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Speaker 1: game was over the minute the Hyde spot did not

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Speaker 1: go Cleveland's way. I loved what I heard from Hugh

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Speaker 1: Jackson this week to get Nick Chubb more involved because

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Speaker 1: I'm watching that game and he finds that extra gear

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Speaker 1: when Gary on Conley has the angle on the first

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Speaker 1: long run and then some of the jump cuts he

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Speaker 1: made on the second long run. This guy needs to

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Speaker 1: be a bigger part of the off Yeah, you look great.

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Speaker 1: I mean the one that something that's consistently bit Cleveland

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Speaker 1: every week and it's easy to kind of just whipped

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Speaker 1: through it on game pass two is they have I think,

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Speaker 1: hands down the worst special teams unit in football. It

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Speaker 1: is a disaster. And it's not just the missfield goals.

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Speaker 1: It is punt and kick returns that are creating good

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Speaker 1: field position field team. The second thing is that Baker mayfild.

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Speaker 1: I think all the risks, all the targets on this

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Speaker 1: team are are getting used to Baker Mayfield's velocity versus

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Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor's. A couple of them mentioned that there are drops.

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Speaker 1: There are a lot of drops against Yeah, so terrible drops.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you want they got to correct that and

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Speaker 1: they're playing a Ravens team that gives up two point

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Speaker 1: three points per game in the second half and as

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Speaker 1: the lowest in a good way passer rating for wide

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Speaker 1: receivers have two points re points per game, and that's good.

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Speaker 1: So this is a tough It's good that their home.

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Speaker 1: But uh, and then the other side of the Ravens,

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Speaker 1: I just want to point out, and I know we've

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Speaker 1: talked about in this podcast, but again West wrote about

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Speaker 1: it in his m VP breakdown, Joe Flacco was playing

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Speaker 1: incredibly well right now, and it's what it's fun to

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Speaker 1: kind of go back to the summer and and look

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Speaker 1: at some of the kind of uh, the predictions and

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Speaker 1: the you know, the takes and regurgitations of takes that

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Speaker 1: then the season starts and everything goes to hell and

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Speaker 1: everybody doesn't look so smart anymore. But with Joe Flacco,

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Speaker 1: there was a lot of talk like Flacco looks great

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Speaker 1: in camp, he looks motivated. Lark Jackson's on his tail,

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Speaker 1: but he's gonna make sure he's gonna put some distance

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Speaker 1: and he's done that. He looks I wouldn't say he's

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Speaker 1: two thousand twelve Joe Flacco in the playoffs, but he's

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Speaker 1: just as as well. He's throwing the ball downfield more,

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Speaker 1: he's throwing the ball with accuracy downfield. He looks like

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Speaker 1: a different guy. And how much does that have to

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Speaker 1: do with his health, which there's no back in knee

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Speaker 1: issues this year, but also that wide receiver group which

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Speaker 1: has got completely remade. And I think you put those

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Speaker 1: two things together and explains honously outside of Steve Smith,

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Speaker 1: why why did it take them seven years to get

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Speaker 1: a cast around Flacco to make him look better? And

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Speaker 1: then with the fact he doesn't have a back And

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Speaker 1: I mean they've tried, they've put resources in, they haven't chosen.

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Speaker 1: Well this year they did. It's been one of the

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Speaker 1: few weaknesses of Ozzy Knewsom that he loves old wide

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Speaker 1: receivers who are usually a little washed and the ones,

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Speaker 1: the ones that he chose this year not as old. Uh,

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Speaker 1: they're kind of in the middle of their career, but

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Speaker 1: all had questions about him and they're all hitting. Willie

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Speaker 1: Snead is a huge addition for this team. I think

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Speaker 1: the Saints kind of miss him, not that there offense

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Speaker 1: is struggling, but I think they they wish probably he

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Speaker 1: was on their team and Cameron Meredith was not. And

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Speaker 1: I think the Ravens are gonna be even more dangerous

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Speaker 1: because they get hated Hurst back this week who looked

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Speaker 1: great in the preseason, and I think it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a big factor for them at tight end. It's amazing

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Speaker 1: to me they're playing this well and Alex Collins hasn't

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Speaker 1: done anything yet. Yeah, they don't have much of it. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Hated Hurst could be coming back for Baltimore of their

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Speaker 1: first round pick, so that would be another weapon. And

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Speaker 1: uh Cleveland could not do anything against tight ends in Oakland,

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Speaker 1: so that that is a concern. But the Browns, you

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Speaker 1: know what we're gonna see probably a fun game war

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Speaker 1: for four. They could be four. No, they could be

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Speaker 1: own four. But every game has been entertaining right down

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Speaker 1: to the last drive. Let's move on the Green Bay

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Speaker 1: Packers coming off that twenty two nothing win over the Bills.

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Speaker 1: Uh in week four, now travel to Detroit to face

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Speaker 1: the lines or one in three and uh, it's it's

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Speaker 1: it's been a frustrating start for Matt Patricia and company.

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Speaker 1: Chris Westling. Uh, now they get a Packers team and

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Speaker 1: still trying to figure it out on offense, not only

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Speaker 1: trying to figure it out, but might be starting three

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Speaker 1: different rookies at wide receiver this week. Randall Cobb has

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Speaker 1: a hamstring injury, Geronimo Allison is concussed, and Davante Adams

512
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Speaker 1: came down with a calf injury that forced him to

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Speaker 1: miss Thursday's practice. They might be starting Marquez Valdes, Scantling,

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Speaker 1: Jimmon Moore, and Equanimius st Brown as their three wide

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Speaker 1: receivers that would obviously be attached for the Lions. But

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Speaker 1: the way Aaron Rodgers is playing, and I got a

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Speaker 1: lot of flat for putting him in my top ten

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Speaker 1: in the MVP Award, that just tells me that these

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Speaker 1: people aren't watching Aaron Rodgers play every week, or they've

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Speaker 1: gotten too used to him being great and not seeing

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Speaker 1: how it stands out compared to everyone else. I don't

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Speaker 1: I don't detract for Aaron Rodgers because his receivers drops

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Speaker 1: his perfectly thrown passes. He's played, he's I did the

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Speaker 1: QB Index for the first time this week where you

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Speaker 1: ranked I ranked all thirty two, and you do like

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Speaker 1: an average scorper game, I would say he's been the

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Speaker 1: most consistent quarterback where he's basically been the same very

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Speaker 1: good player every week. Item as number four right now

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Speaker 1: behind Breeze, Goff and my homes. But like it's hard

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Speaker 1: for me to imagine anyone else you would put them

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Speaker 1: below this year other than those three guys. Give me

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Speaker 1: a break. You have to think this is a good

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Speaker 1: outside of the issue personnel issues for Green Bay. Outside

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Speaker 1: of that Patriots game, the Lions have the worst red

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Speaker 1: zone defense they have are They're giving up thirty five

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Speaker 1: points per game and two hundred yards rushing, which is

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Speaker 1: a great sign because the Packers are feeling Aaron Jones

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Speaker 1: right now. Aaron Rodgers wants him to play. McCarthy's talking

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Speaker 1: him up. That guy's gotta get more touches. Stafford looked

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Speaker 1: better last week. He has been really just blending into

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Speaker 1: the background, which is strange for Matthew Stafford the first

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Speaker 1: three weeks of this season, if missing a lot of

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Speaker 1: deep throws. I thought that was at least a positive

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Speaker 1: for them. Coming out of the Dallas game, they I

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Speaker 1: thought they had jumped started their season with the Patriots

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Speaker 1: win and then they lose the next week. They've had

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Speaker 1: they sandwich that Patriots win the Lions with two kind

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Speaker 1: of heartbreaking losses. If they can beat the Packers at home,

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Speaker 1: and Packers team that has banged up you, finally you

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Speaker 1: get you get your feet under yourself again and you're okay.

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Speaker 1: Two and three. It's a big game for lines because

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Speaker 1: they're kind of banged. If they they if they lose

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Speaker 1: in that division, you're good. You go. If you go

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Speaker 1: one and four, you have a six point six percent

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Speaker 1: chance of making the playoffs. Since I gotta be honest

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Speaker 1: with you, feel I'm pretty good about the lines in

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Speaker 1: this game. You gonna how good? Three? Daddy can't get crazy,

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Speaker 1: that's gonna say, But I do. I would predict them

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Speaker 1: to win this game, which I'll see what happens. Uh uh.

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Speaker 1: Moving on, the Jacksonville Jaguars trounced the Jets in Week four,

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Speaker 1: and now riding high at three and one, they travel

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Speaker 1: to Kansas City to face the only undefeated team remaining

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Speaker 1: in the a f C. It is the Chiefs. On

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Speaker 1: a short week. Oh but what a week it was

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Speaker 1: because Patrick mahomes Uh absolutely cemented himself as an early

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Speaker 1: m v P favorite with a brilliant fourth quarter against

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Speaker 1: the Broncos. They come from behind win. If you wanna

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Speaker 1: if you if you're hankering for our our analysis on

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Speaker 1: that game and you you're like, oh, where you Obviously

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Speaker 1: it's the Tuesday Twitter show. We we we start every

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Speaker 1: episode with a breakdown, uh what mattered from Monday Night Football?

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Speaker 1: So cycle back and check that out if you're curious.

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Speaker 1: But now, Greg Rosantal, let's talk about this game. This

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Speaker 1: is the game of the week, game of the week,

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Speaker 1: game of the week. I mean, this is maybe the

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Speaker 1: game of the year. Just slow down, what just in

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Speaker 1: term to the match that you know, you're watching this

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Speaker 1: offensive Supernova team who has been extra good at home

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Speaker 1: against against I don't know if that's an underrated always

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Speaker 1: this song, but I would say number two all time

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Speaker 1: behind Live Forever. I don't think it's I think it's

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Speaker 1: deeply that was like a smash hit for them. I

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Speaker 1: think it's an epic that there weren't a lot of

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Speaker 1: epics of the night people people got sick of it.

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Speaker 1: I didn't get sick of it. I'm not sick of

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Speaker 1: watching this. Uh. It's also like the rare seven minute

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Speaker 1: long radio play, right, it's just you know, stend what

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Speaker 1: was the back to back to bed? Those are the

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Speaker 1: two kind of epic songs of alternative rock in the nineties. Hi, guys,

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Speaker 1: we're old. Listen to us um the chiefs in this

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Speaker 1: offense going up against this defense, and you almost get

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Speaker 1: the feeling that the Jaguars are like by faith no more,

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Speaker 1: another kind of struggling here to get Yes. How about

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Speaker 1: Ugly Kid Joe I Hate Everything? Was that songs? Yeah? Like?

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Speaker 1: How like Erica? Erica was four and a half years

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Speaker 1: old and this happened maybe if not less? What year

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Speaker 1: was it? Ld you, I don't know. It was ninth

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Speaker 1: We're talking like nineteen to talk rap right now? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm you don't Can you figure out how old you were? Then?

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Speaker 1: I was not created? Wow? Alright, yeah created interesting terminal.

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Speaker 1: That's so concerning. I had a job. Yeah, I'm so

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Speaker 1: like a lab or something. Yeah. No, I was born

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Speaker 1: in n Okay good year. Yeah, Mark was Mark was

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Speaker 1: in college then? No, not true? Getting close. Actually I

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Speaker 1: was at the tailor started in August September. You, yep,

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Speaker 1: that's cute. I know. I want to you know, forget faith.

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Speaker 1: The more I want to talk about Tyreek Hill Jalen Ramsey,

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Speaker 1: It's got to get a lot of attention because of

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Speaker 1: the trash like I don't care about that as much

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Speaker 1: as just Jalen Ramsey saying, Look, I'm gonna be up

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Speaker 1: there on the line of scrimmage, press man coverage. Let's

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Speaker 1: see what Tyreek can he'll he'll can do. What better

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Speaker 1: matchup could you have? Can we ask for better reporting

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Speaker 1: than tattle mongering like this has become reporting over the

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Speaker 1: last three or four years in the NFL. So and

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Speaker 1: so players said so and so about you? What do

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Speaker 1: you have to say to that? Damn? It's just like

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Speaker 1: old all right, It's already a great matchup, as Greg said, I,

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Speaker 1: in fact, I would love to pick the Jaguars in

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Speaker 1: this game, but I can't because the greatest mystery in

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Speaker 1: the NFL in two thousand eighteen, two thousand seventeen, which

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Speaker 1: Blake Bortles are you gonna get in a given week?

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Speaker 1: You just don't know. Indeed, Westbrook had a great game

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Speaker 1: last week against your Jets. Dude, he did not everybody did,

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Speaker 1: but he did as well. They're not They have a

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Speaker 1: pretty good receiver group, despite um, you know, the big

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Speaker 1: injury that they lost Kilan Collin. Westbrook to me is

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Speaker 1: a fine starting group, and they're explosive I think if

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Speaker 1: you're the Jaguars and so far this year you have

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Speaker 1: one great Bortles game, one good, very good Bortles game,

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Speaker 1: and then two clunkers, two games where it look like

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Speaker 1: that's just the ratio that's gonna be the ratio if

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Speaker 1: you're just think you can win a super Bowl, If

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Speaker 1: that's the ratio that you're getting, yeah, I don't think

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Speaker 1: they can win a well, then nuts on them because

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Speaker 1: they spent all offseason trying to convince us how into

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Speaker 1: Blake Bortles they were. But this should be a good

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Speaker 1: one because you're playing the Chiefs defense, who can't tackle anyone.

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Speaker 1: You can run on that defense too. I mean, if

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Speaker 1: you're the Chiefs, this is the Jaguars, and you have

641
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 1: the Patriots, then the Bengals, that's we're gonna find out

642
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 1: what we think. I think it was on our Twitter

643
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 1: show where obviously I thought this Chief's team is so

644
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 1: different than the ones before. But I wonder if I'll

645
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:33,840
Speaker 1: be saying that after those three games, not getting Eric

646
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:35,720
Speaker 1: Berry back and then not being able to trade for

647
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:39,520
Speaker 1: Earl Thomas, which Ian Rappaport reported they were very keen

648
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:42,479
Speaker 1: on doing, is a killer combo. But they do have

649
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 1: players playing well, like de Ford is playing well and

650
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,640
Speaker 1: he's he was back at well against Denver. Chris Jones

651
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:50,240
Speaker 1: is playing well. You know they have played. I do

652
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:52,720
Speaker 1: think actually the defense can come together, and I would

653
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 1: like the secondary would bother me. But the rest of it, Yeah,

654
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 1: we're gonna get Tony Romo in the booth on this one, right,

655
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,520
Speaker 1: I would hope. So, I mean West, why just uh

656
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,280
Speaker 1: do you know that West he watches a condensed generally,

657
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 1: but for Romo every week he just treats himself and

658
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 1: watches the full two hours. Pour myself a glass of wine.

659
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 1: Get out the shark. I also do that for Packers games,

660
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:16,640
Speaker 1: I would pickle x Is. You know, it's just like night.

661
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:18,920
Speaker 1: I put Romo on Cardinals nine ers. So that is

662
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:25,040
Speaker 1: a heat seekret um. Thank you, Ben. Moving on, Oh,

663
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 1: let's pick that game. Let's pick Jacksonville. Casey, I'm taking

664
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 1: the Jags Chiefs. I'm taking the Chiefs at home. I

665
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:34,600
Speaker 1: would have taken either home team. This is a this

666
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 1: is a coin flip. Uh, let's go with the Chiefs

667
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:40,040
Speaker 1: at home. But I can go either way. Moving on

668
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:43,360
Speaker 1: the devor Broncos. They could not defeat the Chiefs on

669
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:47,040
Speaker 1: Monday Night Football, dropping to two and two, painful loss

670
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 1: for the Broncos. They now travel to the Meadowlands to

671
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:55,800
Speaker 1: face the Jets, who have been woeful since Week one. Uh,

672
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 1: here's a here's a nug that's not a great nug

673
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 1: if you're a Jet fan. A scored thirty one points

674
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 1: in the third quarter against the Lions and the Monday

675
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,760
Speaker 1: Night opener. They have scored forty one points in the

676
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 1: thirteen quarters since. So this is an offense that has

677
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:13,640
Speaker 1: completely gone off the rails. Sam Donald is missing throws.

678
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:17,360
Speaker 1: I believe the scheming is is not great either. The

679
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 1: protection is not great, the running game is not great.

680
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:22,480
Speaker 1: Everything's a mess. So the Broncos, I think as a

681
00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 1: road team, you gotta feel pretty good going into the

682
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 1: medal ends. Because the Jets can't score, I'd agree with you.

683
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 1: I one thing that really bothers me about the Jets

684
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:34,680
Speaker 1: watching their offense, and I watched that Jaguars game this

685
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:37,120
Speaker 1: morning and it's at thirty eight minutes. I will not

686
00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:40,520
Speaker 1: get back in my life, but it is your I

687
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:43,239
Speaker 1: feel for Sam Donald because I don't know what's going on.

688
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 1: I don't know what the what the thinking is during

689
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 1: the week when they prepare for these games. But we

690
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:50,280
Speaker 1: know that he's not throwing the ball deep downfield and

691
00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:52,880
Speaker 1: not calling those plays. But it's third and seven, over

692
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 1: and over, and they're asking him to dump the ball

693
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 1: off to Isaiah crow L two yards behind the line

694
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 1: of scrimmage and he goes, he goes four yards get

695
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,520
Speaker 1: it's ransacked, and the Jets seem to have they seem

696
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 1: to be idea free on offense. And it's an indictment

697
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:08,120
Speaker 1: of the coaching staff because I do wonder if there

698
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:10,480
Speaker 1: was a different group of thinkers in that building that

699
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 1: we would see a different start for Sam Donald. It's

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00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:15,239
Speaker 1: I don't want to let him off the hook. I

701
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 1: think he's gonna have a good career. But a j

702
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:22,720
Speaker 1: boy dropped the pick six, Jalen Ramsey dropped an easy

703
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 1: interception in the end zone, there was a pick called back.

704
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 1: Donald's one touchdown came when they recovered a fumble inside

705
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:30,839
Speaker 1: the tang yard line, so we didn't have to do much.

706
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:34,799
Speaker 1: I mean, he looks lost to me. Like Dan said you,

707
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 1: I would like to know where you rank case keenum

708
00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 1: greg in your quarterback index because he's not having a

709
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:45,440
Speaker 1: good year. No, he is twenty it's not like have

710
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:49,080
Speaker 1: a major quarterback at which is you know, it's about

711
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 1: where he is. Yeah, that it's not great. It's behind Bordles,

712
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 1: it's behind Tannehill. He is a guy who needs to

713
00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 1: play freely. I think he just feels like a rhythm

714
00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 1: kind of streaky guy who needs to play freely. And

715
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:06,319
Speaker 1: once he started throwing some interceptions earlier this year, he's

716
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 1: not playing as for really. I thought actually his game

717
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:10,920
Speaker 1: against the Chiefs was maybe his best game until he

718
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:13,760
Speaker 1: missed that throw at the end. But there's just something

719
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:16,440
Speaker 1: about him that's just very up and down and you

720
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:18,879
Speaker 1: can almost like see him thinking as he's holding the ball,

721
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 1: which has been him most of his career. If you

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00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:22,960
Speaker 1: take away last season, we wouldn't be surprised, and we're

723
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:25,640
Speaker 1: not surprised now. Bet mative for the Jets. I mean

724
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 1: you might say, Okay, Broncos feel good at for road games, sure,

725
00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:30,759
Speaker 1: but this is a game that Jets can absolutely win.

726
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 1: They can win sure, And I I just to circle

727
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:37,240
Speaker 1: back to Keenan for one more second. That everything Obviously

728
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:39,000
Speaker 1: there's only one team that wins the Super Bowl. All

729
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:40,360
Speaker 1: the other teams and you can a lot of a

730
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 1: lot of teams you could point to one play a

731
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:46,480
Speaker 1: season that will just haunt your dreams. And missing Damaryus

732
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 1: Thomas down the sideline, what a moment that would have

733
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:51,319
Speaker 1: been in Denver, and what a win that would have

734
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:53,839
Speaker 1: been for the Broncos could change the whole complexion of

735
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:56,320
Speaker 1: that division. And he'll never get that throwback. So I

736
00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 1: wonder if they'll look back at the season that will

737
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 1: haunt them and on that tribe. He made a couple

738
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 1: of money throws too. I mean, there he is, I

739
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:04,239
Speaker 1: had not giving up on the Broncos. Is a team

740
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:07,760
Speaker 1: that's going to be hanging around and maybe spoil some teams.

741
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 1: We're talking about the wild card teams. I think Denver

742
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:13,320
Speaker 1: is just like the Dolphins, like the Browns, like the Ravens,

743
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:15,640
Speaker 1: are the Steelers, They're in the mix. I think I

744
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:18,280
Speaker 1: think what you talked about. That play that Keenum missed

745
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:20,840
Speaker 1: feels to me like the opposite of the play that

746
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:23,400
Speaker 1: Mariota made and gave the Titans one of the biggest

747
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:25,360
Speaker 1: wins any team will have all year. This was one

748
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:29,120
Speaker 1: of the biggest losses any team. Dark Darnald is similarly.

749
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:32,320
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's overthinking, but he he is

750
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:34,279
Speaker 1: trying to figure out the balance of the best thing

751
00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:36,360
Speaker 1: he does right now is kind of get outside the

752
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:40,320
Speaker 1: pocket and make you know, second reaction plays, and but

753
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 1: trying to figure out the balance of doing that or

754
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 1: doing that too much like that, You've got to be

755
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 1: decisive and making me So we spent all last offseason,

756
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:50,840
Speaker 1: you know, glowing and rightfully so over what Sean McVeigh

757
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 1: was helped, how he was helping Jared Goff before the

758
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:56,120
Speaker 1: snap and probably all week long. I just feel that

759
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:58,920
Speaker 1: that what's missing here on this coaching staff, which is

760
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:01,800
Speaker 1: pretty there's not a lot of identity on this coaching staff.

761
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:04,000
Speaker 1: Is someone helping Donald the same way? Well, we're gonna

762
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:05,799
Speaker 1: find out. And I think this is a big game

763
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 1: for the Jets season because if they stink out the

764
00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:11,640
Speaker 1: joint again and the defense I think has been fine

765
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:14,200
Speaker 1: on balanced, they struggled last week and and that's a

766
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 1: whole other conversation, but um, if the Jets are aimless

767
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 1: again on offense and and Donald just is lost and

768
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 1: doesn't look right, I start to worry as Jets fan.

769
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:26,400
Speaker 1: If this is Jared Goff in two sixteen, If this

770
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:29,640
Speaker 1: is Mitch Drabinsky last year where it's just now a countdown. Okay,

771
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:31,279
Speaker 1: this is gonna be the lost rookie season and then

772
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 1: hopefully they hire the right guy in January. I hope

773
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:35,000
Speaker 1: it's not going to go that route. But that's what

774
00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:37,719
Speaker 1: I've been expecting since the day they announced. And I

775
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 1: get that, and I was saying it at the time,

776
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:41,400
Speaker 1: and I've been expecting that since the day they announced

777
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:43,680
Speaker 1: Todd Bowels was coming back, and goddamn if if he

778
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:45,560
Speaker 1: didn't look great in Week one and then offense. But

779
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 1: wait a minute, but wait a minute. Well, actually, if

780
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:49,720
Speaker 1: you go through a painful season and then you get

781
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:52,279
Speaker 1: the next Matt Neggie or Sean McVeigh, aren't you in

782
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:55,120
Speaker 1: a much better place? Right? So you do want that

783
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:57,760
Speaker 1: I wanted. I wanted to have fun watching this season.

784
00:37:57,800 --> 00:37:59,560
Speaker 1: I don't want to watch another four and twelve, five

785
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:02,080
Speaker 1: and eleven. I get that. I want Donald to have

786
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:05,279
Speaker 1: growth and being an offense that's functional and not incompetent.

787
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:07,920
Speaker 1: But we'll see what happens. Moving on. The Atlanta Falcons,

788
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:11,560
Speaker 1: who have been incompetent on defense this season uh in

789
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:14,279
Speaker 1: the league overall, giving up more points than all but

790
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:16,800
Speaker 1: two teams in the league, and now one in three.

791
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:20,000
Speaker 1: After letting one get away against the Bengals, travel to

792
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh to face the Steelers. This is another tough game,

793
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:25,920
Speaker 1: was for the Falcons because the Steelers need to win

794
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:27,920
Speaker 1: in a bad way too, and they're in their own building.

795
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:31,319
Speaker 1: It's a battle of incompetent defenses. The Steelers defense isn't

796
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 1: much better than the Falcons. Um. I I worry about

797
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 1: the Falcons. Gregg has picked him as one of his

798
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:40,399
Speaker 1: teams he sees as a riser in the second half

799
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 1: of the season. They just came off of three really

800
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:46,360
Speaker 1: good Matt Ryan games, and I don't think it's any coincidence.

801
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 1: All three of them came in their home field in

802
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:51,719
Speaker 1: a dome, and now they go play outdoors and Matt

803
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 1: Ryan didn't play so outdoors in the season. Opener. Um,

804
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:57,439
Speaker 1: I feel so good about this as a matter of fact.

805
00:38:57,560 --> 00:39:01,240
Speaker 1: Oh what that I'm locking up the one win Steelers,

806
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:05,640
Speaker 1: all right? I like that one. That's a good one.

807
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:10,759
Speaker 1: I was thinking of locking up the Falcons are when

808
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:13,879
Speaker 1: Grady Jarrett was out. That was like too much. They

809
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:15,840
Speaker 1: lost their decks. But I mean it's like, why do

810
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:18,759
Speaker 1: it anyways? Because I don't really believe it. I mean,

811
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:23,200
Speaker 1: I don't ever really believe. But at the segment, it's

812
00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 1: the wind, desperate lane, desperate you want the trophy, just

813
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:31,200
Speaker 1: admit it, you wanted on the desk in a In

814
00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 1: a separate segment, you called the Falcons your riser. So

815
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:37,400
Speaker 1: they I would say, if they lose this, they have

816
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:40,680
Speaker 1: essentially fallen out of the race entirely. If they go

817
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 1: one and four, I would make it interesting. I'd say

818
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 1: there's twelve games. I'm not a remotely interest when I've

819
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:49,960
Speaker 1: found a Grady Jarrett losing Grady Jarrett, he's probably the

820
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,920
Speaker 1: most valuable player on their defense. To lose that after

821
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:56,000
Speaker 1: what you've seen over the last couple of weeks, it's

822
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 1: a tough ask. It's a tough ask. But I think

823
00:39:58,000 --> 00:39:59,879
Speaker 1: these are two sloppy teams. I just think the ste

824
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,279
Speaker 1: Alors are gonna find ways to lose games this year

825
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:05,319
Speaker 1: in general. I don't know if it will be this

826
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:09,920
Speaker 1: week or not, but they like they they are sloppy.

827
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:13,799
Speaker 1: They just it's just everything around that team smells like

828
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:17,879
Speaker 1: a team that is gonna have a franchise changing type

829
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:20,440
Speaker 1: of season team. And them has more penalties and for them,

830
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:22,239
Speaker 1: for them, that's eight and eight. So you have to

831
00:40:22,239 --> 00:40:24,160
Speaker 1: win eight games along the way, like if they if

832
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:26,160
Speaker 1: they go seven and nine or eight and eight, they're

833
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:27,920
Speaker 1: gonna blow this thing up. And I think they could

834
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:31,160
Speaker 1: be headed. One great thing from our research book, and

835
00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 1: so Tamposey was born in you have to go back

836
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:39,160
Speaker 1: to when she was negative four uh in the last

837
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:42,160
Speaker 1: time the Steelers finished in last place in their division.

838
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:44,960
Speaker 1: That's how consistent this team. Mike Tomlin was in high school,

839
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:50,320
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown was five months old. LC. That's right. Mike Tomlin,

840
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:51,680
Speaker 1: by the way, gets your team out of control with

841
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:54,760
Speaker 1: all these penalties. Well, to Gregg's point, they look slot.

842
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:56,840
Speaker 1: It doesn't You don't see the staff that they have

843
00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:58,960
Speaker 1: the most penalties. You're not surprised by it because it

844
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:03,440
Speaker 1: shows up every week. Built for Ben Roethlisberger to be

845
00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:07,719
Speaker 1: a mistake prone, ultimately average quarterback, which he's been through

846
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:11,680
Speaker 1: four weeks. Even his good games like the Chiefs game

847
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 1: and what's the other game I'm I'm thinking of, he

848
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:17,520
Speaker 1: he made a ton of mistakes, even in their games

849
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:19,200
Speaker 1: where they scored a lot of points. He's been pretty

850
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:23,440
Speaker 1: Slappy's time to get James Washington involved and Antonio Brown

851
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:25,879
Speaker 1: has not had to really like in sant Antonio Brown.

852
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:30,000
Speaker 1: I know it happens this week, sixty plus yards, and

853
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 1: if we did, I would lock that up. But it's

854
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 1: individual lock ups. We're not there yet as a group.

855
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:39,360
Speaker 1: To Steelers. Oh no, no, no, I don't trust the

856
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:43,280
Speaker 1: Steelers right now at all. Moving on the Oakland Raiders.

857
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:46,600
Speaker 1: They gotta win. They needed desperately against the Browns just

858
00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 1: barely forty two. The offense came to life, though I

859
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:51,840
Speaker 1: gotta give him credit. As much as we buried the

860
00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:54,600
Speaker 1: officials for kind of taking that win from the Browns,

861
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:56,960
Speaker 1: it was it was the Raiders who went right down

862
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,480
Speaker 1: the field, scored, got the two point version, then won

863
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 1: the game in a tea So that was a nice

864
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:04,400
Speaker 1: win for them. They now travel to Los Angeles to

865
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Speaker 1: face the Greg Rosenthal, Uh you got uh, Derek Carr,

866
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:14,040
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers, John Gruden looking to build off that win.

867
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:19,640
Speaker 1: I've I've never felt different, more different about the Chargers

868
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 1: than the public does than this team, at least in

869
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:25,920
Speaker 1: terms of that I look at them more negatively than

870
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 1: the public does. I usually that they're gonna be a

871
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 1: great value. Let's say, you know this isn't gambling advice,

872
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:37,000
Speaker 1: but they're they're often kind of undersold, whereas this year,

873
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:40,759
Speaker 1: week after week, people can you know, people in the

874
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:43,919
Speaker 1: Desert consider them heavy favorites, and I just don't see

875
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 1: that team this year. There are great offense, special teams

876
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 1: that will get you beat in a pretty bad defense

877
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:52,880
Speaker 1: which doesn't really have an identity because you were expecting

878
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:55,879
Speaker 1: the secondary to be good and all the secondary does

879
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:59,239
Speaker 1: is give up big play after big play. So I

880
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:03,839
Speaker 1: don't know, Joey Moost is killing them on both forty

881
00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:06,480
Speaker 1: Niners could have easily won that game a week ago.

882
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 1: That looked like a team. That looks like a game

883
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:11,600
Speaker 1: between two very evenly matched teams, and I don't I

884
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:14,600
Speaker 1: see the same this week between the Raiders and the

885
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:18,200
Speaker 1: Chargers either. Just two teams right smack in the middle

886
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 1: of the NFL that you kind of expect it's going

887
00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:22,799
Speaker 1: to come down to the last couple of minutes, and

888
00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:25,640
Speaker 1: you know, in that case, I kind of expect, like

889
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:28,600
Speaker 1: the Chargers special teams are something to blow it sometimes.

890
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:31,359
Speaker 1: So the middle of the roads, the bow you see

891
00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:34,160
Speaker 1: these two teams is fairly even. I feel like they're

892
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:38,000
Speaker 1: two thousand and eighteen. Play has been very even. Yes,

893
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:41,120
Speaker 1: they've looked about the same right smack in the middle. Raiders.

894
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:44,200
Speaker 1: Let's I think the Chargers offenses mountains better than the

895
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:46,759
Speaker 1: Raiders office. I do. Wait, wait, I do too, But

896
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:49,480
Speaker 1: the special teams has been so bad for the Chargers,

897
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:51,880
Speaker 1: and that's like, I'm not going to ignore that. And

898
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:54,960
Speaker 1: the defense has been just as bad as the Raiders defense.

899
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:56,759
Speaker 1: The Charges has been a little bit better. You're right.

900
00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:59,799
Speaker 1: They have Raiders averaging well over four yards per game

901
00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:02,120
Speaker 1: on offense. The one thing I thought they have the

902
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:05,800
Speaker 1: number nine off big Big Ben being sloppy. Derek Carr

903
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 1: is throwing some pawful interceptions this year. Good, good running game. Uh.

904
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:12,880
Speaker 1: I think Marshawn Lynch looks awesome. Yes, he looked awesome

905
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:16,319
Speaker 1: against Cleveland. What's Doug Martin doing on this roster? I

906
00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:18,960
Speaker 1: don't know. You will be the Garden like you know,

907
00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:21,360
Speaker 1: says he feels bad that he can't get Martin in

908
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:23,080
Speaker 1: the game. No, Marshall Lynch is one of the stories

909
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:25,080
Speaker 1: of the year. But to your point, West, the Raiders

910
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 1: ninth in offensive efficiency according to Footballsiders. That checks out.

911
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:31,840
Speaker 1: They've been fine on offense when the quarterback isn't throwing

912
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:34,680
Speaker 1: bad interceptions and when Mark Tavis Bryant, who hasn't had

913
00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:38,120
Speaker 1: a good year in four years, isn't dropping easy touched him.

914
00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:40,680
Speaker 1: I also think that the Chargers lack of a home

915
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:45,759
Speaker 1: field advantage is so underplayed. I think it's a significant disadvantage.

916
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:49,680
Speaker 1: You think it's pretty I think, how is it going

917
00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:51,480
Speaker 1: to improve? By the way, when they moved to an

918
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:53,960
Speaker 1: even bigger stadium that they can't I mean, I think

919
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,319
Speaker 1: they have less of it. I think they have less

920
00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:58,640
Speaker 1: of a chance to win in l A than they

921
00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:00,719
Speaker 1: do on the road. I think they being on the road,

922
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:03,319
Speaker 1: it was embarrassing last week the forty nine fans took

923
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:05,520
Speaker 1: over that stadium. It's gonna be the exact same thing

924
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:07,839
Speaker 1: this week with the Raiders. And to me that there's

925
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:11,040
Speaker 1: just something deflating and there's something that's gonna pick up

926
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:13,000
Speaker 1: the Raiders when you're when you're scoring a touchdown on

927
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 1: the road and the crowd's going crazy. Give me. Speaking

928
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:17,360
Speaker 1: of all pro wide receivers were waiting for a breakoff

929
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:19,719
Speaker 1: from Keenan. Allen has not scored a touchdown since Week

930
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:22,959
Speaker 1: one and hasn't quite been himself. But this is kind

931
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:25,560
Speaker 1: of a bit of a Keenan Allen thing where he'll

932
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 1: kind of be quiet and then you forget about Keenan Allen.

933
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 1: Then he rolls off like seven and fifty yard games

934
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:33,399
Speaker 1: in nine weeks. That just hasn't happened yet. That will

935
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:35,319
Speaker 1: make their offense a lot better two once that does happen.

936
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:37,800
Speaker 1: Donald Penn was placed on injured reserve for the Raiders

937
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:40,160
Speaker 1: and their number one draft pick Colton Miller has not

938
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:42,279
Speaker 1: been playing well at all left tackle. That's one of

939
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:44,880
Speaker 1: the reasons they throw the ball so quickly, so that

940
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:47,799
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987
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988
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989
00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:25,520
Speaker 1: It's a depressing rematch, I think for Vikings fans, just

990
00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:28,200
Speaker 1: because it feels like you're far away from that game

991
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:30,480
Speaker 1: right now, I came out of the Titans game not

992
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 1: worried at all about Carson Wentz. So that game was

993
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:34,840
Speaker 1: that was a really bad game for the Vice. But

994
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:36,799
Speaker 1: the idea that you're just gonna soar back to the

995
00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:39,319
Speaker 1: championship against the Eagles are filling the blank. There's a

996
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:42,600
Speaker 1: lot of questions because my the vikings to your doesn't

997
00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:47,000
Speaker 1: smell right. Situation with Minnesota their offensive line, that's right,

998
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:49,759
Speaker 1: you can you can make that sound effect. I don't

999
00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:55,200
Speaker 1: need that. Can we cease with that? Please? Probably not.

1000
00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:57,320
Speaker 1: It's probably gonna go on for the next like nine

1001
00:48:57,320 --> 00:49:00,800
Speaker 1: to twelve weeks. I'll be my guests. They're offensive line

1002
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:04,040
Speaker 1: is a major issue. They bail on the run, slash,

1003
00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:07,279
Speaker 1: cannot run the ball. There are too many players on

1004
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:10,520
Speaker 1: their defense completely underperforming. They gave up fifteen point eight

1005
00:49:10,560 --> 00:49:12,640
Speaker 1: points per game last They're up to almost thirty right now,

1006
00:49:12,719 --> 00:49:16,560
Speaker 1: twenty seven point five. They just they're stacked roster wise,

1007
00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:19,480
Speaker 1: and outside of I mean Adam, thelan and in parts

1008
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:22,320
Speaker 1: of the offense are what we'd expect, But the whole

1009
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:25,239
Speaker 1: defense right now has Did anyone really think they were

1010
00:49:25,239 --> 00:49:27,600
Speaker 1: gonna beat the Rams at any point last last week.

1011
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:30,759
Speaker 1: I didn't, not for one second, but I think they're

1012
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:34,160
Speaker 1: hanging around. But they played great offensively. They made the

1013
00:49:34,239 --> 00:49:37,080
Speaker 1: rams defenses their little My issue is their defense. No,

1014
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:40,920
Speaker 1: I couldn't do a thing against the Rams. No, they're not.

1015
00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:42,959
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that they're they can't win this game.

1016
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:45,520
Speaker 1: And after watching what Corey Davis did the Jalen Mills,

1017
00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:47,719
Speaker 1: I think that thelan and Stefon Diggs are licking their

1018
00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:51,160
Speaker 1: chops because this Eagle secondary without Rodney McCloud and with

1019
00:49:51,239 --> 00:49:54,439
Speaker 1: Jalen Mills really in a slump, they are not playing well.

1020
00:49:54,840 --> 00:49:57,440
Speaker 1: The ats was disappointing against the Rams. Is that's meant

1021
00:49:57,440 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 1: to be their strength late when Kirk Cousin was dropped

1022
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:02,560
Speaker 1: and dimes in the first half, you did get the feeling, oh,

1023
00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:04,400
Speaker 1: they need this game, they want this game after the

1024
00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:07,399
Speaker 1: Bills lost, but their defense just could not short any

1025
00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:10,480
Speaker 1: short week and playing the Rams and we're dealing with

1026
00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:12,680
Speaker 1: some new injuries in their secondary, they should be a

1027
00:50:12,719 --> 00:50:14,719
Speaker 1: little healthier for this one. And when you look at

1028
00:50:14,719 --> 00:50:17,399
Speaker 1: the Eagles, they're not the same team obviously that won

1029
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:20,319
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. They've been very mediocre. They're lucky to

1030
00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:22,719
Speaker 1: be two into the two. The two wins that they

1031
00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:25,960
Speaker 1: had could have easily gone gone the other way, and

1032
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:28,760
Speaker 1: they were outplayed in parts of those. And the biggest

1033
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:31,160
Speaker 1: change to me for the Eagles is their offensive line

1034
00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:33,439
Speaker 1: is what defined them last year, and their offensive line

1035
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:37,719
Speaker 1: is getting Carson Wentz killed right now seventeen hits and

1036
00:50:38,040 --> 00:50:40,080
Speaker 1: in both of the last weeks, the Colts beat them

1037
00:50:40,120 --> 00:50:42,239
Speaker 1: up pretty good up front too, So that that just

1038
00:50:42,360 --> 00:50:45,040
Speaker 1: makes you wonder because that's kind of what you think

1039
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:49,040
Speaker 1: of as the Eagles. It is really good, uh football

1040
00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:52,719
Speaker 1: talk so far in today's episode, guys, and they need

1041
00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:56,480
Speaker 1: a little more mirth picking it. Upset really good so far, yesh,

1042
00:50:56,560 --> 00:50:58,120
Speaker 1: let's pick the game West. You got you got the

1043
00:50:58,239 --> 00:51:00,080
Speaker 1: Vikings and an upset. Yeah. I don't think it's going

1044
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:01,719
Speaker 1: to be a blot or anything. I just have a

1045
00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:03,960
Speaker 1: feeling that Vikings backs are against the walls and they're

1046
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:09,040
Speaker 1: gonna come up. Mark Um, I think the Eagles are

1047
00:51:09,040 --> 00:51:11,560
Speaker 1: not about to go two and three. They're gonna win

1048
00:51:12,239 --> 00:51:14,680
Speaker 1: that we had you again, double beck on your predictions,

1049
00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:18,080
Speaker 1: keep getting them because I but this is this is

1050
00:51:18,120 --> 00:51:21,800
Speaker 1: the riser in the in this quarter. That is because

1051
00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:24,120
Speaker 1: of who they have coming up down the stretch. And

1052
00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:27,360
Speaker 1: by the way, Mike's prediction ends this week. And I

1053
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:29,120
Speaker 1: said they would lose three in a row, and this

1054
00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:31,319
Speaker 1: will be the third straight loss. You can't really say three.

1055
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:33,600
Speaker 1: They had already lost one when you made the predict.

1056
00:51:33,719 --> 00:51:35,640
Speaker 1: Is it factual that it would be a third loss?

1057
00:51:36,239 --> 00:51:39,839
Speaker 1: You predicted two losses in a row. But I will

1058
00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:42,359
Speaker 1: say that the Twitter show graphic was generous and said

1059
00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:44,200
Speaker 1: three when that's not really what I said. You said

1060
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:46,200
Speaker 1: they'd lose twice in a row. As a road underducks?

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00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:48,920
Speaker 1: Am I listen? Am I right? We'll find out if

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00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:51,759
Speaker 1: I'm right. You know, this whole narrative dies. It goes

1063
00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:54,799
Speaker 1: to you're as confused as we are. Just yeah, I

1064
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:57,719
Speaker 1: think I think the any listener who is intelligent and

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00:51:57,719 --> 00:52:02,320
Speaker 1: can read context clues is hanging with us. The Arizona Cardinals.

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00:52:02,560 --> 00:52:04,720
Speaker 1: What's your I got the Eagles, even though the Eagles

1067
00:52:04,719 --> 00:52:06,799
Speaker 1: aren't playing great. I don't like the Vikings this year.

1068
00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:09,400
Speaker 1: I'm gonna lock it up and take the Eagles. Oh

1069
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:15,840
Speaker 1: about that? Why now I like that? I don't like

1070
00:52:15,880 --> 00:52:18,600
Speaker 1: this Vikings team. Do you want a little trivia question?

1071
00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:23,000
Speaker 1: Only one defending champion has started a season two and

1072
00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:25,439
Speaker 1: three and gone on to make the playoffs. One Ever,

1073
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:29,040
Speaker 1: what's the question? Which team? It seems like an obvious

1074
00:52:29,080 --> 00:52:31,040
Speaker 1: set up to it to the to the question there

1075
00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:34,400
Speaker 1: was the he got pretty good? Was it the Cowboys?

1076
00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:37,600
Speaker 1: The year Emmett Smith held out your right team? Wrong year?

1077
00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:42,400
Speaker 1: The Cowboys? I just shouldn't Mrs Toaster maybe pulled a

1078
00:52:42,520 --> 00:52:45,960
Speaker 1: Sessler and got too specific with my answer. The Arizona

1079
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:48,919
Speaker 1: Cardinals own four. They've been competitive at least the last

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00:52:48,920 --> 00:52:51,000
Speaker 1: two weeks. They lost my two points to the Bears,

1081
00:52:51,400 --> 00:52:55,040
Speaker 1: three points to the Sea. You're giving out cookies cupcakes, Yes,

1082
00:52:55,440 --> 00:52:58,120
Speaker 1: for the Cardinals and their fans. Yes, I'm going to

1083
00:52:58,160 --> 00:53:01,080
Speaker 1: do it all right. Here are your cookies, ladies and gentlemen.

1084
00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:05,040
Speaker 1: They now traveled to San Francisco to face the forty

1085
00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:09,800
Speaker 1: ninioners West uh and Uh. Josh Rosen gets the build

1086
00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:12,239
Speaker 1: off a promising first start that it was not bad

1087
00:53:12,280 --> 00:53:14,000
Speaker 1: in that game. Yeah, I thought this. This is a

1088
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:16,520
Speaker 1: battle of two quarterbacks that played better than you would

1089
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:18,719
Speaker 1: think looking at the box scores or or hearing people

1090
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:22,279
Speaker 1: talk about it. Josh Rosen made some big throws and

1091
00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:24,520
Speaker 1: the ball placement on that one throw down the sideline

1092
00:53:24,560 --> 00:53:27,600
Speaker 1: to cham Williams between two defenders. There was I think

1093
00:53:27,640 --> 00:53:29,760
Speaker 1: overturned and called a non catch when it was definitely

1094
00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:32,279
Speaker 1: a cat. Well it looked like a catch to me anyway. Yes,

1095
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:35,399
Speaker 1: Josh Rosen promising first start. I liked what I saw

1096
00:53:35,440 --> 00:53:37,640
Speaker 1: out of him, and it wouldn't it wouldn't surprise me

1097
00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:39,760
Speaker 1: if they won this game. That was the highest graded

1098
00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:43,120
Speaker 1: performance by a rookie quarterback in their first start. I

1099
00:53:43,120 --> 00:53:46,200
Speaker 1: think that Pro Football Focus has ever had really which

1100
00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:48,880
Speaker 1: surprised me. But there may not be like a long list.

1101
00:53:49,680 --> 00:53:51,840
Speaker 1: And it was one of the reasons why I was

1102
00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:55,279
Speaker 1: especially furious at Mike McCoy and really Steve Wilkes. He

1103
00:53:55,320 --> 00:53:56,680
Speaker 1: said he was the one who told them to run

1104
00:53:56,719 --> 00:53:59,160
Speaker 1: it three street times. Josh Rosen was dealing in the

1105
00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:02,000
Speaker 1: fourth quarter that he was the best player on the team,

1106
00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:04,279
Speaker 1: and they took the ball out of his hands. And

1107
00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:06,840
Speaker 1: that's why I really as I'm someone that's rooting for

1108
00:54:06,920 --> 00:54:09,880
Speaker 1: Rosen in general, I just really like him, want him

1109
00:54:09,920 --> 00:54:12,120
Speaker 1: to do well, and I'm convinced this is the wrong

1110
00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:14,719
Speaker 1: staff for him, and I'm annoyed by that because it's

1111
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:16,879
Speaker 1: I don't know, it might be for a few years here.

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00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:18,880
Speaker 1: It's not a great start for this and a BA

1113
00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:25,120
Speaker 1: and a bad team too. Do you like c J. Betham? I?

1114
00:54:25,120 --> 00:54:26,759
Speaker 1: I do think that he might be like one of

1115
00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:30,160
Speaker 1: the thirty five best quarterbacks in the NFL. I think

1116
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:33,719
Speaker 1: that he's his arm isn't like what you want from

1117
00:54:33,719 --> 00:54:36,640
Speaker 1: a starter, but and he's he's gonna get hurt because

1118
00:54:36,680 --> 00:54:38,560
Speaker 1: he sits in there and takes too many hits. But

1119
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:42,160
Speaker 1: I do like him. It's telling, the telling that Shanahan.

1120
00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:44,440
Speaker 1: They could have gone out and tried to find someone

1121
00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:46,400
Speaker 1: else or made some sort of a trade and shown

1122
00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:49,600
Speaker 1: ultra confidence in him right away. I also have annoyed

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00:54:49,640 --> 00:54:51,759
Speaker 1: that Kyle Shanahan doesn't have a better team here. He's

1124
00:54:51,760 --> 00:54:54,840
Speaker 1: now wasting a year two essentially, And I think he

1125
00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:56,800
Speaker 1: can be one of the great coaches in the league.

1126
00:54:56,800 --> 00:54:58,680
Speaker 1: But he's right in the middle of his coaching prime.

1127
00:54:58,719 --> 00:55:02,040
Speaker 1: And and that's that is one reason to believe in Bethrood, though,

1128
00:55:02,120 --> 00:55:04,680
Speaker 1: is because this is the guy Shanahan wanted in the

1129
00:55:04,680 --> 00:55:07,640
Speaker 1: third round last year, way earlier than people expected. And

1130
00:55:07,680 --> 00:55:09,640
Speaker 1: it's the guy that Shannon has been coaching every day

1131
00:55:09,760 --> 00:55:11,279
Speaker 1: and believes in for a year and a half. So

1132
00:55:11,320 --> 00:55:13,799
Speaker 1: that alone, if if Kyle Shannion believes in him, makes

1133
00:55:13,800 --> 00:55:16,160
Speaker 1: me believe in him. Let's continue to spend through the

1134
00:55:16,239 --> 00:55:20,200
Speaker 1: late games. On Sunday, the Los Angeles Rams, after a

1135
00:55:20,239 --> 00:55:23,800
Speaker 1: little mini by, travel to Seattle to face the Seahawks.

1136
00:55:23,800 --> 00:55:25,600
Speaker 1: Here's the Rams. You want to talk about consistency on

1137
00:55:25,680 --> 00:55:28,640
Speaker 1: offense in their first four weeks, thirty three points, thirty

1138
00:55:28,719 --> 00:55:31,400
Speaker 1: four points, thirty five points, thirty eight points. It's a

1139
00:55:31,400 --> 00:55:34,880
Speaker 1: team at average thirty points last year. Uh. In the

1140
00:55:34,960 --> 00:55:38,600
Speaker 1: sixteen games the starters played, UH, they faced a Seahawks

1141
00:55:38,600 --> 00:55:40,879
Speaker 1: team greg that has kind of gotten off the mad

1142
00:55:40,920 --> 00:55:42,640
Speaker 1: here with back to back wins. But this is gonna

1143
00:55:42,680 --> 00:55:45,280
Speaker 1: be a much bigger challenge than they had against Dallas

1144
00:55:45,280 --> 00:55:49,080
Speaker 1: in Arizona. It is especially because Errol Thomas isn't there.

1145
00:55:49,400 --> 00:55:52,520
Speaker 1: I mean, I think there's been so much focus on

1146
00:55:53,160 --> 00:55:56,759
Speaker 1: the off the field stuff with Errol Thomas that there

1147
00:55:57,000 --> 00:55:58,440
Speaker 1: we kind of lose the fact that this is a

1148
00:55:58,480 --> 00:56:00,200
Speaker 1: team in Seattle. I think had a chance to make

1149
00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:02,360
Speaker 1: the playoffs. I know they're an ugly team, but I

1150
00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:04,120
Speaker 1: think they're gonna be tough to play at home. I

1151
00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:07,200
Speaker 1: think the defense is coming together, and Earl Thomas, other

1152
00:56:07,239 --> 00:56:10,440
Speaker 1: than Bobby Wagner, you know, is maybe the most valuable

1153
00:56:10,440 --> 00:56:12,960
Speaker 1: player on that defense. Maybe he's even more valuable than Wagner,

1154
00:56:12,960 --> 00:56:14,200
Speaker 1: And now you take him out of the mix, and

1155
00:56:14,200 --> 00:56:16,239
Speaker 1: it's just a little harder to imagine them slowing the

1156
00:56:16,360 --> 00:56:18,560
Speaker 1: Rams down. One thing I'm keeping an eye on with

1157
00:56:18,600 --> 00:56:22,279
Speaker 1: the Seahawks is a guy Mark loved in the preseason,

1158
00:56:22,360 --> 00:56:25,799
Speaker 1: David Moore. They are talking about taking some snaps away

1159
00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:27,960
Speaker 1: from Brandon Marshall and giving him the David Moore and

1160
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:30,040
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see that happen because I I

1161
00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:32,279
Speaker 1: thought David Moore showed a lot of playmaking ability in

1162
00:56:32,280 --> 00:56:35,759
Speaker 1: the preseason. Why not do that? I I was thinking

1163
00:56:35,760 --> 00:56:38,600
Speaker 1: about this RAMS team. Could they beat an a f

1164
00:56:38,680 --> 00:56:41,080
Speaker 1: C Pro Bowl team an a f C Pro Bowl

1165
00:56:41,120 --> 00:56:44,080
Speaker 1: defense if you put up the Rams for four quarters? No?

1166
00:56:44,520 --> 00:56:47,040
Speaker 1: I mean, well that it's a weird alternate universe where

1167
00:56:47,080 --> 00:56:49,560
Speaker 1: this team has to be training the entire offseason together

1168
00:56:49,640 --> 00:56:52,640
Speaker 1: with a quality head coach. But if that's ac no,

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00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:54,600
Speaker 1: I think. I think because there'll be such a talent

1170
00:56:55,239 --> 00:56:57,319
Speaker 1: like you. In theory, the talent be so much more

1171
00:56:57,360 --> 00:56:59,120
Speaker 1: for the Pro Bowl team that they have that one

1172
00:56:59,160 --> 00:57:01,080
Speaker 1: week and then they get they only have one week.

1173
00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:03,360
Speaker 1: Four Yeah, I would take a lot of NFL teams

1174
00:57:03,360 --> 00:57:05,000
Speaker 1: over a one week Pro Bowl team. I think the

1175
00:57:05,040 --> 00:57:08,080
Speaker 1: continuity they have you knowing ever, you know being I

1176
00:57:08,120 --> 00:57:09,960
Speaker 1: mean in this case, I'm not just saying any team.

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00:57:09,960 --> 00:57:12,759
Speaker 1: I'm saying the Rams star power. They're like they could

1178
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:15,719
Speaker 1: have seven Pro Bowlers. I guess this is how the

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00:57:15,719 --> 00:57:19,240
Speaker 1: show works. You're allowed to Is this Pro Bowl team

1180
00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:22,960
Speaker 1: playing a three four or four three? They're very hybrid.

1181
00:57:23,040 --> 00:57:28,240
Speaker 1: They mixed between the two. Is it a home game

1182
00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:29,760
Speaker 1: for the Rams? Are they on the road? It would

1183
00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:33,480
Speaker 1: be in Honolulu a neutral site, but then that would

1184
00:57:33,480 --> 00:57:36,360
Speaker 1: be a Pro Bowl home game, right, I mean, I guess,

1185
00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:38,760
Speaker 1: but I don't know. That's a very milk toast fan.

1186
00:57:38,920 --> 00:57:41,800
Speaker 1: I don't know if the locals are like, yeah, we

1187
00:57:41,880 --> 00:57:45,440
Speaker 1: really support team Sanders is Deon Sanders the coach. Rams

1188
00:57:45,480 --> 00:57:47,640
Speaker 1: games are not the biggest home field advantage in the

1189
00:57:47,720 --> 00:57:50,240
Speaker 1: league either. By the way, who's the defensive coordinator matching

1190
00:57:50,240 --> 00:57:53,480
Speaker 1: wits with Sean McVeigh the loser of the FC championship

1191
00:57:53,880 --> 00:58:00,600
Speaker 1: or Dion Sanders Jerry offensive coordinator. I'll take the if

1192
00:58:00,600 --> 00:58:06,240
Speaker 1: it's the Sean mcveagor's Michael Irvin. Uh, where were we

1193
00:58:07,360 --> 00:58:10,120
Speaker 1: in Seattle for us? A big game? That this was

1194
00:58:10,160 --> 00:58:12,080
Speaker 1: the game. Remember last year when the Rams, it was

1195
00:58:12,160 --> 00:58:14,320
Speaker 1: kind of that, hey, this is the changing of the guard.

1196
00:58:14,360 --> 00:58:15,960
Speaker 1: At the moment that the Rams went up there and

1197
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:19,360
Speaker 1: cleaned their clocks, it wasn't necessarily clear that the Rams

1198
00:58:19,360 --> 00:58:21,880
Speaker 1: were even, you know, gonna win the division. And now

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00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:23,840
Speaker 1: it just feels I could be stunning if the Shaw

1200
00:58:24,320 --> 00:58:26,960
Speaker 1: the Seahawks are still not taking care of Russell Wilson.

1201
00:58:27,400 --> 00:58:29,640
Speaker 1: Dwayne Brown might be there, but he's taken more sacks

1202
00:58:29,920 --> 00:58:34,040
Speaker 1: than QB hits against UM the Rams in his career

1203
00:58:34,040 --> 00:58:36,800
Speaker 1: than any other team. So they go and get Russell Wilson,

1204
00:58:37,320 --> 00:58:40,520
Speaker 1: and uh, he's the He's their only hope. I think

1205
00:58:40,520 --> 00:58:42,280
Speaker 1: in this game, if he has one of those special

1206
00:58:42,360 --> 00:58:44,920
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, he needs to play better. I mean, I

1207
00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:48,680
Speaker 1: can smell the the twelves coming at me this week

1208
00:58:48,680 --> 00:58:52,000
Speaker 1: because Russell Wilson's twenty one in the QBN. I don't think,

1209
00:58:52,320 --> 00:58:54,880
Speaker 1: why are we so into smelling on this preview show,

1210
00:58:55,000 --> 00:58:57,640
Speaker 1: everyone's smelling things. I just kind of gross. I don't think,

1211
00:58:58,920 --> 00:59:02,240
Speaker 1: let's let's please. Greg's got a little congestion up there.

1212
00:59:03,160 --> 00:59:06,120
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a big it's all relative. There's always

1213
00:59:06,120 --> 00:59:10,240
Speaker 1: gonna be something up there. Uh, let's move on the Cowboys.

1214
00:59:10,240 --> 00:59:16,320
Speaker 1: Why did you say that the Cowboys? Are you talking

1215
00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:18,360
Speaker 1: about apologies? That are saying I got a big nose.

1216
00:59:18,400 --> 00:59:22,280
Speaker 1: There's a lot to fill, but I never noticed. Why

1217
00:59:22,320 --> 00:59:25,160
Speaker 1: can't it simply be two clear channels? Why must it

1218
00:59:25,200 --> 00:59:27,480
Speaker 1: be congested in your mind all the time. Let's get

1219
00:59:27,520 --> 00:59:30,800
Speaker 1: back to the family trees. That a trait. Oh yeah,

1220
00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:33,640
Speaker 1: me and my dad nice big I mean his bigger

1221
00:59:33,680 --> 00:59:35,800
Speaker 1: but yeah, nice big one. I think you have a

1222
00:59:35,880 --> 00:59:39,600
Speaker 1: nice nose. Yeah, I've never noticed the Cowboys Sunday Night,

1223
00:59:40,240 --> 00:59:42,840
Speaker 1: A big nose can be nice and it depends you,

1224
00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:49,360
Speaker 1: no doubt. We'll take your word on that. The cow Wow.

1225
00:59:49,480 --> 00:59:52,960
Speaker 1: The Cowboys are back um on Sunday night football again

1226
00:59:53,400 --> 00:59:56,480
Speaker 1: and uh they are two and two and they had

1227
00:59:56,480 --> 01:00:00,360
Speaker 1: a last second win against the Lions. Uh that was

1228
01:00:00,440 --> 01:00:04,720
Speaker 1: set up by dak to Zeke. So that was a

1229
01:00:04,800 --> 01:00:07,800
Speaker 1: nice win. Jarod's feeling himself. The Cowboys feeling good. Now

1230
01:00:07,840 --> 01:00:11,680
Speaker 1: they travel to Houston, UH to face the Texans, who

1231
01:00:11,720 --> 01:00:14,480
Speaker 1: got off the matt after an oh and three start,

1232
01:00:15,080 --> 01:00:19,120
Speaker 1: outlasting the Colts thirty seven to thirty four. Mark Sessler

1233
01:00:19,920 --> 01:00:23,160
Speaker 1: was that a breakthrough for the Cowboys offense at the

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01:00:23,240 --> 01:00:25,360
Speaker 1: end of last week, or is it still a situation

1235
01:00:25,360 --> 01:00:28,040
Speaker 1: where you're wondering how they're gonna score points to win games.

1236
01:00:28,200 --> 01:00:29,880
Speaker 1: I'm not wondering if they have one of the best

1237
01:00:29,880 --> 01:00:32,440
Speaker 1: players in the entire league and Ezekial Elliott, and I

1238
01:00:32,560 --> 01:00:34,680
Speaker 1: will continue to wonder about the rest of the offense?

1239
01:00:34,880 --> 01:00:37,520
Speaker 1: Was question? What was the question? I thought? Am I

1240
01:00:37,520 --> 01:00:40,080
Speaker 1: still worried about their offense? Is it a side of

1241
01:00:40,160 --> 01:00:42,920
Speaker 1: things to come that the way they were able to still? No,

1242
01:00:43,040 --> 01:00:45,000
Speaker 1: I don't think. I think that is, if anything, maybe

1243
01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:47,720
Speaker 1: an aberration against the Lions team that's getting crushed on

1244
01:00:47,760 --> 01:00:49,840
Speaker 1: defense three out of four games so far. The answer

1245
01:00:49,920 --> 01:00:54,400
Speaker 1: is the nineteen six Cowboys. Hey, listen, a little trivia question.

1246
01:00:54,840 --> 01:00:57,240
Speaker 1: I give West half a point for that. I'll take it.

1247
01:00:57,480 --> 01:01:00,000
Speaker 1: He got the right team. It was a funny yeah,

1248
01:01:00,280 --> 01:01:02,800
Speaker 1: call back? What what was the set up here? What

1249
01:01:02,800 --> 01:01:06,520
Speaker 1: am I supposed to be doing? Sorry? I apologize, Mark

1250
01:01:06,800 --> 01:01:09,600
Speaker 1: I this game is on my radar and I may

1251
01:01:09,640 --> 01:01:12,760
Speaker 1: have to somehow schedule a doctor's appointment on Sunday night

1252
01:01:12,880 --> 01:01:14,600
Speaker 1: or something that will get me out of watching this.

1253
01:01:16,280 --> 01:01:19,080
Speaker 1: I might because this is two teams that have so

1254
01:01:19,160 --> 01:01:22,000
Speaker 1: much ego that they refused to solve their own issues

1255
01:01:22,000 --> 01:01:26,320
Speaker 1: in the off season, the Cowboys simply said, we're gonna

1256
01:01:26,400 --> 01:01:29,920
Speaker 1: cut Dez Bryant, do nothing at wide receiver and hope

1257
01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:31,920
Speaker 1: that a rookie wee draft and talk about him as

1258
01:01:31,960 --> 01:01:34,280
Speaker 1: he's you know, a number one x wide receiver. And

1259
01:01:34,280 --> 01:01:36,440
Speaker 1: then you find out now you've got nothing. And the

1260
01:01:36,480 --> 01:01:38,920
Speaker 1: Texans I understood that you added a few linemen, but

1261
01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:40,680
Speaker 1: not a single one of them have a grade of

1262
01:01:40,760 --> 01:01:43,760
Speaker 1: higher than like fifty six on PFF. Right now, it's

1263
01:01:43,760 --> 01:01:46,800
Speaker 1: a disastrous dage out of a hundred. I mean, you

1264
01:01:48,640 --> 01:01:50,800
Speaker 1: do you get into like the territory when you have

1265
01:01:50,840 --> 01:01:53,360
Speaker 1: like the set six seventies and eighties. I mean, please speak.

1266
01:01:54,080 --> 01:01:55,760
Speaker 1: And I think they look at their backfield. They had

1267
01:01:55,760 --> 01:01:57,600
Speaker 1: an injured running back who was good last year, but

1268
01:01:57,640 --> 01:01:59,600
Speaker 1: he was injured this offseason. And you're trying to tell

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Speaker 1: us that two time making the lead bust Lamar Miller

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Speaker 1: is your starter in sit down, It's gonna be hard

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Speaker 1: to follow that if you just killed both teams. But uh,

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Speaker 1: Titans right tackle Julian Davenport or Texans tackle Julian Daveport

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Speaker 1: have five penalties the week before, so they benched him

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Speaker 1: and then left tackle Martinez ranking got worked over last

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Speaker 1: week by the Colts. This is an awful offensive line

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Speaker 1: and I'm not sure if they're even the worst position

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Speaker 1: group on this team. Their cornerbacks are retchard. They don't

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Speaker 1: cover anyone. Then again, like you know, Boo who you

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Speaker 1: have to watch a football game with DeShawn Watson, J J. Watt,

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Speaker 1: Jedevan Clowney, Ezekiel Elliott, DeAndre Marcus Lawrence, a crime a Riverboddy.

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Speaker 1: I have my preferences, and that's your preference, not mine.

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying there's some I do think that Shawn

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Speaker 1: Watson in the offense again in the end of that

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Speaker 1: Colts game look good. You're missing a couple of stories.

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Speaker 1: Jalen Smith is a star now and Layton vanderash the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys first round pick, played really well in place of

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Speaker 1: Shaan Lee last week and best game this year by far.

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Speaker 1: I'm ever, I don't think he's had some dominant games,

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Speaker 1: but you're right, Vanderess, even when he came in for

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Speaker 1: when Lee first got hurt two weeks ago, he just

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Speaker 1: popped to the point that I don't think they're going

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Speaker 1: to take him out of the starting lineup anytime. So

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Speaker 1: that's good. Just figures. They got to figure out how

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Speaker 1: to stay on the field. Jalen Smith might end up

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Speaker 1: losing some snap. How them they're gonna play three linebackers.

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Speaker 1: How many years did chud Lee get hurt in the

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Speaker 1: Dallas defense? Immediately went down? The two fourteen is good

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Speaker 1: there and you're in the lamb. Thank you, thank you,

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Speaker 1: And any time Mark you want to join us opening,

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Speaker 1: I feel completely confident roaming around unscathed on the other

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Speaker 1: floors of the house, locking you in that lab. Speaking

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Speaker 1: of locking U when we talk about open, we talked

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Speaker 1: about that wide open a f C. I believe the

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Speaker 1: Houston Texans are going to be in that mix as well.

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Speaker 1: And you know, to get into that mix, you can't

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Speaker 1: start one and four. You need to start stacking some

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Speaker 1: dubs and put yourself in position to make a December run.

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Speaker 1: And that's why at home, Deshaun Watson knocking off the

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Speaker 1: rust now looking better and better? What is back to

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Speaker 1: being J J. Watt Clowney prime time, the crowd and

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Speaker 1: a Cowboys team. Yes, the defense is much improved, but

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Speaker 1: that offense stinks and you know it. That's why I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna knock up the Houston Texans. Also to get there.

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Speaker 1: One in three, um, one in three in locks, we're

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Speaker 1: both gonna be two and three by Sunday Night. Shoot

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Speaker 1: for the Stars. Bang bang, sit down, Newt Rockney. Let's

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Speaker 1: move on Monday Night Football. Uh the he's been sitting

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Speaker 1: for some time. Uh or prone. The Washington Redskins are

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Speaker 1: two and or cremated. I don't really know what they

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Speaker 1: did with after he passed a very painful topic for

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Speaker 1: the families. Yeah, I'm gonna move on the Washington Redskins

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Speaker 1: Monday Night Football. Coming off that ridiculous week for by

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Speaker 1: travel to the Superdome to face the Saints. The Saints

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Speaker 1: we talked about earlier, took care of business against the Giants.

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Speaker 1: Nice road win for the team. Now they're back the

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Speaker 1: Dome and Chris Westling sneaky good Redskins defense? Can they

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Speaker 1: slow down? Drew Brees of the Saints. I like the

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Speaker 1: way you sneaky good there. Because the Redskins defense is

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Speaker 1: better than people think. I believe statistically their top five

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Speaker 1: this year. UM, I don't know if they're gonna end

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Speaker 1: up there, but they are a top ten defense. The

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Speaker 1: Saints are feeling themselves on offense. Alvin Kamara had a

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Speaker 1: great game. And Taysom Hill, this guy. You hear all

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Speaker 1: with him on the m v P list. I I

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Speaker 1: put him, Come on, Greg, calmed down with the Taysom Hill,

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Speaker 1: Steve you you hear all August about how the Ravens

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Speaker 1: are gonna do this and they're gonna do that with

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. The Saints are gonna do so much more

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Speaker 1: with Taysom Hill this year than the Ravens are ever

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Speaker 1: gonna do in two thousand eight. Team with Lamar Jackson.

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01:05:42,360 --> 01:05:44,200
Speaker 1: This guy gets the ball in his hands and makes

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Speaker 1: plays and you get mark ingram back is I have

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Speaker 1: no problem with a team getting a fresh, hard nose

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Speaker 1: running back in Week five. You've got in the first

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Speaker 1: month of the season out of the way. This is

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Speaker 1: an asset to the Saints. I mean, sometimes suspense are

1347
01:06:00,320 --> 01:06:02,640
Speaker 1: not the worst thing if they play into keeping you healthy.

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01:06:03,000 --> 01:06:05,880
Speaker 1: Tom Brady two thousand six. I think it was a

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Speaker 1: factor and then winning the Super Bowl. It's a good

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Speaker 1: point keep them healthy by both of you. Dan obviously agreeing,

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, what a point. I also like like

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Speaker 1: Sean payton Ill he like wears kind of everything that

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Speaker 1: he does on his sleep. He wants to let you

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Speaker 1: know how smart he is with Taysom Hill, and I

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Speaker 1: embrace that, like he wants to show you. Look at this,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna have fun. You don't think I'm gonna take

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Speaker 1: out Drew Brees on one of the biggest snaps of

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Speaker 1: the game. I'm gonna do it, and it's gonna work.

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Speaker 1: And Taysom Hill is a freak of nature that I

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Speaker 1: want to make everyone now. It feels like a bad

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Speaker 1: quality for most humans, but a good quality for an

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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator. Yes, Greg, you're very excited about Taysom Hill.

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Speaker 1: But you're right though, Like when he is on the field,

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Speaker 1: he pops, he moves fast, he's his body type is

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Speaker 1: it doesn't really make sense. He's like he looks like

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Speaker 1: a quarterback. But then it'll like shoot down. He'll go

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Speaker 1: up between the tackles for about Christian McCaffrey, or he'll

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Speaker 1: bolt to the outs. He claims he's but he claims

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Speaker 1: he's faster than Alvin Kamara, and he's he's like one

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Speaker 1: of the best gunners on special teams league. I think

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Speaker 1: Vick and r G three are the only quarterbacks ever

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Speaker 1: to run a faster forty than Tastom Hi. This is

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Speaker 1: a tasty Monday Night. Well, what I really like this?

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Speaker 1: There's any Adrian Peterson revenge factor here. This is a

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Speaker 1: team that taught him to the win. I don't think

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Speaker 1: the Saints did Adrian Peterson wrong, though, Mark I attempted

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Speaker 1: to pick this game. Mark Saints at home, Saints on

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Speaker 1: a primetime slate, please sneaky good? What Redskins defense? West?

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Speaker 1: I know, but I don't think Alex Smith can keep

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Speaker 1: up with Drew Brees in a shootout. Really, no, I don't.

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Speaker 1: I think Kirk Cousins can Alex Smith. For the most part,

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Speaker 1: I think the saintsman did keep up with Drew Brees

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Speaker 1: in a shootout in the playoffs one year. Yes, that

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Speaker 1: was his best, yest moment, but he had he had

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Speaker 1: the forty Niners talent, not Paul Richardson and Josh Doxon

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Speaker 1: th Jo Dockson. Who when's the last time Johnstockson made

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Speaker 1: a play two thousand nine. I'll take I'll take, I'll

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01:08:05,360 --> 01:08:08,560
Speaker 1: take the home team. I just I'm gonna take the

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Speaker 1: Saints too, and then I'm gonna jam in a point

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Speaker 1: that has nothing to do with that. And that's that

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Speaker 1: West have been saying, like you could tell Adrian Peterson

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Speaker 1: from last year. He's the same guy this year. I

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Speaker 1: think he's another level that week three, same guy the

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Speaker 1: week and behind a much better offensive. The suddenness and

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01:08:23,920 --> 01:08:28,000
Speaker 1: the explosion here year he looks like like he hasn't

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01:08:28,000 --> 01:08:29,679
Speaker 1: looked in about four or five years. I'm just saying

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Speaker 1: this is an old render type of team. It was there,

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Speaker 1: but it's it's going another level. It's it's not it

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Speaker 1: was there. And you know what, I think skipping training

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Speaker 1: camp is a nice way to do all that. Maybe

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01:08:39,520 --> 01:08:41,960
Speaker 1: we should camp and you're fresh. What if we hit

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01:08:41,960 --> 01:08:44,639
Speaker 1: the scene around September eight, I'd be fresher right now

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01:08:44,680 --> 01:08:47,439
Speaker 1: then a long running cessler about November eight? How about

1404
01:08:47,439 --> 01:08:51,679
Speaker 1: we left bell this roll in like January? All right, good,

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Speaker 1: good preview, guys, Nice job, nice job with the locks.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna have some fun on Sunday when football returns.

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Speaker 1: Thank you everyone that's listening. Uh, you know what we

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01:09:03,120 --> 01:09:04,760
Speaker 1: haven't done in a while. Ask you got to leave

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01:09:04,840 --> 01:09:07,960
Speaker 1: some comments on iTunes. That would be great because the

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01:09:07,960 --> 01:09:10,479
Speaker 1: Shadowy League figures care about that stuff and it makes

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01:09:10,560 --> 01:09:13,400
Speaker 1: us look better, uh for them. And we're always in

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01:09:13,439 --> 01:09:16,680
Speaker 1: an uphill batter with those jokers. So some bang us

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Speaker 1: with some comments, and also check out the around the

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01:09:19,120 --> 01:09:23,400
Speaker 1: NFL subreddit which is happening. It's like a there's a

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Speaker 1: lot going on. Hen thousand strong. It's an army that's growing,

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Speaker 1: so check that out as well. Until Sunday night, this

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Speaker 1: is Dan Hands signing off. Well I close it by

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Speaker 1: saying until Sunday, so I really boxed myself in. Stan

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Speaker 1: Hands is signing off for a Quiet Storm, The Mailman,

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Speaker 1: the Old Boss, and the Loose Cannon, Ricky Hollywood behind

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Speaker 1: the Glass's Agan do here until Sunday. M Sally shook up.

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Speaker 1: Press that button one more time. I swear to God

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Speaker 1: when a rip that mustache right off your face, Wow,

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Speaker 1: that would be amazing.