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Speaker 1: We knew more about Kyle coming into this season. We've

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Speaker 1: faked it. But once you fake it the offensive rules

428
00:21:56,920 --> 00:21:59,640
Speaker 1: then do not apply to though on the outside who

429
00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:02,000
Speaker 1: was getting blocked and the guy was putting on a clinic.

430
00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:05,160
Speaker 1: I'm just shoving the guy at a bounds. But there

431
00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:06,800
Speaker 1: was no reason for them to go for it in

432
00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:09,760
Speaker 1: that situation that the ebb and flow of the game

433
00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:12,640
Speaker 1: was like, what, why don't you just punt the ball,

434
00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:14,840
Speaker 1: pin him and then try to play some defense again

435
00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:18,119
Speaker 1: their defense had been playing well. Big fan of Sewn Payton,

436
00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:21,919
Speaker 1: big fan of everything he stands for his aggressive nature.

437
00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:24,879
Speaker 1: Obviously he kicks the on site kick once upon a

438
00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:27,720
Speaker 1: time in the Super Bowl. But in that situation, in

439
00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:31,560
Speaker 1: that game, this wasn't just some random game in October.

440
00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:35,520
Speaker 1: This was a game on December eight where the whoever

441
00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:37,840
Speaker 1: wins this game is going to be the driver's seat

442
00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:43,120
Speaker 1: for the number one overall seed. I I just didn't

443
00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:46,840
Speaker 1: understand it. It made no sense again that there's a

444
00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:49,560
Speaker 1: big difference in the world that I live in on

445
00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:53,120
Speaker 1: being aggressive and being reckless. And I don't know if

446
00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:55,680
Speaker 1: necessarily either one of those two plays ended up costing

447
00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:57,280
Speaker 1: the game because they had the lead with fifty three

448
00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:00,920
Speaker 1: seconds left. But Sean Payton was list in this game,

449
00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:04,480
Speaker 1: and you know he's got to be kicking himself a

450
00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:07,120
Speaker 1: little bit these these last couple of days since that

451
00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:13,080
Speaker 1: game because he could have been better. Okay, let's uh,

452
00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:17,240
Speaker 1: let's dive into Chiefs Pats. Start with the Chiefs. One

453
00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:19,720
Speaker 1: thing hit me watching the Chiefs game probably more than ever.

454
00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:23,199
Speaker 1: I mean, I I obviously watch all their games and

455
00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:25,080
Speaker 1: root for them to win. I actually had money on

456
00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:28,240
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, so it didn't bother me that Jerome Boger

457
00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:32,119
Speaker 1: had a rough day at the office. But it really

458
00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:36,360
Speaker 1: hit me watching Mahomes this week, like why Andy Reid

459
00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:38,840
Speaker 1: was probably one of the only coaches to truly really

460
00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:40,560
Speaker 1: like him coming out of college, Like I thought he

461
00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:44,040
Speaker 1: was a top ten pick because you know what Mahomes is.

462
00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:47,240
Speaker 1: And we've used this comparison before to Steph Curry, but

463
00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:50,560
Speaker 1: it's not Steph Curry because he's just he's making throws

464
00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:53,600
Speaker 1: we've never seen. We have, Brett Farve did it. It's

465
00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:56,080
Speaker 1: more just the way he plays like Steph Curry there,

466
00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:59,399
Speaker 1: they're kind of artists. They don't they're not exactly you

467
00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:03,320
Speaker 1: wouldn't end on a teach tape two young quarterbacks, Like

468
00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:06,480
Speaker 1: he's not Mr fundamentally sound, and I bet sometimes he

469
00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:11,040
Speaker 1: drives Andy crazy. And really Kelsey and Tyreek Hill kind

470
00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:14,720
Speaker 1: of fall under that mode too. They just that there

471
00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:17,520
Speaker 1: are elements of their games that you can't really coach,

472
00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:20,159
Speaker 1: and you don't really want to coach out of it.

473
00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:22,240
Speaker 1: Like I'm watching the Homes, someone sent me a d

474
00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:24,800
Speaker 1: M that said, you know, I'm noticing him kind of

475
00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:27,800
Speaker 1: float in the pocket and not always be consistent with

476
00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:31,080
Speaker 1: his footwork. Yeah, that that's kind of him right now,

477
00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:34,520
Speaker 1: but it's not actually a bad thing because he's able

478
00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:38,159
Speaker 1: to make some of his most remarkable plays kind of

479
00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:40,640
Speaker 1: do it in his own way. Now as he gets

480
00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,520
Speaker 1: older that they need to really kind of hone in

481
00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:47,440
Speaker 1: on that because your arm, you know, when you're thirty five,

482
00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:49,280
Speaker 1: he's not gonna be throwing it like he's throwing it

483
00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:52,320
Speaker 1: now at three years old. But I also think you

484
00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:55,240
Speaker 1: have to let him be him insane with Kelsey. On

485
00:24:55,560 --> 00:25:01,040
Speaker 1: Kelsey's fumble, he caught a first down, came back behind

486
00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:03,600
Speaker 1: the sticks and tried to run around the guy, ultimately

487
00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:06,080
Speaker 1: got tackling, fumbled. It actually should have probably been a touchdown.

488
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:09,040
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill does a lot of the same things, and

489
00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:12,040
Speaker 1: I think it speaks to Andy's greatness as an offensive guy.

490
00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:15,000
Speaker 1: If you kind of have to let your players, as

491
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:19,159
Speaker 1: long as they're functioning within your offense, be them. And

492
00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:24,400
Speaker 1: Mahomes right now is not Mr fundamentals because he's leaving pockets.

493
00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:28,000
Speaker 1: He's he's kind of sometimes he'll just start backpedaling and

494
00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:30,320
Speaker 1: there's no reason to backpedal. Now he can get away

495
00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:32,679
Speaker 1: with it for a long period of time. Aaron Rodgers

496
00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:35,920
Speaker 1: got away with it because arm was elite, because he's

497
00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:40,360
Speaker 1: in the peak of his physical powers. But watching them yesterday,

498
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,720
Speaker 1: they have three players that when they are on are

499
00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:46,200
Speaker 1: gonna be better than any players you have on the field.

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Speaker 1: Obviously Mahomes and he wasn't even on yesterday, but just

501
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:54,000
Speaker 1: his talent is a Mets Kelsey beside Kittle is clearly

502
00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:57,240
Speaker 1: the second, you know, the elite of the elite, and

503
00:25:57,280 --> 00:25:59,840
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill there's not a player like him. So if

504
00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:03,040
Speaker 1: they are defense who Honey Badger, As I was texting

505
00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:04,560
Speaker 1: with the buddy in the league a couple of weeks ago,

506
00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 1: he's one of the rare character rejects coming out of college,

507
00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:10,720
Speaker 1: meaning the majority of the league probably had him off

508
00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:14,440
Speaker 1: the draft board. Who has you know, seven eight years

509
00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:18,600
Speaker 1: later become one of the best leaders and higher character

510
00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:21,640
Speaker 1: guys in the league like Boom everywhere he goes team

511
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:24,240
Speaker 1: captain Larry Fitzgerald one said he was the heart and

512
00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:26,760
Speaker 1: soul of the Cardinals, goes to the Texas. Team captain

513
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:30,000
Speaker 1: goes to the Chiefs. Team captain Chris Jones is one

514
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:31,800
Speaker 1: of the more talented players in the league. And Frank

515
00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:34,800
Speaker 1: Clark's kind of coming on. So they have difference makers

516
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:39,400
Speaker 1: on offense, which with a great quarterback. They have playoff experience.

517
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 1: They've been making the playoffs every year for years. In hell,

518
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:44,520
Speaker 1: they were an offside's away last year from not from

519
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:46,720
Speaker 1: going to the Super Bowl. And they got some guys

520
00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:49,080
Speaker 1: on defense this year and they are playing better now.

521
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:51,639
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna judge him too much against that team

522
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:53,879
Speaker 1: just because of how shitty the Patriots have been playing.

523
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:56,400
Speaker 1: But I'm bullish right now in the Chiefs, I think

524
00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:58,720
Speaker 1: they're playing their best football at the right time. They're

525
00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:03,159
Speaker 1: trending in the right direction. I think officially yesterday with

526
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 1: the Raiders winning that they won the division. Of course,

527
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:08,920
Speaker 1: they were never gonna not win that division. But we'll

528
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:11,520
Speaker 1: just see how it plays out with the Paths and

529
00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:13,280
Speaker 1: the Texans and the Titans kind of coming down this

530
00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:15,280
Speaker 1: home stretch, if they dropped some more games, when when

531
00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:17,040
Speaker 1: all the dust settles, don't be shocked to the Chiefs

532
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:19,880
Speaker 1: have a you know, a home field by in Week

533
00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 1: one of the playoffs. And I just they would terrify

534
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:26,920
Speaker 1: me because when mahomes on, he's as good as anybody.

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Speaker 1: Like I said, Kelsey Tyreek Kill, Honey Badger, Chris Jones,

536
00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:34,520
Speaker 1: Frank Clark, they got difference makers. I'm telling you, I

537
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:37,040
Speaker 1: this would have been crazy to say a couple of

538
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:38,640
Speaker 1: weeks ago because they were losing a bunch of games.

539
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:40,680
Speaker 1: But I think they're back to being a super Bowl

540
00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:44,719
Speaker 1: legitimate Super Bowl contender. And then the Patriots. I think

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00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,320
Speaker 1: there's two ways to look at it. One, they got

542
00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:51,919
Speaker 1: legitimate issues. They can't run the ball, Sony Michelle looks terrible. Uh,

543
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:54,879
Speaker 1: the offensive line can't block for Tom. Tom obviously doesn't

544
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,119
Speaker 1: move that well despite his want like one of his

545
00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 1: great scrambles ever. But you know, do I think Tom

546
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,439
Speaker 1: is quote unquote slipping not necessarily. I just think they

547
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:07,280
Speaker 1: legitimately can't block for him. And he's a statute. So

548
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:09,920
Speaker 1: if you can't block for him and guys aren't open,

549
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:14,000
Speaker 1: the offense is screwed. They have one legit receiver and

550
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 1: it's a slot guy. Now, Julian is one of the

551
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:20,159
Speaker 1: great champions, one of the great clutch performers in recent memory.

552
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:22,720
Speaker 1: But they're depending on an undrafted free agent and another

553
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,720
Speaker 1: first rounder who hasn't really played all season. But I

554
00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:28,719
Speaker 1: also think this, and like the Warriors last year, when

555
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant went out, I wrote them off. Everyone wrote

556
00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:34,399
Speaker 1: him off, and then they broke the Houston Rockets and

557
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:37,200
Speaker 1: kind of ended the franchises. If you follow the NBA,

558
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:40,360
Speaker 1: you've seen the Rockets are a dumpster fire. You know,

559
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 1: Darryl Morey complains and wines and leaks every other week. Uh,

560
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 1: Mike D'Antoni is gonna get fired. Russell Westbrook is playing

561
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 1: the worst basketball of his career. Like their franchise is

562
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:54,680
Speaker 1: just trending in the wrong direction. Now, the Paths, like,

563
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Speaker 1: I don't know, the Rockets were the number one contender

564
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:01,840
Speaker 1: for the Warrior and they were mental midgets. So the

565
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 1: Warriors were just mentally stronger than broken. When you look

566
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 1: at the patch, you go, well, the Ravens are gonna

567
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:10,200
Speaker 1: be pretty mentally strong. We've seen the Chiefs like they're

568
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 1: not gonna you might beat them. But they're not gonna

569
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:15,520
Speaker 1: mentally tap out. But I know this to beat the Pats,

570
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:17,600
Speaker 1: and I no longer think, and I've said this for

571
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Speaker 1: the last probably four or five years, I would have

572
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 1: picked the paths to win the super Bowl in the

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Speaker 1: playoffs started. I'm not gonna do that this year. I

574
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:26,560
Speaker 1: don't necessarily, as I sit here right now recording this,

575
00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 1: I don't feel confident about one given team gonna win

576
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. Actually think that's what makes this season

577
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:35,440
Speaker 1: in the NFL great is a handful of teams feel

578
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 1: very confident they can win at all. And a big

579
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:40,480
Speaker 1: reason is because the Pats are vulnerable. But when the

580
00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:42,200
Speaker 1: Pats lose, if you if you look at it like

581
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:46,000
Speaker 1: an action movie, they're gonna die. But they're gonna take

582
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,560
Speaker 1: out a lot of people. And if you beat them,

583
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 1: they're gonna make you earn it that they might. I

584
00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:54,200
Speaker 1: don't know what's gonna happen, but you will sweat out

585
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 1: that playoff game on the in Foxboro, away from Foxboro,

586
00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:00,360
Speaker 1: wherever it's it, wherever it is. I'm not just acting

587
00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 1: like they're gonna get blown out in the playoff game.

588
00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:05,280
Speaker 1: I just can't see it. They have too many good players.

589
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:07,960
Speaker 1: They still have too good of a defense. I mean,

590
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:11,440
Speaker 1: Tom's just been through the ringer for twenty plus years.

591
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:14,360
Speaker 1: I just think if there's a will, there's a way

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00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:18,600
Speaker 1: that they'll keep it close. But I'm as big of

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00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:22,000
Speaker 1: a borderline Pat's homer as there is for someone that's

594
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,720
Speaker 1: not a Patriot fan, just of a respect of Belichick,

595
00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:28,960
Speaker 1: of respect of their operation, if you like football, if

596
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Speaker 1: you like success, I mean, I just don't see how

597
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 1: you couldn't admire what they've done, but that there's no

598
00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 1: way around it, that something is really really off. But

599
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:42,720
Speaker 1: I I just think everyone's bearing them, thinking like they're

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Speaker 1: just gonna be some one and done in the playoff,

601
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 1: or someone's gonna beat them by twenty points. I have

602
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:49,640
Speaker 1: a hard time seeing that happen. Then, on the story

603
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:52,520
Speaker 1: that broke today about the filming in the press box,

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00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:55,280
Speaker 1: I can just go off the information that I've read.

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00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:58,680
Speaker 1: I I just know this in Belichick denighted, he claims

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00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 1: he has nothing to do with it. If you were

607
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:03,840
Speaker 1: gonna film an opponent one, I can't imagine Belichick's that

608
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 1: worried about the Bengals too. You would not send him

609
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 1: to the press box. And the dude was in the

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00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 1: press box. For those of you listening to have been

611
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 1: ever never been to a press box, it's all media

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00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:18,280
Speaker 1: people who clearly, if you follow football, whoever your team is,

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00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:20,800
Speaker 1: you're following all your team's media. They tweet about everything

614
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 1: that's going on. You would not send a guy in

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00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 1: a Patriot uniform, and that's what he was in. He

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00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 1: was a Patriot credentialed employee in the press box filming

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00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:31,720
Speaker 1: different things like that. That to me just does not

618
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:35,040
Speaker 1: add up. Like the Patriots and listen, I won't deny

619
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:37,160
Speaker 1: that the Patriots have done some shady ship in the past,

620
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 1: but that's just stupidity. So I do believe Belichick that, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I have nothing to do with this, because if he

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00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 1: was gonna do something, he would not send that guy

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Speaker 1: to the press box. I don't know where we'd send him.

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00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 1: I don't know how he'd get on the field for

625
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 1: a game that wasn't their own game. I don't even

626
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 1: think they would attempt to do that. So it's just

627
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 1: it doesn't quite add up to me. Maybe you'd buy

628
00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 1: a ticket, send him, send him, you know, put him

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Speaker 1: in the actual stands and then he could pull out

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00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:04,200
Speaker 1: a camera. You would not send him to the press box.

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Speaker 1: Too many people to see, too many, too many Twitter

632
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:11,120
Speaker 1: followers in there. Did someone to turn you in? It

633
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:15,320
Speaker 1: just does not add up. Again, I'm not admonishing and

634
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:18,560
Speaker 1: acting like the Patriots have no blood on their hands.

635
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:21,240
Speaker 1: Over the years, like they have, some weird things have happened,

636
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:26,480
Speaker 1: but this once, it just doesn't quite add up. Okay,

637
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 1: let's dive into the Bills and the Ravens game. And

638
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,960
Speaker 1: I listen, the Ravens are eleven and two. They beat

639
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 1: the Niners, they beat the Patriots, They're more than likely

640
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:37,320
Speaker 1: gonna have the number one seed in the a f C.

641
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:40,440
Speaker 1: And if you're doing power rankings right now, you know

642
00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 1: I think you would have to put him in number one.

643
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:46,480
Speaker 1: But as I said last week after they played the Niners,

644
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson is unreal as a runner. He's like Barry Sanders,

645
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 1: but he's throwing for like a hundred to a hundred

646
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:58,200
Speaker 1: fifty yards a game. Let's not act like he's Mahomes

647
00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 1: or Watson or you know what, Jimmy and Breeze. A

648
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 1: huge part of his game is running, and rightfully so,

649
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 1: he's one of the great running quarterbacks we've ever seen.

650
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 1: The dude can't be you can't catch him. You can

651
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 1: put him in a phone booth, you might not be

652
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:16,960
Speaker 1: able to touch him. And i've I didn't like Lamar

653
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:20,320
Speaker 1: Jackson and I didn't like Josh Allen coming out. And

654
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 1: I say it all the time, like I'll get into

655
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:25,120
Speaker 1: Baker here in a minute. I love Baker coming out,

656
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:27,960
Speaker 1: but the moment I start thinking you're a slappy and

657
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,600
Speaker 1: that's what I think Baker is, I don't really root

658
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 1: for you, especially when I don't think you're that good

659
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 1: of a player anymore. I'm not in love with the

660
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:39,080
Speaker 1: way Lamar Jackson plays as a ten year project. Can

661
00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:40,920
Speaker 1: you win the Super Bowl with him this year? Yes?

662
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 1: You know? Is it gonna be a little more challenging

663
00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 1: than I think the casual football fan thinks, one thou

664
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 1: because for them to win the Super Bowl, he's gonna

665
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 1: have to consistently win more than likely on third and five,

666
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:56,360
Speaker 1: plus that's usually what it comes down to in the

667
00:33:56,400 --> 00:34:00,440
Speaker 1: playoffs late in games. Now he's proven he's much more

668
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 1: accurate than I ever thought. But the reason I didn't

669
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 1: like Lamar Jackson coming out of college because I don't

670
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:08,959
Speaker 1: really like running quarterbacks. I want my quarterback to win

671
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:13,080
Speaker 1: throwing the ball. Now, I like athletic quarterbacks like Russell Wilson,

672
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,360
Speaker 1: but Russell Wilson hangs the hat on throwing the ball.

673
00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:18,239
Speaker 1: But the more you're getting to know Lamar Jackson as

674
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:19,719
Speaker 1: a person, that's what happens when you come in the

675
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:23,520
Speaker 1: NFL Star. I'm like, this guy's a badass. Nobody cares

676
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:26,760
Speaker 1: work harder. I love that shirt. I just love everything

677
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:30,600
Speaker 1: he stands for. He doesn't complain, he's always positive, he's

678
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:33,319
Speaker 1: he's everything. If my unborn son, I'd say, I want

679
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:35,520
Speaker 1: you to be like this guy. So what ye have flaws?

680
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:38,000
Speaker 1: So what people are talking ship, don't don't be no

681
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:41,600
Speaker 1: victim mentality that's a problem just in America. Lamar Jackson,

682
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:44,880
Speaker 1: no victim mentality with him. We're just gonna get the

683
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 1: job done. And you know what all he's been doing

684
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:49,440
Speaker 1: is getting the job done. Same thing with Josh Allen,

685
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 1: who I hated even way more than Mark Jackson because

686
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 1: he was very inaccurate. But he following him on social media.

687
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:59,880
Speaker 1: Just hes just likable guy. You're rooting for him. I

688
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,640
Speaker 1: I'd say the biggest difference between the two players because

689
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:05,760
Speaker 1: both of them are playing on they got high level coaches.

690
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:08,880
Speaker 1: Obviously John is more accomplished than Sean, but it's if

691
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 1: you watch football, Sean McDermott knows what the hell he's doing.

692
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 1: The Buffalo Bills clearly have an identity tough football team,

693
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:18,839
Speaker 1: defensive football team. They're good and they're gonna be good

694
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 1: for a while. But Washington, you know what the difference

695
00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:24,840
Speaker 1: in this game was. It's It wasn't even really Lamar's running.

696
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:28,839
Speaker 1: It was when he had lay up throws intermediate and deep,

697
00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:30,799
Speaker 1: and for the most part he wasn't throwing that deep,

698
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 1: but just intermediate. He hit him when guy was open

699
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 1: and he had to throw the ball fifteen plush yards

700
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:38,880
Speaker 1: and that's where he is behind the line of scrimmage.

701
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 1: Down the field. He was hitting guys or at least

702
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:45,280
Speaker 1: giving them a chance. I'm watching, Josh Allen going listen.

703
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:47,360
Speaker 1: I want a root for the Bills. They're a fun story.

704
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 1: I've known Sean McDermott when I first got in the league.

705
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 1: He was our defensive coordinator with the Eagles. He's just

706
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:57,839
Speaker 1: a high level guy, really really impressive. I'm just not sure,

707
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:01,279
Speaker 1: Josh at this point in time. Now, guy improve, So

708
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:06,720
Speaker 1: I've done righting off guys that are high character guys,

709
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 1: smart guys that have the talent are gonna work hard.

710
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:13,400
Speaker 1: Now it doesn't mean they're all gonna maximize their ability,

711
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:15,319
Speaker 1: but you just you gotta keep an eye on those

712
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:17,319
Speaker 1: guys because they can prove you wrong. So I'm not

713
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:21,280
Speaker 1: writing Josh Allen off, but he just can't hit pretty

714
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:23,759
Speaker 1: basic throws and then some of the tough throws down

715
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 1: the field, he's not even close. And that's the biggest

716
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:30,279
Speaker 1: area of improvement for Lamar Jackson is Yeah, he's gonna

717
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:34,399
Speaker 1: miss some passes just way off the mark, but he's

718
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:37,239
Speaker 1: also gonna hit a lot of pretty basic ones. And

719
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 1: if you do the basic things in life and whatever

720
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:43,440
Speaker 1: your profession is consistently, well, you're gonna be ahead of

721
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 1: the curve because most people can't be consistent with the

722
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:49,320
Speaker 1: basic stuff, let alone the really hard stuff, which Lamar

723
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:53,480
Speaker 1: and Josh have the physical capabilities to do. Lamar is

724
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:56,319
Speaker 1: an elite runner, so it's Josh. There was a play

725
00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 1: late in that game where the Ravens and like an

726
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 1: all out blitz. Josh's like two three sixties in the pockets,

727
00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 1: avoids two linebackers in a in a in a defensive

728
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:09,799
Speaker 1: lineman and gets the ball off. It was just remarkable,

729
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:12,640
Speaker 1: Like only him Lamar, like Russell Wilson, and maybe like

730
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz could have pulled that play off. But when

731
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:18,320
Speaker 1: he has note, when he has time in the pocket

732
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:20,200
Speaker 1: and he's just sitting there and he has a guy

733
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:22,880
Speaker 1: and he's not thrown to Jerry Rice and Julio Jones,

734
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 1: but he just can't hit balls. And honestly, yesterday or Sunday,

735
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 1: I keep saying yesterday, I'm recording this on Monday, it

736
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:33,120
Speaker 1: wasn't even that close. He was killing him. He was

737
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:36,400
Speaker 1: awful because the Ravens were down a touchdown late in

738
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:39,279
Speaker 1: the game, like they still had a shot. But he's

739
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:42,920
Speaker 1: just not quite good enough. Now. You know, back when

740
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:45,160
Speaker 1: I had a radio show, we interviewed Warren Moon and

741
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:48,440
Speaker 1: he was the one guy who said, I believe that

742
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:52,040
Speaker 1: you could improve accuracy. Because he did. He's like when

743
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:54,080
Speaker 1: I when I was in college, I didn't feel I

744
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:56,240
Speaker 1: was accurate, And as I went on through my career,

745
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 1: I kept getting better at it, and I worked really

746
00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:00,680
Speaker 1: hard at it, but I kept getting a lot better

747
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 1: at it. By the end of his career. As a

748
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:04,919
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer, Josh Allen has a lot of work

749
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 1: to do because he just it feels to me like

750
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:09,759
Speaker 1: he just has some innate flaws, Like there's just a

751
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:12,160
Speaker 1: touch factor. Like as a golfer, I don't have much touch,

752
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:14,239
Speaker 1: and you know, I work on it a little bit.

753
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 1: I just don't have much, and there is a touch

754
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:20,279
Speaker 1: factor like Drew Brees had touch from probably the moment

755
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 1: he was twelve. Like there there is now you can

756
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 1: work on it. You can definitely improve it. But I

757
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:28,760
Speaker 1: think the baseline of where he's starting, because clearly Lamar

758
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:31,880
Speaker 1: Lamar's got some touch. His problem is like when he

759
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 1: tries to let it rip on like a ten yard ball,

760
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:36,799
Speaker 1: you can get away from him. But actually a lot

761
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:39,600
Speaker 1: of his like little lab passes or even just deep

762
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:41,920
Speaker 1: passes that he's not necessarily trying to throw a hundred

763
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 1: miles an hour, but just you know, put a little

764
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:46,919
Speaker 1: air under it. It's he's not bad at those at all.

765
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 1: Where Josh Allen is more missed than hit, and that

766
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:53,279
Speaker 1: would be the biggest thing concerning when you look at

767
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:56,839
Speaker 1: big picture, because Lamar has to get better, you know,

768
00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:00,279
Speaker 1: third and long, you know, you you just watch maybe

769
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:02,040
Speaker 1: the stats tell me I'm wrong. I just know what

770
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 1: I've watched balls fly all over on him. But he's

771
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:07,479
Speaker 1: hitting a lot of basic passes and then he's making

772
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:12,280
Speaker 1: remarkable runs. To me, Josh against really good teams. Obviously

773
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:14,640
Speaker 1: against the Patriots earlier than the season, it was a disaster.

774
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:18,319
Speaker 1: Against the Ravens, especially early in that game, he kind

775
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 1: of put them, He put their team behind the eight ball,

776
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:23,719
Speaker 1: being all over the map. And that's just something as

777
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 1: his career progresses, just to keep an eye on because he's, uh,

778
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:31,400
Speaker 1: he's he's a little bit of a spray shot right now.

779
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:34,920
Speaker 1: I'm not exactly sure he knows where it's going. Okay,

780
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:38,320
Speaker 1: let's dive into Baker Mayfield and I can just be

781
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 1: for men. But there's a reason we're always apologizing we

782
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:45,680
Speaker 1: do dumb things. But when you get into a professional

783
00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:48,520
Speaker 1: setting and you're the number one overall draft pick and

784
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:53,280
Speaker 1: you're the quarterback, you shouldn't always be having to apologize

785
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:56,600
Speaker 1: for dumb things. And Baker now, like on his third

786
00:39:56,640 --> 00:40:01,760
Speaker 1: time this season, has had to apologize through Twitter after

787
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 1: something he said. And there's two numbers that really stand

788
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:10,959
Speaker 1: out to me on Baker Mayfield fifteen touchdown, six interceptions.

789
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:15,440
Speaker 1: He's been a below average player this year. Bottom line period,

790
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 1: end of story. That's even a die hard Browns fan

791
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:21,799
Speaker 1: would tell you he's been underwhelming. I'm a fan of

792
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:24,440
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield, or at least I was coming out. I

793
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:26,359
Speaker 1: had no problem with him going number one. I thought

794
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 1: his comparison coming out of the draft was the next

795
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:32,879
Speaker 1: Drew Brees. I used to tell Colin, I just think

796
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 1: I told it to him on the show, like, I

797
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 1: think you're being a little harsh on him. But the

798
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:41,719
Speaker 1: one thing Colin nailed is your decision making off the

799
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:46,480
Speaker 1: field usually leads to bad decision making on the field.

800
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 1: And let's use jamis a guy that again another player

801
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:53,960
Speaker 1: that I've personally kind of liked. But his the moment

802
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 1: he had that incident with the uber driver, right, it

803
00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:59,239
Speaker 1: was at Florida State. It was multiple things, and then

804
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 1: he that he did the thing in the quad about screaming,

805
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 1: you know, the kitty cat word, and then he has

806
00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:09,160
Speaker 1: the uber driver incident, and I'm like, I'm out, i

807
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:12,360
Speaker 1: am out. And it does feel like he's matured a

808
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 1: little bit, but his decision making is consistently the worst

809
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Now he overcomes because he throws a

810
00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 1: lot of touchdowns. He might be remember back when I

811
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:22,839
Speaker 1: was growing up, if you were a thirty thirty guy,

812
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:26,200
Speaker 1: if you were a forty forty guy in baseball, forty bombs,

813
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:29,760
Speaker 1: forty sling stolen bases, you were like Barry Bonds. Jose

814
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:31,759
Speaker 1: can say, oh, you were an elite player. Thirty thirty

815
00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:34,120
Speaker 1: wasn't bad either. He might be a thirty thirty guy

816
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 1: this year, thirty touchdowns, thirty picks. My thing with Baker

817
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:39,920
Speaker 1: and this is where Colin was dead on was like

818
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:43,799
Speaker 1: his decision making and just his actions were questionable off

819
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:47,080
Speaker 1: the field, and usually that leads to questionable actions on

820
00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:50,720
Speaker 1: the field. His situation hasn't been as bad as a player,

821
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:54,400
Speaker 1: it's more as a leader. He's constantly popping off about

822
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:59,480
Speaker 1: dumb things after the game on Sunday after it's abundantly

823
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 1: clear Odell Beckham is going to demand a trade this offseason.

824
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:06,239
Speaker 1: He will be a one and done Cleveland Brown. I

825
00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 1: would bet five on that. Now I guess I might

826
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:12,960
Speaker 1: lose the bet because John Dorsey might refuse to trade him.

827
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:15,279
Speaker 1: That's the difference between the NFL and the NBA. If

828
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 1: you demand to trade in the NBA, you get traded

829
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:20,279
Speaker 1: in the NFL. It's a little Dicier, But I think

830
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:22,680
Speaker 1: he's gonna one out. You know, he has career lows

831
00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:25,560
Speaker 1: and basically every metric it's just not worked out. It

832
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:28,640
Speaker 1: just has not worked out. And this is another element

833
00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:33,919
Speaker 1: Collins nailed. Odell Beckham is is a rock star. He's

834
00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 1: not meant for Cleveland. The major difference, you'd be like,

835
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:39,280
Speaker 1: well Lebron played in Cleveland. Yeah. That there's a reason

836
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:41,759
Speaker 1: the NBA's in bed with the commies in China. You

837
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:45,200
Speaker 1: know that they need those revenue streams because it's a

838
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:48,320
Speaker 1: it's a worldwide sport and they're in bed with some

839
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:50,319
Speaker 1: bad people. You know, they gotta do what they gotta

840
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:53,839
Speaker 1: do for the rev streams in football. This domestic and

841
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 1: there's a reason Odell Beckham became such a big deal

842
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 1: he was in New York City. Odell Beckham would not

843
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:01,400
Speaker 1: have become Odell com had he been playing in Cleveland

844
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:04,560
Speaker 1: Brown to start off his career. That's not an opinion,

845
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:08,759
Speaker 1: that's a fact. So the trade demands coming and let's

846
00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:10,680
Speaker 1: even give Baker the benefit of the doubt when he

847
00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 1: pops off and saying the trainers who in my experience

848
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:17,160
Speaker 1: in Division one football and in the NFL, trainers are

849
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 1: pretty close with players. The trainers aren't out to get

850
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:23,440
Speaker 1: the players. If anything, the trainers are on their side

851
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:26,440
Speaker 1: trying to keep them healthy. Just they spend a lot

852
00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:29,560
Speaker 1: of time with them, they become they have friendly relationships.

853
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:32,759
Speaker 1: It's a good it's in my experience, and I can

854
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 1: only speak from my experience, they have extremely healthy working relationships.

855
00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:41,760
Speaker 1: So for Baker to point the finger at a hernia injury,

856
00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:43,960
Speaker 1: and in my experience, when you need a sports hernia,

857
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:47,920
Speaker 1: your season's over. So this leak about Odell Beckham, if

858
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:50,600
Speaker 1: he had a torn growing, he'd be out for the

859
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:53,319
Speaker 1: season like that. He doesn't quite add up. Is he

860
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:56,799
Speaker 1: banged up? Clearly is? But for Baker just to act

861
00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:58,759
Speaker 1: like the trainer screwed it up and they could have

862
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:00,279
Speaker 1: fixed the problem if they would have hand to this

863
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:03,640
Speaker 1: in training camp. Something doesn't add up there. Now. Maybe

864
00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:05,520
Speaker 1: Odell told him that and he's trying to get his

865
00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:07,319
Speaker 1: guys back and he's trying to make him so he

866
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:10,400
Speaker 1: doesn't handle it, you know, create a trade demand. I

867
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:13,240
Speaker 1: don't know there's two. There's just it's a hard story

868
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:15,239
Speaker 1: to kind of figure out. All I know is why

869
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:19,520
Speaker 1: does Baker keep talking and then ultimately have to uh,

870
00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:22,440
Speaker 1: you know, eat his words and come back with apologies.

871
00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:24,959
Speaker 1: This is like the third time it happens, and every

872
00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 1: time watching the Money Night Football game, I got three

873
00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:31,120
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield commercials. He's got more commercials right now than wins.

874
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:35,200
Speaker 1: It's really it's starting to bother me because he's acting

875
00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:38,520
Speaker 1: like such a slappy he really is. It's I can't

876
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 1: text one person in the NFL without them going like,

877
00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:43,799
Speaker 1: what the hell is wrong with this guy? He needs

878
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:46,640
Speaker 1: to figure it out. The organization needs to figure it out.

879
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:49,800
Speaker 1: John Dorsey picked this guy number one overall. He can't

880
00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:52,719
Speaker 1: have him fail. He staked his career on it. You

881
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:55,400
Speaker 1: draft a guy number one overall, he can't then be

882
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:58,359
Speaker 1: a slappy and not a good player. That reflects very

883
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 1: poorly on you, especially in the draft that had Lamar Jackson,

884
00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:05,239
Speaker 1: Sam even Sam Donald that had Mono doesn't feel like

885
00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:09,080
Speaker 1: his career's falling apart, or even Josh Allen that struggles

886
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:12,080
Speaker 1: to hit water from a boat also doesn't feel like

887
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:15,239
Speaker 1: he's a bad human being. And I'm not saying Baker

888
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:18,520
Speaker 1: Mayfield's a bad human being, but he feels extremely immature

889
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:21,120
Speaker 1: right now. And it's this NFL thing is a little

890
00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:24,719
Speaker 1: big for him. So I hope someone in Cleveland intervenes,

891
00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:27,239
Speaker 1: but you could argue it looks pretty clear they don't

892
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:29,960
Speaker 1: have anyone there to intervene. I mean, Freddy Kitchens is

893
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 1: fighting for his coaching life. John Dorsey, I don't know

894
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:36,839
Speaker 1: what the hell he's doing. Jimmy Haslum, probably stealing from

895
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:40,319
Speaker 1: some truckers. Like the Cleveland Browns right now, led by

896
00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 1: their quarterback, are just an immature dumpster fire. Okay, let's

897
00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:49,960
Speaker 1: get to the college football playoffs, and a couple of

898
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:52,520
Speaker 1: things really stood out to me this weekend. One a

899
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:55,880
Speaker 1: little like Eli Manning, who's not rooting Freddy oh Geron,

900
00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:59,600
Speaker 1: he you know, and living in California, knowing a lot

901
00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 1: of Pack twelve people, being a Pack twelve fan myself,

902
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:07,279
Speaker 1: he was meant for Louisiana. It's easy to say, play

903
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:09,799
Speaker 1: the Monday morning quarterback. They should have kept him in

904
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:13,279
Speaker 1: l a like at Oseron didn't belong at USC. Now

905
00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:16,720
Speaker 1: is at Oderon better than Clay Helton one million percent?

906
00:46:17,080 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 1: That's not even arguable at this point, but you know,

907
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:23,719
Speaker 1: it's weird the football gods. He belonged as the head

908
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:25,960
Speaker 1: coach at l s U and he now has an

909
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:29,239
Speaker 1: opportunity if he can run the table to be an

910
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:33,759
Speaker 1: absolute legend where he's from. And football just means more

911
00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:36,239
Speaker 1: in the South, and it means a lot in California,

912
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:38,960
Speaker 1: Like I live in northern California where they are one

913
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:41,399
Speaker 1: of the biggest brands in the league. Like an SC

914
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:44,239
Speaker 1: college football is huge. Like it's not like football is

915
00:46:44,239 --> 00:46:47,640
Speaker 1: not big out here, but it's way bigger down there.

916
00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:50,960
Speaker 1: And you know, it's just an easy guy to root for.

917
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:54,160
Speaker 1: He makes you smile when he talks. He makes the

918
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:58,720
Speaker 1: kids smile when he talks. He's just who's not rooting

919
00:46:58,719 --> 00:47:00,359
Speaker 1: for L s U if you're not a fan of

920
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:03,399
Speaker 1: one of the other three teams, because it's just he's

921
00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:05,320
Speaker 1: an easy guy to root for. He's got an Eli

922
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:10,200
Speaker 1: Manning type quality to him. Uh, and his team is incredible.

923
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:13,520
Speaker 1: We've said it forever. If LS you could get a quarterback,

924
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:15,399
Speaker 1: If ELS you could just get a quarterback, If LS

925
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:17,880
Speaker 1: you could just get a quarterback and run a normal offense.

926
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:21,719
Speaker 1: Well they did two things when they landed a quarterback.

927
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:24,759
Speaker 1: And this guy keeps acting like he's you know, Chop Liver,

928
00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:27,799
Speaker 1: like no one believed in me. It's like Joe, You're

929
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:30,120
Speaker 1: about to win the Heisman Trophy. You went to Ohio

930
00:47:30,239 --> 00:47:33,560
Speaker 1: State out of high school and then you transferred Louisiana State.

931
00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:36,480
Speaker 1: So let's not act like you went to cal Poly

932
00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:39,600
Speaker 1: and then transferred Reno. You know, your your football life

933
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:41,720
Speaker 1: has been pretty good. Now you're a really good player,

934
00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:45,320
Speaker 1: and he's by far the best quarterback in the country

935
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 1: this year, I think start to finish now to uh

936
00:47:50,239 --> 00:47:52,680
Speaker 1: to us hurt. So this guy is healthy. He's a

937
00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:55,040
Speaker 1: big time athlete. I'd say the only knock would be

938
00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 1: the arm strength. It's good, but it's not great. What

939
00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:01,200
Speaker 1: I see is like the Alex Smith, and this used

940
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:03,560
Speaker 1: to be a negative thing. Think Alex Smith with the

941
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:06,560
Speaker 1: Canci Chiefs. That's what I see. Joe Burrow like a

942
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:09,520
Speaker 1: better version of that big time athlete. He'll but he'll

943
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:12,680
Speaker 1: push the ball down the field. Again, not a great arm,

944
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:15,680
Speaker 1: but he's accurate. He's really accurate, and he's just a playmaker.

945
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:18,760
Speaker 1: He's a really good player. Then, obviously the the roster

946
00:48:18,920 --> 00:48:21,080
Speaker 1: is loaded. But the number one thing they did is

947
00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:23,040
Speaker 1: they hired this guy Joe Brady, which a year ago

948
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:25,840
Speaker 1: was probably making eighty thou dollars as an offensive assistant

949
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:30,200
Speaker 1: for the new Orleans Saints. It's amazing if you probably

950
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:33,760
Speaker 1: work in any profession, and football is a unique profession

951
00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:36,880
Speaker 1: because even though there might be a lot of coaches

952
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:39,440
Speaker 1: on a coaching staff or whatever, they're still not that many.

953
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:42,160
Speaker 1: And if you're an offensive assistant, you're basically like the

954
00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:47,120
Speaker 1: head coaches or offensive coordinators secretary. And so what was

955
00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:50,120
Speaker 1: Joe Brady at the Saints. He was Sean Payton's the

956
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:53,600
Speaker 1: equivalent of secretary film breakdown guy. Can you imagine how

957
00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:56,160
Speaker 1: much he learned in a two year span working with

958
00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:59,400
Speaker 1: Sean Payton and Drew Brees, the amount of knowledge that

959
00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:04,000
Speaker 1: he got in twenty four months, because it clearly shows.

960
00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:07,000
Speaker 1: And I would also imagine he was going to be

961
00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:09,480
Speaker 1: a good coach whether he went with Sean Payton or

962
00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:11,560
Speaker 1: whether he went with some random coach with like the

963
00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:16,120
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins or the Washington Huskies. Wherever he ended up,

964
00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:18,520
Speaker 1: he was eventually gonna be good. He just happened to

965
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:22,080
Speaker 1: get with a really good coach and it changed, you know, obviously,

966
00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:26,080
Speaker 1: his career forever, because this season with l s U

967
00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:29,360
Speaker 1: and Joe Brady will change this guy's career forever. So

968
00:49:29,440 --> 00:49:33,560
Speaker 1: the combination of of Joe Burrow and Joe Brady with

969
00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:36,480
Speaker 1: at oseron. You know, these guys are gonna go down

970
00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:39,359
Speaker 1: as absolute legends and if they can win at all.

971
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:42,640
Speaker 1: They already beat Alabama, they already won the conference. That

972
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:46,000
Speaker 1: there are two games away from definitely Eddio and Joe

973
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:51,560
Speaker 1: Burrow getting statues the other game, and I think Oklahoma

974
00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:54,520
Speaker 1: doesn't really have a chance. The other game is pretty

975
00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:58,400
Speaker 1: interesting Ohio State. I'm not a big Ohio State guy,

976
00:49:58,440 --> 00:50:00,319
Speaker 1: but I'll be the first to admit they were one

977
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:02,479
Speaker 1: of the more talented college football teams I've ever seen,

978
00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:06,800
Speaker 1: and they're absolutely loaded. They have NFL guys at every position.

979
00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:09,600
Speaker 1: I think I heard Urban Meyertel coward like they got

980
00:50:09,600 --> 00:50:12,239
Speaker 1: twenty two NFL players. He he literally means every one

981
00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:14,120
Speaker 1: of their starters going to be in the NFL. Now,

982
00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:15,879
Speaker 1: a lot of them are gonna be first second round picks,

983
00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:18,359
Speaker 1: but they've got a lot of like fifth, six, seventh rounders.

984
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:22,840
Speaker 1: That to me separates teams, Like most top twenty teams

985
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:26,040
Speaker 1: have first rounders right now, the top ones have more

986
00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:30,080
Speaker 1: first rounders. But like is your right guard is he

987
00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:32,400
Speaker 1: an undrafted free agent or is he a fifth rounder?

988
00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:34,880
Speaker 1: And you start stacking some of those four fifth and

989
00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:37,680
Speaker 1: six rounders to go along with your first rounders, you

990
00:50:37,719 --> 00:50:40,640
Speaker 1: basically have an NFL team. But I think people are

991
00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:43,480
Speaker 1: sleeping on Clemson a little bit, and I looked up

992
00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:46,400
Speaker 1: a number here. Now I get their conference sucks, but

993
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:48,239
Speaker 1: they also played Texas and m It turned out they

994
00:50:48,239 --> 00:50:50,840
Speaker 1: weren't that great at either, but they attempted to schedule

995
00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:54,040
Speaker 1: an SEC team in non conference. They scored six d

996
00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:56,319
Speaker 1: five points this year, they only gave up a hundred

997
00:50:56,320 --> 00:50:59,120
Speaker 1: and thirty eight. They have a six seven million dollar

998
00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:03,000
Speaker 1: head coach, They have a two million dollar defensive coordinator Inventables.

999
00:51:03,440 --> 00:51:05,600
Speaker 1: They have a quarterback that is going to be the

1000
00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:09,520
Speaker 1: lock let me repeat, lock number one overall pick if

1001
00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:13,000
Speaker 1: he stays healthy in two thousand one, who's already won

1002
00:51:13,040 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 1: a national championship as a true freshman. So Ohio State

1003
00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:19,759
Speaker 1: is really really talented. They have a first year head

1004
00:51:19,760 --> 00:51:21,840
Speaker 1: coach in Ryan Day, who you know people in the

1005
00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:24,520
Speaker 1: NFL speak highly of. He's a chip kelly guy I've

1006
00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:27,400
Speaker 1: never met personally. I don't really have any thoughts of.

1007
00:51:27,840 --> 00:51:30,520
Speaker 1: But this is first year as a head coach, let alone,

1008
00:51:30,520 --> 00:51:32,920
Speaker 1: he hasn't even been an offensive coordinator that long. Then

1009
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:35,600
Speaker 1: his defensive coordinator was the dB coach a year ago

1010
00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:38,160
Speaker 1: for the Niners. Now, everyone I knew with San Francisco

1011
00:51:38,239 --> 00:51:39,880
Speaker 1: really liked him, people that have been around him really

1012
00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:41,719
Speaker 1: liked him, and clearly he's done a really good job.

1013
00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:44,160
Speaker 1: But I know this, it's gonna be hard for me

1014
00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 1: to bet against Dabbo Sweeney, who just happens to be

1015
00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:52,400
Speaker 1: the defending champion. And I saw that when ESPN they

1016
00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:56,120
Speaker 1: put some cameras in like their lunch room after they

1017
00:51:56,600 --> 00:51:58,840
Speaker 1: kind of came out with the brackets, they go to

1018
00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:01,000
Speaker 1: Dabbo Sweeney and he's like, I just want to thank

1019
00:52:01,080 --> 00:52:03,080
Speaker 1: everyone in this room. Is basically all the players and

1020
00:52:03,080 --> 00:52:06,279
Speaker 1: the coaches were the first team in college football history

1021
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:09,160
Speaker 1: to start the season as the number one overall team.

1022
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:13,120
Speaker 1: Defending champions, win every game and basically kick the crap

1023
00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:15,799
Speaker 1: out of everyone they play, and somehow, when the dust

1024
00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:18,640
Speaker 1: settles in the playoffs start were ranked number three. So

1025
00:52:18,719 --> 00:52:20,640
Speaker 1: he's got a legit beef where he can look around

1026
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:22,719
Speaker 1: to his team and kind of play the underdog card.

1027
00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:25,680
Speaker 1: And it's not b s. There is some substance to it,

1028
00:52:26,320 --> 00:52:30,520
Speaker 1: so I'm not I'm picking Clemson to upset and I

1029
00:52:30,640 --> 00:52:32,760
Speaker 1: technically it's not an upset. I checked the line today.

1030
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:35,200
Speaker 1: They were they were favored. But I think people are

1031
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:38,239
Speaker 1: sleeping on Clemson because their conference sucks, and that's that

1032
00:52:38,360 --> 00:52:42,360
Speaker 1: is a fact. Their conference was potentially historically bad, that

1033
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:45,800
Speaker 1: they have been really really poor, right because Miami Florida

1034
00:52:45,840 --> 00:52:48,640
Speaker 1: State are awful, and if those two teams are bad,

1035
00:52:48,719 --> 00:52:51,720
Speaker 1: the conference is gonna stink, even if Clemson is historically great,

1036
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:56,279
Speaker 1: which they are. But Clemson destroyed everyone they played, and

1037
00:52:56,320 --> 00:52:59,840
Speaker 1: again they have NFL players, just like Ohio State. Every

1038
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:03,320
Speaker 1: air they have an elite head coach and an elite

1039
00:53:03,320 --> 00:53:09,040
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. They'd have one chips. So I'm picking Clemson

1040
00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:11,160
Speaker 1: to beat Ohio State, and I think Clemson would have

1041
00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:14,160
Speaker 1: every bit of a chance to beat L. S u

1042
00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:15,960
Speaker 1: is like Alabama has the last couple of years. No

1043
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:18,560
Speaker 1: obviously not last year, but in the previous years. So

1044
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:21,880
Speaker 1: I think between the top three teams you probably have

1045
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:24,719
Speaker 1: between Ohio State, L s U and Clemson, and even

1046
00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:28,279
Speaker 1: even Oklahoma's got a lot. I would just say, at

1047
00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:31,640
Speaker 1: the top of my head, sixty guys in the game

1048
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:33,719
Speaker 1: will be in the NFL next year. Hell I could

1049
00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:35,759
Speaker 1: be low balling it. It might even be higher. So

1050
00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:38,319
Speaker 1: if you like the NFL and you're not that big

1051
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:40,840
Speaker 1: of a college football fan, which I never quite understand,

1052
00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:42,640
Speaker 1: Like it's just basically the minor leagues, you get to

1053
00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:45,719
Speaker 1: see who's coming. Especially by the time, like a month in,

1054
00:53:45,840 --> 00:53:48,360
Speaker 1: you kind of have an idea who's who. Uh. The

1055
00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:53,360
Speaker 1: college football playoffs from a talent standpoint is absolutely stacked. Okay,

1056
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:55,279
Speaker 1: before we get into the middle cuff mail bag, let's

1057
00:53:55,280 --> 00:54:00,400
Speaker 1: just hit a couple of quick things saw around the league. Yes, today,

1058
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:04,440
Speaker 1: the Packers, I said this after they got destroyed by

1059
00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:06,480
Speaker 1: the Niners. Their next two games where the Giants and

1060
00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:09,520
Speaker 1: the Redskins, they were gonna get right pretty fast. And

1061
00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:13,520
Speaker 1: what happens boom two wins. They control their own destiny

1062
00:54:13,560 --> 00:54:16,520
Speaker 1: for a home field by that is insane. Even if

1063
00:54:16,520 --> 00:54:19,320
Speaker 1: they lose to the Vikings, they only have one loss

1064
00:54:19,400 --> 00:54:21,360
Speaker 1: in the division, and if they end up with the

1065
00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:24,880
Speaker 1: same record as the Minnesota Vikings, they would be Assuming

1066
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:26,799
Speaker 1: that they win two of their next three, they'd be

1067
00:54:26,800 --> 00:54:29,720
Speaker 1: five and one in the division and they'd win the division.

1068
00:54:30,400 --> 00:54:33,520
Speaker 1: And depending on what happens with the Niners, Packers have

1069
00:54:33,719 --> 00:54:37,080
Speaker 1: a have the tiebreaker with the Saints. They're they're in

1070
00:54:37,120 --> 00:54:39,960
Speaker 1: pretty good shape. Uh Now, if they lose too, if

1071
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:42,359
Speaker 1: the Bears get them this week, that's a different conversation.

1072
00:54:42,520 --> 00:54:46,080
Speaker 1: But I'm not sure they're that good. I mean, I

1073
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:49,359
Speaker 1: don't think they're bad by any means, but I would

1074
00:54:49,400 --> 00:54:51,359
Speaker 1: be if you told me right now the Packers won

1075
00:54:51,440 --> 00:54:56,680
Speaker 1: the NFC, I'd be surprised, I really would. But you know,

1076
00:54:56,680 --> 00:54:58,359
Speaker 1: if they get a home game, and if somehow they

1077
00:54:58,400 --> 00:55:00,239
Speaker 1: win these next couple of games and the Saints drop

1078
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:03,000
Speaker 1: another one, the Niners in Seattle, you know, however, and

1079
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:05,160
Speaker 1: they got the one seed, yeah, I mean it's not

1080
00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:06,920
Speaker 1: out of the you gotta go through Lamba, they'd be

1081
00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:12,040
Speaker 1: in pretty good shape. The Panthers that they're done. They

1082
00:55:12,080 --> 00:55:14,600
Speaker 1: got destroyed by the Atlanta Falcons. I mean at one

1083
00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:16,960
Speaker 1: point in time in the in the fourth quarters, like

1084
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:20,960
Speaker 1: thirty three to ten or thirty three to thirteen, just

1085
00:55:20,960 --> 00:55:23,240
Speaker 1: just a debacle. Now the Falcons are kind of screwed

1086
00:55:23,280 --> 00:55:26,080
Speaker 1: to even though they've won some games, you know, late

1087
00:55:26,080 --> 00:55:29,520
Speaker 1: in the season, Calvin Ridley's out drew Fonts out. They

1088
00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:31,600
Speaker 1: played the Niners this week. Now, the Niners have a

1089
00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:34,640
Speaker 1: bunch of injuries, but I can't imagine the Falcons are

1090
00:55:34,640 --> 00:55:38,160
Speaker 1: gonna come to Levi Stadium and win that game the Lions.

1091
00:55:38,960 --> 00:55:41,160
Speaker 1: You know, Minnesota got right, of course they did. They're

1092
00:55:41,160 --> 00:55:44,360
Speaker 1: playing the Lions. The Lions are a joke. You know.

1093
00:55:44,400 --> 00:55:47,080
Speaker 1: They traded. It's one of the great mid season DV

1094
00:55:47,200 --> 00:55:49,799
Speaker 1: trades ever. The Dig's kid that the Seattle has who

1095
00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:52,120
Speaker 1: just every game. I mean in that Sunday night football game,

1096
00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:55,400
Speaker 1: he had multiple interceptions. He makes huge hits every game.

1097
00:55:55,840 --> 00:55:58,560
Speaker 1: He's just good. Who trades that guy? Especially when you

1098
00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:03,280
Speaker 1: suck somehow the Rams I've been hard on Sean McVeigh

1099
00:56:03,280 --> 00:56:05,239
Speaker 1: because it's like, what is this guy doing? But that

1100
00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:08,400
Speaker 1: being said, he's a good coach, he's a good leader,

1101
00:56:08,440 --> 00:56:13,000
Speaker 1: he's a good motivator. And they I mean, they beat

1102
00:56:13,040 --> 00:56:15,799
Speaker 1: the living hell out of Arizona two weeks ago, and

1103
00:56:15,840 --> 00:56:19,839
Speaker 1: they pretty thoroughly dominated that Sunday night game against Seattle. Now,

1104
00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:22,399
Speaker 1: you know Seattle, they run out of gas a little bit.

1105
00:56:22,920 --> 00:56:25,879
Speaker 1: They could afford to drop a game having that win

1106
00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:28,880
Speaker 1: over the Niners, but still that that was a that

1107
00:56:28,960 --> 00:56:33,720
Speaker 1: was a beat down. It really was. Uh, the Raiders

1108
00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:37,120
Speaker 1: in Tennessee. Let's start with the Raiders. I mean they stink.

1109
00:56:37,480 --> 00:56:39,799
Speaker 1: There are six and seventeen, but every metric in the

1110
00:56:39,840 --> 00:56:42,680
Speaker 1: eye test, they're they're like a three or four win team. Uh,

1111
00:56:42,719 --> 00:56:45,520
Speaker 1: their point differential is that of like a two or

1112
00:56:45,560 --> 00:56:51,400
Speaker 1: three win team. Uh. Their defense is atrociously terrible. I

1113
00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:56,000
Speaker 1: mean it is. It's awful. They can't cover anybody, they

1114
00:56:56,040 --> 00:57:00,800
Speaker 1: can't rush the passer, Their linebackers stink. They are just bad.

1115
00:57:01,360 --> 00:57:04,720
Speaker 1: And their best player who's now hurt in Josh Jacobs.

1116
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:09,000
Speaker 1: They have no chance. Derek Carr to end the game

1117
00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:11,920
Speaker 1: against Tennessee Titans on fourth and five down twenty points,

1118
00:57:13,160 --> 00:57:15,000
Speaker 1: the play kind of broke down, no one was open,

1119
00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:17,200
Speaker 1: he scrambled, he threw the ball at a bounce on

1120
00:57:17,280 --> 00:57:20,240
Speaker 1: a fourth and five with the game just like ended

1121
00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:22,560
Speaker 1: with like three or four minutes left, like he should

1122
00:57:22,560 --> 00:57:25,720
Speaker 1: have just I was a speechless. Now he's done that

1123
00:57:25,720 --> 00:57:28,120
Speaker 1: a couple of times in his career, but it's it's indefensible.

1124
00:57:28,520 --> 00:57:31,280
Speaker 1: The Tennessee Titans are actually probably the hottest team in

1125
00:57:31,280 --> 00:57:33,880
Speaker 1: the league. I mean, they inserted Ryan Tannehill into the

1126
00:57:33,880 --> 00:57:35,640
Speaker 1: starting lineup and I think he's five and one in.

1127
00:57:35,680 --> 00:57:39,640
Speaker 1: Their offense is explosive. They hit big pass plays. Rabel's

1128
00:57:39,640 --> 00:57:42,440
Speaker 1: got a sweet mustache. They played the Texans two of

1129
00:57:42,560 --> 00:57:45,600
Speaker 1: the next three weeks. I mean they win those two games. Hell,

1130
00:57:45,680 --> 00:57:47,160
Speaker 1: you know, you'll be like God, the Titans are the

1131
00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:49,280
Speaker 1: three seed. Remember they beat the Chiefs, so they got

1132
00:57:49,320 --> 00:57:52,840
Speaker 1: a tiebreaker there. Tights are hot. Man. If you told

1133
00:57:52,840 --> 00:57:54,520
Speaker 1: me when all the dust settles, the Titans are ten

1134
00:57:54,560 --> 00:57:56,640
Speaker 1: and six and or the three seed, I don't think

1135
00:57:56,640 --> 00:58:01,520
Speaker 1: it's inconceivable. And has their best a better offseason move

1136
00:58:01,720 --> 00:58:05,880
Speaker 1: than the Titans acquiring Ryan tanney Hill to have as

1137
00:58:05,920 --> 00:58:08,800
Speaker 1: a backup for when they've benched Mariota and they were

1138
00:58:08,840 --> 00:58:11,440
Speaker 1: able to go to him and I mean let him

1139
00:58:11,440 --> 00:58:14,120
Speaker 1: to the playoffs. That just bottom line, he got He

1140
00:58:14,200 --> 00:58:17,200
Speaker 1: made a team that was dead a playoff team. Pretty pretty,

1141
00:58:17,240 --> 00:58:20,520
Speaker 1: just pretty damn remarkable. Okay, let's dive into the middle

1142
00:58:20,520 --> 00:58:23,840
Speaker 1: cuff mail bag. What's wrong with Indie? A lot of injuries,

1143
00:58:23,880 --> 00:58:26,120
Speaker 1: but the core is still mostly there in your opinion,

1144
00:58:26,200 --> 00:58:29,680
Speaker 1: what's their biggest hole when t Y is out? Just

1145
00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:32,760
Speaker 1: the playmaker situation is a is a problem. They just

1146
00:58:33,800 --> 00:58:35,480
Speaker 1: you know, Chris Ballard, who I have a lot of

1147
00:58:35,520 --> 00:58:40,320
Speaker 1: respect for, you know, built a built a tough team,

1148
00:58:40,560 --> 00:58:43,880
Speaker 1: built an just a group kind of an overachievers. That

1149
00:58:44,320 --> 00:58:46,520
Speaker 1: t Y is their guy. That's a difference maker. And

1150
00:58:46,680 --> 00:58:50,520
Speaker 1: Mac who's been out. They're just not explosive enough on offense.

1151
00:58:50,560 --> 00:58:53,640
Speaker 1: And when they get into this, you know, shooting match

1152
00:58:53,880 --> 00:58:56,520
Speaker 1: with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, they're They're just not equipped

1153
00:58:56,520 --> 00:58:59,280
Speaker 1: to playing games like that. It's just just not who

1154
00:58:59,280 --> 00:59:02,560
Speaker 1: they are. With the talent the Browns have. Beckham would

1155
00:59:02,560 --> 00:59:04,400
Speaker 1: be the m v P of football this season with

1156
00:59:04,520 --> 00:59:07,439
Speaker 1: Brady on the team. Brady is not finished. I think

1157
00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:10,640
Speaker 1: it's time you cover that as well as other analysts

1158
00:59:10,680 --> 00:59:13,960
Speaker 1: is doing it already. Give your point of view. Should

1159
00:59:13,960 --> 00:59:16,280
Speaker 1: the pat sign Brady for two more years or move on?

1160
00:59:16,320 --> 00:59:19,600
Speaker 1: I mean, he is forty two years old. He's by

1161
00:59:19,640 --> 00:59:23,160
Speaker 1: no means finished, but we do have to acknowledge he's old.

1162
00:59:23,680 --> 00:59:26,400
Speaker 1: He's just old and he can't really move. So when

1163
00:59:26,400 --> 00:59:28,720
Speaker 1: you can't block for him, they don't have wide receivers

1164
00:59:28,760 --> 00:59:31,080
Speaker 1: can get open. It's just a problem. He can't make

1165
00:59:31,120 --> 00:59:33,760
Speaker 1: something out of nothing. Is he is? He finished? No?

1166
00:59:34,840 --> 00:59:37,000
Speaker 1: And if they had Odell Beckham, it would help a lot.

1167
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:39,160
Speaker 1: If the Pats had Odell Beckham, it would look a

1168
00:59:39,160 --> 00:59:43,000
Speaker 1: lot different than it does in Cleveland. The Patriots. Also,

1169
00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:45,920
Speaker 1: it shows you how high the standards are. And this

1170
00:59:45,960 --> 00:59:48,200
Speaker 1: is kind of this is what's cool about them in

1171
00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:52,479
Speaker 1: Alabama is it's championship or bust. They're really the only

1172
00:59:52,520 --> 00:59:55,280
Speaker 1: two programs I think in America. Now, maybe you could

1173
00:59:55,280 --> 00:59:58,720
Speaker 1: say like Duke basketball, but I mean championships Duke won

1174
00:59:58,760 --> 01:00:01,040
Speaker 1: the last ten years a couple. It's I mean, it's

1175
01:00:01,040 --> 01:00:05,520
Speaker 1: truly for Alabama, New England, championship or bust. And the

1176
01:00:05,560 --> 01:00:07,600
Speaker 1: Patriots are ten and three right now. I think we

1177
01:00:07,680 --> 01:00:11,280
Speaker 1: act like they're five and seven. There, let me repeat

1178
01:00:11,440 --> 01:00:14,640
Speaker 1: ten and three for the mail bag. Is Tanny Hill

1179
01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:18,560
Speaker 1: top five quarterback in the a f C right now? Well,

1180
01:00:18,640 --> 01:00:24,880
Speaker 1: let's let's think about that. A f C East Nobody,

1181
01:00:25,280 --> 01:00:30,440
Speaker 1: a f C North, Lamar, a f C South, Yeah,

1182
01:00:30,480 --> 01:00:33,720
Speaker 1: I mean a f C West. Yeah, my home. Yeah,

1183
01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:36,920
Speaker 1: he's right up there. He's damn good. I'm watching him

1184
01:00:37,040 --> 01:00:41,200
Speaker 1: against the Raiders. I mean he's he's an explosive player.

1185
01:00:41,320 --> 01:00:43,280
Speaker 1: I mean that's one thing. He will push the ball

1186
01:00:43,320 --> 01:00:46,000
Speaker 1: down the field. They have a really good run game.

1187
01:00:46,040 --> 01:00:49,160
Speaker 1: I mean, Derrick Henry's one of probably the more consistent

1188
01:00:49,200 --> 01:00:51,760
Speaker 1: players in the league right now. He's he's been killing it.

1189
01:00:52,880 --> 01:00:57,000
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, Tanny Hill. If you told me Tanny Hill

1190
01:00:57,040 --> 01:01:00,080
Speaker 1: makes the pro ball, you won't find me complaining, do

1191
01:01:00,120 --> 01:01:02,320
Speaker 1: we sometimes undervalue the importance of a tight end in

1192
01:01:02,360 --> 01:01:04,920
Speaker 1: the NFL? With New England struggling on offense and almost

1193
01:01:04,920 --> 01:01:06,800
Speaker 1: every other good team that has at least one good

1194
01:01:06,800 --> 01:01:08,880
Speaker 1: tight end and Seattle having a guy in Hollister who

1195
01:01:08,880 --> 01:01:12,040
Speaker 1: can make plays. Yeah, I think people in the league

1196
01:01:12,080 --> 01:01:15,000
Speaker 1: don't underestimate it. I think fans of good teams don't

1197
01:01:15,040 --> 01:01:17,280
Speaker 1: underestimate it. If you've got George Kittle, if you've got

1198
01:01:17,280 --> 01:01:19,480
Speaker 1: Tonight Zach ERT's catching a couple of touchdowns, if you've

1199
01:01:19,480 --> 01:01:22,520
Speaker 1: got Travis Kelsey, you know, if you you've got guys

1200
01:01:22,720 --> 01:01:27,560
Speaker 1: you know, Mark Andrews and Hayden Hurst on the Ravens. Obviously,

1201
01:01:27,560 --> 01:01:30,480
Speaker 1: the Patriots would tell you how important Gronk has been

1202
01:01:30,560 --> 01:01:33,720
Speaker 1: to them for years. So no, I I would say,

1203
01:01:34,680 --> 01:01:37,080
Speaker 1: I would say smart football people know how important it is.

1204
01:01:38,520 --> 01:01:41,919
Speaker 1: Quick question, John on Josh Allen. I know you like him,

1205
01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:43,720
Speaker 1: and I know he's got one heck of an arm,

1206
01:01:43,800 --> 01:01:45,920
Speaker 1: but I don't think he can play. What do the

1207
01:01:45,960 --> 01:01:48,120
Speaker 1: Bills do if they have the weapons but he overthrows

1208
01:01:48,160 --> 01:01:52,480
Speaker 1: everyone of the time? What say you free agency or

1209
01:01:52,520 --> 01:01:55,880
Speaker 1: maybe draft a guy that can play right away? Well, see,

1210
01:01:55,880 --> 01:02:01,160
Speaker 1: I that's not gonna happen. They took Josh Allen seventh overall,

1211
01:02:02,000 --> 01:02:05,440
Speaker 1: seventh overall. He's like a made man in the mob,

1212
01:02:06,040 --> 01:02:08,800
Speaker 1: in the Bill's mafia. I mean, he's just he's getting

1213
01:02:08,840 --> 01:02:12,480
Speaker 1: four years that the ship's going down with him, and

1214
01:02:12,520 --> 01:02:16,480
Speaker 1: this is only year two. So his accuracy was a

1215
01:02:16,520 --> 01:02:20,200
Speaker 1: problem in college is still a problem now now. That

1216
01:02:20,360 --> 01:02:22,240
Speaker 1: just might always be a problem, and it might be

1217
01:02:22,280 --> 01:02:24,480
Speaker 1: his undoing as a good NFL player. It might be

1218
01:02:24,520 --> 01:02:26,480
Speaker 1: the reason he never becomes a good player. He's just

1219
01:02:26,520 --> 01:02:29,360
Speaker 1: not accurate. I don't know how you fix it. You'd

1220
01:02:29,360 --> 01:02:31,960
Speaker 1: have to ask like a Andy reader Sean Payton, and

1221
01:02:32,000 --> 01:02:33,880
Speaker 1: I think some of them would say it's not fixable

1222
01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:40,000
Speaker 1: to a certain extent. So drafting guys and stuff, it's

1223
01:02:40,040 --> 01:02:42,720
Speaker 1: not an option maybe for at least another year. They're

1224
01:02:42,840 --> 01:02:45,600
Speaker 1: they're in bed with this guy. Any chance the forty

1225
01:02:45,640 --> 01:02:47,800
Speaker 1: Niners would trade for O'Dell while the stock is down

1226
01:02:47,800 --> 01:02:52,320
Speaker 1: with the Browns take pick thirty two, thoughts? You know,

1227
01:02:53,600 --> 01:02:55,960
Speaker 1: I I struggled to do that. If he's gonna need

1228
01:02:56,000 --> 01:02:59,919
Speaker 1: offseason surgery, you know, I would try to somehow land

1229
01:03:00,040 --> 01:03:01,760
Speaker 1: second round pick and trade him for that. But I

1230
01:03:02,200 --> 01:03:04,120
Speaker 1: struggle trading in the first round pick for a guy

1231
01:03:04,200 --> 01:03:08,320
Speaker 1: that just and I'm an Odell Beckham fan, but he's

1232
01:03:08,360 --> 01:03:11,600
Speaker 1: gonna get you know, surgery. I don't know. I need

1233
01:03:11,640 --> 01:03:14,520
Speaker 1: to find out more information. I guess if I if

1234
01:03:14,520 --> 01:03:16,200
Speaker 1: I win the Super Bowl on the Niners, what I

1235
01:03:16,200 --> 01:03:18,240
Speaker 1: trade Pick thirty two? I think about it. But what

1236
01:03:18,360 --> 01:03:21,840
Speaker 1: I want to trade like Pick? I don't know. And

1237
01:03:21,880 --> 01:03:25,000
Speaker 1: again I like Odell, do you think the Browns are

1238
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:27,040
Speaker 1: willing to trade in the forty nine? Same question? I

1239
01:03:27,040 --> 01:03:30,400
Speaker 1: mean this is I know Kyle really liked him. I

1240
01:03:30,960 --> 01:03:33,920
Speaker 1: know that for a fact that Kyle really really liked him.

1241
01:03:34,040 --> 01:03:36,080
Speaker 1: Quick question. You may have already covered this, and I

1242
01:03:36,120 --> 01:03:37,880
Speaker 1: haven't made time to listen to the Pond in a while,

1243
01:03:38,280 --> 01:03:40,400
Speaker 1: but why is everyone so quick to say the Patriots

1244
01:03:40,400 --> 01:03:43,000
Speaker 1: and Brady are falling off? Maybe it's just ESPN, but

1245
01:03:43,040 --> 01:03:46,000
Speaker 1: it seems like everywhere I look. Also, was this week's

1246
01:03:46,040 --> 01:03:49,680
Speaker 1: Jimmy Solidified franchise performance and Nola? Yeah, I just think

1247
01:03:49,720 --> 01:03:54,000
Speaker 1: it's again the nature of being that good. When you're

1248
01:03:54,040 --> 01:03:56,680
Speaker 1: that good, when you're Lebron, when you're Alabama, when you're

1249
01:03:56,680 --> 01:04:00,120
Speaker 1: in New England, you know, when you're the Yankees, the

1250
01:04:00,160 --> 01:04:02,160
Speaker 1: moment you slip up a little bit, people want to

1251
01:04:02,160 --> 01:04:06,040
Speaker 1: bury you. It's just because I think people are jealous

1252
01:04:06,080 --> 01:04:09,520
Speaker 1: of ship as at the best, and people wish they

1253
01:04:09,520 --> 01:04:12,480
Speaker 1: were that and they're just not so. The Patriots again,

1254
01:04:12,520 --> 01:04:15,360
Speaker 1: they're ten and three and we're acting like they're drafting

1255
01:04:15,360 --> 01:04:18,360
Speaker 1: in the top ten shows you it just that's a

1256
01:04:18,400 --> 01:04:22,720
Speaker 1: credit to Belichick and Brady. Who's my Heisman winner? Uh,

1257
01:04:22,760 --> 01:04:25,000
Speaker 1: it's got to be Joe Burrow. I think he wins

1258
01:04:25,000 --> 01:04:27,800
Speaker 1: in a in a landslide. I might not even be close.

1259
01:04:28,920 --> 01:04:31,200
Speaker 1: Whenever I watched the Eagles, I inevitably think of Chip.

1260
01:04:31,840 --> 01:04:34,200
Speaker 1: I know you think he's a slap, mainly because he's

1261
01:04:34,200 --> 01:04:37,760
Speaker 1: a slap, But is there anything we can really attribute defensively,

1262
01:04:38,040 --> 01:04:41,440
Speaker 1: definitively to him. Guys were running fast offenses before him.

1263
01:04:41,720 --> 01:04:44,760
Speaker 1: What did he really do that merited the slobber job

1264
01:04:44,840 --> 01:04:49,640
Speaker 1: where people think he was mad genius. That's a good question.

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Speaker 1: I think it was more just the consistency of the pace.

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Speaker 1: He never relented there. There was no take the foot

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Speaker 1: off the gas and back in college when people weren't

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Speaker 1: when it caught everyone off guard. In the NFL, no

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Speaker 1: one was doing it consistently, like the Patriots would randomly

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Speaker 1: just go into that mode in different parts of the game.

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Speaker 1: He did three sixty five. Now, the problem in the

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Speaker 1: NFL is when you play good defenses, you're gonna go

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Speaker 1: three and out. So you go three and out and

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Speaker 1: you take fifteen seconds off the clock, it doesn't do anything.

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Speaker 1: I also think that he was ahead of the curve

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Speaker 1: on sleep and nutrition and stuff like that that now

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Speaker 1: everyone he was doing that ten plus years ago, and

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Speaker 1: now obviously everyone is big on that stuff. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, just he was winning. I really think it's

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Speaker 1: that simple. Whenever you win, and he was killing people

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Speaker 1: and people get interested. I also think he benefited a

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Speaker 1: little bit. The pack twelve was down. Remember Pete Carroll

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Speaker 1: got sanctions, he left, and then Lane and sark Hard

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Speaker 1: Bob bounced to the Niners. Washington did not have Chris Peterson,

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Speaker 1: Washington State, Mike Leach hadn't showed up yet. Oregon State

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Speaker 1: was terrible, the Arizona schools were terrible, and he kicked

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Speaker 1: the crap out of him. So and then with the

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Speaker 1: Eagles that first year he went ten and six. I

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Speaker 1: guess the second year he went ten and six too,

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Speaker 1: but it was it looked I think he started that year,

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Speaker 1: was it like seven and two so it looked a

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Speaker 1: little bit different. Who's my next pick for Monday night

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Speaker 1: football commentaries? That's a good question. I don't know. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I don't I don't think Tony Romo would

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Speaker 1: come to ESPN, but I'm not sure about that. I

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Speaker 1: really haven't even thought who's next. But it could not

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Speaker 1: be worse than Uh, As my guy, Brent Jones, former

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Speaker 1: tight end said on radio in the Bay Are, I

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Speaker 1: heard him one day, He's like, what do they call

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Speaker 1: that guy? Loogie? They call him loogi? Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: Hawka Lugie. No, it's booger. But he was basically just

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Speaker 1: it's unlistenable, and it really is. And uh, Luckily we're

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Speaker 1: what is it, week four team? We only got maybe

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Speaker 1: a week or two left of this crew ever, so

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Speaker 1: we're almost out of the woods because it'll be new people,

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Speaker 1: maybe Pat McAfee, I don't know. I just anyone new.

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Speaker 1: Just just try something else. For the love of god,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure they're good people. But just as a consumer,

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Speaker 1: we demand better appreciate everyone listening, enjoy the week, and uh,

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Speaker 1: playoff football is not far away. College football playoffs are here.

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Speaker 1: We got bowl games not far away. Let's get it

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Speaker 1: on baby, Uh, tell your friends about the show, like

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Speaker 1: review it and yeah, just enjoy the week and stay

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Speaker 1: healthy and have a good one.