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Speaker 1: The Around the League Podcast contains no Breaking Badge spoilers.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to another edition of the Around the League Podcast.

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Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hansas, and I am joined by

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Speaker 1: a room full of heroes, Chris Westling, Greg Rosenthal, and

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Speaker 1: Mark Sessler. What up? Boys? Wait again? You went in

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Speaker 1: But that's alwaysn't even paying attention. Hey, the intro there

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Speaker 1: will be no Breaking Bad spoilers, but I will say

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Speaker 1: one thing. Uh, the Around the League end around my

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Speaker 1: pretty sweet. It's cool you did that, and I was thinking,

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Speaker 1: be honest. Yes, I watched Breaking Bad. I'm the only one.

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Speaker 1: I'm also the only one that knew about the Kenyan

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Speaker 1: terrorist attacks. We're discussing before the podcast. No one had

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Speaker 1: society leaking. And that's where we are, the Around the

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Speaker 1: League podcast, where society never leaks in. Um, all right,

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Speaker 1: big show. Today, we're gonna talk week four. We are

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Speaker 1: gonna talk Thursday night football. We're gonna have a special

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Speaker 1: guest from this hemisphere. That's all I can give you

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Speaker 1: at this time. Uh but yeah, let's start last night

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Speaker 1: Thursday night at an electric Edward Jones Dome and St.

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Speaker 1: forty Niners pretty much wiped out the Rams. Greg Rosenthal,

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Speaker 1: what are your thoughts about that game? I think it

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Speaker 1: And I thought back to that Thursday night game last

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Speaker 1: much progress from that point to this point. It was

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Speaker 1: I don't know where Bradford got all this rope. What

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Speaker 1: part Bradford, but Schotenheimer, Schottenheimer, whatever. The scheme is not

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Speaker 1: the potential to be the best quarterback in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: I haven't seen it yet. I just if they don't

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Speaker 1: win this game, I'll probably write them off as a

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Speaker 1: team that I'll keep picking. My rationale was less complex.

429
00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:07,760
Speaker 1: I thought I'd get a hero pick by going to Houston.

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00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:11,800
Speaker 1: Here I came close. I still do agree though, that Seattle.

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00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:13,919
Speaker 1: You know, I feel like we've watched Seattle dominate and

432
00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:16,360
Speaker 1: yet I'm waiting for Russell Wilson to have that game

433
00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:19,720
Speaker 1: where it's like, oh, he completely carried them, you know,

434
00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:21,959
Speaker 1: on the road to a game they needed, and Uh,

435
00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:25,640
Speaker 1: I haven't seen that yet yet. It's such a complete team.

436
00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:28,080
Speaker 1: Houston is a weird one. I have a feeling that

437
00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:31,240
Speaker 1: if if they can take care of business, they can

438
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Speaker 1: steal it. That's my hope. I love the Seahawks pick

439
00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:36,960
Speaker 1: because these are two similar teams to me. But Seattle

440
00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:41,119
Speaker 1: is better at it and Russell Wilson UH isn't throwing

441
00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:43,800
Speaker 1: the ball very much. They've been very conservative, I would

442
00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:47,480
Speaker 1: say on offense, uh, but it doesn't matter. And the Texans,

443
00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:50,320
Speaker 1: on the other hand, are an imbalanced team, whereas the Seahawks,

444
00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:52,399
Speaker 1: I think are pretty good on offense and defense. The

445
00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:54,440
Speaker 1: Technans are in balanced. They're not a good offensive team

446
00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:57,320
Speaker 1: right now. They haven't been this year. Watch Houston eight

447
00:21:57,359 --> 00:21:59,840
Speaker 1: and eight. Where are we with Andre Johnson real quick

448
00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:03,520
Speaker 1: in the game time decision? That that is a big concern.

449
00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:06,520
Speaker 1: I think if he's on the field, that the pairing

450
00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:08,520
Speaker 1: of him and Hopkins could do a little bit of damage.

451
00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:11,639
Speaker 1: But if he's not, Hopkins is in a bad situation.

452
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Speaker 1: I don't like Shop at all. Shop tends to ignore

453
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Speaker 1: Hopkins when Johnson's on the field. Shop stinks. I mean,

454
00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:20,160
Speaker 1: Shop doesn't stink. But he's not playing well right now.

455
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Speaker 1: Right now, he is right in that Dalton zone I

456
00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:25,520
Speaker 1: would put him. He's not a D yet, but he's

457
00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:27,920
Speaker 1: he's hitting close. He's on the brink of a D.

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Speaker 1: K Rich, how you doing, Yeah, Hey, hit the music

459
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Speaker 1: Defend your hero? Boom there it is. That's our new

460
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Speaker 1: defend the defend your hero theme. Um, thank you too,

461
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Speaker 1: handsome Hank with that uh spoiler alert or tease something

462
00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:56,199
Speaker 1: like that. This is where we defend our hero picks.

463
00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:58,879
Speaker 1: Do people know what the hero pick are? Well, we

464
00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:01,240
Speaker 1: should clarify they should know. If they're listeners to the

465
00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:03,800
Speaker 1: pod but if there are new listeners walking the board.

466
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Speaker 1: And also, a hero pick is when we the five

467
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Speaker 1: of us, including Kevin Patra our Chicago correspondent, um, when

468
00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:12,960
Speaker 1: we all pick our games. If there's a game where

469
00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:15,080
Speaker 1: one of us pick a team that no one else picked,

470
00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:18,480
Speaker 1: that is a hero pick, and uh, every get it

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Speaker 1: if you get it right. And every week we usually

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Speaker 1: one of us usually has a hero pick, and this

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Speaker 1: week is no different. We have multiple hero picks, So

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Speaker 1: let's get right to it. Chris Westling, you have the

475
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Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans taking care of the Jets. This seems so

476
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Speaker 1: bizarre to me that I'm the one defending this. I

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Speaker 1: picked the home team, the Tennessee Titans against the Jets.

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Speaker 1: I believe the Titans are favored, the heavily favorite. They're

479
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Speaker 1: heavily favorite. And yet you guys like the rookie quarterback

480
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Speaker 1: going on the road to face a Titans team that

481
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Speaker 1: has out physical and every team they've played so far,

482
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Speaker 1: and it shows you the fickleness of the hero pick.

483
00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:58,080
Speaker 1: It's it's really not what you would ever think you can.

484
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Speaker 1: It's almost impossible to try to pick Cairol picks unless

485
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Speaker 1: you want to be insane and pick the Jaguars to

486
00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:05,520
Speaker 1: beat the Seahawks or something. A lot of times it's

487
00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:08,359
Speaker 1: just the luck of the draw, and in this case, West,

488
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:10,280
Speaker 1: you got the luck of the draws. This is a ridiculous,

489
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Speaker 1: particularly ridiculous one. I'm ashamed as a representative of the rest.

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Speaker 1: If I was allowed to switch my pick, I would,

491
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Speaker 1: But I don't want to defend this pick because I

492
00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:21,720
Speaker 1: shouldn't have to. So I'll just point out one thing

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00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:25,160
Speaker 1: that we should watch in this game. Two young defensive

494
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Speaker 1: tackles that are playing absolutely great. Darrell Casey for the Titans,

495
00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:34,639
Speaker 1: their best defensive player this year, and Snacks Big Snacks,

496
00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:40,800
Speaker 1: the best run run defensive, the best defensive tackle against

497
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Speaker 1: the run this year. He and Sheldon Richardson are shutting

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Speaker 1: it down. And I would take the Jets as a

499
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Speaker 1: run defense over any other team in the league right now.

500
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Speaker 1: And I have to apologize for ripping them in August

501
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:56,800
Speaker 1: on one of these premature I remember it seemed premature

502
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Speaker 1: and it was speaking of Fickle. I mean, it makes sense.

503
00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:01,720
Speaker 1: I took the Jets because I had him at seven

504
00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:04,000
Speaker 1: wins before the season, and you guys laughed at me

505
00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:06,199
Speaker 1: like I was some sort of here your memory on

506
00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:12,879
Speaker 1: this is faulty, but Greg, sit down, it's not getting

507
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Speaker 1: to work out. Barely tell the difference between me to

508
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Speaker 1: Greg's maniacal point. The Jets, the New York Jets, the

509
00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:27,640
Speaker 1: laughing stock of the NFL in many people's eyes. Definitely,

510
00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:31,600
Speaker 1: I'm still laughing at four quarters away from exiting September

511
00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:36,280
Speaker 1: at three and one, so exactly so is Tennessee. And

512
00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:40,080
Speaker 1: the stock of the league that every like ESPN picked

513
00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:44,360
Speaker 1: the Jets is the number their head coach. All I'm

514
00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:45,840
Speaker 1: saying is a lot of people have to eat some

515
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:48,480
Speaker 1: crow of the Jets end up approaching New York schedule

516
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:51,399
Speaker 1: also gets it gets rough from hearing out. So this

517
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:53,320
Speaker 1: is a game almost that if they want to be

518
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Speaker 1: taken seriously record wise down the road, they need to

519
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:58,359
Speaker 1: win this game. You and I went through the Jets schedule.

520
00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:01,200
Speaker 1: I think it was yesterday of the day before, and yes,

521
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:03,639
Speaker 1: if you don't win this game to get to the

522
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Speaker 1: week tend by, they almost have no chance of making

523
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Speaker 1: any type of noise if they don't win Sunday. This

524
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:12,480
Speaker 1: is a very important game and uh, I don't know.

525
00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 1: I think they have a real shot at it. I

526
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:16,720
Speaker 1: really do. The Titans to me, maybe they have a

527
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:19,480
Speaker 1: chance for some stain power, But most likely, the winner

528
00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:23,040
Speaker 1: of this game is the likely recipient of the two

529
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Speaker 1: thousand and twelve Arizona Cardinals Memorial Team for a team

530
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Speaker 1: that looked okay in September and really doesn't matter. That's

531
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Speaker 1: a fair point unless it's the Dolphins, the three and

532
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:36,719
Speaker 1: oh team. The Cardinals are three and all last year too,

533
00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:39,440
Speaker 1: and then they just went in the tank. That could happen. Still, yeah,

534
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,840
Speaker 1: but you weren't. You are suspicious of the Dolphins the

535
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Speaker 1: way you were the Cardinals. Here, this is a bit

536
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:51,359
Speaker 1: this Jets Titans thing little suspicious, all right, Mark, it

537
00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:53,960
Speaker 1: was a tough guy. You took the Chicago Bears to

538
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,400
Speaker 1: beat the Detroit Lions. That's your hero. Defend your hero.

539
00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:59,080
Speaker 1: That's another one where I I think I'm surprised no

540
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:02,840
Speaker 1: one else took the undefeated Bears, who frankly look legitimate

541
00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:05,119
Speaker 1: to me. They look improved in a lot of areas

542
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 1: that kept them from being taken seriously in years past.

543
00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:11,639
Speaker 1: They're blocking better. Uh, they're protecting Cutler. I think Cutler

544
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:15,480
Speaker 1: has completely bought into Tressman. He looks to me like,

545
00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:18,040
Speaker 1: you know, listen, everyone's saying this, and it's it's true.

546
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:20,879
Speaker 1: You can watch the games and it looks Cutler is

547
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:25,480
Speaker 1: a different quarterback Detroit. This is tough because Detroit, obviously

548
00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:29,800
Speaker 1: that defense has hassled J before. It's a lot going

549
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:32,440
Speaker 1: on there on the defensive line. I don't like, uh,

550
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 1: the idea of Nodami con sued chasing J Cutler down,

551
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 1: you know, game long. But the Bears also have a

552
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:43,240
Speaker 1: defense that can take care of Matthew Stafford, who I

553
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:46,399
Speaker 1: believe is still one in twenty two against teams that

554
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:49,000
Speaker 1: finished with a winning record. This show is, by the way,

555
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:51,639
Speaker 1: a t L. And I'm not really a member of

556
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:53,640
Speaker 1: this club, but at the same time I picked the line,

557
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 1: so I guess on some level, I am a t L.

558
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 1: Loves the Detroit Lions this season, and I feel like

559
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 1: we're we continued to send them and they better win

560
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 1: this game where it's gonna be a lot a lot

561
00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:05,560
Speaker 1: of questions. Why we feel so strongly about this team?

562
00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:07,680
Speaker 1: What's not to like so far? I mean, they lost

563
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:09,680
Speaker 1: in Arizona, but they were playing pretty well. There was

564
00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:12,560
Speaker 1: a weird weird so far. You're right, My feelings on

565
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:15,440
Speaker 1: the lines go as Reggie Bush goes they lost the

566
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:17,960
Speaker 1: Cardinals game because Bush got injured and didn't play the

567
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,640
Speaker 1: second half, and we talked about this in the newsroom.

568
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:23,040
Speaker 1: I would not have picked the Lines to win this

569
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:24,680
Speaker 1: week if I thought Bush was not gonna play. I

570
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:27,359
Speaker 1: think he's that important to their offense as a second

571
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:30,879
Speaker 1: playmaker to Calvin Johnson, and they play off each other now.

572
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:34,240
Speaker 1: They help each other by creating space and if bushes

573
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:36,440
Speaker 1: out of lineup, they don't have that. Cutler getting a

574
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:39,480
Speaker 1: lot of deserved love for improving with Mark Trustman because

575
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 1: that's a good storyline. But Matthew Stafford so far this

576
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 1: season looks better and this is a big test firm.

577
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 1: I think he's played better this year than he did

578
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:48,960
Speaker 1: last year. One last thing, let's not act like the

579
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 1: Bears of the best defense in the NFL. They've gotten

580
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:53,600
Speaker 1: a lot of points off the turnovers, but they lost

581
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:56,600
Speaker 1: Henry Milton and they gave up what five yards to

582
00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 1: the Steelers, to the Steelers who haven't moved the ball

583
00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 1: against anyone. However, that's it's not a fluke that there

584
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 1: are an opportunistic defense. They did that last year and

585
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 1: some of it in the first half of the season

586
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 1: last year. But you can't rely on turnovers for sixteen games. Okay,

587
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 1: if you guys want a real hero pick, those are

588
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:16,160
Speaker 1: kind of the flukey ones that you get lucky every

589
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:18,080
Speaker 1: once in all. With I'll give you a real hero pick.

590
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:22,520
Speaker 1: I took the Buffalo Bills to defend their home turf

591
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 1: against the Baltimore Ravens. That's a hero pick. That's why

592
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 1: they call me the champion of the underdog. That's why

593
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:33,959
Speaker 1: you call yourself underdog. I mean, like the dun king

594
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:36,239
Speaker 1: of yourself. Yeah, well something you gotta do it right?

595
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:40,360
Speaker 1: Uh No, I I really think Listen, e j Manuel

596
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 1: did not look good against the Jets, but as Mark

597
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:44,800
Speaker 1: you said, the Jets have a great defensive line. They

598
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 1: had him look at. He was confused, He was never comfortable.

599
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 1: At this stage, I'm much more comfortable getting behind the

600
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:51,640
Speaker 1: Bills team when they're at home with the rookie quarterback.

601
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 1: The Ravens. You know, I don't know quite what to

602
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:56,480
Speaker 1: make of the Ravens yet. I know they had a

603
00:29:56,600 --> 00:30:00,960
Speaker 1: nice performance against the Texans, at least defensive um, So

604
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 1: I'm not ready to buy in on this Ravens team

605
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:06,719
Speaker 1: going into a tough road atmosphere and taking care of business.

606
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,040
Speaker 1: I should I shouldn't be that way. But again, this

607
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:11,440
Speaker 1: is also not the same Ravens team that won road

608
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:14,160
Speaker 1: games in January, so I'm okay with saying I'm not

609
00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:16,840
Speaker 1: ready to trust them on the road. This Ravens defense

610
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:19,239
Speaker 1: is so much better than they were last year. They

611
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:22,160
Speaker 1: look really good last year in the week before and

612
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:24,960
Speaker 1: the Matt Elam putting him in the starting lineup paid

613
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:26,840
Speaker 1: off in a big way. It allowed a head about

614
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:29,160
Speaker 1: to go play at the line of scrimmage and ahead

615
00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 1: about maybe four or five tackles behind the line of

616
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:35,360
Speaker 1: scrimmage last year and Elam or last last week, Elam

617
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:37,240
Speaker 1: played great in the secondary. I really like what the

618
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:40,120
Speaker 1: Ravens defense has done. I got some good news and

619
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:44,040
Speaker 1: badness for your DN. Last last podcast, you picked EJ. Manual,

620
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:47,360
Speaker 1: Geno Smith, and Terrell Prior and asked us which quarterback

621
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Speaker 1: we would take right now. I think we all took Manual?

622
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 1: Is that right? I would change after what rewatching the

623
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:56,560
Speaker 1: Jets Bills game. I would honestly switch my pick to

624
00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:59,200
Speaker 1: Gino Smith, not by a lot, and I don't let

625
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:01,640
Speaker 1: any of them. But here's the bad news for you,

626
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 1: because your hero pick is in trouble. I think because

627
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 1: e J. Manuel. I think he had maybe six or

628
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 1: seven really ugly overthrows where he seems to be like

629
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 1: he's trying to be almost safe and prevent a turnover,

630
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 1: but he's not actually getting the ball anywhere near where

631
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 1: a receiver can catch it if he doesn't correct it

632
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 1: against what I think is a really west is right

633
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:28,120
Speaker 1: in an underrated defense, this could be ugly. I I

634
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:31,760
Speaker 1: say Ravens. I think the case for Dan is that

635
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 1: it's a defensive game. That the Bill's defense is pretty

636
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 1: good this year. They look better overall. I think they've

637
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 1: done more things. I think they have some talent upfront,

638
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:42,560
Speaker 1: and that it's a defensive gaming. The Ravens offense did

639
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 1: not look good against Houston, they haven't really looked good

640
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 1: all season, and that it's a thirteen you know, ten

641
00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:51,080
Speaker 1: type of game, all right? And uh, speaking of Greg,

642
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 1: you took the Patriots of New England to take down

643
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons on the road. That's pretty gutsy because

644
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 1: the Pats aren't looking too hot, at least offensively still,

645
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,120
Speaker 1: and the Atlanta needs this game. Well, it's like a

646
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 1: carried away. It's a three and o team against the

647
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 1: one and two team, and there's a lot that goes

648
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 1: into those records, but it's not that. Come on, the

649
00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 1: Patriots have the best cake record you could cake schedule

650
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 1: you could ever ask for to start a season. That

651
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 1: that's totally fair. But to me, it's a it's a

652
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 1: coin flip game. And I do have a theory with

653
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:23,240
Speaker 1: these picks, and that's when you're making picks, the worst

654
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:27,120
Speaker 1: possible result that you can have is to pick against

655
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 1: your team and then they win. Anyways, you just feel

656
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:34,240
Speaker 1: so stupid that for me, the emotional pain that comes

657
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 1: with that makes it so that I pretty much picked

658
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 1: the Patriots every week unless they unless they were in

659
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:41,719
Speaker 1: Denver Seattle at this point, which is really risky by

660
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 1: the way. Yeah, picking the Patriots, That's what I'm saying,

661
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:47,680
Speaker 1: But I guaranteed seven winning percentage most seasons. I mean,

662
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 1: what is it about the Falcons that makes the Patriots

663
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 1: some big underdogs there? What is it? I'll make that

664
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan, Mike Smith era there is close to unbeatable

665
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:03,640
Speaker 1: at home? Is any team including the Seahawks over that span? Uh? There?

666
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 1: They haven't lost at home this year. They are too

667
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 1: plays from being undefeated right now. They're not playing as

668
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 1: bad as conventional wisdom says. Roddy White's getting healthier. If

669
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 1: they get a little bit of more improved play on

670
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 1: the offensive line, maybe Tony Gonzalez runs a few more routes.

671
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 1: I think this Falcons team is ready to go on

672
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 1: a rule and you're I'm sure you're referencing the Falcons

673
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:26,960
Speaker 1: being unbeatable at home during the regular season. Yes, this

674
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 1: is an interesting test of the Patriots defense because we

675
00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:33,320
Speaker 1: think they're better. But it's the first real offense they've played,

676
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 1: so as a Patriots fan, I'm really curious to see

677
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 1: how their secondary holds up, because it seems like Kyle Arrington,

678
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:42,640
Speaker 1: you know, Fonso Dinard are playing really well. But I

679
00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:44,560
Speaker 1: don't know if I really trust that. How do we

680
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:46,760
Speaker 1: know we're gonna get to the rest of the games.

681
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Speaker 1: But before that, we had promised our special guest. He

682
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Speaker 1: is on the other side of the pond. He is

683
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:56,560
Speaker 1: a great man, great valor, great broad shoulders, handsome Hank

684
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Speaker 1: Henry Hodson. Heck, hey, guys, how are you our supplemental

685
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 1: draft correspondent, an expert now our international correspondent in London

686
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:11,759
Speaker 1: for the big showdown between the windless Pittsburgh Steelers and

687
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:15,880
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings people getting pumped over them. They certainly, I

688
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:18,440
Speaker 1: will maybe sweep that under the table their records at

689
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:21,440
Speaker 1: the moment and just focus on the history of what

690
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:24,080
Speaker 1: time is it there are and are we messing with

691
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:28,560
Speaker 1: your your whole schedule here? You you aren't yet at

692
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:31,479
Speaker 1: seven pm? I have I have plans that I managed

693
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:33,520
Speaker 1: to sit you in amongst my busy schedule. I know

694
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:35,880
Speaker 1: he has plans, do you know. I'll tell you what

695
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:39,240
Speaker 1: Henry and I are are our friends, we hang out socially,

696
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:41,759
Speaker 1: and I will tell you this. I know Henry is

697
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:43,840
Speaker 1: happily married, he's got kids. But that guy is a

698
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:46,799
Speaker 1: legend in England. And I always tell Henry, I say,

699
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 1: when whenever he goes back to London, especially when he's

700
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 1: on his own, it must be a lot of fun

701
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:54,080
Speaker 1: because he goes back to the London office where he's

702
00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:56,440
Speaker 1: a legend because he worked there for how many years?

703
00:34:56,520 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 1: Hack Um I worked there for seven years? Seven years?

704
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:04,080
Speaker 1: And then and then and then he leaves London after

705
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 1: seven years to go to as they say, the States,

706
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 1: and he takes a big job in America, the land

707
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:15,000
Speaker 1: of opportunity. You can only imagine what was going on

708
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:17,120
Speaker 1: in that office, the way they must look up to him.

709
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:19,800
Speaker 1: I can almost imagine, like Sean Payton, remember that do

710
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 1: your job banner that hangs hung over the practice facility

711
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 1: last year, Big Hank, do your job. And I also

712
00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:31,279
Speaker 1: imagine remember the receptionist in the office she pines for

713
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:33,480
Speaker 1: Hanky comes back and she's like wow, and she's like

714
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:37,320
Speaker 1: a mixture of Patsy Kensitt and uh pam from the office.

715
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Speaker 1: Is any of this accurate, Hank, only in your favorite imagination?

716
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:46,040
Speaker 1: So were you at Steelers practice today? Greg? I didn't

717
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,880
Speaker 1: thank you, Greg. I didn't go to their practice. I

718
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:54,480
Speaker 1: went to there. They had no media availability at practice. Um,

719
00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:57,399
Speaker 1: so I went to their press conference, which happened first

720
00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:00,040
Speaker 1: thing this morning, literally immediately after they got off and

721
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:03,240
Speaker 1: atlantic flights, so you can imagine there is the mixture

722
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 1: of that if any of you have traveled on those

723
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 1: those long flights, there's either the mixture of sheer exhaustion

724
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:12,600
Speaker 1: or deliriousness, if that's the word. Um and uh. And

725
00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:16,399
Speaker 1: so the press conference with interesting. I have a real question, Hank,

726
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:20,840
Speaker 1: do do people care? Are people excited for real in

727
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:23,440
Speaker 1: England about this game? Yeah? I mean, I think if

728
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 1: you you know, when this game was announced, what maybe

729
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:29,000
Speaker 1: ten months ago now, um, people were really excited. These

730
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:32,319
Speaker 1: were two teams. Obviously that last year the Vikings made

731
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 1: the playoffs, although um, some of us will may be

732
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:38,440
Speaker 1: surprised that they've got there with with Christian Ponder at quarterback.

733
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:40,520
Speaker 1: The fact that they're both going three I think is

734
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:42,800
Speaker 1: disappointing now. And that's really been the story of a

735
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 1: lot of these international games that the teams have come

736
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:47,240
Speaker 1: in with a lot of promise and then there's always

737
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:50,440
Speaker 1: been at least one which has flopped miserably. Um, you know,

738
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 1: going back to the very first year when when my

739
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:55,719
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins arrived in London without a win and end

740
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:58,360
Speaker 1: of the season with only one of them. Um. But

741
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 1: as I think people are only even excited. Look, part

742
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 1: of it is if you only get to see one

743
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:06,439
Speaker 1: or two games a year, now, um, you're excited about

744
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 1: seeing stars. And the truth is, with Adrian Peterson and

745
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger and a number of the other players on

746
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 1: both teams, I think the fans here are excited about

747
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 1: seeing some of the top players and and look what

748
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:20,919
Speaker 1: was happened in other years. There's there's been mismatches. There's

749
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:22,719
Speaker 1: been one very bad team, as I said, and then

750
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:24,720
Speaker 1: one which has been pretty good. You know, the Patriots

751
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 1: are coming in some the Buccaneers and Rams over the

752
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:30,200
Speaker 1: last three years. So at least I think you know

753
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:31,960
Speaker 1: that that in fact, you're trying to put a positive

754
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:34,399
Speaker 1: spin on it. There's there's two games for two teams

755
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:37,400
Speaker 1: rather who are pretty evenly matched. Henry, it sounds like

756
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 1: what the league needs And tell me if you agree

757
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:43,840
Speaker 1: is to flex schedule teams to suddenly find out that

758
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:46,960
Speaker 1: they're being thrown into a London game. Yeah, I think

759
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:48,759
Speaker 1: that would be ideal. I'm sure that will go down

760
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:52,359
Speaker 1: just terrifically with coaches and players. So, by the way, guys,

761
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 1: next week you're playing in London. So Henry, I know,

762
00:37:56,360 --> 00:38:00,080
Speaker 1: you know there's probably less excitement because they're winless. But

763
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:05,440
Speaker 1: then again, Matt Castle announced as the Vikings starter. Suddenly

764
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 1: there's the Matt Castle factor. Does that get them on

765
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:12,760
Speaker 1: the front of the papers? That angle is huge? Castle

766
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:17,239
Speaker 1: is a is a subculture hero in the UK. Do

767
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:19,440
Speaker 1: you do you do we think this those? Do we

768
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 1: think it matters that Castle starting over? Patter? Seriously? Does

769
00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:24,359
Speaker 1: that change how you guys see this game at all,

770
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 1: not one iota, not not a bit. No. I mean, look,

771
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:29,279
Speaker 1: I think the game is I think the game. I

772
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:32,320
Speaker 1: do think the game will be interesting. I favored the

773
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:36,080
Speaker 1: Vikings in a situation, but but I think it's an

774
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 1: interesting game. And I genuinely don't you know, I don't

775
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:40,520
Speaker 1: think you should be too fixated on the fact that

776
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 1: fans here are feeling disappointed, as they say, they have

777
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:45,600
Speaker 1: two games a year, and the second one is Jacksonville

778
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:47,799
Speaker 1: against San Francisco. So to make about what you will,

779
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:50,760
Speaker 1: I think people are this game sold out within twenty

780
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 1: four hours. I think people are excited about what they're

781
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:55,319
Speaker 1: going to see on the field, and ultimately someone's going

782
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 1: to leave with the win. So that's good news. Hank

783
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 1: Was I always get excited. I tweeted about this. Hank

784
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:04,919
Speaker 1: Was a a t L correspondent, wrote a nice little

785
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 1: preview piece about what's going on in London right now. Hey,

786
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:10,560
Speaker 1: one other culture question, Hank, are there you know how

787
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:12,840
Speaker 1: in I guess l a Here in New York, I

788
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 1: know there are tons of you know, soccer bars, Are

789
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:20,240
Speaker 1: there NFL bars in London? There were? But it's funny actually,

790
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:22,960
Speaker 1: add Kinker boiler is over here for NFL Network, and

791
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:24,719
Speaker 1: she asked me if I could put send her to

792
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 1: a Steelers bar, and I said she'd be lucky to

793
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:30,920
Speaker 1: find an NFL barles known as Steelers bar. There are

794
00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:33,320
Speaker 1: a couple of places where fans, you know win in London.

795
00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:36,160
Speaker 1: You know, I know of that fans gathered to watch

796
00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:38,839
Speaker 1: games on Sunday nights. Um, you know when they take

797
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:41,799
Speaker 1: place here, the game's kickoff at six pm and nine pm.

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00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:44,320
Speaker 1: There's there's two what we in l A called the

799
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:47,759
Speaker 1: early games. Um. So there are a couple of bars

800
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 1: that that fans go to. But there's certainly have places

801
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 1: where you can mix with other Steelers fans alone and

802
00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:55,400
Speaker 1: and no one else. I went to some bar I

803
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 1: think I was there in ninety nine or two thousand.

804
00:39:57,560 --> 00:39:59,879
Speaker 1: It was the Saints ever first playoff game with Jim

805
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:03,240
Speaker 1: Haslet in that place. It was rocking for some action,

806
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:08,440
Speaker 1: I would. I'd wager it was called the Sports Cafe,

807
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:12,760
Speaker 1: which is sort of a big, a big London sports venue.

808
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:15,439
Speaker 1: Way to go out on a limb with the name

809
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:20,279
Speaker 1: sports Cafe. Yeah, well that's what it says on the tune. Um, HENK,

810
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:22,920
Speaker 1: We'll let you go because like I said, you're you're

811
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Speaker 1: a hero back there are conquering hero returning exactly. Patty

812
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:29,600
Speaker 1: Kensas waiting for what is what are your plans now?

813
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:33,239
Speaker 1: You're like hanging out with Lily Allen or what's happening exactly? Yeah,

814
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:35,320
Speaker 1: first of all, Lily Allen and then you know, I

815
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Speaker 1: haven't seen seeing some of those other UK s clerbetucs names.

816
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Speaker 1: I can't remember the Gallagher so the Gallagher's and I

817
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:45,920
Speaker 1: will be will definitely be be hanging out. And the guy,

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Speaker 1: the annoying comedian guy, the tall, gangly one with long hair, well,

819
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Speaker 1: the comedian Gallagher that bust watermelons. No, no, no, no,

820
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:56,839
Speaker 1: the guy you know, I can't remember his name, Mr Bean,

821
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:05,880
Speaker 1: Mr Bean? All right, okay, yeah, enjoy yourself. You are

822
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:08,160
Speaker 1: an icon on your native soil and that has to

823
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:13,719
Speaker 1: be exciting. It's like how Mark feels in America. That yeah,

824
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 1: all right, Henry, thank you for being our correspondent and

825
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:19,839
Speaker 1: come back soon. I will do great speech you guys.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the games this week, al right, say hi to

827
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Speaker 1: the receptionist. Alright later, handsome heck clearly at a British pub,

828
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:31,440
Speaker 1: trying to mask that he seemed a little distracted. I'm

829
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 1: not gonna get it. I just don't know. You know,

830
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:35,279
Speaker 1: he did a great job, but it's sounds like a

831
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 1: guy who was ready for a big night. You just

832
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:38,600
Speaker 1: need to knock this out because I believe it's like

833
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:40,360
Speaker 1: eight pm where he is right now. I think they

834
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:43,440
Speaker 1: teach you that in host school. Right after the guest leaves,

835
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:46,120
Speaker 1: do not, you know, make fun of him. I didn't

836
00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:50,080
Speaker 1: make fun of us distracted, But now, thank you very much,

837
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:53,160
Speaker 1: handsome mac. Okay, so we covered We covered that game

838
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:57,759
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Minnesota Wheelers. By the way, just so Hank would

839
00:41:57,800 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 1: have had a hero pick if he counted. And by

840
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:01,359
Speaker 1: the way, our picks you could find on the Around

841
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:05,040
Speaker 1: the League blog. In our weekly post, Kevin patra Uh

842
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:07,000
Speaker 1: had the worst record this week, so he wrote the

843
00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:09,319
Speaker 1: intro intro. So check that out. All right, let's get

844
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:10,640
Speaker 1: into the rest of the games and then get out

845
00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:13,839
Speaker 1: of here. Mark Sessler Uh tell us a little bit

846
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:17,319
Speaker 1: about Cincinnati and Cleveland. Well, I think it's two good

847
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:21,200
Speaker 1: defenses going up against each other, and yeah, it's it's

848
00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 1: gonna be a tough one for Cleveland to win. I

849
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:25,440
Speaker 1: think that Brian Hoyer after last week, there may be

850
00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 1: some heightened expectations where he's bound to come back down

851
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:32,400
Speaker 1: to earth against Aid really a much better defense, So

852
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:35,120
Speaker 1: we'll see. I I honestly I picked Cleveland, but that

853
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:37,920
Speaker 1: was that was a feeling that I'm not feeling so

854
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:41,040
Speaker 1: good about at this point. Yeah, that Chud redemption angle

855
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:44,400
Speaker 1: was nice last week, um after everyone basically thought the

856
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:46,600
Speaker 1: Browns would go on the tank. But nothing in Cleveland

857
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:50,080
Speaker 1: that is nice last for long? You are a factory

858
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:54,080
Speaker 1: upset if how about that defensive line though Desmond Bryants

859
00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:56,759
Speaker 1: they do have a that's that's the hope that if

860
00:42:56,800 --> 00:42:59,080
Speaker 1: they play the way that they kind of have in

861
00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:02,320
Speaker 1: each game to be on that could be tough for

862
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:04,640
Speaker 1: Cincinnati because I I do still feel with the Bengals,

863
00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 1: if they don't get that A. J. Green connection going,

864
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:10,319
Speaker 1: they have to go somewhere else. And if it isn't

865
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:13,560
Speaker 1: one of their young players Eifford or Bernard, it's it's

866
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:14,840
Speaker 1: going to be a problem for them. I don't know

867
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:18,360
Speaker 1: where John Hughes came from exactly, but he's been playing.

868
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:23,279
Speaker 1: He came from the mighty homegrin front office. He is

869
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:25,799
Speaker 1: uh and he's kind of come out of nowhere. He's

870
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:28,279
Speaker 1: playing great. Krueger's playing great. I like the Browns in

871
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:31,400
Speaker 1: this game. Okay, I'll talk a little bit about the

872
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:34,520
Speaker 1: Colts and Jacksonville. You know, Jacksonville. We're all on the

873
00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:36,920
Speaker 1: old sixteen watch at this point, right, this is possible,

874
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:39,920
Speaker 1: This could happen. Blaine Gabbert is back in the lineup.

875
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:42,799
Speaker 1: Get excited, Jacksonville. I don't think it's gonna make any

876
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:44,800
Speaker 1: difference the culture. I could see a little bit of

877
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:47,200
Speaker 1: a letdown for the Colts after such a great win

878
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 1: in San Francisco last week, but I cannot imagine any

879
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:54,080
Speaker 1: scenario whereby the Jaguars beat them. My Bradshaw neck injury

880
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:56,440
Speaker 1: has not expected to play. He's been rolled out. He's

881
00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:59,920
Speaker 1: officially out for this game. So we're gonna see. We're

882
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:02,560
Speaker 1: gonna see how good Trent Richardson is because he's gonna

883
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:04,480
Speaker 1: get You would think he will get at least twenty

884
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:06,359
Speaker 1: carries in this game. How about four yards to carry

885
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 1: from Trent Today on Sunday against listen, Jacksonville, Jaguars defense improved,

886
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:15,120
Speaker 1: but not necessarily NFL level. I wouldn't be that shock though,

887
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:17,400
Speaker 1: if they played Donald Brown a lot and still split

888
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:21,200
Speaker 1: it up somewhat just because Richardson's new there. And the

889
00:44:21,719 --> 00:44:23,719
Speaker 1: case for the Jaguars here is the Colts kind of

890
00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:25,600
Speaker 1: keep it close to the vest, so maybe it could

891
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:28,439
Speaker 1: be a defensive game. But I still don't see it. Hey, West,

892
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:31,840
Speaker 1: is there any chance of Giants get things together winless

893
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:35,160
Speaker 1: going into Kansas City to play the undefeated Chiefs against

894
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:37,520
Speaker 1: everything I've seen on film this year, I have picked

895
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 1: the Giants in this game. Why did you guys do that?

896
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 1: A few people picked the Giant It's just hard to

897
00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:45,880
Speaker 1: believe that the Eli Coughlin Giants are going to be

898
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:49,279
Speaker 1: truly three and thirteen dreadful and at some point they

899
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:52,239
Speaker 1: need to win. And you know, the Chiefs very good

900
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:55,640
Speaker 1: defense suspect offense. Maybe they this is their win just

901
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:57,719
Speaker 1: to get on the board. That's why I picked them,

902
00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:01,520
Speaker 1: you know, I it's the bunker mentality. Basically, I think

903
00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:05,680
Speaker 1: the Giants will this week? Is I mean, are you

904
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:09,160
Speaker 1: going to pack it in and quit on the season

905
00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:11,359
Speaker 1: or are you gonna come up and play and play

906
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:13,919
Speaker 1: well against a quarterback who I think, frankly just isn't

907
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:16,640
Speaker 1: playing well. Um, there are a lot of media members

908
00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:18,520
Speaker 1: pumping up Alex Smith, and I hate what I see

909
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:20,680
Speaker 1: from him right now, So I don't I don't have

910
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:23,360
Speaker 1: any problem picking against Alex Smith. I'm with West. I

911
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:25,360
Speaker 1: picked the Giants, and it's one of those ones that

912
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:28,400
Speaker 1: I'm looking back on. I'm saying, why did I do this? Because, frankly,

913
00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:31,840
Speaker 1: the idea that New York finally might get that running

914
00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:34,640
Speaker 1: game going, it couldn't come at a worst time. Kansas City.

915
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:37,200
Speaker 1: You know DeMarco Murray, we solbod did against the Rams.

916
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:39,480
Speaker 1: He couldn't get to the outside against the Chiefs. And

917
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:41,799
Speaker 1: you can't get anything up the middle with Don Terry Poe,

918
00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:45,320
Speaker 1: and it's like David Wilson. It could be four straight

919
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:48,680
Speaker 1: weeks of a really underwhelming performance. I hear you on

920
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:51,919
Speaker 1: the seasons on the line theory, but wasn't that last week?

921
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:53,880
Speaker 1: That was why I picked them. Last week and I

922
00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:56,800
Speaker 1: and I saw one of the worst performances any team's

923
00:45:56,880 --> 00:46:00,279
Speaker 1: had in years. It just seems like you gotta trust

924
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:01,759
Speaker 1: what you see. At some point in the Chiefs have

925
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:04,080
Speaker 1: been pretty good. I have no problem saying the Chiefs

926
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:06,799
Speaker 1: are a much better team than the Giants. I've got

927
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:12,759
Speaker 1: a sessler. That's our new word for feeling the news room.

928
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:15,080
Speaker 1: I thought that I know what you're saying, Greg, and

929
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:18,319
Speaker 1: I agree. I mean that was a awful showing by

930
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:21,320
Speaker 1: the Johnson Carl Carolina, but that was also one of

931
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:24,040
Speaker 1: those Murphy Law type games. Anything that could go wrong

932
00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:26,520
Speaker 1: did go wrong there. And I'm willing to kind of

933
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:29,440
Speaker 1: maybe throw that out and give them another shot. But

934
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:31,000
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what if they because I picked them

935
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:33,319
Speaker 1: three weeks in a row. Now, if if they four

936
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:35,719
Speaker 1: weeks in a row, actually, Jesus, if they burned me again,

937
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:37,520
Speaker 1: I'm out on the Giants. And by wrong, you mean

938
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:40,920
Speaker 1: their offensive line is wrong, their entire second other players are.

939
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:44,120
Speaker 1: Everything's wrong. Well, one of us picked them to go

940
00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:51,000
Speaker 1: six and ten. So this sizzler, all right? Mark, Mike

941
00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:55,400
Speaker 1: Lennon makes his NFL debut. He's taking on the Arizona Cardinals.

942
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:58,040
Speaker 1: Bucks need to win. What do you see there? I

943
00:46:58,160 --> 00:46:59,680
Speaker 1: picked the Cardinals in this. I think it's the more

944
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:02,920
Speaker 1: town on the football team. Overall. I like Tampa's defense,

945
00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:05,000
Speaker 1: but uh, I don't know. Anytime you have to throw

946
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:07,040
Speaker 1: a rookie call, I think Glennon. Obviously, the guy's got

947
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:09,800
Speaker 1: a cannon of an arm. But a lot of the

948
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:12,600
Speaker 1: issues with Glennan from what we've heard from the draft

949
00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:15,960
Speaker 1: guys before he was taken by by Tampa is that

950
00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:17,520
Speaker 1: he he has a lot of the same issues that

951
00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:19,960
Speaker 1: that Freeman and a lot of other troubled quarterbacks have.

952
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:21,719
Speaker 1: It's a lot to ask him to come in and

953
00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:24,000
Speaker 1: fix it and have a game when they said they're

954
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:26,440
Speaker 1: gonna unleash them, not just have him manage the thing.

955
00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 1: Arizona is a well coached team. I I believe they're

956
00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:32,359
Speaker 1: gonna win this game. After pointing out for four years

957
00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:34,920
Speaker 1: that Josh Freeman is overrated, I can't believe that I

958
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:38,920
Speaker 1: have become the media Josh Freeman defender this week. He

959
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 1: didn't play badly last week. Their receivers uh dropped five

960
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 1: or six balls by the end of the game. He

961
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:50,000
Speaker 1: was throwing too. Eric Page, Kevin Oagletree, and some character

962
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:54,080
Speaker 1: named Tim Wright who I've never even heard of. These

963
00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:55,759
Speaker 1: are the people Glennon is going to be thrown through

964
00:47:55,840 --> 00:47:59,800
Speaker 1: this week. Jackson and and Williams were limited in practiced

965
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:02,719
Speaker 1: today finally after not showing up the last two days.

966
00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:05,080
Speaker 1: We don't know, both questionable. Third question, well, we don't

967
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:06,960
Speaker 1: know if they're gonna play, what capacity they'll be at

968
00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:09,640
Speaker 1: if they do play. I don't see how the Bucks

969
00:48:09,719 --> 00:48:11,720
Speaker 1: offense is going to pull themselves out of this tailspin.

970
00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:13,400
Speaker 1: There are two ways to look at Mike Lennon. That

971
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:15,720
Speaker 1: he was the third quarterback picked in the entire draft,

972
00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:18,919
Speaker 1: or that he's the third round pick. And you know, listen,

973
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:21,719
Speaker 1: it worked with Russell Wilson last year. But typically a

974
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:24,479
Speaker 1: quarterback that goes in the third round doesn't get thrown

975
00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:27,600
Speaker 1: into the fire immediately and become an effective player. So

976
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 1: you know, it's kind of a hail Mary by the Bucks.

977
00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:33,360
Speaker 1: And I agree West, I mean, Freeman obviously got railroaded

978
00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:35,520
Speaker 1: out of town on this, and uh, I don't know.

979
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:37,799
Speaker 1: It seems a little shortsighted to me to now turn

980
00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:40,279
Speaker 1: it all turn it all over to Free, turn it

981
00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:42,800
Speaker 1: all over to glenn And I guess they they have

982
00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:45,080
Speaker 1: to make a move here. They got their desperate but

983
00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:48,360
Speaker 1: it could backfire, certainly. There is one other way to

984
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:51,239
Speaker 1: look at Glennon, as one of my Twitter followers pointed out,

985
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:54,000
Speaker 1: he's a bit of a cartoon giraffe. That's one way

986
00:48:54,040 --> 00:48:56,680
Speaker 1: of looking at it. That is a good thing. Or

987
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:01,680
Speaker 1: I took the Bucks because I thought their defense is

988
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:04,120
Speaker 1: the best group in this entire game. So I don't

989
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:05,719
Speaker 1: it's the only thing I really like about these two

990
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:08,040
Speaker 1: teams right now. And that takes us to our last game,

991
00:49:08,080 --> 00:49:11,240
Speaker 1: Greg Washington, Redskins, oh and three. They go to Oakland

992
00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:14,600
Speaker 1: to take on the Raiders, and I have a hero

993
00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:18,239
Speaker 1: pick in this game, but as an asterisk next year,

994
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:20,520
Speaker 1: I took the Raiders. But we're allowed to change our

995
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:23,239
Speaker 1: picks if the quarterback changes, and we want to. And

996
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:25,279
Speaker 1: and it's crazy to think that I have so much

997
00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:29,080
Speaker 1: faith in Terrell Prior that if he doesn't play, I

998
00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:31,440
Speaker 1: don't think the Raiders are gonna win this game. But

999
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:33,279
Speaker 1: if he does play, I give him a good chance,

1000
00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:36,400
Speaker 1: and they're my pick. So as we're taping this, we

1001
00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:39,880
Speaker 1: don't know for sure whether he's playing or not. But

1002
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:43,560
Speaker 1: he was out there on Friday after some reports suggesting

1003
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:45,200
Speaker 1: he won't play, and he was out there taking some

1004
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:48,920
Speaker 1: first team snaps. And I think their defense is better

1005
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:51,440
Speaker 1: than the Redskins defense, and I think Terrell Prior is

1006
00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:53,480
Speaker 1: a guy that could make some plays against the Redskins.

1007
00:49:53,760 --> 00:49:56,360
Speaker 1: If it's Matt Flynn, I've just I've just kind of

1008
00:49:56,440 --> 00:49:59,239
Speaker 1: lost any faith I ever had in Matt Flynn. Wait,

1009
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:01,279
Speaker 1: so we all signed off on you can just change

1010
00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:02,880
Speaker 1: your pick is that how we had that as a

1011
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:07,680
Speaker 1: rule last year, and that to me seems fair because otherwise,

1012
00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:10,320
Speaker 1: because how could you know a quarterback is you know,

1013
00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:12,640
Speaker 1: we make our picks on Wednesday? Before we do, I

1014
00:50:12,719 --> 00:50:14,759
Speaker 1: thought Prior is probably gonna play in this game, and

1015
00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:17,040
Speaker 1: that that was a big thing. And Matt doesn't Matt

1016
00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:20,080
Speaker 1: Flynn scare you all? Perhaps it's time for a change.

1017
00:50:20,239 --> 00:50:22,640
Speaker 1: Scared Pete Carroll and Dennis Allen. I would argue that

1018
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:25,279
Speaker 1: Dan didn't know that Bradford wasn't going to play last night.

1019
00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:28,400
Speaker 1: He didn't play. It didn't Um, should we do a

1020
00:50:28,520 --> 00:50:31,319
Speaker 1: rule change going forward? Listen, you know what you you're

1021
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:33,680
Speaker 1: dealing with going in to Wednesday when you have to

1022
00:50:33,719 --> 00:50:38,239
Speaker 1: have those picks and not not retroactive going forward? Perhaps No,

1023
00:50:38,440 --> 00:50:40,360
Speaker 1: I like this rule. What's wrong with it? Because I

1024
00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:43,480
Speaker 1: don't know just the hero pix are. It's a but

1025
00:50:43,560 --> 00:50:47,719
Speaker 1: I'm changing. I'm changing out of one anyways, just a

1026
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:53,640
Speaker 1: little John Carrish West gets pottle. So you guys think

1027
00:50:53,719 --> 00:50:56,839
Speaker 1: that the Redskins are just gonna steam roll in this game, Well,

1028
00:50:57,320 --> 00:50:59,320
Speaker 1: I picked. I'm not gonna let you just say that

1029
00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:01,640
Speaker 1: the Raiders him a better defense than the Redskins. After

1030
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:06,239
Speaker 1: seeing the Redskins played against the Packers, the Eagles, and

1031
00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:08,839
Speaker 1: who else did the Redskins play against the Lions three

1032
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:11,920
Speaker 1: of the better offenses. So I don't think that you

1033
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:18,959
Speaker 1: get to say that the Raiders just have a better defense. Yeah,

1034
00:51:20,480 --> 00:51:23,319
Speaker 1: you know, after hearing all of our plans, that maybe

1035
00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:26,160
Speaker 1: we can get Greg's wife. Greg's wife is a chef

1036
00:51:26,239 --> 00:51:29,320
Speaker 1: of some renown. If we can get her involved and

1037
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:32,200
Speaker 1: make all these dishes with like the softball pants as

1038
00:51:32,239 --> 00:51:34,400
Speaker 1: a topping, I don't even care if the Raiders win

1039
00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:37,080
Speaker 1: eight games, and as far as we know, Greg's wife

1040
00:51:37,120 --> 00:51:41,719
Speaker 1: has no feelings for less sneed, which is good. The

1041
00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:46,919
Speaker 1: Raiders are and if they're gonna win, uh softball pants.

1042
00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:48,719
Speaker 1: This is one of those games you gotta win. You're

1043
00:51:48,719 --> 00:51:51,440
Speaker 1: at home against a winless team. It's a big one.

1044
00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:54,680
Speaker 1: I think r G three, though he's has looked better

1045
00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:57,480
Speaker 1: each week, and he's not the guy from I think

1046
00:51:57,800 --> 00:52:01,440
Speaker 1: last time most people Solergy three was that Monday night opener,

1047
00:52:01,520 --> 00:52:04,960
Speaker 1: and he looked it was depressing. He has and you're

1048
00:52:05,040 --> 00:52:08,400
Speaker 1: you're right, the Redskins, you know, have a This is

1049
00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:11,120
Speaker 1: a must win for them. I agree with Greg, though

1050
00:52:11,200 --> 00:52:13,239
Speaker 1: I almost went hero, it would have not been a hero.

1051
00:52:13,719 --> 00:52:16,160
Speaker 1: I like what I've seen from Oakland. I really do

1052
00:52:16,280 --> 00:52:18,760
Speaker 1: either an incomplete team, but it's hard to pick against

1053
00:52:18,840 --> 00:52:21,680
Speaker 1: them in a game like this because they've been really scrappy.

1054
00:52:21,719 --> 00:52:24,600
Speaker 1: I go back to that cult scheme. All right, we

1055
00:52:24,680 --> 00:52:26,680
Speaker 1: gotta get out of here. That's it. We're out of time.

1056
00:52:27,440 --> 00:52:30,360
Speaker 1: We could just keep going. We could go on in perpetuity,

1057
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Speaker 1: but we won't. Um. Okay, So just a couple of

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Speaker 1: little housekeeping. I just want to call attention to some

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Speaker 1: things we have on the site right now. Uh, Greg

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Speaker 1: and Mark, you wrote the what to Watch for in

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Speaker 1: week four. That was good stuff. I enjoyed that. West

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Speaker 1: you'd have that takedown the mark ingram uh false reports

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Speaker 1: of a trade request where you went after a certain

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Speaker 1: national writer. I enjoyed that. And you didn't even read. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I enjoyed your piece. It was a pet peeve about

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Speaker 1: people who do not understand what a report is. I try, Yes,

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Speaker 1: that's true, us. I really I read your piece very closely.

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Speaker 1: Why are you getting on me? I'm trying to plug

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Speaker 1: your piece, Mark, and you won't and you won't let

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Speaker 1: me do it for you. I just want to stay

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Speaker 1: real with the listener. You did. You obviously did not

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Speaker 1: even read what we wrote. Whatever. Alright, the a T

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Speaker 1: l end around with Badger from Breaking Bad Matt Jones. Also,

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Speaker 1: that will be up Friday. Thank you for listening. Subscribe

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Speaker 1: Uh you know, just do all the things to support

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Speaker 1: the podcast, because UM, we really like doing this and

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Speaker 1: if you don't, they'll take this away from us. I'm

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Speaker 1: just laying it out there, but we do got to

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Speaker 1: get out of here. Uh. Dan Hanson signing off for

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Speaker 1: the Mailman, the Sizzler, the Boss k Rich behind the

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Speaker 1: glass head. While I'll be in turn. We will see

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Speaker 1: you on Sunday