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Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast Can't Stop Eating Baked Goods?

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

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Speaker 1: My name is Dan Kansas. I come to you from

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Speaker 1: a virtual room filled with some heroes. Mark Sessler, Greg Rosental.

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Speaker 1: What's up boys? Oh Tuesday show? It's fact I don't show.

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Speaker 1: I don't get where some of the tags come from.

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Speaker 1: Is that something that I've um missed along the way

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Speaker 1: that someone here is obsessed with baked goods and cannot

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Speaker 1: stop eating them? I don't remember that narrative. Usually when

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Speaker 1: you reference food, it will be something about meat, like

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Speaker 1: you're eating pig liver or something. You don't usually move

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Speaker 1: into the baking realm when you're making your food takes.

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Speaker 1: And I don't remember making any comments myself, So yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was a mystery to me too. I don't either,

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Speaker 1: But I do wonder as a food to arryan Mark

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Speaker 1: famously just you know, don't like food? How has how

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Speaker 1: has it been you know and locked down? You know,

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Speaker 1: coronavirus time? As a foodittarian, well, I think we all

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Speaker 1: had our period where you were just eating way too

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Speaker 1: much take out um and and and as parents, you

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Speaker 1: I fall victim of eating what the kids eat too often,

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Speaker 1: which is unpleasant. But I have developed a love for

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Speaker 1: ramen noodle UM, which I don't think I had, you know,

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Speaker 1: in my system um previous. But I take out or

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Speaker 1: like the thirty cent things from the groceries, well, a

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Speaker 1: little bit of both. Take out for has I've had

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Speaker 1: some delicious take out ramen um. But since we moved

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Speaker 1: to Hawthorne, California, home of the Beach Boys, UM, I've

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Speaker 1: been using more the cook at yourself versions, which are

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Speaker 1: just delightful and they're easy to make. I you know,

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Speaker 1: I can make those without directions. No, I would love

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Speaker 1: I would love Mark for you. You know Mike Low

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Speaker 1: from the Beach Boys, the one that's no one likes.

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Speaker 1: Sure for you to just start wearing the Beach Boys

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Speaker 1: based all cap that Mike Low wears an all time

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Speaker 1: to cover up his bald spot. You mean Mike Love

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Speaker 1: because his nephew was on the Cavaliers or is on

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Speaker 1: the Cavaliers for for a while there. Yeah, he loves

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Speaker 1: his nephew. His nephew. Yeah, Mike Love, though is notoriously um.

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Speaker 1: He had some reasons to be annoyed with uh, one

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Speaker 1: of the Beach Boys. He passed away. I don't think

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Speaker 1: we need to get to it on this show, but

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Speaker 1: there were some stuff that I would see as a

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Speaker 1: it would it would it would end some friendships if

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Speaker 1: if someone did the same. Let's put it that way. Okay,

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Speaker 1: See that's good. You have both sides now covered of

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Speaker 1: the Beach Boys controversy here on the Around the NFL

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Speaker 1: podcast Very Busy show, you mentioned your children. My family

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Speaker 1: left for Texas this morning. So the house is silent

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Speaker 1: and weird. I don't like it two weeks and you

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Speaker 1: like it a little bit. Well, I like it probably

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Speaker 1: for two days, but I don't. I don't know. I'm

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Speaker 1: it's just not my thing. Uh So it's very quiet

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Speaker 1: and weird here. So it's good to have company with you,

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Speaker 1: gentlemen and all of our listeners across the world as

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Speaker 1: we dig into the final game of week nine, the

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Speaker 1: first game of week ten, and we have a guest

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Speaker 1: this week. Uh you know, you might have remembered our

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Speaker 1: Wheel of Team series that was very divisive amongst the

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Speaker 1: fan base. People upset that they thought the Wheel of

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Speaker 1: Teams was rigged. That wasn't we're not bringing back the wheel,

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Speaker 1: but we're we wanted to focus in on one team

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Speaker 1: now once we're in the season, it will be the

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Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles. And to do that, we are going to

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Speaker 1: speak with Bo Wolf of the Athletics. So we're excited,

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Speaker 1: uh to do that. So let us get this show rolling,

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Speaker 1: and yes, start with what went down Monday night at

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Speaker 1: the Meadow Ends. Jets have a time out left that

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Speaker 1: with the seals of the clock, Nick Folk the field

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Speaker 1: goal from fifty one yards away, and that's how the

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Speaker 1: Jets fall to Oh and fine, I'm a Patriots fight

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Speaker 1: on for another day. That's Steve Levy, who, by the way,

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Speaker 1: was just on the Rich Sumini of ESPN dot com

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Speaker 1: Flight Jacks podcast. He's a Jets fan, so that might

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Speaker 1: have been a tough call for him. Yes, Nick Folk,

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Speaker 1: Patriots to win over Gang Green. The Pats wiped out

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Speaker 1: at ten point fourth quarter deficit in this game too. Clearly,

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Speaker 1: let's be honest, save their season potentially here, they lose

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Speaker 1: up in a week, they're they're done, potentially two and

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Speaker 1: six with two and seven on the way, but they

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Speaker 1: saved their own bacon Greg Rosenthal, and they did it

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Speaker 1: because they dominated the fourth quarter in a way you

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Speaker 1: it's it's sad how how far they've fallen that they

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Speaker 1: like enjoy enjoy the moment that they gotta come back.

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Speaker 1: It was fun at the offense and Cam Newton made

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Speaker 1: plays and that's it. You know. It's sometimes NFL seasons

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Speaker 1: like if you're a fan, you're you're hoping for a destination, right,

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Speaker 1: the Patriots have no destination. You know, there, this is there.

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Speaker 1: So you got you gotta like take take what you

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Speaker 1: You you do not want to lose to the Jets.

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Speaker 1: That would have been uh embarrassing, I think for Bill

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Speaker 1: at it. But there it's not like something you come

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Speaker 1: There's no coming back from the lack of talent that

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Speaker 1: and this is my takedown, you may have a different

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Speaker 1: one on the Jets, but the best possible outcome because

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Speaker 1: they were competitive and this was their first real look

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Speaker 1: to have Jamison Crowder, Brashad Perriman and Denzel Mims who

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Speaker 1: the era of you know, laughing stock scenarios for the

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Speaker 1: And you know, I thought when they drafted Sam Donald

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Speaker 1: in the last five or six years. So bigger picture,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it would be nice to not, you know,

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Speaker 1: was told that repeatedly on Twitter by people that are

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Speaker 1: it's annoying because last night, basically it was coming from

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Speaker 1: all directions. You had the bottomless Belichick conspiracies, which were

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Speaker 1: really cute all week. Mark, I'm not coming after you,

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Speaker 1: but about them. In thousand people, Uh cooked up that

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Speaker 1: So you had that going on. And um, so if

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Speaker 1: If the Jets lose, everyone gets to laugh at them

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Speaker 1: for their incompetence. Uh. And that's just where things are

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Speaker 1: But I did enjoy that they actually were competitive in

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Speaker 1: don't get Trevor Lawrence. And even if they get Trevor Lawrence,

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Speaker 1: in the moment, beat Belichick and have a nice we

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Speaker 1: don't get that exactly. It's against your rival team. And

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Speaker 1: I was just like, I don't need this. I'll send

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Speaker 1: a few out if it was really good, feel it

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Speaker 1: it's fired. But everyone was very clever. But then Joe Bob, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: column by Mike Sando on the Athletic and there's always

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Speaker 1: wise Belichicks saying this are they are they taking? Are they?

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Speaker 1: Why is he making these He's so in everyone's head

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Speaker 1: that they can't just accept that the team's terrible. And

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Speaker 1: I saw some stuff early on Twitter, like like, you know,

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Speaker 1: that they could beat teams like the Titans and lesser

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Speaker 1: than type team. So I think this is a a

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Speaker 1: good matchup for Indianapolis, and it's a lot of it

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Speaker 1: goes back to the pass rush, because I think the

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Speaker 1: teams with the good pass rushes are gonna give the

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Speaker 1: Cults hell. They don't run the ball too well and

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Speaker 1: the quarterback can't move and that's just asking a lot

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Speaker 1: for this version of the Colts. So Vic Beasley out

435
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Speaker 1: the door. Obviously, they still get out of here, take

436
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Speaker 1: our money and leave. Jenevan Clowney missed Week nine. I

437
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Speaker 1: think he's questionable for this game. They need him to

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Speaker 1: get back and and make an impact as a pass rusher. UM.

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Speaker 1: I like the Titans in this Gangs. I think they're

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Speaker 1: a better a better team ultimately and their home UM.

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Speaker 1: So that's where I'm going with this game. I think

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Speaker 1: this is a Titans win. I think they take control

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Speaker 1: and I think they all really can win the division

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Speaker 1: going away. But I'm given the Cults more than a

445
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Speaker 1: fighting chance here. I would take the Titans too. I

446
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Speaker 1: think that they you know, they were a pr disaster

447
00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,639
Speaker 1: with the Corona business, but they were pretty resilient with

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Speaker 1: how they handled that. The one thing you mentioned that

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Speaker 1: with Vic Beasley, I think it's they would have been

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Speaker 1: better served by a more successful offseason. The Vic Beasley

451
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Speaker 1: thing happened. Clowney signing is not completely worked out for them,

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Speaker 1: and I was looking at what's been going on with

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Speaker 1: their first round pick, Isaiah Wilson, who they wanted to

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Speaker 1: come in and be a part of that line that

455
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Speaker 1: he would have stepped in and helped with Taylor the

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Speaker 1: one out and I was reading an athletic article where

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Speaker 1: a source said he has he is a disaster someone.

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Speaker 1: They called him lazy and useless. He's been he said

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Speaker 1: Isaiah Wilson the last week they started him last week.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he made it through the whole game though.

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Speaker 1: He's had two exposures to Corona had y in September,

462
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Speaker 1: and he he left a couple of weeks ago, just

463
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Speaker 1: missed practice two days in a row with a headache,

464
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Speaker 1: and basically Rabel was like, I can't work with these

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Speaker 1: guys who practice on Fridays. So, I mean, that's been

466
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Speaker 1: a hid and missed so far. Right, if he that's

467
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Speaker 1: one of those things. If he was on like a

468
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Speaker 1: major team in a major market like that would be

469
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Speaker 1: a huge story. But if you Tennessee is like the

470
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Speaker 1: place where he can be a first round pick and

471
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Speaker 1: have like a nightmare and no one pays attention. I

472
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Speaker 1: want to see the Colts getting on him, hims the

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Speaker 1: ball a little bit more. I've seen enough of Jonathan Taylor.

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Speaker 1: I mean, hind says juice if you need to run

475
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Speaker 1: it up the middle post Jordan Wilkins, and they're just

476
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Speaker 1: a better offense when when they have a little more

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Speaker 1: and am hindes t Y Hilton looks like he will

478
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Speaker 1: return for this game, which that does help them out.

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Speaker 1: And we do want before we bring on one of

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Speaker 1: Philadelphia's shining suns, bo Wolf. Actually don't know if post

481
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Speaker 1: from Philadelphia. Colleen is and uh, I would like to

482
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Speaker 1: see her. You know what might be the last time

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Speaker 1: we get it. Let's get Philip Rivers with the Bolo

484
00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:52,560
Speaker 1: tie uh for the postgame show. I think the Times

485
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Speaker 1: a win, but I'd be very cool with seeing Rivers

486
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Speaker 1: mixing and up with the t NF crew and Connie

487
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Speaker 1: and yes, now without for there Ado. First, they're gonna

488
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Speaker 1: figure out where the hell bo bows from. I don't know.

489
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:06,760
Speaker 1: I took a guess there. It's not. I mean, I

490
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Speaker 1: live in Los Angeles and I've worked for the NFL.

491
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Speaker 1: I'm not from here. What an assumption. Let's welcome bow

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Speaker 1: Wolf to the show from the athletic who covers. He

493
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Speaker 1: covers the Eagles and the NFL. There he is. Bow

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Speaker 1: Let's first of all, let's you know what, I can

495
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Speaker 1: almost tell by your background that you are from Philadelphia?

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Speaker 1: Yes or no? Uh no? Actually and and Uh, you know,

497
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Speaker 1: I would like to tell you that, uh, this background

498
00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:31,359
Speaker 1: is the result of me not having a chance to

499
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:34,760
Speaker 1: scramble after you know, cleaning up spit up from my

500
00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:37,359
Speaker 1: nine day old before the show started. This is just

501
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Speaker 1: our Birds with Friends background. Thank you. The truth is Dan,

502
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:44,880
Speaker 1: I'm from I'm from Westchester and once upon a time

503
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Speaker 1: we shared pages in the Journal News. WHOA how about that?

504
00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:51,840
Speaker 1: So there you go. I think, well, I think I

505
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Speaker 1: sent this to uh, you know, Greg. A couple of

506
00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:55,760
Speaker 1: years ago. I was researching a story on an old

507
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Speaker 1: high school nemesis and there it was Dan hansis painting

508
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Speaker 1: the picture of some picture on it and on the

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Speaker 1: other side of the county, uh you know, his his

510
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,000
Speaker 1: actions during the game or something like that. It was

511
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Speaker 1: very it was very heated. I covered more on the

512
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Speaker 1: Rockland County side, which was on the other side of

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Speaker 1: the tapan Zee Bridge. Rest in Peace. I covered the

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Speaker 1: Rockland County baseball beat. Ian Rappaport uh covered the west

515
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Speaker 1: Chester County beat, and we would meet up at the

516
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Speaker 1: sectionals up north and and get into some good times.

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Speaker 1: But Bo is a Westchester dude. All right, that's been learned.

518
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Speaker 1: But what we really want to talk about bow here

519
00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:32,359
Speaker 1: is the Eagles and more specifically, and I brought this

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Speaker 1: up with the guys last week. I'm a Carson Wentz fan.

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Speaker 1: I've always liked this game, and obviously in two thousand

522
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Speaker 1: seventeen he damn near won the m v P before

523
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Speaker 1: he blew out his knee. Uh. And now we're here

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Speaker 1: at a crossroads in his career. So I want to

525
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Speaker 1: talk about that. And I know your colleague sheel capaddada capatia, damn.

526
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Speaker 1: I knew I was gonna fail that wrong when he

527
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Speaker 1: wrote a piece that went up today about whence his

528
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Speaker 1: decline with a whole bunch of metrics, digging into the

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Speaker 1: whole thing. Where where do you come down on this?

530
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Speaker 1: What has happened to wins? And can he be fixed

531
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Speaker 1: before the season is through? Well? I think that's the question,

532
00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:10,520
Speaker 1: you know, the Eagles have to answer, and there's no

533
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Speaker 1: doubt about it. You know, if you read that that

534
00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:15,560
Speaker 1: story by Shila, which everybody who's interested should um, the

535
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Speaker 1: decline has been very real and precipitous since two thousand seventeen.

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Speaker 1: You know, this year he is arguably the worst full

537
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Speaker 1: time starting quarterback in the NFL. UM he has been

538
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Speaker 1: I mean, that's it's hard to say that, but it's true.

539
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Speaker 1: I mean, you watch that game. He was barely out

540
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Speaker 1: playing Bend Nucci a couple of weeks ago. So, um,

541
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Speaker 1: Benny Denuche as we call him um, So, I mean, listen,

542
00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:39,760
Speaker 1: he is he has been. Uh. He has had fumbling

543
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:42,240
Speaker 1: issues since the beginning of his career and that is

544
00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:44,080
Speaker 1: the thing that he has been asked to work on

545
00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:46,280
Speaker 1: and asked to work on and really has never fixed

546
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Speaker 1: it and that has continued to rear its ugly head.

547
00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 1: But the interceptions, um, is a thing that he has

548
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:54,320
Speaker 1: been pretty low and interception rate in the past, but

549
00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:56,800
Speaker 1: there was reason to believe coming into this season that

550
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Speaker 1: that was going to regress, and it has regressed in

551
00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:01,080
Speaker 1: a big way. Uh. He has given away the ball

552
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,920
Speaker 1: more than any other quarterback. But he's also not really

553
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:06,680
Speaker 1: you know, creating the big plays. When he's not turning

554
00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 1: the ball over, he's taking sacks. He's been inaccurate, and

555
00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:11,920
Speaker 1: you know, it's one of those things where you have

556
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:13,959
Speaker 1: to try to find out how much is Wentz, how

557
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:16,640
Speaker 1: much is the supporting cast, how much is the team

558
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 1: they've put around him. Everybody certainly shares a part of it.

559
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:22,359
Speaker 1: But you know when you draft a quarterback in the

560
00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:26,399
Speaker 1: second round and you're starting quarterback is playing this badly? Uh,

561
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:29,160
Speaker 1: it's the recipe for you know, a lot of discussion. Yeah,

562
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 1: I I was taken in that article. You know how

563
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:37,840
Speaker 1: a little excuse making Shield made because the injuries have

564
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:40,920
Speaker 1: been there. But you know, the performance has come down,

565
00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:43,000
Speaker 1: but the injuries have been kind of a constant. So

566
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:46,840
Speaker 1: the part that uh that gets me as is he

567
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:50,320
Speaker 1: less athletic than he used to be. And uh, because

568
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:54,680
Speaker 1: that's important, Like and I think watching them you sort

569
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 1: of forget what he looked like in how he would

570
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,880
Speaker 1: have made the rush. He's still athletic, um, but maybe

571
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 1: not like the sudden sort of pocket movements and everything. Uh,

572
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 1: not as accurate. I've always thought he wasn't that accurate,

573
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Speaker 1: But just like the numbers say, he's not as accurate.

574
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Speaker 1: Now now I'm thinking, though I didn't know you only

575
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Speaker 1: had a kid nine days ago. Both congrats, Thank you

576
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:14,800
Speaker 1: the way. So did we make you know? You do

577
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,359
Speaker 1: Birds with Friends, a podcast about the Eagles with Shield

578
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 1: and Zephyr. He drops a big hammer, you know, a

579
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:25,199
Speaker 1: lead story on the athletic today. You just had a kid,

580
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:28,440
Speaker 1: did we make a mistake having you on the show. Well, no,

581
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:30,560
Speaker 1: but I'm sure that we're going to talk about this

582
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:32,399
Speaker 1: on Birds of Friends and and he's gonna have a

583
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:34,399
Speaker 1: lot to say. So yeah, he's he's been itching to

584
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:39,040
Speaker 1: come on. I'm sure. I I asked you, Uh, you're

585
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:40,800
Speaker 1: responsibly when I asked you on the show. Was really

586
00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:42,800
Speaker 1: funny to me. You just thought you were surprised that

587
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:46,600
Speaker 1: we didn't have better things to talk about. Well, I

588
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 1: said this on our on our last episode. You know,

589
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 1: it's it's date two with the newborn. Were in the

590
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 1: hospital and they're and they're telling us, you know, this

591
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:55,240
Speaker 1: is gonna be a tough night. The baby is still

592
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:57,320
Speaker 1: thinking it's in the womb and now it's just figuring

593
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Speaker 1: out it's not. So it's gonna be up all night.

594
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Speaker 1: She's gonna be all all night. And it's Sunday night

595
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 1: football the Cowboys. And by the time the Eagles have

596
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 1: their second ridiculous turnover, she's fast asleep. They put her

597
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:10,760
Speaker 1: to sleep. So that's how boring the singles team has been. Um.

598
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 1: But my response was, well, I always overrate the Eagles

599
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:17,040
Speaker 1: that I always have high hopes for them. Um. And

600
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:19,320
Speaker 1: you said they well they've overrated them too. I want

601
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:21,360
Speaker 1: I kind of want you to unpack that because I

602
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:23,840
Speaker 1: think there is something too that that the Eagles always

603
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 1: think and I think and some some of the people

604
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 1: covering the team, I always think they're like this jugger

605
00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:31,200
Speaker 1: not roster waiting to come. And the reality is their

606
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:35,040
Speaker 1: five with with Wentz since the Super Bowl. Yeah, and

607
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:37,320
Speaker 1: I think it's sort of endemic of you know what

608
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:39,719
Speaker 1: got them to the super Bowl, and that was pushing

609
00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:42,080
Speaker 1: Chips in and that is how he Roseman's m O.

610
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:43,560
Speaker 1: He does it, you know, every year, he does it

611
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Speaker 1: at the trade deadline, he does it in the off season.

612
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Speaker 1: But uh, this time has sort of always been coming.

613
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Speaker 1: With the way this roster has been built. They keep

614
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 1: extending the older players. You know, you look at the

615
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 1: offensive line. They've got these four offensive linemen locked up

616
00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 1: over the edge of thirty. You know, it's you can't

617
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:01,000
Speaker 1: really say it's bad luck that so they've they've suffered

618
00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 1: so many injuries there and they entered this offseason, um

619
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Speaker 1: coming off two straight years of having a pretty mediocre

620
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Speaker 1: offense and a defense that was injured a lot. But

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Speaker 1: Jim Schwartz was able to sort of you know, make

622
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Speaker 1: them mediocre middle of the road. And what they did

623
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:19,000
Speaker 1: this offseason was they decided, we're gonna leave the offense

624
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Speaker 1: as is. We're gonna, you know, use our big resources

625
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Speaker 1: to sign Javon Hargrave to you know, fourteen million dollar

626
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Speaker 1: deal and trade and signed Darius Slay and they did

627
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Speaker 1: nothing veteran wise on the offensive side of the ball.

628
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Speaker 1: All they did was draft Jalen Reagor in the first round,

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Speaker 1: draft a backup quarterback in the second, and a linebacker

630
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Speaker 1: in the third who hasn't even been been able to

631
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Speaker 1: get on the field. And guess what, Like, the offense

632
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:43,320
Speaker 1: has not been much better, it's obviously been much worse.

633
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Speaker 1: They they sort of had found gold in Travis Fulgum,

634
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Speaker 1: who has been you know, the one or two bright

635
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Speaker 1: spots of the season. And the defense they're not getting

636
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Speaker 1: what they paid for. I mean, Javon Hargrave has been

637
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 1: bad and Darius Slay has been great. And guess what.

638
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Speaker 1: The defense has gone from twelfth and d v O

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Speaker 1: A to fourteenth in d v L A. So has

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Speaker 1: not made a big difference. Um. And you know they

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Speaker 1: have they have this core that they have tried to

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Speaker 1: keep together and it was always going to come to

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Speaker 1: a point where those guys were gonna start declining. And

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Speaker 1: right now, you know they've got an old, mediocre, expensive

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Speaker 1: roster and next year that you do not have a

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Speaker 1: lot of flexibility. So you know, thank god for the

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Speaker 1: NFC East, but you know, big picture, league wide, it's

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Speaker 1: it's not they're not in good ship, um, And I'm

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Speaker 1: left with questions. And there's been changes with the coaching staff.

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Speaker 1: And it was chic to label the departure of Frank

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Speaker 1: Reich as a huge loss for Wentz. But I see

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Speaker 1: a player that you know, we we see him declining

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Speaker 1: under pressure. The floor for Carson Wentz seems to be changing.

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Speaker 1: And I don't see a quarterback and a head coach

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Speaker 1: or a quarterback in a scheme that trust each other

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Speaker 1: right now. And it just seems to me that two

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Speaker 1: thousand seventeen almost appears as a mirrage to some degree,

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Speaker 1: and that the real Carson Wentz, you know, every quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: dealing with injuries to some degree. And I saw that

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Speaker 1: the Eagles lying in that article goal is still essentially

661
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Speaker 1: eighth top ten and in past protection win rate, and

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Speaker 1: so it's not just you know, the broken pieces around him.

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Speaker 1: Do you see Carson Wentz um with a lack of

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Speaker 1: trust in the environments and maybe the coaching staff, because

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Speaker 1: when you ask Doug Peterson about Carson wentz a couple

666
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Speaker 1: of weeks ago, he seemed also baffled. So I it

667
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 1: feels very murky. I think there is definitely something to

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Speaker 1: that um and you talk about you know, first of all,

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Speaker 1: the offensive line. This is gonna be this game. Probably

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Speaker 1: their eight different starting offensive line in nine games, which

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Speaker 1: is insane. But Jeff Stiland has has held them up

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Speaker 1: to be sort of a top ten offensive line performance wise.

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Speaker 1: And I think too, to Gregg's point before, it's not

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Speaker 1: just the athleticism, it's it's the pocket awareness and you know,

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Speaker 1: the pocket comfortability that has really seemed to dissipate. Even

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Speaker 1: as a rookie, he seemed comfortable in the pocket to

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Speaker 1: to maneuver away from things, and now you know he's

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Speaker 1: sort of fleeing at the first sign of trouble um

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Speaker 1: when there is when there are opportunities for him to

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Speaker 1: step up in the pocket. Um. And you know, to

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Speaker 1: the point of of all these voices in his head,

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Speaker 1: this offense, you know, they didn't add people to the

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Speaker 1: roster on offense this offseason, but they added a lot

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Speaker 1: of coaches. They added rich S Gangarrello, who had worked

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Speaker 1: with Kyle Shanahan, and brought back Marty morning Wag. And

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Speaker 1: you know, it's it's sort of a question, you know,

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Speaker 1: who is the person in Carson Wentz his ear? Is

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00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:16,840
Speaker 1: it Doug Peterson? Is it Morning Wig? Is it's Gangarrello?

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Speaker 1: Is it Press Taylor? Who's you know, the the passing

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Speaker 1: game coordinator and also the quarterbacks coach. He's getting all

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Speaker 1: these different pieces of advice, and it does not seem

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Speaker 1: that that he is getting better in any appreciable way.

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Speaker 1: He's you know, he is declining. All right, before we

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Speaker 1: let you go bout two quick questions. Number one, what

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Speaker 1: is the Eagles final record by New Year's Day? I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna say they. I'm gonna say they win the division

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Speaker 1: at six nine and one. So you've got, you know,

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Speaker 1: a city that has celebrated a championship a couple of

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Speaker 1: years ago and was celebrating, you know, saving democracy this

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Speaker 1: weekend is not going to be greasing down the polls

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Speaker 1: for six nine and one. And okay, there you go.

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Speaker 1: So that's history, and speaking of history and democrats, the

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Speaker 1: I saw on Twitter that you did visit. You made

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Speaker 1: the pilgrimage to four seasons total landscaping, and I believe

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Speaker 1: the North end of Philadelphia your takeaways. I gotta tell

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Speaker 1: you this was This was Sunday and my other son,

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Speaker 1: or my only son, my older child. You know, he's

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Speaker 1: he's only napping in the car right now. So I

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Speaker 1: decided him and I would take a little drive up

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Speaker 1: to northeast Philly. And it's it's the pictures don't even

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Speaker 1: do it justice. I mean, it is just a barren

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Speaker 1: waste land of an area right next to the sex

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Speaker 1: shop and across the street from the crematorium. And they

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Speaker 1: were now and then a couple of people, uh you know,

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Speaker 1: pulling out front to take their self eas in front.

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Speaker 1: So did you visit either of the Phildelphia lamar? Did

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Speaker 1: you visit either of those two auxiliary places in business

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Speaker 1: while you were you were there? I did not, because

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Speaker 1: Casey had just fallen asleep in the cart. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And I think that's illegal at least for one of them.

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Speaker 1: All right, bow Wolf follow him on Twitter. Bow underscore Wolf,

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Speaker 1: and congratulations on the addition to the family. We all

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Speaker 1: know the feeling and there's not a better one in

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Speaker 1: the world. Thank you guys very much the first time,

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00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:04,040
Speaker 1: long time, so so happy to be here. Beautiful both,

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Speaker 1: thank you for joining us. There, he goes from Westchester County,

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Speaker 1: New York. Wow, it's good when the Lower Hudson Valley

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Speaker 1: represents in a national sense. Were you there at the

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Speaker 1: same time. I'm gonna I didn't want to fall too

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Speaker 1: far far down the Lower Hudson Valley wormhole. I'm going

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Speaker 1: to connect with bo off Air to find out if

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Speaker 1: we were together. Like it's like a would think it

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Speaker 1: was Bernstein's crossing in the night. I mean, you could

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Speaker 1: have who knows what you could have accomplished together as

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Speaker 1: a Duo's what's up breaking you said? You said, um

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Speaker 1: one of us the legal Are you saying a sex

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Speaker 1: shop is illegal or going to a creama bringing a

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Speaker 1: child into I don't think you could take a child

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Speaker 1: inside a sex shop, But if they're nine days old, no, no,

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Speaker 1: that would do that. But either way, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I feel like they do curbside because like, if the

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Speaker 1: child is younger than two weeks old, you could take

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Speaker 1: them anywhere in the world than it works. I take

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Speaker 1: my kids to the crematorium all the time. It's just

745
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,520
Speaker 1: kind of gives you an appreciation of life. It's not

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Speaker 1: gonna last forever. Enjoy it right now, bro, All right,

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Speaker 1: before we go, I put out a call on Twitter

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Speaker 1: for the mailbag, like to check in with all those

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Speaker 1: listeners that we love. We just had as we talked

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Speaker 1: about at the top of the Sunday show, mark what

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Speaker 1: a reminder of how lucky we are with the hostag

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Speaker 1: hashtag Godzilla phenomenon, where we asked the listeners deep into

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Speaker 1: our Thursday recap podcast of Packers Niners to send us

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Speaker 1: a nod if you made it to the end of

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Speaker 1: the fifteen minutes. Tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of

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Speaker 1: thousands of replies getting them millions. Even so, what better

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00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:53,800
Speaker 1: way to thank the fans than involving them and including

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00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:55,960
Speaker 1: them in today's show. So I'm gonna go through a

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Speaker 1: couple of a few questions before we take about here

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Speaker 1: we go. Starting right here are from three naive algorithms

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Speaker 1: in a trench coat, Kitty at Underscore Tripod, optimistic Miami

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00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 1: fan here looking at the last few games. For the

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Speaker 1: first time in eons, it feels like we don't have

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Speaker 1: any substantial holes in the team outside of running back.

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Speaker 1: I actually think we might be able to draft the

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Speaker 1: strongest player available with every pick in Do you guys agree?

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Speaker 1: Remember that, in addition to all the sunny optimism around

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins right now, they also have the first and

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Speaker 1: second round picks of the Texans, who are one of

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Speaker 1: the worst teams in the league this season. What do

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Speaker 1: you think right um the framing of the question, I

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Speaker 1: have a problem with that they have no major holes,

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Speaker 1: so they can draft where wherever they want. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I love the way the Dolphins are coached and and

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00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 1: so far in a tiny sample side, they love their quarterback.

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Speaker 1: That's like the most two important things you can have.

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Speaker 1: I would not put them in the top twenty most

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Speaker 1: talented teams in the NFL. I think they could use

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00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:04,160
Speaker 1: help almost everywhere up for maybe the secondary. Um so, so, yeah,

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Speaker 1: they they still need to be adding more like blue

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Speaker 1: chip players. I think Floris is shown though, like if

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Speaker 1: you get some good players will know what to do

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Speaker 1: with them and have them cohesive. I'll give you a

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Speaker 1: little bit of optimism. We were just asked to make

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Speaker 1: our mid season picks for NFL dot Com. The huge

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Speaker 1: event in our lives and the lives of readers. Um,

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Speaker 1: but I picked you Miami to go to the super

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00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:30,279
Speaker 1: Bowl in a rematch with Arizona Chaos. And I'm telling

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Speaker 1: you something. This Miami team reminds me of the two

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00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 1: thousand and one Patriots will formed for after eight games.

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00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:39,440
Speaker 1: They're coached in a similar way. You've got a lot

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Speaker 1: of guys that were no namers six months ago contributing.

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Speaker 1: So listen, super Bowl is rich. But I really like

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Speaker 1: the way the team uh is composed. I think that

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00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:50,279
Speaker 1: their future is so bright out there. I didn't think

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Speaker 1: that that this would even happen this year. Chris Greer

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00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 1: clearly planned for what's gonna happen next year with all

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Speaker 1: the picks. So there is we know, you know, Handsome

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Speaker 1: Hankers a Dolphins fan. My brother is a Dolphins fan.

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Speaker 1: They've had nothing to cheer for for so long. This

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00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:06,800
Speaker 1: is legit home being planted right now. It is a

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Speaker 1: different type of situation. It's a problem for the Patriots

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Speaker 1: that Florist is in this division. I really do think so.

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Speaker 1: I think the point um one of the analysts made

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Speaker 1: last night that like Flacco was ready because you know,

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins basically wanted to do the same thing that

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Speaker 1: the Patriots want to do like two weeks before, but

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Speaker 1: they're better at it. Like that's a problem for the Patriots,

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Speaker 1: that they are the most patriots looking team of any

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Speaker 1: of the Patriots acolytes that I've seen, good and bad

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Speaker 1: and uh and Mark, We've been working for this company

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Speaker 1: for ten or eleven years now, and you get it.

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Speaker 1: You get how the metrics works. You get how headline

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Speaker 1: writing writing works. If you go out on a limb

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Speaker 1: and one of those prediction articles and say, Dolphins to

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Mark Sessler is getting the pop on

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Speaker 1: the social media handles. You might even get the headline

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Speaker 1: is no bigger pop than you know, putting something on

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Speaker 1: NFL dot com. In this industry right now, I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's just it's it's gonna seal the future. Listen, I

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Speaker 1: picked Dallas in August. That looks like a trash bag pick.

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Speaker 1: So it's like, why little wrong? You can't always go

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Speaker 1: chalk with this hate the two more easan ones. It feels, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I tried to. I tried to keep everything the same

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Speaker 1: unless it's totally impossible, because it just feels like it's

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Speaker 1: it's like what happened. Am I right still with my

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Speaker 1: original pick if it you know, if I change it now?

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Speaker 1: I got the Stealers Super Bowl over the Saints, so

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Speaker 1: I'm right good? What Adam rank and I responded to

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Speaker 1: this and no one else I did? I did it

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Speaker 1: Derek Carr, Um, David Carr rather did respond, and I

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Speaker 1: did want to point out with twenty eight people voted

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Speaker 1: who's gonna win the m v P. Fourteen predicted Russell Wilson,

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Speaker 1: thirteen predicted Patrick Mahomes, including me. No one I predicted

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, which you know it's crazy because I think

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Speaker 1: he might be my pick right now. Um. One person

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Speaker 1: picked um Derek Carr as the m v P. That

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Speaker 1: was David Carr, his brother. There you go, yeah, Van Hansas,

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Speaker 1: My brother was in the NFL. I do the same thing,

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Speaker 1: all right, Josh Alstrom, Right, steer Dan. If the Broncos

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Speaker 1: traded for Sam Donald as a backup, he says, and

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Speaker 1: he became a stud stud how would that make you feel?

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Speaker 1: I know you're a notorious Broncos hater. I am not

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Speaker 1: a Broncos hater. I like to give it to John

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Speaker 1: Elway a little bit, because that guy has been on

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Speaker 1: top of the world, this whole life, and somebody's got

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Speaker 1: to take him down a peg. But yes, it would

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Speaker 1: be very wise for a team to invest in Sam

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Speaker 1: Donald to give him a shot, including the Broncos, who,

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Speaker 1: like we said, entering this year, need more options than

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Speaker 1: Drew Luck Drew Lock. Robert rich writes. Mark mentioned that

852
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:38,080
Speaker 1: the first football card he ever owned was a Richard

853
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:41,880
Speaker 1: Todd that's another former Jet as a football card junkie.

854
00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 1: I'm intrigued what years slash brands of football cards did

855
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:48,880
Speaker 1: Slash does he collect? Did he experience the joys of

856
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:54,359
Speaker 1: Process three? I was in on Process Process I. I literally, um,

857
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:57,680
Speaker 1: I made a huge mistake in my twenties because I

858
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:01,760
Speaker 1: had collected the entire first year of Process. Now Proceeds

859
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 1: got really hot and like it was the kind of

860
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:07,560
Speaker 1: brought football cards back into the zeitgeist a bit. And

861
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:09,719
Speaker 1: because here's what they do. They had announcer cards. I'd

862
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:12,399
Speaker 1: I would well, I had a Bob Costas Proceeded card

863
00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:15,400
Speaker 1: in my wallet for like all four years of high school.

864
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:20,360
Speaker 1: They kept re they kept reissuing like new segments of

865
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:22,800
Speaker 1: the of the collection. It was like suddenly, it's like

866
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:25,920
Speaker 1: eighteen stadium cards, and so like I kept, I had

867
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:28,879
Speaker 1: a thick binder. I finally got the entire first year,

868
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:30,840
Speaker 1: not the second, but the first year. And then, for

869
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:34,440
Speaker 1: some reason, UM met these two kids at a wedding

870
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:37,680
Speaker 1: in my twenties, these young boys, and they love football,

871
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:41,040
Speaker 1: and I decided to give them the entire binder. I

872
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 1: drove to the house. They gave a wet well, I know,

873
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:47,080
Speaker 1: I am saying it was hideously John moved because I

874
00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 1: didn't the fact that I could have given them to

875
00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:54,319
Speaker 1: my own children, like down the road, so very dumb moved. I. Um,

876
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:56,879
Speaker 1: what the card I would really love is the two

877
00:42:56,960 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 1: thousand twelve Tops edition of Bob this from the Olympics

878
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:03,359
Speaker 1: when he had pink eye. That's the card that I've

879
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 1: always wanted and coveted. Did you ever break did you

880
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:09,839
Speaker 1: ever break out that your card? Like during a date

881
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:12,440
Speaker 1: in high school? Just like show show the girl, Hey,

882
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:14,520
Speaker 1: I want to show you my beating up Bob cost

883
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:17,320
Speaker 1: this trading card. And if I were going on a

884
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:19,400
Speaker 1: lot of dates in high school, I probably wouldn't have

885
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 1: been worried about that to begin with. I mean, it's

886
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:23,960
Speaker 1: you know, no, you know this isn't gonna happen for

887
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:25,759
Speaker 1: another ten years or so. But one day this guy

888
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:28,400
Speaker 1: is gonna soapbox about gun control during halftime of a

889
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:32,360
Speaker 1: football game. You know what, the two of you that

890
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:35,920
Speaker 1: you lack the key ingredient of soul within you. If

891
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:39,120
Speaker 1: you feel this way about a broadcaster who you're, you're

892
00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:41,279
Speaker 1: it's your gut. You guys are gonna get old too,

893
00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:44,640
Speaker 1: And there there's gonna be viewers that the fifty eight

894
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:46,640
Speaker 1: or sixty year old version of you guys, they won't

895
00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:51,920
Speaker 1: remember the youthful zeal uh packed you know, joy, humorous

896
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:55,440
Speaker 1: young versions. But when when we get that age, just

897
00:43:55,480 --> 00:44:00,800
Speaker 1: podcast is gonna be terrible moving on right, uh And

898
00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:03,080
Speaker 1: if you're an older listener, that doesn't mean everyone is

899
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 1: bad when they get late in their fifties and sixties.

900
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:11,800
Speaker 1: There's just uh taking the qbs out of the conversation.

901
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:14,799
Speaker 1: Who has been your favorite rookie to watch this season? Greg?

902
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:19,759
Speaker 1: I hate these open ended questions are tough. Off the

903
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:22,480
Speaker 1: top of my head, just justin Jefferson is the one

904
00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:26,880
Speaker 1: that comes to mind quickly. I really think if he

905
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 1: was on another team that was winning games, people, Yeah, statistically,

906
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:34,640
Speaker 1: he's having one of the best seasons of rookie's ever had,

907
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:37,200
Speaker 1: and he just looks like he's the He is a

908
00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:39,400
Speaker 1: number one receiver as a rookie. Do not see that

909
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:42,400
Speaker 1: too often? And I think it's a weird year because

910
00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:46,440
Speaker 1: I like he comes to mind, but very few others do.

911
00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:49,320
Speaker 1: I do. I do like the fact that, um, I

912
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:53,040
Speaker 1: ticketed Patrick Queen for Rookie of Defensive Rookie of the

913
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:55,480
Speaker 1: Year and he's he's in the race. Um, there's no

914
00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:59,960
Speaker 1: good there's no dominant defensive a lot of offensive play.

915
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:02,080
Speaker 1: There's a ton of receivers are doing well, but we're

916
00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:04,880
Speaker 1: but we're getting one of the great rookie quarterback classes

917
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:07,400
Speaker 1: of all time, So I don't really care. Um McKay

918
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:10,600
Speaker 1: Beckton's my pick for obvious reasons. It's just fun hitting

919
00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:13,520
Speaker 1: on the left tackle and then seeing him bully star players.

920
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:17,640
Speaker 1: Hopefully he can stay healthy next massive. You know, my hea,

921
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:19,600
Speaker 1: you could fit all three of us inside of him.

922
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:23,000
Speaker 1: Andrew Lewis asks have any of the heroes picked up

923
00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:29,760
Speaker 1: any new hobbies during COVID times? Smart No, they've been reduced.

924
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:33,279
Speaker 1: Um I don't. I mean, I probably am reading more,

925
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:35,200
Speaker 1: but that's not a new hobby. It's just something I

926
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:37,680
Speaker 1: stopped doing. But like, no, I haven't like picked up

927
00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:40,600
Speaker 1: like salsa dancing or like, hey, let's have a let's

928
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:43,120
Speaker 1: you know, have a really cool like husband and wife

929
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:45,000
Speaker 1: hobby to do together while the kids are you know,

930
00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:50,280
Speaker 1: awake fourteen fifteen hours a day screaming no our weekly

931
00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:53,520
Speaker 1: I do like a weekly sort of beach you know

932
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:55,680
Speaker 1: date with you know, my kids, and sometimes we meet

933
00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 1: up with a friend. That's about it. I don't know

934
00:45:57,520 --> 00:46:00,200
Speaker 1: if I've added a hobby, but that includes Walker, my

935
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:04,440
Speaker 1: son's obsession, which is we like role play football games

936
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:07,360
Speaker 1: where I'm he wants to be all time cornerback and

937
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:10,600
Speaker 1: just break up passes and tackle, which I appreciate. I'm

938
00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:13,440
Speaker 1: good and uh he you know, he like he can

939
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:16,800
Speaker 1: cancox various scenarios. Is first down, third down, you know,

940
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:19,160
Speaker 1: keeps the score. He always has to win. But that

941
00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:21,359
Speaker 1: that's my hobby. Do that an hour or two week.

942
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:26,040
Speaker 1: I tape the Power Ranking Show with Money on Tuesday mornings,

943
00:46:26,239 --> 00:46:30,399
Speaker 1: and Matt Money Smith, who's a renaissance man and really

944
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:33,840
Speaker 1: seems to be successful on anything he sets his mind to. Recently,

945
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:36,480
Speaker 1: and I guess the last few years, picked up surfing

946
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:39,840
Speaker 1: and he's out there every morning and he's got the

947
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:42,680
Speaker 1: wet suit and it doesn't matter. I was forty five

948
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:45,520
Speaker 1: degrees today this morning. He's out there in the water

949
00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 1: and he's telling me how it's the only place you know,

950
00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:50,000
Speaker 1: you know the way surfers are, it's the only place

951
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:52,040
Speaker 1: where the world really makes sense and all that stuff.

952
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:54,279
Speaker 1: And he's saying he takes his kids out there and

953
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:57,600
Speaker 1: they have amazing bonding moments. And I was really jealous

954
00:46:57,600 --> 00:46:59,839
Speaker 1: because I don't think that's ever gonna be my thing.

955
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:05,400
Speaker 1: But I also was thinking, like, I'm forty and um,

956
00:47:06,640 --> 00:47:08,719
Speaker 1: I don't think I should be playing like Madden and

957
00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:13,680
Speaker 1: m VP Baseball on the PS four for the rest

958
00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:15,640
Speaker 1: of my life. I probably have hit the moment in

959
00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:17,600
Speaker 1: my life where it's time to pick up something new,

960
00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:19,320
Speaker 1: and I'm just I think I'm going to make that

961
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:22,759
Speaker 1: a New Year's resolution to figure out a hobby that

962
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:28,680
Speaker 1: will take me into suggestions from the listeners what should

963
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:32,840
Speaker 1: be Dan's hobby solid I will stay real quick that

964
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:34,959
Speaker 1: I should have I forgot about this. Matt money Smith

965
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:37,600
Speaker 1: actually does figure into a hobby for me, and I

966
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:39,839
Speaker 1: mentioned it to him once before. But I drive Luke

967
00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:42,000
Speaker 1: to a little friends where he does remote schooling with

968
00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:44,200
Speaker 1: every day. It's just like a thirty minute drive. We

969
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:48,920
Speaker 1: listened to Matt Money, Money and Petros every single day. Um,

970
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:51,520
Speaker 1: coming back and we listened to Talk Sports Radio on

971
00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:53,279
Speaker 1: the way up, and he has lots of questions. So

972
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:55,880
Speaker 1: I stopped listening to Talk Sports radio because I was

973
00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:59,560
Speaker 1: never driving. Um, it's been a delight driving. You're not

974
00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:03,600
Speaker 1: in night driving. There you go driving listening to Petris

975
00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:07,560
Speaker 1: and Money. Please. Rackesh Prodden asks what brand new rules

976
00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:10,120
Speaker 1: should be added to the game and be retained forever.

977
00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:14,239
Speaker 1: I chose this one from racksh because I feel very

978
00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:17,040
Speaker 1: strongly about this. It happened again on Monday night on

979
00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:19,920
Speaker 1: a hit from Ashton Davis on Cam Newton that resulted

980
00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:23,040
Speaker 1: in a personal foul. I am all for as much

981
00:48:23,080 --> 00:48:26,160
Speaker 1: player protection as you could build into the rule book

982
00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:29,400
Speaker 1: without really destroying the game. But if you're gonna do that,

983
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:32,000
Speaker 1: and you're gonna have these guys on the field, the

984
00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:34,920
Speaker 1: officials tracked the game at the speed it's being played,

985
00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:38,000
Speaker 1: and you're gonna be throwing flags for fifteen yards that

986
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:41,080
Speaker 1: can completely reset a drive or even a game. Why

987
00:48:41,120 --> 00:48:43,400
Speaker 1: don't we add an eye in the sky element and

988
00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 1: allow the opposing coaches to challenge. Uh, these late hits,

989
00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:49,680
Speaker 1: whether it's shot down the middle on a wide receiver

990
00:48:50,080 --> 00:48:52,520
Speaker 1: being popped by a safety or even a safety or

991
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:55,520
Speaker 1: a pass rusher coming off the edge and hitting a quarterback,

992
00:48:56,440 --> 00:48:58,800
Speaker 1: I'm fine with that. I also think why isn't delay

993
00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:03,240
Speaker 1: a game challenge? Wible? The Texans got a seventy yard touchdown.

994
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:05,920
Speaker 1: They snapped it three seconds after the clock. That should

995
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:08,160
Speaker 1: be to be able to review that too. We've got

996
00:49:08,239 --> 00:49:15,399
Speaker 1: some breaking news that Dan it's atitimate bit at breaking news.

997
00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:21,719
Speaker 1: The NFL has unanimously improved playoff expansion sixteen teams if

998
00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:26,840
Speaker 1: the nineteen eliminates meaningful games. This has been reported pretty

999
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:29,800
Speaker 1: widely for a week now that this might be coming,

1000
00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:32,359
Speaker 1: but now the NFL is officially doing it, which means

1001
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:35,680
Speaker 1: we can officially talk about it. I don't love it,

1002
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:38,520
Speaker 1: just because I'm worried about whether it could be something

1003
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:40,640
Speaker 1: that happens in the future. It's six it would be

1004
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:43,920
Speaker 1: sixteen teams, um, but this is a crazy year and

1005
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:46,880
Speaker 1: this is just a way to I suppose make back

1006
00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:52,080
Speaker 1: some money. Frankly, if if COVID nineteen knocks out some

1007
00:49:52,239 --> 00:49:56,200
Speaker 1: regular season games for some teams, which feels increasingly possible.

1008
00:49:56,320 --> 00:50:00,799
Speaker 1: Fifty six players or personnel tested positive for COVID last

1009
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:03,839
Speaker 1: week in the NFL, the previous high for a week

1010
00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:09,000
Speaker 1: was so that the high doubled UM and so you

1011
00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:10,560
Speaker 1: know they're coming up with some plans. It would be

1012
00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:12,600
Speaker 1: a sixteen team tournament. It would really bang the one

1013
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:15,560
Speaker 1: seeds well. And speaking of speaking of talk radio, I

1014
00:50:15,640 --> 00:50:18,080
Speaker 1: heard Dan Patricks say that an NFL source told him

1015
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:21,120
Speaker 1: that if UM that this is what they want to

1016
00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:27,880
Speaker 1: do for good, division would be be sixteen teams, not

1017
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:30,160
Speaker 1: just this year, but if they if this goes well,

1018
00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:31,759
Speaker 1: and this would be kind of a test case with

1019
00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:34,440
Speaker 1: with how it's perceived UM. But it also I believe

1020
00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:38,640
Speaker 1: includes not just division winners one through four. If I

1021
00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:40,640
Speaker 1: I want to go read this again, but I think

1022
00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:44,640
Speaker 1: there was talk of it being seeded by winning percentage,

1023
00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:48,160
Speaker 1: which means the Eagles would not host a playoff game.

1024
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:50,239
Speaker 1: If that's if that's the way this rule would be

1025
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:52,560
Speaker 1: enacted this time around. I'm looking at it right now.

1026
00:50:52,680 --> 00:50:56,640
Speaker 1: The conference standings, if if we did go one versus eight,

1027
00:50:56,680 --> 00:50:59,960
Speaker 1: it would be Steelers against the Browns in the opening round.

1028
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:03,640
Speaker 1: In the NFC would be Saints versus on two three

1029
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:09,520
Speaker 1: Saints versus Niners would be the one eight matchup there.

1030
00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:13,480
Speaker 1: You know what, the NFL needs to build in these protections.

1031
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:16,160
Speaker 1: Speaking of protections, uh, and then I think they should

1032
00:51:16,160 --> 00:51:17,960
Speaker 1: take it a step further and put everybody in a

1033
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:20,080
Speaker 1: bubble as soon as this regular season ends. I don't

1034
00:51:20,120 --> 00:51:21,840
Speaker 1: know if that's gonna happen. It doesn't sound like it is,

1035
00:51:22,239 --> 00:51:26,399
Speaker 1: but they need to cover their asses here. I hate

1036
00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:28,959
Speaker 1: I hate the sixteen teams. We don't need to see

1037
00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:31,880
Speaker 1: the we don't. We don't. I didn't like the the

1038
00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:34,560
Speaker 1: I don't need to see the thirteenth and fourteen team

1039
00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:37,400
Speaker 1: either that that that ship has sailed. Those teams are

1040
00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:40,279
Speaker 1: never teams. I'm like, need to see them for another week.

1041
00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:45,200
Speaker 1: Twelve was perfect sixteen to me. I hate it. Well,

1042
00:51:45,239 --> 00:51:47,440
Speaker 1: it's teams that have done with it this year, but

1043
00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:50,920
Speaker 1: I hate it after this year to make the playoffs,

1044
00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:53,439
Speaker 1: you need, you want to you want people to see

1045
00:51:53,480 --> 00:51:55,760
Speaker 1: you as a playoff team, and you're gonna be inviting

1046
00:51:55,800 --> 00:51:57,440
Speaker 1: in teams that did not get the job done. And

1047
00:51:57,719 --> 00:51:59,480
Speaker 1: I think it. I think it's a problem. If it's

1048
00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:02,920
Speaker 1: one year thing, that's cool, but like, uh, expanding playoffs

1049
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:05,400
Speaker 1: in the NFL is is a terrible idea in my opinion,

1050
00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:07,880
Speaker 1: because you're gonna already get one or two teams in

1051
00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:10,560
Speaker 1: there that we all laugh at. That's not a good product.

1052
00:52:11,360 --> 00:52:13,520
Speaker 1: All right, there you go, there's some good breaking news. Greg.

1053
00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:15,120
Speaker 1: Sometimes you've been a little hot and cold over the

1054
00:52:15,200 --> 00:52:16,800
Speaker 1: years with your breaking news. But it looks like you

1055
00:52:16,880 --> 00:52:20,640
Speaker 1: might be turning in the corner. Yeah. That affirmation is

1056
00:52:20,760 --> 00:52:24,920
Speaker 1: like better than any Patriots when you know. It's great. Alright,

1057
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:27,560
Speaker 1: good stuff, good show. Thank you everybody that's sent in mail,

1058
00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:30,719
Speaker 1: bad questions. Uh, next time you hear from us, it

1059
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:36,360
Speaker 1: will be I believe a Sessler Rosenthal joint right Thursday

1060
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:38,920
Speaker 1: Night football this week? Who's on the Thursday night game? This?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know, I am. Um, Well, we'll talk

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Speaker 1: after the show. Then there you Go'll be Greg, most

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Speaker 1: likely in a mystery guest recapping the Titans Cults pre game.

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Speaker 1: We just previewed. And then yes, we have our NFL

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Speaker 1: Network show that airs on Saturday morning with additional re

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Speaker 1: air and then yes, Sunday night, the flagship program returns,

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Speaker 1: hopefully with Chris Weston. All Right, this is Dan Hanson

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Speaker 1: signing off for White Storm, the Old Boss Rack Hollywood

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Speaker 1: behind the Virtual glass Well until Thursday m