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Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast. Shoot, add Mad Money Smith

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Speaker 1: to the payroll. I can't get behind that. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: another edition to Be Around the NFL Podcast. My name

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Speaker 1: is Dan Hands. I'm joined and they were filled with

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Speaker 1: heroes Mark Sessler, Chris Westling and the Gregg Rowth call.

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Speaker 1: What is up? Boys? Hey Dad? All right? Money ain't

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Speaker 1: getting paid by us? Yeah, you know, so there's somebody here.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to go all west here. Somebody's gotta

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Speaker 1: pay daddy a little bit more in the building. I'm

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Speaker 1: going upstairs soon. I'm knocking at some doors. Well, money's

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Speaker 1: earning that Moniker just got another a nationally televised show

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Speaker 1: he's hosted with Tim Tebow coming up. So I'm excited

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Speaker 1: to have who else there's a friend that's so like successful.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if he'd consider us

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Speaker 1: a friends, but we know him and he success. Colleague.

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Speaker 1: That's colleague is probably the safer. He invited us out

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Speaker 1: to lunch. Yeah, that's what a friend does. You don't

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Speaker 1: feel like you have any other friends you would categorize

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Speaker 1: as successful. Greg No, I mean I'm saying it's nice.

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Speaker 1: It's nice to see it. Guy like Money doing well,

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Speaker 1: generating multiple argumentative conversations before we get to the air.

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine Greg table means it's Thanksgiving? Can you

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Speaker 1: imagine what's going on in uh Wilbraham when Greg gets

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Speaker 1: you know, a couple of wines in them and it's fine.

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Speaker 1: I mean, no one, no one in my family has

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Speaker 1: lived in Wilbraham and in a long decade. But uh yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I'm not the only annoying one at the

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Speaker 1: Rosenthal family table, that's for sure. Greg gets more relaxed

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Speaker 1: the more drinks. Yeah, no, I don't. I don't work

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Speaker 1: contrarian with a couple of pops or whatever. Alright, this

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Speaker 1: is the Week twelve preview show, uh in in case

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Speaker 1: you missed it, uh the first three games of Week

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Speaker 1: twelve a k Thanksgiving Thursday, November. We did a podcast

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Speaker 1: that we released on Tuesday morning or Tuesday afternoon, depending

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Speaker 1: where you are, that had the preview of Chicago, Detroit, Washington, Dallas,

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Speaker 1: and Atlanta, New Orleans in addition to our recap at

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Speaker 1: the Monday Night Classic between the Chiefs and Rams. So

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Speaker 1: make sure you check that out if you haven't already,

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Speaker 1: or if you're going on a road trip, like West

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Speaker 1: saying you need to get up at five in the

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Speaker 1: we're going out tonight, Wednesday night, and Lakisha is like,

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Speaker 1: I don't care. It means a lot to me. And

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Speaker 1: West is about to learn that when you get engaged,

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Speaker 1: though they're not going though it doesn't seem like they're going. West,

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Speaker 1: You're right, and that's gonna be true, I'm sure over

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Speaker 1: a long range. But West, I feel like it's a

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Speaker 1: now it's changed to drive out at five o'clock on

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Speaker 1: both teams are much worse this year. UH. Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: a J. Green will be back at something. J Green change.

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Speaker 1: It's not a small You ever ever had a moment

428
00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:21,840
Speaker 1: in your life where it's a big job interview, or

429
00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:24,119
Speaker 1: maybe it's outside the waiting room and your wife's in

430
00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:26,080
Speaker 1: labor and you have that that feeling in the pit

431
00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:31,959
Speaker 1: of your stomach. That's me about that game totally. I mean,

432
00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:34,840
Speaker 1: don't you know. Let's maybe maybe I won't be in

433
00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:36,480
Speaker 1: an awful mood if they if they lose and I

434
00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:38,359
Speaker 1: lose the luck, maybe it just sets me free from

435
00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:40,600
Speaker 1: this tangled drama that I don't need to be a

436
00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:46,119
Speaker 1: part of to begin with. Let's move on the New

437
00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:50,480
Speaker 1: England Patriots uh and the Jets both coming off there

438
00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:52,840
Speaker 1: buys the whole a f C East was off last week.

439
00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:58,359
Speaker 1: Uh so the Pats come back. Um, they lost in

440
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Speaker 1: their Week ten game, which after six game losing streak,

441
00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:04,680
Speaker 1: but of course that also uh. The loss of the

442
00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:08,160
Speaker 1: Titans had some people talking people like Chris Westling who

443
00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:11,640
Speaker 1: are wondering if Tom Brady at long last is in decline,

444
00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:15,000
Speaker 1: and and even west I'll set you up with that,

445
00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:17,760
Speaker 1: but also with this idea that, after all we saw

446
00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:20,120
Speaker 1: Monday Night, what we're seeing in New Orleans this year,

447
00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:22,560
Speaker 1: that it's starting to feel like the Patriots are a

448
00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:25,680
Speaker 1: bit of an old guard and a new generation's taking over.

449
00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:29,600
Speaker 1: How about that too? How about that? Well? I do

450
00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:32,320
Speaker 1: think there's some truth to that, because the Patriots are

451
00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:35,080
Speaker 1: growing older. And it's not just Tom Brady. It's that

452
00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:37,800
Speaker 1: Josh Gordon's a step slower than he was in Cleveland.

453
00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:40,239
Speaker 1: It's that Rob Gronkowski is a step slower and has

454
00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:42,960
Speaker 1: been out maybe two Um. It's that you had a

455
00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:45,680
Speaker 1: wide receiver playing running back for a few games. The defense,

456
00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:49,960
Speaker 1: it's kind of hit or miss um. Yeah, I do

457
00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:52,960
Speaker 1: think there's something to be said about that the Patriots

458
00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:55,600
Speaker 1: don't have the firepower to keep up with a team

459
00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:58,040
Speaker 1: like the Chiefs and or the Steelers. I think this year.

460
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Speaker 1: The one thing I would say to that, though, is

461
00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:01,680
Speaker 1: when I think of the Chiefs and the Rams being

462
00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:03,359
Speaker 1: ahead of the league, I think a lot of people

463
00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:06,960
Speaker 1: think schematically and in that way. I think the Patriots

464
00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:09,080
Speaker 1: have been ahead of the league for much of the

465
00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:13,040
Speaker 1: last decade, kind of breaking new ground, doing a lot

466
00:23:13,119 --> 00:23:15,560
Speaker 1: of the things that the Chiefs and Rams have done offensively,

467
00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:17,400
Speaker 1: and I think they still have that. I mean, that's

468
00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:19,879
Speaker 1: the reason why their offense is ranked so high in

469
00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:22,480
Speaker 1: points scored. It's not the most talented offense, and I

470
00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:25,720
Speaker 1: think scheme and and concept and everything like that. Wise,

471
00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:27,879
Speaker 1: they're doing well with what they have. But I think

472
00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:30,520
Speaker 1: to West's point, they're not as talented as those teams.

473
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Speaker 1: When I watched Brady last night, I watched his last

474
00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:35,960
Speaker 1: five games, and so much of their offensive smoking mirrors,

475
00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:40,280
Speaker 1: trick plays. So many of those points scored are blocked,

476
00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:44,920
Speaker 1: punt returns, kickoff returns, defensive returns. It's not all offense.

477
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Speaker 1: And I just wonder about the staying power um Brady's

478
00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:55,960
Speaker 1: passes between the numbers are fine. Outside the numbers, there's

479
00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:58,479
Speaker 1: a tendency for his ballton nose dive at the receiver.

480
00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:03,400
Speaker 1: There are more passes because of that, And I don't

481
00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:07,840
Speaker 1: think that he's like I'm not saying he's a liability.

482
00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:11,000
Speaker 1: I'm just saying the ratio of throws that he used

483
00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:13,960
Speaker 1: to make has decreased, and I think they're a team

484
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:17,600
Speaker 1: that is so based on timing and continuity and being

485
00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:19,639
Speaker 1: on the same page with Brady, and they have not

486
00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:23,400
Speaker 1: had that this year with their receiver and running back

487
00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:25,600
Speaker 1: and tight end and all their skill posions. They haven't

488
00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:27,879
Speaker 1: had any continuity. They haven't had the same group together

489
00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:30,880
Speaker 1: their ninth right now in offensive efficiency, which sounds about

490
00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:32,840
Speaker 1: right to me, like they're a good offense, but they've

491
00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:36,040
Speaker 1: been very used to be in one or two or three.

492
00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:38,000
Speaker 1: As a Patriots fan, I do think there is a

493
00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:40,520
Speaker 1: hope here, not only that the schedules a little soft

494
00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:43,040
Speaker 1: down the stretch, but that Gronk is returning for this game,

495
00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:45,639
Speaker 1: that Sony Michelle is back, that Josh Gordon, you know,

496
00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:48,320
Speaker 1: has the bio week Juliet like that you at least think, okay,

497
00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:50,080
Speaker 1: the best that they're gonna be able to put together

498
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:52,639
Speaker 1: this year, Maybe they can put that forward over the

499
00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:55,400
Speaker 1: next five weeks. On the jet side, like you, Sam

500
00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:58,959
Speaker 1: Donald watched practice on Monday. He's now in a helmet.

501
00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:02,240
Speaker 1: He was warming up today and taking part in you know,

502
00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:05,399
Speaker 1: on a limited basis. He's not involved in the individual drills,

503
00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:08,240
Speaker 1: And it doesn't sound like he's the only thing is

504
00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:10,400
Speaker 1: and that's fine. I would love if he is healthy,

505
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:12,000
Speaker 1: because he's saying he feels great. Who knows what that

506
00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:14,720
Speaker 1: even means. Like you want to see Donald go against

507
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:16,920
Speaker 1: the Patriots, you just do. I just don't want him

508
00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:18,639
Speaker 1: to be out for weeks and weeks and missed this

509
00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:20,280
Speaker 1: and have Josh McCown in there. I think that's what

510
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:23,080
Speaker 1: every Jets fan was excited about to see this, the

511
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:25,280
Speaker 1: new guard go against Brady and see where he's at.

512
00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:27,920
Speaker 1: But a week seventeen and you got week seventeen. Maybe

513
00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:30,480
Speaker 1: that's when it happens. Although who knows if the Pats

514
00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:32,240
Speaker 1: will have anything to play for that week. I think

515
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:35,440
Speaker 1: they will. We'll see, and I do think I do so.

516
00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 1: I think the count plays, but it would be fun

517
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:39,400
Speaker 1: to see Donald play, as bad as things have gone.

518
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:41,639
Speaker 1: And if I look at the Patriots schedule, even though

519
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:43,520
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily believe in them this year, I think

520
00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:45,680
Speaker 1: this is the year that they get whacked in the

521
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Speaker 1: a f C playoffs. At some point. I still see

522
00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:50,560
Speaker 1: eleven or twelve wins, so I think they're gonna be there.

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Speaker 1: I don't think there's any way they're falling off a

524
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Speaker 1: cliff or anything. And they still might even get to

525
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:56,600
Speaker 1: buy because what they do and what they've done for years,

526
00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:58,680
Speaker 1: even when it's looked a little grim in November about

527
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:00,679
Speaker 1: will they get that by they take care of their

528
00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:02,680
Speaker 1: business and then other teams seemed to fall back to

529
00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:05,040
Speaker 1: the pack. We'll see if that happens again. I mean

530
00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:07,399
Speaker 1: before that type. I think there is a chance we

531
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:10,400
Speaker 1: see a better pay and it's it's perfectly possible. I'm

532
00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:12,920
Speaker 1: just hopeful because I'm an optimistic fan, and that's not

533
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:16,440
Speaker 1: going to happen. But throughout their history they do close strong,

534
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:19,119
Speaker 1: and I think it's very possible that we see a

535
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:21,639
Speaker 1: better team than we have seen, and more like the

536
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Speaker 1: one that honestly everyone was pretty high on when they

537
00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 1: beat the Chiefs, Bears, Bills and Packers in a row.

538
00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:29,040
Speaker 1: And there were some fluky things in some of those games,

539
00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:30,800
Speaker 1: but for the most part it was going in and good.

540
00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:33,080
Speaker 1: Remember when far from two thousand nine to two thousand

541
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Speaker 1: and ten he just simply fell off a cliff into

542
00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:39,160
Speaker 1: total darkness, Like two thousand ten was so unbelievably hard

543
00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:41,399
Speaker 1: to watch, But with Brady it is does seem like

544
00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:43,560
Speaker 1: a truly gradual decline. Maybe you get a game where

545
00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:46,520
Speaker 1: he's thirteen or fifteen and two after double digit losses

546
00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:48,720
Speaker 1: in his career. I mean maybe, I mean, they might

547
00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:50,280
Speaker 1: be not the week where we're gonna get bad page.

548
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 1: We might be the third best a f C team,

549
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:54,480
Speaker 1: third or fourth, But it's like a lot of times

550
00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:56,680
Speaker 1: the third or fourth best team ends up finding a

551
00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:58,480
Speaker 1: way to get it done. And I would never count

552
00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:01,320
Speaker 1: out Bill Belichick from coming with some playoff game plans.

553
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 1: Maybe the bye week freshens him up. I mean, there's

554
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 1: a there's a long running theory in football that older

555
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:10,760
Speaker 1: players declined throughout a season because of the hits and

556
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:13,640
Speaker 1: because you do get older throughout the season. Is playing

557
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 1: this week, he is expected to play according to ESPN,

558
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:19,600
Speaker 1: but it's it's Wednesday as we're taping, and so that

559
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,040
Speaker 1: we don't have a ton of in anybody read that

560
00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 1: hit piece from miniche metabout that was laughable. I did not.

561
00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:28,720
Speaker 1: That was like the New York media is on my

562
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:30,680
Speaker 1: radar in a way that they have not been on

563
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:34,560
Speaker 1: in a long time. I honestly think it it's so

564
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:39,760
Speaker 1: transparent and like W W E style that you you

565
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:43,760
Speaker 1: it almost is done with a wink of the reference Yeah,

566
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:48,080
Speaker 1: they had. They had Brady and Belichick holding up a

567
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:50,520
Speaker 1: dead Gronk of Weekend at Gronky's. I mean, I mean,

568
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,159
Speaker 1: they've just been wishing for it for years, and Erica's

569
00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:55,880
Speaker 1: melting over there. You need to get as a Patriots fan,

570
00:27:55,920 --> 00:28:00,280
Speaker 1: you get a get a stronger break feel, just like

571
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:04,560
Speaker 1: making Yeah, we're gonna see Erica crying in January. As

572
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,280
Speaker 1: you were never alive when the Patriots were a white

573
00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:10,760
Speaker 1: hot disaster. So the second half of your life is

574
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:14,399
Speaker 1: going to be very difficulties. You go through decades and

575
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:16,879
Speaker 1: eventually you have to accept it, But now this is

576
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,040
Speaker 1: not the year to accept anything. They are seven and

577
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 1: three and right in the middle of you can accept

578
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:23,159
Speaker 1: it around that's what you want to do as a

579
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 1: as a as a sports fans, have your team in

580
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:28,399
Speaker 1: a playoff race that's no guarantee. Feel it feels like

581
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:32,359
Speaker 1: it feels very false. Yeah, speaking of Erica crying, the

582
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:39,480
Speaker 1: Eagles won the Super Bowl back in February. Uh sorry, um,

583
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:42,479
Speaker 1: but things have gone south in two thousand and eighteen.

584
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 1: They are riding a two game losing streaks. So they're

585
00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:47,680
Speaker 1: four and six, third place in the NFC East, and

586
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 1: they may not have to win out, but they got

587
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 1: to start winning with regularity, including a three game division

588
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:58,520
Speaker 1: swing right now, starting with the Giants hosting the Giants

589
00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:00,600
Speaker 1: hosting the Redskins, and then at else. They might have

590
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:02,480
Speaker 1: to win all those games, but you gotta start here

591
00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:06,080
Speaker 1: with the last place Giants and Greg. The Giants, if

592
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 1: nothing else, are playing better football. They want two straight.

593
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 1: And the way the Eagles are playing, I don't think

594
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 1: you could look past any opponent, No you can't. And

595
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 1: I think the Giants have kind of come up to

596
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 1: their level. I don't think they were quite as bad

597
00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 1: as a a one win team, and I think the

598
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:24,000
Speaker 1: Eagles have have come down to to their level. Malcolm

599
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 1: Jenkins kind of calling them out the rest of his

600
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,200
Speaker 1: teammates out this week for some of the attitude that

601
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 1: he thought he saw on the field. But it's like

602
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 1: they've been saying this every week. There's been a new

603
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 1: like now we're running out of time every week, you know,

604
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,720
Speaker 1: between between Doug Peterson and the players and it and

605
00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:43,080
Speaker 1: it never really changes. And I thought it was interesting. Uh.

606
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 1: In that Peter King piece with which Chris Wesley recommended

607
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 1: Highling was very good. He was embedded with the Saints

608
00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:51,400
Speaker 1: last week, and one of the Eagles takeaways I had

609
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,240
Speaker 1: from that is the Saints defense really just wanted to

610
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 1: put that game on Carson Wentz. That they did not

611
00:29:56,760 --> 00:30:00,200
Speaker 1: believe he could make the throws necessary, and he did

612
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:03,240
Speaker 1: have a tough game, and I just found I found

613
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 1: that that thought and approach interesting. I don't think he's

614
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 1: getting as nearly as much help from his coaches and

615
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:11,800
Speaker 1: his skill position teammates, but that I thought that was interesting.

616
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 1: All of his five deep shots down field fell to

617
00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 1: the turf last year. That was the complete opposite. They

618
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:20,400
Speaker 1: were so explosive and they could kill you with the run.

619
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:22,920
Speaker 1: I watching the Giants Bucks game, I thought I was

620
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 1: gonna be bored out of my mind, and it was

621
00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 1: the opposite. I thought it was one of the best

622
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:30,160
Speaker 1: sequon barkley performance as yet. There was a play where

623
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:32,640
Speaker 1: he had so much rum to run, but I think

624
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:34,640
Speaker 1: he I think he liked the way he runs is

625
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 1: unlike anyone else I've ever seen, where there he had

626
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:39,680
Speaker 1: a little scamper out into space and then just did

627
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 1: a little leap through the air to stay in bounds.

628
00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:44,240
Speaker 1: But he also ran better. I thought for short yardage,

629
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 1: had a really tough touchdown like run that was about

630
00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 1: five or six yards. And this this is not an

631
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 1: easy game for the Eagles. Their secondary is so banged

632
00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:55,080
Speaker 1: up right now that it's good. It's it's arrow up

633
00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:58,360
Speaker 1: for Odell Beckham, it's arrow up for Sequon Barkley. In

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00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,160
Speaker 1: this game, I agree with all of your analysis on

635
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 1: se Kwon Barkley and Um. Because the Giants are now

636
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 1: a playoff contender and ELI back Um. The Eagles are

637
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:11,240
Speaker 1: gonna have to lock it up. The Eagle's gonna have

638
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:13,160
Speaker 1: a hard time winning, but I'm gonna lock him up

639
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,719
Speaker 1: against this powerhouse. If the New York media has told us.

640
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 1: The New York media has told us that this team

641
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:23,840
Speaker 1: is real. They beat Nick Mullen's forty Niners, they beat

642
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 1: the worst defense in the NFL, and they are ready

643
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:31,080
Speaker 1: to rule watch Al Philadelphia. These Giants are a monster.

644
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:34,320
Speaker 1: ELI should probably be signed up for four more years. Lock.

645
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:38,280
Speaker 1: They are starting to build that case. Who wants that?

646
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 1: The New York media, they are an absolute laughable, reactionary

647
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 1: mess trying to get the New York City fired up.

648
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:49,920
Speaker 1: They are clowns in the media. There is a little river,

649
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 1: There is a little bit of like George Bush and

650
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 1: Condi Rice. You know, right or right before the Iraq War,

651
00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:58,720
Speaker 1: they're like talking about you know, they're starting to build

652
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:02,040
Speaker 1: the case he slowly. Yeah, I'm saying like, oh, there's

653
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 1: some weapons of mass destruction here, like you know, maybe

654
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 1: they were behind nine eleven. They're they're just like slowly

655
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 1: building up this false case which is gonna end up

656
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,720
Speaker 1: with Eli Man Dick Cheney off the hook there ye counterpoint.

657
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 1: I do like this the pivot by Eli Hayters, like

658
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 1: Wes and Greg and others. Oh, we don't get to

659
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:23,719
Speaker 1: kick dirt on his grave because he's playing better now

660
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:28,240
Speaker 1: he's not. Let's now turn to a hard mock that

661
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 1: the Giants will now definitely resign he like because he's

662
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 1: so good, and that way when he comes back down

663
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 1: to earth again, you can then celebrate. It's all very

664
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 1: very very predicted. Oh, we're the ones who are laughable here.

665
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:43,360
Speaker 1: Not the New York media are reactionary as the New

666
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 1: York media with We've been saying the same thing for

667
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:48,760
Speaker 1: three years. And just because they just because he beat

668
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:51,840
Speaker 1: in a play action heavy game plan the worst defense

669
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 1: in the league doesn't mean that he's back. It's hard

670
00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:56,800
Speaker 1: to it's hard to have a team that's not watchable

671
00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:59,480
Speaker 1: when you have se Quon Barkley and Odell not defending.

672
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 1: I don't think here's I'm just saying, by the way,

673
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 1: back in like week four, West you were you were

674
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:05,960
Speaker 1: allowing the Giants offense and saying they're about to take off.

675
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 1: So if I think that's got treaded when I wasn't

676
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 1: here for picking the Panthers against the Giants in a lock,

677
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 1: I'm not the only people you know. All I'm saying

678
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 1: is is that Eli is not gonna resign with the

679
00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 1: Giants there. He's just having everyone's jumping on this idea that, oh,

680
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:21,760
Speaker 1: now that John's gonna get sucked and this is just

681
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 1: the temporary thing. That's it. I don't know, and that

682
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:27,640
Speaker 1: nobody's getting sucked in. I don't. I think the New

683
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 1: York media they're they're getting sucked. This is what they're

684
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 1: getting sucked in by, because I know this media very well.

685
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:35,200
Speaker 1: Three and seven, two game winning streak in a bad division,

686
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 1: and they're saying, well, what could happen? And by the way,

687
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:40,240
Speaker 1: not for nothing, the Giants have had their share of

688
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:42,680
Speaker 1: fairy tales in the past, so they're doing what they

689
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 1: have to do to juice things up, to make things

690
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:47,400
Speaker 1: more interesting. And what's otherwise a lost year in New

691
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 1: York football. It's just what they do. I don't understand

692
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:53,200
Speaker 1: why you would hate the the gossip rag for being gossipy.

693
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:55,640
Speaker 1: What happened to journalism? The New York Post of the

694
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 1: New York Daily News never said they were journalists the newspaper. No,

695
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:02,080
Speaker 1: they hold on the New York bad Boys do not

696
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:06,040
Speaker 1: have to. But the writers, the writers are different than

697
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:08,759
Speaker 1: the beat writers are different than the columnists, who are

698
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:11,759
Speaker 1: different than the headline makers. But that's the case. But

699
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:14,120
Speaker 1: you can't just roll out the baby with the bathwater.

700
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:16,360
Speaker 1: You have to understand who's writing what. It's not the

701
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 1: entire here's the thing. I'm I'm with West, that shocker

702
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 1: that they're gonna win this game. But I checked, I

703
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:28,359
Speaker 1: checked the weather report, uh for Sunday, and um, it's

704
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:30,719
Speaker 1: not like gonna be a hard rain, but it's gonna

705
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:32,920
Speaker 1: be like a little bit of sprinkling. It's gonna be

706
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 1: a little bit of drizzling. And sometimes you know, you

707
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:39,160
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta be out emotional in these things. And

708
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 1: even though I'm not like a huge Giants guy, Uh,

709
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:45,319
Speaker 1: sometimes you have rules in life, and the Eagles are

710
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 1: favored by an incredible amount in this game. For a

711
00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:51,440
Speaker 1: bad team come by a touchdown, they're favored by a

712
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:54,880
Speaker 1: touchdown and there and I kind of have rules. It's

713
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:57,480
Speaker 1: like if bad teams should never be favored by a touchdown.

714
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,960
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go with the Giants. What Giants offense

715
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 1: isn't even the worst unit on their team. What if

716
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 1: their defense is even worse defense and they have one

717
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,120
Speaker 1: of the worst pass rushes that can barely hold off

718
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 1: the buck, you know, well, they can't stop the run either.

719
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:11,719
Speaker 1: Sunday is gonna be wild now because Mark is locked

720
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:15,040
Speaker 1: up the Browns and West is locked up against the Giants.

721
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:18,399
Speaker 1: What if the Giants win and the Browns lose, It's

722
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:20,880
Speaker 1: gonna be atomic in this room. So they're hoping for

723
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 1: because you know, it's like a little drizzle the drizzle maker. Hey,

724
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 1: the Giants couldn't The Giants could easily win against a

725
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:33,960
Speaker 1: bad Eagles team. They have beaten bad teams. Let's move on.

726
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:36,600
Speaker 1: You just locked up the Eagles, though, right they could win.

727
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 1: I'm not saying this is a gimme. I mean, the

728
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:42,360
Speaker 1: Giants are a playoff contender. I learned that, alright, the

729
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:44,880
Speaker 1: forty Niners are not a playoff contender. There two and

730
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:47,680
Speaker 1: eight uh. Coming off a loss of the Giants, uh

731
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:50,319
Speaker 1: and then a bye, they travel to Tampa to face

732
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:53,319
Speaker 1: the Bucks, who steak. Who's their play caller this week

733
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 1: is that the mascot. It doesn't matter because the Bucks

734
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:59,760
Speaker 1: are are irrelevant and their quarterback this week is Jamis

735
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:04,440
Speaker 1: Instant Ryan Fitzpatrick. Back to the bench mark, what is

736
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:07,400
Speaker 1: there to watch for in this game? You want me

737
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:10,480
Speaker 1: to come up with an answer to that, George Kittle?

738
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:13,839
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll say this. Kyle Shanahan has shown that he can.

739
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:15,440
Speaker 1: There's not a lot of coaches can do this, that

740
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:18,120
Speaker 1: can make the most of a backup quarterback and a

741
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:20,239
Speaker 1: third string quarterback on the other side of the ball.

742
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 1: I feel like Dirk Cutter is authoring a new, updated, uh,

743
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 1: you know, guide on how to get fired because you

744
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:29,440
Speaker 1: can't make either of your quarterbacks work. It's constant drives

745
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:31,440
Speaker 1: that are blowing up in the red zone. I mean,

746
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:33,279
Speaker 1: they go for it from fourth to one. Last week,

747
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick cannot sneak in for the first down. They have

748
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:40,400
Speaker 1: Jamis Winston fumbling the ball a yard outside of the

749
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:42,799
Speaker 1: end zone, which they're lucky resulted in a touchdown. They

750
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 1: had to pick six. I mean they're eight. They can

751
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:48,279
Speaker 1: do a lot in between in between the red zones,

752
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 1: and they can't do anything inside of it. I don't

753
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:52,839
Speaker 1: trust this team at all, and I think the forty

754
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:55,840
Speaker 1: Niners are gonna take him down. Kiddle is leading the

755
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 1: NFL and in yards after the catch, and not just

756
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:01,920
Speaker 1: tight ends but tight ends and wide receivers, which is

757
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:04,640
Speaker 1: a pretty incredible thing for any He's been great tight

758
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:07,000
Speaker 1: end to do statistically like he is, he is maybe

759
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:08,640
Speaker 1: the best tight end in the league. Is he better

760
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:10,839
Speaker 1: than O? J. Howard across the side of the ball.

761
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:12,320
Speaker 1: I don't know. They just got moved to I R

762
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 1: unfortunately foot an ankle injuries, so he's out of the mix.

763
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:20,719
Speaker 1: Uh And I don't know. Doesn't it feel like it's

764
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 1: possible also that with the season already lost, that Winston

765
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:26,920
Speaker 1: might put up some big statistical games to make the

766
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:29,319
Speaker 1: Bucks think twice as they head into the off season. Yes,

767
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:31,640
Speaker 1: but it always comes a lot of two or three turnovers.

768
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:34,880
Speaker 1: Like I I the production is nice. I'd like to

769
00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:37,759
Speaker 1: see him not be a liability every single time. He's

770
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 1: in there. He's always gonna have mistakes, but I could

771
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:44,400
Speaker 1: see maybe the Bucks finishing clothes to make finishing stronger

772
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:47,680
Speaker 1: to make the ball hasn't been a problem that. I

773
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 1: think the Bucks are first in the league, and completions

774
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 1: over fifteen yards them in the Rams are the top

775
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 1: two teams by a decent amount. That's a lot of

776
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 1: that Fitzpatrick, but a lot of it's Winston two is

777
00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 1: averaging eight and a half yards p attempt. It's just

778
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 1: the turnovers are at killer, and I do think he

779
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:03,440
Speaker 1: could be the Bucks quarterback next year. There's no way

780
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 1: Deck Cotter is making that decision. It's Jason Lights probably

781
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:09,279
Speaker 1: not making that decision. So it's hard to say that

782
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:12,840
Speaker 1: whoever they hire to run their football operations is definitely

783
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:15,880
Speaker 1: gonna rule out bringing back Winston on a one year contract.

784
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 1: When he looks at all the option, it's gonna be awesome.

785
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 1: One Beason another coach telling us how it's gonna be.

786
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:25,919
Speaker 1: It's gonna be Gruden and Derek Carr Part two. All offs.

787
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. If you're we'll have the off season

788
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 1: to talk about it. But if I'm the Bucks, it's

789
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:32,479
Speaker 1: like in you're drafting a quarterback, Like, why not draft

790
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 1: a quarterback and keep Winston for one more year? I

791
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:37,359
Speaker 1: don't know, Like, what's the harm in that? And here's

792
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 1: my favorite stat of the season so far. There are

793
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 1: three quarterbacks in the NFL with eleven or more interceptions.

794
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:46,920
Speaker 1: Two of them play for the Buccaneers. Oh my god, right,

795
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 1: and only Sam Donald and Josh Rosen have worse passer

796
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:51,960
Speaker 1: ratings since Week three than those two Bucks quarterbacks. And

797
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:54,240
Speaker 1: whoever is running the Bucks, they'll have to make the decision.

798
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 1: To your point, mark Winston for all his ability, as

799
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 1: they're on fifty five in or se sinceince the enter

800
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 1: of the league. That's tied with Blake Portals the much

801
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 1: belond Blake Bortles for worse than football. The guy's a

802
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 1: turnover machine. Can he be fixed? He won't have O. J. Howard,

803
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:12,840
Speaker 1: who was out for the year and has been a

804
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:15,080
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl level He has made the leap a Pro

805
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 1: Bowl level tight end this year. That guy is gonna

806
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:21,560
Speaker 1: be incredible going forward next year. Let's move on the

807
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:25,640
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals two and eight. Uh. They narrow loss to

808
00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:28,320
Speaker 1: the Raiders. They really yak that one away. Uh, and

809
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:32,680
Speaker 1: now they travel to uh Carson California. I've never been

810
00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 1: to Carson Mark. You went to a Chargers game. I

811
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:36,840
Speaker 1: had a great time at that. What's car tell me

812
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 1: about Carson though, it's like like a with out with

813
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 1: and it's not a ton of traffic. It's like a

814
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:44,040
Speaker 1: fourteen minute it's you never been to the Ikea. I

815
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:46,279
Speaker 1: mean that it's nice. You wouldn't even know that it

816
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:48,279
Speaker 1: has a different name than just like part of l A.

817
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:50,040
Speaker 1: Like it's one of those things. I've been to the

818
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 1: Ikea and Burbag. That's a nice establishment. Wow, that Carson won.

819
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 1: Just the nice straight shot. You get down there, have

820
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 1: some of those meatballs, maybe around forty five with the kids.

821
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,080
Speaker 1: There isn't like a giant sign welcoming you there. It's

822
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:04,360
Speaker 1: sort of in just tucked into the l A landscape

823
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 1: for the most part. But StubHub, for all the issues,

824
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 1: wasn't It was an incredible game d experience, great soccer

825
00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:14,359
Speaker 1: crowd there. Anyway. The Chargers are seven and three coming

826
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 1: off that. A lot of big box stores, I would say, yeah,

827
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:21,880
Speaker 1: a lot of big stores, shopping centers, strip balls. The

828
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 1: Broncos beat him two a game. The Chargers had no

829
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:29,200
Speaker 1: business losing. Uh and Keenan Allen said as much. He

830
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:32,319
Speaker 1: straight up said, the Broncos suck after this game, Well,

831
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:34,479
Speaker 1: you know what, you got beat, so now you gotta

832
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:38,040
Speaker 1: bounce back. But luckily the schedule God's got your back, West,

833
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:41,320
Speaker 1: because the Cards probably aren't gonna be a road Warriors

834
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 1: here right. Yeah, just when Joey Bosa comes back. They

835
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:50,040
Speaker 1: run into a Cardinals offensive line that seems to lose

836
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:52,080
Speaker 1: a guy a week. I think they lost d J.

837
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:54,600
Speaker 1: Humphries last week. He came out of the game. I'm

838
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 1: not sure of his status this week. They had lost

839
00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:59,800
Speaker 1: Justin Pew the week before um and they were already

840
00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:02,720
Speaker 1: one the worst. Andre Smith gets beat by speed rushers

841
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:06,800
Speaker 1: this This feels like an incredibly lopsided matchup in the

842
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:09,120
Speaker 1: in the charge of favor as far as the pass

843
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:12,000
Speaker 1: rushing offensive line goes, I think that the Rivers is

844
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:13,920
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers had a lot of bad luck over the year.

845
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:16,040
Speaker 1: This year, he's I think it's turning around on him.

846
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:18,279
Speaker 1: Not just that he's getting help, but the schedule has

847
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:21,400
Speaker 1: obviously helped them throughout the season. And to get the

848
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:24,200
Speaker 1: Cardinals on the schedule right after you have that tough

849
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:27,000
Speaker 1: loss is beautiful and you want to see Joey Bosa

850
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:30,319
Speaker 1: look look a little more like Joey Bosa. He played

851
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:33,840
Speaker 1: about half the snaps last week, believe was supposed to

852
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:36,200
Speaker 1: play twenty made It made a player too, but it

853
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:38,440
Speaker 1: wasn't quite Joey Bosa. You wouldn't expect that the first

854
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:40,320
Speaker 1: week back. But I think that's kind of That's certainly

855
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:42,239
Speaker 1: one thing to watch in this game to see, like

856
00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 1: if he's going to get to his full potential, because

857
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:46,799
Speaker 1: if he does, then him and Ingram are right there

858
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 1: with any tandem in the lead. They're pretty banged up

859
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:51,480
Speaker 1: on defense too. I did see positives in that game,

860
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:53,680
Speaker 1: and it was an awful loss against the Broncos. But

861
00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon ran as well as he has all year.

862
00:41:56,920 --> 00:41:59,840
Speaker 1: Mike Williams made an incredible he I really like my

863
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 1: Williams that they can find a way to use them

864
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 1: a little bit more. But my one concern is just

865
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:07,880
Speaker 1: how messy and sloppy they were. They had seven penalties

866
00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:09,680
Speaker 1: in the first quarter alone, and they just they were.

867
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:11,759
Speaker 1: They never found a way to separate from Denver, and

868
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:15,000
Speaker 1: that that was along with this game the schedule that

869
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:16,800
Speaker 1: said this is how they get to Pittsburgh. As a

870
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:18,279
Speaker 1: team with a chance for a buy and they shot

871
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:19,959
Speaker 1: themselves in the foot. I don't know if it's gonna

872
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:21,680
Speaker 1: matter in the f C, although it will against the

873
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 1: Chiefs and it will against the Steelers, and those are

874
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:25,239
Speaker 1: two teams they played against. But I didn't know if

875
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:27,120
Speaker 1: last week was a little bit of laura Ville for

876
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:29,120
Speaker 1: their old line, which has been better all year, but

877
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 1: got blasted by an improving Broncos defense. Great running back

878
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 1: matchup here, Greg, I'm gonna I'm gonna give you an

879
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:41,520
Speaker 1: option here. Uh. Since Week eight, Johnson has been David

880
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:44,520
Speaker 1: Johnson has been a top five running back statistically. We

881
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:47,439
Speaker 1: know what he's done in the past outside of last year.

882
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:50,840
Speaker 1: If you're starting a team, Melvin Gordon or David Johnson,

883
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:52,800
Speaker 1: who would be your pick? I would take David Johnson

884
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:58,000
Speaker 1: based on his overall body of work and his exceptional

885
00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:00,880
Speaker 1: receiving ability. But if you're just saying who do you

886
00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:02,839
Speaker 1: want for the rest of the season, I'd take Melvin Gordon.

887
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,640
Speaker 1: Right now. I think Melvin Gordon's right there just about

888
00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:08,400
Speaker 1: with any running back in the in the league. Because

889
00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:11,440
Speaker 1: I kind of straddled defence there. Melvin Gordon's had a

890
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:14,080
Speaker 1: much better season than David Johnson, he's been he's been

891
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 1: a top three or four running back. I think he

892
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:18,040
Speaker 1: Johnson has had like a good three weeks. Basically, Gordon

893
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:20,840
Speaker 1: has been so good. And I have liked him in

894
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:23,800
Speaker 1: the past, but you almost there's a little part of

895
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:26,880
Speaker 1: me that's like, gosh, why why weren't you? Are you

896
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:28,919
Speaker 1: gonna be this good every year? Because I think he's

897
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:31,239
Speaker 1: playing at another level that he's never played at. And

898
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 1: so David Johnson's a guy who has been ultra professional

899
00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:37,520
Speaker 1: and ultra good since the basically the day he entered

900
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 1: the league. We continue through the late games. The Pittsburgh

901
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:43,399
Speaker 1: Steelers seven two and one. They're riding a six game

902
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:47,920
Speaker 1: losing streak. They shocked the Jaguars speaking at Yakking Yaggs

903
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:51,959
Speaker 1: Yacht a sixteen zip lead and gave up twenty straight

904
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:55,400
Speaker 1: points to Jackson to the Pittsburgh Steelers. So the Steelers

905
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:58,240
Speaker 1: seven two and one, and now they traveled to Denver

906
00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:01,320
Speaker 1: to face the Broncos, who you know, even though Keenan

907
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:04,880
Speaker 1: Allen says they suck, well, they're four and six, Greg

908
00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:07,960
Speaker 1: and they gotta win against the Chargers last week and

909
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:10,560
Speaker 1: they have a faint, faint pulse in the a f

910
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:12,800
Speaker 1: C playoff picture, Well, if you want to have a

911
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:14,400
Speaker 1: real shot, you're gonna have to figure out a way

912
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:16,480
Speaker 1: to beat the Steelers in your building. Yeah, they're technically

913
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:18,560
Speaker 1: only one loss back. There's a lot of teams there,

914
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:20,880
Speaker 1: and they have very few, very little margin for air.

915
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:23,360
Speaker 1: Their defense has gotten better throughout the course of the season.

916
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:26,520
Speaker 1: I think it's one of I don't know, I don't

917
00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:29,239
Speaker 1: even know where to put defenses anymore, Like, aren't they

918
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:31,200
Speaker 1: one of the better defenses in the league at this point.

919
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:33,960
Speaker 1: I would put the Broncos in the top five or six.

920
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:36,960
Speaker 1: I can take one right now, Yeah, I really would.

921
00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:39,800
Speaker 1: I think I think they give you a lot of

922
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:42,440
Speaker 1: problems up front since Bradley Chubb has really come on,

923
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:46,800
Speaker 1: like that is an unstoppable duo, and they're pretty solid otherwise,

924
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 1: they stopped giving up big plays. I think they've been

925
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 1: pretty good since some statistically the middle of the road.

926
00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:54,200
Speaker 1: But you're you're more talking, I don't know what you're seeing,

927
00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:58,080
Speaker 1: and they're building. Von Miller is single handedly won two

928
00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:01,879
Speaker 1: games for them over the last month. There's nothing wrong

929
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:04,320
Speaker 1: with von Miller. I questioned their secondary, and I've questioned

930
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:08,680
Speaker 1: their secondary all year. That they released. UM Football Outsiders

931
00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:11,000
Speaker 1: has them fourth right now, and mostly because they have

932
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:13,400
Speaker 1: a pretty good past defense lately and Chris Harris. They

933
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:15,239
Speaker 1: don't look like that to me on the field of

934
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:17,080
Speaker 1: the fourth fourth best defense, I don't even know what

935
00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:18,719
Speaker 1: that even means any right, That's the thing is, I

936
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:20,920
Speaker 1: don't know if they're there. There's probably not a lot

937
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:22,440
Speaker 1: of difference between the fourth best and I think the

938
00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:26,120
Speaker 1: Steelers defense. They released Pacman Jones, who looked like he

939
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:28,160
Speaker 1: was running about a four nine forty on a kickoff

940
00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 1: return last week. The end of the road for pac Man.

941
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:35,640
Speaker 1: It's been quite an adventure. I'm curious how the Steelers

942
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:38,279
Speaker 1: will respond. I mean, that was a great, stirring road

943
00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:41,960
Speaker 1: win last week. It's funny because they played so bad offensively,

944
00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:45,200
Speaker 1: and yet I don't know that is that that is

945
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:47,279
Speaker 1: such an amazing win. I mean, that was such a

946
00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:50,279
Speaker 1: classic Ben Roethlisberger game. And you were talking about it

947
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:52,279
Speaker 1: on Sunday, Dan, and once I got to see it,

948
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:54,359
Speaker 1: you were right. It's just like after having a three

949
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:57,719
Speaker 1: quarters like that then to have the finish that he had,

950
00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:00,279
Speaker 1: it's just it was just somebody, I don't know. It

951
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:04,120
Speaker 1: might have been on Twitter came after me or us

952
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:07,680
Speaker 1: for outcome bias in that game. And yeah, they started slow,

953
00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:09,960
Speaker 1: and so you don't want to just you know, throw

954
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:13,840
Speaker 1: flowers at Ben for an amazing performance. But the ability

955
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:17,240
Speaker 1: to close out a game on fire like that come bias,

956
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 1: that's my favorite. It's like, well, the outcomes the outcome one.

957
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:23,480
Speaker 1: I mean also, I think it's that game is an

958
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:26,279
Speaker 1: example of staff not mattering at all because it's like

959
00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:28,719
Speaker 1: they were shut down. The Jaguars had a good game

960
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:32,040
Speaker 1: plan Pittsburgh. Basically that's the game they lose every other year.

961
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:34,959
Speaker 1: They totally adjusted and blew them away in the fourth quarter.

962
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:37,360
Speaker 1: And that's the road to first round buys. You have

963
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:39,640
Speaker 1: to steal a couple of these games that you're supposed

964
00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:41,640
Speaker 1: to lose. And then it's it's like they know F

965
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:44,360
Speaker 1: and Way game and Madden where you're you're designed to

966
00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:45,920
Speaker 1: lose the game. And if you figure out a way

967
00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:47,959
Speaker 1: to win that game, Ben, what happens when you figure

968
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:51,759
Speaker 1: out those things? Go to the Super Bowl? Maybe Erica,

969
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:53,960
Speaker 1: It's like like when you were crying after the Super Bowl,

970
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:55,839
Speaker 1: that was just outcome bias. You should have looked at

971
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:58,440
Speaker 1: the overall picture that they had a lot of yards

972
00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:02,600
Speaker 1: played pretty wouldn't even look at me? Is the still

973
00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:05,880
Speaker 1: the funniest part about that night? About it now, but

974
00:47:06,080 --> 00:47:11,520
Speaker 1: all of you were literally was earnest. It was earnest tears.

975
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:14,160
Speaker 1: It was a woman that was shattered, and we were

976
00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:16,080
Speaker 1: just getting to know you at that stage. You know,

977
00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:18,160
Speaker 1: we didn't know you that well. If you were doing

978
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 1: the same thing, uh, you know, now, if it happened now,

979
00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:24,480
Speaker 1: I feel like maybe our reaction would have been different.

980
00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:26,440
Speaker 1: But it was a very kind of almost the startling

981
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:28,040
Speaker 1: to see you curled up in a ball in the

982
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:31,040
Speaker 1: middle of the concourse of the Super Bowl stadium sobbing.

983
00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:33,239
Speaker 1: We also had four more hours, you had like four

984
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:36,320
Speaker 1: more hours, and so it's like, let's not jump in

985
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:38,520
Speaker 1: with a bunch of like insults right out of the ground.

986
00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:41,239
Speaker 1: Another word would be unprofessional. That would be one. That

987
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:43,919
Speaker 1: would be one. I mean, well, you're lucky that Greg

988
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:49,000
Speaker 1: didn't unfurl what many of us typical insults then that, yeah,

989
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:52,080
Speaker 1: was I thank you. I'm gonna change my Twitter profile

990
00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:57,840
Speaker 1: description to outcome biased. What what's like? What's what's everything?

991
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:00,440
Speaker 1: Everything should be done in theory instead of the field.

992
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:01,960
Speaker 1: I don't get that. I know we're I know we're

993
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:03,919
Speaker 1: way way off the Steelers game, but while we're talking

994
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:05,799
Speaker 1: last year Super Bowl, I I do want to point out,

995
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:09,759
Speaker 1: like all the little all the little uh needling you

996
00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:12,880
Speaker 1: guys sometimes do during the podcast, but about the Patriots

997
00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:15,840
Speaker 1: losing and this or that, you guys are certainly enjoying

998
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:18,080
Speaker 1: that you're rooting for that to happen. It is nothing

999
00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:20,920
Speaker 1: compared to the fact that every week my daughter asks

1000
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:23,880
Speaker 1: me whether the Eagles win are lost, because that's her

1001
00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 1: favorite team. She's stuck with it. And I say, sorry,

1002
00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:28,680
Speaker 1: you know, Elis, it's been a tough season. You know

1003
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:31,759
Speaker 1: they lost another one. And then immediately she responded, well,

1004
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:34,320
Speaker 1: they did beat the Patriots in the super Bowl, and

1005
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 1: that that's a weekly occurrence that hits me so much

1006
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:43,000
Speaker 1: harder than all the little needling you guys do during

1007
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:46,200
Speaker 1: the week. It's just maybe some parental d programming is

1008
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:48,440
Speaker 1: in order. What if what have I told you that?

1009
00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:52,279
Speaker 1: Let I worked with Emma to get that program in.

1010
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:57,560
Speaker 1: I wouldn't doubt it, alright, Moving on the late games,

1011
00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:00,600
Speaker 1: the Dolphins five and five, the Colts, I've in five

1012
00:49:01,560 --> 00:49:05,840
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler uh two teams battling for a playoff spot.

1013
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:09,000
Speaker 1: Big game Andrew Luck playing absolutely out of his mind.

1014
00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:12,360
Speaker 1: I've never seen Chris Wessling this excited about a player

1015
00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:14,920
Speaker 1: in a season since we're doing this podcast, I mean,

1016
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:17,960
Speaker 1: are we really to believe that the Miami Dolphins, with

1017
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:20,160
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill back on the field, are gonna be the

1018
00:49:20,239 --> 00:49:23,680
Speaker 1: team to cool down the Cults right now? No? And

1019
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:26,080
Speaker 1: I would I would assassinate anyone that tried to lock

1020
00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:28,719
Speaker 1: up the Cults in this situation because they're so far

1021
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:33,040
Speaker 1: and away the more intriguing team assassinated. You could not

1022
00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:36,000
Speaker 1: Would anyone disagree that you simply could not lock that

1023
00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:38,839
Speaker 1: game up with the way these two teams are going, Well,

1024
00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:40,919
Speaker 1: you gotta look in the mirror, that's all. I It's

1025
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:43,800
Speaker 1: just that we finally are watching Andrew Luck protected. And

1026
00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:47,360
Speaker 1: there was this nugget in our little statistical packet that

1027
00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 1: back in team when he had his full year with them,

1028
00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:53,720
Speaker 1: forty one point eight pressure rate highest in the NFL,

1029
00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:58,280
Speaker 1: constantly besieged, constantly on the run since Week six, eleven

1030
00:49:58,520 --> 00:50:01,680
Speaker 1: percent zero sacks lois in the NFL. And what are

1031
00:50:01,680 --> 00:50:04,359
Speaker 1: we getting. We're getting an offense that under Frank Reich,

1032
00:50:04,719 --> 00:50:08,040
Speaker 1: reminds you of last year's Eagles, not anything else from

1033
00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:09,640
Speaker 1: anyone else, that it's a team that can do so

1034
00:50:09,760 --> 00:50:11,759
Speaker 1: any things. The running games come up to life, and

1035
00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:14,279
Speaker 1: their defense is good too. I can't find one thing

1036
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:17,320
Speaker 1: about the Miami Dolphins, and tell me if there is

1037
00:50:17,560 --> 00:50:21,279
Speaker 1: a scenario in years where the starting quarterback comes back

1038
00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:24,240
Speaker 1: into the fold and there's less excitement and less reason

1039
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:27,080
Speaker 1: for it to make any difference for my at all,

1040
00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:31,080
Speaker 1: I disagree. I think it does with Tannehill. Yes I don't.

1041
00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:33,520
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't name the name the memorable wind

1042
00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:40,160
Speaker 1: that from Bryan Tannehill. I don't believe in Tannehill overall,

1043
00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:42,000
Speaker 1: and I have no idea what you'll get out of

1044
00:50:42,080 --> 00:50:44,520
Speaker 1: him coming off a five weeks shoulder injury. But I

1045
00:50:44,600 --> 00:50:47,080
Speaker 1: do think brock Oswiler was getting to the point where

1046
00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:50,279
Speaker 1: he wasn't really allowing you to play offense or try

1047
00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:53,440
Speaker 1: to win games, and so I think Tannehill provides some.

1048
00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:56,160
Speaker 1: My point is that you that where if if if

1049
00:50:56,239 --> 00:50:58,799
Speaker 1: Tom Brady to come rolling in off his four game suspension,

1050
00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:02,400
Speaker 1: it's like it's it's massive, It's it lifts the entire

1051
00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:04,960
Speaker 1: concept of the team up. The idea that Tannehill is

1052
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:07,800
Speaker 1: coming back into the fold has zero Q rating. And

1053
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:11,520
Speaker 1: zero emotional response. I still don't know who the Dolphins are,

1054
00:51:11,640 --> 00:51:14,239
Speaker 1: what they represent, their five, what their direction is, if

1055
00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:17,880
Speaker 1: they're going forward or backwards. There to me a complete mystery.

1056
00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:19,600
Speaker 1: Are they going to fire their coach, keep their coach,

1057
00:51:19,680 --> 00:51:22,239
Speaker 1: fire their quarterback, keep their quarterback. Are they gonna be

1058
00:51:22,239 --> 00:51:23,680
Speaker 1: the best team in the league next year? Are they're

1059
00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:25,359
Speaker 1: gonna be the worst? No? And it's a complete it's

1060
00:51:25,360 --> 00:51:26,879
Speaker 1: a complete mystery. They're not gonna be the best team

1061
00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:28,680
Speaker 1: in the I think gonna be a playoff team next year.

1062
00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:30,880
Speaker 1: They're gonna lose four team games next year. I have

1063
00:51:31,040 --> 00:51:33,400
Speaker 1: no idea what to expect from this franchise now or

1064
00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:37,040
Speaker 1: going forward. There there a they're a below average offense,

1065
00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:39,360
Speaker 1: but not the worst offense. There below average defense, but

1066
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:42,120
Speaker 1: not the worst defense, and they are great special teams

1067
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:43,800
Speaker 1: and maybe a guy who can come up with some

1068
00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:46,520
Speaker 1: game plans every now and then that confuses people in

1069
00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:49,560
Speaker 1: out of date. Yeah, all I'll say is that could

1070
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:51,080
Speaker 1: not look in the mirror and take the Colts. I

1071
00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:52,560
Speaker 1: had to pivot out of this lock. So do you

1072
00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:55,120
Speaker 1: see the Colts? Because you've been in on the Colts,

1073
00:51:55,160 --> 00:51:56,759
Speaker 1: and I think I've been with you on some level

1074
00:51:56,880 --> 00:51:59,040
Speaker 1: just enjoy watching them play. But do you see them

1075
00:51:59,080 --> 00:52:03,200
Speaker 1: as like a true Super Bowl contender West that's gonna

1076
00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:06,399
Speaker 1: keep getting better and better or more just like a fun,

1077
00:52:07,160 --> 00:52:09,799
Speaker 1: fun team that's gonna have a little ride that's fun

1078
00:52:09,840 --> 00:52:12,359
Speaker 1: to watch, you know what I mean? See them as

1079
00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:14,800
Speaker 1: this is a mark word, as a berserker in the

1080
00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:17,719
Speaker 1: a f C playoff field. Do you not want them

1081
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:19,400
Speaker 1: in the mix if you're a different team, because they

1082
00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:23,319
Speaker 1: can beat anyone. Their offense is that good, um they're

1083
00:52:23,360 --> 00:52:27,400
Speaker 1: coaching is that good? Their defense, I believe is probably

1084
00:52:27,880 --> 00:52:30,880
Speaker 1: um taking advantage of weak opponents. I think that you

1085
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:33,880
Speaker 1: can score on the Colts defense pretty easily and that.

1086
00:52:34,280 --> 00:52:36,480
Speaker 1: But I'd also say look at the Cults who they

1087
00:52:36,520 --> 00:52:38,000
Speaker 1: are over the last month and a half and just

1088
00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:41,080
Speaker 1: ignore what was coming before. Absolutely they are a materially

1089
00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:43,839
Speaker 1: different team. They were an injury ravage and mess. They

1090
00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:45,800
Speaker 1: had eleven starters out against I want to see what

1091
00:52:45,840 --> 00:52:47,600
Speaker 1: they do this week. I think people are getting you know,

1092
00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:49,759
Speaker 1: they had that win against the Titan. This will be

1093
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:51,920
Speaker 1: where Miami wins. After all, we've just said no doubt

1094
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:53,960
Speaker 1: about it. Well, here's the thing, I'm not at that

1095
00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:56,560
Speaker 1: point yet, and that's why I like, couldn't look at

1096
00:52:56,600 --> 00:52:58,880
Speaker 1: myself in the mirror that even though this is a

1097
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:01,840
Speaker 1: dome game in the the Cults are suddenly being treated

1098
00:53:02,200 --> 00:53:04,000
Speaker 1: like one of the better teams in the league. There

1099
00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:06,319
Speaker 1: nine point favorites in that in this game. And that's

1100
00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:07,879
Speaker 1: why I look at these two five and five teams.

1101
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:09,520
Speaker 1: I think it ends up being close. It wouldn't shock

1102
00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:11,800
Speaker 1: me if the Dolphins win. And even though the domes on,

1103
00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:14,120
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be raining there in Indianapolis and

1104
00:53:14,640 --> 00:53:17,560
Speaker 1: it's coming back. What are you are you doing this

1105
00:53:17,680 --> 00:53:20,040
Speaker 1: with like four to five games a week now? I mean,

1106
00:53:20,080 --> 00:53:22,000
Speaker 1: we're just gonna do it until the NFL stopped it

1107
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:24,239
Speaker 1: in like a week. I would just keep the people

1108
00:53:24,280 --> 00:53:27,839
Speaker 1: wanting more. But you haven't made your problem. It's it's

1109
00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:31,000
Speaker 1: on your mind at all times. Clearly this it's like

1110
00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:36,279
Speaker 1: the third game. It's also poor analysis. The Dolphins are

1111
00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:38,920
Speaker 1: not good and the Coults can score thirty five on

1112
00:53:39,040 --> 00:53:40,800
Speaker 1: any team in the league. If it was if you

1113
00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:44,279
Speaker 1: don't really care about the Dolphins winning, you're simply in

1114
00:53:44,360 --> 00:53:47,160
Speaker 1: your desert. If it was five, I think they're getting

1115
00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:49,640
Speaker 1: too much credit that the Cults. If it was five

1116
00:53:49,719 --> 00:53:51,320
Speaker 1: or six, then you then you don't touch it. But

1117
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:54,880
Speaker 1: when you go through every game scoring thirty five points,

1118
00:53:55,080 --> 00:53:57,120
Speaker 1: you just don't even pay attention. Then you're like, oh, no,

1119
00:53:57,239 --> 00:53:59,560
Speaker 1: they're not that good. I of course I think they're

1120
00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:01,080
Speaker 1: good it. But I think if you look at the

1121
00:54:01,120 --> 00:54:03,719
Speaker 1: balance of the season, it's more likely that this game.

1122
00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:07,920
Speaker 1: It's more likely that this game. Why why balanced the

1123
00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:10,319
Speaker 1: season with a September team that was different than I'm

1124
00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:12,280
Speaker 1: talking more about the Dolphins that I think the Dolphins

1125
00:54:12,320 --> 00:54:14,719
Speaker 1: are a middle are not road team. The Dolphins are

1126
00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:17,799
Speaker 1: all also different. Losing Albert Wilson, Jachim Grant, we don't

1127
00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:20,200
Speaker 1: even know if DeVante Parker is gonna play, Their offensive

1128
00:54:20,239 --> 00:54:23,120
Speaker 1: tackles are injured. What I mean, they're not the same team,

1129
00:54:23,160 --> 00:54:25,480
Speaker 1: I would say also saying that, not just using this,

1130
00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:27,120
Speaker 1: but saying that a game is going to be close

1131
00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:31,000
Speaker 1: or you're not I mean anything anymore. It's closer games

1132
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:32,879
Speaker 1: than ever before in the NFL. I mean, well, that's

1133
00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:35,600
Speaker 1: why when when teams that are five and five area

1134
00:54:35,840 --> 00:54:38,040
Speaker 1: are favored by like a nine point that that gets

1135
00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:41,120
Speaker 1: your You're coming from a from a hobbyist, a desert

1136
00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:44,360
Speaker 1: hobbyist angle, which is completely different than and that's you

1137
00:54:44,440 --> 00:54:46,560
Speaker 1: may say, you know that that's a problem or cheap

1138
00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:48,799
Speaker 1: cheapening the brand, But what are you doing? You're you're

1139
00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:51,080
Speaker 1: you're watching on Thanksgiving and then you're sitting on your

1140
00:54:51,120 --> 00:54:54,319
Speaker 1: hands on Sunday. You're just like Nope, don't think any

1141
00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:58,000
Speaker 1: of these games are interested. Sorry, it's raining all year.

1142
00:54:58,880 --> 00:55:02,320
Speaker 1: Cycling back Greg is his third podcast, because this is

1143
00:55:02,400 --> 00:55:06,120
Speaker 1: not our podcast whatever. This is the reason going back

1144
00:55:06,160 --> 00:55:09,400
Speaker 1: to Yeah, like like, wow, what a shocking development. Someone

1145
00:55:09,560 --> 00:55:12,640
Speaker 1: introduces uh a part of the show with the weird

1146
00:55:12,920 --> 00:55:15,560
Speaker 1: sound drop that no one heard before, Like that didn't

1147
00:55:15,560 --> 00:55:23,040
Speaker 1: happen before. It's eating up real estate fun um. The

1148
00:55:23,120 --> 00:55:26,600
Speaker 1: reason why Greg asked West in that earnest manner, like

1149
00:55:27,280 --> 00:55:29,200
Speaker 1: the cultures that we haven't fun with the cultures year

1150
00:55:29,239 --> 00:55:32,680
Speaker 1: we've taken series because he knows what he knows what's censored. Happening.

1151
00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:38,480
Speaker 1: January three, six matchup Patriots hosting the Cults in the wild.

1152
00:55:38,560 --> 00:55:40,480
Speaker 1: That would be one team, Like, if I could pick

1153
00:55:40,560 --> 00:55:42,120
Speaker 1: that's what's happening, I could pick a team for the

1154
00:55:42,160 --> 00:55:43,920
Speaker 1: Patriots to lose. Two would be the Cults. Like I

1155
00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:46,920
Speaker 1: love watching standard. Are you a fan or not? I

1156
00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:49,520
Speaker 1: mean I am, but I'm just saying like I like,

1157
00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:51,759
Speaker 1: what kind of what are you? What are you see?

1158
00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:53,920
Speaker 1: The culture? Probably my second favorite team right now? I

1159
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:59,040
Speaker 1: got Patriots. Charges, you're a literal Elliotts are your second

1160
00:55:59,080 --> 00:56:02,160
Speaker 1: favorite team? Would I would go Chargers. Then I'm just saying,

1161
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:04,320
Speaker 1: I like, you like watching football games, like that's what

1162
00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:06,560
Speaker 1: what all we have to do? And so you start,

1163
00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:09,440
Speaker 1: you know, admiring a player like Andrew Luck and it's

1164
00:56:09,440 --> 00:56:11,040
Speaker 1: been a little while since we had him in our lives.

1165
00:56:11,040 --> 00:56:13,759
Speaker 1: It's just confusing. I am confused because of everything you

1166
00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:16,360
Speaker 1: just said to this and then now you're fine with

1167
00:56:16,440 --> 00:56:19,280
Speaker 1: the Patriots losing to them when you're also a Patriots

1168
00:56:19,280 --> 00:56:23,200
Speaker 1: and daughter with the comment about the Eagles and how

1169
00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:25,479
Speaker 1: it hurts them more than anything, and yet he's rooting

1170
00:56:25,520 --> 00:56:27,600
Speaker 1: for the Colts maybe to beat the Patriots of the playoff.

1171
00:56:27,640 --> 00:56:30,959
Speaker 1: I mean, and then there's rainfalling, and there's all sorts

1172
00:56:30,960 --> 00:56:33,120
Speaker 1: of stuff going on in track of it all, I

1173
00:56:33,200 --> 00:56:36,239
Speaker 1: am like our presidency, I'm just trying to just like

1174
00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:39,560
Speaker 1: throw a ton of information that means nothing to confuse

1175
00:56:39,680 --> 00:56:42,560
Speaker 1: the masses. And then, I mean, the other option is

1176
00:56:42,640 --> 00:56:45,080
Speaker 1: turning off the show if it becomes too confusing for

1177
00:56:45,120 --> 00:56:47,840
Speaker 1: the listeners. So let's you know, let's move to the

1178
00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:50,360
Speaker 1: prime time game, Saturday Night Football. The Packers four or

1179
00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:55,160
Speaker 1: five and one. They got um a really difficult loss,

1180
00:56:55,480 --> 00:56:59,560
Speaker 1: disappointing loss on Thursday Night Football, but then the rest

1181
00:56:59,640 --> 00:57:01,440
Speaker 1: of the week kind of worked out in their favors.

1182
00:57:01,520 --> 00:57:04,480
Speaker 1: So instead of being kind of a long shot at

1183
00:57:04,520 --> 00:57:05,920
Speaker 1: four or five and one, they are still in the

1184
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:08,440
Speaker 1: mix in the NFC North and in the playoff picture,

1185
00:57:08,480 --> 00:57:11,360
Speaker 1: and as luck would have it, they get the Vikings

1186
00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:14,279
Speaker 1: right now, and the Vikings um. I mean, when you

1187
00:57:14,320 --> 00:57:16,160
Speaker 1: look at what's going on with the Vikings again, it's

1188
00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:18,960
Speaker 1: been a weird year for the Vikings where they they

1189
00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:22,360
Speaker 1: have looked sometimes like a team that was dangerous like

1190
00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:24,600
Speaker 1: it was last year, and then other times very vulnerable

1191
00:57:24,960 --> 00:57:28,800
Speaker 1: and west. Right now, I hazard to state that I

1192
00:57:28,960 --> 00:57:31,400
Speaker 1: believe that the Vikings are in another love. They've lost

1193
00:57:31,480 --> 00:57:33,840
Speaker 1: two of three. They got losses to the Saints, which

1194
00:57:33,880 --> 00:57:35,760
Speaker 1: is no sin to lose to the Saints. Understand. I

1195
00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:39,200
Speaker 1: understand that I didn't like that Chicago performance on Sunday Night.

1196
00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:41,480
Speaker 1: You had to win over the lines in between. I

1197
00:57:41,520 --> 00:57:43,480
Speaker 1: feel like the Packers are maybe catching the Vikings at

1198
00:57:43,520 --> 00:57:46,160
Speaker 1: a decent time. Yeah, who knows who the Vikings are.

1199
00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:48,240
Speaker 1: But then again, you say the exact same thing about

1200
00:57:49,440 --> 00:57:51,480
Speaker 1: maybe the Vikings are catching the Packers at the right

1201
00:57:51,520 --> 00:57:54,040
Speaker 1: time because the Packers can't get out of their own way.

1202
00:57:55,240 --> 00:57:57,800
Speaker 1: I love the Packers talent. I think they're a talented team,

1203
00:57:57,880 --> 00:58:01,800
Speaker 1: but there they're scheming, they're their situational game plan. Their

1204
00:58:01,840 --> 00:58:05,560
Speaker 1: situational game management is a mess. And can they fix

1205
00:58:05,640 --> 00:58:07,320
Speaker 1: that in one week? I don't know. I I lost

1206
00:58:07,360 --> 00:58:09,880
Speaker 1: all confidence in the Packers after last week. That was

1207
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:14,760
Speaker 1: really yes, they yeah, that was an embarrassing loss. So

1208
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:20,160
Speaker 1: they outplayed the Seahawks. It was different ways, and they

1209
00:58:20,680 --> 00:58:22,960
Speaker 1: they shot themselves in the foot over and over and

1210
00:58:23,080 --> 00:58:25,600
Speaker 1: over again. And that's maybe who the Packers are. And

1211
00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:27,640
Speaker 1: the counter is that that's kind of been what they've

1212
00:58:27,680 --> 00:58:30,280
Speaker 1: looked like all season, a team that and I think

1213
00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:33,120
Speaker 1: one of their players said it this week. They are

1214
00:58:33,640 --> 00:58:36,320
Speaker 1: less than the sum of their parts. Like the parts

1215
00:58:36,320 --> 00:58:39,200
Speaker 1: are great. I mean, Davante Adams looks great. David baktr

1216
00:58:39,400 --> 00:58:41,480
Speaker 1: might be the best left tack on the league. Aaron

1217
00:58:41,600 --> 00:58:44,680
Speaker 1: Rodger and Jones. Aaron Jones playing fantastic. You had you

1218
00:58:44,760 --> 00:58:47,120
Speaker 1: have some players, you know, playing well on defense, and

1219
00:58:47,480 --> 00:58:49,720
Speaker 1: it doesn't it doesn't add up right. Something smells wrong?

1220
00:58:50,160 --> 00:58:53,520
Speaker 1: Were you know? I was disgusted with McCarthy punching on

1221
00:58:53,640 --> 00:58:55,400
Speaker 1: fourth and two. You could kind of feel what was

1222
00:58:55,440 --> 00:58:57,919
Speaker 1: going to happen after that. But I don't think Aaron

1223
00:58:58,040 --> 00:59:01,439
Speaker 1: Rodgers should be absolved at all. I mean he maybe

1224
00:59:01,520 --> 00:59:03,760
Speaker 1: hasn't been the same guys as well. And that third

1225
00:59:03,800 --> 00:59:06,960
Speaker 1: and two in completion, that was stunning to see because

1226
00:59:07,040 --> 00:59:09,520
Speaker 1: this was a guy that's known for onions and to

1227
00:59:09,600 --> 00:59:12,480
Speaker 1: spike the ball like that. Um he took up. He

1228
00:59:12,560 --> 00:59:14,160
Speaker 1: had a role in that loss as well. So it

1229
00:59:14,280 --> 00:59:17,680
Speaker 1: was just a really a really um dark night for

1230
00:59:17,760 --> 00:59:20,160
Speaker 1: the Packers. Oh Greg. I don't know if Greg did

1231
00:59:20,200 --> 00:59:22,280
Speaker 1: as much, but I I kind of buried Aaron Rodgers

1232
00:59:22,360 --> 00:59:25,560
Speaker 1: on our recap last week. He he okay, so he

1233
00:59:25,760 --> 00:59:27,720
Speaker 1: he averaged over ten yards per tempt. He made some

1234
00:59:27,760 --> 00:59:31,040
Speaker 1: beautiful throws and with the game on the line. I

1235
00:59:31,200 --> 00:59:33,320
Speaker 1: have never begged a quarterback in my life to take

1236
00:59:33,360 --> 00:59:35,280
Speaker 1: a check down, and I did it more than once

1237
00:59:35,320 --> 00:59:37,360
Speaker 1: in that game, Like why are you what? What's what?

1238
00:59:37,440 --> 00:59:40,560
Speaker 1: The glory boy plays the cock shore way in which

1239
00:59:40,600 --> 00:59:42,680
Speaker 1: he wants to improvise on every play instead of taking

1240
00:59:42,720 --> 00:59:45,560
Speaker 1: the play that is there, take the first down. Maybe

1241
00:59:45,600 --> 00:59:47,440
Speaker 1: it's a guy trying to do too much. Well, I

1242
00:59:47,520 --> 00:59:50,400
Speaker 1: think he's been put in that position over and over

1243
00:59:50,680 --> 00:59:53,880
Speaker 1: and it's I last year's Packers from my radar, for

1244
00:59:53,920 --> 00:59:55,520
Speaker 1: the minute that he got hurt, they were one of

1245
00:59:55,560 --> 00:59:57,840
Speaker 1: the worst teams in football, and now they have They

1246
00:59:57,920 --> 00:59:59,960
Speaker 1: do have a lot of talented parts, and when they're

1247
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:02,360
Speaker 1: not performing, that is coaching. And I think it's caught

1248
01:00:02,440 --> 01:00:05,320
Speaker 1: up to everyone if it hadn't already that Mike McCarthy

1249
01:00:05,520 --> 01:00:07,880
Speaker 1: is deep on the radar. But the Vikings, this isn't

1250
01:00:07,880 --> 01:00:10,560
Speaker 1: a division that we could have easily in our minds

1251
01:00:10,600 --> 01:00:13,160
Speaker 1: said three teams get into the playoffs and we'd have

1252
01:00:13,280 --> 01:00:15,520
Speaker 1: no problem with that back in September. And every year

1253
01:00:15,560 --> 01:00:17,480
Speaker 1: you get a division, you find it's just not as

1254
01:00:18,080 --> 01:00:19,920
Speaker 1: talented and ready to roll as you think. And I

1255
01:00:19,960 --> 01:00:22,480
Speaker 1: feel that way about the North. I mean the Vikings

1256
01:00:22,560 --> 01:00:26,240
Speaker 1: against the Bears were utterly dominated for big, long stretches

1257
01:00:26,320 --> 01:00:28,760
Speaker 1: of that game last week, and in the Vikings offense,

1258
01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:30,840
Speaker 1: I don't trust them to get out of their own

1259
01:00:30,840 --> 01:00:33,040
Speaker 1: way either. Love this Week twelve game. It reminds me

1260
01:00:33,080 --> 01:00:35,120
Speaker 1: a lot of the Packers Seahawks last week, just because

1261
01:00:35,200 --> 01:00:37,680
Speaker 1: I know They're not the two best teams in the league,

1262
01:00:37,680 --> 01:00:39,320
Speaker 1: but there's just a lot at stake, and these were

1263
01:00:39,400 --> 01:00:42,080
Speaker 1: two teams we were so interested in coming into the season.

1264
01:00:42,120 --> 01:00:44,960
Speaker 1: They haven't figured out what they're gonna do, but there

1265
01:00:45,040 --> 01:00:47,439
Speaker 1: still is time. But there's not time for both teams.

1266
01:00:47,520 --> 01:00:50,400
Speaker 1: I mean, this is such such a big game. And Cousins,

1267
01:00:51,040 --> 01:00:54,280
Speaker 1: even though I think he's played well overall, I think

1268
01:00:55,120 --> 01:00:58,120
Speaker 1: everything else about the Vikings offense is worse. I think

1269
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Speaker 1: the play callings worse, at the offensive line is worse.

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Speaker 1: I think the running game is certainly worse this year,

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Speaker 1: and I think the defense is worse this year. It's

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Speaker 1: it's not a bad defense, but it's not as good

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Speaker 1: as it was. So Cousins is is not carried them,

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Speaker 1: and he did not have a good game against the

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Speaker 1: Bears at all. He talked about my Vikings fan friend

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Speaker 1: who it's been on his radar that Cousins seems to

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Speaker 1: do something and these losses that just kills them. Then

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Speaker 1: he did it again with that pick six. I know

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Speaker 1: he's had a good year on balance, but is he

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Speaker 1: good enough to really lift this team out of what's

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01:01:32,080 --> 01:01:34,800
Speaker 1: been a semi slumber. It's harder to build a team

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Speaker 1: when you when your quarterback costs as much as he

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Speaker 1: does versus had you drafted someone that gives you a

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Speaker 1: four year window to put money elsewhere. So it's not

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Speaker 1: really acceptable that your friends is seeing that or that

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Speaker 1: that's what we're getting with Kirk Cousins, who's been pretty

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Speaker 1: good I think overall, but he's not a difference making

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Speaker 1: guy that like has taken We thought we thought without

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Speaker 1: case Keenum and you putting Kirk Cousins obviously will be better. Well,

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Speaker 1: the line sucks. Let's start there. You're not allowed to

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Speaker 1: be the twelfth best quarterback in the NFL. Like if

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Speaker 1: you are, you're criticized. And he's he's had a good

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Speaker 1: year and the twelve best, but he's also what the

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Speaker 1: second highest paid quarterback. I would even put him higher.

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Speaker 1: I'd put him, Well, you're right, and now that I

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Speaker 1: look at it, and he's right around ten, eleven, twelve

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Speaker 1: he was. He's paid to put him over the hump.

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Speaker 1: It's a win now situation for them, but he's not that.

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Speaker 1: I still I haven't. I know Mark is just waiting

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01:02:24,480 --> 01:02:26,200
Speaker 1: to bury this team, and I don't blame him, but

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Speaker 1: I still haven't given up on the Packers. I know,

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Speaker 1: I think they can win this game. Then their schedule

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01:02:31,280 --> 01:02:33,800
Speaker 1: of light and something. You have the Cardinals, Falcons, Fairs, Jets,

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01:02:33,840 --> 01:02:36,640
Speaker 1: and Lions, so I'm not confident they lose. My thing is,

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Speaker 1: if they lose this, I don't want it here. And

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Speaker 1: we're not doing that. We're saying the opposite that it's

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Speaker 1: everyone else's fault. At Green Bay's four six and one,

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01:02:43,240 --> 01:02:45,520
Speaker 1: it's their fault. If they lose this game, then I'm

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Speaker 1: with you. But I think they can win this game.

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Speaker 1: If I had to pick it, I would pick the Packers,

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01:02:50,280 --> 01:02:52,400
Speaker 1: and I still think they can. At one point I

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Speaker 1: picked the Packers too, and Mike McCarthy for all his

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01:02:55,920 --> 01:02:57,840
Speaker 1: warts and this could be it for Mike McCarthy and

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01:02:57,880 --> 01:03:00,960
Speaker 1: the reports that it is uh that this could be

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Speaker 1: it if they don't make the playoffs. He has also

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01:03:03,280 --> 01:03:05,360
Speaker 1: been the head coach for all these late season runs,

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01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:08,800
Speaker 1: uh through the years. He's been there forever, So it's

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Speaker 1: not like he's gonna be the guy now that causes

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Speaker 1: them not to be able to get hot because he's

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Speaker 1: always been there. Maybe he's just a limited guy. Ultimately

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Speaker 1: we'll see. I like that they're still in the mix.

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Graham, by the way, he's gonna play with the

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Speaker 1: broken thumb. Well, he's already not catching passes, so what's

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01:03:23,160 --> 01:03:25,760
Speaker 1: that kind of here? He heard that there's sandwiches on

1325
01:03:25,840 --> 01:03:30,280
Speaker 1: the line. They have to get to take some sandwiches

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Speaker 1: away from Dan. So it's gonna be close, now, how

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Speaker 1: dare he all right? Last game of the week Monday

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Speaker 1: Night Football Big A f C South matchup the Tennessee

1329
01:03:39,680 --> 01:03:44,960
Speaker 1: Titoons Tunes coming off that ugly blowout loss at the

1330
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Speaker 1: hands of the Colts, UH have another tough road match

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Speaker 1: up here. They go to Houston to face the Texans,

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Speaker 1: who have won seventh straight after their oh and three start.

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Speaker 1: Greg and Uh. There was assumptions made that I was

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01:03:58,720 --> 01:04:00,919
Speaker 1: gonna lock up the Texans, which I understand. I said

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Speaker 1: I was gonna ride with him, but I didn't really

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01:04:02,960 --> 01:04:05,439
Speaker 1: yet you said that said stick with them the rest

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Speaker 1: of the way. You know what, I didn't like what

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01:04:07,360 --> 01:04:09,800
Speaker 1: I saw from them against the Redskins. And I will

1339
01:04:09,800 --> 01:04:12,640
Speaker 1: also say that if any team in the league right

1340
01:04:12,640 --> 01:04:14,640
Speaker 1: now is due for a loss, it's time for the

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01:04:14,680 --> 01:04:16,360
Speaker 1: Texans to lose the game. And it doesn't mean the

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Speaker 1: end of the world for the Texans. But I kind

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01:04:18,840 --> 01:04:20,560
Speaker 1: of see this is maybe the week with the hot

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01:04:20,600 --> 01:04:23,360
Speaker 1: and cold Titans. Maybe they're a little hot this week

1345
01:04:23,400 --> 01:04:25,040
Speaker 1: again on Monday Night football and they get a w

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Speaker 1: I feel good about Tennessee this week interesting because I

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Speaker 1: I mean, I I would agree with your points about

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01:04:32,120 --> 01:04:35,560
Speaker 1: the Texans, but there's a decent chance right now that

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Speaker 1: Blaine Gabbert starts this game. And I think that's, oh

1350
01:04:40,120 --> 01:04:43,640
Speaker 1: wait a second, a real problem. We just don't know.

1351
01:04:43,840 --> 01:04:46,680
Speaker 1: They said it's a stinger injury, and it we're taping

1352
01:04:46,720 --> 01:04:48,680
Speaker 1: this on Wednesday. It's a Monday night game, and so

1353
01:04:48,760 --> 01:04:50,080
Speaker 1: that's just how it is. We're not going to know,

1354
01:04:50,200 --> 01:04:53,000
Speaker 1: and I don't think anyone's gonna know until uh later

1355
01:04:53,280 --> 01:04:57,919
Speaker 1: in the week. That the Texans, their offense is still

1356
01:04:58,000 --> 01:05:01,160
Speaker 1: limited like the Marrious Time has had one target last week. Uh,

1357
01:05:01,200 --> 01:05:04,400
Speaker 1: they're definitely a better run blocking than past you know

1358
01:05:04,520 --> 01:05:08,160
Speaker 1: blocking that the passing game hasn't really taken the next step.

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01:05:08,200 --> 01:05:09,840
Speaker 1: If you look at their total yardage, they had three

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01:05:10,240 --> 01:05:12,400
Speaker 1: twenty yards last week, which is pretty low for two

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Speaker 1: thousand and eighteen. That was actually their second best game

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01:05:14,920 --> 01:05:16,720
Speaker 1: in terms of yardage and then last five or six.

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Speaker 1: So the offense hasn't really improved throughout the course of

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Speaker 1: the season. The defense has been good. Yeah, that Dolphins

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Speaker 1: game through everyone for a loop. The analysis have been

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Speaker 1: off on their offense since that game because people think

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Speaker 1: that and that was a lot of busted coverages and

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Speaker 1: Watson did a good job, but it was it was

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a flukey game. They're a lot

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Speaker 1: like the Titans. They they want to keep the score

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Speaker 1: under twenty, which the Titans do too, and these are

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Speaker 1: kind of mirror images in that way. I think that

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Speaker 1: I feel like the Texans again. That Redskins game caught

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Speaker 1: Washington where when its offense was at its worst, and

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Speaker 1: it was a meltdown type game for the Redskins offense,

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Speaker 1: and it massed a little bit. A pretty unimpressive game

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Speaker 1: by Deshaun Watson. I thought he threw two bad picks

1378
01:05:57,200 --> 01:05:59,080
Speaker 1: in that and I you know, I know Lamar Miller

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Speaker 1: had a had a US and outing. They just don't

1380
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Speaker 1: have like from a running angle, they don't have someone

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01:06:05,120 --> 01:06:07,280
Speaker 1: that impresses me that much and when to show when

1382
01:06:07,400 --> 01:06:10,120
Speaker 1: when when Hopkins is not getting open, which is what

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01:06:10,360 --> 01:06:13,080
Speaker 1: happened last week. Their offense is not very dynamic. This

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Speaker 1: was a huge game though in that division race, I mean,

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Speaker 1: Sexans are getting pretty close to almost locking this division up.

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01:06:18,760 --> 01:06:20,800
Speaker 1: I mean we still have the Colts Texans, which is

1387
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Speaker 1: obviously big two, but if Colts don't lose another game,

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01:06:23,640 --> 01:06:26,200
Speaker 1: there's no locking. Their kicker killed him too lest week.

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of surprised no one's mentioned, you know, the

1390
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Speaker 1: elephant in the room here, which is what everyone's talking

1391
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Speaker 1: Brendan Scarlet fever. That was it. That is where I

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Speaker 1: was going. Like, Brendan Scarlett came out of nowhere last

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Speaker 1: week to have the number one overall Pro Football Focus

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Speaker 1: Great of the week. Everyone's thinking, can he do it again? Scarlett?

1395
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Speaker 1: Back to back? Tune in Test It Tour Monday Night.

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Speaker 1: That's a bit of a defenside joke, but I enjoyed

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Speaker 1: it a lot. Um Uh and Greg get excited because

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Speaker 1: I like to, you know, look forward to this time

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Speaker 1: of the year after Thanksgiving. That's only fire up the

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Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal calculator playoff codculing, and it's that time of

1401
01:07:05,480 --> 01:07:11,680
Speaker 1: year almost there's a lot of non scenarios. That's our calculators.

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Speaker 1: I'm listening. Yeah, what about I like the Rainmaker much

1403
01:07:18,280 --> 01:07:21,200
Speaker 1: better than the calculate like to calculate it that has

1404
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Speaker 1: like the little ticker tape thing that comes out, prints out.

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Speaker 1: I think this is that, but from you, we'll go

1406
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Speaker 1: back to the drawing board on that one. Is that

1407
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Speaker 1: an amarchus? All right, there you go. Um, that's it

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Speaker 1: for the week twelve preview. The next time you hear

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Speaker 1: hear from us, we will be recapping all the games

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Speaker 1: that we just previewed. So check out the Sunday night

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Speaker 1: Flagship show. Uh and uh. Thank you to everyone, and

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Speaker 1: once again for you American listeners, Happy Thanksgiving and to

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Speaker 1: everyone else you know whatever. Have a good week. I

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Speaker 1: have a good week. I don't know what do you

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01:07:54,800 --> 01:08:00,320
Speaker 1: want from me? Stan Hanzas that's signing off poor a

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01:08:00,440 --> 01:08:04,960
Speaker 1: quiet storm, fool out riding on Sunday, the mail Man,

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Speaker 1: the old Boss, Ricky Hollywood behind the glass until Sunday

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Speaker 1: m hm