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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen.

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Speaker 2: You want experience during your football season, well, buckle up,

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Speaker 2: sweet cheeks. We've got all the experience in the world.

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Speaker 3: This is I want your flex with Dan Bayer and

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Speaker 3: Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 2: Mike and Dan break down everything you need to set

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Speaker 2: your lineups, from position rankings.

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Speaker 3: To starts and sits.

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Speaker 2: The guys help you make those hard decisions. And now

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Speaker 2: let's get your flexod. Here's Dan Bayer and Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 1: Wild Card weekend is in the books, and honestly it

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Speaker 1: was anything but wild. He is Mike Carmon hit him

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Speaker 1: up at Swollen Dome and also on Blue Sky at

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Speaker 1: Mike Harmon. You could find me on Blue Sky at

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Speaker 1: Dan Byer An on ex at Dan Byer on Fox.

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Speaker 1: And Ian Roddy is the executive producer. Remember he is

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Speaker 1: now on both the Blue Sky Ian Dash Roddy on

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Speaker 1: ex at Ian Roddy Underscore. All right, Mike, I said

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Speaker 1: there was no wild in the weekend? Was there any

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Speaker 1: good from this past week? One of these six games

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Speaker 3: Now, the sunder Night game gave us some thrills and chills,

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Speaker 3: Baker mayfield ball security. But whenever we get to elevate

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Speaker 3: knee jerk reaction. Jayden Daniels has been crowned king of

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Speaker 3: Obviously a lot of thoughts where we operate from Los

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Speaker 3: Angeles with the Rams and Vikings on Monday Night, the

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Speaker 3: tributes to the firefighters, the LAFD wear right hats, and

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Speaker 3: the herculean effort by Kelly Stafford and the Rams brass.

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Speaker 3: They did a great job of getting a bunch of

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Speaker 3: of cool, But otherwise it kind of played deform. I guess.

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Speaker 3: The other was I enjoyed the SpongeBob telecast of Houston

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Speaker 3: that might have changed that game early, but ultimately it

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Speaker 3: wasn't a game late as Houston rolls on, which might

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Speaker 3: have been, you know, other than the point spread of

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Speaker 3: picking upsets right, which we did in the the Rams

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Speaker 3: and Washington were both technically upsets. The fact that Houston

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Speaker 3: a lot of great play necessarily to make make you, you know, shake.

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Speaker 1: Your head going wow, yeah Sunday. And I can only

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Speaker 1: do so much for that, and even for the great

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Speaker 1: ending that it was and the playmaking, I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: how great of a game it was, but it still,

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Speaker 3: It was late and close. Dan, That's.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yes, I don't know if I am bursting the

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Speaker 1: but I am going to be fading everything Jayden Daniels

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Speaker 1: and Commanders in twenty twenty five because if we've learned

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Speaker 1: anything from these playoffs in this season, sometimes that sophomore

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Speaker 1: slump is a real thing. And we look at CJ.

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Speaker 1: season for CJ. Stroud this year. Jordan Love didn't take

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Speaker 1: his playoff appearances against the Niners in the in the Cowboys,

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Speaker 1: so commanders enjoy it. Now. I don't think they're gonna

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Speaker 1: Yeah, last right again boys DC, and all of a

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Speaker 3: Mike McCarthy no longer has a job after this season.

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Speaker 3: But we'll get to the coaching stuff in a minute.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, Washington, it's also a year of living dangerously.

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Speaker 3: Everything that could bounce right literally and figuratively did, going

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Speaker 3: and their season catapults from there, all these you know,

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Speaker 3: So telling you where their line was, Darrisol'll be back

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Speaker 1: Well, I look, I will also say this is not

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Speaker 3: Out of the Pod, Lions nine and a half point

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Speaker 3: they all failed spectacularly. Right, So you win ten games

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Speaker 3: I think Nicocollins once upon a time considered a bit

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Speaker 1: Yes, right, I was like eighty two.

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Speaker 1: The the It's one thing to have the refereeing crew,

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Speaker 1: who what kind of mood? Whoever's looking at the stuff

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Speaker 1: Man so tough. Yeah, it's so abrupt, and the Viking

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Speaker 3: we're just getting started, Like no, everything has to go

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Speaker 3: What was funny is a few weeks ago on our

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Speaker 3: we do this all the time, right when we do

432
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Speaker 3: it for fantasy purposes, It's like you get to that

433
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Speaker 3: middle and you're like, all right, I can take any

434
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Speaker 3: one of these eight guys because I don't expect anything

435
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Speaker 3: from any of them. Anything beyond you know, one eighty

436
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Speaker 3: two hundred and a score would be huge. And the

437
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Speaker 3: back end of the quarterback class, I mean, come on,

438
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Speaker 3: it's it's a joke in terms of what starters are.

439
00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:11,960
Speaker 3: We got to our sixty I think by time the

440
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Speaker 3: year ended.

441
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Speaker 1: It might have been it didn't top last year, but yeah,

442
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Speaker 1: it was close, Yeah for sure. Oh man, all right,

443
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Speaker 1: we'll take the we'll take the time out. I think

444
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Speaker 1: we had sixty seven last year, but that was right, Yeah,

445
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Speaker 1: that was the official number.

446
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Speaker 3: All right, twenty twenty four. I gotta do this.

447
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. You do it during the break

448
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Speaker 1: because we are way long on this. Yeah, so we'll

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Speaker 1: take a time out. He's Ian Roddy. That's Mike Carman.

450
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Speaker 1: I'm Dan Byer. It's I Want your Flex. Player of

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Speaker 1: the wild Card Weekend was blank and Disappointment of wild

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Speaker 1: Card Weekend was blank. We'll fill in those blanks plus

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Speaker 1: coaching news and how it affects Fantasy next year, and

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Speaker 1: I want your Flex. Welcome back to I Want your Flex.

455
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Speaker 1: He's Mike Harmon. I'm Dan Byer. That's Ian Roddy. I

456
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Speaker 1: gave you guys a bit of a quiz and it's okay.

457
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Speaker 1: There's cheating a lot. If you want. Player of Wildcard

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Speaker 1: Weekend was blank and disappointing Team of Wildcard Weekend was blank.

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go first, not that I want to

460
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Speaker 1: get my guys out there. The players that I think

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Speaker 1: Player of wild Card Weekend for me was actually CJ. Stroud,

462
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Speaker 1: just for the simple fact of the turnaround and for

463
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Speaker 1: the season that they had for him to play the

464
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Speaker 1: game that he did in a game where again Rex

465
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Speaker 1: Ryan was saying the Chargers were gonna have a buye.

466
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Speaker 1: We didn't really believe in the Texans. I don't think

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Speaker 1: they're going to go to Kansas City and win that game.

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Speaker 1: I hope they fare better than they did in Baltimore

469
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Speaker 1: last year in the Divisional playoff. But I'm going to

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Speaker 1: give it to CJ. Stroud and the disappointing team was

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Speaker 1: probably the disappointing team down the stretch as it was. No,

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Speaker 1: not the Pittsburgh Steelers. They didn't deserve to be longer.

473
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Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers to me to have that sort of

474
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Speaker 1: performance in what was a gettable game against Philadelphia. Jalen

475
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Speaker 1: Hurts still remains out of sorts coming back from the concussion.

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Speaker 1: Philadelphia didn't do anything great, didn't do anything spec tacular.

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Speaker 1: Green Bay was my disappointing team. My player of wild

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Speaker 1: Card weekend O CJ.

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Speaker 3: Stroud Ian, what do you got? Uh?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll go with the player first. It's got to

481
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Speaker 4: be Derrick Henry for me. One hundred and eighty six

482
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Speaker 4: yards rushing and two scores. I think he really was

483
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Speaker 4: the missing piece for that Ravens offense. I don't know

484
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Speaker 4: if I can see anyone beating them right now. It's

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Speaker 4: it's yeah, they're a wagon. But most disappointing team gotta

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Speaker 4: be the Vikings, all right, Yeah, just because I had

487
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Speaker 4: such high hopes for them and Sam Darnold. I was

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Speaker 4: really rooting for him as a Jets fan, I was

489
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Speaker 4: kind of hoping for him to go out there and

490
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Speaker 4: do something, but no, again, as we alluded to last segment,

491
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Speaker 4: he really just came out there with not only this

492
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Speaker 4: week but last week, just two of the worst performances

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Speaker 4: he could have had in two of the biggest games

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Speaker 4: of his career. Thing and again it wasn't all on

495
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Speaker 4: Sam too. That's the thing that makes them the most

496
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Speaker 4: disappointing team is the fact that the whole team kind

497
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Speaker 4: of came up a little flat.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I was the curious curiosity of whether you'd

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Speaker 3: have a hangover effect from the Lions loss and then

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Speaker 3: the Rams. You know, as we alluded to a bit,

501
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Speaker 3: and Smith and I certainly talked about it on our

502
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Speaker 3: show as the game was going on, you had no

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Speaker 3: idea what the Rams coming out of the week that

504
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Speaker 3: they had right homes, personnel, like all of this trying

505
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Speaker 3: to rally in logistics. Not that going and moving the

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Speaker 3: game to Arizona for the team is necessarily that big deal,

507
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Speaker 3: right It's an hour road trip, but just trying to

508
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Speaker 3: compartmentalize football amongst the week I think was kind of

509
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Speaker 3: the interesting part. And you know, they showed up like

510
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Speaker 3: Champs the player of the week. I'll go with some

511
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Speaker 3: of the chalk and just you know, Jayden Daniels finds

512
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Speaker 3: a way only thirty six yards rushing, but two touchdown throws.

513
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Speaker 3: The throw to mcglaurin in the end zone was a

514
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Speaker 3: dart and the brown touchdown him rising up in a

515
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Speaker 3: big spot against the Buccaneers, who found a way to lose.

516
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Speaker 3: But I'm not going to make them my appointment because

517
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Speaker 3: I'm not shocked like I think if we were all

518
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Speaker 3: just saying I have to pick an upset this weekend

519
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Speaker 3: that the Buccaneers were unlike every other team to play

520
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Speaker 3: in this wildcard weekend. Guys, they were the only team

521
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Speaker 3: with a negative turnover differential.

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of people liked the Commanders in

523
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Speaker 1: that spot just because I think they're a trending team, Mike.

524
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Speaker 1: But to your point, I don't know really how good

525
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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay was. The defense isn't the same difficult too

526
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Speaker 1: as well? You had actually a couple of games like

527
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Speaker 1: this this weekend green Man Philadelphia and Tampa Bay and

528
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Speaker 1: Washington rematches from Week one. Sure, and Washington did not

529
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Speaker 1: fare well in that game against Tampa, but Jaydon Daniels

530
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Speaker 1: stat wise did and it was kind of like, okay, well,

531
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Speaker 1: Tampa ended up dominating Washington's first game news regime, you know,

532
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:56,840
Speaker 1: no big deal, but man, you see where those two

533
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Speaker 1: teams were, you know, from week one to now if

534
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Speaker 1: you will, And yeah, night and day, and I kind

535
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Speaker 1: of liked I liked the Commanders in that spot on

536
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Speaker 1: Sunday Night. I think a lot of other people did

537
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Speaker 1: as well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the most disappointing I'm going to go back.

539
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Speaker 3: You had the CJ. Stroud as your player, right, rising

540
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Speaker 3: up in the moment, just the charger shrinking away, right,

541
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Speaker 3: opportunity to really put a hurting on him early, and

542
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Speaker 3: you settle for a couple of field goals, right, you

543
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Speaker 3: get a good drive field goal, you get the never

544
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Speaker 3: mind the dicker stupidity later on on the.

545
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Speaker 1: That's just one of those that it adds insult.

546
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Speaker 3: Result injury. But you get a turnover from Houston and

547
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 3: you had multiple turnovers. You did nothing with them. Your

548
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:49,280
Speaker 3: offensive line, as we talked about, just absolutely blasted Alt

549
00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 3: wasn't good. You had on the defensive side to where

550
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Speaker 3: Boso was so out of sorts and playing so miserably

551
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Speaker 3: in terms of containment and getting up field that you

552
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Speaker 3: actually and substitute for him as the game goes on.

553
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Speaker 3: I was, OK, I get kind of funny here at

554
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 3: times where you know you go and sync up. And

555
00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 3: obviously we know a bunch of folks that work with

556
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Speaker 3: the Chargers. My executive producer Justin Frosberg doing the broadcast,

557
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Speaker 3: Matt Smith, who does you know the afternoon drive on

558
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Speaker 3: AM five to seventy LA Sports as listened to, and

559
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:29,320
Speaker 3: Isaac Lohancrown doing their post and pregame show. I always

560
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 3: flip on their broadcast that you'll know within about fifteen

561
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Speaker 3: seconds where the game is going, and their sentiments about

562
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Speaker 3: how an individual player or group of players are playing,

563
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:45,720
Speaker 3: and there was no hiding just their frustration would be

564
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Speaker 3: the kind word for the way the defensive front, for

565
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 3: the Charges we're playing, and the interior offensive line. You know,

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Speaker 3: Justin Herbert wears it because you have four interceptions and

567
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Speaker 3: he was bad. There's no mistaking that they were oftentimes

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Speaker 3: kind of like Sam Donald on Monday Night, I don't

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Speaker 3: think he had a chance, thank you.

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Speaker 1: I agree with that all.

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Speaker 3: Right, where it's you know, yeah, you got to get

572
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Speaker 3: rid of the ball. And I kept screaming for Donald,

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Speaker 3: get rid of the ball, find the read, get through

574
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Speaker 3: your progressions faster, or take out the backside and run.

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Speaker 3: You can't take another sack. And for Herbert, you know, yeah,

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Speaker 3: the Disley ball was terrible, you know, and agregious. You know,

577
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Speaker 3: should have been a catch, but you know, trying to

578
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Speaker 3: think you've got the arm strength to throw a gross

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Speaker 3: your body across the field entirely, it was just asinine.

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Speaker 1: I'll say this. I did think Denver would give Buffalo

581
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Speaker 1: a challenge. And I know the final score is not indicative,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not going to go back on things that

583
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Speaker 1: I say before, like when people say yeah, so and

584
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Speaker 1: so on with Alabama. So yeah, Alabama wears you down.

585
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Speaker 1: This is the Nick Saban Alabama, not the Killing de

586
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Speaker 1: boor Alabama. But it was, yeah, maybe seventeen to three

587
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Speaker 1: at halftime and you think you have a chance, and

588
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Speaker 1: then the final score is four you one to three,

589
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 1: Like that's that's what playing Alabama is. And that may

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Speaker 1: have been the case with Buffalo, but Broncos hung in there.

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00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:11,000
Speaker 1: I miss a field goal late, you know, it's a

592
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Speaker 1: three point game at a halftime, six point game. Early

593
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Speaker 1: in the third quarter. It just couldn't match that just

594
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:19,800
Speaker 1: really couldn't hang with Buffalo, couldn't keep their offense on

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Speaker 1: the field and get their defense off the field. But

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Speaker 1: so as much as I like the Commanders, I also

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Speaker 1: did like Denver at least to give Buffalo a bit

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Speaker 1: of a bit of resistance, and they did for about

599
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Speaker 1: i'd say two and a half quarters.

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Speaker 3: No I did eventually, you know, it's the boxer, it's whatever,

601
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:38,800
Speaker 3: it's you know, you get the lean. We watched this

602
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:41,840
Speaker 3: all the time, right where you can have time of

603
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Speaker 3: possession and you're hitting a bunch of body blows right

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Speaker 3: the Derrick Henry Saquon Barkley, whatever. When you've got a

605
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Speaker 3: runner like that. And James Cook did something that we

606
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Speaker 3: haven't seen a lot against Denver where you get that

607
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Speaker 3: kind of repetition to where eventually you get the lean

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Speaker 3: and your offensive line just beat you down. And that's

609
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:06,360
Speaker 3: exactly what you got. All Right, there's Josh Allen over

610
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 3: eight carries, So there you go. Who's seven and a half.

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Speaker 1: We'll do coaching news in the last segment and even

612
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Speaker 1: how it affects the fantasy. But since we're talking about

613
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Speaker 1: these matchups, the divisional matchups, we've got the schedule for

614
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Speaker 1: those of you that may have missed it, Texans Chiefs

615
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Speaker 1: start things out on Saturday afternoon. The Saturday night game

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Speaker 1: is Commanders at Lions, Rams at Eagles start things on Sunday,

617
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Speaker 1: and then the Ravens and Bills in the late window.

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Speaker 1: The obvious marquee game is that late AFC matchup. But Mike,

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Speaker 1: you take us where you want to go with these

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Speaker 1: four divisional playoff matchups.

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Speaker 3: Now, First, from a television standpoint, Chiefs always early, Yes,

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Speaker 3: all right, I should say the Texans are always early,

623
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Speaker 3: the Chiefs. You know, I would have thought they'd have

624
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Speaker 3: the juice.

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Speaker 1: You would think so. Last year they played in that

626
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Speaker 1: late window with Buffalo as well. But there's also an

627
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Speaker 1: advantage for going early because you had the week off

628
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Speaker 1: and then you get an extra day for championship weekend. Sure,

629
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Speaker 1: and if you're at home, it's even better because then

630
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Speaker 1: the other team has to travel. So I don't think

631
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Speaker 1: Kansas City minds playing that early game on Saturday because

632
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 1: they can get that extra day of rest.

633
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 3: Yeah. Just from the it seems the Texans are forever.

634
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 1: Forever Saturday afternoon.

635
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it.

636
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Speaker 1: But they make a Super Bowl agin We're going to

637
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 1: move at the Super Bowl Saturday.

638
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:24,560
Speaker 3: That's it.

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00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 1: Florid glock Eastern.

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00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 3: Set new precedent. Let's go, guys.

641
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Speaker 4: Speaking of the Texans really quick. That was one more

642
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:32,480
Speaker 4: player of the game that we can't not mention was

643
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 4: Derek Stingley with his two interceptions and five pass break.

644
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Speaker 3: Go Stingley was great. Had to give it. Absolutely, got

645
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Speaker 3: to give a little love, no question about it. You know,

646
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Speaker 3: whenever we can highlight a defensive guy, because I mean

647
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:45,520
Speaker 3: I was going to give a game ball to the

648
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Speaker 3: full Rams defensive front, but we already did that and

649
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:53,640
Speaker 3: gave them their flowers. Try to all yeah, all right,

650
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 3: So we got Texans and Chiefs trying to pull up

651
00:33:57,080 --> 00:34:01,440
Speaker 3: all our spreads and everything as it were. Kansas City

652
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:04,560
Speaker 3: seven and a half, Detroit's nine and a half over Washington,

653
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:07,600
Speaker 3: Philly five and a half over the Rams. I saw

654
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:09,440
Speaker 3: that one open at six and a half, so a

655
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 3: little bit of downward pressure already. And then the Ravens

656
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:17,200
Speaker 3: are a one point favorite on the road at Buffalo

657
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:23,239
Speaker 3: for that Sunday night tilt. In trying to find an

658
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:27,440
Speaker 3: upset in this one, I'm I'm loath to I want

659
00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:30,439
Speaker 3: to pick against the lines just on principle because they're

660
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:33,840
Speaker 3: the last team remaining for me from the NFC North.

661
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 3: But and you know, because everybody's jumped on board that bandwagon,

662
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:40,320
Speaker 3: would be fun to see the Commander's up end and

663
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 3: all the great stories that flow out of there. Magic

664
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Speaker 3: Johnson is now your mouthpiece running around so he gets

665
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:52,080
Speaker 3: to own a lot of real estate there. But I

666
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:54,879
Speaker 3: don't know that I see a big, swinging upset out

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Speaker 3: of here.

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Speaker 1: I'll say this, I look at the schedule and I

669
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Speaker 1: think the Lions are gonna Cinderella run of the Commanders.

670
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 1: It just fits to the script. They get a week off,

671
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:11,360
Speaker 1: they get rest, and just physically, I don't think Washington

672
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 1: is going to be able to match up.

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Speaker 3: Right, the Lions just come in and run over them.

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Speaker 1: Yes, like that, they run over them. That's like how

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Speaker 1: I feel Saturday is going to go. And I mentioned

676
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:24,880
Speaker 1: earlier Texans had a great game against the Chargers and

677
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 1: love ow CJ. Stroud played. I just don't think they're

678
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Speaker 1: going to beat the Chiefs. But on Sunday, I with

679
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Speaker 1: the Ravens being favored and the Rams doing what they've done,

680
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Speaker 1: I can see both of those teams winning and the

681
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Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts conversation is going to continue. The AJ Brown

682
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 1: book thing is, you know a conversation that somebody else

683
00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:49,440
Speaker 1: have had, and I just don't think everything is right

684
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:53,520
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia, and I give the Rams the coaching edge.

685
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 1: I think you could see the two home teams win

686
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Speaker 1: on Saturday and the two road teams win on Sunday.

687
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Speaker 3: With the Rams, the curiosity is, can you follow the

688
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:07,040
Speaker 3: blueprint that you ran up on Darnold and company to

689
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 3: where the pass game is invisible? Because we obviously have

690
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 3: seen with the Eagles passing game struggles. The AJ Brown

691
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 3: book thing. Either laugh at it or you try to

692
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:20,680
Speaker 3: read a little deeper into If it's not a twelve

693
00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:23,600
Speaker 3: point win and you're rolling around, everybody can chuckle after

694
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Speaker 3: a w but if suddenly something happens and Green Bay wins,

695
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:32,479
Speaker 3: now it's magnified into a whole other issue. Forget about

696
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:37,000
Speaker 3: the anytime touchdown gripes that people had with Saquon Barkley.

697
00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 3: But if you can get pressure consistently against the Philadelphia

698
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:44,840
Speaker 3: front and again their offensive line better than what the

699
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Speaker 3: Vikings were trotting out at this point, for sure, that

700
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Speaker 3: maybe hurts an extra week removed from the concussion and

701
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 3: everything else you can find, and Goddard back and fully healthy,

702
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Speaker 3: that maybe you find a little more in the pass game.

703
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Speaker 3: But yeah, I could see that one five and a

704
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:04,960
Speaker 3: half seems like it's too large a number to me

705
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:08,880
Speaker 3: for sure. Just with the Rams, can they score enough?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Right? And this is this is also a rematch.

707
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:16,240
Speaker 1: That's when Saquan had two fifty five against the Rams.

708
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:19,319
Speaker 1: The Rams got after Sam Donald, and they can get

709
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:23,600
Speaker 1: after Sam Donald. But you mentioned the the line of Philadelphia.

710
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:26,759
Speaker 1: You're not gonna be able to get after Donald like

711
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:29,719
Speaker 1: you get after Jalen Hurts like you did Donald, just

712
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 1: because of Hertz's mobility. However, it's just the sheer size

713
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Speaker 1: of Philadelphia's offensive line, Mike, and and you know Jared

714
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 1: Verse is going to a Pro Bowl, great rookie season.

715
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:46,360
Speaker 1: They just maybe physically more imposing then you know against

716
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 1: that Rams defensive line. But you know, I'll take a

717
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:52,359
Speaker 1: shot in a rematch that the Rams just you know,

718
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 1: run this run this thing going, because you know what

719
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:58,759
Speaker 1: it also does. It sets up something that if you

720
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Speaker 1: had a Rams Lion Championship game, all of these Matthew Stafford,

721
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 1: Jared Goff, Detroit Rams rematch rematches that we've had wild

722
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:13,000
Speaker 1: card last year start of the season this year, they've

723
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Speaker 1: all went Detroit's way and not every single one is

724
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Speaker 1: going to And so I'm just wondering, all right, is

725
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:21,040
Speaker 1: this Rams team or team of destiny? I don't know.

726
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 1: We'll see, But if I had to go outside the

727
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:28,120
Speaker 1: box and say both road teams went on Sunday.

728
00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:30,200
Speaker 3: I kind of dig that. Yeah, the Ravens, as we said,

729
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 3: a narrow favorite here Buffalo. I don't know what I'm

730
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 3: getting In the passing game.

731
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Speaker 1: I don't either. I mean, Shurtis Samuel was scoring right.

732
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Speaker 3: And James James Cookie is a good back. We celebrated

733
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 3: him before the year and certainly trumpeted it on the

734
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Speaker 3: iWatch Flex podcast.

735
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:53,840
Speaker 4: Ty Johnson a touchdown, right, Ty Johnson to a touchdown?

736
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Speaker 3: So that's the thing. Where's my offense going? And are

737
00:38:57,640 --> 00:39:01,240
Speaker 3: you going to be able to stop the current iteration

738
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Speaker 3: of this Baltimore run game.

739
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 1: I don't see it.

740
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:06,279
Speaker 2: No.

741
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 3: And that's the thing, like and and the hard part

742
00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:11,920
Speaker 3: and Smith that I started the discussion Monday night and

743
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 3: it'll be something throughout the week is unfortunately, the loser

744
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:23,600
Speaker 3: of that game on Sunday every everything is no matter

745
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:25,960
Speaker 3: how much good you've had, just gets thrown out the

746
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Speaker 3: window again.

747
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:30,359
Speaker 1: Yes, yep, right, what a waste kind of.

748
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Speaker 3: Like these well, I mean, say we do get the

749
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:36,719
Speaker 3: Stafford golf becomes the same thing, right, if golf loses again,

750
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:40,759
Speaker 3: all right, he's garbage. And if Stafford loses, suddenly he's

751
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 3: old over the hill and should retire. Sure, even though

752
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:46,360
Speaker 3: he's been running with one receiver this whole time and

753
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 3: he missed a chunk of the season. They did lose

754
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 3: to the Bears, though, like I gotta, I do have to,

755
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:53,560
Speaker 3: you know, kind of keep bringing that up. That might

756
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 3: as well have been five seasons ago. But to make

757
00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:59,840
Speaker 3: myself feel better, the Bears did win this.

758
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Speaker 1: This is the crazy thing too, about that that matchup,

759
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Speaker 1: because I look at the I look at the era

760
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Speaker 1: and you and I know your Jets were a factor

761
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:10,600
Speaker 1: in this at some point, so they kind of are

762
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Speaker 1: a part of this conversation, but it's not really. When

763
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Speaker 1: Brady was winning his Super Bowls in New England, Manning

764
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:22,399
Speaker 1: was also in Indianapolis, but so is Roethlisberger, and then

765
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Speaker 1: Philip Rivers would pop up here and then the Jets

766
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:28,440
Speaker 1: would be good, and you get that sense that you

767
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: could have that in this AFC, but I don't remember.

768
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Speaker 1: It always just felt like we ended up with Manning

769
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Speaker 1: and Brady and then maybe a Manning and you know, Roethlisberger.

770
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Speaker 1: And I'm thinking back in my my my point is

771
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Speaker 1: actually changing because I remember the Roethlisberger tackle on the

772
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Speaker 1: fumble and the whole deal. But I was just saying,

773
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Speaker 1: it feels like the Ravens and Bills are kind of

774
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 1: canceling themselves out and then whoever's left standing has got

775
00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:57,520
Speaker 1: to be the one to knock off the Chiefs. And

776
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:00,480
Speaker 1: we've had this run of Chiefs in this Super Bowl,

777
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 1: and it just felt like in those other years that

778
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:05,480
Speaker 1: it was more of a not an exact rotation. But

779
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:08,120
Speaker 1: Steelers are in one year, okay, then the Colts are

780
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:10,400
Speaker 1: in and then guess what Patriots are back? Guess what

781
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 1: Steelers are back in? I guess now the Colts are in,

782
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 1: and we don't have that in the AFC right now.

783
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:18,799
Speaker 1: It's just Ravens aren't in, Bills aren't in. Ravens aren't in,

784
00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:20,600
Speaker 1: Bills aren't in. It just seemed like it was more,

785
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:22,399
Speaker 1: you know, it was different fifteen years ago.

786
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Speaker 3: Well, we had that long stretch, right if it wasn't

787
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:27,800
Speaker 3: one of those four or five quarterbacks, add a Flacco

788
00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:34,440
Speaker 3: emergence or you know whatever, you know to the Roethlisberger Manning, yeah,

789
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 3: and Brady trifecta, right, and then you'd have a Philip

790
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:41,000
Speaker 3: Rivers and there would be the one offs. But it

791
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 3: was pretty much all those guys every year in some combination,

792
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 3: which again owes to my I always thought, you know,

793
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:51,080
Speaker 3: Brady and New England got a you know, the short

794
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 3: shrift of all of this, when in some of these

795
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:57,040
Speaker 3: other divisions it was a pretty good walk except for

796
00:41:57,080 --> 00:41:59,919
Speaker 3: an outlier year. Right, It was Indianapolis pretty much every year,

797
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:03,800
Speaker 3: except okay, Tennessee would PLoP on the radar a couple

798
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:07,560
Speaker 3: of times. In the NFC South, it was pretty much

799
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 3: Peyton and Breeze running the show, and occasionally in Atlanta

800
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:15,000
Speaker 3: or maybe Tampa or whatever, but it was you know,

801
00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 3: short lived and they had their run for forever. Yet

802
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:21,359
Speaker 3: it's always hey, Brady and those guys. Wow, all those

803
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:24,120
Speaker 3: teams in the AFC sucked for all those years, like

804
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:28,560
Speaker 3: no other teams had that advantage too. It wasn't just

805
00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 3: happening in one division.

806
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:34,239
Speaker 1: It was it was you know, you're right, And I said,

807
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:37,520
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning covered up the AFC South for like how

808
00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:40,240
Speaker 1: bad it was, because you always like Peyton Manning, Peyton

809
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 1: Manning and the Colts, And now you're like, oh, geez,

810
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:45,360
Speaker 1: this is what this is how you get the Texans

811
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:49,960
Speaker 1: always playing Saturday at four thirty Eastern time in Wildcard weekend.

812
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:53,600
Speaker 1: And by the way, if it wouldn't have been the Texans,

813
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:55,960
Speaker 1: it probably would have been the Titans. And it probably

814
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Speaker 1: would have been the Colts and and Anthony Richard or

815
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:03,759
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco. Although the Jaguars did play a Saturday night

816
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 1: game against the Chargers a couple of years ago. We

817
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:08,600
Speaker 1: do remember that one and how that one turned out.

818
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:10,239
Speaker 1: All right, we need to take a time out. We

819
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:12,319
Speaker 1: will talk about the coaching news to wrap up. I

820
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:14,600
Speaker 1: want your flex, Mike rabel in and New England, Mike

821
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 1: McCarthy out in Dallas, and all the other stuff that

822
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Speaker 1: comes with it. He's Mike Carmon, I'm Dan Byer, that's

823
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Speaker 1: Ian Roddy. This is I want your Flex. All right,

824
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:26,840
Speaker 1: Let's get to the coaching news. I actually think the

825
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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys parting ways. Mike Harmon with the with Mike

826
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:35,920
Speaker 1: McCarthy after five seasons surely changes how we may look

827
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Speaker 1: at the Dallas Cowboys, all depending on who they're going

828
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:41,720
Speaker 1: to hire. All of the odds makers say that the

829
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Speaker 1: likely candidates, or the top candidates according to Las Vegas,

830
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Speaker 1: are all offensive mine. So maybe it doesn't veer too much.

831
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Speaker 1: But Dallas did give us see thee Lamb. It did

832
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:54,680
Speaker 1: give us Dak at times, and now I'm curious to

833
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:57,839
Speaker 1: see what Dallas could give us with whoever's in charge

834
00:43:57,880 --> 00:43:58,880
Speaker 1: of this new regime.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's curious. Right of denying the Bear's requests for

836
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:06,880
Speaker 3: an interview a week ago. In theory that meant you

837
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:10,440
Speaker 3: were near the goal line, and then you have conflicting

838
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:14,560
Speaker 3: reports of how close there were years versus really anything

839
00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:18,319
Speaker 3: substantive offered to McCarthy. Either way, he's out looking at

840
00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:23,760
Speaker 3: the odds. Joe Brady a leader. There was a statement

841
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:27,279
Speaker 3: from Dion Sanders having talked to Jerry Jones, which really

842
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:28,279
Speaker 3: didn't say a whole lot.

843
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Speaker 1: Dan.

844
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Speaker 3: It was I'm glad to talk to him, I'm intrigued,

845
00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 3: and then I really like things in Boulder, yes, which

846
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:39,960
Speaker 3: really didn't say anything and give you any kind of lean.

847
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:43,200
Speaker 3: But he's the second favorite, then Kellen Moore coming back

848
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:47,600
Speaker 3: after running as the Eagles OC. Bobby Slowick's still in there,

849
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Speaker 3: Ben Johnson a little bit of a long shot, Jason Witton,

850
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:54,560
Speaker 3: who we know Jerry Jones has professed his loved for

851
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:58,759
Speaker 3: coaching some high school ball. So yeah, and then you

852
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:01,880
Speaker 3: go into the long shot of you know, Gruden or

853
00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:05,480
Speaker 3: Belichick because of his relationship to the Jones family. But

854
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:09,080
Speaker 3: the question is, and we said this, for any of

855
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:12,239
Speaker 3: the jobs, how great are any of them really when

856
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:16,680
Speaker 3: you think about ownership, structure, front office as constructed or

857
00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:20,160
Speaker 3: as gets resurrected. But for Dallas, you got Dak coming

858
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:24,680
Speaker 3: off of a serious injury, You got CD and then

859
00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:28,319
Speaker 3: you got a giant question mark of everything else. Right,

860
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:30,600
Speaker 3: you still got to pay Micah Parsons on the defensive

861
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:34,960
Speaker 3: side and restructure everything that went on there because they

862
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:37,920
Speaker 3: were not good. A little bit of a run towards

863
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:40,359
Speaker 3: the end of the season as you saw also with

864
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:43,960
Speaker 3: you know, backup quarterback play, and they played hard for

865
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:46,719
Speaker 3: McCarthy down the stretch. But how many of these guys

866
00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:49,520
Speaker 3: you really want to come back? With your offensive lines

867
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:54,239
Speaker 3: not very good, your secondary receivers are, for lack of

868
00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:59,520
Speaker 3: a better term Jags. Ferguson played okay, and then he

869
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:02,280
Speaker 3: got hurt your tight end, so.

870
00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:04,759
Speaker 1: Hey, just add Tyreek Hill I said. Everybody was saying all.

871
00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:07,719
Speaker 3: That, actually like like what what is the magical? Yeah,

872
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:12,520
Speaker 3: because he's a great locker room guy. Did he start

873
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:15,200
Speaker 3: reading a book on the sideline? I mean, like all

874
00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 3: of that to say, it's great to have the star,

875
00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:21,320
Speaker 3: but Jerry's still going to be Jerry. How much do

876
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:25,800
Speaker 3: you really want to like be the Dallas Cowboy coach?

877
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:28,880
Speaker 3: It's one of thirty two? Is it any Is it

878
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:31,520
Speaker 3: really any better than any other other than you know

879
00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:33,360
Speaker 3: you're gonna get a bunch of primetime games.

880
00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:37,440
Speaker 1: I have always said, even as a Seahawks fan, if

881
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:40,359
Speaker 1: I could be an NFL player for a day, I mean,

882
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:43,200
Speaker 1: if I wasn't a Seahawk, I'd choose to be a

883
00:46:43,239 --> 00:46:46,239
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboy because of the stature. Not because I like

884
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:48,440
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, but I just think that I think it

885
00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:50,120
Speaker 1: would be neat to be like I played for the

886
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:55,200
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys, you know, so unique in that way. But

887
00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:57,719
Speaker 1: I also get the livelihood and the stuff that you're

888
00:46:57,719 --> 00:47:01,400
Speaker 1: talking about, the stuff that Troy Aikman's talking about these

889
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:06,080
Speaker 1: If you take a job. The likelihood of you getting

890
00:47:06,080 --> 00:47:09,440
Speaker 1: a second job in the National Football League is not guaranteed.

891
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:11,799
Speaker 1: And I know we always say there's only thirty two

892
00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:16,799
Speaker 1: of these, but there's there's usually five or six every

893
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:20,040
Speaker 1: year that pop up. And if you keep your options open,

894
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 1: there could be better opportunities here and there. And I

895
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:27,640
Speaker 1: don't think it's a great spot to sit there and

896
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:31,560
Speaker 1: have Jerry Jones be your general manager. As much as

897
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:35,319
Speaker 1: I would love to be a Dallas Cowboy, I can

898
00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 1: get why there might be some trepidation and why, you know,

899
00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:41,799
Speaker 1: like why someone like Ben Johnson wouldn't want to take

900
00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:45,480
Speaker 1: that job just because of Jerry Jones. I could totally get.

901
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:48,640
Speaker 4: It, you know, Dan, for all, for all of Jerry's flaws, though,

902
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:51,320
Speaker 4: I will say one thing, you know, when when looking

903
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:53,560
Speaker 4: at what would make it an attractive destination, the fact

904
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:57,560
Speaker 4: that he gives you time. You know, like in a

905
00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:00,720
Speaker 4: in today's league, you got guys like Gerard was fired

906
00:48:00,719 --> 00:48:05,000
Speaker 4: after one one year. But Jerry Jones, you know, with McCarthy,

907
00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:07,359
Speaker 4: Jason Garrett, beform. He gives you time to get it right.

908
00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:08,720
Speaker 4: So at least that going.

909
00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:10,640
Speaker 1: We've talked, We've talked about that a bunch and even

910
00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:14,040
Speaker 1: before your time. Yet he is the most loyal owner

911
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:16,840
Speaker 1: of the National foot He gave he gave Dave Campo

912
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:19,000
Speaker 1: a job. He made Dave Campbell the head coach, the

913
00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:22,680
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboy Like. It's crazy to think Wade Phillips was

914
00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:25,680
Speaker 1: fired for a year and a half before Jerry Jones

915
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:28,720
Speaker 1: actually pulled the trigger. It seemed like he had stuck

916
00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:29,600
Speaker 1: with guys.

917
00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:31,880
Speaker 3: Even though you're still an above five hundred coach too.

918
00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:35,640
Speaker 3: That's the that's the crazy thing for the Wade Phillips era,

919
00:48:35,800 --> 00:48:39,720
Speaker 3: as much maligned as it is, Dan, Yeah.

920
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:42,200
Speaker 1: He is. He is extremely loyal to that point. I mean,

921
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:44,960
Speaker 1: he didn't fire Mike McCarthy. He let him ride out

922
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:48,000
Speaker 1: of his entire contract. Yeah, it's it's he didn't that

923
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:51,719
Speaker 1: with Jason Garrett too. It maybe yeah, maybe it may

924
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:54,120
Speaker 1: be cheap, it may be that way as well as

925
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:56,799
Speaker 1: I'm not going to spend the extra money. But yeah,

926
00:48:56,840 --> 00:48:59,040
Speaker 1: he does. He does not move on from them. It's

927
00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:01,799
Speaker 1: just the point of, yeah, you may be there for

928
00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:04,759
Speaker 1: four or five years, but what are you gonna as

929
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:07,600
Speaker 1: Bill Parcell sets, what kind of groceries are you going

930
00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:09,839
Speaker 1: to be cooking with? And that's the thing that I'd

931
00:49:09,920 --> 00:49:13,960
Speaker 1: be concerned about with Jerry Jones or Stephen Jones or

932
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:17,360
Speaker 1: whoever is ultimately making those decisions for the Cowboys.

933
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:19,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you have a number of players that are

934
00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:20,840
Speaker 3: on the roster at least found the books for twenty

935
00:49:20,880 --> 00:49:24,640
Speaker 3: twenty five that are into that double digit millions. That

936
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:30,560
Speaker 3: hamper your ability to really add and restructure short term. Now, again,

937
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:33,080
Speaker 3: if you're building long term a program and you get

938
00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:36,160
Speaker 3: a bunch of say, and I think that's the curiosity

939
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:40,080
Speaker 3: for a lot of these these openings, dan is and

940
00:49:40,160 --> 00:49:43,440
Speaker 3: Ian is trying to figure out, well, what kind of

941
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:47,000
Speaker 3: assurances do I have that I get to align myself

942
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:50,680
Speaker 3: with a GM that we're in a in concert together

943
00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:53,920
Speaker 3: and they're not on their last leg, right, that'd be

944
00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:58,280
Speaker 3: my fear. Like going to Chicago. I've called Ryan Poles

945
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:00,560
Speaker 3: an empty suit. They keep saying that he's the guy

946
00:50:00,920 --> 00:50:03,600
Speaker 3: that not only may get a contract extension, but he's

947
00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:07,640
Speaker 3: making the call and Jacksonville, Yeah, Trent Balky, Like, we

948
00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:09,960
Speaker 3: saw the video that was the funniest damn thing I saw.

949
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:12,520
Speaker 3: Did you see the last week Dan, where it's like, yeah,

950
00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:14,440
Speaker 3: if a guy came in with the right vision and

951
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:17,879
Speaker 3: approach and he might be able to convince me as

952
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:21,960
Speaker 3: Balky's still on the zoom call with him. Yeah, Like okay,

953
00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:25,120
Speaker 3: so how much am I trusting the stability over there?

954
00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:28,960
Speaker 3: Not to mention what am I going to battle with

955
00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:33,919
Speaker 3: for next year? Right, Jacksonville lover hate Trevor Lawrence. He's there.

956
00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:39,399
Speaker 1: There's there's also the point with Shad Khan in doing

957
00:50:39,440 --> 00:50:44,360
Speaker 1: that press conference where it's a split screen, so the

958
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:49,480
Speaker 1: visual is it's it's a zoom call. Yes, really yeah,

959
00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 1: And it's just I fully like Sean Kahn's invested in

960
00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:56,080
Speaker 1: the Jaguars. They're going to be doing the whole new stadium,

961
00:50:56,120 --> 00:50:58,600
Speaker 1: the whole deal. To your point about you know, Trent Balke,

962
00:50:59,239 --> 00:51:02,640
Speaker 1: it is interesting that you're making this enormous decision and

963
00:51:02,719 --> 00:51:04,480
Speaker 1: firing a head coach and now you're meeting with the

964
00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:07,520
Speaker 1: media and you have to blur your background because you're

965
00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:09,520
Speaker 1: at home or you're at one of your probably twelve

966
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:12,160
Speaker 1: houses somewhere around the world that you couldn't be back

967
00:51:12,200 --> 00:51:15,040
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville just for the day to be able to

968
00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:17,319
Speaker 1: handle those questions like that does say a lot.

969
00:51:17,719 --> 00:51:20,000
Speaker 3: And as you're answering the question, it's like, yeah, well,

970
00:51:20,040 --> 00:51:22,520
Speaker 3: I mean he could still be fired if the guy

971
00:51:22,600 --> 00:51:26,560
Speaker 3: comes in with the right speech, like Okay, so if

972
00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:30,319
Speaker 3: I'm Ben Johnson, like or anybody that's got leverage. Right,

973
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:32,360
Speaker 3: there's a bunch of these guys that we understand in

974
00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:36,600
Speaker 3: the in the hiring cycle that are excited maybe to

975
00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:39,960
Speaker 3: get the shot. Right, the Mike Tomlin approach in Pittsburgh

976
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:43,480
Speaker 3: of not expected to get the job and now nobody

977
00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:48,480
Speaker 3: ever expects him to leave right seventeen years later, right,

978
00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:50,759
Speaker 3: he gets the interview, he blows him away. He gets

979
00:51:50,840 --> 00:51:55,279
Speaker 3: the job after coward, after Coward is gone. But like

980
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:57,360
Speaker 3: in Jacksonville, he's like, all right, I'm gonna go in

981
00:51:57,560 --> 00:52:00,560
Speaker 3: interview and I basically have to tell him right off,

982
00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:04,320
Speaker 3: this guy needs to be fired. That I need say

983
00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:07,440
Speaker 3: in who my GM is going to be right, and

984
00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:10,640
Speaker 3: how much if I'm one of the top guys, how

985
00:52:10,719 --> 00:52:13,600
Speaker 3: much I really want that job or Chicago with this

986
00:52:13,640 --> 00:52:16,040
Speaker 3: guy that could be fired and go on down the line.

987
00:52:16,239 --> 00:52:22,040
Speaker 1: I'll also say this top guys does not equal immediate success. Yeah,

988
00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:25,000
Speaker 1: Seahawks won ten games. Mike McDonald was one of the

989
00:52:25,040 --> 00:52:28,160
Speaker 1: top guys last year. I would say top three. It

990
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:31,319
Speaker 1: was him Ben Johnson, who obviously didn't take a job

991
00:52:31,360 --> 00:52:35,000
Speaker 1: and Jim Harball was number one, but Mike McDonald was

992
00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:37,960
Speaker 1: very sought after. And I think you'd say Harbaugh's season

993
00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:41,360
Speaker 1: was a success and that McDonald's season was a success,

994
00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:44,080
Speaker 1: but no one probably had more success than Dan Quinn,

995
00:52:44,440 --> 00:52:48,600
Speaker 1: who was the last one hired and was the one

996
00:52:48,640 --> 00:52:52,239
Speaker 1: that was like, well, this doesn't really infuse a lot

997
00:52:52,239 --> 00:52:55,920
Speaker 1: of excitement amongst your fan base, and what do you know,

998
00:52:56,480 --> 00:53:00,040
Speaker 1: dan Quinn's still coaching right now. So those hires the

999
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:02,480
Speaker 1: way that they can go. If you're the last one,

1000
00:53:02,520 --> 00:53:07,320
Speaker 1: if you're who ever, may not necessarily signify if you

1001
00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:10,319
Speaker 1: get the best candidate that it's the best situation. Maybe

1002
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:11,759
Speaker 1: the guy that you bring in. As I said, I

1003
00:53:11,760 --> 00:53:14,520
Speaker 1: think ultimately Dave Canalis may be the best hire of

1004
00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:16,920
Speaker 1: last year's coaching cycle. I've thought what he's doing with

1005
00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:17,359
Speaker 1: Bryce He.

1006
00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:20,040
Speaker 4: I thought that about Dan Campbell before a few years ago,

1007
00:53:20,080 --> 00:53:22,960
Speaker 4: the same year that Robert Sala was hired to the Jets,

1008
00:53:23,360 --> 00:53:25,480
Speaker 4: Like the Lions were one of those jobs that it

1009
00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:27,440
Speaker 4: was like, who's even gonna take that? And they ended

1010
00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:30,480
Speaker 4: up hiring Dan Campbell, this guy you know from the Saints,

1011
00:53:30,600 --> 00:53:33,399
Speaker 4: the tight ends coach. Turns out he was by far

1012
00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:34,279
Speaker 4: the best hire of that.

1013
00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:35,560
Speaker 1: Cycle worked out all right.

1014
00:53:35,719 --> 00:53:41,880
Speaker 3: But it's about building culture, building, structure, cohesive, you know,

1015
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:44,360
Speaker 3: kind of vision of where you want to go. And

1016
00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:48,600
Speaker 3: Campbell was pretty well regarded right worked in Dallas than

1017
00:53:48,640 --> 00:53:51,080
Speaker 3: he's with Sean Payton for a number of years.

1018
00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:52,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's time in Miami.

1019
00:53:53,040 --> 00:53:53,800
Speaker 3: Time in Miami.

1020
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:56,080
Speaker 1: It was thought a very highly when he took over

1021
00:53:56,360 --> 00:53:56,640
Speaker 1: in a.

1022
00:53:57,480 --> 00:53:59,840
Speaker 3: Coach there for a bit and he goes and he

1023
00:53:59,840 --> 00:54:03,320
Speaker 3: made the meathead speech and whatever else. But you're getting

1024
00:54:03,360 --> 00:54:06,960
Speaker 3: guys football players to buy in. Didn't necessarily have to

1025
00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:10,239
Speaker 3: work with the media. But you see they've had a

1026
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:12,840
Speaker 3: structure with their front office as to how they wanted

1027
00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:16,120
Speaker 3: draft to the dan Quinn right, the last memory we

1028
00:54:16,200 --> 00:54:18,359
Speaker 3: had was him giving up one hundred and fifty eight

1029
00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:22,279
Speaker 3: passer rating to Jordan Love in a playoff game. But

1030
00:54:22,760 --> 00:54:26,480
Speaker 3: to a man woman, anybody that had been around him

1031
00:54:26,560 --> 00:54:28,640
Speaker 3: is like, that's a guy you can put as a

1032
00:54:28,719 --> 00:54:32,160
Speaker 3: lynchpin to a culture build. In terms of who he is.

1033
00:54:32,680 --> 00:54:35,920
Speaker 3: It's like drafting an offensive lineman at the top of

1034
00:54:35,960 --> 00:54:38,719
Speaker 3: a first round of a draft. It's not splash it's

1035
00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:42,080
Speaker 3: not splashy. It's not going to win you great grades

1036
00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:45,320
Speaker 3: and reports in the media except for those folks that

1037
00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:47,200
Speaker 3: go you know it really did need to build the

1038
00:54:47,239 --> 00:54:50,560
Speaker 3: interior and build the guts, which I mean I always

1039
00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:54,160
Speaker 3: looking for alignment. I would have rather had alignment than

1040
00:54:54,239 --> 00:54:59,239
Speaker 3: Roma Doonza. I said it last year. I said it

1041
00:54:59,280 --> 00:54:59,840
Speaker 3: on the draft.

1042
00:55:00,360 --> 00:55:02,920
Speaker 1: Is a Seahawks fan, I just want offensive and defensive

1043
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:05,520
Speaker 1: lineman drafted. That's it. That's that's all that I want

1044
00:55:05,560 --> 00:55:08,560
Speaker 1: in every single round. I just want lineman. That's all

1045
00:55:08,560 --> 00:55:08,799
Speaker 1: I want.

1046
00:55:08,840 --> 00:55:10,759
Speaker 3: Give me that and then we'll figure it out from there.

1047
00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:13,279
Speaker 3: So it doesn't have to be pretty right, you know

1048
00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:17,000
Speaker 3: in Canalis in Carolina, look what he did the second

1049
00:55:17,080 --> 00:55:20,799
Speaker 3: half with Bryce Young, right. You got some health out

1050
00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:23,400
Speaker 3: of Adam Thielen, And we joked about it before the season.

1051
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:25,879
Speaker 3: It's like he could become that next version of an

1052
00:55:25,960 --> 00:55:29,480
Speaker 3: Kwan Bolden. Just let's move the sticks right and then

1053
00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:31,960
Speaker 3: eventually take a shot downfield or whatever else. They got

1054
00:55:31,960 --> 00:55:34,080
Speaker 3: a good year out of Chewba Hubbard. They got nothing

1055
00:55:34,120 --> 00:55:36,400
Speaker 3: out of Brooks. I don't know that they ever will.

1056
00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:40,600
Speaker 3: But you've got a guy that is building a culture,

1057
00:55:40,719 --> 00:55:43,960
Speaker 3: setting a tone of what they want to instill.

1058
00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:47,600
Speaker 1: And he's fixing their quarterback, which is most important. In

1059
00:55:47,719 --> 00:55:50,880
Speaker 1: some of these places that maybe you know, that's a

1060
00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:52,919
Speaker 1: big part of the job public going to mean number

1061
00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:54,399
Speaker 1: one of all these job number one.

1062
00:55:54,440 --> 00:55:56,719
Speaker 3: But of all these jobs that are available, like there's

1063
00:55:56,719 --> 00:55:59,799
Speaker 3: only thirty two of them, but none of them do

1064
00:55:59,840 --> 00:56:03,480
Speaker 3: you go in saying, Wow, that's that's great. Like Variable

1065
00:56:03,560 --> 00:56:06,880
Speaker 3: goes to New England. He knows the ownership right, clearly

1066
00:56:06,920 --> 00:56:10,560
Speaker 3: they bought into him and Mayo. Look, we can all

1067
00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:13,680
Speaker 3: agree on some level. How he gets kind of jobbed

1068
00:56:13,680 --> 00:56:17,680
Speaker 3: in all of this. That's the coaching business unfortunately at

1069
00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:21,399
Speaker 3: this point. And he goes in and he's gonna he's

1070
00:56:21,440 --> 00:56:24,080
Speaker 3: gonna build a culture. It's gonna look a lot like

1071
00:56:24,120 --> 00:56:28,360
Speaker 3: the Bill Belichick culture that they just jettisoned two years ago,

1072
00:56:29,280 --> 00:56:30,920
Speaker 3: just more energy, younger.

1073
00:56:31,080 --> 00:56:34,279
Speaker 1: I guess yeah, I think he has his own personality

1074
00:56:34,560 --> 00:56:37,880
Speaker 1: that he'll bring in as as well. I am curious

1075
00:56:37,880 --> 00:56:39,960
Speaker 1: to see, fantasy wise on how it all plays out.

1076
00:56:40,080 --> 00:56:41,839
Speaker 3: All right. I mean, I love me some Drake may

1077
00:56:42,080 --> 00:56:44,680
Speaker 3: but yeah, you know, I'm gonna go and guess they

1078
00:56:44,719 --> 00:56:48,319
Speaker 3: go find some running back that they can make the

1079
00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:51,040
Speaker 3: bell cow for twenty five that hangs on to the

1080
00:56:51,080 --> 00:56:53,640
Speaker 3: ball and is not named Romandre Stevenson.

1081
00:56:54,719 --> 00:56:56,480
Speaker 1: Give him a four year deal, why not try to

1082
00:56:56,480 --> 00:56:59,840
Speaker 1: get another year out of it? Just kidding Romandre Stevenson,

1083
00:57:00,040 --> 00:57:02,640
Speaker 1: the guy who burned me in twenty twenty four. But

1084
00:57:02,719 --> 00:57:05,000
Speaker 1: that's my own fault and I'm okay with it.

1085
00:57:05,120 --> 00:57:08,680
Speaker 3: We still love you, Dan. Yeah, because he got a

1086
00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:10,839
Speaker 3: bunch of us. I mean, like the assumption of he's

1087
00:57:10,840 --> 00:57:13,279
Speaker 3: gonna touch the ball a ton. He did, and he

1088
00:57:13,360 --> 00:57:17,000
Speaker 3: did until he started to drop it, and well that

1089
00:57:17,160 --> 00:57:17,320
Speaker 3: was that.

1090
00:57:17,760 --> 00:57:21,880
Speaker 1: Well, this was a super informative, super jam packed. I

1091
00:57:21,960 --> 00:57:25,560
Speaker 1: want your flex pod. We appreciate y'all hanging with us

1092
00:57:25,600 --> 00:57:29,280
Speaker 1: and hanging out and having a good time. Divisional playoff games.

1093
00:57:29,400 --> 00:57:33,040
Speaker 1: All right, So a week from now when we we reconvene,

1094
00:57:33,680 --> 00:57:39,440
Speaker 1: I told you guys, I think it's going to be Rams, Lions, Chiefs, Ravens.

1095
00:57:39,880 --> 00:57:42,720
Speaker 1: What's your championship games prediction that we're going to be

1096
00:57:42,720 --> 00:57:43,479
Speaker 1: talking about there.

1097
00:57:43,600 --> 00:57:44,840
Speaker 3: And I'll give you the ball.

1098
00:57:44,960 --> 00:57:48,600
Speaker 4: I actually I think that's spot on, Dan. I think Rams, Lions, Chiefs, Ravens.

1099
00:57:48,600 --> 00:57:49,440
Speaker 4: Those are the four I'm going.

1100
00:57:49,400 --> 00:57:50,000
Speaker 3: To go with as well.

1101
00:57:50,040 --> 00:57:52,720
Speaker 1: Okay, Mike, your opportunity.

1102
00:57:52,840 --> 00:57:56,520
Speaker 4: Actually no, no, I'm changing one. Eagles, Eagles and Ravens. I

1103
00:57:56,520 --> 00:57:57,680
Speaker 4: will take the Eagles over the round.

1104
00:57:57,680 --> 00:57:58,920
Speaker 3: I think I'm gonna go with you in the in

1105
00:57:58,960 --> 00:58:02,880
Speaker 3: the NFC, that defensive front for the Rams causing up

1106
00:58:02,880 --> 00:58:05,400
Speaker 3: because then Sirianni gets fired and we're talking about another

1107
00:58:05,440 --> 00:58:10,680
Speaker 3: coach next week, and then AFC, I'm gonna go, Well,

1108
00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:12,080
Speaker 3: I picked Buffalo before the year.

1109
00:58:12,240 --> 00:58:13,920
Speaker 1: You know, you know what I did. I did.

1110
00:58:14,280 --> 00:58:16,800
Speaker 3: I'm actually thinking about it now. I had an Eagles

1111
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:20,560
Speaker 3: and Buffalo super Bowl, so they have to advance.

1112
00:58:21,040 --> 00:58:23,240
Speaker 1: Okay, that's what I gotta do too, So I gotta

1113
00:58:23,280 --> 00:58:26,480
Speaker 1: do Lions Bills, So sorry Ravens, but I'll still take

1114
00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:27,600
Speaker 1: the Rams over the Eagles.

1115
00:58:27,840 --> 00:58:29,800
Speaker 3: Do I think the Ravens win the game? Yeah? I do.

1116
00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:33,960
Speaker 3: But before the year I picked the Bills with Allen

1117
00:58:34,040 --> 00:58:37,920
Speaker 3: as the MVP, he'll finish second. And then on the

1118
00:58:37,920 --> 00:58:39,680
Speaker 3: other side, I had the Eagles, so I've got to

1119
00:58:39,720 --> 00:58:43,120
Speaker 3: pick those two for Sunday, and then I'm gonna take

1120
00:58:43,200 --> 00:58:47,800
Speaker 3: Detroit in casey all right there it is trying to

1121
00:58:47,800 --> 00:58:50,160
Speaker 3: find some chaos. But and then look, i'd love to

1122
00:58:50,200 --> 00:58:53,680
Speaker 3: see Houston win the game just to upset the Apple card. Sure,

1123
00:58:54,720 --> 00:58:57,240
Speaker 3: I just I don't know. I think we're at a

1124
00:58:57,280 --> 00:59:01,800
Speaker 3: point with Kansas City's offense is actually shown some life

1125
00:59:01,960 --> 00:59:05,320
Speaker 3: and the defense and Spagnolo and company are still going

1126
00:59:05,360 --> 00:59:08,320
Speaker 3: to be able to make some hay against that O line.

1127
00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:10,960
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'll look for the Chiefs to advance.

1128
00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:13,840
Speaker 4: This is around when they take Kelsey off off of ice.

1129
00:59:13,920 --> 00:59:16,240
Speaker 4: You know they kind of have a sleep walk through

1130
00:59:16,280 --> 00:59:18,800
Speaker 4: the season. Now you can really, you know, lean forward

1131
00:59:18,840 --> 00:59:20,320
Speaker 4: in his chair and then you start.

1132
00:59:20,120 --> 00:59:21,800
Speaker 3: To pay attention to him. Yeah, and all of a sudden,

1133
00:59:21,800 --> 00:59:26,560
Speaker 3: Noah Gray is on the other side of the dog line.

1134
00:59:26,840 --> 00:59:31,080
Speaker 1: All I'm going to say is I've I'm completely confused

1135
00:59:31,080 --> 00:59:33,760
Speaker 1: on who anybody picked, and that's probably best because I

1136
00:59:33,760 --> 00:59:38,480
Speaker 1: don't even know if so, So it's totally fine, totally fine.

1137
00:59:38,920 --> 00:59:40,920
Speaker 1: I was the same way with you, Mike. As soon

1138
00:59:40,960 --> 00:59:42,640
Speaker 1: as you said, I'm like, yeah, I have to go

1139
00:59:42,720 --> 00:59:44,600
Speaker 1: with my beginning of the year picks.

1140
00:59:44,920 --> 00:59:47,640
Speaker 3: I was going to pick the Rams over the Eagles defense,

1141
00:59:47,680 --> 00:59:49,919
Speaker 3: and I'm like, no, I picked the Eagles before the year.

1142
00:59:50,280 --> 00:59:52,880
Speaker 3: So yeah, Eagles Buffalo, Casey Detroit.

1143
00:59:53,080 --> 01:00:02,600
Speaker 1: Okay, Eagles Buffalo, Casey Detroit. I'll go Rams, Buffalo Casey Detroit. Ian.

1144
01:00:03,680 --> 01:00:06,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've got Ravens, Eagles, Lions, Chiefs.

1145
01:00:07,080 --> 01:00:12,160
Speaker 1: There it is all right, perfect awesome variations. Yeah, yeah,

1146
01:00:12,320 --> 01:00:14,760
Speaker 1: you're right, Mike. We got to stick with what we started.

1147
01:00:15,120 --> 01:00:16,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't go away from it.

1148
01:00:17,040 --> 01:00:18,760
Speaker 1: Can't do it, can't do it.

1149
01:00:18,440 --> 01:00:23,040
Speaker 3: It's on the laminated sheet in the in there.

1150
01:00:23,400 --> 01:00:26,160
Speaker 1: That it is all right. Well, yeah, thanks to sticking

1151
01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:28,840
Speaker 1: around listening to I Want Your Flex. Thanks guys for

1152
01:00:28,920 --> 01:00:31,120
Speaker 1: the extra time as well, and we'll do it next

1153
01:00:31,120 --> 01:00:33,400
Speaker 1: week when we'll get ready for those championship games. So,

1154
01:00:33,560 --> 01:00:36,520
Speaker 1: for Ian Roddy and Mike Carmen, I'm Dan Beyer, thanks

1155
01:00:36,560 --> 01:00:38,160
Speaker 1: so much for listening. We'll talk to you next time

1156
01:00:38,240 --> 01:00:39,880
Speaker 1: right here, and I want your Flex