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Speaker 2: One of the hottest memes right now that I keep
Speaker 2: seeing is that man stands up in a small town
Speaker 2: meeting and says something brave. Peter sent it to me recently.
Speaker 2: I won't say what it was about, but Peter sent
Speaker 2: it to me recently with the take. But I saw
Speaker 2: one of these yesterday. It was the guy standing up
Speaker 2: and it was Joe Burrow is the best player in
Speaker 2: the league. Like, that's our bold take, and we're in
Speaker 2: a Josh Allen world and that's fine. But I don't
Speaker 2: really remember a season quite exactly like this where the
Speaker 2: player is so good and certainly the receiver is so good,
Speaker 2: and yet the record is still coming off a win,
Speaker 2: coming off two wins in a row, it's still so bad.
Speaker 2: So we started it to begin the segment. Let's just
Speaker 2: talk about it now. Bengals, they have the chance, they're alive.
Speaker 2: I think we did the Gone Fishing mock up like
Speaker 2: a few weeks ago.
Speaker 3: I'm like, they're done, they're done.
Speaker 2: They're a sub five hundred team, and yet bring up
Speaker 2: the AFC playoff.
Speaker 3: Standings like gay question yeah, look at them. Did the
Speaker 3: boat turn around? All right?
Speaker 2: The Dolphins had a terrible loss yesterday. It's really really bad.
Speaker 2: So did Indianapolis. And then in order to avoid going fishing,
Speaker 2: you have to have a team that.
Speaker 3: Comes back down to earth.
Speaker 2: Now, Peter just basically lambasted the Chargers to say that
Speaker 2: they're fake tough guys will never beat anybody. We don't
Speaker 2: have the exact scenario yet, but all we have right
Speaker 2: this time of year is you want to see.
Speaker 3: The Bengals remaining schedule, just give it to I don't
Speaker 3: love it.
Speaker 2: It's versus Cleveland at home five win, versus Denver.
Speaker 3: At home to new win. And then who do they
Speaker 3: finish with at.
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh who might be resting, and there's divisional games you
Speaker 2: never know, like they just can go anyway, So that
Speaker 2: would be the miracle upon miracles.
Speaker 3: I don't have the percentage in front of me.
Speaker 2: I'm sure that when they were four and eight it
Speaker 2: was point zero zero three percent repeating.
Speaker 3: But the Bengals somehow won.
Speaker 2: And if they don't, Joe Burrow I think it's like
Speaker 2: I think he's the runner up for MVP behind Alan.
Speaker 2: It's just that weird and that bizarre, but it's really
Speaker 2: fun and now I'm.
Speaker 3: Kind of rooting for it. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was wondering if Cincinnati came down hard on you,
Speaker 4: Kyle after that graphic with the gone fish in a
Speaker 4: couple of weeks back, or is that boat just lingering
Speaker 4: out in the sound like waiting for the fall gourd
Speaker 4: side here it is. Apparently we have it graphically. We
Speaker 4: just have it at the ready.
Speaker 3: This is David.
Speaker 4: You guys, we should have put a date on this.
Speaker 4: You did this, Kyle, speak to it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Peter Jamie.
Speaker 2: It was week thirteen, after they come off the by
Speaker 2: and they lose to Pittsburgh. They give up forty four points,
Speaker 2: they go to four and eight, and I'm like, we.
Speaker 3: Gotta let these guys go.
Speaker 2: At the time, they had the passing leader, the receiving leader,
Speaker 2: the sack leader, and they could never win a game.
Speaker 3: They beat the Cowboys, they beat the Titans. We'll see.
Speaker 2: I gotta say for the Lions fans out there, who
Speaker 2: are probably a little shell shocked and a little nauseous,
Speaker 2: they have a ridiculous amount of injuries on their defense.
Speaker 2: I was going to show you a list of it.
Speaker 2: We can't even fit them all on the screen at
Speaker 2: the same point, it's getting worse. This Aaron Glenn defensive
Speaker 2: that had so much swagger and so much dominance is really, really,
Speaker 2: really hurting. But I would say the biggest compliment and
Speaker 2: the biggest tribute we can give Josh Allen is none
Speaker 2: of the stats and none of the historical perspective. It
Speaker 2: is the fact that Dan Campbell looked from across the
Speaker 2: sideline yesterday and said, on side kick it, yep, on
Speaker 2: side kick, talk about it.
Speaker 3: Down tent with twelve minutes left to go, a really
Speaker 3: ludicrous decision.
Speaker 2: Understand, down ten twelve minutes to go, you go with
Speaker 2: an on site kick. Now this happens with mac collogy
Speaker 2: makes a great play. But Romo was saying this on
Speaker 2: the broadcast. You guys understand, it's a seven percent chance.
Speaker 3: You get it seven and it has to be announced.
Speaker 3: Can't even surprise them, there's no surprise factor. You have
Speaker 3: to let them know you're doing it.
Speaker 2: So Dan Campbell looked up and said, I'll take the
Speaker 2: seven percent chance as a better outcome than trying to
Speaker 2: stop the Josh Allen offense right now, which.
Speaker 3: Is crazy crazy.
Speaker 2: And by the way, it was a beautiful on side
Speaker 2: kick from Jake Pate. You don't get a better third
Speaker 2: bounce than that, and they still need to come close
Speaker 2: to getting it, and then you go a look bit
Speaker 2: later the Lions again had a chance down ten and
Speaker 2: the fourth order and didn't do it. It was so strange,
Speaker 2: and that to me is a quarterback and an offense
Speaker 2: with the Bills.
Speaker 3: That is in the other teams coaches heads.
Speaker 2: They're like, we have to try something that literally doesn't
Speaker 2: make any sense at all and then not try it again.
Speaker 2: We're chasing ourselves. We're trying to stop Jordan. We're trying
Speaker 2: to keep him under thirty. You're not going to keep
Speaker 2: him under thirty. The crazy thing is in Peter brought
Speaker 2: this up. You go back to August the story, the
Speaker 2: number one through number five stories for the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 2: This is a rebuilding year that's out there. Josh Allen's
Speaker 2: the most overrated player in the NFL that's out there.
Speaker 2: They got nothing in the huddle. Gabe Davis is gone,
Speaker 2: Steph Diggs has gone. Understand this, this is not only
Speaker 2: the best offense in the league right now. It is
Speaker 2: not only the best offense Josh Allen has ever had.
Speaker 2: It is one of the best offenses in NFL history.
Speaker 2: The list of teams to go eight straight games with
Speaker 2: thirty plus the Warner Rams, the Peyton Broncos, the Prime
Speaker 2: Brady Pats, and the Allen Bills. They're in a historically
Speaker 2: good team. They have not allowed a sack in four
Speaker 2: straight games. He just had the most passing yards outside
Speaker 2: the pocket in three years. Josh Allen and the first
Speaker 2: quarterback ever in fantasy football to go back to back.
Speaker 3: Forty point games. It's history.
Speaker 2: It's not only breaking records and running up the win total,
Speaker 2: it's making good coaches on the other side do idiotic,
Speaker 2: inexplicable things that even veteran broadcasters are tongue tied being
Speaker 2: what they're they're on site kicking it. That's the level
Speaker 2: of this team. And the crazy part is, we'll put
Speaker 2: a button on this. Eight plus games with thirty plus points.
Speaker 2: The Kansas City Chiefs all season have zero games with
Speaker 2: over thirty points.
Speaker 3: Can we get to this game in January? Can we
Speaker 3: do it? Can we get Mahomes.
Speaker 2: Healthy, Let's get them rested, and let's do it because
Speaker 2: this Bills team is insane.
Speaker 3: Seattle's in a strange spot right now. But I think.
Speaker 2: I'm ready to say I think Tampa is hosting a
Speaker 2: playoff game.
Speaker 3: Guys, we're here.
Speaker 2: Tampa Bay has not lost a game in six weeks.
Speaker 2: And during this winning streak they get picked a part
Speaker 2: because they beat the Giants and the Panthers and the Raiders. Well,
Speaker 2: they just absolutely destroyed the Chargers. This was a terrible,
Speaker 2: one sided football game. Tampa had one hundred yard receiver,
Speaker 2: one hundred yard rusher Baker through for four touchdowns.
Speaker 3: The game was never close. They crushed them.
Speaker 2: The remaining schedule, I won't even bore you with that.
Speaker 2: There's nobody who scares you whatsoever.
Speaker 3: I think they're going to have a home playoff game.
Speaker 2: And since all of America cares so much about Mike
Speaker 2: evans thousand yard streak, including myself, three games.
Speaker 3: Left and he's eighty.
Speaker 2: Five yards a game to do it in the most
Speaker 2: improbable fashion after a major injury and miss timed.
Speaker 3: I don't listen, Peter. I agree with you.
Speaker 2: Don't want to see the Rams. I don't want to
Speaker 2: see the Bucks either. They're that team that is hot
Speaker 2: at the right time. They have the quarterback who's been there,
Speaker 2: they have the coach's been there, the Bucks, I believe
Speaker 2: are going to win the South unless the Falcons do
Speaker 2: something miraculous. There's nobody else's gonna win that thing. After
Speaker 2: they bottomed out mid season. The Bucks have not lost
Speaker 2: in six weeks, and I think they're going to host
Speaker 2: the playoff game. It's really cool. I think it might
Speaker 2: be on a Saturday. I'm already getting my uber ET's order.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be pad tie this year, and.
Speaker 3: I love it. I had this whole take coming about.
Speaker 2: You know, Saquon was out for the second quarter and
Speaker 2: didn't put up many numbers and it's like the Eagles
Speaker 2: can still win and everything.
Speaker 3: But give me the Sirianni footage again. Let's get into this.
Speaker 3: I want to do.
Speaker 2: Sorry Billy Siriani on this all right.
Speaker 3: What we have here is an assistant.
Speaker 2: Coach acting like a bodyguard against the head coach who
Speaker 2: has an actual bodyguard trying to intervene in a white hat.
Speaker 3: You just don't see it much.
Speaker 2: And it's like someone's gonna get hurt here, and the
Speaker 2: coach's name is literally hurt. There's all kinds of fun here.
Speaker 2: I just don't remember ever. So what happened is Jalen
Speaker 2: Carter gets a personal foul.
Speaker 3: All right, don't head it? Play yeah, red DUMPELP. Sirianni
Speaker 3: wanted to get into it.
Speaker 2: A head coach has the right to walk over.
Speaker 3: It's like I got it, bron I got it, and
Speaker 3: my no, no, no, I've already handled it yet. But I'm
Speaker 3: the head coach, but I handle it.
Speaker 2: Get out of my way, coach, I run or do
Speaker 2: you run this thing? Listen, here's my headline on all this,
Speaker 2: and this is what should go over this image.
Speaker 3: They've won ten in a row.
Speaker 2: No Eagles team ever has won more games in a row.
Speaker 2: And it's like last week we kept trying to say,
Speaker 2: with all this aj stuff, they haven't dropped three out
Speaker 2: of five.
Speaker 3: It's nine in a row last week. Now it's ten
Speaker 3: in a row.
Speaker 2: So maybe that's just where we are with this Eagles
Speaker 2: team and this Eagles staff.
Speaker 3: They're just like a marriage that just likes to fight.
Speaker 2: Right, I'm being told by a lot of folks, and
Speaker 2: my Philly friends mentioned that of course you showed up
Speaker 2: and show the hug. Sirianni and Carter hugg dude, like
Speaker 2: you got to show the hug to give full context.
Speaker 3: So they hugged and they look in it.
Speaker 2: But it's kind of the point like that some couples
Speaker 2: just like to fight, like you know what comes after
Speaker 2: the fight, you know what comes after. I mean, let's
Speaker 2: just say you come back together and you make up.
Speaker 2: And they do this by winning by two touchdowns over
Speaker 2: a great Steelers team. So I don't mind the fighting
Speaker 2: as long as like.
Speaker 3: That's it's and that's them they're doing.
Speaker 2: This is what they are. I'm just they're the makeup
Speaker 2: sex teams. Just say it's Eastern. I'm on the least
Speaker 2: network ippogize, but you all know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: Let me get it out. That's what this team is.
Speaker 2: And it's like you live and die by it. The
Speaker 2: makeup giveth and it taketh away. But when it giveth, whoo,
Speaker 2: it's gonna give all the.
Speaker 3: Way to New Orleans. And that's right man. Man.
Speaker 2: I'm excited to see Penical and everybody is. And we'll
Speaker 2: talk a lot of Pennics moving forward. I want to
Speaker 2: talk some cousins first because I think it's I think
Speaker 2: it's easy to say, oh, they should have moved, they
Speaker 2: should have pulled them out after two losses.
Speaker 3: Do it during the bye week.
Speaker 2: You have to remember how much equity Cousins has not
Speaker 2: with the Falcons in the league. This is a veteran
Speaker 2: who's put up a lot of statistical production. And never
Speaker 2: mind in the past. I want to take you back
Speaker 2: to Week nine of this season. It's Falcons Cowboys, and
Speaker 2: Cousins was excellent.
Speaker 3: In this game. This is week nine.
Speaker 2: They beat the Cowboys and the real Cowboys, the Dak Cowboys,
Speaker 2: to get to six and three. He was actually through
Speaker 2: three touchdowns, He had no interceptions.
Speaker 3: After the game, every single.
Speaker 2: Falcon is raving about Cousins. Wide receiver Ray Ray McLeod says, knowledge, poise,
Speaker 2: he never lets us get complacent.
Speaker 3: It's such a blessing to have him out there.
Speaker 2: After this game, this is week nine of this year,
Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins says, we just got to do it week
Speaker 2: to week and see where we are in February. In February,
Speaker 2: he was talking about the Super Bowl and nobody was
Speaker 2: thinking it was hilarious. It was all cooking and then
Speaker 2: something completely fell apart.
Speaker 3: I don't know what happened.
Speaker 2: I have suspicions about his health, whether it be the Achilles,
Speaker 2: whether it be hits that he took, because after that
Speaker 2: Apex of Week nine, six and three team they're going
Speaker 2: to cruise.
Speaker 3: To the NFC South title. Tampa has nothing going on.
Speaker 2: It was a month of losing, including some of, if
Speaker 2: not the worst football Kirk Cousins has ever played in
Speaker 2: his career. Let's not pretend that we don't know how
Speaker 2: this guy plays, what he's into, what he puts. Sub Statistically,
Speaker 2: we got a decade of Kirk Cousins. Something either really
Speaker 2: really hindered him physically where he couldn't move, or he
Speaker 2: wasn't mobile at all anymore, something psychological happened. This kind
Speaker 2: of quarterback doesn't just completely fall off the table.
Speaker 3: He did. It's the right move. I can't sit here and.
Speaker 2: Say, how do you not bench Kirk Cousins after two
Speaker 2: weeks and bad losses? Because he's Kirk Cousins. You know
Speaker 2: what you're getting is going to pull out of it.
Speaker 2: You pay her ninety million dollars. I can't scream at
Speaker 2: the Falcons to put in a rookie one Cousins.
Speaker 3: This is a guy we.
Speaker 2: Knew, and it is a great mystery, and I think
Speaker 2: we need a little more clarity moving forward of how
Speaker 2: the hell he went from so good to absolutely terrible.
Speaker 3: Overnight. I'm with you, guys.
Speaker 2: I think they should play Carson Wentz. I think they
Speaker 2: will play Carson Wentz. And this is fascinating because this
Speaker 2: is not some run of the mill backup quarterback who
Speaker 2: comes in and you sort of vaguely remember him everybody
Speaker 2: you meet us. We have a deep history with Carson Wentz.
Speaker 2: It's a long, long story to get here. And now
Speaker 2: he's sitting in a position where, in a roundabout way,
Speaker 2: Carson Wentz could determine who plays in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: That's this big of a role right now that he's in.
Speaker 2: So why don't we just get up to speed a
Speaker 2: little bit.
Speaker 3: Let's go back on a.
Speaker 2: Quick journey and remember how we got here, Who Carson
Speaker 2: Wentz is, who he isn't you know how this went
Speaker 2: number two overall pick to the Eagles.
Speaker 3: The Rams took Jared Goff. Carson Wentz would end up
Speaker 3: playing for the Rams. I'll get there shortly. It happened,
Speaker 3: but you know the deal.
Speaker 2: MVP front runner incredible, he was probably the biggest story
Speaker 2: in the league. Blows out his knee in the LA Coliseum.
Speaker 2: The team goes on to win the Super Bowl with
Speaker 2: the backup he has a faith based food truck that
Speaker 2: Mike Garrafolo covered extensively, called that Kingdom Crumb, but an
Speaker 2: incredible player who at one point felt like he was
Speaker 2: the future of the NFL. Eventually they draft Jalen Hurts
Speaker 2: and Carson Wentz is gone.
Speaker 3: Twenty twenty one, he.
Speaker 2: Goes to the Indianapolis Colts and he was very good
Speaker 2: twenty seven touchdown, seven picks, but the Colts were nine
Speaker 2: to six and they lost their last two games to
Speaker 2: the Raiders and a two and fourteen Jaguars team to
Speaker 2: miss the playoffs.
Speaker 3: He was traded for a mid round pick swap.
Speaker 2: Side note, the defensive coordinator of that Colts team was
Speaker 2: hired by the Bears to become their head coach. Next,
Speaker 2: he goes to Washington, an old Eagles rival.
Speaker 3: I remember he showed up to the.
Speaker 2: Press conference in a Garris suits that he heard a
Speaker 2: lot about, which is still now his Wikipedia profile pick,
Speaker 2: which I don't think is fair. Played pretty well each
Speaker 2: of his first two starts.
Speaker 3: He had three hundred yards and three touchdowns.
Speaker 2: I don't remember that he broke his ring finger on
Speaker 2: his throwing hand. In week six, went on Ir Taylor.
Speaker 2: Heineke took over and Wentz never got the joback, he
Speaker 2: was released.
Speaker 3: Then we get this iconic photo. You remember this one.
Speaker 3: This is when Wentz is like, what is going on
Speaker 3: with my career?
Speaker 2: We got an Eagles helmets, the Washington Jersey Colt shorts
Speaker 2: and that could be it the triumvirit not even close
Speaker 2: twenty three, in the middle of the season, signs with
Speaker 2: the Rams.
Speaker 3: This is last year he played for the Rams. This
Speaker 3: is the best part. Week eighteen. He plays for the Rams.
Speaker 2: It's the Carson Wentz Rams versus the Sam Darnold Niners.
Speaker 2: How weird is though Wentz again played pretty well, got
Speaker 2: to comeback win in the end with a two point
Speaker 2: conversion to two to two at well, and it's like, oh,
Speaker 2: maybe he'll stay in the Rams.
Speaker 3: Didn't stay on the Rams, was released.
Speaker 2: Finally, back in April, Carson Wentz on stop number five,
Speaker 2: is signed by the world champion Chiefs to.
Speaker 3: Back up Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 2: It happened not midseason, not in training camp, way back
Speaker 2: in the offseason.
Speaker 3: This is last week.
Speaker 2: Mahomes gets hurts, Wentz comes in, plays pretty well.
Speaker 3: Fine.
Speaker 2: Now we're at the point where I think he's going
Speaker 2: to start a game with the one.
Speaker 3: Seed in the AFC on the line. This is a
Speaker 3: quarterback with.
Speaker 2: Over twenty three thousand yards with over one hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty touchdowns. He is far more pedigreed and successful than
Speaker 2: any backup in the Patrick Mahomes era. He is one
Speaker 2: of the most trusted experience backups in all of the NFL.
Speaker 2: I don't know if he's gonna put up huge stats
Speaker 2: this week. You know who else doesn't put up huge stats?
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes. This is a different Chiefs team. Come in,
Speaker 2: run defense, throw here, throw here.
Speaker 3: Win. I think if he wins this game, he looks good.
Speaker 2: You get a luxury, if you know, maybe we run
Speaker 2: Carson back again on Christmas and let Patrick rest up.
Speaker 3: All of a sudden, out of nowhere. We woke up
Speaker 3: a few days.
Speaker 2: Ago and Carson Wentz is one of the most pivotal
Speaker 2: players in the entire NFL, and we got a deep history.
Speaker 3: I took my young son to the mall.
Speaker 2: We went to the shopping mall, actually an actual shopping mall.
Speaker 3: I got him an Anian's pretzel.
Speaker 2: We hit the food court. And here's my answer, because
Speaker 2: I made a purchase for my wife. You take your
Speaker 2: kid to the mall, you buy something for your wife.
Speaker 2: But they couldn't. They didn't have it there. They had
Speaker 2: to ship it to me. The shipping industry right now
Speaker 2: around gift giving time. God bless you people and your
Speaker 2: real heroes, and you're working your butts off.
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 2: But I sit here and I buy this gift and
Speaker 2: I'm really putting myself out there, and I found it
Speaker 2: and they're like, we can ship it to you.
Speaker 3: I'm like, great, when will it arrive? And they're like,
Speaker 3: it will arrive on December twenty four. Real risk.
Speaker 2: It's really white knuckling it and it's like, can you guarantee?
Speaker 3: Unfortunately we don't guarantee.
Speaker 2: And then sometimes you buy something, you get these windows
Speaker 2: sometime between the twenty third and the twenty fifth. It
Speaker 2: drives me crazy. I've already have too much stress in
Speaker 2: my life. I waited too long to buy the gifts.
Speaker 2: And you know what the worst part was when I said,
Speaker 2: you know what, I'll roll the dice on the twenty fourth,
Speaker 2: Let's screw it, I'll live wild. They say, now it
Speaker 2: is signature required. What am I gonna do about that?
Speaker 2: Then you're gonna show up. He and my wife's gonna
Speaker 2: be there's just gonna see what it is, or be
Speaker 2: no one's gonna be there. We're gonna put that stupid
Speaker 2: cocamade me little note on the door that says we
Speaker 2: approved to leave it. But then they're like, no, they're
Speaker 2: not allowed. And then you know what they do if
Speaker 2: they don't, if you're not there when they bring it,
Speaker 2: they bring it to the depot, like the UPS depot.
Speaker 3: Have you ever been to one of those hells on Earth?
Speaker 2: You show up and it makes the DMV look like Disneyland.
Speaker 3: You show up and.
Speaker 2: Here's my little slip, and they're like, no, this isn't right.
Speaker 3: Where's the other?
Speaker 2: I don't have the other slip. I get this somewhere
Speaker 2: back there. My entire Merry Christmas, and really probably my
Speaker 2: marriage is waiting back in some cargo hold and I
Speaker 2: can't get to it. I am so stressed by the
Speaker 2: shipping and there this day is great people. I love
Speaker 2: Amazon and UPS and all of you guys. You just
Speaker 2: made me sit at the door, white knuckling it for weeks,
Speaker 2: and I don't know if they're getting the gift on Times.
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