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Speaker 1: The Around the NFL Podcast is quick coming off the edge.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast.

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Speaker 1: My name is Dan Henss and I'm joined by a

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Speaker 1: room filled with some heroes, Mark Sessler and Chris Westling.

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Speaker 1: What up, boys? Hey? Dan? How are you, buddy? Great?

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Speaker 1: Our boss the boss, not Bruce Springsteen, but Greg Rosenthal

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Speaker 1: is not here. He's tending to some boss duties. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: when you're the boss, you can't be in on the

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Speaker 1: fund and I do feel for him because it was

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Speaker 1: like it was like watching, you know, the sad kid

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Speaker 1: join us, or as what happens in Mark's life when

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Speaker 1: it ranged you leave your sixteen kids inside and your

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Speaker 1: other one outside. Oh yeah, that was your weird analogy

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Speaker 1: from our last part. Yeah, listen, I have been dealing

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Speaker 1: of the statements that I made over the past couple

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Speaker 1: of shows, dating to even before Dan returned, are questionable. Alright, Well,

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Speaker 1: we have a great show today, and you know it's

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Speaker 1: an exciting show because, uh, we are going to bring

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Speaker 1: back one of our favorite games and it is called

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Speaker 1: Go Get My lunch. Uh. That last part was supposed

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Speaker 1: to be implied. Oh you know, I'm used to Gregg

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Speaker 1: right now without Greg on the right. So but we're

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Speaker 1: just gonna stay focused. We're bringing back the game Go

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Speaker 1: Get My Lunch. That's sorry, sorry, sorry, uh. And we're

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Speaker 1: going to uh, you know, get all our all our

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Speaker 1: new wagers back and forth with each other about proposition propositions,

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Speaker 1: thank you, proposition propositions about what will happen in season.

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Speaker 1: We decided we could not move forward with Go Get

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Speaker 1: My Lunch until we cleared everything, cleared the decks of

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Speaker 1: previous sandwich wagers, excuse me, propositions, And now we have

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Speaker 1: and we can move forward. I also am not certain

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Speaker 1: that I'm comfortable with going to local stores and dropping

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Speaker 1: like forty bucks on buying sandwiches for anyone, including West,

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Speaker 1: when he has something that is the appetizer that needs

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Speaker 1: is paid for you. That's a fair point by you, Mark,

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Speaker 1: And I believe I was guessing that today's edition of

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Speaker 1: Go Get My Lunch will implied, Oh sorry, uh, well,

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Speaker 1: we won't collect on those until the end of the year, right,

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Speaker 1: because most of what will be propositioning in most cases

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Speaker 1: will be an end of the year scenario. Correct. And

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Speaker 1: by the way, just an update on the softball pants front.

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Speaker 1: have been in contact with his people. He is interested

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Speaker 1: will have to meet with him in like some shadowy

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Speaker 1: So that's coming up. But before we get into the sandwiches,

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Speaker 1: man behind the glass. Larry is looking smooth as always,

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Speaker 1: Mr t Date what's going on, fellas? Like you guys

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Speaker 1: doing doing great? How are you doing well? Doing well?

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Speaker 1: You know, it's been been a fun week and looking

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Speaker 1: aheads at Thursday night game, the first Thursday Night game

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Speaker 1: of the year, Mark, featuring two teams, one being the

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Speaker 1: team certainly not your team, Mark, They are in my world.

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Speaker 1: They're part of my job to report on them. Do

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Speaker 1: You know me, I'm a big superhero movie fan. I'm

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Speaker 1: a big Score fan like you know. Well, let's let's

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Speaker 1: big news in the NFL. Obviously not on the field,

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Speaker 1: Ray Rice. Since we've been gone, Ray Rice has been

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Speaker 1: I guess the the takeaway with Ray Rice now is

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Speaker 1: what what's next? Ray Rice? Do we see him in

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Speaker 1: it always seems like when Ben Roethlisberger's going through this

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Speaker 1: just everybody's wound up right now. But as you know,

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Speaker 1: It's a situation where had Rice's original two games suspension

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Speaker 1: He played that well. This is a team right now

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Speaker 1: comments inflammatory, so you know, there was probably not a

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Speaker 1: pleasant phone call between the two. In fact, Kevin Patrack,

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Speaker 1: or beloved around the NFL writer, wrote in a post

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Speaker 1: this morning that it was the equivalent of the soccer

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Speaker 1: Dada embarrassing his son at the game. Oh I've got

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Speaker 1: a better now, I'll do it. Michael Vick and Marcus Vick. Ah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's another great one. Uh So that's the situation. Bruce

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Speaker 1: arians was ticked off, I think was asked about this

435
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Speaker 1: on Tuesday and basically said, you know what, we have

436
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Speaker 1: options now. The days of the ball being forced in

437
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Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald's direction are over, which makes sense. You got Bruce,

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Speaker 1: you got Andrea Ellington, you have John Brown, you have

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Speaker 1: Michael Floyd, who's a star in the making right now.

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Speaker 1: It's it's a different time, moving forward. That's what's happening, guys.

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Speaker 1: T D I was that for news That was good.

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Speaker 1: It sounded like you're a little moving forward. It's kind

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Speaker 1: of like when you listen to Pandora or Stitcher. Actually,

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Speaker 1: do you listen to podcast on stitching always? Because that's

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Speaker 1: we are Stitcher Award winners. Yeah. So if you pause

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Speaker 1: an episode and go back to an episode, then you

447
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Speaker 1: hit play has a robotic voice that goes resuming episode.

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Speaker 1: You just well, by the way, I'm just curious because

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Speaker 1: the Stitchers are coming up again to formally nominate ourselves

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Speaker 1: or is that something that's the TV producer work. Yes,

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Speaker 1: we get the we get the note. Once nomination start,

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Speaker 1: we have to apply for nomination. People have to vote

453
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Speaker 1: for us, like, hey, go vote for Around the NFL

454
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Speaker 1: because we're reapplying for the job of the biggest podcast

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Speaker 1: in the world. Yes, of course. All right, gentlemen, So

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Speaker 1: it's time we move forward. Play the game America loves.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, America loves it. Our listeners seem to

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Speaker 1: like it. We sert it's my favorite game show that

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Speaker 1: we have. Now that Greg has my toaster, yes, now

460
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Speaker 1: that Greg has your toaster, you still have go get

461
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Speaker 1: my lunch as the big game where we trade theories

462
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Speaker 1: or predictions about the season coming up. It was our

463
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Speaker 1: last time we played it was in April when we

464
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Speaker 1: did predictions about the draft in the off season. Now

465
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Speaker 1: we're gonna do some predictions about the season. We're gonna

466
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Speaker 1: take turns going around the horn, uh, laying it out there,

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Speaker 1: and then each of us, the other two people in

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Speaker 1: the room, will get the opportunity to take you up

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Speaker 1: on that proposition, disagree with you, and if whoever it

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Speaker 1: comes out on the winning end, gets a high octane

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Speaker 1: sandwich or in Mark's case, a piece of bread with

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Speaker 1: lettuce and cheese cheese, fancy grilled cheese. You are you

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Speaker 1: know what I'm coming for you after this show. I

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Speaker 1: love the t D Sizzler heat today. It's like Sizzler

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Speaker 1: has taken ranks place, all right. So I'm gonna start

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Speaker 1: it off, guys, because I'm so excited about the first

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Speaker 1: one that I can't wait any longer. I really do

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Speaker 1: wish Greg we're here right now because he loves this

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Speaker 1: game so much as well. What we'll end up doing

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Speaker 1: maybe for our next show on Friday, we will talk

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Speaker 1: to Greg, let him throw a few out there as well.

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Speaker 1: I like that idea. Yeah, we gotta get the boss involved. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so we'll give Greg's opportunity as well. But for now

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Speaker 1: we'll we'll throw it out there in t D behind

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Speaker 1: the glass if you have anything, if you want to

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Speaker 1: get into if you want to hand to sandwiches, I

487
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Speaker 1: was going to say, here's your only warning and heat it. Uh.

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Speaker 1: The previous producer, the gold Standard, tried to wade into

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Speaker 1: these waters. He ended up down two sandwiches and then

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Speaker 1: fled to England. So we never absconded with two months. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so you might have if you want to track him down. Okay,

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Speaker 1: well so if you if you happen to lose sandwiches,

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Speaker 1: there's no family trips in Nigeria that last for in

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Speaker 1: six years or something, so you would have to pay up.

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Speaker 1: So it's a lot of trouble go to to get

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Speaker 1: away from giving a sandwiches. TV moved because the Nigeria

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Speaker 1: four sandwiches. That would be stupid. I understand that. Okay,

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Speaker 1: here we go, I'll start it out. Here we go,

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Speaker 1: Fells Andy Dalton. I just want to get Dalton the

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Speaker 1: next Andy Dalton. I'm already picking you up on taking

501
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Speaker 1: advantage of Andy Dalton will finish with a higher passer

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Speaker 1: rating than Phil Rivers. Oh, I'm all over this one, ye,

503
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Speaker 1: I'll take it. I didn't even need to run this

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Speaker 1: by west Andy Dalton was always necessary. Mark, you seem

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Speaker 1: to be maybe, uh, you don't have the vendetta that

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Speaker 1: Chris Westley. I have no vendetta. I'm telling you. I

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Speaker 1: hate to go all great coaseell on you. I'm telling

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Speaker 1: you what the film shows. That does sound bad. I

509
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Speaker 1: did not want to come in here and drop a

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Speaker 1: ton of bets. But I'm gonna there are no propositions.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to take you up on this, just

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Speaker 1: to juicy. Yes, now we do have a listener that

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Speaker 1: keeps track of all these at home. Right. Yes, we'd

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Speaker 1: been wonderful and he has been wondering he should reveal

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Speaker 1: himself so for herself so we can give he or

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Speaker 1: the credit. I know, well have they Maybe they haven't.

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Speaker 1: We just did not do our due diligence before the show.

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Speaker 1: That's distinctly possible. Their name could be right on their

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Speaker 1: Twitter feed for all we know. Anyway, someone has been

520
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Speaker 1: tracking this. It's called to go get my Lunch Twitter?

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Speaker 1: Is that what it is? Yeah, so check that out

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Speaker 1: because that has all the previous propositions. So that's the

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Speaker 1: first And I'm excited ready because I got too high octane.

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Speaker 1: That one, by the way, Mark, when you buy me

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Speaker 1: the sandwich, I'm gonna make sure it's meat lovers, and

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Speaker 1: you have to order and look at it get stacked

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Speaker 1: onto the brad. He did say it was too juicy

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Speaker 1: to pass up. It's gonna have a little bit of

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Speaker 1: softball residuing it. I'm gonna make that one myself, all right, Mark, alright, uh,

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Speaker 1: here we go right now. Jimmy Garoppolo will start one

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Speaker 1: or more games for the Patriots this season. I'm a

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Speaker 1: sporting man, so I will take you up on that.

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Speaker 1: Leave it. I don't know what that means, but I

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Speaker 1: leave it to Sessler to do one that is just

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Speaker 1: about someone going down with an injury, because obviously I

536
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Speaker 1: can't have to be that. Maybe they're up by six

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Speaker 1: games in the a f C East with you know,

538
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Speaker 1: seven ago, and they say let's put the youngster in

539
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Speaker 1: from Well, maybe they've won the division in week sixteen

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Speaker 1: and they sit in week seventeen. That's quite possible, he said,

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Speaker 1: one or more games, one or more. I don't take

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Speaker 1: any of any propositions that involved hoping or waiting for

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Speaker 1: someone to get injured. I'm not in your business with this. Scenario.

544
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Speaker 1: I think that the bet scares you, and so you're

545
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Speaker 1: using linguistics to escape. You could just saddle up and

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Speaker 1: take the bet. I'm just I'm a little disappointed that

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Speaker 1: you went down this route. You took the you took

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Speaker 1: the proposition west right. Let's just for the time being

549
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Speaker 1: a little bookkeeping, you keep track of your own sandwich situation.

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Speaker 1: Here we go, hang on picking one up. There it

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Speaker 1: is thrown across the room. All right, work. I've worked

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Speaker 1: with Mark for almost five years and he's never had

553
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Speaker 1: a pen in an important Well, I'm in an office

554
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Speaker 1: where there's always little buckets of pens. Why need do

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Speaker 1: I need my own? He's mdever. Alright, Well, let's let's

556
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Speaker 1: raise the bar with yours. Alright, this is this is

557
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Speaker 1: going to be a field situation. Oh I love field situations.

558
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Speaker 1: I am taking Brandon Cooks for Offensive Rookie of the Year.

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Speaker 1: You all get the field, which includes Kevin Benjamin, Sammy Watkins,

560
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Speaker 1: Mike Evans, Sammy Watkins with E. J. Mansuch as I

561
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Speaker 1: do so, I'm trying to reel you in, Kelvin Benjamin,

562
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Speaker 1: Bishop Sanky. You know what the field is. It's such

563
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Speaker 1: a great uh odds it's such great it is, so

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Speaker 1: I will take you up with Alan Hearns. I got

565
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Speaker 1: her involved here. He's on pace for thirty two touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: I think I will take you on that, just because

567
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Speaker 1: the odds are so good. Even though I do believe

568
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Speaker 1: that Brandon Cooks is the favorite. He could easily get

569
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Speaker 1: picked off anything, he could get injured. He's just man.

570
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Speaker 1: Here's what you have in your back pocket, and that

571
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Speaker 1: is Blake Bortles said, hitting the scenes sooner than later

572
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Speaker 1: and succeeding it's over. No, why no, Dinky, you don't

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Speaker 1: want to join me? No I don't. But I already

574
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Speaker 1: have stated that Blake Bortles will win the Offensive Rookie

575
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Speaker 1: of the Year in print. So then why wouldn't you

576
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Speaker 1: take this? Because I like to go. This is called

577
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Speaker 1: this is how you actually make these things work. I

578
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Speaker 1: can't lose what what alright? Jason Garrett, he is the

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Speaker 1: teflon Dallas Cowboys head coach. He has orange hair, he's

580
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Speaker 1: a carrot top, gives exceedingly dull press conferences. Do you

581
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Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about? Yes? Familiar with him. He

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Speaker 1: will survive season. Anyone disagree. I can't take you up

583
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Speaker 1: on that, one because I I believe that he has

584
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Speaker 1: incriminating photos of the owner. I am going to take

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Speaker 1: you up on that like that, because it is my

586
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Speaker 1: belief that Hugh Jackson, we forgot about that, the head

587
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:05,600
Speaker 1: coach the Dallas Cowboys. He has experience working with troubled owners,

588
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 1: and uh, he's gonna pull that trick in Dallas next season. Alright,

589
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 1: So Mark on the hook for two meat lover sandwiches. Now,

590
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Speaker 1: thank you, buddy. Appreciate that I haven't lost one yet.

591
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 1: All right, your turn, Mark. Alright, the Lebron James lad

592
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 1: Cleveland Cavaliers will win more games in their first seven

593
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Speaker 1: appearances on the basketball court than the Browns will win

594
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Speaker 1: all season. Oh this is a good one. I love

595
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Speaker 1: this one because you have to figure that the Calves

596
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Speaker 1: are going to be and Eastern Conference, uh serious contender,

597
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:42,960
Speaker 1: and they could go seven or oh, but they could

598
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Speaker 1: also maybe take a little while jail, so they could

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Speaker 1: be could be four and three, but they'll probably be

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Speaker 1: five and two or six and one, so that's five

601
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Speaker 1: or six wins. I picked the Browns to be a

602
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Speaker 1: six win outfit this season, so I will abstain because

603
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 1: it's too close to what I was thinking. But that's

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Speaker 1: what I'm again, Chris, I am looking up the Cavalier

605
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Speaker 1: schedule right now. That's smart too. I think we gotta

606
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 1: get TD involved in this. Nicks, Bowls, Blazers, Jazz. Let's

607
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 1: go one by one. Let's start over Nicks, Bulls at Bowls. Okay,

608
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 1: one and one at Trail Blazers. They're gonna split those games.

609
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Speaker 1: They're two and one at Jazz, three and one at Nuggets.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna stubble there. That's three straight road games there,

611
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Speaker 1: three and two versus Pelicans at Cleveland, the who New

612
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Speaker 1: Orleans Pelicans? It is real. I know it's I'm surd there.

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Speaker 1: Four and two after six games, and then at Celtics

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Speaker 1: that's five seven. You're you're a big basketball guys. Five

615
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Speaker 1: and two sound fair there? That's correct? Five and two? Okay,

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Speaker 1: so five they have more wins than the Browns, is

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Speaker 1: what you're saying. That's the way you phrased it. I

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Speaker 1: set up don't win more. Now that we went over

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Speaker 1: the schedule, that was brilliant. West. Would you allow me

620
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Speaker 1: to reverse back and take the sandwich proposition? So you're

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Speaker 1: saying that the Browns will have four wins tops they can't. Oh,

622
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Speaker 1: they can't. Excuse me, I was looking at the wrong way. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's four wins or more because I think they'll win six.

624
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Speaker 1: So yeah, no, I'm out. I'm Browns won four last

625
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:24,280
Speaker 1: year and you called them the worst offense in football

626
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Speaker 1: and you see no tangible improvements here. You came out

627
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Speaker 1: of a twenty four point unanswered flurry by Cleveland saying

628
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Speaker 1: that Pittsburgh is more exciting. I will not take this

629
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Speaker 1: because I think they will win five games. I think

630
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Speaker 1: that last year they lost about ten in a row.

631
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Speaker 1: They just went into a funk, and I could see

632
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Speaker 1: maybe later in the year instead of going into a funk,

633
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 1: Johnny Football comes and revitalizes them for a game or two.

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Speaker 1: You want to take this pet t D. First off, sorry,

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Speaker 1: wrong one, I do it right. Well, first off, this

636
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,120
Speaker 1: is true, but I'm not gonna take this bet. I

637
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:07,280
Speaker 1: do believe Johnny Football is gonna show up at some

638
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:08,759
Speaker 1: point in the season and we love with two or

639
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 1: three wins. Was that the Peyton Manning slow jam? Yeah,

640
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:16,160
Speaker 1: the Manning brothers in their little fantasy. Uh, let's stop

641
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:19,200
Speaker 1: giving them so much credit on their little commercial things.

642
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:22,560
Speaker 1: You know, it's so funny too. About those commercials. Uh

643
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 1: and I thought this most recent well, nothing was funny.

644
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:27,799
Speaker 1: I will say this, if Eli Manning continues to be

645
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:30,799
Speaker 1: terrible at football, you can't do commercials anymore because it

646
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:33,320
Speaker 1: just becomes at a certain point. You're talking about a

647
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:37,200
Speaker 1: first ballot Hall of Fame lock. According to conventional wisdom,

648
00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 1: commercials as early as next autumn. Wow? Is that a

649
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:43,400
Speaker 1: sessler that Eli Manning is gonna be released and be

650
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:45,600
Speaker 1: out of football. It's gonna be out of New York.

651
00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 1: Why don't you make this a proposition? Eli Manning will

652
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 1: be wearing a different uniform in two thousand fifteen. This

653
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:56,240
Speaker 1: is too much of a lock. Alright, who's turning? Uh? Mine,

654
00:34:56,520 --> 00:35:02,400
Speaker 1: I'll take another field. Okay, My Wallace leads all a

655
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 1: f C East receivers in receiving yards this year. All right,

656
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:07,879
Speaker 1: let's mark, let's talk this out. Who are the top

657
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:10,359
Speaker 1: a f C receivers. I almost don't need to know,

658
00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:12,919
Speaker 1: because I think what he's predicating that on is that

659
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:15,840
Speaker 1: in the Bill Laser Eagles offense that took to Sean

660
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:18,879
Speaker 1: Jackson and blew up his career totals, you're seeing something

661
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:22,200
Speaker 1: similar happening. He already looks good in week one. I'm

662
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 1: not taking that bet. I like what I like where

663
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:29,880
Speaker 1: your mind's at. Reivers in the east, so you receiving

664
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 1: yards or wide receivers receiving yards. So you've got Gronky,

665
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:41,200
Speaker 1: You've got Decker, Sammy Watkins, Robert Woods, Mike Williams, Julian Edelman.

666
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:44,759
Speaker 1: You can't take anything in Buffalo seriously. That's I'm sorry.

667
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 1: I'm not the Dolphins offen seriously yet not yet? So

668
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:54,040
Speaker 1: uh shot across Mark Laser Mark, I apologize, don't not

669
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:57,399
Speaker 1: to apologize to me. You're you're gonna happy do I think?

670
00:35:57,480 --> 00:35:59,439
Speaker 1: Here's what it comes down to me to me, Well,

671
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:04,720
Speaker 1: Gronk more yards receiving than Mike Wallace. What about Edelman?

672
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:08,000
Speaker 1: Edelman will be like he might if he he could

673
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:13,840
Speaker 1: have like a hundred for more receptions, but for yardage

674
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:17,959
Speaker 1: the field. Right when I worked this question through, uh,

675
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:21,279
Speaker 1: my only question was Eric Decker. I loved what I

676
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 1: saw of the Jets offense. They didn't score as many

677
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:25,440
Speaker 1: points as they should have, but they moved the ball

678
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:27,759
Speaker 1: up and down the field. You're also trying to get

679
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 1: slowly lured Dan. I am taking this as well. Once

680
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:36,600
Speaker 1: again going with the odds and saying that, give me

681
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:39,800
Speaker 1: any other player, and I think that Rob Gronkowski although

682
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 1: he didn't look a once he gets man. Yeah, once

683
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 1: he gets cooking and he and he's back. If he

684
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:49,880
Speaker 1: stays south that he's gonna have to fifteen under yards potentially,

685
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:52,759
Speaker 1: So wow, that would be a career high. Listen, don't

686
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:57,320
Speaker 1: count him out. You love Tom Brady more than anyone,

687
00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:01,359
Speaker 1: but he's not healthy. All right, So I'm in, are

688
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:04,160
Speaker 1: you marking yours down? I know Mark did not take

689
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 1: that one. It Mark didn't take either of him, and

690
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:10,239
Speaker 1: you took both. Okay, good, you're very smart man. Next up,

691
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,359
Speaker 1: we brought up Gino Smith's I'll throw this out there.

692
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:17,200
Speaker 1: There's a lot of controversy in the summer about Michael

693
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:20,720
Speaker 1: Vick or Gino Smith. I won two high octane sandwiches

694
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 1: off you, gentlemen because you didn't believe in Gino starting

695
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 1: week one. And now I'm gonna tell you this because

696
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:28,279
Speaker 1: West I agree. Watching week one. I'm all in. I

697
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:30,960
Speaker 1: think that that Gino is moving in the right direction

698
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:34,840
Speaker 1: as the quarterback. I think, barring injury, he's starting sixteen games.

699
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:37,759
Speaker 1: So I'll say Michael Vick does not get it. Get

700
00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 1: a start this season unless Gino Smith gets hurt, so,

701
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:44,279
Speaker 1: barring injury, Michael Vick does not start a game for

702
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 1: the Jets. I can't dispute that I liked what I

703
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:49,720
Speaker 1: saw out of him too much. I feel like Jets

704
00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:51,680
Speaker 1: fan or Jets fans or even being a little hard

705
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:54,319
Speaker 1: on him for his bad decision making, which to me

706
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:58,439
Speaker 1: as a learning opportunity. He's a young quarterback. Scrambling or

707
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 1: you know, fumbling, those things aren't that big of a

708
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 1: deal to me. But he looked phenomenal. Chris Johnson looked great,

709
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:07,279
Speaker 1: Chris Ivory looked great, Eric Decker looks good. It's all offenses. Hm,

710
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:09,960
Speaker 1: I can't believe West is I feel like I'm in

711
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,719
Speaker 1: heaven right now. This is how I picture heaven, just

712
00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:19,480
Speaker 1: hanging out with West team. Are there midgets on unicycles

713
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:24,839
Speaker 1: with pictures of beer? Of course? Obviously, Mark, I think

714
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:26,640
Speaker 1: your premise is correct. I'm not going to take a

715
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 1: bet on that. Wow, I'm surprised. I thought, well, I

716
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 1: think they'd come this far, and I think this whole

717
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:34,480
Speaker 1: Michael Vick on w f A N with Mike frances

718
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 1: is gonna melt into the hemisphere that has no value.

719
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 1: You're not gonna get anything out of him on that.

720
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:42,160
Speaker 1: You only get anything out of Mike Francessa is the

721
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 1: big New York radio guy, and Vick is doing a

722
00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:47,760
Speaker 1: weekly spot that only becomes relevant if Juno Smith struggles.

723
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:49,960
Speaker 1: If he doesn't struggle, Vic, there's nothing Vick could say

724
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:52,600
Speaker 1: that could cause an issue. I'm not taking it. I like,

725
00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:56,399
Speaker 1: I think where you're going all right? Mine actually springboards

726
00:38:56,400 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 1: off that my last sandwich bet excuse me the wager?

727
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:03,920
Speaker 1: Are you just gonna exce all those out? No, just

728
00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:07,399
Speaker 1: you know position going on. These are all being sent

729
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 1: to the league office. These references you're making the Jets

730
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 1: will finish with a winning record, not a and eight

731
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:20,640
Speaker 1: a winning record. I'm not ready to say that. I

732
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:22,960
Speaker 1: think they'll be eight or nine, and it's too soon

733
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 1: for me to really get excited eight or nine. So

734
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 1: are you taking him up on this? No? I can't

735
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:29,279
Speaker 1: because I realized you don't want to do. You don't

736
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 1: want to bring that bad voodoo on your I said

737
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:33,360
Speaker 1: eight and eight before the season, and I don't. Or

738
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:35,240
Speaker 1: I said seven and nine I believe before the season,

739
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:39,319
Speaker 1: and I'm not. I saw enough bad things on Sunday

740
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:41,279
Speaker 1: with with the Jets that I could see how things

741
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 1: could turn, even though the offense did look very good.

742
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 1: I'm not ready to go down that road, so I

743
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 1: will not take it. Then you're agreeing that they have

744
00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:53,520
Speaker 1: a losing record because I'm saying they have a winning record.

745
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:55,560
Speaker 1: They could have a losing record. Yeah, okay, that's a

746
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 1: very tough schedule. Four weeks from now, they could be

747
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:02,840
Speaker 1: one and four spot SI. I like this team. I

748
00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:06,160
Speaker 1: think they're good, so I cannot I cannot dispute what

749
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 1: you're saying. You think of eight plus, I like, I

750
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:12,239
Speaker 1: don't know what's going to happen. I don't have the

751
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:14,839
Speaker 1: ability to see the future like Mark, but I like

752
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,040
Speaker 1: what I've seen from this team. Wait, so do they do?

753
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:22,080
Speaker 1: They have to win nine for a winning record? Sports

754
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:26,280
Speaker 1: works and is not a winning record nine and seven,

755
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:29,840
Speaker 1: Dan would record. You should understand that I don't listen

756
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:33,000
Speaker 1: to you very closely too. I am learning that rapidly.

757
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:35,440
Speaker 1: D my owner could be back this week, and and

758
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:37,160
Speaker 1: I think I'm one of the few people who believes

759
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:38,799
Speaker 1: he is on. He is going to have a good year.

760
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:42,279
Speaker 1: But will he be ready for Aaron Rodgers. We're gonna

761
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 1: get to all our picks. By the way, in our

762
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 1: next show are week two picks. The Jets are traveling

763
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:49,719
Speaker 1: to Lambo to face an angry Packers team. I'm not

764
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,279
Speaker 1: dealing too good about that, Chris Wesley. I got one.

765
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:55,560
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, still it all right? So, coming off the

766
00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:58,520
Speaker 1: big Monday night performance, my main man Calvin Johnson, who,

767
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:01,000
Speaker 1: by the way, is my favorite player. You saw Lebron

768
00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:03,919
Speaker 1: going off on Twitter, Kevin Duran going off on Twitter.

769
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 1: How making this guys? I say, Calvin Johnson, whose career

770
00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:10,840
Speaker 1: high and is sixteen for most touchdown receptions in one season,

771
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:13,879
Speaker 1: is going to be the all time leader, gonna beat

772
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 1: out Randy moss Is two thousand and seven year where

773
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:20,080
Speaker 1: he had twenty three. And get about. I'm all over

774
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:23,399
Speaker 1: this one. I'm doing it. It comes from a place

775
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:25,680
Speaker 1: again in fandom, but also the fact that I do

776
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:28,759
Speaker 1: believe Calvin is probably the best talent in our generation

777
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:31,400
Speaker 1: and he's gonna have that one season where he absolutely

778
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:33,560
Speaker 1: just punctuates it. And I think this is this season.

779
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 1: I'll take you up too. I'd like to be attached

780
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:38,240
Speaker 1: to this, even on the losing angle, if you predict

781
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:43,200
Speaker 1: this correctly in early September, West, I mean Tita, You've

782
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:46,440
Speaker 1: made the classic error of letting your heart get in

783
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 1: the way of your proposition of letting celebrities twitter accounts

784
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:53,399
Speaker 1: from not that. It just goes back to the point

785
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:56,719
Speaker 1: of again, this guy is is a phenome. He's you know,

786
00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 1: he's a freak, and I feel like he has he's

787
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 1: going to have that one season where it's like, how

788
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:03,239
Speaker 1: much of this historical? How much of this goes back

789
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 1: to the fact that he's his nicknames Megatron, And you know,

790
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:07,640
Speaker 1: a lot of goes back to the fact that his

791
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:10,919
Speaker 1: nickname is Megatron, But that's beyond them. Also, nothing puts

792
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:15,200
Speaker 1: a bounce in t D step like celebrity tweets when

793
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:18,160
Speaker 1: you get this right and the trash. That's not true

794
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:20,560
Speaker 1: at all. Yeah, that is so not true. You started

795
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:23,680
Speaker 1: this off with, Hello, I don't follow a lot of

796
00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:25,799
Speaker 1: athletes on Twitter. They have nothing to say. Typically I

797
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 1: get that off news and pro football article catching all

798
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:30,719
Speaker 1: that jazz. So he has to break the record, he

799
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:35,520
Speaker 1: has to break the record. So I mean, man with

800
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 1: Golden Tate and you know, Eric Ebron, the options they have.

801
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:42,319
Speaker 1: Teams can't lock on on Calvin like they did before.

802
00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:47,960
Speaker 1: Not exactly, but there's a flip side to that TD.

803
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:51,000
Speaker 1: That means that Golden Tate, Ebron, Brandon Pettigrew were all

804
00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:54,239
Speaker 1: stealing t D opportunities from Kelvin John. I think what

805
00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:57,799
Speaker 1: they do four a TV specialist. I think they still

806
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 1: coverage with Calvin st who gets those touchdowns? All right, well,

807
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 1: welcome to the game. All right. I like this. This is,

808
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:06,640
Speaker 1: this is It's almost like that Brady Bunch episode where

809
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:10,880
Speaker 1: they have the curse medallion on the Hawaii trip. The

810
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:14,960
Speaker 1: producer chair. The guy wears the medallion when he makes

811
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:19,640
Speaker 1: careful Alright. The first episode ends with one of the

812
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:23,960
Speaker 1: Brady brothers brothers going underneath the undertow on a surfboard. Yeah,

813
00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:26,520
Speaker 1: that would be That would be West's role. I believe

814
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:29,080
Speaker 1: I've been caught in an undertow before the scariest moment

815
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 1: of my life. I got way too serious all of

816
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:36,960
Speaker 1: a sudden. All right, who's up? I am? Okay, I've

817
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:38,920
Speaker 1: got another field bet were by the way, we' running

818
00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:41,560
Speaker 1: out of time. How about this? Uh, West, You'll do

819
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:43,560
Speaker 1: one and then we'll go around one more time and

820
00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:46,920
Speaker 1: then we're out. Okay, I've got a another field proposition.

821
00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:53,160
Speaker 1: The St. Louis Rams finish either with the worst record

822
00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:55,239
Speaker 1: in the NFL or tied for the worst record in

823
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:58,880
Speaker 1: the NFL. Good one. I couldn't be more down on

824
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 1: this Rams team. That's kind of why I'm doing it.

825
00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:03,640
Speaker 1: I think you guys might might be as down on

826
00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:06,439
Speaker 1: him as I am watching in that mausoleum they're playing. Yeah,

827
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:09,080
Speaker 1: I I totally think it's very possible to the worst

828
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:11,400
Speaker 1: team in football. Yeah, I as do. I I'm not

829
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 1: gonna take that bed. You get thirty one teams, I know,

830
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:18,400
Speaker 1: but I you know Greg would take this. He would,

831
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:21,760
Speaker 1: and maybe we'll give him the opportunity. All Right, I'll

832
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:24,560
Speaker 1: throw one out there. Oh, I want to pick a

833
00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:26,879
Speaker 1: good one, last one for everybody. So pick a good one.

834
00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:36,000
Speaker 1: Here we go, a lot of pressure, alright, I'm gonna

835
00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 1: this one's a little wacky, but just for fun. J. J. Watt,

836
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 1: who I'm deeply in love with as a football player,

837
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:45,719
Speaker 1: and even more so. After Week one, we'll have more

838
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:48,800
Speaker 1: sacks this season than DeMarcus Ware and Von Miller combined.

839
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:55,560
Speaker 1: Oh that's great. That is a great question. You just

840
00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:57,960
Speaker 1: told me not to let my heart they take this.

841
00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:00,520
Speaker 1: I'll take you up on that, alright. Alright, listen, you

842
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:02,560
Speaker 1: have a point that Dan just doesn't want anyone else

843
00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 1: to use their hearts. There's j J live room for

844
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:09,760
Speaker 1: my heart. J J. Watt doesn't miss games. Von Miller's

845
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:12,560
Speaker 1: coming off an a c L injury, and DeMarcus Ware

846
00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:15,640
Speaker 1: has missed a lot of time you last couple of years.

847
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:21,960
Speaker 1: That's a that's a fact. This is so hard and

848
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:23,960
Speaker 1: t d. I will say that, yes, from my heart,

849
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:25,560
Speaker 1: a little bit, not at the same level as your

850
00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:28,440
Speaker 1: love of Megatron. But um, I also have to factor

851
00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:31,000
Speaker 1: in that J J. Watt. Well, maybe it's really apt

852
00:45:31,040 --> 00:45:34,360
Speaker 1: because J. J. Watt is basically the Megatron of defensive linemen.

853
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:37,720
Speaker 1: I've got a side prop with a shadowy lead figure

854
00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:41,640
Speaker 1: on Von Miller Sex this year, So I've got I've

855
00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:43,719
Speaker 1: got too many oars in the water here. Does that

856
00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:47,319
Speaker 1: mean you're scared off? I mean this is pretty This

857
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:49,319
Speaker 1: is tasty for you guys to pick it up. This

858
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 1: is too all pro all right, I'll take you up

859
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:55,040
Speaker 1: on that, all right, Yeah, I will abstain. You can

860
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:58,040
Speaker 1: let the boss go down that road. All right. That's

861
00:45:58,040 --> 00:46:00,960
Speaker 1: fair enough. That was a good question, Thank you. I

862
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:07,000
Speaker 1: am torn. I'm not even happy with my choice. That's

863
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:11,000
Speaker 1: for Australian listeners that song was not originally by her, right,

864
00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:16,320
Speaker 1: I actually remember that. Um okay, Mark, we have played

865
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:21,120
Speaker 1: one game of this season, and my bet is that

866
00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning has sixteen more NFL games and then he

867
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:33,399
Speaker 1: has done. I will take that. I'll take it. Okay, Yeah,

868
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:36,319
Speaker 1: I mean, what what's your basis? He will retire after

869
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:41,239
Speaker 1: they lose their first playoff game. Wow. So even if

870
00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:44,040
Speaker 1: wait a second, because you made this harder on yourself

871
00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:46,239
Speaker 1: than you had to. Because if they let's say they go,

872
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:49,239
Speaker 1: they win two playoff games, win a playoff game, and

873
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:51,480
Speaker 1: then lose one, They're not going to win two points west,

874
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:56,120
Speaker 1: And I would still all that matters for these purposes

875
00:46:56,120 --> 00:46:57,960
Speaker 1: is if he doesn't play next year. Yeah he could.

876
00:46:58,000 --> 00:46:59,840
Speaker 1: If they make it to the a f C Championship

877
00:46:59,880 --> 00:47:02,719
Speaker 1: game and lose and then he retires, we still win.

878
00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:07,439
Speaker 1: Now I think all that were the proposition is only

879
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:11,399
Speaker 1: that he doesn't play next year, right, that they will

880
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:17,000
Speaker 1: lose their first playoff game. Oh okay, it's not money

881
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:21,000
Speaker 1: in the bank because it is correct sandwiches in the ballet,

882
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:23,879
Speaker 1: all right, I'm all over that, and those are gonna

883
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:27,319
Speaker 1: be finger sandwiches if you win that. What is that

884
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:35,120
Speaker 1: an allusion to your financial situation? Just might be? You know,

885
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:37,759
Speaker 1: this show cannot end fast enough, and I have a

886
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:45,280
Speaker 1: sharply worded letter to handle you, my friends. Finally, Charlie

887
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:49,919
Speaker 1: word left, t D. You better man, there's an eight

888
00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:56,800
Speaker 1: to one ratio of antagonistic sound bites in my direction today. Finally,

889
00:47:57,719 --> 00:48:00,080
Speaker 1: Chris Wesley, I have to make one up on to

890
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:03,840
Speaker 1: fly here, let's do another Peyton Manning one. Okay, Matt

891
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:07,520
Speaker 1: Ryan and Matthew Stafford each finished with more passing yards

892
00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:11,799
Speaker 1: than Peyton Manning this year. You know it's funny you

893
00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:13,600
Speaker 1: did that because I was thinking about a Matt Ryan

894
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:17,840
Speaker 1: yardage related Well, he's already off to Uh, that just

895
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:21,839
Speaker 1: feels sensible. I'm not taking that one. Feels sensible. Man

896
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:24,839
Speaker 1: just broke the record. Yeah, that's why it's not gonna

897
00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:28,799
Speaker 1: happen again. T D. What do you think too sensible? Yeah,

898
00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:30,480
Speaker 1: I'm big on Matt Ryan this year. I think this

899
00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:33,480
Speaker 1: is the year he jumps into officially the top seven,

900
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:35,480
Speaker 1: top six in the game. Well, do you think he'll

901
00:48:35,520 --> 00:48:37,799
Speaker 1: jump into like the top fifteen of damage X list?

902
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:42,800
Speaker 1: So I think Peyton Manning will throw for about forty

903
00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 1: three yards, So you're selling him short, and uh, I

904
00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:49,200
Speaker 1: think that leaves him wide open to get picked off

905
00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:54,200
Speaker 1: by the Browns quarterbacks through yards last year. Don't understimate that, crew.

906
00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:56,680
Speaker 1: I think he'll I think Manning will fall about eight

907
00:48:56,719 --> 00:49:00,440
Speaker 1: to nine yards short of both of them tonight. I

908
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:02,319
Speaker 1: think I agree, can't take it. And then they'll say

909
00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:06,200
Speaker 1: I've had enough with a career. We just lost a

910
00:49:06,239 --> 00:49:08,920
Speaker 1: wild card game to the Pittsburgh Steelers. I've got a

911
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:11,000
Speaker 1: call quits. I failed to real Mark in on a

912
00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:13,680
Speaker 1: single proposition. All right, let's go over. Let's just just

913
00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:19,279
Speaker 1: for a business purpose, bookkeeping purposes. My I'll start Andy

914
00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:21,880
Speaker 1: Dalton will finish with a higher passer rating than Phil Rivers,

915
00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:25,840
Speaker 1: West and Mark both on the hook there. Jason Garrett

916
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:30,200
Speaker 1: will survive the season. Mark disagrees. Got another sandwich there. Uh,

917
00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:34,160
Speaker 1: nobody took my geno Smith will start sixteen games proposition.

918
00:49:34,239 --> 00:49:36,480
Speaker 1: But I did get West on J. J. Watt, We'll

919
00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:39,760
Speaker 1: have more sacks than DeMarcus Ware and Von Miller combined. Mark,

920
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:44,800
Speaker 1: what do you ask for? When I repeatedly during the

921
00:49:44,840 --> 00:49:49,440
Speaker 1: podcast asked for everyone to track their their propositions, I

922
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:59,560
Speaker 1: wasn't paying attention during that part. Okay, I did the

923
00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:03,320
Speaker 1: Lebron on Calves Brown scenario. Everyone was to mystify it.

924
00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:07,520
Speaker 1: No one agreed, no one, no, no, no. It was

925
00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:10,520
Speaker 1: too much for you guys to handle. Uh. I went

926
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:13,839
Speaker 1: Jets winning record. No one took that. No one said

927
00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:17,440
Speaker 1: they'd have a losing record. A lot of ridiculous excitement

928
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:19,640
Speaker 1: about the Jets in this room. And I said that

929
00:50:19,719 --> 00:50:23,000
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garrappolo will start one or more games. Dan wanted

930
00:50:23,040 --> 00:50:28,320
Speaker 1: no part of that. West took it. And my Peyton

931
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:31,680
Speaker 1: Manning when everyone signed up, and everybody's in on Peyton

932
00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:35,760
Speaker 1: Manning that absurd prediction. With so many loopholes for victory,

933
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:39,120
Speaker 1: it's almost the government's almost looking into he left your

934
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:42,359
Speaker 1: both flanks open on that one. That was potentially very

935
00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:45,200
Speaker 1: poorly done. But I feel strongly that he will get

936
00:50:45,239 --> 00:50:48,279
Speaker 1: acted in a playoff game, not unlike you know when

937
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:52,440
Speaker 1: we saw Marino go down in flames. It's got to

938
00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:56,600
Speaker 1: be a game. It's so embarrassing, right, that says so

939
00:50:56,680 --> 00:51:01,399
Speaker 1: much about what's happens that Manning says, I'm done, I'm

940
00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:05,080
Speaker 1: off into the sunset, t J War do you quarterback this?

941
00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:07,080
Speaker 1: I thought you only get to go into the sunset.

942
00:51:07,080 --> 00:51:08,880
Speaker 1: When you in your season with a victory, it'll be

943
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:15,240
Speaker 1: an apocalyptic sunset. What's happening? Finally, West Brandon Cooks will

944
00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:18,680
Speaker 1: win Offensive Rookie of the Year. Mark agreed with me,

945
00:51:18,760 --> 00:51:23,839
Speaker 1: as I suspected he might you. Dan disagreed and got

946
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:27,160
Speaker 1: the field, which, Uh, thank god that you'll be banking

947
00:51:27,200 --> 00:51:31,560
Speaker 1: on E. J. Manuel for this one. Uh let's see

948
00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:35,040
Speaker 1: what else did I had the Rams finished at the

949
00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:39,000
Speaker 1: worst record or tied for the worst record. Nobody took

950
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:42,640
Speaker 1: up took the other thirty one teams. Sorry, Rams fans,

951
00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:48,880
Speaker 1: we hate your team. Uh what Mike Wallace preparation on

952
00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:51,160
Speaker 1: this end? I don't have a pen and paper, Mike

953
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:54,919
Speaker 1: Wallace a f C east. Mark agreed with me. Dan

954
00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:57,239
Speaker 1: took me up on the field again. I like ron

955
00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:02,960
Speaker 1: and yards. My last one was Matt Ryan and Matthew

956
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:06,680
Speaker 1: Stafford finished with more yards than Peyton Manning. And I

957
00:52:06,719 --> 00:52:08,800
Speaker 1: believe you both kicking out on that. Yeah, that I

958
00:52:08,880 --> 00:52:10,520
Speaker 1: chickened out on that one. I'll admit that I viewed

959
00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:13,840
Speaker 1: as a correct prediction by Wesley. And and finally we

960
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:17,879
Speaker 1: had t D Yes, I took you up in J. J. Watt, Yes,

961
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:20,560
Speaker 1: Yes I did. And then on Mike Calvin Johnson will

962
00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:24,279
Speaker 1: have the most in history, the most touchdowns in the

963
00:52:24,280 --> 00:52:26,919
Speaker 1: season history. Sessler took me up on that, correct only

964
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:30,520
Speaker 1: sesslor No, I we all took it. We took we

965
00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:32,200
Speaker 1: don't think it's happened that. I was the only one

966
00:52:32,200 --> 00:52:34,640
Speaker 1: that didn't massacre you on this broadcast for coming up

967
00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:37,319
Speaker 1: with it. Take shots. That was unch TV got one

968
00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:41,759
Speaker 1: last quick one really quick? All right? Another team, a

969
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:44,440
Speaker 1: team in the AMC East nine names in New England Patriots,

970
00:52:44,440 --> 00:52:47,239
Speaker 1: who will make the playoffs this season? Oh, it's I

971
00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:50,520
Speaker 1: like that. I mean that's probably going to happen. I

972
00:52:50,520 --> 00:52:53,839
Speaker 1: think the Dolphins could. I think the Jets could. I say, well,

973
00:52:54,120 --> 00:52:57,120
Speaker 1: the Dolphins or Jets could. I won't take it because

974
00:52:57,120 --> 00:52:59,080
Speaker 1: I'm rooting too hard for my Jets. I will not

975
00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:02,480
Speaker 1: take that. Dan's like the guy who has to announce

976
00:53:02,560 --> 00:53:04,759
Speaker 1: the Monday night games, so he can't bet on this one.

977
00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:07,399
Speaker 1: But he's just not announcing the no Monday night games.

978
00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:10,000
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that Dolphins or Jets will make the playoffs,

979
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:12,040
Speaker 1: but I think they're both strong enough to make that

980
00:53:12,080 --> 00:53:15,080
Speaker 1: a very believable So I'm not touching that. Yeah, that's good.

981
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:19,839
Speaker 1: That was good. That was sort of a game there.

982
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:24,720
Speaker 1: That was stinky bait. That's Tybee Island talk right there.

983
00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:28,640
Speaker 1: All right, that's it for Wednesday's edition of the Around

984
00:53:28,680 --> 00:53:30,680
Speaker 1: the NFL Podcast. We'll have one more show this week

985
00:53:30,680 --> 00:53:33,759
Speaker 1: while we're we're we're going to preview all the week

986
00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:38,200
Speaker 1: two games and uh go over the Thursday night affair. Uh.

987
00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:40,040
Speaker 1: Greg rosen To will be back with us. We'll give

988
00:53:40,120 --> 00:53:43,279
Speaker 1: him some sandwich opportunities. So thank you for listening. We

989
00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:46,080
Speaker 1: will see you later. This is Dan Hanzas signing off

990
00:53:46,360 --> 00:53:49,520
Speaker 1: for the Sizzler, the Mailman and t D behind the Glass.

991
00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:52,479
Speaker 1: So then we're gonna