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Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio to bring in Albert Breer, the senior NFL

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Speaker 1: reporter and lead content strategist for the Monday Morning Quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Without Derrick Henry, what kind of team are the Tennessee Titans,

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Speaker 1: you know, Like the last two weeks, like you said, Dan,

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Speaker 1: his production hasn't been what we've gotten used to it being,

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Speaker 1: and they found different ways to win. But I think,

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Speaker 1: you know as well as I do, like part of

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Speaker 1: the fact that they're able to produce no other areas

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Speaker 1: of the game is the fact that the defense is

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Speaker 1: game planning for Derek Henry and he changes everything for you. So,

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Speaker 1: you know, he's one of the most important non quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: maybe the most important important non quarterback to his team

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Speaker 1: in the NFL, and the drop off from him to

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Speaker 1: Jeremy McNichols is going to be pretty big. So I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, you take them out of the equation, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think, now that's free game lead that they took

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Speaker 1: on the Colts yesterday with that win looks less insurmountable.

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Speaker 1: And now now as Ryan Tannehill's got to go earn

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Speaker 1: his paycheck, right and now this is you know, what

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Speaker 1: where a j Brown's got to make his money and

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Speaker 1: where the whole Julio Jones trade has to come in. Like,

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Speaker 1: it's just, you know, so many things that were built

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Speaker 1: around Derrick Henry have been built around Derrick Henry the

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Speaker 1: last two plus years, you know, and now you sort

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Speaker 1: of have to reconfigure who you are because I mean,

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Speaker 1: like Jeremy McNichols is a nice player, but the drop

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Speaker 1: off from Henry to McNichols, when you're talking about a

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Speaker 1: guy you can build your offense around as massive. The

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Speaker 1: Saints quarterbacking situation is interesting. Taysom Hill was in concussion protocol.

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Speaker 1: Trevor Simeon comes to the rescue Jamis Winston. I don't

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Speaker 1: know the severity of that, but I know he was

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Speaker 1: dancing on crutches after the win. But I don't know

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Speaker 1: if that's just Hey, I'm gonna have to have surgery here.

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Speaker 1: Do you know anything about Jamis Winston this morning? Yeah, Albert, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I know that they're bracing for the news

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Speaker 1: that you know, the confirms the celtare and that this

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Speaker 1: is gonna be it for the season for him, and

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Speaker 1: you know, it's gonna be interesting seeing what they do

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Speaker 1: going forward. I like, I was just somebody there told

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Speaker 1: me last night, I just don't assume that it's automatically

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Speaker 1: going to be Taysom Hill, or that we're just gonna

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Speaker 1: go straight with Taysom Hill as the quarterback when he's

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Speaker 1: back off the concussion. And the point was raised to

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Speaker 1: me because you know, this guy was talking to said,

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Speaker 1: we don't really have like a massive amount of playmakers

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Speaker 1: versus where they had been in the past when they

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Speaker 1: had you know, Brandon Cooks and you know mart Marcus

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Speaker 1: Colston and Jimmy Graham, all those guys over the years.

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Speaker 1: They're not in that spot right now, especially with Michael

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Speaker 1: Thomas still not playing. And so you know, I know

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Speaker 1: that there was at least a thought where we'd be

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Speaker 1: better off with Trevor Simeon as the quarterback and then

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Speaker 1: Taysom Hill and sort of a slash type of role

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Speaker 1: or a platoon. And normally you'd say, like, well, you know,

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Speaker 1: you don't want to be you know, having a quarter

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Speaker 1: a quarterback shuffle. Shuffle will never work in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: and you don't want to be messing with that because

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Speaker 1: it'll screw with the continuity or offense. But I mean,

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Speaker 1: if there's one coach who'd be willing to try it

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Speaker 1: and who'd be comfortable trying it, I mean, it's the

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Speaker 1: one down in New Orleans, right. I think it makes

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Speaker 1: the most sense that just like you said, they don't

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Speaker 1: have weapons, they have Alvin Kamara, and if I can

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Speaker 1: have Simeon as the quarterback and probably fits a little

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Speaker 1: bit more of what they're used to with Drew Brees,

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Speaker 1: and then I can have Taysom Hill and at least

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Speaker 1: I can interject him into the offense as well. And

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Speaker 1: I think with that defense, you know, just keep us,

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Speaker 1: keep us in the game, you know, that's all, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and keep it close and you know we can help

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Speaker 1: you win. But to me, that probably makes the most sense.

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Speaker 1: What's the game that you came away from going what

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Speaker 1: just happened? I would say, I mean the Saints game,

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Speaker 1: I think is it was interesting, but they swept them

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Speaker 1: last year in the regular season. And I think people

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Speaker 1: underrate the talent on the Saints. We get so fixated

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Speaker 1: on the quarterback, you know. I don't think people like

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Speaker 1: fully grasp how good the team around Drew Brees was

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Speaker 1: at the end of his career and how they were

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Speaker 1: sort of carrying him more than the other way around

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Speaker 1: at the end. You know, so now you can't see

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Speaker 1: Drew Brees coming back, right, I don't think so? Okay,

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Speaker 1: Philip Rivers maybe, but like like I don't think, I

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Speaker 1: think you make your calls. If you're Sean Payton. Now

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Speaker 1: you call Brees, you call Rivers. You see what shape

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Speaker 1: those guys are in, because you still feel like you've

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Speaker 1: got a team capable of winning a championship. I mean,

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Speaker 1: this team has been knocking on the door for five

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Speaker 1: years now. You know, breezes are no breeze. That's still

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Speaker 1: a roster full of guys who are in the prime

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Speaker 1: of their career. So I think, you know, if you're

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Speaker 1: Sean Payton, you don't just stand pat You turn over

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Speaker 1: every rock and see what you might be able to

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Speaker 1: find out there. Philip Rivers, I mean, shoot, do you

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Speaker 1: take a swing at to Shaun Watson? Now, well you

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Speaker 1: you will get him because you're a cap situation. But

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Speaker 1: they've always been able to solve that, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean, Like, they've always been able to find a way.

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Speaker 1: Do you take a while, because that's the other thing

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Speaker 1: that that franchise has been willing to move Draft picks

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Speaker 1: in the past for veteran players. They have not been

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Speaker 1: shy about doing that because they're so confident in their

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Speaker 1: ability to draft and develop. They don't they feel like

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Speaker 1: they don't need the surplus of picks the other teams do,

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Speaker 1: so they've been willing to give up picks in the past, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, sort of like the Rams are. So, I mean,

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Speaker 1: if you're them, do you take a wild swing at

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Speaker 1: to Shaun Watson now? And I'm not I'm not suggesting

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Speaker 1: it's going to happen, but I think I think Sean

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Speaker 1: will turn over every rock, you know. And so whether

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Speaker 1: it's making a phone calling Watson or um, you know,

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Speaker 1: or calling Rivers and seeing hey, when your high school

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Speaker 1: season's over, would you want to come out Like I

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Speaker 1: just think you have to though, Dan, That's the thing

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Speaker 1: is because it's to me, it's like, just rattle off

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Speaker 1: the names on that roster. How many guys are right

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Speaker 1: in the heart of the prime of their careers. And

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Speaker 1: you know your cameras, youre Ryan Ramshecks here, Cam Jordan's

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Speaker 1: is on the back end. You know, marsh On Lattimore,

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Speaker 1: Marcus Williams, Damario Davis, like so many guys that are

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Speaker 1: right either in the heart of the prime of their careers,

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Speaker 1: are on the back nine, and you know, I just

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Speaker 1: feel like they've still got an opportunity to compete at

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Speaker 1: a really high level, and maybe this opens the door

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Speaker 1: for them to do something creative that they wouldn't have

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Speaker 1: thought of. Head Jami's not gone down. Talking to Albert Breer,

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Speaker 1: the senior NFL reporter lead strategist for The Monday Morning Quarterback,

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Speaker 1: you can read his column this morning. Cooper cup is

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Speaker 1: having one of the greatest seasons, the greatest start to

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Speaker 1: a season for a wide receiver in over fifty years.

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Speaker 1: Why is he not getting any credit? Because I think

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Speaker 1: most of the people who go through that offense don't

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Speaker 1: get credited. Goes to McVeigh. And whether or not that's

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Speaker 1: fair or not, I'm not you know, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: but you know, like I, you know, you look at

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Speaker 1: the scale position players who've gone through there, with the

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Speaker 1: exception of Girly, I think most of those guys have

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Speaker 1: been seen as sort of a creation of McVeigh. You know,

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Speaker 1: Robert Woods, I think the same way, and they clearly

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Speaker 1: valued both those guys. Both those guys are making sixteen

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Speaker 1: seventeen million dollars a year, so it's not like they

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Speaker 1: don't value them. But I do think there's maybe a

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Speaker 1: little bit of a perception out there that skill position

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Speaker 1: players who go through there are to some degree a production,

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Speaker 1: a product of the system. And that's why I think

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Speaker 1: people are so excited to see what Matthew Stafford looks

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Speaker 1: like in it, you know, because you had Jared Goffoy

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Speaker 1: was another guy who was seen as the product of

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Speaker 1: the system in the last few years. So what happens

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Speaker 1: when you put like a true, like franchise type talent

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Speaker 1: I think that's really it is that, you know, Cooper

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Speaker 1: Cups never played anywhere else, got wasn't a first round pick,

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Speaker 1: you know, And I think part of you know, playing

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Speaker 1: there is so many people have had success, so many

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Speaker 1: skill position players have had success coming through that system,

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Speaker 1: that now every guy who does have that sort of success,

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Speaker 1: no matter how much they reward him or tell you

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Speaker 1: what the money, how much he means to them and

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Speaker 1: everything else, like everybody's sort of seen as a cog

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Speaker 1: in the machine. Cooper Cup is the first player in

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl era with it Lee mannis nine hundred

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Speaker 1: receiving yards ten touchdowns through his team's first eight games

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Speaker 1: of a season. Pretty pretty good stuff. Pretty good. Did

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Speaker 1: the Jets find their quarterback yesterday? It's weird, isn't it?

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Speaker 1: How Like they put him in and Josh Johnson went

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Speaker 1: in the middle of that game and he looked okay too, Like,

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Speaker 1: so I don't know if it like makes you raise

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Speaker 1: some questions about Zach Wilson and how ready he was

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Speaker 1: there were some people that looked at that across the

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Speaker 1: NFL and said, is there like, like, has the staff

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Speaker 1: done enough? Was Zach Wilson? You know? And you have

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Speaker 1: a first time coordinator there, and they went through a

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Speaker 1: tragedy on their offensive staff over the summer, but they

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Speaker 1: help Zach Wilson? And then you throw Mike White in there,

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Speaker 1: and my god, he looks competent, you know, And this

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Speaker 1: isn't just this week. He look competent when they throw

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Speaker 1: him in against the Patriots last week too, So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's fair to ask some of

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Speaker 1: like Zach has a ways to go as far as

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Speaker 1: learning just how to run an NFL offense and how

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Speaker 1: to take house money, you know what I mean, like

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Speaker 1: not try to turn every play into a seventy yard touchdown.

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Speaker 1: And I think you're sort of seeing it now, and

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Speaker 1: maybe it's good for Zach Wilson to get to see

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Speaker 1: someone else running the offense. But yeah, I mean Mike

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Speaker 1: White makes I mean, you watch Mike White, It's like,

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Speaker 1: why did they trade for Joe Flaco? I was sort

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Speaker 1: of thinking that last week too, like like even after

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Speaker 1: the way he came in and like stabilize things against

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Speaker 1: the Patriots when they were getting blown out, Like you

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Speaker 1: definitely carried over to this week where it's like, maybe

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Speaker 1: they shouldn't have on the draft pick away for Joe Flacco.

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Speaker 1: The Cowboys I thought made the right to decision even

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Speaker 1: if they had lost to the Vikings that you don't have,

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Speaker 1: you know, Dak Prescott. I got to look for the

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Speaker 1: bigger picture here what happened last year, And you know,

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Speaker 1: you've got a team that can compete in the NFC.

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Speaker 1: And you know, Cooper Rush comes in and I didn't

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Speaker 1: miss him. But you know, I think the bigger question

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Speaker 1: I have is still about the Minnesota Vikings Albert because

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Speaker 1: if you have a good quarterback, you're in no man's land.

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Speaker 1: You need to have a great quarterback or it feels

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Speaker 1: Radio and the iHeart Radio wapp. Rick Stroud joining us

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Speaker 1: was there just to finish a game if they needed them.

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Speaker 1: So that certainly helped them. Hurt them on the back

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Speaker 1: end yesterday you saw that. But I think they made mistakes, uh,

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Speaker 1: just of emotion. You know, Devin White can't get you know,

430
00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:04,040
Speaker 1: a horse caller penalty unfortunately hurt Jamis Winston on that

431
00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:07,560
Speaker 1: then gets another roughing the passer um you know, and

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Speaker 1: then ends up with a taunting penalty. You know, this team,

433
00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:14,040
Speaker 1: this team hurts itself. There was one play, you know

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Speaker 1: where they have an interception in the end zone with

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Speaker 1: Antoine Winfield Junior. He's eating W's in the end zone

436
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Speaker 1: while the flags dropping on Will Golston for roughing the passer.

437
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Speaker 1: I mean, that's just a bad look for a young

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Speaker 1: team that needs to know, you know, sort of how

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Speaker 1: to act. And I just felt like they didn't handle

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Speaker 1: their emotions very well yesterday and they got to get

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Speaker 1: better at that because they've talked about penalties all year.

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Speaker 1: They cut them out after the Chicago's game a year ago.

443
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Speaker 1: But they're still happening. So you know, they can't beat themselves.

444
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Speaker 1: They're they're a better football team than the Saints. They

445
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Speaker 1: didn't show it yesterday. Most threatening team in the NFC

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Speaker 1: to Tampa Bay's who, um, Well, if you can't win

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Speaker 1: the division, that's going to be tough. But I would

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Speaker 1: say I would say the best team I've seen, and

449
00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:06,800
Speaker 1: they got to get healthy, is the Dallas Cowboys. You know,

450
00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:09,639
Speaker 1: the Rams certainly have the formula because they have some

451
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Speaker 1: some some top flight defensive player with Jalen Ramsey and

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Speaker 1: Aaron Donald and that. But I think you can beat them.

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Speaker 1: I look at the Cowboys if they get their defense

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Speaker 1: together and those guys are healthy. Offensively, with Dak the

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Speaker 1: way he's playing, they're they're a tough out. I mean

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Speaker 1: the Bucks, you know one on Opening night by three,

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Speaker 1: But I like that. I like that football team. There's

458
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Speaker 1: a lot of good ones in the NFC and and

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Speaker 1: really I think it's going to be a premium on

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Speaker 1: who wins the division. If you can win your division

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Speaker 1: and get a home game or two, you'll be okay.

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Speaker 1: But let's be honest. If you look at the records

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Speaker 1: of the schedules, I think everything's going through Green Bay

464
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Speaker 1: and that's you know, if the Bucks or anybody else

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Speaker 1: has to go up there, it's likely not going to

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Speaker 1: be a bombing day like it was a year ago.

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Speaker 1: And there'll be more than nine thousand fans with Placard's

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Speaker 1: banging on the stand. So that's always a tough place

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Speaker 1: to play, and there's just not many teams. I think

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Speaker 1: the Packers are going to lose to safe travels Rick.

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Speaker 1: Always great to talk to you. Thank you, Thanks Dan

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Speaker 1: for shit. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk

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Speaker 1: this time, Carson Palmer joined us, the former NFL quarterback

477
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Speaker 1: Heisman Trophy winner at USC and I asked him the

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Speaker 1: following question, is James Franklin the front runner? As I've reported,

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Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of front runners right now,

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Speaker 1: and that's why I like where we're sitting. You know,

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Speaker 1: we had the first hot seat open up. You can't

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Speaker 1: have a lot of front runners, Carson. You can have

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Speaker 1: a front runner. You've got Penn State, You've got Iowa State,

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Speaker 1: You've got Cincinnati, You've got a wild card like Mike

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Speaker 1: Tomlin that if Mike Tomlin wants out. And I think

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Speaker 1: you know, at the end of the day, there is

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Speaker 1: not a direct that's the guy. Everybody's pointing their fingers

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Speaker 1: that there's a there's a lot of great options. Let's

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Speaker 1: bringing Carson Palmer, who joins this weekly appearance here. How

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Speaker 1: did things change after yesterday or last week at this

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Speaker 1: time when you mentioned Mike Tomlin's name. Yeah, they that

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Speaker 1: got a little bit of attention for me throwing a

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Speaker 1: wild card out there, Hey, us Trojan fans can dream.

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Speaker 1: That's a dream scenario picking up a guy like Mike

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Speaker 1: Tomlin going to USC. But it's a wild card, and

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Speaker 1: I got a little bit of attention. Obviously, did you

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Speaker 1: get any phone calls after that? I got some phone calls.

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Speaker 1: I got some phone calls and lots of texts. But again,

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Speaker 1: it's a wild card. It's a it's a it's a

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Speaker 1: day dream by me and probably all other USC fans

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Speaker 1: across the nation. And I wondered about that because you

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Speaker 1: did say it. I even said it after you did,

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Speaker 1: and said it the next day. This is a wish list.

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Speaker 1: You're not reporting Mike Tomlin was interested in USC. It's USC.

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Speaker 1: There's probably quite a few names on that list that

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Speaker 1: obviously you don't want to mention as wild cards now,

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Speaker 1: but there are probably some other notable coaches on there

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Speaker 1: that people might be surprised that USC would think. Hey,

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Speaker 1: who knows, let's take a shot. Is that Is that

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Speaker 1: a fair assessment of the hiring search here? That's all

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Speaker 1: it is as an assessment. I'm not sitting in meetings

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Speaker 1: with athletic directors and athletic program and boosters. I'm listening

513
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Speaker 1: to news bites here and there from all over the

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Speaker 1: country like you are, and there's a lot of wild cards.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I probably the most notable one that everybody

516
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Speaker 1: ties is Luke Fickle because of the relationship that Mike

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Speaker 1: Bone and Luke Fickle had as Mike hired Luke at

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Speaker 1: the University of Cincinnati. But there's a lot of interest

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Speaker 1: in this job, and the reason is it's USC. It's

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Speaker 1: it's not your usual run of the mill college. We're

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Speaker 1: talking about SC So there's a bunch of names that

522
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Speaker 1: are being thrown out there, and as the season progresses,

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Speaker 1: it's really fun to follow along and see who's name

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Speaker 1: gets thrown on the hat. What was your reaction to

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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin's reaction? I got. The first text I got

526
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Speaker 1: was from my brother saying, Hey, Mike Tomlin is gonna

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Speaker 1: be hot in his first press conference next week. And

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Speaker 1: he was, Yeah, he was. And you know, it's it's

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Speaker 1: it's not fair of me to all of a sudden

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Speaker 1: everybody jump on the bandwagon and throw that out there.

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Speaker 1: I was just daydreaming out loud with you. Dan, you

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Speaker 1: asked me a question directly. Who who I'd be excited about,

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Speaker 1: Who I'd like And I'd love to see Mike Tomlin

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Speaker 1: got a lot of love and respect for playing against

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Speaker 1: him for ten years, and then buddies that have played

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Speaker 1: for him. But again, it's early. There's a lot of

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Speaker 1: football left to be played. There's gonna be another college

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Speaker 1: name that another college coach that gets hot here and

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Speaker 1: gets his team into a big bowl game or into

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Speaker 1: the playoffs maybe, and then that name will be thrown

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Speaker 1: in the ring. So it's just fun to talk about

542
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Speaker 1: and digest all these names and all these guys as

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Speaker 1: we get down here to the end of this season.

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Speaker 1: And Luke Fickle's name came up a while ago, and

545
00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:03,800
Speaker 1: then I had to source say, Luke doesn't want to

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Speaker 1: leave the Midwest. Do you understand that that you know?

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Speaker 1: I mean, when you go to you're uprooting your family,

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Speaker 1: you go to southern California. I mean, it's it's a

549
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:16,800
Speaker 1: whole different lifestyle than what he's got in Cincinnati right now.

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Speaker 1: But could you see him wanting to stay in the

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Speaker 1: Midwest or not wanting to go out and kind of

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Speaker 1: trying to immerse himself into southern California. Uprooting your family

553
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Speaker 1: is part of the deal. That's part of the jobs.

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00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:33,600
Speaker 1: As coaches bounce around from team to team, nobody just

555
00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:35,959
Speaker 1: signs a contract with one team and stays there their

556
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Speaker 1: entire career. Very very rarely, so women that get interested

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Speaker 1: in coaches know that before they say yes or I do,

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00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:47,919
Speaker 1: they understand that that's the coach's lifestyle. It is what

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Speaker 1: it is. It's year after year, a couple of years here,

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Speaker 1: a couple of years there. But at the end of

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Speaker 1: the day, you know, there's only a handful of elite

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Speaker 1: you know, creme de la creme programs, the Alabama's, USC's

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Speaker 1: Texas and so on. And so when you have a

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Speaker 1: chance to leave and be really happy and comfortable in

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Speaker 1: your home state, or maybe your kids are happy at school,

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Speaker 1: your wife's happy in the neighborhood. But when you have

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Speaker 1: a chance to leave for one of those premier programs,

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Speaker 1: it's definitely a discussion around the dinner table there with

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Speaker 1: that family. All right, let's dive into the NFL. Carson

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Speaker 1: Palmer joining us worst loss of the weekend turned in

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Speaker 1: by who. I think it's a tie between what happened

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Speaker 1: in New Orleans with Tampa. I mean, Tampa really had

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Speaker 1: a chance to separate themselves in that division and take

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Speaker 1: a big lead as well as Cincinnati did. Cincinnati should

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Speaker 1: be sitting here at six and two. They're five and

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Speaker 1: three with a big loss in New York to the Jets.

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Speaker 1: They really had a chance to distinguish themselves in the

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Speaker 1: AFC North after that big beating they put down on

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Speaker 1: Baltimore a couple of weeks ago. That gave them the

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Speaker 1: outright lead and that division had they won. Unfortunately, both

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Speaker 1: those teams lost. Now, the NFC South and the AFC South,

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Speaker 1: they're pretty wide open him for a champion because both

583
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 1: those teams are tied at the top and Derrick Henry

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00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 1: looks like he might be done for the year, going

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Speaker 1: to need foot surgery there. Yeah, I was wondering who's

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Speaker 1: the team to beat in the NFC right now. It's

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Speaker 1: still Tampa. It's still the defending champs. You know. I

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Speaker 1: think they have probably the best defense in the game

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Speaker 1: right now, coached by Todd Balls, who's an unbelievable defensive coach,

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Speaker 1: and you've got Tom Brady, So they're still the team

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Speaker 1: to knock off. In the NFC. Yeah, I was wondering.

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Speaker 1: You know, it feels like it's going through Green Bay

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Speaker 1: because that division is bad and they've had some pretty

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Speaker 1: impressive wins. You know, the Rams are kind of quietly

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Speaker 1: building up the winds. Seattle's not good, San Francisco hasn't

596
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 1: been good, Arizona came back down to earth a little bit.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know. I probably look at Green Bay

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Speaker 1: right now, even though if you said both are healthy,

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Speaker 1: I'd say Tampa would probably be the most well rounded

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Speaker 1: team there. Where do the Rams fit in that equation?

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Speaker 1: The Rams are the sleeper. It's kind of funny. Being

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Speaker 1: based in Los Angeles, you're not hearing a ton about them.

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Speaker 1: For the most part. It seems like the bigger, you know,

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Speaker 1: the major metropolis cities, seem to get a lot of

605
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:10,640
Speaker 1: attention when they're doing well, and for some reason, the

606
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:12,880
Speaker 1: Rams are just kind of plugging along and beating everybody

607
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:16,320
Speaker 1: they should beat and winning pretty pretty easily in most

608
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Speaker 1: of their games, and nobody's giving them the credit and

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Speaker 1: the love, which doesn't make any sense. I mean, they

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Speaker 1: finally have you know, a top ten, top five maybe

611
00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 1: quarterback in the league, and so they're a team that's

612
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:31,240
Speaker 1: kind of sneaking along and nobody's really talking about them

613
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:33,520
Speaker 1: talent for talent, I mean, you look at you put

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Speaker 1: LA next to Green Bay, and I think the better

615
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Speaker 1: rosters in LA. But green Bay's got Aaron Rodgers. So

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Speaker 1: that's always the wild card. But at the end of

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Speaker 1: the day, at this point in the season, I always

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Speaker 1: go with a defending champ if they're still playing well

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Speaker 1: and they're they're at the top, and that's Tampa and

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Speaker 1: I think they're they're going to come down to it.

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Speaker 1: I'd love to see in the NFC Championship green Bay

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Speaker 1: Tampa and we might end up seeing that. Explain to

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Speaker 1: me Bill Belichick going on the road against the Charger

624
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Speaker 1: team that everybody has christened as they're one of the

625
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 1: elite teams and Justin Herbert the quarterback you want to

626
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Speaker 1: build around, and Bill ends up bringing his team out

627
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Speaker 1: there and picking up the win. That one really surprised me.

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Speaker 1: What about you, Yeah, yeah, I mean, I know there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of hype. There was a lot of hype

630
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Speaker 1: three weeks ago and on the Chargers and that's died off.

631
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Speaker 1: Now they've lost a couple over the last three weeks

632
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,920
Speaker 1: and they ran into the buzz saw that is Bill Belichick.

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Speaker 1: At the end of the day, he always does something

634
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 1: to throw you for a loop. As a quarterback, he

635
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,600
Speaker 1: always plays. He always seems to play really, really well

636
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:39,920
Speaker 1: and have a good defensive game plan against these next

637
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 1: hot shot quarterbacks that people are getting excited about. So

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Speaker 1: he did what Bill Belichick does. He slowed him down.

639
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 1: He created a couple turnovers. They had some really interesting

640
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,400
Speaker 1: plays where they were bringing different fire zones and got

641
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:55,640
Speaker 1: some sacks and got some hits, and got Justin Herbert

642
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:57,720
Speaker 1: off of his spot in the pocket and made him

643
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 1: move and delayed the past. So Bill did what he

644
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 1: what he typically does year in year out, which is

645
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 1: frustrated young quarterback that everybody's kind of like you said,

646
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:09,959
Speaker 1: Christen is the next greatest thing, And he slowed him

647
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,160
Speaker 1: down and mac Jones ended up playing better and looking

648
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 1: better as that game went on, Carson Wentz had one

649
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:19,959
Speaker 1: of those moments where and I'm sure you know the

650
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,600
Speaker 1: feeling or been in it close to it, but you know,

651
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 1: he switched his hands to throw it and he's in

652
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 1: the end zone and throws that interception. Is it the

653
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:32,840
Speaker 1: younger quarterback that's trying to make something always happen because

654
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 1: they they're not that far removed from college. I mean,

655
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 1: I guess Carson would be considered a veteran now, so

656
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 1: that even less of an excuse there. But what is

657
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:43,240
Speaker 1: the feeling like when you're in the moment, You're still

658
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:48,200
Speaker 1: trying to make something happen, but you shouldn't. He's far

659
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:50,400
Speaker 1: too better and to make that mistake. You do see

660
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 1: that with a young guy, and Mac Jones, it's okay,

661
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:57,720
Speaker 1: you know, even even a younger quarterback first couple starts,

662
00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:00,120
Speaker 1: but Carson's been in the league far too long, and

663
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:04,320
Speaker 1: that team is built to the point where you can't

664
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:06,200
Speaker 1: make that kind of play as a quarterback. That team

665
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,000
Speaker 1: is built to run the ball, and they've done that

666
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 1: extremely effectively. And that team is built to play great

667
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 1: defense and not turn the ball over. Unfortunately, you can't

668
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:17,680
Speaker 1: do that when you have a team like that and

669
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 1: you don't have a clear cut number one guy to

670
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 1: throw the ball up to, you know, fifty fifty balls

671
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 1: and explosive offense. That team is built to play great defense,

672
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 1: control the ball with the running game, with a short

673
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 1: passing game, and not turn it over. And unfortunately he's

674
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,040
Speaker 1: turned it over far too many times. And you know,

675
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:35,960
Speaker 1: he's the first to admit it. He said it after

676
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 1: the games. I cannot make those plays. He knows it,

677
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 1: and he's just Carson's always kind of been one of

678
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:44,120
Speaker 1: those guys that just can't give up. He just can't

679
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:46,680
Speaker 1: say quit. You know, he just is always fighting for

680
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:49,440
Speaker 1: an extra yard. He's always thinking he can pull some

681
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:53,479
Speaker 1: sort of superhuman superman play out of something that it's

682
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 1: there's just nothing there. Sometimes you just need to eat

683
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 1: it and take a safety. Sometimes you just need to

684
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 1: take the sack or throw it out of the bounds. Unfortunately,

685
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:03,720
Speaker 1: he's too far along in his career to continuously make

686
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 1: those mistakes. What's it like in film study when you

687
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:11,040
Speaker 1: know you've you've thrown a bad interception or fumble or

688
00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:13,719
Speaker 1: whatever it is, and you know what's coming up, Like,

689
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 1: what's that feeling like as you're sitting there and just

690
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:20,239
Speaker 1: waiting to see if the coach just piles on. That's

691
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:22,839
Speaker 1: the worst part of the week. You're you're surrounded by

692
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:26,640
Speaker 1: your teammates and your peers, and there's no doubt you're

693
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:29,479
Speaker 1: playing for the fans, and you're playing for the fan

694
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 1: base and for your family and all that, but more importantly,

695
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 1: Carson's playing for his teammates. And when when you let

696
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:38,879
Speaker 1: your teammates down, it's not the it's not the fear

697
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:41,600
Speaker 1: of letting a fan down or the fan base down.

698
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:44,319
Speaker 1: It's when you let your teammates down. And it's one

699
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 1: of those deals. You're sitting in that meeting and you

700
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:49,320
Speaker 1: know that plays coming up in four plays, in three plays,

701
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:52,080
Speaker 1: in two plays, and then here it is, and you

702
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 1: just slow, you start sinking in that seat. Your face

703
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 1: starts getting really red and hot, almost like you have

704
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:02,239
Speaker 1: a temperature, your temperatures rising because you're surrounded by your tier,

705
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:05,000
Speaker 1: your peers, and those are the guys that are putting

706
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:07,960
Speaker 1: in their best work all week long, preparing for that game,

707
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 1: preparing for that moment to be in that moment with

708
00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:13,080
Speaker 1: a chance to have a game winning drive. And it's

709
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:15,839
Speaker 1: not the fans you let down. It's that hurts. It's

710
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:17,759
Speaker 1: the guys in the room. They're sitting next to you

711
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:20,879
Speaker 1: and sitting behind you. Those are the ones that hurt

712
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:22,800
Speaker 1: the most. Is when you're watching it with your teammates

713
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 1: and you know you let all those guys down, But

714
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:27,879
Speaker 1: do you have to explain it in the moment during

715
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:32,280
Speaker 1: film session, Are you allowed to say anything? Every player

716
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:34,719
Speaker 1: has made it. It's not always a quarterback. Sometimes it's

717
00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:37,879
Speaker 1: an offensive tackle that on a big drive just got

718
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:41,000
Speaker 1: his hands too high and wrapped his arm around a

719
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:43,360
Speaker 1: defender and they throw a flag for fifteen yarders and

720
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:45,600
Speaker 1: that's what caused the loss, or a miss tackle or

721
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:49,720
Speaker 1: a miss dropped interception. At this point in guy's careers,

722
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 1: once they make it to the NFL, as great as

723
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:54,560
Speaker 1: all those players are in the locker room, they've all

724
00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:58,279
Speaker 1: made a massive mistake that lost a game for a

725
00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:01,240
Speaker 1: team or lost a game, and know how that feels.

726
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:04,480
Speaker 1: So um, nothing needs to be said. You don't need

727
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:06,800
Speaker 1: to stand up and go, hey, my bad. Everybody. Everybody

728
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:08,239
Speaker 1: knows that you are bad. You threw it to the

729
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:11,279
Speaker 1: other team. That's you're bad. So there's no there's no

730
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 1: explanation needed or everybody knows what you know what it

731
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:18,000
Speaker 1: is the Chiefs tonight against the Giants, and everybody's going

732
00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:20,440
Speaker 1: to have an opinion tomorrow one way or another about

733
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:25,200
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. Can they play a conservative style of offense.

734
00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 1: That's not how they're built. That's the that's especially not

735
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:31,319
Speaker 1: how they're built. On the back end of their defense there.

736
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:34,160
Speaker 1: That defense is built to play with the lead, so

737
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:37,719
Speaker 1: playing conservative and running it and um, you know that

738
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:39,839
Speaker 1: that's just not who they are. But this is a

739
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:42,799
Speaker 1: statement game if there's ever been a statement game. This

740
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:45,439
Speaker 1: is a bad New York Giants team. There's a lot

741
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 1: going on in Kansas City. There's some players going back

742
00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 1: and forth with the fan base, and um, there's a

743
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:53,319
Speaker 1: lot of distractions. And at the end of the day,

744
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:56,440
Speaker 1: we've all heard it a million times. A win cures

745
00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:59,759
Speaker 1: all and it just covers everything up. Just win and

746
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:01,800
Speaker 1: it puts all the back and forth of the Kansas

747
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 1: City fan base has had with Tyron Matthew and a

748
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 1: couple other players. It covers that up until next week

749
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:09,239
Speaker 1: and then the week after. But this is a state

750
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 1: that they need to blow this team out by eighteen points.

751
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:14,240
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a bad team against the team

752
00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:18,000
Speaker 1: that's been been representing the AFC in the Super Bowl

753
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:19,799
Speaker 1: the last couple of years. So this is a game

754
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:22,359
Speaker 1: that they need to win decisively. They need to put

755
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 1: this team away early. They cannot sit out there and

756
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 1: run the ball and check it down. Patrick Mahomes needs

757
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 1: to be Patrick Mahomes. He needs to throw the ball

758
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:32,840
Speaker 1: over the top, be explosive, and win by a couple scores.

759
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:38,880
Speaker 1: I don't think you said anything inflammatory today. Congratulations. Hopefully

760
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:42,279
Speaker 1: you have a nice weekend here and no text messages

761
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:46,239
Speaker 1: from your brother or phone calls or anything like that. Carson, Yeah,

762
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 1: you didn't set me up today with I didn't set

763
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,759
Speaker 1: you up. You know. It was one of those where

764
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,719
Speaker 1: I threw up a fifty fifty ball and you came

765
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:59,720
Speaker 1: down with it. I mean you could have letted football.

766
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 1: Like I said earlier, we can we can all do

767
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:06,279
Speaker 1: all us USC Trojan fans. We can dream. We can

768
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:09,520
Speaker 1: dream about Tomlin or you throw another name out there

769
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:11,719
Speaker 1: and I'll say, yeah, sure he'll leave for the job.

770
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:15,000
Speaker 1: About Belichick, do you think Belichick is on the USC's

771
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:19,000
Speaker 1: wish list. I have nothing but tremendous respect for Belichick,

772
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:21,959
Speaker 1: but I cannot see him in college. I cannot see

773
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:25,240
Speaker 1: him in a room with that dry sense of humor

774
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:29,239
Speaker 1: and just that overall dryness. We need energy at that level.

775
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:31,640
Speaker 1: You got eighteen to twenty one years old. You need energy,

776
00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:34,800
Speaker 1: You need up tempo, and I don't see Bill changing

777
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 1: his ways for college. Is Pete Carroll on the list.

778
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:41,520
Speaker 1: I don't think Pete can go back just because he can't.

779
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:44,239
Speaker 1: He can't do what he did already. I mean, he

780
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:47,200
Speaker 1: set the bar up here and won national championship after

781
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:51,040
Speaker 1: national championship. If he goes back, there's it's almost impossible

782
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 1: to replicate that. So I think that is the only

783
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 1: reason he looks at that job and says, I don't

784
00:38:56,520 --> 00:38:58,319
Speaker 1: want it. I can't go back. I can't do what

785
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:02,879
Speaker 1: I did back in the mid two thousands. Again, let's

786
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 1: stir it up though. Let's get another headline. How about

787
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:10,680
Speaker 1: Nick Saban? Uh? Why on earth would Nick leave Alabama

788
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:14,320
Speaker 1: to go to SC I don't know, Okay, Lane Kiffin

789
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 1: is Lane Kiffin on the list? No, that lady that

790
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:23,080
Speaker 1: that ship has sailed, that plane, that plane has has flown,

791
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 1: the plane has has left. M Yeah, it is, yes,

792
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:30,399
Speaker 1: it's I don't see Lane. I mean they already gave

793
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:32,320
Speaker 1: him a shot. I was somebody was asking me that

794
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:36,760
Speaker 1: a date about Zern has already had a shot. Um,

795
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 1: I'd be surprised if it was either of those two guys.

796
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:42,279
Speaker 1: All right, See, I tried to get set you up

797
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:44,640
Speaker 1: and get another headline here. You know, it's I'm sorry,

798
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:47,520
Speaker 1: it's just it's in me. It's just it just naturally

799
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:49,560
Speaker 1: comes out of you, just setting people up. It's just

800
00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:51,960
Speaker 1: like Brady throws touchdown passes. I mean, it's just it's

801
00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:55,279
Speaker 1: it's just there. Yeah, it's just natural. Yeah, that's a gift.

802
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:56,759
Speaker 1: It's a gift. God gave it to you. What you

803
00:39:56,800 --> 00:40:02,719
Speaker 1: can do. Thank you, car, Thanks Davini. Be sure to

804
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:05,680
Speaker 1: catch the live edition of The Dan Patrick Show weekdays

805
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:09,240
Speaker 1: at nine am Eastern six am Pacific on Flox Sports

806
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:13,319
Speaker 1: Radio and the iHeartRadio app. Hey what's up everybody? It's

807
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:16,359
Speaker 1: me three time pro bowler Levarrington and I couldn't be

808
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Speaker 1: more excited to announce a new podcast called Up on Game?

809
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Speaker 1: What is Up on Game? You asked, along with my

810
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Speaker 1: fellow pro bowler t J. Hudshmansatta and Super Bowl champion Yep,

811
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Speaker 1: that's right, Plexico Birds. You can only name a show

812
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Speaker 1: with that type of talent on it. Up on Game

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Speaker 1: We're going to be sharing our real life experiences loaded

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Speaker 1: with teachable moments. Listen to Up on Game with Me,

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Speaker 1: LeVar Arrington, t J. Hudschmansatta, and Plexico Birds on the

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Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast from.

817
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 1: Will Ferrell joining us on the program, will thank you

818
00:40:57,120 --> 00:41:01,359
Speaker 1: for the very emotional, very moving speech. I knew it

819
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 1: came from the heart. It takes me right back as

820
00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 1: soon as I hear that sound, takes me right back.

821
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:12,360
Speaker 1: I'm proud of you, Dan, very proud of you. America's

822
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 1: proud of you. Well, I didn't know that it would

823
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:19,799
Speaker 1: elicit that kind of emotion, but MANU wow, I mean

824
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:27,160
Speaker 1: real tears, powerful and I'm a great emotion to the

825
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:30,160
Speaker 1: point where I was punching holes in the dry wall

826
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:33,640
Speaker 1: of my house. I couldn't I wasn't able to calm

827
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 1: down for the next hour. Well, I'm glad that Sandler

828
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:40,840
Speaker 1: wasn't available, and David Spade wasn't available and some of

829
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:43,960
Speaker 1: the other people that I ask and Brian Cranston, and

830
00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 1: I'm glad that you did respond. So put me in, coach,

831
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:53,360
Speaker 1: put me, do you have a thought on your alma

832
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:57,439
Speaker 1: mater USC with a head football coach. Well, I don't

833
00:41:57,440 --> 00:42:04,120
Speaker 1: want to stir anything up. My inside sources tell me

834
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:09,360
Speaker 1: a gentleman by the name of Nick Saban will be

835
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:18,160
Speaker 1: the next coach. Okay, Nick Saban. Nick Saban is going

836
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:24,640
Speaker 1: to leave Alabama for USC. Nick Saban is a mountain climber. Okay,

837
00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:28,000
Speaker 1: and he's already reached the top of that mountain multiple times.

838
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:35,040
Speaker 1: He's looking for the next mountain. That mountain then Los Angeles, California.

839
00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:43,520
Speaker 1: Um my inside source, okay, okay, Uh, but but you're

840
00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:46,600
Speaker 1: a booster, aren't you. You should have some information. I'm not.

841
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:50,680
Speaker 1: I'm not a booster. But I my one inside source

842
00:42:50,719 --> 00:42:53,600
Speaker 1: that I talked to, I talked to on the hour

843
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:58,960
Speaker 1: every hour is as pretty pretty pretty has his finger

844
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:03,279
Speaker 1: on the pulse. Uh he's a former player. I don't

845
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:04,480
Speaker 1: want I don't want to say who it is. But

846
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:12,319
Speaker 1: is it Carson Palmer? Yes? Oh no, we can't do

847
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:17,200
Speaker 1: you can't do what wait wait, come on, what's going

848
00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:20,080
Speaker 1: on here? You you can't do that to Carson Palmer.

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Speaker 1: He had a bad week last week. We can't do

850
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 1: that to him this week. Okay, Oh, well he's my sword.

851
00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:31,960
Speaker 1: I don't want to. I gotta give credit where credits to. Hey,

852
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:36,160
Speaker 1: how's your career going? What's going on with you? Uh?

853
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:43,600
Speaker 1: It's an absolute free fall? Um no? I Well, since

854
00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 1: you asked, Dan, I've got a limited series coming out.

855
00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:51,720
Speaker 1: We're so we're out of time right now. The shrink

856
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:55,239
Speaker 1: next door me and my good buddie, Paul run I

857
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:57,520
Speaker 1: saw the trailer for it, as we like to say

858
00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:01,600
Speaker 1: in the business, and uh, you got wild looking hair,

859
00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:04,760
Speaker 1: you got your glasses on. And Paul Rudd doesn't seem

860
00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:08,279
Speaker 1: like he's a good guy in this series. No, I

861
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:12,400
Speaker 1: transform we both. It's uh, it's it's different from what

862
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:16,160
Speaker 1: you're going to normally see us do. It's exciting. It's

863
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:24,560
Speaker 1: called I'm stretching. It's stretching. Well, hold on, what the

864
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:28,800
Speaker 1: others I'm just getting this too. It's either Nick Saban

865
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:40,120
Speaker 1: or it's Nick Saban's brothers, one of the two Teddy Yeah, yeah,

866
00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:41,919
Speaker 1: he has nothing to do with football, I don't think.

867
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:46,960
Speaker 1: But either way, we're looking good. Well, thank you very much.

868
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 1: Well and uh time all right, next Hall of Fame.

869
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:55,439
Speaker 1: I'll I'll reached out reach out of you. Okay, when

870
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:57,319
Speaker 1: is when is the next one? What do we think?

871
00:44:57,400 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 1: What do we do? I mean, it feels like it

872
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:05,960
Speaker 1: happens like a couple of times a year. Yeah. Yeah,

873
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:11,319
Speaker 1: because you're getting you're getting towards the end. Yeah, I'm

874
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:13,279
Speaker 1: not in a in a free fall yet, but yeah,

875
00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:16,480
Speaker 1: I'm getting towards the end. Trust me, I know the feelings.

876
00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:20,920
Speaker 1: Keep keep your head up. Okay, I think I'm getting

877
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 1: inducted into Nickelodeon Kid's Choice. All the same, we think, congratulations,

878
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:29,600
Speaker 1: that's you got that that you You were snubbed for years,

879
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 1: and I'm glad that that that has been remedied. Now

880
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:38,000
Speaker 1: let's see if I show up all right, well, thank you,

881
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:41,200
Speaker 1: thank you, Will once again, that's right, thank you, that's

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Speaker 1: Will Ferrell. Very emotional, very emotional,