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Speaker 1: Jaguars this week. Welcome back to another edition of the

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Speaker 1: Around the NFL Podcast. My name is Dan Hansis and

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Speaker 1: I am joined by a room failed with heroes Mark Sessler,

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Speaker 1: Chris Westling and Greg Rosatal. What's up boys? Hey? Dan?

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Speaker 1: All right? Week eleven, Sunday. In the books, Mark, the

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Speaker 1: train keeps rolling, keeps going, whether we wanted to or not,

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Speaker 1: and we do, I mean I wanted to keep moving along. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, well you do want to get those sandwiches

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Speaker 1: for when you predicted there will be no winner of

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Speaker 1: stop early. Not concerned about that. That was a prediction

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Speaker 1: I've nailed already. We're all very worried about that prediction. Now. Um. Yes,

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Speaker 1: this is the Sunday flagship edition of the Around the

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Speaker 1: NFL Podcast, where recap all the Sunday games. You can

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Speaker 1: watch us right now in Periscope. Have we sent out

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Speaker 1: the appropriate romps on our own Twitter? Very good? Very good?

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Speaker 1: Uh so yes you can. Every Sunday you can watch

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Speaker 1: course our audio listeners um always you know what if

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Speaker 1: we where to find us and when to find us?

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Speaker 1: There's there's a structure involved here. There's been a couple

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Speaker 1: of really good weeks of NFL action. I thought things

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Speaker 1: slowed down a little bit today in terms of uh,

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Speaker 1: you know when. The biggest storyline is that we set

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Speaker 1: And that's the big takeaway so far this week for

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Speaker 1: a lot of people. Maybe this wasn't the best week,

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Speaker 1: but still it's fun to talk about football, and that's

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Speaker 1: what we're gonna do. We got a lot of games

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Speaker 1: to talk about. Should we get into it please? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Well we might as well start with the best team

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Speaker 1: in the NFC right now, the Dallas Cowboys. This is

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Speaker 1: an eight minute drive for the Cowboys, second and eight

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Speaker 1: of the Raven thirteen. Bletch here they come, Prescott slap

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Speaker 1: days five. Does the Cowboys have two touchdown? League? What

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Speaker 1: It's not an upset of the week. I don't know

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Speaker 1: Want to know in week eleven locks gratul That's how

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Speaker 1: the Ravens. The Dallas often sputtered here early before reminding

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Speaker 1: their opponents. I am so impressed by Dak Prescott and

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys coaching staff in terms of their ability to adjust.

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Speaker 1: We've seen this a number of times where they start slow.

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Speaker 1: That's her team. But almost almost like Dallas, it seems

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Speaker 1: breaking even Mrs uh and the Bank Cincinnati had the ball,

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Speaker 1: you know, around midfield with thirty seconds to play down

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Speaker 1: four points. You can do the map there. Even I

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Speaker 1: could do the map there. And I once got a

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Speaker 1: thirty nine on a statement dated that cost them the

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Speaker 1: game essentially. So here here we are the Buffalo Bills,

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Speaker 1: greg though still alive, still alive? Did they're a team there?

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Speaker 1: Next week? There could They're a team that's managing to

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Speaker 1: win games with their number one receiver. You know, at

438
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Speaker 1: the point of the game when Robert Woods goes out

439
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Speaker 1: as who Marquis Goodwin or it was a bunch of guys.

440
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Speaker 1: It was a bunch of guys catching passes for them.

441
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Speaker 1: Only one of them had been on the team in

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Speaker 1: August and that was Goodwin. It's just Brandon Tate and

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Speaker 1: Justin Hunter and in Percy Harvin. Who you know shocker

444
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Speaker 1: hasn't come back lighting the world on fire. Uh thus far? Yeah,

445
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Speaker 1: I think I think that this is a team. I

446
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Speaker 1: feel like they were killed by injuries next year too,

447
00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:03,200
Speaker 1: if I recall, and it's happening again, and Lashawn McCoy

448
00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:05,679
Speaker 1: left this game, there's a really nice win for Buffalo.

449
00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:07,960
Speaker 1: And I know Sinati is not good this year, but

450
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Speaker 1: being able to hold off their defense played incredibly well.

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Speaker 1: I thought Cincinnati's offense look terrible. Uh, and now you

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Speaker 1: lose Shady McCoy um to a dislocated thumb that he's

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Speaker 1: gonna have surgery on from what I'm hearing, And the

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Speaker 1: reports are out there that they're gonna hope he plays

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Speaker 1: next week. But you know we've already seen West before

456
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Speaker 1: them be overly optimistic with a McCoy timetable that leads

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Speaker 1: to a setback. Who knows, Yeah, this one. The advantage

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Speaker 1: here is that it's a thumb injury and not a hamstring,

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Speaker 1: so shouldn't limit his movement at all. You think he'd

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Speaker 1: come back, that's fine. Where are you at? West? West

461
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Speaker 1: was not gonna happen. How do you fill the void? Well?

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Speaker 1: I mean it's they're only a game and a half

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Speaker 1: out of first place, but they have three wins. The

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Speaker 1: Ravens Stealers ostensibly look like better teams. Would you admit

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Speaker 1: that like they have a bet? One of those teams

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Speaker 1: should finish with a winning record. Unlike my esteem colleague

467
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Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal, who denied basic mathematical principles by saying he

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Speaker 1: rather be three six and one. Well, you can get

469
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Speaker 1: a better draft pick three and seven. I think the

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Speaker 1: Steelers have to be considered heavy favorites now that they're

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Speaker 1: relatively healthy in this division. The Bengals play the Ravens

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Speaker 1: next week, so they can make up ground on them.

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Speaker 1: I'm a little in denial about West Hoast. Yes, well, listen,

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Speaker 1: look at the Bengals are done. Here is their schedule.

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Speaker 1: You've got the Ravens, the Eagles, the Browns. You may

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Speaker 1: even not beat the Browns. You never know the Steelers,

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Speaker 1: the Texans and the Ravens. And they've never won a

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Speaker 1: game without a j Green since Well, that's exactly what

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Speaker 1: splits when without him on the field. With Andy Dalton's

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Speaker 1: your quarterback, I mean, look, you lost your number one

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Speaker 1: core player on offense. They're best player by far this year,

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Speaker 1: and and they haven't been able to find anyone next

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Speaker 1: to him. Forget trying to find people open. Now that

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Speaker 1: he's gone, yeah there, Fox, forget it. They're going to

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Speaker 1: Baltimore next week. The Baltimore can officially kill them. Should

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Speaker 1: we convene the four Committee one last time the week

487
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Speaker 1: you need to just you know, set tie up some

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Speaker 1: loose ends. And Cincinnati will obviously be one of the

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Speaker 1: teams we talk about, so we could leave us in.

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Speaker 1: The Bills will not be forked. Now they got some

491
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Speaker 1: heard this. This Bill's team has some heart quarterbacks and

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Speaker 1: they every game is at home by two games, right,

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Speaker 1: Mark Rex. Ryan has done a nice job a coaching

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Speaker 1: job this year. True, I think that he has. I

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Speaker 1: think we've been saying that for a month plus two.

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Speaker 1: Anthony Lynn has done a great crew. Let's let's also Ryan,

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Speaker 1: they have done a good job. But if they go

498
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Speaker 1: eight and eight, and that's what they're on paced, right,

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Speaker 1: let's also not get two carried away year two of

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Speaker 1: their program and we all get carried. I do think

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Speaker 1: they've overcome. They've overcome a lot. And there was a

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Speaker 1: point in late September early October where people were ready

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Speaker 1: for Rector to be sent into Nowheresville and he's still

504
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Speaker 1: around five and three since Week three. That Miami loss,

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Speaker 1: I think really is going to haunt them most likely. No,

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Speaker 1: No West of Us though, and he had to work

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Speaker 1: on West of this last year that was New Less.

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Speaker 1: There's West of Us of course, you know, the annual

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Speaker 1: Saturday Bengals playoff loss. My one of my highlights of

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Speaker 1: last football season was seeing all of the tweets from

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Speaker 1: people in New Zealand and Denmark and Ireland celebrating West

512
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Speaker 1: of Us along with and just last name you and

513
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Speaker 1: I were talking about, you know, maybe we could all

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Speaker 1: have the day off and we could have a real

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Speaker 1: fun party together to celebrate alas we can still all

516
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Speaker 1: four of us? Yeah right, how are all four of

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Speaker 1: usoff Saturday? Rendering ourselves completely non essential to the operation.

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Speaker 1: And then they're like, yeah, don't bother us Sunday or

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Speaker 1: the next week after that. Either. Nobody said it was listic.

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Speaker 1: It was just something that was being kicked around training

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Speaker 1: on my prey exactly. Everybody. Welcome to the Around the

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Speaker 1: NFL podcast. This is Nick Shook alongside Jeremy Bergmann. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's move on and check out another AFC East team

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Speaker 1: Daniel back to throw, Cure comes the blitz, It gets

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Speaker 1: it off Courter, the catch, Parker take away. What an

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Speaker 1: unbelievable throw and catch? Why not Parker? Why believe it?

527
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Speaker 1: What a comeback. The Dolphins were held scoreless for the

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Speaker 1: first fifty six minutes of game time on Sunday and

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Speaker 1: face the double digit deficit late in the fourth quarter,

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Speaker 1: but back to back Ryan Tannehill led touchdown drives. Is

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Speaker 1: that onions I smell? There are those onions? I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Are they get allen our show you a little bit

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Speaker 1: of all grown, huge onions capped with a game winning

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Speaker 1: connection to Davante Parker, lifted Miami to a fourteen ten win.

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Speaker 1: That's spoiled. Jared Goffs NFL debut. Mark Sessler talking to you, buddy.

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Speaker 1: The Dolphins have now won five straight, uh, and they

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Speaker 1: start to get good at this dramatic winds stuff. I

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Speaker 1: didn't find this game dramatic on any level. There was

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Speaker 1: a point here where Miami and yes they punched in

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Speaker 1: the touchdown to win it, that it looked like it

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Speaker 1: was gonna potentially go into overtime, which I think to

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Speaker 1: any viewer would have been a horror. I mean, it

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Speaker 1: was a certainly for sure, well it was. It was

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Speaker 1: a rough game to watch. There was a period late

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Speaker 1: in the you know, second half where Ryan Tannehill was

546
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Speaker 1: averaging about two yards per attempt and Jared Goff, for

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Speaker 1: all the hype around his first start, did not look

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Speaker 1: much different to me than case Keenum in terms of

549
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Speaker 1: the pure result. I think he's a better use some

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Speaker 1: natural gifts that case Keenum maybe does not have. But

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Speaker 1: he looked like a complete rookie to me, and it's

552
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Speaker 1: a lot to do with the offense around him. I

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Speaker 1: give the credit to the Dolphins or six and four

554
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 1: was an ugly when you gotta get some of these

555
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Speaker 1: to stay alive. They're not the way the Dolphins are built.

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Speaker 1: They're not going to look pretty every week, There's no

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Speaker 1: way around it. Defense drives to start the game with

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Speaker 1: no points and then two touchdowns in the last four

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Speaker 1: minutes as wild right, They at one point had I

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Speaker 1: think it was eight punts and a turnover, and then

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00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 1: they suddenly heat it up. They have The Rams defense

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Speaker 1: is legitimate. I mean, it is a it is an

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Speaker 1: excellent defense, and it's it doesn't really seem to matter

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Speaker 1: who they play. It's not a matchup defense. They've shut

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Speaker 1: down four teams in a row. It's just that their offense.

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Speaker 1: You've got to develop something on that side of the ball.

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Speaker 1: Did you get any sense for whether the Rams coaches

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Speaker 1: were punished for having too conservative of a game plan

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Speaker 1: or play calling, or was Jared Goff just unwilling to

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Speaker 1: throw it downfield? Well, I mean I think a little

571
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Speaker 1: bit of a mixture. They certainly it was not an

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Speaker 1: aggressive game plan as most Rams game plans or not.

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Speaker 1: But he did not complete and not complete a pass

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Speaker 1: that went twenty yards through the air. It was all.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't checkdowns. It was just I'm gonna look for

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Speaker 1: my tight end on a crossing pattern. I'm gonna look

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Speaker 1: for people in the flats. I get it. That's what

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Speaker 1: he was dealing with against the Dolphins only had one second.

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Speaker 1: I thought that Goff did not look uh frightened out there.

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Speaker 1: He looked calm. He looked to be in command to

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Speaker 1: some degree. But it's just you're putting them into a

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Speaker 1: bad position in a bad off. I thought he looked

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Speaker 1: a little spooked after the second Dolphins touchdown, when he

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Speaker 1: had thirty seconds they actually took after the kickoff returned

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Speaker 1: nice run back to about the forty and uh they

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Speaker 1: had one time out in twenty nine seconds and this

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Speaker 1: was to me total Jeff Fisher's rams. You have that

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Speaker 1: time out, which is gold in this scenario to have

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Speaker 1: any chance here to get down the field. The first

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Speaker 1: play calls a seven yard slant. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: it was the play call that, but that's how the

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Speaker 1: play ended. They used up like you have ten seconds

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Speaker 1: of the clock and their last time at Essentially, I'm

594
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Speaker 1: probably being a little too gentle on him because it

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Speaker 1: was his first start. I mean it was it was unimpressive.

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Speaker 1: He he had sixty four yards passing in the first half,

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Speaker 1: got a little bit rhythm late, but finished with a

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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty four four point three per attend. Anyone

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Speaker 1: else that did that we would look at and say

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Speaker 1: that's sub NFL level, the lowest passing output since the

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Speaker 1: season opened. It was also it was also raining. There's

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Speaker 1: a guy on the other side of the struggling that

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Speaker 1: much too. You have to give it off in some credit.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they lose their left tackle, Brandon now Abt,

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Speaker 1: they lose Laramie Tunsil, and they lost Pouncy right before

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Speaker 1: the this gave me even started. So that's your three

607
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Speaker 1: best offensive lineman, entire side of your offensive line. You

608
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:07,680
Speaker 1: have to face the Rams. It's not a surprise they

609
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:10,680
Speaker 1: struggle on offense, and yet they're they're finding ways to

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Speaker 1: win these games. I still think the Dolphins are gonna

611
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Speaker 1: come back down to Earth very soon. Bill Barnwell tweeted

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Speaker 1: out that they've won their last four games. During this

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Speaker 1: five game winning streaked by a combined eighteen points. So

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Speaker 1: you know, it's not like they're blowing anybody way. They're

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Speaker 1: winning a lot of close games. And I thought that

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Speaker 1: this was just last week. I was saying, the way

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Speaker 1: that the Rams get to seven and nine, eight and

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Speaker 1: eight every year is they win these type of sewer games.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Jeff Fisher got out sleddged here, uh seven

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Speaker 1: and nine, there was his own type of game that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there was a period. There was a moment in this

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Speaker 1: game where you know, they were before the first half ended,

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Speaker 1: they were trying to get the ball back and the

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Speaker 1: Dolphin they called two time outs where the Dolphins couldn't

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Speaker 1: move the ball to get you know, it had precious

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Speaker 1: seconds to have maybe a last second throw down field

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Speaker 1: by golf. They get the ball back with limited amount

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Speaker 1: of time and they kneel on it. Why did you

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Speaker 1: call two timeouts? Why did you extend this contest for

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Speaker 1: us to deal with as viewers and then you kneel

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Speaker 1: the ball. It just it's there were a number of

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Speaker 1: tactical errors by Jeff Fisher in this game that I

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Speaker 1: think we're bizarre. They decided to go for a field

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Speaker 1: goal deep in in territory on fourth down in Miami,

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Speaker 1: and they missed the field goal in the in late

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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. I mean, you've got this team,

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Speaker 1: why not be aggressive? Why not give yourself a chance

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Speaker 1: to win. We're watching coaches do that all over the league,

639
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Speaker 1: and it's just I'm not doing the rams again all season.

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Speaker 1: Done with it? Fisher, Well, on this day alone, someone

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Speaker 1: managed it, and that makes this game noteworthy for that alone.

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00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:44,440
Speaker 1: Dolphins get the forty niners next week. They're gonna be

643
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:48,719
Speaker 1: seven and four and the a f C playoff race.

644
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 1: Sure they are. They're in Miami. They're gonna win that game. Yes,

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00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:57,560
Speaker 1: all right, let's uh a f C South showdown. Andrew

646
00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:00,520
Speaker 1: takes the snap, sets up, looks, looks, throws in the

647
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 1: back of the end zone. It is a touchdown for

648
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 1: t Y Hilton. T Y stole a ball out of

649
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 1: the defender's hands. Touchdown, twenty to nothing Colts. What a

650
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:17,880
Speaker 1: play by t Y Hilton. Bob Lamy w F and

651
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:24,320
Speaker 1: I big call. Bob liked it, joined it Andrew Leux

652
00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:26,120
Speaker 1: touchdown past the t Y Hilton was part of a

653
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:28,240
Speaker 1: huge start for the Colts, who jumped out to a

654
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:30,600
Speaker 1: big early lead, then staved off the Titans come back

655
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 1: to tempt attempt in win at Lucas Oil Stadium. Speaking

656
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 1: streaks ending, my locking up streak ended here. I counted

657
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 1: on the Titans here. They can't can't predict, can't predict football.

658
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:54,040
Speaker 1: They're little statement game last week. They didn't respond well

659
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:56,840
Speaker 1: to that. They were getting woodshedded. In the first half

660
00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 1: of this game. Colts went up twenty one to nothing

661
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:01,479
Speaker 1: and with four minutes left in the second quarter had

662
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 1: a two thirty four to seventy seven edge in total yards.

663
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:09,400
Speaker 1: Titans were abysmal on offense to that point, and really

664
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:13,400
Speaker 1: we're kind of non existed on defense. Luck deserved a

665
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 1: better stat line. Duane Allen had a brutal drop in

666
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:18,759
Speaker 1: the red zone that led to a lad to Adam

667
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:22,440
Speaker 1: Ventin Terry's first miss in forty five field goal attempts,

668
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:24,880
Speaker 1: and then t Y Hilton had a bad drop on

669
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 1: a deep ball in the red zone two that that

670
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 1: was a big issue and that allowed Tennessee to come

671
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:32,080
Speaker 1: back in the game. Those two drops, well, this is

672
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:35,280
Speaker 1: a huge result for the a f C South picture.

673
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:37,640
Speaker 1: We we we were all excited about the Titans. I

674
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 1: think we all thought they were gonna win this week,

675
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 1: and now they've been swept by the Colts. So the

676
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:46,440
Speaker 1: and twice in four weeks, two or five weeks, uh,

677
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:49,760
Speaker 1: not too far apart. The Colts defense has been getting

678
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 1: a little bit better all year. I mean they were

679
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 1: they were able to slow down this Tennessee offense, which

680
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:57,560
Speaker 1: we think is great. They're healthier than they've been all year,

681
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,960
Speaker 1: and there were several good signs day. They held DeMarco

682
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 1: Murray to three point three yards per carry and with

683
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:06,239
Speaker 1: the game on the line, Clayton Gathers stopped DeMarco Murray

684
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 1: on a fourth down, fourth and short behind that offensive line.

685
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 1: They also have five sacks against Mariota, which is their

686
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 1: highest sack total of the year, and they're tackling is

687
00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:18,520
Speaker 1: much better. So the Colts now essentially have a game

688
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:21,000
Speaker 1: and a half lead on Tennessee in this division because

689
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 1: they have the tiebreaker and there's not gonna be a

690
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:25,640
Speaker 1: wild card team coming out of this division. So yeah,

691
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:28,759
Speaker 1: like you said, Greg, this was a huge, huge development. Today.

692
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 1: They've played their best games lately. I mean the Colts

693
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:36,040
Speaker 1: that there were the result against the Packers. I know

694
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:38,319
Speaker 1: the Packers aren't good. You know, if you're a Colts fan,

695
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 1: there are best chance we need to save America from

696
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:45,319
Speaker 1: Brock forget West of this. The Texans being an unwatchable

697
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:48,399
Speaker 1: mess on the first UH Saturday of the playoffs could

698
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:51,560
Speaker 1: be a new tradition if this keeps up. So let's

699
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:53,600
Speaker 1: go Colts. We're back in you now. I mean they

700
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:55,759
Speaker 1: are today, and then two weeks from now we'll be

701
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 1: talking about a different team in the NFC South because

702
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:00,839
Speaker 1: this is a bad division that's to produce a team

703
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:03,720
Speaker 1: that goes to the playoffs and gets utterly slaughtered by somebody.

704
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:06,160
Speaker 1: I don't think the Cults are terrible, well they're not,

705
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:08,759
Speaker 1: not see they're terrible, But it's like one of these

706
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:10,759
Speaker 1: teams they haven't a squeeze out an a f C

707
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 1: South title and hang banner and it means nothing. They

708
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:16,360
Speaker 1: have pieces. I mean, they have luck playing at a

709
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 1: high level. They have t Y Hilton, I think it's

710
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:20,839
Speaker 1: got to be his best season of his career. Are

711
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 1: certainly right there with a couple of years ago. Montcrief

712
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:25,520
Speaker 1: is starting to look like himself again. They do have pieces.

713
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:29,960
Speaker 1: Jack Doyle plays well. When luck gets productive, when Lux

714
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 1: gets protected, their offense can score with anybody excepts or

715
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 1: except Atlanta. Really I'm disappointed, I I really I thought

716
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 1: that the Titans, that the score was reversed, we would

717
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 1: all be feeling great about see and we all like

718
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:46,000
Speaker 1: this and like, this is a team that a week

719
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 1: ago was the most fun team to watch, and now

720
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:51,359
Speaker 1: they're cast aside and they're gone again. It's just, I mean,

721
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:55,960
Speaker 1: that's the NFL, the soft underbelly of the of the

722
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:59,400
Speaker 1: roster of teams, Like everyone can get beat pretty handily

723
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:02,759
Speaker 1: on every a given week. And Tennessee reminded that, uh

724
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:06,759
Speaker 1: reminded us of that today. Let's move on, man. He

725
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 1: takes the shotguns, snap bears, bring pressure, throws it over

726
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 1: the middle, white opened Shepherd, touchdown Giants fifteen yards, banning

727
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:17,799
Speaker 1: the Shepherd, and the Giants are in front. Oh yeah,

728
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:20,360
Speaker 1: that's my boy, Bob Papa a w f A and

729
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:23,600
Speaker 1: Sterling Shepherd's touchdown hook up with Eli Manning put the

730
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:25,960
Speaker 1: Giants up for good. On Sundays, Big Blue overcame a

731
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:29,960
Speaker 1: slow start to beat the Bears sixteen at the meadow

732
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 1: Lands Um. The Giants have won five straight for the

733
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:37,800
Speaker 1: first time since their two thousand seven Super Bowl season. Mr. Sessler,

734
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 1: the Giants are doing something in twenty sixteen they could

735
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:43,759
Speaker 1: not do last year. They're closing out teams they are

736
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 1: I think it has a lot to do with their defense.

737
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 1: You know, Cutler, Jay Cutler and the Bears were driving

738
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:53,759
Speaker 1: for a potential game winning touchdown here and they got

739
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:57,280
Speaker 1: a big sack on him and then he landing. Collins

740
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:00,120
Speaker 1: hit fourth straight game with an interception. This is a

741
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:03,360
Speaker 1: huge one that that essentially sealed the win. And you know,

742
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:06,200
Speaker 1: the New York Giants are an imperfect team, there's no

743
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:08,440
Speaker 1: question about it. But this is the second week in

744
00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:10,839
Speaker 1: a row where what I thought was their fatal flaw

745
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,839
Speaker 1: was their ground game showed up today. It wasn't from

746
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 1: wire to wire, but it showed up in moments and

747
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:19,000
Speaker 1: that You're right, they overcame the first half that a

748
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 1: Giants team from a different year wouldn't have had the

749
00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:24,320
Speaker 1: defense to stay in it, and they climbed back in

750
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 1: today and got it done. It was not a pretty win,

751
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:28,719
Speaker 1: and the Giants don't seem to have a lot of

752
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:32,280
Speaker 1: pretty victories in general. They've won every game by one score.

753
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:36,360
Speaker 1: Their biggest margin of victory was the London game, which was,

754
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:39,480
Speaker 1: you know, basically an interception return and you win by

755
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 1: a touchdown. Tom Coughlin's team lost this game countless times,

756
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:46,759
Speaker 1: as any Giants fan will tell you. So I really

757
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:49,640
Speaker 1: despite the fact that they beat and that last drive

758
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 1: by Jay Cutler, I try to get Greg excited at

759
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:54,319
Speaker 1: one point downstairs, like, oh, he's driving down the field.

760
00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 1: But that collapsed in a big way once he got

761
00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 1: past the field. I flip it over a fumble interception plays.

762
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:02,439
Speaker 1: I'm like, you're just torturing me. He hit a couple

763
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:05,279
Speaker 1: of good fats before that. But I thought that was

764
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 1: a big win for the Giants because they was these

765
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:09,759
Speaker 1: games historically and they took care of It was also

766
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:12,880
Speaker 1: the game that got the very wacky P A T

767
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:15,920
Speaker 1: situation from today. It will go our whole lifetime and

768
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:18,480
Speaker 1: maybe not see that happen again, because the last time

769
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:21,240
Speaker 1: it happened was thirty something years ago with eleven miss pets.

770
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 1: But Robbie Gould both kickers missed a pet. Then Robbie

771
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:27,520
Speaker 1: Gould in this game, who they former bear against his

772
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:29,320
Speaker 1: old team. You think he'd know how to kick and

773
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 1: practice against this kind of a team. Mrs two P

774
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:33,839
Speaker 1: A T S. What is going on with these people?

775
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:37,880
Speaker 1: I think I think Blair Walsh's home in his house

776
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:42,320
Speaker 1: with like eighteen voodoo dolls of of of NFL kickers

777
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:46,239
Speaker 1: sticking pins and feet because today's felt had felt supernatural.

778
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:51,279
Speaker 1: Do you believe huh do you believe in voodoo? Not particularly? No,

779
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 1: do you believe in the Giants seven and three? Well, listen,

780
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:57,080
Speaker 1: I mean in the nf there seven three and they've

781
00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:59,600
Speaker 1: got a chance to In a sense, you could say

782
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:01,719
Speaker 1: that all their own destiny for a playoff spot because

783
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:04,520
Speaker 1: they play the rest of the NFC East down the stretch.

784
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:06,560
Speaker 1: All these nfc S teams do, and a win on

785
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:08,880
Speaker 1: the Cowboys they do, and you're winning. I don't have

786
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 1: a problem with with teams winning these sort of rough

787
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:15,320
Speaker 1: and tumble, ugly games because every team is doing it.

788
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:17,400
Speaker 1: There aren't a lot of teams we can believe in.

789
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:20,840
Speaker 1: There's maybe two in the NFC and maybe two in

790
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 1: the n f C. I think one in the a

791
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:24,240
Speaker 1: f C. They're a different team now, they're more balanced.

792
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:26,719
Speaker 1: They have fourteen sacks over the last five games after

793
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 1: averaging less than one per game early in the season.

794
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 1: Jason Pierre Paul is coming on it half big, big

795
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:38,800
Speaker 1: day for the under the radar sandwich prop JPP versus

796
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:42,400
Speaker 1: Mario Williams where a committee of people vote who had

797
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:47,600
Speaker 1: a better season. JP. You know, people have been waiting

798
00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:50,400
Speaker 1: around for that since the minute came. You know, then

799
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:52,640
Speaker 1: you came up with that. People just waiting for Sean

800
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:54,759
Speaker 1: Jennings a hundred yards from scrimmage and back to back

801
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:56,759
Speaker 1: games after they were averaging about forty yards from the

802
00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:59,200
Speaker 1: running backs for a while, and Landon Collins. I'm ready

803
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:01,080
Speaker 1: to put them on the Opera A team now. I

804
00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:03,719
Speaker 1: think he deserves it. And your boy Victor Cruz had

805
00:41:03,719 --> 00:41:07,120
Speaker 1: a huge catch today that'll buy him another three years

806
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:11,279
Speaker 1: worth of media coverage in New York. We got it's true.

807
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:14,560
Speaker 1: It's the ultimate Annoy West stat line. One catch for

808
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:17,040
Speaker 1: forty eight yards on two targets. Because that you're right,

809
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:19,960
Speaker 1: that'll that'll make all the highlight roll wheels. Everyone's thinking

810
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:22,400
Speaker 1: he's having a great year. Defense leaves him alone because

811
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 1: most players got the right It's just it's personal. It's

812
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 1: gotten personal at this point. The Bears, by the way,

813
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 1: lost Zach Miller, who is probably their best patch pass catcher,

814
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:34,719
Speaker 1: maybe for the rest of the season. Well, our son

815
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:38,280
Speaker 1: Jeffrey suspended. I'm just saying that this team is if

816
00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:40,839
Speaker 1: they were even gonna be respectable, they're losing any chance.

817
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:42,640
Speaker 1: He actually had a really good game before he went

818
00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 1: out to touchdown sixty one yards and here he was

819
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:47,319
Speaker 1: really all they had. They're gonna have probably the third

820
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:50,000
Speaker 1: overall pick in the draft next year. Who's more boring

821
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:53,279
Speaker 1: to watch? Right now? The Bears are forty Oh, I

822
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 1: would go forty Niners. I would go the Bears are

823
00:41:56,719 --> 00:41:59,920
Speaker 1: more boring. You still got Kaeprit Kapert explained a little better.

824
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:03,239
Speaker 1: That's what's called you don't sign me up for them.

825
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:09,080
Speaker 1: Speaking of Colin Kaepernick, Brady to throw steps up in

826
00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:11,480
Speaker 1: the pocket, rolls to his right. He's hit as he throws.

827
00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:14,040
Speaker 1: It's complete to Mitchell hit to the open field. Outside

828
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:20,200
Speaker 1: of the twenty fifteen ten touchdown Patriots for the second

829
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:23,319
Speaker 1: time this half. Tom Brady was hit as he let

830
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:27,440
Speaker 1: it fly. It's a fifty six yard touchdown pass and

831
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:31,440
Speaker 1: the Patriots are on top twenty six to ten. Tom

832
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:36,240
Speaker 1: McCarthy Westwood won sports tom Brady through four touchdown passes,

833
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:40,040
Speaker 1: including that long catching run hook up with Malcolm Mitchell.

834
00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:44,920
Speaker 1: Patriots cruised what a life to a thirty to seventeen

835
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:48,440
Speaker 1: win over the forty Niners, who aren't even a real team.

836
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:53,120
Speaker 1: Uh and they've lost nine straight games. Greg San Francisco

837
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:56,680
Speaker 1: actually entered the fourth quarter down three points, but the

838
00:42:56,840 --> 00:43:02,279
Speaker 1: charade ended. They're not even charade. Sharad tom Brady we've

839
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:05,320
Speaker 1: been talking about on this podcast, has made a living

840
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:09,239
Speaker 1: this year improvising plays with his feet, and that's what

841
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:12,279
Speaker 1: this game was all about, was his footwork, getting out

842
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:15,279
Speaker 1: of the way of pressure, delivering whall hit. Almost to

843
00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:18,640
Speaker 1: the point where it's concerning that, you know, this is

844
00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:21,480
Speaker 1: not a way for a Patriots offense to really, you know,

845
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:24,960
Speaker 1: make their living. Tom Brady kind of improvising, making people miss,

846
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:27,520
Speaker 1: but it worked for today. I don't feel like I

847
00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:30,400
Speaker 1: learned anything about the Patriots today. The same concerns I

848
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:33,319
Speaker 1: had going into the day. I still have leaving them,

849
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 1: but they're certainly good enough to drop. How could we

850
00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:45,600
Speaker 1: lock this up way? Jeff Triplett. Oh, he didn't kick

851
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:48,279
Speaker 1: anyone out. No, he didn't kick anyone out, but he did.

852
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 1: You know I was thinking of you. He did give

853
00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:54,840
Speaker 1: a penalty to Chip Kelly for leaving the sideline multiple times,

854
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:58,600
Speaker 1: which is something only an over officious jerk would do.

855
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:01,400
Speaker 1: Who gives that pedal? It certainly and it was an

856
00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:04,440
Speaker 1: out there lock of the week by you. I appreciated it.

857
00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:07,080
Speaker 1: You wait for it. I gave this segment that sincerity

858
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:10,400
Speaker 1: it deserved. It's a huge hit segment. West. It's about me.

859
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:13,960
Speaker 1: I invite you to come up with a replacement. I

860
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:17,120
Speaker 1: demand you to try to beat the lock of the week.

861
00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:19,400
Speaker 1: The lock of the week puts a bounce in my step,

862
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:22,880
Speaker 1: but not because I take it seriously. Well. And also,

863
00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:26,120
Speaker 1: let's this Tom Brady thing is personal between him and you.

864
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:30,160
Speaker 1: After you called him out for slight regression, he made

865
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:33,239
Speaker 1: it a point to show better pocket movement he has.

866
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:37,080
Speaker 1: Then he did a six touchdowns one interception so far.

867
00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:40,120
Speaker 1: You basically beat a JV team today, So I know

868
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:42,520
Speaker 1: you guys are gonna do your little you know, I

869
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:48,200
Speaker 1: look against pass rush. This ain't two thousand twelve anymore.

870
00:44:48,239 --> 00:44:50,319
Speaker 1: This is a different San Francisco forty nine. Let's wait

871
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:52,879
Speaker 1: till so it's not gonna do with pass rush. When

872
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:54,759
Speaker 1: you go into your you know, go down into your

873
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:56,799
Speaker 1: little cave and watch your game. You crank up your game.

874
00:44:56,840 --> 00:44:59,319
Speaker 1: Pass next week. Just take a look at the way

875
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:01,440
Speaker 1: Tom Brady moved this year. He moves better than he

876
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 1: did five years ago or ten years ago. I get it.

877
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:06,319
Speaker 1: The jury still out on science. I get it. He's

878
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:08,320
Speaker 1: Ken Stabler and his prime. You guys are locked in

879
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:11,560
Speaker 1: on this, but market improved. Ken Stabler wishes he was

880
00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:14,320
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. Listen. The bottom line here is if you

881
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:17,279
Speaker 1: want to get all excited about beating forty niners, go

882
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 1: ahead out on the middle of the field a straw man.

883
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:25,320
Speaker 1: Nobody's talking about the forty niners. It's the whole season.

884
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 1: Get excited. This game didn't make me feel great at all.

885
00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:32,759
Speaker 1: Then again, they were missing Gronk. It's another reminder when

886
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 1: Gronk's not there, they're not the same team. Because its

887
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 1: Dronks there, They're not going to have thirteen. It's deffiely true.

888
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:40,799
Speaker 1: It's It's also another reminder that Dan's got another five

889
00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:43,839
Speaker 1: years of watching Tom Brady destroyed. A lot of things

890
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:47,040
Speaker 1: can change, even this season, gentlemen. That's all I'll say

891
00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:50,400
Speaker 1: on that, Marcus. How many wins against over five hundred

892
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:52,920
Speaker 1: teams with the Patriots? By the way, Oh, is this

893
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:55,319
Speaker 1: our new strongman? That the Patriots really aren't a good team?

894
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:58,080
Speaker 1: And now now actual stats and records. That's a strong

895
00:45:58,160 --> 00:46:01,239
Speaker 1: and argument too. I got it. I'm sat off then, Texans.

896
00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:06,000
Speaker 1: I guess that's probably when when the schedule tightens up,

897
00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:09,440
Speaker 1: specifically in January. Let's see how Tommy looks like that

898
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:12,120
Speaker 1: guy in Titanic. That's like I tried to build a

899
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:15,440
Speaker 1: nice ship for you, rose as the waters creep up

900
00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:18,640
Speaker 1: around your neckline. I don't I don't remember that scene,

901
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:24,040
Speaker 1: poignant scene in a hit movie. Anything else about the Oh?

902
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:26,040
Speaker 1: Can I get the throne of these music one more time?

903
00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:28,440
Speaker 1: By the way, Oh, this is for you. It feels

904
00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:33,919
Speaker 1: organic sixteen straight winning seasons for the Patriots, the first

905
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:37,880
Speaker 1: team to do that since the eight three. Well, but

906
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:44,040
Speaker 1: Gregg Greg This week, technically, Greg offered a fascinating counterpoint

907
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:47,279
Speaker 1: to his fandom over text message to us this week,

908
00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:51,279
Speaker 1: reminding us on Saturday, I was in a dark place

909
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:54,120
Speaker 1: at the moment, all right, well, reminding us that, Hey, guys,

910
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:56,360
Speaker 1: you know, it's not always a throne of ease if

911
00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:59,480
Speaker 1: you're greg. Because I'm a big tennis fan in a

912
00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:02,960
Speaker 1: certain some tennis players I like aren't as good as

913
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:05,080
Speaker 1: they should be. I gotta say, really drove my car

914
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:08,440
Speaker 1: off the road reading that. It isn't insane. Honestly, I

915
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:10,960
Speaker 1: care more about them as I care more about that

916
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:16,320
Speaker 1: as a fan than the Patriots. Well that's that's I

917
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:18,640
Speaker 1: might as well read the actual text. Now, No, don't

918
00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:22,359
Speaker 1: even don't even mean this was unsolicited. It just came out.

919
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:27,480
Speaker 1: That's why I'm embarrassed. It makes you feel any better. Yeah,

920
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:28,880
Speaker 1: I don't know who that was too. I guess it

921
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:33,040
Speaker 1: was Mark and I know, yeah, Well, my tennis fandom

922
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:36,520
Speaker 1: is opposite of thrown at yes endless heartbreak, yes, and

923
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:39,000
Speaker 1: then you have to back it up well immediately after

924
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:42,080
Speaker 1: what's next? That may be the single most useless text

925
00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:45,959
Speaker 1: I've ever sent area Mitt and Clapper cares more about

926
00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:51,799
Speaker 1: tennis than his That was the loudest ull. I don't

927
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:54,000
Speaker 1: know about the loudest, but that was the best road

928
00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:57,440
Speaker 1: Patriots crowd. It's embarrassing what's happening at the San Francisco

929
00:47:57,520 --> 00:48:01,040
Speaker 1: games that every game now has tons of empty seats

930
00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:04,880
Speaker 1: and has a road crowd as the home team. You know,

931
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:06,959
Speaker 1: they asked Kaepernick about He's like, you know, I didn't

932
00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:10,160
Speaker 1: really notice, but there's they were chanting Brady throughout the

933
00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:13,239
Speaker 1: entire game. I think Santa Clara standing happened when New

934
00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:15,360
Speaker 1: England went to San Diego. It could be that our

935
00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:19,319
Speaker 1: nation is you know, tends to jump on bandwagons. Well,

936
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:21,480
Speaker 1: and it's ironic that if you go to Gillette, go

937
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:24,520
Speaker 1: to Gilette Stadium, it's it's like the New England Public Library.

938
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:27,279
Speaker 1: Well that's people apparently more interested in men's tennis at

939
00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:30,440
Speaker 1: this Copper team. Colin Kaepernick's looking a little better the

940
00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:32,800
Speaker 1: last few weeks, and the Patriots pass thresh and this

941
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:35,200
Speaker 1: in a Landing Roberts in coverage. You never have this

942
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:39,480
Speaker 1: guy in coverage coverage again. Don't do this, get them

943
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:44,200
Speaker 1: all excited about Colin Kaepernick or whatever's gonna lead them

944
00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:46,759
Speaker 1: to a two and fourteen record, a little better whatever.

945
00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:51,400
Speaker 1: In conference action, Stafford takes the snap, got on the

946
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:55,120
Speaker 1: end around the epron to the one to the touchstop

947
00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:59,399
Speaker 1: the Troit Lions one. He took it all the way

948
00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:03,680
Speaker 1: down there, and he took it home the Lions as

949
00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:06,759
Speaker 1: Dan Miller of w j R. Eric Ebron's first career

950
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:09,440
Speaker 1: carrie ended with a touchdown as a Lions did just

951
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:14,520
Speaker 1: enough to beat the Jaguars nineteen at Ford Field. The

952
00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:17,000
Speaker 1: Lions have now trailed on the fourth quarter of all

953
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 1: ten games they played this season, but they remain in

954
00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:25,400
Speaker 1: the thick of the NFC playoff race. Um, you know

955
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:30,319
Speaker 1: they averaged Listen, guys, listen this that they average zero

956
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:33,560
Speaker 1: points seven yards per attempt on the ground on Sunday

957
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:39,600
Speaker 1: rushes for fourteen yards, putting way too much Prussian Matthew Stafford,

958
00:49:39,640 --> 00:49:42,719
Speaker 1: who um, despite the stat line, isn't gonna jump out

959
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:46,880
Speaker 1: at you made again. Uh, some just beautiful throws in

960
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:50,840
Speaker 1: this game and basically did things by himself. Um. And

961
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:57,200
Speaker 1: on the other side, Blake Bortles, I mean, he's the

962
00:49:57,239 --> 00:49:59,520
Speaker 1: hardest watch in the league. He doesn't throw the ball

963
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:02,280
Speaker 1: down field now because he's been burned too many times

964
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:05,920
Speaker 1: and uh cannot complete a pass anything down the field.

965
00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:08,719
Speaker 1: If fifteen yards are further, everything is a check down.

966
00:50:08,760 --> 00:50:11,000
Speaker 1: The accuracy is still an issue. The fact that the

967
00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:14,440
Speaker 1: Jaguars almost stole this game is is wild, but they

968
00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:16,480
Speaker 1: couldn't pull it off, and they that this is why

969
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:19,920
Speaker 1: they should be relegated and be why they're known the

970
00:50:20,040 --> 00:50:23,480
Speaker 1: NFL's inland franchise. And the look on Gus Bradley's face,

971
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:25,800
Speaker 1: I mean a tow be Gus Bradley and could go

972
00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:28,120
Speaker 1: through the season you're going through right now. But send

973
00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:31,680
Speaker 1: Derrick Marks falls for with two thirty four left in

974
00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:35,279
Speaker 1: the game on fourth and to Matthew Stafford attempting to

975
00:50:35,320 --> 00:50:37,520
Speaker 1: get the Jaguars to fall off side, come off sides.

976
00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:40,759
Speaker 1: Mark's falls sort of veteran player, and Bradley just looked

977
00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:43,279
Speaker 1: at him like, bro, you gotta be kidding the game.

978
00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:45,399
Speaker 1: Bradley is known as a positive guy, so you don't

979
00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:47,960
Speaker 1: see that a lot. And Marx is the same guy

980
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:50,359
Speaker 1: who is a respective guy in that locker room who

981
00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:53,200
Speaker 1: was belly aching last week saying that it was a

982
00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:55,760
Speaker 1: slap in the face that his his snaps had been decreased.

983
00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:57,440
Speaker 1: And this is a guy that led the team and

984
00:50:57,520 --> 00:51:00,800
Speaker 1: sacks a couple of years ago. Um it was, you know,

985
00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:02,960
Speaker 1: I mean, it tells the story of what the Jaguars

986
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 1: are about The Lions would get another first down after that,

987
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:07,520
Speaker 1: kick a field goal to essentially ice the game. Chew

988
00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:09,879
Speaker 1: up most of the clocks. So the Lions didn't play

989
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:13,279
Speaker 1: great in this game. Uh, but again they're they're they've

990
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:15,880
Speaker 1: been good at at pulling these games out, and they

991
00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:20,080
Speaker 1: did it again. Blake Bortles finished with a seventy three

992
00:51:20,120 --> 00:51:23,759
Speaker 1: point eight passer rating against the defense that turns its

993
00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:27,840
Speaker 1: typical opponent into Tom Brady. The Lions have an historically

994
00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:31,840
Speaker 1: bad past defense this season, allowing a passer rating about

995
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:36,480
Speaker 1: one ten. To me, if you can't take advantage of

996
00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:38,759
Speaker 1: that defense, I don't know what Gus Bradley's trying to

997
00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:41,120
Speaker 1: prove what's left to for this season? That you're sticking

998
00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:43,719
Speaker 1: a broken quarterback out there week after week. Maybe he's

999
00:51:43,719 --> 00:51:45,520
Speaker 1: trying to save his job and he thinks that even

1000
00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:50,000
Speaker 1: a broken Blake Bortles is better than the next guy up.

1001
00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:53,640
Speaker 1: By the way, the Jaguars clinched not having a winning

1002
00:51:53,760 --> 00:51:59,239
Speaker 1: season again, uh for the ninth straight year. Well, a

1003
00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:02,080
Speaker 1: lot of people we talk a lot in here about

1004
00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:05,640
Speaker 1: the Browns and the Jets, but the Jaguars fan base,

1005
00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:09,000
Speaker 1: and it's probably not a core is large of a

1006
00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:11,160
Speaker 1: fan base is to you should have been around forever.

1007
00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:14,440
Speaker 1: Those guys have been through absolute hell. You want to

1008
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:16,120
Speaker 1: talk about the charges you got up with the Jaguars

1009
00:52:16,239 --> 00:52:18,879
Speaker 1: right there, because here's the here's why you don't yank

1010
00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:23,359
Speaker 1: Blake Bortles. From an organizational perspective, here's what I would say. Yeah,

1011
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:25,000
Speaker 1: we could argue and say you put in you, you

1012
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:27,880
Speaker 1: take them out of there. They are in an absolute fix.

1013
00:52:28,239 --> 00:52:30,680
Speaker 1: The best thing that could possibly happen, if there's any

1014
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:34,040
Speaker 1: redeeming quality, is that he's somehow in their mind, plays

1015
00:52:34,080 --> 00:52:36,040
Speaker 1: better down the stretch and you don't have to completely

1016
00:52:36,080 --> 00:52:40,160
Speaker 1: reorganize the most important position. We've just seen. No, we've

1017
00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:42,560
Speaker 1: seen no evidence of that happened. Best thing that could happen.

1018
00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:45,040
Speaker 1: The only thing that really matters now is whether you

1019
00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:47,440
Speaker 1: can fix Blake Bortles right. And I don't think you

1020
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:49,719
Speaker 1: can do that by playing him well. I just would.

1021
00:52:49,719 --> 00:52:51,560
Speaker 1: I ain't gn be interesting to pull thirty two head

1022
00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:54,000
Speaker 1: coaches to see how they would handle the situation, because

1023
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:57,279
Speaker 1: it's extremely tricky. That would be interesting. Lyons fans have

1024
00:52:57,400 --> 00:52:59,560
Speaker 1: had it rough too, and they got to be having

1025
00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:02,160
Speaker 1: a fun time with this team, which they probably feel

1026
00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:04,319
Speaker 1: like the rug is gonna get pulled out from under

1027
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:06,400
Speaker 1: them at some point because all these close wins. But

1028
00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:10,759
Speaker 1: it's been exciting. That Raphael Busch move that he made

1029
00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:14,040
Speaker 1: on the interception, uh was one of the moves and

1030
00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:16,400
Speaker 1: the plays of the year. I mean his quickness. He

1031
00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:19,800
Speaker 1: looked like Reggie Bush in his prime. It was like,

1032
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:24,759
Speaker 1: you do not you do not see a cornerback with

1033
00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:27,600
Speaker 1: movement like that. They have Eric Ebron who has really

1034
00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:30,239
Speaker 1: turned into a big time players, having good season on

1035
00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:33,120
Speaker 1: pace for almost eight hundred yards this year, which would

1036
00:53:33,160 --> 00:53:36,080
Speaker 1: shatter his career high. Alliance fan, you take it anyway

1037
00:53:36,160 --> 00:53:38,640
Speaker 1: you can. This season is just fine. And when they

1038
00:53:38,640 --> 00:53:40,840
Speaker 1: get a mir Abdullah back what he looks like he

1039
00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:43,200
Speaker 1: could practice at some point here. They're hoping over the

1040
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:45,000
Speaker 1: next three weeks to get in. But I mean they

1041
00:53:45,040 --> 00:53:48,480
Speaker 1: need they need some help here, all right. And now

1042
00:53:49,440 --> 00:53:54,880
Speaker 1: actual dialogue from a commercial advertising a real CBS television

1043
00:53:55,640 --> 00:53:59,960
Speaker 1: what's harder than preventing a nuclear disaster? Conventing a nukele

1044
00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:05,040
Speaker 1: your disaster? Thank you for coming with you? I'm sorry?

1045
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:11,200
Speaker 1: What or intercompetence action wants to play? Look, it's the

1046
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:15,160
Speaker 1: right clock ball touch stop Chappa Berry buccaneer scoring touchdown

1047
00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:17,200
Speaker 1: for the first time of the game, and Alan Cross

1048
00:54:17,239 --> 00:54:20,640
Speaker 1: has his first career touchdown. Graham, how about that the

1049
00:54:20,719 --> 00:54:25,640
Speaker 1: Buccaneers turned that interception return by Chris Trot into a touchdown.

1050
00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:31,880
Speaker 1: Gene Decker off w f U s Bucks quarterback Jamis

1051
00:54:31,920 --> 00:54:35,359
Speaker 1: Winston through for thirty one yards and hit tightning down

1052
00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:38,440
Speaker 1: Cross very key insurance touchdown in the fourth quarter on

1053
00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:41,400
Speaker 1: the way to a nineteen seventeen upset win over the

1054
00:54:41,520 --> 00:54:45,640
Speaker 1: Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium. Go figure Greg. The Chiefs had

1055
00:54:45,719 --> 00:54:48,920
Speaker 1: won seventeen of their last nineteen games in the regular

1056
00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:52,319
Speaker 1: season before today. Have they let the Bucks snipe them? Well?

1057
00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:56,640
Speaker 1: Their offensive struggles from the last few weeks continue, and

1058
00:54:57,000 --> 00:55:00,680
Speaker 1: and more importantly, Jamis Winston was the It was easily

1059
00:55:00,719 --> 00:55:03,680
Speaker 1: the best quarterback on the field. And the Bucks offense

1060
00:55:03,760 --> 00:55:06,120
Speaker 1: did something I didn't think they had it in them

1061
00:55:06,239 --> 00:55:09,239
Speaker 1: to do, which is they really dominated this game. They

1062
00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:13,080
Speaker 1: their first six drives of the game went for over

1063
00:55:13,320 --> 00:55:15,920
Speaker 1: fifty yards, all six of them. They only had eight

1064
00:55:16,120 --> 00:55:18,279
Speaker 1: drives in this game, which is about as low as

1065
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:20,480
Speaker 1: you can ever have, and they still had four hundred

1066
00:55:20,760 --> 00:55:24,839
Speaker 1: and forty two yards. They kept converting on third down

1067
00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:27,319
Speaker 1: like third and five, third and eight, third and three.

1068
00:55:27,400 --> 00:55:32,160
Speaker 1: Jamis Winston I think was twelve or fourteen on third

1069
00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:34,920
Speaker 1: down for a hundred and thirty three yards, and he

1070
00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:37,200
Speaker 1: made a really good defense that was missing some players.

1071
00:55:37,239 --> 00:55:39,640
Speaker 1: I mean, Marcus Peters wasn't out there. De Ford got

1072
00:55:39,719 --> 00:55:43,200
Speaker 1: hurt during the game. That definitely hurt them. But I

1073
00:55:43,239 --> 00:55:46,239
Speaker 1: didn't think the Bucks had this sort of complete game

1074
00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:49,040
Speaker 1: in them where they looked like the better team in

1075
00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:52,040
Speaker 1: Kansas City. And credit to them, they're two best games

1076
00:55:52,080 --> 00:55:54,839
Speaker 1: of the season back to back weeks against the Bears.

1077
00:55:54,880 --> 00:55:58,680
Speaker 1: Are you more interested in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers or

1078
00:55:58,680 --> 00:56:01,359
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots at this point? The Bucks aren't

1079
00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:03,279
Speaker 1: even my second favorite team. They're not even in the

1080
00:56:03,360 --> 00:56:06,239
Speaker 1: top three right now, is question. Marcus hinting at there's

1081
00:56:06,239 --> 00:56:08,279
Speaker 1: a little bouncing Gregg's step on the Bucks play well

1082
00:56:08,640 --> 00:56:11,960
Speaker 1: all going back to the scientists, Holy War, Marcus Mariotta.

1083
00:56:13,160 --> 00:56:17,120
Speaker 1: We're both enjoying Jamis and Mariotta playing well over the

1084
00:56:17,239 --> 00:56:21,239
Speaker 1: last eight weeks. Winston was speaking on behalf of West Right.

1085
00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:23,960
Speaker 1: You know you have nothing at Olive Branch. Yeah, you

1086
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:27,200
Speaker 1: have nothing against Winston. You wrote a very complimentary piece

1087
00:56:27,320 --> 00:56:30,200
Speaker 1: this offseason where you said they're both great. It's a

1088
00:56:30,280 --> 00:56:35,440
Speaker 1: nice little quarterback. Now he's just trying that is not

1089
00:56:35,719 --> 00:56:38,440
Speaker 1: that is. Those are fighting words. When did Chris Conti

1090
00:56:38,520 --> 00:56:41,719
Speaker 1: turn into this turnover machine? What's going on with his November? Yeah,

1091
00:56:41,840 --> 00:56:44,480
Speaker 1: his interception of Alex Smith in the red zone was

1092
00:56:44,560 --> 00:56:47,320
Speaker 1: the biggest play of the game. Alex Smith made that

1093
00:56:47,520 --> 00:56:50,680
Speaker 1: big error that you kind of just don't expect Alex

1094
00:56:50,719 --> 00:56:54,239
Speaker 1: Smith to make, and that was because the Bucks had

1095
00:56:54,320 --> 00:56:56,560
Speaker 1: wasted a lot of their drives that they had a

1096
00:56:56,600 --> 00:56:58,040
Speaker 1: fumble at the end of one of them, and they

1097
00:56:58,120 --> 00:57:01,080
Speaker 1: kicked field goals I think were times when they were

1098
00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:02,840
Speaker 1: in the red zone. So this game was closer than

1099
00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:04,759
Speaker 1: those than it should have been. This Kennesse who lose

1100
00:57:04,840 --> 00:57:09,120
Speaker 1: this game and Marcus Peters is playing there without Jeremy Macklin.

1101
00:57:09,200 --> 00:57:11,839
Speaker 1: Marcus Peters, like Greg said, DeFord for half the game.

1102
00:57:12,239 --> 00:57:16,200
Speaker 1: Jamal Charles, you're talking about what six of their three

1103
00:57:16,320 --> 00:57:18,320
Speaker 1: or their of their top six players, they didn't play.

1104
00:57:18,320 --> 00:57:20,280
Speaker 1: They haven't played well in a little while. They were

1105
00:57:20,480 --> 00:57:25,040
Speaker 1: very lucky to beat the Panthers. Uh when in Carolina

1106
00:57:25,160 --> 00:57:28,680
Speaker 1: that was a flukey game. Uh. The Nick Foles versus

1107
00:57:28,720 --> 00:57:31,000
Speaker 1: the Jaguars game, you know, I know Nick Foles a

1108
00:57:31,080 --> 00:57:33,440
Speaker 1: the quarterback, but you know, they haven't really looked like

1109
00:57:33,960 --> 00:57:36,640
Speaker 1: the Chiefs team that we that we think could do

1110
00:57:36,840 --> 00:57:39,720
Speaker 1: some damage. And in about a month, Spencer wears three

1111
00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:42,440
Speaker 1: lease productive yards from scrimmage games have been the three

1112
00:57:42,520 --> 00:57:44,240
Speaker 1: since he came back from his concussion. I find it

1113
00:57:44,280 --> 00:57:48,560
Speaker 1: fascinating that someone correctly predicted this upset on Twitter on Saturday,

1114
00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:52,600
Speaker 1: not not soon after Greg sent his wild tennis text.

1115
00:57:53,080 --> 00:57:54,880
Speaker 1: Were you motivated by it? Yeah? I mean I was like,

1116
00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:57,880
Speaker 1: let's get let's get back to brass tacks and start talking,

1117
00:57:58,360 --> 00:58:00,480
Speaker 1: you know, correctly about the sport that analyt If I

1118
00:58:00,480 --> 00:58:02,880
Speaker 1: could circle back to the Locks of the Week segment, now,

1119
00:58:03,320 --> 00:58:05,840
Speaker 1: you did a really nice job. Nailed it picking the

1120
00:58:05,960 --> 00:58:08,640
Speaker 1: nine and one Cowboys to win. Uh, it's not an

1121
00:58:08,680 --> 00:58:10,720
Speaker 1: upset of the week. It is a lock. I'm taking you.

1122
00:58:10,960 --> 00:58:13,600
Speaker 1: If someone is asking me to lock down an aspect

1123
00:58:13,640 --> 00:58:16,400
Speaker 1: of their life, I'm not gonna toy around and pick

1124
00:58:16,520 --> 00:58:19,400
Speaker 1: some road team with a five win record. No, I'm

1125
00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:22,200
Speaker 1: gonna lock it. I think it's important though. The Hanks

1126
00:58:22,240 --> 00:58:24,880
Speaker 1: some onions in a big spot. Oh so the lock

1127
00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:26,320
Speaker 1: all the week, the lock of the week, And I

1128
00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:28,120
Speaker 1: know you're a little salty because you lost your Lock

1129
00:58:28,160 --> 00:58:30,640
Speaker 1: of the week. Now you're re engineering what the segment is.

1130
00:58:30,720 --> 00:58:34,640
Speaker 1: It's every instant moving target where it's actually disguised as

1131
00:58:34,720 --> 00:58:36,800
Speaker 1: the upset of the week. Are you a sports fan?

1132
00:58:37,080 --> 00:58:38,480
Speaker 1: Have you ever heard of a lock of the week

1133
00:58:38,560 --> 00:58:40,760
Speaker 1: type segment? It's us. I have the one that some

1134
00:58:40,880 --> 00:58:43,080
Speaker 1: people are hung up on. And then this guy says, no, no, no, no,

1135
00:58:43,520 --> 00:58:45,880
Speaker 1: this is what's gonna happen. That's your POV. That is

1136
00:58:45,960 --> 00:58:48,200
Speaker 1: your POV. That's what it is. That is what your

1137
00:58:48,280 --> 00:58:50,760
Speaker 1: po V says. It is the onion. Hanger of the

1138
00:58:50,800 --> 00:58:52,800
Speaker 1: week would make more sense than Lock of the Week.

1139
00:58:52,880 --> 00:58:55,680
Speaker 1: I agree, and I offered that on Saturday by predicting

1140
00:58:55,720 --> 00:58:58,480
Speaker 1: the Bucks to win. If I gave you both, I

1141
00:58:58,560 --> 00:59:01,440
Speaker 1: gave you a lock and upset, and you're still asking

1142
00:59:01,520 --> 00:59:04,640
Speaker 1: for more. Here's the problem. You're not good. Did you

1143
00:59:04,720 --> 00:59:06,760
Speaker 1: still asking for more? Did you pick the Bucks in

1144
00:59:06,840 --> 00:59:09,320
Speaker 1: our pa You have a little bit of a different

1145
00:59:09,400 --> 00:59:11,640
Speaker 1: tone on the first segment, Then do something a little

1146
00:59:11,640 --> 00:59:13,840
Speaker 1: bit different with your upset. Are you a sports fan?

1147
00:59:14,200 --> 00:59:17,520
Speaker 1: By the way, please, no one cares about a Saturday tweet.

1148
00:59:18,120 --> 00:59:20,840
Speaker 1: You want to bring it to the show. Biggest NFL

1149
00:59:20,960 --> 00:59:23,560
Speaker 1: podcast in the Nation. You bring it here, I did

1150
00:59:23,640 --> 00:59:28,680
Speaker 1: bring it here. I got it right Saturday. Well, by

1151
00:59:28,720 --> 00:59:30,600
Speaker 1: the way, who was down in the news from telling

1152
00:59:30,720 --> 00:59:33,440
Speaker 1: us all the things they predicted correctly and none of

1153
00:59:33,520 --> 00:59:35,720
Speaker 1: them are none of them are filed away and writing

1154
00:59:35,800 --> 00:59:38,480
Speaker 1: or anywhere else. Well, it's let's you want to get

1155
00:59:38,520 --> 00:59:40,080
Speaker 1: down to it. Let's get down to it. I'm sorry.

1156
00:59:40,080 --> 00:59:41,600
Speaker 1: You did a great job, but a lot of shadow

1157
00:59:41,640 --> 00:59:44,640
Speaker 1: predictions suddenly coming and going on Sunday. You did excellent.

1158
00:59:44,720 --> 00:59:47,600
Speaker 1: Look big. How did Doug Martin look? Fantasy minds might

1159
00:59:47,640 --> 00:59:49,880
Speaker 1: want to know better than his numbers. He was hit

1160
00:59:49,920 --> 00:59:52,280
Speaker 1: in the backfield so many times, he broke more tackles.

1161
00:59:52,360 --> 00:59:54,840
Speaker 1: I thought he looked pretty good. A lot of yards

1162
00:59:54,880 --> 00:59:56,880
Speaker 1: after kind of their offensive line in the running game

1163
00:59:57,400 --> 00:59:59,280
Speaker 1: was a mess. I want to point out this Chief's

1164
00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:01,240
Speaker 1: team is not a lot here for the playoffs. This

1165
01:00:01,440 --> 01:00:04,320
Speaker 1: this game not in the West, This game could really

1166
01:00:04,400 --> 01:00:06,920
Speaker 1: haunt them because it's one you counted on. Now you're

1167
01:00:06,960 --> 01:00:11,160
Speaker 1: going at Denver at Atlanta the next two weeks, versus Raiders,

1168
01:00:11,280 --> 01:00:14,640
Speaker 1: versus Titans, versus Broncos at Chargers. That is a really

1169
01:00:14,760 --> 01:00:17,600
Speaker 1: that's as tough of ending slate as any team has.

1170
01:00:18,120 --> 01:00:20,280
Speaker 1: You can't blow games like this at home against Tampa.

1171
01:00:20,360 --> 01:00:23,120
Speaker 1: Trying to start thinking differently about the Chiefs, then that's

1172
01:00:23,160 --> 01:00:25,600
Speaker 1: a pretty pretty hard scale. I think they're good enough

1173
01:00:25,760 --> 01:00:28,040
Speaker 1: if they get their act together and people back on

1174
01:00:28,120 --> 01:00:29,800
Speaker 1: the field, that they can win a lot of those

1175
01:00:29,880 --> 01:00:33,880
Speaker 1: games and get to you know, ten wins. But if

1176
01:00:33,920 --> 01:00:36,800
Speaker 1: they're still this banged up forward and Peters and you

1177
01:00:36,840 --> 01:00:38,840
Speaker 1: know that, well, they can go make a potentially three

1178
01:00:38,880 --> 01:00:41,000
Speaker 1: and three. But again it comes back to the question of, like,

1179
01:00:41,560 --> 01:00:43,520
Speaker 1: come on, four or five of these a f C

1180
01:00:43,600 --> 01:00:46,240
Speaker 1: playoff teams, how much do you really believe in them?

1181
01:00:46,880 --> 01:00:50,320
Speaker 1: Let's uh go back to an a f C matchup

1182
01:00:50,400 --> 01:00:54,120
Speaker 1: by by inner conference talk. That's how you get into

1183
01:00:54,160 --> 01:00:58,000
Speaker 1: something else. They bring the extra guy. Look out who's

1184
01:00:58,200 --> 01:01:03,160
Speaker 1: in the end zone? Big changed up the Steelers. I

1185
01:01:03,240 --> 01:01:09,120
Speaker 1: think that followed out it. Prits Folks says Prits fur

1186
01:01:10,160 --> 01:01:14,440
Speaker 1: The Ryan Harris defensive score took any remaining uncertainty out

1187
01:01:14,480 --> 01:01:17,160
Speaker 1: of the equation. On Sunday in Cleveland, as the Steelers

1188
01:01:17,280 --> 01:01:19,640
Speaker 1: ended a four game losing streak with the nine win

1189
01:01:20,120 --> 01:01:23,800
Speaker 1: over the Cleveland Browns. That was Bill hill Grove of

1190
01:01:24,040 --> 01:01:28,640
Speaker 1: w dv OH Billy Billy Mark. The Browns are now

1191
01:01:28,680 --> 01:01:31,280
Speaker 1: owing eleven and their offensive line continues to be a

1192
01:01:31,480 --> 01:01:36,320
Speaker 1: major issue. Yeah, it's I mean, it's a theme that's

1193
01:01:36,640 --> 01:01:39,040
Speaker 1: um been a terrible one for Brown's quarterbacks. It was

1194
01:01:39,040 --> 01:01:41,360
Speaker 1: another game where we saw Cody Kessler, you know, eight

1195
01:01:41,400 --> 01:01:44,320
Speaker 1: sacks by the Steelers and and punishing hits a team

1196
01:01:44,360 --> 01:01:46,440
Speaker 1: that was among the worst in the league at sacking

1197
01:01:46,480 --> 01:01:48,720
Speaker 1: the quarterback the Steelers. Yeah, and I think that was

1198
01:01:48,760 --> 01:01:50,840
Speaker 1: something we brought up on Thursday. But the counterpoint is

1199
01:01:50,880 --> 01:01:54,680
Speaker 1: you're playing Cleveland, and Cleveland, you know you it's not

1200
01:01:54,920 --> 01:01:58,520
Speaker 1: always they would discover a pass Russian. It's not. It's

1201
01:01:58,560 --> 01:02:00,480
Speaker 1: some of these are on the quarterback too, if you're

1202
01:02:00,520 --> 01:02:02,400
Speaker 1: Josh McCown and you're holding the ball too long, or

1203
01:02:02,400 --> 01:02:04,200
Speaker 1: the same with Cody Kessler. But eight sacks and s

1204
01:02:04,240 --> 01:02:06,280
Speaker 1: eight sacks when you get down to a Kessler was

1205
01:02:06,360 --> 01:02:09,320
Speaker 1: knocked out with a concussion, McCown came in and he

1206
01:02:09,400 --> 01:02:12,440
Speaker 1: does what McCown does. He organized a touchdown drive, then

1207
01:02:12,520 --> 01:02:17,840
Speaker 1: had a horrible strip sack insulted in a Steelers touch Well,

1208
01:02:19,200 --> 01:02:20,880
Speaker 1: it's one of the few things that looked organized for

1209
01:02:20,920 --> 01:02:23,800
Speaker 1: the Browns. I mean, the floor has truly fallen out

1210
01:02:23,880 --> 01:02:27,000
Speaker 1: and it was interesting to watch. I feel like Pittsburgh

1211
01:02:27,080 --> 01:02:29,440
Speaker 1: approached this almost the way that you would a preseason

1212
01:02:29,520 --> 01:02:32,040
Speaker 1: game where you don't want to put anything on film.

1213
01:02:32,120 --> 01:02:34,960
Speaker 1: They seem to use about one tenth of their playbook.

1214
01:02:35,360 --> 01:02:38,240
Speaker 1: And I'm not even it's not even being you know, salty,

1215
01:02:38,320 --> 01:02:41,000
Speaker 1: but I honestly this is the It was too straight.

1216
01:02:41,360 --> 01:02:45,720
Speaker 1: Sixteen play drives that eight about nineteen minutes off the clock.

1217
01:02:46,080 --> 01:02:48,720
Speaker 1: They both resulted in field goals, so it looked closer

1218
01:02:48,760 --> 01:02:50,840
Speaker 1: than it was. But you could tell right away that

1219
01:02:50,920 --> 01:02:54,160
Speaker 1: all they Cleveland cannot tackle anyone outside of Jamie Collins

1220
01:02:54,480 --> 01:02:58,280
Speaker 1: and Levian Bell had about a hundred combined total yards

1221
01:02:58,760 --> 01:03:00,960
Speaker 1: in the first ten to minutes of this game, and

1222
01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:03,280
Speaker 1: you just knew it was over. And in Cleveland hung

1223
01:03:03,320 --> 01:03:07,320
Speaker 1: around to some degree later only because Pittsburgh really they

1224
01:03:07,360 --> 01:03:09,120
Speaker 1: didn't take their foot off the gas. They just seemed

1225
01:03:09,160 --> 01:03:10,440
Speaker 1: to know what they needed to do to get out

1226
01:03:10,480 --> 01:03:12,600
Speaker 1: here with you're a Steelers and the weather was a

1227
01:03:12,680 --> 01:03:14,080
Speaker 1: great but if you're a Steelers then and I saw

1228
01:03:14,200 --> 01:03:17,400
Speaker 1: Damas Check on Twitter not happy about this three total

1229
01:03:17,520 --> 01:03:20,400
Speaker 1: yards against the winless team that you would think that

1230
01:03:20,480 --> 01:03:22,040
Speaker 1: they would be able to do a little bit more.

1231
01:03:22,160 --> 01:03:24,880
Speaker 1: But um, maybe they like Mark You're saying they were

1232
01:03:24,960 --> 01:03:27,240
Speaker 1: that conservative, knowing that the only way they could lose

1233
01:03:27,280 --> 01:03:29,480
Speaker 1: this game was by being reckles. Well, the only other

1234
01:03:29,680 --> 01:03:32,840
Speaker 1: option we have is to say Cleveland's defense clamped down.

1235
01:03:32,960 --> 01:03:35,720
Speaker 1: And that's not the impression this game gives you if

1236
01:03:35,760 --> 01:03:38,800
Speaker 1: you go watch it. I could see why Damnaschek, who

1237
01:03:38,960 --> 01:03:41,400
Speaker 1: also was spinning this narrative to my dismay all week

1238
01:03:41,440 --> 01:03:43,440
Speaker 1: about how this was some sort of a trap game

1239
01:03:43,520 --> 01:03:45,760
Speaker 1: for the Steelers, Well, it wasn't. They were gonna win.

1240
01:03:45,880 --> 01:03:48,240
Speaker 1: It wasn't the prettiest win. But the Steelers are five

1241
01:03:48,280 --> 01:03:50,360
Speaker 1: and five. They don't have that's they are not last

1242
01:03:50,480 --> 01:03:53,160
Speaker 1: year's high powered team or the team from the year before.

1243
01:03:53,280 --> 01:03:55,560
Speaker 1: Reading your recap, it made me think the Steelers treated

1244
01:03:55,600 --> 01:03:58,440
Speaker 1: them not just as a little brother, but as a

1245
01:03:58,440 --> 01:04:01,000
Speaker 1: little brother who's more interested in a dungeons and Dragons

1246
01:04:01,040 --> 01:04:04,560
Speaker 1: and football. I really don't think that they wanted to

1247
01:04:04,760 --> 01:04:07,160
Speaker 1: expose much of a game plan, and they did not

1248
01:04:07,360 --> 01:04:09,880
Speaker 1: need to. Well, what one of the wildest stats I've

1249
01:04:09,960 --> 01:04:14,760
Speaker 1: ever seen is that Ben Roethlisberger is now tied or

1250
01:04:14,880 --> 01:04:20,080
Speaker 1: he has the most wins of any quarterback in Cleveland stadium.

1251
01:04:23,280 --> 01:04:26,960
Speaker 1: But well, number one, it's it's it's not crazy when

1252
01:04:26,960 --> 01:04:29,720
Speaker 1: you think about it. Cleveland's had what twenties something is starting,

1253
01:04:29,920 --> 01:04:32,000
Speaker 1: but they get to play eight a year. There I understand,

1254
01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:34,360
Speaker 1: I mean get it. You don't even have a quarterback.

1255
01:04:34,440 --> 01:04:36,560
Speaker 1: You don't even have a quarterback that started three seasons

1256
01:04:36,600 --> 01:04:39,600
Speaker 1: in a row in Cleveland, and the Steelers have dominated

1257
01:04:39,680 --> 01:04:42,240
Speaker 1: the Browns from wire to wire. It isn't that crazy.

1258
01:04:42,320 --> 01:04:47,920
Speaker 1: If you start to break it down down quarterbacks, A

1259
01:04:48,080 --> 01:04:51,720
Speaker 1: depressing stat is an absolutely depressed exactly the kind of

1260
01:04:51,760 --> 01:04:53,439
Speaker 1: thing I was talking about on Thursday when I said

1261
01:04:53,480 --> 01:04:55,520
Speaker 1: at N sixteen season wouldn't even be close to the

1262
01:04:55,600 --> 01:04:58,640
Speaker 1: biggest black mark. That is far more embarrassing. That's stat

1263
01:05:00,480 --> 01:05:02,640
Speaker 1: I would say, Ohen sixteen is in the cards, and

1264
01:05:02,800 --> 01:05:05,320
Speaker 1: that's gonna be remembered. That's the thing that every pregame

1265
01:05:05,360 --> 01:05:09,760
Speaker 1: show will hit on forever. That's perhaps true that the

1266
01:05:09,960 --> 01:05:13,480
Speaker 1: Roethlisberger that is worse, but OHN sixteen is just like

1267
01:05:13,760 --> 01:05:16,520
Speaker 1: a little ribbon that gets plucked on your scarlet letter.

1268
01:05:16,560 --> 01:05:18,800
Speaker 1: Totally agree, and you just get stuck with you forever. Mark.

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Speaker 1: I want your thoughts on Steelers legend and all around

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Speaker 1: good guy. James Harrison breaking the Steelers all time sack

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Speaker 1: record in Cleveland. Well, I called him in the recap

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Speaker 1: ageless because I you talk about Dan wondering, you know,

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01:05:33,600 --> 01:05:35,840
Speaker 1: in the back of his mind, will Tom Brady played

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01:05:35,880 --> 01:05:38,800
Speaker 1: deep into the twenties. I feel like James Harrison. I

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01:05:38,880 --> 01:05:40,800
Speaker 1: don't know what age he'll play too, but if it

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01:05:40,880 --> 01:05:45,240
Speaker 1: were fifty three, I wouldn't be surprised. I'm not quarterback. Yeah,

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01:05:45,240 --> 01:05:48,040
Speaker 1: you cut him open and there's just machine parts in there,

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01:05:48,640 --> 01:05:53,000
Speaker 1: and you know that's Well, he's sneaky, bit on your

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01:05:53,160 --> 01:05:55,600
Speaker 1: He's been on your radar for a for a long time,

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Speaker 1: ever since he was killed. I don't think any a

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Speaker 1: f C North fan that has to do with James Harrison.

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01:06:01,040 --> 01:06:03,600
Speaker 1: It finds him to be likable. Here's why I think

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01:06:03,680 --> 01:06:06,000
Speaker 1: the Browns are going to owen sixteen. They get worse

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01:06:06,040 --> 01:06:09,040
Speaker 1: every week, and it's that off early in the season

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01:06:09,080 --> 01:06:11,000
Speaker 1: when they were frisky and they were playing teams tight,

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01:06:11,120 --> 01:06:13,360
Speaker 1: they could run the ball. And you mentioned on our

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01:06:13,440 --> 01:06:15,680
Speaker 1: Thursday preview marked that they don't even run. They don't

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01:06:15,680 --> 01:06:17,520
Speaker 1: even try to run the ball because their offensive line

1289
01:06:18,160 --> 01:06:20,320
Speaker 1: is such a joke right now. They they their quarterbacks

1290
01:06:20,360 --> 01:06:22,720
Speaker 1: and you've said have been hit more than any quarterbacks

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01:06:22,760 --> 01:06:25,240
Speaker 1: in the entire league. So it's crazy because that offensive

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01:06:25,280 --> 01:06:27,640
Speaker 1: line was good in the past. They got to get

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01:06:27,680 --> 01:06:29,960
Speaker 1: through a game with one quarterback, and but can we

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01:06:30,040 --> 01:06:32,160
Speaker 1: do that first before we do anything else? When was

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01:06:32,200 --> 01:06:34,560
Speaker 1: the last game they've had with one quarterback? Rulle Pryor,

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01:06:35,000 --> 01:06:37,520
Speaker 1: who has been the most optimistic guy ever on a

1297
01:06:37,600 --> 01:06:40,919
Speaker 1: win windless team. Every week you hear positive things coming

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01:06:40,920 --> 01:06:43,160
Speaker 1: from him about his hopes about the team. He finally

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01:06:43,200 --> 01:06:44,840
Speaker 1: after the game kind of went off a little bit,

1300
01:06:44,840 --> 01:06:47,080
Speaker 1: I want to say went off, but his frustrations boiled over.

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01:06:47,440 --> 01:06:50,320
Speaker 1: He called a bull crap that the offensive line cannot

1302
01:06:50,360 --> 01:06:53,520
Speaker 1: protect these quarterbacks and he hates that. Maybe it's the

1303
01:06:53,960 --> 01:06:56,560
Speaker 1: former quarterback in him talking as well, and he's just

1304
01:06:56,840 --> 01:06:59,600
Speaker 1: these guys getting killed week after week. As a week,

1305
01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:05,600
Speaker 1: another concussion um for Cody Kessler. All right, let's move on,

1306
01:07:06,040 --> 01:07:13,280
Speaker 1: which takes us to Sunday Night football. Sunday Night, the

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01:07:13,400 --> 01:07:15,880
Speaker 1: Packers had no answer for Kirk Cousins, who threw for

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01:07:16,000 --> 01:07:19,920
Speaker 1: three and seventy five yards and three touchdowns as the

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01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:23,040
Speaker 1: Redskins rolled to a forty two to win over And

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01:07:23,640 --> 01:07:26,040
Speaker 1: let's let's call it like it is an overmatched Green

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01:07:26,120 --> 01:07:29,640
Speaker 1: Bay team. Mark Sessler, you told us many times as

1312
01:07:29,680 --> 01:07:31,440
Speaker 1: we watch this game tonight that you were sick of

1313
01:07:31,560 --> 01:07:34,880
Speaker 1: seeing the Packers in the national spotlight. It's starting to

1314
01:07:34,880 --> 01:07:38,240
Speaker 1: look like you're gonna get your wish come January. I

1315
01:07:38,360 --> 01:07:42,160
Speaker 1: am tired of seeing them on national television. And what

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01:07:42,280 --> 01:07:44,920
Speaker 1: I'm tired of is, no matter what happens to the

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01:07:44,960 --> 01:07:50,520
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers, dom Caper's exists NonStop to preside over

1318
01:07:51,080 --> 01:07:53,800
Speaker 1: a defense that year after year is you know a

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01:07:53,840 --> 01:07:56,840
Speaker 1: little bit up and down, and tonight just got torched.

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01:07:56,840 --> 01:07:58,960
Speaker 1: And you know, we talked about all the Redskins exciting

1321
01:07:59,080 --> 01:08:03,680
Speaker 1: to watch. They were tonight's day. This offense is exciting

1322
01:08:03,720 --> 01:08:06,920
Speaker 1: to Watchins was unbelievable in this game of Chris Wesley.

1323
01:08:07,480 --> 01:08:09,280
Speaker 1: He was as well as he was throwing, and he

1324
01:08:09,480 --> 01:08:12,960
Speaker 1: was throwing really well, dropping dimes. This Packers defense is

1325
01:08:13,000 --> 01:08:15,880
Speaker 1: going through a stretch that is as futile as anything

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01:08:15,920 --> 01:08:19,920
Speaker 1: they've done in the last seven decades. And it's hard

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01:08:19,960 --> 01:08:23,160
Speaker 1: to blame dom Capers. When you are pulling guys off

1328
01:08:23,280 --> 01:08:26,160
Speaker 1: the street, you just don't have bodies in the secondary.

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01:08:26,760 --> 01:08:29,840
Speaker 1: I rewatched their game last week against Mariota. They simply

1330
01:08:29,880 --> 01:08:32,519
Speaker 1: can't tackle they don't cover and they don't tackle. And

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01:08:32,640 --> 01:08:35,519
Speaker 1: you saw that again tonight. They're they're the Washington Generals

1332
01:08:35,760 --> 01:08:39,120
Speaker 1: of statement games. Now everybody gets a statement game planning, right,

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01:08:39,360 --> 01:08:46,680
Speaker 1: it's true. We How does that feel? Greg? How do

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01:08:46,760 --> 01:08:48,680
Speaker 1: you like it? It doesn't really bother me because I

1335
01:08:48,760 --> 01:08:50,479
Speaker 1: understand it's kind of like a fun bit within the

1336
01:08:50,520 --> 01:08:53,040
Speaker 1: scheme of this show, So I don't really get upset. Sure,

1337
01:08:53,120 --> 01:08:57,280
Speaker 1: look at your eyes right now, though your point was sabotaged. Uh,

1338
01:08:57,640 --> 01:09:00,840
Speaker 1: you're right west that if you look back, like we

1339
01:09:00,960 --> 01:09:04,560
Speaker 1: thought that Falcons win was kind of okay. Now the

1340
01:09:04,640 --> 01:09:06,559
Speaker 1: Falcons they got it. That's a big win for them,

1341
01:09:06,600 --> 01:09:08,800
Speaker 1: a home win over a good NFC team. Then then

1342
01:09:08,880 --> 01:09:10,640
Speaker 1: the Colts beat the Packers. Were like, wow, that's the

1343
01:09:10,680 --> 01:09:12,240
Speaker 1: best game the Cults are played in a long time.

1344
01:09:12,280 --> 01:09:14,000
Speaker 1: The Titans beat the Packers, that's you know, they're the

1345
01:09:14,040 --> 01:09:16,760
Speaker 1: most exciting offense in the league. Every every team gets

1346
01:09:16,800 --> 01:09:19,960
Speaker 1: a turn against this Packers defense. And it's no flu

1347
01:09:20,040 --> 01:09:23,040
Speaker 1: because this Redskins offense has played great over the last month.

1348
01:09:23,160 --> 01:09:26,080
Speaker 1: This performance have been coming for a while. I have

1349
01:09:26,200 --> 01:09:29,599
Speaker 1: some numbers here, A hundred and fifty three points allowed

1350
01:09:29,680 --> 01:09:33,280
Speaker 1: now by the Packers in their last four games that

1351
01:09:33,400 --> 01:09:37,639
Speaker 1: averages out folks, the thirty eight point three points per

1352
01:09:37,800 --> 01:09:40,280
Speaker 1: game in those four games, the most in the four

1353
01:09:40,320 --> 01:09:43,320
Speaker 1: game spanned for this team, since n NBC tells us

1354
01:09:43,720 --> 01:09:45,280
Speaker 1: that was before the last touch on, so I don't

1355
01:09:45,280 --> 01:09:47,240
Speaker 1: even know if that's even the right stat anymore. But

1356
01:09:47,520 --> 01:09:48,840
Speaker 1: the only thing that we do know is that it

1357
01:09:48,960 --> 01:09:50,960
Speaker 1: is absolutely dreadful what's going on on that side of

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01:09:51,000 --> 01:09:54,519
Speaker 1: the ball. And you, Chris, you mentioned it. I'm not

1359
01:09:56,000 --> 01:09:58,040
Speaker 1: I don't care at all. I don't care at all anymore.

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01:09:58,479 --> 01:10:00,080
Speaker 1: I mean you should have seen, by the way, the

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01:10:00,160 --> 01:10:02,600
Speaker 1: amount of back and forth between Sydney and I on

1362
01:10:02,720 --> 01:10:06,599
Speaker 1: our instant messaging agent about how to play this, because

1363
01:10:06,640 --> 01:10:10,080
Speaker 1: then right before we started, you went and told Sydney

1364
01:10:10,520 --> 01:10:12,880
Speaker 1: that you wanted to hit Mark. So Sydney reported to me,

1365
01:10:13,280 --> 01:10:16,160
Speaker 1: and then we debated whether to do Greg and then

1366
01:10:16,280 --> 01:10:18,920
Speaker 1: you or hit you because you thought you'd be safe.

1367
01:10:19,200 --> 01:10:20,880
Speaker 1: And then I threw it to Sid and said, what

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01:10:21,040 --> 01:10:23,200
Speaker 1: was your thought on it? I just thought we should

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01:10:23,320 --> 01:10:25,679
Speaker 1: throw him off the sun a little bit, him feel

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01:10:25,720 --> 01:10:29,439
Speaker 1: like you're safe. I didn't think I was safe. I

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01:10:29,600 --> 01:10:32,479
Speaker 1: understand the bit, and it's it's an enduringly funny bit.

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01:10:33,040 --> 01:10:38,880
Speaker 1: Keep at it. I mean, people forget that pre Brett

1373
01:10:39,000 --> 01:10:42,960
Speaker 1: Farve the Packers and you go the year before Magic

1374
01:10:43,080 --> 01:10:46,360
Speaker 1: Man Don mccowski. That was a trash heap of an

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01:10:46,439 --> 01:10:48,960
Speaker 1: organization for a long time. And yeah, that was a

1376
01:10:49,000 --> 01:10:50,840
Speaker 1: long time ago. It was a super long time ago.

1377
01:10:50,960 --> 01:10:53,759
Speaker 1: But even even this four game stretch with the points allowed,

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01:10:53,840 --> 01:10:55,960
Speaker 1: I'm shocked at none of those teams. They were getting

1379
01:10:56,000 --> 01:10:58,519
Speaker 1: absolutely destroyed in the in those in those old seasons.

1380
01:10:58,760 --> 01:11:01,280
Speaker 1: They there was I think it was an old YouTube

1381
01:11:01,360 --> 01:11:04,760
Speaker 1: video of uh, there was a squirrel round on the

1382
01:11:04,760 --> 01:11:06,519
Speaker 1: field at lambeau Field a couple of weeks ago. And

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01:11:06,600 --> 01:11:09,280
Speaker 1: then uh did an end a round post about when

1384
01:11:09,400 --> 01:11:12,439
Speaker 1: a fan who was so annoyed with the Packers stinking

1385
01:11:12,479 --> 01:11:15,080
Speaker 1: all through the eighties brought a turkey into the stadium

1386
01:11:15,120 --> 01:11:17,640
Speaker 1: and let it loose on the field. Uh. It just

1387
01:11:17,880 --> 01:11:19,160
Speaker 1: And then you go back and you look at Pro

1388
01:11:19,240 --> 01:11:21,920
Speaker 1: Football Reference to see how bad the Packers were all

1389
01:11:21,960 --> 01:11:25,360
Speaker 1: those years. Oh my god. Yeah, from the time Lombardi

1390
01:11:25,479 --> 01:11:28,040
Speaker 1: left until the time that Reggie White and Brett fav arrived.

1391
01:11:29,520 --> 01:11:32,240
Speaker 1: Let anything else, folks on this game. Here's what I think.

1392
01:11:32,280 --> 01:11:35,639
Speaker 1: I think the Redskins have established themselves as the fourth

1393
01:11:35,680 --> 01:11:37,640
Speaker 1: best team in the NFC. I know the Giants have

1394
01:11:37,720 --> 01:11:41,800
Speaker 1: a slightly better record by half. The Redskins are six

1395
01:11:41,880 --> 01:11:44,479
Speaker 1: one and one in their last eight games, and they belong.

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01:11:44,680 --> 01:11:46,760
Speaker 1: They're going to be in the playoffs. I think they

1397
01:11:46,960 --> 01:11:51,240
Speaker 1: their offense travels. I mean, Kirk Cousins is playing really well.

1398
01:11:51,800 --> 01:11:53,719
Speaker 1: I think he played a lot worse than his numbers

1399
01:11:53,720 --> 01:11:55,560
Speaker 1: show over the first four or five weeks, but he

1400
01:11:55,640 --> 01:11:57,880
Speaker 1: has been on a roll. And now that he's mixing

1401
01:11:57,920 --> 01:12:00,840
Speaker 1: in the big plays, you got fat rob finishing out

1402
01:12:00,960 --> 01:12:04,240
Speaker 1: games like I think this team is is legit and

1403
01:12:04,320 --> 01:12:06,479
Speaker 1: it's not going anywhere whereas the Giants I expect to

1404
01:12:06,520 --> 01:12:10,479
Speaker 1: fall off that those throws by Cousins, those deep shots

1405
01:12:10,520 --> 01:12:13,560
Speaker 1: he was taking into the wind, into the wind. We

1406
01:12:13,680 --> 01:12:15,599
Speaker 1: talked about this, I think last week, about how it's

1407
01:12:15,640 --> 01:12:17,680
Speaker 1: working out for him. He's gonna get paid, there is

1408
01:12:17,760 --> 01:12:20,160
Speaker 1: no question right now. I mean, things can change the

1409
01:12:20,280 --> 01:12:23,080
Speaker 1: NFL quickly, but right now, this that move that he made,

1410
01:12:23,080 --> 01:12:25,320
Speaker 1: he's making twenty million this year and he's gonna be

1411
01:12:25,760 --> 01:12:28,559
Speaker 1: in the top you know, six or seven paid quarterbacks

1412
01:12:28,600 --> 01:12:30,280
Speaker 1: in the league probably this time next year. And you

1413
01:12:30,360 --> 01:12:32,720
Speaker 1: have to look at what Jake Gruden has done too.

1414
01:12:32,840 --> 01:12:36,080
Speaker 1: I think he's someone that personally I kind of slowed

1415
01:12:36,120 --> 01:12:39,040
Speaker 1: to him. I didn't really take the Jake Gruden things seriously,

1416
01:12:39,400 --> 01:12:43,120
Speaker 1: but honestly, he can coach offense. I mean what they've

1417
01:12:43,160 --> 01:12:46,000
Speaker 1: done over the last two seasons is the whole team

1418
01:12:46,040 --> 01:12:47,960
Speaker 1: has changed. The whole identity of the team has completely

1419
01:12:48,040 --> 01:12:50,680
Speaker 1: been transformed. We were talking before we started though, we

1420
01:12:50,920 --> 01:12:53,160
Speaker 1: were still don't I still don't rule out the Packers

1421
01:12:53,400 --> 01:12:55,679
Speaker 1: at four and six because that division is so bad.

1422
01:12:55,800 --> 01:12:58,040
Speaker 1: But they have to go to Philadelphia next week, they

1423
01:12:58,080 --> 01:13:02,240
Speaker 1: have Houston, they have Seattle coming up to so it's

1424
01:13:02,360 --> 01:13:04,600
Speaker 1: it's a different Packers team this year. I I do.

1425
01:13:05,000 --> 01:13:07,759
Speaker 1: But the article this week, we're all about Aaron Rodgers

1426
01:13:07,880 --> 01:13:10,120
Speaker 1: and what's wrong, and he doesn't talk to his family.

1427
01:13:10,200 --> 01:13:12,960
Speaker 1: Like the defense is they they're the ones who aren't

1428
01:13:12,960 --> 01:13:14,920
Speaker 1: talking to their family. They should I don't know, people

1429
01:13:14,920 --> 01:13:17,439
Speaker 1: should check up they're talking to their families. I mean

1430
01:13:17,600 --> 01:13:20,200
Speaker 1: it's Aaron Rodgers played fine last week. I watched that

1431
01:13:20,240 --> 01:13:23,080
Speaker 1: Titans game. Aaron Rodgers played pretty well. Aaron Rodgers today,

1432
01:13:23,320 --> 01:13:25,880
Speaker 1: he played well today, played very well today. So their

1433
01:13:25,920 --> 01:13:28,240
Speaker 1: problems go a lot beyond It's like West pointed out that,

1434
01:13:28,320 --> 01:13:30,639
Speaker 1: I mean, they're there are position groups that are running

1435
01:13:30,720 --> 01:13:33,040
Speaker 1: too the absolute dirt. At this point, there's no bodies

1436
01:13:33,160 --> 01:13:36,320
Speaker 1: left and you can't you can't survive that way. I

1437
01:13:36,360 --> 01:13:39,000
Speaker 1: mean depth. That two thousand and ten Packers team to

1438
01:13:39,040 --> 01:13:43,160
Speaker 1: won a Super Bowl infamously had so many and nothing

1439
01:13:43,280 --> 01:13:46,120
Speaker 1: and that's not injury related. You're not gonna You're not

1440
01:13:46,120 --> 01:13:48,479
Speaker 1: gonna see Aaron Rodgers come out this year and say

1441
01:13:48,720 --> 01:13:51,800
Speaker 1: everybody relaxed because he knows it. Right at the end

1442
01:13:51,840 --> 01:13:56,000
Speaker 1: of the game, when um, the tight end Jared Cook fumble,

1443
01:13:56,080 --> 01:13:58,320
Speaker 1: the game is basically over already. But and you can

1444
01:13:58,360 --> 01:14:01,439
Speaker 1: see Rodgers body language, he was just he's just he

1445
01:14:01,560 --> 01:14:04,480
Speaker 1: can't believe what's happening. What's what's happened? And I'm fascinated

1446
01:14:04,560 --> 01:14:08,080
Speaker 1: now to see, um, what's going to become of of

1447
01:14:08,160 --> 01:14:10,880
Speaker 1: the Packers if they do flame out, totally miss the

1448
01:14:11,439 --> 01:14:15,479
Speaker 1: miss the playoffs happens next. A lot of people who

1449
01:14:15,760 --> 01:14:20,080
Speaker 1: were incorrect about the way j Gruden handled r G

1450
01:14:20,280 --> 01:14:23,640
Speaker 1: three and Kirk Cousins, Oh, Jay Gruden an apology, everybody's

1451
01:14:23,680 --> 01:14:26,840
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people, uh and I include myself,

1452
01:14:26,920 --> 01:14:29,519
Speaker 1: and I think a lot of expected him not to

1453
01:14:29,920 --> 01:14:31,599
Speaker 1: make it as a head coach and and it looks

1454
01:14:31,640 --> 01:14:35,559
Speaker 1: like it's working in Washington. Hey. By the way, Mark,

1455
01:14:36,280 --> 01:14:40,000
Speaker 1: if you were trying to prevent a nuclear disaster, what's

1456
01:14:40,040 --> 01:14:44,679
Speaker 1: harder than preventing a nuclear disaster? Conventing a nuclear disaster?

1457
01:14:45,040 --> 01:14:49,360
Speaker 1: Thank you for coming with your mother. Um, I've met

1458
01:14:49,400 --> 01:14:51,519
Speaker 1: your mother, a very nice woman. Do you think she

1459
01:14:51,800 --> 01:14:53,680
Speaker 1: would help or hinder you if you were trying to

1460
01:14:53,760 --> 01:14:56,280
Speaker 1: prevent a nuclear disaster? You think that you're saying what

1461
01:14:56,439 --> 01:14:58,680
Speaker 1: she try to stop me from preventing it or her

1462
01:14:58,920 --> 01:15:01,679
Speaker 1: joining the effort, wouldn't take it right? Your task? Your

1463
01:15:01,720 --> 01:15:05,559
Speaker 1: task was stopping a nuclear disas a scorpion Monday's at

1464
01:15:05,680 --> 01:15:10,759
Speaker 1: nine pm on CBS, you are tasked with, uh, stopping

1465
01:15:10,840 --> 01:15:13,120
Speaker 1: a nuclear attack? Would your mom help her hurt you

1466
01:15:13,240 --> 01:15:17,360
Speaker 1: towards that? She has always given me Um great advice. Uh.

1467
01:15:17,840 --> 01:15:21,759
Speaker 1: That said, I don't feel very capable with or without

1468
01:15:21,960 --> 01:15:24,879
Speaker 1: a family member attached to it, of stopping a nuclear disaster.

1469
01:15:24,960 --> 01:15:27,040
Speaker 1: I don't even know who to speak to. How would

1470
01:15:27,040 --> 01:15:29,439
Speaker 1: I even I would be the wrong person to assign

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01:15:29,520 --> 01:15:31,640
Speaker 1: that too. I wouldn't want that. Well, I think you

1472
01:15:31,680 --> 01:15:33,880
Speaker 1: gets yeah, that would be true of all of this,

1473
01:15:34,040 --> 01:15:36,040
Speaker 1: But personally I know for me, I think it would

1474
01:15:36,120 --> 01:15:38,360
Speaker 1: hinder It would hinder it because I would decide to

1475
01:15:38,439 --> 01:15:40,400
Speaker 1: do something, she'd be like, well, you really sure that's

1476
01:15:40,439 --> 01:15:42,120
Speaker 1: the right The right thing to do to stop the

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Speaker 1: nuclear attack would be Debbie. That would be Debbie. I

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Speaker 1: know that your mom listened to It's a lot like broadcast.

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Speaker 1: I was here him again, she does listen. It's a

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Speaker 1: shout out. That's she's not going to enjoy that that

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01:15:55,800 --> 01:15:58,400
Speaker 1: moment of the show. Debros with all listens. Oh yes,

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Speaker 1: beb Hans has never heard of every show. My mom, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: my wife has never listened. But yeah, west where what

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Speaker 1: would happen? I mean, my mom would come in and

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Speaker 1: clean house. She would take she would take the bull

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Speaker 1: by the reins or however that forwards. Yeah, day my

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Speaker 1: mom would clean house. Yeah, I mean my mom would

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Speaker 1: probably help. She would help me, I would. I guess

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Speaker 1: the thing is none of us are able to say

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Speaker 1: who it is that we're clean house? Who what us? Congress?

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Speaker 1: She walked into the Joint Chiefs of Staffs meetings and

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Speaker 1: would be leading it by the end. I mean again,

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Speaker 1: the question me, why are the Joint chief of staffs

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Speaker 1: suggesting that west Mark, Dana Greg They've tried everything else

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01:16:40,560 --> 01:16:44,639
Speaker 1: we're like the mcgruber in this situation plot to every

1496
01:16:44,720 --> 01:16:46,720
Speaker 1: sci fi movie in the history of the world, you

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Speaker 1: have to have a little or a lot willing suspension

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Speaker 1: of disbelief. Okay, I'm glad we settled all that. We'll

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Speaker 1: be back on Tuesday. Uh. This is a different week.

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Speaker 1: It's Thanksgiving week here in the States. We'll have our

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Speaker 1: regular Tuesday show where we'll also preview Thanksgiving games. Uh,

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Speaker 1: and then we'll probably be back the next day with

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Speaker 1: our second pod the day after. Is that how We're

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Speaker 1: gonna do this preview all of the rest of week twelve,

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Speaker 1: So that'll be out a day early. You can enjoy

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Speaker 1: it with your Thanksgiving feast there if you're overseas, you

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Speaker 1: know Thursday. And finally, because it's in the contract and

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Speaker 1: I didn't say it earlier, this podcast is sponsored by

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Speaker 1: Mr Flames economics class in the Hague, the Netherlands. That

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Speaker 1: was all right, let's go home. I mean that guy

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Speaker 1: you want to get. You do not want Mr half

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Speaker 1: on your beads. He's very fair, but you don't want

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Speaker 1: to take him into a nuclear crisis. Is then hands

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Speaker 1: the signing off for the Mailman, the Boss, the Sizzler,

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Speaker 1: and I'll see it behind the glass till Tuesday. M

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Speaker 1: What happened to like the fans that used to do

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Speaker 1: the laser pointers into people's eyes. Why don't we have

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Speaker 1: more of that? Society turned