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Speaker 1: Let's dive in to what we just witnessed because that

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Speaker 1: this after the Art of That came out. Just because

427
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Speaker 1: Caleb Williams had a ton of media hype doesn't mean

428
00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:12,040
Speaker 1: that should impact him. Do you know the amount of scouts,

429
00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:16,920
Speaker 1: GMS college directors I talk to that say when they

430
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,600
Speaker 1: watch games on TV, they try to turn down the

431
00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:23,360
Speaker 1: sound because they don't want to hear the commentators talking

432
00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:26,280
Speaker 1: about certain stuff because a lot of times it's just

433
00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:29,119
Speaker 1: about hype. It's just about stuff that you and I

434
00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:31,119
Speaker 1: would be talking about. You know why, because that's not

435
00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:35,000
Speaker 1: their job. Hype in football means nothing. You could be

436
00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:37,960
Speaker 1: the greatest prospect of all time, that's all we heard

437
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:41,760
Speaker 1: about arch Manning, and then eventually you gotta play, so

438
00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:45,399
Speaker 1: that hype is meaningless. Once we see you play games,

439
00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,080
Speaker 1: You're either good or you're not. You either have talent

440
00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:50,960
Speaker 1: or you don't. You either are improving or you're getting worse.

441
00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:53,480
Speaker 1: And I'm not trying to shit on arch Manning. Maybe

442
00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:56,320
Speaker 1: his shoulders really hurt, but every time I watch him

443
00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:58,000
Speaker 1: play I go, I just don't see a very good

444
00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:01,680
Speaker 1: football player, and I hope shoulder shirt. It's that difficult

445
00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:04,480
Speaker 1: to watch him throw the ball. And when I watched

446
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:07,359
Speaker 1: the Bears, this is like hype hype pipe, Caleb hype

447
00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:11,400
Speaker 1: hype pipe. Even though he had won the Heisman Trophy,

448
00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:14,800
Speaker 1: it felt like a no brainer from the outside noise

449
00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:18,320
Speaker 1: outside of football to take Caleb Williams. If you would

450
00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:21,879
Speaker 1: have tweeted a year ago leading into the draft of like,

451
00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:24,359
Speaker 1: I don't think Caleb Williams is gonna be a good

452
00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:29,800
Speaker 1: NFL player, the ratio of people on the Internet shitting

453
00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:33,040
Speaker 1: on your take would have basically been one hundred percent.

454
00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:36,879
Speaker 1: You would have been called the village fucking idiot. You

455
00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,959
Speaker 1: know nothing about football, don't quit your Jay job, stop

456
00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:46,320
Speaker 1: ever commenting having a thought or an opinion on the sport.

457
00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:50,000
Speaker 1: Yet a year later, universally we all go the guy

458
00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:54,080
Speaker 1: stinks he can't play well. You know whose job it

459
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:56,680
Speaker 1: is to not worry about Twitter ratios or what people

460
00:24:56,680 --> 00:25:00,199
Speaker 1: are gonna say online. It's the general manager. I ever

461
00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:02,159
Speaker 1: forget because I've known him for a while and I

462
00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:06,199
Speaker 1: remember watching the reaction to Adam Peters bring everyone to

463
00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:08,640
Speaker 1: top golf it was like, what is he doing? How

464
00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:11,479
Speaker 1: could he be doing this? And I would imagine I

465
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:14,600
Speaker 1: have never asked him this. He probably had pretty high

466
00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:18,440
Speaker 1: thoughts of Jaden Daniels before he did the top Golf experiment.

467
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:22,399
Speaker 1: But it's his job to try to remove his biases

468
00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:25,560
Speaker 1: and the way he's leaning to just let the process

469
00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:28,440
Speaker 1: play out. So why would you not do your due

470
00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:32,879
Speaker 1: diligence on every single person? And he did that and

471
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:35,879
Speaker 1: he ended up getting Jayden Daniels, but he didn't just go,

472
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,640
Speaker 1: you know what, I know for a fact in February

473
00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:42,320
Speaker 1: in March that Jaden Daniels the best player. I don't

474
00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:45,840
Speaker 1: care what anyone thinks, and I'm doing it. And it

475
00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:48,439
Speaker 1: was easy to do that with Caleb because universally on

476
00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:50,840
Speaker 1: the Internet and the fan base, everyone's going to give

477
00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:53,679
Speaker 1: you a thumbs up. Yet now everyone's giving you a

478
00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:57,560
Speaker 1: thumbs down because the guy can't play. But you didn't

479
00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:00,960
Speaker 1: do any due diligence on anyone else. And I'm not

480
00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:04,119
Speaker 1: even factoring in Tyler Dunn's article about the way the

481
00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:08,320
Speaker 1: meetings went. I'm just because again that's obviously coaches talking.

482
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,840
Speaker 1: There's a lot of different, you know, irons in the

483
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:14,639
Speaker 1: fire a lot of different variables of opinions. It is

484
00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:18,600
Speaker 1: an objective fact that he brought one quarterback in during

485
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:22,479
Speaker 1: the draft process, which is insane and clearly and I

486
00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:26,879
Speaker 1: saw someone I don't want to. I apologize for not

487
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:29,040
Speaker 1: giving credit on this because this is not my take.

488
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:32,760
Speaker 1: I'm stealing this on the internet. That basically Ben Johnson

489
00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:37,000
Speaker 1: is a director. If he was a movie director, he

490
00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:40,520
Speaker 1: not only writes out the script, but he directs that

491
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 1: script perfectly when the camera is on. He does not

492
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:48,080
Speaker 1: want you, like Leonardo DiCaprio, whoever the actor may be,

493
00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:52,119
Speaker 1: to ad lib. He wants you to do exactly what

494
00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:56,240
Speaker 1: is on the paper for your lines. And Caleb Williams

495
00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:00,760
Speaker 1: doesn't memorize the lines. He just ad libs. And sometimes

496
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:03,639
Speaker 1: it's really good, but most of the time it's not.

497
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:07,959
Speaker 1: And meshing those two things together will never work. And

498
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:11,399
Speaker 1: it clearly is not working. And I didn't think it

499
00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 1: was gonna work. It's way worse than I thought. But

500
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:17,399
Speaker 1: it's not even all Caleb Ben Johnson. It starts at

501
00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 1: the top, Ryan Poles, the organization. I mean, there's just

502
00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:25,080
Speaker 1: they are an embarrassment. They really are. And if I

503
00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 1: hear one more time about all this talent, Like I'm

504
00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:31,200
Speaker 1: watching them. The Lions have a lot of talent, and

505
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:34,440
Speaker 1: they beat the shit out of these guys. It honestly

506
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:37,240
Speaker 1: wasn't even a fair fight. Game was kind of close

507
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:40,920
Speaker 1: for a minute until it wasn't. And I just think

508
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:45,600
Speaker 1: there's a rot, there's a negativity. There's obviously an intensity

509
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 1: because it's Chicago, but I like, it's gonna be hard

510
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:54,439
Speaker 1: to overcome for Ben Johnson, even if he picks his

511
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:59,160
Speaker 1: quarterback one day. The situation that is that he signed

512
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:02,840
Speaker 1: up for and people have DM me, you know it,

513
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 1: is there a chance that he regrets the decision a

514
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 1: year ago? And I've said over and over I don't

515
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:11,640
Speaker 1: know the guy personally, but talking to people that knew

516
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:13,879
Speaker 1: him personally felt that he was just a little on

517
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,400
Speaker 1: the fence about how ready he was a year ago.

518
00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:20,040
Speaker 1: But you can't tell me. He lays in his bed,

519
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 1: which I would imagine he's not sleeping much because of

520
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 1: what just has been transpiring these last couple of weeks,

521
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:29,679
Speaker 1: and doesn't think, you know, even if I wasn't ready,

522
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:32,680
Speaker 1: I got news for you. Most human beings aren't ready

523
00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:35,880
Speaker 1: when they get big opportunities, right, Sometimes you just get

524
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 1: thrown into the deep end, and you just kind of

525
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:41,000
Speaker 1: got to learn to swim. I would say most people

526
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 1: in any competitive industry, despite how much experience may be

527
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 1: needed for that spot, probably have a little less than ideal,

528
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:52,720
Speaker 1: especially younger people in coaching. That he can't regret the

529
00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:56,400
Speaker 1: decision that he made by shunning the Washington Commanders and

530
00:28:56,600 --> 00:29:02,000
Speaker 1: coaching Jayden Daniels and working with Adam Peters and Josh Harris,

531
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:06,080
Speaker 1: an organization that is just dramatically more buttoned up than

532
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 1: this shit show in Chicago. The Dallas Giants game, what

533
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:14,640
Speaker 1: a what a fun experience? You know, sometimes you do

534
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:16,800
Speaker 1: this long enough, you kind of get jaded and can

535
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 1: get nagative sometimes on given days, like all these games

536
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:21,760
Speaker 1: are terrible. I was even telling myself that this morning.

537
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 1: It's like, ah, that's kind of a boring morning. This

538
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 1: isn't great. Hell, I was saying that definitely on Saturday,

539
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:29,080
Speaker 1: like this is not that fun. And then that game

540
00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:32,640
Speaker 1: breaks out and just a little throwback, and I'm guilty

541
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:34,920
Speaker 1: of this. Like I've talked a lot of shit about

542
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:39,120
Speaker 1: Russ Wilson. I think he's kind of weird, and obviously

543
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:42,080
Speaker 1: he's not a very good player anymore. Until today, and

544
00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:44,920
Speaker 1: he was just throwing bombs and they were catching bombs,

545
00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 1: and they were scoring points left and right. I don't

546
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 1: care if Dallas couldn't cover me and you. It was

547
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:54,720
Speaker 1: enjoyable to watch Russ just sling that pill as high

548
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 1: as humanly possible in the air and have it land

549
00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:01,400
Speaker 1: in Malik Neighbors's hands and score touch like that was

550
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 1: really really fun. But when Dallas tied up the game.

551
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:08,720
Speaker 1: You know, one thing I learned from a schematic standpoint

552
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:11,720
Speaker 1: that I will never forget is I work with Lewis Riddick,

553
00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 1: who's now on ESPN, and Lewis when he was a player,

554
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 1: Lewis was a really good college player at Pitt and

555
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:20,160
Speaker 1: then you know, played in the NFL for I think

556
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:22,400
Speaker 1: six or seven years. Well for a couple of those

557
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:25,720
Speaker 1: years he played in Cleveland and Nick Saban was the

558
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:30,720
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator and Bill Belichick was the defensive He was

559
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:33,239
Speaker 1: a head coach, and he used to hammer this home

560
00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:35,560
Speaker 1: because he was taught this back then. Is listen, in

561
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:39,480
Speaker 1: zone defense, right, you're not just covering a man, You're

562
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:44,600
Speaker 1: covering space. So in football, there are specific landmarks if

563
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:47,400
Speaker 1: you are a linebacker and you're in a zone defense

564
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:50,280
Speaker 1: against especially in a situation where they are going to

565
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:52,600
Speaker 1: pass the ball down the field, you get a certain

566
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:55,040
Speaker 1: amount of depth and you get to a spot on

567
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 1: the field ten yards back, three yards over, whatever it

568
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 1: may be given that specific defense. And on the play

569
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 1: that Dak Prescott hit Ferguson to get them into field

570
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:06,960
Speaker 1: goal range, which somehow for this kicker is like the

571
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 1: fifty yard line, there was a lying backer in the

572
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:13,160
Speaker 1: middle of the field and he probably did exactly what

573
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator told him to be seven steps back,

574
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:20,520
Speaker 1: two steps over. Be a player. Well, it's like that's

575
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 1: being a robot. Sometimes in football you gotta go throw

576
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:27,400
Speaker 1: back to like when you were at recess or when

577
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 1: you were in high school, and just play the game.

578
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:34,120
Speaker 1: You know that you just sitting there killing turf is

579
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:38,000
Speaker 1: completely worthless, and there is a tight end a couple

580
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:40,480
Speaker 1: yards to your left. Do you know what you might

581
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 1: want to do? Maybe leave your spot, show some instincts

582
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:47,640
Speaker 1: and just make a play Instead, everyone just dropped to

583
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 1: their landmarks, stood there like this, and Ferguson caught the

584
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:53,320
Speaker 1: ball and landed like the forty eight or forty nine

585
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:55,960
Speaker 1: yard line, and it gave them and put them in

586
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 1: position to kick a game winning field goal that would

587
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:02,800
Speaker 1: have been good for like eighty yards. But to me, defensively,

588
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:08,840
Speaker 1: I'm as like as willing as anyone to just completely

589
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 1: shit on coaches first over the players. That's on the player.

590
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:15,240
Speaker 1: Like at the end of the day, there gets to

591
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:19,400
Speaker 1: a point, especially situational football, where it's like you gotta

592
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 1: have some basic understanding of like I probably need to

593
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 1: cheat over a yard or two and just use some

594
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,320
Speaker 1: of my instincts in a game I've probably been playing

595
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:32,960
Speaker 1: since I was six, seven, eight years old, even well

596
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,040
Speaker 1: before PATS. When you're just running around, there has to

597
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 1: be some sort of feel, and I thought that is

598
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 1: where the game was lost. Obviously there was a lot

599
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 1: of craziness after that. In overtime. Both teams got the

600
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 1: ball I felt like ten times each, But that play

601
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 1: is like, how does that happen? And I think everyone's

602
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 1: going to crush the defensive coordinator. There are moments in

603
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:58,760
Speaker 1: a game on defense when you're talking about space where

604
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:01,640
Speaker 1: the guy has to just make a play or just

605
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:04,200
Speaker 1: put himself in a position to make a play. If

606
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 1: I'm just standing there because we have gone over this

607
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 1: since the offseason or for the last couple of years,

608
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 1: OTA's training camp the season, OTA's training camp the season.

609
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:15,160
Speaker 1: This is where I'm supposed to be. I know I

610
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:17,720
Speaker 1: won't get in trouble. I don't know until the guy

611
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 1: is right next to you catching the ball and you're

612
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 1: just standing there. It was pretty embarrassing. And then obviously

613
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,360
Speaker 1: I do think it's pretty crazy that throughout most of

614
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 1: my life, I feel like a fifty yard field goal,

615
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 1: maybe up to fifty five was viewed as a really

616
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:40,680
Speaker 1: really long field goal. I feel like, consistently, and maybe

617
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 1: stats aren't on my side, we have seen guys consistently

618
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:48,480
Speaker 1: hit field goals from well into the high fifties and

619
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 1: into the early sixties, and a lot of times when

620
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:54,480
Speaker 1: they make these, either game winners or game tires, from

621
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 1: sixty yards or fifty seven yards, it feels like they

622
00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:01,080
Speaker 1: have six seven, eight yards to spare. I mean, part

623
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 1: of the powerful thing about the Cowboys game time kick

624
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 1: is it probably would have been good. I saw some

625
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:11,359
Speaker 1: people putting seventy maybe seventy five yards. It's crazy how

626
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:14,319
Speaker 1: strong the guy's leg were. It had like first an

627
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 1: initial fade, then a hook, like it had like six

628
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:20,439
Speaker 1: different bullflights in the air because it had so far

629
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:25,759
Speaker 1: to travel, one of the more just crazier kicks. Here's

630
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:28,719
Speaker 1: the thing, too, is when they got him into quote

631
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:32,000
Speaker 1: unquote his range, I think sixty four yards, there's not

632
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 1: a soul that thought he was gonna miss it, and

633
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 1: then he just drilled it. It was incredible to watch

634
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:41,279
Speaker 1: and listen. You know, Brian Schottenneimer easy guy to make

635
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 1: fun of coming into the season, He had no business

636
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:45,359
Speaker 1: being the job. No one else would have hired him,

637
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:47,360
Speaker 1: and all those things are true. No one else was

638
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:50,640
Speaker 1: gonna hire Bridon Schottenneimer to be their offensive coordinator, let

639
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:53,440
Speaker 1: alone their head coach. But I'd say through two weeks

640
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:57,080
Speaker 1: he's the play caller. The offense looks really good, looks

641
00:34:57,120 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 1: really explosive. George Pickens is not an easy guy to coach. Right.

642
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:05,280
Speaker 1: Some balls he attacks, some balls he just watches. Sometimes

643
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:07,799
Speaker 1: he blocks, sometimes he doesn't. But he's making a lot

644
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:12,040
Speaker 1: of plays for him He's listen, jerrys are some credit

645
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:13,719
Speaker 1: on this one too. It's only two weeks. We got

646
00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:16,920
Speaker 1: a long way to go, but he's he's made a

647
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:20,360
Speaker 1: lot of plays and had a huge influence on just

648
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:22,719
Speaker 1: balancing out this offense. Because one thing when he's got

649
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:25,560
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb, who's an excellent player. If you don't have

650
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:28,960
Speaker 1: anyone else, like any team you know worth their salt.

651
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 1: Could you know Georgia could put together a defense to

652
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:34,759
Speaker 1: slow down one NFL wide receiver. Well, if I got

653
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:38,600
Speaker 1: two guys, I can only cheat so much. And clearly

654
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:41,359
Speaker 1: Brian Schottenheimer and Dak Prescott are doing a really good

655
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:57,280
Speaker 1: job of slinging that pill around. I think the Bengals

656
00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 1: are done their next four games Area, Denver, Lions, Green Bay.

657
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:06,839
Speaker 1: You know by all reports that Joe Burrow has a

658
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:09,839
Speaker 1: severe case. Obviously there are different cases of turf toe.

659
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 1: Whatever Brock Purdy has is like two to five weeks.

660
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:16,880
Speaker 1: And you know, there were some reports today that Perdy

661
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:19,840
Speaker 1: are probably gonna miss next week as well. But I

662
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:22,360
Speaker 1: would imagine that I'd be a little stunned if Perdy's

663
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:25,920
Speaker 1: not back the week after that. But his the severity

664
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 1: of his turf toe is not Burroughs, and Burrow's turf

665
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:32,560
Speaker 1: toe is the one where you need surgery potentially. Now

666
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 1: he's trying to get second opinions. But if he gets

667
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 1: surgery and it's a three plus month situation, like his

668
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:44,880
Speaker 1: season's over, the Bengals season is over, and they invested.

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00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 1: They paid t Higgins. Obviously they figured out financially how

670
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:53,840
Speaker 1: to keep Tray around and not trade him all because

671
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:56,439
Speaker 1: of Joe Burrow and you remove him. And I told

672
00:36:56,480 --> 00:37:00,759
Speaker 1: Coward this, I never thought in a million years Jake

673
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 1: Browning would be make one year in the NFL. I

674
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:07,359
Speaker 1: was stunned when he made it through a training camp

675
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 1: and was kept on on practice squads. He's obviously a

676
00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:14,240
Speaker 1: serviceable player. He has improved as much as any human

677
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 1: being from college to where he's at now as I've

678
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:19,920
Speaker 1: ever seen. I thought he was a fringe college starter.

679
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:21,840
Speaker 1: I know he won a lot of games in college.

680
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 1: I always thought it was crazy that he could win

681
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:26,440
Speaker 1: games in college. He was unloaded teams, good coaching. But

682
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:30,200
Speaker 1: he's a different player now. But the drop off from

683
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:33,479
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow to Jake Browning is just is pretty big.

684
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 1: And we've seen this before. When Burrow gets hurt, they

685
00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:39,840
Speaker 1: fall apart. There's just you can't lose one of the

686
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:41,360
Speaker 1: best players in the league. I mean, think about the

687
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 1: start of the season. We don't think their defense is

688
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:49,759
Speaker 1: very good, and we were like, well, if Burke could

689
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:52,440
Speaker 1: have a similar season to last year and throw forty three,

690
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:56,960
Speaker 1: forty four, forty five touchdowns, maybe they could compete to

691
00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:00,920
Speaker 1: be the seventh seed. Well, that's gone running through whatever

692
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:03,400
Speaker 1: three interceptions day now, granted he threw two touchdowns, he

693
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 1: also had the game winning touchdown. So they got Jamar

694
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 1: Chase T Higgins. I mean, they got weapons. But your

695
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:14,200
Speaker 1: season ends before it even starts. I can't even imagine

696
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:16,759
Speaker 1: being a Bengal fan if it does become official this

697
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:20,480
Speaker 1: week that he's got to get the surgery and he's

698
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 1: out for three months aka the year. Your season just ends.

699
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 1: And that's the brutal part about football is other positions

700
00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:32,680
Speaker 1: can go down. You could have offensive lineman break a leg,

701
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:36,600
Speaker 1: you could have your stud pass rusher tearor his ACL

702
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 1: but your season doesn't end the moment your quarterback goes down,

703
00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:44,280
Speaker 1: especially when it's one of the best quarterbacks in the league.

704
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 1: We all know the outcome. It's over and they have

705
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:51,839
Speaker 1: no chance. If Burrow has to which I don't think.

706
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:54,000
Speaker 1: People are just like I don't see how he avoids it.

707
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 1: We saw as he was walking off the field the

708
00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:59,320
Speaker 1: clip kind of went viral as he was walking semi

709
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:01,720
Speaker 1: normal and then all of a sudden I would imagine

710
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 1: the pain in his foot. He could barely walk and

711
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:07,279
Speaker 1: he had to basically be escorted back in the locker room.

712
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:10,399
Speaker 1: And I saw someone saying, don't they have a little

713
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:14,919
Speaker 1: John Deer? Don't they have the little the cart where

714
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:18,359
Speaker 1: you put injured players in. Wouldn't you want to buy

715
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 1: a cart? Which I don't know. My guess is twenty

716
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 1: grand max for a guy that you just gave a

717
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:28,400
Speaker 1: I think like three hundred million dollars to instead of

718
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 1: making him put weight on his turf toe. But of

719
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 1: course they're cheap, and they're offensive line. You know, you

720
00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 1: invest in these wide receivers, you invest in pass rushers,

721
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:44,520
Speaker 1: which I'm not against, but when you can't block for

722
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:48,600
Speaker 1: a quarterback who is a pocket quarterback, you don't. This

723
00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:50,840
Speaker 1: is what do you think is going to be the

724
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:55,160
Speaker 1: outcome here? And Yeah, sad day to be a Bengal fan.

725
00:39:56,719 --> 00:39:59,680
Speaker 1: Not much else that hasn't been said about the Chiefs

726
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:02,399
Speaker 1: for zero to two, I think for the first time

727
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:06,919
Speaker 1: to twenty fourteen, which was Andy's second year in the league,

728
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:11,440
Speaker 1: for the Chiefs, I don't know. Man, I thought they

729
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:13,799
Speaker 1: threw the kitchen sink at him. That's as good as

730
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:16,320
Speaker 1: they can play given this team. Their defense was awesome.

731
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:20,479
Speaker 1: They were, you know, controlling Jalen Hurts. The passing game

732
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:24,200
Speaker 1: for the Eagles was nothing. Mahomes was making some plays

733
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 1: and I thought, if they score a touchdown on that

734
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:31,279
Speaker 1: drive that goes off Travis Kelsey's hands, I thought they

735
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:33,319
Speaker 1: were gonna win the game. And it was like they

736
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:35,640
Speaker 1: were gonna pull this thing. It was gonna be ugly,

737
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:38,799
Speaker 1: it was gonna be like, this is championship hert this

738
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:42,680
Speaker 1: is championship character. And it just bounced right off Kelsey's hands,

739
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:47,880
Speaker 1: and that was the game. Like, honestly, it could have

740
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:51,839
Speaker 1: even ended harder if if the left tackle can't run

741
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:55,920
Speaker 1: somehow like a linebacker and tackled the dB down the sideline.

742
00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:59,440
Speaker 1: But your margin, Ferrera, when you play in these crazy

743
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:01,919
Speaker 1: close games and they are playing in games that look

744
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:05,719
Speaker 1: especially today, that look exactly like last year, you're gonna

745
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 1: lose some of them. And they won them all last

746
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:11,400
Speaker 1: year and they lost it today. But I don't know

747
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 1: what they're supposed to do. Worthy is not healthy. Where

748
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:17,840
Speaker 1: she Rice is suspended like that is their explosion on offense. Hollywood.

749
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:21,440
Speaker 1: Brown actually is making some plays, and I think the

750
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:25,239
Speaker 1: tough part about today is I thought Travis looked pretty good.

751
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:28,280
Speaker 1: He had the sweet play where he stiff armed Dejeene.

752
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:31,959
Speaker 1: He made a couple other huge plays on third down.

753
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:33,959
Speaker 1: I think one was even on was it fourth down?

754
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:37,200
Speaker 1: Where he ran like a route that had three different breaks.

755
00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:40,160
Speaker 1: He like did an out route, an in route, or

756
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:42,759
Speaker 1: he ran in, he ran out and it's like six

757
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 1: different jukes. It's like Allen Iverson crossed you over and

758
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:49,120
Speaker 1: then crossed you over again. But that play and listen,

759
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:53,359
Speaker 1: everyone was tweeting like he's washed. It's like, I don't know,

760
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:56,279
Speaker 1: they were just the timing was a little off. But

761
00:41:56,320 --> 00:42:00,799
Speaker 1: that was a devastating moment for the Chiefs and they

762
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 1: got lucky that Denver lost. That someone has to lose tomorrow.

763
00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:09,080
Speaker 1: Do you know what's crazy? Is there as a decent

764
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:11,319
Speaker 1: chance I mean the Raiders are at home, that the

765
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:14,960
Speaker 1: Raiders are in first place and the Chiefs are in

766
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 1: last place. I bet there's a decent chance that that

767
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:23,279
Speaker 1: has not happened at any point since Andy Reid has

768
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:26,080
Speaker 1: been in Kansas City. Now, the Raiders haven't been in

769
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:30,239
Speaker 1: first place in general very often, but probably the one

770
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:33,560
Speaker 1: year with Derek Carr where he broke his ankle. They

771
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:35,120
Speaker 1: had a really good team and they were competing to

772
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:39,399
Speaker 1: win the division that year. But overall they have they've

773
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:41,560
Speaker 1: been really bad. And if they go to it's early.

774
00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:43,880
Speaker 1: But the Raiders have a chance to go to to

775
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:48,000
Speaker 1: zero and have a two game lead on the Kansasity Chiefs.

776
00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:51,840
Speaker 1: I want out writing Kansas City off, but this was

777
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:54,799
Speaker 1: inevitable that they're just gonna have a season that some

778
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:57,440
Speaker 1: of these breaks aren't going to go their way and

779
00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:01,439
Speaker 1: maybe they go ten and seven. Obviously defensively they're still

780
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:05,279
Speaker 1: really good. Physically, that game was just was brutal. I mean,

781
00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:07,600
Speaker 1: guys were getting crushed. That was a game on the

782
00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:10,880
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, like you better buckle your chin strap

783
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:12,439
Speaker 1: and let's face it, Like the elephant in the room

784
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 1: is Eagles are two and zero. Their passing game does

785
00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:19,400
Speaker 1: not look good. And I know how Philly works. I've

786
00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:22,640
Speaker 1: been there. I follow the team really closely ever since

787
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:26,759
Speaker 1: I've left. It's an intense environment. Now you go on

788
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:29,960
Speaker 1: the road, you beat a team that has won the

789
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:32,399
Speaker 1: AFC five in the last six years. That's a good win.

790
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:34,919
Speaker 1: You don't apologize and like your stats should have been better.

791
00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:38,239
Speaker 1: The clip going viral of Chris Jones and saying you

792
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 1: didn't even have one hundred yards and Jalen saying we

793
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:43,200
Speaker 1: won the game. And this is the thing I respect

794
00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:46,399
Speaker 1: about Jalen is like sometimes he just finds a way.

795
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 1: He had to play today on an all out blitz

796
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:51,480
Speaker 1: and Spags brings it. I mean, he always has kind

797
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 1: of what he's known for, where Jalen just gets destroyed

798
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:57,920
Speaker 1: and waited till the last possible second. The difference of

799
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:01,440
Speaker 1: you know, Jalen in theory should be this scrambling quarterback.

800
00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:03,759
Speaker 1: You watch a guy like Caleb, He's always taking off

801
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:06,560
Speaker 1: for his life. Jalen will sit in there, throw this

802
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:09,400
Speaker 1: great go route in a one on one situation against

803
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:11,279
Speaker 1: what I thought was like a pro Bowl level guy

804
00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:15,120
Speaker 1: against McDuffie who doesn't even look DeVante Smith makes a

805
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:17,920
Speaker 1: great play and that was that felt like a dagger

806
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:20,560
Speaker 1: at that moment. But Jalen stats do not look great.

807
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:22,919
Speaker 1: And listen, he's not gonna be on a weekend week

808
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:26,359
Speaker 1: out basis, you know, slinging that thing like he's Josh

809
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:28,560
Speaker 1: Allen or Lamar Jackson. He's not gonna put up those

810
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:32,040
Speaker 1: type stats. He did no chance. Like the game, Herbert

811
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:35,279
Speaker 1: had a week ago. That's not really Jalen's game, but

812
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:38,359
Speaker 1: he does make some winning plays Throughoute that you kind

813
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:40,680
Speaker 1: of like, gotta be a little football nerdy, but he

814
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:43,600
Speaker 1: deserves some respect, you know. And I think the Eagles,

815
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:47,160
Speaker 1: the way they're built, their physicality, Uh, defensively, they're just

816
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:50,040
Speaker 1: gonna be Will coached with Fangio. Obviously, Saquon busts some

817
00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:52,560
Speaker 1: big runs as the game went. Offensive line, they're just

818
00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:55,319
Speaker 1: so big and physical. Clearly on the one Tush push,

819
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:57,960
Speaker 1: they had a couple of guys jump off sides. I've

820
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:00,399
Speaker 1: said this over and over. I hate the to pH.

821
00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:04,400
Speaker 1: I fucking hate it. Not because I don't think they

822
00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:06,240
Speaker 1: should be able to do it. It's in the rules.

823
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:08,799
Speaker 1: Any team could do it, and you see teams in

824
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:11,880
Speaker 1: college and definitely in the pros kind of try. But

825
00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:13,799
Speaker 1: the thing that makes the Eagles so strong is their

826
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:17,799
Speaker 1: quarterbacks so powerful. Most quarterbacks are a little higher, they don't

827
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:20,680
Speaker 1: get as low. They just don't have the push. And

828
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 1: the thing that separates the Eagles isn't just their powerful,

829
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:27,880
Speaker 1: good offensive line. It's their quarterback can squat like all

830
00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:31,239
Speaker 1: of Kansas City and that that makes that play for them.

831
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:33,600
Speaker 1: But it is a boring play to watch because if

832
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:36,239
Speaker 1: they go into it on third and one, even if

833
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:40,120
Speaker 1: you're able to somewhat neutralize it once, it never fails

834
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:43,080
Speaker 1: two times in a row. It feels like an inevitability

835
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:47,759
Speaker 1: in a sport that is completely not inevitable. I mean,

836
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:51,160
Speaker 1: it's a sport that on any given moment, anything can

837
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:54,480
Speaker 1: happen in every game, every player. You just never know.

838
00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:55,919
Speaker 1: A guy can throw a pick, I got a trip,

839
00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:57,640
Speaker 1: I gotta get a first down, I got a bus eighty.

840
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:01,920
Speaker 1: With that play, you just feels like, no the outcome,

841
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:04,600
Speaker 1: that's my issue with the play. But they do it,

842
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:06,839
Speaker 1: and they do it to perfection. And even Brady, who

843
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:10,600
Speaker 1: I think is so much better than last year, like

844
00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:14,880
Speaker 1: dramatically better. I mean dramatically better. Honestly, I thought he

845
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:18,839
Speaker 1: was borderline unlistenable last year. I'm not calling him John

846
00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:21,920
Speaker 1: Madden yet, but he's He's just solid, like it was

847
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:25,680
Speaker 1: an easy listen. I think he's relaxed a lot, maybe

848
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:28,520
Speaker 1: just which is understandable. He's got a year under his belt,

849
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:31,719
Speaker 1: just kind of comfortable in the role, and just I

850
00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:35,319
Speaker 1: thought this is a much easier listen in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: So it shose you you know, you get get ten years,

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Speaker 1: three hundred and seventy five million dollars. It might take

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Speaker 1: you a year, but he'd be good at it. And

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Speaker 1: we'll end on this. In the NFL, you know, people

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Speaker 1: do power rankings and depending on what show or podcasts

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Speaker 1: you listen to, people ranked teams. None of that actually

857
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Speaker 1: means anything, right, you either make the playoffs or you

858
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:01,240
Speaker 1: don't make the playoffs. You either are the one seed

859
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:03,640
Speaker 1: if you win the division, or the two or three

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00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:07,560
Speaker 1: or four. Your record determines where you go. And it's

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00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:11,200
Speaker 1: very very basic, how you make the playoffs, how you

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00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:14,080
Speaker 1: win the division? Like it's very black and white. Yet

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00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:17,160
Speaker 1: in college it's always been people vote, And we got

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Speaker 1: these different rankings the AP, the coach's poll that one

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Speaker 1: chick went viral last week. They basically said, like, I

866
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Speaker 1: don't even give a shit. I just throw some teams.

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Speaker 1: I know that other people will balance it out. I

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Speaker 1: was thinking, like, why are we even doing polls? How

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00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:35,240
Speaker 1: does this exist? I get because it's still a subjective

870
00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:40,400
Speaker 1: formula to create the playoffs in college? Why do we

871
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:43,879
Speaker 1: do preseason polls anymore? With the transfer portal, we have

872
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:47,400
Speaker 1: no clue who's good and who's bad in terms of like,

873
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:49,719
Speaker 1: we know that Clemson is not going to go zero

874
00:47:49,719 --> 00:47:53,239
Speaker 1: to twelve, you would think, But last year I saw

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Speaker 1: Florida State, who the previous year had won thirteen games,

876
00:47:56,560 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 1: and if it wasn't for their quarterback snapping his leg

877
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Speaker 1: would have been in the final four, and who knows,

878
00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 1: could have won the national championship. The following year won

879
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:07,680
Speaker 1: two games, and everyone like, Clem's gonna be really good.

880
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:10,160
Speaker 1: Clem's gonna be really good. What if they're not. It

881
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:12,360
Speaker 1: happens in the NFL all the time, like this team's

882
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:15,359
Speaker 1: gonna be good or maybe not. We do not need

883
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:19,160
Speaker 1: preseason rankings because that really jades the way like in

884
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:22,120
Speaker 1: football we think the Vikings are gonna be good. I

885
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:24,520
Speaker 1: think they're gonna be good. But if you told me, hey,

886
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:29,000
Speaker 1: JJ's debacle and they go seven and ten, it's not unrealistic.

887
00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:32,919
Speaker 1: And in college football, these preseason rankings dictate the way

888
00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:37,280
Speaker 1: we look at these teams like Notre Dame. They've played

889
00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:40,160
Speaker 1: Miami in Texas, A and M. Miami could be the

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00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:44,200
Speaker 1: best team in the country and A and M worst case,

891
00:48:44,239 --> 00:48:48,640
Speaker 1: probably winning nine games and if it goes perfectly for him,

892
00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:51,319
Speaker 1: maybe they'd go ten and two, eleven and one. I mean,

893
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:54,080
Speaker 1: if you told me they were in the SEC championship game,

894
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:57,279
Speaker 1: wouldn't be that surprised. But coming into the seasons, like, hey,

895
00:48:57,280 --> 00:48:59,920
Speaker 1: they were in the National championship last year, be there again? Why?

896
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:02,520
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean they lost their quarterback, they

897
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:04,279
Speaker 1: lost other players of the draft. They have a bunch

898
00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:07,080
Speaker 1: of young players coming up the pipe. Maybe they're ready

899
00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:10,160
Speaker 1: to go, maybe they're not. You just never know. We

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00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 1: saw this with Texas and arch manding. It's like, hey,

901
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:18,080
Speaker 1: Texas completely loaded except the quarterback, who might not be good.

902
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:22,000
Speaker 1: And now with twelve teams, I just think preseason rankings,

903
00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:24,840
Speaker 1: we should just throw them in the trash. They should

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Speaker 1: not exist. You could tell me after September maybe we

905
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:31,520
Speaker 1: could do, you know, top twenty five. But even then,

906
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Speaker 1: the last couple weeks. You know what I did yesterday,

907
00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:35,920
Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, I'm gonna go play golf.

908
00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:38,959
Speaker 1: Why because I looked around and it's just a bunch

909
00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 1: of big time teams playing nobody's It's like, this is

910
00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:45,880
Speaker 1: a terrible product. That there were two good games. I

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00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:48,919
Speaker 1: thought that, like you couldn't miss Georgia Tennessee and Notre

912
00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:50,799
Speaker 1: Dame Texas, A and M, and it was a lot

913
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Speaker 1: of Texas first Utah. It's like, how are we still

914
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:58,800
Speaker 1: playing these games? How do these games still exist? They're unwatchable?

915
00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:02,440
Speaker 1: How am I suppose to even if you are kicking

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Speaker 1: the Indiana who made the playoffs last year, just played

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Speaker 1: Indiana State, the school Larry Bird went to beat him

918
00:50:10,160 --> 00:50:13,160
Speaker 1: seventy three to nothing. What am I supposed to make

919
00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:16,600
Speaker 1: of that game? What's more impressive Indiana winning that game

920
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:21,080
Speaker 1: or Notre Dame losing at home to text A and M.

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Speaker 1: I think we all know, like if Notre Dame played

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Speaker 1: Indiana ten times, I think Notre Dame would beat them

923
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Speaker 1: nine times. But we gotta do these preseason rankings and

924
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Speaker 1: they're higher, they're lower. It's like, I just think we

925
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Speaker 1: gotta find a better way to not go into the

926
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Speaker 1: season with a bias. And there's no way to get

927
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Speaker 1: around that. When you have a four in front of

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Speaker 1: your name or a twenty in front of your name,

929
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Speaker 1: it's like you actually might if you're the twenty, you

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00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:48,839
Speaker 1: could be the fifteen, Like Miami, Miami could be good.

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Speaker 1: What if Miami's just the best team in the league,

932
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:53,200
Speaker 1: but they had a preseason ranking that kind of jades

933
00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:54,719
Speaker 1: the way you think about them. But if there are

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Speaker 1: no preseason rankings, you'd be like, God, Miami the best

935
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Speaker 1: team in the league, in the country, right. I said

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Speaker 1: this about the Packers coming in people, I kind of

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Speaker 1: like the Packers. Then they got Micah, you'd been like, God,

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Speaker 1: they're They're definitely one of the six, seven, eight best teams.

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Speaker 1: After two weeks, you'd be like, they're the number one

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Speaker 1: team in the country. But we don't do that in

941
00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:11,000
Speaker 1: the NFL. You know why, kids doesn't fucking matter. We

942
00:51:11,040 --> 00:51:13,400
Speaker 1: got three or four more months of football. Same thing

943
00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:16,759
Speaker 1: with college football. It's September fourteenth. We got a long

944
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:19,960
Speaker 1: way to go. I just think these top twenty fives.

945
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Speaker 1: I get it. It's fun. It leads to debate. Everyone's

946
00:51:22,360 --> 00:51:28,280
Speaker 1: arguing over it. Mean nothing right now, mean literally nothing. Audios,

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Speaker 1: good night, Talk to everyone soon. The volume