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Speaker 1: The Around the NFL Podcast is concerned about the effects

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Speaker 1: of global warming on John Welcome back to another dish

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Speaker 1: of the Around the NFL Podcast. My name is Dan Hansens,

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Speaker 1: and I'm joined by a room filled with heroes, Mark Sessler,

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Speaker 1: Chris Westling and Greg Rosn't old up boys? Hey, Dan,

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Speaker 1: what is happening? We're still here. I was a little

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Speaker 1: and confirmed them. If you will, Greg the boss that

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Speaker 1: Mark Sessler was going to be placed on the Exemple list.

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Speaker 1: That's not that's never happening. Oh good, So you're in

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Speaker 1: the clear. Mark, you're in the clear of getting paid.

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Speaker 1: Remain hyper productive as I currently am. I will not

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Speaker 1: How dare you, sir? Just dealing in facts? We're talking

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Speaker 1: after the show, you and I we have a excellent,

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Speaker 1: excellent podcast for you Today Wednesday, our second of three

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Speaker 1: see if maybe we'll bring to vote. We talked about

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Speaker 1: we can lock down a team today as soon as today.

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Speaker 1: Who knows? West has got a poker face right now?

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Speaker 1: I like that purple shirt. Poker face, here's West. Yes,

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Speaker 1: did you wear that shirt? What was the thinking with

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Speaker 1: I did not create the shirt. I just wore it.

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Speaker 1: it was free, yes, which half of my wardrobe probably is.

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Speaker 1: also going to get into Greg's winners and losers. You

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Speaker 1: man behind the glass for a moment, the Great Tate date.

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Speaker 1: What's going on, fellas? How are you? I'm doing well?

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Speaker 1: Chris Westling shirt peacocking? Yeah, why do you say that?

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Speaker 1: Show the guns? It's it's a little bit tight showing

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Speaker 1: But where the pockets are there zippers, which is good

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Speaker 1: luck going up against a massive corporation when you're one individual. Alright, yes, alright, okay, Mark, alright,

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Speaker 1: had this to say on Wednesday during his press conference.

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Speaker 1: you've spoken very eloquently on your part. But I just

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Speaker 1: want to say, you said humans can't control the climate.

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Speaker 1: Ask Al Gore what he thinks about that. Uh. I

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Speaker 1: read a book when I was a little kid, Colbert. No,

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Speaker 1: not not him, but okay, the same realm. Not Al Gore,

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Speaker 1: different direction, or you could and you don't have to

427
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Speaker 1: say who your team is. But do you want to

428
00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:16,119
Speaker 1: let go of the vikings of this? Yeah? Well, I

429
00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:19,320
Speaker 1: mean number one part of this is trying to present

430
00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:22,200
Speaker 1: a candidate that's gonna get through Congress, as they'd say.

431
00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:24,880
Speaker 1: And I have the team I had is a windmill

432
00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:28,320
Speaker 1: of total chaos. Right now, they're out. I love their

433
00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:31,400
Speaker 1: first album. Okay, so they're out. You don't you don't

434
00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:32,960
Speaker 1: need to. Maybe we'll save it a little bit so

435
00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,800
Speaker 1: you can announce your new team. You only get one

436
00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,199
Speaker 1: mulligan too, so you sure you want to put the

437
00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:40,600
Speaker 1: put it in right now. I put some thought into this.

438
00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:43,280
Speaker 1: I have a new team. Okay, good, very good, Greg

439
00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:45,800
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals sticking with him. I didn't know. You're just

440
00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:47,680
Speaker 1: making these rules up as we go along. You only

441
00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:51,919
Speaker 1: get one Mulligan per player. It's too complicated, it's not

442
00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:53,840
Speaker 1: This is like the c b A. You got to

443
00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:57,560
Speaker 1: study up. You became the boss for a reason. I'm

444
00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:00,159
Speaker 1: sure you're keeping up with the game right now. That

445
00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:02,760
Speaker 1: is what it is. Those are the rules every society

446
00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,560
Speaker 1: needs rules. Are you keeping the Cardinals for now? All right?

447
00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:08,280
Speaker 1: I'm keeping the Chargers obviously because I know there's some

448
00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:10,439
Speaker 1: heat for them, right now, West, are you sticking with

449
00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:14,960
Speaker 1: the Steelers after that bad loss to the Ravens last Thursday,

450
00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:17,240
Speaker 1: week two? If this happened in week seven, nobody would

451
00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:19,520
Speaker 1: think twice about it. Yeah, I'm sticking with them, right

452
00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:25,680
Speaker 1: West digs in a stunner, West taking the seals in alright, So, gentlemen,

453
00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:29,520
Speaker 1: the Chargers. We talked about it on Sunday, Gregg, you

454
00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:31,080
Speaker 1: were calling for it. You said we should make it

455
00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:33,119
Speaker 1: right now. So why don't we take a vote? Do

456
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Speaker 1: we want to make the Charges the team of a

457
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Speaker 1: t L? And I will start with Mark? Will you

458
00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:40,040
Speaker 1: make the charges the team of a t L? Right now?

459
00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:43,159
Speaker 1: But I've I have my own team in my hip pocket.

460
00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:46,080
Speaker 1: Why am I suddenly gonna jump beit on that and go?

461
00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:53,480
Speaker 1: It was very confusing. Well, actually the Chargers are technically down. Yeah,

462
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:57,080
Speaker 1: because I'll vote yes, I'm ready to move. They're not exciting.

463
00:24:57,200 --> 00:24:59,119
Speaker 1: I don't like go to bed at night wanting to

464
00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:02,040
Speaker 1: watch the Charge And to me, the most fun player

465
00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:03,800
Speaker 1: to watch was Ryan Matthews and now he's out for

466
00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:07,200
Speaker 1: five weeks. You know what? You must not like quarterbacks

467
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:09,439
Speaker 1: that move in the pocket and get away and are

468
00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:12,000
Speaker 1: really tough like film, Not really I don't know, like

469
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:16,000
Speaker 1: poor Man's Peyton Manning isn't really my favorite, isn't dodging

470
00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:20,280
Speaker 1: defenders and moving around and throwing crazy thing. He's not.

471
00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:22,480
Speaker 1: He's not tough in the pocket. That's not what you

472
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Speaker 1: think of when you think of Peyton Manning. That's probably

473
00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:29,440
Speaker 1: Rivers is defining trade West. Not convinced yet thoroughly nonplused.

474
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Speaker 1: Here one vote that votes over for now and now

475
00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:37,640
Speaker 1: Mark though. We had a Twitter listener who chimed in

476
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Speaker 1: for ten reasons why the charges should be the team

477
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Speaker 1: of a c O at Jeremy Cox. He has ten reasons.

478
00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:44,960
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna give you one of them. His main man.

479
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,720
Speaker 1: He was like, hey, we have Brandon Flowers. You want

480
00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:51,560
Speaker 1: to make flowers. Big fan of the job, so check

481
00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:54,560
Speaker 1: it out at Jeremy Cox. That cannot be ruled out

482
00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:58,000
Speaker 1: because let's say that one more time. You want to

483
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Speaker 1: make flowers to day. That's a woman right there, that's

484
00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:06,119
Speaker 1: a woman. Oh yeah, true, Detective Man, I don't have

485
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 1: HBO HBO go. I need to raise a part of

486
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 1: a revamped defense. That's fun to watch. Melvin Ingram d White,

487
00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:19,639
Speaker 1: Freeney playing well or how are you say his name?

488
00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:23,000
Speaker 1: Are old making the leap guy Corey Legit looking pretty nice.

489
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,920
Speaker 1: They're now they're fun to watch on both sides. About

490
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:29,199
Speaker 1: that Christmas, He's not too legit to quit because I

491
00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:32,720
Speaker 1: just quitted. Alright, So al right, okay, so we're not

492
00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:35,679
Speaker 1: gonna get a team this week, Mark, Who who are

493
00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:38,760
Speaker 1: you throwing into the mix? I'm curious team that I

494
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 1: landed on. I'm even surprised by this New York Jets. Wow.

495
00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:46,920
Speaker 1: Everyone wants to write them off because why because they

496
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:50,280
Speaker 1: lost to the Green Bay Packers actually giving them a

497
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:55,040
Speaker 1: run for the money in Lambeau. They've got a quarterback

498
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Speaker 1: that we are starting to believe in some degree. They've

499
00:26:57,600 --> 00:26:59,680
Speaker 1: got some skill players that they didn't have last year.

500
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:03,120
Speaker 1: More in seen on offense, they've got a Rex Ryan defense.

501
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 1: I don't see something about the Jets that for me

502
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 1: would say all these other teams there's something going on.

503
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:12,199
Speaker 1: I'm like, Nope, not happening. For whatever reason. The Jets

504
00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:15,240
Speaker 1: for me, they work the same way the Vikings did

505
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:17,840
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago. I am on board with a

506
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,119
Speaker 1: lot of this. I do not want to watch a

507
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:22,399
Speaker 1: wide receiver corps without Eric Decker, and he has a

508
00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 1: hamstring engine but you can take term with some things

509
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:28,360
Speaker 1: and then long term with others, Like with the Steelers

510
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:32,320
Speaker 1: an example, I can't because this is a race here

511
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:34,280
Speaker 1: where all these teams are trying to get in it,

512
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:37,679
Speaker 1: and early in the season it matters how fun they

513
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:39,760
Speaker 1: are to watch. Those Steelers aren't fun to watch right now,

514
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 1: They're incredibly fun to watch six They have you seen

515
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:48,120
Speaker 1: man play Ryan Chess play? These are dynamic young parents

516
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 1: who are fun to watch. Mark's history picking teams not

517
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 1: exactly stellar. Here the Vikings are embroiled in one of

518
00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:59,800
Speaker 1: the ugliest scandals days after well it does. It is

519
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,840
Speaker 1: potentially ominous. And now, if you're in the New York organization,

520
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:05,320
Speaker 1: number is probably number two. This feels like some sort

521
00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:10,000
Speaker 1: of strange misdirection voodoo because you're an actual fan, die

522
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 1: hard fan of a team that's a terrific candidate that

523
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:16,640
Speaker 1: that we could all get behind. The Cleveland Browns, I mean,

524
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,160
Speaker 1: that's a fun team that will not pass the board

525
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 1: the does of the man in purple Jets playing at

526
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:24,960
Speaker 1: a lifeless MetLife stadium. They can't even get fireman ed

527
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:31,119
Speaker 1: back back into the auditioned by subtraction. I mean, I

528
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:33,920
Speaker 1: need my quarterback to do more than complete play action

529
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:37,760
Speaker 1: passes which rolls up Brian Holier and E. J. Manuel. Otherwise,

530
00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 1: the Bills would be an interesting team. Bills Bills would

531
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 1: be fun and Mark apparently not into a quarterback that

532
00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 1: can rip off twenty four straight points on the team

533
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:53,560
Speaker 1: of a t l S defense. You're pos Terence West

534
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:56,080
Speaker 1: and Kroll. We're doing most of the work. Hit about

535
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 1: that another one, t D come on a lot of

536
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 1: fire by it. This is a deft move by Mark Sessler,

537
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:04,360
Speaker 1: because you know full well if the Jets spanked the

538
00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 1: Bears on Monday Night football, you know I'm jumping ship

539
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:09,880
Speaker 1: from the Chargers. Even if the Charges look great, I'm

540
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 1: gonna end up joining. You said, a very nice job.

541
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:15,400
Speaker 1: But what, oh yeah, are you kidding me? You know

542
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:17,600
Speaker 1: who I am. I'm flagging. Support means nothing to you.

543
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,840
Speaker 1: What You're just gonna leave the Charges by the side

544
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 1: of the road, says the man who has a binder

545
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:26,400
Speaker 1: about why he left the childhood team He grew up rooting, right.

546
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:28,680
Speaker 1: That's how painful it was. I went through all that

547
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:31,520
Speaker 1: work to come up with reasons why I was doing

548
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 1: very Flagging support is sticking by your team no matter

549
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:37,600
Speaker 1: what I'm happy that I chose the Chargers. That feel

550
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 1: good about it, feel good that they seem to be

551
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 1: a favorite right now. But I have no loyalty to

552
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:45,880
Speaker 1: the people of San Diego. This is Jets. I still

553
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:47,959
Speaker 1: have loyalty to our team last year. But although it's

554
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 1: a little harder to choose the Panthers right now, but

555
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:52,600
Speaker 1: they are fun to watch. I have no problem choosing

556
00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 1: the Panthers right now. That is, they do feel underrated here.

557
00:29:56,840 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 1: There's nothing about They've create did a whole new system

558
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 1: in the NFL where you can pick up anyone's trash

559
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:07,240
Speaker 1: at cornerback in safety and they turned into magical players.

560
00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:09,640
Speaker 1: Does that solved this family squabbles? If we just go

561
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:12,480
Speaker 1: back to the Panthers, well, keep in mind, Greg, per

562
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 1: the rules of the game, there are three Matthew mulligans

563
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:19,600
Speaker 1: still in play. So the Panthers gona the reality we

564
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:24,240
Speaker 1: all sat around to entirely organic and we chose. We

565
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:26,280
Speaker 1: all just decided some other team that we were just like,

566
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,240
Speaker 1: we gotta have that team that's gonna would be recognized

567
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:31,480
Speaker 1: by the boards. Our friend Josh Norris from rhotor World

568
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 1: pointed out to us on Twitter, and we should be

569
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:37,800
Speaker 1: watching Ben a ben Wicker, who was a cornerback who

570
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,200
Speaker 1: caught my eye in the first game. He was playing

571
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:43,760
Speaker 1: really well. A team of a t L for name

572
00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:48,560
Speaker 1: of a t L Ben a ben Wicker. Alright, so, gentlemen,

573
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:50,600
Speaker 1: so we got nowhere. That's good. That's good that we

574
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 1: got nowhere. But guys, I don't mean to do this,

575
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:56,040
Speaker 1: but what if what if this year it just isn't

576
00:30:56,040 --> 00:31:01,719
Speaker 1: a team of a t there with just no resolution,

577
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,600
Speaker 1: nothing ever happened, there will be. We finished the job

578
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 1: around these parts. Yeah, we didn't pick the Panthers still

579
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:11,720
Speaker 1: about week six, to be honest. So we're fine. We're good, alright,

580
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:14,360
Speaker 1: moving on. By the way, we have West. We have

581
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 1: nice attempt by our producer to deep six and major segment.

582
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:25,120
Speaker 1: As they always say, because coming off the Stituo ward

583
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:27,400
Speaker 1: they always say, the disease of more. You know, you

584
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:30,640
Speaker 1: wins the championship, you guys have you want more, and

585
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:33,000
Speaker 1: you guys are looking for too much. Now I'm ready

586
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:37,360
Speaker 1: for like five different teams, Brown, Chargers, Cardinals, I don't care,

587
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:41,560
Speaker 1: just do. It's an anarchist of the game out of

588
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 1: our group that we've resisted the disease of more. We

589
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:46,600
Speaker 1: are a cohesive unit. What Mark Cubans said about the

590
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:48,880
Speaker 1: NFL does not apply to this room. We are not

591
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:51,480
Speaker 1: the hog being led to slaughter. Actually was pat Riley,

592
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:55,760
Speaker 1: but no, actually, TD, I'll have you know, just yesterday

593
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:58,880
Speaker 1: my mom told me you guys all really get along

594
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,520
Speaker 1: so well, that's why the podcast is fun sometimes. And

595
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 1: by the way, it was Mark Cuban. Mark Cuban, there's

596
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 1: two different things. The disease of more is a separate theory.

597
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 1: Pat Riley has been peddling right all right, but the

598
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:18,560
Speaker 1: thing was Cuban. Let's move on anyway, speaking of how

599
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 1: everybody went and and pork and meat products. I have

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00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:30,840
Speaker 1: an update on the West Softball Pants situation. Boy, so

601
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 1: I still won't name the restaurant, but it is one

602
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:37,720
Speaker 1: of the more popular brunch eateries in Hollywood, all of

603
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 1: Hollywood and Los Angeles. The head chef and the owner

604
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:44,040
Speaker 1: and proprietor of that store, we reached out to him

605
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:47,040
Speaker 1: have some connections, and he wrote back an email and

606
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 1: this is what he said when I asked, would it

607
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:50,760
Speaker 1: be possible? First of all, would you be open to

608
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 1: cooking up some softball pants? West of course has now

609
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 1: agreed to eat his softball pants because Johnny Manziel did

610
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:00,520
Speaker 1: not start in week one. Uh those with the terms,

611
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:03,000
Speaker 1: he's sticking to them, and much respect to him for that.

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00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 1: So I reached out to this gentleman, said would you

613
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:08,960
Speaker 1: cook softball pants? And if if you could, how would

614
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:11,880
Speaker 1: you do it? I had a friend reach out to him.

615
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 1: This is the response via email. The only way I

616
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 1: could come up with is to make goulash, cut up

617
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 1: the pants and braise it along with braised pork, you know,

618
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:25,480
Speaker 1: like goulash soup. I have here at Blank. I'm keeping

619
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 1: a little mystery with the restaurant. I don't know why

620
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 1: America exactly. It would taste like the lounging lining of

621
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 1: cows stomach and then he wrote tasty. He's outside the country,

622
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:38,120
Speaker 1: he's not a native of the country. What is it

623
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:41,200
Speaker 1: called an English thin strips? But it would take two hours,

624
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 1: So let me know if that is possible and we

625
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:47,240
Speaker 1: can make it happen. So we have a goolash, a

626
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:49,800
Speaker 1: softball pants goolash set up. It's just a matter of

627
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 1: now putting the wheels in motion. This sounds so delicious

628
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:54,840
Speaker 1: that I think our listeners are gonna be jealous that

629
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:57,480
Speaker 1: they're not gonna get to try my softball pants. I'm

630
00:33:57,480 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 1: pretty sure I'm gonna end up beating some of this.

631
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 1: I like, and you didn't even make a bad prediction.

632
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 1: I like, what is that Ukrainian Hungarian I used? I

633
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:09,600
Speaker 1: love those little restaurants. And by the way, that I

634
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:12,920
Speaker 1: should say the restaurant is Blue Jam Cafe. It's a

635
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 1: very popular restaurant here in Los Angeles. And Camille, who

636
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:19,920
Speaker 1: owns the restaurant, is the man behind it. Everything he

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Speaker 1: cooks is amazing. In fact, Kevin Patra coming at you

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Speaker 1: um emailed when I set this email, aut voted out.

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Speaker 1: He said, best brunch in l A. And he's right.

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Speaker 1: So you're in good hands. West. It's not like we

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Speaker 1: sent you to some low grade Korea town place where

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Speaker 1: the health code standards are in question. You're gonna get

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Speaker 1: some high level softball pants. Probably keep my mouth shut here,

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Speaker 1: but it feels a little bit like I'm getting off easy. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I agree. Well, you're still eating nylon elastic the flip side,

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Speaker 1: and we're not into that necessarily. Yeah. I said down

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Speaker 1: stairs that I might be dark enough. You got eat

648
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Speaker 1: a bowl suit fair enough? All right, So that's the update.

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Speaker 1: We move on. Alright, So winners and losers very popular

650
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Speaker 1: popular metrics grabber on the old NFL dot com. So

651
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Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know if that's true. And

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Speaker 1: let's say it is. Let's say it does very well

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Speaker 1: and people are clamoring for it. I'm looking at your

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Speaker 1: most recent post, which you can find on NFL dot com,

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Speaker 1: slash a t N. Yeah, you could go a t

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Speaker 1: L two. It'll still read it. Okay, great has comments.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure they're all well reasoned and thought out comments,

658
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Speaker 1: so that means someone's reading it. So we're gonna go

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Speaker 1: through Greg's lystia is going up and going down from

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Speaker 1: week two, and I'll just jump We'll just get going

661
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:51,320
Speaker 1: by one that jumped out to me from a negative aspect,

662
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:56,239
Speaker 1: because it's fun to secuw negative always Andrew Lux accuracy

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Speaker 1: moving down according to Greg Rosenthal, coming off, of course,

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Speaker 1: uh the Monday night game in which the Cults were

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Speaker 1: upended late and defeated by the Philadelphia Eagles. Well, I

666
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:11,239
Speaker 1: think Andrew Lux one of the most, if not the

667
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 1: most fun players in the league to watch, but I

668
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 1: think he's one of the most misunderstood. He's a very

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Speaker 1: streaky flashy player. He pulls off more wow throws than

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Speaker 1: just about anyone and he is just as streaky as

671
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Speaker 1: Colin Kaepernick and Cam Newton, who are more known for that.

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00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 1: His accuracy can come and go, and I think Colts

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00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:35,920
Speaker 1: fans would recognize that that he'll he'll miss high for

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Speaker 1: a couple of quarters at a time, and then he'll

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Speaker 1: be on fire for a couple of quarters at a time.

676
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:42,799
Speaker 1: And he started off this season a little bit slow,

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Speaker 1: especially in that game. I think if that if he

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Speaker 1: had the game he had against Philadelphia, if let's say

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Speaker 1: Tony Romo or Tom Brady or Kaepernick had that game,

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Speaker 1: they would be getting criticism for a pretty bad game.

681
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:57,800
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like it's a good point because

682
00:36:58,360 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 1: Luck does seem to get a little bit of the

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Speaker 1: benefit of the doubt from analysts as someone that's more

684
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Speaker 1: of a polished product than these other younger guys, and

685
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Speaker 1: I guess he is on balance, but he does have

686
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Speaker 1: there are times where he isn't quite as accurate as

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Speaker 1: you would expect, and Monday was certainly an example. He's

688
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 1: wildly talented, but I think he's far from a finished product.

689
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:20,319
Speaker 1: They all are working on different things, but He's still

690
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:23,439
Speaker 1: is a young quarterback in a way that I think

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Speaker 1: Brady and Manning and all the guys that we've put

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Speaker 1: up there at the top, they don't have these cold

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Speaker 1: streaks that that Luck does. Well, what about Brady's first

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Speaker 1: game this year, there's a there's two games, that's fair.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Brady is someone who started off last season

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Speaker 1: slow as well. I think it's just with Luck that

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Speaker 1: we we remember all the great comebacks, but sometimes we

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Speaker 1: just forget that he put them in the position to

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Speaker 1: make those comebacks. Sometimes. Here's here's a question, is Andrew

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Speaker 1: Luck actually more like Tom Brady than Colin Kaepernick and

701
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:58,520
Speaker 1: Cam Newton that he struggles because he doesn't have a

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Speaker 1: great offensive line, he doesn't have surrounding talent. And that's

703
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:04,359
Speaker 1: usually when Tom Brady has struggled, and it's when Colin

704
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 1: Kappernick struggled last year at the beginning of the year too.

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Speaker 1: I think that's part of it. But you can isolate

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Speaker 1: his throws when he actually does have good throws and

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00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:16,520
Speaker 1: he misses open throws. I think more than than people realize,

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Speaker 1: Like in this Philly game, protection wasn't a problem, and

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Speaker 1: they weren't they weren't rushing him well. And since you

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Speaker 1: bring up the Philly game, I also you can make

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Speaker 1: a case for Nick Foles being on this list to

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Speaker 1: moving down. I I thought, you look at his numbers,

713
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:31,440
Speaker 1: just thrown over six hundred yards. They have two wins.

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Speaker 1: He's had some you know, flashy plays when you watched

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Speaker 1: the highlights. But he's not playing well either. No, he's

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Speaker 1: been terrible through two weeks. He's been one of the

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Speaker 1: worst quarterbacks in the league through two weeks. It's only

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Speaker 1: two weeks. I watched that game with my friend Philadelia

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Speaker 1: and Eagles blogger and a few Eagles fans, and they

720
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Speaker 1: and one guy in particular was really down on fools

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00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 1: and you know said, outside of that seven touchdown game

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Speaker 1: against the Raiders last year, really hasn't been that good.

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Speaker 1: And he missed a lot of throws again Monday and night,

724
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:02,359
Speaker 1: he holds the ball too long. He missed a lot

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Speaker 1: of throws in the opener, stay warm up, said, get

726
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:08,160
Speaker 1: a mental meltdown in the opener that you just don't

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Speaker 1: see too often. And he missed a ton of throws.

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Speaker 1: This is why you can't just look at the box score.

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00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:14,200
Speaker 1: Because his numbers were great, but they were. It was

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Speaker 1: all just from dump offs to Sprowls. It supports my

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Speaker 1: theory that Chip Kelly dan is. His genius tag is

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00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 1: well earned. He has created the quarterback proof offense. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't even matter who the quarterback. He was genius enough

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Speaker 1: to trade for Darren Sprowls. You know what, he traded

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Speaker 1: a pick for Isaac Sopawaga. He got that pick from

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Speaker 1: the Patriots and then that ended up being traded. You

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00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:45,040
Speaker 1: know why this doesn't check out because all these bad

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Speaker 1: throws and bad decisions Nick Foles is making. He's getting

739
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 1: lucky too. There could be a lot of interceptions or

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00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,359
Speaker 1: fumbles that he lost that should have been recovered. All

741
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 1: this stuff catches up to you. The bill always comes due.

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00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:57,560
Speaker 1: It hasn't through two weeks. Didn't he keeps playing like this?

743
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Speaker 1: It's gonna cost Didn't They just turned to Mark Sanchez

744
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:03,359
Speaker 1: turned the season around. I will say this again, if

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Speaker 1: Mark Sanchez comes in and performs well, I will send

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Speaker 1: a bouquet of roses to Chip killing and say you're

747
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 1: a genius Bud. That would be slightly creepy. I have

748
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Speaker 1: to veer negative to um. You know, looking at the

749
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Speaker 1: moving down category, I wasted on my vacation during the summer,

750
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Speaker 1: about four hours watching film and writing up a piece

751
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:30,439
Speaker 1: about Toby Gearhart making the leap. You should have known

752
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:33,759
Speaker 1: a running back named Toby and and the Jaguars never

753
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:36,600
Speaker 1: gonna work out. I should have known because that coincided

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Speaker 1: with an offseason that saw them swinging miss on the

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00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:44,440
Speaker 1: big piece they needed, which was Alex Mack, a center

756
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Speaker 1: to anchor that line. When that deal didn't happen, I

757
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 1: think that a lot of what Jacksonville hope to do

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00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 1: in terms of the progress with the ground game went

759
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:58,200
Speaker 1: south because that offensive. The reason I owe two sandwiches

760
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:00,920
Speaker 1: to these guys right here and Gregg and Wes is

761
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:04,240
Speaker 1: because they don't want to put a developing, young rookie

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Speaker 1: quarterback behind that line. They gave up ten sacks to

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Speaker 1: the Redskins, who are not exactly last year's Seahawks on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: and Toby Gearhart I believe has one rush over ten

765
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:19,319
Speaker 1: yards all season. He has been It's hard to get

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Speaker 1: a read on him. I'm not gonna go kill Toby.

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Speaker 1: I didn't put him. It's the line, right I I moved,

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Speaker 1: I said, moved down Gerhardt fantasy because their line is

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Speaker 1: so bad and he's not the guy that can overcome

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Speaker 1: well and because it's hard to you know, get a

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00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 1: read for an offensive line in the off season, we

772
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Speaker 1: just can't do that. But we we went around talking

773
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Speaker 1: about Gearhart as a guy that's gonna lead the a

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Speaker 1: f C or the NFC or NFL in two general

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00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:45,640
Speaker 1: and touches. Well, that's a disastrous idea because they can't

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00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 1: get anything done on offense. Right now, here's an idea,

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00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 1: Jaguars coaches, you might want to shelve the stretch runs

778
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 1: and pitches to the outside when Gerhart has no letter

779
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:58,520
Speaker 1: of agility and they can't open up any holes, run

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00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:00,480
Speaker 1: him up the middle. He's a power back. Say tell

781
00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:02,440
Speaker 1: the Colts the same thing about that. With Trent Richardson,

782
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:04,399
Speaker 1: by the way, I don't know, he might be beyond good.

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Speaker 1: That's another thing that should have been moving down Pep

784
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:11,279
Speaker 1: Hamilton's calling runs for Trent Richardson in a tie game

785
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:15,279
Speaker 1: with under three minutes to go to what you don't come.

786
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:19,040
Speaker 1: You would never have traded for Trent Richardson and wasted

787
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:21,880
Speaker 1: that first round pick if it weren't for this internal

788
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:24,759
Speaker 1: belief that Pep Hamilton's run first offense wasn't going to

789
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:27,080
Speaker 1: lead the day well the way he didn't look half

790
00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:31,759
Speaker 1: bad before he did the fumbles and the bad That's

791
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:33,800
Speaker 1: the crazy thing is they called they gave him the

792
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 1: ball on those two snaps in theory to waste time

793
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:39,480
Speaker 1: and because it was safe. But what is less safe

794
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:41,560
Speaker 1: than giving the ball to a guy who's fumbled twice

795
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:45,800
Speaker 1: in the game. They coached that roster like it's the

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Speaker 1: Seahawks ort, and the roster is a lot closer to

797
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:52,680
Speaker 1: the Jaguars outside of Andrew Luck. You can't do power

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00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:55,080
Speaker 1: football with what they had tied with the Jaguars, big

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Speaker 1: last place matchup, Brigson on your moving down list. Before

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00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 1: we get out here, we should talk about something positive.

801
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:04,800
Speaker 1: So Chris Wesling, what do you got? I like this

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00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:08,200
Speaker 1: one on Redskins offseason spending one of the best defensive

803
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:11,279
Speaker 1: players for the second year in a row. Greg had

804
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 1: Jason Hatcher last year on his midseason Defensive Player of

805
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:16,400
Speaker 1: the Year watch, and no one has been able to

806
00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:18,960
Speaker 1: block him since he came back from his knee injury.

807
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:21,719
Speaker 1: In the third preseason game, he put a clown suit

808
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:24,279
Speaker 1: on Marshall yonda then and he's putting clown suits on

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00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:27,680
Speaker 1: offensive lineman. Now, Jason Hatcher one of the best defensive

810
00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:31,520
Speaker 1: players in the NFL. He's right through two weeks, he

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00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:33,560
Speaker 1: has been. And I was critical of that move just

812
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Speaker 1: because of the injuries that Hatcher had and the amount

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Speaker 1: of money. And I couldn't be more wrong. So maybe

814
00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:41,759
Speaker 1: maybe getting Shanahan out of there was good luck for

815
00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:45,200
Speaker 1: their personnel moves. I know it was the Jaguars, but

816
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 1: ten sacks and a beat down that good is usually

817
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:50,960
Speaker 1: a sign that you're gonna have a pretty good season.

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00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:54,920
Speaker 1: Teams don't win games like that unless they're halfway decent teams.

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Speaker 1: So I'm like, not just ten sacks, eighteen quarterback hits too?

820
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Speaker 1: So are you two saying that just because Jim has

821
00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:04,960
Speaker 1: his friends with the head coach, it was still a

822
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:07,919
Speaker 1: good idea to uh keep him around after last year's

823
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:10,200
Speaker 1: train wreck. I have an opinion. Let's see what they

824
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Speaker 1: do in Philly. Let's see what they do in Philly

825
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:16,160
Speaker 1: this week. That's a really interesting matchup early in the season.

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Speaker 1: To get it. Get the temperature this year, Jason Hatcher,

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Speaker 1: Keenan Robinson, They've got better players this year. Dan, If

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Speaker 1: you ever fail horribly at some point in your career

829
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Speaker 1: and I'm giving an opportunity to hire someone I will

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Speaker 1: bring you aboard. Oh thank you, But he's your Jim

831
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:37,719
Speaker 1: hanselet like that. That's like the backhanded compliment I've ever heard.

832
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:44,280
Speaker 1: H probably has about three point four million dollars. Dannis

833
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Speaker 1: a father. We didn't look out for the guy. Maybe

834
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Speaker 1: more coach. So that's it. We'll be back tomorrow with

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Speaker 1: I have one. I have a request for some of

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Speaker 1: our die hard listeners. So Mark often throws out these

837
00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:01,480
Speaker 1: phrases like windmill of total k us. I feel like

838
00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 1: we should have an album full of these that Mark

839
00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:06,800
Speaker 1: has said over the years. These are album names, and

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00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:09,840
Speaker 1: I really liked him. I think one maybe Tristan or

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00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:11,880
Speaker 1: someone else could come up with a list of all

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00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:14,520
Speaker 1: of Mark's greatest hits, or our producer, even if he

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00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:18,719
Speaker 1: decided to buckle down and you know, do some sidework.

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Speaker 1: We're just I'm just happy he's lists. Yeah, all right,

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Speaker 1: So that's it. We'll be back on Thursday, uh after

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Speaker 1: Thursday night football. By the way, that's how on top

847
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Speaker 1: of this situation we are could be Friday, depending on

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Speaker 1: That is our third and final podcast of the week.

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Speaker 1: That's how we do things. And then we're back on

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