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Speaker 1: Welcome to NFL Daily, presented by Draft Kings Sportsbook, where

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Speaker 1: we never like to be reminded of Super Bowl forty six,

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Speaker 1: but we are today. I'm here in the Chris Wesleyan

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Speaker 1: podcast studio with my friend friend Patrick Claybond and yes

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Speaker 1: joining us, I believe from NFL Films, wearing the Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl forty six hating it the man Brian baldingder.

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Speaker 2: How you doing, Greg, Patrick, I'm doing great, putting week

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Speaker 2: eleven to bed and starting to look ahead to here

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Speaker 2: like you guys, to week twelve, and it's almost it's

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Speaker 2: almost hard to bleed. But we're just about in the

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Speaker 2: stretch run right now. So anyways, I'll be a good

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Speaker 2: shape here, guys.

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Speaker 3: Going to be with you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and if you do, check us out, you know

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Speaker 1: on the on the YouTube or on the NFL channel streaming. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: bald he's wearing that Super Bowl forty six hat. And

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Speaker 1: I have what I think is a lukewarm take, but

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Speaker 1: it tends to get pushed back from Patriots fans. I

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Speaker 1: think that is the worst loss in Patriots history. Number One,

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Speaker 1: that Giants team was not very good super Bowl forty six.

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Speaker 4: That was the second time round. Number two, at that point.

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Speaker 1: It was the second time they had lost to the Giants,

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Speaker 1: and at that point they had had a lot of

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Speaker 1: really good Patriots teams. I know, no one's crying for

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Speaker 1: the Patriots, but it had been seven or eight years

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Speaker 1: since and they had come up short in the end.

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Speaker 1: So I was there in the stadium, and I believe

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Speaker 1: that was actually the worst loss in Patriots history.

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Speaker 2: Well, Bill Belichick is one floor below me right now, Greg,

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Speaker 2: I can knock on his door.

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Speaker 3: Just see what he thinks about I would knocking his door,

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Speaker 3: see what he thinks.

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Speaker 2: He seemed pretty jovial the other day with Eli and

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Speaker 2: Peyton on the Mamanni Cash though.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, who knows, Yeah.

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Speaker 5: And that's a lot. Baldy walked into work today rocking

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Speaker 5: that Super Bowl forty six, So he could go right

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Speaker 5: to Bill Belichick's face and say, look at this hat.

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Speaker 5: Stick it Bill.

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Speaker 4: That would be Greig. That would be an interesting question

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Speaker 4: for him.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure if I was the coach of the team

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Speaker 1: like him, maybe losing the undefeated season would stick in

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Speaker 1: your craw a little more.

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Speaker 4: All Right, this is the previous show, four week twelve.

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Speaker 1: As always, we go from the smallest to the biggest

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Speaker 1: spread each and every week.

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Speaker 5: And we start with a huge matchup greg in the

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Speaker 5: NFC West, and guess what it's not Niners Rams Baldy,

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Speaker 5: it's the division leading Arizona Cardinals and the Seattle Seahawks.

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Speaker 5: The Cardinals at one point favorite. We get to Adam

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Speaker 5: me and Mark Sanchez and Christina pink there with this

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Speaker 5: one in Seattle. The Seahawks ranked in the thirties Baldy

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Speaker 5: in rushing efficiency defense play action defense and the Cardinals

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Speaker 5: top ten in both metrics. But Mike McDonald's defense looked

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Speaker 5: much better against the forty nine ers a week ago.

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Speaker 5: How do you see this going?

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Speaker 3: Well, they made a big change at linebackers. Patrick.

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Speaker 2: You know when they started the season they were starting

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Speaker 2: in Terrell Dotson and Drome Bakers. They're out. The rookie

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Speaker 2: He seemed to make a big difference. I think that

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Speaker 2: rookie Devin Witherston, they look much better in the passing.

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Speaker 3: Game that they had.

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Speaker 2: They were very good against Christian McCaffrey in the run

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Speaker 2: last week. They really shut him down a number of plays.

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Speaker 2: They didn't give up any explosive plays. He seemed like

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Speaker 2: to're playing a lot better then you know. Just watching

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Speaker 2: Jackson Smith and Jigmo was huge. I think he's gonna

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Speaker 2: have a big role. They look, they look if they're

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Speaker 3: Now's the time to do it. Now's the time to

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Speaker 3: do it.

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Speaker 2: Winning on the road in San Francisco is always always nice,

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Speaker 2: But Arizona is a well coached peskey bunch. They take

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Speaker 2: coming off of bye week right now, and a team

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Speaker 2: I think that could be better the second half, guys,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I love everything you said about the changes that

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Speaker 1: the Seahawks mad. It's a really interesting time for these

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Speaker 1: how important a win that was for Seattle. San Francisco

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Speaker 1: the division. They were going to get buried in this

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Speaker 1: Arizona's coming off the buy and yes, does this Seahawks

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Speaker 1: change that they made during the bye week, you get

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Speaker 1: Ernest Jones in that trade. I actually thought they played

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Speaker 1: They end up losing that game in overtime. Matthew Stafford

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Speaker 1: good run game. And we'll see if they're run defenses

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Speaker 1: as well. And they played a lot more man coverage

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Speaker 1: like Gino was under center a lot more. And I

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Speaker 1: do think the mismatch here for the Seahawks is is

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Speaker 1: difference against these cornerbacks, I know, Starling Thomas and Max Meltin,

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Speaker 1: like they've they've played well this year.

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Speaker 4: But I got to think that those are good matchups.

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Speaker 1: Though for him, you got to think, like you're play

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Speaker 1: our players are better than your players.

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Speaker 5: What do you think, Baldy, Yeah, but I mean.

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Speaker 2: You look at Williams and Melton right now and Starling Thomas,

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Speaker 3: Picky Gain Okay, game here recently they've played really well.

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Speaker 2: They've defended the pass, they're not afraid to play man coverage.

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Speaker 2: They've got a blitz to get pressure. But they also, uh,

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Speaker 2: I knew Nick when he was like a kid, you know,

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Speaker 2: looked well coached. You know, we always say this is

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Speaker 2: a cliche, but it's but it's true. Like more games

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Speaker 5: And that's the thing that we're maybe in hindsight we

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Speaker 5: come back a few years. I call this defense the

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Speaker 5: the particular players are. But perhaps in a few years

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Speaker 5: we look back, Baldy and say, you know, this was

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Speaker 5: a bunch of dudes. They came out there and played

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Speaker 5: been able to generate pressure of the season. The only

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Speaker 5: pressures because that's they have so many guys contribute to that.

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Speaker 5: And Greg, you mentioned Gino going under center more, perhaps

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Speaker 5: just something that always happens. And so it's an intriguing

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Speaker 5: matchup between two teams that I really almost feel the

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Speaker 1: And Kyler Murray's under center a lot more too that.

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Speaker 1: The moment where I just thought this Cardinals team is different.

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Speaker 1: There's just something about them is when the Jets defender

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Speaker 1: I think it was to McBride and to coverage and

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Speaker 4: They're laughing.

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Speaker 5: They're laughing.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, you can't talk about the Cardinals and

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Speaker 2: not really brag about James Connor and Budda Baker. I mean,

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Speaker 2: they're the team leaders of the whole team, but they

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Speaker 2: you go, James Connor right now, I mean that looked

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Speaker 2: But now, I mean, mister James Connor, he's been going

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Speaker 2: really good job. The tight ends, Elijah Higgins, they fit

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Speaker 3: Run game really well. McBride is a.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I know he doesn't have a touchdown catch, guys,

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Speaker 5: And you mentioned James Carves forced to mistackle on thirty

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Speaker 5: with over fifty touches. Let's leave that game, go to

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Speaker 5: another big game in the NFC, also featuring a team

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Speaker 5: to see how San Francisco bounces back, green Bay survives

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Speaker 5: what would have been a loss in the first one

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Speaker 5: a while to the Chicago Bears. How do you see it? Plan?

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Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know. This is the toughest game of

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Speaker 1: When the home team is favored by two and a half.

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Speaker 1: It's just holding up your heads because both these teams

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Speaker 1: they're very similar to me in that we know they

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Speaker 1: have the pieces to be good. We know that they're

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Speaker 2: I think offensively they they can be very good. I

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and unfortunate that they're having to do this again

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Speaker 5: a lot about both of these teams. But I'm wondering

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Speaker 5: Kyle Shanahan kind of mumming and tamping that down. We

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Speaker 1: D Yeah, and I think these two quarterbacks remind me

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Speaker 1: think brocks highs this year and even in that game

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Speaker 1: And Kenny Clark in this pass rush really hasn't gotten going.

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Speaker 5: I would think, well, I would you know.

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Speaker 2: I'm nick Bosa goes out of the game last week

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Speaker 3: The injury looks serious to me. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's not practicing early in the week, I don't

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Speaker 3: He I mean he was.

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Speaker 2: don't know if that's a bleak or not. But when

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Speaker 3: There's nobody in the pass rush that scares you.

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Speaker 2: And so unless they blitz and they're not a good

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Speaker 1: Just off Bald these like vibes in tone. Now I'm

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Speaker 1: Like whatever the Bengals don't have, the Packers do, Like

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Speaker 1: they are winning all these games. I know you can

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Speaker 5: Well, I think two things specifically player wise, right you

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Speaker 4: One that I love like see.

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Speaker 1: At first I thought there was this wasn't a good week,

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Speaker 5: Yeah, because they've all almost got winning records. Still a

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Speaker 5: Mike Torico, Chris Collinsworth and Melissa Stark on the call.

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Speaker 5: A fan base that's upset Baldy about one of the

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Speaker 5: He's just trying to hang on in this division. Nick

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean they're playing great football right now. You know,

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Speaker 2: we've won six in a row. The defense is, you know,

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Speaker 2: ranked number one in the league. Not the fewest points,

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Speaker 3: But I would say, you know, this team is all

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Speaker 2: Johnson told me a couple of weeks ago that basically

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Speaker 3: He's just that good right now, and they're that good upfront.

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Speaker 2: Last week they made a subtle change. They put the

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Speaker 3: You know, bow Limmer Dotson.

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Speaker 2: Like they they played well last week, they got to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is such a good matchup because you can

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Speaker 1: but they're four and one in their last five games.

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Speaker 1: That's that's about the level they're playing at it And

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Speaker 1: Patrick and I think of these pass rushers for the Rams,

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Speaker 5: It's a defense that the team that's got five wins,

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Speaker 1: I think they could put it off, but I like

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Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts. I don't know what to think about Jalen

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Speaker 5: What do you think?

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, look, he played I don't know two

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Speaker 2: And you have to account for him as a runner

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Speaker 2: in any situation, whether it's the tush push, whether it's

435
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Speaker 2: a scramble, whether it's a design run.

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Speaker 3: He's an excellent runner. And he's healthy right now.

437
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Speaker 2: So a couple of these years he hadn't really been

438
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Speaker 2: healthy this time of the year, and so you have

439
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Speaker 2: to account for him, and he's difficult.

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Speaker 3: He's a real good compliment.

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Speaker 2: To Saquan right now, and he loves to throw the

442
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Speaker 2: deep ball to AJ Brown. That's his big play guy,

443
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Speaker 2: and so he trusts him to go get it. So

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Speaker 2: I think he's playing really well and he's a perfect

445
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Speaker 2: guy in the style of offense a Kellibar's running.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's really well said, especially saying he's

447
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Speaker 1: a compliment, and that's sort of how this offense has evolved.

448
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Speaker 4: And that's where I've settled in too, is that.

449
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Speaker 1: Yeah, sometimes he holds onto the ball a little bit,

450
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Speaker 1: but He's a big play maker. They get a lot

451
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Speaker 1: of big plays. They're set up by the run. His

452
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Speaker 1: running is helped. And so I'm forecasting where I'm gonna

453
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Speaker 1: be when we talk QB Island in a week and

454
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Speaker 1: a half with Jalen Hurts, because he deserves, I think,

455
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Speaker 1: to be on QB Island. And Yeah, you got two

456
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Speaker 1: of the most valuable wide receivers in football in this game.

457
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Speaker 1: You can see the ab test when AJ Brown is

458
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Speaker 1: not on the field, different Eagles team, when Pukinaku is

459
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Speaker 1: not on the field, Different Rams team.

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Speaker 5: They're about as good as it gets. Yeah, and glad

461
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Speaker 5: that all four of these guys are able to play

462
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Speaker 5: in this game and we get a chance to see

463
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Speaker 5: it on Sunday Night Football at so far A Stadium

464
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Speaker 5: is going to be a fantastic event and experience, I

465
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Speaker 5: think for all, because you know, we've got some prom

466
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Speaker 5: tim games up here in the next couple of weeks

467
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Speaker 5: that aren't going to be as fun as the ones

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Speaker 5: we get on Sunday and Monday.

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Speaker 1: I know they didn't they didn't flex out the Browns

470
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Speaker 1: Broncos I was really surprised about that.

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Speaker 5: They're leaving that one in there. Anyways, it's one of

472
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Speaker 5: those duovers that we'd like to add on. Where a

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Speaker 5: note before we move on, the Eagles have gone under

474
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Speaker 5: center way more. They went from eight point seven percent

475
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Speaker 5: under center in weeks one through four since the bye

476
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Speaker 5: twenty one percent of the time Jalen Hurts lining up

477
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Speaker 5: under center. Probably a lot to do with Saquon being

478
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Speaker 5: the guy on that offense and Jalen Hurts kind of

479
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Speaker 5: taking a step back to becoming the compliment to their

480
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Speaker 5: all star.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, you might have.

482
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Speaker 2: That numb December, Pat, but the Eagles have run the

483
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Speaker 2: ball ninety eight more times than they've thrown it. Think

484
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Speaker 2: it's a huge disparity the most of the NFL. I

485
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Speaker 2: think they're right around fifty six or fifty seven percent

486
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Speaker 2: run first. And you look at the teams that are

487
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Speaker 2: winning Buffalo, you look at Detroit, you look at some

488
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Speaker 2: of these teams Washington that are winning. They're running it

489
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Speaker 2: more than they're throwing it. The trend is strong, but

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Speaker 2: Philadelphia is at the very top of that list.

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Speaker 1: This might be the like the most Brian Baldinger Eagles

492
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Speaker 1: team we've seen in a long time, since since Jerome

493
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Speaker 1: Brown was out there.

494
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Speaker 4: Wreaking havoc in the backfield.

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Speaker 2: All right, I have to listen to some of the

496
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Speaker 2: offense linemen gripe bat me on Mondays when they don't

497
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Speaker 2: run it.

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Speaker 3: Enough, So I have to listen to some of the

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Speaker 3: stuff that's awesome.

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Speaker 5: All Right, we'll go from that prime time game to another.

501
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Speaker 5: It's time for the game of the week for someoning

502
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Speaker 5: about DraftKings sportsbook. The Baltimore Ravens a two and a

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Speaker 5: half point favorite at SOFI Stadium on Monday Night Football

504
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Speaker 5: against the Chargers with an over under of fifty. Joe

505
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Speaker 5: Bucktoyite and and Lisa Salters on the call, Greg, we

506
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Speaker 5: saw a score fest against the Chargers last time out.

507
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Speaker 5: In comes a hurt Baltimore Ravens defense. They couldn't stop

508
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Speaker 5: anybody when they're healthy. Are there eighty points scored in

509
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Speaker 5: this football?

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Speaker 1: Patrick? Not happy with this defense? You like they're coming

511
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Speaker 1: off one of their better games of the year. At

512
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Speaker 1: least I've been saying all year when this Ravens team

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Speaker 1: loses that, great teams respond, and I expect them to respond,

514
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Speaker 1: and they have they after that Raiders lost. I guess

515
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Speaker 1: they didn't in weeks one and two, but they bounce

516
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Speaker 1: back in the last two games after a loss, and

517
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Speaker 1: I think they will here as well. I just want

518
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Speaker 1: to know, can the Chargers and their pressure group, and

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Speaker 1: Khalil Mack wasn't out there last week, he would help

520
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Speaker 1: a lot if he returns. Joey Bosa looked better. He

521
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Speaker 1: played a lot more last week, so that helped him

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Speaker 1: out a lot. Can they consistently get pressure? Can they

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Speaker 1: be as disciplined as the last two teams that have

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Speaker 1: faced the Ravens, Because if they can, and they've been

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Speaker 1: quite good at getting pressure, then I do think they

526
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Speaker 1: have a chance in this game to hold that Ravens

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Speaker 1: offense down.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's really amazing what the charge are doing. And

529
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Speaker 3: they're starting two rookie corners, two fifth round picks on

530
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Speaker 3: the corners corners, one of them slot one outside cam

531
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Speaker 3: Hart and Kristen Folds the other corner. They filled up

532
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Speaker 3: and they played great against Joe Burrow in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 3: Now Joe had some unbelievable plays too him to tie

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Speaker 3: it up. But you know, Daylon Henley is a guy

535
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Speaker 3: that I don't know. People talk about him out there enough.

536
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Speaker 3: I don't nationally don't, but he's he's a phenomenon. He

537
00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:13,720
Speaker 3: never comes off the field and he wears number zero

538
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Speaker 3: for the Chargers second year player, Like he kind of

539
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Speaker 3: does everything for him, including blitz and so when they

540
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Speaker 3: want to get pressure, extra pressure, they will blitz him.

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Speaker 3: They will bring Derwin James off the edge.

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Speaker 2: They'll do what they have to do because they feel

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Speaker 2: like they're tackling much better in the secondary and they're

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Speaker 2: holding up in man coverage much better than they were

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Speaker 2: at any point under Brandon Staley.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, this is why you got to listen to NFL Daily.

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Speaker 1: Even going back to trading camp, I was at Chargers camp.

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Speaker 1: I asked our guy, Matt mney Smith, like, who's the

549
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Speaker 1: Chargers player standing out that they look and his name

550
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Speaker 1: was Dayon Henley.

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Speaker 4: That this guy they really think is going to be

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Speaker 4: the dude. I thought that was interesting.

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Speaker 1: Because they drafted someone they brought in free agent. But

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Speaker 1: he was right on it in early August. That's that's

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Speaker 1: why you got to listen to Patrick.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, yeah, of course, of course listening to NFL Daily.

557
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Speaker 5: Glad to be a part of this franchise.

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Speaker 2: I think he leads everybody in the Charges by like

559
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Speaker 2: over forty tackles in total tackles so far this year.

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Speaker 5: And this is a game for him to have another

561
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Speaker 5: big performance in prime time, going up against this Ravens

562
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Speaker 5: offense that has accumulated five hundred and ninety eight yards

563
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Speaker 5: before contact on outside runs this season. As they kind

564
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Speaker 5: of got the O line situation figured out early, we're

565
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Speaker 5: waiting for him to get the defensive situation figured out.

566
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Speaker 5: Greg Where Justin Herbert when he is not pressured, averages

567
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Speaker 5: three point two more yards per attempt when you don't

568
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Speaker 5: get pressure on Justin Herbert, and this team has struggled

569
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Speaker 5: to generate pressure. I think back to the Broncos game

570
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Speaker 5: where Bo Nicks was back there forever in the first half,

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Speaker 5: and now we see Herbo with Quentin Johnston really coming on. Baldy.

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Speaker 5: People kind of overrated those drops and his rookie season

573
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Speaker 5: turns out, if you can get open, still a valuable

574
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Speaker 5: skill set, and he's been able to do that. So

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Speaker 5: it's hard to picture anything other than just a whole

576
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Speaker 5: bunch of points here in this game, just from both teams.

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Speaker 5: I love a score fest. I would prefer to not

578
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Speaker 5: have the stress, yeah, but score fest why not?

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Speaker 1: Baldi Patrick is a closet no longer in the closet.

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Speaker 1: So what do you think, how do you think his

581
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Speaker 1: defense the secondary holds up here?

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Speaker 2: I announced that game in Pittsburgh last week with the Ravens.

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Speaker 2: You know, they you know, Derrick Henry got it knocked

584
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Speaker 2: out of his hands by Nick Herbig on the second

585
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Speaker 2: play the game that led to points.

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Speaker 3: You know, they Peyton Wilson, the rookie.

587
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Speaker 2: Ripped the ball, you know, right out of Justice Hills

588
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Speaker 2: hands on a wheel route. You know, they got three

589
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Speaker 2: takeaways which really really helped the Steelers in their offense

590
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Speaker 2: and the points. Justin Tucker, I'm not sure what to

591
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:47,240
Speaker 2: think like because he's missing extra points and field goals

592
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Speaker 2: regularly right now. But the thing that's bizarre to me

593
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Speaker 2: about this team is if they're behind or if they

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Speaker 2: want to throw it, they take Derrick Henry off the field.

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Speaker 2: And there's long stretches of games again, games against Cincinnati

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Speaker 2: this year where they had to win late or in overtime,

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Speaker 2: or even last week where Henry's not on the field.

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Speaker 2: And honestly, I mean, Justice Hills, Fine, he's a good player,

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Speaker 2: but he doesn't scare you.

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Speaker 3: Maybe Keaton Mitchell, well, he didn't get much play.

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Speaker 2: Last week, but I thought they got good pressure, you know,

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Speaker 2: on Lamar last week enough where it really affected the

603
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Speaker 2: way that he played. And so I think that's the key,

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Speaker 2: when you can pressure Lamar and make him try to

605
00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:30,920
Speaker 2: be Houdini back there regularly. When you take the threat

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Speaker 2: of Derrick Henry and the big runs away, they seem

607
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Speaker 2: to looked a little bit more pedestrian than what the statistics.

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Speaker 3: Say right now.

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Speaker 5: That's a great point.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, I just think there's too many penalties from

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Speaker 1: this team Baltimore on both sides of the ball. They're

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Speaker 1: leading the league, just just a little sloppy. See if

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Speaker 1: they can get it going. One mismatch in this game,

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Speaker 1: I think is when the Chargers run the ball. They

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Speaker 1: just haven't been consistent in terms of their success rate,

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Speaker 1: consistently being able to run. Ravens have been able to

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Speaker 1: stop it. So I think it's gonna have to be

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Speaker 1: all Herbo, and he's shown that he can do it.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna be going up against Trey White, who's had

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Speaker 1: some good snaps for the Ravens last week.

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Speaker 4: We'll see how that goes.

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Speaker 1: Before we move on, I do want to play this

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Speaker 1: clip of Jim Harbaugh in the locker room after last

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Speaker 1: week's game, and if there was any doubt about how

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Speaker 1: much this team is buying in, you can forget about

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Speaker 1: it now.

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Speaker 3: This could be one of the best high fives ever

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Speaker 3: give each other.

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Speaker 4: Derwick Jamis is so intensive.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they've got to like they're just like, that's

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Speaker 1: the good stuff, right, Baldi.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's interesting, you know obviously JK Dobbins, you know,

633
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Speaker 2: finish that game off eighteen seconds ago with that touchdown run,

634
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Speaker 2: and you know there'd be a lot of coaches like

635
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Speaker 2: maybe that one in Chicago that says, all right, we

636
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Speaker 2: got the ball to the twenty six yard line, let's

637
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Speaker 2: just kick the field goal. And he runs another play

638
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:12,760
Speaker 2: and JK takes it to the house and game over

639
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:15,480
Speaker 2: Chicago does and they just kick a field goal with

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Speaker 2: thirty seconds ago and they get it blocked. Like there's

641
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Speaker 2: just something about the way that hardball just has their

642
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 2: pulse and knows when they're not a big, crazy fourth down,

643
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:28,880
Speaker 2: go four team, they're not like that.

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Speaker 3: They take the points that are there.

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Speaker 2: They kick field goals, all that stuff, But there is

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Speaker 2: like an attack mentality that he still does. You're seeing

647
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Speaker 2: the ball to Will Disley last week. I never thought

648
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Speaker 2: Will Disley could run a seam route. I never seen

649
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Speaker 2: him run. They hit him on two of them last week,

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Speaker 2: you know, and all of a sudden, the ball's going

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Speaker 2: down the field. And I thought, you know, as much

652
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Speaker 2: as I want to see the Chargers win and pulling

653
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Speaker 2: for hardball and it's good for La La sports all that,

654
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Speaker 2: I thought, like, they're not going to be This is

655
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Speaker 2: a showtime city. You got to put some points on

656
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Speaker 2: the board. You gotta be fun. And they're starting to

657
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 2: look a little bit more like showtime right now the

658
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:04,480
Speaker 2: way they played that game last week.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and the crowd was jamming some of the videos

660
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,719
Speaker 1: that came from that. That was probably the best moment

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Speaker 1: of in Chargers so Fi Freeze fiftory. I think was

662
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 1: that JK. Dobbins touchdown because they went absolutely crazy.

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Speaker 5: So I love it.

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Speaker 1: I love that the atmosphere there, it has really taken hold.

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Speaker 1: we'll be back. We got Baldy for a couple more

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Speaker 1: games before he moves on to one of his many

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Speaker 1: other jobs. Back on NFL Daily and yes, every week

673
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 1: we go from the smallest spreads the biggest thread. Doesn't

674
00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:00,360
Speaker 1: always mean the best games are up top, but it

675
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 1: worked out that way this week.

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Speaker 4: So we got the good.

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Speaker 1: Stuff with bald Because this NFC North game, to me,

678
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Speaker 1: is a.

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Speaker 4: Lot more intriguing than than it was a week ago.

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00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:08,440
Speaker 4: It's not paper much more.

681
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Speaker 5: And in fact, if that kick, the circumstances changed with

682
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Speaker 5: that kick, it gets a little more interesting. It's the

683
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Speaker 5: Minnesota Vikings three and a half point favorites. Baldy at

684
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Speaker 5: the Chicago Bears, who suffered the heartbreaking loss. They get

685
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Speaker 5: a chance to face their old friend Aaron Jones once again.

686
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 5: Kevin Coogler, Darryl Johnston and Laura Oakman on the call

687
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 5: over under his thirty nine. Not a lot of points

688
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 5: expected in this one. We saw Sam Donald play well

689
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 5: against the defense that started the season. Well, the Bears

690
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:37,480
Speaker 5: started the season. Well, what's Sam look like this?

691
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Speaker 2: Tom Baldy, Well, I think he's playing just fine, you know,

692
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's got a lot of targets to throw too.

693
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Speaker 2: They've replaced the left tackle, which looked like it was

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Speaker 2: going to be a difficult loss.

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Speaker 3: They made a good trade to get Cam Robinson in there.

696
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 3: That helped.

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Speaker 2: He's not Darrisol, but he's a lot better than their

698
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 2: backup they had, So they've got good bounce. They're well coached.

699
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Speaker 2: They do a lot of creative things in the passing

700
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Speaker 2: game to help Sam out, whether it's putting Justin Jefferson

701
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 2: in the backfield, I mean, there's a.

702
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Speaker 3: Million different things they do.

703
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Speaker 2: And Aaron Jones has been fantastic for them, as good

704
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Speaker 2: as Josh Jacobs has been for Green Bay.

705
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Speaker 3: Aaron Jones has been that guy.

706
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Speaker 2: He doesn't miss a hole, his vision is unreal, and

707
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Speaker 2: he's just a great receiver. So they got everything rolling

708
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 2: right now. Offensively, I think they've got what it takes.

709
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:30,040
Speaker 2: And then defensively, you know, they take the ball away.

710
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:33,360
Speaker 2: I think they've got sixteen interceptions right now. They give

711
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 2: the offense a lot of extract bats, So I think

712
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Speaker 2: they played pretty good, complimentary football up in Minnesota right now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been really interested to see how Brian Flores

714
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Speaker 1: has sort of backed off all the Blitzeres the last

715
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Speaker 1: three weeks that maybe it was matchup related. He just

716
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Speaker 1: wanted to confuse like a Will Levis, let's say, with

717
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:55,800
Speaker 1: just guys in coverage. But they went from being at

718
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 1: the top of the league in terms of their blitz

719
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Speaker 1: rate to the last three weeks about average being about thirteen.

720
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Speaker 1: And they've now installed so many different crazy things in

721
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Speaker 1: this Florists defense over the last year and a half

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Speaker 1: that I feel like with this veteran crew and when

723
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Speaker 1: Cashman's out there, they're doing all these disguised pressures and look,

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm not a football coach, but I can see

725
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Speaker 1: that they're throwing a lot at these opposing quarterbacks. They

726
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Speaker 1: now have such a menu of different options that they

727
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Speaker 1: can go to and these veteran players who can execute

728
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Speaker 1: it at a high level that you don't know what's

729
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Speaker 1: going to happen week to week. And spinning that to

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Speaker 1: this week's game, I thought Caleb Williams was fantastic in

731
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:36,920
Speaker 1: that game a week goo easily his best game to me,

732
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Speaker 1: even better than the one in London because of the

733
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Speaker 1: types of places he had to make. And I'm really

734
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Speaker 1: curious how Flores decides to attack him because his legs

735
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Speaker 1: obviously were a big part of their offense early, and

736
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Speaker 1: I would think that'd be maybe job one is trying

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Speaker 1: to prevent that from happening.

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Speaker 5: Well, he also got the ball out quicker. Yeah, he

739
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Speaker 5: dropped his time to throw almost a half a second

740
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 5: from two point nine seconds to start the season to

741
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Speaker 5: in week eleven against Green Bay two point four to

742
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Speaker 5: two seconds. Making decisions to get the ball out of

743
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Speaker 5: his hands. Now, another thing that that did, it really

744
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:09,600
Speaker 5: decreased the air yards per attempt to DJ Moore, who

745
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 5: was mainly doing his work on screen games in the outside.

746
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Speaker 5: So it kind of takes the downfield threat away from DJ,

747
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:17,880
Speaker 5: but it gets some catchable balls, something that he struggled

748
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Speaker 5: to get during that bad stretch for the Bears offense

749
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Speaker 5: where it's we don't necessarily we're trying to figure out

750
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Speaker 5: what this Bears team and offense is going to look like.

751
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:31,400
Speaker 5: It's kind of changed week to week, and so now

752
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Speaker 5: we get two weeks in a row of an offensive

753
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:38,319
Speaker 5: coordinator where some positive things to believe with it. They

754
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:40,719
Speaker 5: always they almost came away with the win against the

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Speaker 5: Green Bay Packers. So I'm excited to see just what

756
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Speaker 5: version of the Chicago Bears, we get Baldy well, I.

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Speaker 2: Mean to Greg's point here, Patrick, you know, they lost

758
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 2: to Detroit and the Rams back to back weeks, and

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00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:55,839
Speaker 2: they gave up basically thirty points a game, and all

760
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Speaker 2: that blitzing cost him, you know, when they played real

761
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 2: varying quarterbacks right now in Stafford and Golf, and so

762
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Speaker 2: he backed off I think because of that and said

763
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Speaker 2: we can still win playing more traditional style.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 2: I think they're gonna throw a lot of junk at

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Speaker 2: Caleb because the offense line in front of him is

767
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:17,759
Speaker 2: very good, and so you know, whether it's attacking Matt

768
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Speaker 2: pryor or attacking you know, Darnelle right or whoever. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I think there's some matchups that they know they can win,

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Speaker 2: so they might they might do a little bit more

771
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Speaker 2: than what they have done this week to see how

772
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Speaker 2: Kalbe handles it. Like, I know Caleb played better last week,

773
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:36,359
Speaker 2: but I don't know. Like I'm not a big fan

774
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Speaker 2: of the quarterback. Running nine times, he gained seventy yards.

775
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Speaker 2: A lot of them were scrambles. I understand a couple

776
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 2: of design read option runs. Okay, to get yourself you know,

777
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Speaker 2: you know, five or six yards on first down or

778
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Speaker 2: get a convert a third down.

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Speaker 3: But there's a lot of runs.

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Speaker 2: Where I mean, he's taken off at the first sign

781
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:57,480
Speaker 2: that there's some pressure and I think that's too soon still,

782
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Speaker 2: so we'll see how patient he is because this is

783
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Speaker 2: not the team you want to do.

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Speaker 4: That too, No, and that'll be tricky. And they've been

785
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Speaker 4: getting pressure without blitzing.

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Speaker 1: That's the thing is Jonathan Grenard and Van Ginkle like

787
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:11,879
Speaker 1: those are good players. It's a good test for Darnald too.

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Speaker 1: I'm really fascinated by this game. I'm looking forward to

789
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Speaker 1: it because Darnald's coming off a really great game against Tennessee.

790
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 1: But the running game hasn't been as consistent for the

791
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Speaker 1: Vikings lately. Maybe it was matchup base. We'll see, but

792
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:25,840
Speaker 1: this is a team the Bears, that you want to

793
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:28,800
Speaker 1: run the ball against it. They're a tough secondary to

794
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:32,839
Speaker 1: throw consistently against it. And man, the Vikings have they've

795
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:35,720
Speaker 1: just been about perfect beating everyone they should. You mentioned

796
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 1: the two losses like that was a road game in LA.

797
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:42,040
Speaker 1: Those are two tough games that they lost, but all

798
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Speaker 1: the teams that they should beat they have, which is

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Speaker 1: really impressive.

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Speaker 5: They are at eight and two.

801
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:51,160
Speaker 1: Also impressive Baldy's arms right there, he's showing them off

802
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:55,400
Speaker 1: the biceps. He's still getting the pumpin when he's not

803
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 1: by the pool or grinding Hape. We appreciate Shabaldi, Thank

804
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:01,360
Speaker 1: you for for joining us, Thanks.

805
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 2: For having Patrick. Good seeing my buddies up there in LA.

806
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:04,719
Speaker 3: Keep it down.

807
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 2: I hope to get out there one of these days,

808
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:10,440
Speaker 2: maybe going to playoffs or whatever. So call me anytime,

809
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:11,479
Speaker 2: Happy to join you, guys.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 3: Love breaking the stuff down.

812
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 1: I love having you. Appreciate Shabaldi And yes, okay, let

813
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:20,319
Speaker 1: us know back in La we'll be holding it down

814
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:22,960
Speaker 1: here in the Chris Westling podcast here. So we still

815
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:25,879
Speaker 1: got a bunch of games to go here, Patrick, Yeah,

816
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:26,560
Speaker 1: let's go to a.

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Speaker 5: Team that blew out the Atlanta Falcons a week ago. Now,

818
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 5: Bo Nicks and the Denver Broncos go on the road

819
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Speaker 5: where they are five and a half point favorites against

820
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Speaker 5: the Las Vegas Raiders and brock Bauers. Kevin Harlan aka God,

821
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Speaker 5: Trent Green and Melanie Collins on this game, looking forward

822
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Speaker 5: to will it be a game for them? Greg? Because

823
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Speaker 5: other than brock Bauers, what are we excited about in

824
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 5: Las Vegas right now. Nothing.

825
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:54,280
Speaker 4: I don't know what to say about the Raiders.

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Speaker 1: I used to kind of think when you see this

827
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Speaker 1: on shows, right get you get towards the end of

828
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:01,480
Speaker 1: the year, it's a bad team. You just start skipping

829
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Speaker 1: those teams, or it's just people that don't know what

830
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:05,719
Speaker 1: to say, and I'm like, well, that's lazy. You know,

831
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 1: you gotta there's always things to find that are interesting.

832
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 1: There's little angles to talk about. But this Raiders is

833
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:16,239
Speaker 1: tough for me. Beyond Bowers, who's awesome, it's tough.

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I don't know what to say about this team anymore.

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Speaker 1: To me, it's just more of a test of how

837
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 1: much is Sean Payton cooking can they can they be

838
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 1: a team that does what they did last week, which

839
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 1: is not just win the games you're supposed to win,

840
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Speaker 1: and they're they've gotten quite good at that, but cover

841
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:37,800
Speaker 1: five and a half points on the road in the division.

842
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:39,759
Speaker 1: Because that's a different sort of team that to me

843
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:41,960
Speaker 1: is a playoff team. I don't know if they win

844
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Speaker 1: games in the playoffs, but if you're the type of

845
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:47,359
Speaker 1: team that you're that reliable with a rookie quarterback on

846
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:50,399
Speaker 1: a week to week basis to take care of what

847
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 1: you need to because your line play is so good

848
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:55,560
Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball. I just give Payton

849
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:57,840
Speaker 1: all the credit in the world because he is creating

850
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 1: some open receivers for Nicks. I want to give Nicks credit.

851
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:03,360
Speaker 1: He's got three or four throws each game that he

852
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:05,759
Speaker 1: was not making early in the season. But also, man,

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna give him that much credit for the

854
00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:11,960
Speaker 1: two touchdowns where he just throws a smoke route, like

855
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Speaker 1: one of them's on third and goal at the fourteen,

856
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:16,319
Speaker 1: the type of throw that's like, why are you throwing that?

857
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 1: It's a give up play, And like Mims is just

858
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Speaker 1: walking into the end zone.

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Speaker 4: And there was another one like that. Like two things

860
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Speaker 4: can be true.

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Speaker 1: Peyton can be absolutely in his bag and Knicks can

862
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:27,520
Speaker 1: be doing what he needs to do.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, both things can be true. And that's why I

864
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Speaker 5: feel comfortable with the five and a half points, because

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Speaker 5: I think Denver does win the game, and we have

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Speaker 5: seen it late in several games this season, Sean Payton

867
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:40,440
Speaker 5: will run it up and I'm not sure not being.

868
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:43,120
Speaker 1: Critical on all, they're just now he hears about stats,

869
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:45,240
Speaker 1: and I like that he cares about the numbers.

870
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:49,319
Speaker 5: But hey, something interesting about the Raiders. I just pulled

871
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 5: up spot wreck. Jack Jones is gonna ben understated free

872
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 5: agent in twenty twenty six. Maybe there's that cold. We

873
00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:59,759
Speaker 5: could keep our eye on Max Crosby, who has been

874
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:04,160
Speaker 5: not not the typical Max Crosby type season, but he

875
00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 5: does lead the team in pressure sixteen quick pressures, which

876
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 5: is very important, very valuable, which is pressures under two

877
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:14,560
Speaker 5: and a half seconds. Other than that, we've got Gardner

878
00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 5: Minshew starting another game. We've discussed Brock Bauers, who had

879
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 5: a rookie record with thirteen catches and would have been

880
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 5: noticed more in the fantasy community if Taysom Hill didn't

881
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:24,959
Speaker 5: go nuclear.

882
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:27,719
Speaker 1: Notice by me in my fantasy community, I beat the

883
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 1: number one team in my league with Rock.

884
00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:33,800
Speaker 5: Yeah, congratulations to Brock Owers for powering Greg to the

885
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:36,560
Speaker 5: win there. But then on top of that, Bence Joseph's

886
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:40,719
Speaker 5: defense playing very very well at issue and again we

887
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:45,040
Speaker 5: have to asterisk the Kirk Cousins performances where I don't

888
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:46,800
Speaker 5: really know what was going on with the Atlanta Falcons

889
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:50,400
Speaker 5: offense this past week. Tough to evaluate whether that was

890
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:52,400
Speaker 5: mostly Broncos or mostly.

891
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:54,359
Speaker 1: I get Broncos credit because we haven't really seen that

892
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 1: consistently out of Kirk. I give it to the offense too, actually,

893
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:00,160
Speaker 1: because it's complimentary. I don't think Kirk played bad the

894
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:02,520
Speaker 1: first half of that game. There were just weren't many drives,

895
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:04,120
Speaker 1: and they settled for a couple of field goals and

896
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:07,120
Speaker 1: one ended in a funky way with the penalty, and

897
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:10,120
Speaker 1: then suddenly you're down twenty one to six and these

898
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 1: pass rushers are are just getting after you. I think

899
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:16,880
Speaker 1: the last thing I'll say on this game is just

900
00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:19,560
Speaker 1: I think Sean Payton and this team kind of had

901
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:21,680
Speaker 1: a statement of intent. They haven't given out many new,

902
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:24,759
Speaker 1: big contracts to hold over players since he got there.

903
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:25,680
Speaker 5: It's a bunch of new guys.

904
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:28,520
Speaker 1: They gave a big contract right before the season to

905
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:31,440
Speaker 1: the man with the belly, Quinn Minors, not a nationally

906
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:34,440
Speaker 1: known name, but just kind of a lunch pale, really

907
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:37,640
Speaker 1: strong guard, and that actually, I think was a little

908
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:39,719
Speaker 1: bit of a statement of intent of like, this is

909
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:41,880
Speaker 1: where we're going to try to be good, and they

910
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:42,440
Speaker 1: really have been.

911
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:44,239
Speaker 5: Yeah. I remember it because I was in Denver for

912
00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:46,439
Speaker 5: training camp and it was before there's a Tan deal,

913
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:49,200
Speaker 5: and I asked Patrick because like, hey, how much do

914
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:51,040
Speaker 5: you think about this is I'm not worried about it.

915
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:52,359
Speaker 5: And I was like, oh, okay, And then a few

916
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:55,120
Speaker 5: weeks later, Yeah, big money are going to number two

917
00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:57,239
Speaker 5: as well. So congratulations to a team that we think

918
00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:01,160
Speaker 5: is playoff bound in the in for Broncos, well maybe not.

919
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:03,839
Speaker 5: I don't know. Spoiler alert, we'll see I do. Oh, well,

920
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 5: there we go. We both think the Broncos are going

921
00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:06,040
Speaker 5: to the PA.

922
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:07,799
Speaker 1: That's which is bad news for the Bengals. That's kind

923
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:09,799
Speaker 1: of the team that they need to fall off.

924
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:12,480
Speaker 5: Let's go to a team that is not going to

925
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:16,080
Speaker 5: the playoffs in fact, might be making more changes. As

926
00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:19,600
Speaker 5: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers get Mike Evans back. They are

927
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:24,320
Speaker 5: six point favorites against Tommy DeVito and the New York Giants.

928
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:27,480
Speaker 5: Andrew Catalan, Tiki Barber, Jason mccordy and aj Ross on

929
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:29,880
Speaker 5: the call. The over under is forty one and a

930
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:32,239
Speaker 5: half points. Greg I was thinking for the past few

931
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:35,280
Speaker 5: weeks that this would be Drew Locke. There's questions about

932
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:38,200
Speaker 5: whether or not Drew Lock's contract plays into the decision,

933
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:39,800
Speaker 5: as well as Danny dimes.

934
00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 4: No, I don't buy that, not at all. I don't

935
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:43,280
Speaker 4: not even.

936
00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:45,000
Speaker 5: All Vito all the time.

937
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 1: No question that the Giants are not starting Tommy DeVito, Okay,

938
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:56,120
Speaker 1: because Drew Lock has like five hundred thousand dollars in incentives.

939
00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:57,960
Speaker 1: And by the way, if you looked at those incentives,

940
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 1: the incentives are based on Drew Lock being great. He's

941
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 1: not like he wasn't even gonna hit those and said,

942
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:05,680
Speaker 1: I don't buy that for a second. I truly believe

943
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:09,320
Speaker 1: Dr Brian Dable does not like Drew Lock like he

944
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:12,480
Speaker 1: doesn't it doesn't like a few people, this is, this is,

945
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:16,399
Speaker 1: and he likes Timmy DeVito. Yeah, so I truly believe

946
00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:19,600
Speaker 1: he does not like how Drew Block Drew Locke plays football,

947
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:22,560
Speaker 1: maybe even personally with some of the ways that they've

948
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 1: I've just been noticing some of the little things they say.

949
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:27,480
Speaker 5: I just something's going on there. It's weird. Yeah, and

950
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:29,719
Speaker 5: it's it's been it's been a couple of years, and

951
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 5: they do it. Uh, start de Vito at home against

952
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:38,080
Speaker 5: a Bucks team that has been fighting, Greg scrapping and

953
00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:40,799
Speaker 5: calling since Chris Godwin and Mike Evans go down, and

954
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:44,160
Speaker 5: that loss to the Baltimore Ravens. Mike Evans practicing this week,

955
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:48,120
Speaker 5: the big piece of the offense literally and figuratively comes back.

956
00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:52,520
Speaker 5: MVP Baker back right with Mike Evans back.

957
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:55,239
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go that far, but it's funny since

958
00:44:55,239 --> 00:44:57,719
Speaker 1: I gave you the most grief about talking to him

959
00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:01,320
Speaker 1: about the m v P. I actually think on balance

960
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:04,799
Speaker 1: he's played better more consistently. You know who he is

961
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:07,120
Speaker 1: on a week to week basis. The numbers are great.

962
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:09,080
Speaker 1: There was that game against the forty nine ers before

963
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:11,439
Speaker 1: Thereby where at a certain point it was like, Okay,

964
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:14,520
Speaker 1: the ball's coming out too quick, like he was barely

965
00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:16,319
Speaker 1: holding it. It was like a touch pass. He was

966
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:18,680
Speaker 1: getting the snap and immediately it's just like it was

967
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:20,960
Speaker 1: like a push pass. And it was like, it's hard

968
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:23,160
Speaker 1: to build an offense that way, like it's all running

969
00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:26,240
Speaker 1: backs and tight ends because they're wide receivers. Just aren't

970
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:29,400
Speaker 1: those dudes. But now you get that dude back. And

971
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:33,480
Speaker 1: I mentioned Puka and aj Brown, the difference between when

972
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:35,520
Speaker 1: they're on the field and not. I don't think Mike

973
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:39,000
Speaker 1: Evans is at that level anymore. I think that's fair

974
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:41,759
Speaker 1: to say, but he's close and for this team. He's

975
00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:47,399
Speaker 1: so important and what a great week. My most lukewarm take,

976
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:49,320
Speaker 1: because I don't think it's that how to take is

977
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:51,080
Speaker 1: that the Bucks are still going to win this division.

978
00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:54,960
Speaker 1: Maybe that's a medium take. I'm gonna put it out

979
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:56,560
Speaker 1: there on Blue Sky and see what people think.

980
00:45:56,640 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 5: It was much warmer before the Falcons went and got.

981
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:03,240
Speaker 1: Dominant, right, But that's what I was expecting to start happening,

982
00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 1: Not dominant, but just them to come back to earth.

983
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:08,040
Speaker 5: One thing that's really come back to earth is the

984
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:12,280
Speaker 5: opportunity for Malik Neighbors. Since week five, Darius Slayton's actually

985
00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:16,520
Speaker 5: the leading receiver on this team. Is that probably also

986
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:19,720
Speaker 5: Advito's spot. Do we go to Tommy Cutlets because Dimes

987
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:23,440
Speaker 5: was not feeding Malik. That's an interesting theory.

988
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:25,640
Speaker 1: I just got to imagine it's something to do with

989
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:31,080
Speaker 1: the defenses and how they're coming after Neighbors, although they

990
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:32,880
Speaker 1: managed to get it to him earlier. I mean, Dimes

991
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:36,240
Speaker 1: wasn't hitting balls down the field. I don't know if Dafedo, well.

992
00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:38,359
Speaker 5: Both of them on the Flicker.

993
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:40,600
Speaker 1: Right, I don't know if Davido will I know Dexter

994
00:46:40,680 --> 00:46:43,399
Speaker 1: Lawrence said that's my best friend on the team. He's

995
00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 1: also the best quarterback on the team. They came in

996
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:49,359
Speaker 1: together in that draft class that Dave Gettleman, you know,

997
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:52,160
Speaker 1: probably set the franchise back a little with that pick

998
00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:55,440
Speaker 1: with Daniel Jones and yet got it all pro with

999
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:58,719
Speaker 1: pick number seventeen. So that's you know, batt in five hundred.

1000
00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:02,279
Speaker 1: That's not that bad for for drafting. I really want

1001
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:05,040
Speaker 1: to see them take advantage now that Evans is on

1002
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:08,280
Speaker 1: the field of how good these running backs are playing.

1003
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:10,920
Speaker 1: I'm really impressed by Bucky Irving and Rassadwahy. It is

1004
00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:14,000
Speaker 1: a really nice combination. They're complementary. Sad White is so

1005
00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:17,919
Speaker 1: good on passing downs, really good pass blocker. Irving makes

1006
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:20,879
Speaker 1: people miss These are the bizarro Bucks. It's all about

1007
00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:23,520
Speaker 1: the running backs again, and I hope that their defense

1008
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:26,120
Speaker 1: comes out of the by with some solutions because they

1009
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:28,440
Speaker 1: just it just wasn't the Bucks defense were used to seeing.

1010
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:31,359
Speaker 1: Antoine Winfield was not the Antoine Winfield we're used to see.

1011
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:33,520
Speaker 1: He he I don't think has been healthy this year,

1012
00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 1: so hopefully the week off helps him, and I think

1013
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:37,399
Speaker 1: it was a hamstring injury that he was playing through.

1014
00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:40,520
Speaker 5: It. It's an interesting bind that when it comes in

1015
00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:42,840
Speaker 5: where you at least coming into the game, you see

1016
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:45,440
Speaker 5: the game script. If it's a passing game script, then

1017
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:47,480
Speaker 5: you know Rashad White. If it's a rushing game script,

1018
00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:48,919
Speaker 5: you know Bucky Irving. But do you want to tip

1019
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:51,960
Speaker 5: the plays by having them back there and doing that?

1020
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:54,799
Speaker 5: And how did they approach that? Not as much we

1021
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:56,719
Speaker 5: think of a problem.

1022
00:47:56,719 --> 00:47:59,560
Speaker 1: I'm go make a run Bucks, I'm on with six points, Greg,

1023
00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:03,000
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm gonna I'll take the Giants covering that

1024
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:05,600
Speaker 1: six on game debut, and I'm on a heater right

1025
00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:06,919
Speaker 1: now on game debuts.

1026
00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:07,080
Speaker 5: So watch out.

1027
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:08,880
Speaker 1: But I still would take the Bucks to win this

1028
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:12,160
Speaker 1: game and start beating the poor sisters of the NFL.

1029
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 4: You got the Panthers, you got the Raiders next, Like,

1030
00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:15,000
Speaker 4: let's stack some wins.

1031
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:17,320
Speaker 5: But Cutlets does not have the Giants in that category.

1032
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:20,319
Speaker 5: Greg Rosenhall a believer. Maybe I can talk Greg into

1033
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:24,680
Speaker 5: picking the Giants. No chance. Speaking of teams that Greg

1034
00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:28,200
Speaker 5: loves the New England Patriots at the Miami Dolphins, who

1035
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:31,800
Speaker 5: are a seven and a half point favorite. Spirodinis, Adam

1036
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:35,160
Speaker 5: Marchiletta and our friend a Dita Kikabwala on the call

1037
00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:40,680
Speaker 5: the Dolphins defense playing spectacularly greg in these past few weeks.

1038
00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:43,880
Speaker 5: To go with a complimentary performance, but by their offense

1039
00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:46,480
Speaker 5: where two in company taking care of the ball? John

1040
00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:50,719
Speaker 5: who Smith really getting involved? Is Drake May enough to

1041
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:52,719
Speaker 5: beat the Dolphins?

1042
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:56,760
Speaker 1: Probably not, because I think Miami just has better personnel

1043
00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 1: and better coaching overall. He went back and forth Jordan

1044
00:49:01,239 --> 00:49:03,640
Speaker 1: Rodrigue and I about Alex Van Pelt on the last

1045
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:06,520
Speaker 1: show and at you know what, they have made more sense.

1046
00:49:06,560 --> 00:49:09,239
Speaker 1: They've looked like an NFL offense, and maybe give him

1047
00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:12,080
Speaker 1: some grace to that. It took a little while to

1048
00:49:12,120 --> 00:49:14,080
Speaker 1: get it going. You got the new quarterback. But I

1049
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:15,920
Speaker 1: think it's mostly Drake May making them look better. But

1050
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:18,719
Speaker 1: it has been better. They're finding ways to get to

1051
00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:21,359
Speaker 1: Mario Douglas and Kendrick Bourne open, and those are your

1052
00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:24,640
Speaker 1: two best players. Kendrick Bourne makes a huge difference on

1053
00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:27,600
Speaker 1: this offense. He didn't play a snap. No one cares

1054
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:29,480
Speaker 1: about the Patriots, but he didn't play a snap two

1055
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:32,480
Speaker 1: weeks ago, and like no one talked about it. I'm

1056
00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:35,319
Speaker 1: sure it was like a team discipline move, and yet

1057
00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:39,440
Speaker 1: there was like no reporting on it whatsoever. Anyways, I

1058
00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:41,640
Speaker 1: don't know if the Dolphins defense is playing that well.

1059
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:44,719
Speaker 1: I don't think they played well last week. Actually, you

1060
00:49:44,719 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 1: give up four straight drives of like fourteen plays to

1061
00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:49,799
Speaker 1: the Raiders and give up a lot of points for drive.

1062
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:50,080
Speaker 5: I know.

1063
00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:52,160
Speaker 1: I don't think they played that well. They're a very

1064
00:49:52,239 --> 00:49:56,440
Speaker 1: unpredictable group. Jalen Ramsey is playing great. Their linebackers kind

1065
00:49:56,440 --> 00:49:58,800
Speaker 1: of like the Seahawks. They figured it out. They're different

1066
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:01,799
Speaker 1: with Seler in cam in there together. Top Robinson's playing better.

1067
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:03,640
Speaker 1: So I'm talking myself into it, but I do not

1068
00:50:03,680 --> 00:50:07,440
Speaker 1: think that was a good performance against Gardner Minshew. How

1069
00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:10,440
Speaker 1: do you let brock Bauers just be open? He's the

1070
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:10,879
Speaker 1: only guy.

1071
00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:13,600
Speaker 5: Well, maybe Jacobe Myers is just too much of a factor.

1072
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:15,640
Speaker 5: They get him back. I do want to shout out

1073
00:50:15,960 --> 00:50:20,680
Speaker 5: seventeen year veteran Kalaiis Campbell, top eleven in pressure rate

1074
00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:24,359
Speaker 5: among defensive tackles this season, still doing it, playing at

1075
00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:26,800
Speaker 5: a very high level. I'm glad that both Steve and

1076
00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:28,640
Speaker 5: Jordan were able to tag team you to get you

1077
00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:33,120
Speaker 5: off of this Alex Van Pelt mission of justice where

1078
00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:36,000
Speaker 5: you were bemoaning it and now here we are a

1079
00:50:36,040 --> 00:50:36,480
Speaker 5: week later.

1080
00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:39,400
Speaker 1: Oh, I don't feel that much differently. Their offensive lines

1081
00:50:40,120 --> 00:50:42,040
Speaker 1: still trash. I'm just saying it looks more like an

1082
00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:45,960
Speaker 1: NFL offense. It makes a little more sense me. By

1083
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:49,680
Speaker 1: the way, we asked Anthony Weaver, the defensive coordinator of

1084
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:52,520
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins, on this very program, NFL Daily, about

1085
00:50:52,600 --> 00:50:54,759
Speaker 1: Kalays Campbell. He had some great stuff and that's going

1086
00:50:54,840 --> 00:50:57,759
Speaker 1: to be part of the Thursday night I'm looking recap show,

1087
00:50:57,880 --> 00:51:01,640
Speaker 1: so check listen for that. This was the game Christian

1088
00:51:01,640 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 1: Gonzalez's rookie year, which made me and plenty of film

1089
00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:09,560
Speaker 1: watchers believe that this young man could be a really

1090
00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:13,400
Speaker 1: special pro because he played man to man on Tyreek

1091
00:51:13,719 --> 00:51:15,399
Speaker 1: for most of that game, and you just don't see

1092
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:17,479
Speaker 1: that Tyreek got one on him, but for the most

1093
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:20,920
Speaker 1: part he really battled. So I'm really looking forward to that.

1094
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:23,919
Speaker 1: They didn't use Gonzales that way against pokin Akua last

1095
00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:26,480
Speaker 1: week and everyone got all up in arms about it,

1096
00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:28,759
Speaker 1: so we'll see if that's what they do this week.

1097
00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:31,640
Speaker 1: That would be really fun because he's been a little

1098
00:51:31,719 --> 00:51:34,560
Speaker 1: under the radar, but I still have all my Christian

1099
00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:37,080
Speaker 1: Gonzales stock. I think he's been fantastic this year. If

1100
00:51:37,120 --> 00:51:39,359
Speaker 1: he doesn't make the Pro Bowl this year, he will

1101
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:41,239
Speaker 1: in future years, and I think he could make it

1102
00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:42,799
Speaker 1: this year, that's how good he's been.

1103
00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:46,520
Speaker 5: The foundational pieces. Greg loves some Christian Gonzales, Drake May.

1104
00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:50,840
Speaker 5: We'll see how things go for those England patriots looking forward.

1105
00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:53,279
Speaker 4: Speaking of Alexy and Pale, I'm glad you brought this up.

1106
00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:59,440
Speaker 1: Okay, get him, I'm not getting him, Oh okay. There

1107
00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:03,040
Speaker 1: was a story by Albert Breer, our old coworker, that

1108
00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:08,440
Speaker 1: Robert Kraft was calling around asking like who would be

1109
00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:12,400
Speaker 1: the right offensive mind to pair with Drake May. And

1110
00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:16,600
Speaker 1: this really got under Drodmeo's skin to the point where

1111
00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:21,560
Speaker 1: he addressed it publicly, I believe multiple times and once

1112
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:24,560
Speaker 1: I think, even unprompted about just these reports are totally

1113
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:27,560
Speaker 1: this is bogus. And I believe in my guy and

1114
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:30,400
Speaker 1: Van Pell, and he's been really pumping up Van Pelt

1115
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:31,839
Speaker 1: that he should get a lot of the credit, and

1116
00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:34,520
Speaker 1: we love Van Pell. And it felt a little bit

1117
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:38,000
Speaker 1: like a DOFT protest. Too much situation, but just interesting

1118
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:40,359
Speaker 1: that maybe me and Robert Craft are on the same

1119
00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:43,120
Speaker 1: page here. He might be looking around to see or

1120
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 1: just calls folks. Has it got out there? I know

1121
00:52:48,239 --> 00:52:50,520
Speaker 1: how the game is played. I mean, it's interesting that

1122
00:52:50,520 --> 00:52:52,840
Speaker 1: that is just out there. Let's take a quick break,

1123
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:56,080
Speaker 1: because we got more games to get to a fun game.

1124
00:52:56,120 --> 00:52:58,360
Speaker 1: I said, all the good games were up top, but

1125
00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:01,600
Speaker 1: a fun game coming up the Lions and the Colts.

1126
00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:15,640
Speaker 1: Back after after this, back on NFL Daily, I feel

1127
00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:18,520
Speaker 1: bad because I think I took this game in terms

1128
00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:22,239
Speaker 1: of our assignments on Sunday, hoping that Colts Lions.

1129
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:24,799
Speaker 5: It's fun. It's a fun game, A fun game with

1130
00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:27,600
Speaker 5: a couple of teams. The Detroit Lions seven and a

1131
00:53:27,640 --> 00:53:30,640
Speaker 5: half point favorites against Anthony Richardson, coming off a win

1132
00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:33,800
Speaker 5: against the Jets that I loved and hated because of

1133
00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:36,480
Speaker 5: a dumb pick that I made fifty and a half

1134
00:53:36,760 --> 00:53:39,320
Speaker 5: the over under Kenny Albert, Jonathan Bilba, and Meghan A.

1135
00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:43,400
Speaker 5: Leeviy get to watch Greg. This Detroit Lions offense that,

1136
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:46,920
Speaker 5: aside from that random night Sunday night in Houston, has

1137
00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:51,000
Speaker 5: been on fire for a month plus. A'mon Ross Saint

1138
00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:54,200
Speaker 5: Brown looking to extend his touchdown streak to nine games.

1139
00:53:54,480 --> 00:53:59,720
Speaker 5: He's already got a franchise. Wow, this what do Anthony

1140
00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:02,040
Speaker 5: rig So? Then the Colts and the Colts defense and

1141
00:54:02,160 --> 00:54:05,279
Speaker 5: Gus Bradley, How can they contend with this juggernaut right now?

1142
00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:07,200
Speaker 4: Greg, I don't think they can.

1143
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:10,160
Speaker 1: Defensively, We're at the point where you see seven and

1144
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:13,279
Speaker 1: a half for the Lions on the road against a

1145
00:54:13,360 --> 00:54:15,680
Speaker 1: competitive team, like an average team is what I would

1146
00:54:15,719 --> 00:54:18,640
Speaker 1: call the Colts, and you think, like that's probably not enough,

1147
00:54:18,680 --> 00:54:22,080
Speaker 1: like cause just on that side of the ball, it's

1148
00:54:22,080 --> 00:54:27,560
Speaker 1: always it's always a mismatch. DVA numbers go back to

1149
00:54:27,640 --> 00:54:30,040
Speaker 1: the eighties or to I think the late seventies now,

1150
00:54:30,120 --> 00:54:32,760
Speaker 1: and that's like a total efficiency metric that I really

1151
00:54:32,800 --> 00:54:35,520
Speaker 1: love that evalue its play by play. It takes opponents

1152
00:54:35,520 --> 00:54:40,600
Speaker 1: into account. Through ten weeks of the season, they're third

1153
00:54:40,640 --> 00:54:42,880
Speaker 1: all time. The two teams ahead of them were the

1154
00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:47,120
Speaker 1: seven Patriots and the ninety three Washington team, which are

1155
00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:48,960
Speaker 1: two of the greatest teams of all time, or was

1156
00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:53,680
Speaker 1: it the ninety one team in Washington? Like, there's no

1157
00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:57,279
Speaker 1: chance the Colts have enough answers defensively. Now the other

1158
00:54:57,320 --> 00:54:59,640
Speaker 1: side of the ball is more interesting, and the Colts

1159
00:54:59,680 --> 00:55:02,239
Speaker 1: defense I think has played better. But let's not get

1160
00:55:02,239 --> 00:55:05,040
Speaker 1: carried away, like the Jets put up twenty seven points

1161
00:55:05,080 --> 00:55:08,560
Speaker 1: in the end against them. This Colts defense to me

1162
00:55:09,040 --> 00:55:13,200
Speaker 1: is hoping to be average and like the Lions, they

1163
00:55:13,320 --> 00:55:15,560
Speaker 1: just It's the most consistent thing in the world. By

1164
00:55:15,560 --> 00:55:18,080
Speaker 1: the way, is if you own Jamiir Gibbs and David

1165
00:55:18,120 --> 00:55:21,160
Speaker 1: Montgomery and fantasy like my son does he drafting them both,

1166
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:23,960
Speaker 1: like literally every single week they come through.

1167
00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:26,040
Speaker 4: Every single week they come through.

1168
00:55:26,120 --> 00:55:29,880
Speaker 5: Yeah, the highest rush success rate on design runs this season,

1169
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:33,520
Speaker 5: where they only get contacted behind the line of scrimmage

1170
00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:37,160
Speaker 5: thirty five percent of the time. It's and with both

1171
00:55:37,239 --> 00:55:39,319
Speaker 5: David Montgomery and Jamior Gibbs, who can make you miss

1172
00:55:39,680 --> 00:55:42,359
Speaker 5: in the open field in two different ways. I think

1173
00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:45,520
Speaker 5: people kind of conceptualize Jamiir Gibbs as the home run hitter,

1174
00:55:45,680 --> 00:55:48,480
Speaker 5: but when David Montgomery's breaking tackles like he is, I mean,

1175
00:55:48,520 --> 00:55:51,200
Speaker 5: you get explosive plays off of that as well. That

1176
00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:55,399
Speaker 5: combined with golf and i'man Ross Saint Brown JMO comes

1177
00:55:55,440 --> 00:55:57,799
Speaker 5: back from the suspension, he scores the long time great.

1178
00:55:58,120 --> 00:56:00,799
Speaker 5: It's there's so much to deal with. Not to mention

1179
00:56:00,920 --> 00:56:03,960
Speaker 5: Sam Laporta, I guess I am mentioning here Tim Patrick

1180
00:56:03,960 --> 00:56:05,719
Speaker 5: flashing across the screen as well.

1181
00:56:05,800 --> 00:56:08,880
Speaker 1: Like they're indoors. I always like them a little better indoors.

1182
00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:11,399
Speaker 1: When I like any offense better indoors than they will

1183
00:56:11,440 --> 00:56:14,080
Speaker 1: be indoors, maybe they'll maybe they'll open up the roupe

1184
00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:16,240
Speaker 1: at Lucasfield. The other side of the ball is more interestingly,

1185
00:56:16,400 --> 00:56:21,439
Speaker 1: what do you think about Jonathan Taylor needing to get going,

1186
00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:24,200
Speaker 1: because actual he actually really didn't against these was kind

1187
00:56:24,239 --> 00:56:28,240
Speaker 1: of concerning. Clearly, Sheen Steiken went into that game saying,

1188
00:56:28,320 --> 00:56:30,400
Speaker 1: we're gonna win by running the ball. The very first

1189
00:56:30,400 --> 00:56:33,640
Speaker 1: play of the game was a quarterback power run to

1190
00:56:33,680 --> 00:56:34,640
Speaker 1: the outfit outside.

1191
00:56:34,640 --> 00:56:35,239
Speaker 4: Didn't really work.

1192
00:56:35,280 --> 00:56:38,200
Speaker 1: To be honest, Anthony Richardson's runs didn't really work no

1193
00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:41,279
Speaker 1: other than the goal line runs. So that worries me

1194
00:56:41,320 --> 00:56:45,000
Speaker 1: because I think matchup wise, I think I'd much rather

1195
00:56:45,080 --> 00:56:48,000
Speaker 1: be a team that is passed first against the Lions.

1196
00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:51,000
Speaker 1: They're very good stopping the run. They're pretty tough up front.

1197
00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:52,759
Speaker 1: I think the best way to beat the Lions is

1198
00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:55,640
Speaker 1: a true drop back passer that can really sling it.

1199
00:56:55,640 --> 00:56:58,000
Speaker 1: And that's as good as Richardson was, and he hits

1200
00:56:58,040 --> 00:57:00,160
Speaker 1: them very difficult throws last week.

1201
00:57:00,160 --> 00:57:03,680
Speaker 5: That's a tough ask. Yeah, uh, throws with a high

1202
00:57:03,719 --> 00:57:06,800
Speaker 5: degree of difficulty. I think the completion percentage over expected

1203
00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:09,799
Speaker 5: in the positive side for Anthony Richardson. And I think

1204
00:57:10,200 --> 00:57:13,840
Speaker 5: this game at the very least changes, uh, the perception

1205
00:57:14,719 --> 00:57:18,360
Speaker 5: of Anthony Richardson where he had those those bad games

1206
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:21,360
Speaker 5: against good defenses. And then Joe Flacco comes in and

1207
00:57:21,760 --> 00:57:24,920
Speaker 5: of course that whole charade happens, but he gets his

1208
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:26,480
Speaker 5: job back, and here.

1209
00:57:26,400 --> 00:57:30,800
Speaker 1: Is that Claybohn victory lap on poor Joe. It's unseemly frankly,

1210
00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:31,880
Speaker 1: you know it's not.

1211
00:57:31,960 --> 00:57:35,600
Speaker 5: It's not on Joe Flacco. This is not nothing personal against.

1212
00:57:35,960 --> 00:57:38,640
Speaker 5: I'm just evaluating the things that I see, much as

1213
00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:40,400
Speaker 5: the way that you feel.

1214
00:57:40,200 --> 00:57:44,320
Speaker 1: About I love I love I love seeing Patrick like

1215
00:57:44,760 --> 00:57:46,080
Speaker 1: subtly spike the football.

1216
00:57:46,080 --> 00:57:47,720
Speaker 4: You're just so professional about it that.

1217
00:57:47,800 --> 00:57:51,600
Speaker 5: I wouldn't say that I will literally spike of football.

1218
00:57:51,640 --> 00:57:54,440
Speaker 5: I'm just I'm glad he's playing. Glad he's back playing.

1219
00:57:54,560 --> 00:57:57,680
Speaker 5: He gets a chance to develop and be I think

1220
00:57:57,680 --> 00:58:00,560
Speaker 5: the player that that he can be. And when it

1221
00:58:00,600 --> 00:58:03,840
Speaker 5: doesn't work against the Detroit Lions, people aren't gonna say, oh,

1222
00:58:03,880 --> 00:58:05,640
Speaker 5: he's you know, he's not viable. It's like, oh, well,

1223
00:58:05,680 --> 00:58:07,960
Speaker 5: he's playing against a good football team. The other team's

1224
00:58:07,960 --> 00:58:10,560
Speaker 5: going up and down the field at will we just

1225
00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:11,840
Speaker 5: need to give him some time. Yeah.

1226
00:58:11,840 --> 00:58:15,360
Speaker 1: The Lions rush defense is fourth in success rate over

1227
00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:19,240
Speaker 1: the last month. They've got playmaking safeties who love to

1228
00:58:19,280 --> 00:58:22,280
Speaker 1: come down, especially Brian branch in the in the box.

1229
00:58:22,320 --> 00:58:25,120
Speaker 1: So I do think this is a tough matchup, like

1230
00:58:25,120 --> 00:58:27,320
Speaker 1: like I said, because of just the way that I

1231
00:58:27,320 --> 00:58:29,280
Speaker 1: think you need to be able to beat the Lions.

1232
00:58:29,320 --> 00:58:31,320
Speaker 1: And I do not think this will be the fourth

1233
00:58:31,360 --> 00:58:34,040
Speaker 1: game that the Lions win by more than thirty five points.

1234
00:58:34,240 --> 00:58:35,640
Speaker 4: I think it'll be much more competitive.

1235
00:58:35,640 --> 00:58:38,120
Speaker 1: But I do worry that Anthony Richardson, just because of

1236
00:58:38,120 --> 00:58:40,880
Speaker 1: the game script, will take a step back, and I

1237
00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:43,720
Speaker 1: would take the Lions, you know, winning by fifteen points

1238
00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:44,400
Speaker 1: something like that.

1239
00:58:44,640 --> 00:58:47,880
Speaker 5: A fantasy note for folks out there with six teams

1240
00:58:47,920 --> 00:58:50,200
Speaker 5: on a buy this week, if you would like to

1241
00:58:51,040 --> 00:58:53,960
Speaker 5: to lean hard on hoping for some Alec Pierce garbage

1242
00:58:53,960 --> 00:58:57,480
Speaker 5: tom points, I think this might be a good week

1243
00:58:58,160 --> 00:59:00,640
Speaker 5: to do that if he is available in league. Let's

1244
00:59:00,640 --> 00:59:04,240
Speaker 5: go to another team in the AFC South, the Houston

1245
00:59:04,280 --> 00:59:07,520
Speaker 5: Texans at home against the Tennessee Titans, a divisional matchup.

1246
00:59:07,800 --> 00:59:10,480
Speaker 5: They are eight and a half point favorites greg where

1247
00:59:10,480 --> 00:59:14,360
Speaker 5: they haven't really had those dominant wins that came late

1248
00:59:14,400 --> 00:59:17,440
Speaker 5: against the Dallas Cowboys. Going up against Will Levison Company

1249
00:59:17,680 --> 00:59:20,560
Speaker 5: over under forty two. Tom McCarthy, J Feeley, Ross Tucker

1250
00:59:20,560 --> 00:59:24,800
Speaker 5: and Amanda Ballyonis on the call. Does C. J. Stroud

1251
00:59:24,840 --> 00:59:28,600
Speaker 5: get things going back better in the second game with Nico.

1252
00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:30,840
Speaker 1: Collins better because I like the matchup because I think

1253
00:59:30,880 --> 00:59:34,120
Speaker 1: there's some familiarity that could go both ways, certainly, but

1254
00:59:34,200 --> 00:59:37,920
Speaker 1: they did sweep the Titans last year. One was in overtime,

1255
00:59:37,960 --> 00:59:41,640
Speaker 1: it was close. I think through you know, you'll be

1256
00:59:41,640 --> 00:59:45,000
Speaker 1: able to get some open receivers against Tennessee's that's how

1257
00:59:45,040 --> 00:59:46,960
Speaker 1: you beat him. But I think it's still a dangerous

1258
00:59:46,960 --> 00:59:50,640
Speaker 1: game for the Texans because I really doubt Joe Mixon

1259
00:59:50,720 --> 00:59:52,480
Speaker 1: is gonna get going in this game the title. That's

1260
00:59:52,480 --> 00:59:56,520
Speaker 1: the one thing that Titans really do well. They totally

1261
00:59:56,520 --> 00:59:59,360
Speaker 1: shut down Minnesota last week on the ground, and so

1262
00:59:59,440 --> 01:00:02,160
Speaker 1: you make Seach Stroud one dimensional, and I think he's

1263
01:00:02,200 --> 01:00:04,720
Speaker 1: better because of the matchup. But man, I just don't

1264
01:00:04,760 --> 01:00:08,920
Speaker 1: think the Texans not to give away our Man Versus

1265
01:00:08,960 --> 01:00:12,240
Speaker 1: Machine show on Friday, but man eight and a half points,

1266
01:00:12,520 --> 01:00:15,720
Speaker 1: the Texans to me are just not a team that

1267
01:00:16,160 --> 01:00:19,680
Speaker 1: should be that favored in a division matchup over anyone.

1268
01:00:19,720 --> 01:00:21,439
Speaker 1: I do think the Titans have played a little better

1269
01:00:21,480 --> 01:00:24,120
Speaker 1: with Will Levis at quarterback the last couple of weeks.

1270
01:00:24,120 --> 01:00:26,560
Speaker 1: Hasn't totally showed up on the scoreboard, I know, but

1271
01:00:26,960 --> 01:00:29,400
Speaker 1: eye tests wise, I do think they're a better team

1272
01:00:29,440 --> 01:00:31,640
Speaker 1: with him at quarterback. And I think it's a little

1273
01:00:31,640 --> 01:00:34,200
Speaker 1: bit of a dangerous game. So I am forecasting a

1274
01:00:34,200 --> 01:00:36,760
Speaker 1: little of what you can look forward to on that

1275
01:00:36,840 --> 01:00:38,680
Speaker 1: show on Friday, which, by the way, I mean, I'm

1276
01:00:38,720 --> 01:00:39,960
Speaker 1: gonna just keep honking about it.

1277
01:00:40,040 --> 01:00:40,320
Speaker 5: Do it.

1278
01:00:40,400 --> 01:00:42,920
Speaker 1: The two of us are fifteen and three combined of

1279
01:00:42,960 --> 01:00:44,400
Speaker 1: them last three weeks.

1280
01:00:44,520 --> 01:00:47,840
Speaker 5: That's pretty good. Yeah, better than better than pretty good.

1281
01:00:48,480 --> 01:00:51,520
Speaker 5: I do want to speaking of streaks in terms of

1282
01:00:51,560 --> 01:00:55,680
Speaker 5: making picks, would you be willing to survive on the

1283
01:00:55,720 --> 01:00:56,400
Speaker 5: Houston Tech.

1284
01:00:56,480 --> 01:00:58,240
Speaker 4: Oh, I kind of forgot about survivor.

1285
01:00:58,520 --> 01:01:01,240
Speaker 5: We don't have Steve wa so I guess you could

1286
01:01:01,240 --> 01:01:02,480
Speaker 5: put an asterisk on here.

1287
01:01:03,640 --> 01:01:05,320
Speaker 1: I'm going to go look at the teams that we've

1288
01:01:05,360 --> 01:01:07,920
Speaker 1: taken so far. I'm going to say no, because my

1289
01:01:08,040 --> 01:01:10,640
Speaker 1: vibes are that the Titans keep this game close.

1290
01:01:10,720 --> 01:01:12,040
Speaker 5: I think it's a dangerous game.

1291
01:01:12,120 --> 01:01:13,880
Speaker 1: I do not want to do the survivor, and I

1292
01:01:13,920 --> 01:01:17,160
Speaker 1: do see our next game I think is one that

1293
01:01:17,240 --> 01:01:20,320
Speaker 1: I feel even better about. And Eric, our producer, will

1294
01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:23,240
Speaker 1: check to make sure we haven't taken that team.

1295
01:01:23,240 --> 01:01:26,120
Speaker 5: If it is closer. The Texans interior offensive line giving

1296
01:01:26,200 --> 01:01:29,160
Speaker 5: up the third most pressures in the league this season,

1297
01:01:29,160 --> 01:01:31,400
Speaker 5: one hundred and twelve. They have to deal with Jeffrey

1298
01:01:31,440 --> 01:01:34,120
Speaker 5: Simmons coming in this week, and you mentioned Will Levis

1299
01:01:34,160 --> 01:01:36,920
Speaker 5: playing a little bit better. The penalties took off a

1300
01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:40,400
Speaker 5: Calvin Ridley, yes touchdown. Ever since Calvin Ridley went on

1301
01:01:40,400 --> 01:01:43,960
Speaker 5: a profanity lace tirade, more targets going in this direction.

1302
01:01:44,120 --> 01:01:47,320
Speaker 5: It's good. Things have worked out. And even if plays

1303
01:01:47,360 --> 01:01:49,920
Speaker 5: get called back, the vibes from initially going in the

1304
01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:52,920
Speaker 5: end zone, Yeah that's going they'll count well. He seems

1305
01:01:52,920 --> 01:01:54,840
Speaker 5: like a vibes guy. He has five hundred and fifty

1306
01:01:54,920 --> 01:01:58,440
Speaker 5: yards this season. Do you know that no one else

1307
01:01:58,480 --> 01:02:00,880
Speaker 5: has even half that on the Titans this season? Can

1308
01:02:00,920 --> 01:02:02,520
Speaker 5: you guess who their second leading receiver is?

1309
01:02:02,560 --> 01:02:02,600
Speaker 2: It?

1310
01:02:02,720 --> 01:02:05,520
Speaker 1: Nwy it is now? Yes, because he had ninety eight

1311
01:02:05,600 --> 01:02:07,920
Speaker 1: last week. Now he's up to like two twenty something.

1312
01:02:08,800 --> 01:02:09,880
Speaker 5: Does Nukes still on there?

1313
01:02:10,320 --> 01:02:13,240
Speaker 4: Nuke's like, yeah, he's one ninety two it's ugly.

1314
01:02:13,400 --> 01:02:16,680
Speaker 1: Lewis though surprisingly not in the top ten in the

1315
01:02:16,800 --> 01:02:19,920
Speaker 1: league and turnover worthy play percentage. It just was the

1316
01:02:19,920 --> 01:02:21,800
Speaker 1: interceptions that he had. He actually doesn't have that many

1317
01:02:21,840 --> 01:02:25,080
Speaker 1: interceptions either. He looks very mechanical to me. I don't

1318
01:02:25,080 --> 01:02:29,200
Speaker 1: think he's gonna be it. I don't think that's controversial.

1319
01:02:29,440 --> 01:02:31,560
Speaker 1: Like when he's like going through his reads, you can

1320
01:02:31,640 --> 01:02:34,640
Speaker 1: almost hear the coaching. It's like one to two to three.

1321
01:02:34,760 --> 01:02:36,760
Speaker 1: And he's taking a ton of sacks the last couple

1322
01:02:36,760 --> 01:02:40,120
Speaker 1: of weeks, I think in an effort to not make mistakes.

1323
01:02:40,120 --> 01:02:42,120
Speaker 1: And I think that's positive because when he's thrown it,

1324
01:02:42,440 --> 01:02:44,360
Speaker 1: he's thrown it pretty well. So what I think he

1325
01:02:44,480 --> 01:02:47,200
Speaker 1: is gonna be is an NFL quarterback that has a

1326
01:02:47,240 --> 01:02:51,920
Speaker 1: long career as a backup in maybe a frisky bridge

1327
01:02:52,280 --> 01:02:54,160
Speaker 1: type of guy. That's where I see him as. But

1328
01:02:54,160 --> 01:02:56,720
Speaker 1: I think that's an upgrade from Mason Rudolph at least.

1329
01:02:57,120 --> 01:02:59,800
Speaker 1: And it's division game. I just think their offensive line

1330
01:02:59,800 --> 01:03:02,240
Speaker 1: gets so confused too, like they never know who to block,

1331
01:03:02,320 --> 01:03:03,320
Speaker 1: and it's bad.

1332
01:03:04,080 --> 01:03:06,280
Speaker 5: He's gonna have to make the mistakes, Like you don't

1333
01:03:06,280 --> 01:03:09,600
Speaker 5: have a quarterback that is a Will Levis that that

1334
01:03:09,760 --> 01:03:11,960
Speaker 5: makes plays like you're gonna have to take some risks.

1335
01:03:12,280 --> 01:03:13,960
Speaker 5: We don't want to see safety Will Levis. We want

1336
01:03:13,960 --> 01:03:16,400
Speaker 5: to see the guy that you know gets people fired

1337
01:03:16,480 --> 01:03:19,480
Speaker 5: up and maybe he's gonna make pushes and fan bases

1338
01:03:19,480 --> 01:03:22,280
Speaker 5: to try to take somebody's job. Here, I have some

1339
01:03:22,320 --> 01:03:23,080
Speaker 5: breaking news for you.

1340
01:03:23,280 --> 01:03:26,960
Speaker 1: Eric has let us know the Texans, the Commanders, and

1341
01:03:27,040 --> 01:03:30,120
Speaker 1: the Chiefs have all been taken already this season for

1342
01:03:30,280 --> 01:03:32,360
Speaker 1: our survivors. So we're gonna have to We're go back.

1343
01:03:32,440 --> 01:03:34,320
Speaker 1: We're gonna go back. Let's wrap the show with that.

1344
01:03:34,480 --> 01:03:37,120
Speaker 1: So we'll think about it in between. Yeah, raps for

1345
01:03:37,120 --> 01:03:40,840
Speaker 1: all you with our with our final pick, let's go

1346
01:03:40,880 --> 01:03:42,280
Speaker 1: to Let's go to the NFCS game.

1347
01:03:42,320 --> 01:03:45,280
Speaker 5: Why not? Yeah, let's do it. Greg. It's a revenge

1348
01:03:45,400 --> 01:03:49,640
Speaker 5: opportunity for Dan Quinn, whose defense has had twenty five

1349
01:03:49,760 --> 01:03:54,520
Speaker 5: sacks since Week four, playing against Cooper Rush, who threw

1350
01:03:54,560 --> 01:03:57,440
Speaker 5: them all fifty five times for some reason. On Monday

1351
01:03:57,520 --> 01:04:01,320
Speaker 5: Night Football, the Washington Commanders eighteen and a half point favorite.

1352
01:04:01,440 --> 01:04:05,040
Speaker 5: Joe Davis, g Rag and Pam Oliver on the call, Greg,

1353
01:04:05,120 --> 01:04:09,240
Speaker 5: we saw Dallas kind of have a similar situation where

1354
01:04:09,280 --> 01:04:10,880
Speaker 5: they weren't able to run the ball, had to throw

1355
01:04:10,880 --> 01:04:14,680
Speaker 5: the ball a ton against Houston without Will Anderson Junior

1356
01:04:14,880 --> 01:04:17,200
Speaker 5: if he was playing, which he's back. As we look

1357
01:04:17,240 --> 01:04:19,320
Speaker 5: back to that last game, congratulations of the Texan. Good

1358
01:04:19,720 --> 01:04:23,200
Speaker 5: him back, But it could have been even worse, Greg,

1359
01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:24,680
Speaker 5: so much worse.

1360
01:04:25,000 --> 01:04:26,720
Speaker 1: It's one of the reasons why I don't really believe

1361
01:04:26,760 --> 01:04:29,120
Speaker 1: in the Texans that much right now. They just haven't

1362
01:04:29,160 --> 01:04:32,320
Speaker 1: shown it. The Commanders really haven't either. They haven't been

1363
01:04:32,360 --> 01:04:34,640
Speaker 1: at the level I think of concern of the Texans

1364
01:04:34,640 --> 01:04:38,040
Speaker 1: offense throughout the courts of the season. But the numbers

1365
01:04:38,080 --> 01:04:41,040
Speaker 1: are the numbers last two weeks under six yards per

1366
01:04:41,080 --> 01:04:43,600
Speaker 1: attempt for Jade and Daniels.

1367
01:04:43,600 --> 01:04:45,000
Speaker 5: I mean, that's far from where he was.

1368
01:04:45,280 --> 01:04:47,760
Speaker 1: He's taken six sacks over those two games, hadn't been

1369
01:04:47,800 --> 01:04:50,520
Speaker 1: taking a lot of sacks and provided next to no

1370
01:04:50,880 --> 01:04:54,560
Speaker 1: rushing value. People want to make it like it's the ribs.

1371
01:04:55,360 --> 01:04:58,040
Speaker 1: I have a hard time with that because just speculating

1372
01:04:58,080 --> 01:05:00,720
Speaker 1: about injuries is difficult, and the the first two games

1373
01:05:00,760 --> 01:05:04,200
Speaker 1: after that injury he played really well. So maybe it is.

1374
01:05:04,240 --> 01:05:07,280
Speaker 1: Maybe it isn't. I just think that's irrelevant to me

1375
01:05:07,440 --> 01:05:11,920
Speaker 1: right now. He's just not quite as accurate. The decision

1376
01:05:11,960 --> 01:05:15,040
Speaker 1: making hasn't been as comfortable. He's certainly not running well,

1377
01:05:15,080 --> 01:05:17,919
Speaker 1: but the run game overall hasn't been nearly as good

1378
01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:21,400
Speaker 1: in terms of Eckeler and Brian Robinson consistently getting five

1379
01:05:21,480 --> 01:05:23,400
Speaker 1: or six yards. So I do like that they have

1380
01:05:23,440 --> 01:05:25,640
Speaker 1: a little extra rest here. I think that makes a difference.

1381
01:05:25,640 --> 01:05:29,240
Speaker 1: And I do thank the schedule gods for serving up

1382
01:05:29,320 --> 01:05:31,760
Speaker 1: this Cowboys team at the perfect time, because I think

1383
01:05:31,800 --> 01:05:34,200
Speaker 1: this they need to get right game Washington, and not

1384
01:05:34,400 --> 01:05:37,200
Speaker 1: just they let's win the game, but let's feel good

1385
01:05:37,240 --> 01:05:41,360
Speaker 1: about like a twenty eight thirty two point offensive performance

1386
01:05:41,720 --> 01:05:44,440
Speaker 1: where we get the Cliff Kingsbury falling off a cliff

1387
01:05:44,480 --> 01:05:47,600
Speaker 1: people off our backs and just feel better about this season.

1388
01:05:47,760 --> 01:05:50,000
Speaker 5: And I do believe they'll be able to do that.

1389
01:05:50,240 --> 01:05:53,400
Speaker 5: I I didn't want to be greg I'm I think

1390
01:05:53,400 --> 01:05:56,240
Speaker 5: I'm one of those Cliff Kingsbury offense falling off the

1391
01:05:56,320 --> 01:05:57,760
Speaker 5: ledge at the end of the season. I might be

1392
01:05:57,760 --> 01:06:03,040
Speaker 5: too type people. Terry McLaurin, perhaps get Nuke Hopkins on

1393
01:06:03,080 --> 01:06:06,320
Speaker 5: the phone and see how to work this out. Maybe

1394
01:06:06,400 --> 01:06:08,960
Speaker 5: Nuke has some hindsight that he could turn into Terry's

1395
01:06:09,000 --> 01:06:12,240
Speaker 5: foresight because he's aligned as the left outside receiver on

1396
01:06:12,320 --> 01:06:15,280
Speaker 5: seventy five point eight percent of his snaps this season.

1397
01:06:15,720 --> 01:06:19,680
Speaker 5: Isolated on twenty six and a half percent of those snaps,

1398
01:06:19,720 --> 01:06:23,480
Speaker 5: we saw Quinnon Mitchell, who's over on that side all

1399
01:06:23,600 --> 01:06:27,240
Speaker 5: the time, the Washington commanders.

1400
01:06:26,800 --> 01:06:28,640
Speaker 4: Just with the safety too. It's not like it's just

1401
01:06:28,720 --> 01:06:29,280
Speaker 4: him just.

1402
01:06:29,320 --> 01:06:32,080
Speaker 5: Accepted that this was the matchup that we're gonna give

1403
01:06:32,160 --> 01:06:34,040
Speaker 5: Terry and I went and if you if you have

1404
01:06:34,280 --> 01:06:35,960
Speaker 5: NFL Pro I think you should if you're listening to

1405
01:06:36,000 --> 01:06:37,760
Speaker 5: our show, go use it because you can go to

1406
01:06:37,800 --> 01:06:39,960
Speaker 5: the film room and look at a whole bunch of

1407
01:06:39,960 --> 01:06:43,440
Speaker 5: different scenarios. Terry mcclarin has been in motion five times

1408
01:06:43,480 --> 01:06:43,960
Speaker 5: this season.

1409
01:06:44,000 --> 01:06:49,240
Speaker 1: Greg, that's concerning five and just thinking about this matchup too,

1410
01:06:49,520 --> 01:06:52,680
Speaker 1: you know, I guess maybe it's Trevon Diggs. I actually

1411
01:06:52,680 --> 01:06:55,200
Speaker 1: do think the Cowboys defense has been more competitive.

1412
01:06:55,680 --> 01:06:56,439
Speaker 5: It helps when you.

1413
01:06:56,440 --> 01:06:59,640
Speaker 1: Add Mike Goes back, but I just overall they've been

1414
01:06:59,640 --> 01:07:01,600
Speaker 1: more headed over the last couple of weeks, and they've

1415
01:07:01,640 --> 01:07:03,840
Speaker 1: just they hold on and they hold on until their

1416
01:07:03,840 --> 01:07:08,200
Speaker 1: offense just makes it impossible in their their doors get

1417
01:07:08,280 --> 01:07:10,240
Speaker 1: kicked in at the very end. But I think they've

1418
01:07:10,280 --> 01:07:13,640
Speaker 1: been more competitive. So this to me is a stay away.

1419
01:07:13,880 --> 01:07:16,320
Speaker 1: I mean, I want to watch it. Well, I just mean,

1420
01:07:16,400 --> 01:07:20,760
Speaker 1: like they're such big favorites and everything I've been saying

1421
01:07:20,800 --> 01:07:23,480
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are. They're the worst team in the NFL,

1422
01:07:23,600 --> 01:07:26,440
Speaker 1: and I stand by that they would be number thirty

1423
01:07:26,440 --> 01:07:28,520
Speaker 1: two for me. But I just want to go watch

1424
01:07:28,560 --> 01:07:30,560
Speaker 1: this game and I hope Washington's offense shows up.

1425
01:07:30,600 --> 01:07:32,360
Speaker 5: That's all. Well, it's the Cowboys, so you're gonna have

1426
01:07:32,400 --> 01:07:33,240
Speaker 5: a chance to watch it.

1427
01:07:33,760 --> 01:07:35,960
Speaker 1: No, I got the power of the Cowboys that they

1428
01:07:35,960 --> 01:07:38,320
Speaker 1: get g Reg in this game.

1429
01:07:38,400 --> 01:07:40,600
Speaker 5: Give me a break free money check and shout out

1430
01:07:40,600 --> 01:07:43,880
Speaker 5: to g Rec who isn't isn't pouting as it, just

1431
01:07:44,240 --> 01:07:47,680
Speaker 5: taking his operation work and putting in great work, good

1432
01:07:47,680 --> 01:07:51,760
Speaker 5: stuff on film. You'll be back on that squad any moment,

1433
01:07:52,040 --> 01:07:56,120
Speaker 5: g Reg. Let's go to our final game, Greg before

1434
01:07:56,160 --> 01:07:59,680
Speaker 5: we make our Survivor pick. It's not eligible for Survivor pick.

1435
01:08:00,120 --> 01:08:02,520
Speaker 5: Fun fact about this game. There's been a TikTok trend

1436
01:08:02,600 --> 01:08:07,560
Speaker 5: for weeks citing that the Kansas City Chiefs would fall

1437
01:08:07,600 --> 01:08:10,520
Speaker 5: in their first game to Bryce Young in the Carolina Panthers.

1438
01:08:10,560 --> 01:08:13,440
Speaker 5: Has been a fun meme. It did not happen because

1439
01:08:13,680 --> 01:08:16,080
Speaker 5: the Bills went head took care of business. Kansas City

1440
01:08:16,120 --> 01:08:19,160
Speaker 5: ten and a half point favorites at Carolina coming off

1441
01:08:19,160 --> 01:08:21,240
Speaker 5: of the buy with the over under a forty three

1442
01:08:21,320 --> 01:08:23,760
Speaker 5: iron eagle against. Shout out to my man who pointed

1443
01:08:23,800 --> 01:08:26,800
Speaker 5: out that I'm saying Big Bird's name wrong. It is,

1444
01:08:26,840 --> 01:08:28,519
Speaker 5: in fact iron I didn't know. I don't know why.

1445
01:08:28,720 --> 01:08:32,240
Speaker 5: I guess it's Rapaport's fault. Charles Davis and Evan Roshburn

1446
01:08:32,880 --> 01:08:36,040
Speaker 5: on the call. Jonathan Brooks may play in this game.

1447
01:08:36,120 --> 01:08:38,880
Speaker 5: That's fine, cause Carolina do this. Greg Does the Chiefs

1448
01:08:38,920 --> 01:08:39,800
Speaker 5: lose two in a row?

1449
01:08:40,600 --> 01:08:42,960
Speaker 4: Can Panthers win three in a row? I want to

1450
01:08:43,000 --> 01:08:43,400
Speaker 4: watch it.

1451
01:08:43,479 --> 01:08:43,799
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1452
01:08:43,880 --> 01:08:47,360
Speaker 1: Is the Bryce with Canals thing a thing? Because I've

1453
01:08:47,400 --> 01:08:49,680
Speaker 1: seen it. I've seen consistency. Now you're coming off of

1454
01:08:49,720 --> 01:08:52,479
Speaker 1: bye against a much tougher opponent than who they face

1455
01:08:52,600 --> 01:08:56,439
Speaker 1: so far, and that's that's what real quarterback growth is

1456
01:08:56,960 --> 01:09:00,479
Speaker 1: doing it on a week to week consistent base. And

1457
01:09:00,520 --> 01:09:03,599
Speaker 1: so I am intrigued to watch that. When the Panthers

1458
01:09:03,600 --> 01:09:03,880
Speaker 1: have the.

1459
01:09:03,800 --> 01:09:07,880
Speaker 5: Ball, and again this Chiefs defense doing things that we

1460
01:09:07,960 --> 01:09:11,479
Speaker 5: haven't seen them do. And all credit going to Buffalo

1461
01:09:12,040 --> 01:09:14,360
Speaker 5: for making the plays that they did, but that was

1462
01:09:14,479 --> 01:09:17,559
Speaker 5: just a rough performance by Spags squad on the road

1463
01:09:17,920 --> 01:09:20,920
Speaker 5: and here's a really let's be honest, an overmatched Panthers

1464
01:09:21,000 --> 01:09:24,320
Speaker 5: offense are going up against this group where.

1465
01:09:25,840 --> 01:09:28,680
Speaker 1: Good line coming off of bye? Yeah, I don't know,

1466
01:09:30,640 --> 01:09:32,639
Speaker 1: I'm not good do it? I mean, I'm not on TikTok.

1467
01:09:32,680 --> 01:09:33,559
Speaker 1: I'm too old for that.

1468
01:09:34,080 --> 01:09:35,320
Speaker 5: I'll post some of those. They're fun.

1469
01:09:36,720 --> 01:09:38,880
Speaker 1: Actually, I do think this is a big game for

1470
01:09:38,920 --> 01:09:42,479
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. Oh, just for how I feel about them? Like,

1471
01:09:42,680 --> 01:09:43,160
Speaker 1: how does it?

1472
01:09:43,200 --> 01:09:43,519
Speaker 5: I said?

1473
01:09:43,560 --> 01:09:48,439
Speaker 1: Great teams respond to losses, right, they respond, They come

1474
01:09:48,479 --> 01:09:51,120
Speaker 1: back the next week or the next game. If it's

1475
01:09:51,120 --> 01:09:54,200
Speaker 1: an NBA team, just a little more. It's just human nature,

1476
01:09:54,880 --> 01:09:56,960
Speaker 1: Like can we get a blowout? Can we get the

1477
01:09:57,080 --> 01:10:01,120
Speaker 1: Chiefs like with a great offensive performance I'm not even

1478
01:10:01,120 --> 01:10:04,920
Speaker 1: talking about the defense, Like can we get d Hop

1479
01:10:05,240 --> 01:10:09,720
Speaker 1: with like eight for one twenty? Can Patrick Mahomes have

1480
01:10:09,760 --> 01:10:12,920
Speaker 1: a good fantasy day for once? Ken Zavi are worthy?

1481
01:10:13,040 --> 01:10:16,479
Speaker 1: Like not make a big time mistake just for one game,

1482
01:10:16,600 --> 01:10:20,519
Speaker 1: look like the twenty like twenty one Chiefs or the

1483
01:10:20,520 --> 01:10:23,479
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen Chiefs, whatever, just do it for one game

1484
01:10:23,520 --> 01:10:25,519
Speaker 1: in Carolina. I don't think that's too much to ask.

1485
01:10:25,640 --> 01:10:26,920
Speaker 1: Do it do it for Greg?

1486
01:10:27,720 --> 01:10:32,400
Speaker 5: He needs to see these things to believe even Mahomes.

1487
01:10:32,439 --> 01:10:35,760
Speaker 1: I thought he was really improving this season, but he

1488
01:10:35,840 --> 01:10:37,639
Speaker 1: really did not have a great game against the Broncos.

1489
01:10:37,640 --> 01:10:38,400
Speaker 4: I thought he played well.

1490
01:10:38,360 --> 01:10:39,080
Speaker 5: Enough against the Bills.

1491
01:10:39,080 --> 01:10:42,000
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be smirch him or anything, but what

1492
01:10:42,080 --> 01:10:44,880
Speaker 1: I'm saying is a wow game. Give me that, because

1493
01:10:44,920 --> 01:10:47,519
Speaker 1: I know obviously they're capable of it and we'll probably

1494
01:10:47,560 --> 01:10:49,800
Speaker 1: see it eventually, But just give it to me at

1495
01:10:49,800 --> 01:10:54,600
Speaker 1: ten am and Bank of America Stadium. That's when I

1496
01:10:54,640 --> 01:10:58,679
Speaker 1: want it. When it's Charles Davis and not Tony Romo,

1497
01:10:58,760 --> 01:10:59,559
Speaker 1: that's what I want it.

1498
01:11:00,520 --> 01:11:02,439
Speaker 5: Show it to us, all right, Kansas City, and now

1499
01:11:02,479 --> 01:11:04,240
Speaker 5: we need to show you greck. We need to get

1500
01:11:04,280 --> 01:11:06,800
Speaker 5: all the way back, open up our first page and

1501
01:11:06,840 --> 01:11:09,599
Speaker 5: try to keep the survivor streak going e because, uh,

1502
01:11:09,840 --> 01:11:12,639
Speaker 5: we've been on We've been on a hot one. Okay.

1503
01:11:15,080 --> 01:11:19,080
Speaker 1: Do we believe in bow Nicks and the Broncos enough

1504
01:11:20,040 --> 01:11:22,759
Speaker 1: on the road in the division. The Buccaneers I believe

1505
01:11:22,800 --> 01:11:23,360
Speaker 1: are an option.

1506
01:11:24,920 --> 01:11:29,240
Speaker 5: But you love Cutlets, You're you're I do tell me, guy,

1507
01:11:29,560 --> 01:11:32,760
Speaker 5: I do not. I'm gonna run the tape back.

1508
01:11:32,800 --> 01:11:35,320
Speaker 1: Are the Dolphins available too? I'm sure we haven't taken

1509
01:11:35,400 --> 01:11:39,800
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. They have the Patriots. Okay, all three of

1510
01:11:39,800 --> 01:11:43,760
Speaker 1: those are available and being told Buccaneers, Dolphins.

1511
01:11:43,479 --> 01:11:46,160
Speaker 5: The Bucks on the road. The other two are division games.

1512
01:11:46,800 --> 01:11:48,840
Speaker 1: You want to go Bucks, Let's do it. Now, let's

1513
01:11:48,880 --> 01:11:50,920
Speaker 1: do it. I think that's what I feel best about too.

1514
01:11:50,960 --> 01:11:54,120
Speaker 5: But you talked me into the cutlass I was gonna take.

1515
01:11:54,160 --> 01:11:55,400
Speaker 5: I was gonna take the Broncos.

1516
01:11:56,120 --> 01:11:58,320
Speaker 4: Okay, should we do it? Do we believe that much?

1517
01:11:58,479 --> 01:12:01,960
Speaker 5: What do you guys think back there? Nicks phone Knicks

1518
01:12:01,960 --> 01:12:06,040
Speaker 5: thumbs up. Okay, we both leave on this show, Greg

1519
01:12:06,920 --> 01:12:10,280
Speaker 5: something about it doesn't feel right. Uh oh oh no,

1520
01:12:11,880 --> 01:12:14,519
Speaker 5: we'll blame Steve for not being here, Broncos fans if

1521
01:12:14,560 --> 01:12:17,920
Speaker 5: you lose this game, all that honkin that you've been

1522
01:12:17,920 --> 01:12:20,200
Speaker 5: doing in my mentions all season long.

1523
01:12:20,240 --> 01:12:23,280
Speaker 1: And then I send out like one video that was

1524
01:12:23,320 --> 01:12:25,679
Speaker 1: positive and they were like, oh, Greg finally said something

1525
01:12:25,760 --> 01:12:28,040
Speaker 1: positive for the first time since twenty fifteen.

1526
01:12:28,200 --> 01:12:30,000
Speaker 4: Well, they're finally giving me something positive.

1527
01:12:30,040 --> 01:12:31,000
Speaker 5: Bo Nicks was.

1528
01:12:30,960 --> 01:12:35,479
Speaker 1: The first AFC Offensive Player of the Week for Denver Broncos.

1529
01:12:34,960 --> 01:12:37,400
Speaker 5: Since Brandon Marshall.

1530
01:12:37,439 --> 01:12:40,760
Speaker 4: I don't know Trevor sime in, trev we were.

1531
01:12:40,720 --> 01:12:42,200
Speaker 5: All team Trev a million years ago.

1532
01:12:42,320 --> 01:12:44,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, Patrick and I when we bonded over being on

1533
01:12:44,520 --> 01:12:47,000
Speaker 1: Team Trev in the newsroom in twenty sixteen. That's when

1534
01:12:47,040 --> 01:12:51,280
Speaker 1: it last happened. Come through for US Broncos in Vegas.

1535
01:12:51,520 --> 01:12:55,680
Speaker 1: Fun show. We'll be back on Thursday night and like

1536
01:12:55,720 --> 01:12:57,840
Speaker 1: I said, yeah, we have the Anthony Weaver interviews. It's

1537
01:12:57,880 --> 01:13:00,519
Speaker 1: going to be part of that episode. But we will

1538
01:13:00,560 --> 01:13:05,000
Speaker 1: be recapping Steelers Browns, Steelers have a bad record on

1539
01:13:05,040 --> 01:13:05,679
Speaker 1: Thursday nights.

1540
01:13:05,920 --> 01:13:08,400
Speaker 5: Mike Tomlin on the road in the division, like it's.

1541
01:13:08,160 --> 01:13:09,439
Speaker 4: It's a thing. I think it's gonna be fun.

1542
01:13:09,479 --> 01:13:12,320
Speaker 1: Bo Wolf from p h l Y will be joining

1543
01:13:12,360 --> 01:13:15,800
Speaker 1: me and uh yeah when when we got Baldy.

1544
01:13:15,479 --> 01:13:16,759
Speaker 5: And he's not even by the pool.

1545
01:13:16,840 --> 01:13:20,120
Speaker 4: You know, football is back. See it Thursday