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Speaker 1: The Around the NFL podcast overperformed in a contract year

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Speaker 1: from the Chris Westling podcast studio. It's Around the NFL.

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Speaker 1: I'm Dan Hans's heroes here, Greg Rosenthal, Mark Sessler, and yeah,

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Speaker 1: we did sign new contracts earlier this year, but we've

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Speaker 1: actually worked harder than ever ever. And that that, my friends,

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Speaker 1: is a sign of internal makeup. I think it tells

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Speaker 1: you who we are, um at the core, are we gonna?

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Speaker 1: Are we gonna glide and float? Because we signed those contracts,

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Speaker 1: most of us would not professionals. I think our our

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Speaker 1: outfits also say who we are. Mark rocking the business

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Speaker 1: on top, party on the bottom, beautiful sport cope. But

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Speaker 1: then the carefully ripped jeans below, I very careful, meticulously

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Speaker 1: ripped up I call. I have explained to you multiple

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Speaker 1: times that I owned three pairs of jeans that are

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Speaker 1: function saying it's Burbank days up topwod I'm just telling you, like,

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Speaker 1: never wear these jeans to work. For this exact reason,

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Speaker 1: the explanation. West used to come and super dressed up

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Speaker 1: for a podcast every once in a while, and like

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Speaker 1: Chris what's going on? Why are you all of a

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Speaker 1: sudden wearing khaki's in a button shirt and a pull

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Speaker 1: over sweaters like everything else is because it's absolutely true.

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Speaker 1: That's why Mark sold One would be like, I have

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Speaker 1: to leave the house early and I dressed in the dark.

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Speaker 1: Do you remember that these are these are true anecdotes.

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Speaker 1: I believe it to be UM for men, especially men

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Speaker 1: our age. Um. You're older, Mark, obviously, but UM. And

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Speaker 1: it's in a startorial s only numerology from a numbers angle,

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Speaker 1: got it. That's that's what consa UM. There's I've said

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Speaker 1: it on the show before. There's a lot of self

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Speaker 1: consciousness with men, especially middle aged men, about how they're dressed.

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Speaker 1: They feel uncomfortable with it because I think it's part

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Speaker 1: it gets it gets a little bit like, oh this

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Speaker 1: I was dressing in the dark. I don't even know

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Speaker 1: what I'm more. That's fair, but I also think that

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Speaker 1: there is a heightened um element of analyst analyzing what

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Speaker 1: one one wears in this room. It happens, it happens,

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Speaker 1: but it's all it's pointed out, you know, and it's

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Speaker 1: made a thing of birth Bank Days. Hollywood Nights. By

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Speaker 1: the way, if you want to see us at night

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Speaker 1: and maybe even see can you please wear these jeans

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Speaker 1: for the live show the people need to see. If

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Speaker 1: you remind me, I am around the NFL Live the

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Speaker 1: Homecoming Show Wednesday, January eight, team from the Bourbon Room

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Speaker 1: in Hollywood. Of course, Mark has to wear the Hollywood

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Speaker 1: Very few available. Seven tickets remain. It's like Willy Wonka,

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Speaker 1: get the Golden ticket, all right? A lot to get to.

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Speaker 1: No buy's. It's week sixteen. The machine is cranking on

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Speaker 1: Christmas Week. Jason Harwood's Hanukkah Week nights. Great call by

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Speaker 1: the Raiders. I wonder what Brent Musburger would have said.

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Speaker 1: Imagine Musburger's Jackpot Baby after the Chandler Jones touchdown on Sunday. Glorious.

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Speaker 1: Mussburger probably would not have said it was Hank miracle.

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Speaker 1: Um can I hear Brent again? I don't know where

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Speaker 1: he's somewhere in Vegas right now. Jack Like, I don't

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Speaker 1: think Brent, who's an older man now, I don't think

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Speaker 1: he survives the jackpot baby. After the Chandler Jones touchdown,

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Speaker 1: that would have been the end. Um, So it's good

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Speaker 1: that he didn't do it. Let's get to the games

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Speaker 1: a week sixteen um, and usually we start with the

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Speaker 1: primetime games, and we have three Christmas Day games this year,

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Speaker 1: there's obviously, um, the Saturday night game, the Monday night game,

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Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars New York Jets recap. Um check that out

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Speaker 1: going up late Thursday night. Let's start with the draft

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Speaker 1: this week, like it, I like, just better games. Well,

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Speaker 1: because it's Saturday, though, we're doing it in order. It

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Speaker 1: is confusing. I think a lot of people will be

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Speaker 1: out doing things Christmas ever with their family, and they'll

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Speaker 1: be like, wait, this is an NFL Sunday, but it's Saturday.

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Speaker 1: You know, right, this is very much on your radar.

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Speaker 1: average American slash international? Right, I'm just gonna instead of

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Speaker 1: the NFL Total Access game of the week. That's the thing,

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Speaker 1: by the way. The Philadelphia Eagles at Dallas Cowboys from

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Speaker 1: Jarro World, here we go, and what a break? Not

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Speaker 1: a break? It was earned and the Cowboys didn't get

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Speaker 1: it done last week against the Jaguars. They blow a

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Speaker 1: big lead in the second half and coupled with another

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Speaker 1: Eagles win against the Bears, now there's a three game

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Speaker 1: difference in the standings here. So the Eagles are in

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Speaker 1: really good shape regardless of the outcome. They already beat

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Speaker 1: worry about any type of head to head UH sweep

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Speaker 1: that leads to a tie breaker issue. This team is

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Speaker 1: trying to win the number one seed, and at thirteen

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Speaker 1: to do it simple? Not so simple. They don't have

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Speaker 1: their quarterback this week. Jalen Hurts with the shoulder issue.

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Speaker 1: UH is going to be rested, Uh, and it will

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Speaker 1: be Gardner Minshew starting for the Eagles going to Dallas. Mark,

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Speaker 1: I know you've long had a warm spot in your

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Speaker 1: heart for Minshew was a very marked player. But I

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Speaker 1: This feels like a spot where surrounded by all this talent.

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Speaker 1: Don't think that the Eagles are gonna go to Dallas

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Speaker 1: I think that the Gardner Minshew pick up you know,

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Speaker 1: the rebuild lasted like a year and then you found out,

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Speaker 1: They are really good UM on offense in terms of

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Speaker 1: the Eagles plus five in this game. It was up

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Speaker 1: use the Cowboys aggressiveness against them. We saw the Jaguars

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Speaker 1: hasn't been the dominant Cowboys. I think you can run

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Speaker 1: more credit with the Cowboys this year. Their offensive line,

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Speaker 1: One of the reasons I think that that those takedown

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Speaker 1: against deeper passes ten plus yards, they allow forty eight

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Speaker 1: basically clogging up all passing lanes, which is a problem

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Speaker 1: for Dak Prescott. They can run the ball. They also

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Speaker 1: a takeaway defense and I just like the matchup for them.

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Speaker 1: I'm annoyed by one thing though, because I feel like

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Speaker 1: these like talking head shows about how Dak Prescott through

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Speaker 1: to end the game last week. What bounced off Noah

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Speaker 1: the over and he does force throws, but he didn't

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Speaker 1: didn't see the field and like it was a terrible play.

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Speaker 1: watch the game. Well I just did. I said, go

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Speaker 1: watch the player. Please go watch the play and tell

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Speaker 1: really seem to matter. He's unstoppable on the ground, and

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Speaker 1: I wanted to see con Buffalo. It's a great test

427
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Speaker 1: they might have to deal with some mobile quarterbacks down

428
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Speaker 1: the stretch here, like, can you stop justin Fields because

429
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Speaker 1: no one else can Watching him absolutely destroy last week,

430
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Speaker 1: It's like he just every week is gonna do three

431
00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:42,960
Speaker 1: or four things that makes the Bears. They're suddenly in

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Speaker 1: a game they shouldn't be. And I feel like every

433
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Speaker 1: week because of him, Because simply because of him. Their

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Speaker 1: defense also showed up for the first time in about

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Speaker 1: three months after thereby, And I do think it's interesting

436
00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:56,760
Speaker 1: to watch teams after thereby they often fix some things

437
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Speaker 1: they're They're also a little healthier on defense, not on offense.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned Clay the receiver group, Claypool is out, Equanimius

439
00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:09,520
Speaker 1: st Brown is out. Uh, Tevin Jenkins, who's played well

440
00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:12,679
Speaker 1: for them on their offensive line is out, so Cody

441
00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:15,520
Speaker 1: white Hair might be out also up front. So it's

442
00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:18,920
Speaker 1: like they have really lost weapons. And I just want

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Speaker 1: Fields to get to the end of the season here

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Speaker 1: without getting hurt. I would say with alan Um the

445
00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:27,560
Speaker 1: same is true. But and this is a perfect test

446
00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:29,800
Speaker 1: because they should be able to put up thirty plus points.

447
00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:31,760
Speaker 1: But you mentioned on the other side of the ball,

448
00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:36,680
Speaker 1: Khalil Herbert's coming back for Chicago. They have Herbert Montgomery fields.

449
00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:39,399
Speaker 1: Buffalo got pushed around a little bit against Miami in

450
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Speaker 1: the run game, and that was kind of an old

451
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Speaker 1: Sean McDermott thing. If this defense had a hole was

452
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Speaker 1: in run defense. That hasn't been a problem this year,

453
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Speaker 1: but this is a great test for them. And I

454
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Speaker 1: thought last week was a perfect test for the Bills

455
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Speaker 1: and their ability to kind of look a loss in

456
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Speaker 1: the eye on Saturday night, down eight points of the

457
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Speaker 1: fourth quarter against the good opponent and find a way

458
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Speaker 1: to win that game. I just, you know, I moved

459
00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:05,480
Speaker 1: It's all kind of silly, but in the power ranks,

460
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Speaker 1: I moved the Bills one spot ahead of the Bengals

461
00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:11,159
Speaker 1: this week um flop them basically three and four. So

462
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Speaker 1: it's just like I just think, when it comes down

463
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Speaker 1: to it, this year, Josh Allen is not gonna be denied.

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Speaker 1: Like that's more about Buffalo and Cincinnati. They get to

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Speaker 1: play in next week and Alan specifically in their ability,

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Speaker 1: and that's that's such a huge when you look at

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Speaker 1: where these where these teams stack up. Buffalo is at

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Speaker 1: eleven and three, Chiefs at eleven and three, Buffalo has

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Speaker 1: the tiebreaker on the Chiefs, But guess what if things

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Speaker 1: hold into next week and Cincinnati's ten and four and

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Speaker 1: they beat Buffalo, then they both have four losses in

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati has that tiebreaker in their head to head. They

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Speaker 1: just need to win out the Bengals to get the

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Speaker 1: one seed there and one Chief's Laws. What does that

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Speaker 1: even mean anymore? I don't know what right it made

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Speaker 1: me nothing, But it's just if you get Lamar, it's

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Speaker 1: a division game. They're the Bengals got one of the

478
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Speaker 1: or one of these teams tagged with the tougher like

479
00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:56,760
Speaker 1: final three games here. Absolutely, but but it's pretty simple

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Speaker 1: for them if they could win out, they just need

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Speaker 1: one Chief's Law and they get the number one seed.

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Speaker 1: So it is. It is fascinating. These three teams have

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Speaker 1: really pulled ahead of the pack, and yet I kind

484
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Speaker 1: of I still feel like the Eddie justin fields game

485
00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:13,320
Speaker 1: feels a little dangerous right now, just looking forward to

486
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Speaker 1: him having a you know, a team around him and

487
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Speaker 1: just like stay healthy. Just note that the Chiefs, like

488
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Speaker 1: for your one lost business, they got the Seahawks, but

489
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Speaker 1: then they got the Broncos and Raiders, so somebody would

490
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Speaker 1: really need to go run the Raiders. It's crazy with

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Speaker 1: it's the biggest, the best chance they're just because it's

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Speaker 1: a division game. But you're right, they'll be and should

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Speaker 1: be heavily favored in every game. And we've been talking

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Speaker 1: about the Bears in this way, um which for several weeks,

495
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Speaker 1: which really is a credit obviously the fields. They lose

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Speaker 1: literally every week. They've lost seven straight games, so the

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Speaker 1: second it's crazy. It's kind of been perfect. Other than

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Speaker 1: that Jets game. They're like always in these games, and yeah,

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Speaker 1: they always lose them. All right, let's take a break

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Speaker 1: and we will roll. All right, welcome back in case

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Speaker 1: you're just joining us. Uh Mark Sassler Burbank up top,

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Speaker 1: Hollywood down low. He might even show you his pants

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Speaker 1: at the end of the show. Some people talking, but

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Speaker 1: definitely if you go to the live shop, I'd say

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Speaker 1: it like we should, we should make it. You know what,

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Speaker 1: you don't get the pack, you don't. But if you

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Speaker 1: go to Hollywood on January eighteen in the Bourbon Room

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Speaker 1: and see a t N Live all our listeners on

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Speaker 1: the East coast, they're in the UK orusly like Kayak

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Speaker 1: dot com, American arro live dot com. How do we

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Speaker 1: get there? Australian listeners hit me up recently they're they're

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Speaker 1: number four. Shout out to Australia. Well base there get here.

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Speaker 1: Um anyway, you're up, Mark. Like I said, I'm picking

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Speaker 1: games that I would I want to watch and be

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Speaker 1: home on the couch on Saints at Brown's. I knew

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Speaker 1: this is Kevin. Can I tell you a weird weason

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Speaker 1: like you could. You could probably guess five reasons why

518
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Speaker 1: you think I picked this, and I'll tell you why.

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Speaker 1: I'm really back to being a Browns fan. No, not

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Speaker 1: at all. Like I love watching the Saints outdoors in

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00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:56,919
Speaker 1: cold weather. I just love seeing them thrown out of

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Speaker 1: the doss. Your favorite team, they are not it is

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Speaker 1: going to be. I heard this. We are your favorite

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Speaker 1: team for thirty five years, and it's start to let

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Speaker 1: go of that. Well that is true, but I mean

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Speaker 1: things have changed and they're on I'm on a break

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Speaker 1: from them right now, so we'll see what happens. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: It was Andrew Siciliano in our newsroom who announced loudly

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Speaker 1: that it's going to be sixty two mile per hour wind.

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Speaker 1: Gus and you said something loud Well, he does like

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Speaker 1: he likes to prepare for a shot. Booming broadcasters voice

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Speaker 1: sitting near him in the greatest sitting near him, and

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Speaker 1: we have discussions about things. I sometimes think of Andrew

534
00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:30,520
Speaker 1: like as a three year old, just like having a

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Speaker 1: conversation with his mom, just like, oh would you like

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Speaker 1: I would like? I would like sereal like he just

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Speaker 1: even as a young child. A listener to this shows

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Speaker 1: he was slightly off. Actually, I think he was born

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Speaker 1: with this beautiful, booming broadcaster voice that you had that

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Speaker 1: for birth. Oh so the voice was the same when

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Speaker 1: he was three years He's not. You didn't execute it,

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Speaker 1: and you made him sound like he's an infant. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: as a man, we just not typically taken well by

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Speaker 1: a man. Let's just move forward. He's probably jogging right now,

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00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:04,399
Speaker 1: but he listens to this. Um, I don't know. I

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Speaker 1: want to see, like I guess from a Cleveland angle,

547
00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:08,280
Speaker 1: like each week is a little bit more of what

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Speaker 1: does this offense want to be? I think that they've

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00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:13,000
Speaker 1: kind of lost their way with Watson in there. He's

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Speaker 1: he's averaging six point four seven air yards per attempt,

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Speaker 1: which is down almost three air yards two and a

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00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:21,159
Speaker 1: half from where he was with the Texans. So I

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00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:23,840
Speaker 1: mean we know that he's he's getting uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: back into the groove of things here. I think that

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Speaker 1: the it's it's throwing the run game off. Um, it's

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Speaker 1: weird that like watching that Ravens game again, like wait

557
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Speaker 1: a minute, suddenly it's I know the Ravens are compromised

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00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:37,080
Speaker 1: on offense massively, but like the Browns defense has been,

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Speaker 1: they've shown up a couple of weeks here like that.

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Speaker 1: There are different defense right now. Like Denzel wardatop played

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Speaker 1: his best game of the year against Baltimore. Miles Garrett,

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Speaker 1: it's not just Myles Garrett this point, like he really

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Speaker 1: really is. Like I know he's he would never be

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Speaker 1: Defensive Player of the Year because they've been a bad defense,

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Speaker 1: and but individually he's had I think his best season.

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Speaker 1: I really do. Nick Chubb was a question mark. It

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Speaker 1: sounds like he will practice. I think that's essential for them.

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Speaker 1: And when it comes to the Saints, like I know

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Speaker 1: that they're a very frustrating team to their fan base

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00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:06,560
Speaker 1: right now with massive questions because I don't think you

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Speaker 1: have a coach or a quarterback going in the next season.

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Speaker 1: I mean you definitely don't. I don't like the coach situation,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not sure what happens. You could keep Andy

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Speaker 1: Dalton around as a filling the blank back up, but

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00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:17,359
Speaker 1: what are we really selling anyone there? But you do

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00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:21,360
Speaker 1: have quietly and Christal lave or Shihat and Jawan Johnson

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Speaker 1: like the making the makings of a really good wide

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Speaker 1: receiver group. And so each week it seems like I'm

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Speaker 1: looking up at Andy Dalton is not the Andy Dalton

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Speaker 1: that I knew for a long time. He's like a

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Speaker 1: deep ball thrower in this offense at times, and like

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Speaker 1: quite intriguing and like kind uncomfortable in his own skin

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Speaker 1: version of Andy Dalton so very clean. Yeah, and he's

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Speaker 1: used to this weather. So let's see what happens in Cleveland.

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, the weather is hard to imagine overcoming

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Speaker 1: um to have like a great passing game. You never

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00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:51,359
Speaker 1: know in these games like Philly Chicago, Hurts was throwing

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Speaker 1: the ball down the field with the shoulder and it

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00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 1: was like fifteen degrees, So I guess you you never know.

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Speaker 1: The Saints can't really run the ball though, and you

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00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:04,440
Speaker 1: you feel like the better running team wins this game,

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Speaker 1: and and so I trust the Browns more. You're right,

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00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 1: the defense has looked better. Part of that as you

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Speaker 1: played Huntley and the Texans, but they also made life

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Speaker 1: very difficult on the Bengals in that game. I felt

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00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:17,359
Speaker 1: like the Bengals were lucky to end up winning that

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00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 1: game convincingly. They had to work really hard, uh for

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Speaker 1: what they got. And so there's some optimism for whichever

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Speaker 1: team wins this game. This is essentially an elimination game

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Speaker 1: for these two teams. The Saints, especially if they could win,

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Speaker 1: have like a somewhat realistic path to surviving total by

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Speaker 1: an NFC South team in December at this point in

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00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:43,440
Speaker 1: a driver's to this to the same point, and I

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Speaker 1: think this is gonna be doomsday for the Saints. Because

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Speaker 1: they lose to Cleveland, which I expect them to do here,

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Speaker 1: and the Bucks beat a third string quarterback in Arizona,

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Speaker 1: that's it. They're eliminated from contention and you could take

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Speaker 1: at least one team out of the mix in the

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Speaker 1: NFC South the year. I'm just like, I've seen too

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Speaker 1: much inconsistency in general from the Saints this year to

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00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:08,240
Speaker 1: expect them to to take that wind and then build

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Speaker 1: on it. With a big road wind and bad conditions

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Speaker 1: a Dome team, I just don't see it. I just

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Speaker 1: said Cleveland, like from a record angle, if you win this,

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Speaker 1: you're seven and eight. You've got the Commanders, all right,

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Speaker 1: I think that's anyone could beat the Commanders on the

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Speaker 1: right day. And then you've got the Steelers, like which

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Speaker 1: they hand they match up pretty well with much of

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Speaker 1: the a f C race in terms of the sketchier

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Speaker 1: lower teams. Amounts to them needing the Dolphins and or

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Speaker 1: the Chargers to lose two out of three, and and

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Speaker 1: then if they do, it comes down to tiebreakers and

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Speaker 1: which team it is. I think that's realistic that either

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins or the Chargers could lose two out of

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Speaker 1: three or maybe even all three. I think the Browns,

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00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 1: the winner of this game, is gonna be in it.

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Speaker 1: But but the offense, to your point, Mark, Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: much worth it was with Watson, they were fifth in

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Speaker 1: passing fourth and offense. With Present there twenty second in

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Speaker 1: passing offense. It follows a markedly visually different team. Um.

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Speaker 1: And remember when we're talking all these a f C permutations,

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Speaker 1: some of those brutal Cleveland losses liked for instance, went

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Speaker 1: to the Jets. Uh, they don't have the tiebreaker there,

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00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:16,200
Speaker 1: so there's so many things have to go right for

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00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:19,720
Speaker 1: Cleveland to get start by winning all these games and

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00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:23,320
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton windless on the road in four starts. Uh,

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Speaker 1: and they have They've average fifteen points per game in

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Speaker 1: those road games. Pffs number two quarterback this year in

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Speaker 1: passing grade that Altona sans has happened quietly, like very quietly,

640
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:37,320
Speaker 1: with all due respect to PFF. Like some of the

641
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 1: quarterback situations, it's like, to the eye, is Andy Dalton net?

642
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:43,120
Speaker 1: Like I get where they're coming from. That's gonna keep

643
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:44,760
Speaker 1: this one under their hat. I get it though he's

644
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 1: played clean, and they just like don't ask makes any

645
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:50,080
Speaker 1: point of Andy Dalton on the road or outside, Like

646
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:52,000
Speaker 1: go watch him in that Steelers game. That was like that,

647
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:55,080
Speaker 1: you're gonna get that everything. But some things you keep

648
00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:57,080
Speaker 1: under the hat. We love them. We adore the the

649
00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,280
Speaker 1: glitch in the algorithm here, let's just keep this one

650
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 1: under the mat. Uh, Greg, you're up, am. I I'm

651
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 1: taking the Around the NFL team better known as the

652
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 1: team of Around the NFL and the Panthers. I take round.

653
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 1: It's like I'm already on the Christmas vacation here. What

654
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:22,680
Speaker 1: is happening? Sometimes I forget we're even recording. I am

655
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 1: so happy makes a good show though, you know, just

656
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 1: three guys chopping up, just like three buddies in a bar.

657
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:31,760
Speaker 1: It's like that's the show right there. They're just friends.

658
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 1: The football stuff, it's like they're just buddy is. It's

659
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 1: like that's the show. I am so excited Mark didn't

660
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 1: take this. It was maybe a strategic error by myself

661
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 1: to even let it sit out there. I love this

662
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 1: Lions team. I love the way the defense tackles, and

663
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,520
Speaker 1: I think that shows up big this week because this

664
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 1: Panthers team couldn't get the running game going last week.

665
00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 1: They count on a lot of yards after the catch,

666
00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 1: and this secondary for the Lions. Maybe they're not great

667
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 1: in coverage, they're okay, but the pass rush has been

668
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:08,720
Speaker 1: showing up. But when you get a ball out on

669
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 1: the edge, or whether it's the running game or not,

670
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 1: if it's a Kuda, if it's one of the safety's,

671
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 1: if it's the linebackers like Rodrigo, if it's Adan Hutchinson.

672
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:20,320
Speaker 1: In the running game, they just play with great energy

673
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 1: and they tackle really well, and it's it can be underrated,

674
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 1: but you can just look at it and you can

675
00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 1: see it. And I think the way that they're gonna

676
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 1: lose this season at some point is a great passing

677
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 1: attack exposes them and I just don't see that with

678
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 1: Sam Donald. I think Sam Donald is stabilized this Panther's offense.

679
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:39,720
Speaker 1: I think he's been the best quarterback they've had this year.

680
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 1: You gotta give him some credit. He's not making a

681
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 1: huge mistake. He's had some nice throws. But they're so

682
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:49,000
Speaker 1: unaggressive in terms of the way they call games compared

683
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:51,840
Speaker 1: to the Lions, who are aggressive in every situation. That's

684
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:53,600
Speaker 1: why I love them on the road this week. That's

685
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 1: why I'm locking up the team around the NFL. This

686
00:32:56,440 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 1: is a problem, uh this and this has not worked

687
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 1: down in the past for me, But I learned our

688
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 1: production team that I am also locking up the Lions. Um,

689
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 1: but I feel Greg. I think it's our chance to

690
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:10,280
Speaker 1: get the lock Rose. Are you We won two and

691
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 1: we won last time. We want a couple in a row.

692
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 1: I think we lost at some point or the lock Rose.

693
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 1: What were you guys a kidding? I don't even know

694
00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 1: if we had a trenchant nickname. I mean, we we

695
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:20,760
Speaker 1: have to come up with one after we do when

696
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:25,880
Speaker 1: it's like when a Hollywood studio takes two real heavyweight

697
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 1: stars and just stick them together in a production and like, oh,

698
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 1: that will work, but you need chemistry. And I think

699
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:34,000
Speaker 1: when you guys lock up, there's just there's something off

700
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 1: in the mix, like you would you would like this

701
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 1: to be true, but the whole like, oh we're on

702
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 1: a roll here. You guys are sinking in this long

703
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 1: lock competition because of games that you agreed on taking

704
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 1: two big els, whereas I at least remember the last

705
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 1: time we did it, we were fine. Mark. I don't

706
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 1: like I don't like locking up with you because you're

707
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 1: in the lead spots, like nothing changes. And the other

708
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,880
Speaker 1: thing is Greg You typically by Sunday regret locking with

709
00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 1: another human. So it's like, why didn't made the first

710
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:04,360
Speaker 1: pick here? And uh, it was time to let me know.

711
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 1: The last time that Mark and I locked together that

712
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:11,719
Speaker 1: was waved off is um an issue because Mark was

713
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 1: out that week and we didn't have a chance to vibe. No,

714
00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 1: it's really sort of and we just could look at

715
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 1: each other's eyes and we know that it's locks gonna

716
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:23,479
Speaker 1: get a chance to last time Mark and I locked

717
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:26,560
Speaker 1: together was a successful Bengals over Steelers. All right, so

718
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:28,319
Speaker 1: here we go. We're on a We're on a roll.

719
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:31,040
Speaker 1: You could say it factually. Um, I like I like

720
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:33,960
Speaker 1: the lock. I have to say the Panthers kind of

721
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 1: spooked me last week, and that just when people were

722
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:38,759
Speaker 1: starting to buy it on maybe they're the NFC South

723
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:42,360
Speaker 1: team that can you know, have their dignity playing in

724
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:46,239
Speaker 1: January football. They let Pittsburgh basically beat them at their

725
00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:50,040
Speaker 1: own game. They were more physical, they played better defense,

726
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:53,279
Speaker 1: and in general was just like, oh, guys, get you know,

727
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta beat the mitchro Bisky team in

728
00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:59,279
Speaker 1: your building with a chance to tie for first place

729
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:00,719
Speaker 1: in the NFC South. So I lost a lot of

730
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:04,400
Speaker 1: faith in them here. At the same time, um, is

731
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:07,080
Speaker 1: their defense good enough to really slow down the Detroit attack? Now,

732
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 1: the Jets did it last week, but it really depends

733
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: how much you believe in Caroline's ability to do that

734
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:15,440
Speaker 1: and whether you think the Lion win, while impressive, and

735
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:17,360
Speaker 1: how it ended and how they came back and closed

736
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:20,759
Speaker 1: out the Jets there. They did not look very good

737
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:22,440
Speaker 1: in that game on offense. For the first time in

738
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:25,720
Speaker 1: a while. I mean, Carolina is fourth and points allowed

739
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:28,319
Speaker 1: since Week ten, so I think their defense has been

740
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 1: pretty consistent. Um. I think they've responded to Steve Wilkes

741
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:33,839
Speaker 1: really well, who I think should flat out just get

742
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 1: that job. But I I don't know how you stopped

743
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:37,719
Speaker 1: what Detroit's doing right now. And I think it's kind

744
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:41,000
Speaker 1: of like if you're Brad Holmes the Lions GM because

745
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:44,080
Speaker 1: you mentioned some of these guys like Aiden Hutchinson worked out,

746
00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:47,520
Speaker 1: he's working out, Malcolm Malcolm Rodriguez is working out. James

747
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:50,720
Speaker 1: Houston has one or more sacks in this last four games,

748
00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:54,319
Speaker 1: where it's like it's just like a stat outline has

749
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:56,120
Speaker 1: been great for them. We'll think about this along with

750
00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:58,120
Speaker 1: Alman Ross st Brown, who is if you were playing

751
00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:01,720
Speaker 1: somewhere else, would be massively celebrated. Did Um. Jamison Williams

752
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 1: is getting a few more like at some point here

753
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:05,960
Speaker 1: they're gonna let them play like a full helping and

754
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 1: they're starting to look at like this team they kind

755
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:11,400
Speaker 1: of reminds me of like the Cowboys, where outside of

756
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:13,920
Speaker 1: the golf quarterback position, I mean even he's playing well,

757
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:15,839
Speaker 1: I'll tell you why, because it's like they were so

758
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 1: young and it was really just a team that had

759
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:20,040
Speaker 1: been formed in the last like two or three seasons

760
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 1: under Jimmy Johnson and Jerry Jones. But like suddenly you

761
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 1: staught that you saw like the formula come together and

762
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:27,880
Speaker 1: they became dominant at the things they were good at,

763
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:29,399
Speaker 1: and then the next season they won the Super Bowl.

764
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 1: I'm not saying this is the Lions, but there's so

765
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 1: many young places pieces in place that will be here

766
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:35,440
Speaker 1: for a really long time. They've got high draft picks

767
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 1: because of the golf thing, and the golf things are

768
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 1: working out better than Matthew Stafford right now outside of

769
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:43,719
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl ring kN Steve Wilkes kind of muddy.

770
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:46,640
Speaker 1: I'm saying the Rams got what they wanted out of it.

771
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 1: But the Rams are in full fledged right now. But

772
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 1: no one thought Detroit one with golf though, That's all

773
00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 1: and it happened. They are winning big on both sides.

774
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:58,280
Speaker 1: Ken Steve wilk kind of muddy the picture for golf

775
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:00,799
Speaker 1: and make them hold the ball. Did not play well

776
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:02,360
Speaker 1: in the cold last week year, right like kind of

777
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:03,839
Speaker 1: when you get him to hold the ball and try

778
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 1: to make up play off timing, it can get rough.

779
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 1: And that's why I'm throwing a little fantasy nug out.

780
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:12,680
Speaker 1: I love being some DeAndre Swift this week and in

781
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 1: your fantasy or dfs because you can see the big

782
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 1: DeAndre Swift day coming. The explosiveness is back. It hasn't

783
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:22,280
Speaker 1: totally resulted in numbers. And you looked at this Panthers

784
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 1: team a week ago. They got pushed around. They were

785
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 1: dominated in that game on the ground, and so I

786
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 1: think the Lions gonna go run the ball a lot.

787
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:31,759
Speaker 1: And I think Ben ben Johnson, who's having a great

788
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:34,320
Speaker 1: year at offensive coordinator, I think he could get a

789
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 1: job a big chair of this January and Dan Campbell

790
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:40,279
Speaker 1: have done a good job with Swift since he's coming

791
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:42,919
Speaker 1: back and looking better than not overworking him there. He's

792
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:46,239
Speaker 1: part of the puzzle, not the piece that they're when

793
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:50,280
Speaker 1: they're playing for January. They're gonna unleash him in January.

794
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 1: And thank you boys, because uh, I got two really

795
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 1: good games here. Um to pick because some games that

796
00:37:57,120 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 1: surprised me have come off the board early, So I'm

797
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 1: gonna start here. You're prized by the team of a

798
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 1: t L going off early. Watch him every week. It

799
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:06,799
Speaker 1: hurt me last week that was the first Lines game

800
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:09,520
Speaker 1: and watch live in about seven weeks. This is the

801
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 1: team of th h A L two Cleveland, New Orleans.

802
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:17,320
Speaker 1: Think would have gone off Buffalo Chicago going third overall?

803
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:19,759
Speaker 1: And I know it's at Cleveland, Detroit and Caroline. How

804
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 1: about Giants at Vikings? How about how about the GMN

805
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:26,799
Speaker 1: coming off a very very big win on Sunday night?

806
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 1: Now did they get they get some help from the zebras.

807
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:34,920
Speaker 1: He sure did, But that does not mean, that does

808
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:38,440
Speaker 1: not mean you take away, um, you take anything or

809
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:41,120
Speaker 1: everything away from them, because I saw a lot of

810
00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:44,600
Speaker 1: that early season DNA in this game. And and and

811
00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:47,279
Speaker 1: that the drive that stands out to me more than

812
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:49,520
Speaker 1: any other drive in the game that made me think, okay,

813
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:52,920
Speaker 1: they might now have kind of recalibrated things and be

814
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:56,000
Speaker 1: able to take this and get to the playoffs was

815
00:38:56,680 --> 00:39:01,279
Speaker 1: before the controversial game ending drive, uh after Heineke put

816
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 1: it on the ground and Ron Rivera saying himself, this

817
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 1: guy is terrible. Why does everybody like him so much?

818
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:07,719
Speaker 1: And the Giants took the ball back and it was

819
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:10,359
Speaker 1: fourth quarter and they needed to choose some clock and

820
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 1: get some points, but just kind of get things stabilized

821
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:15,759
Speaker 1: here before the defense lost the game, and he just

822
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:18,319
Speaker 1: gave it to see Kwan over and over and he

823
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:21,800
Speaker 1: just ran through people over and over and before he

824
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:23,839
Speaker 1: knew it, they kicked the field goal that allows them

825
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:27,960
Speaker 1: to hold on and win that game. And just, uh,

826
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 1: that's important. That's Quon's healthy or looks healthy, and the

827
00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:34,560
Speaker 1: Giants now have that taste of victory again. Playing a

828
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:37,319
Speaker 1: Minnesota team, that what the hell? Man, you don't know

829
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 1: what to expect in this game because you never know

830
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:41,359
Speaker 1: what to expect, but you do because like ten they're

831
00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:43,759
Speaker 1: tenan o in one possession games. So it's like even

832
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 1: when they were losing to the Cults that way, it's like,

833
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:48,920
Speaker 1: of course they're gonna every one of these games down

834
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,400
Speaker 1: three nothing or whatever it was. I would say, I

835
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:53,920
Speaker 1: will say one thing, and you don't have to believe me.

836
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 1: But we were on we were texting. I didn't see

837
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,400
Speaker 1: his text to later, but Dan, you said, right before

838
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:00,560
Speaker 1: the half off, the Vikings can just get a touch

839
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:03,000
Speaker 1: on here, and it happened later to but you were like,

840
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:05,439
Speaker 1: there was this confidence was joking, but I was also

841
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:08,239
Speaker 1: kind of serious in the sense that like if there's

842
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:11,160
Speaker 1: one team, well, there's two teams that could pull this

843
00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 1: thing off. It was the Vikings on one side and

844
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 1: the Cults on the other. Cult what one offensive touchdown

845
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:18,759
Speaker 1: in that game? I mean, you want the Giants were

846
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:21,720
Speaker 1: the most helped by the Zebras last week and the Vikings.

847
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:24,360
Speaker 1: Yes they won, but they had two touchdowns taken away

848
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:26,279
Speaker 1: that clearly should have been scores. You know what, that's

849
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:28,280
Speaker 1: a great point. Not only the Cults have the biggest

850
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:31,279
Speaker 1: collapse in NFL history, they also were the most helped

851
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:34,919
Speaker 1: by officiating and they still lost the game. They got

852
00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:38,759
Speaker 1: fourteen points taken off the board by bad calls and

853
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:41,239
Speaker 1: they still lost, and they had a thirty three nothing lead.

854
00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:45,000
Speaker 1: And so wait, Saturday, this has been floated out there,

855
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 1: and it's kind of remarkable that, you know, obviously six

856
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:49,399
Speaker 1: weeks ago he was doing what we do. Uh, then

857
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 1: he gave up the biggest comeback in NFL history, what

858
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:56,319
Speaker 1: which wiped away Frank Reich's biggest comeback of all time

859
00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 1: front number one. But then to the week before against Dallas,

860
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:02,239
Speaker 1: they gave up the most points in a quarter. They

861
00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:04,720
Speaker 1: gave up thirty three, and then they were up thirty

862
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:06,560
Speaker 1: three to nothing, and then they gave that up and

863
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:09,720
Speaker 1: gave the game up. It's like Jeff Saturday's resume is insane.

864
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:11,719
Speaker 1: I think one thing about the framing with that was

865
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:13,759
Speaker 1: going around a lot like, oh man, the cults, how

866
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:17,319
Speaker 1: much they're doing so dirty? I was like, Frank Reich

867
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:21,200
Speaker 1: probably his way into this. This was a humiliating franchise

868
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:25,400
Speaker 1: lost for the Cults. I know that his win was

869
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:29,600
Speaker 1: in the playoffs against the great Oilers team. Foret forget

870
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:32,239
Speaker 1: that was a great day for Frank Reich. I love

871
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 1: that he called Kirk Cousins this week to talk about

872
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:38,719
Speaker 1: it and say, like, use this for good essentially. Uh,

873
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:41,000
Speaker 1: you know, people still come up to me and it's like, yeah,

874
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:44,160
Speaker 1: it's like a great example to talk to to other

875
00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:47,319
Speaker 1: people about like never give up in life. And uh,

876
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:49,600
Speaker 1: you think Cousins will do that too. I think he

877
00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:52,239
Speaker 1: seems like he's not gonna use it. I could see

878
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:56,000
Speaker 1: him speaking at like youth ministry camps. Yea, I said

879
00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:57,920
Speaker 1: that that's why he called him. Is that, um, he

880
00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:01,320
Speaker 1: knows Kirk has a strong Christian faith. Not Ny said it.

881
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:06,759
Speaker 1: I mean, like that's exactly what the right right as well.

882
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:09,359
Speaker 1: I am curious about this matchup though for Kirk Kirk

883
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 1: versus the Blitz, his numbers are terrible this year. They

884
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:16,120
Speaker 1: haven't been throughout his career like most veteran quarterbacks who

885
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:18,920
Speaker 1: can usually figure things out, but I think according to PFF,

886
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:23,360
Speaker 1: he's like third worst quarterback in the league against the Blitz.

887
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:26,560
Speaker 1: Against a heavy blitz team which suddenly has two great

888
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:30,440
Speaker 1: edge rushers in Thibodeaux and Ocelari who has really popped that.

889
00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:32,319
Speaker 1: Both of those guys are playing their best ball right now.

890
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:35,040
Speaker 1: So you add that to a heavy blitz team against Kirk,

891
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 1: you could have some wild stuff. The one thing is

892
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:39,440
Speaker 1: they play a ton of man coverage, and Cousins has

893
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:42,040
Speaker 1: and Justin Jefferson has been dominant against everything, but they

894
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:44,719
Speaker 1: have dominated man coverage, so that I think if you can,

895
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:47,759
Speaker 1: can you somehow offset the blitz somehow in the rush,

896
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:49,359
Speaker 1: Like I just think it's a it's a game where

897
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:51,279
Speaker 1: you can it can be who they are. Yeah, And

898
00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:54,840
Speaker 1: it's interesting because the Giants we talked about the Vikings

899
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 1: tennant oh and one score games and Giants are eight

900
00:42:57,120 --> 00:42:58,920
Speaker 1: two and one, so they've been very good in these

901
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 1: types of games too. And I just god, this one

902
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:04,000
Speaker 1: is like one of the hardest games to figure out

903
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 1: because I could definitely see a scenario where the Vikings

904
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:08,839
Speaker 1: run the Giants out of the building because I still

905
00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 1: don't necessarily believe their offense is the best group in

906
00:43:11,239 --> 00:43:14,359
Speaker 1: the games. And and Jefferson and and cousins. I think

907
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:17,239
Speaker 1: they're looking to set records of Jefferson breaking the all

908
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 1: time receiving record. He'll have another big game, I think here.

909
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:22,640
Speaker 1: I do think that this is a game where the

910
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:25,600
Speaker 1: Vikings take care of business, but I can't say that

911
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:29,480
Speaker 1: the other side. And it's certainly not locking it up

912
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:32,759
Speaker 1: because if this game, there's also a coin flip where

913
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:34,640
Speaker 1: this game goes down to the less possession, because that's

914
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:36,520
Speaker 1: kind of what both these teams do that even if

915
00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:38,799
Speaker 1: you go back through like the last three seasons, the

916
00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:41,120
Speaker 1: Vikings lead the league in one score games. This year's

917
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:44,120
Speaker 1: obviously been like the waterfall, but like they've been this

918
00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:46,040
Speaker 1: team in a weird way, it's like I don't, I don't.

919
00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:48,560
Speaker 1: I'm not hanging around waiting for the Minnesota blow out

920
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:51,480
Speaker 1: to happen. They can clinch this week too. The Giants

921
00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:55,399
Speaker 1: is crazy. They can they get a win, uh and

922
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:59,560
Speaker 1: then either a Washington loss I believe are a Lions loss,

923
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 1: and they're in if they get two of those. Those teams.

924
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 1: I also want to see just quickly in this matchup

925
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones, because I think he's playing well right now

926
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:11,520
Speaker 1: and he's had a lot of tough matchups. He's working

927
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:14,200
Speaker 1: so hard to get what he gets. You don't have

928
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:16,399
Speaker 1: to work that hard against this Vikings defense. I think

929
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:19,080
Speaker 1: you could have a nice little Daniel Jones game. Alright,

930
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:24,919
Speaker 1: let's take a break and we will roll on. All right,

931
00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:29,440
Speaker 1: Welcome back the Week six team. Look how it goes,

932
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:32,520
Speaker 1: Look how it goes. Long season, But all of a sudden,

933
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:35,480
Speaker 1: here we are on the precipice of the postseason. Let's

934
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:38,959
Speaker 1: keep rolling. Six snakes to Zeuser and it's time now

935
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:42,439
Speaker 1: for the Sunday Drive presented by Toyota, and we're gonna

936
00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:47,759
Speaker 1: drive friends into the woods of Foxborough to check in

937
00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:51,200
Speaker 1: on the New England Patriots seven and seven, coming off

938
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:55,240
Speaker 1: one of the worst losses you will ever ever see. Um.

939
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:57,880
Speaker 1: You kind of forget because of the Chandler Jones lateral

940
00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:02,040
Speaker 1: thing um that they had a seven point lead uh

941
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:04,840
Speaker 1: in this game prior to that, and Derek Carr and

942
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:06,799
Speaker 1: the Raiders were facing a fourth and ten deep in

943
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:09,360
Speaker 1: their own end on that drive that led to the

944
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:14,040
Speaker 1: touchdown pass um. So that is a backbreaking uh loss

945
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:16,359
Speaker 1: potentially for a team that's really feels like it's been

946
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:20,919
Speaker 1: on the ropes, perhaps internally with all the um consternation

947
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 1: about the offensive scheme and the coaching and where mac

948
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:27,520
Speaker 1: Jones had had his at and speaking of mac Jones, um,

949
00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:32,760
Speaker 1: this was interesting. On Wednesday, a reporter had a question about,

950
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:36,600
Speaker 1: you know, the the near future, not the long term future,

951
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:41,920
Speaker 1: the near future, the quarterback position in New England with

952
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:46,839
Speaker 1: mac here a quarterback to the three weeks. Let's start

953
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:49,640
Speaker 1: a BA since mode, I don't even know what I said.

954
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:52,320
Speaker 1: What do you say something about Cincinnati? We're just trying

955
00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:56,000
Speaker 1: to beat Cincinnati? Is the plan is to beat Cincinnati.

956
00:45:56,040 --> 00:46:00,719
Speaker 1: I wish our listeners could could see that, because first

957
00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:03,120
Speaker 1: of all, Bill looks like he's good. He's taking care

958
00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:05,800
Speaker 1: of himself. The aren't He's showing off the biceps. He

959
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:07,920
Speaker 1: actually had a big smile right before that question. Then

960
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:10,440
Speaker 1: the question comes out and his eyebrows a raised. He

961
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:15,239
Speaker 1: was totally surprised by it, and then total grimace answering, there,

962
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:18,200
Speaker 1: I've heard that Robert Kraft is kind of a Simmons

963
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:19,960
Speaker 1: throughout there. I don't know if this is accurate, but

964
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:22,440
Speaker 1: Bill Simmons through out there that like Kraft was a

965
00:46:22,520 --> 00:46:26,480
Speaker 1: zappy guy that he's been pushing for Zapp. Bill doesn't

966
00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:30,239
Speaker 1: care about that though. But well, here's interesting. I think

967
00:46:30,239 --> 00:46:32,960
Speaker 1: I talked to Ian about this because before Ian joined

968
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:36,279
Speaker 1: NFL Network rap sheet, he covered the Patriots for the

969
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:39,480
Speaker 1: Boston Herald, and there's a whole hierarchy. In fact, they

970
00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:41,280
Speaker 1: did talk to him about it. I found it fascinating,

971
00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:44,320
Speaker 1: a hierarchy in terms of like who gets to ask

972
00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:46,919
Speaker 1: Bill the type of questions when Bill kind of lets

973
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:49,200
Speaker 1: you into the circle, in terms of giving you a

974
00:46:49,239 --> 00:46:52,280
Speaker 1: real answer or some type of stock answer, or ignoring

975
00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:55,440
Speaker 1: you outright, or maybe the pasts media guy has to

976
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:58,000
Speaker 1: rough you up a little bit, not physically, but perhaps

977
00:46:58,040 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 1: we don't know where those ball boys are, for instance,

978
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:04,680
Speaker 1: pr guy under the pike, perhaps from the flame um.

979
00:47:04,719 --> 00:47:07,719
Speaker 1: But anyway, I'm what I was taken by there is

980
00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:09,759
Speaker 1: like who asked the question? Was that guy allowed to

981
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:12,800
Speaker 1: ask the question? Did Bill's eyebrows rays because he was

982
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:14,880
Speaker 1: surprised that guy asked the question when he's not allowed

983
00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:17,200
Speaker 1: or was it a guy that is allowed to ask

984
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:19,080
Speaker 1: that question? And he was just surprised he got it

985
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:21,319
Speaker 1: in that moment, but when you just clear all that

986
00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:25,120
Speaker 1: other stuff out. The question was his first round pick

987
00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:27,279
Speaker 1: in two thousand twenty one, Mac Jones, who went to

988
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:29,760
Speaker 1: the playoffs last year and won ten games as a rookie,

989
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:32,240
Speaker 1: the quarterback for the last three games of the season,

990
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:35,120
Speaker 1: and the coach's answer was, we're trying to beat the

991
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:38,000
Speaker 1: Bengals this week. I mean, like, first of all, I

992
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:41,680
Speaker 1: don't know that reporter may not exist at this point,

993
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:44,360
Speaker 1: depending on where they are in this hierarchy. Um. I

994
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:47,040
Speaker 1: just think that if you look at what's happened, because

995
00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:50,600
Speaker 1: these this Patriots team that is the scoring the second

996
00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:53,080
Speaker 1: fewest points of the Bill Belichick era New England going

997
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:56,280
Speaker 1: back to two thousand, Um, they've looked bad. Um they

998
00:47:56,360 --> 00:47:58,839
Speaker 1: instead of though, what's so different to me is that

999
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:02,719
Speaker 1: Matt Jones, unlike previous quarterbacks, has been so emotive and

1000
00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:05,440
Speaker 1: there's been these been these spats in these incidents, and

1001
00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:07,680
Speaker 1: it's so clear how frustrated he is and he's not

1002
00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:10,759
Speaker 1: hiding it at all. And in fact, I think most

1003
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:13,240
Speaker 1: people will look at mac Jones and say, we're siding

1004
00:48:13,239 --> 00:48:14,960
Speaker 1: with Mac Jones here. Yeah, maybe you don't want your

1005
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:17,680
Speaker 1: quarterback blowing up on the sideline emotionally week after week.

1006
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:20,239
Speaker 1: But he seems to be in a really bad situation,

1007
00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:23,880
Speaker 1: in a fix um, in a Patriots coaching staff that

1008
00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:26,360
Speaker 1: to me feels out of control. I can never remember

1009
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:28,120
Speaker 1: feeling this way about a New England team, but they

1010
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:30,719
Speaker 1: feel out of control, and it's like happening on a

1011
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:33,279
Speaker 1: weekly basis. So I would not be surprised in the

1012
00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:36,040
Speaker 1: Bailey's happy world of things that Bill belitics, like, get

1013
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:37,600
Speaker 1: this thing out of my face. At some point, I'm

1014
00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:40,240
Speaker 1: just not convinced mac Jones when we're sitting here in

1015
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:43,000
Speaker 1: April May June, I'm not convinced mac Jones is even

1016
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 1: on this roster. I'm just not right, Spicy Mark here.

1017
00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:50,080
Speaker 1: Here's the thing though, that that you're right. The ending

1018
00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:52,520
Speaker 1: overshadowed everything that went on in that game, and it

1019
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:54,480
Speaker 1: seemed like mac Jones had one of the worst games

1020
00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:57,239
Speaker 1: of his career. And then you rewatch it and so

1021
00:48:57,360 --> 00:49:02,280
Speaker 1: many of the routes are just terribly run. The spacing.

1022
00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:04,839
Speaker 1: Greg Bdard's been sending this out where there's like three

1023
00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:10,279
Speaker 1: guys clustered together like routinely, the situational football where you

1024
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:13,160
Speaker 1: can't score from the one you have so many pre

1025
00:49:13,239 --> 00:49:16,520
Speaker 1: snap penalties. They lost that game because of how they

1026
00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:19,800
Speaker 1: handled the end of half an end of game situations.

1027
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:22,560
Speaker 1: They are so sloppy. I I heard Bill talking about

1028
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:26,200
Speaker 1: the Bengals earlier this week. We have the clipping. It's short,

1029
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:28,719
Speaker 1: but I think the Bengals are the type of team

1030
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:32,240
Speaker 1: that that Bill Belichick wishes he was, play a clean game,

1031
00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:38,200
Speaker 1: so make air and everything, so do over and over.

1032
00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:40,719
Speaker 1: In this press conference, he kept saying how they make

1033
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:45,080
Speaker 1: they're clean, they don't lose games. They let other teams

1034
00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:47,160
Speaker 1: lose games. And I think he knows in his heart

1035
00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:49,640
Speaker 1: that used to be us and listening to and I

1036
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:52,680
Speaker 1: listened to his press conference because I started thinking we

1037
00:49:52,719 --> 00:49:55,239
Speaker 1: could be running out of Bill Belichick press conferences here

1038
00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 1: as a member of the Patriots, I think this is

1039
00:49:57,040 --> 00:50:01,120
Speaker 1: a real thing. I think one is telling all these

1040
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:05,600
Speaker 1: media members, let's name him, Peter King, Albert brier Uh,

1041
00:50:05,719 --> 00:50:10,800
Speaker 1: Karen Grugi in the Boston Herald, Tom Curran, Greg Bdard.

1042
00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:14,920
Speaker 1: I think that's it has floated out some sort of

1043
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:17,799
Speaker 1: version of if Bill Belichick doesn't make changes to the

1044
00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:20,120
Speaker 1: offensive staff and or the front office because he's just

1045
00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:22,680
Speaker 1: trying to do everything, then there could be a change.

1046
00:50:23,200 --> 00:50:25,400
Speaker 1: I got a pretty good guess where that information is

1047
00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:28,439
Speaker 1: coming from. It's coming from the highest parts of the

1048
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:31,640
Speaker 1: Patriots organization. Yeah, but at the same time, like you

1049
00:50:31,760 --> 00:50:33,960
Speaker 1: trying to smoke Bill out through the media, that seems

1050
00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:35,719
Speaker 1: like a bad idea to plan be to hand it

1051
00:50:35,719 --> 00:50:39,879
Speaker 1: off to Steve Belichick. No, well, let me just say

1052
00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:44,719
Speaker 1: that Bill's plan. I don't think that we could say

1053
00:50:44,719 --> 00:50:46,719
Speaker 1: that's coming from upstairs. And maybe it is, but I'm

1054
00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:49,759
Speaker 1: sure that Bill feels probably the same way after this

1055
00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:52,360
Speaker 1: is gone, that he needs to make changes to his

1056
00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:54,840
Speaker 1: coaching staff that he needs to obviously get the offense

1057
00:50:54,840 --> 00:50:56,839
Speaker 1: in a much better place, a healthier place. They gotta

1058
00:50:57,120 --> 00:51:00,239
Speaker 1: clean things up and become a more organized operation. Thought

1059
00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:04,520
Speaker 1: it was a real microcosm of their struggles in the

1060
00:51:04,560 --> 00:51:07,040
Speaker 1: second quarter against Vegas. They had a first and goal

1061
00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:11,120
Speaker 1: at the Vegas too and uh, I think Mac missed

1062
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:14,600
Speaker 1: what should have been a touchdown. Uh. And then they

1063
00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:18,040
Speaker 1: uh he hits a touchdown, but they gets blown dead

1064
00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:20,359
Speaker 1: because the sideline I think it was Patricia of course,

1065
00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:23,960
Speaker 1: calls time out and wipes out the touchdown. H. Then

1066
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:26,200
Speaker 1: they have another incompletion, then they have to call another

1067
00:51:26,239 --> 00:51:28,000
Speaker 1: time out. And now they burned two time outs in

1068
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:30,239
Speaker 1: like twenty seconds, and then on fourth and goal from

1069
00:51:30,239 --> 00:51:33,239
Speaker 1: the Vegas one false start backing up six yards, they

1070
00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:36,360
Speaker 1: kicked the field goal. It's like Patriots fans know exactly

1071
00:51:36,360 --> 00:51:38,759
Speaker 1: the dry I'm talking about, because that is just like,

1072
00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:42,080
Speaker 1: why aren't they efficient? Why aren't they well put together?

1073
00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:45,080
Speaker 1: And it all set up for obviously the cataclysmic event

1074
00:51:45,239 --> 00:51:47,080
Speaker 1: with Chandler Jones. But this stuff has been going on

1075
00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:49,279
Speaker 1: all year. Yeah, go ahead, well, no, it's good. I

1076
00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:51,279
Speaker 1: mean that. I think if if the Texans are doing

1077
00:51:51,280 --> 00:51:54,560
Speaker 1: what you just describe, burning time outs left and right penalties,

1078
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:57,480
Speaker 1: your coach calling a time out to or to essentially

1079
00:51:57,480 --> 00:51:59,680
Speaker 1: remove a touchdown, then you have the killer penalty on

1080
00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:03,000
Speaker 1: John Smith's like, um, excuse me, we'd be frying other teams.

1081
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:05,200
Speaker 1: But because it's new England has been this resistance to

1082
00:52:05,200 --> 00:52:07,919
Speaker 1: be like, no, they probably have their house in order.

1083
00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:12,760
Speaker 1: It's just these confusing too, because their defense is excellently coached.

1084
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:14,799
Speaker 1: Their number two in d v O A with a

1085
00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:17,920
Speaker 1: very sketchy like group of cornerbacks and using guys that

1086
00:52:18,040 --> 00:52:22,480
Speaker 1: linebackers coach castaways right, and and like now that Barmore's

1087
00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:25,319
Speaker 1: back I'm very curious to see if this Bengals offensive line,

1088
00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:27,400
Speaker 1: which has been better this year, holds up against U. J.

1089
00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:30,719
Speaker 1: Barmore in Jude, and they like they have a better

1090
00:52:30,760 --> 00:52:32,560
Speaker 1: defense than they had a year ago if they had

1091
00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:35,120
Speaker 1: Josh McDaniel. Still, I believe this team is ten and

1092
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:36,920
Speaker 1: five because they would just would be they would just

1093
00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:40,799
Speaker 1: be a mediocre offense and that'd be good enough. They've

1094
00:52:40,840 --> 00:52:43,120
Speaker 1: only played fourteen games where they get credit with nine five.

1095
00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:45,600
Speaker 1: I'm giving him nine and five. Um, the Bengals side

1096
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:48,719
Speaker 1: of this, this has been my pick season. My lock

1097
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:51,520
Speaker 1: season has been very similar to the Dallas Cowboys season.

1098
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:54,480
Speaker 1: Started out with a ton of promise and almost juggernaut like,

1099
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:57,480
Speaker 1: and then in the last like month or so, it's

1100
00:52:57,480 --> 00:53:00,120
Speaker 1: just like it's not a total collapse, but things just

1101
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:02,120
Speaker 1: don't feel right. You're just not in the right group.

1102
00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:04,480
Speaker 1: And I've realized, what I think i've realized here, what

1103
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:06,560
Speaker 1: I hope I've realized here is one of the things

1104
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:09,040
Speaker 1: i'm doing. I'm not locking good teams or teams I

1105
00:53:09,080 --> 00:53:11,600
Speaker 1: feel good about. So I'm gonna lock a team I

1106
00:53:11,600 --> 00:53:15,080
Speaker 1: feel good about. The Cincinnati Bengals go into New England

1107
00:53:15,440 --> 00:53:17,840
Speaker 1: and taking care of a Patriots team that just feels

1108
00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:20,640
Speaker 1: like it's in all sorts of dire straits. Give me

1109
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:23,800
Speaker 1: the team that's well coached, that's getting guys back healthy,

1110
00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:27,760
Speaker 1: that has Joe Burrow involved, and they they they believe

1111
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:29,920
Speaker 1: they could be the number one seed in this a

1112
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:33,120
Speaker 1: f C. So they are not gonna lay down up there.

1113
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:35,520
Speaker 1: They take care of business. Look at how like from

1114
00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:37,440
Speaker 1: I think we're Belichick. You know we've and Greg, I

1115
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:39,440
Speaker 1: know you've not been huge on on Zach Taylor, but

1116
00:53:40,040 --> 00:53:42,520
Speaker 1: like on defense, for instance, the way that they adjusted

1117
00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:45,880
Speaker 1: against the Bucks, right, they're really they do. I can

1118
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:49,160
Speaker 1: see why belichicks into it. And to me, that spoke

1119
00:53:49,239 --> 00:53:51,440
Speaker 1: who like that spoke to who the Bengals are like

1120
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:54,520
Speaker 1: other teams, Like you question yourself, you fall into a pit.

1121
00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:56,319
Speaker 1: You allow the Bucks to play the best offense they

1122
00:53:56,360 --> 00:53:58,399
Speaker 1: have all year in that half, and they turn around

1123
00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:00,640
Speaker 1: and completely erased him. I mean, they made life so

1124
00:54:00,719 --> 00:54:03,080
Speaker 1: difficult for Brady. So I like this lock a lot

1125
00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:04,759
Speaker 1: for you. This was my lock, and then I just

1126
00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:07,560
Speaker 1: felt what we do, see what we do with with

1127
00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:09,880
Speaker 1: Greg with locks, it's all this like the endless like

1128
00:54:09,960 --> 00:54:14,719
Speaker 1: stuff questioning, and you know, it's kind of like I'm

1129
00:54:15,040 --> 00:54:18,719
Speaker 1: just watched Godfather with my you know, the lock father

1130
00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:23,799
Speaker 1: watches The Godfather with my parents and children. They were

1131
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:27,880
Speaker 1: in bed. Michael goes to Italy after shooting the the

1132
00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:34,239
Speaker 1: Lieutenant and falls in love with an Italian woman. Knock

1133
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:37,560
Speaker 1: it works and get they get married in tragedy. I

1134
00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:41,120
Speaker 1: don't want to spoil this, but tragedy ends that union.

1135
00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:46,080
Speaker 1: Michael comes back to America and reunites with Kay Adams,

1136
00:54:46,080 --> 00:54:50,239
Speaker 1: no relation to the football analyst host, and marries her.

1137
00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:53,879
Speaker 1: And that's how I feel. I feel like my lock

1138
00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:57,960
Speaker 1: for Greg. Greg said, do you know you want to

1139
00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:01,480
Speaker 1: lock up the Mangles and come with me? I am

1140
00:55:01,520 --> 00:55:06,120
Speaker 1: the Italian woman that you'll leave and you go back

1141
00:55:06,200 --> 00:55:08,719
Speaker 1: to America and okay, but you're not truly in love

1142
00:55:08,840 --> 00:55:12,719
Speaker 1: with your luck. Your true love is the Bengals. Your

1143
00:55:12,760 --> 00:55:16,920
Speaker 1: true luck loves the Bengals. And instead you go home

1144
00:55:16,960 --> 00:55:19,680
Speaker 1: and you you go with the teacher back in America,

1145
00:55:19,920 --> 00:55:25,080
Speaker 1: and you don't truly love. Okay. That's if somebody followed that,

1146
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:28,680
Speaker 1: that's good. There were some strange turns there, but I

1147
00:55:28,719 --> 00:55:30,960
Speaker 1: did follow it. I think, yeah, it just feels it

1148
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:33,799
Speaker 1: feels wrong to lock against your your own team. But

1149
00:55:33,960 --> 00:55:36,040
Speaker 1: I mean, you're a woman, and I liked it would

1150
00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:41,680
Speaker 1: be I would be surprised, it would be surprised by

1151
00:55:41,719 --> 00:55:48,200
Speaker 1: the way that that was the Sunday Dry presented, Sundry

1152
00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:55,480
Speaker 1: presented by they got their money's worth it all right? Interesting, Greg,

1153
00:55:55,520 --> 00:55:58,040
Speaker 1: your final pick of the draft where already at my

1154
00:55:58,080 --> 00:56:00,480
Speaker 1: final pick? I'll take Seahawks Chiefs. Oh, we got the

1155
00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:03,120
Speaker 1: prime ting gaginst that's what it is. Uh, Seahawks Chiefs.

1156
00:56:03,120 --> 00:56:06,200
Speaker 1: Fun game, a lot of points, love the points, love

1157
00:56:06,280 --> 00:56:10,560
Speaker 1: the over love Geno Smith getting back on track here

1158
00:56:11,400 --> 00:56:15,399
Speaker 1: against this Chief's defense. I think this Chief's defense is

1159
00:56:15,760 --> 00:56:18,879
Speaker 1: very vulnerable. I know, I know Tyler Locketts out and

1160
00:56:18,920 --> 00:56:23,560
Speaker 1: that's massive, and um Walker ken Walker looks like he

1161
00:56:23,640 --> 00:56:25,759
Speaker 1: might be out too. So the Seahawks are. They do

1162
00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:28,480
Speaker 1: have some issues. And yet I feel like Gino is

1163
00:56:28,480 --> 00:56:30,160
Speaker 1: gonna play a clean game because I just don't think

1164
00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:32,240
Speaker 1: the Chiefs Tea don't have their most reliable wide receiver

1165
00:56:32,280 --> 00:56:34,520
Speaker 1: and the running backs out, and their defense can't play

1166
00:56:34,640 --> 00:56:36,920
Speaker 1: totally compromised. Gino has to make every play to save

1167
00:56:36,960 --> 00:56:38,880
Speaker 1: this team, but I feel good about his chances in this.

1168
00:56:39,640 --> 00:56:43,040
Speaker 1: I don't trust this Chief's defense. I think they've shown

1169
00:56:43,080 --> 00:56:45,680
Speaker 1: some vulnerabilities are playing a lot of rookies on the

1170
00:56:45,719 --> 00:56:48,359
Speaker 1: back end. I think the Chiefs are gonna score a lot.

1171
00:56:48,400 --> 00:56:50,680
Speaker 1: And so then Gino, who made his first Pro Bowl

1172
00:56:51,239 --> 00:56:56,720
Speaker 1: on pretty cool. That is very cool, pretty incredible career

1173
00:56:56,719 --> 00:56:59,320
Speaker 1: shurt around. Let's let's just say what it is. I

1174
00:56:59,600 --> 00:57:03,239
Speaker 1: think he'll be stuck in a position to score. Unfortunately,

1175
00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:05,440
Speaker 1: the defense is also going to have to play in

1176
00:57:05,440 --> 00:57:07,400
Speaker 1: this game, and I would put the over under for

1177
00:57:07,520 --> 00:57:11,520
Speaker 1: the Chiefs scoring around thirty five points. I'm with you

1178
00:57:11,560 --> 00:57:15,160
Speaker 1: and like I, the Geno Smith story has been awesome. Um, Greg,

1179
00:57:15,160 --> 00:57:17,080
Speaker 1: that's a victory for you coming out of the summer.

1180
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:19,360
Speaker 1: But I would say that if you look at his

1181
00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:21,760
Speaker 1: metrics since we gate, there's a couple of things that

1182
00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:25,000
Speaker 1: are concerning his passing grade. And passing grade is what

1183
00:57:25,040 --> 00:57:29,240
Speaker 1: it is, but it's gone from fourth to UM since Yeah,

1184
00:57:29,440 --> 00:57:32,840
Speaker 1: But actually it's more like I think it's PF passing grade. Actually,

1185
00:57:33,160 --> 00:57:35,920
Speaker 1: big time throw rate has gone from third, which was

1186
00:57:35,960 --> 00:57:40,240
Speaker 1: so visible from third to UM. Turnover worthy plays have

1187
00:57:40,320 --> 00:57:44,320
Speaker 1: gone from twenty three most to ninth most so in

1188
00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:47,000
Speaker 1: every I mean, those last two categories matter a lot,

1189
00:57:47,080 --> 00:57:48,720
Speaker 1: and it's like, I think a part of it is

1190
00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:51,600
Speaker 1: environment because the running game has dried up, um their

1191
00:57:51,600 --> 00:57:53,960
Speaker 1: defense has put him in a tough situation. Things were

1192
00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:55,840
Speaker 1: really good around Gino before, but now they're not, and

1193
00:57:55,880 --> 00:57:58,280
Speaker 1: it's like, who is Gino when things around them aren't working.

1194
00:57:58,960 --> 00:58:01,720
Speaker 1: The Seahawks who have to a decision to make, they're

1195
00:58:01,720 --> 00:58:04,080
Speaker 1: seeing all sides of this now in terms of what

1196
00:58:04,120 --> 00:58:07,120
Speaker 1: they want their quarterback position in the future that maybe

1197
00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:08,840
Speaker 1: just in time. It's not a shot on Gino, but

1198
00:58:08,880 --> 00:58:10,919
Speaker 1: it's like he's not going to carry your team when

1199
00:58:10,960 --> 00:58:13,320
Speaker 1: you when you need him. So maybe there's a young

1200
00:58:13,320 --> 00:58:14,960
Speaker 1: guy in the draft and you have a top pick

1201
00:58:15,160 --> 00:58:16,720
Speaker 1: that can be that guy. It's just something to think

1202
00:58:16,760 --> 00:58:18,919
Speaker 1: about before you pay thirty five million dollars a year.

1203
00:58:18,920 --> 00:58:21,000
Speaker 1: He needs more time, and I think this is the

1204
00:58:21,040 --> 00:58:23,480
Speaker 1: game if you're a Seahawks fan. Hopefully he gets it

1205
00:58:23,520 --> 00:58:28,160
Speaker 1: because they're they're a vertical offense. They run routes down

1206
00:58:28,240 --> 00:58:31,640
Speaker 1: the field that need time to develop, and he hasn't

1207
00:58:31,640 --> 00:58:35,120
Speaker 1: had that time. Also recently, I do kind of look

1208
00:58:35,120 --> 00:58:36,919
Speaker 1: at this Chief's team. They're in a weird spot because

1209
00:58:36,920 --> 00:58:38,400
Speaker 1: they might be the one seed and yet they I

1210
00:58:38,400 --> 00:58:41,560
Speaker 1: think they have some pretty identifiable issues on this team.

1211
00:58:41,720 --> 00:58:44,360
Speaker 1: Number one turnovers one of the league leaders and turning

1212
00:58:44,360 --> 00:58:46,880
Speaker 1: the ball over minus six on the season. Now, that's

1213
00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:49,680
Speaker 1: that's uh. As I wrote in The Power Rings, a

1214
00:58:49,760 --> 00:58:53,600
Speaker 1: puzzling data point for an eleven and three Super Bowl contenders,

1215
00:58:53,720 --> 00:58:57,120
Speaker 1: it's a lot of fun balls. I think Martin Marcus

1216
00:58:57,120 --> 00:58:59,840
Speaker 1: Fould this scantling just in general is a problem because

1217
00:58:59,840 --> 00:59:03,439
Speaker 1: he's so unreliable that he'll make great plays and he'll

1218
00:59:03,520 --> 00:59:06,960
Speaker 1: kill you twice a week or like that turns into

1219
00:59:06,960 --> 00:59:09,400
Speaker 1: a turnover. It's a huge drop. I think the rookie

1220
00:59:09,400 --> 00:59:12,120
Speaker 1: cornerbacks which I mentioned, and then maybe a little like

1221
00:59:12,400 --> 00:59:15,080
Speaker 1: Andy Reid is still playing like he doesn't have Michael

1222
00:59:15,120 --> 00:59:17,520
Speaker 1: Jordan as its quarterback. That they went into overtime in

1223
00:59:17,520 --> 00:59:20,120
Speaker 1: that game, in part because he's setting up for a

1224
00:59:20,200 --> 00:59:22,520
Speaker 1: fifty one yard field goal at the end, in part

1225
00:59:22,560 --> 00:59:25,200
Speaker 1: because they don't go for a fourth and two on

1226
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:27,760
Speaker 1: the eight yard line. It's like Patrick Mahomes is your quarterback.

1227
00:59:27,800 --> 00:59:30,120
Speaker 1: You really don't have to run it three times or

1228
00:59:30,160 --> 00:59:33,320
Speaker 1: throw little screens to set up Bucker, like show some aggression.

1229
00:59:34,760 --> 00:59:37,080
Speaker 1: I mean, like also in the past you could count

1230
00:59:37,120 --> 00:59:39,440
Speaker 1: on Harrison Bucker to not miss an extra point and

1231
00:59:39,480 --> 00:59:41,880
Speaker 1: that's okay though that's it's such as the same from

1232
00:59:41,880 --> 00:59:44,600
Speaker 1: another angle, Butcker's Butcker's in a slump, and it's I

1233
00:59:44,600 --> 00:59:46,560
Speaker 1: think some of these great offenses when you can't rely

1234
00:59:46,600 --> 00:59:50,360
Speaker 1: on your kicker like you got he'll probably we have, um,

1235
00:59:50,520 --> 00:59:52,160
Speaker 1: we have this guy gets it, which is one of

1236
00:59:52,160 --> 00:59:55,960
Speaker 1: our great recurring series. We really need it. We we

1237
00:59:56,080 --> 00:59:57,880
Speaker 1: dial it up, we dial it up. This is another

1238
00:59:57,920 --> 01:00:01,320
Speaker 1: one because I like that it's assesslerism from another angle

1239
01:00:01,520 --> 01:00:05,600
Speaker 1: with Mark. Sea's pretty good. More it's typically says like

1240
01:00:05,600 --> 01:00:07,600
Speaker 1: Greg is corrected, but what he just said, but I'm

1241
01:00:07,640 --> 01:00:09,960
Speaker 1: going to try to counter it with another factory. He

1242
01:00:10,040 --> 01:00:13,000
Speaker 1: maybe I don't think that Greg was wrong. I just

1243
01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:15,480
Speaker 1: think back again the reason the term exists. It's from

1244
01:00:15,520 --> 01:00:17,760
Speaker 1: another angle. We could say that Harrison, Butcker is not

1245
01:00:17,800 --> 01:00:20,360
Speaker 1: the guy you've relied on in the past. Right now,

1246
01:00:20,640 --> 01:00:22,880
Speaker 1: Why is he slumping? He's had some injuries this season

1247
01:00:23,280 --> 01:00:28,520
Speaker 1: that you know, I'm gonna kill them another show. It's

1248
01:00:28,560 --> 01:00:34,320
Speaker 1: gonna have a lot of going a lot of different directions. Yeah, Um,

1249
01:00:32,560 --> 01:00:37,000
Speaker 1: that's all right, let's keep moving. Mark, you are up,

1250
01:00:37,040 --> 01:00:39,240
Speaker 1: my friend. Well, I have no choices. There's I have

1251
01:00:39,280 --> 01:00:40,919
Speaker 1: two picks in those two games left, so I guess

1252
01:00:40,960 --> 01:00:43,120
Speaker 1: I'll just like toy with you, which one I which

1253
01:00:43,120 --> 01:00:47,080
Speaker 1: one I picked first? I'm gonna go Falcons at ravensting

1254
01:00:47,760 --> 01:00:52,520
Speaker 1: how we're hanging on what you choose, but we we've

1255
01:00:52,520 --> 01:00:55,919
Speaker 1: heard and I do like power. Uh this Raven's team

1256
01:00:55,920 --> 01:00:58,200
Speaker 1: you said it before. I don't know, like, uh, how

1257
01:00:58,480 --> 01:01:01,840
Speaker 1: I keep hearing like they're in trouble? Am I supposed

1258
01:01:01,840 --> 01:01:04,200
Speaker 1: to be excited about this Ravens team right now? It's

1259
01:01:04,240 --> 01:01:08,600
Speaker 1: just like Jackson. I keep hearing that too, and like

1260
01:01:08,640 --> 01:01:11,520
Speaker 1: they I know Lamar is like obviously a complete difference

1261
01:01:11,600 --> 01:01:14,560
Speaker 1: maker at his heights, but their offense was a problem before.

1262
01:01:14,640 --> 01:01:17,880
Speaker 1: You your tight end leads, your leads your team and

1263
01:01:17,920 --> 01:01:21,720
Speaker 1: receiving Last week, you know, you had seventeen completions, like

1264
01:01:21,760 --> 01:01:24,520
Speaker 1: half of them went to Mark Andrews, Isaiah Likely and

1265
01:01:24,640 --> 01:01:28,920
Speaker 1: Josh Oliver. Uh, Devin Duverns out, Rashod Bateman's out. Sammy

1266
01:01:28,960 --> 01:01:31,880
Speaker 1: Watkins is the new guy you're focusing on. He currently

1267
01:01:31,960 --> 01:01:35,000
Speaker 1: ranks seventy second in yards per route and eighties second

1268
01:01:35,000 --> 01:01:37,080
Speaker 1: and catch rates. So I'm not sure what you're hoping

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01:01:37,320 --> 01:01:39,400
Speaker 1: he's gonna come in and do. I think your your

1270
01:01:39,440 --> 01:01:41,360
Speaker 1: anchor is just your defense and you hope that you

1271
01:01:41,400 --> 01:01:43,520
Speaker 1: know you know what you're getting Desmond Ritter, who is

1272
01:01:43,560 --> 01:01:45,760
Speaker 1: totally wet behind the ears. And if you can shut

1273
01:01:45,800 --> 01:01:48,440
Speaker 1: down the ground game with Tyler al Geer and Cordarold

1274
01:01:48,440 --> 01:01:50,280
Speaker 1: Patterson and they they've got the guys to do it

1275
01:01:50,280 --> 01:01:53,000
Speaker 1: because I think they've got the best two linebackers playing

1276
01:01:53,040 --> 01:01:54,880
Speaker 1: together right now in the game, and Patrick Queen and

1277
01:01:54,960 --> 01:01:58,000
Speaker 1: Roquan Smith interior linebackers. And like you, I don't see

1278
01:01:58,040 --> 01:02:00,760
Speaker 1: any reason you don't win this necessary leap. But I

1279
01:02:00,760 --> 01:02:02,720
Speaker 1: think teams are gonna keep it tight because the Ravens

1280
01:02:02,720 --> 01:02:05,440
Speaker 1: are good for about ten to thirteen points a week

1281
01:02:05,520 --> 01:02:07,880
Speaker 1: right now. I mean, do I thought that. I'm surprise

1282
01:02:07,960 --> 01:02:11,760
Speaker 1: the Ravens are favored by seven. They are. They're begging

1283
01:02:11,800 --> 01:02:13,800
Speaker 1: you to take the Falcons, which I never like it

1284
01:02:13,840 --> 01:02:16,080
Speaker 1: when they're begging you. But that's that's people not watching

1285
01:02:16,080 --> 01:02:19,240
Speaker 1: the Ravens the last couple of weeks. I think that's

1286
01:02:19,320 --> 01:02:22,120
Speaker 1: the defense. I think them that's them thinking the Falcons

1287
01:02:22,160 --> 01:02:24,920
Speaker 1: are now either the worst team in the league or

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01:02:25,120 --> 01:02:27,960
Speaker 1: one of the three three or four. Yeah, it's a

1289
01:02:27,960 --> 01:02:31,160
Speaker 1: little bit. I'd be I'm already noivous if I'm a

1290
01:02:31,240 --> 01:02:33,640
Speaker 1: Ravens fan. But a couple of weeks ago they circled

1291
01:02:33,680 --> 01:02:38,120
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve um Lamar's return and the fact that he's

1292
01:02:38,360 --> 01:02:41,520
Speaker 1: not going to be back Pittsburgh and Cincinnati next. Is

1293
01:02:41,800 --> 01:02:43,840
Speaker 1: this going to be one of those injuries where keeps

1294
01:02:43,880 --> 01:02:45,520
Speaker 1: on getting backed up and then we don't see him

1295
01:02:45,520 --> 01:02:47,720
Speaker 1: again and they fall it Are we seeing? Are we

1296
01:02:47,760 --> 01:02:49,880
Speaker 1: seeing basically a rerun of last year? Right now? It

1297
01:02:49,880 --> 01:02:51,400
Speaker 1: feels like and I mean it's there's a lot of

1298
01:02:51,440 --> 01:02:53,960
Speaker 1: similar things going on. Maybe the defense is a lot

1299
01:02:53,960 --> 01:02:57,160
Speaker 1: of the difference is last year they needed wins to

1300
01:02:57,240 --> 01:03:00,320
Speaker 1: get into the playoffs. They're in with a win this week.

1301
01:03:01,680 --> 01:03:03,720
Speaker 1: Don't I get it, but they have three weeks. It

1302
01:03:03,760 --> 01:03:05,480
Speaker 1: just feels like a ship coming into shore where you

1303
01:03:05,480 --> 01:03:07,560
Speaker 1: climb a board and everyone on board is dead. It's

1304
01:03:07,600 --> 01:03:09,360
Speaker 1: like something happened to the ship out at seat, Like

1305
01:03:09,360 --> 01:03:10,760
Speaker 1: that's what the Ravens feel like. To me, Yeah, you're

1306
01:03:10,760 --> 01:03:14,560
Speaker 1: gonna float into the playoff harbor, but like, yeah, that's

1307
01:03:14,600 --> 01:03:18,040
Speaker 1: what happened. I Also, I think they're as unlucky as

1308
01:03:18,040 --> 01:03:24,280
Speaker 1: any level disaster. They were finally getting healthier. Other than Lamar,

1309
01:03:24,480 --> 01:03:26,760
Speaker 1: they actually had a lot of players back. Let's go

1310
01:03:26,800 --> 01:03:28,960
Speaker 1: through who they've lost, just in the last week, not

1311
01:03:29,040 --> 01:03:32,400
Speaker 1: counting Lamar Klais Campbell my choice for their best player

1312
01:03:32,440 --> 01:03:36,840
Speaker 1: on their defense having an incredible season, Marcus Peters, starting cornerback,

1313
01:03:36,960 --> 01:03:39,360
Speaker 1: not playing in this game, and then you mentioned Duverney

1314
01:03:39,520 --> 01:03:41,760
Speaker 1: is out for the season with a broken foot from practice.

1315
01:03:41,800 --> 01:03:43,880
Speaker 1: That's just the last week. Those are three key players

1316
01:03:43,960 --> 01:03:46,320
Speaker 1: and they should win this game, and they they are

1317
01:03:46,560 --> 01:03:50,520
Speaker 1: obviously they've been through the wars and the coaching staff

1318
01:03:50,600 --> 01:03:52,840
Speaker 1: is gonna be hammering into their heads they need to

1319
01:03:52,880 --> 01:03:55,960
Speaker 1: get this game because if you don't, you're nine and six,

1320
01:03:56,520 --> 01:03:58,800
Speaker 1: and then you got Pittsburgh at home, and that's gonna

1321
01:03:58,840 --> 01:04:01,080
Speaker 1: be tough. That's gonna be a tough game. And then

1322
01:04:01,120 --> 01:04:03,720
Speaker 1: you're at Cincinnati and they might have a lot to

1323
01:04:03,720 --> 01:04:05,920
Speaker 1: play for in them and they beat Cincinnati, But like,

1324
01:04:05,960 --> 01:04:08,240
Speaker 1: how different are those two teams since that Sunday night

1325
01:04:08,280 --> 01:04:10,960
Speaker 1: game there? For for a team that's nine and five,

1326
01:04:11,400 --> 01:04:13,520
Speaker 1: it feels very precarious for them right now. This is

1327
01:04:13,560 --> 01:04:15,880
Speaker 1: such a huge game in their season, and I think

1328
01:04:15,880 --> 01:04:18,480
Speaker 1: they'll respond and they'll win, but it's probably gonna be

1329
01:04:18,480 --> 01:04:20,920
Speaker 1: like their team ten. And you know what, even if

1330
01:04:20,960 --> 01:04:23,400
Speaker 1: they get I just like their trajectory to me, it

1331
01:04:23,480 --> 01:04:24,960
Speaker 1: is like you're gonna lose a playoff game, have a

1332
01:04:25,040 --> 01:04:27,920
Speaker 1: nice time. I think they're not going on a three

1333
01:04:27,960 --> 01:04:30,760
Speaker 1: game run with Lamar Jackson. You got Lamar and a

1334
01:04:30,800 --> 01:04:32,800
Speaker 1: good defense. If you get a little healthier, I think

1335
01:04:32,840 --> 01:04:35,160
Speaker 1: you got a chance and good running game. They also

1336
01:04:35,200 --> 01:04:38,560
Speaker 1: get a little break here if Desmond Ritter doesn't get

1337
01:04:38,560 --> 01:04:41,800
Speaker 1: more comfortable as a passer, and maybe he will improve

1338
01:04:41,840 --> 01:04:44,200
Speaker 1: over the next few weeks. This is a nice matchup

1339
01:04:44,240 --> 01:04:46,600
Speaker 1: for their defense and they should know no matter what happens.

1340
01:04:46,920 --> 01:04:49,720
Speaker 1: This is to your point from another angle with Mark Seler.

1341
01:04:50,320 --> 01:04:53,720
Speaker 1: Uh Dan Hans is sitting in this week. Um, they

1342
01:04:53,920 --> 01:04:57,240
Speaker 1: need to attack that offense in the off season and

1343
01:04:57,280 --> 01:04:59,000
Speaker 1: they gotta make that thing. They gotta get that thing

1344
01:04:59,320 --> 01:05:00,680
Speaker 1: up to stuff. They got to get it up to

1345
01:05:00,720 --> 01:05:03,840
Speaker 1: snuff against the likes of Cincinnati. And can you give

1346
01:05:03,960 --> 01:05:06,360
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson like two great wide receivers that you're going

1347
01:05:06,400 --> 01:05:08,360
Speaker 1: to get the same thing that you get in Philadelphia,

1348
01:05:08,480 --> 01:05:10,960
Speaker 1: or let's try somewhere else. Let's try it. What was

1349
01:05:11,000 --> 01:05:19,200
Speaker 1: your show again? Backdoor? My um? Backdoor wrong that I

1350
01:05:19,760 --> 01:05:24,320
Speaker 1: like that? That one's on after midnight. It's for different. Um,

1351
01:05:24,440 --> 01:05:28,040
Speaker 1: let's see, let's take a break now, let's do one

1352
01:05:28,120 --> 01:05:30,120
Speaker 1: last game and then, oh yeah, we got one more game.

1353
01:05:30,120 --> 01:05:34,280
Speaker 1: In fact, if you'd be so kind, um, and I

1354
01:05:34,320 --> 01:05:36,600
Speaker 1: know nothing is kind when it comes to the Tennessee Titans.

1355
01:05:36,680 --> 01:05:38,760
Speaker 1: Right now to handle the last game, and I draft

1356
01:05:39,120 --> 01:05:43,200
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans at the Tennessee Titans. Yes, Houston has

1357
01:05:43,280 --> 01:05:46,400
Speaker 1: one win. But here's an interesting stat by the way,

1358
01:05:46,480 --> 01:05:51,640
Speaker 1: is the Titans in a most likely non Rhyan Tannehill

1359
01:05:51,800 --> 01:05:54,960
Speaker 1: world the rest of the season. Um, the Texans have

1360
01:05:55,320 --> 01:05:59,200
Speaker 1: either been ahead or tied in seven games this year. Uh,

1361
01:05:59,240 --> 01:06:01,560
Speaker 1: they only have one in but this is not a

1362
01:06:01,640 --> 01:06:04,480
Speaker 1: This is not a typical you know, one in fifteen

1363
01:06:04,520 --> 01:06:09,200
Speaker 1: type team or now one and one. If you, you know,

1364
01:06:09,280 --> 01:06:12,320
Speaker 1: let him hang around, it gets dangerous. I know you're

1365
01:06:12,360 --> 01:06:15,080
Speaker 1: nervous about this game. With Malik Wills. It has to

1366
01:06:15,120 --> 01:06:20,280
Speaker 1: be multiplied by seven. At least seven, that's what number

1367
01:06:20,280 --> 01:06:24,600
Speaker 1: he wears. A good call, though, center Ben Jones, dealing

1368
01:06:24,640 --> 01:06:27,040
Speaker 1: with a concussion, might miss the game, right guarden Ate

1369
01:06:27,120 --> 01:06:29,480
Speaker 1: Davis probably will miss the game. So the Titans down

1370
01:06:29,520 --> 01:06:33,800
Speaker 1: to three backup offensive lineman plus Malik Willis. We'll see

1371
01:06:33,840 --> 01:06:37,440
Speaker 1: if Traylan Burks is back. We still don't really know. Jeez,

1372
01:06:37,440 --> 01:06:39,880
Speaker 1: that was. That's a tough concussion. It looks like I think.

1373
01:06:40,080 --> 01:06:41,800
Speaker 1: I mean, if I'm picking games here, I think I

1374
01:06:41,800 --> 01:06:44,160
Speaker 1: would pick the Texans. They've been really competitive and their

1375
01:06:44,240 --> 01:06:47,240
Speaker 1: last two the Titans aren't gonna have a ninety plus

1376
01:06:47,320 --> 01:06:49,600
Speaker 1: yard drive. I don't think with Malik Willis to go

1377
01:06:49,600 --> 01:06:51,800
Speaker 1: win the game. They definitely don't have Patrick Mahomes. They

1378
01:06:51,800 --> 01:06:54,760
Speaker 1: don't even have Derrick McKinnon. Now, Derrick Henry is the

1379
01:06:54,800 --> 01:06:57,120
Speaker 1: one hope for the Titans in this game. If Derrick

1380
01:06:57,160 --> 01:06:59,880
Speaker 1: Henry does what he's done to Houston the last five

1381
01:07:00,040 --> 01:07:02,040
Speaker 1: times he's played them, you need the two other yard

1382
01:07:02,040 --> 01:07:05,080
Speaker 1: game again here, you need such if they've been different

1383
01:07:05,080 --> 01:07:09,720
Speaker 1: defense radars that too. So you're down three offensive line

1384
01:07:09,920 --> 01:07:13,320
Speaker 1: or four defensive starters and the top swing back up.

1385
01:07:13,280 --> 01:07:16,960
Speaker 1: That's the factories on fire. It's a different team this.

1386
01:07:17,720 --> 01:07:20,640
Speaker 1: I am picking the Texans in this game. UM on

1387
01:07:20,760 --> 01:07:23,240
Speaker 1: game debut for instance, people to check that out on

1388
01:07:23,320 --> 01:07:26,080
Speaker 1: Friday afternoon, will be here and spoiled. What you're gonna

1389
01:07:26,080 --> 01:07:29,560
Speaker 1: do though, this is this is it's on NFL dot com,

1390
01:07:29,560 --> 01:07:33,400
Speaker 1: slash game, so many things to promote. Doesn't change anything.

1391
01:07:33,480 --> 01:07:35,200
Speaker 1: I mean, I never changed. I don't really change to pick.

1392
01:07:35,640 --> 01:07:37,880
Speaker 1: I stay tuned to see who I picked. Yeah, but

1393
01:07:37,920 --> 01:07:41,120
Speaker 1: I feel strongly that I might surprise you what I'm

1394
01:07:41,120 --> 01:07:43,280
Speaker 1: gonna do. Maybe I will change it by then if

1395
01:07:43,360 --> 01:07:47,280
Speaker 1: something crazy. I haven't chosen the Texans to win a

1396
01:07:47,320 --> 01:07:49,800
Speaker 1: game all year, but they want in Tennessee and that's

1397
01:07:49,800 --> 01:07:51,800
Speaker 1: worked out. They want in Tennis to do something I've

1398
01:07:51,840 --> 01:07:57,200
Speaker 1: not done all year. On NFL Game Friday, I can't

1399
01:07:57,200 --> 01:07:59,480
Speaker 1: wait for the offseason. I'm gonna go to Showman school

1400
01:07:59,520 --> 01:08:04,400
Speaker 1: with just come to our heart. They've been playing better,

1401
01:08:04,520 --> 01:08:06,400
Speaker 1: so I looked. I looked at d v o A

1402
01:08:06,800 --> 01:08:09,520
Speaker 1: for the four game losing streak that Tennessee has been on.

1403
01:08:10,280 --> 01:08:11,720
Speaker 1: I guess it shouldn't be that big of a shock,

1404
01:08:11,800 --> 01:08:13,480
Speaker 1: but they are by far the worst team in the

1405
01:08:13,560 --> 01:08:16,720
Speaker 1: NFL over those four games in terms of offensive and

1406
01:08:16,840 --> 01:08:21,080
Speaker 1: defensive fishing. See, they're not doing anything well. The name

1407
01:08:21,120 --> 01:08:22,880
Speaker 1: of the show, Yeah, I got the name of Mark

1408
01:08:22,880 --> 01:08:27,479
Speaker 1: and I show. It's called the Showman. Show Man with

1409
01:08:27,520 --> 01:08:31,439
Speaker 1: a comment there it can we get that on the

1410
01:08:31,479 --> 01:08:33,320
Speaker 1: lower throat at some point, so I can just see

1411
01:08:33,360 --> 01:08:35,479
Speaker 1: it because I think it's gonna sing. I have to

1412
01:08:35,720 --> 01:08:37,679
Speaker 1: have to tell you one thing. By the way, it'll

1413
01:08:37,720 --> 01:08:41,280
Speaker 1: be more funny to damn than anyone else on screen

1414
01:08:41,320 --> 01:08:44,920
Speaker 1: and off The Showman show comm U man, I'm on

1415
01:08:44,960 --> 01:08:47,320
Speaker 1: a roll when it comes to one aspect of this show.

1416
01:08:48,040 --> 01:08:50,280
Speaker 1: Um I have, I'm are gonna do it. No, I

1417
01:08:50,320 --> 01:08:54,080
Speaker 1: have another guy that I have. Yeah, well, the processing

1418
01:08:54,160 --> 01:08:58,120
Speaker 1: is gonna take us deep into way. Why wait another

1419
01:08:58,160 --> 01:09:00,880
Speaker 1: week if we're already talking deep spring Chicko con Quo,

1420
01:09:01,000 --> 01:09:02,880
Speaker 1: he's my new guy. Wait, that was one of my

1421
01:09:02,920 --> 01:09:10,400
Speaker 1: guys earlier, that guy Conflict Graver was there. Definitely shouted

1422
01:09:10,439 --> 01:09:13,719
Speaker 1: him out. One of my guys who doesn't love an

1423
01:09:14,120 --> 01:09:15,720
Speaker 1: Let's go back and let's go back and check. It

1424
01:09:16,120 --> 01:09:18,960
Speaker 1: sounds like a case for Ted Becker. I think he

1425
01:09:18,960 --> 01:09:22,320
Speaker 1: can teach, even if great was taking forty seven guys.

1426
01:09:22,320 --> 01:09:26,479
Speaker 1: So it's like there's some element of like maybe the

1427
01:09:26,560 --> 01:09:28,559
Speaker 1: whole thing they got to build the whole plane out

1428
01:09:28,560 --> 01:09:32,240
Speaker 1: of a con turn the whole offense into You said that,

1429
01:09:32,280 --> 01:09:34,200
Speaker 1: I'm just denying that maybe maybe Ted would come up

1430
01:09:34,200 --> 01:09:39,360
Speaker 1: with an ill from a but he's also extremely passionate

1431
01:09:39,400 --> 01:09:41,360
Speaker 1: about his job, and I know we'll have this. You

1432
01:09:41,400 --> 01:09:42,920
Speaker 1: have the graphic, can we see what it looks like

1433
01:09:43,880 --> 01:09:48,280
Speaker 1: the Showman show Man. That's pretty good. It's perfect, pretty good,

1434
01:09:48,640 --> 01:09:51,719
Speaker 1: coming soon. We actually should make that am It looks

1435
01:09:51,800 --> 01:09:53,800
Speaker 1: um when you see it, you just can visualize the

1436
01:09:53,840 --> 01:09:56,960
Speaker 1: show in text that way that we have to actually

1437
01:09:56,960 --> 01:09:59,160
Speaker 1: do that show in the off season. All right, it's going,

1438
01:09:59,600 --> 01:10:02,040
Speaker 1: it will come, and is Greg the guest, and then

1439
01:10:02,080 --> 01:10:04,479
Speaker 1: we kind of we sort of teach Greg. We give

1440
01:10:04,520 --> 01:10:06,720
Speaker 1: him some pointers. It's almost like a Ted talk. And

1441
01:10:06,760 --> 01:10:10,840
Speaker 1: I'm in the audience. Yeah, it's audience, you and me

1442
01:10:10,920 --> 01:10:14,320
Speaker 1: on a stage. We'll figure out where and then it's

1443
01:10:14,320 --> 01:10:17,519
Speaker 1: just a one man audience and it's Greg. Uh, and

1444
01:10:17,560 --> 01:10:20,800
Speaker 1: it's just us just espousing. Maybe Urban room too, we

1445
01:10:20,840 --> 01:10:22,720
Speaker 1: go back to I think that goes well, we can

1446
01:10:22,760 --> 01:10:27,040
Speaker 1: they let us. Maybe the show Man is from the

1447
01:10:27,040 --> 01:10:31,280
Speaker 1: Bourbon Room on January and you're in your Hollywood Nights

1448
01:10:31,360 --> 01:10:34,439
Speaker 1: jeans and were But I think this show is why

1449
01:10:34,479 --> 01:10:36,479
Speaker 1: we're hosting that show, because we're just coming up with

1450
01:10:36,600 --> 01:10:39,559
Speaker 1: richer ideas for that show. Even in the well, Greg's

1451
01:10:39,680 --> 01:10:42,000
Speaker 1: quietly listening and sort of just taking it in spun

1452
01:10:42,160 --> 01:10:44,559
Speaker 1: like a lot of notes. Honestly, Dan, you're on fire.

1453
01:10:44,600 --> 01:10:48,559
Speaker 1: You got wins Marks, win Mark's old football magazines from

1454
01:10:48,600 --> 01:10:52,000
Speaker 1: another angle and the Showman Showman all and don't forget

1455
01:10:52,000 --> 01:10:55,600
Speaker 1: about back door wrong or wrong after after dark. And

1456
01:10:55,760 --> 01:10:57,559
Speaker 1: from another angle, we can throw that in his sad.

1457
01:10:57,640 --> 01:11:01,120
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm building on an entire program a network.

1458
01:11:02,479 --> 01:11:04,800
Speaker 1: You gotta be careful. They'll they might want all this

1459
01:11:04,880 --> 01:11:07,840
Speaker 1: for NFL Plus in the offseason. Oh god, alright, well

1460
01:11:07,880 --> 01:11:11,439
Speaker 1: that race. No, just I'll be compensated if I'm launching

1461
01:11:11,680 --> 01:11:15,400
Speaker 1: a like a sub network with all his programming. Well,

1462
01:11:15,400 --> 01:11:16,840
Speaker 1: you sound like you're using a lot of my man

1463
01:11:16,840 --> 01:11:19,000
Speaker 1: hours too, I'll be I hope you're planning to pay

1464
01:11:19,000 --> 01:11:21,200
Speaker 1: me as well. And let's see what Ted Baxter does

1465
01:11:21,280 --> 01:11:23,080
Speaker 1: or whatever his name is, Ted Bank. Well, let's start

1466
01:11:23,080 --> 01:11:25,479
Speaker 1: with giving the man respect. He had the flu three

1467
01:11:25,520 --> 01:11:28,920
Speaker 1: Ted Becker, he was a great He does a great

1468
01:11:29,000 --> 01:11:31,320
Speaker 1: job up there in the office in the corporate Uh,

1469
01:11:31,880 --> 01:11:33,960
Speaker 1: let's take a break and hit all these other games

1470
01:11:36,840 --> 01:11:39,759
Speaker 1: that right here we go. We did the draft first

1471
01:11:40,120 --> 01:11:45,000
Speaker 1: this week because a lot of these games are games.

1472
01:11:45,320 --> 01:11:48,120
Speaker 1: Let's start with the Raiders. Uh, six and eight at

1473
01:11:48,160 --> 01:11:52,960
Speaker 1: the Steelers. This is Friday night. This is Christmas Eve night.

1474
01:11:53,240 --> 01:11:55,320
Speaker 1: So if you're not busy on Christmas Eve, you have

1475
01:11:55,400 --> 01:11:59,880
Speaker 1: football to watch. And um man, I know what the

1476
01:12:00,040 --> 01:12:03,600
Speaker 1: Raiders fans are thinking, speaking of like Charlie Brown and

1477
01:12:03,640 --> 01:12:06,240
Speaker 1: the football being pulled on them. The Raiders are thinking

1478
01:12:06,479 --> 01:12:11,320
Speaker 1: after everything that's happened this season, after that remarkable comeback

1479
01:12:11,360 --> 01:12:14,880
Speaker 1: to beat the Patriots, with the a f C playoff field,

1480
01:12:14,880 --> 01:12:17,519
Speaker 1: the wild card field a little wonky right now, and

1481
01:12:17,520 --> 01:12:21,080
Speaker 1: there's just a sliver of hope they're gonna ruin my

1482
01:12:21,160 --> 01:12:23,040
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve. That's what they're gonna do. That's what the

1483
01:12:23,120 --> 01:12:26,599
Speaker 1: Raiders fans are thinking right now and yet, and this

1484
01:12:26,680 --> 01:12:28,840
Speaker 1: is why earlier in the in the season, a few

1485
01:12:28,880 --> 01:12:30,799
Speaker 1: weeks back, I was kind of pumping up the Raiders

1486
01:12:31,320 --> 01:12:33,599
Speaker 1: every time they play a team, I'm like, I feel

1487
01:12:33,600 --> 01:12:34,840
Speaker 1: like they have a good chance to win this game.

1488
01:12:34,880 --> 01:12:37,519
Speaker 1: And I feel this way again against the Steelers. I

1489
01:12:37,560 --> 01:12:41,320
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be a tough game in Pittsburgh and primetime. Um,

1490
01:12:41,400 --> 01:12:43,120
Speaker 1: you're you're shaking your head, Mark, and I want to

1491
01:12:43,120 --> 01:12:45,599
Speaker 1: know why, because I'll tell you why. I do believe

1492
01:12:45,640 --> 01:12:47,880
Speaker 1: they have a chance to stack another win. Here while

1493
01:12:47,880 --> 01:12:49,519
Speaker 1: I'll tell you why. And first of all, I'm gonna

1494
01:12:49,520 --> 01:12:51,839
Speaker 1: start right here. I'm switching my lock to the Steelers.

1495
01:12:53,800 --> 01:12:57,040
Speaker 1: WHOA I like that? I'll tell you why you like it?

1496
01:12:57,800 --> 01:13:00,839
Speaker 1: This is the the anniversary of the amount kill It reception.

1497
01:13:02,000 --> 01:13:04,880
Speaker 1: Franco Harris just passed away this week. You try to

1498
01:13:04,920 --> 01:13:08,560
Speaker 1: tell me that when you go to this stadium that

1499
01:13:08,640 --> 01:13:11,519
Speaker 1: this place is not going to be absolutely totally on fire.

1500
01:13:11,600 --> 01:13:14,280
Speaker 1: Derek Carr is O N six in games when it's

1501
01:13:14,360 --> 01:13:16,479
Speaker 1: less than thirty seven degrees, it's gonna be the most

1502
01:13:16,560 --> 01:13:20,400
Speaker 1: nineteen degrees. This is a Raiders go and die spot.

1503
01:13:21,320 --> 01:13:26,360
Speaker 1: The Steelers are gonna absolutely celebrate this evening on the Raiders.

1504
01:13:26,439 --> 01:13:28,599
Speaker 1: If you throw out that Ravens game, you can't throw

1505
01:13:28,640 --> 01:13:32,160
Speaker 1: it out the division game. Though, Steelers are playing great football.

1506
01:13:32,200 --> 01:13:36,440
Speaker 1: I think the Steelers are vastly superior. They dominated Carolina,

1507
01:13:36,760 --> 01:13:40,360
Speaker 1: and I think they can stop a vastly superior I

1508
01:13:40,360 --> 01:13:43,639
Speaker 1: think that Steelers win this game handily too. I'm with them.

1509
01:13:43,720 --> 01:13:48,439
Speaker 1: I should do not that would be a good showman

1510
01:13:48,520 --> 01:13:51,639
Speaker 1: tip that. See, you don't even need the ted talk.

1511
01:13:51,680 --> 01:13:55,080
Speaker 1: If you make the move, I'm not gonna do it.

1512
01:13:55,120 --> 01:13:58,000
Speaker 1: I'm not a showman yet. I need the class. I

1513
01:13:58,120 --> 01:14:00,439
Speaker 1: think this is a team Mike Tomlin want. Though they

1514
01:14:00,479 --> 01:14:02,439
Speaker 1: stopped to run well for the most part, they did

1515
01:14:02,439 --> 01:14:04,519
Speaker 1: it against Carolina. That's all you need to do against

1516
01:14:05,280 --> 01:14:07,960
Speaker 1: the Raiders. I think to make them one dimensional. They

1517
01:14:08,080 --> 01:14:10,200
Speaker 1: they want to run the ball, and they've been running

1518
01:14:10,200 --> 01:14:11,880
Speaker 1: the ball great, and I think you can do that

1519
01:14:11,960 --> 01:14:15,599
Speaker 1: against Vegas. If this, if you had started the season

1520
01:14:15,640 --> 01:14:18,200
Speaker 1: like six or seven weeks ago, this is basically what

1521
01:14:18,280 --> 01:14:20,519
Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin dreamed of. If anything, I'm a little worried

1522
01:14:20,560 --> 01:14:23,599
Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett's coming back into the line up here, because

1523
01:14:23,960 --> 01:14:25,599
Speaker 1: I thought that was the best game I've seen out

1524
01:14:25,600 --> 01:14:28,519
Speaker 1: of a quarterback last year week, uh, by any court

1525
01:14:28,640 --> 01:14:31,320
Speaker 1: Steelers quarterback last week with Mitch robiskuy. I think the

1526
01:14:31,320 --> 01:14:34,040
Speaker 1: the floor is higher, but the ceiling is a little

1527
01:14:34,080 --> 01:14:36,160
Speaker 1: lower with Kenny Picks. All right, I like, I like

1528
01:14:36,280 --> 01:14:39,120
Speaker 1: the things you said. UH like you both said. You

1529
01:14:39,160 --> 01:14:41,599
Speaker 1: make a compelling case. I don't think the Steelers are

1530
01:14:41,640 --> 01:14:44,360
Speaker 1: vastly superior than the Raiders. I think, uh, they are

1531
01:14:44,439 --> 01:14:48,120
Speaker 1: playing much better UM of late, and I think it

1532
01:14:48,120 --> 01:14:51,160
Speaker 1: would not surprise me that when the season's over and

1533
01:14:51,160 --> 01:14:54,280
Speaker 1: and Tomlin's doing his UM interviewer press conference, if he

1534
01:14:54,400 --> 01:14:56,840
Speaker 1: if he calls us, you know, one of the most

1535
01:14:56,880 --> 01:15:00,240
Speaker 1: rewarding UH coaching seasons of his career, because as he

1536
01:15:00,320 --> 01:15:02,360
Speaker 1: has taken this team that could have easily in the

1537
01:15:02,360 --> 01:15:06,320
Speaker 1: post big Ben era with a rookie quarterback and injuries

1538
01:15:06,360 --> 01:15:09,639
Speaker 1: and some talent deficiency. Uh, this could have easily been

1539
01:15:09,760 --> 01:15:12,840
Speaker 1: a four and thirteen year in Pittsburgh. But instead here

1540
01:15:12,880 --> 01:15:17,240
Speaker 1: they are closing strong um and like his losing record thing.

1541
01:15:17,640 --> 01:15:19,479
Speaker 1: They're gonna win this game. I already told you that.

1542
01:15:19,520 --> 01:15:21,800
Speaker 1: But then they're going to play a compromise Ravens team

1543
01:15:21,840 --> 01:15:24,200
Speaker 1: potentially if Lamar is not back next week. They just

1544
01:15:24,200 --> 01:15:27,080
Speaker 1: gotta beat the Browns at home. They're going nine and eight. Basically,

1545
01:15:27,120 --> 01:15:31,599
Speaker 1: these two teams, these aren't the old Steelers a lot

1546
01:15:31,680 --> 01:15:34,599
Speaker 1: of respect, but what's more steeling I'm saying those opponents are.

1547
01:15:35,040 --> 01:15:37,160
Speaker 1: You're not beating the Chiefs and Bills there. These are

1548
01:15:37,200 --> 01:15:39,920
Speaker 1: imperfect teams, and it's like, what more? What's more Mike

1549
01:15:39,960 --> 01:15:42,799
Speaker 1: Tomlin than them finishing nine and eight after all this malarkey.

1550
01:15:42,920 --> 01:15:46,400
Speaker 1: So this is an NFL Network exclusive game in NFL Plus,

1551
01:15:46,880 --> 01:15:50,160
Speaker 1: and it's an elimination game. It's not the spiciest game

1552
01:15:50,160 --> 01:15:52,320
Speaker 1: in the weekend, but the losers out and the winner

1553
01:15:52,360 --> 01:15:55,439
Speaker 1: as hope, and the winner doesn't have the craziest amount

1554
01:15:55,439 --> 01:15:57,800
Speaker 1: of hope at least going into Christmas. Basically, yeah, you

1555
01:15:57,840 --> 01:16:00,160
Speaker 1: gotta win out and you just gotta hope that a

1556
01:16:00,280 --> 01:16:02,720
Speaker 1: f C East teams none of them top nine and

1557
01:16:02,760 --> 01:16:05,599
Speaker 1: eight that for the Raiders they are in. If none

1558
01:16:05,600 --> 01:16:07,280
Speaker 1: of the a f C East team's top nine and

1559
01:16:07,320 --> 01:16:09,920
Speaker 1: eight they win the tiebreakers at nine and eight with

1560
01:16:09,960 --> 01:16:12,519
Speaker 1: any of the a f C East teams, It's a

1561
01:16:12,520 --> 01:16:15,080
Speaker 1: little wonk ear for the Steelers depending on the types

1562
01:16:15,120 --> 01:16:18,040
Speaker 1: of tie breaks, but it's not crazy. Uh. The Steelers

1563
01:16:18,040 --> 01:16:21,040
Speaker 1: have one win against the winning team this year was Cincinnati,

1564
01:16:21,120 --> 01:16:22,960
Speaker 1: that weird game in Week one that they should have

1565
01:16:23,000 --> 01:16:26,759
Speaker 1: lost if Cincinnati hits an extra point um. But still

1566
01:16:26,840 --> 01:16:29,240
Speaker 1: their schedule heads the Raiders, who have been tripping over

1567
01:16:29,280 --> 01:16:33,080
Speaker 1: themselves all year at Baltimore team and as Mark would say,

1568
01:16:33,080 --> 01:16:36,080
Speaker 1: dipped in Chaos and then Cleveland to end the season.

1569
01:16:36,160 --> 01:16:39,280
Speaker 1: It's not the easiest close to the season, but totally possible.

1570
01:16:39,320 --> 01:16:41,920
Speaker 1: I think there is. Josh Jacobs is gonna be able

1571
01:16:41,960 --> 01:16:44,280
Speaker 1: to run the ball against this defense. Is Derek Carr

1572
01:16:44,280 --> 01:16:48,920
Speaker 1: have one of those mind numbing interceptions? Possible? Does Davante

1573
01:16:48,960 --> 01:16:52,280
Speaker 1: Adams go for eighty yards? That's also possible to me

1574
01:16:52,520 --> 01:16:54,960
Speaker 1: in prime time? One of the greats, but you know

1575
01:16:55,000 --> 01:16:57,800
Speaker 1: what he can do. That's the thing like I'm gonna

1576
01:16:57,800 --> 01:17:01,000
Speaker 1: be I see this is twenty four, twenty one Raiders.

1577
01:17:01,160 --> 01:17:04,400
Speaker 1: How about seven Steelers the score of the Immaculate Reception.

1578
01:17:05,800 --> 01:17:09,200
Speaker 1: Frank o'harris seventy two years old, rest in peace, one

1579
01:17:09,200 --> 01:17:13,280
Speaker 1: of the great players of that dynasty era and um

1580
01:17:14,520 --> 01:17:17,040
Speaker 1: Um one of the you know, I think it was

1581
01:17:17,120 --> 01:17:21,040
Speaker 1: voted by NFL the most memorable play or greatest play

1582
01:17:21,080 --> 01:17:23,320
Speaker 1: in NFL history was the Immaculate Reception. And I was

1583
01:17:23,360 --> 01:17:27,080
Speaker 1: reading about Frank o'harris. I was surprised to learn that

1584
01:17:27,120 --> 01:17:29,320
Speaker 1: they didn't win the Super Bowl the year of the

1585
01:17:29,360 --> 01:17:31,599
Speaker 1: Immaculate Reception. I always thought that kind of kick started

1586
01:17:31,600 --> 01:17:34,080
Speaker 1: the dynasty was in the middle of it. That was

1587
01:17:34,160 --> 01:17:36,880
Speaker 1: in seventy two, I believe, which was the Dolphins perfect season.

1588
01:17:37,240 --> 01:17:39,240
Speaker 1: But that was kind of the first taste of magic

1589
01:17:39,280 --> 01:17:42,880
Speaker 1: for the organization, which it had been terrible for years

1590
01:17:42,880 --> 01:17:46,400
Speaker 1: and years before Bradshaw and everybody arrived. Um and then

1591
01:17:46,439 --> 01:17:49,360
Speaker 1: they started winning all those titles. So John Madden coaching

1592
01:17:49,360 --> 01:17:52,240
Speaker 1: the Raiders team, it is it is kind of tempting

1593
01:17:52,479 --> 01:17:55,600
Speaker 1: to switch over in the lock um, but I'm not

1594
01:17:55,640 --> 01:17:59,479
Speaker 1: going to do that. Instead, I'm going to bring Christmas

1595
01:17:59,560 --> 01:18:02,280
Speaker 1: presents to all the boys and girls in the land

1596
01:18:02,560 --> 01:18:07,080
Speaker 1: and the Rainmakers coming out in Pittsburgh. Now three points

1597
01:18:07,360 --> 01:18:11,160
Speaker 1: on Christmas Eve. If you're running short, let's make it

1598
01:18:11,439 --> 01:18:15,479
Speaker 1: rain on the fiftieth anniversary of the Immaculate Reception. You

1599
01:18:15,479 --> 01:18:20,120
Speaker 1: guys have put a lot on that anniversary. You know,

1600
01:18:20,240 --> 01:18:22,719
Speaker 1: it's just that time of year, like maybe he didn't

1601
01:18:22,720 --> 01:18:24,880
Speaker 1: get that gift card for that one person, and here

1602
01:18:24,960 --> 01:18:26,920
Speaker 1: comes rain Maker. You know you got I was just

1603
01:18:26,920 --> 01:18:30,400
Speaker 1: saying how the Raiders fans are flirting with a Christmas

1604
01:18:30,439 --> 01:18:34,759
Speaker 1: Eve disaster and Christmas being ruined. Now we got Marx

1605
01:18:34,800 --> 01:18:37,800
Speaker 1: lock on the line. We got Greggy and his Rainmaker,

1606
01:18:37,840 --> 01:18:40,000
Speaker 1: which I know he's precious to him. There's a lot

1607
01:18:40,080 --> 01:18:44,720
Speaker 1: riding on this game all of a sudden, great showmanship.

1608
01:18:45,400 --> 01:18:48,280
Speaker 1: You know what you're he's already taking notes. He's not there,

1609
01:18:48,680 --> 01:18:51,880
Speaker 1: I mean, not even close, but he is making progress

1610
01:18:51,880 --> 01:18:57,800
Speaker 1: by os mosis. Uh, let's head to Christmas Day. Packers

1611
01:18:58,040 --> 01:19:05,720
Speaker 1: at Dolphins. Oh, Marky, Marky what I know you despise

1612
01:19:05,960 --> 01:19:10,639
Speaker 1: the Packers, but keep an eye on the Packers here

1613
01:19:10,800 --> 01:19:14,400
Speaker 1: because if they win this game, they are very much

1614
01:19:14,960 --> 01:19:18,080
Speaker 1: alive in the NFC playoff race. They need Rogers said

1615
01:19:18,080 --> 01:19:21,519
Speaker 1: it him something I kind of like it because players

1616
01:19:21,520 --> 01:19:23,960
Speaker 1: are always like, hey, listen, we just win the next

1617
01:19:24,000 --> 01:19:27,800
Speaker 1: game on our schedule and shut up. Um. What what

1618
01:19:27,960 --> 01:19:31,120
Speaker 1: he said after Monday Night Football and the win they

1619
01:19:31,160 --> 01:19:35,880
Speaker 1: had was over the Rams, was like, listen, we needed

1620
01:19:35,920 --> 01:19:39,519
Speaker 1: to win X y Z, and we needed all these

1621
01:19:39,520 --> 01:19:41,360
Speaker 1: other things to work out, and so far we've been

1622
01:19:41,360 --> 01:19:43,960
Speaker 1: winning the last two weeks and all the things we've

1623
01:19:43,960 --> 01:19:47,160
Speaker 1: needed to happen have happened for the most part. So

1624
01:19:47,320 --> 01:19:49,920
Speaker 1: I just like a player showing the transparency is like, yeah,

1625
01:19:50,000 --> 01:19:52,120
Speaker 1: we need a big picture thing to come to our way.

1626
01:19:52,400 --> 01:19:55,880
Speaker 1: Now here's the question the Dolphins, who shows up here

1627
01:19:55,920 --> 01:19:57,800
Speaker 1: for the Dollins because they look so good for large

1628
01:19:57,800 --> 01:20:00,559
Speaker 1: stretches of that Bills game, couldn't close it out. Now

1629
01:20:00,640 --> 01:20:03,040
Speaker 1: they're at home, they should take care of business. And

1630
01:20:03,040 --> 01:20:05,160
Speaker 1: as good as they've been playing, or played on on

1631
01:20:05,439 --> 01:20:07,719
Speaker 1: last Saturday against the Bills, they have lost three straight.

1632
01:20:07,720 --> 01:20:10,640
Speaker 1: Now in December, Aaron Rodgers also was asked if he

1633
01:20:10,720 --> 01:20:13,200
Speaker 1: thought they could run the table, and he said, I do.

1634
01:20:13,600 --> 01:20:16,320
Speaker 1: Now we've got to play three better football teams the Dolphins, Vikings,

1635
01:20:16,320 --> 01:20:18,200
Speaker 1: and Lions. But I do believe definitely. So you know

1636
01:20:18,240 --> 01:20:20,839
Speaker 1: he said that before, but it's like there is maybe

1637
01:20:20,920 --> 01:20:24,040
Speaker 1: a turn here with green Bay's like the darkness of

1638
01:20:24,080 --> 01:20:26,280
Speaker 1: their season and they seem so lost and things were

1639
01:20:26,320 --> 01:20:29,639
Speaker 1: just such a mess that they are probably looking at

1640
01:20:29,680 --> 01:20:31,800
Speaker 1: this as a real possibility. Which is it? Which it is?

1641
01:20:31,840 --> 01:20:34,280
Speaker 1: And I mean, Miami answered a lot of questions for

1642
01:20:34,360 --> 01:20:36,040
Speaker 1: me in that Bills game. It's kind of like one

1643
01:20:36,040 --> 01:20:38,960
Speaker 1: of the better losses you could have. I guess it's

1644
01:20:39,120 --> 01:20:42,000
Speaker 1: costly to them, but like it changed the narrative on

1645
01:20:42,040 --> 01:20:44,640
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. Where had they been you know, beaten like

1646
01:20:44,680 --> 01:20:46,920
Speaker 1: a drum in Buffalo, it would have been like, maybe

1647
01:20:46,920 --> 01:20:48,680
Speaker 1: the Dolphins are just falling off the cliff and we're

1648
01:20:48,680 --> 01:20:51,439
Speaker 1: never gonna see that early season version again. Instead, they

1649
01:20:51,560 --> 01:20:53,439
Speaker 1: did the opposite. I thought one of the most hopeful things,

1650
01:20:53,439 --> 01:20:56,120
Speaker 1: because they've been so uh they've lacked balance, was that

1651
01:20:56,160 --> 01:20:57,960
Speaker 1: they were able to run the ball really well, to

1652
01:20:58,000 --> 01:21:01,080
Speaker 1: the point where like after what Rahim Suster did against

1653
01:21:01,080 --> 01:21:02,840
Speaker 1: Buffalo early, I thought they kind of could have maybe

1654
01:21:02,920 --> 01:21:04,639
Speaker 1: used more of that down the stretch. And you are

1655
01:21:05,120 --> 01:21:07,639
Speaker 1: dealing with the worst, one of the worst run defenses

1656
01:21:07,680 --> 01:21:09,639
Speaker 1: in the league in Green Bay, So do you seek

1657
01:21:09,680 --> 01:21:11,879
Speaker 1: that balance? Do you not put it all on Tyreek

1658
01:21:11,960 --> 01:21:14,080
Speaker 1: Hill and Jail and waddle. Um, I still think you're

1659
01:21:14,080 --> 01:21:15,800
Speaker 1: gonna get them every game, but maybe if you can

1660
01:21:15,880 --> 01:21:17,640
Speaker 1: run that way, you can keep the ball out of

1661
01:21:17,640 --> 01:21:20,439
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers hands. And this is a you know, it's

1662
01:21:20,479 --> 01:21:22,800
Speaker 1: also at home. I like that some games can be

1663
01:21:22,840 --> 01:21:26,440
Speaker 1: as encouraging as they are frustrating. That's how I classified

1664
01:21:26,439 --> 01:21:28,639
Speaker 1: the Dolphins game against the Bills. It's a two parter

1665
01:21:28,720 --> 01:21:30,479
Speaker 1: for me now though, so it was like, you showed

1666
01:21:30,560 --> 01:21:33,720
Speaker 1: up against Buffalo, didn't close, but you showed up win

1667
01:21:34,040 --> 01:21:36,920
Speaker 1: this game at half in primetime against a Green Bay

1668
01:21:36,920 --> 01:21:39,040
Speaker 1: team that obviously took a big step back from last year,

1669
01:21:39,080 --> 01:21:41,400
Speaker 1: is playing better but not a great team, and the

1670
01:21:41,439 --> 01:21:45,439
Speaker 1: losing streak and then basically punch your ticket to the playoffs. Uh.

1671
01:21:45,479 --> 01:21:47,400
Speaker 1: In a most likely sense, you'll get to nine and

1672
01:21:47,479 --> 01:21:49,320
Speaker 1: six and you should be able to find a way

1673
01:21:49,560 --> 01:21:52,439
Speaker 1: to navigate in from that point. Uh. This is another

1674
01:21:52,439 --> 01:21:54,679
Speaker 1: big test for the Dolphins for me. Yeah, I love

1675
01:21:54,840 --> 01:21:57,599
Speaker 1: points in this game. I love like it going over

1676
01:21:57,640 --> 01:22:00,960
Speaker 1: because to me, the packers of offense has solved their

1677
01:22:00,960 --> 01:22:04,720
Speaker 1: issues like they're back. They there are seventh in the

1678
01:22:04,800 --> 01:22:07,599
Speaker 1: league's right now in efficiency over the course of the season.

1679
01:22:07,600 --> 01:22:10,759
Speaker 1: The run game is strong, the offensive line is playing well.

1680
01:22:11,280 --> 01:22:14,439
Speaker 1: Watson has changed the passing attack. They're not the old Packers.

1681
01:22:14,439 --> 01:22:16,640
Speaker 1: They're obviously not as good as they were at you know,

1682
01:22:16,640 --> 01:22:19,559
Speaker 1: when Davontae Adams was there. But they're a really good offense.

1683
01:22:19,560 --> 01:22:22,640
Speaker 1: And this Dolphins defense has holes you can pick on

1684
01:22:23,040 --> 01:22:26,240
Speaker 1: in the back end. They're not great always defending the run.

1685
01:22:26,360 --> 01:22:28,120
Speaker 1: And so I think it's back and forth. I like

1686
01:22:28,320 --> 01:22:31,479
Speaker 1: Miami better, but and I think the better ground game

1687
01:22:31,560 --> 01:22:34,679
Speaker 1: might win both teams. UH might struggle to get off

1688
01:22:34,680 --> 01:22:37,000
Speaker 1: the field. Like five points feels like too much. It

1689
01:22:37,080 --> 01:22:38,920
Speaker 1: was five points earlier in the week. I think it's

1690
01:22:38,920 --> 01:22:41,639
Speaker 1: now four. Either way, I think this is a fun

1691
01:22:41,680 --> 01:22:43,799
Speaker 1: little game. This is definitely the best game on Christmas.

1692
01:22:43,840 --> 01:22:46,760
Speaker 1: If you're strategizing, this is the best one. Yeah, if

1693
01:22:46,800 --> 01:22:49,200
Speaker 1: they could, I would have. I would have flexed this

1694
01:22:49,240 --> 01:22:51,880
Speaker 1: game down to the late game. But we'll we'll get

1695
01:22:51,920 --> 01:22:55,439
Speaker 1: to it. Um all right, let's hit Broncos. How could

1696
01:22:55,439 --> 01:23:03,840
Speaker 1: you not be romantic about football? Member? I agree with that, Yes, producer, Yeah,

1697
01:23:04,000 --> 01:23:06,040
Speaker 1: you cut that for a job. I'm sure. Just I

1698
01:23:06,040 --> 01:23:08,160
Speaker 1: get a lot of questions about that. I think that

1699
01:23:08,240 --> 01:23:09,760
Speaker 1: Justin is do you want to do you want to

1700
01:23:09,800 --> 01:23:12,040
Speaker 1: address that officially? Because like I I don't know why

1701
01:23:12,200 --> 01:23:14,080
Speaker 1: that happened. Half the stuff that happens on the show

1702
01:23:14,200 --> 01:23:15,720
Speaker 1: just happens. It's like I was, you know, I think

1703
01:23:15,760 --> 01:23:19,800
Speaker 1: Justin's accountability. That's just a does an incredible, incredible job,

1704
01:23:19,840 --> 01:23:22,519
Speaker 1: and he shows his value in increasing ways from show

1705
01:23:22,560 --> 01:23:25,920
Speaker 1: to show. Thank you. You could say that, I think

1706
01:23:26,040 --> 01:23:30,800
Speaker 1: you're saying your job. Yeah. One, Mark's apologizing for letting

1707
01:23:30,800 --> 01:23:33,040
Speaker 1: you know how he really felt in that. Now. I

1708
01:23:33,080 --> 01:23:34,720
Speaker 1: just think it was the heat of the moment, which

1709
01:23:34,760 --> 01:23:37,200
Speaker 1: happens on the show, different than like, you know, we're

1710
01:23:37,280 --> 01:23:39,919
Speaker 1: doing some stodgy thing and somebody like we are emotions

1711
01:23:39,960 --> 01:23:42,400
Speaker 1: run free here. So markets cut off a lot, and

1712
01:23:42,439 --> 01:23:45,479
Speaker 1: I didn't mean to cut him off with that. Um,

1713
01:23:45,520 --> 01:23:47,640
Speaker 1: I just wanted to jump in to say that I

1714
01:23:47,680 --> 01:23:51,280
Speaker 1: think the Dolphins get right in this one. I'm locking

1715
01:23:51,439 --> 01:23:56,479
Speaker 1: up Miami. Where are you in the standings? What are

1716
01:23:56,520 --> 01:23:58,280
Speaker 1: the standings? And there is it's hard to see where

1717
01:23:58,280 --> 01:24:00,559
Speaker 1: he is. He's so far I am killed. I am

1718
01:24:00,560 --> 01:24:03,920
Speaker 1: in last Still uh Nick was the only person who

1719
01:24:03,960 --> 01:24:06,160
Speaker 1: missed his lock last week out of all of us.

1720
01:24:06,320 --> 01:24:08,479
Speaker 1: So but he's still one game ahead of me, Marks,

1721
01:24:08,520 --> 01:24:10,680
Speaker 1: one game ahead of the West Bros. Dan's one game

1722
01:24:10,720 --> 01:24:13,280
Speaker 1: ahead of Mark, and Greg is two games ahead of Dan,

1723
01:24:13,360 --> 01:24:16,040
Speaker 1: so there's a lot of space. I should just bring

1724
01:24:16,040 --> 01:24:18,320
Speaker 1: in the trophy for Mark. For Greg at this point, well,

1725
01:24:18,360 --> 01:24:20,720
Speaker 1: there's a lot of weeks something, so I think it's

1726
01:24:20,760 --> 01:24:22,960
Speaker 1: not enough runway to catch him at this point. With you,

1727
01:24:23,280 --> 01:24:25,000
Speaker 1: I would have said, at some point, are you gonna

1728
01:24:25,080 --> 01:24:28,720
Speaker 1: update this tired bit? I like going back. It does

1729
01:24:28,760 --> 01:24:30,880
Speaker 1: bother you. So that's why it comes out of a

1730
01:24:30,960 --> 01:24:32,800
Speaker 1: few things. Is I've said many times on the show

1731
01:24:32,800 --> 01:24:34,479
Speaker 1: one of the things about Greg, and I respect you

1732
01:24:34,640 --> 01:24:37,280
Speaker 1: for it. Greg, it's very hard to really get past

1733
01:24:37,360 --> 01:24:41,719
Speaker 1: Greg's the shield that and really bother him. But for

1734
01:24:41,760 --> 01:24:44,719
Speaker 1: some reason this one does this one. We're like, oh, Greg,

1735
01:24:44,720 --> 01:24:46,120
Speaker 1: there's no way you can catch it. You got the

1736
01:24:46,120 --> 01:24:50,600
Speaker 1: title every time. Every time he won't show it, but

1737
01:24:50,640 --> 01:24:52,720
Speaker 1: you can bother him because the patent Greg move is

1738
01:24:52,760 --> 01:24:56,799
Speaker 1: if you get a zinger offic Greg within within fifteen

1739
01:24:56,880 --> 01:24:58,920
Speaker 1: or twenty minutes, if there's enough time left in the show,

1740
01:24:59,200 --> 01:25:02,599
Speaker 1: he's gonna he's gonna craft something that sends an arrow

1741
01:25:02,720 --> 01:25:04,719
Speaker 1: right through your neck. Oh we have something if Greg,

1742
01:25:04,760 --> 01:25:07,280
Speaker 1: if you want to fly that tweet, Oh well, I

1743
01:25:07,640 --> 01:25:09,800
Speaker 1: don't know if the timing at this point, it's a

1744
01:25:09,800 --> 01:25:13,280
Speaker 1: little late. Well, speaking of Showman, you've just announced it. So, um, yeah,

1745
01:25:13,360 --> 01:25:16,000
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to submit to the committee. I did

1746
01:25:16,040 --> 01:25:20,080
Speaker 1: write a tweet about o'conquo over a month ago, and

1747
01:25:20,080 --> 01:25:22,280
Speaker 1: then's just gonna be submitt a to Ted Becker. It's

1748
01:25:22,360 --> 01:25:24,360
Speaker 1: up to Ted. I respect. I don't see in there.

1749
01:25:24,520 --> 01:25:26,080
Speaker 1: He's my guy though, That's all. It was, just like

1750
01:25:26,560 --> 01:25:31,919
Speaker 1: Ted Becker at, uh, that's my guy. Um at outlook

1751
01:25:31,960 --> 01:25:35,000
Speaker 1: I believe, I think yeah, like, uh, Ted Becker is

1752
01:25:35,040 --> 01:25:38,240
Speaker 1: unpredictable though, so Greg, you're operating logically, and I not

1753
01:25:38,360 --> 01:25:40,200
Speaker 1: disagree with your logic. I just think that Ted Brecker,

1754
01:25:40,240 --> 01:25:42,040
Speaker 1: Ted Becker is gonna do what Ted Becker needs to do.

1755
01:25:42,200 --> 01:25:48,320
Speaker 1: Ted like for all his warts um and obviously, um,

1756
01:25:46,960 --> 01:25:51,760
Speaker 1: he hasn't seen his kids in years. Um, he's had

1757
01:25:51,800 --> 01:25:56,360
Speaker 1: some issues, um with the law. Um. He is very

1758
01:25:56,400 --> 01:26:01,479
Speaker 1: professional suddenly, Yeah, and he takes his job seriously and

1759
01:26:01,520 --> 01:26:04,680
Speaker 1: in this world you don't always see that anymore. He's

1760
01:26:04,680 --> 01:26:07,000
Speaker 1: not a group thinker. He's gonna look at this through.

1761
01:26:07,320 --> 01:26:09,840
Speaker 1: He's not a corporate climber. Like he's like, I know,

1762
01:26:10,000 --> 01:26:12,400
Speaker 1: this is my job and it's important. And when I

1763
01:26:12,439 --> 01:26:16,240
Speaker 1: see this tweet from Greg, I will factor it in.

1764
01:26:16,360 --> 01:26:18,519
Speaker 1: He's also gonna know what Greg is attempting to do there.

1765
01:26:19,080 --> 01:26:21,320
Speaker 1: You can't pull one on a fast one on Ted Becker,

1766
01:26:21,520 --> 01:26:28,320
Speaker 1: so all right, can trying? Greg Broncos at Rams. Russell

1767
01:26:28,360 --> 01:26:30,960
Speaker 1: Wilson I believe is back for this game after they

1768
01:26:30,960 --> 01:26:34,480
Speaker 1: gave him the the extra week rest after the concussion

1769
01:26:34,920 --> 01:26:39,160
Speaker 1: the previous week. H Baker Mayfield still at the quarterback

1770
01:26:39,240 --> 01:26:42,000
Speaker 1: for the Rams. His magic war off at lambeau Field

1771
01:26:42,000 --> 01:26:44,599
Speaker 1: through for under a hundred and fifty yards in that game.

1772
01:26:45,040 --> 01:26:47,000
Speaker 1: Uh So, here we are the middle game. This looked

1773
01:26:47,000 --> 01:26:49,960
Speaker 1: like an awesome game Greg back in September, but that's

1774
01:26:50,000 --> 01:26:52,760
Speaker 1: not always how it plays out. It is on Nickelodeon

1775
01:26:52,760 --> 01:26:55,320
Speaker 1: as well for the kids. My guess is all the

1776
01:26:55,360 --> 01:26:58,759
Speaker 1: networks like battled for this game and that on paper

1777
01:26:58,880 --> 01:27:00,920
Speaker 1: you we were at wondering before the joy is Tony

1778
01:27:00,960 --> 01:27:03,400
Speaker 1: Ron was doing this. I'm just wondering that the paper

1779
01:27:03,479 --> 01:27:06,559
Speaker 1: this would be the most watched game of the entire year,

1780
01:27:06,640 --> 01:27:10,200
Speaker 1: because I think Christmas a couple of times. Right, Yeah,

1781
01:27:10,760 --> 01:27:14,479
Speaker 1: you've seen that Courtland Sutton's back rest is back. Baker

1782
01:27:14,680 --> 01:27:17,320
Speaker 1: still holds the ball too long. Michael Hoyt is fun

1783
01:27:17,400 --> 01:27:19,640
Speaker 1: for the Rams. I think that's all we need. I mean,

1784
01:27:19,720 --> 01:27:21,200
Speaker 1: if you were I would just say this game is

1785
01:27:21,280 --> 01:27:24,880
Speaker 1: hilarious to me because if back in uh, you know, July,

1786
01:27:25,479 --> 01:27:29,240
Speaker 1: you took Sean McVeigh and Nathaniel Hockett into like a

1787
01:27:29,280 --> 01:27:31,479
Speaker 1: booth and said, I'm gonna you're gonna forget this, but

1788
01:27:31,520 --> 01:27:34,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you right now, what's happening to both

1789
01:27:34,080 --> 01:27:37,320
Speaker 1: of your team's um come Christmas weekend when you face

1790
01:27:37,360 --> 01:27:39,800
Speaker 1: off on this like Tony Romo Jim Nance game, and

1791
01:27:39,800 --> 01:27:43,080
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a totally failed Russell Wilson, who is

1792
01:27:43,120 --> 01:27:46,800
Speaker 1: the most expensive flop job in the NFL, versus Baker Mayfield,

1793
01:27:47,000 --> 01:27:49,760
Speaker 1: who has been with the team for two weeks. You

1794
01:27:49,760 --> 01:27:55,320
Speaker 1: would with Mark Seler like, what would Sean mcveigh's head explode?

1795
01:27:55,360 --> 01:27:57,479
Speaker 1: And well, by the way, Nathaniel Hackett, you will your

1796
01:27:57,520 --> 01:28:00,360
Speaker 1: stock will drop through the floor. This is a breakfast program.

1797
01:28:00,360 --> 01:28:03,680
Speaker 1: This is our morning show, flop Jobs over Flapjacks, and

1798
01:28:03,760 --> 01:28:06,360
Speaker 1: it's Mark eating Breakfast, which is in its own way

1799
01:28:06,439 --> 01:28:08,160
Speaker 1: kind of a show. Everybody wants to see Mark eat,

1800
01:28:08,439 --> 01:28:11,040
Speaker 1: and he's just discussing all the things that suck. I

1801
01:28:11,080 --> 01:28:13,000
Speaker 1: think That's a good way to start any day too

1802
01:28:13,120 --> 01:28:15,920
Speaker 1: for intending. Hey Rams, Rams want to build up like

1803
01:28:15,960 --> 01:28:18,360
Speaker 1: the the fan base here and everything. I'm sure there's

1804
01:28:18,400 --> 01:28:19,920
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of Broncos fans at this game.

1805
01:28:20,200 --> 01:28:25,639
Speaker 1: Any any any Rams fans coming to this game, reward

1806
01:28:25,680 --> 01:28:27,960
Speaker 1: their loyalty with with a Christmas Day win. You know,

1807
01:28:28,000 --> 01:28:30,240
Speaker 1: if you're a Rams fan and you go. Jason Kleinman

1808
01:28:30,560 --> 01:28:33,800
Speaker 1: are our producer, just walked in, the one of our

1809
01:28:33,800 --> 01:28:36,839
Speaker 1: many just walking in. He's got in with his family.

1810
01:28:37,160 --> 01:28:39,759
Speaker 1: What a great Jewish family thing to do on Christmas.

1811
01:28:39,800 --> 01:28:41,599
Speaker 1: By the way, go to an NFL game. But any

1812
01:28:41,680 --> 01:28:46,639
Speaker 1: fan that's there, nomination, reward them with the win on Christmas.

1813
01:28:46,720 --> 01:28:52,200
Speaker 1: Absolutely there it is go fill up so Fi Stadium.

1814
01:28:52,280 --> 01:28:54,720
Speaker 1: From another angle, wide put your family through this. But

1815
01:28:54,800 --> 01:28:59,240
Speaker 1: that's that's again from another angle. Uh, let's move to

1816
01:28:59,360 --> 01:29:02,000
Speaker 1: the late game on Christmas is the six and eight

1817
01:29:02,000 --> 01:29:05,400
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Oh my god, more Buccaneers football at

1818
01:29:05,560 --> 01:29:09,360
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals, who are starting, I believe Trace McSorley

1819
01:29:09,479 --> 01:29:14,040
Speaker 1: because we're getting another Cardinals game on national television here.

1820
01:29:15,080 --> 01:29:16,720
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to talk with those guys in park,

1821
01:29:16,760 --> 01:29:21,639
Speaker 1: haven't you Schule made. They made a couple, um, couple

1822
01:29:21,640 --> 01:29:24,080
Speaker 1: of gambles. I liked. Someone brought up like the hard

1823
01:29:24,120 --> 01:29:27,160
Speaker 1: Knocks thought that Cardinals got all these back end of

1824
01:29:27,160 --> 01:29:31,760
Speaker 1: the season games while they're the hard Knocks. We talked

1825
01:29:31,760 --> 01:29:34,000
Speaker 1: about that last week. Yeah, which makes sense. Yeah, I

1826
01:29:34,000 --> 01:29:36,920
Speaker 1: didn't want to miss attribute it as you, uh, just

1827
01:29:36,960 --> 01:29:38,960
Speaker 1: a theory. But do you think it's like No, I

1828
01:29:38,960 --> 01:29:41,240
Speaker 1: think I think you're right. I think you nailed it.

1829
01:29:41,439 --> 01:29:43,519
Speaker 1: I kind of stopped watching that show to be honest too,

1830
01:29:43,560 --> 01:29:45,640
Speaker 1: and now and I were tracking it now, they're the

1831
01:29:45,680 --> 01:29:49,080
Speaker 1: worst team in the league. They would be number thirty

1832
01:29:49,080 --> 01:29:52,200
Speaker 1: two right now on a neutral field for me. Really, yeah,

1833
01:29:52,840 --> 01:29:57,000
Speaker 1: I guess along with along with the defense isn't really

1834
01:29:57,040 --> 01:29:59,400
Speaker 1: plain We just called the Falcons. I said bottom three.

1835
01:29:59,439 --> 01:30:02,880
Speaker 1: I said at bottom three, I would put Cardinals would

1836
01:30:02,880 --> 01:30:06,040
Speaker 1: be an underdog to every team. Yeah. Well, plus just

1837
01:30:06,160 --> 01:30:09,439
Speaker 1: everything happening around them is like you want to turn

1838
01:30:09,479 --> 01:30:11,320
Speaker 1: your eyes away from it as soon as possible. It's

1839
01:30:11,320 --> 01:30:14,160
Speaker 1: no longer fun. Well, it's a TOUGHI and the Buccaneers. Uh.

1840
01:30:14,240 --> 01:30:17,120
Speaker 1: That was so many disappointing losses for the Bucks this year.

1841
01:30:17,520 --> 01:30:22,519
Speaker 1: I think last week's was the worst, um because it

1842
01:30:22,640 --> 01:30:25,000
Speaker 1: was such a tease. They looked so good getting up

1843
01:30:25,360 --> 01:30:28,759
Speaker 1: on a great Cincinnati team seventeen nothing and everything was working.

1844
01:30:29,000 --> 01:30:32,639
Speaker 1: So for it to kind of absolute snowball, a snowball

1845
01:30:32,720 --> 01:30:36,799
Speaker 1: into hell type second half, it just like once again

1846
01:30:37,280 --> 01:30:41,280
Speaker 1: reaffirmed to everyone, the fan base, the team, everyone upstairs

1847
01:30:41,520 --> 01:30:44,479
Speaker 1: in that building, like we are not very good, Like

1848
01:30:44,520 --> 01:30:46,400
Speaker 1: we had a chance. He had a really jump start

1849
01:30:46,439 --> 01:30:49,559
Speaker 1: our season and instead it ended in an embarrassing home law.

1850
01:30:49,680 --> 01:30:52,719
Speaker 1: So they obviously the schedule works out for them here

1851
01:30:52,760 --> 01:30:57,160
Speaker 1: with the Cardinals getting the third string quarterback, um, the

1852
01:30:57,200 --> 01:30:59,680
Speaker 1: division sets up for them. There's no team, there's no

1853
01:31:00,000 --> 01:31:02,800
Speaker 1: Aguars in this Southern Division making a charge looking to

1854
01:31:02,840 --> 01:31:05,320
Speaker 1: steal the division. Just take care of business. And yet

1855
01:31:05,800 --> 01:31:08,519
Speaker 1: to the Mark's viewpoint on things, sometimes like does it

1856
01:31:08,640 --> 01:31:11,479
Speaker 1: even matter because when this team or whatever teams coming

1857
01:31:11,520 --> 01:31:14,559
Speaker 1: out of the South, it's just a countdown to their Uh.

1858
01:31:14,720 --> 01:31:17,080
Speaker 1: I did tell you that the NFC South would win

1859
01:31:17,120 --> 01:31:18,920
Speaker 1: a home playoff game though, and I think if of

1860
01:31:19,000 --> 01:31:20,760
Speaker 1: all those teams, it would be the Bucks because I

1861
01:31:20,760 --> 01:31:23,880
Speaker 1: could see them writ well, no I'm not saying it's

1862
01:31:24,000 --> 01:31:26,120
Speaker 1: to anyone's pleasure. I just could see what I mean,

1863
01:31:26,200 --> 01:31:29,120
Speaker 1: But like what I know what's Tom Brady, but like,

1864
01:31:29,400 --> 01:31:33,360
Speaker 1: why will this team because because because maybe because things

1865
01:31:33,360 --> 01:31:36,240
Speaker 1: were better this season, so weird. So that first half

1866
01:31:36,240 --> 01:31:38,640
Speaker 1: of that game, Tony Romo was going crazy about it.

1867
01:31:38,680 --> 01:31:41,160
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe it was too crazy, it was fainted, but

1868
01:31:41,439 --> 01:31:44,400
Speaker 1: he was really impressed that they started changing what they

1869
01:31:44,520 --> 01:31:47,519
Speaker 1: do offensively, like they're such a static team, and it's

1870
01:31:47,520 --> 01:31:50,160
Speaker 1: like like the rest of the NFL will start doing motion,

1871
01:31:50,479 --> 01:31:53,200
Speaker 1: let's start doing play action on early downs, let's stop

1872
01:31:53,280 --> 01:31:55,479
Speaker 1: running on early downs. And it worked for a half

1873
01:31:55,479 --> 01:31:57,960
Speaker 1: and then they had a four turnovers in eleven plays.

1874
01:31:57,960 --> 01:32:02,240
Speaker 1: So if they're changing their approach offensively, that could help.

1875
01:32:02,560 --> 01:32:05,759
Speaker 1: And then the schedule. Certainly, you can't clench the division

1876
01:32:05,800 --> 01:32:09,720
Speaker 1: this week, but you closed with the Panthers and Falcons.

1877
01:32:10,000 --> 01:32:12,320
Speaker 1: Can you see them winning three straight games and feeling

1878
01:32:12,439 --> 01:32:15,599
Speaker 1: better about themselves? I could. I still need to think

1879
01:32:15,600 --> 01:32:17,519
Speaker 1: that will happen to to battle my own point. I

1880
01:32:17,640 --> 01:32:20,880
Speaker 1: still think they're the team that, yeah, from an from

1881
01:32:20,920 --> 01:32:24,439
Speaker 1: another angle of my own angle. Um I we keep

1882
01:32:24,520 --> 01:32:26,880
Speaker 1: saying this is the team that will somehow kind of

1883
01:32:27,360 --> 01:32:31,320
Speaker 1: their issues. No, I'm with you, but you can't go

1884
01:32:31,360 --> 01:32:33,920
Speaker 1: against your own angle from another angle from my own.

1885
01:32:34,120 --> 01:32:35,920
Speaker 1: I just you can though, because it's called it is.

1886
01:32:36,040 --> 01:32:39,200
Speaker 1: It is because right, you can call it hypocritical, but

1887
01:32:39,240 --> 01:32:41,800
Speaker 1: it's not. You're actually like adding another layer to the show.

1888
01:32:42,120 --> 01:32:45,120
Speaker 1: One of the segments of one of the segments of

1889
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Speaker 1: the show is Both Sides of the Fence with the

1890
01:32:49,200 --> 01:32:54,280
Speaker 1: second SEGM within that show, and uh CBS reported Jonathan

1891
01:32:54,360 --> 01:32:56,920
Speaker 1: Jones that the Cardinals are expected to part ways with

1892
01:32:56,960 --> 01:33:00,439
Speaker 1: GM Steve Kin in the off season. Well, I know,

1893
01:33:00,600 --> 01:33:03,040
Speaker 1: I wonder if you go, if Cliff Kingsbury could be

1894
01:33:03,240 --> 01:33:04,960
Speaker 1: one of these kids right of him before the season

1895
01:33:05,000 --> 01:33:06,880
Speaker 1: to find out, you know, gonna early jump on the search.

1896
01:33:06,920 --> 01:33:08,920
Speaker 1: I don't know who's in Definitely, I wonder if like

1897
01:33:09,000 --> 01:33:14,880
Speaker 1: the sensitivity around the time situation will stop them from

1898
01:33:14,880 --> 01:33:17,800
Speaker 1: doing anything like that. But the like before the end

1899
01:33:17,840 --> 01:33:21,800
Speaker 1: of week eighteen, but they'll say goodbye to Time and

1900
01:33:21,840 --> 01:33:23,920
Speaker 1: then what if they kind of want Sean Payton in

1901
01:33:23,960 --> 01:33:26,840
Speaker 1: there to work with, Like you guess, say goodbye to

1902
01:33:26,880 --> 01:33:29,040
Speaker 1: Time and then you hire a new GM or maybe

1903
01:33:29,080 --> 01:33:32,439
Speaker 1: you hire Sean Payton to do it all. Um. But

1904
01:33:32,520 --> 01:33:35,000
Speaker 1: I yeah, it does feel like this thing is about

1905
01:33:35,280 --> 01:33:37,720
Speaker 1: I hate when these teams higher like Coral Ferry to

1906
01:33:37,760 --> 01:33:39,840
Speaker 1: find their new coach. That's always annoying to me. I

1907
01:33:39,840 --> 01:33:45,479
Speaker 1: mean we I mean it's at this hasn't been mentioned

1908
01:33:45,479 --> 01:33:47,000
Speaker 1: on the show, and I feel like we shouldn't and

1909
01:33:47,080 --> 01:33:48,800
Speaker 1: this is probably be the last time we mentioned time.

1910
01:33:49,160 --> 01:33:54,040
Speaker 1: Is that the offensive line coach is alleging that he

1911
01:33:54,080 --> 01:33:58,920
Speaker 1: didn't do anything because of mistaken identity and he looks

1912
01:33:58,920 --> 01:34:03,880
Speaker 1: exactly like Steve Kaim. Where's this? He said that it

1913
01:34:03,960 --> 01:34:07,320
Speaker 1: was released respecting a woman as a core value For me,

1914
01:34:07,400 --> 01:34:10,000
Speaker 1: the mysterious allegations by the Cardinals are Andre want to

1915
01:34:10,000 --> 01:34:12,680
Speaker 1: clear my name, be it a miscommunication or mistaken at

1916
01:34:12,720 --> 01:34:14,479
Speaker 1: any of my family, and I will cooperate fully and

1917
01:34:14,520 --> 01:34:17,679
Speaker 1: honestly with the NFL Cardinals or any agency to restore

1918
01:34:17,720 --> 01:34:20,960
Speaker 1: my reputation. It was a couple of weeks ago, though,

1919
01:34:21,120 --> 01:34:26,600
Speaker 1: and then but the time disappears shortly thereafter. Okay, this

1920
01:34:27,000 --> 01:34:29,840
Speaker 1: why see? Why is it hard knocks talking about this stuff?

1921
01:34:30,120 --> 01:34:33,040
Speaker 1: They have? They have? I have now tracked the last

1922
01:34:33,040 --> 01:34:34,920
Speaker 1: two episodes, Greg, but I feel like they've dodged some

1923
01:34:35,000 --> 01:34:38,200
Speaker 1: of these issues. I actually watched a couple of ones

1924
01:34:38,240 --> 01:34:40,519
Speaker 1: ago to see if you'd get anything extra from Kyler

1925
01:34:41,000 --> 01:34:43,720
Speaker 1: the Kyler thing, and I've started fast forward and they

1926
01:34:43,720 --> 01:34:45,800
Speaker 1: still didn't give you any insight. It was the point

1927
01:34:45,800 --> 01:34:50,160
Speaker 1: of the summertime Hard Knocks. It's it's hope season. There's optimism.

1928
01:34:50,200 --> 01:34:54,800
Speaker 1: You cover the team, you cover the underdogs, setbacks, victories.

1929
01:34:55,400 --> 01:34:57,760
Speaker 1: If you're gonna do in season hard Knocks, I think

1930
01:34:57,760 --> 01:35:00,800
Speaker 1: you gotta cover it, Wortz, because you're in your now.

1931
01:35:01,160 --> 01:35:04,600
Speaker 1: You're in battle with these teams, and there are in

1932
01:35:04,680 --> 01:35:06,400
Speaker 1: the war. There are battles that you win, and there

1933
01:35:06,400 --> 01:35:08,639
Speaker 1: are battles that you lose. And if you only cover

1934
01:35:09,320 --> 01:35:12,960
Speaker 1: the battles you win and gloss over everything else. Is

1935
01:35:13,000 --> 01:35:15,599
Speaker 1: it the best program? That's no, it's not Hard Knocks

1936
01:35:15,640 --> 01:35:17,760
Speaker 1: by the New York Times, though obviously so there's you know,

1937
01:35:17,800 --> 01:35:20,920
Speaker 1: there's other things going on here. Is that another show

1938
01:35:20,960 --> 01:35:26,800
Speaker 1: idea reach out to New York Times? Um No. NFL

1939
01:35:26,840 --> 01:35:28,960
Speaker 1: Films has done brilliant work over the years, but there

1940
01:35:28,960 --> 01:35:31,639
Speaker 1: are challenges inherent to doing this. I don't even put

1941
01:35:31,640 --> 01:35:33,680
Speaker 1: it on HBO. I think it's the team saying like

1942
01:35:33,760 --> 01:35:35,599
Speaker 1: we're gonna even though all this is out there, we're

1943
01:35:35,600 --> 01:35:37,920
Speaker 1: gonna act like if you're not seeing it on Hard Knocks.

1944
01:35:38,360 --> 01:35:40,519
Speaker 1: Got some tough luck with this team. This would might

1945
01:35:40,560 --> 01:35:43,439
Speaker 1: have been the number one team not to follow I

1946
01:35:43,479 --> 01:35:45,879
Speaker 1: think you're right about that. Finally, there is a Monday

1947
01:35:46,080 --> 01:35:50,519
Speaker 1: night game, Monday Night Football from Lucas Oil Stadium. More

1948
01:35:50,560 --> 01:35:52,960
Speaker 1: Cults in prime time, Okay, more Charges in prime time.

1949
01:35:52,960 --> 01:35:57,120
Speaker 1: We can live with that. Weird Christian Chargers at Colts

1950
01:35:57,200 --> 01:35:59,879
Speaker 1: eight and six Chargers who are in very good position

1951
01:36:00,520 --> 01:36:03,120
Speaker 1: now to make the playoffs. In fact, I don't want

1952
01:36:03,120 --> 01:36:07,760
Speaker 1: to hear any excuses around the charge of this year.

1953
01:36:07,960 --> 01:36:10,360
Speaker 1: I know they've they're still missing guys and they're not

1954
01:36:10,800 --> 01:36:14,120
Speaker 1: fully hold, but they've gotten guys back there playing much better.

1955
01:36:14,479 --> 01:36:16,639
Speaker 1: Of late. Herbert's playing out of his mind now, Mike

1956
01:36:16,680 --> 01:36:19,360
Speaker 1: Williams has made a huge difference. They're all the way

1957
01:36:19,439 --> 01:36:21,839
Speaker 1: up to number nine and the Dan Hans Power rankings,

1958
01:36:22,680 --> 01:36:25,400
Speaker 1: and and here we are. Now you have the Cults,

1959
01:36:26,000 --> 01:36:31,639
Speaker 1: your next three opponents, Cults, Rams, Broncos combined record twelve

1960
01:36:32,240 --> 01:36:35,240
Speaker 1: nine and one. You are eight and six Chargers. It

1961
01:36:35,400 --> 01:36:37,160
Speaker 1: is murky as hell at the bottom of the wild

1962
01:36:37,200 --> 01:36:39,600
Speaker 1: card race, but you absolutely need to get out of

1963
01:36:39,600 --> 01:36:42,080
Speaker 1: there with at least ten wins and go to the dance.

1964
01:36:42,160 --> 01:36:47,320
Speaker 1: So absolutely Maybe the only excuse is that they're going

1965
01:36:47,360 --> 01:36:50,720
Speaker 1: against be d n. Mr Nick Falls is back in

1966
01:36:50,800 --> 01:36:55,639
Speaker 1: the mix starting this game over, but about well, I'm

1967
01:36:55,680 --> 01:37:03,080
Speaker 1: not good night recap. I don't know. Uh, you know,

1968
01:37:03,240 --> 01:37:07,080
Speaker 1: he actually played very well in the one game that

1969
01:37:07,120 --> 01:37:09,880
Speaker 1: he played last year against Russell Wilson. No one will

1970
01:37:10,000 --> 01:37:12,000
Speaker 1: ever remember that game, but it was like a shootout

1971
01:37:12,000 --> 01:37:15,120
Speaker 1: Bears Seahawks, and the Bears had a crazy comeback. Nick

1972
01:37:15,120 --> 01:37:17,680
Speaker 1: Foles was a member of the Bears. I don't think

1973
01:37:17,680 --> 01:37:19,160
Speaker 1: he'll do it this week though, because he's on the

1974
01:37:19,160 --> 01:37:22,800
Speaker 1: Colts and he's going against an improving Chargers defense. That's

1975
01:37:22,840 --> 01:37:26,160
Speaker 1: what's been really encouraging. I think Brandon Staley has kind

1976
01:37:26,160 --> 01:37:27,840
Speaker 1: of been in his bag the last two weeks with

1977
01:37:27,960 --> 01:37:30,400
Speaker 1: really good game plans. They're getting the past Rush Derwin

1978
01:37:30,520 --> 01:37:33,679
Speaker 1: James uh appears to be trending towards a return. Joey

1979
01:37:33,760 --> 01:37:37,280
Speaker 1: Bosa might return in the next week or two, probably

1980
01:37:37,320 --> 01:37:40,640
Speaker 1: not this week. Racehn Slater might return before the playoffs.

1981
01:37:40,680 --> 01:37:42,840
Speaker 1: They could actually be a team you don't want to face.

1982
01:37:42,880 --> 01:37:45,400
Speaker 1: And if they can keep it going defensively, that changes

1983
01:37:45,439 --> 01:37:47,880
Speaker 1: this team because they had so many problems defensively and

1984
01:37:47,920 --> 01:37:49,800
Speaker 1: they should be able to shut down this Colt. You

1985
01:37:49,800 --> 01:37:51,599
Speaker 1: said this about the Vikings that you wanted to see

1986
01:37:51,600 --> 01:37:55,559
Speaker 1: the Vikings finally just obliterate someone and just flex their

1987
01:37:55,600 --> 01:37:57,840
Speaker 1: muscles and enough with this. Like the Chargers are kind

1988
01:37:57,840 --> 01:38:00,160
Speaker 1: of the a f c's vikings on some level. And

1989
01:38:00,160 --> 01:38:01,800
Speaker 1: that's seven of the eight wins have been by six

1990
01:38:01,880 --> 01:38:04,599
Speaker 1: or fewer points, Like they just don't blow teams out,

1991
01:38:04,680 --> 01:38:07,439
Speaker 1: and it's like their defense is has gotten so much better.

1992
01:38:07,439 --> 01:38:09,479
Speaker 1: I think Brandon's the idea that Brandon Stily was going

1993
01:38:09,520 --> 01:38:13,080
Speaker 1: to get userved by Sean Payton, uh is always possible,

1994
01:38:13,080 --> 01:38:15,120
Speaker 1: but I think he's done a lot of Yeah, but

1995
01:38:15,160 --> 01:38:18,240
Speaker 1: I mean, I think he's also mentioned like the West Coast.

1996
01:38:18,280 --> 01:38:20,280
Speaker 1: I want a California team, I want a quarterback. It's

1997
01:38:20,280 --> 01:38:22,439
Speaker 1: like the Chargers just are that team. It's like, I

1998
01:38:22,479 --> 01:38:25,639
Speaker 1: don't know, Brandon Stily's plan looks like it's exists today

1999
01:38:25,720 --> 01:38:27,840
Speaker 1: right now. But you're right, like this is the most

2000
01:38:27,960 --> 01:38:30,800
Speaker 1: Chargery type thing would be to not close out of

2001
01:38:30,840 --> 01:38:33,200
Speaker 1: a playoff spot here. You just simply have to go

2002
01:38:33,280 --> 01:38:35,559
Speaker 1: do it. You do not come out of these last

2003
01:38:35,560 --> 01:38:37,200
Speaker 1: three games with at least two wins, and you really

2004
01:38:37,200 --> 01:38:39,879
Speaker 1: should win all three if we are to take you seriously.

2005
01:38:39,880 --> 01:38:42,320
Speaker 1: And yeah, Matt Ryan thing, it's it's really a bummer.

2006
01:38:42,360 --> 01:38:46,760
Speaker 1: It's said for a guy that has had statistically Hall

2007
01:38:46,840 --> 01:38:50,640
Speaker 1: of Fame considered career. Um, yeah, an m v P.

2008
01:38:51,400 --> 01:38:55,680
Speaker 1: Everybody knows about three now, considering where his career is,

2009
01:38:55,760 --> 01:38:57,880
Speaker 1: the level of his play, the fact that obviously the

2010
01:38:57,880 --> 01:39:01,479
Speaker 1: cults are moving on, there's a pretty decent chance that

2011
01:39:01,600 --> 01:39:06,200
Speaker 1: thirty three nothing uh tot is his last game ever plays.

2012
01:39:06,640 --> 01:39:09,680
Speaker 1: So he has the most famous playoff meltdown ever uh

2013
01:39:09,720 --> 01:39:11,720
Speaker 1: not him alone, but he played a part in it,

2014
01:39:11,960 --> 01:39:14,879
Speaker 1: and his career could end on on the greatest comeback

2015
01:39:15,160 --> 01:39:17,120
Speaker 1: or the greatest collapse every by a team. It's just

2016
01:39:17,320 --> 01:39:19,200
Speaker 1: it's kind of some Greek tragedy stuff. I think it

2017
01:39:19,240 --> 01:39:22,360
Speaker 1: could go higher than that too, because he's still owed

2018
01:39:22,479 --> 01:39:25,000
Speaker 1: twelve million guaranteed they sign up for not just this year,

2019
01:39:25,040 --> 01:39:26,880
Speaker 1: but you go to over the cap, he's owed twelve

2020
01:39:26,880 --> 01:39:29,360
Speaker 1: million guaranteed next season, and if they try they do

2021
01:39:29,400 --> 01:39:31,120
Speaker 1: just play for them again, right, and if they just

2022
01:39:31,120 --> 01:39:33,840
Speaker 1: cut him, it's an eighteen million dollar dead money hit.

2023
01:39:34,160 --> 01:39:36,920
Speaker 1: So again, that's on Chris Ballard for year. How many

2024
01:39:36,920 --> 01:39:40,960
Speaker 1: million years? Well, I just wonder, I wonder if things

2025
01:39:41,040 --> 01:39:43,559
Speaker 1: could change just because it's like Chris Ballard, how many

2026
01:39:43,600 --> 01:39:45,040
Speaker 1: years do you get to solve the corner? Would not

2027
01:39:45,160 --> 01:39:47,519
Speaker 1: have liked to be in that conversation or to hear

2028
01:39:47,560 --> 01:39:52,400
Speaker 1: that conversation between just Saturday and Matt Ryan. That. Yeah,

2029
01:39:52,479 --> 01:39:54,720
Speaker 1: but if you're from another angle, if I'm Matt Ryan,

2030
01:39:54,720 --> 01:39:55,960
Speaker 1: I'm kind of like, get me out of here. I

2031
01:39:56,000 --> 01:39:58,160
Speaker 1: don't know, you know, It's just he's obviously a proud

2032
01:39:58,200 --> 01:40:00,240
Speaker 1: guy and a competitor and a good team for It's

2033
01:40:00,280 --> 01:40:05,240
Speaker 1: just it's kind of sad. It's tough. One last thing

2034
01:40:05,280 --> 01:40:10,720
Speaker 1: on this game. The Chargers team, doesn't you know, just

2035
01:40:11,520 --> 01:40:14,040
Speaker 1: as they start this game, they might know that they

2036
01:40:14,040 --> 01:40:16,720
Speaker 1: can clinch a playoff spot this week, So they need

2037
01:40:16,760 --> 01:40:22,080
Speaker 1: a Raider's loss possible. I mean we the Rainmaker believe so,

2038
01:40:22,200 --> 01:40:25,880
Speaker 1: and and Mark locked it up. So a Jets loss,

2039
01:40:25,960 --> 01:40:30,479
Speaker 1: UH and either a pit Pat's or Dolphins loss somewhat

2040
01:40:30,479 --> 01:40:32,840
Speaker 1: realistic scenario for the Charges to go into this game

2041
01:40:33,120 --> 01:40:36,400
Speaker 1: knowing they can clinch this week. That'd be great for them,

2042
01:40:36,479 --> 01:40:40,479
Speaker 1: very good. There's the Week sixteen preview. UH. Reminder, no

2043
01:40:40,600 --> 01:40:42,720
Speaker 1: Friday Fund show this week, but we will have a

2044
01:40:42,760 --> 01:40:50,000
Speaker 1: TNF recap special with my dad and myself Jets, Jaguars,

2045
01:40:50,080 --> 01:40:52,920
Speaker 1: and remember we're launching at some point in our own

2046
01:40:52,920 --> 01:40:56,120
Speaker 1: network now. UH and Some of the programming will include

2047
01:40:56,160 --> 01:41:01,080
Speaker 1: from another angle with Mark Sessler, The Showman Show, and uh,

2048
01:41:01,200 --> 01:41:05,200
Speaker 1: we have back to our wrong that's after our show.

2049
01:41:05,880 --> 01:41:12,120
Speaker 1: What else we had? Flapjacks, Uh, flop jobs, flop Jackson,

2050
01:41:12,120 --> 01:41:16,840
Speaker 1: flop Jobs, Our Morning Jobs over Flapjacks, flop jobs. Flop

2051
01:41:17,000 --> 01:41:19,639
Speaker 1: jobs is so good on its own. Well, we got

2052
01:41:19,640 --> 01:41:22,280
Speaker 1: flapjacks in the title. It's our morning show. That's our

2053
01:41:22,320 --> 01:41:24,479
Speaker 1: morning show. I know you could, you can have it.

2054
01:41:24,520 --> 01:41:27,439
Speaker 1: But the title we build it's a nice title of

2055
01:41:27,520 --> 01:41:31,040
Speaker 1: Breakfast at Wimbledon adds in a whole lone. We're trying

2056
01:41:31,040 --> 01:41:33,479
Speaker 1: to grant it. That's all great. And don't forget the

2057
01:41:33,479 --> 01:41:37,000
Speaker 1: new Game Show when Mark's Old Football Magazine, when Marks

2058
01:41:37,040 --> 01:41:40,599
Speaker 1: Old right, and I also we're we're violently taking control

2059
01:41:40,600 --> 01:41:42,400
Speaker 1: of this guy gets it and pulling it from wherever

2060
01:41:42,439 --> 01:41:44,200
Speaker 1: it was before, not sure where that was to this

2061
01:41:44,240 --> 01:41:47,040
Speaker 1: new night. I've also been in contact with Joe Rogan

2062
01:41:47,080 --> 01:41:50,080
Speaker 1: on some type of ultimate fighting type program. It's a

2063
01:41:50,120 --> 01:41:53,800
Speaker 1: great network. It's gonna change, it's gonna bring cable television

2064
01:41:53,840 --> 01:41:56,439
Speaker 1: back to where it was fifteen to twenty years ago.

2065
01:41:58,520 --> 01:42:05,320
Speaker 1: Stupid All right, thank you to everybody. Um, we'll see

2066
01:42:05,320 --> 01:42:07,600
Speaker 1: you I was gonna say Merry Christmas and all that,

2067
01:42:07,680 --> 01:42:11,760
Speaker 1: but we'll be back before then. So until Christmas Eve

2068
01:42:12,400 --> 01:42:13,000
Speaker 1: he the call