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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. What is up

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Speaker 1: straight Fire, Fam, It's me Jason McIntyre. Straight Fire for Wednesday, September,

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Speaker 1: the middle of the week, one of these rare Tuesday

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Speaker 1: nights where there's no real sports on and when I'm

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Speaker 1: in real obviously, I mean NFL college football, but we

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Speaker 1: had some interesting baseball. I'll bring up the Aaron Judge

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. In the books, I'm very excited for

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Speaker 1: a week too early in the season when I'm in

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Speaker 1: the mix in the gambling contest, I'm in the mix

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Speaker 1: for Survivor, I'm all over the fantasy waiver wire. Like

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Speaker 1: the NFL consumes so much time that I really tune

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Speaker 1: and then I realized I had like all this stuff

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Speaker 1: to do on my to do list. Yes, because to

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Speaker 1: do lists are a real thing. Um, But in non

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Speaker 1: NFL stories, and here's a couple of fun ones. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if you saw them this morning. Obviously, we'll

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Speaker 1: start with Live Golf, and I know a lot of

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Speaker 1: regardless of where you stand. On Golf Live announced on

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Speaker 1: in October in Miami, and fifty mill is on the line.

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Speaker 1: Fifty mil. That's like a headline grabbing number for a

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Speaker 1: golf tournament. So there's twelve four man teams and if

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Speaker 1: four mila pop. And there's uh their seeds. There are

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Speaker 1: some teams get a buy and I kind of did

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Speaker 1: like this, Okay, So they split up the there's a

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Speaker 1: team captains. How awesome is that? Like? I kind of

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Speaker 1: so we just sidesteps them. They smirk about it. It's funny.

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Speaker 1: It's like, not bad, it's good content. So now you've

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Speaker 1: this is kind of awesome. I love this UM Live

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Speaker 1: fun than that. Surely some of you are in my

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Speaker 1: can remember Bonds. You can remember epic home run summer

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Speaker 1: dramas bleeding into the fall where guys are chasing records. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: by Roger Marris in nineteen sixty one. Judge, who's a

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Speaker 1: And I know Brett Farve ben retired for a decade.

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Speaker 1: for Draft Kings, NFL analyst, he does radio college football

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Speaker 1: Mike Golic Jr. Jason likes to think he knows everything

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Speaker 1: I'm doing good, Jameson. Appreciate you having me, man, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: where we want. But Kanhote might be the best receiver

428
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Speaker 1: in college football. We get guys like that all the

429
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Speaker 1: time at l s U. For him and my Den Brockt,

430
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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator. How that stuff morps the personality stuff. People

431
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Speaker 1: can feel how they want about a guy. It's ultimately

432
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Speaker 1: decided by what you do on the field. And I

433
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Speaker 1: think for LSU fans who have some worry about how

434
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Speaker 1: this is gonna go the offensive lines and issue, and

435
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Speaker 1: we knew that coming into this season, it's gonna be

436
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Speaker 1: how does Brian Kelly manage the other things? And how

437
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Speaker 1: can Brian Kelly go about making people feel I was

438
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Speaker 1: talking with someone about this the other day. How can

439
00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:27,040
Speaker 1: you go about making people feel But Monty Jones actually

440
00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:30,359
Speaker 1: said this to me, making people feel good even if

441
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Speaker 1: things aren't going well. In the beginning portion of this,

442
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Speaker 1: Brian Kelly had a lot of practice with that at

443
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Speaker 1: Notre Dame when he first got there, having to go

444
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Speaker 1: out and really always be cognizant of the fans, the media,

445
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Speaker 1: all these things that aren't football in college football. He's

446
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Speaker 1: gonna be able to handle that stuff, I think as

447
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Speaker 1: time goes along here at l s U, even if

448
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Speaker 1: the start has been a little rockier than some expected.

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Speaker 1: All right, Mike, let's go to the NFL. And I

450
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Speaker 1: don't know how you did in Week one. I was

451
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Speaker 1: good picking games. The teasers killed me because I just

452
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Speaker 1: thought like the uh good teams would prevail. But I

453
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Speaker 1: like the underdogs, like Cincinnati with that choke job the

454
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Speaker 1: Colts can't get the w uh some some surprises. Do

455
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Speaker 1: you think we see? Um? The continued expectations met in

456
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Speaker 1: Week two with favorites mostly winning but underdogs showing up.

457
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Speaker 1: Or are we gonna see teams like the Rams, uh,

458
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Speaker 1: teams like the Packers actually play football where they look

459
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Speaker 1: like garbage in Week one? Well? I think some of

460
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Speaker 1: it too with them is the level of competition and

461
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Speaker 1: just the circumstances, right, Because for a lot of the

462
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Speaker 1: NFC teams up top, you didn't see it exposed with

463
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Speaker 1: Tampa because Dallas was going through hell on their own sideline.

464
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Speaker 1: That they had to work out. But we know about

465
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Speaker 1: the injuries on that roster. We know about the turnover

466
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Speaker 1: on the offensive line and the Rams roster, and some

467
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Speaker 1: of the changes in the wide out room and the

468
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Speaker 1: opponent they were facing. The Bills are the best team

469
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Speaker 1: in football right now, so that was gonna flush the

470
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Speaker 1: pipes for the Green Bay Packers. Most of the cavalry

471
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Speaker 1: is still on the sideline right now. David box tr

472
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Speaker 1: was enacted, Elton Jenkins wasn't out there. Alan Lazard wasn't

473
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Speaker 1: available in Week one, so Aaron Rodgers is looking around

474
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Speaker 1: at a bunch of young receivers who are talented. We

475
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Speaker 1: all think Romeo dobb is gonna do really well. Christian

476
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Speaker 1: Watson is a big range e athlete that they tend

477
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Speaker 1: to like in that receiver room. It's just all the

478
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Speaker 1: guys that he was used to relying on are either

479
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Speaker 1: in Las Vegas. Now we're on the sideline, still injured,

480
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Speaker 1: So I think a lot of that will hold up

481
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Speaker 1: in the early portion. We know post C B A

482
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Speaker 1: in the NFL, the first four weeks are kind of

483
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Speaker 1: an extended preseason. We don't see, especially for a lot

484
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Speaker 1: of the teams that don't play their starters in the preseason.

485
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Speaker 1: I think they account for Hey, there's gonna be a

486
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Speaker 1: little bit of this. We got seventeen games now, so

487
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Speaker 1: we're more willing to have a time of year where, yeah,

488
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Speaker 1: underdogs got much more of a shot right now, because

489
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Speaker 1: even the contenders and the ones who have definitely lifted

490
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Speaker 1: the trophy before understand that right now, you're not really

491
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Speaker 1: gonna lose your season at this point in time. If

492
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Speaker 1: you believe you've got a winnable division and you believe

493
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Speaker 1: you can get healthy and have a quarterback, it's gonna

494
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Speaker 1: help you weather it. The offensive lines have been really

495
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Speaker 1: really struggling. Obviously the Packers had injuries, but specifically Borrow

496
00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:01,159
Speaker 1: got drilled again. And that's a Bengals team that invested heavily.

497
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Speaker 1: Mike and your experiences, Um, I watched Layout Collins just

498
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Speaker 1: get beat like a turnstyle repeatedly by t J. Watt. Now,

499
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Speaker 1: I know it's going against a great guy, and what

500
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Speaker 1: that being said, Like, when you're on the line next

501
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Speaker 1: to a guy like Collins who's just getting beaten like

502
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Speaker 1: a drum, I'm just take me back to your experience.

503
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Speaker 1: What can you say to a guy like Collins? Because

504
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Speaker 1: a coach a Yankee him right, Um, is anything said

505
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Speaker 1: like dude, come on, get a grip? Or is he

506
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Speaker 1: saying give me help? Like what what happens in that scenario?

507
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Speaker 1: You have really honest conversations. Again, the best teams I've

508
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Speaker 1: been on, you just have to understand at some point,

509
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Speaker 1: all right, if it's not someone's day, and if it's

510
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Speaker 1: t J bleeping, why, like you also go into the

511
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Speaker 1: games circling that guy and saying all right. If you're

512
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Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals who brought in four new offensive line

513
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Speaker 1: starters between free agency and drafting, that's a hard thing

514
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Speaker 1: to expect to go out and perform Week one, even

515
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Speaker 1: if we're saying the parts are automatically better than what

516
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Speaker 1: they had last year in a group that gave up

517
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Speaker 1: seventy sacks over the course of the season. Offensive line,

518
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Speaker 1: especially the way that they want to play it, where

519
00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:03,159
Speaker 1: with Joe Burrow, what is he like? Going back to

520
00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,280
Speaker 1: l s U they've done so well. There a lot

521
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Speaker 1: of spread out formations four and five wide receivers, five

522
00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:10,760
Speaker 1: and six man protections, which means a lot of times

523
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Speaker 1: you're on an island or you're operating in tanda with

524
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Speaker 1: someone in a lot of space, and that makes life

525
00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:18,560
Speaker 1: tough on an offensive line where these guys aren't yet

526
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Speaker 1: used to how they communicate with each other on a

527
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Speaker 1: down in and down out basis. And so what you're

528
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Speaker 1: going over to the sideline is saying like, hey, this

529
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Speaker 1: is the adjustment I think we gotta make. This guy's

530
00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:30,160
Speaker 1: giving me some trouble out here. This is how he's

531
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Speaker 1: beating me here. If he's beating me outside, can we

532
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Speaker 1: send a running back there and chip him on the

533
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Speaker 1: way out if that's something I like as an offensive tackle,

534
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Speaker 1: can we maybe try and slide protection more that way

535
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Speaker 1: if they're not blitzing a ton, so that I've got

536
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Speaker 1: a guard that's coming out to help me, or I

537
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Speaker 1: know I've got the center sliding my way so I

538
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Speaker 1: can focus on one thing a little bit more while

539
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Speaker 1: I'm getting a lot from a really talented rusher around

540
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Speaker 1: the league. And so our conversations on the sideline as

541
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Speaker 1: an offensive line, we're always solution oriented. Let's be brutally

542
00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:00,479
Speaker 1: honest about what we see and what's happening, and then

543
00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:02,639
Speaker 1: let's try and figure out not what we're gonna do

544
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Speaker 1: for the whole season. Because I think over a long run. Well,

545
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Speaker 1: Collins is going to be a guy that the rebol

546
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:08,639
Speaker 1: to count on here. He played really good football for

547
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Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. But in this game right now for

548
00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:14,520
Speaker 1: a Steelers defense that definitely looks rejuvenated, what do we

549
00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:16,680
Speaker 1: need to fix it today? Because the old line is

550
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:19,200
Speaker 1: always high school of football, you wait to watch the

551
00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:21,560
Speaker 1: film and you fix it next week. College football, you

552
00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:23,119
Speaker 1: wait till week it's to halftime and you make the

553
00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:25,560
Speaker 1: adjustment and fix it in the second half. The NFL,

554
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:27,960
Speaker 1: it's got to happen on the sideline in between series

555
00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:31,160
Speaker 1: because that's how fast this league moves. I just wonder, though,

556
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Speaker 1: are are other guys on the line looking at Collins

557
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:36,200
Speaker 1: and saying, dude, we gave you twenty one million dollars

558
00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:38,639
Speaker 1: to come here and help us, and you're doing nothing

559
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:41,080
Speaker 1: like he. I mean again, it was t J Watt,

560
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 1: But you look at the rookie on Carolina a Quanto,

561
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:46,639
Speaker 1: who's gonna be very good right and Miles Garrett just

562
00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:48,800
Speaker 1: abused him. I think Pro Football Focus had him is

563
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:52,680
Speaker 1: like the worst offensive aligneman in the league in Week one,

564
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Speaker 1: and the Raiders who are just like trying guys over

565
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:58,080
Speaker 1: and over Khalil max destroying Is there a really I

566
00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:01,960
Speaker 1: don't remember offensive lines crumb like this that badly in

567
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 1: Week one. So the thing about old line now especially,

568
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Speaker 1: and I keep mentioning that post C B A, because

569
00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 1: it changed all the practice rules in the off season,

570
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:12,760
Speaker 1: and it changed two days in training camp. How often

571
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:14,920
Speaker 1: you could have guys and pads. Old line is the

572
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,400
Speaker 1: most unnatural position on the field. I'll say old line

573
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:19,720
Speaker 1: defensive back. I always say dbs are just the old

574
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,960
Speaker 1: lines little brothers, same basic principle, where you've got a

575
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Speaker 1: unit that has to operate together, that's predicated on uh

576
00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:30,440
Speaker 1: intense communication and has to backpedal into a bunch of

577
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 1: unnatural stuff against some of the best athletes in the world.

578
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:34,840
Speaker 1: D lineman, you're putting a hand in the ground and

579
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,680
Speaker 1: running forward and hitting somebody offensive line, you have got

580
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,159
Speaker 1: a squat down, push yourself back, and then try and

581
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Speaker 1: put hands on a guy that's one of the best

582
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Speaker 1: athletes on the world. That requires a lot of time

583
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Speaker 1: and repetition, and that's something you don't have as much

584
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:50,679
Speaker 1: of now in the NFL offseason with a chance to

585
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:53,679
Speaker 1: develop these guys, which means that kind of has to

586
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:56,239
Speaker 1: happen at full speed in the early going here, and

587
00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:58,760
Speaker 1: you have to learn those things through live reps now

588
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:01,439
Speaker 1: in modern football more so than ever, and so I

589
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:03,760
Speaker 1: think that's why early in the season you'll see a

590
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:06,679
Speaker 1: lot of offensive lines, especially ones that have new parts,

591
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:08,879
Speaker 1: struggle a little bit more they did in the past.

592
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:11,040
Speaker 1: You look up at the end of almost any season

593
00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:13,280
Speaker 1: and the offensive lines and the teams that are in

594
00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 1: Super Bowl contention are usually ones where offensive lines haven't

595
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 1: been injured over the course of the season, and you've

596
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,720
Speaker 1: had time to build up that continuity and have the

597
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:23,720
Speaker 1: same group on the field together over the course of

598
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Speaker 1: sixteen now seventeen games. UM, let's look at Week two

599
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:29,880
Speaker 1: games that are of interest to you. I'm sure Draft

600
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:32,320
Speaker 1: Kings would love us to talk about the lines. Mike,

601
00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:35,399
Speaker 1: I know people are all in on the Dolphins and

602
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,240
Speaker 1: two and on and all this nonsense. I'm sorry, I

603
00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 1: can't wait to bet the Ravens this weekend. All I mean,

604
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 1: everybody loves Miami. They beat a bad Patriots team. UM,

605
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:46,480
Speaker 1: now to has to go on the road, and remember

606
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:49,400
Speaker 1: they smoked the Ravens last year on Thursday Night football.

607
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:51,720
Speaker 1: It was a tough spot for Baltimore. If I recall

608
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 1: coming off like a rivalry game and Miami got him,

609
00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:57,120
Speaker 1: I feel like there's gonna be revenge. Any read on

610
00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,760
Speaker 1: Dolphins Ravens this weekend, Yeah, I mean I'd been leaning

611
00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 1: Ray Vans as well. I think Lamar Jackson you saw

612
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:04,200
Speaker 1: a lot of the things that people wanted. Maybe the

613
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:08,240
Speaker 1: passing numbers overall weren't super gaudy, but some impressive throws.

614
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:10,640
Speaker 1: They're getting the ball to du vern A. This wide

615
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:12,920
Speaker 1: receiver room that we've had a lot of questions about

616
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:15,840
Speaker 1: over recent years. I will say in the Dolphins favor,

617
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 1: I liked the plan that they approached the game with.

618
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 1: I was just talking to dan Orlaski about this. There's

619
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 1: some things, especially in the bootleg passing game that he

620
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:25,840
Speaker 1: mentioned he wants to see them get better at. But

621
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:30,280
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel and that group went off this offseason and

622
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 1: upgraded a lot of key areas around to it that

623
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:35,800
Speaker 1: he needed help with offensive line. They brought into Ron Armstead.

624
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 1: We know about Tyreek Hill, Jalen Waddle and speed speed

625
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:41,760
Speaker 1: speed where he mosted in the backfield. Mike McDaniels trying

626
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,960
Speaker 1: to make this look like San Francisco East and through

627
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 1: one game that definitely showed up. They had a plan

628
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:50,120
Speaker 1: to maximize what Tour was going to be able to

629
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Speaker 1: do well. Now, if you can't consistently go and get

630
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,120
Speaker 1: it downfield all the time. There were a couple of

631
00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 1: balls that Tyreek Hill was able to go and make

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00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 1: yards after the catch on, but I don't know if

633
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Speaker 1: there was much twenty plus down the field. If you

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Speaker 1: can't do that now, all of a sudden, this Ravens

635
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 1: team can que in a little bit. And Lamar is

636
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:09,520
Speaker 1: definitely built to stretch to your defense a lot more

637
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Speaker 1: than Mac Jones and that Patriots offense were. So again,

638
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Speaker 1: I'd lead Ravens, but I like the direction Miami's going,

639
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Speaker 1: and they looked like the team that's gonna finish second

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Speaker 1: in the a f C East this year. Fox Sports

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Speaker 1: Catch all of our shows at Fox sports Radio dot

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Speaker 1: s R to listen live. We had zero double digit

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Speaker 1: spreads in Week one and Mike, I'm seeing four right now,

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Speaker 1: Packers by ten over the Bears, Denver ten over the

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Speaker 1: Texans et seem tie and Niners ten and then Rams

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Speaker 1: ten and a half. Um, you know, historically, you know

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Speaker 1: you're not gonna make money long term betting against our

650
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Speaker 1: betting on double digit favorites. But are any of those,

651
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Speaker 1: uh you know, games that you would jump on. So

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Speaker 1: the one that's probably gonna be most interesting to me

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Speaker 1: is what inver does coming off this one? Because everyone's

654
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Speaker 1: gonna look at that Sunday night loss and the final

655
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Speaker 1: sequence of that game and go, what did we just watch?

656
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Speaker 1: It looks like Nathaniel Packett and company had not didn't

657
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Speaker 1: have a plan, but just had a plan that seems

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Speaker 1: indefensible the way that we watched it play out. That

659
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Speaker 1: being said, you look around the rest of the game,

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00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:24,240
Speaker 1: they had tony guards. They moved the ball really well,

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00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:27,480
Speaker 1: not even between the twenties, between the hundreds. It was

662
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Speaker 1: that last yard or two that was the undoing. And

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Speaker 1: so when you examine some of those finer moments, like

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Speaker 1: all right, we need to have a better plan inside

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Speaker 1: the red zone, gol to ghost situations, what we had

666
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:40,360
Speaker 1: dialed up just wasn't it, And we gave Seattle opportunities

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Speaker 1: to go and make big plays and then the end

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00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:45,720
Speaker 1: of game sequence turning over sloppy penalties. Those are all

669
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:48,960
Speaker 1: I think a lot more correctable mistakes than saying, well,

670
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Speaker 1: we just don't have the personnel to do something. No

671
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:53,680
Speaker 1: Courtland Sutton was moving down the field getting the ball.

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00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:55,920
Speaker 1: They were able to get it to Albert o'quwaven and

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Speaker 1: in the other tight end in that room early and

674
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Speaker 1: often in this game. And so Houston came out and

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Speaker 1: surprised a Colts team that also has a bunch of

676
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Speaker 1: different things going on and struggle to protect Matt Ryan.

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Speaker 1: I think this Denver team is still gonna be really good.

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Speaker 1: I still would imagine them as a wild card playoff

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Speaker 1: team in the a f C. And I just wonder

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Speaker 1: if we're gonna focus too much as a betting public

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Speaker 1: on what they did at the end of that game

682
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Speaker 1: and in a couple of critical moments, and forget that

683
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Speaker 1: there's still a really talented football team that showed up

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Speaker 1: in the middle of that same with the Colts, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you see the Colts score, You're like, oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh, you're getting killed the entire game, and they

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Speaker 1: tie in overtime. I mean, they had five hundred yards

688
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Speaker 1: of offense and moved up and down the field, kept

689
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Speaker 1: getting inside the thirty just could not convert a comedy

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Speaker 1: of errors. Um, you like the Colts this weekend against

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Speaker 1: the Jags or are you? Are you with the Jacksonville

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Speaker 1: crowd there? No? I I take the Colts in that

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Speaker 1: one too. I think for the Jags there's still some

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Speaker 1: stuff foundationally on that offense, between some of the spacing

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Speaker 1: and communication at wide receiver, and you know, Trevor Lawrence

696
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Speaker 1: getting back to the point now where he can be

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Speaker 1: coached like ANNFL player. That's gonna be really tough. So

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Speaker 1: I take Indianapolis there. I picked them to win the

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Speaker 1: South this year, so that was a shot of cold

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Speaker 1: water in the opening week. You don't expect them to

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Speaker 1: have struggles on the offensive line. I think that's software.

702
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Speaker 1: I've got an update because for so long it was

703
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 1: Ryan Kelly, Quentin Nelson, that whole group there, Brandon Smith.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna be good to go and there's adjustment being

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Speaker 1: made there as well. I know the other one you

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Speaker 1: mentioned to Chicago and green Bay. Fascinated to see what

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Speaker 1: green Bay doesn't week two and what Chicago does on

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00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 1: a track that's not soaking wet, right like perfect storm,

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00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:35,680
Speaker 1: you know, pun fully intended going into that game for

710
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Speaker 1: Justin Fields to sit back there and make it backyard football,

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00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:40,720
Speaker 1: and grim Credit found a way to make plays on

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Speaker 1: the same field of forty Niners were playing on. But

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Speaker 1: that's a team that we really have questions in that

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Speaker 1: game in all preseason on what they were going to

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Speaker 1: be able to do protecting Justin Fields behind that offensive

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Speaker 1: line and a Green Bay defense that got really I

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Speaker 1: think a ton thrown at them in Week one by

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Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell, and that Vikings offense now Justin Jeff Person's

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Speaker 1: all over the field, They're moving and booting Kirk Cousins.

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Speaker 1: It's the offense that's become so popular around the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Now Chicago is not going to be able to execute

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Speaker 1: on that level. And I wonder if week two that

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Speaker 1: Green Bay defense that I was going to the season

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Speaker 1: saying could be a top five defense in the league

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Speaker 1: based on the personnel you've got in the secondary and

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Speaker 1: what they've gone up, I'd expect that unit to show

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Speaker 1: up a lot more and then maybe give those young

728
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Speaker 1: receivers who are gonna get their astute all week by

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers a few more opportunities to show up and

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Speaker 1: affect that game. I missed a double digit favorite, Mike

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Speaker 1: somehow Draft King Test Buffalo favored by ten against the Titans.

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Speaker 1: That that's another rematch from last year. I lost, I

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Speaker 1: remember because I lost money on the Bills. Derrick Henry

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Speaker 1: had a monster finished there and and Tennessee pulled the upset.

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Speaker 1: I think it was on Monday Night football maybe, but

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Speaker 1: um now they do it Monday again. Buffalo ten point favorites.

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Speaker 1: I think everybody would agree Buffalo look like the most

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Speaker 1: impressive team in Week one outside of the Chiefs maybe,

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Speaker 1: But Buffalo favored by ten against Tennessee. Anything there that

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Speaker 1: will make sense that that one makes a lot of sense.

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Speaker 1: Like and if you're Buffalo, I think you're looking even

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Speaker 1: more and going all right, Brian Dables a guy that

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00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 1: we know really well. We know how he operates, and

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00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:10,960
Speaker 1: it's probably gonna do a lot of similar things. And

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00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:13,080
Speaker 1: that team was able to go and get one over

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Speaker 1: being aggressive, getting praise and critical moments. Obviously, sae Quon

747
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Speaker 1: Barkley having a renaissance game was huge for them. But

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Speaker 1: if I'm Buffalo looking at that, I'm going, all right,

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Speaker 1: show me where on the doll the Giants are better

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Speaker 1: at any position than Buffalo is right now. That seems

751
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Speaker 1: just like a team on a mission the execution from

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Speaker 1: day one. We talk about teams kind of showing up

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Speaker 1: behind the eight ball in certain spots. Buffalo didn't miss.

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Speaker 1: Von Miller came over and did exactly what they thought

755
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Speaker 1: they were paying him to do in helping elevate that

756
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Speaker 1: D line room by being the tip of the spear

757
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Speaker 1: and being the one guy defenses can't account for. I

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Speaker 1: think you saw that Tennessee deal. Our offensive line have

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Speaker 1: some issues blocking up the Giants in Week one, and

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Speaker 1: if that was something there, your excuse me. Buffalo's D

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Speaker 1: line not only has that top end, but they can

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Speaker 1: just roll bodies through at you. So yeah, I I

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Speaker 1: totally understand that one. It might be a little bit

764
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Speaker 1: of Week one over reaction, but I still think what

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Speaker 1: we've seen that Buffalo team is going to be a

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Speaker 1: cut above the rest of everybody in the a f

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Speaker 1: C for a lot of this season, maybe outside of

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Speaker 1: the chiefs Now. We could wrap up with the great

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Speaker 1: Thursday night football game Chargers chiefs Now. Historically these have

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00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:23,799
Speaker 1: been tremendous games. I didn't even realize until today that

771
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:28,399
Speaker 1: this game is only available on streaming Amazon Prime, and

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Speaker 1: I don't know, Chargers look pretty good against the Raiders,

773
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,919
Speaker 1: but the no Keenan Allen and you know, again it's

774
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:36,880
Speaker 1: easy to throw to a bunch of random dudes Xander

775
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 1: Horvath whoever that is um against the Raiders who have

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Speaker 1: no defense. But the Chiefs actually looked like competent defensively.

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Speaker 1: I don't know any lean on this in this one.

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00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 1: I would lean Kansas City just because it seems like

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00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:53,160
Speaker 1: this offense is back to a really, really deadly place.

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00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 1: Now for the Chargers, the one thing that you can

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00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:58,640
Speaker 1: point to is you had six sacks in this game.

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00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 1: That investment you made in Khalil mac and Joey Bosa

783
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:05,440
Speaker 1: paid off instantly for you. But that's against the Raiders team, who,

784
00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:07,640
Speaker 1: like we talked about working some things out up front

785
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 1: of the old line. The Chiefs did the dirty work

786
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Speaker 1: on that last year. Now we'll see what happens. I

787
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 1: think Tray Smith went off in this game at guard,

788
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:16,319
Speaker 1: who was sensational for them as a rookie last year.

789
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Speaker 1: But for the most part, you're remade that whole offensive line.

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00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:22,839
Speaker 1: Last year you took those lumps, getting those guys up

791
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 1: to speed with Creed Humphrey playing center, who is also

792
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:27,239
Speaker 1: a rookie, And now you're at a point where you

793
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:28,640
Speaker 1: can look at that as a part of the team

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00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:31,400
Speaker 1: that you can count on. And you've got Patrick Mahomes

795
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Speaker 1: in this offense with a little bit of the ewing

796
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 1: theory stuff going on right hill not drawing all of

797
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 1: that attention anymore, but you've got a bunch of really

798
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:42,760
Speaker 1: scheme versatile parts. Now we've seen them use bigger personnel

799
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,160
Speaker 1: on the field more often. Juju Smith Schuster is a

800
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:48,080
Speaker 1: fascinating sort of like big slot look at times for them,

801
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:50,719
Speaker 1: you've got guys that can burn and sky more so.

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00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:53,279
Speaker 1: I just think it's it's sort of like rush hour

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00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:56,160
Speaker 1: where you're you're looking around and going who kicked me? Like,

804
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 1: which one y'all kicked me? That's where the Chief's offense

805
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:02,839
Speaker 1: is at this point. Justin Herbert is in that rare

806
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:05,760
Speaker 1: tier of quarterbacks. But like you mentioned, keenan Allen injury

807
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 1: going into that game, and just what the Chiefs have

808
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:10,319
Speaker 1: been able to do now defensively, we didn't even get

809
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 1: to that in talking about this. I would lean their way,

810
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:16,239
Speaker 1: especially this early in the season. I don't know the

811
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Speaker 1: whole rivalry thing. Every time I look at these two play,

812
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 1: it's like a one score game. And it comes to

813
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 1: last last year they had a great overtime game that

814
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:27,239
Speaker 1: the Chargers totally blew um, and I think two years

815
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 1: ago the Chargers should have beat them as well. It's

816
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:33,120
Speaker 1: just such a tough read because I actually think Herbert's

817
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:36,000
Speaker 1: like approaching Mahomes level. I know he doesn't have the credentials,

818
00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 1: but the way he makes it look so easy in

819
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:41,839
Speaker 1: the pocket and effortless, I really think he's right like

820
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:44,600
Speaker 1: as close to Mahomes and Josh Allen as anybody else

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Speaker 1: in the league. I completely agree, And I was talking

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00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:50,000
Speaker 1: to Dan Orlovski about this for my podcast. I've talked

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00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:52,080
Speaker 1: with Nate Tys about this. Does a great job over

824
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 1: at the Athletic like the guys who just sit here

825
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 1: and shoot quarterback directly into their neck all day and

826
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Speaker 1: they're all saying, yeah, Herbert's the one. I mean, Nate

827
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Speaker 1: called him the second best quarterback in the NFL behind

828
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:05,279
Speaker 1: the Homes right now, and you can see it. The

829
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:08,920
Speaker 1: way he processes the game physically, the gifts that he has,

830
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:11,560
Speaker 1: all of it has been put on display very early,

831
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Speaker 1: and now you're at a Chargers team that started to

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Speaker 1: invest in the one area that always hamstrung those Philip

833
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:21,400
Speaker 1: Rivers team. It was a revolving door at offensive lines. Injury,

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Speaker 1: lack of production, all this stuff. You go and grab

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Speaker 1: ra Shawn Slater last year, You go and grab Zion

836
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:28,359
Speaker 1: Johnson this year and put him at guard, and you're

837
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Speaker 1: starting to see between that. I think they brought Matt

838
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 1: Filer over from Pittsburgh to there's guys in there that

839
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:37,320
Speaker 1: can actually go and give him time. Now, justin Herbert

840
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 1: did a lot of great stuff last year with people

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00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 1: around his feet, make an extra effort plays. If you

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00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 1: keep seeing him have the opportunity to move around and

843
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 1: slide in the pocket and not have to take off

844
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:48,920
Speaker 1: as much, I think we're gonna keep seeing him to

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Speaker 1: send to that plane that you just talked about. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Mike Golic Jr. E. So what don't you do? Mike?

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Speaker 1: You called College Football Games Podcast gambling member athlete like

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00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:03,359
Speaker 1: you kind of like a five to guy. Huh. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't date very well. I think that would be

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Speaker 1: the criticism for my mother and my family, so that

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Speaker 1: would probably be the only thing. But you're young, what

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Speaker 1: do I'll be thirty three at the end of this month.

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Speaker 1: So I listen, I agree, I don't have any issue

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Speaker 1: with it. But I'm the only So I'm the oldest

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Speaker 1: of three siblings. My younger brothers a year and a

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Speaker 1: half younger. He's about six years married, just had his

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Speaker 1: first kid. And my sister's five years younger than me,

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Speaker 1: just got married this April. So mom and dad got

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Speaker 1: it done with everybody else and which means they're gays.

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Speaker 1: It's like saur runs I and Lord of the Rings.

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Speaker 1: It's just turning and looking at me NonStop. Now, Oh,

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Speaker 1: they're just waiting for you. Yeah, well listen, tell him

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Speaker 1: that I got a long life out of me. What's

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Speaker 1: the rush? But yeah, Mike, congrats on all your success

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Speaker 1: and DraftKings as well. Uh, and we'll talk to you soon.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate it, Jason, thanks for having me man,