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Speaker 1: Around the NFL Podcasts. Wait, what is going on with

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Speaker 1: at this point when we don't even know what they're

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Speaker 1: talking about. No, I think you've forgotten what what that's about.

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Speaker 1: I used to tell you. I was telling you about

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Speaker 1: to use on a college campus where there were people

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Speaker 1: totally factual. Drop right there by money, Thank you money.

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Speaker 1: Somehow we ended up back in Mark's college experience again,

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Speaker 1: something we can't escape. Somehow. Yes, this is the Around

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Speaker 1: the NFL Podcast, presented by the United States Marine Corps.

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Speaker 1: I am Dan hans As, I am joined by You've

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Speaker 1: already heard two great heroes, Mark Sessler, Greg Rosenthal. What

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Speaker 1: is up? Boys? I'm really into this Week fourteen Slate.

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Speaker 1: I had to do an article on NFL dot com,

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Speaker 1: the Debrief, looking at the ten biggest games the rest

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Speaker 1: of the year. This slate, this week, the prime time games,

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Speaker 1: it's the best prime time slate all year. But overall

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Speaker 1: it's the best group of games. That the next three

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Speaker 1: weeks they're gonna be a little bit of a letdown

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Speaker 1: way to sell the rest of the season. There. I

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Speaker 1: We've done this long enough where when you get to

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Speaker 1: because the with each passing week, naturally more and more

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Speaker 1: the way this works. But you're right, this has some

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Speaker 1: really saucy games, Uh this week looking forward to it.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna go through each one as we always do,

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Speaker 1: get through the primetime games, because we've got a killer

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Speaker 1: prime time slate, uh, starting with the Pittsburgh Steelers and

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills, and Mark, I don't want to say

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Speaker 1: And I think that Brian Dable heard all the flowery

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Speaker 1: I've taken the Steelers. I think they bounced back. You

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Speaker 1: this week, and it's a gorgeous one. The Baltimore Ravens

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Speaker 1: I think the Cleveland Browns experience this year is a

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Speaker 1: It wasn't Sigourney, but you know, it's like that's how

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Speaker 1: just have to be honest with you. You do great job.

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Speaker 1: When it comes up, I end up picking a game

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Speaker 1: that's great and uh I thought, Greg, you were going

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Speaker 1: inde Vegas with the second overall pick, and uh so

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Speaker 1: I will welcome. I will run to the podium and

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Speaker 1: draft that game. It's a playoff game. How about that?

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Speaker 1: I like this. The Raiders need to win this game

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Speaker 1: to to stay alive in the a f C playoff race.

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Speaker 1: And the Colts maybe it's not that dire for them

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Speaker 1: because they are in a division uh showdown right now

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Speaker 1: with the Titans, but it's a huge game for them

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Speaker 1: as well. Right now, this is the seventh and eighth

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Speaker 1: seed in the a f C playoffs squaring off and

439
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Speaker 1: two teams that did not that were very fortunate last week,

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Speaker 1: and everyone is hung up and killing the Raiders for

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Speaker 1: what happened against the Jets and getting this miracle play

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Speaker 1: obviously that got Greg Williams fired. They needed a miracle

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Speaker 1: to win the game in the final seconds, uh, to

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Speaker 1: avoid an embarrassing loss. Oh but hey, guess what you

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Speaker 1: know there's another team that fits that exact description. It's

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Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts, who had a six point lead with

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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson if a two yard line going in for

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Speaker 1: the game winning score and the damn center fires the

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Speaker 1: ball at his shins for miracle fumble recovery for the Cults. Otherwise,

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Speaker 1: the Cults are coming off a bad loss and people

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Speaker 1: are talking about that. So I'm not going crazy about

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Speaker 1: the Raiders. Obviously, my faith is shaken over the last

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Speaker 1: two weeks. I was a big Raiders booster on this podcast.

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Speaker 1: I understand now that I can all go south after

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Speaker 1: what happened against the Jets, But to two pencil and

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Speaker 1: the Colts is a team that will roll over the

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Speaker 1: collapsing Raiders. I think that's a bit rich. I don't

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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't question that these are these two

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Speaker 1: teams are very even and players matter, and the Raiders

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Speaker 1: are getting back three of their best players. Trent Brown,

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Speaker 1: their right tackle has been out for most of the season,

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Abram wasn't out there against the Jets, and then

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Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs. It's like teams can only take so many hits.

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Speaker 1: That's absolutely huge. It kind of gets me to the

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Speaker 1: point of how much does do defenses matter? You know,

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Speaker 1: the whole thing like running, running, backs don't matter, well

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Speaker 1: how much the defenses matter. And because to me, if

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Speaker 1: defenses matter at all, like if you have to be

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Speaker 1: above a certain point, then the Raiders are just a

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Speaker 1: house of cards. It's gonna fall apart um. But if

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Speaker 1: you can just survive with like a lousy defense, which

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Speaker 1: they've been all year, especially when playing a team like

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Speaker 1: the Colts, then then they'll be okay. The Colts are

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Speaker 1: just a different team when DeForrest Buckner's on the field.

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Speaker 1: You saw that last week, and they are a much

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Speaker 1: more complete team than the Raiders. Well, I mean, for me,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think it's huge to get these guys back.

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Speaker 1: For the Raiders, they were missing their identity on offense

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Speaker 1: without Josh Jacobs some degree. But Derek Carr mentioned how

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Speaker 1: they didn't practice well before the Falcons game. I wonder

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Speaker 1: how they practiced before the Jets game. I mean, the

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Speaker 1: Jets opened up with a twelve play, seventy four yard

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Speaker 1: touchdown drive. Um they scored. You know, they ran for

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Speaker 1: over two hundred yards on the day. Uh, that's an

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Speaker 1: aberration for New York and and that is, you know,

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Speaker 1: less than one for the Raiders, who have the least

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Speaker 1: sacks in the NFL, so they can't rush the passers.

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Speaker 1: So Greg, to your point, mean, there are most of

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Speaker 1: these defenses in the NFL right now are are are

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Speaker 1: solidly half baked. But the Raiders one is is a

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Speaker 1: little extra on that front. And that's my that's my

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Speaker 1: area of concern, um. But I'm not all out on them.

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Speaker 1: I think that they are a team that uh, they've

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Speaker 1: show an incredible fight at different times, getting healthy, getting

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Speaker 1: these some of these guys back. The Raiders are fighting

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Speaker 1: for their season. If they lose this one, thirty eight

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Speaker 1: puts them at a two percent chance of making the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: So this is your year right here. Yeah, they need

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Speaker 1: they need to win, and I guess I just I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna go down with the USS growd in here, uh

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Speaker 1: if it comes to that, because I it's a week

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Speaker 1: to week league and everyone thinks the Raiders are done now.

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Speaker 1: And meanwhile, they did come off of winning their seven

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Speaker 1: and five and they're playing a Cults team that is not,

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Speaker 1: you know, far superior to them at home. I know

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Speaker 1: home doesn't matter that much this year. I'm picking the Raiders.

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Speaker 1: I think the Raiders win this game. Greg, I imagine

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Speaker 1: you picked the Colts in your pick them column. I

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Speaker 1: I did take them. I'm wondering, Mark, like, are the

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Speaker 1: Cults a team that's down for anything, like the up

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Speaker 1: for anything like the Dolphins? Does that mean like what

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Speaker 1: you call them on Friday night and they're ready to

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Speaker 1: go out. It's more it's more like you're already in

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Speaker 1: and they're like, you want to go hiking anything? Dan

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Speaker 1: and I once went to a Super Bowl I believe

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Speaker 1: it was a bud Light Super Bowl party where the

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Speaker 1: tagline was up for anything, and we enjoyed ourselves. So

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins. I enjoyed the Dolphins. The Colts, I don't

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Speaker 1: get that vibe from then. They're like, you know, Midwestern.

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Speaker 1: They're very like, let's do things by the book. Um

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Speaker 1: tough team, but not up for anything. Now I remember

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Speaker 1: vaguely they're being like a rapper. Oh shack was the

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Speaker 1: bowl part. There was a unicorn um that they had

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Speaker 1: fresh bowls of paint. We painted a statue of a unicorn.

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Speaker 1: Other things happened all right. Time Now for Road of Victory,

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Speaker 1: presented by the United States Marine Corps. Up next in

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Speaker 1: the draft, Mark Sessler, I don't think this is a game.

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Speaker 1: I would have picked a few weeks ago. But it's

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Speaker 1: a game I'm picking right now Arizona at the New

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Speaker 1: York Giants, the frisky New York Giants. They kind of

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Speaker 1: like the old lunch paill du It's and I you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't even know if children know what lunch pails

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Speaker 1: are anymore. No one's caring those things around at this point.

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Speaker 1: But they are. They are morphing into a tough team.

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Speaker 1: And I love the idea of of Kyler Murray in

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Speaker 1: a tough spot here, having to show who he is

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Speaker 1: and who this offense is. I mean, if you take

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Speaker 1: away that fifty nine yard touchdown strike to Dan Ordered

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Speaker 1: last week, he opened that half two for eleven for

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Speaker 1: fourteen yards. I know they got a little hotter down

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Speaker 1: the stretch, but I'm a bit concerned about the Cardinals.

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Speaker 1: You take away the Hail Mary against Buffalo and they

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Speaker 1: would have lost five in a row. They are, they

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Speaker 1: are in a position right here. We've talked about the

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Speaker 1: Raiders as a team that absolutely needs to win. How

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Speaker 1: about the Cardinals. You know, this was this was a

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Speaker 1: quarterback talked about as an m VP candidate at the

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Speaker 1: start of the year. This Giant's defense is not going

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Speaker 1: to allow you to walk over them. They made life

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Speaker 1: very difficult last week, very difficult, and I think that

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Speaker 1: they have a chance to do the same thing to

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Speaker 1: uh the Cardinals. Um, this is my NFC East team.

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Speaker 1: I know that Greg is very high on Washington. Um.

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Speaker 1: For me, it's the Giant. Well. I started thinking this week, Mark,

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Speaker 1: you know, we haven't done team of the Around the

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Speaker 1: NFL podcast this year or in a few years, and

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Speaker 1: I started thinking, if we had to have one this year,

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Speaker 1: I think it'd be a big Blue. If Chris wesleyan

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Speaker 1: would allow it, I think it'd be the New York

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Speaker 1: Football Giants. Chris wesley will never allow a New York

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Speaker 1: team to be the team of a t N So

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Speaker 1: you have doesn't matter. There's some there's some New York

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Speaker 1: bias in there as well. He's he's fed up with

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Speaker 1: the Northeast. That's part of that. That might be it,

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Speaker 1: But I've I've enjoyed watching this team all year. Their defense,

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Speaker 1: they play hard. I'm excited that Daniel Jones is expected

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Speaker 1: to be back. We don't know that for sure um

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Speaker 1: for this game, but that makes a big difference and

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Speaker 1: it gives them a chance. Their defense has gotten better

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Speaker 1: as the season has gone along, and I kind of

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Speaker 1: think about them like I think about the Dolphins and

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Speaker 1: the Patriots. The more time that they have together and

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Speaker 1: the more time that they know what all of their

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Speaker 1: teammates are doing, because it's a complex defense. The hear

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Speaker 1: that they are and they're definitely bigger and better than

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Speaker 1: the some of their parts. I think it's a really

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Speaker 1: tough matchup for Kyler, and I know there's a range

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Speaker 1: of outcomes in the NFC where maybe even a five

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Speaker 1: team can get that seven seed, but even even still,

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Speaker 1: I think the Cardinals need to win this game to

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Speaker 1: get their season back on track and just get out

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Speaker 1: of this free fall. Uh and Murray over their last

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Speaker 1: three games, and they've all been losses, averaging sixty fewer

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Speaker 1: past yards per game, almost fifty fewer rushing yards per

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Speaker 1: game compared to the first nine games of the season,

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Speaker 1: which it tells you two things. He hasn't been the

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Speaker 1: same player, and he was playing at an outstanding level

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Speaker 1: before that, and that has been kind of my criticism

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Speaker 1: of Arizona for the last month and a half. I

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Speaker 1: think what we've seen is that this team can win

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Speaker 1: games and compete for a division and get everyone excited

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Speaker 1: when Kyler Murray is in a godlike state as a

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Speaker 1: football player, but when he can't be that guy, and

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Speaker 1: you can't ask a second year player unless it's Patrick

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Speaker 1: Mahomes to consistently be that guy, is just an average

596
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Speaker 1: team that needs help on both sides of the ball,

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Speaker 1: and there at least a year away. So I think

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Speaker 1: that's how they've been exposed at this point of the season.

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't see them pulling up the nose here.

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Speaker 1: I think we're going in for a crash. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it makes sense the teams would gather knowledge on Kyler Murray,

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Speaker 1: on guys like Lamar Jackson who are so dangerous on

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Speaker 1: the ground, and put everything, every effort into not giving

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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray those opportunities. And you know we've talked about

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Speaker 1: them in the show before. The Kyler Murray is seeing

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Speaker 1: it with defenses. They are forcing him to hand the

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Speaker 1: ball off. They're not allowing him to just prance around

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Speaker 1: yards of open field and do the damage he was doing.

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Speaker 1: Can I jump in on that, Mark? You can? Can

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Speaker 1: I jump in on that? I'm hearing that a lot lately.

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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray is not able to run anymore because defenses

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Speaker 1: are now keyed in on that. Isn't that the whole

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Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury thing though? Wasn't that what they signed up for?

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Speaker 1: That Cliff Kingsbury was supposed to be this gifted offensive

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Speaker 1: mind and the Sean McVeigh mold. And meanwhile, all I'm

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Speaker 1: reading abo this week is how Calumbury can't run anymore

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Speaker 1: because defenses have adjusted to the game. Oh and by

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Speaker 1: the way, DeAndre Hopkins, if you look at his route

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Speaker 1: tree this year, it's kind of absurd that he's not

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Speaker 1: being used the right way. One of the great wide

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Speaker 1: receivers in the league. Click Kingsbury, do something. Help this team.

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Speaker 1: They need you. They're going down his place and they

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Speaker 1: need you to be the genius that you were sold

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Speaker 1: as to everyone. You're not playing Rice University right now.

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Speaker 1: So it's the NFL coordinators catch up to this stuff,

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Speaker 1: you know. And so much of their offense was Murray scrambling.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't even the called runs. There was a good

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Speaker 1: stat by Stephen ruiz On for the win where basically

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Speaker 1: they have the lowest amount of yards per attempt on

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Speaker 1: r p o s in the entire league. That's a

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Speaker 1: big time disappointment. And let me give a shout out

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Speaker 1: to Leonard Williams, the former Jet who never reached his

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Speaker 1: potential in New York traded to the Giants or a

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Speaker 1: third round pick, a move that Dave Gedtleman was laughed

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Speaker 1: at over. He has been awesome this year. He has

636
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Speaker 1: been at all pro level talent when you look at

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Speaker 1: his production, and it was never better than against the Seahawks.

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Speaker 1: Two sacks, five QB hits, the big I'm happy for him.

639
00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:04,440
Speaker 1: I hope he gets paid. All right, Mark, it snakes

640
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 1: to you, my friend. All Right, I'm gonna go somewhere

641
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 1: that it's not gonna surprise you. I'm gonna go Washington

642
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:13,600
Speaker 1: at San Francisco. Uh, this game is intriguing. Now we've

643
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 1: forked the Niners, and I do believe their season is

644
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:20,520
Speaker 1: done based on our actions there. Dan, But uh, you

645
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 1: know what I love about this season and the whole um.

646
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 1: You know, twelve thirteen weeks of NFC East jokes that

647
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:29,520
Speaker 1: grew tired that things change in the NFC East suddenly

648
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 1: is frisky and it's the two teams. No one thought

649
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 1: about the Giants in Washington and what Washington did against

650
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:38,440
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh that makes me a little concerned for Nick Mullins.

651
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 1: You got Montes sweat tipping balls all over the place

652
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 1: causing chaos. And I need to see a Niners team

653
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:45,959
Speaker 1: that gets out of the gate a little earlier than

654
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 1: they did uh last week when they were ravished by

655
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:51,120
Speaker 1: the Bills. How about we got Deebo Samuel involved a

656
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 1: little bit differently and earlier on here and the running game.

657
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:57,040
Speaker 1: I don't know if we need eighteen different people with

658
00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:59,680
Speaker 1: Carrie's here. Let's get someone hot and let's move on

659
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:03,360
Speaker 1: this thing. UM Washington to me is an incredibly resilient

660
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 1: and strange team. I enjoy watching them. Honestly. I think

661
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 1: this is the first this is the first time that

662
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 1: I can really remember good energy around uh Washington. And

663
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:14,240
Speaker 1: I would say they should keep their weird name and

664
00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:16,800
Speaker 1: keep their helmets. Don't go on the search committee to

665
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 1: read your identity. Keep this one. I enjoy it. You know,

666
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 1: I was thinking the same exact thing a couple of

667
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 1: days ago that just through repetition, now Washington football team,

668
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 1: it just kind of is a thing that it works

669
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:30,480
Speaker 1: for me as well. And I also may I say

670
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:32,400
Speaker 1: that this is the second time this week mark that

671
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 1: you're Golden boy Kyle Shanahan, You've just been levying criticism

672
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 1: Adam for his usage of certain players, and I'm here

673
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 1: for it. I mean, he knows more. He could tell

674
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:43,840
Speaker 1: you more in thirty seconds about football than I could

675
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 1: tell you in six hours. So I'm not it's not

676
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 1: really critique of him. Um. I do have Rahey mostered

677
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 1: on my fantasy team. That could be part of my messaging.

678
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:53,480
Speaker 1: I almost feel like it's generous of you to say

679
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 1: that it would take six hours for you to match

680
00:32:55,840 --> 00:33:02,520
Speaker 1: him in that. You know. I I look at this

681
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:05,760
Speaker 1: game and I wonder if Washington can do it again. Okay,

682
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 1: it's one thing. It was the game of the year

683
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 1: for them. It was a magical moment. I I I

684
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:14,480
Speaker 1: truly believe I will remember that game forever. Washington Pittsburgh.

685
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 1: I think they will to beating the last unbeating and

686
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,520
Speaker 1: Alex Smith like that is that's a big deal. I'm not.

687
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:21,640
Speaker 1: I'm not laughing. Think about how bad this. It's the

688
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 1: most great thing you've ever said. I will remember that

689
00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:28,960
Speaker 1: game forever. On on Monday afternoon at two o'clock for

690
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 1: Alex Smith to do that, don't you think they will do?

691
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:35,760
Speaker 1: You don't remember anything what's up. But you don't remember anything,

692
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 1: but you will remember this, and I believe it. Yeah,

693
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:41,520
Speaker 1: I remember. I do remember football games, especially like where

694
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:44,280
Speaker 1: I was when I saw Cam Sims pulling that one

695
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 1: hander and a team without Antonio Gibson getting it done.

696
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:49,720
Speaker 1: I don't know if they do it again. I think

697
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 1: this matchup is tricky just the way that San Francisco

698
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 1: runs their offense. Washington is not so much a team

699
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,360
Speaker 1: that's gonna come after you, um and get a lot

700
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:01,720
Speaker 1: of blitzes in big stops. They really rely on the

701
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,000
Speaker 1: red zone defense and tackling, and this is one of

702
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:08,239
Speaker 1: the toughest teams to tackle San Francisco auk mostre debot

703
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:11,400
Speaker 1: and defensively, you know, San Francisco is kind of a

704
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:14,319
Speaker 1: coverage team that will take away the big plays. They

705
00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 1: don't have a great pass rush right now. But just

706
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 1: because Washington won that one game, I don't think they're

707
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:21,719
Speaker 1: necessarily gonna go steam roll on the other side of

708
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 1: the country this week again. You know, I want, like

709
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 1: a it's a fine line here, because you want to

710
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 1: respect what Washington has has managed the last few weeks.

711
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:33,240
Speaker 1: But also I'm with you. I think the reason, for instance,

712
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:37,279
Speaker 1: the Niners went in the tank on Monday against or

713
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:41,360
Speaker 1: Tuesday or whatever day it was against Josh Allen. Was

714
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:45,840
Speaker 1: because once Josh Allen and Brian day Ball cracked the

715
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:49,279
Speaker 1: code of Robert Sala and that defense, it became a

716
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:51,719
Speaker 1: situation where it was Nick Mullins versus Josh Allen in

717
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:54,480
Speaker 1: a shootout, and we know what's gonna happen there. But

718
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:57,320
Speaker 1: in this situation, you know what's gonna happen with Washington's offense.

719
00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 1: They are going to dancin dunk you. This is a

720
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 1: team that when it's uh third and nine, we'll throw

721
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,040
Speaker 1: it four yards. I mean, there's no way we're gonna

722
00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:07,759
Speaker 1: have a shootout and you're gonna put Nick Moans in

723
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 1: that situation again. So then I feel like just the

724
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 1: game script is gonna be much better for San Francisco

725
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:15,880
Speaker 1: than it was. And even though Mark we did fork

726
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 1: the Niners, which means they have no chance of making

727
00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 1: the postseason, we stand by it. I still think the

728
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 1: Niners have a have a w here and it's gonna

729
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:26,920
Speaker 1: be at the expense of the w team. Yeah, forking

730
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:28,879
Speaker 1: them doesn't mean that they're not gonna, you know, cause

731
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,319
Speaker 1: some chaos down the stretch. They are, That's who they are.

732
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:33,759
Speaker 1: And I and I know that Kyle Shanahan nobly would

733
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:36,920
Speaker 1: not mention this. But I think having to relocate to Arizona,

734
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 1: and you know, having to tell players you're not gonna

735
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 1: spend Christmas with your families, I think that took a

736
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:43,480
Speaker 1: toll against the Bills. I really do. I mean, these

737
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:47,200
Speaker 1: are human beings in a really weird um. Maybe they're

738
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:50,040
Speaker 1: a little bit more in a calm place um centered

739
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 1: in together this game. And I don't think they're gonna

740
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:55,080
Speaker 1: go to sleep though, Daniel, Right, all right, let's move

741
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 1: on the old jus Er picks next. I picked one

742
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:00,600
Speaker 1: game that felt like a playoff game my first pick.

743
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:04,280
Speaker 1: I have another one here, the Vikings at the Bucks.

744
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:08,239
Speaker 1: So alright, so the Vikings on this podcast, we've we've

745
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:10,279
Speaker 1: been calling him the team of Zeus t L because

746
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:12,080
Speaker 1: I got behind them when they were one in five

747
00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 1: and now they're all the way back to five and

748
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:16,719
Speaker 1: right now where they sit is in the seventh and

749
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:21,040
Speaker 1: final playoff spot. That's all good. However, there are things

750
00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 1: about the Vikings the last couple of weeks that are

751
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 1: that make me feel differently than I felt a month ago.

752
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 1: And I don't. I don't necessarily think this is a

753
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:33,320
Speaker 1: team that is gonna steamroll to that playoff spot. I

754
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 1: think the Bucks are an opponent that could give them

755
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:40,520
Speaker 1: a lot of trouble coming off the by uh, Bruce Arians,

756
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. Hopefully they get on the same page Byron

757
00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 1: Leftwich and they have a game plan that is more

758
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:48,279
Speaker 1: tailored to what Brady can do. And I think that's

759
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:51,239
Speaker 1: the other big subplot here, one of the bigger or

760
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:54,080
Speaker 1: more interesting soap opera subplots of the rest of this

761
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:57,840
Speaker 1: regular season boys, which is Bruce Arians and Tom Brady.

762
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:00,680
Speaker 1: Can they make this work? Uh? They're still so much

763
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:03,239
Speaker 1: to be settled. But if this team flames out, who

764
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:08,440
Speaker 1: knows what happens come January. I love the Bucks in

765
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 1: terms of that it's all or nothing, like I either

766
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:13,879
Speaker 1: think they're gonna win four straight and steamroll everyone down

767
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:16,920
Speaker 1: the stretch, or it's gonna unpload they don't make the playoffs.

768
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:19,319
Speaker 1: And you're right, maybe Arians is the fall guy because

769
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:23,040
Speaker 1: Tom Brady is guaranteed that money he's still throwing. He's

770
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:25,920
Speaker 1: not going anywhere. I like this matchup for them though, too,

771
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 1: because you look at the Vikings. If they can't run

772
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:31,879
Speaker 1: with Dalvin Cook. What do they have? Not a lot?

773
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 1: And I don't think you're gonna be able to run

774
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:36,240
Speaker 1: against the Bucks. And then you look at the Vikings

775
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:38,799
Speaker 1: offensive line. I think they've been struggling lately. I don't

776
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 1: trust their communication. And you gotta play of Todd Bowls

777
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:44,520
Speaker 1: defense that gives you all sorts of looks, all sorts

778
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:46,279
Speaker 1: of problems. And that's why I feel good about the

779
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 1: Bucks bouncing back and I'm locking it up against the

780
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:53,239
Speaker 1: team of all Right, I like that. That's a good pick.

781
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:55,360
Speaker 1: I think you're a little strong of the Bowls of Sons.

782
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:57,799
Speaker 1: This defense hasn't been quite what it was. And did

783
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:00,279
Speaker 1: you say, if you take away Dalvin Cook, what are

784
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 1: the Vikings that? What about Justin Jefferson and Adam Feeling

785
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:05,759
Speaker 1: maybe the best one to punch at wide receiver we

786
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:08,759
Speaker 1: have in the in our league. They're asking Kirk to

787
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 1: do all this third and thirteen stuff, and he's getting

788
00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:13,080
Speaker 1: it done each and every week. But I don't I

789
00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 1: don't think that works against Tampa. I mean, they didn't

790
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:17,680
Speaker 1: throw a deep ball until the second half last week.

791
00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:20,920
Speaker 1: I would maybe, you know, test this defense in that

792
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:23,279
Speaker 1: in that nature earlier on in the scheme because I

793
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:25,359
Speaker 1: don't know, it's not a great scenario for Dalvin Cook.

794
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:27,400
Speaker 1: I have to wonder if the Vikings, who you know,

795
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:30,399
Speaker 1: the only teams that seemed to impact negatively the Bucks.

796
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:31,840
Speaker 1: You have to be able to get to Tom Brady.

797
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:34,520
Speaker 1: That's an age old. Uh, we know that whole situation.

798
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:38,120
Speaker 1: But they traded away Yannick and Gokway when it felt

799
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:40,239
Speaker 1: like they were sort of selling the farm, and he

800
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:42,600
Speaker 1: still leads the team in sacks. He only played six

801
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:45,600
Speaker 1: games there. I do wonder if they regret that trade

802
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 1: because they are alive, um, but they can't rush the

803
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:51,040
Speaker 1: passer very well right now, and that's just a formula

804
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:53,799
Speaker 1: for them getting nipped in games. Uh. You know, they

805
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:56,560
Speaker 1: seem to constantly be alive in the fourth quarter, but

806
00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:59,759
Speaker 1: then then too many X factors, uh, you know, ring in.

807
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,200
Speaker 1: So I would like to see Minnesota like show up

808
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:04,440
Speaker 1: in this one. Um. I the Bucks to me, I'm

809
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 1: still trying to figure out who they are. I don't

810
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:08,319
Speaker 1: think that the some of their parts on offense, does

811
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:12,880
Speaker 1: this qualify as the fallacy of the predetermined outcome? Because

812
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 1: in Gockway went to Baltimore, but now he's injured in

813
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 1: his a reduced player. If you would have stayed in

814
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:21,480
Speaker 1: Minnesota with his foothurt, someone's gonna take me through the

815
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 1: science on that or in Gockway, I think if you do,

816
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:27,320
Speaker 1: his record right now is three and ten on the

817
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:30,720
Speaker 1: year he's played in extra games. The problems keep losing.

818
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 1: He trade him to Baltimore and they start losing. It's

819
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 1: not your fault. Yeah, don't tell like Steven A. Smith

820
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 1: about that. It's gonna lead to an epic rant against

821
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:44,000
Speaker 1: the poor man. All right, let's get continue to roll

822
00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:46,600
Speaker 1: through Week four team, But before we do that, I

823
00:39:46,719 --> 00:40:01,480
Speaker 1: have some developing news to share. Uh. This week, Bob

824
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:07,440
Speaker 1: Costas joined Twitter or did he? Mark Sessler's boyhood hero,

825
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:11,920
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler's teenage hero, Mark Sessler's twenties and thirties and

826
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:16,440
Speaker 1: forties hero appeared to jump on Twitter as at real

827
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:20,719
Speaker 1: underscore Bob Costas, but no, it was debunked by his

828
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 1: son Keith and his agent confirming it was fake. And

829
00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:27,759
Speaker 1: then Bob Mark went on The Rich Eyes and Show

830
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 1: to further clarify there that he wants nothing to do

831
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:35,120
Speaker 1: with social media in the twenty one century. Yeah, I mean,

832
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 1: like his son basically said, unless my dad has done

833
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:42,920
Speaker 1: a basically like an identity switch. He would never do this,

834
00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:47,000
Speaker 1: and so there is argument um rich argument to suggest

835
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 1: that Bob Costas is not someone that is uh totally

836
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:52,920
Speaker 1: willing to advance with the times in terms of um

837
00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:56,319
Speaker 1: how he would express himself on social media. He's he's

838
00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 1: a ghost on that front. That song though, that little

839
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:01,480
Speaker 1: NFL Live song you played it there, that gets me.

840
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 1: I don't. That's emotional. I can't. Let's let's let's get

841
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:27,680
Speaker 1: out of the way and just listen. I mean, if

842
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:32,439
Speaker 1: there's one thing that speaking of social media tendencies, mark

843
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 1: if he's not posting pictures by the Colorado River everyone

844
00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:42,440
Speaker 1: in flannel looking like uhi and the other guy uh

845
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:46,040
Speaker 1: from the Walsh family. It is Bob Costas old school

846
00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:50,200
Speaker 1: NBC video clips from NBC. I was just annoyed at

847
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 1: all the people who are like, hey, Bob was it

848
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:56,239
Speaker 1: was a classmate of years at Syracuse Journalism. It's great

849
00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:58,760
Speaker 1: to see like a million people with blue check marks,

850
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:01,400
Speaker 1: thought Bob cost this was like, hey, I don't know

851
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:04,360
Speaker 1: how this tweeter works. And he puts up a corny

852
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:07,640
Speaker 1: background with a bunch of people from NBC as if

853
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:09,600
Speaker 1: he didn't have, you know, a little bit of a

854
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:12,400
Speaker 1: break up there at NBC, Like he's putting those pictures

855
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:15,280
Speaker 1: up as his background. It was pretty easy to de bunk.

856
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:18,000
Speaker 1: I did it that night. I came after after him

857
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:19,920
Speaker 1: and just took a chance that it was fake and

858
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:22,279
Speaker 1: and it absolutely Greg, Are you at least proud of

859
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 1: the fact that I did not try to communicate with

860
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:27,080
Speaker 1: Bob cost It was just like, hey, do you remember

861
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:29,520
Speaker 1: me from that you know Syracuse classes, Like you think

862
00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 1: Bob Costas is out here without a check mark, just

863
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:34,320
Speaker 1: popping in on a Friday night or whatever it was,

864
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:37,760
Speaker 1: come on mark where you did. For a split second,

865
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:39,600
Speaker 1: you were filled with joy. I imagine though, when it

866
00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:43,160
Speaker 1: looked like Bob Costas had joined Twitter, I was freaking out. Um.

867
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:45,960
Speaker 1: But but actually my way into it was learning that

868
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:47,960
Speaker 1: it was a fraud. So for like less than half

869
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,360
Speaker 1: a second, um, I just took it. The look at

870
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:53,000
Speaker 1: the picture and I thought, he is he has arrived.

871
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:57,360
Speaker 1: He has joined Twitter. Middle school. All right, Well, we

872
00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:00,560
Speaker 1: will continue to track this story because who knows, maybe

873
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:03,480
Speaker 1: Bob will say, man, all this hullabaloo, this has made

874
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 1: me relevant again. I'm in the news again. Maybe it's

875
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:10,120
Speaker 1: time to get on social media. This is in a weird,

876
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:13,880
Speaker 1: roundabout way, this is what I need to get my

877
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:19,440
Speaker 1: career back on track. Bob Costs, I'm not listening to

878
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:25,719
Speaker 1: any of that, alright enough, I don't know if Bob

879
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:28,359
Speaker 1: Costas will always be fertile fertile ground on this joke.

880
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:31,279
Speaker 1: I hope he knows. He doesn't, but I'm sure that

881
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:33,279
Speaker 1: would be a highlight for him. Just like Bob. We're

882
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:35,359
Speaker 1: not going to move along with the times. This Bob

883
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:37,560
Speaker 1: cost Is joke. We're gonna be doing it in fifteen

884
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:40,880
Speaker 1: years if we're lucky. Alright, as long as you two

885
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:43,200
Speaker 1: keep showing an utter lack of respect, it will be

886
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:48,200
Speaker 1: a bit. All right, let's let's continue with the draft. Mark,

887
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:52,440
Speaker 1: I think where we left off. Actually, no excuse me.

888
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:56,120
Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal is about to make his second selection. I'm excited.

889
00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:59,440
Speaker 1: I need a late game. I'm gonna take Jalen Hurts

890
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:04,400
Speaker 1: is first career start against the Saints. What what a

891
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:08,399
Speaker 1: great situation. It's a good value. That's a good value pick. Yeah,

892
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:11,120
Speaker 1: I mean, Taysom Hill looks like he will start again.

893
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:15,040
Speaker 1: Drew Brees doesn't sound like he's ready. And you think

894
00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:18,919
Speaker 1: about what Jalen Hurts is stepping into here. Okay, well,

895
00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:20,800
Speaker 1: you know, let's hand the ball off to Miles Sanders.

896
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:23,000
Speaker 1: You're going up against the best run defense in the

897
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:25,800
Speaker 1: NFL right now. Let's drop back to pass against the

898
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:29,160
Speaker 1: Saints defense that's playing better right now than they have

899
00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 1: all season, going up against an Eagle's offensive line that's

900
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:37,080
Speaker 1: mostly been a mess. It's a tough spot for Jalen Hurts.

901
00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 1: That's that's what I am, I guess anxious about when

902
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:43,440
Speaker 1: it comes to this game, that you could see the

903
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:47,279
Speaker 1: Saints just blowing them out of the water, especially when

904
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:50,280
Speaker 1: the Eagles have the ball, because the Eagles coaching staff

905
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:53,200
Speaker 1: has not shown me much to believe in that they're

906
00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:56,320
Speaker 1: gonna cook up anything for Hurts. I thought Hurts needed

907
00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:59,399
Speaker 1: to start when said basically benched himself. It had to happen,

908
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:01,319
Speaker 1: and Hurts me a couple of nice plays put him

909
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:03,640
Speaker 1: in there. But this is about as tough of a

910
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:06,480
Speaker 1: first start as he could possibly have. I mean it is,

911
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:09,960
Speaker 1: and it shows you, like how well uh the situation

912
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:12,320
Speaker 1: has gone for Taysom Hill because of all the strength

913
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:15,000
Speaker 1: surrounding him. But I wonder if the bar actually is

914
00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:18,800
Speaker 1: relatively low for Hurts in the sense that this offense

915
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:21,359
Speaker 1: has been one of the most boring things that has

916
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:25,600
Speaker 1: occurred in professional sports in uh that even a little

917
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:28,319
Speaker 1: bit of life, any sort of sign of life, Um,

918
00:45:28,719 --> 00:45:31,239
Speaker 1: he will be praised for. And you know, I mean

919
00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:33,920
Speaker 1: if he if he doesn't succeed, Uh, you still have

920
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:36,480
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson hanging out there is your sort of Lee

921
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:40,400
Speaker 1: Harvey oswald Es scapegoat to just blame. So I mean Hurts.

922
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:42,000
Speaker 1: You know, it's not a good matchup, but I could

923
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:44,360
Speaker 1: see Hurts doing just a little bit of anything and

924
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:47,480
Speaker 1: people thinking this guy's fun. Yeah, this was the right move.

925
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:50,719
Speaker 1: And I think it was a move that Peterson was

926
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:53,800
Speaker 1: loath to make because he knows he's tied two Wentz

927
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:56,640
Speaker 1: and by benching Wentz, it's an admission of failure that

928
00:45:56,800 --> 00:45:59,560
Speaker 1: everything that this season was built around on the offensive

929
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 1: side of the all was bad and wrong and failed.

930
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:06,040
Speaker 1: And now you have to pivot and hope Jalen Hurts

931
00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:09,240
Speaker 1: uh delivers something in this audition. I would hope they

932
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:11,680
Speaker 1: give Jalen Hurts the rest of the season. The Eagles

933
00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:14,399
Speaker 1: are all but dead in the NFC East at this point,

934
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 1: and whence it does doesn't seem like, I'm not saying.

935
00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:20,480
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that Wentz is going to forever be

936
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:24,200
Speaker 1: this guy now, although that's certainly possible. But I think

937
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:27,560
Speaker 1: it's clear this guy needs to, you know, take a seat,

938
00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:30,880
Speaker 1: maybe have an offseason build up some things, work on

939
00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:34,000
Speaker 1: some things physically mentally, and and and come back wherever

940
00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:37,080
Speaker 1: he may be. I mean, they ranked Wentz ranked thirty

941
00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:39,960
Speaker 1: feet out of thirty three qualified qbs and passer rating.

942
00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:44,320
Speaker 1: This season, he had more giveaways than any Eagles quarterback

943
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:48,440
Speaker 1: through twelve games since nineteen. The Eagles went three and

944
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:52,800
Speaker 1: out thirty six times this season so far, most in

945
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:55,759
Speaker 1: the NFL, more than the Jets. I mean, it's it's

946
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:58,160
Speaker 1: still hard to believe. So now you get a chance

947
00:46:58,200 --> 00:46:59,880
Speaker 1: to get Hurts in there, and it's a tough spoty

948
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:03,720
Speaker 1: the Saints, who have been awesome obviously on defense this season,

949
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:05,880
Speaker 1: but it's it's not a moment too soon. The Saints

950
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:08,759
Speaker 1: have allowed eight point eight points per game since Week nine.

951
00:47:10,040 --> 00:47:12,400
Speaker 1: I am not excited about. You know, this is coming

952
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:15,759
Speaker 1: a bunch of whit crackers with their like word play

953
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:19,439
Speaker 1: jokes about hurts the last name, the fact that whether

954
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:21,520
Speaker 1: you know if someone gets hurt or if if he

955
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:24,200
Speaker 1: hurts the defense with a nice pass um, can we

956
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:26,880
Speaker 1: stay away from those? If you're someone that's inclined to

957
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:30,239
Speaker 1: use that type of humor on Sunday, um, please check

958
00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:33,040
Speaker 1: yourself at the door. Just a public snouncement. I'm not

959
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:36,479
Speaker 1: really deeply. Despite Colleen being one of our favorite people

960
00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:39,680
Speaker 1: and we love John Gonzalez and Philadelphia, I don't know

961
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:42,719
Speaker 1: Philadelphia very well. John Renald Gonzalez port Marks twelve nine

962
00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:45,200
Speaker 1: is an American sports writer. Was married NFL media broadcaster

963
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:47,400
Speaker 1: Colley Wolf. Johnho was a Poces resides in Los Angeles

964
00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:50,400
Speaker 1: with his wife and two dogs, despite the proximity growing

965
00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:52,719
Speaker 1: up to the city. So I don't know if they're

966
00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:57,279
Speaker 1: they're dailies. Uh, Tabloids have the same zeal when it

967
00:47:57,320 --> 00:47:59,480
Speaker 1: comes to headline writing that the New York Post in

968
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:02,520
Speaker 1: the New York the News, uh do, but love hurts

969
00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:06,080
Speaker 1: feels like one that's bang if he if he plays well,

970
00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:09,440
Speaker 1: love hurts, that's not bad. A lot of everybody hurts.

971
00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:11,800
Speaker 1: I mean, we're getting off. At least, you know, you

972
00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:15,040
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about dying. On Taysom Hill Hill

973
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:18,399
Speaker 1: seems like he's in a nice, nice spot here made

974
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:21,359
Speaker 1: some good throws last week thought I thought, um, he's

975
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:23,439
Speaker 1: getting a little too much credit for a game where

976
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:25,759
Speaker 1: he fumbled twice in the fourth quarter and one of

977
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:28,680
Speaker 1: them could have been was as bad as Mitchell Drabinsky's fumble.

978
00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:31,279
Speaker 1: I think worse really, if you look at the play

979
00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:32,960
Speaker 1: that he had at the end, it's just he got

980
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:34,719
Speaker 1: lucky and it went out of bounds on him. He

981
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:36,759
Speaker 1: has nine fumbles on the year, so the only two

982
00:48:36,800 --> 00:48:40,160
Speaker 1: players who have fumbled more than him our Carson Wentz

983
00:48:40,239 --> 00:48:43,000
Speaker 1: and Jared Goff and Taysom Hill's barely played. I mean

984
00:48:43,080 --> 00:48:46,319
Speaker 1: that that's a pretty that's a pretty big issue for him.

985
00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 1: He reminds me a little bit here. I wish West

986
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 1: was here to check this one of like a poor

987
00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:55,640
Speaker 1: man's rookie RG three, because he can make the throws.

988
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:59,680
Speaker 1: The running ability is his next level. He's so physical.

989
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 1: If he's got the first read there, he can make

990
00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:04,520
Speaker 1: those throws and you're gonna scheme him up. I think

991
00:49:04,560 --> 00:49:06,920
Speaker 1: that's only gonna last so long. But he reminds me

992
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:09,320
Speaker 1: of kind of like a good rookie, you know, the

993
00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:13,279
Speaker 1: good RG three. The rookie people forget about RG three,

994
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:16,239
Speaker 1: especially like you saw him most recently, and it was sad.

995
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:18,440
Speaker 1: It was like a old thoroughbred that needs to be

996
00:49:18,480 --> 00:49:21,360
Speaker 1: put out to past year. But I mean, I remember

997
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:23,640
Speaker 1: one game in RGC three's rookie year, might have even

998
00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:26,240
Speaker 1: been his the opening game where he just went nuts,

999
00:49:26,640 --> 00:49:28,840
Speaker 1: where he got to the outside and then just toasted

1000
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:32,240
Speaker 1: everyone because he was the fastest guy on the field.

1001
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:34,800
Speaker 1: Tayson Mill doesn't strike me as the same type of

1002
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:38,360
Speaker 1: almost there. I mean to me, he's there just the

1003
00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:41,759
Speaker 1: peg below. You know, Kyler and Lamar as runners, but

1004
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:46,520
Speaker 1: pretty much right right next you said poor man. So

1005
00:49:46,640 --> 00:49:48,239
Speaker 1: it's like it would cost a lot less money for

1006
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:51,719
Speaker 1: that player and he would do lesser things. That's fair,

1007
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:55,800
Speaker 1: I want to say before we move on Alvin Kamara. Listen,

1008
00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:57,920
Speaker 1: fantasy owners out there, a good job. We got the

1009
00:49:58,120 --> 00:50:02,560
Speaker 1: w we got the touchdown last week, but it should

1010
00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:04,919
Speaker 1: be noted that it is no longer just a blip

1011
00:50:05,040 --> 00:50:08,120
Speaker 1: on the radar. Alvin Kamara has seven receiving yards over

1012
00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:11,759
Speaker 1: three games with Taysom Hill, his lowest amount of receiving yards.

1013
00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:13,680
Speaker 1: He ever had in one game with seven yards, and

1014
00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:16,040
Speaker 1: it happened once his whole career. Now he has seven

1015
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:17,759
Speaker 1: total in three games, so that's just not part of

1016
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:20,960
Speaker 1: this offense with Taysom Hill. But as I said, I

1017
00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:24,719
Speaker 1: think on Tuesday Show, this is a huge start for

1018
00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:28,560
Speaker 1: living on Taysom Hill. If he lights up the Eagles,

1019
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:31,399
Speaker 1: it gives Sean Payton a lot to think about down

1020
00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:34,400
Speaker 1: the stretch. So very interesting game there, even if the

1021
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:38,040
Speaker 1: Eagles aren't so interesting this year. Greg, it snakes to you. Oh,

1022
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:40,799
Speaker 1: I'm really struggling with this one. It's uh, I need

1023
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:43,600
Speaker 1: another early game. I kind of like banging out games

1024
00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 1: that I don't want to watch on game Pass, just

1025
00:50:45,719 --> 00:50:49,920
Speaker 1: like get it out of the way. Let's go Texans Bears,

1026
00:50:50,640 --> 00:50:54,399
Speaker 1: which I think will be the first time we do something. Hey, Ricky,

1027
00:50:54,520 --> 00:50:56,719
Speaker 1: let's for these games. Now that we're later in the season.

1028
00:50:56,800 --> 00:50:58,840
Speaker 1: We have so many games to get to. We're gonna

1029
00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:02,200
Speaker 1: start a two minute drill for certain games that are

1030
00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:05,280
Speaker 1: not as saucy in the back half of these previews episodes.

1031
00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:07,719
Speaker 1: So let's set the clock at two minutes to talk

1032
00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:11,839
Speaker 1: about Houston Chicago. Hit it right, I mean, don't blame

1033
00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:14,840
Speaker 1: us Bears fan, you guys did this to you. The

1034
00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:16,839
Speaker 1: Bears Lions game last week was one of the first

1035
00:51:16,920 --> 00:51:18,840
Speaker 1: games all year I was watching on game Pass, thinking

1036
00:51:18,920 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 1: like it reminded me of you Mark, Like there was

1037
00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 1: kind of a Quentin Tarantino cut about forty five minutes

1038
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:26,560
Speaker 1: on game Pass where they're showing a lot of replays

1039
00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:29,520
Speaker 1: of second down and nine eight yard games. It's like,

1040
00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:31,560
Speaker 1: I've seen enough of this Bears team. Part of it

1041
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:35,360
Speaker 1: is because Khalil Mack and Robert Quinn are doing nothing combined.

1042
00:51:35,520 --> 00:51:37,520
Speaker 1: One quarterback hit between the two of them in the

1043
00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:40,320
Speaker 1: last four weeks. How about that. Yeah, it's like we

1044
00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:41,839
Speaker 1: you know, if you don't watch the Bears, you think

1045
00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:45,239
Speaker 1: all their identity is defense, and they're actually like they're

1046
00:51:45,239 --> 00:51:47,600
Speaker 1: not there. Takeaways are far far lower than they were

1047
00:51:47,640 --> 00:51:49,920
Speaker 1: in previous years. They just got smoked for about four

1048
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:53,160
Speaker 1: hundred yards through the air from a Matthew Stafford Lions

1049
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:57,040
Speaker 1: offense that has struggled to do things in previous weeks. Uh. Yeah,

1050
00:51:57,120 --> 00:51:58,680
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know who the Bears are right now.

1051
00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:00,520
Speaker 1: I don't think they know who they are. Yeah. If

1052
00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:02,759
Speaker 1: the whole thing with the Bears was we knew their

1053
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:04,960
Speaker 1: offense was gonna be good going into the season, they

1054
00:52:05,040 --> 00:52:07,440
Speaker 1: needed the defense to be special. The defenses and special.

1055
00:52:07,520 --> 00:52:10,759
Speaker 1: It's just like, what, what's there at this point, Matt

1056
00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 1: Naggy his job security. He's in a tough spot right now.

1057
00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:17,879
Speaker 1: This is a tough game for Bears fans because it's

1058
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:20,640
Speaker 1: all gonna be about how they didn't draft Deshaun Watson,

1059
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:23,120
Speaker 1: which I think should get to the point that Texans fans,

1060
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:25,840
Speaker 1: you know, aren't thrilled with their lives right now, and

1061
00:52:25,880 --> 00:52:28,400
Speaker 1: there's a lot of drama in their front office. But

1062
00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:30,640
Speaker 1: just be happy you're not the Bears. Be happy you

1063
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:33,680
Speaker 1: have Deshaun Watson because you know that that's a pretty

1064
00:52:33,719 --> 00:52:37,200
Speaker 1: big difference. Knowing that he's there is still a great gift, right.

1065
00:52:37,239 --> 00:52:39,160
Speaker 1: I mean, he nearly beat the Colts on his own.

1066
00:52:39,239 --> 00:52:41,600
Speaker 1: You take away that errant uh snap at the end

1067
00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:43,960
Speaker 1: of the game, and we're talking about both those teams differently,

1068
00:52:44,080 --> 00:52:49,120
Speaker 1: especially the Colts. Kiki Kote that is a nice free

1069
00:52:49,160 --> 00:52:51,719
Speaker 1: agent pick up if your fantasy playoffs are picking up,

1070
00:52:51,719 --> 00:52:55,239
Speaker 1: because Deshaun Watson is going to continue to find receivers

1071
00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:58,040
Speaker 1: and and pile up points. And Brandon Cooks, I guess

1072
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:02,080
Speaker 1: is the is the number one guy are But Kiki

1073
00:53:02,239 --> 00:53:04,279
Speaker 1: had a really nice game, I believe a hundred forty

1074
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:07,759
Speaker 1: yards in that near win over the Colts. That's a

1075
00:53:07,800 --> 00:53:11,160
Speaker 1: pretty good Cults defense. Keep an eye on that. I

1076
00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:14,640
Speaker 1: like it all right, Let's move on the old zeuser

1077
00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:20,560
Speaker 1: will grab Jets at Seattle a late game Sunday. Uh.

1078
00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:23,840
Speaker 1: We touched on it very briefly on Tuesday, but that

1079
00:53:24,440 --> 00:53:28,439
Speaker 1: the Hail Murray, Hail not Hail Murray. The Hail Mary

1080
00:53:28,560 --> 00:53:33,120
Speaker 1: basically from Derek Carr got Graig Williams fired. Uh. And

1081
00:53:33,560 --> 00:53:37,920
Speaker 1: it did prompt my favorite Keith Hans's text of the year.

1082
00:53:39,040 --> 00:53:41,880
Speaker 1: Let me find it because I haven't. Dad and I

1083
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:45,400
Speaker 1: have obviously been in touch about the Jets as um

1084
00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:48,719
Speaker 1: we always are, but it's been such a sad year

1085
00:53:48,800 --> 00:53:51,040
Speaker 1: that there's just been less of it because what is

1086
00:53:51,080 --> 00:53:53,759
Speaker 1: there to talk about when the team literally loses every week?

1087
00:53:53,840 --> 00:53:56,359
Speaker 1: But this is the text I got from my dad

1088
00:53:56,520 --> 00:54:00,680
Speaker 1: on Monday morning at ten twelve am. Gaze five is Williams.

1089
00:54:00,920 --> 00:54:06,880
Speaker 1: Are you kidding that? Fool fire and someone else? Uh.

1090
00:54:07,040 --> 00:54:08,680
Speaker 1: I do miss your dad on the show, but I

1091
00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:11,040
Speaker 1: think it was an act of extreme mercy to not

1092
00:54:11,719 --> 00:54:14,560
Speaker 1: force him into this. UM. I I would hate to

1093
00:54:14,600 --> 00:54:16,760
Speaker 1: be the Jets this week. I think you're getting an angry,

1094
00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:20,800
Speaker 1: annoyed Seattle team that you know for all this business

1095
00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:22,600
Speaker 1: about how they can't rush the pastor and they can

1096
00:54:22,680 --> 00:54:25,000
Speaker 1: in many ways they can't. They lead the league in

1097
00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:27,160
Speaker 1: sacks since Week nine, and I a lot of it

1098
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:29,120
Speaker 1: has to do with Jamal Adams, and there's the Jamal

1099
00:54:29,160 --> 00:54:31,920
Speaker 1: Adams verse, the Jets thing. I mean, it's like these

1100
00:54:31,960 --> 00:54:33,879
Speaker 1: are some of these now. I think some of these

1101
00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:36,840
Speaker 1: revenge games are totally absurd. It's like a, Uh, you

1102
00:54:36,920 --> 00:54:39,640
Speaker 1: were paid a ton of money. Um, you're you started

1103
00:54:39,680 --> 00:54:42,640
Speaker 1: to get extremely mouthy. They got value for you. You

1104
00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:44,640
Speaker 1: got what you wanted. I mean, maybe you wanted to

1105
00:54:44,719 --> 00:54:46,719
Speaker 1: prance off to Dallas, but you're probably happy you're not

1106
00:54:46,840 --> 00:54:49,800
Speaker 1: there now. And and so the revenges, you're gonna go

1107
00:54:50,520 --> 00:54:54,000
Speaker 1: lay a hurt on on Sam Donald, who doesn't deserve

1108
00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:56,600
Speaker 1: anymore ill will this entire season. I don't. I don't

1109
00:54:56,600 --> 00:55:00,080
Speaker 1: buy the narrative. He has been He has been a

1110
00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:03,200
Speaker 1: really good addition to their defense. Gotta you gotta give you,

1111
00:55:03,239 --> 00:55:05,320
Speaker 1: gotta give him that when he's been on the field,

1112
00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:08,560
Speaker 1: even if he's not maybe the best cover guy they

1113
00:55:08,719 --> 00:55:11,359
Speaker 1: use him. This is an interesting staff. They use him

1114
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:13,440
Speaker 1: as a pure pass rusher on a quarter of his

1115
00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:15,759
Speaker 1: snaps on the field, just about which is you know,

1116
00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:21,759
Speaker 1: notable completely out of um. It makes him a unique player, uh,

1117
00:55:21,920 --> 00:55:23,840
Speaker 1: and he does his job. The average is about a

1118
00:55:23,840 --> 00:55:25,600
Speaker 1: sack of game that he plays in, so he he

1119
00:55:25,719 --> 00:55:29,560
Speaker 1: feels that void, which obviously they needed somebody to get

1120
00:55:29,600 --> 00:55:32,759
Speaker 1: to the passer. But has is their defense any better

1121
00:55:32,840 --> 00:55:34,800
Speaker 1: this year than it was last year? Maybe it is

1122
00:55:34,880 --> 00:55:37,279
Speaker 1: better than it's been the last few weeks, but I

1123
00:55:37,360 --> 00:55:39,640
Speaker 1: guess Greg, I'm keeping an eye on. This offense for

1124
00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:43,280
Speaker 1: the Seahawks. Is very rare that you remember seeing Russell

1125
00:55:43,320 --> 00:55:46,600
Speaker 1: Wilson be so frustrated, uh and looks so frustrated as

1126
00:55:46,600 --> 00:55:48,399
Speaker 1: he was against the Giants when he got sacked five

1127
00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:50,919
Speaker 1: times and hit a bunch, And there was criticism after

1128
00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:54,920
Speaker 1: the game that, yes, the Seattle offensive line is a liability,

1129
00:55:55,080 --> 00:55:58,319
Speaker 1: but Russell Wilson, with his playing style, basically passed himself

1130
00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:01,279
Speaker 1: into some of those sacks totally. I think it was

1131
00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:05,160
Speaker 1: the coverage that confused him. I think he's held the

1132
00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:07,319
Speaker 1: ball a ton that was not on the offensive line.

1133
00:56:07,400 --> 00:56:10,200
Speaker 1: Last week. You've seen more of those Russell Wilson running

1134
00:56:10,239 --> 00:56:13,520
Speaker 1: around like crazy hoping to make things happen plays in

1135
00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:15,919
Speaker 1: the last few weeks than I feel like we've seen

1136
00:56:15,960 --> 00:56:17,600
Speaker 1: in a few years now. That used to be a

1137
00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:20,480
Speaker 1: big part of his style, but now he's more you know,

1138
00:56:20,560 --> 00:56:22,879
Speaker 1: get the ball out on time, and all the people

1139
00:56:22,920 --> 00:56:25,200
Speaker 1: who are anti you know, let rust cook like heay,

1140
00:56:25,239 --> 00:56:27,240
Speaker 1: we gotta run the ball there. Crowing right now because

1141
00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:30,040
Speaker 1: he's second in the league and sacks take and fifth

1142
00:56:30,080 --> 00:56:33,040
Speaker 1: and fumbles. He's not in the top ten in QBR

1143
00:56:33,480 --> 00:56:35,719
Speaker 1: right now. There's been a lot of negative plays. I

1144
00:56:35,760 --> 00:56:38,680
Speaker 1: still think you want to make their passing game the

1145
00:56:38,719 --> 00:56:40,840
Speaker 1: biggest part of their offense. But they gotta come up

1146
00:56:40,880 --> 00:56:45,080
Speaker 1: with something against these um deeper defenses that take away

1147
00:56:45,120 --> 00:56:47,399
Speaker 1: their receivers. They need Josh Gordon to help them out.

1148
00:56:47,480 --> 00:56:49,319
Speaker 1: I don't know, they need some more weapons. I think

1149
00:56:49,360 --> 00:56:52,279
Speaker 1: other than just lock it in metcalf in, you need

1150
00:56:52,320 --> 00:56:54,440
Speaker 1: more than two guys. How old is Josh Gordon at

1151
00:56:54,520 --> 00:56:58,680
Speaker 1: this point? He's not playing exact way next week he

1152
00:56:58,960 --> 00:57:01,359
Speaker 1: I think he kild returned by week sixteen, by the way,

1153
00:57:01,480 --> 00:57:04,680
Speaker 1: but uh, he's not that old. He is twenty nine

1154
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:08,120
Speaker 1: years old. DK metcalf could have two hundred yards against

1155
00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:10,799
Speaker 1: this Jet secondary it won't match this week. I mean

1156
00:57:10,880 --> 00:57:12,839
Speaker 1: the Seahawks of average less than twenty points a game

1157
00:57:12,880 --> 00:57:14,560
Speaker 1: in the last month, which is kind of hard to believe,

1158
00:57:15,040 --> 00:57:17,560
Speaker 1: but I think that changes. And you mentioned Josh Gordon,

1159
00:57:17,680 --> 00:57:20,600
Speaker 1: a former Baylor standout. Denzel Mims one of the guys

1160
00:57:20,640 --> 00:57:22,880
Speaker 1: you look forward to watch as a Jets fan, one

1161
00:57:22,880 --> 00:57:24,320
Speaker 1: of the few things you have to look forward to.

1162
00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:26,760
Speaker 1: We had a family emergency, had to fly home to Texas,

1163
00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:30,280
Speaker 1: and because of the COVID regulations, uh the fact that

1164
00:57:30,320 --> 00:57:32,960
Speaker 1: he flew out of state, he can't get cleared to

1165
00:57:33,120 --> 00:57:35,640
Speaker 1: play Sunday. So I mean, so he's just not gonna play.

1166
00:57:35,760 --> 00:57:38,520
Speaker 1: So you lose Denzel Mims from that offense. Good luck

1167
00:57:38,560 --> 00:57:41,680
Speaker 1: to the Jets. Uh see how Seahawks looks like a

1168
00:57:41,760 --> 00:57:44,560
Speaker 1: chance to get healthy al Right, up next to Mark Seiler,

1169
00:57:44,840 --> 00:57:47,880
Speaker 1: all Right, I'm gonna go Tennessee at Jacksonville. That's an

1170
00:57:47,880 --> 00:57:51,000
Speaker 1: early game. I you know, I think a little bit

1171
00:57:51,120 --> 00:57:53,560
Speaker 1: lost in the in the whipping by Cleveland, which is

1172
00:57:53,600 --> 00:57:56,439
Speaker 1: really a first half affair because in the second half,

1173
00:57:56,760 --> 00:58:00,680
Speaker 1: I mean, Tennessee's offense was awesome, um on stoppable, and

1174
00:58:00,720 --> 00:58:02,880
Speaker 1: I think that's been kind of the case with the

1175
00:58:02,960 --> 00:58:05,840
Speaker 1: Titans on a weekly basis. It's what I expect to

1176
00:58:05,920 --> 00:58:09,800
Speaker 1: happen this week against Jacksonville. Defense that has not held

1177
00:58:09,840 --> 00:58:13,080
Speaker 1: opponent under twenty one points since Week one. You know,

1178
00:58:13,760 --> 00:58:16,440
Speaker 1: their defense is not terrible, by the way, but I

1179
00:58:16,600 --> 00:58:18,800
Speaker 1: just don't. I don't. I think Tennessee playing for their

1180
00:58:18,840 --> 00:58:21,920
Speaker 1: lives right now, is going to come in. UM highly

1181
00:58:22,040 --> 00:58:25,640
Speaker 1: agitated Tannehill through for nearly four hundred yards against Cleveland

1182
00:58:25,720 --> 00:58:27,520
Speaker 1: last week, and it just gets a little bit lost

1183
00:58:27,560 --> 00:58:30,560
Speaker 1: in the weeds. Um that they they a few weirder

1184
00:58:30,640 --> 00:58:32,960
Speaker 1: things had happened. Um, they could have won that game.

1185
00:58:33,080 --> 00:58:37,000
Speaker 1: And I think they are certainly the equal of the Browns. Um.

1186
00:58:37,080 --> 00:58:38,680
Speaker 1: And I wouldn't want to I wouldn't want to see

1187
00:58:38,720 --> 00:58:40,520
Speaker 1: what would happen if Cleveland played them again. I really

1188
00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:43,080
Speaker 1: just think that I like this Titans team a bunch,

1189
00:58:43,560 --> 00:58:46,080
Speaker 1: And UM, this to me feels like sometimes you know,

1190
00:58:46,920 --> 00:58:50,160
Speaker 1: Daddy needs a blowout on something. Let's I don't need

1191
00:58:50,200 --> 00:58:53,440
Speaker 1: all these games in this game in this case, Yeah, Like,

1192
00:58:53,560 --> 00:58:57,000
Speaker 1: do are my needs ever addressed? Met? Even thought about? Um?

1193
00:58:57,440 --> 00:59:00,520
Speaker 1: Often not? But let in this case this, I'm asking

1194
00:59:00,600 --> 00:59:03,640
Speaker 1: for a very small thing to blow out in his

1195
00:59:03,720 --> 00:59:06,640
Speaker 1: tummy exactly, you know, because I didn't get the yummy

1196
00:59:06,680 --> 00:59:08,880
Speaker 1: yummy thing correct last week. That game was all right,

1197
00:59:08,960 --> 00:59:11,720
Speaker 1: but it was not what I was expecting. So you

1198
00:59:11,800 --> 00:59:13,840
Speaker 1: know that was the San Francisco Buffalo game that you

1199
00:59:13,960 --> 00:59:16,520
Speaker 1: wanted in your tummy. Yes, yeah, that was one thing

1200
00:59:16,600 --> 00:59:18,440
Speaker 1: that Um. When that got tweeted out, a lot of

1201
00:59:18,480 --> 00:59:23,200
Speaker 1: people thought it was slightly odd that the Marines are

1202
00:59:23,280 --> 00:59:25,840
Speaker 1: sponsor were attached to that ten second sound clip. I

1203
00:59:25,880 --> 00:59:27,840
Speaker 1: don't think it's what the Marines are going for from

1204
00:59:27,840 --> 00:59:30,320
Speaker 1: an image angle, but it was. It hadn't. It was

1205
00:59:30,360 --> 00:59:32,760
Speaker 1: not a commentary on the Marines weeks. Don't don't. Don't

1206
00:59:32,760 --> 00:59:34,520
Speaker 1: be so quick to think that that might be exactly

1207
00:59:34,560 --> 00:59:37,600
Speaker 1: what they were looking for. Um, I'm surprised to hear

1208
00:59:37,680 --> 00:59:41,000
Speaker 1: you put so much into that second half by Tennessee

1209
00:59:41,320 --> 00:59:44,160
Speaker 1: because they were so thoroughly I mean it was seven

1210
00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:48,640
Speaker 1: at halftime, and Tennessee is allowed thirty plus points in

1211
00:59:48,720 --> 00:59:52,920
Speaker 1: six games this season. Only the Bengals of fewer sacks

1212
00:59:53,280 --> 00:59:56,200
Speaker 1: than Tennessee. And John Robinson he's gotta eat it because

1213
00:59:57,240 --> 00:59:58,640
Speaker 1: this is a team that was a step away from

1214
00:59:58,680 --> 01:00:01,280
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl last year. The needed help on defense,

1215
01:00:02,000 --> 01:00:03,560
Speaker 1: especially in the past rush and he went out and

1216
01:00:03,640 --> 01:00:06,320
Speaker 1: got Vic Beasley, and he went out and got Jadavian Clowney,

1217
01:00:06,800 --> 01:00:09,400
Speaker 1: and neither of those guys did Jack squad for him,

1218
01:00:09,600 --> 01:00:11,360
Speaker 1: So they feel like they're in the same spot. They're

1219
01:00:11,400 --> 01:00:13,479
Speaker 1: not any better. And I like the Titans too, because

1220
01:00:13,480 --> 01:00:15,800
Speaker 1: I really love the offense. There's just so many studs

1221
01:00:15,840 --> 01:00:18,280
Speaker 1: on that side of the ball. But with a compromised

1222
01:00:18,360 --> 01:00:21,840
Speaker 1: offensive line and a defense that can't really play, uh,

1223
01:00:22,080 --> 01:00:23,760
Speaker 1: that just seems to be a ceiling on this team.

1224
01:00:23,880 --> 01:00:25,480
Speaker 1: They just seem like a team that needs to play

1225
01:00:25,520 --> 01:00:27,520
Speaker 1: with the lead. There's a couple of teams like that

1226
01:00:27,600 --> 01:00:29,880
Speaker 1: out there. They might get a Dory Jackson back. They've

1227
01:00:29,920 --> 01:00:32,320
Speaker 1: been hoping. You know, he's missed the whole year, I think,

1228
01:00:32,440 --> 01:00:35,000
Speaker 1: or maybe he played Week one or two. I remember

1229
01:00:35,440 --> 01:00:38,080
Speaker 1: you say, how I forget everything, but you know I could.

1230
01:00:38,200 --> 01:00:41,880
Speaker 1: I remember this Jaguars Titans game in Week two very

1231
01:00:41,960 --> 01:00:43,720
Speaker 1: well because that was at the point of the season

1232
01:00:44,040 --> 01:00:46,880
Speaker 1: when I was completely overrating the Jaguars coming off a

1233
01:00:46,920 --> 01:00:49,680
Speaker 1: Week one win, and they outplayed this Titans team in

1234
01:00:49,720 --> 01:00:52,040
Speaker 1: Week two. They ended up losing thirty three to thirty

1235
01:00:52,040 --> 01:00:53,920
Speaker 1: because of a bunch of turnovers, even though they put

1236
01:00:54,000 --> 01:00:57,160
Speaker 1: up about five hundred yards with Gardner Minshew, who's wasted

1237
01:00:57,200 --> 01:00:59,320
Speaker 1: away on the bench. But it was kind of the

1238
01:00:59,400 --> 01:01:02,320
Speaker 1: start of this Tannehill season that I'm really I'm just

1239
01:01:02,400 --> 01:01:05,760
Speaker 1: so impressed how he's changed his career because you know,

1240
01:01:05,840 --> 01:01:08,760
Speaker 1: we we talked. Yes, he has weapons, but he doesn't

1241
01:01:08,800 --> 01:01:10,960
Speaker 1: have much of an offensive line, and he certainly doesn't

1242
01:01:10,960 --> 01:01:13,680
Speaker 1: have a defense, and he's a top ten quarterback. There's

1243
01:01:13,720 --> 01:01:15,320
Speaker 1: not You're right, there's not a lot of reason to

1244
01:01:15,360 --> 01:01:17,920
Speaker 1: think Mike Glennon can keep up. Mike Glennon's played okay.

1245
01:01:18,200 --> 01:01:20,040
Speaker 1: But if you're gonna look for like a team that

1246
01:01:20,520 --> 01:01:23,240
Speaker 1: you know might be, they're not. They're not tanking on

1247
01:01:23,320 --> 01:01:25,240
Speaker 1: the field. But if the front office is the one

1248
01:01:25,320 --> 01:01:28,840
Speaker 1: deciding that Glennon is playing, that a little tanking. This

1249
01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:32,520
Speaker 1: is to me the last stand of the Manchuvians, where

1250
01:01:33,240 --> 01:01:35,440
Speaker 1: you know, he's had his chance as a starter, he

1251
01:01:35,480 --> 01:01:38,880
Speaker 1: didn't play very well, didn't leave the team anywhere, and

1252
01:01:38,960 --> 01:01:41,040
Speaker 1: then he gets hurt and the coach doesn't want to

1253
01:01:41,040 --> 01:01:44,880
Speaker 1: put him back in. But the Manchuvians can say, well,

1254
01:01:45,200 --> 01:01:47,680
Speaker 1: you know, they just would have put Gardner in, things

1255
01:01:47,720 --> 01:01:50,160
Speaker 1: would have been different. You get to have that hypothetical

1256
01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:52,240
Speaker 1: and take that into another off season. So I don't

1257
01:01:52,240 --> 01:01:54,600
Speaker 1: I don't think the Manchuvians are very loud right now.

1258
01:01:54,760 --> 01:01:56,960
Speaker 1: I mean I I think this is a scenario where

1259
01:01:57,000 --> 01:01:59,840
Speaker 1: like they're not playing him because he gives them too

1260
01:02:00,080 --> 01:02:04,920
Speaker 1: of a chance to win games. I played, okay to

1261
01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:09,120
Speaker 1: be fair, like a fine backup quarterback, not a good one,

1262
01:02:09,160 --> 01:02:12,320
Speaker 1: but a guy who should That's kind of point. It's

1263
01:02:12,360 --> 01:02:15,520
Speaker 1: like this idea that the only possible explanation for Gardner

1264
01:02:15,560 --> 01:02:18,560
Speaker 1: Minshew not playing is because the Jaguars are tanking, because

1265
01:02:18,600 --> 01:02:21,400
Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew obviously so much better than Mike Lennon. No,

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Speaker 1: I don't believe it, but I don't like I think Actually,

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01:02:24,520 --> 01:02:26,520
Speaker 1: if you're real about Gardner Minshew, he is who he is.

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Speaker 1: I think he is going to be in the league

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01:02:27,840 --> 01:02:30,480
Speaker 1: for a long time as a backup quarterback. He could

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01:02:30,520 --> 01:02:32,360
Speaker 1: make spots starts. I don't know if he's a starter.

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01:02:32,640 --> 01:02:35,720
Speaker 1: I thould be a Fitzpatrick. I think he could be too.

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01:02:35,800 --> 01:02:37,040
Speaker 1: I think it could be too. But I don't think

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01:02:37,080 --> 01:02:41,480
Speaker 1: anyone is saying that this incredible coaching staff has come

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01:02:41,520 --> 01:02:44,560
Speaker 1: to the conclusion that Gardner Minshew is the worst quarterback

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01:02:44,640 --> 01:02:47,480
Speaker 1: on the roster. That that's absurd. If that's the conclusion

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01:02:47,520 --> 01:02:50,520
Speaker 1: they've come, just to me, there's something a little going

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01:02:50,560 --> 01:02:55,960
Speaker 1: on behind the scenes. Something I don't hate it, Mark,

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01:02:56,040 --> 01:02:58,400
Speaker 1: I don't hate it. It's it's a It's a perfect

1279
01:02:58,520 --> 01:03:02,680
Speaker 1: late season storyline for you. Anyways, my team is oh

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01:03:02,840 --> 01:03:05,600
Speaker 1: and twelve. Mark, give me what I can get. Whatever

1281
01:03:05,720 --> 01:03:08,240
Speaker 1: you can, I will give you something that you won't enjoy.

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01:03:08,360 --> 01:03:11,160
Speaker 1: Next I'm gonna go Dallas at Cincinnati. I believe this

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01:03:11,240 --> 01:03:16,000
Speaker 1: would qualify as a quicker conversation. All right, I want

1284
01:03:16,040 --> 01:03:18,280
Speaker 1: to tell you something about the Cowboys that really annoys me.

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01:03:18,760 --> 01:03:21,240
Speaker 1: Um and it's not news to most people, but while

1286
01:03:21,320 --> 01:03:24,760
Speaker 1: you know, Dann, we covered that Ravens Cowboys calamity for Dallas,

1287
01:03:25,320 --> 01:03:28,000
Speaker 1: I saw a team that just basically gave up. And

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01:03:28,120 --> 01:03:31,440
Speaker 1: the body language as they were panting along the Cowboys

1289
01:03:31,520 --> 01:03:34,160
Speaker 1: bench at the end of that game, Defenders just sitting

1290
01:03:34,240 --> 01:03:37,840
Speaker 1: there with their helmets half off, scowls on their faces,

1291
01:03:37,960 --> 01:03:40,280
Speaker 1: no energy. And you know what the problem is, I've

1292
01:03:40,280 --> 01:03:44,360
Speaker 1: seen the Cowboys look this way multiple times. It wasn't

1293
01:03:44,400 --> 01:03:47,600
Speaker 1: just that game where the season is completely lost, multiple games.

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01:03:47,680 --> 01:03:50,560
Speaker 1: I don't think they've ever bought into Mike Nolan's scheme

1295
01:03:51,440 --> 01:03:55,680
Speaker 1: at all. Guys like Jalen Smith, who were productive in

1296
01:03:55,800 --> 01:03:59,240
Speaker 1: past regimes, guys you you build your defense around, have

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01:03:59,480 --> 01:04:02,800
Speaker 1: been completely lost this season. I see no argument for

1298
01:04:02,920 --> 01:04:05,840
Speaker 1: this coaching staff to keep Mike Nolan next season. It's

1299
01:04:05,880 --> 01:04:09,680
Speaker 1: not personally, but but here's the thing. Do you trust

1300
01:04:10,080 --> 01:04:12,880
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy to say goodbye to one of his boys?

1301
01:04:13,040 --> 01:04:15,360
Speaker 1: Like I just think this feels like a very gerald

1302
01:04:15,480 --> 01:04:20,680
Speaker 1: saying it is. Uh. Sometimes this can cause a problem

1303
01:04:20,720 --> 01:04:22,800
Speaker 1: with the coach. I just I I wonder what happens

1304
01:04:22,840 --> 01:04:25,360
Speaker 1: to this coaching staff because frankly, the argument does not

1305
01:04:25,520 --> 01:04:28,320
Speaker 1: extend to keep Mike McCarthy for all he's showing us,

1306
01:04:28,600 --> 01:04:30,240
Speaker 1: but get rid of Mike Nolan. I get that there's

1307
01:04:30,280 --> 01:04:32,760
Speaker 1: injuries and stuff, but other teams with injuries have been

1308
01:04:32,840 --> 01:04:36,800
Speaker 1: much craftier in terms of game planning everything than the Cowboys.

1309
01:04:36,840 --> 01:04:39,120
Speaker 1: They feel like a coaching staff shot to us from

1310
01:04:40,720 --> 01:04:43,200
Speaker 1: there's it was a dark, dark night for the Cowboys,

1311
01:04:43,360 --> 01:04:46,880
Speaker 1: and hearing Troy Aikman just be so sad, just told

1312
01:04:46,920 --> 01:04:50,160
Speaker 1: the whole story. I want Troy on every Cowboys game

1313
01:04:50,200 --> 01:04:53,840
Speaker 1: from now. That was highly entertaining. I like this, He's great.

1314
01:04:53,880 --> 01:04:55,960
Speaker 1: I have no problem with Troy wearing his emotions on

1315
01:04:56,080 --> 01:04:59,120
Speaker 1: his sleeve. He is Mr Cowboy, and especially at this time.

1316
01:04:59,120 --> 01:05:01,400
Speaker 1: I would imagine if you're a Cowboys fan, it actually

1317
01:05:01,960 --> 01:05:04,439
Speaker 1: it feels good. It's like Joe bin Ingo moaning about

1318
01:05:04,480 --> 01:05:06,040
Speaker 1: the Jets on w F A and A two in

1319
01:05:06,080 --> 01:05:10,360
Speaker 1: the morning. Uh in the nineties lose their this game,

1320
01:05:10,480 --> 01:05:12,880
Speaker 1: big big one for the number three overall pick here

1321
01:05:13,240 --> 01:05:16,200
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys can actually lose and get ahead of

1322
01:05:16,240 --> 01:05:19,880
Speaker 1: the Bengals. Can you imagine? And Dass got up for

1323
01:05:19,920 --> 01:05:23,040
Speaker 1: a trillion dollar contract and the Cowboys and position maybe

1324
01:05:28,800 --> 01:05:31,960
Speaker 1: keep an eye on all this. Um uh. Speaking of

1325
01:05:32,040 --> 01:05:35,120
Speaker 1: that Bengals, uh team they played the Dolphins. I just

1326
01:05:35,160 --> 01:05:38,040
Speaker 1: want to quickly share before we go on my favorite

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01:05:38,120 --> 01:05:40,600
Speaker 1: thing I've seen on the most impressive thing I've seen

1328
01:05:40,640 --> 01:05:44,640
Speaker 1: on a football field in I want to give the

1329
01:05:44,720 --> 01:05:48,280
Speaker 1: man credit, Ron Torbert. He's been an official in the

1330
01:05:48,480 --> 01:05:52,720
Speaker 1: NFL forever. And let's listen into after one of the

1331
01:05:53,720 --> 01:05:56,840
Speaker 1: melee's that happened in this game. What Torbert pulled off

1332
01:05:57,720 --> 01:06:02,160
Speaker 1: well by both teams both and after the play. During

1333
01:06:02,200 --> 01:06:07,120
Speaker 1: the playing personal foul interference with the opportunity to catch

1334
01:06:07,200 --> 01:06:10,800
Speaker 1: the kick by the kicking team number eighty during the

1335
01:06:10,880 --> 01:06:14,720
Speaker 1: return personal foul illegal blond side block by the return

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01:06:14,800 --> 01:06:19,040
Speaker 1: team number eighties six. By rule, Miami is elected to

1337
01:06:19,480 --> 01:06:24,320
Speaker 1: enforce the kick catch interference file from the previous spot

1338
01:06:24,960 --> 01:06:29,320
Speaker 1: replay fourth down after the play was over. Personal foul,

1339
01:06:29,720 --> 01:06:35,240
Speaker 1: unnecessary roughness by Cincinnati number thirty six Miami number eleven

1340
01:06:36,280 --> 01:06:44,560
Speaker 1: also unsportsmanli conduct by Cincinnati number two, Number thirty six

1341
01:06:44,960 --> 01:06:49,840
Speaker 1: from Cincinnati, number eleven from Miami, and number eighty six

1342
01:06:49,880 --> 01:06:53,520
Speaker 1: from Miami are all disqualified from the game. Will be

1343
01:06:53,600 --> 01:06:57,320
Speaker 1: fourth down. That is now if you are if you

1344
01:06:57,360 --> 01:06:59,960
Speaker 1: are listening to this podcast, you didn't just see that video.

1345
01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:03,760
Speaker 1: You may think he's reading off a note card. Ron

1346
01:07:03,800 --> 01:07:08,280
Speaker 1: Torbert just gave a sixties second update on everything that

1347
01:07:08,400 --> 01:07:12,600
Speaker 1: just happened in that game with Naria Narius Stumble and

1348
01:07:12,800 --> 01:07:15,880
Speaker 1: just nailed everything. And I'm just like, legitimately not I'm

1349
01:07:15,920 --> 01:07:19,240
Speaker 1: not joking here, amazed that an official can do that,

1350
01:07:19,400 --> 01:07:22,080
Speaker 1: also knowing he's on national television as it happens. I

1351
01:07:22,200 --> 01:07:23,880
Speaker 1: love that you brought that up because if you remember

1352
01:07:23,920 --> 01:07:26,840
Speaker 1: on our recap show, uh, someone was asking I think

1353
01:07:26,880 --> 01:07:29,600
Speaker 1: it was you, Dan, like why player X wasn't removed

1354
01:07:30,720 --> 01:07:33,600
Speaker 1: right right? And and in in my takeaway was a

1355
01:07:33,760 --> 01:07:35,200
Speaker 1: I would never want to be a ref. I would

1356
01:07:35,200 --> 01:07:37,160
Speaker 1: be a huge hot mess in that scenario trying to

1357
01:07:37,200 --> 01:07:40,600
Speaker 1: memorize all that business. But Secondly, his poise and even

1358
01:07:40,640 --> 01:07:43,640
Speaker 1: the announcers were like, wow, he handled that really well,

1359
01:07:43,760 --> 01:07:45,520
Speaker 1: because you're right. It was like it was like a

1360
01:07:45,600 --> 01:07:50,120
Speaker 1: State of the Union address, no teleprompter. He delivered it flawlessly. Yeah,

1361
01:07:50,160 --> 01:07:52,280
Speaker 1: they the State of the Union. They have a teleprompter

1362
01:07:52,480 --> 01:07:54,800
Speaker 1: that you're just looking at the you're told the transit

1363
01:07:55,000 --> 01:07:57,400
Speaker 1: official face this direction of the field. That's where the

1364
01:07:57,440 --> 01:08:00,440
Speaker 1: camera's gonna be on you, and just start talk. And

1365
01:08:01,560 --> 01:08:03,160
Speaker 1: I'm glad you pointed out that was one of those

1366
01:08:03,160 --> 01:08:05,320
Speaker 1: things on Game Pass. I always, you know, pressed the

1367
01:08:05,440 --> 01:08:08,040
Speaker 1: forward ten second button whenever you see a penalty. It's

1368
01:08:08,040 --> 01:08:09,600
Speaker 1: like I don't need to see, you know, to save

1369
01:08:09,720 --> 01:08:11,720
Speaker 1: some time, and then you just okay, hit it again

1370
01:08:11,960 --> 01:08:13,800
Speaker 1: and hit again. It was like, how long is this?

1371
01:08:13,840 --> 01:08:15,600
Speaker 1: They go on, hit it again, hit it again. It

1372
01:08:15,720 --> 01:08:20,040
Speaker 1: was I've never seen such a thing. All right, good stuff, Mark,

1373
01:08:20,080 --> 01:08:23,360
Speaker 1: I believe it snakes to you again. I well, I'm

1374
01:08:23,400 --> 01:08:26,479
Speaker 1: happy to do a third straight. You already all right?

1375
01:08:26,520 --> 01:08:29,320
Speaker 1: That's up. That means that I wouldn't be happy to

1376
01:08:29,400 --> 01:08:32,840
Speaker 1: do that. So it's back to the old zeuser and uh,

1377
01:08:33,640 --> 01:08:39,040
Speaker 1: let us go. So you took dall since he oh yeah, yeah, okay,

1378
01:08:39,720 --> 01:08:44,080
Speaker 1: let's go with hell. I watched Aaron Rodgers about that

1379
01:08:44,280 --> 01:08:47,479
Speaker 1: Green Bay at Detroit. Uh in one of the late

1380
01:08:47,840 --> 01:08:52,000
Speaker 1: games Detroit, A nice little moment there for Darryl Bevil,

1381
01:08:52,600 --> 01:08:56,320
Speaker 1: who took over for Matt Patricia and what's been just

1382
01:08:56,479 --> 01:09:01,519
Speaker 1: another deeply disappointing season in Detroit. And the Lions with

1383
01:09:01,600 --> 01:09:04,080
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford throwing for over four hundred yards, wipes out

1384
01:09:04,080 --> 01:09:08,280
Speaker 1: at ten point deficit thirty. They beat the Bears. After

1385
01:09:08,360 --> 01:09:12,760
Speaker 1: the game, Stafford hands the game ball to Bevil and Uh,

1386
01:09:12,880 --> 01:09:15,800
Speaker 1: Bevil says, my emotions right now, I can't even think straight.

1387
01:09:16,160 --> 01:09:18,240
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to wrap my head around this whole thing.

1388
01:09:18,640 --> 01:09:22,120
Speaker 1: What just happened. And there there's your reminder. And everybody's like, oh,

1389
01:09:22,240 --> 01:09:25,360
Speaker 1: Doug Marone, he's he's working with the Jags the tank.

1390
01:09:25,720 --> 01:09:28,400
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no, Doug Marone, he's playing the quarterback.

1391
01:09:28,479 --> 01:09:30,320
Speaker 1: He thinks gives them the best chance to win, because

1392
01:09:30,400 --> 01:09:37,160
Speaker 1: these guys are deeply prideful, the coaches, the players. Uh

1393
01:09:37,680 --> 01:09:40,720
Speaker 1: an old uh an old. Colleague of mine at The

1394
01:09:40,800 --> 01:09:44,600
Speaker 1: Journal News, Jeff Gold tweeted me recently in response to

1395
01:09:44,680 --> 01:09:46,600
Speaker 1: talking about tanking. He said, and I thought it was

1396
01:09:46,600 --> 01:09:51,879
Speaker 1: a good point fans, tank front offices, sometimes tank coaches

1397
01:09:51,920 --> 01:09:55,880
Speaker 1: and players, and the Lions that was a nice moment

1398
01:09:56,000 --> 01:09:57,760
Speaker 1: in a time at a time in their history when

1399
01:09:57,800 --> 01:10:00,320
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of nice things. But now they

1400
01:10:00,360 --> 01:10:03,439
Speaker 1: won't have anything nice against the Packers because Aaron Rodgers

1401
01:10:03,640 --> 01:10:08,000
Speaker 1: is steaming towards another m v P. It's unbelievable what

1402
01:10:08,120 --> 01:10:10,360
Speaker 1: he's doing this year when now with the numbers as

1403
01:10:10,400 --> 01:10:14,800
Speaker 1: they as they pile up, because when you essentially throw

1404
01:10:14,960 --> 01:10:18,000
Speaker 1: for three or four touchdowns with a one ten to

1405
01:10:18,120 --> 01:10:21,320
Speaker 1: one passer rating every single week, by the time you

1406
01:10:21,360 --> 01:10:23,640
Speaker 1: get to the middle of December, there's some like oh

1407
01:10:23,760 --> 01:10:25,960
Speaker 1: wow stuff going on. And that's what we have with Rogers.

1408
01:10:27,000 --> 01:10:30,000
Speaker 1: The differences. He used to hold the ball so long,

1409
01:10:30,520 --> 01:10:33,240
Speaker 1: I think because he didn't totally trust what was happening

1410
01:10:33,280 --> 01:10:35,600
Speaker 1: on offense or there's just not guys open, and that

1411
01:10:35,840 --> 01:10:38,920
Speaker 1: was basically his downfall for years. And now he's getting

1412
01:10:38,960 --> 01:10:41,719
Speaker 1: the ball on time, in rhythm, and that's a credit

1413
01:10:41,760 --> 01:10:45,519
Speaker 1: to Matt Laflori and to Aaron Rodgers. I am hoping

1414
01:10:45,600 --> 01:10:48,120
Speaker 1: at least the Lions make this a game because the

1415
01:10:48,200 --> 01:10:51,240
Speaker 1: bevolution is here, you know, that's what we're calling the

1416
01:10:51,360 --> 01:10:56,840
Speaker 1: bevelution is here. It will be televised. This Lions offense. Wow,

1417
01:10:57,360 --> 01:10:59,519
Speaker 1: you like it? I can't. I mean, this is gonna

1418
01:10:59,560 --> 01:11:01,360
Speaker 1: be hard to it's a show because that is that

1419
01:11:01,479 --> 01:11:05,320
Speaker 1: just changed everything. They were different last week. They played

1420
01:11:05,360 --> 01:11:08,639
Speaker 1: up tempo. There, they went bombs away, they stopped handing

1421
01:11:08,680 --> 01:11:11,400
Speaker 1: the ball off. I almost felt like they just decided,

1422
01:11:11,439 --> 01:11:13,960
Speaker 1: our defense is so bad, let's not worry about like

1423
01:11:14,160 --> 01:11:16,280
Speaker 1: keeping the ball and keeping it away from him. Who

1424
01:11:16,360 --> 01:11:18,759
Speaker 1: cares if they give up thirty points the Mitchell drubisky.

1425
01:11:18,960 --> 01:11:21,800
Speaker 1: Let's just make old Bevil look good. Let's have some

1426
01:11:22,000 --> 01:11:26,040
Speaker 1: bevolution and uh, let's bring in DeAndre Swift back this week,

1427
01:11:26,120 --> 01:11:28,599
Speaker 1: so maybe they'll be a little frisky. You know, Bevil

1428
01:11:28,680 --> 01:11:30,639
Speaker 1: has wanted to be a head coach for so long.

1429
01:11:30,760 --> 01:11:33,439
Speaker 1: I think he's embracing it. He told the players like,

1430
01:11:33,840 --> 01:11:36,880
Speaker 1: go have fun. And I know that sounds like super simplistic.

1431
01:11:37,000 --> 01:11:39,439
Speaker 1: But the few times that I kind of tweeted about

1432
01:11:39,439 --> 01:11:41,000
Speaker 1: the Lions when I was trying to jump on that

1433
01:11:41,320 --> 01:11:44,840
Speaker 1: bandwagon a terrible idea. Back in August, I had someone

1434
01:11:44,920 --> 01:11:46,760
Speaker 1: we trust very closely, it has been on our show

1435
01:11:46,800 --> 01:11:49,559
Speaker 1: before text me and say uh, and I was like why,

1436
01:11:49,640 --> 01:11:51,280
Speaker 1: I mean, why can't the Lions because he was like,

1437
01:11:51,360 --> 01:11:54,800
Speaker 1: you don't you don't understand, like these players, that's insurrection

1438
01:11:54,880 --> 01:11:58,120
Speaker 1: time against like Mapatricia. There's just zero fun in that

1439
01:11:58,280 --> 01:12:01,040
Speaker 1: building and it is. The atmosphere is rough. So I

1440
01:12:01,080 --> 01:12:02,800
Speaker 1: think there's something to bevel come in in and saying

1441
01:12:02,880 --> 01:12:06,160
Speaker 1: like come on, like just enjoy yourselves, let it all

1442
01:12:06,240 --> 01:12:09,519
Speaker 1: hang out. As Greg said, forget about the defenses issues. Um,

1443
01:12:09,640 --> 01:12:11,720
Speaker 1: maybe that gives this chance, this game a chance to

1444
01:12:11,800 --> 01:12:13,760
Speaker 1: be to be interesting. I will say one thing about

1445
01:12:13,800 --> 01:12:17,920
Speaker 1: Davante Adams. I read this incredible stat about him. Of

1446
01:12:18,040 --> 01:12:20,799
Speaker 1: the players with a thousand receiving yards and twelve touchdowns

1447
01:12:20,840 --> 01:12:22,600
Speaker 1: in the first ten games of a season, which he

1448
01:12:22,640 --> 01:12:25,719
Speaker 1: has done. Here is the list along with him, Randy Moss,

1449
01:12:26,160 --> 01:12:30,160
Speaker 1: Terrell Owens, Marvin Harrison, and Jerry Rice. I mean, there's

1450
01:12:30,200 --> 01:12:32,519
Speaker 1: just you can't say it in many different ways, how

1451
01:12:32,800 --> 01:12:35,280
Speaker 1: brilliant this receiver is. He's got a shot to join

1452
01:12:35,360 --> 01:12:37,960
Speaker 1: him in Canton, I think, I mean, I think it's early.

1453
01:12:38,240 --> 01:12:39,920
Speaker 1: It's like we don't need to talk Hall of Fame

1454
01:12:40,000 --> 01:12:41,360
Speaker 1: Canady in the middle of his career, but he has,

1455
01:12:41,439 --> 01:12:44,479
Speaker 1: he's got a chance. He's definitely on that path and

1456
01:12:44,680 --> 01:12:46,680
Speaker 1: here's the staff that tells me this is gonna be

1457
01:12:46,720 --> 01:12:49,840
Speaker 1: a blood bath. Aaron Rodgers, as you might assume under

1458
01:12:49,960 --> 01:12:52,880
Speaker 1: when he's not under pressure, will absolutely carve a team up.

1459
01:12:52,920 --> 01:12:56,840
Speaker 1: This year, He's completing sevent his passes a pass rating

1460
01:12:56,880 --> 01:13:01,000
Speaker 1: of one touchdowns, and the Lion have the sixth lowest

1461
01:13:01,040 --> 01:13:02,600
Speaker 1: pressure rate in the NFL. So they don't get to

1462
01:13:02,600 --> 01:13:06,080
Speaker 1: the quarterback either. But uh, that's it, Green Bay will romp.

1463
01:13:06,320 --> 01:13:08,080
Speaker 1: I see it, I feel it, and I think you

1464
01:13:08,160 --> 01:13:12,080
Speaker 1: guys agree. Up next in the draft, right, so I

1465
01:13:12,160 --> 01:13:14,439
Speaker 1: get these two dogs as a snake at the end.

1466
01:13:14,520 --> 01:13:17,400
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm basically drafting for Shook and we're gonna

1467
01:13:17,520 --> 01:13:20,439
Speaker 1: hit two minutes is maybe too many for these last

1468
01:13:20,479 --> 01:13:24,320
Speaker 1: two games. Let's go Falcons Chargers. You want to do

1469
01:13:24,400 --> 01:13:26,600
Speaker 1: two minutes for both games? Yeah? I think that's what

1470
01:13:26,720 --> 01:13:30,720
Speaker 1: we got left right where total total? Now, we'll give

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01:13:30,800 --> 01:13:34,600
Speaker 1: him two minutes each. We'll give him too minutes. You know,

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01:13:34,720 --> 01:13:39,920
Speaker 1: we gave like five minutes. Uh. These poor fans if

1473
01:13:39,920 --> 01:13:42,479
Speaker 1: they've made it this far into the show. I think

1474
01:13:42,720 --> 01:13:44,639
Speaker 1: one thing that would think about with the Chargers. Someone

1475
01:13:44,720 --> 01:13:46,720
Speaker 1: brought this up to me that Eric b enemy this

1476
01:13:46,920 --> 01:13:51,080
Speaker 1: would be the perfect spot for him Herbert in the division,

1477
01:13:51,720 --> 01:13:55,599
Speaker 1: these offensive weapons, I like it. If I'm Eric b Enemy,

1478
01:13:55,760 --> 01:13:59,360
Speaker 1: I like this Chargers uh fit I I do would

1479
01:13:59,400 --> 01:14:02,280
Speaker 1: be a little word Herbert just getting out of this

1480
01:14:02,320 --> 01:14:05,160
Speaker 1: season healthy. The way their offensive line play has been playing,

1481
01:14:05,200 --> 01:14:08,240
Speaker 1: they've they've gone from kind of mediocre bad to worse.

1482
01:14:08,560 --> 01:14:11,240
Speaker 1: And that's not usually a problem against the Falcons, but

1483
01:14:11,320 --> 01:14:12,840
Speaker 1: you just don't want to see him get hurt down

1484
01:14:12,880 --> 01:14:16,160
Speaker 1: the stretch. I also think, like the matching with the

1485
01:14:16,320 --> 01:14:19,000
Speaker 1: Enemy and Tom Talsco, I think they should keep Tom Tallesco.

1486
01:14:19,120 --> 01:14:21,439
Speaker 1: He is, he's hit it on the He's done a

1487
01:14:21,479 --> 01:14:23,160
Speaker 1: lot of good stuff with the draft. I don't think

1488
01:14:23,200 --> 01:14:24,720
Speaker 1: he should be swept out with the rest of the

1489
01:14:24,760 --> 01:14:27,439
Speaker 1: business here. Um. I think it's it's important to see

1490
01:14:27,439 --> 01:14:30,960
Speaker 1: how Justin Herbert kind of bounces back from a ghastly

1491
01:14:31,080 --> 01:14:33,439
Speaker 1: team loss forty five to nothing like and I trust

1492
01:14:33,520 --> 01:14:35,679
Speaker 1: that he will. He doesn't seem to like hold onto

1493
01:14:35,760 --> 01:14:38,080
Speaker 1: his bad places three out of four weeks now, right,

1494
01:14:38,720 --> 01:14:42,800
Speaker 1: he think he's come back down. It felt like that

1495
01:14:42,880 --> 01:14:45,760
Speaker 1: was rock bottom obviously of the Anthony Linn era, and

1496
01:14:46,400 --> 01:14:51,800
Speaker 1: just to put in perspective, um how bad they were

1497
01:14:51,880 --> 01:14:54,840
Speaker 1: on special teams by one measure. It was the worst

1498
01:14:54,840 --> 01:14:57,960
Speaker 1: special teams game in the last twenty years. They missed

1499
01:14:58,000 --> 01:15:00,560
Speaker 1: the forty six yard field goal attempt, they surrendered a

1500
01:15:00,640 --> 01:15:03,000
Speaker 1: seventy yard punt return for a touchdown, and then they

1501
01:15:03,000 --> 01:15:04,800
Speaker 1: allowed a block field goal try to be returned for

1502
01:15:04,880 --> 01:15:07,280
Speaker 1: a score, all in the first half. And the Patriots

1503
01:15:07,320 --> 01:15:09,200
Speaker 1: at a sixty one yard punt returned just for good

1504
01:15:09,240 --> 01:15:12,240
Speaker 1: measure in the third quarter, and they and they pinned

1505
01:15:12,320 --> 01:15:17,720
Speaker 1: him inside of the ten three times. The Patriots. Oh my,

1506
01:15:18,000 --> 01:15:20,439
Speaker 1: none of this reflects well on Lynn. I think he

1507
01:15:20,560 --> 01:15:22,800
Speaker 1: needs he needs a miracle at this point, right. Well,

1508
01:15:22,800 --> 01:15:25,759
Speaker 1: and so Lynn is taking over special teams. But along

1509
01:15:25,840 --> 01:15:28,920
Speaker 1: the lines of what you just mentioned, well, I'm not

1510
01:15:29,000 --> 01:15:31,559
Speaker 1: saying it's fixed. It's just that clearly there they understand

1511
01:15:31,600 --> 01:15:35,040
Speaker 1: that there are issues. But Football Outsiders has them ranked

1512
01:15:35,160 --> 01:15:42,120
Speaker 1: right now as the second worst special teams unit since insane.

1513
01:15:42,439 --> 01:15:44,680
Speaker 1: It doesn't supprectly this has to be two minutes. Where

1514
01:15:44,680 --> 01:15:50,960
Speaker 1: are we at, Hadad? We're dying here? Uh, there we go?

1515
01:15:51,640 --> 01:15:57,040
Speaker 1: How about Raheem mark four and one against non Saints teams? Alright,

1516
01:15:57,080 --> 01:16:00,639
Speaker 1: close it out? Alright, finally, what is still on the board.

1517
01:16:00,680 --> 01:16:04,000
Speaker 1: I'm losing track. Carolina Denver, Oh, it's the COVID Bowl.

1518
01:16:04,640 --> 01:16:07,800
Speaker 1: Hit the clock, Ricky on the COVID We're now We're

1519
01:16:07,840 --> 01:16:09,799
Speaker 1: now at the point of the season where the Panthers

1520
01:16:09,920 --> 01:16:13,080
Speaker 1: have nine players test positive after they come back from

1521
01:16:13,080 --> 01:16:15,400
Speaker 1: their bye week, and it barely makes a new news

1522
01:16:15,560 --> 01:16:19,600
Speaker 1: ripple um. Technically, not all the nine players tested positive.

1523
01:16:19,640 --> 01:16:23,040
Speaker 1: There were some close contacts. Curtis Samuel is expected to play.

1524
01:16:23,200 --> 01:16:27,000
Speaker 1: Gross Mottos is off the list, but they're missing a

1525
01:16:27,160 --> 01:16:32,080
Speaker 1: bunch of players four and eight. It's a big story, right,

1526
01:16:32,120 --> 01:16:34,600
Speaker 1: and it's because they were hanging out together. According to

1527
01:16:35,560 --> 01:16:39,320
Speaker 1: they were they were all together at some I don't

1528
01:16:39,360 --> 01:16:42,720
Speaker 1: know what they were doing exactly, but it's trouble. I

1529
01:16:42,840 --> 01:16:45,400
Speaker 1: do wonder this if how this stretch run affects Teddy

1530
01:16:45,439 --> 01:16:49,000
Speaker 1: Bridgewater's future. There he's he has guaranteed money into next year.

1531
01:16:49,040 --> 01:16:50,920
Speaker 1: I think they're going to bring in another quarterback, a

1532
01:16:51,000 --> 01:16:53,439
Speaker 1: young quarterback probably no matter what he does, but he

1533
01:16:53,800 --> 01:16:56,160
Speaker 1: he's probably played his worst games, I would say the

1534
01:16:56,280 --> 01:16:58,800
Speaker 1: last two or three games that he played. I think

1535
01:16:58,840 --> 01:17:01,400
Speaker 1: to Broncos players that have shown up the last couple

1536
01:17:01,400 --> 01:17:04,479
Speaker 1: of weeks. Shelby Harris on defense leads the league of

1537
01:17:04,560 --> 01:17:08,240
Speaker 1: deflected passes, which seems to be like the like I'm

1538
01:17:08,240 --> 01:17:10,599
Speaker 1: seeing more deflected passes this year than and then almost

1539
01:17:10,600 --> 01:17:13,439
Speaker 1: any other season. And Tim Patrick, I mean, this guy

1540
01:17:13,600 --> 01:17:15,800
Speaker 1: is developed into a true weapon on It's not a

1541
01:17:15,840 --> 01:17:17,800
Speaker 1: guy anyone talked about. He's there. Number one. He has

1542
01:17:17,840 --> 01:17:19,800
Speaker 1: the most yards of anyone on the team, of all

1543
01:17:19,880 --> 01:17:22,639
Speaker 1: those young good weapons in Denver, he is the most yards.

1544
01:17:22,680 --> 01:17:28,840
Speaker 1: He's a good player. That's Dan No Christian McCaffrey finally

1545
01:17:28,880 --> 01:17:30,960
Speaker 1: ready to come back. And turns out he tweaks his

1546
01:17:31,040 --> 01:17:34,440
Speaker 1: quad last week in practice and now he's he's questionable

1547
01:17:34,680 --> 01:17:37,240
Speaker 1: at time of his taping, and it's like, geez, well,

1548
01:17:37,360 --> 01:17:39,080
Speaker 1: I guess part of it is like, why, you know,

1549
01:17:39,240 --> 01:17:41,519
Speaker 1: if he's kind of banged up, what are you pressing

1550
01:17:41,640 --> 01:17:45,600
Speaker 1: him for? When they true, I guess they should be

1551
01:17:45,720 --> 01:17:48,960
Speaker 1: very concerned about that, but they've been Mike David has

1552
01:17:49,000 --> 01:17:57,519
Speaker 1: been good on the ground. Well alright, three, Mark, are

1553
01:17:57,560 --> 01:17:59,800
Speaker 1: we gonna go crazy about Mike Davis? Is I asked

1554
01:17:59,800 --> 01:18:03,639
Speaker 1: the question? No, I just simply think that he's It's

1555
01:18:03,680 --> 01:18:05,320
Speaker 1: one thing, like you lose a player in the whole

1556
01:18:05,360 --> 01:18:07,760
Speaker 1: offense falls apart. Their offense has been one of the

1557
01:18:07,800 --> 01:18:10,960
Speaker 1: more fun attacks to watch and I mean it's it's

1558
01:18:11,000 --> 01:18:13,240
Speaker 1: not that one side of the pretty balanced. Hey, Ricky,

1559
01:18:14,160 --> 01:18:17,439
Speaker 1: before we go, and I'm not calling this into question

1560
01:18:17,520 --> 01:18:19,280
Speaker 1: although I don't have any evidence because I didn't do

1561
01:18:19,360 --> 01:18:23,479
Speaker 1: the research that you you did correctly lock up a

1562
01:18:23,560 --> 01:18:27,000
Speaker 1: team after and really it was a scandalous move to

1563
01:18:27,080 --> 01:18:28,759
Speaker 1: try to lock up the Browns when they were ahead

1564
01:18:28,800 --> 01:18:31,880
Speaker 1: by double digits on Sunday with the excuse that you

1565
01:18:31,960 --> 01:18:35,120
Speaker 1: had woken up at by the way to get up.

1566
01:18:35,200 --> 01:18:41,200
Speaker 1: It's football Sunday. You're the producer of podcast World. I

1567
01:18:41,280 --> 01:18:42,880
Speaker 1: need you up. I need you up at ten am

1568
01:18:42,960 --> 01:18:45,320
Speaker 1: for kickoff. I mean, what do we need to do?

1569
01:18:45,840 --> 01:18:48,600
Speaker 1: But you then locked up someone I guess from the

1570
01:18:48,640 --> 01:18:54,400
Speaker 1: Monday or Tuesday. Right, nice job. See the next I

1571
01:18:54,400 --> 01:18:57,479
Speaker 1: should get two game lock. No, no, you should know.

1572
01:18:57,760 --> 01:19:01,200
Speaker 1: But let's let's now instead of this all this ridiculous

1573
01:19:01,800 --> 01:19:05,000
Speaker 1: things where we have to track you. UM, just lock

1574
01:19:05,080 --> 01:19:08,439
Speaker 1: something up right now. But the schedule is so lock it,

1575
01:19:08,680 --> 01:19:13,160
Speaker 1: lock team. Am I allowed to lock up the Saints

1576
01:19:13,240 --> 01:19:18,120
Speaker 1: over the Eagles. That's just that's just out of the window.

1577
01:19:18,920 --> 01:19:20,760
Speaker 1: I'm amazed that that would be one of my that

1578
01:19:20,760 --> 01:19:22,960
Speaker 1: would be one of the Rainmaker's lock even with all

1579
01:19:23,000 --> 01:19:26,000
Speaker 1: those points that I like the Saints there. You can't

1580
01:19:26,040 --> 01:19:27,360
Speaker 1: look in the mirror on that. Well, actually, you know

1581
01:19:27,439 --> 01:19:28,720
Speaker 1: what you can. It's up to you to look in

1582
01:19:28,760 --> 01:19:30,240
Speaker 1: the mirror if you want to do it. Now. Right,

1583
01:19:30,320 --> 01:19:32,960
Speaker 1: that's over. That's over. The number is that I thought

1584
01:19:33,000 --> 01:19:34,840
Speaker 1: it was six and a half seven and a half. Right,

1585
01:19:35,240 --> 01:19:40,080
Speaker 1: Oh okay, all right, I'm gonna be ballsy because you

1586
01:19:40,160 --> 01:19:44,880
Speaker 1: guys never are. And that's why my schedule is so bad.

1587
01:19:45,360 --> 01:19:47,800
Speaker 1: That's why my locks are so back. You just pick

1588
01:19:47,920 --> 01:19:51,120
Speaker 1: something that's not like Greg's picking the Box over the Viking,

1589
01:19:51,240 --> 01:19:55,479
Speaker 1: like please, I picked the Browns over the Ravens, like

1590
01:19:55,760 --> 01:20:01,880
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson's wash bro Okay, you should take the Browns too, Yeah,

1591
01:20:02,600 --> 01:20:04,559
Speaker 1: do it. Okay, I'll take the Browns. I was going

1592
01:20:04,600 --> 01:20:06,679
Speaker 1: to do the Giants over the Cardinals. Wait a minute.

1593
01:20:06,680 --> 01:20:09,439
Speaker 1: If I'm making the same lock as Ricky, I'm very concerned.

1594
01:20:10,080 --> 01:20:13,920
Speaker 1: Do you want me to I'll take the rain You're

1595
01:20:13,960 --> 01:20:19,880
Speaker 1: that you're easily persuadable. Giants the Giants was the one

1596
01:20:19,920 --> 01:20:24,559
Speaker 1: I debated with very closely, either Giants or bucks Erica.

1597
01:20:24,720 --> 01:20:27,360
Speaker 1: The Browns are home. The Browns are nine and three,

1598
01:20:27,439 --> 01:20:29,800
Speaker 1: coming off an incredible game where Baker just played out

1599
01:20:29,840 --> 01:20:33,479
Speaker 1: of his mind. They're they're ready to make a statement.

1600
01:20:33,520 --> 01:20:37,439
Speaker 1: That is the team to lock that feels super manipulates.

1601
01:20:37,479 --> 01:20:39,760
Speaker 1: It's a triple it's a triple lock off. I don't

1602
01:20:39,760 --> 01:20:42,200
Speaker 1: know if we've ever had that. So that's that's cool

1603
01:20:42,400 --> 01:20:44,800
Speaker 1: for that reason alone. That's good. All right, what's your choice?

1604
01:20:44,840 --> 01:20:48,519
Speaker 1: Who are you going? I'm going with the Browns? Sorry, yes, no,

1605
01:20:48,680 --> 01:20:56,439
Speaker 1: I like it. You're on a street alright, versus the

1606
01:20:56,560 --> 01:20:59,760
Speaker 1: thirty second draft. Let's see. That is the difference I

1607
01:21:00,000 --> 01:21:04,280
Speaker 1: find in this game. Um, Ricky and Mark lock up

1608
01:21:04,600 --> 01:21:07,000
Speaker 1: the Brownies on Monday night. I got the Ravens on

1609
01:21:07,040 --> 01:21:09,680
Speaker 1: the other side. Big lockoff. Check out at lock it up?

1610
01:21:10,280 --> 01:21:14,800
Speaker 1: What is it? Lat and lock ups on Twitter? Uh

1611
01:21:15,280 --> 01:21:17,040
Speaker 1: and and Greg with a nice lock of his own

1612
01:21:17,120 --> 01:21:21,240
Speaker 1: this week. So we're gonna track all these on Sunday

1613
01:21:21,479 --> 01:21:23,640
Speaker 1: and we'll recap every game we just previewed. Thank you

1614
01:21:23,720 --> 01:21:27,479
Speaker 1: to everybody. And remember the television version of this show

1615
01:21:28,320 --> 01:21:32,759
Speaker 1: is on NFL Network. It airs Sunday morning or Saturday morning,

1616
01:21:32,840 --> 01:21:35,120
Speaker 1: first thing in the morning. I think six am, No,

1617
01:21:35,280 --> 01:21:41,000
Speaker 1: it's five am Pacific, but eight am Eastern, five am Pacific.

1618
01:21:41,120 --> 01:21:43,639
Speaker 1: And if you miss that, airing. Check out your local

1619
01:21:43,720 --> 01:21:48,040
Speaker 1: listings because it does re air during Saturday and maybe

1620
01:21:48,080 --> 01:21:50,920
Speaker 1: even into Sunday. So flip through your TV guide. You

1621
01:21:51,000 --> 01:21:52,800
Speaker 1: know it's probably on like page twenty eight of the

1622
01:21:52,840 --> 01:21:56,360
Speaker 1: TV guide. Tv R game Pass. The people do watch

1623
01:21:56,439 --> 01:21:57,960
Speaker 1: it on game Pass, and I think they put it

1624
01:21:58,040 --> 01:22:01,280
Speaker 1: up there. Find it, watch it, support us. We love you.

1625
01:22:01,600 --> 01:22:04,680
Speaker 1: This is Dan Hanson signing off for FID Storm the

1626
01:22:04,760 --> 01:22:55,360
Speaker 1: old boss Ricky Hollywood until Sunday. It okay, just feel

1627
01:22:55,360 --> 01:22:58,320
Speaker 1: like you know, Taylor, Swift and Ham putting out a

1628
01:22:58,400 --> 01:23:02,120
Speaker 1: collab on the new album tonight just be the will.

1629
01:23:03,439 --> 01:23:08,920
Speaker 1: That woman is prolific five months since the last one.

1630
01:23:09,720 --> 01:23:12,560
Speaker 1: Once you put on an album last year two. But

1631
01:23:13,479 --> 01:23:15,519
Speaker 1: the only concern is it it sounds like it might

1632
01:23:15,560 --> 01:23:18,880
Speaker 1: be leftovers from the previous session. It's the same writer.

1633
01:23:19,040 --> 01:23:21,320
Speaker 1: It's the national guy, That's what I mean. That's a

1634
01:23:21,360 --> 01:23:24,600
Speaker 1: little problematically. I've looked at the track list. There's like fourteen.

1635
01:23:25,840 --> 01:23:32,519
Speaker 1: Well they see that happens a lot though and sometimes

1636
01:23:32,520 --> 01:23:34,320
Speaker 1: and that you always picked the best ones for the

1637
01:23:34,400 --> 01:23:38,320
Speaker 1: first But as I've as I've said, maybe not in

1638
01:23:38,360 --> 01:23:40,000
Speaker 1: this podcast, but I throw it back a lot. I

1639
01:23:40,200 --> 01:23:43,520
Speaker 1: find her to be the Bruce Springsteen of her generation,

1640
01:23:43,720 --> 01:23:45,360
Speaker 1: and when Bruce was at his peak, he was so

1641
01:23:45,520 --> 01:23:48,639
Speaker 1: prolific that he would have an album and write forty

1642
01:23:48,680 --> 01:23:50,760
Speaker 1: tracks for an album and there would be a lot

1643
01:23:50,800 --> 01:23:52,439
Speaker 1: of stuff on the cutting and four that was still

1644
01:23:52,520 --> 01:23:55,720
Speaker 1: really good. I think she could be you know, she

1645
01:23:55,800 --> 01:23:57,600
Speaker 1: could do it. I would not be surprised if this

1646
01:23:57,680 --> 01:24:00,160
Speaker 1: is good. Also, if you think about it, fourteen song,

1647
01:24:00,240 --> 01:24:03,720
Speaker 1: it's like every year. Is not that that's huge for

1648
01:24:03,800 --> 01:24:06,160
Speaker 1: a singer and songwriter. But it's not like it takes

1649
01:24:06,439 --> 01:24:11,320
Speaker 1: seven billion years to do that. Oh wow, that's a take. Yeah. No,

1650
01:24:11,479 --> 01:24:14,479
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking like where you I wrote three songs

1651
01:24:14,560 --> 01:24:16,800
Speaker 1: this morning. No, it's like you like, we're I I

1652
01:24:17,000 --> 01:24:22,760
Speaker 1: think she's the not too, I mean we're we've done it,

1653
01:24:22,840 --> 01:24:26,839
Speaker 1: We've done in a band with the girl I hated

1654
01:24:27,920 --> 01:24:33,400
Speaker 1: back to Glorado. It's not it's not an anti take

1655
01:24:33,479 --> 01:24:35,320
Speaker 1: on her. I think she's the best. But did you

1656
01:24:35,439 --> 01:24:40,040
Speaker 1: watch her her live playing it at in the Long

1657
01:24:40,120 --> 01:24:44,439
Speaker 1: Pond Studios in New York. Well, I watched the Apple special,

1658
01:24:44,640 --> 01:24:48,040
Speaker 1: the Apple Plus Special, which was great. What was that? Oh,

1659
01:24:48,080 --> 01:24:50,280
Speaker 1: it's awesome. If you have Apple Plus, check it out.

1660
01:24:50,520 --> 01:24:53,200
Speaker 1: It was just the whole the making of that album

1661
01:24:53,280 --> 01:24:55,160
Speaker 1: and then the guy from the Nationals in it, and

1662
01:24:57,439 --> 01:24:59,439
Speaker 1: that's where I watched. That's what I meant, Disney plus

1663
01:24:59,560 --> 01:25:02,280
Speaker 1: yeah thing, Yeah, you gotta watch it all. I got

1664
01:25:02,360 --> 01:25:03,880
Speaker 1: to see that. Yeah, I have to. I texted you

1665
01:25:03,920 --> 01:25:05,880
Speaker 1: about it, Mark, you you said you're going to watch it.

1666
01:25:06,120 --> 01:25:08,639
Speaker 1: I know I'm not. I don't have endless, like endless

1667
01:25:08,920 --> 01:25:12,559
Speaker 1: time to do this, like a wheel you have time

1668
01:25:12,640 --> 01:25:15,439
Speaker 1: to tweet clips of her playing clean on the piano,

1669
01:25:16,920 --> 01:25:19,400
Speaker 1: you know what, Like I realized, like everyone else is

1670
01:25:19,439 --> 01:25:21,400
Speaker 1: like the biggest music experts on the planet. I have

1671
01:25:21,560 --> 01:25:24,720
Speaker 1: certain songs of hers that I love and like they

1672
01:25:24,760 --> 01:25:26,560
Speaker 1: may not be the same ones as everyone else, but

1673
01:25:26,760 --> 01:25:28,920
Speaker 1: I love that song. And there's not a single song

1674
01:25:29,080 --> 01:25:31,240
Speaker 1: from her that I don't. Nobody was, no one was,

1675
01:25:33,640 --> 01:25:36,600
Speaker 1: no one's going after your clean take there clean is

1676
01:25:36,680 --> 01:25:39,360
Speaker 1: like the is like amazing, It's great. I think that

1677
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Speaker 1: ver like her. That version of it with her is

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Speaker 1: super badass. It's a good take, Mark, it's a good take. Good.

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Speaker 1: I feel validated. I'm putting this at the end of

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Speaker 1: the episode,