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Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast Needs a Trip to Hawaii

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Speaker 1: from the Chris Wesley Podcast Studio. It's around the NFL.

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Speaker 1: I'm Dan Kansas. We're not going anywhere, no nowhere, but

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Speaker 1: we are going somewhere London. We are Greg Rosenthal, Mark Sessler.

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Speaker 1: It is the long promised around the NFC and forty

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Speaker 1: eight minutes show. How exciting is that for all the

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Speaker 1: fans of the National Football Conference. I mean there are

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Speaker 1: people out that they're just like die hard NFC fans,

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Speaker 1: like you put one of those interconference They're they're like,

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Speaker 1: oh no, Mark, this is your type of talk show.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the podcast. Hello, how are you? Um? I

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Speaker 1: was just thinking about Hawaii. I would not I don't

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Speaker 1: think the three of us go together. We would go.

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Speaker 1: We would pick. We would take different islands. I take Hawaii.

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Speaker 1: I think I think we would Sharon Island. I mean

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Speaker 1: we're sharing a city. Different humans would would be. Um,

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Speaker 1: this is funny moment. We did a live hit with

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Speaker 1: mike yamic All on the Yammer on NFL Network and

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Speaker 1: I was pumping up the Jets, as I'm known to

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Speaker 1: do this time of year, and Greg wanted to really

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Speaker 1: zing the old Zeusa at the end and he said, hey, man,

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Speaker 1: you're such a Jets home or look, you're even wearing

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Speaker 1: a green shirt. I'm wearing a gray NFL Network Polo

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Speaker 1: color blind guy blew it on live TV. You know, well, no, no,

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Speaker 1: it was. It was such a bizarre comment because you're

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Speaker 1: just an adult who got a color wrong to a

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Speaker 1: striking degree. Where Mike Yam said nothing, I said nothing,

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Speaker 1: Dan said nothing until after green gray, and I would

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Speaker 1: throw like the blue grays in there. It definitely in

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Speaker 1: my biggest weak spot area. So it hit me where

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Speaker 1: it hurts. Um. But I think it's important. Um. I've

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Speaker 1: talked on this show many times about the under rep

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Speaker 1: presentation of the struggles of color blind the community out there,

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Speaker 1: and this was just another example. So I think there's

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Speaker 1: a little kid out there ten years old, maybe he

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Speaker 1: doesn't even know there's something wrong with him, and he's like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that is green, or he's like finally, like someone someone

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Speaker 1: in a real position of success that's overcome his obstacle

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Speaker 1: of position of success. Yeah, I like, I like that,

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Speaker 1: isn't it? It is cool though, Mark, because we've gotten

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Speaker 1: to know Greg quite well over the past ten years. Uh,

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Speaker 1: that there's one thing in the world that Greg cannot

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Speaker 1: have any takes on. You can't have any strong opinions.

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Speaker 1: He can't talk color. He just can't do it. Even

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Speaker 1: even in this hit, he did have a strong opinion

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Speaker 1: about it, and I wasn't I had I had prefaced

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Speaker 1: that with many different Jets Uh comments that Dan's a

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Speaker 1: homer like soccer. He picked the Jets And I say this,

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Speaker 1: I say this seriously to you. Yes, you have a

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Speaker 1: you have a slight disability, and it's not right for

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Speaker 1: Dan or Mark to poke fun at you about that.

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Speaker 1: It is it is your body, and your body is

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Speaker 1: functioning in your own way. Thank you. It's a failure

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Speaker 1: of your body. That's much friendship. I think it's funny

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Speaker 1: that you can't see colors. It's it's not true. I

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Speaker 1: can see them. They're just the shades are like a

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Speaker 1: big We're looking at the world. It's all black and white.

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Speaker 1: It's times of change. Now you must respect people's I'm

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Speaker 1: going to rein it in all right, we got a

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Speaker 1: big shot with Grave Digger. By the way, we've got

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Speaker 1: terrible news, right, you know, we we have our issues

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Speaker 1: with with Titans fans, and they come at me. I

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Speaker 1: know they've come at you guys at different times. Great,

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Speaker 1: they could just learn that how Landry towards a c

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Speaker 1: l and I could tell you're in a bad place.

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Speaker 1: I've been there, bro, I've been there. I get I

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Speaker 1: know where you're coming from. And I just want to say,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a tough day at the office, but

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Speaker 1: we got your back. Thanks guys. I appreciate that. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's just a crucial piece of the defense that the

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Speaker 1: guy they can do everything. But hey, next man up,

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Speaker 1: life goes on. Right you're dying. I mean he he

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Speaker 1: was one of the highest paid um edge players in

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Speaker 1: the Lakes. That's how much they believe in him. It

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Speaker 1: is a position with a lot of questions right now.

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Speaker 1: But the chuckle Monsters that was their name, right, tickle Monsters.

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Speaker 1: They must forge on because that's what a tickle monster,

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Speaker 1: and it's a fellow tickle monsters would do what choosed

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Speaker 1: to do. Isn't that the great thing and the worst

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Speaker 1: thing about being a true sports fan. You don't know

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Speaker 1: Harold Landry, It doesn't really change your life one way

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Speaker 1: or the other. Um about the Titans this season, how

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Speaker 1: they do and yet it just crushes us when something

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Speaker 1: like that happens. Yeah, well, you can feel empathy as

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Speaker 1: a human, I think even if you don't know them personally.

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Speaker 1: Upside Titans, Yes, they need some help of wide receiver

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Speaker 1: signed Josh Gordon. They did sign Josh Gordon to the

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Speaker 1: practice squad. They only have four receivers on the active

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Speaker 1: He also was a model citizen in Kansas City. And

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Speaker 1: by the way, what he ever only did wrong in Cleveland,

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Speaker 1: essentially the entire country is allowed to do at this point,

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Speaker 1: so maybe he can help it. I will not push

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Speaker 1: his career. But I can't have any more Josh Gordon conversations.

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Speaker 1: When's the last time he made like a play he

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Speaker 1: caught a pass for Kansas City in the last two years,

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Speaker 1: I think, I mean, yeah, it's a good spot for him.

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Speaker 1: He had his chance. But yes, I think in the

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Speaker 1: last place before more faith still in the Titans defense

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Speaker 1: and their defensive front. I think that's the strength of

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Speaker 1: with or without Josh Gordon. So yeah, I don't think

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Speaker 1: it's going to make a big difference. Are there any

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Speaker 1: dressers from your top one still out there that the

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Speaker 1: Titans could Look, I'm gonna go look. You know what.

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Speaker 1: They just signed Trey Flowers in Miami, which I thought

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Speaker 1: was a really nice move. He could still play the guitar,

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Speaker 1: as Dan would say. Last year a lot of injuries,

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Speaker 1: but I thought that was a nice move. But they

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Speaker 1: heard that Mark Gastineau is a staying in shape um

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Speaker 1: former pass rusher of the Jets. But you know, my

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Speaker 1: any edge rushers. Odo Beckham number eleven on the list

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Speaker 1: still out there Will Fuller. Of course, Eric Fisher is

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Speaker 1: not with a team yet. That's interesting. Sheldon Richardson and

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Speaker 1: Dominicans sue. Kevin King, the cornerback from the Packers, never

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Speaker 1: got signed in Dante Hightower without a job. I gotta

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Speaker 1: make a trade, ye make a move. Alright, let's now pivot.

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Speaker 1: It's time someone gives to a contract. I know he

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Speaker 1: still playing pretty well in the playoffs last year. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he seems like because he's friends with who's he friends

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Speaker 1: NFC South Panthers, Okay, Carolina Panthers are a team that

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Speaker 1: I think comes down to their offensive line. Teddy Bridgewater

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Speaker 1: and Sam Darneld played behind what I would say was

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Speaker 1: the bottom three offensive line and aggregate the last two years.

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Speaker 1: It is almost all new right now, but the coaching

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Speaker 1: Ekon really struggled in the preseason. Was a little bit

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Speaker 1: high pick. They have another pick, Christensen, who's now moving

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Speaker 1: the way said well, when Baker Mayfield in Cleveland was

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Speaker 1: There were moments though, when injuries mounted. I can think

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Speaker 1: fact that changed everything you thought about Baker Mayfield. That's

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Speaker 1: and it worked for Baker Mayfield at various points. And

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Speaker 1: But they really they're due to have some some proficiency.

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Speaker 1: And obviously if Christian McCaffrey is back as well, there

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Speaker 1: see this offense doing some things. Yeah, I agree. I

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Speaker 1: very thin. They have more Robbie Anderson McCaffrey. Oh, that's

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Speaker 1: pretty good. And the most teams have more exciting players

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Speaker 1: you could get, you know, d J Moore for what right?

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Speaker 1: Dj Moore, Robby Anderson mcguy. But that's three guys. You

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Speaker 1: That kind of shows they're a little desperate. They like

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Speaker 1: I do think that Baker Mayfield is an upgrade. I

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Speaker 1: I if you if he's protected and these weapons around

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Speaker 1: and work, Baker Mayfield I think has been devalued because

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Speaker 1: So they're in a lot of trouble if they don't

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Speaker 1: win at least the Bucks mark. I want you to

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Speaker 1: rank these three items in terms of concern level, peace

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Speaker 1: scale level surrounding the Bucks right now. One Item one,

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady stayed to mind and all this jazz about

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Speaker 1: the drama behind the scenes in his personal life, etcetera, etcetera,

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Speaker 1: And what it might mean to up plugged in Tom Brady.

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Speaker 1: Item too, the idea that's simply assuming Todd Bowles can

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Speaker 1: be Bruce Arians is entirely unproven. H Item three, the

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Speaker 1: loss of center Ryan Jensen and guard Aaron Stinney along

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Speaker 1: got the line number One, UM, so important. I got

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Speaker 1: an old quarterback. I know he's very good on his feet,

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Speaker 1: gonna struggle. Two was Bowls is he Arians? I don't

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Speaker 1: The Bruce Arians ran, So you just need Bowls to

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Speaker 1: pressure to put on a Q wide receiver. He's good

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Speaker 1: art if he's good, if he hits the ground running

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Speaker 1: with Pitts taking that next leap. Mariotte has got some

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Speaker 1: pieces to work on Patterson there too. Alright enough, I

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Speaker 1: get it you're upset about Landry stinks. I agree, but

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Speaker 1: we gotta we gotta stay professional. Let's take a break,

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Speaker 1: be right back. All right. Here we go the NFC East.

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Speaker 1: As we go around the NFC in forty eight minutes,

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Speaker 1: exactly mark the Cowboys. I found another area where this

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Speaker 1: show does not agree with the Athletic, which is an

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Speaker 1: excellent site to I get all your football knowledge. So

436
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Speaker 1: is NFL dot com, by the way. But um, they

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Speaker 1: have a wind total model that has the Cowboys at

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Speaker 1: ten point six victories that is tied for third highest

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Speaker 1: in the league, above the Bucks, above a bunch of others,

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Speaker 1: obviously a bunch Washington, New York. That feels real different

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Speaker 1: to me than the vibe on this show, at least

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Speaker 1: coming the way I feel. I am pretty down in

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys. I think the offensive line is a growing mess. Um,

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Speaker 1: they're potentially asking a forty year old Jason Peters to

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Speaker 1: save the day. We'll see what happens there. You're left,

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Speaker 1: You're essentially left crossing your fingers. You get the full

447
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Speaker 1: version of Michael Gallup, although it does sound like his

448
00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:14,919
Speaker 1: reapts going well along along with Ceedee Lamb. But then

449
00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:17,560
Speaker 1: you're asking jail and Turbert t Tolbert's to successfully filled

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Speaker 1: the void. After that, they're really thin and wide receiver.

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Speaker 1: After Amari Cooper was traded away for like a my

452
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Speaker 1: little pony, figuring it's an absurd trade. Now you've got

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Speaker 1: the owner joined about the fact that we're gonna get

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Speaker 1: more Ezekiel Elliott and anyone's asking for at this point

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Speaker 1: and less Michael Pollard and I think it's during a

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Speaker 1: very rocky offseason for Dallas, their arch enemy. The Eagles

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Speaker 1: have turned into this NFC darling. So you tell me

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Speaker 1: why none of this matters and they'll still win ten

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Speaker 1: point six games. Wish on the show on Wednesday, when

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Speaker 1: he started getting pumped about the defense and Parsons as

461
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Speaker 1: a guy that's generational talent, I was like, Oh, we're

462
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Speaker 1: getting a little sucked into the anti hype uh turbines

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Speaker 1: of the Cowboys here this year, Like because they're gonna

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Speaker 1: score points, I think maybe not as many points as

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Speaker 1: they scored in past years. Right, that's the that's your answer.

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Speaker 1: But if the if the is really good and they

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Speaker 1: have Zack Martin, a future All of Famer, and they

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Speaker 1: have and they have a great on paper defense. If

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Speaker 1: they if their defense is really good, let's say it is,

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Speaker 1: then the Cowboys offense doesn't have to carry the load.

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Speaker 1: And if they're just proficient or a little better than average,

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Speaker 1: yeah that is a ticket. Just don't love teams where

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Speaker 1: that's what we're saying about them opening. I agree with that.

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Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence though, if he's who we think he's gonna be.

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Speaker 1: Sam Williams a rookie. They kept all their guys in

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Speaker 1: the secondary, and they're not big names behind Trevon Digs,

477
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Speaker 1: but they are young and have a lot of continuity.

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Speaker 1: Mali Cooker and j run Chris played well for them.

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Speaker 1: I'm just surprised they didn't do more. They have all

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Speaker 1: this cap space. We talked about the Cooper thing, but

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Speaker 1: they haven't filled that offensive life like they didn't make

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Speaker 1: a splashy move there. They didn't make another splashy move

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Speaker 1: at wide receiver. Well, they were hamstrung for a bunch

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Speaker 1: of like the cap issues seemed to be the one

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Speaker 1: team where the cap stuff affected Dallas to make a

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Speaker 1: safe But they have a ton of cap space? Now

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Speaker 1: what am I missing? So I'm just saying even now,

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Speaker 1: like they seem like a team that would make a

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Speaker 1: trade for an offensive line maybe they will in the season,

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Speaker 1: or a receiver or another. Except Terry Jones always seems

491
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Speaker 1: to see a super Bowl team no matter what is

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Speaker 1: happening in reality. Are you? Are you frank like the

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Speaker 1: trade of Cooper that they didn't take that salary cap

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Speaker 1: space that that created and use it. I'm sitting on

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Speaker 1: basically ultimately, yeah, And that's why that's why they made that.

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Speaker 1: Maybe they need to keep things like that open. Michael

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Speaker 1: Parsons extensions, I know, I know. I'm sorry Eagles, Greg Okay,

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Speaker 1: I grave take her smiling back there about all the

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Speaker 1: trigger happy gun show, I spoken enough? Why? Like I

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Speaker 1: love the too deep on this roster, how tough they'll

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Speaker 1: be to defend with. I think A. J. Brown's gonna

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Speaker 1: have a monster season. I think they're running game is

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Speaker 1: gonna be awesome with herds Um, But I am curious

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Speaker 1: what they're gonna look like schematically on both sides of

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Speaker 1: the ball. They went from kind of like topical Nick

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Speaker 1: sirianni Um like the way they looked in Indianapolis short

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Speaker 1: passing game to so run heavy in the middle of

508
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Speaker 1: last season. What does that look like this year? And

509
00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:14,800
Speaker 1: then on defense they were as conservative and vanilla a defense,

510
00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:16,560
Speaker 1: just keep the ball in front of you, don't do

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Speaker 1: anything else, forced long drives and hope like our offense

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Speaker 1: can win, kind of slow down the game. On defense,

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Speaker 1: very conservative, almost boring. Now they have all this talent,

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Speaker 1: So I'm just curious how the Eagles are gonna approach

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Speaker 1: this schematically on both sides of the ball. That to

516
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Speaker 1: me is a big question. I remember, like Fletcher Coxs

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Speaker 1: sort of voicing annoyance with that that that tone on defense,

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Speaker 1: that is the Jonathan Gannon way to some degree. And

519
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Speaker 1: now they got some They got some fiery players here

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Speaker 1: with with they got better players in the back end. Certainly.

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Speaker 1: You know what I learned about Sirianni because a year ago,

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Speaker 1: we're just like, this guy does not understand press conferences.

523
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Speaker 1: We didn't know much about them. But they will adjust.

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Speaker 1: I think they got the people the people to do it.

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Speaker 1: But like when they made that shift to run heavy,

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Speaker 1: I love teams that do That's like, whatever we're doing

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Speaker 1: is not working, Let's just change everything. I expected to

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Speaker 1: be especially with a J. Brown in this in the fold,

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Speaker 1: a much more balanced team. They didn't they were able

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Speaker 1: to get rid of Jalen Reagor because they've got wide

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Speaker 1: out strength. Now they've got good, good situation at tight end,

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Speaker 1: and I think Jalen Hurts is gonna be asked to

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Speaker 1: do more than just run as much as he did

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Speaker 1: a year ago. Yeah. I think that's one of the

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Speaker 1: big questions I have because I understand it's justified that

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Speaker 1: people that are excited about the Eagles this year because

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Speaker 1: they did make the playoffs and then they got the

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Speaker 1: roster better and it's another year for the quarterback in

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Speaker 1: the system and his maturity and he has a lot

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Speaker 1: of upside. But is he somebody that could take advantage

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Speaker 1: of a guy like a J. Brown. Is he have

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Speaker 1: that in him as a pastor to take the next step,

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Speaker 1: because if he does, if Hurts takes that next step, yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is another c powerhouse potentially. I love the pass

545
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Speaker 1: rush like I love the Jordan Davis I think would

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Speaker 1: be talked about if he was on some other team

547
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Speaker 1: a lot more like Javon Hargrave is coming off a

548
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Speaker 1: monster season. I think Kaisier White it's a linebacker that

549
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Speaker 1: position they've struggled that they really love. Maybe Rookie and

550
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Speaker 1: Kobe didn't like Hassan. I just maybe it's a little

551
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Speaker 1: to a dream team. Is this is the perfect moment

552
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:10,159
Speaker 1: for Eagles. Homer's like me, I think it's I mean

553
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:12,560
Speaker 1: or whatever you want to say, you know what I mean.

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00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:14,600
Speaker 1: It's like it all you can get worse. The two

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Speaker 1: like the depth chart looks so pristine and dream team

556
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Speaker 1: actually just looked good because it was a bum rush

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Speaker 1: of free agent editions. There's like, this is the best

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Speaker 1: offensive line in football. Also, we should good in the

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Speaker 1: trenches text there because there are a lot of listeners.

560
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:30,040
Speaker 1: We've been doing this long enough that don't even know

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Speaker 1: what we're talking about. I'm the awesome when free agency

562
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 1: happened like midsummer after the lockout ended, and it and

563
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 1: it just created this insane like tornado of signings for

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Speaker 1: the Eagles. But the parts were not actually that special

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Speaker 1: if you looked at them. Nice summation, Bro, that was

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Speaker 1: dead on. What would you correct from it? Nothing? Legimer,

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Speaker 1: They're a complete mystery to me as we opened the season,

568
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Speaker 1: because I look at an offensive line that's probably improved

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Speaker 1: a toolsy I'll still give it to him, A toolsy

570
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 1: young QB with vastly improved coaching, solid collection of playmakers

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Speaker 1: surrounding that young tools a QB. And then I think, yeah,

572
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 1: this could be one of the most improved offenses in

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Speaker 1: football this season. And by the way, that's relative, because

574
00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:22,920
Speaker 1: they were at the floor last year by the time

575
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Speaker 1: Joe Judges running of town. Then I look at the

576
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Speaker 1: offense five another angle and think, Daniel Jones can't play,

577
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:30,960
Speaker 1: se Kwan is washed. The receivers are overpaid, unproven, or

578
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Speaker 1: injury prone, some all three at once, and a major

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Speaker 1: overhaul is a head next spring. So if I had

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00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:39,640
Speaker 1: to guess, I'd say I'm slightly more confident that they'll

581
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:42,400
Speaker 1: surprise some people this year. But this one is a

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00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:46,240
Speaker 1: riddle wrapped in a mystery inside and enigma sitting on

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Speaker 1: the corner of conundrum and ambingcuity. That put that one

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Speaker 1: in a little I put that one in a little

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Speaker 1: dress with a bow on time. Hope. What me the

586
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 1: middle mystery wrapped inside a riddle inside an enigma. I

587
00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 1: don't know what is it? JFK Is it really alright?

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00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 1: It's not a take, It is a fact they're not.

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00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 1: They're not that big of a mystery and maybe I'll

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00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:15,560
Speaker 1: be wrong, so you know, but Football Outsiders, for instance,

591
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:20,680
Speaker 1: has been projected as the worst team Outsider. I'm just

592
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Speaker 1: saying that's the worst overall team. So that's I think

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Speaker 1: they have that potential. Here's a quote UM talking about

594
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Speaker 1: the expo, a quote from their general manager this week,

595
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Speaker 1: Joe Shane, about the expectations, and he said, well, it's

596
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Speaker 1: the hand that we were dealt. This feels like a

597
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Speaker 1: transition year. I don't know if we're overrating the preseason.

598
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Speaker 1: But in offense, UM starring like three slot guys, two

599
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 1: of which are hurt. You know, I like cod Aius

600
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 1: Tony but he's always hurt, Shepherd who's always hurt, and

601
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:54,120
Speaker 1: then the rookie Wandell Robinson and then another guy, Kenny

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Speaker 1: Golladay who what was the quote so Jordan Nan ESPN

603
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Speaker 1: said that Kenny Gollady and quote has been running routes

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Speaker 1: this summer with the stiffness of a mannequin, which if

605
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 1: you're new to football, that's not a positive. So that

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Speaker 1: that makes me worried for Daniel Jones that like it's

607
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:12,720
Speaker 1: not quite there around him. What if I just what

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Speaker 1: if when the Giants are top ten offense in November,

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Speaker 1: I knock on the door of the headquarters of Football

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Speaker 1: Outsiders and I just go, you just keep screaming that sec.

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Speaker 1: I think that would be like Aaron shots house. To

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Speaker 1: be fair to them, I think part of it is

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Speaker 1: that they have him as the worst defense in the league.

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Speaker 1: I think the offense was projected to be slightly more.

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Speaker 1: Do not read into me saying the worst defense. This

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Speaker 1: is not an offensive maybe makes up for and Don

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Speaker 1: Martindale loves to leave his cornerbacks on an island and

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Speaker 1: blitz like crazy. And you look at this team and

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Speaker 1: you're like, which team? The Giants team. You're like, do

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Speaker 1: they have the personnel for that? I don't think so

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Speaker 1: at cornerback. All right, the commanders, We're ready to take

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Speaker 1: command on this for the next three minutes, uh sir.

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Speaker 1: Some first round picks get less buzz than others. I

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Speaker 1: think Johan Dotson, selected sixteenth overall, falls in that category.

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Speaker 1: We heard good things about him, that he's a polished

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Speaker 1: route runner. That and when you were that you can

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Speaker 1: hit the ground running in the NFL, then you factor

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Speaker 1: in a healthy Curtis Samuel right, who's another playmaker who

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00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 1: was laying in the weeds a little bit after a

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Speaker 1: year lost injury. And then you have the centerpiece here,

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Speaker 1: Terry McLaurin, who I think is like a top twenty

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Speaker 1: receiver number true, number one, throwing a little frisky tight

633
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Speaker 1: end in Logan Thomas. I know he's coming back from

634
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Speaker 1: injury as well. Uh. And I'll just put it this way.

635
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Speaker 1: You don't have to love the quarterback in Washington, but

636
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Speaker 1: his cast of playmakers comes with some legit upside, a

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Speaker 1: lot of commanders in Washington, d C. And the Pentagon.

638
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:56,280
Speaker 1: It was partially true last year too. I mean, so

639
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Speaker 1: you you for me, I I don't disagree with your

640
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 1: point at all. Emmuel though was kind of Samuel was

641
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 1: out of the picture and we didn't have Dot, But

642
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:05,680
Speaker 1: I mean Antonio Gibson was a big part of it.

643
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,600
Speaker 1: For me, it's the defense. I think that Ron Rivera's

644
00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 1: calling card is I'm gonna come in and dominate teams

645
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Speaker 1: and we're gonna win games fourteen to ten. And the

646
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:16,480
Speaker 1: defense last year was the worst third down defense in

647
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:20,080
Speaker 1: the league by various metrics, and in the preseason they

648
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 1: were the worst third down defense in the league and

649
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 1: gave up the highest conversion rate Chase Young for at

650
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 1: least four Right, you're missing guys, and you know there

651
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:29,960
Speaker 1: is talent on the on upfront on that defense, there's

652
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. But they just um the year

653
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 1: they made the playoffs. Go look at the quarterbacks they

654
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 1: faced last year when they was more adjusted to normalized

655
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 1: they won seven games. I just I'm struggling to see

656
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:45,360
Speaker 1: the direction of this team, and the commanders should have directions,

657
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 1: got to take command and have direction to do so.

658
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:49,800
Speaker 1: I think this time last year, as we all know,

659
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:52,360
Speaker 1: decided to really go ahead and start to take command.

660
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Speaker 1: You gotta say it with authority, Carson, Let's take what

661
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 1: do one more? Take that's all on the social and

662
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 1: take seven? Take seven? Uh yeah, I remember this time

663
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:05,800
Speaker 1: last year. They were the buzzy team too, as like

664
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:08,319
Speaker 1: laying in the weeds because of their defense. They don't

665
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 1: hear that this year, no, they It's kind of Ron

666
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Speaker 1: Rivera's last stand potentially like as a head coach, but

667
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:16,800
Speaker 1: at least for me, as like a guy who you

668
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Speaker 1: really trust can create a defense that's greater than the

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Speaker 1: some of their parts. And I do think they're they

670
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:27,920
Speaker 1: still have Montes Sweat. Even before Chase Young returns Jonathan Allen,

671
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 1: they still have some good veterans I think in the

672
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:32,360
Speaker 1: in the secondary, Kendall Fuller played well for them. They

673
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Speaker 1: have William Jaxon. I don't think they're talent poor, but

674
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 1: he's got to improve their defense right away. They I

675
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:43,440
Speaker 1: don't know, because they went from a great defense in

676
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 1: twenty under him to a terrible defense in one. And

677
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:50,359
Speaker 1: if Rivera has given you a bad defense again this year,

678
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 1: then kind of what are you getting out of him?

679
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Speaker 1: I'm really i gotta say, we're about to three minutes.

680
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Speaker 1: I'm really proud that we went this entire Washington segment

681
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 1: without just do windmiddle dunks on Carson. Well that we've

682
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 1: done that all offseason, two handed thunder dunks. It's like

683
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 1: Rock and Jack with the trampline. Time out. Let me

684
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:16,480
Speaker 1: show Greg's outs done. It calls time out to talk

685
00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:20,799
Speaker 1: more about what was it? I had points I wanted

686
00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:23,759
Speaker 1: to make up. I wrote them and everything a huge hit.

687
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:27,840
Speaker 1: Of course, the Steve Weish theme songs. UM really happy

688
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Speaker 1: with how that turned out. Now, if you remember, we

689
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Speaker 1: asked the listeners also to come up with the new

690
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Speaker 1: commander's fight song and I had graver check in. Oh

691
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Speaker 1: I was going to let those sit in the inbox

692
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Speaker 1: for eighteen months? Is that not the plan this time?

693
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Speaker 1: No comment, Um, I would like to hear just one,

694
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Speaker 1: just pick one. I know there was some they were good,

695
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 1: some I'm not so hot. Let's just hear one. And

696
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Speaker 1: if you if people aren't aware because of the team

697
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 1: name change, they they're changing the lyrics. They're keeping the

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Speaker 1: bed music, which is some type of march, marching band

699
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Speaker 1: type vibe. I think let's hear from a listener. Who

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Speaker 1: is it, Greg Gamato? Hope, I'm saying that right? Well,

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00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:18,280
Speaker 1: all right over here, all right, here we go. Here

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Speaker 1: we are. It's time to start to take command. There's

703
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:27,360
Speaker 1: no question we won't, sir. Here we are. We always

704
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Speaker 1: have the upper hand without jepherdizing our stand dirds all

705
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 1: hands are people that you cannot stand. We say we're

706
00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:40,800
Speaker 1: from GC, but we're from the room and oh here

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00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 1: we are. Here we are where the Washington commanders. There

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00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:54,160
Speaker 1: are forty four more seconds. It's time we get the

709
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:57,359
Speaker 1: picture that sounds like I hurt Washington fan on some level,

710
00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:00,279
Speaker 1: digs in there. None of us are from that area.

711
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:02,400
Speaker 1: I didn't know there was a lot of DC Maryland.

712
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:05,400
Speaker 1: They do play in Landover. Yeah, that makes sense. Uh,

713
00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:10,239
Speaker 1: I enjoyed it. I think the Washington football team over

714
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:14,480
Speaker 1: the years has it maybe not taken criticism from the media,

715
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:16,840
Speaker 1: especially with a lot of grace. So I feel like

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00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:19,400
Speaker 1: putting it in their own theme song would be a

717
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 1: big step for them. But yeah, I don't I don't

718
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:26,719
Speaker 1: need to hear the second verse of the song. But

719
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Speaker 1: I would have gotten some stuff in about the Pentagon.

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00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:31,799
Speaker 1: I would have. Ye, you gotta get that. I think

721
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Speaker 1: it had captured the spirit of what we were looking to.

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00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:37,640
Speaker 1: It was Mark, it's a five sided fortress, and uh,

723
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:41,080
Speaker 1: you know, it's essentially it's I think you should be

724
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:43,960
Speaker 1: genuine thing at the altar of the military headquarters. A

725
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,360
Speaker 1: lot of people respect the Pentagon. I do understand that

726
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:49,160
Speaker 1: that's the concept of the country. Someone on Twitter got

727
00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 1: really bad at me. They were like, it's like, I

728
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:54,920
Speaker 1: really like greg and in the show, but it's like

729
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:57,439
Speaker 1: he doesn't know what he's talking about. It's like Mark

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00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:01,360
Speaker 1: has got this covered on the Pentagon. It's like like

731
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Speaker 1: when he's trying to get into politics and really believing

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Speaker 1: the Pentagon wake up sheeple. I really enjoyed that guy.

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Speaker 1: I think it's time to give the Pentagon the respect

734
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Speaker 1: it deserves. But either way, I'm on the inside on

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Speaker 1: this one. Five sided fortress is what it is, a

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Speaker 1: fortress of purity. It's a temple to defense all right.

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Speaker 1: Time in Let's move to the NFC North greg the Bears.

738
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Speaker 1: So it's been a lot of negativity, including from me

739
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:36,319
Speaker 1: when it comes to the Bears. So I do want

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00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:39,480
Speaker 1: to make the case for the Bears, um offensively, especially

741
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:42,399
Speaker 1: uh in general, making the case for the Bears, because

742
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:44,480
Speaker 1: I think every team has a chance. I truly do.

743
00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 1: And the case here is that it's a different offense.

744
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:51,919
Speaker 1: It's Luke Getsy who sprinkles some of that Packers system dust.

745
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:54,239
Speaker 1: And that what you saw in the third preseason game,

746
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 1: which we haven't spoken about, Justin Fields baled out showed

747
00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:02,200
Speaker 1: off his skills that Phil Wesselena and Ohio State fan

748
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 1: who are very close next week when we make our

749
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:10,120
Speaker 1: locks of the week, good call, and we'll be hearing

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Speaker 1: from him if Fields balls out that Like, look, Justin

751
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:16,880
Speaker 1: Fields is good enough that he can carry a somewhat

752
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:20,480
Speaker 1: competent offense into being watchable and exciting, and you do

753
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:23,320
Speaker 1: have two weapons to throw to in Darnell Mooney and

754
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:26,440
Speaker 1: Cole Commet that I think are really good NFL players,

755
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:29,040
Speaker 1: and you could have a good running game in Montgomery

756
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:32,800
Speaker 1: and Herbert and that if Fields is that dude in

757
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 1: this new system where that makes the line look better,

758
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 1: that he shows enough that you're just like excited, because

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00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:41,000
Speaker 1: that's all the Bears have ever wanted is a quarterback.

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00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:43,399
Speaker 1: And he can still if you are truly that guy,

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00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:46,960
Speaker 1: I think he could rise above um some of the

762
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:49,040
Speaker 1: deficient I think a lot of the critique is the

763
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:51,879
Speaker 1: fact that you did this in reverse order. You get

764
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 1: your young quarterback, then you have in roster tear down

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00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:55,880
Speaker 1: and which a lot of that was on the other

766
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:58,640
Speaker 1: side of the ball. But I think you're right because

767
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:02,400
Speaker 1: he looked to me much more comfortable this preseason and

768
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Speaker 1: especially in that third game, and Cole Commet and he

769
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:07,760
Speaker 1: had had really good chemistry, and so Cole Commet develops

770
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:09,920
Speaker 1: into a real weapon, I don't. I think there's just

771
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:12,840
Speaker 1: a lack of depth at at wide receiver and you

772
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:15,799
Speaker 1: just can't march into an NFL season with one guy

773
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 1: and then maybe hoping the other guys project into something more,

774
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:21,160
Speaker 1: But it's that they could be in a much better

775
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:24,560
Speaker 1: place a year from now to rosterwise, if Equon st

776
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:28,760
Speaker 1: Brown can step up but he didn't with Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 1: at Byron Pringle. If he gets in the mix, but

778
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:35,040
Speaker 1: like he didn't with Patrick Mahomes, it just feels like

779
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:38,160
Speaker 1: they're missing right. And I guess I was going to

780
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:39,800
Speaker 1: continue to make the case it would kind of be

781
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:42,680
Speaker 1: like Field shows enough and he's good enough as a

782
00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:46,880
Speaker 1: second year quarterback to help elevate and that look at

783
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:49,719
Speaker 1: a defensive coach who did draft for defense, and the

784
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:52,440
Speaker 1: defense helps them stay in games and at least you

785
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 1: feel like it's headed in the right direction, that's all

786
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:57,520
Speaker 1: that matter. Like if we leave this season saying like

787
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Speaker 1: Justin Fields is a starting quarterback in the NFL, I

788
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 1: think everyone's gonna be and they have like four billion

789
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:06,279
Speaker 1: dollars worth of cap space next off season, right, he

790
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 1: needs a long runway for an evaluation. I just hope

791
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:14,040
Speaker 1: that he we're not talking about next summer, when is

792
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:15,839
Speaker 1: he going to get a real chance to show whether

793
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 1: you can play or not. I worry, but the line

794
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:21,720
Speaker 1: looks terrible or on paper, and so you're just hoping

795
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:25,360
Speaker 1: maybe it'll be coaching that makes them better. That happens sometimes,

796
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:27,239
Speaker 1: and we don't know this coaching stuff, but it does.

797
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:31,400
Speaker 1: Like the number two wide receiver is Equan Brown right now?

798
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:36,680
Speaker 1: Quite amnious. Um, but he has been hurt. Yeah, those

799
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Speaker 1: are there two in their probably Pringle if he's healthy.

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00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:43,279
Speaker 1: The lines, If we are buying into the idea of

801
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:47,040
Speaker 1: the lines making a year two leap, are we I

802
00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:48,640
Speaker 1: thought that would be more of a thing, but I'm

803
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 1: not sensing it really. Um. But if we are, then

804
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:55,800
Speaker 1: we are believing that the quarterback is going to have

805
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:57,480
Speaker 1: some measure of success. I want to talk a little

806
00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:01,320
Speaker 1: Jared Goff. Um, he's having a great camp. If you

807
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 1: don't believe me, listen to Liev Schreiber. If anyone needs

808
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:12,440
Speaker 1: the a C, it's Jared Goff. He's been hot all camp.

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00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:18,440
Speaker 1: Uh again he that was from hard Knocks. Uh. He

810
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:20,360
Speaker 1: looks good. He has a good command of the offense.

811
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Speaker 1: He's got some decent players around him. Um. Absolutely nobody

812
00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:26,520
Speaker 1: and I mean nobody looking over his shoulder in that

813
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:29,600
Speaker 1: QB room. Um. Would I be stunned if golf puts

814
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:32,560
Speaker 1: up nice numbers this year? No, I would not be stunned.

815
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Speaker 1: He's got to stay healthy and but I think he can,

816
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:37,440
Speaker 1: and if he does, it would be interesting to see

817
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:41,279
Speaker 1: if that comes up the Lions thought process come next

818
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:44,120
Speaker 1: spring when it's time to take the quarterback we all expect.

819
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:46,719
Speaker 1: I think this that's how it ends. I think Jared

820
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:49,839
Speaker 1: Goff from the very beginning has been a bridge. Uh

821
00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:52,279
Speaker 1: but what if he balls out? Do you start to

822
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:54,440
Speaker 1: think about golf? Is more of a long term answer.

823
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 1: It's meant to be a good draft for quarterbacks number one.

824
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Speaker 1: So I think if the Lions, they've got to be

825
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:05,360
Speaker 1: cut throat, and it could get Jared Goff is starting

826
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:08,200
Speaker 1: jobs somewhere else. But what I like the offense he's

827
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:10,359
Speaker 1: in in Detroit right now, and it's probably the kind

828
00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:12,600
Speaker 1: of offense where he's gonna thrive because I would say

829
00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:15,359
Speaker 1: you've got a top three offensive line. They're built that way.

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00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 1: Alman Ross st Brown turned into a star in year one.

831
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:22,239
Speaker 1: Jamison Williams when he emerges, that's another weapon right there.

832
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:26,359
Speaker 1: T J. Hawkinson, DeAndre Swift. I think he's super version

833
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:28,879
Speaker 1: of Austin Ekeler. So it's like you got the parts

834
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 1: on offense there almost I would almost say there isn't

835
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 1: really an excuse for Jared Goff to have a bad

836
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:36,560
Speaker 1: season or one of his lower seasons. I think he

837
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 1: could have a really good season. I don't know if

838
00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:40,480
Speaker 1: that move him off the quarterback market, but I think

839
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:42,800
Speaker 1: they can win enough games that it makes it trickier.

840
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:45,160
Speaker 1: One of my favorite things about the lines last year,

841
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:47,600
Speaker 1: and I am in on them being frisky. I think

842
00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:51,719
Speaker 1: it's mostly on offense, was that Dan Campbell embraced that

843
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 1: they were kind of an offense first team at some

844
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:55,800
Speaker 1: point last year. Remember there was that. It started with

845
00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:58,320
Speaker 1: that Rams game where golf played pretty well in Los Angeles.

846
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:01,360
Speaker 1: There was a Haven't win over the Vikings that was

847
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:03,600
Speaker 1: their first one. They had a thirty to twelve win

848
00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:06,319
Speaker 1: over the Cardinals. There was a fifty one twenty nine

849
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:08,120
Speaker 1: loss to the Seahawks, but I remember he was back

850
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:10,680
Speaker 1: and forth. There's a thirty seven thirty like win over

851
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:13,279
Speaker 1: the Packers. Backups at the end like they I think

852
00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 1: they could be a fun offensive team, and I think

853
00:44:15,719 --> 00:44:18,279
Speaker 1: Campbell will embrace whatever it takes to win, and that's

854
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:22,319
Speaker 1: what's gonna take I think for this team. Offense first,

855
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:25,040
Speaker 1: I am buying in a little bit. I just want

856
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:27,400
Speaker 1: you know what I think they're one. They they changed

857
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:30,520
Speaker 1: my feelings about Hard Knocks. They certainly changed my feelings

858
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:33,239
Speaker 1: about who they are. From a coaching staff angle, I

859
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:35,560
Speaker 1: think it's one of the more creative. They're young coaching

860
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:38,319
Speaker 1: staffs in the league, and that matters. They're deep, defensively

861
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:40,520
Speaker 1: upfront to like they're not even gonna have their second

862
00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:44,239
Speaker 1: round pick Pascal uh and Oguara at the beginning of

863
00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:47,319
Speaker 1: the season. Rodrigo is a great Hard Knocks underdog story.

864
00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:49,920
Speaker 1: He's a sixth round pick that I could start. Think

865
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:57,160
Speaker 1: he's starting the Green Bay Packers. They're on talk about

866
00:44:57,200 --> 00:45:00,480
Speaker 1: time out? Good thing Greg is talking about him. Why

867
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:02,719
Speaker 1: are they on tugboat time out? You don't know about

868
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:05,359
Speaker 1: tugboat time out? You just know you don't You don't

869
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:08,000
Speaker 1: believe in them or something. Are you gonna say anything

870
00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:11,239
Speaker 1: during that? Yeah? I don't need you know what. I'm

871
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:14,680
Speaker 1: not going to say anything because they're on tugboat, which

872
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:18,520
Speaker 1: makes even tougher on Mark and I. For some reason,

873
00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:20,440
Speaker 1: they haven't started the clock. I don't think that's how

874
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:24,000
Speaker 1: the tug about branded a tugbot time out. Sessy stop

875
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:27,080
Speaker 1: too late. I already already took them. You have to

876
00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:28,919
Speaker 1: you have to do a sessy stop for a different team.

877
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:35,799
Speaker 1: Greg by himself is not a dream. I look at

878
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:39,279
Speaker 1: this team defensively and think you can make a case

879
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:45,280
Speaker 1: time out. You can make a case that they're among

880
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:51,000
Speaker 1: the best defensive teams personnel wise in the in the NFL,

881
00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:54,040
Speaker 1: like a top three to five defense. They just didn't

882
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:56,560
Speaker 1: produce like that last year. And I don't know if

883
00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:59,840
Speaker 1: there's depth, but just that's Dan making a lot of noise,

884
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:02,600
Speaker 1: taking off his headset. Just for the audio listeners. You

885
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:05,160
Speaker 1: can check us out on YouTube too and see it. Uh,

886
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:10,080
Speaker 1: every single position is potentially filled by an above average starter.

887
00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:14,880
Speaker 1: The secondaries dynamite with Gyre Alexander Back and their safeties.

888
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:17,600
Speaker 1: They love Eric Stokes. They gave Razul Douglas that money.

889
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:21,360
Speaker 1: Quay Walker's their rookie who's playing linebacker, improving kind of

890
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:23,480
Speaker 1: a weak spot, and they love what he's done in camp.

891
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:27,520
Speaker 1: They're really deep around Kenny Clark now in terms of

892
00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:30,640
Speaker 1: their pass rush like one to eleven Mark, there's a

893
00:46:30,719 --> 00:46:33,200
Speaker 1: lot to love on defense. Can Joe Berry kind of

894
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:36,160
Speaker 1: deliver that? And that gives Aaron Rodgers a little time

895
00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:37,879
Speaker 1: to kind of get up to speed with with the rest.

896
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:40,080
Speaker 1: I think so, I'm looking at it from A to Z,

897
00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 1: and there isn't really a weak spot here. Maybe defensive tackle,

898
00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 1: but even then, like Geron Reid, who's a solid veteran,

899
00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:48,360
Speaker 1: and DeVante White, who was a first round pick, Like

900
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:50,920
Speaker 1: I think, just to be another year into Joe Berry's

901
00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:52,880
Speaker 1: system helps, They're gonna probably have to win games a

902
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:54,640
Speaker 1: little bit Differently. They were a good defense last year

903
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:57,319
Speaker 1: for stretches. They certainly weren't the pass packers where it's

904
00:46:57,320 --> 00:46:59,600
Speaker 1: like they're going to be the reason they're fine. They

905
00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:02,240
Speaker 1: were like average, Yeah, there weren't. They weren't the liability

906
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:04,160
Speaker 1: that of years past to me and to me, I

907
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:06,320
Speaker 1: think my bigger questions are just on offense. It's like

908
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:09,160
Speaker 1: I want to see down the stretch if these wide

909
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:13,640
Speaker 1: receivers actually equal DeAndre Hopkins. To me, I'm suspicious of this.

910
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:15,800
Speaker 1: We're saying that about two or three teams this offseason.

911
00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 1: It's just like we will see. I'm remembering now that

912
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:22,640
Speaker 1: the day time out was kind of about like you

913
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 1: have to prove it to me, I've been through this

914
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:27,560
Speaker 1: before with you, but like they can't do anything until January.

915
00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:30,120
Speaker 1: So are you at a time out for every episode,

916
00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:32,040
Speaker 1: every like a lot of contents. It would be a

917
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:35,759
Speaker 1: strong bit to be honest and hey, look we can

918
00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:41,239
Speaker 1: fill that time. I don't know, uh. Offensive line going

919
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:42,839
Speaker 1: into the year, though, is their biggest quay. I mean

920
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:45,040
Speaker 1: to me, that's a bigger question. When you're a great quarterback,

921
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:47,719
Speaker 1: you can make your receivers better. You can't make your

922
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:51,120
Speaker 1: offensive line that much better. If Elton Jenkins in bok

923
00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:54,000
Speaker 1: tr aren't healthy in the interior, are just kind of

924
00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:56,840
Speaker 1: a bunch of guys that are just guys. That's a

925
00:47:57,160 --> 00:47:59,879
Speaker 1: That's that's my bigger concern. If Jenkins in bok tr

926
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 1: are healthy, super Bowl possibility certainly talk for seventeen more seconds.

927
00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:07,000
Speaker 1: You've got no I just I want to see you

928
00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:12,279
Speaker 1: just stretch. I mean, Alan Lazard, you guys were like

929
00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:14,640
Speaker 1: giving him a lot of grief last episode, a lot

930
00:48:14,719 --> 00:48:19,480
Speaker 1: of physical or maybe an old tugboat time out. I

931
00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:24,880
Speaker 1: don't think I mentioned al zarnths the Minnesota Vikings. Mark Sessler,

932
00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:28,480
Speaker 1: all right, it's early January. What are we saying about

933
00:48:28,680 --> 00:48:33,080
Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell. Is it closer to Wow? This Sean McVeigh

934
00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:36,120
Speaker 1: tree is a beautiful thing of nature, producing endless juicy fruit.

935
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:40,440
Speaker 1: The latest example being O'Connell's ability to transform this Vikings

936
00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:43,520
Speaker 1: offense into rams North and helping Kirk Cousins to his

937
00:48:43,640 --> 00:48:47,280
Speaker 1: mightiest season yet, turning Justin Jefferson into the offensive player

938
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:49,680
Speaker 1: of the year, taking it to Green Bay in a

939
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:53,360
Speaker 1: huge week seventeen tilt at Lambeau. Wow, this was a

940
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:56,279
Speaker 1: great higher and we dig the front office too or man,

941
00:48:56,520 --> 00:48:59,200
Speaker 1: it seems like the same old team to me, mm hmm.

942
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:02,839
Speaker 1: While I have them as a playoff team, well they've

943
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:05,480
Speaker 1: been there before, um, so I do think they will

944
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:08,800
Speaker 1: be very competitive. Uh, I think they could be on

945
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:11,600
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball. But I do like, here's

946
00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:13,480
Speaker 1: the thing I think you said an outstand what was

947
00:49:13,560 --> 00:49:17,160
Speaker 1: the way you described Kirk cousins potential season might I

948
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:19,480
Speaker 1: don't think that's exists, I think, and I think that's

949
00:49:19,520 --> 00:49:21,600
Speaker 1: part of Kirk Cousins's charm. I think we're gonna get

950
00:49:21,640 --> 00:49:24,680
Speaker 1: the same Cousins that we always get about thirty to

951
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:29,200
Speaker 1: thirty five touchdowns past rating about one oh one or so. Um,

952
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:31,279
Speaker 1: he'll move the ball, he'll go into funks, he'll be

953
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:34,160
Speaker 1: unconscious for stretches. I think one big thing about their

954
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:37,440
Speaker 1: offense that they missed last year and explained their tailspin

955
00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:40,560
Speaker 1: was Adam Feeland getting hurt. I think he's such a

956
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:43,799
Speaker 1: great number two. He's a perfect robin to the Justin

957
00:49:43,880 --> 00:49:46,960
Speaker 1: Jefferson batman. And if you have those three, that big three,

958
00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:50,440
Speaker 1: with Dalvin Cook healthy and Cousins ability to just put

959
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:53,560
Speaker 1: it on the money, they're a top ten offense. Now, Greg,

960
00:49:55,719 --> 00:49:58,240
Speaker 1: I think you would like that Vikings fence because their defense.

961
00:49:58,320 --> 00:50:00,520
Speaker 1: Can they do enough to get them to ten winds.

962
00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:04,640
Speaker 1: I'm not that excited about the defense. There's a case

963
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:08,160
Speaker 1: that they have a high upside, a high ceiling. The

964
00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:11,800
Speaker 1: front said Aius Smith and Danio Hunter have been healthy

965
00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:16,080
Speaker 1: this preseason, and if they're healthy and at their peaks,

966
00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:19,160
Speaker 1: that's as good a duo as there is. And then

967
00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:22,040
Speaker 1: inside you've got Harrison Phillips and Dalvin Tomlinson who are

968
00:50:22,120 --> 00:50:25,239
Speaker 1: like really good run stoppers and suddenly got a little

969
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:28,439
Speaker 1: like Williams Wall Vikings, you know in the Randy Moss

970
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:32,200
Speaker 1: era defensive line throwback situation going on, and you figure

971
00:50:32,239 --> 00:50:34,800
Speaker 1: you can coach up the rest of it. Their defensive

972
00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:38,640
Speaker 1: coordinators is Ed Dontel, who's sort of it's one of

973
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:40,759
Speaker 1: those guys that's been passed around and like it is

974
00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:43,840
Speaker 1: in the system that Kevin, like Kevin O'Connell and Donnitel

975
00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:46,719
Speaker 1: both seemed to me like they're sort of at the

976
00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:49,399
Speaker 1: end of their coaching trees. It's like no one's even

977
00:50:49,480 --> 00:50:52,920
Speaker 1: mentioned Kevin O'Connell. He's a young, strapping man um from

978
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:55,920
Speaker 1: the McVeigh coaching tree, and yet like they both seemed

979
00:50:55,920 --> 00:50:59,680
Speaker 1: like they were like kind of the forgotten pickups from

980
00:50:59,719 --> 00:51:01,279
Speaker 1: those coaching I mean, he had been a bunch of

981
00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:04,080
Speaker 1: places before the McVeigh thing too, and not shined as

982
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:06,800
Speaker 1: an offensive play car can think of a couple of stops.

983
00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:09,560
Speaker 1: I mean to me, it's this was the team of

984
00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:11,919
Speaker 1: any team in the league outside of Jacksonville that most

985
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:14,040
Speaker 1: needed to make a coaching switch, because when Mike Zimmer

986
00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:16,360
Speaker 1: went out the door, all you heard was about the

987
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:18,440
Speaker 1: heaviness in the building, that it had just gotten too

988
00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:21,919
Speaker 1: negative and too rough around the edges, like veterans were saying,

989
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:25,200
Speaker 1: I think that the offense and Kirk Cousins are He's

990
00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:28,040
Speaker 1: a huge beneficiary of having someone that's going to come

991
00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:30,879
Speaker 1: in the building and like care about Kirk Cousins because

992
00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:33,560
Speaker 1: we have spent all last offseason talking about the near

993
00:51:33,680 --> 00:51:36,800
Speaker 1: malays between Zimmer and Cousins and the whole I know

994
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:44,839
Speaker 1: the COVID thing was part of it too. I ended

995
00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:49,000
Speaker 1: that exactly on top of what Let's take a break

996
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:52,839
Speaker 1: and then hit the NFC West. All right, let's close

997
00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:56,759
Speaker 1: it out with starting with the defending champion Rams. This

998
00:51:56,840 --> 00:51:59,400
Speaker 1: could be a good time for your SSI stop the

999
00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:05,239
Speaker 1: Rams the topic now, mark no, because I would like

1000
00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:07,759
Speaker 1: you to know everyone that this whole means disliking the

1001
00:52:07,880 --> 00:52:09,960
Speaker 1: RAMS thing is is a fabrication at this point, like

1002
00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:13,399
Speaker 1: me hating the Texans, right, I was fighting. I fight

1003
00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:16,120
Speaker 1: against this narrative because it's it's now not true. A

1004
00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:19,680
Speaker 1: go ahead, then, Okay, do you think that this RAMS

1005
00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:24,399
Speaker 1: team could come out of the gates just on fight

1006
00:52:24,560 --> 00:52:27,000
Speaker 1: like they struck us? And they seem publicly as about

1007
00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:29,400
Speaker 1: as confident as like you could possibly be. They have

1008
00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:31,879
Speaker 1: a lot of continuity, they have a lot of star power,

1009
00:52:32,160 --> 00:52:34,839
Speaker 1: and there's this idea that it's hard to defend your title. Yes,

1010
00:52:34,920 --> 00:52:38,919
Speaker 1: to finish the deal. Okay, but how about how those

1011
00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:43,879
Speaker 1: teams recently have started the next season. Patriots, I would say,

1012
00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:46,280
Speaker 1: one of the worst recent champions just says like overall

1013
00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:48,719
Speaker 1: talent actually started the next year like seven and O

1014
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:51,640
Speaker 1: nine and O House on Fire when the Chiefs were

1015
00:52:51,719 --> 00:52:54,719
Speaker 1: defending their title. They're scoring like forty points a game

1016
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:57,920
Speaker 1: in September. The Bucks last season, to start the season,

1017
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:01,040
Speaker 1: we're scoring thirty to forty points a games. Started fantastic.

1018
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:03,239
Speaker 1: I think you get a certain sort of confidence, and

1019
00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:05,160
Speaker 1: you have a continuity where you're a step ahead of

1020
00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:08,239
Speaker 1: these other teams. It wouldn't surprise me at all for

1021
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:11,680
Speaker 1: them to come into the season and look fantastic as

1022
00:53:11,760 --> 00:53:13,320
Speaker 1: one of the teams in the end. I like I

1023
00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:15,080
Speaker 1: like this a lot because I think if you read

1024
00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:17,120
Speaker 1: that feature that came out on Sean McVeigh a couple

1025
00:53:17,120 --> 00:53:20,000
Speaker 1: of weeks ago, it I mean, this is an obsessive individual,

1026
00:53:20,080 --> 00:53:21,839
Speaker 1: and I think the weight of that other Super Bowl

1027
00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:25,480
Speaker 1: loss and the seasons after affected him in ways that

1028
00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:27,560
Speaker 1: it wouldn't maybe a different type of coach and a

1029
00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:30,120
Speaker 1: different type of human being. And I kind of get

1030
00:53:30,200 --> 00:53:33,080
Speaker 1: I know I've made this comparison before. If it all clicks,

1031
00:53:33,120 --> 00:53:35,319
Speaker 1: it's such a star heavy roster. You kind of get

1032
00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:38,520
Speaker 1: that eighty eight Niners team wherein eighty nine they came

1033
00:53:38,520 --> 00:53:40,680
Speaker 1: out and just blue doors off left and right, and

1034
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:42,880
Speaker 1: if they can knock off the Bills in the opener

1035
00:53:43,120 --> 00:53:47,320
Speaker 1: a week from tonight, you get the Falcons, doable Cardinals,

1036
00:53:47,440 --> 00:53:51,680
Speaker 1: doable Niners, Okay, tough Cowboys. We'll see Panthers by week,

1037
00:53:51,960 --> 00:53:54,359
Speaker 1: niners again, and then the Bucks you could you're talking

1038
00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:56,800
Speaker 1: five and one, six and one, potentially seven and O

1039
00:53:56,920 --> 00:53:59,319
Speaker 1: type start if they're as good as we think they're. Yeah,

1040
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:02,040
Speaker 1: and of course I do now need to see now

1041
00:54:02,120 --> 00:54:04,839
Speaker 1: that they can't hide it anymore. How Matthew Stafford's gonna

1042
00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:07,680
Speaker 1: look physically, because if he's not right, the whole thing's over.

1043
00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:10,239
Speaker 1: And that's part of like my overall feeling about the

1044
00:54:10,360 --> 00:54:13,120
Speaker 1: Rams is that, yes, it's all there, everything's in place

1045
00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:15,319
Speaker 1: for them to make another deep playoff run and even

1046
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:18,200
Speaker 1: win the whole thing. But there's a reason nobody repeats

1047
00:54:18,440 --> 00:54:20,520
Speaker 1: in the NFL, and it hasn't happened in almost twenty years,

1048
00:54:20,600 --> 00:54:22,520
Speaker 1: is that everything kind of has to fall into place.

1049
00:54:23,040 --> 00:54:24,800
Speaker 1: And I think that's how it worked for Los Angeles,

1050
00:54:24,840 --> 00:54:27,400
Speaker 1: and then they overcame some injury issues late in the season.

1051
00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:31,520
Speaker 1: But Aaron Donald's gotta stay healthy. These guys are now

1052
00:54:31,520 --> 00:54:33,680
Speaker 1: getting start to get a little bit older, um, and

1053
00:54:34,239 --> 00:54:36,080
Speaker 1: we gotta see his Cooper Cup gonna have the same

1054
00:54:36,160 --> 00:54:38,280
Speaker 1: season as he did last year. I like Gallen Robinson

1055
00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:40,719
Speaker 1: a lot. Is that going to work out the way

1056
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:45,000
Speaker 1: they wanted? Everything worked out last year for them to

1057
00:54:45,080 --> 00:54:46,680
Speaker 1: win each one of those games close? But they were

1058
00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:49,239
Speaker 1: a good team that they were streaky team, and I

1059
00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:51,840
Speaker 1: think they could be streaky and and I think it

1060
00:54:51,880 --> 00:54:54,160
Speaker 1: would be a positive streak to start. Who's the running

1061
00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:59,479
Speaker 1: back by the way, who's like they're guy crossing your fingers.

1062
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:05,080
Speaker 1: They don't stay health. I'm gonna make the case this

1063
00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:07,239
Speaker 1: team is fun to watch. People don't seem to be

1064
00:55:07,360 --> 00:55:10,959
Speaker 1: looking for and it's not even gonna use the G word. Okay,

1065
00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:14,080
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett are still on this team,

1066
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:16,960
Speaker 1: by the way, one of the best duos in the league.

1067
00:55:17,239 --> 00:55:19,920
Speaker 1: You got Rashid Penny and Kenneth Walker, I think, a

1068
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:22,880
Speaker 1: really fun running back duo. And then more than anything,

1069
00:55:23,280 --> 00:55:28,120
Speaker 1: you got Pete Carroll in like uh post Russell Wilson,

1070
00:55:28,239 --> 00:55:33,439
Speaker 1: post Russell Wilson, Uh, you know, silver Fox. I don't

1071
00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:37,920
Speaker 1: give what mode. They didn't like each other, or at

1072
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:39,920
Speaker 1: least they didn't like how the credit was a portion

1073
00:55:40,040 --> 00:55:41,480
Speaker 1: him and Russell Wilson. It's a little bit of like

1074
00:55:41,560 --> 00:55:44,600
Speaker 1: a Jimmy Johnson Jerry Jones situation, but more polite about it.

1075
00:55:45,040 --> 00:55:47,279
Speaker 1: And what Pete Carroll did great Ones was take some

1076
00:55:47,440 --> 00:55:49,800
Speaker 1: interesting talent on defense and make it all work in

1077
00:55:49,880 --> 00:55:52,000
Speaker 1: a fun, sort of ugly way. I think he's got

1078
00:55:52,080 --> 00:55:56,000
Speaker 1: some players to do that with Jamal Adams, hopefully he's healthy,

1079
00:55:56,239 --> 00:55:59,239
Speaker 1: Tariq will In, this freaky rookie who's probably gonna start

1080
00:55:59,280 --> 00:56:01,640
Speaker 1: for them. They've got a lot upfront. Puna affords a

1081
00:56:01,680 --> 00:56:05,880
Speaker 1: fun like I think, actually the Pete Carroll revenge season

1082
00:56:06,080 --> 00:56:08,160
Speaker 1: could be a lot of fun. No A fan, how

1083
00:56:08,200 --> 00:56:10,920
Speaker 1: about that? A lot of fun? No Ah fan, how

1084
00:56:11,040 --> 00:56:13,759
Speaker 1: about that? A lot of fun. I'm just saying, these

1085
00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:17,280
Speaker 1: are athletic players. I think they draft really athletic players,

1086
00:56:17,360 --> 00:56:19,120
Speaker 1: and so to me, that's fun. A lot of athletic

1087
00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:21,800
Speaker 1: players in our league. I have an alive branch, especially

1088
00:56:21,880 --> 00:56:25,000
Speaker 1: athletic like freaky sort of combine time types and all

1089
00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:28,040
Speaker 1: of branch for you. Because I I am exhausted with

1090
00:56:28,239 --> 00:56:31,439
Speaker 1: my exhaustion towards Geno Smith and so what I because

1091
00:56:31,440 --> 00:56:32,839
Speaker 1: I don't want to go into the season with any

1092
00:56:32,880 --> 00:56:34,560
Speaker 1: of that business. I want to just start fresh. So

1093
00:56:34,680 --> 00:56:38,600
Speaker 1: I am starting over about four weeks until Drew Lock. Well,

1094
00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:40,960
Speaker 1: if he, if he, if they, if either of them

1095
00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:43,120
Speaker 1: annoy me want come the regular season. That's different. But

1096
00:56:43,480 --> 00:56:46,840
Speaker 1: he actually, I don't think he is getting quite the

1097
00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:49,880
Speaker 1: credit that he should for how he played in the preseason.

1098
00:56:49,920 --> 00:56:52,799
Speaker 1: Gino Smith, he was killed with drops, but he had

1099
00:56:52,840 --> 00:56:55,520
Speaker 1: the most big play throws of any quarterback in the preseason.

1100
00:56:55,520 --> 00:56:58,239
Speaker 1: I know he played a lot too, but I I'm

1101
00:56:58,400 --> 00:57:00,360
Speaker 1: it's a one year patch and that can cannot be

1102
00:57:00,440 --> 00:57:03,560
Speaker 1: their long term plan. But Gino Smith, along with everything

1103
00:57:03,600 --> 00:57:05,880
Speaker 1: you mentioned, you could see them not being a disaster.

1104
00:57:06,040 --> 00:57:09,239
Speaker 1: They can win games. They could win nine games eight.

1105
00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:12,800
Speaker 1: The absolute ceiling is nine games with Gino Smith and

1106
00:57:12,880 --> 00:57:15,600
Speaker 1: Drew Lock behind center. It's the it's the atypical non

1107
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:18,760
Speaker 1: not based around a quarterback team. I'm raising it to ten.

1108
00:57:19,080 --> 00:57:22,640
Speaker 1: I just uh, I like this Pete Carroll. You didn't

1109
00:57:22,680 --> 00:57:28,680
Speaker 1: mention he's athletic. He's athletic, He's a he's a mover.

1110
00:57:29,200 --> 00:57:31,439
Speaker 1: Who's the movie star that your your mom is into?

1111
00:57:31,520 --> 00:57:35,600
Speaker 1: Is it Richard Gear? I believe she's into Carol, so

1112
00:57:35,720 --> 00:57:38,880
Speaker 1: I thought she had a big Richard gear fascination. I

1113
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:46,160
Speaker 1: just night like Snyder Snyder Revival Schneider has been struggling lately.

1114
00:57:46,240 --> 00:57:48,080
Speaker 1: Old John Schneider, you know the shirt off in the

1115
00:57:48,160 --> 00:57:52,280
Speaker 1: locker room. These this rookie class, on paper, could have

1116
00:57:52,520 --> 00:57:55,400
Speaker 1: a bigger impact than any rookie class in the NFL.

1117
00:57:55,560 --> 00:57:58,320
Speaker 1: They've got depth and they've got time. Rank among your

1118
00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:02,480
Speaker 1: twelve favorite teams that you have, You've adopted twelve teams

1119
00:58:02,520 --> 00:58:08,160
Speaker 1: at this point. You got one second fourth quick time

1120
00:58:08,200 --> 00:58:11,880
Speaker 1: out here. Drew locks on this team because Russell Wilson

1121
00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:15,720
Speaker 1: was traded. Nice return on that deal. Get Drew Lock

1122
00:58:15,760 --> 00:58:18,720
Speaker 1: in your building. Can't even beat out Geno Smith. Okay,

1123
00:58:19,240 --> 00:58:22,120
Speaker 1: but good news for they set the first round draffic

1124
00:58:22,160 --> 00:58:24,640
Speaker 1: I don't think the center piece of the d they

1125
00:58:24,720 --> 00:58:27,840
Speaker 1: probably like accepted to take true luck, I know, but

1126
00:58:27,960 --> 00:58:30,000
Speaker 1: like they probably like, oh, well, he could be our

1127
00:58:30,040 --> 00:58:33,120
Speaker 1: bridge guy and not Gino. Gino's our backup. And then

1128
00:58:33,720 --> 00:58:40,760
Speaker 1: they got to camp and they're like, no, here we go. Everyone.

1129
00:58:42,240 --> 00:58:44,320
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson and the dever Broncos agreed to a five

1130
00:58:44,400 --> 00:58:48,640
Speaker 1: year extension worth two five million, including one sixty five

1131
00:58:48,720 --> 00:58:53,800
Speaker 1: million guaranteed. So the Broncos, who have handled this beautifully

1132
00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:56,520
Speaker 1: every step of the way, they pulled the trigger on

1133
00:58:56,560 --> 00:58:59,400
Speaker 1: a blockbuster to get a Hall of Fame CALIBERT quarterback

1134
00:58:59,480 --> 00:59:02,520
Speaker 1: with years of his prime left, and now they quickly

1135
00:59:02,640 --> 00:59:05,800
Speaker 1: take care of business. Baltimore Ravens, are you paying attention

1136
00:59:06,160 --> 00:59:11,360
Speaker 1: and lock your franchise start up? Focus on football? Everybody wins.

1137
00:59:12,360 --> 00:59:14,960
Speaker 1: I can't argue with that. The i'd liked. I want

1138
00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:17,560
Speaker 1: to see the details of the hundred and sixty five

1139
00:59:17,600 --> 00:59:20,240
Speaker 1: million dollars guaranteed. I know that it's said that sometimes

1140
00:59:20,320 --> 00:59:22,440
Speaker 1: you find out more after the fact. That's interesting to

1141
00:59:22,480 --> 00:59:26,080
Speaker 1: me because that that is the second most guarantee, you know,

1142
00:59:26,160 --> 00:59:28,280
Speaker 1: highest amount of guaranteed money in the in the history

1143
00:59:28,320 --> 00:59:30,360
Speaker 1: of the NFL by quite a bit, Like Watson is

1144
00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:32,880
Speaker 1: number one by quite a bit. And now Wilson was

1145
00:59:33,120 --> 00:59:37,640
Speaker 1: almost sort of meeting the Watson deal Kyler Murray's point,

1146
00:59:37,680 --> 00:59:39,440
Speaker 1: but that was like a lot of fuzzy stuff in

1147
00:59:39,520 --> 00:59:44,439
Speaker 1: there too, Like it's that's yeah, like the Kyler wasn't

1148
00:59:44,440 --> 00:59:46,960
Speaker 1: fully guaranteed. So I I don't know, I'm interested in that,

1149
00:59:47,200 --> 00:59:49,520
Speaker 1: But what are you gonna do? You have to go

1150
00:59:49,640 --> 00:59:54,200
Speaker 1: all in. I just want to commend um Kevin Patrick

1151
00:59:54,280 --> 00:59:58,120
Speaker 1: for the lead in the article on dot Com quote

1152
00:59:58,640 --> 01:00:04,640
Speaker 1: Broncos Country, let's sign Oh well, Pat Russell Wilson problem.

1153
01:00:04,680 --> 01:00:09,520
Speaker 1: Patro is a pro uh. That is it's so smooth,

1154
01:00:10,840 --> 01:00:15,080
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty five million guaranteed. Russell Wilson an established

1155
01:00:15,240 --> 01:00:19,040
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl quarterback, a Super Bowl champion, and Watson got

1156
01:00:19,080 --> 01:00:23,640
Speaker 1: two thirty that deals that was actually, you know, to

1157
01:00:23,800 --> 01:00:26,560
Speaker 1: that point, it has not been the thing that the

1158
01:00:26,600 --> 01:00:29,520
Speaker 1: owners were afraid of. To this point, it's not. That's

1159
01:00:29,560 --> 01:00:32,560
Speaker 1: an interesting where it's not everyone has to sign, you know,

1160
01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:35,840
Speaker 1: these top guys because even Russell Wilson. Look, I think

1161
01:00:35,840 --> 01:00:38,880
Speaker 1: that I think I think the Cleveland's owners are persona

1162
01:00:38,960 --> 01:00:41,560
Speaker 1: on Grotta among the other owners because of that contract.

1163
01:00:41,600 --> 01:00:45,640
Speaker 1: And I actually it's the best possible result that you're

1164
01:00:45,680 --> 01:00:48,960
Speaker 1: not seeing any copycat scenarios contract wise to that one.

1165
01:00:49,120 --> 01:00:52,440
Speaker 1: Well for the other owners, right, although not for the

1166
01:00:52,520 --> 01:00:54,920
Speaker 1: owner in Baltimore. So if there's if you want to

1167
01:00:54,960 --> 01:01:00,280
Speaker 1: find one positive thing about the transaction um that caused

1168
01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:03,560
Speaker 1: you to divorce the Browns forever, I guess it wouldn't

1169
01:01:03,560 --> 01:01:06,280
Speaker 1: be positive, but for Browns fans it would be positive.

1170
01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:09,520
Speaker 1: That I think it's preventing Lamar Jackson from signing in Baltimore.

1171
01:01:09,600 --> 01:01:13,200
Speaker 1: That's the reporting is that he wants that fully guaranteed money,

1172
01:01:13,360 --> 01:01:15,760
Speaker 1: that the Ravens won't do it, and that that's not

1173
01:01:15,880 --> 01:01:19,080
Speaker 1: gonna happened before the season because of it. We'll see.

1174
01:01:19,600 --> 01:01:22,600
Speaker 1: And by the way, this all happened in part because

1175
01:01:23,280 --> 01:01:29,560
Speaker 1: the Broncos, who had unsettled ownership issues, sold to uh

1176
01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:34,000
Speaker 1: Walmart Walmart Air, Rob Walton and his group four point

1177
01:01:34,080 --> 01:01:40,880
Speaker 1: six five billion. He has the money. That's he's thirty three.

1178
01:01:40,960 --> 01:01:43,479
Speaker 1: I think the fact that the even guys like Matt

1179
01:01:43,600 --> 01:01:47,120
Speaker 1: Ryan being thirty eight, is he now thirty nine playing

1180
01:01:47,200 --> 01:01:49,200
Speaker 1: at like his love I think it's okay to change

1181
01:01:49,240 --> 01:01:52,120
Speaker 1: the timeline of quarterbacks. You are expecting Russell Wilson to

1182
01:01:52,200 --> 01:01:55,160
Speaker 1: be there for five years. I feel like it used

1183
01:01:55,200 --> 01:01:58,400
Speaker 1: to be like aged thirty four. Maybe this is obviously

1184
01:01:58,440 --> 01:02:00,120
Speaker 1: just throwing numbers out there, but now I feel like

1185
01:02:00,200 --> 01:02:04,680
Speaker 1: age thirty eight. Those guys were drinking like twelve packs

1186
01:02:04,720 --> 01:02:06,760
Speaker 1: of beer in the off season. Every Rivers did it,

1187
01:02:06,840 --> 01:02:09,320
Speaker 1: Breeze did it. It's not like it's not rare all

1188
01:02:09,360 --> 01:02:15,520
Speaker 1: right time in Cardinals me Kyler coming off a tumatuous

1189
01:02:15,560 --> 01:02:17,600
Speaker 1: offseason that ended with a massive pay day and a

1190
01:02:17,760 --> 01:02:23,840
Speaker 1: since um exercised contract stipulation that essentially told the football

1191
01:02:23,880 --> 01:02:26,520
Speaker 1: world this team doesn't believe it works hard enough. That happened.

1192
01:02:26,560 --> 01:02:29,840
Speaker 1: That was like the craziest story of our summer. I think.

1193
01:02:30,480 --> 01:02:33,280
Speaker 1: Um Anyway, I look at the Cardinals as presently constituted

1194
01:02:33,320 --> 01:02:37,160
Speaker 1: on offense, can't help but see a remarkable amount of

1195
01:02:37,240 --> 01:02:43,440
Speaker 1: pressure and responsibility on Kyler Murray two make a Honda

1196
01:02:43,560 --> 01:02:48,200
Speaker 1: Civic move like a Ferrari put it that way. Hollywood Brown?

1197
01:02:48,320 --> 01:02:51,400
Speaker 1: You like Hollywood Brown? Do you love Hollywood Brown? James Conner?

1198
01:02:51,840 --> 01:02:53,360
Speaker 1: I know he had a lot of touchdowns last year?

1199
01:02:53,360 --> 01:02:56,520
Speaker 1: You love James Conner? Are you a Rondel Moore Truther? Okay,

1200
01:02:56,600 --> 01:02:59,760
Speaker 1: he's a He's a good, uh second year player, Zach.

1201
01:03:00,040 --> 01:03:03,640
Speaker 1: It's with ninety thousand miles on the odometer. How about

1202
01:03:03,680 --> 01:03:07,360
Speaker 1: a j Green thousand on the odometer. I know new

1203
01:03:07,440 --> 01:03:09,720
Speaker 1: Copkins is coming back, but he's coming back from a

1204
01:03:09,800 --> 01:03:12,960
Speaker 1: p D suspension on the wrong side of thirty. Just

1205
01:03:13,200 --> 01:03:15,640
Speaker 1: feels like Kyler. I'm not saying he's been put in

1206
01:03:15,720 --> 01:03:19,040
Speaker 1: his position to fail, but this is gonna be hard

1207
01:03:19,200 --> 01:03:21,760
Speaker 1: work in this division especially, and this is a team

1208
01:03:21,840 --> 01:03:23,120
Speaker 1: that you know, I don't know if it's a Cliff

1209
01:03:23,200 --> 01:03:28,080
Speaker 1: Kingsbury thing. Obviously they've come out hot seasons in a

1210
01:03:28,200 --> 01:03:31,920
Speaker 1: row and then faded without DeAndre Hopkins at it for

1211
01:03:32,000 --> 01:03:35,120
Speaker 1: six games. I don't like that five of your four

1212
01:03:35,160 --> 01:03:37,920
Speaker 1: of your first five games include tilts against the Chiefs,

1213
01:03:38,200 --> 01:03:41,640
Speaker 1: the Raiders, the Rams, and the Eagles. That that's that's

1214
01:03:41,640 --> 01:03:44,120
Speaker 1: a playoff run right there. And I mean there's a

1215
01:03:44,160 --> 01:03:46,640
Speaker 1: lot of pressure on someone like ron dial Moore to

1216
01:03:46,720 --> 01:03:48,280
Speaker 1: have a much bigger role than he did last year

1217
01:03:48,320 --> 01:03:49,800
Speaker 1: to be used if they say they're gonna do that.

1218
01:03:50,120 --> 01:03:52,240
Speaker 1: I mean, if there's an injury to James Conner, there's

1219
01:03:52,280 --> 01:03:54,600
Speaker 1: not much behind him at running back and you're hoping

1220
01:03:54,640 --> 01:03:57,160
Speaker 1: the offensive line works out. I just I'm with you.

1221
01:03:57,280 --> 01:03:59,080
Speaker 1: I picked him as a playoff team because I do

1222
01:03:59,320 --> 01:04:02,320
Speaker 1: think that if they can make an adjustment to the

1223
01:04:02,360 --> 01:04:04,240
Speaker 1: way the end of these seasons seemed to happen under

1224
01:04:04,240 --> 01:04:07,080
Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury, they're one of those teams that have Kyler Murray.

1225
01:04:07,080 --> 01:04:08,680
Speaker 1: If you get what you got from him for the

1226
01:04:08,720 --> 01:04:11,040
Speaker 1: first twelve thirteen weeks last season, was one of the

1227
01:04:11,080 --> 01:04:12,640
Speaker 1: best quarterbacks in the league. And I think that it's

1228
01:04:12,680 --> 01:04:15,640
Speaker 1: forgotten a mince the dramas. I like what you did

1229
01:04:15,720 --> 01:04:18,479
Speaker 1: when you said their first four or five games, there's

1230
01:04:18,560 --> 01:04:21,840
Speaker 1: there's you know, three tilts, like he didn't reuse the

1231
01:04:21,880 --> 01:04:26,320
Speaker 1: word games very right early, Like that's how you're speaking

1232
01:04:26,560 --> 01:04:30,160
Speaker 1: as you would write your Kyler point about how he

1233
01:04:30,240 --> 01:04:32,320
Speaker 1: started last season where he was kind of an m

1234
01:04:32,400 --> 01:04:34,680
Speaker 1: VP candidate. You know, if if you can start the

1235
01:04:34,760 --> 01:04:37,600
Speaker 1: race in the first is well made because this is

1236
01:04:37,720 --> 01:04:40,440
Speaker 1: year four in the same system for a guy with

1237
01:04:40,720 --> 01:04:43,560
Speaker 1: all the talent in the world and a coach that's

1238
01:04:43,560 --> 01:04:46,720
Speaker 1: supposed to be an offensive coach, like like, this is

1239
01:04:46,800 --> 01:04:49,320
Speaker 1: a guy that in the money is is what it

1240
01:04:49,440 --> 01:04:52,600
Speaker 1: is too, that should be able to be at that

1241
01:04:52,760 --> 01:04:55,320
Speaker 1: m v P level if he's as good as we system.

1242
01:04:55,760 --> 01:04:57,720
Speaker 1: Is it a good system? Like is it proven that

1243
01:04:57,880 --> 01:05:01,720
Speaker 1: the doubts it's not a it's not a disaster. I

1244
01:05:01,880 --> 01:05:03,560
Speaker 1: just I think they've got to find a way when

1245
01:05:03,560 --> 01:05:07,680
Speaker 1: everyone has tape on them come October, extremely thin on

1246
01:05:07,840 --> 01:05:10,840
Speaker 1: defense at multiple positions. They traded for trayvon Mullen from

1247
01:05:10,840 --> 01:05:17,400
Speaker 1: the Raiders this week because they don't have any cornerbacks tape. Well,

1248
01:05:17,440 --> 01:05:20,640
Speaker 1: that would help maybe turn the xbox off for five minutes.

1249
01:05:23,880 --> 01:05:26,880
Speaker 1: I'll lured you into that jugular shot you threw me,

1250
01:05:27,760 --> 01:05:32,880
Speaker 1: all right, one more the San Francisco forty mark. All right,

1251
01:05:33,400 --> 01:05:36,400
Speaker 1: Trey Lance, as I mentioned yesterday, has thrown three eighty

1252
01:05:36,480 --> 01:05:40,240
Speaker 1: nine live passes since high school. That's less than if

1253
01:05:40,240 --> 01:05:42,320
Speaker 1: you were like playing football three times a week as

1254
01:05:42,360 --> 01:05:44,320
Speaker 1: a bro with your friends on the weekends. That's not

1255
01:05:44,840 --> 01:05:48,120
Speaker 1: he has probably done that in practice. Okay, well, I'm

1256
01:05:48,160 --> 01:05:52,360
Speaker 1: just saying, actually, that's not true. Greg, He's never thrown

1257
01:05:52,440 --> 01:05:55,840
Speaker 1: more than that number. He has played in twenty five

1258
01:05:55,920 --> 01:05:58,960
Speaker 1: games since hide school. Okay, talk about like not watching film.

1259
01:06:00,040 --> 01:06:05,720
Speaker 1: He's not even throwing. It's IM a gamer. Trevor Lawrence,

1260
01:06:05,880 --> 01:06:08,440
Speaker 1: he has played five. Trevor Lawrence has played fifty three,

1261
01:06:08,920 --> 01:06:12,760
Speaker 1: Justin Fields forty six, Matt Jones forty seven, Zach Wilson

1262
01:06:12,880 --> 01:06:16,080
Speaker 1: forty three. Did you do this yourself? No, I readed

1263
01:06:16,080 --> 01:06:19,000
Speaker 1: its research. Some someone else did the mass. I think

1264
01:06:19,000 --> 01:06:22,560
Speaker 1: that Kyle Shanahan, I don't know the answer to that,

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Speaker 1: and we are we are not. There's going to be

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Speaker 1: no response period for you if you do not stop

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Speaker 1: interrupting me. Okay, um, I just wonder Kyle Shanahan has

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Speaker 1: seen him practice for over a year, seen him in

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Speaker 1: limited game action. I have pre season started off real hot,

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Speaker 1: and I thought, I thinking we've turned the corner with

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Speaker 1: Tray Lance, and it did not finish that way. It

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Speaker 1: was real up and down. Can you I'm literally going

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Speaker 1: to talk for the rest of the entire thing. Do

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Speaker 1: you worry that you're over emphasizing like arcs of a

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Speaker 1: preseason when it amounts to like fifteen snaps per games. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's your opinion. I am not worried. I'm not worried.

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Speaker 1: I think the word people were over worrying that Jimmy

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Speaker 1: g did not have a playbook, and Kyle Shanahan just

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Speaker 1: laughed that off. I'm just asking, do you think that

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Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan, who said a lot of nice things about

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Speaker 1: Trey Lance, actually believes in them? And what would be

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Speaker 1: the scenario? How bad would they need to start for

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Speaker 1: the trade Lance experiment just simply to end, because that

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Speaker 1: feels like a constant drumbeat scenario if he if he falters,

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Speaker 1: I'm not done talking. I just think, yeah, three straight,

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Speaker 1: if he's really struggling in their two or three games

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Speaker 1: under five hundred, that's it. Like it could be as

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Speaker 1: early as October. I just I don't think that's he

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Speaker 1: Isn't that an organizational nightmare to bench the guy you gave.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it is. But I'm saying, like if

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Speaker 1: the goal, as it always is ultimately is to win

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Speaker 1: the Lombardi Trovia this year, like we talked about, this

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Speaker 1: is great news for the Niners. They have a fallback

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Speaker 1: plan now and it's a guy they know can get

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Speaker 1: them where they need to go potentially depending on how

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Speaker 1: you feel about Jimmy g But before that it was

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Speaker 1: this loaded team and a completely unproven guy. Now you

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Speaker 1: have a backup now is a bad look for the

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Speaker 1: entire organization if he bombs out, it would be a

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Speaker 1: terrible look. Absolutely, But I love that they now have

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Speaker 1: somebody they can turn to in case that happened. But

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Speaker 1: there their roster is so loaded. Their defense it might

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Speaker 1: be my pick as the best defense in the league

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Speaker 1: going into the season. And I think their offensive to

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Speaker 1: their offensive line is a concern and Trey Lands was

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Speaker 1: missing open receivers in the preseason. But it's a great roster.

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Speaker 1: They could help the quarterback and that's why their season

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Speaker 1: was over. If Trey Lands camp play and doesn't develop

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Speaker 1: this year, and now it's not. Now they have do

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Speaker 1: we have a time out still left over? I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: taken just talk now. Yeah, But don't don't don't tell him. Well,

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Speaker 1: the forty Niners third round pick from just a year ago,

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Speaker 1: Trey Sermon, who was getting drafted awfully high in fantasy

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Speaker 1: leagues a year ago, uh is now remember the Eagles

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Speaker 1: they had talked trade at one point, but he actually

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Speaker 1: got released quietly. That's the most of hand thing to

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Speaker 1: release Sermon in year two after he said a lot

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Speaker 1: of nice things about trade. Sermon also literally a week

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Speaker 1: ago he said, like, Trey is amazing, Trey is going

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Speaker 1: to be a huge part of our team. And then

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Speaker 1: they I mean, I guess if you're trying to trade him,

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Speaker 1: that makes sense. But the third round picks are tricky

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Speaker 1: because if it's the first or a second round pick,

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Speaker 1: in most cases, unless you're Alex Leatherwood, they're gonna give

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Speaker 1: you some rope. But once you get to that third

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01:09:26,320 --> 01:09:29,679
Speaker 1: round pick, you see a lot of whiffs and quick

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Speaker 1: hooks on those. To be fair, they drafted Elijah Mitchell

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Speaker 1: in the exact same draft in the sixth round and

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Speaker 1: he's their starter. And it's a real meritocracy San Francisco.

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Speaker 1: All right. That was around the NFC in forty eight minutes.

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Speaker 1: Now we turn our attention to next week. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: be wild. It's gonna wait, it's it's caught. Hang on,

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Speaker 1: there we go. It's gonna be wild because next week

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Speaker 1: is the beginning of the y Sular season. So you'll

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Speaker 1: hear from us next on Tuesday. Here here's this is crazy. Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have um the Around the NFL podcast. Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: We're going to have the finale of the Hard Knocks

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Speaker 1: podcast with me and Connie. Tuesday, we might even have

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Speaker 1: the debut of another new podcast connected to the Around

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Speaker 1: the NFL family that I'm gonna hold on telling you

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Speaker 1: more about at this time. We also have Tuesday's Sound

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Speaker 1: Tough for You, and a regular Tuesday show Thursday. We're

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Speaker 1: going to have Sandwich Props on Tuesday. By the way,

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Speaker 1: Sandwich Props on Tuesday. Thursday is gonna be our week

1345
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Speaker 1: one preview show. Thursday night is gonna be our TNF

1346
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Speaker 1: recap of what game rams bills we're going maybe, and

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Speaker 1: then Sunday the return excuse me, Friday, Oh, Friday Friday.

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Speaker 1: We have a Friday fun show every Friday this year,

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Speaker 1: uh me, Greg Mark, maybe some special guests will have

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Speaker 1: a fun little show that gets us into the weekend,

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Speaker 1: you get that more content, am I right? Okay? And

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Speaker 1: then Sunday it is the return of the flagship show

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Speaker 1: Week one recap. That's a lot it is, but we're

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Speaker 1: happy to content. We're testing your love and we believe

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01:11:30,000 --> 01:11:34,840
Speaker 1: listeners that you love the show and want more content.

1356
01:11:34,960 --> 01:11:37,040
Speaker 1: And if you don't want to listen to each and everyone,

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01:11:37,160 --> 01:11:38,960
Speaker 1: that's up to you. But there will be some that

1358
01:11:39,040 --> 01:11:40,560
Speaker 1: will love it, and that Friday show will be like

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Speaker 1: a little smaller shorter than the other shows. I think

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Speaker 1: everyone who loves the show is gonna love it. Digger

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Speaker 1: has something you didn't even mention the newest show, the

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Speaker 1: other new show, Monday Night recap coming the day after that.

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Speaker 1: Do we have too many shows? And Thursday Night? Yeah

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Speaker 1: said Thursday Night six shows per week around the NFL.

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Speaker 1: The TV show is back on NFL Network on Saturday,

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Speaker 1: and that's gonna be kind of a look back on

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Speaker 1: the week that was on the podcast side of things.

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Speaker 1: So a little bit of a different show than you

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Speaker 1: had last year, but still a good way to see,

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Speaker 1: you know, the show from a different perspective. That's a

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Speaker 1: lot it is. I am slightly concerned. What is it?

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Speaker 1: Pigs get fat hogs get slaughtered and all the video

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01:12:23,840 --> 01:12:26,120
Speaker 1: shows can be viewed on the NFL Fast Channel as

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Speaker 1: well as listened to in audio. So do both. I've

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Speaker 1: yet to get to the point where I'm, you know,

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Speaker 1: really sick of hearing myself talk. I haven't gotten to

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Speaker 1: that point where we're gonna test it this year. So

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Speaker 1: that's what this season is all about. We're gonna test it. Oh,

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Speaker 1: by the way, Power Rankings is back next week and

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Speaker 1: every week after that until January or February. And Mark,

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Speaker 1: you're taking on QB indexes that rollout next week. I

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Speaker 1: believe it's the week. I mean it's gonna respond to

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Speaker 1: the games after now you I think you do. So

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Speaker 1: I've been a great start, not until a big one

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Speaker 1: like set the table off into the season. They asked

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Speaker 1: the question of our editor if that's actually put it

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Speaker 1: this way, and put it this way, it's always been

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Speaker 1: on the schedule before. And if I have to file

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Speaker 1: a Power Rankings on Monday morning for games that haven't

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Speaker 1: been played yet, you should have to file the X

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01:13:16,920 --> 01:13:21,120
Speaker 1: before because we have already been done with it. Knowing

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Speaker 1: Mark he is, he is a preparer and he gets

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Speaker 1: things done ahead of type and if he had known

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Speaker 1: that that was hanging, he would have worked on it

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01:13:27,600 --> 01:13:30,840
Speaker 1: this week. Gotten it maybe out of the way. That

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Speaker 1: is the only tactical issue. But maybe talk with our

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Speaker 1: features that are Ali Banpuri about your assignments heading into

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Speaker 1: the new season. I mean I have in the past.

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Speaker 1: This this wasn't mentioned, So just check that email whatever

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Speaker 1: he sent. All right, there you go, Sunday morning. Thank

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Speaker 1: you everybody for listening, Thanks for the support. Thank you

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Speaker 1: to why this week, Cynthia Freeland, thank you very much. Cynthia,

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Speaker 1: You're the best. Until next week, he the call