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Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast has outperformed it's rookie contract.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to another disition of the Around the NFL Podcast.

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Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hansas name, joined by a room

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Speaker 1: filled with heroes, Mark Sessler, Chris Westling, and Greg Rosenthal.

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Speaker 1: What up, boys, Hey Dan, it's happening. I'm I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: And now all I can think about is the pressure

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Speaker 1: to deliver a high quality podcast, a lot of pressure,

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Speaker 1: and you know history doesn't suggest that will necessarily hit

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Speaker 1: things mumbled by the four of us before the podcast,

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Speaker 1: and that was the one thing you chose to wormed

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Speaker 1: point where, like last year, at this point is we

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Speaker 1: This is our big preview show of the upcoming football week,

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Speaker 1: where we get into every game on the schedule, a

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Speaker 1: preview of the mall, one by one, each game getting

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Speaker 1: it marinate within our souls. Um, so we're gonna get

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Speaker 1: get to that. But why don't we just right off

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Speaker 1: the top? Uh, Mark and West. You're going to stay

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Speaker 1: behind later today you're gonna watch the Thursday night game

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Speaker 1: between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Atlanta Falcons, and then

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Speaker 1: makes sense, all right, So let's do that alright. So

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Speaker 1: first two weeks this season, and Love E. Smith depleted

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Speaker 1: the scientist, Chris Westling, the mail man. What game jumps

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Speaker 1: tough they are. Then they have a lot of pride.

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Speaker 1: You know, We've seen teams that are winners, the old Yankees,

429
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Speaker 1: winners with Bernie Williams, Marianna Rivera. They expect to win

430
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Speaker 1: every time they see. Look, I'm not into your little

431
00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:39,439
Speaker 1: Red Sox Sorces Yankees thing. I'm just saying teams that

432
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Speaker 1: are winners and innately believed that they should win every game.

433
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Speaker 1: I think that's what the Seahawks are right. Don't forget

434
00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:51,159
Speaker 1: Steve Belboni, buddy Yankee, and they're talking at Royals. You're

435
00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:53,840
Speaker 1: talking about mental toughness. It's a great test of the

436
00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:57,600
Speaker 1: Broncos because if they fall down in this game in Seattle.

437
00:21:57,720 --> 00:21:59,800
Speaker 1: That's the toughest test that you could ever have, because

438
00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:02,159
Speaker 1: they're going to have those memories of when their dreams

439
00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:04,400
Speaker 1: were crushed back in February. To stick in that game,

440
00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:06,480
Speaker 1: I think we'll learn a little something. It's still Pete

441
00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:10,200
Speaker 1: Carroll versus John Fox too, That's true. John Fox got

442
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Speaker 1: horribly out coaching that Super Bowl. And and yeah, having

443
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Speaker 1: been in that stadium week one, I'm not gonna pick

444
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Speaker 1: against Seattle or that was an electric place to play.

445
00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:21,520
Speaker 1: I'm sure that that's, you know, the best home field

446
00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:23,359
Speaker 1: advantage in football right now. So I will never go

447
00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:27,080
Speaker 1: against the shame west of St. Louis West. Yeah, of course,

448
00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:30,960
Speaker 1: Edward James Dome is a special place, hollowed ground in

449
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Speaker 1: the NFL. I think it was. I think it was

450
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Speaker 1: Edward Jones, and I could be wrong, but I think

451
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Speaker 1: that company went out of business or something like that.

452
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Speaker 1: I would think it's no longer the stadium. I don't

453
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Speaker 1: think that's a child. I had some sort of low

454
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Speaker 1: level like fifteen twenty bucks saved in some Edward Jones

455
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Speaker 1: account that was supposed to pave the way, and it's

456
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Speaker 1: from your paper. I'm sorry, Edward. If you're out there.

457
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Speaker 1: I completely made it up. It's still the name of this.

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Speaker 1: Jones is listening to the podcast with a tier running

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Speaker 1: down his cheek. No different ends or maybe anyway. We

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Speaker 1: move forward. Now it's time for the segment that we

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Speaker 1: all love so much. Defend your hero, Defend your hero,

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Speaker 1: Defend your hero. We will start with the great Chris Westling,

463
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Speaker 1: who got excited and he said, I really think in

464
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Speaker 1: this Redskins Eagles game, one of those teams will win.

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Speaker 1: According to my notes, I didn't mark which one you picked.

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Speaker 1: Come on, what do you think is the hero? I'm

467
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Speaker 1: thinking most likely the Redskins are your pick. Nicely deduced,

468
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Speaker 1: Thank you very much, nailed it. You want some reasons,

469
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Speaker 1: I've got three great reasons. Number one, Nick Foles has

470
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Speaker 1: held the offense hostage through two games. The entire first

471
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Speaker 1: first game, he held him hostage. In the second game,

472
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Speaker 1: they didn't move the ball until they put the ball

473
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Speaker 1: and Darren sprawls his hands and it was all screen passes.

474
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Speaker 1: Folds has not played well. On the other hand, the

475
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Speaker 1: Redskins offense moves better with Kirk Cousins than the August

476
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Speaker 1: early September version of r G three. Kirk Cousins had

477
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Speaker 1: no problem moving the ball in the Jaguars, who everyone

478
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Speaker 1: believed were a frisky defense until that game. I didn't

479
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Speaker 1: think they were, but anyway, Third reason Redskins defense number

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Speaker 1: one in Football Outsiders dv o A right now. Part

481
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Speaker 1: of that is because they've played the Jaguars and the Texans.

482
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Speaker 1: Part of that is because Jason Hatcher is playing awesome.

483
00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:31,919
Speaker 1: Keenan Robinson is a major upgrade on Fletcher at middle linebacker.

484
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Speaker 1: They've got a lot of good things going on defense.

485
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Speaker 1: They actually have a little speed on their defense this year.

486
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Speaker 1: I like that Wesley has uh constructed a scenario where

487
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Speaker 1: he bets against Chip Kelly two times in six days

488
00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:48,520
Speaker 1: and goes into that's a fair point. Well, he got

489
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Speaker 1: very unlucky the other day. I mean that was a

490
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Speaker 1: game the Colts really gave away. They should have won.

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Speaker 1: That's true, West showing some large stones with this choice.

492
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Speaker 1: The Skins taken down the Eagle. I think the Redskins

493
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Speaker 1: are a much better team than than is conventionally believe.

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Speaker 1: I'm starting to think that people just believe because it

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Speaker 1: was against the Jaguars that are performing that dominant doesn't

496
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Speaker 1: mean anything but bad teams don't crush any NFL team

497
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Speaker 1: like that. That that was an eye opening performance by Washington,

498
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,480
Speaker 1: and they played pretty well on defense the first game.

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Speaker 1: You know, if it wasn't for the punt return block touchdown, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that would have been seven to seven in the first week. Well,

501
00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:29,680
Speaker 1: bad teams don't have ten sacks in the game either, right,

502
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Speaker 1: So I'm interested. I don't think it's that crazy. I

503
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Speaker 1: think it was a savvy pick. It feels like it's

504
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Speaker 1: one of those early season games that Okay, all right,

505
00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:39,479
Speaker 1: the NFC is gonna be a little different. The Eagles

506
00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:42,679
Speaker 1: have been severely outplayed in two different halves of the

507
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Speaker 1: first two games. Issue, right, And that's why I'd still

508
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Speaker 1: roll with Kelly and the Eagles, because they can win

509
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Speaker 1: when they're not at their best. You do figure they're

510
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Speaker 1: gonna play better. Well, you don't know Sean Jackson's even

511
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Speaker 1: gonna play. And they won't be coaching against Pep Hamilton's

512
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Speaker 1: this week, so that's that might be a problem for

513
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Speaker 1: they have Jim Haslett and a groan. So anyway, yes,

514
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Speaker 1: West was the only person to pick the Redskins, and

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Speaker 1: he has defended his hero and now as I look

516
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Speaker 1: a little closer I see that Chris Wesley has two

517
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Speaker 1: hero picks. Defend your hero. Get excited, America because Chris

518
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Speaker 1: Westling believes that the Buffalo Bills are going to protect

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Speaker 1: their home turf against the Chargers, a team of a

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Speaker 1: t L nominee and win it. And Chris Westling tell us,

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Speaker 1: why defend your hero? I think if any of you

522
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Speaker 1: guys have watched the Bills game on Game rewind, you'd

523
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Speaker 1: be taking them too. The Charges were impressive and beating

524
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Speaker 1: the Seahawks. I thought the Bills were even more impressive

525
00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:49,840
Speaker 1: and basically tearing apart the Dolphins their defense. I was skeptical.

526
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Speaker 1: I thought Patton was so good with him last year.

527
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Speaker 1: I thought Kiko Alonso was great, Jared's burb was great.

528
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Speaker 1: I thought they're gonna miss all those guys. This defense

529
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Speaker 1: can erasse the quarterback. They don't miss any time, and

530
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Speaker 1: they're sticky and coverage. They're always getting their hands on

531
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Speaker 1: the ball and coverage. Corey Graham had a great game,

532
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Speaker 1: uh Nickel, Robie, Seriously, they all they were all flying.

533
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 1: Aaron Williams, They're flying around the ball. They're a different team.

534
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Speaker 1: At home. That stadium was probably a little bit more

535
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Speaker 1: electric than Cleveland's, which also was I like everything about

536
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Speaker 1: the Bills at home right now. This it reminds me

537
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Speaker 1: a little bit of when they were two and o

538
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Speaker 1: a couple of years ago and had a big Week

539
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Speaker 1: three game. No one thought they were gonna win, and

540
00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:29,800
Speaker 1: they took out the Patriots with Ryan Fitzpatrick to go

541
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Speaker 1: three and oh, a start that no one remembers because

542
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:35,160
Speaker 1: it didn't go anywhere, and that's what happened. Buffalos had

543
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Speaker 1: some of these quick starts over the last two years.

544
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Speaker 1: Not that has anything to do with this team. Here's

545
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 1: the thing's a little interesting to me. They beat Jay

546
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:43,119
Speaker 1: Cutler in Week one, and you know, Jay Cutler, you

547
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:45,600
Speaker 1: can never figure that guy out. Beat Ryan Tannehill in

548
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:48,080
Speaker 1: Week two. Ryan Tannhill was another guy that's tough to

549
00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 1: figure out the stage Philip Rivers, you know, he's probably

550
00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:52,639
Speaker 1: gonna give you a good effort. He's gonna make some plays.

551
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 1: He's just they're coming off a great win over the

552
00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:57,440
Speaker 1: best team in the league. That's a much taller task

553
00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:00,320
Speaker 1: and I think it's gonna go back. E j Annual

554
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 1: is gonna have to make some plays the defense. I

555
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:04,000
Speaker 1: don't think he's gonna win this alone, and I just

556
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 1: I have yet I don't trust them yet. I still

557
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:07,920
Speaker 1: haven't seen enough this year to think that we can

558
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Speaker 1: now get behind ej Manuel as a quarterback of a

559
00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:13,199
Speaker 1: big time One thing to like about the Bill's offense

560
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:15,840
Speaker 1: they you know, Miami wrecked New England in that Week

561
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Speaker 1: one in terms of their pass rush against the Patriots

562
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,439
Speaker 1: line Bills didn't allow a sack against the Dolphins last week.

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00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:23,440
Speaker 1: E j Manuel looked pretty good last week, had a

564
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Speaker 1: couple of nice throws Sammy Watkins hold on to, but

565
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Speaker 1: it would have looked a lot nicer he had. He

566
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Speaker 1: had a perfect pass up the sideline to Sammy Watkins

567
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:33,440
Speaker 1: that Brent Grimes made a really nice play on or

568
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:35,680
Speaker 1: else that would have been a sixty yard touchdown. There's

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Speaker 1: another one too, uh. Watkins was running wide open across

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Speaker 1: the middlefield, right in front the end zone and ej

571
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:45,440
Speaker 1: Manuel missed him by about six inches. Sammy Watkins could

572
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Speaker 1: have had ten for a hundred and eighty or a

573
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Speaker 1: hundred and ninety three touchdowns instead of what he had eight, one,

574
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Speaker 1: seventeen and one. Well the bomb was I thought that

575
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 1: was more on Watkins. I thought it was Grimes made

576
00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:59,920
Speaker 1: a nice play. I mean, it wasn't EJ. Manuel's fault. No, no, no,

577
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Speaker 1: that was a very good But that's what he can't

578
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:05,560
Speaker 1: are they doing do they? Does that coaching staff deserve

579
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 1: some credit for I think absolutely, that's I mean, that's

580
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 1: what they're doing. They're coaching them up. They've completely turned

581
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Speaker 1: around their preseason. Remember how we were talking about and

582
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:17,720
Speaker 1: now they're one of the hottest teams. They're a team that,

583
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:22,719
Speaker 1: for what it's worth, the Statistical Analysis Crew likes a lot.

584
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 1: The Football Outsider says them as number three right now

585
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 1: so far in the NFL, and uh five thirty eight,

586
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:30,280
Speaker 1: who does these little rings now projects them to have

587
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:34,760
Speaker 1: nine wins. I do think that heavy Manuel will catch

588
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:36,360
Speaker 1: up to them eventually, But I don't think you can

589
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 1: keep building your offense on play action and not attack

590
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 1: teams down the field and not ever go no huddle.

591
00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 1: To me, I just I feel like you can hide.

592
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:49,240
Speaker 1: They're hiding him now, which is what this the forty

593
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 1: Niners used to do with Alex Smith a little bit.

594
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:53,520
Speaker 1: I don't know if Manuel's Alex Smith, I might have

595
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:55,680
Speaker 1: to assign myself this game. I mean it's good because

596
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,000
Speaker 1: I think the Chargers defense a lot more watchable than

597
00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:00,120
Speaker 1: it used to be too. I think Melvin Ingram was

598
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:02,840
Speaker 1: playing well. Dwight Freeney is playing really well for them,

599
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:04,680
Speaker 1: that they're better this year than they were a year

600
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:06,960
Speaker 1: ago too. For the people at home, Greg has we

601
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 1: each watch games on Sundays, and Greg has supreme power

602
00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:13,600
Speaker 1: deciding who watches what you guys, You guys, you get

603
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:15,800
Speaker 1: to watch the precious little Browns every week. You get

604
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 1: the Jets, and then we have a little draft picks

605
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:20,720
Speaker 1: sometimes or not. I was gonna say, I haven't seen

606
00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:22,920
Speaker 1: that draft pop up too often to see this. Yeah,

607
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 1: this year, you've just gotten it and have and I

608
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:26,920
Speaker 1: know your preference. I basically know what you guys want.

609
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:29,440
Speaker 1: You've been getting your Cowboy You like watching the Cowboys

610
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:32,120
Speaker 1: and the Giants for some reason, give me and I

611
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:35,200
Speaker 1: haven't watched the Cowboys game yet, but put me on

612
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:39,760
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. I love see Tony Romo. Finally, one more

613
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Speaker 1: hero pick. The forty nine is coming off that very

614
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:45,120
Speaker 1: bad loss on Sunday Night. Now travel to Arizona, Big

615
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:48,320
Speaker 1: Division showdown against the Cardinals team that probably does not

616
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 1: have Carson Palmer um as of taping this this nerve

617
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:55,840
Speaker 1: issue on his shoulder seems to be something they can't

618
00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 1: quite figure out. So it seems like Drew Stanton Stanton

619
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Speaker 1: could get a second straight start. Kevin Patra doubled up.

620
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 1: Not only did he was this a hero pick by

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Speaker 1: Kevin Patra? You also made him the durst Cell power pick?

622
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:10,360
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I get so. What is it when you

623
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:13,440
Speaker 1: have a hero pick and the power pick? We gotta

624
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:21,520
Speaker 1: think about that suggested night of drinking in Chicago. Perhaps

625
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 1: we'll lean on the listeners on Twitter to come up

626
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 1: with something what happens when those two things combined? Uh.

627
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:30,160
Speaker 1: Since Patra is not with us today, I will turn

628
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:33,479
Speaker 1: to the boss, the man that makes the schedule, however

629
00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 1: he sees fit, to defend Patra's hero defend his zero.

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00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:41,920
Speaker 1: The Cardinals are very good home team this year. They've

631
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 1: been better than some of their parts, which I believe

632
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 1: is a sign of good coaching. And they've got a

633
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:51,200
Speaker 1: lot of offensive talent and they're playing a forty Niners team.

634
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 1: I don't think we've figured out yet. I don't you know.

635
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 1: That first game against the Cowboys was great performance by Kaepernick,

636
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: but it was a little flukey everything that happened for

637
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:02,360
Speaker 1: them defensively. The next one against the Bears was a

638
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 1: very flukey game. They're still figuring out who they are.

639
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 1: I don't think there's some juggernaut team. Cardinals got lucky

640
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 1: to win against the Giants, as Dan explained so well

641
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 1: and Sunday Nights podcast that the Giants basically imploded. Cardinals

642
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 1: really didn't do anything to win it. Andrew Stanton didn't

643
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 1: do much after halftime last he didn't play well. Yeah,

644
00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 1: I don't know about I think the forty Niners are

645
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:26,880
Speaker 1: the more desperate team right now, and I think they're

646
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 1: the better team. I kept my Cardinals pick last week

647
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 1: even when we found out it was standing, but this

648
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 1: week because I just thought the Giants are good. But

649
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:34,960
Speaker 1: this week that's why I didn't take the Cardinals. I

650
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:37,840
Speaker 1: would pick them if Carson bomber Arizona sneaky, tough place

651
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 1: to win. Yeah, absolutely, Like what what, I don't know

652
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,200
Speaker 1: about the forty Niners yet. We just kind of assume

653
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 1: they're the same teams from a year ago there, but

654
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:51,160
Speaker 1: they're I don't think they're the same on defense. Moving forward, gentlemen,

655
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 1: we go through the rest of the games. Now. These

656
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:55,960
Speaker 1: games deserve our love, even if they don't have any

657
00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 1: special significance to them that you know makes them different.

658
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 1: They're still important football games. Then we start with the

659
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:06,720
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans and the Cincinnati Bengals. Well, this game is

660
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 1: not that important, not that important, but I will tell

661
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 1: you that the Bengals have looked very good even without

662
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 1: A J. Green for most of the Week two. They

663
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 1: played well. A J. Green is he playing this week?

664
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 1: What's going on with it? He was at practice on

665
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 1: Thursday trying it out. I probably won't know for sure

666
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 1: till Sunday. Marvin Lewis was kind of optimistic, which was

667
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 1: news to A. J. Green. Right, And they have a

668
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:28,680
Speaker 1: bye week next week, so you would you know they

669
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 1: might be cautious with it. But we'll see. Vontest perfect

670
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:35,000
Speaker 1: to two concussions in seven days. He was playing awesome

671
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 1: at linebacker, even better than last year when he led

672
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:39,920
Speaker 1: the NFL and tackles. If he can't play, that's another

673
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:42,440
Speaker 1: big loss. You know. We like it's easy to overlook

674
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 1: the Bengals, and we hype up the Seattle home field scenario.

675
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 1: Bengals ten straight wins at home. That's the Morton most

676
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 1: they've had in fifteen years, not including the most important one.

677
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 1: I understand not the playoffs, but I my issue with

678
00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:57,880
Speaker 1: Cincinnati is for me, just as a football fan, they've

679
00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 1: long been dull to watch. I just find them boring.

680
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:03,480
Speaker 1: But I think that Hugh Jackson, going back and watching

681
00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 1: the first two games, Hugh Jackson cannot be blamed with that.

682
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 1: This season, I think he's got that offense more interesting,

683
00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:13,439
Speaker 1: some interesting stuff because they've got Hugh Live Crew. What's

684
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 1: that Geo Bernard and Jeremy Hill. That's that's the name.

685
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:20,799
Speaker 1: That's the name. That's they're gonna sit on that crew

686
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:22,319
Speaker 1: if we go back to the lab with that one

687
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 1: Geo Bernard. By the way, that's there's already been a

688
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 1: mock to Live Crew uh band out there in the nineties,

689
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 1: and that was two Live Jews with the hit boy

690
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:35,000
Speaker 1: me so humid. I don't know if you guys remember

691
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:38,719
Speaker 1: I do remember that. I definitely don't remember that. Um,

692
00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:41,759
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe it's a culture thing I missed.

693
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:46,719
Speaker 1: By the way, did you know, gentlemen, I lost my

694
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:49,080
Speaker 1: train of thought. Now, Yeah, that's all that to Live

695
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 1: Jew talk. That'll do it you. Oh yeah, Geo Bernard

696
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:56,280
Speaker 1: rewatching the game. I think we talked about this on Sunday,

697
00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:58,279
Speaker 1: and perhaps that maybe he was touching the ball too much.

698
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:02,279
Speaker 1: Uh got over. There aready touches. If I recall thirty two,

699
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:05,799
Speaker 1: he looks amazing. He that guy is awesome. I knew

700
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 1: we knew that last year, but I he's electric. He

701
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 1: I mean, you could make a list shortlist of the

702
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:13,719
Speaker 1: most dynamic guys once you get the ball in their hands.

703
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:15,759
Speaker 1: He's got to be near the top. He's amazing. One

704
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 1: caveat to that. He is unstoppable in the passing game.

705
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:22,600
Speaker 1: He's averaged under three yards per carry over his last

706
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:25,440
Speaker 1: ten games. That's interesting, which is why they should go

707
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 1: to Jeremy Hill quite a bit. There was this ridiculous

708
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:30,960
Speaker 1: peace side of right in the spring, all these offseason

709
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:33,560
Speaker 1: stories about every player is gonna be amazing, and Jo

710
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 1: had this thing, I am going to have big plays.

711
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:38,760
Speaker 1: They've engineered this whole offense to get me open in space.

712
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:40,759
Speaker 1: Every player in the league is gonna get open in

713
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:44,120
Speaker 1: space in May. But he actually in the passing game,

714
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:45,560
Speaker 1: they have done a good job with that, and he

715
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:48,360
Speaker 1: breaks some tackles. He's a little stronger than you expect.

716
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 1: He jumps over people. Well, it's amazing how well they

717
00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:56,880
Speaker 1: played last week against Atlanta without effort Green and Marvin Jones,

718
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:59,200
Speaker 1: and yes, he's still pretty good. Should be saying anything

719
00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 1: about this tight tons not too much because we gotta

720
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 1: move on. I don't know who they are so figured

721
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 1: Jake Locker. It was the bad Jake Locker last week.

722
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:11,719
Speaker 1: And I don't know if these wide receivers get open.

723
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:14,879
Speaker 1: This Bengal secondary was on top of the Atlanta wide

724
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,400
Speaker 1: receiver crew. I mean, it's impressive how they coached these

725
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:19,760
Speaker 1: guys up because there are veterans that no one really wanted.

726
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 1: For the most part, both of the games and Bengals

727
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 1: have played, the dbs have been all over the wide receivers.

728
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:27,560
Speaker 1: Adam Jones, by the way, told the rookies get your

729
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:30,360
Speaker 1: money while you can. Oh yeah, it's it's at a.

730
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:32,759
Speaker 1: It's pac Man's first game against the Titans. If you

731
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:36,279
Speaker 1: were taking bets, you know, five or six, this would

732
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 1: be a weird bet. Anyways, but he was out of

733
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:40,200
Speaker 1: the league in two thousand nine. He had twelve run

734
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 1: ins with the law. Here he is in his tenth year.

735
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:44,800
Speaker 1: Your money was as long as a nice little role player.

736
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:47,640
Speaker 1: Stick it to the Titans, pac Man. Here's a good game.

737
00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:49,879
Speaker 1: And I'm surprised. I guess I'm a little surprised knowing

738
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:53,160
Speaker 1: highlighted it. But the Green Bay Packers, coming off the

739
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:56,840
Speaker 1: win against the Jets, head to Detroit to face the Lions.

740
00:36:57,360 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 1: The Lions had that great opening and then they came

741
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 1: down to Earth against the Panthers. So I got to

742
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:04,359
Speaker 1: one on one teams that have showed UM a lot

743
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:06,600
Speaker 1: in one game and not a lot in another. So

744
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:08,920
Speaker 1: maybe we're gonna see what these true teams, what their

745
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 1: true value is, or maybe maybe the home team will prevail.

746
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:13,359
Speaker 1: I don't know. How do you guys see this game

747
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:15,799
Speaker 1: playing out? This was the hardest game to pick. I thought,

748
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 1: I agree, I couldn't decide. I went with the Packers.

749
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:21,360
Speaker 1: I believe Mark was with me on Green Bay and

750
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 1: everyone else took Detroit, which I would have no problem

751
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:26,960
Speaker 1: with that home. Yeah, I still think the Lines are

752
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:29,839
Speaker 1: a good team, and I thought last week that game

753
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 1: could have easily gone in their favor. Their field goal

754
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:35,719
Speaker 1: kicker and missed two kicks, and the Calvin Johnson role

755
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:38,359
Speaker 1: came back to bite Kelvin Johnson again in the end zone.

756
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:40,759
Speaker 1: He should have had a touchdown. They moved the ball

757
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,759
Speaker 1: on a on a good defense. I think they've looked

758
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:46,239
Speaker 1: better than the Packers overall. I just I don't know.

759
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:48,360
Speaker 1: I had a hard time picking against Aaron Rodgers in

760
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 1: the division. We spent a lot of time talking about

761
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:54,359
Speaker 1: Green Bay's defense, you know, with such shorty that they

762
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:56,880
Speaker 1: were going to be so much tougher to deal with.

763
00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 1: But you know what, they're one of these teams that

764
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:02,640
Speaker 1: kept their coordinator around, and frankly, that operation looks no

765
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:04,839
Speaker 1: different to me. We've let Don Caper's off the hook

766
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 1: on this podcast while burying Jim Hanslett can doesn't think

767
00:38:12,719 --> 00:38:14,879
Speaker 1: I have. I have questioned him before. I think it's

768
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 1: but that was two years ago. I wrote about him

769
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 1: after they got bounced out of the playoffs. One year

770
00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 1: he came back. He's got nine lives, but you get

771
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:23,759
Speaker 1: the feeling that maybe this is his last chance. I

772
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:25,600
Speaker 1: don't know, it just kind of have a bit of

773
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:28,040
Speaker 1: a sessler that this might be it if they if

774
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:30,719
Speaker 1: they again lose another year of Rogers's prime because of

775
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:34,319
Speaker 1: defensive reasons. We'll see what happens. But yeah, as far

776
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 1: as this game goes, Greg and Mark chose the Packers

777
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 1: and West myself and Patrick picked the line. So very

778
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,719
Speaker 1: a split. That's a tough game to figure out. Yeah,

779
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 1: they have talent on their defense, it just doesn't seem

780
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:51,400
Speaker 1: like it's coming out. Clay Matthews has been quiet. Peppers

781
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:53,799
Speaker 1: played well last week. It wasn't tough for me. Mike

782
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:56,000
Speaker 1: Daniels are making the lead candidate had a great game

783
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:58,279
Speaker 1: last week. Yeah, I always that was who was? Did

784
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 1: we have two packers? Asn't making the Don Jones and

785
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:04,440
Speaker 1: Mike Daniel You always confused Mike Neil and Mike Daniels.

786
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:07,960
Speaker 1: But Dan Daniels is a much better player too. Oh,

787
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:11,799
Speaker 1: and two teams face off in Jacksonville. The Cults coming

788
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:14,239
Speaker 1: off a very bad loss at home on Monday night

789
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:18,040
Speaker 1: to the Eagles. Now go to Jacksonville, and uh, you

790
00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:20,319
Speaker 1: start owing three in the NFL and you're basically done.

791
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:23,600
Speaker 1: The numbers will back that up. You still have a shot, obviously,

792
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:25,799
Speaker 1: but once you get in that deep, it's very hard

793
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 1: to climb your way out. So both these teams need

794
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:32,239
Speaker 1: to win. Uh. The Jaguars have looked terrible through two games,

795
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 1: so I don't think there's any reason why we should

796
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:36,680
Speaker 1: think they're going to hold sir. But the Cults haven't

797
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:39,080
Speaker 1: been so great. Either, So I think it's maybe a

798
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:42,040
Speaker 1: closer game than some people think. But I think personally,

799
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:44,680
Speaker 1: I think the Cults take this. What happens when a

800
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:47,719
Speaker 1: team without a pass rusher squares off against a team

801
00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 1: without an offensive line? Hmmm, the world just employs ye Angels,

802
00:39:53,960 --> 00:40:00,560
Speaker 1: territory earth vacuum vacuum. In our conversation with well by

803
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 1: the way and excited Andrew Luck, it never lost back

804
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 1: to back games in his career before Monday. There's no

805
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:08,839
Speaker 1: way he loses three games in a row. Even if

806
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:10,400
Speaker 1: he has to carry this team on his back, I

807
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:12,279
Speaker 1: think he gets the job done well. I think if

808
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:15,280
Speaker 1: you're Jacksonville, you still have to look at this obviously

809
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 1: as a year where you're developing the whole program for

810
00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:21,360
Speaker 1: the Cults. Though, and just because of the division they're in,

811
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:24,960
Speaker 1: assumed to be soaring towards the playoffs with an incomplete

812
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:27,560
Speaker 1: roster just based on Andrew Luck and oh and three

813
00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:31,840
Speaker 1: team hasn't made the playoffs since the Bills. So if

814
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:35,480
Speaker 1: you go in three and you lose to Jacksonville, you're

815
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:38,240
Speaker 1: in hot water. Yeah, they had their two first games,

816
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:41,920
Speaker 1: haven't been that alarming, to be honest. In Denver, they

817
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,279
Speaker 1: played pretty well in the second half. It's a close game.

818
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:47,319
Speaker 1: They should have won the Eagles game against a good team.

819
00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:49,359
Speaker 1: The lack of the pass rush and just the lack

820
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:52,360
Speaker 1: of anything exciting defensively, I think it's going to be

821
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:54,920
Speaker 1: a problem, but not this week. It's It's interesting how

822
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:58,359
Speaker 1: two players can change a narrative. Trent Richardson was having

823
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:00,520
Speaker 1: his best game as a cool until he humbled and

824
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 1: then couldn't pick up a first down late in the game. Right,

825
00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:06,040
Speaker 1: But that's what pet Hamilton's said too, that this was

826
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:08,600
Speaker 1: Richardson's coming off one of his best games a cult

827
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 1: and we want to ride that. So one of his

828
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 1: best games as a cult he had seventy yards and

829
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:15,239
Speaker 1: two fumbles. Yeah, in New England you get benched for that. Yeah,

830
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:17,399
Speaker 1: yeah it was. I mean, he had some nice runs

831
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:20,840
Speaker 1: up the middle, but he was He's clearly not what

832
00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:22,680
Speaker 1: this is the one year anniversary, by the way of

833
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 1: Trent Richardson being traded to colds one of the great

834
00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:27,920
Speaker 1: trades and Brown's history mark well, and let's remember when

835
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 1: these things happened, how that was viewed for the first

836
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:33,239
Speaker 1: couple of months, that Cleveland is a fiery, you know,

837
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:36,320
Speaker 1: gigantic dumpster fire that doesn't know how to run a

838
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:40,759
Speaker 1: foot of the organization reward their front office for that trade. Well,

839
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:43,000
Speaker 1: they sent them packing. We were mixed on it, for

840
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 1: the record, we a couple, we were we were saying

841
00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:47,560
Speaker 1: it was a good move. I thought, I thought that

842
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:49,520
Speaker 1: the Colts made a great move when they traded for him,

843
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:51,560
Speaker 1: and I couldn't have been more wrong. Yeah, that was

844
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:54,600
Speaker 1: definitely the majority of view point on it. Uh moving forward.

845
00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:57,600
Speaker 1: The Patriots, who clearly there's something involved with the schedule

846
00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:00,919
Speaker 1: makers and the Patriots in bed together. The just coming

847
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:03,279
Speaker 1: off a Vikings game where they got determined by a

848
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:07,640
Speaker 1: formula of hears in advance figured out by Bill Belichick

849
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:11,719
Speaker 1: on the back of a Domino, after going up to

850
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:16,520
Speaker 1: Minnesota to face Matt Castle and the agent Peterson lists Vikings.

851
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 1: Now they get to come home and play who the Raiders?

852
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:25,440
Speaker 1: What did your team open the season again? Whatever? Well,

853
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:27,760
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people are predicting a Raiders

854
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:29,600
Speaker 1: upset here and saying it's going to be a really

855
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:33,360
Speaker 1: difficult lot of people Bill Belichick struggles against rookies and

856
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:36,120
Speaker 1: guys like Derek car But I go the other way.

857
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:39,400
Speaker 1: I think I think the Patriots are gonna win this convincingly.

858
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 1: You have guts on top of guts. The avant garde

859
00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:47,959
Speaker 1: Rosenthall just cannot be stopped. You picked New England, that's

860
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:50,960
Speaker 1: I'm just saying. They're a veteran team, and to me,

861
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:53,400
Speaker 1: you look at the Raiders, they're still figuring things out

862
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:55,400
Speaker 1: a lot of new free agents, young players. So you

863
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:57,680
Speaker 1: go with experience. Do you have a sessler that Tom

864
00:42:57,719 --> 00:43:00,399
Speaker 1: Brady might play well against the Oakland set and dry?

865
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:03,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna enjoy it. Actually, I'm not gonna watch this game.

866
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:05,959
Speaker 1: I don't assign myself the Patriots every week when they've

867
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:07,640
Speaker 1: got a real stinker of a game. One of you

868
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:12,319
Speaker 1: guys can have you gotta take this game. You gotta

869
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:14,320
Speaker 1: fall in this story. I'll take this game. Why not?

870
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:16,400
Speaker 1: It's not that it still could be interesting. I just

871
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:18,760
Speaker 1: take a few. I'll write my own special narrative about

872
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:22,759
Speaker 1: this one. Here's your narrative. The Raiders suck. Whoa hey,

873
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:29,399
Speaker 1: I didn't say Charles Woodson did the hanging up the phone.

874
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:32,520
Speaker 1: The league officer will never looks, Which is funny because

875
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:35,200
Speaker 1: all it took was two games to change what Lamar

876
00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:37,719
Speaker 1: Woodley and Maurice Jones Drew said about going to the

877
00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:41,600
Speaker 1: Super Bowl Now they suck. Didn't Derek car look competent

878
00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:45,080
Speaker 1: last week or reading that? And I didn't. I like

879
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:47,080
Speaker 1: watch the game this morning and I had no idea

880
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:50,600
Speaker 1: where that was coming from. The Raiders need to show

881
00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:52,160
Speaker 1: some life before they get a little more time on

882
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:55,759
Speaker 1: this podcast. Moving on the Minnesota Vikings, UH still without

883
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:58,960
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson, who, as we talked about yesterday, a p

884
00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 1: is the activated for god knows how long. Now head

885
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 1: to the Saints, UH playing the super Dome this this

886
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:08,160
Speaker 1: might even be a worse beating on the Raiders. Take

887
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:11,520
Speaker 1: That's how I feel. What do you guys think? Tough?

888
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:14,040
Speaker 1: Tough to beat the Saints at home when you've had

889
00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:16,600
Speaker 1: your best players stripped away? You know, if you're North Turner,

890
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:19,759
Speaker 1: this is an ugly case of deja vu because he

891
00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 1: was Cleveland's coordinator a year ago when in Week two

892
00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:26,239
Speaker 1: they lost their featured back and what that did lead

893
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:28,399
Speaker 1: to in Cleveland not two wins, but it did lead

894
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:31,400
Speaker 1: to having to completely rely on a passing game that

895
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:35,640
Speaker 1: when Hell's bells with Josh Gordon and Jordan Cameron. So

896
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:38,400
Speaker 1: you've got Cordarrell Patterson, You've got Kyle Rudolph. I think

897
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:41,279
Speaker 1: Rudolph's gonna see a ton of work, and they've got

898
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:44,360
Speaker 1: to basically lean on a wide receiver as one of

899
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:47,360
Speaker 1: their freakiest backfield options. And maybe a little bit of

900
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:50,640
Speaker 1: Jerick McKinnon along with our West's best friend Matt A

901
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:53,800
Speaker 1: couple of things on that. I was not surprised to

902
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 1: see Kyle Rudolph on the injury report this week with

903
00:44:56,080 --> 00:45:00,799
Speaker 1: abdominal injury. He was lumbering last week after he looked

904
00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:04,040
Speaker 1: faster than ever in August. So that note, and then

905
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:06,319
Speaker 1: Jared McKinnon. I think we'll see more of him this week.

906
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:08,640
Speaker 1: He's twenty three snaps last week after three in the

907
00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:10,880
Speaker 1: week one and one of the most freakish athletes in

908
00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 1: the NFL. Let's see if Matt khalil what I mean. Look,

909
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:17,840
Speaker 1: he's an offensive lineman, but he's he's the guy that

910
00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:21,280
Speaker 1: they expected to be a pillar and he got abused

911
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:23,120
Speaker 1: last week by Chandler Jones. Is gonna be a tough

912
00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:25,600
Speaker 1: matchup for him in the Superdome with all that noise.

913
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:27,360
Speaker 1: He's been pretty bad here for a year and a

914
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 1: half now. The around the NFL team isn't fully sold

915
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:34,600
Speaker 1: on the Houston Texans yet because they are going to

916
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:38,440
Speaker 1: the metal ends to face the Giants on Sunday, and uh,

917
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:44,000
Speaker 1: I believe myself and quest believe the Texans will win.

918
00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:46,879
Speaker 1: But we have three around the NFL writers who think

919
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:49,120
Speaker 1: the Giants will get on the board. So the the

920
00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:51,000
Speaker 1: Texans are looking to go three and oh, the Johns

921
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:53,920
Speaker 1: are looking to avoid going oh and three. Mark, I'll

922
00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:55,759
Speaker 1: ask you, why do you think the Giants get in

923
00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:58,160
Speaker 1: the wind column? Well, you guys talked about the Packers

924
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:00,400
Speaker 1: lines being the toughest game for you to pick, and

925
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:03,759
Speaker 1: that was tough. But this one, for me, I just

926
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:06,400
Speaker 1: went back and forth between the two. I don't really

927
00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:09,440
Speaker 1: have a convincing argument for New York except that I

928
00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:12,840
Speaker 1: think they beat themselves to a large degree last week. Houston.

929
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:15,839
Speaker 1: I you know, I had Houston up until the last minute.

930
00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:17,920
Speaker 1: So I can't sit here and give you a I

931
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:20,080
Speaker 1: can't sell you on New York. I'm sorry. Eli looked

932
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:22,440
Speaker 1: better last week. There's a reason he looked pretty good.

933
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:24,359
Speaker 1: I don't know. Eli Man needs no reason to make

934
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:26,440
Speaker 1: a major on a game. He did look better. They

935
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 1: finally moved the ball, but he also had two interceptions

936
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:31,360
Speaker 1: and what should have been a strip sack that was overruled.

937
00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:33,719
Speaker 1: One of the interceptions was just the last play the

938
00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:36,279
Speaker 1: game where they didn't make any difference they were down back,

939
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:38,000
Speaker 1: he played a lot better, and the other one was

940
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:40,399
Speaker 1: on a tip right, I believe I don't remember Tom

941
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:44,640
Speaker 1: Coughlin probably going to the Hall of Fame, right, borderline, borderline.

942
00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:47,600
Speaker 1: It's hard for coaches to get in, and the Texans

943
00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:50,400
Speaker 1: are a much better coach team right now. They have

944
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:53,680
Speaker 1: really not made mistakes in their first two games. They're

945
00:46:53,719 --> 00:46:56,839
Speaker 1: moving the ball well, they're playing solid defense. I think

946
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:59,080
Speaker 1: they're just a better team than the Giant. I picked

947
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:02,319
Speaker 1: it kind of or the reason that west uh might

948
00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:03,960
Speaker 1: have picked him last week, and he likes to use

949
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:07,520
Speaker 1: just the boomerang effect that in the end, these teams,

950
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:09,879
Speaker 1: to me, neither one of them is a winless type

951
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 1: of team, and neither one of them is an undefeated

952
00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:15,160
Speaker 1: type of team. New York really needs this win badly,

953
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:17,759
Speaker 1: and I just figure they're gonna stay in the mix

954
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:20,359
Speaker 1: at least and find a way to get it. By

955
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 1: the way. Number one in the nf I know we

956
00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:26,000
Speaker 1: love yards per tempt around these parts. Uh. Interesting This

957
00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:30,680
Speaker 1: comes from Burger down downstairs. Number one in the league

958
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:32,839
Speaker 1: right now, Andy Dalton through one game, with two games,

959
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:36,520
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick number two in yards per tempt so far. Yes,

960
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:39,080
Speaker 1: Jason Pierre Paul what he was scared of when it

961
00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:44,400
Speaker 1: came to the Houston Texans. One word response, nothing, JPP

962
00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:51,080
Speaker 1: has gotta piped out. One note on your little Burger stat. Yes,

963
00:47:51,360 --> 00:47:53,400
Speaker 1: that's let that be a lesson to you about taking

964
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:55,080
Speaker 1: too much out of the first two weeks of the season.

965
00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:58,400
Speaker 1: Has Michael Burger gone Madonna on us? Is he just Burger?

966
00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:01,880
Speaker 1: At this point? I mean the the top four players

967
00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:04,440
Speaker 1: right now in QBR on ESPN, which I think is

968
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:07,399
Speaker 1: a great stat. And granted again it's only two weeks

969
00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:09,399
Speaker 1: and some of these guys only played one. Number one,

970
00:48:09,640 --> 00:48:13,240
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins, number two, Peyton Manning, number three, Derrick Anderson,

971
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:18,319
Speaker 1: number four, Ryan Fitzpatrick. So that's after two weeks fitz

972
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:23,279
Speaker 1: he playing decent though not killing you some credit. I

973
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:25,440
Speaker 1: don't think anybody thought he was gonna be uh the

974
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:28,720
Speaker 1: guy that was keeping him in games. Alright, Moving forward,

975
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:33,439
Speaker 1: two games left, gentleman, the Dallas Cowboys heading to St.

976
00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:36,200
Speaker 1: Louis to face the Rams. Rams who came up with

977
00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:40,239
Speaker 1: that nice win Uh in Tennessee. Uh, you know, tell

978
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:42,120
Speaker 1: everybody to shut up after they got beat up at

979
00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:44,799
Speaker 1: home and they open against the Vikings Cowboys bounced back.

980
00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:47,799
Speaker 1: Tony Romo we talked about on Wednesday's podcast maybe hasn't

981
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:50,640
Speaker 1: looked himself so far and excused himself from practice and

982
00:48:50,680 --> 00:48:53,440
Speaker 1: Wednesday with some back stiffness. So it'll be very interesting.

983
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:56,319
Speaker 1: That's to me what I'm really interested seeing how Romo looks,

984
00:48:56,360 --> 00:49:00,520
Speaker 1: and that's why I'm personally requesting to watch Sunday than Davis.

985
00:49:00,640 --> 00:49:02,920
Speaker 1: Fireworks show didn't get ready for Ross and Davis, so

986
00:49:03,080 --> 00:49:04,960
Speaker 1: we all picked the Cowboys in West. You made this

987
00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:08,880
Speaker 1: your duras Cell Great Battery Giant power pick. Yes, I

988
00:49:09,160 --> 00:49:12,279
Speaker 1: agree with Greg that Romo has not looked good. He's

989
00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:14,320
Speaker 1: probably looked worse than he has any point in his career.

990
00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:18,080
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily believe that means he's gonna look bad

991
00:49:18,239 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 1: every week the rest of the way. I'm I have

992
00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:22,360
Speaker 1: a little more faith in him than I do in

993
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:25,360
Speaker 1: Austin Davis, who did look good, who moved the offense.

994
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:28,600
Speaker 1: But to me, he's a backup quarterback. He certainly does

995
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:30,880
Speaker 1: not have an NFL arm. If I'm if I'm the

996
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:34,719
Speaker 1: Cowboys and Romo isn't necessarily a hundred percent at this point.

997
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:38,439
Speaker 1: The Bucks of all teams slashed the Rams last week

998
00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:41,040
Speaker 1: on the ground hundred and forty four yards or Bobby

999
00:49:41,160 --> 00:49:44,759
Speaker 1: Rainey DeMarco Murray, I don't stop him running all day long.

1000
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:46,480
Speaker 1: You just unleashed the guy. Do you know how many

1001
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 1: yards DeMarco mary has averaged in two career games versus

1002
00:49:50,239 --> 00:49:52,680
Speaker 1: the Rams. Well, I was told downstairs that we are

1003
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:58,880
Speaker 1: not to point to teams or players record versus that was.

1004
00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:02,799
Speaker 1: That was fantasy, that was It wasn't the right at us.

1005
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:05,800
Speaker 1: This is more about how DeMarco DeMarco Murray is running

1006
00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:07,960
Speaker 1: as well now as any running back in the NFL,

1007
00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:11,320
Speaker 1: and I believe he's averaged over two hundred yards in

1008
00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:13,160
Speaker 1: his two games versus the Rams in his career. This

1009
00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:14,960
Speaker 1: was one of the toughest games. I really wanted to

1010
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:16,960
Speaker 1: take the Rams because I had a feeling, all you sheep,

1011
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:19,880
Speaker 1: we're gonna go with the big flashy star in Dallas.

1012
00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:25,120
Speaker 1: But that was why, all right, I've just shots for fun.

1013
00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:29,400
Speaker 1: I couldn't. I couldn't bear my to take the Rams

1014
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:32,920
Speaker 1: after watching Bobby Rainey, you know, running through the Rams

1015
00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:35,360
Speaker 1: that This isn't really that tough of defense, So I

1016
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:37,600
Speaker 1: went with your point. I just think that Marco Murray

1017
00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:40,160
Speaker 1: will go for toft. It would be more imposing to

1018
00:50:40,360 --> 00:50:43,239
Speaker 1: face the Rams in the St. Louis Library than the

1019
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:48,319
Speaker 1: environment they've created for football games. You're talking about the edge, James.

1020
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:54,920
Speaker 1: Don't the guy like I built a palace. It's a football.

1021
00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:58,640
Speaker 1: There's a real, very realistic possibility of the Rams are

1022
00:50:58,640 --> 00:51:01,120
Speaker 1: two and one after all this nonsense. I mean, you

1023
00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:02,920
Speaker 1: have you guys have to admit this is almost a

1024
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:07,439
Speaker 1: coin flip type of game. The Cowboys aren't. That's true.

1025
00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:09,759
Speaker 1: I guess you won't admit that. A lot of McClain, though,

1026
00:51:10,239 --> 00:51:13,279
Speaker 1: uh early comeback Player of the Year favorite, it might

1027
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:15,759
Speaker 1: not play in this game. Yeah, what's going on with him?

1028
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:21,000
Speaker 1: He missed practice too. Finally, the Kansas City Chiefs head

1029
00:51:21,040 --> 00:51:24,319
Speaker 1: to Miami and to play the Dolphins, and I thought

1030
00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:27,560
Speaker 1: this was interesting. Ryan Tannehill, who has not played very well,

1031
00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:30,960
Speaker 1: not played terribly necessarily, but not not great football at

1032
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:33,040
Speaker 1: all and doesn't seem to be progressing through two weeks,

1033
00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:36,200
Speaker 1: came out and acknowledged it, uh and said, I haven't

1034
00:51:36,239 --> 00:51:37,960
Speaker 1: been putting the ball in the right spot. I haven't

1035
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:39,920
Speaker 1: been on my best and it's got to change. It's

1036
00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:42,840
Speaker 1: got to change fast. He's right about that. Greg. Do

1037
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:45,719
Speaker 1: you see Tannehill get first of all, playing well in

1038
00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:47,680
Speaker 1: this game or and do you see him being better

1039
00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:50,320
Speaker 1: this year than he was last year? Or is he plateaued? No?

1040
00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:52,040
Speaker 1: I think he will be better because he's in a

1041
00:51:52,160 --> 00:51:55,480
Speaker 1: better offensive system overall that can run the ball. And

1042
00:51:55,600 --> 00:51:57,400
Speaker 1: I definitely think will be better this week because I

1043
00:51:57,400 --> 00:51:59,799
Speaker 1: don't think the chief secondary is very good. And that's

1044
00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:02,560
Speaker 1: why I made it my power picked last week. They

1045
00:52:02,640 --> 00:52:07,480
Speaker 1: did no, they didn't know not what Chiefs played well.

1046
00:52:07,719 --> 00:52:09,880
Speaker 1: The Chiefs played well as a team, but they didn't

1047
00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:12,520
Speaker 1: play well on defense. They just played keep away. I mean,

1048
00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:15,920
Speaker 1: manning through nine and a half yards per attempt, three touchdowns,

1049
00:52:16,280 --> 00:52:18,160
Speaker 1: and they scored. I mean, they made some plays in

1050
00:52:18,239 --> 00:52:20,800
Speaker 1: the second half, but any I don't believe in this

1051
00:52:20,880 --> 00:52:24,480
Speaker 1: Chief's defense long term at all. If if Matt Castle's

1052
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:27,160
Speaker 1: fatal flaw is that he's incapable of throwing a touch pass,

1053
00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:31,000
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill's fatal flow is that he can't convert third downs.

1054
00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:33,360
Speaker 1: He's one of the worst in the NFL since he

1055
00:52:33,480 --> 00:52:35,640
Speaker 1: entered the league in that and he was terrible at

1056
00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:38,359
Speaker 1: it again at Buffalo last week. On the other hand,

1057
00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:41,040
Speaker 1: I still think Alex Smith is a He's playing better

1058
00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:43,000
Speaker 1: over the last ten games. It wasn't his fault they

1059
00:52:43,080 --> 00:52:45,239
Speaker 1: lost last week. He played well. They need to get

1060
00:52:45,280 --> 00:52:47,720
Speaker 1: the ball to Travis Kelsey and they need to increase

1061
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:50,160
Speaker 1: his snaps. Jamal Charles is a major guy to watch two.

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Speaker 1: He is the high ankle spring but he's practicing. But

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Speaker 1: you don't know, you know if he's gonna be Jamal

1064
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Speaker 1: Charles if he's on the field. We talked about oh

1065
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Speaker 1: and three. By the ways, you're pretty much finished, so

1066
00:52:59,560 --> 00:53:01,800
Speaker 1: there's got to be maybe a little added urgency on

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Speaker 1: the chief side at oh and two going into Miami.

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00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:06,800
Speaker 1: It's gonna be hot in Miami, I would assume, so

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Speaker 1: a tough game. Yeah, Cameron Wake, meet Eric Fisher and

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Speaker 1: you might as well just bring the clown suit with

1071
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Speaker 1: you on the way to the same number one overall

1072
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Speaker 1: pick you're talking about. I just think you should say

1073
00:53:18,160 --> 00:53:19,960
Speaker 1: he was okay in the run game last week, but

1074
00:53:20,120 --> 00:53:23,600
Speaker 1: still cannot protect Alex Pit. All right, that's it for

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Speaker 1: the preview four. Week three will be back on Sunday

1076
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Speaker 1: night to go over once again, all the games from

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Speaker 1: week three and look ahead to Monday night. So that

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Speaker 1: is it and get get excited for that. People and gentlemen,

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Speaker 1: great work this week, Thanks you and really were terrific.

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Speaker 1: You're the m v P this week. You know, let's

1081
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Speaker 1: stop it, Greg because you're the best and you're a boss. No,

1082
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Speaker 1: the boss. Alight. That's it, all right until next week.

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Speaker 1: This is Stan Hansas signing up at the Sizzler, the Mailman,

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Speaker 1: the Boss and t D behind the glass. It's so

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