1
00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:06,560
Speaker 1: The Around the NFL podcast deserves its own a football life.

2
00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:11,040
Speaker 1: Welcome back to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast.

3
00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:12,959
Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hansus and I am joined by

4
00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:16,760
Speaker 1: a room filled love heroes, Mark Sessler, Chris Westling and

5
00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:22,040
Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal. What's up boys? Hey? Dan? Oh? Yeah? Another

6
00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:26,279
Speaker 1: show Tuesday show. Awesome show coming up. I had a

7
00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:31,240
Speaker 1: I'm dealing with this um sinus infections. We've been speaking

8
00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:34,680
Speaker 1: about as a group and talk about this more than

9
00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:37,640
Speaker 1: Mark talks about growing up in London or Gregg giving

10
00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:42,280
Speaker 1: the charity and um, I just took a cough drop

11
00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:46,720
Speaker 1: from the the war chest in the in the break

12
00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:49,879
Speaker 1: room and I didn't check the expiration date. And now

13
00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:52,760
Speaker 1: my tongue is kind of numb. And now I'm that's

14
00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:55,080
Speaker 1: what cough drops do. It's not to be your tongue.

15
00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:57,720
Speaker 1: It's meant to be, you know, don't go down your throat,

16
00:00:57,760 --> 00:00:59,760
Speaker 1: don't be a weenie. There's something going on. But they

17
00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:03,440
Speaker 1: did show as fascinating as the story is, couldn't get

18
00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:06,200
Speaker 1: more fascinating. Did you check? Did you actually check after

19
00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:09,480
Speaker 1: the fact the experience to date, I like that you

20
00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:14,199
Speaker 1: think yourself is having some sort of potentially life ending

21
00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:16,440
Speaker 1: illness that you're battling through, but then you've taken a

22
00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:19,720
Speaker 1: cough drop to address it. I um, I got all

23
00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:22,280
Speaker 1: those here past expiration cough drops like their M and

24
00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:25,440
Speaker 1: m's all the time, and I'm fine. Well, West, you're

25
00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:29,000
Speaker 1: a better man than I. Subtext, I'm tougher than you, alright,

26
00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:32,760
Speaker 1: Mr Cincinnati. I grew up on the west side of Cincinnati,

27
00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:36,080
Speaker 1: which makes me a real man. My favorite toy was

28
00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:40,280
Speaker 1: a cinder block going Uh. Mark, Yeah, yeah, yeah, Oh.

29
00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:42,440
Speaker 1: I spend time in England as a child. Alright, we

30
00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:46,039
Speaker 1: get it, Mark, but you are true story after this.

31
00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:49,440
Speaker 1: The Beautiful and Lovely also shares the same birthday as I,

32
00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:53,400
Speaker 1: so we get along very well. Simone. Uh, your wife

33
00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:56,960
Speaker 1: is picking you up. Immediately following today's show off to

34
00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,120
Speaker 1: the Old l a X, you go a trip to

35
00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:11,919
Speaker 1: jolly old England and um home former home, the only

36
00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:17,160
Speaker 1: place you feel truly comfortable do harbor loyalties to the Queen.

37
00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:21,440
Speaker 1: I have not been there since nineteen so I don't

38
00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:24,520
Speaker 1: have any fresh contact with I didn't know that queen

39
00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:26,840
Speaker 1: or anything. Yeah, it's been decades and you didn't and

40
00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:30,720
Speaker 1: you didn't pitch a long form Mark Sessler returns to

41
00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:35,799
Speaker 1: his groups journeys. I could see that and see other

42
00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:39,960
Speaker 1: people writing that bloviation, but not you, Mark, You're a

43
00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:43,000
Speaker 1: man of integrity and principle, but you are lead. Connor

44
00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:46,720
Speaker 1: is already there. Connor or on New Jersey Correspondent arrived.

45
00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:50,400
Speaker 1: He's already. Uh, he's using our I am chat client

46
00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:53,720
Speaker 1: telling us that he is on the ground. He's landed

47
00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:56,520
Speaker 1: in Heathrow Airport. And now, Mark, you were heading there

48
00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:59,360
Speaker 1: to cover the Jaguars and Bills. What a game I'd

49
00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:02,400
Speaker 1: like to call the greatest game of all time. It

50
00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:05,120
Speaker 1: is Uh, it's fascinating that we are going to each

51
00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:09,639
Speaker 1: probably file what seven or eight pieces about two teams,

52
00:03:09,639 --> 00:03:13,480
Speaker 1: well one of the two that gets zero, and it's

53
00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:16,160
Speaker 1: not let's not call it the game of the century,

54
00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:17,920
Speaker 1: but we're gonna turn it into that. But it is

55
00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:22,399
Speaker 1: interesting for considering their records. I did on the website

56
00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:27,400
Speaker 1: my watchability rankings this week, and the Bills were the

57
00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:29,520
Speaker 1: number five team because I find them a very intriguing

58
00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:32,440
Speaker 1: team when Tyrod Taylor especially is behind center, and Blake

59
00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:34,960
Speaker 1: Borders we've been talking him up for the last few weeks,

60
00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:37,040
Speaker 1: is a very fun young quarterback to watch. If you're

61
00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:39,760
Speaker 1: gonna watch. Yeah, teams with not bad records. At least

62
00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:45,560
Speaker 1: they're entertaining. Sydney behind the glass starting her transition to

63
00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:50,800
Speaker 1: a full corporate entity, dropped in live read in my

64
00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:53,800
Speaker 1: lap seconds before we started. Can we bring back out

65
00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:55,920
Speaker 1: save the Queen and a low volume and I will

66
00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:59,920
Speaker 1: read this The NFL on Yahoo. Watch with the World,

67
00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,840
Speaker 1: Old wake up and watch with the world. The NFL

68
00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:04,800
Speaker 1: is live on Yahoo. For the first time ever, the

69
00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:08,040
Speaker 1: NFL is streaming a live game on Yahoo. Bills Verse

70
00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:12,120
Speaker 1: Jags live from London. New time, new way to watch

71
00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:16,880
Speaker 1: anywhere with everyone. Watch with the World October. That's Sunday,

72
00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:22,200
Speaker 1: nine thirty a m. Eastern six thirty Pacific, NFL on Yahoo.

73
00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:28,400
Speaker 1: That's it. That's good. I might actually wake up early

74
00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:32,280
Speaker 1: to watch. Well, remember that podcast where we went through

75
00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:35,840
Speaker 1: all the different countries that listen to the podcast that

76
00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:39,239
Speaker 1: there are seventy five or whatever more than that, hundreds

77
00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:42,960
Speaker 1: of them, Mongolia, Indonesia, Mongolia. This is the one time

78
00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:44,640
Speaker 1: we can all be watching the same game at the

79
00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:47,719
Speaker 1: same time. In Mongolia. They's gonna be big. There a

80
00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:52,839
Speaker 1: lot of big Telvin Smith fans there. So true. So Mark,

81
00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:56,640
Speaker 1: you know, best of luck than to miss you, and

82
00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:59,520
Speaker 1: maybe we'll get you on the old Horn on Sunday

83
00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,320
Speaker 1: to discuss what's going on over there. Barring a massive

84
00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:04,880
Speaker 1: air calamity, I think that that's on the dock and

85
00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:06,680
Speaker 1: we will speak. I think we will even talk to

86
00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:09,640
Speaker 1: him Thursday, see see what the practices have been like,

87
00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:12,640
Speaker 1: a little press conference time with him and Connor. Are

88
00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:15,279
Speaker 1: you gonna get together with any of our listeners. I

89
00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:17,839
Speaker 1: think we definitely are. We have gotten a lot of

90
00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:21,160
Speaker 1: tweets from people in London and a lot of offers

91
00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:24,120
Speaker 1: to buy us beers. Were only two human vessels, so

92
00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:26,839
Speaker 1: we can only contain so much beer, but we will

93
00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:29,240
Speaker 1: try to meet up with people. And Greg now I

94
00:05:29,279 --> 00:05:32,720
Speaker 1: will speak and Mark is very intense. He's he loves

95
00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:35,640
Speaker 1: his job and he takes it seriously. It's up to you.

96
00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:39,400
Speaker 1: It's on you, Greg not to overwhelm Mark with assignments

97
00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:41,960
Speaker 1: over there so he can have fun. This is that's

98
00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:44,640
Speaker 1: what the whole trip is for. As shadowy leaked figures

99
00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:48,400
Speaker 1: are listening thinking that I had to justify the thousands

100
00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:50,720
Speaker 1: of dollars we're spending on this. We finally got him

101
00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:53,080
Speaker 1: over there because of this game on Yahoo. Really it's

102
00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:55,320
Speaker 1: it's help to help promote that. No, I don't want

103
00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:57,640
Speaker 1: to hear its shadowy leak figures this is eleven billion

104
00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:00,880
Speaker 1: dollar mega corp. Cecily can do the work to have

105
00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:03,400
Speaker 1: a little bit of of course, that's that's what makes

106
00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:06,680
Speaker 1: Sessler Cessler. We've come up with a fair plan that

107
00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:10,080
Speaker 1: will both inform football fans and allow us to see

108
00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:14,200
Speaker 1: a foreign city. Expect nothing less Cessler's middle seat and coaches.

109
00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:17,039
Speaker 1: What's going to sink the National Football League? Alright, shield,

110
00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:21,920
Speaker 1: all right, we got I mean Tessler. By the way,

111
00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:25,640
Speaker 1: if Sessler has to even if he's writing seven stories

112
00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:27,520
Speaker 1: a day, he's just not going to sleep. He's gonna

113
00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:29,159
Speaker 1: stay out there and he's gonna see that. So I

114
00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:32,400
Speaker 1: think we're underrating the Connor War factors. That absolute wild

115
00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:34,839
Speaker 1: card on the road, that's true, and an adventure in

116
00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:36,800
Speaker 1: his own heart, he is an adventure or kind of

117
00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:38,840
Speaker 1: like any event I've gone with him, you always have

118
00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:41,000
Speaker 1: to keep your head on a swivel because he'll just

119
00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:45,159
Speaker 1: wander off. He does got a lot of contacts, a

120
00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:47,159
Speaker 1: lot of interest. Mark, I'm going to need you to

121
00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:51,840
Speaker 1: bring your Instagram a game. I will if my phone

122
00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:55,159
Speaker 1: weren't lots of posts were in London, of all places.

123
00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:57,640
Speaker 1: There has a challenged. There has been talk that your

124
00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:01,000
Speaker 1: Instagram Instagram game is slumped in recent months after you

125
00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,280
Speaker 1: were getting a real amount of buzz for a while

126
00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:07,120
Speaker 1: with some of your art pieces and some other slice

127
00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:09,520
Speaker 1: of life type things. It was also like largely in

128
00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:11,840
Speaker 1: the off season where I was, you know, wandering the

129
00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:14,640
Speaker 1: streets to fair point. Now's your chance. So that's it.

130
00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:17,720
Speaker 1: Marks gonna be in London. We're excited. Everybody's excited. Today's

131
00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:20,240
Speaker 1: show is a nice one, nice big show. We got

132
00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:24,680
Speaker 1: our Monday night Recappa an al Teimer NFC East Showdown,

133
00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:28,840
Speaker 1: Hammer Bang between the Redskins and Giants. Get into that.

134
00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:30,920
Speaker 1: I will do a little bit of news what's what's

135
00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:34,960
Speaker 1: cooking around the NFL this week as we approach week seven,

136
00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:40,559
Speaker 1: we will potentially we're gonna do this um in real

137
00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:44,960
Speaker 1: time this week where it will nominate some teams for

138
00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:48,120
Speaker 1: the fork and uh, we'll see what teams will be done.

139
00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:51,680
Speaker 1: Eleven teams in the NFL have been forked so far

140
00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:54,440
Speaker 1: by our group, which means they have no opportunity to

141
00:07:54,480 --> 00:08:00,160
Speaker 1: make I'm Gonna die hang on Live Live hands is

142
00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:03,960
Speaker 1: which means eleven teams have no chance to make the playoffs.

143
00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:06,080
Speaker 1: We might add to that list. And then we'll hit

144
00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:10,360
Speaker 1: the T and F preview NFC West Seahawks at Niners,

145
00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:12,640
Speaker 1: and we'll close it out with the mail bag if

146
00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:17,080
Speaker 1: we have time. It's busy show. Mark's got Simon, the wonderful,

147
00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:24,400
Speaker 1: kind hearted, talented Simon downstairs with the engine on. Now

148
00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:26,200
Speaker 1: we got a little time, we can we can enjoy

149
00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:28,200
Speaker 1: this show, all right, So let's get into it. Why

150
00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:33,560
Speaker 1: don't we start, of course with Monday Night Football. I

151
00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:36,920
Speaker 1: mean we have to. I mean I would like to

152
00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:38,880
Speaker 1: say we could just not talk about this game, but

153
00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:41,760
Speaker 1: we are the Around the NFL podcast, and so we

154
00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:44,200
Speaker 1: will talk about the NFL game on Monday Night. It

155
00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:48,240
Speaker 1: was a to seven win for the Philadelphia Eagles over

156
00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:50,880
Speaker 1: the Giants. They scored The Eagles scored the final twenty

157
00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:52,880
Speaker 1: seven points of the game after the Giants had an

158
00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:55,920
Speaker 1: eight yard touchdown drive to get things going. It was

159
00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:59,680
Speaker 1: a sloppy game, turnovers a plenty. Both quarterbacks played poorly,

160
00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:03,520
Speaker 1: Eli Manning and Sam Bradford. Eli didn't get any protection.

161
00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:06,960
Speaker 1: Bradford continues to make you wonder if he's the right

162
00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,800
Speaker 1: guy to be in the starting lineup for Philadelphia, and

163
00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:12,800
Speaker 1: we had a DeMarco Murray's siding. For the first time

164
00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:15,840
Speaker 1: he went over one hundred yards. He scored a touchdown,

165
00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:19,080
Speaker 1: so the Eagles moved into first place in the NFC East.

166
00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:23,480
Speaker 1: The Giants searching for answers, Chris Westling, you wrote up

167
00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:26,439
Speaker 1: our piece on Monday night, the what we learned? What

168
00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:28,720
Speaker 1: did you learn from this game? We learned that this

169
00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:31,920
Speaker 1: was basically a microcosm of every NFC East game for

170
00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:36,640
Speaker 1: the last fifteen years. Just boring, sloppy. I don't know

171
00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:39,320
Speaker 1: why they keep putting these teams on national TV over

172
00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:41,560
Speaker 1: and over again to bore the rest. There was a

173
00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:43,840
Speaker 1: brief window where the Cowboys were fund in the mid

174
00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:47,520
Speaker 1: two thousands, but that's fair. That's the last time the

175
00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:50,960
Speaker 1: NFC East was vaguely interesting. We learned that Demontrey Moore

176
00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:54,599
Speaker 1: should probably be benched for his mind boggling roughing the

177
00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:58,320
Speaker 1: passer penalty that really changed the momentum of the entire game.

178
00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:01,120
Speaker 1: The Giants were cruising out. It looked like they could

179
00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:03,280
Speaker 1: have gone up thirteen to nothing or nineteen to nothing.

180
00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:06,800
Speaker 1: Larry Dennelle should not be excused either. He had basically

181
00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:08,320
Speaker 1: just got the ball ripped out of his hands by

182
00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:12,120
Speaker 1: Damiko Ryan's and then dropped the pass. So his shaking

183
00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:15,080
Speaker 1: hands and and Demontrey Moore really turned this game around.

184
00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:19,880
Speaker 1: The Eagles, I think have the best defense in the division,

185
00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:23,360
Speaker 1: and we like the Redskins early. And that was my

186
00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:25,560
Speaker 1: takeaway is that, you know, as ugly as these two

187
00:10:25,559 --> 00:10:29,160
Speaker 1: games have been, it's pretty impressive that they've won two

188
00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:32,200
Speaker 1: straight games by twenty points or more with Sam Bradford

189
00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:35,400
Speaker 1: playing terribly. So it's another proof why quarterback wins and

190
00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:37,920
Speaker 1: losses is overrated, because Sam Bradford gets a couple of

191
00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:40,480
Speaker 1: comfortable wins and he has not played well in back

192
00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:42,800
Speaker 1: to back weeks, and yet they're winning games. And for

193
00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:44,640
Speaker 1: all the heat that Chip Kelly has taken for his

194
00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:49,640
Speaker 1: offseason moves on offense, UH, he's built up good enough

195
00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:52,000
Speaker 1: defense where they can lose Michael Kendricks, they can lose

196
00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:55,360
Speaker 1: Demiko Ryan's, uh, they can lose Kiko Alonso, and yet

197
00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:58,360
Speaker 1: the defense is good enough that it's really the dominant

198
00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:00,439
Speaker 1: part of that team and it's got them when it's games.

199
00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:03,440
Speaker 1: They shut out Odell Beckham in the second half when

200
00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:05,920
Speaker 1: it looked like he was about to have an absolute

201
00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:09,800
Speaker 1: monster night. But everything went wrong for the Giants after that.

202
00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:12,560
Speaker 1: I wouldn't even say they necessarily shut down Odell Beckham,

203
00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:15,360
Speaker 1: and Coughlin said it after the game. They never had

204
00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:17,280
Speaker 1: a chance to get the ball to him because Eli

205
00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:19,440
Speaker 1: man and could not get protected. He was getting killed,

206
00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:21,600
Speaker 1: he was getting swarmed in the backfield as soon as

207
00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:24,120
Speaker 1: he took the ball. He was sacked four times total

208
00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:27,000
Speaker 1: coming into this game, was sacked three times in the game,

209
00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:29,920
Speaker 1: had two intentional grounding penalties, and was hit four more times.

210
00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:32,480
Speaker 1: Much of that in the second half, and and the

211
00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:35,000
Speaker 1: Eagles just dominated time and possession in the second half.

212
00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:37,560
Speaker 1: I don't think I don't think their defense was as

213
00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:39,680
Speaker 1: much of a factor on Odell Beckham. Is just the

214
00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:42,160
Speaker 1: Giants never had the ball. Although it's a little dispiriting

215
00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:45,400
Speaker 1: to see Odell Beckham essentially used as a short yardage

216
00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:48,360
Speaker 1: wide receiver, like, hey, it's third and one, let's throw

217
00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:50,280
Speaker 1: it to Odell Beckham. That was their play a couple times,

218
00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:53,040
Speaker 1: and it worked. But at seven catches sixty one yards,

219
00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:55,320
Speaker 1: this is such a get rid of the ball quickly,

220
00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:57,720
Speaker 1: dink and dunk offen to trying to keep their defense

221
00:11:57,720 --> 00:11:59,720
Speaker 1: on the field. I get it. It's all worked fairly

222
00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:02,599
Speaker 1: well for the first month of the season, but it's

223
00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:06,800
Speaker 1: not unleast the backham. I think that hamstring played a factor,

224
00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:10,040
Speaker 1: and how he almost had one big catch down the

225
00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:12,679
Speaker 1: left sideline. Then he showed some real frustration with Eli

226
00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:15,240
Speaker 1: after that it's sailed out of bounds. Sometimes I'm amazed

227
00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:17,480
Speaker 1: with Eli. It made me think of immediately when that

228
00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:20,240
Speaker 1: past sailed was the dime that they threw to Mario

229
00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:23,400
Speaker 1: Manningham in that second Super Bowl win. That the same

230
00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:25,240
Speaker 1: guy can then look as bad as you did for

231
00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:27,920
Speaker 1: stretches in this game. Uh, including on that throw. But

232
00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,480
Speaker 1: again it's like, it's not just Eli, it's the the

233
00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:33,280
Speaker 1: entire offense. They can't run the ball, they can't block,

234
00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:35,880
Speaker 1: it's it was a mess. Oh what a mess. I

235
00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:38,640
Speaker 1: But watching it, I thought, well, if you put Eli

236
00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:41,840
Speaker 1: on the Eagles they went by forty because I think

237
00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:43,480
Speaker 1: he was the better quarter. That's why you can't you

238
00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:45,280
Speaker 1: can't just look at the box score because it looks

239
00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:48,000
Speaker 1: like Eli had a terrible, terrible game, but he played well.

240
00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:50,440
Speaker 1: Initially one of the interceptions was totally not on him.

241
00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:52,319
Speaker 1: You could add a big pass that you mentioned to

242
00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:55,400
Speaker 1: the Now I think he's played consistently this year. If

243
00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:57,920
Speaker 1: nothing else, it's not exciting to watch him. Whereas Bradford,

244
00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:02,200
Speaker 1: I'm still thinking they should consider going to I agree

245
00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:05,880
Speaker 1: with you, I don't. I mean it would make sense.

246
00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:09,840
Speaker 1: I just I think the Eagles have to figure out

247
00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:12,679
Speaker 1: if they have a franchise quarterback or not. And if

248
00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:15,240
Speaker 1: they've decided after six games that Bradford's not, then fine,

249
00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:18,280
Speaker 1: go to Sanchez. That's not a small sample, though. Six games.

250
00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:20,080
Speaker 1: You're starting to get up there a little bit where

251
00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:22,199
Speaker 1: it's like if you still don't think this guy is

252
00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:24,360
Speaker 1: a guy, or he's making the same mistakes week after week.

253
00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:27,280
Speaker 1: I was listening at one point when I was driving home. Uh,

254
00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:29,720
Speaker 1: last night, Boomers size him. He calls the game for

255
00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:33,040
Speaker 1: Westwood One. He was just laying into Bradford. He's like

256
00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:35,440
Speaker 1: somebody and he's at halftime going and shake this guy

257
00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:38,360
Speaker 1: because he was just in a malaise, especially in the well,

258
00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:41,200
Speaker 1: really the whole game. I mean, the passes he was missing.

259
00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:43,240
Speaker 1: He just doesn't. I mean, he doesn't seem like an

260
00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:46,000
Speaker 1: inspiring guy. It's not. He made a couple of terrible

261
00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:48,080
Speaker 1: passes the previous week too, And I don't have to

262
00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:50,960
Speaker 1: wonder if you don't bench him, is it because you think,

263
00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:54,000
Speaker 1: if you're Chip Kelly, that there's an amount of time

264
00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:56,800
Speaker 1: it takes to get fundamentally familiar with this attack. And

265
00:13:56,840 --> 00:13:59,520
Speaker 1: we're gonna see a different kind of quarterback down the

266
00:13:59,559 --> 00:14:02,760
Speaker 1: stretch of the Eagles because these kind of throws and

267
00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:04,520
Speaker 1: he made some of these in St. Louis when he

268
00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:06,679
Speaker 1: was on the field too. This just looks to me

269
00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:10,120
Speaker 1: like the Sam Bradford that we couldn't stand. Alright, you

270
00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:15,480
Speaker 1: guys convinced me? Or is he bloom? Though? They are

271
00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:17,640
Speaker 1: winning games and I think they know Mark Sanchez is

272
00:14:17,679 --> 00:14:19,480
Speaker 1: not a franchise quarterbak, so I do think that's why

273
00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:21,520
Speaker 1: they're doing it and if they can find a way

274
00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:23,360
Speaker 1: to win some games. They did get to Marco Murray

275
00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:25,480
Speaker 1: on track, so they had a running game for the

276
00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:28,240
Speaker 1: first time just about all season. That they're gonna try

277
00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:31,040
Speaker 1: to ride Bradford as long as over the last month

278
00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:33,520
Speaker 1: or averaging thirty eight running yards per game. They guess

279
00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:35,560
Speaker 1: they got Mark on Murray on track for the first

280
00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:38,200
Speaker 1: time all season. His numbers looked okay last week because

281
00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:39,920
Speaker 1: of one run, but he hasn't looked good. He looked

282
00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,320
Speaker 1: he looked a little better last night. The second half

283
00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:45,240
Speaker 1: was by far the best he's played in Philadelphia. I

284
00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:48,560
Speaker 1: just whenever there's no way he can run laterally, he

285
00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:51,320
Speaker 1: just flat out cannot run laterally, and so don't run

286
00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:53,400
Speaker 1: them laterally. He was in the second half. They didn't

287
00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:55,880
Speaker 1: downhill run or use them that way. But it's a

288
00:14:55,920 --> 00:14:58,960
Speaker 1: little redundant with Matthews. But he looks I mean listening,

289
00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:01,320
Speaker 1: maybe it look as good as you did last September

290
00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:03,640
Speaker 1: and October. But I thought he looked pretty good running

291
00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:05,880
Speaker 1: the ball. He's he's averaging five yards per carry behind

292
00:15:05,920 --> 00:15:08,440
Speaker 1: a bad offensive line. De Margot Murray's averaging two yards

293
00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:11,800
Speaker 1: less percy. It's funny that both they were touted at

294
00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:14,800
Speaker 1: Bradford and Murray is this, Oh, this is re reuniting

295
00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:17,200
Speaker 1: them in the spread offense that they were electric and

296
00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:20,120
Speaker 1: in college. Murray doesn't seem to be the better fit

297
00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:23,360
Speaker 1: than Matthews. I don't care what happened last Bradford isn't

298
00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:26,960
Speaker 1: necessarily comfortable in this offensive. It's another case against offseason

299
00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:29,400
Speaker 1: puff pieces. We also thought Jordan Matthews and I and

300
00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:31,240
Speaker 1: I fell for it too, was going to have a

301
00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:33,520
Speaker 1: great season. And I still think Jordan Matthews is a

302
00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:37,160
Speaker 1: good player. He makes mistakes every week, mental error and

303
00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:40,880
Speaker 1: drops just he's tough to I wouldn't write him off.

304
00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:46,040
Speaker 1: Are the Would we label the Eagles the not heavy favorite,

305
00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:48,560
Speaker 1: but a clear favorite to win the No, I don't

306
00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:51,320
Speaker 1: think there is a favorite. I think the Redskins are

307
00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:53,960
Speaker 1: I've thought all along they're clearly the worst team. But

308
00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:55,960
Speaker 1: the other three to me, are about the same. Eagles

309
00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:58,240
Speaker 1: are gonna get whacked if they make the playoffs. They're

310
00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:01,320
Speaker 1: gonna get absolutely distroyed by someone. Whoever makes it's gonna

311
00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:05,600
Speaker 1: get whacked. All right. So that's the Monday night game. Uh, Sidney,

312
00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:08,400
Speaker 1: how are you doing? By the way, I'm doing really well. Thanks.

313
00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:12,360
Speaker 1: What's what's new? You know? Not anything? So I kind

314
00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:14,560
Speaker 1: of wish it would rain here. I'm not gonna lie.

315
00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:18,640
Speaker 1: I just you know, I'm pretty new to l a break.

316
00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:22,040
Speaker 1: You're Where are you from? Originally? I'm from thank you.

317
00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:25,240
Speaker 1: I'm from Utah, Okay. So here's the one thing we're

318
00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:28,400
Speaker 1: hearing about. It'nin you is supposed to drop a hammer

319
00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:32,520
Speaker 1: total hammer drop on the so Calarias. So get excited

320
00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:36,640
Speaker 1: when we get swept away into the Mighty Pacific. I

321
00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:41,920
Speaker 1: hope you're happy. I will be smildly happy. Thank you. Yeah,

322
00:16:41,920 --> 00:16:46,880
Speaker 1: all right, let's do some news. Ready, Yeah, I said, walked,

323
00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:51,880
Speaker 1: I walked out of the womb. Ready. This is These

324
00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:54,240
Speaker 1: are the times I'm really happy that TV doesn't do

325
00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:56,920
Speaker 1: the show all the time, is that we'd be subjected

326
00:16:56,960 --> 00:17:01,400
Speaker 1: to some star wars. But if this was, uh the situation,

327
00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:04,879
Speaker 1: and I'm I'm sorry about that, and I'm sorry Mark.

328
00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:09,679
Speaker 1: And that's not a shot at you or anybody, but

329
00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:11,479
Speaker 1: I just can't escape it. It's got to be dropped

330
00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:13,479
Speaker 1: on me in the middle of the Monday night football game.

331
00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:15,400
Speaker 1: I can't escape it, even when I'm trying to watch football.

332
00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:17,760
Speaker 1: I don't think it's the first time that a film

333
00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:23,600
Speaker 1: has been overly publicized in our lifetime, but it certainly qualifies. Yeah. Anyway,

334
00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:26,320
Speaker 1: let's you seem to have I think you're dislike for it.

335
00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:29,399
Speaker 1: And I noticed your tweet last night is in itself

336
00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:32,960
Speaker 1: interesting that there are plenty of things to rail against.

337
00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:36,200
Speaker 1: And I do find it interesting that this has gotten

338
00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:38,000
Speaker 1: under your skin to the degree that it has. I

339
00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:40,400
Speaker 1: share it with Dan. Someone tweeted out a picture from

340
00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:45,840
Speaker 1: the NFL media newsroom last night, and it was the

341
00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:52,080
Speaker 1: entire media group huddled around a big screen during halftime

342
00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:56,400
Speaker 1: when it was yeah exactly. They're like, we could have

343
00:17:56,680 --> 00:18:01,040
Speaker 1: Barack Obama speaking about going to or and I promise

344
00:18:01,119 --> 00:18:03,320
Speaker 1: you not that many people would have been huddled around

345
00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:05,920
Speaker 1: the campfire and give me a break. I think you'll

346
00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:09,000
Speaker 1: notice I was not among the Well, someone tweeted me

347
00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:11,080
Speaker 1: and said, I hope you guys talk about the preview

348
00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:14,359
Speaker 1: on the podcast. I'm dealing with three people that absolutely

349
00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:17,919
Speaker 1: hate this franchise, and I'm not. It's not all right.

350
00:18:18,359 --> 00:18:21,760
Speaker 1: There's a dislike or disinterested. I dislike the all encompassing

351
00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:24,399
Speaker 1: nature of the Star Wars phenomenon that I cannot I'm

352
00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:26,920
Speaker 1: not allowed to escape it. And because you guys love

353
00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:30,040
Speaker 1: it so much, they're making five straight freaking movies, which

354
00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:32,120
Speaker 1: means that I got to eat it for the next decade.

355
00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:34,639
Speaker 1: I don't put myself in a camp where I'm some

356
00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:39,399
Speaker 1: fanboy either. I'm not. I'm got other things. Luke Well, listen.

357
00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:42,640
Speaker 1: I will say that I have two boys that are

358
00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:45,959
Speaker 1: under the age of five, and they watched it, and

359
00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:48,720
Speaker 1: that's sort of what I think is what what proved

360
00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:50,600
Speaker 1: to me that there's some worth in it. They loved it.

361
00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:52,800
Speaker 1: It's not about me at age forty, and they love

362
00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:56,560
Speaker 1: everything you can show a kid and it's not just

363
00:18:56,680 --> 00:19:01,880
Speaker 1: a good movie for five year old. Oh alright, Well,

364
00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:04,480
Speaker 1: I hope that likely West and I were on check,

365
00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:07,800
Speaker 1: and of course it came up this morning. I hope

366
00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:09,560
Speaker 1: the movies are great, and I hope everyone in jail

367
00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:11,320
Speaker 1: that would be a change. I just wish I could

368
00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:14,520
Speaker 1: not be so involved with it. Well, I feel that

369
00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:18,520
Speaker 1: way about seventy five things that exist in popular and

370
00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:20,560
Speaker 1: then we all have those things, and that's and that's

371
00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:24,440
Speaker 1: for you. It's literally just about everything you don't like. No,

372
00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:26,320
Speaker 1: I I like a lot of things, but if you're

373
00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:29,000
Speaker 1: talking about our newsroom, you can't really control. There's no filter.

374
00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:31,879
Speaker 1: It just pushing. The first two of these movies were great,

375
00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:34,520
Speaker 1: Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back, and they've been terrible

376
00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:36,560
Speaker 1: ever since. So I don't know why everybody gets fired

377
00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:40,239
Speaker 1: up about him. I'm just glad this all distracted us

378
00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:43,639
Speaker 1: from J. J. Watts disgusting speech that he was making.

379
00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:47,040
Speaker 1: I mean, walking out of a womb, that's that's distasteful. Well,

380
00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:51,600
Speaker 1: he's entering Drew breesful discourse with that. A lot of

381
00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:55,040
Speaker 1: hot takes. Let's start in Pittsburgh and the news where

382
00:19:55,119 --> 00:19:58,919
Speaker 1: um Ben Roethlisberger's battling that MCL spraying and a bone bruise.

383
00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:01,640
Speaker 1: He's missed three games and it seems like he's gonna

384
00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:04,600
Speaker 1: miss another one. He he expects to split some first

385
00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:08,400
Speaker 1: team reps with Landry Jones, but Mike Tomlin told reporters

386
00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:12,520
Speaker 1: on Tuesday of the team, we'll focus on getting Landry

387
00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:15,400
Speaker 1: Jones ready for the team's upcoming matchup against the one

388
00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:18,520
Speaker 1: in five Chiefs. Here's the quote from Tomlin. It's safe

389
00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:21,280
Speaker 1: to prepare as if Landry Jones is our quarterback this year,

390
00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:26,320
Speaker 1: this week, he's healthy. Uh, Wes Jones, you said we

391
00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:29,520
Speaker 1: talked earlier. You watch this game recently. Uh? Jones threw

392
00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:32,720
Speaker 1: two touchdowns and in relief of Vic who suffered a

393
00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:35,840
Speaker 1: hamstring injury. Uh. Is he a guy you think can

394
00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:38,680
Speaker 1: do well against the bad Chiefs team? It's an interesting question.

395
00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:42,520
Speaker 1: Almost every time we had seen Landry Jones in preseason action,

396
00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:45,600
Speaker 1: or every time we heard reports out of practice, they

397
00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:49,080
Speaker 1: were as bad as a quarterback could possibly be. He

398
00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:52,239
Speaker 1: looked better than expected. He looked poised and comfortable. But

399
00:20:52,359 --> 00:20:56,000
Speaker 1: their second half was about Martavis Bryant making a spectacular

400
00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:59,320
Speaker 1: leaping touchdown pass and then out raising the Cardinals defense

401
00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:02,600
Speaker 1: for eight yards, which was most of Landry George Jones yards.

402
00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:05,480
Speaker 1: This was a Martevis Bryant show. Landry Jones is the

403
00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:08,760
Speaker 1: reason they went and got Vic. They were not comfortable

404
00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:11,600
Speaker 1: at all with the idea of him being their backup quarterback.

405
00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:14,600
Speaker 1: And he's looked putrid every summer. He was okay in

406
00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:18,240
Speaker 1: the preseason this year. Maybe I just watched for instance, Yeah,

407
00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:19,879
Speaker 1: there was one game where I watched them for two

408
00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:22,960
Speaker 1: quarters and he was okay. He knows the offense was

409
00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:26,240
Speaker 1: Michael Vicks. I think they trust him to do more

410
00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:28,760
Speaker 1: with the playbook than Vick and maybe a Todd Haley

411
00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:30,320
Speaker 1: thing as much as anyone else. I mean, how you

412
00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:32,280
Speaker 1: gotta do is, you know, you throw a couple of

413
00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:33,560
Speaker 1: deep balls, but most of it is going to be

414
00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:36,359
Speaker 1: short stuff. You let Antonio Brown and Levan Bell do

415
00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:38,520
Speaker 1: the rest. I mean Vic couldn't, just couldn't even so

416
00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:41,480
Speaker 1: he's just staying he should just play like his counterpart

417
00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:45,320
Speaker 1: Alex Smith. Yes, exactly, because he's got great players around him.

418
00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:47,119
Speaker 1: In a perfect world, and I mean, this is a

419
00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:49,119
Speaker 1: luxury for the Steelers that they could keep Ben on

420
00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:51,240
Speaker 1: the bench because they bought some wins here, watch out

421
00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:53,560
Speaker 1: for the Steelers too if they if they get another

422
00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:56,040
Speaker 1: win with their second and third string quarterbacks and then

423
00:21:56,080 --> 00:21:58,760
Speaker 1: they get Ben back at five and two four City

424
00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:02,160
Speaker 1: here can't say enough about how their defense has exceeded

425
00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:05,560
Speaker 1: my expectations. James Harrison, I watched this game last night,

426
00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:08,720
Speaker 1: made three plays that change the game. He forced a

427
00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:12,920
Speaker 1: fumble on John Brown, forced a holding penalty, then engaged

428
00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:16,080
Speaker 1: a huge pass interference penalty on John Brown, and then

429
00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:18,600
Speaker 1: had another sack to push Palmer out of field goal range.

430
00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:21,600
Speaker 1: He was phenomenal. Cameron Heyward is turning into one of

431
00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:24,080
Speaker 1: the best defensive ends and football steff on two. It's great.

432
00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:26,360
Speaker 1: And then Mike Mitchell came back and played well this year.

433
00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:28,040
Speaker 1: They can stop the run. And if you can do

434
00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:30,199
Speaker 1: that again with against the Chiefs, you take out the

435
00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:32,520
Speaker 1: run game and you force Alex Smith to do with

436
00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:35,200
Speaker 1: his arm big problems. Has anyone ever had a more

437
00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:38,840
Speaker 1: odds defying career great career than James Harrison couldn't find

438
00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:41,040
Speaker 1: the team, showed up out of nowhere and became the

439
00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:44,280
Speaker 1: best linebacker on the planet. Disappeared again, was basically out

440
00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:46,760
Speaker 1: of football, and now was back to being an impact player.

441
00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:50,879
Speaker 1: He is so bizarre because he's a five eleven pass

442
00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:53,320
Speaker 1: rusher who was just built like a brick wall. He

443
00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:56,720
Speaker 1: is incredibly strong and he forced a fumble on John Brown,

444
00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:59,240
Speaker 1: but just basically being made out of steel. Sessler was

445
00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:03,960
Speaker 1: giving me the suspitious eyebrows. What about James Harrison. He

446
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,200
Speaker 1: will be a really interesting Hall of Fame case one day.

447
00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:08,720
Speaker 1: He is two time first team All Pro. Doesn't happen

448
00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:11,840
Speaker 1: defensive player there. I do remember though, the one year

449
00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:15,879
Speaker 1: it was, Belichick was at the Super Bowl, so I

450
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:17,840
Speaker 1: think it was like the last ten years about I

451
00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:20,280
Speaker 1: can't remember which one it was, but essentially there was

452
00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:22,440
Speaker 1: a debate about who should be Defensive Player of the Year,

453
00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:25,600
Speaker 1: and I believe it was the year Paula mali one

454
00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:29,600
Speaker 1: or Sugs. I'm forgetting, but but Belichick said he would

455
00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:33,040
Speaker 1: vote for James Harrison. He said he would have been

456
00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:34,880
Speaker 1: my guy the last two or three years, that he's

457
00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:36,720
Speaker 1: the toughest guy to deal with, and that that's saying

458
00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:40,480
Speaker 1: that's saying something from Bell. He basically ended Mohammed Massaqua's career.

459
00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:44,320
Speaker 1: He put Colt into hyper space and knocked out Josh Cribs.

460
00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:46,119
Speaker 1: I mean he is one of the harder hitters in

461
00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:48,480
Speaker 1: the league. I I think he's the hardest hitter of

462
00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,800
Speaker 1: the of the century when he when he hits you,

463
00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:53,480
Speaker 1: he's come up with a lot of muscle behind. What

464
00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:57,920
Speaker 1: about the bosses hot takes? What hot hard hitting in general?

465
00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:00,760
Speaker 1: I was just writing down West this hot take. I mean,

466
00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:03,000
Speaker 1: if that's not a pull quote that they're gonna tweet

467
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:07,439
Speaker 1: out hardest hitter of the twenty first century, could it be?

468
00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:12,919
Speaker 1: Watch well play that's one thirty eight characters perfect. I

469
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:16,680
Speaker 1: won't see that on a Sunday email from Andrew Howard. Uh,

470
00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:19,359
Speaker 1: West goes inside football. They're in a big spot, all right.

471
00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:23,399
Speaker 1: Let's move on to a little Packers talk Eddie Lacey.

472
00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:26,439
Speaker 1: Uh fantasy Darling. I think he went probably in the

473
00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:29,560
Speaker 1: top eight of most drafts, and it's supposed to be

474
00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:32,240
Speaker 1: a stud running back barely in the game plan for

475
00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:35,200
Speaker 1: the Packers in their most recent win under the Chargers.

476
00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:39,200
Speaker 1: In fact, he had just four four carries in the game. Uh.

477
00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:42,399
Speaker 1: James Stark's got most of the work, including uh a

478
00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:45,600
Speaker 1: sixty five yard touchdown run and the question is and

479
00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:48,879
Speaker 1: and um and West you wrote about this yesterday? What

480
00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:51,720
Speaker 1: is going on with Eddie Lacy? Everybody's nervous about Eddie Lacy.

481
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:55,600
Speaker 1: Is he hurt? Is he uh fat? Is he not

482
00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:57,480
Speaker 1: as good as he was last year? Or is he

483
00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:00,440
Speaker 1: just about to break out? And here comes Chris wrestling

484
00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:03,520
Speaker 1: our night and shining armor to explain exactly what's going on.

485
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:06,960
Speaker 1: Fantasy heads are panicking. I'm stealing Fantasy heads from Mark

486
00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:10,080
Speaker 1: because I love it. Fantasy heads are panicking because they

487
00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:13,240
Speaker 1: It's always interesting to me every June, in July and

488
00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:16,040
Speaker 1: August when the whole community gets together and decides one

489
00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:19,280
Speaker 1: player should be the number one overall. And for some reason,

490
00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:21,520
Speaker 1: they decided Eddie Lacy should be the top pick in

491
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:24,880
Speaker 1: fantasy this year. He got annointed for some reason. Eddie

492
00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:27,280
Speaker 1: Lacy is a great player when he's healthy, and people

493
00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:30,320
Speaker 1: shouldn't forget that. James Stark is is not going to

494
00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:33,680
Speaker 1: become the starter in Green Bay. When Eddie Lacy uses

495
00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:35,760
Speaker 1: the bye week to get healthy, he should come back

496
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:38,560
Speaker 1: and be the starter. Last year, at this time, we

497
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:40,600
Speaker 1: had the same thing. Their runnings back coach was saying,

498
00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:43,440
Speaker 1: we're gonna use James Moore Eddie shouldn't cary the ball

499
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:46,440
Speaker 1: twenty times a game. Lacey was averaging three point eight

500
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:50,080
Speaker 1: point six three point eight three point eight six yards

501
00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:53,120
Speaker 1: per carry, uh and have one game over ninety yards

502
00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:55,240
Speaker 1: last year at this point, right, and then he turned

503
00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:57,280
Speaker 1: it on. Then he became the only player in the

504
00:25:57,359 --> 00:25:59,720
Speaker 1: NFL with a hundred yards per scrimmage from scrimmage in

505
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:02,439
Speaker 1: the next nine games. So he's done this before. We

506
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:05,919
Speaker 1: know that Eddie Lacy win healthy, is an excellent football player.

507
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:11,480
Speaker 1: But it's not just um health. It's conditioning and it's

508
00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:13,880
Speaker 1: a really tricky thing for people to talk about from afar.

509
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:17,080
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna uh quote Bob McGinn, who's one of

510
00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:19,080
Speaker 1: the best out there, and was rating you know, he

511
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:21,960
Speaker 1: does a weekly uh piece where he rates all the players,

512
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:25,200
Speaker 1: which I love. And he said, basically, the first play

513
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:27,040
Speaker 1: of the game, James Starks in the game because it's

514
00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:30,439
Speaker 1: an outside zone play, I believe, or an outside you know,

515
00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:32,960
Speaker 1: running play, and he got twenty five yards in the play.

516
00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:35,879
Speaker 1: And and they don't think Lacey can make that play

517
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:38,960
Speaker 1: right now, and he said, some personnel people guess that

518
00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:41,080
Speaker 1: Eddie Lacy right now is in about the two D

519
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:43,600
Speaker 1: and sixty pound range. Now I don't know what he

520
00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:45,320
Speaker 1: played at last year when he was playing. Well, maybe

521
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:47,159
Speaker 1: I wish I had access to that quote when I

522
00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:49,720
Speaker 1: wrote this article, because Mike McCarthy said conditioning it is

523
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:51,679
Speaker 1: not in it, And maybe it's not. Maybe he played it.

524
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:53,760
Speaker 1: It wouldn't shot. Maybe he played at too fifty five

525
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:55,760
Speaker 1: last year and was good at that weight. You know,

526
00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:58,080
Speaker 1: it wouldn't surprise me if they're changing up the weights.

527
00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:00,919
Speaker 1: But for him to put that that personnel people right

528
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:02,960
Speaker 1: now he's at at two hundred and sixty and that

529
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,199
Speaker 1: they're using starks on those different sort of plays, that's

530
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:07,680
Speaker 1: an issue. Or maybe McCarthy isn't going to call him

531
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 1: out if there's a conditioning issue. Well, we remember it

532
00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 1: was a couple of summers ago and he looked like

533
00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:14,720
Speaker 1: the Patterson Gimblin film A big Foot when he turned

534
00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:17,200
Speaker 1: around and you see his whole his whole gut show

535
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:20,520
Speaker 1: ring ring the west weird reference bell, I don't even

536
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:28,440
Speaker 1: know what marks. Yeah, it's like it's about me. Um,

537
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:32,440
Speaker 1: So you're saying west Hank tied everybody. Eddie Lacey is

538
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 1: gonna come back that quote about the personnel person believing

539
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:38,640
Speaker 1: he weighs two hundred sixty pounds. Worries me a little bit.

540
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:43,000
Speaker 1: I'll amend my statement when healthy end in shape. Eddie

541
00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:45,920
Speaker 1: Lacey is an excellent football way better than James Stone.

542
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:47,960
Speaker 1: Maybe he's in shape at two fifty. Wouldn't be the

543
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 1: we wouldn't be the first running back that had success

544
00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 1: that the NFL that's done that. It is funny, though,

545
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 1: you do get the occasional like fourth or fifth year

546
00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:56,560
Speaker 1: running back who's like, oh no, this offseason, I learned

547
00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:59,160
Speaker 1: how to condition my body. I finally learned how to eat,

548
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:01,000
Speaker 1: and then it's like they blow up and they look

549
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,640
Speaker 1: completely different and faster and quicker than we've ever seen.

550
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 1: And maybe Lacey is someone and these guys that struggles

551
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 1: with that and he's still learning how to round into

552
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:12,439
Speaker 1: football shape. Mark Sessler, Fantasy Outsider, Trade Eddie Lacey, Yes

553
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:15,720
Speaker 1: or no? Well, if you're in a no, I would

554
00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:18,040
Speaker 1: not trade him because I think here here's the thing

555
00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:20,560
Speaker 1: for him. If you're if you're in hot water at

556
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:23,440
Speaker 1: this point, then hang on to a player that's gonna

557
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:26,200
Speaker 1: surge down the stretch. It's we're not four weeks away

558
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 1: from the plan with Eddie Lacey, where we gotta be

559
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,440
Speaker 1: a predator here, prey on the week, prey on these

560
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 1: weak minded, feeble minded men who are gonna panic about Eddie.

561
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:36,600
Speaker 1: That's what Milana vinetroub Our fantasy team just pulled off,

562
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 1: bringing de Marco Murray in the building two days before

563
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 1: his first one yard game. Then what do we give

564
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 1: up a backup tight end? Are you kidding me? Patrick

565
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:50,040
Speaker 1: Crawley downst who is the tight end? Marty B Marty B.

566
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:53,240
Speaker 1: Martell's Bennett And we have Antonio Gates on a roster

567
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 1: and we have Baby Gronk Travis Crowe. If I was

568
00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:00,280
Speaker 1: gonna say, if the cops might come in here and

569
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 1: take you guys away, well, because that that is outrageous.

570
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 1: You you abused a friend of yours. It's wrong that

571
00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:10,320
Speaker 1: that was ever made you know what, At no point

572
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 1: would have that ever made sense. Greg has long lashed

573
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 1: us far said like a five person ownership group at

574
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 1: this point, five or six people with the consultant. This

575
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 1: was We patiently discussed. Dan led the conversation, but we

576
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,160
Speaker 1: all waited in over the course of seventy two hours

577
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 1: before pulling the trigger. Everyone felt good about it. We're

578
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 1: not We're an organization that is absolutely unified from top

579
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 1: to bottom, absolutely outside of my complete disinterest. Well you're

580
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:35,880
Speaker 1: involved though, five and one with the most points in

581
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:40,000
Speaker 1: the league. Finally, in the news, we have um a

582
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 1: little closure here, perhaps a little bit more insight on

583
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:46,200
Speaker 1: the perhaps the most doomed trick play in NFL history

584
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:49,560
Speaker 1: on Sunday night. I'm talking about the fake punt by

585
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 1: the Colts that uh was swarmed and turned into a

586
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 1: you know, a big lightning rod of criticism for the Cults,

587
00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:59,600
Speaker 1: and they earned it. They should probably just move on

588
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:02,360
Speaker 1: as a t team. But instead, the Colts puncher Pat

589
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:05,960
Speaker 1: McAfee went on the radio and tried to explain exactly

590
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 1: what happened. Here's his quote. The gunner who became the

591
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:13,000
Speaker 1: center all week was Clayton Geethers or Gathers. Gethers gets

592
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,959
Speaker 1: injured in the second quarter. Insert Griff Whalen, who had

593
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:17,960
Speaker 1: never done it before. So Griff Whalen is now the

594
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,600
Speaker 1: center and a play he's never practiced before, and it

595
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,760
Speaker 1: gets worse by the way they then the reason this

596
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:26,200
Speaker 1: play really went to hell was because then they added

597
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:28,680
Speaker 1: a wrinkle. The play initially was just supposed to be

598
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 1: away to get the Pats to freak out and send

599
00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:34,680
Speaker 1: their defense back on the field, and then they'd snap

600
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:36,160
Speaker 1: it and get twelve men on the field and get

601
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 1: five yards. But then they added a second wrinkle, which

602
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:41,360
Speaker 1: was simply to try to draw them off sides with

603
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 1: the snap call or whatever. But no one ever told

604
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 1: Griff Whalen about about that. All he knew is is

605
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:52,240
Speaker 1: if someone's under his butt with hands, once you feel it,

606
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:55,200
Speaker 1: snapped the ball. That's all he knew. That's my That's

607
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:57,960
Speaker 1: the way I go through life. Yeah, whenever someone's touching

608
00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:01,200
Speaker 1: your butt, you just go along with it. That's not

609
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:03,719
Speaker 1: what I was saying, Oh, I was saying he snapped

610
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:06,800
Speaker 1: the bomb. Anyway, This this came from a radio interview

611
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:10,520
Speaker 1: and it was on cults dot com and and my

612
00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 1: my reaction was, this does not make the cults look

613
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:15,719
Speaker 1: anny better. They should probably just stop talking about it. Well,

614
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 1: I mean, are you calling you kind of calling your

615
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:21,440
Speaker 1: coach out when you're saying we didn't practice. He feels bad.

616
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:24,160
Speaker 1: He feels bad for his buddy Griff, who's taking all

617
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 1: the heat. They're they're writing columns seriously in Indianapis, Bob

618
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 1: Kravitz wrote a column own up, Griff, You know you

619
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:35,040
Speaker 1: make them, you made the mistake. You know it doesn't

620
00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 1: help to just cover cover it up and just be honest,

621
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:41,200
Speaker 1: I think. And in the end, you know, Griff Whalen

622
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 1: between treating really do anything right, between treating the flake

623
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 1: Gate like he was the Woodward and Bernstein of Watergate,

624
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:50,480
Speaker 1: and this Bob Kravitz isn't really having a great year.

625
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 1: It's Bob Gravity unexpected him, but always unexpected. You're the

626
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:57,840
Speaker 1: one that clearly brought it up. Just for that reason,

627
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 1: did you know what down Griff Whalen needs Connor or

628
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 1: to forget what he's doing in London and get on

629
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 1: the phone and advocate for what is the franchise centerpiece

630
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 1: of his what terrible apocalyptic Patriots Madden team. Terrible job

631
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 1: by Connor at a time where his signature star in

632
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 1: the cornerstone of this new franchise. Connor's got to get

633
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 1: out in front of this. He his head, put it

634
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 1: in his head in the sands of Normandy. You gotta

635
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 1: get it, get in the middle of this. I went

636
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 1: back and listened to the show that he was on

637
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 1: when he explained Griff as the centerpiece, and he said

638
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:35,480
Speaker 1: that it was to appease the NFL by giving them

639
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 1: a figurehead that they could like post aflate Gate and

640
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 1: also appease Boston, who likes, according to Connor, ar plucky whites.

641
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 1: So you know what you gotta get out in front

642
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 1: of this exactly what he said. But yeah, that is

643
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:50,960
Speaker 1: exactly what he said. I listened to it this morning.

644
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:55,040
Speaker 1: That's yeah. Now you're right. I mean, that's a bad

645
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:57,280
Speaker 1: job at corner and maybe you could talk to him

646
00:32:57,360 --> 00:32:59,320
Speaker 1: and you see him in jolly old England. All right,

647
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 1: that's what's happening. Let's talk about it now, handsome Hank,

648
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:13,920
Speaker 1: Henry Hotson downstairs, notorious dp he um, Greg you're you're

649
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:15,960
Speaker 1: a guy. You don't love like structure. Whenever I try

650
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:17,640
Speaker 1: to add structure of things, You're always like, no, no,

651
00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 1: we don't need to do that. But I like one

652
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 1: idea about this that Hank Hank drew up. Yeah, are

653
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:28,440
Speaker 1: area employee wants more structures and more meetings? What kind

654
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:32,240
Speaker 1: of group is this meeting? No meetings? The meeting we

655
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 1: have forked? Um, I like meetings that are at restaurants

656
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:40,239
Speaker 1: and there's alcohol, good food. Um Henry brought up there.

657
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 1: We've forked eleven teams and of course there are thirty

658
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 1: two teams out, so that means there are twenty one

659
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 1: team still eligible for the playoffs. Nailed it. Um Henry

660
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 1: brought up the idea of the fork number to get

661
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 1: to by let's say week eight, it should be sixteen.

662
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 1: That eliminates of the league and then gives you wiggle

663
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 1: room on four teams that you're just not sure about

664
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 1: and you don't want to fork him because you know

665
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:08,800
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be smart to fork him. It's a great idea,

666
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:12,360
Speaker 1: Ed Henry. Twelve will make it before you're just not

667
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:14,359
Speaker 1: sure about. They're gonna be on the bubbles, you know,

668
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:17,879
Speaker 1: makes sense. I'm willing to try it. I do think

669
00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:20,840
Speaker 1: we could hit Levin and then think, oh, but we

670
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 1: want to fork more teams. But I guess we'll see.

671
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 1: That's the thing with the fork. If you're waiting till

672
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 1: week eleven to four team, it's like, yeah, good, good still,

673
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:33,080
Speaker 1: but that's still pretty early. I mean, that's of the

674
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:35,719
Speaker 1: season left. Could anyways, but I like this. We can

675
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:37,200
Speaker 1: try this play, right, So let's try to get to

676
00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:40,440
Speaker 1: sixteen by the end of uh, you know, after week eight.

677
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:42,040
Speaker 1: That's the plan, and we're about to after a week

678
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:45,520
Speaker 1: seven So let's say, first of all, before we Um

679
00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:48,080
Speaker 1: talked about the nominees for this week for the fork,

680
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:53,360
Speaker 1: let's remind everyone who has been forked Shane, the Cleveland

681
00:34:53,400 --> 00:35:00,200
Speaker 1: Browns Shane, the Chicago Bears, the Detroit Lions, New Orleans Saints,

682
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:06,319
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Softwig School fourteen Niners, the

683
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:15,400
Speaker 1: Houston Texans, the Oakland Raiders, the Miami Dolphins, the Baltimore Ravens,

684
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 1: and the Kansas City Chiefs. Oh, you should have left

685
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 1: the bell in there. One more bell would have been good.

686
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:25,359
Speaker 1: One last. How could you not know that you get

687
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 1: that last bell in there? But a good job. Every

688
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:31,520
Speaker 1: thought doesn't need to be vocalized. A plus job by Sydney.

689
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:33,279
Speaker 1: Let's what do you mean you should? I should have

690
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:35,239
Speaker 1: just shut my mouth there, just you could think it.

691
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:37,239
Speaker 1: You could think it in your head. I can't. I

692
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:40,840
Speaker 1: don't operate that way. You gotta share what's on my mind. Uh,

693
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:44,480
Speaker 1: you're a host. So sorry Sydney for sharing how I

694
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:50,680
Speaker 1: feel about things and wanting the best show possible in

695
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:55,879
Speaker 1: all right. Now, West and I, while Greg and Mark

696
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 1: were in a high octane meeting about London, West and

697
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:02,439
Speaker 1: I talked about nominees UH for this week who who

698
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 1: should be forked? And by forking someone a team that

699
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:07,719
Speaker 1: means they have no chance of making the playoffs. If

700
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,359
Speaker 1: we are wrong, we will as a group make a

701
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:12,920
Speaker 1: hefty donation to a local charity of the city of

702
00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 1: that team. It's pretty pretty big of us. I'd like

703
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:23,160
Speaker 1: to say three teams have survived forking in three seasons.

704
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:25,719
Speaker 1: Not very good at this to to the first year

705
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:28,400
Speaker 1: one last year? Who was it? Lest year? The New

706
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 1: Orleans Saints. No, we picked them to go to the playoffs,

707
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:34,919
Speaker 1: but the Carolina took the fork out of their bat.

708
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:38,359
Speaker 1: So here are the four teams that we should talk about. Maybe, well,

709
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:39,640
Speaker 1: I'll go one at a time. We'll start with the

710
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:42,440
Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars. You know, I've been pushing for this one

711
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:44,480
Speaker 1: for several weeks, but I know you guys have been

712
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:48,320
Speaker 1: pushing back because you like Bordles, because there is some leaders.

713
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:51,479
Speaker 1: The culture a bad bad football culture, not good. There's

714
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:54,800
Speaker 1: a lot of allegiance, uh to the Gus Bradley regime.

715
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:57,800
Speaker 1: At the end of the table, I would have forked

716
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:01,280
Speaker 1: them last weeks. So yes, here they are now waiting

717
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:04,440
Speaker 1: for Toby Gerhardt to break out. But here we are

718
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,640
Speaker 1: bad loss after bad loss every week. Now they are

719
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 1: one in five and I know they're the Colts might

720
00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:13,359
Speaker 1: be lucky to win nine games, But that's saying that

721
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:16,759
Speaker 1: the Jaguars are gonna win at least seven of their

722
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 1: remaining ten games. I can't. I I don't see it.

723
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:20,919
Speaker 1: They're not gonna win a wild card. We got a fork,

724
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 1: the Jaguars, thick of fork, and prove me wrong. Jaguars.

725
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 1: I would love to be proven wrong on this one,

726
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:28,759
Speaker 1: So prove us wrong. But when you lose to the

727
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:31,680
Speaker 1: Bucks in the Texans in back to back weeks, is

728
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 1: that the two teams they've just lost to. Wow, that

729
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:36,760
Speaker 1: that's the worst thing you can do in the NFL.

730
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 1: So you're done. I'll go along with it, only because

731
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 1: I said I would. I think, well, actually, I think

732
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:45,319
Speaker 1: their offense is gonna be frisky all year, but their

733
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:47,920
Speaker 1: defense just made Brian Hoyer look like Aaron Rodgers, I mean,

734
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:51,440
Speaker 1: Gus Bradleys. Like you said, that's the problem, Jamis Winston,

735
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:54,919
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I think maybe a new remark. Yeah,

736
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 1: because we're talking about the overall team. I like Bordles

737
00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 1: just as much as the next guy, but as a team.

738
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:03,840
Speaker 1: What they've done over the last two weeks is fork territory.

739
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:05,920
Speaker 1: I think the best way to kind of sum them

740
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,080
Speaker 1: up is that they're just not there yet. If they

741
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:09,920
Speaker 1: working towards something, but they're not there yet, And if

742
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:12,520
Speaker 1: they were trying to build a resume to get forked,

743
00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:15,399
Speaker 1: they couldn't have done any better than two weeks. That's

744
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 1: all right. Next up the Tennessee Titans at one and four,

745
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:21,680
Speaker 1: and you know it's who knows. Maybe Dan Campbell's lit

746
00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:24,880
Speaker 1: a little little fire under a Dolphins team that has

747
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:26,880
Speaker 1: a lot of talent on the roster, but at the

748
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 1: same time with a team and tatters the way the

749
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:33,200
Speaker 1: Dolphins were to come into your building and hang up

750
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:37,280
Speaker 1: banging on you like thirty seven and nineteen whatever that was. Um,

751
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:40,360
Speaker 1: that's a bad, bad look. On top of Marcus Mariotta

752
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:43,719
Speaker 1: hurt his knee. Um, we don't know how serious. It is,

753
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:46,879
Speaker 1: nothing season ending, but could be something that bothers him

754
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:49,480
Speaker 1: as a mobile quarterback. Who knows put it all together,

755
00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 1: I am totally comfortable forking on one and four Tennessee

756
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:55,359
Speaker 1: Titans team. Your thoughts, guys, well, I think the first

757
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:57,399
Speaker 1: thing we have to bring up is what would we

758
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:00,440
Speaker 1: be doing by forking the Titans since the jay Aguaras

759
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:04,040
Speaker 1: and Texans have been forked because we we are awarding

760
00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:07,759
Speaker 1: the a f C South to the Courts. I personally

761
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:10,640
Speaker 1: am okay with that. I would be in favor of

762
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:12,439
Speaker 1: forking the Titans. I just want to kind of point

763
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:14,440
Speaker 1: out to the group and the listeners that that's what

764
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:16,719
Speaker 1: we're doing. We're just saying the Colts are gonna win

765
00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:19,120
Speaker 1: that division, and that is what I believe, And you

766
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:20,920
Speaker 1: guys wanted to be bold. So I don't think that.

767
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 1: Shake your head. I don't. I feel the same way.

768
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:26,360
Speaker 1: I don't see it though, as a celebration of the

769
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 1: Colts on any level. I just think they're again lucky

770
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:31,719
Speaker 1: to be in the right division and it's gonna get

771
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 1: them another another banner hanging from Lucas Oil Stadium. So

772
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:38,880
Speaker 1: I think, out of principle, I refuse to award a

773
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:41,719
Speaker 1: division in Week seven to a team that is just

774
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:45,439
Speaker 1: as bad as the Cools are. They're a bad, bad

775
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:48,520
Speaker 1: football team, and I I don't think they've earned it. Well.

776
00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 1: They've managed to win two division games with Matt Hasselbeck.

777
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:54,319
Speaker 1: They got lucky, they did, but they didn't They haven't

778
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:58,360
Speaker 1: earned it. But the point is the trash and that division,

779
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:02,040
Speaker 1: the fending them against being four because the problem the

780
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:05,400
Speaker 1: Titans might be is even more disappointing than the Jaguars,

781
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:07,359
Speaker 1: and they are to me because I had much more

782
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:10,719
Speaker 1: hope about this team after Week one. Titan schedules pretty easy.

783
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:13,560
Speaker 1: But in December, you go to the Jets, you go

784
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 1: to the Patriots, and you go to the Colts. This

785
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:18,960
Speaker 1: is not The Colts also play the rest of the

786
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:21,000
Speaker 1: FC South. It's not like just the other a f

787
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:24,600
Speaker 1: C South teams have it easy. Here. Cults are gonna

788
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:28,359
Speaker 1: go eight and eight and win this division. Probably we're

789
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:33,880
Speaker 1: not waving flags. I'm believing in Andrew Luck figuring things out. Eventually.

790
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:37,320
Speaker 1: I could see this scenario because they play New Orleans, Carolina,

791
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:39,120
Speaker 1: Denver the next week, They're gonna lose to at least

792
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:40,480
Speaker 1: two At three of those games, they're gonna be four

793
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:42,279
Speaker 1: and five, and maybe the division is very close. Maybe

794
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:44,680
Speaker 1: it's the Texans that make it close. But in the end,

795
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:47,000
Speaker 1: I trust Andrew Luck to figure things out. I do not.

796
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:49,080
Speaker 1: I haven't seen Andrew Luck this year. I've seen some

797
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:52,000
Speaker 1: other quarterback masquerading is Andrew Luck and he's not good.

798
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:54,960
Speaker 1: At this point, you have to hang your hope on

799
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,240
Speaker 1: the Titans. Then. I am willing to do that because

800
00:40:57,280 --> 00:40:59,600
Speaker 1: I think we are doing what we did with the

801
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:02,239
Speaker 1: nf the South last week last year and acting like

802
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:04,319
Speaker 1: we haven't figured out. We did that in Week ten

803
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 1: or something too right. We thought we had it figured out,

804
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:08,360
Speaker 1: and we forked all these bad teams. We had the

805
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 1: wrong one. I just to me, the n FC South

806
00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 1: is even worse than the NFC Southwest last year. The

807
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:15,399
Speaker 1: Cults are a bad team. I refused to give them

808
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:18,839
Speaker 1: the division. I would hang my help. I'm hoping the

809
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:21,759
Speaker 1: Titans show some friskiness and give the Cults are run

810
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 1: and the Cults. The one thing with the Cults, if

811
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 1: things go south and the in the coach is about

812
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:27,920
Speaker 1: to get fired. And we're getting more and more reports

813
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:29,800
Speaker 1: to that the Cults are heading in the wrong direction,

814
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:33,799
Speaker 1: that absolutely could happen. Right, Ken, Wisenhunt isn't exactly not

815
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:36,440
Speaker 1: at all. You can't stand out, You can't really pound

816
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:38,759
Speaker 1: the table for any of these teams. All right, Let's

817
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:42,439
Speaker 1: move on to the Washington Redskins, a team that, uh,

818
00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 1: there's been thought in this route. There's promise with this

819
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:47,960
Speaker 1: team that the defense is good, and um when Kirk

820
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:50,479
Speaker 1: Cousins is right, that they could score a little score

821
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:52,880
Speaker 1: a little bit. But you know the team that I

822
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:54,520
Speaker 1: saw against the Jets, first of all, there two and

823
00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:58,720
Speaker 1: four now after Sunday's loss, and they're banged up beyond belief.

824
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:02,240
Speaker 1: I mean they had uh inactives in their starting lineup

825
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:05,560
Speaker 1: on Sunday. I don't think they can compete with any

826
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:08,960
Speaker 1: half decent team, and by the time they get healthy,

827
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 1: they might be two and six or three and seven.

828
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:13,279
Speaker 1: So I don't even in the bad NFC East, I

829
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:15,960
Speaker 1: think you gotta fork the Redskins. They they're lucky to

830
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:17,839
Speaker 1: play in the division where there's no half decent team.

831
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:20,520
Speaker 1: You want to fork them. There one win behind a

832
00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:23,040
Speaker 1: team that you want to bench their starting quarterback and

833
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:25,399
Speaker 1: another team that lost by twenty points to the team

834
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:27,440
Speaker 1: that you want to bench their starting quarterback. I think

835
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:29,279
Speaker 1: they're the worst team in that division. I think that

836
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:32,440
Speaker 1: I think they're the worst. We're supposed to be making decisions,

837
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:34,880
Speaker 1: and we're obviously obviously going to disagree on how we

838
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:36,799
Speaker 1: see the division. I was ready to fork them at

839
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:39,000
Speaker 1: one and two. I proposed it just because I think

840
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:40,960
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins is one of the worst five or six

841
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:44,160
Speaker 1: starters in the league. I know West and Mark disagree

842
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:45,960
Speaker 1: on that, but nothing he has done this year has

843
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 1: changed my mind on that, and there's nothing special enough

844
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:50,880
Speaker 1: about the team around him. I'm willing to bet on Romo,

845
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:54,839
Speaker 1: Chip Kelly and Eli Manning that just between the three

846
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:57,920
Speaker 1: of them, they'll squash this lousy Redskins team. Now, the Redskins,

847
00:42:57,960 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 1: they have a very good chance to get the three

848
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 1: and four this week and into thereby. They do play

849
00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:05,239
Speaker 1: the Bucks at home, so that could delay, but I

850
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 1: don't care. I'd still they start getting all these injured

851
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:10,239
Speaker 1: players back over there by week probably too. It's not

852
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:12,319
Speaker 1: the craziest thing that has ever happened, but I'm willing

853
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:14,880
Speaker 1: to let me just say this. Let me just say this.

854
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 1: I want you guys to try to imagine, around New

855
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:21,239
Speaker 1: Year's Day or so, a press conference in which a

856
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:25,799
Speaker 1: beaming Jay Gruden is talking about a division championship and

857
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:27,920
Speaker 1: preparing for the playoffs. Can you actually see that? I

858
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 1: can absolutely envisioned that I had that. I had that

859
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:32,959
Speaker 1: exact vision after they beat the Rams and thoroughly killed

860
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:35,279
Speaker 1: the Rams. I cannot see that. But it looks like

861
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:37,520
Speaker 1: the Redskins will stay alive. Mark, Yeah, I want to

862
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:40,200
Speaker 1: keep them. I will number one. We want to be bold,

863
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:42,480
Speaker 1: and we're heading in the wrong direction here, but I

864
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:44,880
Speaker 1: want to keep them one more week, all right. Finally

865
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:48,400
Speaker 1: I'll throughout the San Diego Chargers, another two and four team.

866
00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:52,439
Speaker 1: The division's gone obviously with the six and oh Broncos team.

867
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:55,760
Speaker 1: So then you gotta look at the wild card, and

868
00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:59,400
Speaker 1: you know you got the Bills, the Jets, the Steelers,

869
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:03,160
Speaker 1: all teams that are in better position than than than

870
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:05,960
Speaker 1: the Charges right now. I know Phil Rivers is one

871
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:07,920
Speaker 1: of the best quarterbacks in the a f C, if

872
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:10,560
Speaker 1: not the whole NFL. But this is a team that's

873
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:13,200
Speaker 1: a flawed team. We've talked about them being the Dalton

874
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:16,239
Speaker 1: Line of all NFL teams. So it's hard for me

875
00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:18,440
Speaker 1: to get excited and say, oh, this is gonna this

876
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:20,480
Speaker 1: team is gonna win nine or ten games and get

877
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:23,800
Speaker 1: a playoff spot. So I say fork the Chargers. Thoughts,

878
00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:28,839
Speaker 1: I have a problem with that because because if we're

879
00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:30,839
Speaker 1: looking at the four teams we're talking about today, they

880
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:34,799
Speaker 1: have by far the best quarterback in Philip Rivers, and

881
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:37,799
Speaker 1: the team is competent there's been in every single game.

882
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:40,279
Speaker 1: There's only five winning teams in the a f C

883
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 1: right now. Now you mentioned the wild card race actually

884
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:44,840
Speaker 1: looks part of that is there's no winning teams in

885
00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 1: the a f C South, and one of those teams

886
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:48,760
Speaker 1: has to get in. But there's only five winning teams

887
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:51,400
Speaker 1: right now. And I agree with you because the Rivers,

888
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 1: who's number one in the NFL in total offense and

889
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:59,840
Speaker 1: are San Diego Chargers and their next three opponents Raiders, Ravens, Bear.

890
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 1: I don't understand how we could all be an agreement

891
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:04,680
Speaker 1: that they're like the middle of the road team in

892
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:07,640
Speaker 1: the NFL, and yet we're not confident they're the middle

893
00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:09,799
Speaker 1: of the road team in the NFL with like three

894
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:12,799
Speaker 1: backups playing in the offensive line, Stevie Johnson inactive, Keenan

895
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:16,400
Speaker 1: Alamos in the fourth quarter, several players on defense injured.

896
00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:19,360
Speaker 1: I think that you get three cupcakes and in a

897
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:22,440
Speaker 1: bye week they could plus they could be a totals.

898
00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:24,200
Speaker 1: I don't think they've been bad. They're two and four

899
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:25,960
Speaker 1: and the Redskins are two and four, and I think

900
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:27,680
Speaker 1: they've been bad. And I think if you watch every

901
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:29,799
Speaker 1: one of their games on balance, they don't look like

902
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:32,880
Speaker 1: a good team. The Chargers lost in the last possession

903
00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:36,840
Speaker 1: against in Cincinnati, they lost in the last possession in Lambeau,

904
00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:39,239
Speaker 1: and they lost a tough game to Michael Vick which

905
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:40,759
Speaker 1: they should have won. But that was right at the

906
00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:43,319
Speaker 1: end of the game against Pittsburgh. So I look at

907
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:45,239
Speaker 1: that and I see a team that's pretty good. There's there.

908
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:47,080
Speaker 1: They have to be bottomed out and they and they

909
00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:49,960
Speaker 1: can still score points. And you talk about the schedule

910
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:51,719
Speaker 1: and there's you talk about a flawed team, that a

911
00:45:51,719 --> 00:45:54,000
Speaker 1: flawed team is going to make the playoffs in the NFC, Well,

912
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:56,160
Speaker 1: are you gotta sneaking a cheap shot on the Redskins? There,

913
00:45:56,920 --> 00:45:59,080
Speaker 1: they're a bad team, but so have they every other NFC.

914
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:00,839
Speaker 1: When have you ever watched the Giants and be like, oh,

915
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:03,719
Speaker 1: this is a great team or the Cowboy You're right team.

916
00:46:03,719 --> 00:46:05,880
Speaker 1: I'm just making a decision, Who's who's the worst out

917
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:07,799
Speaker 1: of that? I said the Redskins because they're both two

918
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:10,000
Speaker 1: and four. They're two and four, and I just supported

919
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:11,880
Speaker 1: that too and four team, And I was kind of

920
00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:14,959
Speaker 1: setting up a little dichotomy, why this two and four team?

921
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:17,880
Speaker 1: So the only team that will for this week is

922
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:22,759
Speaker 1: the Jaguars so long Jack, who uh you know they're

923
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:26,360
Speaker 1: landing going to find this out. Let me just say, well,

924
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:29,680
Speaker 1: that's problem. Let me just say we wanted to be bold,

925
00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:33,719
Speaker 1: and I feel some butts clenching now that we're that's

926
00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:37,280
Speaker 1: fair exercises continuing. Instead of getting bold, we're getting conservative.

927
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:39,880
Speaker 1: I think you're exactly right, and this was not This

928
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:41,719
Speaker 1: is exactly what we said we wouldn't do, and we

929
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:43,719
Speaker 1: just we just you guys out blamed it on me

930
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:45,880
Speaker 1: in the past. I'm the one ready to fork some teams.

931
00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:51,120
Speaker 1: Let's get that. I'm willing to fork other NFC each team,

932
00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:53,279
Speaker 1: let's uh, let's vote, you know, get the four of them.

933
00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:58,319
Speaker 1: That's ridiculous. Your logic is crumbling before us. Why why

934
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:00,120
Speaker 1: do you guys think all these other three team in

935
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:03,200
Speaker 1: the NFC East are so great and so terrible? But

936
00:47:03,239 --> 00:47:05,719
Speaker 1: why would the Redskins not get forked, but you would

937
00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:07,600
Speaker 1: fork all the other teams that your whole logic is

938
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:09,920
Speaker 1: based on the they're all crumby right, Well, I do

939
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:13,080
Speaker 1: it to prove a point. Just as I'm forking, I'm

940
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:15,400
Speaker 1: leaving the Titans alive. The proved point that the culture

941
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:19,160
Speaker 1: a bad bad football team, alright, and they don't deserve

942
00:47:19,239 --> 00:47:22,680
Speaker 1: to be handed a division. See it's about me, you know, West.

943
00:47:22,719 --> 00:47:25,120
Speaker 1: It is getting personal now you're getting fired up about

944
00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:28,960
Speaker 1: the Colts and the Redskins culture bad. Those whole teams

945
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:31,240
Speaker 1: are in your stable right now. It's crowded in that stable.

946
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:34,600
Speaker 1: The cults are not in my elbows everywhere. The Redskins

947
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:37,080
Speaker 1: are not in my stable. They're just in a horrible division.

948
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:41,600
Speaker 1: And you guys love the Cowboys, and I get it.

949
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:44,120
Speaker 1: I get it. When you get back a team led

950
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:48,040
Speaker 1: by leaders like Jay Gruden and D'Angelo Hall, I mean

951
00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 1: that that team is always going to have a chance

952
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:53,560
Speaker 1: to shine. Because I'm talking January. When up beaming Jay Gruden,

953
00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:55,719
Speaker 1: it's giving. It was going to say a Mark will

954
00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:58,479
Speaker 1: be named Queen of England before Jay Gruden's beaming about

955
00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 1: a division title. Can you say? Fox it up? All right?

956
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:07,600
Speaker 1: Good talk us a lot of good discourse. That's what

957
00:48:07,719 --> 00:48:11,320
Speaker 1: people come to hear. They want to hear for regular guys,

958
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:13,840
Speaker 1: just talking it up, chopping it up a little, NFL.

959
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:19,359
Speaker 1: There's nothing regular about you. I'm a regular, Joe third,

960
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:22,440
Speaker 1: third person, regular. All right, let's move Out's talk a

961
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:25,920
Speaker 1: little Thursday Night football. Uh, this is a We got

962
00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:28,800
Speaker 1: a little NFC East on Monday that didn't go too well,

963
00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:31,120
Speaker 1: But now we're gonna move to the NFC West and

964
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:34,800
Speaker 1: hope for a better game. This between the Seattle Seahawks,

965
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:37,480
Speaker 1: who will just come off to the worst back to

966
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:39,560
Speaker 1: back losses of the Pete Carol ra I've got a

967
00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:42,120
Speaker 1: great stat for you not to I want to hear

968
00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:46,200
Speaker 1: you on. The Seahawks are only the second team in

969
00:48:46,239 --> 00:48:50,640
Speaker 1: the last fifty years to blow a nine point leader

970
00:48:50,680 --> 00:48:53,080
Speaker 1: more with four less than four minutes left in the game.

971
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:55,239
Speaker 1: And that's twice in an entire season, and they did

972
00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:57,160
Speaker 1: it in back to back weeks. It is hard to

973
00:48:57,160 --> 00:49:00,640
Speaker 1: blow a two possession lead with under four minutes to go,

974
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:03,799
Speaker 1: and they just did it. Can I just say they

975
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:07,120
Speaker 1: had then in the Super Bowl against the Patriots with

976
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:09,520
Speaker 1: they could not make a stop in the fourth quarter.

977
00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:13,320
Speaker 1: This happening twice in succession like this. This is supposed

978
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:15,839
Speaker 1: to be, you know, an all time defense, and this

979
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:18,880
Speaker 1: is not stuff becoming of an all time defense. I

980
00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:21,760
Speaker 1: think Earl Thomas has been playing with essentially one armost

981
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:25,480
Speaker 1: everybody's playing with agast the Panthers. Yeah, he did have

982
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:27,799
Speaker 1: his best game of the season, despite being part of

983
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:31,320
Speaker 1: the worst play of that game. He played. Well, that's

984
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:34,000
Speaker 1: the breakups and internet. If you break it down individually,

985
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:36,040
Speaker 1: you know they were without Bobby Wagner. They're not playing poorly.

986
00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:38,800
Speaker 1: Cli Cliff Avrils having a good season. Michael Bennetts certainly

987
00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:42,160
Speaker 1: having a good season. It's just I don't know. Something's

988
00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:44,920
Speaker 1: by the way. Russell Wilson had a great game against

989
00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:47,920
Speaker 1: the Panthers. He had a bunch of great throws. The

990
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:50,960
Speaker 1: same thing happened though, uh like it did against Cincinnati

991
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:54,120
Speaker 1: where they had I believe one first down their last

992
00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:56,960
Speaker 1: four drive something like that. See while you interrupted in

993
00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:59,000
Speaker 1: the middle of the setup, and then you went right

994
00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:02,800
Speaker 1: after your comment. So then now it's all it's all jagged.

995
00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:05,359
Speaker 1: Well that will make sense. Say what you're gonna say.

996
00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:08,640
Speaker 1: The Seahawks are playing. That's all I need to get to.

997
00:50:08,760 --> 00:50:11,120
Speaker 1: The Niners are now two and four. They beat the

998
00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:15,640
Speaker 1: Ravens put the Ravens to rest, much to Mark Sessler's enjoyment.

999
00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:18,640
Speaker 1: So this is a battle to two and four teams.

1000
00:50:18,880 --> 00:50:23,480
Speaker 1: Uh so, Mark, I will throw it to you here. Seahawks. Yeah, too,

1001
00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:28,360
Speaker 1: awful losses, great pedigree, Any chance they go into the

1002
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:32,560
Speaker 1: great Giant Bell Bottom and drop another one. The only

1003
00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:35,280
Speaker 1: thing about the forty Niners is there a completely different

1004
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:39,560
Speaker 1: team in the games at home this season on defense especially.

1005
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:43,880
Speaker 1: I I don't see that happening though, because you know,

1006
00:50:43,880 --> 00:50:45,759
Speaker 1: and I don't like calling things and must win game

1007
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:47,840
Speaker 1: in week seven, but this is it. If you're Seattle,

1008
00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:49,520
Speaker 1: you can. You gotta go in and take care of business.

1009
00:50:49,560 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 1: And we just talked about the fact that their quarterbacks

1010
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:55,359
Speaker 1: making good throws, their defense individually at least is playing well.

1011
00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:57,560
Speaker 1: The sum of the parts is much much more than

1012
00:50:57,600 --> 00:51:01,200
Speaker 1: what forty could offer. I mean, this would be a

1013
00:51:01,239 --> 00:51:04,799
Speaker 1: stunnard to me if the lost Kaepernick's has done the job.

1014
00:51:04,840 --> 00:51:07,040
Speaker 1: The last two weeks, he hasn't faced any pass rush,

1015
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:10,319
Speaker 1: and this week you would assume that he does. I mean,

1016
00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:13,000
Speaker 1: he made his Last week reminded you a little bit

1017
00:51:13,040 --> 00:51:15,319
Speaker 1: old Kaepernick because he put the three or four really

1018
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:17,879
Speaker 1: nice well against the worst secondary in the NFL. Right,

1019
00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:19,960
Speaker 1: but it doesn't matter what secondaries you're playing. He had

1020
00:51:19,960 --> 00:51:22,480
Speaker 1: a twenty five yard deeper, twenty yard deep out to

1021
00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:25,000
Speaker 1: Tory Smith that very few quarterbacks can make. And and

1022
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:26,719
Speaker 1: then those are the moments you think, oh, Yeah. He

1023
00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:29,399
Speaker 1: played pressure in his face last week too. I mean

1024
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:31,240
Speaker 1: it was one. It was his best game of the season.

1025
00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:34,080
Speaker 1: What are we seeing from Novarro Bowman this year, because

1026
00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:36,200
Speaker 1: there was obviously going into the season a lot of

1027
00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:40,360
Speaker 1: talk about how amazing he looks some limited time. Um,

1028
00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:42,840
Speaker 1: is he still close to Navaral Bowman or is he

1029
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:45,279
Speaker 1: a significantly lesser player. He's been up and down. He

1030
00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:48,799
Speaker 1: had fifteen tackles against the Ravens, but in some big

1031
00:51:48,800 --> 00:51:51,319
Speaker 1: players early in the game where he really read it.

1032
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:53,400
Speaker 1: His instincts are so good, But I don't know if

1033
00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:56,040
Speaker 1: physically he's as good. Chris Johnson made him look really

1034
00:51:56,120 --> 00:51:58,719
Speaker 1: bad when the Cardinals played them. I think he's been

1035
00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:01,000
Speaker 1: like the rest of their defense, lights out at home

1036
00:52:01,040 --> 00:52:03,640
Speaker 1: and struggling on the road. Well, he I think he's

1037
00:52:03,640 --> 00:52:06,080
Speaker 1: always been one of the headier players in the league,

1038
00:52:06,239 --> 00:52:08,279
Speaker 1: and you can see it where he'll just diagnose a

1039
00:52:08,320 --> 00:52:11,279
Speaker 1: plate and then go. But I don't think the same.

1040
00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:12,960
Speaker 1: I don't think he has the same juice that he

1041
00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:15,680
Speaker 1: used to after the surgery. Antoine Bethet is another guy

1042
00:52:15,680 --> 00:52:18,240
Speaker 1: that they would really love to have. The two thousand

1043
00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:21,600
Speaker 1: fourteen version of Antoine Bethet back I was surprised that

1044
00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:25,440
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco made some comments about Bowman. He had this

1045
00:52:25,520 --> 00:52:28,440
Speaker 1: to say laterally and some of the man coverage type

1046
00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:30,520
Speaker 1: things which he is not in a ton of positions

1047
00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:31,960
Speaker 1: to be and some of that stuff. You might be

1048
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:34,440
Speaker 1: able to see the fact he's coming back a little

1049
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:37,759
Speaker 1: bit um so he says he's not the same guy,

1050
00:52:38,719 --> 00:52:42,440
Speaker 1: but he's still good and Bowman to his credit, he

1051
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:44,600
Speaker 1: admits he's I'm not back where I was. That's the

1052
00:52:44,640 --> 00:52:46,840
Speaker 1: goal every single week to get better. I have my

1053
00:52:47,360 --> 00:52:50,120
Speaker 1: top ten comeback Player of the Year candidates coming out

1054
00:52:50,520 --> 00:52:55,240
Speaker 1: Tuesday night Wednesday morning. Might be on that he won't

1055
00:52:55,280 --> 00:52:58,200
Speaker 1: be in the top eight. He might squee miss Towns.

1056
00:52:58,400 --> 00:53:00,279
Speaker 1: You know, of course they had to cut out Smith

1057
00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:02,040
Speaker 1: after all that, but they miss Alden Smith. They have

1058
00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:04,920
Speaker 1: no pass right. Well, Aaron Lynch has played great speaking

1059
00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:07,280
Speaker 1: of plugs by the way, Mark your Heroes and Villain's

1060
00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:10,839
Speaker 1: weekly columns up. Are you were you happy with today's edition? Yeah?

1061
00:53:10,840 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 1: I was satisfied with it. Oh yeah. He finally went

1062
00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:17,640
Speaker 1: after the Cretans that are expecting sixty minutes to start

1063
00:53:17,640 --> 00:53:21,480
Speaker 1: on time on Sundays. Mark got out the double blast.

1064
00:53:21,719 --> 00:53:24,359
Speaker 1: I'm very annoyed with that that the fact that that's

1065
00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:27,120
Speaker 1: still a plug during the fourth quarter of every CBS

1066
00:53:27,200 --> 00:53:31,000
Speaker 1: football game, reminding anyone that's plugged. Anyone that's been watching

1067
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:34,880
Speaker 1: this ancient television news magazine since the eighties knows that

1068
00:53:35,440 --> 00:53:39,440
Speaker 1: it never starts on time the East Coast during football season.

1069
00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:42,400
Speaker 1: It hasn't since like the sixties. CBS wasn't the villain

1070
00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:45,120
Speaker 1: nough for mentioning it was all the people still expecting it.

1071
00:53:45,360 --> 00:53:47,879
Speaker 1: Like someone's like tuning in, like whoa what? Like you're

1072
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:51,520
Speaker 1: telling me it's not startings home office in Manhattan, Like

1073
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:54,160
Speaker 1: they don't get a ton of mail every week for

1074
00:53:54,239 --> 00:53:59,960
Speaker 1: fifty years straight. Yeah, by people still sending mail exactly,

1075
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:04,200
Speaker 1: and Mark you're or Greg, I should say your watchability

1076
00:54:04,719 --> 00:54:09,840
Speaker 1: uh index ex watchability rankings, your watchability rankings, ranking how

1077
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:12,919
Speaker 1: watchable each of the NFL teams. A lot of good

1078
00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:17,240
Speaker 1: content on. Yeah. The last thing for this game, wouldn't

1079
00:54:17,280 --> 00:54:20,200
Speaker 1: it be? It would be really interesting if the forty

1080
00:54:20,239 --> 00:54:22,080
Speaker 1: Niners are ahead in this game in the second half,

1081
00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:24,600
Speaker 1: suddenly it feels like this is a really important game,

1082
00:54:24,640 --> 00:54:27,320
Speaker 1: that it could be the end of the little Seahawks.

1083
00:54:27,680 --> 00:54:29,840
Speaker 1: Not error or anything, but this. It would be put

1084
00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:33,640
Speaker 1: in such a whole this season dead last couple of

1085
00:54:33,640 --> 00:54:38,440
Speaker 1: division losses, and Kaepernick would complete his revenge tour. You

1086
00:54:38,520 --> 00:54:40,160
Speaker 1: take care of the Ravens who got you in the

1087
00:54:40,239 --> 00:54:42,200
Speaker 1: super Bowl, and then you get rid of your analysis

1088
00:54:42,560 --> 00:54:46,319
Speaker 1: is like the revenge. I just made it a thing.

1089
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:48,160
Speaker 1: That's why I brought it up. If I'm a Seahawks,

1090
00:54:48,160 --> 00:54:49,839
Speaker 1: I have. The thing I'm worried about most is having

1091
00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:52,240
Speaker 1: a lead in the fourth quarter because then you're banged.

1092
00:54:52,680 --> 00:54:56,360
Speaker 1: Acording to recent history, well against a couple of undefeated teams.

1093
00:54:56,680 --> 00:54:59,319
Speaker 1: That's fair, alright, final score pick and final score Mark

1094
00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:12,480
Speaker 1: Seattle twenty four forty Niners, Seahawks thirty forty Niners, Seahawks

1095
00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:16,239
Speaker 1: Niners ten. I think it would be a good game,

1096
00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:21,160
Speaker 1: only touchdown Seahawks win. Now, So there you go, Thursday PREVI.

1097
00:55:21,280 --> 00:55:23,560
Speaker 1: Al Right, before we get out of here, before Simone

1098
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:27,000
Speaker 1: comes to pick up Mark. Uh, let's uh dip into

1099
00:55:27,040 --> 00:55:30,319
Speaker 1: the old mail bag. Thank you, everybody has sent it

1100
00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:34,000
Speaker 1: in at around the NFL on Twitter. Uh this first

1101
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:37,319
Speaker 1: one from bear Maulings at Bear Maulings. Are there any

1102
00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:41,160
Speaker 1: rosters that would not make the playoffs? Any rosters if

1103
00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:45,200
Speaker 1: you replace the QB and HC, which means head coach

1104
00:55:45,680 --> 00:55:50,320
Speaker 1: with Tom Brady and Bill Belichick. That's a great question.

1105
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:52,919
Speaker 1: Off the top of my head, I'd say, no, well,

1106
00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:54,839
Speaker 1: it's the what's the worst team in terms of talent

1107
00:55:54,840 --> 00:56:00,160
Speaker 1: in the league right now? What about that's interesting? I

1108
00:56:00,160 --> 00:56:04,239
Speaker 1: mean the but I was gonna say Buccaneers maybe, but alright,

1109
00:56:04,280 --> 00:56:07,359
Speaker 1: weapons on the Let's use the Bucks as a good buccaneer. Jaguars,

1110
00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:09,960
Speaker 1: Actually I might. I might say, as if we put

1111
00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:12,120
Speaker 1: all right, let's use the Jaguars and Tom Brady is

1112
00:56:12,120 --> 00:56:14,759
Speaker 1: their quarterback, Bill Belichick is the coach. They're one of

1113
00:56:14,760 --> 00:56:17,000
Speaker 1: the best offenses in the NFL with Tom Brady as

1114
00:56:17,040 --> 00:56:19,719
Speaker 1: their quarter But I don't think there's any doubt about that.

1115
00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:25,640
Speaker 1: Julius Thomas, Allen Robinson, tom Brady, all right, I think

1116
00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:29,600
Speaker 1: answer yes, Yeah, they're all going. That's more weapons than

1117
00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:33,520
Speaker 1: Brady's most I'd say, not only going to the playoffs,

1118
00:56:33,520 --> 00:56:36,759
Speaker 1: they're supable contempt. I'd say the Bucks, I guess, but yeah,

1119
00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:38,680
Speaker 1: i'd put him in the planoff. Yeah, Tom Brady to

1120
00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:42,520
Speaker 1: Mike Evans and Vincent Jackson and Austin Seferian Jenkins, they

1121
00:56:42,600 --> 00:56:45,160
Speaker 1: go sign ups, they go sign a slot receiver immediately

1122
00:56:47,200 --> 00:56:49,640
Speaker 1: off the throne of ease. Question right there, Maybe the

1123
00:56:49,719 --> 00:56:52,879
Speaker 1: Jets still makes question. The Jets would be the team

1124
00:56:52,880 --> 00:56:55,759
Speaker 1: that didn't make the playoffs. Tom Brady would turn Harry

1125
00:56:55,800 --> 00:57:00,200
Speaker 1: Douglas into yard receiver. That's a great question, although although Elise,

1126
00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:03,359
Speaker 1: you could probably cut half of the players on any

1127
00:57:03,400 --> 00:57:05,960
Speaker 1: other team in the league. Thanks, thanks, by the way,

1128
00:57:06,360 --> 00:57:08,239
Speaker 1: um for saying it's a great question, because I didn't.

1129
00:57:08,520 --> 00:57:11,200
Speaker 1: It wasn't my question, but I picked it so in

1130
00:57:11,200 --> 00:57:16,400
Speaker 1: a way, and you're you're doing it. You know you're ill,

1131
00:57:16,560 --> 00:57:21,120
Speaker 1: You're really battling today. Uh. Next up, which unbeaten team

1132
00:57:21,120 --> 00:57:25,640
Speaker 1: has the best chance of going undefeated? All right, let's

1133
00:57:25,640 --> 00:57:31,480
Speaker 1: look at it. The Pats, the Bungals, the Broncos, the Packers,

1134
00:57:31,720 --> 00:57:38,040
Speaker 1: and the Panthers all undefeated through six weeks. Easiest answers

1135
00:57:38,120 --> 00:57:41,520
Speaker 1: probably the Patriots. Well, it talked about coaching quarterback, taking

1136
00:57:41,560 --> 00:57:43,440
Speaker 1: any team in the league to the playoffs. What's the

1137
00:57:43,520 --> 00:57:46,840
Speaker 1: right answer? Because of the schedule. They also I'd like

1138
00:57:46,920 --> 00:57:51,680
Speaker 1: to find the future schedule on Football Outsiders ranked the

1139
00:57:51,720 --> 00:57:54,280
Speaker 1: rest of the season, which is not too hard. Their

1140
00:57:54,320 --> 00:57:57,280
Speaker 1: big tough game is at Denver, but overall their schedule

1141
00:57:57,360 --> 00:57:59,400
Speaker 1: is manageable compared to some of those. They're gonna be

1142
00:57:59,440 --> 00:58:01,880
Speaker 1: Denver by any points one of the Packers. The Broncos

1143
00:58:01,880 --> 00:58:03,960
Speaker 1: will be eliminated from that after the bye week because

1144
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:07,320
Speaker 1: they play each other. I like the Packers would be

1145
00:58:07,360 --> 00:58:11,360
Speaker 1: my second pick. Yeah, they have the easiest schedule moving forward,

1146
00:58:11,560 --> 00:58:13,760
Speaker 1: not crushing teams right now then Yeah, but I think

1147
00:58:13,920 --> 00:58:15,560
Speaker 1: it's a sign of a good team too, when you're

1148
00:58:15,680 --> 00:58:17,960
Speaker 1: in a funk and you're still just taking care of business.

1149
00:58:17,960 --> 00:58:22,040
Speaker 1: I they have to play at Arizona in week sixteen. Yeah,

1150
00:58:22,080 --> 00:58:23,760
Speaker 1: they come out of their by which they need, by

1151
00:58:23,800 --> 00:58:27,080
Speaker 1: the way, because they're beat up at Denver at Carolina.

1152
00:58:27,320 --> 00:58:29,640
Speaker 1: They have some tough games. If they get through those two,

1153
00:58:29,680 --> 00:58:32,280
Speaker 1: you could the watches on the Broncos out of this discussion.

1154
00:58:32,320 --> 00:58:35,880
Speaker 1: They have a bad quarter. Broncos out, throw the Panthers out. Sorry, guys,

1155
00:58:36,920 --> 00:58:40,080
Speaker 1: I respect you now, but come on serious. What about

1156
00:58:40,080 --> 00:58:43,560
Speaker 1: the Bengals. They'll go twelve and four, they'll go sixteen

1157
00:58:43,560 --> 00:58:48,000
Speaker 1: and one, They'll lose a game inside that DUDI. Still

1158
00:58:48,680 --> 00:58:50,920
Speaker 1: they get to buy and losing the second in that

1159
00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:55,000
Speaker 1: second round isn't west of his um specific to wild

1160
00:58:55,000 --> 00:58:57,960
Speaker 1: Card weekend though, Yeah, it is, because it's been in

1161
00:58:57,960 --> 00:59:01,560
Speaker 1: the same place every time it is. But Christmas was

1162
00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:05,520
Speaker 1: originally Saturn. Now we can change things. Maybe it's like Hanukkah,

1163
00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:08,280
Speaker 1: which kind of changes depending on the year. Right, you know,

1164
00:59:08,640 --> 00:59:11,720
Speaker 1: comps around love it. I don't know why that is exactly,

1165
00:59:11,800 --> 00:59:15,040
Speaker 1: but it does not the same time. You never know.

1166
00:59:15,120 --> 00:59:17,960
Speaker 1: It's gonna it's gonna offend every faith group with this.

1167
00:59:19,200 --> 00:59:21,240
Speaker 1: All right, how was it offensive to point out that

1168
00:59:21,320 --> 00:59:24,120
Speaker 1: Christmas was originally Saturn? Now I'm kidding. Market's a litt

1169
00:59:24,160 --> 00:59:26,920
Speaker 1: jumpy whenever we go to the theology podcast talk all right,

1170
00:59:27,040 --> 00:59:34,800
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, let's say different time every yearn all right,

1171
00:59:34,840 --> 00:59:38,400
Speaker 1: here we go at go trell Uh flying to London

1172
00:59:38,440 --> 00:59:41,600
Speaker 1: first class? Mark and have they practiced and by they

1173
00:59:41,720 --> 00:59:46,960
Speaker 1: Connor and Mark practice their cockney rhyming slang. Definitely not

1174
00:59:47,120 --> 00:59:49,720
Speaker 1: flying first class. I'm in the second to last row

1175
00:59:49,760 --> 00:59:55,000
Speaker 1: on the airplane. I just looked middle seat or now, uh,

1176
00:59:55,080 --> 00:59:57,479
Speaker 1: not a middle seat. That's good. I mean that that's

1177
00:59:57,520 --> 01:00:01,600
Speaker 1: still surrounded by masses of people. A flight that don't

1178
01:00:01,600 --> 01:00:03,880
Speaker 1: have yeah, an idea of the geography of it. You

1179
01:00:03,920 --> 01:00:06,880
Speaker 1: need to go from l A across one of the

1180
01:00:07,040 --> 01:00:11,120
Speaker 1: largest countries in the world. Probably, uh, you gotta land

1181
01:00:11,200 --> 01:00:13,720
Speaker 1: Are you stopping over New York or something? No, no

1182
01:00:13,760 --> 01:00:15,800
Speaker 1: stop over. You're going all the way even though it

1183
01:00:15,880 --> 01:00:19,480
Speaker 1: was possible technology. What are you talking. You don't have

1184
01:00:19,520 --> 01:00:21,960
Speaker 1: to gas up to go all the way to London

1185
01:00:22,000 --> 01:00:26,040
Speaker 1: from here. Dan's xenophobic tendency is showing itself. Sorry, I

1186
01:00:26,040 --> 01:00:28,840
Speaker 1: didn't grow up with a silver spoon. I grew up

1187
01:00:28,840 --> 01:00:31,160
Speaker 1: in a cold town. Never took a flight that went

1188
01:00:31,240 --> 01:00:34,280
Speaker 1: six thousand. There's no way that you thought they need

1189
01:00:34,280 --> 01:00:39,040
Speaker 1: to gas up. I totally thought to um, stop over.

1190
01:00:39,240 --> 01:00:42,080
Speaker 1: That is the case for years and years, and I

1191
01:00:42,120 --> 01:00:44,680
Speaker 1: had a similar question, was told that it's been that

1192
01:00:44,800 --> 01:00:48,200
Speaker 1: Virgin Atlantic, for instance, it's been a shop for you

1193
01:00:48,240 --> 01:00:50,800
Speaker 1: sit on a plane for twelve straight hours. This is

1194
01:00:50,800 --> 01:00:52,480
Speaker 1: what I do for the league. I mean, you can

1195
01:00:52,480 --> 01:00:54,600
Speaker 1: go New York to Tokyo. Do you have a good

1196
01:00:54,600 --> 01:00:59,280
Speaker 1: book stopping over the top of the world that's engrossing?

1197
01:00:59,400 --> 01:01:01,560
Speaker 1: You have these things in life, Greg that I don't

1198
01:01:01,640 --> 01:01:07,640
Speaker 1: have some of it. You literally said you don't like

1199
01:01:07,760 --> 01:01:10,120
Speaker 1: going to other countries. I've never said that. I just

1200
01:01:10,120 --> 01:01:12,720
Speaker 1: said I love good old US of A. Doesn't mean

1201
01:01:12,720 --> 01:01:18,960
Speaker 1: I hate anything else. Alright, one more, one more, I

1202
01:01:19,320 --> 01:01:21,240
Speaker 1: just like the first moment she's running. She's the one

1203
01:01:21,280 --> 01:01:22,920
Speaker 1: that's run out of gas. She needs to gas up

1204
01:01:23,440 --> 01:01:26,560
Speaker 1: the car on downstairs. This whole time, Uh, last one.

1205
01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:29,800
Speaker 1: I just like the format of this. It's not even

1206
01:01:29,800 --> 01:01:34,400
Speaker 1: a question. David Douglas at Softcore Dave interesting. Uh the

1207
01:01:34,480 --> 01:01:40,320
Speaker 1: E D scale talk to me, well, the new listener

1208
01:01:40,360 --> 01:01:43,680
Speaker 1: at the Andy Dalton scale. That's the prime meridian of quarterbacks.

1209
01:01:43,680 --> 01:01:46,600
Speaker 1: That's how you measure. If you're above the Andy Dalton line,

1210
01:01:46,680 --> 01:01:48,840
Speaker 1: then you have your franchise quarterback. If you're below, you're

1211
01:01:48,840 --> 01:01:51,120
Speaker 1: looking for one. And and Andy Dalton's m v P

1212
01:01:51,360 --> 01:01:54,240
Speaker 1: quality play has really thrown that into question. There's a

1213
01:01:54,320 --> 01:01:57,640
Speaker 1: good chance that and this is kind of Westling's domain,

1214
01:01:58,080 --> 01:01:59,920
Speaker 1: but so it's ultimately up to him. But there's a

1215
01:02:00,040 --> 01:02:02,560
Speaker 1: good chance if this keeps up, the whole thing either

1216
01:02:02,600 --> 01:02:06,560
Speaker 1: has to be blown up or rejiggered completely correct. Yes,

1217
01:02:06,840 --> 01:02:09,040
Speaker 1: there is a good chance. I we talked about this

1218
01:02:09,080 --> 01:02:11,400
Speaker 1: is Sunday night, and I said I wasn't prepared to

1219
01:02:11,960 --> 01:02:14,400
Speaker 1: ditch the whole thing just over a six game sample size,

1220
01:02:14,400 --> 01:02:17,360
Speaker 1: because Andy Dalton has had really good six game sample

1221
01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:20,680
Speaker 1: sizes in his career before. No, not this good, that's true,

1222
01:02:20,760 --> 01:02:22,960
Speaker 1: but I fully expected this the other because he could

1223
01:02:22,960 --> 01:02:24,800
Speaker 1: turn back to podcast to June and I was talking

1224
01:02:24,800 --> 01:02:27,560
Speaker 1: about Andy Dalton having a career year. Here's the thing though,

1225
01:02:27,600 --> 01:02:30,640
Speaker 1: he also has had several moments this season so far

1226
01:02:30,760 --> 01:02:33,200
Speaker 1: where old Andy would have crumbled. That's why I think.

1227
01:02:33,440 --> 01:02:35,360
Speaker 1: I think it's neck up to where he's changed a

1228
01:02:35,360 --> 01:02:37,080
Speaker 1: lot and it's not just the hair. Well, how about

1229
01:02:37,080 --> 01:02:38,840
Speaker 1: we put a deadline on it could be the Alex

1230
01:02:38,880 --> 01:02:42,080
Speaker 1: Smith scale or something like that. They play Arizona in

1231
01:02:42,160 --> 01:02:45,680
Speaker 1: week eleven. If if he gets past that game and

1232
01:02:45,760 --> 01:02:48,640
Speaker 1: doesn't turn back into a pumpkin at midnight, we'll Alex

1233
01:02:48,680 --> 01:02:52,000
Speaker 1: Smith scale. We'll talk about that. So just be Landry Jones. Basically,

1234
01:02:52,080 --> 01:02:55,080
Speaker 1: are you talking about um Eddie Dalton or the entire

1235
01:02:55,200 --> 01:02:58,680
Speaker 1: Bengals or November twenty, let's say Thanksgiving, will we'll have

1236
01:02:58,760 --> 01:03:03,240
Speaker 1: an Andy Dalton podcast Dalton Scale podcast on Tuesday. Sounds

1237
01:03:03,280 --> 01:03:07,080
Speaker 1: like a great idea. Tuesday before Thanksgiving. Tune in everybody,

1238
01:03:07,520 --> 01:03:09,520
Speaker 1: you don't want to miss that one. All right, that's

1239
01:03:09,560 --> 01:03:12,280
Speaker 1: it for another edition to be around in the NFL podcast.

1240
01:03:12,320 --> 01:03:14,720
Speaker 1: Mark you have a great time, buddy, Thank you, and

1241
01:03:14,800 --> 01:03:16,920
Speaker 1: I will be calling you in two days. Yes, you

1242
01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:20,800
Speaker 1: cannot wait for that until our next show late Thursday night.

1243
01:03:20,920 --> 01:03:22,560
Speaker 1: Make sure you're tuning in for that. We're gonna get

1244
01:03:22,560 --> 01:03:26,280
Speaker 1: through the Thursday night football game. We're gonna then do

1245
01:03:26,400 --> 01:03:29,000
Speaker 1: all of Sunday, so that will be a lot of fun,

1246
01:03:29,640 --> 01:03:32,840
Speaker 1: all right. So that's it, Mark, have fun, buddy, I

1247
01:03:32,920 --> 01:03:37,000
Speaker 1: will good good enjoy all alright, Signing off for the

1248
01:03:37,080 --> 01:03:39,960
Speaker 1: Quiet Storm, the mail Man, the Boss and Sydney behind

1249
01:03:39,960 --> 01:04:07,920
Speaker 1: the Glass until Friday.