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Speaker 1: What's up everybody? Welcome and move the sticks DJ. Bucky

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Speaker 1: back with you. Buck. What's going on? Man?

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Speaker 2: Not too much?

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Speaker 3: Man, It's always great football weekend here upon us. We

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Speaker 3: It is on, and you know, we talk about this

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Speaker 3: then it goes to a different version because then we

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Speaker 2: So I'm excited. I'm sorry to get started.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, today today, what we're gonna do. Look, we kicked

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Speaker 1: Should just go through each game and I do believe

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Speaker 1: top here Nick bosas highest paid defensive player in the league.

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Speaker 1: Not a surprise that that's the number he landed on,

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Speaker 3: I think it continues to spotlight what we've talked about

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Speaker 3: And if you're not in those positions, you're not gonna

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Speaker 3: occasional guard it gets paid. There are two quarterbacks who

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Speaker 2: And so we have to accept it.

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Speaker 3: Everyone has put a lot of the emphasis and focus

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Speaker 2: It's not the running backs that are just being excluded.

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Speaker 3: If you are not directly impacting the passing game, you're

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Speaker 3: not gonna get paid. That's just the way the game is,

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Speaker 3: and that's just the way teams are building and compiling

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I look at it, buck in the three words

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Speaker 3: Why am I paying exorbiting the amounts of money for

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Speaker 3: So I'm not saying if more college coaches come in,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's a discussion that has to take place.

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Speaker 3: I'm out Because the more we pay him, the more

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Speaker 3: Bryce Young. How do we get Bryce Young ready to play?

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Speaker 3: How did the Panthers get Bryce Young ready to play

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Speaker 3: The Browns success will hande on how Deshaun Watson plays

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Speaker 1: All right, your game Jags at the Colts.

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Speaker 3: And so for Minnesota, I want to see Brian Floyd's

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Speaker 2: Derek Carr.

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Speaker 3: Derek Carr's debut. This SAME's team should be the class

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Speaker 1: All right, we've got plenty more games to go here.

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Speaker 1: Coming up next, we're going to get to San Francisco

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Speaker 3: Right after this, it's time for the MCS Game of

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Speaker 3: the Week, presented by DraftKings Sportsbook. This week is the

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Speaker 3: forty nine Ers at Stillers to spread as minus two

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Speaker 2: The over under is forty one and a half. DJ.

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Speaker 3: Let's talk about this game because this is one that

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Speaker 2: We love the Niners in.

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Speaker 3: Their positionless ball and different things that they can do.

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Speaker 1: You know, me, I've been it's been a Steelers offseason

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Speaker 1: If I were a forty nine Er fan. I think

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Speaker 1: this could be a This is a very tough opener.

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Speaker 2: DJ.

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Speaker 3: You may have this about me, but the beginning of

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Speaker 3: every season, I have like this little urge to be like,

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Speaker 3: you know, man, I wish I could just kind of

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Speaker 3: play one more time, run out the tunnel one more time.

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Speaker 2: DJ.

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Speaker 3: I can absolutely say when I look at the schedule,

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Speaker 3: there's only one game that I ask out of. I

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Speaker 3: want no parts of being in the San Francisco forty

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Speaker 3: nine of Pittsburgh. Still this game because it should be

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Speaker 3: the most physical game that we watch all weekend. Both

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Speaker 3: of these teams they're calling card is physicality over everything,

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Speaker 3: like winning doubt, We're just gonna knock them out. And

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Speaker 3: so for Mike Tomlin to utilize the preseason to get

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Speaker 3: his team ready, it was with an eye towards the

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Speaker 3: San Francisco forty nine er game in week one. We've

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Speaker 3: heard about what happens after you play the Niners, how

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Speaker 3: you have a tough time getting back the next week.

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Speaker 3: Most of the time their teams lose following a battle

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Speaker 3: with the Niners. This is one where they meet they

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Speaker 3: may meet their match in terms of the physicality. And

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Speaker 3: so we could talk about the over underband forty one

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Speaker 3: and a half minus two favorite the Niners. The one

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Speaker 3: thing I know what was that in Rocky what's the

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Speaker 3: prediction pain?

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Speaker 1: Clubber Land?

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Speaker 2: A lot of pain. It's gonna be a lot of

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Speaker 2: pay for everybody involved. This is gonna be a physical affair.

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Speaker 1: I'm excited, no doubt, man, I'm looking forward to it.

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Speaker 3: have the Arizona Cardinals and the Washington Commanders, a good

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Speaker 3: matchup in Washington.

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Speaker 2: What are you looking for? What's the big question?

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Speaker 1: Well, the first question is Arizona gonna be as bad

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Speaker 1: as we've talked about them being. You know, Josh Dobb's

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Speaker 1: gonna get the start, and we've kind of almost, you know,

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Speaker 1: in some ways given them the first overall pick. You know,

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Speaker 1: this is a team that does not look good on paper.

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Speaker 1: There's no Kyler Murray, you know, it's there's zero confidence

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Speaker 1: that the Arizona Cardinals are going to be a good team.

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Speaker 1: The question is are they going to be historically bad team?

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Speaker 1: That sounds like a kind of a sad outlook on

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Speaker 1: a game, But that's what I'm looking forward to seeing.

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Speaker 1: I want to see maybe Arizona surprises, maybe they're not

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Speaker 1: as bad as we all think they are. But that's

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Speaker 1: what I'm looking for.

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Speaker 3: There are a lot of things around the Cardinals that

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Speaker 3: I'm curious about. One everyone saw that the hype video

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Speaker 3: when they show Jonathan Gannon looking to when he was

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Speaker 3: talking to the team, and I would say, I wasn't inspired.

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Speaker 2: I wasn't inspired.

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Speaker 3: Maybe that doesn't mean did you take the bus to

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Speaker 3: the car. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I don't get it.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, like I'm not inspired. But maybe it's

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Speaker 3: a Jedi mind trick and his team would be ready

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Speaker 3: to play. This game is interesting because the Cardinals have

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Speaker 3: to deal with that part of it. People don't think

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Speaker 3: they're talented enough. And then the question is what the

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Speaker 3: commanders are. Okay, this is Eric b Enemy's debut as

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Speaker 3: an offensive coordinator. Play call, so we get a chance

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Speaker 3: to see. We heard all the conversation, the prickly coaching style,

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Speaker 3: guys not necessarily liking how hard he might.

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Speaker 2: Have been on them.

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Speaker 3: Well, now we're kicking off week one, how does this

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Speaker 3: team respond to him as the leader of that offense.

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Speaker 2: That's the big question for me when I look at

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Speaker 2: this game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you on that, but I don't think

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Speaker 1: it's the game of the week. Let's just put it

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Speaker 1: that way.

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Speaker 2: Not the game of the week.

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Speaker 3: I would say that if I was on the couch

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Speaker 3: having to watch football, I don't know if my clicker.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't get one of the forest, if you got

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Speaker 1: four corners.

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Speaker 2: Wouldn't be in the quad box, would not be in

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Speaker 2: the quad box. This would be an.

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Speaker 3: Interesting one in the quadboxes. Houston Texans at the Baltimore Ravens.

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Speaker 3: A lot of excitement about the Ravens and this offense,

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Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson, all these pass catches and playmakers, Odell Beckham juniors,

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Speaker 3: they flowers with Shot Bateman, Mark Andrews, new offensive coordinator

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Speaker 3: Todd Munkin. So my eyes will be on the Baltimore

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Speaker 3: Ravens offense and what it looks like now that we

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Speaker 3: are giving Lamar Jackson with so many people want to see,

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Speaker 3: let's see him thord all over the yard.

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Speaker 2: I want to see if this style.

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Speaker 3: Will make them more of a formidable Super Bowl contender

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Speaker 3: or whether it be one where they wrink up a

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Speaker 3: lot of stacks, where they're not the tough team to

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Speaker 3: deal with like they had been in past when they

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Speaker 3: had that unorthodox style that was run heavy with a

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Speaker 3: lot of option elements in it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I'm looking at the other side and I'm

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Speaker 1: thinking of the CJ.

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Speaker 2: Stroud debut.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know why this analogy came to me, Buck,

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Speaker 1: but you know, when I was a kid, we weren't

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Speaker 1: allowed to go to the movies. Like we didn't. I

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Speaker 1: didn't get to go to the movies. I was like

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Speaker 1: twelve or thirteen, and this was what the rules in

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Speaker 1: the house. So I feel like CJ. Stroud, like his

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Speaker 1: first movie is going to see The Exorcist, Like, let's

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Speaker 1: get him a nice Disney movie here, Like, can we

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Speaker 1: get an opponent that's meant like it's like some bunnies

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Speaker 1: dancing around some talking animals, Like Nope, We're gonna go

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Speaker 1: play the Baltimore Ravens. That is not an easy team

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Speaker 1: to play. It's not an easy environment at Baltimore. This

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Speaker 1: has a chance to be a really, really good Ravens team.

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Speaker 1: That's not an easy debut. So I'm just I'm looking

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Speaker 1: to see as c J. Stroud overwhelmed. That's that's what

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Speaker 1: I'm looking for.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a tough matchup.

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Speaker 3: Everyone knows how how tough the Ravens traditionally are it's

556
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Speaker 3: another tough team. Offensively, a lot of people excited about

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Speaker 3: their offense. Defensively, there's some question marks, but you're right

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Speaker 3: the physicality, the toughness, and just the energy that the

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Speaker 3: Baltimore Ravens are gonna bring.

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Speaker 2: And also it's in Baltimore. Not the best environment for

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Speaker 2: Ricky dabt yeh.

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Speaker 1: No, not so much.

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Speaker 2: Green Bay at the Chicago Bears.

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Speaker 1: J I'm gonna take or love Jordan Love, Come on, Buck,

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Speaker 1: that's the headliner.

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Speaker 3: I mean, that is the headliner. Like it's the Jordan

567
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Speaker 3: Love versus Justin Fields thing. But Jordan Love. Can this

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Speaker 3: team be better? Additioned by subtraction? Hear me out before

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Speaker 3: you stop the car and run off the road, thinking

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Speaker 3: that I'm saying because they removed Aaron Rodgers, this team

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Speaker 3: would be better. But no, can this team make what

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Speaker 3: I would say is the offensive philosophy change that they

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Speaker 3: need to be a better team in the postseason, meaning

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Speaker 3: less reliance on the quarterback, more reliance on the balance.

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Speaker 3: Offensive approach means run game, doing it differently, playing a

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Speaker 3: little more complimentary for.

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Speaker 2: Ball to be able to get it done.

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Speaker 3: Can that that that that that shift, that play calling

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Speaker 3: shift that Matt Luflour would have to do with Jordan

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Speaker 3: Levit quarterback. Can it produce better results in the end,

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Speaker 3: That's what I'm looking to see.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a that's the headliner. I agree with you

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Speaker 1: on that one. Then on the other side with the Bears,

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Speaker 1: Dj Moore is a number one wide out. You know

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Speaker 1: does that that do we see a different fields because

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Speaker 1: of that? We saw his first touch in the preseason

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Speaker 1: on a quick screen. He took it to the house.

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Speaker 1: Can you get easy completions in big plays? That's what

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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to seeing here with the Chicago Bears.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, easy completion big plays.

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Speaker 3: And let's see if Justin Fields can take the next

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Speaker 3: step and we can see that next step. Speaking of

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Speaker 3: the next step, what's the next step in the Las

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Speaker 3: Vegas Raiders versus the Denver Broncos. H mys are gonna

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Speaker 3: go towards Russell Wilson and Sean Payton. Sean Payton was

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Speaker 3: brought to Denver to not only fix the franchise, but

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Speaker 3: really to fix the veteran quarterback. Everyone knows that Russell

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Speaker 3: Wilson had an infinity for Drew Brees and how Drew

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Speaker 3: Brees was able to play well. Now it gets to

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Speaker 3: play for Drew Brees's old coach in Sean Pagnon. Can

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Speaker 3: Sean Payton show the old dogs and new tricks that

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Speaker 3: helps him kind of bows back from the worst season

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Speaker 3: of his NFL career. Russell Wilson has to play well

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Speaker 3: for this team to have any chance of being able

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Speaker 3: to put some wins in the win column. I want

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Speaker 3: to see what Sean Payton does to help Russell Wilson

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Speaker 3: fin refin, rediscover his game so he can play at

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Speaker 3: a high level this season.

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Speaker 1: We've gotten on the other side with the Raiders going

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Speaker 1: against that offense, you know, seeing Max Crosby, who we

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Speaker 1: know what he is, and then Tyre Wilson on the

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Speaker 1: other side. You've got two guys with unique skill sets

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Speaker 1: that could pose a challenge here to this offense for

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Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos looking for that and then on the

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Speaker 1: offensive side for the Raiders. We've discussed it in the past.

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Speaker 1: You know better better to have talent or fit. They

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Speaker 1: sacrifice some talent in favor of fit at the quarterback position. Now,

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Speaker 1: how does that work out with Garoppolo there, with Josh McDaniels.

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Speaker 1: We'll find out. That's the that's the question I'm looking

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Speaker 1: forward to getting answered in that one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a big, one, huge question.

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Speaker 3: Uh, Philadelphia Eagles at the New England Patriots. Let's go

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Speaker 3: to New England. Can it just look better? Can we

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Speaker 3: get better operation times? And just coaching from Bill O'Brien

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Speaker 3: taking over for whatever it was last year, Matthew Tris

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Speaker 3: and that stuff. And even though I was bulletshown it

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Speaker 3: that I can now get a mulligan Bill O'Brien taken

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Speaker 3: over to Patriots offense. Can mac Jones regame his Pro

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Speaker 3: Bowl form? He showed that as a rookie, took a

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Speaker 3: step back last season. Now with Bill O'Brien in charge,

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Speaker 3: can he get the young guy, the third year player,

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Speaker 3: to play at a more efficient rate. If he's efficient,

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Speaker 3: if he can get the ball out of his hands

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Speaker 3: with this running game, maybe they can muster enough points

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Speaker 3: to make this competitive contest. But a lot of this

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Speaker 3: would be the shell game that Bill O'Brien has to

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Speaker 3: play with. I would say a Patriots offense that doesn't

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Speaker 3: have a lot of high end talent on the outside and.

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Speaker 1: On the other side, I'm looking at the Eagles defense

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Speaker 1: specifically Jalen Carter. I want to see him for a

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Speaker 1: full game. How they use him? Can we do we

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Speaker 1: get the dominant player that we saw at Georgia, because

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Speaker 1: you know, I thought he was the most talented player

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Speaker 1: in last year's draft class. What does he look like

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Speaker 1: getting a chance to run out there with some consistent snaps?

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Speaker 1: This Eagles team last year bucks seventy sacks, four guys

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Speaker 1: with eleven sacks or more ridiculous? Do they repeat that?

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Speaker 1: Can they heat up Mac Jones in this one? And

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Speaker 1: can they stop the run well enough to get those

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Speaker 1: pass rush opportunities? Because I got to believe that New

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Speaker 1: England's going to come out there and try and run

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Speaker 1: the football. If they drop back Mac Jones forty times

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Speaker 1: in this game, he's going to get his head knocked off.

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Speaker 1: So that's one of the things I'm looking at that

655
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Speaker 1: Philly front. What do we got next year?

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Speaker 2: Oh? This is your game?

657
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Speaker 3: The Miami Dolphins versus the LA charges to a tag

658
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Speaker 3: about Loa is back beefed up little husky to attag

659
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Speaker 3: about Loya some jiu jitsu in the offseason to protect

660
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Speaker 3: himself so he can learn how to fall and land right,

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Speaker 3: so he can be available for his team.

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Speaker 2: The evolution of this offense.

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Speaker 3: Last year, we fell in love with offense because it's

664
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Speaker 3: really a video game offense. Tybreek Kio, Genlen Water running

665
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Speaker 3: all over the field. Both of those guys had a

666
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Speaker 3: thousand yards season. But then we need to run in games.

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Speaker 3: Somehow included into that to alleviate some of the pressure

668
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Speaker 3: on to a tongue by LAWA. So what does Mike McDaniels,

669
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Speaker 3: what does he do to get this offense humming right

670
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Speaker 3: out the gate? Let's see stylistically, it's the Miami Dolphins

671
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Speaker 3: look any different, or if the deal reliant on the

672
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Speaker 3: passing game and to a tongue by Lowa just throwing.

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Speaker 1: It to the track guys on the outside and on

674
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Speaker 1: the other side. The Chargers had no run game last year.

675
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Speaker 1: I believe they were thirtieth in the league. They get

676
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Speaker 1: Rashaun Slater back healthy, Jamari Sawyer, who was really a

677
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Speaker 1: godsend last year playing at tackle in his place, he

678
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 1: slides inside to guard. They've got Zion Johnson another year

679
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Speaker 1: in the league. Now year two. Big expectations there. This

680
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:38,360
Speaker 1: has the makings of one of the better offensive lines

681
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Speaker 1: in the league, with Austin Eckler back there. I think

682
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Speaker 1: they find their run game with Kellen Moore, But that

683
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Speaker 1: to me is the question. Can they run the ball offensively?

684
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Speaker 1: Can they stop the ball defensively? Those are the questions

685
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Speaker 1: that the Chargers need to get answered in that game.

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty bullish on this team with a roster where

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Speaker 1: it is right now. But we'll find out for sure

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Speaker 1: at one twenty five on Sunday afternoon.

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Speaker 3: It's so far well, we go find out not about

690
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Speaker 3: that team, but we can find about the La Rams

691
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Speaker 3: and the Seattle Seahawks because that game the revelation will

692
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:09,720
Speaker 3: be about are the Seattle Seahawks for real? Last year

693
00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 3: it was a feel good story. Geno Smith took over

694
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:14,760
Speaker 3: this team, found this way into the playoffs. But now

695
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Speaker 3: they're expectations around the Seahawks offensively their lights out. JSN

696
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,680
Speaker 3: Jack Smith and Jigba may not be available because of

697
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Speaker 3: the researcher.

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Speaker 1: I think he's gonna play. The latest night I saw

699
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Speaker 1: was that he is going to play, so we'll see him.

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Speaker 3: So so if he has an opportunity to play, you

701
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Speaker 3: talk about man an offense that is locked and loaded

702
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Speaker 3: on the perimeter. But then in the backfield, Zach Scharbonay

703
00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:38,760
Speaker 3: teaming up with Kendall Walker to give this running game

704
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Speaker 3: a little more and then with Geno Smith taking the

705
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Speaker 3: next step offensively. This team is good. This team is

706
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Speaker 3: ready to go. They just need the defense to kind

707
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Speaker 3: of step up. If the defense steps up, we're talking

708
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Speaker 3: about this team and the Niners really duking it out

709
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Speaker 3: for supremacy in the NFC West.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm looking at the other side with the Rams.

711
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Speaker 1: I don't know what to expect from this team. No

712
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Speaker 1: Cooper cut that's a huge loss. You know, we haven't

713
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Speaker 1: seen Stafford in the preseason, so we're you know, we're

714
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Speaker 1: assuming he's healthy and ready to rock and roll. But man,

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Speaker 1: he's going to have to really grit his teeth and

716
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Speaker 1: try and lift the level of this of this offense

717
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Speaker 1: because there's not a whole lot around him. So that's

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Speaker 1: one I'm keeping an eye on there. The Rams. It

719
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Speaker 1: doesn't look like a great team on paper. Maybe they

720
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Speaker 1: can surprise us. I love Sean McVay. I think he's

721
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Speaker 1: a great coach. Stafford still has tons of ability, but man,

722
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Speaker 1: they're they are playing a lot of young players on

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Speaker 1: both sides of the ball and relying on a lot

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Speaker 1: of unproven players. So we'll see you know what that

725
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Speaker 1: looks like with the Rams. We got two more here, buck,

726
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Speaker 1: what we got Here?

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Speaker 3: We go Dallas Cowboys at the New York Giants. Let's

728
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Speaker 3: go with the Dallas Cowboys, America's team. Everyone is going

729
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Speaker 3: to look at number four, Dak Prescott. The excuses are

730
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Speaker 3: all done. You like the weapons and the fire party

731
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Speaker 3: that he has on the outside. You love what they've

732
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Speaker 3: done to make sure that the offensive line is ready

733
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Speaker 3: to go. Zach Martin was signed to that extension. You

734
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Speaker 3: still have Tims Smith coming back. We just saw them

735
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Speaker 3: give big money to Terry Steele. Okay, so we got

736
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Speaker 3: to retection. We got the playmakers. Now it's all about

737
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Speaker 3: the pass and that is Dak Prescott. How well does

738
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Speaker 3: he adapt an adjust to running Mike McCarthy's version of

739
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Speaker 3: this offense compared to Kellen Moore's, how he responds, how

740
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Speaker 3: he handles having more command, more control at the line

741
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Speaker 3: of scrimmage. It's going to be telling and really revealing

742
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Speaker 3: on Dak Prescott and where he deserves to be in

743
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Speaker 3: that QB pecking order around the national football.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot a lot of eyeballs is going to

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Speaker 1: be on him when we get to the other side.

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Speaker 1: The Giants spent the off season trying to get faster.

747
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Speaker 1: The Cowboys defense has been kind of a overly aggressive.

748
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Speaker 1: Think about the turnovers they generate, buck, but they'll give

749
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Speaker 1: up some big plays. So the Giants now have the

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Speaker 1: speed maybe to capitalize on some of those risks. So

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Speaker 1: you know, can they hit some home run balls and

752
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Speaker 1: be more dynamic on offense. That's what I'm looking forward

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Speaker 1: to seeing from the Giants.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it makes sense. Now let's go.

755
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Speaker 3: We talk about New York's having a New York state

756
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:57,600
Speaker 3: of Mountain Buffalo at the New York Jets. Two New

757
00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:00,560
Speaker 3: York teams Western New York representing the city than going

758
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Speaker 3: against the city and the Jets. It's all about Aaron Rodgers.

759
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Speaker 3: Like we can talk about all the other stuff, Josh Allen,

760
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Speaker 3: what's gonna happen? This is about Aaron Rodgers making his

761
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Speaker 3: debut performance in a Jets uniform at home on a

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Speaker 3: big stage on Monday Night. Does Aaron still have the

763
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Speaker 3: game left to be another MVP player at that position?

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Speaker 3: At one for green Bay. Last year was not a

765
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Speaker 3: great year for Aaron Rodgers. He goes to New York.

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Speaker 3: He has done everything I would say that you can

767
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Speaker 3: do to be a leader, to kind of galvanize the team.

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Speaker 3: Now that it comes down to the performance, canny flash

769
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Speaker 3: enough where his Jets teammates look around and say, oh,

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Speaker 3: we got a chance. We got a chance because we

771
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Speaker 3: have that guy at quarterback. I want to see if

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Speaker 3: some vintage Aaron Rodgers comes out in this big Monday

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Speaker 3: night matchup.

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Speaker 1: You know, one of the things about Aaron Rodgers, I

775
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 1: don't know if everybody understands one of the reasons why

776
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Speaker 1: he's so happy with the Jets is that they have

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Speaker 1: given him ownership in this offense. In other words, like,

778
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Speaker 1: this is not quarterback Aaron Rodgers, this is quarterback slash

779
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Speaker 1: semi offensive coordinator Aaron Rodgers. You talk about installs, you

780
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 1: talk about game plans, having input there. That's one thing.

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Speaker 1: You know, every quarterback, Hey, I like this. I don't

782
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Speaker 1: like that. I don't know how many of them are

783
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Speaker 1: getting up in front of the whole room and going over, hey,

784
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Speaker 1: this is what we're doing here. You know, questions ask

785
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Speaker 1: a memory of your team, Hey, what happens when they

786
00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 1: do this, and put them on the spot. Answer that question,

787
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Speaker 1: like the ability to teach, hold guys accountable, and still

788
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Speaker 1: be your starting quarterback. Like I know people are sick

789
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:28,840
Speaker 1: of hearing about this, but there aren't many guys that

790
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:31,560
Speaker 1: can do all of that stuff and also have the

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Speaker 1: presence that they don't piss off your players. They're like, dude,

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Speaker 1: that's a four time MVP. He's just given me the

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Speaker 1: answers to the test. I need to pay attention.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a lot.

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Speaker 3: It's a lot to jump into, and it's also a

796
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:44,239
Speaker 3: lot for a young guy to come in there. But

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Speaker 3: what we've seen is the young guys respect and revere

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Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers because they all grew up watching Aaron Rodgers,

799
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:52,960
Speaker 3: they played with him on the video game. They see

800
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Speaker 3: him as that four time MVP, so they're really willing

801
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:58,960
Speaker 3: to listen. And he just says words of advice and

802
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,240
Speaker 3: the wisdom that he's able to spence on the daily basis.

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00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:03,360
Speaker 2: But now you want to see.

804
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:05,960
Speaker 3: Is can he play to the level where they can

805
00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 3: get over the hump? Great player throughout his history, but

806
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 3: can you be great at forty That's why we want

807
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:13,760
Speaker 3: to tune in and see what Anon Rodgers does.

808
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Speaker 1: And on the other side of it, you know, Buffalo

809
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:19,520
Speaker 1: I think probably feels disrespected. I'm sure they do. The

810
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:21,480
Speaker 1: Jets have taken up all the oxygen in the room.

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Speaker 1: They have been the team everybody has talked about. New

812
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 1: England's had storylines because you got a new offensive coordinator Miami,

813
00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:30,360
Speaker 1: you know, Tua. It gets a lot of attention this offense,

814
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:32,279
Speaker 1: how a dynamic and explosive they are. And here the

815
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:35,080
Speaker 1: Bills have just quietly owned this division for quite some time.

816
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Speaker 1: This is a statement game for both of these teams.

817
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:40,239
Speaker 1: It's a statement game that, Okay, the Jets are for real,

818
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:43,959
Speaker 1: this is they have arrived, they are a championship caliber team.

819
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Speaker 1: Or this is the Buffalo Bills saying they're who they've

820
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Speaker 1: always been and where who we've always been. I think

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Speaker 1: it's a big time statement game for the Bills.

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Speaker 2: The huge saving game they got to step up.

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Speaker 3: We've kind of kind of pushed him to the side

824
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Speaker 3: and kind of thrown them out of that category as

825
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 3: title content is just because of the defections over the

826
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Speaker 3: off season. And I don't know, maybe we're kind of

827
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Speaker 3: bored with him being the title contended without them really

828
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Speaker 3: having anything to show for it. Didn't get so maybe, yeah,

829
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Speaker 3: maybe this is the time where they kind of fly

830
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Speaker 3: under the radar. Also, this is important to watch Sean

831
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Speaker 3: McDermott taking over the defensive play call on Leslie Fraser

832
00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:22,200
Speaker 3: isn't there anymore, he's working with us. Sean McDermott being

833
00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:25,840
Speaker 3: the head coach defensive play caller. Does it change the

834
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Speaker 3: synergy of this defensive team.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they always play hard and they've they've been the

836
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Speaker 1: best team in that division for a while, So we'll

837
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Speaker 1: see what that looks like. Good job Buck taking us

838
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 1: through that. That is every game. That's a little nugget,

839
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Speaker 1: little question we're looking forward to get answered. Uh, do

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Speaker 1: you want to leave everybody with this as well? Five

841
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:46,359
Speaker 1: days a week. We've hinted at giving you more move

842
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Speaker 1: the sticks. This week we had four episodes. Next week

843
00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:52,439
Speaker 1: starts our new five day a week schedule, So we're

844
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:55,960
Speaker 1: gonna have pods for you every single day, Monday through Friday.

845
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Speaker 1: We're gonna have a lot of fun along the way.

846
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 1: We've we've incorporated new things. That little rookie draft is

847
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 1: gonna be fun. We'll recap how that went next week

848
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:07,319
Speaker 1: and do a new draft for that week's games. But

849
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Speaker 1: we're gonna be able to touch on college, we canna

850
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 1: touch on NFL preview, also react to what's going on,

851
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:14,719
Speaker 1: and then mix in some of our own topics and

852
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 1: conversations and trends where we see the league heading but

853
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:19,839
Speaker 1: never done five in a week before. Buck, It's gonna

854
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Speaker 1: be fun this year, man, it's.

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Speaker 3: Gonna be fun. It's gonna be a lot of fun.

856
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Speaker 3: And we appreciate all the listeners who've really been with

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Speaker 3: us from the beginning. We're anchering closer to what a

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Speaker 3: thousand episodes. We're getting getting close, Like who would have thought,

859
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Speaker 3: like way way way back when we got together, that

860
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Speaker 3: we would make it this far. But it's only because

861
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Speaker 3: you guys have been really loyal listeners. We appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: So I just saw we're on nine eighty five, fifteen

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Speaker 3: away for me in a thousand that means in three weeks,

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Speaker 3: three weeks, cake and ice.

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Speaker 2: Cream for everybody, cake and ice cream.

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Speaker 3: We celebrate the thousand episode and do it the right way,

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Speaker 3: but we've only been able to do it because you

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Speaker 3: of the way.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we appreciate you guys, Thank you so much. And again,

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Speaker 1: all those ratings and reviews you guys give us. We

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Speaker 1: appreciate those as well. All right, that's gonna do it

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Speaker 1: for us. We'll be back next week with again five

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Speaker 1: your football weekend, everybody. Uh I know we will. We

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Speaker 1: cannot wait. We'll be back to break it all down

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Speaker 1: next week. Right here, unmove the sticks