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Speaker 1: and I thought Tony Romo did a great job of

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Speaker 1: breaking this down that there's no element of anticipation when

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Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor is the quarterback. He doesn't make anticipate anticipatory throws.

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Speaker 1: Peterman comes in and you see quick, decisive throws right

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Speaker 1: off the bat. Now is decision making is questionable, But

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Speaker 1: the upgrade from from Taylor to Peterman on anticipatory throws

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Speaker 1: was I will give you this, Tyrod Taylor does not

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Speaker 1: turn the ball over right. Well, decision making is a factor,

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Speaker 1: but the offense doesn't run when Tyrod Taylor can't run.

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Speaker 1: I think it's also fair to ask if that Nate

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Speaker 1: Peterman that makes those type of throws. I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: say the word was, I don't think I can do it.

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Speaker 1: Anticipatory nailed it? Um is that guy gonna be the

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Speaker 1: guy that gets on the field after what happened in

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Speaker 1: his first game? Mentally, will he still have the gumption

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Speaker 1: he had in really nice drive against the Patriots. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's fair, it's crazy. The Bills will be right in

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Speaker 1: the mix, possibly especially if the Ravens lose this week.

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Speaker 1: At seven and six, any any team should beat the

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Speaker 1: Colts right now. And by the way, the Bills do

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Speaker 1: take care of business and they better for that fan base.

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Speaker 1: They would move to seven and six. And Mark said

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Speaker 1: they got two games left against the Dolphins, who are

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Speaker 1: one of the worst teams in the NFC. Home and home.

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Speaker 1: They're sandwiched by a Patriots matchup. If you, let's say

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Speaker 1: you lose against the Pats, you should win those other

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Speaker 1: three games and on your nine and seven and I

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Speaker 1: think you got a chance. But put Jordan Matthews on

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Speaker 1: injured reserve this week, put Shack Lawson who was starting

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Speaker 1: in lost year. They got problems. And uh, before we

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Speaker 1: move on, since you guys missed it on Sunday, a

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Speaker 1: final congratulations the old Frank Gore who passed Yes, well,

460
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Speaker 1: Danny and Thomlinson to be in the top five all time.

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Speaker 1: I was gonna say something snarky like we didn't miss

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Speaker 1: and just like whatever, But no, that would have been

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Speaker 1: that would be distressed. That wouldn't be true. NFL dot

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Speaker 1: Com slash Frank, I don't care about that. I'm saying

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Speaker 1: in the one last the one good thing about this Colt,

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Speaker 1: he was the only thing that could move the ball

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Speaker 1: on the Jaguars. All right, Let's move on to a

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Speaker 1: really solid matchup the Minnesota Vikings. Tenant too. They have

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Speaker 1: not lost gentlemen since the first day of October, so

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Speaker 1: there's a nice season for the Vikings. They now traveled

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Speaker 1: to Carolina to face the Panthers. This is a very

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Speaker 1: tricky spot west for the Panthers, who stumbled last week

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Speaker 1: against the Saints. No big sin, but if they cannot

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Speaker 1: find a way to beat the Vikings at them, they

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Speaker 1: put themselves in a very dangerous position to miss the

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Speaker 1: playoffs entirely. Yeah. My instincts initially were Carolina on a

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Speaker 1: grass field, playing at home, in a game they need.

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Speaker 1: I tend to give the edge to them, And then

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Speaker 1: I looked deeper into this game. Cam Newton, I believe

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Speaker 1: is one and four against top fifteen defense that has

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Speaker 1: not played well against good defenses. The Vikings lead the

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Speaker 1: NFL in third down offense and third down defense. No

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Speaker 1: team in history since that's that has been invented, has

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Speaker 1: ever done that. This is a well balanced, well coached team,

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Speaker 1: and to me, the Vikings are clearly the better team

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Speaker 1: right now. I think you have to give the edge

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Speaker 1: to them. Even even at Carolina, It's not even close.

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Speaker 1: I mean, what what is the Panthers done really recently

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Speaker 1: to get everyone excited? It was basically the Dolphins beat

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Speaker 1: down that they had on national television. Everyone beats down

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins. They did not play well against the Jets,

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Speaker 1: were a little lucky to win that game, and did

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Speaker 1: not play their best game in New Orleans at all.

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Speaker 1: That was a one sided game. Like the Vikings are

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Speaker 1: the same team week after week. At some point we

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Speaker 1: just have to do we have to trust it. I

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Speaker 1: feel like if I had to pick who's the paper

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Speaker 1: Tiger and these NFC playoff teams, I kind of I'm

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Speaker 1: with you guys. In terms of the Panthers, I don't

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Speaker 1: like the way they played for large portions of the

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Speaker 1: season in the last two weeks especially. They've seen flaw

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Speaker 1: that and they did when they beat up on the Dolphins.

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Speaker 1: It happened in prime time and that that helps the

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Speaker 1: shade view sometimes. But they also kind of had that

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Speaker 1: swagger going and it kind of reminded you of but

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Speaker 1: that we haven't seen that since they came back from

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Speaker 1: the by. I feel like I came out of that

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Speaker 1: game and I was saying this, and I think that

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Speaker 1: maybe I've believed this way too soon. Oh, that they

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Speaker 1: found this identity. Well, they ran the ball well twice

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Speaker 1: in a row, and it came after this, and it

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Speaker 1: came after the Saints game the day before, where they

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Speaker 1: were they were blowing people up on the ground. I

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Speaker 1: thought the Saints do it every week. You just can't

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Speaker 1: trust the Panthers week to week. I mean, only Flacco

516
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Speaker 1: and Mariotta have a lower quarterback rating than Cam Newton

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Speaker 1: amongst teams with a winning record, and it shows with

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Speaker 1: Cam Notton too, with Kim in too often. And it's

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Speaker 1: a tough matchup. I mean, Funis is not and he's

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Speaker 1: gonna get Xavier Rhoades traveling around with him. You know,

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Speaker 1: Greg Olsen is maybe coming back in this game, but

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Speaker 1: he hasn't really been himself. They don't really have something

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Speaker 1: to lean on on their offense, and so it's it's

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Speaker 1: just County on their defense to win a game for them,

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Speaker 1: which is possible against Minnesota, but it's gonna be tough.

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Speaker 1: Here's one last stat on case Keenum, who has had

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Speaker 1: such an excellent season and we've talked about him a lot,

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Speaker 1: but he deserves all the pubbies getting he's ever since

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Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater got healthy and everyone was saying, oh, should

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Speaker 1: we should put Teddy Bridgewater in, he's a great story.

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Speaker 1: In the last four games, Keenum has had a pass

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Speaker 1: raining north of one completion percentage north of seventy UM.

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Speaker 1: That's over four games. The only quarterbacks in the Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl era with a longer streak than a single season

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Speaker 1: Peyton Farv, Russell Wilson and Alex Smith. So talk about

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Speaker 1: raising your game um when you get challenged as a competitor,

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Speaker 1: and that people don't talk about their ground gaming. That

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Speaker 1: the second best running back to oh in the league

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Speaker 1: right now? Yeah? Everybody? Everybody? It was how can you

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Speaker 1: possibly get over they? And they're not even like Latavius Murray.

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Speaker 1: To me, it's not the second best duo. It's the

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Speaker 1: second best running game. Like they could put anyone on

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Speaker 1: in that running game and do it With'tavius Murray? Did

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Speaker 1: he to me as a replace? That's what they couldn't

545
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Speaker 1: year that that offensive line last year is the reason

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Speaker 1: they went from five and oh to the Abyss. It's

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Speaker 1: the opposite this year. Well, all the Mike Zimmer for

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Speaker 1: Coach of the Year, that's fine. I think to meet

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Speaker 1: McVeigh clearly is a choice. But Rick Spielman deserves a

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Speaker 1: lot of credit for this roster and for being able

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Speaker 1: to plug in a McKinnon and murray when Dalvin Cook

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Speaker 1: goes down because he rebuilt the offensive line. You on

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Speaker 1: GM cor I am on GM corner. Rick Spielman has

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Speaker 1: done a great job with this. Talk about a guy

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Speaker 1: with nine lives. He's been. There have been times when

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Speaker 1: people wanted Rick Spielman out of there, and he survived

557
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:50,760
Speaker 1: a lot of coaching change. This is the game that

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Speaker 1: Packers and Cowboys fans gotta be kind of circling because

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Speaker 1: they gotta feel like the Panthers falling off are their

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Speaker 1: chance to jump into that playoffs. Well, that's gonna be

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Speaker 1: easier than the c The Packers are the pack of

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Speaker 1: wolves in the Cowboys and the Panthers are that injured

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Speaker 1: caribou right now. And if you guys just looking for

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Speaker 1: a little mental image, West pair of blue jeans, black boots,

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Speaker 1: bomber jacket, collar popped aviators like George Michael faith era

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Speaker 1: aviators leaning up against the corner the street sign GM corner.

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Speaker 1: And then he takes out a cigarette, which he shouldn't

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Speaker 1: because you were coming. It's not a good idea, and

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Speaker 1: then takes up one of those matchsticks against the scruff,

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Speaker 1: lights it on his cheek, lights up the cigarette, then

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Speaker 1: puts it out. This is like more like a nineteen

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Speaker 1: picture of Yeah, you're you're describing a man that doesn't

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Speaker 1: exist in our society right now until you go to

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Speaker 1: GM Corner. That's all I'm saying. It's a very masculine place.

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Speaker 1: Let's move on. The Chicago Bears three and nine. Um

576
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:54,960
Speaker 1: could not find a way to beat Jimmy Garoppolo and

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Speaker 1: the Niners at home, and they can't be in anybody anymore.

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Speaker 1: They haven't won in six weeks. They travel to Cincinnati.

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Speaker 1: We could be quick on this one, Greg, because the Bengals,

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Speaker 1: for all intents and purposes, ended their season with their

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Speaker 1: failure to close out the Steelers at home on Monday night.

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Speaker 1: Right most likely, this is a game that should should

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Speaker 1: be a good match for them. Any Dalton can deliver

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Speaker 1: when protected in the Bears have no pass rush. Geo

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Speaker 1: Bernard maybe gonna win some fantasy leagues for people this

586
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:21,480
Speaker 1: weekend going to be the starter, most likely with Joe

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00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:24,320
Speaker 1: mix and looking like he's out. Other than that, I

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00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 1: don't know what's to get excited about this. Ravisky can't

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Speaker 1: shoot straight right now from the pocket, can throw on

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Speaker 1: the move, he can't shoot straight from the pocket. A

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Speaker 1: guy that's supposed to be very accurate kind of that's

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Speaker 1: his calling guard that's a little concerned yet him a

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Speaker 1: coaching staff. I think he's regressed a little bit. But

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Speaker 1: this is a dead man walking game. And you guys

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00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 1: were talking about the hot seat the other day and

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Speaker 1: Marvin Lewis, I think I've always said, and Dan, I

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Speaker 1: appreciate you taking on my viewpoint. I tried. Do they

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Speaker 1: have it right? I've changed just in the past few weeks,

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Speaker 1: And if you listen closely on Monday Night Football, Gruden

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Speaker 1: and mcdonnaugh alluded to them talking to Marvin Lewis, and

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Speaker 1: Marvin Lewis strong only insinuating that he will not be back,

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Speaker 1: that the last few weeks are going to be his

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Speaker 1: last few weeks with this organization. And yet I think

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Speaker 1: they'll win this game. I mean, to your point, Greg,

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00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 1: they had Trabisky throw the ball seven times last week.

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Speaker 1: He's averaging fourteen point one passing yards per drive. I

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00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:20,960
Speaker 1: mean they got they got a punt return touchdown, and

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Speaker 1: they got the ball almost in the red zone on

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Speaker 1: a turnover against the forty niners. Those are the two things,

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Speaker 1: and they still can't beat the forty. I mean they

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Speaker 1: need to reco and to do something every week. It

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Speaker 1: was it was special teams last week, or it needs

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Speaker 1: to be something a big breakaway touchdown. That's the only

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Speaker 1: way they win these games. Let's move on. The Green

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Speaker 1: Bay Packers travel to first and Entergy Field, First Energy Field,

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Speaker 1: First Energy Stadium, I believe is the name? Did you

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Speaker 1: put a T and the energy? Isn't it like Entergy

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Speaker 1: isn't like one of those corpo I don't believe. So

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Speaker 1: Entergy is another stadium, you see. That's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: There's something out there floating in the corporal. I will

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Speaker 1: never forget when we were West and I were younger,

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Speaker 1: when they changed randomly out of nowhere because you didn't

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Speaker 1: have Twitter and all that stuff back then too. That

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00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 1: Candlestick Park became three Com Park out of nowhere one

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Speaker 1: Sunday morning, and people were like, wait, what was the

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Speaker 1: first corporate naming change and people were yeah, they were

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Speaker 1: stick was one of the best names. And then does

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Speaker 1: anybody remember the late nineties uh incarnation when it was

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Speaker 1: Munster Stadium or Monster dot Com Monster dot Com it

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Speaker 1: was Monster Park for a brief time as well. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Stupid corporations to love working for the NFL, though, Um,

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00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 1: the Browns are the team that plays the first energy field.

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00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 1: The O and twelve Browns really talked about them at

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Speaker 1: the top of the show. They have four chances to

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Speaker 1: get a W and avoid infamy, but the Packers really

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00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:43,000
Speaker 1: have something to play for if they can get a W.

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Speaker 1: Here Mark they moved to seven and six with Aaron

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Speaker 1: Rodgers warming up on the sideline. Yeah, I mean, this

639
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Speaker 1: is all you wanted out of the Screen Bay team

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Speaker 1: if you're a fan, is to see them have a

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Speaker 1: chance to get Aaron Rodgers back while they were still alive.

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Speaker 1: They very much have a chance that they do that.

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Speaker 1: I look at the two quarterbacks in this game, as

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Speaker 1: you know, they're both costing their team points yardage. So

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Speaker 1: let's say they erase each other. You're the green Bay

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Speaker 1: Packers job. Uh what do you? I mean? Maybe from

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Speaker 1: here and there, but beyond all that, I just think

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Speaker 1: that not without one holding a big advantage over the other.

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Speaker 1: It is green Bay's roster against Cleveland's. If you're a

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Speaker 1: playoff team, you should be able to beat Cleveland's roster,

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Speaker 1: whether it's in Cleveland or green Bay. If Cleveland is

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Speaker 1: this disastrous of an organization, the story green Bay Packers

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Speaker 1: who want to be a playoff team some to have

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Speaker 1: any value beyond Aaron Rodgers better take care of Cleveland

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Speaker 1: on Sunday. But they're clearly not a playoff team without

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers there two and five, and even with Aaron Rodgers,

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Speaker 1: they didn't top three hundred and seventy yards in a game.

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Speaker 1: So Aaron Rodgers was holding them up. And to me,

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Speaker 1: this is a toss up, like we an NFL pick them.

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Speaker 1: Here's a spoiler. I took the Old Browns to win

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Speaker 1: this game. Why not? And what do we think of

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Speaker 1: Green Bay? I understand, I think they're I think they're

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Speaker 1: one of the worst teams in the league. With Brett

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Speaker 1: Hunley as the there two and five and they were

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Speaker 1: extremely lucky to win one of those those with the

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Speaker 1: second game. I mean, the logic is there, like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm with you. I think the Packers are like a

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Speaker 1: rank three to seven and the power rankings team with

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Speaker 1: Brett Huntley. I think they're that limited with him, and

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Speaker 1: and so if you put him on the road, even

671
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Speaker 1: if it's against the Browns, you can't assume the road

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Speaker 1: doesn't mean anything in Cleveland outside the fact you have

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Speaker 1: to get on an area is a road. Yeah, they

674
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 1: are on their schedules a little different. So you put

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Speaker 1: him on the road against the team it's one like

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Speaker 1: what four percent of its games in the last two years.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the Packers should be the clear favorite here

678
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:32,400
Speaker 1: and not get it so that the best team in

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Speaker 1: the league, which is a lot better than being the

680
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Speaker 1: thirty second best team in the league. And they found

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Speaker 1: some interesting running backs in Green Bay. They will not

682
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Speaker 1: have to address that position in too. That's funny. We

683
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Speaker 1: went into the season. That was the big conversation, like

684
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Speaker 1: what are they gonna do with running back? Now here

685
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Speaker 1: we are in Week fourteen, Like Williams, that's the only

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Speaker 1: thing they have, Like that was the last that was

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Speaker 1: the reason they won. Well, Williams was the off season darling,

688
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 1: and then he wasn't in the picture, and now he's

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Speaker 1: back in what was he Well, he's had He's looked great.

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Speaker 1: The past two weeks is of power back and he's

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Speaker 1: throwing Aaron Jones he looked great before he got injured.

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Speaker 1: Time Montgomery's out for the year. I wonder what his

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Speaker 1: rule is going to be next year. But I think

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Speaker 1: Williams and Jones make for a great tandem. Alright, So

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Speaker 1: the Packers, if they can get to seven and six,

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Speaker 1: Up next the San Francisco forty Niners. They just picked

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Speaker 1: up their second win of the season with Jim mg

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Speaker 1: behind center, and now a tougher assignment, but not that

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Speaker 1: much tougher, and I set up for Jimmy G to

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Speaker 1: start his career. They go to Houston to face the Texans, UH,

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Speaker 1: two teams that are out of the mix. Your thoughts

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Speaker 1: on this game was, I'm really looking forward to seeing

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo play again. And I never really understood the

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Speaker 1: skepticism of Jimmy Garoppolo, especially the people who say, look

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Speaker 1: what Matt Castle did outside of that system. First of all,

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Speaker 1: I don't even know what the Patriots system is. If

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Speaker 1: somebody can explain to me what they're quote unquote system is,

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Speaker 1: I'd like to hear it. But Jimmy Garopplo is not

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Speaker 1: the same quarterback as Matt Castle. And what Castle then

739
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with Jimmy G. You're talking about

740
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Speaker 1: a guy who has, whenever he's played, shown great pocket mobility,

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Speaker 1: a lightning quick release, good decision making, good comeback capability.

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Speaker 1: He's everything you want to see in a young quarterback.

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Speaker 1: And I don't get any kind of the skepticism around him.

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Speaker 1: If you want to say small sample size, fine, but

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00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 1: not the Matt Castle stuff that stuffs garbage. It's funny

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Speaker 1: because two games ago when he came in late and

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Speaker 1: he generated a touchdown drive, I thought to myself, you know,

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Speaker 1: going into last week, well, I can't hang my hat

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Speaker 1: on that. Even though there was energy around that, the

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00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:38,360
Speaker 1: offense took on a different form. But then against the Bears,

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Speaker 1: I think it was the first game all year. They're

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00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:43,359
Speaker 1: dialing up thirteen plus players a ten plus yards, most

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00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:45,920
Speaker 1: all of them through the air. It's all because of him.

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Speaker 1: They are a completely different type of team. To watch

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00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 1: everything that we heard about him and what we thought,

756
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 1: we said, oh, Bill Belichick thinks X Y and Z,

757
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:56,240
Speaker 1: well we had to see it. It came to fruition

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00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 1: last week and it is such a different team. And

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Speaker 1: I don't care at home are on the road. I

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00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:05,759
Speaker 1: didn't have a problem locking that one team up last week,

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Speaker 1: so I have no problem locking up a two team

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Speaker 1: this week. Lock it up. I love it. I love

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Speaker 1: it and into the sunset that Ian Rappaport, this is

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Speaker 1: one of the new team. Ian Rapports said. People in

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Speaker 1: the building kind of compared Garoppolo to Jimmy Tony Romo,

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Speaker 1: which I could see a little bit. Bruce Arians made

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00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:30,319
Speaker 1: that comparison a year ago, and I and I know

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Speaker 1: they played at the same school, so maybe that's just

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Speaker 1: what you're thinking, but I can I can see that

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Speaker 1: it's the first names. Some of the things I liked

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Speaker 1: about him were just just like the head nous. Like

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Speaker 1: the second that he got hit late on a play,

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Speaker 1: he's immediately like he knows he was out of bounds

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Speaker 1: and he's calling for the flag. They had a questionable

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00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:52,960
Speaker 1: catch at one point, and he quickly brings up everyone

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00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 1: to get the next playoff. Like that to me shows

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00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:57,719
Speaker 1: almost like a Colm and what you're doing, like he's

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00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 1: very much in control of what's going on around him,

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Speaker 1: which is really impressive for a guy who's barely played

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Speaker 1: at the NFL level. They were five of ten in

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00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:07,920
Speaker 1: third and eight or longer last week. Yeah, those are

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00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:10,120
Speaker 1: all like tight window throws. I think it's about as

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00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:11,759
Speaker 1: exciting as he could have been. Yeah, if you if

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Speaker 1: you're just looking at the box score, like, oh, he

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00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 1: had an interception that was not his fault at all,

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Speaker 1: and he had this incredible touchdown passed to George Kettle

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Speaker 1: at the end of the game that got pulled away

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00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:21,280
Speaker 1: by flag. It would have been one of the highlights

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Speaker 1: of the week. The throw was beautiful the catch was great.

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Speaker 1: I think there's like the skepticism on him also extended to, okay,

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Speaker 1: that's great he learned at the knee of Tom Brady.

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00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 1: He was there with Belichick and McDaniels. But does that

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00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:36,440
Speaker 1: really translate? And tangibly it translated to the game winning

794
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 1: drive and he credited what he learned from Brady Brady

795
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Speaker 1: is the greatest one minute real quarterback in NFL hit.

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00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:44,600
Speaker 1: Even just the fact they started the game in no huddle.

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00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 1: I mean to me, that just says he's got some

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00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:49,399
Speaker 1: of the parts of the quarterback position which are are

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Speaker 1: the toughest right off the gate. Moving on a big

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Speaker 1: matchup in the a f C West, the six and

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Speaker 1: six Oakland Raiders, who have won two straight UH to

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Speaker 1: get themselves back in the mix. How why are they

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Speaker 1: back in the mix? Because the Chiefs can't stop losing.

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Speaker 1: Riding now a four game losing streaks, UH six of

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Speaker 1: seven overall after that bitter loss at the meadow Lands

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Speaker 1: to the Jets. They won't have Marcus Peters in this game,

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Speaker 1: by the way, the cornerback who fired the penalty flag

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Speaker 1: into the crowd and then went in the locker room,

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Speaker 1: even though he wasn't ejected and then ran back on

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Speaker 1: the field and he wasn't wearing socks anymore, which I

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Speaker 1: still think is my one of my favorite moments of

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Speaker 1: the season. The Chiefs suspended him, not the league. The

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Speaker 1: Chiefs did, so he won't be in this game. Feels

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Speaker 1: like it all sets up for a nice game for

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Speaker 1: Derek car Greg, especially if Marie Cooper's in the mix.

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00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:41,960
Speaker 1: It should Amari Cooper did not practice on Thursday. He

817
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:45,960
Speaker 1: will get Michael Crabtree back back. But Cooper, who passed

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00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:48,640
Speaker 1: the concussion protocol, still dealing with an ankle injury, so

819
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Speaker 1: that's a problem. But everyone throws on the Chiefs, and

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Speaker 1: everyone throws on the Chiefs with Marcus Peters in in

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Speaker 1: the lineup, so you better be able to throw on

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs, uh this week. And I think you're starting

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Speaker 1: to see a little bit of an offensive identity with

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Speaker 1: Marshaw Lynch, who's run better for sure, ever since he

825
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:09,680
Speaker 1: had that suspension. I think he's run really well. This

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Speaker 1: is the game. I'm gonna be curious to see how

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Speaker 1: the Raiders defense looks since they made the change to

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Speaker 1: John Pagano, They've had their best two defensive performances probably

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Speaker 1: of the year against two really terrible offenses, so it

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00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:23,239
Speaker 1: hasn't been a great test. But John Pagano is a

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Speaker 1: guy who's very experience, has had some good runs as

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Speaker 1: a defensive coordinator in San Diego, and maybe his upgrade

833
00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:32,440
Speaker 1: from Ken Norton is enough to at least make this

834
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Speaker 1: team respectable. Maybe they have one of the worst past

835
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:38,239
Speaker 1: defenses in NFL history, right and then then, but they've

836
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Speaker 1: played fine the last two weeks against terrible teams, and

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00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:42,959
Speaker 1: so it's stuff to tell. But they were a team

838
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:45,960
Speaker 1: that was making everyone look good. I thought I was

839
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 1: going to be more impressed with the Chiefs offense after

840
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:50,600
Speaker 1: watching the Jets game, but it was really just five

841
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:53,960
Speaker 1: or six big plays and no sustaining element whatsoever in

842
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:56,560
Speaker 1: that offense. If they don't hit those big plays and

843
00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:59,279
Speaker 1: you can't rely on hitting them, what what do they

844
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:01,399
Speaker 1: hang their don't on off That's what they were early

845
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:04,280
Speaker 1: in the season. The Andy Reid firing himself kind of worked,

846
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:06,879
Speaker 1: though the second he fired himself they went nuts. It's

847
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:15,839
Speaker 1: the most depressing division in football, and I the fun

848
00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:18,279
Speaker 1: team is the Chargers. I I don't there's nothing fun

849
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:20,880
Speaker 1: in in my book about the idea that this Raiders

850
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 1: team is going to be in the playoffs, and and frankly,

851
00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:26,840
Speaker 1: there's something even worse about the fact that the Chiefs

852
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:30,440
Speaker 1: who who mystified us for five weeks with this reborn

853
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:33,279
Speaker 1: attack and this newfound confidence, are back where they are

854
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:35,680
Speaker 1: at six and six. You're probably gonna sneak into this

855
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:37,839
Speaker 1: a f C West Division title. If you don't get

856
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:40,360
Speaker 1: nit by someone else, you're gonna bumped in the playoffs.

857
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:43,440
Speaker 1: Is one of the most tedious repeating storylines, and they

858
00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:45,320
Speaker 1: have the past five or six years, and I'm tired

859
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:50,040
Speaker 1: to do it though. Yeah, is gonna win the division,

860
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 1: all right? So what are you worrying about the fact

861
00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 1: that we're excited about this game? Rappy teams, This is

862
00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:58,200
Speaker 1: maybe the game I would say the game of the

863
00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:02,120
Speaker 1: year when these two teams played, I wasn't the most important,

864
00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:04,200
Speaker 1: you know, impact on the season, but the game of

865
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:05,839
Speaker 1: the year. We have the welve games of the year

866
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 1: by now, that was not the game. That's number one

867
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:11,359
Speaker 1: to me, and it stayed there and then and last

868
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:15,520
Speaker 1: year they played great games. These are not too great teams,

869
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:18,200
Speaker 1: but there are two desperate teams, two teams fighting for

870
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:21,239
Speaker 1: a playoff spot the two old rivals. Give me the game.

871
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 1: I want the game. Mark you hate the game. It's happening.

872
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 1: You can expert experience. It happened to their defensive line

873
00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:31,880
Speaker 1: like it used to be a good group. It's mostly

874
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:34,400
Speaker 1: the same players and they're just kind of get pushed around.

875
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:36,239
Speaker 1: What happened to Kareem Hunt by the way, I had

876
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:39,480
Speaker 1: actually watching the game last week against the Jets. He

877
00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 1: had a big reception to keep it drive going late

878
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:44,759
Speaker 1: in the game. Uh, And I had forgotten that he

879
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:46,840
Speaker 1: was even involved with the game or it was a

880
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:48,480
Speaker 1: member of the Chiefs. This is a guy that was

881
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:51,600
Speaker 1: still one of the NFL starts from scrimmage. He's third.

882
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:53,879
Speaker 1: If you looked at his numbers, you would say that's

883
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 1: your rookie of the year because his his per carry,

884
00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:59,239
Speaker 1: per catch, total numbers. I don't think he is the

885
00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:01,520
Speaker 1: rookie of the year. I think it's Alvin Kamara, but

886
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:03,880
Speaker 1: I think it's the offensive. It's all before the leaves

887
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:06,319
Speaker 1: came off the trees. Though, well, if if you like

888
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:09,360
Speaker 1: it struck me the difference between the Jets run blocking

889
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:12,560
Speaker 1: in the Chiefs run blocking last week, Blow Pal and

890
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:15,480
Speaker 1: Matt Porte we're running through bigger holes. Let's move on

891
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:20,680
Speaker 1: to the NFC East, where the Cowboys are six and six,

892
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:24,640
Speaker 1: a huge win last Thursday against the Redskins to kind

893
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:26,879
Speaker 1: of get their feet under them after a three game

894
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:29,320
Speaker 1: losing streak. Now they travel to the meadow Lands to

895
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:32,520
Speaker 1: face the Giants. Gino Smith, of course, as we know,

896
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:36,279
Speaker 1: is back in the lineup and Mark, let's start with

897
00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:39,920
Speaker 1: this one person that what did I say? You know,

898
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:43,279
Speaker 1: I mean, it's tough. You're hoping it's tough to get

899
00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:46,400
Speaker 1: a legend like Gino out of your mind, because when

900
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:49,200
Speaker 1: you think New York Giants football, you think Genus. By

901
00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:51,960
Speaker 1: the way that Geno has made headlines twice since Sunday,

902
00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:55,239
Speaker 1: shocking once for calling Rex Ryan a coward like right

903
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:59,120
Speaker 1: after the game, after his performance on Sunday, and then

904
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:02,440
Speaker 1: yesterday that he was miffed and upset that he had

905
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:05,920
Speaker 1: been removed from his starting role. Sit down, be humble

906
00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:09,960
Speaker 1: for one lucky you're getting a paycheck. Example of why

907
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:12,040
Speaker 1: he gets picked on, because if you heard what he said,

908
00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:14,920
Speaker 1: he says, of course, as a competitor, I was upset,

909
00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:17,840
Speaker 1: but I totally support the decision and like I respect

910
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:21,080
Speaker 1: What about what about the Rex Ryan poward thing that

911
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:24,400
Speaker 1: was unnecessary. I'm just saying this is true. If it

912
00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:26,480
Speaker 1: was anyone else, we wouldn't care. You are a pr

913
00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:30,279
Speaker 1: mouthpiece for the biggest incomp in football. Rex Ryan is

914
00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:33,879
Speaker 1: a coward alright conduct you know, just because we went

915
00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:37,600
Speaker 1: into the Foxborough in January two thou eleven and shock

916
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:40,040
Speaker 1: the world, everybody's gonna be still hanging that on Rex.

917
00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:43,120
Speaker 1: Every everybody's gonna be shocked nextic and nobody signs Gino

918
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:46,239
Speaker 1: And it's because of this stuff. Yeah, let's get back

919
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:50,239
Speaker 1: on track here. Eli Manning's the quarterback. What I was

920
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:54,120
Speaker 1: gonna say Mark was um Alviren Morris has been pretty

921
00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:57,319
Speaker 1: damn good as the running back of the Cowboys. He's

922
00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:00,200
Speaker 1: got a couple more games in that role. Uh are

923
00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:02,080
Speaker 1: You're feeling much better about them though? They are the

924
00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:04,759
Speaker 1: best game on the ground last week, and they, I

925
00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:07,520
Speaker 1: mean the Redskins to me feel like a completely different

926
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:09,920
Speaker 1: operation from week to weeks. So I don't know always

927
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:12,279
Speaker 1: what to make of the results against that team, but

928
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:15,759
Speaker 1: Dallas seemingly figured out their issues in that game. At

929
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:17,920
Speaker 1: least it's a team that knows the well. The Giants

930
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:19,839
Speaker 1: too too. Let me ask you a question. I know

931
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:23,760
Speaker 1: this is absurd. The Giants are allowing four hundred yards

932
00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:27,320
Speaker 1: per game on defense, the defense of last year. But

933
00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:30,719
Speaker 1: they're down some guys, I get it. You've made the

934
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:34,480
Speaker 1: coaching switch, you're at home. You've got Eli Manning for

935
00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:37,800
Speaker 1: all his flaws and virtues back on the field. This

936
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:40,719
Speaker 1: Giants fan has something, This Giants fan group has something

937
00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:45,040
Speaker 1: to believe in, reason to believe that this is a

938
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:48,560
Speaker 1: little bit of a trap game for the Cowboys. Cowboys

939
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:51,399
Speaker 1: to me, that was they can win games if their

940
00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:54,000
Speaker 1: offensive line just wins games for them. But I don't

941
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:56,680
Speaker 1: think they're that much better than the Giants. I mean

942
00:46:56,760 --> 00:46:59,000
Speaker 1: as a as an overall team right now, without dec

943
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:01,880
Speaker 1: I mean, they're they're middle of the road team. The

944
00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:03,520
Speaker 1: Giants are a little unlucky to be two and time.

945
00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:05,319
Speaker 1: They're bad. They're a bad team. But I don't think

946
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:07,400
Speaker 1: the Giants should be heavy underdogs in this game, and

947
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:12,000
Speaker 1: I don't think they are. Greg that said, yeah, that's true.

948
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:16,040
Speaker 1: The Cowboys should win the game, though, your seasons on

949
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:18,160
Speaker 1: the line. What is New York playing for other than

950
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:20,719
Speaker 1: all this sort of you know, ephemeral nonsense in the

951
00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:22,640
Speaker 1: air about trying to have some sort of nice end

952
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:26,640
Speaker 1: of your season. I'm wondering if the you know, they

953
00:47:26,719 --> 00:47:29,200
Speaker 1: felt like they found something in the secondary the Cowboys.

954
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:32,480
Speaker 1: So if that's a trend that a wooz A and Frasier,

955
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:34,960
Speaker 1: these two rookies who played really well on Thursday night,

956
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:37,600
Speaker 1: if that becomes like a weekly occurrence, that that could

957
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:40,799
Speaker 1: be something, especially going up against the Evan Ingram. I mean,

958
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:43,560
Speaker 1: that's the thing. The next look. I love Evan Ingram,

959
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:45,920
Speaker 1: and I love Sterling Shepard, and of course I love

960
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:48,360
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham. Was like, whoever it's going to be quarterback

961
00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:50,160
Speaker 1: and coaching this team next year, You've got some you

962
00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:52,080
Speaker 1: got some great weapons to play with, Mark, I don't

963
00:47:52,080 --> 00:47:53,480
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be like man, I think this is

964
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 1: the last couple of games of Eli. Marcus Lawrence could

965
00:47:56,160 --> 00:47:59,279
Speaker 1: blow this game up by the way um as he's

966
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 1: been doing all season. Moving on, excuse me. The Detroit

967
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:09,560
Speaker 1: Lions six and six? Oh no again the lines you get,

968
00:48:09,719 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 1: Oh you start to believe in the Lions and then

969
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:14,120
Speaker 1: they lose two games. They're back to six and six.

970
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:17,240
Speaker 1: They got Matt Stafford practice today. He's got the bad hand.

971
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:19,840
Speaker 1: You could expect him to be on the field, be

972
00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:22,160
Speaker 1: surprised if he isn't. And they go to Tampa and

973
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:25,400
Speaker 1: this seems was like a great matchup. If Stafford can

974
00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:26,960
Speaker 1: throw the ball, if you grip the ball and do

975
00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:29,799
Speaker 1: math Stafford throwing things, He's probably gonna have a nice

976
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:32,360
Speaker 1: day against this Tampa Bay defense. Oh you meant great

977
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:36,440
Speaker 1: matchup as in as in for him to succeed, for

978
00:48:36,640 --> 00:48:39,280
Speaker 1: to keep their playoff recipe for success facing the Tampa

979
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:42,200
Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers. Certainly like this is an exciting matchup. I

980
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:45,319
Speaker 1: like that a f C West of crap fest. This

981
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:48,720
Speaker 1: one cannot get the glorious sunlight at that hideous stadium

982
00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:51,920
Speaker 1: down in Tampa Bay. Sit back and enjoy this well

983
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:55,760
Speaker 1: oiled matchup. How many games in the last two years

984
00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:58,799
Speaker 1: well oiled match up? Does the Lions offense moved the

985
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:02,879
Speaker 1: ball before garbage time or before the fourth quarters when

986
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:06,360
Speaker 1: they go no huddle and Stafford goes hurry up. I

987
00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:09,160
Speaker 1: just don't trust this offense in the first three quarters

988
00:49:09,160 --> 00:49:12,000
Speaker 1: of any game, and I don't trust this defense in

989
00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:15,480
Speaker 1: all four quarters. I mean, they have made Joe Flacco,

990
00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:18,239
Speaker 1: they have, really Joe Flacco was reborn when he played

991
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:20,480
Speaker 1: the Lions. Although a lot of them were great throws

992
00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:23,320
Speaker 1: to his credit. Mitchell Trabsky had his best game against

993
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:26,080
Speaker 1: the Lions. Deshan Kaiser had basically his best game against

994
00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:27,920
Speaker 1: the Lions. It's one of the worst defense in the league.

995
00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:30,319
Speaker 1: All they really have is Stafford in the passing game,

996
00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:32,359
Speaker 1: because we know they can't run the ball. There four

997
00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:34,960
Speaker 1: of twelve on third and one this year, which is

998
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:38,200
Speaker 1: an insane stat. It's just that that to me tells

999
00:49:38,239 --> 00:49:41,279
Speaker 1: you so much about their team. It's all Stafford carrying them,

1000
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:42,959
Speaker 1: and I kind of feel like their season is gonna

1001
00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:45,759
Speaker 1: end here in Tampa just for the just for like

1002
00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:47,840
Speaker 1: the law of averages that, why don't you lock it

1003
00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:51,799
Speaker 1: up through it? I'm not gonna lock it up. Why

1004
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:53,200
Speaker 1: don't you do like a soft lock where you just

1005
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:56,600
Speaker 1: pick a chair behind the door. My locks are the

1006
00:49:56,600 --> 00:50:01,080
Speaker 1: door opens from the other way to have I I

1007
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:03,080
Speaker 1: kind of don't see that happening pre Detroit. I think

1008
00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:04,920
Speaker 1: they're gonna take care of business here. They still have

1009
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:08,040
Speaker 1: the Bears and Bengals after this. In theory, they could

1010
00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:09,640
Speaker 1: go on a little bit of a run. And if

1011
00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:12,239
Speaker 1: we don't like Detroit's defense, I don't know what to

1012
00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:15,080
Speaker 1: like about Tampa Bays They're an absolute sieve through the air.

1013
00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:18,319
Speaker 1: They can't rush the past. After losing Noah Spense, there's

1014
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:21,920
Speaker 1: zero pass rush there, and you're you're basically going to

1015
00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:24,440
Speaker 1: get two or three plays a game from Jamis Winston

1016
00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:27,319
Speaker 1: that are going to undermine the offense as well at

1017
00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:30,000
Speaker 1: this point. So I don't know, I mean the buck

1018
00:50:30,080 --> 00:50:32,479
Speaker 1: at least the Lions. You get Marvin Jones going. Maybe

1019
00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:34,000
Speaker 1: it's late in the game, like you're saying, West, I

1020
00:50:34,040 --> 00:50:37,840
Speaker 1: just see them taking is an idiot. Well, I don't know.

1021
00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:40,160
Speaker 1: If he bucks the talk of another sound drop, we're

1022
00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:41,520
Speaker 1: gonna lose in a couple of weeks. One of the

1023
00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:45,000
Speaker 1: more surprisingly poor players this year has been Doug Martin.

1024
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:46,920
Speaker 1: I've been really surprised to how he has not kind

1025
00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:48,799
Speaker 1: of come through for them. They were a lot better

1026
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:52,279
Speaker 1: off last week without him with with Peyton Barbara and

1027
00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:54,600
Speaker 1: Martin will be back this week. I wonder if they'll

1028
00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:56,320
Speaker 1: even get to start for the team anymore. It's a

1029
00:50:56,360 --> 00:51:00,680
Speaker 1: good question what's his future there. And Glover quin because

1030
00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:02,479
Speaker 1: he's one of the higher paid running backs in the league.

1031
00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:04,880
Speaker 1: I don't think well Over Quinn, you can be smirched

1032
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:06,960
Speaker 1: the lines, that's all you want but he's having an

1033
00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:11,960
Speaker 1: all pro year. Yet moving on the Tennessee Tight Tunes, Uh,

1034
00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:15,720
Speaker 1: how about this? How about this? They've won six of seven,

1035
00:51:16,280 --> 00:51:19,000
Speaker 1: they're eight and four. I'm not blown anybody away, but

1036
00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:20,839
Speaker 1: eight and four is eight and four is eight and four,

1037
00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:23,120
Speaker 1: and that's tied for first in the a f C South.

1038
00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:26,200
Speaker 1: And now they travel to Arizona to face the five

1039
00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:30,680
Speaker 1: and seven Cardinals, who, um, you know, kind of ran

1040
00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:33,720
Speaker 1: out of juice it seemed, uh in a thirty sixteen

1041
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:37,000
Speaker 1: loss to the Rams last week. Your thoughts on this matchup,

1042
00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:40,600
Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal. I just want to see the Titans passing

1043
00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:43,640
Speaker 1: game not be so limited. But it is like that

1044
00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:48,320
Speaker 1: we're into week fourteen and they really haven't integrated Corey Davis,

1045
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:52,600
Speaker 1: their rookie. They really haven't consistently had Taywan Taylor Eric Decker, right,

1046
00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:55,040
Speaker 1: I think it's safe to say either they're not using

1047
00:51:55,120 --> 00:51:57,239
Speaker 1: him well or he's kind of been a disappointment for them.

1048
00:51:57,400 --> 00:51:59,600
Speaker 1: John who Smith, their rookie. Titans kind of come and go.

1049
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:01,719
Speaker 1: Like when they lost for Shard Matthews last week, it

1050
00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:03,200
Speaker 1: was like they didn't know what to do, and they're

1051
00:52:03,239 --> 00:52:06,520
Speaker 1: probably without Delaney Walker this week. It sounds like Matthews

1052
00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:09,799
Speaker 1: will be back Walkers out and it's just I don't know.

1053
00:52:09,840 --> 00:52:11,960
Speaker 1: It's like the league kind of figured out what they

1054
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:15,000
Speaker 1: were doing last year and Malarkey doesn't have a move

1055
00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:18,000
Speaker 1: to pivot to. I'm gonna dann I'm gonna throw the

1056
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:20,239
Speaker 1: Titans a bone, Okay, do it? I feel like we

1057
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:22,920
Speaker 1: picked on them quite a bit. Three things, DeMarco Murray

1058
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:27,000
Speaker 1: looked much better. Uh. Delaney Walker one of the best

1059
00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:29,719
Speaker 1: free agent signings of the past decade in an absolute

1060
00:52:29,719 --> 00:52:31,520
Speaker 1: pro bowler. He was complaining this week that he doesn't

1061
00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:34,960
Speaker 1: give enough credit. He absolutely should get credit. And the

1062
00:52:35,080 --> 00:52:38,880
Speaker 1: third thing, Marcus Mariota has made strides in some specific areas.

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00:52:39,120 --> 00:52:41,320
Speaker 1: He has been a really good two minute drill quarterback

1064
00:52:41,360 --> 00:52:42,840
Speaker 1: this year, which is a very important part of the

1065
00:52:42,920 --> 00:52:45,759
Speaker 1: quarterback joy. They have I think four or five fourth

1066
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:48,080
Speaker 1: quarter comebacks. He leads the NFL in it. And he

1067
00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:50,640
Speaker 1: played one of his best games of the season last week.

1068
00:52:50,680 --> 00:52:54,120
Speaker 1: It was totally clean, ran very well. He did his

1069
00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:57,359
Speaker 1: job totally a week ago. So hopefully he can keep

1070
00:52:57,400 --> 00:53:00,320
Speaker 1: that going. You know, if we're throwing the tytoons, some owns,

1071
00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:06,399
Speaker 1: you know, they want six out of seven every time.

1072
00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:09,720
Speaker 1: Delaney Walker makes a play. My son, also named Walker,

1073
00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:12,560
Speaker 1: just hears it and goes Walker. You know, he's all

1074
00:53:12,640 --> 00:53:14,960
Speaker 1: very excited. So that you're playing Titans film on a

1075
00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:17,640
Speaker 1: loop in your house, I think that that's reason for concern.

1076
00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:19,759
Speaker 1: The one thing about the Cardinals, they couldn't do much

1077
00:53:19,760 --> 00:53:21,799
Speaker 1: against the Rams. I'm not in love with playing Gabber,

1078
00:53:21,840 --> 00:53:24,839
Speaker 1: but Kerwin Williams and the way they ran that was

1079
00:53:25,080 --> 00:53:28,120
Speaker 1: quite a show. I mean it is running through gaping hole. Absolutely,

1080
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:29,880
Speaker 1: they shut it down in the second half to some degree.

1081
00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:32,600
Speaker 1: But I just don't with blame Gabbert. I don't get

1082
00:53:32,640 --> 00:53:34,319
Speaker 1: it with this idea that he's going to be signed

1083
00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:36,640
Speaker 1: as a starter somewhere unless he's got a lot around

1084
00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:39,319
Speaker 1: him and like essentially that ground game, what is he

1085
00:53:39,360 --> 00:53:43,000
Speaker 1: going to do besides give you athletic mobile quarterback play himself.

1086
00:53:43,040 --> 00:53:46,040
Speaker 1: I don't he's good enough to get you fired or justice. Yeah,

1087
00:53:46,040 --> 00:53:47,799
Speaker 1: I just I don't know what the It's not a

1088
00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:51,399
Speaker 1: long term planed guy. Titans run defense has been stonewalling

1089
00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:54,160
Speaker 1: teams too, so that that has been an improved run defense.

1090
00:53:54,320 --> 00:53:58,879
Speaker 1: And one last note, Laray Fitzgerald uh with twenty six

1091
00:53:58,880 --> 00:54:02,720
Speaker 1: receiving yards will passed Randy Moss for third all time

1092
00:54:03,160 --> 00:54:06,439
Speaker 1: in most receiving yards, and he's ten catches away from

1093
00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:11,040
Speaker 1: becoming the third player in NFL history catches. He's again

1094
00:54:11,120 --> 00:54:13,359
Speaker 1: on pace for about a hundred catches this year and

1095
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:16,440
Speaker 1: what's been a limited offense with quarterback issues, He's pretty amazing.

1096
00:54:16,520 --> 00:54:18,799
Speaker 1: John Brown and J. J. Nelson don't combine for the

1097
00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:21,640
Speaker 1: production that Larry Fitzgerald has had this year. He's on

1098
00:54:21,719 --> 00:54:24,520
Speaker 1: my mont Mount rushmore of players I've enjoyed watching in

1099
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:28,480
Speaker 1: my life. Um moving on the five and seven New

1100
00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:31,239
Speaker 1: York Jets. They took out the Kansas City Chiefs at home.

1101
00:54:31,560 --> 00:54:34,200
Speaker 1: Now they hit the road. Oh my goodness, here it

1102
00:54:34,239 --> 00:54:37,960
Speaker 1: comes a Rocky Mountain avalanche. But guess what the avalanche

1103
00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:40,640
Speaker 1: has been coming down on the Broncos, who are in

1104
00:54:40,719 --> 00:54:47,000
Speaker 1: an absolute tailspin. Dude, three, four, five, six, seven, eight

1105
00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:50,160
Speaker 1: losses nine out of ten. So the Jets at five

1106
00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:52,320
Speaker 1: and seven have a chance to get to six and

1107
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:57,239
Speaker 1: seven with a win. Uh mark uh? Denver are they

1108
00:54:57,239 --> 00:54:59,400
Speaker 1: gonna end their streak and end the Jets hopes of

1109
00:54:59,680 --> 00:55:03,160
Speaker 1: a mo oraculous playoff run? This game shows me how

1110
00:55:03,280 --> 00:55:05,600
Speaker 1: much things can change if teams like the Chiefs. To

1111
00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:08,239
Speaker 1: me feel like the same thing over and over. This

1112
00:55:08,280 --> 00:55:10,360
Speaker 1: game is between a team that, to me and the

1113
00:55:10,360 --> 00:55:12,840
Speaker 1: Broncos in September, I thought, after they beat the Cowboys

1114
00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:14,719
Speaker 1: looked like one of the more complete teams in the

1115
00:55:14,719 --> 00:55:17,520
Speaker 1: a f C. And everyone had the Jets back then

1116
00:55:17,560 --> 00:55:20,080
Speaker 1: ticketed for one in fifteen, and here we are, We're

1117
00:55:20,080 --> 00:55:22,920
Speaker 1: c J. Anderson is saying, at this point, this is

1118
00:55:22,920 --> 00:55:25,439
Speaker 1: their super Bowl, this is their playoff game. They want

1119
00:55:25,440 --> 00:55:27,759
Speaker 1: to win this to feel what it feels like to

1120
00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:31,399
Speaker 1: win again in Denver. And we talked about talking about

1121
00:55:32,040 --> 00:55:33,759
Speaker 1: That's what he said, And it tells me like this

1122
00:55:33,800 --> 00:55:41,520
Speaker 1: is about talking about I just think it's expectations can

1123
00:55:41,680 --> 00:55:45,120
Speaker 1: so quickly change. And a guy like John Elway, who

1124
00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:48,960
Speaker 1: I think we were comparing to adequately to Ozzie Newsome

1125
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:52,200
Speaker 1: as the best former player to turn GM in the NFL,

1126
00:55:52,320 --> 00:55:55,360
Speaker 1: and now he's under fire. I think the coach we

1127
00:55:55,400 --> 00:55:57,560
Speaker 1: brought up as a potential hot button if they lose

1128
00:55:57,640 --> 00:55:59,400
Speaker 1: this game, I think they're gonna get whacked by the

1129
00:55:59,440 --> 00:56:01,759
Speaker 1: Jets in this game. I think maybe you have to

1130
00:56:01,760 --> 00:56:04,799
Speaker 1: wonder about bands Joseph, because things have fallen apart so

1131
00:56:04,880 --> 00:56:07,840
Speaker 1: steeply that Elwe now is saying he's embarrassed by the season.

1132
00:56:08,560 --> 00:56:10,279
Speaker 1: There's a lot going on here. This is a good

1133
00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:13,040
Speaker 1: spot for the Jets. I mean, going on the road

1134
00:56:13,080 --> 00:56:16,040
Speaker 1: in Denver, I don't care as a Jets fan, I'm like,

1135
00:56:16,160 --> 00:56:19,080
Speaker 1: not overly confident in the game. But at the same time,

1136
00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:24,040
Speaker 1: they're playing really well on offense right now, and knowing

1137
00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:29,399
Speaker 1: that Denver struggled so much, um moving the ball as

1138
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:31,440
Speaker 1: bad as the Jets secondary looked against the Chiefs, I

1139
00:56:31,440 --> 00:56:33,680
Speaker 1: do think at this point and great. We talked about

1140
00:56:33,680 --> 00:56:37,560
Speaker 1: a little bit on our slack client yesterday how Josh

1141
00:56:37,640 --> 00:56:40,080
Speaker 1: McCown is is playing so well. He's just he's just

1142
00:56:40,200 --> 00:56:43,600
Speaker 1: like feeling himself right now and making good decisions. And

1143
00:56:43,719 --> 00:56:46,319
Speaker 1: every week he's putting the Jets in position to win

1144
00:56:46,360 --> 00:56:50,160
Speaker 1: games because they're scoring twenty to thirty points typically. Uh,

1145
00:56:50,200 --> 00:56:52,680
Speaker 1: and that's more than you could have expected in August.

1146
00:56:53,360 --> 00:56:56,080
Speaker 1: It's amazing. This is gonna be his best complete season

1147
00:56:56,120 --> 00:56:59,239
Speaker 1: as an NFL quarterback, assuming he gets through it all

1148
00:56:59,280 --> 00:57:02,239
Speaker 1: at thirty years old. You know he's feeling it because

1149
00:57:02,280 --> 00:57:04,839
Speaker 1: my favorite play every week is the play where he's

1150
00:57:04,840 --> 00:57:06,759
Speaker 1: pointing at his receivers to go. I mean, that's the

1151
00:57:06,880 --> 00:57:08,920
Speaker 1: Dash McCown move. I love that move. He's been doing

1152
00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:11,320
Speaker 1: it for fourteen years, kind of just run around pointing

1153
00:57:11,360 --> 00:57:13,680
Speaker 1: for them where to go, and it's all working this

1154
00:57:13,719 --> 00:57:16,360
Speaker 1: week this year. It's a shame Robby Anderson tweaked his

1155
00:57:16,440 --> 00:57:20,680
Speaker 1: hamstring in practice this week because the game that he

1156
00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:22,880
Speaker 1: and Jermaine Curse played last week I thought was one

1157
00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:25,840
Speaker 1: of the best games by a wide receiver duo all year,

1158
00:57:25,920 --> 00:57:28,720
Speaker 1: by any wide receiver duel and maccown played well too,

1159
00:57:28,720 --> 00:57:31,840
Speaker 1: But the Jets are one of the most fun versions

1160
00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:35,320
Speaker 1: of the Jets that I've seen in many years. Um yeah,

1161
00:57:35,400 --> 00:57:37,800
Speaker 1: Jermaine Curs, who, by the way, as a reminder, was

1162
00:57:37,800 --> 00:57:40,440
Speaker 1: a throw in than the Sheldon Richardson deal. So they

1163
00:57:40,480 --> 00:57:43,120
Speaker 1: also have the second round pick, and Anderson has emerged

1164
00:57:43,160 --> 00:57:47,000
Speaker 1: as kind of a real playmaker. He has seven touchdowns

1165
00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:49,520
Speaker 1: this year now, that's six in the league and over

1166
00:57:49,560 --> 00:57:54,120
Speaker 1: the past um since Week twelve, UH, Curse and Anderson

1167
00:57:54,400 --> 00:57:57,680
Speaker 1: are in the top five and receiving UH. Anderson on

1168
00:57:57,720 --> 00:58:00,800
Speaker 1: pace for eleven hundred yards this season, Curse on page

1169
00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:02,760
Speaker 1: pace for nine hund yards. They've had a really nice

1170
00:58:02,760 --> 00:58:04,840
Speaker 1: season as a pair. They've had back to back one

1171
00:58:05,240 --> 00:58:07,160
Speaker 1: yard yard games both of them. It's the first time

1172
00:58:07,160 --> 00:58:09,560
Speaker 1: that's happened for the Jets. This is a statement how

1173
00:58:09,600 --> 00:58:12,080
Speaker 1: tough it's been for Jets fans in fifty years since

1174
00:58:12,160 --> 00:58:15,040
Speaker 1: Don Maynard and George Sour did it in nine seven.

1175
00:58:15,200 --> 00:58:17,479
Speaker 1: I brought up that factoid on Tuesday, but you brought

1176
00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:21,360
Speaker 1: the Maynard well Maynard uh Sour angle to it, so

1177
00:58:21,480 --> 00:58:25,800
Speaker 1: you didn't completely waste our time read up. You know,

1178
00:58:25,880 --> 00:58:28,240
Speaker 1: you try to say something nice about the Jets, and

1179
00:58:28,280 --> 00:58:31,880
Speaker 1: this is what happens. Read up on George Sour listeners

1180
00:58:31,920 --> 00:58:34,320
Speaker 1: out there, one of the most fascinating football players ever.

1181
00:58:35,080 --> 00:58:37,080
Speaker 1: Oh and by the way, I had all this season,

1182
00:58:37,160 --> 00:58:40,520
Speaker 1: mark to your to your credit, no, don't you be

1183
00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:42,959
Speaker 1: smirched a Jets legend just because we don't have any.

1184
00:58:43,240 --> 00:58:45,400
Speaker 1: I was saying, good Sour, Poppet. You know, it's just

1185
00:58:46,080 --> 00:58:48,680
Speaker 1: it's just not probably ever gonna happen again. They probably

1186
00:58:49,320 --> 00:58:53,520
Speaker 1: seconds sour um Mark. All season, you have been saying

1187
00:58:53,520 --> 00:58:56,440
Speaker 1: how you've enjoyed the Jets, and I've been trying to

1188
00:58:56,560 --> 00:58:59,439
Speaker 1: distance myself. And you know, I'm still trying to keep

1189
00:58:59,440 --> 00:59:01,880
Speaker 1: my head uh from getting too in the clouds on

1190
00:59:02,360 --> 00:59:03,960
Speaker 1: them making a playoff him. But at the same time,

1191
00:59:04,120 --> 00:59:05,920
Speaker 1: I haven't really gone it all in on him at

1192
00:59:05,920 --> 00:59:07,600
Speaker 1: all at all this season, at any point in terms,

1193
00:59:07,640 --> 00:59:11,280
Speaker 1: at least in this podcast studio. Screw that. You know what.

1194
00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:13,919
Speaker 1: The New York Jets, they need to win a bunch

1195
00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:17,640
Speaker 1: of games, to win every game they get to January.

1196
00:59:17,760 --> 00:59:19,680
Speaker 1: And I don't know if that's gonna happen. Probably not,

1197
00:59:19,760 --> 00:59:21,560
Speaker 1: but I'll tell you what they are gonna win. They're

1198
00:59:21,560 --> 00:59:25,000
Speaker 1: gonna win on Sunday, the Rocky Mountain Avalanche. Here comes

1199
00:59:25,000 --> 00:59:32,480
Speaker 1: global Warming. Because I'm locking it up E T s

1200
00:59:32,640 --> 00:59:37,000
Speaker 1: Let's go, baby, can't wait? That spells certain doom for that.

1201
00:59:37,280 --> 00:59:39,880
Speaker 1: I like it. I like it. It's the right time

1202
00:59:39,960 --> 00:59:42,200
Speaker 1: for it. Let's do it. Come on, let's make this fun.

1203
00:59:42,200 --> 00:59:46,000
Speaker 1: They're playing the literal last ranked team in football outsiders

1204
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:48,080
Speaker 1: in the league. They can do it. That's something fun.

1205
00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:50,160
Speaker 1: The worst day has last thirty five to nine to

1206
00:59:50,240 --> 00:59:53,040
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. Let's get red Cess a little playoff push

1207
00:59:53,080 --> 00:59:55,360
Speaker 1: before he leaves the building at the f A N

1208
00:59:55,520 --> 01:00:00,000
Speaker 1: Let's go tell it from Mike Francisa, who says that, uh, finally,

1209
01:00:00,400 --> 01:00:03,240
Speaker 1: not finally, let's move on. The Washington Redskins five and

1210
01:00:03,360 --> 01:00:07,520
Speaker 1: seven season over um, most likely after that loss to

1211
01:00:07,560 --> 01:00:11,320
Speaker 1: the Cowboys last Thursday, they travel to Los Angeles to

1212
01:00:11,360 --> 01:00:15,840
Speaker 1: play at the Soccer Stadium the Chargers six and six West. Uh,

1213
01:00:15,880 --> 01:00:18,560
Speaker 1: the Chargers. Everybody pumped up? Is there any reason to

1214
01:00:18,600 --> 01:00:21,800
Speaker 1: have concerns about the Charger team this week? No, They're

1215
01:00:21,800 --> 01:00:24,200
Speaker 1: playing a team that is in absolute tatters because they

1216
01:00:24,240 --> 01:00:28,040
Speaker 1: lose important starters every week. The Redskins roster right now

1217
01:00:28,160 --> 01:00:30,560
Speaker 1: is not close to what it was in September and October.

1218
01:00:30,840 --> 01:00:35,560
Speaker 1: Their offensive line got pushed around and just thoroughly eviscerated

1219
01:00:35,560 --> 01:00:40,160
Speaker 1: by the Dallas Cowboys defensive line last week. And the

1220
01:00:40,440 --> 01:00:44,200
Speaker 1: ingram boasts of Chargers are are gonna toy with them

1221
01:00:44,240 --> 01:00:47,680
Speaker 1: this week, and I'm gonna have to lock this up.

1222
01:00:48,200 --> 01:00:50,480
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be too dramatic about it, but I

1223
01:00:50,520 --> 01:00:53,280
Speaker 1: allowed myself to imagine the Chargers with Justin Tucker and

1224
01:00:53,320 --> 01:00:56,120
Speaker 1: a semblance of a home field advantage, and the Patriots

1225
01:00:56,120 --> 01:00:58,520
Speaker 1: and Steelers would be afraid of this team. How many

1226
01:00:58,520 --> 01:01:01,720
Speaker 1: teams have a franchise quarterback, a well rounded running back,

1227
01:01:02,200 --> 01:01:05,560
Speaker 1: a Danny Woodhead like scat back, a legitimate number one

1228
01:01:05,560 --> 01:01:09,200
Speaker 1: receiver playmate, big play guys at wide receiver two and three,

1229
01:01:09,480 --> 01:01:12,400
Speaker 1: a top five tight ends five, the best pass rushing

1230
01:01:12,480 --> 01:01:15,520
Speaker 1: duo in the NFL and a top five secondary. This

1231
01:01:15,600 --> 01:01:18,080
Speaker 1: team is loaded and if it wasn't for bad luck

1232
01:01:18,080 --> 01:01:21,040
Speaker 1: and bad kicking earlier in the year, they'd be they'd

1233
01:01:21,080 --> 01:01:22,640
Speaker 1: be the talk of the a f C. Right now,

1234
01:01:22,720 --> 01:01:24,760
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a little worried. The one thing as a

1235
01:01:24,840 --> 01:01:28,640
Speaker 1: Chargers kind of back is that Anthony Lynn in a

1236
01:01:28,720 --> 01:01:31,520
Speaker 1: tight game, in a big spot. I feel like there's

1237
01:01:31,560 --> 01:01:33,360
Speaker 1: been a couple of moments here where I've were. You know,

1238
01:01:33,760 --> 01:01:36,560
Speaker 1: most of their wins have been comfortable for the most parts.

1239
01:01:36,600 --> 01:01:38,520
Speaker 1: I'd be a little worried about that in a playoff

1240
01:01:38,560 --> 01:01:40,760
Speaker 1: situation or maybe going down the stretch. But to give

1241
01:01:40,840 --> 01:01:43,560
Speaker 1: him credit, I think he had an epiphany, not maybe

1242
01:01:43,600 --> 01:01:48,080
Speaker 1: that different from Ron Rivera having that epiphany way back

1243
01:01:48,080 --> 01:01:51,120
Speaker 1: in the day. And his epiphany was this should be

1244
01:01:51,160 --> 01:01:54,160
Speaker 1: a passing team. This should be Philip Rivers team. I

1245
01:01:54,240 --> 01:01:56,600
Speaker 1: need to get out of my whole ground and pound.

1246
01:01:56,640 --> 01:01:59,000
Speaker 1: That's what I'm all about mindset. And the second he

1247
01:01:59,080 --> 01:02:01,080
Speaker 1: did that about four weeks ago. They have thrown the

1248
01:02:01,080 --> 01:02:03,880
Speaker 1: ball really well, and you saw late last week in

1249
01:02:03,920 --> 01:02:07,360
Speaker 1: the first half, Philip Rivers fumbles the ball with about

1250
01:02:07,360 --> 01:02:10,080
Speaker 1: a minute forty left. Could have totally turned the game

1251
01:02:10,080 --> 01:02:12,200
Speaker 1: in the first half. It's second and nineteen and I

1252
01:02:12,240 --> 01:02:14,400
Speaker 1: feel like at the beginning of the season, Lynn would

1253
01:02:14,440 --> 01:02:16,040
Speaker 1: have just run the ball there and gone into halftime.

1254
01:02:16,040 --> 01:02:17,480
Speaker 1: But you know what he let Rivers do is just

1255
01:02:17,520 --> 01:02:19,640
Speaker 1: go bomb it away because he's playing the Browns. They

1256
01:02:19,680 --> 01:02:22,480
Speaker 1: got points before halftime, and they've been really aggressive throwing

1257
01:02:22,480 --> 01:02:24,200
Speaker 1: the ball. I don't think the score of that Browns

1258
01:02:24,240 --> 01:02:27,480
Speaker 1: game could any in any way reveal how much they

1259
01:02:27,600 --> 01:02:30,360
Speaker 1: dominated for moments at a time. They just you saw

1260
01:02:30,520 --> 01:02:34,040
Speaker 1: a team with star players operating at star level against

1261
01:02:34,040 --> 01:02:36,000
Speaker 1: the team hoping they had that kind of a roster.

1262
01:02:36,400 --> 01:02:38,600
Speaker 1: You are gonna win this game because lest West just

1263
01:02:38,680 --> 01:02:41,919
Speaker 1: locked it up for you. If you're the Chargers, we'll

1264
01:02:41,920 --> 01:02:45,360
Speaker 1: see You have the Chiefs next week West of the

1265
01:02:45,400 --> 01:02:47,439
Speaker 1: four of US under five hundred this year, that could

1266
01:02:47,440 --> 01:02:48,840
Speaker 1: take care of the a f C. West. Then you

1267
01:02:48,880 --> 01:02:50,919
Speaker 1: have the Jets in the Raiders to close out the year.

1268
01:02:51,360 --> 01:02:53,600
Speaker 1: This team is going to get into the playoffs and

1269
01:02:53,600 --> 01:02:55,920
Speaker 1: they're gonna win a playoff game, and either the Patriots

1270
01:02:56,000 --> 01:02:58,000
Speaker 1: or the Steelers are gonna have to deal with this.

1271
01:02:58,120 --> 01:03:00,000
Speaker 1: No one's gonna want to. And if you go back,

1272
01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:03,640
Speaker 1: can watch that Chargers Patriots game score aside, that was

1273
01:03:03,680 --> 01:03:06,240
Speaker 1: one of the better performances by the Los Angeles defense

1274
01:03:06,280 --> 01:03:08,880
Speaker 1: this year. They got They put it to Brady for

1275
01:03:09,000 --> 01:03:10,640
Speaker 1: a long stretch of that game. I think this is

1276
01:03:10,640 --> 01:03:13,960
Speaker 1: a very interesting team. This win this game, take care

1277
01:03:13,960 --> 01:03:16,560
Speaker 1: of business. They will, because my my fears is just

1278
01:03:16,680 --> 01:03:18,760
Speaker 1: knowing Chargers history, is that they're gonna blow one of

1279
01:03:18,760 --> 01:03:20,960
Speaker 1: these games. I feel like this game could be one

1280
01:03:21,000 --> 01:03:23,680
Speaker 1: of those games because Kirk Cousins. I know he's playing

1281
01:03:23,720 --> 01:03:26,640
Speaker 1: behind an offensive line that's messed up, but I just

1282
01:03:26,840 --> 01:03:28,320
Speaker 1: I like him as a player West. You know, we've

1283
01:03:28,320 --> 01:03:31,200
Speaker 1: talked about how he's He's a guy that's making things happen.

1284
01:03:31,440 --> 01:03:33,080
Speaker 1: And they're a weird team. They're a weird team. You

1285
01:03:33,120 --> 01:03:34,760
Speaker 1: never know what you're gonna I think this is gonna

1286
01:03:34,800 --> 01:03:36,840
Speaker 1: be a game. I think this is and I think

1287
01:03:36,920 --> 01:03:38,880
Speaker 1: that if the Chargers can find a way in this game,

1288
01:03:38,960 --> 01:03:41,240
Speaker 1: I'm gonna feel a lot better about them because I do.

1289
01:03:41,280 --> 01:03:42,600
Speaker 1: I agree with you guys. I think they are the

1290
01:03:42,600 --> 01:03:44,840
Speaker 1: best team in the NFC West. But Charger is gonna

1291
01:03:44,920 --> 01:03:47,000
Speaker 1: charge her. That's all. That's my only concern right now.

1292
01:03:47,120 --> 01:03:51,640
Speaker 1: That's all. That's not the Bengals, but their records, their

1293
01:03:51,680 --> 01:03:53,840
Speaker 1: record in point games to side about eight points or

1294
01:03:53,920 --> 01:03:56,840
Speaker 1: less backs you up entirely. There's no team anywhere close

1295
01:03:56,880 --> 01:03:59,920
Speaker 1: to the to the heartache they felt. Never if you

1296
01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:05,040
Speaker 1: could find a Charger's fan Slater, I mean it's tough

1297
01:04:05,080 --> 01:04:07,280
Speaker 1: because they're up there at number one of the pain rankings.

1298
01:04:07,280 --> 01:04:10,520
Speaker 1: They got that number one pain ranking spots, and tell

1299
01:04:10,600 --> 01:04:14,000
Speaker 1: me if they've had a nice history faulton. We gotta

1300
01:04:14,080 --> 01:04:16,320
Speaker 1: get a C. Slater on the podcast to talk the

1301
01:04:16,400 --> 01:04:19,080
Speaker 1: charges that they make the playoffs. Let's get on the horn.

1302
01:04:19,200 --> 01:04:20,680
Speaker 1: I'm on top of it. I saw him the other

1303
01:04:20,760 --> 01:04:23,520
Speaker 1: day at raw. So what if we get what if

1304
01:04:23,520 --> 01:04:26,360
Speaker 1: we get Matt money Smith instead? You you would take

1305
01:04:26,400 --> 01:04:30,880
Speaker 1: money over Slater in any walk of life. All right,

1306
01:04:30,960 --> 01:04:34,600
Speaker 1: Moving on, Big game, big big, big, big game. Inter

1307
01:04:34,920 --> 01:04:41,520
Speaker 1: conference in inter non conference, non conference, non intro would

1308
01:04:41,520 --> 01:04:44,960
Speaker 1: be inside the conference in turn would be I think

1309
01:04:44,960 --> 01:04:49,320
Speaker 1: inter would be inside, the con intro is outside in

1310
01:04:50,560 --> 01:04:52,640
Speaker 1: We've got to get the inter intro. Well, if you

1311
01:04:52,680 --> 01:04:55,280
Speaker 1: don't know that which is which, then I think that's well,

1312
01:04:55,320 --> 01:04:57,520
Speaker 1: that's why I'm asking you that. Some people are like, oh,

1313
01:04:57,560 --> 01:04:59,760
Speaker 1: I'm too smart to ask, But if I know, I'll

1314
01:04:59,800 --> 01:05:06,560
Speaker 1: just guess or not saying intra means inside with intra

1315
01:05:06,640 --> 01:05:17,240
Speaker 1: conference within the clearly even we don't. Okay, so I

1316
01:05:17,400 --> 01:05:19,280
Speaker 1: was wrong, No enter because it's like when you take

1317
01:05:19,280 --> 01:05:22,360
Speaker 1: the interstate that will go through different states. Anything that, yes,

1318
01:05:22,440 --> 01:05:26,520
Speaker 1: I would say interconference, interconference matchup, non conferences, feels safe,

1319
01:05:26,920 --> 01:05:29,000
Speaker 1: overly safe. That's all I'm saying about that. A f

1320
01:05:29,080 --> 01:05:33,480
Speaker 1: C NFC matchup, an interconference matchup between the eight and

1321
01:05:33,520 --> 01:05:37,920
Speaker 1: four Seattle Seahawks, who are have one two straight uh,

1322
01:05:38,080 --> 01:05:40,800
Speaker 1: including that huge one on Sunday night Sunday Night against

1323
01:05:40,800 --> 01:05:45,240
Speaker 1: the Eagles against the eight, and for Jacksonville Jaguars, who

1324
01:05:45,800 --> 01:05:48,280
Speaker 1: beat up on a bad Cults team last week. Oh

1325
01:05:48,320 --> 01:05:51,040
Speaker 1: my goodness, what a game. Greg. Do you think the

1326
01:05:51,080 --> 01:05:52,880
Speaker 1: Seattle defense, By the way, where are you at on

1327
01:05:52,880 --> 01:05:55,400
Speaker 1: the Seattle defense missing most of the legion of boom?

1328
01:05:55,560 --> 01:05:57,800
Speaker 1: Do do we still believe they can get big stops

1329
01:05:57,840 --> 01:06:01,040
Speaker 1: in a big spot? I do. We saw it last week.

1330
01:06:01,320 --> 01:06:05,800
Speaker 1: Frank Frank Clark dominated that game and has played great

1331
01:06:05,880 --> 01:06:08,760
Speaker 1: over the last month. Michael Bennett is still there. Bobby

1332
01:06:08,800 --> 01:06:11,720
Speaker 1: Wagner is a Defensive Player of the Year candidate. Earl

1333
01:06:11,760 --> 01:06:14,840
Speaker 1: Thomas is one of the best safeties in football. kJ

1334
01:06:14,960 --> 01:06:18,080
Speaker 1: writes very good. So, okay, you're missing some guys. How

1335
01:06:18,080 --> 01:06:21,000
Speaker 1: many teams have a top six players that good? I

1336
01:06:21,040 --> 01:06:23,760
Speaker 1: mean it's still a very good defense. I like the

1337
01:06:23,800 --> 01:06:27,760
Speaker 1: matchup better, and I like that their offensive line quietly

1338
01:06:28,240 --> 01:06:30,600
Speaker 1: has played fairly well. I would say over the last

1339
01:06:30,600 --> 01:06:32,920
Speaker 1: three or four weeks. I was talking in this in

1340
01:06:32,960 --> 01:06:36,120
Speaker 1: this studio. No, I'm not like I'm talking to this

1341
01:06:36,200 --> 01:06:39,240
Speaker 1: studio that the their offensive line versus the Eagle's biggest

1342
01:06:39,280 --> 01:06:41,800
Speaker 1: mass mismatch possible in football, and they played pretty well

1343
01:06:41,800 --> 01:06:44,120
Speaker 1: against Philly. I thought you were heading there because the

1344
01:06:44,160 --> 01:06:47,040
Speaker 1: tony of your voice. I was just getting excited question

1345
01:06:47,080 --> 01:06:49,560
Speaker 1: for me. I mean, you have to do, if you're Jacksonville,

1346
01:06:49,680 --> 01:06:51,280
Speaker 1: what no one's been able to do. And you got

1347
01:06:51,280 --> 01:06:53,560
Speaker 1: to remove Russell Wilson, a guy that leads the league

1348
01:06:53,560 --> 01:06:57,200
Speaker 1: with eighty two point two percentage of your team's yardage,

1349
01:06:57,240 --> 01:06:59,520
Speaker 1: and you keep waiting for it to happen. And I

1350
01:06:59,520 --> 01:07:02,800
Speaker 1: thought would happen against the Eagles to some extent, and

1351
01:07:02,880 --> 01:07:06,720
Speaker 1: it does not. Jacksonville has been fascinating to watch week

1352
01:07:06,760 --> 01:07:09,919
Speaker 1: to week. They are a racing quarterbacks entirely in terms

1353
01:07:09,960 --> 01:07:13,880
Speaker 1: of big plays downfield. What will happen against Seattle's offense,

1354
01:07:13,920 --> 01:07:16,320
Speaker 1: will they be able to pull it off? Is Mike

1355
01:07:16,400 --> 01:07:19,640
Speaker 1: Davis legit? Because that was the best look, that was

1356
01:07:19,640 --> 01:07:21,640
Speaker 1: the best running back performing. It's kind of like, is

1357
01:07:21,680 --> 01:07:24,640
Speaker 1: Mike Davis legit? Is the Seahawks team legit? Because that

1358
01:07:24,800 --> 01:07:28,600
Speaker 1: game last week to me was about as meaningful result

1359
01:07:28,680 --> 01:07:31,120
Speaker 1: that we've seen all season. But it maybe doesn't. It

1360
01:07:31,160 --> 01:07:33,000
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that much if they don't win this game,

1361
01:07:33,080 --> 01:07:35,120
Speaker 1: Like if they go into Jacksonville, it's like I'm in

1362
01:07:35,200 --> 01:07:37,560
Speaker 1: on them as as one of the real contenders. Well, yeah,

1363
01:07:37,680 --> 01:07:39,920
Speaker 1: I think this game is big for for taking a

1364
01:07:39,920 --> 01:07:44,120
Speaker 1: lot of things seriously. Russell Wilson's offense is fifteenth and

1365
01:07:44,280 --> 01:07:47,120
Speaker 1: drive success rate. If I'm gonna take him seriously as

1366
01:07:47,120 --> 01:07:50,200
Speaker 1: an MVP candidate, He's gonna go into Jacksonville and put

1367
01:07:50,240 --> 01:07:54,720
Speaker 1: it on a historically great past defense. I want to

1368
01:07:54,720 --> 01:07:57,160
Speaker 1: see the Seahawks be more consistent on offense if I'm

1369
01:07:57,160 --> 01:07:59,280
Speaker 1: gonna if I'm gonna believe that Russell Wilson is in

1370
01:07:59,360 --> 01:08:03,520
Speaker 1: Tom Brady's category. One thing I thought watching the Jaguars

1371
01:08:03,560 --> 01:08:06,680
Speaker 1: that again they're going to find a quarterback in this offseason,

1372
01:08:06,800 --> 01:08:09,400
Speaker 1: someone that they can trust more than Blake Portals. And

1373
01:08:09,480 --> 01:08:12,439
Speaker 1: Marquis Lee had a really good game last week. Deeed

1374
01:08:12,520 --> 01:08:15,440
Speaker 1: Westbrook looks good. You've got weapons here, and they're not

1375
01:08:15,520 --> 01:08:18,000
Speaker 1: far away from having an offense that can do just

1376
01:08:18,160 --> 01:08:20,000
Speaker 1: what the defense can do. And then they're an issue

1377
01:08:20,000 --> 01:08:22,080
Speaker 1: in the NFC for ten years to come. It's probably

1378
01:08:22,080 --> 01:08:24,519
Speaker 1: the coaching, but it is worth noting Bortles has been

1379
01:08:24,560 --> 01:08:29,400
Speaker 1: significantly better than last year ago. And that's mechanics. Yeah,

1380
01:08:29,479 --> 01:08:32,160
Speaker 1: and and and I think he's probably been better over

1381
01:08:32,200 --> 01:08:35,320
Speaker 1: the last month than he has in the first two months.

1382
01:08:35,320 --> 01:08:37,200
Speaker 1: I mean, he had that melted, he had that meltdown.

1383
01:08:37,200 --> 01:08:39,160
Speaker 1: But right, but even that game, that's a good example.

1384
01:08:39,200 --> 01:08:41,799
Speaker 1: Like even that game he played such a great first

1385
01:08:41,880 --> 01:08:44,800
Speaker 1: fifty fifty two minutes or something. To the Arizona game, No,

1386
01:08:44,840 --> 01:08:49,360
Speaker 1: I think you're talking about the Jacksonville. There's the Chargers game.

1387
01:08:49,400 --> 01:08:51,040
Speaker 1: You're right, there's a lot of different meltown. If you

1388
01:08:51,080 --> 01:08:53,599
Speaker 1: get what he did age in Indianapolis, you can beat teams.

1389
01:08:53,680 --> 01:08:55,280
Speaker 1: I'm just saying they're not going to play the Cults.

1390
01:08:55,520 --> 01:08:58,479
Speaker 1: I'm saying he's like the twenty three best quarterback in

1391
01:08:58,520 --> 01:09:00,800
Speaker 1: the league, which is seven spot, you know, seven or

1392
01:09:00,840 --> 01:09:03,559
Speaker 1: eight jobs also a lot easier than some of those

1393
01:09:03,600 --> 01:09:05,920
Speaker 1: quarterbacks you would rank behind him. Doesn't it feel like, though,

1394
01:09:06,640 --> 01:09:10,120
Speaker 1: if he's the best quarterback, that maybe he's like hitting

1395
01:09:10,120 --> 01:09:12,360
Speaker 1: a ceiling there, that there is a floor where he's

1396
01:09:12,360 --> 01:09:14,280
Speaker 1: gonna have to play like the worst quarterback in the

1397
01:09:14,320 --> 01:09:16,040
Speaker 1: league for the rest of the yeas they have to replace.

1398
01:09:18,120 --> 01:09:21,559
Speaker 1: He's not even Rex Grossman, who was hitting big plays

1399
01:09:21,600 --> 01:09:24,320
Speaker 1: down the field that year that the Bears defense and

1400
01:09:24,320 --> 01:09:27,439
Speaker 1: special teams were so good. Bortles doesn't hit big plays

1401
01:09:27,439 --> 01:09:29,360
Speaker 1: down the field with any kind of I love this game.

1402
01:09:29,640 --> 01:09:32,680
Speaker 1: If your quarterbacks ceiling is top twenty five, don't find

1403
01:09:32,680 --> 01:09:35,000
Speaker 1: another quarterback. Yeah, no, you're right there. There's no arguing

1404
01:09:35,040 --> 01:09:39,559
Speaker 1: that my quarterbacks easily top thirty guys. Alright, moving on,

1405
01:09:39,760 --> 01:09:43,559
Speaker 1: it is feeling that Josh McCown love Josh McCown is, like,

1406
01:09:43,800 --> 01:09:46,479
Speaker 1: what is he the eleventh best quarterback this year in

1407
01:09:46,520 --> 01:09:48,800
Speaker 1: the league. I thought he was the one guy on

1408
01:09:48,840 --> 01:09:51,559
Speaker 1: Greg's list I would have considerably hot think I had

1409
01:09:51,640 --> 01:09:54,240
Speaker 1: him seventeen. He's had a better year than Derek Carr

1410
01:09:55,840 --> 01:10:00,400
Speaker 1: there close, Damn brol Let's go put it, man, he's

1411
01:10:00,439 --> 01:10:03,240
Speaker 1: having a really nice season. You gotta re sign him, right, Uh,

1412
01:10:03,320 --> 01:10:05,600
Speaker 1: as long as it doesn't turn into a fits negotiation.

1413
01:10:05,880 --> 01:10:08,160
Speaker 1: Hopefully they learned from that Mistake's got to be mccount

1414
01:10:08,160 --> 01:10:11,639
Speaker 1: in a rookie, I think you would think makes sense. Yeah, wait,

1415
01:10:11,680 --> 01:10:14,360
Speaker 1: you're not giving Kristin Hackenburger chains, you know. I think

1416
01:10:14,400 --> 01:10:16,960
Speaker 1: I think they're you saying, Kristin Hackenburgh, whatever his name is,

1417
01:10:16,960 --> 01:10:18,920
Speaker 1: You're gonna be on Chris Law's list. I want to

1418
01:10:18,920 --> 01:10:21,639
Speaker 1: be there. Yeah, Chris Laws bit has kind of faded

1419
01:10:21,680 --> 01:10:23,519
Speaker 1: off the earth a little. You don't see it too

1420
01:10:23,600 --> 01:10:26,360
Speaker 1: much anymore. No, not really too much moving on. Here

1421
01:10:26,360 --> 01:10:30,120
Speaker 1: we go. It is the fox Um Game of the week,

1422
01:10:30,479 --> 01:10:34,240
Speaker 1: probably just a guess guessing. It is the Philadelphia Eagles,

1423
01:10:34,280 --> 01:10:37,240
Speaker 1: ten and two leaders in the NFC East. They got

1424
01:10:37,360 --> 01:10:39,519
Speaker 1: humbled a little bit by the Seahawks last Sunday, but

1425
01:10:39,640 --> 01:10:42,080
Speaker 1: still in very good position for the number one seed

1426
01:10:42,080 --> 01:10:44,519
Speaker 1: if they take care of business. But now here come

1427
01:10:45,080 --> 01:10:48,639
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Rams. Oh what a game. You got

1428
01:10:48,640 --> 01:10:52,600
Speaker 1: all of it? Mark Carson Wentz first, Jared Goff And

1429
01:10:52,640 --> 01:10:55,160
Speaker 1: if the Rams don't win this, they are out of

1430
01:10:55,200 --> 01:10:58,559
Speaker 1: the conversation for getting a bye most likely. And all

1431
01:10:58,560 --> 01:11:00,320
Speaker 1: of a sudden things get a little tricky for them

1432
01:11:00,320 --> 01:11:04,240
Speaker 1: because there's so much heat Man. Last week against the

1433
01:11:04,240 --> 01:11:07,040
Speaker 1: Cardinals was another example. They suddenly were up sixteen to nothing,

1434
01:11:07,040 --> 01:11:08,400
Speaker 1: and you don't even know how it happened. It just

1435
01:11:08,439 --> 01:11:11,439
Speaker 1: happened so quickly. Is their defense, their offense special teams

1436
01:11:11,439 --> 01:11:13,160
Speaker 1: played a big role in that game down the stretch.

1437
01:11:13,640 --> 01:11:15,719
Speaker 1: I love these two teams, and I love this NFC.

1438
01:11:15,760 --> 01:11:17,960
Speaker 1: And everyone always kills on the schedulemakers early and they

1439
01:11:18,000 --> 01:11:20,519
Speaker 1: deserve it early with some weird stuff. But this great

1440
01:11:20,560 --> 01:11:22,400
Speaker 1: loaded NDFCY is giving us one or two of these

1441
01:11:22,400 --> 01:11:26,320
Speaker 1: matchups every week now. And these are two teams that

1442
01:11:26,680 --> 01:11:29,000
Speaker 1: we dumped on for a long time for a variety

1443
01:11:29,000 --> 01:11:31,120
Speaker 1: of reasons. They are the two teams in the league

1444
01:11:31,120 --> 01:11:34,880
Speaker 1: that aggressively traded up to get their quarterbacks. It's worked out.

1445
01:11:35,120 --> 01:11:38,360
Speaker 1: They both hired offensive minded coaches and paired them with

1446
01:11:38,680 --> 01:11:42,000
Speaker 1: very experienced defensive coaches. They've got stars on both sides

1447
01:11:42,040 --> 01:11:44,320
Speaker 1: of the ball. And it made me think watching Sean

1448
01:11:44,400 --> 01:11:46,920
Speaker 1: McVeigh and what he's done with the Rams, how many

1449
01:11:47,000 --> 01:11:51,040
Speaker 1: careers are altered and saved and revived by what's happened

1450
01:11:51,240 --> 01:11:53,600
Speaker 1: that a guy like Jared Goff, who we couldn't we

1451
01:11:53,600 --> 01:11:55,759
Speaker 1: had no continent. We could not have been more concerned

1452
01:11:55,760 --> 01:11:58,840
Speaker 1: about a year ago has completely rounded into shape as

1453
01:11:58,880 --> 01:12:01,720
Speaker 1: a franchise quarterback. Todd Gurley, a guy that a year

1454
01:12:01,720 --> 01:12:05,320
Speaker 1: ago was franchise poison and someone that couldn't get anything going.

1455
01:12:05,600 --> 01:12:07,880
Speaker 1: He is unbelievable. I love the way he runs, but

1456
01:12:07,960 --> 01:12:10,320
Speaker 1: you throw well he was last year. Throw the ball

1457
01:12:10,320 --> 01:12:12,960
Speaker 1: to him and his screen game and what he's doing

1458
01:12:12,960 --> 01:12:15,760
Speaker 1: in the passing game. It is tough to imagine how

1459
01:12:15,760 --> 01:12:18,639
Speaker 1: the Rams get stopped unless they run into some sort

1460
01:12:18,640 --> 01:12:20,519
Speaker 1: of defensive game plan that finds a way to shut

1461
01:12:20,560 --> 01:12:22,960
Speaker 1: everyone down. There's too many weapons here. That was one

1462
01:12:23,000 --> 01:12:24,680
Speaker 1: of the best lead ins we've had all year to

1463
01:12:24,760 --> 01:12:28,760
Speaker 1: I matchup. Well done, Mark, thank you, thank you, Dan,

1464
01:12:29,000 --> 01:12:31,519
Speaker 1: you're Gurley. You mentioned in the in the passing game

1465
01:12:31,680 --> 01:12:33,800
Speaker 1: I forgot about. Those are the lesser sides where he

1466
01:12:33,840 --> 01:12:38,639
Speaker 1: compliments Mark, I really have really missed those. Alright, go ahead,

1467
01:12:39,000 --> 01:12:42,200
Speaker 1: I I agree it was in passion and it was it.

1468
01:12:43,640 --> 01:12:46,920
Speaker 1: We also alright, we have We have seen them go

1469
01:12:47,080 --> 01:12:49,840
Speaker 1: against a really good defense a few times this year

1470
01:12:49,880 --> 01:12:52,320
Speaker 1: and they haven't shown up. They scored ten points against

1471
01:12:52,320 --> 01:12:55,200
Speaker 1: the Seahawks, they scored seven points against the Vikings. This

1472
01:12:55,280 --> 01:12:58,800
Speaker 1: is a really good defense they're playing on Sunday against Philadelphia.

1473
01:12:58,960 --> 01:13:00,639
Speaker 1: So I think you are going to have to show

1474
01:13:00,760 --> 01:13:04,240
Speaker 1: that that it's not just mcveigh's great coaching that the

1475
01:13:04,280 --> 01:13:06,360
Speaker 1: players have to win their one on one battles. Like

1476
01:13:06,400 --> 01:13:09,160
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley, I think it's been doing, especially to me.

1477
01:13:09,200 --> 01:13:11,120
Speaker 1: He's not an m VP candidate, but I did a

1478
01:13:11,200 --> 01:13:12,760
Speaker 1: top five this week and he was the best guy

1479
01:13:12,720 --> 01:13:15,200
Speaker 1: I could come up with for number five. He is

1480
01:13:15,240 --> 01:13:20,280
Speaker 1: averaging more yards per reception than Dez Bryant, than Damarrius Thomas,

1481
01:13:20,520 --> 01:13:24,160
Speaker 1: then Michael Thomas. That a lot of great wide like that,

1482
01:13:24,240 --> 01:13:25,800
Speaker 1: a lot of good wide receivers in the league. And

1483
01:13:25,880 --> 01:13:29,000
Speaker 1: he's a very steady, very good running breaking tackles. Yeah,

1484
01:13:29,040 --> 01:13:31,280
Speaker 1: you're talking about one on one matchups, and we complained

1485
01:13:31,360 --> 01:13:33,320
Speaker 1: last year that he doesn't make anyone miss. He's been

1486
01:13:33,360 --> 01:13:36,240
Speaker 1: the exact opposite yes year, and then he should be

1487
01:13:36,840 --> 01:13:39,080
Speaker 1: right now. To me, he is a clear lead as

1488
01:13:39,120 --> 01:13:42,240
Speaker 1: the first team All Pro running back. I agree. I

1489
01:13:42,280 --> 01:13:45,839
Speaker 1: mean Bell, Bell has played, we'll get to him tomorrow,

1490
01:13:45,880 --> 01:13:48,320
Speaker 1: would be in the mix. Yeah, but but I agree,

1491
01:13:48,320 --> 01:13:49,760
Speaker 1: I would go with him. And but this is a

1492
01:13:49,760 --> 01:13:52,439
Speaker 1: tough matchup and you kind of expect Philadelphia to be

1493
01:13:52,479 --> 01:13:54,519
Speaker 1: able to run the ball better than you do. The

1494
01:13:54,640 --> 01:13:57,880
Speaker 1: Rams le Garrett Blunt and Clement and that team who

1495
01:13:57,960 --> 01:14:00,200
Speaker 1: really didn't get the running game going last week. You

1496
01:14:00,280 --> 01:14:03,000
Speaker 1: kind of look at, for instance, Kurwin Williams running all

1497
01:14:03,000 --> 01:14:06,000
Speaker 1: over the Rams and you think, okay, what what is

1498
01:14:06,080 --> 01:14:08,200
Speaker 1: what is blunt in this Eagles team because it's ultimately

1499
01:14:08,280 --> 01:14:10,880
Speaker 1: kind of a run first team despite Carson Wentz, I

1500
01:14:10,880 --> 01:14:13,000
Speaker 1: think they kind of go off the running. I kind

1501
01:14:13,000 --> 01:14:15,200
Speaker 1: of love the Eagles in this game. I know they're

1502
01:14:15,200 --> 01:14:17,600
Speaker 1: on the road, and I respect the Rams, but I

1503
01:14:17,600 --> 01:14:20,160
Speaker 1: thought that that was you know they you heard that

1504
01:14:20,200 --> 01:14:24,599
Speaker 1: floating around like the very half hearted how damn yeah,

1505
01:14:24,640 --> 01:14:29,320
Speaker 1: because the big I'm a little annoying people float things

1506
01:14:29,360 --> 01:14:31,519
Speaker 1: like hey, this is kind of a good loss for

1507
01:14:31,560 --> 01:14:36,559
Speaker 1: the Eagles because you know, humblesome a little bit like,

1508
01:14:36,600 --> 01:14:39,160
Speaker 1: I don't never like some sort of some sort of man,

1509
01:14:39,280 --> 01:14:42,000
Speaker 1: some surfer character just rolled off the Pacific Ocean to

1510
01:14:42,000 --> 01:14:44,480
Speaker 1: take a shot at the Eagles. But really good teams,

1511
01:14:44,640 --> 01:14:47,640
Speaker 1: really good teams, and almost every team loses every once

1512
01:14:47,680 --> 01:14:49,680
Speaker 1: in a while unless you're the Patriots now, but like

1513
01:14:50,080 --> 01:14:53,759
Speaker 1: you bounce back and you deliver a performance in Carson Wentz,

1514
01:14:53,800 --> 01:14:56,840
Speaker 1: who wasn't horrible against the Seahawks, But wasn't Carson Wentz

1515
01:14:56,880 --> 01:14:58,920
Speaker 1: that we've seen. I expect him to have a big game.

1516
01:14:59,200 --> 01:15:01,519
Speaker 1: I think the Eagle are a better team than the Rams,

1517
01:15:01,840 --> 01:15:03,320
Speaker 1: and I think they're gonna show it in this game.

1518
01:15:03,400 --> 01:15:05,920
Speaker 1: I really did consider locking it up, but I had

1519
01:15:05,920 --> 01:15:07,599
Speaker 1: to give I had to show my boys Gang Green

1520
01:15:07,720 --> 01:15:10,760
Speaker 1: some love, the only Gang Green in town. Uh So,

1521
01:15:11,120 --> 01:15:13,200
Speaker 1: But I feel very strongly about the Eagles. What do

1522
01:15:13,200 --> 01:15:15,519
Speaker 1: you guys think, Let's pick this game. Well, I I

1523
01:15:15,560 --> 01:15:18,200
Speaker 1: agree with you that it's a good it's a good pick.

1524
01:15:18,360 --> 01:15:21,320
Speaker 1: I think Sean McVeigh is the wild card. I just

1525
01:15:21,320 --> 01:15:22,760
Speaker 1: think the world of him as a coach. But I

1526
01:15:22,800 --> 01:15:25,120
Speaker 1: agree that Eagles are the better team and I think

1527
01:15:25,160 --> 01:15:27,160
Speaker 1: it's a good spot for them coming back from last week.

1528
01:15:27,200 --> 01:15:29,559
Speaker 1: So I'm on Dan's side here. I'm gonna take the

1529
01:15:29,640 --> 01:15:31,320
Speaker 1: Rams because that's what I want to see happen. And

1530
01:15:31,360 --> 01:15:33,600
Speaker 1: I have no clue what is going to happen in

1531
01:15:33,640 --> 01:15:35,840
Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins. It's been great to see him playing better

1532
01:15:35,880 --> 01:15:38,200
Speaker 1: the last few weeks. Robert Quinn has been playing better.

1533
01:15:38,240 --> 01:15:40,280
Speaker 1: So some of their stars are playing better. Maybe they

1534
01:15:40,320 --> 01:15:42,880
Speaker 1: come through. I would I'm gonna go Eagles, even in

1535
01:15:42,880 --> 01:15:44,920
Speaker 1: that game that we're Winston. You know that was not

1536
01:15:44,960 --> 01:15:46,880
Speaker 1: a Carson wins Tipple game. Take me two of the

1537
01:15:46,880 --> 01:15:49,200
Speaker 1: greatest players we've seen all year, and I think they're

1538
01:15:49,200 --> 01:15:50,400
Speaker 1: gonna win in a close one that you know, the

1539
01:15:50,520 --> 01:15:52,160
Speaker 1: Rams will get a lot of respect even in this

1540
01:15:52,240 --> 01:15:55,599
Speaker 1: room football outsiders, for instance, number one team in the NFL,

1541
01:15:55,720 --> 01:15:57,880
Speaker 1: Eagles are number two. This is like the best matchup

1542
01:15:57,920 --> 01:16:00,519
Speaker 1: you can possible. I would rather deal with football insiders.

1543
01:16:00,520 --> 01:16:04,200
Speaker 1: Thank you. That's by the way, you admitted that you

1544
01:16:04,240 --> 01:16:10,599
Speaker 1: have no idea what's gonna happen. Of course, George, here,

1545
01:16:11,040 --> 01:16:13,040
Speaker 1: we all know what's gonna happen at all times. I

1546
01:16:13,080 --> 01:16:16,439
Speaker 1: don't understand. All right, boys, Let's move to Sunday night football.

1547
01:16:16,479 --> 01:16:19,400
Speaker 1: The Baltimore Ravens seven and five, writing a three game

1548
01:16:19,400 --> 01:16:23,599
Speaker 1: winning streak, now travel to Pittsburgh Hindesfield to face the Steelers,

1549
01:16:23,640 --> 01:16:26,840
Speaker 1: who have that humongous matchup looming against the Patriots. But

1550
01:16:26,920 --> 01:16:30,559
Speaker 1: first they got to deal with another rival in the Ravens.

1551
01:16:30,640 --> 01:16:35,720
Speaker 1: Last Monday night, that incredibly violent and physical affair with

1552
01:16:35,760 --> 01:16:39,479
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals at the Steelers one in the final seconds.

1553
01:16:40,080 --> 01:16:41,920
Speaker 1: The big story out of that game, of course, was

1554
01:16:41,960 --> 01:16:46,000
Speaker 1: the injury suffered by linebacker Ryan Shazier, who suffered a

1555
01:16:46,040 --> 01:16:49,160
Speaker 1: spinal injury. We hadn't been getting a lot of information

1556
01:16:49,280 --> 01:16:51,000
Speaker 1: in the last few days, and we did get an

1557
01:16:51,080 --> 01:16:55,200
Speaker 1: update before we came upstairs today that Chaser underwent spinal

1558
01:16:55,240 --> 01:16:58,879
Speaker 1: stabilization surgery Wednesday night to address the spinal injury suffered

1559
01:16:59,320 --> 01:17:03,519
Speaker 1: on Monday a um The surgery took place um at

1560
01:17:03,560 --> 01:17:09,280
Speaker 1: the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and um Ian rappaport

1561
01:17:09,320 --> 01:17:15,120
Speaker 1: Are NFL Network Insider reported Thursday that the surgery will

1562
01:17:15,120 --> 01:17:18,679
Speaker 1: necessitate months of recovery, according to sources, before he even

1563
01:17:18,680 --> 01:17:22,000
Speaker 1: considers a return to football. His season is over and

1564
01:17:22,120 --> 01:17:25,240
Speaker 1: in terms of a long term uh look for shas here,

1565
01:17:25,320 --> 01:17:28,800
Speaker 1: it's still unclear. Yeah. I think his defensive coordinator put

1566
01:17:28,880 --> 01:17:32,840
Speaker 1: it well Thursday that he's just worried about Ryan as

1567
01:17:32,880 --> 01:17:37,360
Speaker 1: a person and his future and the quality of life.

1568
01:17:37,520 --> 01:17:39,920
Speaker 1: And I think it's that sort of stage that we're

1569
01:17:39,920 --> 01:17:41,680
Speaker 1: in now. We really don't know what it's going to

1570
01:17:41,800 --> 01:17:44,479
Speaker 1: mean football wise, but it's kind of hanging It's one

1571
01:17:44,520 --> 01:17:46,439
Speaker 1: of the bigger stories of this season. It's kind of

1572
01:17:46,479 --> 01:17:50,400
Speaker 1: hanging over the Steelers organization. You know, in particular, I

1573
01:17:50,439 --> 01:17:52,559
Speaker 1: would imagine going into this game. Yeah, there hasn't been

1574
01:17:52,600 --> 01:17:55,240
Speaker 1: a game all year that I can look back on

1575
01:17:55,800 --> 01:17:58,680
Speaker 1: outside of that Bengals Steelers game that left more of

1576
01:17:58,680 --> 01:18:02,240
Speaker 1: a shadow where there's so much that came out of that.

1577
01:18:02,320 --> 01:18:06,080
Speaker 1: You've got the Juju Smith Schuster suspension for this Ravens game,

1578
01:18:06,320 --> 01:18:09,719
Speaker 1: and you've lost Jazer, who that Pittsburgh defense has been

1579
01:18:10,479 --> 01:18:12,560
Speaker 1: for me. That's as much as the offense gives you

1580
01:18:12,600 --> 01:18:14,479
Speaker 1: a lot of hope, the defense is the reason I

1581
01:18:14,560 --> 01:18:17,400
Speaker 1: think they can potentially knock out the Patriots if they

1582
01:18:17,479 --> 01:18:21,679
Speaker 1: get there in the playoffs. And and credit. That's different

1583
01:18:21,680 --> 01:18:23,479
Speaker 1: than you say on text, by the way, that's a

1584
01:18:23,479 --> 01:18:26,680
Speaker 1: different message that you send to us every game. Every

1585
01:18:26,720 --> 01:18:29,880
Speaker 1: time we watch a steel I think is over. I

1586
01:18:29,880 --> 01:18:32,240
Speaker 1: think this, I think though, but I've rethought the Steelers

1587
01:18:32,240 --> 01:18:34,400
Speaker 1: a little bit. I really think that this this whole

1588
01:18:34,720 --> 01:18:37,559
Speaker 1: thing that's happened to them. Sometimes something happens to a

1589
01:18:37,560 --> 01:18:39,920
Speaker 1: team and it really it kind of regalvanizes you and

1590
01:18:40,000 --> 01:18:42,240
Speaker 1: changes you. I think the Steelers are different. That's interesting

1591
01:18:42,600 --> 01:18:46,360
Speaker 1: because she is so important west to that Steelers defense

1592
01:18:46,479 --> 01:18:49,160
Speaker 1: and to their credit. After the shock of that situation,

1593
01:18:49,520 --> 01:18:53,280
Speaker 1: they shut down Cincinnati without Jazer in the second half,

1594
01:18:53,280 --> 01:18:56,080
Speaker 1: and they're gonna have another opportunity to to shut down

1595
01:18:56,080 --> 01:18:59,479
Speaker 1: an offense because Baltimore struggles. Uh, typically, but they came

1596
01:18:59,520 --> 01:19:01,880
Speaker 1: to life last week. Uh do you do you like

1597
01:19:02,080 --> 01:19:04,960
Speaker 1: the Ravens to score some more points this week? Every year,

1598
01:19:05,000 --> 01:19:07,960
Speaker 1: it seems like there's a team that we judge the

1599
01:19:08,000 --> 01:19:10,680
Speaker 1: first three months of the season who they are, and

1600
01:19:10,720 --> 01:19:13,640
Speaker 1: we expected to stay static, but then they take it

1601
01:19:13,720 --> 01:19:15,240
Speaker 1: up a notch on one side of the ball or

1602
01:19:15,280 --> 01:19:17,880
Speaker 1: the other, and what who they are in December and

1603
01:19:17,960 --> 01:19:20,840
Speaker 1: January is totally different. And maybe the Ravens are they

1604
01:19:20,880 --> 01:19:23,519
Speaker 1: have some materials to work with on offense. Would you

1605
01:19:23,520 --> 01:19:25,920
Speaker 1: guys believe that these two teams average the same number

1606
01:19:25,920 --> 01:19:28,439
Speaker 1: of points per game? Yeah, Baltimore's had thirty points plus

1607
01:19:28,439 --> 01:19:30,800
Speaker 1: a game for the last five weeks. The Ravens score

1608
01:19:30,840 --> 01:19:33,320
Speaker 1: more points per game than the Falcons and Chargers. That's

1609
01:19:33,400 --> 01:19:35,639
Speaker 1: largely because of their defense and because of their special

1610
01:19:35,680 --> 01:19:38,280
Speaker 1: teams setting them up. But that doesn't it doesn't matter

1611
01:19:38,280 --> 01:19:41,080
Speaker 1: on the scoreboard. It's all that matters much games and

1612
01:19:41,160 --> 01:19:43,360
Speaker 1: two low twenty point games, so a little bit misleading,

1613
01:19:43,360 --> 01:19:46,559
Speaker 1: but still it is misleading. And they when you watch

1614
01:19:46,640 --> 01:19:49,479
Speaker 1: the film, they are not an impressive offense, but I

1615
01:19:49,520 --> 01:19:51,800
Speaker 1: think they do have the materials to be one if

1616
01:19:51,840 --> 01:19:54,719
Speaker 1: Flacco ups his game, and last week was his best

1617
01:19:54,720 --> 01:19:57,080
Speaker 1: game of the year. Receiver has even dropped three or

1618
01:19:57,080 --> 01:19:59,360
Speaker 1: four passes when he was on the money. That's an

1619
01:19:59,400 --> 01:20:01,760
Speaker 1: encouraging on Now can they do it multiple weeks in

1620
01:20:01,760 --> 01:20:03,960
Speaker 1: a row, now that they're getting really healthy on offense,

1621
01:20:04,040 --> 01:20:05,760
Speaker 1: that's the question. I'll go a step further. That was

1622
01:20:05,800 --> 01:20:08,320
Speaker 1: one of the best games any quarterbacks played all season.

1623
01:20:08,360 --> 01:20:10,120
Speaker 1: I was kind of stunned when I went back and

1624
01:20:10,160 --> 01:20:12,920
Speaker 1: watched that he more or less pitched the perfect game.

1625
01:20:13,200 --> 01:20:15,320
Speaker 1: There are almost no throws that you would take back

1626
01:20:15,360 --> 01:20:19,000
Speaker 1: from him, and he had about twelve thirteen really difficult

1627
01:20:19,000 --> 01:20:21,519
Speaker 1: wins into tight windows or down the field. And I

1628
01:20:21,560 --> 01:20:25,040
Speaker 1: was thinking, like, is this vietnamal? Like does this make

1629
01:20:25,200 --> 01:20:27,320
Speaker 1: do I just not trust this after what I saw

1630
01:20:27,400 --> 01:20:31,120
Speaker 1: for eleven weeks? Or does it just make them embarrassed

1631
01:20:31,120 --> 01:20:33,599
Speaker 1: about what happened for eleven weeks? Because actually that Joe

1632
01:20:33,600 --> 01:20:36,360
Speaker 1: Flacco can be pretty good. I don't know it's a

1633
01:20:36,400 --> 01:20:40,439
Speaker 1: good idea, because are you saying again that you don't

1634
01:20:40,600 --> 01:20:43,400
Speaker 1: know something? I'm saying, like, how does the he had

1635
01:20:43,439 --> 01:20:45,920
Speaker 1: the worst numbers in the entire league, and he played awesome.

1636
01:20:45,960 --> 01:20:47,479
Speaker 1: He looked if you put that game in the middle

1637
01:20:47,520 --> 01:20:49,439
Speaker 1: of the two thousand twelve playoffs, it would have fit right. Well,

1638
01:20:49,479 --> 01:20:51,639
Speaker 1: what if you flipped it. Let's say a quarterback played

1639
01:20:51,680 --> 01:20:55,920
Speaker 1: twelve pristine games then had an absolute nightmare? Would you what?

1640
01:20:55,920 --> 01:20:58,280
Speaker 1: What would you tend to believe? I wouldn't trust it,

1641
01:20:58,360 --> 01:21:00,160
Speaker 1: And uh, that's why I am but a lot. Can

1642
01:21:00,200 --> 01:21:03,920
Speaker 1: this one up for the old Steelers that was underwelling.

1643
01:21:05,160 --> 01:21:08,320
Speaker 1: You're confident shot confidence seems to be shaken at the

1644
01:21:08,439 --> 01:21:11,080
Speaker 1: at the least. Oh, of course we're sick. I am

1645
01:21:11,120 --> 01:21:14,800
Speaker 1: six and seven. Literally it is. You would have locked.

1646
01:21:14,840 --> 01:21:16,600
Speaker 1: You would have had more locks. If you went the

1647
01:21:16,640 --> 01:21:21,160
Speaker 1: exact opposite it exactly what I did. Could not be worse.

1648
01:21:21,520 --> 01:21:23,800
Speaker 1: I don't think this Steeler Steelers defense is what it

1649
01:21:23,840 --> 01:21:26,800
Speaker 1: was a month ago. And it's not just easier. Their

1650
01:21:26,880 --> 01:21:29,599
Speaker 1: edge rushers are a lot more inconsistent. T J. Watton,

1651
01:21:29,640 --> 01:21:32,760
Speaker 1: Bud dupri and their cornerbacks have been problems since Joe

1652
01:21:32,800 --> 01:21:35,920
Speaker 1: Haydn's injury. I don't think that they're a shutdown unit.

1653
01:21:36,080 --> 01:21:38,960
Speaker 1: And how how important has SHASR Beer been in terms

1654
01:21:39,000 --> 01:21:42,000
Speaker 1: of being the center of that defense. According to our

1655
01:21:42,040 --> 01:21:45,080
Speaker 1: Next Gens stats entering week thirteen, Shasier was on the

1656
01:21:45,120 --> 01:21:48,599
Speaker 1: field for six D forty six forty seven total snaps.

1657
01:21:48,840 --> 01:21:51,519
Speaker 1: That's nine point nine percent of playing time. He is

1658
01:21:51,560 --> 01:21:53,880
Speaker 1: the heartbeat of that defense. So they need some of

1659
01:21:53,880 --> 01:21:55,920
Speaker 1: these guys that have went quiet to step up to

1660
01:21:55,960 --> 01:21:58,200
Speaker 1: fill the void. They did a really nice job against Cincinnati,

1661
01:21:58,320 --> 01:22:00,080
Speaker 1: but the Bagals have their demons, so you don't know

1662
01:22:00,200 --> 01:22:02,639
Speaker 1: how much was the Steelers and how it was Cincinnati gagging.

1663
01:22:02,800 --> 01:22:05,000
Speaker 1: They're gonna be tested again down the stretch. The more

1664
01:22:05,040 --> 01:22:07,360
Speaker 1: fascinating matchup for me is when the Steelers are on

1665
01:22:07,400 --> 01:22:11,679
Speaker 1: the field. Uh. That offense has been getting better rhythm lately.

1666
01:22:11,720 --> 01:22:14,799
Speaker 1: The Ravens are without Jimmy Smith, Marlon Humphrey, their rookie

1667
01:22:14,800 --> 01:22:17,760
Speaker 1: got picked on a week ago, and Ben's had his

1668
01:22:17,800 --> 01:22:20,200
Speaker 1: timing with Martavis Bryant. I know you don't have Juju

1669
01:22:20,240 --> 01:22:22,519
Speaker 1: Smith Schuster this week, but you still have to deal

1670
01:22:22,560 --> 01:22:25,479
Speaker 1: with those two receivers on the outside. And I'm not

1671
01:22:25,520 --> 01:22:28,479
Speaker 1: sure this Ravens defense is as historical and great. I'm

1672
01:22:28,479 --> 01:22:30,160
Speaker 1: not sure they're gonna be able to shut down Pitt.

1673
01:22:30,240 --> 01:22:33,719
Speaker 1: You know Brian's back. We talked had several plays, including

1674
01:22:33,720 --> 01:22:36,920
Speaker 1: the kickoff return where he looks absolutely explosive. He's getting

1675
01:22:36,920 --> 01:22:39,479
Speaker 1: to the edge and running by people. And I think

1676
01:22:39,479 --> 01:22:42,439
Speaker 1: the Steeler's offense can make up for what they're missing

1677
01:22:42,439 --> 01:22:45,719
Speaker 1: on defense. And finally, Monday Night Football, the New England

1678
01:22:45,720 --> 01:22:52,080
Speaker 1: Patriots uh tennant to writing a nine game winning Street,

1679
01:22:52,360 --> 01:22:54,960
Speaker 1: eight game winning Streek. Good job, guys, traveled now to

1680
01:22:55,000 --> 01:22:58,120
Speaker 1: Miami to face the Dolphins. Dolphins whipped up on the

1681
01:22:58,120 --> 01:23:01,080
Speaker 1: Broncos last week, but everybody does that now. Before that,

1682
01:23:01,120 --> 01:23:04,320
Speaker 1: they had lost five in a row, and Greg, before

1683
01:23:04,360 --> 01:23:07,439
Speaker 1: we completely checked this one in the box for the

1684
01:23:07,439 --> 01:23:10,719
Speaker 1: Throne of ease, it should be noted that Tom Brady

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01:23:11,600 --> 01:23:13,800
Speaker 1: has lost eight games in Miami in his career, seven

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01:23:13,800 --> 01:23:16,320
Speaker 1: and eight. That's the only place other than Denver where

1687
01:23:16,320 --> 01:23:18,920
Speaker 1: he is a losing record. Um I wrote about that

1688
01:23:18,960 --> 01:23:22,120
Speaker 1: a little bit yesterday and some Patriots guy came at

1689
01:23:22,120 --> 01:23:24,599
Speaker 1: me and said, it happen all happens in the early season.

1690
01:23:24,640 --> 01:23:26,080
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's true or right, and you

1691
01:23:26,080 --> 01:23:28,479
Speaker 1: can throw the humidity angle at it, but it's worth

1692
01:23:28,640 --> 01:23:32,160
Speaker 1: noting that Brady and the Pets have not thrived in Miami.

1693
01:23:33,080 --> 01:23:35,840
Speaker 1: That's also this guy on Twitter is wrong a lot

1694
01:23:35,880 --> 01:23:39,519
Speaker 1: of them, but they lost in December, I believe on

1695
01:23:39,560 --> 01:23:42,080
Speaker 1: the way to winning a Super Bowl a few years back,

1696
01:23:42,479 --> 01:23:45,760
Speaker 1: so it happens. I think this is a different uh

1697
01:23:45,880 --> 01:23:48,080
Speaker 1: Dolphins team though, I mean I don't think this is.

1698
01:23:48,200 --> 01:23:51,880
Speaker 1: There's no Ronnie Brown Wildchac. It's not a competitive Dolphins team.

1699
01:23:52,520 --> 01:23:54,320
Speaker 1: You know. The one thing I think you can I'm

1700
01:23:54,320 --> 01:23:56,360
Speaker 1: concerned about as a Patriots fans, Brady has taken a

1701
01:23:56,400 --> 01:23:58,640
Speaker 1: lot of hits the last month, so he did like

1702
01:23:58,680 --> 01:24:00,920
Speaker 1: the first month of the season kind went away and

1703
01:24:00,960 --> 01:24:03,720
Speaker 1: he has really taken a beating week after week the

1704
01:24:03,800 --> 01:24:05,840
Speaker 1: last month, playing great through it. But when they talk

1705
01:24:05,880 --> 01:24:08,320
Speaker 1: about him dealing with an achilles injury, which does not

1706
01:24:08,479 --> 01:24:10,160
Speaker 1: appear on the field from what I can see, but

1707
01:24:10,280 --> 01:24:13,040
Speaker 1: they don't have Rob Gronkowski. I think in another if

1708
01:24:13,040 --> 01:24:15,519
Speaker 1: that happened a week later against Pittsburgh, that would be

1709
01:24:15,560 --> 01:24:18,479
Speaker 1: a massive loss. They will get Chris Hogan back, which

1710
01:24:18,520 --> 01:24:20,920
Speaker 1: that helps hit their twelve and oh without Gronk. And

1711
01:24:20,960 --> 01:24:23,439
Speaker 1: by the way, if you look at their points per

1712
01:24:23,479 --> 01:24:27,160
Speaker 1: game and their yardage in the twelve games since sixteens,

1713
01:24:27,240 --> 01:24:29,479
Speaker 1: with that they did not have Gronk, they would lead

1714
01:24:29,479 --> 01:24:32,719
Speaker 1: the NFL in both categories so I do think it's Brady's.

1715
01:24:32,760 --> 01:24:36,040
Speaker 1: Brady's production is so different without Gronk, his his his

1716
01:24:36,160 --> 01:24:39,519
Speaker 1: numbers go down, but it doesn't seem to sink the team.

1717
01:24:39,600 --> 01:24:41,360
Speaker 1: Is that the way it did in years previous when

1718
01:24:41,360 --> 01:24:43,639
Speaker 1: he got hurt? Great stats, Mark, I have one that's

1719
01:24:43,640 --> 01:24:47,880
Speaker 1: even more disgusting, The filthiest stat of Week fourteen. You

1720
01:24:47,960 --> 01:24:51,760
Speaker 1: ready for it? From this comes from Rich free Bar

1721
01:24:52,200 --> 01:24:54,720
Speaker 1: of Rhoda World. I hope I got his last. Does

1722
01:24:54,720 --> 01:24:57,760
Speaker 1: a good job on he does a weekly uh cheat sheet.

1723
01:24:57,800 --> 01:24:59,760
Speaker 1: I think he does the worksheet it's called and he

1724
01:24:59,760 --> 01:25:02,720
Speaker 1: doesn great job at Lord reeves on Twitter and nice

1725
01:25:02,720 --> 01:25:06,360
Speaker 1: little pop there for a friend, Rich. Anyway, here comes

1726
01:25:06,439 --> 01:25:10,240
Speaker 1: The last time the Patriots ran a play while trailing

1727
01:25:10,240 --> 01:25:12,799
Speaker 1: in a game was the first quarter of Week eight.

1728
01:25:13,600 --> 01:25:18,559
Speaker 1: Hashtag say football, hashtag canceled the Patriots A probably canceled

1729
01:25:18,600 --> 01:25:24,920
Speaker 1: all the rotten teams like the Dolphins, and you want

1730
01:25:25,000 --> 01:25:28,280
Speaker 1: some throne of these you know commentary here. I kind

1731
01:25:28,320 --> 01:25:30,880
Speaker 1: of feel the Patriots need some more tests in their

1732
01:25:30,960 --> 01:25:33,320
Speaker 1: schedule right now. They've come after the by and it's

1733
01:25:33,320 --> 01:25:36,240
Speaker 1: been cupcake city even before the bye. The Broncos and

1734
01:25:36,280 --> 01:25:38,320
Speaker 1: the you know, the Raiders are weren't the teams that

1735
01:25:38,360 --> 01:25:40,519
Speaker 1: they expected. Yes, they get the Steelers next week, and

1736
01:25:40,560 --> 01:25:43,320
Speaker 1: that's good, but I don't like that they've played basically

1737
01:25:43,360 --> 01:25:45,360
Speaker 1: the dregs of the league. The Jets are gonna be

1738
01:25:45,400 --> 01:25:47,280
Speaker 1: the second toughest game they have in the second half

1739
01:25:47,280 --> 01:25:50,160
Speaker 1: of the schedule. Week seventeen. We've we've heard all about

1740
01:25:50,200 --> 01:25:53,040
Speaker 1: the defensive turnaround, but when you look at this team

1741
01:25:53,040 --> 01:25:56,360
Speaker 1: who they faced, all the good offenses that they've beaten,

1742
01:25:56,920 --> 01:26:00,800
Speaker 1: The Saints, the Falcons, the Chargers, they played those teams

1743
01:26:00,800 --> 01:26:04,400
Speaker 1: before the offenses started humming. They've time, they've timed the sketch.

1744
01:26:04,479 --> 01:26:06,559
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's when you play a team. And I think

1745
01:26:06,560 --> 01:26:10,439
Speaker 1: the Patriots have been fortunate. The football gods have. And

1746
01:26:10,479 --> 01:26:13,920
Speaker 1: the football gods hate the fan bases of many other teams,

1747
01:26:14,360 --> 01:26:18,240
Speaker 1: many many other but not yours, Greg, definitely yours. They

1748
01:26:18,280 --> 01:26:21,200
Speaker 1: smile down upon week after week, you know, and you

1749
01:26:21,200 --> 01:26:24,080
Speaker 1: sit in your little comfortable chair and angels feed you

1750
01:26:24,120 --> 01:26:27,800
Speaker 1: grapes and half clothed humans poor sort of, you know,

1751
01:26:28,479 --> 01:26:31,800
Speaker 1: liquid and drinks have wine down your throat, as they

1752
01:26:31,840 --> 01:26:34,280
Speaker 1: call it. I mean the football gods wearing a headset

1753
01:26:34,280 --> 01:26:36,920
Speaker 1: on the sidelines and taking snaps behind center. Those are

1754
01:26:36,920 --> 01:26:43,400
Speaker 1: your football gods right? Save it for the religion podcast,

1755
01:26:43,560 --> 01:26:46,600
Speaker 1: the theology podcast, guys. Um, that is it for the

1756
01:26:46,640 --> 01:26:50,559
Speaker 1: week fourteen preview. Um. The next time you hear from us,

1757
01:26:50,640 --> 01:26:54,200
Speaker 1: it will be Sunday night when we recap all the games.

1758
01:26:54,560 --> 01:26:57,800
Speaker 1: NFL Pick Them, by the way, is the television show

1759
01:26:57,800 --> 01:26:59,720
Speaker 1: on NFL network that they put us on for a

1760
01:26:59,720 --> 01:27:02,920
Speaker 1: few It's every week and you could check that out

1761
01:27:02,960 --> 01:27:06,080
Speaker 1: a little different schedule this week, guys, Saturday at eight

1762
01:27:06,120 --> 01:27:09,439
Speaker 1: am Eastern and then Sunday at six am Eastern. Does

1763
01:27:09,479 --> 01:27:13,559
Speaker 1: that mean we lost? We've lost two, alright, so we're

1764
01:27:13,560 --> 01:27:17,080
Speaker 1: being phased out of the NFL network. We were good

1765
01:27:17,160 --> 01:27:19,880
Speaker 1: to know. That's fine. We were on up to the minute.

1766
01:27:19,880 --> 01:27:22,160
Speaker 1: Thursday will be too late for people that listen to us.

1767
01:27:22,160 --> 01:27:25,240
Speaker 1: But you know, well, yeah, we're scheduled on up to

1768
01:27:25,240 --> 01:27:27,400
Speaker 1: the minute on Tuesdays and Thursdays. We get bumped there

1769
01:27:27,600 --> 01:27:30,280
Speaker 1: once or twice a week two, so you try to

1770
01:27:30,320 --> 01:27:31,760
Speaker 1: catch it. Don't go out of your way though, Don't

1771
01:27:31,760 --> 01:27:32,840
Speaker 1: get me. Don't feel like you have to go out

1772
01:27:32,840 --> 01:27:35,120
Speaker 1: here where I want to call shooting stars on the

1773
01:27:35,120 --> 01:27:39,520
Speaker 1: network side, I would call us, you know, meek constellations.

1774
01:27:40,479 --> 01:27:47,200
Speaker 1: We're utility players. As you know, your third baseman gets

1775
01:27:47,200 --> 01:27:48,920
Speaker 1: a spring and ankle. You need someone to fill in

1776
01:27:48,920 --> 01:27:54,439
Speaker 1: for a couple of games. We're there. No, you need

1777
01:27:54,479 --> 01:27:57,559
Speaker 1: like an Andy Stankowitz type. You need a game kapler

1778
01:27:57,640 --> 01:28:00,960
Speaker 1: and give me a red utility guy. Chico real Easy

1779
01:28:01,080 --> 01:28:04,080
Speaker 1: is the greatest quote in baseball history. He was a

1780
01:28:04,160 --> 01:28:06,360
Speaker 1: utility guy and he had to play every day for

1781
01:28:06,400 --> 01:28:08,000
Speaker 1: a couple of months, and he said, bench me or

1782
01:28:08,000 --> 01:28:13,680
Speaker 1: trade me. All right, there you go, let's get out

1783
01:28:13,680 --> 01:28:16,719
Speaker 1: of here. It's Dan Hanson signing off for Quiet Storm.

1784
01:28:16,800 --> 01:28:20,759
Speaker 1: The Mailman, the old Boss, Lindsay Fulton behind the glass

1785
01:28:25,720 --> 01:28:39,000
Speaker 1: until Sunday,