WEBVTT - 2019 Week 8 Preview

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<v Speaker 1>Be Around the NFL podcast is the highest paid on

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<v Speaker 1>the San Diego Gray Beers. Welcome to another edition of

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<v Speaker 1>the Around the NFL Podcast, presented by the United States

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<v Speaker 1>and Rein Corps. My name is Dan Hansus, and I'm

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<v Speaker 1>joining in the room filled with heroes, Mark Sessler, Chris Westling,

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<v Speaker 1>and Greg Roseal. What is U poise? Hey? Dan? A

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<v Speaker 1>reminder to the listeners of the show, loyal listeners that

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<v Speaker 1>this is streaming live this Thursday show every Thursday at

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<v Speaker 1>NFL dot com and also on YouTube. M Did I

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<v Speaker 1>nail that? Ricky? You killed it? Later on YouTube if

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<v Speaker 1>you miss it, yes, and if you on dot com

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<v Speaker 1>if you want to watch the full thing or on

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<v Speaker 1>dot com. So just remember I like YouTube because then

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<v Speaker 1>you can see you can see the numbers. They keep

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<v Speaker 1>track of it, and the comments are so funny. They're

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<v Speaker 1>simply a much more effective platform than NFL dot Com.

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<v Speaker 1>Thereat they'll be like Cam Newton died, Cam Newton died,

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<v Speaker 1>and then people will be like, what are you serious?

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<v Speaker 1>There's like little trolls. It's so great to be clear,

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<v Speaker 1>this is a news program. Cam Newton is doing great. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I kept practice. He's doing great. But he's certainly alive

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<v Speaker 1>his career. Perhaps no, that's even too strong, but it

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<v Speaker 1>is at a time of transition. Cam Newton at the crossroads,

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<v Speaker 1>breaking news. What is the breaking? Cam Newton is alive?

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<v Speaker 1>Don't say that This isn't a news show first and foremost,

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<v Speaker 1>or a news show that will generate its own news.

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<v Speaker 1>There was nothing new there at all, just fibbs and

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<v Speaker 1>corrected fibbs. So yes, a reminder that next week, if

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<v Speaker 1>you want to watch us live, you could do so,

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<v Speaker 1>or you can even do the move. Now you can't

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<v Speaker 1>do that. See now I'm getting wrapped. It's all getting

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<v Speaker 1>wrapped up Sunday night. You can do it Sunday night.

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<v Speaker 1>It starts right after Sunday Night football ends, right our

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<v Speaker 1>recap show. But I have the idea of you could

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<v Speaker 1>stream it on YouTube, give us the numbers and then listen.

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<v Speaker 1>But you certainly could do But you can't do that. Lie.

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<v Speaker 1>You better be hitting both platforms. But here's an idea,

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<v Speaker 1>because Dan, you and I will be covering is scintillating

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<v Speaker 1>Vikings Redskins game later this evening. Someone could listen to

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<v Speaker 1>that and then dive right into the YouTube and audio

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<v Speaker 1>version of the show. Correctly. After speaking of the garage,

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<v Speaker 1>Mark and I, after we do the Thursday Night Slammer

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<v Speaker 1>between the Redskins and Vikings, Mark Stain in the Garage

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<v Speaker 1>and my bosom buddy Bobby Castron, we are going to

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<v Speaker 1>do a throwback podcast where Mark talks about the songs

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<v Speaker 1>of his love life prior to meeting his wife and

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<v Speaker 1>goes through each of them in exhausting detail. And I'm

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<v Speaker 1>sure it's going to be, uh really a journey through

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<v Speaker 1>your heart. A little nervous, so check that out. That

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<v Speaker 1>will be up tomorrow. Shameless pluck. All right now sounds exhausting.

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<v Speaker 1>I can't wait. I saw a list of the songs

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<v Speaker 1>it is. It is, what a journey it will be.

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<v Speaker 1>It's like going back through your personal attic for a while.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm a little concerned. I not. He likes going through

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<v Speaker 1>the old pictures and things like, well, well, Greg, I

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<v Speaker 1>actually existed before, so there are pictures, videos and thoughts too.

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<v Speaker 1>Nothing's better than Camp Jewel when Mark, When Mark has

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<v Speaker 1>a couple of lines and the Instagram gets fired up

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<v Speaker 1>and you start seeing about the camp from two that's

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<v Speaker 1>my favorite. Giving you know at least six or seven

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<v Speaker 1>people what they're asking for UM and we're gonna get

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<v Speaker 1>to the games. All of the week eight games coming up, UM,

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<v Speaker 1>and we're gonna talk about fourteen of them today and

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<v Speaker 1>of course do it draft style. But one one of

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<v Speaker 1>the note, I want to say thank you to everyone

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<v Speaker 1>on the subreddit. I did an A M A yesterday

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<v Speaker 1>and got hundreds and hundreds of questions. Uh, and that

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<v Speaker 1>that subreddit is up to over twelve thousand people now.

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<v Speaker 1>So if you're a fan of the show and you

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<v Speaker 1>want a place to meet and talk about the show,

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<v Speaker 1>go to go to the Round the NFL on reddit.

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<v Speaker 1>You did a good job with that. I I filed

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<v Speaker 1>a question that you actually even responded to I did.

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<v Speaker 1>It was something about you being hot or something I

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<v Speaker 1>could No, no, no, no, no no no. It's just like,

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<v Speaker 1>how do you get more time with Marco and on

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<v Speaker 1>the show, Like if you're a listener, one on one

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<v Speaker 1>time and I highly an Alice Greeby, who does an

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<v Speaker 1>amazing job, you know, cultivating that site. Gentlemen, all I

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<v Speaker 1>invite you to interface with your with the fans yourselves

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<v Speaker 1>at some point. I think three of those four of

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<v Speaker 1>us have done an I've done several of them. No, okay,

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<v Speaker 1>well f me all right, No, I mean you are

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<v Speaker 1>one of the three Greg has yet to dip into

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<v Speaker 1>those waters. Something I would do. I read it. It's

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<v Speaker 1>a little too do I read it? That's what I mean.

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<v Speaker 1>I would read it. Then I'll do a tweet. You know, Ricky,

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<v Speaker 1>I thought you were asking to like post on our

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<v Speaker 1>own message boards. That feels like a little desperate or something.

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<v Speaker 1>But but I like to doing an A M A.

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<v Speaker 1>Ricky our former producer, uh La sid who you know.

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<v Speaker 1>I miss her every day. She's just awesome. But that's

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<v Speaker 1>not the point. The point is she once did an

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<v Speaker 1>A M A. The NFL subreadit, and uh you should

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<v Speaker 1>do one too. I feel like that would be that's

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<v Speaker 1>right up your alley. No, no way. You'd be like,

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<v Speaker 1>why do you stink of producing? And I'd be like, no, no,

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<v Speaker 1>you are a very small subs All right, here we go,

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<v Speaker 1>let's get into it. It was getting her back alright

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<v Speaker 1>doing a draft style and what West? I again? I

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<v Speaker 1>double checked. I wanted to make sure West doesn't get

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<v Speaker 1>banged on the order that he gets. You know, they

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<v Speaker 1>correct the number of picks and as I look at it,

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<v Speaker 1>I should be second this week you are second this week,

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<v Speaker 1>but picking first probably means last as well for some reason. No, no, no,

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<v Speaker 1>you know that's not true. Picking first is Greg Rosenthal,

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<v Speaker 1>um Rosie as some call you, but I never have

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<v Speaker 1>you get it going in college. That's all people knew

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<v Speaker 1>me as I dated a girl who thought my real

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<v Speaker 1>name was Rosie. After two weeks, I was like, how

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<v Speaker 1>does she not know that's a nickname? Yeah? That's you know?

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<v Speaker 1>Was she? She wasn't all there? She thought your name

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<v Speaker 1>was Rosie Rosenthal. It was, it was. It was troubling,

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<v Speaker 1>as it would be if I didn't get this game.

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<v Speaker 1>So I'm I'm thrilled that I have the number one

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<v Speaker 1>pick to take Brown's Patriots Tony Romo. And it's all

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<v Speaker 1>fine because you know there's only three log And by

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<v Speaker 1>the way, that is also the road to victory presented

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<v Speaker 1>by the United State that it is, that's a segment.

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<v Speaker 1>We've added a team that needs to go on the

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<v Speaker 1>road and win. And I don't think it's quite as

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<v Speaker 1>taller mountain as people believe it to be, because I

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<v Speaker 1>think the Browns have the capability to be explosive. Could

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<v Speaker 1>they do it for the next seven or eight weeks

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<v Speaker 1>and kind of solve their problems and be consistent that.

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<v Speaker 1>I have more doubts about can they have a spike

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<v Speaker 1>game where coming off of bye week they came, they

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<v Speaker 1>come up with some answers and give the Patriots defense

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<v Speaker 1>some legitimate problems and keep it close and and give

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<v Speaker 1>the Patriots offense problems too. With the defense, it's been

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<v Speaker 1>pretty good. I think this is gonna be a great game,

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<v Speaker 1>and I'm I'm glad I got it. Number one, Mark,

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<v Speaker 1>where do you stand on this? Because Greg is technically

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<v Speaker 1>a Patriots fan, but technically if you think, do you

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<v Speaker 1>think this is going to be there for you? And yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>Greg and I will be appearing on the Tomahawks show

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<v Speaker 1>after and we both must zero in on this. So

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<v Speaker 1>it's only three like games, we decided one of us

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<v Speaker 1>needs to get it was there's no issues here, no grudge,

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<v Speaker 1>delo double cross initially, No, No, I'm not. I'm not

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<v Speaker 1>going to allow that to become a narrator. But Greg

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<v Speaker 1>and I we executed as we needed to. Now can

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<v Speaker 1>the Browns do that? I I appreciate your optimism, but

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<v Speaker 1>I cannot think of one thing and I'm not trying

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<v Speaker 1>to just take a shot at the Browns there are

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<v Speaker 1>a team in development. I cannot think of one thing

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<v Speaker 1>that they do on field or from a coaching perspective

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<v Speaker 1>better than New England. Even on a short week. They

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<v Speaker 1>just create explosive plays. And so I think the Patriots

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<v Speaker 1>used man defense more than any team in the league.

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<v Speaker 1>What's the vulnerability to that? It's certainly if you can

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<v Speaker 1>get over the top, if you can make big plays

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<v Speaker 1>against them, You're gonna have Odell Beckham, You're gonna have

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<v Speaker 1>you know, Nick Chubb. Sometimes in the running game, making

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<v Speaker 1>exposive place, you're gonna have Jarvis Landry in one on

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<v Speaker 1>one situations. I at least think they can give this

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<v Speaker 1>defense more problems in theory than than any offensive placed.

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<v Speaker 1>The skill players to the Browns are way superior to

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<v Speaker 1>that of the Jets. But one of the big problems,

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<v Speaker 1>and one of the huge failures in the Jets embarrassment

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<v Speaker 1>on Monday night, was they did not adjust that they

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<v Speaker 1>didn't really have time to get into the type of

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<v Speaker 1>downfield passing patterns because the zero blitz that is apparently

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<v Speaker 1>revolutionary and is going to go down is like the

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<v Speaker 1>forty six defense of this era, UH simply doesn't allow

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<v Speaker 1>that and if they think j Land you can adjust

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<v Speaker 1>better and get But it's not about them. It's well,

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<v Speaker 1>maybe they break off the routes. But I mean in

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<v Speaker 1>terms of Ken this offensive line, Ken Baker Mayfield, a

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<v Speaker 1>quarterback who he's not getting caught on Mike, but he's

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<v Speaker 1>looked like he's been seeing ghosts at times this year

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<v Speaker 1>as well. Can they handle the surge that is sure

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<v Speaker 1>sure to come that took out the Jets and Sam Donald,

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<v Speaker 1>to me, that's what this game is about. It is

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<v Speaker 1>and this is by far the most talented offense the

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<v Speaker 1>Patriots have faced. As Greg said, they have faced some

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<v Speaker 1>bottom barrel, some dregs, and now you've got real talent.

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<v Speaker 1>That doesn't mean that, uh Jarvis Landry's walked back guarantee

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<v Speaker 1>is gonna work. You know, he said we're gonna go

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<v Speaker 1>to New England and we're gonna win. It's gonna be

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<v Speaker 1>that simple. We're gonna win. Walked it back a little

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<v Speaker 1>bit and said, you know, mostly it was just we're

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<v Speaker 1>going there with the purpose of winning. That's quite As

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<v Speaker 1>for clarifying that that's the road to victory, I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>why not say you're say you're gonna win. But I

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<v Speaker 1>think the go ahead. But to me, the best chance

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<v Speaker 1>for the Browns to win is with their defense pushing

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<v Speaker 1>Tom Brady off his spot, making him move his feet,

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<v Speaker 1>because as Dan has pointed out, as Marcu has pointed out,

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<v Speaker 1>he's not moving quite as well as he did two

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<v Speaker 1>or three years ago. Still throwing well, I think he'd

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<v Speaker 1>great considering the situation around him. Josh Gordon was placed

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<v Speaker 1>that injured reserve this week. This game has a whole

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of Brown subplots, with Jamie Cause and Jason

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<v Speaker 1>mccordy playing extremely well. Mccordy's ranked number two by PFF

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<v Speaker 1>and at cornerbacks, and Collins has maybe been their most

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<v Speaker 1>valuable player. But we should mention Gordon is out for

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<v Speaker 1>the year, and yet Ian rapports reporting he's going to

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<v Speaker 1>be healthy in a week or two. He's probably gonna

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<v Speaker 1>get cut off injured reserve and land on a team

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<v Speaker 1>like the Dolphins who will claim him, and Ian hinted

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<v Speaker 1>he hasn't been able to keep well conditioned. That's that's

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<v Speaker 1>kind of why not? Why what well? Because if you're

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<v Speaker 1>a veteran and you get cut after next week, you

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<v Speaker 1>are you're open to waivers, and it's some team with

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<v Speaker 1>a bad record, whether it's the Falcons or the Redskins

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<v Speaker 1>or the Jets, who knows. I mean, back back to

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<v Speaker 1>this game. I think that you've got Cleveland as Denzel

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<v Speaker 1>Ward and Greedy Williams at cornerback for the first time

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<v Speaker 1>in about a thousand years. They haven't had their full

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<v Speaker 1>compliment in the secondary all season. They are by advanced metrics,

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<v Speaker 1>about the seventh most UH imposing pass rush, although that's

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<v Speaker 1>been very inconsistent. Every part of their team has been inconsistent.

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<v Speaker 1>You can look at the personnel on offense, but I

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<v Speaker 1>don't see a direct route for them to be any

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<v Speaker 1>more convincing than a Jets team or a Bill's team

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<v Speaker 1>on offense because they've been out of sync from wire

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<v Speaker 1>to wire. Outside of some some big plays in the

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<v Speaker 1>Ravens win, this Browns team is about his concerning on

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<v Speaker 1>offense in terms of not living up to their parts

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<v Speaker 1>as you can find in the league right now. I

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<v Speaker 1>don't like this game for the Browns at all. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>I wouldn't like any team going against the Patriots. But

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<v Speaker 1>can they depend they if they if they go in,

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<v Speaker 1>if they lay an egg this to the same degree

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<v Speaker 1>that the Jets do. That's a major disappointment. It's not

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<v Speaker 1>a shot at anyone else, but they better. They better

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<v Speaker 1>show up, and good coaching staffs come off a bye

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<v Speaker 1>week and they saw some things they gotta get O

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<v Speaker 1>b J going their average in eight yards per target

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<v Speaker 1>to him. It's not all Baker Mayfield. The timing has

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<v Speaker 1>been off. O b J's had probably more passes that

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<v Speaker 1>have hit him somewhere in the hands or that he's

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<v Speaker 1>had a chance to make a play, and he hasn't

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<v Speaker 1>made the play more than any ever I've seen him

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<v Speaker 1>before in his entire career. Yet he's moving as well

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<v Speaker 1>as ever. He's just That's what I mean. That's like

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<v Speaker 1>I do expect it to change at some point. But

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<v Speaker 1>this week for you about Patriots fandom. Okay, do Patriots

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<v Speaker 1>fan trust a team that has hit its stride so

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<v Speaker 1>early in the season. I don't think they've hit their stride.

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<v Speaker 1>It's the worst offense that they've had in fifteen years,

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<v Speaker 1>So I think that's how I look at it. But

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<v Speaker 1>it's a defense that it's historically great and can't be expected.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't trust it because two thousand, No, because this

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<v Speaker 1>part of the year as a Patriots fan, you realized

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<v Speaker 1>only has so much meaning, and they're gonna go down

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<v Speaker 1>defensively in terms of stats because they're gonna play better teams,

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<v Speaker 1>but they have the components that you do trust that.

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<v Speaker 1>It's nice. This reminds me of two thousand one, two three.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, those teams were not great offensively either. It

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<v Speaker 1>is great to see Belichick feeling himself as if he

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<v Speaker 1>hadn't accomplished enough. I feel like this season, coming off

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<v Speaker 1>that Super Bowl with his son as one of the

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<v Speaker 1>key figures, and like his favorite player Gerard Mayo, and

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<v Speaker 1>his son and him are calling the defense the best

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<v Speaker 1>defense they've had in over fifteen years. I think by

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<v Speaker 1>the way it's it does smell of or loophole bonanza theater.

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<v Speaker 1>You're allowed to put a guy in I R when

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<v Speaker 1>he's healthy. He's not healthy. He's says he's right. He

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<v Speaker 1>was surprised to hear this, and he's going to be

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<v Speaker 1>able to sign with the team in play as soon

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<v Speaker 1>as well. You know, because you can shut them, you

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<v Speaker 1>you're losing the guy into right In theory, it's it's

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<v Speaker 1>it's more of a cost to the team because you'd

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<v Speaker 1>be losing a healthy Josh Gordon. They weren't done with John.

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<v Speaker 1>They worked at They worked Y I R. Because he

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<v Speaker 1>has all the time. They just deemed him not not

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<v Speaker 1>important enough to keep that. People say he's like a

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<v Speaker 1>week or two away. He has he had to bone

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<v Speaker 1>bruises on his knee, which happened earlier in the season.

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<v Speaker 1>They worked him out. He wanted to play. They they

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<v Speaker 1>you know, there's some whispers his weight was up significantly.

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<v Speaker 1>So Dan, if you are say player number forty five

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<v Speaker 1>to fifty three on the roster and you get injured,

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<v Speaker 1>even if it's a one week injury, you often end

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<v Speaker 1>up on I R GO because they don't have the

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<v Speaker 1>roster space for you. I'm sorry. It's fishing. And that

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<v Speaker 1>was the road to victory present. Yeah, the United States.

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<v Speaker 1>Did we find a road there? Which don't know. I

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<v Speaker 1>felt like it was we went right into the b

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know who the pans are in that situation.

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<v Speaker 1>The Browns of the Patriots, I for are a the

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<v Speaker 1>sake of our country. Hope it's to New England. Paigel,

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<v Speaker 1>right West, you were up with the number two pick

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<v Speaker 1>in our draft, the number two pick, and I'm gonna

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<v Speaker 1>workshop a couple of game titles here for you. A

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<v Speaker 1>fork in the road game, a sinker swim game. Both

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<v Speaker 1>of these apply to Kyle Allen and the Panthers quarterback situation.

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<v Speaker 1>He's starting. Cam is just about getting healthy, and you're

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<v Speaker 1>going up against the best defensive line in football on

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<v Speaker 1>the road in San Francisco, and I just have a

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<v Speaker 1>feeling that Kyle Allen's gonna lose his job because the

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<v Speaker 1>forty Niners defense is so good, so dominant, to the

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<v Speaker 1>extent that I'm locking up the forty Niners, I have

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<v Speaker 1>that in mind. I thought about that. That's nice, like

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<v Speaker 1>that lock because you need you need Kyle Allen to

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<v Speaker 1>give you a plus performance to win this game, right,

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<v Speaker 1>and that's asking a lot against this defense on the road.

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<v Speaker 1>You're not just gonna be able to turn and hand

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<v Speaker 1>at the Christian McCaffrey thirty five times. Against this defense.

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<v Speaker 1>You're gonna have to make some plays in the passing game.

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<v Speaker 1>And when Kyle Allen drops back over and over again,

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<v Speaker 1>he doesn't always deal with pressure well, as we've seen

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<v Speaker 1>by all the fumbles. I think we saw it last

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<v Speaker 1>year in the regular season finale. He's not the best

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<v Speaker 1>against pressure. Now, I was thinking of locking this up too,

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<v Speaker 1>because I'm not gonna pick against the forty Niners until

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<v Speaker 1>they play either a great veteran quarterback or a really

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<v Speaker 1>good offensive line. The Carolina has neither. I would say

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<v Speaker 1>if Carolina has a weakness this year, it's been communication

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<v Speaker 1>along that offensive line. Teams sending blitzes and and different

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<v Speaker 1>packages where they don't know who to pick up. And

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<v Speaker 1>then you gotta play Nick Bosa and DeForest Bucket. There.

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<v Speaker 1>This defensive line so good. Deford's a role player. They're

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<v Speaker 1>only playing of twenty snaps the game because Rikar is

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<v Speaker 1>better than him and word is lighting it up as

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<v Speaker 1>a kind of a microwave off the bench. But Armsteads

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<v Speaker 1>the pro bowler and defod making twenty million dollars a year.

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<v Speaker 1>They traded all these picks wors playing snaps. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>forty Niners have allowed ten points in three weeks. It's some.

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<v Speaker 1>It's easy to forget a couple of things. Because the

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<v Speaker 1>Panthers out of our world. A week ago. They had

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<v Speaker 1>drives fall apart against the Bucks. Their offense was not

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<v Speaker 1>on fire for big chunks of the game against Tampa

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<v Speaker 1>Bay when we were there watching it live in London.

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<v Speaker 1>But then you've got a Niners team, and I know

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<v Speaker 1>this happened in awful elements. Jimmy g had ten yards

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<v Speaker 1>passing against the Redskins in the first half last week.

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<v Speaker 1>They're not a perfect offense from the quarterback position at all.

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<v Speaker 1>I think this that the Panthers can keep this close.

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<v Speaker 1>But I will tell you one thing, because I like

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<v Speaker 1>what happened last week where West and I rode arm

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<v Speaker 1>in arm two lock victory. So I'm gonna do the

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<v Speaker 1>same exact thing two weeks in a row. Every week. No,

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<v Speaker 1>but I'm gonna do it two weeks because I can't

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<v Speaker 1>see another lock I like better. Yeah, this is a

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<v Speaker 1>pretty safely I got the lock here. I was leaning

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<v Speaker 1>hard one way, and now you know what, join us

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<v Speaker 1>feeling good about this and I want to get in

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<v Speaker 1>on the party in us, So let's lock it up

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<v Speaker 1>a third time. This has to be This has to

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<v Speaker 1>be a lock with the least amount of dissension and prodding. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I had. I came into the show figuring it was

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<v Speaker 1>this one or another one, and I figured if West

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<v Speaker 1>was taking it that I wasn't gonna bother because it's like,

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<v Speaker 1>what then what's at stake? Really? Well, there was another

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<v Speaker 1>one on my list too, but that the other one

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<v Speaker 1>feels like a gimme if the starting quarterback isn't playing.

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<v Speaker 1>So oh, you got a little Falcons anti Falcons. I've

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<v Speaker 1>got a little anti Matt Moore action going on. There

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<v Speaker 1>is potential for a unique level way for us to

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<v Speaker 1>all bond in the middle of a long season. Here,

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<v Speaker 1>just throwing that out there. Yeah, come along for the

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<v Speaker 1>rock right all right? Four on the Niners. That's an

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<v Speaker 1>erica for you in terms of having to keep track

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<v Speaker 1>of four different nonsensical locks throughout the show. You're done. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>but I was told that we're not, you know, paying

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<v Speaker 1>that off, Greg. Can you look in the mirror on

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<v Speaker 1>That's not true. We paid off on Yeah. And by

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<v Speaker 1>the way, we let me say the standings here, I

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<v Speaker 1>think for what it's worth, are might be that, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>they played the Steelers in Week three. If there's a

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<v Speaker 1>route for them to win, it's that the passing game

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<v Speaker 1>for the fort has been a little inconsistent and that

0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:13.840
<v Speaker 1>this defense, especially the past defense, is capable of making

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<v Speaker 1>other quarterbacks look bad. That that is their path, and

0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:18.399
<v Speaker 1>they have a very creative running game. It's two of

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<v Speaker 1>the the most creative running games one thing about Kyle

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<v Speaker 1>Shanahan that I've really liked is that even even when

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<v Speaker 1>Jimmy G's not on, he's running the ball every time.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, He's just gonna keep running over and over

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<v Speaker 1>again because he knows that complements his deep post a

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<v Speaker 1>c L. He looks pretty darn athletic um, just so

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<v Speaker 1>everyone knows. Through Week seven, Cessler and Roosevelt four and three,

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<v Speaker 1>The Old Zeuser off the canvas two and five, two

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<v Speaker 1>and a Row and West of course finally ended that

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<v Speaker 1>historic slump one and six, and I feel like the

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<v Speaker 1>heat checks coming on for a West or a real

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<v Speaker 1>uh hot streak. Oh you do, thank you, I feel coming.

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<v Speaker 1>None of us are on fire, all right? Pick three

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<v Speaker 1>the Old Zeuser. This one's uh, this one's a good one.

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<v Speaker 1>I liked this one a lot because I have been

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<v Speaker 1>all season waiting for the Philadelphia Eagles to take off,

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<v Speaker 1>and they just haven't. They've been Frankly, I think the

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<v Speaker 1>Browns in the a f C and the Eagles in

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<v Speaker 1>the NFC, to me, are the two most disappointing teams

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<v Speaker 1>in the league this year. And the Eagles are different

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<v Speaker 1>than the Browns, and that I thought the Eagles were

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<v Speaker 1>a true Super Bowl contender. I thought the Browns could

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<v Speaker 1>be a team that gets a lot better and goes

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<v Speaker 1>to the playoffs. The Eagles, I thought could be great

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<v Speaker 1>this year, and in fact, they've been crummy, and especially

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<v Speaker 1>the last two weeks. The last two weeks have been

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<v Speaker 1>an abomination. There in the middle of a three game

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<v Speaker 1>road trip, and the third game now takes them to

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<v Speaker 1>Western New York to play the Bills, who we know

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<v Speaker 1>how good they are um in their building, we know

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<v Speaker 1>how great their defense is, so this is gonna be

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<v Speaker 1>a really tough game for them. But the two weeks, uh,

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<v Speaker 1>the two games going into this at Minnesota thirty a

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<v Speaker 1>total no show. And we know Sunday night was a

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<v Speaker 1>no show thirty seven to ten, where they could not

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<v Speaker 1>have looked any worse. So everything seems to be going

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<v Speaker 1>in a certain direction. And yet there's still a part

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<v Speaker 1>of me that thinks the Eagles can pull it together.

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<v Speaker 1>And I want to call this um a must win game.

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<v Speaker 1>I want to call this a what do we call it?

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<v Speaker 1>And a dead underground game, essentially a dirt knap buried

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<v Speaker 1>between six and seven ft under the earth. I still

0:20:22.320 --> 0:20:24.400
<v Speaker 1>think it's too early to get that wrapped up there

0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:26.480
<v Speaker 1>three and four right now. If they fall to three

0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:28.800
<v Speaker 1>and five, they're in trouble but not done. But they

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<v Speaker 1>need to stop the bleeding here and here come the Bills.

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<v Speaker 1>So I'm kind of with Greg on the Bills that

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<v Speaker 1>I respect them, love their defense, love how they play

0:20:39.760 --> 0:20:42.600
<v Speaker 1>in their building. Although their only losses at home um

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<v Speaker 1>against the Pats, But they're the only barely the Bengals

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<v Speaker 1>and Dolphins at home or at least trailed fourth quarters

0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:48.920
<v Speaker 1>to both those teams. It feels like a long time,

0:20:49.920 --> 0:20:52.520
<v Speaker 1>but they're the only team that gave the Patriots a game. UM,

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<v Speaker 1>So I want to see something from Josh All in

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<v Speaker 1>this game. But I really do feel like the Eagles

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<v Speaker 1>have a, you know, circle the wagons game against the Bills.

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<v Speaker 1>Do they have a quarterback they want to circle the

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<v Speaker 1>wagons around? I don't know. This reminds me of last

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<v Speaker 1>year when that big, big article came out with all

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<v Speaker 1>of these offensive players in the Eagles questioning the quarterback

0:21:15.359 --> 0:21:17.400
<v Speaker 1>and he's coming off his worst game of the year.

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<v Speaker 1>Before that game, I think most people would say he's

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<v Speaker 1>been a top five quarterback this year, and yet uh

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<v Speaker 1>Aghilar and mac hollins have been two of the worst

0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:28.520
<v Speaker 1>receivers in the NFL, according to Pro Football Focus and

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<v Speaker 1>the Game Film uh All, Sean Jeffrey and Zach Hurts

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<v Speaker 1>are underperforming relative to last year. Neither one seems very happy.

0:21:35.640 --> 0:21:38.520
<v Speaker 1>Lane Johnson's calling people out. Jeffrey is the subject of

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<v Speaker 1>a snitch report by a Philly reporter who said he

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<v Speaker 1>was the source for Josina Anderson complaining about Carson Wentz Is.

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<v Speaker 1>These veterans just don't seem to warm up to him.

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<v Speaker 1>It's it's what's happening in Philly right now is what

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<v Speaker 1>you see with like bad teams that are going down

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<v Speaker 1>in a sinkhole, and I don't I'm I am also

0:21:58.200 --> 0:22:01.760
<v Speaker 1>optimistic they can get it together. But here's another thing

0:22:01.840 --> 0:22:04.439
<v Speaker 1>they did the last couple of weeks. They've released a

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<v Speaker 1>player that they started on Sunday the following Monday, two

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<v Speaker 1>weeks in a row. That is something that like bad

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<v Speaker 1>teams are kind of due to send Za Brown and

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<v Speaker 1>then last week it was Orlando scandal. If you've got

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<v Speaker 1>to start him and play him seventy snaps in the

0:22:20.119 --> 0:22:22.639
<v Speaker 1>game and you're benching your second round pick from a

0:22:22.680 --> 0:22:25.639
<v Speaker 1>couple of years ago, healthy, he wasn't even healthy scratch.

0:22:25.640 --> 0:22:27.480
<v Speaker 1>He was active, and you won't even let Sidney Jones

0:22:27.520 --> 0:22:30.199
<v Speaker 1>off the bench because of another punitive benching and then

0:22:30.240 --> 0:22:33.920
<v Speaker 1>you cut him the next day. Something's something's weird there.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know. Something is weird. They're trying to clean

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<v Speaker 1>up the locker room, is what it sounds like. I'm

0:22:38.280 --> 0:22:41.280
<v Speaker 1>at the point where Sean McDermott, and we've been Sean

0:22:41.320 --> 0:22:43.560
<v Speaker 1>mcdermock fans ever since he visited the show and was

0:22:43.600 --> 0:22:45.520
<v Speaker 1>an absolute delight when we were with him in the

0:22:45.520 --> 0:22:48.720
<v Speaker 1>owner's meetings. But I got on that, well, that was smart,

0:22:48.840 --> 0:22:50.880
<v Speaker 1>but that was a wise ten minutes by hit by

0:22:50.880 --> 0:22:54.399
<v Speaker 1>that head coach. I think other head coaches should similar paths.

0:22:54.440 --> 0:22:56.960
<v Speaker 1>But I trust him more than Doug Peterson right now,

0:22:57.040 --> 0:22:59.000
<v Speaker 1>and I trust the way the bills are run from

0:22:59.040 --> 0:23:01.880
<v Speaker 1>head to toe and this though at the same time,

0:23:01.920 --> 0:23:04.159
<v Speaker 1>I feel like Josh Allen, who you look at a

0:23:04.160 --> 0:23:06.520
<v Speaker 1>lot of metrics, is one of the is a bottom

0:23:06.880 --> 0:23:09.720
<v Speaker 1>barrel quarterback, to your point, a bottom five quarterback in

0:23:09.760 --> 0:23:11.760
<v Speaker 1>a lot of ways. I'm I'm not giving up on

0:23:11.840 --> 0:23:14.159
<v Speaker 1>him on any level because there's a lot to like

0:23:14.640 --> 0:23:16.840
<v Speaker 1>if he can get some of it. Kind of hemmed in,

0:23:17.040 --> 0:23:18.560
<v Speaker 1>but this is a game where I think he can

0:23:18.600 --> 0:23:21.480
<v Speaker 1>generate some points and from the Eagles side, and I

0:23:21.480 --> 0:23:23.639
<v Speaker 1>think you mentioned it West, that is, if this was

0:23:23.680 --> 0:23:27.400
<v Speaker 1>an offense that hinged entirely around the return of DeShawn Jackson,

0:23:27.440 --> 0:23:30.080
<v Speaker 1>he will be back in this game. They were spicy,

0:23:30.280 --> 0:23:32.600
<v Speaker 1>Well that's what I read that they that he's he's

0:23:32.640 --> 0:23:35.800
<v Speaker 1>he's heading in that direction. They were spicy when they

0:23:35.800 --> 0:23:38.000
<v Speaker 1>played the Redskins in Week one in the second half

0:23:38.040 --> 0:23:40.600
<v Speaker 1>when d Jacks was the deep threat for them. They

0:23:40.640 --> 0:23:43.800
<v Speaker 1>have not had that with what mac hollands stepping into

0:23:43.800 --> 0:23:46.520
<v Speaker 1>that role they have, They've missed that and Nelson agen

0:23:47.119 --> 0:23:51.639
<v Speaker 1>vertically and that's all he wants. That's when Smiths throws

0:23:51.680 --> 0:23:53.840
<v Speaker 1>down the field last week. If he has a weakness,

0:23:53.880 --> 0:23:57.760
<v Speaker 1>that's it. Nelson or like all Sean Jeffrey can can

0:23:57.800 --> 0:24:01.399
<v Speaker 1>complain all he wants to whoever. He looks like a

0:24:01.480 --> 0:24:04.959
<v Speaker 1>someone shotgun shotgun from the tight end position from four.

0:24:05.000 --> 0:24:07.960
<v Speaker 1>To me, he's a big, gigantic, bulky receiver who gives

0:24:08.080 --> 0:24:11.240
<v Speaker 1>no deep option to Wentz. What is around Wentz right now?

0:24:11.400 --> 0:24:14.119
<v Speaker 1>When they were dominant and he was awesome in m

0:24:14.200 --> 0:24:17.119
<v Speaker 1>v P level, they were destroying people with their ground

0:24:17.119 --> 0:24:20.120
<v Speaker 1>game because they were getting up early and absolutely man

0:24:20.160 --> 0:24:23.159
<v Speaker 1>handling opponents down the stretch. They lost two straight games

0:24:23.240 --> 0:24:26.199
<v Speaker 1>by seventeen or more points because the secondary is a

0:24:26.240 --> 0:24:29.720
<v Speaker 1>total leaky factory. They're an absolute disaster. I preface this

0:24:29.760 --> 0:24:31.359
<v Speaker 1>by saying that I think this is going to be

0:24:31.359 --> 0:24:34.320
<v Speaker 1>a game and it's just more a field than anything else.

0:24:34.640 --> 0:24:37.320
<v Speaker 1>But what do the Eagles do well right now? Not much?

0:24:37.640 --> 0:24:39.680
<v Speaker 1>It really made me think what Mark asked the question?

0:24:39.680 --> 0:24:42.120
<v Speaker 1>They who are they? Who? As their identity? If they

0:24:42.160 --> 0:24:45.000
<v Speaker 1>can't stop to run, If they can't stop the run

0:24:45.040 --> 0:24:46.840
<v Speaker 1>like they didn't last week overall this year they have

0:24:46.920 --> 0:24:49.639
<v Speaker 1>and they're not strong up front, like on on the

0:24:49.680 --> 0:24:51.639
<v Speaker 1>offensive line, then who are they? You're right? And Deshan

0:24:51.720 --> 0:24:54.240
<v Speaker 1>Jackson it doesn't look like he's expected the way he

0:24:54.240 --> 0:24:58.040
<v Speaker 1>has not been at practice either day. I read that

0:24:58.119 --> 0:25:00.360
<v Speaker 1>and just you know, just to put it out there.

0:25:00.440 --> 0:25:03.200
<v Speaker 1>One thing they do well, Dan the quarterback of Superman

0:25:03.240 --> 0:25:05.600
<v Speaker 1>when he gets help. He just hasn't gotten enough help.

0:25:05.720 --> 0:25:09.320
<v Speaker 1>Jordan Howard. There was a line and I forget which writer,

0:25:09.400 --> 0:25:11.960
<v Speaker 1>maybe was Zach Berman in The Athletic, who said, you

0:25:11.960 --> 0:25:14.080
<v Speaker 1>can make the case Jordan Howard is the only player

0:25:14.119 --> 0:25:18.640
<v Speaker 1>on this team that's outperformed expectations. It's a bald statement. Alright, Mark,

0:25:18.680 --> 0:25:21.120
<v Speaker 1>you're up. Alright, Well, so I'm not going to take

0:25:21.119 --> 0:25:22.880
<v Speaker 1>one of the late games because Greg and I will

0:25:22.880 --> 0:25:26.840
<v Speaker 1>be absorbed on the same contest. Me apparently responsibility free

0:25:26.920 --> 0:25:29.440
<v Speaker 1>just watching it with my eyes. But I I am

0:25:29.440 --> 0:25:32.760
<v Speaker 1>plugged in on with what else I don't know. I

0:25:32.800 --> 0:25:35.840
<v Speaker 1>am plugged into this little one pm East Coast ten

0:25:35.880 --> 0:25:39.399
<v Speaker 1>am West Coast affair Cardinals at Saints. And there's a

0:25:39.440 --> 0:25:41.320
<v Speaker 1>couple of reasons why I like this game a lot.

0:25:41.960 --> 0:25:45.280
<v Speaker 1>Why there's not there's a lot of oare Christian Hackenberg

0:25:45.359 --> 0:25:47.880
<v Speaker 1>comes off the board? And where would you go there? Honestly,

0:25:47.880 --> 0:25:50.640
<v Speaker 1>where would you before you just throw your ridiculous arrows?

0:25:50.640 --> 0:25:53.800
<v Speaker 1>Where would you go? There's a bunch of junkism ahead,

0:25:53.800 --> 0:25:55.800
<v Speaker 1>But I hope so because we're about forty What am

0:25:55.800 --> 0:26:00.080
<v Speaker 1>I supposed to be excited about? Broncos cults, everyone of

0:26:00.119 --> 0:26:05.359
<v Speaker 1>the has issues here. Let me sell it may be

0:26:05.480 --> 0:26:07.919
<v Speaker 1>a blood Beth, but I think you have one of

0:26:07.960 --> 0:26:12.520
<v Speaker 1>the offenses out of Arizona that is improving week to week.

0:26:12.560 --> 0:26:15.240
<v Speaker 1>They are fun to watch. Kyler Murray is living up

0:26:15.280 --> 0:26:18.440
<v Speaker 1>to the promise, and they watching them against the Giants,

0:26:18.440 --> 0:26:20.840
<v Speaker 1>against another team that had no idea how to deal

0:26:20.920 --> 0:26:23.320
<v Speaker 1>with what Arizona was thrown at them. They could not

0:26:23.440 --> 0:26:26.040
<v Speaker 1>stop the ground game. I think Arizona is finding a

0:26:26.040 --> 0:26:28.080
<v Speaker 1>way because of the way that they separate and spread

0:26:28.119 --> 0:26:30.520
<v Speaker 1>out an offense to have a dangerous run attack. You

0:26:30.520 --> 0:26:33.119
<v Speaker 1>can't even call that like part of their passing attack

0:26:33.200 --> 0:26:35.800
<v Speaker 1>because there's no one around half of these guys to

0:26:35.880 --> 0:26:38.240
<v Speaker 1>take the ball, especially when they're catching in space. I

0:26:38.280 --> 0:26:40.400
<v Speaker 1>want to see how the Saints handle it. I think

0:26:40.400 --> 0:26:43.520
<v Speaker 1>the Saints defense went into Chicago and put the Bears

0:26:43.520 --> 0:26:46.760
<v Speaker 1>on such heavy blast that Chicago goes and loses this week.

0:26:46.760 --> 0:26:49.879
<v Speaker 1>Their season may essentially be over because the Saints, and

0:26:49.920 --> 0:26:52.320
<v Speaker 1>I mentioned this last week, Week after week they go

0:26:52.359 --> 0:26:54.879
<v Speaker 1>in and whoever they deal with, they expose them and

0:26:54.920 --> 0:26:56.760
<v Speaker 1>create a ton of issues for that team the next

0:26:56.800 --> 0:27:00.000
<v Speaker 1>week with the media with everyone answering there that dominant

0:27:00.000 --> 0:27:02.280
<v Speaker 1>of a defense. Now the Cardinals have a little bit

0:27:02.359 --> 0:27:07.120
<v Speaker 1>less at stake, but Sean First, Cliff Kings break justin.

0:27:07.200 --> 0:27:09.080
<v Speaker 1>I don't think if the Cardinals went three, four and one,

0:27:09.320 --> 0:27:11.520
<v Speaker 1>Arizona is going to be set on fire from like

0:27:11.600 --> 0:27:14.080
<v Speaker 1>border the border. I think people are they realize the

0:27:14.080 --> 0:27:16.280
<v Speaker 1>Bears fans thought the team is racing right into the

0:27:16.280 --> 0:27:21.600
<v Speaker 1>Super Bowl, making that game embarrassments. So this game is

0:27:21.640 --> 0:27:24.320
<v Speaker 1>more intriguing than than it looks on paper. To some

0:27:24.800 --> 0:27:27.359
<v Speaker 1>I'm I'm into it. What else do I need to

0:27:27.359 --> 0:27:28.879
<v Speaker 1>do then be into it? I can see why you

0:27:29.000 --> 0:27:30.960
<v Speaker 1>be into it. It's a nice litmus test game for

0:27:30.960 --> 0:27:33.320
<v Speaker 1>the Cardinals who are beating up on some bad teams.

0:27:33.840 --> 0:27:38.040
<v Speaker 1>But Greg greg Olsen, basically his analysis last week was

0:27:38.480 --> 0:27:42.119
<v Speaker 1>this team is really hard to defend because you know

0:27:42.160 --> 0:27:44.240
<v Speaker 1>what they're gonna do. You just have no idea when

0:27:44.280 --> 0:27:46.520
<v Speaker 1>they're gonna do it. With all the fakes, the pre

0:27:46.680 --> 0:27:50.040
<v Speaker 1>snap motion, the jet sweeps, you just don't know what

0:27:50.119 --> 0:27:52.320
<v Speaker 1>the alignment is gonna lead to once the ball is

0:27:52.359 --> 0:27:55.320
<v Speaker 1>snapped and you see a lot of open spaces in

0:27:55.359 --> 0:27:58.240
<v Speaker 1>the running game and even in the past Cardinals you're talking, yes,

0:27:59.080 --> 0:28:01.920
<v Speaker 1>it's a test for this Pints, but I mean, let's

0:28:02.080 --> 0:28:03.919
<v Speaker 1>I would calm down about it. You know, this is

0:28:03.920 --> 0:28:07.600
<v Speaker 1>still a Cardinals offensive. I mean, I just know, I know,

0:28:07.680 --> 0:28:09.280
<v Speaker 1>I think it would be a fun game. I mean,

0:28:09.320 --> 0:28:11.840
<v Speaker 1>we haven't mentioned that Drew Brees is likely to return.

0:28:12.280 --> 0:28:15.280
<v Speaker 1>That is a huge development. It's part of my least

0:28:15.320 --> 0:28:19.320
<v Speaker 1>favorite trend I've been seeing growing on Twitter, which is

0:28:19.920 --> 0:28:23.520
<v Speaker 1>Twitter takes that players should stay on the bench through

0:28:23.560 --> 0:28:25.399
<v Speaker 1>their bye week. This is a this is a common thing.

0:28:25.440 --> 0:28:27.960
<v Speaker 1>They're like, I don't think they should push it. I mean,

0:28:28.200 --> 0:28:30.320
<v Speaker 1>he should be sitting during the bye week. Like a

0:28:30.359 --> 0:28:32.080
<v Speaker 1>ton of people have said that about a lot of

0:28:32.080 --> 0:28:34.919
<v Speaker 1>different injuries this week this year. It's like, you have

0:28:35.000 --> 0:28:39.120
<v Speaker 1>absolutely no medical information whatsoever. What do you know that

0:28:39.880 --> 0:28:42.240
<v Speaker 1>you gotta you gotta stay. Yeah, why don't you play it?

0:28:43.000 --> 0:28:44.920
<v Speaker 1>And you should sit through the bike? You don't know

0:28:45.000 --> 0:28:49.240
<v Speaker 1>anything about any of their medical information. Y. There's an

0:28:49.280 --> 0:28:52.719
<v Speaker 1>extremely easy counter to you on the high horse right right,

0:28:53.080 --> 0:28:55.240
<v Speaker 1>that if he has an injury that was enough to

0:28:55.280 --> 0:28:58.200
<v Speaker 1>cost him four weeks and you're playing a bad team

0:28:58.280 --> 0:29:00.280
<v Speaker 1>and you have a chance and that two more weeks

0:29:00.280 --> 0:29:02.880
<v Speaker 1>of rest. That if your voice was if the goal

0:29:03.040 --> 0:29:05.040
<v Speaker 1>is to win the Super Bowl and you have an

0:29:05.040 --> 0:29:08.120
<v Speaker 1>opportunity to get that extra rest, perhaps not rushed back.

0:29:08.200 --> 0:29:11.600
<v Speaker 1>This guy's rushed back from all the time and reaggravate

0:29:11.640 --> 0:29:14.960
<v Speaker 1>them because they came back a week too soonus that

0:29:16.480 --> 0:29:18.560
<v Speaker 1>I wonder, are you supposed to just stay silent and

0:29:18.600 --> 0:29:21.440
<v Speaker 1>never have any I wonder if the medical professionals with

0:29:21.480 --> 0:29:24.960
<v Speaker 1>all the information considered that angle. You know, it's Drew Brees.

0:29:25.240 --> 0:29:28.000
<v Speaker 1>If he's healthy, he's playing like if you're if you

0:29:28.040 --> 0:29:30.640
<v Speaker 1>were ready to do a show, you're doing the show.

0:29:31.320 --> 0:29:33.440
<v Speaker 1>They consider all of that. Of course, they're not going

0:29:33.480 --> 0:29:37.040
<v Speaker 1>to put him out there unless he can put like

0:29:37.720 --> 0:29:40.000
<v Speaker 1>you have. Injuries are just not something. I feel like

0:29:40.040 --> 0:29:42.400
<v Speaker 1>I need to have an opinion, right exactly, that's my mind.

0:29:42.640 --> 0:29:46.360
<v Speaker 1>But must but you it's the It's again, it's you

0:29:46.480 --> 0:29:49.120
<v Speaker 1>taking fans and treating them as if the fans isn't

0:29:49.360 --> 0:29:54.000
<v Speaker 1>like has nothing to do with fans. It's media a

0:29:54.040 --> 0:29:58.640
<v Speaker 1>little too. There are two high flutant. There are certain

0:29:58.680 --> 0:30:01.080
<v Speaker 1>things when it's a hamstring snagged a play room. I'm

0:30:01.080 --> 0:30:04.680
<v Speaker 1>talking a little about media and people covering the league,

0:30:04.720 --> 0:30:08.200
<v Speaker 1>mostly that have opinion shows and are on Twitter. That

0:30:08.400 --> 0:30:11.560
<v Speaker 1>you come out with hot takes about medical stuff. That's

0:30:11.560 --> 0:30:13.400
<v Speaker 1>all I mean. You shouldn't have a hot you shouldn't

0:30:13.400 --> 0:30:16.280
<v Speaker 1>be like screaming that's Stephen A. Smith about it. I

0:30:16.320 --> 0:30:20.040
<v Speaker 1>get that. I mean in general that on Twitter that

0:30:20.360 --> 0:30:22.760
<v Speaker 1>it's crazy to play him against the car. But it's

0:30:22.760 --> 0:30:25.880
<v Speaker 1>not not a foolish. You can have a measured take

0:30:25.920 --> 0:30:28.440
<v Speaker 1>on it, not withopening in the doctor's room. Yes, I

0:30:28.480 --> 0:30:31.680
<v Speaker 1>think it's probably smart to have no medical takes, but

0:30:32.000 --> 0:30:35.920
<v Speaker 1>your you think you're not having this is a medical

0:30:35.960 --> 0:30:41.680
<v Speaker 1>take that's true. Are suggesting that your concept of medical

0:30:41.720 --> 0:30:45.960
<v Speaker 1>knowledge supersedes all of ours because you're you're in the know,

0:30:46.560 --> 0:30:48.800
<v Speaker 1>being chilled out mode. I don't know anything. Is my

0:30:48.880 --> 0:30:50.920
<v Speaker 1>point that none of us know any It's like people

0:30:50.960 --> 0:30:55.040
<v Speaker 1>operate as if there's a level beyond If the doctors say,

0:30:55.080 --> 0:30:57.960
<v Speaker 1>you're what more do you need? We who said that

0:30:59.560 --> 0:31:03.280
<v Speaker 1>I don't know, we don't know anything. You're assuming because

0:31:03.320 --> 0:31:06.760
<v Speaker 1>he's clear that they believes we don't know that. But

0:31:06.880 --> 0:31:09.720
<v Speaker 1>he may say, because I'm Drew Brees, amn the King

0:31:09.760 --> 0:31:12.800
<v Speaker 1>of f Mountain over there, that I'm playing even if

0:31:12.840 --> 0:31:14.880
<v Speaker 1>I don't feel all the way back, And they'll say

0:31:15.400 --> 0:31:17.200
<v Speaker 1>and it's like, oh, well, we pay you twenty three

0:31:17.240 --> 0:31:19.360
<v Speaker 1>million dollars a year, so we probably want to return

0:31:19.400 --> 0:31:22.080
<v Speaker 1>on our invent investment. But maybe it's better to give

0:31:22.080 --> 0:31:24.680
<v Speaker 1>it a little bit of My little thing is we're

0:31:24.720 --> 0:31:27.200
<v Speaker 1>just operating at a deficit of information, which is true

0:31:27.200 --> 0:31:32.840
<v Speaker 1>of alst everything that we do that extends beyond medical right,

0:31:32.880 --> 0:31:35.160
<v Speaker 1>it takes like six seven years. I think of covering

0:31:35.240 --> 0:31:38.280
<v Speaker 1>football to learn that you don't almost know anything about

0:31:38.320 --> 0:31:40.520
<v Speaker 1>how the game works, and a lot of people I think,

0:31:40.520 --> 0:31:42.560
<v Speaker 1>I think ever never even get Then I would ask

0:31:42.600 --> 0:31:45.600
<v Speaker 1>you why why I'm just saying the medical Would you

0:31:45.680 --> 0:31:49.640
<v Speaker 1>offer an opinion on anything beyond medical? Why offer I'm

0:31:49.680 --> 0:31:52.480
<v Speaker 1>saying anything that you're trying to measured and you try

0:31:52.520 --> 0:31:57.600
<v Speaker 1>to learn. Thumbs up for Drew Brees. Let's yeah, well done.

0:31:57.760 --> 0:32:00.360
<v Speaker 1>All right, Mark, it's time where it's time to snake? Ricky?

0:32:00.720 --> 0:32:06.480
<v Speaker 1>Did you do your homework? Oh my god, what an

0:32:06.520 --> 0:32:10.320
<v Speaker 1>angry snake. Here's stupid? All right, Mark, game number two

0:32:10.760 --> 0:32:12.800
<v Speaker 1>and again, I think you'll reveal as you dig into

0:32:12.840 --> 0:32:15.040
<v Speaker 1>the ladder rounds here that we're not working with a

0:32:15.080 --> 0:32:18.880
<v Speaker 1>ton of magical matchups on paper. Here. I'm going Giants

0:32:18.920 --> 0:32:21.120
<v Speaker 1>Lions because I want I want one more shot at

0:32:21.160 --> 0:32:24.680
<v Speaker 1>the Lions to rescue themselves out of this hole. The Giants,

0:32:24.720 --> 0:32:27.800
<v Speaker 1>to me, at least, are interesting with Daniel Jones. I

0:32:27.840 --> 0:32:30.920
<v Speaker 1>thought that they there's something that Daniel Jones does one

0:32:31.000 --> 0:32:33.120
<v Speaker 1>or two or three things every game that make me

0:32:33.200 --> 0:32:35.960
<v Speaker 1>like him more. And whether it's doing something that Eli

0:32:36.000 --> 0:32:39.040
<v Speaker 1>Manning or fill in the blank, aging stone Age pony

0:32:39.120 --> 0:32:41.800
<v Speaker 1>veteran quarterback could not do, which is a scapability when

0:32:41.800 --> 0:32:45.200
<v Speaker 1>it gets into troublesometimes, he'll also make He's still making

0:32:45.400 --> 0:32:47.760
<v Speaker 1>killer mistakes. I thought there was a strip sack on

0:32:47.840 --> 0:32:49.640
<v Speaker 1>him last week against the Cardinals and they put a

0:32:49.640 --> 0:32:52.880
<v Speaker 1>ton of pressure on him that was totally inexcusable. That

0:32:52.960 --> 0:32:55.760
<v Speaker 1>like another quarterback with better field vision would not allowed

0:32:56.000 --> 0:32:58.760
<v Speaker 1>that to happen to him. So the Giants are a

0:32:58.760 --> 0:33:02.520
<v Speaker 1>team that the Lions better take advantage of. It sounds

0:33:02.560 --> 0:33:06.480
<v Speaker 1>like will not be in this game, Greg, I'll confirmed

0:33:06.520 --> 0:33:08.520
<v Speaker 1>that with you. On the medical front, I'm not sure

0:33:08.560 --> 0:33:12.280
<v Speaker 1>that that's just what I'm hearing at this point, but

0:33:14.400 --> 0:33:16.560
<v Speaker 1>I I am not going to I'm not gonna say it,

0:33:16.640 --> 0:33:18.720
<v Speaker 1>but the Lions are banged up. No carry on Johnson.

0:33:19.160 --> 0:33:21.200
<v Speaker 1>Their offense to me, is just simply not the same

0:33:21.200 --> 0:33:23.320
<v Speaker 1>without him. But this is a game. You gotta take

0:33:23.320 --> 0:33:25.959
<v Speaker 1>care of it, huh you to I don't know what

0:33:25.960 --> 0:33:28.280
<v Speaker 1>you're selling to anyone. I thought it was interesting that

0:33:28.320 --> 0:33:31.080
<v Speaker 1>the mat Patricia did a very belichicki ish thing where

0:33:31.320 --> 0:33:35.760
<v Speaker 1>he traded away Quandre Digs, which irritated the Lions locker room,

0:33:35.800 --> 0:33:38.600
<v Speaker 1>including Darius Slaves. Spoke about it to no end, and

0:33:38.640 --> 0:33:41.760
<v Speaker 1>that if you want, if you're gonna do BELICHICKI and things,

0:33:41.760 --> 0:33:43.800
<v Speaker 1>you're gonna You know, the Patriots just went and picked

0:33:43.880 --> 0:33:45.880
<v Speaker 1>up Justin Bethel. That made everyone happy because he's a

0:33:45.880 --> 0:33:48.800
<v Speaker 1>Hall of Fame special teamer. But if you're the Lions,

0:33:48.840 --> 0:33:51.840
<v Speaker 1>you're cutting the other way, and you annoyed your secondary,

0:33:51.840 --> 0:33:54.480
<v Speaker 1>you annoyed your defense. I wonder why the move was made.

0:33:54.640 --> 0:33:56.880
<v Speaker 1>Second year in a row, they've kind of thrown up

0:33:56.880 --> 0:33:59.920
<v Speaker 1>a white flag at the trade deadline Golden Tate last year,

0:34:00.200 --> 0:34:02.760
<v Speaker 1>when well, this isn't away flag. They like a younger

0:34:02.800 --> 0:34:05.720
<v Speaker 1>player and he was probably one of the worst starters

0:34:05.720 --> 0:34:07.400
<v Speaker 1>in the league at his position. I'm just saying from

0:34:07.400 --> 0:34:12.680
<v Speaker 1>a lockman man, now you've reached your We've signed Marcus

0:34:12.719 --> 0:34:15.520
<v Speaker 1>Gilchrist off the street section of the season, which never

0:34:15.560 --> 0:34:18.080
<v Speaker 1>works well for any defense out there. So it is

0:34:18.120 --> 0:34:21.120
<v Speaker 1>a bit of a white flag. I wonder if ma

0:34:21.280 --> 0:34:24.640
<v Speaker 1>Patrician Bill Beltick share infot Like, did they call each

0:34:24.640 --> 0:34:27.560
<v Speaker 1>other and talk about the Giants? You know, they Patriots

0:34:27.560 --> 0:34:30.719
<v Speaker 1>just played the Giants. They're like best friends. I played

0:34:30.719 --> 0:34:33.120
<v Speaker 1>the Giants. The Lions play three weeks ago, Like, does

0:34:33.160 --> 0:34:36.359
<v Speaker 1>that happen? I'm just curious about that. There's a lavish

0:34:36.880 --> 0:34:40.880
<v Speaker 1>owners meeting party every year um that takes place at

0:34:40.880 --> 0:34:43.440
<v Speaker 1>a luxury hotel that we are and all media are

0:34:43.440 --> 0:34:46.040
<v Speaker 1>allowed to attend, and it's it's kind of, from a

0:34:46.080 --> 0:34:49.840
<v Speaker 1>people watching perspective, the best, the best party of the

0:34:49.920 --> 0:34:52.239
<v Speaker 1>year to be involved with, because it's the party where

0:34:52.600 --> 0:34:54.680
<v Speaker 1>all the head coaches are there, all the gms, their

0:34:54.920 --> 0:34:57.920
<v Speaker 1>owners milling around. And I think it was not this

0:34:58.320 --> 0:35:02.520
<v Speaker 1>Tariko and friends. Tarriko is there. Everybody's there, and you'll

0:35:02.560 --> 0:35:07.160
<v Speaker 1>see people getting drunk. You'll see coaches stumbling. It's fun times, okay,

0:35:07.160 --> 0:35:09.600
<v Speaker 1>and you don't share that info who you see stumbling,

0:35:09.680 --> 0:35:12.879
<v Speaker 1>but you laugh about it privately. Now sometimes they've they've

0:35:12.920 --> 0:35:15.319
<v Speaker 1>laughed at us. I think at times two. I'm sure

0:35:15.360 --> 0:35:19.480
<v Speaker 1>they have mat Patrician Bill Belichick with their significant others,

0:35:19.520 --> 0:35:24.520
<v Speaker 1>the Great Linda not Belichick. It's Linda Holiday holiday not

0:35:25.040 --> 0:35:28.279
<v Speaker 1>always a holiday with Linda not Rick holiday and Matt

0:35:28.280 --> 0:35:33.880
<v Speaker 1>Patricia's wife, I believe, sitting together having a drink laughing.

0:35:34.160 --> 0:35:37.719
<v Speaker 1>This is there's no bitter situation between those two men.

0:35:38.400 --> 0:35:40.160
<v Speaker 1>I just wanted to talk about that a little bit.

0:35:40.280 --> 0:35:45.440
<v Speaker 1>This should be Yeah, they should be a better giants offense.

0:35:45.680 --> 0:35:48.520
<v Speaker 1>I mean they should. They had one against the bad defense,

0:35:48.560 --> 0:35:51.080
<v Speaker 1>they had one good game with Daniel Jones, and they've

0:35:51.080 --> 0:35:54.200
<v Speaker 1>had four terrible games. They're averaging twelve points a game

0:35:54.239 --> 0:35:57.320
<v Speaker 1>on offense over four weeks. I think that's the I

0:35:57.360 --> 0:35:59.600
<v Speaker 1>would guess that's the worst in the NFL. I didn't

0:35:59.640 --> 0:36:02.480
<v Speaker 1>check it, but twelve points a game is hard to do.

0:36:02.560 --> 0:36:06.200
<v Speaker 1>Their defense and special teams are almost outscoring Daniel Jones

0:36:06.239 --> 0:36:08.879
<v Speaker 1>over the last four weeks. You have Evan Ingram back,

0:36:08.920 --> 0:36:12.680
<v Speaker 1>you have se Quon Barkley back. Uh, you should be

0:36:12.719 --> 0:36:14.320
<v Speaker 1>able to move the ball on this line's team. It

0:36:14.400 --> 0:36:16.359
<v Speaker 1>should be a good, like high scoring game. This Lions

0:36:16.360 --> 0:36:17.960
<v Speaker 1>team is gonna have to win shootouts. I think they're

0:36:18.000 --> 0:36:20.480
<v Speaker 1>kind of built for it. But it's tougher without Patricia.

0:36:20.719 --> 0:36:23.719
<v Speaker 1>The guy has a ring as a defensive coordinator. And

0:36:23.760 --> 0:36:25.759
<v Speaker 1>of course we know Belichick's the mastermind there. But this

0:36:25.800 --> 0:36:28.680
<v Speaker 1>team is thirty feet to total defense against the run,

0:36:28.760 --> 0:36:31.600
<v Speaker 1>thirty against the past. Se Kuon Barkley, for what it's worth,

0:36:31.960 --> 0:36:34.960
<v Speaker 1>is practicing in full this week, and he did. He

0:36:35.000 --> 0:36:38.040
<v Speaker 1>looks finally did slightly aggravate the ankle we're told in

0:36:38.040 --> 0:36:39.800
<v Speaker 1>in the loss of the Cardinals. But there's also a

0:36:39.880 --> 0:36:43.719
<v Speaker 1>chance that this could be that great plays too. But

0:36:44.360 --> 0:36:47.359
<v Speaker 1>you've been very nice west of the Lions. Well, those

0:36:47.400 --> 0:36:49.480
<v Speaker 1>things are over. I mean, we have been patient with

0:36:49.520 --> 0:36:52.560
<v Speaker 1>the lines, We've been kind. But if you do not

0:36:52.640 --> 0:36:54.920
<v Speaker 1>win at home against the Giant's team that's going in

0:36:54.960 --> 0:36:58.200
<v Speaker 1>the wrong direction, you will be in You guys are

0:36:58.200 --> 0:37:01.400
<v Speaker 1>a lot You guys are a lot more uh interested

0:37:01.440 --> 0:37:03.160
<v Speaker 1>in the Lions at this point than I am. They

0:37:03.160 --> 0:37:05.400
<v Speaker 1>had their a few weeks where they're interesting. They're done.

0:37:05.880 --> 0:37:08.120
<v Speaker 1>They have a bad defense. They're twenty one in d

0:37:08.239 --> 0:37:10.640
<v Speaker 1>v o A. You said all those other numbers were

0:37:10.640 --> 0:37:14.000
<v Speaker 1>even worse. And the guy they spent five million dollars on,

0:37:14.040 --> 0:37:16.839
<v Speaker 1>Trey Flowers, has one sacking, isn't really doing much for them.

0:37:17.600 --> 0:37:20.080
<v Speaker 1>I don't what what is fascinating about this defense? That

0:37:20.200 --> 0:37:22.440
<v Speaker 1>may be a case for Belichick and Patricia did not

0:37:22.480 --> 0:37:25.200
<v Speaker 1>talk as much as Patricia would like to about Trey Flowers,

0:37:25.200 --> 0:37:27.520
<v Speaker 1>who he knew very well. But please all right. Next

0:37:27.600 --> 0:37:30.960
<v Speaker 1>up is the old Zeuser. I will check back in

0:37:31.440 --> 0:37:34.000
<v Speaker 1>with the Jets, who cannot play any worse than they

0:37:34.000 --> 0:37:37.719
<v Speaker 1>played last week on Monday Night Football, and now they

0:37:37.760 --> 0:37:40.200
<v Speaker 1>travel to Jacksonville to face the Jacks. I think the

0:37:40.280 --> 0:37:43.520
<v Speaker 1>quarterbacks are what interests me here. It's Sam Donald, who,

0:37:43.520 --> 0:37:45.200
<v Speaker 1>by the way, on top of everything else in that

0:37:45.280 --> 0:37:48.080
<v Speaker 1>game got his footstepped on and they had to remove

0:37:48.120 --> 0:37:52.120
<v Speaker 1>his toneage, which, by the way, is another underrated you

0:37:52.280 --> 0:37:56.120
<v Speaker 1>mono people like have vague teenage memories of having having

0:37:56.160 --> 0:37:58.800
<v Speaker 1>Have you ever had an I've had a fingernail removed?

0:37:58.920 --> 0:38:02.279
<v Speaker 1>It is not it is no fun like that isn't

0:38:02.320 --> 0:38:07.400
<v Speaker 1>personal medical from actual life. But anyway, I don't think

0:38:07.400 --> 0:38:10.279
<v Speaker 1>you should play this week to the point, to the

0:38:10.320 --> 0:38:12.840
<v Speaker 1>point that I kept him out of practice. I believe

0:38:12.880 --> 0:38:15.839
<v Speaker 1>he returned in a limited fashion. Uh today, pretty good

0:38:15.880 --> 0:38:19.520
<v Speaker 1>today there, so he'll be fine. But it's just more

0:38:19.760 --> 0:38:23.160
<v Speaker 1>you know, when it rains, it pours for s darn uh.

0:38:23.280 --> 0:38:25.200
<v Speaker 1>So yes, I want to see the quarterbacks in this game.

0:38:25.239 --> 0:38:29.319
<v Speaker 1>I want to see Donald back um and show some

0:38:29.400 --> 0:38:33.360
<v Speaker 1>fight and show some resolve after what was really, frankly

0:38:33.360 --> 0:38:36.160
<v Speaker 1>a humiliating week for him um, even if he did

0:38:36.200 --> 0:38:38.640
<v Speaker 1>handle it well in the media, and I do think

0:38:38.640 --> 0:38:41.359
<v Speaker 1>he'll bounce back. Although they're getting a road match up

0:38:41.360 --> 0:38:45.520
<v Speaker 1>against the Jaguars who trade away Jalen Ramsey and the

0:38:45.560 --> 0:38:49.520
<v Speaker 1>defense gets a lot better um against the Bengals, of course,

0:38:49.560 --> 0:38:52.960
<v Speaker 1>but they played extremely well last week. I want to

0:38:53.000 --> 0:38:55.520
<v Speaker 1>see more from Gardner Minshew. I want to see the game.

0:38:55.560 --> 0:38:57.920
<v Speaker 1>I want to see what everybody's excited about. I want

0:38:57.920 --> 0:38:59.560
<v Speaker 1>to see what you what you love about him Mark,

0:38:59.600 --> 0:39:02.920
<v Speaker 1>because watching him the last two weeks hasn't given me

0:39:02.960 --> 0:39:04.360
<v Speaker 1>a lot of juice. So I think it's kind of

0:39:04.360 --> 0:39:06.640
<v Speaker 1>an important game for him. With Nick Foles, I think

0:39:06.719 --> 0:39:08.640
<v Speaker 1>is still a little bit ways off, but he's got

0:39:08.640 --> 0:39:11.400
<v Speaker 1>to stack a couple of good performances here to justify

0:39:11.480 --> 0:39:13.520
<v Speaker 1>keeping him in the lineup, and Donald needs to show

0:39:13.560 --> 0:39:16.680
<v Speaker 1>everybody that he's not the ghost guy. I think if

0:39:17.239 --> 0:39:20.320
<v Speaker 1>Nick Foles had stayed healthy and played the way Gardner

0:39:20.360 --> 0:39:23.520
<v Speaker 1>Minshew has played, the Jags would be very happy with

0:39:23.560 --> 0:39:26.759
<v Speaker 1>that trade. I think Gardner Minshew has been good enough.

0:39:26.800 --> 0:39:28.840
<v Speaker 1>He's been good enough to win, and the difference between

0:39:28.840 --> 0:39:31.960
<v Speaker 1>the two is he's still developing. He can become much better.

0:39:32.320 --> 0:39:34.799
<v Speaker 1>I think you have to stay with him, and you know,

0:39:34.840 --> 0:39:37.360
<v Speaker 1>we got three more weeks still, even tell Fols is eligible.

0:39:37.560 --> 0:39:41.040
<v Speaker 1>I don't fault Gardner Minshew for the Jaguars, only, you know,

0:39:41.080 --> 0:39:44.520
<v Speaker 1>having single digits for two and a half, he leads

0:39:44.560 --> 0:39:46.279
<v Speaker 1>them down on the opening drive last year and they

0:39:46.280 --> 0:39:47.880
<v Speaker 1>fumble at the goal line, and then now all of

0:39:47.880 --> 0:39:50.400
<v Speaker 1>a sudden, Gardner Minshew is not a good quarterback. He

0:39:50.520 --> 0:39:53.480
<v Speaker 1>has calm feet, like he's so calm in the pocket,

0:39:53.520 --> 0:39:56.440
<v Speaker 1>but then he can also you know make you know,

0:39:56.880 --> 0:40:00.000
<v Speaker 1>make extra time by moving around and doing those little solemns.

0:40:00.239 --> 0:40:02.600
<v Speaker 1>He doesn't make mistakes. I guess that's what stands out

0:40:02.640 --> 0:40:05.680
<v Speaker 1>to me for a young quarterback. He makes really good decisions.

0:40:05.719 --> 0:40:07.680
<v Speaker 1>He's averaging seven and a half yards pertempt. He has

0:40:07.719 --> 0:40:10.759
<v Speaker 1>ten touchdowns and two interceptions. Well, yeah, if Donald had

0:40:10.840 --> 0:40:13.080
<v Speaker 1>those numbers would be going crazy. This was the game

0:40:13.120 --> 0:40:15.160
<v Speaker 1>I was gonna lock up. I feel really good that

0:40:15.200 --> 0:40:19.040
<v Speaker 1>the Jaguars are just a better team than the Jets. Um.

0:40:19.080 --> 0:40:21.799
<v Speaker 1>I think this is not a good Jaguars defense. It's

0:40:21.840 --> 0:40:26.200
<v Speaker 1>pretty at mediocre uh and basically every metric possible. But

0:40:26.239 --> 0:40:28.560
<v Speaker 1>I do think it's a tricky matchup for a team

0:40:28.560 --> 0:40:31.719
<v Speaker 1>that has offensive line and protection issues. Because Todd wash

0:40:31.880 --> 0:40:34.320
<v Speaker 1>likes to get creative. This is a team that loves

0:40:34.320 --> 0:40:36.400
<v Speaker 1>the blitz, loves to send a lot at you, and

0:40:36.440 --> 0:40:38.799
<v Speaker 1>I think he's gonna be licking his chops. And I

0:40:38.920 --> 0:40:41.960
<v Speaker 1>just seen too much bad offense from the Jets that

0:40:42.080 --> 0:40:45.400
<v Speaker 1>I trust the bad offense more than I trust the

0:40:45.760 --> 0:40:48.439
<v Speaker 1>one game against the Cowboys, which is really one half

0:40:48.480 --> 0:40:50.719
<v Speaker 1>against the Cowboys. So I just think the Jaguars just

0:40:50.960 --> 0:40:53.279
<v Speaker 1>a little more sound throughout, and I like them. I'm

0:40:53.280 --> 0:40:55.520
<v Speaker 1>with you the sense that the thing that keeps carrying

0:40:55.560 --> 0:40:59.160
<v Speaker 1>over for New York is bad offensive line play. I

0:40:59.239 --> 0:41:02.200
<v Speaker 1>like to match up for Jacksonville at home, and you

0:41:02.239 --> 0:41:04.640
<v Speaker 1>know I would when it comes to Adam Gaze. And

0:41:04.640 --> 0:41:06.680
<v Speaker 1>I know that number one, you went and you got

0:41:06.719 --> 0:41:10.000
<v Speaker 1>Levan Bell, and Levian Bell has been a terrible situation

0:41:10.040 --> 0:41:12.120
<v Speaker 1>as a running back with the quarterback house that've had.

0:41:12.160 --> 0:41:14.840
<v Speaker 1>So I'm not asking for big numbers, but I do

0:41:15.000 --> 0:41:17.640
<v Speaker 1>question if you go back and look at Miami's running

0:41:17.640 --> 0:41:21.040
<v Speaker 1>backs under Adam Gaze and the Adam Gaze experience in general,

0:41:21.480 --> 0:41:24.279
<v Speaker 1>is this the coach that knows how to maximize Levan Bell.

0:41:24.400 --> 0:41:27.800
<v Speaker 1>He hasn't topped seventy yards on the ground or sixty

0:41:27.920 --> 0:41:29.880
<v Speaker 1>in the air all year, and and and you have

0:41:30.080 --> 0:41:33.040
<v Speaker 1>a one of the leagues in theory top weapons, and

0:41:33.080 --> 0:41:40.359
<v Speaker 1>you have Donald Back. You've been I think he's been

0:41:40.440 --> 0:41:43.160
<v Speaker 1>in an impossible situation and he runs hard and he

0:41:43.239 --> 0:41:45.480
<v Speaker 1>makes something out of nothing. And when he had no

0:41:45.600 --> 0:41:48.400
<v Speaker 1>quarterback play at all and Donald was out, um, he

0:41:48.440 --> 0:41:50.880
<v Speaker 1>didn't get do much damage. But the guy plays are

0:41:51.000 --> 0:41:54.200
<v Speaker 1>Jamal Adams. I went on Twitter and pointed out everybody

0:41:54.200 --> 0:41:56.440
<v Speaker 1>who was lumping this guy in with Antonio Brown. And

0:41:56.480 --> 0:41:58.279
<v Speaker 1>he's been nothing but a good He has nothing to

0:41:58.280 --> 0:41:59.960
<v Speaker 1>do with Antonio brand. But I think, I don't think,

0:42:00.920 --> 0:42:03.960
<v Speaker 1>I don't think anything, all right, But he's been an

0:42:03.960 --> 0:42:06.120
<v Speaker 1>awesome teammate in New York number one, and that's not

0:42:07.600 --> 0:42:09.920
<v Speaker 1>he's been in a bat. I want to see how

0:42:10.320 --> 0:42:12.080
<v Speaker 1>to use him when they have all their parts, and

0:42:12.120 --> 0:42:13.960
<v Speaker 1>because it might be a gaze he lacks. You know,

0:42:14.040 --> 0:42:16.239
<v Speaker 1>Bella is in one of the most talented running backs

0:42:16.239 --> 0:42:17.640
<v Speaker 1>ever and you can see that, and he's running hard.

0:42:17.640 --> 0:42:19.600
<v Speaker 1>I think he lacks a little bit of the explosion

0:42:19.640 --> 0:42:22.280
<v Speaker 1>that he used to. I mean, you have that many runs,

0:42:22.400 --> 0:42:24.200
<v Speaker 1>you have that many plays that you get to the

0:42:24.200 --> 0:42:26.640
<v Speaker 1>second level, you would expect that he would have something

0:42:26.680 --> 0:42:29.040
<v Speaker 1>longer than a thirteen yard run before last week. Now

0:42:29.040 --> 0:42:30.680
<v Speaker 1>I think it's coming along. He's gotten a little better

0:42:30.680 --> 0:42:32.480
<v Speaker 1>each week. But I like Mark saying I want to

0:42:32.480 --> 0:42:34.000
<v Speaker 1>see them use him as a receiver because He's one

0:42:34.040 --> 0:42:36.200
<v Speaker 1>of the best receiving backs that I've ever seen. He

0:42:36.239 --> 0:42:38.000
<v Speaker 1>has ten to the air in the last two games.

0:42:38.040 --> 0:42:40.560
<v Speaker 1>I'm just saying it's for an offense, especially that is

0:42:40.600 --> 0:42:43.640
<v Speaker 1>dealing with a ton of pocket pressure your quarterbacks under dress.

0:42:43.920 --> 0:42:46.160
<v Speaker 1>Throw into your running back is something we're seeing every

0:42:46.200 --> 0:42:48.719
<v Speaker 1>other coach in the league do, and in Gaze at

0:42:48.760 --> 0:42:51.799
<v Speaker 1>some point runs out of excuses. Have your quarterback. But

0:42:52.000 --> 0:42:54.880
<v Speaker 1>I'm not arguing with I just don't just think he's not.

0:42:55.280 --> 0:42:58.439
<v Speaker 1>I trust the unleash bell at this point. Prove me wrong. Um.

0:42:58.640 --> 0:43:00.560
<v Speaker 1>I also want to point out Mark A. Greg on

0:43:00.680 --> 0:43:04.000
<v Speaker 1>injury corner. C J. Mosley was deemed well enough to

0:43:04.040 --> 0:43:07.120
<v Speaker 1>play on Monday, and on the first drive he's limping

0:43:07.160 --> 0:43:09.880
<v Speaker 1>along the plane of the goal line, and now Gays

0:43:09.880 --> 0:43:12.040
<v Speaker 1>announces on Thursday that they have to do a quote

0:43:12.040 --> 0:43:14.439
<v Speaker 1>deep dive on what's going on with his grind. He's done.

0:43:14.520 --> 0:43:16.719
<v Speaker 1>You could, I could book it. He's gonna be on

0:43:16.880 --> 0:43:20.319
<v Speaker 1>i R probably before this podcast is over, so you

0:43:20.480 --> 0:43:22.759
<v Speaker 1>essentially and who knows, maybe he's back in four weeks,

0:43:22.760 --> 0:43:25.239
<v Speaker 1>but the season is basically lost. And that was a

0:43:25.280 --> 0:43:27.840
<v Speaker 1>centerpiece signing of the off season. Well they have it

0:43:27.920 --> 0:43:30.160
<v Speaker 1>gets hurt in week one and have an easy schedule

0:43:30.200 --> 0:43:33.399
<v Speaker 1>coming up. You were saying even a week ago, even

0:43:33.400 --> 0:43:35.160
<v Speaker 1>if they lose the Patriot, well, but it's just it

0:43:35.239 --> 0:43:38.359
<v Speaker 1>only counts once and its standings lost his count more

0:43:38.400 --> 0:43:40.840
<v Speaker 1>than that, I don't have any more faith. That was

0:43:40.880 --> 0:43:43.799
<v Speaker 1>a psychologically jarring defeat, right And when you're on the

0:43:43.840 --> 0:43:45.480
<v Speaker 1>other end of that as a fan, you feel that

0:43:45.560 --> 0:43:47.279
<v Speaker 1>a little bit more in this week and then it

0:43:47.320 --> 0:43:49.840
<v Speaker 1>erases it. But if you don't win this week, you know,

0:43:50.160 --> 0:43:52.880
<v Speaker 1>bye bye. If the Jags are lasting red zone percentage,

0:43:52.920 --> 0:43:56.719
<v Speaker 1>that's one thing where for a running team, you would

0:43:56.719 --> 0:43:58.239
<v Speaker 1>not think they would be the worst team in the

0:43:58.320 --> 0:44:00.040
<v Speaker 1>league in terms of scoring touchdowns in the red and

0:44:00.200 --> 0:44:02.320
<v Speaker 1>so that's why all their games are closed. And honestly,

0:44:02.440 --> 0:44:05.319
<v Speaker 1>with Minshew, his numbers would be much different. They had

0:44:05.400 --> 0:44:08.239
<v Speaker 1>four drives last week that ended in field goals where

0:44:08.239 --> 0:44:10.919
<v Speaker 1>they were nine, ten, eleven. They've done that every week.

0:44:12.360 --> 0:44:14.279
<v Speaker 1>Before Monday night, I would have said, this is gonna

0:44:14.280 --> 0:44:17.200
<v Speaker 1>be a great game, and I feel good now. Who knows,

0:44:17.239 --> 0:44:19.120
<v Speaker 1>maybe the Jets compete, but I would not be surprised

0:44:19.120 --> 0:44:22.239
<v Speaker 1>if they lose thirty one three either. It's that was

0:44:22.320 --> 0:44:25.880
<v Speaker 1>bad on Monday all right West Europe. Well, I'm risking

0:44:25.920 --> 0:44:31.560
<v Speaker 1>a potential uniform apocalypse in this game, but you know

0:44:31.600 --> 0:44:35.319
<v Speaker 1>it is America's heartland in a grass field, I gotta

0:44:35.360 --> 0:44:40.640
<v Speaker 1>go with my Titans. You know, Buccaneers and Titans. Well,

0:44:40.640 --> 0:44:44.600
<v Speaker 1>I have fun. I have fun watching them. I thought

0:44:44.640 --> 0:44:47.759
<v Speaker 1>Tannehill was a massive upgrade on Mariota. Even with a

0:44:47.800 --> 0:44:50.200
<v Speaker 1>few negative plays. They had their highest yards per attempt

0:44:50.239 --> 0:44:52.239
<v Speaker 1>of the year, their best third down percentage of the year.

0:44:52.480 --> 0:44:55.880
<v Speaker 1>They're outside receivers Corey Davis and A J. Brown both

0:44:55.920 --> 0:45:00.439
<v Speaker 1>had their highest catches of the year, and they're head coach.

0:45:00.480 --> 0:45:03.640
<v Speaker 1>Mike Vrabel came in Monday and could not stop talking

0:45:03.680 --> 0:45:06.560
<v Speaker 1>about tight window throws as if he had never seen

0:45:06.600 --> 0:45:10.160
<v Speaker 1>them before. With Marcus Mariotta under center, it was a

0:45:10.239 --> 0:45:12.520
<v Speaker 1>different offense. You even had a two minute drill in

0:45:12.560 --> 0:45:16.040
<v Speaker 1>there to end the first half. I mean, these are

0:45:16.040 --> 0:45:18.319
<v Speaker 1>things Titans fans just aren't used to seeing. And then

0:45:18.400 --> 0:45:21.120
<v Speaker 1>Jeffrey Simmons, the first round pick, comes back and, as

0:45:21.120 --> 0:45:23.759
<v Speaker 1>Greg said in the debrief, may have been the best

0:45:23.760 --> 0:45:27.759
<v Speaker 1>player on the field. Albert Haynesworth was raving about him, saying,

0:45:27.760 --> 0:45:29.320
<v Speaker 1>when I looked at this guy, he's worth the in

0:45:29.760 --> 0:45:31.560
<v Speaker 1>didn't look like a rookie, looked like a fifth or

0:45:31.600 --> 0:45:34.879
<v Speaker 1>six year Albert Haynesworth. He it's a good I mean,

0:45:34.960 --> 0:45:37.000
<v Speaker 1>it's easy, I guess because the Titans thing. But that

0:45:37.080 --> 0:45:40.520
<v Speaker 1>was a great comp because he seems so strong along

0:45:40.520 --> 0:45:44.840
<v Speaker 1>with the athleticism that he was overwhelming. I I texted

0:45:44.840 --> 0:45:46.520
<v Speaker 1>a little with DJ about it this week because he

0:45:46.560 --> 0:45:50.240
<v Speaker 1>had called Simmons a top five player in the draft,

0:45:50.320 --> 0:45:52.560
<v Speaker 1>if not for the A C L surgery. And then

0:45:52.560 --> 0:45:56.239
<v Speaker 1>there was also um a sexual assault when he was

0:45:57.120 --> 0:46:02.560
<v Speaker 1>early uh an alleged assault early in his career. There

0:46:02.640 --> 0:46:05.800
<v Speaker 1>was a woman picking on his sister and her children

0:46:06.200 --> 0:46:08.759
<v Speaker 1>and he's step I'm sorry, that should be corrected. And

0:46:08.840 --> 0:46:10.319
<v Speaker 1>that was back in two thousand and sixteen. But the

0:46:10.320 --> 0:46:13.680
<v Speaker 1>Combine didn't invite him because of that um. But just

0:46:13.719 --> 0:46:16.920
<v Speaker 1>watching him play, he was a massive difference maker. And

0:46:16.960 --> 0:46:19.279
<v Speaker 1>Tannehill was too. I mean, I think you have these

0:46:19.280 --> 0:46:21.439
<v Speaker 1>receivers Corey Davis and A. J. Brown. There's a chance

0:46:21.480 --> 0:46:23.000
<v Speaker 1>that you get a little more out of him if

0:46:23.040 --> 0:46:26.000
<v Speaker 1>you give him a chance to make those tight catches.

0:46:26.000 --> 0:46:28.440
<v Speaker 1>And who would have thought after all these years, Finally

0:46:28.480 --> 0:46:31.560
<v Speaker 1>we got Mariota Winston in year five to decide it,

0:46:31.920 --> 0:46:35.160
<v Speaker 1>and the winner of that debate is Ryan Tannehill. You

0:46:35.239 --> 0:46:38.759
<v Speaker 1>want Mario, we we uh, we do have a lot

0:46:38.800 --> 0:46:42.000
<v Speaker 1>of evidence on Ryan Tannehill over the course of six

0:46:42.080 --> 0:46:43.920
<v Speaker 1>or seven years. Yeah, I'm not getting to know that

0:46:43.960 --> 0:46:46.600
<v Speaker 1>we've been sucked in by that guy before, too, right, Okay,

0:46:46.640 --> 0:46:49.480
<v Speaker 1>allow me to clarify ahead. I don't think he's any

0:46:49.520 --> 0:46:52.440
<v Speaker 1>kind of long term answer. He's just making the Titans

0:46:52.440 --> 0:46:55.399
<v Speaker 1>more watchable and I'm enjoying it. Let's see, let's see

0:46:55.400 --> 0:46:57.400
<v Speaker 1>what he does against a different defense than the charge

0:46:57.440 --> 0:47:00.440
<v Speaker 1>in a better in a better situation. Think there's a

0:47:00.480 --> 0:47:04.120
<v Speaker 1>case that he's can be adult in like figure adult

0:47:04.200 --> 0:47:09.000
<v Speaker 1>and we've talked about media. Yeah, goes like that, which

0:47:09.040 --> 0:47:11.120
<v Speaker 1>is a little better than I think people think of

0:47:11.200 --> 0:47:14.319
<v Speaker 1>him as He's fine, his his his sitting there at

0:47:14.320 --> 0:47:17.000
<v Speaker 1>the Dalton scale line was the one guy we can

0:47:17.080 --> 0:47:19.680
<v Speaker 1>think that maybe is doing and maybe this year too

0:47:19.800 --> 0:47:21.799
<v Speaker 1>was Dalton doesn't really fit as a Dalton scale at

0:47:21.840 --> 0:47:25.000
<v Speaker 1>this point. But I cannot get out of my own

0:47:25.239 --> 0:47:31.200
<v Speaker 1>mind watching the live we had an assassination on Andy

0:47:31.280 --> 0:47:33.920
<v Speaker 1>Dalton by Mark Straight and into a my mind, I

0:47:33.960 --> 0:47:37.360
<v Speaker 1>loved it. Well, I think I'm being extremely fair on

0:47:37.400 --> 0:47:39.799
<v Speaker 1>Andy Dalton at this point. I mean, he back to

0:47:39.920 --> 0:47:42.759
<v Speaker 1>back to back intercept. Why do you think you're being fair?

0:47:42.840 --> 0:47:45.160
<v Speaker 1>And he's the same quarterback he's always been. The only

0:47:45.160 --> 0:47:46.960
<v Speaker 1>thing that's changes this around. Hi, why are we talking

0:47:46.960 --> 0:47:49.200
<v Speaker 1>about Andy Dalton? We can get into Andy Dalton. I mean,

0:47:49.400 --> 0:47:53.840
<v Speaker 1>then let's flip over to Jamis Winston, who totally sabotaged

0:47:54.360 --> 0:47:56.720
<v Speaker 1>his own team a week ago and does it every

0:47:56.719 --> 0:47:59.319
<v Speaker 1>other week. And Greg, you pointed out the Saints game

0:47:59.360 --> 0:48:01.600
<v Speaker 1>where he have had five picks in that game where

0:48:01.600 --> 0:48:05.000
<v Speaker 1>he didn't, And I wonder when the Bucks have you know,

0:48:05.040 --> 0:48:06.879
<v Speaker 1>they don't have someone to throw in there like Ryan

0:48:06.920 --> 0:48:09.359
<v Speaker 1>Tannehill at this point, but the experiment is over. If

0:48:09.400 --> 0:48:11.480
<v Speaker 1>there's anyone trying to tell me that you're going to

0:48:11.480 --> 0:48:15.000
<v Speaker 1>travel into next season with Jamis Winston, you gotta be

0:48:15.040 --> 0:48:17.640
<v Speaker 1>kidding me. Feels very unlikely. And this is the wrong

0:48:17.719 --> 0:48:20.480
<v Speaker 1>team for him to face. I think, because I think

0:48:20.520 --> 0:48:22.759
<v Speaker 1>the Titans what they're good at with Dan P's they're

0:48:22.800 --> 0:48:25.239
<v Speaker 1>very Patriots, Like they have the veteran secondary. They can

0:48:25.360 --> 0:48:30.000
<v Speaker 1>mix up and confuse bad quarterbacks, you know, into making mistakes.

0:48:30.040 --> 0:48:32.080
<v Speaker 1>That's kind of what they're best that. And then they

0:48:32.120 --> 0:48:34.560
<v Speaker 1>for these games against some of the bad quarterbacks, they

0:48:34.560 --> 0:48:36.760
<v Speaker 1>can look like one of the best defenses in the league,

0:48:36.760 --> 0:48:38.520
<v Speaker 1>and maybe this will be that week. This wouldn't have

0:48:38.520 --> 0:48:42.840
<v Speaker 1>been are as Tannehill way of an upgrade over Mariota,

0:48:42.880 --> 0:48:45.680
<v Speaker 1>but they needed a Charger's apocalypse to even win at

0:48:45.680 --> 0:48:48.359
<v Speaker 1>home last week. So they were coming off four out

0:48:48.360 --> 0:48:50.720
<v Speaker 1>of five losses before that, so it's hard to trust.

0:48:50.760 --> 0:48:54.719
<v Speaker 1>We're also, I'm just saying that game. You know, they're

0:48:54.719 --> 0:48:56.759
<v Speaker 1>a middle of the road team, so they're they're not

0:48:57.120 --> 0:48:59.120
<v Speaker 1>a team that blows too many teams. That a little

0:48:59.160 --> 0:49:03.360
<v Speaker 1>notes shock Barrett still sitting at nine sacks, you know,

0:49:03.560 --> 0:49:06.359
<v Speaker 1>giggling with your you know, it's funny like so you're

0:49:06.400 --> 0:49:09.840
<v Speaker 1>actively rooting against I'm not rooting against him at all. Again, again,

0:49:09.880 --> 0:49:12.040
<v Speaker 1>if we want to actually remember how that's what you

0:49:12.080 --> 0:49:14.799
<v Speaker 1>would want to want to actually remember what happened on

0:49:14.800 --> 0:49:17.600
<v Speaker 1>the show. It was not Shack Barrett specific. It was

0:49:17.719 --> 0:49:21.080
<v Speaker 1>the player that jumps out but then eight sacks, Shack

0:49:21.120 --> 0:49:23.400
<v Speaker 1>won't get to ten. That this is I remember this

0:49:23.440 --> 0:49:25.840
<v Speaker 1>is when he had eight. There's been three games since

0:49:26.160 --> 0:49:28.399
<v Speaker 1>and he has one sack in those three games. Said,

0:49:28.440 --> 0:49:31.359
<v Speaker 1>he's he is like the archetype of someone that would

0:49:31.360 --> 0:49:34.399
<v Speaker 1>finish with nine ever that after that early season want

0:49:34.480 --> 0:49:36.719
<v Speaker 1>him to finish with nine. You're texting us about it

0:49:36.800 --> 0:49:38.680
<v Speaker 1>during the think of course if it comes one of

0:49:38.719 --> 0:49:41.160
<v Speaker 1>those things where if it played out where like it

0:49:41.200 --> 0:49:44.319
<v Speaker 1>would just be another example of shutting you clowns up. Yes,

0:49:44.360 --> 0:49:48.760
<v Speaker 1>I would enjoy it. This guy in California rooting against

0:49:48.800 --> 0:49:51.160
<v Speaker 1>it's not really a Shack Barrett thing. But if it

0:49:51.200 --> 0:49:53.200
<v Speaker 1>played out that way, which I have no control over,

0:49:53.280 --> 0:49:56.160
<v Speaker 1>no more than Greg does with people tweeting about medical scenarios.

0:49:56.160 --> 0:49:58.279
<v Speaker 1>At this point in our society, let us roll with it.

0:49:58.400 --> 0:50:00.879
<v Speaker 1>When have any of us clowns ever? Shut up? Right?

0:50:01.239 --> 0:50:03.640
<v Speaker 1>That won't be happening. One of my favorites a little

0:50:03.680 --> 0:50:07.240
<v Speaker 1>personal but text change though, because Mark's tweeted a texted

0:50:07.320 --> 0:50:09.600
<v Speaker 1>us about it yesterday, I believe what's for the first

0:50:09.640 --> 0:50:11.920
<v Speaker 1>time it was just like shocks still second nine and

0:50:12.520 --> 0:50:14.600
<v Speaker 1>the middle of the day, West said the same reaction

0:50:14.680 --> 0:50:18.720
<v Speaker 1>is what are you? What is that? A questions talking

0:50:18.719 --> 0:50:20.279
<v Speaker 1>about doing my homework in the middle of the day.

0:50:20.280 --> 0:50:22.440
<v Speaker 1>I thought I'd remind you before I forgot to remind you.

0:50:22.440 --> 0:50:26.239
<v Speaker 1>All right, let's uh, let's move on up. Next is

0:50:27.680 --> 0:50:31.680
<v Speaker 1>does this mean I have a snake. I'm ready for

0:50:31.760 --> 0:50:34.120
<v Speaker 1>my first pick. At least maybe I'll use my time

0:50:34.160 --> 0:50:36.440
<v Speaker 1>allotted to get that second pick. Ready that that's what

0:50:36.440 --> 0:50:38.640
<v Speaker 1>you're in the NFL. Sometimes, I'm gonna take the Chargers

0:50:38.640 --> 0:50:42.880
<v Speaker 1>in the Bears. A weird game, but a strangely meaning

0:50:43.239 --> 0:50:46.279
<v Speaker 1>game for the Bears, certainly because I think both these

0:50:46.280 --> 0:50:49.399
<v Speaker 1>teams are hoping that they've hit bottom, and uh, one

0:50:49.440 --> 0:50:52.560
<v Speaker 1>of them obviously hasn't because they're gonna lose on Sunday.

0:50:52.800 --> 0:50:55.360
<v Speaker 1>And at least the Chargers, for the first time in

0:50:55.400 --> 0:50:57.400
<v Speaker 1>a long time, have some good induriners. Yeah, they might

0:50:57.400 --> 0:51:00.160
<v Speaker 1>have lost uh Mike Pouncey for the season. Yeah, might

0:51:00.200 --> 0:51:02.520
<v Speaker 1>a last Forest Lamp for the season, his replacement which

0:51:02.600 --> 0:51:05.359
<v Speaker 1>kind of slipped under the radar. But they did get

0:51:06.480 --> 0:51:08.920
<v Speaker 1>Melvin Ingram back at practice this week. Sounds like kill

0:51:08.960 --> 0:51:11.439
<v Speaker 1>be back. They did get Russell o'koung back. He will

0:51:11.480 --> 0:51:14.760
<v Speaker 1>be starting this game at left tackle. That's a massive upgrade.

0:51:15.360 --> 0:51:18.440
<v Speaker 1>And uh, and you have Hunter Henry playing like an

0:51:18.440 --> 0:51:21.680
<v Speaker 1>all pro tight end who you missed for health care

0:51:21.840 --> 0:51:25.160
<v Speaker 1>look at a little a little better. And uh, I

0:51:25.200 --> 0:51:27.400
<v Speaker 1>thought they did some positive things in Tennessee. And I

0:51:27.520 --> 0:51:30.279
<v Speaker 1>certainly don't think they're a cake walk. Uh. I was

0:51:30.400 --> 0:51:32.640
<v Speaker 1>very surprised to see the Bears open this game as

0:51:32.719 --> 0:51:36.040
<v Speaker 1>huge favorites. I just do not see Mitchell Drabinsky leading

0:51:36.040 --> 0:51:40.440
<v Speaker 1>a huge against any reasonable NFL team at this point. Yeah,

0:51:40.480 --> 0:51:43.600
<v Speaker 1>it's it's a Bordal situation there. His mechanics are out

0:51:43.640 --> 0:51:46.640
<v Speaker 1>to sink bass Is off. His lower body and upper

0:51:46.680 --> 0:51:49.360
<v Speaker 1>body are disconnected. A lot of back pedaling and throwing

0:51:49.360 --> 0:51:52.240
<v Speaker 1>off his back foot at the slightest sign of pressure,

0:51:52.360 --> 0:51:55.279
<v Speaker 1>like it when West because mechanics in the lab. Well,

0:51:55.320 --> 0:51:58.240
<v Speaker 1>I mean this is he's just broken and their defense

0:51:58.320 --> 0:52:00.560
<v Speaker 1>knew it. By the fourth quarter, they could see their

0:52:00.560 --> 0:52:03.120
<v Speaker 1>effort level had fallen off. And that's what happens when

0:52:03.160 --> 0:52:06.280
<v Speaker 1>you have a Bortles type of situation, broken beyond repair.

0:52:06.520 --> 0:52:12.120
<v Speaker 1>UM member former Bear center Olan Creutz, mark Um vaguely

0:52:12.719 --> 0:52:18.799
<v Speaker 1>cycling backs for the memory of that were like, at

0:52:18.880 --> 0:52:21.520
<v Speaker 1>least we had Creutz. Well, that's what I mean by

0:52:21.560 --> 0:52:23.920
<v Speaker 1>the Bordles situation. Creutz was saying this week that you know,

0:52:23.960 --> 0:52:26.400
<v Speaker 1>the quarterback obviously is the one player in the building

0:52:26.400 --> 0:52:29.000
<v Speaker 1>who can lift everyone up, but he's also the one

0:52:29.040 --> 0:52:31.359
<v Speaker 1>player in the building who can take everyone down with him.

0:52:31.920 --> 0:52:34.040
<v Speaker 1>And that's what's like, how do we know how good

0:52:34.040 --> 0:52:37.040
<v Speaker 1>Anthony Miller is as a football player? Their number two

0:52:37.120 --> 0:52:40.440
<v Speaker 1>or three wide receiver. And look, last week, this was

0:52:40.520 --> 0:52:44.560
<v Speaker 1>not a Trabinsky all on him. They have fumbles by Montgomery,

0:52:44.600 --> 0:52:47.960
<v Speaker 1>fumbles by Miller, Alan Robertson couldn't get get a second

0:52:48.000 --> 0:52:51.279
<v Speaker 1>toe down inbounds on Trabinsky's best throw. It was a

0:52:51.440 --> 0:52:55.319
<v Speaker 1>offense wide collapse last week, very really bad running game,

0:52:55.360 --> 0:52:58.520
<v Speaker 1>and their defense is just not as good. So whether

0:52:58.560 --> 0:53:01.480
<v Speaker 1>it's Hicks or it's Trabinsky, it's still really good. But

0:53:01.520 --> 0:53:03.960
<v Speaker 1>when you go from number one to a team that

0:53:04.040 --> 0:53:08.320
<v Speaker 1>gives up big time yardage to the Raiders and today Bridgewater,

0:53:08.400 --> 0:53:10.000
<v Speaker 1>you're not as good as you were. I mean, the

0:53:10.040 --> 0:53:12.520
<v Speaker 1>Bears are the last team, the last offense that I

0:53:12.520 --> 0:53:15.160
<v Speaker 1>would make excuses for at this point. But I'm almost

0:53:15.160 --> 0:53:18.160
<v Speaker 1>at the point with the Saints defense where okay, let's

0:53:18.200 --> 0:53:21.960
<v Speaker 1>regroup and see what you do this week. But the sts,

0:53:22.040 --> 0:53:24.560
<v Speaker 1>what the Saints did to the Bears, I think the

0:53:24.560 --> 0:53:27.720
<v Speaker 1>Bears defense, to West's point, that locker room is fractured

0:53:27.800 --> 0:53:29.960
<v Speaker 1>right now because they need to realize that, you know,

0:53:30.000 --> 0:53:32.680
<v Speaker 1>they're on the field now for thirty five plus minutes

0:53:32.719 --> 0:53:35.279
<v Speaker 1>a game and their gas by the end when they

0:53:35.320 --> 0:53:37.080
<v Speaker 1>lost to the Raiders. That had something to do with

0:53:37.120 --> 0:53:41.160
<v Speaker 1>the Bears offense just not performing too Matt nags at

0:53:41.160 --> 0:53:43.080
<v Speaker 1>the point where he's got to announce in the middle

0:53:43.080 --> 0:53:45.440
<v Speaker 1>of the week that he's gonna call plays. This is

0:53:45.440 --> 0:53:49.080
<v Speaker 1>about as far removed from the this season's experience the

0:53:49.120 --> 0:53:51.600
<v Speaker 1>Bears fans thought they would get. And I feel bad

0:53:51.640 --> 0:53:53.000
<v Speaker 1>for the fan base because they having a lot of

0:53:53.080 --> 0:53:55.719
<v Speaker 1>upside moments. But you went into the year with a

0:53:55.719 --> 0:53:59.759
<v Speaker 1>shaky quarterback and some shaky skill position operations here and

0:54:00.239 --> 0:54:02.759
<v Speaker 1>playing out. And I wonder if what the Saints did

0:54:03.280 --> 0:54:05.440
<v Speaker 1>is just a continuation of the model of how to

0:54:05.520 --> 0:54:08.640
<v Speaker 1>beat Robiski week week after week, and where his confidence

0:54:08.640 --> 0:54:10.360
<v Speaker 1>will be, because you know, this is a guy that

0:54:10.440 --> 0:54:13.160
<v Speaker 1>only started for one season in college. He doesn't have

0:54:13.680 --> 0:54:16.799
<v Speaker 1>sixty college slash pro starts under his belt to deal with,

0:54:16.880 --> 0:54:20.840
<v Speaker 1>and he's not growing, he's regressing. We have a segment

0:54:20.840 --> 0:54:23.000
<v Speaker 1>on the Power Ranking show I do with Matt money

0:54:23.000 --> 0:54:26.319
<v Speaker 1>Smith called the Voice of the Chargers talks about what's

0:54:26.360 --> 0:54:29.759
<v Speaker 1>wrong with the Chargers without getting fired, and Money's he's

0:54:29.800 --> 0:54:31.920
<v Speaker 1>such a smart guy and he sees everything and he

0:54:32.000 --> 0:54:37.160
<v Speaker 1>was breaking down. What what made uh that last sequence

0:54:37.200 --> 0:54:39.560
<v Speaker 1>of that game such a cluster f near the goal line,

0:54:39.600 --> 0:54:43.239
<v Speaker 1>because not only was their Chargers failures and Anthony Lynn

0:54:43.280 --> 0:54:46.680
<v Speaker 1>with brutal play calling giving the ball back to Melvin

0:54:46.680 --> 0:54:49.640
<v Speaker 1>Gordon a second time after he nearly fumbled the first time.

0:54:49.640 --> 0:54:53.200
<v Speaker 1>And then he does fumble. But the officials both on

0:54:53.280 --> 0:54:57.239
<v Speaker 1>the floor and upstairs. Uh, and on Park Avenue or

0:54:57.239 --> 0:54:59.920
<v Speaker 1>wherever they do these reviews. Uh, they missed the ten

0:55:00.040 --> 0:55:04.200
<v Speaker 1>second runoff within that sequence. They also Austin Ekeler scored

0:55:04.239 --> 0:55:08.480
<v Speaker 1>a touchdown. Uh, there was not enough evidence to overturn that.

0:55:10.160 --> 0:55:12.799
<v Speaker 1>And and then and that's pure Chargers and and even

0:55:12.800 --> 0:55:14.680
<v Speaker 1>to Melvin Gordon, he the ball comes out of his

0:55:14.760 --> 0:55:17.239
<v Speaker 1>hand on the first and gold carry, he lands on

0:55:17.320 --> 0:55:19.640
<v Speaker 1>top of it. You could make the argument that should

0:55:19.640 --> 0:55:22.000
<v Speaker 1>have been a touchdown. It was just such such a mess.

0:55:22.040 --> 0:55:24.920
<v Speaker 1>But you wonder what happens going forward with Melvin Gordon White.

0:55:25.200 --> 0:55:27.080
<v Speaker 1>I honestly have reached the point where I have just

0:55:27.320 --> 0:55:29.040
<v Speaker 1>I have pity for the guy. I feel for him

0:55:29.080 --> 0:55:32.640
<v Speaker 1>because he comes to the out in the media this

0:55:32.680 --> 0:55:34.720
<v Speaker 1>week and he knows not only is he not getting

0:55:34.719 --> 0:55:37.359
<v Speaker 1>that big paycheck, but now he's public enemy number one

0:55:37.680 --> 0:55:42.560
<v Speaker 1>amongst his fan base and fantasy owners. Arecussions, yes, there are,

0:55:42.920 --> 0:55:46.480
<v Speaker 1>but it's also as a human being. When he comes

0:55:46.480 --> 0:55:48.160
<v Speaker 1>out to me and says, one thing I know is

0:55:48.400 --> 0:55:51.160
<v Speaker 1>I'll never miss another training camp, you sense the guy

0:55:51.320 --> 0:55:53.480
<v Speaker 1>is in a place, in a tough place in his life.

0:55:53.480 --> 0:55:55.840
<v Speaker 1>He's not in shape. Obviously, he doesn't have that explosiveness

0:55:56.040 --> 0:55:59.319
<v Speaker 1>near the goal line. And Anthony Lynn, who's a former

0:55:59.360 --> 0:56:02.239
<v Speaker 1>running backs coach, he wants Melvin Gordon to get that

0:56:02.280 --> 0:56:04.000
<v Speaker 1>game when he touched out, but he's gotta be smarter.

0:56:04.080 --> 0:56:06.520
<v Speaker 1>And you just wonder what Gordon's role is going forward

0:56:07.040 --> 0:56:09.560
<v Speaker 1>um at his current state. And one thing we don't

0:56:09.600 --> 0:56:12.759
<v Speaker 1>know behind the scenes to add to that list is

0:56:12.800 --> 0:56:15.239
<v Speaker 1>the kind of advice he's getting from the people around him.

0:56:15.239 --> 0:56:17.919
<v Speaker 1>If you're Melvin Gordon going into this season where he's

0:56:17.960 --> 0:56:21.319
<v Speaker 1>probably regretting some of the missteps he took based on

0:56:21.560 --> 0:56:24.920
<v Speaker 1>agents and counsel saying this is something, this is something

0:56:24.920 --> 0:56:27.000
<v Speaker 1>that was important to him before he entered the league.

0:56:27.120 --> 0:56:29.080
<v Speaker 1>He came into the league saying I'm going to change

0:56:29.080 --> 0:56:31.600
<v Speaker 1>the way running backs get paid. And I get that

0:56:31.640 --> 0:56:34.799
<v Speaker 1>you're he admitted he wouldn't do it again, but he

0:56:34.840 --> 0:56:38.320
<v Speaker 1>also affected other people's lives. He affected his teammates lives,

0:56:38.480 --> 0:56:41.120
<v Speaker 1>he affected his coaches lives, he affected the owners lives

0:56:41.320 --> 0:56:44.760
<v Speaker 1>by not coming in shape, by not reporting with his teammates.

0:56:44.840 --> 0:56:47.200
<v Speaker 1>And now he's playing like two thousand eighteen Leonard four

0:56:47.239 --> 0:56:50.920
<v Speaker 1>net even before that goal line situation. He's not explosive,

0:56:51.160 --> 0:56:54.080
<v Speaker 1>he's not good, and he's cost himself money instead of

0:56:54.080 --> 0:56:56.680
<v Speaker 1>earning money. It was a bad decision with a lot

0:56:56.680 --> 0:57:00.799
<v Speaker 1>of repercussions, fair, and the coach bears a lot of

0:57:00.800 --> 0:57:03.120
<v Speaker 1>fault for it. We see this in baseball too. This

0:57:03.160 --> 0:57:04.919
<v Speaker 1>is a big part of coaching. You bring a guy

0:57:05.000 --> 0:57:07.160
<v Speaker 1>up from a rehab assignment and he's not what he

0:57:07.200 --> 0:57:09.680
<v Speaker 1>once was, don't play him. It's a little loyal to

0:57:09.719 --> 0:57:11.600
<v Speaker 1>a fall. They pushed a little hard and if I'm

0:57:11.600 --> 0:57:14.480
<v Speaker 1>gonna bury Jalen Ramsey. West makes a good point that

0:57:14.600 --> 0:57:17.080
<v Speaker 1>if he comes back, Melvin Gordon comes back, he's got

0:57:17.080 --> 0:57:18.880
<v Speaker 1>to be Melvin Gordon that they need him to be

0:57:18.920 --> 0:57:21.120
<v Speaker 1>in apparently, and the worst thing for the charges because

0:57:21.120 --> 0:57:23.840
<v Speaker 1>we've talked about Melvin Gordon, let us a good trade candidates.

0:57:23.840 --> 0:57:25.560
<v Speaker 1>Send him to Buffalo, send him X, Y and Z.

0:57:25.920 --> 0:57:28.720
<v Speaker 1>I mean, thanks to his actual play on the field.

0:57:28.760 --> 0:57:31.280
<v Speaker 1>His stock for a trade could not be lower. Right now,

0:57:31.280 --> 0:57:33.600
<v Speaker 1>whatever they were gonna get is less, Greg, It's time

0:57:33.680 --> 0:57:40.120
<v Speaker 1>to snake all right, Um, I'm gonna go see Hawks.

0:57:40.160 --> 0:57:43.680
<v Speaker 1>Falcon's only two early games left on the board. Chance

0:57:43.720 --> 0:57:46.200
<v Speaker 1>to see Russell Wilson. We don't know if Matt Ryan

0:57:46.240 --> 0:57:47.920
<v Speaker 1>is gonna play in this game. He has not practiced

0:57:47.960 --> 0:57:51.720
<v Speaker 1>Wednesday or Thursday. Maybe is it worth noting this or not.

0:57:51.920 --> 0:57:54.720
<v Speaker 1>Matt shob moved the offense and scored a touchdown better

0:57:54.720 --> 0:57:56.240
<v Speaker 1>than Matt Ryan did. All us well, you did it,

0:57:56.240 --> 0:57:59.280
<v Speaker 1>you knowed you put so much stock in garbage time.

0:57:59.680 --> 0:58:02.280
<v Speaker 1>I out what an indictment? No Like Greig and I

0:58:02.280 --> 0:58:04.960
<v Speaker 1>have always disagreed on the value of garbage time production,

0:58:05.040 --> 0:58:07.360
<v Speaker 1>and I think it. I think it's actually worse than

0:58:07.400 --> 0:58:09.880
<v Speaker 1>meaningless because it leads you to conclusions that don't mean.

0:58:10.080 --> 0:58:12.680
<v Speaker 1>I don't think the match shop moving matters. I think

0:58:12.720 --> 0:58:16.400
<v Speaker 1>it's hard to to separate out. It is a philosophical thing,

0:58:16.640 --> 0:58:19.320
<v Speaker 1>like what garbage time matters and what doesn't. Because almost

0:58:19.400 --> 0:58:21.400
<v Speaker 1>as equally as a team going up and down the

0:58:21.440 --> 0:58:23.920
<v Speaker 1>field with their backups, things happen like what happened in

0:58:23.960 --> 0:58:26.440
<v Speaker 1>the Jets game where you just keep getting destroyed no

0:58:26.480 --> 0:58:29.080
<v Speaker 1>matter who's on the field, so it's just hard to

0:58:29.240 --> 0:58:31.280
<v Speaker 1>know which one matters. I think there'll be plenty of

0:58:31.320 --> 0:58:34.680
<v Speaker 1>garbage time in this game because the Falcons defense is

0:58:34.680 --> 0:58:37.720
<v Speaker 1>a garbage defense. I mean, them and the Dolphins are

0:58:37.760 --> 0:58:40.480
<v Speaker 1>by far the two worst defenses in the league. And

0:58:40.520 --> 0:58:44.080
<v Speaker 1>as long as Russell Wilson is allowed to throw the ball, uh,

0:58:44.120 --> 0:58:46.440
<v Speaker 1>they're going to be one of the most efficient passing

0:58:46.480 --> 0:58:48.640
<v Speaker 1>attacks in the league. It's crazy that the number two

0:58:48.640 --> 0:58:53.160
<v Speaker 1>passing attack in d v O A is basically Wilson

0:58:53.160 --> 0:58:57.920
<v Speaker 1>and Lockett improvising and then DK Metcalf's three routes like

0:58:57.960 --> 0:59:00.160
<v Speaker 1>that's that's about it, and that's good for numb or

0:59:00.160 --> 0:59:02.360
<v Speaker 1>two in the lake right, and then the other side

0:59:02.360 --> 0:59:04.000
<v Speaker 1>of the ball. They don't have a single player on

0:59:04.040 --> 0:59:07.760
<v Speaker 1>pace for five sacks. They miss like a Cliff Avrol

0:59:07.880 --> 0:59:10.520
<v Speaker 1>or a Chris Clemens, one of those speedy guys coming

0:59:10.520 --> 0:59:12.920
<v Speaker 1>off the edge. And if you can't sack a hobble

0:59:13.040 --> 0:59:16.360
<v Speaker 1>Matt Ryan or a Matt Shop behind this offense offensive

0:59:16.400 --> 0:59:19.160
<v Speaker 1>line with no running game, then you're just a terrible

0:59:19.160 --> 0:59:23.160
<v Speaker 1>pass rushing team. Yeah, Matt Ryan, was you know that

0:59:23.240 --> 0:59:25.960
<v Speaker 1>offensive line is such a liability. They got him hurt

0:59:26.000 --> 0:59:28.560
<v Speaker 1>last week. I mean, that's they he was punished from

0:59:28.560 --> 0:59:32.000
<v Speaker 1>wire to wire. I would like to see a Seahawks game, because, yes,

0:59:32.240 --> 0:59:35.160
<v Speaker 1>they are fun to watch. They are drama queens because

0:59:35.160 --> 0:59:37.560
<v Speaker 1>they're gonna get out down early or keep it too

0:59:37.560 --> 0:59:39.800
<v Speaker 1>close in some of these games, and then you know,

0:59:39.880 --> 0:59:43.000
<v Speaker 1>with magic to lock it, which seems to happen every week,

0:59:43.280 --> 0:59:45.080
<v Speaker 1>they'll pull up stuff out of a hat and get

0:59:45.120 --> 0:59:47.080
<v Speaker 1>close at the end. How about a game like this

0:59:47.120 --> 0:59:49.760
<v Speaker 1>where you're playing an offense that's just an open barn door.

0:59:50.200 --> 0:59:53.640
<v Speaker 1>Get up early and actually run the Schottenheimer offense the

0:59:53.680 --> 0:59:55.720
<v Speaker 1>way he'd like to, which is panneling people with the

0:59:55.800 --> 0:59:59.600
<v Speaker 1>run late versus this late nonsense. I'm not sure they're

0:59:59.640 --> 1:00:01.720
<v Speaker 1>they're any better than they were a year ago. They've

1:00:01.720 --> 1:00:07.120
<v Speaker 1>played seven games, they've lost convincingly twice, they've won convincingly once,

1:00:07.200 --> 1:00:09.160
<v Speaker 1>and they've won four times at the buzzer. I mean

1:00:09.200 --> 1:00:11.360
<v Speaker 1>that's you know, the ball bounced a little better than

1:00:11.360 --> 1:00:13.520
<v Speaker 1>they were a year ago. But they're just kind of

1:00:13.560 --> 1:00:15.880
<v Speaker 1>that sort of team. Well, it feels like they're passing

1:00:15.920 --> 1:00:18.560
<v Speaker 1>game is better, but they're running game is much worse.

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<v Speaker 1>Than it was. Later got to recognize it though, when

1:00:20.880 --> 1:00:23.960
<v Speaker 1>he said that when he took criticism from missing the

1:00:23.960 --> 1:00:27.200
<v Speaker 1>long field goal last week, it was on fourth and

1:00:27.320 --> 1:00:30.480
<v Speaker 1>three of fifty three yard or that his plan was

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<v Speaker 1>if he didn't go for the field goal, they would

1:00:32.400 --> 1:00:34.240
<v Speaker 1>have punted it. And he said, because that's who we are.

1:00:34.760 --> 1:00:38.040
<v Speaker 1>We're a defense and running team. We punt it there.

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<v Speaker 1>But you're not. Your defense is below average, your running

1:00:40.840 --> 1:00:43.520
<v Speaker 1>game is below average in terms of efficiency. Your offense

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<v Speaker 1>is awesome. I mean you're passing the tax awesome. Lean

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<v Speaker 1>into that your quarterback is an m VP candidate because

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<v Speaker 1>largely the passing success. I will say that, yes, there's

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of close games with the Seahawks is the

1:00:53.760 --> 1:00:55.800
<v Speaker 1>reason why the Seahawks win a lot of close games.

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<v Speaker 1>It's not always a coin flips because Russell Wilson as

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<v Speaker 1>good as that as an doing it for a decade. Um.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, let's move on, Chris Westling. Okay, with where

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<v Speaker 1>you're coming up in the draft today, I am I'm

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<v Speaker 1>not okay. What's what's left to pick from it? I

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<v Speaker 1>will take for the first time all year, the Bengals

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<v Speaker 1>on the road against the Rams. Zach Taylor Sean McVeigh

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<v Speaker 1>in London, back at in London Stadium. This is a

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<v Speaker 1>normal time game. Ten am London pop like speak. We're

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<v Speaker 1>back in the at the six thirty am. Damn oh,

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<v Speaker 1>I'd rather have the six thirty. I can pay attention

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<v Speaker 1>to the game. Wood good for you. Yeah, a little

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<v Speaker 1>six wake up call. I mean I'm waking up anyway.

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<v Speaker 1>It's it's Sunday. It's a big football day. You gotta

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<v Speaker 1>get up early, ready to face to face the world.

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<v Speaker 1>He putting leave the egg yolks into the glass and

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<v Speaker 1>just happened to wake up like it. Go ahead like

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<v Speaker 1>Christmas morning. You got a whole day of football aheady,

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<v Speaker 1>just like Christmas morning. You're a lucky man. Us uh.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know what to say about the Bengals, like

1:02:04.840 --> 1:02:07.280
<v Speaker 1>you can't. I think I disagree with Mark and I

1:02:07.320 --> 1:02:10.120
<v Speaker 1>don't think you can evaluate Andy Dalton. You just can't

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<v Speaker 1>evaluate him behind this offensive line with the worst rushing

1:02:13.480 --> 1:02:17.560
<v Speaker 1>attack we've ever seen, throwing to an injured wide receiver

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<v Speaker 1>corps in a new offense. I just we know what

1:02:22.400 --> 1:02:24.720
<v Speaker 1>he is after all these years. I don't think he

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<v Speaker 1>got worse. I think he's the same quarterback when everything

1:02:27.760 --> 1:02:30.640
<v Speaker 1>else got worse. I want to look at it. I

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<v Speaker 1>can understand the Bengals say, let's keep a G Green.

1:02:33.560 --> 1:02:37.520
<v Speaker 1>If you're Zach Taylor especially, you're coming in and you think, okay,

1:02:37.680 --> 1:02:40.760
<v Speaker 1>if I can just get a J greenback, Tyler Boyd,

1:02:41.240 --> 1:02:43.439
<v Speaker 1>if we get John Ross back at some point Joe

1:02:43.520 --> 1:02:46.360
<v Speaker 1>Mix and Gio Bernard look at the weapons, I suddenly

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<v Speaker 1>have I understand a coach saying that Cordie Glenn returned

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<v Speaker 1>to practice autent tate making like three or four great

1:02:52.640 --> 1:02:55.840
<v Speaker 1>catches every week. Now it's it's right. I do think

1:02:55.880 --> 1:02:58.880
<v Speaker 1>you can say that it's trending towards the end of

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<v Speaker 1>an era, though, that they will move on from him

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<v Speaker 1>because it doesn't seem like it's a great match. And

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<v Speaker 1>maybe it was just the green from uh Dondy Dalton

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<v Speaker 1>after this year, but maybe it was just like the

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<v Speaker 1>emotion of it. But the end of that game, the booing,

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<v Speaker 1>like the the windy, half empty stadium, like where you

1:03:16.120 --> 1:03:20.560
<v Speaker 1>could actually hear, you could hear, you could hear the

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<v Speaker 1>the individuals different you know, timbers of their voice booing

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<v Speaker 1>into the the see it just felt so like late

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<v Speaker 1>December and ugly and just felt like this is ending. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>My only call is for a new era, like let's

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<v Speaker 1>try something new, because a lot of those weapons that

1:03:36.400 --> 1:03:39.240
<v Speaker 1>you listed have been there for a long time, and

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not certain Zach Taylor's the guy to take them over.

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<v Speaker 1>I thought the Rams, you know, I know who they

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<v Speaker 1>were playing last week. It was kind of a nice

1:03:46.560 --> 1:03:49.080
<v Speaker 1>fu game for Jared Goff in the offense to say

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<v Speaker 1>they're not perfect, but you know what, they did everything

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<v Speaker 1>you could have asked. I thought Golf made some really

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<v Speaker 1>nice throws. He is far from uh the dude at

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<v Speaker 1>this point. But after the fire that they were taking,

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<v Speaker 1>they win and they took care of business. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>know what you could have asked the offense to get

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<v Speaker 1>more in Atlantic, Yeah, they got and they and they

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<v Speaker 1>focused on what they do well, which is those three receivers.

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<v Speaker 1>They're awesome, and they played a lot of tempo. I

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<v Speaker 1>think it was a little bit of back to basics.

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<v Speaker 1>You'll see that. I think I think you'll see that.

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<v Speaker 1>And then was made to look really good by a

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<v Speaker 1>horrible but let's see some more Darrell Henderson. I've seen

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<v Speaker 1>enough of Girly. I mean, he's a he's a useful

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<v Speaker 1>role player, and he's a their starter. He's a good

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<v Speaker 1>he's a starting running back. But he had a play

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<v Speaker 1>where he had a canyon opened up and it was

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<v Speaker 1>just him in the safety. I forget who was number

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<v Speaker 1>thirty on on Maybe it's demonte Kyzy on the falcon

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<v Speaker 1>and it was just what West said. He didn't try

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<v Speaker 1>to make a miss. He kind of burrowed and just

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<v Speaker 1>went down. And when Darrell Henderson comes in, he doesn't

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<v Speaker 1>look like he knows where he's going, but he's going

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<v Speaker 1>there fast with a lot of power. Let's see more.

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<v Speaker 1>I agree. I last thought in this game is people

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<v Speaker 1>are teeing off on Jared Goff because I think he's

1:05:03.600 --> 1:05:05.640
<v Speaker 1>one of those guys that people liked to tee off on.

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<v Speaker 1>But if your offensive line of public ads, maybe maybe maybe,

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<v Speaker 1>But if your offensive line goes from an A to

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<v Speaker 1>a C overnight and maybe worse, and your superstar running

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<v Speaker 1>back goes from a super duperstar too, what did you

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<v Speaker 1>call him a piece a role player? There's not going

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<v Speaker 1>to be this the idea now Jared Goff is maybe

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<v Speaker 1>not a superstar, and maybe people are are puffing out

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<v Speaker 1>their chest that I always that he wasn't a superstar,

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<v Speaker 1>But I think a lot of us were under the

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<v Speaker 1>impression that he was a good quarterback in a great system,

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<v Speaker 1>and now that he's playing poorly, it's not necessarily because

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<v Speaker 1>he's terrible, it's because things have changed a lot. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>not giving up on this team at all, especially with

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<v Speaker 1>Jalen Ramsey. I think they can be a factor. Golf

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<v Speaker 1>is terrible. I don't think we need to go there.

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<v Speaker 1>But he was an m v P canndy a year ago.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm with you, though, Dan, I think that a virtual

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<v Speaker 1>that guy. But from the beginning there was also if

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<v Speaker 1>anything that nagged Goff if he was a superstar in waiting,

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<v Speaker 1>was that it was just Sean McVeigh teen him up

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<v Speaker 1>at the at the at the line of scrimmage play

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<v Speaker 1>after playing making Because it's people that don't know enough

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<v Speaker 1>about football, it's fair to wonder, like, what's his ceiling?

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<v Speaker 1>You know, he's still only can he be a consistent

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<v Speaker 1>top five quarterback? I don't know if many people have

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<v Speaker 1>on the road and win, right, is there there's some

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<v Speaker 1>people that have believed he's had that in him throughout

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<v Speaker 1>and five is superstar? Right? No one in this podcast

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<v Speaker 1>has been like that. Can he be a very functional

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<v Speaker 1>top twelve type of guy and win a lot of games. Sure,

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<v Speaker 1>all right, let's close out the draft portion of proceedings here. Um,

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<v Speaker 1>I kind of get bailed out here. I get a

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<v Speaker 1>late game. I was worried that West is going to

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<v Speaker 1>go after his Broncos, but I guess they were so

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<v Speaker 1>bad last time we saw him on Thursday Night Football.

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<v Speaker 1>That West. The Colts bore me to tears. It took

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<v Speaker 1>me six tries to finish that game. So the cults, uh,

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<v Speaker 1>they welcome the Denver Broncos to Lucas. I'll stay an

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<v Speaker 1>early game, though, Raiders test a late game, yes, uh,

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<v Speaker 1>and I believe I wanted to, but then I'd have

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<v Speaker 1>three early games. Am I Do I have this wrong?

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<v Speaker 1>Because I'm looking at the weekend schedule, I believe you

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<v Speaker 1>need to be Yeah, you're looking that that appears. I

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<v Speaker 1>think they moved the time of the game. You need Oakland,

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<v Speaker 1>Oakland at Houston. Read the research manual. There you go.

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<v Speaker 1>This is great podcasting. But yes, it's a ten am game.

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<v Speaker 1>But I'm not crazy. This also has they moved the

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<v Speaker 1>time of the game, and I'll be absorbing that. Well.

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<v Speaker 1>If I'm getting a one pm either way, I'm moving man,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm sorry. Mark to Oakland at Houston. Yeah, no, because

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<v Speaker 1>I whenever I could watch. I've said this before Deshaun

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<v Speaker 1>Watson on a Sunday. I'm watching Deshaun Watson on a Sunday.

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<v Speaker 1>And the Raiders they're not a great team, but if

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<v Speaker 1>you watch even the Packers game where they ended up

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<v Speaker 1>dropping getting a forty burger dropped on them, if they

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<v Speaker 1>execute a little bit better in the red zone. I

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<v Speaker 1>believe there was three trips of the red zone that

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<v Speaker 1>ended with no points. I'm not saying they were ever

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<v Speaker 1>going to beat the Packers because Aaron Rodgers was simply

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<v Speaker 1>too great in that game, but that game had a

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<v Speaker 1>chance to be a lot more competitive. Um and maybe

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<v Speaker 1>that's because the Raiders aren't good enough to execute, But

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<v Speaker 1>I also think we've seen enough from them there where

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<v Speaker 1>they had an off day in terms of the red zone.

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<v Speaker 1>I think they could go to Houston and absolutely compete.

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<v Speaker 1>I did. I did think about locking up the Texans

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<v Speaker 1>just because Houston UH is coming off that tough loss

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<v Speaker 1>at Indy and they are another team that I think

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<v Speaker 1>if they bring their a game and they're at home,

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<v Speaker 1>they're pretty tough to be And I think that's the

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<v Speaker 1>version of the Texans we see, and I think the

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<v Speaker 1>Texans do go away with a w here. The people

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<v Speaker 1>in the desert think this is a pretty uh nice

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<v Speaker 1>set up for Houston for what it's worth. So I

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<v Speaker 1>do like the Texans in this game, but I would

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<v Speaker 1>not discount this being another one of those close games

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<v Speaker 1>because Houston seems to like to play those, and the

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<v Speaker 1>Raiders aren't getting They're not getting wiped out very often

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<v Speaker 1>the season. The Texans, that's what they've been doing. All

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<v Speaker 1>one score games has been their recipe week after week.

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<v Speaker 1>I thought the Cults loss was rough and under the

1:08:58.040 --> 1:09:01.720
<v Speaker 1>radar rough because of just some lost opportunities that the

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<v Speaker 1>the in the grasp call into Shaun Watson, which that

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<v Speaker 1>that is a the way that's called when it is,

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<v Speaker 1>it does never feel it never feels very consistent to me.

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<v Speaker 1>It feels subjective to subjective based on who's on the field.

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<v Speaker 1>That ripped a touchdown away from them that should not

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<v Speaker 1>have been, I thought. And then they got deep down

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<v Speaker 1>into the Colt's red zone again and were forced to

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<v Speaker 1>kick a field goal when they should have scored. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>little things like that near the goal line hurt the

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<v Speaker 1>Texans a lot last week. In another world, they win

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<v Speaker 1>that game. I mean, they were just as talented, I

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<v Speaker 1>thought as as the Colts were. Their secondary can't cover anyone,

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<v Speaker 1>Jared J. J. Watts hitting the quarterback six times, and

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<v Speaker 1>the quarterback has the best game of his life. J J.

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<v Speaker 1>Watts coming I mean he is. He is coming on strong,

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<v Speaker 1>and you could hear it in his voice when he

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<v Speaker 1>talked this week, he basically said he thought it was

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<v Speaker 1>the best game he's played since he's come back from

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<v Speaker 1>all those injuries going back four years, and I think

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<v Speaker 1>it looked like it. He's been getting better each week.

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<v Speaker 1>But the cornerbacks are are so bad that that the

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<v Speaker 1>Texans participated in what, as I thought about it was

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<v Speaker 1>maybe one of the most disrespectful trades in NFL history.

1:10:03.040 --> 1:10:06.280
<v Speaker 1>I mean the Raiders said, hey, Gary and Conley, we

1:10:06.840 --> 1:10:09.880
<v Speaker 1>uh weird disrespect you so much. We want you to

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<v Speaker 1>play for the team that we're playing against this week

1:10:12.439 --> 1:10:14.600
<v Speaker 1>so that we can throw it all over you. We

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<v Speaker 1>don't want to wait a week. We want to throw

1:10:16.600 --> 1:10:21.080
<v Speaker 1>on Gary and Conley right now. That is uh pretty bad.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, people say trade in your division, how about

1:10:23.280 --> 1:10:25.679
<v Speaker 1>you trade him and play him the next week. Josh

1:10:25.720 --> 1:10:29.040
<v Speaker 1>Jacobs says, you got the practice this week, and their

1:10:29.320 --> 1:10:32.639
<v Speaker 1>entire offense is based on him if you read between

1:10:32.680 --> 1:10:34.720
<v Speaker 1>the lines on the way Romo was announcing last week.

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<v Speaker 1>If they don't get an early lead and lean on it,

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<v Speaker 1>they're done as an offense. Well there him and Darren

1:10:39.720 --> 1:10:43.559
<v Speaker 1>Wall are you? Jon Gruden's you know, feeling himself. He's

1:10:43.560 --> 1:10:46.599
<v Speaker 1>doing an awesome job. They are eighthan efficiency on options

1:10:46.680 --> 1:10:49.679
<v Speaker 1>with Trevor Davis, Keelan Dawson, renfro as their top three

1:10:49.680 --> 1:10:53.640
<v Speaker 1>receivers right now, Tyrone Williams should return. Their offensive lines incredible.

1:10:53.760 --> 1:10:55.760
<v Speaker 1>It might be the very best offensive line in the

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<v Speaker 1>league now that Gabe Jackson and Trent Brown looks like

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<v Speaker 1>he's going to be back to their dangerous That's what

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<v Speaker 1>I thought about locking up texting too. But I just

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<v Speaker 1>think the Raiders play this weird old school slow style

1:11:06.760 --> 1:11:09.040
<v Speaker 1>with three tight ends in a fullback. But they score

1:11:09.360 --> 1:11:12.559
<v Speaker 1>and that leads to a lot of like offensive led

1:11:12.600 --> 1:11:14.439
<v Speaker 1>games that are close at the end. I could see

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<v Speaker 1>that happening Sunday. All right, Mark, close it out the

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<v Speaker 1>draft portion of this, All right, Well, I will take

1:11:18.960 --> 1:11:23.040
<v Speaker 1>the much bally Hood Broncos at cults game that you

1:11:23.040 --> 1:11:24.439
<v Speaker 1>you know that's going to go down in the in

1:11:24.479 --> 1:11:27.280
<v Speaker 1>the history of our drafts, is maybe a missed opportunity

1:11:27.360 --> 1:11:30.559
<v Speaker 1>for you. Did you had, you had it in your

1:11:30.760 --> 1:11:33.400
<v Speaker 1>wheelhouse and you let it go. How many Stone Pony

1:11:33.439 --> 1:11:36.360
<v Speaker 1>tweets are gone? I'm not gonna be tweeting up a

1:11:36.360 --> 1:11:39.479
<v Speaker 1>storm about about Joe Flacco because I think as a nation,

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<v Speaker 1>right we came to a conclusion and you wrapped that

1:11:42.439 --> 1:11:46.840
<v Speaker 1>up perfectly last Thursday night to there's no more. There's

1:11:47.040 --> 1:11:48.800
<v Speaker 1>what more is there to say about some of these

1:11:48.800 --> 1:11:50.880
<v Speaker 1>guys that are just lodged in these positions and you

1:11:50.920 --> 1:11:54.920
<v Speaker 1>can feel the end creeping close that they you know

1:11:54.960 --> 1:11:57.599
<v Speaker 1>they've given away at this point. Emmanuel Sanders, I think

1:11:57.600 --> 1:12:00.560
<v Speaker 1>Courtland Sutton every week does something great for the Broncos.

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<v Speaker 1>Uh DeShawn Hamiltons have a bigger role there. Their offense

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<v Speaker 1>to me is just you gotta wait till next year. There,

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<v Speaker 1>you're stuck with this because Drew Lock is not When

1:12:09.320 --> 1:12:12.080
<v Speaker 1>you have John Elway coming down saying this would be

1:12:12.080 --> 1:12:14.040
<v Speaker 1>the time to throw to give us Drew Lock, he's

1:12:14.040 --> 1:12:17.600
<v Speaker 1>not ready. You can tell Vic Fangio was not on

1:12:17.720 --> 1:12:20.760
<v Speaker 1>the Drew Lock train in general, and so he's he

1:12:20.880 --> 1:12:23.200
<v Speaker 1>probably does not want to flip away from Flacco, no

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<v Speaker 1>matter how bad he looked. The Colts. To me, Ry

1:12:25.439 --> 1:12:27.320
<v Speaker 1>remind me of a little bit. I look at the

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<v Speaker 1>Eagles and I say, why can't the coaching staff coach

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<v Speaker 1>up the parts on offense to look better than they do?

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<v Speaker 1>I look at the Cults and I feel like there's

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of middle range dudes they're outside of, like

1:12:38.360 --> 1:12:41.880
<v Speaker 1>a t Y Hilton that Frank Wright coaches up. Every week.

1:12:42.200 --> 1:12:45.400
<v Speaker 1>They get open guys like Zach Pascal, you know. They

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<v Speaker 1>To me, it's week after week. It's not stars, and

1:12:47.880 --> 1:12:51.479
<v Speaker 1>they they outshine the parts on the roster, and the

1:12:51.520 --> 1:12:53.720
<v Speaker 1>Cults to me, are gonna be there at the end

1:12:53.760 --> 1:12:56.639
<v Speaker 1>because of the way they're coached. Why was Jake bres

1:12:56.800 --> 1:12:59.880
<v Speaker 1>Brisket not getting your pajamas moving? What's up of that?

1:13:00.880 --> 1:13:07.920
<v Speaker 1>This is an extraordinarily, extraordinarily well coached team. Um Jacoby

1:13:08.120 --> 1:13:10.880
<v Speaker 1>Brissette plays a very boring style of football. To me,

1:13:10.960 --> 1:13:13.320
<v Speaker 1>I can't remember any of the great throws he made.

1:13:13.360 --> 1:13:15.720
<v Speaker 1>None of them stand out. I think this is the

1:13:15.760 --> 1:13:19.000
<v Speaker 1>product product you get when you're best player by far

1:13:19.120 --> 1:13:21.719
<v Speaker 1>as a guard. It's just not that fun to watch.

1:13:21.880 --> 1:13:25.040
<v Speaker 1>I I like watching them because Frank wreck in the

1:13:25.040 --> 1:13:27.160
<v Speaker 1>red zone. Frank Wreck in the red Zone is like

1:13:27.160 --> 1:13:30.040
<v Speaker 1>a weekly Buddy comedy. You don't know what he's gonna

1:13:30.040 --> 1:13:31.840
<v Speaker 1>come out with. He's gonna come up with something. Guys

1:13:31.840 --> 1:13:34.240
<v Speaker 1>are wide open. He comes up with these crazy plays

1:13:34.280 --> 1:13:37.680
<v Speaker 1>and they're one of the best red zone teams. He

1:13:37.720 --> 1:13:40.599
<v Speaker 1>creates open receivers. Prissette did have a couple of nice

1:13:40.640 --> 1:13:43.559
<v Speaker 1>deep outs in that last game. He's got plenty of

1:13:43.640 --> 1:13:45.920
<v Speaker 1>arm and there's no question about that. But all six

1:13:45.960 --> 1:13:48.800
<v Speaker 1>of their games have been one score. So there you

1:13:48.840 --> 1:13:51.560
<v Speaker 1>said you wanted to see the Seahawks win, you know, convincingly.

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<v Speaker 1>I like if if we do think the Cults are

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<v Speaker 1>gonna be there at the end, and I had them

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<v Speaker 1>in the playoffs, so did you, Mark? And yet you

1:13:58.520 --> 1:14:01.280
<v Speaker 1>know before the season starts. Yet I don't feel any

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<v Speaker 1>better now than I did then, even at four and two,

1:14:03.800 --> 1:14:07.439
<v Speaker 1>because that the margins so slim go beat the Broncos

1:14:07.479 --> 1:14:10.080
<v Speaker 1>commit that holds that whole AFC South has that issue.

1:14:10.200 --> 1:14:12.920
<v Speaker 1>Don't they feel like the ultimate tenant six team? Yes? Yes,

1:14:13.160 --> 1:14:16.360
<v Speaker 1>I feel like they're closer to five hundred to me

1:14:17.160 --> 1:14:20.160
<v Speaker 1>eight ten six in the NFL is a razor than margin.

1:14:20.320 --> 1:14:22.640
<v Speaker 1>Broncos defense is up to fifth in d v O A.

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<v Speaker 1>Now they're good. They are good, and I would think

1:14:25.000 --> 1:14:27.040
<v Speaker 1>the Colts were right for an upset, but no offense

1:14:27.080 --> 1:14:29.439
<v Speaker 1>will find a way to blow it. I have never

1:14:29.479 --> 1:14:33.200
<v Speaker 1>seen a player make as many mistakes in two months. Boy,

1:14:34.400 --> 1:14:37.400
<v Speaker 1>I think, is it kill? He's the trojan horse sent

1:14:37.479 --> 1:14:40.000
<v Speaker 1>to get Alway fired. He's like the trojan Bronco. I think,

1:14:40.040 --> 1:14:44.280
<v Speaker 1>I don't know. This guy makes several mistakes every single week.

1:14:44.360 --> 1:14:48.240
<v Speaker 1>If our listeners are curious whether the intensity of West

1:14:48.400 --> 1:14:52.200
<v Speaker 1>is um antipathy for you know, no Ah fan, you

1:14:52.200 --> 1:14:54.960
<v Speaker 1>know goes down at all watching games, No, it goes up.

1:14:55.240 --> 1:14:58.000
<v Speaker 1>And watching the Broncos with the West was specially. I

1:14:58.120 --> 1:15:00.400
<v Speaker 1>kept thinking, this guy's can improve. He's a f Trump pick.

1:15:00.400 --> 1:15:02.640
<v Speaker 1>I'll get better. He gets worse every week. All right,

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<v Speaker 1>let's move on to Sunday night football on this one

1:15:05.320 --> 1:15:07.719
<v Speaker 1>hurts because we had the game of the year potentially

1:15:07.720 --> 1:15:09.760
<v Speaker 1>set up, and perhaps it will still be a fun

1:15:09.800 --> 1:15:13.000
<v Speaker 1>game because the Chiefs at home in prime time. They're

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<v Speaker 1>not gonna roll over, but they're also not gonna have

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<v Speaker 1>Patrick Mahomes, who was out with that knee injury that

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<v Speaker 1>he suffered last Thursday UM against the Broncos. So it

1:15:25.160 --> 1:15:29.200
<v Speaker 1>will be Matt Moore, right, we haven't officially. The Chiefs

1:15:29.200 --> 1:15:32.519
<v Speaker 1>are trying to make playing that he took some second

1:15:32.560 --> 1:15:35.160
<v Speaker 1>team raps and that there's a chance. When you look

1:15:35.200 --> 1:15:37.240
<v Speaker 1>at the video that they put out there, I mean

1:15:37.280 --> 1:15:40.680
<v Speaker 1>he's like kind of limping around there and not. I

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<v Speaker 1>mean we would not we would not anyway to take

1:15:44.080 --> 1:15:49.240
<v Speaker 1>a leap medically, we would not keep out. I'm going

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<v Speaker 1>off raps who says he's not playing. Yeah, I think

1:15:52.120 --> 1:15:53.720
<v Speaker 1>it's three weeks and then the by. Greg, I think

1:15:53.720 --> 1:15:55.120
<v Speaker 1>it's just safe just to came out through the by.

1:15:55.280 --> 1:15:57.840
<v Speaker 1>I actually think there he has one right before the bye.

1:15:58.400 --> 1:16:00.439
<v Speaker 1>There you go. They might get Chris Jon back though,

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<v Speaker 1>which is a huge uh addition, and they might get

1:16:03.000 --> 1:16:07.040
<v Speaker 1>Eric Fisher, their left tackle back. This does feel like

1:16:07.160 --> 1:16:10.680
<v Speaker 1>a game that the Packers should win. Uh West do

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<v Speaker 1>you have? Is there any way to spin it where

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<v Speaker 1>you think the Chiefs pull this out if they don't

1:16:15.680 --> 1:16:17.920
<v Speaker 1>have their m v P. No. And I don't even

1:16:17.960 --> 1:16:19.920
<v Speaker 1>think they pull it out even if Mahomes plays, because

1:16:19.920 --> 1:16:24.000
<v Speaker 1>they'll be so he'll be so limited against Aaron Rodgers

1:16:24.000 --> 1:16:27.160
<v Speaker 1>in the zone. This version of Mahome's not healthy. I'm

1:16:27.200 --> 1:16:30.280
<v Speaker 1>not like trusting the Chiefs defense has suddenly flipped a

1:16:30.280 --> 1:16:32.519
<v Speaker 1>switch on because they had one great night in Denver,

1:16:32.680 --> 1:16:35.840
<v Speaker 1>and right now Aaron Rodgers is an elevated sports experience

1:16:35.880 --> 1:16:38.000
<v Speaker 1>to watch him play. This is This is the Aaron

1:16:38.080 --> 1:16:40.120
<v Speaker 1>Rodgers that we were watching three or four years ago

1:16:40.800 --> 1:16:42.840
<v Speaker 1>when he was at the top of his game. And

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<v Speaker 1>I'm willing to sacrifice the Cowboys any other team to

1:16:46.960 --> 1:16:49.080
<v Speaker 1>keep this Packers team healthy the rest of the year.

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<v Speaker 1>They will be my number one pick in every chance

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<v Speaker 1>I get to for our Thursday exercises. This is the

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<v Speaker 1>team they're gaining strength. Romo was effusive in the way

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<v Speaker 1>he'd describe that that Rogers and La Flour are getting

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<v Speaker 1>used to each other. They're just now hitting o scride.

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<v Speaker 1>Aaron Jones is awesome. Once Davante Adams gets back, good

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<v Speaker 1>luck he's doing this. Rogers did this last week against

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<v Speaker 1>the Raiders with a receiving corps that had a combined

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<v Speaker 1>to leven touchdowns in their career. We are right back

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<v Speaker 1>where we started with Aaron Rodgers in the past. You

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<v Speaker 1>know what, But the difference is is that I am

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<v Speaker 1>I I can get behind the whole Mike Petton experience.

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<v Speaker 1>The team to me feels different. It is entirely than

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<v Speaker 1>the operation from a few years ago, where you're you

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<v Speaker 1>knew some drama was going to happen down the stretch.

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<v Speaker 1>I thought they did give up a couple of big

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<v Speaker 1>pass plays against Oakland last week. Their defense is not

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<v Speaker 1>Saints level today than any Packers in anie Packers game

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<v Speaker 1>in four years. Darnell Savage is practicing fully this week

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<v Speaker 1>and should should be playing. He's he's been big in

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<v Speaker 1>their back end, but was out the last two weeks.

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<v Speaker 1>And your boy Robert Tanyan's back. They do have a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of good injury news. All right, let's move to

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<v Speaker 1>Monday night football. Uh, here's a stinker. That's just a

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<v Speaker 1>bad game watching if you want. It's part of the NFL.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, every NFL game is is great. By the way,

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<v Speaker 1>it looked bad when they put the schedule together. All right,

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<v Speaker 1>it never looked great, but now it looks even worse.

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<v Speaker 1>You got the Dolphins nil and six traveling to Hines

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<v Speaker 1>Field to face Mason Rudolph and the Pittsburgh Steelers. The

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<v Speaker 1>Steelers coming off to buy Uh, looking to have a

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<v Speaker 1>pulse in the a f C North, and um, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>the Ravens seem right now to be the clear best

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<v Speaker 1>team in that division. The Browns are an enigma at

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<v Speaker 1>this point. The Steelers, though, if they can get this

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<v Speaker 1>win and get to three and four, at least stay

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<v Speaker 1>on the periphery. But that's about as much as I

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<v Speaker 1>could say about them. I'm stunned to read the optimism

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<v Speaker 1>from the Steelers beat writers about how this team is

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<v Speaker 1>going to finish like Ed Buchett and there's one other one. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>they were I wrote a couple a couple. They really

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<v Speaker 1>see them as like, well, they're like a nine nine

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<v Speaker 1>win type of nine, a ten win type of team.

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<v Speaker 1>And I know James Conner looked better before the vibe.

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<v Speaker 1>But they also lost Stefan to it, who, along with

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<v Speaker 1>t J. Watt, has been their best defensive player and

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<v Speaker 1>he's out for the season. We never really hit that one,

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<v Speaker 1>and that is a huge loss for I thought too,

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<v Speaker 1>it was playing as well as any defensive end in

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<v Speaker 1>the league, and this defense was really hitting it stride.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a great defense, or it's a very good defense.

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<v Speaker 1>I think the defense will still dominate this game. It's

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<v Speaker 1>by far the best unit in this game. Even you

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<v Speaker 1>know you got you're probably gonna have Fitzpatrick on Fitzpatrick

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<v Speaker 1>crime in this one. T J. Watts still like that

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<v Speaker 1>little Minca versus. Ryan didn't even think of the Minca mink.

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<v Speaker 1>The revenge game. Revenge game. I mean, this was the

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<v Speaker 1>ultimate revenge for the Dolphins would although I guess they

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<v Speaker 1>would hurt their own pick if they win, so that

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<v Speaker 1>defeats the best revenge upon themselves because because in theory,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, they could they could make the Steelers record worse,

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<v Speaker 1>which helps the pick they ow't you know, they also

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<v Speaker 1>have the Steelers pick either way. They let me try

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<v Speaker 1>to sell this game, U two fans. You know in

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<v Speaker 1>August when the Hall of Fame game or preseason games

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<v Speaker 1>on and you miss football so much that you watch

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<v Speaker 1>it and it could not mean less in the starters

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<v Speaker 1>play one series or two or not at all. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>enjoy every sandwich, as once taught us, uh Martin, this

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<v Speaker 1>is a football game that counts, and the Dolphins playing

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<v Speaker 1>better and the Steelers are trying to stay in the playoffs.

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<v Speaker 1>Here's one here. I know you don't want to think

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<v Speaker 1>that Dolphins are interesting here's the thing. Who are you

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<v Speaker 1>talking to? You can talk to anybody that every week

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<v Speaker 1>he tries to get us interested in the do who

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<v Speaker 1>aren't even interested in now? And this has happened now

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<v Speaker 1>it's been getting closer every week when they get when

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<v Speaker 1>they're getting close to a win, it's like Twitter starts buzzing, Oh,

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<v Speaker 1>is this the week they're really gonna get Like when

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<v Speaker 1>they if they win a game, or when they if

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<v Speaker 1>they get down to the last five minutes, it feels

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<v Speaker 1>more monumental then if the Bengals do it. Twitter has

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<v Speaker 1>stopped picking on Kirk Cousins for twenty seconds. Isn't a

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<v Speaker 1>cell because that's all Twitter does is talk about Kirk

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<v Speaker 1>Cousins all game, all Sunday. I'm to be locked in

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<v Speaker 1>from wire to wire in this. We're not gonna take

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<v Speaker 1>my eyes off it. All right, So there you go.

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<v Speaker 1>That is the preview of Week eight. Come back later

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<v Speaker 1>tonight check in on your podcast download source of choice.

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<v Speaker 1>We apologize the Matt More. You know, I didn't even

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<v Speaker 1>get a mention here in his triumphant return. We but

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<v Speaker 1>we ran out of time at late in the show.

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<v Speaker 1>He'll get it when he and Andy Reid Andy Reid

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<v Speaker 1>exact revenge on the Packers. Me and the Sizzler will

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<v Speaker 1>talk Redskins at Vikings tonight in the Midi Pod and

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<v Speaker 1>then on Sunday in the Flagship Show, will go all

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<v Speaker 1>go all over the games, go over the games that

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<v Speaker 1>we just previewed. And one last note, someone from our

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<v Speaker 1>team here in NFL Media, Andy ken Off, who's a

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<v Speaker 1>tape operator and a guy behind the scenes that works

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<v Speaker 1>on this show and many others. Uh. He was in

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<v Speaker 1>a motorcycle accident um recently and he suffered some serious injuries.

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<v Speaker 1>He's gonna be okay, but he's laid up right now,

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<v Speaker 1>and so we send our wishes best wishes uh to

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<v Speaker 1>Andy because that sucks, and we hope that he gets

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<v Speaker 1>well soon and gets back to work. Most importantly, back

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<v Speaker 1>to work, Andy, Let's get you into the building. That's

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<v Speaker 1>what we need. But uh, yeah, best wishes to Andy

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<v Speaker 1>and his whole family. Smart moved by Andy though, to

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<v Speaker 1>stay on top of the league by listening to this podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>He wants. He wants to full around the NFL experience,

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<v Speaker 1>all right and get well soon. All right. This is

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<v Speaker 1>Dan hands a signing off four. The Quiet Storm, The Mailman,

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<v Speaker 1>The Old Boss Rick Holiday behind the glass, ND Bartlett,

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<v Speaker 1>the whole team back there, Hey Christie Till sunday e