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Speaker 1: and he's like a jazz musician. It's just you never know,
Speaker 1: it's not every time. It's not about the notes you
Speaker 1: play in jazz. It's about the notes. You don't play
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Speaker 1: um incredible effort was put into those the illustration, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure someone had to do a thing where like
Speaker 1: they cut little scissors around your hair. I do think
Speaker 1: that they need to do a revision where they do
Speaker 1: a little bit more justice to your hair. I think
Speaker 1: I feel like they they smoothed it or something. I've
Speaker 1: been and I don't know who they is. If you're
Speaker 1: watching the YouTube show which begins with a graphic that
Speaker 1: they put some money into building it out, and uh,
Speaker 1: but they never said. We were under the impression that
Speaker 1: when they come up with the opening graphic for this
Speaker 1: video show that there would be a meeting in the
Speaker 1: off season where they pitch it. Hey, guys, do you
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Speaker 1: there was none of that. A shadowy league figure called
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Speaker 1: not happy with what I've never been happy with it,
Speaker 1: and I think it needs to be addressed in the
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Speaker 1: gotta get Greg's do you have a beard in that thing?
Speaker 1: We gotta there we go. You gotta get Greg bearded.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm getting better looking by the minute, as
Speaker 1: is less, so you've gotta get the updated I could
Speaker 1: use like a square jaw and maybe less pale. There
Speaker 1: we go. Um, welcome to the Thursday edition of the show.
Speaker 1: And uh, this is our week fifteen preview. How about
Speaker 1: that Week fifteen and a lot a lot to get
Speaker 1: to We have a Thursday night game between the Jets
Speaker 1: and Ravens that will be part of a mini pod
Speaker 1: released later tonight Thursday. I believe it will be a
Speaker 1: Sesson West joint. It will What's cooking at West Matter? Well,
Speaker 1: Keisha's mom's in town, so I think she might be
Speaker 1: watching the game. You know, she might have had plans
Speaker 1: and name from Mike. She heard Mark was coming and
Speaker 1: I think she cancered her plans. She's watched football games
Speaker 1: with Mark before. Last time mom Alkesha was in town,
Speaker 1: she actually kind of went off on me a little bit.
Speaker 1: She's like, you told me to bring your boys around here,
Speaker 1: and then I have my two sons who she she
Speaker 1: sees the picture. She loves them. She was mad at
Speaker 1: me that I had not actually fulfilled a promise. She
Speaker 1: loves children. Keisha gets it on wh did she sound
Speaker 1: like asking how you bring those boys around here? You
Speaker 1: told me bring them and I said, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I don't make promises about my children. They're they're they're unpredictable.
Speaker 1: So I don't think she yelled, but I don't recall
Speaker 1: that either, because we were there. It was but she
Speaker 1: got right up in my face. He said, you told
Speaker 1: me you bring those boys, And I was like, uh, well,
Speaker 1: I uh, this is gonna sound bad, but I don't
Speaker 1: mean I've met anyone who's not scared of her. My mom,
Speaker 1: who never took a back seat to anyone, immediately was
Speaker 1: deferential to. And what a woman. Lakisha's her name again, Roda,
Speaker 1: What a woman. When Wes was on the ropes, she was.
Speaker 1: She was there every day with you. She took care
Speaker 1: of me. She prayed on it too, she prayed with med,
Speaker 1: fed me. She yeah, she took care of me. Save
Speaker 1: that for the theology podcast. We Uh, that's what I
Speaker 1: told her at night when she tried to pray. Let's
Speaker 1: just save this for a theology podut Um. Okay, So
Speaker 1: I got Ron in town, Rhoda in town, We got
Speaker 1: um a lot of us to get to and we
Speaker 1: do a draft style and with the first overall pick
Speaker 1: is Mark Ceiler. And it's important to get this out
Speaker 1: there that Mark, as we've noted, is heading up the
Speaker 1: coast on Saturday to cover the final home game in
Speaker 1: Oakland Raiders history. Um. Because of that, he won't be
Speaker 1: here on Sunday to do the recap show with us. However,
Speaker 1: you will be calling in from the black hole, assuming
Speaker 1: you survive and uh TPD. But yes, but it creates
Speaker 1: some oddities for me to have the number one pick
Speaker 1: and essentially a league that I won't be involved in.
Speaker 1: And we're taking that Raiders went off the board. Hit
Speaker 1: that game a little bit later in the show, but
Speaker 1: that's off the board. So there are twelve picks that
Speaker 1: you have, and best of luck to you, because yes,
Speaker 1: you you you're looking out for others right now, not
Speaker 1: picking for yourself. Well, I'm picking for Nick Shook, and
Speaker 1: so I already know because the way his Sundays organized
Speaker 1: that I don't want to put him into some sort
Speaker 1: of work tornado. So what I'm offering is, because there's
Speaker 1: probably there aren't a ton of great games on this
Speaker 1: late let's be real, I'm offering to move down a
Speaker 1: few slots if someone would business. I'm open for business,
Speaker 1: but I have a different type of thing. I'm not
Speaker 1: looking to jump up to number one next week when
Speaker 1: it's week seventeen and a bunch of teams are packing
Speaker 1: it up and send people that I are. I if
Speaker 1: if there is a SNAPOOS scenario week sixteen where I
Speaker 1: am tagged with a between Week sixteen or week seventeen.
Speaker 1: You maybe don't have to do anything. You maybe have
Speaker 1: no no give back in this trade. If there's a
Speaker 1: scenario where I get snaked into four games versus three,
Speaker 1: the person who accepts this trade would take my fourth game.
Speaker 1: It's less work, is what I'm seeking to do. So
Speaker 1: someone can jump right into number one, and maybe you
Speaker 1: don't even get into this situation. I'll take it, all right, West, careful?
Speaker 1: So what what pick? Where's what pick? Is he at?
Speaker 1: You now pick third, Mark and West is picking first
Speaker 1: overall game? Very clean trade? All right. I'm taking the
Speaker 1: Houston Texans at the Tennessee Titans. I think it's the
Speaker 1: best game of the week. It is a good trade
Speaker 1: for you us, probably the most meaningful game of the week.
Speaker 1: It's my Titans, which I am now claiming again after
Speaker 1: throwing throwing them into the garbage in about week five.
Speaker 1: What about your you know, four year long infatuation Marcus Mariota,
Speaker 1: You think that that ended about two years ago when
Speaker 1: just getting there. There was some talk in the off
Speaker 1: season going into this season as well know. The talk
Speaker 1: was Adam Humphrey's signing. I believe Meanwhile, he likes Winston's
Speaker 1: bucks right the way you would talk about an ex
Speaker 1: not not a current flame. The talk was that the
Speaker 1: Titans still believed in Mariota and that Tannehill was simply
Speaker 1: for depth. But you know that plan went awry when
Speaker 1: Mariota could not navigate the pocket or looked a lot
Speaker 1: like Mason Rudolph and navigating the pocket. So now we
Speaker 1: have Ryan Tannehill in here. As I said Tuesday, he
Speaker 1: has a chance to become the first quarterback in history
Speaker 1: to complete seventy of his passes at over ten adjusted
Speaker 1: yards per attempt, and he he is averaging the most
Speaker 1: yards per drop back in the NFL this year. So
Speaker 1: to me, the favorite for Comeback Player of the Year
Speaker 1: honors a no brainer to sign to a new contract
Speaker 1: or franchise tag. You try to get a quarterback plane
Speaker 1: at this high of a level for this long of
Speaker 1: a stretch of games. And he's got a lot of
Speaker 1: big games to go. I mean, we've got two games
Speaker 1: here against the Texans in the last three weeks. If
Speaker 1: the Titans can sweep, that they win the division. If
Speaker 1: they don't sweep, that, the Texans are very likely to
Speaker 1: win the division if they split, because the Texans not
Speaker 1: only have the division tiebreak record ahead of the Texans,
Speaker 1: so if they have the same record, they're gonna win
Speaker 1: the division. But Tennessee also has to host New Orleans
Speaker 1: next week. That's a that's a tricky one. So it
Speaker 1: might take the Titans sweeping the Texans to win the division.
Speaker 1: And the way they're playing, I mean, I think they
Speaker 1: got a chance because I don't know which Texans defense is.
Speaker 1: I could totally see it because I, you know, watching
Speaker 1: both of these teams over the past couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: It's not I don't care what happened. And a couple
Speaker 1: of months ago, tell me the you know, important area
Speaker 1: where Houston is a better team right now and more
Speaker 1: consistent than the Titans. I struggle to find it. And
Speaker 1: I know you're gonna go quarterback potentially, and I believe
Speaker 1: in Deshaun Watson still, but Ryan Tannehill, you could not
Speaker 1: ask him to do literally anything more. The same trap
Speaker 1: that we were all on the same page on with Sunday,
Speaker 1: which was like that comment is kind of easy to
Speaker 1: make today, but this time last week that was not
Speaker 1: maybe a comment that was so easy to make after
Speaker 1: they spank the page, I like being in a trap.
Speaker 1: So we'll see how that goes. Who knows which version
Speaker 1: of the text. I'm just saying the tight The Titans, though,
Speaker 1: have been pretty consistent in My issue with them and
Speaker 1: all of us is that they'll sweep back and forth. Exactly.
Speaker 1: It's the Texans right now that I feel weak to
Speaker 1: week and they have will fuller back so that that
Speaker 1: seems to be kind of like you know, you practice
Speaker 1: at least today. That seems to be their Jenga piece
Speaker 1: on offense to some degree. But I don't know what
Speaker 1: you can count on, even from Deshaun Watson and what's
Speaker 1: what's around him week to weeks had some bad games,
Speaker 1: I would not count that man out there. Waited d
Speaker 1: v O A which factor which places more emphasis on
Speaker 1: recent games than early season games. They are thirtieth in defense.
Speaker 1: This is not a good defense, right, That's that's the
Speaker 1: thing I would be worried about. They cooked up a
Speaker 1: good game plan against the Patriots, but for the most part,
Speaker 1: the Titans defense is more talented, more consistent. That the
Speaker 1: Titans offense has hit so many big plays it's a
Speaker 1: little unsustainable. I mean, Tanne Hills throw has hit on
Speaker 1: so many of his long plays. I mean they've been
Speaker 1: great throws. A J. Brown and his receivers are making
Speaker 1: plays for him that you can't count on that every week,
Speaker 1: I would I kind of expect to shoot out here.
Speaker 1: I don't really totally trust the Titans defense, and I
Speaker 1: do think DeShawn Watson in a big time spot is
Speaker 1: gonna play well and that this thing could be in
Speaker 1: the thirties and could be a perfect first pick because
Speaker 1: there'll be a lot of entertainment. Oh yeah, grass Field,
Speaker 1: I I mean we it's Week fifteen, and this is
Speaker 1: the best game on on the board, and let's since
Speaker 1: we're here, let's now like look back, I look back
Speaker 1: in time, you know, on the draft day, like, oh
Speaker 1: this this time last year, the greatest number one overall selection,
Speaker 1: the old zeus A nailed it last week with the
Speaker 1: Game of the Year, and just you know what a
Speaker 1: moment it was for me to to have all those
Speaker 1: great games to choose from a number one and over
Speaker 1: on how easy it is that was. Like drafted Patrick
Speaker 1: forty nine, everyone went to take him a game. I
Speaker 1: went with my gut and I was paid off. And
Speaker 1: now West, this is I think you made the common downstairs. Greg,
Speaker 1: this is like the Eric Fisher draft of of game
Speaker 1: draft like luck and you're taking Eric Fisher. The fourth
Speaker 1: or fifth best game last week would would be better
Speaker 1: than this game. You do love the NFC South with
Speaker 1: your all your heart, don't. I can't stand the Jaguars.
Speaker 1: I like the Titans. I'm looking forward to this one.
Speaker 1: It's a good pick. He's been on this Titans thing,
Speaker 1: like I. You gotta hang. I thought you might lock
Speaker 1: them up here in a big spot. I was thinking
Speaker 1: about it. No, I thought about it. But you can't.
Speaker 1: I mean, Dan knows this as well. Just when you
Speaker 1: count the Texans out, then Deshaun Watson and in DeAndre
Speaker 1: I have too much respect for dangerous team against too stressful.
Speaker 1: That's exactly all right. The next pick goes to Greg Rosenthal.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna take a late game. I'm taking
Speaker 1: Rams Cowboys. Uh. That would have been my first pick.
Speaker 1: And it's one of those games where, yeah, this isn't
Speaker 1: gonna decide. I don't think who wins the super Bowl,
Speaker 1: but it's a perfect Week fifteen game where the culmination,
Speaker 1: you know, things build throughout the season and the pressure
Speaker 1: and the misery going on in Dallas right now has
Speaker 1: been building throughout the season, whereas the Rams have shown
Speaker 1: how you can flip a switch, how you can change
Speaker 1: your identity, and then you can get a perfect matchup
Speaker 1: in the perfect spot. To me, playing this Cowboys defense,
Speaker 1: who has been so bad against the run is perfect
Speaker 1: for a Rams team that's found their identity by running
Speaker 1: the ball. Last week, Johnny Munt played thirty snaps more
Speaker 1: than Cooper Cup. Josh Reynolds played twenty plus more snaps
Speaker 1: than brand than Cooks because he's better at blocking. They're
Speaker 1: just going full out. We're gonna do be a running
Speaker 1: team with defense. I don't know if they do it
Speaker 1: every week, but it makes a lot of sense to
Speaker 1: do it this week because this Cowboys defense has been
Speaker 1: laying down like dogs. Well, they're using Josh Reynolds on
Speaker 1: sweeps and Jets sweeps and they're and they're they got
Speaker 1: some of their creative moxieback. I feel like they did.
Speaker 1: They were just boring and dull to watch, and it
Speaker 1: has a lot to do with I think the offensive line.
Speaker 1: There's a bit of an uptick there. They're not a
Speaker 1: total raging disaster and their defense has given up. Opponents
Speaker 1: have scored between six and ten points on offense against
Speaker 1: the Rams outside of the Ravens outside of Ribbons game
Speaker 1: seven seven or seven past opponents. The first team defense
Speaker 1: outside of the Baltimore game has given up three touchdowns
Speaker 1: since the Jalen Ramsey trade, and a lot of that
Speaker 1: is schedule and I don't think they'll do that in
Speaker 1: this game. But when their offenses is in rhythm, Jared
Speaker 1: Goff is making some good in rhythm throws, especially outside
Speaker 1: the pocket. I think their offense can keep up. In
Speaker 1: their defense at least limit Dallas, who you know all season.
Speaker 1: They're kind of the team that that analytics can't figure
Speaker 1: out because they shouldn't be as bad as they are,
Speaker 1: and yet you just don't have any faces. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is not a team I wouldn't lock up against or
Speaker 1: for them either, because are they like seeing about the
Speaker 1: Rams too? I like the Rams and this complete freefall
Speaker 1: right now or they have been? They have been. They
Speaker 1: laid down last week. That happened, so do they laid
Speaker 1: down pretty bad on on Thanksgiving? To that? I think
Speaker 1: that was more bad luck. That was randomness that that
Speaker 1: happened in that stretch there, But they absolutely laid down
Speaker 1: last week, and I don't know if you can predict
Speaker 1: those things. Did they have? They given up on Jason
Speaker 1: Garrett for good. I've been joining Dan's bookmaking projects over
Speaker 1: that they're basic. Their defense is basic, and they count
Speaker 1: on them to execute. It's, you know, one of those
Speaker 1: defense where they don't try to confuse anyone. They're counting
Speaker 1: on people to fly to the ball. And remember how
Speaker 1: fast they were a year ago. They really missed late
Speaker 1: in vander esh and they counted them to be fundamentally
Speaker 1: sound and not give a big place. And that's everything
Speaker 1: they're doing. They miss a ton of tackles, they give
Speaker 1: up big plays. He just the PFF has the Cowboys
Speaker 1: as the overall if you look at you stacked the
Speaker 1: teams from top to bottom across all metrics, the fourth
Speaker 1: best team in the NFL based on their talent and
Speaker 1: how they're producing. And I do think that you are
Speaker 1: at a point that's different than before with Erry Jones
Speaker 1: and Jason Garrett, where Jerry Jones is the rare owner
Speaker 1: that has a weekly radio show where he's dropping verbal
Speaker 1: fire bombs, raising questions about your coach, and that it's
Speaker 1: the locker room you lose their main fire bombs right.
Speaker 1: If it's not, if it's the players that are thinking,
Speaker 1: so much change is coming, we gotta start playing for
Speaker 1: our own jobs. We're gonna have a new coach in here.
Speaker 1: Bad situation. I find the Rams to be kind of
Speaker 1: fascinating right now because I think everyone wrote them off
Speaker 1: as a lost cause this year, and they had bottomed out.
Speaker 1: Of course in that primetime loss to Lamar Jackson and
Speaker 1: the Ravens. Um you guys all wanted to fork them, Yes,
Speaker 1: I think, and I think a lot of people thought
Speaker 1: they just were broken and something needed to be addressed
Speaker 1: in the offseason. But the stat and good stat by
Speaker 1: NFL Media Research Tyler Higbee, Robert Woods, Todd Gurley go
Speaker 1: over one hundred yards from scrimmage back to back weeks,
Speaker 1: has not happened where a trio of teammates did that
Speaker 1: since the great two thousand troika of uh Randy Mollas,
Speaker 1: Chris Carter and Jake Read underrated Robert Smith. So I
Speaker 1: mean that is this when you have a stat like that,
Speaker 1: your offenses humming. Is this team peaking at the exact
Speaker 1: right time after a really slow start to the season.
Speaker 1: This is when you want to peak in December feels
Speaker 1: like a nice time to start. And they've been in
Speaker 1: big games and they've won big games. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: the thing. They're the most they're the winning this team
Speaker 1: in the NFC over the last three years since since
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh arrived, and the Cowboys have shown us this
Speaker 1: here not to be trusted, and we love them again
Speaker 1: and start cranking that pr machine. I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: if if they do end up making the playoffs, that
Speaker 1: there should be a little bit of like a oh,
Speaker 1: we kind of missed this one because they still they
Speaker 1: still had the players. They had the best defensive player
Speaker 1: on the planet, they had skill posited players, and they
Speaker 1: had a great head coach and a great DC that
Speaker 1: maybe you just gotta let it breathe something. Well. I
Speaker 1: don't want a problem though, saying that where we were
Speaker 1: a month and a half ago, they were boring, defunct,
Speaker 1: stop playing three weeks ago? Right and who which is
Speaker 1: not my point, that is that's obvious, but we're wrong
Speaker 1: with a bunch of not a bunch figure it out,
Speaker 1: and they seem to have figured it out. Who would
Speaker 1: have guessed a month ago that Golf would be the
Speaker 1: quarterback in this matchup, playing with confidence, decisiveness, upper tempo. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I let's see it, Doc, I mean, let's see it.
Speaker 1: Cooper Dock. I do believe in this offense, and I
Speaker 1: think they can play much better. You gotta this is
Speaker 1: a game. You gotta see it. Golf did of a
Speaker 1: couple of bad turnovers against the Seahawks. That happens against Seattle,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't total pristine. Uh, Mark, You're up alright,
Speaker 1: so you know, and that's again I'm you know, I'm
Speaker 1: a GM in filling picking for our friend Nick Shook,
Speaker 1: and I know that he's gonna be You're like Mike
Speaker 1: mccagnan last he didn't know it, he didn't know it.
Speaker 1: I'm the what's his name, the iceberg or whatever they
Speaker 1: called him, the glacier glacier. I'm the glacier that's about
Speaker 1: as effective as this tress. You're like a penny counter,
Speaker 1: basically asked. I don't know why I just made that comparison.
Speaker 1: That's not helping me at all. But I am gonna
Speaker 1: go Browns at Cardinals because it's a late game. This
Speaker 1: is Shook's home team. It is a great big and well,
Speaker 1: you know, but Shook it shook as a Browns dude,
Speaker 1: and they are clinging to those last gasps of life
Speaker 1: before you know, this guy the game where they get
Speaker 1: thrown off the cliff and you know, and Act two
Speaker 1: ends and you say goodbye to that character and the
Speaker 1: rest move on. I mean, that's where the Browns are.
Speaker 1: It is interesting that Football Outsiders points out that the
Speaker 1: Browns have played as an offense the hardest lineup of
Speaker 1: defenses in the entire league this season, and it certainly
Speaker 1: showed in ways that you know, I was watching that
Speaker 1: and you should check this out, whether you like him
Speaker 1: or not, or either of them like him or not.
Speaker 1: Belichick and Nick sab in the HBO documentary where they
Speaker 1: sit down and talk for about an hour and a half,
Speaker 1: it's it's just insane to watch. But some of my
Speaker 1: favorite parts of it are, you know, and there's old
Speaker 1: hark back clips and current clips of Belichick huddling with
Speaker 1: young players and basically and Greg, you was special, would
Speaker 1: totally fetishize this because it's your world game situations. He's
Speaker 1: shouting at them saying like there are there's a minute
Speaker 1: fifty eight left, you know, we've got two timeouts. They
Speaker 1: do this, what should you do so, and I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: I don't know answer to any of these questions, but
Speaker 1: I think you might, Greg, but he's teaching. I've been
Speaker 1: saving this one for the weekend when ye put him
Speaker 1: to bed and you just have a little Greg time.
Speaker 1: It struck me, though, watching that, that there are probably
Speaker 1: a vast majority of coaches that cannot get that done
Speaker 1: and cannot communicate that to players or the rest of
Speaker 1: their coaching staff, and to West's point, needs someone up
Speaker 1: in their ear to do that. And it it struck
Speaker 1: me that Freddie kitches as the most first year thing
Speaker 1: about him is situational football and the team seemingly losing
Speaker 1: its way for big chunks of time in a row. Now,
Speaker 1: this is meant to be this easy part of their schedule,
Speaker 1: and they have won games, but as we mentioned on
Speaker 1: the Recap show last year, every win seems to be
Speaker 1: tinged with some element of darkness where you can't really
Speaker 1: enjoy this season. If they won this game, you begin
Speaker 1: to look at the overall experience and say, do we
Speaker 1: keep this coach or do we not? Because Cliff Kingsbury
Speaker 1: has lost six in a row with the Cardinals, team
Speaker 1: that's somewhat falling off a cliff, but no one's talking
Speaker 1: about him the same way. There's all this heat and
Speaker 1: pressure around Kitchens. Expectations were totally Expectations may have been unfair.
Speaker 1: I agree. It's because Kingsbury's offense has improved dramatically, whereas
Speaker 1: Kitchens is an offensive guy, and that's clearly been the
Speaker 1: problem with the Browns. Yeah. I mean, I feel like
Speaker 1: you have the you know, the NFL leading rusher and
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb who is about to become he's leading the
Speaker 1: NFL and rushing in rushing yards yea. And he is
Speaker 1: about to become the first Brown running Rounds running back
Speaker 1: in the history of the Cleveland Browns. And they have
Speaker 1: one very awesome running back to open his season, his
Speaker 1: career with back to back thousand yard years. He's been
Speaker 1: a rock for them week after week. I would just
Speaker 1: say that that's what they have. If I'm playing the Cardinals,
Speaker 1: you just don't get too tricky here, don't get too fancy.
Speaker 1: Do what you do well against a really bad past defensive.
Speaker 1: So this is one where Baker Mayfield should be able
Speaker 1: to cook. I mean, it's a great matchup of young
Speaker 1: quarterbacks for for a relatively bad game. I mean seeing
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray and Baker Mayfield go at it, who are
Speaker 1: former teammates. Seeing Baker Mayfield and Cliff Kingsbury go at
Speaker 1: it who Baker used to hate Kingsbury because he didn't
Speaker 1: play him and Baker had the transfer when they were
Speaker 1: at Texas Tech. There's there's heat here. It's fun little
Speaker 1: side with Uh. Maybe expectations should have been so high
Speaker 1: if you put in a better head coach. This team
Speaker 1: is contending for a playoff spot. I think, well, I'm
Speaker 1: not happy with the coach. It's been a week to
Speaker 1: week thing. But I do think it was one of
Speaker 1: these teams where you're adding all these pieces in the
Speaker 1: course of three or four months. And it might be
Speaker 1: that's all about Baker, though he was hired because of
Speaker 1: Baker and Baker's and Baas had a bad season, and
Speaker 1: plenty of teams that add pieces in the off season
Speaker 1: completely reworked their roster and flourish, Right, But this is
Speaker 1: all to be fair. Yeah, this isn't an organization and
Speaker 1: that's barely won any games over the last decade. And
Speaker 1: if they get to eight and eight, that's not the word.
Speaker 1: It's really just Baker. Baker hasn't played that well. You know,
Speaker 1: I saw the stat about uncatchable balls over ten yards
Speaker 1: and it was it was pointing out how Kyle Allen
Speaker 1: basically has been the worst in the league with his receivers.
Speaker 1: But who was thirtieth out of thirty two wide receivers
Speaker 1: who qualified Odell Beckham in terms of uncatchable balls deep
Speaker 1: throws the Odell Beckham they had no chance at. And
Speaker 1: that's that's a reflection of Baker Mayfield. Well, that connection
Speaker 1: nearly made back to beck spectacular plays last week, and
Speaker 1: then there was another great Baker Mayfield throw to the
Speaker 1: sideline that Jarvis Landry nearly came down with two. So
Speaker 1: I think Baker's numbers could have been so much better
Speaker 1: last week, and that interception should have been maybe a fumble,
Speaker 1: but not an interset. Arvis Landry has my respect for him.
Speaker 1: Just watching him wee week has doubled and tripled. I mean,
Speaker 1: he has been the dude for them. Beckham is gonna
Speaker 1: be God. I think the off season that report from
Speaker 1: Yahoo Charles Robinson was not not a side that he's there.
Speaker 1: I think anything could happen. It surprises me in the
Speaker 1: in the in the world, and you're like kind of
Speaker 1: worried about the guy because he okay, like in a
Speaker 1: mental headspace point that he's very down about what the
Speaker 1: direction of his career, that he never you know, he
Speaker 1: was hoping to go somewhere else. Uh, Cleveland was not
Speaker 1: his choice, not his destination. And in this era where
Speaker 1: we're seeing a team player after player, these Marquet guys
Speaker 1: kind of decide whether they want to stick around or not.
Speaker 1: To me, everything's pointing to him making noise the way
Speaker 1: and Jamal Adams is gonna make me know. If they
Speaker 1: were winning, none of this would be know. And the
Speaker 1: flip side was there was there were like flowery narratives
Speaker 1: that were based in truth that Odell Beckham and Jarvis
Speaker 1: Landry lifelong friends. They had waited their whole career for this.
Speaker 1: And why is Beckham saying come get me to people
Speaker 1: I don't know. We don't that's we don't know exactly
Speaker 1: what words are being exchanged. But that was the disturbing report.
Speaker 1: But Landry came out today strongly and said, no one
Speaker 1: knows anything about Odell Beckham. He wants to be guy.
Speaker 1: I didn't want him on my team. Uh, I would around,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't build a team around a star wide receiver
Speaker 1: to begin with, but that's not what they did. They
Speaker 1: had a quarterback to all right, Uh, I am up,
Speaker 1: I will this is good. I like this one because
Speaker 1: it's two teams that I really want to see where
Speaker 1: they're at for real, Bears at Packers, lambeau Field and uh,
Speaker 1: my thoughts on this. My my initial thought is, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, watch out Green Bay. And we talked about
Speaker 1: on Tuesday what you people don't realize. Not you guys,
Speaker 1: you guys know everything, but other people out there that
Speaker 1: the Packers, despite the ten and three record, despite being
Speaker 1: the second seed in the NFC, just not a lot
Speaker 1: of not a lot of impressive wins. And of late,
Speaker 1: the offense is is not cooking. We know the defense
Speaker 1: can be manipulated and taken taken for a ride in
Speaker 1: a big spot. We've seen it happen on several occasions
Speaker 1: this year. And to West's point, and on the Power
Speaker 1: Ranking Show I do with Matt money Smith, he made
Speaker 1: the same point as us that while the reputation that
Speaker 1: preceeds our Rogers as still being this goat like guy,
Speaker 1: then you watch him in these games and he's just
Speaker 1: holding the ball and holding the ball and holding the
Speaker 1: ball and looking for that home run and it just
Speaker 1: doesn't materialize in the three and out start piling up. Um,
Speaker 1: So where are the Packers right now? While they're at
Speaker 1: home and they're against the Bears team that obviously has
Speaker 1: kind of salvaged their season, moved it out of the
Speaker 1: embarrassment range. They they've given their fans the gift of
Speaker 1: relevant December football, which I don't think anybody expected a
Speaker 1: month ago. And most of all and Gregg, we talked
Speaker 1: about it last Thursday. Um Mitchell Trobiskie, uh has his
Speaker 1: confidence back. That's the biggest thing. You could see it
Speaker 1: in his eyes when things are really going sideways earlier
Speaker 1: this season that he was just he was not playing
Speaker 1: with any confidence. And these guys that are not elite
Speaker 1: level talents, um Mark Sanchez comes to mind from me
Speaker 1: from my pass is a Jets fan, a guy that's
Speaker 1: kind of either marginally talented or maybe a little better
Speaker 1: than average. Playing with confidence will help push you over
Speaker 1: the threshold. But if you start getting a bad place, dually,
Speaker 1: you look absolutely terrible. So he's gotten out of that
Speaker 1: bad zone and you see it on the field, both
Speaker 1: in the throws he's making and also he's running the
Speaker 1: ball a little bit now, and that's why I think
Speaker 1: that this game is gonna be like if I had
Speaker 1: to pick a game that would surprise people, the Bears
Speaker 1: going into Lambeau and winning would not stun me. It
Speaker 1: really would not. And am I crazy in thinking that?
Speaker 1: So everybody's a Drabinsky believer now, I'm no, not a believer.
Speaker 1: And he could have easily thrown a couple of picks.
Speaker 1: He played the Giants, the Lions, and a Cowboys team
Speaker 1: that has not been impressive on defense. I think that's
Speaker 1: been a big part of it. I thought his best
Speaker 1: game was definitely on Thanksgiving. Uh you know he was.
Speaker 1: He was given a lot of short throws. I give
Speaker 1: Neggie credit for cooking up the types of open receivers
Speaker 1: and schemed up plays over the last three weeks that
Speaker 1: we didn't really see the first half of the season,
Speaker 1: which I think was a big part of their success
Speaker 1: last year. I think Naggy and Drabinsky are working better
Speaker 1: together and definitely using Drabinsky's legs as a big factor.
Speaker 1: Rubisky as twenty one rush has some scheme, some scrambles
Speaker 1: over the last three games, and that was utterly missing before.
Speaker 1: And I think you pointed out West that when your
Speaker 1: confidence is shaking and and you know things are just
Speaker 1: not working, that the daring do is not there for
Speaker 1: Robinsky and it wasn't and it but he's he has
Speaker 1: shown I think more of what you thought you'd get
Speaker 1: this year. But to Dan's point there, I don't, Well,
Speaker 1: that's been him most at the time. But my my
Speaker 1: questions are more about the Green Bay side of things,
Speaker 1: just being able to explosively shut down an opponent. I mean,
Speaker 1: I feel like Aaron Jones was had almost two hundred
Speaker 1: yards against the Redskins, but the rest of that game
Speaker 1: raised and our friend Ben Fennel, who does a nice
Speaker 1: job with you know, especially a lot of Packers tape,
Speaker 1: looked at Aaron Rodgers in that game and was just like,
Speaker 1: what is happening with this guy that he's not he's
Speaker 1: not pulling the trigger. I think was what Ben especially
Speaker 1: was getting after where he had some open receivers and
Speaker 1: just wasn't throwing it. It's been the same thing as
Speaker 1: last year, and coaches keep taking the fall for it,
Speaker 1: but sometimes you have to hit the underneath routes, just
Speaker 1: pull the trigger on those throws and yet in the
Speaker 1: playing a good Bears defense, not a they're not what
Speaker 1: they were a year ago, but they're good. They're one
Speaker 1: might be back this week. Yeah, they're and they're one
Speaker 1: of the six seven best defense in the league. They
Speaker 1: already held you know the Packers. Smith is out for
Speaker 1: the year with a peck injury, which hurts. That's a
Speaker 1: big loss. But this this game, to me, is one
Speaker 1: of those questions it's impossible. There's no right answer, like
Speaker 1: do you trust the body of work or do you
Speaker 1: trust what you've seen the last three weeks? If you're
Speaker 1: only looking at the last three weeks, the Bears are
Speaker 1: playing better right now. You know the Packers got blown out.
Speaker 1: I trust Aaron Rodgers more than Mitchell Robinsky, even when
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is slumpy. But I tend to trust the
Speaker 1: body of work overall. I've seen too much bad football
Speaker 1: out of Mitchell Drabinsky. I haven't seen this defense be impressive.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen the running game really do anything that
Speaker 1: I believe in In In terms of Montgomery and their offensive line,
Speaker 1: and on the road against Green Bay, I think you
Speaker 1: get the best Packers performance, and that's why I'm locking
Speaker 1: up the pack And then I'm not gonna go to
Speaker 1: the lock off. But that's what the desert people think
Speaker 1: about this three and a half or four. I think
Speaker 1: that's a man who can walk by the mirror and
Speaker 1: look right in it. There were really many there were
Speaker 1: flighting in that room. Yeah, some of these other games.
Speaker 1: It's like a fun house mirror and it's there and
Speaker 1: you're like, well, yea, I see one on here. That's
Speaker 1: a fun house. Okay, Well that's gonna be a fun
Speaker 1: stop the show there that gives even more like heat
Speaker 1: to the game that I've selected. At the back of
Speaker 1: this is like Lamar Jackson going thirty two overall, Uh,
Speaker 1: how I got you right? And my find a site
Speaker 1: in the news lock it off? Do what Tariko would do?
Speaker 1: He would do it. By the way, how about Rodney
Speaker 1: Harrison and this guy I put this on the radar
Speaker 1: on a couple of weeks ago. Starts three and ten
Speaker 1: on the Sunday night Football Picks on NBC comes on
Speaker 1: the air this past Sunday and has the audacity, the audacity,
Speaker 1: the stones, the onions to say to the call to
Speaker 1: The reason I incorrectly picked ten of thirteen games is
Speaker 1: because I was letting my son pick the games. I
Speaker 1: don't even believe that he said it with a twinkling
Speaker 1: I've watched that segment enough where it's like he's making
Speaker 1: up his pick as he goes. What's worse if it's
Speaker 1: a joker, If it's true, I mean he's throwing whether
Speaker 1: whether or not you believe it or not, he's throwing
Speaker 1: his child under the bus. I actually I know that.
Speaker 1: I guess I'm taking the contrarian stands here. He said
Speaker 1: it with a smile on his face, and it just
Speaker 1: you know why he laughed, the fact that he would
Speaker 1: throw his son under a little child pick up for
Speaker 1: Rodney Harris. That's my He's still doing it though. That's
Speaker 1: my type of sense of humor, the cut type of
Speaker 1: person who would throw his son under the bus with
Speaker 1: like fifty million people watching, and it was funny to me.
Speaker 1: That was funny. I think he was trying to be funny.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was the funniest thing that happened all
Speaker 1: day long. The reason why, though he had the smile,
Speaker 1: is because he knew he was a villain. As he
Speaker 1: was saying, he shouldn't be I shouldn't be sharing this
Speaker 1: with twenty million people right now. But I need my
Speaker 1: ego to get massaged here. I gotta take this off
Speaker 1: my plate. And you know what. He then picked the
Speaker 1: right game on Sunday, making his son look even worse. Yes,
Speaker 1: as if he had been doing that all along, he
Speaker 1: would have surged out to start. Anyway, I will not
Speaker 1: be locking that game up, but I think the bear
Speaker 1: is gonna put up a fight. I will Oh, no,
Speaker 1: I gotta pick again. Oh totally. We're heading into some
Speaker 1: grizzly territory we gotta take. I don't know what that
Speaker 1: sound was that. Nice job, good job, You're feeling better.
Speaker 1: Eric thought, Wow, well Dan picks his game here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: feeling better finally, Yeah, thanks Christ sounding healthy? Yeah, don't care.
Speaker 1: Oh you're apathetic. I thought you were pronouncing that. Okay, no,
Speaker 1: no announcing that. No, I feel I feel much better.
Speaker 1: I mean, this isn't a mandated math test. Just take
Speaker 1: a choice. There's I took a cool Instagram video of
Speaker 1: you guys with these filters. So you guys all have
Speaker 1: these neon sunglasses while you're rambling one. Oh yeah, we
Speaker 1: we have an Instagram account. Yeah there should check out
Speaker 1: the E t en podcast. Make sure you're checking it out.
Speaker 1: Follow us individuals. Do you not have a choice yet? Alright,
Speaker 1: next choice for me, I'm gonna check it. I'm a
Speaker 1: Seahawks corner, of course is everyone knows it. Eats Greg
Speaker 1: alive because he got off Seahawks corner and then he
Speaker 1: has these little things like you don't care about Seahawks corner.
Speaker 1: You only care about the Jets. And by the way,
Speaker 1: you can't take it away from me. I'm on the corner,
Speaker 1: whether you want me there or not. Off the corner
Speaker 1: with you Breg's old place. I exactly. I feel bad
Speaker 1: for you because I wish you could actually be enjoying this,
Speaker 1: but you're it's just in your heart. In your heart,
Speaker 1: it doesn't make it doesn't help you at all. I've
Speaker 1: been anyway, Seahawks corner. Let's go baby Tenna three coming
Speaker 1: off a loss, that listen, I'm not gonna kill him
Speaker 1: too much for the loss. In fact, unset power rankings,
Speaker 1: I I kept them in the top three despite the loss,
Speaker 1: because yeah, because the Seattle Seahawks are in the top three.
Speaker 1: They are they are UM the tenant three Seahawks are
Speaker 1: a team that UM went to l A and the
Speaker 1: You know, nothing more dangerous than a cornered animal game,
Speaker 1: a team with championship metal like the Rams, uh needing
Speaker 1: to win a playoff game in their building at home
Speaker 1: and to the Rams credit and again Rams are peaking.
Speaker 1: Played a really good game, caught Seattle flat foot, beat
Speaker 1: them up, and it happens. I give every team a pass.
Speaker 1: They get out coached by Sean McVeigh quite a bit.
Speaker 1: It's kind of Pete Carroll's thing. Um. So now they've
Speaker 1: got to get back, get back swinging because in the NFC,
Speaker 1: you lose another game at this juncture, you have no
Speaker 1: chance at the buy and the division might go by
Speaker 1: by two. So they go to Carolina to face the Panthers,
Speaker 1: and we know the Panthers have they peaked way too early.
Speaker 1: Week six Week said when they were in London, we
Speaker 1: saw him, Kyle Allen, the flowery pros being written around
Speaker 1: Kyle Allen back then it turns out that his ceiling
Speaker 1: really it's probably a you know, a nice solid backup,
Speaker 1: which is not a sin. It's not the worst thing
Speaker 1: in the world, pretty great undrafted. It's called a twelve
Speaker 1: year career and I just imagine what you know, what's
Speaker 1: going on behind the scenes in that building are we
Speaker 1: really gonna say trade Ken Newton? And uh, I think
Speaker 1: a lot. There's a lot that goes into that decision.
Speaker 1: But if unless you really have somebody that you like
Speaker 1: either on the free agent market or you're gonna go
Speaker 1: hard for a young kid in the draft, and you're
Speaker 1: not gonna have a top of the first round pick
Speaker 1: unless you make a trade, do we really want to
Speaker 1: say about it? Cam Newton? I don't know. That's that's
Speaker 1: a discussion for another time. But I love the Seahawks
Speaker 1: in this game. And uh, look at that mirror. No,
Speaker 1: you can't know. You can't look in the mirror. I
Speaker 1: knew I couldn't pick. This wouldn't have passed here anyone's
Speaker 1: mirror test. I'm locking them up Seahawks corner. Baby, what
Speaker 1: I see a reflection and it's looking right back at me.
Speaker 1: You can look in the mirror on this. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean you're the one who has to live with it.
Speaker 1: Just say, didn't you just say? I can't believe that
Speaker 1: you have them so high in the power rankings. Now
Speaker 1: they're going on the road, came off with terrible loss,
Speaker 1: and now I can't lock them up. So I'd have
Speaker 1: them six instead of third. In the power rankings and
Speaker 1: they're planning. It's a team that basically called it closed
Speaker 1: up shop and called it quits a couple of weeks ago. Well,
Speaker 1: one of the defensive backs did. I wouldn't say we
Speaker 1: have evidence at the entire Have you seen their run defense?
Speaker 1: They made DeVante Freeman look like too Well, that's why
Speaker 1: I'm locking up the team they're playing. I don't you
Speaker 1: know the mirror there it is. You can't look in
Speaker 1: the mirror on this one. They haven't been too competitive.
Speaker 1: I mean they lost the Falcons by twenty plus two,
Speaker 1: so I've lost three in a row. Wes, I need
Speaker 1: a dub two times. This is why the whole mirror
Speaker 1: thing is a nonsensical thing. Away, the mirror longer exists,
Speaker 1: so it's true. It just it changed on this situation.
Speaker 1: That's why I honest with himself, we wouldn't be the
Speaker 1: mirror being right back at me. But it was a
Speaker 1: little warped, I have to say. But this week has
Speaker 1: a lot of warped mirrors, that's all. I can't wait
Speaker 1: for your lock alright, what's a lock up to Cowboys again?
Speaker 1: I mean this this is a Panther's team who staying
Speaker 1: out of this one. You know, they have their head
Speaker 1: coach promising they're gonna win a game. The last time
Speaker 1: they were home was one of the worst games you know,
Speaker 1: in the in the last probably Panthers history. I mean
Speaker 1: they lost a big lead and lost to the Redskins
Speaker 1: in Dwayne Haskins. There's no way they're losing at home.
Speaker 1: I mean they're winning at home to the Seahawks because
Speaker 1: this is a game where Brian Schottenheimer, who wants to
Speaker 1: run the ball in first and second down, is it
Speaker 1: pays off to do so. You know, you don't need
Speaker 1: to do much else than hand the ball after Chris Carson. Yeah, Nickie,
Speaker 1: the people on youtubeer behind this lock right now, complete
Speaker 1: opposite the masses are. Your mirror is shattered. Dan is
Speaker 1: a vampire. That's a herror that can't pass any mirror tests.
Speaker 1: I got your mirror right here. Oh I am disappointed
Speaker 1: late at night tonight, when you have your third ten,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be hating yourself. And also that comment that's
Speaker 1: all the ones saying I'm a vampires have all fun,
Speaker 1: but the listener, the fan, they said, I'm disappointed that
Speaker 1: one does stick to me. Well, it's that's true. They
Speaker 1: have I'm gonna leave the window open to jump out
Speaker 1: of this. They have lost five straight games, including in
Speaker 1: three of those games that some of the worst teams
Speaker 1: in the league, the Falcons and the Redskins. The Falcons
Speaker 1: are you know, other that one game we locked them up?
Speaker 1: They've been good for close to a month now. I
Speaker 1: would have liked to see Caffy about to go talking
Speaker 1: some scrimmage. Wy don't you even talking about I'd like
Speaker 1: to see Seattle do a little bit more against the
Speaker 1: Rams offensive line last week. I know, I mean, Clowney
Speaker 1: is playing through a sports turning it right now, and
Speaker 1: you know that's doesn't sound like a whole lot of fun.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to even you know, leave my house
Speaker 1: at that. Just say one thing about Client, because we
Speaker 1: all shower praise on the man when he shows up
Speaker 1: in these huge games, and he does, but do you
Speaker 1: make him like the highest paid defensive player in the
Speaker 1: league when he disappears for Peter playing hurt all the time,
Speaker 1: he's clearly part of his whole. Maybe he has made
Speaker 1: a huge difference for them this season, then, but well,
Speaker 1: and he's in pockets of games, But then O'Brien's rising
Speaker 1: up the rankings as a GM came to the same conclusion,
Speaker 1: right they this is a game where he or the
Speaker 1: Seahawks pass rush, which has been very up and down
Speaker 1: but mostly down, should get off. I mean that's part
Speaker 1: of the problem for Kyle Allen is he's got Dennis
Speaker 1: Daily playing left tackle, maybe the worst left tackle on
Speaker 1: the league, trying to protect the undrafted quarterback. They need
Speaker 1: to find identify a left tackle who can play should
Speaker 1: be the like their number one problem. You need Tyler
Speaker 1: Lockett to show up and like kind of be the
Speaker 1: pre injury Tyler Lockett. They've been struggling. They couldn't they
Speaker 1: can't hold the ball through the area. Got Tyler, he's
Speaker 1: heard he's banged up. Who are you throwing? Why are
Speaker 1: you trying to argue against him? You have the number
Speaker 1: three Tyler and they're they're flying across the country. That's
Speaker 1: always the top. You don't have to convince me. My
Speaker 1: mind's already made up. You need to convince yourself alright
Speaker 1: up now is Chris Westling? Oh? This should be a Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm back to my own pick. You do think Dan's
Speaker 1: kids are making the picks? I'm gonna be good. I've
Speaker 1: lost three in a row. I'm gonna have to grab
Speaker 1: one of these late games and I'm going Vikings at Chargers.
Speaker 1: And not only not only am I doing that, I'm
Speaker 1: locking up the Chargers. So you're what's the esssion cutting
Speaker 1: off your nose despite your face? Not at all. This
Speaker 1: is l next to the game that I had written
Speaker 1: down before the show started. I mean, I have admirable West.
Speaker 1: What do you do when you look in the mirror?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I wouldn't say that, but no, the I'll
Speaker 1: give it to you. It's fair for you to come
Speaker 1: after me on my lock. I have to take my
Speaker 1: hat off to you, sir. You're locking up against a
Speaker 1: team that is what nine and four, the Vikings, and
Speaker 1: a game they have to have in December that would
Speaker 1: be a bad loss for them, right. I had seen
Speaker 1: some stumbling block here, and I think the Chargers are
Speaker 1: better than their record. I think their defense, particularly is
Speaker 1: probably about to play their best game of the year
Speaker 1: with Durwin James back, with Drew Tranquil rookie emerging as
Speaker 1: a really good run stuffing linebacker, and Joey Bosa a
Speaker 1: defensive Player of the Year. Candidate. I like this. I
Speaker 1: don't trust the Vikings on the road. I never have
Speaker 1: trusted them on the road. I trust them at home.
Speaker 1: I think this is a stumbling block game for the Vikings.
Speaker 1: They the Chargers, as we saw last week. I know
Speaker 1: it's against the Jaguars, but they are They're healthier, they
Speaker 1: have the firepower. This is really the first time all
Speaker 1: year where Okay, you've got Irwin James, you have Ingram
Speaker 1: and Bosa both healthy, you have the entire array of
Speaker 1: your top receiving talent in terms of Ekeler, Gordon, Henry Alan,
Speaker 1: Mike Williams. They're all there right now. So this is
Speaker 1: this should be the best Chargers team we've seen throughout
Speaker 1: the year. They still it's not like they were playing
Speaker 1: well before last week. But the thing with the Vikings
Speaker 1: is they in the in The Chargers aren't a team
Speaker 1: with a winning record, but it's hard to ignore that
Speaker 1: the Vikings are nine and oh against team that currently
Speaker 1: have losing records, and they're owing four against teams that
Speaker 1: currently have led. That fits the narrative. It doesn't fit
Speaker 1: the narrative they and that's the Chargers defense has successfully
Speaker 1: shut down the run late in the season outside of
Speaker 1: one pretty bad campaign against the Chiefs, they have clamp
Speaker 1: put the clamps on people. So if you can do that,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I would call. And you know
Speaker 1: it's an easy target, but that there are a lot
Speaker 1: of Vikings fans spread out the entire country, and it
Speaker 1: feels like another game where you could it could feel
Speaker 1: like a half and half home crowd more right, more
Speaker 1: than Kings. I think so too, But I you know,
Speaker 1: and yes it was Jacksonville, like you say, Greg, but
Speaker 1: the Chargers team that I watched covering that game on
Speaker 1: Sunday that wasn't awakening and they were going for it
Speaker 1: and completing huge plays downfield. There were a few too
Speaker 1: many drops. But Austin Ekeler, to me, is a top
Speaker 1: five enjoyable player to watch when he's on it's nearly
Speaker 1: two hundred yards and does it all for them. And
Speaker 1: I don't see why you don't just keep leaning on
Speaker 1: him all season to go one hundred in a game.
Speaker 1: I think he's one of the best passing down backs
Speaker 1: in NFL history. I'm fascinated to see this game. This
Speaker 1: was a great pick because because I don't know where
Speaker 1: the Vikings are totally right now. I'm not sure how
Speaker 1: good their defense is. It looks like Adam Feeland will
Speaker 1: be back though he's practiced for the game, and their
Speaker 1: offense certainly missed them. They were too stationed the station
Speaker 1: without him, and hopefully he can help both himself and
Speaker 1: Diggs get some big plays. By the way, Philip Rivers
Speaker 1: had one of his best games of the year, and
Speaker 1: this is how bad the Jaguars defense is. There are
Speaker 1: a few big drops that could have been way more
Speaker 1: yards for him, way you know, another touchdown or two.
Speaker 1: He looked good. I don't know. I was impressed, Huble.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's been that bad. If you protect him,
Speaker 1: he needs things to be right around him a little
Speaker 1: more than he was as a as a young player.
Speaker 1: If you have a good offensive, I think he can
Speaker 1: play well. That's on him, like he protects them at
Speaker 1: times because he's so good before the snap, but he
Speaker 1: can't move alright, Greg, you're up? Do I exist in
Speaker 1: this draft? I feel like I haven't picked in like
Speaker 1: two and a half hours. M m. Maybe not. You
Speaker 1: would pick up the Greg, mhmm. Something to do with
Speaker 1: your trade walked it up. Probably? Oh that's true. Unless
Speaker 1: I have it wrong, but I don't think I do
Speaker 1: all right. I will take I think you might. No,
Speaker 1: I think you got it right. I have. Then I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take the Denver Broncos heading to Arrowhead. Yeah, and uh,
Speaker 1: I want I want to see what Drew Lock does
Speaker 1: again because I'm not sure how much I trust it.
Speaker 1: But let's just let's just watch him, right, Let's watch
Speaker 1: it and let's have fun. And it's going up against
Speaker 1: a pretty good past defense. But more importantly, I'm fascinated
Speaker 1: by this Chief's team in their offense, especially whether they
Speaker 1: can just get it looking to my eyes kind of
Speaker 1: like it looked last year, because it's been it's been
Speaker 1: a while. It's been a little while since Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: totally looked like Patrick Mahomes, that the offense totally was
Speaker 1: playing in sync. I know they've put up fairly good numbers,
Speaker 1: but if you watch them, they've just been sloppy. I
Speaker 1: don't know if Mahomes is healthy. I mean, he heard
Speaker 1: his ankle early in the year, then he hurt himself
Speaker 1: in this matchup when he dislocated the knee cap. He
Speaker 1: came back at that one big game against Tennessee where
Speaker 1: it seemed like everything was ready to roll, and then
Speaker 1: the last three weeks. You know, last week was his
Speaker 1: lowest graded game according to PFF of the entire season.
Speaker 1: I think two of his worst three are are in
Speaker 1: this stretch. It just hasn't seemed totally right. You know,
Speaker 1: nobody's talking about this, but you just said it, and
Speaker 1: when you said it reminded me, Oh damn, that was
Speaker 1: a It was a gnarly injury. Yeah, he dislocated, dislocated
Speaker 1: his knee, came back in three weeks or four weeks,
Speaker 1: and maybe this is something we don't find out about
Speaker 1: until next May. But is he not the same guy
Speaker 1: right now? Is he physically compromised to the point where
Speaker 1: it's affecting his accuracy and he's not the same player
Speaker 1: as he wore was then he heard his hand, he
Speaker 1: heard his hand, the hands things sounds like it's fine,
Speaker 1: but these are piled up. He had the ankles. It's
Speaker 1: like it's just one. It's been. He hasn't been healthy
Speaker 1: all year, which diagnoses why the people fantasy heads are
Speaker 1: upset that they're not getting what they wanted at Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 1: I mean these quarterbacks and it used to be paid
Speaker 1: man and you'd find out, like you say in May
Speaker 1: or June, that he played with like some insane leg
Speaker 1: or aneything for two straight months. And some of it's
Speaker 1: just sloppiness, Sammy Watkins running wrong routes, offensive linemen making
Speaker 1: mental mistakes. They just haven't totally been in sync. They
Speaker 1: haven't all been on the field very often together. And
Speaker 1: now they are though, And I and I predicted on
Speaker 1: one of these shows here they were gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: win out which one I don't know, like a Tuesday
Speaker 1: show or something like. I still think this team can
Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl. I really do. And I just
Speaker 1: I guess I want to just waiting for him to
Speaker 1: hit that next level, you know. I think everyone thinks
Speaker 1: that's happening. Ryan Bartlett behind the glass, he's waiting for
Speaker 1: it to happen. Is it going to happen? I don't
Speaker 1: think too many Broncos. Too many teams like the Broncos
Speaker 1: of turning around. They were two and six and a
Speaker 1: raging mess. It was like Vic Fonio seemed lost, they
Speaker 1: didn't know what they're doing, and they just beat the
Speaker 1: Chargers team two weeks ago that we were singing about
Speaker 1: a second ago, ripped the Texans into fourteen shapes and
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, it's like Courtland Sutton Andrew Lock. Part
Speaker 1: of the reason Courtland Sutton continues to dominate week after week.
Speaker 1: And then when you get Noah, I like that Andrew Lock.
Speaker 1: There you go, this lock that's technically correct. Lock is
Speaker 1: so important for Elway, not just for identifying that quarterback,
Speaker 1: but if he is the real deal and he turns
Speaker 1: into the answer, suddenly, Elway's last two draft classes look studdely.
Speaker 1: Five games is a tricky sample size to base your
Speaker 1: entire next year off of, but that's what they gotta do.
Speaker 1: I mean, these next three games are huge. I think
Speaker 1: it's just a little early to just assume, Okay, let's
Speaker 1: that they're fine suddenly. But he's got three more games
Speaker 1: and this he's got some tough matchups, including this one.
Speaker 1: I don't know, for what it's worth. D v o
Speaker 1: A was more impressed with the Broncos at mid season
Speaker 1: than they are now. I don't I don't know why
Speaker 1: that works, but they were losing all that those close
Speaker 1: games on the last play at mid they really there.
Speaker 1: We always see how fine a line it is between
Speaker 1: ten and six and six and ten and They're a
Speaker 1: great example. They should be like an eight and eight
Speaker 1: type of team. Mid season, there were games for their
Speaker 1: defense really surged to give up thirteen points, zero points,
Speaker 1: twenty one points, fifteen points, thirteen. Over the course of
Speaker 1: a month plus, they've lost some players on defense, including
Speaker 1: Derek Wolfe. Miller's banged up. I mean, they're not quite
Speaker 1: the same, just the person now they are playing well though.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I didn't know if your umbrella
Speaker 1: was coming out Greg today. But the desert, you know,
Speaker 1: because ten points of wood, I'm going out away on
Speaker 1: a win at least for a while. Yeah, I I
Speaker 1: just I think the Broncos have a chance to keep
Speaker 1: this one close because the Chiefs have not really been
Speaker 1: the Chiefs for a while. All Right, up next is
Speaker 1: Mark back to back? Here you go back back to back. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do. I'm gonna give a little treat Jeremy Bergman.
Speaker 1: I believe this is for Jeremy Burke. Your first pick
Speaker 1: was for Shook. I believe right. I mean, my organization
Speaker 1: is a mess. I didn't even will figure out. We'll
Speaker 1: figure out how it's definitely getting Browns. Yeah, well he's
Speaker 1: getting the later one. But I'm going to give to
Speaker 1: one of them Patriots at goals. There you go on
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Well, I'm surprised Greg didn't grab that, but
Speaker 1: he was gonna get it with his last pick, and
Speaker 1: you know I decided I take was watching him live.
Speaker 1: I kind of like to watch shop him down at
Speaker 1: the knees. Good job. Now, I obviously would have taken
Speaker 1: then with one of my first two picks if I wanted.
Speaker 1: They're not a fun team to watch right now, but
Speaker 1: plus I like watching him. Uh. Sometimes you know, they're
Speaker 1: a little tough to watch. I mean, there are a
Speaker 1: lot tough to watch on offense, but the Bengals defense
Speaker 1: allowing offensive point totals of seventeen, sixteen, six, and twenty
Speaker 1: over the last four games. I'm not buying into the
Speaker 1: Bengals as much as uh some people might. How much
Speaker 1: into a team that's one in twelve, Well, because they're
Speaker 1: playing they're not they are playing differently, and like I I, well,
Speaker 1: we've saw we talked about it as a potential trap
Speaker 1: game for the Patriots, So I'd ask us if you
Speaker 1: still think that's posibutely this should have been your lock.
Speaker 1: The Patriots offenses to the point where nobody can expect
Speaker 1: him to go in and beat any team in the NFL.
Speaker 1: That's what I feel like, And I feel like Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton is playing better than Tom Brady right now. And
Speaker 1: this Bengals defense, I know Chubb went over a hundred yards,
Speaker 1: but if you take in the first half though, they
Speaker 1: were take out that Bronco Nagurski run where he's just
Speaker 1: running everyone over for fifty yards, they pretty much shut
Speaker 1: the Browns running game down. They put up four hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty five yards on often they could have easily
Speaker 1: beaten the Browns with better situational football. They went one
Speaker 1: for five in the red zone. And I do worry
Speaker 1: about the matchup of Geno Atkins in this line against
Speaker 1: the Patriots offensive line. Greg Bard did a great job
Speaker 1: writing about it on Boston Sports Journal. The offensive line
Speaker 1: is a disaster right now for New England. All the
Speaker 1: talk has been about, you know, figuring out the wide
Speaker 1: receiver issue, but part of it is because they can't
Speaker 1: protect him when other teams are blitzing. They're on their
Speaker 1: third string center that a lot of people believe they're
Speaker 1: starting center. David Andrews was kind of the key to
Speaker 1: that entire operation. The guys that have been there have
Speaker 1: been underperforming. Instead of other than Joe Touney, Isaiah Win
Speaker 1: their first round pick comes in. He hasn't really helped
Speaker 1: things at all, and so they they're kind of collapsed
Speaker 1: ap scene and they can't make up for it. I
Speaker 1: would attack on and I know that we've you know,
Speaker 1: pointed fun at James Devlin being too important to the
Speaker 1: Patriots scheme. But Michael Bordi Lombardi noted that the minute
Speaker 1: Devlin went out, what happened was that Sony Michelle, who's
Speaker 1: in the point of entry back where you need that
Speaker 1: guy to blast the whole, his role is diminished and
Speaker 1: they leaned on and they've done this. How Didtlebarti connect
Speaker 1: that to the season finale of the Sopranos. That's he's
Speaker 1: opened with a Sopranos nugget, and I thought he did
Speaker 1: a nice job with that. Bronk and Devlin to the
Speaker 1: best run blockers and their positions, But how does it
Speaker 1: connect to Joe Pesci's character. I would invite you to
Speaker 1: read the article yourself and you can draw your own
Speaker 1: conclusions that we need we need a little well, I'm
Speaker 1: struggling over here a little most a new revenge game. Well,
Speaker 1: he hasn't really done anything, you know. The most nuance
Speaker 1: revenge for it. I never stopped thinking about it is
Speaker 1: on Draft Day in two thousand thirteen when somebody called
Speaker 1: his house and said he was drafted in the first round,
Speaker 1: and then he was celebrating with his family, and then
Speaker 1: it turned out that it was a prank Callan was
Speaker 1: draft of the first time he went in the second round.
Speaker 1: Since well, the other the other nugget out there about
Speaker 1: most of New that the forty Niners were pursuing him
Speaker 1: hard Patriots. The Patriots one out and the Niners got
Speaker 1: stuck with Plan B Emmanuel Sanders, who has totally blown up.
Speaker 1: We're most of New. I would say that's been a disappointment.
Speaker 1: He's not. You would have wanted a lot. I thought
Speaker 1: it could have been like a second half Patriots surge. Dude, Well,
Speaker 1: it looked like he hurt his ankle pretty uh severely
Speaker 1: and came back quickly fighting through it, and so you're hoping,
Speaker 1: at least I'm hoping that it gets better and he's healthy.
Speaker 1: I think it's dangerous. Joe Mixon also, to me, Joe
Speaker 1: Mixon is a top seven or eight running back in
Speaker 1: the NFL right now and is playing really well, we'll
Speaker 1: play a dog, all right, Mark, all right, let's see
Speaker 1: you got here, because if this isn't, I was gonna
Speaker 1: give shook just a total Let us decide where they go.
Speaker 1: Just just pick. You picked the game, buddy, you're the Falcons. A.
Speaker 1: I was no, because I mean I was using strategy
Speaker 1: that suddenly the game's chain to me in the last
Speaker 1: three and a half minutes. So I'm going Falcons at
Speaker 1: forty Niners. It's the best game I see, letter, because
Speaker 1: you've got the best team in football, and you know,
Speaker 1: there you go, and so we west you. You tweeted
Speaker 1: out that if you want to sit down and enjoy
Speaker 1: an evening, watch that Saints forty Niners game that I
Speaker 1: didn't get to the way you did on Sunday because
Speaker 1: it was just a billion things are happening and the
Speaker 1: sky is falling down. Sat down with my son, who's
Speaker 1: seven years old and obsessed with football, Colton, and we
Speaker 1: watched the whole first half together and it was the
Speaker 1: best game I've seen all year to awesome teams, and
Speaker 1: it just struck me that you know, and we we
Speaker 1: all like Kyle Shanahan, and we know about Sean Payton,
Speaker 1: but it was probably the best coaching duel that I've
Speaker 1: seen all year too. And I just trust like Kyle
Speaker 1: Shanahan from here on out at this point. And I
Speaker 1: don't call this a revenge game because he was with
Speaker 1: the Falcons. That seems a bit absurdy went and did
Speaker 1: what you know coordinators do when they when they succeed.
Speaker 1: But I would say that you could point to Kyle
Speaker 1: Shanahan's obvious departure from Atlanta as the key turning point
Speaker 1: where the team never really figured themselves out. If started offense,
Speaker 1: it bloomed into defense. And now you have Dan Quinn
Speaker 1: thinking that that not happened, where would the where would
Speaker 1: the Falcons be today? Instead, the Niners were totally transformed.
Speaker 1: They were were one play away from the NFC title
Speaker 1: game the next year's not not but but they were frustrating.
Speaker 1: I remember you had Matt Ryan on your fantasy game
Speaker 1: and you brought it up weekly. I just would I
Speaker 1: would say that it's funny that how little weeks can
Speaker 1: see the future, that that Kyle Shanahan was on the
Speaker 1: top the list of hot coach type potential candidates where
Speaker 1: if the Niners didn't do what they're doing, or if
Speaker 1: they had a five and seven type start, he'd be
Speaker 1: gone instead. He looks like the biggest fine they've had
Speaker 1: since Bill Walsh. And yet the the injuries they're dealing
Speaker 1: with are real. I mean Western rich Burg, their center
Speaker 1: is out for the year. D Ford and Richard Sherman
Speaker 1: are gonna miss this game. That's a problem for a
Speaker 1: future week because this week they're playing the Falcons and
Speaker 1: they're playing Yeah, they're playing an offensive line that is
Speaker 1: among the worst pass blocking offensive lines in the league
Speaker 1: and the forty Niners defense coming off what for them?
Speaker 1: I'm sure it was an embarrassing performance against New Orleans
Speaker 1: where they really were out coached, at least in terms
Speaker 1: of their their defense was and they were confused they
Speaker 1: give up. I don't think this team ever expected to
Speaker 1: give up a forty burger against any team. They'll be
Speaker 1: ready to go out against this Atlanta team and eat
Speaker 1: you know, nine sacks and two turnovers whatever. Well, you're
Speaker 1: minimizing their injuries on defense, it's DJ Jones, Julian Taylor
Speaker 1: on their defensive line, Juquas Guitar and Kaiwan Williams and
Speaker 1: their secondary. They are just they just have a lot
Speaker 1: less depth than they have when they were cruising the
Speaker 1: story that the best players up front are there and
Speaker 1: so for this game, I'm not doing okay, But the
Speaker 1: first half of the season, this was all about defense.
Speaker 1: Second half of the season, Garoppolo, I think has the
Speaker 1: most passing yards and the second most touchdowns in the NFL,
Speaker 1: and the defense has been I don't know, not as
Speaker 1: good the way it wasn't the first half, Dave. It
Speaker 1: was a fascinating stat that they've played the Patriots and
Speaker 1: forty nine, who have had the best defenses this year,
Speaker 1: played the easiest schedules of opposing offenses for the first
Speaker 1: eight weeks of the season, and they've eat the two
Speaker 1: of them. Have played the two hardest schedules for opposing
Speaker 1: offenses the last five or six weeks. So part of
Speaker 1: it is just the schedule, uh, and again that eases up.
Speaker 1: We we should mention Calvin Ridley is out for the
Speaker 1: season for the Falcons. Let's say I give him a
Speaker 1: B for his second season. And then Desmond Trufant, who
Speaker 1: had been playing quite well at cornerback, is out for
Speaker 1: the season, so a bad team got worse. And Devonte Freeman,
Speaker 1: coming off his best game in the season where not
Speaker 1: only the defense he played against but looked explosive and
Speaker 1: may people miss, is dealing with a knee injury and
Speaker 1: isn't practicing yet. Falcons are in that category of teams
Speaker 1: that cannot get out of my life quick enough. We
Speaker 1: have some developing news. By the way, I wanted to
Speaker 1: share this developing. We've been tracking this, of course since Tuesday,
Speaker 1: and it's the story that it's not going away. Spy
Speaker 1: gate two oh no, keep spying spy harder mark it
Speaker 1: just what your thought said this? Okay? Robert Kraft, Patriot's owner,
Speaker 1: declines to address spygate to quote, you know everything you
Speaker 1: should know? Well, that is that something that was I
Speaker 1: tweeted about that and I said, no period, we period
Speaker 1: to period, not period. Isn't that like when someone says
Speaker 1: you know everything you should know? Is that like a
Speaker 1: villain like twisting like a mustache like that? That's when
Speaker 1: you know there is more to know. I want to
Speaker 1: know more. That's what's being said. There's basically been no
Speaker 1: news updates since we last talked, but Roger Goodell did
Speaker 1: address it, and he did say something that should be obvious,
Speaker 1: but I think significant that. Yeah, their previous history will
Speaker 1: play a role in whatever punishment comes comes about. And
Speaker 1: that is our upgate, upgate, spygate too, spy arter. It
Speaker 1: ain't over yet, will decide when we've seen enough way
Speaker 1: to take a stamp that ain't going away. Greg, Oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I am gonna. I'm gonna take the Buccaneers Lions. Oh,
Speaker 1: we knocked this one out. I like that as my
Speaker 1: backup game. You just knock it out. And uh, you
Speaker 1: know what's more fun than watching Jamis Winston right now?
Speaker 1: Who could? Who could do a lot of things? I mean,
Speaker 1: I it's funny. I feel like this room and and
Speaker 1: really the culture at largest kind of turning around on
Speaker 1: Jamis Winston. People are starting to just enjoy the madness
Speaker 1: that he that he could get to thirty touchdowns, thirty
Speaker 1: interceptions and five thousand yards. It's on the table. Love it?
Speaker 1: What are weird? What its world like? Enjoyable things like that.
Speaker 1: He's just wacky. It's wild. By the way, the desert
Speaker 1: is out of its mind in this game. This is
Speaker 1: not This is not a game. You can look in
Speaker 1: the mirror and to say otherwise, it's just ignoring basically
Speaker 1: the last six weeks of our lives and of what
Speaker 1: the Lions are putting out there now. David blow is
Speaker 1: physically overmatched. I'm sorry, he just is. He doesn't have
Speaker 1: NFL talent um. Marvin Jones to i R a week
Speaker 1: after t J. Hockenson went to i R. This team
Speaker 1: is just it's not talented enough to keep up with
Speaker 1: the Tampa I hear what you're saying, but they haven't.
Speaker 1: You know, they've been They've kept the scores low. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm not would have lost nine of the last ten.
Speaker 1: Why are we acting like this as a game That
Speaker 1: the Blowhards Fan Club was established with pride at halftime
Speaker 1: of that Thanksgiving game, and I don't it seems like
Speaker 1: you didn't watch that in live. I did not watch.
Speaker 1: I did, and it was captured the imagination. I will say,
Speaker 1: since then, if you look at the match one game
Speaker 1: since then, one and a half six quarters, Blowhards Fan
Speaker 1: Club is hit very rough water. That the Eli Manning
Speaker 1: Renaissance Foundation was founded at halftime of Monday Night, Well,
Speaker 1: these are bad ideas well. Mart. I'm not saying you
Speaker 1: shouldn't support the guy. I'm just saying when I look
Speaker 1: at this game, I regret my already yet. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: would say it was in the first half of that game.
Speaker 1: He was very aggressive and was showing chemistry with Kenny Galladroy.
Speaker 1: It's not happened since I I want to have what
Speaker 1: is the argument if you're Alliance fan to say I
Speaker 1: want matt Patricia around, I want Bob Quinn around because
Speaker 1: I don't see and I know you know Matthew Stafford
Speaker 1: right now, but you've had Matthew Suffard for a decade plus.
Speaker 1: I mean, what is the how are we moving the
Speaker 1: ball forward here? He had him for a year and
Speaker 1: in a third. I don't know what they We were
Speaker 1: excited about them when they were fristy and like it
Speaker 1: is September. It does seem like a long time ago,
Speaker 1: and we were really giving them a lot of pop
Speaker 1: for being to one and one, But we also said
Speaker 1: they were extremely shallow roster in any any sort of
Speaker 1: injury to their starter and GMS had multiple years to
Speaker 1: make that roster, not this Shew. It could get carry
Speaker 1: On Johnson back this week, so there's a well, yeah,
Speaker 1: but that you know what about the Bohemians right both
Speaker 1: Scarborough picked up off the street in the middle of
Speaker 1: November and is getting seven fally, Jami Winston was a practice.
Speaker 1: He's got a thumb scenario, simply just throwing a tennis
Speaker 1: ball during the open part of the session. So I
Speaker 1: don't know, you know, they get saying it can't grip
Speaker 1: a football very well and you've lost the points. Third
Speaker 1: in the league in yards. I would not be if
Speaker 1: you throw Ryan Griffin in there from two lane, he's
Speaker 1: gonna play pretty well for you. But he was too,
Speaker 1: he was a preseason superstar. Now that maybe the preseason
Speaker 1: m v P. Now that's a fair fight, Griffin and
Speaker 1: blow West. Why did I take this game? Mirror is
Speaker 1: way too strict right now. West, we're talking Jamis Winston
Speaker 1: with a bad hand without Mike Evans on the road.
Speaker 1: And you can't can't throw the duke can I mean? West?
Speaker 1: Who cares? No? I mean you can't lock the Have
Speaker 1: you have these people not been watching the Bucks and
Speaker 1: lines they because the Bucks are one of the best
Speaker 1: teams in the NFL over the last month. I mean,
Speaker 1: if I understood the Seattle Carolina argument. In fact, in
Speaker 1: some places it doesn't even pass the who Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: mirror much credit because you know the world if football
Speaker 1: is unpredictable, well then why why isn't every game even? Greg?
Speaker 1: But because they've they've actually done a good job if
Speaker 1: you look like when they're playing pretty good teams keeping
Speaker 1: it close. Now, a lot of that's with driscoll. But
Speaker 1: if you want to talk about we were still talking
Speaker 1: about this game. By the way, this is incredible. Why
Speaker 1: not they kept it close against the cow but it
Speaker 1: covers it's their last five losses during this losing Street quest.
Speaker 1: They lost by seven, eight, three, four thirteen. It's not
Speaker 1: like that. I noticed you didn't say any of all. Right,
Speaker 1: let's move on West. It's hard to recover from what
Speaker 1: I just heard. Uh, there isn't much left here. I
Speaker 1: guess I'll take one more notice. Sorry, Fort West. The
Speaker 1: storylines part of the research guide, which I pointed out
Speaker 1: during the end of the season. Jeff Greenholt and his
Speaker 1: gang sometimes run out of blurbs to talk about. For
Speaker 1: the Bucks and Lines, the blurb is two teams eliminated
Speaker 1: from playoff contention Alright, I'm gonna go Eagles at Redskins,
Speaker 1: even though this could be the most painful game to watch.
Speaker 1: The trade if you want the block. I I immediately
Speaker 1: regretted the blow pick, and uh, I would rather have
Speaker 1: this game if you want to make an in game trade, alright, alright,
Speaker 1: yeah I'll take I'll take the bucks, buddy. You still
Speaker 1: have to introduce you right now. Yeah, I can say.
Speaker 1: The reason why I picked this game over the two
Speaker 1: other bad games left on the board is because the
Speaker 1: Redskins defense has actually been playing pretty good and I
Speaker 1: want to see guys like Landon Collins, who's living up
Speaker 1: to his contract, Cole Holcom who is now leading all
Speaker 1: rookies and tackles at inside linebacker. They've got some players
Speaker 1: on that defense, and I just I'm at the point
Speaker 1: where how can you expect any game for the Eagles
Speaker 1: to be easy? Like, don't you just expect this to
Speaker 1: be a slog? They they're not gonna have Lane Johnson,
Speaker 1: Nelson aghilar Is Iffy, So they're back to their you know,
Speaker 1: wild receiver corps of Greg Ward and Arthego, Whiteside and
Speaker 1: whoever I mean, and they're going up against a Redskins
Speaker 1: team that's least been competitive. They're trending up well, I mean,
Speaker 1: the Redskins barely lost to the Packers last week. They
Speaker 1: also might get Trey Quinn and Paul Richardson back Haskins.
Speaker 1: I'm a little right, I'm I'm there's a defense, decent
Speaker 1: offensive life. I'm shocked at Haskins ranks seventeen among PFF's
Speaker 1: grades at quarterbacks since he became a starter out of
Speaker 1: that seems crazy to me. But I do think if
Speaker 1: you watch the play to play Haskins of it all,
Speaker 1: he other than taking a lot of sacks, the throws
Speaker 1: are pretty good and there aren't like bad mental mistakes
Speaker 1: in terms of the throws he's making. Like, I think
Speaker 1: he's doing pretty well considering this asuation. Disagree with you.
Speaker 1: I think you're minimizing his taking sacks and he's had
Speaker 1: some awful throws that he's gotten away with. I don't
Speaker 1: they can't. They can't justify him being eighteenth. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was very surprised, but I mean, the trap game
Speaker 1: monitor is all over this one. They've got the Eagles
Speaker 1: Cowboys next week, and that's meant to be the meaningful
Speaker 1: game to decide which team rolls into the playoffs at
Speaker 1: seven and nine for a home NFC East title game
Speaker 1: or NFC East scenario. Please that I could see this
Speaker 1: being nineteen Redskins. You can look in the mirror and
Speaker 1: lock up. There, have you locked? Yeah? I did. I
Speaker 1: went with the Packers. I'll close it out with Dolphins
Speaker 1: at the Giants. UM picking this game because there's not
Speaker 1: another game to pick, Uh, that could be worse. I
Speaker 1: get to watch Ryan Fitzpatrick, who's he's just fun, been
Speaker 1: fun to watch this year back in MetLife, like the Dolphin,
Speaker 1: Met Life, the Dolphins, they usually are involved games that,
Speaker 1: like the Red Skin, this is an example of a
Speaker 1: bad team that's just awful to watch. The Doppins, You know,
Speaker 1: they play some games that have a little juice to
Speaker 1: him even if the stakes aren't high. And was that
Speaker 1: case last year? Last week against the Jets of the
Speaker 1: Metal Ends. They're still at the Metal Ends against the Giants,
Speaker 1: and it looks like Eli starts again the only other big,
Speaker 1: the only other big in terms of steaks we're talking
Speaker 1: about here. Um. Eli dropped to one sixteen and one
Speaker 1: seventeen as a starter. Um, so he needs to win
Speaker 1: Sunday and maybe get another start to get over five. However,
Speaker 1: I want to point back to un Wes. You've made
Speaker 1: this point before, and what a disgrace. Uh, if this
Speaker 1: is not covered, but you better be counting the playoff wins.
Speaker 1: Like if you're talking about his career record as a
Speaker 1: starter and you're not, does he really outside of the
Speaker 1: two players he must he's lost every other playoffs. Let
Speaker 1: me see, win to SWS. That's six wins right there,
Speaker 1: and then he lost every other playoffs. He never been it.
Speaker 1: He's been in the playoffs seven other years. That's not right.
Speaker 1: My bad. I was so old. I mean, you guys
Speaker 1: are just you guys, apologize for that. If you were
Speaker 1: looking to jump all over it, I should have. I
Speaker 1: should have known actually that he barely got his team
Speaker 1: to the playoffs. Otherwise, that played to script perfectly. That
Speaker 1: was great, and so eight and four. So what it
Speaker 1: really is one four because each of those times had
Speaker 1: four games. Right, He's lost every other time except for
Speaker 1: the Super Bright But then no, so ELI could lose
Speaker 1: out and he's fine. He's good. He's covered now unless
Speaker 1: this doesn't take into account the playoff games, which I
Speaker 1: haven't done the necessary research. What's more important like a
Speaker 1: week eight weeks seventeen game and the Super Bowl. They
Speaker 1: only made the playoffs five times in sixteen years. That's
Speaker 1: coach how many Super Bowl MVPs did he win in
Speaker 1: the six times? How many times to do Bill Belichick
Speaker 1: and Tom Brady in the Super Bowl? How many times?
Speaker 1: Just twice? Fel justin tux MVP right, twice they had
Speaker 1: seven points. The only beat Belichick twice in the Super Bowl?
Speaker 1: Just twice. Alright, how about the number two pick that's
Speaker 1: on the line, Chase Young's future, the Chase Young ball
Speaker 1: could be the Dolphins are gonna take a defensive player
Speaker 1: after all these shenanigans. They're gonna already told you they're trading.
Speaker 1: They're gonna get Tom Brady. This is a big one
Speaker 1: that's actually out there on the internet. Now. There are
Speaker 1: some quasi insider type suggesting that they're hearing that. It's uh,
Speaker 1: this is a big one though for the draft order
Speaker 1: mark on some Reddit subread it was more reputable than that.
Speaker 1: We shouldn't miss Jack's Raiders. By the way, Greg, have
Speaker 1: you heard from Silva and Patrick Laird that Dolphins running back?
Speaker 1: I mean, I know, it's like a poor man's Rex Burkhead. Oh,
Speaker 1: I know. Well, he's been a whole thing in the
Speaker 1: fantasy community. He was almost boys too deep to go into.
Speaker 1: He's not quite a running back, not quite a receiver,
Speaker 1: not quite an h back, not quite a fullback. He's
Speaker 1: like not good enough to be any of those. He's
Speaker 1: all they have. But in a lost year which Ryan
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick loses like two weapons per week, Davante Parker is
Speaker 1: in the watching protocol. Alan Hearns might not play this game.
Speaker 1: Who's left for him? Patrick Layard played a big role
Speaker 1: in that Eagles and the Giants are as healthy as
Speaker 1: they've been all year actually with the skill position. And
Speaker 1: I am confirming now Eli's one seventeen and one eighteen,
Speaker 1: and people are throwing that stat around Simmons putting on
Speaker 1: his clown hat and his clown shoes and making a
Speaker 1: podcast about it, and you're not counting the playoff wins
Speaker 1: and a quarterback stats. That's fair not I mean, it's
Speaker 1: fair for you to bring that up. I mean that's
Speaker 1: to not count playoff wins. Uh, Simmons calling at the
Speaker 1: five hundred Bowl for you, Eli, you know, take off
Speaker 1: the clown shoes. But that's kind of you can think
Speaker 1: a little victories taking off the nose. You could lock
Speaker 1: up the Giants here. There you go, there you go
Speaker 1: like that. Dolphins are way too frisky. Dolphins are gonna
Speaker 1: win it. But I don't even need to, Like Mark said,
Speaker 1: Eli can lose out and he's still good. His reputation
Speaker 1: is secure and he would finish them. Yes, it is secured.
Speaker 1: You tell Manning is good after losing four straight games
Speaker 1: to end his career in the most you know he
Speaker 1: wants to win. Mark, you will be in Oakland the
Speaker 1: black Hole for the final Raiders game, uh, in that
Speaker 1: region and they will be playing. What a great set
Speaker 1: up for them. Unfortunately no playoff ramifications at six and seven,
Speaker 1: but you get kind of the ultimate lay up because
Speaker 1: who else would you want coming into your building when
Speaker 1: you just want to have a celebration. You don't want
Speaker 1: to be, you know, on the losing end of a game.
Speaker 1: You don't want to be playing some nail biter. You
Speaker 1: just wanna whoop some butt. And the Jaguars that's what
Speaker 1: they exist for at this stage of the NFL season.
Speaker 1: That's what they've existed for, without question over the past
Speaker 1: month plus. And what we're hearing is that Josh Jacobs,
Speaker 1: the Raiders key player on that offense, they're running back
Speaker 1: practice Thursday. Hunter Renfro returned to practice, so they're getting
Speaker 1: a little healthier, and they need Josh Jacobs because the
Speaker 1: key to beating Jacksonville, I mean you can do it
Speaker 1: by land or through the air is simply probably show up.
Speaker 1: Just unleash him times now walk on the field. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I checked with the Desert people, and I don't think
Speaker 1: it's legal if you're saying you actually checked with them
Speaker 1: with some reporting that's out there based on what their activities.
Speaker 1: And I just because you know, I would say, how
Speaker 1: many times have I locked up bad Iffy Brown's teams? Are?
Speaker 1: You know? I'm not someone that just secures easy locks
Speaker 1: week after week. Emotionally, I want to lock up the
Speaker 1: Raiders because this is going to be number one. These
Speaker 1: are not The Raiders aren't exactly flying into the end
Speaker 1: of the season either. They have plenty of they've been
Speaker 1: outscored by right, This is not this is not some
Speaker 1: uneven wayward You know that. I want to lock up
Speaker 1: the Raiders. If you I'm gonna do it. And if
Speaker 1: you don't like, if you don't like it, too bad.
Speaker 1: When you look in the mirror, does anyone look back
Speaker 1: at you? Yes? Absolutely, room, I have no problem with that.
Speaker 1: I want to read one thing we'll we can hit
Speaker 1: on the rate we did on on Tuesday, We'll do
Speaker 1: it on Sunday. I want to read the greatest paragraph
Speaker 1: that I've read on NFL dot Com the entire football season.
Speaker 1: It came from We're gonna hear from Year Long Form. No. No,
Speaker 1: it came from Wes explaining why Gardner Minshew was, you know,
Speaker 1: beat out by Kyler Murray as Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 1: So here we go. Allow me to while Kyler Murray's
Speaker 1: skill set and potential stand alone among rookie field generals,
Speaker 1: Jacksonville's Gardner Minshew might have given him a run for
Speaker 1: his money on this list had he not been unfairly
Speaker 1: relegated to the bench in favor of a business decision. Bang,
Speaker 1: let's go on to the next part of this. I
Speaker 1: fed the Minshew game tape into the George Michael Sports
Speaker 1: machine Love It, which spit out the following composite score.
Speaker 1: Tony Romo, Jake dilone seven percent, Baker Mayfield eleven percent,
Speaker 1: Mark Sanchez seven percent, Doug Flutie five percent, Greg McElroy
Speaker 1: three percent, Randall Pink Floyd three percent, Pistol Pete Maravich
Speaker 1: two percent, Marty McFly one percent, detect Detective Russ Cole
Speaker 1: zero point eight percent, Uncle Rico zero point two percent.
Speaker 1: Dwight Yoakum West. I when I read that, it made
Speaker 1: my day appreciate that more excellent. It's really the Rico
Speaker 1: and Yocum combo. I mean, I would maybe go a
Speaker 1: strong point for for you. That's how I know you're
Speaker 1: a great writer. West. You could take such a generic
Speaker 1: kind of afterthought quarterback and make them interested. Oh please,
Speaker 1: this this Jaguars team is so bad that Gardner Minshew
Speaker 1: has to run through an obstacles. Of course, just to
Speaker 1: get a pass off, you have to run a gauntlet,
Speaker 1: and Ful's had too as well. This offensive line is terrible.
Speaker 1: They're basing their offense around Leonard four Nette, which is
Speaker 1: just a bad idea. And the defense is the linebackers
Speaker 1: are the worst position group in football. They the way
Speaker 1: every time Austin Ekeler touched the ball, it was as
Speaker 1: if the linebackers and safeties for the Jaguars were police
Speaker 1: cars escorting O J's Bronco down the freeway. They were
Speaker 1: just like there along for the ride. It was amazing.
Speaker 1: It's a recipe for a little for some wildness. You
Speaker 1: would think the offenses in this game that Minshew will
Speaker 1: get back. I'm saying it's the last game in Oakland.
Speaker 1: They better send these fans out with the wind against
Speaker 1: the Jaguar. If you're gonna take this team away from
Speaker 1: the Oakland fans and act like it's some sort of celebration,
Speaker 1: I mean, they did it in week fifteen because they're ashamed,
Speaker 1: and they buried they buried it. Here's my concern. Honestly,
Speaker 1: my concern is that we have listeners Raiders fans that
Speaker 1: listen to the podcast. They know your fandom, they know
Speaker 1: about the Manchu Vians, and Minshew wakes up the offense
Speaker 1: and they beat the Raiders and just a lot of
Speaker 1: bad vibes in that building, and you become a target
Speaker 1: of their frustration. And that's number one. I thought you're
Speaker 1: gonna say. It was like a Cleveland scene where they're
Speaker 1: throwing the chair, the seats, like margin mark being carried
Speaker 1: into the black hole, and then like a sacrificial lamb
Speaker 1: being torn apart, limb from limb, him, head popped off, arms, legs,
Speaker 1: just just the torso remaining ship back to Culver City.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's not something I want what a
Speaker 1: way to go? Bring us the girl. Wouldn't they even
Speaker 1: announced that death on NFL network. Bring us you get
Speaker 1: out of the last seven or eight weeks in the
Speaker 1: season to then I wouldn't have to write the article.
Speaker 1: You know, you would not have to write the article.
Speaker 1: To write the article where the NFL? Now if I
Speaker 1: died on assignment? Yeah, I believe our podcast has gained
Speaker 1: enough popularity where we have moved up to the C
Speaker 1: block one of us. I think it's buried in the
Speaker 1: eleven to twelve space of the program somewhere. I think
Speaker 1: we've moved out of the D block. I think we're
Speaker 1: right in the middle of the show now, like it's
Speaker 1: Lindsay Rhodes coming out of like the third break on
Speaker 1: t A. It's like, oh, by the way, Mark Seessler
Speaker 1: was ripped apart by angry Raiders fans on Sunday at
Speaker 1: the conclusion. Now David Carr talking Derek Carr. Alright, uh, anyway,
Speaker 1: check it out. Mark Seessler is gonna check in with
Speaker 1: us via the phone or maybe maybe Ricky if he's
Speaker 1: in one piece, a skype from the field or something
Speaker 1: some type of cool vibe. I could probably do that
Speaker 1: depends where you are at that point. Let's see alright. Anyway,
Speaker 1: all right, let's get through the rest of the games. Uh,
Speaker 1: Sunday Night Football, good one, yummy. Yes, the Buffalo Bills
Speaker 1: get flexed into Sunday Night Football. Greg, you're a you're
Speaker 1: a man that knows this, this type of this minutia
Speaker 1: of the NFL. When's the last time the Bills played
Speaker 1: Sunday Night football with Al Chris two seven. That's a
Speaker 1: long time ago. I leave against the Steelers that that
Speaker 1: is twelve years ago. Uh. So they get flexed into
Speaker 1: this game, and that's great, and it's so the nine
Speaker 1: and four Bills, who you know, have a strangle hold
Speaker 1: on a wild card spot, but can we if they
Speaker 1: lose here, does it start to get a little interesting?
Speaker 1: You know, they followed nine of five and they have
Speaker 1: a tough schedule ahead, uh comparatively, so they go They're
Speaker 1: going to Hines Field and um uh Greg, So, yeah,
Speaker 1: the Bills, who again came close but no cigar uh
Speaker 1: last week against the Ravens and he got the Steelers,
Speaker 1: who you would think are gonna be very hard to
Speaker 1: beat in their building in primetime. The way they're playing
Speaker 1: right now, this feels like a really another really tough spot.
Speaker 1: I love it. It's it's such a fun sort of
Speaker 1: matchup of just storylines we didn't totally expect coming into
Speaker 1: this season. PFF went out and just said it that
Speaker 1: that the Steelers have the better quarterback in this game.
Speaker 1: I'm not going that far, but I do think he's
Speaker 1: got I do think Josh Allen has the tougher It
Speaker 1: seems a little bit, but I do think Josh Allen
Speaker 1: that this is a recipe for a potential disaster, that
Speaker 1: his matchup against this Steeler's front uh is harder than
Speaker 1: than anything Duck's gonna have to do. Because Bud Dupree
Speaker 1: and t J. Watt, we we've talked about them, but
Speaker 1: they send a lot of creative blitz as they trust
Speaker 1: the secondary, and Josh Allen versus pressure has been a nightmare. Uh,
Speaker 1: Baltimore really copied or did a lot of the same
Speaker 1: things that New England did. At no point did he
Speaker 1: really know where pressure was coming from, how to deal
Speaker 1: with it, how to adjust the offensive line, and why
Speaker 1: wouldn't Pittsburgh do the same thing When the two best
Speaker 1: defenses Buffalo has played this year have a very similar
Speaker 1: sort of set up, and I just think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be trouble for Josh. Allen's just gonna have to be
Speaker 1: a defensive game. Strike shortened seasons excluded. The only team
Speaker 1: of the Super Bowl era to finish first outright in
Speaker 1: both sacks and takeaways is the seventy four Steelers. The
Speaker 1: two thousand and nineteen Stealers are currently leading in sac
Speaker 1: and takeaways. This is right now playing the best defense
Speaker 1: in the NFL, and the Bills aren't far behind. They
Speaker 1: were mediocre about a month ago and they have really
Speaker 1: climbed d v O A because they're defense. I mean
Speaker 1: date the Ravens lost Mark Andrews, which changed that game
Speaker 1: for them, but Lamar Jackson was had fits to and
Speaker 1: the and the Bills aren't maybe your pure pass rushing
Speaker 1: team at this point, but they are well coached. Their
Speaker 1: secondaries nasty and we can find you know, Duck Hodges
Speaker 1: has not played a secondary like this yet. He has
Speaker 1: not not tough matchups in general. He could get James
Speaker 1: Connor back this week. We thought maybe out of practice turning,
Speaker 1: but then as we're taping this, he left practice on Thursday.
Speaker 1: But the difference is Connor's coming back to an offense,
Speaker 1: it's a little deeper. I mean, the Auntie Johnson is
Speaker 1: just I love the way he runs. James Washington is
Speaker 1: making some plays, so they've they've gotten a little something
Speaker 1: on offense, even if it's not like they're explosive. Bills
Speaker 1: haven't beaten the Steelers in twenty years, which is just
Speaker 1: a knug. This game feels like it's destined to be
Speaker 1: seventeen to thirteen. Someone wins seventeen to thirty, but a
Speaker 1: fun seventeen to thirteen, right, because it's been right and
Speaker 1: it's so meaningful. I mean, if the Steelers win this game,
Speaker 1: they have I know they still have the Ravens in
Speaker 1: Week seventeen, but the Ravens might be sitting there starters
Speaker 1: and that would be interesting. Like they have a pretty
Speaker 1: good path to the playoffs, Whereas if the Bills lose
Speaker 1: this game, they do have to worry about the loser
Speaker 1: of the Titans Texans and they I wouldn't say they
Speaker 1: can forget about winning the division, but it might be
Speaker 1: out of reach because the Bills do not have the
Speaker 1: tiebreak right now with the Patriots. So if the Bills
Speaker 1: fans it did the playoff calculator actually, our friend Mike
Speaker 1: Burko did it for me. I did double checkers work.
Speaker 1: If the if the Bills Louise beat the Patriots next week,
Speaker 1: but they are finished tied in the standings, the Patriots
Speaker 1: are gonna win the tiebreaker anyways, so right now they've
Speaker 1: sort of got a game and a half to catch
Speaker 1: up with that's assuming, by the way, that the Patriots
Speaker 1: do win Week seventeen, But they have a game and
Speaker 1: a half to make up right now. They can't afford
Speaker 1: a lot. You look back, and that Bills thanksgiving a
Speaker 1: in over the Cowboys was massive because they'd be in
Speaker 1: a much darker place that they lost that and then
Speaker 1: dealing with New England next week. But Dupre, I have
Speaker 1: a feeling is going to get to be one of
Speaker 1: the highest paid, like defensive players in football, just because
Speaker 1: that's how it works out. He's actually gonna get I think,
Speaker 1: maybe get the free agency and those are the guys
Speaker 1: that somehow sneak through and just get an insane amount
Speaker 1: of money, kind of like de Ford did this year.
Speaker 1: Anybody else have a thought, Yeah, Josh Allen, every time
Speaker 1: I watched him play, I think with a high soft
Speaker 1: deep ball. The receiver contract it and make adjustments. With
Speaker 1: a laser deep ball, there's no opportunity for adjustment whatsoever.
Speaker 1: Everything has to be perfect. And he is the worst
Speaker 1: deep passer in football, even though he has the strongest
Speaker 1: arm in football. They did fight back. You might him up.
Speaker 1: I thought about it, but I I can't. I have
Speaker 1: too much respect for the way the Bills are playing
Speaker 1: defense right now. All right, takes us to Monday night football.
Speaker 1: This could have been a good game, but then the
Speaker 1: Colts went in the tank and lost three in a row,
Speaker 1: all but ending their season, including you you lose in Tampa,
Speaker 1: and we know the Bucks are playing better and there
Speaker 1: they can be a tough team because Winston's so up
Speaker 1: and down. Um, and he was up in that game,
Speaker 1: but we'll end down. And now they get the Saints.
Speaker 1: And the Saints it feels like a really, really bad
Speaker 1: spot for the visiting team because the Saints are coming
Speaker 1: off that loss where ah, they lose by two points.
Speaker 1: They put up forty six points in their building against
Speaker 1: the top rated defensive league and lose. Someone's gonna pay
Speaker 1: for it. I think the Colts are going to be
Speaker 1: on the nail end of the hammer. And this one, uh,
Speaker 1: this the mirror. It's invisible West, there's nothing to look at.
Speaker 1: It's over the test. Although to the no, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: way over like my desert test. But to the cults credit,
Speaker 1: they're in every game. The Titans game was the only
Speaker 1: two score loss they've had all year. Yeah, and that
Speaker 1: was close to the very end. They eleven of their
Speaker 1: thirteen games have been one score games, and we kind
Speaker 1: of talked about how they were getting lucky, a little
Speaker 1: lucky early in the year, and now they've lost four
Speaker 1: straight one score games, many of which are right at
Speaker 1: the end. So you feel for them because I do
Speaker 1: think almost everyone, like throughout that roster, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of players over achieving. I think the coaching staff is
Speaker 1: gonna done a really good job. But when you're throwing
Speaker 1: it to Marcus John, it's just they just don't quite
Speaker 1: have enough firepower to stick with the Saints. Hey, Alvin Camara,
Speaker 1: about a total yards and two touchdowns. How about you
Speaker 1: put together one of those superstar games and put yourself
Speaker 1: back on the map in that way. You need that
Speaker 1: guy terrible fumble last week. The need that guy. He's healthy.
Speaker 1: It seems like his explosion is there on some runs
Speaker 1: and he was averaging pretty good yards per carry, you know,
Speaker 1: until last week, at least over a month. But like
Speaker 1: that special level, he's not making the mess. He hasn't
Speaker 1: been the same guy that he was the first couple
Speaker 1: of years. I think it's really been overlooked this week
Speaker 1: that the Saints lost Marcus Davenport and Sheldon rank for
Speaker 1: the season. In that game, I mean, Davenport was really
Speaker 1: playing well. To me, he's very similar to Clowney. He's
Speaker 1: a poor man's Clowney. He he has a a good
Speaker 1: starting defensive end. And Sheldon Rankins, who is playing about
Speaker 1: half the snaps, is a very good interior, you know,
Speaker 1: rotating guy. And that's part of what had made up
Speaker 1: this team's identity was their defensive line. And now you
Speaker 1: lose two of the you know, four biggest parts of it.
Speaker 1: That's pretty huge. T Y Hilton might be back. He practice.
Speaker 1: Where's Jared Cook where? We haven't seen an update on
Speaker 1: him because they had night game that I don't know,
Speaker 1: they didn't practice until today. I don't know. I'm not
Speaker 1: you know, the Saints office. I know they got it
Speaker 1: going for a week, but I don't know, you know,
Speaker 1: they had the Panthers a couple of weeks ago at home,
Speaker 1: barely won that game. I just I don't I want
Speaker 1: to see it out of the Saints week after week.
Speaker 1: I think there's some things working against the injury wise,
Speaker 1: especially if Cook's at Alvin Kamara had two touchdowns in
Speaker 1: Week three that's always had all season. He had eighteen
Speaker 1: last year. That's crazy. They also had mark ingram right,
Speaker 1: and they had Drew Brees for sixteen weeks, and yet
Speaker 1: here they are. I feel like we don't have Deonte
Speaker 1: Harris love on this alright. He is the ex He's
Speaker 1: the X factor. I feel like for the playoffs, it's
Speaker 1: just Deontay Harris is the best return man. Deontay Harris right,
Speaker 1: I mean he's doing it. He's popped a lot, but
Speaker 1: he's due to pop a few more touchdowns. Um, all right,
Speaker 1: that is a week fifteen. Um again, it will be
Speaker 1: sess and West West and sess uh covering Jets Ravens
Speaker 1: And Wow, congratulations you guys, because that's going to be
Speaker 1: the game. People are gonna be like, Wow, the upset
Speaker 1: of the season and you get to talk about that
Speaker 1: for ten. Might have a little Lakisha on the mike too,
Speaker 1: Reports Lakisha came up to me in the newsroom this morning.
Speaker 1: You're so stupid as you because I made the comment.
Speaker 1: She's like, I'm not dead because I was on the
Speaker 1: throwback podcast. I can't get her on the throwback she's pregnant.
Speaker 1: Of course I can get her on the throwback podcast.
Speaker 1: I just want her to be comfortable and uh, maybe
Speaker 1: sooner rather than later before really the baby bump starts
Speaker 1: to become an issue. Better. Hope Rhoda doesn't find out
Speaker 1: about what you said. Do you have any other Jackson
Speaker 1: family members you want to impersonate? And Greg is on
Speaker 1: the throwback podcast that went up today Arcade Fire Funeral
Speaker 1: maybe the defining album. What a record at least the
Speaker 1: defining you know, guitar album of the We were both
Speaker 1: living in New York City at the time, Uh, in
Speaker 1: different areas of the city. Penthouse that really hit it,
Speaker 1: I did, that's anyway, Greg, you were great on it.
Speaker 1: So I want everyone to please check that out if
Speaker 1: you enjoy that type of music or just banter. All right?
Speaker 1: Because Dan hands a signing off four Quiet Storm, The Mailman,
Speaker 1: The Old Boss lived in an outhouse twelve between A
Speaker 1: and D drug dealer downstairs in the glass until Sunday
Speaker 1: s