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Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast apparently is still a thing.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast.

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Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hansas, coming to you from a

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Speaker 1: virtual room filled with heroes Mark Sesser, Greg Rosenthal and

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Speaker 1: sitting in the Chris Westling chair. And my goodness, what

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Speaker 1: a blessing. It's Colleen Wolf. What's up? Connie and the gang? Hello, Hello, Hello,

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Speaker 1: that's a big day. I took a shower, I washed

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Speaker 1: my hair, I brushed it and curled it so like

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Speaker 1: I am ready to go professional. It sounds like a

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Speaker 1: lot of lies. Dan was so threatened by your appearance

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Speaker 1: he put on a collared shirt and then now makes

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Speaker 1: us look you know, Colleen is it looks like a

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Speaker 1: true network anchor, which he is for NFL Network, And uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, of course you can see her on uh

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Speaker 1: Thursday Night Football every week but apparently week six not

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Speaker 1: the case, but every week going forward and Good Morning

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Speaker 1: Football on the weekend. And I had a T shirt on,

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Speaker 1: and it just felt like Connie's gonna show us up

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Speaker 1: in general, um when it comes to the visual. But

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Speaker 1: with my T shirt on and Connie done up as

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Speaker 1: the network anchor, it was looking a little bit absurd,

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Speaker 1: like how did that guy get on camera? So I

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Speaker 1: needed to clean it up just a little bit, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, we're just avoiding the look here of Colleen

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Speaker 1: with three high school dropouts. So the column shirt helps

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Speaker 1: and appreciate that. Well, this was a power play on

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Speaker 1: my part and it looks like it worked. Connie Wins again,

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Speaker 1: we had we had um in high school, the kids

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Speaker 1: were kind of like the dirt bags. Uh, they smoked

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Speaker 1: cigarettes and and they were truant, and uh, that's kind

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Speaker 1: of the vibe we give all and then colleens like

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Speaker 1: the one. Oh yeah, I just got into Penn and

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Speaker 1: Columbia and Harvard. It's gonna be a tough decision for me.

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Speaker 1: Where the burnouts. Meanwhile, I went to Drexel next to Pen.

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Speaker 1: Nothing like Pen. But all right, Week six is here.

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Speaker 1: How about that? And we have a full slate of

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Speaker 1: NFL Action to dig into and preview and you know

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Speaker 1: how the drill goes. Here, we have our Thursday preview.

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Speaker 1: You could check us out on NFL Network on Saturday

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Speaker 1: a version of this program and then on Sunday it

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Speaker 1: is the flagship program where we recap every game that

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Speaker 1: we just previewed here, so let's dig into it and

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Speaker 1: we do it with a little flare, a little pizzaz

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Speaker 1: draft style. And Connie, this is your first Thursday show

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Speaker 1: with us in sometime. I'm even gonna say maybe years years,

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Speaker 1: because you're such a star for the network now and

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Speaker 1: you're connected to the biggest entity we have, Thursday Night Football,

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Speaker 1: so we're very happy to have you. You will be

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Speaker 1: picking first as an expansion franchise in our draft set up,

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Speaker 1: so let it rip Contie Fox, Bucky Me. Yeah, no

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Speaker 1: t NF this week. But I was like, I must

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Speaker 1: be on television or on a sub type of property

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Speaker 1: on Thursday. So here I am. Okay, uh right off

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Speaker 1: the bat, number one overall pick. I'm going straight to

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Speaker 1: the afternoon window, one of only two games being played,

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Speaker 1: and that's Packers going down to Tampa Bay. This game

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Speaker 1: I cannot wait for. I am planning my entire day

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Speaker 1: around it. You have Aaron Rodgers who has just looked incredible.

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Speaker 1: The Packers are four and o for the first time

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Speaker 1: since they're averaging thirty eight points per game, zero turnovers,

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Speaker 1: and Aaron Rodgers four touchdowns. Last Monday only six in completions.

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Speaker 1: He has half as many touchdowns uh this year as

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Speaker 1: this week with Davante Adams, who hasn't played since Week two.

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Speaker 1: That's when he heard himself as hamstring against the Vikings

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Speaker 1: We know Alan Lazard's status is up in the air,

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Speaker 1: but Robert Tonyan last week came out of nowhere three touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: He has five touchdowns screw four weeks. He was the dude.

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Speaker 1: And I am really interested though, to flip it over

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Speaker 1: see how Aaron Jones runs against this number one ranked

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Speaker 1: for many years I've been down on the Packers because

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Speaker 1: I'm not always wedded to these teams that get predicted

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Speaker 1: They played a nearly perfect first quarter of the season,

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Speaker 1: But I find it hard to pick against the Packers

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Speaker 1: The Packers defense last year was applying consistent heat and

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Speaker 1: looking forward to this one back as well. I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: You you got to give them some heat for the

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Speaker 1: how can you and the best play? The best thing

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Speaker 1: I saw from the Chicago offense this year it was

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Speaker 1: Nick Foles like yelling at Matt Naggy, like him just saying, no,

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Speaker 1: let's do it this way. Stop calling these plays. I

432
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Speaker 1: want to do a hurry of trust me. I won

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. I'm not even joking that that moment

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Speaker 1: gave me some confidence. Like maybe Folds can lead them

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Speaker 1: out of this, because when you watch them, it's a

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Speaker 1: tough watch. I'm with you, Mark. I like the Panthers

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Speaker 1: in this game. Uh, the Bears missed Tarik Cohen too much.

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Speaker 1: When Tarik Cohen is out and like that really hamstrings

439
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Speaker 1: your offense. That's a problem. And the Panthers, I think,

440
00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:13,879
Speaker 1: can mitigate what the Bears do well, which is rushed

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Speaker 1: the passer. They get rid of the ball so quickly,

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00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:19,440
Speaker 1: like Teddy has not been touched. Sometimes the offensive line

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Speaker 1: is about coaching, it's about the scheme. Uh. And I

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Speaker 1: don't think you'll hear much. Robert Quinn has been quiet lately.

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Speaker 1: If chem Hicks isn't quite the same as he was

446
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Speaker 1: before the injury, so it's really just Khalil Mack. I

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Speaker 1: think the Panthers can get a win here, and they can.

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Speaker 1: They can prove the doubters like Dan wrong. It's been

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Speaker 1: a tough one for you. Dan. I'm really struggling with

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Speaker 1: this because I understand that the Panthers are the greatest

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Speaker 1: team in the history of professional football now because they've

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Speaker 1: beaten a couple of teams. Uh, And I would have, actually,

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Speaker 1: to be completely honest with you, I wanted to lock

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Speaker 1: the Panthers up in this game because I like the

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Speaker 1: way the Panthers are playing, and I don't like this

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Speaker 1: Bears team very much. But I know it means so

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Speaker 1: much to Mark and Greg that they have this corner

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Speaker 1: that I don't want to be on your corner. So

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Speaker 1: I can and I wouldn't, Dan, Dan, because like dance

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Speaker 1: to to make sure Dan that that's not just like

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Speaker 1: a device on your part. I welcome you to come

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Speaker 1: lock it up together. No, I don't want to do that.

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Speaker 1: I want you to enjoy this this moment. I think

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Speaker 1: the Panthers are playing great football. I you know, Okay,

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Speaker 1: so maybe they're not going to go three and thirteen

466
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Speaker 1: and and improve as the season goes along, would still

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Speaker 1: be a bad team. But I guess I'm not ready

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Speaker 1: to say that the Panthers are some like supremely great team.

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Speaker 1: I think they've caught some teams at the right time.

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Speaker 1: I think when the schedule tightens up, like the Saints

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Speaker 1: next week, we might see a very different result. Maybe

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Speaker 1: I'll be wrong, but this seems like it's shaping up

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Speaker 1: for another great set up for all the Panther supporters

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Speaker 1: on this podcast. Because I don't think the Bears are

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Speaker 1: very good. M I don't think so we're not gonna win, Greg,

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Speaker 1: We're not gonna win with Dan here, So just to

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Speaker 1: lock it up and dance, basically doing the equivalent of

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Speaker 1: hold me back, I'm not going to do it, So

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Speaker 1: I don't. I just doesn't feel right, Okay, uh up

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Speaker 1: next Mark on the Snake. Well, and you know the

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Speaker 1: reason I didn't have to go Cleveland at Pittsburgh is

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Speaker 1: because I knew I had two picks in a row.

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Speaker 1: So let's be real about that. This game has me

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Speaker 1: a little scared, and I've I've been like not jumping

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Speaker 1: on the Browns thing yet because you have to beat

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Speaker 1: these teams in your own division. They were handled by Baltimore.

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Speaker 1: I know that feels like a long time ago, going

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Speaker 1: into Pittsburgh where they have not one since two thousand

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Speaker 1: and three. I watched that game a billion years ago

490
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Speaker 1: at my parents house on like a vacation from like

491
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Speaker 1: a terrible job I was on in Los Angeles. So

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Speaker 1: it's been a long time. And I'll tell you something else.

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Speaker 1: This is a study in contrast. This Browns team has

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Speaker 1: scored thirty points four games in a row for the

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Speaker 1: first time since like the FDR administration. All right, but

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Speaker 1: the Steelers have not allowed thirty since the opener of

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Speaker 1: last year when the Patriots waxed them. The Browns offense

498
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Speaker 1: leads the NFL in big plays, but we've seen their defense,

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Speaker 1: and they've also allowed an a f C high twelve

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Speaker 1: touchdown passes. The Browns have this great offense of line,

501
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Speaker 1: but Baker Mayfield is a little banged up, and I'm

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Speaker 1: worried about t J. Watt, Bud Duprie, Cam Hayward steph

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Speaker 1: onto it. The whole cast and crew that has made

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Speaker 1: a cottage industry out of beating up on the Cleveland Browns.

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Speaker 1: There since two thousand. The Steelers lead this series thirty four,

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Speaker 1: six and one. I thought that the only series that

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Speaker 1: might have a more lopsided scenario would be Jets Patriots,

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Speaker 1: and that's thirty one eleven, just a little bit better

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Speaker 1: than than Cleveland Pittsburgh. So Dan, that tells me that

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Speaker 1: this is one of those games for psychology for the

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Speaker 1: Browns fandom plays in. This would be a huge win

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Speaker 1: for Cleveland to go five and one, take care of

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh and take care of a team that is psychologically destroyed.

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Speaker 1: You since I was a youth, let's do this or

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Speaker 1: what do I do? I have to be measured again

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Speaker 1: in my in my look at the Browns going into

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Speaker 1: a week later, this is a huge hashtag statement game

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Speaker 1: for the Browns if they can go to Pittsburgh. And

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Speaker 1: we don't talk about this much on our on our

520
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Speaker 1: show here, but the Desert people are giving the Browns respect.

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Speaker 1: There's an idea here that the Browns can do this because,

522
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Speaker 1: like you're saying, they make big players on offense, their

523
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Speaker 1: defense is opportunistic. They're turning the ball over. And to me,

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Speaker 1: this is because I think he's one of the more

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Speaker 1: interesting figures in the NFL, and not just because of

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Speaker 1: his prolific advertising work. Baker Mayfield is just like kind

527
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Speaker 1: of an interesting dude UH to track in his career.

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Speaker 1: And I think this is a fascinating game for him

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Speaker 1: because we talked about at their previous game, he was

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Speaker 1: awesome in the first half, he was not good in

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Speaker 1: the second half, and he got banged up with a

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Speaker 1: rib injury. So you wonder where he's at health wise,

533
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Speaker 1: and you wonder if he is up for the challenge

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Speaker 1: to win a game for the Browns, if he has to, uh,

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Speaker 1: if the running games not clicking against the very good

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Speaker 1: Steelers defense on the road. I can't wait for this one.

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Speaker 1: This Steelers defense, though, lead the NFL in sacks they

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Speaker 1: have They average five sacks in game twenty total. That's

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Speaker 1: having played one fewer game than of the league and

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Speaker 1: Mark you talked about, T J. Watton, Bud Dupree, They've

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Speaker 1: combined for seven than a half sacks, a forced fumble,

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Speaker 1: and interception through four games. But this Brown's offensive line,

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Speaker 1: these tackles Jack Conklin and Jedrick Wills Jr. They're probably

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Speaker 1: the best that the Steelers have faced so far. Baker

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Speaker 1: has only been sacked six times or seven times. That's

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Speaker 1: six fewest in the league. So I don't know what

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Speaker 1: we know that the guard Wyatt Teller, who is kind

548
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Speaker 1: of taking the league by storm. I feel like he's

549
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Speaker 1: one of the trendiest guards in the NFL right now.

550
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Speaker 1: He's week to week with a cap strain, so I

551
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,359
Speaker 1: am really interested to see how they hold up against

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00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:33,480
Speaker 1: this relentless Steelers defense. Right Their protection has been so good.

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Speaker 1: It's one of the reasons why I don't think Baker

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Speaker 1: Mayfield has been any better this year than than a

555
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:40,520
Speaker 1: year ago. I think he's like a little worse. It

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Speaker 1: really is a reminder of how much your surroundings matter.

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Speaker 1: He's had some moments, but he's been a little erratic.

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Speaker 1: It's really surprising. Both these teams are so good right

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Speaker 1: now with their quarterbacks playing like against type, Like Big

560
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 1: Ben is not hitting any throws down the field. Mark

561
00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:59,840
Speaker 1: mentioned it last throw. He's more like big Breeze like that.

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Speaker 1: It's his style right now. It's these little game manager

563
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Speaker 1: really smart before the snap, like he's he's big Breeze.

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Speaker 1: Let's give him twenty nine breeze. That's fine. Like it's working.

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Speaker 1: They're they're efficient and you could spell You could spell

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Speaker 1: it with like like breeze the wind, and then have

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Speaker 1: a little graphic element to it. Big Breeze is a

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Speaker 1: new nickname for Big Ben, and I think it could stick.

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Speaker 1: Money Badgers. I want to ride this thing. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: make T shirts. We need some extra money here in

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Speaker 1: uh in the COVID times. It's hard times out there.

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00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:36,240
Speaker 1: Dealers fans to buy that shirt. I don't think Steelers fans. Mark,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna put you on the spot here. Pick the

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Speaker 1: game and the score. Well, I had a chat with

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Speaker 1: our good friend Dave Damna Check, and I picked that

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Speaker 1: Cleveland would win an overtime thirty one. I had picked

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Speaker 1: against them week after week. I just want to be

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Speaker 1: optimistic and put good energy out there. And that's worked

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Speaker 1: in the past, you know, five years from me, so

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Speaker 1: why would it not work again this time? All Right?

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Speaker 1: You heard it here? First the Brownies five and on

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Speaker 1: knocking the Steelers front of the ranks of the unbeaten.

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Speaker 1: Time Now for Road to Victory, presented by the United

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Speaker 1: States Marine Corps. The Draft rolls on with Greg Rosenthal.

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Speaker 1: M I feel bad doing this with Colleen on the show,

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Speaker 1: but I'm taking the Eagles game hosting, then, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you're not even gonna be on our Sunday show. So

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Speaker 1: this is the game I want to watch early because

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Speaker 1: it's gonna have reason Rosenthal. Yeah, I'm taking a lot

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Speaker 1: of shots right now. Sorry, it's just how I was

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Speaker 1: raised for several Lamar Jackson is like the most explosive

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Speaker 1: player in the league, and he's making explosive plays every week.

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Speaker 1: But the Ravens offense is not nearly the same as

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Speaker 1: it was a year ago. They are below average right

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Speaker 1: now on Football Outsiders d v o A in terms

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Speaker 1: of their offense efficiency. There's seventeen in the league. It's

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Speaker 1: it's a little hard to imagine, but when you watch

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Speaker 1: them struggle a week ago against the Bengal Is, you

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Speaker 1: start to think, I don't know if there's a book

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Speaker 1: out there for for Lamar Jackson, but they're doing a

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Speaker 1: much better job slowing down his running in the Ravens

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Speaker 1: running game, and it's it's no secret that that's kind

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Speaker 1: of the base of where they're often starts. They have

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Speaker 1: a lot of really good things going on still with

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Speaker 1: Mark Andrews and Hollywood Brown explosive plays in these great blitzes,

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Speaker 1: but Jim Schwartz, your boy, Colleen's gonna take a look

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Speaker 1: at this, and they have some pass rushers, and I

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Speaker 1: think they're gonna look for waste to slow down the

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Speaker 1: running game and maybe have some answers for the Ravens.

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Speaker 1: I think the anxiety meter should be through the roof

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Speaker 1: with this game, with Lamar Jackson and the Eagles linebackers situation.

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Speaker 1: This is a game where I mean, really, this is

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Speaker 1: an entire season where the Eagles linebackers they've struggled. They

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Speaker 1: failed to address that position in the off season and

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Speaker 1: it showed for sure. But they haven't really faced any

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Speaker 1: mobile quarterbacks yet this season. Maybe Joe Burrow is probably

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Speaker 1: the most has eight five rushing yards, but beyond that,

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Speaker 1: they faced Dwayne Haskins, Jared Golf, Nick Mullins, and c. J.

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Speaker 1: Beathard and then Ben Roethlisberger, so none of those guys

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Speaker 1: are are truly mobile like Lamar Jackson is. And then

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Speaker 1: of course, as you mentioned, they have Mark Andrews to

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Speaker 1: who this is an Eagles team who was allowed the

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Speaker 1: I Theiny've really struggled against tight ends. They've allowed the

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Speaker 1: fifth fifth most catches the six months receiving yards. The

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Speaker 1: third most touchdowns, so that could be an issue. So

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Speaker 1: maybe it get right game for this Ravens offense. But yeah, Greg,

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Speaker 1: you said it that Lamar Jackson the most explosive player

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Speaker 1: in the league from a skill set stand standpoint. Yes,

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Speaker 1: from what we saw last year. Yes, but that's like

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Speaker 1: week five jumped out to me how his athleticism had

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Speaker 1: been compromised somehow by the game plan of his opponent.

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Speaker 1: He had three rushing yards in week five three. I

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Speaker 1: mean that's speaking of like, that's Philip Rivers level rushing total,

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Speaker 1: so they I mean it is for like a game.

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Speaker 1: So it's it makes you wonder what what they need

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Speaker 1: to do in that building in Baltimore to to unlock this.

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Speaker 1: Because if there is a book out here on slowing

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Speaker 1: down Lamar Jackson, you have plenty of time to figure

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Speaker 1: out how to solve that. You have ten or eleven

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Speaker 1: games here, But he is not nearly the same player

641
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Speaker 1: as he has been uh last year. So it's gonna

642
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:22,840
Speaker 1: be a challenge for a Ravens coaching staff that you

643
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 1: have all the faith in the world, and but to

644
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 1: get this going in the right direction again, I would

645
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,200
Speaker 1: also like to see things getting in the right direction

646
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Speaker 1: for Carson Wentz. And I know that they faced the

647
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 1: Steelers defense last week and we just talked about them

648
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Speaker 1: in their past rush. But and this is a thing

649
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 1: with Carson Wentz sometimes, I just feel like there were

650
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,920
Speaker 1: a couple of plays last week where he was walking

651
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:45,720
Speaker 1: into danger, walking into sacks. I tweeted that it seemed

652
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 1: kind of like in the horror film where like the

653
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:50,840
Speaker 1: girl goes back into the house where the killer is

654
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 1: and walks up to stairs, like we we all know

655
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Speaker 1: you shouldn't be doing this, but you're doing it, and

656
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 1: we know how it's gonna end up, and you know

657
00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:59,280
Speaker 1: when still makes his plays, But I know that you

658
00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 1: know they've got everyone and injured all the time. But

659
00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 1: this offense to me, outside of like a big Miles

660
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:05,800
Speaker 1: Sanders running a little bit of our man fulham like,

661
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:08,120
Speaker 1: they just don't seem to have much going on. And

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Speaker 1: I they're a tough watch right now. And that's been

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Speaker 1: the case, Colleen. It feels like it's been the case

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Speaker 1: for a long time for this Eagles of offense. I

665
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Speaker 1: excited though about Travis fold Hum. Yeah, he has such

666
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 1: an interesting story and the Eagles, I feel like, are

667
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:26,360
Speaker 1: a team that plays so much better when they're essentially

668
00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:30,080
Speaker 1: in a choke zone, when they're a backs are up

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Speaker 1: against the wall. I'm gonna throw out the old cliche.

670
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 1: It's true. They played better with their backups, and fold

671
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Speaker 1: Um is a guy that came out of nowhere. I

672
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:41,960
Speaker 1: feel like last week it was the Chase clay Poll

673
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:46,560
Speaker 1: Travis Fulghum showdown with the Eagles and the Steelers. But

674
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:50,360
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz he almost takes another hit at this point

675
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Speaker 1: without even being the game because Lane Johnson, we just

676
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 1: found out, is also playing through a painful ankle injury,

677
00:33:56,520 --> 00:34:00,200
Speaker 1: so he probably shouldn't even be out there because they

678
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 1: probably want that to heal and get right and not

679
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:06,040
Speaker 1: have anything any further setbacks with it. But with the

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00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 1: way that they started the season and with the way

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00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:10,640
Speaker 1: that this offensive line is, they have to have Lane

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00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:14,319
Speaker 1: Johnson out there. It's because the key he's the most

683
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Speaker 1: important player I think on their team other than other

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Speaker 1: than Wentz, is Lane Johnson. They are not the same

685
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Speaker 1: Like the backup at left tackle, it's kind of working out.

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00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:24,319
Speaker 1: The right tack will forget about it. Uh. But they're

687
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:25,800
Speaker 1: kind of in a weird spot because they're in the

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Speaker 1: NFC East. It doesn't even feel like their backs over

689
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 1: against Wall. They can lose these games and then the

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00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:32,800
Speaker 1: real season starts when they play the NFC East starting

691
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:36,439
Speaker 1: next week. And I would say I agree with Mark

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00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:41,160
Speaker 1: that Wentz continues to make killer mistakes. Is the second interception,

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Speaker 1: I believe came on a desperation heat, but the third

694
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Speaker 1: quarter interception, it's being compounded by he has these ill

695
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 1: time second half turnovers. They're happening in the third quarter

696
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:52,560
Speaker 1: at lots and then the defense immediately lays down after that.

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00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 1: It turns into like a completely game changing type situation.

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00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:59,440
Speaker 1: But the silver lining I saw, in addition to Fulgham

699
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Speaker 1: and the idea that Jalen Reagor comes back and maybe

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Speaker 1: one of these veteran guys gets back in the mix,

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00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:08,839
Speaker 1: the Sean or al Sean uh and and and stabilizes

702
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:11,760
Speaker 1: his offense. There was a stretch there once Carson Wentz

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00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 1: got going. It was a rough first half where he

704
00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:17,640
Speaker 1: really looked like himself in the second half of that game.

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00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 1: And what you what you want is for him to

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Speaker 1: build off that and get on a hot streak, because

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00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:24,440
Speaker 1: he can do that, and this is gonna be a

708
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:27,920
Speaker 1: really big test for him. But I know there's there

709
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:29,920
Speaker 1: is a lot of reason to be worried about whence

710
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,879
Speaker 1: he's now like blown past his career high in interceptions.

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00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:35,160
Speaker 1: But I thought I saw a glimmer in there. I

712
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:37,319
Speaker 1: don't know if we saw that, but I thought I

713
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:40,440
Speaker 1: saw it in there, and that that loss flash. Let's

714
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Speaker 1: see if you can love zach Ertz. Though we don't.

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Speaker 1: We're not seeing any glimmers, not Zachurts. To me, that's

716
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:47,799
Speaker 1: the bigger problem. Throwing the ball to zach Ertz has

717
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 1: been the worst playing football this year, like statistically, like

718
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:54,520
Speaker 1: I think the problem, and it's what Eagles fans are

719
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:57,360
Speaker 1: talking about. It really is kind of shocking how slower

720
00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:01,239
Speaker 1: and not strong he looks. The glimmer was Chase Claypool

721
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:04,279
Speaker 1: absolutely taking jail and Mills to town like over and

722
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:07,840
Speaker 1: over and over like a wild horse running through Philly's secondary.

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Speaker 1: It's a good thing they don't see him for at

724
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Speaker 1: least four more years. That was Road to Victory presented

725
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:16,439
Speaker 1: by the United States Marine Corps. Alright, let's move on

726
00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 1: the old Zeuser in the cat bird seat there wherever

727
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:26,279
Speaker 1: you want to sit where all right, here we go.

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00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:30,719
Speaker 1: Let's go with the Arizona Cardinals at Dallas Cowboys. That

729
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:35,920
Speaker 1: is my next selection in this draft Monday Night Football. Um,

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00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,920
Speaker 1: all right, so here's my theory and we talked about

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00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:43,719
Speaker 1: it on Sunday's recap show. I love this is the

732
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 1: ultimate I know unfortunately Greg has decided you're not invited,

733
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 1: but that was not Please come, Colleen, add some more

734
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:56,799
Speaker 1: work to your schedule. This is the ultimate test of

735
00:36:57,160 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 1: the Dalton scale. I can't wait to see how Andy

736
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Speaker 1: Dalton plays for the Cowboys because if Dalton, as the

737
00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 1: great Chris Westling has propagated for years, is the prime

738
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:13,560
Speaker 1: meridian of NFL quarterbacks, a man who rises and falls

739
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:17,239
Speaker 1: at the level of the players around him, well, then

740
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:19,640
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton's gonna ball out here in Dallas. I know

741
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:22,920
Speaker 1: the offensive line is nearly as good, and that is

742
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:26,279
Speaker 1: a concern, especially with Lyle Collins now out for the year.

743
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 1: That just it's not the same group that it used

744
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:31,520
Speaker 1: to be. However, Um, you have an all Pro running

745
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 1: back and you have the best trio of wide receivers

746
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 1: in the league. And I believe that Dalton. And by

747
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:39,000
Speaker 1: the way, this just turned into a fantastic contract year

748
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:41,399
Speaker 1: for Andy Dalton. Now he gets a chance to show

749
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 1: that he could put up points and hit the open market.

750
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:45,880
Speaker 1: I believe it was a one year deal with the Cowboys.

751
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:49,680
Speaker 1: So here is the game to watch because the Cardinals

752
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:51,920
Speaker 1: defense is a defense that he should be able to

753
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 1: thrive against. Especially with Chandler Jones now out for the

754
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:57,120
Speaker 1: year with a biceps injury. That's a killer loss for

755
00:37:57,160 --> 00:38:00,359
Speaker 1: the Cardinals. So that's where I'm looking Andy Dalton lighten

756
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:02,919
Speaker 1: up the Cards and getting Cowboys fans excited that there

757
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:08,080
Speaker 1: is hope to m hmm. Yeah, they're hoping they can

758
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:11,239
Speaker 1: get Devon Kennard back to With Chandler Jones being out

759
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 1: for the season, that would that would be huge for

760
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:15,120
Speaker 1: them at least to get a little bit of help

761
00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:19,319
Speaker 1: in that department. But you mentioned the Cowboys offensive line

762
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 1: not being anywhere near what it used to be, especially

763
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:26,360
Speaker 1: now for Andy Dalton stepping in. They don't have Tyron

764
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 1: Smith or Lyle Collins. As you mentioned, they have two

765
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 1: undrafted rookies in their spots there, Brandon Knight and Terrence Steele,

766
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:36,400
Speaker 1: and they also have a rookie starting at center and

767
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:39,640
Speaker 1: Tyler be a dish. So this is not the same

768
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 1: type of protection that Dak Prescott. The Cowboys used to

769
00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:45,360
Speaker 1: have before. Now Andy Dalton's going to have to figure

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00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:48,319
Speaker 1: it out, and that starts with Ezekiel Elliott. I mean

771
00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:51,879
Speaker 1: he his his scrimmage yards, the percentage that they're really

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00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:56,000
Speaker 1: using him for twenty two percent. He's only accounted for

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00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 1: the Cowboys scrimmage yards that's in the NFL. That's way

774
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 1: down from how they normally utilize him. Since his rookie year,

775
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:07,320
Speaker 1: he's averaged at least of the scrimmage yards, which is

776
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:10,640
Speaker 1: third most. So we should hopefully we see an uptick

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00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:14,120
Speaker 1: in his usage. Can I just throw one one caveat

778
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:16,440
Speaker 1: to that is that they've been playing from behind the locks,

779
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 1: this terrible defense. I think they've gotten out of their

780
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:21,439
Speaker 1: game script a whole bunch this year. It makes sense, Greg,

781
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:23,800
Speaker 1: you mentioned it that they're gonna get Zeke more involved

782
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:26,359
Speaker 1: now with dak out Well, I think that's how they

783
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:28,839
Speaker 1: turned the game around last week. They were down seventeen three,

784
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:31,120
Speaker 1: and instead of throwing the ball all over the yard,

785
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 1: they went on a seven minute drive against that Giants

786
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:36,600
Speaker 1: defense that was almost all Zeke and that's what helped

787
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 1: turn that game around. I'm with you, Colleen, but I

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00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 1: also think they'll take advantage of the matchups on the outside.

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Speaker 1: To me, that's the biggest mismatch in this game that

790
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:47,719
Speaker 1: the Cardinals cornerbacks have struggled this year. Patrick Peterson came

791
00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:50,200
Speaker 1: into the year, you know, really wanted to have a

792
00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 1: rejuvenated season. It isn't happening for him right now. They

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00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:56,160
Speaker 1: have Drake Kirkpatrick on the other side, who they signed

794
00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 1: pretty late in the game, the former Bengal he's struggling

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00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:01,399
Speaker 1: right now. And then you take out Chandler Jones. As

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00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 1: you mentioned, it's like that is a major mismatch. Amari

797
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:07,200
Speaker 1: Cooper can light them up, Gallup can light them up.

798
00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:09,319
Speaker 1: Seedee Lamb is doing it in the slot every week.

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00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:12,040
Speaker 1: That's a little tougher matchup against Arizona. But I kind

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00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 1: of like uh Andy Dalton to have a nice night

801
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:17,200
Speaker 1: on Monday, can't You? Just like imagine the announcers saying

802
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:20,000
Speaker 1: that nobody thought they could do it without Duck, and

803
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,479
Speaker 1: their own was like, well, actually, plenty of people thought

804
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:26,160
Speaker 1: it's a nice water from last year, right It's a

805
00:40:26,239 --> 00:40:28,600
Speaker 1: nice upgrade from when Brandon Weedon would step in for

806
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:30,600
Speaker 1: Tony Romo and you knew that the ship was gonna

807
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:32,279
Speaker 1: sink in about four and a half minutes. But I

808
00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:34,719
Speaker 1: want to see more from Kyler Murray. I mean, are

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00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:37,880
Speaker 1: a wonderful producer. Jason Klemon spoke in my ear to

810
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:41,680
Speaker 1: remind you guys that he has never lost at Jerry World,

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Speaker 1: dating back to his high school exploits. But speeding information

812
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Speaker 1: in your ear. I don't get that individual. They love

813
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 1: those stats. We're gonna hear that all week long. I

814
00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 1: like anything Jason says. How I start right there, Greg,

815
00:40:57,080 --> 00:40:59,720
Speaker 1: you can flame our producer on network television. That feels

816
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 1: like a idea for your career. How about Kyler Murray's career? Alright,

817
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:06,440
Speaker 1: I will see this offense become what it could be

818
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:09,279
Speaker 1: against the deepness the train back on the tracks. I

819
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:12,399
Speaker 1: love it, Kyler. Kyler Murray played the Jets last week

820
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:13,600
Speaker 1: and everyone wants to come and saying, oh y had

821
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:17,240
Speaker 1: a career high yards. That's fine. He and DeAndre Hopkins

822
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:19,160
Speaker 1: got hot at the end of the game. When I

823
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:21,799
Speaker 1: watched in that game was a Cardinals offense that just

824
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:24,360
Speaker 1: seems a little bit off to me. The ground game

825
00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:26,720
Speaker 1: is hot and cold. I don't think you rest assually

826
00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 1: have a one A or a true starting running back there.

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00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 1: You've got two good ones, and outside of DeAndre Hopkins,

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00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:33,719
Speaker 1: I don't trust a lot of the other receivers here.

829
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:35,640
Speaker 1: So this is a game where it's let's get back

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00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 1: on track, Cliff Kingsbury and company. All right, let's move on, Colleen,

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Speaker 1: you are up next. Okay, So you know what this

832
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:51,160
Speaker 1: one was buying some time here and not a big deal. Uh.

833
00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:54,440
Speaker 1: This game was postponed last week and I am ready

834
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:56,439
Speaker 1: for it. I don't like that I had to wait.

835
00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:59,960
Speaker 1: And it looks like both teams should be getting their

836
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:04,239
Speaker 1: starting quarterbacks back. I'm going with Broncos and Patriots here.

837
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:09,240
Speaker 1: Cam Newton removed off the COVID nineteen reserve list on Wednesday,

838
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 1: so he's tracking to play. And in his three starts

839
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:15,600
Speaker 1: this season, look, we know how well he played. He

840
00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:18,440
Speaker 1: was completing sixty percent of his passes, which is a

841
00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:23,240
Speaker 1: career high for him, seven fourteen passing yards, rushing touchdowns,

842
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:27,279
Speaker 1: and a team high four touchdowns. So you have this

843
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:30,440
Speaker 1: team in the Broncos that they haven't faced a mobile

844
00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:33,040
Speaker 1: quarterback yet this season. So Pam, we know how he

845
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:37,759
Speaker 1: trans really transforms this entire Patriots offense. And then Drew Lock,

846
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:40,319
Speaker 1: he should be back at practice back in the game

847
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:42,840
Speaker 1: as well. He was back at practice. He was sidelined

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00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:46,480
Speaker 1: since week two. We saw how things went with Brett

849
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:50,680
Speaker 1: Rippon and Jeff Driscoll in the game and did not

850
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:53,480
Speaker 1: go well. So hopefully this will be a little bit

851
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:57,080
Speaker 1: juicier with both starting quarterbacks back on the field. It

852
00:42:57,160 --> 00:43:00,440
Speaker 1: should we get Stefan Gilmore back most likely to he was.

853
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:03,080
Speaker 1: He was back at the Patriots facility on Thursday. You

854
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 1: figure he's gonna match up against Jerry Judy and if

855
00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 1: Gilmore can take away Judy, then lock Who's he looking for?

856
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 1: Noah Fanse is uncertain at this point. To me, he

857
00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:14,759
Speaker 1: is such a key engine to this offense, so you

858
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:17,760
Speaker 1: have to watch his status. But you hear Bill Belichick

859
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,560
Speaker 1: talk about Vic Fangio's defense the last two weeks, you know,

860
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:24,160
Speaker 1: singing uh songs about it. I'm I'm with them. It's

861
00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:27,439
Speaker 1: it's amazing how well coached this Broncos defenses, and they've

862
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:30,240
Speaker 1: gotten better each week. Bradley Chubb is starting to look healthier.

863
00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:33,160
Speaker 1: I think they can slow the Patriots down. It's really

864
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:35,960
Speaker 1: a run first Patriots team and that kind of invites

865
00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:38,320
Speaker 1: these close games at the end, and I wouldn't be

866
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,600
Speaker 1: surprised if that's the case. On Sunday, one little lex

867
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:44,840
Speaker 1: factor here, the Broncos had their bye week taken away.

868
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:46,800
Speaker 1: I know, it's like we get it. Their millionaires to

869
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:48,279
Speaker 1: making a ton of money. They don't need to go

870
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:51,280
Speaker 1: on a big vacation during Corona time. That would agitate

871
00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:54,280
Speaker 1: me if suddenly i had maybe my vacation taken away,

872
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:57,319
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be charged. Go teach New England a lesson

873
00:43:57,360 --> 00:44:00,839
Speaker 1: the Patriots. The Patriots they are the those players said,

874
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:03,080
Speaker 1: how annoyed they were. I really think this is a factor,

875
00:44:03,239 --> 00:44:08,160
Speaker 1: a little bit on my radar. Yeah, the Patriots game

876
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:10,480
Speaker 1: gets postponed so Cam Newton could get better and back

877
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 1: in the lineup. I'm not reading you think Drew Locks

878
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:17,920
Speaker 1: back for the Broncos. Let me lock this one up

879
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:21,359
Speaker 1: for Denver. A little bit of a difference between Drew

880
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:27,920
Speaker 1: lock and Cam Newton. Connie, it's snakes to you. I'm ready.

881
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:30,640
Speaker 1: I know exactly what game I'm taking. I'm going straight

882
00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:34,640
Speaker 1: to Tennessee and I'm going Texans Titans in this one.

883
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:39,520
Speaker 1: Tennessee value to play and party, thank you very much.

884
00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:43,000
Speaker 1: Last week, they held the Bills, which was a top

885
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:45,120
Speaker 1: five offense coming into the game. I think they were

886
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:47,640
Speaker 1: ranked four coming into the game. They held them to

887
00:44:47,680 --> 00:44:51,120
Speaker 1: a season low sixteen points and Derrick Henry was just

888
00:44:51,239 --> 00:44:54,200
Speaker 1: out there snatching souls and I feel like that is

889
00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:57,279
Speaker 1: something that can continue this week against the Tech and

890
00:44:57,440 --> 00:45:01,840
Speaker 1: the Texans second to worst run defense in the entire league.

891
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:04,359
Speaker 1: All of these teams have ran all over them. They're

892
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:07,879
Speaker 1: allowing a hundred and sixty point for rushing yards per game.

893
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:11,600
Speaker 1: They allowed three individual one hundred yard rushers. We saw

894
00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 1: Clyde Edwards, Hilaire do it. We saw James Conner, Derrick Henry,

895
00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:17,919
Speaker 1: He's gonna be next. Alvin Cooke was in there as well.

896
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:20,319
Speaker 1: So I think that this is a game that the

897
00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:27,400
Speaker 1: Titans could win. So handedly. Locking this one up, especially

898
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:30,040
Speaker 1: with a Jay Brown back in the mix, give me

899
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:33,400
Speaker 1: the Titans is the lock of the week. Look at you, Connie.

900
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:36,520
Speaker 1: You know it's funny. The the stiff heart, stiff arm

901
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:40,799
Speaker 1: heard round the world. Derrick Henry on Josh Norman, you

902
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:43,520
Speaker 1: know it, it's it humanizes a little bit because we

903
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:46,960
Speaker 1: have worked with Josh Norman in a professional capacity with

904
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:50,239
Speaker 1: Sky Sports for Super Bowl coverage, and when you look

905
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:53,360
Speaker 1: into the man's eyes from up close and you have

906
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:56,560
Speaker 1: conversations with the person. When you see his soul taken

907
00:45:56,800 --> 00:46:00,440
Speaker 1: a national television, it doesn't feel it's not doesn't give

908
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:02,239
Speaker 1: you that same charge as if he was just the

909
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 1: perfect stranger prevent me from family, because all those things

910
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:11,680
Speaker 1: you well know, but you see these you know, now

911
00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:13,840
Speaker 1: it's becoming a thing where there's a picture of the

912
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:17,879
Speaker 1: Earth's glow, the Earth in space and like that that

913
00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:21,759
Speaker 1: freeze frame picture of Josh Norman being tossed away from

914
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:24,279
Speaker 1: the Earth, and it's like, my thing was, You're right, Dan,

915
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:26,239
Speaker 1: I like, this guy was a nice guy to us.

916
00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 1: Um he was a pro and uh, you know got

917
00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:30,200
Speaker 1: paid a little bit more than us too, and I

918
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:32,319
Speaker 1: respect him. So I was like, I'm not retweeting that,

919
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:34,800
Speaker 1: like I. It's different when you meet these guys. It

920
00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:41,359
Speaker 1: truly is Mark giving away Sky Sports Financial. I love this.

921
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:44,200
Speaker 1: You know what. The crazy thing is that the next

922
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:47,680
Speaker 1: run that Derrick Henry had not that I needed anymore

923
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:50,799
Speaker 1: proof that he's one of the biggest badasses to ever

924
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:53,239
Speaker 1: play in the NFL, but it almost proved it more

925
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:56,359
Speaker 1: than that stiff farm because his next carry, you saw

926
00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:59,640
Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmonds of the Bills that their middle linebacker kind

927
00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:01,839
Speaker 1: of want to get revenge, like you just clowned us,

928
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:04,319
Speaker 1: I'm gonna come after you. And he came with the

929
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:07,640
Speaker 1: biggest running start possible to try to just like deliver

930
00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:10,040
Speaker 1: one on Henry, and he just sort of bounced off him,

931
00:47:10,040 --> 00:47:11,960
Speaker 1: and Henry gained about three more yards and got the

932
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:14,560
Speaker 1: first down after that, Like there is I've never seen

933
00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:17,719
Speaker 1: a running back quite like Therrick Henry. Maybe Brandon Jacobs,

934
00:47:17,719 --> 00:47:19,759
Speaker 1: but but Henry is just like so much more than

935
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:25,120
Speaker 1: right now because it's weird to averaging. He's not even

936
00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:29,000
Speaker 1: playing that well this year, right He's not He's not

937
00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:31,160
Speaker 1: even playing that well. Their running team hasn't gotten going.

938
00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:35,160
Speaker 1: The last week actually reminded me, or at least made

939
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:37,200
Speaker 1: me think this year, if I could shoot, if I

940
00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:38,840
Speaker 1: was a Titans fan and I could choose a J.

941
00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:41,160
Speaker 1: Brown on the field or Derrick Henry, I think a J.

942
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:43,600
Speaker 1: Brown is more important because they're a past first team.

943
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:45,840
Speaker 1: That's how they're winning these games, and a J. Brown

944
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:48,960
Speaker 1: is so impressive. They're just a different passing game when

945
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:51,080
Speaker 1: he's out there. I love that you said that, Greg,

946
00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:52,960
Speaker 1: because I think Arthur Smith and I know Dan that

947
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:55,520
Speaker 1: we we talked about these sounds like he's the front

948
00:47:55,560 --> 00:47:57,840
Speaker 1: you know, the frontman for like a painting company somewhere.

949
00:47:57,880 --> 00:48:02,560
Speaker 1: But he is a he is a needs he needs

950
00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:06,280
Speaker 1: a nickname. But they came out, they came out leaning

951
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:09,560
Speaker 1: heavily on their play action and like they Tannehill has

952
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:12,239
Speaker 1: been really really good in this offense. I mean, I

953
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:14,800
Speaker 1: just think he is one of the tougher, grittier dudes

954
00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:18,080
Speaker 1: out there. He's fine taking a gigantic shot and throwing

955
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:21,040
Speaker 1: it and completing at forty yards downfield. And their passing

956
00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:23,200
Speaker 1: game is very important, you know, as it was down

957
00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:25,439
Speaker 1: the stretch last year too. But they're able to move

958
00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:28,080
Speaker 1: the ball without Derrick Henry running for four hundred and

959
00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:32,960
Speaker 1: six yards and three touchdowns Legarrett Blunt style game after game. Yeah,

960
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:36,120
Speaker 1: the the idea of Arthur Smith as a head coaching candidate,

961
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:38,719
Speaker 1: that Arthur Smith, the name itself is holding him back.

962
00:48:39,239 --> 00:48:43,320
Speaker 1: And yes, he is the son of the FedEx founder,

963
00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:46,440
Speaker 1: I believe, or I mean, it's it's major, it's major

964
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:51,000
Speaker 1: his background. What if we just dropped Arthur Smith entirely

965
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:53,880
Speaker 1: and just like started calling him Special Delivery or something,

966
00:48:54,239 --> 00:48:57,320
Speaker 1: Matt money Smith, that Matt money Smith went with something

967
00:48:57,680 --> 00:49:01,920
Speaker 1: more simple alteration, go by Artie Artie Smith. Now it

968
00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:03,960
Speaker 1: looks like a guy would hire for the Jets to

969
00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:06,279
Speaker 1: reboot the offense. Maybe I don't know, just thrown it

970
00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:11,719
Speaker 1: up there, that's a nice ring to it, Like, um,

971
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:14,640
Speaker 1: all right, good stuff. You locked that up, Connie. Huh.

972
00:49:14,719 --> 00:49:17,480
Speaker 1: I like that. I locked it up. That's what I did. Ye,

973
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 1: thank you. I'm glad I have all of your approval.

974
00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:22,120
Speaker 1: You're having a good show. I mean, there was that

975
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:24,960
Speaker 1: instant early on when you stepped on me when I

976
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:28,040
Speaker 1: was trying to transition, But ever since that, I feel

977
00:49:28,080 --> 00:49:32,719
Speaker 1: like you've really slid into the analyst role. Good thing

978
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:36,080
Speaker 1: is Dan will remember that stepping over him seventy five

979
00:49:36,120 --> 00:49:38,959
Speaker 1: years from now, so it's you're in the clear. Well,

980
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:41,919
Speaker 1: I listen. I had to push the boundaries to see

981
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:44,279
Speaker 1: where they were, and Dan let me know. And I'm

982
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 1: very adaptable. So whatever you need me to do, I

983
00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 1: am here for you. What a team player she is,

984
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:54,759
Speaker 1: all right? So the Zeuser is up. Kind of a

985
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:58,880
Speaker 1: tough pick because I wanted to check in with Minnesota

986
00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:01,920
Speaker 1: because I'm not to give up the Ghosts there after

987
00:50:01,960 --> 00:50:04,040
Speaker 1: that killer loss on Sunday night. But I can't watch

988
00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:07,239
Speaker 1: the Falcons. I won't do it. So let's go with

989
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:13,360
Speaker 1: Cincinnati at Indianapolis. That is my next pick. And Uh

990
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:18,160
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow made to look like a rookie by the

991
00:50:18,160 --> 00:50:21,200
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens defense in Week five. By the way, that

992
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:26,640
Speaker 1: the Ravens defensive coordinator what's his name again, Wink Martindale, Yeah,

993
00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:32,640
Speaker 1: wink wink getting upset apparently that the Cincinnati head coach

994
00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:36,320
Speaker 1: UH sent out the field goal unit to get points

995
00:50:36,360 --> 00:50:37,640
Speaker 1: on the board at the end of that game because

996
00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:42,680
Speaker 1: the Bengals didn't want to get shut It's got these

997
00:50:42,680 --> 00:50:47,160
Speaker 1: guys all week and our little three points, the Spangels

998
00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:49,839
Speaker 1: and every other NFL team prepares their hardest all week,

999
00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:52,040
Speaker 1: and when you get you're getting shut out, just put

1000
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:54,680
Speaker 1: some points on the board to get mad about that.

1001
00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:57,480
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe some karma retribution coming towards the race,

1002
00:50:57,680 --> 00:51:00,319
Speaker 1: Wink Martindale have a problem when the Ravens in into

1003
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:02,320
Speaker 1: l A and beat the Rams like forty five to

1004
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:04,480
Speaker 1: six on Monday Night football, did the issue the same

1005
00:51:04,719 --> 00:51:09,240
Speaker 1: concerning statements about running. Probably not anyway, that's beside the point.

1006
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:13,520
Speaker 1: So Cincinnati, yeah, a really bad UH Week five, and

1007
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:16,200
Speaker 1: now they travel to Indianapolis to face the Colts, and

1008
00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:20,239
Speaker 1: the Colts I know the head coach, Frank Reich. He

1009
00:51:20,480 --> 00:51:25,000
Speaker 1: he's saying that the quarterback Philip Rivers is not on

1010
00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:27,879
Speaker 1: his list of problems. Well, I don't know about that,

1011
00:51:28,320 --> 00:51:32,319
Speaker 1: and they have some issues, um that go beyond the quarterback,

1012
00:51:33,239 --> 00:51:37,400
Speaker 1: including who's playing around Philip Rivers. But I need to

1013
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:41,480
Speaker 1: see Philip Rivers deliver a nice game here and light

1014
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:44,760
Speaker 1: up a Cincinnati defense that is there for the taking

1015
00:51:45,239 --> 00:51:48,280
Speaker 1: in your own building. Go go blow out the Bengals.

1016
00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:51,480
Speaker 1: It's not it's not going to alleviate my my concerns

1017
00:51:51,560 --> 00:51:54,280
Speaker 1: and my doubts of the Colts, which I've had really

1018
00:51:54,280 --> 00:51:57,560
Speaker 1: since Philip Rivers signed there. But it's gonna at least

1019
00:51:57,600 --> 00:52:00,359
Speaker 1: like steady the ship and have people not asking hard

1020
00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:02,360
Speaker 1: questions about what's going on at the top of that

1021
00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:05,759
Speaker 1: depth chart at quarterback. So this on paper looks like

1022
00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:08,920
Speaker 1: an easy Colts win. It's just still maybe a Colts

1023
00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:11,400
Speaker 1: defense that got inflated a little bit in a steam

1024
00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:14,759
Speaker 1: based on their early schedule, but still a defense that

1025
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:17,160
Speaker 1: I imagine at home should be able to do similar

1026
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:20,160
Speaker 1: to what the Ravens did to Burrow and company. But

1027
00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:22,480
Speaker 1: if this ends up a close game. If they lose

1028
00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:25,400
Speaker 1: this game and Joe Burrow gets hot and Rivers throws picks,

1029
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:28,760
Speaker 1: it's going to be a very tricky situation in Indianapolis.

1030
00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:35,279
Speaker 1: Think it could be easier for right well, I think

1031
00:52:35,560 --> 00:52:37,560
Speaker 1: I think it could be a little bit easier this

1032
00:52:37,600 --> 00:52:41,880
Speaker 1: week for Rivers because last week Anthony Costanzo when he

1033
00:52:41,920 --> 00:52:45,480
Speaker 1: went down their left tackle, the Browns really took advantage

1034
00:52:45,480 --> 00:52:49,440
Speaker 1: Miles Garrett specifically, and the Bengals they don't have that

1035
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:52,319
Speaker 1: same type of pass rush, and Costanzo should be back

1036
00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:54,440
Speaker 1: in this game, so that should really help up front

1037
00:52:54,440 --> 00:52:57,919
Speaker 1: for Rivers. This would be a tough matchup. I think

1038
00:52:57,920 --> 00:53:00,719
Speaker 1: for the Colts. The Bengals defense has improved way more

1039
00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:03,080
Speaker 1: than the Bengals offense with Joe Burrow, which is crazy.

1040
00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:06,160
Speaker 1: Burrows playing well overall until last week, but the Bengals

1041
00:53:06,200 --> 00:53:10,600
Speaker 1: defense has been respectable after being terrible all of last year.

1042
00:53:10,640 --> 00:53:12,879
Speaker 1: But all of a sudden, right when they they start

1043
00:53:12,920 --> 00:53:15,600
Speaker 1: to feel good about themselves, they lose Sam Harvard, who's

1044
00:53:15,600 --> 00:53:18,000
Speaker 1: been playing well, one of their pass wrestlers, he's on

1045
00:53:18,120 --> 00:53:20,560
Speaker 1: i R. And you lose your biggest free agent signing,

1046
00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:23,839
Speaker 1: DJ Reader for the season. So this Bengals team Uh,

1047
00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:26,160
Speaker 1: it's been a lot of tough luck. But they should

1048
00:53:26,239 --> 00:53:28,279
Speaker 1: feel like they can keep this game close because the

1049
00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:31,400
Speaker 1: Colts offense is just so on inspiring. It's not just Rivers.

1050
00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:34,400
Speaker 1: This is such a run heavy team in Indianapolis, and

1051
00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:37,320
Speaker 1: they're they're terrible at running the ball, like they really

1052
00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:40,280
Speaker 1: miss Marlon Mack their thirty feet in yards per carry

1053
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:42,560
Speaker 1: and Jonathan Taylor everyone thinks you can just throw in

1054
00:53:42,640 --> 00:53:45,000
Speaker 1: it and running back. He's not seeing the field. Well,

1055
00:53:45,040 --> 00:53:47,719
Speaker 1: he's not like seeing holes. Well, I think he's been

1056
00:53:47,719 --> 00:53:50,760
Speaker 1: struggling a little bit. Been part of their problem. There's

1057
00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:53,160
Speaker 1: one thing about the Colts that that is not overrated

1058
00:53:53,160 --> 00:53:55,160
Speaker 1: about their defense. They would have lost I think by

1059
00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:57,960
Speaker 1: another four team points to Cleveland if they weren't the

1060
00:53:57,960 --> 00:54:01,640
Speaker 1: best and if in the entire NFL and open field tackling,

1061
00:54:01,680 --> 00:54:04,080
Speaker 1: I mean, they make bobbiokariki. Some of these guys are

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00:54:04,080 --> 00:54:06,880
Speaker 1: making a couple of plays on one on one matchups

1063
00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:09,160
Speaker 1: in space, but I'm just not seeing anywhere else. So

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00:54:09,239 --> 00:54:11,080
Speaker 1: I do trust their defense, but I do not trust

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00:54:11,160 --> 00:54:14,000
Speaker 1: them to win game, to win blowouts and lets unless

1066
00:54:14,040 --> 00:54:17,320
Speaker 1: it's like twenty one to three. Al right, up next,

1067
00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:24,439
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, let's go um, let's go to an ugly one,

1068
00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:28,720
Speaker 1: shall we. Let's go to the Lions and the Jaguars.

1069
00:54:29,040 --> 00:54:31,760
Speaker 1: I don't know why I'm going down with this Jaguars ship.

1070
00:54:33,040 --> 00:54:35,960
Speaker 1: I I still believe in this offense, I really do,

1071
00:54:36,080 --> 00:54:38,040
Speaker 1: And I think this is the week everyone's gonna pick

1072
00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:40,160
Speaker 1: the Lions to come off of their by and kind

1073
00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:42,319
Speaker 1: of get right. And things have been going well, and

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00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:45,120
Speaker 1: I can just see a scenario where Matt Patricia's is

1075
00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:47,960
Speaker 1: facing more heat than he ever has because the Jaguars

1076
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:50,200
Speaker 1: offense is the best group in this game. And I

1077
00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:52,120
Speaker 1: want to see what Patricia did with the bye week,

1078
00:54:52,160 --> 00:54:54,160
Speaker 1: Like how does he solve what his problems are on

1079
00:54:54,239 --> 00:54:57,120
Speaker 1: defense because there's so many of them and he seems

1080
00:54:57,160 --> 00:54:59,000
Speaker 1: to just kind of roll out the same plan each

1081
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:01,640
Speaker 1: and every week and and it doesn't really work that well.

1082
00:55:01,920 --> 00:55:04,600
Speaker 1: And their offense really isn't isn't hitting big plays either.

1083
00:55:04,640 --> 00:55:06,600
Speaker 1: I know, I know Stafford will get some yards and

1084
00:55:06,640 --> 00:55:08,759
Speaker 1: points against this Jaguars team, but I sort of trust

1085
00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:11,600
Speaker 1: the Jaguars still. Maybe I'm wrong a little more in

1086
00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:13,680
Speaker 1: a shootout that than I do the Lions. Is you

1087
00:55:13,719 --> 00:55:17,160
Speaker 1: gonna lock it up? No? No, I thought we were

1088
00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:24,560
Speaker 1: going that way now that it's the Jaguars. Last time

1089
00:55:24,600 --> 00:55:27,520
Speaker 1: we saw the Lions, well go. Some might saw that

1090
00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:30,120
Speaker 1: they have five straight touchdown drives and four of those

1091
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:32,360
Speaker 1: were for seventy five plus yards. This is not a

1092
00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:35,000
Speaker 1: good defense. And when I was high on the Detroit Lions,

1093
00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:37,800
Speaker 1: I thought their defense would grow and that their offense

1094
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:39,920
Speaker 1: would be beat you up run game. They're none of

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00:55:39,960 --> 00:55:41,920
Speaker 1: those things. They're just none of them. And I'm with

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00:55:41,960 --> 00:55:45,000
Speaker 1: you Greg watching Jacksonville. Minshew played another good game last week.

1097
00:55:45,360 --> 00:55:47,600
Speaker 1: They've just got some young I mean, for all the

1098
00:55:48,040 --> 00:55:50,440
Speaker 1: flaming that the front office gets, for all the mistakes

1099
00:55:50,440 --> 00:55:53,600
Speaker 1: they made, they do have a knack for finding productive

1100
00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:56,840
Speaker 1: guys later in rounds. Like James Robinson had one terrible

1101
00:55:57,160 --> 00:55:59,840
Speaker 1: looked like a halfback option pass that turned into a

1102
00:56:00,040 --> 00:56:02,640
Speaker 1: umble that was a disaster, but over and over he

1103
00:56:02,719 --> 00:56:04,880
Speaker 1: is getting yardage in Minshew. I mean, I know that

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00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:07,520
Speaker 1: after this year they're gonna find another quarterback if they're

1105
00:56:07,560 --> 00:56:09,880
Speaker 1: high up in the draft. But he played well. He

1106
00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:11,799
Speaker 1: played well, and he does that most weeks. He has

1107
00:56:11,840 --> 00:56:14,000
Speaker 1: a couple of stinkers, but you can rely on him

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00:56:14,040 --> 00:56:16,399
Speaker 1: to be productive and not make too many mistakes. They're

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00:56:16,640 --> 00:56:19,600
Speaker 1: they're problem I think that Minshew. I think they're oh

1110
00:56:19,680 --> 00:56:23,160
Speaker 1: in five now when Minshew throws with three yards and

1111
00:56:23,360 --> 00:56:26,920
Speaker 1: I think They're big problem is that their margin of

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00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:30,840
Speaker 1: errors so slim that when they make the mistakes that

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00:56:30,880 --> 00:56:34,440
Speaker 1: they make, uh, it just kills them. Like Stephen Haushka

1114
00:56:34,520 --> 00:56:37,480
Speaker 1: who was high and by uh there, And how how

1115
00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:40,560
Speaker 1: is kai Forbeth not the kicker in that game in

1116
00:56:40,600 --> 00:56:45,480
Speaker 1: week five? He misses two in close field goals um

1117
00:56:46,120 --> 00:56:48,839
Speaker 1: factor in this game that bizarre fourth in one call

1118
00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:51,239
Speaker 1: where they gave it to James Robinson and it led

1119
00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:54,720
Speaker 1: to a fumble in the red zone. And then Minshew

1120
00:56:54,800 --> 00:56:58,200
Speaker 1: gets the sack fumble turnover, which was a big play

1121
00:56:58,239 --> 00:57:00,120
Speaker 1: that essentially turned the lights out on the game. Was

1122
00:57:00,120 --> 00:57:03,919
Speaker 1: a pretty big turnover by Minshew. So I think that

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00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:06,719
Speaker 1: those things can't happen because they they're just not good

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00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:09,279
Speaker 1: enough to survive mistakes like that. And that's why they've

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00:57:09,320 --> 00:57:13,440
Speaker 1: lost four or five. Yeah, and and their defense certainly

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00:57:13,520 --> 00:57:17,120
Speaker 1: can't hold up when they're missing c. J. Henderson, Miles

1127
00:57:17,200 --> 00:57:21,040
Speaker 1: Jack and Josh Allen, which they were all out against

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00:57:21,040 --> 00:57:24,320
Speaker 1: the Texans, and they're all they've all been limited this

1129
00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:28,400
Speaker 1: week in practice. But those are three essential parts of

1130
00:57:28,440 --> 00:57:31,640
Speaker 1: the defense, and it really showed when those guys are

1131
00:57:31,640 --> 00:57:34,640
Speaker 1: banged up. It shows how this defense kind of falls off.

1132
00:57:35,320 --> 00:57:38,960
Speaker 1: I'm with you, Greg, Matt Patricia loses to the Jaguars here.

1133
00:57:39,640 --> 00:57:42,080
Speaker 1: I don't know that's a patient organization for whatever reason

1134
00:57:42,080 --> 00:57:44,760
Speaker 1: in Detroit, but patients has got to hit a limit

1135
00:57:44,800 --> 00:57:47,600
Speaker 1: at certain at a certain point. Up next, Mark Sessler,

1136
00:57:49,360 --> 00:57:51,720
Speaker 1: all right, well let's see here. I'm gonna go with

1137
00:57:52,120 --> 00:57:55,080
Speaker 1: I want to see I don't want to see any

1138
00:57:55,080 --> 00:57:57,080
Speaker 1: of these games, actually, now that I'm looking at what's left.

1139
00:57:57,120 --> 00:58:00,000
Speaker 1: But every game is beautiful. Every game is a beautif

1140
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:04,080
Speaker 1: full flower. Mark Dan, I don't want to pull the

1141
00:58:04,200 --> 00:58:06,400
Speaker 1: Jets away from you. If you want to watch that game?

1142
00:58:06,920 --> 00:58:10,040
Speaker 1: Are you being serious right now? Well, they are playing.

1143
00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:13,800
Speaker 1: I do not watch Jet games that feature Adam Gates

1144
00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:16,840
Speaker 1: and Joe Flacco prominently, so I have no interest. Okay,

1145
00:58:17,040 --> 00:58:18,800
Speaker 1: I just wanted to check in with you there. I'm

1146
00:58:18,840 --> 00:58:22,200
Speaker 1: gonna go with um. I'm gonna go with the Chargers

1147
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:26,080
Speaker 1: hosting the Jets, and that's like inviting someone into your

1148
00:58:27,080 --> 00:58:31,280
Speaker 1: the Dolphins hosting the Jets. Let's go with the Dolphins

1149
00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:33,320
Speaker 1: hosting the Jets. Where am I? I'm all over the place.

1150
00:58:34,360 --> 00:58:37,080
Speaker 1: Wait this actually, wait this is I I wrote my

1151
00:58:37,160 --> 00:58:39,120
Speaker 1: notes incorrectly here and so I don't want this game,

1152
00:58:39,120 --> 00:58:43,160
Speaker 1: but I'll take it anyways. Ryan Fitzpatrick, why not, started

1153
00:58:43,200 --> 00:58:47,280
Speaker 1: eleven of thirteen last week, absolutely flamed the Niners. I

1154
00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:50,120
Speaker 1: wrote in my notes, best court QB performance of the

1155
00:58:50,240 --> 00:58:52,160
Speaker 1: year in that division. I mean, that's not hard to

1156
00:58:52,200 --> 00:58:55,560
Speaker 1: achieve right now. But Ryan Fitzpatrick is playing out of

1157
00:58:55,560 --> 00:59:00,240
Speaker 1: his division. That's kind of hard. I I understand at

1158
00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:04,360
Speaker 1: but I mean watching what he did against that Niners defense,

1159
00:59:04,360 --> 00:59:06,960
Speaker 1: and I noted that their secondary was a hot mess.

1160
00:59:07,240 --> 00:59:10,080
Speaker 1: But I give Chan Gailey, who you know, we've we've not.

1161
00:59:10,200 --> 00:59:11,760
Speaker 1: I'm with you, Grey. I was not sold on the

1162
00:59:11,760 --> 00:59:14,680
Speaker 1: idea of hiring Shan Gailey five years after he was

1163
00:59:14,720 --> 00:59:16,919
Speaker 1: hanging out in Florida on the beach. But he came

1164
00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:19,160
Speaker 1: in and he was aggressive and they just went for it.

1165
00:59:19,480 --> 00:59:21,640
Speaker 1: And I thought that the pass rush was a little

1166
00:59:21,680 --> 00:59:24,720
Speaker 1: more active last game. They made lifetop on Jimmy g.

1167
00:59:25,080 --> 00:59:28,000
Speaker 1: Mike Asecki is a legit playmaker at a seventy yard

1168
00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:30,520
Speaker 1: catch last week. So this Dolphins team and I don't

1169
00:59:30,520 --> 00:59:31,960
Speaker 1: I don't want to like I. I you know, I

1170
00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:34,200
Speaker 1: get people on Twitter saying you project every team into

1171
00:59:34,240 --> 00:59:36,560
Speaker 1: the playoffs. I understand that. I get a little excited

1172
00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:38,480
Speaker 1: earlier in the year about some of these teams. I'm

1173
00:59:38,520 --> 00:59:41,400
Speaker 1: not saying that about Miami, but they are. They were

1174
00:59:41,440 --> 00:59:43,320
Speaker 1: not frisky early on, and I thought, are they just

1175
00:59:43,360 --> 00:59:45,120
Speaker 1: going to be the team that takes a step back

1176
00:59:45,240 --> 00:59:48,000
Speaker 1: after we spent all offseason I did thinking that Brian

1177
00:59:48,040 --> 00:59:50,600
Speaker 1: Flores could be one of the next great coaches and

1178
00:59:50,840 --> 00:59:52,600
Speaker 1: coached them up in a way last year that made

1179
00:59:52,640 --> 00:59:55,040
Speaker 1: them so fun and so frisky. I think we saw

1180
00:59:55,080 --> 00:59:57,400
Speaker 1: some of that against against the Niners, sort of like

1181
00:59:57,680 --> 01:00:00,920
Speaker 1: play loose, go for it for at tour. Right now,

1182
01:00:00,960 --> 01:00:02,920
Speaker 1: you can't even think about two at the moment. And

1183
01:00:02,960 --> 01:00:04,520
Speaker 1: I and you know the Jets, I think we all

1184
01:00:04,560 --> 01:00:08,040
Speaker 1: get it. Um They've they've parted ways with Levan bell Uh.

1185
01:00:08,080 --> 01:00:09,920
Speaker 1: It's it's a tough time to be a Jets fan.

1186
01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:11,680
Speaker 1: I've been there as a Browns fan Den where you

1187
01:00:11,840 --> 01:00:14,560
Speaker 1: it's it's it's October and you'd rather someone else watch

1188
01:00:14,600 --> 01:00:17,439
Speaker 1: the game. It's not fun, and being a fan, part

1189
01:00:17,480 --> 01:00:19,680
Speaker 1: of the deal is it should be fun. Sometimes it's not.

1190
01:00:19,800 --> 01:00:22,920
Speaker 1: Just a year after year of turmoil and chaos, and

1191
01:00:23,000 --> 01:00:26,120
Speaker 1: so I I legit understand why Jets fans at this

1192
01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:28,400
Speaker 1: point would as they say, you know, go rake leaves

1193
01:00:28,440 --> 01:00:30,360
Speaker 1: if you have leaves. We don't, we don't have leaves

1194
01:00:30,360 --> 01:00:32,080
Speaker 1: in our yard. But you go do that. If you

1195
01:00:32,160 --> 01:00:35,320
Speaker 1: do onto the day, douse the fire, you know in

1196
01:00:35,360 --> 01:00:37,760
Speaker 1: the hills behind, you know, like that put out a

1197
01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:41,480
Speaker 1: forest fire. Kids. Yeah, you can't judge us against past

1198
01:00:41,560 --> 01:00:45,880
Speaker 1: generations because media is different. But judging by social media,

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01:00:46,040 --> 01:00:49,000
Speaker 1: now the Jets fans are out on this team right now.

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01:00:49,040 --> 01:00:51,800
Speaker 1: They're out on the organization right now. And you go

1201
01:00:51,840 --> 01:00:54,720
Speaker 1: look at the TV ratings, like, Jets fans aren't watching

1202
01:00:54,760 --> 01:00:58,120
Speaker 1: their team because you did the one thing. The one

1203
01:00:58,280 --> 01:01:01,120
Speaker 1: thing you can't do is a cope away from a

1204
01:01:01,160 --> 01:01:03,440
Speaker 1: fan base. And if they don't have any hope that

1205
01:01:03,480 --> 01:01:07,160
Speaker 1: you're gonna play entertaining football, you're just not gonna watch.

1206
01:01:07,200 --> 01:01:09,920
Speaker 1: And especially with Joe Flacco playing Sam Donald, this is

1207
01:01:09,960 --> 01:01:13,040
Speaker 1: another game with that shoulder injury. I don't know, Ricky.

1208
01:01:13,120 --> 01:01:15,880
Speaker 1: I want to bring in Erica tamp Post, who, Yeah,

1209
01:01:15,880 --> 01:01:19,280
Speaker 1: the Jets are on pace for an infamous season, perhaps

1210
01:01:19,280 --> 01:01:22,680
Speaker 1: windless season. Well Erica can relate to that because she

1211
01:01:22,840 --> 01:01:28,120
Speaker 1: is yet to lock up a single team correctly but Ricky,

1212
01:01:28,200 --> 01:01:30,040
Speaker 1: I don't know exactly what she's about to say, but

1213
01:01:30,120 --> 01:01:32,880
Speaker 1: she just did say she wanted to connect with me

1214
01:01:32,920 --> 01:01:36,480
Speaker 1: on something. Erica, what do you got? Well, well, listen here. Okay,

1215
01:01:36,560 --> 01:01:38,880
Speaker 1: let's just look at the facts quickly. The Jets are

1216
01:01:38,920 --> 01:01:42,480
Speaker 1: oh and five, their last in the league get points scored.

1217
01:01:43,000 --> 01:01:48,000
Speaker 1: Sam Donald's out with the shoulder injury, injury, and everyone's questioning,

1218
01:01:48,120 --> 01:01:55,760
Speaker 1: Adam Gazes, I'm gonna destroy you. Okay, So so Adam Gaze,

1219
01:01:55,840 --> 01:01:58,400
Speaker 1: you know everyone wants him gone. Right. So the Dolphins,

1220
01:01:58,440 --> 01:02:00,520
Speaker 1: like Mark just said, came off on a easing when

1221
01:02:00,560 --> 01:02:04,000
Speaker 1: they against the forty niners. This should beat the single

1222
01:02:04,200 --> 01:02:08,520
Speaker 1: handedly easiest game for the Dolphins all season. I will

1223
01:02:08,560 --> 01:02:12,240
Speaker 1: be at the salon because I sense a blowout, and

1224
01:02:12,400 --> 01:02:19,000
Speaker 1: that's why I'm locking up the Dolphins. Let's go for

1225
01:02:19,080 --> 01:02:23,280
Speaker 1: the Jets. Okay, your confidence is so shattered that you're

1226
01:02:23,360 --> 01:02:26,800
Speaker 1: locking up the team that's the Jets are on the road.

1227
01:02:26,880 --> 01:02:30,240
Speaker 1: You're taking that home team that Okay, I don't want

1228
01:02:30,280 --> 01:02:36,480
Speaker 1: to look. I see nothing. Get the w In fairness

1229
01:02:36,560 --> 01:02:39,160
Speaker 1: to Erika, her pick last week the forty nine is

1230
01:02:39,160 --> 01:02:42,120
Speaker 1: we're actually even bigger favorites somehow than the Dolphins. Are

1231
01:02:42,200 --> 01:02:45,080
Speaker 1: in this game, and she got that wrong. So anything

1232
01:02:45,200 --> 01:02:48,120
Speaker 1: anything can happen, although probably not with Joe Flacco. Nothing

1233
01:02:48,120 --> 01:02:52,080
Speaker 1: can happen with Well. I feel good about that exactly.

1234
01:02:52,320 --> 01:02:55,040
Speaker 1: You look in the mirror when you're at this stage,

1235
01:02:55,080 --> 01:02:57,280
Speaker 1: when you're owing five, when you look in the mirror

1236
01:02:57,600 --> 01:03:00,720
Speaker 1: that don't worry about not seeing your reflection looking back

1237
01:03:00,880 --> 01:03:03,240
Speaker 1: is a beautiful woman. It's a very sad woman, though,

1238
01:03:03,400 --> 01:03:07,280
Speaker 1: and you need this. So I do family frying like

1239
01:03:07,360 --> 01:03:11,800
Speaker 1: in like mirage behind me like it's it's disgusting, honestly,

1240
01:03:12,120 --> 01:03:16,240
Speaker 1: and I have no remorse. Go to office team. Let's

1241
01:03:16,240 --> 01:03:18,040
Speaker 1: give them a little love quickly because they are the

1242
01:03:18,080 --> 01:03:20,960
Speaker 1: relevant team they I think they could be a playoff contender,

1243
01:03:21,280 --> 01:03:23,720
Speaker 1: two teams that can blow to the NFL teams out

1244
01:03:23,960 --> 01:03:26,200
Speaker 1: Like the way that they have. I'm starting to get convinced.

1245
01:03:26,200 --> 01:03:28,919
Speaker 1: Their defense totally different when Byron Jones is in the game.

1246
01:03:29,120 --> 01:03:31,320
Speaker 1: He was back last week and totally different. When they

1247
01:03:31,400 --> 01:03:33,560
Speaker 1: get a lead in Florist can start cooking up those

1248
01:03:33,560 --> 01:03:36,280
Speaker 1: blitzes because that's kind of give the Dolphins some respect.

1249
01:03:36,480 --> 01:03:38,520
Speaker 1: Erica is on the show right now picking them as

1250
01:03:38,600 --> 01:03:40,880
Speaker 1: the lock of the We're saying, we just talked about

1251
01:03:40,920 --> 01:03:42,480
Speaker 1: the Jets for three minutes. I just want to. I

1252
01:03:43,400 --> 01:03:50,080
Speaker 1: was like, I don't, that's unnecessary. The Dolphins are getting

1253
01:03:50,080 --> 01:03:53,040
Speaker 1: plenty of love with Ricky Hollywood right now. I believe

1254
01:03:53,080 --> 01:03:57,600
Speaker 1: in the Dolphins more, you know, so wholeheartedly, more than

1255
01:03:57,640 --> 01:03:59,800
Speaker 1: I believe in Greg to pick a shirt that doesn't

1256
01:03:59,800 --> 01:04:06,439
Speaker 1: pla with his background, Yeah, I think we should move

1257
01:04:06,480 --> 01:04:12,240
Speaker 1: on now, because alright, alright, up next, Mark, I believe

1258
01:04:12,280 --> 01:04:15,160
Speaker 1: it's snakes for you, buddy. It does. And I'm gonna

1259
01:04:15,160 --> 01:04:22,240
Speaker 1: go Washington at the Giants, Washington. Look the bottom of

1260
01:04:22,280 --> 01:04:24,880
Speaker 1: the barrel operations here and you know the way this

1261
01:04:25,320 --> 01:04:26,880
Speaker 1: you pull up behind the curtain a little bit. For

1262
01:04:26,880 --> 01:04:29,280
Speaker 1: our audio listeners if they listen to the Sunday Night Show,

1263
01:04:29,360 --> 01:04:31,360
Speaker 1: suddenly you know Nick Shook has some of these. They're

1264
01:04:31,360 --> 01:04:33,800
Speaker 1: wondering the backroom dealings. I I kind of line up

1265
01:04:33,840 --> 01:04:35,960
Speaker 1: a few that might get handed off to someone else,

1266
01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:38,880
Speaker 1: and this might be one of them. I uh, look

1267
01:04:38,920 --> 01:04:42,240
Speaker 1: at it's it's a tough situation. These two teams, you know,

1268
01:04:42,240 --> 01:04:45,800
Speaker 1: are in in rough shape. For all the good tidings

1269
01:04:45,800 --> 01:04:49,960
Speaker 1: of Alex Smith's returning the reality is that with Kyle

1270
01:04:50,000 --> 01:04:52,280
Speaker 1: Allen in there, they threw for seventy four yards. Alex

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01:04:52,320 --> 01:04:54,960
Speaker 1: Smith came in and through for thirty seven. So Kyle

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01:04:55,000 --> 01:04:56,920
Speaker 1: Allen will be back and they're gonna go through this

1273
01:04:56,920 --> 01:04:59,040
Speaker 1: song and dance. We're gonna see all these quarterbacks over

1274
01:04:59,080 --> 01:05:02,960
Speaker 1: and over. UM. Dwayne Haskins has been mentioned as trade bait.

1275
01:05:03,080 --> 01:05:06,440
Speaker 1: Dwayne Haskins is the rare NFL. NFL player that has

1276
01:05:06,480 --> 01:05:08,760
Speaker 1: been sick and away from the building for five days.

1277
01:05:09,080 --> 01:05:12,520
Speaker 1: UM is taking COVID tests and it's not testing positive apparently,

1278
01:05:12,520 --> 01:05:17,040
Speaker 1: but illness has been the report a gastro illness. Well

1279
01:05:17,080 --> 01:05:19,040
Speaker 1: those can I guess those can linger? I mean, I'm

1280
01:05:19,040 --> 01:05:23,440
Speaker 1: not gonna They had a hundred and eight total yards

1281
01:05:23,440 --> 01:05:27,280
Speaker 1: on offense and and and suffered eight sacks last week

1282
01:05:27,480 --> 01:05:29,720
Speaker 1: against the Rams. And I understand that mother nature was

1283
01:05:29,760 --> 01:05:32,000
Speaker 1: part of that game too, but there was a negative

1284
01:05:32,040 --> 01:05:35,640
Speaker 1: three hundred and twenty one yardage differential between Washington and

1285
01:05:35,760 --> 01:05:37,800
Speaker 1: l A. And there aren't many other games where you

1286
01:05:37,840 --> 01:05:40,240
Speaker 1: point to outside of a couple of minutes hope for

1287
01:05:40,280 --> 01:05:43,040
Speaker 1: this offense. And so it just creates such a long year.

1288
01:05:43,360 --> 01:05:44,960
Speaker 1: And I look at the Giants and I think this

1289
01:05:45,040 --> 01:05:48,000
Speaker 1: is a winnable game for them because guys like James Bradberry.

1290
01:05:48,040 --> 01:05:50,120
Speaker 1: He has been really good as a cover man for them.

1291
01:05:50,440 --> 01:05:53,600
Speaker 1: Kyler fact Roll has been making plays week after week,

1292
01:05:54,160 --> 01:05:56,080
Speaker 1: you know. And I know that Daniel Jones hasn't thrown

1293
01:05:56,080 --> 01:05:58,440
Speaker 1: a touchdown against week one, and he's gonna face a

1294
01:05:58,480 --> 01:06:00,600
Speaker 1: lot of pressure in this game. But to me, if

1295
01:06:00,640 --> 01:06:03,080
Speaker 1: the Giants, if they this is another fan base along

1296
01:06:03,080 --> 01:06:04,720
Speaker 1: with the Jets fan base, it's a tough It's a

1297
01:06:04,720 --> 01:06:07,400
Speaker 1: tough autumn in New York. If the Giants lose this one,

1298
01:06:07,720 --> 01:06:09,680
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to start asking a lot of questions

1299
01:06:09,720 --> 01:06:11,919
Speaker 1: about the front office. I mean, they have a new coach,

1300
01:06:11,960 --> 01:06:14,080
Speaker 1: so you've got to give him some rope. But there

1301
01:06:14,120 --> 01:06:16,960
Speaker 1: are problems here. There just isn't a lot of consistency

1302
01:06:17,280 --> 01:06:21,400
Speaker 1: with New York week after week. This is a number

1303
01:06:21,440 --> 01:06:25,040
Speaker 1: thirty against number thirty one on the NFL dot Com

1304
01:06:25,120 --> 01:06:29,760
Speaker 1: Power Rankings matchup. And yeah, the gastro illness does not

1305
01:06:29,880 --> 01:06:32,880
Speaker 1: sound great for Haskins. I hope he gets well soon

1306
01:06:33,040 --> 01:06:35,240
Speaker 1: and I think he should be back in the lineup.

1307
01:06:35,760 --> 01:06:39,320
Speaker 1: I understand that we we litigated this, or disgusted or

1308
01:06:39,360 --> 01:06:42,280
Speaker 1: however you want to put it, that Ron Overa doesn't

1309
01:06:42,440 --> 01:06:45,320
Speaker 1: see Dwayne Haskins as part of the future most likely.

1310
01:06:45,920 --> 01:06:50,040
Speaker 1: Uh and and it's Ron Show in Washington. But god,

1311
01:06:50,320 --> 01:06:53,440
Speaker 1: I mean Kyle Allen and Alex Smith, and we love

1312
01:06:53,440 --> 01:06:56,040
Speaker 1: Alex Smith as a comeback story, but he had two

1313
01:06:56,120 --> 01:06:59,360
Speaker 1: point two yards per attempt, which makes Blaine Gabbert look

1314
01:06:59,440 --> 01:07:03,439
Speaker 1: like Joe Namath. And then it was pouring out there, Dan,

1315
01:07:03,960 --> 01:07:06,760
Speaker 1: I know, but come on now, I mean, there's Alex Smith.

1316
01:07:06,800 --> 01:07:10,040
Speaker 1: What are you proving as an organization when you have

1317
01:07:10,200 --> 01:07:13,200
Speaker 1: a prospect in Dwayne Haskins. It's it doesn't matter right

1318
01:07:13,200 --> 01:07:16,080
Speaker 1: now he's ill, But I think that Haskins should be playing,

1319
01:07:16,200 --> 01:07:21,520
Speaker 1: not these other two guys. He's out of the NFC

1320
01:07:21,760 --> 01:07:25,400
Speaker 1: East yet it's like the participation trophy division of the

1321
01:07:25,600 --> 01:07:30,320
Speaker 1: entire NFL. So listen, maybe Ron Rivera is like so

1322
01:07:30,560 --> 01:07:33,680
Speaker 1: holding out hope that they can get somewhere in this division.

1323
01:07:33,760 --> 01:07:37,120
Speaker 1: It's wide open, right to be fair, I guess the

1324
01:07:37,200 --> 01:07:39,600
Speaker 1: Kyle Allen, although you know, the injury he took was

1325
01:07:39,880 --> 01:07:42,680
Speaker 1: kind of like on a hit that he shouldn't have taken.

1326
01:07:43,200 --> 01:07:44,880
Speaker 1: You know, they had a touchdown drive when he was

1327
01:07:44,880 --> 01:07:46,760
Speaker 1: in there, and there there was too short a sample

1328
01:07:46,760 --> 01:07:49,880
Speaker 1: size to drop much of anything. He's a second year player.

1329
01:07:50,360 --> 01:07:52,000
Speaker 1: They have a chance to win this game because they

1330
01:07:52,000 --> 01:07:54,320
Speaker 1: have the best unit in this game, which is their defense.

1331
01:07:54,360 --> 01:07:57,200
Speaker 1: I think they're a top ten defense right now. Like

1332
01:07:57,280 --> 01:08:01,280
Speaker 1: Chase Young who was drafted two picks ahead of Andrew Thomas.

1333
01:08:01,360 --> 01:08:05,120
Speaker 1: I mean that's a mismatch. Uh Manta Sweats been playing well.

1334
01:08:05,520 --> 01:08:08,720
Speaker 1: Kevin Pierre Lewis their linebacker. Their their secondary has been

1335
01:08:08,760 --> 01:08:10,880
Speaker 1: pretty good. Like they're a topton defense. They're the only

1336
01:08:11,080 --> 01:08:14,320
Speaker 1: group in this game that's good. That's like a bonus.

1337
01:08:14,320 --> 01:08:16,519
Speaker 1: Like the most memorable thing I think that's happened with

1338
01:08:16,520 --> 01:08:20,800
Speaker 1: the Giants this year was Joe Judge pulling down his

1339
01:08:20,960 --> 01:08:25,240
Speaker 1: mask just to yell bs, I'm not gonna say the

1340
01:08:25,280 --> 01:08:28,439
Speaker 1: word out. He had it up the whole game that

1341
01:08:28,520 --> 01:08:30,479
Speaker 1: he pulls it down and he just like yells it out.

1342
01:08:30,479 --> 01:08:33,719
Speaker 1: And that was like the defining moment of the Judge Judge,

1343
01:08:34,240 --> 01:08:36,719
Speaker 1: you know what. That was a great Joe Judge moment.

1344
01:08:36,880 --> 01:08:39,920
Speaker 1: I'm still a fan of. When the loose ball fumble

1345
01:08:40,040 --> 01:08:43,120
Speaker 1: recovery drill at the end of training camp, when he

1346
01:08:43,280 --> 01:08:46,040
Speaker 1: dove on the loose ball and everyone gathered around him.

1347
01:08:46,080 --> 01:08:49,160
Speaker 1: In the New York media, with one viral video clip

1348
01:08:49,200 --> 01:08:52,519
Speaker 1: all decided that Joe Judge was cool now, uh, but

1349
01:08:53,160 --> 01:08:55,479
Speaker 1: that none of this is actually translating to any wins,

1350
01:08:55,560 --> 01:08:58,000
Speaker 1: so he seems to be in a very difficult spot.

1351
01:08:58,040 --> 01:09:01,639
Speaker 1: All right, take it away, Greg, one a game, okay,

1352
01:09:01,720 --> 01:09:03,719
Speaker 1: last one up. I guess no one wants to watch

1353
01:09:03,720 --> 01:09:07,040
Speaker 1: the Falcons out of mind. I mean I do mind,

1354
01:09:07,080 --> 01:09:10,800
Speaker 1: but I don't have a choice. Falkons Vikings. It's it's

1355
01:09:10,920 --> 01:09:14,400
Speaker 1: Raheem Morris. It's uh, it's young Grey. You guys. You

1356
01:09:14,439 --> 01:09:17,479
Speaker 1: guys remember when Morris the coach of the Buccaneers, and

1357
01:09:17,520 --> 01:09:21,519
Speaker 1: he had this slogan Colleen called young Grey. He made

1358
01:09:21,600 --> 01:09:24,080
Speaker 1: up T shirts that was his big thing. Younger. They

1359
01:09:24,120 --> 01:09:26,719
Speaker 1: were coming off, yeah, kind of kind of a fun

1360
01:09:26,760 --> 01:09:28,519
Speaker 1: season when he was first the coach and then he

1361
01:09:28,560 --> 01:09:30,360
Speaker 1: came back out. I think they went three and thirteen

1362
01:09:30,400 --> 01:09:33,639
Speaker 1: and it all, uh, it all unraveled. But they improved

1363
01:09:33,640 --> 01:09:36,679
Speaker 1: their defense when he took over the play calling last year.

1364
01:09:37,160 --> 01:09:39,240
Speaker 1: Uh late in the year, so I don't know. Maybe

1365
01:09:39,240 --> 01:09:42,080
Speaker 1: he gives them a little bit of juice, but they're overmatched.

1366
01:09:42,080 --> 01:09:45,160
Speaker 1: They're a little healthier right now, but they're playing against

1367
01:09:45,160 --> 01:09:47,720
Speaker 1: the Vikings offense, which I think is pretty good. I

1368
01:09:47,760 --> 01:09:50,320
Speaker 1: think this Vikings offense has gotten it going like they

1369
01:09:50,320 --> 01:09:52,880
Speaker 1: got their Gary Kubiak zone running scheme, they got the

1370
01:09:52,920 --> 01:09:55,920
Speaker 1: deep shots with Adam Thilan and Justin Jefferson. That's not

1371
01:09:55,920 --> 01:09:58,000
Speaker 1: gonna get you very far in the NFC East if

1372
01:09:58,040 --> 01:10:00,280
Speaker 1: you keep I mean the NFC wild Card rate said,

1373
01:10:00,400 --> 01:10:02,519
Speaker 1: you know you're losing these close games, but I think

1374
01:10:02,560 --> 01:10:05,439
Speaker 1: they'll be fine. I think they'll win games like this.

1375
01:10:05,560 --> 01:10:08,360
Speaker 1: The Minnesota Vikings have a little faith in these guys.

1376
01:10:09,840 --> 01:10:13,880
Speaker 1: The Dalvin Cook injury, he strained the groin. We'll see

1377
01:10:13,920 --> 01:10:16,840
Speaker 1: what kind of Cook they get. Alexander Madison is a

1378
01:10:16,920 --> 01:10:20,280
Speaker 1: nice backup though. So yeah, like I was saying, I

1379
01:10:20,320 --> 01:10:22,480
Speaker 1: don't want to give up the ghost on the Vikings

1380
01:10:22,960 --> 01:10:26,280
Speaker 1: um and their schedule. If they can get a win

1381
01:10:26,400 --> 01:10:29,720
Speaker 1: here and get to two and four, they got a

1382
01:10:29,760 --> 01:10:32,760
Speaker 1: really hard game the next week at Lambeau, but then

1383
01:10:33,080 --> 01:10:37,479
Speaker 1: you get Lions, Bears, Cowboys, Panthers, Jaguars. So as long

1384
01:10:37,520 --> 01:10:40,360
Speaker 1: as you don't totally bury yourself, I think they can

1385
01:10:40,400 --> 01:10:44,360
Speaker 1: get back into this wild card race. However, and we

1386
01:10:44,439 --> 01:10:46,880
Speaker 1: you know, hit it hard on Sunday night for obvious reasons.

1387
01:10:47,200 --> 01:10:51,439
Speaker 1: That was an unbelievably gut wrenching loss for them against

1388
01:10:51,479 --> 01:10:54,040
Speaker 1: the Seahawks. Because they outplayed Seattle for so much of

1389
01:10:54,040 --> 01:10:56,160
Speaker 1: that game and it had a chance to turn around

1390
01:10:56,160 --> 01:10:59,360
Speaker 1: the whole season. And then when you can't close, you've

1391
01:10:59,400 --> 01:11:01,400
Speaker 1: now put your off in a very difficult position. So

1392
01:11:01,400 --> 01:11:03,880
Speaker 1: you're gonna get one of two Vikings teams. You're gonna

1393
01:11:03,920 --> 01:11:06,320
Speaker 1: get the mad as hell angry we are going to

1394
01:11:06,439 --> 01:11:09,280
Speaker 1: take out all our frustration on a crappy Falcons team,

1395
01:11:09,280 --> 01:11:11,120
Speaker 1: which I think is the path we're gonna go here,

1396
01:11:11,479 --> 01:11:13,960
Speaker 1: or you're gonna get the Vikings team that's in the

1397
01:11:14,000 --> 01:11:17,639
Speaker 1: tank because they had all their um love and joy

1398
01:11:17,680 --> 01:11:20,400
Speaker 1: and energy pumped into that Sunday night football game, and

1399
01:11:20,439 --> 01:11:23,120
Speaker 1: when they get their soul sucked out by Russell Wilson,

1400
01:11:23,520 --> 01:11:25,920
Speaker 1: it's now, you know, bye bye time for them. So

1401
01:11:26,240 --> 01:11:28,840
Speaker 1: I am actually kind of interested in this game. It's

1402
01:11:28,880 --> 01:11:30,880
Speaker 1: just the Falcons depressed me so much right now that

1403
01:11:30,920 --> 01:11:35,040
Speaker 1: I couldn't pull the trigger on drafting them. M Yeah,

1404
01:11:35,120 --> 01:11:38,160
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see if Julio Jones plays what

1405
01:11:38,400 --> 01:11:41,599
Speaker 1: his status is. But I mean, this is a Vikings

1406
01:11:41,600 --> 01:11:45,720
Speaker 1: team who got after Russell Wilson pretty pretty good, uh

1407
01:11:45,840 --> 01:11:49,639
Speaker 1: in that game. But they have nine turnovers on offense

1408
01:11:49,680 --> 01:11:52,640
Speaker 1: and only four takeaways on defense, So they got to

1409
01:11:52,680 --> 01:11:56,800
Speaker 1: start right there and clean up the turnover differential for sure. Yeah,

1410
01:11:56,840 --> 01:12:00,400
Speaker 1: I think like the Falcons are uniquely broken now, and

1411
01:12:00,479 --> 01:12:03,840
Speaker 1: so I'm with you the Vikings. That's a tough loss

1412
01:12:03,840 --> 01:12:06,080
Speaker 1: to come off of. But I think that I mentioned

1413
01:12:06,120 --> 01:12:07,800
Speaker 1: that I thought that the Seahawks were the most more

1414
01:12:07,880 --> 01:12:11,040
Speaker 1: resilient team in that matchup for the way that they've

1415
01:12:11,120 --> 01:12:12,920
Speaker 1: closed it out. But I don't think the Vikings are

1416
01:12:12,960 --> 01:12:15,439
Speaker 1: a we're gonna give up on the season type of operation. Now.

1417
01:12:15,760 --> 01:12:17,960
Speaker 1: My one note from that game, um, well, it was

1418
01:12:18,000 --> 01:12:20,479
Speaker 1: one of my notes that Adam feeling when he gets

1419
01:12:20,479 --> 01:12:23,360
Speaker 1: into these little touchdown dances where they walk up and

1420
01:12:23,400 --> 01:12:26,000
Speaker 1: I'll stare at each other on that television. He likes

1421
01:12:26,000 --> 01:12:28,680
Speaker 1: to get real wiggly with his body. I noticed him,

1422
01:12:28,680 --> 01:12:30,160
Speaker 1: if you go back and track that it was a

1423
01:12:30,240 --> 01:12:32,679
Speaker 1: very interesting touched Yeah, it was just like it wasn't

1424
01:12:32,720 --> 01:12:34,960
Speaker 1: like a white guy dancing. Was like he was really

1425
01:12:35,000 --> 01:12:38,280
Speaker 1: getting into his dancing. We can I will find it

1426
01:12:38,320 --> 01:12:40,200
Speaker 1: and forward it to you and the listeners they can

1427
01:12:40,240 --> 01:12:42,559
Speaker 1: do the same. And my second note was that am

1428
01:12:42,560 --> 01:12:48,640
Speaker 1: I wrong in thinking I feel like every um every note, Well, no,

1429
01:12:48,760 --> 01:12:51,439
Speaker 1: this is just another general Vikings observation but I feel

1430
01:12:51,479 --> 01:12:54,400
Speaker 1: like everyone had a high school friend who looked exactly

1431
01:12:54,439 --> 01:12:57,120
Speaker 1: like Kirk Cousins. Like I have like two or three

1432
01:12:57,160 --> 01:12:59,640
Speaker 1: friends that look exactly like Kirk Cousins when you go

1433
01:12:59,720 --> 01:13:02,280
Speaker 1: back to like like the early nineties, and it just

1434
01:13:02,360 --> 01:13:05,360
Speaker 1: he just has like that nineties type of guy look

1435
01:13:05,439 --> 01:13:08,080
Speaker 1: or something. No, you're You're totally right, you're a little

1436
01:13:08,120 --> 01:13:11,800
Speaker 1: bit What was that, Connie I said, I would love

1437
01:13:11,840 --> 01:13:14,639
Speaker 1: to see the rest of his notes on that game. No, yeah,

1438
01:13:15,960 --> 01:13:18,360
Speaker 1: he has such a because you're a little bit older

1439
01:13:18,360 --> 01:13:20,000
Speaker 1: than his market and you were right in the middle

1440
01:13:20,040 --> 01:13:24,640
Speaker 1: of that early nineties UM nine o two one oh

1441
01:13:24,800 --> 01:13:27,320
Speaker 1: era of life. I could picture him wearing like the

1442
01:13:27,400 --> 01:13:31,559
Speaker 1: circle glasses and the turtleneck with the swear a lot

1443
01:13:31,600 --> 01:13:35,760
Speaker 1: older than Colleen. To be clear, you know, yes, to

1444
01:13:35,800 --> 01:13:38,960
Speaker 1: be clear. Thank you for clarifying that you could be

1445
01:13:39,000 --> 01:13:41,400
Speaker 1: Colleen his dad you could. Thank you that the listener

1446
01:13:41,439 --> 01:13:44,200
Speaker 1: can already to douce that. Thank you for pointing that

1447
01:13:44,280 --> 01:13:47,960
Speaker 1: out that I am. I am much older than calling. Yes, am, alright,

1448
01:13:50,720 --> 01:13:54,280
Speaker 1: I did. I. I like that the Vikings are embracing

1449
01:13:54,400 --> 01:13:56,559
Speaker 1: that they're an offense first team. They're like going for

1450
01:13:56,640 --> 01:13:58,160
Speaker 1: it on fourth down. That was part of the thing.

1451
01:13:58,160 --> 01:14:00,360
Speaker 1: They're doing that a lot. They're they're bombs and eight team.

1452
01:14:00,439 --> 01:14:02,000
Speaker 1: They remind me a little bit of the Bills, who

1453
01:14:02,000 --> 01:14:06,400
Speaker 1: are also embracing uh, you know, their offense first team,

1454
01:14:06,439 --> 01:14:09,000
Speaker 1: and it helps me with that transition. Clean up a

1455
01:14:09,000 --> 01:14:11,320
Speaker 1: big mistake I made here earlier in the Bills game.

1456
01:14:11,360 --> 01:14:14,719
Speaker 1: I totally forgot to lock up the Kansas City Chiefs

1457
01:14:14,720 --> 01:14:18,320
Speaker 1: on the road. Oh I blew it. But you know,

1458
01:14:18,360 --> 01:14:20,400
Speaker 1: I want to get this in the podcast. It's tricky.

1459
01:14:20,400 --> 01:14:23,120
Speaker 1: We're on video now, so like the flow, sometimes it

1460
01:14:23,160 --> 01:14:25,360
Speaker 1: doesn't come back to you. You don't want to ensure

1461
01:14:27,439 --> 01:14:30,160
Speaker 1: just for the podcast listeners. When you have the chance

1462
01:14:30,200 --> 01:14:33,280
Speaker 1: to take Patrick Mahomes coming off a loss, you do that.

1463
01:14:33,520 --> 01:14:38,040
Speaker 1: You lock them up. What a moment in show history here, Greg,

1464
01:14:38,960 --> 01:14:42,839
Speaker 1: that was good. We needed that for posterity. Okay, good stuff, Connie.

1465
01:14:43,520 --> 01:14:45,400
Speaker 1: I don't know what else to say. You stepped in

1466
01:14:45,439 --> 01:14:48,320
Speaker 1: and you killed it and we miss having you around.

1467
01:14:48,320 --> 01:14:51,800
Speaker 1: So it's great whenever you stop by, you bring sunshine

1468
01:14:51,840 --> 01:14:55,599
Speaker 1: to be around the NFL podcast. Well, I miss you, guys,

1469
01:14:55,840 --> 01:14:59,800
Speaker 1: and anytime anytime you guys need me, just no Thursdays

1470
01:15:00,479 --> 01:15:03,760
Speaker 1: any other And it is funny like last time, you're

1471
01:15:03,760 --> 01:15:05,599
Speaker 1: on our show. A couple of weeks ago you talked

1472
01:15:05,600 --> 01:15:08,160
Speaker 1: about inviting us over your house, but that hasn't happened yet.

1473
01:15:08,160 --> 01:15:13,000
Speaker 1: But you know, no big deal. Next weekend, market down,

1474
01:15:13,320 --> 01:15:17,200
Speaker 1: we're social distancing. It's gonna be fine. All right, Great.

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Speaker 1: This is the Around the NFL Podcast, presented by the

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Speaker 1: United United States Marine Corps. My name is Dan Hanson.

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Speaker 1: Signing a Whore, the Quiet Storm, the Old Boss, the

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Speaker 1: Tiny Box, and the Great Ricky Hollywood behind the virtual

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Speaker 1: glass until Sunday Night. S