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Speaker 1: Wow, Hey everybody, It's Thursday, January eleventh, twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast. We're blowing up

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Speaker 1: the rundown. It's me your man, nam G. Marcus Grant,

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Speaker 1: joined as always by Michael f. Florio. Joined today by

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Speaker 1: mckwan Jones, hopefully getting him on the show more regularly

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Speaker 1: here in the off season. So, LQ, I mean, I

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Speaker 1: know you were with us for the Stardum Sinnam show.

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Speaker 1: You have been a guest occasionally here on the podcast,

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Speaker 1: But welcome man. Hopefully we I'll just say, see your face,

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Speaker 1: but this is audio little so hear your voice a

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Speaker 1: little more regularly this offseason. Man, how are you good? Man?

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Speaker 1: A lot happened this morning. We're going to get into it. Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, Flora,

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Speaker 1: you and I were sort of talking earlier before the

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Speaker 1: show that Lakwan is up early because he does research

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Speaker 1: he works for on the Insider show on NFL Network.

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Speaker 1: You and I just lead regular civilian lives sort of

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Speaker 1: in the offseason. So like we woke up and news

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Speaker 1: had broken Mike and we were sort of like dealing

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Speaker 1: with the reaction to the reaction without actually getting the

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Speaker 1: actual story. This morning.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm used to now waking up and like having

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Speaker 2: to catch up on stuff, but this one was like

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Speaker 2: I woke up at seven am and it was like

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Speaker 2: two plus hours old already. So we all saw this

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Speaker 2: kind of coming and knew it was going to come

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Speaker 2: at some point. I don't know why they had to

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Speaker 2: announce it at five am Eastern.

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Speaker 1: I mean, in case you somehow haven't figured out what

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Speaker 1: we are talking about yet. The big news that broke

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Speaker 1: on Thursday morning is that it is official Bill Belichick

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Speaker 1: and the New England Patriots have mutually parted ways after

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Speaker 1: twenty four amazing seasons together. Belichick with the Patriots and

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Speaker 1: of course with Tom Brady, wins six NFL championships, a

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Speaker 1: slew of wins, just an era that is probably never

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Speaker 1: gonna be seen again. I don't know, Maybe I'm crazy,

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Speaker 1: but I just can't imagine we're gonna see anything ever

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Speaker 1: like this again in the.

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Speaker 3: NFL for sure, Maybe in professional sports, I don't know, No,

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Speaker 3: probably not, man. I mean, it feels like I'm losing

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Speaker 3: part of my childhood, even though you know, at my

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Speaker 3: beef with the Patriots, but you know, no more time,

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Speaker 3: no more Bill Belichick. Like what are we looking at.

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Speaker 3: You know, I don't think we'll see that ever again.

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Speaker 1: No again, twenty four years and look, I grew up

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Speaker 1: as a forty nine Ers fan. Still am a forty

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Speaker 1: nine Ers fan, but I grew up as a Niners fan.

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Speaker 1: You know, in the eighties and nineties where the Niners were,

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Speaker 1: it was them and the Cowboys kind of the two

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Speaker 1: main you know, I guess villains of the NFL, the

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Speaker 1: two teams that won a whole lot. And even at

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Speaker 1: that time when the Niners went from Joe Montana to

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Speaker 1: Steve Young, Jerry Rice, throughout that period, from Bill Bill

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Speaker 1: Walsh to George Seaffert, and they did a ton of winning.

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Speaker 1: And even then, nobody thought that anybody could replicate what

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Speaker 1: the Niners had done over that span of really basically

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Speaker 1: a decade, maybe a decade plus. But then, you know,

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Speaker 1: Belichick and the Patriots blew that out of the water

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Speaker 1: two decades of success. I have said a lot of

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Speaker 1: times in the last few years there are people of

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Speaker 1: legal drinking age in the New England area that are

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Speaker 1: just now finally starting to understand how the rest of

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Speaker 1: the NFL lives. They look around, they see the Patriots

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Speaker 1: are four and thirteen this year, and I don't know, Mike,

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Speaker 1: it was funny at some point during the early part

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Speaker 1: of the season, mid part of the season, hearing people

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Speaker 1: upset and saying like, well, you gotta fire Bill Belichick.

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Speaker 1: He's got to go, and most of them America is

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Speaker 1: just sort of like laughing, right, especially you. You. I

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Speaker 1: mean you're a Bills fan, right, This team tormented you

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Speaker 1: and tormented this division for a good chunk of your life. Mike.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So the Bills have won the AFC four years

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Speaker 2: in a row. Before those four years, I had every

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Speaker 2: year of my life was hoping that my team finished

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Speaker 2: in second place and could get a you know, as

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Speaker 2: a football fan, how discouraging that is, Like everyone says

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Speaker 2: at the start of the year, everyone had no no,

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Speaker 2: it was like, hey, maybe the Bills could get second

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Speaker 1: Like one of my favorite.

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Speaker 2: Stories and I think it shows this is when the

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Speaker 2: saw it happened Ryan Fitzpatrick and all of that. I

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Speaker 2: was texting a friend of mine who's a Patriot fan,

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Speaker 2: And like, for me, this is the greatest win of

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Speaker 2: it with the utmost respect. I hated Bill Belichick and

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Speaker 1: They were like the villain because they were.

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Speaker 2: So damn good.

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Speaker 1: It got to the point, and this was even back

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe a couple of Super Bowls, but you know,

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Speaker 1: we're starting to really get going. I remember, even back

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Speaker 1: then watching games with a buddy of mine and he

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Speaker 1: would say, it's it's sort of like professional wrestling, right,

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Speaker 1: where like you watch a Patriots game and the first

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Speaker 1: is that tom Brady's music? And just they would come

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Speaker 1: you didn't necessarily like Belichick, you didn't like Tom Brady,

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Speaker 1: you know, I called myself I was a self proclaimed

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady hater. But it was only because they kept winning.

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Speaker 1: You know, if if Tom Brady was a look, if

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Speaker 1: of in the playoffs. I don't think you hate Tom Brady.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you hate Bill Belichick at that point.

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Speaker 1: But because you know, like you said, it was you

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Speaker 1: a it was a hatred born out of absolute respect

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Speaker 3: I'm still hurt by the way we lost two super

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Speaker 3: Bowls as a Rams fan. We lost two super Bowls

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Speaker 3: to Bill Belichick and Tom Brady. So this hate still

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Speaker 3: runs forever. But you respect, you respect the dynasty, you

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Speaker 3: respect the history that they got. Man, Because again, I

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Speaker 3: can't say Tom Brady isn't the greatest football player both.

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Speaker 3: I can't say that, you know, Bill Belichick isn't you know,

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Speaker 3: the best coach of all time. But it's like, man, no,

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Speaker 3: I'm still a little hurt about that, But what a career.

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Speaker 1: You guys also lost a really ugly super Bowl.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a very depressing super Bowl A wide.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to speak about that.

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Speaker 2: I think those two super Bowls though, and cap like

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Speaker 2: That was more Tom, right, But like those two Rams ones,

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Speaker 2: the Patriots the second one scored ten points like that,

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Speaker 2: and those were two of the best, Like the Rams,

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Speaker 2: each of those Super Bowls were probably the best offenses

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and oh two we lost by a field goal,

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Speaker 1: But well it's it's it's sort of amazing because you know,

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Speaker 1: the Rams, you guys were sort of the bookends to

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Speaker 1: against the greatest show on turf. When you have a young,

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Speaker 1: I remember I'm sure you do too, LQ. That final

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Speaker 1: I'm the Patriots here, I think you just take a

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Speaker 1: and basically Brady and Belichick were like, effet, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: the game. Uh. You know, it's funny because we all,

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Speaker 1: I think, we all have our own you know, daggers

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Speaker 1: You know, obviously, for you Florio, it was the fact

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Speaker 1: it's the two Super Bowl wins. I mean for me

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: And the fact that again I grew up with Joe

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Speaker 1: and really having to let go of the fact that

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Speaker 1: Joe Montana is not the greatest quarterback of all time anymore.

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Speaker 1: I mean it for me and my and my friends

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Speaker 1: come to grips with it right like he is. You know,

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Speaker 1: for years it was just like the answer was always well, yes,

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Speaker 1: Joe Montana like and there was no like, no hesitation,

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Speaker 1: it's Joe Montana and now finally having to come to

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Speaker 1: also just think about the fact that the Niners could

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Speaker 1: have had Tom Brady, you know that sort of thing.

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Speaker 1: And here's the question I'll put to you. And I

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Speaker 1: know that's one that has been asked a lot. I

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Speaker 1: know we spent a lot of time trying to figure out,

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Speaker 1: you know, who made who? Did Belichick make Brady? Did

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Speaker 1: Brady make Belichick? I think after all these years we

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Speaker 1: could sort of figure out, uh, you know, it worked together.

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Speaker 1: It was a team. It was a dual effort between

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Speaker 1: the two of them. Let's play the Marvel what if game? Right? If?

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Speaker 1: What if Bill Belichick and Tom Brady never connected? Do

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Speaker 1: either of them hit the heights that they have hit

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Speaker 1: in their respective careers?

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Speaker 3: No, man, No, I mean Tom will probably win one

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Speaker 3: or two, maybe won in Tampa.

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Speaker 1: Maybe, Like but would he would he have even got

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Speaker 1: his start? Yeah? I don't know.

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Speaker 3: That's that's a good question. I know Bill when't had

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Speaker 3: reached the heights he reached No way.

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, Brady obviously was exponentially better quarterback in

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Speaker 2: Carroll stories being in the division.

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Speaker 1: We'll get another pod for that.

434
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Speaker 2: Pete Carroll. Yesterday, Pete Carroll had like an hour before

435
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Speaker 2: Nick Saban announced it. Harrement and Bill Belichick like he

436
00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:04,680
Speaker 2: sotle a Super Bowl from you ten years ago or

437
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Speaker 2: whatever it was. Now he's stealing your day. But I

438
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Speaker 2: have no sources or anything like that. I do not

439
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Speaker 2: think we've seen the last of Pete Carroll as a

440
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Speaker 2: head coach in this league. He's two days ago was

441
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Speaker 2: saying he wants to still keep coaching. I believe someone

442
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Speaker 2: will give him an opportunity.

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Speaker 3: He has the juice. Man, He's taking his shirt off,

444
00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:26,440
Speaker 3: He's throwing football out stuff. Man, this dude he got

445
00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:28,760
Speaker 3: a lot of juice left in the tank. Man, he

446
00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:31,080
Speaker 3: got he's got a lot of energy left. I did

447
00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:35,000
Speaker 3: see somebody suggest and this again hits close to me.

448
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Speaker 1: You know. Jim Harbaugh obviously rumored to come to the NFL,

449
00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:41,800
Speaker 1: the Raiders have a potential opening. The Chargers we know

450
00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:45,480
Speaker 1: have an opening. Why not put why not put Harball

451
00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:49,120
Speaker 1: with the Vegas Raiders? Put Pete Carroll with the Chargers.

452
00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:52,919
Speaker 1: Those two had an intense rivalry in the PAC twelve

453
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Speaker 1: at USC and Stanford. I don't know if you guys

454
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Speaker 1: are familiar with the what's your deal? When Pete was

455
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Speaker 1: a little bit upset, felt like Ball ran it up

456
00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:03,200
Speaker 1: on USC at Stanford and kind of challenge them in

457
00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:06,240
Speaker 1: midfield saying, what's your deal? Why not run it back

458
00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:09,840
Speaker 1: twice a year in the AFC West with Jim Harbaugh

459
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Speaker 1: and Pete Carroll. Let's watch TV. Although I do want

460
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Speaker 1: see Antonio Pierce get a gigs, I was gonna be.

461
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Speaker 2: The only issue I have that is, I think Pierce

462
00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:18,120
Speaker 2: deserves the gig.

463
00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:21,000
Speaker 1: I did Antonio Pierce deserves to get the gigs. We

464
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Speaker 1: got to figure out some other way though, to get

465
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Speaker 1: Pete Carroll and Jim Harbaugh back on opposing sidelines.

466
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Speaker 2: It's gonna be weird next year when every Seattle Seahawks

467
00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:31,560
Speaker 2: game does not come down to the final possession, because

468
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Speaker 2: that's basically what Pete Carroll's ten year has been.

469
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Kevin Clark tweet right about the Seahawks have never

470
00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:44,320
Speaker 1: played a normal game, Like I mean that tweet gets

471
00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:49,280
Speaker 1: pulled up every time something bizarre happens of battles that

472
00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:53,359
Speaker 1: that that tweet might might be rip depending on who

473
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Speaker 1: they bring in.

474
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Speaker 2: Because for a while I had thought like, oh, this

475
00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:58,480
Speaker 2: is how they played with Russell Wilton. No, no, they

476
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Speaker 2: did the gals with Drew Locke. It does not matter.

477
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Speaker 1: That's just that's just Seahawks football, at least Seahawks football

478
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Speaker 1: under Pete Carroll. Yeah, ri ipet, it's a weird football

479
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Speaker 1: in Seattle.

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Speaker 2: Last point, can we retire the Patriot Way and see

481
00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:15,920
Speaker 2: how like Patriot Way was? Bill Belichick and Tom Brady.

482
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Speaker 1: Do your job, Like, you know it's gonna be wild

483
00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:23,639
Speaker 1: when like Patriots players are just like randomly talking to

484
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:26,639
Speaker 1: the media willy nilly and just like carrying out their

485
00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:28,720
Speaker 1: feelings and stuff like we're not gonna know what to

486
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Speaker 1: do with ourselves. When all of a sudden, you know

487
00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:33,119
Speaker 1: it's happening, somebody shows them and they're like, I got

488
00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:36,520
Speaker 1: thoughts and they're gonna start talking because that never happened before.

489
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Speaker 2: The whole Brady Belichick. The one thing I will Brady

490
00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:41,960
Speaker 2: would have been ten times more fun I think within Like,

491
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Speaker 2: look at his three years in Tampa Bay. He was

492
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Speaker 2: so likable and then but in New England it was

493
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Speaker 2: the exact opposite.

494
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Speaker 1: I know, I didn't know what to do with myself.

495
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Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm like, is Tom Brady likable? Like, I

496
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Speaker 1: just I don't know if I can live. I don't

497
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Speaker 1: know if I can live in a world where Tom

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Speaker 1: Brady is likable. And that's what we saw there in

499
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Speaker 1: time in Tampa Bay. And like, I don't think he

500
00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:05,720
Speaker 1: necessarily ran his social media, but whoever he got to run,

501
00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:09,520
Speaker 1: it was really good. It was really funny, and I

502
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:11,720
Speaker 1: just I was living in the upside down. I just

503
00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:14,800
Speaker 1: didn't know what to do with myself at that point. So, yeah,

504
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Speaker 1: this was not how I planned to start the show.

505
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:20,320
Speaker 1: But with Belichick and the Patriots having a conscious uncoupling,

506
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Speaker 1: we felt like we needed to kind of get into this.

507
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Speaker 1: We'll take a quick break, we'll come back, we will

508
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Speaker 1: break down Super wild Card weekend, give you some DFS

509
00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:31,280
Speaker 1: value picks as well here in the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast.

510
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Speaker 1: All right, so let's get into the thing that I

511
00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:40,360
Speaker 1: thought we were going to spend most of the time

512
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Speaker 1: on today, and that would have been Super wild Card weekend.

513
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Speaker 1: Breaking it down six games starting on Saturday ending on Monday.

514
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Speaker 1: We'll try to get through these relatively quickly, because you know,

515
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Speaker 1: we all have lives, and you know, I'm sure you

516
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:53,159
Speaker 1: guys have things to do as well. I don't have

517
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:56,760
Speaker 1: three hours of me dumping on comedians all across the

518
00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:59,720
Speaker 1: spectrum or talking about other you know, sports talk hosts.

519
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Speaker 1: Let's start on Saturday, four thirty pm Eastern on NBC.

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Speaker 1: It is the Brown to Any Texans, which I hadn't

521
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Speaker 1: even thought about, but somebody mentioned. It's sort of the

522
00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:10,200
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson Bowl, even though he's not going to be

523
00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:13,639
Speaker 1: playing for either one of those teams, for both of

524
00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:16,000
Speaker 1: those teams, kind is a good thing for both of

525
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,520
Speaker 1: those things. There's so many storylines this weekend. Uh. The

526
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Speaker 1: biggest one, I'll start with you, Florio. Does Joe Flacco

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Speaker 1: stay hot? Yes?

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Speaker 2: Because the Texans, they they have really like they are

529
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Speaker 2: the exact opposite of what they were last year, where

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Speaker 2: it was like you run the ball on Houston, but

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Speaker 2: you can't throw on them. This year, they've really been

532
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Speaker 2: stout against the run, struggle against the pass. I think

533
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Speaker 2: it was like heading into the final week of the

534
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Speaker 2: fantasy season, it was like eleven or fourteen games they've

535
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Speaker 2: allowed a QB one or something like that. Don't quote

536
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Speaker 2: me on the exact numbers, but yeah, I think I

537
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Speaker 2: think Flacco stays hot in this game. I keep saying it.

538
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Speaker 2: I think what is truly going to happen is next

539
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Speaker 2: week we are going to get Brown's Ravens and that

540
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Speaker 2: is when Joe Flacco is going to revert back.

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Speaker 3: Wow, come on, I pretty Flogo got the tank in him, man.

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Speaker 3: I think he didn't go far into playoffs. Man, I mean,

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Speaker 3: I feel like he's gonna say hot because he's been

544
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:09,479
Speaker 3: going out there slinging it. And they faced each other

545
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Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago and he was able to

546
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 3: throw three touchdowns two interceptions. But that just shows how

547
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Speaker 3: aggressive he is going downfield, and I like it. That's

548
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:19,600
Speaker 3: kind of what this offense needs. If you don't have

549
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Speaker 3: Nick Chubb, you don't really have a run game that

550
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:23,400
Speaker 3: was as strong as it used to be. I mean,

551
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:26,080
Speaker 3: you better get a Mark Cooper downfield, you better get

552
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Speaker 3: David d Djoku in the middle, and get you know,

553
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 3: Elijah Moore used as a little gadget guy, and he

554
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Speaker 3: can go deep as well. So I just think he's

555
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Speaker 3: gonna be a problem this game.

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Speaker 1: I think I think he sort of dodged a few bullets.

557
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:40,919
Speaker 1: Now he's played really, really well, and Kevin Stefanski has

558
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Speaker 1: basically given him the green light to just rip it downfield,

559
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Speaker 1: and that's certainly worked. Just aired out man, like we'll

560
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:48,439
Speaker 1: send you know it really is. That's what it's been

561
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Speaker 1: the whole time he's been the quarterback full sin and

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Speaker 1: it's worked. I mean, fantasy wise, had worked for Mariy

563
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Speaker 1: Cooper and got David and Joku into our lives. You know,

564
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Speaker 1: they sort of pump faked this with this whole like,

565
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Speaker 1: oh Elijah Moore, I love a life more and like, yeah, whatever.

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Speaker 1: I think they have enough to beat the Texans. I

567
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 1: think they get through that. But I do worry about

568
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Speaker 1: what happens with the Ravens because if look, if anybody

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Speaker 1: knows Joe Flacco, it is the Baltimore Ravens, it is

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Speaker 1: John Harbaugh. And they've got extra time to sort of

571
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:19,680
Speaker 1: like not that they need to do extra study, but

572
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 1: they have extra time to sort of see what what

573
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Speaker 1: this offense is like with Joe Flacco at the helm

574
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Speaker 1: and try to scheme up for it with the defense

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Speaker 1: that has been really really good this year. So I

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Speaker 1: think Flacco has another decent game. He's had at least

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Speaker 1: two touchdowns in every game he has played so far

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Speaker 1: this season for the Browns, and as you mentioned, Florida,

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Speaker 1: like the run game has been sort of inconsistent, so

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Speaker 1: I think I think he continues to stay hot. On

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Speaker 1: the other side, though, LQ. Does CJ. Stroud stay hot

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Speaker 1: against a very very good Browns defense.

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Speaker 3: Ah Man, this is going to be a difficult task

584
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Speaker 3: for CJ. Stroud, But I do think he still has

585
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Speaker 3: a good game. He didn't play in that game that

586
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Speaker 3: they played in the regular season, but they let Davis Mills,

587
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Speaker 3: you know, have two touchdowns. So I think CJ. Strout

588
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:03,200
Speaker 3: will be able to score. It just has to come

589
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 3: down the Nico Collins. It will have to come down

590
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 3: for Dalton Schultz to step up in this game as well,

591
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:10,280
Speaker 3: because I will wish, you know, we had tanked out

592
00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 3: for this game, you know, so we can have a

593
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:16,320
Speaker 3: full strong Texans offense. But it's gonna be tough against

594
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Speaker 3: his Browns defense man, because this has been one of

595
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Speaker 3: the elite defenses all season long.

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Speaker 1: I'm scared.

597
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:25,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm happy to see him here on this stage

598
00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:29,000
Speaker 3: as a rookie, but it's like this defense has nothing

599
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 3: to be slept on. Man, you're gonna have to really

600
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 3: step it up. Like it's playoff time.

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Speaker 2: Look, a home game, home playoff game is more than

602
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:38,800
Speaker 2: any Houston Texans fan could have hoped.

603
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Speaker 1: For a year ago.

604
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:44,720
Speaker 2: So he's already more than done his job for the season.

605
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Speaker 2: The future is very bright in Houston. But I don't

606
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 2: know if you remember Marcus. Like on Fantasy Live coming

607
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:54,240
Speaker 2: in Week fourteen, my game of the week was Jets Texans,

608
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Speaker 2: and I was like, this is a big test for CJ.

609
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Speaker 2: Stroud because in a couple of weeks they played the

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Speaker 2: Cleveland Browns. Now Kwon said he didn't play in that

611
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 2: game because he ended up getting hurt against the Jets,

612
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 2: but he still did play eighty six percent of the snaps.

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Speaker 1: In that game.

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Speaker 2: It was a road game, they lost six to thirty,

615
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 2: and c J. Stroud completed ten of twenty three passes

616
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Speaker 2: for ninety one yards and no touchdowns. So not saying

617
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:19,760
Speaker 2: the Browns secondary is what the Jets are, but those

618
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 2: are two of the top defenses in the league, so

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Speaker 2: we've seen him struggle already against one top defense. If

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Speaker 2: he comes out and has a good game this week,

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Speaker 2: it's only a cherry on top because he's already more

622
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Speaker 2: than delivered everything you need this season. But I am

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Speaker 2: I do have concerns about how he's going to look

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Speaker 2: against the Browns defense.

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Speaker 1: Actually, the passing volume has been there, It was there

626
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Speaker 1: late in the season. Those last couple of games he played,

627
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Speaker 1: the numbers weren't quite as big, and I think they don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that he needs to throw for three

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Speaker 1: hundred yards right for them to be successful and win

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Speaker 1: this game. But he does have to be efficient. He

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Speaker 1: does have to limit the turnovers, which he asually has

632
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 1: been very good at this year. He's got what five

633
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Speaker 1: interceptions all season long. He's been very good protecting the foot.

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Speaker 1: That is going to have to be the thing, because

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Speaker 1: I don't think they're going to be able to run

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Speaker 1: the ball. Devin Singletary, Damian Pierce. I don't care who

637
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:09,440
Speaker 1: it is. I don't think they can run the ball

638
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 1: against this Browns defense. So it really is going to

639
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 1: be on CJ. Stroud to kind of get it done.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't worry so much about nerves. I know, there's

641
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 1: like the whole experience versus inexperience thing. They basically played

642
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:24,160
Speaker 1: a win and in game last week against Indianapolis, so

643
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 1: there already is sort of that, you know, backs against

644
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:29,800
Speaker 1: the wall kind of mentality going into this one. So

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Speaker 1: I think they that part's not going to be an

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Speaker 1: issue for them. So real quick, who you got winning

647
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Speaker 1: this game? Look on Browns, gotta go Browns. Gloria Browns.

648
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:41,960
Speaker 1: All right, that's a sweep brown So they get through,

649
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 1: maybe because we all just want to see Flaco versus

650
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 1: the Ravens. Maybe, but here we go. Dolphins Chiefs Saturday night,

651
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:53,760
Speaker 1: a PM Eastern. That game on. It's on Peacock. Everybody,

652
00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:57,240
Speaker 1: it's on Peacock. Just go and check your streaming services.

653
00:31:57,280 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 1: See if you have Peacock. Do it now. Don't wait until,

654
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 1: like you know, eight oh seven pm and you're scrolling

655
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 1: around like what check it's on Peacock. Just go do

656
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 1: it now. The Dolphins, the big knock on them this

657
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:11,160
Speaker 1: year has been that they have not played well against

658
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 1: really good teams. Say what you want about the Chiefs offense,

659
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:16,320
Speaker 1: this is still a good Chiefs team. They win the division.

660
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:18,720
Speaker 1: Their defense has been good. The Dolphins have not scored

661
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 1: more than two touchdowns against what you would consider a

662
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 1: good team. So Florio, can they score more than two

663
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 1: touchdowns against this Chiefs defense.

664
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Speaker 2: If it was being played in October, I would say easily.

665
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 2: You guys have seen the weather forecast for Kansas City

666
00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:35,680
Speaker 2: this weekend. It the high at game time is going

667
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:38,360
Speaker 2: to be like potentially in the negatives, it is going

668
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:40,600
Speaker 2: to feel like negative fifteen or something like that.

669
00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 1: It's going to be windy and cold.

670
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:46,920
Speaker 2: And I love Mike McDaniel and the Dolphins and all

671
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:49,520
Speaker 2: of that. Uh, don't print out shirts that say we

672
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 2: wish it was colder. It did not go well for

673
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 2: you last time you do that. They did play well

674
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:59,000
Speaker 2: in the snow against the Bills last year. But I

675
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:02,440
Speaker 2: still think it is a huge advantage for the Kansas

676
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 2: City Chiefs, and especially because the Dolphins. Their offense is

677
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 2: built on big plays and they'll they'll have the run

678
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 2: game going I think this week.

679
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 1: But if the weather can.

680
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:18,040
Speaker 2: Take out Tyreek Kill and Jalen Waddle, that is going

681
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 2: to be insanely hard for this team to score enough

682
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 2: points I think to beat the Chiefs I.

683
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:27,160
Speaker 1: Think maybe maybe the should put up T shirts that said,

684
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:30,120
Speaker 1: you know, the wise words of Michael Irvin man when

685
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 1: we played in that cold whether we was cold like

686
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 1: that's those are the shirts we was cold. I mean,

687
00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 1: Michael Irvin never lied. Olokwan. Do the Chiefs receivers finally

688
00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:42,200
Speaker 1: show up, because that's been the big story with him

689
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 1: this year, right, I mean Rashid Rice's growth was nice,

690
00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:49,920
Speaker 1: it still wasn't really enough. Is this the week we

691
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 1: finally see these guys step up and make plays? Yeah?

692
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 3: I don't think anything changes really they I really feel like,

693
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 3: you know, Rice is the only wide receiver that Mahomes

694
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 3: trust right now that is actually stepping up to be,

695
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 3: you know, somewhat of alpha wide receiver for him. I

696
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:07,640
Speaker 3: really like the growth that he had this season, but

697
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:10,359
Speaker 3: a lot is gonna have to come down to him

698
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 3: and that run game as well. So I really feel

699
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:15,560
Speaker 3: as though if Mahomes is going to be airing it

700
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:18,799
Speaker 3: out to Kadarius Tony, you're gonna be taking a risk

701
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 3: about you know, this Miami defense that's pretty good at takeaways.

702
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 3: They have Jayalen Ramsey there, so you don't want to

703
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 3: be trying to get these you know wide receivers that

704
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:30,520
Speaker 3: kind of been you know, mid tier all season long,

705
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:32,399
Speaker 3: and like just kind of stick what you know, stick

706
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 3: with Kelsey, stick with Rice. You know, get Rice. Rice

707
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 3: is very good after to catch. He's top five in

708
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 3: the yac yard. So it's like you got to get

709
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:40,800
Speaker 3: him in open space. You got to be able to

710
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 3: rely on him in like clutch moments in the red zone,

711
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:45,560
Speaker 3: et cetera, et cetera. Like I don't think you overthink this.

712
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:47,920
Speaker 3: I think you just kind of stick to what you

713
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 3: know in this game and from Mahomes, and I.

714
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:53,040
Speaker 1: Think that works for them in this situation because I

715
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:54,879
Speaker 1: don't know that you're gonna have a lot of big

716
00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 1: air yard plays in this game. Get the ball to

717
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:00,759
Speaker 1: your playmakers, let them work. So I think you're right.

718
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:02,279
Speaker 1: I think you see a lot of sheet Rice. I

719
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 1: think you know, you see a lot of Travis Kelce

720
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:08,359
Speaker 1: in the middle of the field, and I think that's

721
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:09,759
Speaker 1: sort of what's gonna work with him.

722
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:13,759
Speaker 2: So yeah, I think it's a big checko game. And

723
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:18,720
Speaker 2: I I the Dolphins defense is completely decimated. Like Melvin

724
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 2: Ingram was guarding Dalton Kincaid on Sunday night in coverage.

725
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:25,279
Speaker 2: That's how fain that defense is right now?

726
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:27,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's gonna be a big key. I have

727
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:29,880
Speaker 1: a friend who is a Dolphins fan, who was, you know,

728
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,160
Speaker 1: texting me sadly throughout the game saying we're not gonna

729
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:35,920
Speaker 1: have a defense for the playoffs because everybody was getting

730
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:41,600
Speaker 1: hurt and having a linebacker. Man, I'm just I'm doing

731
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:43,879
Speaker 1: I'm doing the shrug emoji right now. All right, let's

732
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:46,319
Speaker 1: let's see what Let's see how his works. We'll see.

733
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:49,440
Speaker 1: But that one Saturday night, eight o'clock, get into the

734
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 1: Sunday game Steelers and the Bills won Eastern on CBS,

735
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:57,360
Speaker 1: the Columbia Broadcasting System, Florida. You and I we were

736
00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:59,440
Speaker 1: all texting the other day and I said in our

737
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:03,319
Speaker 1: text chain it this game is the most anything could

738
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 1: happen game of the weekend, which may or may not

739
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:09,400
Speaker 1: be good for you. But lacwan, I'll ask you this

740
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:14,239
Speaker 1: w twof even is the Steelers offense? Like I was

741
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:15,640
Speaker 1: trying to come up with a top like a thing

742
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:18,839
Speaker 1: that's I'm like, what is the Steelers offense? Because we're

743
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:21,560
Speaker 1: looking at they're like I think overall, if I remember right,

744
00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 1: they're ranked like twenty eighth overall, they're like twenty fifth

745
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:27,759
Speaker 1: in pass offense. They're like, you know, thirteenth or fourteen something.

746
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 1: That's something, you know, semi respectable and run. What even

747
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 1: is this offense? Dude? I have no clue.

748
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean, look, you got Mason Rudolph in there.

749
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:40,360
Speaker 3: He's looking better than what we saw, you know, earlier

750
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 3: this season. But you can't really say who this offense

751
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 3: runs through.

752
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:44,839
Speaker 1: You don't.

753
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 3: You can't say if this offense is gonna show up

754
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:50,440
Speaker 3: this week and put up thirty points. It's just a

755
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:52,719
Speaker 3: question mark of what this offense is going to bring in,

756
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:54,680
Speaker 3: Like shout out to Mike Tomlin.

757
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:56,000
Speaker 1: Man, Like they're in the playoffs.

758
00:36:56,360 --> 00:37:00,319
Speaker 3: They're in the playoffs with Trubisky, Kenny Pickett, and Mason

759
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:03,440
Speaker 3: Rudolph playing musical chairs of who's going to be starting.

760
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:06,400
Speaker 3: So it's like, man, I can't really tell you what

761
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 3: this offense is, but shout out Mason Rudolph. He's gone

762
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 3: out there winning.

763
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:14,360
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, look, I'll say the last couple of

764
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:16,319
Speaker 1: weeks there's been a lot of Najee Harris. He's run

765
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:20,760
Speaker 1: the ball very effectively. You know. I was like George Pickens,

766
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 1: you never really know he's been good the last few

767
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 1: weeks of the season. But you know, you can also

768
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 1: give you thirty five yards. You just there's nothing. There's

769
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:35,479
Speaker 1: nothing that you look at with this offense and you're like, Yep,

770
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:38,080
Speaker 1: that's the thing that's gonna happen. You just don't know.

771
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:43,840
Speaker 1: On the other side, Florio paging stuff on Diggs paging

772
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs. Are you there? Stuff? Do we Is this

773
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 1: when he finds because this is when they need him.

774
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:51,719
Speaker 1: Is this when he finally shows up? Not this week.

775
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 2: I can tell you what the Steelers offense is going

776
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:56,200
Speaker 2: to be this week. It is going to be nause

777
00:37:56,360 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 2: Harris and Jalen Warren Because do you guys remember Monday

778
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:02,480
Speaker 2: Night Football a couple of years ago when it was

779
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 2: forty mile per hour wins in Buffalo and the Patriots

780
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 2: won with three completed passes. Yes, the weather is very

781
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:12,359
Speaker 2: similar as of right now. Projected for Sunday afternoon, they're

782
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:15,839
Speaker 2: saying win gusts up to fifty miles per hour, which

783
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 2: has me petrified. And because the Bills are the better team, easily,

784
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 2: I would say, but when you take if you could,

785
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 2: the weather could take away Josh Allen, the Steelers I

786
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:28,839
Speaker 2: think are the better team built for a cold weather

787
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 2: game because you have two running backs like Naji's a bruiser.

788
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:33,240
Speaker 1: Jalen Warren.

789
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:35,759
Speaker 2: I said it the other day, Devin ah Chan is

790
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:37,600
Speaker 2: going devon a Chen is going to be a problem

791
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:39,880
Speaker 2: for the Bills because they can't handle speed and they

792
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:43,360
Speaker 2: can't handle pass catching running backs. Luckily for them, the

793
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:45,440
Speaker 2: Dolphins got away from a Chan in the second half

794
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 2: because he was eating them up in the first half.

795
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:50,840
Speaker 2: So I have concerns about the Steelers running game. I

796
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:53,759
Speaker 2: think we'll see a lot of digs in Shakir and

797
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 2: the tight ends on like short passes. I don't think

798
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 2: the Bills are gonna completely get away from the passing game.

799
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:02,960
Speaker 2: But we're talking about three straight games now where Stefan

800
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 2: Diggs has been completely wide open downfield and Josh Allen

801
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 2: has missed him. If Alan and I'm the biggest Allen

802
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 2: fan in the building, if Allan connects on those deep balls,

803
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:14,920
Speaker 2: we're talking about digs a lot different right now. But

804
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:18,600
Speaker 2: I don't think this is the week where he's gonna

805
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 2: come to life. And I'm hoping they survive this game

806
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 2: and then Diggs comes to life next week, because you

807
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:28,920
Speaker 2: know the NFL wants mahomes first road playoff game to

808
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 2: be in Buffalo against Josh Allen.

809
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:34,719
Speaker 1: That would be absolutely amazing. All right, So then that

810
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:38,839
Speaker 1: all that said, Floria, you are picking the Bills, I assume, right.

811
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 2: I'm picking the Bills, But I think it is going

812
00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:43,520
Speaker 2: to be much closer and much hard fought than a

813
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 2: lot of people are giving the Steelers credit for.

814
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:47,440
Speaker 1: All Right, how you feel about this one?

815
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:50,640
Speaker 3: OK, hard forart battle, but I'm gonna go Bills too.

816
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm taking the Bills. I don't think this is

817
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 1: going to be a blowout. I don't really see anything

818
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:00,239
Speaker 1: on the schedule that's gonna be a particular blowout lay

819
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:02,560
Speaker 1: or another. But I think the Bills. Are we all

820
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:06,160
Speaker 1: going Chiefs by the way, Oh yeah, we have to. Yeah,

821
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 1: I'm going Chiefs, Chiefs, Chiefs, Chiefs. All right, Packers at Cowboys, Florida.

822
00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:15,640
Speaker 1: Jordan Love versus the Cowboys defense? Who you got?

823
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:19,719
Speaker 2: Jordan Love has played so much better. But I still

824
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:21,960
Speaker 2: think back to early in the year when I was

825
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:26,840
Speaker 2: doing the Monday night game Raiders versus Packers, and Crosby

826
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 2: was just making life so difficult for Jordan Love. I

827
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 2: think that's what Michael Parsons and this Cowboys defense is

828
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:37,160
Speaker 2: going to do. And even if Jordan Love plays better

829
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:39,120
Speaker 2: than that and can put up points against this team,

830
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:41,440
Speaker 2: is he gonna be able to put up enough points

831
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:44,400
Speaker 2: against that Cowboys defense to match what the Cowboys give

832
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:46,399
Speaker 2: you at home, which is close to forty points per game.

833
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:50,560
Speaker 1: So I think the future is very bright for Jordan Love.

834
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:52,640
Speaker 2: I said on the podcast earlier this week, we have

835
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:56,480
Speaker 2: to have a conversation because he outperformed Aaron Rodgers what

836
00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:59,759
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers did a year ago with very similar play

837
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:03,680
Speaker 2: and all of that. But futures bright for Jordan Love.

838
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:05,880
Speaker 2: I just I don't think he has enough to get

839
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 2: by this Cowboys team in Dallas.

840
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:10,640
Speaker 1: I think the pass catchers have who've been great. The

841
00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:13,600
Speaker 1: wide receivers have played really, really well this year. I

842
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:16,279
Speaker 1: just don't know that those guys are enough to get

843
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:19,560
Speaker 1: him past that defense. Right, Like Dantavian Wicks has played well.

844
00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:21,440
Speaker 1: They have Bo Melton show up late in the season

845
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:24,800
Speaker 1: and played well. Uh, you know, we've gotten okay production

846
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:27,000
Speaker 1: out of Christian Watson, Jayden Reed, who I have you

847
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:30,600
Speaker 1: know started calling dary landebo. I just but like there's

848
00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:32,960
Speaker 1: no there's no one guy that you're like, this is

849
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:35,440
Speaker 1: the guy that we have to stop. Maybe that's good,

850
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 1: Maybe that means they can spread the ball around. But

851
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:40,359
Speaker 1: I think they need I think you need one real

852
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:43,040
Speaker 1: playmaker that you know you can go to in crunch time,

853
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:45,879
Speaker 1: right when you you have a gotta have it third down,

854
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:48,600
Speaker 1: you know, third and seven, And I don't know that

855
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:50,960
Speaker 1: they have that guy there. But uh, I mean on

856
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:54,320
Speaker 1: the other side, we know long LaQuan that the Cowboys

857
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 1: have a gotta have a guy in Ceedee Lamb the

858
00:41:57,160 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 1: Packer defense. Packer fans have been mad at their defense

859
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 1: defense all year long. So Ceedee Lamb versus the Packer defense,

860
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:05,560
Speaker 1: who you got I know the answer to that, But

861
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:09,799
Speaker 1: I'm for the sake of the argument, let's just look,

862
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:11,920
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb's going to go out there. He's going to

863
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:13,400
Speaker 1: go out there and show up and show out. Man.

864
00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:15,440
Speaker 3: I mean, this package defense has been good, you know,

865
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:18,280
Speaker 3: the finish up the last two games at the regular season.

866
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:20,799
Speaker 3: I mean they only allowed one touchdown. I mean they

867
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 3: had JJ you know over there in that Vikings game,

868
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:25,239
Speaker 3: but they had Nick Mollens thrown in the ball. Now

869
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:27,880
Speaker 3: you're dealing with Dak Prescott and CD Lamb, which is

870
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:29,960
Speaker 3: a whole different type of beast in the last two

871
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:32,279
Speaker 3: regular season games that they had to face. So I

872
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 3: think this Packers defense, they'll probably be getting some pressure.

873
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:36,879
Speaker 3: You know, they're one of the top teams that bring

874
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:39,600
Speaker 3: in pressure, you know, to quarterbacks. But I really think

875
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 3: that Dak Prescott will be cool, calm and collected because

876
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 3: you have eighty eight. And I do want to say

877
00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 3: that has caught it, by the way, he tweeted earlier

878
00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 3: today about that. I'm sure he doesn't.

879
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:54,440
Speaker 1: Actually actually as of now, forty one minutes ago he

880
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 1: tweeted a picture and he says, nine years ago, the

881
00:42:57,160 --> 00:42:59,239
Speaker 1: whole world though I caught it. I changed the game forever.

882
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:03,960
Speaker 1: So yeah, there we go in the the Mike McCarthy

883
00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:06,640
Speaker 1: Bowl here. I don't know if you heard this. Mike

884
00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:09,120
Speaker 1: McCarthy used to coach the Packers once ale he won't

885
00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:12,839
Speaker 1: talk about them this week though he will not, which

886
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:18,640
Speaker 1: is weird to belay them right. No, really never heard

887
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 1: of this before. So many storylines this week around the horn, Lakwan,

888
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:23,960
Speaker 1: who you got in this one?

889
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:27,640
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go Cowboys playing a shafe last.

890
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:30,680
Speaker 2: Cowboys and the storylines next week are only going to

891
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 2: get better than they are this week.

892
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:35,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, Cowboys because they're at home. If they're on the road,

893
00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:37,279
Speaker 1: I might take the Packers in this one. There are

894
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 1: a different team at home, so I want to take

895
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 1: the Cowboys at home. So far, we've we've agreed on

896
00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:43,880
Speaker 1: every single one of these. That's not fun rams at Lions.

897
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:45,759
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll get some disagreement here, even though I know

898
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:51,920
Speaker 1: who you want to rams at Lions Sunday, eight o'clock

899
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:57,280
Speaker 1: Eastern on the National Broadcasting Company. Uh Florio, Actually honest,

900
00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:01,480
Speaker 1: lak one, because you are our official Rams home. The

901
00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:03,560
Speaker 1: Lions run defense has been very good this year. They

902
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:06,840
Speaker 1: finished the season right number two? Can they stop Kyen Williams?

903
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:09,800
Speaker 1: Like objectively right? Like don't don't tell me this with

904
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:11,200
Speaker 1: your heart, tell me this with your head. Can they

905
00:44:11,239 --> 00:44:12,160
Speaker 1: stop Kyen Williams?

906
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:14,960
Speaker 3: I mean, they could limit him on the ground, But

907
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 3: here's the thing. Kyl Williams could be used out of

908
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:20,839
Speaker 3: the backfield as well. I think that's probably the area

909
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:22,840
Speaker 3: that they will probably have to focus more on because

910
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:25,759
Speaker 3: getting him in open space. I was, like I said,

911
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:27,440
Speaker 3: I wasn't familiar with his game. I didn't know he

912
00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:29,920
Speaker 3: was this explosive in open space, and he's kind of

913
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:32,360
Speaker 3: hard to bring down when he's going through those tackles.

914
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:34,720
Speaker 3: So I think they could limit him on the ground,

915
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 3: but he's going to be a problem in the passing

916
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:38,520
Speaker 3: game as well, So they're going to try to probably

917
00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:40,480
Speaker 3: like get these linebackers out to get on him, but

918
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:42,480
Speaker 3: it's going to be a difficult task for him for sure.

919
00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:45,360
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, but he is the I know we

920
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:47,560
Speaker 1: talk about Stafford and the receivers. I think he is

921
00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:49,879
Speaker 1: the thing that sort of makes this Rams offense crop. Yeah,

922
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:53,680
Speaker 1: he really is the guy who makes it pop. I mean, look,

923
00:44:53,719 --> 00:44:56,520
Speaker 1: we I know they didn't have puk Nakua last year,

924
00:44:56,560 --> 00:44:58,239
Speaker 1: but when they were trying to make things work with

925
00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:00,640
Speaker 1: some combination of cam Akers and they're Henderson or what

926
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:03,600
Speaker 1: have you, this offense was not nearly as explosive. Kyrien

927
00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:06,360
Speaker 1: Williams has given it that explosiveness that they were lacking

928
00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:10,279
Speaker 1: last year. For the Lions, Sam Laporta obviously had the

929
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:14,799
Speaker 1: knee injury last week. You know, at further last check,

930
00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:18,960
Speaker 1: they are hoping that he's going to be available, but

931
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 1: I don't think they're really gonna know until later in

932
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:23,880
Speaker 1: the week, maybe Friday. Saturday and have a good idea,

933
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:26,759
Speaker 1: So Florida, who picks up the slack. If Laporta can't

934
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:28,919
Speaker 1: play or can play but is limited.

935
00:45:28,719 --> 00:45:31,879
Speaker 2: There's no replacing Sam Laporta like you can. You're gonna

936
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:34,520
Speaker 2: have to ask your secondary options to step up, and

937
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:38,520
Speaker 2: I think we'll see potentially even more Jamiir Gibbs as

938
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:42,120
Speaker 2: a pass catcher. I think Jamison Williams, you got to

939
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:45,680
Speaker 2: step up here. It's an indoor game against the secondary

940
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:47,640
Speaker 2: that isn't one of the best in the league. But

941
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:50,600
Speaker 2: even before Laporta got hurt last week, I was out

942
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:52,560
Speaker 2: watching the game and I just kept being like, why

943
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 2: are the Lions starters still out there? They have to

944
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:59,880
Speaker 2: play next week, and Sam Laporta was outside of a

945
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:02,280
Speaker 2: mon Ross, Saint Brown or Jared Goff because he's a quarterback.

946
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:05,200
Speaker 2: The worst injury this offense could have suffered for this week.

947
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:09,160
Speaker 2: Because the Rams all year long, and Lakwan could speak

948
00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:13,080
Speaker 2: to this, I'm sure have struggled against tight ends. Yeah,

949
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:14,959
Speaker 2: it has been from the moment from.

950
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:15,480
Speaker 1: Week one on.

951
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:18,400
Speaker 2: It's been like player tight ends against the Rams in fantasy.

952
00:46:19,080 --> 00:46:22,359
Speaker 1: They're going to score, yeah, and Laporta is the best one.

953
00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:26,520
Speaker 2: Like the most outside of the best one, and now

954
00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:28,040
Speaker 2: they might not have him a role, have him at

955
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:31,040
Speaker 2: one hundred percent. Love Dan Campbell, love what he has done.

956
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:34,959
Speaker 2: I think there was a lesson learned here in risking

957
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 2: your starters last week, because that could be the difference

958
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:38,560
Speaker 2: in this game.

959
00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:41,680
Speaker 1: I think. I mean, people were pointing out last year

960
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:44,920
Speaker 1: Brandon Staley playing his guys in a meaningless game, Michael

961
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:48,520
Speaker 1: Williams heading into the playoffs last year. By the way,

962
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:50,600
Speaker 1: just as we were talking about this, tweet comes out

963
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:54,960
Speaker 1: from Kyle Miynike, who covers the Lions, saying that Sam

964
00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:59,400
Speaker 1: Laporta not at practice today. So you know, here we

965
00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:02,560
Speaker 1: are on Thursday day and no Sam Laporta at practice.

966
00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:05,680
Speaker 1: We'll see no Khalif Raymond either. That which, by the way,

967
00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:08,239
Speaker 1: Khalif Raymond's also a pretty big loss for them as well.

968
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:10,719
Speaker 1: You know, maybe not quite the receiver, you know, the

969
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:13,800
Speaker 1: pass catcher that that Laporta is, but big upun returns

970
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:17,400
Speaker 1: and especially because special teams have been an achilles hill

971
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:20,920
Speaker 1: for the Rams and so missing. I'm just putting out

972
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:23,439
Speaker 1: there like that and no value judgments for me. I'm

973
00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:29,080
Speaker 1: just telling you what but yeah, you know, uh, how

974
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:31,080
Speaker 1: do you feel about your chances, lakwan if it comes

975
00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:31,920
Speaker 1: down to a field.

976
00:47:31,719 --> 00:47:35,680
Speaker 3: Goal, Man, I hate when it's you know, but that's

977
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:38,520
Speaker 3: how Patriots beat into in Super Bowl. You're just putting

978
00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:39,799
Speaker 3: layers and layers of pain over.

979
00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:43,680
Speaker 1: I'm just asking, of course, a forty nine ers fan

980
00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:46,799
Speaker 1: of this, but as certain people out there would say, look,

981
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:49,280
Speaker 1: I'm just asking questions like I'm I'm getting my Kyrie

982
00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:50,120
Speaker 1: Irving one right now.

983
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:52,680
Speaker 3: I got to be honest, I am excited for this game,

984
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:55,719
Speaker 3: to see Golf versus Stafford obviously the huge storyline there.

985
00:47:55,840 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 3: But if it comes down to a field goal, but

986
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:01,600
Speaker 3: it is what it is, like we weren't even supposed

987
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:03,840
Speaker 3: to be in this position, Like nobody even thought we

988
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:06,239
Speaker 3: would be going to the playoffs. Like it's a one

989
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:08,839
Speaker 3: percent chance right now that we win the Super Bowl.

990
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:11,200
Speaker 3: And I think, you know, at this point, I'm just

991
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:13,279
Speaker 3: happy that we're here, that we won ten games, and

992
00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:15,640
Speaker 3: we're going against Golf to kind of put in button

993
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:18,520
Speaker 3: closure on this debate if this trade was good or not,

994
00:48:18,719 --> 00:48:20,320
Speaker 3: so we can get rid of that conversation.

995
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:23,120
Speaker 2: After this, there's no debate. You guys won the Super Bowl.

996
00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:25,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. We got a ring. That's all, that's the

997
00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 1: whole reason we played the game. Well we don't play,

998
00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:31,239
Speaker 1: but you ended discussion right after that. Stafford got a

999
00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:35,080
Speaker 1: ring period. But you know, I mean, you know, Twitter's

1000
00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:38,080
Speaker 1: going to Twitter, so that's probably never going to completely die,

1001
00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:41,839
Speaker 1: all right. So then so okay, lak On, you're taking

1002
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:44,960
Speaker 1: the Rams. I know that. Let's not Florida. Who are

1003
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:45,880
Speaker 1: you taking Rams?

1004
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:48,360
Speaker 2: Because one, I think they are the team that no

1005
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:50,319
Speaker 2: one wants to play right now. They are red hot,

1006
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:52,560
Speaker 2: and like Lakwan said, they're not even supposed to be here.

1007
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:55,160
Speaker 2: So the teams like that are always dangerous. But my

1008
00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:59,239
Speaker 2: bigger thing is, yes, Stafford played for the Lions, but

1009
00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:02,439
Speaker 2: everyone who was there at that time is gone. Yeah,

1010
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:05,919
Speaker 2: no one knows jaredy better than Sean McVay and knows

1011
00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:08,279
Speaker 2: how to stop him and what gets in his head.

1012
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:11,280
Speaker 2: So I think that that is naturally a big advantage

1013
00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:12,239
Speaker 2: the Rams have this week.

1014
00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:15,399
Speaker 1: Absolutely. Wow, I didn't think this would be unanimous because

1015
00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:17,600
Speaker 1: I'm taking the Rams in this one. Two Yeah, I mean,

1016
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:19,600
Speaker 1: I'm with you, like they're a team that nobody wants

1017
00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:21,320
Speaker 1: to run into. I'm I will say this as a

1018
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:23,400
Speaker 1: Niner fan, I am nervous if the Niners have to

1019
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:27,759
Speaker 1: run up on the Rams next week, potentially. Because those

1020
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:30,399
Speaker 1: teams know each other very very well. They usually play

1021
00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:32,799
Speaker 1: some really physical games against one another. There's a lot

1022
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:35,719
Speaker 1: of trash talks. So I think the Rams win this one.

1023
00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:37,960
Speaker 1: But yeah, man, I think next week's going to be really,

1024
00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:40,359
Speaker 1: really interesting. By the way, I just saw this come

1025
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:43,880
Speaker 1: across the windshield in Kansas City. Saturday night will be

1026
00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:47,920
Speaker 1: dangerously cold. Per the National Weather Service, it is expected

1027
00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:52,440
Speaker 1: to be a wind shill of negative thirty degrees, one

1028
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:56,720
Speaker 1: of the coldest games ever. Now I'm sitting here googling

1029
00:49:56,800 --> 00:50:03,520
Speaker 1: the Freezer Bowl. No. So the nineteen eighty one AFC

1030
00:50:03,719 --> 00:50:10,839
Speaker 1: Championship game between the Chargers and the Bengals. Let's see

1031
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:15,520
Speaker 1: that was okay, So, air temperature was minus nine the

1032
00:50:15,640 --> 00:50:18,399
Speaker 1: wind chill, factoring in sustained wins of twenty seven miles

1033
00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:23,440
Speaker 1: per hour reported at minus fifty nine degrees. I know

1034
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:26,320
Speaker 1: that Dan Fouts, who was the quarterback for the Chargers

1035
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:29,040
Speaker 1: at the time, says that he still can't feel some

1036
00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:30,920
Speaker 1: of his fingertips for playing in that game.

1037
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:33,040
Speaker 2: I've seen some Dolphins fans on Twitter and stuff, and

1038
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:35,160
Speaker 2: I'm sure they're having fun with it. But calling for

1039
00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:38,400
Speaker 2: this game to get moved, and it's like you're the

1040
00:50:38,520 --> 00:50:40,760
Speaker 2: last team that could talk when you make the opposing

1041
00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:45,239
Speaker 2: sideline one hundred and forty degrees in September, like Kirl

1042
00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:45,600
Speaker 2: got to.

1043
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:51,520
Speaker 1: Do with some weather. Now, well, last last game of

1044
00:50:51,719 --> 00:50:54,880
Speaker 1: the weekend, Monday nights. See the game on ESPN and

1045
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:59,640
Speaker 1: ABC eight o'clock Eastern Eagles at Buccaneers. Jalen Hurts heard

1046
00:50:59,680 --> 00:51:02,680
Speaker 1: his finger in week eighteen, left the game, said he

1047
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:06,839
Speaker 1: came back in the game, hasn't thrown a football since

1048
00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:09,240
Speaker 1: that game last week, says it hurt more on Monday

1049
00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:11,960
Speaker 1: than it did on Sunday. Now he's trying to downplay it,

1050
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:14,520
Speaker 1: saying he should be okay for game time by this weekend.

1051
00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:19,120
Speaker 1: But I mean, Mike can Philly win if Jalen Hurts

1052
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:21,040
Speaker 1: doesn't have a good game throw in the football.

1053
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:25,000
Speaker 2: Yes, because I think they have enough talent.

1054
00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:26,880
Speaker 1: It becomes much much harder.

1055
00:51:27,880 --> 00:51:29,520
Speaker 2: I was talking to a friend last night who's an

1056
00:51:29,520 --> 00:51:31,680
Speaker 2: Eagles fan, and I'm like, it doesn't make sense to

1057
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:33,880
Speaker 2: me how a team with this much talent could be

1058
00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:37,840
Speaker 2: struggling across the board. But if he struggles as for

1059
00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:40,279
Speaker 2: this long too, By the way, like this is a

1060
00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:42,520
Speaker 2: long shot. It's not like it's like two or three games.

1061
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:45,040
Speaker 2: So I still believe they have a ton of talent.

1062
00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:48,920
Speaker 2: Maybe you just more You're gonna have to get creative, right,

1063
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:50,760
Speaker 2: You're gonna have to get DeAndre Swift go and probably

1064
00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:53,600
Speaker 2: get Kenny Gainwell out of the backfield as a pass catcher, end.

1065
00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:54,360
Speaker 1: A Rounds or whatever.

1066
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:57,360
Speaker 2: Put the ball in aj Brown's hands more, please, Like

1067
00:51:57,480 --> 00:51:59,759
Speaker 2: he's one of the top five wide receivers walking the

1068
00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:02,839
Speaker 2: play it and for too long stretches you get away

1069
00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:05,279
Speaker 2: from them. The defense would have it would have to

1070
00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:08,760
Speaker 2: become though, like in all hands on deck type of performance.

1071
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:10,919
Speaker 2: I think for them to have a chance, if Jalen

1072
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:12,840
Speaker 2: Hurts really is struggling to throw the ball.

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00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:14,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I just think that's going to be

1074
00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:17,160
Speaker 1: an issue, especially against a team that has been a

1075
00:52:17,239 --> 00:52:19,200
Speaker 1: pass funnel most of the year, but it's been pretty

1076
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:21,360
Speaker 1: good against the run. You know, there are only so

1077
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:23,960
Speaker 1: many brotherly shoves you do. Do you kind of move

1078
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:25,120
Speaker 1: the football this week?

1079
00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:28,959
Speaker 2: Do you guys think if they brotherly shoved every play

1080
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:31,480
Speaker 2: the entire field, they could score a touchdown?

1081
00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:36,880
Speaker 1: No? No, no, but I don't think. But here's the

1082
00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:38,359
Speaker 1: saying I think they would move the ball a lot

1083
00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:39,480
Speaker 1: farther than you think.

1084
00:52:39,880 --> 00:52:41,640
Speaker 2: I think they could score if they did it four

1085
00:52:41,760 --> 00:52:42,560
Speaker 2: times every time.

1086
00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:48,239
Speaker 1: Now mind you like Jason Kelsey's, you know, quads might

1087
00:52:48,320 --> 00:52:48,680
Speaker 1: give out.

1088
00:52:48,920 --> 00:52:51,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, say that injuries on that old line would be

1089
00:52:51,719 --> 00:52:56,560
Speaker 3: raz That's true. You'd be swa train lineman at that point.

1090
00:52:57,040 --> 00:53:02,280
Speaker 1: His calves and his quads might explode, you know, somewhere

1091
00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:04,960
Speaker 1: in like the third quarter. But you know whatever, we'll

1092
00:53:05,080 --> 00:53:08,600
Speaker 1: give it a shot. Lakwan. Will Mike Evans have a

1093
00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:11,600
Speaker 1: great game or the greatest game against that Philly defense.

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00:53:11,920 --> 00:53:14,160
Speaker 3: That's actually a good question, man, But I think he's

1095
00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:18,600
Speaker 3: gonna have the greatest game this season because they've begetting

1096
00:53:18,719 --> 00:53:22,279
Speaker 3: smoked all season long. And like, if Baker's healthy enough

1097
00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:24,440
Speaker 3: and he's good to go and he's gonna air it out,

1098
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:27,359
Speaker 3: we know Baker's gonna cook as well. I think Baker, again,

1099
00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:30,399
Speaker 3: he's another guy that's not supposed to be here. He's

1100
00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:33,320
Speaker 3: not supposed to be on this stage right now. Everybody

1101
00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:35,960
Speaker 3: had doubts about him coming into this offseason, and I

1102
00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:38,000
Speaker 3: think he's gonna play his hard out. He's gonna put

1103
00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:40,600
Speaker 3: the haters to bed. And when you have Mike Evans

1104
00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:43,200
Speaker 3: playing the way he's been playing this season and a

1105
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:46,200
Speaker 3: Hall of Fame or first ballot, absolutely, And I think

1106
00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:48,560
Speaker 3: Mike Evans is in his era where he wants to

1107
00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:51,719
Speaker 3: win it right now. So I honestly think the Buccaneers

1108
00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:53,480
Speaker 3: they're gonna smoke the Eagle secondary.

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00:53:53,920 --> 00:53:55,719
Speaker 1: I mean, I think they're gonna take shots, Scott. I

1110
00:53:55,800 --> 00:53:58,440
Speaker 1: really do think they're gonna take shots, because again, like

1111
00:53:58,480 --> 00:54:01,239
Speaker 1: they haven't really run the ball that effectively this year.

1112
00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:04,320
Speaker 1: They have won by using a short passing game and

1113
00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:06,279
Speaker 1: then taking shots down the field. To Mike Evans, that

1114
00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:08,200
Speaker 1: really has been it. I mean it's sort of left

1115
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:11,640
Speaker 1: Chris Godwin in the lurch, you know, Chris Godwin's sort

1116
00:54:11,680 --> 00:54:13,440
Speaker 1: of been like standing around, like, hey, why am I here?

1117
00:54:13,560 --> 00:54:16,960
Speaker 1: But it's worked out for them. And I think against

1118
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:19,440
Speaker 1: this Philly secondary, the tight issues pretty much from the

1119
00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:21,919
Speaker 1: start of the season, this just feels like a chance

1120
00:54:21,960 --> 00:54:25,160
Speaker 1: to really just go yolo for sure. For sure, all right,

1121
00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:27,560
Speaker 1: let's go around Florida. Who are you taking?

1122
00:54:27,960 --> 00:54:29,839
Speaker 2: I'm still going with the Eagles in this one.

1123
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:33,520
Speaker 1: Oh all right, lakwan were you bucketeers?

1124
00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:33,880
Speaker 2: Baby?

1125
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:36,840
Speaker 1: Let's go. I'm taking the books. I think it's close.

1126
00:54:37,320 --> 00:54:39,880
Speaker 1: I think it's close, but I think the Bucks went

1127
00:54:39,960 --> 00:54:41,720
Speaker 1: at home to put the Eagles out of their misery.

1128
00:54:42,480 --> 00:54:44,560
Speaker 1: It's been a you know, and look, I'm sure it'll

1129
00:54:44,600 --> 00:54:47,560
Speaker 1: be a calm, level headed off season amongst the Philadelphia fans,

1130
00:54:47,640 --> 00:54:48,000
Speaker 1: not at all.

1131
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:51,839
Speaker 3: I got text messages waiting to send Becky's if they lose.

1132
00:54:53,239 --> 00:54:56,480
Speaker 1: Sure to have reasoned, measured takes about what went wrong

1133
00:54:56,600 --> 00:54:57,880
Speaker 1: this year. I'm sure it won't be.

1134
00:54:58,960 --> 00:55:01,279
Speaker 2: Going to be on fire next week is way more

1135
00:55:01,360 --> 00:55:03,000
Speaker 2: fun though, if the Eagles win, If the game, the

1136
00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:05,319
Speaker 2: rest of the games go like we want, because then

1137
00:55:05,320 --> 00:55:09,520
Speaker 2: it's Eagles Cowboys. It's Rams versus McVeigh, I'm sorry, mcvavor's Shanahan.

1138
00:55:09,680 --> 00:55:12,239
Speaker 2: And then the AFC it's Mahomes Allen and then it

1139
00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:13,800
Speaker 2: would be flackovers Ravens.

1140
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:16,080
Speaker 1: That's what the NFL is. Yeah, I mean it would be.

1141
00:55:16,840 --> 00:55:18,520
Speaker 1: It would be fun, but you know, things never go

1142
00:55:18,680 --> 00:55:22,800
Speaker 1: completely as planned. Its crossed. Look for the Bucks to

1143
00:55:22,840 --> 00:55:24,920
Speaker 1: be the turn in the punch bowl to wreck this

1144
00:55:25,040 --> 00:55:27,680
Speaker 1: whole thing. And and we'll go before we get out

1145
00:55:27,719 --> 00:55:29,120
Speaker 1: of here, because we are running a little bit long.

1146
00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:33,640
Speaker 1: Let's give some value picks for daily fantasy folks for

1147
00:55:34,040 --> 00:55:37,799
Speaker 1: the weekend. Well, one each Lakwan, Who is your your

1148
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:39,640
Speaker 1: preferred value pick this week?

1149
00:55:40,120 --> 00:55:42,719
Speaker 3: I like Dalton Kincaid. We gave Davis kind of banged

1150
00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:44,879
Speaker 3: up right now. I mean a fifty eight hundred that's

1151
00:55:44,920 --> 00:55:46,880
Speaker 3: not bad. I like him to be able to be

1152
00:55:46,920 --> 00:55:48,879
Speaker 3: the X factor in this game, and he could put

1153
00:55:48,920 --> 00:55:49,800
Speaker 3: up a couple of touchdowns.

1154
00:55:49,800 --> 00:55:52,920
Speaker 1: I believe, all right, you got Dalton Kinkaid, Floria, who

1155
00:55:52,960 --> 00:55:56,040
Speaker 1: you got Brandon Cooks at forty nine hundred because we

1156
00:55:56,080 --> 00:55:58,480
Speaker 1: all know Cede Lamb is going to eat, but the

1157
00:55:58,760 --> 00:56:00,960
Speaker 1: Packers are going to throw every thing his way to

1158
00:56:01,040 --> 00:56:01,840
Speaker 1: try to slow.

1159
00:56:01,680 --> 00:56:04,160
Speaker 2: Him down, which will help open stuff up down the field.

1160
00:56:04,520 --> 00:56:08,320
Speaker 2: Boom or bust with Brandon Cooks, but indoors where the

1161
00:56:08,400 --> 00:56:10,480
Speaker 2: Cowboys are so much better. I think I like his

1162
00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:12,239
Speaker 2: chances of going boom this week.

1163
00:56:12,560 --> 00:56:14,960
Speaker 1: I do like Brandon Cooks. He's really stepped up late

1164
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:16,840
Speaker 1: in the season when they've especially needed him too. But

1165
00:56:17,160 --> 00:56:18,880
Speaker 1: my value pick is going to be Baker Mayfield. I

1166
00:56:18,920 --> 00:56:23,080
Speaker 1: think Bake Bake goes bombs away against the Eagles this week.

1167
00:56:24,040 --> 00:56:26,400
Speaker 1: You know, maybe this is my penance for doubting him

1168
00:56:26,600 --> 00:56:28,960
Speaker 1: all season long and having him come out and play

1169
00:56:29,040 --> 00:56:31,880
Speaker 1: really well. So you know, if my apologies have not

1170
00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:34,759
Speaker 1: been enough. Baker considered this one more apology that I'm

1171
00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:36,680
Speaker 1: calling you a value pick at fifty eight hundred this

1172
00:56:36,800 --> 00:56:41,840
Speaker 1: week for daily fantasy users. So there it is. The

1173
00:56:41,920 --> 00:56:44,239
Speaker 1: full show. Next week we want to get into we

1174
00:56:44,320 --> 00:56:46,320
Speaker 1: talked about this, right, Are we gonna do players that

1175
00:56:46,400 --> 00:56:47,040
Speaker 1: we can't quit?

1176
00:56:47,360 --> 00:56:47,560
Speaker 2: Yes?

1177
00:56:48,440 --> 00:56:50,160
Speaker 1: I love it all right, So we definitely do some

1178
00:56:50,239 --> 00:56:52,040
Speaker 1: of that. You know, we'll start to get into some

1179
00:56:52,719 --> 00:56:54,480
Speaker 1: end of season wrap ups too. Always like to do

1180
00:56:54,600 --> 00:56:57,279
Speaker 1: the sort of the exit interviews and talk about some

1181
00:56:57,320 --> 00:56:59,360
Speaker 1: teams individually. As we start to get into draft season.

1182
00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:01,520
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe we get our pal out of rink on

1183
00:57:01,600 --> 00:57:04,319
Speaker 1: to talk about the Bears. Anybody knows the Bears. It's

1184
00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:06,600
Speaker 1: not a rank, so we'll reach out and try to

1185
00:57:06,600 --> 00:57:08,160
Speaker 1: do that as well sometime in the near future. But

1186
00:57:08,400 --> 00:57:10,640
Speaker 1: in the meantime, that'll do it for this edition of

1187
00:57:10,719 --> 00:57:13,600
Speaker 1: the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast. A happy, safe, and healthy,

1188
00:57:13,719 --> 00:57:16,800
Speaker 1: do good, and live well. Enjoy the playoffs everybody, and

1189
00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:17,919
Speaker 1: we'll talk to you next week.