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Speaker 1: got you, all right. So hello to Bucky Brooks. How

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Speaker 1: are we? And first of all, Bucky, love all your

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports, kibbits in obviously on NFL Network, and here

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Speaker 1: obviously to have a dynamite running back. There aren't a

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Speaker 1: ton of those guys in the league that are, you know,

425
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Speaker 1: Leve Bell, Zeke Elliot's, David Johnson types out there early.

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Speaker 1: But um, the one thing that if you do go

427
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Speaker 1: back through it, you know it's it's more than anecdotal

428
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Speaker 1: at this point. With all the twenty first century champions

429
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Speaker 1: that we've now seen in Pro football, the one thing

430
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Speaker 1: that is a myth is that you have to have

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Speaker 1: a dominant number one wide receiver. Look at the teams

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Speaker 1: that have done it. Obviously, the Patriots never won. They

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Speaker 1: had Randy Moss, but they never won a Super Bowl

434
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Speaker 1: with him. Who's the dominant receiver? I guess al seon

435
00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:43,960
Speaker 1: Jeffrey on the Eagles go back through it. I mean

436
00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,639
Speaker 1: the UH through the twenty one century, A lot of

437
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Speaker 1: teams that win the Super Bowl don't necessarily system A

438
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Speaker 1: little more systematic and that someone knock on the Cowboys

439
00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:56,760
Speaker 1: going into who's catching the passes from Dak As long

440
00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:59,399
Speaker 1: as they can cobble together, I actually think they are

441
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Speaker 1: better off without Daz Bryant and Jason winten Uh. Dak Prescott,

442
00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:05,760
Speaker 1: his numbers are ridiculous. When he throws to eight or

443
00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:09,280
Speaker 1: more different targets fourteen in two, one and four touchdown

444
00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:12,399
Speaker 1: the interception ratio um. It just shows that when he

445
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Speaker 1: is able to just draw back and find the open

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00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:16,520
Speaker 1: guy get the ball to him without the pressure and

447
00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:19,200
Speaker 1: the stress of having to force feed the ball, he's

448
00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:22,120
Speaker 1: a better player. And to be honest, Zeke Elliott really

449
00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:23,960
Speaker 1: sets the table for the rest of the way those

450
00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,840
Speaker 1: guys work because he's going to command so much attention

451
00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:29,320
Speaker 1: inside as the runner one on one on the outside,

452
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Speaker 1: cool Beasley and those guys to be able to operate.

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Speaker 1: I believe you'll see Dak Prescott played better because Zeke

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Speaker 1: Elliot is bond. I agree with you about all of that.

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Speaker 1: And also, for what it's worth, Jason Garrett is not

456
00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:45,360
Speaker 1: a roller coaster ride week to week. It's year to year.

457
00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:48,480
Speaker 1: I mean, the Cowboys with Jason Garrett are bad one

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Speaker 1: year good not at seven. They're not a seven last

459
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Speaker 1: year and a lot of people thought that they were

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl contenders going into the STI you remove one

461
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Speaker 1: of your best players for six games. I'm just telling you,

462
00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:02,680
Speaker 1: with the with the with where we stand right now,

463
00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:05,720
Speaker 1: here's the good news Cowboys fans. This is the they

464
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Speaker 1: should be a good year based on the roller coaster.

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Speaker 1: And I do like some of their defensive pieces. You know,

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Speaker 1: I think they're they're quietly and I like uh. I

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Speaker 1: like vander ash as well lining up against Sean Lee.

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Speaker 1: If he could just stay right for one season. Let's

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Speaker 1: see what the what they can do. All right, d C.

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Speaker 1: Let's go out to Alex Smith's new clubs. You know,

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Speaker 1: this is a tough one because they don't really have

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Speaker 1: a lot of stars. But I think the player that's

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Speaker 1: the most important piece for them would be Ryan Carrigan,

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Speaker 1: the pass rusher off the edge. He's been consistent, he's

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Speaker 1: been reliable, he's been dependable. Um he's always available for

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Speaker 1: them to make big plays. Now, their defense hasn't played

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Speaker 1: very well. They haven't ranked in the top ten. It's

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Speaker 1: been a minute. But I believe for them, you remove him.

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00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:54,119
Speaker 1: They really don't have anything among the front line that

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Speaker 1: you necessarily worried about. They got some intriguing young players

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Allen, some of the other guys that they recently

482
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Speaker 1: brought in via the draft, but I believe Carrying is

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Speaker 1: the one that makes their defense go and for them

484
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Speaker 1: to win in this division, their defense has to play

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Speaker 1: up to snuff. Carrying is a big part of that.

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Speaker 1: And I've I've come around on what Alex Smith might

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Speaker 1: be able to do there. Oh, finally, I mean i've

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Speaker 1: I have. I have been a Alex Smith supporter for

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Speaker 1: the vast majority of his career quarterback. Off the top

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Speaker 1: of my head, I would say yes, but i'd have

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Speaker 1: I'd have to scratch it out there. Alex Smith in

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Speaker 1: the top ten. No, we cannot get Alex Smith in

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Speaker 1: the Off the top of my head, I'll just reel

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Speaker 1: him up. Aaron Rodgers, Brady Roethlisberger, Russell Wilson, Phil Rivers, Stafford. Um,

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00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:46,480
Speaker 1: who am I forgetting Carson Wentz right here? He's right,

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Speaker 1: He's right, He's right, He's right, he's right. How about

497
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:51,359
Speaker 1: this one? How about the head to head Derek Carr

498
00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:53,640
Speaker 1: versus Alex Smith? Who do you want more? Alex Man?

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Speaker 1: Is that right? Not say that too loudly? Around here?

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Speaker 1: With David, I mean, I know David has been doing

501
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Speaker 1: a lot of upper body work, and I'm okay, do

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Speaker 1: you know that? Do you know by the way that

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00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:08,320
Speaker 1: Gruden gave David Carr and I d badge to get

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Speaker 1: into the Raiders facility to lean over the O. C

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Speaker 1: shoulder presumably and be like, hey, I really want to

506
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Speaker 1: see uh get the ball. Everyone everybody has a bad

507
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:18,800
Speaker 1: coach is letting everybody come. I don't know about this.

508
00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:21,640
Speaker 1: I don't know if I at the minimum, the Steelers

509
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:25,080
Speaker 1: need to give me one just to help out. You know,

510
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:27,520
Speaker 1: I could give some raw ross speeches. All right, let's

511
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Speaker 1: go to New York or New Jersey. Look, we saw

512
00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:32,480
Speaker 1: what happened last year when he wasn't on the field.

513
00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:34,679
Speaker 1: The New Ye Johns a completely different team when Odell

514
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Speaker 1: Beckham Jr. Is not available. He is the guy to

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Speaker 1: start his stirs to drink. He makes Eli Manning better.

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Speaker 1: I want to say there's a ten plus point difference

517
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Speaker 1: when he's on the field versus when he's not. He's

518
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Speaker 1: the guy I thought you might do something fun and

519
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Speaker 1: go with a guy who's never even been on in

520
00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:55,439
Speaker 1: NFL field yet, Quon and the other guy who I

521
00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:58,600
Speaker 1: think a lot of frustrated Giants fans might might throw

522
00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:01,520
Speaker 1: out there is a neat soldier as well. He's talking

523
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:03,240
Speaker 1: about a guy who's got a lot of money who's

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Speaker 1: now expected to be a savior. Uh, he's it. But

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Speaker 1: Will Hernandez next to him. All right, well, is that

526
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Speaker 1: what you got from? Is that what you glean from

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00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 1: Ben mcadoo's remarks was not my fault that the kid

528
00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:21,280
Speaker 1: couldn't play a left hand, of all the things he said,

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00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:23,760
Speaker 1: all the snarky throughout there. Um, all right, I'll go

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Speaker 1: with thirteen on you for you on that one. But

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00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:30,520
Speaker 1: let's move now to where do you want to go? North? South?

532
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:33,040
Speaker 1: Let's go to the west, to the west, we go

533
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 1: the l A Rams. A lot of enthusiasm right now. Yeah,

534
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:38,520
Speaker 1: this is the team. This is the team. This is

535
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Speaker 1: the super Bowl. This is the team right here. That's

536
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:45,960
Speaker 1: how crazy you're getting. You're gonna say super Bowl team. Oh? Absolutely,

537
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:49,600
Speaker 1: Like everything is coming to l A. Everything, super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: Lebron comes to the Lakers. I don't like the Lakers,

539
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:53,000
Speaker 1: but I guess m I had the pool for the

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00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:56,399
Speaker 1: Lakers because Lebron's here. Championships don't come this way. Everything

541
00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:59,040
Speaker 1: is coming to l A. But it's gonna start with

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Speaker 1: the Rams. And Donald number ninety nine is the most

543
00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:03,600
Speaker 1: important piece you have him when in dom Quin sue,

544
00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 1: the way they're able to pressure you up the gut,

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00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 1: he says the table. He is their best player. On

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00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:12,320
Speaker 1: their squad with it without including the quarterback. Yeah, I

547
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:18,520
Speaker 1: gotta go. I'll due respect. Yeah, but Aaron Donald is

548
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 1: the best player in the in all the NFL, and

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00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:23,320
Speaker 1: I don't think there's a whole lot of debate about

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00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:27,720
Speaker 1: that at this point. Um, next up the Seattle Seahawks. Boy,

551
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 1: things change fast in pro football. Bucky changes real fast. Legion,

552
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:36,479
Speaker 1: Legion of boom. This is uh, this is a this

553
00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:40,320
Speaker 1: is a would be dynasty if Marshawn Lynch gets the

554
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 1: ball at the By the way, I resent you for

555
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:48,200
Speaker 1: saying that I am some sort of denier on Alex Smith.

556
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:51,720
Speaker 1: I've been on board that since Utah, since Utah. Friend,

557
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:53,520
Speaker 1: you know you don't you know, you don't love him.

558
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:58,719
Speaker 1: I was touting Alex put him in top ten. We

559
00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:01,200
Speaker 1: were just talking about the sea, we were. But al right,

560
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:03,920
Speaker 1: back to the Seahawks, all right, because that one sticks

561
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 1: in my cross. Like charl Thomas, Earl Thomas removing from

562
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:12,480
Speaker 1: the field, the cake falls flat and the Seattle Seahawks

563
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 1: have a tough decision that they may or al wonst

564
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:17,120
Speaker 1: to either get extended or be traded if they trade

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00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:21,280
Speaker 1: him away. Like their playoff aspirations go up and smoke.

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Speaker 1: We have seen what that secondary looks like when he's

567
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:25,880
Speaker 1: not in there, when he's not in the middle control

568
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:28,400
Speaker 1: and everything, being the traffic cop. He is their most

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00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 1: important player. They have to have him to have any

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00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 1: chance to be in a vible contender. So you suspect

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Speaker 1: then that he is out there for opening day in

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Speaker 1: uh in Seattle or wherever the Seahawks start the season,

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Speaker 1: or do you think that he's wearing that star on

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Speaker 1: the side of his hat. It'd be good to see

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00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:46,640
Speaker 1: him with the star. I think he stays in Seattle.

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00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:48,960
Speaker 1: I think I don't know if Dallas, because all the

577
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:50,960
Speaker 1: leverage now kind of swings to the teams that are

578
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Speaker 1: calling in. They know that Earl Thomas doesn't want to

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00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 1: be in Seattle unless he gets a new deal, so

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00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:57,360
Speaker 1: it kind of goes in their favor. I think he

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00:29:57,440 --> 00:29:59,720
Speaker 1: still stays in Seattle, at least for the first half

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00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 1: of the season. Um, and it's really important for them.

583
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:06,160
Speaker 1: It's a fun new world. Over the last three years,

584
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:09,280
Speaker 1: after lamenting the lack of trades compared to the other

585
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:12,720
Speaker 1: big sports in in the U S, the NFL didn't

586
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 1: see a ton of trades all of a sudden, though,

587
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:18,440
Speaker 1: right up through August, and even in season you're seeing trades.

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00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:21,280
Speaker 1: I could absolutely see it going that way. I do

589
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:24,800
Speaker 1: wonder from the Seahawks point of view, they can't realistically

590
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:27,120
Speaker 1: be thinking, you know what, no one's paying attention too,

591
00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:30,160
Speaker 1: but this is our year. They must know. I mean,

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00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 1: have you been a part of franchises with that when

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Speaker 1: you say, like, whatever we do, obviously this doesn't end

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Speaker 1: with us. Lift in the Lombardi Oh no, we always

595
00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 1: didn't get a shot. You did. Even in Jacksonville, we

596
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:44,320
Speaker 1: felt like we had a shot. I am already around

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00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 1: on the d d FP. I've been announcing the teams

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00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:49,640
Speaker 1: that definitely because as you talk about rosters at this

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00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:51,720
Speaker 1: time of the year, you can make a case for

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Speaker 1: almost any team that's optimistic. You can say, you know,

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00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 1: they did kind of do this. It's harder to identify

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00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 1: the teams that are definitely not going to be good,

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00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:01,280
Speaker 1: definitely not going to go to the playoffs. Two of

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Speaker 1: those teams I've already id bucky, the Seattle Seahawks and

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Speaker 1: the New York Giants. I refer you back to the

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Speaker 1: Guyants first seven games. But yes, I think it's more

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00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 1: evident that the Seahawks are in translation. Now, Bobby Wagner terrific.

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00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:19,200
Speaker 1: You know, he's another guy would consider their dug. But

609
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:22,479
Speaker 1: you got Rusto to say, is that gonna be good?

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00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:23,920
Speaker 1: When you got Russell Wilson, you got one of the

611
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,920
Speaker 1: few vps in the league. All right. That's that's your premise,

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00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:31,680
Speaker 1: that's not mine. That Russell Wilson is is somehow able

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00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:33,360
Speaker 1: to carry it. You know, like you don't like nicely

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00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:35,600
Speaker 1: as a quarterback. I like him very much. I like

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson a great deal. Next up, let's go with

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Speaker 1: the with the Arizona Cardinals. For some reason, I almost

617
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:45,960
Speaker 1: just called them Patrick Peterson. Patrick Peters number one quarter

618
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,000
Speaker 1: in shadows the number one receiver. It's gonna play a

619
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 1: different role this year. A little more zone, a little

620
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:54,240
Speaker 1: more off coverage, have his eyes on the quarterback. Look

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Speaker 1: for him to change his game. And I'm gonna say something.

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00:31:57,160 --> 00:32:00,240
Speaker 1: I'm saying something I believe in being bold, spicy pep.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna lead the league, interceptions, lead the league and

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00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:07,800
Speaker 1: interception in love with the minimum of eight. And the

625
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 1: reason why this year will be the first year that

626
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:11,160
Speaker 1: he is able to see the ball come out of

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00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:14,480
Speaker 1: the quarterback's hands because he's playing more zone. Tips overthrows

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00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:18,800
Speaker 1: lead to interceptions. Pat pe the interception leader. People talk

629
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:22,000
Speaker 1: about the no fly zone and the Darrell Rivous years

630
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 1: or started or his prime years are starting to get

631
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 1: into the rear view mirror now and Xavier Rhodes and

632
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 1: anyone else you want to try and tout Pat Pete man,

633
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 1: he's a he's weirdly kind and Richard Sherman for the

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00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:39,479
Speaker 1: bluster and the legitimate greatness and for his days up

635
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:41,719
Speaker 1: in Seattle. Seems like Pat Pete maybe it doesn't make

636
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 1: enough noise, doesn't flap his gums enough. I don't know

637
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 1: what it is enough interceptions. And because of that, because

638
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 1: well he always has taken the top assignment and followed

639
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 1: that guy all over. And when you play man to man,

640
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:53,480
Speaker 1: you're back is to the quarterback, so you don't have

641
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:55,960
Speaker 1: his many opportunities to see the ball thrown. So a

642
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 1: lot of his interceptions are last minute, late head flip

643
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:03,160
Speaker 1: around the Those things tougher to get interceptions. You want interceptions,

644
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:04,720
Speaker 1: you play zone. You want a lot of people now,

645
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:06,960
Speaker 1: and you play man to man. By the way, I

646
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 1: can't just forget what the same Bradford Jazz just start

647
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,240
Speaker 1: the kid, right, let him turn around and hand it

648
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 1: to my Jena Peace David Johnson some more straightforward one, right,

649
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 1: it's not ridiculous. Next up the team that also is

650
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 1: going to suppress wins for the Seattle Seahawks, the San

651
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:30,080
Speaker 1: Francisco forty niners. At least that's the expectation from most.

652
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:34,160
Speaker 1: Everybody's ready to annoy. You got Jimmy g Q. Everybody's ready.

653
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 1: Seven million dollar quarterback. Coming off of five straight wins.

654
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:39,600
Speaker 1: At the end of the season, San Francisco forty nine

655
00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:42,840
Speaker 1: is looking like vible contenders to some However, the season

656
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:45,600
Speaker 1: is going to be challenges. Canna be challenging because now

657
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 1: they have the film on Jimmy g Everyone is ready

658
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 1: to get everybody's best shot. Because they're playing five prime

659
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 1: time games, which matters. Everyone gears up for those games.

660
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:57,000
Speaker 1: And then when you look at the team, they're still

661
00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:59,120
Speaker 1: kind of constructed the way they were a season ago,

662
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 1: not a bunch of big changes. When it comes to offensively,

663
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 1: Jered McKinnon comes in. I didn't like that. I mean,

664
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:06,120
Speaker 1: I like it, but I know whether he's trying to

665
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 1: create he's trying to create what he had in Atlanta

666
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 1: when he had Tevin Coleman and Marton Freeman, two guys

667
00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:13,319
Speaker 1: that can kind of make plays and do some of

668
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:15,440
Speaker 1: those things. I think the big thing with the Niners

669
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:18,839
Speaker 1: their defense has to step up and be a dominant corps.

670
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:22,760
Speaker 1: For me, their jinger piece is Reuben Foster. Reuben Foster

671
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 1: is a tone sitter. He kind of gives the defense

672
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:28,799
Speaker 1: and identity with the way that he plays. If they

673
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:31,719
Speaker 1: can keep him around, keep him healthy, he's available. That

674
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:34,319
Speaker 1: defense is going to play at a high level. I'll

675
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:37,200
Speaker 1: sign off on that one. I feel like, um, yeah,

676
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:40,760
Speaker 1: like I said, I don't love the Carlos hide out

677
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:45,600
Speaker 1: Jeric McKinnon in I don't exactly like that was fine

678
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 1: from a pedigree stand I like to hide much better

679
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:51,759
Speaker 1: than just about anybody else I did. I like I said,

680
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:54,840
Speaker 1: I love him back at Ohio State. I like the

681
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:57,480
Speaker 1: physical makeup of the guy. Liked watching him run. He

682
00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:00,399
Speaker 1: just wasn't out on the field all that off. We'll

683
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 1: see what he does. I you know, I think in Cleveland,

684
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:06,759
Speaker 1: maybe a nice little uh you know, maybe split some time.

685
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:10,040
Speaker 1: Duke Johnson. Du Johnson is going to be a major

686
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 1: major factor into passing. Yeah, alright, let's not forget that

687
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:15,359
Speaker 1: Hugh Jackson is still the coach up there. Yeah, talk

688
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:18,440
Speaker 1: about a guy who was anointed before he who who

689
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:22,800
Speaker 1: whooa to Haley Haley offensive coordinator, Gregg willis defensive coordinator.

690
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:24,400
Speaker 1: You can make an argument I was almost close to

691
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:26,359
Speaker 1: putting those guys in my top five play calls list.

692
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 1: Really yeah, I mean we saw with Haley did in Pittsburgh.

693
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:33,560
Speaker 1: He transformed Big Bend, made him a more efficient and

694
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:35,400
Speaker 1: effective past with you on that, I don't think he

695
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:39,160
Speaker 1: got nearly enough credit for what he did and being

696
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:43,359
Speaker 1: ran them out right for an unproven commodity. It's kind

697
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:48,400
Speaker 1: of like, loosely the analogy for me would be Kobe

698
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:53,960
Speaker 1: Bryant and Michael Jordan's midway through their careers translation electric

699
00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 1: get to the rim guys and you know, being converting

700
00:35:57,160 --> 00:36:01,080
Speaker 1: into mid range guys. Roethlisberger people seemed to have forgotten

701
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 1: how he played the bulk of his career running around,

702
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 1: bouncing off guys everything else, because he always reminds you

703
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 1: how hurt he is, and it's always something whenever the

704
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 1: mic is in front of him, it is always something

705
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 1: That microphone comes out a lot when you're making deep

706
00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 1: playoff run something. Anyhow, the forty Niners, you go, Reuben Foster.

707
00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 1: I do think, like I say overall, that they really

708
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:30,720
Speaker 1: have invested over the last three drafts or so, they've

709
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 1: really tried to build up that defense. Now it's time

710
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 1: for it to pay some dividends, right, Yeah, it's that

711
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:36,560
Speaker 1: for it. They gotta make a play. I mean, but

712
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:39,440
Speaker 1: they do have again to pet to the point about pedigree,

713
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 1: they would seem to have a lot of high end

714
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 1: pieces coming out of college now Big five players, now

715
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:49,440
Speaker 1: Big five Conference players, now populating all three levels. It

716
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:51,879
Speaker 1: should be the defense should take a major dumb this year.

717
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:55,720
Speaker 1: Like the the amount of topics they've invested in that

718
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 1: that's on that side of the wall, It's about time

719
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:00,040
Speaker 1: for you to pay off in some way. To the

720
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 1: NFC North, we go. Let's start in the Twin Cities,

721
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:08,040
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings. Here we go. Buck Harrison Smith, best

722
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 1: safety in football that doesn't get enough credit for what

723
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:14,279
Speaker 1: he does and job of control. He's the ultimate traffic cop.

724
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:16,320
Speaker 1: He's versatile, he can play in the deep middle, he

725
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:18,359
Speaker 1: can play in the box, he can blitz off the edge,

726
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 1: he can cover. Harrison Smith checks off all of the

727
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 1: boxes and He's an outstanding leader, not necessarily the most

728
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:27,560
Speaker 1: vocal guy, but he gets it done. His performance kind

729
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:29,640
Speaker 1: of sets the table for the rest of the guys

730
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:31,400
Speaker 1: on the squad. I had a hunt, you would go

731
00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 1: with someone out of the secondary, not either thee Land

732
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 1: or digs. Um. I to me, I I really like

733
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:43,239
Speaker 1: Xavier Rhodes. To me, I like him but close, Yeah,

734
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 1: I like him numb more corner he can do that.

735
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:48,000
Speaker 1: The only reason that corner is he is. He the

736
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:51,400
Speaker 1: number one to me, to my less trained eye than yours,

737
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 1: I think he would. He jumps out to me week

738
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,759
Speaker 1: after week. Really good player. Um, I don't know if man,

739
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 1: I don't know if I call him number one. Because

740
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 1: you get the and be mob folks, you get some

741
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:03,840
Speaker 1: of the people from Daylon Ramsey's crew, you get some

742
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:05,840
Speaker 1: of the your I guess there are a lot of

743
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 1: candidates and a lot of guys that can a lot

744
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:10,279
Speaker 1: of people down and do some special things. Well. The

745
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:13,399
Speaker 1: thing I like about Rhodes is that with anybody, and

746
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:17,080
Speaker 1: and he's also gigantic. You ever been next to Xavier

747
00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:20,759
Speaker 1: Road He's a big dude. Yeah, next, al right, next,

748
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 1: the next one. I seen him. I sized him up

749
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:28,480
Speaker 1: next up the Motor City that's Detroit Lions. Buck, I

750
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:32,440
Speaker 1: like this team, Why don't you like him? I'll I

751
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:36,080
Speaker 1: have a a strong one that I assume you're gonna

752
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 1: say here, I'm gonna write it down and see if

753
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 1: you get this. I mean, this one seems fairly straightforward.

754
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:46,400
Speaker 1: Who are you going? They play slay Pro Bowl cornerback

755
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:49,480
Speaker 1: for the Detroit Lions. The reason I'm I'm saying he

756
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:52,360
Speaker 1: is the ginger piece because for years on end, the

757
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,719
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions haven't been able to get a consistent passwords

758
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 1: even with Ziggy. He's more player, more of a splash player. Look,

759
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:03,920
Speaker 1: three games last year with three plus sacks. That's it?

760
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:08,239
Speaker 1: Three games? Well what about the other ones? About the

761
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:10,280
Speaker 1: other thirteen four teen games? I needed to be a

762
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:13,919
Speaker 1: consistent player. Slave showed up each and every week, took

763
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:16,800
Speaker 1: on the big time assignment, made some place. I believe

764
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:18,520
Speaker 1: he's the guy that they can't do. What about your

765
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:22,360
Speaker 1: boy Sly Williams now Sly Williams and a Sean Robinson

766
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:25,440
Speaker 1: they aren't enough to free Ziggy up a little bit?

767
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,840
Speaker 1: No they're not, they're not. You gotta have another Pastords,

768
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:31,399
Speaker 1: you gotta have another dude, on the other side. You've

769
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:34,239
Speaker 1: seen it in Pittsburgh. But do free some of the

770
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 1: other guys who was some of the pastors y'all have

771
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:38,759
Speaker 1: taken of late. Who was a kid from Georgia that

772
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:41,239
Speaker 1: I thought it was gonna be really there was Jason Worlds.

773
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:51,120
Speaker 1: You suppose oh um, yeah Jones, Yes, Jarvis Georgia, Yeah,

774
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:54,359
Speaker 1: Jarvis Jones. Didn't work out, Tea J. Lott now taking

775
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 1: a shot at it didn't work out. So but darius Ly,

776
00:39:57,120 --> 00:40:01,080
Speaker 1: darius Ly and Detroit perfect perfect, a maker on the edge,

777
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 1: does a great job, should should do really really well

778
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:05,839
Speaker 1: in Matt Procher's the system, all right. I like him, man,

779
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:07,799
Speaker 1: I think they might go to the playoffs. You're all on,

780
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:10,319
Speaker 1: you're all on the synthon. You must have dropped some

781
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:12,680
Speaker 1: it's about It doesn't have to do with that. I

782
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:15,000
Speaker 1: like Stafford quite. Just bring us some magic dust over

783
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:17,600
Speaker 1: you to get you. By the way, Stafford is, I

784
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:20,359
Speaker 1: like the I d the guys who are the most underrated,

785
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:22,920
Speaker 1: and I feel like Stafford, for a high end quarterback

786
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:26,319
Speaker 1: ranks is the most underrated from that group. Guy who

787
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:28,879
Speaker 1: can carry a team. No, he absolutely can carry a team.

788
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:31,000
Speaker 1: He's been carrying the team. This is yeah. I think

789
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:34,160
Speaker 1: in his career he's only had games where he's had

790
00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 1: a guy that rushed over a hundred yards seven times.

791
00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 1: Does Carrie and Johnson fix that for him? I think

792
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:44,880
Speaker 1: Karen Johnson helps him. Okay, Next up the Green Bay Packers.

793
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 1: It seems like a lot of people, including Tony Romo,

794
00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:50,799
Speaker 1: are very hip on this team. I love team. I'm

795
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:53,239
Speaker 1: not I'm not as high on them. I'm saying Mike

796
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:56,080
Speaker 1: Daniels is the ginger piece. Defensively, they have to get

797
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:58,200
Speaker 1: it on track. My Pennon in this first year has

798
00:40:58,239 --> 00:40:59,880
Speaker 1: to find a way to create pressure. They gotta get

799
00:40:59,920 --> 00:41:02,120
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks off the spot. I don't know if they

800
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:03,520
Speaker 1: canna be able to hold up in the back end.

801
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:07,040
Speaker 1: So that means more on the inside guys, Mike Daniels

802
00:41:07,239 --> 00:41:10,640
Speaker 1: commanding double teams, Mike Daniels getting into the backfield, knock

803
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:13,439
Speaker 1: into quarterback around. Mike Daniels has to change the time

804
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 1: in the rhythm of the pass game from inside out.

805
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:19,440
Speaker 1: Do they have enough with Davante Adams? Obviously, Rodgers, I've

806
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 1: said for seven years now is the best quarterback that

807
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:26,560
Speaker 1: I've ever seen, so obviously he can overcome mediocre wide receivers.

808
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:29,479
Speaker 1: But do they have with this particular group enough there

809
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:32,480
Speaker 1: after Jordy Nelson now finally has moved on, and when

810
00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:35,759
Speaker 1: he went away two years ago, it suddenly revealed that

811
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:37,719
Speaker 1: there wasn't a whole lot of depth behind them. There

812
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:41,280
Speaker 1: not a lot behind any of these guys and Son,

813
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:44,799
Speaker 1: Adams and Cobb. Is you know kind of it is?

814
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:47,359
Speaker 1: It is ceiling its scene. Yeah, you're trying to trying

815
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:49,640
Speaker 1: to find a way to to make it happen. I

816
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:52,719
Speaker 1: think here's the thing about the package. The packs are

817
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:56,480
Speaker 1: their best when they use all aspects, all aspects of

818
00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:59,080
Speaker 1: their their offense, meaning they incorporate the White House to

819
00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:01,080
Speaker 1: tight ends they used to acts. He just kind of

820
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:03,279
Speaker 1: sprinkles it in. Doesn't allow of defense to get a

821
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 1: beat on where they're trying to go. They haven't had that,

822
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:09,960
Speaker 1: Like they could use someone to kind of emerge and

823
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 1: be the difference maker over the mill Jimmy Graham is

824
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 1: it um Lance Kendricks, who can be that guy that

825
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:18,840
Speaker 1: kind of helped them kind of stabilized middle fields. So

826
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:20,839
Speaker 1: now the guys on the outside can win on one

827
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:23,440
Speaker 1: on one. And Maurice likes to call our friend Maurice Jones.

828
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:26,439
Speaker 1: Treue likes to say Marcedes Lewis, where he drafted onto

829
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:28,560
Speaker 1: a different NFL team, would be a Hall of Famer

830
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 1: either way, because he's used to add I think, you

831
00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:35,399
Speaker 1: know you put Jimmy Graham and Marcedes Lewis out there

832
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 1: with what they have, it seems to me three nice

833
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:43,160
Speaker 1: running back options there. To me, you get Aaron Rodgers,

834
00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:46,120
Speaker 1: like Russell Wilson and uh, you know, even Ben Roethlisberger.

835
00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:48,840
Speaker 1: What you want is to be able to be running

836
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:52,359
Speaker 1: play action, that boot action. You want Rogers rolling out right,

837
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:54,360
Speaker 1: but you need the running back to put that pressure

838
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:57,080
Speaker 1: on the defense. The better the running game, uh, the

839
00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:00,359
Speaker 1: more effect that the bootleg the movement passing game is. UM.

840
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:02,600
Speaker 1: It'd be interesting to see because they talked about having

841
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 1: uh a rotation toym Montgomery, Aaron Jones, uh, Jamar Willims.

842
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:12,960
Speaker 1: They want to get those guys going. Let's see how

843
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 1: challenging that can be for my McCarthy, especially if the

844
00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:19,360
Speaker 1: run isn't working early in the game. Kenny quickly shift

845
00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 1: gears and find a way to kind of balance out

846
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:25,720
Speaker 1: the counter what the defense is doing. The Chicago Bears

847
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:30,560
Speaker 1: of late people getting on board with this team Jordan Howard.

848
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:32,799
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard. And it took a lot for me to

849
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 1: go Jordan Howard because I'm not a huge fan of

850
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:41,000
Speaker 1: his game stylistically, but he's been effective. He's been able

851
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:43,000
Speaker 1: to just kind of spit out hunder yard games like

852
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:45,400
Speaker 1: an a t M machine does a great job, but

853
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:46,840
Speaker 1: he has the ball in his hands, can catch the

854
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:50,239
Speaker 1: ball out of the backfield, sets the table for the

855
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:55,040
Speaker 1: quick guy that the secondary running and Trek Cohen. So yeah,

856
00:43:55,120 --> 00:43:57,279
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard to me is a very important piece, and

857
00:43:57,320 --> 00:44:00,799
Speaker 1: he's very important because the young quarterback still is an

858
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:03,799
Speaker 1: all the way ready to drive a car um I'm

859
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:06,440
Speaker 1: interested to see. I'm not gonna say he's necessarily a

860
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:09,799
Speaker 1: Jena piece, but I do think that Allen Robinson is

861
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:12,479
Speaker 1: an intriguing addition up there to help the kid out.

862
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 1: Big guy like that. You know, they have been getting

863
00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:19,960
Speaker 1: off with Jordan Howard running the ball at minimum, So

864
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:22,960
Speaker 1: maybe if they can add something for Rabiskie in year

865
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 1: two in the passing game that will elevate the team overall.

866
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:28,719
Speaker 1: All Right to the South we go now in the

867
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:33,680
Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints. Come on, this is pretty easy, right,

868
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:38,879
Speaker 1: You're gonna say, Cam Jordan's cam Jordan is a really

869
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:40,719
Speaker 1: good player, does a great job on their defense, but

870
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 1: their defense is what they're known for. They're known for

871
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:44,960
Speaker 1: their offense. And the best thing that the New Orleans

872
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:48,640
Speaker 1: Saints have been able to do is to support Drew Brees,

873
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:52,959
Speaker 1: but really fortifying the running back position. Alvicamar really gave

874
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:56,239
Speaker 1: them something that they didn't have. He's that playmaker extraordinary

875
00:44:56,239 --> 00:44:59,200
Speaker 1: of the backfield. Creates mismatches in the passing game, can

876
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:01,080
Speaker 1: run tough and is a goal in the run game

877
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:03,120
Speaker 1: when he needs it, can split out wide and really

878
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:06,279
Speaker 1: give you big plays. When they didn't have Amcamarry, I

879
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 1: think it was an Atlanta game on TV. They rolled

880
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:11,200
Speaker 1: out to him, they pulled him off the field. The

881
00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:15,400
Speaker 1: offense completely looks different. He is the most important player interesting.

882
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:18,799
Speaker 1: I like um. The thing about Kamara that I hope

883
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:21,839
Speaker 1: he can continue his run um in the NFL for

884
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:23,920
Speaker 1: another decade because I'd like to see him go into

885
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. And I've asked him this directly.

886
00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:29,880
Speaker 1: Will his bust at the Hall of Fame include the

887
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:33,040
Speaker 1: nose ring? And he doesn't just wear a little stud

888
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:34,799
Speaker 1: on the side of his nose. He wears like the

889
00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:36,640
Speaker 1: bull ring in the middle of his nose. That'd be

890
00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:40,319
Speaker 1: a nice addition to Uh. To Canton, Ohio, I think, um,

891
00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:46,440
Speaker 1: all right, the Carolina Panthers, Luke Kickley. Luke Kickley is

892
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 1: a very important piece. He's the quarterback of the defense.

893
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:52,080
Speaker 1: He does a great job of getting everyone to understand

894
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:54,480
Speaker 1: what is about to happen. When you look at their defense,

895
00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 1: they always seem like they're playing one step ahead of

896
00:45:57,160 --> 00:45:59,239
Speaker 1: the offense. And a lot of that is because Luke

897
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:03,799
Speaker 1: Kickley does a great job of studying, preparing, watching film,

898
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:06,600
Speaker 1: and taking advantage of the tales that the offense presents.

899
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:08,680
Speaker 1: When you see him make the kind of plays that

900
00:46:08,719 --> 00:46:11,520
Speaker 1: he makes, it is all due to the studying that

901
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:15,759
Speaker 1: he puts in. His ability to learn and understand and

902
00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:19,160
Speaker 1: then communicate the information to his teammates allows that defense

903
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:20,759
Speaker 1: to play the top ten level. What do you make

904
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:24,279
Speaker 1: of the offensive line there in Carolina? Uh, it's still

905
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:26,920
Speaker 1: a work in progress. I mean I still think they

906
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:30,719
Speaker 1: You know, they lose a Pro Bowl caliber guard um

907
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:34,200
Speaker 1: and that affected him Andrew were going other places. That

908
00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:37,719
Speaker 1: changes the equation. But North Turner coming in. The one

909
00:46:37,719 --> 00:46:39,920
Speaker 1: thing I know about North, They're gonna be able to

910
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:42,040
Speaker 1: run the ball downhill. He's gonna find a way to

911
00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:44,520
Speaker 1: feature Christian McCaffrey in the passing game, and then they're

912
00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:48,439
Speaker 1: gonna push the ball vertical off play action. All those

913
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:51,680
Speaker 1: things play well to Cam Newton. The thing that NORV

914
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:55,839
Speaker 1: wants to eliminate the ups and downs a little more consistency.

915
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:58,560
Speaker 1: Can they get some consistent play from him? I think

916
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:01,440
Speaker 1: they will get consistent play when they get consistent play calls.

917
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 1: I think that affects him a lot. I just hope

918
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:05,960
Speaker 1: that he will follow the path. I know Mike Sula

919
00:47:06,080 --> 00:47:08,800
Speaker 1: gets beaten up here and there, but he did cut

920
00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:12,479
Speaker 1: Cam Newton loose. You know, people knocked him for that.

921
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 1: He played to the strength of that offense, which was

922
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:17,960
Speaker 1: Cam Newton running around and putting pressure on the defense

923
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:21,480
Speaker 1: physically and otherwise. And uh, it seems to me that

924
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:23,640
Speaker 1: that would benefit North Turner at least now, although I

925
00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:26,000
Speaker 1: do buy the Cam Newton's gett into a stage in

926
00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:28,040
Speaker 1: his career where I don't know how much longer he

927
00:47:28,080 --> 00:47:30,279
Speaker 1: can continue to take that kind of a pounding. Let's

928
00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:32,719
Speaker 1: go with the Bucks and round it out with the

929
00:47:32,719 --> 00:47:34,800
Speaker 1: team that's gonna be hosting the Super Bowl, the Tampa

930
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:39,880
Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers. Jerald McCoy. Jeral McCoy, guy inside is going

931
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:42,560
Speaker 1: to be a dominant player. Oh just say, wait minute,

932
00:47:42,600 --> 00:47:44,800
Speaker 1: you say the Bucks, the Falcons. I said the Bucks.

933
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:47,640
Speaker 1: You said hosting the Super Bowl. I said, let's start

934
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:50,240
Speaker 1: with the Bucks and then finish up with Okay, alright,

935
00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:53,279
Speaker 1: I gotta got confused. Jerald McCoy, Do you have a

936
00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:56,279
Speaker 1: coy on the inside, he says, to the table for

937
00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:58,200
Speaker 1: the defense. The reason he says the table because he's

938
00:47:58,239 --> 00:48:01,440
Speaker 1: inside immediate pressure on the quarter back. Now you have

939
00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:04,360
Speaker 1: JPP on one side. They brought some other players in

940
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:07,160
Speaker 1: Vinny Curry to helped them kind of fortify that pass

941
00:48:07,239 --> 00:48:09,680
Speaker 1: for us. Jerald McCoy is where it starts. Jerr mcoy

942
00:48:09,719 --> 00:48:11,160
Speaker 1: has to be got to get his double digit sex

943
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:14,480
Speaker 1: on the inside. When he does that, that defense plays

944
00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:17,680
Speaker 1: a little differently. You remove him, you don't have ability

945
00:48:17,719 --> 00:48:20,480
Speaker 1: to really create that pressure right away. Now you expose

946
00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:22,719
Speaker 1: your secondary. It's been vulnerable to the last season or so,

947
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:25,800
Speaker 1: I would I would point you to the Philadelphia Eagles.

948
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:28,560
Speaker 1: Once again here in the copycat league. Think Fletcher Cox

949
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:33,920
Speaker 1: in versus seventeen. Suddenly, now he is surrounded by talented

950
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:37,000
Speaker 1: guys coming in from from the outside. That position of

951
00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 1: weakness in seen for the Bucks now is a position

952
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:43,080
Speaker 1: of strength. I suspect that that will be a bright

953
00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:46,720
Speaker 1: spot in an otherwise grim season down there in Tampa.

954
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:49,960
Speaker 1: Se Well, listen, look at the division they're in. They're

955
00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:52,280
Speaker 1: in there with the Saints, They're in there with the Panthers,

956
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:55,279
Speaker 1: and they're in there with the team everybody's sleeping on

957
00:48:55,400 --> 00:48:58,120
Speaker 1: right now, Bucky the team that's hosting the Super Bowl,

958
00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:01,520
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons. People, you know what, yeah, they are

959
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:04,080
Speaker 1: because let me tell you something, everybody, here's here's the

960
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:07,440
Speaker 1: story about the Falcons. What's going on with him? Their

961
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:10,640
Speaker 1: offense has gotten bad, and you know what's that? They

962
00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:13,920
Speaker 1: don't look right and this what a disappointing year, coming

963
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:17,719
Speaker 1: off of three against the Patriots and everything else. But

964
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:20,240
Speaker 1: they went they went double digit games in a tough division,

965
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:22,839
Speaker 1: and they had the Eagles beat up in Philly in

966
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:25,800
Speaker 1: the in the divisional round. This was not a bad

967
00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:30,560
Speaker 1: bad season. The Falcons. I suspect rise back up in

968
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:33,680
Speaker 1: that stadium. They know the Super Bowl would be the

969
00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:37,160
Speaker 1: big payoff at home. I'm not the biggest Matt Ryan

970
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:39,399
Speaker 1: fan in the world, but that's fine. I think he's fine.

971
00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:42,319
Speaker 1: I think he's good quarterback. Who do you take Matt

972
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:47,440
Speaker 1: Ryan or Alex Smith? Oh? Look at him? Think about these?

973
00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:50,359
Speaker 1: This is crazy, right I think? I mean, I like

974
00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:54,440
Speaker 1: Alex Smith a great deal. But man, oh man, maybe

975
00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:58,120
Speaker 1: that's something surprise by the guys. But they're like the

976
00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:05,759
Speaker 1: same quarterback. They are very similar. Julio Jones, who there?

977
00:50:05,840 --> 00:50:09,200
Speaker 1: Jones made Matt Brana m v P as simple as that.

978
00:50:09,719 --> 00:50:13,560
Speaker 1: Just like Odell Beckham Jr. Elevates Eli Manning, Julio Jones

979
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:15,480
Speaker 1: elevates Matt Ryan. And I think Matt Ryan is a

980
00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:19,480
Speaker 1: outstanding player, really good quarterback. But he's a different player

981
00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:21,319
Speaker 1: when he doesn't have number eleven on the field. Do

982
00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:23,440
Speaker 1: you really think that if you took a lot to me,

983
00:50:23,719 --> 00:50:25,640
Speaker 1: I think that team would still be good. I think

984
00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:28,400
Speaker 1: they I think by the way, I think the defense

985
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:31,240
Speaker 1: in Atlanta is going to be dynamite. Well, the defense

986
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:33,200
Speaker 1: is built to play inside. They play with speed. They're

987
00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:35,160
Speaker 1: also built to play within an offense that can put

988
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:38,160
Speaker 1: up points, which is why last year they struggled with

989
00:50:38,239 --> 00:50:41,239
Speaker 1: a new play calling Steve Sarkisian, where they couldn't be

990
00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:45,719
Speaker 1: as prolific, couldn't score as many points consistently. Defense had

991
00:50:45,719 --> 00:50:48,440
Speaker 1: to kind of play these longer games. They weren't necessarily

992
00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:51,920
Speaker 1: playing downhill, meaning that their pass rush is no look.

993
00:50:51,960 --> 00:50:54,279
Speaker 1: They have this obvious passed situation because they gotta chase

994
00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:57,720
Speaker 1: points offensively. That's how the Atlanta Falcons have to play.

995
00:50:58,040 --> 00:51:00,680
Speaker 1: And a big part of who O Jones being the

996
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:03,640
Speaker 1: jinger piece is his ability to dominate all over the

997
00:51:03,680 --> 00:51:06,880
Speaker 1: field and Sarks his ability to try and get them going.

998
00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:09,960
Speaker 1: All right, I'll sign off on that. It's interesting though,

999
00:51:10,120 --> 00:51:14,200
Speaker 1: sort of like Jordy Nelson going down. It took Jordy

1000
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:18,919
Speaker 1: Nelson getting hurt for people to recognize the significant role

1001
00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 1: he played in Green Bay. It's the same effect with

1002
00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:24,360
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan last year. You take him out of the mix,

1003
00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:27,279
Speaker 1: and maybe he was the He proved himself to be

1004
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:30,480
Speaker 1: the jinger piece for the Atlanta Falcons a year ago,

1005
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:34,040
Speaker 1: because once he went away, that offense suddenly became mediocre,

1006
00:51:34,120 --> 00:51:36,560
Speaker 1: which which I guess was not that which was fairly

1007
00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:40,640
Speaker 1: damning for uh, for Matt Ryan. They're speaking of play callers, though, Bucky,

1008
00:51:40,719 --> 00:51:43,080
Speaker 1: you have up there at NFL dot com slash Bucky

1009
00:51:43,080 --> 00:51:47,080
Speaker 1: Brooks your top five play calling pairs Why don't you

1010
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:49,000
Speaker 1: take him off start at number five? Why don't you

1011
00:51:49,080 --> 00:51:51,799
Speaker 1: for dramas sake? Oh I like doing this for drama.

1012
00:51:51,840 --> 00:51:54,720
Speaker 1: Say here we go Past Herman, James Betcher. The reason

1013
00:51:54,960 --> 00:51:57,879
Speaker 1: this tandem is so outstanding. Look, you're have in high

1014
00:51:58,040 --> 00:52:00,719
Speaker 1: level creative play caller and past Sherman. He is what

1015
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:03,560
Speaker 1: I call a player elevator. You think about what he

1016
00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:06,000
Speaker 1: was able to do in Minnesota. He made case Keendom

1017
00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:08,600
Speaker 1: look like an elite quarterback, did a great job of

1018
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:12,080
Speaker 1: creating opportunities for him. Stefan Dix Adam feeling what he

1019
00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:14,799
Speaker 1: was able to do briefly with Dalvin Cook, I think

1020
00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:17,279
Speaker 1: he's one of the best. And then in James's very

1021
00:52:17,360 --> 00:52:20,240
Speaker 1: quickly is that too big an assumption? Then that the Vikings,

1022
00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:24,360
Speaker 1: given the quality sen and the depth of the the

1023
00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:28,280
Speaker 1: apparent depth of roster is Pat Shermer going the loom

1024
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:32,080
Speaker 1: is the Kyle Shanahan of that man. They can't make

1025
00:52:32,120 --> 00:52:34,200
Speaker 1: it without this. It's gonna be different. It's gonna be different.

1026
00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:36,120
Speaker 1: Now I know you have a you have flip coming over.

1027
00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:39,239
Speaker 1: He's getting a new quarterback with the same personnel. Are

1028
00:52:39,239 --> 00:52:41,400
Speaker 1: they run the same system that they ran with past Sherman.

1029
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:44,320
Speaker 1: Does he know how to manipulate the system to create

1030
00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:47,120
Speaker 1: those opportunities for others. What I saw from Shermer a

1031
00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:50,640
Speaker 1: year ago, he could take whichever players find a way

1032
00:52:50,680 --> 00:52:53,280
Speaker 1: to put him in position where they can succeed every

1033
00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:55,640
Speaker 1: play call that doesn't have that ability. And then in

1034
00:52:55,680 --> 00:52:58,880
Speaker 1: New York he gets the opportunity to play opposite a

1035
00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:01,680
Speaker 1: de coordinator that is standing at what he does. Betchell

1036
00:53:01,719 --> 00:53:03,600
Speaker 1: does a great job of dolling up the blitz. They

1037
00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:06,200
Speaker 1: blitz maybe more than anybody else in the National Football

1038
00:53:06,239 --> 00:53:08,640
Speaker 1: League in Arizona, they did it the last three years

1039
00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:10,759
Speaker 1: they finished in the top six. I believe with the

1040
00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:13,320
Speaker 1: talent that the Giants have on defense, Betchell's going to

1041
00:53:13,400 --> 00:53:15,839
Speaker 1: make a huge difference. Al Right, Bucky likes this team

1042
00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:19,640
Speaker 1: very much. You you definitely see him playing in January. Yeah,

1043
00:53:19,719 --> 00:53:21,520
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I think the I think I think we'll

1044
00:53:21,560 --> 00:53:23,640
Speaker 1: see three teams from the NFC East into the playoffs.

1045
00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:27,400
Speaker 1: At number four, Ken Wizzon Hunt Gus Bradley Ken Wizzing

1046
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:29,840
Speaker 1: Hunt does a great job with veteran quarterbacks. He just

1047
00:53:29,880 --> 00:53:32,000
Speaker 1: basically gives them the game plan, allows them to do

1048
00:53:32,040 --> 00:53:34,000
Speaker 1: their thing, kind of stays out the way he will

1049
00:53:34,080 --> 00:53:35,839
Speaker 1: rain Philip Rivers in a little bit, make sure they

1050
00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:39,319
Speaker 1: call enough runs, but really he lets the veteran go defensively.

1051
00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:42,960
Speaker 1: Gus Bradley, that's simple yet aggressive defense really works well

1052
00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:46,359
Speaker 1: with their personnel, Melvin Ingram, Joey Bosa, we've seen them

1053
00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:48,879
Speaker 1: crash off the edges. Then you get a Dermain James

1054
00:53:48,920 --> 00:53:51,360
Speaker 1: in the middle to be the enforcer, Casey Hayward on

1055
00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:54,520
Speaker 1: the outside making a ton of plays as a perfect

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Speaker 1: compliment to that defense. I like this defense. I like

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Speaker 1: what Gus Bradley has already done in a short time

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Speaker 1: day while we've talked about it a great deal on

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00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:05,279
Speaker 1: the Damnack football program this UH this summer with Matt

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00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:08,480
Speaker 1: money Smith the voice of the Chargers. UM, I'm very

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00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:11,880
Speaker 1: high on this team. Unless Phil Rivers hits old age

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Speaker 1: a little bit earlier than Tom Brady and UH and

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00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:18,880
Speaker 1: those contemporaries have, then I think this. I think this

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Speaker 1: is your your team out of the a f C

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Speaker 1: or should be the Super Bowl favorite. Given the roster looks.

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Speaker 1: Look how loaded are Man and Derwin James. I like

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Speaker 1: Trey Boston a lot, but as a fit, Derwin James

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00:54:31,520 --> 00:54:34,560
Speaker 1: fixes the only flaw they had aside from offensive line,

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00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:37,359
Speaker 1: which gives them enforced in the middle. Now, the one

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00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:40,359
Speaker 1: thing that the Charges have never done, they haven't really

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Speaker 1: handled playing with the weight of expectation. Now people are

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00:54:43,640 --> 00:54:46,040
Speaker 1: expecting them to be the team, expecting them not only

1073
00:54:46,080 --> 00:54:48,080
Speaker 1: to win the West, but he won the last team standing.

1074
00:54:48,560 --> 00:54:50,640
Speaker 1: Let's see how they handled that. We'll see the maturity

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Speaker 1: of this team at number three. Oh Man super Bowl Champions,

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Speaker 1: defensive Super Bowl champions, Doug Peterson, Jim Sports nice to them,

1077
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Speaker 1: and Doug Peterson creative play caller who's willing to dig

1078
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Speaker 1: down deep into his bag of tricks to help his

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00:55:06,360 --> 00:55:08,640
Speaker 1: quarterback play at a high level. We saw him go

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Speaker 1: all the way back and find some things for Nick

1081
00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:13,239
Speaker 1: Foles that he used to do when he was really

1082
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:15,600
Speaker 1: hot twenty seven and two season, when he played like

1083
00:55:15,640 --> 00:55:18,319
Speaker 1: an m v P. Put that back into the mix

1084
00:55:18,320 --> 00:55:21,480
Speaker 1: in the postseason, elevated him. In fact, he was so

1085
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:25,399
Speaker 1: good elevated Nick Foles. It made me wonder, how much

1086
00:55:25,480 --> 00:55:28,240
Speaker 1: is the impact in Carson Wentz. We're talking about Carson

1087
00:55:28,239 --> 00:55:30,680
Speaker 1: Wentz being an m v P because we're seeing the

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Speaker 1: talent seand the things that he's done. Is he an

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Speaker 1: m VP strictly because of his talent or because Doug

1090
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Speaker 1: Peterson has figured out how to elevate his play. Never

1091
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Speaker 1: gets talked about because we assume that Carson Wentz is

1092
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:45,480
Speaker 1: like a top five player, but maybe, just maybe Doug

1093
00:55:45,520 --> 00:55:47,600
Speaker 1: Peterson has made him a top player. About putt him

1094
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Speaker 1: in a situation where he can flourish. I think I

1095
00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:52,520
Speaker 1: think that's a fair question to ask. And as far

1096
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Speaker 1: as that goes, I remember watching a nice uh season

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00:55:55,920 --> 00:55:59,920
Speaker 1: unfolding in Philadelphia. Jason Peters goes down and I remember,

1098
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:01,680
Speaker 1: at well, that's that. That's the end of that. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it was like that a couple of times, and Peterson

1100
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Speaker 1: unfolded when when he kind of went on the injury list,

1101
00:56:06,960 --> 00:56:09,400
Speaker 1: and then when they lost Carson Wins, people on Twitter

1102
00:56:09,480 --> 00:56:11,680
Speaker 1: saying oh it's over, it's done. No way Nick Foles

1103
00:56:11,719 --> 00:56:13,319
Speaker 1: can lead him super Bowl. Then they did it. I

1104
00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:15,440
Speaker 1: think that's a byproduct of coaching. And then on the

1105
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:18,880
Speaker 1: defense of the board, Schwartz does a great job of

1106
00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:21,840
Speaker 1: simplifying everything. He wants to play with a four man rush,

1107
00:56:21,880 --> 00:56:24,480
Speaker 1: he wants to play maximum coverage. He's going to make

1108
00:56:24,520 --> 00:56:26,799
Speaker 1: you dink and dunk, and he's going to rely on

1109
00:56:26,920 --> 00:56:29,840
Speaker 1: you to make mistakes. That's what the Phillie Eagles have

1110
00:56:29,960 --> 00:56:33,200
Speaker 1: been able to do. And it works because offensively, when

1111
00:56:33,280 --> 00:56:34,920
Speaker 1: you score a lot of points, you can play ben

1112
00:56:34,960 --> 00:56:37,520
Speaker 1: but don't break on defense. It is a nice compliment

1113
00:56:37,600 --> 00:56:40,719
Speaker 1: that they have going in phill It that's winning football

1114
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:43,680
Speaker 1: in the century, right complement. If you have a high

1115
00:56:43,680 --> 00:56:46,279
Speaker 1: powered offense, then you can do less on defense. Ben

1116
00:56:46,320 --> 00:56:48,160
Speaker 1: but don't break. Don't give a big seattle for a

1117
00:56:48,160 --> 00:56:50,360
Speaker 1: couple of years. The Jags last year, but there and

1118
00:56:50,680 --> 00:56:55,279
Speaker 1: the different years different because the formula was defense is

1119
00:56:55,320 --> 00:56:57,480
Speaker 1: going to dominate. But I mean, I'm just giving you

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00:56:57,520 --> 00:57:00,520
Speaker 1: the examples of teams that are so dominant in terms

1121
00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:03,719
Speaker 1: of points allowed and everything else. They're not very many

1122
00:57:03,760 --> 00:57:06,239
Speaker 1: examples of though, So you do have to be uh,

1123
00:57:06,400 --> 00:57:08,640
Speaker 1: just make the drive last as long as you can,

1124
00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:11,359
Speaker 1: and eventually the team against is playing your favorite. More

1125
00:57:11,360 --> 00:57:14,320
Speaker 1: players that you make the offense make, the more chances

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00:57:14,400 --> 00:57:16,760
Speaker 1: are that they will mess it up. At number two,

1127
00:57:17,400 --> 00:57:21,760
Speaker 1: who New England Patriots Josh McDaniels, Bill Belichick and Brian Floyd's.

1128
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Speaker 1: The reason I had to put Belichick and floors Flores

1129
00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:27,520
Speaker 1: is that the fact of defense coordinator doesn't have the

1130
00:57:27,560 --> 00:57:31,440
Speaker 1: title but has the responsibilities and then he has the overlord,

1131
00:57:31,480 --> 00:57:33,440
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick, look at over show to make sure that

1132
00:57:33,480 --> 00:57:36,840
Speaker 1: the defense operates correctly for at least a season or

1133
00:57:36,840 --> 00:57:38,400
Speaker 1: two before they give him a title. That's what they

1134
00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:41,560
Speaker 1: traditionally have done in New England. And Josh McDaniels, you

1135
00:57:41,600 --> 00:57:44,840
Speaker 1: have a very creative, your systematic play call. And I

1136
00:57:44,880 --> 00:57:47,880
Speaker 1: know Tom Brady deserves a ton of credit for being

1137
00:57:48,120 --> 00:57:49,840
Speaker 1: the greatest of all time and doing all the things

1138
00:57:49,880 --> 00:57:52,600
Speaker 1: that he's done at quarterback, but Josh McDaniels does a

1139
00:57:52,640 --> 00:57:55,720
Speaker 1: really good job of positioning his players in a spot

1140
00:57:55,720 --> 00:57:58,240
Speaker 1: where they can kind of exploit matchups, whether it's the

1141
00:57:58,320 --> 00:58:01,120
Speaker 1: running backs, the slow receivers, use Gronk as a decoy

1142
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:04,360
Speaker 1: to kind of dictate the terms of the defense. Josh

1143
00:58:04,440 --> 00:58:08,040
Speaker 1: mc daniels is really really creative play call and that

1144
00:58:08,080 --> 00:58:12,240
Speaker 1: brings us to number one boy Wonder, Sean McVeigh and

1145
00:58:12,320 --> 00:58:15,200
Speaker 1: the old guy Wade Phillips. This is the best tandem

1146
00:58:15,240 --> 00:58:17,520
Speaker 1: when you look at what Sean McVeigh was able to

1147
00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:20,200
Speaker 1: do with Jered Goff, the Jerry golf effact, I think

1148
00:58:20,680 --> 00:58:23,439
Speaker 1: you can see the impact that a really good play

1149
00:58:23,440 --> 00:58:25,480
Speaker 1: call that can have on a quarterback a quarterback that

1150
00:58:25,560 --> 00:58:27,960
Speaker 1: many of us thought was a bust, couldn't play in

1151
00:58:27,960 --> 00:58:31,440
Speaker 1: the league, whatever. Quickly in a year he made him

1152
00:58:31,440 --> 00:58:34,120
Speaker 1: a Pro Bowl player because of the play calls, because

1153
00:58:34,160 --> 00:58:36,600
Speaker 1: of communicating with him, because of putting him in position

1154
00:58:36,880 --> 00:58:39,720
Speaker 1: to really play to his strengths. That's what Sean McVeigh did.

1155
00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:42,560
Speaker 1: And then in Wade Phillips, you have the old guy

1156
00:58:42,640 --> 00:58:45,760
Speaker 1: who is simple yet aggressive. What they do on defense

1157
00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:47,760
Speaker 1: is a lot of trickery. They're kind of straightforward with

1158
00:58:47,800 --> 00:58:51,560
Speaker 1: their blitz approach, but he turns his dogs loose. They

1159
00:58:51,560 --> 00:58:54,800
Speaker 1: get after it. And now this year with the other

1160
00:58:54,840 --> 00:58:58,000
Speaker 1: pieces that they've added, Marcus Peters, that keeps leave you

1161
00:58:58,080 --> 00:59:01,600
Speaker 1: having Dominican Sue could be scary for people facing the

1162
00:59:01,720 --> 00:59:04,400
Speaker 1: l A Rams And this are you just as a

1163
00:59:04,440 --> 00:59:06,880
Speaker 1: bonus for the listener right now? Are you saying the

1164
00:59:06,960 --> 00:59:09,800
Speaker 1: Rams are going to the Super Bowl? Why not? How

1165
00:59:09,840 --> 00:59:11,680
Speaker 1: many teams can put in the Super Bowl? I don't know.

1166
00:59:11,720 --> 00:59:16,880
Speaker 1: It seems like there there were at least put in. Yeah,

1167
00:59:16,960 --> 00:59:19,479
Speaker 1: this guarantee. I learned this from Andre Rose and Andre

1168
00:59:19,600 --> 00:59:21,560
Speaker 1: Rose and said, guarantee stuff. You can never go around.

1169
00:59:21,560 --> 00:59:23,440
Speaker 1: Just guarantee it. And at the end of the day,

1170
00:59:23,440 --> 00:59:25,800
Speaker 1: if you remember that. I don't remember. I guaranteed it.

1171
00:59:25,880 --> 00:59:27,400
Speaker 1: You know what I said a year ago? I said

1172
00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:30,439
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles. And you know who did not? Did

1173
00:59:30,520 --> 00:59:33,160
Speaker 1: I say it or not? Sully? I don't remember that.

1174
00:59:34,080 --> 00:59:36,800
Speaker 1: How dare you show it off even on the radar?

1175
00:59:37,440 --> 00:59:41,600
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? Bucky? I will produce the audio

1176
00:59:41,720 --> 00:59:44,640
Speaker 1: for you. You guys, by the way, are predicting an

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00:59:44,640 --> 00:59:46,840
Speaker 1: all l A super Bowl according this episode? Why not?

1178
00:59:47,440 --> 00:59:50,560
Speaker 1: Why not a couple of years early? Though, A couple

1179
00:59:50,600 --> 00:59:52,400
Speaker 1: of years early, How cool would it be? L A

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Speaker 1: l A N l A. I mean that would be

1181
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Speaker 1: too much l A. That would be a lot of fun,

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Speaker 1: A lot of l A. Though. What's fun is that

1183
00:59:58,840 --> 01:00:02,320
Speaker 1: the great Bruckie Brooks too, I dare say frankly it

1184
01:00:02,800 --> 01:00:08,600
Speaker 1: I I resent the the that it took a little

1185
01:00:08,600 --> 01:00:11,080
Speaker 1: bit too long in my book for Bucky Brooks star

1186
01:00:11,240 --> 01:00:14,360
Speaker 1: to rise. But now it hasn't hasn't risen, It hasn't

1187
01:00:14,440 --> 01:00:16,960
Speaker 1: risen and hasn't risen. Look, I'm gonna give I'm gonna

1188
01:00:16,960 --> 01:00:19,640
Speaker 1: give all prompts to Dave Damash because when I was

1189
01:00:19,680 --> 01:00:21,640
Speaker 1: a podcast free agent, I didn't have a home. I

1190
01:00:21,680 --> 01:00:24,440
Speaker 1: was just out there floundering Dave Damas let me come

1191
01:00:24,440 --> 01:00:27,800
Speaker 1: on and let me just kind of spout craziness and nonsense.

1192
01:00:28,040 --> 01:00:31,720
Speaker 1: He even paired me with my guy orange Field he

1193
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Speaker 1: ate and I would rip e s the shreds on

1194
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Speaker 1: the podcast and that helped me help me find a

1195
01:00:36,800 --> 01:00:43,040
Speaker 1: spot to see it doing stuff on all over NFL

1196
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Speaker 1: network and hosting radio show. Oh, I gotta wrap though,

1197
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Speaker 1: I gotta rap you're taking over. I gotta rap. Come on, Oh,

1198
01:00:49,640 --> 01:00:53,640
Speaker 1: I didn't know the sticks talking. Look, no show on Thursday.

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Speaker 1: I will team up with DJ next Tuesday. We'll have

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Speaker 1: another show next Thursday. We will release our packed will

1201
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Speaker 1: Media Day episode. That's be exciting, and check out all

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Speaker 1: of our videos on YouTube dot com or NFL dot com,

1203
01:01:06,480 --> 01:01:10,120
Speaker 1: slash empty s video whatever I mean. You can also say,

1204
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Speaker 1: why do you listen to the damna because we're gonna

1205
01:01:12,400 --> 01:01:15,320
Speaker 1: cover the A haven't finished alright, go ahead, I haven't finished.

1206
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Speaker 1: And we got a new We got a new v

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Speaker 1: o D that is up there, Linebacker under thirty one,

1208
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Speaker 1: Play one, Drove one Game next five seasons that is

1209
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Speaker 1: out today. And also, if you want more of this nonsense,

1210
01:01:28,120 --> 01:01:30,400
Speaker 1: me and Dave going back, we will flip it over.

1211
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Speaker 1: We're gonna play a home game. Alright, great stuff, Bucky

1212
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Speaker 1: Brooks and uh and thanks for listening, Um and muzzletob

1213
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Speaker 1: on his own show. To Daniel Jeremiah on the on

1214
01:01:42,240 --> 01:01:46,160
Speaker 1: the Chargers gig. Alright four, Bucky Brooks, Dave damnit Scheck,

1215
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Speaker 1: Moved the Sticks. They'll talk to you next week. But

1216
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Speaker 1: in the meantime, honey, you flip over to the Damna

1217
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Speaker 1: Schick Football Program and listen to us talk about the

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Speaker 1: a f C. Jacobieces all right, all right, done and done.

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Speaker 1: It's been a thin slice app. Thanks for downloading Move

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Speaker 1: the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks. For more,

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