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Speaker 1: it's so great to be back. What is What is happening?
Speaker 1: Does like Friday? You know why? This whole week has
Speaker 1: a nice kind of exhale to it after Really what
Speaker 1: and we talked about on the show from the end
Speaker 1: of July through the draft is really our quote unquote season. Uh,
Speaker 1: it doesn't end as super Bowl, it ends really after
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Speaker 1: leading through the summer. But there is an exhale. It's
Speaker 1: a beautiful thing. I've I've enjoyed. We were just Connie
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Speaker 1: compared it to the schedule four or five years ago,
Speaker 1: when Connie was showing up to NFL now at seven
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Speaker 1: Marquis took Uh. Today is part two of our big
Speaker 1: week around the NFC in forty eight minutes, and I
Speaker 1: wanted before we get into because we like to kind
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Speaker 1: some um feedback, negative feedback, critical feedback, I'll call it
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Speaker 1: response all these people. Anyway, So we're gonna go through
Speaker 1: UM uh. We did the a f C with Patrick
Speaker 1: Claiban on Tuesday. We went three minutes each with every
Speaker 1: team in the a f C. Just catching up with
Speaker 1: the team is their team building. UM has gone through
Speaker 1: free agency and of course now the draft where the
Speaker 1: teams are now. Now we're gonna do it with all
Speaker 1: the NFC teams. Colleen sitting in the Mark Sessler chair.
Speaker 1: Mark still on vacation Connie, how you feeling right now
Speaker 1: as we're digging? I don't think you've joined us for
Speaker 1: and around the NFL eight minutes. And I'm really glad
Speaker 1: that I didn't prepare for all of the a f
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Speaker 1: for me. That would have been awesome. All right. So
Speaker 1: here we go, Connie, I am about to throw it
Speaker 1: to you to kick off the NFC East, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna start with your favorite team. So here we go,
Speaker 1: nervous round the NFC and forty eight minutes starts now,
Speaker 1: all right. So Philly said goodbye to Nick Foles, and
Speaker 1: now there's just a giant statue of him in Philadelphia
Speaker 1: commemorating the Super Bowl and everything he did for the city.
Speaker 1: No pressure, Carson wentz uh In free agency, Howie Roseman
Speaker 1: brought back to Shawn Jackson. He traded for Jordan Howard,
Speaker 1: and then at the draft they spent three draft picks
Speaker 1: on offense. There their first three on offense. They I
Speaker 1: loved how they leap frogged the Texans to get Andre Dillard,
Speaker 1: who will eventually replace Jason peters Um. Then they picked
Speaker 1: up Miles Sanders, the running back who backed up se
Speaker 1: Kwon Barkley at Penn State for or his first two seasons,
Speaker 1: so he has under three total carries. I like that
Speaker 1: he's got some fresh legs and he catches passes the
Speaker 1: stop stop stop. But that is something that the Eagles
Speaker 1: really needed because Jordan Howard that's not really his forte.
Speaker 1: They needed every down back, so I kind of like
Speaker 1: that situation. They always have a ton of running backs
Speaker 1: there by committee um and then they got jump all
Speaker 1: specialists J j R. Sigal white Side. So all of
Speaker 1: these moves tell me one thing. Bowl My takeaway, Howie
Speaker 1: Roseman is trying to take the pressure off Carson Wentz,
Speaker 1: the physical pressure of him performing and elevating the mental
Speaker 1: pressure around him, and that mental pressure now that Folds
Speaker 1: has gone, just being the dude that can do it.
Speaker 1: I agree that their depth on offense, and you could
Speaker 1: see in this draft is incredible, and I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's just to take pressure off Carson Wentz. I
Speaker 1: think it's a belief that you win with offense in
Speaker 1: the NFL. That they want their offense more than anything.
Speaker 1: I think they want their offense to be a top
Speaker 1: five offense every year and give Doug Peterson and went
Speaker 1: as many matchup options as possible. And that's what I'd
Speaker 1: be excited about as an Eagles fan. With the depth
Speaker 1: that running back, in receiver and tight end, that just
Speaker 1: depending on the play and the the opponent and the
Speaker 1: matchup and the down, it's like they can find some
Speaker 1: sort of matchup to take advantage of. I feel like
Speaker 1: the trade up for Andre Dillard is basically the microcosm
Speaker 1: of the Howie Roseman second era that like he can
Speaker 1: do no wrong. First of all, that's the one minute mark, okay,
Speaker 1: without a harp. I was like, I thought that was
Speaker 1: some you about to wax poetic about Howie Roseman. Just
Speaker 1: the gentle reminder that I feel like I'm in a
Speaker 1: Douche commercial. Wow. Um. I love the Eagles as a
Speaker 1: bounce back candidate this season. Well, they have to bounce back.
Speaker 1: They made it to the second round of the playoffs,
Speaker 1: but bounce back and getting that division back. Um, for
Speaker 1: all the reasons you pointed out, and my belief that
Speaker 1: Carson Went is a big comeback season ahead of him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: on paper, it seems like everything is lined up for them. Now.
Speaker 1: I am concerned a little bit at safety safety and
Speaker 1: linebacker after lot, after losing Jordan Hicks, I felt like
Speaker 1: something there. I gotta look at their depth chart right
Speaker 1: now because I don't know. Yeah, I think it is war.
Speaker 1: I don't know. They're probably like two linebackers a lot
Speaker 1: with Nigel Bradham, and you're gonna have a weakness. That's
Speaker 1: a good spot to be. That's what is that the
Speaker 1: final ten seconds? Does that mean it's over? That's it?
Speaker 1: When the music gets it's I hope this one person
Speaker 1: who complained is happy because I enjoyed the clarity. I'll
Speaker 1: figure it out. West. You're up the Dallas Cowboys. You know,
Speaker 1: Al Davis used to say when you draft, go for
Speaker 1: strength on strength, and that's what the Cowboys are doing.
Speaker 1: Defensive line front seven, Get Rob Mayrinalti, Rob Marionali, some
Speaker 1: more horses. The offensive line, you're getting Travis Frederick back
Speaker 1: at least that's the word. And then you add Connor
Speaker 1: McGovern to this group. They're bolstering both lines. And I
Speaker 1: feel like we haven't given enough respect to the Cowboys
Speaker 1: being a better team now than they were when they
Speaker 1: closed out the season an incredible fashion over the final
Speaker 1: two months. This is one of the best teams in
Speaker 1: the NFL whoas they were for November December, and there's
Speaker 1: no reason to believe that just because it's May, they're
Speaker 1: not gonna Okay, and you know what, who agrees with you?
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones, He said today again ratcheting up the expectations
Speaker 1: for Jason Garrett. There's no reason to believe we're not
Speaker 1: better now than we were, right, Okay, I guess I'm
Speaker 1: asking why, other than Travis Frederick, why have their additions
Speaker 1: been better than league average? If anything? That's kind of it? Right? Well, no,
Speaker 1: they got Connor mcgoverned, which gives you more. But you
Speaker 1: think their draft is better than the average team's draft,
Speaker 1: it's just because they happared to what they've lost. A
Speaker 1: lot of teams that had good drafts also lost players.
Speaker 1: And the Cowboys lost Cool Beasley. Okay, no cops about this.
Speaker 1: Aim Maybe he's he could be better, he could be worst.
Speaker 1: David Irving didn't do anything for the Cowboys last year,
Speaker 1: so who cares about losing him? Randy Gregory, but then
Speaker 1: you get Robert Quinn, carry hider Tristan Hill in the
Speaker 1: second round, who I've heard several analysts say this was
Speaker 1: the steel the draft Tristan Who. Yeah, there was a
Speaker 1: lot of people that were kind of angry about that,
Speaker 1: thinking that it was kind of a reach. But he
Speaker 1: was really good in his first season at UCF, and
Speaker 1: then he sort of fell out of favor with the
Speaker 1: new coaching staff when they came in. But so I
Speaker 1: think you're right. I think he was a steel And
Speaker 1: it's interesting West. This was a playoff team last year.
Speaker 1: They're having a nice offseason. Usually when those two things
Speaker 1: come together, people are going nuts about the Cowboys and
Speaker 1: that's all you're hearing about. But they seem to be
Speaker 1: a little bit under the radar people. Well, I think
Speaker 1: a team that struggled on offense but was dominant defensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: it's something to worry about because you want your offense
Speaker 1: to be better than they were below average on offense
Speaker 1: a year ago. They only outscored their opponents by fifteen points.
Speaker 1: Over the course of the seasons, they want a lot
Speaker 1: of close. A big part of that is that their
Speaker 1: offensive line went from being absolutely dominant to slightly above average. Yea,
Speaker 1: and in Frederick, you you know he's coming back from
Speaker 1: a disease that not many NFL players have experienced, or
Speaker 1: you know anyone with coming back, so we just don't know,
Speaker 1: but hope if he does come back like he was,
Speaker 1: that's that's a major, major edition. Yeah, they were ranked
Speaker 1: twenty second in points per game last year. That's got
Speaker 1: to improve. I know Scott Linahan gone and with Kellen
Speaker 1: Moore I can't with this music. With Ellen Moore in
Speaker 1: there now, I wonder how things will change. And you
Speaker 1: look at what was essentially their first round pick with
Speaker 1: a Marii Cooper, how they started three and four and
Speaker 1: then they ended the season seven and two, having won
Speaker 1: two back to back seas with double digit win Since
Speaker 1: Barry Switzer respect the harp, Greg and he did? Has
Speaker 1: the harp ever been respected? It's this the first time.
Speaker 1: How about Joanna Newsom respect? Right? Here we go the
Speaker 1: New York Giants. Um, I have one kind of overarching
Speaker 1: question now what Yeah, we know a segment once called
Speaker 1: now what right, Yeah, something like that. We've done every
Speaker 1: combination it signed to shut it down? Now what so
Speaker 1: you forget about it? Daniel Jones, people killing the Giants
Speaker 1: are taking him at six and it was a reach
Speaker 1: and it probably was, perhaps it was, but he's in
Speaker 1: the building and that's it. And and now the question
Speaker 1: is what are you gonna do with him? Because here's
Speaker 1: the thing, Dave Gentleman can sit and he needs to
Speaker 1: stop getting press conferences about stop running this guy up
Speaker 1: to the podium. But I think it's great continue they've got.
Speaker 1: Aman can say we might follow the Packers plan that
Speaker 1: they did with Aaron Rodgers and and Sit Jones three years.
Speaker 1: But you know what the difference was, Well, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of differences, but one of them was that Brett
Speaker 1: Farve is the quarterback and Brett Farves still had um
Speaker 1: a lot of promise in the ability to lead a
Speaker 1: team to a super Bowl and that's why he kept
Speaker 1: that job. Um Eli Manning is a guy on the
Speaker 1: way out. No one will argue that, even I won't argue.
Speaker 1: And the rest of the roster is barren, especially on
Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball. So there's the chances
Speaker 1: of that Giants have a nice season this year or
Speaker 1: in contention by say Halloween. It's far fetched. Let's just
Speaker 1: be honest. So if the Giants are three and seven
Speaker 1: by November, I mean, what is the You're really also,
Speaker 1: you're gonna keep him on the bench another two and
Speaker 1: a half years. No, you're there's the fans are gonna
Speaker 1: be calling for it. Daniel Jones is gonna have to play.
Speaker 1: So just get your plan together, giants, figure out what
Speaker 1: the actual plan is and maybe Dave Gentleman is not
Speaker 1: in charge when it's time to actually enact the plan,
Speaker 1: uh in a year from now. But I feel like
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones is gonna get a lot of snaps this year.
Speaker 1: So just stop telling people that this is a totally
Speaker 1: different situation or it's a similar situation of the Packers,
Speaker 1: because it's not right. If you didn't need a quarterback,
Speaker 1: why did you reach for one with the six pick
Speaker 1: in the draft instead of getting a pass rusher. Make
Speaker 1: up your mind, firm up your message, and by the way,
Speaker 1: over under for Daniel Jones starting the game Halloween Halloween
Speaker 1: and wow, because they're on a bad team, and bad
Speaker 1: teams change quarter They're they're a bad team because their
Speaker 1: defense is bad. Also because their offense is terrible. You
Speaker 1: know their offense a year ago, and this is what
Speaker 1: Gettleman has been trying to say, was okay because they
Speaker 1: had like a six week they had a six weeks,
Speaker 1: say like they were a better offense in the Cowboys
Speaker 1: but we over the course of the season, we love
Speaker 1: the Browns are great on offense. In the second half,
Speaker 1: the Giants produced that they put up numbers and scored
Speaker 1: points in the second half. Their offensive line got better.
Speaker 1: And as I've been saying on the show, there are
Speaker 1: skill players on this offense and Sacan Barkley and Sterling
Speaker 1: Shepard and Golden Tayton, Evan Ingram, and they could potentially
Speaker 1: score points with a quarterback that can get the job done,
Speaker 1: but their defense is a mess. I think it's the
Speaker 1: best situation Eli's been in just in terms of the
Speaker 1: talent around him, uh in a while, even without is
Speaker 1: a good situation model. And then not getting anybody on
Speaker 1: offense and return Jabrill Pepper's Dexter Lawrence and then O'shan
Speaker 1: Ziminez Ziminez Siminez, all defensive players like I'm I'm really
Speaker 1: excited for the road game against the Patriots on a
Speaker 1: short week for them. That's that is the game that
Speaker 1: I have circled on my calendar. Interesting, I like that,
Speaker 1: Let's move on the Washington Redskins. She circled it. Everybody
Speaker 1: everyone you know, including me, kind of looked at the
Speaker 1: Redskins as well. If you're gonna try to find a
Speaker 1: team that's only gonna win three, four or five games
Speaker 1: in the NFC this year. You know it's probably Washington
Speaker 1: and Arizona. Maybe the Giants are are the ones that
Speaker 1: stick out. But after the draft, and you look at
Speaker 1: this roster, especially on defense, where in the front seventy
Speaker 1: of Jonathan Allen and Rohn Payne, who have been good
Speaker 1: draft picks. You get in Monte Sweat, a nice pass rusher,
Speaker 1: a good value you like Ryan Carrig and Mason Foster
Speaker 1: will see what Ruben Foster does for them, and some
Speaker 1: it's an uneven secondary. But you have landed Collins and
Speaker 1: you know Josh Norman is still kicking around there. Like
Speaker 1: I look at this roster up and back, like the
Speaker 1: offensive line is solid. The passing game is a huge,
Speaker 1: huge question mark. But I look at this team and
Speaker 1: I think if Jay Gruden managed to win between seven
Speaker 1: and nine games the last four years in row, I
Speaker 1: think he can do it again with this roster. I
Speaker 1: think he could be headed right to the middle of
Speaker 1: the NFL again with like a seven win team. I
Speaker 1: know it doesn't excite Redskins fans that I don't know
Speaker 1: you have a rookie quarterback. That's not such. I don't
Speaker 1: know that they're a tire fire right now. They're okay.
Speaker 1: I expect their defense to be better than they've ever
Speaker 1: been in the Jake Gruden era and their offense to
Speaker 1: be worse because they're either going to have a journeyman
Speaker 1: quarterback or a rookie quarterback. Yeah. I mean, I love
Speaker 1: the fact that they didn't move up to get Haskins,
Speaker 1: that they waited for him, that they had patients, and
Speaker 1: then they ended up moving up for a defensive player
Speaker 1: in sweat. But I look at the passing game and
Speaker 1: and what they have there. Paul Richardson, Terry McLaurin. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's a guy who is speed guy. But Josh Doson,
Speaker 1: he's at eighty one catches and yards in three combined
Speaker 1: seasons and the king of jump ball specialists? What else
Speaker 1: can that guy do? They and we're here Lakwan Treadwell Dockson.
Speaker 1: Who is the other the triplets that were drafting in
Speaker 1: that first round over three for the fifth year option
Speaker 1: getting picked up? I think you're right? Was it DeVante Parker?
Speaker 1: M we gotta go back in, Ricky? Can you look
Speaker 1: that up? Two? Thousand and fifteen NFL drafted to believe
Speaker 1: it was anyway. Sorry, yeah, but way to go. They
Speaker 1: are going to run the ball though, especially look they
Speaker 1: got two guys coming off with Parker. A lot of
Speaker 1: bad wide receivers in that draft. Agil was the other
Speaker 1: one that you might be thinking. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: like the Bryce Love pick up, though I know guys
Speaker 1: didn't really like it that much. But they are going
Speaker 1: to be able to run the ball. I think, well,
Speaker 1: that's the thing. They have Morgan Moses and Brandon Sheriff
Speaker 1: and Trent Williams. Like that's a great top three, not
Speaker 1: in that order of an offensive line. And you get
Speaker 1: guys back and you have Peterson still sitting around. It's like,
Speaker 1: I don't know they can. Jay Gruden, I think actually
Speaker 1: is a pretty good play caller an offensive coach. If
Speaker 1: the Freed can stay healthy, he's the best group. I
Speaker 1: would take Jay Gurden a heartbeat over John Do. I
Speaker 1: say that every year everybody whatever couldn't stay healthy. It's happy.
Speaker 1: This is like Oscar, yes exactly. Wait does this mean
Speaker 1: it's a one minute morning or I were a little
Speaker 1: unclear on what the sound effect means because every time
Speaker 1: I think it's over. It adds to the uncertainty of
Speaker 1: the NFL season. That hard when you hear that hard.
Speaker 1: We moved now, we moved to the NFC North, starting
Speaker 1: with the Minnesota Vikings. Colleen Wolf all right, here we go.
Speaker 1: So Kirk Cousins, Uh, it's no breaking news to anybody.
Speaker 1: He was completely sabotaged. I thought by the offensive line
Speaker 1: last year. He had a lot to do with it,
Speaker 1: but he was hit forty times last year. The past
Speaker 1: protection was not great. They could not run the ball
Speaker 1: at all. So they drafted Garret Bradberry. So then that
Speaker 1: way they can probably kick out Pat alf line to guard.
Speaker 1: And they brought in Josh Sitton. So the interior of
Speaker 1: their offensive line looks joshletely correct. Yeah, Josh Klein, So
Speaker 1: the interior of their line looks completely different. They had
Speaker 1: Mike Remer's and Tom Compton there before, but the offense
Speaker 1: was so unbalanced last year and rushing attempts. You have
Speaker 1: Latavius Murray who's gone. Dalvin Cook hasn't been fully healthy
Speaker 1: um in a season yet. He's he's fifteen games he's
Speaker 1: missed in two seasons. He was dealing with the hamstring
Speaker 1: injury and the a c L. So they did draft
Speaker 1: a third rounder, Alex Madison, who could actually play a
Speaker 1: pretty decent role on the offense. So my takeaway here
Speaker 1: is that Kevin Stefanski has got to figure out a
Speaker 1: way to get the run game off the ground in
Speaker 1: order for the Vikings to be successful. Well, the best
Speaker 1: thing Kevin Stefanski has going for him is Gary Kubiak,
Speaker 1: who was brought in basically above him to be their
Speaker 1: offensive consultant, and he's been able to run everywhere he's
Speaker 1: gone with that zone blocking scheme. I think Kubiak is
Speaker 1: one of the biggest pickups of the off season. Well,
Speaker 1: and Dennison came with Ansky might look at a little
Speaker 1: different that he's kind of a shadow offensive coordinator without
Speaker 1: a lot of jewe that might have his job taken
Speaker 1: from him from Gary Kubiak, because by all accounts, it
Speaker 1: seems like Gary Kubiak has about as much control as
Speaker 1: any court, as any coordinator in the league. He's not
Speaker 1: even technically a coordinator, but he's making personnel moves. Really
Speaker 1: have a chance last year, I mean, he had just
Speaker 1: a few games, half a season or whatever when he
Speaker 1: was finally in that role. So to your point. So
Speaker 1: they they took their I think Cousins was a big winner,
Speaker 1: and Stefanski and everyone on that offensive their first three
Speaker 1: picks are on offense and that it adds irv Smith.
Speaker 1: The tight end adds another dimension. They have not gotten
Speaker 1: rid of Kryle Rudolph and it's just this rosters really,
Speaker 1: you know, if the line is okay, this roster is
Speaker 1: really good, but they're still gonna have the same tackles
Speaker 1: as last year. Riley Rife and Brian O'Neill. Well, Neil
Speaker 1: I think ascended to the starting job about halfway through
Speaker 1: the year, and maybe he'll be better in a second year.
Speaker 1: But I'm not convinced the offensive line just because Gary
Speaker 1: Bradberry looks like a good player is going to be
Speaker 1: really hoping the coaching and and Cousins can improve in
Speaker 1: terms of making a line better. What do you guys
Speaker 1: think about the Vikings right now? They're feeling about what's
Speaker 1: your vibe? I'm back he should be really good, sort
Speaker 1: of back in on them now. I feel like they
Speaker 1: took the step back. And then I look at the
Speaker 1: team and I'm like, this team is ready to go.
Speaker 1: The one positive of last year, which was highly disappointing
Speaker 1: for Vikings fans who thought Cousins was gonna be the
Speaker 1: final piece, because it does take a little bit of
Speaker 1: the heat off them and this idea that it's super
Speaker 1: Bowl or bust and they can just get back to it.
Speaker 1: He's got to play better in big moment moments. I've
Speaker 1: defended him, but he's got to play better with seasons
Speaker 1: on the lining, games on the line. Is this the
Speaker 1: minute or the ten second? You see you listen, thought
Speaker 1: I heard something minute? The minute marker is so gentle.
Speaker 1: You guys are missing it. That's the marker. That's I
Speaker 1: haven't heard music like this since Easter Sunrise. Man, you know,
Speaker 1: I gotta say, guys, it's not no, it's but it's
Speaker 1: kind of fun behind the glass. Listen. We don't call
Speaker 1: on there. It gonna be a statistician too often. But
Speaker 1: in this spot. The two thousand sixteen NFL draft, right
Speaker 1: there were three wide receivers taken in a row. Who
Speaker 1: were they? Yeah, from my memory, I want to say
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans I think took Will Fuller, his option
Speaker 1: was picked up at believe. The Washington Redskins took Josh Dotson,
Speaker 1: and I want to say. Twenty three was Minnesota Vikings
Speaker 1: with the Kwan treadwell. Excellent work, very wonderful memory. Don't
Speaker 1: quote me on that though. All right, very well, very well,
Speaker 1: very well done. And yes, only one fifty option picked
Speaker 1: up with those three. Al Right, here we go, moving
Speaker 1: on the Detroit lines. Chris Westling get us going. I
Speaker 1: don't have like a cottage industry on annual offseason articles
Speaker 1: like Greg does. But one of my few is Greg
Speaker 1: just tossed up his hand like just flick turned it
Speaker 1: and this is weird negative storyline. No, that's in your
Speaker 1: head stable little jealous of your storehouse. Yeah, a stable
Speaker 1: of boys, remember we had stable of columns. Well. One
Speaker 1: that I do have is Top ten Offenses, which I
Speaker 1: write after the draft and about sixteen teams make my
Speaker 1: final cut, and the Detroit Lions were the sixteenth team.
Speaker 1: I actually considered them. With Marvin Jones coming back healthy,
Speaker 1: carry On Johnson coming back healthy. You add Amndulah t
Speaker 1: j Hawkinson, Jesse James, and your offensive line is healthy.
Speaker 1: It was not healthy at the end of last year.
Speaker 1: To me, the biggest question mark is is the style
Speaker 1: of play that Couder had. This style where you have
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford getting rid of the ball fast, and then
Speaker 1: Matt Patricia comes in. They changed their passing offense, and
Speaker 1: then Stafford is sitting back there again. There's not much
Speaker 1: rhythm to their passing game, and to me, that was
Speaker 1: their biggest issue outside of the injuries last year. Well,
Speaker 1: and they have a new offensive coordinator, Darryl Bevil, who's had,
Speaker 1: you know, a long track record in the NFL, uh
Speaker 1: most famously with the Seahawks, and it kind of remains
Speaker 1: to be seen what kind of offense they wanna run.
Speaker 1: I always was a little torn because Stafford played his
Speaker 1: best Undercoonter and yet the offense they ran didn't really
Speaker 1: show off what he's best at, which is kind of
Speaker 1: the deep outs in the in the deep passes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wonder every year with the Lions, is this going
Speaker 1: to be the year that they can run the ball?
Speaker 1: Is this going to be the year that they can
Speaker 1: balance out the offense? So it isn't all on Matt
Speaker 1: staff and Barry Sanders retired. It's like it's just a
Speaker 1: recurring thing. And with Daryl Bevil, he's led some some
Speaker 1: top rushing attacks in the past. He's had Marshawn Lynch
Speaker 1: and Adrian Peterson, so you just wonder if he has
Speaker 1: the adequate pieces to do it. Now. Stafford came into
Speaker 1: the league, I believe in two thousand nine couldn't stay healthy.
Speaker 1: She knew couldn't stay on the field the first couple
Speaker 1: of years, and it's turned into an iron man since
Speaker 1: um And you get that. You get the feeling there's
Speaker 1: mounting pressure around him and in that city at the
Speaker 1: quarterback position. This is another team, even though they're not
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl contender that you you get the feeling
Speaker 1: that there's a lot of a lot riding on what
Speaker 1: happens this year, especially on the offensive side of the ball. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's some really good secondaries too in that division. But
Speaker 1: I loved the pickup of t J. Hockenson. He's a
Speaker 1: really good blocker and he can catch two, so he's
Speaker 1: a perfect combo tight end for them. They shows some
Speaker 1: organizational onions too, like because they whipped well, they didn't
Speaker 1: whiff on Ericibrun because he turned out to be a
Speaker 1: big time player in the system. Well he turned into
Speaker 1: a star. But them not teams don't typically take a
Speaker 1: tight end top ten. They do it twice in six years.
Speaker 1: But the two Iowa tight ends. They both went high,
Speaker 1: and they both they're very much like George Kittle. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just like the Iowa side end thing. Let's extend
Speaker 1: ten seconds, Greg, I'm sorry, I was stepped up. Now
Speaker 1: forget it. Talk about the Lions defensive the other day. Okay,
Speaker 1: here we go Chicago Bears. The old Zeuser will dig
Speaker 1: in on the Bears, and uh, you know this? To me,
Speaker 1: this draft is like what happens when the bill comes due.
Speaker 1: The Khalil Mack trade, which um was it eight trade?
Speaker 1: It looks like a great trade. It looked like a
Speaker 1: great trade last last summer. It still looks like it, um,
Speaker 1: because not only is the Hall of Fame talent, but
Speaker 1: he performed like one in year one. But now they
Speaker 1: have a reverse Gruden situation where this draft, you know,
Speaker 1: well it remains to be seen. But they didn't pick
Speaker 1: till the third round. They get David Montgomery seventy three
Speaker 1: overall running back. Uh. Their fourth round pick is a
Speaker 1: Georgia wide receiver Riley Ridley, which I didn't I didn't
Speaker 1: see a ton of buzz around him as a big
Speaker 1: prospect and a draft that didn't have a lot of
Speaker 1: buzz at the wide receiver position period, So in the
Speaker 1: second round, well he didn't. And so I guess my
Speaker 1: point being is, listen, that's the way it is. You you
Speaker 1: you trade draft assets to get players, you're gonna eat
Speaker 1: it on the on the draft side potentially. So if
Speaker 1: this is a draft class that doesn't give them much
Speaker 1: and we'll find out, but it's you know, working against
Speaker 1: you when you don't have the first two picks. Um
Speaker 1: is the roster strong enough not to have a big
Speaker 1: offseason hall because they did make a lot of moves
Speaker 1: in free agency either, So the Bears essentially are telling us,
Speaker 1: we like this team. We're making you know, we're making
Speaker 1: minor moves, but we believe it's ready to take the
Speaker 1: next step. Um, we'll see how it plays out. But
Speaker 1: that's how you read this offseason. I think I totally agree.
Speaker 1: And they went into the off season knowing that I
Speaker 1: believe they had twenty or twenty one of their twenty
Speaker 1: two starters under contract for the next year. And and
Speaker 1: that's great, it's continuity. It's rare in the NFL. I'm
Speaker 1: always a little wary about a team that a is
Speaker 1: bringing back the same crew and expecting it to say
Speaker 1: at the same level, especially when you lose Big Fangio
Speaker 1: and then be the biggest question on the team is
Speaker 1: your quarterback, which is absolutely the case for me in Chicago.
Speaker 1: I think their biggest loss was losing Big Fangio. Now
Speaker 1: they have to Bokano there, and yeah, they have some
Speaker 1: really talented guys on the defense, but I wonder if
Speaker 1: that's if we're going to see a fall off at all.
Speaker 1: I see this team totally different than you guys do
Speaker 1: and their off season. If their offense isn't much better,
Speaker 1: it's going to be a disappointment when you add corderol
Speaker 1: Pattern and David Montgomery and Riley Ridley and even Mike Davis,
Speaker 1: who is okay. But it's I thought Matteggi explained it well.
Speaker 1: The reason why when he talks about Jordan Howard not
Speaker 1: fitting his offense, and we heard that for the past
Speaker 1: fourteen months, Jordan Howard doesn't fit his offense, it's about matchups,
Speaker 1: and when you evaluate players as a coach, I think
Speaker 1: it's not just what was the production, is what does
Speaker 1: this player allow me to do allow my quarterback to do.
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard did not allow him to play matchups and
Speaker 1: now with David Montgomery who can play in the passing game,
Speaker 1: with Cordarrell Patterson who can play in the running or
Speaker 1: the passing game with Riley Ridley, and even a guy
Speaker 1: like Marvin Hall who they got from the Falcons, who
Speaker 1: runs a four or three something, he can put him
Speaker 1: out for four or five routes a game and play matchups.
Speaker 1: I think this allows Matteneggy to do so many more
Speaker 1: different things that he wanted to do. Ye if I mean,
Speaker 1: but it's throwing dark these mid round picks. If they
Speaker 1: if these guys can play at this level, that's all. CORDORL.
Speaker 1: Patterson of Fantastic Cordell Patterson was like he was like
Speaker 1: I thought he personified last year's Patriots. They got good
Speaker 1: when they started featuring stupid is getting pissed. Respect the
Speaker 1: hard sons of the hobby. Alright, Greg, hit us up, baby.
Speaker 1: The Green Bay Packers, we amazingly have been in the
Speaker 1: news for defense, and we've talked about their defense so
Speaker 1: much and how much Mike Patton's loaded that. Now that
Speaker 1: we got past the draft, I feel comfortable enough to
Speaker 1: say I think this is this is the worst supporting
Speaker 1: cast Aaron Rodgers has had uh, in a long time.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe in his career. If you look at the
Speaker 1: wide receiver depth and Jimmy Graham is not getting me
Speaker 1: excited at tight end, and the offensive lines had some
Speaker 1: great moments the last few years, and back trs maybe
Speaker 1: the best left tackle on the league, but after that,
Speaker 1: I'm not that excited right now about the line either.
Speaker 1: So it's really all on Rogers and Matt Lafleur and
Speaker 1: Hackett and that should that could be plenty. I mean,
Speaker 1: the Tom Brady goes into seasons with with less than
Speaker 1: this and they do great, maybe that's plenty. But I
Speaker 1: do you think just in terms of raw talent around him,
Speaker 1: this is about as baron as it's been for Rogers
Speaker 1: in the last five to ten years. I think my
Speaker 1: biggest question with the Packers is, how is everybody going
Speaker 1: to mesh? How is Aaron Rodgers and Matt la Flour
Speaker 1: going to get along? How are all of these pieces
Speaker 1: that they've added on defense? It's a lot of new
Speaker 1: pieces for Mike Petton. How did they all come into play?
Speaker 1: They brought in Zadarius Smith and Preston Smith. They added
Speaker 1: Adrian Amos, So you look at all of these different
Speaker 1: pieces Rashan Gary. They added in the draft Darnell Savage.
Speaker 1: Like I just wonder how all of them are going
Speaker 1: to fit together. And like you said, the past catchers
Speaker 1: his Aaron Rodgers. Only dude there is Davante Adams. He
Speaker 1: really didn't show any real chemistry with any of those
Speaker 1: rookie receivers last season. I wrote about this in the
Speaker 1: mail bag which went up live on nfl dot com
Speaker 1: slash Hansas. UH. Packison was worried about the offense, and
Speaker 1: I guess, wouldn't you take a step back. What did
Speaker 1: the Packers do this offseason? I think, yes, they invested
Speaker 1: heavily in the defense, but I think it was also
Speaker 1: an endorsement of both Rogers and a new brain trust
Speaker 1: and a new thinking on offense, UH with a young
Speaker 1: head coach um in Matt Lafleur, and this idea, we
Speaker 1: believe in these guys, these young guys, and we believe
Speaker 1: Rogers in the last two years sucked, but we believe
Speaker 1: that he's gonna put it together. And if you if
Speaker 1: if Rogers can do that and la Fleur can do
Speaker 1: that one minute, then then the defense gets better. All
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you're back in the playoffs. It's almost
Speaker 1: like in and I know they would never do this,
Speaker 1: but it's almost like the front office and maybe even
Speaker 1: Rogers too. It's like they're trying to prove, Hey, we're
Speaker 1: gonna win with Mike McCarthy's players. We're gonna show you
Speaker 1: that Mike McCarthy was the problem by basically bringing back
Speaker 1: the same offense and being way better. I think there's
Speaker 1: something to that. They know Valdez Scantony can play. He
Speaker 1: had like a hundred yard games and three of his
Speaker 1: first four or five. Pretty impressive for a rookie. Allison's had.
Speaker 1: Like even though I'm saying it's the the least that
Speaker 1: Rodgers has had around him in last decade, I still
Speaker 1: don't think it's that bad. Like I don't think it's
Speaker 1: I don't think it's both like way below league average
Speaker 1: or anything. I just really like Equanimius st. Brown's name.
Speaker 1: Too strong strong name. I have one last. It's like
Speaker 1: the harp of names um Geronimo, Allison, equantimiusquantum Et Brown,
Speaker 1: and Marquez Valda's Scantling fifty five letters total. Just counted
Speaker 1: that up. That's what you've been doing. So I wasn't
Speaker 1: totally plugged into that last minute. Let's move to the
Speaker 1: NFC South. Um. Okay, started off with the Bucks here,
Speaker 1: you'll never be the enormous box I really hope not. Okay,
Speaker 1: Here we got good. So it was a defensive heavy
Speaker 1: draft for them. Their defense ranked last year. Now they
Speaker 1: have Todd Bowls. They have a lot of new pieces.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of new UH coaches with Bruce Arians,
Speaker 1: but Todd Bowles is going to bring in some more
Speaker 1: kind of three for looks. They drafted Devin White, who
Speaker 1: I love. They got him with the fifth overall pick.
Speaker 1: He replaces another fellow l s u Alum in quality,
Speaker 1: Kuan Alexander linebacker. They got a pair of corners um
Speaker 1: and a safety. So my biggest takeaway for the Bucks
Speaker 1: is Ken Bruce Arians save this ship. I have a
Speaker 1: lot of questions, actually, can Kenny save the ship? Uh? Huh?
Speaker 1: And Willie get more out of Jamis Winston and Willie
Speaker 1: send Gerald McCoy away. I feel like there's a lot
Speaker 1: of questions just surrounding this team in general. I think
Speaker 1: you will. I don't know if he'll save the ship,
Speaker 1: but I think he'll get more out of Jamis Winston.
Speaker 1: If he can't, then I don't know who can. To me,
Speaker 1: if you look at arians as track record, who he
Speaker 1: succeeded with in the NFL, and the quarterbacks like Winston
Speaker 1: could not have hand picked a better guy to help
Speaker 1: his career out. So for the for the people out
Speaker 1: there like me who who still believes Winston can have
Speaker 1: a good NFL career, like Arians is is sent from heaven.
Speaker 1: That's true. It's not amall thing to lose to Sean
Speaker 1: Jackson and Adam Humphries from an offense that was gangbusters
Speaker 1: early last year because you had so many options. You
Speaker 1: had the two tight ends and then you had four
Speaker 1: wide receivers and now you're down to what two and
Speaker 1: a half wide receivers in in the tight ends and
Speaker 1: you still don't have a running back. They love Peyton Barber,
Speaker 1: but he seems to me more like a try hard
Speaker 1: guy than than a playmaker. Before O. J. Howard went
Speaker 1: down with a season ending injury late in December, he
Speaker 1: was really emerging as a potential stud Absolutely, so if
Speaker 1: you if you, if he continues that trajectory, I could
Speaker 1: change that entire offense to be He's the closest thing
Speaker 1: to a Gronk like complete tight end that there is
Speaker 1: in the in the league. I don't know if he
Speaker 1: can get anywhere near that level, but he's that type.
Speaker 1: I was disappointed that they didn't do anything with the
Speaker 1: offensive line. I thought that that was a big issue
Speaker 1: for them and they didn't address it at all in
Speaker 1: the draft. I do like that we're already getting the
Speaker 1: articles of like Javis Winston's really taking control of the huddle.
Speaker 1: Again is that time of year, but we're also about
Speaker 1: a week away from Jamis Winson is displaying a maturity
Speaker 1: that we just simply haven't seen in this building in
Speaker 1: the first three years. Grown up a lot, He's made mistakes,
Speaker 1: but he's learned from them. The the Gerald McCoy thing
Speaker 1: is hanging over this team that they still might trade him.
Speaker 1: But if they don't, you know, Bowl's has a lot
Speaker 1: of talent to work with between JPP, who had a
Speaker 1: nice year, McCoy, Vita Vea came on late in the year,
Speaker 1: Shack Barrett was a free agent signing who I liked
Speaker 1: a lot. That the secondary has been among if not
Speaker 1: the worst in the entire NFL for a while, and
Speaker 1: they've just put so many resources into it. And it's
Speaker 1: never worked. I can't wait to see who comes back
Speaker 1: in the best shape of their lives. Like, I'm real excited,
Speaker 1: Carl Nassa, keep pounding West. I would like to take
Speaker 1: this opportunity to talk about how different evaluations are in
Speaker 1: NFL draft rooms. Albert Brier had a story where the
Speaker 1: Panthers they drafted Will Greer, they had him ahead of
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray, behind only Locke and Haskins. That's what they
Speaker 1: say after they take them. The Bengals drafted Finley, who
Speaker 1: they had ranked behind only the top four players taken
Speaker 1: and practically even with Locke. I do I do believe,
Speaker 1: because I think they like they see different quarterbacks fitting
Speaker 1: their offenses differently. People want different things and quarterbacks. But
Speaker 1: to me, like, you had Greer rated ahead of Kyler Murray.
Speaker 1: That is so you're telling me if for some reason,
Speaker 1: some bizarre reason, Kyler Murray was on the board when
Speaker 1: they picked the made the Greer picked, they would have
Speaker 1: taken Greer over Kyler Murray. Well, like, to me, it
Speaker 1: doesn't say what they want to do on offense, which
Speaker 1: also doesn't really make it. I don't think it's that
Speaker 1: hard to believe. I think the five ft nine quarterback,
Speaker 1: and nobody's ever succeeded as a first round draft nick, Like,
Speaker 1: you know industrial complex that we base all of our
Speaker 1: opinions on who had a good draft? Who didn't just copy? Like,
Speaker 1: there's very little original thinking in there, and everyone is
Speaker 1: afraid to get too far away. Whereas I think teams,
Speaker 1: there's some teams that are all over the place, especially
Speaker 1: at different positions, Like the Bengals might just evaluate quarterbacks
Speaker 1: a certain way, and so did the Panthers. I don't
Speaker 1: think that's that crazy. Yeah, look at the Seahawks. The
Speaker 1: Seahawks do that every draft. You can tell the Seahawks
Speaker 1: draft board looks like absolutely no one else's draft board.
Speaker 1: They're just doing whatever the help they want. Do you
Speaker 1: want your scouting department to stand out from the crowd,
Speaker 1: to be bold and to be forward thinking and unconventional.
Speaker 1: You don't want somebody who's like, I gotta see which
Speaker 1: way the winds blown before we pick? Does taking Will
Speaker 1: Greer at overall and obviously being in love with his
Speaker 1: ability and potential? Does? What does that mean for the quarterback?
Speaker 1: It's gonna sit well, it's gonna sit real well. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, what does it mean for the long term
Speaker 1: future potentially Kim Newton, how much pressure is on him
Speaker 1: coming off a second shoulder surgery. Yeah, second shoulder surgery
Speaker 1: and three years and we saw how they started the
Speaker 1: season last year six and two and then they ended
Speaker 1: as a seven and nine team that his shoulder was
Speaker 1: a real problem. Like, I don't think it means anything.
Speaker 1: Hundreds very deep in the draft, they needed to upgrade
Speaker 1: their backup. I think smart teams should be drafting quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: I mean the Patriots took the current Washington Redskins offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator higher in the draft while Tom Brady was in
Speaker 1: his like off of an MVP season, uh than than
Speaker 1: they took Greer. Do you know who that man is?
Speaker 1: By the way, did anyone have any idea current offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator Kevin O'Connell drafted with the pick of the j
Speaker 1: I don't even remember he's got these picks the Patriots.
Speaker 1: I think the Panthers looked at Will Greer and said
Speaker 1: he should have been taken a long time ago. He's
Speaker 1: still there. We love him, and we need premium insurance
Speaker 1: for a guy who's had shoulder issues. Shoulder, the shoulder
Speaker 1: is a big time concern. He's basically throwing groundballs to
Speaker 1: the sideline. By the end of December. Did you see
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey. Like the shots of him O t A
Speaker 1: s he looks like a he Man figure like legitimately
Speaker 1: it looks like but it's basically just Christian mc was
Speaker 1: such a complete waste of space. I mean as a
Speaker 1: magician and as just in general as a member of
Speaker 1: an he just had no real purpose. He's like the
Speaker 1: George your time and would not have been uh do
Speaker 1: you know Shira? No? Okay, al right, here a little youngers,
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on. I don't think it didn't
Speaker 1: matter what. You probably weren't watching he Man. All right,
Speaker 1: let's move on to the Atlanta Falcons. Alright. So the Falcons,
Speaker 1: you know, they they circled it in red marker and
Speaker 1: highlighted it. They targeted the offensive line as the biggest
Speaker 1: weakness of their team, and they spent they've spent this
Speaker 1: offseason rebuilding the thing. James Carton, Carpenter, come on Brown,
Speaker 1: um Tie Sombra Leo um all signed in free agency.
Speaker 1: And then they go to the draft and they take
Speaker 1: Chris Lyndstrom BC guard at fourteen, trade back into the
Speaker 1: first round. Take Caleb McGarry at thirty one, and I
Speaker 1: get the thinking. With a rebuilt offensive line, uh and
Speaker 1: a new offensive play caller and Dirk Cutter, the hope
Speaker 1: is that the Falcons could turn back the clock and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, it's two thousand and sixteen again.
Speaker 1: But the only question I have, and that all makes
Speaker 1: some sense, I kind of like that, But the only
Speaker 1: question is when you look at the biggest flaws with
Speaker 1: the Falcons, maybe they underachieved on offense under Sarcasum, but
Speaker 1: their defense just killed them last year and they just
Speaker 1: haven't put the focus there. If I'm somebody that has
Speaker 1: plugged into what's going on in the desert, and I
Speaker 1: want to be somebody that makes money in the desert,
Speaker 1: I'm pounding the over all year on games that Falcons
Speaker 1: are involved in, especially when they're played in that don't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but their defense last year was crushed by injuries. There.
Speaker 1: They lost both their safeties, Pardo Allen and Keian O'Neill,
Speaker 1: and Dion Jones, their middle linebacker who's like everything for them.
Speaker 1: Those three guys over missed a total of thirty eight
Speaker 1: games combined. Right, and they weren't hurt as much by
Speaker 1: injuries as the Super Bowl champion Eagles, So I do
Speaker 1: think that's too much of an excuse. They should have
Speaker 1: had more of an infrastructure where they don't fall apart.
Speaker 1: I agree with you, Dan like I think they have
Speaker 1: a lot of faith in this roster and Dan Quinn,
Speaker 1: but it hasn't really been born out with the results
Speaker 1: on defense. They I think they looked at the Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: game against the Saints and said, we would be guilty
Speaker 1: of negligence if we did not improve our offensive line
Speaker 1: to protect Matt Ryan, who got obliterated. Right it was.
Speaker 1: It was hardly uh, the wrong move to focus on
Speaker 1: the offensive line. I just I guess it's just you
Speaker 1: can make the case that there maybe could have been
Speaker 1: a little bit more balanced in their plan of attack
Speaker 1: and free agency in the draft. I agree with you,
Speaker 1: it showed a lot of confidence. It is kind of
Speaker 1: kind of a sign of like, hey, we think this
Speaker 1: roster is super Bowl ready. Still this is our number
Speaker 1: one problem by far. If we fix this, we like
Speaker 1: this team. I just feel like they've been chasing and
Speaker 1: since the end of that season and they just can't
Speaker 1: get back to it. But to me, yeah, I get
Speaker 1: to me they were back to it when they lost
Speaker 1: to the Eagles in that playoff game. It was a
Speaker 1: different sort of team, but that team was absolutely one
Speaker 1: of the best four or five teams in the league
Speaker 1: at that point. We went into l A and beat
Speaker 1: the Rams. People forget about that, and they look at
Speaker 1: Dion Jones and Kian O'Neil and say, those are two
Speaker 1: of our five best players and we lost him. I
Speaker 1: get it. I feel for this team. I'm rooting for
Speaker 1: the Falcons, you know, I just feel like getting I
Speaker 1: don't know. I want this group to get it, get
Speaker 1: over the hump together. No, you don't get it both ways.
Speaker 1: You don't get to crush the organization with your favorite
Speaker 1: team for all time. That, by the way, the Falcons
Speaker 1: will never be the same after that night. Adrian now
Speaker 1: be like, oh, and I hope things are okay with
Speaker 1: the Falcons going forward because I'm really rooting for them. No,
Speaker 1: you don't get as Adrian Claiborne's back. What a sentimental story.
Speaker 1: That's not firing anyone up. By the way, um, if you, Connie,
Speaker 1: if you ever became the enormous Box, it would not change.
Speaker 1: I feel like you're trying to will this to happen
Speaker 1: what's going on, It would not change how I felt
Speaker 1: about you or anyone else in this room and feel
Speaker 1: about you. Thanks, guys. I just want to make that clear, Greg,
Speaker 1: I mean your personality might change. She could change your saying.
Speaker 1: Are you telling me I need to go on a
Speaker 1: diet or something? Dan? Is that what you keep bringing
Speaker 1: it back up? I'm staying out of it. Are you
Speaker 1: saying that I'm on my way to be coming an
Speaker 1: enormous box? You look wonderful? No, I'm not. Erica has
Speaker 1: buried me on this before too. Um, I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: move on. I'm gonna get out of the way. And
Speaker 1: and Greg, you're gonna talk about the Saints. There's not
Speaker 1: a huge reason to believe the Saints won't be one
Speaker 1: of the best teams in the league like this. I
Speaker 1: guess the one question I would have with them is
Speaker 1: are we just accepting now that their defense is good?
Speaker 1: Because because for the first time, you know, they were
Speaker 1: ready to go win a Super Bowl with the defense
Speaker 1: being a huge part of that, and with with a
Speaker 1: couple of breaks, maybe maybe they would have. I guess
Speaker 1: I've watched them long enough, and maybe Marcus Davenport gets
Speaker 1: better and Anteloni keeps getting better, and it really is
Speaker 1: a great secondary. I think if you look at the
Speaker 1: best teams in the league, they all have good secondary.
Speaker 1: A lot of them have good secondaries, and they're very
Speaker 1: deep there. I I'm not, just because of muscle memory,
Speaker 1: ready to accept that they just have a good defense,
Speaker 1: because if they do have a good evens, they probably
Speaker 1: should be. Like the leader in the NFL for over
Speaker 1: underwins in two thousand nineteen, I have more questions about
Speaker 1: how Drew Brees played down the stretch than I do
Speaker 1: about their defense. Forty year old quarterback who fell apart
Speaker 1: over the final six weeks, fell apart is strong. No,
Speaker 1: he could not throw beyond thirty yards. He fell apart.
Speaker 1: He had some of the worst games of his career
Speaker 1: down the stretch last year. They also don't have a
Speaker 1: solid number two wide receiver on the roster at all.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know Alvin Kamara catches a ton of passes,
Speaker 1: but it's real thin. After Michael Thomas, like, what are
Speaker 1: you doing? It's kind of amazing how much you trust
Speaker 1: Sean Payton and Breeze to cook up the right matchups
Speaker 1: and offense good. It wasn't intentional save the ship like,
Speaker 1: You're right, because other than that, the receiving talent doesn't
Speaker 1: get you too excited. I mean, Jared Cook is quite
Speaker 1: an upgrade at tight end. I know you accused me
Speaker 1: of being a fanboy, but this guy has been a
Speaker 1: really good player three years now. We on NFL Network
Speaker 1: recently we talked about who are the Are the Steelers
Speaker 1: still powerhouse? Yes, our whole three in three minutes forty
Speaker 1: four seconds on air, But um, who can you put
Speaker 1: in Marker West? You said, like powerhouses the team you
Speaker 1: could put it in magic Marker. I'm putting the Saints there.
Speaker 1: Even with these concerns, even with the defense maybe not
Speaker 1: being up to snuff for Drew Brees, not looking good
Speaker 1: down the stretch. I feel this team is, you know,
Speaker 1: twelve thirteen wins in January. I inhibitive favorites, prohibitive favorites
Speaker 1: in net division. Absolutely, it's still a good division. It's
Speaker 1: a deep conference. I usually don't put this much stock
Speaker 1: into the kind of intangibles and the mental side of things,
Speaker 1: but I do. I do wonder about getting over the
Speaker 1: maybe the worst back to back playoff losses that we
Speaker 1: can think for any team. I was thinking about that too.
Speaker 1: The worst one thing this fuel. On the other hand, sure,
Speaker 1: I don't know, you can go both ways. Don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe none of this even like matters emotional hangover. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's something we just make up. But I'd be worried.
Speaker 1: I don't think you can. I know the Browns had
Speaker 1: those two terrible losses to the Broncos in the eighties,
Speaker 1: but they weren't back to back when you talk back
Speaker 1: to back, and it was that in New Orleans, like
Speaker 1: that was the whole thing they had been building towards.
Speaker 1: Sean Bayton might still be in that dark room watching
Speaker 1: that NFC championship over and over. I think that's not
Speaker 1: that stuff matters much more than we think, but our
Speaker 1: ability to predict it as much less than we think. True. Well,
Speaker 1: put Chris Westling, that's why he's the scientist. That's why
Speaker 1: it's a male many delivers great insight at all times. Uh. Finally,
Speaker 1: the NFC, West get us go and Connie. All right,
Speaker 1: let's start it off with the Niners. All right, Jimmy
Speaker 1: g he's back from that torn a c l That
Speaker 1: alone is a huge boost. No disrespect, Nick Mullins. J
Speaker 1: betherd Um behind him, another recovered a c L back
Speaker 1: on the field with Jerick McKinnon. Plus they brought in
Speaker 1: Tevin Coleman, and they already have Matparretta on the field.
Speaker 1: So like the running backs that they have, and they
Speaker 1: have the most productive tight end in the league in
Speaker 1: terms of receiving yards with George Kittle. So I think
Speaker 1: this team could maybe have one of the biggest turnarounds
Speaker 1: from last year to this year. Something about that seat
Speaker 1: over there, Mark Sessler is the biggest family. It's contagious.
Speaker 1: It is um Bark could be outside Kyle Shanahan's house
Speaker 1: right now cleaning his car. He loves Shannon and he
Speaker 1: loves that team. This is a hard This is a
Speaker 1: hard team to nail down what they're gonna be. Their
Speaker 1: defensive roster, their starting lineup on defense seems so much
Speaker 1: better and a D line now and if Jason Barrett
Speaker 1: can play now you've got two good cornerbacks. But that's
Speaker 1: a huge if after he's barely played in the last
Speaker 1: five years. Um the offense, I just I trust Kyle
Speaker 1: Shanahan so much. But it's not like anybody in the
Speaker 1: NFC really got worse. There are no real cup kicks
Speaker 1: in the NFC, so it's hard to say San Francisco
Speaker 1: is gonna start knocking teams off with ease. It seems
Speaker 1: like they're gonna play a lot to close games, and
Speaker 1: they could go six and ten, they could go nine
Speaker 1: and seven. Who knows. And I know you have Kiddle
Speaker 1: and in some depth, but your best wide receiver is
Speaker 1: who it's probably Kittle wide receiver, right, Pettis Like, if
Speaker 1: you told me Marque is good when finishes fourth on
Speaker 1: this team and receiving that also would It's not shocked me.
Speaker 1: So drafted to receivers, maybe maybe they'll provide a little
Speaker 1: bit of spark. I wonder if someone, a veteran wide
Speaker 1: receiver shakes off a tree somewhere, if the Niners wouldn't
Speaker 1: aggressively seek that. I don't think they would, because then
Speaker 1: they'd have to cut one of their young guys who
Speaker 1: they just drafted in the top Jordan Matthews. You can't
Speaker 1: upgrade over Joan and Matthews in two thousands. Why not
Speaker 1: making the team? Yeah, I don't know if he's going
Speaker 1: to be. He's not making the darting. I would put
Speaker 1: Pettis in Taylor, but I think this is so they
Speaker 1: are one of the most fascinating teams this year because
Speaker 1: they're defensive town too, and then Nick Bosa that is
Speaker 1: it is pretty intriguing. I gotta admit that they stuck
Speaker 1: with their coordinator Robert Salah, who's you know, not produced
Speaker 1: too well in his first two seasons. Like they're going
Speaker 1: with continuity and I don't know, and they drafted a
Speaker 1: punter in the fourth round. That guy is gonna be good,
Speaker 1: Robbie Gould once out, you better be a punt. You
Speaker 1: better be a good punt. I'm not I'm not allowed
Speaker 1: to say this in here, but I will say it again.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo has never really put together in a full
Speaker 1: season of tape as a franchise quarterback. I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: say it under this piece of paper. Why are you
Speaker 1: not allowed to say that. I know everyone disagrees with me,
Speaker 1: I actually don't. It's actually correct. I think you need
Speaker 1: to come out and I just want to see him
Speaker 1: play first. Now I'm with you. Throw for like four
Speaker 1: thousand yards and like twenty nine toes showns once the
Speaker 1: first three games last season freaked me out a little bit.
Speaker 1: He did not play very well, all right, the Seattle
Speaker 1: Seahawks Chris Westling, Oh, I gotta talk about them. I'm
Speaker 1: just kidding. Let me look at my notes here. Oh wow, ys,
Speaker 1: we've figured out the rotation yet, I mean, we made it.
Speaker 1: What is it? We've made it to like eighties seven
Speaker 1: minutes between the two shows, and then finally Less brings
Speaker 1: it to a hall. It feels like John Schneider played
Speaker 1: this draft like a fiddle. You know, a week before
Speaker 1: the draft he's got four draft picks. He ends up
Speaker 1: making eleven picks. And yet when I look at this team,
Speaker 1: is it crazy to say they're not even gonna be
Speaker 1: as good as last year? After losing Frank Clark, They're
Speaker 1: probably gonna lose Doug Baldwin. They go from j R. Sweezy,
Speaker 1: who played really well at guard last year, to signing
Speaker 1: Mikeya Potti, who hasn't been healthy in three or four years.
Speaker 1: To me, those are three positions where I wonder, are
Speaker 1: you going to be as good as last year? And
Speaker 1: I think, you know, they loose they get rid of Clark,
Speaker 1: and there you know, they take Collier in the first round,
Speaker 1: But where is the pass rush coming from that's not manufactured?
Speaker 1: And then they do. Carol does as good a job
Speaker 1: coaching up team defense as anyone, but just the pure talent,
Speaker 1: uh in terms of the past rush and even the
Speaker 1: secondary is not overwhelming. Geron Reid and Puna Ford played
Speaker 1: great down the stretch from the inside, but I agree
Speaker 1: with the edge rush. You're gonna ask a lot out
Speaker 1: of l. J. Collie or your first round pick. Speaking
Speaker 1: of L J. Collier, our friend the big Fish, Evan
Speaker 1: Silva had this to say about going from Flank Clark
Speaker 1: Frank Clark to Collier a horrifically sub optimal exchange as concerns,
Speaker 1: but I feel like also last year the Seahawks sounds
Speaker 1: like a punk band. Who expected the Seahawks to do
Speaker 1: as well as they did last year. It was supposed
Speaker 1: to be a rebuilding year for them. Greg did Megan
Speaker 1: mina times I had him, which is basically what she
Speaker 1: has the Super Bowl? Wow? What about that? Good for me?
Speaker 1: You know, I forget what I was saying. Now, are
Speaker 1: they gonna let are they gonna let Russell Wilson throw
Speaker 1: the ball? I mean the memory of that playoff game
Speaker 1: haunts me. And I'm not even a Seahawks fan. That
Speaker 1: they ran every first and second down. It is bruto
Speaker 1: to watch, and you don't need to give Schottenheimer an
Speaker 1: excuse not to throw the ball. And the fact that
Speaker 1: their number two wide receiver right now is I don't
Speaker 1: know DK Mettcalf for David Moore, Like that's an excuse
Speaker 1: to run the ball off DK Metcalf. A lot of people.
Speaker 1: It turns out that no things don't like that guy
Speaker 1: at all as a player. Yeah, I mean it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a tremendous person and what a bod. Listen, this
Speaker 1: is the sport that we're we cover the combine. Then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I'm like so in on DK
Speaker 1: Metcalf and everybody who talks bad about him shut up.
Speaker 1: And I heard the phone call was awesome when Schneider
Speaker 1: called and he was crying and it was very sweet
Speaker 1: and all that. But the reason he dropped to Seattle
Speaker 1: is that some people don't think maybe he's gonna be
Speaker 1: a good pro. He better be or they they're not
Speaker 1: gonna They're gonna have a big hole there a wide receiver.
Speaker 1: If Baldwin doesn't feel back stretch the field, he's super fast,
Speaker 1: he really needs to work on his route running Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 1: Of course, Kyler Murray represents a new beginning for Arizona
Speaker 1: after last year's What Really Will ended up being a
Speaker 1: false start, a very public false start with Josh Rosen
Speaker 1: and Steve Wilkes. Of course, one of the most exciting
Speaker 1: subplots of this year is now waiting to find out
Speaker 1: how good Murray is. And I love that kid bomb
Speaker 1: tick tick tick and Cliff Kingsbury. They're doing away with
Speaker 1: all that garbage about whether or not Murray is the
Speaker 1: Week one starter. Yeah, of course he is. He's the
Speaker 1: Week one starter. Spares the charade and that's great. I
Speaker 1: like that trying a bit of a charade with their
Speaker 1: We're we're very excited about Brent Hunley. Yeah. Well, okay,
Speaker 1: they have to be nice to people. Um. But you know,
Speaker 1: if Kyler Murray hits the ground running, he could turn
Speaker 1: the NFC upside down. That's all I have to say.
Speaker 1: I'll throw it to you guys if he is as
Speaker 1: special as some people believe. We know, certain to the
Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers thinks he's a piece of garage. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a player, but but a lot of other teams
Speaker 1: think this guy is special as hell. And if he is,
Speaker 1: and that's this is a this is a much better
Speaker 1: team on paper than it was a year ago. Things
Speaker 1: could change a lot, and NFC West could change quickly. Well,
Speaker 1: it helps that he fits into Cliff Kingsbury's offense a
Speaker 1: lot better than Rosen. And you have Christian Kirk was
Speaker 1: Kyler's teammate at Texas A and M, so maybe that
Speaker 1: will help a little bit. And I like that they
Speaker 1: drafted Andy Isabella, super fast guy, so you don't just
Speaker 1: have Larry Fitzgerald there, which was I felt like last
Speaker 1: year the only guy that was like available on the team.
Speaker 1: But I love that we have David Johnson already talking
Speaker 1: again about another thousand, one thousand and one thousand. Dad. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he's he's had as good offseason as anyone.
Speaker 1: Because suddenly he's gonna have great matchups in the passing game.
Speaker 1: He would think there's less people around the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: He he should be helped out in this offense. I
Speaker 1: think that's that to me is the question is how
Speaker 1: air raid does Kingsberry go. People thinking Okay, this is
Speaker 1: gonna be a brand new NFL. I mean it's been there.
Speaker 1: I mean anyone watched the Chiefs last year. I mean
Speaker 1: that this is the direction the NFL is going. But
Speaker 1: how like wild is he gonna take it, how hard
Speaker 1: he's gonna put it? True? But this is also a
Speaker 1: grand experiment. We've never seen something like this before where
Speaker 1: you hire an unproven guy who got fired by his
Speaker 1: college team, ye, and then you draft a five ft
Speaker 1: nine quarterback to fit that guy's offense. It's something not
Speaker 1: a lot of franchises would have done. And it's it's
Speaker 1: not an untalented team. And that's the thing with the NFL.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say this about the Lions too. It's
Speaker 1: like the line between six or seven wins and ten
Speaker 1: or eleven, it's not that big these like you look
Speaker 1: at the Cardinals roster up and down. The offensive line
Speaker 1: is pretty bad, but there's players. There's players on offense.
Speaker 1: There's Chandler Jones and Terrell Suggs and Buddha Baker and
Speaker 1: Patrick Peterson, Jordan Hicks. It's like a lot of question
Speaker 1: there's some players. It's a lot of questions, but there's
Speaker 1: some players here. It's not like totally talent for the
Speaker 1: offensive line is bad, but having Kyler Murray, who can
Speaker 1: get out of trouble when things are collapsing. Helps, whereas
Speaker 1: Rosen he just got hit forty five times, lash and
Speaker 1: get into trouble, right right, True, it works both ways.
Speaker 1: West over under Lar Fitzgerald seventy two and a half catches,
Speaker 1: I'll go over. I'm a Larry Believer, one of my
Speaker 1: favorite players of all time. I'm never gonna doubt that.
Speaker 1: Trying to think who that like that? The harp song
Speaker 1: as it starts reminds you of maybe like a Diana
Speaker 1: Ross t It has a there's a Beatles song too
Speaker 1: that I'm thinking of. Um hey, but a quick pause
Speaker 1: before we wrap up with the Rams. One bit of
Speaker 1: Cardinals news that they reportedly have declined defensive lineman Robert
Speaker 1: kim d J's fifth year option. And to mark the occasion,
Speaker 1: I'd like to sing a song if you guys don't mind, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Ricky kim d he he change. Why did you fall
Speaker 1: out that window? It changed your whole life? You fail?
Speaker 1: We all fell okay, no pick up option. You had
Speaker 1: the shouldn't not to stand by that window, but you
Speaker 1: liked the view? Kim d Why did you fall out
Speaker 1: that ween? Though? It changed for our whole life. You
Speaker 1: felt we all fell down? How long do you work
Speaker 1: on that? So? I was late, beautiful, beautiful rendition. Um,
Speaker 1: I felt like there was it was deep. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of meaning beyond just it was. It took me
Speaker 1: to a place when I was writing it. It took
Speaker 1: me the dorm room. I'm complaint, Yeah, becauld he use
Speaker 1: a little more harp M, I'm gonna harp this. This
Speaker 1: window incidents five years old. You need to let go.
Speaker 1: Kim d J has tried to put it behind him.
Speaker 1: You won't let him as the song. As the song states,
Speaker 1: it changed the course of his life. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: everything changed. He stood by that window and everything changed
Speaker 1: for all of us. That's how life works. Sometimes it's
Speaker 1: it's sad and it's scary how your life can totally
Speaker 1: change based on one decision that seems totally inconsequential. That
Speaker 1: guy doesn't go falling out that window, everything could be different.
Speaker 1: Ram the rams, uh, you know. They they're hoping that
Speaker 1: everything didn't change on one day, you know, last February.
Speaker 1: And I feel like that that's been the vantage point
Speaker 1: in this in this room and beyond. I don't think
Speaker 1: everything did chance. I mean, they're gonna remember that that's
Speaker 1: gonna be painful forever. But I don't think it changes
Speaker 1: anything about the fact that they're one of those teams
Speaker 1: that I'm writing in magic marker into the playoffs that
Speaker 1: I think they're about as big a favorite to win
Speaker 1: this division as just about any team is to win
Speaker 1: any division, because I think they're just really solid all
Speaker 1: the way through. You can't find a huge weakness. And
Speaker 1: I like how, similar to the Saints and the Patriots,
Speaker 1: they are so deep in the secondary. I think that's
Speaker 1: a big trend in the NFL right now to have
Speaker 1: match up players that can match up one on one
Speaker 1: in different you know, against different formations that you can
Speaker 1: deal with the Texas Tech air raid type of stuff,
Speaker 1: so that you can have the right cornerback or safety.
Speaker 1: And they added who did they add this officer, Taylor
Speaker 1: Rapp and David Along in the draft, and then Eric
Speaker 1: weddle Uh in free agency to replace Joyner, And I
Speaker 1: think it's just a good group. I don't I do
Speaker 1: not see weaknesses. It's a young roster overall, and I
Speaker 1: think they're sailing right back into the playoffs. I'm guilty
Speaker 1: of perpetuating that narrative that another people have that Jared
Speaker 1: Goff is he going to be the same after being
Speaker 1: completely exposed by Bill Belichick in the Super Bowl. And
Speaker 1: McVeigh has proven to be one of the best minds
Speaker 1: in football, Jared Goff has not proven to be quarterback.
Speaker 1: McVeigh would tell you he had a bad day at
Speaker 1: the office too, But Goff, in a different way, was
Speaker 1: exposed in the Todd Girl, I think you can't speak
Speaker 1: on the It wasn't just though, but yes, I know,
Speaker 1: I know, but he made some terrible throws and big
Speaker 1: spots in that game, could not make a play for them.
Speaker 1: But I'm just I'm just saying, when you look at
Speaker 1: what is the future of the Rams, it does there
Speaker 1: is a logical scenario where it's like, yes, that's super
Speaker 1: Bowl loss kind of ended an era for them. It
Speaker 1: could also be you could be totally right that they'll
Speaker 1: again win eleven or twelve games and be another hard
Speaker 1: January out young team. They get cold. It's tired to
Speaker 1: ask the question how they how they bounce back from that?
Speaker 1: And the Rams go as Todd Gurley goes like, is
Speaker 1: his knee okay? Is his mind okay? I feel like
Speaker 1: the c J. Anderson stuff. When he came in and
Speaker 1: he went off. I feel, like, you know, Todd Gurley,
Speaker 1: I think that kind of affected him a little bit
Speaker 1: mentally too. Give the Pat's defense some credit. Not that
Speaker 1: I am not taking anything away around the NFC. Okay,
Speaker 1: And here's what I'm saying is like they lost, they
Speaker 1: lost a few offensive alignment. I think they replaced him
Speaker 1: with drafts. I mean, I think I think in with
Speaker 1: with cut back, they brought back Fowler, which I think
Speaker 1: was a good move overall. I just look at this
Speaker 1: team and I actually think that there's still maybe the
Speaker 1: best roster in the NFL, like they probably are. They're
Speaker 1: the team I feel the most safe will be in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Them and the Patriots. We'll copy of the
Speaker 1: same They got so many holes. I want to copy
Speaker 1: the same play. Who's playing inside linebacker next to Corey
Speaker 1: Littleton Kenna Matthews. Can the two draft picks who has
Speaker 1: never played in the NFL start on the offensive line.
Speaker 1: They've got a lot of questions. Is Jared golf like
Speaker 1: he hasn't made a good game basically since that Chiefs
Speaker 1: I think couple will be fine. By the way, I mean,
Speaker 1: I feel you see guys come back from a c
Speaker 1: l S all the time and losing him a huge deal, right, right, okay,
Speaker 1: respect to her, Fine, fine, fine, great work, guys. We
Speaker 1: went around the NFC eight ish minutes, right, the whole
Speaker 1: forty eight minutes. Tag is, do you really want to
Speaker 1: know how around the nc because I'll tell you we
Speaker 1: did about five minutes off the top where it about
Speaker 1: one oh two. Now, so I'm not good at math,
Speaker 1: but you guys can figure it out. It was like
Speaker 1: fifty five minutes or something. That's not bad. It's probably right.
Speaker 1: What do you say, one o two minus five? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so fifty seven, that's not bad. I mean the goal
Speaker 1: was forty eight. You just put an asterisk next to it. Well,
Speaker 1: you gotta free show, how about that? Yeah? That way
Speaker 1: you gotta leave room for some one n d too.
Speaker 1: We had to stop down for team dates. It needed that.
Speaker 1: Um and that dude that complained, well, I guess what,
Speaker 1: I guess complaining works out. So there was That's what
Speaker 1: my mom told. My mom told me my whole life
Speaker 1: that the squeaky wheel does get greased, and that's what
Speaker 1: that dude did. Yeah, just that's a great squeaking. He
Speaker 1: got greased. I mean, it might be sending the wrong
Speaker 1: message to our listening. One complaint, guys could totally change
Speaker 1: your next show to just just send them along. But
Speaker 1: here's the thing. People complain all the time. That's true
Speaker 1: about our show and everything else. You never know which
Speaker 1: one's gonna get through. So don't think now that you, uh,
Speaker 1: this is gonna open the floodgates. Keep complaining if you want,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna ignore almost everything. But this is look
Speaker 1: at it, this one. Just send them all to Erica,
Speaker 1: Send them on to me. I'll be happy to deal
Speaker 1: with you. Want to parse them out, absolutely, I'll be happy.
Speaker 1: Did do it, Erica and West We could read complaints.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's a nice offseason show. I want to be
Speaker 1: here for it, all right, that would be a good show.
Speaker 1: We're running out of time with you, right because the sun?
Speaker 1: Why am I dying? What do you mean? The Summer
Speaker 1: of Connie is condition? The boxes can confirm can confirmed
Speaker 1: for the Existential podcast. The boxes sharp around the edges.
Speaker 1: It's not like some Amazon delivery guy throwing it over
Speaker 1: a fence and all of a sudden there's a dent
Speaker 1: in it. It is not a mangled box. Anyway, what
Speaker 1: are you starting your vacation time? What do you mean
Speaker 1: it already started? A right? Yeah, Well, we'll try to
Speaker 1: get you in here whenever we can. We love having you. Awesome.
Speaker 1: I'm back. I'm back whenever. Erica. You killed it today. Thanks,
Speaker 1: you killed it last night at softball. You had a
Speaker 1: major home run. Dan, Dan killed it last night. West,
Speaker 1: you did great too. But Dan, he really he pulled
Speaker 1: through when we needed him. He's got that clutch gene.
Speaker 1: You know, he had the big hit that was on
Speaker 1: the script that tamp post was reading. I turned on
Speaker 1: a three one pitch and you know, put one over
Speaker 1: the left field and his head. Forget about two two
Speaker 1: bases to two runners on. But you gotta the gout.
Speaker 1: The power hitter has to swing in that situation, not
Speaker 1: take a walk when there's two outs and runners in
Speaker 1: scoring position. I heard West two. I was in the
Speaker 1: box three one. West reminded me, Hey, don't let this go.
Speaker 1: If it's close, you better swing it. Guess what, Zeuser
Speaker 1: didn't let it go. You got an RBI mindset. Hey,
Speaker 1: the nerds haven't gotten rid of the RBI yet on
Speaker 1: our team. Really, Hey, the nerds can try, But driving
Speaker 1: in runners is a skill did not expect and with
Speaker 1: the anti analytic uh I love analytics, just don't beat
Speaker 1: dogmatic about it. Um all right, we will be back
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