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Speaker 1: And now move the sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks.

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Speaker 2: What's up everybody, I'm Bucky Brooks. This has moved the

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Speaker 2: sticks and I am joined by my guy HBCU legend himself,

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Speaker 2: Steve Weiss representing Hu. Each and every day is a

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Speaker 2: great day to be a Howard body.

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Speaker 1: Great day to be Howard Bison. We take on those

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Speaker 1: Hampton Pirates this weekend. I do not want to lose

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Speaker 1: to them again. It seems like every time we play

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Speaker 1: we lose. So let's go Bison, your favor to do

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Speaker 1: some stuff in the miac. But Bucky, what about the

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Speaker 1: tar Heels? What about your tar heels? What do they got?

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Speaker 2: So the tar Heels decided to get into the mix

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Speaker 2: a little bit. They took on the mighty North Carolina

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Speaker 2: against the Eagles, but I'm not gonna last year. Got

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Speaker 2: a little nervous. The Eagles were going. Trey Oliver had

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Speaker 1: I was nervous.

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Speaker 3: I was like, as much as I love representing, I

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Speaker 3: the case that a look at them snatch down a school.

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Speaker 2: They're back. So now it's great Seeingdrey Olivan those guys going.

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Speaker 2: So the Tar Heels are trying to get it going.

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Speaker 2: We'll see we're flying under radar, just hoping they can

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Speaker 2: can get better down the stretch. Today, those team we're

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Speaker 2: going to talk about the National Football League. We're going

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Speaker 2: to talk about the standings. We're gonna go through each

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Speaker 2: when it's all set and done. So, this should be

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Speaker 2: a little fun, little exercise to see what's going on,

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Speaker 2: to see who's who and what's what. I know, you

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Speaker 2: got your ear to the street. So let's start in

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Speaker 2: the AFC East Buffalo Bills sending it to and undefeated.

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Speaker 2: The Buffalo Bills have owned the division and the Sean

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Speaker 2: rest of the AFC.

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Speaker 1: East folks, Yes they do, Bucky, they own it. There's

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Speaker 1: no partial shares in the lead for the AFC East.

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Speaker 1: I say that because not only you know, are the

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Speaker 1: because they got two really capable tight ends. James Cook's

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Speaker 1: been doing this thing out of the gate. But the

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Speaker 1: rest of the division, you've got quarterback uncertainty in New

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Speaker 1: don't know what you're gonna get weak to week. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, the Bills are not gonna go seventeen to know,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, now the Bills are that squad. I will say this,

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Speaker 2: I am not surprised by the New England Patriots. I

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Speaker 2: that their defense would remain a very vulnerable unit, and

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Speaker 2: then offensively they're doing just enough not turn the ball over,

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Speaker 2: keeping the games close. They came up short last week,

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Speaker 2: but you're gonna already see Jiro Meo has a nice

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Speaker 2: But when I look at the Division, two of being

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Speaker 2: I don't know if I can fully trust the Jets,

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Speaker 2: I'm all in on the Buffalo Bio Sean McDermott, even

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see how they handle the versity because we

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Speaker 1: but let's go to the AFC North, the best division

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Speaker 1: top to bottom in the NFL right now. The Pittsburgh

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Speaker 2: Well, it depends on Steve. If I'm staying on brand,

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Speaker 2: I think this is more Pittsburgh. I don't know if

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Speaker 2: terms of winning the division, as much as I would

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Speaker 1: I'm with you, Bucky. In terms of I don't think

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Speaker 1: the Ravens are winless. The Ravens look closer to being

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Speaker 1: And that's not taking anything from the Bengals. I think

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Speaker 2: But Steve, I've been on the field when he is modeling.

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Speaker 2: has certain things that He's like, hey, you gotta hear

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Speaker 2: He's definitely going back old school to making sure that

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Speaker 1: He reps like every country in West Africa with his gear,

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Speaker 1: and I love it. He's from Hampton, Virginia seventy five

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Speaker 2: So good player, man, good player, Steve. I'll say that

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Speaker 2: in watching him last week, he is shot out of

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Speaker 2: Browns in the mix. Let's go to the a FC South.

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Speaker 2: You got Htown putting it down. Do you continue to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Buck, I mean it's it's the Texans all the way.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they came into the season, in my opinion,

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Speaker 1: They're deeper than any team in the NFL. When you

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Speaker 1: look at every position, even quarterback They've got They've got

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Speaker 1: I am not gonna stop talking about they will possibly

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Speaker 1: got an uphill fight. The Titans got a little bit

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Speaker 1: And I think the Colts are eventually gonna get together.

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Speaker 2: You know, they're they're a tough team. Man. As much

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Speaker 2: When you look at Asheine. You look at Houston and

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Speaker 2: will say Undermiko rants that is just a great perspective

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Speaker 2: by him in terms of how he wants his team

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Speaker 2: Dimiko came winning with a plan and they certainly have

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Speaker 2: executed a plan, which is why they may go back

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Speaker 1: All right, Bucky, let's get to the AFC West. Okay,

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Speaker 1: technically the Chargers are the top of the division, but

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Speaker 1: both of them? Let's twist this. Do both of them

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Yes, Steve, because this is shaping up to be another

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Speaker 2: gim Harbaugh story. So I'm not going to say that

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Speaker 2: both of them make the playoffs. I'm saying they both

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Speaker 2: wildcard team the Crown. Come on, Chargers. The Chargers win

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Speaker 2: I just feel like they're gonna they're gonna bloody their noses.

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Speaker 2: tracked down USC. I just I'm all in. And look,

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Speaker 2: he makes me want to go to football practice and

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Speaker 2: cover them with football pants on, like he's just old school.

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Speaker 2: I want to do squats, I want to pull slid

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Speaker 2: with my Khaki's on. All of that. Jim Harbro's pushing

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Speaker 2: all the right buttons. That's what I'm saying. The Chargers

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Speaker 2: swipe the division from the Chiefs to year. Come on,

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Speaker 2: come on, Buck, you don't believe that I do. Jacket Dobbins,

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Speaker 2: Gus Edwards. I'm all them running the football, preserving my quarterback.

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Speaker 2: He is. Look, he's that fire extinguisher just in the glass.

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Speaker 2: We only break it when we need it.

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Speaker 2: I think.

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Speaker 1: I think I've seen some things in the Raiders to

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Speaker 2: they are Chiefs. Okay, but we're saying the Raiders. Now

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Speaker 1: This I'm gonna call my shot. Yeah, I'm gonna call it.

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Speaker 2: Oh, the raatest A's don't like that. AP's don't like that.

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Speaker 2: You must, you must want to go. There must be

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Speaker 1: They'll be on the road. There must be somebody road.

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Speaker 2: There must be somebody that's that's coming through New Addition.

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Speaker 2: you're trying to catch them because you're saying that that

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Speaker 1: Here's what I'm saying, Mark, Mark this, Okay, what was

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Speaker 1: my number eighty nine? Who is number eighty nine for

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Speaker 1: They've got some things showing up on offense, but I

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Speaker 2: Raiders are coming out of division wild card. All right, Okay,

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Speaker 2: so we're gonna rock with that. We're just gonna let

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back after this break.

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Speaker 2: All right, So let's go to the other side. Let's

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Speaker 1: Oh my god. So right now we have three one

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Speaker 1: Buck, this is a tough call for me. But when

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Speaker 1: I don't know, man, Philly's offense is so good. I'm torn.

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Speaker 2: I'm torn, Buck, You're torn.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm flipping. I'm flipping because I picked earlier.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So I'm worried about the Cowboys, particularly after seeing

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Speaker 2: I'm worried about it. Here's where the Cowboys get me

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Speaker 2: depth they don't have any of them. No, they don't.

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Speaker 2: So I worry about that part of it. So if

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Speaker 1: You know, you brought a great point about the division,

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Speaker 2: Walk with the East. Now you feel better. I feel better.

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Speaker 1: Here here's one okay, now let's go to a super

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Speaker 1: the toss up division. Right the NFC North, both Conference

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Speaker 1: the Vikings are unbeaten. Everyone else is one and one

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Speaker 2: Okay, so, so my team's in the North. I feel

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Speaker 2: he supported them all. Track delate to Fife Dog. He

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Speaker 2: I'm feeling what they're doing with the Minnesota Vikings and

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Speaker 2: how can you not like the fact that the numb

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Speaker 2: That said, the Lions are so talented. Man, I have

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Speaker 2: But because the Lions have everyone available right now, as

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Speaker 1: I'm with you, Detroit. Detroit has been one of the

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Speaker 1: The Niners are sorry. The Lions are one of the

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Speaker 1: a tough loss, build, take a tough loss, and continue

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Speaker 1: to escalate. I think. I think by the end of

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Speaker 1: But I do like two teams coming out of the

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Speaker 2: Get the nod. Mmmmmm, that's good, all right. So now

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Speaker 2: let's go to the Let's go to the South, the

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Speaker 2: dirty We used to always talk about the South. There's

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Speaker 2: I'm always thinking about the Atlanta Falcons and the New

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Speaker 2: When we talk about the Saints and the Bucks, the

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Speaker 1: Well, right now the Saints are two and oh the

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Speaker 1: like Brian Flores right, They've They've got a million different

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Speaker 1: I look at the quarterbacks in this division. Boy at

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Speaker 1: Atlanta is gonna get better as the year goes along.

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Speaker 1: And I love how they run the football with Jean

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Speaker 1: and now they're legitimately three teams from that division that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny. These teams are well constructed. I'm surprised

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Speaker 2: they have an older defense, that the older defense is

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Speaker 2: I would say even Stephen contest, where they're having to

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Speaker 2: and that offense is so legit they may be able

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Speaker 2: I like what Todd Bowles routinely does with their defense. Look,

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Speaker 2: he blitzes all of his answers. Baker Mayfield is playing

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Speaker 2: outstanding ball, which should give Carolina Panthers fans or Bryce

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Speaker 1: Doing it Carolina.

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Speaker 2: I think the Sames are the ones to get it done,

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Speaker 2: even though I like what Raheem has at his disposal

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Speaker 1: You know what's intriguing when I look at this division,

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Speaker 1: this is probably a great podcast for you and DJ

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Speaker 1: to do. Look at the safeties in the NFC South,

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Speaker 1: where you've got Winfield, Ty Matthew is freaking playing lights

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Speaker 1: package that they've got in Atlanta, and when you watch

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Speaker 1: that game, money Night, Jesse Bates is at a whole

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Speaker 1: other level in this scheme. So again, I've given you

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Speaker 1: an idea for a future podcast. But look at the

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Speaker 1: safety play in this division. And how it may impact

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Speaker 1: things going down the line. All right, Buck, let's go

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Speaker 1: to that NFC West that I was just talking about. Okay,

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Speaker 1: your squad, your forever squad. The Seattle Seahawks sitting on

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Speaker 1: top two and zero, win a tough one at New England,

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Speaker 1: playing early for a West Coast team last week Arizona

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Speaker 1: Cardle's one to one Niners one and one, and what's

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Speaker 1: left of the Rams at zero and two? Do you

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Speaker 1: think and this is a this is actually a great question.

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Speaker 1: Do you think Seahawks finished the season on top of

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Speaker 1: the West?

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Speaker 2: I do. I felt like this the San Francisco forty

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Speaker 2: nine ers were gonna suffer from the hangover. So I

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Speaker 2: am all in on the Seattle Seahawks. Mike McDonald being

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Speaker 2: able to fix the defense that Pete Carroll could not

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Speaker 2: get fixed, the offense, being able to really thrid on

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Speaker 2: the Ryan Grubb. This team has the pieces in place

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Speaker 2: to be a dominant unit. And I would say this,

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Speaker 2: there's a level of seriousness that Mike McDonald exhibits. It's

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Speaker 2: a little different than its predecessor, but it still looks

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Speaker 2: like a fun environment. And so he's kind of mixed

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Speaker 2: that delicate balance that you have to have. I'm all in, man.

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Speaker 2: I think one he's legit as a coach. To Leslie

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Speaker 2: Fraser being there to kind of help you out is

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Speaker 2: an underrated move because Leslie Fraser has been a head coach,

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Speaker 2: he's been a quality defensive coordinator. He just kind of

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Speaker 2: is that. I call it, man, He's the old dude

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Speaker 2: in the barbershop that everybody needs to bounce off of.

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Speaker 2: Leslie being dead. For Mike McDonald, it'd be a huge

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Speaker 2: advantage for the Seahawks as it gets tight down the

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Speaker 2: stretch and they need to find a way to win

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Speaker 2: those tight games.

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Speaker 1: I love that you said that because Mike McDonald hold

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Speaker 1: you thirty six? Yeah, I think he took a page

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Speaker 1: out of Sean mcvay's pay. But GM, when Sean evay

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Speaker 1: took over the Rams at age thirty two, who do

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Speaker 1: he hires DC Wade Phillips, right, So he brings in

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Speaker 1: a stage he's been a head coach, who's been a coordinator,

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Speaker 1: who knows a billion people, has seen everything that football's

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Speaker 1: had to offer, and that's what Leslie Fraser brings them.

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Speaker 1: Do I think Seattle can win this division? I absolutely do.

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Speaker 1: I have been calling their number for months. I think

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Speaker 1: they're completely underrated because defensively they're going to be sounded.

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Speaker 1: Look at boy MafA, he is killing it right now.

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Speaker 1: They got pressure up front. Their secondary not only is

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Speaker 1: good in disciplined, they can run. Rake Willins one of

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Speaker 1: the fastest dbs in the NFL. Devin Weatherspoon is gonna

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Speaker 1: emerge as a defensive Player of the Year candidate, right

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Speaker 1: But look what they're doing on offense. Okay, we keep

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Speaker 1: on thinking they're a run heavy because of Kenneth Walker

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Speaker 1: and Zach Sharpy. They're hitting the big play in the

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Speaker 1: passing game. Bucky Gino can throw the deep ball, and

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Speaker 1: we saw against the Pages to DK metcalf the Jackson

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Speaker 1: Smith and Jig who both went over one hundred. They

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Speaker 1: have got explosiveness. So now Ben Grubb comes in and

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Speaker 1: they're not they're not. We know, we know, we always

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Speaker 1: knew what the Seattle Seahawks identity was before. Offensively, now

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Speaker 1: we're not quite sure. They got us guessing mm hm.

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Speaker 1: So I love the forty nine ers, I think the

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Speaker 1: the most talented team. These injuries. I don't like what's

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Speaker 1: happening with some of the injuries that they're having. With

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Speaker 1: McCaffrey and Deebo already down. We've seen this happen before.

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Speaker 1: But I think Seattle is gonna give the forty nine

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Speaker 1: ers all season they can win the division. I still

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Speaker 1: think the forty nine Ers end up winning the division.

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Speaker 1: But both of these teams are gonna be in the postseason.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, No, it's gonna be It's gonna be an interesting thing.

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Speaker 2: I love the way this division is shaping out. I

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Speaker 2: like how it's going to break down my pick on

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Speaker 2: the Seattle see how solid. I kind of feel those

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Speaker 2: same vibes that I fell back in twenty eleven, twelve thirty.

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Speaker 2: You were calling it back then, Bro, It's kind of

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Speaker 2: funny for it to come back around. See man, I

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Speaker 2: appreciate you jumping on the pip, and it's always fun

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Speaker 2: to kind of reconnect, get your knowledge, your insight. Make

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Speaker 2: sure we catch Steve on everything on NFL Network. My

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Speaker 2: man is doing it all. Sometimes I see you on

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Speaker 2: the road, sometimes I see you in the building with

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Speaker 2: Yammer talking about games on Sundays and all that other stuff. Look, man,

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Speaker 2: we gotta do this again. We got to bring you on.

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Speaker 2: Let's do it.

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Speaker 1: But keep on doing your thing. Keep on shining your lights,

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Speaker 1: spreading knowledge, and.

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Speaker 2: Hit you yeah ags in the building. It should be

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Speaker 2: a lot of fun. Missure you guys. Keep on checking

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Speaker 2: out the movie. Six podcasts. We'll be back next week.

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Speaker 2: Five new freshmans for

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