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Speaker 1: single day from two places, sunny southern California and sunny beautiful,

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Speaker 1: absolutely stunning, Green Bay, Wisconsin. Eh, welcome in. So. Uh,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of I don't want to say, little stories,

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Speaker 1: but interesting stories. You know, we run into this on

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Speaker 1: many Wednesdays here right where, you know, Monday is like

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Speaker 1: kind of story overload. Right, we had week two Tuesdays.

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Speaker 1: Generally we get to college football some on Tuesdays. Uh,

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Speaker 1: but because there was two Monday night football games, because

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Speaker 1: of the Tom Brady story, it felt like Tuesdays were

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Speaker 1: more kind of NFL focused. Wednesdays kind of the lull day.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: You got Thursday night football, you get baseball. I did

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Speaker 1: find myself watching some w NBA playoffs a little bit

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Speaker 1: as I got stuck on on watching Indiana. Part of

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Speaker 1: it is stylistically offensively, they kind of play the way

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to get my team to play. So there

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Speaker 1: there's some interesting stuff there. Right. I know that Dan

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Speaker 1: I mean assumed me that Jay Stu has his feelings

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Speaker 1: about his Dodgers and Dodgers bullpen for the second night

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Speaker 1: in a row. But I thought the topic of Joe

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Speaker 1: Burrow was an interesting one and I'd love Dan and

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Speaker 1: Jay your your input a little bit. I'll give you

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Speaker 1: my thoughts and the the The question is always were

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Speaker 1: the Bengals so focused on building for Joe Burrow with

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Speaker 1: skill position players that they didn't build well enough with

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Speaker 1: the offensive line, They not do enough with scheme and

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Speaker 1: with personnel to protect him. Dan Pitcher is their offense

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Speaker 1: coordinate with the Bengals, He said, quote, we have special

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Speaker 1: skill players. This is what he said to the Cincinnati Inquirer.

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Speaker 1: We want to accentuate those skilled players. We want to

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Speaker 1: try and do things. How do we accentuate their skill set?

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Speaker 1: How do we do it in a way in which

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Speaker 1: we're limiting the amount of the times that Joe's potentially gonna

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Speaker 1: get hit. There's no one decision that solves it. Everything

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Speaker 1: costs something. So we constantly think about these things, and again,

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Speaker 1: I hate that we're in the spot that we're in.

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Speaker 1: You always evaluate and reevaluate and do it over and

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Speaker 1: over again, but we can only make the decisions in

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Speaker 1: the moment that give us a chance to win. So,

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Speaker 1: you know, this is the old Hey, skills a players,

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Speaker 1: we'd like to get you paid, but if we pay

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Speaker 1: all of you, we don't have the money left over.

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Speaker 1: We don't have the money left over to build a

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Speaker 1: top level offensive line. Now, if you look back three

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Speaker 1: years or so ago, right that year or how many

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl, that was a year in which that this

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Speaker 1: coaching staff, front office called in the question and they

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Speaker 1: rebuilt the offensive line. And I kind of told people

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Speaker 1: they did, but it wasn't a good enough answer for people.

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Speaker 1: And then you know, they started slow and end up

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Speaker 1: now it's like a reoccurring theme that Joe Burrow is

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Speaker 1: getting hit so much. He's the new Andrew Luck. I

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Speaker 1: what they did financially, what they did with their offensive line.

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Speaker 1: I know that we have a tendency to overreact some

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Speaker 1: video against the Cincinnati Bengals where he just got obliterated

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Speaker 1: brain when you're thinking about Joe Burrow and then you

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Speaker 1: the years and how many injuries he's had, and you're like, man,

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Speaker 1: this guy's always hurt. But I think there's three different factors. One,

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Speaker 1: it is probably in their scheme. How is it that

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Speaker 1: the positives, right, You're putting guys out into routes and

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Speaker 1: even though those hits seem to be crushing in terms

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Speaker 1: a team. You're gonna have to sacrifice something something, especially

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Speaker 1: when you have either a salary cap or limitations on funds.

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Speaker 1: And I can draw the direct parallel to my team

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Speaker 1: dealing with Hey, at some point, we just don't have

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Speaker 1: said this about Alabama football, right, Alabama football, like they're

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Speaker 1: to be the quarterback at Alabama. I don't think he's

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Speaker 1: making a million dollars now, he's probably making I don't know,

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Speaker 1: as if he's good enough, they'll keep him to stay.

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Speaker 1: And he wants to be there, wants to be the

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Speaker 1: go elsewhere in cash in. Who knows if he can

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Speaker 1: you have let's say conservatively Alabama has twenty million dollars,

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Speaker 1: if you spend five million dollars in a quarterback, well

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Speaker 1: there's going to be a shortfall somewhere. Our scale is different,

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Speaker 1: but there's going to be a short fall somewhere. Talk

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Speaker 1: which is really really, really good. But you got to

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Speaker 1: manage those salaries. NFL's no different. You have a salary cap.

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Speaker 1: There's a limit to what you can spend and if

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Speaker 1: you spend a ton of money on a quarterback, You

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Speaker 1: spend a lot of money on a secondary wide receiver.

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Speaker 1: You spend a ton of money even for a one

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Speaker 1: You could even use the home building analogy. Right, you're

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Speaker 1: that budget? You know? With flooring, Like there's a floor

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Speaker 1: it works, but I know that generally you go back

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Speaker 1: fifteen years ago and I never would have either bought

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Speaker 1: kind of like how it how much it costs, and

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Speaker 1: I like how it looks. But when am I giving up?

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Speaker 1: I'm giving up saying these are hard real hardwood floors.

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Speaker 1: Something's got to give. You get a budget on you're

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Speaker 1: redoing your kitchen. You know, do you use courts for countertops?

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Speaker 1: Do you use marble for countdops? Marble is great, it's

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Speaker 1: because if you do, then all right, what is something's

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Speaker 1: that's where the Bengals are. Bengals forever have been told

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Speaker 1: that they're cheap, and maybe they have been on some

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Speaker 1: to stay. They like to keep their own But in

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Speaker 1: terms of building an offensive line and building a system

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Speaker 1: that protects their most prized asset, it seems like they failed.

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Speaker 1: But there's also some accountability there for Joe Burrow. And

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Speaker 1: my guess is that the reason that there's a shortfall

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Speaker 1: there is because they spent money not just on elite

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Speaker 1: to give. Dan, what do you think?

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Speaker 3: Gosh, it's such an interesting situation because I think a

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Speaker 3: lot of what you said is true, and I think

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Speaker 3: that there's some faults that you laid out correctly on

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Speaker 3: Joe Burrow of maybe holding the football a little too long.

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Speaker 3: I think Doug that everything that we would say about

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Speaker 3: Joe Burrow is what we would say about the Bengals

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Speaker 3: front office. It's what we say about Zach Taylor. The

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Speaker 3: team has tried to address their offensive line, used a

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Speaker 3: first round pick on a tackle in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 3: A couple of years ago, they signed to Orlando Brown,

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Speaker 3: who was one of the top free agents at that point.

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Speaker 3: Brown manning the left tackle spot, so it's not like

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Speaker 3: they were completely negligent about it. However, for some reason

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Speaker 3: the players are developing, their interior line continues to be weak.

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Speaker 3: Zach Taylor continues to be criticized. No matter how good

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Speaker 3: the offense is, it's still about protecting Burrow, doing things

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Speaker 3: that could maybe make the defense react in a certain

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Speaker 3: way that could allow him time. There's blame to go

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Speaker 3: all around, but I think at the surface, when you

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Speaker 3: just invest the amount of money, specifically with t Higgins

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Speaker 3: so long, there's just no way to get out from

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Speaker 3: under it. And it's also why your team has to

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Speaker 3: score thirty eight points a game, because you don't even

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Speaker 3: have the resources to build a solid defense, let alone

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Speaker 3: an offensive line to protect Joe Burrow. So it is.

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Speaker 3: It is a the Bengals made the move that we

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Speaker 3: all thought, I think were the easiest move, and sometimes

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Speaker 3: those easiest moves aren't the right moves.

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Speaker 1: That's totally fair. And then you get to the whole

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Speaker 1: discussion about how how the NFL quarterbacks. You know, we

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Speaker 1: will do this every year, and I'm sure it'll happen

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Speaker 1: this year. I don't recall it happening yet where there's

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Speaker 1: passer and you know everyone said, well, that's not football.

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Speaker 1: He not even heard, does it? Okay? But I don't

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Speaker 1: off it is, how big a buzz kill it is

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Speaker 1: when you lose these starting quarterbacks. It's like, do you

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Speaker 1: want guys to be called for these little penalties? And

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Speaker 1: you know it's real when they slide, you gotta let

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Speaker 1: and your hand naturally comes down. I get it. But

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Speaker 1: the flip side to it is flip side to it

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Speaker 1: is when those guys do get hit in the head

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Speaker 1: and get concussed, it becomes a house of cards. Very

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Speaker 1: few teams can afford a backup quarterback. The backup quarterback

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Speaker 1: generally hurts the quality of play, the watchability of a game.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, we're all kind of beholding to these starting quarterbacks.

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Speaker 1: Teams are as well, and that's why the game is

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Speaker 1: probably overficiated as such.

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Speaker 3: You know Doug in their Super Bowl run. We look

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Speaker 1: Hey, what up there, It's Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 5: Henk you Doug, I'll take it from here. Dabo Swinney

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Speaker 1: one's ever experienced college sports in this era. It's new

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Speaker 1: to everybody. Everybody.

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Speaker 3: I just wouldn't want to be the president or the

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Speaker 3: ad or the boosters or whoever, to be the one

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Speaker 3: to run Dabble out of town.

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Speaker 1: But you know where he's gonna go, right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: everybody knows what happens. Well, he sits there and waits,

437
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Speaker 1: and if Calen Boy gets fired, he gets the job

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Speaker 1: at Alabama.

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Speaker 3: Yes, that seems to be a possible landing spot, but

440
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Speaker 3: it should never come to that.

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Speaker 1: It really shouldn't add Clemson. He is Clemson football.

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Speaker 3: And I would also say, Doug that, And I'll use

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Speaker 3: your sport as an example of someone like coach k

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Speaker 3: who transitioned and altered the way that they did things

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Speaker 3: because of a different landscape in college basketball. Sure that

446
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Speaker 3: Dabbo at least, if he's stuck in his ways now,

447
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Speaker 3: at least deserves the runway for the next couple of years.

448
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Speaker 3: To continue to really analyze if what he is doing

449
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Speaker 3: right now is correct or if he does need to

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Speaker 3: turn it around. And that's something that you shouldn't throw

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Speaker 3: away because of two losses in one score games to

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Speaker 3: one team that's three and nine again, Georgia Tech, I

453
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Speaker 3: think is a pretty good football team and LSU at home.

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Speaker 3: I know that LSU I'll played Clemson in that game,

455
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Speaker 3: but still one score game, Like, what are we doing

456
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Speaker 3: here if we're running someone out of town because they're

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Speaker 3: one and two with a combined loss of you know,

458
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Speaker 3: ten points on their two losses this year. I just know, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I don't I don't like it. I don't like it either.

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Speaker 3: I understand that there's an ever changing world of college sports,

461
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Speaker 3: and I think a lot of schools are trying to

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Speaker 3: find out ways. We also don't know, Doug on how

463
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Speaker 3: much the new revenue sharing deal in the ACC is

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Speaker 3: going to affect the top schools because they are expected

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Speaker 3: to get more money because of their exposure and what happens,

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Speaker 3: So does that put the Miami's in Florida States and

467
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Speaker 3: Clemsons further down the road than the other schools Once

468
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Speaker 3: that really fully takes you know, goes into effect. I

469
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Speaker 3: don't know, but just for for Dabble to be dealing

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Speaker 3: with this, and I get it, and there's He's said

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Speaker 3: a lot of stuff previously which kind of makes him

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Speaker 3: an easy target for this. But I'm glad that he's

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Speaker 3: sticking up for himself because I just think it's absurd

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Speaker 3: to have this sort of conversation.

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Speaker 1: Look, I'd even I'd even link in Mike Gundy at

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Speaker 1: MI alma mater right where you know they get blasted

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Speaker 1: by ORG. And look, the whole deal is he shouldn't

478
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Speaker 1: have played the game. Shouldn't have played the game right.

479
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Speaker 1: That game was scheduled in twenty eighteen. Oregon was eight

480
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Speaker 1: and seven at the time, Oklahoma State was the top

481
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Speaker 1: ten team. The landscape of college ball has changed showed dramatically,

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Speaker 1: and I think Mike Gundy and obviously Dan Lanning picked

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Speaker 1: on it made it act to be some negative. I

484
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Speaker 1: think my Gundy was trying to be one trying to

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Speaker 1: set everybody up for what they were going to see,

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Speaker 1: like he knew. And two he's actually trying to give

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Speaker 1: them a company like look, they're really well coached and

488
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Speaker 1: they got way more money than we have, Like this,

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Speaker 1: this is what he should have said, was this is

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Speaker 1: what big time college. If you want to build a

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Speaker 1: program at a place like Oregon where you don't have

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Speaker 1: great instate recruits, this is what you do. They have

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Speaker 1: done it perfectly. That's all you have to say. Okay,

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Speaker 1: But the point is that, like, do we think that

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Speaker 1: in two years Mike Gundy has forgotten how to coach football?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 1: Right, Like he suddenly like completely lost track of how

498
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Speaker 1: to coach football. Last year they beat Arkansas and then

499
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden it fell apart. Why because Arkansas

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Speaker 1: beat him, they lost Like they only had three or

501
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Speaker 1: four difference makers. I think three or four of them

502
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:06,000
Speaker 1: got hurt. The quarterback end up in a seventh year

503
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Speaker 1: stinking up to join the offensive line wasn't good enough.

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Speaker 1: But they lost their difference makers to injury because the

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Speaker 1: attrition of early in the season, and they don't have

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Speaker 1: the money to have the depth. Then he scraps it

507
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Speaker 1: and has to have a whole new staff. You have

508
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Speaker 1: a whole new staff and you have money for the

509
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Speaker 1: first time, and you go out and spend it. You

510
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 1: don't know what to like. People are gonna make mistakes,

511
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Speaker 1: make mistakes first time you have money when you haven't

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Speaker 1: had money, and you have a new staff, you don't

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Speaker 1: have an identity. How are we gonna play? We don't know.

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Speaker 1: Guys are showing up late. And then you go and

515
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Speaker 1: play a behemoth like organ and you get pumbled. Guess what.

516
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Speaker 1: Ninety percent of the teams get pumbled by Organ. So

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Speaker 1: you know again, My thing is, if you've shown that

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Speaker 1: you can win over a decade, which Dabo has, which

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Speaker 1: Mike Gundy has, you got to give him the benefit

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Speaker 1: of the doubt of give him a little bit of runway,

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Speaker 1: because this is a completely different era, completely different and

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Speaker 1: what your plan is until you see it play out.

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Speaker 1: And no, if your plan is, hey, we're gonna win

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Speaker 1: this year and you tell everybody we're going all in,

525
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Speaker 1: we're gonna win this year, and then you don't, that's different.

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Speaker 1: But you say, here's our plan, here's what we're gonna try.

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Speaker 1: You have to understand you might be wrong and things

528
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Speaker 1: might things might not go well. And that's what's happened

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Speaker 1: in Oakland State, and we'll see what's happening in Clemson.

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Speaker 3: Oh well, I will finish you with this. This would

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Speaker 3: be my last word. Just to jump back to dabble

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Speaker 3: for a second. There isn't a game on their schedule

533
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Speaker 3: outside of a home game against Florida State Number seven

534
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:34,679
Speaker 3: Florida State that they shouldn't win, and that game against

535
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Speaker 3: Florida State is a game that is winnable for them,

536
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Speaker 3: so they could run the table as some people pick

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Speaker 3: Clemson to win the national title at the beginning of

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Speaker 3: the year, if they do go on a run, Doug,

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Speaker 3: you know what we're gonna hear two months from now

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Speaker 3: is the team I wouldn't want to face in the

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Speaker 3: bracket Clemson, just you know, like we would have any

542
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Speaker 3: other the team you don't want to face because they

543
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 3: would be hot at that time and it would be

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Speaker 3: funny on how two months difference would change the air.

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Speaker 1: And that is the Midway.

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Speaker 4: The Midway. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk

547
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Speaker 4: lineup in the nation yet catch all of our shows

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Speaker 4: at foxsports Radio dot com and within the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk about this quote and have a

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Speaker 1: true discussion about it. Tua and the Dolphins, obviously struggling,

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Speaker 1: they take on the Buffalo Bills now again, they've played

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Speaker 1: Buffalo at various times of the year. If there's a

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Speaker 1: time of year where he can be successful in Orchard Park.

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Speaker 1: This is the time. By the way, he's going to

555
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Speaker 1: have the pressure of playing in front of Dan Byer

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Speaker 1: and Jason Stewart. Right, that's that's a lot of pressure

557
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Speaker 1: for a young.

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Speaker 3: Quot, big time pressure.

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Speaker 1: Yes, a lot of pressure. Our thanks, by the way

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Speaker 1: to the Buffalo Bills. They listened to the show. They

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Speaker 1: came through with the tickets for the guys. I believe

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Speaker 1: that Jason Stewart has committed to jumping off of a

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Speaker 1: chair or a platform onto one of those tables for

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Speaker 1: Bill's Mafia. Jason, can you confirm or deny?

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Speaker 5: I can neither confirm nor deny. Okay, depends on the

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Speaker 5: how much beer I drink?

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Speaker 1: Is beer is excessive amounts of beer, copious amounts of

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Speaker 1: beer in the pregame, in the pregame itinerary Dann Bier,

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Speaker 1: because I know Dan Bier is a big itinerary guy.

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Speaker 3: Well, here's the good thing. I can drive, and since

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Speaker 3: I don't drink, Jason has carte blanche to do what

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Speaker 3: he needs to do so we can get there. We

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Speaker 3: land tomorrow at like eleven am local time, so maybe

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Speaker 3: we'll get a good nap in quick before the game.

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Speaker 1: You guys doing Red Eye, Yes, Red Eye to wear Chicago.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Chicago to then Buffalo, so we will we will

577
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Speaker 3: get a little pregame. Nap game doesn't kick off till

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Speaker 3: eight fifteen Eastern, so that gives us a little time.

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Speaker 3: So we'll have plenty of time. But I can be

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Speaker 3: the d D designated driver if Jason wants to go

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Speaker 3: all out on Thursday night.

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Speaker 1: You know the thing you've and I've only been to

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Speaker 1: Buffalo once in my life is during the NCAA tournament.

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Speaker 1: Probably we won both NCAA Tournament games there, and so

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Speaker 1: we proceeded to drink Canadian beer. And you know what's interesting,

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Speaker 1: there's a reason that nobody goes like when you go

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Speaker 1: to I get a beer, like, hey, do you have

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Speaker 1: anything Canadian? They just don't. Canadian whiskey, maybe, Canadian beer,

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00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 1: not so much. Mexican beer. Yes, Canadian beer yeah no,

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Speaker 1: yeah no.

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Speaker 3: And I'm only doing carry on, so I don't know

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Speaker 3: how much I could bring back on Buffalo or Canadian things.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, let's up, let's do this. Let me bring

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Speaker 1: in Daniel Jeremiah NFL analysts. Of course, he's the color

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Speaker 1: voice color analyst for the LA Chargers. Radio network to

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00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 1: see him on the NFL network as well. DJ I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna play some for you. This is to a tongue

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Speaker 1: Byelo I believe it was earlier today and he said

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Speaker 1: this about comparing himself to Josh Allen.

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Speaker 7: Dude, he's he's top tier.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 7: If it's not with his arm, it's with his legs.

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Speaker 7: You know that dude can do nearly anything he wants.

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Speaker 7: So definitely different skill set for me. I can't do

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Speaker 7: half of what he does when it comes to running

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Speaker 7: the ball.

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Speaker 1: And any of that.

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Speaker 7: And then with how he can just chuck a ball

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Speaker 7: down the field, you know, with how far and the

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Speaker 7: arm strength that he has, you know, he's supreme when

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Speaker 7: when it comes to that.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so these are all compliments to Josh Allen, But

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Speaker 1: what what you will have is people saying, Oh, you

614
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Speaker 1: can't run like him, you can't throw like him. How

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Speaker 1: can we possibly consider you a you know, an elite

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Speaker 1: level or even top level reasonable quarterback if you can't

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Speaker 1: do half of the things that he can do. What

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Speaker 1: did you hear when you when you heard that from Tua.

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Speaker 2: Look, there's the stuff about two of that you can

620
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Speaker 2: criticize in terms of you know, some of the decisions,

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Speaker 2: or you talk about cold weather, or you can talk

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Speaker 2: about some of the physical limitations. But like I think

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Speaker 2: we would all agree too, has always been a first

624
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Speaker 2: class kid and now a man. I think he's just

625
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Speaker 2: saying nice things about a guy in his division and

626
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 2: acknowledging how gifted and how talented he is. But I

627
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Speaker 2: don't think that's you know, he's also humble where he's

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Speaker 2: not gonna say what his strength is and his his

629
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Speaker 2: style of play and his strength is all in processing

630
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Speaker 2: and and you know, accuracy and quick decision making when

631
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Speaker 2: he's when he's going well, which he hasn't been, when

632
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Speaker 2: he's when he when he is going really well, that's

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Speaker 2: his strength. And we've seen numerous times, you know, over

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Speaker 2: the years where guys who had that strength you go

635
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Speaker 2: back to, you know, like Joe Montana's that was his strength,

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Speaker 2: or Breeze that was his strength, and new of those

637
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Speaker 2: guys are were the most athletic of their era or

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Speaker 2: the biggest or the strongest of their area. But there

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00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 2: you know their brand of football could work. So now

640
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:05,880
Speaker 2: two is a much much lower version of that. But

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't read too much into that. I think he's

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Speaker 2: just a classy dude who's trying to say some really

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00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:11,560
Speaker 2: nice things about Josh Allen.

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Speaker 1: Well Stut Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Okay,

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Speaker 1: now we have two weeks of tape. How fixable are

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins problems?

647
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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I don't know. To me, it's it's

648
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:32,560
Speaker 2: not even just you know, what is it in terms

649
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:35,040
Speaker 2: of player you know, the personnel that you're rolling out

650
00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 2: there and those things. It's almost just watching it from

651
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 2: an energy standpoint and a body language standpoint and all

652
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,600
Speaker 2: those things, it just isn't It isn't a great vibe

653
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:48,319
Speaker 2: watching that group right now. So I don't know how

654
00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:50,440
Speaker 2: that gets turned around or how that changes. And I

655
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:53,799
Speaker 2: think that's probably where you see some criticism, you know,

656
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 2: coming towards the head coach from that. From that standpoint,

657
00:34:56,640 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 2: but their offensive line from a physical standpoint is not good.

658
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:04,400
Speaker 2: I don't really think they can run the football like

659
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 2: you need to run the ball to be balanced. I

660
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 2: think in the passing game they still do some good things,

661
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:14,400
Speaker 2: but my biggest takeaways are just the energy, the body language,

662
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:17,799
Speaker 2: the lack of physicality, the struggling offensive line like those

663
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 2: are those are definitely worrisome.

664
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:24,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it does not feel like a well,

665
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 1: it feels like the ship is taking on a lot

666
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:29,239
Speaker 1: of water and it's at some point we're going to

667
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 1: declare it's sunk, right, it just does.

668
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:34,279
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, it's not the team you want to be

669
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:36,200
Speaker 2: playing when you're zero and two, and it's not where

670
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:37,319
Speaker 2: you want to be playing them either.

671
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,799
Speaker 1: Nope, nope, Let's get to the Chargers one a Monday night.

672
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:44,160
Speaker 1: Khalil Mack look like a dislocated elbow. I don't know

673
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:49,719
Speaker 1: what the other damage is. First, when you see this

674
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 1: Charger team win both of those games, both away from home,

675
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:57,319
Speaker 1: you know you've seen them for years. Why is this

676
00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 1: team different?

677
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:01,759
Speaker 2: Well, I think they're building off what they were last year.

678
00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 2: And you know, let's start first of all. I mean,

679
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:06,960
Speaker 2: the news that just came out on Khalil was, you know,

680
00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 2: he's going to go on a short term I r

681
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:11,279
Speaker 2: so four weeks, but thankfully the season's not over. It's

682
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:13,880
Speaker 2: you know, dislocated elbow. He can brace it up and play,

683
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 2: So you know that was big news, not losing him

684
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:18,799
Speaker 2: for the season, because it did not look good live

685
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:20,960
Speaker 2: when it happened. But you know, why is this team different?

686
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:24,920
Speaker 2: I think when you're you know, the foundation was last year,

687
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 2: which was a really good foundation. And let's start defensively.

688
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:29,840
Speaker 2: This team was the number one defense in the NFL

689
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 2: and yards allowed last year. So you come back, they've

690
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 2: gotten some some more personnel to throw into that mix,

691
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:39,280
Speaker 2: with some the defensive line depth with a lot of size.

692
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:42,440
Speaker 2: Now you can build off of the uh, you know,

693
00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:44,920
Speaker 2: off the the baseline that you had last year, with

694
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:47,279
Speaker 2: some really really smart players in the back end like

695
00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 2: Derwin James and tar Heep Still Lowie Gilman's really really bright.

696
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 2: You know, Elijah Moulden's out right now, but he's another

697
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 2: incredibly intelligent guy. So you've got a stud defensive coordinator.

698
00:36:57,800 --> 00:36:59,840
Speaker 2: Enjoy him while you got him, because I can't imagine

699
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:03,360
Speaker 2: Decimnorer isn't a head coach this time next year. But

700
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,759
Speaker 2: you've got that foundation. Now you're building on that. You've

701
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:09,880
Speaker 2: got incredibly smart team. They're not going to beat themselves.

702
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:12,600
Speaker 2: They're going to make you methodically drive the ball. And

703
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:15,480
Speaker 2: you know, you've seen it already with two good quarterbacks

704
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:18,279
Speaker 2: who get frustrated trying to play that way against them.

705
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:21,880
Speaker 2: And you know, so defensively, they're in a great spot

706
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 2: with a lot more depth than they had last year.

707
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 2: And then offensively, you know, you get more weapons for

708
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:30,800
Speaker 2: Justin with Keenan Allen coming in there, Conflin's and upgrade

709
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 2: at the tight end position. You've got two backs who

710
00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:35,640
Speaker 2: I would argue were better than what they had last

711
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:39,640
Speaker 2: year and bring a physicality to it. Joe Waltz just

712
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 2: taken the left tackle and it's hard for me to

713
00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:45,200
Speaker 2: see a better left tackle in the NFL right now

714
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:48,359
Speaker 2: than the way he's playing. So yeah, there's a lot

715
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:50,600
Speaker 2: of things going right. But I think it's a very

716
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:54,399
Speaker 2: smart discipline team. And the smart thing is what I'd

717
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:56,799
Speaker 2: love to get your thoughts on, because I was talking

718
00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:58,359
Speaker 2: to one of the coaches before the game and I said,

719
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:00,000
Speaker 2: you know, I take a chance to visit all these players,

720
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:02,200
Speaker 2: and I've done this for eight years with this team.

721
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:04,640
Speaker 2: I said, this is the smartest collection of players. That's

722
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:05,440
Speaker 2: going to mean something.

723
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:09,040
Speaker 1: I think it absolutely does mean something, you know, I

724
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 1: you know, we have some guys that are a little

725
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:14,239
Speaker 1: bit slower learners or whatever, and you know, smart does win.

726
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:16,799
Speaker 1: It's easier to coach, it's easier to retain. You know,

727
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 1: it's just all things are easier and sometimes they're too smart,

728
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:24,280
Speaker 1: too smart for their own good. But and they're questioning

729
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:27,680
Speaker 1: everything you do. But yeah, I smart. Smart definitely wins

730
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:32,879
Speaker 1: in sports. Chiefs. Chiefs now they don't have their top

731
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 1: two wide receivers, right, but Kelsey dropping that ball around

732
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 1: the end zone, it it felt like kind of looked

733
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:45,480
Speaker 1: old on that play. It just did. But when they

734
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:50,000
Speaker 1: get Rice back, when they get Worthy back, how good?

735
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:52,080
Speaker 1: Where is this team? What does this team look like that?

736
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:55,799
Speaker 2: I think they're dangerous once they get those guys back.

737
00:38:56,719 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 2: And one of the reasons I'll say that is I

738
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 2: do think the outside of their offensive line. With Josh Simmons,

739
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:04,040
Speaker 2: I already think he's a really good player in his

740
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:05,920
Speaker 2: rookie year, and I think he's only going to get

741
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 2: better as he plays more and gets more comfortable Sue

742
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:13,400
Speaker 2: Mattia playing next to him is you know, he was

743
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:15,839
Speaker 2: bad at tackle, but he's been better inside at guard,

744
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:17,799
Speaker 2: and I think you'll see that left side get better

745
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:20,520
Speaker 2: as the year goes along. I think eventually they're going

746
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:23,040
Speaker 2: to come to the realization that, you know, Joan Taylor

747
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:24,799
Speaker 2: is not good enough at right tackle and they're going

748
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:27,560
Speaker 2: to have to get him out of there. But adding

749
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:30,120
Speaker 2: those receivers to the mix will make a big, big difference.

750
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 2: You know. I think this division is very vulnerable and

751
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 2: and could slip out of their drafts for the first

752
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 2: time in forever. But it could be one of those

753
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:40,680
Speaker 2: things where this is a team that you know, they

754
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:42,879
Speaker 2: just need to get into the tournament and have all

755
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:45,480
Speaker 2: their guys available. If they do that, if they make

756
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:47,800
Speaker 2: the move that I think is necessary at right tackle.

757
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:50,600
Speaker 2: I think the defense is very well coached. They've got

758
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:53,360
Speaker 2: good pieces there. It's just going to be as dangerous

759
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:55,160
Speaker 2: a team as anybody if they if they get into

760
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:58,040
Speaker 2: the tournament. I know it sounds it's a seventeen game season.

761
00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:00,319
Speaker 2: We're only two games in and I'm talking like they

762
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 2: don't they aren't going to win the division. But I

763
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:05,959
Speaker 2: think when you've been where they've been, they're just worried

764
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:08,160
Speaker 2: about trying to get at Lombardi and they need to

765
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:10,399
Speaker 2: get into the tournament. And if they're healthy and get

766
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 2: into the tournament, that's that's still a very very dangerous team.

767
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:17,719
Speaker 1: No question about it. Okay, you've seen the Raiders up

768
00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 1: close calling the game this week. I just end of

769
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 1: the day, I think sometimes we fall in love with

770
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:27,360
Speaker 1: the Geno story, right, because he was so maligned, especially

771
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 1: the early years in New York. He's had this resurgence,

772
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 1: but just he's not in the league quarterback. He's never

773
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:37,080
Speaker 1: been in the league quarterback, and yet we act like

774
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:39,440
Speaker 1: because he's been doing it so long, he should be

775
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:41,640
Speaker 1: better than he is. I thought the turnovers were just

776
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:44,440
Speaker 1: a sign of that's Geno Smith. He's just okay.

777
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there's you know, I think there's a

778
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:51,560
Speaker 2: book that's out there now and you just you know,

779
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:54,400
Speaker 2: not everybody reads it, I guess, but the you know,

780
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:57,560
Speaker 2: if you want to blitz Gino, Gino is incredibly smart,

781
00:40:57,680 --> 00:41:01,480
Speaker 2: and Gino is a very gifted thrower. So what happens

782
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 2: when you send extra guys to go get him, is

783
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:06,799
Speaker 2: you clear up the picture on the back end, and

784
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 2: he's going to find your vulnerability and he's going to

785
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:11,719
Speaker 2: be able to process it quickly and he's going to

786
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:13,480
Speaker 2: be able to cut you up. And that's what he

787
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:15,680
Speaker 2: did against the Patriots the week before. The Patriots tried

788
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 2: to blitz him, and he destroyed him on the blitz.

789
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:21,920
Speaker 2: The Chargers didn't do that. The Chargers were creative with

790
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:23,840
Speaker 2: some of their four man pressures where they have some

791
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 2: sim pressures where they're dropping guys out and maybe bring

792
00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 2: Derwin from depth, or maybe bring someone off off the nickel.

793
00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 2: But they made him have to throw the ball through

794
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:34,799
Speaker 2: the forest, you know, with a lot of bodies back there.

795
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:38,480
Speaker 2: He nicked quite a few branches. There were fifteen path

796
00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:41,480
Speaker 2: breakups in that game. So to me, that's kind of

797
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 2: the book on him and how you play him. But

798
00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:46,759
Speaker 2: you know, inevitably, some some coaches, Hey, we're an aggressive team,

799
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:48,680
Speaker 2: we're at blitzing team. This is what we do. Well,

800
00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:51,759
Speaker 2: good luck, that's not the that's not the formula against Gino.

801
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:55,480
Speaker 1: The Bengals, Well, we talked about this to start the show.

802
00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:58,879
Speaker 1: They have. It's not for lack of trying, right, They've

803
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 1: they've invested sources like draft picks in lineman. But now

804
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:06,120
Speaker 1: in this offseason they put so much of their resources

805
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 1: into their skill positions. How much of this is Joe

806
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 1: Burrow holding the ball too long? How much of this

807
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:16,120
Speaker 1: is the scheme that leaves him unprotected, and how much

808
00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:18,839
Speaker 1: of it is hey, they didn't do enough in terms

809
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:23,279
Speaker 1: of giving the offense the resources to protect him.

810
00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:26,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would probably start first of all with just

811
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:29,279
Speaker 2: the I mean, we could say they've they've they've put

812
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 2: resources there, They've taken some guys high in the draft,

813
00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:34,839
Speaker 2: and some of them haven't necessarily panned out. I think

814
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:36,960
Speaker 2: you just have to keep doubling down and going back

815
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:38,799
Speaker 2: until you get that right, and that needs to be

816
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:41,080
Speaker 2: your focus. So I think that's a that's a big

817
00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:44,720
Speaker 2: part of the problem. You know, Joe holding the ball.

818
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:50,560
Speaker 2: You know, I see some of that, But to me,

819
00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:52,840
Speaker 2: I would put it more on the personnel that's in

820
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 2: front of him and just how they chose to invest

821
00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:57,880
Speaker 2: their dollars. I get what they were doing in the

822
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:01,160
Speaker 2: offseason because the defense was historically bad last year. You

823
00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:03,720
Speaker 2: lose all these games where you're scoring over thirty points,

824
00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:06,440
Speaker 2: it stands to reason that hey, we need to we

825
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:08,319
Speaker 2: need to take some guys on the defensive side of

826
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:13,000
Speaker 2: the ball. But man, it's to me, I'd just much

827
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:15,359
Speaker 2: rather air on the side of having way too many

828
00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:19,040
Speaker 2: offensive lineman, way too many good offensive lineman and trying

829
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:21,040
Speaker 2: to plug some holes on the other side than to

830
00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:23,879
Speaker 2: put him in jeopardy. And he's proven that he's he's

831
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:27,080
Speaker 2: not super durable, so even all the more reason to

832
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 2: double down and invest even more on that issue.

833
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:37,240
Speaker 1: Stut Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Okay, let's now,

834
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:39,040
Speaker 1: what do we do with Russell Wilson where he plays

835
00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:41,680
Speaker 1: unbelievably well but did have a leg turnout.

836
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:45,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I didn't know that was still in him,

837
00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:47,000
Speaker 2: to be honest, And I don't know what that says

838
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:50,360
Speaker 2: about Russ or what that says about the Cowboys. I

839
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 2: guess we'll find out as we go through a few

840
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:56,080
Speaker 2: more weeks. But I think that's, you know, for whatever

841
00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:59,399
Speaker 2: his limitations have been over the last few years, that's

842
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 2: still a guy he's had a lot of success in

843
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 2: this league, who has a lot of pride, and I

844
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:07,560
Speaker 2: think you absolutely saw his best. So I'm not as

845
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:09,880
Speaker 2: optimistic that that's who he is now and you're going

846
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:11,960
Speaker 2: to see a lot more of that going forward. But

847
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:14,279
Speaker 2: at least he bought himself a little more time here

848
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:17,319
Speaker 2: with Jackson Dark kind of nipping in his heels. So

849
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:22,120
Speaker 2: I'm hopeful for him and for their team that there's

850
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:24,880
Speaker 2: more of that. I'm just you know, I wouldn't say that,

851
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:27,080
Speaker 2: I'm confident we're going to see that. And if you

852
00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:30,239
Speaker 2: carry that over to Pittsburgh, you know, we saw Aaron

853
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:33,040
Speaker 2: Aaron have a great week one, and it was like

854
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 2: he's you know, oh, it's all there. It's just gonna

855
00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:37,880
Speaker 2: expect that each and every week, and then you fast

856
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:39,680
Speaker 2: forward a week and it doesn't quite look the same.

857
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:42,400
Speaker 2: So we'll see what happens with some of these older quarterbacks.

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Speaker 1: Update me on Kala Williams. What's going wrong there?

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Speaker 2: Well, actually, you know, and I know a lot of

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Speaker 2: people have said this this week, but I went back

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Speaker 2: and went through it again today just as I want to,

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Speaker 2: you know, just watch it one more time and see

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Speaker 2: what I'm seeing. I thought for the first first half,

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Speaker 2: it wasn't just that strive. The first half of that game,

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Speaker 2: there was a lot of really good there where he

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Speaker 2: was playing within the pocket, he was connecting his feet

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Speaker 2: in his eyes, he was throwing the ball accurately. There

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Speaker 2: was a lot of good for a decent sample size there.

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Speaker 2: And then, uh, in the second half, it just kind

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Speaker 2: of started to get away from him a little bit,

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Speaker 2: you know where you know, he saw some kit balls

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Speaker 2: where he couldn't find a throwing lane. You know, that

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Speaker 2: was that was concerning. He had a couple other times

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Speaker 2: where there's guys around his feet, now keep them and

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Speaker 2: they're they're tackle stinkd ug. I mean, that's their offensive

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Speaker 2: tackles look terrible. So he got hit and then once

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Speaker 2: he got hit, had a lot of byes around his feet.

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Speaker 2: Then you started seeing the disconnect between his eyes and

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Speaker 2: his feet, and the accuracy took took off on him.

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Speaker 2: But I do get some optimism from that knowing you

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Speaker 2: know what he looked like for half of that game

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Speaker 2: and maybe a little bit into that third quarter, and

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Speaker 2: he didn't his his first impulse wasn't just to take off.

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Speaker 2: He didn't just drop his eyes and look to get

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Speaker 2: the heck out of there, which he did numerous times

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Speaker 2: first week. So yeah, I will say progress, progress made,

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Speaker 2: you know, still overall not not where it needs to be,

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Speaker 2: but you know, we'll see if it continues trending in

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Speaker 2: the right direction.

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Speaker 1: He's Daniel Jeremiah. You can catch DJ on the Move

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Speaker 1: the Sticks podcast that that's the best. Of course, you

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Speaker 1: hear them called Chargers games and you see him on

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Speaker 1: the NFL Network. DJ, thanks so much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate you being our guest.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Doug