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Speaker 1: And now Move the Sticks Ten takeaways from Week seventeen

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Speaker 1: conclusion of the regular season. Just some opening thoughts on

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Speaker 1: what you thought about Week seventeen. Well, as a coach's son,

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Speaker 1: their defenses lights out of Brandon Stately deserves a lot

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Speaker 1: of credit for that. Yeah, I think it's interesting to

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Speaker 1: think can make they scheming up enough for Wafford if uh,

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Speaker 1: if he has to step in for golf, if golf

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Speaker 1: can't make it back. And I think cam Akers obviously

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Speaker 1: is gonna be huge. The running game is gonna be huge.

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Speaker 1: That that goes to that saying, but you do have

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Speaker 1: weapons like Higby, you have woods. I mean, you have

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Speaker 1: guys that can make things happen with the ball in

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Speaker 1: their hands. So how do you get it in their

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Speaker 1: hands and not put your quarterback in situations where he's

439
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Speaker 1: gotta make tough throws. It benefits you that you have

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Speaker 1: a defense that's terrible against the past, so that certainly helps,

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Speaker 1: but you'd also like to be able to exploit that

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Speaker 1: not I just wonder, you know, how do you how

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Speaker 1: do you approach that butch do you bucky? Do you

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Speaker 1: do you exploit their weakness or do you try to

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Speaker 1: stay with then what your quarterback can do? Well, the

446
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Speaker 1: worst thing that has happened now for the Rams is

447
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Speaker 1: everyone now knows what John Wolford is and so now

448
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Speaker 1: you can have a game planning for him. And based

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Speaker 1: off of what I saw from the Arizona Cardinals. If

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Speaker 1: I am the Seattle Seahawks, and if Jamal Adams is healthy,

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Speaker 1: Jamal Adams have your day with him, because I am

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Speaker 1: sending him on pressures and blitzes all over the place

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Speaker 1: because we saw him get a little chaotic and try

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Speaker 1: to run around. Well, then that we have seen it

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Speaker 1: on tape, I am going to design a blitz package

456
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Speaker 1: in a rush that makes him throw from the pocket.

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00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:10,880
Speaker 1: He is not getting on the edges. And if we can,

458
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Speaker 1: because he's kind of fancied himself as a tough guy,

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Speaker 1: if he's gonna keep running and not sliding and getting down,

460
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Speaker 1: we're gonna lord a boom moment and we can see

461
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Speaker 1: how tough he isn't see if you can finish it,

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Speaker 1: return of the boom, absolutely, return of the boom. And

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Speaker 1: so we're gonna start with DJ DJ get a started.

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Speaker 1: All right, It's time for our seventh takeaway and this

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Speaker 1: one comes from the Chargers Chiefs game that had a

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Speaker 1: chance to call, and it's very simple. It's it's historic

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Speaker 1: Herbert Herbert play action again, sets his pete, takes a

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Speaker 1: shot down field with the heat left sideline. Mike Williams

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Speaker 1: called touchdown, Chargers, Alright. Just saw Mike Williams on that

470
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Speaker 1: one get into the end zone. And this is something

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Speaker 1: Justin Herbert has done really all season long. He's put

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Speaker 1: together one of the best rookie seasons, if not the

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Speaker 1: best rookie seasons for a quarterback, shattering record after record.

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Speaker 1: It felt like during the game, every time someone happened,

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Speaker 1: Matt money Smith was like, well, there goes this record

476
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Speaker 1: and there goes that record, and uh, just an incredible performance.

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Speaker 1: I know it was backups for the Kansas City Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: but there are a lot of backups playing for the Chargers.

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Speaker 1: No Keenan Allen in this game. No Hunter Henry Austin

480
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Speaker 1: Ekeler went out early. Um, he did not have his

481
00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:22,040
Speaker 1: full assortment of weapons. Blagga didn't play up front along

482
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Speaker 1: the offensive line. Straight Turner got hurt. All the names

483
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Speaker 1: around him changed, but it didn't change the performance from

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Speaker 1: Justin Herbert. And as impressive as you can be with

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Speaker 1: the throws that he's made, he had a rushing touchdown

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Speaker 1: in this game. I believe it was fifth or six

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Speaker 1: rushing touchdown this season. To me, it's the poise that

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Speaker 1: stood out the most in you see throw after throw,

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Speaker 1: third down touchdowns, and believe he led the league in

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Speaker 1: those under pressure throws throughout the season. One of the

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Speaker 1: best in the NFL. We'll see what happens here going

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Speaker 1: forward this team, but there's a lot of good young

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Speaker 1: pieces in place, and Tom Tolesco has the foundation built.

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Speaker 1: They need to get healthy next year. Get Derwin James back,

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Speaker 1: Drew Trank Wall and company, get Joey Bosa back healthy.

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Speaker 1: But this is a team with the quarterback in place,

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Speaker 1: I think could have a rapid ascent next year. Finished

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Speaker 1: up the year of four straight win seven and nine,

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Speaker 1: this could very easily buck It would not surprise me

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Speaker 1: if next year we're talking about this Chargers team as

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Speaker 1: a twelve twelve win team. It doesn't. It sounds crazy,

502
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Speaker 1: but I think they could very easily make that leap,

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Speaker 1: provided they fixed some issues along the offensive line and

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Speaker 1: in the secondary. Says the guy who does commentary for

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Speaker 1: the Chargers. I'll let that slide, dj uh No. I

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Speaker 1: do like I do like what they're doing. I think

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Speaker 1: they're heading in the right direction without question. Get healthy

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Speaker 1: on defense. It's a it's a whole different story. I

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Speaker 1: wanna get into Justin Herbert because we talked a lot

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Speaker 1: about the quarterbacks, and I gotta tell you I got

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Speaker 1: some bad infl on Justin Herbert. I was told that

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Speaker 1: this is a this is an Oregon boy is in Eugene,

513
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Speaker 1: in high school Eugene and college is gonna get eaten

514
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Speaker 1: up by the wolves, and the alpha's in the locker room.

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Speaker 1: He's a shrinking violet. I feel got got some bad

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Speaker 1: intel on that with Bucky because that man came to play. Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's funny because this is a fascinating thing

518
00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:10,960
Speaker 1: lance about the draft and all these things, right, everyone

519
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:14,320
Speaker 1: wants to crown Justin Herban and talk about like, hey,

520
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:17,720
Speaker 1: everyone should have known. I can't believe the Miami Dolphins bypassed.

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Speaker 1: But I think we failed to remember whether conversation was

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Speaker 1: about Justin Herban When he was coming out. There were

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Speaker 1: people that didn't know if he could lead. There were

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Speaker 1: people that were worried about some of the production and

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Speaker 1: maybe lack there of at Oregon playing in that system.

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Speaker 1: Couldn't imagine that he would be able to go and

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Speaker 1: hit the ground running like he was able to in

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Speaker 1: l A. And I will say this Lance, I believe

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Speaker 1: some of that lead to Anthony Lynn's dismissal. I think

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Speaker 1: he was a victim of his own circumstances, some of

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Speaker 1: the expectations around the quarterback, because we didn't expect the

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Speaker 1: quarterback to be a star. He exceeds our expectations and

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Speaker 1: that leads us to imagine, well, if he's doing it now,

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Speaker 1: how good could he be if we get him with

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Speaker 1: a guru, a quarterback gurgle, a whisperer that could take

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Speaker 1: his game to the next level. And the only thing

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Speaker 1: that I will say is be careful with that. We've

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Speaker 1: seen him succeed in this system, with the instructions that

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Speaker 1: he's getting from this coaching staff, Pep Hamilton's in particular.

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00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:21,159
Speaker 1: You change the pieces around him, it doesn't guarantee that

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Speaker 1: he is going to be the same player, if not

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00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 1: a better player, going forward. I think the question you

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Speaker 1: ask is who wants to charge your job? Because that

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Speaker 1: determines whether or not you want to get rid of

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Speaker 1: Anthony Lynn. If you don't, if you don't think there's

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Speaker 1: a big time coach that wants that job that you

547
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 1: think is a great leader and that will keep Pep

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Speaker 1: Hamilton's in place. I don't think you make it because

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00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:45,920
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert's playing so far above expectations so early. That's

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Speaker 1: how you win games, that's how you win championships, says

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00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:50,760
Speaker 1: quarterback play. And I think Anthony Lynn as a as

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Speaker 1: a leader of men um. I was sad to see

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Speaker 1: him go, but you know, I understand that's that's the business.

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Speaker 1: But Herbert, I think this is now two quarterbacks, Josh

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00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:05,400
Speaker 1: Allen and Justin Herbert, who we've seen had similar big

556
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:10,679
Speaker 1: arm guys, lank, you know, inconsistent accuracy, good, relatively good mobility.

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00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 1: But Josh can make place outside the pocket. We didn't

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Speaker 1: see that with Herbert that often at Oregon, and he

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00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:20,680
Speaker 1: showed it more and uh, clearly he's gotten some good instruction.

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Speaker 1: And you know this is also something that is that

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00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:26,240
Speaker 1: I know you've had to deal with over the years.

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Speaker 1: In the actual buildings is I saw some things where

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Speaker 1: I went WOW with Herbert, but then it just wasn't

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Speaker 1: consistent enough. So I decided not to grade the flashes.

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00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 1: I graded the overall, and in this case maybe great

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Speaker 1: in the flashes was the right the right call. But

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Speaker 1: how tough is that when you have to try to

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Speaker 1: decide whether you're gonna you're gonna grade the flash and

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Speaker 1: project or you're gonna grade what the overall body looks like. Oh, Lands,

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm all different. Now with quarterbacks, I've learned

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Speaker 1: my lesson two things. Like one, I was bullish on

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Speaker 1: Justin Herbert, but I was I was conservative on Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen and even Lamar Jackson. And right now grade the

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Speaker 1: talent for the town. Now you can have the imagination

575
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:10,760
Speaker 1: to say, look, man, this dude is really talented. I

576
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:13,520
Speaker 1: don't like it. Some of it is ugly, but he

577
00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:15,280
Speaker 1: is very, very talented and if you get him in

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Speaker 1: the right system, he could pop. And I think with

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Speaker 1: Justin Herbert that's where we were able to see. So

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Speaker 1: now we're on takeaway number eight. It is the Lands

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Speaker 1: d Yo. See you Sam a third time. I'm looking

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Speaker 1: for number six goes towards the end zone enters day,

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00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:37,960
Speaker 1: Jonathan Jones with the Patriots second interception on the day,

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00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 1: and that will stop the Jets drive. Look, it's not fair.

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00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:49,280
Speaker 1: Sam didn't have help. His offensive line over the years

586
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 1: has not been very good. Hasn't had as much of

587
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:54,280
Speaker 1: a running game as expecting when they had added Levian

588
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 1: Bell obviously wide receiver that Robby Anderson let him go.

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00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:02,080
Speaker 1: And you know, Denzel Man has done some things a rookie.

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00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 1: I think he still shows some ability, Bucky, but the

591
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:09,040
Speaker 1: way that that Justin Fields just got done playing and

592
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 1: we'll see how he plays in the championship game. The

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00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 1: ability that Zack Wilson has, I just think if you're

594
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:17,760
Speaker 1: the Jets, you really have to consider hitting reset on

595
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Speaker 1: the rookie quarterback contract, moving Sam Donald and adding more picks,

596
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 1: because the one thing that Jets need are more players,

597
00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:28,960
Speaker 1: and the way to get more players more picks. And

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Speaker 1: I think Sam is gonna be gone in uh in

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Speaker 1: New York from New York. You know, it's funny because

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Speaker 1: there's been a lot of this conversation about Sam Donald,

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Speaker 1: and you know, poor Sam, he hasn't had this, he

602
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,120
Speaker 1: hasn't had that. But I man, that's a tough business

603
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:46,719
Speaker 1: and lance when you're picked second or third overall, they

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Speaker 1: expect you to make it better. And so I think

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Speaker 1: the thing for me over three years, I've seen a

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Speaker 1: flasher too, but I haven't seen enough flashes to say

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Speaker 1: that Sam Donald is going to be something special. And

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00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:02,479
Speaker 1: so when I think about his prospects on the open market,

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00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 1: the trade market, I don't know how much he's gonna

610
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 1: fast Because we've heard people talking about, oh, he absolutely

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Speaker 1: get a first round pick or they'll get a second

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00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:13,160
Speaker 1: back for him. I don't know if I've seen enough

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Speaker 1: to really give that up to help the Jets get

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Speaker 1: out of this situation that they're going to be in

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00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 1: when they do select a new quarterback. He's fine, he's athletic,

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Speaker 1: he's I give him credit for being tough, but man,

617
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 1: the giveaways, the turnovers, the bad stuff that showed up

618
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Speaker 1: at SC has continued to show up in his play.

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Speaker 1: And I just don't know how as a team, how

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Speaker 1: do I value that? Like what am I willing to

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Speaker 1: give up to take somebody who look, I gotta fix him.

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00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:44,960
Speaker 1: I gotta fix him and get him right. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: It'd be interesting to see what what comes back from

624
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Speaker 1: that well and how much it is gonna be long

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00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 1: term issues. You know, how much is is he just

626
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Speaker 1: going to drop his eyes and not be able to

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00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 1: focus down the field, and really, Bucky, what it what

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00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:00,200
Speaker 1: it gets to is to our conversation previously. At the

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Speaker 1: quarterback position, you're either a playmaker a snaptaker for the

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Speaker 1: most part. I mean, you're gonna fall in one of those.

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Speaker 1: And we know who the playmakers are and we know

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Speaker 1: who they're not. And snaptakers not a derogatory term. It's

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Speaker 1: just you know, you game manage and you stay within

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Speaker 1: the system. Sam Donald is a snaptaker. He's not a playmaker.

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Speaker 1: And uh, I don't know that I'm giving up. I mean,

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Speaker 1: even a second is a projection. If you want to

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Speaker 1: give up a second for Sam Donald, then you're projecting

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00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:31,960
Speaker 1: a lot because right around the corner is his new contract. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because you're saying, like a second round pick, that's a starter.

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Speaker 1: So you say that he is a starter. So if

641
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 1: I'm giving up a second, my plan is that I

642
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 1: can't start him. Yeah. If it's one of those situations,

643
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 1: and I love the way that you broke that. Now

644
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:48,200
Speaker 1: playmaker and snaptaker, Well then that makes sense because if

645
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 1: you're a team like maybe the San Francisco Ford and

646
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 1: nine is and you don't know, well, that's cool because

647
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 1: that offense takes snap takers and makes them playmakers job

648
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 1: and he's so yeah, So I can understand that, and

649
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 1: I'm not saying there's not a place in the league

650
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:05,720
Speaker 1: for Sam Donna, but I would pump the brakes a

651
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 1: little bit on saying, hey, he is going to fetch

652
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:10,800
Speaker 1: back a number one pick. I don't know if he

653
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:13,600
Speaker 1: is viewed like that universally around the league. I think

654
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 1: people think he was a good prospect, but we've had

655
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 1: three years of film to see him, and I know

656
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:22,160
Speaker 1: we can talk about the things around him, but those

657
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:24,240
Speaker 1: guys stand out because you have a guy down to

658
00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 1: in Houston and Shawn Wasson who doesn't have a lot

659
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:29,400
Speaker 1: around him, and this year he only led the league

660
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 1: in passing yards and did stuff, and I would say

661
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 1: played his best ball with fewer things around him. I

662
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 1: would expect Sam Donald to do some of those things.

663
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 1: And so we got to pvu up next. Ray Lewis,

664
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:44,200
Speaker 1: what do you got for us? All, guys? I'm back

665
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 1: at it here. The Ravens runaway with a playoff. Berth

666
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 1: Dobbins will carry across the thirty step fires, Blake Gray Smithfield,

667
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:56,280
Speaker 1: Thanko forty, thirty, Thommas will twenty he might ten five

668
00:33:56,560 --> 00:34:02,160
Speaker 1: will touch down Jay came and it sure doesn't feel

669
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 1: like they are a runaway train going down the tracks.

670
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 1: And I don't know if there's a defense out there

671
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 1: in the a f C right now that can slow

672
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 1: down what the Ravens are doing on offense. Over four

673
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:16,120
Speaker 1: hundred yards rushing four hundred and four to be exact,

674
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:19,560
Speaker 1: fifth most we've seen in NFL history. Certainly the Bengals

675
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:22,120
Speaker 1: were not stopping anything that the Ravens were putting out

676
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 1: there on offense. He had j K Dobbins. You saw

677
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:27,520
Speaker 1: the seventy two yard run one of his two touchdowns

678
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 1: on the day, that the longest run of his career.

679
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 1: And so he opened or he finishes the season the

680
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:34,920
Speaker 1: same way he opened it by scoring two touchdowns. Kind

681
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 1: of been some highs and lows, but man, is he

682
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:39,319
Speaker 1: peeking at the right time for a rookie who we

683
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:42,400
Speaker 1: sometimes kind of see trail off towards the back end

684
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 1: of the season, especially for a running back that's had

685
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 1: a lot of carries. But he is definitely in playoff

686
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:50,799
Speaker 1: form right now, and so is Lamar Jackson. Now just

687
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 1: the second quarterback in NFL history to have multiple thousand

688
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:57,560
Speaker 1: yard rushing seasons. He goes over one k once again

689
00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:01,280
Speaker 1: now for the second straight season. Terrific year. Uh's terrific

690
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 1: second half of this season really, Uh, really, the last

691
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,719
Speaker 1: fourth quarter of this season is where Lamar Jackson has

692
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:10,239
Speaker 1: taken off. Ever since coming off the COVID nineteen list,

693
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:15,200
Speaker 1: he has been absolutely phenomenal. And uh he was dishing

694
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 1: out dimes too. I mean, the throat of Hollywood Brown

695
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 1: that he dropped early in the game was terrific, and

696
00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:22,840
Speaker 1: then bounced back with a throat of Miles Boykin for

697
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:27,280
Speaker 1: a touchdown. Another two to Hollywood late where the Bengals

698
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:29,080
Speaker 1: had had sent some pressure and he was able to

699
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:31,280
Speaker 1: get it out and get it on target, uh to

700
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:34,319
Speaker 1: Brown on both of those occasions. I just feel like

701
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:37,960
Speaker 1: the Browns or the Ravens have figured something out here

702
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:40,160
Speaker 1: in these last four or five weeks and they've got

703
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:42,640
Speaker 1: their mojo back and they are going to be a

704
00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:46,960
Speaker 1: force to be reckoned with in the postseason. And Lamar

705
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 1: also remains perfect in the red zone, has never thrown

706
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:52,799
Speaker 1: a red zone interception in his career. Uh, and that

707
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 1: will prove valuable for them coming up here in the postseason.

708
00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:59,040
Speaker 1: Excited to see the Ravens get back at it here

709
00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:02,360
Speaker 1: in the postseason once again, I just say Bucky, we

710
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:06,880
Speaker 1: just uh just go like Army, you know, mark Brown

711
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:10,759
Speaker 1: out wide. Maybe we easel Boykins in somewhere, but we're

712
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 1: just going Edwards and Ingram and and Dobbs and we're

713
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:18,000
Speaker 1: just gonna go triple option because right now, that three

714
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,920
Speaker 1: headed monster that they had and it's fourheaded monster. It's

715
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:24,600
Speaker 1: it's really impressive. And you know, I think something that's interesting, Bucky,

716
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:28,759
Speaker 1: is it? The Ravens did something that was interesting. They

717
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 1: decided that despite having a pretty good Russian attack already

718
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 1: and pretty good running backs, they went and drafted done

719
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:38,440
Speaker 1: another one that looks like mark Ingram, that runs like

720
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:41,520
Speaker 1: mark Ingram, And they said, you know what, let's let's

721
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 1: draft a strength. Let's draft to a strength and beat

722
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:47,799
Speaker 1: people up. And I think if you didn't have that

723
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:50,680
Speaker 1: right now, they wouldn't even be in the playoffs because

724
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:53,279
Speaker 1: Lamar has not thrown the ball the same way this year.

725
00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:55,760
Speaker 1: So what they've done is they just strengthen the strength,

726
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 1: and you know, here we are. They've they've got a

727
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:01,280
Speaker 1: brand new level momentum going into the in the off season,

728
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 1: I mean into the playoffs, you know, like Lands. I

729
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:07,680
Speaker 1: just can imagine your dad watching the Baltimore Ravens and

730
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 1: just getting excited seeing the stuff that they're doing in

731
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 1: the running game. When I look at what they're doing

732
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:15,600
Speaker 1: with all of the gap action, the pools, the MR

733
00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:19,280
Speaker 1: directions and stuff with the running backs that you talked about,

734
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 1: it is fantastic. How they're challenging defenses to try and

735
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:26,960
Speaker 1: come up with solutions for the problems that they create.

736
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:29,440
Speaker 1: And so as they go forward, I think they have

737
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:33,399
Speaker 1: a real opportunity to make a long run. And don't

738
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 1: forget Lamar Jackson is still throwing the ball pretty well.

739
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:41,040
Speaker 1: This is a very challenging team to defend. And as

740
00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:44,760
Speaker 1: you talk about them being army, I believe counterculture works

741
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:47,839
Speaker 1: in this league. And the fact that they're lining up

742
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:50,239
Speaker 1: and they're running it, and they're running it from heavy sets,

743
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 1: they're running it from spread sets, they're running with the

744
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 1: gap MR direction stuff. Man, in a week, do you

745
00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 1: prepare for them? It is crazy? How do you prepare?

746
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:01,359
Speaker 1: Who do you see it from? What's your scout team

747
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 1: look like? Like? You know what I'm saying. And then

748
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:06,759
Speaker 1: at any point they could just go four wide on you.

749
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 1: And now you gotta worry about taking care of Brown.

750
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:14,480
Speaker 1: Marquis Brown in space it's just I just and my

751
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:17,360
Speaker 1: dad was. It was his first job he coached for,

752
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:20,239
Speaker 1: obviously Cleveland. I talked about that when they were in

753
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 1: the Browns two thousand two playoffs, but his first job

754
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:25,799
Speaker 1: in college was at University of Houston with the Veer.

755
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 1: And I know you know that, Bucky, and that's one

756
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:29,360
Speaker 1: of the reasons why you probably thought of him is

757
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 1: because they're running some veer concepts right now and that

758
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 1: option attack and the triple option. I'm I'm a firm

759
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:38,680
Speaker 1: believer as well that things you don't prepare for you

760
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 1: can't stop if somebody springs it on you. No, you

761
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:46,640
Speaker 1: you you can't defend it. It is. This is a

762
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 1: tough team and I think this would be an opportunity

763
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:51,799
Speaker 1: if they stick to the script and stay who they are.

764
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:53,960
Speaker 1: I think one to get a chance to erase the

765
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:57,240
Speaker 1: Boogeyman and the Tennessee Titans, but they get a chance

766
00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:01,320
Speaker 1: to really exercise some demons going into the playoffs because

767
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:04,839
Speaker 1: this running game. And I don't think people understand when

768
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:07,480
Speaker 1: you gave four hundred yards on somebody, and I know

769
00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:10,279
Speaker 1: it's the being as I know, we'll dismiss it, but man,

770
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:14,440
Speaker 1: four hundred yards is a personal butt kicking, and I

771
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:17,440
Speaker 1: think that gives them confidence going forward. I saw this that,

772
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 1: and I'm still trying to figure it out. Last five

773
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 1: games they've rushed for a thirteen hundred rushing yards. That

774
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:28,919
Speaker 1: is ridiculous when you think about it. So I think,

775
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:31,279
Speaker 1: I think, I think it's on me last I get

776
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 1: to close it out. Tenth takeaway. Everybody wants to talk

777
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:40,360
Speaker 1: about the goat, but the Bucks are streaking into the postseason.

778
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:42,680
Speaker 1: Hammered braid on the left edge of tight end. Here's

779
00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:46,799
Speaker 1: the snaff. Brady looking looking looking flushed, looking those up

780
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:49,439
Speaker 1: all right over his favorite It's caught by Antonio Brown.

781
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:54,759
Speaker 1: Flagthold Brown will score touchdown, Tampa Bay touchdown, Tampa Bay Bucketeers.

782
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 1: See what the flags all about? The cannons anyway, we

783
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:00,560
Speaker 1: got plenty of gun powder. That's just the jessup from

784
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:05,759
Speaker 1: the alley. Hey, look, they do have plenty of gunpowder.

785
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:08,719
Speaker 1: And I know there was a lot of consternation when

786
00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 1: the Tampa Buccaneers went out inside Antonio Brown, people like,

787
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:14,280
Speaker 1: they don't need him. They have so many weapons already.

788
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:16,799
Speaker 1: They got Chris God when they have Mike Evans, they

789
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 1: have Cameron Brady playing well, O. J. Howard was there,

790
00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:21,880
Speaker 1: but then he got hurt. Scotty Miller was playing. But

791
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 1: here's what happens when you bring in Antonio Brown. My

792
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:29,799
Speaker 1: third receiver is better than any nickelback that you can imagine.

793
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:33,320
Speaker 1: My third receiver in Antonio Brown is a gold jacket

794
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:36,440
Speaker 1: war And now that they have made a concerted effort

795
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:38,000
Speaker 1: to give him the ball, some of that was Tom

796
00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 1: Brady trying to make sure that he got his incentives.

797
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:43,479
Speaker 1: But now in the scouting report, I gotta talk about

798
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:47,680
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown to go with defending all these other guys.

799
00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:50,359
Speaker 1: Oh and by the way, I didn't even mention Rob Gronkowski.

800
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:54,439
Speaker 1: This temper May Buccaneers team is beginning to find their

801
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:57,520
Speaker 1: way going forward. And as long as they let Tom

802
00:40:57,520 --> 00:41:00,480
Speaker 1: Brady do what he does, they have a chance. They

803
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:02,960
Speaker 1: have a chance. Lance you know. And the other thing

804
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:06,040
Speaker 1: that's important is that you've added death because Mike So,

805
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:10,160
Speaker 1: Mike Evans gets hurt you yesterday. Well, now you still

806
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:11,960
Speaker 1: have a one and you still have a two, which

807
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:13,279
Speaker 1: I don't know who the one is and who the

808
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:15,280
Speaker 1: two is, but I know you've got two good ones

809
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 1: for sure, and you can throw another one in the mix.

810
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:20,360
Speaker 1: And uh, you got, you got ro Joe, that's you

811
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:22,480
Speaker 1: know who's playing. Well, You've got a big bully at

812
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 1: running back, you got Gronk. So yeah, I guess the

813
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:29,319
Speaker 1: question is gonna be can the Gold hold up this

814
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:33,440
Speaker 1: week against that Washington front. I'm excited. I mean, sweat

815
00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:36,920
Speaker 1: and young off the edge. We saw what happened on

816
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:40,080
Speaker 1: Sunday night when Tom Brady was getting heated up against

817
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:46,080
Speaker 1: the UH Green Bay Packers. No, no, no, it was yeah, yeah,

818
00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:48,600
Speaker 1: that was a game. And once that happened, it was,

819
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:51,799
Speaker 1: you know, he got a little nervous. But if they

820
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 1: can get that blocked, if they can get the edges blocked,

821
00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, I I agree with you. The ability to

822
00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:02,960
Speaker 1: add Rojoe back and what Antonio Brown brings really gives

823
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:05,920
Speaker 1: them UH an interesting look because it doesn't look strong

824
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 1: right now in the in the NFC. It's not a

825
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:11,920
Speaker 1: strong NFC. No, it's it's not a strong NFC. And

826
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:14,400
Speaker 1: it really comes down to matchups. And you know the

827
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:17,640
Speaker 1: thing about them playing the Washington football team, I think

828
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:19,560
Speaker 1: the magic number for them is if they can score

829
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:21,880
Speaker 1: twenty four points. I don't know if Washington can score

830
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:24,080
Speaker 1: points like I just don't know if they have enough

831
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 1: weaponry to deal with what Tampa is going to give them,

832
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 1: and so we'll we'll see. I love what Chase Young

833
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:32,479
Speaker 1: is doing. I love what they're able to do a front.

834
00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:36,680
Speaker 1: You right, Montest Sweat and Dern Paine and Jonathan Allen

835
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:39,080
Speaker 1: and all those number one picks have really come through

836
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:42,440
Speaker 1: for the Washington football team. But this Buccaneers team is

837
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 1: is finding their way and as long as they can

838
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:47,400
Speaker 1: keep Tom Brady clean, he is still shown that he

839
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:49,800
Speaker 1: is being able to get it done. And I'll be honest,

840
00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 1: I was a skeptic. I didn't think he can do it.

841
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:54,920
Speaker 1: Tom Brady has proved me and it prowed a lot

842
00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 1: of other haters wrong. Yeah, and he did it with

843
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:00,680
Speaker 1: a guy in Bruce Arians who doesn't typically run an

844
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:04,200
Speaker 1: offense that would you know, that would really benefit Tom.

845
00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:07,200
Speaker 1: But he bent his offense to Tom, and Tom made

846
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:10,720
Speaker 1: some you know, Tom Brady made some uh some changes

847
00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:12,320
Speaker 1: and what he likes to do and what he was

848
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:15,359
Speaker 1: willing to do, and then he took hard coaching too.

849
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 1: That's been a big storyline for much of the year,

850
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:20,120
Speaker 1: although you know, I wonder how much of that is

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Speaker 1: almost like, hey, listen, I'm I'm gonna hit you real

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Speaker 1: hard time with but just no I love I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: love you up. I'm gonna love you. But these other

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Speaker 1: guys need to see me coaching you hard. You know.

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Speaker 1: I just feel like there's some of that to play. Yeah, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: I just can't see Bruce arians lighten up Tom and

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Speaker 1: not behind the scenes saying don't listen to what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: That's not even a real thing. Well here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: Now that he has lit up Tom, the Buccaneers gonna

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Speaker 1: light everybody else up. M I like that play on words.

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Speaker 1: That's nice, smooth all right, Well that was a great

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Speaker 1: show man. Love have you all last? Um? Look as

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Speaker 1: Walker weekend next weekend before a bunch of different teams.

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Speaker 1: It is time to think about the draft. You are

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Speaker 1: a draft guru when it comes to writing up all

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Speaker 1: those bios and sun reports. When is the start? Where

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Speaker 1: can we find all your work? Well, I'm a hundred

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Speaker 1: and six d N as of right now, so I

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Speaker 1: still got a lot of work to do, a lot

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Speaker 1: of the big ones. Trevor Lawrence, I gotta take that

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Speaker 1: last game into account. Sorry, my man, but I got

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Speaker 1: I gotta do it. And uh, we'll take a look.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully we'll get them released sometime by about the senior

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Speaker 1: ball so I think late January. People can start to

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Speaker 1: see him populate on NFL dot com. Well that's cool

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Speaker 1: where they can read all of your work. They can

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Speaker 1: check out the movie, six podcasts, Apple and Spotify. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know we gotta cover it. You will be on

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Speaker 1: the podcast talking about all the draft stuff, so just

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Speaker 1: make sure you tune in. We got you covered when

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Speaker 1: it comes to the draft and all things football. And

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Speaker 1: so thanks for watching Move the Sticks presented by a

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Speaker 1: cast Rolledge. You have a moment to star