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Speaker 1: definitely a little stale it's one of those you like, look,

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Speaker 1: it's a couple of past days. You're just like, it's crunchy.

428
00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:40,760
Speaker 1: But you know what happens, We'll keep going back when

429
00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:42,960
Speaker 1: when it starts to get Mark a little angry, that

430
00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:45,520
Speaker 1: that pumps a lot of life into you know, So

431
00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:47,800
Speaker 1: all of a sudden is it's a wild card. Not

432
00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:51,600
Speaker 1: angry yet. Uh get excited though, Mark, this is fun.

433
00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:53,719
Speaker 1: I am excited for this for the same reasons you are.

434
00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:56,720
Speaker 1: I can't remember the last time I had a day

435
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Speaker 1: off from work. Watching them play primetime on of than

436
00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:02,359
Speaker 1: Week three, when they knocked the Jets essentially out of

437
00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:06,800
Speaker 1: contention in September seemed unnecessary, But I don't know. I

438
00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:09,520
Speaker 1: was I should lock up the broncos I was trying

439
00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:11,960
Speaker 1: to finish the center because I realized my factor is

440
00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:15,000
Speaker 1: wrong in the middle of what I said, so I apologize. Um,

441
00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:17,560
Speaker 1: I was gonna thinking about locking up the Browns, but

442
00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:19,199
Speaker 1: I think that's the one thing they're not ready to

443
00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:21,000
Speaker 1: do yet go win big games on the road. I

444
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,720
Speaker 1: don't think they're there. They Also, it's not just denzil Board.

445
00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:26,160
Speaker 1: Philip Gaines is out as turn Terrence Mitchell, and it's

446
00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:27,800
Speaker 1: not that the Broncos have a lot through the air,

447
00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:30,800
Speaker 1: but they're a little banged up there a little better

448
00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:34,439
Speaker 1: team though. Let's move to Sunday's games now, um, and

449
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:36,399
Speaker 1: I'm assuming Mark and I will be in the office

450
00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:38,359
Speaker 1: for these. We'll see how it all plays out. But

451
00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:43,160
Speaker 1: the Cardinals three and ten, who cares? Lost seventeen three

452
00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:45,119
Speaker 1: to the Lions last week, and I don't know if

453
00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:46,840
Speaker 1: you guys fired this one up on the game pass,

454
00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:50,480
Speaker 1: but it was not the most exciting football game to

455
00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:53,240
Speaker 1: lay your eyes on. And now they travel to Atlanta

456
00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:55,840
Speaker 1: to face the Falcons. The Falcons lose every week. They stink,

457
00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:59,199
Speaker 1: then they haven't There were four and four once, weren't they?

458
00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:06,400
Speaker 1: Who the the Birds? The Falcons? And they will attempt

459
00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:10,200
Speaker 1: to do something that they haven't done since the first

460
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:15,280
Speaker 1: Sunday of November. Greg which is scored more than twenty points. Well,

461
00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:17,760
Speaker 1: you gotta worry if you're the Cardinals because coming into

462
00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:21,159
Speaker 1: the coming into Atlanta and the Georgia Dome at this

463
00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:24,720
Speaker 1: time of year, I mean, that's like a few extra touchdowns.

464
00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:29,040
Speaker 1: The crowd, just the crowd. This is the deadest crowd

465
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Speaker 1: in the league, even when the games matter. And I

466
00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:34,880
Speaker 1: can't imagine how dead it's gonna be for Cardinals Falcons.

467
00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:36,800
Speaker 1: It's gonna be terrible. Well, they had a solution in

468
00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:39,000
Speaker 1: the past for quiet crowds. Do you remember what that was?

469
00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:41,639
Speaker 1: Pop it in? Didn't work so well for them now

470
00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:45,040
Speaker 1: and Eugene Robinson out on the town, Well, that was

471
00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:47,680
Speaker 1: a previous solution. By the way, Dean Jones has has

472
00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:49,840
Speaker 1: been back and their defense is still bad. I do

473
00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:51,600
Speaker 1: think dan Quinn has been given too much of a

474
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Speaker 1: pass for coaching the last ranked defense in the league

475
00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:58,680
Speaker 1: according to Football Outsiders. I used to get mad, really

476
00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:00,840
Speaker 1: mad in fact, and probably he was still a mistake,

477
00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:04,560
Speaker 1: but the Jets hired Todd Bowls essentially over dan Quinn

478
00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:06,480
Speaker 1: because they didn't want to wait out the Super Bowl.

479
00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:11,040
Speaker 1: Um here, he makes no sense, never made sense, and

480
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:13,680
Speaker 1: I was killing I was so mad after the first

481
00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:15,240
Speaker 1: two or three years. But now I don't know is

482
00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:18,760
Speaker 1: Quinn really I know he's probably better than Bowls, but

483
00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:20,919
Speaker 1: it's not like we missed out on a once in

484
00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:24,760
Speaker 1: a generation coaching talent. I agree any other thoughts on

485
00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:27,520
Speaker 1: this game, I would say that save time for the

486
00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:30,560
Speaker 1: game that matters. It was embarrassing to watch that Falcons

487
00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:32,720
Speaker 1: Packers game and see at lanted down thirty four to

488
00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:36,159
Speaker 1: seven based off sloppy offense. And you know, this was

489
00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:38,840
Speaker 1: a group of players that were high quality earlier in

490
00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:41,480
Speaker 1: the year and they've fallen apart entirely and West I

491
00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:44,480
Speaker 1: know you you kind of think Steve Sarkasian doesn't deserve

492
00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:46,879
Speaker 1: to be roasted, but they probably need to finish strong

493
00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:49,840
Speaker 1: here or they have to improve him on what they've

494
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:51,720
Speaker 1: done for the past five weeks for him to be safe.

495
00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:54,760
Speaker 1: My stands on Steve Sarkasian is he should not be

496
00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:57,480
Speaker 1: blamed because the Falcons lost both starting guards and they're

497
00:25:57,480 --> 00:25:59,840
Speaker 1: starting running back and they have a one dimensional offense.

498
00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:02,640
Speaker 1: I don't think he's one of the brightest offensive minds

499
00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:04,240
Speaker 1: in the league. I just think like he would be

500
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 1: a fall guy if he gets fired. Let's move on

501
00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:09,840
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers or five and eight. That whatever

502
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:14,080
Speaker 1: was left of their playoff chances um kind of went

503
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:16,959
Speaker 1: out the window when they could not upset the Saints.

504
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:18,480
Speaker 1: Although he was looking, you're trying to tell me the

505
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:20,800
Speaker 1: Giants are alive at five and eight, why not the Bucks?

506
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:23,920
Speaker 1: Well they're technically alive, but whatever, like real chances they

507
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:26,160
Speaker 1: had the Giants are alive in a whole different Jizs

508
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:28,720
Speaker 1: are alive and well, and you know it, it's worst.

509
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:33,840
Speaker 1: They're both dead. Both have last That's better than zero,

510
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:40,440
Speaker 1: thank you. The Bucks travel to Baltimore to face the Ravens,

511
00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:43,880
Speaker 1: who saw other three game winning streak snapped mark by

512
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:46,399
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, but it was oh so close. Do you

513
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:48,560
Speaker 1: think they get back to their winning ways here? It

514
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:53,480
Speaker 1: seems like they might the Ravens. Yeah, I do. I

515
00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:55,399
Speaker 1: get him a chance. I mean, I'm in trouble with

516
00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:57,679
Speaker 1: the Ravens because watching them, because I didn't really get

517
00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:00,360
Speaker 1: a chance to watch that closely on Sunday, it kind

518
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 1: of hit me that this team is playing. I know

519
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 1: everyone likes these forty to forty two games. That's great,

520
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:08,800
Speaker 1: have a have a nice time with it, and if

521
00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:10,840
Speaker 1: you don't, then you're an awful person, like you're not

522
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,800
Speaker 1: with it. But I find what the Ravens have been

523
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:18,200
Speaker 1: doing like almost highly erotic. I love these like these

524
00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 1: insane seven ten play drives where all they do is

525
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:25,800
Speaker 1: run the ball over and over and over, and they

526
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:29,240
Speaker 1: essentially take the opponent's defense and pound them in the salt.

527
00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:32,280
Speaker 1: I think that Lamar Jackson feels like he's a rock

528
00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:34,639
Speaker 1: dropped off a building. When he's running, he's suddenly twelve

529
00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 1: fifteen yards of field. I can't help I love watching

530
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:40,080
Speaker 1: these guys, and I love watching them so much, and

531
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:42,120
Speaker 1: I'm so sure they're going to knock out this ugly

532
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,879
Speaker 1: uniform Bucks team that I'm this time for real locking

533
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:48,679
Speaker 1: it up. Oh this is available. Oh yes, I'll do

534
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 1: anything I want. I mean, yes, it wouldn't be by

535
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 1: you know the you know, the the touchdown. There's been

536
00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:59,920
Speaker 1: a lot of nonsense going on lately. This is my nonsense.

537
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:04,720
Speaker 1: What can you specifically people picking the Patriots at home,

538
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:07,239
Speaker 1: the Texans at home, but all of those, for what

539
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:10,200
Speaker 1: it's worth, they were even lower face. I simply don't care.

540
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:14,320
Speaker 1: I mean I like them, that care with I like them.

541
00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:16,640
Speaker 1: I'm with here though, that the Ravens are kind of erotic.

542
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 1: Did you hear some of the sounds coming from my

543
00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:20,520
Speaker 1: corner when I was watching that you were into Chiefs game.

544
00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:22,159
Speaker 1: It was like the game, the game that you've been

545
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:24,359
Speaker 1: working hard to make the Ravens happen. I feel like

546
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:27,840
Speaker 1: you've been pushing Lamar Jackson very hard, but it's happening,

547
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 1: and I just throw I'm gonna I don't want to

548
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:31,119
Speaker 1: throw cold water on Lamar Jackson at all, but I

549
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:33,719
Speaker 1: just want to say that in his four starts, he's

550
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,600
Speaker 1: already been hurting. Two of these starts, he's running the

551
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:39,560
Speaker 1: ball security at like a historically high rate, and he's

552
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:41,800
Speaker 1: already showing signs that maybe his body doesn't have the

553
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:45,680
Speaker 1: durability to take on these massive speed bodies of the NFL.

554
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 1: That's why you get a veteran backup like Joe Flacco.

555
00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:52,640
Speaker 1: But you have one more game. You got one. That's nice,

556
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:56,080
Speaker 1: You get one more cupcake here and Mark congratulations on

557
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:58,360
Speaker 1: the wind you're gonna get here, because I'm not going

558
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:00,120
Speaker 1: to even listen to this. You guys have had some

559
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:02,880
Speaker 1: of the most outrageous at home locks that we've been

560
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:05,960
Speaker 1: We've seen all year. I'm I don't care what anyone thinks, um,

561
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,520
Speaker 1: but thank you next week at Chargers and then and

562
00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:11,440
Speaker 1: then the Browns who are frisky on defense, real tests

563
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 1: are coming after this. Look, the Bucks d has played better.

564
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 1: They held the Saints under three hundred yards. They've forced

565
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 1: a ton of turnovers over the last month, their defensive

566
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:26,400
Speaker 1: lines playing pretty well. Jamis Winston hasn't been perfect, but

567
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 1: he's made some pretty nice plays. The threat of him

568
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 1: running has been okay. I'm just more worried about like

569
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:36,200
Speaker 1: the Bucks offensive line against that Ravens front. The Ravens

570
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 1: are playing better defense. They have such a nice team defense.

571
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 1: They can handle so many different schemes and so many

572
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:44,800
Speaker 1: different plays because they have a veteran secondary that you

573
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 1: it's just hard to see the Bucks scoring like more

574
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 1: than twenty points the way that especially the right side

575
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 1: of their offensive line is playing and just getting Winston killed.

576
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:54,840
Speaker 1: It's worth noting this is a road game for the

577
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:57,000
Speaker 1: Bucks and they're terrible on the way, and they give

578
00:29:57,080 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 1: up forty points a game on the road and twenty

579
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 1: points a game at home. That's a problem. That is

580
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:05,200
Speaker 1: one of the most drastic differences you will ever see.

581
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:07,960
Speaker 1: They need to play in the shadow of that pirate ship.

582
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:11,040
Speaker 1: They are they are. They need to blind the other team.

583
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:14,200
Speaker 1: They are a different team though, since they change defensive coordinators,

584
00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:16,480
Speaker 1: they're okay. They've been okay, well, since they got their

585
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:18,960
Speaker 1: best two players back then that's probably big. Hey, let's

586
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 1: talk a stinker just for you, Wes. You drew the

587
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:26,520
Speaker 1: short straw here. I signed these games just kinda in

588
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:29,320
Speaker 1: order of the way you guys sit. It's not scientific,

589
00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:31,160
Speaker 1: and the way it worked out is you will be

590
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:33,920
Speaker 1: entering us into the conversation on the five and eight

591
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:36,400
Speaker 1: lines against the four and nine bills. I mean, I

592
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:40,280
Speaker 1: appreciate you, I appreciate them free gamble, but you don't

593
00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 1: have to feel bad about it. Um. I think the

594
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:46,200
Speaker 1: only thing worth watching in this game is Josh Allen,

595
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:48,480
Speaker 1: who's doing things with his legs that Michael Vick and

596
00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:52,320
Speaker 1: Randall Cunningham never even did the highest three game total

597
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 1: back to back to back rushing yards for a quarterback.

598
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:58,080
Speaker 1: That's phenomenal. And I know Mark has some strong feelings

599
00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 1: on this after watching Josh Allen too. Oh yeah, I

600
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 1: feel like I'm every day after school from like fourth

601
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 1: through seventh grade. This one kid up the street, Rob

602
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 1: McCarthy would call me and he's like, you're getting up

603
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 1: here to play football at the field of the streets,

604
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:11,760
Speaker 1: Like I have a doctor. So it was every day.

605
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 1: He was awesome, but he was like I it was

606
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 1: like sometimes I was like I just want to lie

607
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:19,200
Speaker 1: in my couch and watched like a rerun of Charlie's Angels.

608
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:21,200
Speaker 1: But he was like, no, you're getting up here. But

609
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:24,760
Speaker 1: when you go up there would always be like, huh's angels,

610
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:29,520
Speaker 1: this is like a fifth grade But he reminds me,

611
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:34,440
Speaker 1: Josh Allen is, no, I'm forty five. There was always

612
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 1: this one memo in these games that like there would

613
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:38,920
Speaker 1: be a bunch of three ft eight kids that waited

614
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 1: like eighties six pounds, and then they'd invite someone's older brother,

615
00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 1: and he just run through them as like a six

616
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:46,040
Speaker 1: foot three guy who was like the only kid that

617
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:48,440
Speaker 1: had been lifting weights in eighth grade, And like, why

618
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 1: is he on the field with us and you're usually

619
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 1: playing on black right? Why am I here? That's what

620
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:54,960
Speaker 1: Josh Allen reminds me when he's running through these guys.

621
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:57,400
Speaker 1: I want to know what he does with his legs

622
00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:03,040
Speaker 1: that does other people can't like just want to hear it. Describe. Okay,

623
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 1: can he throw the football? Can you throw the ball down?

624
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,840
Speaker 1: You can throw it with velocity? Can you throw it accurately?

625
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:12,240
Speaker 1: That's a whole He is far from like Lamar Jackson,

626
00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:14,880
Speaker 1: but even further behind. I would say he's far from

627
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:17,720
Speaker 1: being ready to be kind of an NFL passer. I

628
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:19,280
Speaker 1: don't know if he's ever going to quite be that.

629
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 1: But can you come up with an offense that can

630
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:24,080
Speaker 1: work with him? I mean, time will tell. He's he's

631
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:26,040
Speaker 1: been fun to watch. I think all these rookie quarterbacks

632
00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 1: on bad teams. You give him a little bit of

633
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:31,400
Speaker 1: a pass. His metrics as a passer are dreadful, but

634
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:34,120
Speaker 1: that not it's not necessarily sarily all on it. They

635
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:36,560
Speaker 1: come back to US Lions. Bruce Ellington's out this week,

636
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:39,000
Speaker 1: which is actually a big loss for them, which is amazing.

637
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:42,800
Speaker 1: Their second and third receivers are Aaron Jones, but not

638
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:46,440
Speaker 1: the guy in the Packers and Brandon Powell. Aaron Jones.

639
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 1: It's Aaron Jones. It's Aaron Jones. And uh, and then

640
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Speaker 1: Zack Center it's a j Jones. I don't know. Did

641
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Speaker 1: you see Zach take over an entire drive last week?

642
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Speaker 1: Andy Jones? Andy Jones? Did you see Zack Center take

643
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Speaker 1: over the game? Yes? Last week? Zener Zentner is getting something.

644
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 1: I mean, someone would have told you about four years

645
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:12,120
Speaker 1: ago that Zenner had some wheels marks still that marks

646
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:15,160
Speaker 1: still bad that we Uh, who is the type did

647
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Speaker 1: you like David cob to Toby Gerhardt? Guy? I didn't

648
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 1: seems to be Gerhard on the Jacks, wasn't making the

649
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Speaker 1: leap ultra failure. I feel like I'm surprised you're not

650
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:34,880
Speaker 1: bigger on Christian McCaffrey based on the kind of just

651
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Speaker 1: bore he bores me. Uh, But Zach, you're just saying

652
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 1: he pops up once every nineteen or twenty months. And

653
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Speaker 1: I'll mention, if you're new to the podcast, I believe

654
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Speaker 1: he was the preseason rushing champion in two thousand fifteen.

655
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 1: And Mark, he told a couple of CE poems about him.

656
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 1: Absolutely they were dead on. They were prophecies, not c poems.

657
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 1: The green Bay Packers five seven and one, we know

658
00:33:57,480 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 1: what they gotta do here. They're gonna have to win

659
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Speaker 1: out and get some help to make the playoffs. Uh.

660
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 1: And here is their biggest test because if they if

661
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:10,759
Speaker 1: they could get by Greg the Bears, uh on the road,

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00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 1: there's gonna be It's gonna be whether Mark, you and

663
00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:17,399
Speaker 1: other people that are sick of the Packers that don't

664
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Speaker 1: think they should be talked about so much, there's gonna

665
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 1: be a ton of talk about this Green Bay team

666
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 1: as being the team to watch to to steal that

667
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 1: playoff spot. If they can get by the Bears. But

668
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:28,480
Speaker 1: can they get by the Bears. And the Bears just

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Speaker 1: too good, especially in their building. I think they are.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is a game that the Bears. I

671
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Speaker 1: think you have to be focused on getting Mitchell Trabisca

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00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:38,520
Speaker 1: and back on back on track. He hasn't played a

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00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:40,520
Speaker 1: good game in about five weeks. You know, he had

674
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Speaker 1: that game against Minnesota, then he was out for two

675
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Speaker 1: weeks injured. Last week was maybe probably I would say,

676
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Speaker 1: his worst game of the season in tough conditions. The

677
00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:51,840
Speaker 1: matchup is fine, though, I mean, we didn't even mentioned

678
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:56,360
Speaker 1: when Mike Daniels went on injured. Reserve Kenny Clark missed practice.

679
00:34:56,560 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 1: You know, this is not a great Packers defense. There's

680
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:02,680
Speaker 1: not a lot of reason for me to think that

681
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:04,759
Speaker 1: the Packers are suddenly going to play their best game

682
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:06,319
Speaker 1: of the season. I think that's what it would take

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Speaker 1: to beat the Bears. Packers have six starters on I

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Speaker 1: R from their defense, right, they just don't have much left.

685
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:16,839
Speaker 1: I could totally see Rogers being smothered in this game.

686
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:21,279
Speaker 1: His receivers unable to get separation, Khalil Mack and the

687
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 1: pass harsh of the Bears coming down on him, and

688
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 1: he's not throwing interceptions, because he doesn't throw interceptions. He

689
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:28,400
Speaker 1: just set the record in fact for not throwing interceptions,

690
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:30,400
Speaker 1: but a lot of firing ball into the dirt or

691
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:33,239
Speaker 1: sailing at ten yards out of bounds, and and scrambling

692
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Speaker 1: for his life and and muttering to himself as he

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Speaker 1: walks off the field. This to me, does not set

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Speaker 1: up well for Rogers at all, as much as I'd

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Speaker 1: love for him to stay in the mix. What a

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Speaker 1: matchup that you guys, Dan and Mark we did. We

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Speaker 1: taped this thing for game Pass if you're international, No,

698
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Speaker 1: it's just regular game Pass, so everyone can go to

699
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:56,800
Speaker 1: any go check out our playoff Christmas projection on game Pass.

700
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Speaker 1: And you guys put the Packers into the playoffs. So

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Speaker 1: you guys, I actually put the Giants. Mark put the

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Speaker 1: Giants in. Put put the Packers down. I did, I did,

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Speaker 1: But I did that in about four seconds and never thought.

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Speaker 1: The one thing I love about they gotta win this game.

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00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 1: You're right, so I do believe in the pack changed

706
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Speaker 1: my mind. When we were in London in week one.

707
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Speaker 1: This was the game that you know, we were stunned

708
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:18,440
Speaker 1: as we were leaving Sky Sports to find out that

709
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:20,840
Speaker 1: the Bears and Khalil Mac were dominating the game, and

710
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:23,080
Speaker 1: by the time we went to bed at our hotel,

711
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:26,800
Speaker 1: like they had, Green Bay authored one of the great comebacks,

712
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:30,439
Speaker 1: and that game ended with Mitch Drabinsky unable to find

713
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Speaker 1: a way to seal the deal for the Bears. I

714
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 1: think Mitch Drabinsky has to do something in this game too.

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Speaker 1: It can't just be a walk over, not at all.

716
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Speaker 1: But the Packers offense last week looked as good as

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00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 1: it has in a in a long while. It's the

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Speaker 1: first time they scored over that's the highest points they

719
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Speaker 1: had all year thirty four. It's kind of a no

720
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 1: lose situation right west. It's either the Packers uh win

721
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Speaker 1: and there in the hunt, or the team of at

722
00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 1: l is surging and riding high entering the last two

723
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Speaker 1: weeks of the season. That's exactly how I view the Bears.

724
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Speaker 1: They do need to get big game out of Drabinsky.

725
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:02,360
Speaker 1: But one positive sign from last week is they finally

726
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:04,799
Speaker 1: got their running game going, and I've been waiting for

727
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 1: that to happen. Not just like wheel routes to Tarik

728
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:10,319
Speaker 1: Cohen or a couple of screen passes here and there,

729
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 1: or a draw play to him, but an actual Jordan

730
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:16,279
Speaker 1: Howard led chain moving attack and they finally did that

731
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Speaker 1: last week. I think they'll be able to this week.

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Speaker 1: And uh, and this is a week where and Rogers

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Speaker 1: get picked off because he's going against the Bears. They

734
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Speaker 1: have twenty five interceptions, only has one interception this year

735
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Speaker 1: for a guy who's over talked about as a down year.

736
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Speaker 1: He's he has his highest yards, but Damn pointed out

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Speaker 1: a good reason why he only has one interception what

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Speaker 1: he likes to throw the ball in the dirt or

739
00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:38,200
Speaker 1: out of bear historical, but he's also has higher yards.

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Speaker 1: He also has a higher yards per attempt than he

741
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Speaker 1: has since his MVP season, so it's not like he's

742
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:46,399
Speaker 1: been in a lower completion and in many years. As say,

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00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:48,880
Speaker 1: as insane as it sounds, there is a faction of

744
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:52,760
Speaker 1: Packers fans that are extremely frustrated with Rogers and those

745
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:56,279
Speaker 1: those reasons. Quitting on plays, uh and deciding to get

746
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 1: out of a play and get rid of the ball

747
00:37:57,640 --> 00:37:59,560
Speaker 1: is one of the reasons that people have frustration. Can't

748
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:01,319
Speaker 1: quit on too many plays in this game because he's

749
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:03,239
Speaker 1: gonna have to put up points and I don't think

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00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:04,920
Speaker 1: he's gonna do it, and that's why I'm locking up

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Speaker 1: the team of ato as after a week after we

752
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:15,279
Speaker 1: all picked against them. So sorry, Bears. All right, the

753
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:18,560
Speaker 1: Raiders there three and ten? Uh? Where are the Raiders?

754
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:20,800
Speaker 1: That were they even playing? This is a crazy story,

755
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 1: the Raiders, uh having a The city of Oakland is

756
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:31,280
Speaker 1: suing the team? Is that correct? Yes? Well yes essentially

757
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:34,759
Speaker 1: uh And and now the Raiders may look to to

758
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:40,080
Speaker 1: exit their lease with at Oakland Al Alameda Stadium and

759
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:43,839
Speaker 1: Vegas isn't ready yet, I guess. And it's just a

760
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:47,040
Speaker 1: ton of drama around this team. Derek Carr said that, like,

761
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:48,880
Speaker 1: it's crazy that we don't know where we're gonna be

762
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:52,240
Speaker 1: playing next year. So it's just another another s sandwich

763
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 1: for this franchise and what's been a terrible season. Frankly,

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00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:57,360
Speaker 1: it's insane. Roger Goodell was asked about it at the

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Speaker 1: at an owner's meeting on Wednesday, and he said, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna need to know by by January

767
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:05,440
Speaker 1: or February where they're playing next year, you know, for

768
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Speaker 1: scheduling purposes. It's like, yeah, that that seems like it's

769
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 1: nice to find out where this team's playing. I mean

770
00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 1: they'll gotta figure it out. But it's just it is

771
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:16,840
Speaker 1: mid December. It's not gonna don't think it'll. They'll probably

772
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Speaker 1: find another if they can't play in Oakland. What a

773
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:22,720
Speaker 1: depressing way for a great franchise to end in Oakland.

774
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:26,040
Speaker 1: They'll maybe they'll play in the forty niner stadium that's

775
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:28,360
Speaker 1: been It's always a bad idea to say we're moving,

776
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:30,359
Speaker 1: you know, X amount of years from now. If you're

777
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:33,440
Speaker 1: gonna move, do it quick, because how is it gonna end? Well? Um, Greg,

778
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Speaker 1: They're playing the Bengals this week in Cincinnati. It's the

779
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:38,680
Speaker 1: final home game for the Bengals this season. Is it

780
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:41,440
Speaker 1: Marvin Lewis once and for all? Is this Marvin Lewis's

781
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:44,239
Speaker 1: final game? I think it is as head coach in Cincinnati.

782
00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 1: I think it is, and maybe not as last with

783
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Speaker 1: the organization. I wouldn't put it past Paul Brown, like

784
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Speaker 1: moving him upstairs. This is not a criticism of you

785
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 1: in particularly how many how many times do you think

786
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Speaker 1: on this podcast you've said this is Marvin Lewis three

787
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:04,600
Speaker 1: fust two or two or three years. They're lasting yards, points,

788
00:40:05,239 --> 00:40:08,680
Speaker 1: yards and points per drive allowed too. With this defensive

789
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Speaker 1: roster it doesn't make sense. I know they've had some injuries,

790
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:12,680
Speaker 1: but when I looked at their defense last week, which

791
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Speaker 1: I could probably played their best game of the year

792
00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:17,879
Speaker 1: last week, It's like, well, if that was the best giveing,

793
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Speaker 1: there were sections, there were moments over and over one

794
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Speaker 1: game pass. I'm saying, now there their defense, they gave up.

795
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Speaker 1: They held the Chargers the fewer yards and the Charges

796
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Speaker 1: had all season, and they looked respectable better games early

797
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Speaker 1: in the season defensively. Cruce arians was like, that's just

798
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:35,640
Speaker 1: too easy when the Bengals are getting run over by

799
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Speaker 1: the Charge. I do have a I do have a

800
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Speaker 1: scouting report though on Jeff Driscoll after last week's game,

801
00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:44,440
Speaker 1: he's I I do not see a whole lot of

802
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:47,959
Speaker 1: difference between him and Jeff Drisco. You should we should

803
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:52,719
Speaker 1: have to pay for that information. The Dallas Cowboys eight

804
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:55,880
Speaker 1: and five. Wow, it went from three and five to

805
00:40:56,040 --> 00:41:01,160
Speaker 1: eight and five in five weeks. That's pretty good. UH.

806
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:04,000
Speaker 1: And now they traveled to Lucas Oil Stadium to face

807
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Speaker 1: the Colts West. UH. One week ago today, we did

808
00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 1: this podcast and you were you were really hurt about

809
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:16,880
Speaker 1: the performance of the UH of the Cults and that

810
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:21,239
Speaker 1: six nothing shutout loss to the Jaguars. You essentially deplaned

811
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Speaker 1: the Colts team bandwagon. That flies, I suppose. But after

812
00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:30,960
Speaker 1: they go to Houston and get you're all the way

813
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Speaker 1: back because I've heard you all week and you're back

814
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Speaker 1: in on the Colts are chie. I wouldn't say that back, baby.

815
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Speaker 1: This matchup scares me in the same way the Jaguars

816
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:43,080
Speaker 1: matchup scared me, because there's no doubt the Cowboys defensive

817
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:46,360
Speaker 1: front can get pressure on Andrew Luck, especially with uh

818
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Speaker 1: One of the guards for the Colts, Mark Lewinski, isn't

819
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Speaker 1: practicing this week, it might not play. They hadn't protected

820
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Speaker 1: Luck the last few weeks as well as they did

821
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Speaker 1: at mid season when they were in the middle of

822
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Speaker 1: that sack streak. The question I have is the Cowboys

823
00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 1: secondary is not as talented as the Jaguars, and the

824
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:06,400
Speaker 1: Jaguars put the clamps on these Colts wide receivers and

825
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:08,279
Speaker 1: tight ends. With the exception of t Y Hilton, I

826
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Speaker 1: just don't think their receivers and tight ends are talented

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Speaker 1: beyond him that they find a way to get him

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Speaker 1: open anyways, at least against most teams. That's true, I

829
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:23,919
Speaker 1: mean against this is a tough matchup, but Luck has

830
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:28,960
Speaker 1: been so good. I think when the defense calls the

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Speaker 1: right play, like I don't know, Mahomes, you would have

832
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:35,600
Speaker 1: to put right there. But there have been some plays,

833
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:37,120
Speaker 1: and I can think of a few from last week's

834
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:39,760
Speaker 1: game where the Texans in Romeo Cordell kind of dialed

835
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Speaker 1: up the perfect blitz or the perfect play or had

836
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:47,680
Speaker 1: the screen broken up, and Luck just has uh an

837
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Speaker 1: innate patients to kind of wait it out to kind

838
00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:53,319
Speaker 1: of buy that extra time or kind of wait for

839
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Speaker 1: the cornerbacks to get out of the throwing window and

840
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:58,200
Speaker 1: still make a play and beat the perfect defense. It's

841
00:42:58,239 --> 00:43:00,080
Speaker 1: so impressed. I thought he made last week against the

842
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:02,719
Speaker 1: Texans some of the prettiest throws he's made all year.

843
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:05,719
Speaker 1: Two guys twenty yards down field on the run at

844
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Speaker 1: the sideline. I just he I think they have an

845
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Speaker 1: absolute shot to win this game. Oh no, I'm not

846
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Speaker 1: saying they don't have a shot. I think they're the favorite.

847
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:16,759
Speaker 1: They're at home, and and I do think if I

848
00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:19,360
Speaker 1: had to gun to my head, I would put the

849
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:21,160
Speaker 1: Colts over the Cowboys in this game. I just think

850
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys defense is for real. They are I'd

851
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:27,360
Speaker 1: like to see a complete game out of Dak Prescott.

852
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:30,799
Speaker 1: He does some really positive things each week and does

853
00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:33,120
Speaker 1: some really negative things each week. You know how you

854
00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:34,759
Speaker 1: always say, like when there's a lot of plays in

855
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:36,440
Speaker 1: a game that like, oh, they're gonna be tired the

856
00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:39,200
Speaker 1: next week the defense to do offenses get tired or

857
00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:43,600
Speaker 1: is it just defenses? One to The Cowboys played nine

858
00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:46,439
Speaker 1: had nine snaps last week. That's like two games. That's

859
00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:49,520
Speaker 1: more than double what the Dolphins had for instance, andce No,

860
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:51,680
Speaker 1: that's a lot of snaps and they have to They

861
00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 1: are not the same line that they used to be.

862
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:56,319
Speaker 1: Zeke is working harder, Dac is getting pressured more. They

863
00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:59,359
Speaker 1: basically have two offensive line spots that are liabilities and

864
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:01,680
Speaker 1: that that hasn't in the case in previous years. I

865
00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:04,960
Speaker 1: like this Colts defense. This is ever Fluss revenge Matt

866
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:09,560
Speaker 1: ever Flus for years under Rod mel Ramarinelli, little pupil

867
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:15,360
Speaker 1: teaches the mentors defenses. I think they have improved throughout

868
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:16,560
Speaker 1: the year, and I think a lot of people are

869
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:18,960
Speaker 1: sleeping on it, That's what I'm saying. I mean, they're

870
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:23,040
Speaker 1: flying around. Kenny Moore Autrey sheared like uh Alec Anthony

871
00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:25,239
Speaker 1: Walker and I and I do apologize for all the

872
00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 1: Darius Leonard uh you know fans out there. I probably

873
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:31,759
Speaker 1: short was shortsighted not including him in the defensive Rookie

874
00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:36,759
Speaker 1: the Year, So sorry, West's and all those cults not

875
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:39,840
Speaker 1: only leading here right tackle right, but has more tackles

876
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:43,240
Speaker 1: per game than any rookies this century, including Patrick Willis

877
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:45,239
Speaker 1: and Luke Kickli. Do you think it would be him

878
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:47,560
Speaker 1: and not Vanderess should be being talked up as d

879
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:49,880
Speaker 1: p O y on the rookie class if he was

880
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:53,839
Speaker 1: not a member of the Cowboys. For the Cowboys they

881
00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:56,560
Speaker 1: have a statue of him. All that he would are

882
00:44:56,719 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 1: they bypassed Rookie the Year was a nice little matt

883
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:03,879
Speaker 1: up then vander Ess versus Leonard here given to Derwin James.

884
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:06,400
Speaker 1: But I do admit, uh, Leonard, since he's played the

885
00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:09,320
Speaker 1: whole season, should be racial. He also has seven sacks

886
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:11,520
Speaker 1: for an off ball linebacker and four force funnels. I

887
00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:13,320
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Speaker 1: does it all. Let's move to Jacksonville where the Jaguars

909
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:34,640
Speaker 1: continue there deeply disappointing two thousand eighteen season with an

910
00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:38,640
Speaker 1: embarrassing thirty to nine loss at in Nashville on Thursday

911
00:46:38,719 --> 00:46:41,160
Speaker 1: Night Football. So they get half a bye week, uh

912
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:44,160
Speaker 1: to prepare for Redskins team in a total free fall.

913
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:48,200
Speaker 1: Greg um Mark Sanchez gets benched last week. I don't

914
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:49,800
Speaker 1: even know if anybody's covering this team anymore. So I

915
00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:53,240
Speaker 1: don't know if Josh Johnson is officially the fifteen star. Okay,

916
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:56,160
Speaker 1: he is, but it's probably not gonna matter, right because

917
00:46:56,200 --> 00:46:58,200
Speaker 1: if the Redskins. If you have to make a list

918
00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:00,080
Speaker 1: of the most helpless teams in the NFL right now,

919
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:01,320
Speaker 1: the Redskins have to be the other the top of

920
00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:03,799
Speaker 1: the list. Yeah. I mean, if you're apologizing the West,

921
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:06,319
Speaker 1: forgive him that Lions Bills game, I got this one

922
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:09,640
Speaker 1: and Cardinals Falcons. I mean, this is this is a

923
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:12,799
Speaker 1: December football game if I've ever seen one one where

924
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:16,400
Speaker 1: you you almost expect the Jaguars, who are awful to

925
00:47:16,640 --> 00:47:20,680
Speaker 1: with Cody Kessler, to win going away or else he'd

926
00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:23,279
Speaker 1: be disappointed. That's how bad the Redskinds are right now.

927
00:47:23,719 --> 00:47:27,160
Speaker 1: The Redskins are playing preseason football. They dropping passes, they're

928
00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:31,000
Speaker 1: committing penalties. Um Adrian Peterson's a non factor because they

929
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:33,120
Speaker 1: can't give him a running start in the defense is

930
00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:36,520
Speaker 1: just gluing onto him on every place to see that

931
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:40,120
Speaker 1: crazy stat. Not this week but the week before he

932
00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:43,320
Speaker 1: had the ninety yard touchdown. Of course, uh, he finished

933
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:45,919
Speaker 1: with ninety eight yards. He didn't get a hundred yards rushing,

934
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:47,480
Speaker 1: and he had a ninety yard rush in the game.

935
00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:50,440
Speaker 1: It reminds me of what happened behind that Cardinals offensive

936
00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:52,600
Speaker 1: line last year on their third string quarterback. There's just

937
00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:54,239
Speaker 1: nowhere for him to run. I mean, if I ran

938
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:56,200
Speaker 1: ninety yards and scored, I might be like, I'm good

939
00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:58,160
Speaker 1: like you guys. You guys, Now, how about the rest

940
00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:01,879
Speaker 1: of this offense? Nattie McCarthy from down the block, think

941
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:03,879
Speaker 1: about that? Well, he wouldn't like that, by the way,

942
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:07,680
Speaker 1: not just making not just making excuses for Adrian Peterson.

943
00:48:07,719 --> 00:48:09,520
Speaker 1: He had Jack Rabbit Jenkins one on one in the

944
00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:11,360
Speaker 1: whole last week and couldn't make him move. Are you

945
00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:15,040
Speaker 1: a little worried that Frank Gore is ultimately having a

946
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:18,239
Speaker 1: better season, having a good season. He's not having a

947
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 1: better season than Peterson. I mean he the yards were carrying,

948
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:23,800
Speaker 1: like the yards for play. I mean, I like the

949
00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:25,759
Speaker 1: factor and how they're being used, and one as a

950
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:27,720
Speaker 1: workhorse and the other one is like a role player,

951
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:29,719
Speaker 1: the same Gores get it done. Is he allergic to

952
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:32,800
Speaker 1: the zone. Does anybody else take this guy's off on?

953
00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:36,760
Speaker 1: Guess does anybody else um watching that game last Thursday

954
00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:40,600
Speaker 1: night and seeing the um the luxury box cutaways to

955
00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:42,520
Speaker 1: Tom Coughlin, does anybody else have a hunch that this

956
00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:44,759
Speaker 1: guy could end up being the head coach? And yes,

957
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:48,640
Speaker 1: I think that was always potentially the scapegoat type plan,

958
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:51,759
Speaker 1: like I'm gonna get someone in here. Well, I think

959
00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:53,200
Speaker 1: he always wanted to be a coach again and no

960
00:48:53,239 --> 00:48:54,719
Speaker 1: one would take him. So you do it this way.

961
00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:57,200
Speaker 1: You get in in the in the upper echelons of

962
00:48:57,200 --> 00:49:00,239
Speaker 1: the organization. Then you say, listen, guys, we've come to

963
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:02,000
Speaker 1: the conclusion that I need to be the coach here,

964
00:49:02,120 --> 00:49:05,640
Speaker 1: especially when is like, you know, you know, it's been

965
00:49:05,719 --> 00:49:08,399
Speaker 1: really tough for Kaughlin not coaching this team. It's really

966
00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:10,319
Speaker 1: driving him up the wall, but you know he likes

967
00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:16,160
Speaker 1: being There was something about and I don't know the

968
00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 1: day to day like how other men in his possession

969
00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:23,040
Speaker 1: in the league operate during a game, but there's something

970
00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:25,799
Speaker 1: about his little notebook that he was like scribbling after

971
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:28,040
Speaker 1: every play notes and I was like, oh, this dude

972
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:30,040
Speaker 1: is all the way in and he looks like a

973
00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:32,960
Speaker 1: guy that's ready to get on the sideline. And and

974
00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:35,120
Speaker 1: yes he's old. I think he's seventy two, but like

975
00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:40,040
Speaker 1: our president, I think is seventy one seven without any issues. Right,

976
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:42,919
Speaker 1: Maybe that's a bad excuse, but but just the fact

977
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:44,640
Speaker 1: that seventy two isn't what it used to be and

978
00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:46,520
Speaker 1: this guy keeps himself in shape. I don't I don't

979
00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:48,839
Speaker 1: think he's your typical seventy two year old. It's hard

980
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:50,680
Speaker 1: to get that coaching out of your system. He's one

981
00:49:50,719 --> 00:49:52,560
Speaker 1: of those guys who's naturally has been doing it for

982
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:55,839
Speaker 1: what forty years or fifty years. He's also not he's

983
00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:58,600
Speaker 1: he's it doesn't look young for his age the same

984
00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:00,960
Speaker 1: way that Pete Harroll does, but he's still young in

985
00:50:01,120 --> 00:50:02,840
Speaker 1: terms of his energy. I could see him doing it

986
00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:06,000
Speaker 1: for the three years. Let's move on the Miami Dolphins. Oh,

987
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:10,640
Speaker 1: what excitement around the Dolphins right now, because despite being

988
00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:14,640
Speaker 1: really a middling team, ultimately not a ton of talent

989
00:50:14,719 --> 00:50:18,080
Speaker 1: on this roster. And and some people like Adam Gaze,

990
00:50:18,200 --> 00:50:20,200
Speaker 1: but some people are like, hey, this is not quite

991
00:50:20,280 --> 00:50:23,600
Speaker 1: working out on the sidelines and their recent history and

992
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:26,920
Speaker 1: by recent history, I mean everything post Dan Marino's career,

993
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:32,959
Speaker 1: and really everything posted. Um No, I'm just joking. In fact,

994
00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:35,880
Speaker 1: I want to give the Dolphins that the seven and

995
00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:38,240
Speaker 1: six Miami Dolphins are doing a nice job this season.

996
00:50:38,719 --> 00:50:41,359
Speaker 1: The fact that they are seven and six with brock

997
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:45,879
Speaker 1: Oswilders starting a handful of games, Uh, I just gotta say,

998
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:47,120
Speaker 1: you gotta give them a little bit of credit and

999
00:50:47,160 --> 00:50:52,040
Speaker 1: hanger on and things change in the NFL so quickly.

1000
00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:54,120
Speaker 1: I mean, they should not have won the game against

1001
00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:57,040
Speaker 1: the Patriots. I think we all agree on that. And

1002
00:50:57,880 --> 00:51:00,839
Speaker 1: you know, the game against the Bills, Josh Allen left

1003
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:02,440
Speaker 1: a wide open guy in the in the end zone

1004
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:04,120
Speaker 1: at the end of that game. So they probably should

1005
00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:06,760
Speaker 1: have lost the last two games, but they didn't, Mark Sessler,

1006
00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:09,840
Speaker 1: and that's why I'm gonna say, it's your turn to

1007
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:12,480
Speaker 1: talk about this game, Dolphins at vikings of I think

1008
00:51:12,480 --> 00:51:14,759
Speaker 1: you've done a nice job. I I have been down

1009
00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:18,160
Speaker 1: on the Dolphins for half a decade, but last game

1010
00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:20,520
Speaker 1: at least they broke out of hyper boring mode for me.

1011
00:51:21,040 --> 00:51:23,440
Speaker 1: And I'm not gonna kill Ryan Tannehill when he made

1012
00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:25,919
Speaker 1: some of the better throws he's made all season last week,

1013
00:51:26,120 --> 00:51:29,840
Speaker 1: and I loved seeing against the Patriots. Brandon Bolden burst

1014
00:51:29,960 --> 00:51:31,960
Speaker 1: up the middle and blow for a touchdown against his

1015
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:35,200
Speaker 1: former employer and then do it again. And I the

1016
00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:37,800
Speaker 1: only thing that annoys me about the Dolphins is the

1017
00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:40,840
Speaker 1: fact that I have to hear Ryan Tannehill screaming Omaha,

1018
00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:43,920
Speaker 1: Barry put that away like that needed to go with

1019
00:51:44,080 --> 00:51:46,600
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning. That really annoys me that anyone else is

1020
00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:49,480
Speaker 1: still doing that. But beyond that there, how I want

1021
00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:51,400
Speaker 1: to see how they respond to what was the greatest,

1022
00:51:51,520 --> 00:51:54,120
Speaker 1: one of the great moments, not just of this entire season,

1023
00:51:54,160 --> 00:51:57,280
Speaker 1: but one of the great sports moments in ages and ages,

1024
00:51:57,600 --> 00:52:00,160
Speaker 1: And how the Vikings respond to yet another drub been

1025
00:52:00,520 --> 00:52:02,640
Speaker 1: by a real playoff team going up to Seattle and

1026
00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:05,160
Speaker 1: get whipped. Is there anything left in this Vikings team?

1027
00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:07,759
Speaker 1: Probably at home there is, But I see, this is

1028
00:52:07,800 --> 00:52:10,080
Speaker 1: it we've been talking about all week fifty game, and

1029
00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:12,360
Speaker 1: I have no problem with the Dolphins winning this and

1030
00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:14,520
Speaker 1: taking the Vikings and putting them out of their misery

1031
00:52:14,760 --> 00:52:17,440
Speaker 1: Bye bye. The Desert people do not think this is

1032
00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:19,720
Speaker 1: a close game. The Desert people feel like the Vikings

1033
00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:23,240
Speaker 1: have this one in hand hand, which surprised me because

1034
00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:26,000
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe maybe it goes back to what

1035
00:52:26,160 --> 00:52:29,160
Speaker 1: you've been saying West because you've been defending Kirk Cousins.

1036
00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:33,960
Speaker 1: Maybe in this environment at home, an early game, not

1037
00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:36,520
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure, in this situation, maybe he lights

1038
00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:39,439
Speaker 1: up the Dolphins. Maybe these are the games that people

1039
00:52:39,719 --> 00:52:42,200
Speaker 1: aren't seeing with Kirk Cousins. Well, it's just a guess,

1040
00:52:42,239 --> 00:52:44,719
Speaker 1: but I'm I'm guessing the Desert people like the Vikings

1041
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:46,960
Speaker 1: because they're a much better team than the Dolphins are.

1042
00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:49,680
Speaker 1: Are they that much better? I think when's the last

1043
00:52:49,719 --> 00:52:51,920
Speaker 1: time the Dolphins want to get like a fluke or

1044
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:54,560
Speaker 1: with a bunch of flukes, a bunch of their two

1045
00:52:54,640 --> 00:52:57,200
Speaker 1: mediocre team. Here's the thing. They've been able to repeat

1046
00:52:57,239 --> 00:53:01,160
Speaker 1: those flukes. And one of our podcast listeners I was

1047
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:02,960
Speaker 1: trying to feel like, how is this team? Seven six?

1048
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:05,680
Speaker 1: And someone responded with a couple of answers, and I

1049
00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:07,759
Speaker 1: think if you add to his answer, you've got an answer.

1050
00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:11,799
Speaker 1: They they lead the league in explosive passing touchdowns over

1051
00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:14,239
Speaker 1: twenty yards, which doesn't make any sense because they're not

1052
00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:16,960
Speaker 1: really even close to the lead in just normal plays

1053
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:18,880
Speaker 1: over twenty yards, But they have a ton of explosive

1054
00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:21,880
Speaker 1: touchdowns their second in the league, and interceptions four more

1055
00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:24,759
Speaker 1: than the number three they're only behind Chicago. Special teams

1056
00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:27,160
Speaker 1: has been great and for some reason, Adam Gates is

1057
00:53:27,200 --> 00:53:29,200
Speaker 1: like a wizard in close games and that shouldn't be

1058
00:53:29,280 --> 00:53:31,520
Speaker 1: able to repeat. But he's done it for three seasons now.

1059
00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:34,000
Speaker 1: He's twenty and six in one score games. So I

1060
00:53:34,040 --> 00:53:36,840
Speaker 1: don't know they they've somehow added all that up in

1061
00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:39,239
Speaker 1: their media, and the Vikings have not beaten a team

1062
00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:40,759
Speaker 1: with a winning record. I mean, I just I think

1063
00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:44,120
Speaker 1: the Vikings help. They're bad, is my answer. I agree

1064
00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:47,719
Speaker 1: with that they're they fully deserved, you know, I know,

1065
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:50,440
Speaker 1: but how about this, Can we say, Minnesota, go go

1066
00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:53,960
Speaker 1: beat a team worth worth something? It's like, week after

1067
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:55,600
Speaker 1: are you going to be really impressed if they beat

1068
00:53:55,600 --> 00:53:57,840
Speaker 1: the Dolph Not at all. But I also would be

1069
00:53:58,239 --> 00:54:00,120
Speaker 1: a little bit more impressed if they did any thing

1070
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:04,480
Speaker 1: against the Bears, the Patriots, the Seahawks, the Saints, the Rams,

1071
00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:08,280
Speaker 1: or even the Bills. Part the part of the reasons

1072
00:54:08,320 --> 00:54:12,160
Speaker 1: the Dolphins are so uh big underdogs is they've won

1073
00:54:12,239 --> 00:54:13,680
Speaker 1: one game on the road, and that was Week two

1074
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:15,279
Speaker 1: against the Jets, and they've been blown out on the

1075
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:19,839
Speaker 1: road quite a bit. So it is tough. But Kirk

1076
00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:22,759
Speaker 1: Cousins is bad games have been, are are bad? Are

1077
00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:25,759
Speaker 1: so bad? Like? That's the difference I think between him

1078
00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:28,360
Speaker 1: and a top eight or nine quarterback is sometimes early

1079
00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:29,680
Speaker 1: in the game you can tell it's not going to

1080
00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:31,919
Speaker 1: be his type of week. I am curious what they're

1081
00:54:31,920 --> 00:54:33,799
Speaker 1: gonna do in terms of changing the offense, because it's

1082
00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:36,239
Speaker 1: a good matchup that's not a good Dolphins tame. Watch out.

1083
00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:38,920
Speaker 1: If the Dolphins do and the Vikings have issues and

1084
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:41,439
Speaker 1: they just fired the offensive coordinator and they they're having

1085
00:54:42,040 --> 00:54:45,880
Speaker 1: a disappointing season, the wheels could fall off. Hypothetically. I

1086
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:47,560
Speaker 1: don't think they will, but if they did and the

1087
00:54:47,640 --> 00:54:50,239
Speaker 1: Dolphins got to eight and six their home Jacksonville at

1088
00:54:50,239 --> 00:54:53,720
Speaker 1: Buffalo to close the season, they could be playing in January,

1089
00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:56,160
Speaker 1: which would be not a lot of fun. But again,

1090
00:54:57,200 --> 00:54:59,920
Speaker 1: there are some wheels falling off signs here between the

1091
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:04,120
Speaker 1: coordinator firing with three weeks left, Mike Zimmer's daughter went nuts,

1092
00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:07,760
Speaker 1: uh you know how on Twitter? Oh, that is definitely

1093
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:12,880
Speaker 1: a sign, had some comments on Instagram. How is that

1094
00:55:13,040 --> 00:55:16,480
Speaker 1: the team falling apart? She went after she went after

1095
00:55:16,560 --> 00:55:18,520
Speaker 1: the fans for being near the audic and by the way,

1096
00:55:20,760 --> 00:55:23,440
Speaker 1: it was all fair. What I'm saying is Actually that

1097
00:55:23,680 --> 00:55:27,200
Speaker 1: is a telltale sign of a team that's falling apart,

1098
00:55:27,400 --> 00:55:30,040
Speaker 1: is that when the daughter gets on social media and

1099
00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:32,480
Speaker 1: is defending the coach. Usually it's like a it's a

1100
00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:34,600
Speaker 1: kiss of death. It's like getting a vote of confidence.

1101
00:55:35,320 --> 00:55:37,400
Speaker 1: You're you're out the door soon come with You have

1102
00:55:37,719 --> 00:55:41,759
Speaker 1: no idea what that went players on the roster, But uh,

1103
00:55:42,080 --> 00:55:48,560
Speaker 1: let's move on. The Tennessee Titoons after humbling defeats at

1104
00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:52,000
Speaker 1: the hands of the Colts and Texans both on the road. Uh,

1105
00:55:52,080 --> 00:55:54,840
Speaker 1: they squeezed by the Jets at home and then embarrassed

1106
00:55:54,840 --> 00:55:58,480
Speaker 1: the Jaguars and um, and we didn't talk about that.

1107
00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:01,040
Speaker 1: That game is a group because was the Thursday night game.

1108
00:56:01,080 --> 00:56:04,120
Speaker 1: But I'll hand out a lollipop in that game, uh

1109
00:56:04,840 --> 00:56:07,279
Speaker 1: to all your Tytoons fans, because you didn't just take

1110
00:56:07,320 --> 00:56:14,319
Speaker 1: care of business. Let's charm, um. You didn't just take

1111
00:56:14,360 --> 00:56:18,440
Speaker 1: care of business. You you kind of you. You basically

1112
00:56:18,680 --> 00:56:22,399
Speaker 1: castrated a team in your own division and and made

1113
00:56:22,440 --> 00:56:25,760
Speaker 1: them feel less about themselves, perhaps forever. So I respect

1114
00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:27,759
Speaker 1: them that you were able to do that to the Jaguars.

1115
00:56:28,280 --> 00:56:31,360
Speaker 1: So there you go, coming back from castration. Not in

1116
00:56:31,480 --> 00:56:34,400
Speaker 1: some ways, no, there isn't uh so here they are

1117
00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:37,600
Speaker 1: seven and six, and now they travel to the Metal

1118
00:56:37,680 --> 00:56:40,320
Speaker 1: Lands to face one of the hottest teams in the NFL.

1119
00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:41,960
Speaker 1: I mean, just can't You can't say it's not true

1120
00:56:42,040 --> 00:56:44,719
Speaker 1: West because uh, they've won four or five and not

1121
00:56:44,760 --> 00:56:48,400
Speaker 1: a lot of teams can claim that. Right now, your thoughts,

1122
00:56:50,080 --> 00:56:52,279
Speaker 1: oh you want meet my thoughts. And the Giants they're

1123
00:56:52,320 --> 00:56:55,000
Speaker 1: obviously a much better team now than they were earlier

1124
00:56:55,000 --> 00:56:56,960
Speaker 1: in this season. I think you have to put it

1125
00:56:57,000 --> 00:56:59,319
Speaker 1: in the context of your their opponents, and this week

1126
00:56:59,360 --> 00:57:01,560
Speaker 1: they play a top for opponent. I'll be impressed if

1127
00:57:01,600 --> 00:57:05,719
Speaker 1: they win this game. Um, the Titans have They have

1128
00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:07,799
Speaker 1: sent two more players to I R. John who Smith

1129
00:57:07,880 --> 00:57:10,800
Speaker 1: and Jack Conklin their tight end and right tackle. I

1130
00:57:10,920 --> 00:57:12,960
Speaker 1: think you're gonna see a lot of Anthony fer Sir,

1131
00:57:14,719 --> 00:57:18,880
Speaker 1: who is like Cameron Brad an undrafted tight end out

1132
00:57:18,920 --> 00:57:22,920
Speaker 1: of Harvard. Harvard, and I think you're gonna see him

1133
00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:25,080
Speaker 1: featured a little bits has got it. I think he's

1134
00:57:25,120 --> 00:57:27,760
Speaker 1: given a fantasy nugget out right now. I'm not allowed.

1135
00:57:27,800 --> 00:57:30,120
Speaker 1: Evan Silver told me I'm not allowed to dispense fantasy

1136
00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:34,520
Speaker 1: every single target because I'm so far removed from the business.

1137
00:57:34,560 --> 00:57:37,240
Speaker 1: I don't even like you are more imbued in the

1138
00:57:37,280 --> 00:57:43,280
Speaker 1: business of a different, unique perspective. Like when August rolls

1139
00:57:43,280 --> 00:57:45,800
Speaker 1: around and we do our fantasy, Um, what do we

1140
00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:49,800
Speaker 1: call extrava? Yeah, I'll offer my you know, go get

1141
00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:52,960
Speaker 1: George Kittle advice. Does that make Evan uncomfortable when you

1142
00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:55,080
Speaker 1: do that once a year? I think I think he's

1143
00:57:55,120 --> 00:57:56,920
Speaker 1: just joking with me a little bit. But I think so.

1144
00:57:57,240 --> 00:57:58,920
Speaker 1: But I agree that I think the big fish has

1145
00:57:58,960 --> 00:58:01,160
Speaker 1: got a big problem. No, I'm not qualified. I don't

1146
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:03,840
Speaker 1: think in fantasy to Mariot has thrown sixteen passes to

1147
00:58:03,960 --> 00:58:06,680
Speaker 1: Anthony Firkser this year. I guess how many catches he

1148
00:58:06,760 --> 00:58:18,680
Speaker 1: has he's got censored perfect. Um, you know I was

1149
00:58:18,760 --> 00:58:20,520
Speaker 1: about to I was all set by the way to

1150
00:58:20,600 --> 00:58:22,960
Speaker 1: lock up the man here just because it was fun.

1151
00:58:23,920 --> 00:58:26,080
Speaker 1: This is definitely your one. This is probably the game

1152
00:58:26,160 --> 00:58:28,960
Speaker 1: you're watching at ten am. The problem though, and I

1153
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:31,560
Speaker 1: will be watching closely because if for no other reason

1154
00:58:31,640 --> 00:58:33,320
Speaker 1: then to drive West crazy. I want the Giants to

1155
00:58:33,400 --> 00:58:36,040
Speaker 1: keep winning, but I won't drive me crazy. But I

1156
00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:39,080
Speaker 1: have to say that it doesn't sound like Odell Beckham

1157
00:58:39,400 --> 00:58:43,200
Speaker 1: is gonna play this quad injury. Uh, he got it.

1158
00:58:43,520 --> 00:58:47,760
Speaker 1: Real reevaluated on Thursday. Because it's not it's not healing

1159
00:58:47,840 --> 00:58:52,600
Speaker 1: the way he expected to. He said, quote s ain't right. Um,

1160
00:58:53,440 --> 00:58:56,280
Speaker 1: so I would be surprised if if, if he plays,

1161
00:58:56,760 --> 00:58:58,480
Speaker 1: and if he does make up make it on the field,

1162
00:58:58,560 --> 00:59:00,760
Speaker 1: is he gonna be the same guy? So that hurts.

1163
00:59:00,760 --> 00:59:03,160
Speaker 1: I know they were able to dominate the Redskins last

1164
00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:05,200
Speaker 1: week without him, but that was a bad Redskins team.

1165
00:59:05,240 --> 00:59:07,560
Speaker 1: In free fall, Corey Coleman made a couple of plays

1166
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:10,320
Speaker 1: he did, and and you know you got all the

1167
00:59:10,360 --> 00:59:12,880
Speaker 1: Shepherds making plays and see Quon Barkley is playing out

1168
00:59:12,920 --> 00:59:16,720
Speaker 1: of his mind. But I can't lock the Giants up.

1169
00:59:16,760 --> 00:59:18,160
Speaker 1: But I don't think they'll win. I have to say,

1170
00:59:18,160 --> 00:59:19,800
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna win. Stone, I think you should

1171
00:59:19,840 --> 00:59:21,520
Speaker 1: lock it. I think I would maybe take the Giants too.

1172
00:59:21,600 --> 00:59:24,160
Speaker 1: To me that they're too even teams, I mean, neither

1173
00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:26,600
Speaker 1: even without Odell. You should both lock it must really

1174
00:59:26,600 --> 00:59:28,760
Speaker 1: not like the Tytoons then, I just think they're both

1175
00:59:28,800 --> 00:59:31,120
Speaker 1: average teams. I mean, do you trust the Titans have

1176
00:59:31,240 --> 00:59:34,520
Speaker 1: two inspired performances in a row. No, I don't. That's

1177
00:59:34,560 --> 00:59:36,400
Speaker 1: why I think that the Tytoons. But I think it's

1178
00:59:36,440 --> 00:59:37,880
Speaker 1: kind of a coin flip game, so those are not

1179
00:59:37,960 --> 00:59:40,720
Speaker 1: the game either. One really has a reliable passing game.

1180
00:59:41,680 --> 00:59:44,240
Speaker 1: The Titans defense is better, but it's not that much

1181
00:59:44,320 --> 00:59:47,160
Speaker 1: better than the Giants. It's not great. You're right the

1182
00:59:47,240 --> 00:59:50,919
Speaker 1: Giants second. The Giants secondary a good passing game take

1183
00:59:51,000 --> 00:59:54,400
Speaker 1: picks apart. You know the Titans are not that team.

1184
00:59:54,480 --> 00:59:57,919
Speaker 1: So you know, remember Dan, when Romo talked about Sam

1185
00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:01,280
Speaker 1: Donald's spatial awareness teams special. I think that's what Marcus

1186
01:00:01,320 --> 01:00:05,440
Speaker 1: Mariotte is missing. He he waits until the pressure is

1187
01:00:05,480 --> 01:00:07,280
Speaker 1: in his face before he tries to avoid it. It

1188
01:00:07,280 --> 01:00:09,800
Speaker 1: doesn't feel it things. Yeah, I think things closed quicklier

1189
01:00:09,840 --> 01:00:12,360
Speaker 1: than quicker than he expects. All right, so that'll be

1190
01:00:12,440 --> 01:00:14,960
Speaker 1: a fun game to keep an eye on on Sunday.

1191
01:00:15,440 --> 01:00:18,400
Speaker 1: Let's move on to the Seattle Seahawks, who have put

1192
01:00:18,440 --> 01:00:21,480
Speaker 1: it all together. Whoa good thing. I did my mia

1193
01:00:21,520 --> 01:00:24,600
Speaker 1: culpa about five weeks ago because I wrote off the

1194
01:00:24,680 --> 01:00:27,520
Speaker 1: Seattle after their own to start. We did a show

1195
01:00:27,600 --> 01:00:29,400
Speaker 1: where I was like, actually, no, I think I'm out

1196
01:00:29,480 --> 01:00:33,520
Speaker 1: on that fotball fans. Yeah yeah, And since then they've

1197
01:00:33,560 --> 01:00:36,080
Speaker 1: gotten even better. They've now went to the next level

1198
01:00:36,120 --> 01:00:39,680
Speaker 1: where they are legitimate NFC player even when we had

1199
01:00:39,760 --> 01:00:42,720
Speaker 1: that discussion last month. We were all kind of in

1200
01:00:42,760 --> 01:00:44,480
Speaker 1: the same page. I thought that, yes, this is gonna

1201
01:00:44,480 --> 01:00:46,480
Speaker 1: be a frisky team. Maybe not a playoff team, but

1202
01:00:46,560 --> 01:00:48,080
Speaker 1: they're gonna be fighting all the way to the end

1203
01:00:48,080 --> 01:00:50,080
Speaker 1: of the season. Now they're eight in five and now

1204
01:00:50,120 --> 01:00:52,920
Speaker 1: they're going to San Francisco, UH to face one of

1205
01:00:52,960 --> 01:00:57,320
Speaker 1: the worst teams in football. Greg Rosenthal, Wow, this is

1206
01:00:57,360 --> 01:00:59,400
Speaker 1: setting up well for the Seahawks. It is. I mean,

1207
01:00:59,440 --> 01:01:01,400
Speaker 1: they shouldn't be allowed to play then they just they

1208
01:01:01,520 --> 01:01:04,400
Speaker 1: just played two weeks ago. This is ridiculous. I hate that.

1209
01:01:05,040 --> 01:01:07,040
Speaker 1: I hate the two of the two in three weeks.

1210
01:01:07,080 --> 01:01:10,640
Speaker 1: I guess it's just impossible to avoid. There's no reason

1211
01:01:10,800 --> 01:01:13,560
Speaker 1: why hated so much. Well, it seems very possible to

1212
01:01:13,640 --> 01:01:16,880
Speaker 1: avoid if they really want, Because I think football is

1213
01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:20,920
Speaker 1: it's such a game plan sport and you should spread

1214
01:01:20,960 --> 01:01:23,640
Speaker 1: it out. Just playing each other to it just feels unfairsome.

1215
01:01:23,760 --> 01:01:25,760
Speaker 1: I think maybe it makes it harder for the Seahawks

1216
01:01:26,040 --> 01:01:28,000
Speaker 1: to go dominate this game. They're also on the road.

1217
01:01:28,040 --> 01:01:30,640
Speaker 1: They've been really good at home late. Who's it unfair

1218
01:01:30,680 --> 01:01:32,840
Speaker 1: to though, I just want to dig into this. I

1219
01:01:32,880 --> 01:01:35,360
Speaker 1: think it's unfair to the better team think you answered it, well,

1220
01:01:35,640 --> 01:01:39,040
Speaker 1: it's unfair because it's unfair to the coaches. Yeah, like

1221
01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:42,320
Speaker 1: Saints Pantings had the same situation, and I feel like

1222
01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:44,520
Speaker 1: the Saint It puts the Saints in a worst position

1223
01:01:44,800 --> 01:01:47,440
Speaker 1: the better team, I think, because it's just it evens

1224
01:01:47,480 --> 01:01:50,120
Speaker 1: the scale. It's somehow even it does. All right, I'll

1225
01:01:50,160 --> 01:01:56,720
Speaker 1: give there's no reason, thanks buddy. They if they don't

1226
01:01:56,760 --> 01:02:00,680
Speaker 1: have Doug Baldwin, though, they are not the same asking attack,

1227
01:02:00,760 --> 01:02:03,600
Speaker 1: and you wonder if he's gonna He looked like himself

1228
01:02:03,680 --> 01:02:05,880
Speaker 1: for about two weeks this season and then he was

1229
01:02:05,960 --> 01:02:08,600
Speaker 1: gone again. I mean they had seventy yards passing Russell

1230
01:02:08,640 --> 01:02:12,120
Speaker 1: Wilson did last week, there was this amazing nugget on

1231
01:02:12,160 --> 01:02:16,040
Speaker 1: the Niners that they have forced five takeaways all season,

1232
01:02:16,760 --> 01:02:19,800
Speaker 1: and with three games to play, they can become the

1233
01:02:19,920 --> 01:02:24,000
Speaker 1: only team since at least ninety to not force double

1234
01:02:24,040 --> 01:02:27,280
Speaker 1: digit takeaways in a season that includes teams like the

1235
01:02:27,360 --> 01:02:32,800
Speaker 1: Decatur Staley's. I mean, you know, the the Duluth Triangles

1236
01:02:33,040 --> 01:02:37,040
Speaker 1: or something back then there. I mean there were the Triangle,

1237
01:02:37,120 --> 01:02:39,800
Speaker 1: the Dayton Triangles. I mean those guys the Dayton Triangles

1238
01:02:39,840 --> 01:02:42,160
Speaker 1: pulled off at least ten to give it takeaways A

1239
01:02:42,200 --> 01:02:44,760
Speaker 1: little bit of perspective. Staley is like more of like

1240
01:02:44,840 --> 01:02:49,640
Speaker 1: a bend but don't break defense. Stanley's were the Chicago

1241
01:02:49,760 --> 01:02:52,240
Speaker 1: Bears for two years before they became the Chicago Bears.

1242
01:02:52,280 --> 01:02:55,320
Speaker 1: It's a little perspective to the marks nugget there. So

1243
01:02:55,440 --> 01:02:58,120
Speaker 1: they have five takeaways. There are seven teams in the

1244
01:02:58,200 --> 01:03:00,640
Speaker 1: league this year that have had at least five takeaways

1245
01:03:00,640 --> 01:03:03,360
Speaker 1: in a single game. Right, I mean Xavian Howard has

1246
01:03:03,400 --> 01:03:09,160
Speaker 1: seven takeaways. Give me a break. I love that they play.

1247
01:03:09,560 --> 01:03:11,600
Speaker 1: They're just so committed to their style though they play

1248
01:03:11,640 --> 01:03:14,040
Speaker 1: six offensive lineman so much. This is a game where

1249
01:03:14,120 --> 01:03:16,560
Speaker 1: they don't have to throw the ball much to win.

1250
01:03:16,760 --> 01:03:19,800
Speaker 1: You would think, you would think, but Kyle Shanahan, you

1251
01:03:19,880 --> 01:03:21,800
Speaker 1: never know. I'd like to see them like, maybe don't

1252
01:03:21,840 --> 01:03:26,600
Speaker 1: throw it once. I want to. I want to say

1253
01:03:26,600 --> 01:03:28,720
Speaker 1: that kind of like how sometimes you decide to try

1254
01:03:28,800 --> 01:03:31,560
Speaker 1: to not to speak for an entire segment when you

1255
01:03:31,840 --> 01:03:34,240
Speaker 1: you usually doesn't work out, but you usually have that

1256
01:03:34,400 --> 01:03:36,720
Speaker 1: plan every few shows or so not to say anything. Well,

1257
01:03:36,760 --> 01:03:38,800
Speaker 1: there are a few games that that would make sense

1258
01:03:39,000 --> 01:03:41,920
Speaker 1: this week. It's like the year that the Panthers couldn't

1259
01:03:41,920 --> 01:03:44,320
Speaker 1: find a quarterback and they decided just to play D'Angelo

1260
01:03:44,360 --> 01:03:46,720
Speaker 1: Williams there for a while. It's a little under the

1261
01:03:46,800 --> 01:03:50,560
Speaker 1: radar that that Pete Carroll Seahawks close in a very

1262
01:03:50,640 --> 01:03:54,680
Speaker 1: similar fashion when they're at their best, like the Patriots,

1263
01:03:54,760 --> 01:03:58,080
Speaker 1: that they've been so much better Thanksgiving on throughout the

1264
01:03:58,160 --> 01:04:01,120
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll era. Like as much credit as we're giving them,

1265
01:04:01,160 --> 01:04:02,960
Speaker 1: it's like they might be even better than we think

1266
01:04:03,160 --> 01:04:06,720
Speaker 1: if the defense is it keeps improving, because it really

1267
01:04:06,760 --> 01:04:09,240
Speaker 1: hasn't been that defense now, that's what I'm saying. I'm

1268
01:04:09,280 --> 01:04:11,400
Speaker 1: saying that if they keep getting better, like you have

1269
01:04:11,520 --> 01:04:13,520
Speaker 1: to think about them as a team that could ruin

1270
01:04:13,640 --> 01:04:15,760
Speaker 1: some team seasons in them. Yeah, and not ruin the

1271
01:04:15,800 --> 01:04:18,200
Speaker 1: chief season. But if when they take care of business

1272
01:04:18,320 --> 01:04:21,040
Speaker 1: this week, and they had they welcomed the Chiefs into

1273
01:04:21,080 --> 01:04:24,280
Speaker 1: their building in Week sixteen riding a five game winning stream.

1274
01:04:24,720 --> 01:04:27,040
Speaker 1: That is a tough game and another big test for

1275
01:04:27,120 --> 01:04:30,520
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes. But we'll get there. Let's move on the

1276
01:04:31,000 --> 01:04:35,080
Speaker 1: New England Patriots, who, uh, last time we heard from them,

1277
01:04:35,200 --> 01:04:38,760
Speaker 1: Scott Zolak had become comatose. Uh due to the Miami

1278
01:04:38,880 --> 01:04:43,040
Speaker 1: Miracle thirty three loss to the Dolphins. Uh. They now

1279
01:04:43,360 --> 01:04:48,960
Speaker 1: travel to Pittsburgh. This is Mark Sessler as close as

1280
01:04:49,000 --> 01:04:52,040
Speaker 1: you can get to a must win game for the Steelers.

1281
01:04:52,400 --> 01:04:54,080
Speaker 1: Yes it is. There's a lot to talk about, but

1282
01:04:54,160 --> 01:04:57,840
Speaker 1: I'm going to just leave you with one specific prediction

1283
01:04:58,680 --> 01:05:04,520
Speaker 1: that I guarantee. I all, okay. Stephen Gustkowski misses a

1284
01:05:04,640 --> 01:05:07,560
Speaker 1: kick that goes down and Patriots infamy in this game.

1285
01:05:07,600 --> 01:05:09,560
Speaker 1: It's gonna be an extra pointer of feed gilt Field

1286
01:05:09,560 --> 01:05:12,120
Speaker 1: field goal I cannot quite decipher yet, but it's gonna

1287
01:05:12,160 --> 01:05:15,400
Speaker 1: go down and ultra infamy. He had a miss kick

1288
01:05:15,520 --> 01:05:18,760
Speaker 1: last week. He's not on top of his game right now.

1289
01:05:18,840 --> 01:05:22,000
Speaker 1: He's feeling the jitters to last week. He's going to

1290
01:05:22,160 --> 01:05:25,440
Speaker 1: have a killer gaff in this game that's going to

1291
01:05:25,560 --> 01:05:28,920
Speaker 1: leave New England hobbled. WHOA What do your spidy senses

1292
01:05:28,960 --> 01:05:31,800
Speaker 1: say about Chris Boswell, who kept his job this week?

1293
01:05:32,000 --> 01:05:34,840
Speaker 1: I mean, well, because I think that's the obvious one

1294
01:05:34,880 --> 01:05:36,200
Speaker 1: that you would think that about. But I think it's

1295
01:05:36,200 --> 01:05:38,880
Speaker 1: gonna go the other way. Yep. I mean it's not

1296
01:05:38,920 --> 01:05:41,720
Speaker 1: Gonnas gonna go down and infamy as much as his

1297
01:05:41,880 --> 01:05:45,680
Speaker 1: multiple miskicks and Super bowls. So I'll live with that

1298
01:05:45,840 --> 01:05:48,439
Speaker 1: remains to be seen. You haven't seen that's gonna happen

1299
01:05:48,440 --> 01:05:50,960
Speaker 1: on Sunday. Yeah, this this is going to be one

1300
01:05:51,040 --> 01:05:54,360
Speaker 1: of those moments of the populous Filaska. By the way,

1301
01:05:54,440 --> 01:05:58,280
Speaker 1: Kai for bath Um, who came in flew in for

1302
01:05:58,320 --> 01:06:00,880
Speaker 1: a workout with Pittsburgh. It went so well that the

1303
01:06:00,960 --> 01:06:07,200
Speaker 1: Steelers told him, hey, hold tight, don't leave town, but

1304
01:06:07,240 --> 01:06:11,240
Speaker 1: we're not signing. You're not signing you. Basically, honestly, they're saying,

1305
01:06:11,280 --> 01:06:14,960
Speaker 1: if Chris Boswell, this is one kick at all, probably

1306
01:06:15,160 --> 01:06:18,440
Speaker 1: against the page they paying for, like his hotel for

1307
01:06:18,480 --> 01:06:20,840
Speaker 1: the next I don't mean, I don't know if it's

1308
01:06:20,840 --> 01:06:22,800
Speaker 1: literally like stay in the hotel room that we put

1309
01:06:22,880 --> 01:06:26,000
Speaker 1: you up in, but just realize we loved your workout

1310
01:06:26,320 --> 01:06:29,600
Speaker 1: because you're a really solid kicker. It's like kid be

1311
01:06:29,600 --> 01:06:32,160
Speaker 1: a little worried if iwell that he like walks out

1312
01:06:32,200 --> 01:06:34,120
Speaker 1: of the parking lot and he's like, why am I tying?

1313
01:06:34,120 --> 01:06:35,720
Speaker 1: I'd love to be a kicker out of work that

1314
01:06:35,800 --> 01:06:37,360
Speaker 1: just gets put in a hotel for a week to

1315
01:06:37,400 --> 01:06:38,960
Speaker 1: see if maybe I get a job or not. This

1316
01:06:39,120 --> 01:06:41,480
Speaker 1: is the most pressure West since Adam Vinitaria was told

1317
01:06:41,520 --> 01:06:44,040
Speaker 1: by Parcels grabbed by the shoulder pads as he was

1318
01:06:44,120 --> 01:06:46,040
Speaker 1: jogging out on the field, if you miss this kick,

1319
01:06:46,080 --> 01:06:48,080
Speaker 1: your cut and let's move. As a rookie, don't you

1320
01:06:48,120 --> 01:06:49,800
Speaker 1: think there's something to be said for that, Like, if

1321
01:06:49,840 --> 01:06:51,640
Speaker 1: you can't take that pressure from the coach, how are

1322
01:06:51,640 --> 01:06:53,160
Speaker 1: you going to take the pressure of a of a

1323
01:06:53,200 --> 01:06:56,040
Speaker 1: close game. That's why, and we joke about it on

1324
01:06:56,120 --> 01:06:59,480
Speaker 1: this podcast, but I am legitimately fascinated by the kicker positions.

1325
01:06:59,520 --> 01:07:02,440
Speaker 1: I am too, as it is so pressure filled. It's intense,

1326
01:07:02,680 --> 01:07:06,280
Speaker 1: and I think it's the most pressure filled outside of golf.

1327
01:07:06,360 --> 01:07:08,600
Speaker 1: Is an individual sports, so you can't really compare it,

1328
01:07:08,680 --> 01:07:10,200
Speaker 1: but I think in team sports, that's gotta be the

1329
01:07:10,280 --> 01:07:14,360
Speaker 1: most mentally rigorous position. It's one of the reasons why

1330
01:07:14,440 --> 01:07:17,480
Speaker 1: I like the Patriots. You know, in this game is

1331
01:07:17,560 --> 01:07:20,880
Speaker 1: that the special teams for the Steelers are awful. It's

1332
01:07:20,920 --> 01:07:23,400
Speaker 1: not just boss well it's a punting it's the coverage units.

1333
01:07:23,440 --> 01:07:26,760
Speaker 1: It's awful. And the little details in a game like

1334
01:07:26,920 --> 01:07:29,880
Speaker 1: this we've seen again and again. I'm just trusting Josh

1335
01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:33,320
Speaker 1: McDaniels and the Patriots offensive coaching staff to come up

1336
01:07:33,360 --> 01:07:36,280
Speaker 1: with a game plan that exposes Pittsburgh because Pittsburgh is

1337
01:07:36,280 --> 01:07:39,600
Speaker 1: a more talented team. But right now, the Patriots are

1338
01:07:40,000 --> 01:07:43,080
Speaker 1: healthier than they've been all season. Tom Brady looks better,

1339
01:07:43,200 --> 01:07:45,360
Speaker 1: I think, coming off maybe his best performance of the

1340
01:07:45,400 --> 01:07:48,600
Speaker 1: season last week in Miami. Other than the mental mistakes

1341
01:07:49,280 --> 01:07:52,200
Speaker 1: Josh Gordon, I think is is looking looks like the

1342
01:07:52,320 --> 01:07:56,120
Speaker 1: old he's by the way, if you just paste out

1343
01:07:56,200 --> 01:07:58,200
Speaker 1: his stats for the Patriots, he's on pace for an

1344
01:07:58,240 --> 01:08:01,480
Speaker 1: eleven twenty yards season with the Pats, like if it

1345
01:08:01,560 --> 01:08:04,920
Speaker 1: was sixteen games, and he's becoming more integrated into what

1346
01:08:05,040 --> 01:08:07,280
Speaker 1: they do. They're they're running, their backfield is healthy, like

1347
01:08:07,320 --> 01:08:09,320
Speaker 1: they're a healthy team. I think they have as good

1348
01:08:09,360 --> 01:08:11,200
Speaker 1: a chance to put up points as they have all

1349
01:08:11,280 --> 01:08:13,720
Speaker 1: season right now. If Tom Brady wasn't so afraid to

1350
01:08:13,800 --> 01:08:16,479
Speaker 1: take a hit right now, I'd say he's playing like

1351
01:08:16,800 --> 01:08:20,360
Speaker 1: he did in previous years. He's certainly threw the ball

1352
01:08:20,439 --> 01:08:21,880
Speaker 1: really well. List like that. I thought that was the

1353
01:08:21,880 --> 01:08:23,720
Speaker 1: best he threw the ball all year. But after I

1354
01:08:23,800 --> 01:08:25,400
Speaker 1: watched him or Eli Manning play, I have to go

1355
01:08:25,439 --> 01:08:27,360
Speaker 1: watch A young doesn't want to get hit. No, they're

1356
01:08:27,439 --> 01:08:29,960
Speaker 1: so afraid to get hit. But I think that's part

1357
01:08:30,040 --> 01:08:32,519
Speaker 1: of what makes them good. But I hear what you're

1358
01:08:32,520 --> 01:08:34,559
Speaker 1: saying that maybe it also makes them kind of bad

1359
01:08:34,800 --> 01:08:37,080
Speaker 1: too far the other way. He doesn't take sacks, you know,

1360
01:08:37,120 --> 01:08:39,600
Speaker 1: he doesn't have negative plays. That's always gives up on

1361
01:08:39,720 --> 01:08:42,200
Speaker 1: plays too easily. That that that is possible, and you

1362
01:08:42,880 --> 01:08:44,799
Speaker 1: and you look at the Steelers. That's I don't understand

1363
01:08:44,840 --> 01:08:46,920
Speaker 1: the Steelers because their lines are so good. The defensive

1364
01:08:46,960 --> 01:08:49,720
Speaker 1: line for the Steelers playing great. Their offensive line maybe

1365
01:08:49,760 --> 01:08:52,080
Speaker 1: the best in the league. Why are they losing? James

1366
01:08:52,160 --> 01:08:54,639
Speaker 1: Conner set out practice again on Thursday with that high

1367
01:08:54,680 --> 01:09:00,360
Speaker 1: ankle sprain. UH. Steelers O C. Randy Feichner UH said

1368
01:09:00,400 --> 01:09:02,880
Speaker 1: that he could play even without practicing, but it's more

1369
01:09:03,000 --> 01:09:05,280
Speaker 1: likely that if he doesn't get on the field at

1370
01:09:05,320 --> 01:09:07,800
Speaker 1: any point in practice, he's gonna miss another game. We'll

1371
01:09:07,840 --> 01:09:09,400
Speaker 1: see what that means. And I will will say one

1372
01:09:09,439 --> 01:09:12,920
Speaker 1: thing on this, gentleman, that, uh, the Steelers despite their

1373
01:09:12,920 --> 01:09:15,960
Speaker 1: slimp and I I was all in on the Panthers

1374
01:09:16,160 --> 01:09:18,120
Speaker 1: figuring it out, and I was so mad at myself

1375
01:09:18,200 --> 01:09:20,280
Speaker 1: for missing that so badly. But then you know what,

1376
01:09:20,680 --> 01:09:23,160
Speaker 1: I didn't know that Cam Newton's shoulder was banged up.

1377
01:09:23,479 --> 01:09:25,559
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna let myself off the hook. I feel

1378
01:09:25,600 --> 01:09:28,320
Speaker 1: the same way about the Steelers. I feel like they're

1379
01:09:28,320 --> 01:09:29,760
Speaker 1: going to right the ship, and a lot of people

1380
01:09:29,800 --> 01:09:32,000
Speaker 1: are writing them off right now. I feel like, and

1381
01:09:32,120 --> 01:09:34,479
Speaker 1: this is you know what this is, West, this is

1382
01:09:34,600 --> 01:09:37,080
Speaker 1: a winner go home game kind of and you know

1383
01:09:37,120 --> 01:09:40,559
Speaker 1: what else, it is must win. It's a cornered animal game.

1384
01:09:40,600 --> 01:09:45,240
Speaker 1: It's a statement game, and the Steelers are a dangerous

1385
01:09:45,439 --> 01:09:48,400
Speaker 1: animal cornered. The Patriots need the game too, but not

1386
01:09:48,560 --> 01:09:50,880
Speaker 1: nearly as much as the Steelers. And it did not

1387
01:09:51,000 --> 01:09:53,560
Speaker 1: feel right when I locked up the Patriots. Although I

1388
01:09:53,560 --> 01:09:55,400
Speaker 1: looked in the mirror and I loved what I saw, Mark,

1389
01:09:55,680 --> 01:09:57,840
Speaker 1: I didn't like rooting for them that week. So it's

1390
01:09:57,880 --> 01:10:01,839
Speaker 1: time to get the scales back to even. Let's go silver,

1391
01:10:02,120 --> 01:10:06,880
Speaker 1: I mean gold, black and yellow. Let's go Steelers it.

1392
01:10:08,520 --> 01:10:12,280
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, come on, I love it. I hated when

1393
01:10:12,320 --> 01:10:15,200
Speaker 1: you picked the Patriots. This is the order restored to

1394
01:10:15,280 --> 01:10:18,559
Speaker 1: the world. I want you already to get stuff and gold.

1395
01:10:19,800 --> 01:10:23,040
Speaker 1: They're not silver? What are? They're black? And gold? Yellow? Black?

1396
01:10:23,120 --> 01:10:26,040
Speaker 1: And I am afraid because it's to everyone's just say.

1397
01:10:26,080 --> 01:10:27,880
Speaker 1: I mean, I was talking to you know, damn a

1398
01:10:27,960 --> 01:10:30,840
Speaker 1: check and an MVP. Who are Steelers fans? Like? They

1399
01:10:30,880 --> 01:10:35,920
Speaker 1: don't even Steelers fan I don't know, isn't she wait,

1400
01:10:35,960 --> 01:10:39,680
Speaker 1: she's from the region. Her dad's from Pittsburgh too. Yeah,

1401
01:10:40,040 --> 01:10:43,200
Speaker 1: I don't know, Maybe I'm wrong. They were they were

1402
01:10:43,240 --> 01:10:46,519
Speaker 1: acting like, oh, there's no chance, like that, like okay,

1403
01:10:46,760 --> 01:10:48,760
Speaker 1: let's move on past this game and once let's get

1404
01:10:52,760 --> 01:10:55,360
Speaker 1: isn't that Anthony jessel Nick, who I I co host

1405
01:10:55,680 --> 01:10:59,000
Speaker 1: the Jessell Nick and Rosenthal Vanity Project with r VP

1406
01:10:59,600 --> 01:11:01,920
Speaker 1: Juniors President. Yeah, we gotta get it. You know. I

1407
01:11:01,960 --> 01:11:07,080
Speaker 1: don't know why the words vanity feels slightly He thinks

1408
01:11:07,160 --> 01:11:08,800
Speaker 1: the season is over and that they have no chance.

1409
01:11:09,040 --> 01:11:11,800
Speaker 1: It's ridiculous, But they all think this for the same reason.

1410
01:11:11,920 --> 01:11:14,120
Speaker 1: You have more faith in the Patriots because they've seen

1411
01:11:14,160 --> 01:11:16,400
Speaker 1: their coaching staff get out coached by the Patriots every

1412
01:11:16,520 --> 01:11:18,719
Speaker 1: and I get it. But I also see a pariods

1413
01:11:18,880 --> 01:11:23,600
Speaker 1: team who like the it's fair. The minute that you

1414
01:11:23,720 --> 01:11:26,840
Speaker 1: start having faith in their defense, the Dolphins go up

1415
01:11:26,920 --> 01:11:29,080
Speaker 1: and down the field on them. They have no pass

1416
01:11:29,200 --> 01:11:32,919
Speaker 1: rush whatsoever unless they call a blitz, and against Pittsburgh

1417
01:11:32,960 --> 01:11:34,840
Speaker 1: that's a that's a huge problem to me, that they're

1418
01:11:34,840 --> 01:11:37,040
Speaker 1: gonna have to take chances to try to get after

1419
01:11:37,120 --> 01:11:39,080
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger. He's gonna have all day. Who do the

1420
01:11:39,120 --> 01:11:41,919
Speaker 1: desert people like in this game, I think it's started

1421
01:11:42,640 --> 01:11:46,000
Speaker 1: slightly for Pittsburgh and then moved slightly to New England.

1422
01:11:46,800 --> 01:11:50,519
Speaker 1: So the fans, the fans like, I'm thinking the Patriots.

1423
01:11:50,520 --> 01:11:53,080
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna like I said, it's gonna come down

1424
01:11:53,120 --> 01:11:58,559
Speaker 1: to it because Kowski disaster, it's gonna Pittsburgh taking the Steelers.

1425
01:11:58,600 --> 01:12:00,559
Speaker 1: I think that the Patriots are so much better at

1426
01:12:00,600 --> 01:12:02,040
Speaker 1: home than they are on the road, and they've shown

1427
01:12:02,120 --> 01:12:05,600
Speaker 1: that this year. And Steelers are a cornered animal. I

1428
01:12:05,600 --> 01:12:09,080
Speaker 1: agree with you, Dan Rickie Hollywood. I'm gonna go Patriots

1429
01:12:09,200 --> 01:12:15,000
Speaker 1: with a Gaskowski kicked in the game. All right, let's

1430
01:12:15,040 --> 01:12:19,320
Speaker 1: move on to Sunday Night football. A bummer flex this

1431
01:12:19,360 --> 01:12:21,280
Speaker 1: one out. I guess you can't. Well, it's a little

1432
01:12:21,320 --> 01:12:23,719
Speaker 1: late defending champions late in the game. The Eagles weren't

1433
01:12:23,720 --> 01:12:26,080
Speaker 1: any good options either. I think if they even thought

1434
01:12:26,120 --> 01:12:27,680
Speaker 1: of it. How about the game we just talked to

1435
01:12:27,760 --> 01:12:30,400
Speaker 1: that that was protected. I'm I'm gonna be at this game,

1436
01:12:30,439 --> 01:12:33,519
Speaker 1: by the way, tell us more. I just decided I'm

1437
01:12:33,520 --> 01:12:35,439
Speaker 1: gonna go through that instead of doing this whole sit

1438
01:12:35,520 --> 01:12:37,400
Speaker 1: here for four hours and wait for you know, till

1439
01:12:37,479 --> 01:12:39,760
Speaker 1: the and to talk about enough minutes. I'm just gonna

1440
01:12:39,800 --> 01:12:42,840
Speaker 1: go the Eagle. This is just a little made a

1441
01:12:43,200 --> 01:12:45,160
Speaker 1: Mark story. I was excited. No, I'm gonna do it.

1442
01:12:45,600 --> 01:12:47,240
Speaker 1: You can be fine without me for one week. The

1443
01:12:47,320 --> 01:12:51,479
Speaker 1: Eagles are six and seven after their loss to Dallas

1444
01:12:51,560 --> 01:12:53,840
Speaker 1: that really cooked them. They could not find a way

1445
01:12:53,880 --> 01:12:57,400
Speaker 1: to get past the Cowboys in Big d And it's

1446
01:12:57,439 --> 01:13:00,439
Speaker 1: getting worse because now Carson Wentz it was reported Wednesday

1447
01:13:00,520 --> 01:13:02,519
Speaker 1: that he had backed spasms and it was gonna probably

1448
01:13:02,600 --> 01:13:04,640
Speaker 1: keep him out this week. Now the report is that

1449
01:13:04,680 --> 01:13:06,800
Speaker 1: he is a fractured vertebrae and that and that could

1450
01:13:06,800 --> 01:13:08,559
Speaker 1: be the end of his season. So you're gonna get

1451
01:13:08,640 --> 01:13:12,800
Speaker 1: Nick Foles, who is not for nothing, the reigning Super

1452
01:13:12,840 --> 01:13:14,720
Speaker 1: Bowl m v P. But he didn't look like it

1453
01:13:14,760 --> 01:13:17,160
Speaker 1: when he played earlier in the season. West big test

1454
01:13:17,240 --> 01:13:20,120
Speaker 1: here against the Rams, who I assume are gonna be

1455
01:13:20,640 --> 01:13:24,800
Speaker 1: angry and youngry after that embarrassing Sunday Night football loss

1456
01:13:25,120 --> 01:13:29,280
Speaker 1: against the Bears. Were bringing Youngry back, bringing back Henry

1457
01:13:29,320 --> 01:13:32,479
Speaker 1: and younger. Can we can't even call this a rematch?

1458
01:13:32,560 --> 01:13:35,120
Speaker 1: Can we? The Eagles team is so much different than

1459
01:13:35,160 --> 01:13:37,680
Speaker 1: it was last year when Carson Wentz got injured. In

1460
01:13:37,760 --> 01:13:42,080
Speaker 1: this game, I don't the falls didn't make like one

1461
01:13:42,200 --> 01:13:44,360
Speaker 1: throw at the end. I was at this game last

1462
01:13:44,439 --> 01:13:46,479
Speaker 1: year to win it. It is kind of amazing how

1463
01:13:47,400 --> 01:13:54,479
Speaker 1: the two teams have have turned since then. I just

1464
01:13:54,640 --> 01:13:58,840
Speaker 1: loved watching West's face. What what was happening there? Well,

1465
01:13:58,880 --> 01:14:01,040
Speaker 1: I mean, what what we're supposed to say we believe

1466
01:14:01,040 --> 01:14:06,040
Speaker 1: in Nick Foles now? No? I mean, I think it's

1467
01:14:06,080 --> 01:14:08,800
Speaker 1: like we talked about yesterday, the Nick Foles was surrounded

1468
01:14:08,880 --> 01:14:12,240
Speaker 1: by a super Bowl type team last year. It's not

1469
01:14:12,360 --> 01:14:14,920
Speaker 1: like the Eagles offense was lightening up with Carson Wentz.

1470
01:14:15,080 --> 01:14:17,160
Speaker 1: I mean, he made some plays at the end of

1471
01:14:17,240 --> 01:14:19,160
Speaker 1: last week's game that was if that was his parting

1472
01:14:19,240 --> 01:14:20,920
Speaker 1: shot for the season, it was almost nice to go

1473
01:14:21,000 --> 01:14:23,720
Speaker 1: out on a high note. If the Eagles defense had

1474
01:14:23,760 --> 01:14:25,559
Speaker 1: stood up at the end of that game, who knows,

1475
01:14:25,600 --> 01:14:28,000
Speaker 1: we would be talking differently. And that's been the It's

1476
01:14:28,000 --> 01:14:29,599
Speaker 1: been the case for the Eagles all year. When their

1477
01:14:29,640 --> 01:14:32,160
Speaker 1: offense does do something, their their defense has given up

1478
01:14:32,160 --> 01:14:34,200
Speaker 1: a lot of late drives to lose games. I mean,

1479
01:14:34,240 --> 01:14:37,080
Speaker 1: think of the big blown leads that they've had or

1480
01:14:37,160 --> 01:14:39,160
Speaker 1: their season could be different. But they're they're a very

1481
01:14:39,280 --> 01:14:41,360
Speaker 1: average team. There's no reason that it has to be

1482
01:14:41,520 --> 01:14:45,719
Speaker 1: one of the more depressing Super Bowl follow ups because

1483
01:14:45,800 --> 01:14:47,840
Speaker 1: of the It wasn't just a team winning the third

1484
01:14:47,920 --> 01:14:49,439
Speaker 1: or fourth Super Bowl and then oh they have an

1485
01:14:49,479 --> 01:14:53,759
Speaker 1: off year. It was the most heightened experience in Eagles

1486
01:14:53,840 --> 01:14:56,519
Speaker 1: fan history. And then you followed up with a lot

1487
01:14:56,640 --> 01:14:58,760
Speaker 1: of the same characters and you look a lot more

1488
01:14:58,840 --> 01:15:01,280
Speaker 1: like the team from two years ago, which was what

1489
01:15:01,439 --> 01:15:03,760
Speaker 1: eight and eight and ultra boring. They look loaded and

1490
01:15:03,920 --> 01:15:07,200
Speaker 1: young and innovative. They've had a lot of injuries though,

1491
01:15:07,360 --> 01:15:11,000
Speaker 1: I mean, they have had a ton of injuries. Uh,

1492
01:15:11,400 --> 01:15:14,280
Speaker 1: but you're right. I mean I think I I used

1493
01:15:14,360 --> 01:15:16,599
Speaker 1: this this matchup to kind of revisit the whole Golf

1494
01:15:16,760 --> 01:15:20,320
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz debate uh in QB Index and just thinking

1495
01:15:20,439 --> 01:15:23,720
Speaker 1: how not that I don't. I think both teams would

1496
01:15:23,760 --> 01:15:25,280
Speaker 1: do the same and they're happy, but how things can

1497
01:15:25,479 --> 01:15:28,160
Speaker 1: change even sort of since that moment where you know

1498
01:15:28,240 --> 01:15:30,840
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz towards a c L, golf has taken another

1499
01:15:30,960 --> 01:15:34,479
Speaker 1: step up. I think since then Wentz is physically talented,

1500
01:15:34,560 --> 01:15:38,200
Speaker 1: everyone would certainly want him, but I think the Rams

1501
01:15:38,240 --> 01:15:40,040
Speaker 1: are happy with the guy that they've had, and he's

1502
01:15:40,080 --> 01:15:42,759
Speaker 1: been durable, and he's two years younger and he's getting

1503
01:15:42,800 --> 01:15:45,200
Speaker 1: better every year. Things do change fast. I read three

1504
01:15:45,320 --> 01:15:48,200
Speaker 1: articles last week about John D. Filippo as as the

1505
01:15:48,240 --> 01:15:51,360
Speaker 1: hot head coaching came right, And I do want to

1506
01:15:52,439 --> 01:15:54,840
Speaker 1: anybody that kind of writes off the Eagles down with

1507
01:15:54,960 --> 01:15:58,839
Speaker 1: Nick Foles bind center. I get it, but that remains

1508
01:15:58,920 --> 01:16:01,280
Speaker 1: what happened this time. I'm last year really going into

1509
01:16:01,360 --> 01:16:05,200
Speaker 1: January more. Uh one of the more stunning experiences to

1510
01:16:05,320 --> 01:16:08,120
Speaker 1: watch as an NFL fan. Ever, So is it is

1511
01:16:08,160 --> 01:16:11,160
Speaker 1: it completely impossible that he gets hot and and they

1512
01:16:11,479 --> 01:16:13,880
Speaker 1: put up a fight here against the Rams. I don't

1513
01:16:13,880 --> 01:16:15,760
Speaker 1: think so, but I don't. I don't know, but but

1514
01:16:15,880 --> 01:16:17,439
Speaker 1: in none in terms of your season though, because you

1515
01:16:17,479 --> 01:16:19,599
Speaker 1: go from what's Rams, then Texans, and then you're gonna

1516
01:16:19,600 --> 01:16:22,519
Speaker 1: beat the Redskins. So what so they go, I finish

1517
01:16:22,600 --> 01:16:24,439
Speaker 1: eight and eight. I think eight wins might get you

1518
01:16:24,560 --> 01:16:27,080
Speaker 1: in this because I think seven, eight and one might

1519
01:16:27,160 --> 01:16:29,640
Speaker 1: get you in for the Vikings. At this stage, it's

1520
01:16:30,000 --> 01:16:31,800
Speaker 1: it seems possible. But I think it's a big game

1521
01:16:31,840 --> 01:16:33,840
Speaker 1: for the Rams because they've had two of their worst

1522
01:16:33,880 --> 01:16:37,200
Speaker 1: offensive performances of the season. They've certainly missed Cooper Cup.

1523
01:16:37,439 --> 01:16:39,599
Speaker 1: The Lions maybe showed a little bit of a blueprint

1524
01:16:39,680 --> 01:16:41,879
Speaker 1: of roughing up their receivers at the line of scrimmage,

1525
01:16:41,880 --> 01:16:44,080
Speaker 1: which worked pretty well. The Eagles might not have the

1526
01:16:44,120 --> 01:16:47,040
Speaker 1: personnel to really pull off that strategy, but I think

1527
01:16:47,040 --> 01:16:48,519
Speaker 1: the Rams would feel a lot better if they can

1528
01:16:48,560 --> 01:16:50,439
Speaker 1: go put up forty burger up or something like that,

1529
01:16:50,479 --> 01:16:52,559
Speaker 1: because their offense hasn't looked the same. Can you imagine

1530
01:16:52,600 --> 01:16:56,040
Speaker 1: a world where Nick Foles does somehow win out, They

1531
01:16:56,120 --> 01:16:58,920
Speaker 1: go nine and seven, they get into the playoffs, nick

1532
01:16:59,000 --> 01:17:01,240
Speaker 1: Foles takes them back to the Super Bowl and wins

1533
01:17:01,280 --> 01:17:05,040
Speaker 1: it again. Then you've got a little quarterback controversy. I

1534
01:17:05,080 --> 01:17:07,160
Speaker 1: would think you would. Some people just want to watch

1535
01:17:07,200 --> 01:17:10,720
Speaker 1: the world burn. Uh. Finally, Monday Night football. Uh. It

1536
01:17:10,880 --> 01:17:13,320
Speaker 1: is the eleven and two New Orleans Saints who got

1537
01:17:13,360 --> 01:17:16,720
Speaker 1: back on track with the help of Taysom Hill in

1538
01:17:16,840 --> 01:17:19,439
Speaker 1: his blocked punt that sent them on their way to

1539
01:17:20,520 --> 01:17:23,439
Speaker 1: went over the bucks um Greg. Now they travel to

1540
01:17:23,520 --> 01:17:26,639
Speaker 1: Charlotte to face the Panthers. Panthers team in an epic

1541
01:17:26,760 --> 01:17:28,960
Speaker 1: free fall there now six and seven, riding a five

1542
01:17:29,040 --> 01:17:33,439
Speaker 1: game losing streak, playing a quarterback who can't throw. You

1543
01:17:33,479 --> 01:17:37,840
Speaker 1: know what kind of game? This feels like um um

1544
01:17:38,920 --> 01:17:42,760
Speaker 1: injured bird game? How about like a last coaches last

1545
01:17:42,760 --> 01:17:44,680
Speaker 1: stand game. I mean, I feel like this is the

1546
01:17:44,880 --> 01:17:48,320
Speaker 1: last stand of the Ron Rivera era. You gotta he's

1547
01:17:48,320 --> 01:17:50,280
Speaker 1: gonna take the fall for camp. I hope he doesn't.

1548
01:17:50,360 --> 01:17:54,400
Speaker 1: But that's I think the signals that that David Tepper,

1549
01:17:54,600 --> 01:17:58,000
Speaker 1: the new owner, is sending in some ways by helping,

1550
01:17:58,240 --> 01:18:00,800
Speaker 1: you know, forcing him to fire coaches and just some

1551
01:18:00,920 --> 01:18:03,559
Speaker 1: of the wi just reading the local reports. And that's

1552
01:18:03,600 --> 01:18:05,519
Speaker 1: what new owners do. They want, they want new guys.

1553
01:18:05,640 --> 01:18:07,560
Speaker 1: Ron Rivera talked about it in the off season. He

1554
01:18:07,720 --> 01:18:10,200
Speaker 1: felt more pressure coming into this season. He felt like

1555
01:18:10,280 --> 01:18:13,040
Speaker 1: his job was online and his defense is the reason

1556
01:18:13,439 --> 01:18:16,080
Speaker 1: why they're so bad. It's not Cam Newton. I really don't,

1557
01:18:16,400 --> 01:18:19,679
Speaker 1: you know. I know Cam Newton's arm is is off,

1558
01:18:19,920 --> 01:18:22,160
Speaker 1: like that's a fact. But he made a lot of

1559
01:18:22,240 --> 01:18:25,080
Speaker 1: really nice throws last week too. He also missed plenty

1560
01:18:25,120 --> 01:18:26,880
Speaker 1: of throws. But I've seen Cam Newton miss throws his

1561
01:18:26,920 --> 01:18:29,360
Speaker 1: whole career, and he had some bullets, like he threw

1562
01:18:29,600 --> 01:18:32,760
Speaker 1: a forty yard throw across the field to the outside

1563
01:18:32,880 --> 01:18:36,479
Speaker 1: Laton section. I guess I'm confused about the injury, and

1564
01:18:36,560 --> 01:18:40,080
Speaker 1: I don't think his accuracy or his play is the

1565
01:18:40,160 --> 01:18:42,000
Speaker 1: reason there's six and seven. I think it's that they

1566
01:18:42,040 --> 01:18:44,439
Speaker 1: have no passive disagree with you more. I mean, I

1567
01:18:44,520 --> 01:18:47,360
Speaker 1: don't His injury is obvious when you watch him play.

1568
01:18:47,520 --> 01:18:49,680
Speaker 1: He's not making the throws that he's not he's not

1569
01:18:49,800 --> 01:18:52,280
Speaker 1: making the same throws. But in that game, for instance,

1570
01:18:52,360 --> 01:18:55,000
Speaker 1: he made a number of of solid throws. And if

1571
01:18:55,040 --> 01:18:58,519
Speaker 1: their defense had been playing better through assertive as a runner,

1572
01:18:58,600 --> 01:19:00,160
Speaker 1: right now because of the injury, I mean, I think

1573
01:19:00,160 --> 01:19:02,599
Speaker 1: he's changed his whole style of play. I do wonder

1574
01:19:02,640 --> 01:19:04,439
Speaker 1: about that because there was the sequence on the goal

1575
01:19:04,520 --> 01:19:06,400
Speaker 1: line against the Browns at the end, and that almost

1576
01:19:06,479 --> 01:19:09,000
Speaker 1: felt like if that's it for Rivera and Turner, what

1577
01:19:09,080 --> 01:19:11,679
Speaker 1: a terrible way to go out That goal line sequence

1578
01:19:11,720 --> 01:19:15,360
Speaker 1: where McCaffrey and Cam Newton don't run the ball for

1579
01:19:15,479 --> 01:19:17,760
Speaker 1: three straight plays with the game online, Like just didn't

1580
01:19:17,760 --> 01:19:19,680
Speaker 1: feel like the Panthers. I just I don't point to

1581
01:19:19,800 --> 01:19:23,080
Speaker 1: riveras like this lingering year after year problem for the

1582
01:19:23,120 --> 01:19:25,400
Speaker 1: pan Like if you go, if you get rid of them,

1583
01:19:25,520 --> 01:19:27,120
Speaker 1: you better know you're gonna get someone. But there's all

1584
01:19:27,160 --> 01:19:29,400
Speaker 1: these these coaches, like the John Harbaughs and all these

1585
01:19:29,400 --> 01:19:30,880
Speaker 1: guys that we're gonna dump them and go find a

1586
01:19:30,920 --> 01:19:33,200
Speaker 1: new coach. It's like change for the sake of change,

1587
01:19:33,240 --> 01:19:35,880
Speaker 1: because Rivera is not that. It's just new owners want

1588
01:19:35,960 --> 01:19:38,760
Speaker 1: their own guy. This is what bad franchises do, though

1589
01:19:38,840 --> 01:19:40,640
Speaker 1: they some guy comes in, you have to change your

1590
01:19:40,640 --> 01:19:42,960
Speaker 1: whole scheme to fit him, and then it's another three

1591
01:19:43,040 --> 01:19:45,000
Speaker 1: or four years and you don't even have the right

1592
01:19:45,040 --> 01:19:47,160
Speaker 1: players for your scheme. And not to mention, they're like

1593
01:19:47,880 --> 01:19:50,960
Speaker 1: seven to nine teams that could be looking to make

1594
01:19:51,000 --> 01:19:53,559
Speaker 1: a coaches change. Do you really want to get into

1595
01:19:53,720 --> 01:19:56,519
Speaker 1: that scrum? And you're gonna find some that's definitely better

1596
01:19:56,600 --> 01:19:59,040
Speaker 1: than Ron Riverez get especially when you have North Turner

1597
01:19:59,120 --> 01:20:01,599
Speaker 1: and I don't think they you know, it wouldn't shock

1598
01:20:01,640 --> 01:20:03,479
Speaker 1: me if they win this game. I wouldn't pick them,

1599
01:20:03,920 --> 01:20:06,599
Speaker 1: but it wouldn't like stun me if they win this game.

1600
01:20:06,680 --> 01:20:09,680
Speaker 1: The Saints over the last three weeks, I don't think

1601
01:20:09,680 --> 01:20:13,120
Speaker 1: it's time to panic. But there's their thirty first out

1602
01:20:13,160 --> 01:20:15,720
Speaker 1: of thirty two teams in yards, so to me, that

1603
01:20:15,760 --> 01:20:17,800
Speaker 1: seems like a problem. They're only been better than the

1604
01:20:17,840 --> 01:20:19,920
Speaker 1: Cardinals in terms of yards the last three weeks, so

1605
01:20:19,960 --> 01:20:22,960
Speaker 1: it's not like just one week they didn't play well

1606
01:20:23,040 --> 01:20:27,320
Speaker 1: on offense. Last week period, Uh, they need to fix

1607
01:20:27,400 --> 01:20:29,320
Speaker 1: the running game, which is hard for me to believe.

1608
01:20:29,360 --> 01:20:31,000
Speaker 1: They were the number one running game in the league

1609
01:20:31,280 --> 01:20:33,960
Speaker 1: last year according to Football Centers their eighth and sinking.

1610
01:20:34,080 --> 01:20:35,880
Speaker 1: Right now, they haven't quite been the same. I'm not

1611
01:20:36,479 --> 01:20:39,760
Speaker 1: really sure why they're not as deep on offense. They're

1612
01:20:39,800 --> 01:20:42,439
Speaker 1: They're a great defensive team right now. They're playing much better,

1613
01:20:42,479 --> 01:20:45,760
Speaker 1: but I don't rankin da leap. Sheldon Rankins and Cam

1614
01:20:45,880 --> 01:20:48,760
Speaker 1: Jordan has backed up like his amazing season with one

1615
01:20:48,880 --> 01:20:50,560
Speaker 1: just as good. So they're a good team. But it's like,

1616
01:20:50,600 --> 01:20:54,040
Speaker 1: I want to see those old Saints back. We should

1617
01:20:54,080 --> 01:20:58,839
Speaker 1: have a moment of silence Ricky Hollywood for Brandon Marshall

1618
01:21:00,240 --> 01:21:04,679
Speaker 1: letteran wide receiver who it looked, finally, at long last,

1619
01:21:04,720 --> 01:21:08,800
Speaker 1: at the age of thirty four after decade plus in

1620
01:21:08,840 --> 01:21:11,080
Speaker 1: the league, was gonna at least appear in the playoffs,

1621
01:21:11,880 --> 01:21:15,400
Speaker 1: but the Saints parted ways with the wide receiver. He

1622
01:21:15,439 --> 01:21:24,920
Speaker 1: will not be playing January football. That's it said. Maybe

1623
01:21:24,960 --> 01:21:26,760
Speaker 1: they I would say, maybe they'd bring him back, but

1624
01:21:26,920 --> 01:21:30,920
Speaker 1: he didn't even play for them every Diddy, I don't

1625
01:21:30,960 --> 01:21:33,360
Speaker 1: think so. Now here's where it gets even worse. They

1626
01:21:33,920 --> 01:21:36,160
Speaker 1: cut him to make room for Eric Swope, who they

1627
01:21:36,200 --> 01:21:39,439
Speaker 1: claimed off waivers from the Colts yesterday and then today

1628
01:21:39,560 --> 01:21:43,519
Speaker 1: they dumped Eric Swope? Was that just like a cover?

1629
01:21:45,120 --> 01:21:48,000
Speaker 1: There is one way that Brandon Marshall could wind up

1630
01:21:48,000 --> 01:21:51,559
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Tell us, let's say a little team

1631
01:21:52,040 --> 01:21:54,439
Speaker 1: called the Cleveland Browns signed him, and let's say the

1632
01:21:54,520 --> 01:21:57,160
Speaker 1: Browns take out the Broncos like I know they will.

1633
01:21:57,200 --> 01:21:59,040
Speaker 1: You guys think I'm taking the Ravens at my luck.

1634
01:21:59,080 --> 01:22:01,920
Speaker 1: I'm looking up the brown Saturday night. You clowns think

1635
01:22:01,920 --> 01:22:04,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna lock up the Ravens. I have never locked

1636
01:22:04,040 --> 01:22:06,000
Speaker 1: them up and I will never lock them up. Wow,

1637
01:22:07,040 --> 01:22:09,760
Speaker 1: that was great. You know though, you're changing because you

1638
01:22:09,800 --> 01:22:12,120
Speaker 1: didn't like that. We gave you heat. That's all. I

1639
01:22:12,240 --> 01:22:13,800
Speaker 1: do not want to hear about that, because if I

1640
01:22:13,960 --> 01:22:16,200
Speaker 1: I've only won seven in a row, which goes totally

1641
01:22:16,280 --> 01:22:19,280
Speaker 1: silent on the show, I'm gonna win. I'm going hate

1642
01:22:19,320 --> 01:22:21,160
Speaker 1: in a row and I'm not gonna hear any nonsense

1643
01:22:21,200 --> 01:22:24,000
Speaker 1: about asterisk next to it and a bunch of malarkey

1644
01:22:24,439 --> 01:22:27,120
Speaker 1: by you guys, you a little pr machine. I'm gonna

1645
01:22:27,200 --> 01:22:29,360
Speaker 1: it's also, it's a primetime game. I can get over

1646
01:22:29,439 --> 01:22:32,120
Speaker 1: it by Sunday morning. If I if I lose this thing, Wawn,

1647
01:22:32,640 --> 01:22:34,439
Speaker 1: I should have locked up the Browns in the first place.

1648
01:22:34,560 --> 01:22:36,240
Speaker 1: This is a great spot for your browne. You will

1649
01:22:36,320 --> 01:22:43,439
Speaker 1: not critique now you go quiet that worked. I fully

1650
01:22:43,600 --> 01:22:45,679
Speaker 1: enjoy locking up. Are you trying to say that work?

1651
01:22:45,760 --> 01:22:47,240
Speaker 1: Are you trying to say that that was the plan

1652
01:22:47,400 --> 01:22:50,200
Speaker 1: the whole time? That it was the entire time? Like

1653
01:22:50,240 --> 01:22:54,320
Speaker 1: I'm gonna lock up the Ravens, okay, but you know what,

1654
01:22:54,479 --> 01:22:57,560
Speaker 1: I think there's something There's something cosmically wrong about me

1655
01:22:57,680 --> 01:23:00,240
Speaker 1: locking up the Ravens, and I don't like the whole

1656
01:23:01,080 --> 01:23:02,960
Speaker 1: energy around it. So I'm going with the team that

1657
01:23:03,040 --> 01:23:05,400
Speaker 1: I will. I will die with if I need. Don't

1658
01:23:05,400 --> 01:23:07,400
Speaker 1: really care. The good thing is it's on Saturday, like

1659
01:23:07,520 --> 01:23:09,920
Speaker 1: you said, so we won't have to deal with any

1660
01:23:10,000 --> 01:23:13,240
Speaker 1: fallout if if well you might, Oh yeah, Mark will

1661
01:23:13,240 --> 01:23:15,759
Speaker 1: be in a real chipper moved on case Keenum drops

1662
01:23:15,800 --> 01:23:18,960
Speaker 1: a bomb on the brown season. But don't don't have

1663
01:23:19,080 --> 01:23:20,880
Speaker 1: a great feeling about the Browns game. But you know what,

1664
01:23:21,120 --> 01:23:22,599
Speaker 1: I haven't had a good reading on him all year.

1665
01:23:22,640 --> 01:23:25,639
Speaker 1: I want to recognize this is the red Zeppelin Walla

1666
01:23:25,720 --> 01:23:28,639
Speaker 1: Walla that it is. It's a bold move. You're backing

1667
01:23:28,720 --> 01:23:32,240
Speaker 1: your team, and you're right cosmically, you don't belong attached

1668
01:23:32,240 --> 01:23:35,040
Speaker 1: to the Ravens. Never. Oh, that's always buy it in.

1669
01:23:36,320 --> 01:23:38,880
Speaker 1: That's a loyal friend. It's a great move. It's shows strength.

1670
01:23:39,360 --> 01:23:42,320
Speaker 1: I agree, it's a better lock I agree, but it's

1671
01:23:42,360 --> 01:23:44,559
Speaker 1: always a mirror. Well, that took effort for you to agree.

1672
01:23:45,160 --> 01:23:48,519
Speaker 1: But if he pulls it off, it's it's it's just

1673
01:23:48,680 --> 01:23:52,680
Speaker 1: another it's great. It's just another gigantic moment for me

1674
01:23:52,760 --> 01:23:54,680
Speaker 1: this season. You deserve credit if you don't think you're

1675
01:23:54,680 --> 01:23:56,400
Speaker 1: getting enough credit for that seven or Rold, that's a

1676
01:23:56,439 --> 01:23:58,719
Speaker 1: great run. That's got to be close to a record

1677
01:23:59,080 --> 01:24:01,080
Speaker 1: for a lock offs. I don't know what is it.

1678
01:24:01,160 --> 01:24:02,559
Speaker 1: I don't know what's got to be right around there.

1679
01:24:02,560 --> 01:24:05,360
Speaker 1: And and I, since we're in this general conversation before

1680
01:24:05,400 --> 01:24:08,000
Speaker 1: we get out, I'm three. I'm three into a season

1681
01:24:08,160 --> 01:24:10,599
Speaker 1: ending thirteen game winning streak that's going to have people

1682
01:24:10,720 --> 01:24:15,320
Speaker 1: remembering the Chris Carter run on it on ESPN. What

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01:24:15,400 --> 01:24:20,639
Speaker 1: about I mean, uh, like the Liam McK run from

1684
01:24:20,680 --> 01:24:24,000
Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen on NBC went throw back six from

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01:24:24,040 --> 01:24:26,519
Speaker 1: six back. It's it's happening. Oh no, what if? What

1686
01:24:26,600 --> 01:24:28,839
Speaker 1: if the Browns lose and the Ravens win on Sunday,

1687
01:24:29,240 --> 01:24:32,040
Speaker 1: then we're in trouble. I've got a lot of room

1688
01:24:32,120 --> 01:24:33,880
Speaker 1: and time to make it up. I'm not giving up

1689
01:24:34,000 --> 01:24:35,760
Speaker 1: with just being down by two. As you mentioned you

1690
01:24:35,840 --> 01:24:38,280
Speaker 1: were a couple of days ago. I'm in trouble and

1691
01:24:38,360 --> 01:24:40,840
Speaker 1: it's a must win situation. I'm the cornered animal as

1692
01:24:40,880 --> 01:24:42,160
Speaker 1: well in that game. But I want to bring up

1693
01:24:42,160 --> 01:24:45,439
Speaker 1: before we get out of here, Greg the rainmaker, what

1694
01:24:45,560 --> 01:24:49,160
Speaker 1: has he been retired? Well, I'm a man who listens

1695
01:24:49,240 --> 01:24:54,800
Speaker 1: to criticism. Dr rainmak up. Let me in my money.

1696
01:24:55,280 --> 01:25:00,240
Speaker 1: Now your knees. No, I really want to to hear.

1697
01:25:00,280 --> 01:25:09,320
Speaker 1: They don't crop and I wanted Dan done. It's gonna

1698
01:25:09,320 --> 01:25:12,120
Speaker 1: be good, yeah, Mark, Mark. I think Market made a

1699
01:25:12,200 --> 01:25:14,120
Speaker 1: really good point that it was taking up too much,

1700
01:25:14,360 --> 01:25:21,000
Speaker 1: too much time of the show like this is. I

1701
01:25:21,040 --> 01:25:25,240
Speaker 1: didn't even after Mark, I didn't even Dan. Now you

1702
01:25:25,360 --> 01:25:27,639
Speaker 1: mentioned that it needed some more wins lately and people

1703
01:25:27,680 --> 01:25:30,280
Speaker 1: are losing their money, and that's that's trouble. I mean,

1704
01:25:30,320 --> 01:25:32,559
Speaker 1: that's real life sit you well, hold on, Greg, Actually

1705
01:25:32,600 --> 01:25:35,600
Speaker 1: you miss you miss heard my critique. My critique is

1706
01:25:35,680 --> 01:25:38,360
Speaker 1: not that the segment exists, it's that you were starting

1707
01:25:38,400 --> 01:25:41,920
Speaker 1: to do like three or four in an episode finding

1708
01:25:42,080 --> 01:25:44,000
Speaker 1: I think we all felt like, if you find one,

1709
01:25:44,439 --> 01:25:47,439
Speaker 1: you're hanging your hat on. Love can enjoy that. What's

1710
01:25:47,479 --> 01:25:49,360
Speaker 1: going on, you're playing hard to get it was it

1711
01:25:49,479 --> 01:25:54,400
Speaker 1: was taking to uh, Greg, did you forget to do it?

1712
01:25:54,800 --> 01:25:57,320
Speaker 1: To come back with the rad did you simply forget

1713
01:25:57,400 --> 01:25:59,679
Speaker 1: to do it? We also, you know, because of our success,

1714
01:25:59,840 --> 01:26:03,639
Speaker 1: we've had more advertisements like the Los Angeles Country Club.

1715
01:26:03,800 --> 01:26:10,080
Speaker 1: I believe there was like the iradiotrotic that advert. I

1716
01:26:10,200 --> 01:26:13,120
Speaker 1: actually did not. I did not. I refused to read

1717
01:26:13,160 --> 01:26:15,760
Speaker 1: one of those ads this week because I did. I

1718
01:26:15,880 --> 01:26:19,200
Speaker 1: wanted there to be space for your little thing. So

1719
01:26:19,720 --> 01:26:22,360
Speaker 1: everybody's cooking up different theories about the situation. I love it.

1720
01:26:22,439 --> 01:26:25,280
Speaker 1: I mean it could have I think ever got to

1721
01:26:25,360 --> 01:26:31,080
Speaker 1: do it. That's my theory. He simply what he's doing here,

1722
01:26:31,160 --> 01:26:33,720
Speaker 1: he's he wants now everyone to come after us for

1723
01:26:34,280 --> 01:26:37,120
Speaker 1: blaming us for routing the segment that everyone else loves.

1724
01:26:37,160 --> 01:26:40,240
Speaker 1: This is definitely just like I would. I would bet

1725
01:26:40,720 --> 01:26:43,080
Speaker 1: I would tell you on my children's lives that that

1726
01:26:43,280 --> 01:26:45,720
Speaker 1: is not what if Dr Rosenthal was to put on

1727
01:26:45,760 --> 01:26:47,840
Speaker 1: his psychiatrist had here, what would he say was the

1728
01:26:47,880 --> 01:26:51,240
Speaker 1: reason behind this. Dr Rosen Rosen who knows. I don't know.

1729
01:26:51,400 --> 01:26:56,040
Speaker 1: He's out of money right now? Well, alright, well you know,

1730
01:26:56,160 --> 01:26:58,719
Speaker 1: we'll see. We'll tune in next week. Maybe the Rainmaker

1731
01:26:58,760 --> 01:27:01,519
Speaker 1: comes back, or maybe he has gone forever. That's it.

1732
01:27:01,640 --> 01:27:04,160
Speaker 1: What if if all of you listeners start begging, maybe

1733
01:27:04,560 --> 01:27:08,200
Speaker 1: maybe I'm coming back there? It is the Diesmond Cast.

1734
01:27:08,760 --> 01:27:10,400
Speaker 1: All right, next time you hear from us, it will

1735
01:27:10,400 --> 01:27:13,880
Speaker 1: be all the Sunday games and Saturday games recapped. Thank

1736
01:27:13,920 --> 01:27:15,800
Speaker 1: you to everybody. And by the way, that subredd it

1737
01:27:15,960 --> 01:27:20,000
Speaker 1: is up to ten thousand uh strong now, which is

1738
01:27:20,080 --> 01:27:23,080
Speaker 1: really a credit to our audience and how loyal and

1739
01:27:23,120 --> 01:27:26,640
Speaker 1: awesome you guys are. In addition to everything else, we

1740
01:27:26,720 --> 01:27:30,000
Speaker 1: have the best list of any podcast both in this building,

1741
01:27:30,439 --> 01:27:32,600
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna put it up against any other podcast.

1742
01:27:33,200 --> 01:27:36,920
Speaker 1: What what what fans we have of them according to

1743
01:27:37,000 --> 01:27:40,000
Speaker 1: this or bots? But that's fine. That still leaves you

1744
01:27:40,120 --> 01:27:43,880
Speaker 1: with real people. Absolutely. All right, let's get out of here.

1745
01:27:43,920 --> 01:27:49,439
Speaker 1: Dan Hands is signing off four quiet story. Ricky. See

1746
01:27:49,479 --> 01:27:52,160
Speaker 1: you just parachuted into this huge hit podcast, isn't it great?

1747
01:27:52,880 --> 01:27:58,479
Speaker 1: It's amazing at Tampos, NFL. Al right, everybody till Sunday night,