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Speaker 1: edition of the Around the NFL Podcast. My name is

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Speaker 1: Dan hans As. I come to you from a virtual

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Speaker 1: the what's the laughter? Why are the smiles? We will

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Speaker 1: Welcome to everyone, Welcome everyone to the yes Week fourteen

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Speaker 1: recap episode. We're going to go through every game that

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Speaker 1: Am I wrong? Now? They weren't. They weren't competitive. They

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Speaker 1: It means Week fourteen, Sunday. All right, let's get into it.

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Speaker 1: We'll start obviously, now, every team after this week is

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Speaker 1: start Today's show by digging through the NFC and what happened,

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Speaker 1: P with a call Yes, Jalen Hurts NFL starting debut

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Speaker 1: quarter offenses in the in the league. They went in

428
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Speaker 1: um in in tough territories to begin with, Daniel Jones

429
00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:40,760
Speaker 1: had fifteen net yards passing at half um it looked

430
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Speaker 1: like it and to the point where Joe Judge basically

431
00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:46,679
Speaker 1: told the Fox crew, Yeah, we're looking to potentially just

432
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Speaker 1: put Colt McCoy in this game. And Daniel Jones got

433
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Speaker 1: a little banged up, and Colt McCoy did finish, but

434
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Speaker 1: coul McCoy had been warming up during parts of the

435
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Speaker 1: second half, So you know, I don't think it's gonna

436
00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:58,440
Speaker 1: lead to a quarterback switch because McCoy came in and

437
00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:02,520
Speaker 1: was no more visible necessarily, but that, you know it,

438
00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:06,200
Speaker 1: it reminds you that these NFC East teams, um the

439
00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:09,960
Speaker 1: records reflect a lack of completion roster wise, and this

440
00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:12,840
Speaker 1: Giant's offense, which I thought, you know, the ground game

441
00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:14,919
Speaker 1: got going in recent weeks. You could kind of trust

442
00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:17,480
Speaker 1: that and Wayne Gollman looked like a much better version

443
00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:22,520
Speaker 1: of previous years. Wayne Goldman's not today. Uh DeAndre Hopkins

444
00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:24,800
Speaker 1: did enough for the Cardinals. Dan Arnold, who shows up

445
00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:27,840
Speaker 1: every week for that team with big plays, helps Kyler

446
00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:31,080
Speaker 1: Murray who ran the ball ten times today and so

447
00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:33,240
Speaker 1: he got going and they that was a part of

448
00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:35,199
Speaker 1: their offense. I wouldn't say it was as killer as

449
00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:37,480
Speaker 1: it's been in the past, but they didn't shy away

450
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Speaker 1: from it. So they're hanging on uh by dear life

451
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Speaker 1: in that NFC. But the NFC is not like the

452
00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:44,920
Speaker 1: a f C. I could see a seven and nine

453
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Speaker 1: or eight and eight type team grabbing that last wild

454
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Speaker 1: card spot. Of these inconsistent operations don't get on a

455
00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:54,800
Speaker 1: hot streak. Well they got They got the Eagles and Rams.

456
00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:57,479
Speaker 1: You win those first two, you're in. There was some

457
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Speaker 1: criticism that Daniel jones hamstring wasn't Eddie and that's why

458
00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:04,640
Speaker 1: you see Hassan Reddick at five sacks, you see eight

459
00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:07,520
Speaker 1: sacks because he shouldn't have been playing. Well. It's also

460
00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:10,200
Speaker 1: a terrible offensive line. I mean, I think it's it's

461
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:12,680
Speaker 1: all mixed in there. Did he look spry and healthy

462
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:15,960
Speaker 1: um not necessarily because his mobility is a big part

463
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Speaker 1: of his game. He didn't see that today. But the

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Speaker 1: offensive line also, I thought, gave him very little room

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Speaker 1: to operate. I mean, they were This is not a

466
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Speaker 1: Cardinals team that does that every week. So it's it's

467
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Speaker 1: it tells you that New York's line is a big

468
00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:31,560
Speaker 1: old hot mess. I mean, the Giants got flexed into

469
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Speaker 1: primetime next week against the Browns. And the fact that

470
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Speaker 1: Jones was not healthy in this game, and Joe Judge

471
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Speaker 1: said he didn't have regrets playing Daniel Jones in this game,

472
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Speaker 1: but it's something they're gonna have to monitor. Their season is,

473
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Speaker 1: you know, on the brink at five and eight here,

474
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Speaker 1: and they're gonna need They're gonna need a couple of

475
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Speaker 1: wins here, including potentially the one against Cleveland. So is

476
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Speaker 1: Colt McCoy potentially the answer behind center McCoy against the

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Speaker 1: Browns and prime times day night week fifty you gotta

478
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:07,760
Speaker 1: be kidding me. Give good, Give the Cardinals some credit.

479
00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:10,239
Speaker 1: I know Jones isn't healthy, but to go three nine

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00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:13,639
Speaker 1: yards to one fifty nine to have a total, full

481
00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:16,040
Speaker 1: scale beat down, we haven't really seen this out of

482
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Speaker 1: this Cardinals team against anyone. UM. That's as surprising a

483
00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:22,760
Speaker 1: result as I think we had today. The way that

484
00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:26,240
Speaker 1: they were playing to just totally dismantle. The Giants get

485
00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 1: some credit and they're the favorites now. All I'd say is,

486
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:31,360
Speaker 1: when you watch this, like, tell me if you think

487
00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:34,240
Speaker 1: it looked like a beat down from the first quarter

488
00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:37,159
Speaker 1: through fourth. In terms of the Cardinals offense, I just

489
00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:40,720
Speaker 1: I just don't totally yardage aside. I just struggle to

490
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:43,800
Speaker 1: buy them um going forward. But it was a better

491
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Speaker 1: It was a better showing than it's been of late.

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Speaker 1: It was a must win for the Cardinals. They got it.

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Speaker 1: The Giants fall at a first place in the NFC East.

494
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the team that sits there all alone.

495
00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:58,960
Speaker 1: Pocket collapse. Throw a pick right down the side like

496
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Speaker 1: a cabra. Curl gets a block for James Smith Williams.

497
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:10,840
Speaker 1: He's still going five touchdown touchdown Washington. Second defensive score

498
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:17,520
Speaker 1: of the game for Washington. Cameron Curl jumped the route,

499
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:21,640
Speaker 1: gathered the Nick Mullins pass, took into the house. Washington's

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00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:29,000
Speaker 1: second defensive score in the game and over the forty Niners. Yes,

501
00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:31,600
Speaker 1: Washington now sole possession of first place in the NFC

502
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:34,879
Speaker 1: East of three games to play Mark. Chase Young was

503
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Speaker 1: also a monster in this game. He had the other

504
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Speaker 1: defensive score this football team defense wins games. Chase Young

505
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:45,960
Speaker 1: I thought produced one of the best rookie autings I've

506
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Speaker 1: ever seen by a rookie defender. I mean, you could

507
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:51,440
Speaker 1: kind of feel this coming at some point for him.

508
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:53,520
Speaker 1: He just took over the game. And I think it

509
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:56,680
Speaker 1: started early on a play which was real. It showed

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Speaker 1: how kind of mentally tuned in he is too. With

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00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:03,679
Speaker 1: Nick Mullins kind of hanging around in the pocket, Chase

512
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:07,040
Speaker 1: Young watched justin school come at him and basically said,

513
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 1: I'm not going to rush the passer and then bang

514
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 1: eyes off of Chase Young. He's left alone. He darts

515
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,199
Speaker 1: at Mullins and dropped him to the turf, and it

516
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:16,879
Speaker 1: was you know, they brought it up and showed it

517
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:18,439
Speaker 1: on replay a couple of times because it was a

518
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:22,240
Speaker 1: really interesting, uh approach. He then blew up Jeff Wilson

519
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:24,719
Speaker 1: on a forced fumble that gave washing the ball at

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00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:28,480
Speaker 1: San Francisco's. At one point, like Nick Mullins had a

521
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:32,240
Speaker 1: weird shuffle pass, Chase Young like bent his body to

522
00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:35,120
Speaker 1: tip it down to the ground, and then the touchdown came,

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Speaker 1: the fumble recovery touchdown for forty seven yards. And he

524
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,280
Speaker 1: did not look like a defensive lineman to me running

525
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:43,680
Speaker 1: down that sideline. He looked more like a big old

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00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:46,639
Speaker 1: running back with wheels. I mean, he's just the next

527
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 1: level athlete. He took them completely out of this game.

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Speaker 1: But because it's the Niners, that kind of fought back,

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Speaker 1: and at one point Alex Smith Um suffered a calf

530
00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:58,600
Speaker 1: injury right before half, so Dwayne Haskins came in. Um

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Speaker 1: did Dwayne Haskins thing. I thought he looked okay on

532
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:04,120
Speaker 1: an opening about seventies something yard drive where they went

533
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 1: for a field goal. Um that helped them out, but

534
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,439
Speaker 1: then the offense kind of fell apart. They're just not

535
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:12,199
Speaker 1: the same offense without Antonio Gibson. They aren't, and they

536
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:14,720
Speaker 1: weren't as able to be as creative. Today. The Niners

537
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,119
Speaker 1: gutted this out. I mean, I look at this Niners

538
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:19,080
Speaker 1: team and we've forked them and they're gone. But this

539
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:22,520
Speaker 1: is a team plane in Arizona Stadium with the Cardinals

540
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 1: logo and name in the end zone. I just think

541
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,840
Speaker 1: it's been as much of bad luck the team could

542
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:31,879
Speaker 1: face in one campaign. The Niners have. Washington's defense is

543
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 1: super legit, and I would give them a chance to

544
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:36,919
Speaker 1: win this division if they can get anything out of

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00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:39,240
Speaker 1: their offense and if Alex Smith is healthy. We're talking

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00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 1: about Jimmy Garoppolo and whether Kyle Shannon wants to move

547
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:44,200
Speaker 1: forward with him. I think they got to redo that

548
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:49,480
Speaker 1: quarterback room. Nick Mollins is just it's one thing to

549
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:52,360
Speaker 1: like lose everything that they've lost, and then you come

550
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 1: into the game and you lose Devo and you lose

551
00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:57,560
Speaker 1: Devo right away, and then you lose most and you're

552
00:28:57,560 --> 00:29:00,680
Speaker 1: playing this Washington team ultimately, like They're offense was no

553
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 1: different than Washington's offense. Washington had the ball fourteen times

554
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 1: and scored nine points. They had ninety five yards and

555
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 1: thirty five dropbacks. So it's like he's not he's I

556
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 1: think he's a good backup. Actually, I think he's played fine.

557
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:15,200
Speaker 1: I really do. Nick Mullins has started like sixteen games

558
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 1: and never thrown for less than two hundred and fifty yards,

559
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 1: and any one of them, it's the turnovers um and

560
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 1: it's like, I think he's productive, but he doesn't protect

561
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 1: the ball. But it's the same thing less last week

562
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 1: with Debo out, they never really got um into the flow.

563
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:36,400
Speaker 1: Monster came back, but you know, they're just it's it's

564
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:38,400
Speaker 1: one thing after another with this team. That's like he

565
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:41,920
Speaker 1: got four or five guys getting injured every game. Mm hmm.

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00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 1: This Washington team, they're they're in first, but how depending

567
00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:49,640
Speaker 1: on how you know serious. That's Alex Smith injury. And

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00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 1: even with Alex Smith, I mean his numbers were even

569
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:56,959
Speaker 1: worse than Haskins. Smith dropped back twenty times, had fifty

570
00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:00,160
Speaker 1: seven yards and got sacked and threw a pick. So

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00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:02,080
Speaker 1: they made life tough. And I think they're going to

572
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 1: find a way to get into the playoffs, if you know,

573
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 1: if I if you had to pick one, but they

574
00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 1: are limited. This is the game I'm least looking forward

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00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,680
Speaker 1: to on game past. Twenty nine drives in this game, well,

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00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 1: it's no like this was my anti um. I wanted

577
00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 1: it going in, but there was ten minutes left in

578
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 1: the second half while every other game was in halftime.

579
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:23,560
Speaker 1: I thought to myself, what has what has going on here?

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00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 1: You can sell that one with Chase Young because I'll

581
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 1: watched quite a bit of this game and and that

582
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:32,800
Speaker 1: was as close as you see the Lawrence Taylor exactly.

583
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 1: He's beautiful in a week without in a year without

584
00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:39,080
Speaker 1: many great defensive rookies, and even you know, Chase Young

585
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 1: was you know, not productive for a long stretch. I

586
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:44,320
Speaker 1: think he went two months without a quarterback hit or

587
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 1: a sack. This type of game might be enough if

588
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:48,560
Speaker 1: he finish his strong to go get that rookie. I

589
00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:50,479
Speaker 1: think he's healthy now, this hipp in through, I mean

590
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:54,480
Speaker 1: he looked, he looked healthy. Breaking news here, this from

591
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Speaker 1: the New York Times. Following years of protests from fans

592
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:02,960
Speaker 1: and Native American groups, the Cleveland Indians have decided to

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00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 1: change their team name, moving away from a moniker that

594
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 1: has long been criticized as racist. Three people familiar with

595
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,360
Speaker 1: the decision said Sunday, why do I bring it up?

596
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 1: Because the move follows a decision by the Washington football

597
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:16,960
Speaker 1: team in the NFL and July to stop using a

598
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 1: name long considered a racial slur. Uh. And obviously this

599
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 1: has all been part of a larger national conversation. A

600
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 1: lot of things have changed. Twenty The Indians now joined

601
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:31,520
Speaker 1: the Redskins in the dustbin of history. About that all

602
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 1: it tech was Washington been threatened with losing five million

603
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 1: dollars worth of endorsements, and they're now having like an

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00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:41,160
Speaker 1: ownership battle behind the scenes, that is in the courts,

605
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 1: and now they're in first. I think, I think, I

606
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:46,880
Speaker 1: think they they're keeping that name. They're they're gonna be

607
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:51,000
Speaker 1: the football team forever. All right, let's move on. Let's

608
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:53,760
Speaker 1: now move over to the a f C. Starting with Yes,

609
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 1: the number one seed over in that conference. Left footed

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00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:00,640
Speaker 1: punter taken by Hardman. First time he's gonna returned today,

611
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 1: and he's got an edge at the hard in midfield.

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00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 1: Forty five party, two blots, duty to l fifteen time

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00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 1: far gets reporting pass. Chet has taken into the end

614
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 1: zone touchdown Chance City punt return for a touchdown, the

615
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:22,240
Speaker 1: first in the career of a Cole Hartman to go

616
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:26,479
Speaker 1: with this kickoff returns for touchdowns. Mitch holtus with a call,

617
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:28,880
Speaker 1: w d a f I mean, how crazy is it

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00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:31,239
Speaker 1: that the Chief's offense they have a guy they call

619
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:33,800
Speaker 1: the jet and it's not even Tyree Kill that doesn't

620
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,880
Speaker 1: see there Nicole Harden and sixty seven yard punt returned

621
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 1: the final touchdown in a run of thirty straight points

622
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 1: for the Chiefs, who clinched another a f C West

623
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Speaker 1: title in a thirty three thirty three to twenty seven

624
00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 1: went over the Dolphins in the same building where they

625
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 1: claimed Super Bowl fifty four. Uh this February, Gregg, the

626
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:55,360
Speaker 1: Chiefs started and finished slowly in this game, but that

627
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 1: surge in the middle was just too much. Yeah, reminded

628
00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 1: me so much of the playoffs last year where they spot,

629
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 1: you know, an opponent ten points, but you felt like

630
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 1: it might could have been more. Miami missed a kick

631
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:10,880
Speaker 1: and DeVante Parker dropped a potential touchdown. You know, you

632
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 1: have those up. Maybe it was seventeen nothing. You somehow

633
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:17,959
Speaker 1: forced Patrick Mahomes uh into three turnovers. One of them

634
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,320
Speaker 1: he just dropped the fumble. But you know he throws

635
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 1: three interceptions, and you still lose. Like you do all

636
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:26,240
Speaker 1: these things right, you have them scrambled. They thought they

637
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:28,440
Speaker 1: were gonna come with the blitz. They didn't really early

638
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 1: in the game. They they're doing a good job, and

639
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 1: yet you lose going away, um because it's Kansas City

640
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:38,720
Speaker 1: and and I know, like Mahomes maybe lost a little

641
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:40,720
Speaker 1: in the m v P race, but he still made

642
00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:45,000
Speaker 1: I would say four plays in this game that I mean,

643
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 1: you just like Marvel at that were just unreal throw

644
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:50,640
Speaker 1: I mean, I know, I know he didn't he had

645
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:52,960
Speaker 1: the turnovers, but he also put up three D ninety

646
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 1: yards and just had some unreal plays, right, And this

647
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:58,520
Speaker 1: game is most likely thirty seven to ten if Hardman

648
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:01,200
Speaker 1: doesn't fumble when they're going in for a score after

649
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:04,400
Speaker 1: that safety, and then things changed. And give credit to

650
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 1: to Ah and the Dolphins who showed a lot of

651
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:10,320
Speaker 1: fight here and they're a team that is easy to respect.

652
00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:14,840
Speaker 1: But the thirty seven sometimes makes me think that the

653
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:17,239
Speaker 1: Chiefs have have reached that level. And their twelve and

654
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 1: one obviously this year and they uh they when they

655
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:23,320
Speaker 1: go twelve and four thirteen three last year won the

656
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, when their last eight games, uh that they

657
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 1: they can get bored. And then when when they get

658
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:32,080
Speaker 1: when they get a little bit of a scare put

659
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:33,879
Speaker 1: into them, like a tend nothing score in this game,

660
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 1: they wake up. They just kick ass for about an

661
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 1: hour and a half real time, and then once they

662
00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:41,240
Speaker 1: get into that zone, like Greg you had mentioned on Thursday,

663
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 1: it's it's time for the Chiefs to blow out a team.

664
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:45,480
Speaker 1: I think it's because some of their their focus wanes

665
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 1: a little bit. Sometimes this is just a wild theory,

666
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:49,320
Speaker 1: but it kind of checks out when you watch a

667
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 1: game like this. I agree because if you think of

668
00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:54,920
Speaker 1: the two moments where they went into the I mean, look,

669
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 1: they're trying hard their professionals. Of course they're intense every game,

670
00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:01,360
Speaker 1: but the two spots where it was like, oh, this

671
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:04,040
Speaker 1: is the big game for the Chiefs going in. UM

672
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 1: that come to mind to me was the Ravens in

673
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 1: week two or three and the Bucks game where they

674
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:11,279
Speaker 1: both come out and they blow the doors off when

675
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:13,879
Speaker 1: they are needing to be at their very best. They are,

676
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:16,759
Speaker 1: and Miami fans are probably saying, but we didn't have

677
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 1: all of our players, and that is totally worth um

678
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:22,280
Speaker 1: pointing out. Not only did they lose Myles Gaskin, who's

679
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 1: been great for them when he's played right before the

680
00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:28,080
Speaker 1: game with COVID nineteen, they didn't have Kyle van Noy,

681
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:30,960
Speaker 1: who was Defensive Player of the Week last week. They

682
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:32,759
Speaker 1: didn't have a land In Roberts, and then they lose

683
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:36,840
Speaker 1: Devonte Parker uh and Jachim Grant in this game he

684
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:39,600
Speaker 1: had he like to have played fairly well. This was

685
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:41,799
Speaker 1: a game I appreciated having Tony Romo on the call

686
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 1: because I think he helped point out the ways that

687
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:47,040
Speaker 1: to have played. Well. I'm not saying he was like great,

688
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 1: but he does a lot of good things for a rookie.

689
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 1: And so this wasn't a discouraging game, I don't think

690
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 1: for two of you men. And he yeah, he left

691
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:57,279
Speaker 1: like he had a nice game before that, and yeah

692
00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:00,400
Speaker 1: he heard his he heard his shoulder and if that's serious,

693
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:02,800
Speaker 1: that's really going to hurt him to uh in the

694
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:04,920
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, So that that was rough. When it came

695
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,320
Speaker 1: to the Dolphins, you could point to Miami, though, is

696
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 1: the team that um has people that gave Mahomes issues

697
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:13,840
Speaker 1: in the past when they faced New England. Some of

698
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 1: those people are in Miami and they gave him trouble today.

699
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:20,800
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's very easy to decipher the

700
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 1: difference between these two teams and the tears between them.

701
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:26,320
Speaker 1: But um, this is what Miami does every week. Sometimes

702
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:28,920
Speaker 1: it works, sometimes it doesn't. But they cause all sorts

703
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:31,360
Speaker 1: of problems with people that most people hadn't heard of

704
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 1: a year or two years ago. So I you know,

705
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:35,640
Speaker 1: I stick with what kind of I was saying on Thursday,

706
00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 1: I think they're really well coached. I said they were

707
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 1: up for anything. Anything means um playing well and then

708
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:43,440
Speaker 1: losing too, so that that is something that they were

709
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:48,840
Speaker 1: up for today. But um, I literally anything for anything.

710
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 1: It's like you, you don't come in with a heart

711
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:53,359
Speaker 1: agenda and they you know, but I I do, Um,

712
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 1: I do think the future is very bright. Every week

713
00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 1: they seem to game plan well for the team that

714
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:01,279
Speaker 1: they're playing, not just hey, we're gonna stick everyone into

715
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:03,560
Speaker 1: what we do the same thing every week. They seem

716
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 1: flexible in that front. Um. I had some hope that

717
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 1: they were going to hang around in this thing. But

718
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 1: the chiefs man when they hit that gas pedal, like

719
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 1: you're saying, Dan Night's out, It's all over, goodbye West.

720
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 1: Um I like talking eighties baseball with you. Uh, it's

721
00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:21,800
Speaker 1: so great to have a lefty quarterback back in the league. Bloomers.

722
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 1: Sisson was one of my favorite players ever. I'm sure

723
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:26,879
Speaker 1: he has a special place in your heart as well.

724
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:29,600
Speaker 1: And now I think part of what I like about

725
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 1: two is not just that he's a lefty, because there's

726
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:34,319
Speaker 1: been plenty of crummy lefty quarterbacks. It doesn't it has

727
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 1: to be more than that. I just like his throwing

728
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:38,960
Speaker 1: motion and aw fluid he is. It reminds me of

729
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:43,320
Speaker 1: like Will Clark. Remember that beautiful, sweet lefty stroke of

730
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:48,040
Speaker 1: Will The thrill sometimes with lefties and there's a little

731
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 1: bit of lefty jealousy. Anybody that's played sports um can

732
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:55,239
Speaker 1: attest to. It just looks better and it just looks

733
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:57,440
Speaker 1: so good coming out of to his arm. He's just

734
00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 1: he's such an athlete and a great thrower of the football.

735
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 1: Well Clark baseball's greatest red ass. He was to be

736
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:09,240
Speaker 1: a total jerk. He's a red ass, which is different

737
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 1: but in the same category. In the thirty for thirty

738
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 1: to describe his red ass as he'd go and play

739
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:19,000
Speaker 1: you in poker and not even care if he want

740
00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 1: or not, just as long as he could tell you

741
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:21,880
Speaker 1: at the end of the game that he beat your

742
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:25,360
Speaker 1: ass in poker, even if he lost money. He just

743
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 1: wanted to win, just sore. Like, what is a red ass?

744
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:35,120
Speaker 1: Look it up right, A j Perzynski a great red ass.

745
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:38,800
Speaker 1: It's like our our cock the cockney section of our audience.

746
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 1: Apparently Pete Rose a red ass. Any any other thoughts

747
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 1: on this game? West? Did you attract this one at

748
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 1: all I did, and I would push back a little

749
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 1: bit on saying that to have played well, to have

750
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 1: played well in the second half, I thought he was

751
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 1: not ready for prime time in the first half, and

752
00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:59,800
Speaker 1: that was when they had a chance to really stomp

753
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 1: on the Chiefs. When the defense was making all those plays,

754
00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:06,439
Speaker 1: it looked to me like one team had a great

755
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 1: offense and the other team was still learning to find

756
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:13,640
Speaker 1: its sea legs. And that's not to say that the

757
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:15,680
Speaker 1: two is not gonna grow every week. In fact, he

758
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 1: grew throughout the game, and that's a very promising sign.

759
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:21,320
Speaker 1: But I thought that the difference in the game was

760
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:24,440
Speaker 1: that the Dolphins offense wasn't ready to compete in the

761
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 1: first half. No, when Parker dropped that touchdown, I thought, like,

762
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:30,160
Speaker 1: they're not gonna win this game. They gotta play close

763
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:33,480
Speaker 1: to perfect. And uh, when you're when you're leading receivers

764
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:37,360
Speaker 1: are Lynn Bowden and Mac Collins and you're leading running

765
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:40,080
Speaker 1: back is DeAndre Washington and you're eight and five and

766
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:42,920
Speaker 1: in the playoff race, it's like, okay, I mean, just

767
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:46,279
Speaker 1: let's let's try to win some games that Congratulations for

768
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:49,719
Speaker 1: being competitive and move forward. Maybe big game against the

769
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:52,759
Speaker 1: Patriots next week for the Dolphins. It feels like two

770
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 1: of us like improves because he seems that these sort

771
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:59,200
Speaker 1: of halves revanishes when he's kind of like fancy free

772
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 1: and they're just kind of go and for it. Well,

773
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:03,400
Speaker 1: he's not. He's physically gifted, and so that is a

774
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:06,800
Speaker 1: tough thread. I think. Not to cut you off, sorry,

775
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 1: mark Um. I just mean like, if he's relying on

776
00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:13,960
Speaker 1: going through his progressions in his eyes and stuff like that,

777
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:15,960
Speaker 1: that's like advanced stuff for a rookie to have to

778
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 1: try to like really look great. And everyone is talking

779
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:24,800
Speaker 1: t J. Watt, Aaron Donald, Myles Garrett. Defensive player of

780
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:28,040
Speaker 1: the Year. Xavian Howard now has nine interceptions and five

781
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 1: picks in the last five weeks. That's pretty damn and

782
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:37,040
Speaker 1: the best was insane, insane good uh to pull off

783
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:38,800
Speaker 1: what he was doing. That was one on one coverage

784
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 1: against Tyreek Hill and he came up with that pick

785
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:44,160
Speaker 1: all right. Uh. In other playoff matters in the a

786
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:47,160
Speaker 1: f C, they'll sweep it right side of Jonathan Taylor,

787
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:52,680
Speaker 1: Huett down the far sideline, out springing everybody ten five

788
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 1: Jottthan Taylor touchdown in d Y A sixty two yard

789
00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:01,840
Speaker 1: run for the rookie otta Wisconsin, this longest rush of

790
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:05,879
Speaker 1: the season, and now the colt lead A to seventies.

791
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 1: Mattie Taylor w f N I Johnny Taylor have a day.

792
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:17,920
Speaker 1: The rookie running back rush for two scores, including that

793
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:23,439
Speaker 1: sixty two yard breakaway dash and the Colts win over

794
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:28,320
Speaker 1: the fading Raiders in Vegas. Indie was dominant on offense

795
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:31,320
Speaker 1: in this one, piling up nearly three hundred yards by halftime,

796
00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:35,600
Speaker 1: finishing with over four hundred fifty yards total and the

797
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:37,640
Speaker 1: win that keeps them tied with the Titans the top

798
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:42,040
Speaker 1: the a f C South with three weeks to play um. Meanwhile,

799
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:46,520
Speaker 1: for the Raiders, that's three consecutive lackluster performances, two of

800
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:49,279
Speaker 1: them losses. Probably should have lost the Jets game as well,

801
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:52,279
Speaker 1: and uh the Raiders. They look a lot like the

802
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:55,800
Speaker 1: John Gruded team that limped to the golf course last December,

803
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:58,800
Speaker 1: and it seemed like this year was gonna be different,

804
00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:06,760
Speaker 1: but I don't think it is. Jonathan Taylor is interesting.

805
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:11,919
Speaker 1: When Cam Newton got COVID, came back and and really

806
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:14,399
Speaker 1: hasn't been the same quarterback he was earlier in the year.

807
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor comes back from COVID and plays lights out.

808
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:21,279
Speaker 1: He played way better in the last few weeks than

809
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:23,239
Speaker 1: he did before he had COVID. What's up with that?

810
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 1: So you're coming up with the theory that the COVID

811
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 1: helped him. I have does look better. He is running like.

812
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 1: It's not a hard theory, it doesn't sound like, but

813
00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 1: it's percolating in West's mind. It could be like he's

814
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 1: just decided, Okay, I've just had a life and death experience.

815
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:42,399
Speaker 1: Let's just forget all these things that don't matter at all,

816
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 1: push all these self doubts out the window, and go

817
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:47,719
Speaker 1: play like I know how to play. How different they

818
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:50,080
Speaker 1: are when their ground game is doing what it's doing.

819
00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:52,440
Speaker 1: I mean, they scored on seven of eight drives before

820
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:55,359
Speaker 1: they you know, took a knee to end the thing. Um,

821
00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:57,680
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers, I think in the last four or five

822
00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 1: weeks has produced maybe three of his best games, And um,

823
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:03,320
Speaker 1: it gives you some hope. I mean, my I was

824
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:05,440
Speaker 1: ready to count them out because of their offense seems

825
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:08,560
Speaker 1: so limited, but suddenly t Y Hilton has risen from

826
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:10,640
Speaker 1: the dead. So you know, there's a couple of factors

827
00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:13,719
Speaker 1: that play here. I mean, they're gonna win eleven games there.

828
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:15,839
Speaker 1: They don't feel quite like an eleven and five team.

829
00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:19,640
Speaker 1: I'm with you, but they do deserve they they they

830
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:22,000
Speaker 1: are a tough offense I think to prepare for, and

831
00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:24,839
Speaker 1: they definitely have players on defense, and they're gonna win

832
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:27,839
Speaker 1: eleven games. Like signing Philip Rivers, I'm ready to say

833
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:32,239
Speaker 1: is an unqualified success. What else were you gonna do? U?

834
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:34,400
Speaker 1: I could have signed Cam Newton, for instance, and it

835
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:36,800
Speaker 1: probably would have been a huge mistake. Uh, And a

836
00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:39,200
Speaker 1: lot of people thought that the Cult should have winn

837
00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 1: that direction. And yes, I think Rivers and I was

838
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 1: one of many people that had some reservations whether this

839
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:49,160
Speaker 1: was gonna work. But he has been, for the most part,

840
00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:52,200
Speaker 1: very good for them. But the Jonathan Taylor situation and

841
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:54,799
Speaker 1: hem Himes, who's a nice guy in the mix as well,

842
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:57,399
Speaker 1: that's so important for them. I mean, I view them

843
00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:00,239
Speaker 1: obviously is a tear below. The true contend is I

844
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:02,520
Speaker 1: think that I like the Titans better than them, but

845
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:05,880
Speaker 1: maybe the Cults are have more balance ultimately, but the

846
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:07,880
Speaker 1: Titans are just a little bit of a higher ceiling

847
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:10,560
Speaker 1: for me. But it wouldn't surprise me if either of

848
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:14,960
Speaker 1: those teams end up winning the division. Um so I

849
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:17,799
Speaker 1: like the Colts. I just they're hard team to kind

850
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:20,440
Speaker 1: of fall in love with. Yeah, they showed up though,

851
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 1: Between them and the Titans, it's like who's healthier that

852
00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:26,800
Speaker 1: well that week? Right, They're They're both they both have

853
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:29,480
Speaker 1: really tough Week sixteen games on the road where the

854
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 1: Colts are at the Steelers and the Titans are at

855
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:34,840
Speaker 1: the Packers. Now, a million things can happen, but the

856
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:37,960
Speaker 1: other you know, spots on the schedule all look pretty doable.

857
00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:40,360
Speaker 1: Those teams are both going to the playoffs, though, and

858
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:43,600
Speaker 1: I've sort of I'm not saying it hurts the end

859
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:47,080
Speaker 1: of the regular season, but I'm I'm not so sure

860
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:50,480
Speaker 1: seating matters that much, you know, but there's no home

861
00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:56,920
Speaker 1: field advantage the opponent get Like, I'm not, you know,

862
00:44:57,080 --> 00:44:59,640
Speaker 1: it's not you have a nice moment you win a division.

863
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:02,319
Speaker 1: But whether the Colts are the five or the sixth seed,

864
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:04,680
Speaker 1: or whether the three or the four seed, is it

865
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:06,800
Speaker 1: really going to make a big difference in their playoff

866
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:09,160
Speaker 1: on who the hell knows. Interesting thing happened on the

867
00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:12,279
Speaker 1: Colts offensive line early in this game. So Anthony Costanzo,

868
00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:15,800
Speaker 1: who sprained his MCL on his knee. A couple of

869
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:18,239
Speaker 1: weeks back. He returned to the lineup, leaves the game

870
00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:22,240
Speaker 1: after a series. They put in a person named Chaz

871
00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:26,040
Speaker 1: Green as his replacement, and I mean some people, and

872
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:29,760
Speaker 1: I mean no disrespect to the Green family, but sometimes

873
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:31,640
Speaker 1: you just know it's not gonna work out. Chads Green

874
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:33,920
Speaker 1: is not going to be a great blindside protector for

875
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:36,120
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers, and indeed he wasn't. In fact, he was

876
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:38,920
Speaker 1: so bad in his one series that they pulled him

877
00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:42,320
Speaker 1: out of the game. So Frank Reich said, uh, Quentin

878
00:45:42,719 --> 00:45:45,359
Speaker 1: and put Quentin Nelson at left tackle for a little

879
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:48,440
Speaker 1: bit until Costanzo came back in the game. Uh what

880
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:50,719
Speaker 1: what were you had? You had a Chaz Green take

881
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:53,280
Speaker 1: there was Oh, I mean, this is the guy Adrian

882
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:57,359
Speaker 1: Claiborne took down eight sacks on it. He's proven by

883
00:45:57,480 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 1: he's the guy who's single handedly sabotaged the Colts all

884
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:02,200
Speaker 1: fence last week when he had to play well, the

885
00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:06,200
Speaker 1: Cowboys fans still call that the Chazz Green game. It

886
00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:08,759
Speaker 1: was that Falcons game, Yeah, where he just that was it.

887
00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:12,520
Speaker 1: There's first string, their second string, third string, and then

888
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:16,200
Speaker 1: there's Chaz green String, which is off the roster. No,

889
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:20,239
Speaker 1: Kenny Moore had an incredible Odell Beckham Jr. Like interception

890
00:46:21,160 --> 00:46:23,160
Speaker 1: in this game. And they Cults defense in general, that's

891
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 1: one of the things that they do well. They forced

892
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 1: three more turnovers they have twenty two this season. So yeah,

893
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:31,480
Speaker 1: they ball hawk a bit on defense, and rivers can

894
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:33,400
Speaker 1: carve you up if you protect them still and t

895
00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:36,560
Speaker 1: wise getting hot and if the running game gets going. Okay,

896
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:41,160
Speaker 1: talk split with the Titans beat the Packers, beat the Raider.

897
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:44,239
Speaker 1: They've ultimately done what they needed to do, uh to

898
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:48,799
Speaker 1: get to the dance. All right, What was he gonna say?

899
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:56,360
Speaker 1: What's what's Mark smiling about? Greg's Greg's just I appreciate

900
00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:59,480
Speaker 1: Greg's zeal for these playoff races where this is the

901
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:01,680
Speaker 1: point of the year where there are three or four

902
00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:03,640
Speaker 1: teams are gonna make the playoffs, that I've not been

903
00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:05,960
Speaker 1: his vocal this time around. I just simply don't buy

904
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:07,640
Speaker 1: in any level. Cults are one of them. I think

905
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:10,399
Speaker 1: they're tough, but um, Greg seems to be more into

906
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 1: the who gets in? How does it happen? Mathematically? They're

907
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:15,600
Speaker 1: all special and like some of them to me are

908
00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:18,400
Speaker 1: special in a different way, and some of them are

909
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:22,040
Speaker 1: not special at all. Right now, if you if you

910
00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:24,360
Speaker 1: feel good about putting the Browns in the playoffs, and

911
00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:26,960
Speaker 1: you probably should, and you feel good about the code,

912
00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:29,279
Speaker 1: you don't feel good about that, but I mean, if

913
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:31,360
Speaker 1: you're gonna look at it mathematically, you should. What do

914
00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:33,640
Speaker 1: you mean the nine and three? Well, because you're on

915
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:36,560
Speaker 1: a big lock off Monday night. What a night. That's fine.

916
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:38,719
Speaker 1: They're gonna get beat on Monday and they'll be okay.

917
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:42,000
Speaker 1: Nine and four just can take a loss and survive. Browns,

918
00:47:42,719 --> 00:47:46,080
Speaker 1: Colts slash Titans the other wild card that leaves one more.

919
00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:49,080
Speaker 1: So it's gonna come down to the Dolphins, the Ravens

920
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:52,000
Speaker 1: and you. I mean, the Raiders are deep in the Raiders,

921
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:54,040
Speaker 1: and the Raiders play two of those teams. I think.

922
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:56,759
Speaker 1: I think they play the Dolphins and someone else and

923
00:47:56,840 --> 00:47:59,799
Speaker 1: your Patriots. And when Rosenthal is just happy he didn't

924
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:01,960
Speaker 1: have to do the recap with anyone else you could

925
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:04,400
Speaker 1: do with his own little private hive on Thursday night,

926
00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:08,319
Speaker 1: So good for him. Um, all right, let's talk about

927
00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:13,000
Speaker 1: the Titans. He's waiting for Greg to return fire. Nothing

928
00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:18,839
Speaker 1: gonna run Henry at right yard Tick Hall thirty ten

929
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:26,800
Speaker 1: five and zon Ulli Bulldozer Titan, the Jullie Bulldozer like

930
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:30,200
Speaker 1: Mike Keith, of course, the Great Mike Keith w g

931
00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:34,000
Speaker 1: F X Derrick Henry ran for two fifteen and two

932
00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:40,439
Speaker 1: touchdowns and the Tennessee Titans dominated Jacksonville. That's twelve straight

933
00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:45,000
Speaker 1: losses for the Jaguars. Stank mark. When Henry gets into

934
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:47,239
Speaker 1: the end, gets into the zone, the zone that he's

935
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:49,200
Speaker 1: in now, and it's usually in December. There's no one

936
00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 1: in football quite like him. No, and it seems too

937
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:54,759
Speaker 1: and some of these games happen in the first half

938
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:57,200
Speaker 1: and you can tell right away, um that he's in

939
00:48:57,320 --> 00:49:00,120
Speaker 1: that zone, that he's dialed in, and a team like

940
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:02,920
Speaker 1: the Jaguars has literally no chance. I feel like I've

941
00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:06,880
Speaker 1: watched this Titans game could happened today about six times

942
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:09,560
Speaker 1: because it's the same thing. It's one or two magical

943
00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:12,440
Speaker 1: shots to a j Brown, it's a lot of Henry

944
00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:15,880
Speaker 1: and it's simply over. By halftime. You've left the team

945
00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:19,000
Speaker 1: that you're playing so flummixed. And I think in this game,

946
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:23,279
Speaker 1: the defense, um, they shut down James Robinson early. They

947
00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:26,000
Speaker 1: made life real tough on Mike Glennon. Mike Glennon was

948
00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:29,440
Speaker 1: pulled for Gardner Minshew. Gardner Minshew brought a little life

949
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:31,839
Speaker 1: to the offense. The running game got going, but they

950
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:34,200
Speaker 1: were way too deep in a hole for any of

951
00:49:34,239 --> 00:49:36,920
Speaker 1: that to matter. I mean, this was a game where, um,

952
00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:41,400
Speaker 1: the Jaguars basically I thought eight minutes into this thing.

953
00:49:41,480 --> 00:49:44,320
Speaker 1: Now I watched every minute of it, but um, you know,

954
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:47,920
Speaker 1: I would have bet everything inside of my house, um

955
00:49:48,080 --> 00:49:50,920
Speaker 1: that they were going to get waxed. And they were waxed.

956
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:55,040
Speaker 1: And I mean it's not excessive, but I am a

957
00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:57,640
Speaker 1: Spartan sort of more of a Spartan type personality, so

958
00:49:57,680 --> 00:49:59,279
Speaker 1: it would be doing me a favor on some level

959
00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:01,920
Speaker 1: just to push all these objects out into the streets.

960
00:50:01,960 --> 00:50:04,360
Speaker 1: Someone comes by picks them up, but we have to

961
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:07,680
Speaker 1: probably rebuy some stuff. Anyways. I would just say that

962
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:10,120
Speaker 1: when you're talking about the cults, like, honestly, if someone

963
00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:12,920
Speaker 1: has a cults fetish, I would be much closer with that.

964
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:15,480
Speaker 1: On the Titans. I just think the Titans when they

965
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:19,120
Speaker 1: are on are unstoppable. Then they'll have a game, you know,

966
00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:21,439
Speaker 1: a week from now where all these other issues crop

967
00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:24,000
Speaker 1: up and they don't get an up flow early and

968
00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:27,520
Speaker 1: you can nip them. But this team powerfully like in

969
00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:31,000
Speaker 1: terms of pure offensive power, I think can lay it

970
00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:33,399
Speaker 1: to anyone in the a f C. And the only

971
00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:35,080
Speaker 1: concern I'd have to be with the same kind of

972
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:37,520
Speaker 1: game script we saw against the Chiefs last year. But

973
00:50:37,920 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 1: I mean, Henry is is an m v P candidy

974
00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:42,120
Speaker 1: to me. I'll say it every week. I just think

975
00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:47,080
Speaker 1: he is. Henry is four d and sixty eight yards

976
00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:52,080
Speaker 1: away from joining the two thousand club. He's going to

977
00:50:52,160 --> 00:50:56,759
Speaker 1: do it. I think UM for four sixty eight divided

978
00:50:56,840 --> 00:51:02,600
Speaker 1: by three um somebody somebody, it's like or something. He

979
00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:11,840
Speaker 1: needs a hundred and it's somewhere here that is obviously

980
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:15,200
Speaker 1: within range. And I would not rule out because West

981
00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:18,359
Speaker 1: when this guy gets going, and it's this time of year,

982
00:51:18,719 --> 00:51:20,759
Speaker 1: and it's a good Titans team, so you're running the

983
00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:22,919
Speaker 1: clock a lot, running the ball out to run clock

984
00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:25,560
Speaker 1: and try to close out games and teams tired and

985
00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:29,040
Speaker 1: beat up in December. He is such a weapon this

986
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:32,080
Speaker 1: time of year, this time of year, and on a

987
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:35,160
Speaker 1: team with a J. Brown and really Corey Davis has

988
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:38,200
Speaker 1: stepped up this year on pace for about a thousand

989
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:41,680
Speaker 1: yards UM. But a J. Brown like to open that

990
00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:45,040
Speaker 1: game with that one handed catch was just phenomenal. That

991
00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:47,800
Speaker 1: guy seems to get better every week. I still go

992
00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:52,040
Speaker 1: back and forth among Terry mclau and A. J. Brown

993
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:55,000
Speaker 1: and DJ Metcalf over who's the best receiver in that

994
00:51:55,160 --> 00:51:58,759
Speaker 1: draft class, because they're all three absolute studs and they

995
00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:03,000
Speaker 1: changed their offense. Is the Titans offense is pretty loaded?

996
00:52:04,080 --> 00:52:06,520
Speaker 1: It is because and they're also different, which I think

997
00:52:06,640 --> 00:52:12,120
Speaker 1: helps that there's really not many power running teams like them,

998
00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:14,920
Speaker 1: and there's certainly not two guys on the outside, not

999
00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:17,480
Speaker 1: it's not like these little guys in the slot. Humphries

1000
00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:20,520
Speaker 1: I think is now out for the year. Actually it's

1001
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:23,600
Speaker 1: two guys on the outside, one of which Corey Davis,

1002
00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:25,960
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, came into the game with more more

1003
00:52:26,160 --> 00:52:28,239
Speaker 1: numbers than A J. Brown this year, which I think

1004
00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:30,319
Speaker 1: would surprise a lot of people that Davis has been

1005
00:52:30,680 --> 00:52:33,200
Speaker 1: that good. He's not the number one receiver, I don't think,

1006
00:52:33,239 --> 00:52:35,839
Speaker 1: but for him to go one thousand, one thousand, they're

1007
00:52:35,880 --> 00:52:39,400
Speaker 1: tough to prepare for. It was Henry's fourth game with

1008
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:41,560
Speaker 1: at least two hundred yards and two scores. That's that's

1009
00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:43,719
Speaker 1: an NFL record that he had previously held with Hall

1010
00:52:43,719 --> 00:52:48,360
Speaker 1: of Famers. Listen to these names, Jim Brown, Barry Sanders, Ladanian, Tomlinson.

1011
00:52:48,680 --> 00:52:50,840
Speaker 1: He's a Hall of Fame level player. Now he just

1012
00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:53,200
Speaker 1: needs a longevity and I guess that's the that's the

1013
00:52:53,239 --> 00:52:56,080
Speaker 1: hardest part. But two thousand yards you put that on

1014
00:52:56,160 --> 00:53:01,160
Speaker 1: the resume too, and we are flying west history here

1015
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:03,000
Speaker 1: and he put him back in there. They put him

1016
00:53:03,040 --> 00:53:04,759
Speaker 1: back in there to get the two hundred. That kind

1017
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:07,680
Speaker 1: of thing where he's getting these twenty six carries, thirty carries.

1018
00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:10,720
Speaker 1: He's he seems indestructible, but I don't know that worries

1019
00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:12,560
Speaker 1: me a little bit. Also, he's running over a hundred

1020
00:53:12,640 --> 00:53:14,920
Speaker 1: yards and nine straight road games, Like, who does this?

1021
00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:18,640
Speaker 1: This is crazy? All right, Let's now dig into some

1022
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:29,960
Speaker 1: more grizzly affairs on the schedule talks White Fanker, Carlos

1023
00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:34,400
Speaker 1: will Dislee comes across in the right flat, makes the catch,

1024
00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:41,239
Speaker 1: turns up field and welcome back Uncle will touchdown Seahawks three.

1025
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:47,160
Speaker 1: Now she got all over the jet. Yes. Russell Wilson

1026
00:53:47,239 --> 00:53:51,279
Speaker 1: threw four touchdown passes, including that dart to will dis Lee,

1027
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:54,560
Speaker 1: before giving way to the legend Gino Smith. Gino Smith

1028
00:53:54,600 --> 00:53:58,279
Speaker 1: revenge game. Late in the third quarter, the Seahawks laugh

1029
00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:01,880
Speaker 1: their way to a forty the three win over the

1030
00:54:02,040 --> 00:54:05,960
Speaker 1: Jets at the stadium formerly known as the Clink. We

1031
00:54:06,080 --> 00:54:09,520
Speaker 1: knew this game would be a shameless blowout, but that

1032
00:54:09,600 --> 00:54:12,200
Speaker 1: almost doesn't give it enough credit for the total absence

1033
00:54:12,280 --> 00:54:14,840
Speaker 1: of the competition in this one. This was not an

1034
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 1: NFL game. This was This was um the Seattle Seahawks

1035
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:24,680
Speaker 1: against you know, our ladies, a perpetual misery, you know,

1036
00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:26,880
Speaker 1: based in Hoboken, like there was. This was not a

1037
00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:30,919
Speaker 1: real game. And uh and and get credit to Pete

1038
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:33,320
Speaker 1: Carroll for understanding that. So that's why he got Russell

1039
00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:35,720
Speaker 1: Wilson out of the game. In the third quarter, Jamal

1040
00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:38,759
Speaker 1: Adams chased Sam Donald out of bounds behind the line

1041
00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:41,600
Speaker 1: of scrimmage, which gave him eight and a half sacks,

1042
00:54:41,719 --> 00:54:45,000
Speaker 1: which gives him the record for defensive backs in a season.

1043
00:54:45,239 --> 00:54:47,160
Speaker 1: Then they got him out of the game. It was

1044
00:54:47,480 --> 00:54:51,560
Speaker 1: basically a glorified exhibition for Seattle. The only thing missing

1045
00:54:51,719 --> 00:54:54,319
Speaker 1: was the fans to enjoy it all. You could tell

1046
00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:58,120
Speaker 1: the Seahawks players certainly did. So they keep pace with

1047
00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:01,120
Speaker 1: the Rams and they have a trip to Washington next

1048
00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:04,080
Speaker 1: week and then a big showdown with the Rams in

1049
00:55:04,160 --> 00:55:08,640
Speaker 1: week sixteen. The only tension here was was Pete Carroll

1050
00:55:08,640 --> 00:55:11,680
Speaker 1: gonna let Gino throw it there in the red zone.

1051
00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:13,239
Speaker 1: I had to flip it over to see what was

1052
00:55:13,239 --> 00:55:17,160
Speaker 1: gonna happen. Like branded on third and goal at the ten,

1053
00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:23,120
Speaker 1: I was like, come on, let Gino cook. I mean

1054
00:55:23,200 --> 00:55:25,600
Speaker 1: he went, he went four for five thirty three yards.

1055
00:55:25,640 --> 00:55:27,040
Speaker 1: You know, they went out the field. Let him try

1056
00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:29,520
Speaker 1: to get a touchdown his revenge for by the way,

1057
00:55:29,719 --> 00:55:32,600
Speaker 1: like utterly flopping as a second round pick. I don't

1058
00:55:32,600 --> 00:55:36,280
Speaker 1: know what the think him in the head coach going

1059
00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:39,759
Speaker 1: back and forth publicly ever ever since. You know, I guess, yeah,

1060
00:55:39,760 --> 00:55:41,960
Speaker 1: he wouldn't want to revenge on Rex. But Rex is

1061
00:55:42,120 --> 00:55:45,400
Speaker 1: ancient history obviously there, So like a game like this,

1062
00:55:45,520 --> 00:55:46,839
Speaker 1: I don't know how much to take out of him

1063
00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:49,000
Speaker 1: for Seattle. All I can tell you is that, uh,

1064
00:55:49,520 --> 00:55:52,040
Speaker 1: you know, it's a nice little, uh get right game.

1065
00:55:52,080 --> 00:55:54,440
Speaker 1: There is an issue there on the offensive line. Brandon

1066
00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:58,320
Speaker 1: shell Um he returned from a high ankle sprain in

1067
00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:01,480
Speaker 1: this game, but then he left at halftime and didn't return.

1068
00:56:02,040 --> 00:56:04,799
Speaker 1: Carol said that Shell tweaked at a couple of times. Uh,

1069
00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:07,759
Speaker 1: So you have to watch that in terms of them,

1070
00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:10,920
Speaker 1: because the offensive line hasn't always been that been there

1071
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:13,400
Speaker 1: for them, and the Jets, of course are now oh

1072
00:56:13,520 --> 00:56:17,160
Speaker 1: and thirteen. Jacksonville seems committed to this, so it might

1073
00:56:17,239 --> 00:56:19,799
Speaker 1: take going sixteen to get the number one overall pick,

1074
00:56:19,840 --> 00:56:22,760
Speaker 1: which is obviously not ideal. I've looked at the schedule

1075
00:56:22,880 --> 00:56:26,439
Speaker 1: for both teams. Uh My, my greatest hope, I guess

1076
00:56:26,640 --> 00:56:32,279
Speaker 1: is the Jaguars have the Bears. The Bears are playing

1077
00:56:32,280 --> 00:56:33,400
Speaker 1: better in the last couple of weeks. But when I

1078
00:56:33,440 --> 00:56:35,600
Speaker 1: looked at this a couple of weeks ago, I said, Okay,

1079
00:56:35,760 --> 00:56:38,160
Speaker 1: could the Jaguars, especially if your boy Minshew is as

1080
00:56:38,200 --> 00:56:41,360
Speaker 1: great as everybody thinks, can can they knock off the

1081
00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:44,760
Speaker 1: Bears and Trabinsky? Uh? To finish two and fourteen doesn't

1082
00:56:44,760 --> 00:56:46,560
Speaker 1: seem impossible. You know, you need to get on the

1083
00:56:46,600 --> 00:56:48,920
Speaker 1: Minshew bandwagon. He gives them a better chance to win,

1084
00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:51,320
Speaker 1: and you can. You can, you can lasen all the

1085
00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:54,480
Speaker 1: little slights that you wish, but he's gonna give you

1086
00:56:54,640 --> 00:56:56,840
Speaker 1: what you want so that you have a quarterback that

1087
00:56:56,920 --> 00:57:00,600
Speaker 1: you thought the Jaguars playing this week good. What happened

1088
00:57:00,640 --> 00:57:04,160
Speaker 1: to that narrative? Well, I don't think the coaches are tanking.

1089
00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:07,000
Speaker 1: I mean, we've I think we've established like the front

1090
00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:08,879
Speaker 1: office could probably say, we'd like to see this person.

1091
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:11,520
Speaker 1: But you think Doug Maron's thinking, I want a tank

1092
00:57:11,600 --> 00:57:13,160
Speaker 1: so I can get fired to the next coach can

1093
00:57:13,200 --> 00:57:16,160
Speaker 1: get a great quarterback. Like I was saying, that's why

1094
00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:18,640
Speaker 1: it wasn't a tank. There wasn't a tank situation. I'm

1095
00:57:18,680 --> 00:57:20,760
Speaker 1: just saying, now, Minshew, I'd see the same for Adam

1096
00:57:20,840 --> 00:57:23,720
Speaker 1: Gates though, that Adam Gaze just simply isn't talented. I mean,

1097
00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:26,760
Speaker 1: Adam Gaze isn't part of some deep state plot to

1098
00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:30,240
Speaker 1: tank the Jets and then you know, receive offshore money somewhere.

1099
00:57:30,280 --> 00:57:33,040
Speaker 1: Maybe he is. That's the Jets are tanking by keeping

1100
00:57:33,120 --> 00:57:36,240
Speaker 1: but Joe Flacco on the bench. Let's let's see their

1101
00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:38,880
Speaker 1: best quarterback in New York. Why did we need to

1102
00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:40,960
Speaker 1: see three games of Mike Glennon to prove that he's

1103
00:57:40,960 --> 00:57:45,760
Speaker 1: still Mike Lennon. Well we didn't at least the see Hey,

1104
00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:47,880
Speaker 1: if I was a Seattle fan, they I think there

1105
00:57:47,960 --> 00:57:50,160
Speaker 1: is a difference between their defense right now, and I

1106
00:57:50,240 --> 00:57:51,960
Speaker 1: know it's the Jets, but it's like the Jets just

1107
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:54,040
Speaker 1: put up a ton of yards and points against the Raiders,

1108
00:57:54,040 --> 00:57:56,240
Speaker 1: who are a dog defense. This, This is the type

1109
00:57:56,240 --> 00:57:58,960
Speaker 1: of thing that dog defenses don't do. They just throttle

1110
00:57:59,120 --> 00:58:00,800
Speaker 1: one of the you know, the or steaming the leagus.

1111
00:58:00,880 --> 00:58:03,480
Speaker 1: I think they are making some progress on that side. Well.

1112
00:58:03,520 --> 00:58:05,880
Speaker 1: They lead the the league in Saxons week nine going

1113
00:58:05,920 --> 00:58:10,200
Speaker 1: into this this week. Yeah, I mean it's not coming

1114
00:58:10,240 --> 00:58:12,880
Speaker 1: from places you'd expect. It's not your your number one

1115
00:58:13,200 --> 00:58:15,640
Speaker 1: dominating edge rusher, but they've they've found a way to

1116
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:19,280
Speaker 1: make it happen. All right, So if Minshew is indeed

1117
00:58:20,080 --> 00:58:22,200
Speaker 1: a big upgrade, can you guys give me one win

1118
00:58:22,520 --> 00:58:25,160
Speaker 1: at Ravens Home Bears at Colts? Can give me one?

1119
00:58:27,120 --> 00:58:28,760
Speaker 1: That's a tough slate. They did beat the Colts in

1120
00:58:28,840 --> 00:58:31,360
Speaker 1: week one and they know him well. Um, but I

1121
00:58:31,440 --> 00:58:33,480
Speaker 1: think the Bears, you're right, is their best bet there?

1122
00:58:35,360 --> 00:58:37,480
Speaker 1: Yes or no? Can you give me a win? What

1123
00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:39,480
Speaker 1: do I have to go? I'll not given it to

1124
00:58:39,560 --> 00:58:44,680
Speaker 1: you at Ravens Home Bears at Cults. I mean, I'm

1125
00:58:44,760 --> 00:58:47,360
Speaker 1: arguing that Gardner Minshew is the best option for them

1126
00:58:47,880 --> 00:58:50,040
Speaker 1: and a ten year backup. I don't think he can

1127
00:58:50,080 --> 00:58:53,480
Speaker 1: win games alone. Um, They're gonna need a lot to go, right,

1128
00:58:53,560 --> 00:58:56,480
Speaker 1: I mean, they haven't allowed less than twenty one points

1129
00:58:56,920 --> 00:58:59,680
Speaker 1: since like Week one or something. So their defense is

1130
00:59:00,120 --> 00:59:02,720
Speaker 1: the bigger issue, not just which quarterback starts. I mean,

1131
00:59:02,800 --> 00:59:05,520
Speaker 1: the Jets are gonna take this thing home unless the Patriot.

1132
00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:08,240
Speaker 1: The Patriots week seventeen feels like the only way that

1133
00:59:08,320 --> 00:59:12,320
Speaker 1: they're getting they're possibly even gonna get one. Enjoy all

1134
00:59:12,400 --> 00:59:16,440
Speaker 1: your little Jet digs its slights, because it's gonna change

1135
00:59:16,840 --> 00:59:19,000
Speaker 1: sooner than you think. We're not digging on the mark.

1136
00:59:19,160 --> 00:59:21,880
Speaker 1: I think we've been like totally respectful to the Jets.

1137
00:59:21,920 --> 00:59:25,040
Speaker 1: That's during a tough season. I don't know who you're talking.

1138
00:59:25,080 --> 00:59:29,000
Speaker 1: Who are you talking to yourself? Enjoy it while you can.

1139
00:59:29,720 --> 00:59:35,920
Speaker 1: Let's move on and receiver in motion to the Montgomery

1140
00:59:36,040 --> 00:59:38,680
Speaker 1: crack turns into it? Can you not to outside to

1141
00:59:39,760 --> 00:59:44,280
Speaker 1: the fifty nobody's gonna get up twenty fifty ten Fick

1142
00:59:44,560 --> 00:59:49,280
Speaker 1: skipping into the episode Dinner, Montgomery first step eight r

1143
00:59:49,440 --> 00:59:52,840
Speaker 1: gallip for six hen the Pears lead the Texans. How

1144
00:59:52,960 --> 00:59:57,040
Speaker 1: their first step for the game offfectively, Oh Jeff Johnny

1145
00:59:57,080 --> 01:00:00,280
Speaker 1: at w BBM, David Montgomery set the toe, owned the

1146
01:00:00,400 --> 01:00:03,560
Speaker 1: long t d run, and Mitchell Robinsky through three touchdown passes.

1147
01:00:04,120 --> 01:00:07,560
Speaker 1: His first matchup opposite to Shawn Watson as the Bears

1148
01:00:07,600 --> 01:00:12,280
Speaker 1: stomped the Texans thirty seven, ending a six game losing streaker. Greg,

1149
01:00:12,440 --> 01:00:14,800
Speaker 1: I know the Texans are missing many of their playmakers

1150
01:00:14,920 --> 01:00:17,200
Speaker 1: at this juncture, but did did Mitch really I'll play,

1151
01:00:18,440 --> 01:00:22,640
Speaker 1: did that happen today? Sure? I guess, I guess it

1152
01:00:22,800 --> 01:00:27,720
Speaker 1: was a good pick by Ryan Pace. I mean, I

1153
01:00:27,840 --> 01:00:31,200
Speaker 1: take it back all that back. They have scored a

1154
01:00:31,360 --> 01:00:34,760
Speaker 1: ten straight touchdowns in the red zone the Chicago Bears.

1155
01:00:34,800 --> 01:00:37,560
Speaker 1: How about that. I wouldn't have expected that. I mean,

1156
01:00:37,640 --> 01:00:41,240
Speaker 1: this was more about the Texans defense, but absolutely, Uh,

1157
01:00:41,480 --> 01:00:45,800
Speaker 1: Mitch and Naggie were on some twenty eighteen stuff where

1158
01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:49,120
Speaker 1: where guys were open, and they moved the ball very well.

1159
01:00:49,480 --> 01:00:52,480
Speaker 1: I didn't think Watson actually played pretty well um for

1160
01:00:52,520 --> 01:00:54,680
Speaker 1: a while in this game, despite the score. But he

1161
01:00:54,840 --> 01:00:57,560
Speaker 1: was just holding the ball waiting for some receiver to

1162
01:00:57,640 --> 01:01:00,520
Speaker 1: come open. And uh, you know when Chad Hansen as

1163
01:01:00,560 --> 01:01:03,120
Speaker 1: your number one. Brandon Cooks was a late scratch for

1164
01:01:03,200 --> 01:01:05,080
Speaker 1: this game. So remember how we were like, well, you

1165
01:01:05,120 --> 01:01:07,960
Speaker 1: know this Texans receiver cords. You know, they don't have DeAndre,

1166
01:01:08,040 --> 01:01:10,200
Speaker 1: but they've got four pretty good guys. That was like

1167
01:01:10,320 --> 01:01:12,760
Speaker 1: three weeks ago. They don't have any of those four guys.

1168
01:01:14,440 --> 01:01:18,960
Speaker 1: They're all gone. The Bear sack Watson seven times, including

1169
01:01:19,000 --> 01:01:21,760
Speaker 1: a safety by Khalil Mack. You know, on the same

1170
01:01:21,840 --> 01:01:24,440
Speaker 1: day that Rosenthal was burying Khalil Mack on Twitter, so

1171
01:01:24,520 --> 01:01:27,400
Speaker 1: maybe that was a response was it was a bad job.

1172
01:01:28,320 --> 01:01:30,720
Speaker 1: I just noted he hasn't been that productive here with

1173
01:01:31,080 --> 01:01:33,400
Speaker 1: the quarterback hits and sacks. I wish I had added

1174
01:01:33,560 --> 01:01:35,760
Speaker 1: Robert Quinn into that mix. It's just they have the

1175
01:01:35,840 --> 01:01:39,680
Speaker 1: highest paid defensive end, you know, tannem in the league,

1176
01:01:40,240 --> 01:01:43,760
Speaker 1: and I think they have a combined fifteen sack you know,

1177
01:01:43,880 --> 01:01:46,919
Speaker 1: quarterback hits and sacks. Quinn has three and and Mac

1178
01:01:46,960 --> 01:01:49,680
Speaker 1: had twelve. But Mac had a nice forced fumble early

1179
01:01:49,760 --> 01:01:51,600
Speaker 1: in this game which kind of set the tone. He

1180
01:01:51,680 --> 01:01:54,240
Speaker 1: got the safety. His best game in a while. Alan

1181
01:01:54,320 --> 01:01:56,919
Speaker 1: Robinson played one of the best games of his career.

1182
01:01:57,000 --> 01:01:58,880
Speaker 1: He was awesome. And the Bears are not of it.

1183
01:01:58,960 --> 01:02:01,240
Speaker 1: They play the Vikings and next week. If they hadn't

1184
01:02:01,280 --> 01:02:04,880
Speaker 1: blown that Lions game in horrific fashion, they'd be seven

1185
01:02:04,960 --> 01:02:07,320
Speaker 1: and six and tied for that last spot right now.

1186
01:02:07,520 --> 01:02:10,320
Speaker 1: But that Bears Vikings game is basically an elimination game,

1187
01:02:10,360 --> 01:02:12,000
Speaker 1: and one of those two teams next week is going

1188
01:02:12,040 --> 01:02:13,880
Speaker 1: to get to seven and seven and and still be

1189
01:02:13,960 --> 01:02:16,000
Speaker 1: in the mix whether we like it or not. I mean,

1190
01:02:16,080 --> 01:02:17,800
Speaker 1: this is what they were meant to be. And I'd

1191
01:02:17,840 --> 01:02:20,760
Speaker 1: start with someone like David Montgomery that everyone I know

1192
01:02:20,840 --> 01:02:22,680
Speaker 1: that's a Bears fan has been telling me how great

1193
01:02:22,720 --> 01:02:25,680
Speaker 1: he is, and um, it's like, Okay, he's been productive

1194
01:02:25,720 --> 01:02:28,240
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks, But here's a little bit

1195
01:02:28,280 --> 01:02:31,080
Speaker 1: of a flying anointment. Your head coach didn't give up

1196
01:02:31,120 --> 01:02:34,600
Speaker 1: play calling here. I mean, it's Bill Laser making these calls.

1197
01:02:36,360 --> 01:02:39,280
Speaker 1: They have been better and Montgomery hasn't done better. He has,

1198
01:02:39,320 --> 01:02:41,640
Speaker 1: but it's like, but, like, is it a great selling

1199
01:02:41,720 --> 01:02:44,440
Speaker 1: point that the coach you brought in to run a

1200
01:02:44,520 --> 01:02:47,600
Speaker 1: high powered offense it becomes becomes high powered for the

1201
01:02:47,640 --> 01:02:51,640
Speaker 1: first time in like seven hundred sundowns since he stopped

1202
01:02:52,200 --> 01:02:54,080
Speaker 1: calling his plays. It just seems like a little bit

1203
01:02:54,080 --> 01:02:57,960
Speaker 1: of a stuff. Navigational points. Take what you can get.

1204
01:02:58,040 --> 01:03:00,200
Speaker 1: At this point, I mean, they were going to get kick.

1205
01:03:00,320 --> 01:03:01,919
Speaker 1: You know that was gonna be the last It still

1206
01:03:02,000 --> 01:03:04,400
Speaker 1: might be the last three games of Matt Naggy. But

1207
01:03:04,560 --> 01:03:08,720
Speaker 1: whatever gets it done. If it's you're playing against the

1208
01:03:08,760 --> 01:03:12,040
Speaker 1: Houston Texans, who have been the worst run defense all

1209
01:03:12,160 --> 01:03:14,800
Speaker 1: year long. You're right that that helped, but no, he

1210
01:03:15,160 --> 01:03:18,920
Speaker 1: he really has run. I thought he was like getting

1211
01:03:18,960 --> 01:03:21,439
Speaker 1: to be a capital B bust and he's run well

1212
01:03:21,560 --> 01:03:24,400
Speaker 1: the last four weeks. He's made people miss um. He's

1213
01:03:24,440 --> 01:03:27,400
Speaker 1: made some good reads. The low point I think of

1214
01:03:27,480 --> 01:03:30,400
Speaker 1: a pretty low Texan season was Romeo Cornell telling the

1215
01:03:30,480 --> 01:03:34,240
Speaker 1: sideline reporter coming out a halftime that they were lucky

1216
01:03:34,280 --> 01:03:39,320
Speaker 1: to only be down twenty three to Mitchell Robinski's we're

1217
01:03:39,360 --> 01:03:43,080
Speaker 1: lucky to be down um. And since people like to

1218
01:03:43,120 --> 01:03:45,520
Speaker 1: do this, and we brought up Khalil Mack who won

1219
01:03:45,640 --> 01:03:48,040
Speaker 1: the trade. Everybody wants to always know who won the trade.

1220
01:03:48,080 --> 01:03:51,000
Speaker 1: I don't know. So the Bears in that famous trade

1221
01:03:51,080 --> 01:03:55,080
Speaker 1: with the Raiders back in twenty eighteen, I guess it

1222
01:03:55,240 --> 01:03:59,000
Speaker 1: was they got Khalil Mack awd round pick which became

1223
01:03:59,040 --> 01:04:03,000
Speaker 1: Cold Comet. They got a seventh round pick in that

1224
01:04:03,120 --> 01:04:06,560
Speaker 1: was alignment named Arlington Hambright, and then they gave up

1225
01:04:07,160 --> 01:04:10,120
Speaker 1: a first round pick in twenty nineteen that became Josh Jacobs.

1226
01:04:10,640 --> 01:04:12,880
Speaker 1: They gave up a sixth round pick that became I

1227
01:04:12,920 --> 01:04:15,800
Speaker 1: guess it was traded away. Uh. They gave they got

1228
01:04:15,880 --> 01:04:20,280
Speaker 1: a first round pick Damon Arnette cornerback the Raiders, and

1229
01:04:20,480 --> 01:04:24,040
Speaker 1: the Raiders also drafted Brian Edwards in the third round

1230
01:04:24,160 --> 01:04:27,760
Speaker 1: eighty one overall. So like, and then the Bears gave

1231
01:04:27,920 --> 01:04:30,760
Speaker 1: Cleil Mack a massive extension. So who won that trade?

1232
01:04:30,840 --> 01:04:35,840
Speaker 1: Wes so far? Who knows? Who cares? It feels like

1233
01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:38,760
Speaker 1: it's I mean, it feels like it's neutral. Feels like

1234
01:04:39,040 --> 01:04:41,240
Speaker 1: I feel like the Bears did because they had a

1235
01:04:41,600 --> 01:04:44,320
Speaker 1: you know, Mac was the key in them having a change.

1236
01:04:44,400 --> 01:04:47,080
Speaker 1: Like he did everything they needed to do the first

1237
01:04:47,120 --> 01:04:50,240
Speaker 1: two years of those that deal. If not for double Doink,

1238
01:04:50,480 --> 01:04:52,680
Speaker 1: he's taking him to the super Bowl. But it was bad,

1239
01:04:52,840 --> 01:04:54,920
Speaker 1: it was bad. He's taken I mean that was the

1240
01:04:55,000 --> 01:04:57,720
Speaker 1: first round game. You think the Mitchell Drobiski is going

1241
01:04:57,760 --> 01:05:02,120
Speaker 1: to the super Bowl? Why not He's taking to the

1242
01:05:02,200 --> 01:05:05,280
Speaker 1: next round of the playoffs? About that, because yeah, I

1243
01:05:05,360 --> 01:05:07,880
Speaker 1: don't know, I'm not buying that. If Mitchell Trobinsky is

1244
01:05:07,920 --> 01:05:09,920
Speaker 1: one double Dog from the super Bowl given an extension,

1245
01:05:10,000 --> 01:05:12,720
Speaker 1: he's still young, he had he has played a little

1246
01:05:12,760 --> 01:05:16,480
Speaker 1: bit better, and uh, like I said, it's they not

1247
01:05:16,600 --> 01:05:18,720
Speaker 1: only do they have the Vikings, but they have the Jaguars.

1248
01:05:18,800 --> 01:05:21,160
Speaker 1: After that, the Bears are not quite out of this

1249
01:05:21,280 --> 01:05:23,760
Speaker 1: if they could somehow beat the Vikings. I mean, Travisky

1250
01:05:23,840 --> 01:05:26,840
Speaker 1: has is building himself, um not unlike the Colt McCoy's

1251
01:05:26,840 --> 01:05:28,880
Speaker 1: of the world. Like a ten year career. I mean,

1252
01:05:29,080 --> 01:05:31,600
Speaker 1: he won't be a starter, but he'll make excellent money

1253
01:05:31,640 --> 01:05:34,040
Speaker 1: and there'll be some seasons where he doesn't play at

1254
01:05:34,080 --> 01:05:37,080
Speaker 1: all and lives in a gigantic house in like Outer

1255
01:05:37,280 --> 01:05:41,160
Speaker 1: Indianapolis or um Los Angeles. It could be a beautiful future.

1256
01:05:41,520 --> 01:05:43,400
Speaker 1: You're kind of like our beat guy Mark for who's

1257
01:05:43,440 --> 01:05:45,880
Speaker 1: going to have ten year backup careers? Well, I mean

1258
01:05:45,960 --> 01:05:51,360
Speaker 1: it's a very attractive concept, very attractive concept Outer Indianapolis

1259
01:05:52,520 --> 01:05:58,680
Speaker 1: these days, I want to be the emergency act and

1260
01:05:58,960 --> 01:06:04,920
Speaker 1: it is. Would Chargers win Mike Badgley with the game

1261
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:09,520
Speaker 1: winning field goal? Now good for money, k Y s R.

1262
01:06:10,040 --> 01:06:12,360
Speaker 1: Because all season long, when there's been big moments at

1263
01:06:12,360 --> 01:06:15,080
Speaker 1: the end of the game, there's some shenanigans with game

1264
01:06:15,160 --> 01:06:19,240
Speaker 1: officials or something otherwise that gets messed up and he's

1265
01:06:19,320 --> 01:06:21,280
Speaker 1: unable to make a clean call there and he's able

1266
01:06:21,320 --> 01:06:24,200
Speaker 1: to do it. Charge with special Charger special teams get

1267
01:06:24,280 --> 01:06:27,040
Speaker 1: the glory in this from Michael Badgeley built the forty

1268
01:06:27,080 --> 01:06:29,680
Speaker 1: three yard kick as time expired. The Chargers bounce back

1269
01:06:30,320 --> 01:06:34,160
Speaker 1: from that humiliation last week against the Patriots with the

1270
01:06:35,240 --> 01:06:37,120
Speaker 1: road win over the Fouth and said, I don't even

1271
01:06:37,120 --> 01:06:39,360
Speaker 1: get music. That's that's how Seton's charges some of the

1272
01:06:39,520 --> 01:06:43,160
Speaker 1: parent season has become. Los Angeles put itself in position

1273
01:06:43,280 --> 01:06:45,640
Speaker 1: for the game winning kick because Michael Davis picked up

1274
01:06:45,680 --> 01:06:49,280
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan with thirty six seconds to play. Greg I

1275
01:06:49,360 --> 01:06:52,280
Speaker 1: bet this one felt good for Anthony Lynn. They had

1276
01:06:52,360 --> 01:06:56,480
Speaker 1: to have, especially after all the focus um on his

1277
01:06:56,640 --> 01:07:01,360
Speaker 1: game management struggles which probably reached and the deer at

1278
01:07:01,400 --> 01:07:02,920
Speaker 1: the end of the first half, which one of the

1279
01:07:03,000 --> 01:07:05,240
Speaker 1: one of one of the biggest fiasco's I've ever seen.

1280
01:07:05,320 --> 01:07:07,400
Speaker 1: They just left points on the field, so to get

1281
01:07:07,440 --> 01:07:09,600
Speaker 1: a win in a game where it looked like Justin

1282
01:07:09,680 --> 01:07:12,680
Speaker 1: Herbert had just given it away a moment after Matt

1283
01:07:12,760 --> 01:07:15,440
Speaker 1: Ryan had just given it away. In the final four

1284
01:07:15,520 --> 01:07:17,880
Speaker 1: minutes alone, the Falcons were in field goal range, Ryan

1285
01:07:17,960 --> 01:07:21,960
Speaker 1: throws an interception, Herbert gets the ball back, throws an interception,

1286
01:07:22,320 --> 01:07:24,240
Speaker 1: and then Matt Ryan gets him back into field goal

1287
01:07:24,400 --> 01:07:27,000
Speaker 1: range and throws an interception right back, and then Herbert

1288
01:07:27,080 --> 01:07:29,720
Speaker 1: without Keenan Allen on the field does move it down

1289
01:07:29,760 --> 01:07:33,160
Speaker 1: the field with one of the prettiest throws you'll see

1290
01:07:33,280 --> 01:07:35,080
Speaker 1: to set up that field goal. So it's nice for

1291
01:07:35,120 --> 01:07:38,520
Speaker 1: the Chargers to have nice things. Finally, that was embarrassing

1292
01:07:38,600 --> 01:07:43,200
Speaker 1: at halftime. That was tough to paint the picture. It

1293
01:07:43,280 --> 01:07:46,680
Speaker 1: was twenty two seconds left third and one inside the

1294
01:07:46,720 --> 01:07:48,560
Speaker 1: ten I think goes about at the eight yard line,

1295
01:07:50,280 --> 01:07:52,640
Speaker 1: and they come out of a time out and they

1296
01:07:53,400 --> 01:07:56,760
Speaker 1: and they run the ball with no time out and

1297
01:07:57,800 --> 01:08:00,720
Speaker 1: and then there's no there's confusion and they and they

1298
01:08:00,800 --> 01:08:03,000
Speaker 1: don't decide what they're gonna do, and it takes too long,

1299
01:08:03,040 --> 01:08:05,160
Speaker 1: and then they run the field goal kicker onto the

1300
01:08:05,240 --> 01:08:07,919
Speaker 1: field too late, and so there's twenty two seconds left

1301
01:08:08,200 --> 01:08:10,560
Speaker 1: at the eight yard line and all they got was

1302
01:08:11,080 --> 01:08:13,840
Speaker 1: a gain of no you know, no gain out of it.

1303
01:08:13,920 --> 01:08:15,880
Speaker 1: They never got the field goal attempt. They never got

1304
01:08:15,960 --> 01:08:18,719
Speaker 1: a chance. It was it was tough. This was after

1305
01:08:18,800 --> 01:08:23,120
Speaker 1: Anthony Winn had taken over special teams duties. Sure well,

1306
01:08:23,160 --> 01:08:25,720
Speaker 1: I'm still real to his credit, that was this was

1307
01:08:25,840 --> 01:08:28,160
Speaker 1: easily their best special team's day of the year. They

1308
01:08:28,200 --> 01:08:30,720
Speaker 1: had a nice kick return and they could get the

1309
01:08:30,840 --> 01:08:34,200
Speaker 1: kick game winning touchdown. Here are these this does this

1310
01:08:34,320 --> 01:08:38,240
Speaker 1: team not employ the same department that thirty one other

1311
01:08:38,320 --> 01:08:40,960
Speaker 1: teams appear to employ that tell you like do this

1312
01:08:41,240 --> 01:08:43,320
Speaker 1: with a minute and a half. I don't actually like

1313
01:08:43,439 --> 01:08:46,439
Speaker 1: Greg in your ear, I don't know changed the play

1314
01:08:46,479 --> 01:08:49,440
Speaker 1: because Lynn acted like you can't run in that situation,

1315
01:08:49,600 --> 01:08:52,760
Speaker 1: as if he like didn't know what was happening. But

1316
01:08:52,840 --> 01:08:54,800
Speaker 1: even then, your team needs to be well coached of

1317
01:08:54,880 --> 01:08:57,519
Speaker 1: like what happens right here, twenty two seconds is plenty

1318
01:08:57,560 --> 01:09:00,679
Speaker 1: actually um to run a play then run the field

1319
01:09:00,720 --> 01:09:03,320
Speaker 1: goal team on if things go wrong, and they would

1320
01:09:03,320 --> 01:09:07,559
Speaker 1: just were totally unprepared. Um, but hey, the Falcons were

1321
01:09:07,560 --> 01:09:10,920
Speaker 1: even worse. There's no points after halftime. Ryan got picked

1322
01:09:10,960 --> 01:09:13,400
Speaker 1: off three times. He had eight interceptions the whole season.

1323
01:09:13,439 --> 01:09:15,000
Speaker 1: He got picked off three times in a row in

1324
01:09:15,040 --> 01:09:17,679
Speaker 1: the second half. If you ever watched that Belichick Saban

1325
01:09:17,960 --> 01:09:20,960
Speaker 1: HBO documentary, don't imagine that will be queued up immediately

1326
01:09:21,040 --> 01:09:23,920
Speaker 1: for this evening. But there's like a three minute uninterrupted

1327
01:09:23,960 --> 01:09:27,240
Speaker 1: clip of Belichick gathering like fifteen players around him and

1328
01:09:27,360 --> 01:09:31,479
Speaker 1: quizzing these like freaked out offensive lineman on situational football,

1329
01:09:31,800 --> 01:09:33,920
Speaker 1: and they are not They're not breaking that hud until

1330
01:09:33,960 --> 01:09:35,960
Speaker 1: everyone gets it right. And it's all these little things

1331
01:09:36,280 --> 01:09:39,559
Speaker 1: that get under your skin every week. Greg, all right,

1332
01:09:40,240 --> 01:09:42,280
Speaker 1: it is time. It is that time was Sunday Night

1333
01:09:43,400 --> 01:09:46,439
Speaker 1: where one handsome bald man is replaced by another. Nick

1334
01:09:46,479 --> 01:09:50,639
Speaker 1: Shook jumps on now and he will take the baton

1335
01:09:50,800 --> 01:09:54,679
Speaker 1: from the great Chris Westling West, any parting words for tonight,

1336
01:09:55,880 --> 01:09:59,320
Speaker 1: leave the show in good hands with my boy, Nick Shook.

1337
01:10:00,479 --> 01:10:03,680
Speaker 1: I appreciate that you can hear the confidence and the

1338
01:10:03,720 --> 01:10:07,800
Speaker 1: gravitas in West's voice. Chris, thank you. You are a

1339
01:10:08,000 --> 01:10:13,320
Speaker 1: warrior and we love you. See we all right? All

1340
01:10:13,439 --> 01:10:16,840
Speaker 1: right now with Shook on board, let us hit the

1341
01:10:16,960 --> 01:10:20,719
Speaker 1: final two games ahead of Sunday Night football. Very high kicked.

1342
01:10:20,800 --> 01:10:24,679
Speaker 1: Spencer settles underneath it at the seventeen avoids. One tacker

1343
01:10:24,840 --> 01:10:27,840
Speaker 1: runs into a blocker and now he's loose. Spen. Here

1344
01:10:27,840 --> 01:10:35,320
Speaker 1: we got Spencer foot race midfield forty thirty Spencer five

1345
01:10:35,800 --> 01:10:43,320
Speaker 1: touchdown Denver, oh Y. Spencer got things going for the

1346
01:10:43,400 --> 01:10:46,320
Speaker 1: Broncos with a long punt return for a score, and

1347
01:10:46,439 --> 01:10:50,439
Speaker 1: Drew Lock was well, you know, locked in, throwing four

1348
01:10:50,520 --> 01:10:53,360
Speaker 1: touchdowns in a thirty two to twenty seven win over

1349
01:10:53,400 --> 01:10:58,000
Speaker 1: the Panthers, who have dropped seven eight Shook Drew Lock

1350
01:10:58,160 --> 01:11:00,600
Speaker 1: played like a guy who wanted broncos By back in

1351
01:11:00,680 --> 01:11:03,040
Speaker 1: his corner for another off season. Yeah, he had a

1352
01:11:03,120 --> 01:11:05,400
Speaker 1: nice little second half there to really pushed the ball

1353
01:11:05,439 --> 01:11:08,320
Speaker 1: on the field and help the offense put some points

1354
01:11:08,360 --> 01:11:10,000
Speaker 1: on the board. But I'll tell you what, man, there

1355
01:11:10,040 --> 01:11:11,800
Speaker 1: were a couple of times there where they tried to

1356
01:11:11,840 --> 01:11:14,400
Speaker 1: give it away. I got a credit their defense for

1357
01:11:14,479 --> 01:11:18,160
Speaker 1: playing pretty pretty solidly in the first half and limiting

1358
01:11:18,200 --> 01:11:20,400
Speaker 1: what Carolina could do and really frustrating them while allowing

1359
01:11:20,479 --> 01:11:23,040
Speaker 1: Drew Lock the time necessary to build a little bit

1360
01:11:23,080 --> 01:11:24,720
Speaker 1: of a lead. You know, at one point it was

1361
01:11:24,840 --> 01:11:26,760
Speaker 1: nineteen to seven. He hooked up with kJ Hamler for

1362
01:11:26,800 --> 01:11:28,720
Speaker 1: a couple of long touchdowns. It's nice to see him

1363
01:11:28,760 --> 01:11:31,599
Speaker 1: get involved as a rookie. But um, yeah, I mean

1364
01:11:31,800 --> 01:11:34,360
Speaker 1: it was a return to the promise that you would

1365
01:11:34,360 --> 01:11:36,880
Speaker 1: see out of Drew Lock. I mean a fantastic stat

1366
01:11:36,920 --> 01:11:40,599
Speaker 1: line seven two or eight yards, four touchdowns, a passer

1367
01:11:40,680 --> 01:11:42,920
Speaker 1: rating year one fifty. Uh. That's what you want of

1368
01:11:42,960 --> 01:11:45,160
Speaker 1: a guy who you think is supposed to be your

1369
01:11:45,280 --> 01:11:47,360
Speaker 1: quarterback of the future, which he has not looked like

1370
01:11:48,080 --> 01:11:50,800
Speaker 1: um for a good amount of this season prior to

1371
01:11:50,920 --> 01:11:53,240
Speaker 1: this week, So you could call it a lucky draw

1372
01:11:53,360 --> 01:11:55,600
Speaker 1: with Carolina. But Carolina has been a scrappy bunch for

1373
01:11:55,720 --> 01:11:57,479
Speaker 1: the majority of this season, so it's not like it

1374
01:11:57,640 --> 01:12:00,920
Speaker 1: was just a an easy game to play. Uh, and

1375
01:12:01,040 --> 01:12:06,639
Speaker 1: he did well well. I get I get worried about

1376
01:12:06,840 --> 01:12:10,639
Speaker 1: these late um December games where a quarterback of high

1377
01:12:10,720 --> 01:12:15,160
Speaker 1: suspicion um goes nuts and then everyone inside the organization

1378
01:12:15,280 --> 01:12:17,519
Speaker 1: starts to think like maybe we need to dig back in.

1379
01:12:17,720 --> 01:12:20,519
Speaker 1: But it is, you know, like any any signs of

1380
01:12:20,600 --> 01:12:24,000
Speaker 1: life from Denver's offense. UM is intriguing, just because we

1381
01:12:24,080 --> 01:12:26,719
Speaker 1: had such high hopes of what happened with Teddy Bridgewater

1382
01:12:26,800 --> 01:12:28,120
Speaker 1: here at the end though, I saw a lot of

1383
01:12:28,200 --> 01:12:30,920
Speaker 1: comments from Rule about he took a delay of game

1384
01:12:31,320 --> 01:12:34,160
Speaker 1: penalty and then he he rushed for on a he

1385
01:12:34,280 --> 01:12:37,320
Speaker 1: rushed on a third down right before the two minute warning,

1386
01:12:37,400 --> 01:12:39,639
Speaker 1: and it kind of deep six them when they when

1387
01:12:39,640 --> 01:12:41,920
Speaker 1: it's not how Matt Rule wanted to organize those final

1388
01:12:42,280 --> 01:12:43,920
Speaker 1: few minutes of the game there. Yeah, and then on

1389
01:12:44,080 --> 01:12:46,200
Speaker 1: fourth downy he had a one yard pass to to

1390
01:12:46,360 --> 01:12:49,439
Speaker 1: Curtis Samuel fourth and eight. That's not going to get

1391
01:12:49,479 --> 01:12:51,240
Speaker 1: the job done. So it was a tough day for Teddy.

1392
01:12:51,240 --> 01:12:54,120
Speaker 1: I know, statistically it looks fairly solid thirty or forty,

1393
01:12:54,200 --> 01:12:56,000
Speaker 1: but there are a lot of times there, whether it

1394
01:12:56,080 --> 01:12:58,800
Speaker 1: was the pressure that Denver was bringing or just decision making,

1395
01:12:58,880 --> 01:13:00,760
Speaker 1: he just didn't look like he was a situation where

1396
01:13:01,000 --> 01:13:03,280
Speaker 1: and he looked like he was comfortable. Um for most

1397
01:13:03,360 --> 01:13:05,000
Speaker 1: of the game. Wasn't in much of a rhythm for

1398
01:13:05,240 --> 01:13:07,280
Speaker 1: most of the game, even though you know they managed

1399
01:13:07,280 --> 01:13:09,040
Speaker 1: to make it close to the end. Um, it was

1400
01:13:09,240 --> 01:13:11,400
Speaker 1: just it just wasn't his best outing I think of

1401
01:13:11,560 --> 01:13:13,000
Speaker 1: this year. And it's kind of like, you know, we

1402
01:13:13,080 --> 01:13:15,920
Speaker 1: talked with our our editor David Ealely, Um, you know

1403
01:13:16,040 --> 01:13:18,960
Speaker 1: known Panthers fan, Uh, they are going to be in

1404
01:13:19,040 --> 01:13:21,240
Speaker 1: the market for i think a quarterback in the draft

1405
01:13:21,320 --> 01:13:24,600
Speaker 1: in the first three rounds going forward. It's it's this

1406
01:13:24,760 --> 01:13:26,519
Speaker 1: is not a long term plan for them. But that

1407
01:13:26,680 --> 01:13:29,360
Speaker 1: was that I think based on his contract, he was

1408
01:13:29,479 --> 01:13:33,160
Speaker 1: the actually the lowest paid veteran quarterback, like with a

1409
01:13:33,320 --> 01:13:36,160
Speaker 1: multi year deal. I think that was always the plan

1410
01:13:36,400 --> 01:13:39,280
Speaker 1: and if he surprised them, um, then they could change.

1411
01:13:39,320 --> 01:13:41,720
Speaker 1: And he has guaranteed money, almost all of it into

1412
01:13:41,800 --> 01:13:43,600
Speaker 1: next year, so he's gonna be there next year with

1413
01:13:43,840 --> 01:13:48,360
Speaker 1: someone else. But he's played much more poorly over his

1414
01:13:48,520 --> 01:13:51,800
Speaker 1: last four games. This has been a trend. Uh, he's

1415
01:13:51,840 --> 01:13:54,639
Speaker 1: been struggling. He's had the Panthers have had the ball,

1416
01:13:54,760 --> 01:13:57,720
Speaker 1: a ton with the ball with the chance to win,

1417
01:13:57,800 --> 01:13:59,800
Speaker 1: and the man they almost like they never win. They

1418
01:13:59,800 --> 01:14:01,439
Speaker 1: were three and two at one point and they just

1419
01:14:01,800 --> 01:14:04,240
Speaker 1: it's been kind of a snake bitten season four. Whether

1420
01:14:04,280 --> 01:14:05,720
Speaker 1: they leave it up to Joey Slide to try to

1421
01:14:05,800 --> 01:14:09,639
Speaker 1: hit a record breaker field every week every week exactly,

1422
01:14:09,760 --> 01:14:11,160
Speaker 1: or they end up, you know, with the ball in

1423
01:14:11,200 --> 01:14:13,240
Speaker 1: Teddy's hands and he can't excutes one thing or another.

1424
01:14:13,560 --> 01:14:15,280
Speaker 1: It's kind of annoying though, because you do see the

1425
01:14:15,320 --> 01:14:18,000
Speaker 1: potential of Joe Brady's offense is just has to execute

1426
01:14:18,040 --> 01:14:20,760
Speaker 1: it better. They set the groundwork. No one was you know,

1427
01:14:21,360 --> 01:14:24,280
Speaker 1: it was disappointing how it's gone, but they've set the groundwork. Yeah,

1428
01:14:24,320 --> 01:14:26,920
Speaker 1: for sure. Mattie Rule was pretty pumped up. A bit

1429
01:14:27,000 --> 01:14:28,679
Speaker 1: could have been coach speak, but he was pretty pumped

1430
01:14:28,720 --> 01:14:31,599
Speaker 1: about Teddy Bridgewater entering this season. I would think if

1431
01:14:31,640 --> 01:14:33,320
Speaker 1: you asked him privately, he would tell you he's a

1432
01:14:33,320 --> 01:14:35,600
Speaker 1: little disappointed how this played out, because I don't know

1433
01:14:35,640 --> 01:14:37,799
Speaker 1: if the salary they got him at a good value

1434
01:14:38,000 --> 01:14:41,920
Speaker 1: for obvious reasons with Teddy's background, Um, but I think

1435
01:14:41,960 --> 01:14:43,960
Speaker 1: they thought maybe they were going to get a little

1436
01:14:44,000 --> 01:14:47,519
Speaker 1: bit more maybe, but I think the first half of

1437
01:14:47,600 --> 01:14:50,920
Speaker 1: the season, if anything, I mean, you couldn't have said

1438
01:14:50,960 --> 01:14:54,760
Speaker 1: he was below any expectation, so that it's really, yeah,

1439
01:14:54,840 --> 01:14:57,200
Speaker 1: he's last. He's kind of taken on water a little

1440
01:14:57,200 --> 01:15:00,200
Speaker 1: bit down this Their offense has been watchable, much more

1441
01:15:00,280 --> 01:15:02,320
Speaker 1: so than I think I thought are many others did

1442
01:15:02,360 --> 01:15:04,360
Speaker 1: going into the year. The wide receivers have been good.

1443
01:15:04,680 --> 01:15:09,160
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey missed his tenth game in eleven games. Quad

1444
01:15:09,240 --> 01:15:12,559
Speaker 1: injuries suffered during the bye week, aggravated it in Wednesday's practice.

1445
01:15:13,200 --> 01:15:14,920
Speaker 1: That has been a major issue from me. He's gonna

1446
01:15:15,240 --> 01:15:18,000
Speaker 1: missing almost the entire year after having that record breaking season,

1447
01:15:18,080 --> 01:15:20,599
Speaker 1: So that needs to be uh talked about. Two when

1448
01:15:20,600 --> 01:15:22,360
Speaker 1: you're talking about Teddy, because he thought he was going

1449
01:15:22,400 --> 01:15:24,200
Speaker 1: to have the best running back in the league on

1450
01:15:24,240 --> 01:15:27,599
Speaker 1: the side and he really hasn't. All right, let's roll

1451
01:15:27,680 --> 01:15:31,960
Speaker 1: on snap to Dalton throws it writes a slant the

1452
01:15:32,040 --> 01:15:33,760
Speaker 1: Cooper at the goal line and he's got it for

1453
01:15:33,800 --> 01:15:39,720
Speaker 1: the Cowboys touchdown. Brad Sham the Sham God k r

1454
01:15:39,920 --> 01:15:42,920
Speaker 1: l D. This was not an Andy Dalton revenge game.

1455
01:15:43,800 --> 01:15:47,639
Speaker 1: There's no revenge to be had for Dalton against the Bengals,

1456
01:15:47,680 --> 01:15:49,439
Speaker 1: but I'm sure it felt good for the veteran QB

1457
01:15:49,560 --> 01:15:52,679
Speaker 1: to throw for two scores, including that connection to Maury

1458
01:15:52,720 --> 01:15:56,360
Speaker 1: Cooper and a thirty seven wins shook. The Cowboys looked

1459
01:15:56,400 --> 01:16:00,320
Speaker 1: like a defeated team on Tuesday night. They showed some fighter. Yeah,

1460
01:16:00,320 --> 01:16:01,840
Speaker 1: you know, it always helps when you run into the Bengals,

1461
01:16:01,840 --> 01:16:04,080
Speaker 1: who were quarterbacked by Brandon Allen. Um. You know, they

1462
01:16:04,120 --> 01:16:07,280
Speaker 1: didn't have all that much fight in them themselves. They

1463
01:16:07,360 --> 01:16:09,519
Speaker 1: didn't help themselves at all either by foaming the ball

1464
01:16:09,600 --> 01:16:12,439
Speaker 1: away three times in the first two quarters. They had

1465
01:16:12,520 --> 01:16:15,280
Speaker 1: three toll turnovers in the game. But they dug themselves

1466
01:16:15,320 --> 01:16:17,160
Speaker 1: a hole and it kind of made things easier for

1467
01:16:17,280 --> 01:16:19,000
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton. You know, that's not like the pressure was

1468
01:16:19,040 --> 01:16:20,680
Speaker 1: really on him. Their first score of the game, their

1469
01:16:20,720 --> 01:16:22,880
Speaker 1: first touchdown of the game was a fumble return for

1470
01:16:22,920 --> 01:16:25,720
Speaker 1: a touchdown by Alton Smith. So, um, it was ten

1471
01:16:25,840 --> 01:16:28,439
Speaker 1: nothing before kind of before you knew it, and he didn't.

1472
01:16:28,479 --> 01:16:30,240
Speaker 1: Dalton didn't really have to do much of the work

1473
01:16:30,320 --> 01:16:31,960
Speaker 1: to get there, and then you kind of let the

1474
01:16:32,000 --> 01:16:34,599
Speaker 1: Bengals just you know, trip over themselves a few times.

1475
01:16:34,680 --> 01:16:36,560
Speaker 1: I mean, they're still a couple of years away, and

1476
01:16:36,640 --> 01:16:38,639
Speaker 1: they're much worse without Joe Burrow, and he was really

1477
01:16:38,680 --> 01:16:40,960
Speaker 1: elevating them before he got hurt. Tee Higgens had a

1478
01:16:40,960 --> 01:16:42,559
Speaker 1: little bit of a rough day and five catches before

1479
01:16:42,560 --> 01:16:44,080
Speaker 1: down RDS, we had a couple of drops and it

1480
01:16:44,160 --> 01:16:46,240
Speaker 1: was really like the type of drop that it wasn't

1481
01:16:46,280 --> 01:16:48,760
Speaker 1: a contested catch is just like his mind wasn't completely there.

1482
01:16:48,840 --> 01:16:50,760
Speaker 1: He just wasn't fully focused on hauling the past. And

1483
01:16:50,840 --> 01:16:52,439
Speaker 1: I think that's where the Bengals are at this point.

1484
01:16:52,520 --> 01:16:55,040
Speaker 1: So while we thought the Cowboys were also at this point,

1485
01:16:55,120 --> 01:16:57,880
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are still the more talented team. And when

1486
01:16:57,920 --> 01:16:59,560
Speaker 1: you get two teams that run into each other like

1487
01:16:59,680 --> 01:17:01,360
Speaker 1: that and maybe they have a little bit of a

1488
01:17:01,400 --> 01:17:03,559
Speaker 1: source of motivation for you know, to get their backup

1489
01:17:03,600 --> 01:17:05,880
Speaker 1: quarterback a win in the place that he used to

1490
01:17:05,920 --> 01:17:08,519
Speaker 1: call home, this is usually the type of result you see.

1491
01:17:08,520 --> 01:17:11,760
Speaker 1: And it was just the difference that the marginal victory was.

1492
01:17:12,200 --> 01:17:14,640
Speaker 1: It was multiplied by those turnovers, those mistakes that the

1493
01:17:14,680 --> 01:17:18,080
Speaker 1: Bengals made. So it wasn't necessarily the most unwatchable game,

1494
01:17:18,160 --> 01:17:20,080
Speaker 1: but it was a very lopside game for the majority

1495
01:17:20,160 --> 01:17:21,880
Speaker 1: of it, and every time, you know, I get you

1496
01:17:21,920 --> 01:17:23,479
Speaker 1: got three games on it once. Every time I would

1497
01:17:23,800 --> 01:17:25,519
Speaker 1: turn and watch a player two, I just found myself

1498
01:17:25,640 --> 01:17:27,360
Speaker 1: chuckling it at what was going on in the field,

1499
01:17:27,400 --> 01:17:29,120
Speaker 1: usually when the Bengals had the ball, because it was

1500
01:17:29,200 --> 01:17:31,559
Speaker 1: just like, oh, man, like the end of the season

1501
01:17:31,600 --> 01:17:34,320
Speaker 1: cannot come fast enough for this. I know this is

1502
01:17:34,439 --> 01:17:37,479
Speaker 1: I think it's because of COVID is a big part

1503
01:17:37,520 --> 01:17:39,519
Speaker 1: of it, but man, it feels like it's been week

1504
01:17:39,640 --> 01:17:43,080
Speaker 1: seventeen for some of these teams already for a couple

1505
01:17:43,080 --> 01:17:46,280
Speaker 1: of weeks, like football seasons like that, Like it's long,

1506
01:17:46,439 --> 01:17:49,519
Speaker 1: the winter comes, there's injuries like they take up you

1507
01:17:49,600 --> 01:17:52,200
Speaker 1: know they get, but it's come early. I mean, this

1508
01:17:52,360 --> 01:17:54,720
Speaker 1: is why you're making the big bucks shook coming in.

1509
01:17:55,080 --> 01:17:57,479
Speaker 1: I know you saw Cowboys Bengals on the schedule, and

1510
01:17:57,560 --> 01:17:59,519
Speaker 1: you say, they're gonna give me this game and I'm

1511
01:17:59,520 --> 01:18:01,680
Speaker 1: gonna have to make it sing and I'm going to

1512
01:18:01,760 --> 01:18:06,040
Speaker 1: because I'm Nick and Chuck. It's funny. I was talking

1513
01:18:06,560 --> 01:18:08,920
Speaker 1: with Elia yet about game assignments and I was like, well,

1514
01:18:09,720 --> 01:18:12,760
Speaker 1: and in the early window, it's uh, I'm gonna go

1515
01:18:12,800 --> 01:18:15,360
Speaker 1: down to Cincinnati and catch that Dalton revenge games. The

1516
01:18:15,400 --> 01:18:18,960
Speaker 1: guys in the podcast, right, he does he play ball

1517
01:18:19,040 --> 01:18:24,000
Speaker 1: with you? Or is he? Is he doing tough managerial stuff? No? No, no,

1518
01:18:24,080 --> 01:18:25,880
Speaker 1: we played ball. What it is is, I'll pick the

1519
01:18:26,000 --> 01:18:28,280
Speaker 1: lead game that I really want and then I go

1520
01:18:28,400 --> 01:18:30,560
Speaker 1: bounce back with what you guys want, and I just

1521
01:18:30,840 --> 01:18:32,360
Speaker 1: take on like three games at once and we just

1522
01:18:32,479 --> 01:18:34,760
Speaker 1: roll with it. Yeah, I mean that you can put

1523
01:18:34,800 --> 01:18:37,719
Speaker 1: everything on Nick Shook's shoulders. Humor me for a second.

1524
01:18:37,760 --> 01:18:40,160
Speaker 1: The Cowboys, and let's give Cowboys a little bit credit

1525
01:18:40,240 --> 01:18:43,439
Speaker 1: because we were all talking about on Wednesday and even

1526
01:18:43,479 --> 01:18:45,880
Speaker 1: Troy Aikman was crying in a soup about this. But

1527
01:18:46,000 --> 01:18:48,400
Speaker 1: what happened to the Cowboys? They're not even trying the

1528
01:18:48,520 --> 01:18:51,280
Speaker 1: seasons of his grace and then they can at least

1529
01:18:51,320 --> 01:18:53,760
Speaker 1: get off the mat and beat up on a team,

1530
01:18:53,960 --> 01:18:55,960
Speaker 1: which I wouldn't even have assumed they could have done that.

1531
01:18:56,600 --> 01:18:58,519
Speaker 1: Uh so they did do that there four and nine.

1532
01:18:58,640 --> 01:19:01,559
Speaker 1: They have three games left. Listen. I'm not saying I'm

1533
01:19:01,560 --> 01:19:05,639
Speaker 1: in on the Cowboys. I'm just saying Home forty Niners winnable.

1534
01:19:05,680 --> 01:19:08,160
Speaker 1: The Niners are, you know, not having a good year.

1535
01:19:08,680 --> 01:19:10,960
Speaker 1: Home Eagles. I mean, let's not go crazy about the

1536
01:19:11,000 --> 01:19:14,840
Speaker 1: Eagles at Giants. So you let's say you win out.

1537
01:19:15,040 --> 01:19:17,560
Speaker 1: Unfortunately Washington has the tie breaker on you, so you

1538
01:19:17,720 --> 01:19:21,880
Speaker 1: need to win out and then hope Washington collapses. And

1539
01:19:22,000 --> 01:19:25,439
Speaker 1: I think that's the path, not even collapses. Just I

1540
01:19:25,479 --> 01:19:27,519
Speaker 1: guess you did the Washington six and seven, so they

1541
01:19:27,600 --> 01:19:30,120
Speaker 1: got to lose out. That's where the Cowboys are right now.

1542
01:19:30,360 --> 01:19:33,040
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like a nuclear bomb was dropped

1543
01:19:33,080 --> 01:19:36,320
Speaker 1: on that path some time ago. I understand the optimism,

1544
01:19:36,400 --> 01:19:40,960
Speaker 1: but I do if Washington hadn't one today, then you'd

1545
01:19:41,040 --> 01:19:44,080
Speaker 1: have something. But too bad. They gotta win out. Washington's

1546
01:19:44,080 --> 01:19:46,439
Speaker 1: gotta lose out. It's that simple, that's it. I'm not

1547
01:19:46,520 --> 01:19:48,760
Speaker 1: sure this Cowboys team wants to play an extra game.

1548
01:19:49,080 --> 01:19:51,040
Speaker 1: You'd have to sell me on that first. And then

1549
01:19:51,479 --> 01:19:54,559
Speaker 1: as I gained by the Brandon Allen Bengals, even though

1550
01:19:54,600 --> 01:19:56,479
Speaker 1: it's thirty to seven and I haven't watched this game

1551
01:19:56,520 --> 01:19:58,760
Speaker 1: at all, just looking at that, and I'm gonna say,

1552
01:19:59,040 --> 01:20:01,560
Speaker 1: you know, they they got a little lucky. It was.

1553
01:20:01,680 --> 01:20:03,360
Speaker 1: It was as bad as it looked in the score,

1554
01:20:03,840 --> 01:20:05,439
Speaker 1: in the in the stat sheet. His parents were in

1555
01:20:05,479 --> 01:20:07,080
Speaker 1: the stands. They kept cutting to them. You know, they're

1556
01:20:07,080 --> 01:20:09,320
Speaker 1: wearing their number eight Bengals masks. That was sad for him,

1557
01:20:09,360 --> 01:20:11,000
Speaker 1: But then they have a paper bag on their head.

1558
01:20:11,760 --> 01:20:14,880
Speaker 1: That'll be the people a section over because of social distancing. Dan.

1559
01:20:14,960 --> 01:20:17,479
Speaker 1: If you if that actually happens, not the whole Washington collapse,

1560
01:20:17,560 --> 01:20:19,360
Speaker 1: but the Cowboys winning out, you know what you're setting

1561
01:20:19,400 --> 01:20:22,439
Speaker 1: us up for, right an entire off season of the

1562
01:20:22,520 --> 01:20:26,080
Speaker 1: Cowboys are for real. They're getting back back super Bowl

1563
01:20:26,200 --> 01:20:28,679
Speaker 1: favorite again, which we've gone through for the last two years.

1564
01:20:29,040 --> 01:20:31,960
Speaker 1: That's happening either way. It doesn't matter how the season ends.

1565
01:20:32,080 --> 01:20:34,360
Speaker 1: People will be talking up the Cowboys bounced back team

1566
01:20:34,600 --> 01:20:37,000
Speaker 1: that's come back. Oh Dack's back, and oh what a

1567
01:20:37,080 --> 01:20:39,280
Speaker 1: great draft. And it's hard to get a read on

1568
01:20:39,400 --> 01:20:41,960
Speaker 1: what they even were last season. It's like it's like

1569
01:20:42,080 --> 01:20:45,599
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy just paid extra for a pff elite account.

1570
01:20:45,760 --> 01:20:49,840
Speaker 1: They're really gonna go far. All right, let's move on

1571
01:20:49,960 --> 01:20:58,800
Speaker 1: to Sunday Night Football. Sunday Night back the other way

1572
01:20:58,880 --> 01:21:05,120
Speaker 1: for Bucklow. Aaron Johnson was star touchdown pills Ron Johnson

1573
01:21:05,479 --> 01:21:08,599
Speaker 1: with the pick six of Ben Roethlisberger. Of course, Mike

1574
01:21:08,720 --> 01:21:11,280
Speaker 1: Arrico with the call for NBC. It was the turning

1575
01:21:11,320 --> 01:21:16,200
Speaker 1: point of the night for the Buffalo Bills, who pretty

1576
01:21:16,240 --> 01:21:20,719
Speaker 1: much coast from there to fifteen over the Pittsburgh Steelers,

1577
01:21:20,760 --> 01:21:24,160
Speaker 1: who have now followed eleven consecutive wins to start the

1578
01:21:24,439 --> 01:21:27,720
Speaker 1: season with back to back losses and that now puts

1579
01:21:27,800 --> 01:21:33,200
Speaker 1: them behind the Chiefs as the number two seeds in

1580
01:21:33,320 --> 01:21:36,680
Speaker 1: the a f C. And on the Bill side of

1581
01:21:36,760 --> 01:21:41,120
Speaker 1: things shook more of the same from last week. A

1582
01:21:41,160 --> 01:21:44,559
Speaker 1: lot of good vibes came out of their game last

1583
01:21:44,600 --> 01:21:47,759
Speaker 1: week when Josh Allen was lights out against the Niners,

1584
01:21:47,920 --> 01:21:49,760
Speaker 1: and this is more of a total team effort by

1585
01:21:49,800 --> 01:21:52,800
Speaker 1: the Bills. Yeah, no doubt. The defense creating turnover is

1586
01:21:52,800 --> 01:21:55,639
Speaker 1: getting stopped in this and really from the final moments

1587
01:21:55,680 --> 01:21:57,160
Speaker 1: of the first half all the way through the end

1588
01:21:57,200 --> 01:21:59,120
Speaker 1: of the game, a key interceptions you end of the

1589
01:21:59,160 --> 01:22:02,639
Speaker 1: game to kind of undercut any comeback hopes for the Steelers.

1590
01:22:02,680 --> 01:22:05,160
Speaker 1: And then of course Josh Allen, like you said, just

1591
01:22:05,439 --> 01:22:07,439
Speaker 1: lights out again and you know he's got to be

1592
01:22:07,479 --> 01:22:09,880
Speaker 1: thanking the heavens for that offseason trade for Stefon Diggs,

1593
01:22:09,880 --> 01:22:13,519
Speaker 1: who absolutely torched the Steelers defense specifically and that keys

1594
01:22:13,960 --> 01:22:15,880
Speaker 1: sequence at the end of the second quarter into the

1595
01:22:15,960 --> 01:22:17,800
Speaker 1: third quarter when they ran out I think it was

1596
01:22:17,840 --> 01:22:20,840
Speaker 1: twenty three. I answered that they scored. Um, you know,

1597
01:22:21,160 --> 01:22:23,200
Speaker 1: it really does wonders when you have a number one receiver,

1598
01:22:23,240 --> 01:22:24,880
Speaker 1: but especially when you have a number one receiver who

1599
01:22:24,920 --> 01:22:26,800
Speaker 1: can hit you in all levels of the field. And

1600
01:22:26,920 --> 01:22:29,880
Speaker 1: Stefon Diggs that did that. Um, you know, his yards

1601
01:22:29,920 --> 01:22:31,680
Speaker 1: after catched had to be astronomical. I haven't seen the

1602
01:22:31,720 --> 01:22:34,720
Speaker 1: exact numbers, but he was great with you know, getting open,

1603
01:22:34,920 --> 01:22:37,400
Speaker 1: finding soft spots in the zone and also picking up

1604
01:22:37,400 --> 01:22:41,160
Speaker 1: the extra yards and really kicking this offense from first gear,

1605
01:22:41,240 --> 01:22:42,880
Speaker 1: struggling to get out of first gear all the way

1606
01:22:42,880 --> 01:22:45,160
Speaker 1: into fifth gear and rolling. And if they play like

1607
01:22:45,240 --> 01:22:47,519
Speaker 1: this going forward, I mean they're They're a team to

1608
01:22:48,400 --> 01:22:51,120
Speaker 1: definitely watch. It definitely be a tough, tough matchup for

1609
01:22:51,200 --> 01:22:54,920
Speaker 1: other teams. I love that seven minute drive to end

1610
01:22:54,960 --> 01:22:57,160
Speaker 1: the game. I love stuff like that. I mean, when

1611
01:22:57,400 --> 01:23:00,559
Speaker 1: when a team can do that against an number one

1612
01:23:00,880 --> 01:23:03,960
Speaker 1: defense and just finished the game with the ball in

1613
01:23:04,000 --> 01:23:07,679
Speaker 1: your hands. Get Mark Sessler, you know, to the recap,

1614
01:23:07,880 --> 01:23:10,000
Speaker 1: we're all rooting for the Bills to be moving the

1615
01:23:10,080 --> 01:23:12,360
Speaker 1: ball at that time. But that's like, to me, that's it.

1616
01:23:12,560 --> 01:23:14,840
Speaker 1: That's the NFL. Like, that's the point in which your

1617
01:23:14,880 --> 01:23:17,640
Speaker 1: team has basically just exerted its will. And in the

1618
01:23:17,720 --> 01:23:20,800
Speaker 1: second half, the Bills had two thirty one yards the

1619
01:23:20,880 --> 01:23:23,960
Speaker 1: Steelers at eighty. This game is totally on the Steelers offense.

1620
01:23:24,000 --> 01:23:25,679
Speaker 1: I know Josh Allen will get a lot of attention,

1621
01:23:25,920 --> 01:23:28,840
Speaker 1: but it was the mismatch of the Bill's defense versus

1622
01:23:28,920 --> 01:23:32,880
Speaker 1: the Steelers offense that really was decisive. I'm with you.

1623
01:23:33,000 --> 01:23:40,000
Speaker 1: They had thirteen drives. If it's it's no less tedious

1624
01:23:40,040 --> 01:23:43,400
Speaker 1: than it was four years ago in the studio. But

1625
01:23:44,080 --> 01:23:48,200
Speaker 1: thirteen drives. One of them went over thirty four yards,

1626
01:23:48,280 --> 01:23:52,479
Speaker 1: seven of them went under ten yards. It this is

1627
01:23:52,520 --> 01:23:55,240
Speaker 1: not a balanced offense. And this is weeks in a row. Um.

1628
01:23:55,320 --> 01:23:58,280
Speaker 1: And I don't know who body replaced James Conner with,

1629
01:23:58,560 --> 01:24:01,880
Speaker 1: um little Jimmy Connor who's never played a football game.

1630
01:24:01,920 --> 01:24:05,920
Speaker 1: But I mean, they can't they can't establish the ground game. Um,

1631
01:24:06,080 --> 01:24:09,519
Speaker 1: you throw in Deontae Johnson. Drops, they had drops in

1632
01:24:09,600 --> 01:24:12,160
Speaker 1: their last outing. Um, they just seem had to sink.

1633
01:24:12,240 --> 01:24:14,360
Speaker 1: And I get I get that they've transitioned to a

1634
01:24:14,880 --> 01:24:17,559
Speaker 1: quick strike if you want to call it that offense

1635
01:24:17,640 --> 01:24:20,040
Speaker 1: with Big Ben, But UM, I don't think it's really

1636
01:24:20,120 --> 01:24:22,559
Speaker 1: what suits the Big Ben that we knew of old.

1637
01:24:22,600 --> 01:24:24,479
Speaker 1: I mean, it's what he has to do now. But

1638
01:24:24,600 --> 01:24:27,120
Speaker 1: teams are adjusting. I mean, if you can't like what

1639
01:24:27,240 --> 01:24:30,080
Speaker 1: you can't take them seriously on the ground and like

1640
01:24:30,200 --> 01:24:33,719
Speaker 1: their defense played absolutely awesome, I thought in the first half.

1641
01:24:34,120 --> 01:24:37,439
Speaker 1: But you're gonna break a defense when you can't respond.

1642
01:24:37,520 --> 01:24:40,639
Speaker 1: They had their four drives in the second half, three

1643
01:24:40,680 --> 01:24:43,320
Speaker 1: of them were three and outs. Maybe it was every

1644
01:24:43,360 --> 01:24:47,320
Speaker 1: man tennis star Jimmy Connors, who's who's now the running back.

1645
01:24:47,640 --> 01:24:50,720
Speaker 1: He's about sixty six, which would you know check out

1646
01:24:51,160 --> 01:24:54,000
Speaker 1: for the way anybody in the backfield for the Steelers looks.

1647
01:24:54,040 --> 01:24:57,839
Speaker 1: But it's it's very depressing, uh to watch the Steelers

1648
01:24:57,960 --> 01:25:02,880
Speaker 1: right now on offense because as when this quick, quick

1649
01:25:02,920 --> 01:25:06,200
Speaker 1: shot attack isn't working, it just feels like such a

1650
01:25:06,240 --> 01:25:08,680
Speaker 1: waste with all the skilled players on the field with

1651
01:25:09,600 --> 01:25:12,200
Speaker 1: uh Deonte Johnson, who I know is having issues with drops,

1652
01:25:12,320 --> 01:25:15,920
Speaker 1: but you know, James Washington, Juju Smith, Schuster and Chase

1653
01:25:15,960 --> 01:25:19,000
Speaker 1: Claypool has become an afterthought in this offense all of

1654
01:25:19,040 --> 01:25:22,120
Speaker 1: a sudden. Oh, by the way, during this run where

1655
01:25:22,120 --> 01:25:25,800
Speaker 1: they're struggling to win games now, so yes, when it works,

1656
01:25:25,920 --> 01:25:28,519
Speaker 1: the Steeler's offense out of his hand, quickly, get the

1657
01:25:28,600 --> 01:25:31,240
Speaker 1: ball in the hands of the receivers and they make plays. Uh.

1658
01:25:31,360 --> 01:25:33,800
Speaker 1: Nobody had anything to say, but there there seems something

1659
01:25:34,160 --> 01:25:37,200
Speaker 1: almost pathetic about it for large stretches of this game,

1660
01:25:37,840 --> 01:25:41,200
Speaker 1: and it makes you wonder if if the Steelers offense

1661
01:25:41,280 --> 01:25:45,439
Speaker 1: has the ability to pivot and not obviously go back

1662
01:25:45,479 --> 01:25:47,800
Speaker 1: to the way they were five years ago at Ben Roethlisberger,

1663
01:25:48,120 --> 01:25:50,439
Speaker 1: but to create some balance in the passing attacks so

1664
01:25:50,479 --> 01:25:52,920
Speaker 1: it's not always the same thing over and over, because

1665
01:25:52,960 --> 01:25:56,679
Speaker 1: it really is a drag over and over, these little

1666
01:25:56,760 --> 01:26:00,800
Speaker 1: five yard passes, these slants, these screens. It's just nothing

1667
01:26:00,880 --> 01:26:03,400
Speaker 1: explosive about it. Yeah, you know what Bill Walsh built

1668
01:26:03,439 --> 01:26:06,120
Speaker 1: an offense around that. You know, it's almost forty years ago,

1669
01:26:06,520 --> 01:26:08,840
Speaker 1: well not the not the version of the Steelers and

1670
01:26:09,920 --> 01:26:11,479
Speaker 1: they had a great running game, and they had a

1671
01:26:11,479 --> 01:26:13,280
Speaker 1: great running game. Yeah, and the problem with that too

1672
01:26:13,400 --> 01:26:15,719
Speaker 1: is that they're simply not executing on those short passes,

1673
01:26:15,840 --> 01:26:17,519
Speaker 1: like you know, the drops. So there was Eric Ebron

1674
01:26:17,600 --> 01:26:20,439
Speaker 1: last week, Deance Johnson this week, and in a couple

1675
01:26:20,439 --> 01:26:23,759
Speaker 1: of weeks prior. It's it's completely short circuited their offense.

1676
01:26:23,800 --> 01:26:25,320
Speaker 1: And you're right, Greg, they don't have a running game.

1677
01:26:25,360 --> 01:26:26,760
Speaker 1: You know, we thought last week, but they didn't have

1678
01:26:26,880 --> 01:26:28,479
Speaker 1: James Conner, so that's why they couldn't run the ball.

1679
01:26:28,479 --> 01:26:30,160
Speaker 1: They had James Conner tonight and they still couldn't run

1680
01:26:30,160 --> 01:26:31,559
Speaker 1: the football. They haven't been able to run the ball

1681
01:26:31,560 --> 01:26:34,840
Speaker 1: for a while. It's putting too much pressure on their defense.

1682
01:26:34,920 --> 01:26:38,000
Speaker 1: Like you said, Mark, they had a fantastic first quarter

1683
01:26:38,080 --> 01:26:40,960
Speaker 1: and a half and really the whole first half, and

1684
01:26:41,640 --> 01:26:43,639
Speaker 1: they gave up on under yards and gave up three

1685
01:26:43,720 --> 01:26:46,120
Speaker 1: points to Josh Allen. I mean, that should be enough

1686
01:26:46,200 --> 01:26:48,040
Speaker 1: to carry you through where you have a chance to

1687
01:26:48,120 --> 01:26:49,800
Speaker 1: win the game, and then Big Ben puts it on

1688
01:26:49,880 --> 01:26:52,479
Speaker 1: a platter with the pick six and and puts them

1689
01:26:52,479 --> 01:26:53,760
Speaker 1: in a hole and they never get out of it.

1690
01:26:53,800 --> 01:26:56,720
Speaker 1: I mean, from they just started an avalanche. I know

1691
01:26:57,080 --> 01:26:58,720
Speaker 1: that this is something that a lot of people have said,

1692
01:26:58,760 --> 01:27:00,559
Speaker 1: and I know maybe it was an overreact and last week,

1693
01:27:00,560 --> 01:27:02,559
Speaker 1: but the Steelers have not looked like a one seed

1694
01:27:02,680 --> 01:27:05,880
Speaker 1: or a two seed for a while now, and things

1695
01:27:05,880 --> 01:27:08,160
Speaker 1: aren't gonna get any easier for them down the stretch

1696
01:27:08,360 --> 01:27:10,800
Speaker 1: heading into the playoffs. I wonder if we're seeing the

1697
01:27:10,880 --> 01:27:15,920
Speaker 1: beginning of a meltdown. Really, they haven't been the same

1698
01:27:16,000 --> 01:27:21,160
Speaker 1: team since the COVID Wednesday game. It's been three weeks. Right, Well,

1699
01:27:21,240 --> 01:27:23,639
Speaker 1: they're they're in an interesting spot. They'll get the Bengals

1700
01:27:24,439 --> 01:27:27,080
Speaker 1: and we'll see what happens with the Browns game, like

1701
01:27:27,280 --> 01:27:29,240
Speaker 1: whether you know, we'll see what happens with the Chiefs.

1702
01:27:29,320 --> 01:27:31,680
Speaker 1: I don't think a two game losing. I don't like

1703
01:27:31,800 --> 01:27:34,000
Speaker 1: count them out of it. I don't think they can

1704
01:27:34,160 --> 01:27:36,400
Speaker 1: I think they can rebound. Their defense has to be

1705
01:27:36,520 --> 01:27:38,880
Speaker 1: so dominant though, And now when you when you don't

1706
01:27:38,920 --> 01:27:43,160
Speaker 1: have Hayden Bush has been gone a while, Vince Williams

1707
01:27:43,320 --> 01:27:46,160
Speaker 1: and Dupree. I mean that's now four of your key guys.

1708
01:27:46,280 --> 01:27:48,400
Speaker 1: It's not just like one or two. Now, hopefully you

1709
01:27:48,479 --> 01:27:52,320
Speaker 1: get you know, Hayden and and Vince Williams back. But

1710
01:27:52,600 --> 01:27:55,800
Speaker 1: I think about the Patriots when they lost two in

1711
01:27:55,880 --> 01:27:58,320
Speaker 1: a row and everyone thought they were kind of dogs

1712
01:27:58,800 --> 01:28:00,200
Speaker 1: and they won the Super Bowl that year. Think of

1713
01:28:00,240 --> 01:28:01,760
Speaker 1: the Broncos when they lost too in a row in

1714
01:28:01,840 --> 01:28:04,599
Speaker 1: mid December and they won the Super Bowl. The people

1715
01:28:04,680 --> 01:28:07,320
Speaker 1: kind of thought they were dogs. So it's possible, but

1716
01:28:07,640 --> 01:28:10,640
Speaker 1: that one seed feels like so far away and and

1717
01:28:10,720 --> 01:28:13,160
Speaker 1: there now in the in the lower tier of like

1718
01:28:13,320 --> 01:28:15,800
Speaker 1: they are going to have to figure some things out

1719
01:28:15,880 --> 01:28:18,519
Speaker 1: and get lucky along the way and and win road games,

1720
01:28:18,560 --> 01:28:20,920
Speaker 1: which is tough. I mean, the problem was the the

1721
01:28:21,040 --> 01:28:24,439
Speaker 1: undefeated record shown a spotlight on them, and we have

1722
01:28:24,560 --> 01:28:27,800
Speaker 1: certain thoughts about an undefeated team that's you know, deep

1723
01:28:27,840 --> 01:28:30,439
Speaker 1: in November, early December, and then you have the chief

1724
01:28:30,479 --> 01:28:34,519
Speaker 1: sitting out there in these comparisons that highly annoyed Steelers fans. Um.

1725
01:28:34,960 --> 01:28:38,120
Speaker 1: I think to Greg you you mentioned Nadier like earlier,

1726
01:28:38,200 --> 01:28:41,560
Speaker 1: like tonight has to be the peak um world of

1727
01:28:41,720 --> 01:28:44,800
Speaker 1: doubt for Steelers fans, wondering if like so many other

1728
01:28:44,960 --> 01:28:49,479
Speaker 1: very promising Steelers teams, um ultra tough, rugged able to

1729
01:28:49,520 --> 01:28:52,040
Speaker 1: work themselves out of a corner or two, but will

1730
01:28:52,120 --> 01:28:55,200
Speaker 1: it end um in January? Like so many other Steelers

1731
01:28:55,240 --> 01:28:58,280
Speaker 1: teams under Mike Tomlin, ware good but not great. And

1732
01:28:58,400 --> 01:29:00,360
Speaker 1: you've got we're watching another team in the A f

1733
01:29:00,439 --> 01:29:04,680
Speaker 1: c uh looks just ten times more powerful in Kansas City. Yeah.

1734
01:29:04,840 --> 01:29:07,880
Speaker 1: And the Bills, I mean, the Bills are I think

1735
01:29:08,080 --> 01:29:10,160
Speaker 1: I think Chiefs fans have to look at the Bills

1736
01:29:10,320 --> 01:29:12,760
Speaker 1: is like that's the that's the team that scares you

1737
01:29:12,840 --> 01:29:15,200
Speaker 1: the most. And they basically won the A f C

1738
01:29:15,280 --> 01:29:16,880
Speaker 1: East tonight. By the way, I mean that that's not

1739
01:29:17,080 --> 01:29:18,720
Speaker 1: that's not a small thing. The Bills are not. The

1740
01:29:18,760 --> 01:29:21,200
Speaker 1: Bills are gonna win this division. Now, that's a big deal.

1741
01:29:21,760 --> 01:29:23,800
Speaker 1: That is a huge deal. We talked about the cleil

1742
01:29:23,880 --> 01:29:26,640
Speaker 1: Mack trade and who won that trader earlier tonight. It

1743
01:29:26,840 --> 01:29:28,840
Speaker 1: is one of the best trades. It could go down

1744
01:29:28,880 --> 01:29:30,880
Speaker 1: as one of the greatest trades of all time in

1745
01:29:31,040 --> 01:29:35,320
Speaker 1: terms of helping both teams. The Vikings send Stefon Digs

1746
01:29:35,360 --> 01:29:37,439
Speaker 1: to the Bills, the Bill send a first round pick

1747
01:29:37,520 --> 01:29:42,160
Speaker 1: to the Vikings, the Vikings draft justin Jefferson. Everyone wins

1748
01:29:42,240 --> 01:29:46,320
Speaker 1: in that situation. So the Bills are hot, they're peaking

1749
01:29:46,439 --> 01:29:48,559
Speaker 1: at the right time. And now we wait and see

1750
01:29:48,680 --> 01:29:51,840
Speaker 1: what the Steelers are gonna do, how they pivot off

1751
01:29:52,400 --> 01:29:55,120
Speaker 1: this kind of cold de stact. They've parked themselves into

1752
01:29:55,360 --> 01:29:58,680
Speaker 1: very interesting and we didn't get a very I mean,

1753
01:29:58,760 --> 01:30:01,840
Speaker 1: it was cool out um, the Steelers going down. There's

1754
01:30:01,880 --> 01:30:05,240
Speaker 1: some interest there and the Bills on the rise. But man,

1755
01:30:05,320 --> 01:30:07,880
Speaker 1: we're hoping for a good game Sunday night to salvage Sunday.

1756
01:30:07,920 --> 01:30:10,160
Speaker 1: We just couldn't get it. We just we searched for

1757
01:30:10,240 --> 01:30:14,599
Speaker 1: it all there was more teen's messy. Well, it's up

1758
01:30:14,640 --> 01:30:17,960
Speaker 1: to you, Mark, I mean, you know, Baker and the

1759
01:30:18,080 --> 01:30:20,439
Speaker 1: people on the field, like, yeah, they matter a little bit,

1760
01:30:20,479 --> 01:30:24,960
Speaker 1: but I would mostly. I mean, if someone has to

1761
01:30:25,040 --> 01:30:28,240
Speaker 1: play an actual on field role, I think Nick Shook

1762
01:30:28,240 --> 01:30:30,479
Speaker 1: would be the better person to pick them myself. What

1763
01:30:30,560 --> 01:30:32,880
Speaker 1: am I gonna do? Listen, miss the ten yard field goal.

1764
01:30:33,560 --> 01:30:36,840
Speaker 1: We've we've discussed, we've discussed the mystery of what happened

1765
01:30:36,840 --> 01:30:40,240
Speaker 1: to me with the Browns, but the greater we haven't

1766
01:30:40,880 --> 01:30:44,439
Speaker 1: never really we've alluded to it, the non mysteries, the

1767
01:30:44,479 --> 01:30:45,920
Speaker 1: fact that I would never stay in a chance with

1768
01:30:45,960 --> 01:30:48,360
Speaker 1: those guys after spending many, many on field hours with

1769
01:30:48,400 --> 01:30:51,720
Speaker 1: those guys. No, not a chance. Interesting. Interesting. We're gonna

1770
01:30:51,760 --> 01:30:54,439
Speaker 1: get to the bottom of that one day. Nick Shook's

1771
01:30:54,720 --> 01:30:59,719
Speaker 1: mysterious departure from the Browns um real quick the Raiders

1772
01:30:59,800 --> 01:31:03,360
Speaker 1: five defensive coordinator Paul Gunther. I was gonna make note

1773
01:31:03,400 --> 01:31:05,400
Speaker 1: of that during the game because Greg had teased he

1774
01:31:05,520 --> 01:31:07,760
Speaker 1: thought a big change was coming, but then wouldn't say

1775
01:31:08,080 --> 01:31:10,040
Speaker 1: what it was and when it when it say it

1776
01:31:10,160 --> 01:31:14,639
Speaker 1: was the head coach or the quarterback, So I thought

1777
01:31:14,680 --> 01:31:16,280
Speaker 1: maybe it'd be the ball boy or something. But it

1778
01:31:16,479 --> 01:31:19,439
Speaker 1: was it's Paul Gunther who goes so I guess everything

1779
01:31:19,560 --> 01:31:23,559
Speaker 1: is on Paul, poor Paul g Uh. And we'll see

1780
01:31:23,600 --> 01:31:26,360
Speaker 1: if they can respond from that. And before we go,

1781
01:31:26,520 --> 01:31:29,160
Speaker 1: let's check in on the locks. Greg An other w

1782
01:31:30,080 --> 01:31:32,599
Speaker 1: for Rosenthal. He picks the bucks and locks him up.

1783
01:31:33,200 --> 01:31:37,960
Speaker 1: Chris westling down goes West. He took the forty niners

1784
01:31:39,040 --> 01:31:42,439
Speaker 1: who did not did not get it done. And then,

1785
01:31:42,479 --> 01:31:46,080
Speaker 1: of course, yes, if the game itself isn't enough a

1786
01:31:46,240 --> 01:31:50,000
Speaker 1: lock off for the ages, the old Zeus er Uh

1787
01:31:50,280 --> 01:31:53,680
Speaker 1: is getting behind the Baltimore Ravens mark and and this

1788
01:31:53,800 --> 01:31:57,320
Speaker 1: is what I call the kiss of death, Erica get

1789
01:31:57,400 --> 01:32:01,240
Speaker 1: behind the Cleveland Browns. At least she's getting before aleven

1790
01:32:01,280 --> 01:32:05,040
Speaker 1: minutes into the game. Right, Well, I think eric is

1791
01:32:05,040 --> 01:32:07,760
Speaker 1: on a hot streak potentially. I don't know why you'd

1792
01:32:07,800 --> 01:32:09,760
Speaker 1: be doubting our producer or anyone here, like I think

1793
01:32:09,840 --> 01:32:14,400
Speaker 1: she's capable of sky high achievements. I don't know. I

1794
01:32:14,479 --> 01:32:17,759
Speaker 1: never doubt Erica as a producer, but as a picker

1795
01:32:17,840 --> 01:32:21,360
Speaker 1: of locks and fantasy teams, you know, and real teams.

1796
01:32:21,439 --> 01:32:28,720
Speaker 1: Then it gets a little all right, good stuff, great

1797
01:32:28,800 --> 01:32:33,040
Speaker 1: to hear from West again. We'll be back on Tuesday, uh,

1798
01:32:33,680 --> 01:32:37,160
Speaker 1: with our recap of the big Monday night football game

1799
01:32:37,200 --> 01:32:41,400
Speaker 1: and look ahead to week fifteen? How about that? How

1800
01:32:41,439 --> 01:32:47,080
Speaker 1: about that? Sessler? I will absolutely um, if the Browns

1801
01:32:47,160 --> 01:32:50,280
Speaker 1: get torched tomorrow night, I will look forward to Tuesday

1802
01:32:50,400 --> 01:32:51,960
Speaker 1: with the way I would look forward to like an

1803
01:32:52,040 --> 01:32:54,479
Speaker 1: axe being thrown from a hundred yards away into the

1804
01:32:54,560 --> 01:32:56,040
Speaker 1: center of my head. I don't I'm not going to

1805
01:32:56,120 --> 01:32:59,240
Speaker 1: be excited for that conversation, but I'm sure everyone will

1806
01:32:59,280 --> 01:33:03,800
Speaker 1: handle it with um grandiose uh, you know manners, So

1807
01:33:03,960 --> 01:33:05,920
Speaker 1: will be fine. Mark, have you been have you been

1808
01:33:06,040 --> 01:33:08,840
Speaker 1: like taking victory laps? Have I been missing something here? No?

1809
01:33:09,040 --> 01:33:12,640
Speaker 1: I never have. That's not in your character. I mean,

1810
01:33:12,720 --> 01:33:15,080
Speaker 1: if they won the Super Bowl, I will, I've told

1811
01:33:15,120 --> 01:33:18,800
Speaker 1: you I will set on fire. But even then it's

1812
01:33:18,840 --> 01:33:21,280
Speaker 1: not just it's not decided. Even if they win, it's

1813
01:33:21,320 --> 01:33:24,240
Speaker 1: never decided with them. Did anybody did any of our

1814
01:33:24,280 --> 01:33:26,320
Speaker 1: listeners reach out to your shock about you know, the

1815
01:33:26,400 --> 01:33:28,160
Speaker 1: thing that you're doing with a girl, the thing with

1816
01:33:28,240 --> 01:33:32,320
Speaker 1: a thing. They're all good people, and I also, like

1817
01:33:32,400 --> 01:33:34,439
Speaker 1: I said, keep my Instagram private so there might be

1818
01:33:34,520 --> 01:33:39,439
Speaker 1: like requests sitting there unanswered. But whatever, very good. All right,

1819
01:33:39,800 --> 01:33:41,840
Speaker 1: let's get out of here. Is Dan Hanson signing up

1820
01:33:41,880 --> 01:33:45,080
Speaker 1: for Nick Shook, The sciss Or, the Old Boss and

1821
01:33:45,200 --> 01:33:47,360
Speaker 1: Ricky Hollywood in the Shadows where he stays in the

1822
01:33:47,439 --> 01:33:49,519
Speaker 1: shadows there and you always wonder what's going on in

1823
01:33:49,560 --> 01:33:55,200
Speaker 1: there once. She doesn't pop in until Tuesday.