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Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL podcast. It is at all from

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Speaker 1: the Chris Westling podcast studio. It's around the NFL. I'm

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Speaker 1: Dan Hanzas joined by some heroes, Greg Rosenthal, Mark Sessler.

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Speaker 1: Boys Week fourteen. Here we go, we fly in Now.

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Speaker 1: It's it's entering into that middle of December, and I

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Speaker 1: know there's an extra week this year, so season not

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Speaker 1: actually over till January nine. The regular season is that

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Speaker 1: kind of crazy? Football is family football. His family football

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Speaker 1: was family and then they added another week to the season.

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Speaker 1: They don't use that anymore. They were like, we had

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Speaker 1: to give up something the family at the beginning of

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Speaker 1: the season. But yeah, the eighteenth week is actually just

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Speaker 1: like a neighbor that was just you invite him over,

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Speaker 1: fight or over. But yeah, not family. Remember they announced

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Speaker 1: the extra game added and they said this season is

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Speaker 1: going to be the biggest season. Yeah. What came in

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Speaker 1: second is football was family? Well yeah, I mean they're like,

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Speaker 1: what should we go, Let's let's keep positive. The first

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Speaker 1: ad campaign just creates anxiety in me. I don't need

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Speaker 1: everything with the NFL to always be bigger, more balloon

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Speaker 1: like family. I mean, at this point, what I am

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Speaker 1: trying to insist that during like my kids TV time,

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Speaker 1: that Walker stopped rewatching the two thousand twelve NFL season,

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Speaker 1: and yet that's just what he's doing. He was. I

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Speaker 1: was just like, oh, you just enjoyed that Bears Bengals

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Speaker 1: Week two games from Yes, but directly you directly created

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Speaker 1: that issue in your house. Uh. Today's Thursday Tuesday night

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Speaker 1: was the holiday party. Um, that was a fun time.

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Speaker 1: I came up with like a best of the holiday

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Speaker 1: party before we get into all the game, uh four

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Speaker 1: teen games. We're gonna obviously go through each game, break

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Speaker 1: it down, but a good time was had. The holiday

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Speaker 1: party was held at Sophi Stadium, which was interesting. I've

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Speaker 1: never been to a holiday party where I needed to

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Speaker 1: But you know, it is what it is all right here.

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Speaker 1: It is the best of It's kind of a countdown. Um,

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Speaker 1: let's start with Erica number seven. Erica tam pose. She

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Speaker 1: had a little side hustle going on at the open bar.

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Speaker 1: Okay she Erica because we all got to drink tickets.

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Speaker 1: Erica at a certain point ran out of her drink tickets.

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Speaker 1: and Ricky, what did you do there? I really like this.

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Speaker 1: This is yeah, I mean, you're you're putting it all

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Speaker 1: you know, I think to drink tickets, but then you

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Speaker 1: only do you I mean, very nice party, but only

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Speaker 1: only two drinks and then you can't by the drinks. Now,

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Speaker 1: I were trying to shut it down, right, So I

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Speaker 1: went up and I said, hey, hey, Daisy, looked name.

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Speaker 1: You got Vemo. She's venmoing the woman to give her

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Speaker 1: a little side juice. And at one point, twenty dollar

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Speaker 1: bills slip between two drink tickets. I was asked to

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Speaker 1: handle that business. It was corrupt, is what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: But I'm not called tipping. I mean that makes that

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Speaker 1: how about this, speaking of drink tickets number six, Greg

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Speaker 1: Rosenthal's drink ticket debacle. Listen to this, Sessler. I just

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Speaker 1: learned about this yesterday. Laying on me. So you get

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Speaker 1: Greg brings his wonderful wife, Emmica. Emmca is not a

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Speaker 1: drinker or wasn't a drinker. On Tuesday Night, Greg declines

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Speaker 1: her drink tickets. That is what I heard from Assars. Now,

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Speaker 1: when you could have easily handed out those two drink tickets,

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Speaker 1: the fugitive line, I didn't kill my wife. Definitely something

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Speaker 1: remember Dan? And then she was trying to do your

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Speaker 1: involves murdered murder. You were correct? Uh Number four Mark's

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Speaker 1: All right, how about this? This was after the after

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Speaker 1: Ricky all of it? I didn't think about that, and

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Speaker 1: You met the woman? Did? She's very nice? Absolutely, But

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Speaker 1: You want to start a show. You started the right way.

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Speaker 1: I go on Pat McAfee once and now he talked like,

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Speaker 1: Pat McAfee, get my persona back. You're Brian Kelly to

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Speaker 1: Why not? I love it? Mark it's uh. And it's like,

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Speaker 1: that by get the home games, and don't wear it

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Speaker 1: I think they don't outfit us, some of these players.

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Speaker 1: If you're Michael Irvan, I want you to someone someone

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Speaker 1: a good week for you to wear the pink suit

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Speaker 1: that could have been word jovial. Right, all right, let's

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Speaker 1: I'll pick the old Zeuser has the number one pick,

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Speaker 1: went out of his way to tell me that he

426
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Speaker 1: doesn't want to watch the Browns on Sunday, so I

427
00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:13,399
Speaker 1: will go and take the Ravens at Browns with the

428
00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:17,160
Speaker 1: first overall pick. I love this game. I love how

429
00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:21,200
Speaker 1: messy and sloppy and imperfect. The a f C North

430
00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:25,240
Speaker 1: is no team really to me profiles as a Super

431
00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:27,720
Speaker 1: Bowl team. But that doesn't mean it's not fun to

432
00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:29,560
Speaker 1: watch him roll around in the mud a little bit

433
00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:32,280
Speaker 1: in December, and I think the Ravens coming up a

434
00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:35,840
Speaker 1: very difficult uh loss to the Steelers where they gave

435
00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:38,720
Speaker 1: up seventeen points to a big bend team and the

436
00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:41,399
Speaker 1: fourth quarter get the big score at the end of

437
00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:45,240
Speaker 1: the game. Greg, I did watch that two point conversion repeatedly,

438
00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:47,840
Speaker 1: and I think you really could make a case for

439
00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:51,200
Speaker 1: both sides. I am not willing to say that that

440
00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:53,600
Speaker 1: you're right and it was not Lamar's fault at all,

441
00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:55,879
Speaker 1: But I'm also not gonna say he blew it and

442
00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:59,320
Speaker 1: missed a wide open Mark Andrews. Either he did get

443
00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:01,240
Speaker 1: the space, but he had to drop down at three

444
00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:04,719
Speaker 1: quarters with a tricky throw, and it's in. There's been

445
00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:07,479
Speaker 1: some argument that like Andrews flattened out the route and

446
00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:09,440
Speaker 1: like slowed down a little board. When it comes down

447
00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:12,080
Speaker 1: to like that minuscule of a thing, it's a little both.

448
00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:15,680
Speaker 1: He was open. It wasn't a great play by anyone

449
00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:19,119
Speaker 1: for the Steelers except for t. J. Watt. So anyway,

450
00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:21,440
Speaker 1: so the Ravens now they go to Cleveland to face

451
00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:23,400
Speaker 1: the Browns, and this feels like and I know it's

452
00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:24,879
Speaker 1: wide open the a f C. And even if the

453
00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:27,040
Speaker 1: Browns lost this game, blah blah blah, they could get

454
00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:28,960
Speaker 1: back into things. But I think the Browns are cooked

455
00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:30,919
Speaker 1: if they lose the Ravens in this game. I think

456
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,679
Speaker 1: they are a team that's hanging on by a thread.

457
00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,960
Speaker 1: This idea. They went into the season as a Super

458
00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,760
Speaker 1: Bowl contender in the eyes of many, and it's been

459
00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:42,600
Speaker 1: such a difficult season. There have been ups, there have

460
00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:45,040
Speaker 1: been downs. But I feel like the Ravens come to

461
00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:47,800
Speaker 1: your building and whip your butt and drop you to

462
00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:49,600
Speaker 1: six and seven, and they go to nine and four.

463
00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:53,040
Speaker 1: The walls come in on Cleveland. So maybe that motivates

464
00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:55,320
Speaker 1: the Mark, maybe that they know that maybe their backs

465
00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:57,120
Speaker 1: are against the wall and they deliver a big performance

466
00:23:57,119 --> 00:24:00,320
Speaker 1: which they are capable of. UM. But I think those

467
00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:02,640
Speaker 1: are the stakes here. One of their traits under Kevin

468
00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:07,520
Speaker 1: Stefanski has been bouncing back from darkness from bad losses.

469
00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:11,080
Speaker 1: They've done a pretty good job of that, especially last season. UM.

470
00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:12,879
Speaker 1: But I agree with your points so much, Dan that

471
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:14,240
Speaker 1: this is what I wrote in my notes, that the

472
00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:17,080
Speaker 1: Browns lose this It's not unfair to call this season

473
00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:21,639
Speaker 1: a total disaster. I don't care about the mathematical contingencies

474
00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:24,320
Speaker 1: of them sneaking into some wild card spot. They've been

475
00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:27,520
Speaker 1: outshined by every team in the Amster North. And if

476
00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:29,399
Speaker 1: we told you, if I said back in April, this

477
00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:32,240
Speaker 1: is the situation, they'd be in six and six, UM,

478
00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:34,679
Speaker 1: with the potential to have lost the stealer. Steelers have

479
00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:38,080
Speaker 1: been swept by the Ravens. That is as ugly as

480
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:40,000
Speaker 1: a prediction as there would have been about the Browns

481
00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:43,000
Speaker 1: back then, especially considering what Baltimore has had to go

482
00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:48,520
Speaker 1: through to get here injury wise, and what they're facing now.

483
00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:54,399
Speaker 1: There's this feeling in Baltimore now that not only could

484
00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:56,840
Speaker 1: you know the division be up for grabs, but that

485
00:24:56,920 --> 00:25:00,000
Speaker 1: the playoffs aren't guaranteed. I feel like people are overreact

486
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,240
Speaker 1: seen to that miss two point conversion, because, as Dan's

487
00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,080
Speaker 1: been pointing out, this kind of who the Ravens have

488
00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:09,000
Speaker 1: been all season, like living, you know, trying hard despite

489
00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,960
Speaker 1: all the injuries, making some thing's work, but like living

490
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,760
Speaker 1: on the edge. And yet they now look at Marlon Humphrey,

491
00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:17,399
Speaker 1: their best cornerback, being out for the season. They now

492
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:21,200
Speaker 1: look at Patrick McCarry maybe been their best offensive lineman

493
00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:24,399
Speaker 1: at right tackle, kind of been a revelation, really helped

494
00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:27,520
Speaker 1: that offensive line, replacing Orlando Brown out for a few weeks.

495
00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:31,399
Speaker 1: And they're feeling like, are we over the precipice of

496
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:36,000
Speaker 1: the injury situation, where now we don't do anything particularly well,

497
00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:38,080
Speaker 1: Like the one thing they did well was throw the

498
00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:41,040
Speaker 1: ball down the field and outside the numbers, and Lamar

499
00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:44,280
Speaker 1: Jackson's in a slump that really goes back to Week six.

500
00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:48,600
Speaker 1: That's a long slump. So as much as the Browns

501
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:50,800
Speaker 1: are looking at themselves with a lot of question marks,

502
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:53,240
Speaker 1: they're a little healthier. I know they might be short,

503
00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:55,680
Speaker 1: they're tight ends, but they're still healthier overall, and their

504
00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:58,720
Speaker 1: defense is healthier maybe than it's been all season, and

505
00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:00,760
Speaker 1: they have to be looking at this as an opportunity.

506
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:02,920
Speaker 1: There's five games left and if you're trying to pick

507
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,440
Speaker 1: one of these teams in the NFL that who can

508
00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:08,320
Speaker 1: change their story down the stretch because some teams well

509
00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:11,359
Speaker 1: for good and bad, some teams will think totally different

510
00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:13,720
Speaker 1: about going into Week eight team than we do right now.

511
00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:16,399
Speaker 1: The Browns at least are a strong candidate to be

512
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:18,960
Speaker 1: one of those teams because it's all there, the divisions

513
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:20,600
Speaker 1: there in front of them, the players are there on

514
00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:22,480
Speaker 1: the field for the most part. They gotta just show up.

515
00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:24,840
Speaker 1: And today I want to throw something out because Mark

516
00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:29,000
Speaker 1: you have you've coined the term years ago about the

517
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:32,639
Speaker 1: team that's struggled but then causes issues down the stretch

518
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:35,439
Speaker 1: of the berserker. I think on the other side of that,

519
00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:38,480
Speaker 1: the underperforming team that you keep an eye on because

520
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:40,040
Speaker 1: they can get hot and all of a sudden find

521
00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:42,159
Speaker 1: their way right into the mix, the championship mix. I

522
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:44,840
Speaker 1: call them a disruptor. That's what I think the Browns

523
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:47,720
Speaker 1: could be. The Ravens have been that team in the past,

524
00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:50,320
Speaker 1: very that's still disappointing if you're the Browns. I mean,

525
00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:52,560
Speaker 1: I I don't know, you went three straight or something here.

526
00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:56,280
Speaker 1: You'll forget about all of this. But it's just I

527
00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:57,800
Speaker 1: don't like to make up with the team right now.

528
00:26:57,840 --> 00:26:59,399
Speaker 1: I mean, it's no small thing that you don't have

529
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:03,000
Speaker 1: your punter and and having Harrison Brian and David na

530
00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 1: Joko your two tight ends is huge. In the run game,

531
00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 1: they held the Browns to forty yards rushing last time,

532
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 1: dominated them at the line, and Brown's had four interceptions

533
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:15,680
Speaker 1: and got three points out of it. This game is

534
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 1: the Ravens got to solve this blitzing thing. I mean,

535
00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:22,959
Speaker 1: I love Lamar, I love this raven staff, but they

536
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:24,879
Speaker 1: don't have an answer right now for when teams are

537
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 1: blitzing them. It's not like you don't have to be

538
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:28,840
Speaker 1: an expert to see what's going on here. And this

539
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:32,240
Speaker 1: is a game I think Cleveland get very aggressive, get creative,

540
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:35,120
Speaker 1: cause some problems, just like good pick. You know, I've

541
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:38,360
Speaker 1: been weirdly on on Aaron Donald's case the last couple

542
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:39,919
Speaker 1: of weeks. Kind of fun, but really, go win a

543
00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:41,119
Speaker 1: game in a big spot, and you could do that

544
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:44,040
Speaker 1: in Arizona. Miles Garrett Meles garts having a great year,

545
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:48,080
Speaker 1: but absolutely cause havoc and put your team on your

546
00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 1: back in this spot. He has that ability as well.

547
00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:52,600
Speaker 1: One of the things you're not going to watch this one, Mark,

548
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:54,879
Speaker 1: I mean I will eventually, but you didn't want it

549
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:58,399
Speaker 1: to be your main game. I need, I need. I

550
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:01,639
Speaker 1: know what teams fascinating me right now. Well, the Browns

551
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:03,880
Speaker 1: will always fascinate you the most I know, but it's

552
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:06,200
Speaker 1: like it's been a long term relationship that's bordered on

553
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:09,360
Speaker 1: abusive and I need a little bit of a breathing room,

554
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:14,879
Speaker 1: all right, Um, all right, Lamar hasn't had a rushing

555
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:16,919
Speaker 1: touchdown since week to either, Like, that's one thing I

556
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:19,640
Speaker 1: was jumping out to me last week. He that used

557
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:21,720
Speaker 1: to be a major part of their offense, you know,

558
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:23,919
Speaker 1: the chunk plays on the ground and it opened up

559
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:26,320
Speaker 1: the passing game. That element of the game is missing

560
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:28,400
Speaker 1: as well. It's just been their offense is not easy

561
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:30,760
Speaker 1: to watch right now? All right? The second overall pick?

562
00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:33,919
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler, all right, well, I am going to I

563
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 1: talked about teams that fascinate me. This is a pet

564
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:40,120
Speaker 1: team verse pet team, you know, a kiddie clash like.

565
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 1: I like these two teams so much that I can't

566
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 1: wait to see what happens. The six and sixty Niners

567
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:49,360
Speaker 1: verse the seven and five Bengals. Greg, last week, you

568
00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:52,160
Speaker 1: felt that it was too much. I was too unrealistic

569
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:54,080
Speaker 1: and it just didn't fit for the Bengals to beat

570
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:56,760
Speaker 1: the Chargers and get to eight and four. Is eight

571
00:28:56,800 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 1: and five palatable enough for you? This game, to me

572
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:02,680
Speaker 1: the one most if I were to if I were

573
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 1: to pick, I think either of one of these, But no,

574
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 1: to use that test, it makes more sense that both

575
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 1: these teams would be seven and six if I was

576
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 1: using that same particular game is not working out well

577
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:17,520
Speaker 1: for Cincinnati every time we play it, it's like, no,

578
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 1: they need another loss. Well, it's more because also the

579
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 1: forty nine is definitely feel like better than a six

580
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 1: and six team. To me, they do well. I think

581
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 1: their season. I mean, if we're looking at the Rams

582
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:29,719
Speaker 1: and these other teams in the NFC West San Francisco

583
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 1: that you know it was the hottest team in the

584
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 1: conference outside of the Cardinals a week or two ago,

585
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:38,080
Speaker 1: has to show up here. And the one lingering image

586
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 1: um that concerns me because last week I thought the

587
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 1: Bengals were killed and went down early because we finally

588
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 1: had Justin Herbert dialing up big shots down field and

589
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:50,600
Speaker 1: one on one coverage, and the Bengals allowed them to

590
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 1: do that, um to their error and climb back into

591
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:55,680
Speaker 1: that game. Because I think they are still a really

592
00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:58,160
Speaker 1: good team. But the image that stuck with me on

593
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 1: Sunday was Kyle Shanahan. It was a pretty mild mannered

594
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 1: on the sideline. He's not some screamer, but he lost

595
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 1: his cool with Jimmy G after the antics of the

596
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 1: end zone safety, a terrible interception getting stuffed on third

597
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:13,120
Speaker 1: and one, and it's like, we don't trust Jimmy G

598
00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:15,280
Speaker 1: to go do what Justin Herbert just did to the

599
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 1: Bengals on any level. I think if we get Deebo

600
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:23,040
Speaker 1: Samuel in this that will be massive practice Wednesday. But

601
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:26,719
Speaker 1: there worse. There was some optimism before that, and this

602
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:30,760
Speaker 1: typically doesn't mean anything but last week he was resolute

603
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:32,760
Speaker 1: and like, oh, I'll be playing next week. I'm only

604
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:35,120
Speaker 1: missing one game. We'll see what that actually means. But

605
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 1: something got Burrows districated. Finger I know it's being like,

606
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 1: that's not a big deal. Well, I mean, did you

607
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:42,320
Speaker 1: see what it looked like. It seems like it would

608
00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:44,920
Speaker 1: be a mild deal. It was very it was very swollen,

609
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:48,240
Speaker 1: but he came and played fantastic. I thought after that injury,

610
00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 1: I think Joe Burrows having an underrated season. Somehow, he

611
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:54,320
Speaker 1: to me, he just is so much better this year

612
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 1: than he was as a rookie, even though the mobility,

613
00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 1: especially early was down. So it's a game where you

614
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:04,760
Speaker 1: trust the Bengals quarterback more, but you trust at least

615
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 1: I trust the forty Niners operation more, like why can't

616
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 1: we have a George Kittle game like that more often?

617
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:13,720
Speaker 1: The Bengals are one of the worst teams in the

618
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:15,960
Speaker 1: league in terms of giving up plays up the seams.

619
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,080
Speaker 1: That's where Jimmy g is usually good, although it's also

620
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:23,479
Speaker 1: where he throws interceptions quite often. But George Kittle, Deebo,

621
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:26,800
Speaker 1: hopefully he's back. I like plays up the seams, mashing

622
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:29,360
Speaker 1: the ball. I do think the Bengals defense is is

623
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:31,200
Speaker 1: a little vulnerable in that way. Who are you going

624
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 1: to root for? Mark? That's what I love about it.

625
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 1: I feel like I could ship back and totally enjoy it,

626
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:37,600
Speaker 1: But I don't know. I'm much more would want the

627
00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 1: Bengals to take a small minor I think Shanahan was

628
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 1: also annoyed. I'm I'm glad we can mention this here

629
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 1: because I've forgotten the Cardinals that Kingsbury showed up after

630
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:50,560
Speaker 1: the bye week with a Shanahan like beard and a

631
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:55,120
Speaker 1: Shanahan flat brim hat, and I was like, like, he

632
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 1: looked a lot like Shanahan, and I think he was.

633
00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:00,120
Speaker 1: He was kind of saying, I'm the new Shanahan and

634
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 1: that is hot. That's a hot take. I love that take.

635
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:07,920
Speaker 1: And these guys definitely notice these things, Oh definitely, so

636
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:09,720
Speaker 1: the things like when I almost saw two head coaches

637
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:12,480
Speaker 1: fight at the Combine a few years ago, Like they

638
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:15,680
Speaker 1: notice everything. In Kingsbury. He cares about how he looks,

639
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:18,520
Speaker 1: and that's fine. Everyone does at some point, but I

640
00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:20,520
Speaker 1: guess I'm not allowed to write that point to some degree.

641
00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:22,600
Speaker 1: I'm just saying he waited for that bye week because

642
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:25,560
Speaker 1: he didn't want to be in the in between. You know,

643
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 1: while he was on the sideline, he timed it out

644
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:31,600
Speaker 1: for the bye week, grew that beard, wore that flapper.

645
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 1: It seemed like you were making an insinuation mark that

646
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 1: at a certain point, if you reach a level in

647
00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:40,480
Speaker 1: this industry, it becomes more about how you look then Ball.

648
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 1: That seemed to be what you were saying. Yeah, but

649
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 1: I don't think I think I'm not. I think the

650
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 1: same thing that cared about it on air, they cared

651
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:50,240
Speaker 1: a lot before they were on air. And then there's

652
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:52,360
Speaker 1: the reverse. Some people kind of don't care in either.

653
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 1: I don't doubt that. I just feel like maybe I

654
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 1: want to be there. Give me that wardrobe and I'll start.

655
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 1: But I can't. I can't handle, like, how do I

656
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:04,239
Speaker 1: go build a whole, like a huge wardrobe of my

657
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:07,600
Speaker 1: own without a money b I have, Like my we

658
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 1: don't have any room in our house to store four

659
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 1: thousand extra shirt. I'm just saying it's too much, it's

660
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 1: beyond my It's something I'll deal with, something I'll deal

661
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:18,920
Speaker 1: with next year. It's like how we get our own

662
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 1: parking spaces right by the entrance, and I'm the only

663
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 1: one that uses it because you guys are so working class.

664
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 1: I guess same thing, Mark, we are. Let's not, you know,

665
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 1: let's not hide from the fact that they give us

666
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 1: our own lockers. Basically now in a dressing room like

667
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 1: and yours is the only one that's completely empty. The

668
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 1: parking space thing is only because from what I hear

669
00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:38,240
Speaker 1: and I you and I actually I passed you today,

670
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,200
Speaker 1: um and gave you an adult hands. You seem like

671
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 1: you have a bigger We don't have a problem. I

672
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 1: don't here at all. I just because we've never I don't.

673
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:50,800
Speaker 1: I've never more than two second one to have the

674
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:53,600
Speaker 1: inter like this, it's it's worth it to not have

675
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:56,560
Speaker 1: the social interaction of like making someone get up, which

676
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:58,800
Speaker 1: is fine, and everyone has their own. That's the thing

677
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 1: making a man come over and take a cone away

678
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 1: so that I can park. It's just that I don't

679
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:05,000
Speaker 1: even know how when I'm there's no one even to

680
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 1: talk to when I get to that level. That's part

681
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 1: of that person's job, like theyre I'm saying, I don't

682
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 1: see them when I get there, and it's just my

683
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 1: parking spot is maybe forty yards away around the bend.

684
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 1: I'm good to get a little, get those steps and

685
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:22,359
Speaker 1: get a little Anyways, that's what it's about, all right.

686
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:28,720
Speaker 1: He went way off topic. Oh I thought eron Glenn

687
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:31,040
Speaker 1: and Aaron Glenn got fired in our email, but he

688
00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:34,760
Speaker 1: didn't not yet. All right, let's um, they're playing well lately,

689
00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:39,720
Speaker 1: those fighting lions. Let's move on and uh up next

690
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 1: is Greg. I can't believe you left Bill's Bucks to

691
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 1: the third pick. It's the game of the week. It

692
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 1: might be the game of the year for me. I mean, okay,

693
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:50,400
Speaker 1: that's overstate. It's not it's not even the game of

694
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:52,320
Speaker 1: the week. Ram's Cardinals a little better. But this is

695
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:56,960
Speaker 1: Romo nance and I am just fascinated by this because

696
00:34:56,960 --> 00:35:00,759
Speaker 1: of the matchup. First of all, Tom Brady said the

697
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:04,880
Speaker 1: minute he was off the field last week, next game

698
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:07,080
Speaker 1: is our biggest game of the year. And he's like

699
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 1: the last person whoever gets like that, And I was like,

700
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:11,920
Speaker 1: why why did he say that? First of all, he's got,

701
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 1: you know, a thing with Buffalo blah blah blah, but

702
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:16,920
Speaker 1: he sees them as like a Super Bowl contender, as

703
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,160
Speaker 1: a real test and you almost get a sense with

704
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:21,880
Speaker 1: these Bucks and just the way that the schedule worked

705
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:25,360
Speaker 1: out that ay, they're not being tested, that they're almost

706
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:28,840
Speaker 1: having to rev themselves up, uh to get these you know,

707
00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:30,919
Speaker 1: wins taken care of. And they've done a good job

708
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:33,239
Speaker 1: of it against the Falcons, like Giants, games like that.

709
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:34,880
Speaker 1: And then you look at the rest of their schedule.

710
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:36,840
Speaker 1: Sure they're gonna be fired up for that game against

711
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:39,160
Speaker 1: the Saints, but they don't play a team with a

712
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:41,800
Speaker 1: winning record the rest of the season until the playoffs.

713
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:44,040
Speaker 1: And I think Tom Brady was fully aware that when

714
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:46,680
Speaker 1: he said it. I think he wants everyone healthy and

715
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 1: back for this game. I think he has questions, uh

716
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:54,480
Speaker 1: about his team and how they're gonna stand up in

717
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:57,279
Speaker 1: a big spot. And as as much as Buffalo has

718
00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:01,400
Speaker 1: struggled lately, on paper, they up pretty well with Tampa

719
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:04,680
Speaker 1: in that they're a passing team and the Buccaneers defense

720
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:08,120
Speaker 1: is vulnerable to the past. Like if ever there is

721
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:11,319
Speaker 1: a week for Brian Dable to ignore Sean McDermott and

722
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:13,920
Speaker 1: just throw the ball forty five times, I think this

723
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:17,160
Speaker 1: is it. Can we see the old Bills passing attack

724
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 1: in perfect conditions against a banged up secondary. Even as

725
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:24,239
Speaker 1: the Bucks get some of their players back, they lose

726
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 1: Mike Edwards to suspension. Jamal Diane as a concussion. White

727
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:29,640
Speaker 1: Head was out last week. Don't think he he might

728
00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:31,840
Speaker 1: not be back, and so they're still vulnerable. This is

729
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:34,440
Speaker 1: a game where I think the Bills need to outscore Tampa.

730
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 1: This stress opposed to every other week when you don't

731
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:39,799
Speaker 1: want to outscore the right like not outscoring would be

732
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:41,359
Speaker 1: not opened. I just mean you're gonna have to put

733
00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 1: up thirty five or so this stretch, this Patriots Bucks.

734
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:46,280
Speaker 1: You got the Panthers in there, then the Patriots again.

735
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:49,440
Speaker 1: It's just the it's the acid test for Buffalo. It's

736
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:51,880
Speaker 1: kind of um like. It reminds me. I don't know

737
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:54,080
Speaker 1: why this came into my head, but like when John

738
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 1: Lennon had that lost year in Los Angeles where he

739
00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:59,640
Speaker 1: was on the outs with um Yoko Ono and his

740
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:01,360
Speaker 1: life and off the rails, but you come out of

741
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 1: it having learned something about yourself and maybe having grown.

742
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 1: This is that, This to me is it for the

743
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:10,279
Speaker 1: Bills because what we think about them has changed so remarkably.

744
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:12,759
Speaker 1: For me, the New England game, like we can't say

745
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 1: all last week, it really matters what happens against the

746
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:18,360
Speaker 1: Patriots and then blame it on the weather that it

747
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:20,239
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. And I know I'm not greg, I'm not

748
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:21,919
Speaker 1: just pointing to you. I feel like there's a lot

749
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 1: of like, well, actually, no, no, we still really believe

750
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:27,479
Speaker 1: in the Bills, and I believe in them a little

751
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:29,879
Speaker 1: bit less because of the way they love this team

752
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 1: a year ago. I love the idea of the Bills

753
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 1: my whole life. I mean, there's I just feel like

754
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 1: it's a hard it's hard to say like the Bills

755
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:39,279
Speaker 1: were exposed on Monday night, given how strange it was

756
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:42,040
Speaker 1: because of the weather. It doesn't mean that it wasn't disappointing,

757
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:44,480
Speaker 1: or that the fact that there's seven and five is

758
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:48,040
Speaker 1: a massive letdown from what expectations were. And that's why

759
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:51,720
Speaker 1: this game I'm really pumped to see, because this really

760
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:53,920
Speaker 1: is this is gut check time. Do you see my points? Though,

761
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:56,719
Speaker 1: it's like we're we're deferring the now it matters for

762
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:59,880
Speaker 1: the Bills, were saying before that game started, and as

763
00:37:59,880 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 1: a fan watching it, I kind of thought, I don't

764
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:06,440
Speaker 1: know what this game tells me at all, whether the

765
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 1: Patriots win or lose. It's sort of a one off

766
00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:12,319
Speaker 1: in that it's so unique. I see what you're saying Mark,

767
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:15,759
Speaker 1: it's a playing in that weather too, But that's fine,

768
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:18,279
Speaker 1: you know, but the Patriots could have lost and I

769
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 1: wouldn't have thought that they were away, because that's my point,

770
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 1: that the weather made it so weird that you almost

771
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:25,279
Speaker 1: have to or at least I do, And I guess

772
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 1: Greg agrees that just got a whole judgment. Still on

773
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:30,759
Speaker 1: the Bills, Let's get him against Tampa on the road.

774
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:33,920
Speaker 1: And if the Bills really are messed up or doomed

775
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:36,839
Speaker 1: as you said on Tuesday, Um, then they will lose

776
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:38,879
Speaker 1: this game, and they will beat the Panthers the next

777
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:41,319
Speaker 1: week probably and then lose again to New England, and

778
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:43,840
Speaker 1: that will be their fate. Um. I'm just not ready

779
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:46,759
Speaker 1: to go there. I think there is maybe something within

780
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:49,879
Speaker 1: this team and maybe a frustrating loss where not only

781
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 1: did you get beat in a really tough game in

782
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:54,279
Speaker 1: prime time, after the game you rubbed the wrong way

783
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 1: the way people try to spin the game, UM as

784
00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:00,360
Speaker 1: some type of uh you know, addressing week this is

785
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:02,319
Speaker 1: that we're exposed in a big spot. I think they're

786
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 1: mad about all that. I think the Bucks are and try.

787
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:05,920
Speaker 1: I think the Bills are gonna win this game. I

788
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:07,840
Speaker 1: go that far I think they got this. I I

789
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 1: don't want to go down like hot Take Avenue with this,

790
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:13,400
Speaker 1: like I did with like multiple teams in both conferences

791
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:15,680
Speaker 1: a week ago. It is a layer cake to me

792
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:18,920
Speaker 1: of displeasure for the Bills, because the first layer is

793
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:22,759
Speaker 1: the Titans loss. The second layers that Jaguars debacle. The

794
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:26,360
Speaker 1: third layer was getting totally thumped and outmanned by the Cults.

795
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 1: The fourth layer is the Patriots game. How many more

796
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:31,200
Speaker 1: layers on this cake do we need for me to

797
00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 1: lose a little bit of faith that this team is

798
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:37,200
Speaker 1: not last beyond McDermott. McDermott's own words and frustrations. Don't

799
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:39,279
Speaker 1: have any more faith, You're out. I don't have no faith,

800
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 1: you said. I'm more. I'm in a different place than

801
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 1: you like. If they beat the Bucks, I will allow

802
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:46,960
Speaker 1: some of those sins to float down the river. But

803
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 1: I don't just ignore the game because it was in

804
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:52,080
Speaker 1: poor weather or anything else that's happened. It's all part

805
00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 1: of the story that that's fair. And yet when I

806
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:57,280
Speaker 1: look at this matchup, it's not the things that everyone's

807
00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 1: talking about that I'm worried about the Bills. It is

808
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:03,320
Speaker 1: their path, same game it is Josh Allen, Stefon, dig Sanders, Knox,

809
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:06,000
Speaker 1: Gabe Davis. Because for this team to make sense, and

810
00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 1: I think that's why McDermott so frustrated. They need to

811
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:12,799
Speaker 1: be like the Bills. They're having the same feelings, uh

812
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:15,799
Speaker 1: that the Chiefs are having right now, except when they're

813
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:17,920
Speaker 1: going up against good team. You know they're they're having

814
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:20,600
Speaker 1: a tougher schedule. Basically, you look at this match of

815
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 1: Bill's Bucks. Can the Bills really get after Tom Brady?

816
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't really and that was Atlanta,

817
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:32,000
Speaker 1: But even then, like Tristan Worse, hasn't given up a

818
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:34,879
Speaker 1: pressure since Week eight, Tom Brady is still the best

819
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:38,360
Speaker 1: quarterback in football. I think when he's given time, like

820
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:40,759
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, isn't that close. So if you got that

821
00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:43,000
Speaker 1: big of an edge at quarterback, I don't think that.

822
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:45,440
Speaker 1: To me. The coaching is a wash here and you

823
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:47,720
Speaker 1: give the Bucks a little bit of an edge. Great game.

824
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:51,399
Speaker 1: Can't wait to watch it. What a freaking pick at

825
00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:54,839
Speaker 1: number maybe one of the best. I'm about to have,

826
00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:57,879
Speaker 1: one of the best drafts anyone's had. I gave Dan

827
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:00,320
Speaker 1: a good draft. I feel like I helped make you happy.

828
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:02,239
Speaker 1: The reason why I didn't take it, Greg, is because

829
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:05,359
Speaker 1: I knew. I knew my late afternoon is gonna be

830
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:08,080
Speaker 1: bills at Bucks and niners at Bengals. So all I

831
00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:11,480
Speaker 1: needed was to take my Ravens and Browns and then

832
00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:15,319
Speaker 1: hopefully they that those two games stay on mark by

833
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 1: the time I come back around. Didn't work out that

834
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:19,520
Speaker 1: way for the old zeuser. Well, that that's doing a

835
00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 1: disservice to your other four pm game. I'm taking an

836
00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:24,560
Speaker 1: early game now. And wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,

837
00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:28,040
Speaker 1: before you go calm down, we have we have someone

838
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 1: else that wants to talk about this game. It's a

839
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:34,560
Speaker 1: Westling brother. Hello, heroes, Phil here Week four Keen and

840
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:37,480
Speaker 1: the west Lane Boys desperately need a win. I only

841
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:40,640
Speaker 1: have one recording this week, or maybe another one if

842
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:43,400
Speaker 1: things start going sideways. Made game. I had zero in

843
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:46,840
Speaker 1: my brother, So you know what that means. No Bengals

844
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:50,120
Speaker 1: and it's something Mackie and me. Sean McDermott, you got

845
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:53,000
Speaker 1: outcoached last week by the goat when the Pets only

846
00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:56,839
Speaker 1: through three passes and you couldn't even own it. This week,

847
00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:59,719
Speaker 1: you're going against another goat who was guaranteed to threat

848
00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 1: more in three passes unless for Net runs all over

849
00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:10,560
Speaker 1: you to pop off, bucks over bills, lock it up. Yeah,

850
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:13,759
Speaker 1: there is a delicious little irony that the people of

851
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:16,279
Speaker 1: Western New York aren't going to want to hear. But

852
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:19,239
Speaker 1: there's a chance that Tom Brady and Bill Belichick end

853
00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 1: your season and forces again. I hadn't even thought of that.

854
00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:27,960
Speaker 1: You're joining forces. And by the way, Nick Westling did

855
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:31,720
Speaker 1: he sent two files last week, and one I guess

856
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:34,239
Speaker 1: was I don't listen he sends the Western Brothers sent

857
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:37,400
Speaker 1: me a file. I never listened until the show I

858
00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:40,240
Speaker 1: and he said he sent one and then said, actually,

859
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:42,840
Speaker 1: don't use that one, use this one. So I was like, okay,

860
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:44,759
Speaker 1: and I sent that one on to Ricky. I need

861
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:46,239
Speaker 1: to just get out of this business. They just need

862
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:48,560
Speaker 1: to send it straight to Ricky. But I just it's

863
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:50,680
Speaker 1: amazing to me. So Nick was telling the truth. He

864
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:53,680
Speaker 1: did have two files, one locking up the Bengals, one

865
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:56,960
Speaker 1: locking up the Chargers. But who does that? Well? I

866
00:42:57,040 --> 00:42:58,920
Speaker 1: also did you dirty? I thought on Twitter? And we

867
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:01,160
Speaker 1: don't need to go down that road. But how about

868
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 1: this um? Being a middleman is never a good role.

869
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:06,360
Speaker 1: You don't need to keep be a middleman at this point,

870
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:08,239
Speaker 1: it's not it's not a smart for you. I think

871
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:10,240
Speaker 1: I gotta get out of the middle, net Ricky going forward.

872
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 1: Can we just get the Westling Brothers to send it

873
00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:16,720
Speaker 1: to you? Yeah, all right, here we go. Let's move on. Greg. Sorry,

874
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:20,360
Speaker 1: without further adode Greggy with the Cowboys. It's the Washington

875
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:26,960
Speaker 1: football team. It's early. It's important if Washington wins this game.

876
00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:30,279
Speaker 1: I'm excited about this game. I really am, because I

877
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:36,240
Speaker 1: have somewhat openly thought this Washington run a little phony,

878
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:39,360
Speaker 1: not quite buying it. Like it's fine, like they it

879
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:45,680
Speaker 1: makes sense. They deserve credit. They've they've beaten some bad

880
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:49,240
Speaker 1: offenses with some well coached defense. Like give Ron Rivera

881
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:51,799
Speaker 1: a lot of credit. Taylor Heineke playing better for a

882
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:56,439
Speaker 1: month overall, uh than I expected. But to me, there's

883
00:43:56,440 --> 00:43:58,960
Speaker 1: still a seven or eight type of win team. And

884
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:02,120
Speaker 1: now you're going up again Dallas in a game where okay,

885
00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:05,920
Speaker 1: it's de Marcus Lawrence's second game back. Cooper was just

886
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:09,239
Speaker 1: coming off COVID wasn't totally right in terms of the

887
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 1: snap count a week ago. Now they've got a little

888
00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:15,239
Speaker 1: extra rest coming off that Thursday game. It's you know,

889
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:21,239
Speaker 1: it's Lamb, Cooper, Martin, Tyron Smith, Gallop Zeke. All of

890
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:24,960
Speaker 1: those guys had actually never played together with Lyle Collins

891
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:28,000
Speaker 1: until a week ago, and now here we're back again.

892
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:30,839
Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, you add Randy Gregory, who

893
00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:33,520
Speaker 1: looked like a pro bowler earlier in the season, is back.

894
00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:37,560
Speaker 1: Neville Gallimore, who's their best interior lineman from a year ago,

895
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:40,080
Speaker 1: is gonna play for the first time all season. I

896
00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:43,520
Speaker 1: think this Washington offensive line has been well coached up,

897
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 1: but it's like, I don't think Taylor Heineke can go

898
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:48,640
Speaker 1: up and down the field on this defense. And if

899
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:50,680
Speaker 1: you can't do that, I think this game ends up

900
00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:53,200
Speaker 1: being a little sideways. And that's why I'm locking up

901
00:44:53,200 --> 00:45:02,719
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. That's right. Dramatic pause. Well we'll let it.

902
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 1: And I was trying to fit no, I love that gap. Um.

903
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:07,759
Speaker 1: I was trying to figure out, like, who do I

904
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:12,000
Speaker 1: lock up this week? And then I heard Mike McCarthy.

905
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:18,800
Speaker 1: You know we're gonna win this game. I'm confident that. Yeah, baby,

906
00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:21,320
Speaker 1: I'm locking up the voice too. Oh, I thought you

907
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:30,040
Speaker 1: right back. It's Mike McCarthy, Yes, the mastermind behind it all. Yeah, Marky, Well,

908
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:34,359
Speaker 1: so what we often frown on Cowboys Cowboys Hubris. In

909
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:36,480
Speaker 1: this case, I kind of love what he did. I

910
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 1: with you. I think this is maybe where the rainbow

911
00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:42,840
Speaker 1: ends for Washington. Uh, it's just I don't like the

912
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:45,120
Speaker 1: matchup on any level. A lot of things have gone

913
00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:48,880
Speaker 1: right for them. That said, if Dallas lost this, utter

914
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:52,120
Speaker 1: chaos would be unleashed on that Organisa, you here, play Mike,

915
00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:56,600
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy again, Ricky, please, you know we're gonna win

916
00:45:56,640 --> 00:46:00,000
Speaker 1: this game. I'm confident in that. It sounds let spoke.

917
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:03,080
Speaker 1: It sounds a little bit like he's does he sound

918
00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:05,720
Speaker 1: that confident? It looks like he's like, I'm looking past

919
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:07,920
Speaker 1: this game. We're gonna win this game, and then we're

920
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:10,680
Speaker 1: gonna move on and continue to win football games. It

921
00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:14,439
Speaker 1: would the NFC East is there's if they win this game.

922
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:16,239
Speaker 1: And yeah, I'm with you, Greg. Everything you said is

923
00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:18,120
Speaker 1: the reason why I locked the game up. I think

924
00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:21,560
Speaker 1: Washington deserves credit for making the season interesting, especially especially

925
00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:23,839
Speaker 1: with Chase Young going down Mantes sweat. By the way,

926
00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:26,960
Speaker 1: we talked about his broken jaw. Uh and uh, he

927
00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 1: is supposed to come back, but then he got COVID

928
00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:34,600
Speaker 1: and he's not vaccinated. Yeah, he is out now for

929
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 1: at least ten days. I think it is what it is,

930
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:38,960
Speaker 1: and then he has to not test positive and all

931
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:41,680
Speaker 1: that stuff. So it's been a nice story that the

932
00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:44,960
Speaker 1: defense has gotten off the mat, even though they're underman uh.

933
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 1: Tellor Heineke has been obviously a nice story. Antonio Gibson

934
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 1: is a really good player. Um. But they shouldn't have

935
00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:52,800
Speaker 1: one last week, all right? They did win the Raiders

936
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:55,680
Speaker 1: blew that game, uh in three different ways. I didn't

937
00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:57,719
Speaker 1: think the Washington football team played that well in that

938
00:46:57,719 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 1: guy game and got away with some things. I think

939
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:01,960
Speaker 1: the I think it ends here. The buckstops here is

940
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:04,359
Speaker 1: the Cowboys take control of the unbseased question for you,

941
00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:07,080
Speaker 1: and I hate to keep doing this, but was it

942
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:10,319
Speaker 1: a nice story that they waxed the Buccaneers the team

943
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:12,719
Speaker 1: that we now call the team that will decide what

944
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:15,560
Speaker 1: we think of the Buffalo Bills. I'm just saying Washington

945
00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:18,480
Speaker 1: is not something. This is not a flukey scenario. They

946
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:20,640
Speaker 1: they have shored things up. We've seen this under Ron

947
00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:23,600
Speaker 1: Rivera before. The offense I think has gotten has grown

948
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:26,440
Speaker 1: as much as the up. No, I'm good with my

949
00:47:26,520 --> 00:47:28,359
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I'm with you like, that's why

950
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:30,200
Speaker 1: it's it's like, well in the lock zone, Like it

951
00:47:30,239 --> 00:47:34,400
Speaker 1: wouldn't stun me that Washington won this game because I

952
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:36,880
Speaker 1: think they've shown us who they are, which is a

953
00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:41,719
Speaker 1: pretty close to average competitive team. I believe the Cowboys

954
00:47:41,719 --> 00:47:44,200
Speaker 1: are better than that. They to be fair, and we

955
00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:46,520
Speaker 1: talked about it on Tuesday with Jane, they just haven't.

956
00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:49,720
Speaker 1: They haven't shown it, not offensively. I think their defense

957
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:52,359
Speaker 1: has been pretty consistent in who they are that they're

958
00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:57,080
Speaker 1: there's they're spunky, they're sparky, they're they're overachievers, they're they're fine.

959
00:47:57,400 --> 00:48:00,680
Speaker 1: It's the it's the offense. It's Dak and in all

960
00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:02,960
Speaker 1: the weapons actually that haven't been able to get into

961
00:48:03,040 --> 00:48:05,520
Speaker 1: full flow, and that included in that Sades game that

962
00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 1: they couldn't. They had seven possessions, you know, Taysom Hill

963
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:10,480
Speaker 1: kept turning it back over. But I just believe in

964
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:12,440
Speaker 1: talent over the long run that it will come around

965
00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 1: there too. Towns well, and it's one of these things

966
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:17,719
Speaker 1: whenever they say like this this offense versus this surging defense,

967
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:20,040
Speaker 1: they match up really well. And the Cowboys have the

968
00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:22,040
Speaker 1: second point most points per game in the league, the

969
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:24,280
Speaker 1: first in yardage and a lot of that is waited

970
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:25,759
Speaker 1: from earlier in the year when they weren't in this

971
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:29,600
Speaker 1: post Broncos slump. But it always favors the offense when

972
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:32,600
Speaker 1: that stuff happens. I don't love the matchup for Washington, um,

973
00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:35,640
Speaker 1: and I will say that the Cowboys, And we talked

974
00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:36,920
Speaker 1: about this with Jane, and I thought it was an

975
00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 1: interesting theory. Well, I don't know if it what it

976
00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:42,399
Speaker 1: means ultimately, but um, he hasn't played that well since

977
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:45,080
Speaker 1: he came back from the calf. Jane said she wonders

978
00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 1: if there's some type of mental component to it, the

979
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:50,279
Speaker 1: calf injury, the leg injury last year, that he's not

980
00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:51,839
Speaker 1: trusting his body in the same way and that might

981
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:53,440
Speaker 1: be affecting his play. I don't know, but he has

982
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:56,080
Speaker 1: not been as good. They need Dak to really uh

983
00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:59,759
Speaker 1: light him up. He's been so different too. He he's

984
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:02,520
Speaker 1: at Sally, I think made more big time throws in

985
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:05,920
Speaker 1: the last two games than any two games stretch off season,

986
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:09,640
Speaker 1: like more like, oh my god throws. But he hasn't

987
00:49:09,719 --> 00:49:12,080
Speaker 1: been doing this stuff where he like reads everything and

988
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:14,240
Speaker 1: knows what's going on, and he hasn't looked like poise

989
00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:17,200
Speaker 1: they're comfortable. It's like the total opposite of how he started.

990
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:18,759
Speaker 1: Left the Saints hanging around of that game and a

991
00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 1: lot of it. Alright, let's take a break and then

992
00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:27,160
Speaker 1: we will move up. All right, we're back Mark, It

993
00:49:27,320 --> 00:49:29,480
Speaker 1: is back to you, buddy. Well, I'm gonna pick a

994
00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:32,720
Speaker 1: late afternoon game here. I'm gonna go Giants at Chargers. Um,

995
00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:36,840
Speaker 1: based entirely on my interest in the Chargers, based not

996
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:40,640
Speaker 1: on any level in my interests of the Giants. I mean, look,

997
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:43,560
Speaker 1: we're back here again, though with Corona. Because Keenan Allen,

998
00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:47,040
Speaker 1: who is vaccinated has COVID, has a chance to play.

999
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:49,560
Speaker 1: It sounds like that he that he probably will because

1000
00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:53,799
Speaker 1: the five day window started on Monday. Mike Williams was

1001
00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:57,600
Speaker 1: he has though, well he's been. He's in that COVID

1002
00:49:57,800 --> 00:50:01,120
Speaker 1: world where we don't know, I don't know. Like Williams

1003
00:50:01,239 --> 00:50:04,040
Speaker 1: was a close contact, he's not vaccinated. They still say

1004
00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:06,040
Speaker 1: he has a chance to play based on when it

1005
00:50:06,080 --> 00:50:09,040
Speaker 1: all occurred. Chris Harris on the defense also was a

1006
00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:12,040
Speaker 1: close contact. So if you lose, if you ever weren't

1007
00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:15,080
Speaker 1: with Williams or Keenan Allen, which I think they will be, UM,

1008
00:50:15,120 --> 00:50:18,360
Speaker 1: it would kind of unspool everything that we saw Herbert

1009
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:22,320
Speaker 1: and Mike Williams achieved last week, which was a long

1010
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:24,960
Speaker 1: awaited deep shots down field that took some of this

1011
00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:27,960
Speaker 1: heat off of Joe Lombardi. Um. On the giant side,

1012
00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:30,879
Speaker 1: it sounds like Daniel Jones has a chance to play

1013
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:33,760
Speaker 1: on where we are here on Thursday. Um, Mike Glennan

1014
00:50:34,080 --> 00:50:36,200
Speaker 1: has a concussion at this point if he couldn't go.

1015
00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:39,560
Speaker 1: Jake from State Farm, I guess is like the third

1016
00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:42,920
Speaker 1: guy mix. I mean, I'm with you the dream and

1017
00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:45,480
Speaker 1: are a conversation for the offseason at this point. I

1018
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:48,760
Speaker 1: think with the with the Chargers, it's like, okay, guys,

1019
00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:52,359
Speaker 1: let us know, like handle your business back to us, uh,

1020
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:55,319
Speaker 1: you know, after this Sunday of games and let us

1021
00:50:55,320 --> 00:50:58,040
Speaker 1: know if we should take you seriously because they could

1022
00:50:58,040 --> 00:50:59,480
Speaker 1: be a disruptor in the a f C. They could

1023
00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:01,600
Speaker 1: be a team it comes up, goes from being an

1024
00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:04,960
Speaker 1: inconsistent up and down entity to bang, all of a sudden,

1025
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:06,600
Speaker 1: they're playing the a f C title game. They have

1026
00:51:06,719 --> 00:51:10,279
Speaker 1: that type of ceiling, but you need to see that consistency,

1027
00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:12,640
Speaker 1: you got it. They need to do with the Cults

1028
00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:14,760
Speaker 1: of Mastered, which is oh you're giving us a layup

1029
00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:16,959
Speaker 1: on the schedule. We're gonna slam that mother down, gonna

1030
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:19,200
Speaker 1: handle it. We are gonna take care of business. I

1031
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 1: loved what I saw out of their defensive line last week.

1032
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:25,080
Speaker 1: It was by far their best defensive line performance of

1033
00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:26,800
Speaker 1: the year. It kind of came out of nowhere. Bosta

1034
00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:29,680
Speaker 1: wasn't even on the field. Uh. They've also been a

1035
00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:33,080
Speaker 1: good run defense since thereby, like that idea that that's

1036
00:51:33,120 --> 00:51:37,319
Speaker 1: their huge weakness isn't borne out by stats or the

1037
00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:40,000
Speaker 1: eye tests. For about five weeks now, they've kind of

1038
00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:43,719
Speaker 1: solved that, so you see some things coming around. Mike

1039
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:47,399
Speaker 1: Williams is loosely expected to play because he's the close

1040
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:50,240
Speaker 1: contact Keenan Allen. Yeah, would have to pass the test

1041
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:53,799
Speaker 1: as much as people got on Rogers for being unvaccinated. Like,

1042
00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:56,239
Speaker 1: I haven't seen anyone get COVID on a Monday and

1043
00:51:56,280 --> 00:51:58,279
Speaker 1: play on a Sunday. I've been watching this, so it's

1044
00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:03,480
Speaker 1: unlikely it's possible. But the timing, because everyone makes this

1045
00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:06,040
Speaker 1: huge deal, it's like, well, then you're gonna at least

1046
00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:08,719
Speaker 1: be out a week if you're show me the vaccinated

1047
00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:12,640
Speaker 1: guys that are testing negative just five days later, it's

1048
00:52:12,680 --> 00:52:15,040
Speaker 1: hard to do. Like it's the optimism on the on

1049
00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:17,719
Speaker 1: these reports through me because right it's it's so a

1050
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:20,040
Speaker 1: typical Mike Williams should be back because he's a close

1051
00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:22,279
Speaker 1: content and Chris Harris. I know we don't want to

1052
00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:25,120
Speaker 1: talk about the Giants, but this no Giants running back

1053
00:52:25,160 --> 00:52:28,640
Speaker 1: or wide receivers scored a touchdown since October. It does

1054
00:52:28,680 --> 00:52:30,680
Speaker 1: not speak to the talent. It speaks that they have

1055
00:52:30,760 --> 00:52:34,200
Speaker 1: had zero availability of the roster. It costs their offensive

1056
00:52:34,239 --> 00:52:36,919
Speaker 1: coordinator getting fired. It's just like this Giant's team needs

1057
00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:38,359
Speaker 1: to go to sleep, and they got a joe. They

1058
00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:40,880
Speaker 1: got a coach afraid of his own shadow, calling punts

1059
00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:44,280
Speaker 1: while he's down four in the opposing territory. Mike Glennon

1060
00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:46,840
Speaker 1: on your quarterback, Jake from give me a promote this

1061
00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:52,399
Speaker 1: all right, let's move on. I am up a spot here,

1062
00:52:52,440 --> 00:52:55,359
Speaker 1: you guys, bang me in the biggest of all spots. Um,

1063
00:52:55,400 --> 00:52:59,720
Speaker 1: I will grab the Raiders at Chiefs in the early window.

1064
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:01,960
Speaker 1: Puts me in a tough situation with the Jets, but

1065
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:06,360
Speaker 1: I'll live with it. Um, all right, same thing with Raiders.

1066
00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:09,360
Speaker 1: You know, I think the Raiders are. I think the

1067
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:12,160
Speaker 1: Raiders are and also ran. Ultimately, I'm not um. I've

1068
00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:14,359
Speaker 1: gotten to the point where I've seen enough of them,

1069
00:53:14,840 --> 00:53:16,920
Speaker 1: uh to know that how this is gonna end, It's

1070
00:53:16,920 --> 00:53:19,080
Speaker 1: gonna end in a little bit of disappointment. Eight nine,

1071
00:53:19,160 --> 00:53:21,920
Speaker 1: nine and eight. So what what interests me more? And

1072
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:25,719
Speaker 1: I could be wrong because everyone's been wrong all season one?

1073
00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:28,759
Speaker 1: Maybe the Raiders rise up, maybe the starting here, they

1074
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:31,200
Speaker 1: beat the Chiefs at Arrowhead, then they go to Cleveland

1075
00:53:31,239 --> 00:53:33,040
Speaker 1: and win, and then they win at Denver in their

1076
00:53:33,120 --> 00:53:35,160
Speaker 1: nine and six or two weeks ago. Maybe that happens.

1077
00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:37,799
Speaker 1: Probably not, though I think the Chiefs again, with their

1078
00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:40,440
Speaker 1: defense playing as well as it has and with the

1079
00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:44,040
Speaker 1: Raiders accepting the one game on Thanksgiving Night, that offense

1080
00:53:44,080 --> 00:53:46,440
Speaker 1: has been as bad as it's been, We're gonna get

1081
00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:48,440
Speaker 1: another one of these twenty two to nine wins for

1082
00:53:48,440 --> 00:53:50,359
Speaker 1: the Chiefs because I am out and I am out

1083
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:56,120
Speaker 1: of the business finally, effectively, uh, Sunday night of saying

1084
00:53:56,160 --> 00:53:57,920
Speaker 1: I think the Chiefs are gonna come around on offense,

1085
00:53:57,960 --> 00:54:00,839
Speaker 1: I just don't see it. It's not. But when they

1086
00:54:00,840 --> 00:54:03,520
Speaker 1: play the Raiders. That was the one game that was

1087
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:07,040
Speaker 1: the forty bomber, uh that everyone was like everything solved,

1088
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:09,440
Speaker 1: but No, it's like, actually, you just for playing the

1089
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:11,600
Speaker 1: Raiders and that matchup work for you. But maybe it'll

1090
00:54:11,640 --> 00:54:14,239
Speaker 1: work again. Maybe, But it just there's it's not a

1091
00:54:14,280 --> 00:54:17,640
Speaker 1: slump anymore. It's something systemically wrong with what they're doing,

1092
00:54:17,719 --> 00:54:19,960
Speaker 1: or it's a personnel or whatever it is. I think

1093
00:54:19,960 --> 00:54:22,480
Speaker 1: it's more likely at this point that this is something

1094
00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:24,600
Speaker 1: they could fix in the off season. That's something they

1095
00:54:24,600 --> 00:54:27,560
Speaker 1: could fix in December and January. That's just that's where

1096
00:54:27,560 --> 00:54:30,239
Speaker 1: I'm at. But and that's why the defense, as good

1097
00:54:30,239 --> 00:54:32,440
Speaker 1: as it's been, they strike me as a team that

1098
00:54:32,560 --> 00:54:34,400
Speaker 1: is going to get picked off in January and it's

1099
00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:37,160
Speaker 1: gonna be seen as a big upset. But at the

1100
00:54:37,200 --> 00:54:40,000
Speaker 1: same time, now now it's come down to Steve Spags

1101
00:54:40,040 --> 00:54:42,320
Speaker 1: having a bad day at the office to save the Chiefs.

1102
00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:44,680
Speaker 1: I think that's the more likely destination. So yes, I

1103
00:54:44,880 --> 00:54:46,880
Speaker 1: like the Chiefs this week. I like them in another

1104
00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:49,480
Speaker 1: low scoring win where the defense carries the day and

1105
00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:52,560
Speaker 1: Mahomes does just enough. But I think the Chiefs have

1106
00:54:52,640 --> 00:54:54,239
Speaker 1: major issues. Do you like them by nine and a

1107
00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:56,920
Speaker 1: half points? This was one of the toughest games I

1108
00:54:56,960 --> 00:54:59,200
Speaker 1: thought to pick against the Spirit. It's gonna be right there.

1109
00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:04,759
Speaker 1: It's gonna be that's how they get you. I think

1110
00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:09,480
Speaker 1: they can solve their problems this season because I think

1111
00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:14,640
Speaker 1: a lot of it is on Patrick Mahomes. It's he's

1112
00:55:14,680 --> 00:55:18,000
Speaker 1: just not as accurate, Like I think there are plays

1113
00:55:18,040 --> 00:55:21,520
Speaker 1: there to be made. He's a lot of the interceptions

1114
00:55:21,719 --> 00:55:25,040
Speaker 1: have been bad luck and everything. But he also just

1115
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:27,719
Speaker 1: is missing a lot of throws. Like if you look

1116
00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:30,319
Speaker 1: at him and Stafford, I think are very similar in

1117
00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:33,800
Speaker 1: that if you look at their like on target throw

1118
00:55:34,080 --> 00:55:36,840
Speaker 1: rate that like PFF does in terms of putting the

1119
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:38,800
Speaker 1: ball in the right spot, there was a ball location

1120
00:55:39,080 --> 00:55:40,840
Speaker 1: like they just they've just been missing a lot of

1121
00:55:40,840 --> 00:55:43,239
Speaker 1: throws and that's hasn't been the case with Mahomes. I

1122
00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:46,200
Speaker 1: don't know why that is, and I think it can change.

1123
00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:49,000
Speaker 1: I would. I just I've seen too much good play

1124
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:51,239
Speaker 1: out of him. I can't imagine that Andy Reid just

1125
00:55:51,239 --> 00:55:53,279
Speaker 1: doesn't know how to coach offensive football and they don't

1126
00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:56,160
Speaker 1: have the right player. It's not that Andy is no

1127
00:55:56,200 --> 00:55:58,160
Speaker 1: longer a good coaching and Mahomes is no longer the

1128
00:55:58,200 --> 00:56:01,600
Speaker 1: most talented quarterback of his generation. There's something that's just

1129
00:56:01,719 --> 00:56:05,160
Speaker 1: something in the mix here that's beyond like a body

1130
00:56:05,160 --> 00:56:07,800
Speaker 1: switch comedy and now it's rich co type coaching and

1131
00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:10,120
Speaker 1: Ken O'Brien a quarterback, Like something else is going on.

1132
00:56:10,160 --> 00:56:12,200
Speaker 1: I mean, before I knew you, guys, I was stuck

1133
00:56:12,239 --> 00:56:15,759
Speaker 1: in these like laundry list of terrible corporate jobs. And

1134
00:56:15,840 --> 00:56:18,800
Speaker 1: one Christmas they gave us as a gift. You're welcome

1135
00:56:18,840 --> 00:56:23,120
Speaker 1: by this. We saved from that. That's true. I was

1136
00:56:23,200 --> 00:56:24,799
Speaker 1: hired before you and taught you how to use the

1137
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:27,480
Speaker 1: you know, the theater system. But I will, I'll look

1138
00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:29,400
Speaker 1: at it that way. But it's just Jim Ryan and

1139
00:56:29,480 --> 00:56:32,600
Speaker 1: a good day in New York YouTube video. Well I'm

1140
00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:36,480
Speaker 1: not your boss anymore. That's more. But that they gave

1141
00:56:36,560 --> 00:56:39,040
Speaker 1: us this book, that hideous corporate book, Good Too Great,

1142
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:41,520
Speaker 1: which I threw right in a trash can. But I

1143
00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:44,600
Speaker 1: think the chiefs are more authoring, like a sequel that

1144
00:56:44,640 --> 00:56:46,360
Speaker 1: I think more people can relate to, which is like

1145
00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:49,600
Speaker 1: great too Good, Like they that's what they are this year.

1146
00:56:49,640 --> 00:56:51,839
Speaker 1: It's fine. And like if you look at even some

1147
00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:54,440
Speaker 1: of the best quarterbacks, and I think Mahomes came out

1148
00:56:54,480 --> 00:56:57,080
Speaker 1: like such a fireball. And it's the way he plays,

1149
00:56:57,520 --> 00:56:59,439
Speaker 1: uh you know that, you know it's not the same

1150
00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:02,040
Speaker 1: throw every time he does things that are special, that are,

1151
00:57:02,120 --> 00:57:06,439
Speaker 1: you know, visually off the charts. But every quarterback has

1152
00:57:06,480 --> 00:57:09,359
Speaker 1: these seasons where after a couple of great years, they

1153
00:57:09,400 --> 00:57:11,160
Speaker 1: regress a little bit. And I think that the function

1154
00:57:11,200 --> 00:57:13,040
Speaker 1: of the whole offense is part of it. And you

1155
00:57:13,040 --> 00:57:15,799
Speaker 1: look at Tyreek Hill and Travis Kelsey's numbers, it's just

1156
00:57:15,840 --> 00:57:18,080
Speaker 1: we just assume that they're off too, Like they're still

1157
00:57:19,080 --> 00:57:22,920
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill's numbers are still incredible compared to other wideouts

1158
00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:25,320
Speaker 1: in the league and stuff. They just don't seem to

1159
00:57:25,360 --> 00:57:28,640
Speaker 1: have that special sauce this year. And I think it's

1160
00:57:28,680 --> 00:57:34,040
Speaker 1: just who I mean, well, I guess, like I'm wondering.

1161
00:57:34,080 --> 00:57:40,280
Speaker 1: I think it's just not very much physically, I think slightly. Yeah,

1162
00:57:40,480 --> 00:57:42,520
Speaker 1: I just think that we're like and Dan, I'm happy

1163
00:57:42,560 --> 00:57:44,280
Speaker 1: to hear you say that you've gotten off this train

1164
00:57:44,360 --> 00:57:46,560
Speaker 1: because we could all be wrong, like that's pretty much

1165
00:57:47,120 --> 00:57:49,840
Speaker 1: of what we do. But like, I'm not waiting around

1166
00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:52,120
Speaker 1: for them to be the Chief's offense from two years ago.

1167
00:57:52,400 --> 00:57:54,120
Speaker 1: And I don't see it. I think the Chiefs fans

1168
00:57:54,120 --> 00:57:55,800
Speaker 1: who are trying to make the point, like if the

1169
00:57:55,840 --> 00:57:58,919
Speaker 1: Patriots have this run or the Ravens have this run

1170
00:57:58,960 --> 00:58:01,640
Speaker 1: with these scores like no one's complaining about the style

1171
00:58:01,720 --> 00:58:05,080
Speaker 1: points that there is something too everyone's complaining. That's what

1172
00:58:05,120 --> 00:58:07,920
Speaker 1: I mean. Like, if it was those teams winning with

1173
00:58:07,960 --> 00:58:11,160
Speaker 1: those scores, no one would be plaining about the Patriots

1174
00:58:11,240 --> 00:58:14,040
Speaker 1: or the Ravens. And yet because it's the Chiefs, everyone's complaining.

1175
00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:19,360
Speaker 1: They do get some credit for the institutional value of

1176
00:58:19,400 --> 00:58:21,840
Speaker 1: like we know how to win games, like we win

1177
00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:24,720
Speaker 1: more than everyone else. For for the Bills and the

1178
00:58:24,760 --> 00:58:27,480
Speaker 1: Browns and these teams that don't know how to stack

1179
00:58:27,600 --> 00:58:31,200
Speaker 1: year after year, Well here we are the Chiefs, you know,

1180
00:58:31,240 --> 00:58:34,120
Speaker 1: tied for the best record one half game behind in

1181
00:58:34,160 --> 00:58:37,560
Speaker 1: the A f C for the fourth straight year. Now

1182
00:58:37,560 --> 00:58:39,720
Speaker 1: they're doing it in a different way, but they do

1183
00:58:39,800 --> 00:58:41,680
Speaker 1: get a little credit here where it's it's all the

1184
00:58:41,720 --> 00:58:44,040
Speaker 1: same people running the ship that have gotten them to

1185
00:58:44,080 --> 00:58:47,200
Speaker 1: eight and four problem in a in a really blase

1186
00:58:47,800 --> 00:58:51,800
Speaker 1: Um low grade a f C. Yes, right, but they

1187
00:58:51,840 --> 00:58:54,560
Speaker 1: beat They beat the Packers and granted Jordan left that

1188
00:58:54,600 --> 00:58:56,920
Speaker 1: one didn't kind of count, but they beat the Cowboys.

1189
00:58:56,960 --> 00:59:00,480
Speaker 1: They've had And a point that you made Tuesday, or

1190
00:59:00,560 --> 00:59:02,800
Speaker 1: I guess the Monday Night Football Crew made Tuesday about

1191
00:59:02,800 --> 00:59:04,680
Speaker 1: the Patriots was like, oh, the only difference between this

1192
00:59:04,720 --> 00:59:07,520
Speaker 1: year and last year is they have better players now.

1193
00:59:07,760 --> 00:59:09,600
Speaker 1: It's also the a f C is worse this year

1194
00:59:09,600 --> 00:59:11,600
Speaker 1: than it was last year, right, so that really has

1195
00:59:11,600 --> 00:59:13,240
Speaker 1: helped the team like the Patriots and a team like

1196
00:59:13,280 --> 00:59:15,320
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, who I think because the a f C

1197
00:59:15,480 --> 00:59:17,439
Speaker 1: has been what it is, have been able to win

1198
00:59:17,480 --> 00:59:20,600
Speaker 1: eight of twelve despite having major offensive issues. And by

1199
00:59:20,600 --> 00:59:24,720
Speaker 1: the way, there's one thing some chaos. One thing that

1200
00:59:24,760 --> 00:59:27,000
Speaker 1: I want to be wrong about is the Chief's offense

1201
00:59:27,200 --> 00:59:29,640
Speaker 1: and and then turning it on because the league is

1202
00:59:29,680 --> 00:59:32,920
Speaker 1: just more fun when mahomes greatness is on display, uh

1203
00:59:32,960 --> 00:59:36,520
Speaker 1: in a really um profound way. So maybe it happens,

1204
00:59:36,720 --> 00:59:38,439
Speaker 1: but there's just so much evidence now that it won't.

1205
00:59:38,480 --> 00:59:40,920
Speaker 1: All Right, I feel like an anarchists, but I kind

1206
00:59:40,920 --> 00:59:42,840
Speaker 1: of like, what's I kind of like him not being

1207
00:59:42,920 --> 00:59:45,400
Speaker 1: like the centerpiece every week? How about when we were

1208
00:59:45,400 --> 00:59:47,480
Speaker 1: watching Sunday Night football and we're board to tears, Yeah,

1209
00:59:47,480 --> 00:59:49,200
Speaker 1: but I was more it was much more boyd with

1210
00:59:49,240 --> 00:59:50,760
Speaker 1: the team they were playing, which we'll get to at

1211
00:59:50,800 --> 00:59:54,160
Speaker 1: some point in this show, I know, but the fact

1212
00:59:54,200 --> 01:00:00,560
Speaker 1: that we're board watching the Chiefs side come home. So

1213
01:00:00,600 --> 01:00:02,960
Speaker 1: what I hear when I hear like the league is

1214
01:00:03,040 --> 01:00:05,400
Speaker 1: just so much better when like the Cowboys are good,

1215
01:00:05,480 --> 01:00:06,840
Speaker 1: or the league so much better when fill in the

1216
01:00:06,840 --> 01:00:09,360
Speaker 1: blankets like I t I typically agree with like thirty

1217
01:00:09,720 --> 01:00:11,920
Speaker 1: of those, and I don't need the Chiefs to like

1218
01:00:12,440 --> 01:00:14,960
Speaker 1: go blow everyone out week after week and being hearing

1219
01:00:15,000 --> 01:00:18,200
Speaker 1: about Tyreek Hill and Travis Kelsey it's a little personal.

1220
01:00:18,280 --> 01:00:20,960
Speaker 1: I get it because you know it happened against the Browns,

1221
01:00:22,200 --> 01:00:25,120
Speaker 1: but beyond that, I simply don't. It doesn't make my

1222
01:00:25,280 --> 01:00:27,840
Speaker 1: life so much better. I, like other teams, was slow

1223
01:00:27,920 --> 01:00:30,120
Speaker 1: on the uptake on that one. I didn't really did.

1224
01:00:30,240 --> 01:00:31,920
Speaker 1: That is like, that is a piece of it. It

1225
01:00:32,040 --> 01:00:34,520
Speaker 1: is not the entire thing. All right, let's snake it

1226
01:00:34,760 --> 01:00:37,360
Speaker 1: and it's a little it's got now it's getting sloppy,

1227
01:00:37,400 --> 01:00:39,560
Speaker 1: so let's let's pick up the pace here. I will

1228
01:00:39,600 --> 01:00:44,400
Speaker 1: grab the Saints at Jets. Um. The Saints is for them,

1229
01:00:44,840 --> 01:00:47,920
Speaker 1: lose and see you next year. You could say it's

1230
01:00:47,920 --> 01:00:51,680
Speaker 1: already that place for them because they yeah, they've been

1231
01:00:51,720 --> 01:00:54,440
Speaker 1: so bad for a long stretch now, but yeah, one

1232
01:00:54,480 --> 01:00:56,960
Speaker 1: game out of five and seven and they're at the

1233
01:00:56,960 --> 01:00:59,160
Speaker 1: mental ends. But no one's scared to go and play

1234
01:00:59,200 --> 01:01:03,480
Speaker 1: the Jets and Jersey, so uh, this This profiles against

1235
01:01:03,480 --> 01:01:07,600
Speaker 1: the Jets defense that has been unbelievably poor. Like that's

1236
01:01:07,640 --> 01:01:10,160
Speaker 1: to me. People could say, what's the biggest disappointment about

1237
01:01:10,160 --> 01:01:12,800
Speaker 1: this latest poor Jet season? Is it Zach Wilson not

1238
01:01:12,880 --> 01:01:16,920
Speaker 1: really fulfilling promise early on? No, because I'm not totally

1239
01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:19,680
Speaker 1: surprised by that he considering where he came out of

1240
01:01:19,800 --> 01:01:22,400
Speaker 1: college and the fact that he's so raw. We'll see

1241
01:01:22,440 --> 01:01:24,840
Speaker 1: what happens down the line. The Jets defense being the

1242
01:01:24,840 --> 01:01:27,800
Speaker 1: worst in football by a long shot, that was not expected,

1243
01:01:27,880 --> 01:01:30,840
Speaker 1: even after Carl Lawson went out with the injury and

1244
01:01:30,840 --> 01:01:33,800
Speaker 1: then eventually Marcus May. The fact that they are they

1245
01:01:33,800 --> 01:01:36,880
Speaker 1: would give up seven consecutive touchdown draw or scoring drives.

1246
01:01:36,880 --> 01:01:39,560
Speaker 1: To Gardner, means you that they would just get embarrassed

1247
01:01:39,560 --> 01:01:41,480
Speaker 1: on Thursday Night Football by the Colts in a way

1248
01:01:41,520 --> 01:01:45,360
Speaker 1: that was ungodly. Like, So, if Taysom Hills healthy enough

1249
01:01:45,400 --> 01:01:48,920
Speaker 1: to play at a strong level compared to what a

1250
01:01:49,000 --> 01:01:51,440
Speaker 1: skill set is, the Saints are gonna score a lot

1251
01:01:51,520 --> 01:01:53,760
Speaker 1: of points in this game. And it's going to be

1252
01:01:53,920 --> 01:01:56,480
Speaker 1: a Saint's romp because the Jets defense has reached the

1253
01:01:56,480 --> 01:01:59,760
Speaker 1: point where they do not compete, and you get Alvin

1254
01:02:00,000 --> 01:02:03,920
Speaker 1: are back expected to play. UH, mark Ingram is in

1255
01:02:03,960 --> 01:02:05,919
Speaker 1: Cam Jordan run the COVID list. Give me a break,

1256
01:02:05,920 --> 01:02:07,960
Speaker 1: This is like worse than last year, but the Jets

1257
01:02:08,320 --> 01:02:11,360
Speaker 1: third worst run defense dv o A wise, they've allowed

1258
01:02:11,360 --> 01:02:13,880
Speaker 1: a hundred yards on the ground twice all year, and hey,

1259
01:02:13,920 --> 01:02:16,320
Speaker 1: they have been utterly thrashed another weeks. So it's just

1260
01:02:16,680 --> 01:02:18,560
Speaker 1: with who the Saints have in the way they're built.

1261
01:02:18,840 --> 01:02:21,560
Speaker 1: It sets up well for New Orleans. Well, they're getting healthier,

1262
01:02:21,920 --> 01:02:25,480
Speaker 1: except for those COVID issues that would end UH consecutive

1263
01:02:25,480 --> 01:02:28,040
Speaker 1: start streak or game streak by Cam Jordan that I

1264
01:02:28,040 --> 01:02:31,360
Speaker 1: believe goes his entire career dates back to the late

1265
01:02:31,400 --> 01:02:34,000
Speaker 1: eighteen hundreds. Pretty pretty amazing for a defense eve end.

1266
01:02:34,040 --> 01:02:37,280
Speaker 1: I don't don't think he's ever missed a game. Taysom

1267
01:02:37,360 --> 01:02:41,320
Speaker 1: Hills practicing is expected to start. They're gonna get one

1268
01:02:41,360 --> 01:02:43,960
Speaker 1: of their two tackles back. It sounds like torn armstead.

1269
01:02:44,040 --> 01:02:46,840
Speaker 1: Ryan ramchucks still out of practice. The Jets are very

1270
01:02:46,840 --> 01:02:50,360
Speaker 1: banged up, actually missing UH quite a number of starters

1271
01:02:50,400 --> 01:02:53,600
Speaker 1: in practice, including both their top running backs have concussions

1272
01:02:53,600 --> 01:02:56,080
Speaker 1: and Elijah bore As a quad injury and as in practice.

1273
01:02:56,160 --> 01:02:58,800
Speaker 1: So it's a mess I was thinking, I was thinking right,

1274
01:02:58,800 --> 01:03:01,840
Speaker 1: I was thinking of Marcus Davenport's also back for the Saints.

1275
01:03:01,840 --> 01:03:04,040
Speaker 1: It's like with the Saints, it's often just like who's

1276
01:03:04,080 --> 01:03:07,560
Speaker 1: playing for this team. If enough people are playing, they're

1277
01:03:07,680 --> 01:03:10,600
Speaker 1: pretty darn competitive. And I think it's a very difficult

1278
01:03:10,680 --> 01:03:14,560
Speaker 1: matchup for um, your boy Zack Wilson. If he doesn't

1279
01:03:14,600 --> 01:03:17,920
Speaker 1: have his running game, it's very hard to run against

1280
01:03:17,920 --> 01:03:20,920
Speaker 1: the Saints, and he doesn't have Elijah More and Dennis

1281
01:03:20,960 --> 01:03:23,640
Speaker 1: Allen I think has done a great job this year,

1282
01:03:23,680 --> 01:03:25,880
Speaker 1: and I think is a particularly difficult guy to go

1283
01:03:25,960 --> 01:03:28,520
Speaker 1: up against for these young quarterbacks. Is they're just gonna

1284
01:03:28,600 --> 01:03:29,920
Speaker 1: send a lot at him. I don't know if you

1285
01:03:29,960 --> 01:03:32,240
Speaker 1: mentioned Corey Davis. He's out for them. Didn't He just

1286
01:03:32,320 --> 01:03:34,760
Speaker 1: had core surgery. Uh, he had a groin issue that

1287
01:03:34,920 --> 01:03:37,440
Speaker 1: got worse last week. And that is just like the

1288
01:03:37,520 --> 01:03:39,840
Speaker 1: Jets curse with these free agents. Every free agent they

1289
01:03:39,840 --> 01:03:43,080
Speaker 1: sign either plays well well below what they expected or

1290
01:03:43,080 --> 01:03:45,800
Speaker 1: they get hurt. It's just like a point where they're

1291
01:03:45,840 --> 01:03:48,720
Speaker 1: not having to make you know, splash free agency moves

1292
01:03:48,760 --> 01:03:51,320
Speaker 1: every year to like Corey Davis, isn't It was just

1293
01:03:51,360 --> 01:03:55,880
Speaker 1: like there are multiple splash people that have not worked out.

1294
01:03:56,280 --> 01:03:58,560
Speaker 1: Listening to this though, think like, no team is scoring

1295
01:03:58,600 --> 01:04:01,000
Speaker 1: a ton of points. I mean, we're not scoring a

1296
01:04:01,040 --> 01:04:02,800
Speaker 1: ton on any defense. I don't care how bad the

1297
01:04:02,880 --> 01:04:06,280
Speaker 1: Jets defense is. That's have you watched have you watched

1298
01:04:06,280 --> 01:04:08,720
Speaker 1: the Saints offense the last three weeks? It has been

1299
01:04:08,720 --> 01:04:12,240
Speaker 1: It's been a tough slog. Alright. I will say this, Um,

1300
01:04:12,400 --> 01:04:15,600
Speaker 1: the Saints struggle in the screen game within the post

1301
01:04:15,680 --> 01:04:18,400
Speaker 1: Drew Brees era uh with Tayson Milk. Just throw some

1302
01:04:18,440 --> 01:04:21,080
Speaker 1: screen passes down Camar and see what happens. This game

1303
01:04:21,160 --> 01:04:23,280
Speaker 1: is lockable. I thought about locking this up, but there's

1304
01:04:23,320 --> 01:04:25,520
Speaker 1: so many injuries. Yeah, I saw it too. I just don't.

1305
01:04:25,640 --> 01:04:28,960
Speaker 1: That's a gross move. I don't. Um. All right, let's

1306
01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:32,120
Speaker 1: now move on quickly. Mark, all right, I'm gonna go.

1307
01:04:32,440 --> 01:04:34,520
Speaker 1: I need a nice early game to pair with that

1308
01:04:34,640 --> 01:04:39,240
Speaker 1: Bengals Niners dreamy affair. That is gonna be a romp,

1309
01:04:39,280 --> 01:04:41,480
Speaker 1: I hope, and it's going to be the Titans verse

1310
01:04:41,600 --> 01:04:45,280
Speaker 1: the Jaguars. Um. This got on my radar. Jaguars wise

1311
01:04:45,680 --> 01:04:47,920
Speaker 1: number one to Julio Jones for the Titans. Sounds like

1312
01:04:47,920 --> 01:04:49,920
Speaker 1: he's back at practice. They'll get him back. That helps

1313
01:04:49,920 --> 01:04:53,160
Speaker 1: a little bit um for the Jaguars. Trevor Lawrence had

1314
01:04:53,160 --> 01:04:55,840
Speaker 1: to come out and say, we have that, actually, do

1315
01:04:55,880 --> 01:04:57,919
Speaker 1: you want to tee it up? And then well you've

1316
01:04:57,960 --> 01:05:00,720
Speaker 1: just teed it up. Trevor Lawrence that the number one

1317
01:05:00,760 --> 01:05:04,120
Speaker 1: overall pick who has struggled, uh to lead this offense

1318
01:05:04,120 --> 01:05:07,320
Speaker 1: two points this year. Um came out in the media.

1319
01:05:07,680 --> 01:05:11,400
Speaker 1: James Robinson, their best offensive player at running back, has

1320
01:05:11,440 --> 01:05:14,040
Speaker 1: been getting benched a ton this year for fumble issues.

1321
01:05:14,360 --> 01:05:17,040
Speaker 1: Although Carlos Hyde when he fumbles, he doesn't get better.

1322
01:05:17,040 --> 01:05:19,000
Speaker 1: It's a whole thing and it speaks to maybe a

1323
01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:20,960
Speaker 1: bigger issue behind the scenes. This is what Trevor Lawrence

1324
01:05:21,240 --> 01:05:24,040
Speaker 1: said to the media this week. Um, I honestly don't

1325
01:05:24,040 --> 01:05:25,840
Speaker 1: even know everything that went into it. You know, I'm

1326
01:05:25,840 --> 01:05:27,600
Speaker 1: playing the game and stuff happens in the sideline with

1327
01:05:27,640 --> 01:05:30,280
Speaker 1: coaching decisions. I don't really get into that, but I

1328
01:05:30,320 --> 01:05:32,280
Speaker 1: know and I voiced my opinion. James is one of

1329
01:05:32,280 --> 01:05:33,680
Speaker 1: our best players and he's gonna be in the game,

1330
01:05:33,720 --> 01:05:35,320
Speaker 1: and I think we're all on the same page, so

1331
01:05:35,360 --> 01:05:38,320
Speaker 1: there's no confusion there. Um, So we're just gonna We're

1332
01:05:38,360 --> 01:05:41,000
Speaker 1: gonna move forward. But I know James is the hell

1333
01:05:41,040 --> 01:05:42,360
Speaker 1: of a player, So I want him, I want him

1334
01:05:42,360 --> 01:05:45,520
Speaker 1: out there. And now there's a sparrow I talked to

1335
01:05:45,560 --> 01:05:47,800
Speaker 1: a sparrow said there might be some heat going on

1336
01:05:47,840 --> 01:05:53,240
Speaker 1: behind the scenes. Well, um, there is some heat between

1337
01:05:53,320 --> 01:05:59,360
Speaker 1: Lawrence Anders coaching. Yes, yeah, and I think I think

1338
01:05:59,520 --> 01:06:02,919
Speaker 1: this is now coming and I and and also urban

1339
01:06:02,960 --> 01:06:05,320
Speaker 1: Meyer had to sit down and meet with James Robinson,

1340
01:06:05,320 --> 01:06:07,800
Speaker 1: and urban Meyer came out saying it was just such

1341
01:06:07,840 --> 01:06:12,160
Speaker 1: a fantastic meeting. Oh wow, like what a connection we made.

1342
01:06:12,400 --> 01:06:14,640
Speaker 1: I don't buy a word he says, like I'm gonna

1343
01:06:14,680 --> 01:06:17,120
Speaker 1: start doing that now all the time. It's like what

1344
01:06:17,360 --> 01:06:21,560
Speaker 1: he is. So it took. It took James Robinson very

1345
01:06:21,600 --> 01:06:25,120
Speaker 1: politely answering questions, going out of his way to try

1346
01:06:25,160 --> 01:06:28,680
Speaker 1: to not make it an issue during some radio appearance,

1347
01:06:29,280 --> 01:06:31,760
Speaker 1: uh where the guys were kind of peppering them on

1348
01:06:31,840 --> 01:06:34,160
Speaker 1: it and asking him about Erban Myke. It took that

1349
01:06:34,240 --> 01:06:37,240
Speaker 1: happening and then becoming a local story for urban Meyer

1350
01:06:37,280 --> 01:06:39,400
Speaker 1: then to set this meeting with his running back and

1351
01:06:39,440 --> 01:06:42,000
Speaker 1: then afterwards like I'm gonna change how I do everything

1352
01:06:42,040 --> 01:06:44,200
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna start meeting with all my players weekly

1353
01:06:44,240 --> 01:06:46,080
Speaker 1: on the regular because this was so good, Like what

1354
01:06:46,320 --> 01:06:48,800
Speaker 1: is going on here. Um, it's a mess, that's what

1355
01:06:48,880 --> 01:06:51,120
Speaker 1: it is. And the Jaguars have a tricky situation on

1356
01:06:51,120 --> 01:06:54,120
Speaker 1: their hair hands financially there to say the least, the Titans,

1357
01:06:54,160 --> 01:06:56,040
Speaker 1: go win a game, Go win a football game. Go

1358
01:06:56,200 --> 01:06:59,360
Speaker 1: do it, Mike Frabel, your defense shut down the Jaguars

1359
01:06:59,360 --> 01:07:01,640
Speaker 1: who just want to go home during what's been a

1360
01:07:01,680 --> 01:07:04,919
Speaker 1: miserable year. And then if you do, it's five more games.

1361
01:07:04,920 --> 01:07:07,320
Speaker 1: You're nine and four and then you're in the mix

1362
01:07:07,400 --> 01:07:09,040
Speaker 1: in the a f C. The for the top seed

1363
01:07:09,160 --> 01:07:11,120
Speaker 1: is crazy as that sounds. And like one thing, when

1364
01:07:11,120 --> 01:07:13,440
Speaker 1: I was watching Monday Night Football and you're watching the

1365
01:07:13,760 --> 01:07:17,680
Speaker 1: Patriots bully the the Bills and the trenches, It's like,

1366
01:07:18,120 --> 01:07:19,720
Speaker 1: what's the team in the a f C that would

1367
01:07:19,720 --> 01:07:21,640
Speaker 1: be able to go punch for punch to the mouth

1368
01:07:22,160 --> 01:07:24,720
Speaker 1: with with the Patriots in January? It's the Titans. But

1369
01:07:24,760 --> 01:07:27,680
Speaker 1: they gotta get healthy and they got to survive this

1370
01:07:27,720 --> 01:07:32,440
Speaker 1: stretch of their schedule. Maybe the Colts. Maybe, maybe it's

1371
01:07:32,440 --> 01:07:35,760
Speaker 1: another one. Any other thoughts on this one, Mark, I

1372
01:07:35,760 --> 01:07:37,520
Speaker 1: know you've said it all, all right, Let's move on

1373
01:07:37,600 --> 01:07:40,920
Speaker 1: then to Greg closing out the draft. I am closing

1374
01:07:41,000 --> 01:07:45,320
Speaker 1: out the draft with a pick of a game this week.

1375
01:07:45,440 --> 01:07:48,320
Speaker 1: Let's go back up. Falcons Panthers is my last game.

1376
01:07:50,800 --> 01:07:54,960
Speaker 1: I know it's a sad state of affairs. Has there

1377
01:07:55,000 --> 01:07:58,640
Speaker 1: ever been a worse game just in terms of, like

1378
01:07:58,680 --> 01:08:02,800
Speaker 1: the the actual quality of the teams? That's on December

1379
01:08:02,800 --> 01:08:06,680
Speaker 1: twelve or later between two teams that are very much

1380
01:08:06,720 --> 01:08:09,800
Speaker 1: in the playoff hunt because I know we don't believe

1381
01:08:09,800 --> 01:08:12,160
Speaker 1: in these teams, but I mean, outside of like five

1382
01:08:12,200 --> 01:08:15,120
Speaker 1: other games this week, but now, but not two teams

1383
01:08:15,280 --> 01:08:18,960
Speaker 1: this like this, The Falcons and the Panthers are seven

1384
01:08:19,160 --> 01:08:21,880
Speaker 1: and thirty second in overall d v o A, so

1385
01:08:21,960 --> 01:08:24,040
Speaker 1: that paints them as two of the worst five or

1386
01:08:24,080 --> 01:08:26,639
Speaker 1: six teams in the league. And the record still isn't

1387
01:08:26,640 --> 01:08:28,759
Speaker 1: that good, Like they don't deserve to be five and seven,

1388
01:08:29,280 --> 01:08:30,960
Speaker 1: but it's not a good record. But in the NFC

1389
01:08:31,080 --> 01:08:33,320
Speaker 1: this year, that's only one game out, So one of

1390
01:08:33,320 --> 01:08:36,760
Speaker 1: these teams is gonna have at least another week of

1391
01:08:36,800 --> 01:08:40,800
Speaker 1: a stay of execution. And I can't decide if I

1392
01:08:40,840 --> 01:08:45,479
Speaker 1: think like Cam Newton is just a little cooked or

1393
01:08:45,520 --> 01:08:48,519
Speaker 1: whether he's gonna have a chance in this game where

1394
01:08:48,560 --> 01:08:51,840
Speaker 1: the Panthers played bullyball the first time around, is a

1395
01:08:51,920 --> 01:08:55,519
Speaker 1: very memorable game. Uh to me, at least just they

1396
01:08:55,560 --> 01:08:59,000
Speaker 1: did the Patriots Bill's plan a little quieter. They ran

1397
01:08:59,080 --> 01:09:02,240
Speaker 1: at about forties seven times and let Sam Donald throw

1398
01:09:02,280 --> 01:09:05,599
Speaker 1: it uh in the teens uh and won that game

1399
01:09:05,640 --> 01:09:09,080
Speaker 1: in Atlanta and dominated the Falcons offensive line because when

1400
01:09:09,160 --> 01:09:11,559
Speaker 1: the Falcons play a team that has any pass rush,

1401
01:09:11,760 --> 01:09:13,920
Speaker 1: usually they think there are differences. Though, I mean the

1402
01:09:13,960 --> 01:09:17,320
Speaker 1: Panthers right now are like a bad psilocybin voyage. They

1403
01:09:17,479 --> 01:09:20,679
Speaker 1: just fired Joe Brady, who we went into this season

1404
01:09:20,720 --> 01:09:23,360
Speaker 1: calling one of the best play callers in the league,

1405
01:09:23,360 --> 01:09:27,559
Speaker 1: potentially a head coach candidate. I think Matt Rules. I

1406
01:09:27,600 --> 01:09:30,439
Speaker 1: thought Joe Brady what like what he He came in

1407
01:09:30,479 --> 01:09:32,920
Speaker 1: with as much acclaim from the college game as anyone

1408
01:09:33,000 --> 01:09:36,240
Speaker 1: in years, and there were sparks last year, but there

1409
01:09:36,280 --> 01:09:39,200
Speaker 1: were also Teddy Bridgewater issues saying that the you know,

1410
01:09:39,240 --> 01:09:41,599
Speaker 1: the red zone stuff. I mean Matt Rule basically said

1411
01:09:41,600 --> 01:09:43,519
Speaker 1: he wanted to get creative and do things differently, and

1412
01:09:43,560 --> 01:09:46,599
Speaker 1: he fires Joe Brady right now it's not working out.

1413
01:09:46,680 --> 01:09:48,440
Speaker 1: This has got to be one of the more disappointing

1414
01:09:48,479 --> 01:09:51,200
Speaker 1: teams around. To your point, Greg that like their record,

1415
01:09:51,439 --> 01:09:54,200
Speaker 1: the three and oh start feels like a thousand years

1416
01:09:54,200 --> 01:09:56,200
Speaker 1: ago at this point because the defense has been okay.

1417
01:09:56,360 --> 01:09:58,280
Speaker 1: I mean, the defense has let them down in spots,

1418
01:09:58,280 --> 01:10:01,280
Speaker 1: but they've been okay. Fire and Joe Brady on the

1419
01:10:01,320 --> 01:10:05,000
Speaker 1: Sunday during a bye week is a wild move. It

1420
01:10:05,120 --> 01:10:09,400
Speaker 1: really is Matt rule. I believe thinking if I'm gonna

1421
01:10:09,439 --> 01:10:12,160
Speaker 1: go down, I'm gonna go down doing it my way.

1422
01:10:12,200 --> 01:10:14,680
Speaker 1: And ultimately I hired this guy didn't really know that

1423
01:10:14,720 --> 01:10:16,559
Speaker 1: well and he said that was the first time he

1424
01:10:16,600 --> 01:10:19,840
Speaker 1: did that, that he didn't regret it. It was like, actually, yes,

1425
01:10:19,880 --> 01:10:22,160
Speaker 1: you do regret it. That's that's what you do when

1426
01:10:22,160 --> 01:10:28,320
Speaker 1: you fire something like it. And yeah, to Mark's point,

1427
01:10:28,640 --> 01:10:30,320
Speaker 1: like the Broncos for instance, and I brought this up

1428
01:10:30,320 --> 01:10:31,799
Speaker 1: a couple times of the season. It feels like Broncos

1429
01:10:31,800 --> 01:10:33,760
Speaker 1: aren't having a great season. But when you start out

1430
01:10:33,760 --> 01:10:36,280
Speaker 1: three and oh, it allows you to stay afloat as

1431
01:10:36,320 --> 01:10:39,280
Speaker 1: long as you don't become pitiful. Immediately after the Panthers

1432
01:10:39,320 --> 01:10:42,000
Speaker 1: became pitiful. They've lost seven of nine since starting three

1433
01:10:42,040 --> 01:10:45,479
Speaker 1: and oh, hence their record five and seven. That's math

1434
01:10:45,720 --> 01:10:49,320
Speaker 1: nailed it. And they are now in a position where like, yeah,

1435
01:10:49,479 --> 01:10:51,280
Speaker 1: I think I might have to flip my pick for

1436
01:10:51,280 --> 01:10:53,320
Speaker 1: this game. I took the Panthers. But I think there's

1437
01:10:53,360 --> 01:10:56,439
Speaker 1: something about this Falcons team that they're like, they're gonna

1438
01:10:56,479 --> 01:10:58,280
Speaker 1: be like seven and ten at the end, and they

1439
01:10:58,320 --> 01:11:00,160
Speaker 1: when they should have been too, and they've actually been

1440
01:11:00,160 --> 01:11:02,680
Speaker 1: an overachieving seven and ten. I wonder in the end

1441
01:11:03,120 --> 01:11:05,400
Speaker 1: rule to make kind of I don't know, some type

1442
01:11:05,400 --> 01:11:09,160
Speaker 1: of bold declaration here gives it to Chuba Hubbard thirty

1443
01:11:09,160 --> 01:11:10,760
Speaker 1: seven times in this game. Well, that's what they were

1444
01:11:10,800 --> 01:11:13,320
Speaker 1: starting to do, and then you lose Christian McCaffrey in

1445
01:11:13,320 --> 01:11:15,160
Speaker 1: the middle of it. By the way, Joe Brady put

1446
01:11:15,200 --> 01:11:17,640
Speaker 1: into a bit of a tough situation with the quarterback

1447
01:11:17,680 --> 01:11:21,800
Speaker 1: team building scenario. It's like you you, and Rule was

1448
01:11:21,960 --> 01:11:24,519
Speaker 1: like publicly saying it after certain games when their season

1449
01:11:24,880 --> 01:11:27,400
Speaker 1: started to spiral. It's like, we need to run the ball,

1450
01:11:27,560 --> 01:11:29,599
Speaker 1: and we're going to run the ball. Trust me, we're

1451
01:11:29,680 --> 01:11:33,000
Speaker 1: running the ball, which is basically, hey, offensive coordinator, listen

1452
01:11:33,040 --> 01:11:34,720
Speaker 1: to me. We need to run the ball. But it's

1453
01:11:34,720 --> 01:11:37,200
Speaker 1: like you're not mentioning that Christian McCaffrey's now missed two

1454
01:11:37,200 --> 01:11:40,320
Speaker 1: straight years, and it's like Cuba Hubbard and whoever the

1455
01:11:40,320 --> 01:11:42,559
Speaker 1: hell else is back there. It's like that's a tough

1456
01:11:42,600 --> 01:11:46,640
Speaker 1: situation to put an offensive coordinator. Absolutely, and yet the

1457
01:11:46,680 --> 01:11:50,519
Speaker 1: success of Jamaar Chase, Justin Jefferson and Joe Burrow in

1458
01:11:50,560 --> 01:11:54,720
Speaker 1: the pros should absolutely redistribute all the credit that Joe

1459
01:11:54,760 --> 01:11:58,520
Speaker 1: Brady was getting for historic LSU team for summer. We

1460
01:11:58,520 --> 01:12:01,360
Speaker 1: we love giving the coaches so much credit when it's

1461
01:12:01,520 --> 01:12:06,400
Speaker 1: mostly about the players. Those are two incredible players at

1462
01:12:06,479 --> 01:12:09,439
Speaker 1: wide receiver on the same college team at the height

1463
01:12:09,479 --> 01:12:12,679
Speaker 1: of their powers, quarterbacked by a number one overall draft

1464
01:12:12,720 --> 01:12:15,760
Speaker 1: pick who's gonna become a top ten NFL quarterback. Like

1465
01:12:16,080 --> 01:12:18,479
Speaker 1: I could have offensive coordinated that team to a pretty

1466
01:12:18,479 --> 01:12:20,280
Speaker 1: good record. Well, you could have gotten fired too. I

1467
01:12:20,280 --> 01:12:22,519
Speaker 1: think you know we all could have. I don't think

1468
01:12:22,560 --> 01:12:25,840
Speaker 1: we quite understand what I don't mean literally, but I'm

1469
01:12:25,840 --> 01:12:29,960
Speaker 1: saying if you just throw in your average college coaching

1470
01:12:30,040 --> 01:12:32,439
Speaker 1: Sam Donald for six weeks and see where we are pressing,

1471
01:12:32,439 --> 01:12:36,720
Speaker 1: I would I would delegate. I would delegate quite a bit.

1472
01:12:37,479 --> 01:12:40,280
Speaker 1: I think your average college coach at any level would

1473
01:12:40,280 --> 01:12:42,560
Speaker 1: have had great success with those three players. That is

1474
01:12:42,600 --> 01:12:47,360
Speaker 1: not a controver, just like slightly dismiss it, but it's

1475
01:12:48,080 --> 01:12:52,080
Speaker 1: players matter, Like what else you would matter is not

1476
01:12:52,120 --> 01:12:55,439
Speaker 1: a controversial, right concept. But like you've just taken the

1477
01:12:55,439 --> 01:12:58,360
Speaker 1: man's like resume and said he's a straw man. He

1478
01:12:58,479 --> 01:13:00,800
Speaker 1: was saying he got he got way be rated for that.

1479
01:13:00,880 --> 01:13:04,000
Speaker 1: And I refuse to defend the Jets on any level.

1480
01:13:04,240 --> 01:13:09,280
Speaker 1: Um how they've made organizational decisions. But the reason Matt

1481
01:13:09,360 --> 01:13:11,040
Speaker 1: Rule didn't take the Jet shop is because they didn't

1482
01:13:11,080 --> 01:13:18,160
Speaker 1: let him pick his own staff. And that's a ridiculous

1483
01:13:18,240 --> 01:13:22,120
Speaker 1: way to treat any candidates. Dan Is coming back and

1484
01:13:22,160 --> 01:13:24,960
Speaker 1: scoring a point in an argument a year ago where

1485
01:13:24,960 --> 01:13:26,960
Speaker 1: the Jets got a lot of grief for keeping Gayson

1486
01:13:27,040 --> 01:13:30,040
Speaker 1: going because of his lack of NFL experience. That was

1487
01:13:30,080 --> 01:13:32,599
Speaker 1: why they were that way. Joe Joe Brady led one

1488
01:13:32,600 --> 01:13:35,920
Speaker 1: of the great passing attacks ever and then Rule hired

1489
01:13:36,000 --> 01:13:38,800
Speaker 1: him to run a run based offense. It's it's an

1490
01:13:38,800 --> 01:13:43,000
Speaker 1: interesting decision. All right, we keep moving, but first a break.

1491
01:13:44,760 --> 01:13:48,680
Speaker 1: All right, we're back Seahawks of Texans. I'm I'm not

1492
01:13:48,720 --> 01:13:51,000
Speaker 1: messing around. I'm telling you Bears and Packers will be

1493
01:13:51,040 --> 01:13:54,439
Speaker 1: the last game we talked about. Seahawks at Texans. Jamal

1494
01:13:54,520 --> 01:13:58,120
Speaker 1: Adams out for the year. Um, so you lose him,

1495
01:13:58,840 --> 01:14:00,840
Speaker 1: but you get the Texans their worst team in football

1496
01:14:00,880 --> 01:14:02,960
Speaker 1: any thoughts on this game. The only thing I had

1497
01:14:02,960 --> 01:14:06,440
Speaker 1: that caught my eye Texans wise this week was Nickissario,

1498
01:14:06,479 --> 01:14:09,280
Speaker 1: their general manager, at being asked about David Culley coming back,

1499
01:14:09,320 --> 01:14:12,439
Speaker 1: and he was like about as noncommittal as you can get. Yeah,

1500
01:14:12,479 --> 01:14:15,080
Speaker 1: and like Seattle, I mean you're gonna get Davis Mills

1501
01:14:15,120 --> 01:14:17,439
Speaker 1: for the for the Texans again. I mean, if you're Seattle,

1502
01:14:17,760 --> 01:14:20,080
Speaker 1: your season is over. In my book, that Jamal Adams

1503
01:14:20,080 --> 01:14:22,960
Speaker 1: thing is an exclamation point on a trade that went

1504
01:14:23,000 --> 01:14:26,200
Speaker 1: totally south for them as the organization starts to fade

1505
01:14:26,200 --> 01:14:30,280
Speaker 1: into the later years of an organization under Pete Carroll.

1506
01:14:30,920 --> 01:14:33,240
Speaker 1: Wins for the Jets who have like a you know,

1507
01:14:34,160 --> 01:14:36,519
Speaker 1: winning percentage the last two years, but that ended up

1508
01:14:36,520 --> 01:14:39,240
Speaker 1: being the right move as well. Uh Joe Douglas from

1509
01:14:39,240 --> 01:14:42,400
Speaker 1: President it is a big day for you actually screen

1510
01:14:42,479 --> 01:14:46,800
Speaker 1: A lot of the Seahawks get another week of um

1511
01:14:46,840 --> 01:14:49,120
Speaker 1: like the slightest life if they win this game, because

1512
01:14:49,120 --> 01:14:51,360
Speaker 1: the second they won that game against the forty nine

1513
01:14:51,479 --> 01:14:54,000
Speaker 1: is not only did Pete Carroll give like an impassioned,

1514
01:14:54,000 --> 01:14:56,599
Speaker 1: like we're still live speech in the locker room where

1515
01:14:56,600 --> 01:14:58,880
Speaker 1: he looked like they had won the Super Bowl, all

1516
01:14:58,880 --> 01:15:01,840
Speaker 1: of Seahawks Twitter that I followed immediately made the corner

1517
01:15:01,960 --> 01:15:05,040
Speaker 1: too from the like, well, you never know, maybe we

1518
01:15:05,080 --> 01:15:06,920
Speaker 1: can go on this run here because eight and nine

1519
01:15:07,000 --> 01:15:10,960
Speaker 1: might for a decade. So for if you win this game,

1520
01:15:11,000 --> 01:15:13,439
Speaker 1: you get one more week of that before the Rams game,

1521
01:15:13,479 --> 01:15:16,920
Speaker 1: where you feel like, maybe we can make a run.

1522
01:15:17,280 --> 01:15:19,400
Speaker 1: What if the Rams get wiped out by the Cardinals

1523
01:15:19,479 --> 01:15:21,599
Speaker 1: and they're in a free fall. They didn't really look

1524
01:15:21,640 --> 01:15:23,559
Speaker 1: The Seahawks looked weird last week. I did not get

1525
01:15:23,600 --> 01:15:25,800
Speaker 1: the feeling that they solved their offensive problems, even though

1526
01:15:26,040 --> 01:15:28,120
Speaker 1: they did look good when they were up tempo. I

1527
01:15:28,200 --> 01:15:30,160
Speaker 1: kind of don't even trust them to like cover eight

1528
01:15:30,160 --> 01:15:35,760
Speaker 1: points against a sneaky first sexans the conversation over. That's right,

1529
01:15:35,800 --> 01:15:40,200
Speaker 1: So let's move on the Lions at Broncos. Greg, give

1530
01:15:40,240 --> 01:15:42,559
Speaker 1: me something another one where it's very tough. Do you

1531
01:15:42,920 --> 01:15:47,880
Speaker 1: really trust the Broncos to cover eight against an NFL team?

1532
01:15:47,920 --> 01:15:50,719
Speaker 1: I don't. They've done it how many times this year? Twice?

1533
01:15:50,800 --> 01:15:53,240
Speaker 1: Notice how Greg defaults to a betting program whenever you

1534
01:15:53,320 --> 01:15:55,800
Speaker 1: just throw it to them open ended. Well, because that's

1535
01:15:56,000 --> 01:15:58,759
Speaker 1: I gotta make the picks on NFL dot Com slash

1536
01:15:58,800 --> 01:16:00,800
Speaker 1: game picks, and I really only care about the A T. S.

1537
01:16:00,840 --> 01:16:03,599
Speaker 1: And so that's that's what keeps me up at night.

1538
01:16:03,640 --> 01:16:05,679
Speaker 1: It's not the I mean, I'm gonna pick the Broncos

1539
01:16:05,720 --> 01:16:08,599
Speaker 1: to win this game. I don't trust them to make

1540
01:16:08,680 --> 01:16:10,479
Speaker 1: it a blow out necessarily. They've won four or five

1541
01:16:10,479 --> 01:16:13,200
Speaker 1: blow out games weirdly, actually, if the first three weeks

1542
01:16:13,200 --> 01:16:17,879
Speaker 1: of the season, like the Cowboys, the Chargers very recently,

1543
01:16:18,240 --> 01:16:20,960
Speaker 1: so like that. Those are teams with winning records, so

1544
01:16:21,120 --> 01:16:23,760
Speaker 1: it happens. Uh And yet the Lions actually, if you

1545
01:16:23,760 --> 01:16:25,320
Speaker 1: look at since the bye week, they I don't think

1546
01:16:25,320 --> 01:16:27,080
Speaker 1: they've given up more than twenty points. They've been in

1547
01:16:27,200 --> 01:16:31,360
Speaker 1: every single game until the final play, so they could

1548
01:16:31,400 --> 01:16:34,000
Speaker 1: be better than one ten and one. Uh. Here lately

1549
01:16:34,320 --> 01:16:37,160
Speaker 1: Jared goff mc miss practice with an illness. That would

1550
01:16:37,240 --> 01:16:39,760
Speaker 1: change things obviously if he was at all right. They

1551
01:16:39,800 --> 01:16:42,280
Speaker 1: beat the Giants, Jaguars and Jets and those blowouts so

1552
01:16:42,560 --> 01:16:45,320
Speaker 1: and Cowboys and the Chargers two of the last four weeks.

1553
01:16:45,360 --> 01:16:48,639
Speaker 1: I think we effectively unless they want to really do

1554
01:16:48,720 --> 01:16:50,880
Speaker 1: like the you know, the villain and a horror movie

1555
01:16:50,880 --> 01:16:53,040
Speaker 1: thing and come back to life. The Broncos essentially were

1556
01:16:53,080 --> 01:16:56,920
Speaker 1: put under on Sunday, right, But I get it all

1557
01:16:56,960 --> 01:16:58,800
Speaker 1: I was saying is they're capable of blots. They have

1558
01:16:58,880 --> 01:17:01,799
Speaker 1: blown out more good team then many teams with winning

1559
01:17:01,800 --> 01:17:05,320
Speaker 1: records this year, right, I mean, it's a weird thing.

1560
01:17:05,640 --> 01:17:07,879
Speaker 1: We do not want the Denver Broncos in the playoffs.

1561
01:17:07,920 --> 01:17:09,840
Speaker 1: They're gonna be seven and six if they win this game.

1562
01:17:09,880 --> 01:17:11,360
Speaker 1: We don't any they could lose. We don't want to

1563
01:17:11,360 --> 01:17:16,439
Speaker 1: waste the Saturday playoff game the Lions. I wonder if

1564
01:17:16,520 --> 01:17:22,240
Speaker 1: Vick Fongio you could be saying goodbye sooner than expected. Finally, last,

1565
01:17:22,600 --> 01:17:26,759
Speaker 1: but least, the Chicago Bears are playing Sunday night football

1566
01:17:27,120 --> 01:17:30,840
Speaker 1: against the Green Bay Packers. Not flexed. Aaron Rodgers is

1567
01:17:30,840 --> 01:17:33,280
Speaker 1: a big ticket item. The Packers are a big ticket item.

1568
01:17:33,360 --> 01:17:38,800
Speaker 1: They have a major um pop obviously nationally as well

1569
01:17:38,840 --> 01:17:41,599
Speaker 1: as regionally, and they have a chance now to move

1570
01:17:41,680 --> 01:17:45,240
Speaker 1: to ten and three and really put the pressure. Uh

1571
01:17:45,280 --> 01:17:47,519
Speaker 1: So they play Sunday night. The Cards play Monday night.

1572
01:17:47,560 --> 01:17:50,439
Speaker 1: So they're gonna destroy the Bears. Let's be honest here,

1573
01:17:50,479 --> 01:17:53,000
Speaker 1: They'll win about thirty seven to ten. We'll have to

1574
01:17:53,040 --> 01:17:54,599
Speaker 1: sit through the game for three and a half hours.

1575
01:17:54,800 --> 01:17:59,160
Speaker 1: Fields is returning great, and then the Cardinals will go

1576
01:17:59,479 --> 01:18:03,400
Speaker 1: play the Ams. A feisty uh Rams team that needs

1577
01:18:03,400 --> 01:18:06,840
Speaker 1: a win, knowing that the Packers will be not just

1578
01:18:06,920 --> 01:18:09,519
Speaker 1: tied with them for the number one seed, but if

1579
01:18:09,520 --> 01:18:11,960
Speaker 1: the Cardinals lost, it is the Packers that are the

1580
01:18:12,040 --> 01:18:13,679
Speaker 1: number one seed because they have the head to head

1581
01:18:13,880 --> 01:18:17,519
Speaker 1: tiebreaker with four games to play, so the stakes are high. Packers,

1582
01:18:17,560 --> 01:18:20,080
Speaker 1: of course, have to take care business first. I see

1583
01:18:20,080 --> 01:18:23,040
Speaker 1: our fandom, um a four in a road there in

1584
01:18:23,040 --> 01:18:25,800
Speaker 1: our fandom. I am very excited about the Cardinals. You

1585
01:18:25,840 --> 01:18:29,360
Speaker 1: have a Packers fetish that is raging not too far

1586
01:18:29,400 --> 01:18:32,360
Speaker 1: below the surface. I like, I like watch see the difference.

1587
01:18:32,439 --> 01:18:34,360
Speaker 1: Like the Packers are what the Chiefs used to be,

1588
01:18:34,479 --> 01:18:38,799
Speaker 1: Like a fun offensive attack playing for an old school

1589
01:18:38,800 --> 01:18:42,000
Speaker 1: franchise with a lot of history and then a historic

1590
01:18:42,080 --> 01:18:44,599
Speaker 1: quarterback Like I like that stuff. Like as a Jets van,

1591
01:18:44,680 --> 01:18:46,080
Speaker 1: I don't get any of that stuff, so if I

1592
01:18:46,120 --> 01:18:48,559
Speaker 1: could find it elsewhere, I'll take it, put it into

1593
01:18:48,600 --> 01:18:50,919
Speaker 1: my vein. And like Arizona, I think a very balanced

1594
01:18:50,920 --> 01:18:53,160
Speaker 1: team and I find them much more likable because the

1595
01:18:53,200 --> 01:18:56,400
Speaker 1: defense isn't hanging them out to dry week to week mvs.

1596
01:18:56,840 --> 01:18:59,600
Speaker 1: Last couple of games, nineteen targets. I mean there, I

1597
01:18:59,680 --> 01:19:01,519
Speaker 1: trust them to take care of business. I don't even

1598
01:19:01,560 --> 01:19:03,479
Speaker 1: to think about it. They're gonna watch I'm with you,

1599
01:19:03,560 --> 01:19:05,439
Speaker 1: And yet I was thinking, Okay, they're gonna come back

1600
01:19:05,439 --> 01:19:07,519
Speaker 1: from the by and it's like, when are we gonna

1601
01:19:07,520 --> 01:19:11,559
Speaker 1: start getting this mythical Packers team with bak tr and

1602
01:19:11,640 --> 01:19:16,559
Speaker 1: Alexander at cornerback and then Zadarius Smith. It's like they're

1603
01:19:16,560 --> 01:19:19,680
Speaker 1: still not back. Uh. Aaron Rodgers still not practicing and

1604
01:19:19,720 --> 01:19:21,840
Speaker 1: says he feels a lot better. That's good, but still

1605
01:19:21,840 --> 01:19:24,040
Speaker 1: not practicing. Randall Cobb actually has a new injury and

1606
01:19:24,080 --> 01:19:26,960
Speaker 1: he is officially out for this game. Uh. Not that

1607
01:19:27,640 --> 01:19:31,120
Speaker 1: not that he's like, but he is. He's not the

1608
01:19:31,120 --> 01:19:33,640
Speaker 1: biggest baron Aaron Rodgers. But when you look at like

1609
01:19:33,640 --> 01:19:36,320
Speaker 1: the receivers with the most red zone targets, there's some

1610
01:19:36,360 --> 01:19:40,000
Speaker 1: type of stat where he is with like five of

1611
01:19:40,040 --> 01:19:42,160
Speaker 1: the best receivers in the league, and then Randall Cobb.

1612
01:19:42,320 --> 01:19:44,080
Speaker 1: I wish I had the staff, but just to paint

1613
01:19:44,080 --> 01:19:46,559
Speaker 1: a picture that Aaron Rodgers makes it a point to

1614
01:19:46,640 --> 01:19:50,400
Speaker 1: make sure Randall that's his you know, executive of the year.

1615
01:19:50,439 --> 01:19:53,439
Speaker 1: He Aaron Rodgers. But but Cobb had a great game

1616
01:19:53,439 --> 01:19:57,040
Speaker 1: when he got before I got injured. I believe in

1617
01:19:57,080 --> 01:20:00,280
Speaker 1: this running game though, and I the reason I am

1618
01:20:00,320 --> 01:20:02,679
Speaker 1: with Dan like I love watching this team every week

1619
01:20:02,720 --> 01:20:05,280
Speaker 1: now is because of the Aaron Rodgers thing. He played

1620
01:20:05,280 --> 01:20:07,040
Speaker 1: his best two games of the season. I thought, by

1621
01:20:07,080 --> 01:20:10,120
Speaker 1: far in a row before that, by so I want

1622
01:20:10,120 --> 01:20:11,960
Speaker 1: to see if that keeps going. I am happy that

1623
01:20:12,280 --> 01:20:15,479
Speaker 1: Alan Robinson is back, Justin Fields is back, an achiem

1624
01:20:15,560 --> 01:20:18,280
Speaker 1: Hicks is back. There's been so many of these Sunday

1625
01:20:18,360 --> 01:20:20,840
Speaker 1: night Bears Packers games, and none of them I feel

1626
01:20:20,840 --> 01:20:23,120
Speaker 1: like they have been good. Give me a good one.

1627
01:20:23,320 --> 01:20:25,360
Speaker 1: And you were in London when I was. As much

1628
01:20:25,360 --> 01:20:27,120
Speaker 1: as I like the Packers, I want to see Justin

1629
01:20:27,160 --> 01:20:29,439
Speaker 1: Fields put thirty up on them, just to haven't I

1630
01:20:29,520 --> 01:20:32,120
Speaker 1: get it? Like the Midwest deserves these, like old school

1631
01:20:32,200 --> 01:20:34,599
Speaker 1: rivalries in a big spot. I just wish the Bears

1632
01:20:34,600 --> 01:20:37,639
Speaker 1: would and I could have flexed this. That's I think

1633
01:20:37,640 --> 01:20:40,680
Speaker 1: why there was anything. It was fair that it's a

1634
01:20:40,680 --> 01:20:42,960
Speaker 1: good it's a good ratings game. We love the Midwest.

1635
01:20:43,000 --> 01:20:47,280
Speaker 1: We love you guys, great people, very nice, very nice.

1636
01:20:47,360 --> 01:20:50,080
Speaker 1: Um spot. I have a lot of family in Chicago.

1637
01:20:50,200 --> 01:20:54,559
Speaker 1: Do you know the interesting mom said um before? Because Greg,

1638
01:20:54,600 --> 01:20:56,439
Speaker 1: I know you got you were itching a little bit there.

1639
01:20:56,760 --> 01:20:58,719
Speaker 1: What does the Rainmaker lock of the week this week

1640
01:20:59,280 --> 01:21:02,559
Speaker 1: the rain Maker. But you can't just call for that,

1641
01:21:03,120 --> 01:21:05,479
Speaker 1: you know, if I'm not you know, throwing it out

1642
01:21:05,479 --> 01:21:12,080
Speaker 1: there so it's not official, doesn't look better glasses. This

1643
01:21:12,160 --> 01:21:14,439
Speaker 1: is ridiculous. Well what is it? What's the game? You

1644
01:21:14,479 --> 01:21:16,280
Speaker 1: feel the most confident? Yeah? No, I was trying to

1645
01:21:16,320 --> 01:21:20,840
Speaker 1: look to see it and it wasn't popping off the

1646
01:21:20,840 --> 01:21:23,640
Speaker 1: top of my head. You know, Greg, I listened to

1647
01:21:23,680 --> 01:21:27,000
Speaker 1: these gambling shows on Saturday on AM Radio. Well they're

1648
01:21:27,000 --> 01:21:29,880
Speaker 1: coming with changing some fires. You have a little more

1649
01:21:30,360 --> 01:21:32,560
Speaker 1: to build confidence in the potential. If I had, I

1650
01:21:32,600 --> 01:21:35,800
Speaker 1: would have thrown it out as a thing there was.

1651
01:21:35,960 --> 01:21:39,240
Speaker 1: It might be Cowboys. I think it might be. I

1652
01:21:39,280 --> 01:21:43,439
Speaker 1: think I might be covering the Cowboys. That's the Rainmaker

1653
01:21:43,520 --> 01:21:47,800
Speaker 1: lock of the Week. No, I don't feel that strong.

1654
01:21:49,160 --> 01:21:52,000
Speaker 1: That's not that's not selling the brand I do. Like.

1655
01:21:52,160 --> 01:21:54,960
Speaker 1: I mean, if that Jake from Game gets to uh

1656
01:21:54,960 --> 01:21:57,439
Speaker 1: Sunday here nine and a half, I don't think you

1657
01:21:57,439 --> 01:22:00,479
Speaker 1: could make that line big enough. They're the giants. There

1658
01:22:00,479 --> 01:22:02,080
Speaker 1: you go, there's another one. I think we need to.

1659
01:22:02,240 --> 01:22:04,000
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna workshop this and it would be

1660
01:22:04,000 --> 01:22:06,400
Speaker 1: good to end every Thursday show with the Rainmaker Lock

1661
01:22:06,439 --> 01:22:08,760
Speaker 1: of the Week, right, catching you off guard might not

1662
01:22:08,800 --> 01:22:10,920
Speaker 1: have been. We get a sponsor for it, you know,

1663
01:22:11,080 --> 01:22:13,160
Speaker 1: we see like the McAfee thing, like he just pulled

1664
01:22:13,160 --> 01:22:15,280
Speaker 1: that deal. If we can get the sponsorship, you know,

1665
01:22:15,400 --> 01:22:18,080
Speaker 1: Draft Kings presents the Rainmaker Lock of the Week, like

1666
01:22:18,520 --> 01:22:23,400
Speaker 1: we're rolling in it. They'd give us three uncertain um

1667
01:22:23,439 --> 01:22:26,720
Speaker 1: all right, Like Adam Shine by the way, I was

1668
01:22:26,720 --> 01:22:30,000
Speaker 1: listening to Serious yesterday, uh waiting for that to do

1669
01:22:30,040 --> 01:22:33,680
Speaker 1: that appearance thing, and Adam Shine they throw it to

1670
01:22:33,760 --> 01:22:36,519
Speaker 1: him and it's like a nice sixty second nugget. I'm

1671
01:22:36,560 --> 01:22:40,840
Speaker 1: Adam Shine. I've been doing this for seventeen years. I've

1672
01:22:40,840 --> 01:22:42,800
Speaker 1: been picking a lock and it never goes wrong. And

1673
01:22:42,840 --> 01:22:45,040
Speaker 1: this week I'm banging and needed like a college game.

1674
01:22:45,080 --> 01:22:52,559
Speaker 1: I think, like that's what we need. I'm telling you

1675
01:22:52,840 --> 01:22:54,880
Speaker 1: you were caught off guard. I defend you on that

1676
01:22:54,960 --> 01:22:59,040
Speaker 1: because I'm ranking. Um, I don't know. I don't do

1677
01:22:59,200 --> 01:23:01,280
Speaker 1: like Marx Lock of the Cardinals. By the way, quite

1678
01:23:01,320 --> 01:23:04,519
Speaker 1: a bit too, that come off as me being critical,

1679
01:23:04,560 --> 01:23:07,280
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm just saying I smell a hit here

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01:23:07,760 --> 01:23:10,880
Speaker 1: and maybe next week next I mean, or you could

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Speaker 1: look at it the other way, which is that rate.

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Speaker 1: The rainmaker bit has been gone for a couple of

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Speaker 1: years now. Basically, I'm making the choice each and every

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Speaker 1: week to not do it. So that's a conscious choice.

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Speaker 1: Just threw her hands up behind the glass. That's that's

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Speaker 1: a tough setch. I thought it was good, but all right,

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Speaker 1: Gregg decided it should be over. That's you love it,

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Speaker 1: you do it. You do it when you feel it,

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Speaker 1: when you feel it in your bones. Welcome to life.

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Speaker 1: Here we go. That is the week fourteen slate. Uh

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Speaker 1: tonight Thursday Night, Steelers Vikings, Me and the Quiet Story.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to that one on Friday mornings. I

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Speaker 1: always try to listen to that TNF recap on my

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Speaker 1: drive in Marker. Not every week, but I do a

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Speaker 1: lot of times. Me Mark Seessler Pete Jorn will be

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Speaker 1: on the mic to talk Thursday night football recap Steelers Vikings.

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Speaker 1: Get get excited. You're you're looking at me. I am

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Speaker 1: mildly excited to be It's kind of a fun one.

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Speaker 1: I suspect you guys are gonna get a lot to

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Speaker 1: talk about. That's my prediction. I'm in all right, Ricky,

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Speaker 1: let's go. H It really does look like an accounting

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Speaker 1: the rain Lager bid is such a great way to

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01:24:31,960 --> 01:24:34,880
Speaker 1: close this Thursday show, Just think about it. Sure, but

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Speaker 1: you could have done this off the air. The call