,200 --> 01:02:04,280
Speaker 1: guys that are there that are their their mainstays, are

1235
01:02:04,400 --> 01:02:13,160
Speaker 1: mostly falling apart. Who let's game, Mark, I will go Dallas, Dallas.

1236
01:02:13,240 --> 01:02:16,240
Speaker 1: I've got the Cowboys, and I predict that they will

1237
01:02:16,280 --> 01:02:18,880
Speaker 1: win these last two games, maybe against you know, backups

1238
01:02:18,880 --> 01:02:21,600
Speaker 1: of Philly. They'll get knocked out of the playoffs at

1239
01:02:21,640 --> 01:02:25,120
Speaker 1: ten and six, and they'll have convinced themselves all off

1240
01:02:25,160 --> 01:02:28,960
Speaker 1: season that actually they were a super Bowl team because

1241
01:02:29,960 --> 01:02:32,160
Speaker 1: with with Zeke Elliott and they were not without him,

1242
01:02:32,160 --> 01:02:34,640
Speaker 1: and that that basically ended their season and they'd be wrong.

1243
01:02:34,720 --> 01:02:36,480
Speaker 1: I could see that, and then I I I look

1244
01:02:36,480 --> 01:02:39,240
Speaker 1: at the Seahawks and I think They're organizationally wouldn't have

1245
01:02:39,280 --> 01:02:41,640
Speaker 1: let this happen to the same degree. But you see

1246
01:02:41,680 --> 01:02:44,320
Speaker 1: what happened when Jim Harbaugh left the forty nine. If

1247
01:02:44,320 --> 01:02:46,840
Speaker 1: this was ever a scenario where Pete Carroll was not

1248
01:02:46,880 --> 01:02:49,360
Speaker 1: going to come back. But you have players Jimmy Graham,

1249
01:02:49,480 --> 01:02:53,480
Speaker 1: Richard Sherman, Cam Chancellor, Earl Thomas, Cliff Avril, maybe even

1250
01:02:53,480 --> 01:02:55,560
Speaker 1: Michael Bennett. Are these guys all gonna be back? I

1251
01:02:55,600 --> 01:02:57,280
Speaker 1: think most of them will not be back. You could

1252
01:02:57,280 --> 01:02:59,520
Speaker 1: have a vastly different roster next season, and they went

1253
01:02:59,560 --> 01:03:03,280
Speaker 1: all in. They traded for Sheldon Richardson as a win

1254
01:03:03,400 --> 01:03:06,040
Speaker 1: now moving who was the other win now Dwayne Brown.

1255
01:03:06,080 --> 01:03:08,640
Speaker 1: Trade Dwayne Brown, who was good to have around next

1256
01:03:08,720 --> 01:03:11,160
Speaker 1: year for sure, He's good left tackle. But they they

1257
01:03:11,240 --> 01:03:13,840
Speaker 1: thought this was their chance, and that the injuries really

1258
01:03:13,920 --> 01:03:18,280
Speaker 1: killed two of those stars. Um Bobby Wagner, who has

1259
01:03:18,320 --> 01:03:21,680
Speaker 1: been playing on one leg like Michael Bennett, Um Earl

1260
01:03:21,760 --> 01:03:24,000
Speaker 1: Thomas had made some type of comment that it would

1261
01:03:24,000 --> 01:03:27,800
Speaker 1: have been better off if Wagner didn't play on Sunday,

1262
01:03:27,960 --> 01:03:31,320
Speaker 1: which led to that tweet that you referenced Sunday Um

1263
01:03:31,360 --> 01:03:34,200
Speaker 1: Greg on the podcast of him keep Was it one

1264
01:03:34,200 --> 01:03:36,280
Speaker 1: of those keep your my name out of your mouth

1265
01:03:36,480 --> 01:03:41,480
Speaker 1: situations essentially, yes, e Um, Well, Bobby Wagner now has

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Speaker 1: he's contrite about the situation, and he found guidance on

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Speaker 1: the subject from an interesting place. Let's listening. I was,

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Speaker 1: you know, I was. It was funny. I was listening

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01:03:50,920 --> 01:03:53,480
Speaker 1: to UM Kevin Hart interview last week and he was

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01:03:53,520 --> 01:03:56,120
Speaker 1: kind of in the interviews kind of talking about UM

1271
01:03:56,960 --> 01:03:59,400
Speaker 1: the way he kind of handles issues and handles things.

1272
01:03:59,400 --> 01:04:01,840
Speaker 1: He likes to face him, you know, head on. Don't

1273
01:04:01,880 --> 01:04:05,000
Speaker 1: want to run from him. So you know, UM, I'm

1274
01:04:05,080 --> 01:04:08,040
Speaker 1: pretty sure I'm gonna ask so in regards to everything

1275
01:04:08,080 --> 01:04:11,600
Speaker 1: that happened, you know, do I I feel like I, um,

1276
01:04:11,600 --> 01:04:14,040
Speaker 1: you know, misshandhim the situation. Yeah, there was a better

1277
01:04:14,040 --> 01:04:16,280
Speaker 1: way of going about the situation. UM, I could have

1278
01:04:16,320 --> 01:04:21,520
Speaker 1: did better, and uh, you know it's one of those things. Uh.

1279
01:04:22,160 --> 01:04:25,560
Speaker 1: Crazy thing is though, Earl Thomas completely refuted that account

1280
01:04:25,960 --> 01:04:28,640
Speaker 1: and said they basically didn't talk. And he said, ain't

1281
01:04:28,640 --> 01:04:31,720
Speaker 1: no patching. If that's in your heart, that's cool, let's

1282
01:04:31,760 --> 01:04:35,960
Speaker 1: finish strong. That was there was no forgiveness and Earl

1283
01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:38,720
Speaker 1: Thomas's heart, well, maybe Earl Thomas needs to watch them.

1284
01:04:38,800 --> 01:04:42,880
Speaker 1: Kevin Hart press tour by Kevin Hart for his latest

1285
01:04:42,880 --> 01:04:47,240
Speaker 1: bad movie. Let's move on. Uh the Monday night Uh,

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01:04:47,320 --> 01:04:51,960
Speaker 1: that's Christmas game, Monday afternoon Christmas game the Pittsburgh Steelers

1287
01:04:52,120 --> 01:04:55,440
Speaker 1: at the Houston Texans. We know the situation with the

1288
01:04:55,440 --> 01:05:00,040
Speaker 1: Steelers after Sunday Shenanigans against the Patriots. They need to

1289
01:05:00,120 --> 01:05:02,080
Speaker 1: have any chance to get that first seed back, They're

1290
01:05:02,120 --> 01:05:04,720
Speaker 1: gonna have to win out and uh, it starts with

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01:05:04,800 --> 01:05:07,520
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans. That feels like a day up, Greg,

1292
01:05:07,640 --> 01:05:09,720
Speaker 1: you would think so this this game will tell us

1293
01:05:09,760 --> 01:05:13,160
Speaker 1: something about the Steelers, like they should be not not

1294
01:05:13,320 --> 01:05:16,280
Speaker 1: drained from last week from an emotional really couple of

1295
01:05:16,320 --> 01:05:19,680
Speaker 1: weeks against the Bengals, Ravens and Steelers. They should be

1296
01:05:19,840 --> 01:05:21,920
Speaker 1: ready to put that taste out of their mouth and

1297
01:05:21,960 --> 01:05:25,120
Speaker 1: just destroy this team because there's really no excute Antonio Brown,

1298
01:05:25,160 --> 01:05:29,240
Speaker 1: which is not insignificant. Of course, Marte Martavis Bryant had

1299
01:05:29,240 --> 01:05:31,240
Speaker 1: his best game of the year last week. I think

1300
01:05:31,280 --> 01:05:35,120
Speaker 1: that's meaningful. Jujus back um, But you know how it

1301
01:05:35,160 --> 01:05:37,080
Speaker 1: works with these teams like the Texans, who are going

1302
01:05:37,120 --> 01:05:38,720
Speaker 1: through the motions at the end of the year. If

1303
01:05:38,720 --> 01:05:40,880
Speaker 1: you let him hang around for a quarter and a half.

1304
01:05:40,960 --> 01:05:43,200
Speaker 1: It becomes a game the whole game. But if you

1305
01:05:43,240 --> 01:05:45,240
Speaker 1: step on their throats at the beginning, they'll quit and

1306
01:05:45,280 --> 01:05:47,760
Speaker 1: you win by four. They haven't been that feisty relatively

1307
01:05:47,880 --> 01:05:49,800
Speaker 1: the Texans that is, Yeah, they were. I mean they

1308
01:05:49,840 --> 01:05:52,320
Speaker 1: got destroyed last week. I think DeAndre Hopkins is the guy.

1309
01:05:52,360 --> 01:05:55,200
Speaker 1: You've got to not let him keep your team in

1310
01:05:55,240 --> 01:05:58,440
Speaker 1: the game. I I think that the James Conner injury.

1311
01:05:58,480 --> 01:06:01,760
Speaker 1: I everyone's talking Antonio own, but the James Conner injury

1312
01:06:01,800 --> 01:06:04,640
Speaker 1: is concerning. You've got Stephen rid Stephan Ridley and Fitzgerald

1313
01:06:04,640 --> 01:06:07,480
Speaker 1: a saun behind him behind Levy on Bell. Levy on

1314
01:06:07,560 --> 01:06:09,840
Speaker 1: Bell is going to be close to having more touches

1315
01:06:09,880 --> 01:06:12,920
Speaker 1: than DeMarco Murray had in and you got to go

1316
01:06:12,960 --> 01:06:16,440
Speaker 1: back to guys like Larry Johnson and Steven Jackson a

1317
01:06:16,520 --> 01:06:19,720
Speaker 1: decade ago for a workload like Bells. And this is

1318
01:06:19,760 --> 01:06:22,440
Speaker 1: exactly what happened last year. You get into the playoffs,

1319
01:06:22,520 --> 01:06:24,960
Speaker 1: you find your way to New England, and Bell Camp

1320
01:06:25,040 --> 01:06:27,360
Speaker 1: play the game. They have to find a way in these.

1321
01:06:27,360 --> 01:06:29,520
Speaker 1: In a game like this where you should be destroying

1322
01:06:29,600 --> 01:06:32,919
Speaker 1: Houston by halftime or the third quarter and getting someone

1323
01:06:32,960 --> 01:06:35,840
Speaker 1: else in there, he cannot am I wrong. I feel

1324
01:06:35,880 --> 01:06:37,919
Speaker 1: like the workload thing for him. We saw what happened

1325
01:06:38,000 --> 01:06:39,520
Speaker 1: last year, and it's tricky because they have to play

1326
01:06:39,520 --> 01:06:41,280
Speaker 1: to win these next two weeks. Now that was the

1327
01:06:41,320 --> 01:06:44,160
Speaker 1: result of what happened against the Patriots. Very likely they're

1328
01:06:44,160 --> 01:06:46,640
Speaker 1: gonna need to play this week obviously and the next

1329
01:06:46,720 --> 01:06:49,880
Speaker 1: to get that. By everything that we've seen, including James Connor,

1330
01:06:49,880 --> 01:06:52,240
Speaker 1: who got very little work before he injured himself, is

1331
01:06:52,240 --> 01:06:55,120
Speaker 1: that they're just gonna keep using Bell and when when

1332
01:06:55,120 --> 01:06:57,440
Speaker 1: they're done with him, just like when the Cowboys are

1333
01:06:57,440 --> 01:07:00,280
Speaker 1: done with uh DeMarco Murray, they said goodbye. You wonder

1334
01:07:00,320 --> 01:07:02,600
Speaker 1: if there's a similar plan in place going on behind

1335
01:07:02,600 --> 01:07:07,280
Speaker 1: the scenes in Pittsburgh. But we'll see Monday Night football

1336
01:07:07,400 --> 01:07:10,040
Speaker 1: or yeah, Monday Night football, Christmas Night football. So Monday

1337
01:07:10,080 --> 01:07:12,480
Speaker 1: night football, Christmas Night football. It is Monday night and

1338
01:07:12,560 --> 01:07:16,040
Speaker 1: it is Christmas. It's the afternoon though, is it one

1339
01:07:16,040 --> 01:07:18,360
Speaker 1: of them? Is? Well? For us, it's five thirties start

1340
01:07:18,440 --> 01:07:22,400
Speaker 1: for the second Eastern town kick. Do we have to

1341
01:07:22,400 --> 01:07:26,160
Speaker 1: have a Christmas night game that's the Eagles game as Yeah,

1342
01:07:26,160 --> 01:07:31,120
Speaker 1: it's just necessary in gentlemen, I mean, schedule gods, I

1343
01:07:31,440 --> 01:07:34,440
Speaker 1: don't know, how about you know, everybody. Everybody spend time.

1344
01:07:35,320 --> 01:07:37,200
Speaker 1: How the NFL does? Yeah, exactly. Do you know what

1345
01:07:37,280 --> 01:07:39,760
Speaker 1: the highest rated show, the highest rated game of the

1346
01:07:39,800 --> 01:07:44,520
Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen season was probably the Steelers win on Christmass.

1347
01:07:44,520 --> 01:07:46,560
Speaker 1: And both of these these Monday games are not the

1348
01:07:46,640 --> 01:07:49,520
Speaker 1: same quality in any way, and they're not after you know,

1349
01:07:49,560 --> 01:07:51,360
Speaker 1: only one of the afternoon game. But I think that

1350
01:07:51,360 --> 01:07:54,560
Speaker 1: that probably encouraged their things. Have you ever read um

1351
01:07:54,600 --> 01:07:59,000
Speaker 1: a Christmas Carol? Read it? Yeah, or had it read

1352
01:07:59,040 --> 01:08:01,440
Speaker 1: to you or some adaption that was certainly at school

1353
01:08:01,480 --> 01:08:05,640
Speaker 1: as a child. Ebenezer Scrooge, what did he learn? He

1354
01:08:05,720 --> 01:08:07,720
Speaker 1: learned about the spirit of Christmas and that it's not

1355
01:08:07,840 --> 01:08:12,320
Speaker 1: all about making money, you know than ratings, Right, I

1356
01:08:12,360 --> 01:08:14,360
Speaker 1: think the NFL is all about money. What if I

1357
01:08:14,440 --> 01:08:17,479
Speaker 1: threw in the NFL Scrooge, I think they have not.

1358
01:08:17,520 --> 01:08:19,720
Speaker 1: The NFL has not learned the lessons that Scrooge learned.

1359
01:08:19,720 --> 01:08:22,479
Speaker 1: What if three ghosts came to Roger Goodell's estate and

1360
01:08:22,560 --> 01:08:25,720
Speaker 1: was Westchester And I'm just gonna stop right here. This

1361
01:08:25,800 --> 01:08:28,240
Speaker 1: is this ghost week on the A T N podcast.

1362
01:08:29,040 --> 01:08:31,840
Speaker 1: It seems like it all right? So the game, Yes,

1363
01:08:31,880 --> 01:08:34,880
Speaker 1: we'll be the Raiders, uh six and eight their season

1364
01:08:35,080 --> 01:08:38,120
Speaker 1: ended with that loss to the Cowboys kind of put

1365
01:08:38,560 --> 01:08:41,680
Speaker 1: their season out of its misery, if you will. And

1366
01:08:41,720 --> 01:08:46,240
Speaker 1: now the Eagles, who bounced back um on offense anyway,

1367
01:08:46,600 --> 01:08:50,240
Speaker 1: without Carson Wentz defense, it was a different story. Mark

1368
01:08:50,320 --> 01:08:53,439
Speaker 1: They struggled are you gonna be watching that side of

1369
01:08:53,479 --> 01:08:55,679
Speaker 1: the ball closely? Are you gonna be watching this game

1370
01:08:55,720 --> 01:08:58,160
Speaker 1: a lot of the I'll be watching it extremely closely.

1371
01:08:58,560 --> 01:09:01,320
Speaker 1: And I mean, I don't the defense. You went into Seattle,

1372
01:09:01,360 --> 01:09:03,200
Speaker 1: you gave up twenty four points, you gave up thirty

1373
01:09:03,200 --> 01:09:05,519
Speaker 1: five to the Rams, That's pretty much what everyone seems

1374
01:09:05,520 --> 01:09:08,439
Speaker 1: to do. And then suddenly you have Eli Manning throwing

1375
01:09:08,439 --> 01:09:11,160
Speaker 1: for almost five yards on you last week, and what

1376
01:09:11,240 --> 01:09:14,160
Speaker 1: was a a shootout out of nowhere, twenty nine points

1377
01:09:14,200 --> 01:09:15,800
Speaker 1: given up. I don't know. I don't. I don't want

1378
01:09:15,800 --> 01:09:17,320
Speaker 1: to be overly worried about it, because you got the

1379
01:09:17,400 --> 01:09:20,240
Speaker 1: Raiders the Cowboys, You're probably gonna have home field advantage,

1380
01:09:20,400 --> 01:09:22,360
Speaker 1: and you've got times to figure out these these issues.

1381
01:09:22,400 --> 01:09:24,560
Speaker 1: But I do wonder what's happened to Phillis defense a

1382
01:09:24,560 --> 01:09:28,000
Speaker 1: little bit over the last not if nothing are going

1383
01:09:28,040 --> 01:09:29,800
Speaker 1: to be loose, they got nothing to play for, the

1384
01:09:29,840 --> 01:09:33,360
Speaker 1: season's over, They're already not with their family and Christmas, like,

1385
01:09:33,360 --> 01:09:36,360
Speaker 1: we might as well win the game, So maybe they

1386
01:09:36,360 --> 01:09:38,000
Speaker 1: actually come out and put some points on the board

1387
01:09:38,000 --> 01:09:43,280
Speaker 1: and put a scare into the Eagles. That's interesting. No

1388
01:09:43,439 --> 01:09:45,679
Speaker 1: Donald pen in this game. Their left tackle hasn't missed

1389
01:09:45,680 --> 01:09:49,120
Speaker 1: the game in years and years. This is a perfect

1390
01:09:49,120 --> 01:09:51,439
Speaker 1: recipe for the Eagles to get their act together on defense,

1391
01:09:51,479 --> 01:09:53,160
Speaker 1: and I think they'd really like to, you know, because

1392
01:09:53,320 --> 01:09:56,559
Speaker 1: it sounded like they're gonna sit their starters in week

1393
01:09:56,640 --> 01:09:59,400
Speaker 1: seventeen if you're reading between the lines, and they could

1394
01:09:59,400 --> 01:10:02,519
Speaker 1: even if for some reason the Vikings lost on Saturday night,

1395
01:10:02,560 --> 01:10:04,880
Speaker 1: which is very unlikely, they could do something. I always

1396
01:10:04,880 --> 01:10:07,160
Speaker 1: think it should be the move. You rest your starters

1397
01:10:07,280 --> 01:10:10,120
Speaker 1: in week sixteen, play him in week seven, give him

1398
01:10:10,200 --> 01:10:12,599
Speaker 1: Christmas off. Who wouldn't wouldn't like that? Or don't rest

1399
01:10:12,600 --> 01:10:15,320
Speaker 1: your starters at all, that's even better. A lot of

1400
01:10:15,360 --> 01:10:17,960
Speaker 1: theories being bandied about this late in the show, Nick

1401
01:10:18,000 --> 01:10:22,360
Speaker 1: Fools major downgrade and arm strength from Corson Wentz. I noticed,

1402
01:10:22,920 --> 01:10:24,960
Speaker 1: you already know he's not as athletic in the pocket,

1403
01:10:25,080 --> 01:10:29,799
Speaker 1: but still four tds and no interceptions with this coaching staff,

1404
01:10:29,840 --> 01:10:32,040
Speaker 1: which is very this offensive coaching staff with John d

1405
01:10:32,120 --> 01:10:35,519
Speaker 1: Filippo and Frank Reich and Doug Peterson. I think they

1406
01:10:35,520 --> 01:10:38,280
Speaker 1: can coach up just about any quarterback. And the most

1407
01:10:38,600 --> 01:10:41,400
Speaker 1: amazing stat of the year might be that of the

1408
01:10:41,479 --> 01:10:44,080
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the playoffs are going to be guys who

1409
01:10:44,120 --> 01:10:47,880
Speaker 1: were on Jeff Fisher's roster last summer, case Keenum, Nick

1410
01:10:47,920 --> 01:10:51,839
Speaker 1: Fools and Jared Goff, and they're all playing really well.

1411
01:10:52,280 --> 01:10:55,559
Speaker 1: Without Jeff Fisher and his offensive, they are the top

1412
01:10:55,600 --> 01:10:58,720
Speaker 1: three seeds. Yeah, it's crazy. I still I don't know.

1413
01:10:58,840 --> 01:11:01,400
Speaker 1: Was it an Onion article came out yesterday that Jeff

1414
01:11:01,400 --> 01:11:03,680
Speaker 1: Fisher was interested in the Brown's job. Is that a

1415
01:11:03,720 --> 01:11:07,360
Speaker 1: real Well, it's multiple jobs. He was interested in coaching again,

1416
01:11:07,800 --> 01:11:11,479
Speaker 1: it's not the building Again. I just think it's reached

1417
01:11:11,479 --> 01:11:14,040
Speaker 1: the point where you can no longer sell a fan

1418
01:11:14,080 --> 01:11:16,479
Speaker 1: base on Jeff Fisher. He's become an NFL punch line.

1419
01:11:16,560 --> 01:11:18,760
Speaker 1: If you are one of these teams that if they

1420
01:11:18,760 --> 01:11:21,320
Speaker 1: ever wound up a long time losing team with Jeff

1421
01:11:21,360 --> 01:11:24,519
Speaker 1: Fisher as the coach, that fan base, anyone of those

1422
01:11:24,560 --> 01:11:27,160
Speaker 1: fans has the right to jump ship. You can't do

1423
01:11:27,240 --> 01:11:29,479
Speaker 1: that to the Bears, the Browns, the Bengals, whoever. At

1424
01:11:29,520 --> 01:11:33,519
Speaker 1: this point, there's no Jeff Fisher coming in anyone's life, alright.

1425
01:11:33,560 --> 01:11:38,080
Speaker 1: So there you go. There is Week sixteen preview. As

1426
01:11:38,120 --> 01:11:41,720
Speaker 1: I said there, the Week sixteen is spread out over

1427
01:11:41,760 --> 01:11:45,240
Speaker 1: three days, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Had to be that way.

1428
01:11:45,320 --> 01:11:47,920
Speaker 1: Couldn't just be one way. Had to be over three days.

1429
01:11:48,200 --> 01:11:49,800
Speaker 1: So what we're gonna do is the next time you

1430
01:11:49,840 --> 01:11:53,000
Speaker 1: hear from us our flagship show instead of Sunday night,

1431
01:11:53,040 --> 01:11:56,720
Speaker 1: we want to get everything, uh all in night one

1432
01:11:56,840 --> 01:11:59,719
Speaker 1: nice little package with a bow on it. Tuesday morning

1433
01:11:59,720 --> 01:12:01,519
Speaker 1: will be recording a show. We'll get it up as

1434
01:12:01,560 --> 01:12:05,120
Speaker 1: soon as possible to you, covering all sixteen of these games.

1435
01:12:05,120 --> 01:12:06,680
Speaker 1: So that's the next time you hear from us, the

1436
01:12:06,760 --> 01:12:10,160
Speaker 1: next time you see us. If you want to first well,

1437
01:12:10,160 --> 01:12:12,439
Speaker 1: you can check out the NFL dot com slash a

1438
01:12:12,600 --> 01:12:15,479
Speaker 1: t n video channel which has all our video work

1439
01:12:15,560 --> 01:12:20,560
Speaker 1: throughout the season, including our Tuesday show, NFL Pick Them,

1440
01:12:20,680 --> 01:12:26,519
Speaker 1: which we were handing out gifts this week. The picture

1441
01:12:26,560 --> 01:12:29,639
Speaker 1: of you catching a gift, I sent that as tas

1442
01:12:29,720 --> 01:12:32,960
Speaker 1: to the audience. That was exciting. Some boxes flying snow,

1443
01:12:33,120 --> 01:12:36,040
Speaker 1: We've got snow falling. It's gonna be a big hit.

1444
01:12:36,200 --> 01:12:39,719
Speaker 1: NFL Pick them on NFL Network six am and eight

1445
01:12:39,760 --> 01:12:42,200
Speaker 1: am Eastern. We're down to two viewing so at least

1446
01:12:42,240 --> 01:12:44,439
Speaker 1: we've plateau did too, and we're not. It's not cut

1447
01:12:44,479 --> 01:12:47,439
Speaker 1: down any any further. What about the theory, Greg that

1448
01:12:47,560 --> 01:12:50,240
Speaker 1: you had that well, the Fantasy playoffs and all that,

1449
01:12:50,439 --> 01:12:53,240
Speaker 1: there's like four percent of fantasy players are still in

1450
01:12:53,240 --> 01:12:55,719
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Now, what happened to our air My theory

1451
01:12:55,880 --> 01:12:58,240
Speaker 1: last week wasn't a theory. It was the fact that

1452
01:12:58,439 --> 01:13:02,479
Speaker 1: NFL games were to really on our network, uh throughout

1453
01:13:02,479 --> 01:13:04,800
Speaker 1: the day on Saturday, which is also true of what

1454
01:13:04,880 --> 01:13:08,200
Speaker 1: the third area would be this week. Ravens and Colts.

1455
01:13:08,240 --> 01:13:10,400
Speaker 1: Go check that out. About the fourth area, what happened

1456
01:13:10,400 --> 01:13:15,280
Speaker 1: to that one? That's just gone? I guess all right,

1457
01:13:15,439 --> 01:13:18,559
Speaker 1: let's get out of here. Um yeah, so happy Merry

1458
01:13:18,640 --> 01:13:21,280
Speaker 1: Christmas to everybody. Uh that the next time you hear

1459
01:13:21,320 --> 01:13:22,920
Speaker 1: from us will be on the other side of Dan

1460
01:13:22,960 --> 01:13:26,120
Speaker 1: hands Is signing off board Quiet Storm, the Mailman, the

1461
01:13:26,160 --> 01:13:29,800
Speaker 1: Old Boss, and Lindsay fault On behind the Glass Tell

1462
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Speaker 1: Tuesday