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Speaker 1: I'm act and free. D Welcome back to another edition

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Speaker 1: of the Around the League Podcast. My name is Dan Hansis,

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Speaker 1: and I'm joined by a room filled with some heroes.

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Speaker 1: Mark Sessler, Greg Rosenthal and like what the man, the myth,

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Speaker 1: the legend, a body card out of Marvel itself? Ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: Kevin Patrack coming at you? How about it? What a thanks? Dan?

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Speaker 1: This is the smoke in the leat a little bit much.

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Speaker 1: I might have overexaggerated Kevin's physique now that he's in

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Speaker 1: the flesh, but it's still nice. It's a He's a

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Speaker 1: well built man. Greig was very critical of Greg's physique

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Speaker 1: a few shows ago. Greg, here you are inches away

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Speaker 1: from your employ how would you assess his physical appearance?

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Speaker 1: It's normal. He's a normal guy in his in his

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Speaker 1: twenties upper How old are you? There we go? How

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Speaker 1: you doing? Guess I'm doing great. I'm glad to be

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Speaker 1: in studio first after all that, Oh there, what it

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Speaker 1: did get strange some of the build up when you

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Speaker 1: were listening. I'm sure you've been objectified. Well. Dan likes

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Speaker 1: to talk about how how we're all looking I've noticed that.

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Speaker 1: I mean he he likes to make put you feel

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Speaker 1: should be flattered Dan, maybe deflecting from maybe our judgments

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Speaker 1: about his uh outrageously you know, your wardrobe, which is

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Speaker 1: beyond critique, and your physical appearances. That's what this has

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Speaker 1: all been all about, this whole time. Deflection, deflection, the

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Speaker 1: master and art of deflection. Very good show here, very

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Speaker 1: nice show with Kevin Patro with us is four of us.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna get Chris Wesling, of course, our man missing

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Speaker 1: some uh some talk work. This is a term that

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Speaker 1: about We're gonna continue our preview of training camp. We

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Speaker 1: did the a f C last week with Bucky Brooks. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Today we're gonna do the NFC East and West and

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Speaker 1: but today, Wednesday feels to me like the first day

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Speaker 1: NFL is alive and well, there was more news today

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Speaker 1: if your news junkies, which you probably are, if you're

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Speaker 1: our jobs. It's much more fun to write about actual

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Speaker 1: this season as a major targe. Um, yeah, there are

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Speaker 1: our producer. How are you buddy? Mr black Tie? What's

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Speaker 1: going on? Guys? Are you guys doing? How does this look?

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Speaker 1: Charles has signed a six year, twenty eight million dollar

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Speaker 1: do nothing for Alex Smith. Well, teams talk with action,

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Speaker 1: not with their press conferences. Justin Houston wants a new contract.

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Speaker 1: Jamal Charles technically didn't really need a new contract. He

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Speaker 1: It's It's really strange how these guys are just not respected.

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Speaker 1: Kevin Big Nats, Patra Sydney Rice's NFL career has come

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Speaker 1: Manzel has on the field, I think that's when we're

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Speaker 1: gonna see how he's going to formulate his season. But

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Speaker 1: if he only has to two second half preseason games

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Speaker 1: against backup, backup defenses, that can't really tell us a

429
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Speaker 1: whole lot of how he's gonna play against a first

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Speaker 1: string off example Sid Brooks. But he also mentioned how

431
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Speaker 1: you win the jobs in practice in a month is

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Speaker 1: a long time. You're practicing twice a day for a month,

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Speaker 1: and you know, we don't need to guess. Jwyer is

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Speaker 1: going to start the first preseason game, assuming he's healthy,

435
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Speaker 1: and they'll let Manzel start the second one, and then

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Speaker 1: it'll come down I believe to Manziel having a great

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Speaker 1: month in practice, and then in that second game they'll

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Speaker 1: probably let him start it. And if he happens to

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Speaker 1: light the world on fire in that second game, then

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Speaker 1: maybe none of us will be shocked if Manziel is

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Speaker 1: the week one starter. But it's but this is an

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Speaker 1: interesting Chris Westley and he's eating the softball pants of

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Speaker 1: its time. Should feel a little worried. I don't care

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Speaker 1: what West says. He has to be internally very nervous

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Speaker 1: at this point that this thing is at best. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm nervous. I might have to find two A t L. Right,

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Speaker 1: he would die, certainly, because to think about it, it's

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Speaker 1: metal zipper, it's um composite parts, it's polyester, some elastic

449
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Speaker 1: in there and not good by the way, whatever in

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Speaker 1: soil it's been bathed in on the playing field or whatever,

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Speaker 1: harmful chemicals. Yes, not a good situation. Also one more

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Speaker 1: item on the Browns. Mike Patton also told reporters on

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Speaker 1: Monday that he did speak with Johnny Manziel about his

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Speaker 1: as Mark puts it in his A t L post

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Speaker 1: quote string of offseason adventures, and Patton specifically pointed to

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Speaker 1: a photo of Manziel rolling a twenty dollar bill at

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Speaker 1: a bathroom sink and discussed that. And here's a quote.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to get into a public discussion of

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Speaker 1: of every picture that comes out, but I talked to

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Speaker 1: him about it. I don't want to get into a

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Speaker 1: public discussion about this one because I want to keep

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Speaker 1: my job. Listen, he talked about it, So you want

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Speaker 1: to add another Brown's nugget that I just saw pop

464
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Speaker 1: up here and give a little plug. Mark Sessler and

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Speaker 1: team have been doing a pup tracker Who's not ready

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Speaker 1: for the startup training camp in the non football injury

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Speaker 1: list Terence West of the Cleveland Browns not ready for

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Speaker 1: training camp. So that gives a little leg up to

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Speaker 1: Bent a little bit of a surprise. You have a

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Speaker 1: hot take, by the way today, I do actually speaking

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Speaker 1: of nuggets, guess what Sydney Rice is getting into now

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Speaker 1: that he's done with his football? What wing stop? This

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Speaker 1: is awkward. Clearly TD was not listening to us talk

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Speaker 1: about stop at length. That is devastating. We are even

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Speaker 1: Stevens for the Tyree's thing that gave the address I like.

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Speaker 1: Also is that came a good fort teen minutes after

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Speaker 1: the Sydney Rice Feel free to enter, but really because

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Speaker 1: I love it. It's got a set, all right. My

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Speaker 1: question was, Okay, you're gonna you guys are going to

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Speaker 1: start off a chain chain? Would that be? What's your favorite?

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Speaker 1: Like fast food slash wink spot. I'd go Popeye's. Never disappointed.

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Speaker 1: Going to Popeye's Fried chicken always makes me happy. Popeyes,

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Speaker 1: I'd go bottled water in wine. I would also invest

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Speaker 1: in Sessler's bottled water and wine factory. Might would have

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Speaker 1: to be a tie type players. There's no you're gonna

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Speaker 1: create your own one. I would just gonna get a friend.

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Speaker 1: I would be simpler. I would actually open a good

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Speaker 1: pizzeria in California and then watch the revenue poor in

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Speaker 1: because the pizzas here's terrible. Finally, thanks, hey, when I

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Speaker 1: played stickball on the stoop, an't you? I don't know,

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Speaker 1: by the way. On one last news item, weird Al

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Speaker 1: Yankovic had his first number one album ever, number one

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Speaker 1: word crimes nothing I did like the word climbs. I

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Speaker 1: a long time ago. This was number one. That's that's

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Speaker 1: their ability. I do remember on the roller rink holding

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Speaker 1: a girl's hand going around. Wo you were on a

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Speaker 1: roller rink hold in hand? He didn't you have those

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Speaker 1: in grade school? Yeah? We we had out Amish Paradise

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Speaker 1: was the romantic song that you did? Well? We just

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Speaker 1: told hands the whole time. Man, We actually had a

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Speaker 1: roller rink slash laser tag. Yeah, we have at the nineties.

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Speaker 1: Were a strange place. Kids is like a fun thing.

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Speaker 1: Oh hey, let's go do the roller rink laser tag

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Speaker 1: place tonight. Sounds like it was for some reason the

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Speaker 1: comment and then the arcade. It was like, yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: my future. All right, so let's move on, gentlemen, that's

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Speaker 1: what's happening. Yes to Mark Charles, new contract from producer,

515
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Speaker 1: not listening to the show. All right, let's it's awesome.

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Speaker 1: Let's move forward to our training camp preview series. We

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Speaker 1: did the a f C. As I said earlier with

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Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks. Now we're gonna get to the NFC. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna split it the two parts, two divisions. On Wednesday show,

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Speaker 1: we'll be back, as we said, we're back to three

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Speaker 1: shows a week. On Thursday's show, we're gonna do two

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Speaker 1: more divisions. So let's start with the NFC East and

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Speaker 1: Mark Sessler you wrote up the piece on nfl dot

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Speaker 1: com slash what is it? Train camp preview? What's the

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Speaker 1: vanity earl? You're gonna have to just start learning these

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Speaker 1: can't just get that right? Is that correct? Though? Yeah? Okay? Good?

527
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Speaker 1: So you could read all the training camp previews there.

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Speaker 1: Mark you wrote on the nfc ET So why don't

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Speaker 1: we start with the Dallas Cowboys Three things to watch?

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Speaker 1: Throw one at us? I think for me, you know

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Speaker 1: that defense was such a disaster last year. You've got

532
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Speaker 1: a secondary that's vastly overpaid. When you look at what

533
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Speaker 1: Brandon Carr did and uh Shaun Lee out for the year.

534
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Speaker 1: How do you fill in these spots? How do you?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I guess for him, they look at they

536
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Speaker 1: look at Justin Duran is the guy right out of

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Speaker 1: the gate in the summer. But that's an uninspiring veteran

538
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Speaker 1: who can't do anything like Lee can in terms of

539
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Speaker 1: pass coverage from the middle of the field. What how

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Speaker 1: do you solve these problems heading into the season. Dallas

541
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Speaker 1: is no better on defense. No, they talk about how

542
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Speaker 1: Rod Marinell is going to come in and he's getting

543
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Speaker 1: the defense and ship shape. They're running the same defense.

544
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Speaker 1: And the reason they were terrible last year was not

545
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Speaker 1: holy because of the scheme. It was because their players

546
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Speaker 1: were terrible. And they have the same terrible players minus

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Speaker 1: their best one. So I don't see getting any better

548
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Speaker 1: on the defensive. Someone that covers the Cowboys closely, Todd Archer,

549
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Speaker 1: who I like a lot as a writer, said that

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Speaker 1: Barry Church, and he wasn't trying to make a joke.

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Speaker 1: He said, Barry Church right now is the most reliable

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Speaker 1: player on the defense. He's the best, He's the best

553
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Speaker 1: player in the defense. You're not going anywhere with Barry

554
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Speaker 1: Church is the best player on your defense, and it's

555
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Speaker 1: a disaster. I don't know what the coaching can do,

556
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Speaker 1: like it can help, but maybe Monty Kiffin got blamed

557
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Speaker 1: a little too much. It's more on the personnel. The

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Speaker 1: only other thing. I mean, you know, Dallas is one

559
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Speaker 1: of the tougher teams to find position battles for all

560
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Speaker 1: over the place because they haven't seen is much change.

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Speaker 1: But Tony Romo back injury. We assume he's healthy, but

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Speaker 1: that team, I think the win lost total is an

563
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Speaker 1: absolute huge swing. If suddenly he's not available, they are

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Speaker 1: potentially a two three win team. If you replace Tony

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Speaker 1: Romo with Brandon Weedon, do we agree? Oh? Absolutely? I

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Speaker 1: mean that would be the camp battle to watch. Is

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Speaker 1: Brandon We didn't gonna be the backup and if he is,

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Speaker 1: what happens when Tony Romo's back acts up. We hope

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Speaker 1: that doesn't happen, but they they've left themselves vulnerable. Greg,

570
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Speaker 1: you were we were talking about downstairs in the newsroom

571
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Speaker 1: who had the worst backup situation. You seem to think

572
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Speaker 1: that we didn't is not the worst backup? No, well,

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Speaker 1: I thought the challenge it really comes down to Chicago,

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Speaker 1: which has a Jordan's Palmer Jimmy Clawson face off? And

575
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Speaker 1: what was the other you picked? Buffalo Buffalo. Yeah, I

576
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Speaker 1: think that's pretty much Jeff Lewis and Jeff Toole. I'm

577
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Speaker 1: taking Weedon over either. Those guys's had some okay moments.

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Speaker 1: Weed was okay as a rookie guinea preak. And by

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Speaker 1: the way, Assessor, we're even for my fantasy needle on

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Speaker 1: you because you referenced my four thousand yard thirty touchdown. Brandon,

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Speaker 1: we didn't prediction from last summer here. I did not

582
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Speaker 1: mention you by name to keep your dignity intact. But

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Speaker 1: that was a low point in terms of podcast predictions.

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Speaker 1: I would say that's probably accurate. How about the New

585
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Speaker 1: York Giants for me? With the Giants, you know, they

586
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Speaker 1: went out and they got Rashad Jennings, who you know,

587
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Speaker 1: he's never blown the doors off and he's never really

588
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 1: carried the load for a team season long. But that's

589
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Speaker 1: what in theory they thought he could do with David

590
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Speaker 1: Wilson maybe out for the year. But then suddenly David

591
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Speaker 1: Wilson is back, and you've also got Andrew Williams, and

592
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Speaker 1: there have been reports saying that this may be a

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Speaker 1: three headed backfield, that what they're trying to do is

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Speaker 1: keep Jennings fresh and healthy for later parts of games.

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Speaker 1: That tells me you don't have one guy that can

596
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Speaker 1: do it, but Wilson makes us an intrigue in backfield.

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Speaker 1: What you didn't even mention your boy, the former Madden

598
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Speaker 1: cover boy. See, I think that the greatest thing that

599
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Speaker 1: the Giants done. What they've done is paved the road

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Speaker 1: to not have to put that plotting disaster out on

601
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Speaker 1: the field. What another human being a plotting disaster? Well

602
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Speaker 1: he was? That was how you go, Oh, in six

603
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:54,240
Speaker 1: in New York is to have that be your lead

604
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Speaker 1: skilled position out of the backfield. The other skip the

605
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Speaker 1: other six teams. It's over. That might have been the

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Speaker 1: cruelest thing we've ever said about any player on this

607
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Speaker 1: podcast before. Yeah, you see about each other all the time.

608
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Speaker 1: But that's bad you all three of you disagree with

609
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Speaker 1: me somebody. I don't think that that he had was

610
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Speaker 1: running like he had an ice sled on his back,

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Speaker 1: So I don't know that that. What Cessler said was

612
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Speaker 1: that any other things to watch out of the New

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Speaker 1: York Not a single thing. All right, Let's move out

614
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Speaker 1: to the Philadelphia Eagles and the mastermind, Chip Kelly, who

615
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Speaker 1: probably has something planned where maybe guys are on those

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Speaker 1: disks and they're floating and they're wearing long grade garbs,

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Speaker 1: and he has something figured out because he's ahead of

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Speaker 1: the game. For me, the Eagles question, and it's going

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Speaker 1: to be hard to know this some of these, you know,

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Speaker 1: Greg always points out it's hard to know in training

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Speaker 1: camp and preseason how this is going to shake out.

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Speaker 1: But you remove a guy like de Sean Jackson and

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Speaker 1: you have Jordan Matthews who's potentially going to start as

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Speaker 1: a slob receiver. At least see a lot of action.

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Speaker 1: You've got Darren Sprawls and they think a lot of

626
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Speaker 1: zach Ertz. I'll want to see just how the offense changes,

627
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Speaker 1: but how you make up for the production of a

628
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Speaker 1: Jackson who's now gone. Yeah, and Matthews got so much hype.

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Speaker 1: I tend not to pay too much attention to veterans,

630
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Speaker 1: but rookies, this is where they earn their playing time.

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Speaker 1: Jordan Matthews has a big preseason, a big training camp.

632
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Speaker 1: He's going to be on the field a lot. If

633
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Speaker 1: he's not ready for it, we'll start hearing about it

634
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Speaker 1: every day because he is that guy that the writers

635
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Speaker 1: are gonna be talking about each day. I'm actually interested

636
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Speaker 1: to see what Mark Sanchez is looking on at Chip Kelly.

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Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be a good gauge of how

638
00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:34,120
Speaker 1: good a coach they Chip Kelly is and and how

639
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 1: good that offense is. If he makes Mark Sanchez look

640
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:39,720
Speaker 1: like a good quarterback in the preseason, boom, that's a

641
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 1: great backup quarterback battle. Barkley versus Santis. There is there

642
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 1: is a nightmares, an ultimate nightmare scenario my brain where

643
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:52,560
Speaker 1: Chip Kelly the Great and untouchable. Chip Kelly, it's a

644
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 1: new sound drop from CD. Um takes Mark Sanchez under

645
00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:00,920
Speaker 1: his big beefy wing, teaches him how to be a quarterback.

646
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 1: Nick Foles abruptly retires. Mark Sanchez leads the Eagles to

647
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:08,400
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. I probably kill myself if that happens.

648
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 1: Go to heaven and then every coach is using remote

649
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:14,400
Speaker 1: control cars on the field after that, and then that happens. Yes,

650
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 1: anything else with the Eagles, Mark, Let's move on. You're

651
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:24,239
Speaker 1: really looking through. Finally the Washington Redskins. This is one

652
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:26,759
Speaker 1: where for me I'm looking more. I want to see

653
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:29,160
Speaker 1: how one player has grown from what we saw last season.

654
00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:32,720
Speaker 1: More so than position battles, what Redskins defense is another

655
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:36,040
Speaker 1: real ugly, ugly unit. But r G three, you know,

656
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:38,520
Speaker 1: we all this hype about him being the comeback player

657
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:39,800
Speaker 1: of the year, which I don't think it's hype. I

658
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:43,000
Speaker 1: think it's a fair estimation. Leslie is all but guaranteed it.

659
00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 1: He has guaranteed it. But I think he's done that

660
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 1: because is we had no read of who RG three

661
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:51,759
Speaker 1: was last season. He wasn't the same guy. Gruden was

662
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 1: brought in I think to make him a more complete quarterback,

663
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 1: not just a running quarterback. But Gruden's talked about a

664
00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:00,160
Speaker 1: play book that's going to emerge what Kyle Shanahan did

665
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:02,040
Speaker 1: with him in terms of pistol and on the ground

666
00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:05,319
Speaker 1: a little bit, and Gruden's West Coast stuff. Really though,

667
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:07,160
Speaker 1: is group we want to see if RG three can

668
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 1: do it from the pocket right And there's not a

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00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:12,839
Speaker 1: lot of spots open on this offense. I mean, it's

670
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:17,360
Speaker 1: so stacked. Andre Roberts gonna be their third receiver, garsone, Jackson, Santana.

671
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:19,759
Speaker 1: Moss is trying to keep his NFL career going, but

672
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:22,520
Speaker 1: you can kind of roll out this starting group right now.

673
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:25,840
Speaker 1: I don't know who's gonna stop him in NCAS. I

674
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:29,439
Speaker 1: typically don't buy into getting to invest in preseason games,

675
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 1: but I will be interested to see how they even

676
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:34,040
Speaker 1: use r G three just as a test ground to

677
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 1: see if they're gonna him roll out a lot and

678
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:38,080
Speaker 1: see how he's moving without that brace on. Now. It

679
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:40,560
Speaker 1: should be interesting to see. This is more of a

680
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:43,600
Speaker 1: regular season thing, but I do want to see how

681
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:47,200
Speaker 1: this combination works out. Jim has still coaching the defense

682
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:54,360
Speaker 1: with this combination of characters, D'Angelo Hall, Brandon Merryweather, Ryan Clark,

683
00:35:55,120 --> 00:36:00,120
Speaker 1: Tracy Porter, Bakari Rambo Egypt. That's an awful secondary. It

684
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:03,879
Speaker 1: is terrible. That's that's ugly. And they they couldn't tackle

685
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:06,240
Speaker 1: last year either. And but I wonder if Jim haslet's

686
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:08,319
Speaker 1: gonna change it, if he convinced Jay Gruden one reason

687
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 1: he stays that he's gonna do something different now that

688
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:12,880
Speaker 1: Mike Chanahan and his iron fist isn't hanging over him

689
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,280
Speaker 1: the whole time. I think it's just that they work together.

690
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:17,919
Speaker 1: It feels like someone owed someone a favorite. Well has Yeah?

691
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:20,279
Speaker 1: Has it worked for him in the Arena League? They

692
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:23,400
Speaker 1: go back way back? All right? Now we're gonna get

693
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Speaker 1: him on the line. Let's get the great Chris Westling

694
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Speaker 1: the mail man, to talk about our NFC West training

695
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:31,480
Speaker 1: camp preview. He wrote it up on our website and

696
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 1: now here. He is from Cincinnati West. From Cincinnati. What's

697
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:41,400
Speaker 1: up by the boy? Much are you doing? Man? How

698
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:43,960
Speaker 1: is everything going? How he feels it's been a lot

699
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:46,480
Speaker 1: of days in a row over there? Yeah, I'm not

700
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:51,200
Speaker 1: ready to get a nappin West. Very busy man this

701
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:53,759
Speaker 1: morning writing around the league content. And I'm sure he's

702
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:57,880
Speaker 1: gonna meet up with some some Ohio friends later to

703
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:02,360
Speaker 1: continue his homecoming. Is that about accurate? Yes, it is

704
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:04,839
Speaker 1: all right. So we're not gonna keep you too long.

705
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:07,200
Speaker 1: You need your nap, You need to power up. Let's

706
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:09,840
Speaker 1: talk about the NFC West. That will start with the

707
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals. What's something big to watch out of Arizona.

708
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 1: I think John Brown, rookie wide receiver market wrote about

709
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:20,520
Speaker 1: him a couple of times early in the off season.

710
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:23,360
Speaker 1: Bruce Arians seems to love him, compared him to t

711
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 1: Y Hilton's So I think, maybe see if he can

712
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:28,640
Speaker 1: push check in for that number three receiver job and

713
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:33,840
Speaker 1: what exactly his role will be. Do we buy the hype?

714
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:35,560
Speaker 1: I mean, is it easy to make that kind of

715
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 1: a transition this early or is this someone that maybe

716
00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:39,960
Speaker 1: comes on later in the year. Well, they also have

717
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 1: other guys that are there, Ted gin Jr. They just signed.

718
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:45,600
Speaker 1: They use Ellington out of the backfield a lot of course,

719
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 1: you have Floyd and Fitzgerald, so there's a lot of

720
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:51,279
Speaker 1: there's a lot of targets in that offense. I would say,

721
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:53,880
Speaker 1: if I'm playing fantasy football, I'm not buying the hype.

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00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:57,919
Speaker 1: Smart Bruce Arians, though, is getting to that point where

723
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:02,239
Speaker 1: we just sort of figure that Hill make magic where

724
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 1: other coaches wouldn't like normally, John Brown, I don't think

725
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:06,719
Speaker 1: we would be getting this hype. But you just look

726
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 1: at what Arian's has done lately and t Y Hilton,

727
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:11,880
Speaker 1: you start thinking, all right, maybe maybe it's legit. How

728
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:14,440
Speaker 1: about the offensive line, west do you think, uh, they're

729
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:17,240
Speaker 1: gonna figure out a team that's gonna keep Carson Palmer

730
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 1: clean and they'll be improved from last season. Well, I

731
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:22,960
Speaker 1: think the left side will be much better. Jared Beldiers

732
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:26,800
Speaker 1: and above Davidge left tackle, and Jonathan Cooper last year's

733
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 1: first round pick. Its slated for left guard. Questions are

734
00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:34,279
Speaker 1: right tackle and right guard, where both positions are kind

735
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 1: of up in the air this year. Jared Veldier, by

736
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:40,799
Speaker 1: the way, looks like a outrageously pumped up carton too

737
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:43,960
Speaker 1: cartoon character. I mean, have you seen have you seen you?

738
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:46,480
Speaker 1: You go around saying that Patras cut out of stone

739
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 1: and that's not entirely untrue. It a small stone failed

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Speaker 1: here is I mean Westley, we saw that photo last week. Yeah,

741
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:57,840
Speaker 1: there's a photo floating around the internet where somebody basically

742
00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 1: colored in Beldier green to it. Can look like the

743
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:05,640
Speaker 1: incredible Hulks. All right, so Vlder's body doesn't quit. Let's

744
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 1: move on to the San Francisco forty Niners. Obviously a

745
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:12,400
Speaker 1: team that seems, you know, pretty well set. But what

746
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:15,359
Speaker 1: do we what can we see in training camp? Well,

747
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 1: we know now that Vernon Davis has shown up. Uh,

748
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 1: I guess the next question is what's gonna happen with

749
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:24,360
Speaker 1: Alex Boone, the right card who was looking for a

750
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 1: new conference. Do you think they cave on him? Like?

751
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 1: I can't see them making Alex Boone a priority when

752
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,160
Speaker 1: you have Vernon Davis. You just gave all that money

753
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:37,880
Speaker 1: to Kaepernick. If you're going to pay an offensive lineman,

754
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 1: to me, it makes more sense to go with the

755
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:42,959
Speaker 1: Patti you already paid Joe Staley. This is a rare

756
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:45,759
Speaker 1: training camp hold out where there's not a logical ending

757
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:48,520
Speaker 1: other than Boone just caving in and showing up, you know,

758
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:52,360
Speaker 1: a week before the season starts. Yeah, Vernon Davis mentioned

759
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:56,359
Speaker 1: today that he showed up because, Uh, the forty Niners

760
00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 1: have a policy of not negotiating with anybody who's holding out,

761
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Speaker 1: So why would they do that for Alex Doone? I

762
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 1: don't know that that would surprise met. Uh, let me

763
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,400
Speaker 1: let me ask you this, West before we move on

764
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:14,279
Speaker 1: to the Seahawks. Marcus Lattimore September one, on or off

765
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 1: the roster? Oh, I think you'll be on the roster,

766
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:24,800
Speaker 1: on the injury September one. Yeah, let's say on the

767
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:28,640
Speaker 1: active roster. Yeah, did he open up training camp on

768
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:30,920
Speaker 1: pup He is on pupped to start it out or

769
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:33,680
Speaker 1: non football injury list, so he's still not ready to

770
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:36,440
Speaker 1: practice fully. But that we you know, we both know

771
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 1: that's not a huge deal to start camp. Well, it

772
00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:42,719
Speaker 1: does give them the option of keeping them on their

773
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:50,040
Speaker 1: start to season. Right, Well, I'll change my answer and say, no, West,

774
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Speaker 1: this is just a hunch and I have no idea

775
00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:53,000
Speaker 1: if it's true enough. But are you laying on a

776
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 1: water bed right now? No, I'm not. He sounds a

777
00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:00,839
Speaker 1: little wistful. Yeah, I pick trum on a water bed

778
00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 1: in the round with the leopard print bedspread, you know,

779
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:07,120
Speaker 1: just with like a nice phone and just going you've

780
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:10,399
Speaker 1: gone beyond where I went visually. But thank you. You're

781
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 1: confusing me with a kit in boomerang wo boomerang reference.

782
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:19,799
Speaker 1: Nice underrated movie. Yes it is, uh, just how many

783
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:22,760
Speaker 1: brothers are within a five mile radius of you, Chris

784
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:28,880
Speaker 1: right now at the moment, Yeah, I would say three, okay,

785
00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 1: that's not too many, but seven overall? Six overall, right, okay, frisky.

786
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:37,800
Speaker 1: By the way, the first listener to tweet at me

787
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Speaker 1: or a t l the name of Imon's perfume in

788
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:48,440
Speaker 1: Boomerang gets Brenda Warner's autobiography. I thought you're gonna say,

789
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Speaker 1: anyone that can name all seven, that's another one. And

790
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:55,360
Speaker 1: by the way, I cannot pronounce the name of that

791
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:58,759
Speaker 1: or I cannot say that perfume on a podcast air waves.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to the sea Attle Seahawks.

793
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Speaker 1: What jumps out to you about the Seattle Seahawks. Well,

794
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:07,239
Speaker 1: I guess if we were waiting for Burning Davison. Now

795
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:12,960
Speaker 1: it's studing contract situation Marshawn Lynch. Does he open up

796
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:16,440
Speaker 1: that cannon warms again and start begging for a new contract.

797
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:20,479
Speaker 1: Do you think there's any chance like he leaves camp

798
00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:22,960
Speaker 1: or he doesn't show up, or I don't know if

799
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:26,080
Speaker 1: that's going to be a major It seems like whenever

800
00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 1: Ian NFL media in veteran Rappaport talked about Marshawn Lynch,

801
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:34,879
Speaker 1: He hints strongly that Lynch is so unpredictable that nothing

802
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:38,440
Speaker 1: would surprise. Hey, how about Sydney Rice he has announced

803
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:42,040
Speaker 1: his retirement and or he's announcing his retirement. How do

804
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 1: you think the wide receiver group now shakes out with

805
00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:47,040
Speaker 1: him out of the mix. Well, I think Percy Harvon

806
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:50,120
Speaker 1: and Douck Baldwin are locked into major rules, and then

807
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:53,040
Speaker 1: second round pick Paul Richardson maybe as a wild card there,

808
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:57,040
Speaker 1: especially with Rice out of the picture. A lot of

809
00:42:57,080 --> 00:43:00,279
Speaker 1: people very high on Richardson. It's kind of I think

810
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 1: Curs is an interesting receiver as well. It's a good

811
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:05,759
Speaker 1: point that it feels like everyone is just assuming this

812
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:08,439
Speaker 1: second round pick Richardson is gonna step in right away

813
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:10,759
Speaker 1: and have a factory. What is the hit rate on

814
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:13,719
Speaker 1: second round wide receivers? And then what is the hit

815
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:15,920
Speaker 1: rate during their rookie year? It has to be what

816
00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:20,560
Speaker 1: of guys go over hundred yeards? It's not probably you've

817
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:27,399
Speaker 1: never watched Mohammed massaquas anywhere. Yeah, I think I think

818
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:30,680
Speaker 1: Richardson is planning on contributing mostly on special teams. I

819
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:33,800
Speaker 1: wonder if if Rice is a retirement changes that a

820
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:37,080
Speaker 1: little bit. We'll see and finally the St. Louis Rams.

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Speaker 1: I'm curious what your thoughts are West about the running

822
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:42,120
Speaker 1: back situation. Is Zax they see going to be their

823
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:44,719
Speaker 1: primary guy or what? This is one of those storylines

824
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:47,480
Speaker 1: that popped up throughout the off season that we don't

825
00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:49,600
Speaker 1: know whether to make, whether it was fluff or the

826
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 1: real deal. How do you think this is gonna play out?

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Speaker 1: I think that whole competition thing is mostly coach speaks

828
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Speaker 1: that Stacy is the early down back, and then Jeff

829
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:01,359
Speaker 1: Fisher is called training it's gonna change of pace back.

830
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:05,200
Speaker 1: And Benny Cunningham, I guess we shouldn't forget about him,

831
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 1: but I don't expect him to be fighting Zach Stacy

832
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:11,799
Speaker 1: for the for the starting job. And West coach Jeff

833
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:14,640
Speaker 1: Fisher said no doubt whatsoever that Sam Bradford will be

834
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Speaker 1: ready for week one. Is that a positive? No what?

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Speaker 1: No doubt whatever? A negative? No doubt? Well, considering the

836
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:25,920
Speaker 1: austions on the roster, I'd say that's positive, But I

837
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:28,279
Speaker 1: don't know how positive is for Rams fans that they're

838
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:31,799
Speaker 1: gonna see him all seats. He got Sean Hill there, now,

839
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Speaker 1: how about the big Sean Hill Austin Davis battle. I

840
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:37,239
Speaker 1: guess that's not a battle. I guess it's just Sean

841
00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:40,880
Speaker 1: hill Get saying that. That made me think the Seahawks

842
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:43,400
Speaker 1: do have a pretty fun backup quarterback battle, not to

843
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:46,400
Speaker 1: go back to Seattle, but throughout prior to virus Jackson.

844
00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:49,880
Speaker 1: That's pretty that's pretty spicy. I take that over the Eagles.

845
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:53,200
Speaker 1: We should do a post just backup quarterback power rankings

846
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Speaker 1: in terms of competitions. Chris Westling, you won't have to

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Speaker 1: I like it, buddy, see you soon, all right. Alright, alright,

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Speaker 1: that does it for another edition to be around the

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Speaker 1: Lead podcast. We'll be back Friday with another show, so

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Speaker 1: tune in for that. We're gonna keep it going three

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Speaker 1: little bit of mirth mark that would be my hope always,

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Speaker 1: So yeah, stay tuned for that, and then uh we'll

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Speaker 1: check in and see if west is still alive. Will

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Speaker 1: be an important show and we're gonna move forward, so

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Speaker 1: be there for that. This is Dan Hansens signing off

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Speaker 1: for the Sizzler, the Boss, Kevin Patrick, coming at you,

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Speaker 1: the mailment and take until as soon as he started

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Speaker 1: it up, like he's gonna say, week stop, you are

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Speaker 1: so excited about well he I am me like three times,

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Speaker 1: like I don't forget. I wanted to get my one take.

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