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Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast is now entering the gathered soul.

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

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Speaker 1: presented by Head and Shoulders. My name is Dan Hansis

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Speaker 1: and I am joined my room filled with some heroes.

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Speaker 1: Its Mark Selser on my left, Greg Rosenthal in my right.

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Speaker 1: What's up? Boys? How are you hey? Now? Uh don't okay,

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Speaker 1: No West today unfortunately, um' is Uh. Hopefully we're gonna

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Speaker 1: be back with us this weekend. Um, and we hope

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Speaker 1: we we haven't because this is the divisional round playoffs.

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Speaker 1: First of all, we all know what this is. This

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Speaker 1: is the crucible of the season. And I said, Greg,

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Speaker 1: don't think I missed your nice crucible reth little quarterback? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Greg wrote a nice quarterback piece. Uh scandalous quarterback he's on?

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Speaker 1: Which playoff quarterback he trusted the most? And here's little tease.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't Tom Brady. Um, but you dropped a crucible

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Speaker 1: in there. So shout out to Greg. Yeah, wait, how scandalous.

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Speaker 1: I got a lot of feedback, you know, how crazy

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Speaker 1: to rank three different Hall of Fame quarterbacks in a

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Speaker 1: certain order that people don't like? Swear to Tom Brady,

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady was second, and Breezes third, and Ryan's fourth.

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Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger was first. He's been playing the best right now.

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Speaker 1: You can't sell the piece at Brady is number one.

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Speaker 1: That's well, I don't know who's gonna read it at

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Speaker 1: Brady number one. Iculous, that's gonna assume that point, I

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Speaker 1: don't think, But that's ridiculous. I'm just saying that's what

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Speaker 1: I got a lot of that. It's like, oh, you're

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Speaker 1: trying to like sorry, It's like, sorry, I don't have

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Speaker 1: the exact same opinion as anyone else. First of all,

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Speaker 1: it's not that crazy to say that Ben Roethlisberger is

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Speaker 1: playing at a much higher level over the last seven

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Speaker 1: or eight weeks. And that's basically what I care about. Um.

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Speaker 1: The cynical viewpoint, which I think you were alluding to, Mark,

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Speaker 1: was why write this piece if I just had Tom

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Speaker 1: Brady I was signed. That's not Greg's take, That's not

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Speaker 1: Greg's way. But what is Greg's way It's because he

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Speaker 1: knows what's probably gonna happen next week. It's gonna be

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Speaker 1: the big rematch, and Greg does everything in his power

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Speaker 1: internally and sometimes it comes out externally to create a scenario,

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Speaker 1: like how the Patriots figure it out this time, all

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Speaker 1: these obstacles they faced, and like my like my article,

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Speaker 1: what an obstacle for Brady? And it's like, if anything,

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Speaker 1: I'm setting myself up for failure because the Tom Brady

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Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger is playing one of the best defenses we've

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Speaker 1: passed defenses we've seen a decade. It is going to

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Speaker 1: be some really good football. And that was the second

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Speaker 1: part of what I was gonna say. This is the

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Speaker 1: best weekend of the year for me. In the NFL

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Speaker 1: uh divisual round football you get Usually in a really

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Speaker 1: good year, you get four bangers. I would to go

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Speaker 1: as far as we're saying we're gonna get four bangers,

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Speaker 1: but these are gonna be some really, really good games.

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Speaker 1: And of course next week we dropped down to just

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Speaker 1: first Sunday in February. You never know how the games

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Speaker 1: will play out. I agree, it's not the prettiest divisional

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Speaker 1: I would take that. I mean, I just I think

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Speaker 1: I mean, it was the It was literally one of

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Speaker 1: the three or four biggest comebacks in NFL history in

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Speaker 1: this tank. We keep moving forward. But that was a great,

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Speaker 1: great game the way it ended. But there was a

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Speaker 1: before we do that, let's do a little bit of

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Speaker 1: news just to catch up on what's going on in

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Speaker 1: the league. All right, let's start in Seattle. Big changes

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Speaker 1: to Pete Carrol's coaching staff. There was concerns or questions,

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Speaker 1: will Pete Carol comeback for another year during what is

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Speaker 1: going to be a big sea change in Seattle. Carol's

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Speaker 1: coming back when he's gonna have different people around him.

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Speaker 1: Darryl Bevil, let's start there, the offensive coordinator and the Seahawks.

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Speaker 1: He has been fired according to rap Sheet. Uh, this

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Speaker 1: happens after a five year run for Bevil. Bevil probably

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Speaker 1: But he had a longer run than that and had

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Speaker 1: the idea of change here. You're big on fresh starts,

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Speaker 1: the coaches, you know, make them Well, there's whispers that

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Speaker 1: Mike Patton is the team's new defensive coordinator. Patton was

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Speaker 1: I am going to lock up the Atlanta Falcon. Uh

424
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Speaker 1: this week? What means the Eagles will win? You don't

425
00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:35,560
Speaker 1: take the easy ones? That? Yeah, well, no one, I'm

426
00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:37,400
Speaker 1: usually I say, you gotta look in the mirror. If

427
00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:40,320
Speaker 1: anyone takes the Patriots this week, you don't have any honor.

428
00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:42,960
Speaker 1: How about this? To make this fun? Because I think

429
00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:44,720
Speaker 1: this is a coin flip of a game. You're gonna

430
00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:50,080
Speaker 1: do it. I'm gonna do lock off and give you

431
00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:51,640
Speaker 1: which I'm not going to just pick the same team

432
00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:53,760
Speaker 1: as you and keep you stuck down below me. That's

433
00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:56,880
Speaker 1: that's cowardly. This is a wait. So you would a trifle,

434
00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:58,640
Speaker 1: you would have well, but you could have picked any

435
00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:00,640
Speaker 1: of the other games, if you know. I I think

436
00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:03,600
Speaker 1: this puts stakes one of us. Either you're gonna to

437
00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:05,359
Speaker 1: me or I'm gonna lose to you, and we're right

438
00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:08,280
Speaker 1: back in it. I'm eliminated, right Well, you could tie,

439
00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:10,800
Speaker 1: I could tie still, but I could not win outright

440
00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,800
Speaker 1: all right anyway. But the reason why all that aside,

441
00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:16,520
Speaker 1: although that is the key point game now is the

442
00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:20,480
Speaker 1: lockup of our part and I uh is that the

443
00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:23,200
Speaker 1: Falcons have that eye of the tiger now. I really

444
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:26,080
Speaker 1: love the way Matt Ryan looked in that game, uh,

445
00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:28,359
Speaker 1: the rams, the way he was making those throws. I

446
00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:31,480
Speaker 1: think this is the Matt Ryan now that's here to stay. Um,

447
00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:34,440
Speaker 1: even though I waited sixteen weeks on my fantasy team

448
00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:36,600
Speaker 1: for it didn't happen, but now he's here and better

449
00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:39,639
Speaker 1: late than never. Julio Jones got in the mix in

450
00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:41,840
Speaker 1: the red zone and was like Julio Jones, he had

451
00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:45,560
Speaker 1: a great game. And no disrespect to Connie Fox and

452
00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:47,840
Speaker 1: all you Eiggles fans out there, you will have a

453
00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:50,800
Speaker 1: brighter tomorrow, I think because Carson Wentz should come back

454
00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:52,280
Speaker 1: and be Carson Wentz and you have a lot of

455
00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:54,760
Speaker 1: good years, but I just don't think you're gonna score

456
00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:56,720
Speaker 1: a lot of points. And and a lot of it

457
00:23:56,800 --> 00:24:00,080
Speaker 1: is about Nick Foles not being very good and in

458
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:03,679
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons defense really peaking right now. So you

459
00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,720
Speaker 1: put those two things together and I'm I'm looking at

460
00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:09,680
Speaker 1: and the Falcons do not score ton of points this year,

461
00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:11,600
Speaker 1: so I don't think it's gonna be blowout. But I'm

462
00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:15,920
Speaker 1: looking at a seven to ten type win. I will

463
00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:18,600
Speaker 1: counter and say I have the Eagles winning over the

464
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:21,640
Speaker 1: Falcons about twenty. I think it's gonna be an awesome,

465
00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:25,560
Speaker 1: strange game. And you know last week, well I don't.

466
00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:27,680
Speaker 1: I guess I called it a coin flip game. That's

467
00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:29,720
Speaker 1: a coin flip game. I'm doing that because that's what

468
00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:32,360
Speaker 1: that's what men do. They give each other a chance

469
00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:33,919
Speaker 1: to get back into I got a hell lot of

470
00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:35,680
Speaker 1: respect for you, all right, Well that's all I'm looking

471
00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:38,040
Speaker 1: for here. I I think Ji, who was put into

472
00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:40,600
Speaker 1: absolutely not didn't play at all in weeks seventeen. I

473
00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:42,560
Speaker 1: think they're gonna use him a ton. I think they're

474
00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:44,320
Speaker 1: gonna find other ways to win. And this is a

475
00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:48,040
Speaker 1: team that's been essentially laughed at and counted out since

476
00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:50,240
Speaker 1: the minute Carson Wentz went down. I think there's a

477
00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:52,400
Speaker 1: lot of pride on this team. They're playing at home,

478
00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:55,400
Speaker 1: this doesn't happen often in Philadelphia. I think they're gonna

479
00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:57,320
Speaker 1: show up for this game. And the Falcons, I'm really

480
00:24:57,359 --> 00:24:59,080
Speaker 1: impressed with that. Did the last few weeks. But they

481
00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:02,879
Speaker 1: are not a perfect team. No, they aren't. And you

482
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:05,280
Speaker 1: look at the Eagles, where do they spend their money.

483
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:07,720
Speaker 1: It's on those lines. I mean, Brandon Graham makes a

484
00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:10,120
Speaker 1: lot of money. He's a great player, go dominate a game.

485
00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:12,960
Speaker 1: Benny Curry makes a lot of money as comes off

486
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:16,040
Speaker 1: the bench. Fletcher Cox, who's gonna be in the same

487
00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:19,200
Speaker 1: spot essentially Aaron Donald was last week going up against

488
00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:22,440
Speaker 1: uh some guards that have struggled for Atlanta. He can

489
00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:25,080
Speaker 1: change the game. The reason I've been so impressed with

490
00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:29,920
Speaker 1: Ryan is He's just avoided making any mistakes despite all

491
00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:32,040
Speaker 1: those pressure. Not only is he making some plays on

492
00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:35,880
Speaker 1: his own, like there has been recipes for bad sacks, turnovers, anything,

493
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:38,560
Speaker 1: and there was nothing close to a bad play like

494
00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:41,119
Speaker 1: that out of Matt Ryan. And I'm not I'm not

495
00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:43,520
Speaker 1: locking it up or anything, but i am taking the

496
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Speaker 1: Falcons in a game, and I'm gonna be going to

497
00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:50,760
Speaker 1: on Saturday. That's fancy too straight very much here with

498
00:25:50,880 --> 00:26:03,640
Speaker 1: NFL dot com dot com dot com, I don't care.

499
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:09,200
Speaker 1: Isn't this a major ethics violation? Normally, when a when

500
00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:10,840
Speaker 1: a an analyst is going to go to the game

501
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,680
Speaker 1: and he's on some sort of pregame show, Right, he

502
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:15,680
Speaker 1: has a blank window, or you pick a team. Greg

503
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:18,160
Speaker 1: is just boldly said, I'm going to cover a team

504
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:21,480
Speaker 1: and it's probably gonna shade my coverage of this, of

505
00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:24,639
Speaker 1: this that has always annoyed me too. It's ridiculous. Um,

506
00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:27,960
Speaker 1: Jimmy Johnson or somebody in the studio, I'm actually gonna

507
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:32,000
Speaker 1: be this game, Cotton, So are picking ability over the

508
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:33,879
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks should tell you it means nothing

509
00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:38,600
Speaker 1: that it matters, right, Collinsworth, they send out like a

510
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:42,840
Speaker 1: a screenshot from PFF Twitter of like their staff picks,

511
00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:46,520
Speaker 1: so you can find out what Steve Palazzo picked this week.

512
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:49,640
Speaker 1: And whenever Collinsworth, who's on their staff of course, has

513
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:53,320
Speaker 1: one of those games, that spot's just empty. Too much integrity, wait,

514
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 1: wait too much? Not gonna get involved on that, just

515
00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:59,040
Speaker 1: the waterfall of integrity, Isn't it crazy? I know we

516
00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:02,240
Speaker 1: should move on at like the shock and Off Falcon's

517
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:05,439
Speaker 1: offense last year. If this is the team with this

518
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:09,480
Speaker 1: kind of Ravens like recipe or Seahawks like recipe, where

519
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,720
Speaker 1: it's the defense flying around, where it's tackling, and where

520
00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:15,520
Speaker 1: it's a field goal kicker who has just been on fire,

521
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:18,199
Speaker 1: and Matt Bryant in these long field goal drives. What

522
00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:20,359
Speaker 1: if that's the recipe that gets them their first Super

523
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:23,600
Speaker 1: Bowl title, Let's do it's It's certainly could be. They

524
00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:27,160
Speaker 1: are rounding into form at the perfect time. Uh, next

525
00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:30,200
Speaker 1: up Saturday night. Oh yeah, they're gonna be nice and

526
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:34,199
Speaker 1: lubed up at Foxboro. Those fans, well, it's more fun

527
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:37,880
Speaker 1: than a Saturday night playoff game, especially when you're you're

528
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:42,639
Speaker 1: you're playing against a Titans team that congratulations a great

529
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 1: comeback at Arrowhead. All due respect, you're definitely benefited from

530
00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:52,280
Speaker 1: some thing's going your way. Travis Kelsey specifically going out.

531
00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:54,160
Speaker 1: But I'm not gonna take anything away from the Titoons.

532
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 1: You got that w and all the ghosts in Arrowhead.

533
00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:59,959
Speaker 1: Calling them the Tits is taking warming just a bit.

534
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:03,200
Speaker 1: But as I said, a victory by the tight Tuns

535
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:09,160
Speaker 1: in Foxboro Wolf forever, forever. Eliminate the tight Tuns name

536
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:14,240
Speaker 1: that derogatory description of the Tennessee football franchise from this podcast.

537
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:18,200
Speaker 1: This is the opportunity Tititoons. But Greg, you're not gonna

538
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:19,919
Speaker 1: find a lot of people that think they can do it,

539
00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:23,480
Speaker 1: including the Desert. People who are basically seeing this as

540
00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 1: a game between Hollywood High and US stop. Well, they're

541
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:31,560
Speaker 1: trying to get someone to you know, someone at home,

542
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:35,240
Speaker 1: to pick the Titans, to try to even out the

543
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 1: people in the desert, citizens of the desert, and it's

544
00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:40,720
Speaker 1: not gonna happen. People look at this matchup, they're not

545
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:44,320
Speaker 1: gonna give Tennessee any chance that makes sense based on

546
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:47,640
Speaker 1: the course of their seasons, the course of these two franchises.

547
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 1: I think the matchup is great for the Patriots offense.

548
00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:52,960
Speaker 1: I think the Titans have gotten a lot of credit

549
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,400
Speaker 1: for kind of stopping the run in terms of yards

550
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 1: per game. But I really don't think this is a

551
00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 1: special offense uh or defense other in Tennessee in any way,

552
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:04,720
Speaker 1: shape or form. And Tom Brady has a great history

553
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 1: against Dick lebo. I do give the Titans a chance, though,

554
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,800
Speaker 1: to score some points in this game, to possess the

555
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 1: ball and do something, let's say, kind in a different

556
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 1: fashion like Houston did last year, where midway through the

557
00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 1: third quarter you're thinking, Wow, this this is a game.

558
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:22,720
Speaker 1: I don't think that's crazy to imagine they'd be another

559
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 1: one of the team's playing this weekend the Jaguars twice.

560
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:27,240
Speaker 1: You have to be the Jaguars too. I'm just saying

561
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:29,640
Speaker 1: they beat him two weeks ago and we're gonna give

562
00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:32,920
Speaker 1: them credit. Were they won in Kansas City. They've shown something.

563
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 1: This is how it could work. I agree with you,

564
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:37,840
Speaker 1: because but you really need Tom Brady to not play well.

565
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:41,480
Speaker 1: And that's the reason why the Texans hung around in

566
00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:43,240
Speaker 1: that game and really had a chance to steal that

567
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:47,000
Speaker 1: And if you read that seth Wickershamps, Uh, it bristled.

568
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:50,960
Speaker 1: Brady bristled when Belichick just teed off on him. So

569
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 1: how poorly played in the divisional playoffs last year and

570
00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:56,200
Speaker 1: they got away with it and then ended up winning

571
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. But if Brady, who has not been Brady?

572
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:01,720
Speaker 1: And that's why Greg you put him below Big Ben

573
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:05,960
Speaker 1: amazingly on your trustworthy rankings. Uh, it's because he has

574
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:10,440
Speaker 1: not been as good in December. Uh. The question is Mark,

575
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:16,480
Speaker 1: does a bye week and that old postseason magic restore

576
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 1: Brady to Tom Brady that we know in the plass

577
00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 1: or at forty and a half years old, after he's

578
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:25,320
Speaker 1: taken a beating, Tom Current, your boy say he's been

579
00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:27,680
Speaker 1: flexing his hand a lot. He's got the Achilles injury.

580
00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 1: Is he just beat up and he's not going to

581
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:31,120
Speaker 1: be great in the playoffs, just like he wasn't great

582
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:34,120
Speaker 1: in December. Well, I mean, it's a mystery. I love,

583
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 1: I love it's going to happen. Do you think you know?

584
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 1: I think what you're going to get is the ultra ultra,

585
00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:44,840
Speaker 1: ultra annoyed Tom Brady who talking to the seth Wickership

586
00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 1: piece that things have been sitting out there, they haven't

587
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:50,000
Speaker 1: played since, and the entire organization has been told your

588
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:54,160
Speaker 1: future is over. There's no there's no continuity here. Belichick

589
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 1: can't get along with Crap, can't get along with Brady.

590
00:30:57,640 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 1: Do you think they're gonna try harder? I well, I

591
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:02,040
Speaker 1: know I know that that that you think that's ridiculous,

592
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:06,240
Speaker 1: But I think that Brady, absolutely after that suspension last year,

593
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 1: came out like a house of fire. Brady is someone

594
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 1: that when you'd go and question his integrity the way

595
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:13,719
Speaker 1: that that piece did. I thought it was a great piece,

596
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 1: well written, obviously, but if you're Tom Brady, there were

597
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:18,880
Speaker 1: things in it that make you look weak, that make

598
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 1: you look petty, that makes you look underneath the idea

599
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 1: of having to compete with someone behind you that's a

600
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 1: younger quarterback. Yes, I do think he'd be piste off,

601
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:28,920
Speaker 1: but there's a difference. But when you cite that, um

602
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 1: de flake Gates spension being piste off and then lighting

603
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 1: the league on fire, that was coming off seven or

604
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:37,200
Speaker 1: eight months of rest and preparation. This is a different

605
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:39,920
Speaker 1: time of the year, um, And that's to me the

606
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:42,680
Speaker 1: big question, like is he gonna be able to play?

607
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:45,080
Speaker 1: Like even in that game, the week seventeen game against

608
00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 1: the Jets where the weather was miserable, so I didn't

609
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 1: put too much into it, but he just he didn't

610
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:51,840
Speaker 1: have He was missing on throws and that wasn't new,

611
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:55,240
Speaker 1: Like here's what they're One thing always seems to be

612
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 1: true with Tom Brady and that last game, the game

613
00:31:57,520 --> 00:31:59,480
Speaker 1: against the Texans last year, had some of this in it,

614
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:02,240
Speaker 1: which I think made it close more than Houston's offense.

615
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:04,440
Speaker 1: Was that if you Brady is three and four in

616
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:07,360
Speaker 1: playoff games when you sack him three plus times, he's

617
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:10,240
Speaker 1: eight and nine when the other team has the ball

618
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 1: five times, when they run the ball twenty five plus times.

619
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 1: If Derrick Henry and I think the best of that

620
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:17,360
Speaker 1: happened in this backfield was getting to Marco Murray out

621
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 1: of the picture. You look Derrick Henry be a flow

622
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:22,480
Speaker 1: runner like he was. He was dominant last week. If

623
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 1: you can keep Brady off the field and you can

624
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 1: get a couple of these drives that we've seen the

625
00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 1: Patriots meltdown where it's a three and out and Brady's

626
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:31,240
Speaker 1: irritated and he's flinging the ball ten feet away from

627
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 1: a receiver. That's if you want to hang around, it

628
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:35,320
Speaker 1: has to be with your own ground game and getting

629
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 1: to Brady. Patriots defense struggles to get off the field.

630
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 1: It is not a good defense. Someone's gonna expose it,

631
00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 1: especially in the front seven, is not good. I am

632
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:48,200
Speaker 1: optimistic that they're gonna be healthier after this by Chris

633
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 1: Hogan looks like he's gonna be back in the mix.

634
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 1: James White looks like he's gonna be back in the mix.

635
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Speaker 1: These are not insignificant players that were missing for a

636
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Speaker 1: lot of December. On defense, they had a number of

637
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Speaker 1: players who were banged up as well, including Trey Flowers

638
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 1: who was back. But I think there they should be

639
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 1: a healthier team. But to your point, Mark, this is

640
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 1: not the same Titans team. Tytoons as you would say, Dan,

641
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,680
Speaker 1: that we saw the last year. They made a lot

642
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:16,720
Speaker 1: of those changes. Really in the last couple of weeks,

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Speaker 1: especially Week sixteen and last week that we were asking

644
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Speaker 1: for number one, Derrick Henry, number two a lot more

645
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:26,360
Speaker 1: shotgun and shotgun runs with Derrick Henry, they weren't doing

646
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 1: that at all. So it's more of the spread. You

647
00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 1: out three wide receivers. None of this condensed two tight

648
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,920
Speaker 1: ends in a fullback. We're gonna be nineteen sixties. Even

649
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 1: early in that game against against the Chiefs, they're playing

650
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 1: the hurry up and they're moving the ball. It was

651
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 1: a different sort of Mariota and Malarkey offense that we saw,

652
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Speaker 1: and I think that's why we've seen it work with

653
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 1: the half, right. I just want to say so they

654
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:53,440
Speaker 1: played a really great half that I think was helped

655
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 1: by the Chiefs playing with two hands wrapped around their throats. So,

656
00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 1: I honestly, and it makes it seem like I'm taking

657
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 1: it away from what they pulled got out played yet,

658
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:03,960
Speaker 1: but I think they really benefit also from their opponent

659
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 1: really coming up small in that spot. Now we're talking

660
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:12,359
Speaker 1: a different situation. I just don't think they in this game.

661
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:14,279
Speaker 1: There's not going to be a comeback, but it is

662
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 1: impressive that they stuck to the ground game, that they

663
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:18,880
Speaker 1: got back into the game that say they did it.

664
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Speaker 1: They didn't panic and throw deep shots with no wide

665
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 1: receiver help on that team outside of Corey Davis for

666
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Speaker 1: the most part, and their offense. I think the matchup

667
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:28,560
Speaker 1: against the Chiefs defense and the Patriots defense are somewhat

668
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:31,319
Speaker 1: similar and both aren't aren't great. Both don't really have

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Speaker 1: much of a pass rush. And Mario to the last

670
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Speaker 1: few weeks when you give him time and he had

671
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 1: a ton of time in that Chiefs game. He has

672
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:40,880
Speaker 1: been using his legs a lot more. He's run more

673
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:43,720
Speaker 1: on the ground over the last t weeks than any

674
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 1: two games stretch since about the middle of last season.

675
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Speaker 1: So he's running now. That's what's given the Patriots defense

676
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 1: in trouble, and the front seven is it's not good.

677
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 1: The linebackers aren't fast. Uh. The James Harrison is probably

678
00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:00,279
Speaker 1: gonna be playing as like a prime pass sit. Sure,

679
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:02,520
Speaker 1: I would expect him to start. It's just it's not

680
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:04,719
Speaker 1: a great group. I just have no faith in the

681
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:08,120
Speaker 1: Titans defense being able to stop Dion Lewis and James

682
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 1: White and a screen game. I think that they're just

683
00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 1: gonna do. You're not a big Kyle van Noy. Guy

684
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:15,520
Speaker 1: Koy is back and he's healthy. He know he's help.

685
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 1: Do you put any They barely played over the last

686
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:21,360
Speaker 1: half of the season, and he's solid. I know that

687
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 1: you have consistently been down on the Patriots defense, and

688
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:26,959
Speaker 1: they are not flawless. But since Week five, no team

689
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:28,920
Speaker 1: in the league is allowing fewer points per game in

690
00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:30,960
Speaker 1: New England. Do you put any credence into that or

691
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:35,080
Speaker 1: is that a number? Certainly they they're coached up well

692
00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:38,239
Speaker 1: and they're not notass rushing team that will bet they've been,

693
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Speaker 1: but don't break. They've got a good secondary. They've played

694
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Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of week teams. Um one

695
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:47,600
Speaker 1: more stat on the Brady Patriots dynasty. This will be

696
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:51,040
Speaker 1: their twelfth game coming off a first round by which

697
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:54,560
Speaker 1: just seems impossible. Their ten and one in those first

698
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:58,359
Speaker 1: eleven games, and Greg, you know the one loss from

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00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:02,839
Speaker 1: the two thousand ten Rob Gronkowski rookie year. They've had

700
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:04,960
Speaker 1: a bye every year since. I guess they've wanted. How

701
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:07,360
Speaker 1: cruel of you not even to give me credit? The

702
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:13,360
Speaker 1: New York Jets. They got the win, and that was

703
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:18,880
Speaker 1: and by the way, until the very end, Bill Belichick's

704
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:21,680
Speaker 1: thirty seventh career playoff game, breaking a tie with Tom

705
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Speaker 1: Landry and Don Schuler for the most in the NFL.

706
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Speaker 1: We're watching the best. I mean, it's not a question

707
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Speaker 1: to me and on any level, this is the best

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709
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 1: great why leave the team this year? And it's a

710
00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 1: great matchup. I I think the Titans, as much as

711
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:38,759
Speaker 1: they've changed their approach, you're gonna beat the Patriots by

712
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 1: spreading them out and throwing like crazy, by getting to

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Speaker 1: the quarterback. I'm not I don't think the Titans. I

714
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:45,880
Speaker 1: know they have a lot of sacks overall, but I

715
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:48,600
Speaker 1: don't think they're an intimidating pass rush team. I don't

716
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Speaker 1: think they can hang forty four. How about that? It's

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720
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Speaker 1: even know what that was. Why would he leave? Because

721
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:11,440
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722
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Speaker 1: he does retire and he's an older man now wants

723
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Speaker 1: to prove that it wasn't just Tom. That would be

724
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Speaker 1: potentially white. If you want a Super Bowl and the

725
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:22,319
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726
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Speaker 1: get very suspicious. It sounds like it's gonna be there's

727
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:28,480
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728
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729
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Speaker 1: to Sunday's game, starting with the Jacksonville Jaguars, who won

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Speaker 1: last week at home against the Bills. Underwhelming. Uh you

748
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 1: could say maybe the defense did their job, but the

749
00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:58,760
Speaker 1: offense again left left a lot to be desired, starting

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Speaker 1: with Blake Bortles. Now they travel to Pittsburgh to face

751
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Speaker 1: the Steelers. UM and Mark, this is a game that

752
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:10,640
Speaker 1: for Jacksonville to move on, the defense is going to

753
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:13,879
Speaker 1: have to deliver a performance that carries the day. There's

754
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Speaker 1: no There's no other way around it, right, there really is.

755
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:19,319
Speaker 1: And I this game though, to me, I have been

756
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 1: feeling all week like this is the game that a

757
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 1: lot of people I don't think. I think we don't

758
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:26,440
Speaker 1: feel this way, but a lot of people just say, oh,

759
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:28,600
Speaker 1: you just it's Blake Boardles, you just put the Steelers

760
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:31,239
Speaker 1: right in the ANFC Championship. I don't feel that way

761
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:33,759
Speaker 1: at all. I just don't lock it up. I no, No,

762
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Speaker 1: I mean I've I've already gone down that road. I

763
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 1: just I wonder though, because if you're Blake Boardles, you

764
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:41,240
Speaker 1: have to look at the fact that his passer rating

765
00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 1: is astronomical. When Jacksonville has the lead and it dips

766
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 1: into Nowhere's Ville the minute that they're behind, how do

767
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 1: you keep this team with a lead or tie or

768
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:55,879
Speaker 1: within one score, because if it doesn't happen, that's when

769
00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 1: these teams, that's when these like what we saw it

770
00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:00,319
Speaker 1: happened against the Niners is such a concerning laws because

771
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 1: the entire defense lost its composure and you can't have

772
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:06,920
Speaker 1: these the offense and defense totally in fighting. And then

773
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 1: watching Blake Bortles sell this game down the river, how

774
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:12,319
Speaker 1: do you keep Jacksonville on top of a Steelers team

775
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:15,160
Speaker 1: that has so many weapons? What are you doing, Blake?

776
00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:21,000
Speaker 1: I'm down the room. I mean, he was bona fide

777
00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:23,440
Speaker 1: awful for two and a half quarters last week until

778
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:25,759
Speaker 1: he started he rushing for more yards that he threw

779
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:30,239
Speaker 1: for and he threw his confidence looked totally shot to me. Well,

780
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Speaker 1: they they played the last two weeks so conservatively. He

781
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:35,879
Speaker 1: only threw two passes in the first half of last

782
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 1: week's games that traveled over six yards, like literally he

783
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:43,040
Speaker 1: only attempted to so they weren't even really letting him

784
00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 1: do anything, or he wasn't pulling the trigger on some

785
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:47,640
Speaker 1: throws that weren't there. You know, he had the yips

786
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Speaker 1: with some of those screen passes. I would think that

787
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:52,919
Speaker 1: the pressure is off him a little bit. This week.

788
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:56,839
Speaker 1: You got that win. Ad He's capable of having a

789
00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 1: great game. We've seen it happen with the coaching. I

790
00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:02,320
Speaker 1: do not think this is a good Steelers pass rush,

791
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 1: at least the way they played late in the season.

792
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:07,879
Speaker 1: I think the way you attack the Steelers is by

793
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:10,520
Speaker 1: throwing the ball quite a bit. Already, Burns is banged

794
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:13,120
Speaker 1: up in this game. The secondary isn't great. And that's

795
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:15,799
Speaker 1: that's a big time question because I think the way

796
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 1: you do beat the Steelers is being aggressive. If you

797
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:20,480
Speaker 1: just give it over to Leonard four Nette and and

798
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:24,719
Speaker 1: what's been an underratedly poor Jaguars offensive line to try

799
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:26,319
Speaker 1: to win that battle, it's not gonna happen. I think

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00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 1: you're playing into Steelers fans. You gotta go in there

801
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:30,799
Speaker 1: being aggressive, let Blake try to win it for you,

802
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:33,200
Speaker 1: and just it doesn't work. If it doesn't work, so

803
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:35,400
Speaker 1: be it that you're in the divisional round. You know

804
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:37,600
Speaker 1: you made it further than anyone expected. Then run on

805
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:40,160
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh a little bit better since Ryan Shazier has been out.

806
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:43,359
Speaker 1: I mean, it's true. Leonard Fournette had one, I thought

807
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:45,680
Speaker 1: one drive where he looked really good last week and

808
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:48,359
Speaker 1: the rest of the game. They didn't a little better

809
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 1: the last two weeks than his numbers show. He was

810
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 1: banged up certainly a few weeks back. But I think

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Speaker 1: they're their offensive line in Bordles. Um, it should be

812
00:41:57,480 --> 00:41:59,959
Speaker 1: mentioned when with Borders struggle, their offensive line has quiet

813
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:03,399
Speaker 1: leave been pretty pretty poor. To watch this, this Bortles thing,

814
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:06,000
Speaker 1: the criticism towards Bortles has and I wrote about this

815
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Speaker 1: on on the website today, Um, it's really bordering on

816
00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:13,760
Speaker 1: phenomenon status now to me that it's become open season

817
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:17,320
Speaker 1: for opposing players, not even even if they're not playing

818
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:19,479
Speaker 1: him in that week, to come out and say Blake

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Speaker 1: Bortles is terrible. Use him as an example like if

820
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Speaker 1: and Mark, I know you're a big office fan, remember

821
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:26,600
Speaker 1: when Andy Bernard try to get um, oh, he really

822
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:29,440
Speaker 1: shredded it. Going to Michael Scott when he was trying

823
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:31,680
Speaker 1: to curry favor with his boss, like you like, you

824
00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:33,560
Speaker 1: don't want to pull the Bortles, and that means you

825
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:35,560
Speaker 1: don't want to be a bad quarterback. The latest guy

826
00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 1: to come out is Titan safety Kevin Byrd, who's again

827
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:41,279
Speaker 1: not playing Blake Bortles this week, but in discussion with

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Speaker 1: the Associated Press Um about the Titans match against the Patriots,

829
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Speaker 1: he had this to say, this is a playoff game,

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Speaker 1: so I don't really care if it was Joe Montana.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I'm trying to go out

832
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Speaker 1: there and win the game. I want to make I

833
00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:56,600
Speaker 1: want to make him look like Blake Bortles if I can,

834
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Speaker 1: and throw a couple of picks like that's Bortles. Is like,

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Speaker 1: you don't see that with other other quarterbacks. Now, there's

836
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:05,359
Speaker 1: there's a lot of bad quarterbacks, especially love to pick

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Speaker 1: on Boardles. They did take care of him, but I

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Speaker 1: mean Endeveon Clowney, Earl Thomas, Cameron, Jordan's Vante's perfect. They've

839
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Speaker 1: all come after him. And I think that you you

840
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:16,200
Speaker 1: say there's not a lot of pressure on him because

841
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:17,520
Speaker 1: they got to win. I think there's a ton of

842
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 1: pressure on. I think he's playing for his spot on

843
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 1: the roster potentially with the Jaguars. In this game, he

844
00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:26,279
Speaker 1: goes down in flames and bordles it and throws three

845
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Speaker 1: or four picks and they get blown out. Don't you

846
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:31,640
Speaker 1: think Tom Coffin is gonna act and find somebody new

847
00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:33,840
Speaker 1: to lead a team that's this close to being a

848
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:38,960
Speaker 1: championship caliber There a lot of pressure. I'll say it's

849
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:41,560
Speaker 1: it's gone into as in starting week one for sure.

850
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:44,279
Speaker 1: I mean they'll find they there's it's an attractive brace

851
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:46,120
Speaker 1: for a quarterback to go, so they won't have to

852
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:48,759
Speaker 1: convince someone the same way another bad team would. They're

853
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:50,960
Speaker 1: a great team. I think like it's gotten to so

854
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:53,440
Speaker 1: it's such a mean spirited level with Blake Bortles that

855
00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 1: I almost I'm rooting for him. I would love to

856
00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:58,200
Speaker 1: see him knock this team out. I mean, I love

857
00:43:58,239 --> 00:44:00,319
Speaker 1: I think it'd be a great storyline to shove it

858
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:02,880
Speaker 1: and everyone's face. It's it's when this thing hits a

859
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:05,600
Speaker 1: tipping point and one person is taking this kind of abuse,

860
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:08,120
Speaker 1: it's you're playing a sport with you and I agree

861
00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:10,720
Speaker 1: with you, and I think that and that's the good news.

862
00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 1: Fort Portals, even though he's facing a big challenge here

863
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:15,480
Speaker 1: and he maybe is not the most gifted thrower of

864
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:19,279
Speaker 1: a football, Like he has a chance to fix things

865
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:21,759
Speaker 1: and and and put put a stop to this. If

866
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:23,160
Speaker 1: he can go up to Hines Field and throw the

867
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:25,600
Speaker 1: ball around and do well, it just isn't gonna happen.

868
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:27,319
Speaker 1: It feels like a long shot based on what we've

869
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:30,480
Speaker 1: seen in the last few weeks. It's crazy because all

870
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:33,360
Speaker 1: of this comes after the best stretch of his career

871
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:35,560
Speaker 1: when we were talking about him and the kind of

872
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 1: like wow, Blake Portless finally fixed it and it is

873
00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:41,839
Speaker 1: that's like a fascinating side of the ball. I feel

874
00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:44,840
Speaker 1: like no one's really been talking about this week because

875
00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:47,440
Speaker 1: the other side is primetime. I mean that this is

876
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 1: the most talented offense in football, what I think is

877
00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:54,560
Speaker 1: the best offense in football, especially that Antonio Brown is back.

878
00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:58,880
Speaker 1: He's he's reportedly looking good in practice. He's definitely playing.

879
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:01,160
Speaker 1: We'll see if he's a hundred scent. Even if he's not.

880
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:04,919
Speaker 1: His presence makes a huge difference against Jalen Ramsey or

881
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:07,920
Speaker 1: a J Boyer, just to take their attention away against

882
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:10,920
Speaker 1: one of the most talented defenses we've seen in forever.

883
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:14,479
Speaker 1: This Jaguars defense, it doesn't need to blitz often because

884
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:17,960
Speaker 1: it's got such great players upfront. Malik Jackson, Uniquke and

885
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:20,840
Speaker 1: Gockway Class Campbell had some great plays last week. But

886
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:23,719
Speaker 1: when they do blitz, they're the most effective blitzing team

887
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:26,120
Speaker 1: in the league in terms of getting the opposing quarterback down.

888
00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:29,120
Speaker 1: So they they're so tough to defend. But all year

889
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:31,920
Speaker 1: I've thought that this is the Steelers time. Shouldn't we

890
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:35,200
Speaker 1: point out the last time the Steelers play the Jaguars,

891
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:38,799
Speaker 1: Rolthlberger through five interceptions and the Jaguars walked to a win.

892
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:40,359
Speaker 1: Now that was a long time ago. Now, I think

893
00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:42,799
Speaker 1: that was Week five. Like I said, um, but you

894
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:44,359
Speaker 1: bring up a good point, and I think that that

895
00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:48,640
Speaker 1: is uh. The matchup between Brown and Juju, who led

896
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:51,320
Speaker 1: all receiver tandems this year. Can't believe I lost that

897
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:54,080
Speaker 1: sandwich problem even even though I had the Staves blew

898
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 1: that one angry. But yeah, Brown and Juju against Ramsey

899
00:45:57,560 --> 00:46:02,480
Speaker 1: and boy like that is here. Here's why I think

900
00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:04,960
Speaker 1: the Jet that Steelers will be fine because I think

901
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 1: you're gonna have Bryant in in Brown on the outside,

902
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:10,560
Speaker 1: and okay, maybe the best cornerback duel in the league

903
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:12,680
Speaker 1: limits them a little bit. But what did the forty

904
00:46:12,719 --> 00:46:15,920
Speaker 1: Niners do against the Jaguars. It was all over the middle,

905
00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:18,680
Speaker 1: to their tight ends, to their slot receiver, to their

906
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:21,799
Speaker 1: running backs, to their fullbacks, throw it to everyone else.

907
00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:23,960
Speaker 1: You can put Jujo in the slot. You can certainly

908
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:26,720
Speaker 1: put Antonio Brown in the slot to someone will travel

909
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:28,720
Speaker 1: with him. I think Jujo is gonna have a monster

910
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:31,080
Speaker 1: game because he'll avoid some of those cornerbacks. I think

911
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 1: Vance McDonald, who has been quietly playing very well, is

912
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:35,640
Speaker 1: going to have a monster game. Levy On Bell could

913
00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:37,680
Speaker 1: be lining up as a receiver a little more often

914
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:39,640
Speaker 1: in this game. I do think they moved the ball.

915
00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:42,440
Speaker 1: I thought it's the Steelers time all year. It's just

916
00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:46,719
Speaker 1: their time, talents all there, and that's why I'm gonna luck.

917
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:54,560
Speaker 1: Areg is gonna win this locks thing? I can feel it.

918
00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:56,840
Speaker 1: I mean, I did pick the Chiefs last week. I wouldn't.

919
00:46:57,040 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 1: I picked the worst possible. It's not like I'm on

920
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:02,040
Speaker 1: a roll here. What I picked like an none of

921
00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:04,520
Speaker 1: us are. It's lost. I mean, you know, I it's

922
00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:06,680
Speaker 1: easy to say, oh that Week five game has no

923
00:47:06,719 --> 00:47:08,759
Speaker 1: meaning and and it's it's a long time ago, so

924
00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:11,920
Speaker 1: I get it, but that the Jacksonville defense hasn't changed.

925
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:16,600
Speaker 1: And what's great about the Steelers Antonio Brown, Juju Smith Schuster,

926
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:19,680
Speaker 1: that hasn't changed, and it has though they're better on offense.

927
00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:21,520
Speaker 1: And then then to the point Antonio Brown had a

928
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:24,280
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty seven yards and ten catches when they played.

929
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:27,440
Speaker 1: To assume Antonio Brown and Antonio we'll have to say,

930
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:29,680
Speaker 1: I think they're more simply offense. Now, that's why I

931
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:31,440
Speaker 1: like him. So I think Juju is also where he

932
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:33,080
Speaker 1: was in Week five. He think he had like sixty

933
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:35,640
Speaker 1: yards in that game, like he is a star nail.

934
00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:38,520
Speaker 1: They somehow found probably the replacement for Antonio Brown. When

935
00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:42,520
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown ultimately goes that you're finding these dudes Steelers

936
00:47:42,560 --> 00:47:47,160
Speaker 1: twenty Jags, sev I think you're taking at Good. It's

937
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:49,200
Speaker 1: gonna be a great game. I think Pittsburgh is going

938
00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:51,279
Speaker 1: to be humble to some degree, but they're gonna get

939
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:54,440
Speaker 1: out of it. In jim Nance this week, try not

940
00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:58,800
Speaker 1: to sound so surprised and excited when Blake Bordos completes

941
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:00,799
Speaker 1: a fifteen yard pass. You would have thought you would

942
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:02,279
Speaker 1: have thought he had just won the Super Bowl. It

943
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:05,759
Speaker 1: was I thought Tony Romos condescending. He was, like Bardels,

944
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:09,720
Speaker 1: completes it down the field a normal first down. Right anyway,

945
00:48:09,719 --> 00:48:12,120
Speaker 1: Like Tony Romos, like I'm a quarterback who was critiqued

946
00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:15,239
Speaker 1: heavily for various aspects of my career. He was doing

947
00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:17,920
Speaker 1: his best to lift Blake Bortles up and there's some

948
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:20,279
Speaker 1: point where you just can't do it on every play.

949
00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:22,719
Speaker 1: Where is Tony gonna be this weekend? He'll be. I

950
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:26,399
Speaker 1: think he's at the Patriots game? Uh that this game?

951
00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:30,200
Speaker 1: Is that? This game interesting? Um? I got the Steelers.

952
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:31,800
Speaker 1: I'm with you that I feel this could be a

953
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:34,040
Speaker 1: weird one. Mark, And would I be stunned if the

954
00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 1: Jags we're playing the Patriots in the AH title game.

955
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:40,680
Speaker 1: It's stranger things have happened. I am going there. I'm

956
00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:45,200
Speaker 1: gonna go though with um. It's that one thirty one

957
00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:49,839
Speaker 1: to fourteen Steelers in a game that's closer than that,

958
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:52,959
Speaker 1: but Bordles boards out of hand pick six or something

959
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:55,680
Speaker 1: at the end, so they end up winning handily final score,

960
00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:58,080
Speaker 1: But it plays a little tighter than that. All right,

961
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:07,080
Speaker 1: did you pick the Steelers over the Jackson get Football.

962
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:12,600
Speaker 1: Finally the Sunday late game and Greg, you're gonna be

963
00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:14,719
Speaker 1: back for the podcast on Sunday, right, Oh yeah, I'll

964
00:49:14,719 --> 00:49:17,480
Speaker 1: be here watching this game with you guys, and I'll

965
00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:19,719
Speaker 1: be back to right. You better be back because the

966
00:49:19,719 --> 00:49:22,640
Speaker 1: old Zeuser, the people at Redkin reached out to the

967
00:49:22,640 --> 00:49:26,200
Speaker 1: old zeuser my hair product, and they said, your your

968
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:29,680
Speaker 1: support of us over the years, this is a true state. Um,

969
00:49:29,719 --> 00:49:32,520
Speaker 1: we really appreciated it, and we wanted to fly you

970
00:49:32,560 --> 00:49:35,160
Speaker 1: out to New York and put you up in a hotel,

971
00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:40,799
Speaker 1: uh and attend our rebranding launch party. And um, old

972
00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:44,400
Speaker 1: Daddy Zeuster said, hey, it's about a podcast. You know,

973
00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:54,520
Speaker 1: you only want to miss this show. Um the morning

974
00:49:56,239 --> 00:49:58,120
Speaker 1: you know in Good Little Hunting, like, oh why are

975
00:49:58,120 --> 00:50:00,319
Speaker 1: you leaving? It's about a girl, It's about a by guest.

976
00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:03,799
Speaker 1: So behind the scenes I was telling you to go.

977
00:50:03,840 --> 00:50:05,600
Speaker 1: I thought, I said, it's one show we can get some.

978
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:09,600
Speaker 1: I would have missed the title game preview show because

979
00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:12,560
Speaker 1: there was the party in Manhattan, which is by the way,

980
00:50:12,600 --> 00:50:14,920
Speaker 1: I'm from New York. Could have seen family what I

981
00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:18,200
Speaker 1: told you to, Um, I could expand your circle. Well,

982
00:50:18,239 --> 00:50:20,040
Speaker 1: my fear was I was gonna miss it for this

983
00:50:20,120 --> 00:50:23,600
Speaker 1: party for hair product and then be stuck in JFK

984
00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:26,839
Speaker 1: in a blizzard on Saturday, and uh and Greg would

985
00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:29,040
Speaker 1: have been like, you're not professional, and I was gonna

986
00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:32,319
Speaker 1: get Greg. I didn't say anything, but I'm glad. I'm

987
00:50:32,360 --> 00:50:36,080
Speaker 1: glad that just my presence makes you loom large over

988
00:50:36,160 --> 00:50:39,799
Speaker 1: Dan's dreams. Hey, by the way, people who make uh

989
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:43,320
Speaker 1: enyas albums, feel free to send me some Enya albums

990
00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:45,000
Speaker 1: and send me to our party. I've been propping this

991
00:50:45,040 --> 00:50:48,120
Speaker 1: thing up that's dead beast for like five years. Who's

992
00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:52,880
Speaker 1: listening and you're still people who make ya whatever? And

993
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:57,319
Speaker 1: you get you're not You're not getting letters from the

994
00:50:57,360 --> 00:51:01,000
Speaker 1: factory that produce hair gel. You're getting from the PRP.

995
00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:07,840
Speaker 1: You want to be someone someone, make it happen actively touring.

996
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:10,520
Speaker 1: Let's look this up. Let's make it. But Dan If,

997
00:51:10,560 --> 00:51:12,319
Speaker 1: how about him? She lives in the castle I heard.

998
00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:14,760
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding she does. She's Irish. All rich Irish

999
00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:19,960
Speaker 1: people have castles. Why can't we go there? If? If?

1000
00:51:20,040 --> 00:51:22,400
Speaker 1: If you want to take this professionalism thing to the

1001
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:24,839
Speaker 1: next the next step is you do all of this,

1002
00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:27,480
Speaker 1: but you don't even make a big deal about it

1003
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:30,640
Speaker 1: about yourself on the podcast, calling attention. You just you

1004
00:51:30,760 --> 00:51:33,560
Speaker 1: just that's what the professional the strong but silent type. Yea,

1005
00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:36,640
Speaker 1: this is entertaining to get into that. We like to

1006
00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:39,560
Speaker 1: you were going to produce a we're gonna we're gonna

1007
00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:41,759
Speaker 1: have a call with you from the event. I think

1008
00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:43,680
Speaker 1: it would have been an incredible segment to call to

1009
00:51:43,719 --> 00:51:47,080
Speaker 1: a Redkin hair jail event where you're you we're gonna

1010
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:49,200
Speaker 1: give a speech. I know they just wanted me to

1011
00:51:49,239 --> 00:51:51,279
Speaker 1: come in and enjoy the party, that's all they wanted

1012
00:51:51,400 --> 00:51:52,840
Speaker 1: still have time to say. I mean, you had it.

1013
00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:55,680
Speaker 1: He was going to until the ghost of Rosenthal past

1014
00:51:55,920 --> 00:51:58,680
Speaker 1: came on it. How about podcast listeners will put a

1015
00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:00,600
Speaker 1: little we should put a little thing up there and

1016
00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:04,319
Speaker 1: say yes or no. Well, I mean they want you

1017
00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:07,480
Speaker 1: to have fun. You really have to take the podcast

1018
00:52:07,520 --> 00:52:14,000
Speaker 1: seriously crazy, pretty serious. Well, it's it's because of my

1019
00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:19,759
Speaker 1: unprecedented levels of professionalism. That's the reason. Of course, it

1020
00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:23,759
Speaker 1: makes perfect sense. I wish I could go. That would

1021
00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:25,239
Speaker 1: have been a lot of fun. I told you, I said, listen,

1022
00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:27,960
Speaker 1: if you have another one of these parties hadn't been

1023
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:30,960
Speaker 1: a small factor in this. Uh, she was all up

1024
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:32,719
Speaker 1: for it. She was cool. She was even like, oh

1025
00:52:32,760 --> 00:52:35,680
Speaker 1: can I come to UM? But it's not gonna happen.

1026
00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:39,560
Speaker 1: I'll be right here in this studio. Final Games Sunday

1027
00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:43,200
Speaker 1: for fort PM Eastern kickoff. Oh yeah, do you notice that?

1028
00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:48,319
Speaker 1: Particularly morose Dan like why am I here? And this

1029
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:50,680
Speaker 1: will be the Joe back Troy Aikman special and you

1030
00:52:50,719 --> 00:52:53,160
Speaker 1: know those playoff beards are going to be an instagram

1031
00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:56,919
Speaker 1: like from Troy Acman yesterday. Congratulations love ty pig moment

1032
00:52:56,960 --> 00:53:01,359
Speaker 1: in um. Yes, the eleven and five Saints who when

1033
00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:04,800
Speaker 1: the NFC South against the thirteen and three Vikings, I

1034
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:07,160
Speaker 1: should say twelve and five Saints now, but thirteen and

1035
00:53:07,239 --> 00:53:11,200
Speaker 1: three Vikings coming off of by in their building. Greg.

1036
00:53:11,320 --> 00:53:14,560
Speaker 1: This is to me, Um, all these games are hard

1037
00:53:14,560 --> 00:53:17,239
Speaker 1: to pick, besides the one up in New England, but

1038
00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:19,719
Speaker 1: this one, to me is really the toss up. I

1039
00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:22,799
Speaker 1: still even as we speak now, I really don't know

1040
00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:24,120
Speaker 1: who I think is gonna win this game. What do

1041
00:53:24,200 --> 00:53:25,839
Speaker 1: you think about this game? This is a great match.

1042
00:53:25,920 --> 00:53:27,719
Speaker 1: I think it's the best game of the week. The

1043
00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:30,960
Speaker 1: sauciest game is up last, and I think the winner

1044
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:33,360
Speaker 1: of this game is going to be the NFC favorite

1045
00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:35,759
Speaker 1: to go to the Super Bowl, So that adds even

1046
00:53:35,760 --> 00:53:38,040
Speaker 1: a little more juice a great rematch of one of

1047
00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:41,399
Speaker 1: the great NFC title games of our lifetime. Not that

1048
00:53:41,840 --> 00:53:44,040
Speaker 1: just about any of those players are left except for

1049
00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:47,919
Speaker 1: Drew Brees and the punter Thomas Morrison. I think kind

1050
00:53:47,920 --> 00:53:50,080
Speaker 1: of like a f C to answer your question, when

1051
00:53:50,160 --> 00:53:52,520
Speaker 1: when the Saints have the ball here, to me, that

1052
00:53:52,680 --> 00:53:56,160
Speaker 1: is best on best in terms of coaching, in terms

1053
00:53:56,160 --> 00:54:00,080
Speaker 1: of a great quarterback against a really talented set and

1054
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:05,000
Speaker 1: dairy uh pair of running backs who have historically been

1055
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:08,319
Speaker 1: better than any running back tandem in history. Against a

1056
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:11,480
Speaker 1: group of linebackers including Eric Kendricks as fast and as

1057
00:54:11,520 --> 00:54:13,960
Speaker 1: smart and Anthony barr as as any group in the league.

1058
00:54:14,080 --> 00:54:16,480
Speaker 1: And then a great defensive line for the Vikings who

1059
00:54:16,480 --> 00:54:19,719
Speaker 1: have really dominated all year, against an offensive line for

1060
00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:22,319
Speaker 1: the Saints who had just been coached up great and

1061
00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:25,920
Speaker 1: is playing so strong like that this is playoff football.

1062
00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:27,319
Speaker 1: I mean, this is like the to two of the

1063
00:54:27,360 --> 00:54:30,400
Speaker 1: best groups in the entire league hammering each other for

1064
00:54:30,440 --> 00:54:33,520
Speaker 1: sixty minutes. The Vikings have allowed the least yardage of

1065
00:54:33,560 --> 00:54:36,320
Speaker 1: any team to running backs, and that's through the ground

1066
00:54:36,320 --> 00:54:38,120
Speaker 1: and through the air, which is a big factor for

1067
00:54:38,160 --> 00:54:41,080
Speaker 1: the Saints. They have an allowed They've allowed six touchdowns

1068
00:54:41,080 --> 00:54:44,000
Speaker 1: to wide receivers all year, and they have only allowed

1069
00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:46,560
Speaker 1: I believe one wide out to have more than sixty

1070
00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:49,279
Speaker 1: yards in a game. So strength on strength, it is yep.

1071
00:54:50,160 --> 00:54:53,520
Speaker 1: Really in the last five games, in the last month plus,

1072
00:54:53,360 --> 00:54:55,520
Speaker 1: that's that's what they are right now. It's incredible. And

1073
00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:57,759
Speaker 1: it's like, I just wonder though, because what we saw

1074
00:54:57,800 --> 00:55:00,560
Speaker 1: the Panthers do and it worked in a didn't work.

1075
00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:04,520
Speaker 1: They went in, they sold out to stop Kamara and

1076
00:55:04,719 --> 00:55:06,920
Speaker 1: Ingram and it worked, but then they got flames through

1077
00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:09,400
Speaker 1: the air. This is a different defense. If you're Mike Zimmer,

1078
00:55:09,480 --> 00:55:11,839
Speaker 1: what's the game plan? What are you telling people this week?

1079
00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:14,279
Speaker 1: Here's what we must do. Is it the same thing?

1080
00:55:14,320 --> 00:55:17,400
Speaker 1: Because you've got a much better defensive backfield? Who do

1081
00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:19,279
Speaker 1: you erase? Because there's a lot to deal with with

1082
00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:21,800
Speaker 1: the Saints. I mean, Michael Thomas maybe the most underrated

1083
00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:24,560
Speaker 1: wide receiver in the league right now. They didn't travel

1084
00:55:24,880 --> 00:55:28,319
Speaker 1: Xavier Rhods with Thomas in Week one, which feels like

1085
00:55:28,360 --> 00:55:30,640
Speaker 1: these teams were very different back then. But that is

1086
00:55:30,680 --> 00:55:33,359
Speaker 1: the matchup I would expect to happen in this game.

1087
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:35,880
Speaker 1: He's been doing that more down the stretch. And Thomas

1088
00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:38,320
Speaker 1: is the kind of receiver where he doesn't need to

1089
00:55:38,360 --> 00:55:41,040
Speaker 1: be open for Breeze to throw it. He Breeze just

1090
00:55:41,160 --> 00:55:44,280
Speaker 1: trusts him. I mean, Breeze is still probably the best

1091
00:55:44,320 --> 00:55:47,960
Speaker 1: in the league at timing and anticipation of throwing the

1092
00:55:47,960 --> 00:55:51,800
Speaker 1: ball like way before the receivers make their moves. And Thomas,

1093
00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:54,320
Speaker 1: to me is kind of the for a second year player.

1094
00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:57,840
Speaker 1: He's just so mature and being, you know, being around

1095
00:55:57,840 --> 00:55:59,680
Speaker 1: their team briefly last week, but just talking to some

1096
00:55:59,719 --> 00:56:02,120
Speaker 1: people like you got the sense that he has really

1097
00:56:02,160 --> 00:56:05,600
Speaker 1: respected for his competitiveness, in his leadership and his toughness

1098
00:56:05,600 --> 00:56:08,319
Speaker 1: for such a young kid. We we talked about and

1099
00:56:08,360 --> 00:56:13,600
Speaker 1: not just we, but the football Gagnis sent the talk

1100
00:56:13,680 --> 00:56:19,799
Speaker 1: about Tom Brady endlessly about his enduring um greatness, and

1101
00:56:19,840 --> 00:56:22,640
Speaker 1: we don't talk about Drew Brees as much. Next week

1102
00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:25,200
Speaker 1: he'll turn thirty nine, like you were saying, with those

1103
00:56:25,200 --> 00:56:30,600
Speaker 1: anticipation and anticipated throws and his accuracy literally better than ever.

1104
00:56:30,640 --> 00:56:33,000
Speaker 1: He just set the NFL record. Has there been any

1105
00:56:33,080 --> 00:56:37,120
Speaker 1: slippage and Drew Brees game? And and if not, if

1106
00:56:37,120 --> 00:56:40,320
Speaker 1: he's still Drew Brees, how can they not be And

1107
00:56:40,400 --> 00:56:41,960
Speaker 1: This is where I'm trying to pick this game. It's

1108
00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:45,040
Speaker 1: like if Drew Brees is playing at his apex still

1109
00:56:45,080 --> 00:56:46,960
Speaker 1: and you have this incredible running game and all these

1110
00:56:46,960 --> 00:56:50,360
Speaker 1: playmakers on defense, the Saints feel so set up for

1111
00:56:50,480 --> 00:56:54,520
Speaker 1: a run uh to the super Bowl, and they played

1112
00:56:54,920 --> 00:56:57,880
Speaker 1: very well last week. That's why I really do like

1113
00:56:57,960 --> 00:56:59,680
Speaker 1: the Saints in this game. And Breeze is a major

1114
00:56:59,719 --> 00:57:02,600
Speaker 1: part because he looks so good and in control last week.

1115
00:57:03,120 --> 00:57:04,880
Speaker 1: Oh my god, he was so good at that. No

1116
00:57:05,160 --> 00:57:07,680
Speaker 1: absolutely no slippage last week from Drew Brees. He looked

1117
00:57:08,239 --> 00:57:11,520
Speaker 1: vintage Drew Brees. I thought even interception was great. It's

1118
00:57:11,560 --> 00:57:13,680
Speaker 1: like when you have a great girlfriend or a great

1119
00:57:13,680 --> 00:57:15,120
Speaker 1: wife and the one thing you have to be careful

1120
00:57:15,120 --> 00:57:17,960
Speaker 1: of is to not take that for granted. Like Breeze

1121
00:57:17,960 --> 00:57:20,600
Speaker 1: is so good that we don't talk about them that

1122
00:57:20,680 --> 00:57:22,560
Speaker 1: much because we just expect what we get every week

1123
00:57:22,600 --> 00:57:25,480
Speaker 1: and incredible. We're watching You're like, hey, we're going out tonight,

1124
00:57:25,640 --> 00:57:27,120
Speaker 1: you know, put it on your nice dress and she

1125
00:57:27,200 --> 00:57:32,320
Speaker 1: comes out and like wow. You're like, well, you know,

1126
00:57:33,600 --> 00:57:35,600
Speaker 1: you should value that, and we should value what we're

1127
00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:40,040
Speaker 1: getting from you're does a man still say that he's

1128
00:57:40,040 --> 00:57:42,680
Speaker 1: the most efficient quarterback in the league in terms of yards,

1129
00:57:42,880 --> 00:57:46,280
Speaker 1: you know, adjusted yards pre tempt. The reason why, Uh,

1130
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:48,320
Speaker 1: I don't think there's a favorite. And I was thinking

1131
00:57:48,360 --> 00:57:50,760
Speaker 1: hard about locking up the Vikings in this game, and

1132
00:57:50,800 --> 00:57:52,560
Speaker 1: if I was out in the desert, I think the

1133
00:57:52,640 --> 00:57:54,600
Speaker 1: Vikings are a good pick in this game because they're

1134
00:57:54,680 --> 00:57:57,360
Speaker 1: very surprisingly slight favorites. A lot of people are like

1135
00:57:57,440 --> 00:58:00,960
Speaker 1: you and they see this as uh, like Dan, and

1136
00:58:00,960 --> 00:58:03,280
Speaker 1: they think this is a toss up game. I don't

1137
00:58:03,280 --> 00:58:05,120
Speaker 1: think it's a toss up game because the Saints d

1138
00:58:05,440 --> 00:58:08,800
Speaker 1: is not impressive. They're sagging. They're starting a guy George

1139
00:58:08,880 --> 00:58:11,280
Speaker 1: Johnson who they just signed off the street a couple

1140
00:58:11,320 --> 00:58:14,760
Speaker 1: of weeks ago. They have no pass rush whatsoever. Their

1141
00:58:14,800 --> 00:58:17,800
Speaker 1: front seven kind of like the Patriots with the exception

1142
00:58:17,840 --> 00:58:20,000
Speaker 1: and it's a big one of Cameron Jordan's is not

1143
00:58:20,080 --> 00:58:22,360
Speaker 1: impressive at all. Man t Tao has not played well

1144
00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:24,960
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks. Jamis Winston went up and

1145
00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:27,440
Speaker 1: down the field on them. The Panthers, who was often

1146
00:58:27,600 --> 00:58:30,600
Speaker 1: stunk for about a month before they played the you know,

1147
00:58:30,640 --> 00:58:33,360
Speaker 1: Saint's got four hundred yards and twenty six first downs.

1148
00:58:33,960 --> 00:58:37,000
Speaker 1: They had a really bad time communicating last week in

1149
00:58:37,040 --> 00:58:39,640
Speaker 1: the secondary, a lot of wide open receivers, including a

1150
00:58:39,640 --> 00:58:42,440
Speaker 1: couple that Cam Newton never saw which could have changed

1151
00:58:42,760 --> 00:58:44,840
Speaker 1: the game. And I think that's a tough team to

1152
00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:47,960
Speaker 1: play against, the Minnesota Vikings and Pat Shermer, who does

1153
00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:50,280
Speaker 1: a lot to confuse you. And I could see a

1154
00:58:50,280 --> 00:58:52,920
Speaker 1: lot of confusion in what's kind of a young secondary

1155
00:58:52,960 --> 00:58:55,400
Speaker 1: for the Saints. And I could see the Vikings offense

1156
00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:59,040
Speaker 1: playing very very Yeah. I mean Jerick McKinnon, you have

1157
00:58:59,160 --> 00:59:01,560
Speaker 1: you saw what Christian mc kaffrey did down the stretch

1158
00:59:01,680 --> 00:59:04,080
Speaker 1: last week. Running backs are able to catch the ball

1159
00:59:04,080 --> 00:59:06,840
Speaker 1: and get yards and against this defense. Uh, the one

1160
00:59:06,880 --> 00:59:10,640
Speaker 1: thing Cam Jordan's took that game over in the final

1161
00:59:11,480 --> 00:59:13,080
Speaker 1: do it. That's where I wondering. I feel like that's

1162
00:59:13,080 --> 00:59:15,560
Speaker 1: a huge X factory against a not a bad but

1163
00:59:15,600 --> 00:59:18,200
Speaker 1: not a great offensive line for the Vikings. The one

1164
00:59:18,240 --> 00:59:21,120
Speaker 1: game where they were injured where case Keenum got train

1165
00:59:21,160 --> 00:59:23,480
Speaker 1: wrecked against the Panthers because they did have injuries, but

1166
00:59:23,840 --> 00:59:26,400
Speaker 1: you took him camp, you took him out with six sacks.

1167
00:59:26,640 --> 00:59:28,800
Speaker 1: The Vikings were not the same offense. It's been forever

1168
00:59:28,840 --> 00:59:31,720
Speaker 1: since we saw them play or even play a good team.

1169
00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:34,920
Speaker 1: They were their last three games seventy three to seventeen

1170
00:59:35,400 --> 00:59:38,080
Speaker 1: against three cupcakes. They're gonna beat. The stadium is gonna

1171
00:59:38,080 --> 00:59:39,280
Speaker 1: be there. And then they had a week off, so

1172
00:59:39,280 --> 00:59:41,000
Speaker 1: it's been a while since they played anyone. But I

1173
00:59:41,040 --> 00:59:44,200
Speaker 1: don't you know, that's not their fault that they were cupcakes.

1174
00:59:44,280 --> 00:59:46,480
Speaker 1: It's a great home field advantage. I think we were

1175
00:59:46,520 --> 00:59:49,600
Speaker 1: in general agreement, or maybe you said the Saints, Greg,

1176
00:59:49,640 --> 00:59:52,120
Speaker 1: but that this Vikings team might have the best home

1177
00:59:52,120 --> 00:59:55,520
Speaker 1: field advantage left in the playoffs, that that building is

1178
00:59:55,560 --> 00:59:58,280
Speaker 1: going to be going insane, and it has, and then

1179
00:59:58,320 --> 01:00:01,200
Speaker 1: they have all these things working in their favor. Do

1180
01:00:01,320 --> 01:00:04,479
Speaker 1: get a little nervous for the play indoors? And West

1181
01:00:04,560 --> 01:00:07,000
Speaker 1: made that point there are different team indoors, and I

1182
01:00:07,040 --> 01:00:10,640
Speaker 1: think that really helps the Saints out. The Vikings have

1183
01:00:10,720 --> 01:00:16,120
Speaker 1: some baggage team. Think of the nineteen Vikings the crowd,

1184
01:00:16,320 --> 01:00:19,480
Speaker 1: the crowd, I mean, everything going in their direction that

1185
01:00:19,560 --> 01:00:21,840
Speaker 1: year too, and then and then Gary Anderson got him.

1186
01:00:21,880 --> 01:00:26,280
Speaker 1: Think of the Brett Farve interception in New Orleans. I

1187
01:00:26,280 --> 01:00:28,080
Speaker 1: know that was on the road. That was different. Think

1188
01:00:28,160 --> 01:00:31,600
Speaker 1: of uh, the game they dominated and really should have

1189
01:00:31,600 --> 01:00:33,880
Speaker 1: won the Vikings. That you who's the kicker that missed

1190
01:00:33,880 --> 01:00:37,800
Speaker 1: the kick? In Seattle, Oh No, Monnesota. Blair Walsh outside

1191
01:00:38,360 --> 01:00:40,720
Speaker 1: missed that kick Kai for Bath, who we don't know

1192
01:00:40,720 --> 01:00:42,960
Speaker 1: about Kai. You just you take him for what he's

1193
01:00:43,040 --> 01:00:46,840
Speaker 1: what he is, guys. Kai, he's actually answering questions this

1194
01:00:46,880 --> 01:00:49,880
Speaker 1: week from the media. I don't pay attention to the

1195
01:00:49,960 --> 01:00:53,120
Speaker 1: Vikings historic kicker woes in the playoffs. Well, it's already

1196
01:00:53,120 --> 01:00:55,440
Speaker 1: in his head now. I just I get a little nervous.

1197
01:00:55,440 --> 01:00:57,760
Speaker 1: And my friend Greg back in the Pearl River the

1198
01:00:57,760 --> 01:01:00,720
Speaker 1: Cold Town, is a huge Vikings fan, and he's confident.

1199
01:01:00,720 --> 01:01:03,920
Speaker 1: He's always confident, But there is that creeping feeling that

1200
01:01:04,120 --> 01:01:06,400
Speaker 1: bad things happened to the Vikings this time of year.

1201
01:01:06,760 --> 01:01:09,760
Speaker 1: So that's my only fear that something terrible could happen. Yeah,

1202
01:01:10,120 --> 01:01:12,080
Speaker 1: was about eleven years old when that game happened. He

1203
01:01:12,120 --> 01:01:14,640
Speaker 1: might have been watching that on TV. You're right, And

1204
01:01:14,680 --> 01:01:17,000
Speaker 1: I think the one great thing about the Saints is

1205
01:01:17,080 --> 01:01:19,000
Speaker 1: I don't think they're going to be scared at all.

1206
01:01:19,360 --> 01:01:21,480
Speaker 1: You saw it when Sean Payton went for on that

1207
01:01:21,520 --> 01:01:23,280
Speaker 1: fourth down play. That was one of the balls Eer

1208
01:01:23,360 --> 01:01:26,520
Speaker 1: calls in in recent history. When they're calling blitz is

1209
01:01:26,640 --> 01:01:29,840
Speaker 1: late in that game against Camp. They are a cocky team.

1210
01:01:30,240 --> 01:01:33,080
Speaker 1: They got the Bonk Gang back in the secondary. You

1211
01:01:33,200 --> 01:01:37,000
Speaker 1: got you know they're they're breaking out brooms. You got

1212
01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:41,200
Speaker 1: Sean Payton dance craze is sweeping the nation right now.

1213
01:01:41,640 --> 01:01:43,959
Speaker 1: I mean it's a it's a cocky like we're gonna

1214
01:01:44,040 --> 01:01:45,720
Speaker 1: just take your lunch type of team where I think

1215
01:01:45,720 --> 01:01:47,960
Speaker 1: it's gonna be playing with Sean Payton staring at opposing

1216
01:01:48,040 --> 01:01:50,480
Speaker 1: players and doing the throat slit maneuver. You know, he's

1217
01:01:50,520 --> 01:01:55,720
Speaker 1: also sort of an a whole potentially we have He's

1218
01:01:55,760 --> 01:01:59,840
Speaker 1: and they have playoff experience. Sean, I don't think he's

1219
01:01:59,160 --> 01:02:02,200
Speaker 1: got this spot. Sean Payton has a song by a

1220
01:02:02,200 --> 01:02:06,920
Speaker 1: local rapper that is off the charts awesome. This dude

1221
01:02:07,440 --> 01:02:12,160
Speaker 1: is just dropping bars related to Sean Payton exclusively, and

1222
01:02:12,200 --> 01:02:14,560
Speaker 1: all the Saints players love the song. We try to

1223
01:02:14,600 --> 01:02:16,680
Speaker 1: get it cleared. We're still trying to contact the guy.

1224
01:02:16,720 --> 01:02:18,960
Speaker 1: What's his name, Lindsay, let's give him a shout out.

1225
01:02:20,160 --> 01:02:24,600
Speaker 1: I think it's Shamar Allen, Samar Allen. Maybe you should

1226
01:02:24,600 --> 01:02:26,680
Speaker 1: just sing it. Since we can't play the actual song,

1227
01:02:26,800 --> 01:02:28,600
Speaker 1: you should just try and like sing it. Just I

1228
01:02:28,600 --> 01:02:32,520
Speaker 1: don't drop bars do the Sean Payton. So let's keep

1229
01:02:32,560 --> 01:02:34,000
Speaker 1: working on that a little bit better than do the

1230
01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:36,800
Speaker 1: Mark Sanchez a song from a few years ago. Oh,

1231
01:02:36,920 --> 01:02:39,720
Speaker 1: I forgot about the dude, the Mark santos Um lindsay,

1232
01:02:39,800 --> 01:02:43,720
Speaker 1: if you could have that ready for Sunday, Uh, come

1233
01:02:43,800 --> 01:02:46,000
Speaker 1: hell or high water, even if they're travel to New Orleans,

1234
01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:48,400
Speaker 1: they get the clearance rights, that would be great. All right,

1235
01:02:48,520 --> 01:02:50,800
Speaker 1: let's pick this game. Oh man, I still don't know

1236
01:02:50,840 --> 01:02:52,360
Speaker 1: what to do, but I'll throw it to you first. Mark.

1237
01:02:53,080 --> 01:02:55,080
Speaker 1: I believe in this Vikings team. This is gonna be

1238
01:02:55,160 --> 01:02:58,120
Speaker 1: a classic. I have this an overtime game where Minnesota

1239
01:02:58,120 --> 01:03:03,480
Speaker 1: wins to twenty four. Nobody thinks more overtime games. I

1240
01:03:03,560 --> 01:03:06,320
Speaker 1: want overtime games. This is the time. We're enough with this.

1241
01:03:06,440 --> 01:03:09,000
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a really fun offensive game.

1242
01:03:09,680 --> 01:03:13,840
Speaker 1: Vikings win thirty one to twenty three. I'm gonna I'll

1243
01:03:13,880 --> 01:03:16,360
Speaker 1: go the other way. I think I I might be

1244
01:03:16,480 --> 01:03:19,280
Speaker 1: kai uh in a bad way. It could be something

1245
01:03:19,320 --> 01:03:22,120
Speaker 1: like that, or the Saints just for the better team

1246
01:03:22,160 --> 01:03:25,760
Speaker 1: and they edge the Vikings in a great game. But

1247
01:03:25,800 --> 01:03:27,400
Speaker 1: I could go either way that this game, I do

1248
01:03:27,480 --> 01:03:30,240
Speaker 1: not have a strong feeling on it. Doesn't everyone seems

1249
01:03:30,720 --> 01:03:32,720
Speaker 1: it could go either way this one, right, Yeah, it

1250
01:03:32,720 --> 01:03:35,200
Speaker 1: would be great. Yeah, good game. Good football games have

1251
01:03:35,360 --> 01:03:38,440
Speaker 1: been better. VI, man if they lost this game, you're right,

1252
01:03:38,440 --> 01:03:40,880
Speaker 1: you just got me thinking about that poor fan basis

1253
01:03:40,920 --> 01:03:44,200
Speaker 1: they lost this And by the way, Mark you, um,

1254
01:03:44,320 --> 01:03:46,000
Speaker 1: you were talking about the wife and you gotta appreciate

1255
01:03:46,080 --> 01:03:49,360
Speaker 1: your wife. It's important. Maybe it's most importantly. I typed

1256
01:03:49,360 --> 01:03:51,640
Speaker 1: in on Google loving things to say to your wife.

1257
01:03:51,920 --> 01:03:54,960
Speaker 1: We'll just give you guys a few lindsay. This is

1258
01:03:55,000 --> 01:03:57,560
Speaker 1: what you're you're in the market for a man. This

1259
01:03:57,640 --> 01:04:01,920
Speaker 1: is well you're single. Put it there. This is stuff

1260
01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:05,800
Speaker 1: in the market for like Yankee candles. Shout out to

1261
01:04:05,840 --> 01:04:07,720
Speaker 1: Yankee Candle. I need need someone to help me with

1262
01:04:07,760 --> 01:04:11,280
Speaker 1: those UK exclusives. Look at getting the plug in. Um,

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Speaker 1: this is what you want a man to say to

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Speaker 1: you when it's time, when you're actually in the market. Ready,

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Speaker 1: I've never been more in love with you. That's good.

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Speaker 1: Also when you're when you could go home and say

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Speaker 1: that to to Emily, that would go over very well. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: If I had to do my life all over I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't change a Thing's well. I don't want to hear

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Speaker 1: the response website dot com, family share dot com. Uh,

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Speaker 1: this one's a little weird and it's number two on

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Speaker 1: the list. You smell so good. It was a little weird.

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Speaker 1: Girls like that, go take a nap. I'll do something

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Speaker 1: with the kids that doesn't involve cartoons or video game

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Speaker 1: I do. I don't say that last par the sentence,

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Speaker 1: but that is my move. I often will give like

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Speaker 1: a three quarters of Saturday off. If you're listening with smone,

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Speaker 1: you know it's much closer setting. Why don't go take

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Speaker 1: why why don't you do with your time what you

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Speaker 1: choose to that? Right now? You have to sleep your morning.

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Speaker 1: I'm not tired. I just woke up. Go to sleep.

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Speaker 1: Here's when this one's one from like thirty thousand feet?

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Speaker 1: What are your life goals? How can we accomplish them?

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Speaker 1: These two robots that are in love? What are your

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Speaker 1: life goals? How many we accomplish them? And finally, Mark,

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Speaker 1: this is you. You're a god fearing man. I thank

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Speaker 1: God every day that capitalized He put you in my life.

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Speaker 1: I think that works with certain women probably you know.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's the Thursday edition of I Don't Know

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Speaker 1: you know. We will be back on Sunday night with

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Speaker 1: our flagship program where we break down all of these

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Speaker 1: games in detail, often imitated, never duplicated. So come back

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Speaker 1: for that, uh and check us out on NFL pick

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Speaker 1: them this weekend. UH. And that's it. I'm standing at

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Speaker 1: signing off for a quiet storm the old Boss Lindsey

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Speaker 1: Fulton's paristy for those candles, I'm outs, tell Sunday m