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Speaker 1: Hey everybody, it is Wednesday, January. Welcome to the NFL

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Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Podcast where we finally decided to write back.

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Speaker 1: It's me and your man named g Marcus Grant, joined

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Speaker 1: by Michael F. Florio out there in the ether. It's

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Speaker 1: not the whole cast of specialists anymore. We are Ryan Dennis,

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Speaker 1: who is up producing the show because someone gave the

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Speaker 1: crazy idea to Randy to take the day off. What

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Speaker 1: uh so Randy is off today and Hythan is still

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Speaker 1: sitting in and hanging out and making sure that we

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Speaker 1: don't completely submarine the network with what we do here.

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Speaker 1: But the Florio Now that we were a few days

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Speaker 1: removed from the end of wild Card weekend, have you

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Speaker 1: been able to take a breath and exhale after your

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills decided to play with their food and very

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Speaker 1: nearly choked on it against the Mighty Dolphins. Oh Man,

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Speaker 1: So watching even after the fumble Josh Allen's pumble that

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Speaker 1: was returned for a touchdown that I was like, they're

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Speaker 1: gonna win this game. It wasn't until the Dolphins had

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Speaker 1: that drive where their offense, because the offense had done

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Speaker 1: nothing to that point, when they drove down the field

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Speaker 1: this might actually happen. So yeah, I'm I'm very relieved. Now.

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Speaker 1: It took me a day or two to kind of

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Speaker 1: get over that. You're you're niners. I mean they made

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Speaker 1: it interesting for a half and then just blew the

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Speaker 1: doors out. Yeah, there were there were text messages flying

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Speaker 1: about like we should have seen this coming. Brock Purty

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Speaker 1: things and like we should have totally seen this coming.

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Speaker 1: They're settling for field goals and then a second half

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Speaker 1: they just went on an avalanche and everything was fine

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Speaker 1: and we it was I was saying this, it was

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Speaker 1: nice having my team get their game out of the

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Speaker 1: rest of the weekend. So that part was very cool.

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Speaker 1: This weekend is going to be different because they are

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Speaker 1: the last game of the weekend. So now I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: have to like really stress about that when your team

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Speaker 1: wins the first game. It's the worst when your team

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Speaker 1: plays in the first game and loses, because if you're

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Speaker 1: like my team, even in the playoffs, right exactly, we

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Speaker 1: are going to dive into what happened over the wild

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Speaker 1: card weekend. We'll talk a little bit about the teams

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Speaker 1: that lost, and we can focus on them because the

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Speaker 1: teams that one, there's there's more to talk about. Of course,

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Speaker 1: we will preview the divisional round as well, But first

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Speaker 1: do you want to mention you may have noticed we

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Speaker 1: haven't been here for the last couple of weeks, and

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Speaker 1: that was that completely by design. So just to peel

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Speaker 1: back behind the curtain. Originally the plan had been to

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Speaker 1: come back, uh do a pod to wrap up the

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Speaker 1: fantasy regular season. Uh, and then we were gonna take

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Speaker 1: the break out. We're always gonna take last week off.

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Speaker 1: That was always in the cards. But after the unfortunate

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Speaker 1: circumstances with the mar Hamlin collapsing on the field against

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Speaker 1: the Bengals, UH, we certainly felt it wasn't right to

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Speaker 1: do a pod that at that point. Uh, So we

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Speaker 1: ended up being more of a two week hiatus than

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Speaker 1: just a one week break. But UH, we're certainly excited

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Speaker 1: and glad and thrilled and all those positive adjectives to

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Speaker 1: see all the great news about Hamlet as he continued

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Speaker 1: to progress uh in his recovery. So are continued prayers

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Speaker 1: and thoughts and wishes out to his family and his

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Speaker 1: loved ones as he continues to recover their And Uh,

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Speaker 1: but now we're back to talking about football, fantasy football,

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Speaker 1: and the whole like, so we have polity to talk about. Man,

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Speaker 1: it was. It was a wild weekend, Florio, to say

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Speaker 1: the least. So I I came up with a few

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Speaker 1: look back at wild card weekend, and we'll start with

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Speaker 1: the last game. In fact, I didn't plan it this way,

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Speaker 1: the last game on the schedule from the past week,

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys beating the Buccaneers thirty one to four teen

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Speaker 1: in a game that probably wasn't even that close. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Maybe the biggest story out of that was you say,

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Speaker 1: to put it simply, he looked awful. The Bucks offense

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Speaker 1: and I'm sure you've seen the clip going around Mike

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Speaker 1: what what is the future for TV twelve. If I

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Speaker 1: don't think he's done playing, I just don't think he

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Speaker 1: I'm done, Like I think when he came back this

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Speaker 1: while now, Like, uh, seeing the injuries that they've dealt

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Speaker 1: weirdness that we had with Bruce arians before this season.

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Speaker 1: No offense to Todd Bowles. I just don't think he's

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Speaker 1: a very good coach. And I think the Bucks are

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Speaker 1: getting older and and there. This happens to teams right

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Speaker 1: like the Bucks. Brady came in at the right time

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Speaker 1: Brady is gonna move on from Tampa, and I think

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Speaker 1: it's kind of a good thing for both sides. They

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Speaker 1: Like you can't say it was a bad run. He

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Speaker 1: won a Super Bowl. But I think he's done in Tampa.

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Speaker 1: I I keep saying that this past year for Brady

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Speaker 1: And that year ended for the Pats with Brady throwing

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Speaker 1: course we know the story. He goes to Tampa, he

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Speaker 1: and I'm not saying that as a criticism, right because

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Speaker 1: I am three months older than Tom Brady and I

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Speaker 1: don't need people chasing me. I don't need Micael Parsons

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Speaker 1: So don't don't you get this twisted and saying that

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Speaker 1: I'm you know, I'm criticizing him or calling him so

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Speaker 1: if or anything like that, like I totally understand. Um,

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Speaker 1: it is a different situation there, and I think you

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Speaker 1: hit on one thing too. The Bucks as a team

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Speaker 1: is done in Tampa. I'm with you. I don't think

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Speaker 1: that's how he wants to leave, having had his first

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Speaker 1: I just don't think that is the taste that Brady

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Speaker 1: from last season when when he retired, I listened to

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Speaker 1: No one can ever say they like I've played bad.

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Speaker 1: They've seen me struggle, they've seen age. We started to

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Speaker 1: see that this year, and I I think someone is

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Speaker 1: crazy like Brady is, like Michael Jordan's right, like they're

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Speaker 1: they're crazily hardwired. They care like I think regular people

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Speaker 1: all right, this is it. I feel like Tom Brady

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Speaker 1: make sure he's ready to go again. Okay, So that

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Speaker 1: might like this answer. I think the forty Niners are

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Speaker 1: a tremendous fit for Tom Brady. He's from the Bay Area. UM,

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Speaker 1: they have a good old line that could get him protection.

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Speaker 1: And even more so than that, the signs at the

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Speaker 1: cline this year from Brady, in my opinion, were on

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure if they'll want to do it, because

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Speaker 1: that means moving on from Trey Lance and brock Purty

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Speaker 1: at least for a year. UM. I think most realistic

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Speaker 1: best fit would be the Niners. I mean, who needs

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady when you have the new Tom Brady? Why

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Speaker 1: do you want the old Tom Brady when you got

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Speaker 1: the new Tom Brady and Brock Purdy. I mean they

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Speaker 1: found Look, you know, the Patriots went out all these

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Speaker 1: I shrugged my shoulders and say, hey, look we tried

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Speaker 1: as opposed to just sort of surrendering, which is kind

431
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Speaker 1: of what it looked like at the end of that

432
00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:37,760
Speaker 1: game there. Um, yeah, I don't I don't know that

433
00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:41,639
Speaker 1: the number two receiver in Minnesota is on the roster

434
00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:44,199
Speaker 1: right now. I don't know if there's something they do

435
00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:46,200
Speaker 1: in the draft, if they look maybe in the second

436
00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:48,240
Speaker 1: round or something like that and try to get a receiver.

437
00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:50,800
Speaker 1: I don't think the free agent class is going to

438
00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:53,919
Speaker 1: be particularly good. I think DJ Chark is maybe the

439
00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:58,040
Speaker 1: most interesting name out there. But yeah, and maybe he's

440
00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:00,080
Speaker 1: a good fit. Maybe they decide they want to bring

441
00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:02,359
Speaker 1: him in, but you may end up having to overpay,

442
00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:04,199
Speaker 1: just if there are other teams out there that are

443
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Speaker 1: in the market, and I don't think the Vikings are

444
00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:08,480
Speaker 1: gonna be willing to do that. So maybe there's somebody

445
00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:10,200
Speaker 1: in the draft, but I don't think their number two

446
00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:13,359
Speaker 1: receiver is actually on the roster. Get A part of

447
00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:17,399
Speaker 1: the Vikings is I just have this feeling that we're

448
00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:20,399
Speaker 1: gonna go to next year and we'll get to this

449
00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:23,280
Speaker 1: time next season and talk about the Vikings is one

450
00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:26,840
Speaker 1: of the big disappointments in the NFL, because you know,

451
00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:29,800
Speaker 1: everybody made so much about their record and close games.

452
00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:33,000
Speaker 1: What they were undefeated, I think, well before the playoffs,

453
00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:35,680
Speaker 1: I think they were undefeated in in one score games.

454
00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:40,400
Speaker 1: That's a thing that can turn really, really easily, especially

455
00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:42,560
Speaker 1: when you look at the end of the year the

456
00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:46,280
Speaker 1: point differential, they're actually minus three overall in point differential.

457
00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:48,919
Speaker 1: They gave up three more points and they scored throughout

458
00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:50,560
Speaker 1: the course of the year. The way it went for

459
00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:52,920
Speaker 1: them this last year, it was either they win close

460
00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,360
Speaker 1: games or they got blown out. Like that was kind

461
00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:57,320
Speaker 1: of it. There was really no in between. And I

462
00:21:57,359 --> 00:21:59,480
Speaker 1: feel like you see this with teams where one year

463
00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:01,920
Speaker 1: they are really good and one score games. In the

464
00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,359
Speaker 1: next year, the ball just doesn't bounce their way. They

465
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Speaker 1: don't get those turnovers, the other team doesn't make those mistakes,

466
00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:10,040
Speaker 1: and suddenly those thirteen wins. You know that thirteen and

467
00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:12,960
Speaker 1: four could very easily become you know, seven and ten

468
00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:15,320
Speaker 1: something like that the next year. So I just I

469
00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:19,000
Speaker 1: just have this sneaking suspicion that's gonna be Minnesota. During

470
00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:22,000
Speaker 1: the season, I think We're heading into a bizarro world

471
00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:24,040
Speaker 1: where the Lions and bears are about to run the

472
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Speaker 1: NFC North. That would be wild. I'm sure sitting back

473
00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:29,760
Speaker 1: a hide from Colony is probably sitting back there with

474
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Speaker 1: a smile on his face, just imagining that. Uh puts

475
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Speaker 1: in slack. Uh. Costco hot Dog Kirkland Cousins. Hey, man,

476
00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:40,040
Speaker 1: I just load it up. I just loaded up with

477
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Speaker 1: stuff at Costco recently. Man, Like I side note, right,

478
00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,520
Speaker 1: I I have I have a Costco card. It's great

479
00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:50,880
Speaker 1: for like gas and stuff because the gas is super

480
00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:54,600
Speaker 1: cheap there when everything else costs a gazillion dollars um.

481
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Speaker 1: But like going into Costco is like it's like preparing

482
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Speaker 1: to go on a long road trip. Like I need

483
00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:02,000
Speaker 1: to get my mind right to go to Costco. And

484
00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:04,720
Speaker 1: I went. It is a nightmare, right. I went with

485
00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:07,240
Speaker 1: the wife and kid a couple of days ago and

486
00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:10,080
Speaker 1: it wasn't terrible. We kind of went on a Monday

487
00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:11,679
Speaker 1: and it was a holiday Monday, but it was a

488
00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:13,399
Speaker 1: Monday and it was kind of mid morning and it

489
00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:16,560
Speaker 1: wasn't awful. Um Like, I don't know how people go

490
00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:19,440
Speaker 1: to Costco on Saturday like it is it is. You

491
00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:21,720
Speaker 1: might as well, just you know, kiss your loved ones goodbye.

492
00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:25,360
Speaker 1: It is better. It is easier to take a ring

493
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Speaker 1: to the fires of Mount Doom than it is to

494
00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:31,120
Speaker 1: go to a Costco on a Saturday. Um. But I'm

495
00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:33,800
Speaker 1: one of those pizza droppers that has a d D.

496
00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:36,200
Speaker 1: So like I'll be like, all right, you're looking at

497
00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:38,399
Speaker 1: like vegetables, let me go grab other stuff from other

498
00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:40,439
Speaker 1: parts of the store. In Costco, you cannot do that

499
00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:43,280
Speaker 1: because you will not find each other. You will never

500
00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:46,359
Speaker 1: find your loved one again. Like you're just gonna like

501
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:48,120
Speaker 1: the just meet me in the parking lot in an hour,

502
00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:50,919
Speaker 1: and that's what we're gonna do. But the pizza is

503
00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:53,400
Speaker 1: fire though, and the hot dogs are still a buck fifties,

504
00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:56,280
Speaker 1: so shout out to Costco. Yeah, man, I'll get you

505
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Speaker 1: a dollar fifty hot dog at Costco. Um. I conside,

506
00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:01,920
Speaker 1: I didn't really mean to get into Costco rank, but

507
00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:03,600
Speaker 1: now I'm on this, so I'm gonna keep going. The

508
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:05,240
Speaker 1: other thing about it is it's weird because like the

509
00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:07,600
Speaker 1: food court is outside, you don't have to go end

510
00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:09,199
Speaker 1: the store to get the pizza or the hot dog,

511
00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:11,000
Speaker 1: but they still want you to show your Costco car,

512
00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:13,280
Speaker 1: like are you trying to not sell me a dollar

513
00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:16,240
Speaker 1: fifty hot dog. Just give me the hot dog, for real.

514
00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:18,840
Speaker 1: I think they would kill it if they just were like,

515
00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:21,000
Speaker 1: whoever wants a hot dog, We'll sell you a hot dog.

516
00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:23,000
Speaker 1: Come on down, get a dog for the hot dog,

517
00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:25,840
Speaker 1: get a get a ten dollar hole pizza. Man, Like,

518
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:28,680
Speaker 1: just just give me the food. That's all I want,

519
00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:34,960
Speaker 1: all right, Bill's Dolphins. Uh. We started the show kind

520
00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:38,199
Speaker 1: of talking about this one in a game that was

521
00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:44,119
Speaker 1: significantly closer than anybody thought it was going to be. Um.

522
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Speaker 1: You mentioned that Skyler Thompson, seventh round draft pick, was

523
00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:52,520
Speaker 1: pressed into service after tah because of multiple concussions, was

524
00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:54,840
Speaker 1: forced to sit out the remainder of the season. Teddy

525
00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:57,440
Speaker 1: Bridgewater was dealing with a hand injury, so he was

526
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Speaker 1: unable to go and look Thompson and no one's going

527
00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:04,280
Speaker 1: to confuse him with brock Purty. But you know what,

528
00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:05,960
Speaker 1: he went out and he gave it his best effort

529
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:08,159
Speaker 1: and he kept them close. Uh, you know, had a

530
00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:10,440
Speaker 1: big interception late that sort of sealed their fate. I

531
00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:12,920
Speaker 1: think a little bit, but I feel like, yeah, go ahead.

532
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:15,480
Speaker 1: I would say if Hill and Waddle play like hell

533
00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:17,680
Speaker 1: like they had some drops early on in that game.

534
00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:20,200
Speaker 1: We we might be talking about the doll like and

535
00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:22,240
Speaker 1: I'm saying, you know, I'm a huge pills man, but

536
00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:24,760
Speaker 1: like if those two came through early on, it could

537
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Speaker 1: have been a completely different game. It really does. I mean,

538
00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:29,040
Speaker 1: Jaylen Waddle had a couple of drops as you mentioned,

539
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:32,000
Speaker 1: early on. They just they didn't seem like themselves. Waddle especially.

540
00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:33,919
Speaker 1: It took. I feel like it took was like the

541
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Speaker 1: fourth quarter, I think before he gouts first catch, even

542
00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:38,600
Speaker 1: something like that. It was it was a long time

543
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:41,480
Speaker 1: into it before he got his first catch. Uh, sort

544
00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:43,639
Speaker 1: of like the Ravens though, I feel like the biggest

545
00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:45,760
Speaker 1: story was the guy who wasn't there, and that was

546
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:51,760
Speaker 1: to his circumstances obviously very different than Lamar Jackson um.

547
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Speaker 1: And you know, Mike McDaniel has already said that two

548
00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:58,560
Speaker 1: of their starting quarterback next year. As we sit and

549
00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:00,040
Speaker 1: we look at it, because this was supposed to be

550
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Speaker 1: a proven year for him. This was the year that

551
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,600
Speaker 1: everybody said, there are no more excuses, right they brought

552
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Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill in. This was that year he was supposed

553
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Speaker 1: to show himself in the final reckoning for to a

554
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:15,720
Speaker 1: tongue of Ioloa. Was he above, below or at your

555
00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:19,320
Speaker 1: expectations for this past season. I think he was above

556
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:22,600
Speaker 1: expectations this season, and I was someone who was coming

557
00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:25,600
Speaker 1: into the season ranked very high on two. I actually

558
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:27,520
Speaker 1: I think I had to ahead of Aaron Rodgers and

559
00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:29,760
Speaker 1: people were not too happy with me on that. Or

560
00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:31,199
Speaker 1: he might have been right behind him. I don't know,

561
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 1: but the thing so many people said about to a

562
00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:37,200
Speaker 1: right is he can't throw a deep ball. He's accurate, Uh,

563
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:39,880
Speaker 1: he can get the ball out quickly, but he can't

564
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:43,480
Speaker 1: throw it deep. Well. This season, he led them within

565
00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:47,240
Speaker 1: the NFL and completion percentage passer rating and had a

566
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Speaker 1: perfect Next Gen stat score on passes of twenty plus

567
00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 1: areas and not. It wasn't even like it was close.

568
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:55,760
Speaker 1: Like he completed fifty percent of those passes. No one

569
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Speaker 1: else was even at forty eight percent, So like he

570
00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:01,959
Speaker 1: ran away with it. The only negative thing about Tah

571
00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,800
Speaker 1: was that he suffered concussions and missed time, and I

572
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:06,879
Speaker 1: am not one that is going to hold that against him,

573
00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:09,800
Speaker 1: so I think to have played great. I tweeted yesterday

574
00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 1: that if you're a Dolphins fan, you should feel really

575
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:13,919
Speaker 1: good about two and moving forward, and then I know

576
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:15,760
Speaker 1: I came out here and said Brady and Lamar would

577
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:18,560
Speaker 1: be awesome in my end, But I think if you

578
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 1: go in too it next year, you should be feel

579
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Speaker 1: fine Dolphins fans. So he played thirteen games this year,

580
00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:26,120
Speaker 1: missed four games this season. As you mentioned, the concussions

581
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:29,439
Speaker 1: a major part of his story, but he finished nonetheless

582
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:34,320
Speaker 1: as the QB fifteen. I'm going through, uh, seventeen weeks here,

583
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:38,399
Speaker 1: sixteen games was the QB fifteen was top twelve in

584
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,760
Speaker 1: terms of points per game, averaging eighteen point three. I

585
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,800
Speaker 1: was eighteen point four points per game. My I guess

586
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 1: only beef with him would be just the consistency week

587
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 1: to week. He had a huge game early in the

588
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:51,399
Speaker 1: season forty in fact, that was against the Bill if

589
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:53,240
Speaker 1: I remember right, that forty point game that he had

590
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:56,880
Speaker 1: early in the season, had a string of twenty point

591
00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:59,359
Speaker 1: games kind of midway through the year, but the floor

592
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:01,840
Speaker 1: was sort of stable for him. So that that is

593
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:03,880
Speaker 1: sort of my only knock on him for me. He's

594
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:06,199
Speaker 1: sort of hit kind of where I thought he was.

595
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 1: I thought he was kind of a fringe QB one,

596
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:10,199
Speaker 1: and I think in the end that's sort of what

597
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 1: he turned out to be, so I would say going forward,

598
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:17,000
Speaker 1: the next step for him would be to give you

599
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:19,919
Speaker 1: more consistency week to week. I don't know if I

600
00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:23,200
Speaker 1: want that floor hovering around, you know, ten or twelve points.

601
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:25,639
Speaker 1: If he could get that floor up consistently and somewhere

602
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,080
Speaker 1: around fifteen points or so, I think we really do

603
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:31,359
Speaker 1: have something. But for me, he was kind of what

604
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:34,119
Speaker 1: I thought he was going to be this year, and

605
00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 1: that's better than he had been in the past. So

606
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:39,520
Speaker 1: I think they're onto something. At the same time, if

607
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:42,720
Speaker 1: Tom Brady makes himself available and the Dolphins decide that

608
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:45,440
Speaker 1: that's what they want to do, mh, I kind of

609
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 1: diet it. If they do move on, though, I think

610
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:51,640
Speaker 1: it's more of a health reason than a physical performance

611
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 1: on the fields, because I even like I've been high

612
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:56,560
Speaker 1: on to uh, I don't think he looked the same

613
00:28:56,680 --> 00:29:00,120
Speaker 1: when he returned from the concussion um and I'm happy

614
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:02,320
Speaker 1: that Miami didn't, you know, press him to play, and

615
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:04,400
Speaker 1: they're giving him all off season because hopefully he could

616
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:06,719
Speaker 1: come back in next season and be ready to go.

617
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:08,600
Speaker 1: But if they do move on from him and go

618
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:11,840
Speaker 1: somewhere else, I think it's more about health concerns than anything. Else,

619
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Speaker 1: and I think that's that's gonna be the big thing

620
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:16,800
Speaker 1: for him, is just getting himself healthy again and you know,

621
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 1: taking the time this offseason to just make sure everything's right,

622
00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:22,960
Speaker 1: because that's that's way more important than anything else. So

623
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 1: hopefully he's able to do that, and then we'll see

624
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 1: what happens next year once the Dolphins get back on

625
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:31,000
Speaker 1: the field. Maybe the wild numb Maybe it was the

626
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 1: wildest game of the week. Jaguars come from a twenty

627
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:39,800
Speaker 1: seven point deficit to beat the Chargers on a last

628
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:43,280
Speaker 1: second field goal, a walk off if you will. Thirty

629
00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:48,400
Speaker 1: one to thirty the final score. And I can't remember

630
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:50,720
Speaker 1: a game that was more a tale of two halves.

631
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 1: I mean, the Jags could not figure it out in

632
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:57,360
Speaker 1: the first half. Trevor Lawrence had the four interceptions, they

633
00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,520
Speaker 1: had a punt that bounced off one of their players

634
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:02,360
Speaker 1: helmets and was recovered by the Chargers. I mean, it

635
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 1: was the biggest implosion I had seen in a while,

636
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:10,480
Speaker 1: followed by the Chargers hashtag chargering and I mean I

637
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:12,400
Speaker 1: tweeted it. I think it's twenty seven nothing. I tweeted,

638
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 1: I said, hey, this starts great, There's still plenty of

639
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,760
Speaker 1: time left for Chargering and lo and behold that was

640
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 1: absolutely the case. Um I first off, I mean, did

641
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 1: you did you sit through the whole game? And if not,

642
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 1: at what point did you remember realized that, hey, maybe

643
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,720
Speaker 1: I should turn this back on again. I watched the

644
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Speaker 1: entire game because, just like you, I was like, this

645
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:36,520
Speaker 1: is not over. Like I I myself tweeted, I was like,

646
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 1: great first half for Chargers fans. I was like, hey,

647
00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 1: Jacks fans, don't give up yet. Though the Chargers tend

648
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:43,920
Speaker 1: to do weird things and make games close. Uh. And

649
00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:46,040
Speaker 1: and we know people who were very close to the

650
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:48,760
Speaker 1: Chargers who tell us it doesn't matter what the score

651
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:51,640
Speaker 1: is early on, it's gonna end up a one score game.

652
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:54,080
Speaker 1: So I watched it all throughout, and it was a

653
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:56,160
Speaker 1: little bit bitter sweet for me because these are two

654
00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 1: teams that, uh, I've kind of rallied behind and have

655
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 1: been really fun to watch and support. But uh, yeah,

656
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:05,520
Speaker 1: man that I think this could be a blessing in

657
00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 1: disguise for the Chargers because I think there needs to

658
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:11,840
Speaker 1: be changes made. Well, they have made some changes. Uh.

659
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 1: They did let go of offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi, also

660
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 1: quarterbacks coach Shane Day have been let go, and you

661
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:25,240
Speaker 1: know there, I think there's definitely some criticism for Lombardi,

662
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 1: right because you've got a quarterback in Justin Herbert who

663
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 1: we know has a big arm and can push the

664
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 1: ball down field, and they sort of turned it into

665
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 1: a checkdown guy, a lot of short throws, a lot

666
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:37,360
Speaker 1: of underneath stuff. Um, maybe some of it was just

667
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 1: because they didn't have speed guys really on the outside,

668
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 1: and certainly missing Mike Williams. That's going to be a

669
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:46,600
Speaker 1: decision that is going to be thought about for a

670
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:50,000
Speaker 1: long time. Playing in weeks, playing Week eighteen and a

671
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:53,240
Speaker 1: meaningless game that the Chargers ended up losing, and then

672
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 1: you lose Mike Williams for a playoff game where he

673
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:57,960
Speaker 1: very much could have helped your offense. Uh, that's one

674
00:31:58,000 --> 00:31:59,600
Speaker 1: that I'm sure people are gonna always kind of pin

675
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 1: on brand than Staley for a while. Do they need

676
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 1: more pieces on offense? They got the quarterback, They've got

677
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 1: the running back in Austin Ekeler, Keenan Allen is starting

678
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 1: to get up there a little bit in age. Mike

679
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 1: Williams has had his injury problems. Do they need another

680
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 1: receiver or two to sort of make this thing go offensively, Yes,

681
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 1: but it's not. They don't need like a star receiver

682
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 1: or anything like that. Like they're covered. They have all

683
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 1: the firepower and offense should need with with Everett and

684
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:30,959
Speaker 1: Alan and Mike Williams and Ekeler. But what I think

685
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 1: they're missing is some speed, like you were just saying.

686
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 1: And maybe that's like a DJ Chark or it doesn't

687
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 1: even need to be someone like that. Like I I

688
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:42,600
Speaker 1: go back to two years ago when the Lions offense

689
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 1: started picking up steam in the middle of the season

690
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 1: and now mon Ross st Brown broke out and stuff.

691
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 1: It was after they added Josh Reynolds, like, and that's

692
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 1: all they need. They needed someone on the side to

693
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:55,680
Speaker 1: just streak down field and take a deep shot too occasionally.

694
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:57,560
Speaker 1: And Reynolds had like a good two game stretch when

695
00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:00,400
Speaker 1: he first got there, and then defenses started playing back

696
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:02,960
Speaker 1: and stopped crowding line of the line of scrimmage as much.

697
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 1: I think the Chargers just need someone like that, someone

698
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 1: who could take the top off the defense, who you

699
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:10,880
Speaker 1: couldn't uh throw some deep shots too. I know that's

700
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:13,040
Speaker 1: supposed to be Mike Williams, but Williams is more of

701
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:16,160
Speaker 1: a contested catch guy downfield. You need a burner, and

702
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:19,160
Speaker 1: that's not Joshua Palmer, it's not DeAndre Carter. Like, they

703
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:21,480
Speaker 1: don't have any speed at all. So I think you

704
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:24,360
Speaker 1: add that and it only helps. But to your point

705
00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 1: out on what Lombardi was doing, justin Herbert last this

706
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:30,920
Speaker 1: past season had the third lowest air yards per throw

707
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:34,280
Speaker 1: amongst quarterbacks. Only Daniel Jones and Matt Ryan were lower.

708
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:36,640
Speaker 1: And think about the Colts season and how everything went

709
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 1: wrong there, and think about who Daniel Jones is throwing

710
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 1: the ball to and then compare those offenses to what

711
00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 1: the Chargers have. It's just inexcusable. I think there needs

712
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:46,640
Speaker 1: to be a big change, and there has been already.

713
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 1: I'm curious to see who they bring in, but yeah,

714
00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:52,520
Speaker 1: I definitely think they need speed. And no one loves

715
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 1: Austin Neckler more than me, Like I have his bobble

716
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:57,200
Speaker 1: head back here and stuff. I think he should be

717
00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 1: a luxury in the passing game and not who you

718
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:03,000
Speaker 1: build the passing name around exactly. I think that's sort

719
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 1: of the thing. He is an option, He's definitely a weapon. Uh,

720
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,319
Speaker 1: he shouldn't be the focal point of the passing game,

721
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:10,319
Speaker 1: and it felt a lot of times like that was

722
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:12,920
Speaker 1: sort of the case there. Um, And I guess if

723
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:15,360
Speaker 1: if you are going to make him that, then I

724
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 1: think you need to sort of use him sort of

725
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:18,400
Speaker 1: the way the Niners have figured out how to use

726
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:20,480
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey, where they will split him out and they

727
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:23,200
Speaker 1: will have him run actual routes out of the slot.

728
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:25,759
Speaker 1: You don't see that so much with Eckler. Uh, if

729
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:27,400
Speaker 1: you're just gonna use him out of the backfield that

730
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:29,760
Speaker 1: I think you need to figure out some options down field.

731
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,120
Speaker 1: And going through this list of free agent wide receivers,

732
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:35,719
Speaker 1: and I don't I don't see the answer to the

733
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:39,560
Speaker 1: Chargers problems at least in free agency. Uh, maybe there's

734
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:41,440
Speaker 1: something in the draft that that they can figure out,

735
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:43,160
Speaker 1: because I don't. I just don't think it's gonna happen

736
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:47,200
Speaker 1: on the free agent market there. Last game of the

737
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:49,560
Speaker 1: first game of the weekend, last game we're talking about here,

738
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:54,320
Speaker 1: the Niners over the Seahawks in a game that against

739
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:56,640
Speaker 1: sort of a tale of two halves. The Seahawks were

740
00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:59,719
Speaker 1: pretty much perfect in the first half and had a

741
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:03,360
Speaker 1: lead going into the break against San Francisco. Then in

742
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 1: the second half, the Niners figured it out. They started

743
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:09,240
Speaker 1: making plays, they forced turnovers, the Seahawks, you know, created

744
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:12,800
Speaker 1: our committed penalties, and it all sort of fell apart

745
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:15,040
Speaker 1: in The Niners ended with a pretty easy win. But

746
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:20,080
Speaker 1: that shouldn't overshadow what Gino Smith did this year for Seattle.

747
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:23,360
Speaker 1: He was amazing pretty much all year long, especially for

748
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 1: a guy that wasn't expected to be the starter at

749
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 1: the beginning of the year. They came into the season

750
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 1: thinking it was gonna be Drew Lock and I saw

751
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:34,040
Speaker 1: this note from our friends and the research team. Gino

752
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 1: Smith this year had thirty passing touchdowns, and all of

753
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:41,720
Speaker 1: his other pro seasons combined, he had thirty four total

754
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:44,680
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns. That sort of tells you how much better

755
00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:46,319
Speaker 1: he was this year than he had been any other

756
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:49,759
Speaker 1: year of his career. But so often we see guys

757
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 1: who kind of catch lightning in a bottle and can't

758
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 1: really duplicate that. Is Gino Smith a one year wonder

759
00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:58,600
Speaker 1: or will he still not be writing us back next year?

760
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:02,040
Speaker 1: To me? Because Geno Smith is a free agent. It

761
00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:04,799
Speaker 1: all depends on what where, which route the Seahawks go,

762
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 1: Like if Gino is back with Pete Carroll, with Tyler Lockett,

763
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:12,120
Speaker 1: with DK Metcalf, I'm I'm on board with Gino Smith again.

764
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:15,240
Speaker 1: He like it wasn't just like it was smoking mirrors

765
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:18,000
Speaker 1: and stuff like this guy led the league and touchdown

766
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 1: passes of twenty plus air yards, He led the league

767
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 1: in games with multiple passing touchdowns. Like he was consistently good.

768
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:28,320
Speaker 1: And one thing that I've been thinking about a lot lately,

769
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 1: Marcus is like, no disrespect to Russell Wilson in his problem.

770
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:34,479
Speaker 1: He was a good player, But how much of that

771
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 1: was this system and Pete Carroll and the weapons around him?

772
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:41,759
Speaker 1: And because Geno Smith came from a career backup to

773
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:44,359
Speaker 1: putting up Russell Wilson type numbers, In fact, he put

774
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:46,799
Speaker 1: up better numbers than Russell Wilson had been putting up

775
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:49,799
Speaker 1: down with down the stretch with Seattle. So, uh yeah,

776
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:52,800
Speaker 1: I think if he's there, I'm very much so in play.

777
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:56,120
Speaker 1: And Ryan Dennis put in the chat that Carol yesterday said,

778
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:59,239
Speaker 1: we've got our guy. I know Seahawks players were saying

779
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 1: when they showed up on Sunday, Gino Smith was already

780
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 1: in the weight room and talking about next season. So

781
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:06,880
Speaker 1: it seems like he'll be back, and if that's the case,

782
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 1: then you could sign me up because I think they'll

783
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:11,600
Speaker 1: have even more talent around him. But if he goes elsewhere,

784
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:15,560
Speaker 1: then I'm probably out. Yeah. I don't know that he

785
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:17,480
Speaker 1: fits anywhere else, at least not right now. I think

786
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:21,840
Speaker 1: he was so good now something tells me that maybe

787
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:23,600
Speaker 1: those numbers come down a little bit, But I don't

788
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:25,879
Speaker 1: know that he necessarily falls off a cliff. I think

789
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:28,920
Speaker 1: we could see sort of a late career resurgence for

790
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:31,839
Speaker 1: Gino Smith, and as long as they kind of keep

791
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:35,239
Speaker 1: that offense intact. You mentioned DK there with Tyler Lockett there,

792
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:38,440
Speaker 1: Kenneth Walker's back. I'm curious to sort of see what

793
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:41,719
Speaker 1: happens with Rashot Penny if he's gonna be back next year,

794
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:43,680
Speaker 1: because it looks like they do have a good core

795
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 1: of offense. I could see Gino Smith coming out and

796
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 1: being kind of another QB one, type of fringe QB

797
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 1: one again this year. Would you draft him as a

798
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:56,440
Speaker 1: top ten quarterback? That that's the next question. If if

799
00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:59,640
Speaker 1: you're drafting, it's say you know nine quarterbacks are off

800
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 1: the board, Geno Smith is still there, do you make

801
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:03,960
Speaker 1: him a top ten quarterback. I guess I shoul probably

802
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:05,680
Speaker 1: throw out names, but I'm too lazy to do that,

803
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:11,480
Speaker 1: So so that's the question. Probably not um. I'm not

804
00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 1: saying I wouldn't rank him as such, but the way

805
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:18,239
Speaker 1: that I envisioned myself drafting quarterbacks next season is kind

806
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:20,239
Speaker 1: of similar to how it was his past year. Like,

807
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:22,640
Speaker 1: I'm gonna want one of the top seven guys, and

808
00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:24,560
Speaker 1: if I miss out on that group or top seven

809
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:27,359
Speaker 1: or eight, I think there's like a fall off after that,

810
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:30,240
Speaker 1: then I'll probably wait even further than a Geno Smith

811
00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:33,799
Speaker 1: and go after some upside. But I won't I will

812
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:36,879
Speaker 1: not knock anyone who has Smith in his top ten.

813
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:40,080
Speaker 1: And as we were talking about his career resurgence, I

814
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,880
Speaker 1: had thought, like, there's a hundred percent going to be

815
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:45,719
Speaker 1: a movie made one day about Geno Smith's career. I mean,

816
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,399
Speaker 1: they made a D for Brady. Why can't they make

817
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:51,840
Speaker 1: like Hey for Gino or something like that. I don't know.

818
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start work shopping at Geno Smith movie. I'm

819
00:38:56,680 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 1: gonna that's gonna make my offseason project. See see what

820
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 1: we can do with that there. Uh yeah, I think

821
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:03,879
Speaker 1: there's more. I think I don't think Gino has done

822
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:06,319
Speaker 1: quite yet. That seems like bad news for Drew Lock,

823
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:10,799
Speaker 1: But I think I think we're gonna see Gino right

824
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:13,239
Speaker 1: hey man, He'll always have that moment when he was

825
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 1: wrapping on the sidelines. He'll always have that with with

826
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:19,320
Speaker 1: with Drew Lock. What are the quick preseason stockwell or

827
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:22,399
Speaker 1: postseason stockwatch, I should say, guys who have maybe made

828
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 1: an impact either late in the regular season or through

829
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:27,200
Speaker 1: the playoffs, and what this could mean for their fantasy

830
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:29,800
Speaker 1: value heading into next year. And I'm not talking dynasty.

831
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 1: I'm talking just more redraft at this point. Brock Purty obviously,

832
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:36,360
Speaker 1: so much of what happens with him depends on what

833
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 1: the Niners decided to do with Train Lance and and

834
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:41,800
Speaker 1: all their other quarterback situations. But let's just assume that

835
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 1: somehow brock Purty wins himself the gig and he's nine

836
00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 1: er starting quarterback. Is he is he draftable as at

837
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:50,800
Speaker 1: QB one next year? I wouldn't have him as a

838
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:54,759
Speaker 1: QB one. I think he's very comparable to Jimmy g

839
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:59,279
Speaker 1: um I. I tweeted yesterday some of the stats that

840
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 1: we've seen from Purdy and that we saw this season

841
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:04,719
Speaker 1: from Jimmy G and they're pretty close. But then researcher

842
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 1: Karine Falcone, who won our Fantasy Live league and is very,

843
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:11,280
Speaker 1: very intelligent, she tweeted me and was just like, Purdy

844
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:13,920
Speaker 1: has attempted more passes the twenty plus eight yards in

845
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 1: one playoff game that Jimmy G and all of his

846
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:19,839
Speaker 1: playoff games combined. And I was like, Okay, that gets

847
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:23,359
Speaker 1: me excited because I know he's taking more shots down field,

848
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:25,640
Speaker 1: but I didn't realize it was that much more. I

849
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 1: don't know you you watch the Niners a lot more

850
00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:31,440
Speaker 1: than I do, Marcus, But my thinking is like Purdy

851
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:33,360
Speaker 1: has been great. I don't want to take anything away

852
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:35,560
Speaker 1: from him, but I think the narrative should be, like,

853
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 1: imagine what Trey Lance could do in this offense with

854
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:41,440
Speaker 1: these playmakers around him, where it's kind of become Purdy

855
00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:44,200
Speaker 1: is the guy, get rid of Lance. Yeah, there's a

856
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:46,600
Speaker 1: there's a whole lot of conversation, and I don't think

857
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:48,360
Speaker 1: anybody is ready to come out and say it, but

858
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 1: there's definitely some talk that that maybe pretty is the guy.

859
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:54,719
Speaker 1: I think I think we're gonna have a legitimate competition

860
00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:57,120
Speaker 1: next year between the two of these guys. And I'll

861
00:40:57,160 --> 00:41:01,280
Speaker 1: say this, what you get out of Purdy is he

862
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:05,279
Speaker 1: is much more how do you say, he's better in

863
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:07,440
Speaker 1: the pocket? Right, He's much more mobile in the pocket

864
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:10,279
Speaker 1: and elusive in the pocket than Jimmy Garoppolo is. He's

865
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:13,120
Speaker 1: obviously not the runner or the athlete that tray Lance is.

866
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:16,879
Speaker 1: But I think right now, uh and granted we've only

867
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:19,040
Speaker 1: seen a limited amount of Lance, I think pretty is

868
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:21,879
Speaker 1: a better thrower than than tray Lance. So he's sort

869
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:23,680
Speaker 1: of in between. He kind of gives you the best

870
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:26,840
Speaker 1: of both worlds, and I think that is what's intriguing

871
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:29,880
Speaker 1: about him, And especially if you believe all the rumors

872
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 1: that Kyle Shanahan really wanted Mac Jones and was sort

873
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:36,800
Speaker 1: of pure pressured into taking tray Lance, brock Purty seems

874
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:40,239
Speaker 1: to kind of be everything that you would think Kyle

875
00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:42,920
Speaker 1: Shanahan would want. But I'm with you. I think his ceiling,

876
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:46,240
Speaker 1: fantasy wise, is sort of garoppolo ish, if that's a word.

877
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:50,160
Speaker 1: Uh So, I think I think that's that's there. Um

878
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:52,879
Speaker 1: comele more, just just one or two more interesting ones.

879
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:55,920
Speaker 1: Isaiah Hodgens, he really picked it up at the end

880
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:58,400
Speaker 1: of the season. Is he the new game Davis in

881
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:00,080
Speaker 1: the sense of like he's showed up late in the

882
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:03,440
Speaker 1: year and he's kind of exciting and interesting. Um. I

883
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:05,040
Speaker 1: know a lot of it depends on what happens with

884
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:07,960
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones. Say, but but are we gonna be talking

885
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,800
Speaker 1: about Isaiah Hodgons this offseason the way we talked about

886
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:15,600
Speaker 1: Dave Davis. Um, I don't think so, just because I

887
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 1: don't think we're gonna be as excited about Daniel Jones

888
00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:21,279
Speaker 1: and the Giants offenses we were about Alan and the

889
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:24,719
Speaker 1: Bill's offense coming into this season. Um, but Hodgens is

890
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:28,080
Speaker 1: really really good former Bill himself. Uh. He has caught

891
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:31,240
Speaker 1: every catchable target that has been thrown his way this season,

892
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 1: and we've seen a lot of chemistry with with him

893
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:37,200
Speaker 1: and Jones. He's replaced uh, not only Kenny Golladay, but

894
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:40,080
Speaker 1: Darius Slayton as their wide receiver one there, and I

895
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 1: feel pretty confident saying that, Like, maybe he won't be

896
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:44,759
Speaker 1: the one next year. We gotta see what they do

897
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 1: in the off season, but if he's one of their starters,

898
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:49,439
Speaker 1: I think he's in play as like a he would

899
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:51,520
Speaker 1: be a later round value pick, but he would certainly

900
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:54,120
Speaker 1: fit that mold I definitely think he's a later round pick.

901
00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:56,400
Speaker 1: I think he's a guy who still is kind of

902
00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:59,480
Speaker 1: a depth added wide receiver just because I don't really

903
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:02,359
Speaker 1: think the it's passing game takes off. I also think

904
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:04,839
Speaker 1: they're gonna do some things to upgrade their wide receiver room.

905
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 1: They have to. I mean, Kenney Galladay was a colossal bust,

906
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:11,719
Speaker 1: had one touchdown in his time with the Giants, and

907
00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:15,360
Speaker 1: it came in Week eighteen in a meaningless situation. So

908
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:18,440
Speaker 1: he's gone, Um, they gotta do some other things. And

909
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:20,359
Speaker 1: I don't think Isaiah Hodgens will ever be more than

910
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:22,120
Speaker 1: say a third wide receiver in this team, but he's

911
00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:26,000
Speaker 1: played well down the stretch. I give him credit for that. Absolutely. Uh,

912
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:27,719
Speaker 1: take a quick break, we'll come back. We will look

913
00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 1: ahead to the Divisional Round of the playoffs because we

914
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:32,239
Speaker 1: got four games on tap. It should be all very

915
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:34,720
Speaker 1: interesting this weekend. That's coming up next on the NFL

916
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:45,719
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Podcast. Until the Divisional Round kicks off on

917
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:48,799
Speaker 1: a Saturday, four games and starts with the Jagbars at

918
00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:51,919
Speaker 1: the Chiefs four thirty Eastern on Saturday. You can find

919
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:55,040
Speaker 1: that game on NBC. And UH, just one simple question.

920
00:43:55,120 --> 00:43:58,359
Speaker 1: The Jags obviously a big underdog in this game. What

921
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:01,560
Speaker 1: do they have to do go into Arrowhead and upset

922
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:04,479
Speaker 1: the Chiefs this week? I think they need to play

923
00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:07,600
Speaker 1: loose and play aggressive. U Doug Peterson has shown that

924
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:10,640
Speaker 1: he is not afraid of taking big chances, even in

925
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:13,480
Speaker 1: the biggest stage of them all. They need to continue

926
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:16,440
Speaker 1: to play aggressive and and maybe even more so than

927
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:18,319
Speaker 1: what we've seen out of Peterson. But I think they

928
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:20,919
Speaker 1: need to kind of adapt that mentality of like, we

929
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:22,920
Speaker 1: aren't even supposed to be here right now, we have

930
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:25,400
Speaker 1: nothing to lose. They are the ones with all of

931
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:28,279
Speaker 1: the pressure on them, because when teams play like that,

932
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:32,520
Speaker 1: they're scary. Yeah. No, I think that's that's absolutely the case.

933
00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:34,239
Speaker 1: And I think we sort of saw some of that

934
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:36,600
Speaker 1: in the second half, because when you're down with the

935
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:38,840
Speaker 1: twenty seven and seven a half, when you're down twenty

936
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:42,279
Speaker 1: seven nothing in the first half, seven seven at halftime, uh,

937
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:45,360
Speaker 1: and you're facing playoff elimination, you don't have a choice

938
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:48,279
Speaker 1: just go out and play loose football and and that

939
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:50,880
Speaker 1: sort of thing. Uh. They definitely the force turnovers. I mean,

940
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:53,799
Speaker 1: they've got to figure out a way to get stops. Uh.

941
00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:55,680
Speaker 1: Turnover is the best way to do it. If you

942
00:44:55,719 --> 00:44:59,439
Speaker 1: can somehow force the Chiefs into threes instead of sevens, uh,

943
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:00,840
Speaker 1: that's going to be big. And I think on the

944
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:03,240
Speaker 1: other side, that means they've got to score sevens instead

945
00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:04,960
Speaker 1: of threes. That means and I think it goes to

946
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:08,200
Speaker 1: your point about being loose, being aggressive, trying to force

947
00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:10,839
Speaker 1: the issue and you know, punching it Indians on where

948
00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:13,279
Speaker 1: you can, because you know that if you end up

949
00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:15,359
Speaker 1: having a kick field goals, Patrick Mahomes is gonna make

950
00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:19,160
Speaker 1: you pay. On the other end, no one Chiefs kicking

951
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 1: field goals. Nobody ever beat the Chiefs kicking field goals.

952
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:23,960
Speaker 1: I think this is gonna be a high scoring game

953
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:27,720
Speaker 1: because Kansas City has given up some yards through the air. Um.

954
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:29,680
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be interesting to watch. I think,

955
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:33,760
Speaker 1: you know, if you're playing dfs uh, a Jaguar stack

956
00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:37,120
Speaker 1: might be kind of interesting, would say Trevor Lawrence and

957
00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:39,320
Speaker 1: Christian Kirk, because I think there's a chance for the

958
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:43,480
Speaker 1: Chiefs to score and put the Jaguars in a negative

959
00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:47,280
Speaker 1: games forced them to throw the football giants at the Eagles.

960
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:50,120
Speaker 1: That's the second game on Saturday eight fifteen Eastern. That

961
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:53,759
Speaker 1: one on Fox East. Two teams met twice during the

962
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:57,160
Speaker 1: regular season. Obviously, the Eagles won both of them. First

963
00:45:57,200 --> 00:45:59,479
Speaker 1: time was sort of a blowout. Second time a little

964
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:01,960
Speaker 1: bit closer than I think Philadelphia wanted it to be.

965
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:05,200
Speaker 1: So is the third time the charm for the Giants.

966
00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:09,239
Speaker 1: I'm still picking the Eagles to win this game, but

967
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:12,120
Speaker 1: I I think it's much closer than I would have

968
00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:15,799
Speaker 1: anticipated coming obviously coming into the year, but even you

969
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:19,400
Speaker 1: know a few weeks ago, the Giants, just like the Jags,

970
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:20,960
Speaker 1: I think they need to play loose. They need to

971
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:23,160
Speaker 1: be with play with house money, be like people don't

972
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:25,400
Speaker 1: We're gonna be a top five pick in the draft

973
00:46:25,440 --> 00:46:27,600
Speaker 1: this season, and here we are in the divisional round.

974
00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:30,480
Speaker 1: We just went into Minnesota and beat a thirteen win

975
00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:34,320
Speaker 1: team like the Gable. The one thing about the Giants

976
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:36,399
Speaker 1: is they're so well coached. They they are not going

977
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:39,160
Speaker 1: to beat themselves. They are going to take chances and

978
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:41,799
Speaker 1: be aggressive when the time is right. I think the

979
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:45,400
Speaker 1: biggest thing for them is they need to contain the

980
00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 1: run game of the Eagles and and specifically Jalen Hurts.

981
00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:51,120
Speaker 1: Like if Jalen Hurts is beating them with his legs,

982
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 1: I think the Giants do not have a chance, but

983
00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:55,439
Speaker 1: if they could kind of make them have to beat

984
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:57,720
Speaker 1: them through the air, I think that's their best bet.

985
00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:00,360
Speaker 1: And I think we saw that later in the season

986
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:03,000
Speaker 1: the Giants get better at run defense, because that was

987
00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:06,000
Speaker 1: the thing that early on, uh they were they were

988
00:47:06,040 --> 00:47:08,440
Speaker 1: just able to They were awful at at run defense.

989
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:10,200
Speaker 1: Teams are running through them left and right. I think

990
00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:12,440
Speaker 1: we've seen the guys up front get a lot tougher.

991
00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 1: I think the way to win in Philly is sort

992
00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:17,880
Speaker 1: of what they did in Minnesota, which is to go

993
00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:21,399
Speaker 1: in control the football, control the clock more importantly, sort

994
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:23,120
Speaker 1: of keep the crowd out of it. And we saw

995
00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:26,480
Speaker 1: that against the Vikings, some long drives, time consuming drives

996
00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 1: and ending those drives in touchdowns. And and so, say

997
00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:31,640
Speaker 1: Kwon Barkley like being a big part of the game

998
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:34,399
Speaker 1: last week against the Vikings, can be a big part

999
00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:36,640
Speaker 1: of the game this week against the Eagles. The difference

1000
00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:39,759
Speaker 1: being Phillies defense is quite a bit better than Minnesota,

1001
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 1: so the the opportunities may not be as plentiful. The

1002
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:47,120
Speaker 1: upside for the Giants is, you know these teams, right,

1003
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:50,600
Speaker 1: You've seen them twice a year, So we'll We'll see

1004
00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:53,560
Speaker 1: what happens there. But I'm with you. I picked the Eagles,

1005
00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:55,920
Speaker 1: but there's a part of me that wouldn't be a

1006
00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:59,239
Speaker 1: hundred percent surprised if the Giants went in there and

1007
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:02,560
Speaker 1: maybe the world a little bit and got a big win. Um.

1008
00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:06,719
Speaker 1: You know, we've got three NFC East teams in the playoffs,

1009
00:48:06,719 --> 00:48:10,880
Speaker 1: will be down to at best too, depending on how

1010
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:14,960
Speaker 1: things go this week. Turning to Sunday, the one that

1011
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:16,719
Speaker 1: we know Florida is gonna have his eye on it.

1012
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:20,160
Speaker 1: His the Bengals at the Bills, three o'clock Eastern, that

1013
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 1: one on CBS. You know this team better than any

1014
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 1: of us here on this show. You watch them closely,

1015
00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 1: you follow them closely. Uh. It felt like last week

1016
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:32,360
Speaker 1: they were going out of their way to try to

1017
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:34,800
Speaker 1: make a statement. They were trying to hit deep shots.

1018
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:37,480
Speaker 1: They were trying to really just bludgeon the Dolphins, and

1019
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:39,560
Speaker 1: it didn't work and it sort of kept Miami in

1020
00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:43,000
Speaker 1: the game. Is this just the case of them trying

1021
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:44,840
Speaker 1: to do too much or all the Are the Bills

1022
00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:49,799
Speaker 1: actually vulnerable against the good Bengals team? They're vulnerable? Like

1023
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:52,520
Speaker 1: I am, This is the most worried I've been going

1024
00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:55,960
Speaker 1: into a game all season, um, and you know me, typically,

1025
00:48:55,960 --> 00:48:57,560
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, the Bills are gonna win, Like this

1026
00:48:57,600 --> 00:49:00,600
Speaker 1: is one that I'm I'm scared of. I actually told

1027
00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:02,600
Speaker 1: the buddy of mine that I'm more afraid of this

1028
00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:04,640
Speaker 1: match up against the Bengals than I would be against

1029
00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:07,239
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. And my friends said that's dumb, and he's

1030
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:14,560
Speaker 1: probably right, but I'm I'm scared, and uh, it's But

1031
00:49:14,719 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 1: my hope is and I think this is the hope

1032
00:49:16,719 --> 00:49:18,759
Speaker 1: you take away as a Bills fan, is that that

1033
00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:20,799
Speaker 1: was an eye opener for them. Like they went into

1034
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:23,680
Speaker 1: a game up seven first, they were seventeen zip. They

1035
00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:25,959
Speaker 1: probably should have been up twenty eight zip if Knox

1036
00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:28,640
Speaker 1: catches that touchdown and Shakire catches that long ball. But

1037
00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:32,000
Speaker 1: besides that, I the Bills have been a sloppy team

1038
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:34,640
Speaker 1: all year long. So I'm hoping that this kind of

1039
00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:37,399
Speaker 1: forces them to be like, hey, no, like we could

1040
00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:40,520
Speaker 1: beat anyone, but we can't beat anyone when we also

1041
00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:43,640
Speaker 1: beat ourselves. Um, and that's gonna be the case this week.

1042
00:49:43,719 --> 00:49:46,960
Speaker 1: Luckily for the Bills, the Bengals are just as vulnerable,

1043
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 1: like they nearly lost last week and now they're potentially

1044
00:49:50,239 --> 00:49:53,480
Speaker 1: going to be without three their top three offensive linemen,

1045
00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:56,320
Speaker 1: so h we we saw the Ravens really exploit that

1046
00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:58,440
Speaker 1: in the second half last week, and and the Bengals

1047
00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:01,160
Speaker 1: offense changed. They went from being article too like Burrow

1048
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:03,000
Speaker 1: needs to get rid of the ball quickly. So I

1049
00:50:03,040 --> 00:50:04,680
Speaker 1: think these are two teams that are both kind of

1050
00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:07,759
Speaker 1: vulnerable right now, and I think they're like emotionally gonna

1051
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:10,759
Speaker 1: be vulnerable, like this is just gonna be I think potentially,

1052
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:13,360
Speaker 1: like the class we always get one classic each playoffs,

1053
00:50:13,520 --> 00:50:15,160
Speaker 1: I think this could be it, just because of everything

1054
00:50:15,239 --> 00:50:17,560
Speaker 1: kind of coming into this game. I do think for

1055
00:50:17,560 --> 00:50:20,440
Speaker 1: for Buffalo, it's you know, certainly emotional. They've had an

1056
00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:24,799
Speaker 1: emotional few weeks, right with the mar Hamlin issue there,

1057
00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:26,840
Speaker 1: and then you know, having to play such a close

1058
00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:30,160
Speaker 1: game against the team that, at least on paper, the

1059
00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:32,799
Speaker 1: Bills were significantly better than that Dolphins team that came

1060
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:34,680
Speaker 1: in last week, but they had to go down to

1061
00:50:34,680 --> 00:50:37,719
Speaker 1: the wire, and you gotta wonder how emotionally drained they

1062
00:50:37,719 --> 00:50:39,920
Speaker 1: are from all of that. The Bengals, on the other hand,

1063
00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:42,680
Speaker 1: are just physically beat up, and that's generally what happens

1064
00:50:42,719 --> 00:50:44,520
Speaker 1: when you not only play a division game, but you

1065
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:47,600
Speaker 1: play a Ravens team that tends to be very, very

1066
00:50:47,600 --> 00:50:50,960
Speaker 1: physical there. So you mentioned the starters not being available

1067
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:54,560
Speaker 1: for Cincinnati. That's gonna have a big impact on what

1068
00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:57,879
Speaker 1: happens there. But I do think the Bills are sort

1069
00:50:57,880 --> 00:50:59,759
Speaker 1: of vulnerable. They they don't look at the end of

1070
00:50:59,760 --> 00:51:02,040
Speaker 1: the season like that juggernaut we saw at the beginning

1071
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:04,080
Speaker 1: of the year. I mean, we saw that game against

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00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:06,239
Speaker 1: the Rams in Week one, and obviously at the time

1073
00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:07,879
Speaker 1: we didn't know who the Rams are going to be.

1074
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:10,440
Speaker 1: But I remember the first couple of weeks of the season,

1075
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:12,880
Speaker 1: the Bills were just running over people and one of

1076
00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:14,839
Speaker 1: my friends texted me, can't we just seem to the

1077
00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:17,640
Speaker 1: end when the Bills are in the Super Bowl? Um,

1078
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:19,840
Speaker 1: you know, things change over the course of the season,

1079
00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:24,320
Speaker 1: and and defensively they have some gaps. Offensively, they've missed

1080
00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:26,560
Speaker 1: some plays. They tried to play a lot of hero ball,

1081
00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:30,520
Speaker 1: So they are vulnerable. Um, if they can pull it

1082
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:32,239
Speaker 1: back together though it looked like that team we saw

1083
00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:35,239
Speaker 1: back in September early October, then then I think they

1084
00:51:35,239 --> 00:51:37,040
Speaker 1: go back to being one of the favorites in the UNFC.

1085
00:51:37,320 --> 00:51:40,279
Speaker 1: I am very fearful of lou On a rumo. And

1086
00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:43,359
Speaker 1: if people are like, who, that's the Bengals defensive coordinator

1087
00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:47,080
Speaker 1: who invented the game scripts on how to stop Patrick Mahomes.

1088
00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:50,319
Speaker 1: And not only that, he's not afraid to completely be like, well,

1089
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:53,399
Speaker 1: this game plan isn't working, Let's go to game plan

1090
00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:56,719
Speaker 1: number two and do something completely different. So if the

1091
00:51:56,719 --> 00:51:59,000
Speaker 1: Bengals win, I actually think it's gonna be because of

1092
00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:01,719
Speaker 1: their defense, not there offense. So we'll see how that goes.

1093
00:52:01,760 --> 00:52:03,759
Speaker 1: Because that that one does, I think has the the

1094
00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:08,560
Speaker 1: makings potentially of an instant classic. This weekend, last game

1095
00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:11,239
Speaker 1: of the weekend, six thirty Eastern on Fox, it's the

1096
00:52:11,280 --> 00:52:14,440
Speaker 1: Cowboys at the forty Niners. And every time the Cowboys

1097
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:17,680
Speaker 1: and Niners play in the playoffs, I always flashed back

1098
00:52:17,719 --> 00:52:20,080
Speaker 1: to to my childhood being in like you know, high school,

1099
00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:24,280
Speaker 1: early college, when you know, the late eighties early nineties,

1100
00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:26,840
Speaker 1: when these two teams usually played, they were playing in

1101
00:52:26,880 --> 00:52:29,040
Speaker 1: the regular season, and the winner of that one usually

1102
00:52:29,080 --> 00:52:31,319
Speaker 1: we get home field advantage in the NFC, and then

1103
00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:33,239
Speaker 1: they would play in the playoffs and usually that the

1104
00:52:33,239 --> 00:52:35,680
Speaker 1: team that won, uh would go to the Super Bowl

1105
00:52:35,719 --> 00:52:38,080
Speaker 1: a lot of times because it was the NFC Championship game.

1106
00:52:38,239 --> 00:52:41,759
Speaker 1: It's sort of feels like that now the Niners, when

1107
00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:45,200
Speaker 1: everything is clicking, they are terrifying on offense. I mean,

1108
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:48,880
Speaker 1: you've got four legitimate weapons there. Uh, Deebo back is

1109
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:52,759
Speaker 1: back and healthy again. Can the Cowboys defense slow down

1110
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:56,680
Speaker 1: the Niners offense the way they stymy the Buccaneers on Monday?

1111
00:52:57,040 --> 00:52:59,440
Speaker 1: It's gonna be much much tougher than it was to

1112
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:02,080
Speaker 1: to slow down the Bucks. Um. I think it's possible.

1113
00:53:02,640 --> 00:53:05,279
Speaker 1: I do not envy the people who have to try

1114
00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:08,239
Speaker 1: to game plan to stop this offense, because I don't

1115
00:53:08,239 --> 00:53:11,040
Speaker 1: know how. Like, all right, we take a Christian McCaffrey.

1116
00:53:11,080 --> 00:53:13,279
Speaker 1: They have Deebo Samuel, we take away him. They have

1117
00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:15,239
Speaker 1: George Kittle. Oh and they also have Brandon and yok

1118
00:53:15,280 --> 00:53:17,640
Speaker 1: who could burn you downfield. Like, I don't know how

1119
00:53:17,640 --> 00:53:20,120
Speaker 1: you slow down this offense. But what I do think,

1120
00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:23,359
Speaker 1: and I'm pretty confident in saying this, this is also

1121
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:27,160
Speaker 1: the toughest test for brock Purty. Like the defenses he's faced,

1122
00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:30,000
Speaker 1: I would say right now that the toughest one like

1123
00:53:30,360 --> 00:53:33,920
Speaker 1: up into the Cowboys has been Washington, maybe Tampa Bay,

1124
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:36,360
Speaker 1: and none of those defenses are close to the unit

1125
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:39,400
Speaker 1: that that the Cowboys are. But luckily for them, the

1126
00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:42,440
Speaker 1: Cowboys secondary is pretty beat up right now. So I

1127
00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:43,920
Speaker 1: think Purdy is just gonna kind of have to do

1128
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:46,080
Speaker 1: what he does and get Debo and those guys the

1129
00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:48,200
Speaker 1: ball quickly and let them do their thing. I would

1130
00:53:48,200 --> 00:53:51,520
Speaker 1: say it's a Niners fan this. This Cowboy defense scares

1131
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:54,120
Speaker 1: me right. The idea of Michael Parsons in that pass

1132
00:53:54,200 --> 00:53:56,399
Speaker 1: rush coming after Brock Purdy, and it was one thing

1133
00:53:56,440 --> 00:53:59,399
Speaker 1: to see him sort of dodge and sidestep. I mean

1134
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:01,879
Speaker 1: he was. He was like the five ds of dodgeball, right,

1135
00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:05,040
Speaker 1: Like dodge, duck, dip, diving, dodge. That's what he did

1136
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:07,280
Speaker 1: around the Seahawks. It's gonna be a little bit different

1137
00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:09,440
Speaker 1: trying to do that against the Cowboys, and so it

1138
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:12,080
Speaker 1: is going to be important to get the ball out quick. Um.

1139
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:14,680
Speaker 1: I think he got away with some throws against Seattle

1140
00:54:14,719 --> 00:54:16,239
Speaker 1: that he might not be able to get away with

1141
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:19,520
Speaker 1: against Dallas. So we'll see how that goes. But if

1142
00:54:19,520 --> 00:54:21,560
Speaker 1: he can get into a rhythm and get the ball

1143
00:54:21,560 --> 00:54:23,719
Speaker 1: out to those guys quickly, whether it's McCaffrey or I,

1144
00:54:24,120 --> 00:54:27,760
Speaker 1: Debo Kittle, whomever. Uh, they even sprinkled into some Jawn Johnson,

1145
00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:30,480
Speaker 1: then I think he's going to be there. I do

1146
00:54:30,560 --> 00:54:33,239
Speaker 1: think the Niners can sort of make the Cowboys a

1147
00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:35,640
Speaker 1: little bit one dimensional. We know how good they are

1148
00:54:36,320 --> 00:54:40,000
Speaker 1: at at stopping the run, so if they can slow

1149
00:54:40,040 --> 00:54:43,000
Speaker 1: down the run, Uh, that's gonna help. They're very vulnerable

1150
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:45,239
Speaker 1: to the play action and that's been very, very good.

1151
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:49,120
Speaker 1: He was amazing with play action throws against Tampa Bay

1152
00:54:49,160 --> 00:54:52,000
Speaker 1: and so that could be a big weakness for San

1153
00:54:52,040 --> 00:54:54,640
Speaker 1: Francisco if that can get the passing game going through

1154
00:54:54,680 --> 00:54:58,319
Speaker 1: play action. Ryan mentioned it's starter jacket city. It is. Uh,

1155
00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:01,040
Speaker 1: Cowboy fans and Niner fans is much as they don't

1156
00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:03,520
Speaker 1: like each other and they don't want to admit it, um,

1157
00:55:03,600 --> 00:55:05,759
Speaker 1: they're they're kind of similar. We're all holding onto a

1158
00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:09,000
Speaker 1: past that is getting further and further away. I mean,

1159
00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:10,640
Speaker 1: you know, for as much as we like to talk

1160
00:55:10,680 --> 00:55:13,640
Speaker 1: about the greatness of our respective franchises, uh, we're both

1161
00:55:13,680 --> 00:55:16,360
Speaker 1: coming up on thirty years since we want a Super Bowl.

1162
00:55:16,480 --> 00:55:20,000
Speaker 1: So uh, yeah, you gotta talk about two franchises living

1163
00:55:20,040 --> 00:55:22,080
Speaker 1: in the past. Things have been better for for the

1164
00:55:22,200 --> 00:55:24,400
Speaker 1: Niners than the Cowboys, at least as of late, a

1165
00:55:24,440 --> 00:55:25,960
Speaker 1: little bit better. They've been to it. They've been to

1166
00:55:25,960 --> 00:55:27,839
Speaker 1: a couple of Super Bowls. They haven't won any of them,

1167
00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:29,720
Speaker 1: but they've actually been to a couple of Super Bowls.

1168
00:55:29,760 --> 00:55:32,239
Speaker 1: It's been a while since the Cowboys have been in

1169
00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:36,399
Speaker 1: that last game of the year. You know, it took

1170
00:55:36,400 --> 00:55:37,759
Speaker 1: It's a couple of weeks off and like, I think

1171
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:39,920
Speaker 1: I lost my stamina to do a podcast that was

1172
00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:44,920
Speaker 1: so locked. Uh but we got through it all. So

1173
00:55:45,200 --> 00:55:48,520
Speaker 1: uh yeah, it should be a fun weekend beyond beyond

1174
00:55:48,560 --> 00:55:50,759
Speaker 1: the Bills Bengals game, which I know you're gonna be

1175
00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:53,680
Speaker 1: breathlessly waiting for. Is there one that you are super

1176
00:55:53,719 --> 00:55:57,600
Speaker 1: excited about this weekend? I mean not to to sound

1177
00:55:57,600 --> 00:56:00,319
Speaker 1: like a company man, I am very excited about all. Like,

1178
00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:02,680
Speaker 1: I think they're all fun matchups that that kind of

1179
00:56:02,719 --> 00:56:05,680
Speaker 1: broke right, But Jack's cheaps to me is the other

1180
00:56:05,719 --> 00:56:08,640
Speaker 1: one that I'm really excited for because this Jaguars team

1181
00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:11,560
Speaker 1: has so much to like watch them kind of come

1182
00:56:11,600 --> 00:56:14,240
Speaker 1: to life and blossom before our eyes and see Trevor

1183
00:56:14,360 --> 00:56:17,920
Speaker 1: Lawrence become everything that he was promised to be and

1184
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:21,080
Speaker 1: Christian Kirk live up to that high contract that he got,

1185
00:56:21,320 --> 00:56:23,520
Speaker 1: and they're only getting better because a lot of people

1186
00:56:23,600 --> 00:56:26,680
Speaker 1: keep forgetting like Calvin Ridley is already on this team

1187
00:56:26,680 --> 00:56:28,719
Speaker 1: and is going to be coming back next season. So

1188
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:32,200
Speaker 1: I don't know if they win that game, but just

1189
00:56:32,239 --> 00:56:34,799
Speaker 1: to see what that young team could do against you know,

1190
00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:37,600
Speaker 1: the class of the NFL, I'm really excited for. No,

1191
00:56:37,680 --> 00:56:40,520
Speaker 1: I'm with you. It's uh, you know, it's Vince Vaughn

1192
00:56:40,560 --> 00:56:42,400
Speaker 1: at the end of Swingers and it grows up and

1193
00:56:42,400 --> 00:56:44,279
Speaker 1: their growns up and their growns up, and it is

1194
00:56:44,280 --> 00:56:46,960
Speaker 1: it's it's watching it's watching the Jaguars kind of grow

1195
00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:49,239
Speaker 1: up before our eyes. Uh. And I always think of

1196
00:56:49,280 --> 00:56:51,560
Speaker 1: old Jason Mendoza from the Good Place Man, like I

1197
00:56:51,560 --> 00:56:53,799
Speaker 1: wonder where he is right now, and uh, you know,

1198
00:56:53,920 --> 00:56:56,960
Speaker 1: as he switched from Bortles to Lawrence, because he absolutely should.

1199
00:56:58,600 --> 00:57:01,759
Speaker 1: Do they have waffle houses in Kansas City, Because that's

1200
00:57:01,760 --> 00:57:04,000
Speaker 1: a good question where they go celebrate. So it's a

1201
00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:06,760
Speaker 1: good quition, Like you know what, there's there's the Google machine.

1202
00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:09,680
Speaker 1: Let's see because by the way, I mean, I'm sure

1203
00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:12,560
Speaker 1: you know, I'm sure I've told you about my love

1204
00:57:12,560 --> 00:57:16,080
Speaker 1: waffle house, my unhealthy fascination with the waffle house. Yes,

1205
00:57:16,160 --> 00:57:19,880
Speaker 1: there are multiple waffle houses in the Kansas City area,

1206
00:57:20,280 --> 00:57:22,920
Speaker 1: So we'll see if the Jaguars pull off the upset.

1207
00:57:23,880 --> 00:57:26,720
Speaker 1: Does Trevor Lawrence go to a waffle house in Kansas City?

1208
00:57:27,200 --> 00:57:30,640
Speaker 1: He WITTI he gets back home, the homes said good

1209
00:57:30,640 --> 00:57:33,680
Speaker 1: things to say about Lawrence going to waffle house last week.

1210
00:57:33,680 --> 00:57:35,680
Speaker 1: I don't think he'll be as happy if Laurence ends

1211
00:57:35,720 --> 00:57:38,240
Speaker 1: up in the Kansas City waffle house. This probably not.

1212
00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:40,160
Speaker 1: But then when I saw that, when I saw those

1213
00:57:40,200 --> 00:57:42,400
Speaker 1: tweets going around, I'm like, he's my QB one now

1214
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:47,400
Speaker 1: because it's waffle house like your number one. I mean,

1215
00:57:47,400 --> 00:57:49,720
Speaker 1: it depends on what category. If you're talking about like

1216
00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:53,000
Speaker 1: the middle of the night, I'm looking for an adventure

1217
00:57:53,160 --> 00:57:55,680
Speaker 1: and a meal all at the same time. Absolutely, it's

1218
00:57:55,680 --> 00:57:57,960
Speaker 1: the one dotto one like it's you know, like it's

1219
00:57:58,520 --> 00:58:01,480
Speaker 1: it's not fine dining. You don't go there for the food.

1220
00:58:01,520 --> 00:58:04,120
Speaker 1: You don't go there for the service. You go there

1221
00:58:04,120 --> 00:58:06,800
Speaker 1: because you know you might be a little bit uh

1222
00:58:06,920 --> 00:58:09,800
Speaker 1: inebriated and you want a meal and maybe a show

1223
00:58:09,840 --> 00:58:11,240
Speaker 1: to go along with it. That's why you go to

1224
00:58:11,240 --> 00:58:13,640
Speaker 1: waffle house. I've never grew up in an area that

1225
00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:15,640
Speaker 1: has them. I've only been to one like once or

1226
00:58:15,640 --> 00:58:17,600
Speaker 1: twice in my life. Oh no, they don't have Maclowney.

1227
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:19,000
Speaker 1: You know they don't have my California. The first is

1228
00:58:19,040 --> 00:58:21,520
Speaker 1: one to hear. I think it's like Phoenix, which you

1229
00:58:21,560 --> 00:58:23,920
Speaker 1: know is not really just around the corner. But whenever

1230
00:58:23,960 --> 00:58:25,760
Speaker 1: I'm in an area with a with a waffle house,

1231
00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:28,680
Speaker 1: you can damn well bet the way you're going to

1232
00:58:28,840 --> 00:58:33,640
Speaker 1: the waffle house. So so absolutely, uh, we're gonna we're

1233
00:58:33,640 --> 00:58:36,120
Speaker 1: gonna make that happen next time. In fact, I'm just

1234
00:58:36,120 --> 00:58:37,720
Speaker 1: putting out there right because I know they put out

1235
00:58:37,760 --> 00:58:39,640
Speaker 1: the the notice. I know we're going along. I don't

1236
00:58:39,680 --> 00:58:43,440
Speaker 1: care um the Fantasy Football Expo, which is in August.

1237
00:58:43,760 --> 00:58:46,120
Speaker 1: I think registration opens in the next couple of weeks.

1238
00:58:46,440 --> 00:58:49,400
Speaker 1: There are waffle houses in Ohio. In fact, when I

1239
00:58:49,440 --> 00:58:51,919
Speaker 1: was there last year, the first thing I did, I

1240
00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:53,680
Speaker 1: jumped in my room to the car in Cleveland. I

1241
00:58:53,720 --> 00:58:55,640
Speaker 1: pulled into Canton, and the first thing I did when

1242
00:58:55,640 --> 00:58:57,000
Speaker 1: I got to Canton with sad down and aided a

1243
00:58:57,040 --> 00:58:59,520
Speaker 1: waffle house. Uh. And I'm met our friend Lawrence Jackson

1244
00:58:59,560 --> 00:59:02,280
Speaker 1: from MB Sports Action person it was great. If we

1245
00:59:02,320 --> 00:59:05,640
Speaker 1: get to go this season this summer together, I would

1246
00:59:05,680 --> 00:59:08,800
Speaker 1: love to know you're going to waffle house. We're absolutely

1247
00:59:08,840 --> 00:59:10,800
Speaker 1: going to waffle Hox. If we're gonna be in Canton

1248
00:59:11,120 --> 00:59:12,960
Speaker 1: for the expo, you and I will go to a

1249
00:59:12,960 --> 00:59:15,120
Speaker 1: waffle house. We might just need a wheelt waffle house

1250
00:59:15,160 --> 00:59:18,400
Speaker 1: because that's that's just how I roll. Are you scattering

1251
00:59:18,520 --> 00:59:21,680
Speaker 1: waffles over pancakes kind of guy? Because I like pancakes. Um,

1252
00:59:21,680 --> 00:59:23,560
Speaker 1: I feel like both have their place. I don't, I don't.

1253
00:59:23,560 --> 00:59:26,920
Speaker 1: I don't discriminate between waffles and pancakes. French toes to

1254
00:59:26,960 --> 00:59:29,600
Speaker 1: me is a distant third, but those two are very close. Yeah,

1255
00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:31,560
Speaker 1: it's it's just soggy bread like. I don't know if

1256
00:59:31,560 --> 00:59:34,240
Speaker 1: I'm really big in the French tose. But the waffle house,

1257
00:59:34,240 --> 00:59:36,520
Speaker 1: it's all about the hash browns man scattered, smothered, cover

1258
00:59:36,600 --> 00:59:40,120
Speaker 1: and chunked. That is my That is my jam at

1259
00:59:40,120 --> 00:59:43,439
Speaker 1: the waffle house. Now I needs somee to eat. UM

1260
00:59:44,640 --> 00:59:47,360
Speaker 1: feel like to shut this one down for the day.

1261
00:59:47,400 --> 00:59:50,600
Speaker 1: We appreciate you hanging out with us. Of course, as always,

1262
00:59:50,600 --> 00:59:52,600
Speaker 1: I'll do it for this edition of the NFL Fantasy

1263
00:59:52,600 --> 00:59:55,760
Speaker 1: Football Podcast. They're happy, saving healthy, do good, and live well.

1264
00:59:56,120 --> 00:59:58,320
Speaker 1: Enjoy the playoffs this weekend, and we'll talk to you

1265
00:59:58,360 --> 01:00:19,040
Speaker 1: next week. Want want, I don't I don't