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Speaker 1: oh god, it's right. Welcome to another Editionally Around the

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Speaker 1: NFL Podcast, Dan Hands is here, joined in a room

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Speaker 1: filled with some heroes, a virtual room that is Mark Sessler,

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Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal. Boys. Here we are now. This will be

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Speaker 1: our ninth season together. We started in the summer of

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Speaker 1: two thousand thirteen, and since then we've done somewhere in

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Speaker 1: the neighborhood of twelve hundred shows. By my count, at

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Speaker 1: At least twelve hundred shows. We've had at least six

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Speaker 1: my count, about six producers. We've been to eight Super

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Speaker 1: Bowls as ap to London Games three. If J. J.

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Speaker 1: on the show once, as was Little Debbie multiple times.

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Speaker 1: Get your act together, Bro, get trash. A serial killer

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Speaker 1: almost iced Erica last year. West eight pieces of a

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Speaker 1: m West West. Yes, we miss that dude. This will

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Speaker 1: be our first journey boys without him, but he is

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Speaker 1: with us in spirit. Football is back. I think I

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Speaker 1: guess today it's like a like, that's for real, this

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Speaker 1: is really you could do it. You could do it

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Speaker 1: again on Sunday because it's like that's the football is

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Speaker 1: back again. This time it counts. Um. I do want

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Speaker 1: to point out it was Mark who made that sound early.

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Speaker 1: I'm just a pro. I would never cut someone off.

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Speaker 1: And I'm looking forward to uh seeing you guys later today.

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Speaker 1: Depending on when you're listening to this, maybe it was yesterday.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna be taping our Thursday Night recap altogether this

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Speaker 1: I will let me just to be to clarify, it

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Speaker 1: was a recording of my voice that Erica you know,

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Speaker 1: That was how we started, all all four of us,

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Speaker 1: And that's definitely how I got to know West, you know,

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Speaker 1: So yes, we're um later tonight. Depending when you listen

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Speaker 1: It is the opener obviously between the Bucks and the Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: nice gathering and boar. Mar twe is an American sports writer,

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Speaker 1: That guy and um. Of course, as we spoke about

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Speaker 1: the draft, as we do every year. In our locks,

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Speaker 1: I don't forget Greg what we discussed a couple of

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Speaker 1: It's very out front it's someone I had to take it.

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Speaker 1: And it might as well beautiful. It's a nouveau reach,

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Speaker 1: I'm taking sniper fire there. There was nothing fraudulent about

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Speaker 1: Cleveland didn't play their starters at all in the preseason,

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Speaker 1: and the Chiefs played their starters more than just about

427
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Speaker 1: any team, possibly more than any team. I think that's

428
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Speaker 1: a little bit of a disadvantage, not knowing what's gonna come.

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Speaker 1: There might be no Honey Badger. Though tested positive for

430
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Speaker 1: COVID over a week ago. He is vaccinated, but judging

431
00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:21,560
Speaker 1: by the sound of the coaches, it sounds like he's

432
00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:24,240
Speaker 1: been struggling with symptoms and it might not be back

433
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Speaker 1: in time for the game. And so I'm just expecting

434
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Speaker 1: lots of points. That's my that that's it, lots of points.

435
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Speaker 1: It's a great early test for the Browns. Obviously you

436
00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:35,160
Speaker 1: think the Chiefs. Everyone's gonna pick the Chiefs, and rightfully so.

437
00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:38,440
Speaker 1: They're back to back, defending AFC champions. They're at home.

438
00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:42,920
Speaker 1: We've had a summer where we've heard about the rebuilt

439
00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:45,720
Speaker 1: offensive line, how Clyde Edwards Hilaire is going to have

440
00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:48,840
Speaker 1: a bigger year this year and year two. I do

441
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:51,480
Speaker 1: wonder about that offensive one we'll see because with Joe

442
00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:54,080
Speaker 1: Tuney and Orlando Brown, that might be the best left

443
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Speaker 1: side of a line you'll find. But the rest of

444
00:23:57,119 --> 00:24:01,240
Speaker 1: the line is filled with either rookies or um opt

445
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:03,280
Speaker 1: out rookie of last year who ha doesn't even played

446
00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:06,480
Speaker 1: a snap. Um they had Tardif who also sat out

447
00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:09,719
Speaker 1: last year. So they're not proven on that line yet.

448
00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:11,159
Speaker 1: We need to see it in action. But it's like

449
00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:13,520
Speaker 1: a run blocking line. I think they might be they're

450
00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:15,479
Speaker 1: taking a little page out of the Browns and they

451
00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:17,680
Speaker 1: want to run the ball a little more. We could

452
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Speaker 1: see a lot of that this week. The reports were

453
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Speaker 1: positive on that right side of the line. During Camp

454
00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:25,760
Speaker 1: I it were was far from a disaster. No. In fact,

455
00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:30,040
Speaker 1: he wasn't sacked once in preseason play Patrick Mahomes, But

456
00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:32,760
Speaker 1: guess what, this is the season now, and we'll see

457
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Speaker 1: how it translates against a very good Brown's defensive line

458
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Speaker 1: with the superstar Miles Guard alright, with the third overall pick,

459
00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:43,840
Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal sets, I'm gonna take a game. I'm fascinated

460
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:47,439
Speaker 1: by the New England Patriots against the Miami Dolphins. You know,

461
00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:50,840
Speaker 1: sometimes they try to stay away from the Patriots, pretend

462
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Speaker 1: I'm not too into this. Even if I wasn't into

463
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Speaker 1: the Patriots, I think this is one of the games

464
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Speaker 1: of the week and I am excited to watch it,

465
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Speaker 1: just just for the football, all of it all. I

466
00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:03,720
Speaker 1: think these can both be double digit win teams and

467
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Speaker 1: I'm just fascinated to see what they look like. They

468
00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:09,040
Speaker 1: just they're so different than a year ago. Those are

469
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Speaker 1: the teams I want to see in Week one. Like

470
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Speaker 1: I have concerns about Mac Jones in the passing game,

471
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Speaker 1: not because of Mac Jones, but it was a little

472
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Speaker 1: under the radar, like Nelson Agha didn't do anything, didn't

473
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Speaker 1: practice a ton, and Camp didn't do anything in the preseason.

474
00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:25,480
Speaker 1: Hunter Henry barely practiced all preseason. John who Smith was

475
00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:27,679
Speaker 1: in and out throughout the preseason. Like these guys have

476
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Speaker 1: not played any snaps together. I think they're gonna need

477
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Speaker 1: to run the ball a lot that like they did

478
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Speaker 1: in Week one in this exact same matchup where they

479
00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:38,160
Speaker 1: kind of broke out this nineteen forties offense with Cam

480
00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:41,320
Speaker 1: and you you expect the Dolphins defense to like have

481
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:44,160
Speaker 1: so much going on, but they're a mystery. I mean,

482
00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:47,960
Speaker 1: they are a turnstyle of like players like at this

483
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:50,199
Speaker 1: point last year, it's like Van Noy and Shack Lawson.

484
00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:52,560
Speaker 1: They brought in Bernard Rick McKinney this offseason, he didn't

485
00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:54,600
Speaker 1: even make the team. Like, it's a lot of new

486
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Speaker 1: faces and they present a lot for the quarterback Mac

487
00:25:57,640 --> 00:25:59,199
Speaker 1: Jones it's gonna have to deal with. So I'm just

488
00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:02,160
Speaker 1: curious how he is it. But it's also a new group,

489
00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:04,240
Speaker 1: like we haven't heard much about Jalen Phillips. Will see

490
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Speaker 1: how he looks in Miami, especially when the Patriots have

491
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Speaker 1: the ball. I am just fascinated, and I feel like

492
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Speaker 1: I have no feel of what's going to happen in

493
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Speaker 1: this game. I Mean I look at Miami and they

494
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:16,760
Speaker 1: you know, for all these Belichick disciples that have been

495
00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:19,520
Speaker 1: scattered around the league and typically failed for the most part.

496
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:23,200
Speaker 1: I mean, Brian Flores feels the most Belichicken him of

497
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:25,240
Speaker 1: the all and and I, I, you're right about the

498
00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:28,680
Speaker 1: turnover on defense, but I just trust Miami on defense

499
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:31,040
Speaker 1: the way they're coached. I thought that they created total

500
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Speaker 1: havoc for quarterbacks last year. And it's been Bell Bell

501
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:36,760
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick for so long. Who has you know, taken

502
00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:39,879
Speaker 1: rookie quarterbacks as a as opponents and shredded them. But

503
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:42,320
Speaker 1: now he's dealing with the rookie quarterback on his own

504
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:44,960
Speaker 1: roster and that may take a little team time to

505
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Speaker 1: develop Mac Jones, and especially for a Patriots offense that,

506
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Speaker 1: even with Tom Brady used the first month of the

507
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:52,479
Speaker 1: season a lot of times is sort of a you know,

508
00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:54,000
Speaker 1: it's a warm up to what they were going to

509
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Speaker 1: become on offense. I don't know if you're Miami, though,

510
00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:58,960
Speaker 1: you know, it all comes down to toa they looked

511
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Speaker 1: more aggressive. He looked more aggressive in the preseason. I

512
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 1: think he was one of the bigger stories of August

513
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 1: that we saw new aspects to his game. You know,

514
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:09,800
Speaker 1: you don't have Stephan Gilmore in here. Can Jail and

515
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:12,040
Speaker 1: Waddle make an impact right away? I mean you are

516
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:14,239
Speaker 1: missing Will Fuller as well, which I think is a

517
00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:16,879
Speaker 1: problem for suspension. Um I don't know if you can

518
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,560
Speaker 1: run the ball against New England's front. I'm just I'm

519
00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:22,480
Speaker 1: not sure you can not effectively. Um. Miles Gaskin is

520
00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:24,960
Speaker 1: probably he's he's the lead guy, but that it's gonna

521
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:26,680
Speaker 1: be a game where two is going to have to

522
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:28,560
Speaker 1: make some throws right away, and that's what we've been

523
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:30,920
Speaker 1: waiting to see. I had to take this game from Dan.

524
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, if I let this sit around

525
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:35,160
Speaker 1: too long he likes the A f D East too much,

526
00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:36,919
Speaker 1: I couldn't. I couldn't let it sit there. No. I

527
00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 1: for the same reason I couldn't take Cleveland Casey at

528
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:42,880
Speaker 1: least in week one, and just got to respect the game. Um. See,

529
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:46,479
Speaker 1: this is the perfect example this game, because there's been

530
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:48,560
Speaker 1: a lot of breathless hype about Mac Jones and what

531
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:50,959
Speaker 1: he did in the preseason and what the beat writers

532
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:52,919
Speaker 1: are watching a practice and that's all good, and that

533
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:55,720
Speaker 1: could that could inform you as a fan. It obviously

534
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:58,360
Speaker 1: informs the team when they make decisions about roster building.

535
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:01,640
Speaker 1: Same thing with Towah the last season and the struggles

536
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:05,320
Speaker 1: he had as a rookie um from from time to time,

537
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:08,400
Speaker 1: and they obviously sat him down several times and let

538
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:10,720
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick play, so they're trying to ease them into

539
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:13,240
Speaker 1: the mix. And then this summer you're hearing a lot

540
00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 1: of positivity about him and how he looks so much

541
00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:19,119
Speaker 1: better and maybe looks healthier and all that good. Great

542
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:21,920
Speaker 1: stuff to talk about in August in early September, But

543
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:25,440
Speaker 1: now now is here what I decide personally, whether these

544
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:28,400
Speaker 1: guys are actually the dudes, whether they got the goods too.

545
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:30,400
Speaker 1: Has got a lot of pressure on him because it's

546
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:33,159
Speaker 1: a story what's going on with him, not just with

547
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:36,840
Speaker 1: the Deshaun Watson madness and the reports out there, but

548
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:39,760
Speaker 1: just in general. If he gets off to a slow start,

549
00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:42,160
Speaker 1: he's gonna be in a situation where he could press

550
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:45,600
Speaker 1: because he'll know at that point that he's getting into

551
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 1: a tough situation. And mac Jones, we're gonna see is

552
00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 1: he gonna be one of those rookies that hits the

553
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 1: ground running or does he struggle out of the gate

554
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 1: against first team defenses for four quarters and all that

555
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 1: comes with that. So it's really exciting to watch both

556
00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:00,120
Speaker 1: of these quarterbacks at different stages of their career. Or

557
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 1: even though they're both young and both Alabama guys, only

558
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:05,960
Speaker 1: only one as a line though, I mean, at least

559
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 1: on paper, the Miami line. They're gonna be without Austin Jackson.

560
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:11,320
Speaker 1: That might be a good thing. Austin Jackson's not played

561
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 1: well for them. Maybe they're gonna try out this rookie Eichenberg,

562
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 1: But I I think mac Jones is in a better

563
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:20,480
Speaker 1: position to to excel. So yeah, I give a little

564
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:24,800
Speaker 1: edge to the hunting here, all right. I legitimately have

565
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 1: not decided. I was keep going, keeping keep going, keep going,

566
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Speaker 1: Go ahead, Greg. It's killing me trying to figure out, like,

567
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:37,680
Speaker 1: what's the first game of the Sunday season I want

568
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 1: to watch? I don't know, Like I'm looking at the broadcasters,

569
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:43,360
Speaker 1: ten am. I gotta go with my heart here and

570
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:47,000
Speaker 1: it's it's a weird one. It's gonna be Cardinals Titans.

571
00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:49,480
Speaker 1: I just, I just I don't care. This is what

572
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:51,440
Speaker 1: I want to watch it. There is no reach when

573
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:54,200
Speaker 1: you're seeing the games that you want to watch. That's well,

574
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 1: of course, if you're coming out of your war room

575
00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:58,680
Speaker 1: and saying, I'm selecting this. You're not gonna say to

576
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:02,040
Speaker 1: yourself in the college the call telling it's calling me

577
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 1: to see Julio and that's that's in uh in a

578
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:10,440
Speaker 1: Titans uniform. I want to see it. I want to

579
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 1: see Julio Jones go like seven for one sixty five

580
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:17,040
Speaker 1: and everyone's just like, oh my god, I want to

581
00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 1: see what the heck is going on with Like J. J.

582
00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:23,560
Speaker 1: Watt is on this Cardinals team and they're talking up

583
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 1: A J. Green and I'm not like convinced that any

584
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 1: of it's gonna be good. I am fascinated by these

585
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 1: two teams just because I don't know exactly what I

586
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:36,480
Speaker 1: gotta get, But you know what, I gotta suspicion. I

587
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 1: got a suspicion that this Titans team is gonna be

588
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 1: a little bit better than people think. I think Elijah

589
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 1: Molten is going to help out at slack corner. I

590
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,320
Speaker 1: like their young cornerbacks, and I think they come out

591
00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:48,360
Speaker 1: playing pretty well, throwing the ball all over the yard

592
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 1: against this you know, be leaguered Cardinals defense. Let's lock

593
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Speaker 1: up the Tennessee It's the first lock baby, Greg, I

594
00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:00,160
Speaker 1: like it. I think you've got something here because you

595
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:04,720
Speaker 1: look at the Cardinals cornerback situation, it is a mess.

596
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 1: It is a huge mess on paper. I mean, Malcolm

597
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:13,840
Speaker 1: Butler retires, You've got Byron Murphy, Marco Wilson, Robert Alford

598
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:17,480
Speaker 1: who has not played since. That's like when I played football,

599
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:23,840
Speaker 1: Tay Gowing was at thirty years earlier. I will let

600
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 1: you know, actually someone you were on the bench too,

601
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 1: like the last couple of years you didn't really get

602
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 1: much playing. I was not, in fact before the show today,

603
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:33,880
Speaker 1: a friend that I played Pop Warner with sent me

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00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:38,440
Speaker 1: um VCR recorded uh tape of a game that we

605
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:41,920
Speaker 1: were in, and I viewed myself Dominnecticut that you guys

606
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:45,200
Speaker 1: just like save all of your materials and like just

607
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 1: rewatch it all the time. It's just Greg, I had

608
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 1: a childhood. We understand that you get VCR player to

609
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Speaker 1: like play it back. No, no, no, he sent it.

610
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 1: He sent it to me a video from a VCR

611
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:01,880
Speaker 1: copy that he had somehow that transferred it. I did.

612
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:04,320
Speaker 1: I did not mention the last Cardinals cornerback though a

613
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:10,200
Speaker 1: human name Luke. It's like Marcus, like, I've got this

614
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:15,320
Speaker 1: barkou note, let me get to it. Luke l Uk

615
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 1: is his first name, which I kind of think it's cool,

616
00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:20,920
Speaker 1: but Luke Barku um an undrafted free agent. Anyways, I'm

617
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 1: with you. I think that you know, there's no Arthur Smith,

618
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 1: and I want to see what happens with Todd Downing

619
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 1: running this offense. It's the same offense, he says. I mean,

620
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:30,240
Speaker 1: in general, he's been there, he should be able to

621
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:32,840
Speaker 1: run that. But Arthur Smith got hired because of his

622
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 1: in game play calls, and he revived Ryan Tannehill's career,

623
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:40,640
Speaker 1: you know, from from scratch essentially, So what is the

624
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 1: effect with him out of the building. You know, Evan

625
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 1: Silva said, never fade the big dog. That's what he

626
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 1: said for years and years and years. This year, Evan Silva,

627
00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:53,479
Speaker 1: the fantasy guru, said he's finally worried about Derrick Henry.

628
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:56,280
Speaker 1: That's worth tracking, Uh, not just because Evan said it,

629
00:32:56,360 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 1: but after I believe something close to eight d touch

630
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:03,240
Speaker 1: is over the last two years. Um, that's certainly warrants

631
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 1: watching the the obviously coaching scheme change or at least

632
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:10,280
Speaker 1: the coach change. UM, Ryan Tannehill, will he continue to

633
00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 1: thrive as he has the last couple years, there are

634
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 1: questions there. Julio Jones great on paper, the acquisition is

635
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:17,720
Speaker 1: the three point favorites. They opened as a two and

636
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 1: a half point favorite. And and then it's I think

637
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 1: in Cardinals fans like our buddy jays Umwalt will certainly

638
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 1: attest there's a lot of doubt around that team in

639
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 1: that leadership with Cliff Kingsbury. Can he be better? Is

640
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:34,160
Speaker 1: he the guy to take Kyler Murray to the next level, Because,

641
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:36,240
Speaker 1: as I said over the summer, I think Kyler Murray

642
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:38,200
Speaker 1: this year could be lined up to be a four

643
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:42,680
Speaker 1: thousand yard passing, one thousand yard rushing type guy that's

644
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 1: never been done before. But he's gonna need Kingsbury to

645
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 1: be better and be more aggressive and put together an

646
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:50,280
Speaker 1: offense that keeps defenses on their heels. That's why he

647
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:52,480
Speaker 1: was brought in here to be this game changer of

648
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 1: McVeigh type. Uh, and he hasn't been quite frankly, so

649
00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 1: this is a big year for him. This is a

650
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 1: it's a good game, greg Um a little early in

651
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 1: the draft, but at the same time, uh, you love

652
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 1: it and now you have it, so good for you,

653
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. I mean I was I was

654
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:12,759
Speaker 1: going to lock up the Bills and then it was

655
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 1: like that that felt like, you know, for the good

656
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:16,799
Speaker 1: of the show, this would be more exciting. So I'm

657
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:19,719
Speaker 1: just all about what good for you, Greg and I.

658
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:21,520
Speaker 1: And there is a team we haven't gotten to the game,

659
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:23,439
Speaker 1: and it might not be until very late in the show,

660
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:25,719
Speaker 1: but another team that I thought about locking against, and

661
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 1: I was like, no, not weak one, Dan, you need

662
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:30,719
Speaker 1: to get this thing off on the right foot, all right, Mark,

663
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 1: it heads back to you. I mean, you have to

664
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:35,440
Speaker 1: know that one of the reasons that we picked some

665
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 1: of the games that we do is because we are

666
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:38,840
Speaker 1: covering them and you've got to kind of space it

667
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:41,319
Speaker 1: out through the day. I am I. I don't think

668
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:44,879
Speaker 1: in my life I have ever intentionally picked a Lions game.

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00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 1: Um it's you know, for obvious reasons. I've avoided that

670
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:51,279
Speaker 1: franchise um from a work standpoint whenever I can. But

671
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:54,160
Speaker 1: I am very intrigued by seeing the Niners um in

672
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 1: week one. I hate the draw for Detroit. I think

673
00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:59,879
Speaker 1: whoever needed to be the guinea pig to deal with

674
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:03,360
Speaker 1: whatever Kyle Shanahan has cooked up on offense, you know,

675
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 1: and Trey Lance the finger thing. I tvd on how

676
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 1: much he'll play, if he'll play, how much we'll see him,

677
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:12,120
Speaker 1: how will be used. UM. But if he's healthy, you know,

678
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:15,400
Speaker 1: I was in the hospital on a very UM severe

679
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 1: like delotted drip, which if anyone has not taken to

680
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:20,200
Speaker 1: a lot at most people, I would assume. If not, UM,

681
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 1: it puts you into a completely different part of the universe.

682
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:25,800
Speaker 1: And that is when I watched, UM the Jimmy G

683
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 1: tray lance double quarterback action that Kyle Shanahan unfurled on

684
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 1: an August afternoon, UM, and it just blew my mind.

685
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:35,960
Speaker 1: I I absolutely thought it was one of the most

686
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 1: joyful things I had seen in so long coaches stay

687
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:40,919
Speaker 1: away from using two quarterbacks at once. I think Kyle

688
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:43,799
Speaker 1: Shanahan is in a dream scenario. He's got to be

689
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:46,680
Speaker 1: loving this. And they really didn't even use tray lance

690
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 1: on the ground. That's a huge aspect to his game. Obviously,

691
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:52,120
Speaker 1: he is an incredibly fascinating runner, and you just wonder,

692
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 1: you know, how this thing will play out, because if

693
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 1: he's that daring and uses both of these guys, I

694
00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:58,279
Speaker 1: think you look at the Lions and you look at

695
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 1: their inexperienced in very young secondary and you can throw

696
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:04,439
Speaker 1: the ball too. But this is gonna be a run

697
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 1: heavy Niners team. They always have been. Trace Sermon is

698
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:10,279
Speaker 1: going to be a fascinating addition to the team. I

699
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 1: Greg and I have both picked the Niners as our

700
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 1: Super Bowl NFC teams winners. That annoys me that two

701
00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:18,879
Speaker 1: thirds of the we were not nearly as we were,

702
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 1: not nearly as original as we thought, Like the basic bros,

703
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 1: you're trying to be cool. Meanwhile, like the Bucks got

704
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 1: fewer votes than the forty Niners to win the Super Bowl.

705
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 1: They didn't. They didn't, they did? They did? I gotta

706
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:32,759
Speaker 1: think they did. I want to get inside Football second

707
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 1: on the podcast here and say to you Mark, just

708
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 1: like with Greg, draft the game, you want to watch,

709
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:39,400
Speaker 1: but you gotta look at the board here. I mean,

710
00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:40,799
Speaker 1: you gotta look at the board, and you gotta know

711
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 1: Greg doesn't pick for four picks, and you got two

712
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:45,880
Speaker 1: picks from me and then you're back. I feel like

713
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:47,759
Speaker 1: you could have gotten a more high impact game and

714
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:50,880
Speaker 1: then come back and got this. I didn't want to

715
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:53,640
Speaker 1: lose it. I don't trust I don't trust um what

716
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:55,360
Speaker 1: you're going to do next. I was not going to

717
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:58,879
Speaker 1: watch a line game by choice on Sunday. But well,

718
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:01,000
Speaker 1: you also know that I one thing I'm looking for

719
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:04,160
Speaker 1: our games that are like severe blowouts. I really enjoyed

720
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:06,799
Speaker 1: that um from the coverage angle, So I was not

721
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,759
Speaker 1: gonna let this slip through my fingers because might not

722
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:12,000
Speaker 1: play in this game. By the way, their their left tackle.

723
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:14,759
Speaker 1: So after all this nonsense that you moved Penas who

724
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 1: looked terrible in the preseason too right tackle, are they

725
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:20,680
Speaker 1: going to move him to left tackle? Decker doesn't play

726
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:22,839
Speaker 1: that that's a problem. Like when I first saw this

727
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:24,720
Speaker 1: line at seven and a half points, and I'm thinking,

728
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:27,920
Speaker 1: I know, I know the forty niners are good. I

729
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,200
Speaker 1: picking them to win the ser Man. That's a lot

730
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 1: of points for a team that won six games last

731
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:34,480
Speaker 1: year against the team that won five games. But the

732
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 1: longer you think about it, you're like, oh, yeah, well,

733
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:40,879
Speaker 1: also last year their quarterback, starting running back, and two

734
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:43,279
Speaker 1: wide receivers in San Francisco, I think they played like

735
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 1: two games together. Last year was more like I'm I

736
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:48,400
Speaker 1: look at last year and say, I'm more impressed that

737
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:51,680
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan's essentially swept the Rams and won some of

738
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:54,719
Speaker 1: those games with nobody on the field. This is two

739
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:56,839
Speaker 1: years ago healthy they were a super Bowl team. They

740
00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:59,400
Speaker 1: are a super Bowl caliber team. I'm buying into this

741
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:03,840
Speaker 1: t J. Hockenson joining the elite tight end club after

742
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:06,040
Speaker 1: the season, just because I think he's gonna get like

743
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 1: Darren Waller level targets in this offense. And um, I

744
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 1: think if you've followed his career closely, I think he's

745
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:15,360
Speaker 1: a former number ten overall pick. He's been kind of

746
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 1: edging upward. And I think with Goff, who is obviously

747
00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:22,240
Speaker 1: nobody's version of a superstar at this phase of his career,

748
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:24,239
Speaker 1: but I think he is capable of getting the ball

749
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:26,799
Speaker 1: at Hackinson's hands. That will be something to watch over

750
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:30,040
Speaker 1: the season. I just don't know, um, how they keep

751
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:33,200
Speaker 1: up with San Francisco once they get rolling. I don't

752
00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:37,560
Speaker 1: know if that defense can make this ops. One uh

753
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:41,839
Speaker 1: one other thought here, boy, well pick this game, Mark,

754
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 1: do you think it's gonna be even closer? Do you

755
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:46,279
Speaker 1: think this is a blowout? I would go, um, San

756
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:55,440
Speaker 1: Francisco Detroit six. Yeah, Dan Campbell's he's trying his best

757
00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:59,480
Speaker 1: home game. You want to get this out off to

758
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:00,840
Speaker 1: the right star. You don't want to get blown up,

759
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 1: blown out. The theory. Their offensive line in their defensive

760
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 1: line look pretty good. Their offensive line on paper looked

761
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,200
Speaker 1: like maybe that's the top five group. But now suddenly

762
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:10,640
Speaker 1: your top ten pick doesn't look very good. In your

763
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:14,239
Speaker 1: left tackle, who you decided not to move for your

764
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:16,920
Speaker 1: top ten pick is hurt. So that's like, now like

765
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:19,839
Speaker 1: one strength doesn't look too strong at least, this isn't

766
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:22,760
Speaker 1: it like the most Bengals thing that, Like Jamaar Chase

767
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 1: had the worst summer camp of any top ten rookie

768
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:27,279
Speaker 1: wide receiver ever, and then the other guy they were

769
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:30,359
Speaker 1: supposed to take was also doomed in the summer. It's

770
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:33,400
Speaker 1: like sometimes yeah, Lions fans will point out suwell not

771
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 1: looking too good as a very Lions thing, too much

772
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:39,760
Speaker 1: like their number three overall draft pick Jeff Alkuda getting

773
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:42,840
Speaker 1: absolutely like torched in Week one on the way to

774
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 1: a brutal rookie in a year ago. Oh by the way,

775
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:48,800
Speaker 1: if the because the line certainly could use a premier

776
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:51,759
Speaker 1: wide receiver Jamar Chase. You know, maybe he ends up

777
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:54,880
Speaker 1: in Detroit and they switch spots and they're struggling in

778
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:57,279
Speaker 1: these other cities. It's just you know, sometimes you wonder

779
00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:59,479
Speaker 1: about but the Lions are trying to build a team

780
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:01,799
Speaker 1: where they're maintaining a lead and they want to run

781
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 1: the ball all day long. Look at their group of

782
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:05,279
Speaker 1: wide receivers. They're gonna be in a lot of games

783
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:07,920
Speaker 1: where they're down by ten, fourteen points and they have

784
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:09,719
Speaker 1: no way out of that situation. I don't like to

785
00:40:09,719 --> 00:40:12,680
Speaker 1: set up for Jared Goff at all. All right, um,

786
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:20,480
Speaker 1: let's move on here. Let's see hmmmm, I'm gonna hammana, hammana.

787
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:24,359
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna don't. Yeah, if anybody who thinks

788
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:27,200
Speaker 1: that this is all fake and we're not actually trying

789
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:29,960
Speaker 1: to figure things out in real time, I am, because

790
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:33,319
Speaker 1: you you need to be careful with who Greg I

791
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:35,080
Speaker 1: have a snake. So here we go. I will start

792
00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:38,360
Speaker 1: with a game that I said that I was excited

793
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:42,440
Speaker 1: to watch, and I am the Los Angeles Chargers. That's

794
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:46,400
Speaker 1: the best at the Washington football team. A nice battle

795
00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:50,879
Speaker 1: here between um, a Charger's team that everyone is very

796
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:54,600
Speaker 1: excited about. On offense, although you know this Austin Eckler thing,

797
00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:57,160
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't. I hope I didn't jank them,

798
00:40:57,160 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 1: But you know, you get out of summer, all your

799
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:01,200
Speaker 1: stars are intact. Here we go, and now Eckler is

800
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:05,040
Speaker 1: down with an injury. U what what's our status? Sero

801
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 1: on NFL now just this day said, don't worry about it.

802
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:11,719
Speaker 1: He's playing. It sounds like he's gonna he's gonna be

803
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:16,359
Speaker 1: what is it a hamstring? Yep? Okay, So we got

804
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 1: Eckler there hopefully in the lineup. It's a locked and

805
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:23,880
Speaker 1: loaded UM team. And yeah, Greg, you Mark, you mentioned

806
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 1: it and we spoke about it, although I could not

807
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 1: shed a tear over it. Um when you were writing

808
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:31,280
Speaker 1: about West at the top of your QB index spoke

809
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 1: about Um justin Herbert and uh how much West loved him.

810
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:38,080
Speaker 1: So as a little nod to West for myself, I

811
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 1: want to watch him on Sunday, UM try to beat

812
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:46,680
Speaker 1: a Washington defense that is very, very good, especially upfront

813
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:50,960
Speaker 1: and the Chargers offensive line. Okay, we'll see if they

814
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:52,759
Speaker 1: m are better this year and see if they can

815
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 1: handle the great tandem. You know who they are, Montes,

816
00:41:57,239 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 1: Sweat Chase Young better known as Young and Sweaty. I

817
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:06,200
Speaker 1: thought we had a sound drop for a second. I

818
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:09,040
Speaker 1: was getting excited. I'm unsure why that's not totally taking

819
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:11,480
Speaker 1: off into the skies on a national basis, and it's

820
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:13,520
Speaker 1: now going to start taking off as this season and

821
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:15,960
Speaker 1: they need to play their role. Uh. Sweat said he

822
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 1: believes they could set the all time tandem sack record

823
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:22,000
Speaker 1: as they start to build that sack total. Hopefully Young

824
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:24,680
Speaker 1: and Sweaty it's gonna be on T shirts and I

825
00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:26,520
Speaker 1: will not be cut out of the profits. I don't care.

826
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Speaker 1: I know there's those companies out there that they I

827
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:31,799
Speaker 1: think they their whole hook is when something happens in

828
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:34,319
Speaker 1: the sports world, they make a T shirt really quick

829
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Speaker 1: and make some money off it. If I see Young

830
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Speaker 1: and Sweaty anywhere that I P right now September nine,

831
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you that is the old Zusers I P.

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Speaker 1: That's tug Boats, I P. The new Old Blue Eyes,

833
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Speaker 1: is I P. Why Why are you waiting around for

834
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Speaker 1: some other Giberne to st Yeah, Paul Rudd, what was

835
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:55,960
Speaker 1: that Mark? Why are you waiting around for some other

836
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:59,719
Speaker 1: clown to start creating T shirts? You should We've been

837
00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:02,880
Speaker 1: talking to podcast for ten years. Do you have to

838
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:06,800
Speaker 1: file like three different UM I P s or whatever

839
00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:10,319
Speaker 1: under different notes names, like you gotta do one under

840
00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:13,680
Speaker 1: tug Boat, one under the New Old blue eyes. I

841
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:16,520
Speaker 1: have to pay seven times the amount of paperwork fees

842
00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:19,800
Speaker 1: as the normal human being. Um. Anyway, I do wonder,

843
00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:20,960
Speaker 1: by the way, do you think if you were to

844
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Speaker 1: look it up, is there is there a Young and

845
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:24,520
Speaker 1: Sweaty dot com. I'm not sure where that would take

846
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:26,799
Speaker 1: us if it existed. It might not be I'm trying

847
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:29,319
Speaker 1: to class up Young and Sweaty because I know it's

848
00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:31,680
Speaker 1: been it's been in the in the in the gutter

849
00:43:31,840 --> 00:43:34,360
Speaker 1: for perhaps decades. But now it's gonna be more of

850
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:39,719
Speaker 1: a wholesome gridiron type scenario, you know. Anyway, back back

851
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:43,960
Speaker 1: to the task in hand. Here Washington football team with

852
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:47,880
Speaker 1: that great defense against this great Chargers offenses, healthy offense,

853
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:50,359
Speaker 1: and then you've got the Joey Bosa angle and what

854
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:53,920
Speaker 1: he can do against Ryan Fitzpatrick and your boy uh

855
00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:57,719
Speaker 1: McLaren um greg and you got Derwin James back. It's

856
00:43:57,760 --> 00:43:59,960
Speaker 1: just a great matchup with a lot of star player

857
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:02,839
Speaker 1: on both sides. It's gonna be fun to watch. I'm

858
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:06,440
Speaker 1: already regretting my Titans Gardener's pick just thinking about this game.

859
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:08,880
Speaker 1: I think it's more that I'm like emotionally invested in

860
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:12,839
Speaker 1: the Chargers, and I sometimes I don't want that. Early on,

861
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:14,640
Speaker 1: I picked against them in this game. I think it

862
00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:17,840
Speaker 1: was the toughest game to pick, just total coin flip

863
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:20,600
Speaker 1: to me, Curtis Samuel, it looks like he's gonna miss

864
00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:23,760
Speaker 1: this game. And when you mentioned the Chargers rebuild online,

865
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:27,960
Speaker 1: that's where the bad memories start coming in because I

866
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:31,640
Speaker 1: can't tell you how many different seasons Philip Rivers went

867
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:33,879
Speaker 1: into with this Chargers team, and it really it really,

868
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:37,320
Speaker 1: I know it doesn't have anything to do with one team.

869
00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:40,799
Speaker 1: It's I know it doesn't, but somehow it affects me that, like,

870
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:43,480
Speaker 1: there were so many times you thought they were gonna

871
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:45,920
Speaker 1: solve things and they looked great on paper, and they

872
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:47,840
Speaker 1: just didn't solve it, and they gave him no support.

873
00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:51,719
Speaker 1: And Herbert's like my new Philip Rivers. He's He's my

874
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:55,360
Speaker 1: favorite young quarterback in the league. Absolutely, and I am worried,

875
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:58,839
Speaker 1: especially in this matchup, that just it's it will look

876
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:01,560
Speaker 1: a little more like last year. Then then you're comfortable

877
00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:03,520
Speaker 1: with that. They're gonna have some bumps. They didn't play

878
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:05,520
Speaker 1: at all in the preseason. That's sometime I'm kind of

879
00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:07,719
Speaker 1: watching whether that has any impact at all. Because the

880
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 1: Washington football team did play quite a bit in terms

881
00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:13,560
Speaker 1: of their starters in the preseason. I mean you look

882
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:16,160
Speaker 1: at you look at Herbert though, and he had that

883
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:21,240
Speaker 1: magnificent rookie campaign and thrived um behind what was arguably

884
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:23,239
Speaker 1: the worst line in the league last year. I mean,

885
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:25,920
Speaker 1: he's he's still looked fantastic and he was blitzed NonStop.

886
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:28,640
Speaker 1: I do think if anything, you look at Los Angeles,

887
00:45:28,719 --> 00:45:31,480
Speaker 1: they put resources into the line. They tried at some

888
00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:34,439
Speaker 1: point it's gone. It has to work at some point.

889
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:36,200
Speaker 1: I'm with you on that. I think that you know,

890
00:45:36,239 --> 00:45:39,239
Speaker 1: we've talked about Joe Lombardi, new offensive coordinator. You don't

891
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:41,840
Speaker 1: like a lot of change for Justin Herbert, But I

892
00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:44,240
Speaker 1: didn't think wonder if he's getting a little too nitpicked,

893
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:47,080
Speaker 1: because it sounds like from everything that he and Brandon

894
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:49,799
Speaker 1: Staley have said is we are doing everything we can

895
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:52,680
Speaker 1: to build an offense that is from multiple systems um

896
00:45:52,719 --> 00:45:55,160
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of Shanahan elements in there that

897
00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:57,600
Speaker 1: will be that will put Justin Herbert into a place

898
00:45:57,600 --> 00:45:59,839
Speaker 1: to succeed. You still have Keenan Allen, who's a huge

899
00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:02,000
Speaker 1: part to this game. If they did not have Austin

900
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:04,080
Speaker 1: Ekeler I would be very down on their chances and

901
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:06,040
Speaker 1: against this defense. But I think you're gonna get Austin

902
00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:09,400
Speaker 1: ekeler um in the passing game as well, used NonStop.

903
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:11,319
Speaker 1: I mean they had to win games without him last

904
00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 1: year a couple of times as well. But how do

905
00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:15,840
Speaker 1: you offset this pass rush? The young and sweaty duo

906
00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:18,160
Speaker 1: is a huge concern. But I'll tell you one thing

907
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:21,359
Speaker 1: about the Chargers too. It's along and along with no, no,

908
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:23,080
Speaker 1: along with the line I'm not locking this up. And

909
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:28,880
Speaker 1: the more he talked, the more smart things come out

910
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:30,399
Speaker 1: of his mouth, and you think, like, Okay, this guy's

911
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:32,560
Speaker 1: get it figured out right. Because I think the other

912
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 1: thing that have dogged the Chargers for as long as

913
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:39,360
Speaker 1: we've done this podcast, our bizarre end of games scenarios.

914
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:41,359
Speaker 1: Half of them you know, missed field goals and all

915
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:44,080
Speaker 1: that business, but a lot of poor clock management and

916
00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:47,800
Speaker 1: other business. I think Brandon Staley brings a completely different

917
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 1: vibe to this team, and a lot of that malarkey

918
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:56,920
Speaker 1: is gonna vanish. Okay, don't play the games. See if

919
00:46:56,920 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 1: this Brandon Staley could play the guitar, that's what the

920
00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:06,960
Speaker 1: games are are. This one's gonna hurt, correct, So I

921
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:10,120
Speaker 1: think you thought it might sneak to you like I

922
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:12,799
Speaker 1: went to two Lane. What a time it was. I

923
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:16,680
Speaker 1: learned so much about different cultures and made a great

924
00:47:16,719 --> 00:47:20,640
Speaker 1: friend that became a famous person. And now we have

925
00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:24,400
Speaker 1: our podcast together. Yeah that jessel Nick and Rosenthal Vanity Project.

926
00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 1: Check it out. I love New Orleans. I love their game.

927
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:37,040
Speaker 1: They're playing this week, the Packers the Saints a late game.

928
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:39,680
Speaker 1: The old zooser is going to cover this one. And

929
00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:44,719
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, gotta love it. Now stinks that

930
00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:46,759
Speaker 1: it is not at the super Dome. Let's just start there.

931
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:50,400
Speaker 1: This will be played at t I A A stadium.

932
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:53,680
Speaker 1: Can we just these corporate stadium names? What a mess?

933
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:57,040
Speaker 1: But that's where the Jacksonville Jaguars played football. Uh, and

934
00:47:57,080 --> 00:47:59,760
Speaker 1: that's where the Saints will play football. And initially after

935
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:02,520
Speaker 1: her Acane EIDs destruction, we thought, man, are they not

936
00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:04,839
Speaker 1: gonna get in there until the end of October. Now

937
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:07,920
Speaker 1: there's the thought that it could happen early October. I

938
00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:10,560
Speaker 1: believe a game against the Giants in the first week

939
00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:13,360
Speaker 1: of October. Let's hope that happens, and hope everybody in

940
00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:17,000
Speaker 1: New Orleans is doing okay and getting um in a

941
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:20,319
Speaker 1: better position after that terrible storm for the Saints. It's

942
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:24,160
Speaker 1: just a terrible situation because the Packers, it's Packers Week

943
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:28,320
Speaker 1: and this is a big, big starts your season against

944
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:32,319
Speaker 1: the arrival in the NFC, and you've got to figure

945
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:34,239
Speaker 1: out a way to stop Aaron Rodgers coming off an

946
00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:37,960
Speaker 1: MVP season, and you're not gonna have that crowd behind you.

947
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:39,799
Speaker 1: And maybe and we'll see what the pack What is

948
00:48:39,840 --> 00:48:41,840
Speaker 1: that crowd gonna be? Like? Is it gonna be a

949
00:48:41,840 --> 00:48:44,200
Speaker 1: Packers crowd? Is it gonna be a Saints crowd? Like

950
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:46,759
Speaker 1: I could see it being close to fifty fifty with

951
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:49,920
Speaker 1: two very um hardcore fan bases, But you never know.

952
00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:53,319
Speaker 1: Those Packers fans are maniacs um. And then you have

953
00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:56,760
Speaker 1: the Jamis Winston side of things. This is his chance

954
00:48:56,840 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 1: now and he's in good physical condition, he got the

955
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:04,640
Speaker 1: eyes fixed, He's had an entire off season with Sean

956
00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:08,839
Speaker 1: Payton and his playbook. He easily outplayed your boy Mark

957
00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:11,879
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill to be the starter here. He's gonna get

958
00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:14,600
Speaker 1: the opportunity and hopefully Taysom Hill only has a minor

959
00:49:14,719 --> 00:49:17,200
Speaker 1: role and Peyton doesn't get too cute. Although I should

960
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:18,880
Speaker 1: give Sean Payton the benefit of the doubt if he

961
00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 1: wants to run his offense a certain way, probably better

962
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:23,520
Speaker 1: than my theories on how they should run their offense. UM.

963
00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:26,640
Speaker 1: So I'm excited to see how this offense looks with

964
00:49:26,719 --> 00:49:31,000
Speaker 1: Drew Brees gone and an amazing Packers offense and a

965
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:33,600
Speaker 1: defense that could be better than it was last year.

966
00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:36,839
Speaker 1: And I want to see where za Darius Smith, how

967
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:41,080
Speaker 1: he comes back from a relatively down season. This is

968
00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:44,439
Speaker 1: such a fascinating game. I I don't have a good

969
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:47,040
Speaker 1: feel for this, like the Packers kind of playing into

970
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:48,840
Speaker 1: what I was saying with continuity. I like teams with

971
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:51,319
Speaker 1: continuity who know who they are going in week one,

972
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:55,319
Speaker 1: they're the h a picture of it in terms of

973
00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:57,719
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers in that system that he can make up

974
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:01,920
Speaker 1: for whatever the offensive line problems are the Saints, especially defensively,

975
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:05,400
Speaker 1: but also at receiver, like they've had so much turnover

976
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:07,759
Speaker 1: that even though the coaching staff is the same, they

977
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:09,680
Speaker 1: are trying out a lot of new parts. And yet

978
00:50:09,760 --> 00:50:13,359
Speaker 1: I do feel like Sean Payton's a perfect coach for this.

979
00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:18,160
Speaker 1: I do think there's something to having something to play

980
00:50:18,200 --> 00:50:21,640
Speaker 1: for beyond just yourself if you listen to the Saints

981
00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:26,359
Speaker 1: players in Dallas the last two weeks, it's on their mind.

982
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:29,279
Speaker 1: It's affecting all their families. You know, power is just

983
00:50:29,520 --> 00:50:32,760
Speaker 1: coming back two parts of New Orleans even now, and

984
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:35,919
Speaker 1: and everyone's impacted by it. And you know, I think

985
00:50:36,520 --> 00:50:38,560
Speaker 1: that that's I don't know, I think it's a factor.

986
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:41,280
Speaker 1: I I believe that they'll be playing for something greater

987
00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:43,759
Speaker 1: than themselves, and that matters to me a little bit.

988
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:46,840
Speaker 1: And I listened to the Saints Twitter podcast with Adam

989
00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:48,960
Speaker 1: and Ryan. I was on it to check that out

990
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:51,640
Speaker 1: this week, and they they had a really good, like

991
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:53,799
Speaker 1: in depth look at things they wanted to see out

992
00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:56,200
Speaker 1: of the preseason. And they got him. Caesar Ruis, their

993
00:50:56,280 --> 00:50:58,319
Speaker 1: number one draft picked from a year ago, who was

994
00:50:58,360 --> 00:51:01,680
Speaker 1: a bust as a rookie at he struggled, looked really

995
00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:03,880
Speaker 1: good in the preseason. That offensive line might be the

996
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:06,680
Speaker 1: best in the entire NFL. Zack Bond kind of a

997
00:51:06,719 --> 00:51:09,160
Speaker 1: bust as a second round pick, didn't look ready for

998
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:12,960
Speaker 1: the NFL, one of the weakest spots there at weeks.

999
00:51:12,960 --> 00:51:15,920
Speaker 1: Side linebacker look great in the preseason. We might have

1000
00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:18,120
Speaker 1: some Bond time, I forgot, you know, we might have

1001
00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:20,920
Speaker 1: a little Zach bonnissance and never even played well in

1002
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:22,719
Speaker 1: the first place to have a renaissance, and then they

1003
00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:26,320
Speaker 1: trade for Bradley Roby this week. I love that Bradley

1004
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:29,200
Speaker 1: Roby trade. Bradley Roby is a good number two cornerback

1005
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:31,640
Speaker 1: and they had nothing at cornerback. The problem is Bradley

1006
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:34,440
Speaker 1: Roby suspended for a week one, and so you're still

1007
00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:37,600
Speaker 1: matching up like Ken Crawley and this rookie Pauls and

1008
00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:41,560
Speaker 1: Nadibo against these Packers guys, and the matchups don't quite

1009
00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:43,640
Speaker 1: favor you in the end. Like it's I don't know,

1010
00:51:43,719 --> 00:51:45,839
Speaker 1: my heart's with the Saints, but your head it's hard

1011
00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:48,160
Speaker 1: not to think the Packers just have the mismatches here.

1012
00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:50,040
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't. You don't have to, you know,

1013
00:51:50,239 --> 00:51:53,320
Speaker 1: guess if what's happened in New Orleans could be something

1014
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:56,359
Speaker 1: that galvanizes this team because under Sean Payton, when they

1015
00:51:56,360 --> 00:51:58,719
Speaker 1: went through Katrina, that's exactly what it did. I mean,

1016
00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:01,640
Speaker 1: it's one of the biggest stories in Saints history, I

1017
00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:04,120
Speaker 1: think if you're Sean Payton. Although Saints fans will point

1018
00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:06,400
Speaker 1: out like they went three and thirteen after Katrina, what

1019
00:52:06,520 --> 00:52:09,000
Speaker 1: Jim has I he never got the credit he deserved

1020
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:10,560
Speaker 1: for keeping that team of flow. But you know what,

1021
00:52:10,680 --> 00:52:12,720
Speaker 1: they won Week one. It was one of the great

1022
00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:15,880
Speaker 1: Saints wins in history. They won on the road in

1023
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:19,480
Speaker 1: Week one against Caroline. Well know, we'll see that though

1024
00:52:20,239 --> 00:52:22,239
Speaker 1: that that season where they were actually kind of on

1025
00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:26,040
Speaker 1: the road was immediately after. I do wonder how how

1026
00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:29,279
Speaker 1: the emotion translates in Jacksonville, of all places. We'll see

1027
00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:31,719
Speaker 1: about that. But I think if you're Sean Payton, you

1028
00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:34,680
Speaker 1: basically you love the challenge because it's been the same

1029
00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:37,719
Speaker 1: quarterback for so long. You've got to do something different now.

1030
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:40,279
Speaker 1: I think he's the right coach for this, But we

1031
00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:42,480
Speaker 1: still don't know what Jamis Winston is gonna be. I

1032
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:45,279
Speaker 1: think Sean Payton is gonna have to coach unlike he's

1033
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:47,880
Speaker 1: ever coached before and be as creative as possible. But

1034
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:50,560
Speaker 1: I don't understand why people are still picking the Saints

1035
00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:53,200
Speaker 1: as a playoff team and talking about and it's like,

1036
00:52:53,520 --> 00:52:55,279
Speaker 1: I just, I just I just don't buy that at

1037
00:52:55,280 --> 00:52:57,160
Speaker 1: this point because it's a little bit too much transition.

1038
00:52:57,400 --> 00:53:03,200
Speaker 1: I am locking up the Packers with Ultra confo hates

1039
00:53:03,560 --> 00:53:07,000
Speaker 1: the victims of Hurricane I do not. I wish the

1040
00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:10,480
Speaker 1: victims of the hurricane nothing but good things. And I

1041
00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:16,279
Speaker 1: am awesome, and I am also going to uh oh wow,

1042
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:20,799
Speaker 1: I'm the bad guy praiser rab Moon. I will lock

1043
00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:23,000
Speaker 1: up the Packers too, And then, as you know, to

1044
00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:25,760
Speaker 1: do with the great people of New Orleans and everything

1045
00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:27,799
Speaker 1: to do with the game of football and the fact

1046
00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:31,800
Speaker 1: that they are strangers in a strange land, a team

1047
00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:35,160
Speaker 1: the Saints in transition right now trying to figure things out.

1048
00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:38,759
Speaker 1: And I am not buying into the jamis Winston renaissance

1049
00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:41,120
Speaker 1: because he has Lasik. Now, can we calm down with

1050
00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:42,880
Speaker 1: all this stuff? Can't hurt it back to me in

1051
00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:48,880
Speaker 1: a moment the impossible as possible? Like you wait, he

1052
00:53:48,880 --> 00:53:50,960
Speaker 1: should be better now? How is he almost worse? That

1053
00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:53,000
Speaker 1: that's in play too? So I'm not gonna be I'm

1054
00:53:53,040 --> 00:53:55,239
Speaker 1: not gonna be on that Saints podcast, although I like

1055
00:53:55,360 --> 00:53:57,880
Speaker 1: the people that do it, because I don't believe in

1056
00:53:57,920 --> 00:53:59,640
Speaker 1: the Saints as much right now, even though I do

1057
00:53:59,840 --> 00:54:02,399
Speaker 1: like the head coach and think he can coach them

1058
00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:05,400
Speaker 1: up in time. I think the timing of Aaron Rodgers

1059
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:08,440
Speaker 1: and the Packers Week one outside of your building in

1060
00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:10,759
Speaker 1: a quote unquote home game is too much, and that's

1061
00:54:10,760 --> 00:54:13,040
Speaker 1: why Green Bay is gonna roll. I have to ask

1062
00:54:13,080 --> 00:54:14,880
Speaker 1: you one quick question. Let's say that you were like

1063
00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:18,600
Speaker 1: back in castle times. You were like an archery person, right,

1064
00:54:19,239 --> 00:54:22,080
Speaker 1: and you needed to defend your castle and you couldn't see,

1065
00:54:22,400 --> 00:54:25,360
Speaker 1: and then suddenly you had crystal clear vision. Would you

1066
00:54:25,400 --> 00:54:28,200
Speaker 1: not be better at your job? Why are we dismissing

1067
00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:31,759
Speaker 1: lasik surgery for an NFL quarterback as non meaning here

1068
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:35,319
Speaker 1: here from this perspective, I mean, what does it say

1069
00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:37,200
Speaker 1: about the person? And you've got a factor in all

1070
00:54:37,239 --> 00:54:39,920
Speaker 1: sorts of things with a quarterback, whether he's a success,

1071
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:42,719
Speaker 1: including what's going on from the shoulders up, What does

1072
00:54:42,760 --> 00:54:45,080
Speaker 1: it say about him? Man, if he waited until he's

1073
00:54:45,080 --> 00:54:47,239
Speaker 1: like twenty eight and busted out of his first round

1074
00:54:47,280 --> 00:54:50,360
Speaker 1: pick run with his first team before I decided to

1075
00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:52,680
Speaker 1: get this, now you're asking the right question that from

1076
00:54:52,680 --> 00:54:55,400
Speaker 1: that angle, I completely buy that's saying the whole James

1077
00:54:55,440 --> 00:55:00,960
Speaker 1: Marston experience, because he never wears glasses and has terrible vision.

1078
00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:04,160
Speaker 1: Like I've never quite understood that we're at the office,

1079
00:55:04,200 --> 00:55:08,719
Speaker 1: he's like, he's not putting his glasses on, He's he's winting. Man,

1080
00:55:08,880 --> 00:55:11,319
Speaker 1: I've wrestled with this pick more than any other. I

1081
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:14,560
Speaker 1: picked those Saints like to cover four but lose the game.

1082
00:55:14,600 --> 00:55:18,720
Speaker 1: And now that you jokers are locking up the Packers,

1083
00:55:18,760 --> 00:55:20,960
Speaker 1: I feel like the switching my pick on NFL dot

1084
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:23,960
Speaker 1: com just so I can fully like be aligned in

1085
00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:27,080
Speaker 1: rooting against the clowns. Okay, well that's great. We gotta

1086
00:55:27,160 --> 00:55:30,320
Speaker 1: we gotta take up the pace here, Mark, go ahead, alright,

1087
00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:33,879
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go, um Philadelphia, Atlanta at one o'clock, start

1088
00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:36,800
Speaker 1: on the East coast. I want to see what well,

1089
00:55:36,880 --> 00:55:39,600
Speaker 1: that's how this works. I take what you want away

1090
00:55:39,640 --> 00:55:42,600
Speaker 1: from you. I want to see the Arthur Smith, you know,

1091
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:46,040
Speaker 1: introduction here, the debut. I really like Arthur Smith. I

1092
00:55:46,040 --> 00:55:48,520
Speaker 1: think it's, uh, you know, he may not come across

1093
00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:51,440
Speaker 1: personality wise the way that you you think of some

1094
00:55:51,520 --> 00:55:54,120
Speaker 1: head coaches, but you look at what he did in Tennessee,

1095
00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:56,879
Speaker 1: and I just wonder the effect that he will have,

1096
00:55:56,960 --> 00:55:59,719
Speaker 1: maybe not in this game, but overall on Matt Ryan

1097
00:55:59,760 --> 00:56:02,200
Speaker 1: and in the tail end of Matt Ryan's career and

1098
00:56:02,239 --> 00:56:04,200
Speaker 1: what they do there. Um, I don't I think that

1099
00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:07,520
Speaker 1: both of these teams, to me, vibe is total question marks.

1100
00:56:07,719 --> 00:56:10,279
Speaker 1: But I think it's it's Um, it's you look back

1101
00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:14,120
Speaker 1: at what Jalen Hurts and four starts last year had

1102
00:56:14,160 --> 00:56:17,960
Speaker 1: three fifty four yards rushing and three touchdowns. And this

1103
00:56:18,040 --> 00:56:20,120
Speaker 1: is someone who can impact the game on the ground.

1104
00:56:20,200 --> 00:56:22,359
Speaker 1: And I know that the Eagles were whispered about as

1105
00:56:22,360 --> 00:56:25,080
Speaker 1: a team that you know at interest in Deshaun Watson.

1106
00:56:25,120 --> 00:56:26,920
Speaker 1: They maybe we're gonna go somewhere else in the draft.

1107
00:56:26,960 --> 00:56:29,000
Speaker 1: They're lined up to do something else in the draft

1108
00:56:29,120 --> 00:56:32,000
Speaker 1: next offseason. If they don't love Hurts, they trade for

1109
00:56:32,040 --> 00:56:34,320
Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew, which that happened when I was in the hospital,

1110
00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:36,360
Speaker 1: which was the second strangest thing. I don't know why

1111
00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:38,399
Speaker 1: they went and did that. Um. I mean I liked

1112
00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:40,520
Speaker 1: the player, but the whole thing seems strange to me.

1113
00:56:40,560 --> 00:56:42,560
Speaker 1: I think it hurts is very much UM on a

1114
00:56:42,560 --> 00:56:45,719
Speaker 1: season long audition, So every game matters a ton and

1115
00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:47,640
Speaker 1: I kind of can't wait to see how this plays

1116
00:56:47,640 --> 00:56:49,960
Speaker 1: out in Week one. I think the Eagles had because

1117
00:56:50,040 --> 00:56:53,200
Speaker 1: last year was such a huge disaster because the front

1118
00:56:53,200 --> 00:56:56,640
Speaker 1: office looked bad, the coach got fired, the quarterback got traded.

1119
00:56:56,840 --> 00:56:59,080
Speaker 1: That you look at you we're maybe overlooking a little

1120
00:56:59,080 --> 00:57:01,040
Speaker 1: bit at some of the hearts on this offense. If

1121
00:57:01,080 --> 00:57:02,759
Speaker 1: you don't have to squint too hard to see an

1122
00:57:02,760 --> 00:57:05,640
Speaker 1: offense that could be I think run heavy and functional

1123
00:57:05,880 --> 00:57:07,719
Speaker 1: and a little more exciting than people are giving them

1124
00:57:07,719 --> 00:57:11,279
Speaker 1: credit to. Under Nick Sirianni, we will see I like

1125
00:57:11,360 --> 00:57:13,840
Speaker 1: it when Mark goes I like the player, like he

1126
00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:17,040
Speaker 1: goes all Bill parcels. You won't even say I have

1127
00:57:17,040 --> 00:57:20,520
Speaker 1: a lot of parcels. I like the player. That's how

1128
00:57:20,520 --> 00:57:24,400
Speaker 1: it is a lot of Bill just a piece of

1129
00:57:24,440 --> 00:57:26,560
Speaker 1: meat to me. This this Eagles team does have the

1130
00:57:26,600 --> 00:57:29,360
Speaker 1: bones of a good team. They've got a good offensive line.

1131
00:57:29,720 --> 00:57:31,920
Speaker 1: You know, you've got Lane Johnson, You've got my Lotta,

1132
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:34,320
Speaker 1: You've got Kelsey, You've got the guards, and they've got

1133
00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:38,400
Speaker 1: a good defensive line. You still got um Cox, you

1134
00:57:38,480 --> 00:57:41,200
Speaker 1: still got Barnett. You have Javon Hardgrave, who looked like

1135
00:57:41,240 --> 00:57:43,800
Speaker 1: he had a good camp. You have Brandon Graham. You

1136
00:57:43,920 --> 00:57:46,120
Speaker 1: they like this rookie Milton Williams. I don't know. You've

1137
00:57:46,120 --> 00:57:48,080
Speaker 1: got a good offensive line and a good defensive line.

1138
00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:51,280
Speaker 1: That's a team that can surprise. I am very intrigued

1139
00:57:51,280 --> 00:57:53,480
Speaker 1: to watch this game too, because I I want to

1140
00:57:53,480 --> 00:57:56,240
Speaker 1: see Kyle Pitts. I want to see what this Falcons

1141
00:57:56,280 --> 00:57:58,360
Speaker 1: team is and this egos team. They're both kind of

1142
00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:00,520
Speaker 1: mysteries to me by I think the goals do have

1143
00:58:00,560 --> 00:58:03,080
Speaker 1: the bones of a surprising team and this is this

1144
00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:04,920
Speaker 1: is a perfect first test I think for both these

1145
00:58:04,920 --> 00:58:08,440
Speaker 1: teams and first year coach Nick Sirianni, and let's face it,

1146
00:58:09,360 --> 00:58:13,320
Speaker 1: the brain trust in Philadelphia, which is meddlesome would be

1147
00:58:13,360 --> 00:58:15,320
Speaker 1: one way to put it. Are they all going to

1148
00:58:15,360 --> 00:58:17,640
Speaker 1: be on the same page here with Jalen Hurts and

1149
00:58:17,680 --> 00:58:21,120
Speaker 1: give him actual runway here to develop? He's only had

1150
00:58:21,160 --> 00:58:23,760
Speaker 1: four starts in the NFL. Or with Gardner Minshew in

1151
00:58:23,760 --> 00:58:26,960
Speaker 1: the building, with Joe Flacco still in the building, is

1152
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:29,720
Speaker 1: there a treachery afoot for the former second round pick

1153
00:58:29,760 --> 00:58:32,320
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts. I think that's a sub I know people

1154
00:58:32,320 --> 00:58:34,960
Speaker 1: on Twitter, the Eagles fans that try to assassinate me

1155
00:58:35,520 --> 00:58:37,200
Speaker 1: don't want to hear this stuff, but just keep an

1156
00:58:37,240 --> 00:58:40,720
Speaker 1: eye in the situation. Is that organization functional enough right

1157
00:58:40,760 --> 00:58:43,800
Speaker 1: now and locked into the same mindset to let a

1158
00:58:43,840 --> 00:58:47,400
Speaker 1: young quarterback develop that isn't a premium draft pick. We

1159
00:58:47,440 --> 00:58:52,120
Speaker 1: shall see Greg close out the draft portion of the preview. Okay,

1160
00:58:51,680 --> 00:58:55,360
Speaker 1: I was gonna take Texans Jags, Yeah, because like I

1161
00:58:55,440 --> 00:58:57,320
Speaker 1: like having a bad second game, and then I thought

1162
00:58:57,320 --> 00:58:58,800
Speaker 1: that we got to think about the good of the

1163
00:58:58,800 --> 00:59:02,040
Speaker 1: show again. We should have someone watching this Seahawks Colts game.

1164
00:59:02,080 --> 00:59:04,800
Speaker 1: That is what I'll take, because I think it matters.

1165
00:59:04,840 --> 00:59:07,400
Speaker 1: I think it's two teams that we're in the playoffs

1166
00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:10,080
Speaker 1: a year ago, and we want to see how they

1167
00:59:10,080 --> 00:59:13,440
Speaker 1: look right now. We want to see. Yeah, just like I,

1168
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:16,440
Speaker 1: someone should should have their eyes on this game. I

1169
00:59:16,440 --> 00:59:18,000
Speaker 1: guess it could have been Nick Shook and I could

1170
00:59:18,040 --> 00:59:20,360
Speaker 1: have taken Texans jacks. But that's that's silly. I'm not

1171
00:59:20,400 --> 00:59:22,960
Speaker 1: writing anymore on Sunday nights. I should think that way. Now,

1172
00:59:23,320 --> 00:59:25,960
Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about that. That's good. I

1173
00:59:26,760 --> 00:59:28,960
Speaker 1: just think this. I'm all over the place, but I

1174
00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:32,120
Speaker 1: think a lot of mental processing going with here. Yeah. Sorry,

1175
00:59:32,160 --> 00:59:36,920
Speaker 1: I think it's just it could wipe the floor with them, right. I.

1176
00:59:36,920 --> 00:59:39,920
Speaker 1: I just don't like their past. I love the Seahawks

1177
00:59:39,920 --> 00:59:43,480
Speaker 1: pass rush and I don't love the Colts pass protection,

1178
00:59:43,640 --> 00:59:46,160
Speaker 1: and I don't love Carson Wentz hobbling on his foot.

1179
00:59:46,360 --> 00:59:48,440
Speaker 1: So I guess I gotta see it, can't you see

1180
00:59:49,280 --> 00:59:50,840
Speaker 1: a big story on t A And by the way,

1181
00:59:50,880 --> 00:59:53,720
Speaker 1: total access come back to me. Yeah, the old man.

1182
00:59:53,840 --> 00:59:58,400
Speaker 1: Keith hands us. He calls me yesterday. I call him, Actually,

1183
00:59:58,440 --> 01:00:01,080
Speaker 1: I can catch up with the parents and my dad.

1184
01:00:01,120 --> 01:00:03,680
Speaker 1: I'm um. I got a lot of TV and stuff

1185
01:00:03,720 --> 01:00:06,240
Speaker 1: going on Tuesdays with Power Rankings. He says, Oh, by

1186
01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:09,040
Speaker 1: the way, I was watching that one show Total Access.

1187
01:00:09,640 --> 01:00:14,400
Speaker 1: They're burying your power rankings, Willie McGinnis, Shawn O'Hara, m

1188
01:00:14,480 --> 01:00:17,240
Speaker 1: J Acosta. I don't think MJ was getting shots in

1189
01:00:17,280 --> 01:00:20,520
Speaker 1: because m J is a pro My lover her. But

1190
01:00:20,800 --> 01:00:23,720
Speaker 1: Willie taking shots at Zeuser, and that's fine. You don't

1191
01:00:23,760 --> 01:00:26,520
Speaker 1: do the power rankings unless you're able to take some fire.

1192
01:00:26,600 --> 01:00:28,600
Speaker 1: That's what the whole thing is about. So I never

1193
01:00:28,680 --> 01:00:30,840
Speaker 1: take an issue with someone saying my rankings are wrong.

1194
01:00:31,000 --> 01:00:33,280
Speaker 1: But you gotta have the old Juser there right. They

1195
01:00:33,280 --> 01:00:35,920
Speaker 1: did not give you Total Access. You gotta put a

1196
01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:37,560
Speaker 1: camera in front of me. You gotta hook me up

1197
01:00:37,560 --> 01:00:40,280
Speaker 1: with the mic so I could defend myself. Where was

1198
01:00:40,320 --> 01:00:46,600
Speaker 1: I I wanted to hear. I want to hear exactly

1199
01:00:46,640 --> 01:00:49,080
Speaker 1: what Keith Hans has said to you about this in

1200
01:00:49,280 --> 01:00:54,560
Speaker 1: his voice. Okay, Danny, you know it's good that your

1201
01:00:54,640 --> 01:00:56,240
Speaker 1: name was on the show and everything. They had your

1202
01:00:56,280 --> 01:00:58,080
Speaker 1: name on the screen and that was good. But uh,

1203
01:00:58,480 --> 01:01:01,240
Speaker 1: you know who's that big guy the um the defensive

1204
01:01:01,240 --> 01:01:04,480
Speaker 1: playoff from New England? Oh Willie? Yeah, yeah, he was

1205
01:01:04,520 --> 01:01:08,640
Speaker 1: saying some things. It wasn't so nice anyway, Ricky, you're

1206
01:01:08,640 --> 01:01:10,400
Speaker 1: gonna you have to cut this off for social and

1207
01:01:10,440 --> 01:01:13,800
Speaker 1: creat an in house civil war. Please. Um. What I'm

1208
01:01:13,800 --> 01:01:16,920
Speaker 1: going to send it to, like Willie's McGinness, is private

1209
01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:19,680
Speaker 1: cell phone. I will address this if they have me

1210
01:01:19,720 --> 01:01:22,200
Speaker 1: on Total Access and they actually let me defend my

1211
01:01:22,640 --> 01:01:25,880
Speaker 1: self on the power rankings, I will share with Willie

1212
01:01:25,880 --> 01:01:28,840
Speaker 1: that I was displeased, as was Keith by the treatment.

1213
01:01:28,880 --> 01:01:31,440
Speaker 1: He's going to be shaken by your your reaction to this,

1214
01:01:31,520 --> 01:01:33,600
Speaker 1: no doubt. I'm sure it's gonna keep him up at night.

1215
01:01:33,720 --> 01:01:37,680
Speaker 1: My point is on Monday's edition of NFL Total Access,

1216
01:01:37,720 --> 01:01:40,680
Speaker 1: there is going to be a portion of that telecast

1217
01:01:40,720 --> 01:01:43,840
Speaker 1: dedicated to is it time to worry about the Colts?

1218
01:01:44,080 --> 01:01:46,480
Speaker 1: Because I think if you have to pick one team

1219
01:01:46,560 --> 01:01:48,120
Speaker 1: that is going to come out of the gates slow,

1220
01:01:48,240 --> 01:01:50,720
Speaker 1: especially on offense, it's gonna be the Cult. And it

1221
01:01:50,760 --> 01:01:54,200
Speaker 1: doesn't mean they're doomed, but with Carson Wentz, lack of

1222
01:01:54,240 --> 01:01:56,560
Speaker 1: reps in practice time and the fact that he's on

1223
01:01:56,600 --> 01:01:58,560
Speaker 1: a bad foot still or a foot that's healing, and

1224
01:01:58,600 --> 01:02:01,040
Speaker 1: the same thing with Quentin Ellen, the other most important

1225
01:02:01,080 --> 01:02:03,240
Speaker 1: player on the offense, and t Y Hilton's out, and

1226
01:02:03,280 --> 01:02:05,000
Speaker 1: there's just it takes a while for a team to

1227
01:02:05,080 --> 01:02:08,520
Speaker 1: jael typically with new parts and a new quarterback in place.

1228
01:02:08,600 --> 01:02:10,720
Speaker 1: It just seems like they're in a very tough spot

1229
01:02:10,760 --> 01:02:13,480
Speaker 1: here well. Also quinnin Nelson dealing with a bit of

1230
01:02:13,480 --> 01:02:16,080
Speaker 1: a back issue as well. So you don't like the

1231
01:02:16,080 --> 01:02:18,560
Speaker 1: health of the line. And for whether you're a Wenz

1232
01:02:18,640 --> 01:02:21,480
Speaker 1: defender as you are Dan to some degree, or one

1233
01:02:21,560 --> 01:02:24,360
Speaker 1: who thinks that you know last year was it was

1234
01:02:24,480 --> 01:02:28,000
Speaker 1: an honest look at who he had become in that offense.

1235
01:02:28,320 --> 01:02:30,320
Speaker 1: I think from the neck up I was worry very

1236
01:02:30,320 --> 01:02:32,880
Speaker 1: concerned about whence the player and the person. He just

1237
01:02:32,920 --> 01:02:35,280
Speaker 1: seemed completely detached from what was going on around and

1238
01:02:35,400 --> 01:02:39,320
Speaker 1: making incredible mistakes, forcing throws. He's barely plays. You know,

1239
01:02:39,360 --> 01:02:41,760
Speaker 1: he's practicing, but this is not the way the off

1240
01:02:41,800 --> 01:02:44,080
Speaker 1: season wanted to go for him at all. Who is

1241
01:02:44,120 --> 01:02:46,840
Speaker 1: this player and he's not in the in the best

1242
01:02:47,080 --> 01:02:50,040
Speaker 1: Everyone's talked about Wentz being in the best possible situation

1243
01:02:50,360 --> 01:02:53,080
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis, because of the coach, because of the line.

1244
01:02:53,280 --> 01:02:56,000
Speaker 1: It's not the case in Week one, Um. The one

1245
01:02:56,000 --> 01:02:58,520
Speaker 1: player I'm interested to see that was Quitty pay their

1246
01:02:58,560 --> 01:03:01,520
Speaker 1: pass rusher, because he has in every report about him

1247
01:03:01,560 --> 01:03:03,600
Speaker 1: is that he's been freaky. I think he could be

1248
01:03:03,640 --> 01:03:06,080
Speaker 1: an impact player. That to me is someone to keep

1249
01:03:06,120 --> 01:03:09,080
Speaker 1: an eye on. Who rusher? By the way, remember the

1250
01:03:09,080 --> 01:03:15,600
Speaker 1: big kitty pass rusher? Was it for a collision collision

1251
01:03:15,640 --> 01:03:18,680
Speaker 1: low Crossers? Was Mike petton Um, I don't know if

1252
01:03:18,680 --> 01:03:20,320
Speaker 1: it was. It was more of a type of player

1253
01:03:20,320 --> 01:03:25,440
Speaker 1: they were looking for everything to win. Is a nice, little,

1254
01:03:25,520 --> 01:03:29,480
Speaker 1: low scoring game, conservative, a lot of running. It's just

1255
01:03:29,640 --> 01:03:32,960
Speaker 1: like ugly. I was shocked how high a number this

1256
01:03:33,000 --> 01:03:35,760
Speaker 1: game has between Colt and Seattle because it feels like

1257
01:03:35,800 --> 01:03:39,000
Speaker 1: it's going to be a very defense Hi, I think

1258
01:03:39,000 --> 01:03:44,560
Speaker 1: it's like over or something crazy. Doesn't matter. Let's hit

1259
01:03:44,600 --> 01:03:48,960
Speaker 1: the prime time games. We'll start with Sunday Night football

1260
01:03:49,040 --> 01:03:53,000
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears at Los Angeles Rams at Hollywood Park, our

1261
01:03:53,080 --> 01:03:57,440
Speaker 1: future office in a couple of weeks. Unfortunately, sorry, Mark Um.

1262
01:03:57,560 --> 01:04:02,360
Speaker 1: The story here, of course, is Matthew Stafford's debut with

1263
01:04:02,640 --> 01:04:05,240
Speaker 1: the Rams and Sean mcveigh's he gets a chance to

1264
01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:08,400
Speaker 1: really um the second part of his career, a rebirth

1265
01:04:08,440 --> 01:04:11,400
Speaker 1: here in a functional offense with great skilled players, and

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01:04:11,440 --> 01:04:13,360
Speaker 1: then on the Chicago side of the ball. You know, listen,

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Speaker 1: everybody's a little bit disappointed. But Mark, how about this

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Speaker 1: idea that you know they have a home game next

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Speaker 1: week the Bears against the Bengals, I believe, And that's

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01:04:20,640 --> 01:04:23,720
Speaker 1: that's not too that's not too rough. But is anyone

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01:04:23,760 --> 01:04:26,640
Speaker 1: else in the NFL can they claim the to be

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01:04:26,680 --> 01:04:28,520
Speaker 1: in the position Andy Dalton is where the fan base

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01:04:28,560 --> 01:04:32,360
Speaker 1: is actually rooting against you, like Bears fans cannot wait

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01:04:32,720 --> 01:04:34,920
Speaker 1: to get Andy Dalton out of the picture and Justin

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Speaker 1: Fields onto the field. Which I get it from a

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Speaker 1: big picture sense, but it also feels like it that

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Speaker 1: has to be maybe a little bit uh tough mentally

1278
01:04:43,440 --> 01:04:46,720
Speaker 1: to know nobody wants you on the field, at least

1279
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Speaker 1: the home fans. Uh. Tough way to start your Bears career, right,

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01:04:50,040 --> 01:04:52,560
Speaker 1: I mean, I think he dealt with that in Cincinnati

1281
01:04:52,600 --> 01:04:57,200
Speaker 1: to agree to where you know they're tired of him, though,

1282
01:04:57,200 --> 01:04:59,320
Speaker 1: because not to this degree to put in Ryan Finley

1283
01:04:59,400 --> 01:05:02,240
Speaker 1: or whatever. No, and it's it's not Andy Dalton's fault,

1284
01:05:02,640 --> 01:05:05,120
Speaker 1: but I simply, you know, and we've I don't want

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01:05:05,120 --> 01:05:07,360
Speaker 1: to beat this dead horse, but I just I don't

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01:05:07,440 --> 01:05:09,840
Speaker 1: understand the strategy with Matt nig. I mean, they've got

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01:05:10,040 --> 01:05:12,360
Speaker 1: line issues. So I guess from one angle you're looking

1288
01:05:12,400 --> 01:05:15,080
Speaker 1: look at, we want to protect Justin Fields for a

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01:05:15,080 --> 01:05:17,760
Speaker 1: bit here versus throwing him into the fire. Nagy was

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01:05:17,840 --> 01:05:20,760
Speaker 1: in Kansas City the year that they sat Patrick Mahomes

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01:05:20,840 --> 01:05:23,760
Speaker 1: up until that Week seventeen game when we realized maybe

1292
01:05:23,760 --> 01:05:25,520
Speaker 1: they should have just been playing him the whole time.

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01:05:25,800 --> 01:05:28,480
Speaker 1: My concern for the Bears organization in general is like

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01:05:28,720 --> 01:05:31,200
Speaker 1: if Fields and I mean, by all accounts, he was

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01:05:31,240 --> 01:05:33,960
Speaker 1: not perfect in the preseason, but Fields is the more

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01:05:34,000 --> 01:05:37,080
Speaker 1: electric um player that offers you much more than Andy

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01:05:37,160 --> 01:05:40,040
Speaker 1: Dalton ever will why wait, what is the weight? Why

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01:05:40,160 --> 01:05:42,280
Speaker 1: put him in in Week four? Week five? I just

1299
01:05:42,320 --> 01:05:46,120
Speaker 1: think that quarterbacks in one are not players coming out

1300
01:05:46,120 --> 01:05:48,720
Speaker 1: of college systems that need to sit and wait for

1301
01:05:48,760 --> 01:05:51,520
Speaker 1: four years to play like Joe Theisman forty five years

1302
01:05:51,560 --> 01:05:55,680
Speaker 1: ago or something. So organizationally, I completely disagree with what

1303
01:05:55,720 --> 01:05:58,320
Speaker 1: they're doing. Uh, the NFL West would always say this,

1304
01:05:58,360 --> 01:06:01,760
Speaker 1: you know, favor of four, the fortune favors the bold.

1305
01:06:01,760 --> 01:06:03,680
Speaker 1: You've got to go for it, and the Bears are

1306
01:06:03,720 --> 01:06:06,160
Speaker 1: one team sitting out there playing it's safe. I don't

1307
01:06:06,200 --> 01:06:09,320
Speaker 1: like it at all. It's hard. It's hard to see

1308
01:06:09,360 --> 01:06:12,920
Speaker 1: where they're like special, you know, defense. Defensively, there's just

1309
01:06:12,960 --> 01:06:15,320
Speaker 1: been like a little bit of erosion. They still do

1310
01:06:15,400 --> 01:06:17,600
Speaker 1: have pretty good players, but the secondary little bit of

1311
01:06:17,640 --> 01:06:21,280
Speaker 1: erosion there Akeem Hicks maybe not quite the difference maker

1312
01:06:21,840 --> 01:06:23,440
Speaker 1: that he used to be. They hope they get more

1313
01:06:23,440 --> 01:06:26,000
Speaker 1: out of Robert Quinn. I think there is a path

1314
01:06:26,040 --> 01:06:30,560
Speaker 1: to keeping this game close. You know, the Rams, there's

1315
01:06:30,640 --> 01:06:33,400
Speaker 1: so much to be excited about on offense, but you

1316
01:06:33,440 --> 01:06:36,080
Speaker 1: do want to see it. They haven't you know, practiced there,

1317
01:06:36,160 --> 01:06:39,560
Speaker 1: you know, played you know, meaningful snaps together yet at all.

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01:06:40,000 --> 01:06:42,800
Speaker 1: I can remember the last couple openers they had after

1319
01:06:42,800 --> 01:06:45,400
Speaker 1: sitting out the preseason. There was that Raiders game on

1320
01:06:45,400 --> 01:06:47,120
Speaker 1: Monday night which they ended up winning in a walk,

1321
01:06:47,120 --> 01:06:49,040
Speaker 1: and in its other Panthers game where it's like a

1322
01:06:49,120 --> 01:06:52,280
Speaker 1: slow start. They're not the deepest team in the world,

1323
01:06:52,280 --> 01:06:54,200
Speaker 1: and this is a team. This is a week where

1324
01:06:54,240 --> 01:06:56,800
Speaker 1: you'd love to be able to play your backups twenty

1325
01:06:56,880 --> 01:07:01,040
Speaker 1: snaps and and give reps to and break to your starters.

1326
01:07:01,040 --> 01:07:04,120
Speaker 1: So I'm excited to see de Sean Jackson, Van Jefferson

1327
01:07:04,200 --> 01:07:06,280
Speaker 1: all that fun stuff. But you haven't you haven't seen it.

1328
01:07:06,360 --> 01:07:09,080
Speaker 1: I think there is a there is a avenue here

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01:07:09,080 --> 01:07:11,240
Speaker 1: for the Bears to just make this game kind of

1330
01:07:11,320 --> 01:07:13,680
Speaker 1: ugly and everyone's like, oh, how come this isn't a

1331
01:07:13,680 --> 01:07:17,080
Speaker 1: great good game and it's like one at the end

1332
01:07:17,120 --> 01:07:19,040
Speaker 1: and you know the Rams escape. I could see that

1333
01:07:19,160 --> 01:07:23,640
Speaker 1: there's another catchphrase or another phrase mark um chance favors

1334
01:07:23,680 --> 01:07:27,160
Speaker 1: the prepared mind bad guy number one from under Siege

1335
01:07:27,200 --> 01:07:29,800
Speaker 1: to Dark Territory feels a little less catchy to me,

1336
01:07:30,160 --> 01:07:33,040
Speaker 1: and I botched the initial phrase when I attempted to

1337
01:07:33,080 --> 01:07:37,320
Speaker 1: say it. So perhaps Underseige two, Dark Territory, that's the

1338
01:07:37,360 --> 01:07:39,480
Speaker 1: one on the train, there's the one on the battleship

1339
01:07:40,080 --> 01:07:44,200
Speaker 1: under Siege one, and that's Tommy Lee Jones performance. It's excellent.

1340
01:07:44,920 --> 01:07:47,600
Speaker 1: And then you have the second one with Eric Bedogian

1341
01:07:48,440 --> 01:07:52,400
Speaker 1: Dark Territory not as good, but Travis Dain is a

1342
01:07:52,400 --> 01:07:54,280
Speaker 1: great bad guy in it. And uh, I will just

1343
01:07:54,320 --> 01:07:57,080
Speaker 1: say that ties into this game. Uh let me forget

1344
01:07:57,160 --> 01:07:59,920
Speaker 1: how it ties in. Oh maybe Eddie Dalton. They just

1345
01:08:00,040 --> 01:08:02,760
Speaker 1: feel he's better prepared for this moment and they want

1346
01:08:02,760 --> 01:08:05,080
Speaker 1: to let Justin Fields marinate. I'm not here to tell

1347
01:08:05,120 --> 01:08:07,560
Speaker 1: you that's what they should do, but maybe they think

1348
01:08:07,560 --> 01:08:09,400
Speaker 1: this will help Justin Fields in the long run to

1349
01:08:09,400 --> 01:08:11,520
Speaker 1: get his feet wet on the sideline and maybe come

1350
01:08:11,560 --> 01:08:14,600
Speaker 1: in at some point. But everyone wants the same thing

1351
01:08:15,040 --> 01:08:17,920
Speaker 1: and and ultimately Ryan pays the Matt Maggie needed to

1352
01:08:17,960 --> 01:08:20,240
Speaker 1: happen to if they want to continue to coach and

1353
01:08:20,360 --> 01:08:25,600
Speaker 1: GM with the Bears. So okay, I can't wait to

1354
01:08:25,600 --> 01:08:28,240
Speaker 1: see Matthew Stafford was Sean McVeigh. That's gonna be fun.

1355
01:08:28,280 --> 01:08:33,920
Speaker 1: Hopefully stays healthy. All right, Monday Night football, Baltimore Ravens,

1356
01:08:34,760 --> 01:08:38,360
Speaker 1: Las Vegas Raiders. See the way they set this up?

1357
01:08:38,720 --> 01:08:44,800
Speaker 1: You got who got breaking news? I have some unfortunate

1358
01:08:45,120 --> 01:08:49,840
Speaker 1: breaking news. According to Ian Rappaport, the Ravens cut short

1359
01:08:49,920 --> 01:08:54,599
Speaker 1: practice today after cornerback Marcus Peters and running back Gus

1360
01:08:54,720 --> 01:08:59,760
Speaker 1: Edwards sustained potentially significant knee injuries on back to back plays.

1361
01:09:00,320 --> 01:09:04,719
Speaker 1: Um another running back back to back plays. They think

1362
01:09:04,800 --> 01:09:08,759
Speaker 1: Gus Edwards might be out for the entire season. Whoa

1363
01:09:09,800 --> 01:09:13,080
Speaker 1: they've lost that? Well, they just signed Levi on Bell,

1364
01:09:13,479 --> 01:09:15,679
Speaker 1: so it's like, are we going to see him now?

1365
01:09:15,960 --> 01:09:19,240
Speaker 1: This is it's I mean that is devastating and back

1366
01:09:19,280 --> 01:09:23,400
Speaker 1: to back plays like what is happening over there? Greg,

1367
01:09:23,439 --> 01:09:27,040
Speaker 1: you mentioned how weird and strange and somewhat sinister their

1368
01:09:27,040 --> 01:09:30,240
Speaker 1: camp was. I mean it is extended with a with

1369
01:09:30,320 --> 01:09:33,080
Speaker 1: a huge hammer punch right there. I mean that is

1370
01:09:33,120 --> 01:09:37,519
Speaker 1: they have no running back. It's insane. They've had a

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01:09:37,680 --> 01:09:40,040
Speaker 1: terrible time of it. This is why it's like they

1372
01:09:40,040 --> 01:09:42,120
Speaker 1: shouldn't ask us to lock in our NFL dot com

1373
01:09:42,160 --> 01:09:45,760
Speaker 1: predictions early because it's like, Okay, now I got the

1374
01:09:45,760 --> 01:09:48,400
Speaker 1: Browns in the playoffs. Mark there you go. Um that.

1375
01:09:48,680 --> 01:09:51,040
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to make light of it. It stinks

1376
01:09:51,080 --> 01:09:55,479
Speaker 1: because for many reasons, but it's there's a point where

1377
01:09:55,600 --> 01:09:58,040
Speaker 1: you still do need a running back. They like Tyson Williams,

1378
01:09:58,120 --> 01:10:00,840
Speaker 1: who I thought showed some things. We don't know much

1379
01:10:00,880 --> 01:10:04,439
Speaker 1: about him, um, a second year player, but he's now

1380
01:10:04,880 --> 01:10:08,400
Speaker 1: in theory would be your lead guy. And you get

1381
01:10:08,439 --> 01:10:11,479
Speaker 1: some other guys off the street. And they left Bell

1382
01:10:11,560 --> 01:10:15,559
Speaker 1: to their practice squad right right, And he might be active,

1383
01:10:15,560 --> 01:10:17,840
Speaker 1: which is a sign he probably will be, especially after

1384
01:10:17,880 --> 01:10:20,120
Speaker 1: this injury. He's probably not giving him a lot of times.

1385
01:10:20,160 --> 01:10:23,400
Speaker 1: But Marcus Peters is the bigger injury here because as

1386
01:10:23,400 --> 01:10:26,559
Speaker 1: good as their secondary is, I I did think they

1387
01:10:26,560 --> 01:10:29,920
Speaker 1: were a little more vulnerable this year. If even one

1388
01:10:29,960 --> 01:10:32,479
Speaker 1: guy goes down, and now Jimmy Smith who has been

1389
01:10:32,520 --> 01:10:35,680
Speaker 1: banged up, and Marcus Peters, it's just you start to

1390
01:10:35,680 --> 01:10:38,680
Speaker 1: take away a lot of pieces. Man. The Raiders are

1391
01:10:38,760 --> 01:10:42,680
Speaker 1: catching the Ravens at the right time. Unbelievable and that

1392
01:10:42,760 --> 01:10:45,000
Speaker 1: and it just goes to show you. And when J K.

1393
01:10:45,160 --> 01:10:48,080
Speaker 1: Dobbins towards a c L in the preseason game, it

1394
01:10:48,160 --> 01:10:50,840
Speaker 1: was like another feather in the cap for people that

1395
01:10:50,920 --> 01:10:54,400
Speaker 1: are like, hey, don't don't play your starters in the

1396
01:10:54,520 --> 01:10:57,519
Speaker 1: in these games that don't matter. It's football. These guys,

1397
01:10:57,720 --> 01:11:01,639
Speaker 1: the bodies and the speed and the hour involved even

1398
01:11:01,680 --> 01:11:05,559
Speaker 1: a simple practice um, devastating things can happen. So that

1399
01:11:05,680 --> 01:11:08,240
Speaker 1: is that's a very tough loss both sides of the ball.

1400
01:11:08,240 --> 01:11:09,920
Speaker 1: And we don't know we're learning this in real time.

1401
01:11:09,920 --> 01:11:12,960
Speaker 1: Obviously we don't know about either injury, but just based

1402
01:11:13,000 --> 01:11:16,000
Speaker 1: on initial reports, it does not sound good. L s

1403
01:11:17,200 --> 01:11:20,160
Speaker 1: Rap report says both of them will be just confirming it.

1404
01:11:20,240 --> 01:11:26,200
Speaker 1: So usually so the Ravens obviously now are dealing with

1405
01:11:26,880 --> 01:11:29,000
Speaker 1: big time issues on both sides of the ball. As

1406
01:11:29,040 --> 01:11:32,400
Speaker 1: they travel to the Desert to face the Raiders UM

1407
01:11:32,439 --> 01:11:35,320
Speaker 1: at Allegiant Stadium. I believe it is Allegiant. I don't know.

1408
01:11:35,520 --> 01:11:40,000
Speaker 1: And uh. And for the Raiders, this is a nice

1409
01:11:40,000 --> 01:11:43,679
Speaker 1: early test for them after their latest late season fade.

1410
01:11:44,080 --> 01:11:46,720
Speaker 1: UM and it's a big season obviously for them. Is

1411
01:11:46,760 --> 01:11:50,640
Speaker 1: they need to prove that they're going in the right direction. Um,

1412
01:11:50,720 --> 01:11:52,280
Speaker 1: what do you think about this matchup? I think this

1413
01:11:52,280 --> 01:11:55,120
Speaker 1: this feels like to me, and that was even before

1414
01:11:55,160 --> 01:11:57,680
Speaker 1: these injuries, Greg. This felt like one of those on

1415
01:11:57,720 --> 01:12:00,880
Speaker 1: a Monday night with the Ray Raiders and their fans,

1416
01:12:00,920 --> 01:12:02,840
Speaker 1: and that building is gonna be going off the first

1417
01:12:03,080 --> 01:12:05,599
Speaker 1: Vegas home game. Of course after COVID last year, there

1418
01:12:05,600 --> 01:12:08,360
Speaker 1: were no fans in that new stadium. I think this

1419
01:12:08,439 --> 01:12:12,200
Speaker 1: is a coin flip game, and I'm actually leaning the Raiders. Yeah,

1420
01:12:12,240 --> 01:12:13,960
Speaker 1: I thought it was a coin flip game too. I

1421
01:12:14,000 --> 01:12:17,120
Speaker 1: thought it's two offenses that like to slow the pace

1422
01:12:17,280 --> 01:12:19,360
Speaker 1: down or at least run the ball a lot. The

1423
01:12:19,439 --> 01:12:21,400
Speaker 1: Ravens do it in a fast way, the Raiders do

1424
01:12:21,439 --> 01:12:24,960
Speaker 1: it in a slow way. And those types of games

1425
01:12:25,000 --> 01:12:30,000
Speaker 1: the Raiders played every week last year, eight series, nine

1426
01:12:30,040 --> 01:12:34,000
Speaker 1: series for each team's tends to inspire a close game.

1427
01:12:34,040 --> 01:12:36,000
Speaker 1: And now with Lamar, who just hasn't had a lot

1428
01:12:36,000 --> 01:12:39,439
Speaker 1: of reps in terms of the passing weapons around him

1429
01:12:39,479 --> 01:12:41,680
Speaker 1: in camp, you just feel like it's going to be

1430
01:12:41,720 --> 01:12:44,320
Speaker 1: more about the running game. I know they're they're short

1431
01:12:44,360 --> 01:12:46,800
Speaker 1: a few running backs, doesn't matter. Lamar makes I mean

1432
01:12:46,800 --> 01:12:48,960
Speaker 1: it matters, but they're still gonna try to run the

1433
01:12:49,000 --> 01:12:52,000
Speaker 1: ball and Lamar makes them a good running game. But

1434
01:12:52,080 --> 01:12:54,439
Speaker 1: I think the Raiders fans that are optimistic that their

1435
01:12:54,439 --> 01:12:55,960
Speaker 1: defense is going to be better this year, like, there

1436
01:12:55,960 --> 01:12:58,799
Speaker 1: are reasons to believe that the guys who were problems

1437
01:12:58,840 --> 01:13:00,839
Speaker 1: for them last year, a lot of them are backups

1438
01:13:00,880 --> 01:13:03,320
Speaker 1: now and they do look better on paper there and

1439
01:13:03,360 --> 01:13:05,599
Speaker 1: they do have a good coach. There is a route

1440
01:13:05,600 --> 01:13:07,920
Speaker 1: here to go from like thirty and thirty second in

1441
01:13:07,960 --> 01:13:10,360
Speaker 1: defense to twenty, which would make all the difference in

1442
01:13:10,360 --> 01:13:12,360
Speaker 1: the world for Derek Carr and would make them a contender.

1443
01:13:12,360 --> 01:13:14,000
Speaker 1: And yeah, make this is a tough out. I think

1444
01:13:14,000 --> 01:13:16,720
Speaker 1: the home crowd thing not to just keep rambling, but

1445
01:13:17,120 --> 01:13:21,519
Speaker 1: we haven't talked post pandemic crowds are nothing. I think

1446
01:13:21,520 --> 01:13:23,240
Speaker 1: that matters a lot. I mean, you have your their

1447
01:13:23,280 --> 01:13:25,679
Speaker 1: owner didn't even sit in the stadium last year because

1448
01:13:25,680 --> 01:13:28,080
Speaker 1: he was banded with the fans. If they couldn't be there,

1449
01:13:28,120 --> 01:13:30,720
Speaker 1: he wouldn't be there. I would note this about Baltimore

1450
01:13:31,000 --> 01:13:33,479
Speaker 1: last three seasons, a few teams have opened as well

1451
01:13:33,520 --> 01:13:36,160
Speaker 1: as they have a hundred and forty four points to nineteen.

1452
01:13:36,200 --> 01:13:39,600
Speaker 1: They've outscored opponents in the last three openers. But the

1453
01:13:39,960 --> 01:13:43,679
Speaker 1: Ravens are changing um dramatically, you know as we speak,

1454
01:13:43,840 --> 01:13:47,200
Speaker 1: so I'm now edging I would I would go Raiders

1455
01:13:47,280 --> 01:13:48,800
Speaker 1: in a in a close one at this point. They

1456
01:13:48,800 --> 01:13:50,639
Speaker 1: play a lot of their starters in the preseason. As

1457
01:13:50,640 --> 01:13:53,840
Speaker 1: we've noted, they're historically good and that you know that

1458
01:13:53,840 --> 01:13:56,280
Speaker 1: would support that week once that, which I didn't know

1459
01:13:56,320 --> 01:13:59,160
Speaker 1: Mark would support that. They're pretty good starters, maybe because

1460
01:13:59,160 --> 01:14:01,280
Speaker 1: they're ready to go. The Raiders, on the other hand,

1461
01:14:01,880 --> 01:14:04,559
Speaker 1: h sat everyone. But yeah, these post pandemic crowds, they're

1462
01:14:04,560 --> 01:14:07,880
Speaker 1: having an impact. The US Open crowd for tennis is

1463
01:14:07,960 --> 01:14:10,679
Speaker 1: unlike anything I've ever seen in tennis. I think people

1464
01:14:10,680 --> 01:14:13,240
Speaker 1: are just and check out courts of thunder by the way,

1465
01:14:13,479 --> 01:14:16,519
Speaker 1: you know, my m tennis prob a lot of plugs.

1466
01:14:16,600 --> 01:14:18,719
Speaker 1: That's it. We're done for We're done for the season

1467
01:14:18,720 --> 01:14:20,640
Speaker 1: after that. But like I really think it could be

1468
01:14:20,680 --> 01:14:23,680
Speaker 1: a fact, Like absolutely, how would that not help this

1469
01:14:23,840 --> 01:14:25,639
Speaker 1: Raiders team out on Monday night? I think it could

1470
01:14:25,640 --> 01:14:31,120
Speaker 1: be rock all right, Now, before we say goodbye, we

1471
01:14:31,160 --> 01:14:33,040
Speaker 1: have four more games and we'll do it more in

1472
01:14:33,080 --> 01:14:35,200
Speaker 1: a speed round fashion. So if you guys have any

1473
01:14:35,200 --> 01:14:37,320
Speaker 1: thoughts on each of these games, get them out and

1474
01:14:37,320 --> 01:14:40,200
Speaker 1: we'll keep moving. We'll start with the New York Jets

1475
01:14:40,200 --> 01:14:43,920
Speaker 1: at Carolina Panthers the Don Old Ball and there's a

1476
01:14:43,920 --> 01:14:46,040
Speaker 1: lot of mental gymnastics going on on the head of

1477
01:14:46,320 --> 01:14:48,960
Speaker 1: the the old Zuser and every other Jet van trying

1478
01:14:49,000 --> 01:14:52,200
Speaker 1: to make sense of how to process this game, because, um,

1479
01:14:52,240 --> 01:14:56,200
Speaker 1: we all had a lot invested in Sam Donald and

1480
01:14:56,360 --> 01:14:58,400
Speaker 1: now we have a lot invested in Zack Wilson, and

1481
01:14:58,439 --> 01:15:00,519
Speaker 1: now they're both on the field together and they're both

1482
01:15:00,600 --> 01:15:02,320
Speaker 1: under the age of twenty four. It's all it's just

1483
01:15:02,360 --> 01:15:04,920
Speaker 1: a lot, it's just a lot of process. But I'm

1484
01:15:04,960 --> 01:15:08,559
Speaker 1: excited to see obviously how Zack Wilson looks, uh in

1485
01:15:08,720 --> 01:15:12,080
Speaker 1: his first game. UM, I'm excited to see Corey Davis

1486
01:15:12,080 --> 01:15:15,759
Speaker 1: and Elijah Moore play together. Uh, they'll be starting. Jameson

1487
01:15:15,760 --> 01:15:19,000
Speaker 1: Crowder's status is up in the air after he contracted COVID.

1488
01:15:19,080 --> 01:15:22,679
Speaker 1: So it looks like Elijah Moore will be starting with um,

1489
01:15:22,800 --> 01:15:27,120
Speaker 1: Corey Davis and Keenan Cole in three wide receiver sets

1490
01:15:27,479 --> 01:15:30,240
Speaker 1: and on the Carolina side of the ball, and Matt

1491
01:15:30,320 --> 01:15:33,839
Speaker 1: rule Um didn't get a chance to have Christian McCaffrey

1492
01:15:33,880 --> 01:15:35,680
Speaker 1: as a main part of his team last year. I

1493
01:15:35,680 --> 01:15:37,759
Speaker 1: think he's gonna give the Jets a lot of trouble

1494
01:15:37,760 --> 01:15:41,439
Speaker 1: in this game. I think if you drafted Christian McCaffrey

1495
01:15:41,560 --> 01:15:44,479
Speaker 1: UH this season, UH, Week one is gonna make you

1496
01:15:44,479 --> 01:15:46,680
Speaker 1: feel real good because I see him going for a

1497
01:15:46,760 --> 01:15:49,160
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty plus total yards a couple of touchdowns.

1498
01:15:49,240 --> 01:15:50,920
Speaker 1: I just don't know if there's anybody on the Jets

1499
01:15:51,200 --> 01:15:53,639
Speaker 1: that can cover him. C J. Mosley coming back from

1500
01:15:53,680 --> 01:15:56,120
Speaker 1: two years off, not a great coverage guy in the

1501
01:15:56,120 --> 01:15:58,759
Speaker 1: first place. There's gonna be a lot of issues trying

1502
01:15:58,800 --> 01:16:01,639
Speaker 1: to stop Christian mc caffrey. So I think this will

1503
01:16:01,680 --> 01:16:03,920
Speaker 1: be a pretty close game. I think the Jets defense

1504
01:16:03,960 --> 01:16:06,000
Speaker 1: is why the Panthers are gonna win. Like the Jets

1505
01:16:06,000 --> 01:16:07,800
Speaker 1: have a lot of work to do on defense. This

1506
01:16:07,920 --> 01:16:10,080
Speaker 1: is I I would think, I would say the most

1507
01:16:10,600 --> 01:16:14,080
Speaker 1: um dramatic and intriguing Jets opener since the days of

1508
01:16:14,120 --> 01:16:15,920
Speaker 1: Rex Ryan. I mean, I I don't know if you'd

1509
01:16:15,920 --> 01:16:18,160
Speaker 1: agree with that, Dan, but there is optimism. You've got

1510
01:16:18,160 --> 01:16:20,479
Speaker 1: a good coaching staff, then the offense is gonna look

1511
01:16:20,479 --> 01:16:24,519
Speaker 1: completely different. Zack Wilson looked as advertised in the in

1512
01:16:24,560 --> 01:16:29,080
Speaker 1: the preseason. There is one um member of NFL media's

1513
01:16:29,120 --> 01:16:31,360
Speaker 1: staff that picked the Panthers to make the playoffs, and

1514
01:16:31,360 --> 01:16:33,800
Speaker 1: it is the person speaking right now. I think that

1515
01:16:33,840 --> 01:16:37,240
Speaker 1: the they were being overlooked. They were juicy at times

1516
01:16:37,280 --> 01:16:40,080
Speaker 1: last year. They lost a ton of close one score games.

1517
01:16:41,400 --> 01:16:44,160
Speaker 1: I am not drunk, not yet. I am telling you

1518
01:16:44,400 --> 01:16:46,479
Speaker 1: this Panther's team is going to be intriguing more than

1519
01:16:46,520 --> 01:16:48,519
Speaker 1: people exact, but it does. You do have to see

1520
01:16:48,520 --> 01:16:51,519
Speaker 1: what Donald is because there's another scenario where Donald is

1521
01:16:51,560 --> 01:16:54,680
Speaker 1: a total flop. Yeah, how about how how about Sam Donald? Um,

1522
01:16:55,080 --> 01:16:57,280
Speaker 1: you don't spend the whole week loss just another game.

1523
01:16:57,280 --> 01:17:00,400
Speaker 1: I'm not really anymore into it than any other game.

1524
01:17:00,439 --> 01:17:05,240
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. How about a little fire from Sam Donald? No,

1525
01:17:05,439 --> 01:17:07,519
Speaker 1: he doesn't, he doesn't play play with it. I'm I'm

1526
01:17:07,560 --> 01:17:10,200
Speaker 1: just I'm just sick of hearing quarterbacks say like that. Please,

1527
01:17:10,280 --> 01:17:12,719
Speaker 1: this team gave up on you. They gave you, Adam Gates,

1528
01:17:12,720 --> 01:17:15,639
Speaker 1: they gave you no support. If he's not furious at

1529
01:17:15,720 --> 01:17:18,800
Speaker 1: a lot of aspects of his Jets career, something's wrong here.

1530
01:17:18,840 --> 01:17:21,320
Speaker 1: He should want to like so Cal guy. He's a

1531
01:17:21,400 --> 01:17:25,840
Speaker 1: chill so guy. Um. Up next, the Minnesota Vikings at Cincinnati.

1532
01:17:26,160 --> 01:17:28,840
Speaker 1: Ben Gals. Kind of like this game because I just

1533
01:17:28,880 --> 01:17:30,720
Speaker 1: want to see how Joe Burrow looks in his first

1534
01:17:30,800 --> 01:17:33,040
Speaker 1: game back after the knee injury. And I think Minnesota,

1535
01:17:33,640 --> 01:17:35,800
Speaker 1: who I think I picked them for the playoffs on

1536
01:17:35,920 --> 01:17:38,559
Speaker 1: NFL dot Com. Um, you're gonna want to go to

1537
01:17:38,560 --> 01:17:40,720
Speaker 1: Minnesota and take care of or to Cincinnati and take

1538
01:17:40,720 --> 01:17:43,880
Speaker 1: care of business here? Their offense was shaky uh in

1539
01:17:43,960 --> 01:17:46,960
Speaker 1: the preseason and uh in the summer and the practices

1540
01:17:47,000 --> 01:17:49,800
Speaker 1: according to those who follow the team. But you think

1541
01:17:49,800 --> 01:17:52,240
Speaker 1: they're gonna take care of business here? I do. But

1542
01:17:52,280 --> 01:17:54,439
Speaker 1: I think it'll be like an ugly game, another one

1543
01:17:54,479 --> 01:17:58,320
Speaker 1: where you kind of like like the low score because

1544
01:17:58,520 --> 01:18:00,280
Speaker 1: both teams I think are gonna be able to get

1545
01:18:00,320 --> 01:18:03,200
Speaker 1: after the quarterback. The Vikings offensive line might be worse

1546
01:18:03,320 --> 01:18:06,360
Speaker 1: than the Bengals, who I think it's almost been overstated

1547
01:18:06,360 --> 01:18:08,280
Speaker 1: how bad their line might be. But the like the

1548
01:18:08,360 --> 01:18:10,880
Speaker 1: Vikings defensive line is gonna be really good. My one

1549
01:18:10,880 --> 01:18:13,720
Speaker 1: little Bengals point is watch out for this defense. They

1550
01:18:13,760 --> 01:18:15,719
Speaker 1: maybe it was just because they were playing the Bengals offense,

1551
01:18:15,760 --> 01:18:18,559
Speaker 1: but man, the reporters really believed like they were taking

1552
01:18:18,720 --> 01:18:21,000
Speaker 1: a step forward. They've had some continuity that it could

1553
01:18:21,000 --> 01:18:23,680
Speaker 1: be a better defense than people thinking. So this, I'm

1554
01:18:23,720 --> 01:18:25,439
Speaker 1: not sure if I want to watch this game that much.

1555
01:18:25,479 --> 01:18:27,120
Speaker 1: I think it could be low and a little ugly.

1556
01:18:27,320 --> 01:18:29,439
Speaker 1: I don't know if I love their secondary versus Justin

1557
01:18:29,520 --> 01:18:32,040
Speaker 1: Jefferson and Adam Feeling. But we will see, and this

1558
01:18:32,120 --> 01:18:33,840
Speaker 1: will be a better Vikings team than a year ago.

1559
01:18:34,280 --> 01:18:36,920
Speaker 1: I wrote in the Power Rankings that the Vikings offense

1560
01:18:37,040 --> 01:18:40,519
Speaker 1: is built like a Jana tower. You need high level

1561
01:18:40,560 --> 01:18:44,799
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl seasons, level seasons from Cousins from Cook, from Feeling,

1562
01:18:44,880 --> 01:18:47,559
Speaker 1: from Jefferson. If you don't get those things where you

1563
01:18:47,560 --> 01:18:52,600
Speaker 1: get injuries, look out the Jacksonville Jaguars at Houston Texans.

1564
01:18:53,280 --> 01:18:56,200
Speaker 1: Um As we all know, the Texans are a mess

1565
01:18:56,280 --> 01:18:59,519
Speaker 1: right now. Tyrod Taylor is their quarterback. They just traded

1566
01:18:59,560 --> 01:19:03,320
Speaker 1: their only quarterback cornerback of note to the Saints. So

1567
01:19:03,760 --> 01:19:05,800
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a team. Everybody's gonna stomp on

1568
01:19:06,600 --> 01:19:09,800
Speaker 1: the spread. The Desert only has it at three points here.

1569
01:19:10,040 --> 01:19:12,679
Speaker 1: And I thought about locking up Trevor Lawrence in his debut,

1570
01:19:13,040 --> 01:19:15,800
Speaker 1: but that's that's just not fun. I thought about locking

1571
01:19:15,880 --> 01:19:18,160
Speaker 1: up the Texans. I think the Texans should be favorite.

1572
01:19:18,280 --> 01:19:21,000
Speaker 1: This is a one win team that's on the road.

1573
01:19:21,240 --> 01:19:24,120
Speaker 1: I think if you look at roster spots twenty through fifty,

1574
01:19:24,240 --> 01:19:28,040
Speaker 1: the Texans are probably a little uh more talented. I'm

1575
01:19:28,080 --> 01:19:31,240
Speaker 1: not into the Texans. I just think like NFL teams

1576
01:19:31,240 --> 01:19:33,280
Speaker 1: aren't that different from top to bottom, and these are

1577
01:19:33,320 --> 01:19:36,240
Speaker 1: two at the very bottom. And I think there is

1578
01:19:36,280 --> 01:19:39,240
Speaker 1: a route here with the Texans. How they're gonna plays

1579
01:19:39,240 --> 01:19:40,920
Speaker 1: a lot of running, a lot of Philip and Lindsay,

1580
01:19:40,920 --> 01:19:42,840
Speaker 1: a lot of David Johnson, a lot of Tyrod Taylor.

1581
01:19:43,120 --> 01:19:45,160
Speaker 1: And it's not gonna be fun. It's not gonna be pretty.

1582
01:19:45,200 --> 01:19:46,800
Speaker 1: But this is a coin flip at best, and I

1583
01:19:47,000 --> 01:19:49,360
Speaker 1: would take the home team just because they're home. You

1584
01:19:49,360 --> 01:19:51,760
Speaker 1: are you are very low on Jackson. I mean, I mean,

1585
01:19:51,760 --> 01:19:54,240
Speaker 1: couldn't you also see the Texans going to in fifteen

1586
01:19:54,600 --> 01:19:58,040
Speaker 1: and getting their asses blown out? But this is like

1587
01:19:58,160 --> 01:20:00,800
Speaker 1: if you look at their season, kind like the Jaguars

1588
01:20:00,800 --> 01:20:03,479
Speaker 1: getting that Week one victory last year over the colt

1589
01:20:03,600 --> 01:20:06,519
Speaker 1: It's like, isn't a home game against the Jaguars the

1590
01:20:06,600 --> 01:20:09,200
Speaker 1: easiest game on the Texans schedule? You know, if you

1591
01:20:09,200 --> 01:20:11,360
Speaker 1: flip it around, like this is a game that they

1592
01:20:11,439 --> 01:20:14,240
Speaker 1: absolutely can win, they're not going to be overwhelmed. I

1593
01:20:14,280 --> 01:20:16,080
Speaker 1: don't think with me, you're right. But I look at

1594
01:20:16,160 --> 01:20:19,599
Speaker 1: Jacksonville's skilled players on offense and I there's a lot

1595
01:20:19,640 --> 01:20:21,600
Speaker 1: to like there. I hate that they lost Travis y

1596
01:20:21,720 --> 01:20:24,400
Speaker 1: t N, but I mean they're their wide receiver group

1597
01:20:24,439 --> 01:20:27,479
Speaker 1: is solid. If Trevor Lawrence this is advertised and I thought,

1598
01:20:27,479 --> 01:20:30,760
Speaker 1: you know, his later preseason work was marvelous that. I

1599
01:20:31,280 --> 01:20:32,880
Speaker 1: think they can be a much better team than they

1600
01:20:32,920 --> 01:20:34,679
Speaker 1: were last year. They lost a lot of close games

1601
01:20:34,760 --> 01:20:37,320
Speaker 1: last year. They were not a genuine one and fifteen

1602
01:20:37,320 --> 01:20:40,680
Speaker 1: team in my book, very spice rack. Uh, it's a

1603
01:20:40,720 --> 01:20:43,559
Speaker 1: spice rack thing. You know, be aware, like the slight

1604
01:20:43,680 --> 01:20:45,479
Speaker 1: home on you know, the two and a half point

1605
01:20:45,520 --> 01:20:49,400
Speaker 1: slight home underdog, like b beware. You know. One one

1606
01:20:49,479 --> 01:20:51,960
Speaker 1: quick note of both these teams. Uh, there has not

1607
01:20:52,040 --> 01:20:54,680
Speaker 1: been a number one overall pick quarterback that's won his

1608
01:20:54,800 --> 01:20:58,360
Speaker 1: season debut since David Carr in two thousand, two oh

1609
01:20:58,400 --> 01:21:01,360
Speaker 1: twelve and one that surprised me. That's stats. So Trevor

1610
01:21:01,439 --> 01:21:04,160
Speaker 1: Lawrence is against history there. And on the Houston side,

1611
01:21:04,200 --> 01:21:06,200
Speaker 1: I wrote about this in the Power Rankings. This one

1612
01:21:06,320 --> 01:21:10,280
Speaker 1: NFL coach an anonymous NFL coach on the Texans. I

1613
01:21:10,320 --> 01:21:13,160
Speaker 1: think people are going to play the Texans and think

1614
01:21:13,160 --> 01:21:16,640
Speaker 1: they are and they'll surprise some people slap that on

1615
01:21:16,680 --> 01:21:20,040
Speaker 1: a billboard. That's what I mean. Like, I think they

1616
01:21:20,040 --> 01:21:22,439
Speaker 1: could go right, they could be four and thirteen and

1617
01:21:22,439 --> 01:21:24,280
Speaker 1: people are really like, oh, that's a little better than

1618
01:21:24,320 --> 01:21:26,040
Speaker 1: we thought. It's hard to know who's going to be

1619
01:21:26,040 --> 01:21:29,040
Speaker 1: the very right, but Tyrod Taylor invariably, you know, will

1620
01:21:29,040 --> 01:21:31,679
Speaker 1: fall into some sort of injury scenario two quarters into

1621
01:21:31,720 --> 01:21:35,240
Speaker 1: this game. Anyway. So and finally the Denver Broncos at

1622
01:21:35,360 --> 01:21:39,160
Speaker 1: New York Giants. Greg, I'm gonna how do you after

1623
01:21:39,200 --> 01:21:42,080
Speaker 1: all this talk about Teddy two gloves all summer driving

1624
01:21:42,160 --> 01:21:44,680
Speaker 1: us crazy, you don't even draft him. You let him

1625
01:21:44,720 --> 01:21:48,599
Speaker 1: play the Giants in the shadows. It's opposite the Patriots game.

1626
01:21:48,680 --> 01:21:51,320
Speaker 1: I you want to watch it with full attention on

1627
01:21:51,439 --> 01:21:53,880
Speaker 1: game pass, so you're kind of knocking out your backup game.

1628
01:21:54,400 --> 01:21:56,320
Speaker 1: The thing you can get me on, get on me

1629
01:21:56,400 --> 01:21:58,120
Speaker 1: for is not locking them up, because that was kind

1630
01:21:58,160 --> 01:22:00,840
Speaker 1: of my mindset just until the show is started. I

1631
01:22:00,880 --> 01:22:03,120
Speaker 1: do like the Broncos in this game. I'm a little

1632
01:22:03,160 --> 01:22:05,559
Speaker 1: worried that Bradley Chubb is in a percent healthy Von

1633
01:22:05,640 --> 01:22:08,559
Speaker 1: Miller playing his first game, uh in a couple of years.

1634
01:22:08,880 --> 01:22:12,200
Speaker 1: Maybe the mismatch up front isn't quite as big as

1635
01:22:12,240 --> 01:22:15,360
Speaker 1: Giants fans would fear. They have got some good injury news.

1636
01:22:15,479 --> 01:22:20,479
Speaker 1: Goladays practicing, Tony is practicing, Barkley is practicing, So Ingram

1637
01:22:20,560 --> 01:22:22,760
Speaker 1: is really the only key player that looks like he's

1638
01:22:22,800 --> 01:22:25,840
Speaker 1: probably out for the Giants. That's good. Uh. And I

1639
01:22:25,880 --> 01:22:28,360
Speaker 1: think both teams are so conservative. They both love to

1640
01:22:28,439 --> 01:22:30,120
Speaker 1: run the bass so much that it could be pretty

1641
01:22:30,120 --> 01:22:32,600
Speaker 1: low scoring. But I still do like the Broncos to

1642
01:22:32,600 --> 01:22:34,800
Speaker 1: win it. I mean all I look at the Giants, though,

1643
01:22:34,840 --> 01:22:37,040
Speaker 1: I just don't like the starts of their season at all.

1644
01:22:37,360 --> 01:22:39,439
Speaker 1: We don't know how much we'll see sake one. Barkley,

1645
01:22:39,439 --> 01:22:42,920
Speaker 1: Evan Ingram is out, ka Darius Tony missed essentially all

1646
01:22:42,960 --> 01:22:46,280
Speaker 1: of camp with COVID and a hamstring issue. Kenny Golladay

1647
01:22:46,320 --> 01:22:50,200
Speaker 1: basically told reporters this week, um prepare for the Giants

1648
01:22:50,240 --> 01:22:52,800
Speaker 1: to start slow. Okay, that's not what you want your

1649
01:22:53,080 --> 01:22:56,120
Speaker 1: big free agent wide receiver to be telling reporters. Necessarily.

1650
01:22:56,320 --> 01:22:59,200
Speaker 1: The offensive line is an absolute mess. I mean, the

1651
01:22:59,240 --> 01:23:03,320
Speaker 1: Athletic had a comment about Andrew Thomas in his preseason finale,

1652
01:23:03,680 --> 01:23:06,639
Speaker 1: setting off alarms because of how poorly he played. I mean,

1653
01:23:06,680 --> 01:23:08,720
Speaker 1: he looks like it could be a complete bust. The

1654
01:23:08,760 --> 01:23:10,880
Speaker 1: line from tackle the tackle is sort of a mess.

1655
01:23:11,040 --> 01:23:13,200
Speaker 1: And they're asking Daniel Jones to make some sort of

1656
01:23:13,280 --> 01:23:15,599
Speaker 1: Josh Allen leap. Good luck with that. I mean, everything

1657
01:23:15,600 --> 01:23:17,120
Speaker 1: you're saying is true, and they might have the worst

1658
01:23:17,120 --> 01:23:19,200
Speaker 1: offensive on the league. And if the Broncos don't beat

1659
01:23:19,200 --> 01:23:22,880
Speaker 1: the Giants in Week one, everything Greg said, we'll just

1660
01:23:23,120 --> 01:23:29,320
Speaker 1: look Absolutely it's on the road. Absolutely a travesty on

1661
01:23:29,520 --> 01:23:33,040
Speaker 1: for Greg. That's what it would be. Let's go Broncos.

1662
01:23:33,080 --> 01:23:36,400
Speaker 1: All right, good stuff? Hey, Ricky, before we sign off

1663
01:23:36,560 --> 01:23:40,920
Speaker 1: and get ready for the Thursday night opener. Um, what

1664
01:23:41,040 --> 01:23:45,519
Speaker 1: are the announcer assignments for week one? For Week one?

1665
01:23:45,880 --> 01:23:49,120
Speaker 1: You want me to go through every every game? Who's

1666
01:23:49,200 --> 01:23:53,280
Speaker 1: where's uh the CBS big ones? Yeah? Give me those? Yeah,

1667
01:23:53,400 --> 01:23:58,639
Speaker 1: So the Jets and Panthers, we have Catalan Lofton and bursts.

1668
01:23:58,880 --> 01:24:01,559
Speaker 1: What's the Romo game, the Romo Nance game. The Romo

1669
01:24:01,640 --> 01:24:05,400
Speaker 1: game is Cleveland, Kansas City. Oh, he's gonna go here,

1670
01:24:05,479 --> 01:24:06,800
Speaker 1: you know, I don't I don't even want to deal

1671
01:24:06,840 --> 01:24:09,679
Speaker 1: with it. Romo is gonna just talk about Patrick Mahomes

1672
01:24:09,720 --> 01:24:12,120
Speaker 1: for four straight hours. That's what happened in the playoff game.

1673
01:24:12,600 --> 01:24:16,240
Speaker 1: Totally obnoxious, Greg. You also for Miami New England get

1674
01:24:16,280 --> 01:24:20,880
Speaker 1: Kevin Harlan and Trent Green, which is decent. Well, I

1675
01:24:20,920 --> 01:24:24,920
Speaker 1: mean it's like it's like being served like the best

1676
01:24:25,000 --> 01:24:29,160
Speaker 1: steak possible at like the most amazing restaurant and then

1677
01:24:29,200 --> 01:24:32,200
Speaker 1: they like, you know, give you a piece of for dessert.

1678
01:24:32,400 --> 01:24:36,880
Speaker 1: Oh that's what goodness, Greg, It's just football. Um what

1679
01:24:36,960 --> 01:24:45,439
Speaker 1: about bucking Aikman. Let's see they are packer packer st Yeah,

1680
01:24:45,760 --> 01:24:49,599
Speaker 1: so it's you know, there's a couple of new teams there. Yeah.

1681
01:24:50,080 --> 01:24:54,479
Speaker 1: Ion Eagles got the Buffalo Pittsburgh Eagle Charles Davis are

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Speaker 1: still the number two team for CBS. Adam arch Aletta

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Speaker 1: is now with Greg Gumbel. We'll keep guy on that.

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Speaker 1: Spirodidas is now with Jay Feely and Tom McCarthy with

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Speaker 1: Tikey barber Beth Beth Mallens. She she had a regular

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Speaker 1: gig last year. I believe she's some week. Yeah, some

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Speaker 1: weeks not others. You know, it's like depends on how

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Speaker 1: much much they have. Greg Olsen and Kevin Burkhart is

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Speaker 1: the number two Fox team. That might be the biggest team. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's a great team. Okay, alright, so one more time,

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Speaker 1: thank you, ricky Um. NFL Network broadcast premieres. The rebooted

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Speaker 1: Around the NFL broadcast premieres Friday morning on NFL Network.

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Speaker 1: There's a re air later in the day already check

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Speaker 1: so set your DVRs if you can't watch it live.

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Speaker 1: And yes, Sunday night, make sure you constant refresh on

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Speaker 1: your podcast player of choice because the flagship edition of

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Speaker 1: the Around the NFL podcast will drop at that time.

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Speaker 1: And yes, since we started years ago, I think we

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Speaker 1: kicked some of the industry in the old behind. A

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Speaker 1: lot of people have said, oh, let's wait till Monday

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Speaker 1: to do our show. That doesn't happen so much anymore

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Speaker 1: after we came around. Uh so there are other quote

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Speaker 1: unquote competitors, but you know, the flagship show is where

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Speaker 1: you go to get a great breakdown of all the

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Speaker 1: action that happened on Sunday in the NFL, with Nick

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Speaker 1: Shook helping us out. Anything else, boys, that's it. No,

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Speaker 1: I'm good. I'm gonna. I can't wait to just, you know,

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Speaker 1: touch your faces later tonight. I'm just gonna i'm your face.

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Speaker 1: That is extremely sensual, a little disturbing. All right, good stuff,

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Speaker 1: all right until Friday for TV and Sunday or podcast,

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Speaker 1: Heed the Call.