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Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL podcast. He is part of the

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Speaker 1: Marvel Cinematic universe. Welcome back to another addition of the

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Speaker 1: Around the NFL Podcast. My name is Dan Hanzas, and

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Speaker 1: I am joined by a room filled with heroes. Mark Sessler,

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Speaker 1: Chris Westling and Greg Rosa. Thought what up, boys can

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Speaker 1: all hyped up about Marvel products And what's kind of

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Speaker 1: NuRD tree was that? Guys? Guys, Come on, I'm just

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Speaker 1: world Marvel trailer. Real world just dropped, okay, and I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm helping you guys. You pend that money I did?

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Speaker 1: thought I'll bring it back since it was time a dressing. Mark.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. Thank you, Control, Yeah, thank you for joining

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Speaker 1: us today. You run a Ferris Bueller type day off

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Speaker 1: seems like we're heading in a certain direction with you

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Speaker 1: Gret your thoughts about this with mid season reviews coming up,

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Speaker 1: employer reviews. Yeah, no, you don't want to be You

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Speaker 1: five years of the show. Friends. You frame it, what

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Speaker 1: the defeat ones. What is that? You know? Like all

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Speaker 1: one of the definitive sitcoms of the We have a

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Speaker 1: up the Thursday night game, of course, the Thursday night

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Dan, and welcome to Around the NFL Podcast.

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Speaker 1: After Arc Here in a dim studio sixties six, just

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Speaker 1: a winning rod. Let's move forward from that. Well, they

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Speaker 1: also what are they rely on right now? They were

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Speaker 1: a team that you talked about the defense and the

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Speaker 1: offensive line. Andre Smith, who Chris Collins was talking about

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Speaker 1: as the best right tack on the league, has gotten

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Speaker 1: thrown around like worked worked. I mean he got thrown around.

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Speaker 1: Andy Dalton, I swear did not really have that bad

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Speaker 1: of a game. It was just that the entire offense

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Speaker 1: around him was so wildly dominated that no quarterback, you know,

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Speaker 1: save maybe a top five guy, was gonna do anything.

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Speaker 1: That week. They had twenty one yards in the first

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Speaker 1: twenty four plays something like that, And really it wasn't Dalton.

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Speaker 1: It was everybody out and one thing about are they

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Speaker 1: okay without Green? They were starting to learn that. Scoring

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Speaker 1: thirty seven points, which is what they did against Caroline

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Speaker 1: without Green the week before, is what every team is

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Speaker 1: doing against Carolina's defense. Right now, we'll see And even

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Speaker 1: though you know you picked the Bengals by the way, right,

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Speaker 1: yeah said, I'm fine with that, alright, I'm rolling with

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Speaker 1: the hands is on this. Wee just wait until Sunday night.

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Speaker 1: Don't in the words the guy in the purple and

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Speaker 1: the guy that got very dressed up for the podcast

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Speaker 1: will be eating the words, alright. Moving forward, the Philadelphia

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Speaker 1: Eagles head to Arizona to play the Cardinals. Got another

449
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Speaker 1: good home team, the Cardinals, but this is a matchup

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Speaker 1: where the Cardinals maybe haven't been that impressive overall and

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Speaker 1: uh and getting out to a nice start the season.

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Speaker 1: The Eagles, on the other hand, are coming off there

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Speaker 1: by I believe right five and one, Uh, this is

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Speaker 1: a very competitive game. So to five and one teams?

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Speaker 1: What do you guys think? I feel like, what's so funny? No,

456
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Speaker 1: this is very well said, good intro to the game.

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Speaker 1: Let's proceed. I feel like I've picked each of these

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Speaker 1: two teams wrong every single week of the year, and

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Speaker 1: I probably will pick it wrong again this year. This

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Speaker 1: week I picked the Cardinals because they're so good at home,

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Speaker 1: but I'm not convinced they're better than the Eagles. No.

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Speaker 1: I think the Eagles we don't know if their offensive

463
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Speaker 1: line is going to be all the way back for

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Speaker 1: this game, but they did have some guys back at

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Speaker 1: practice this week, Jason Kelsey and Evan Mathis, and I

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Speaker 1: think that performance against New York before they went to

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Speaker 1: their by was enough to convince me that they're kind

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Speaker 1: of turning the corner. I I like the Cardinals, but

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Speaker 1: I think they're kind of a fraudulent five and one team,

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Speaker 1: and the Eagles are a legitimate content about fraudulent. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I I don't to be honest, I have no virtual

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Speaker 1: memory of who I picked in this game, but I

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Speaker 1: hope I picked Arizona because they've earned my trust at home.

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Speaker 1: How are the Eagles not a fraudulent five? They were?

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Speaker 1: And that's why I haven't been able to thank you

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Speaker 1: for asking Greg about that. Now you're right, uh, And

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Speaker 1: you don't believe in their quarterback. I don't they Cardinals

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Speaker 1: have a better quarterback in this game. People saying that

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Speaker 1: Carson Palmer's arm strength is diminished after the shoulders, I

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Speaker 1: don't see it. He looked and he looks fine. He

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Speaker 1: looked better this week, the week before and his first

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Speaker 1: game back, it was but even then completing some passes

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Speaker 1: deep out yards down the field that that's what you

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Speaker 1: need your quarterback to do. So I don't think his

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Speaker 1: arms was a problem the week before. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I don't trust this defense, and I think the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: defense and the Cardinals eventually all the lack of talent

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Speaker 1: that they have right now and what they've lost has

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Speaker 1: to show up. That's what I say every week, and

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Speaker 1: I get burned. I'm not sure I really trust Philadelphia's

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Speaker 1: defense either though. I mean this is this is a

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Speaker 1: hard one to pick for the fact that there isn't

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Speaker 1: that dominant group against total weakness. I think it's gonna

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Speaker 1: go right down to the end. West, you took the Cardinals.

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Speaker 1: Why do you think they would coin flip hashtag analysis?

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Speaker 1: Just just because their home and they play so much

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Speaker 1: better at home than they do on the road. My

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Speaker 1: favorite part of the week is when Mark learns, what

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Speaker 1: who did you think you picked? I think I picked

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Speaker 1: Arizona and switched it to Philly. It looks like you

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Speaker 1: might have got this right. Eagles are your pick, patra

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Speaker 1: Cessler and Greg, I'll picked the Eagles, West and I

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Speaker 1: took the Cardinals. So another split right there? Not feeling

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Speaker 1: good about that one. This one could be interesting, all right,

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Speaker 1: So let's move on to the part of the Thursday

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Speaker 1: show where we we talk about you know, we all

507
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Speaker 1: make our picks, and sometimes one of us is on

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Speaker 1: an island, an island all alone. They pick a team

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Speaker 1: they believe in him. They're the only one. We call

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Speaker 1: this segment Defend your Hero, Defend your Hero and this

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Speaker 1: is really it's going to be an exciting defend your hero.

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Speaker 1: Mark Sessler back in the saddles to two killer hero picks.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna get to but why don't we start first

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Speaker 1: with Kevin Patra, who is obviously not with us, but

515
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Speaker 1: we're gonna have Chris Westling step in two Patrick's shoe

516
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Speaker 1: is Uh. Patrick probably at a gym somewhere getting yoked.

517
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Speaker 1: That's what he does and working out his aggression that

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Speaker 1: that's one of the things he does. Yeah, one of

519
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Speaker 1: the things, one of the many things. But anyway, so

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Speaker 1: the New York Jets have lost every game they've played

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Speaker 1: since Week one. Uh. They just acquired Percy Harvin, who's

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Speaker 1: gonna be in the mix at least on special teams

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Speaker 1: and maybe a little bit on offense. Uh. They are

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Speaker 1: now hosting the Buffalo Bills, who are four and three,

525
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Speaker 1: a surprise team. They're winning. They're winning, uh, perhaps lucky,

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Speaker 1: but they're winning. Kevin Patra took the team that's winning,

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Speaker 1: lucky over the team that's sliding, and he was the

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Speaker 1: only one to take the Bills. So I ask you,

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Speaker 1: Chris Westling, the Mailman defense Patrick's hero. Well, this is easy.

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Speaker 1: Every week. The Bills have the more consistent quarterback, they

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Speaker 1: have the best offensive weapon in the game, and Sammy

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Speaker 1: Watkins they have. The Jets are supposed to have a

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Speaker 1: better defensive line, but they don't. The Bills do. To me,

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Speaker 1: the Bills have a stronger team by the way, Greg,

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Speaker 1: you did. And this isn't really your fault, but because

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Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of people react the same

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Speaker 1: way when when West said that they have the more

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Speaker 1: consistent quarterback play, you went oof. But it's a painful

539
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:16,680
Speaker 1: world you're living in when Kyle what Kyle Lorton, as

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00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:19,080
Speaker 1: much as we all have our fun with him, is

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Speaker 1: doing a job. He's not playing base fine, but it's

542
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Speaker 1: a bad sign for your organization when a guy signed

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Speaker 1: out of retirement a month ago is more consistent than

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Speaker 1: your future quarterback. Well but once, I mean, they're throwing

545
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Speaker 1: ninety more yards per game with Orton and he's they're

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Speaker 1: playing a defense that's given up more points six games

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Speaker 1: in a row. I don't know why I checked the Jets. Well,

548
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Speaker 1: they almost just beat the Patriots in New England. They're

549
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Speaker 1: they're not playing They're not a good team. You know.

550
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Speaker 1: I've been pounding the table with that all year long,

551
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Speaker 1: but they're not quite this bad. I don't think they're

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Speaker 1: really a one in six team, and I think they

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Speaker 1: play the Bills well at home, and I just see

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Speaker 1: this being a game. I feel very confident, so confident

555
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Speaker 1: in fact, that it is my dirt a cell, which

556
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:03,800
Speaker 1: is an amazing, amazing battery, very strong battery company. The

557
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:06,520
Speaker 1: life of that battery is outrageous. I picked this is

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Speaker 1: my lock of the week. I think the Jets will

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Speaker 1: get back into the wind column over the Bills at home.

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Speaker 1: I feel very confident about it, and I and I

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Speaker 1: have a sessler that we will see a impact Percy

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Speaker 1: Harvin special teams play. M Can I take off my

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Speaker 1: patrack hattan put my own hat back. I think the

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Speaker 1: Jets will win despite what I just forget everything I

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Speaker 1: just said two minutes ago. The Jets will win, and

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Speaker 1: I I mean, look look at their offense. They go

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Speaker 1: from David Nelson and T. J. Graham at wide receiver

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Speaker 1: to Eric Decker and Percy Harvy. And let's not make

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Speaker 1: Kyle Orton into uh, you know, Johnny Unitus or anything.

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Speaker 1: They had ten points against the Vikings in about twelve drives,

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Speaker 1: and one of those was a short field where they

572
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Speaker 1: only had to make one play, so they essentially their

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Speaker 1: first ten drives against the Vikings at home last week

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Speaker 1: amounted to three point It's in a short field touchdown.

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Speaker 1: It's not like the Bill's offense to me, has been great.

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Speaker 1: It's if they don't have a running game. They're injured

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Speaker 1: at running back. Even when they had Spiller and Jackson,

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00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,320
Speaker 1: they weren't really running the ball very well. There's been

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Speaker 1: a lot of debate in the fantasy football community about

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Speaker 1: Anthony Dixon versus Bryce Brown. You don't trade a mid

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Speaker 1: round draft pick for Bryce Brown and then have both

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Speaker 1: starting running backs go out and not even play him.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is exactly why they traded for him,

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Speaker 1: because they knew Spiller was a free agent and they

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Speaker 1: wanted to see if if Brown could become that role

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Speaker 1: in two thousand and fifteen. To me, it's a no brainer.

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Speaker 1: Bryce Brown should get more of the work over the

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Speaker 1: next month. This is one of those hero picks that

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00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:40,400
Speaker 1: annoys me though, you know, I'd like to just change

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Speaker 1: my pick to the Bills, just despite well Well and

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Speaker 1: Greg we had we had an early I M conversation

592
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Speaker 1: and we almost did exactly that, and we didn't. And

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but Greg, you and I were both

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Speaker 1: on the same page twenty four hours ago. I thought

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Speaker 1: that this seems to be shaping up with That's why

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00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:58,520
Speaker 1: I took the Jets. I wasn't waffling on it or anything.

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Speaker 1: I just I just don't like it when a four

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Speaker 1: and three team has a hero pick against the one

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00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:04,960
Speaker 1: in six team. That's fair. That's a very fair point.

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Speaker 1: All right, all right, now let's get it too sessless picks.

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Speaker 1: We'll start with the one that is a little less controversial.

602
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:13,800
Speaker 1: What Mark did. He took two teams and this will

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Speaker 1: be a spoiler for the second game that are one

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Speaker 1: in twelve combined on the season. But he's got a

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Speaker 1: both win in this week. And we'll start with the

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Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars, who coming off a big win or there's

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00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:28,760
Speaker 1: some connective tissue here actually over the Cleveland Browns last week.

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Speaker 1: Now they're gonna beat the Miami Dolphins, Mark says, who

609
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:36,959
Speaker 1: have played very well. Actually since Ryan Tannehill has kind

610
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:40,920
Speaker 1: of put his game back together after Joe Philman's genius

611
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 1: motivational ploy to not name him starter ahead of the

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Speaker 1: London game. Mark, you think the Jaguars will win two

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Speaker 1: straight after losing their first six. You think the Dolphins

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Speaker 1: will once again stub their toe, Please defend your hero.

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Speaker 1: Couple reasons for this thinking. Number one, not everything is logical,

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Speaker 1: so let's start right there. And I'm not I'm not

617
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Speaker 1: gonna eight every mathematical turn to this thing. But well,

618
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 1: because it's that's a hero, sons, just you're you just

619
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Speaker 1: get a feeling, right but rewatching the Jacksonville Browns game

620
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Speaker 1: the godfather of feelings. It well, then often they're incorrect

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Speaker 1: and that could be happening led you to a first

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Speaker 1: place right now? So far lead in the pack out

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Speaker 1: Jacksonville's defense. I saw another game behind by the way,

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Speaker 1: who he says he's going to overtake me, But now

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00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:30,440
Speaker 1: eight games I liked Dan. Now he told me he

626
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:33,320
Speaker 1: now no longer cares if he wins the competition. He

627
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 1: just wants to bury first place person. Now, all right, well,

628
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Speaker 1: you got to care about this Jacksonville game because this

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Speaker 1: is your chance to back in the first place. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I care. Nice trying to get back to the discussion here,

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Speaker 1: so uh, I mean for me, Jacksonville's defense against the

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Speaker 1: run has done a very nice job. Three of the

633
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Speaker 1: last four weeks surprisingly good, and their secondary, especially their safeties,

634
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Speaker 1: did an excellent job against Cleveland, shutting down their past

635
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 1: in game last week. Miami point to is one of

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Speaker 1: the more inconsistent teams in the league, and you'll go

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Speaker 1: do what they did last week, and because of that,

638
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 1: will go pick him to win a second one. I

639
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 1: don't think so. Jackson is going to take this something

640
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:17,640
Speaker 1: interesting because your boy, Bill Laser his clearly has made

641
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 1: some strides. He were Tannehill coming together. Here is what

642
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 1: he's done. And I wrote a post about this today

643
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:26,080
Speaker 1: on around the NFL. They they've cut down and downfield

644
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:28,760
Speaker 1: passing because Tannehill can't do it. They've shrunk the field

645
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 1: and the results are there. He has Tannehill in his

646
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 1: past three games is completed sevent his passes for eight yards,

647
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 1: six touchdowns, three picks. He has three straight games. They're

648
00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:40,480
Speaker 1: even running some read option. He has thirty five yards

649
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 1: or more in the last three games. The guys moving

650
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:45,040
Speaker 1: the ball, they know how to use them potentially Now

651
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:49,400
Speaker 1: the Laser he was, your boy, looks like he's making

652
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:53,520
Speaker 1: some real progress. Not this weekend, I don't I don't

653
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 1: even think it's the short field as much as they're

654
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 1: giving him quick read and he doesn't have to read

655
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 1: the field as much that I think that's what the princess.

656
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 1: And when when he does have to read the field,

657
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:05,040
Speaker 1: he's getting a lot of time to do. So. I

658
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:08,080
Speaker 1: mean that touchdown to Mike Wallace last week. He had

659
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 1: about ten seconds back there and he goes from left

660
00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 1: to right and he goes to about his third or

661
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 1: fourth option was Wallace for the touchdown. One of the

662
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:17,960
Speaker 1: turnarounds of the season no one wants to talk about

663
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 1: because it's not exactly like a fun, happy go lucky story.

664
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 1: Is the Miami offensive line completely completely rebuilt from the

665
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 1: embarrassment of last year, and they're playing really well run

666
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:32,480
Speaker 1: blocking and past blocking that this weekend we shall see.

667
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:34,120
Speaker 1: So that is the first year old pick. By the way,

668
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:36,560
Speaker 1: when I was talking to West about the standings, the

669
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 1: look in his eye is the same look when someone

670
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 1: challenges him in the cornhole ranks, and he has that

671
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 1: look of fire and desire. I could see it vanquishment.

672
00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:48,200
Speaker 1: The difference is he always wins at cornhole and it's

673
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:51,600
Speaker 1: a lot of weeks, a lot of a lot of

674
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 1: take my chance. At this point, I'd be lying. If

675
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:56,960
Speaker 1: I said I felt more confident right now about these

676
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 1: games and I do it about feeding anyone in l

677
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,120
Speaker 1: A and corn what a player, I would honestly say,

678
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 1: not to get to sidetrack, but West. If I had

679
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 1: to pick one person in the entire Los Angeles County

680
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:10,960
Speaker 1: to play cornhole and be victorious, it would be Chris Wesling.

681
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 1: He's in this room right now, so autographs after the show.

682
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 1: I don't think cornholes really hit l A yet. West

683
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:19,560
Speaker 1: is better at cornhole than anyone I know is better

684
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 1: at anything, all right now except Philadelia ping punk. All right,

685
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 1: so we moved to now the second hero game. Mark

686
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 1: obviously distressed after the Browns loss last week to the Jaguars.

687
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 1: As we just talked about now, Mark believes that the

688
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 1: Browns will become the first team in the history of

689
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:44,960
Speaker 1: the NFL. This is stat according to Drew Christiansen of

690
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 1: NFL Media's research team, the first team in the history

691
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:51,000
Speaker 1: of the NFL to lose back to back two winless

692
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:53,960
Speaker 1: teams who had no wins after week seven or weeks

693
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:56,560
Speaker 1: seven or later. You think the Browns will lose at

694
00:33:56,600 --> 00:34:01,640
Speaker 1: home to the Raiders, who stink God and and I

695
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:03,840
Speaker 1: said downstairs. I was just I was a little disappointed

696
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:05,320
Speaker 1: cause I feel like this is not the Mark that

697
00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 1: I know, that I've known for so long, that is

698
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 1: loyal to his team, but it's also smart. He picks

699
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:12,239
Speaker 1: against the Browns sometimes, but this is not the time

700
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:14,040
Speaker 1: to pick against the Browns. So the better team and

701
00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:15,719
Speaker 1: they're in their own building. Mark, I don't know how

702
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:18,440
Speaker 1: you're gonna do this well. I mean, it doesn't make

703
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:20,320
Speaker 1: me happy, but I think this is the perfect time

704
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,280
Speaker 1: to pick against the Browns. You know, I've been living

705
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:28,919
Speaker 1: with this organization since nineteen. It's a different world, man,

706
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 1: it might be and I and I would love to

707
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:34,520
Speaker 1: see them make a mockery of my hero pick. But

708
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:36,319
Speaker 1: let's be like your hedge and your bets a little

709
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:37,840
Speaker 1: bit here. I don't think I am. I know, I

710
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:41,160
Speaker 1: can understand why that was brought up, but I think

711
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:43,680
Speaker 1: they caught Jacksonville at the wrong time with a rookie

712
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 1: quarterback and a team that was coming close to getting wins.

713
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:51,480
Speaker 1: And again not super logical, but the Raiders played the

714
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 1: Chargers very tough, and they played the Cardinals right down

715
00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:58,080
Speaker 1: through three quarters last week. There are issues and they

716
00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 1: can't run the ball and that's a big problem from them.

717
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,480
Speaker 1: But I think Derek Carr is going to get a

718
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:04,840
Speaker 1: win pretty soon. And this sets up well for what

719
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:08,920
Speaker 1: would be an utter meltdown for the Browns because this

720
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 1: would trigger a quarterback change number one, probably at halftime,

721
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 1: and then from there in Less Manziel shines, which is

722
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,880
Speaker 1: an absolute question mark with what's going on with their offensive.

723
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:23,120
Speaker 1: Were already looking ahead Plawyer bench in Manziel is. What

724
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:26,080
Speaker 1: I'm sort of feeling is just a sense of doom.

725
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:29,359
Speaker 1: You are a factory of deadness. This to me and

726
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:31,640
Speaker 1: Less as a grim because this is everything Less has

727
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:36,200
Speaker 1: been pushing for. This. It shows me the poison is

728
00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:38,919
Speaker 1: so deep within your veins you can't get it out.

729
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:41,200
Speaker 1: You want it out, but you can't. The first sign

730
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:43,880
Speaker 1: of distress and you you're pulling out, You're putting up

731
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:47,320
Speaker 1: the white flag. I just feel that there's major turning

732
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:49,960
Speaker 1: points in every Brown season where things go south, and

733
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:53,600
Speaker 1: it feels like that turning points you think it's going

734
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:55,759
Speaker 1: to be a replay basically of last year, when they're

735
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:59,200
Speaker 1: not a replay, No, not that, not that dire, but

736
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 1: when you start changing quarterbacks, losing to the Raiders and

737
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:05,120
Speaker 1: the Jaguars back to back is as dire as well.

738
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:07,000
Speaker 1: They didn't win another game all year, Like, I don't

739
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 1: see that, but I'm just feeling like this is going

740
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:12,839
Speaker 1: to trigger a quarterback change. I'm grinning because if I

741
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 1: just said all of the things that Mark said, you

742
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:16,880
Speaker 1: guys would be killing me and saying that I was

743
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:24,279
Speaker 1: torturing Mark. I have actually changed my opinion after what

744
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:28,320
Speaker 1: I've seen week. I'm fascinated by what you've said because

745
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:31,160
Speaker 1: you have a better read, you have better intuition on

746
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 1: the Browns than we do. The difference between me and

747
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:36,440
Speaker 1: West is I'm not rooting for this to happen. I'm

748
00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:38,920
Speaker 1: not rooting for it to happening. By the way, late

749
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter the weekend before that Jaguars game,

750
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:45,840
Speaker 1: they're beating the Steelers three at home. To say that

751
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:48,840
Speaker 1: one bad week and you're you made the point earlier

752
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:50,120
Speaker 1: and it was the right points why I picked the

753
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:52,839
Speaker 1: Jaguars last week that they kind of were going into

754
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:54,800
Speaker 1: a bad spot there. This is not a bad spot.

755
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:57,200
Speaker 1: I might be overestimating this, and I know you don't

756
00:36:57,239 --> 00:37:00,840
Speaker 1: feel strongly about this stand, but the difference of losing

757
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 1: Alex Mack and having to move Greca over to the center,

758
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:05,600
Speaker 1: and everything they do comes off the right side of

759
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 1: that line. They looked like a completely different football. That's fine,

760
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:11,360
Speaker 1: but who's going to take advantage of it? On the

761
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:15,240
Speaker 1: Raiders Khalil Mack. Khalil Mack is one player, Charles Woodson

762
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 1: is having a nice season, but there's nine other guys

763
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:20,520
Speaker 1: on that defense that aren't playing very well. I mean,

764
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 1: you have Terrell Brown and Carlos Rogers and Miles Burris

765
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:28,280
Speaker 1: and all these jokesters who are getting hammered by pretty

766
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:31,799
Speaker 1: lousy offenses. And there's no reason to think that Kyle Shanahan,

767
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:34,279
Speaker 1: West's boy from the other week isn't going to dial

768
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:36,840
Speaker 1: up some nice big plays and they score thirty points.

769
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:38,400
Speaker 1: You know what makes me, I think I know what

770
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:40,600
Speaker 1: it is. I hit on it because it's such a

771
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 1: lost season for me as a Jets fan. I look

772
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:44,160
Speaker 1: at to you as a Browns fan as someone that

773
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:46,640
Speaker 1: has some hope, and you're thrown away all the hope.

774
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:48,960
Speaker 1: And it's too early to throw away though. Well, by

775
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 1: the way, whether Cape or not has zero impact on

776
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 1: the game if they win. Don't distance yourself as a

777
00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:58,879
Speaker 1: fan either. Come on, this seems like it's coming from

778
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 1: a natural place to a dark place. Unless disappointed in

779
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:07,359
Speaker 1: the pick, I just don't think it'll wind up being right,

780
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 1: and then you'll kill yourself for it. Because I think

781
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 1: the Browns are a good team. I think they're going

782
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:12,520
Speaker 1: to be an eight and eight type of team, and

783
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:15,600
Speaker 1: I think this is a week where they instead of collapsing,

784
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 1: they'll respond to what was a down week last week.

785
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:21,400
Speaker 1: I think Greg, if I get Jags Raiders correct both heroes,

786
00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:23,799
Speaker 1: I'm going Odell Beckham, I'm gone for a month. I'll

787
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:28,200
Speaker 1: just come back that that would be amazing if you

788
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:30,040
Speaker 1: pull this off. So we'll see how it all shakes out.

789
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:31,640
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the rest of the games.

790
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:35,520
Speaker 1: We will start with the Detroit Lions, who came out

791
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:37,840
Speaker 1: that great comeback, went over the Saints in their building.

792
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:40,799
Speaker 1: Now they go to London. It's the wake up at

793
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:45,400
Speaker 1: Wimbley game and get excited. Greg downstairs actually talking like

794
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:53,480
Speaker 1: a kid on Christmas or Hanka exciting the Rosenthals. That's

795
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:56,879
Speaker 1: cheating getting up in the morning. Much better format. One

796
00:38:56,960 --> 00:39:00,439
Speaker 1: big day. It's great. Oh Hanakah is just part of

797
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:02,680
Speaker 1: the Christmas gifts. That's just one big event. Well, we

798
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:07,120
Speaker 1: just did Christmas. We're not really, they're just saying the format.

799
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:11,360
Speaker 1: As kids, we fought for one day, big smorges Borg Christmas.

800
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:14,399
Speaker 1: That's better than the drying out over the Gentiles. When

801
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:16,720
Speaker 1: I was a kid, you be jealous of the Jewish

802
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:19,280
Speaker 1: kids at Honaka because you would say, oh, they're getting

803
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 1: a gift every day. But then really, if you peek

804
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:24,239
Speaker 1: behind the curtain, because I had some Jewish friends, so

805
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:26,200
Speaker 1: I saw it was really going on. It really got

806
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 1: like one gift on the first day that was good,

807
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:29,759
Speaker 1: and maybe one on the last day it was good,

808
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:31,120
Speaker 1: and the rest is a bunch of guards well, and

809
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 1: maybe on a Christmas morning. Enough enough people gifts on

810
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:38,839
Speaker 1: Christmas Morning, depending on what's coming down the post. That's

811
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:41,720
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. It's like, maybe not to be so jealous. Anyway,

812
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:43,839
Speaker 1: they don't have some fresh green tree sitting in their

813
00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:46,120
Speaker 1: living room in the middle of December either. I had

814
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 1: a fake tree. We have gotten to the holidays are

815
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:53,560
Speaker 1: about that. Don't get me started on fake Christmas tree.

816
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:55,400
Speaker 1: And I have a real one now in my home. Alright.

817
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 1: So the Detroit Lions, they had a really nice one.

818
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:00,200
Speaker 1: Now they go to London to play the Falcon. We

819
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:02,240
Speaker 1: are all out on the Falcons. If there was a

820
00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:04,319
Speaker 1: anti team of a t L maybe it would be

821
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:07,280
Speaker 1: the Tytoons. But if it wasn't the Tytoons, it's probably

822
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:09,959
Speaker 1: the Falcons. We're none of us like watching the Falcons there.

823
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:13,719
Speaker 1: They make everyone look good. They play horribly on the road. Uh,

824
00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 1: they waste a great quarterback. There's no way the Lions

825
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:19,399
Speaker 1: stubbed their toe in London, right the wake up when

826
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:21,640
Speaker 1: you were thinking about it, you were thinking until I

827
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:23,719
Speaker 1: thought it was in Atlanta and then I realized it

828
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:30,839
Speaker 1: was London. It's possible. Right, We've been saying the same

829
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:33,040
Speaker 1: things we've been saying about the Falcons defense. We've been

830
00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 1: saying about the Lions offense, that they make every defense

831
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:39,360
Speaker 1: look good. And if you don't have Calvin Johnson, I

832
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:41,239
Speaker 1: don't know. I could see this game being wacky and

833
00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:43,160
Speaker 1: the Falcons coming out on the chance they will have

834
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:45,960
Speaker 1: Calvin Johnson. There's some optimism, although they do have a

835
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 1: bye week next week. The biggest mismatch, though possible, in

836
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:52,760
Speaker 1: the NFL right now, is the Detroit defensive line against

837
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:56,160
Speaker 1: Atlanta's passportation. I mean, that's as bad as I think

838
00:40:56,160 --> 00:40:59,200
Speaker 1: They're starting center speaking of centers, is a undrafted free

839
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:01,960
Speaker 1: agent now because they're down there down two centers now,

840
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 1: I can't imagine it's going to go over very well.

841
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:07,200
Speaker 1: With what the Detroit has going on and their first

842
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 1: round left tackle hasn't blocked anyone since you had an

843
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:13,279
Speaker 1: ankle spring a month ago, and are making the leap, Guys,

844
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:16,920
Speaker 1: Ziggianza playing better and better every week. Got one right.

845
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:22,920
Speaker 1: Moving forward, The Seattle Seahawks, coming off another loss, now

846
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:28,840
Speaker 1: travel to Carolina, the former team of at L the Panthers. Gentlemen,

847
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:31,759
Speaker 1: the Seahawks at some point we think are going to

848
00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:35,200
Speaker 1: get back on track. But are there concerns now and West?

849
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:36,759
Speaker 1: I'll ask you because you were high on him a

850
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, still being in the Seahawks, is

851
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:40,880
Speaker 1: this a team that we should be at least moderately

852
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:44,600
Speaker 1: nervous about being a little adrift right now? Sure? I

853
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:48,440
Speaker 1: think um I liked them better because of their offense,

854
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:50,640
Speaker 1: and I really don't have any concerns about their offense

855
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:52,759
Speaker 1: at all. Look what they did in St. Louis. That

856
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 1: wasn't why they lost. There was their special teams and

857
00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:58,520
Speaker 1: defense really couldn't run the ball, which was a little weird.

858
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 1: But when your quarterback is responsible for four yards all

859
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:06,240
Speaker 1: by himself, your offense is fine. Um, but their defense.

860
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:10,000
Speaker 1: Uh Ian Rappaport sent Greg and I an email saying, Look,

861
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:12,360
Speaker 1: if you guys do any film study, you got to

862
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:15,200
Speaker 1: talk about how much Cam Chancellor is killing the Seahawks.

863
00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:17,080
Speaker 1: And it's something that I think Greg and I probably

864
00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:20,120
Speaker 1: saw even earlier in the season that he's just not

865
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:23,399
Speaker 1: playing like he was the year before. Byron Maxwell's out,

866
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:26,720
Speaker 1: Bobby Wagner's out, They're playing guys like fer Old Simon

867
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:30,640
Speaker 1: and Burley at cornerback, the Legion of boom Any. They're

868
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:33,400
Speaker 1: not getting any turnovers at all this year. No, they're not.

869
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:35,880
Speaker 1: I think teams aren't in all of them like they

870
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:38,839
Speaker 1: used to be. I think the Seahawks game last week

871
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:42,320
Speaker 1: is one of the rare cases where a team psychologically

872
00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:46,399
Speaker 1: was not necessarily in the right place to play a game. Yeah,

873
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:49,439
Speaker 1: I'm sure they were shocked by the Horseman trade. I'd

874
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:53,120
Speaker 1: give the Panthers a chance because I think Cam Newton

875
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:56,279
Speaker 1: is good enough. He's coming off a disastrous game right

876
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:58,920
Speaker 1: after right after we was talking about him as the

877
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 1: top five quarterback. He had by far as worst game

878
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:03,160
Speaker 1: of the year, didn't really make mistakes early and then

879
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:05,720
Speaker 1: they fell down twenty one nothing. It's just this defense.

880
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:07,359
Speaker 1: I agree. That's why I took the Seahawks. We all

881
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 1: took the Seahawks because I don't trust the Panthers defense

882
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:14,960
Speaker 1: to hold Russell Wilson under points. And that's a lot

883
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 1: to ask Kim Newton to do. Do we think that

884
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:19,359
Speaker 1: someone like Doug Baldwin, you know, he had his best

885
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:21,360
Speaker 1: game in three years last week when they tried to

886
00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:25,319
Speaker 1: when they remove Percy Harvin from the equation. They had

887
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:28,000
Speaker 1: three straight eighty plus yard drives to close the game.

888
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:30,520
Speaker 1: The offense, like you said, look good. I wonder if

889
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:33,680
Speaker 1: if this is the case, we're removing Harvin from the mix,

890
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 1: is going to help Seattle down the stretch. Not on

891
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:41,239
Speaker 1: special teams, but well, he really kind of seemed to

892
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:43,200
Speaker 1: bog things up for them when he was on the field,

893
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:46,839
Speaker 1: and offense they didn't. His stats were un like, disturbingly

894
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:49,840
Speaker 1: not good to me. That seems like the justification for

895
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:52,359
Speaker 1: the trade. I don't remember anybody complaining about Harvin when

896
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:54,800
Speaker 1: he scored three touchdowns right in a robe against the

897
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:57,840
Speaker 1: Redskins and they were all called back on penalty. Everybody

898
00:43:57,920 --> 00:44:00,000
Speaker 1: was praising him then, like you win a super Bowl

899
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:03,719
Speaker 1: with Baldwin and and Curse as your top t wife receivers.

900
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 1: But it's not gonna be easy. That's a week. There's

901
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:07,799
Speaker 1: no way that's not gonna be a weakness all year.

902
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 1: Moving on to two teams coming up big wins. The

903
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:13,960
Speaker 1: Rams we just talked about that. They beat the Seahawks

904
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:16,799
Speaker 1: in their own building last week. The Chiefs went to

905
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:19,080
Speaker 1: San Diego and beat the Chargers. So these are two

906
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:21,799
Speaker 1: teams that are flying high right now, still in the mix.

907
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:25,960
Speaker 1: Both teams, uh, the Rams are flying high? Well, of

908
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:32,640
Speaker 1: course you're flying how you just beat since one is

909
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:36,000
Speaker 1: beating the defending champions, not license to fly high. I

910
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:38,680
Speaker 1: don't think it's funny like one winning you're flying high now.

911
00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:41,480
Speaker 1: I guess beating the champions isn't a big deal anyway.

912
00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:43,799
Speaker 1: So the Rams and the Chiefs are playing West. Since

913
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:46,279
Speaker 1: you know all the answers, you you analyze this one,

914
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:49,200
Speaker 1: the Chiefs are the better team. So I picked him

915
00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:51,960
Speaker 1: to win, all right. This is why he gets paid

916
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:57,040
Speaker 1: the big bucks. The interstate seventy uh rivalry. I mean,

917
00:44:57,080 --> 00:44:59,000
Speaker 1: you don't want to be in a household split up

918
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:02,440
Speaker 1: this week between Into City St. Louis fans just a

919
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:05,400
Speaker 1: few hours apart in the Midwest. Those guys, get let

920
00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:07,719
Speaker 1: me reset this and let's try to take this seriously

921
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:11,600
Speaker 1: as UH employees of the company. Austin Davis, Alex Smith.

922
00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:13,480
Speaker 1: Who do you rather have as a quarterback going forward?

923
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:17,960
Speaker 1: Alex Smith? Question, he's the next Kurt Warner. Austin Davison.

924
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:23,600
Speaker 1: You listen in one of those two in that a

925
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 1: f C West, I mean, Kansas City has to take

926
00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:28,919
Speaker 1: care of business here at home. I picked them too.

927
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:31,239
Speaker 1: But you've got the Denver in San Diego five and

928
00:45:31,239 --> 00:45:32,880
Speaker 1: one and five and two. They played, and they played

929
00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:34,640
Speaker 1: Thursday night. His team is set up to go on

930
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:36,279
Speaker 1: a run. You got St. Louis this week. You got

931
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:38,520
Speaker 1: the Jets next week. He got six or final ten

932
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:41,440
Speaker 1: games at home. They had a really tough opening slate

933
00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:44,319
Speaker 1: of games, and they've they've survived it. At three and three.

934
00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:47,919
Speaker 1: The defense is playing good team defense. Remember how bad

935
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:49,520
Speaker 1: they were at the end of last season. They were

936
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:51,680
Speaker 1: up and down, but they've they've really played pretty well

937
00:45:51,719 --> 00:45:54,279
Speaker 1: overall this year. Despite in the secondary it seems like

938
00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:57,080
Speaker 1: they're not talented at all, but they've played well John

939
00:45:57,120 --> 00:46:00,759
Speaker 1: Smith's having a good year at corner bit all right.

940
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:03,239
Speaker 1: Moving on the Chicago Bears. A lot of tumult in

941
00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:06,680
Speaker 1: Chicago after a loss to the Dolphins last week. We

942
00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:10,799
Speaker 1: heard the behind closed doors screaming or yelling. So there's

943
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:13,319
Speaker 1: a lot of animosity right there, potential even now they

944
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:16,000
Speaker 1: go to Foxborough. The New England page is always good

945
00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:18,319
Speaker 1: about They always seem to catch teams at a very

946
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:22,080
Speaker 1: weak point where their constitution is that it's it's one

947
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:26,640
Speaker 1: of those classic Belichick Brady era type situations. So now

948
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:29,800
Speaker 1: the Bears get the Bears have to limp into New England.

949
00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:32,480
Speaker 1: I think we know what's gonna happen. I think it's

950
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:35,480
Speaker 1: going to be a shootout. Without Chandler Jones on the field,

951
00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 1: I think the Bears are good for about five yards

952
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:41,760
Speaker 1: every other week. People are acting like their offense hasn't

953
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:45,000
Speaker 1: done anything this year. They've had some explosive games, and

954
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:47,160
Speaker 1: I think this will be a game in the thirties

955
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:49,840
Speaker 1: for both. And that makes sense because what the Jets

956
00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:51,919
Speaker 1: were able to do last week and again that came

957
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:54,520
Speaker 1: real close to winning, was just run right at New

958
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:56,960
Speaker 1: England's defense, and they had no issues with that. I

959
00:46:57,239 --> 00:46:59,440
Speaker 1: mean New England might be in a number of shootouts

960
00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:02,080
Speaker 1: down the stretch, but the bottom line is they're gonna

961
00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:04,399
Speaker 1: be six and two and that's halfway to twelve and four.

962
00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:07,439
Speaker 1: Same old story in New England and then again break

963
00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:11,839
Speaker 1: some new ground here and defend j cutlery well, I mean,

964
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:14,239
Speaker 1: he's two weeks ago. He's coming off the Falcons game

965
00:47:14,239 --> 00:47:16,120
Speaker 1: where he throws for four hundred yards and the Bears

966
00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:20,320
Speaker 1: offense looks unstoppable. He has one bag game and everyone's

967
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:24,200
Speaker 1: acting like he's he's a problem. He's having I think

968
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:26,840
Speaker 1: the best completion percentage and passer rating of his career

969
00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:29,560
Speaker 1: through seven games. It's weird because of all the games

970
00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:34,040
Speaker 1: to go crazy on Cutler afterwards. That wasn't that terrible

971
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 1: Cutler game. He had two turnovers. If Alshon Jeffrey holds

972
00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:40,240
Speaker 1: onto a pretty well thrown bomb to start that game,

973
00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:43,280
Speaker 1: he's got another sixty yards, they go up seven. Nothing.

974
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:45,319
Speaker 1: I mean, little plays like that change things. He missed

975
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:47,359
Speaker 1: a couple of deep throws by just a little bit

976
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:49,719
Speaker 1: of It wasn't a terrible game. Band Brandon Marshall had

977
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:51,760
Speaker 1: never played for the Dolphins. This wouldn't be a talking

978
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:54,840
Speaker 1: point all week, right, and if the if the Dolphin,

979
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:57,120
Speaker 1: I mean, if the Bears defense could get Miami off

980
00:47:57,160 --> 00:47:58,759
Speaker 1: the field. I mean the Bears didn't have the ball

981
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:01,160
Speaker 1: at all in that game because Miami held onto it

982
00:48:01,239 --> 00:48:04,120
Speaker 1: so long. And yet they are very average team in

983
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:06,480
Speaker 1: a number of categories there, three and four. And that

984
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:08,759
Speaker 1: is a disappointment for what we were hoping from Mark

985
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:11,319
Speaker 1: Trustman in year two. All right, let's move on to

986
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:13,560
Speaker 1: the worst game of the week to last place teams,

987
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers scaring off

988
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:21,960
Speaker 1: in Tampa. Uh. Mark, it is your turn this week

989
00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:25,120
Speaker 1: to make the one game that doesn't seem that exciting.

990
00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:28,440
Speaker 1: Exciting by the way, I initially had the Bucks in this,

991
00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:31,600
Speaker 1: which would have been I think a hero pick. Is

992
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:33,720
Speaker 1: it not? Two of us have the buck? Okay, Well,

993
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:36,879
Speaker 1: Dan and I Dan, I have failed you entirely. I mean,

994
00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:39,279
Speaker 1: here's what I want to see if I'm after what

995
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 1: happened with Minnesota last week. Every game where they're running

996
00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:47,360
Speaker 1: all over Teddy Bridgewater and the lines crumbling, we see

997
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:49,080
Speaker 1: him not playing the way he could. In the one

998
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:52,400
Speaker 1: game against Atlanta, I thought Bridgewater was a very interesting

999
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:54,759
Speaker 1: quarterback and I'd like to see what happens this week

1000
00:48:55,120 --> 00:48:58,160
Speaker 1: against that Bucks defensive. Mark your loose grasp of our

1001
00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:02,080
Speaker 1: pick segment never sees this to stop entertaining. Well, I

1002
00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:05,839
Speaker 1: am busy working on, you know, high content that needs

1003
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:08,560
Speaker 1: to be published immediately and read by many people. I

1004
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:10,719
Speaker 1: don't have time to sit around and glance at the

1005
00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:13,520
Speaker 1: picks page all day long. All right, Well, you're in

1006
00:49:13,560 --> 00:49:16,040
Speaker 1: first place, so it's working out something that is. Maybe

1007
00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:17,920
Speaker 1: that's the big takeaway we got to talk about here,

1008
00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:20,360
Speaker 1: is that Mark has no idea what's going on, doesn't

1009
00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:22,919
Speaker 1: even know who he's picking, and he's beating all of us. Well,

1010
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:25,120
Speaker 1: I do know what's going on. Just once I've made

1011
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:27,360
Speaker 1: the picks, it's gone. I'll let it go. I have

1012
00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:30,960
Speaker 1: other things to think about. I'm just wondering how this

1013
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:33,600
Speaker 1: bus defense is going to recover from the Dai Kwan

1014
00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:39,640
Speaker 1: Bowers suspension. I'd just like to say that A. J.

1015
00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:42,520
Speaker 1: Green is wrong. It's the Buccaneers who are the scum

1016
00:49:42,560 --> 00:49:46,319
Speaker 1: of the crop. How dare you there? Do they're the

1017
00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:50,040
Speaker 1: worst team in the NFL. I actually agree with you,

1018
00:49:50,239 --> 00:49:52,120
Speaker 1: and yet I picked them just because I thought these

1019
00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:54,360
Speaker 1: are two of the worst four teams right now in

1020
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:56,560
Speaker 1: the NFL. I'll take the home team. Let's stop talking

1021
00:49:56,560 --> 00:49:59,600
Speaker 1: about this game. Let's move on to the Tennessee Titans

1022
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:03,360
Speaker 1: at home. The new quarterback, Zach Mettenberger. We are we

1023
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:06,480
Speaker 1: are in the Zach Mettenberger era because they came out

1024
00:50:06,560 --> 00:50:09,360
Speaker 1: and said today Ken Wizen and said that he's the quarterback.

1025
00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:12,000
Speaker 1: It's not just that Jake Locker has a hand injury.

1026
00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:16,440
Speaker 1: Jake Locker is the second string quarterback now. Clip Ward Jesus,

1027
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:18,879
Speaker 1: he has plenty of time now to work on those

1028
00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:26,040
Speaker 1: chords up down, down, up, up down and down up

1029
00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:30,040
Speaker 1: because he's the third string quarterback. So this is the

1030
00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:33,640
Speaker 1: game the Houston Texans going to Nashville face the Titans.

1031
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:36,960
Speaker 1: Texans are not bad team, and I think they're gonna

1032
00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:40,279
Speaker 1: take care of business against Did I pick them? Yes?

1033
00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:45,200
Speaker 1: Against a rookie quarterback says a lot to me about

1034
00:50:45,360 --> 00:50:48,040
Speaker 1: Ken whizzen Hunt. And I like this about him, that

1035
00:50:48,160 --> 00:50:51,080
Speaker 1: he is got the skill to put players where they

1036
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:53,960
Speaker 1: can succeed. And that's what he's doing with Charlie Whitehurst.

1037
00:50:54,520 --> 00:50:58,440
Speaker 1: Let's get him the practice time. You know who disagrees

1038
00:50:58,480 --> 00:51:00,640
Speaker 1: with you, by the way, that Ken is an unsanswered

1039
00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:05,040
Speaker 1: Matt Leiner, who went out tweeted, I believe that. Uh,

1040
00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:07,640
Speaker 1: I guess lockers out and soon the coach will be too.

1041
00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:10,480
Speaker 1: Just now he said, he said, same old story. Well

1042
00:51:10,560 --> 00:51:13,160
Speaker 1: he did say that. He also said same old story. Basically,

1043
00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:15,279
Speaker 1: was wiz in Hunt not able to coach up a

1044
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:19,000
Speaker 1: quarterback change in plans? Matt Liners still upset that he

1045
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 1: got benched for Hall of Famer Kurt Warner, who took

1046
00:51:21,560 --> 00:51:24,400
Speaker 1: the teams to the Super Bowl. Matt Liner, way to

1047
00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:26,279
Speaker 1: go out and prove wasn't hunting wrong the rest of

1048
00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:29,759
Speaker 1: your career. By the way, the Texans are not a

1049
00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:32,960
Speaker 1: good team. You said that to start there a mediocre team.

1050
00:51:33,239 --> 00:51:37,000
Speaker 1: They're a team with Yeah, you said there, you said

1051
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:38,480
Speaker 1: they're not. But I think they are a bad team.

1052
00:51:38,520 --> 00:51:40,880
Speaker 1: I think they're a six win team that had a

1053
00:51:40,920 --> 00:51:42,759
Speaker 1: really easy schedule to start and has one of the

1054
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:45,840
Speaker 1: best players of all time on it and Ryan Fitzpatrick

1055
00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:48,320
Speaker 1: is not long for that starting job. No, that's a

1056
00:51:48,360 --> 00:51:50,360
Speaker 1: good point. Although the beat they just got a witness

1057
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:52,200
Speaker 1: game and we all picked them to win. I believe,

1058
00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:54,680
Speaker 1: yes we did before you even knowing about is an

1059
00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:56,600
Speaker 1: inherent flaw on your logic. There By the way, to

1060
00:51:56,680 --> 00:51:59,200
Speaker 1: say that the fact that one of the best players

1061
00:51:59,239 --> 00:52:00,959
Speaker 1: at all times on the team is a reason why

1062
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:03,319
Speaker 1: they You can't say that. I'm not saying it's one

1063
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:05,080
Speaker 1: of the reasons. I'm saying they're a bad team that

1064
00:52:05,120 --> 00:52:10,000
Speaker 1: happens to have J. J. Watt. I don't know. Whenever

1065
00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:12,040
Speaker 1: that comes on, I feel like someone's punch, feel like

1066
00:52:12,040 --> 00:52:14,719
Speaker 1: I'm under attack, like a swat team is kicked in

1067
00:52:14,760 --> 00:52:17,279
Speaker 1: the glass and there's a smoke bomb in the room.

1068
00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:20,000
Speaker 1: Never again do we think. I think the Titans are

1069
00:52:20,040 --> 00:52:22,200
Speaker 1: a little bit more interesting now. I want to watch

1070
00:52:22,239 --> 00:52:25,440
Speaker 1: a rookie quarterback play. Anything helps. Let's be honest, Burger

1071
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:28,040
Speaker 1: was he wasn't interesting in the preseason two. I like,

1072
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:30,279
Speaker 1: if anything, Yeah, you're kind of giving up on your

1073
00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:34,160
Speaker 1: season number one. I mean there's there's that, But also, okay,

1074
00:52:34,280 --> 00:52:36,239
Speaker 1: in Jake Locker we're learning right now, is not that

1075
00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:37,960
Speaker 1: he's not going to be the future if wizzen Head

1076
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:40,600
Speaker 1: sticks around. So your point. I also kind of team

1077
00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:43,600
Speaker 1: whiz on this because finally a coach said, I'm done.

1078
00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:46,399
Speaker 1: I'm done with this Jake Locker stuff, with always dealing

1079
00:52:46,480 --> 00:52:48,440
Speaker 1: with the injuries, and when he's playing, he's not consistent.

1080
00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:50,120
Speaker 1: Why do I want to be tied to that, let's

1081
00:52:50,160 --> 00:52:53,359
Speaker 1: move forward and see what you find. Ian rappaport Our

1082
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:55,719
Speaker 1: NFL Media Insider, added a lot of good insight, which

1083
00:52:55,760 --> 00:52:59,279
Speaker 1: is essentially they want to see if Mettenburger can be

1084
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:02,000
Speaker 1: a guy that plays so well that will prevent them

1085
00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:04,560
Speaker 1: from drafting a quarterback because they've already made their decision

1086
00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:06,520
Speaker 1: on Locker. There's no chance that Locker is going to

1087
00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:08,160
Speaker 1: be their quarterbacks, so they might as well give it.

1088
00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:10,879
Speaker 1: I mean, we're kind of acting like this is normal.

1089
00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:13,400
Speaker 1: It's a sixth round pick. I can't remember a sixth

1090
00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:16,319
Speaker 1: round pick starting the game over a veteran and good

1091
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:20,280
Speaker 1: very poorly. I think there's an asterix there though, because

1092
00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:23,000
Speaker 1: he was coming off the a c L surgery, Mettenberger

1093
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:25,879
Speaker 1: we saw him in the preseason, had a strong arm

1094
00:53:25,920 --> 00:53:28,439
Speaker 1: and was not afraid to take chances down the field

1095
00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:30,719
Speaker 1: throw in the tight windows. I think he might break

1096
00:53:30,760 --> 00:53:33,520
Speaker 1: the record for strip sacks though, because he has a

1097
00:53:33,560 --> 00:53:37,319
Speaker 1: throw emotion that looks like nineteen seventies super Juck Toy

1098
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:39,520
Speaker 1: where he just takes his arm all the way back

1099
00:53:39,560 --> 00:53:41,840
Speaker 1: and throws like a javelin. It makes me think of

1100
00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:46,040
Speaker 1: the late season reports last year where Tennessee what or

1101
00:53:46,080 --> 00:53:49,440
Speaker 1: whatever they thought about Locker this summer, we're rumored to

1102
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:51,360
Speaker 1: be going after Jake Cutler if he had become a

1103
00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:54,640
Speaker 1: free agent. I mean they there. This is the second

1104
00:53:54,640 --> 00:53:56,880
Speaker 1: coaching staff in two years that's come to this decision.

1105
00:53:57,040 --> 00:53:59,719
Speaker 1: West You, I believe, have a sixteen to five lead

1106
00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:03,399
Speaker 1: on in the Whare Miller verse J J. Watt sack

1107
00:54:03,480 --> 00:54:10,200
Speaker 1: competition we're having. I could get seven or eight sacks tonight. Honestly,

1108
00:54:10,239 --> 00:54:12,359
Speaker 1: I could get three sacks. Didn't Derek Thomas have eight

1109
00:54:12,360 --> 00:54:14,239
Speaker 1: in the game once? But he has the record? What

1110
00:54:14,360 --> 00:54:17,360
Speaker 1: could do that? Especially if if he's matched up against

1111
00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:19,799
Speaker 1: Michael Or? Has there been Has there been a worse

1112
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:23,440
Speaker 1: free agent signing than Michael Or in Tennessee? It was

1113
00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:25,239
Speaker 1: bad just because how did you expect him to do

1114
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:27,359
Speaker 1: anything different than what he did in Baltimore? And by

1115
00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:29,359
Speaker 1: the way, Clowney looks like he'll be playing at least

1116
00:54:29,360 --> 00:54:31,320
Speaker 1: a little bit in this game. So I haven't answered,

1117
00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:35,319
Speaker 1: though there is one worse. Lamar Woodley five tackles on

1118
00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:38,560
Speaker 1: the season. Now he's out for the year. He playsn't playing.

1119
00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:41,719
Speaker 1: He played six games, including five starts, and had five

1120
00:54:41,760 --> 00:54:44,680
Speaker 1: tackles and no sacks, and they gave him a two year,

1121
00:54:44,760 --> 00:54:49,760
Speaker 1: twelve million dollar contract. Yeah, Reggie mackenzie deserves another year. Sure. Alright,

1122
00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:53,960
Speaker 1: Moving on the Cults and the Steelers, two teams coming

1123
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:56,560
Speaker 1: off wins. Shutout win for the Cults of course, over

1124
00:54:56,600 --> 00:54:59,640
Speaker 1: the Bengals. The Steelers beat the Texans with that wild

1125
00:54:59,760 --> 00:55:02,719
Speaker 1: end the second half propelled him to victory. So now

1126
00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:04,440
Speaker 1: these two teams face off. This to me is a

1127
00:55:04,520 --> 00:55:06,919
Speaker 1: very tough game to figure out. Let's see how we

1128
00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:09,200
Speaker 1: went as a group. We all picked the Cults a

1129
00:55:09,239 --> 00:55:12,320
Speaker 1: little surprised there, very surprised they actually everyone pick it.

1130
00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:14,640
Speaker 1: This could be a zero pick. Uh, The Steelers at

1131
00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:16,640
Speaker 1: home are going to get beat by the Cults. Why

1132
00:55:16,680 --> 00:55:18,880
Speaker 1: do we think that it wouldn't shock me at the

1133
00:55:18,880 --> 00:55:21,759
Speaker 1: Steelers one. But I just this to me is like

1134
00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:25,680
Speaker 1: the Ravens Bengals games in the Packer Saints game. I

1135
00:55:25,719 --> 00:55:27,439
Speaker 1: just think the Cults are playing at such a high

1136
00:55:27,520 --> 00:55:30,080
Speaker 1: level right now that I'm not going to pick against him,

1137
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:33,400
Speaker 1: especially against the mediocre team like the Steelers. It's been

1138
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:36,439
Speaker 1: a long time since I picked against the Steelers at home,

1139
00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:39,560
Speaker 1: and I think it says to just how inconsistent they've been.

1140
00:55:39,840 --> 00:55:41,759
Speaker 1: You know, it was a kind of a freaky end

1141
00:55:41,760 --> 00:55:44,840
Speaker 1: of that half against the Texans. But the same thing

1142
00:55:44,880 --> 00:55:46,880
Speaker 1: about Pittsburgh is they had the talent to play with

1143
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:49,280
Speaker 1: anyone when that talent is playing well. But the Colts

1144
00:55:49,360 --> 00:55:52,120
Speaker 1: defensively been much better lately. And it's Andrew Luck. I

1145
00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:54,879
Speaker 1: just I go Andrew Luck here. Andrew Luck didn't even

1146
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:57,000
Speaker 1: play that well last week. He was okay. It was

1147
00:55:57,040 --> 00:56:00,800
Speaker 1: an average Andrew Luck game and they trounced the Bengals.

1148
00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:03,080
Speaker 1: I mean it's the guys around him now that are

1149
00:56:03,080 --> 00:56:05,680
Speaker 1: playing at a different level. Luck's gotten better, but the

1150
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:08,680
Speaker 1: offensive line now is so much better. The defense is

1151
00:56:08,719 --> 00:56:12,000
Speaker 1: just blowing up plays. I mean they played with a frenzy.

1152
00:56:12,160 --> 00:56:14,640
Speaker 1: Trent Richardson had his best game as a cult. Yeah,

1153
00:56:14,640 --> 00:56:17,960
Speaker 1: that's his status. He that's right when he had a

1154
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:20,800
Speaker 1: hamstring injury. I don't think it's gonna be Serrian practice

1155
00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:22,520
Speaker 1: to the end. It's not going to make a difference.

1156
00:56:22,520 --> 00:56:24,160
Speaker 1: I don't think in them winning or losing this game.

1157
00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:26,279
Speaker 1: I am surprised we all took the Colts, but they've

1158
00:56:26,280 --> 00:56:28,080
Speaker 1: played like one of the two or three best teams

1159
00:56:28,120 --> 00:56:30,560
Speaker 1: in the league. And the Steelers, even in that Texans game,

1160
00:56:30,600 --> 00:56:32,960
Speaker 1: didn't impress me. That much. I have a nightmare settler

1161
00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:36,120
Speaker 1: about this being a zero pick. I haven't regret. Can

1162
00:56:36,160 --> 00:56:40,000
Speaker 1: I switch into it here? Sure? Sure, I I never

1163
00:56:40,040 --> 00:56:43,319
Speaker 1: have a problem with with the problem with switching. You're

1164
00:56:43,360 --> 00:56:46,600
Speaker 1: the guy I want to open open the floodgates to

1165
00:56:46,680 --> 00:56:49,080
Speaker 1: switching all over there. You can't know you can't take

1166
00:56:49,120 --> 00:56:51,800
Speaker 1: away someone's hero pick on the switch. That's that doesn't

1167
00:56:51,840 --> 00:56:58,160
Speaker 1: seem fair. A lot of times when we see mean nothing,

1168
00:56:58,239 --> 00:57:01,359
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Dad, they wait a second. They don't mean

1169
00:57:01,360 --> 00:57:03,799
Speaker 1: anything to you, but they mean a lot to Greg. Now,

1170
00:57:06,040 --> 00:57:07,600
Speaker 1: I'll admit it, but I don't really care about the

1171
00:57:07,640 --> 00:57:10,960
Speaker 1: hero picks. And if there were no hero picks, we

1172
00:57:11,000 --> 00:57:13,160
Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to hear Dave Grohl on our podcast.

1173
00:57:14,200 --> 00:57:16,960
Speaker 1: We pay a handsome sum to do that. Let's move

1174
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:19,400
Speaker 1: to the final game of the week, the Monday night game.

1175
00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:22,080
Speaker 1: By the way, Actually, sorry, Dan, not to interrupt you.

1176
00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:25,320
Speaker 1: It's now three o'clock. It's past three o'clock, mark, So

1177
00:57:25,680 --> 00:57:29,600
Speaker 1: do you want to get you want to get? Okay, No,

1178
00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:32,480
Speaker 1: don't really go. Please, he was gonna go, he was

1179
00:57:32,520 --> 00:57:36,600
Speaker 1: gonna actually go. It's actually three oh eight. You gotta

1180
00:57:36,640 --> 00:57:38,760
Speaker 1: go sit there. You have to sit down with the show,

1181
00:57:39,560 --> 00:57:41,280
Speaker 1: I'll stick around, and we need to talk about just

1182
00:57:41,360 --> 00:57:44,240
Speaker 1: not cashing them checks. You know what I mean. Because

1183
00:57:44,240 --> 00:57:47,240
Speaker 1: you got a long term deal, it doesn't mean your

1184
00:57:47,280 --> 00:57:49,600
Speaker 1: motive will not sit here. And have you compare Mark

1185
00:57:49,680 --> 00:57:55,040
Speaker 1: to Albert Haynesworth. That is yeah, that is not fair. Finally,

1186
00:57:55,080 --> 00:57:58,760
Speaker 1: the Monday night game, the Washington Redskins head to Big

1187
00:57:58,840 --> 00:58:03,040
Speaker 1: d to face the first place Dallas Cowboys. Uh now,

1188
00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:05,120
Speaker 1: west is it? Can I say the Dallas Cowboys are

1189
00:58:05,160 --> 00:58:09,960
Speaker 1: flying high? Absolutely? Oh yeah, they all fly in nobody.

1190
00:58:10,080 --> 00:58:13,080
Speaker 1: They have a they have a Tony Romo playing. Where

1191
00:58:13,120 --> 00:58:15,960
Speaker 1: is Tony Romo? And Greg Rosenthal's QB in dex right now?

1192
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:20,160
Speaker 1: All the way up to number five? And uh, where

1193
00:58:20,320 --> 00:58:23,760
Speaker 1: is Colton McCoy on that QB to be decided? All right,

1194
00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:26,560
Speaker 1: So Colton McCoy is gonna play that Jake Rudin who

1195
00:58:26,640 --> 00:58:28,320
Speaker 1: By the way, I don't want to be a jerk

1196
00:58:28,400 --> 00:58:31,680
Speaker 1: about it, but the charisma did not carry over from

1197
00:58:31,800 --> 00:58:34,400
Speaker 1: John to Jay and this in this family tree. I

1198
00:58:34,480 --> 00:58:36,120
Speaker 1: don't get a lot of joy out of watching his

1199
00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:40,080
Speaker 1: press conferences, but he he announced on Thursday that they're

1200
00:58:40,080 --> 00:58:42,400
Speaker 1: not gonna make a formal announcement on O R. G

1201
00:58:42,560 --> 00:58:46,120
Speaker 1: three's availability until seven thirty pm Eastern time of Monday

1202
00:58:46,200 --> 00:58:48,680
Speaker 1: night before Monday Night football. But you could read between

1203
00:58:48,680 --> 00:58:50,680
Speaker 1: the lines. It's very obvious. He said they're preparing with

1204
00:58:50,680 --> 00:58:54,000
Speaker 1: Colt McCoy. He's the starter. He's getting the first start. Mark,

1205
00:58:54,040 --> 00:58:56,960
Speaker 1: I'll I'll open let you open this discussion up amongst

1206
00:58:57,040 --> 00:59:00,560
Speaker 1: us all because you named your son after this guy. Well,

1207
00:59:00,600 --> 00:59:03,160
Speaker 1: I think Call McCoy through the preseason and what little

1208
00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:06,560
Speaker 1: we solve him last week has been efficient, if nothing else.

1209
00:59:06,840 --> 00:59:09,320
Speaker 1: I don't like the whole look and feel of the

1210
00:59:09,360 --> 00:59:12,360
Speaker 1: Redskins because it's not even November. You're on your third

1211
00:59:12,440 --> 00:59:16,040
Speaker 1: quarterback and I can't help. But remember how growd And

1212
00:59:16,120 --> 00:59:19,560
Speaker 1: kind of framed the RG three conversation when he was

1213
00:59:19,720 --> 00:59:23,360
Speaker 1: out there. Isn't the guy necessarily the Grooden feels is

1214
00:59:23,400 --> 00:59:26,320
Speaker 1: his long term answer. They just seemed to be issues

1215
00:59:26,680 --> 00:59:29,280
Speaker 1: with the Redskins, and I'm not sure that even when

1216
00:59:29,360 --> 00:59:31,600
Speaker 1: RG three is back, it's going to change much. Call

1217
00:59:31,680 --> 00:59:35,479
Speaker 1: McCoy won the job over Cousins, but that tells us nothing.

1218
00:59:35,480 --> 00:59:36,880
Speaker 1: Neither one of them might even be in the league

1219
00:59:36,880 --> 00:59:39,320
Speaker 1: two years from now, who knows. I don't think Cousins

1220
00:59:39,360 --> 00:59:41,120
Speaker 1: will be with the Redskins next year. Well not with

1221
00:59:41,160 --> 00:59:43,280
Speaker 1: the Redskins. I mean they could have traded him for

1222
00:59:43,320 --> 00:59:45,840
Speaker 1: a third round pick to the Browns. They missed out.

1223
00:59:46,360 --> 00:59:49,520
Speaker 1: It wasn't wasn't that the report that the Browns they

1224
00:59:49,520 --> 00:59:52,560
Speaker 1: were going to do that. That is a depressing I mean,

1225
00:59:52,640 --> 00:59:54,400
Speaker 1: not this year. I'm talking to the last year. They

1226
00:59:54,400 --> 00:59:55,880
Speaker 1: had their chance to get rid of him, and you

1227
00:59:55,920 --> 00:59:58,000
Speaker 1: gotta give him a shot. I don't blame him for that.

1228
00:59:58,120 --> 01:00:01,440
Speaker 1: We all picked the Cowboys obviously, and and they can't

1229
01:00:01,880 --> 01:00:04,160
Speaker 1: assume they're going to stub their Tony Moore, but watch

1230
01:00:04,240 --> 01:00:05,960
Speaker 1: them do it this week. But I want to just

1231
01:00:06,080 --> 01:00:08,520
Speaker 1: throw it out to you guys, just while we're here

1232
01:00:08,760 --> 01:00:14,000
Speaker 1: for posterities. It's ten October Cowboys final record at the

1233
01:00:14,080 --> 01:00:15,480
Speaker 1: end of the regular season. I just want to see

1234
01:00:15,480 --> 01:00:17,400
Speaker 1: how invested we are in the Cowboys. Greg, We'll start

1235
01:00:17,400 --> 01:00:19,240
Speaker 1: with you. I want to look at the schedule. If

1236
01:00:19,240 --> 01:00:21,600
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make a big prediction like this, no, just

1237
01:00:21,880 --> 01:00:23,720
Speaker 1: say it, just let it rip. What are they now?

1238
01:00:23,840 --> 01:00:27,320
Speaker 1: Six and one, six and one, eleven and five. I'm

1239
01:00:29,800 --> 01:00:33,919
Speaker 1: ten and six. I'm going twelve and four, Okay, Yeah,

1240
01:00:33,920 --> 01:00:36,480
Speaker 1: I'm kind of in the eleven twelve boat. Myself, you

1241
01:00:36,480 --> 01:00:38,640
Speaker 1: think they're gonna come down down to earth, West, I

1242
01:00:38,680 --> 01:00:41,120
Speaker 1: don't think they're as good as six and one. Eleven

1243
01:00:41,120 --> 01:00:42,920
Speaker 1: and five is coming down to earth even I mean

1244
01:00:42,920 --> 01:00:44,760
Speaker 1: that's five and four. The rest of the way. You

1245
01:00:44,800 --> 01:00:47,320
Speaker 1: have to I think when you look at the Cowboys,

1246
01:00:47,360 --> 01:00:52,680
Speaker 1: you have to say, like any human being, your greatest

1247
01:00:52,680 --> 01:00:58,120
Speaker 1: strength can also sow the seeds of your destruction. Give

1248
01:00:58,160 --> 01:01:00,800
Speaker 1: me a seconds three covering from the go ahead. Why

1249
01:01:00,920 --> 01:01:04,920
Speaker 1: why do you say that? Because they are running, they

1250
01:01:05,000 --> 01:01:08,440
Speaker 1: are resting on DeMarco Murray's brittle shoulders, and this is

1251
01:01:08,440 --> 01:01:10,800
Speaker 1: a guy who's never been able to stay healthy. We

1252
01:01:10,880 --> 01:01:14,120
Speaker 1: can't say that in the heavy workloads make a running

1253
01:01:14,120 --> 01:01:17,600
Speaker 1: back more injury prone during during that specific season. The

1254
01:01:17,640 --> 01:01:22,320
Speaker 1: stats don't bear that out, but I think mathematically the

1255
01:01:22,360 --> 01:01:25,280
Speaker 1: more touches you give a running back, the more likely

1256
01:01:25,360 --> 01:01:26,920
Speaker 1: is to get injured. If you're giving a running back

1257
01:01:27,880 --> 01:01:31,400
Speaker 1: and eight touches, which he's on pace four, he's more

1258
01:01:31,440 --> 01:01:33,760
Speaker 1: likely to get injured. It's one player that you actually

1259
01:01:33,960 --> 01:01:36,800
Speaker 1: you really have to factor the injury possibility. But I'm

1260
01:01:36,840 --> 01:01:38,680
Speaker 1: not doing that in my prediction. If they if they

1261
01:01:38,720 --> 01:01:40,960
Speaker 1: kind of continue at where they are, I think that

1262
01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:43,000
Speaker 1: they're set up to have a twelve win type season,

1263
01:01:43,000 --> 01:01:45,960
Speaker 1: no question, wouldn't this be the delicious week for it

1264
01:01:46,000 --> 01:01:50,960
Speaker 1: all to turn around? Cult McCoy, the Texas Kid goes

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Speaker 1: into Dallas, and if this was a made for TV

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Speaker 1: movie about Colt McCoy's life, this is the apexy to

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Speaker 1: win against the Cowgar miss In one element, what if

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Speaker 1: something happens to Tony Romo and it's Cult McCoy verus

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Speaker 1: Brandon Weeden. No, I don't actually, I mean, I'm just

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Speaker 1: thinking that would be an outrageously matchup for you though,

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Speaker 1: would be a little interesting. It would be fascinating question

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Speaker 1: for Greg. I know we don't. They don't tend to

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Speaker 1: rip on owners in this podcast, but not typically. But

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Speaker 1: you're whipping boy general manager Jerry Jones. He should be

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Speaker 1: giving him a little bit of credit for what he's

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Speaker 1: done with this team. I think we have been for

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Speaker 1: weeks though, haven't we. I don't know that we've been saying,

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Speaker 1: Jerry Jones, has you have for picking up the offensive

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Speaker 1: line he did? Jerry Jones did a great job um

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Speaker 1: getting convinced by everyone around him not to take Johnny

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Speaker 1: Man's out, even though that's what he did, and months

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Speaker 1: later he regretted it and talked about that if he's

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Speaker 1: strained hard enough, you can see that Jerry Jones had

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Speaker 1: a vision with this offensive line. He drafted Givin Escobar

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Speaker 1: in the second round. Now they're running two tight end sets.

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Speaker 1: Escobar is coming off his best game as a pro.

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Speaker 1: Tyrone Crawford, they drafted in a third round, is playing

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Speaker 1: awesome at defensive end. They've got a lot of good

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Speaker 1: ingredients that Jerry Jones picked up. They've had a couple

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Speaker 1: of good drafts and the offensive line. I was kidding before,

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Speaker 1: you should give him a ton of credit and give

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Speaker 1: the organization a ton of credit for building that line

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Speaker 1: up because it's all homegrown after seventeen years of not

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Speaker 1: doing so, let's just be honest, all right. So that

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Speaker 1: is it for Thursday's edition to be around the NFL Podcast.

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Speaker 1: We will be back on Sunday night as we are

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Speaker 1: every week to recap all of these games. So thank

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Speaker 1: you for listening. As always, this is Dan Hansons signing

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Speaker 1: off for the Sizzler, the Mailman, the Boss, Untid behind

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Speaker 1: the Glass until Sunday