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Speaker 1: NFL Podcast or who We Thought they were? Let the

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

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Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hansens, and I am joined by

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

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Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthalalt what boys he d Wednesday show? Ow go

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Speaker 1: for it, Go for it, Go for it. How's everything going?

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Speaker 1: It's good. I'm excited. I like that money tag. That

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Speaker 1: liked it when when Matt money Smith, who voices our interests,

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Speaker 1: he flexes his acting muscles a little bit. You know

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Speaker 1: what I mean. Guys are great talent. Matt money Smith,

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Speaker 1: Mark Sessler, I've noticed you told us that your wife

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Speaker 1: watched one of our NFL now videos and commented that

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Speaker 1: we looked almost vagrant type characters. Well not everyone. Uh,

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Speaker 1: the NFL own NFL now channel this morning, and you're

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Speaker 1: forced to wear stuff that we don't wear on our

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Speaker 1: NFL now hits. Which is which bordered between Dan and

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Speaker 1: a zip up sweatshirt. You look like you're ready to

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Speaker 1: Elliott Harris. I look ridiculous. Not making a comment on Elliot,

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Speaker 1: but I look ridiculous. Wesleyan, howd you were in your

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Speaker 1: Greg looked, fine, look what I'm serious because you were

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Speaker 1: three of us, you guys look like garbage. Boss, well,

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Speaker 1: The boss looked very coomone knows who cuts the checks.

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Speaker 1: I like that. I do like that. Mark wears the

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Speaker 1: wear it every time. Speaking of NFL Now, We've got

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Speaker 1: NFL Now only video every week. Everything's to watch every week,

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Speaker 1: Sessler's all over that he's taping on it doing news

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Speaker 1: thank you for you know, highly visible Dan reads the

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Speaker 1: she says, where are the Jets? Where's Percy Harvin. She

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Speaker 1: she's becoming a Jets fan and her favorite player. While

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Speaker 1: that's crazy to me, you're not gonna director and it

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Speaker 1: probably will be there next years. As soon as she

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Speaker 1: think critically, you're gonna steer her towards New England. We

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Speaker 1: know that she just wanted to know where the Jets.

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Speaker 1: I want to watch the Jets. She's big, big, well,

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Speaker 1: she has a childlike innocence and that would take you

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Speaker 1: towards nice team like the Jets. All right, so let's

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Speaker 1: move on, Wes. You uh, every week, those great great

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Speaker 1: people Lenovo, what products they make over there at the

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Speaker 1: Levano Lenovo headquarters wherever they are they have? They sponsor

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Speaker 1: our position power rankings, and West every week does a list.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it's not really a power ranking, but it is

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Speaker 1: a top ten list, and this week it is the

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Speaker 1: two thousand fifteen top ten free agents. West wonders who

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Speaker 1: will be on the market, and we'll take a quick

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Speaker 1: look at look at his list here right off the top.

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Speaker 1: We'll start with Dominican Sue the Lines defensive tackle at

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Speaker 1: number one, Justin Houston, Chief's pass rusher too, and Dez

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Speaker 1: Bryan Cowboys wide receiver at three. If you want one

448
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Speaker 1: of these players, the only one you're gonna get is

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Speaker 1: in Dominican Sue, because the Chiefs aren't gonna let Justin

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Speaker 1: Houston go, the Cowboys aren't gonna let Dez Bryant go.

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Speaker 1: These teams have a chance at the Frantise franchise tag,

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Speaker 1: but it would cost the Lions nearly twenty seven million

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Speaker 1: to wield the tag on Sue. NFL media insider Ian

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Speaker 1: rapp Report has reported since going back to the summer

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Speaker 1: that the Lions are perfectly willing to let him test

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Speaker 1: free agency. I'll look at this list and these are ten.

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Speaker 1: These are the ten best players who will become free

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Speaker 1: agency in theory, but very few of them. I think

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Speaker 1: we'll we'll switch teams. Well, Sue is a good candidate,

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Speaker 1: and that is such an interesting When have we seen

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Speaker 1: a top five defensive player hit free agency right in

462
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Speaker 1: the middle of his prime? And I think it's because

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Speaker 1: the Lions really have to make a choice. Can we

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Speaker 1: continue to pay Stafford, Megatron and Sue that much? You know?

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Speaker 1: And and unless they're gonna be Stafford, they gotta let

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Speaker 1: go on? Did they miss in this situation? With him?

467
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Speaker 1: He owns every every slice of leverage in this whole thing.

468
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Speaker 1: They they really got jobbed by getting their top picks

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Speaker 1: at the time that they did before the new c

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Speaker 1: b A, and that they all the ones that they

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Speaker 1: hit on were right then Stafford mega Troyn to suit.

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Speaker 1: They're almost getting punished from making good picks. All right.

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Speaker 1: Here's the here's the rest of the list to Marius

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Speaker 1: Thomas at four, Durrell Revus at five, Julius Thomas at six, uh,

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Speaker 1: Mike Upattiotti at seven, DeMarco Murray at eight, JPP at nine,

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Speaker 1: and Randall Cobb at ten. I think it's really interesting

477
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Speaker 1: that there's two sets of teammates here. So Murray and Bryant,

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Speaker 1: you can use the franchise tag on one, you can't

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Speaker 1: use them on both. So that means maybe Murray gets

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Speaker 1: out there, and we've heard that that is what they

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Speaker 1: will do potentially, and you have the two Thomas to

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Speaker 1: Marius Thomas Julius Thoms. I don't know if they can

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Speaker 1: afford to pay both. I don't think there's any chance

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Speaker 1: one of the time Mrs leaves. Murray is the interesting

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Speaker 1: one to me, and here's why they're using him up

486
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Speaker 1: this year with the workload and they know his injury history.

487
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Speaker 1: And we had the off season story of Adrian Peterson

488
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Speaker 1: just dialing up Jerry Jones and saying, I want to

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Speaker 1: finish my career with the Cowboys. Peterson, good chance he'll

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Speaker 1: be available. Era Jarra is predictable, let's face it. I

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Speaker 1: mean that's why when we did the sandwich bets before

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Speaker 1: the draft, I I went all in on Mansill because

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Speaker 1: I thought it was such a Jerry Jones movement. Sure enough,

494
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Speaker 1: he wanted to do it, but this is a move

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Speaker 1: where it would make sense because they would probably get

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Speaker 1: him on a little bit of a discount considering everything

497
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Speaker 1: that's happened, and you probably can't sign both Murray and Dez,

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Speaker 1: so there's some logic to this one. I would imagine

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Speaker 1: he would make a hard push if he was available.

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Speaker 1: I look at Darrell Reeves and I think we know

501
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Speaker 1: that from now until the end of days, he will

502
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Speaker 1: sign one year lucrative contracts with teams and never be

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Speaker 1: on the same team twice. Well, yeah, you you mentioned

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough to get most of these players,

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Speaker 1: and you're right, but he he is one that that

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Speaker 1: will be available. We know that, and he plays for

507
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Speaker 1: money and it's it. And he's been great this year.

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Speaker 1: I mean he's the top five cornerback. I think he

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Speaker 1: it's he and Sherman sure those two are the best.

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Speaker 1: And then your boys Xavier Roads. Over the last month,

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Speaker 1: I I can we hit one on making the leap.

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Speaker 1: That was Kevin Patch by the way, at the honorable mention.

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Speaker 1: This is the biggest shock on the list. Brian Hoyer

514
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Speaker 1: makes an appearance. The last names like right next to

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Speaker 1: him to throwing Browns fans of bone. The number one

516
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Speaker 1: guy on that honorable mention list is very interesting, Greg Hardy,

517
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Speaker 1: who we haven't talked about and forever because of his

518
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Speaker 1: legal problems. But if you're just talking about pure talent

519
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Speaker 1: and with the impact he could have in the top

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Speaker 1: five or six, get him to Jerry Jones. Bring everyone

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Speaker 1: with the legal issue in and get stronger. My favorite

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Speaker 1: aspect of this article is that the sentence, written with

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Speaker 1: a Chris Wessling byline, says, every week Chris Wessling will

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Speaker 1: roll out his power rankings goes third person right off

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Speaker 1: the bat. For the record, I didn't do that? Is that?

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Speaker 1: Why is that? That's the first sentence I stopped as

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Speaker 1: an intro and the desk put it in there. It

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Speaker 1: needs to be a talice sized I'm gonna you know,

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Speaker 1: I should have seen this already. I mean, I can't

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Speaker 1: believe mark Ingram's not higher on your list. West, and

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Speaker 1: here's the guy that um. I have a bit of

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Speaker 1: a sessler about c J. Spiller bouncing back next year

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Speaker 1: in a better situation than Buffalo. I agree on both

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Speaker 1: of those. Mark Ingram running backs don't get paid. We

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Speaker 1: did an offseason article that they get paid like punters

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Speaker 1: and kickers. Now. C J. Spiller, though, is interesting to me.

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Speaker 1: I could see him going to a team that knows

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Speaker 1: how to use him and having a dynamite season next year.

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Speaker 1: You know, people don't use dynamite enough anymore. Gangbusters kudos

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Speaker 1: that Gangbusters Damage X really brought that back into the

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Speaker 1: culture a little bit. But dynamite under the radar damage

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Speaker 1: into street because that would be pushing a little bit.

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Speaker 1: But just nudge it back into just J. J. Walker

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Speaker 1: and I with the dynamite. You know what, I can

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Speaker 1: always count in West to drop in the nine got

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Speaker 1: out of the way. Hey, someone's got to appeal to

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Speaker 1: our fifty and sixty year old whoever's out there you

548
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:11,159
Speaker 1: got your Dyno Mite reference. All right, so that is

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Speaker 1: West's list. Mark, did you have anything else you wanted

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Speaker 1: to add there? Just a pristine list. Excellent job as always,

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Speaker 1: Chris Wesling, thank you. All right, let's talk about I

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Speaker 1: failed to mention this at the top of the show,

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Speaker 1: but we wanted to touch on the playoff pictures because,

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Speaker 1: by the way, the only thing Greg Rosenthal loves more

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Speaker 1: than bad football and then saying it's good football, is

556
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Speaker 1: he loves talking playoff pictures. This guy is a junkie

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Speaker 1: for you know in the Christmas story when the old

558
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:40,240
Speaker 1: man was the turkey junkie. Greg is the old playoff

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Speaker 1: picture joke. He loves permutations and who's moving up, who's

560
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:46,080
Speaker 1: moving down, who's got the tiebreakers? That you got a

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Speaker 1: Jones and Ford, don't you. We're still a little far

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Speaker 1: out here. Four weeks and we can talk big picture,

563
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Speaker 1: but I really like it when it gets two weeks

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00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:57,119
Speaker 1: left and you can all right, nobody's a scientist on

565
00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:00,400
Speaker 1: this podcast more than Greg Rosenthal talking playoff pictures. Got

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Speaker 1: lots of the playoff pictures. I wish I loved anything

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Speaker 1: in my life the way that Greg loves the playoff

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Speaker 1: picture as much as Matthew Stafford loves a side ar

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Speaker 1: in pass. Let's let's start with the a f C.

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Speaker 1: You'll take a look at it, because this is this

571
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Speaker 1: is the wild, really wild set up here. Much like

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Speaker 1: in our picks. We have a four way tie for

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Speaker 1: first place, and West is just watching it, you know,

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Speaker 1: from the outside. I gave up I threwn to town.

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Speaker 1: I'm ready to turn to Johnny Man. Are you talking

576
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 1: about our picks? Are just the football season in general?

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Speaker 1: Watching from the outside. Well that too, because he doesn't

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Speaker 1: have a team. You can outside her. If he's a

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Speaker 1: bad boy, Bruce banner Man, you need a motorcycle. Keep

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Speaker 1: your daughters and wives away from me. So it's very

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Speaker 1: tightly packed, uh, in the a f C like it

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Speaker 1: is in our picks. That was the analogy O is

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Speaker 1: drawing there in a very skilled manner. The Miami Dolphins,

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, Baltimore Ravens, Pittsburgh Steelers, and Cleveland Browns are

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Speaker 1: all seven and five right now. Uh So just start

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Speaker 1: with those those five seven and five teams. Greg, why

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Speaker 1: don't you dig in right now? Tell me which one

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Speaker 1: of these teams is in the worst position, right now Bills,

589
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Speaker 1: because they play the three best teams in the league,

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Speaker 1: the Packers, the Patriots, and the Broncos, and I just

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Speaker 1: don't see Buffalo winning any of those. And even if

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Speaker 1: they won one of those, I mean that they would

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Speaker 1: still not have that much Weggo room. You have to

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Speaker 1: count on Kyle Orton to beat Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady

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Speaker 1: and Peyton Manning beat two out of three for them

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Speaker 1: to have a legitimate chance. So that's I would say

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Speaker 1: they're in the worst position. And sadly, I think the

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Speaker 1: Browns are in the next worst position. And Mark you

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Speaker 1: alluded to it. They don't have any tie breaker helps,

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Speaker 1: so they almost had to win out right. Yeah, they're

601
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Speaker 1: not in a great spot. There's no question that they can't.

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Speaker 1: You know, Greg. Greg mentioned before that it's okay if

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Speaker 1: they lose this week and maybe the next. Well it's not.

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Speaker 1: I know you're not saying that. I'm saying it's not.

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Speaker 1: Everyone's saying do or die. Seven losses is do or die.

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Speaker 1: They could if they win. Let's say they just lost

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Speaker 1: and then they won three straight, they'd have a decent

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Speaker 1: chance of making the playoffs. The team I look out

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Speaker 1: real quick that that I'd be concerned with a because

610
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Speaker 1: of the way they played over the last two weeks.

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Speaker 1: You drop a game to Oakland and you get bombed

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Speaker 1: by the Broncos is Kansas City. You have to go

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Speaker 1: on the road and beat the Cardinals, which is another

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Speaker 1: up and down team, no question. But if you ever

615
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Speaker 1: lost that, you gotta come back game against the Raiders,

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Speaker 1: and you have the Steelers and Chargers to close the

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Speaker 1: season and on the road in Pittsburgh. I just I

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Speaker 1: don't look at the at the Chiefs right now is

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Speaker 1: a team that's getting better. I think they've started to

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Speaker 1: become exposed week to week, and I don't love their schedule,

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Speaker 1: you know. I The team that jumps out to me

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Speaker 1: is the Dolphins. I I gotta I gotta feeling a

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Speaker 1: bit of assessor that we're gonna see that similar Dolphins

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Speaker 1: swoon in December. I know town Hill is better, but

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Speaker 1: I really hated the way they played on Monday. I

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Speaker 1: hated that that was a game they needed and they

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Speaker 1: only wanted because the Jets were the Jets and the

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Speaker 1: most Jetsy way possible. They had no right winning that game.

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Speaker 1: I know they played well against Denver the week before,

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Speaker 1: but I'm not really too excited about them. I'm almost

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm very confident that the Bengals will probably win

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Speaker 1: that North Division. I'm ultra confident that the Ravens will

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Speaker 1: get one of the wild card spots. So to me,

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Speaker 1: it's really you know, the Healthins Steelers. I have a Sessler.

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Speaker 1: The Bengals are not winning that division. Up one and

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Speaker 1: a half with four to play, they would definitely have

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Speaker 1: to go one in three. I think they could. I

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Speaker 1: have this, that's where they get swept by the Steelers.

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Speaker 1: They have to play the Steelers twice. Dressler missing a

640
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:23,080
Speaker 1: lot of opportunities to drop some Sesslers, almost too many.

641
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:26,480
Speaker 1: I don't know where these things exist. Or if you

642
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:29,240
Speaker 1: look at this, if you look at this board, it's

643
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:33,000
Speaker 1: it's a mess. Look at his fault he got. He

644
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:36,040
Speaker 1: gets dropped in. I like it because t D, if

645
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 1: you read between the lines, read those two leaves. T

646
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 1: D is not putting Dressler in the place where you

647
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,440
Speaker 1: could succeed well. T D walked in, put on the headphone,

648
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 1: said I feel I've got to go to the doctor.

649
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 1: And he walked right out, and he just leaves poor

650
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:52,320
Speaker 1: Zack sit in there. You're doing the best camp. I

651
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 1: feel like EJ. Manuel the Bills. I feel like you

652
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:57,080
Speaker 1: don't want to be him. No, but I feel like

653
00:31:57,120 --> 00:32:00,360
Speaker 1: that someone's gonna put Kyle Orton in for me coming

654
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 1: out of retirement. Is right behind you, Rob Crowder, Rob

655
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 1: Crowder pointing to himself. I like that anyway. So just

656
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:11,840
Speaker 1: to if you're a listeners, imagine the Sessler music in

657
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 1: the background. Also to watch in this a f C

658
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 1: is the battle for the buys. I mean we figured there,

659
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 1: we figured the Bengals are gonna drop out. You think

660
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 1: the Broncos and Patriots are just gonna win the rest

661
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,680
Speaker 1: of the way, There are a lot to win force

662
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:33,680
Speaker 1: every show. I'm not talking about them. I don't know

663
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:36,520
Speaker 1: which team or whatever you guys all think. I hate

664
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 1: it when people are by the way say oh well

665
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:41,600
Speaker 1: now they don't control their destiny. They're in trouble. Yeah,

666
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:43,320
Speaker 1: like any of these teams are gonna win four straight.

667
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 1: We just could come up with reasons why the Dolphins

668
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:47,280
Speaker 1: are gonna lose a lot. The Chargers will, the Chiefs will,

669
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 1: the Bills will, you know, the rang Some teams have

670
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:50,840
Speaker 1: tough So let's come up with some reasons why the

671
00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 1: Broncos and Patriots are gonna go in the tank. They're not.

672
00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 1: They're gonna take that scene. They're gonna go in the tank.

673
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:56,960
Speaker 1: But they're only one game up here on the Colts.

674
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 1: All right, we'll get so much better though those teams.

675
00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:02,440
Speaker 1: I don't know, I guess I'm really I was poisoned

676
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 1: with Yeah, that Patriots game. By the way, when the

677
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:07,880
Speaker 1: Patriots went to Indie and wiped out the Colts. To me,

678
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, the Colts beat up on bad

679
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:12,200
Speaker 1: teams and they're gonna get smacked in the mouth in January.

680
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't see it. Colts are thirty

681
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 1: three and sixty two against teams under five I believe,

682
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 1: or no teams they've beaten have gone thirty three and

683
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 1: sixty two this year. Teams that beat the Colts have

684
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 1: gone thirty four and fourteen. All right, before we go

685
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:29,719
Speaker 1: to the NFC, then why don't we all pick who

686
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 1: are the final two? Uh? Or you know? Or you

687
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:36,120
Speaker 1: I guess you gotta pick your a f C North

688
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:38,720
Speaker 1: winner and you picked the final two wild cards. I'll

689
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:41,720
Speaker 1: go first, since I'm gonna stick with my preseason, which

690
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 1: had the Ravens and the Steelers going in. I'll stick

691
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:46,480
Speaker 1: with the Steelers as a division winner since that's what

692
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 1: I had before, and then I'll have I guess the

693
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:53,240
Speaker 1: Dolphins and Bengals as theme as my last two. Should

694
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 1: we wait, it doesn't make sense. That's too many teams.

695
00:33:56,440 --> 00:34:01,560
Speaker 1: I guess three three three a f C North teams

696
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 1: go in then, so Steelers, Bengals, and Ravens and Ravens.

697
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:11,399
Speaker 1: By the way, whoever hits this doesn't have to pay

698
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:12,840
Speaker 1: for dinner next time we all go out to go.

699
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:20,839
Speaker 1: If you hit all three, bounce back drizzle Sessler. Now

700
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:25,200
Speaker 1: there's steaks involved as the super Bowl, you have to

701
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:28,279
Speaker 1: eat a steak if you lose. This not happening. I

702
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:30,360
Speaker 1: picked the Steelers to go to the super Bowl, so

703
00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 1: I'm sticking with him as my a f C North winner,

704
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:35,719
Speaker 1: and I am going to go with two other a

705
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:39,920
Speaker 1: f C North teams, the Ravens and the Browns. No sorry, sorry, no, no,

706
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:44,360
Speaker 1: that's that's outrageous, the Bengals and the Browns. Bengals and

707
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:47,719
Speaker 1: the Browns, good for you. I am going with heart,

708
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:52,879
Speaker 1: not logic, that football focus like that. I'll just get

709
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:54,400
Speaker 1: mine out of the way. Since we're all just waiting

710
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:56,439
Speaker 1: for West we got that brain. You can see it all.

711
00:34:56,600 --> 00:35:00,360
Speaker 1: It's permutating theo's numbers ahead of over his head. I

712
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 1: gotta I got the Bengals winning that North division. I

713
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 1: got the Ravens taking a wild card the five seed,

714
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 1: and she's screw of the Dolphins. The Chiefs get the

715
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:16,879
Speaker 1: sixth seed in a way I like it. Steelers there

716
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:20,239
Speaker 1: no forget the Steelers. Well, I've already predicted on this

717
00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:22,400
Speaker 1: show that the Steelers are gonna sweep the Bengals the

718
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:24,879
Speaker 1: rest of the way. So give the Steelers the af

719
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:27,880
Speaker 1: C North. The Ravens are the next best team in

720
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:31,080
Speaker 1: the conference, so putting them in. And I agree with Dan,

721
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:34,960
Speaker 1: the Chiefs have the easiest schedule the rest of the way.

722
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:37,719
Speaker 1: You guys are you guys are amazing to me. We've

723
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 1: all talked about just on Sunday, how the Steelers cannot

724
00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:42,480
Speaker 1: be trusted and three you guys, all three of you

725
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:44,640
Speaker 1: pick the Steelers to win that division. I don't. I

726
00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:49,480
Speaker 1: can't trust him. But Sessler's involved just into in TUITIONE

727
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 1: very true, very true. So yeah, so well I'll hold

728
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:56,760
Speaker 1: on to these uh in summation West Steelers, Ravens, Chiefs.

729
00:35:56,800 --> 00:36:00,920
Speaker 1: I had Bengals, Ravens, Chiefs, uh Mark, you had Steelers Bengals,

730
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:04,359
Speaker 1: Browns and greg you had Steelers Bengals, Ravens. Let's move

731
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:09,319
Speaker 1: to the NFC. Let's do it where the situation there

732
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:12,800
Speaker 1: isn't quite quite as dramatic. But we have the Eagles

733
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 1: at nine in three, the Cowboys at eight and four,

734
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:17,480
Speaker 1: the Packers at nine and three, the Lions at eight

735
00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:20,920
Speaker 1: and four. Uh forget about the NFC South, and then

736
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:23,319
Speaker 1: in the West, it's it's very interesting. Obviously you have

737
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:27,200
Speaker 1: the Cardinals nine and three, Seahawks eight and four, nine

738
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:30,240
Speaker 1: or seven and five, Gentlemen, of those teams I just named,

739
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:33,279
Speaker 1: who is most likely to fall by the wayside, I'm

740
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:36,840
Speaker 1: going Arizona. They are the first seed right now. I

741
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 1: think within a week or two they are not even

742
00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:41,759
Speaker 1: in that top two seeds scenario. And then a week

743
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 1: or two after that they're not the NFC West champion

744
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:49,879
Speaker 1: and they won't even be a wild card. Wow. Wait,

745
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:54,920
Speaker 1: you're saying nine is free fall or it could be

746
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:57,360
Speaker 1: ten and six and lose a tiebreaker. Two. The thing is,

747
00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:00,400
Speaker 1: they did beat Dallas in Detroit, so it is tough.

748
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 1: They almost need to go nine and seven. But I'm

749
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:05,360
Speaker 1: going bold. I think they missed the playoffs. Wow, what

750
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 1: do you guys think? Who's uh, who's dropping out of

751
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 1: that list of teams. I've been seeing Cowboys and forty

752
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:12,359
Speaker 1: Niners for a while now, and now it's looking good

753
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:16,280
Speaker 1: after that Thanksgiving meltdown. I haven't thought that the forty

754
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 1: Niners were quite a playoff team, and their schedule the

755
00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:20,239
Speaker 1: rest of the way is rough and I don't think

756
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:23,719
Speaker 1: Dallas wins any of their tough games left. That's at Philly.

757
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:26,640
Speaker 1: They have Indianapolis that would put them at six losses.

758
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:29,680
Speaker 1: This this team's This team is a lot. I mean,

759
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 1: it's not a bad team, but it's not a team

760
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:33,120
Speaker 1: that I think is gonna beat any other good teams.

761
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 1: I'm the Cowboys. They have one decent win all year

762
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 1: against the Seahawks. Yeah, that's it. Everyone else they've beaten

763
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:41,560
Speaker 1: has been and also ran basically or a Tomato camp.

764
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:47,319
Speaker 1: Rams was probably their next best when Austin Davis. Their

765
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:49,239
Speaker 1: schedule is and can't laugh at the Rams. The Rams

766
00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:51,920
Speaker 1: are the best five and seven team. It wasn't why

767
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,359
Speaker 1: it was early in the season. For their defense was great.

768
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:58,759
Speaker 1: The Cowboys have a fairly favorable schedule. They have the

769
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:01,359
Speaker 1: Thursday night game we're about to talk about. Then they

770
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:05,719
Speaker 1: have I'll be the windlass guy. Cowboys, all right ahead,

771
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 1: Chicago at Chicago on Thursday nine and six at Philly

772
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:15,360
Speaker 1: nine and seven. Excuse me, uh wait, what's the record?

773
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:17,879
Speaker 1: Eight four? Sorry? So there are nine and five after

774
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:21,759
Speaker 1: that game? I said, have noticed some of that? Uh well, though,

775
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:24,480
Speaker 1: if they were in Chicago, they would have a ninth

776
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:28,040
Speaker 1: win and then they would be right nine versus Indianapolis

777
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:32,840
Speaker 1: ten and five. Just give him a loss there. I

778
00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:35,440
Speaker 1: got him getting swept by the Eagles already. So Washington,

779
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:37,799
Speaker 1: they're gonna go eleven and five. They'll be okay, there

780
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 1: you go. And then they bumped the Cardinals out, Dan

781
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 1: and I in perfect unison, the Cowboys losing to the Bears,

782
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:49,120
Speaker 1: whoa losing to the Colts, losing to the Eagles, and

783
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:52,839
Speaker 1: then beating the Redskins. Yeah. I like that kind of party. Alright, alright, okay,

784
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:55,600
Speaker 1: so you got all right based on West's picks, this year,

785
00:38:55,600 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 1: we'll go three and one bunts of burner bloats. Uh.

786
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:03,239
Speaker 1: I think the lines are gonna do the line thing.

787
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:06,560
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna got nine and seven. I know,

788
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:08,440
Speaker 1: but that doesn't matter with this franchise. They're one of

789
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 1: those teams that they'll just they'll play down to their

790
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:13,439
Speaker 1: competition and get be cople whole new regime in there,

791
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 1: it's still this is the era of unbridled golden Tate.

792
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 1: They do need to avoid. If they can just avoid

793
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,560
Speaker 1: a real stinker of a loss, they can totally afford

794
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:24,719
Speaker 1: to lose in Green Bay. And what's the last time

795
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:26,400
Speaker 1: they have avoid I know it's a different regime, but

796
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:29,040
Speaker 1: when's the last time they lost? They avoided a stinker loss?

797
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 1: In December? When when it mattered? Wait, this is the discuss.

798
00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:35,840
Speaker 1: Ready to get in yet? It's Bucks, Vikings, Bears, Chicago.

799
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 1: Maybe you lose one of those division games. It's the

800
00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:42,239
Speaker 1: last time the Cowboys didn't choke away. I know it's

801
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 1: fair a little bit, A little bit, No, not everything,

802
00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:51,279
Speaker 1: that's no. I mean, I guess maybe I like the

803
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 1: Cowboys a lot better as a team. I like Romo

804
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 1: better than I like Stafford. It'd be more fun. I'd

805
00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 1: rather see the Cowboys in the Lions. I think that'd

806
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:01,640
Speaker 1: be awesome. Um, all right, so let's you want to

807
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:05,279
Speaker 1: do the same thing again, doesn't it. Let's pick it? So, uh,

808
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 1: all right, Mark, you go with your two wild card teams?

809
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:10,799
Speaker 1: Is there a division? And are we going to get

810
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:13,280
Speaker 1: excited about the North being wide open? Well, I'll say,

811
00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:15,640
Speaker 1: you know, I think we're all going to take the Packers. Okay,

812
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:19,360
Speaker 1: so let's talk same teams. Aren't we to win the divisions?

813
00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:22,800
Speaker 1: I'm taking the Sea Pick your NFC West winner, and

814
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:25,960
Speaker 1: then the two wild cards. Everybody's picking the Seahawks. Really,

815
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 1: we're all picking the same Packers. Were all picking the Eagles,

816
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:32,040
Speaker 1: aren't we? That's true? And then my final two teams.

817
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:34,600
Speaker 1: I do think the Cardinals get in and I think

818
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:37,800
Speaker 1: the Lions are the last team to get in with them.

819
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:41,800
Speaker 1: I go Cowboys and Lions. Is my wild card teams?

820
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:43,840
Speaker 1: All right? Hang on, sc Greg you said, I mean

821
00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:45,799
Speaker 1: you were mocking me for putting the Cardinals in the

822
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 1: playoffs in the top five in the preseason power Ball.

823
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:50,799
Speaker 1: That one's looking good. The Cardinals were talking to Have

824
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:53,360
Speaker 1: you watched is pointing to West? For those of you

825
00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:55,319
Speaker 1: are there gonna make it just because you put them

826
00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 1: in there losing every game the rest of the Mark,

827
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:01,839
Speaker 1: what was your pick your for Seahawks? Wells Seahawks win

828
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:04,920
Speaker 1: that Division, and I have Cowboys and Lions edging the

829
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 1: Cardinals to get into the wild cards. Okay, West, so

830
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:11,560
Speaker 1: we were two wild cards. I've got the Lions, and

831
00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:14,319
Speaker 1: I guess the Cardinals built such a lead that they'll

832
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:18,440
Speaker 1: probably get in. M Cowboys, don't make it. Don't make it,

833
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 1: you know what I am going to say, got the Cardinal.

834
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:24,640
Speaker 1: I gotta pick the Cardinals to make it. I think

835
00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:27,680
Speaker 1: they'll sneak in as a wild card. And uh, the

836
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:30,399
Speaker 1: Cowboys and the Cowboys there you go. Dan goes Hero

837
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:34,719
Speaker 1: Division pick. So here we go. Alright, so we all yeah,

838
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 1: So for a wild card of the NFC, I have

839
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:40,840
Speaker 1: Cards Cowboys, West as Lions cards. Mark has Cowboys Lions,

840
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:44,680
Speaker 1: and Greg has Cardinals Lions. So that'll be for another

841
00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:48,799
Speaker 1: steak dinner potentially for socio h a lot of meat

842
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:53,479
Speaker 1: for the Mark. For the Mark. What that's not gonna

843
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:56,480
Speaker 1: catch on? That could be a whole new segment. Try

844
00:41:56,560 --> 00:42:00,319
Speaker 1: to convince vegetarian Mark meat market. But you out with

845
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:06,960
Speaker 1: a sea meet Marseilles. Let's see, all right, Thursday Night preview.

846
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:08,600
Speaker 1: Our last thing we'll get to before we get out

847
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:12,440
Speaker 1: of here. The Dallas Cowboys and Chicago Bears play at

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Speaker 1: Soldier Field in prime time. Uh. The the Cowboys stinker

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Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving, which really, uh, I think shook a lot

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Speaker 1: of people's faith whether this is a team that's going

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Speaker 1: to make the playoffs or do another Cowboys thing. So predictably,

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00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 1: this week has been all about what is going to

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00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 1: happen to the Cowboys? Is gonna happen to them again?

854
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Speaker 1: And they're gonna go eight and eight or some or

855
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:38,200
Speaker 1: missed playoffs something bad. Judy Batista has a big feature

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Speaker 1: up where she writes about Tony Romo. It was at

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Speaker 1: the Five Faces of Tony Romoba. So, uh, let's talk

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Speaker 1: about this game. West. We'll start with you because I

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Speaker 1: think you already major pick. Do you think the Chicago

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Speaker 1: Bears are gonna knock off the Cowboys and send Big

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00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:55,360
Speaker 1: D into panic mode? Let me defend this hero? Do

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00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:58,160
Speaker 1: we know it's well? Mark? Are you gonna take the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys or the Bears? I don't know yet. I'll take

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys for sure. I know I'm taking you know

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Speaker 1: I'm picking? All right? Let's uh, Sue, it's the hero.

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Speaker 1: It's been your hero. But we just talked about this.

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Speaker 1: Cowboys have beaten one good team all year. The Seahawks.

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Speaker 1: They've just beat up on tomato cans. The Bears are

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Speaker 1: tomato cans, but surprisingly have not allowed a one hundred

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Speaker 1: yard rush for all year. They defend the runs because

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Speaker 1: that's because you can just throw on them all day

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Speaker 1: or something. Well, what do the Cowboys like to do? Sure? Run?

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Speaker 1: They're also the Cowboys have a defense, and over the

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Speaker 1: last six games is giving up fifty more points or

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Speaker 1: five more points in fifty more yards. Their defense is

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00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 1: not nearly what it was earlier in the season. I

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Speaker 1: think the Bears pull off this upset Tony Romo. For

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Speaker 1: all the attention Peyton Manning gets about cold weather Romo

879
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:45,279
Speaker 1: a bad cold weather quarterback. Yeah, I'm looking at our

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Speaker 1: preview on the site written by Connor Or this week.

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Speaker 1: Romo is two and five with a sixty completion rate

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Speaker 1: in games played under forty degrees. Well, that's also been

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Speaker 1: on different Cowboys teams that have not had the line

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Speaker 1: this team has. I I I love everyone selling Dallas

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Speaker 1: down the river at this point, and that's fine. You

886
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:06,160
Speaker 1: know the Bears a year ago, this was the Josh

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00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:08,799
Speaker 1: McCown game. If I recall where he went off and

888
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 1: everyone thought Trustman could take anyone and turn them into

889
00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:14,480
Speaker 1: a starting quarterback. And he did. He got Josh McCown

890
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:17,759
Speaker 1: a big free agent deal, and we've seen where that's gone. Now.

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00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:20,880
Speaker 1: The Bears one year later are a complete mess. I

892
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:23,080
Speaker 1: think they are a team that's not responding to coaching

893
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 1: and they've gotten very little to play for. There's discord

894
00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:28,040
Speaker 1: in the locker room Dallas. You want to look at

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Speaker 1: one Thanksgiving game and say it's over for them, that's fine.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. They're gonna win this game, and

897
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Speaker 1: they're gonna win it easy. I agree. We've talked about

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Speaker 1: the Rams as the best the five and seven team.

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Speaker 1: The Bears are the worst five and seven team in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. How did this team win five games? I mean,

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Speaker 1: when you watch them, they're terror I mean, they're just terrible.

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Speaker 1: Everything about them. I feel like they're thirteen. I feel

903
00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:51,759
Speaker 1: like they lose every week. They just have that. They're

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Speaker 1: a loser team right now. But there's a pressing. Their

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00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:58,040
Speaker 1: winds are also very not impressive. If you look at

906
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Speaker 1: the teams they've beat in the way that they've beating them,

907
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:02,880
Speaker 1: they're they're lucky that they even got to five wins.

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Speaker 1: Their defenses and they wake up every Monday morning with

909
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:09,080
Speaker 1: a Jay Cutler hangover. Hey lose every week very bad.

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Speaker 1: By the way, back to the Cowboys. I wrote a

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Speaker 1: post on Dez Bryant yesterday. They asked him because he

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Speaker 1: says he says this season is different for the Cowboys,

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Speaker 1: and then someone asked a smart question, well, do you

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Speaker 1: have any actual like reason why this season will be

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Speaker 1: different for Dallas? His quote was kind of interesting. Our approach,

916
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Speaker 1: everybody wants to get better just by the little things.

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Speaker 1: Not making the cold weather a big issue. Just go

918
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Speaker 1: out there and understand what's important. That's the opportunity that

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00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:34,839
Speaker 1: we have to go out and make the playoffs. It's

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Speaker 1: like a bunch of cliches and then out of out

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Speaker 1: of nowhere, don't be afraid of cold weather. It's like

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Speaker 1: what again, easily impressed by the coaches message. I just

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Speaker 1: I didn't realize that that that cold weather was something

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Speaker 1: that was holding this franchise. Maybe and maybe that's trouble

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Speaker 1: on Thursday and maybe I'll change my pick here? Can

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Speaker 1: we change it that you can't change into a hero?

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Speaker 1: Can we can we give Matt Forte the ball here

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Speaker 1: a little bit too? This Cowboy is run defense it's

929
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Speaker 1: like Matt fourteen never gets the ball. He's one of

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Speaker 1: the greatest running backs in the last ten years. Well,

931
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Speaker 1: they tried to. They tried to last game, and they

932
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Speaker 1: can't run the ball very well. Had a good team

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Speaker 1: this year on offense. I found it very troubling when

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Speaker 1: when the Cowboys had to get into a mode where

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Speaker 1: they had to throw last week. It's just like, they're

936
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Speaker 1: not that team. We don't know what to do. We're

937
00:46:22,239 --> 00:46:28,120
Speaker 1: just built to do one thing. There's something that all year,

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Speaker 1: I think from training camp on their training to be

939
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Speaker 1: a running team, and the only thing that works in

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Speaker 1: the passing game is throwing the ball up for Graha

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Speaker 1: to Dez Bryant. If they're trained to do one thing,

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Speaker 1: that's one thing more than the Bears. Oh go for it,

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Speaker 1: all right, Well give Mark the final word there. Uh

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Speaker 1: So that's our preview and that's our podcast. That's Wednesday's

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Speaker 1: edition of the Around the NFL podcast. We'll be back

946
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Speaker 1: on Thursday night. We're gonna recap this game that we

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Speaker 1: just talked about and also do a preview of all

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Speaker 1: our Sunday content. And you know, man, I got a

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Speaker 1: little tease something a little fun on Thursday, coming up

950
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Speaker 1: a little tea. I don't even know what this is.

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Speaker 1: Get ready, get excited, all right? So that's it for

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Speaker 1: the show. Zach Dressler, Z Drizzle, great job as always.

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Speaker 1: Us Dan hansis signing off for the Mailman, the Sizzler,

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Speaker 1: the Boss. Like I said, ze drizzle until Thursday. Dude,

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Speaker 1: I just look at my right p