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Speaker 1: million per year. He's also the first Cowboys running back

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Speaker 1: to eclipse one hundred million in total earnings in his career.

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Speaker 1: Wes Elliott was limited at practice on Wednesday. Jason Garrett,

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Speaker 1: the head coach, of the Cowboys said he's in good shape,

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Speaker 1: his weight's good, all that, but again, it hasn't been

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Speaker 1: He hasn't been practicing against pro football players. So it

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Speaker 1: makes you wonder how much he'll play against the Giants

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Speaker 1: on Sunday. But he's back and he's paid, and that's

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Speaker 1: the most important thing. Yeah, I think the word is snaps.

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Speaker 1: That that has a way of changing once the game

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Speaker 1: starts and it's a close game. We've seen this happen

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Speaker 1: with holdouts to come in the first week and the

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Speaker 1: coach says, I'm only gonna give him X amount of snaps,

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Speaker 1: and then the game happens and it gets more. I

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Speaker 1: think one thing that we've seen out of this once

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Speaker 1: again the Cowboys. We're used to them being so star

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Speaker 1: heavy and not having much depth. This team is depth.

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Speaker 1: Tony Pollard is there behind Zeke Elliott. They've got Devin Smith,

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Speaker 1: former Jets guy wide receiver. They got depth on the

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Speaker 1: offensive line, depth on defense. This is one of the

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Speaker 1: deepest teams in the league. And bringing Ezeliel Ezekiel Elliott

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Speaker 1: back just is another reason to believe that I got

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Speaker 1: no problem with this contract. Too much honking of breaking

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Speaker 1: down that is it too much? Is it too little?

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Speaker 1: Like like, okay, if it's two million dollars less a year,

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Speaker 1: than everyone's fine with it. That's that's one percent of

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Speaker 1: of a huge cap. He's one of their best players.

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Speaker 1: It is easy to get out of after the first

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Speaker 1: two to three years, which makes sense, I think for

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Speaker 1: just about any running back. So you you're rewarded one

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Speaker 1: of your best players. And it was smart of Zeke

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Speaker 1: to hold out because now I think other players are

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Speaker 1: going to do this with two years left on Other players.

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Speaker 1: Aren't Ezekiel Elliott that other great players? Yeah? Because see

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Speaker 1: I agree with you, Greg, Melvin Gordon is not the

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Speaker 1: beating heart of the Los Angeles Chargers offense. Tony Pollard is.

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Speaker 1: It looks great but that, But we don't know Tony

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Speaker 1: Pollard over a sixteen game. We know Ezekiel Elliott over

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Speaker 1: his career, and he's playing at Jim Brown levels and

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Speaker 1: putting up those kind of number. Is in a past

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Speaker 1: happy era where the Cowboys center their attack around him

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Speaker 1: and he continues to produce. I wouldn't be surprised to

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Speaker 1: Giants and then they might yank him. Then but at

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Speaker 1: this snaps, we'll see. I I think that if anything,

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Speaker 1: heavy and blow them away with Ezekiel Elliott Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm no Jennifer Garner and draft day, I'm not a capologist,

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Speaker 1: but I just wonder what the team and yes, their

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Speaker 1: depth is excellent. But if you make Zeke the highest

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Speaker 1: paid running back, and I know that again, I'm no capologist,

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Speaker 1: I'm no Jim Garner. But if you make Zeke the

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Speaker 1: highest paid running back and you dwarf how everyone else

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Speaker 1: pays the running backs and then Dak Prescott is it's

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Speaker 1: probably gonna play out. You would think how it always

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Speaker 1: plays out with these quarterbacks where he gets near top

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Speaker 1: of the market money and you're handed out money to

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Speaker 1: Mary Cooper I imagine and Jalen Smith. At what point

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Speaker 1: are they going to run into a little bit of

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Speaker 1: trouble by paying all this top of the market money

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Speaker 1: out to their stars. It seems like that could be

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Speaker 1: a challenge, especially with the stack thing still lingering the Cooper.

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Speaker 1: Maybe Cooper doesn't get that money, you know, maybe he

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Speaker 1: gets franchise like I would have prioritized Jalen Smith and

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Speaker 1: Ezekie Ellie over Cooper too, and who knows, maybe that's

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Speaker 1: what happens. So if you're not Jennifer Garner and drafting,

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Speaker 1: are you more? You know, Jennifer Garner and dude Wears

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Speaker 1: My Car? Like? What that is a Dan Fielter low

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Speaker 1: level role on that. I don't know if you remember

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Speaker 1: who would be uh, definitely not going on thirty was

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Speaker 1: the one I was trying to think of it. I couldn't,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, she did great work in both jenn Garner

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Speaker 1: and Dude Wears My Car is not bad? Can I

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Speaker 1: pipe in for a second? Um, My good friend Katie,

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Speaker 1: who you guys all know, she texted me about an

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Speaker 1: hour ago saying that she just walked by Jennifer Garner

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Speaker 1: in the Atlanta airport. That's who I am. I'm jenn

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Speaker 1: Garner in the Atlantic. But isn't that weird that you

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Speaker 1: guys are just talking about that randomly odd small world

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Speaker 1: psychics by race? All right, you're ready? Um, last bit

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Speaker 1: of news contracts stuff. Jared Goff agrees to four year,

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Speaker 1: one dred and thirty four million dollar extension with the

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Rams, a dred and ten million in guarantees.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about. That's what that's gonna be

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Speaker 1: looking for. Year old golf now holds the NFL record

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Speaker 1: in most guaranteed money, putting him right ahead of his

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Speaker 1: former draft mate Carson Wentz, who made about a hundred

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Speaker 1: and eight with his most recent deal with the Eagles.

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Speaker 1: Mark former number one overall pick, has really blossomed with

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Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh, of course, and become one of the more

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Speaker 1: productive quarterbacks in the league. And yet there are people

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Speaker 1: that are barking and honking that this wasn't the right

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Speaker 1: contract to give out, that he's not worth the money.

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Speaker 1: What are your thoughts about that? I I just think

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Speaker 1: if Sean McVeigh was totally on board with this, good

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Speaker 1: enough for me. If I'm a RAMS fan. I mean,

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Speaker 1: do it that these quarterbacks, every one of them, unless

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Speaker 1: you're one of these mid tier guys, which it doesn't

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Speaker 1: even seem like that market exists. You keep eclipsing the

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Speaker 1: quarterback pay with every one of these new contracts. I

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Speaker 1: don't think they were ever going to try to low

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Speaker 1: ball Jared Goff. I have some questions about Jared Goff

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Speaker 1: the player, but not enough to be concerned about the

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Speaker 1: steal of Sean mcveigh's on board. It seemed like maybe

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Speaker 1: they want to bolster his confidence after coming off the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl. I don't want to let him enter the

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Speaker 1: season without a new contract. I don't know, but to me,

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Speaker 1: it's a safe contract because Golf showed incredible accuracy and

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Speaker 1: most of his starts last year, and he has Sean McVeigh.

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Speaker 1: And no one can convince me that Jared Goff's deserves

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Speaker 1: to make more money than Sean McVeigh. I just don't

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Speaker 1: believe that at all. That's an interesting thought. Sean McVeigh

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Speaker 1: is worth way more than Jared, not even no doubt.

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Speaker 1: But if anything is, I mean, they're not remotely even

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Speaker 1: in the same And yet if you're starting a franchise,

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Speaker 1: you are taking McVeigh over Golf every time. It's well

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Speaker 1: that that might it may be a case for the

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Speaker 1: best coaches in the league. Belchi they are ammatically underpage

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Speaker 1: if they hires Chris Wesley as his new agent. Here's

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Speaker 1: what do you guys disagree? I really don't, But I

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Speaker 1: don't think they did it for his confident. I think

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Speaker 1: they were always going to do it um as long

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Speaker 1: as he kept playing well. They they said it as

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Speaker 1: early as last offseason that they pay him this offseason.

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Speaker 1: They basically telegraphed, largely because Sean McVeigh has made it

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Speaker 1: clear to the Rams publicly and I'm sure privately too,

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Speaker 1: they I don't want to be your I don't want

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Speaker 1: to be your coach unless Jared Goff is my quarterback.

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Speaker 1: That's how strong he's been about it, like this is

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Speaker 1: my quarterback. There's no questions asked. I think that's his

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Speaker 1: message and it's been incredibly consistent and it's what he believes.

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Speaker 1: And so to your point, McVeigh, is that valuable. It's

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Speaker 1: not like they have to think hard about it. If

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Speaker 1: that's mcveigh's guy, then they just do it. Man. I

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Speaker 1: would love to see somebody like Matthew Stafford with with

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Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh. Goff's twenty four years old, which I do

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Speaker 1: think gets underrated, Like you think of guys in terms

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Speaker 1: of experience sometimes instead of their age. He's barely older

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Speaker 1: than Deshaun Watson and Baker Mayfield. And I think that

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Speaker 1: that's where year old quarterbacks if you go back to

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Speaker 1: the eighties and before are You weren't even asking them

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Speaker 1: to start games at that point. And yes, he had

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Speaker 1: a terrible Super Bowl, but he wasn't alone. They were

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Speaker 1: basically outclassed from head to toe in that job. By

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Speaker 1: the way, exactly, it's it's a team thing in golf.

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Speaker 1: To me, he was. He was in the m v

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Speaker 1: P conversation for a portion of last season. I played

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Speaker 1: Drew Brees in the NFC Championship. I mean, he's had

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Speaker 1: his moments, didn't He have four interceptions in Chicago and

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Speaker 1: the cold. He's not perfect us well, but Mark, that's

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Speaker 1: what's happening in the news. All right. Now, it's time

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Speaker 1: to dig in. We're gonna do it every week through

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Speaker 1: January and into February for Super Bowl fifty four, previewing

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Speaker 1: all the games on this special uh episode of the

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Speaker 1: Around the NFL podcast, Ricky as per tradition, get us going.

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Speaker 1: Professional football in America is a special game, a unique

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Speaker 1: game played nowhere olas on. It is a rare game.

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Speaker 1: The men who play it making so oh yes, gentlemen,

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Speaker 1: dig it. Of course. That is the great John send up,

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Speaker 1: Sam Spence on music NFL Films. That is some classic

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Speaker 1: stuff with That's what it's all about Sam Spence. Sam Spence,

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Speaker 1: I do love NFL films, I mean the stable, but

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Speaker 1: it's great, it's fun. It's like take the baton for me,

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Speaker 1: thank you. No, I don't this narrative. I'm not a

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Speaker 1: huge NFL films music guy. I'm not sure. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Dan like so much. He's dvard America's Game two thousand

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Speaker 1: eighteen Patriots and do your job three. We're up to

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Speaker 1: do your job three. There's more do your jobs like

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Speaker 1: problem child three. I mean, this is amazing. Well, why

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Speaker 1: do we need to have to keep reminding them to

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Speaker 1: do their job? How about the message received without doing

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Speaker 1: your job? And it's gonna get you know, it's you know,

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Speaker 1: Harry and Jack around the fire this weekend. Then let's

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Speaker 1: let's watch two hours of Patriots. Like you know, everyone

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Speaker 1: is so like sick of the Patriots that even NFL

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Speaker 1: Films isn't even trying anymore. Like what are we calling

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Speaker 1: it this year? Uh? Run back whatever the title was

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Speaker 1: last year. It's time for new blood greg in Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl Football. So let's do it. Let's get to the games.

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Speaker 1: And you know what, we're changing things up a little

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Speaker 1: bit this year. We're still locking it up. Everybody, have

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Speaker 1: your locks locked and loaded. Mark, the two two time

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Speaker 1: defending champion. I bring that up because, uh, well you're

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Speaker 1: just beating Mark to the punch. He brings it up

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Speaker 1: every show, every show. I bring it up when I

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Speaker 1: need to, when it has impact, and when it is needed. Alright,

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Speaker 1: we we forget about those two years when we used

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Speaker 1: to pick every games. I mean that should count somewhere. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: back champs and that and that, and then I tried

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Speaker 1: those two, by the way, I did. You won the

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Speaker 1: first time. I want the oral history of why Greg

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Speaker 1: tried to kill that game. I know, and you only

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Speaker 1: made it stronger. You ever think about that? Well, it

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Speaker 1: did go away for a year or two. We stopped

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Speaker 1: picking every game, okay, but now you're writing a picks

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Speaker 1: column four nim hill dot Com. Yeah, the man, it's

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Speaker 1: all confusing. You gotta mix it up every few years,

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Speaker 1: all right. So I bring up that Marks, the back

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Speaker 1: to back picks champion, because yes, he asked me to

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Speaker 1: privately before today show, alright, but also because uh, we

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Speaker 1: he has fifteen games to choose from to get us going,

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna we're gonna do this. Guy's like a

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Speaker 1: snake draft, all right. So Mark's gonna pick one West, two,

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Speaker 1: Zeus or three Greg. Four and five not bad, Greg.

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Speaker 1: Now it's nice to be in the back sometimes because

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Speaker 1: you get that double bang. It's a lot of work

640
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:49,840
Speaker 1: over there going to be doing their four and five

641
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 1: double bang, Greg out of work. I think two is

642
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 1: too is where I'd like to be. Sorry if the

643
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 1: seating right that Mark take the Browns. And then it's

644
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 1: like I got my first pick, you know, which means

645
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 1: Zeus or six, West, seven and then Market and these

646
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 1: are the games that we're going to be assigned to

647
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 1: on Sunday. So it's really eight and nine I have Okay,

648
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 1: that's you have one, eight and nine, so be ready,

649
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:15,480
Speaker 1: be prepped. I know you are all right, And these

650
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 1: are this is my pride. This is my prize for

651
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 1: winning that first pick. Okay, first overall pick. What else

652
00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:23,760
Speaker 1: do you want to say? I want other things, but

653
00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:26,640
Speaker 1: I will take this for now. And then these are

654
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 1: the games that when we wrap up on our flagship

655
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 1: show on Sunday night. Um, these are the games will

656
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:34,400
Speaker 1: be tracking from the newsroom, Mark, get us go? What

657
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 1: is the first game we're previewing in our first preview

658
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:40,680
Speaker 1: episode of the season and what? Well? So, why get

659
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:44,040
Speaker 1: too cute here? Because you know it's been this long

660
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 1: journey through the off season and you you know I

661
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 1: could pull a fast one here and talk about Bengals Seahawks,

662
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:54,840
Speaker 1: But why go all this way with all that's happened

663
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 1: to the team that I've suffered with for so long

664
00:33:57,200 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 1: on this podcast and for a decade plus before that

665
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 1: and another five years before that. Since they actually want

666
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:07,600
Speaker 1: a playoff game, the Cleveland Browns hosting the Titans feel

667
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:10,239
Speaker 1: like reach it one. I don't know, it was not

668
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 1: It's the Sky Sports game of the week on on Sunday.

669
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:18,359
Speaker 1: It's Tony. He's not going to Cleveland to watch Dean

670
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:21,359
Speaker 1: pas No, he is not. He is not putting Dean

671
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:23,000
Speaker 1: ps at the top of his last And if it's

672
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 1: good enough for Tony Romo, it is good enough for me.

673
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:29,120
Speaker 1: And it is a fascinating game because this is a team,

674
00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:32,520
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns, that have swallowed up so much airtime

675
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 1: for the past five or six months. I think there's

676
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:37,960
Speaker 1: enormous pressure on them to come out hot. I don't

677
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:39,799
Speaker 1: think you can go out and lay a dud to

678
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:42,720
Speaker 1: a team that most people accused of as having zero

679
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 1: real identity at this point. That said, the Titans, I

680
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:47,960
Speaker 1: think they have a couple of sneaky things going for them.

681
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 1: They had the number three scoring defense last year, and

682
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:54,280
Speaker 1: I think they've gotten stronger on defense. You add Cameron Wake,

683
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:56,719
Speaker 1: they have guys like Harold Landry, and you're going up

684
00:34:56,719 --> 00:35:00,080
Speaker 1: against the Brown's line that is a somewhat suspect, and

685
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,040
Speaker 1: there is concerned about that. I think that's the number

686
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:04,400
Speaker 1: one thing for me to look at. But to counter that,

687
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 1: I cannot wait to see what Miles Garrett and Olivier

688
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:10,839
Speaker 1: Vernon and the rest of the Browns defensive line can

689
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:15,080
Speaker 1: do against a Taylor Luan free. Titans line also has

690
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 1: the right tackle coming off an a c L injury.

691
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 1: There are issues and if you look back at that

692
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:24,719
Speaker 1: hideously dull Steelers Titans regular season tune up, there were

693
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:27,839
Speaker 1: what seven sacks of the Titans quarterbacks in that game.

694
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:29,799
Speaker 1: That was a mess. I'm not saying that's exactly what

695
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:33,480
Speaker 1: real life's gonna look like on Sunday. But Cleveland's defensive

696
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 1: line went out and absolutely terrorized Jamis Winston when he

697
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:38,359
Speaker 1: was on the field over the course of a quarter

698
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:41,200
Speaker 1: and a half in Tampa Bay. So for me, this

699
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:45,200
Speaker 1: game comes down to safety of quarterback and what happens

700
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:49,240
Speaker 1: from there. I do think that Cleveland their early schedule,

701
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 1: you have three primetime games you have you're going to

702
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:55,120
Speaker 1: be the center of attention if you get out to

703
00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:57,840
Speaker 1: a one in four start. This isn't the Ravens and Steelers.

704
00:35:57,840 --> 00:35:59,600
Speaker 1: The difference here, and I know this seem if you

705
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:03,200
Speaker 1: read um the the article that came out by Done

706
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:05,880
Speaker 1: on Bleacher Rip or on on the Athletic about Cleveland.

707
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:08,279
Speaker 1: He wrote a great feature about the mental toughness on

708
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 1: that team right now. It is different than anything I've seen.

709
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:12,440
Speaker 1: And I think the difference is remember how I used

710
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:14,920
Speaker 1: to talk about stand up and be braggy enough with

711
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 1: the uh, the nice charity things you're doing all week

712
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:20,480
Speaker 1: and on one fIF team, they have been practicing in

713
00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 1: pads as much as any team in the league all August.

714
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:25,800
Speaker 1: I think that is to create a mental toughness factor

715
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:27,960
Speaker 1: that they've not had in Cleveland for a long time.

716
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:30,000
Speaker 1: I want to see it show up on Sunday, and

717
00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:31,839
Speaker 1: I'll now throw it to you. But I will say

718
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:34,840
Speaker 1: one last thing when we say when we say that

719
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:37,759
Speaker 1: I don't care about football or I'm tired of it,

720
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 1: what I really am, honestly going to say is that

721
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:43,239
Speaker 1: I am nervous about this Cleveland experience because I'm not

722
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 1: able to just go shut it down the rest of

723
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:47,760
Speaker 1: the week and go to some job in a hulked

724
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:50,399
Speaker 1: out building and behind a computer in a room where

725
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 1: no one else. I'm around people all week long talking

726
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 1: about the Browns, and if it goes negative, it concerns

727
00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 1: me about what it will do to me over the

728
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:00,440
Speaker 1: next month or two. It's too close, it's too hot.

729
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:02,279
Speaker 1: I need them to be good. I need it. You

730
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:04,239
Speaker 1: know what. The Browns are here though for you. This

731
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:08,879
Speaker 1: Brown's team Mark is here to fix you. Well, we'll

732
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:15,080
Speaker 1: see you not when the lawsuit to cut that quick

733
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 1: before Chris Martin comes out to us. But this is

734
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:20,279
Speaker 1: the team Mark. That's what I was trying to say

735
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:23,399
Speaker 1: the top of the show, that all your reasons are

736
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:27,360
Speaker 1: being nervous are all understandable. But this, this squad is

737
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 1: gonna be fun to watch. And I mean I was

738
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:30,719
Speaker 1: joking around with you about the reach at number one

739
00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:32,799
Speaker 1: that was more a fantasy bit, like I get why

740
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:34,439
Speaker 1: you would pick this number one and why you can't

741
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:36,319
Speaker 1: wait to see them, But I also agree with you

742
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:38,879
Speaker 1: win this football game. Gotta win it, right and there,

743
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:41,560
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be that surprising if the Titans win it

744
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 1: because it's the NFL, and this is a team that's

745
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:45,680
Speaker 1: won nine and they've gone nine and seven three street years,

746
00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:47,439
Speaker 1: because they're just kind of a nine and seven type

747
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 1: of team. And and their linebackers that you mentioned, their

748
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:54,719
Speaker 1: defensive play caller, you know I mentioned DPS earlier. They

749
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:57,719
Speaker 1: have a secondary that at least can put bodies and

750
00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 1: numbers throwing at you. Malt and Butler. They hope is

751
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 1: a little better this year. Like I think Baker Mayfield

752
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 1: can make that offensive line look better and then that

753
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 1: doesn't become nearly as a problem. But I don't see

754
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 1: this as some like dramatic thing where the Browns should

755
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 1: be viewed as heavy favorites in a game against the Titans.

756
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:17,120
Speaker 1: Who I guess I gotta see it. I guess I

757
00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:20,160
Speaker 1: gotta see. To me, they're pretty even teams, and yeah,

758
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:22,000
Speaker 1: how am I give the Browns an edge? Sure, they're

759
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,399
Speaker 1: fairly even. I fully expect the Browns to blow them

760
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:25,920
Speaker 1: out of the building in this game. I think they

761
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:28,719
Speaker 1: announced their presence with authority, and everyone's gonna see what

762
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:31,399
Speaker 1: Baker may feel. The Odell Beckham means, I know about

763
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:33,799
Speaker 1: the hip injury. If he's if he's suiting up and

764
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:36,880
Speaker 1: he's playing, I'm expecting big place throughout that game. I

765
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:40,120
Speaker 1: don't love the sound what you're hearing about Beckham, though

766
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 1: he's said he's telling the media that he hasn't quote

767
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:46,840
Speaker 1: opened up yet. It's like an extremely fast car. Listen,

768
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:50,240
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck, I remember when Randy Moss went to the Patriots,

769
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:53,240
Speaker 1: didn't play at all in the preseason because of a hamstring,

770
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:55,759
Speaker 1: and came out and just blew the doors off. What

771
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 1: you want to happen doesn't necessarily mean it will happen.

772
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:01,360
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you, and what you say doesn't announce. No,

773
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:03,879
Speaker 1: I'm saying what Beckham is saying. I hear he's he's

774
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:06,799
Speaker 1: suiting up, though, Let's listen to what it's like an

775
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,920
Speaker 1: extremely fast car with the alignment off. The car can

776
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:12,640
Speaker 1: still go, but it's dangerous. I'm just saying a guy

777
00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 1: that has missed a lot of time and it's a

778
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:20,240
Speaker 1: hip injury, an explosive athlete. I'm a little nervous. Sixty

779
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:22,640
Speaker 1: five snaps. I would. I did the damnit check Show

780
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:25,279
Speaker 1: and he was going through each team and talking Jenga

781
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 1: pieces and Taylor Lawan might be the one for Tennessee

782
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:30,400
Speaker 1: and they're missing him. As as Mark mentioned, that's a

783
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 1: pretty big deal. Well, especially with the way Mariota has

784
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:35,799
Speaker 1: handled pressure the last year. So if you're their new

785
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:39,000
Speaker 1: offensive caller, Arthur Smith, you're gonna run the ball all

786
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:41,799
Speaker 1: the time in this game, Smith, it's a deep Dan

787
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:44,640
Speaker 1: P's revenge game, by the way, Well, I mean isn't

788
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:48,399
Speaker 1: every game? Yes, you're use someone named Uden peas well?

789
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:52,040
Speaker 1: Who Yeah, who is he? Who is he? Need revenge?

790
00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 1: And every game is a Dean Peens game. That's the

791
00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:58,880
Speaker 1: way the guy is. He's a killer, all right. With

792
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:03,279
Speaker 1: the number number two overall picked Chris Westling, get us going, baby,

793
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk Pittsburgh Steelers at New England Patriots. Nice

794
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:13,920
Speaker 1: nice choice. Two Super Bowl contenders, two teams whom I

795
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 1: think are better now, way better now than I thought

796
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 1: they were during the off season, after seeing what happened

797
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 1: in training camp in preseason and the way things are

798
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:27,160
Speaker 1: coalescing for both of these teams legitimate Super Bowl contenders.

799
00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:29,319
Speaker 1: And I don't think that we always thought Pittsburgh would

800
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:32,759
Speaker 1: be there. I couldn't agree more. And I think it's

801
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:36,600
Speaker 1: a game where the defenses should be ahead of the offenses.

802
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:39,640
Speaker 1: He hesitate to say that September football scoring is usually higher.

803
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 1: You know, you have to Hall of Fame quarterbacks and

804
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:46,640
Speaker 1: good offensive coaches. But the Steelers have shown they can

805
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:50,759
Speaker 1: stop New England. Like that narrative, which there's reasons for it,

806
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 1: but they did an amazing job last December in a

807
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:56,600
Speaker 1: game that absolutely mattered, in a game that should have

808
00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:59,280
Speaker 1: knocked the Patriots out of a bye and and maybe

809
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:03,319
Speaker 1: could have propelled the Steelers to a division title. They

810
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 1: held Tom Brady to ten points. And I think it's

811
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:07,320
Speaker 1: because they're really bounced. They've got a really good defensive

812
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:10,400
Speaker 1: line who's healthy, They've got a pretty deep secondary, and

813
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:13,920
Speaker 1: the Patriots are always working on things in September, and

814
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:17,800
Speaker 1: this is a September where they have George Josh Gordon,

815
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:20,359
Speaker 1: d Marius Thomas and Julian Edelman who might be their

816
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:24,719
Speaker 1: top three receivers, barely played in August, barely took any

817
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:28,000
Speaker 1: practice snaps, and they're a team that thrives on getting

818
00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 1: information and using that information against the opponent. You don't

819
00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:34,160
Speaker 1: have much information in Week one? Am I crazy to

820
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:38,600
Speaker 1: simply say, because this game is in Foxbor that I

821
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:43,040
Speaker 1: give Pittsburgh literally no chance to win this? Yeah? No chance.

822
00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:45,000
Speaker 1: I'd say that's crazy if you had to pick, you know,

823
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:49,320
Speaker 1: if it's you're about how about then that's we've seen it.

824
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 1: I think it was as recently as two years ago

825
00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:54,439
Speaker 1: the Chiefs went to New England right and smacked around

826
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:57,600
Speaker 1: the Patriots in Week one in a high leverage, prime

827
00:41:57,640 --> 00:41:59,880
Speaker 1: time game. I think this, for me, this is the

828
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,640
Speaker 1: game if I had to bet my life, we don't

829
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:05,240
Speaker 1: bet if I had a prop in my life. Uh,

830
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:07,440
Speaker 1: what game is gonna come down right to the wire

831
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:10,480
Speaker 1: and it's going to be a Week one game, a

832
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:12,919
Speaker 1: classic one we remember. I feel like this is gonna

833
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:15,200
Speaker 1: be a lot of fun to watch because, I you know,

834
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:17,640
Speaker 1: we talk about the Patriots and maybe it's a little

835
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:20,600
Speaker 1: bit overblown because how slow can these starts be? If

836
00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:22,759
Speaker 1: they go twelve and four and thirteen and three every year,

837
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:24,920
Speaker 1: but I mean they were one and two last year

838
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:26,920
Speaker 1: and they were It is a thing like if you

839
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:28,840
Speaker 1: look if you look at the Patriots, they don't always

840
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:32,279
Speaker 1: start on fire. And the Steelers I think are a

841
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:34,360
Speaker 1: team that's very dangerous in the a f C because

842
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:37,560
Speaker 1: I think as an organization they have a lot to

843
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:40,439
Speaker 1: prove here. I think Mike Tomlin has a lot to prove.

844
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:43,520
Speaker 1: I think Ben Roethlisberger has a lot to prove. I

845
00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:47,359
Speaker 1: feel like um Antonio Brown and Levy on Bell both

846
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:49,799
Speaker 1: being gone, that they want to show that we're we're

847
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:52,840
Speaker 1: we've risen above all that drama. I think this is

848
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:54,920
Speaker 1: the a f C East Champion against the a f

849
00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:56,680
Speaker 1: C North Champion and maybe even the a f C

850
00:42:56,840 --> 00:43:01,640
Speaker 1: Championship preview and yes would be a big tiebreaker scenario.

851
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:05,440
Speaker 1: So this is such an important game in early September.

852
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 1: I think like a lot of stuff, you know, it's

853
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 1: it's beaks pre week one, So you get these packages

854
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:12,759
Speaker 1: of information based on stuff that happened last year, and

855
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 1: it's like it you just toss because it just doesn't

856
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:19,360
Speaker 1: carry over. But when it comes to Belichick and and

857
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:22,239
Speaker 1: stuff carrying over with Bell Belichick, I look at last

858
00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:25,560
Speaker 1: year that they held the following receivers, they took them

859
00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:27,480
Speaker 1: out of the game or held them under a hundred yards.

860
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:31,920
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins, Stefon Diggs, Antonio Brown and Juju Smith Schuster,

861
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:35,960
Speaker 1: Davante Adams and Adam Feeling. Two of those are pairs

862
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,439
Speaker 1: on the same team, so it's not just one guy.

863
00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 1: And I just think that Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh is gonna have

864
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:43,279
Speaker 1: to find a way to do it through someone other

865
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:47,600
Speaker 1: than just Juju Smith Schuster. All right, let's move on list.

866
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:50,680
Speaker 1: Anybody that has something else, move it the third overall pick.

867
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:52,800
Speaker 1: You know, you don't usually like to take what you

868
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:55,480
Speaker 1: would do a sleeper this early, so yeah, this might

869
00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:57,279
Speaker 1: be a bit of a reach, but I love the game.

870
00:43:57,360 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna talk the Atlanta Falcons traveling to Minneapolis

871
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:04,319
Speaker 1: to face the Minnesota Vikings, and on paper, just on

872
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:07,320
Speaker 1: what happened last year, it's a block matchup as seven

873
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:10,960
Speaker 1: and nine against eight seven, the two dome teams off

874
00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:12,439
Speaker 1: the list, Mom and I don't have to worry about

875
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:15,040
Speaker 1: it against eight seven and one. But it's a glass dome.

876
00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:16,920
Speaker 1: Does that help at all? It's a little sun here,

877
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 1: the beautiful place we were there for the super Dome

878
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:20,839
Speaker 1: is is I will say this, it's for me. It's

879
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:23,480
Speaker 1: a game pass thing. It looks beautiful and the green

880
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:26,879
Speaker 1: is a natural bright green where some of these dull

881
00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:30,480
Speaker 1: gray greens are just unwatchable. Mercedes Benz Stadium, that's you

882
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:32,279
Speaker 1: know that we were there for another Super Bowl that

883
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 1: was not a bad facility. The lighting on TV looks

884
00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:38,480
Speaker 1: almost dull gray, okay for the term. But today at

885
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:41,120
Speaker 1: the Georgia Dome against the Metrodome, but I agree with

886
00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:43,280
Speaker 1: you that the this is the best dome to watch

887
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:45,799
Speaker 1: a game. All right, here we go, so yes on

888
00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:48,280
Speaker 1: paper seven and nine verse eight seven one. But these

889
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:52,360
Speaker 1: teams I think are both very interesting this year. Would

890
00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:55,440
Speaker 1: it stun me if both of them had a similar

891
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:58,719
Speaker 1: record in twenty nineteen, Well, maybe the Vikings would surprise me,

892
00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:01,920
Speaker 1: because I'm I'm very high. I'm in Soota. I think um,

893
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:08,920
Speaker 1: some organizations do not handle um, the idea of expectations. Well,

894
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:11,560
Speaker 1: the Vikings shrunk last year, and I think there's a

895
00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:13,799
Speaker 1: little heat off him this year. And like I said

896
00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:17,160
Speaker 1: earlier this week, uh, I think their offense has a

897
00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:20,560
Speaker 1: really high ceiling and then a Falcon's offense that also

898
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:23,560
Speaker 1: has a very high ceiling um, so I think there's

899
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:26,640
Speaker 1: a possibility of a shootout here. But I also I

900
00:45:26,719 --> 00:45:31,000
Speaker 1: wonder if the Vikings West laid a SmackDown potentially in

901
00:45:31,040 --> 00:45:34,640
Speaker 1: their building against Matt Ryan and company. It would not

902
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:38,239
Speaker 1: surprise me at the Vikings throttle Atlanta here, uh, that

903
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 1: that would That's my early thought on this game. I

904
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:43,960
Speaker 1: agree with all of your analysis in this game, and

905
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:45,759
Speaker 1: I think the Vikings are getting the Falcons at the

906
00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:49,279
Speaker 1: right time. Better to get them in week one when

907
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:53,359
Speaker 1: Jlio Jones is giving answers to questions as if he's

908
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:55,520
Speaker 1: not sure if he's gonna play or not, if he's

909
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:58,120
Speaker 1: not sure if it's because of the money or the injury,

910
00:45:58,239 --> 00:46:01,080
Speaker 1: or what's going on, because you're offensive line has two

911
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:03,520
Speaker 1: rookies and you're not sure what you're getting there. The

912
00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:05,520
Speaker 1: Falcons just have a lot more question marks to me

913
00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:07,399
Speaker 1: right now than the Vikings do, and maybe that won't

914
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:09,720
Speaker 1: be the case a month from now. I expect Julio

915
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:12,680
Speaker 1: Jones to sign a contract between now in game time,

916
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:15,280
Speaker 1: if you read the entire transcript, he made it pretty

917
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:19,440
Speaker 1: clear he's playing, but also made it clear he fully

918
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:22,160
Speaker 1: expects to have signed his new contract by then I

919
00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:24,799
Speaker 1: think they expected it to happen before today. Arthur Blank

920
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:28,000
Speaker 1: said as much earlier this week that it's going to happen.

921
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:31,520
Speaker 1: So I'm not worried about Julio, but I am worried

922
00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:36,000
Speaker 1: if I'm the Falcons. That my defense. It just hasn't

923
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:38,359
Speaker 1: been tough under Dan Quinn in terms of stopping the run,

924
00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:41,160
Speaker 1: and now with Gary Kubiak in Minnesota, I think they're

925
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:43,279
Speaker 1: going to be able to run. I think this Vikings team,

926
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:46,080
Speaker 1: unlike old Vikings teams, are built to win a shootout,

927
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:48,439
Speaker 1: and maybe that's what it takes to win this game.

928
00:46:48,560 --> 00:46:50,400
Speaker 1: And I think they will, and that's why I'm gonna lock.

929
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:55,200
Speaker 1: There's a lot of trying to sneak one in there.

930
00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:58,279
Speaker 1: That's good. That is a gutsy lock. I like it

931
00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:01,440
Speaker 1: to um go ahead, Mark. I've already conceded this year's

932
00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:03,440
Speaker 1: title to Greg because I can tell the tone that

933
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:10,799
Speaker 1: he's setting. No, gregs, are you gonna lock up? It's

934
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:12,600
Speaker 1: a puppet show. The rest of us are just involved

935
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:17,120
Speaker 1: this psychological game. This is but I agree with And

936
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:20,720
Speaker 1: the Falcons are up to fourteen and you're like, Okay,

937
00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:23,520
Speaker 1: I I kind of I don't know if I totally

938
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:26,840
Speaker 1: look at Mike Zimmer and say, I just totally admire

939
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:30,160
Speaker 1: the fact that you're pressing in so hard to uh

940
00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:32,560
Speaker 1: an offense that looks so counter to the rest of

941
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:35,520
Speaker 1: the league. That you fired your past heavy coordinator last

942
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:39,200
Speaker 1: year and Cousins attempts dropped by fourteen a game once

943
00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:41,600
Speaker 1: the Filippo was out the building. And I think Dalvin

944
00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:43,600
Speaker 1: Cooks looks great. But you built the whole thing around

945
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:46,200
Speaker 1: what you want to be an old school offense, and

946
00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:48,040
Speaker 1: that works or it doesn't. But I for me, the

947
00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:50,960
Speaker 1: Vikings last year, what I want to see change is

948
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:55,480
Speaker 1: they absolutely laid gigantic, stinking eggs when it mattered most

949
00:47:55,560 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 1: against the Patriots, against the Seahawks, they lost twice to

950
00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:00,919
Speaker 1: the Bears down the stretch. What team are you because

951
00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:03,399
Speaker 1: I don't see a lot that has changed in terms

952
00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:06,320
Speaker 1: of leadership, in terms of the key characters. Yes, you

953
00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:08,960
Speaker 1: went and made your center first round pick, the highest

954
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:12,239
Speaker 1: rank or drafted center in like twenty years or something.

955
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:14,719
Speaker 1: If that hits, that's the difference. Their line was a

956
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:18,840
Speaker 1: total disaster that deep sixth Kirk Cousins wired to wire

957
00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:21,200
Speaker 1: last year. That's gotta change. You've got to be a

958
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:23,759
Speaker 1: tougher team. I do like the Vikings in this game.

959
00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:26,839
Speaker 1: I'm a little worried off four of us when we agree. Yeah,

960
00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:31,560
Speaker 1: two things before we move on. You mentioned the Vikings

961
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:35,080
Speaker 1: offensive line. I want to see that remade Falcon's offensive line.

962
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:38,240
Speaker 1: And also the backfield between Dalvin Cook and Devant to Freeman.

963
00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:42,520
Speaker 1: Is cooking a breakout? Are we gonna see the Cook

964
00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:47,440
Speaker 1: that everyone expects. Is Freeman gonna return to form? I'll

965
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:51,600
Speaker 1: be watching if Xavier Rhodes gets just destroyed by these receivers,

966
00:48:51,640 --> 00:48:53,760
Speaker 1: because that is a big time concern for the Vikings

967
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:56,479
Speaker 1: that Xavier Rhodes is no longer a huge asset because

968
00:48:56,520 --> 00:48:59,840
Speaker 1: he wasn't really last regular season. All right, right, it's you.

969
00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:02,600
Speaker 1: I'm so I'm so happy because you're right you. You

970
00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:05,520
Speaker 1: said the number four pick could have been juicy. I

971
00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:08,120
Speaker 1: get my number one overall draft pick. Anyways, at the

972
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:11,880
Speaker 1: fourth spot. It's because the season really starts in full,

973
00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:15,000
Speaker 1: you know, ten am for us Sunday morning, so that

974
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:17,960
Speaker 1: first game you're watching that is important. And I wanted

975
00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:21,040
Speaker 1: Panthers Rams because I thought these are the two teams

976
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:23,239
Speaker 1: that I'm coming into the year with a lot of

977
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:26,360
Speaker 1: information on them. Anyway, I expect them to be in

978
00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:30,480
Speaker 1: the mix among the top two NFC teams. Uh. And

979
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:36,279
Speaker 1: there're two coaches who have been very successful. Ron Rivera defensively,

980
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:39,120
Speaker 1: I think was reverly smart to adjust that he's no

981
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:41,719
Speaker 1: longer just a four three team. They're gonna show three

982
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:44,200
Speaker 1: four looks. Brian burn is probably gonna start have a

983
00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:46,759
Speaker 1: little bit more variety. I'm curious to see if Sean

984
00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:49,719
Speaker 1: McVeigh will also have a little more variety this year.

985
00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:52,960
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll see like a little less play action, a

986
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:55,839
Speaker 1: little more to running backs, a tight ends on the field.

987
00:49:55,840 --> 00:49:57,680
Speaker 1: I don't know, but either way, I think these are

988
00:49:57,719 --> 00:50:00,640
Speaker 1: just like two great teams, UH that should be ready

989
00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:03,560
Speaker 1: to go Week one. Cam Newton is fully healthy and

990
00:50:03,719 --> 00:50:05,320
Speaker 1: it just to me looks like the best game of

991
00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:07,640
Speaker 1: the morning. It's great that Cam is not even on

992
00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:10,399
Speaker 1: the injury report this week because it was not looking

993
00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:12,520
Speaker 1: a little grim when he suffered that foot foot injury,

994
00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:14,399
Speaker 1: and you were worried that he was gonna limp into

995
00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:16,400
Speaker 1: a new season after ending last year, and I are

996
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:18,800
Speaker 1: now you get full strength. Cam. We've talked about it,

997
00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:21,319
Speaker 1: Um West, I I feel like I don't know if

998
00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:22,800
Speaker 1: you agree with me that the Panthers are lying in

999
00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:24,480
Speaker 1: the weeds a little bit in the NFC, and that's

1000
00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:26,839
Speaker 1: always a good thing. I liked them in this game.

1001
00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:28,800
Speaker 1: This was my hardest game to pick. We have to

1002
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:32,080
Speaker 1: do I now I am writing those picks online, uh,

1003
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:34,239
Speaker 1: every week, and this was the one I didn't feel

1004
00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:36,640
Speaker 1: good about, no matter what, no matter who I picked. Yeah,

1005
00:50:36,719 --> 00:50:39,880
Speaker 1: it's a hard game to pick. I agreed Dan. The Panthers.

1006
00:50:40,360 --> 00:50:42,560
Speaker 1: I think everybody gets caught up in that injury last

1007
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:45,239
Speaker 1: year with with Cam Newton, and their defense did fall

1008
00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:47,359
Speaker 1: apart a little bit, but they were a playoff team

1009
00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:50,000
Speaker 1: before Cam Newton's injury. I think the question I have

1010
00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:52,320
Speaker 1: this year for as much love as Curtis Samuel and

1011
00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:55,480
Speaker 1: d J. Moore are getting, there's not much depth there

1012
00:50:55,520 --> 00:50:58,200
Speaker 1: behind them. When Jerry's right or Chris Hogan is your three,

1013
00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:00,680
Speaker 1: and then you've got Ray Ray mc out in, Brandon

1014
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:03,879
Speaker 1: Zilstra who you picked up for special teams, you better

1015
00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:06,520
Speaker 1: hope that Curtis Samuel really does have a breakout here

1016
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:10,120
Speaker 1: and stays healthy. I'm a little concerned or I want

1017
00:51:10,120 --> 00:51:12,120
Speaker 1: to see. I think there's the Rams have so many

1018
00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:16,680
Speaker 1: offseason long questions. Obviously there is golf there is Girley.

1019
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:19,440
Speaker 1: There is what's gonna happen for me on the offensive line?

1020
00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:22,440
Speaker 1: Where you lost Roger Roger Staffold, you lost John Sullivan,

1021
00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:25,520
Speaker 1: you're replacing them with two guys Brian Allen and Joseph

1022
00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:28,240
Speaker 1: note Boom, kind of like that guy's last name. Witworth

1023
00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:30,080
Speaker 1: is not going to knock on the door. And forty

1024
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:31,920
Speaker 1: at this point, so he's you know, he's up there.

1025
00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:33,839
Speaker 1: He's almost the same age as West and I only

1026
00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:36,520
Speaker 1: seven or eight years off, and they've played about a

1027
00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:39,360
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty snaps in their lifetime. So you know

1028
00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:41,280
Speaker 1: you need the same way we look at the Falcons

1029
00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:44,080
Speaker 1: or the Vikings and say these Lion Elements or the

1030
00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:46,040
Speaker 1: Titans and Browns need to check out for us to

1031
00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:48,560
Speaker 1: believe in these teams. This is where I think the

1032
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:51,200
Speaker 1: Rams issues could come if the suddenly something happens there's

1033
00:51:51,239 --> 00:51:54,080
Speaker 1: some sort of sinkhole on the front five. I want

1034
00:51:54,120 --> 00:51:57,480
Speaker 1: to see how Top Gurley looks. Yeah, Sean McVeigh said

1035
00:51:57,480 --> 00:51:58,880
Speaker 1: he's not going to be on a pitch count and

1036
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:02,080
Speaker 1: Justice since I get from people who have reported from

1037
00:52:02,120 --> 00:52:04,480
Speaker 1: their team and the way they've talked about him, that

1038
00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:06,880
Speaker 1: they're not really is worried about him as everyone else's.

1039
00:52:07,160 --> 00:52:10,160
Speaker 1: I mean, I I'm just excited that I got this

1040
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:12,000
Speaker 1: fourth spot. I don't know if we're moving on now

1041
00:52:12,239 --> 00:52:14,279
Speaker 1: I got I'm getting my first I'm getting my first

1042
00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:16,240
Speaker 1: pick at ten am, and I'm getting my first nervous

1043
00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:19,440
Speaker 1: you're gonna take my pickure, I think, I am. It's

1044
00:52:19,480 --> 00:52:23,960
Speaker 1: the cults, it's the Charger was Oh, actually I should

1045
00:52:23,960 --> 00:52:26,560
Speaker 1: have known that. Yeah, you could have probably stolen that

1046
00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:30,239
Speaker 1: at it. Yeah, I know you're taking the Alan Chris Invitational.

1047
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:33,400
Speaker 1: That's how bad that Giants are so bad they're not

1048
00:52:33,520 --> 00:52:35,680
Speaker 1: even on Sunday Night Football with the Cowboys for the

1049
00:52:35,719 --> 00:52:38,440
Speaker 1: first time in the seventeen years. The Colts charges, to me,

1050
00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:40,399
Speaker 1: is just a fun game that you're not sure where

1051
00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:42,239
Speaker 1: you're gonna get out of these two teams in Week one.

1052
00:52:42,280 --> 00:52:44,799
Speaker 1: They're not quite the teams we expected two months ago.

1053
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:47,279
Speaker 1: We know about Luck, we know about Derwin James and

1054
00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:52,319
Speaker 1: Russell o'kung and Melvin Gordon, and I'm I know you're

1055
00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:54,640
Speaker 1: almost talking straight to me, Dan. I saw your hit.

1056
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:57,120
Speaker 1: You did a great job talking power rankings on NFL

1057
00:52:57,200 --> 00:53:00,279
Speaker 1: Now and you said people were in their field lanes

1058
00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:03,960
Speaker 1: about the cults. Maybe that's me because whatever, maybe it's

1059
00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:06,959
Speaker 1: Chris Ballard really and Frank Reich and and Jacoby Precent

1060
00:53:07,080 --> 00:53:09,200
Speaker 1: and t Y Hilton's your favorite type of fraud. They're

1061
00:53:09,239 --> 00:53:12,320
Speaker 1: really in their feelings. Um, but I'm buying what they're selling.

1062
00:53:12,440 --> 00:53:14,399
Speaker 1: The Hilton did, I I didn't read the whole story

1063
00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:16,040
Speaker 1: that did he say this is the best team he's

1064
00:53:16,080 --> 00:53:17,840
Speaker 1: ever been on? He did? I mean, what are we

1065
00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:21,879
Speaker 1: doing here? I'm buying what they're selling. I don't know why,

1066
00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:23,680
Speaker 1: And maybe it's just because I want to see how

1067
00:53:23,719 --> 00:53:25,480
Speaker 1: many teams is t Y has he've ever been on

1068
00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:27,839
Speaker 1: a good team. I mean, they've made playoffs. So he's

1069
00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:30,000
Speaker 1: saying this team is better than I would argue from

1070
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:32,560
Speaker 1: top to bottom. It may be the best Cults team

1071
00:53:32,600 --> 00:53:37,040
Speaker 1: minus the luck situation, but it is with that if

1072
00:53:37,080 --> 00:53:39,560
Speaker 1: he but he also think, if he super believes in

1073
00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:42,319
Speaker 1: the current quarterback, it is the best head to toe

1074
00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:44,440
Speaker 1: Cults team in a long time. And this is a

1075
00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:46,880
Speaker 1: match of the two narratives. The other narrative to me

1076
00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:49,480
Speaker 1: is the Chargers regression. They were so good in close games,

1077
00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:52,160
Speaker 1: They're already missing players, their line isn't really great, And

1078
00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:55,359
Speaker 1: maybe those those two narratives clash here and we get

1079
00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:59,560
Speaker 1: a nice little cults upset. I'm with you because I

1080
00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:01,719
Speaker 1: think they are five and one in those close games

1081
00:54:01,760 --> 00:54:03,399
Speaker 1: and you have a twelve and four record, and you're

1082
00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:06,239
Speaker 1: just a lot went right in terms of them. I

1083
00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:08,680
Speaker 1: thought they were a good team that's surged down the stretch.

1084
00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:11,400
Speaker 1: They smacked a couple of playoff teams, you know, heading

1085
00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:14,440
Speaker 1: towards the playoffs. But how many chances do you get

1086
00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:16,920
Speaker 1: and you go into the season missing all these key guys.

1087
00:54:17,640 --> 00:54:19,440
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, it's the only thing is

1088
00:54:19,600 --> 00:54:21,919
Speaker 1: you know, And and also I don't like a team.

1089
00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:23,839
Speaker 1: And I know we're not really even supposed to talk

1090
00:54:23,880 --> 00:54:26,360
Speaker 1: about this half the time, but you're playing in a

1091
00:54:26,480 --> 00:54:29,680
Speaker 1: stadium where you're one year, you're one year away from

1092
00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:33,279
Speaker 1: moving into a massive well. I have been, and I

1093
00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:36,040
Speaker 1: have been talked to, you know, specifically about stuff that

1094
00:54:36,080 --> 00:54:41,279
Speaker 1: I put in Well, I didn't think I it's on

1095
00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:43,400
Speaker 1: my radar because I've been talked to about it before.

1096
00:54:43,520 --> 00:54:45,960
Speaker 1: But they you're in a you're in a small stadium

1097
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:48,359
Speaker 1: where you can out week after week. I feel any

1098
00:54:48,840 --> 00:54:50,560
Speaker 1: hint of a home field, and I don't know if

1099
00:54:50,600 --> 00:54:52,400
Speaker 1: players can shut that out or not, or if it

1100
00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:54,960
Speaker 1: matters to disadvantage. It just feels like, at some point,

1101
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:58,239
Speaker 1: if you're a player, you're thinking, please someone gather around us.

1102
00:54:58,400 --> 00:54:59,920
Speaker 1: Since you brought it up, can we talk about the

1103
00:55:00,040 --> 00:55:02,080
Speaker 1: name of their fields? As if it couldn't get worse?

1104
00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:05,880
Speaker 1: It is now Dignity Health Sports Park. That is not

1105
00:55:06,040 --> 00:55:07,920
Speaker 1: the black Hole. Wait, and when I hear that name,

1106
00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:09,600
Speaker 1: it feels like you need to go to the hospital

1107
00:55:09,719 --> 00:55:12,920
Speaker 1: to have your dignity worked on or your colon cleansed.

1108
00:55:14,239 --> 00:55:17,319
Speaker 1: I don't know who's supposed to this. Did that come from?

1109
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:20,280
Speaker 1: I was surprised to hear Greg say being an upset

1110
00:55:20,320 --> 00:55:23,799
Speaker 1: if the Colts win, that's well, well, the Charges are

1111
00:55:23,840 --> 00:55:26,800
Speaker 1: one of the biggest favorites of the week. Actually, that's surprising,

1112
00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:31,239
Speaker 1: desert surprising to me too. Interesting people people believe in

1113
00:55:31,280 --> 00:55:33,960
Speaker 1: the Charges because the Chargers, even after taking those players away,

1114
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:37,879
Speaker 1: they still have more frontline talent than the Colts. That's true.

1115
00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:42,800
Speaker 1: Are you worried at all about the Chargers the entire defense,

1116
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:48,800
Speaker 1: the entirety of their defense they run, their ability. No,

1117
00:55:49,040 --> 00:55:50,839
Speaker 1: it's the other side of the ball that concerns me. Yeah,

1118
00:55:50,840 --> 00:55:52,960
Speaker 1: if anything, I'm worried about You know now that I'm

1119
00:55:53,160 --> 00:55:58,520
Speaker 1: backing Brisett this year that Ingram, the Ingram and Bossa

1120
00:55:58,520 --> 00:56:03,959
Speaker 1: are gonna do what they do, and that's the worry,

1121
00:56:04,200 --> 00:56:08,000
Speaker 1: all right. The snake now comes the other direction, the

1122
00:56:08,080 --> 00:56:09,840
Speaker 1: old zeus or I had a locked in loads my

1123
00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:12,160
Speaker 1: number two seeds, so I'm pretty pumped about it. I

1124
00:56:12,160 --> 00:56:14,040
Speaker 1: don't know, I didn't talk about it. First. Here we

1125
00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:19,440
Speaker 1: go the Kansas City Chiefs, who were we are still

1126
00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:23,520
Speaker 1: still waiting for Patrick Holmes to get back on the field.

1127
00:56:23,880 --> 00:56:26,759
Speaker 1: It didn't happen. In overtime of the v C Championship game,

1128
00:56:27,239 --> 00:56:30,279
Speaker 1: the Chiefs lost the coin toss and then threw up

1129
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:33,959
Speaker 1: all over themselves and Tom Brady marched down the field

1130
00:56:34,040 --> 00:56:35,880
Speaker 1: and the Pats went back to the Super Bowl and

1131
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:38,880
Speaker 1: you know how that ended. Well. Now they travel to

1132
00:56:39,040 --> 00:56:42,239
Speaker 1: Jacksonville to face the Jags, and uh, I just love

1133
00:56:42,320 --> 00:56:45,719
Speaker 1: this game because, um, we we know all about the

1134
00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:48,200
Speaker 1: Chiefs and especially Patrick Mahomes, the reigning m v P,

1135
00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:51,840
Speaker 1: and um all the weapons they have and how this

1136
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:54,560
Speaker 1: is a team that, yes, if you, if things break right,

1137
00:56:54,640 --> 00:56:58,040
Speaker 1: can average thirty five points a game. Like It's that

1138
00:56:58,200 --> 00:57:03,520
Speaker 1: type of special offense. The what's the X factor in

1139
00:57:03,600 --> 00:57:07,160
Speaker 1: this game, Wes is the Jaguars Uh. For me, and

1140
00:57:07,320 --> 00:57:12,640
Speaker 1: specifically that defense in their building Week one fans going crazy.

1141
00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:16,000
Speaker 1: A Jaguars team that a bit of a Murphy's last

1142
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:18,919
Speaker 1: season last year. Um, that has a lot to prove

1143
00:57:19,040 --> 00:57:21,680
Speaker 1: and I imagine with a chip on its shoulder. Uh.

1144
00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:24,040
Speaker 1: I think the Chiefs are in for a bit of

1145
00:57:24,120 --> 00:57:26,440
Speaker 1: surprise when it comes to moving the football. I think

1146
00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:28,400
Speaker 1: the Jaguars are gonna play tough at home, and this

1147
00:57:28,600 --> 00:57:30,880
Speaker 1: is gonna be a game I'd love to see a

1148
00:57:30,880 --> 00:57:34,240
Speaker 1: little chaos just to throw everyone off. Um. I think

1149
00:57:34,280 --> 00:57:36,280
Speaker 1: it's just assumed that the Chiefs are gonna score thirty

1150
00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:39,880
Speaker 1: five or forty every week, if not fifty. And I

1151
00:57:40,040 --> 00:57:42,920
Speaker 1: think the only thing working against your theory, Dan is

1152
00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:45,680
Speaker 1: that even if the Jaguars played them tough last year,

1153
00:57:46,240 --> 00:57:50,760
Speaker 1: nobody held the Chiefs under twenty six points. In eighteen games,

1154
00:57:51,320 --> 00:57:54,280
Speaker 1: they were never held under twenty six points. And I

1155
00:57:54,320 --> 00:57:57,000
Speaker 1: don't think the Jaguars can get there on that basically

1156
00:57:57,080 --> 00:57:59,400
Speaker 1: did in terms of their offense. They scored on a

1157
00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:01,880
Speaker 1: pick six last year in that game, so they did

1158
00:58:01,920 --> 00:58:04,680
Speaker 1: a pretty nice job holding the Chief's offense twenty three points.

1159
00:58:04,760 --> 00:58:06,680
Speaker 1: But you're right that that's like even the best that

1160
00:58:06,760 --> 00:58:08,400
Speaker 1: you can do, and they gave up a ton of

1161
00:58:08,520 --> 00:58:12,040
Speaker 1: long drives like they I remember that game. I I was.

1162
00:58:12,360 --> 00:58:14,880
Speaker 1: I covered that game and and it was a bunch

1163
00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:18,000
Speaker 1: of they decided to force Mahomes to just take checkdowns

1164
00:58:18,040 --> 00:58:19,520
Speaker 1: all day, and you know what, he did it and

1165
00:58:19,800 --> 00:58:21,720
Speaker 1: had a bunch of eight year picked him off twice. Well,

1166
00:58:21,760 --> 00:58:23,960
Speaker 1: now they've got some new weapons on that chief's offense,

1167
00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:26,400
Speaker 1: maybe he doesn't have to take checkdowns all game. I see,

1168
00:58:26,440 --> 00:58:28,560
Speaker 1: I do want to watch this one early on game pass.

1169
00:58:28,680 --> 00:58:30,680
Speaker 1: If I'm not I'm assuming I'm not assigned to it.

1170
00:58:30,720 --> 00:58:33,280
Speaker 1: If Dan has already picked it to watch, there's notion.

1171
00:58:33,320 --> 00:58:35,280
Speaker 1: That's it. Bro, I'm locked and loaded in the game.

1172
00:58:35,480 --> 00:58:38,600
Speaker 1: And now and then, oh, you talk about trades, I

1173
00:58:38,640 --> 00:58:41,240
Speaker 1: mean we could who knows what could happen? What if

1174
00:58:41,280 --> 00:58:43,640
Speaker 1: you got one of your little sea colds and one

1175
00:58:43,640 --> 00:58:45,600
Speaker 1: were able to show up on Sunday and suddenly you know,

1176
00:58:45,720 --> 00:58:47,640
Speaker 1: West and Greg and Mark are having to triple up

1177
00:58:47,680 --> 00:58:50,080
Speaker 1: on the game. Old I'm cal ripkin, baby, I'm here

1178
00:58:50,120 --> 00:58:52,600
Speaker 1: every show. That's true. Well, then I will be watching

1179
00:58:52,640 --> 00:58:53,920
Speaker 1: on a game I just want to see. And I

1180
00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:56,000
Speaker 1: know we've talked about it before. Is that again? It

1181
00:58:56,080 --> 00:58:59,560
Speaker 1: comes to John d Philippos. Well, I don't know about

1182
00:58:59,560 --> 00:59:02,200
Speaker 1: that strong. That is very strong. I mean, do you

1183
00:59:02,240 --> 00:59:04,120
Speaker 1: have another family reunion to go to? Let's see if

1184
00:59:04,120 --> 00:59:06,280
Speaker 1: you know, let's there maybe more time for that. Did

1185
00:59:06,320 --> 00:59:10,640
Speaker 1: I miss the show? Huh? Go on? Go on? I

1186
00:59:10,800 --> 00:59:17,320
Speaker 1: need that would get you? Well, you've missed shows this year? True?

1187
00:59:17,800 --> 00:59:19,800
Speaker 1: I mean, I just I am loving a show where

1188
00:59:19,840 --> 00:59:21,960
Speaker 1: there's a lot of back and forth here and I'm

1189
00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:24,840
Speaker 1: not involved in any of it. There's plenty of time,

1190
00:59:25,720 --> 00:59:29,040
Speaker 1: There's plenty of time. I just I'm not convinced that

1191
00:59:29,200 --> 00:59:32,360
Speaker 1: this the way this roster is set up for Jacksonville,

1192
00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:35,560
Speaker 1: that it's an easy, uh paradigm for Nick Foles to

1193
00:59:35,760 --> 00:59:37,680
Speaker 1: to thrive in early. You are a team with no

1194
00:59:38,240 --> 00:59:40,680
Speaker 1: proven tight end at this point, no one that's actually

1195
00:59:40,760 --> 00:59:43,160
Speaker 1: done it for more than a couple of weeks. And yes,

1196
00:59:43,240 --> 00:59:45,200
Speaker 1: I guess Leonard four Nette arrow up in terms of

1197
00:59:45,280 --> 00:59:47,560
Speaker 1: the reports on him this preseason, but you're meant to

1198
00:59:47,600 --> 00:59:50,960
Speaker 1: be an RPO Eagles looking passing type team, and outside

1199
00:59:50,960 --> 00:59:53,680
Speaker 1: of D. D. Westbrooks, you know flowery reports, there's not

1200
00:59:53,800 --> 00:59:56,200
Speaker 1: much going on. So I if you get into a

1201
00:59:56,240 --> 00:59:58,760
Speaker 1: shootout right away, I want to see what happens to

1202
00:59:58,840 --> 01:00:01,480
Speaker 1: the Jaguars that they're down by two touchdowns or ten points,

1203
01:00:01,520 --> 01:00:04,800
Speaker 1: and Nick Foles suddenly as to wonder what happened to

1204
01:00:05,280 --> 01:00:08,480
Speaker 1: those two fascinating tight ends I was working with in Philadelphia.

1205
01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:11,320
Speaker 1: It's the best defense in the a f C, I think,

1206
01:00:11,360 --> 01:00:13,240
Speaker 1: in the best offense. I mean, it isn't It isn't

1207
01:00:13,320 --> 01:00:15,240
Speaker 1: nice Week one matchup. So maybe it comes down to

1208
01:00:15,320 --> 01:00:18,040
Speaker 1: which of the other two sides that are kind of

1209
01:00:18,120 --> 01:00:20,360
Speaker 1: newly rebuilt, you know, are going to get there a

1210
01:00:20,400 --> 01:00:22,320
Speaker 1: little faster. And I want to make it clear. I

1211
01:00:22,400 --> 01:00:25,960
Speaker 1: see maybe seventeen game that goes either way, and then

1212
01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:28,120
Speaker 1: I see the Chiefs dropping the fifty burger on the

1213
01:00:28,200 --> 01:00:30,840
Speaker 1: Raiders the black hole next week. I'm not worried about

1214
01:00:30,880 --> 01:00:33,400
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. I just I just can see Jacksonville coming

1215
01:00:33,440 --> 01:00:37,120
Speaker 1: out hot here. All right, West, you're up up as

1216
01:00:37,240 --> 01:00:42,040
Speaker 1: down left is right, Cats are chasing Dogs, Dan choosing

1217
01:00:42,120 --> 01:00:44,880
Speaker 1: a f C South teams. I'm going to NFC East

1218
01:00:45,840 --> 01:00:51,560
Speaker 1: Giants and Cowboys right stunning even well, I mean, I

1219
01:00:51,640 --> 01:00:54,400
Speaker 1: can talk myself into the Giants because I'm on Eli Manning,

1220
01:00:54,640 --> 01:00:58,560
Speaker 1: yank Watch, yank Watch. I'm going yank watch there, so

1221
01:00:58,840 --> 01:01:03,800
Speaker 1: get him. Ruston Wells, get Danny dimes in. I want

1222
01:01:03,840 --> 01:01:06,080
Speaker 1: to see what what Eli's got left. I have a

1223
01:01:06,120 --> 01:01:08,360
Speaker 1: good idea, but I want to see what. But then

1224
01:01:08,400 --> 01:01:10,040
Speaker 1: also you want to be there for the funeral. It's

1225
01:01:10,040 --> 01:01:12,000
Speaker 1: the sneaky team in westl on the other side of

1226
01:01:12,040 --> 01:01:14,200
Speaker 1: the Yesterday. It's been a three year funeral that I've

1227
01:01:14,240 --> 01:01:16,160
Speaker 1: been watching, so I feel like I've been a part

1228
01:01:16,200 --> 01:01:18,760
Speaker 1: of it. Yes, a sneaky team of the Cowboys ever

1229
01:01:18,840 --> 01:01:21,000
Speaker 1: since Mauri Cooper Trade have been one of my favorite

1230
01:01:21,040 --> 01:01:24,200
Speaker 1: teams to watch. They are fun. So I'm gonna see

1231
01:01:24,240 --> 01:01:27,040
Speaker 1: what Ezekiel Elliott has in the first game. We're gonna

1232
01:01:27,040 --> 01:01:30,040
Speaker 1: see how these new pieces fit in. And you know,

1233
01:01:30,680 --> 01:01:33,560
Speaker 1: I think that the Cowboys should be considered a favorite,

1234
01:01:33,600 --> 01:01:36,440
Speaker 1: maybe not the favorite, but a super Bowl favorite. Puss.

1235
01:01:36,440 --> 01:01:38,880
Speaker 1: You get Troy and Joe, and I feel like we've

1236
01:01:38,920 --> 01:01:42,120
Speaker 1: come around, not just on this podcast but just nationally

1237
01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:45,280
Speaker 1: at some point. Yes, I think everyone's come around to

1238
01:01:45,440 --> 01:01:48,240
Speaker 1: kind of like, oh, actually, Troy and Joe a great

1239
01:01:48,440 --> 01:01:51,479
Speaker 1: duo to watch. Bra I've always liked. But but there's

1240
01:01:51,480 --> 01:01:54,200
Speaker 1: been critique, no doubt. I mean, yeah, buck Buck had

1241
01:01:54,280 --> 01:01:56,920
Speaker 1: some issues earlier in his career. The Randy Moss mooning

1242
01:01:57,880 --> 01:02:00,320
Speaker 1: situation to name one. But I shouldn't put you guys,

1243
01:02:00,360 --> 01:02:03,440
Speaker 1: and this has been my journey that I have taken,

1244
01:02:03,600 --> 01:02:05,960
Speaker 1: I mean now, and we support you in your journey,

1245
01:02:06,240 --> 01:02:08,640
Speaker 1: but I I don't necessarily share the same journey. So

1246
01:02:09,520 --> 01:02:11,240
Speaker 1: he didn't have a great call on the helmet catch

1247
01:02:11,680 --> 01:02:14,880
Speaker 1: in Super Bowl forty two. Joe hasn't always been on fire,

1248
01:02:15,080 --> 01:02:16,760
Speaker 1: but I feel like he has gotten better and better.

1249
01:02:16,840 --> 01:02:18,640
Speaker 1: I mean there's others days where he's like, had to

1250
01:02:18,680 --> 01:02:21,160
Speaker 1: call a baseball playoff game than eight hours later do

1251
01:02:21,240 --> 01:02:23,840
Speaker 1: football or vice versa. I think he's you know, seems

1252
01:02:23,880 --> 01:02:26,040
Speaker 1: like he works pretty hard. To me, I've been I've

1253
01:02:26,080 --> 01:02:29,320
Speaker 1: been wondering about the Cowboys in Week one for for

1254
01:02:29,400 --> 01:02:31,800
Speaker 1: a while now, and they're all practicing. It's crazy Like

1255
01:02:31,840 --> 01:02:33,960
Speaker 1: Byron Jones had a hip surgery, didn't practice at all

1256
01:02:34,040 --> 01:02:36,400
Speaker 1: till this week. Same thing with de Marcus Lawrence. Zack

1257
01:02:36,480 --> 01:02:39,200
Speaker 1: Martin is maybe the only one that's actually questionable for

1258
01:02:39,280 --> 01:02:43,520
Speaker 1: this game. Who Tyrone Crawford's coming back, Zeki Elliott's limited.

1259
01:02:43,960 --> 01:02:45,840
Speaker 1: If you're gonna have to go to Dallas, I feel

1260
01:02:45,880 --> 01:02:47,920
Speaker 1: like this might be a good week to do it well.

1261
01:02:47,960 --> 01:02:50,160
Speaker 1: I think there's another world where let's say this Kellen

1262
01:02:50,200 --> 01:02:54,200
Speaker 1: Moore offense takes off and confuses a Giants very suspect

1263
01:02:54,280 --> 01:02:56,919
Speaker 1: Giants defense, and they do the thing I mentioned were Zeke.

1264
01:02:56,960 --> 01:02:59,280
Speaker 1: They get him off to a hot Jerry Jones leads

1265
01:02:59,320 --> 01:03:02,520
Speaker 1: start where he has Zeke running. He basically dials down

1266
01:03:02,840 --> 01:03:04,680
Speaker 1: to the sideline, which if your Ray Farmer would have

1267
01:03:04,680 --> 01:03:07,440
Speaker 1: gotten you suspended for four games. You basically tell the

1268
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Speaker 1: coaching staff you get Zeke in that end zone, over

1269
01:03:09,640 --> 01:03:11,720
Speaker 1: and over. I want him jumping in that red pot,

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01:03:11,760 --> 01:03:14,000
Speaker 1: even though it's not Christmas time. And then I'll tell

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01:03:14,040 --> 01:03:15,760
Speaker 1: you what else is gonna happen. Because we have a

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01:03:15,840 --> 01:03:19,400
Speaker 1: sandwich bet on this game. Potentially I could be out

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01:03:19,480 --> 01:03:22,040
Speaker 1: a sandwich unless this happens. I told you that Daniel

1274
01:03:22,080 --> 01:03:25,600
Speaker 1: Jones would take over in week one mid game and

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01:03:25,720 --> 01:03:27,960
Speaker 1: be starting by week two. So I need that nice

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01:03:28,040 --> 01:03:32,480
Speaker 1: twenty one to nothing first half situation where Eli Manning

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01:03:32,520 --> 01:03:35,800
Speaker 1: throws a killer pick six that has happened last week. Yes,

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01:03:35,960 --> 01:03:41,960
Speaker 1: that's what That's what I put on on show tape. Um,

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Speaker 1: all right, let's move on, Mark. Oh, it's my turn

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01:03:45,720 --> 01:03:48,760
Speaker 1: back up. You got a double? All right, So here's

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01:03:48,800 --> 01:03:53,000
Speaker 1: where I'm gonna stay in the NFC East and that

1282
01:03:53,160 --> 01:03:56,920
Speaker 1: is a little game. That is a little game between

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Speaker 1: the Redskins and the Eagles. And we know Dan and

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01:04:00,440 --> 01:04:04,040
Speaker 1: I were on the Rich Eyes and Show today and

1285
01:04:04,280 --> 01:04:06,680
Speaker 1: I cannot find for this, but I have found it.

1286
01:04:08,240 --> 01:04:10,480
Speaker 1: He asked us point blank right out of the gate,

1287
01:04:10,520 --> 01:04:12,720
Speaker 1: what who we thought the best team in the NFC was,

1288
01:04:12,800 --> 01:04:14,680
Speaker 1: And I I had to think about it for one

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01:04:14,720 --> 01:04:17,320
Speaker 1: second because it's a top heavy conference, but I think

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01:04:17,360 --> 01:04:19,360
Speaker 1: it's the Eagles. I really do. And I've mentioned a

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01:04:19,400 --> 01:04:21,000
Speaker 1: couple of times. I think the Cowboys and Eagles are

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01:04:21,000 --> 01:04:23,600
Speaker 1: gonna get off too super hot starts, and that's going

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01:04:23,640 --> 01:04:25,800
Speaker 1: to be a fascinating division because of those two teams.

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01:04:26,040 --> 01:04:28,680
Speaker 1: On the flip side, the Redskins, to me, have a

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01:04:28,760 --> 01:04:30,720
Speaker 1: lot of issues. And it's kind of crazy to think

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01:04:31,160 --> 01:04:34,400
Speaker 1: that Jay Gruden is in year six of coaching this team,

1297
01:04:35,000 --> 01:04:37,720
Speaker 1: because I don't know exactly what's kept him there except

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01:04:37,760 --> 01:04:40,720
Speaker 1: for essentially the owner maybe thinking he can't find anything

1299
01:04:40,760 --> 01:04:42,760
Speaker 1: better at this point. You look at what they're lining

1300
01:04:42,840 --> 01:04:44,960
Speaker 1: up at wide receiver, you look at what they have

1301
01:04:45,120 --> 01:04:48,240
Speaker 1: going on really everywhere except what I like is their

1302
01:04:48,240 --> 01:04:51,320
Speaker 1: their defensive line with Jonathan Allen and Deron Payne. I

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01:04:51,400 --> 01:04:54,320
Speaker 1: don't know how the Redskins go into this game. This

1304
01:04:54,480 --> 01:04:56,440
Speaker 1: is another game where maybe you have a rookie starting.

1305
01:04:57,280 --> 01:05:00,600
Speaker 1: If the panic button is pulled by the third quarter,

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01:05:00,680 --> 01:05:02,840
Speaker 1: I would not be shocked to seeing Dwayne Haskins get

1307
01:05:02,880 --> 01:05:05,200
Speaker 1: snaps in this game if it goes as poorly as

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01:05:05,240 --> 01:05:07,320
Speaker 1: I think it will, if the if the Eagles play

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01:05:07,400 --> 01:05:08,840
Speaker 1: up to what they are right now, I think this

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01:05:09,000 --> 01:05:13,200
Speaker 1: is a thirty six to seven type romp M. I

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01:05:13,280 --> 01:05:15,400
Speaker 1: can't argue. I think I I have a theory like

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01:05:15,440 --> 01:05:18,000
Speaker 1: there's almost nothing that's an upset in Week one, just

1313
01:05:18,160 --> 01:05:20,560
Speaker 1: about because you don't really know. But this, this to me,

1314
01:05:20,680 --> 01:05:24,200
Speaker 1: would be a massive upset if the Redskins are even

1315
01:05:24,880 --> 01:05:27,720
Speaker 1: if they went in Landover, maybe you could see a game,

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01:05:27,800 --> 01:05:30,160
Speaker 1: but not. And they've had really good injury news to

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01:05:30,280 --> 01:05:33,240
Speaker 1: the Eagles who had They have a ton of players

1318
01:05:33,280 --> 01:05:36,440
Speaker 1: coming back from injuries that happened last year that happened

1319
01:05:36,480 --> 01:05:40,320
Speaker 1: this offseason, and almost all of them except for Gugier

1320
01:05:40,640 --> 01:05:42,840
Speaker 1: Hill there linebackers seemed to be back for this game.

1321
01:05:43,200 --> 01:05:45,840
Speaker 1: One note on the Redskins running backs, Jake Gruden says

1322
01:05:45,880 --> 01:05:48,600
Speaker 1: that Darius Guys is gonna start and he's still deciding

1323
01:05:48,640 --> 01:05:50,520
Speaker 1: whether Adrian Peterson is going to be in the mix

1324
01:05:50,600 --> 01:05:52,320
Speaker 1: for this game or not. I can't get out of

1325
01:05:52,360 --> 01:05:57,840
Speaker 1: the they might be inactive he he hinted that Adrian

1326
01:05:58,000 --> 01:06:00,560
Speaker 1: he hasn't decided what role Adrian Peter is going to

1327
01:06:00,680 --> 01:06:03,479
Speaker 1: play if he plays one at all, because he doesn't

1328
01:06:03,480 --> 01:06:06,960
Speaker 1: have special teams and playing the role of the pouting

1329
01:06:07,080 --> 01:06:09,960
Speaker 1: former superstar. I think we've seen that with Sean Payton,

1330
01:06:10,000 --> 01:06:14,000
Speaker 1: haven't we. Drian Peterson on the sideline yelling at him. Yes,

1331
01:06:14,640 --> 01:06:18,080
Speaker 1: all right, that y'all heard around the world West last

1332
01:06:18,120 --> 01:06:20,200
Speaker 1: week when you said you didn't believe in Darius. Guys,

1333
01:06:20,600 --> 01:06:23,120
Speaker 1: it's still in my head. It's rattling around. Well, I'm

1334
01:06:23,160 --> 01:06:24,800
Speaker 1: interested to see how he looks in this game. My

1335
01:06:24,920 --> 01:06:27,840
Speaker 1: point was on a half dozen carries, whatever we saw,

1336
01:06:27,960 --> 01:06:30,680
Speaker 1: like everybody went crazy like it was some impressive performance,

1337
01:06:30,720 --> 01:06:33,160
Speaker 1: and I thought, why aren't you beating the linebacker to

1338
01:06:33,200 --> 01:06:35,960
Speaker 1: the edge now, my I My thing just was that

1339
01:06:36,080 --> 01:06:38,440
Speaker 1: he was out there, that he was playing because at

1340
01:06:38,480 --> 01:06:41,040
Speaker 1: whatever he did in that game, I'm expecting him to

1341
01:06:41,120 --> 01:06:44,880
Speaker 1: be significantly better three or four weeks later. That it's

1342
01:06:44,920 --> 01:06:47,400
Speaker 1: a fair point. He didn't do anything. It wasn't It

1343
01:06:47,520 --> 01:06:49,280
Speaker 1: was like everybody went crazy about it. It was like,

1344
01:06:49,320 --> 01:06:51,000
Speaker 1: what I didn't see that. I think part of it

1345
01:06:51,120 --> 01:06:54,400
Speaker 1: is the idea of coming back from that a stated jury.

1346
01:06:54,440 --> 01:06:58,200
Speaker 1: All right, Mark, hold hold on the next game because

1347
01:06:58,200 --> 01:07:00,200
Speaker 1: I have to let you guys know that foot All

1348
01:07:00,320 --> 01:07:03,520
Speaker 1: is back. You knew that though, right, Yeah. I mean

1349
01:07:03,600 --> 01:07:06,880
Speaker 1: it seems like something that's been watch live local and

1350
01:07:07,040 --> 01:07:10,680
Speaker 1: the primetime NFL games for free all season long with

1351
01:07:10,800 --> 01:07:14,080
Speaker 1: a Yahoo Sports app or the official app of the

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01:07:14,240 --> 01:07:17,720
Speaker 1: NFL on your phone or tablet plus get all your

1353
01:07:17,880 --> 01:07:21,959
Speaker 1: latest breaking news, highlights and more. Download the NFL app

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01:07:22,120 --> 01:07:25,120
Speaker 1: or the Yahoo Sports app in your app store or

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01:07:25,240 --> 01:07:29,440
Speaker 1: at NFL dot com slash mobile today. Certain restrictions and

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01:07:29,720 --> 01:07:36,080
Speaker 1: data rates may apply. Proof football is a mirror of

1357
01:07:36,240 --> 01:07:42,280
Speaker 1: earlier more reflecting toughness, courage himself denying. All right, Mark,

1358
01:07:42,320 --> 01:07:47,960
Speaker 1: take us into the second half, everybody. I just want

1359
01:07:47,960 --> 01:07:50,920
Speaker 1: to listen to this for a second. West Hate not

1360
01:07:51,080 --> 01:07:54,880
Speaker 1: Sam Spence. Batman's a musician. Just thinking all the music

1361
01:07:54,960 --> 01:07:56,720
Speaker 1: available to me. I don't really want to spend it

1362
01:07:56,840 --> 01:07:59,240
Speaker 1: listening to that. Spence. It's a good plug West B

1363
01:07:59,440 --> 01:08:04,800
Speaker 1: Band mus Go ahead. I'm gonna travel out west to

1364
01:08:04,880 --> 01:08:09,000
Speaker 1: Seattle for my second game. There was this pretty great

1365
01:08:09,120 --> 01:08:11,720
Speaker 1: article written by Mike Sandoe of The Athletic, because apparently

1366
01:08:11,800 --> 01:08:14,320
Speaker 1: everyone who writes sports now works for the Athletic except

1367
01:08:14,400 --> 01:08:18,280
Speaker 1: for the four of us at this point, right, But yes,

1368
01:08:19,040 --> 01:08:21,040
Speaker 1: he went and visited with Pete Carroll, and he showed

1369
01:08:21,120 --> 01:08:24,320
Speaker 1: him a chart, a study that of every team last

1370
01:08:24,439 --> 01:08:26,920
Speaker 1: year in the first twenty eight minutes of a game,

1371
01:08:26,960 --> 01:08:30,200
Speaker 1: when you essentially could be categorized as having a choice

1372
01:08:30,240 --> 01:08:32,880
Speaker 1: to run or pass because you're not down. It's you know,

1373
01:08:32,920 --> 01:08:34,880
Speaker 1: you're not down by forty eight points, and it's not

1374
01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:36,439
Speaker 1: the last it's not the two minute warning in the

1375
01:08:36,479 --> 01:08:38,120
Speaker 1: first half, and it's not the second half where things

1376
01:08:38,160 --> 01:08:42,599
Speaker 1: get out of control. That the Seahawks ran with such

1377
01:08:42,680 --> 01:08:47,320
Speaker 1: a perversion at such a crazy rate that they ran

1378
01:08:47,439 --> 01:08:50,519
Speaker 1: more than any team into a higher degree than in

1379
01:08:50,640 --> 01:08:53,840
Speaker 1: this through me the two thousand and eleven Denver Broncos,

1380
01:08:54,640 --> 01:08:58,200
Speaker 1: the Tim Tebow Broncos, that no team since then has

1381
01:08:58,240 --> 01:09:01,320
Speaker 1: run the ball with such ferocity and much choice since

1382
01:09:01,439 --> 01:09:04,800
Speaker 1: that team back then. And did Carol think, oh, you know,

1383
01:09:04,920 --> 01:09:07,559
Speaker 1: I know what everyone's doing in the league, and everyone's

1384
01:09:07,600 --> 01:09:09,720
Speaker 1: telling you if you're not passing on first and second down,

1385
01:09:09,760 --> 01:09:11,280
Speaker 1: you need to be thrown out. With the trash. Well,

1386
01:09:11,800 --> 01:09:14,360
Speaker 1: he basically got totally giddy and said, this is what

1387
01:09:14,560 --> 01:09:16,680
Speaker 1: we do, this is what we are. And where I

1388
01:09:16,760 --> 01:09:19,280
Speaker 1: get a little suspicious of the Mike Zimmers doing this,

1389
01:09:19,439 --> 01:09:22,040
Speaker 1: and I kind of love what Pete Carroll's doing. He

1390
01:09:22,080 --> 01:09:24,559
Speaker 1: basically says, our whole philosophy and the way we were

1391
01:09:24,600 --> 01:09:27,920
Speaker 1: when we won those Super Bowls was long, punishing drives

1392
01:09:27,960 --> 01:09:30,080
Speaker 1: where we control the ball. I think they've got the

1393
01:09:30,160 --> 01:09:32,560
Speaker 1: personnel to do it. I love that they strengthened the

1394
01:09:32,640 --> 01:09:35,000
Speaker 1: defensive line. I don't like this game for the Bengals

1395
01:09:35,040 --> 01:09:36,439
Speaker 1: at all, and I know that I ripped on the

1396
01:09:36,479 --> 01:09:39,040
Speaker 1: Bengals too much, but I had this question. I cannot

1397
01:09:39,080 --> 01:09:41,600
Speaker 1: think of a team, even the Redskins to me, have

1398
01:09:41,600 --> 01:09:43,960
Speaker 1: an identity, and it's not a good one. I have

1399
01:09:44,160 --> 01:09:47,200
Speaker 1: no idea who the Bengals head coaches at this point.

1400
01:09:47,240 --> 01:09:49,000
Speaker 1: I have no read on him. So I'm saying, I'm

1401
01:09:49,200 --> 01:09:52,640
Speaker 1: I'm invited, inviting to show me. I mean, I know

1402
01:09:52,760 --> 01:09:55,280
Speaker 1: the name, but it's by the way hands Hank hit

1403
01:09:55,360 --> 01:09:57,400
Speaker 1: me up on Slack today. Oh I don't name that

1404
01:09:57,640 --> 01:10:00,840
Speaker 1: client z a C, give us a K, give us

1405
01:10:00,880 --> 01:10:03,120
Speaker 1: an h don't just hanging leave us hanging with the

1406
01:10:03,240 --> 01:10:07,680
Speaker 1: C and that's a parental issue his parents. Wasn't there

1407
01:10:07,680 --> 01:10:10,160
Speaker 1: a running back named Zack Stacey? Who is z a C?

1408
01:10:10,760 --> 01:10:12,720
Speaker 1: There was? And what happened to him? I don't really

1409
01:10:13,000 --> 01:10:16,320
Speaker 1: can he go Bengal Well? So the Bengals twenty nine

1410
01:10:16,479 --> 01:10:18,200
Speaker 1: against the run last year. I don't know what they

1411
01:10:18,240 --> 01:10:19,920
Speaker 1: added on defense to tell you they're gonna get a

1412
01:10:19,920 --> 01:10:21,880
Speaker 1: whole lot better. I just don't like to set up

1413
01:10:21,880 --> 01:10:23,680
Speaker 1: for them. Is not doing it for you. I need

1414
01:10:23,720 --> 01:10:25,320
Speaker 1: to figure out who this team is. This is a

1415
01:10:25,439 --> 01:10:28,200
Speaker 1: great of all the teams mark that have a nice

1416
01:10:28,200 --> 01:10:30,040
Speaker 1: set up for Week one. The Seahawks are right near

1417
01:10:30,080 --> 01:10:34,519
Speaker 1: the top of the list at home healthy, and you

1418
01:10:34,600 --> 01:10:37,040
Speaker 1: get a Cincinnati team that's trying to figure itself out,

1419
01:10:37,120 --> 01:10:38,920
Speaker 1: that doesn't have its best player on the field day

1420
01:10:38,960 --> 01:10:42,439
Speaker 1: J Green's out for weeks with his ankle injury. Um

1421
01:10:43,120 --> 01:10:45,120
Speaker 1: and you know how hard it is to play in

1422
01:10:45,240 --> 01:10:47,800
Speaker 1: Seattle for any team factor in Week one and all

1423
01:10:47,880 --> 01:10:50,960
Speaker 1: the amped up vibes that go with that, this does

1424
01:10:51,000 --> 01:10:53,439
Speaker 1: feel like a two score game they and they are

1425
01:10:53,560 --> 01:10:55,639
Speaker 1: one of the big I don't think it's a bad

1426
01:10:56,320 --> 01:10:58,839
Speaker 1: first week for the Bengals, that it's a bad option.

1427
01:10:59,120 --> 01:11:01,719
Speaker 1: You get Jadevan Clowney who's not really up to speed.

1428
01:11:01,840 --> 01:11:06,200
Speaker 1: You you have Jared Reid is suspended, you have DK

1429
01:11:06,360 --> 01:11:09,280
Speaker 1: Metcalf coming off an injury. They cut Jern Brown, which

1430
01:11:09,320 --> 01:11:11,719
Speaker 1: we never mentioned on this show. And so that receiver

1431
01:11:11,840 --> 01:11:15,360
Speaker 1: group is so thin that the Seahawks invite close games

1432
01:11:15,439 --> 01:11:17,759
Speaker 1: because of this running style. And I think the Bengals

1433
01:11:17,760 --> 01:11:19,519
Speaker 1: are going to be the biggest dink and dunk team

1434
01:11:19,520 --> 01:11:21,479
Speaker 1: in the league. Like all they want to do is

1435
01:11:21,520 --> 01:11:23,680
Speaker 1: go up and down the field with six yard Andy

1436
01:11:23,760 --> 01:11:25,799
Speaker 1: Dalton pass. You know who loves throwing six yard passes?

1437
01:11:26,040 --> 01:11:28,800
Speaker 1: Andy freaking Dalton. So it's in the The Seahawks love

1438
01:11:28,840 --> 01:11:31,400
Speaker 1: giving up six yard passes. It's kind of their thing. Ben,

1439
01:11:31,479 --> 01:11:33,320
Speaker 1: But don't break he plays in front of him. I

1440
01:11:33,360 --> 01:11:35,439
Speaker 1: could just see this. Let's just wait till the fourth

1441
01:11:35,520 --> 01:11:37,680
Speaker 1: quarter and let Russell Wilson win the game for us

1442
01:11:37,680 --> 01:11:39,479
Speaker 1: at the end, which he will, but that it would

1443
01:11:39,479 --> 01:11:41,200
Speaker 1: be an actually entertainment. What does that mean that I

1444
01:11:41,280 --> 01:11:45,600
Speaker 1: am now watching this game? Yeah, in Bro, you drafted it.

1445
01:11:45,760 --> 01:11:47,800
Speaker 1: I need to figure I need to have been smart

1446
01:11:47,840 --> 01:11:49,600
Speaker 1: about the rules of this. Why did I do that?

1447
01:11:52,000 --> 01:11:53,840
Speaker 1: How do you feel about everything you just said? All

1448
01:11:53,880 --> 01:11:58,120
Speaker 1: that analysis and big old Andre Smith maybe starting at

1449
01:11:58,240 --> 01:12:02,040
Speaker 1: left tackle because Corny Glenn is concussed and not practicing.

1450
01:12:02,920 --> 01:12:05,559
Speaker 1: It's a problem. They have nobody on the offensive line.

1451
01:12:05,760 --> 01:12:08,920
Speaker 1: It's a problem. They've had guys retire the first round pick,

1452
01:12:09,000 --> 01:12:11,280
Speaker 1: not pin. They've had pretty bad. You have no AJ

1453
01:12:11,439 --> 01:12:13,400
Speaker 1: Green and the golden stats with no AJ Green or

1454
01:12:13,439 --> 01:12:15,479
Speaker 1: not fun, they've been under the radar as maybe having

1455
01:12:15,560 --> 01:12:19,559
Speaker 1: the worst um injury luck and off season of any team.

1456
01:12:19,640 --> 01:12:22,639
Speaker 1: Losing Green and your first round left tackle is pretty

1457
01:12:23,240 --> 01:12:25,960
Speaker 1: I'd say that goes back about five decades. Did like

1458
01:12:26,000 --> 01:12:27,760
Speaker 1: a homeless man on the street tell you to pick

1459
01:12:27,800 --> 01:12:31,760
Speaker 1: that game. I can't even blame it on anyone. I

1460
01:12:31,880 --> 01:12:35,120
Speaker 1: just I did it. You're locked in. You know one thing.

1461
01:12:35,200 --> 01:12:37,720
Speaker 1: I'm just realizing as you're saying this, when you make

1462
01:12:37,800 --> 01:12:39,400
Speaker 1: your draft picks, you got a factory in when the

1463
01:12:39,439 --> 01:12:43,040
Speaker 1: games played as well you want to yourself, I was,

1464
01:12:43,280 --> 01:12:45,680
Speaker 1: I've also picked Red the Redskins. Yeah, you have to

1465
01:12:45,840 --> 01:12:47,720
Speaker 1: be with thinking about the time I was on top

1466
01:12:47,760 --> 01:12:49,599
Speaker 1: of this. I mean when West went for the Sunday

1467
01:12:49,680 --> 01:12:51,599
Speaker 1: night football game right off the best. Thank you, buddy,

1468
01:12:51,880 --> 01:12:53,760
Speaker 1: We're all watching that one. I know. I don't even

1469
01:12:53,800 --> 01:12:56,479
Speaker 1: have to cover it. Actually, let's be honest, though, here's

1470
01:12:56,520 --> 01:12:59,639
Speaker 1: the great strategy that I have picked the two best

1471
01:12:59,720 --> 01:13:03,760
Speaker 1: shot for major blowouts. Easy narrative, easy to describe on

1472
01:13:03,800 --> 01:13:06,040
Speaker 1: the podcast that night, I could click into you know,

1473
01:13:07,120 --> 01:13:10,439
Speaker 1: strategy something even better. Since you had the first overall pick,

1474
01:13:11,320 --> 01:13:13,280
Speaker 1: it's not making it back to you're done, baby. I

1475
01:13:13,320 --> 01:13:17,439
Speaker 1: mean I've done this perfectly. I'm backing around now that

1476
01:13:17,560 --> 01:13:21,000
Speaker 1: was the second West, You're up. With all that in mind,

1477
01:13:21,040 --> 01:13:23,720
Speaker 1: I've got quite the conundrum here. I can either pick

1478
01:13:23,800 --> 01:13:27,320
Speaker 1: another four o'clock Eastern game, or I can bang Dan

1479
01:13:27,600 --> 01:13:30,800
Speaker 1: and take Bill's Jets. You can't do that, But why

1480
01:13:30,840 --> 01:13:33,200
Speaker 1: didn't you take them? Earl? Here? I was letting it. Well,

1481
01:13:33,280 --> 01:13:35,360
Speaker 1: this is just like fantasy. You just you let it

1482
01:13:35,600 --> 01:13:37,720
Speaker 1: lie and then you you figure you could grab it.

1483
01:13:38,320 --> 01:13:40,560
Speaker 1: This is it. This isn't the you can do it?

1484
01:13:40,800 --> 01:13:43,400
Speaker 1: You can really, Josh Allen, Yeah, this isn't the j

1485
01:13:43,680 --> 01:13:45,840
Speaker 1: Smith Jets. This Jets team is watching do what you

1486
01:13:45,920 --> 01:13:48,519
Speaker 1: want West, and I'm really buy into the Cardinals, but

1487
01:13:48,880 --> 01:13:51,760
Speaker 1: um it would be I'm watching the Jets either way.

1488
01:13:51,760 --> 01:13:53,120
Speaker 1: I just wanted to be known if you wanted to

1489
01:13:53,120 --> 01:13:55,599
Speaker 1: grab this game, grab it, I'd be bringing bad karma

1490
01:13:55,680 --> 01:13:59,439
Speaker 1: on me. So I'm gonna take Lions Cardinals. I know,

1491
01:13:59,520 --> 01:14:03,920
Speaker 1: I feel you could take it doesn't make sense for

1492
01:14:04,080 --> 01:14:13,799
Speaker 1: the for the show, I think Cardinals. Here's what shocks

1493
01:14:13,920 --> 01:14:19,240
Speaker 1: me about the Detroit Lions. Football outsiders running their playoff

1494
01:14:19,320 --> 01:14:23,559
Speaker 1: odds and has them by just a slim, slim margin

1495
01:14:24,320 --> 01:14:30,599
Speaker 1: winning the NFC North Division. They have projected wins all

1496
01:14:30,720 --> 01:14:33,680
Speaker 1: four teams between eight wins and nine wins, and they

1497
01:14:33,720 --> 01:14:37,679
Speaker 1: had the Lions by the slimmest margin as they division favorite.

1498
01:14:38,640 --> 01:14:41,360
Speaker 1: And I guess I could talk myself into Matthew Stafford

1499
01:14:41,439 --> 01:14:46,360
Speaker 1: finally having a running game, three healthy receivers, a tight end,

1500
01:14:47,720 --> 01:14:50,680
Speaker 1: maybe an offensive line, so you know. And then you

1501
01:14:50,760 --> 01:14:53,360
Speaker 1: go over to the defensive line with dray Trey Flowers

1502
01:14:53,400 --> 01:14:57,040
Speaker 1: and Mike Daniels joining some interesting parts. I just don't

1503
01:14:57,080 --> 01:15:00,360
Speaker 1: see them as as strong as I guess every other

1504
01:15:00,400 --> 01:15:03,160
Speaker 1: team in that division. And yet this is a perfect

1505
01:15:03,240 --> 01:15:05,960
Speaker 1: matchup for Week one. What better way to establish your

1506
01:15:06,040 --> 01:15:09,400
Speaker 1: running game and your offense and against this Cardinals defense.

1507
01:15:09,479 --> 01:15:12,840
Speaker 1: What better way for this defensive line of Detroit. Who

1508
01:15:13,040 --> 01:15:15,920
Speaker 1: should be the identity of the team. I think Matt

1509
01:15:16,040 --> 01:15:19,360
Speaker 1: Patricia is hoping that, uh, they're pretty deep on upfront

1510
01:15:19,560 --> 01:15:22,400
Speaker 1: that they get after Kyler Murray and ultimately this is

1511
01:15:22,520 --> 01:15:25,080
Speaker 1: one of only a couple of games that I'm with you,

1512
01:15:25,400 --> 01:15:27,080
Speaker 1: s I. I don't know if you you're saying the

1513
01:15:27,160 --> 01:15:29,760
Speaker 1: lines are gonna win comfortably, but one of the only

1514
01:15:29,760 --> 01:15:31,479
Speaker 1: games where I was like, Okay, I think they should

1515
01:15:31,479 --> 01:15:34,280
Speaker 1: be favorites, even on the road. They should win. You

1516
01:15:34,360 --> 01:15:36,519
Speaker 1: know what, West if you want to And I'm not

1517
01:15:36,600 --> 01:15:39,040
Speaker 1: saying you think they're the playoff team, but he does.

1518
01:15:39,160 --> 01:15:42,800
Speaker 1: If you're a Lions fan, if you don't win this game,

1519
01:15:43,120 --> 01:15:45,559
Speaker 1: and I know you're on the road, and unless you're

1520
01:15:45,560 --> 01:15:48,040
Speaker 1: a really good team, every road game is tough. But

1521
01:15:48,120 --> 01:15:50,519
Speaker 1: then you got home Chargers that won't be easy, at

1522
01:15:50,600 --> 01:15:55,000
Speaker 1: Philly home against the Chiefs by and then at lambeau Field.

1523
01:15:55,200 --> 01:15:58,360
Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta be Cliff Kingsbury in company in

1524
01:15:58,439 --> 01:16:03,400
Speaker 1: week one. I'm talking must win week one. Don't get it. Yeah,

1525
01:16:03,560 --> 01:16:06,200
Speaker 1: I agree. I don't think they're a playoff team myself,

1526
01:16:06,280 --> 01:16:08,559
Speaker 1: but I agree that this if you have any hopes,

1527
01:16:08,800 --> 01:16:11,760
Speaker 1: this is a team the worst team in the league

1528
01:16:11,880 --> 01:16:13,840
Speaker 1: last year should be a team that you beat this year.

1529
01:16:13,840 --> 01:16:16,439
Speaker 1: I'm surprised Cessler didn't take this game after talking you

1530
01:16:16,520 --> 01:16:20,320
Speaker 1: know up Kingsbury and and this offense all offseason. I am,

1531
01:16:20,479 --> 01:16:22,400
Speaker 1: I am intrigued. I'm a lot more intrigued by this

1532
01:16:22,439 --> 01:16:25,519
Speaker 1: game than it's just there's too total unknowns. Breaking news.

1533
01:16:28,520 --> 01:16:31,479
Speaker 1: You got take out your gm mapp because this game

1534
01:16:31,600 --> 01:16:37,240
Speaker 1: is already on the trade block. Well, so if you

1535
01:16:37,320 --> 01:16:41,080
Speaker 1: want to dig into developing news, but wait developing like

1536
01:16:41,479 --> 01:16:43,640
Speaker 1: you guys all talk yourselves into Kyle Murray for the

1537
01:16:43,720 --> 01:16:45,880
Speaker 1: next few days, come knocking on my door. The next

1538
01:16:46,000 --> 01:16:48,439
Speaker 1: level of this game is deciding what you're going to

1539
01:16:48,560 --> 01:16:51,120
Speaker 1: have to watch on game Pass in the days following.

1540
01:16:51,439 --> 01:16:54,000
Speaker 1: And I have removed the Bengals and the Redskins from

1541
01:16:54,040 --> 01:16:57,080
Speaker 1: my game Pass repertoire, and I'm adding the Lions and

1542
01:16:57,160 --> 01:17:00,120
Speaker 1: the Cardinals again. I am over here operating on the

1543
01:17:00,240 --> 01:17:02,400
Speaker 1: level that you only wish you could operate on. I

1544
01:17:02,520 --> 01:17:04,600
Speaker 1: can't get into all the details because that would not

1545
01:17:04,680 --> 01:17:07,360
Speaker 1: be fair to this individual, But I just wanted everyone

1546
01:17:07,439 --> 01:17:13,040
Speaker 1: to know that uh Spice Rack West's former Desert Desert Consigliari,

1547
01:17:13,160 --> 01:17:15,439
Speaker 1: now a Los Angeles resident, a little bit basic now

1548
01:17:15,760 --> 01:17:18,360
Speaker 1: doesn't have that same hook anymore, but a really nice

1549
01:17:18,400 --> 01:17:22,519
Speaker 1: guy who we all like, is very very down on

1550
01:17:22,640 --> 01:17:25,799
Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury could not that for the For the record,

1551
01:17:25,960 --> 01:17:28,280
Speaker 1: spite this is one of the few college opinions of

1552
01:17:28,400 --> 01:17:31,200
Speaker 1: Spice racks that it has not influenced me in any way,

1553
01:17:31,280 --> 01:17:33,880
Speaker 1: shape or form. But I am shocked at how down here.

1554
01:17:34,200 --> 01:17:36,120
Speaker 1: I can't we cannot tell you the details of the

1555
01:17:36,200 --> 01:17:42,960
Speaker 1: text chain, but just know he is extremely, extremely down

1556
01:17:43,680 --> 01:17:46,519
Speaker 1: on the cliff kings very era in the NFL. Yes,

1557
01:17:46,680 --> 01:17:48,800
Speaker 1: I'll leave it there, all right. I gotta go grab

1558
01:17:48,920 --> 01:17:50,920
Speaker 1: I gotta go up and get the Jets and Bills

1559
01:17:51,000 --> 01:17:53,560
Speaker 1: because I don't trust Greig. I don't trust it was

1560
01:17:53,880 --> 01:17:55,360
Speaker 1: you as far as I could throw. You're gonna take

1561
01:17:55,400 --> 01:17:58,280
Speaker 1: it from me. You would spite me. You do it

1562
01:17:59,360 --> 01:18:03,680
Speaker 1: well at this it's a good game. I thought, this

1563
01:18:03,800 --> 01:18:06,160
Speaker 1: is like the best ac This is the best a

1564
01:18:06,240 --> 01:18:08,519
Speaker 1: f C schame that did involve the Patriots in maybe

1565
01:18:08,560 --> 01:18:12,759
Speaker 1: fifteen years. Uh, when was the last time you're excited

1566
01:18:13,439 --> 01:18:15,880
Speaker 1: watch the division game between two a f C East

1567
01:18:15,960 --> 01:18:18,840
Speaker 1: basically a combination of Jets, Bills and and Dolphins. This

1568
01:18:18,920 --> 01:18:20,439
Speaker 1: is when it was the last time you're excited to

1569
01:18:20,479 --> 01:18:22,719
Speaker 1: watch those two teams played each other. It was fifteen

1570
01:18:22,800 --> 01:18:25,760
Speaker 1: years ago. It was Pennington and Drew Bledsoe. I mean,

1571
01:18:25,800 --> 01:18:27,400
Speaker 1: I don't know, I didn't even know. This is better

1572
01:18:27,479 --> 01:18:31,679
Speaker 1: than that Eric Moulds was playing. It's been Eric Moles, peerless,

1573
01:18:31,720 --> 01:18:36,439
Speaker 1: Price was on the outside all right. Jets Bills very

1574
01:18:36,520 --> 01:18:40,000
Speaker 1: interesting speaking of very important Week one games that could

1575
01:18:40,040 --> 01:18:42,800
Speaker 1: dictate the flow of your entire season. The Jets need

1576
01:18:42,920 --> 01:18:45,320
Speaker 1: to take care of business at home because Week two,

1577
01:18:45,560 --> 01:18:47,360
Speaker 1: yes they're still in their building, but they get a

1578
01:18:47,479 --> 01:18:50,559
Speaker 1: very tough matchup with the Browns in prime time. Then

1579
01:18:50,640 --> 01:18:53,479
Speaker 1: they go to Foxborough, then they have thereby then they're

1580
01:18:53,520 --> 01:18:57,560
Speaker 1: at Philly, home to Dallas, home to New England at Jacksonville.

1581
01:18:57,600 --> 01:19:00,519
Speaker 1: It's a brutal first half. Things really using up in

1582
01:19:00,560 --> 01:19:02,160
Speaker 1: the back half. But the whole goal I think for

1583
01:19:02,240 --> 01:19:04,759
Speaker 1: the Jets this season not to spend too far forward

1584
01:19:04,840 --> 01:19:06,880
Speaker 1: is get to the midway point of the season, around

1585
01:19:06,920 --> 01:19:09,080
Speaker 1: four and four, and you're gonna have a shot. It's

1586
01:19:09,080 --> 01:19:11,360
Speaker 1: gonna you know, it's not gonna be a great shot,

1587
01:19:11,400 --> 01:19:13,560
Speaker 1: but you have a shot. And the Bills to me,

1588
01:19:13,760 --> 01:19:15,920
Speaker 1: are not a team to look past though, and that's

1589
01:19:15,920 --> 01:19:18,400
Speaker 1: why I think this is going to be a very

1590
01:19:19,080 --> 01:19:22,400
Speaker 1: uh potentially entertaining game because what you have in Buffalo

1591
01:19:23,120 --> 01:19:27,560
Speaker 1: is um a defense that can get after you and

1592
01:19:27,920 --> 01:19:32,000
Speaker 1: can make plays. And even a bad to mediocre Bills

1593
01:19:32,040 --> 01:19:34,440
Speaker 1: team last year lit up the Jets at the Meadowlands

1594
01:19:34,520 --> 01:19:37,080
Speaker 1: last year, And it can happen. It can happen quickly.

1595
01:19:37,600 --> 01:19:41,920
Speaker 1: Uh Adam Gaze and Sam Donald and Levy on Bell

1596
01:19:42,400 --> 01:19:45,639
Speaker 1: at Robbie Anderson and Jamison Crowder. For the first time

1597
01:19:46,000 --> 01:19:48,479
Speaker 1: in years talking about this with Rich Eyes and today,

1598
01:19:49,040 --> 01:19:50,560
Speaker 1: I said to Rich who goes way back with the

1599
01:19:50,640 --> 01:19:53,360
Speaker 1: Jets once, the last time you could say that the

1600
01:19:53,439 --> 01:19:56,200
Speaker 1: Jets have an offense that excites you, I threwout Brett Farve.

1601
01:19:56,280 --> 01:19:59,360
Speaker 1: He he shot that down. I threw out Pennington's breakthrough year.

1602
01:19:59,400 --> 01:20:01,000
Speaker 1: He shot that down. You might have to go back

1603
01:20:01,080 --> 01:20:03,920
Speaker 1: all the way to Vinny in ninety eight with Keyshawan

1604
01:20:03,960 --> 01:20:06,719
Speaker 1: and Wayne Corbett and Curtis Martin. This is revision his history.

1605
01:20:06,800 --> 01:20:09,120
Speaker 1: That Brett Farve team was so fun to watch. I

1606
01:20:09,240 --> 01:20:12,400
Speaker 1: agree until he ruptured his bicet. That's exactly what I said, Rich.

1607
01:20:12,640 --> 01:20:16,200
Speaker 1: Rich did not agree, But uh, that's beside the point.

1608
01:20:16,479 --> 01:20:19,040
Speaker 1: The Jets have a potential to have a really exciting offense.

1609
01:20:19,120 --> 01:20:21,200
Speaker 1: This holds all over that defense. So what does Josh

1610
01:20:21,280 --> 01:20:24,479
Speaker 1: Allen do with that? That's another subplot, Josh Allen year

1611
01:20:24,560 --> 01:20:28,240
Speaker 1: to leave Greg who is a very exciting guy to track. Uh,

1612
01:20:28,520 --> 01:20:30,360
Speaker 1: what do you think? Yeah, it's the quarterbacks that make

1613
01:20:30,400 --> 01:20:34,840
Speaker 1: it interesting. But ultimately I trust McDermott in year three

1614
01:20:34,880 --> 01:20:37,599
Speaker 1: of his defense, maybe being a little ahead of where

1615
01:20:37,640 --> 01:20:40,560
Speaker 1: Adam Gaze is gonna be in in game one of

1616
01:20:40,760 --> 01:20:43,880
Speaker 1: his offense, and that they'll they'll do enough. They'll they'll

1617
01:20:43,880 --> 01:20:45,840
Speaker 1: put a lot of pressure on Donald in terms of

1618
01:20:46,320 --> 01:20:48,400
Speaker 1: in his new center, Ryan Khalil, who's you know, just

1619
01:20:48,479 --> 01:20:50,800
Speaker 1: getting up to speed kind of identifying what they're gonna

1620
01:20:50,880 --> 01:20:53,599
Speaker 1: do because they've been together for a while and now

1621
01:20:53,760 --> 01:20:56,120
Speaker 1: you can really be creative. You can do a lot

1622
01:20:56,200 --> 01:20:59,920
Speaker 1: of things to try to confuse them and cause turnovers people.

1623
01:21:00,000 --> 01:21:01,519
Speaker 1: I think it matters a little bit that we haven't

1624
01:21:01,520 --> 01:21:05,960
Speaker 1: seen lev On Bell in nineteen plus months, and so

1625
01:21:06,240 --> 01:21:09,280
Speaker 1: I guess you can say that they're gonna use time Montgomery,

1626
01:21:09,439 --> 01:21:11,040
Speaker 1: who it sounds like he at least has a role

1627
01:21:11,080 --> 01:21:13,320
Speaker 1: in the first couple of weeks to ease Bell in.

1628
01:21:13,560 --> 01:21:17,840
Speaker 1: But I don't like this opening defensive draw for the Jets.

1629
01:21:17,880 --> 01:21:21,439
Speaker 1: I think the Bills defense, it's if you're following it

1630
01:21:21,479 --> 01:21:23,320
Speaker 1: every week, you know the Bills defense is very good,

1631
01:21:23,360 --> 01:21:26,400
Speaker 1: but in general, the Bills are overlooked just because they're

1632
01:21:26,439 --> 01:21:28,880
Speaker 1: the Bills and they haven't really pressed through in that division.

1633
01:21:29,000 --> 01:21:31,439
Speaker 1: But I think this Donald, this we're gonna find out

1634
01:21:31,479 --> 01:21:33,360
Speaker 1: a lot about how he has to play under pressure,

1635
01:21:33,680 --> 01:21:35,479
Speaker 1: and they're that running game is gonna be a big

1636
01:21:35,479 --> 01:21:37,519
Speaker 1: part of this. It's been a summer of great uh,

1637
01:21:37,720 --> 01:21:41,000
Speaker 1: anticipation and hope around Donald. Well, now he gets the Bills,

1638
01:21:41,040 --> 01:21:42,840
Speaker 1: who a lot of people probably didn't even pay attention

1639
01:21:42,880 --> 01:21:44,880
Speaker 1: at the second ranked defense in the league last year,

1640
01:21:45,120 --> 01:21:47,720
Speaker 1: first against the past, third in yards per play. This

1641
01:21:48,120 --> 01:21:52,000
Speaker 1: is a unit that's gonna be dangerous. But listen, it

1642
01:21:52,160 --> 01:21:55,439
Speaker 1: is hope season again, Jets fans, and I am on

1643
01:21:55,600 --> 01:21:59,200
Speaker 1: the hope train. Oh no, because I'm locking it up.

1644
01:21:59,240 --> 01:22:12,160
Speaker 1: We're getting and we are believe. Don't hurt me, don't

1645
01:22:12,280 --> 01:22:15,320
Speaker 1: hurt me. And I attempted to play psychological warfare with

1646
01:22:15,479 --> 01:22:18,240
Speaker 1: the Brown's Jets game with Dan on the rich Eyes

1647
01:22:18,240 --> 01:22:21,160
Speaker 1: and shown it did not go too well. Wait, you

1648
01:22:21,200 --> 01:22:25,640
Speaker 1: didn't lock up the Browns. Oh yes I did. I

1649
01:22:25,800 --> 01:22:27,400
Speaker 1: was just waiting for time to do what I forgot

1650
01:22:27,439 --> 01:22:31,320
Speaker 1: to do it during that during that segments, perfect, of course,

1651
01:22:31,360 --> 01:22:35,439
Speaker 1: I lowed them up. Well done, all right, little easter

1652
01:22:35,520 --> 01:22:39,240
Speaker 1: egg there the first overall, he says, of course I

1653
01:22:39,320 --> 01:22:41,639
Speaker 1: locked up if we knew that's what he was thinking

1654
01:22:42,960 --> 01:22:46,599
Speaker 1: that He's like, holiday, didn't I did? I not say

1655
01:22:47,000 --> 01:22:50,040
Speaker 1: over all? I am client that I was planning. I'm

1656
01:22:50,479 --> 01:22:53,439
Speaker 1: planning of a shaky first draft is GM. Mark, You're

1657
01:22:53,439 --> 01:22:55,120
Speaker 1: a little all over the place. I'm coming out of

1658
01:22:55,160 --> 01:22:58,560
Speaker 1: here with like market less responsibility than any of you.

1659
01:22:58,680 --> 01:23:00,760
Speaker 1: On Sunday, I have to track three games to which

1660
01:23:00,800 --> 01:23:03,559
Speaker 1: are gonna be Titanic level. Have no idea what you're

1661
01:23:03,600 --> 01:23:05,760
Speaker 1: doing yet you have painted this picture as you are

1662
01:23:05,840 --> 01:23:09,800
Speaker 1: operating on a whole different should do. All right, let's

1663
01:23:09,880 --> 01:23:14,679
Speaker 1: keep movings. Wait, Greg, excuse me, sip Greg's double banger,

1664
01:23:15,000 --> 01:23:19,519
Speaker 1: Double bang. Greg, you're covering like nine games. The funniest thing, yeah,

1665
01:23:19,520 --> 01:23:21,160
Speaker 1: I know. The funniest thing is when you said we're

1666
01:23:21,160 --> 01:23:22,960
Speaker 1: going to get out of here in one hour show today.

1667
01:23:24,240 --> 01:23:28,679
Speaker 1: Not even I'm glad you left me Ravens Dolphins. Okay,

1668
01:23:28,920 --> 01:23:33,320
Speaker 1: good morning. But to me, that's a nice backup game.

1669
01:23:33,360 --> 01:23:38,280
Speaker 1: I took a great primary one o'clock game, primary morning game.

1670
01:23:38,479 --> 01:23:41,160
Speaker 1: It goes with pure logic, while Mark goes with your

1671
01:23:41,240 --> 01:23:45,080
Speaker 1: k and I you know, I know that Dolphins aren't

1672
01:23:45,080 --> 01:23:48,519
Speaker 1: expected to be competitive and they should be overmatched, and

1673
01:23:48,680 --> 01:23:51,320
Speaker 1: it's a very difficult Week one, drawed out baby have

1674
01:23:51,400 --> 01:23:54,880
Speaker 1: to go up against this Ravens rushing attack. But there's

1675
01:23:55,000 --> 01:23:58,640
Speaker 1: there is kind of a mystery factor with just what

1676
01:23:59,120 --> 01:24:01,280
Speaker 1: heck this Dolphins team is going to be. And I've

1677
01:24:01,360 --> 01:24:04,920
Speaker 1: talked enough about Lamar Jackson and how interesting I think

1678
01:24:04,960 --> 01:24:06,680
Speaker 1: this Ravens offense is going to be. On a week

1679
01:24:06,720 --> 01:24:09,519
Speaker 1: to week basis, it's still spicy Week one game for me.

1680
01:24:09,760 --> 01:24:13,280
Speaker 1: They're all beautiful babies. This Week one they start, you know,

1681
01:24:13,920 --> 01:24:16,679
Speaker 1: after after Week one it's like, okay, this one doesn't

1682
01:24:16,720 --> 01:24:19,280
Speaker 1: sleep through the night, or this one kind of a

1683
01:24:19,360 --> 01:24:21,760
Speaker 1: jerk to me, you know whatever. But in Week one,

1684
01:24:21,800 --> 01:24:24,240
Speaker 1: they're all beautiful. You know, Greg, you have I think

1685
01:24:24,320 --> 01:24:27,200
Speaker 1: forgotten about or at least you didn't mention the twenty

1686
01:24:27,280 --> 01:24:30,920
Speaker 1: thousand simulations the ESPN ran where the one thousand seven

1687
01:24:31,360 --> 01:24:34,720
Speaker 1: twenty first derivation had the Dolphins winning the division or

1688
01:24:34,720 --> 01:24:37,800
Speaker 1: at least making the playoffs. I mean, you can they

1689
01:24:37,840 --> 01:24:40,200
Speaker 1: have them winning this game handily? Can't you just smell

1690
01:24:40,520 --> 01:24:43,200
Speaker 1: this game? Like the Dolphins being up one point early

1691
01:24:43,280 --> 01:24:44,880
Speaker 1: in the third quarter. The game's not over here, and

1692
01:24:44,960 --> 01:24:47,640
Speaker 1: everyone on Twitter going look so much for taking this

1693
01:24:47,880 --> 01:24:53,120
Speaker 1: is crazy? It's fits magical. Yes, what football? The teams

1694
01:24:53,120 --> 01:24:56,920
Speaker 1: aren't that that different? And then they are because I

1695
01:24:57,080 --> 01:25:02,040
Speaker 1: trust like the infrastructure, But where is the Ravens true frontline,

1696
01:25:02,479 --> 01:25:06,840
Speaker 1: top level talent. I guess it's Earl Thomas. Their entire secondary.

1697
01:25:07,160 --> 01:25:09,320
Speaker 1: It's a good secondary. I think they're really well coach.

1698
01:25:09,320 --> 01:25:10,680
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be good. I just don't think

1699
01:25:10,680 --> 01:25:12,439
Speaker 1: they can go on the road and expect to blow

1700
01:25:12,520 --> 01:25:15,040
Speaker 1: the doors off anything. The parallel I withdraw is that

1701
01:25:15,120 --> 01:25:17,479
Speaker 1: a year ago, who of us were sitting here saying, yes,

1702
01:25:17,960 --> 01:25:20,519
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick and the Buccaneers are going to go out

1703
01:25:20,560 --> 01:25:23,240
Speaker 1: and shock the Saints in Week one and he's gonna

1704
01:25:23,280 --> 01:25:26,040
Speaker 1: throw for like four hundred yards and four touchdowns. I

1705
01:25:26,160 --> 01:25:29,519
Speaker 1: think I did well. I'm sure you did West. The

1706
01:25:29,560 --> 01:25:31,479
Speaker 1: other three of us didn't nail that one, apparent. I

1707
01:25:31,520 --> 01:25:35,200
Speaker 1: think I got tweets during that game saying well done,

1708
01:25:35,360 --> 01:25:39,559
Speaker 1: well I did not. We have left for the Monday

1709
01:25:39,640 --> 01:25:42,000
Speaker 1: night games, right, so I think we have three games?

1710
01:25:42,080 --> 01:25:47,439
Speaker 1: Don't were Houston, New Orleans and Denver, Oakland? Well, I'm

1711
01:25:47,439 --> 01:25:50,920
Speaker 1: gonna go Denver Oakland. We already, we already talked, we

1712
01:25:51,000 --> 01:25:53,920
Speaker 1: already we took the team of West. I mean, ultimately,

1713
01:25:54,000 --> 01:25:56,240
Speaker 1: it's it's the Monday night football game. We'll be talking

1714
01:25:56,280 --> 01:25:59,240
Speaker 1: about it on on Tuesday. I think this is like

1715
01:25:59,360 --> 01:26:02,599
Speaker 1: the White why we should have a nice doubleheader every week,

1716
01:26:02,680 --> 01:26:05,040
Speaker 1: because these guys wouldn't be in primetime all the time.

1717
01:26:05,479 --> 01:26:07,200
Speaker 1: And I want to see what Vic Fangio does. And

1718
01:26:07,240 --> 01:26:11,519
Speaker 1: I mean especially without Antonio Brown on the field, Having

1719
01:26:11,720 --> 01:26:14,559
Speaker 1: Von Miller and Chubb together, if Chubb does make the leap,

1720
01:26:14,800 --> 01:26:18,200
Speaker 1: is just a gift for a play caller like Fangio,

1721
01:26:18,200 --> 01:26:22,360
Speaker 1: who's basically known for disguising coverages and scrambling the minds

1722
01:26:22,439 --> 01:26:25,960
Speaker 1: of feeble quarterbacks better than any coordinator in the league.

1723
01:26:26,120 --> 01:26:29,200
Speaker 1: And that's when he doesn't already have just two game

1724
01:26:29,240 --> 01:26:31,880
Speaker 1: wrecking pass rushers on the edge doing the work for him,

1725
01:26:31,920 --> 01:26:33,800
Speaker 1: so he can just get wild in the back end.

1726
01:26:33,840 --> 01:26:36,439
Speaker 1: It's it's a nice little spot here for Denver to

1727
01:26:36,479 --> 01:26:39,439
Speaker 1: try to get a division road win right off the bat. Well,

1728
01:26:39,560 --> 01:26:43,280
Speaker 1: Dan took his Jets, Mark took his Browns. I'm locking

1729
01:26:43,360 --> 01:26:46,960
Speaker 1: up my Broncos. Okay, you're all in, and it's a

1730
01:26:56,560 --> 01:26:59,360
Speaker 1: West went four years ago and then slowed down. That's

1731
01:26:59,400 --> 01:27:05,560
Speaker 1: not I think that cost cancer. All right, it's a

1732
01:27:05,800 --> 01:27:09,439
Speaker 1: nice timing here, obviously for death forth, Antonio Brown out

1733
01:27:09,439 --> 01:27:12,200
Speaker 1: of the lineup, and just chaos around. Now, is there

1734
01:27:12,200 --> 01:27:15,920
Speaker 1: a potential for Bill Simmons once coined ewing theory potential

1735
01:27:16,000 --> 01:27:18,759
Speaker 1: here with Antonio Brown being added the picture for perhap

1736
01:27:20,600 --> 01:27:23,120
Speaker 1: Nick's drafted you and he never played for them and

1737
01:27:23,160 --> 01:27:25,320
Speaker 1: then he started winning. Maybe it's a reach I'm trying

1738
01:27:25,360 --> 01:27:28,439
Speaker 1: to sell her, of course. I mean everybody thinks that

1739
01:27:28,520 --> 01:27:32,160
Speaker 1: the Raiders are so much more talented even without they

1740
01:27:32,160 --> 01:27:38,280
Speaker 1: are more talented there, Ago, I just think their offensive

1741
01:27:38,320 --> 01:27:40,759
Speaker 1: line is what Mark, how did you describe it? Flaming

1742
01:27:40,880 --> 01:27:44,559
Speaker 1: trash is what you called the Redskins was along those lines.

1743
01:27:44,760 --> 01:27:47,599
Speaker 1: This is like flaming trash on a barge floating down

1744
01:27:47,640 --> 01:27:50,560
Speaker 1: the river. That is the Raiders offensive line. And what

1745
01:27:50,720 --> 01:27:52,640
Speaker 1: the Broncos are gonna do to them? Oh, I have

1746
01:27:52,800 --> 01:27:55,439
Speaker 1: to I mean I have to disagree there. They have

1747
01:27:55,760 --> 01:27:58,000
Speaker 1: Trent Brown, who shouldn't be the highest paid right tackle

1748
01:27:58,000 --> 01:27:59,960
Speaker 1: on the leak, They have maybe the best center in football,

1749
01:28:00,439 --> 01:28:02,639
Speaker 1: and when I got the other three positions, that's fair.

1750
01:28:02,760 --> 01:28:05,320
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying both of their starting guards are out.

1751
01:28:05,439 --> 01:28:07,640
Speaker 1: Their left tackle was abused all year last year and

1752
01:28:07,680 --> 01:28:11,840
Speaker 1: got Frank Clark paid. So whoever, Yeah, they and Chubb

1753
01:28:11,880 --> 01:28:14,879
Speaker 1: and Miller changed side. So whoever is going up against

1754
01:28:15,200 --> 01:28:18,759
Speaker 1: Colton Miller? That that's a matchup to watch. One sandwich

1755
01:28:18,800 --> 01:28:20,760
Speaker 1: prop that I had written down and then forgot about,

1756
01:28:20,800 --> 01:28:26,120
Speaker 1: but I wish I didn't. Was Chubb and Vaughan the

1757
01:28:26,280 --> 01:28:29,600
Speaker 1: one to sack masters by teammates this season and you

1758
01:28:29,640 --> 01:28:32,960
Speaker 1: guys get the field, Um, I do like your boy

1759
01:28:33,080 --> 01:28:37,760
Speaker 1: Miles Guard and Olivier, maybe they would be, but I

1760
01:28:37,880 --> 01:28:41,920
Speaker 1: think those guys I would saying, Ingram if everybody can stay,

1761
01:28:41,960 --> 01:28:44,519
Speaker 1: but I think they were Chubbing von Miller would be heavy.

1762
01:28:44,960 --> 01:28:48,720
Speaker 1: Chubb von Miller. They already did it last year. When yeah,

1763
01:28:49,200 --> 01:28:52,200
Speaker 1: I mean it's getting and I think it's totally accurate,

1764
01:28:52,560 --> 01:28:55,840
Speaker 1: Like Defensive Player of the Year Buzz Baldi picked him

1765
01:28:55,880 --> 01:28:57,759
Speaker 1: for that in our little NFL. I mean. The Bracco's

1766
01:28:57,800 --> 01:29:01,040
Speaker 1: offense in this game, though, is a total mystery, and

1767
01:29:01,720 --> 01:29:03,439
Speaker 1: you know, this should be a nice matchup for them.

1768
01:29:03,479 --> 01:29:04,800
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's a team in the league

1769
01:29:04,840 --> 01:29:07,320
Speaker 1: that has less of a pass rush than the Raiders,

1770
01:29:07,520 --> 01:29:09,760
Speaker 1: and they don't really scare you in the secondary, like

1771
01:29:09,840 --> 01:29:12,280
Speaker 1: if Joe Flacco is going to get a rolling, this

1772
01:29:12,360 --> 01:29:14,679
Speaker 1: is perfect. Where are we with Courtland Sutton at this point?

1773
01:29:16,640 --> 01:29:18,439
Speaker 1: How So? I don't know. I just think like, do

1774
01:29:18,520 --> 01:29:21,360
Speaker 1: they have a bona fide weapon or in the passing

1775
01:29:21,400 --> 01:29:23,400
Speaker 1: game that we that we can say this is the

1776
01:29:23,520 --> 01:29:27,840
Speaker 1: big threat. Yeah, he looks good, but I mean, I

1777
01:29:28,160 --> 01:29:30,320
Speaker 1: don't know, I need something more than Emmanuel Sanders. I

1778
01:29:30,400 --> 01:29:32,160
Speaker 1: think he's a huge wild card. He sort of has

1779
01:29:32,240 --> 01:29:35,080
Speaker 1: that Josh Doxon skill set where you're a jump ball artist.

1780
01:29:35,280 --> 01:29:37,320
Speaker 1: You have to win enough jump balls to do that.

1781
01:29:37,760 --> 01:29:41,840
Speaker 1: In other stadium naming rights news, um, after a three

1782
01:29:41,960 --> 01:29:44,200
Speaker 1: year squabble to get it all worked out, there's a

1783
01:29:44,240 --> 01:29:48,479
Speaker 1: bankruptcy involved. Um. The Broncos now play at Empower Field

1784
01:29:48,880 --> 01:29:52,880
Speaker 1: at Mile High. So I think this a little note

1785
01:29:53,000 --> 01:29:55,800
Speaker 1: for you guys. It was like a mighty year deal though,

1786
01:29:55,880 --> 01:29:58,280
Speaker 1: So I feel like this stadium has changed every couple

1787
01:29:58,280 --> 01:30:00,760
Speaker 1: of years for a long time, and it's it's just

1788
01:30:00,960 --> 01:30:03,000
Speaker 1: mile High though. That's whatever. That's why it's not a

1789
01:30:03,080 --> 01:30:06,479
Speaker 1: sound business deal by the people that in power. Everyone

1790
01:30:06,600 --> 01:30:09,200
Speaker 1: just says, oh, they're playing a mile High possibly the

1791
01:30:09,280 --> 01:30:12,479
Speaker 1: most underrated atmosphere in the NFL to watch a game,

1792
01:30:12,760 --> 01:30:15,519
Speaker 1: and I will be calling it mile high from it.

1793
01:30:16,360 --> 01:30:19,400
Speaker 1: I have always in will continued um just a total

1794
01:30:19,479 --> 01:30:21,320
Speaker 1: steal by the old jus or late in the draft

1795
01:30:21,360 --> 01:30:24,240
Speaker 1: here coming. It's like, it's so funny, you guys are

1796
01:30:24,320 --> 01:30:28,200
Speaker 1: so funny with this Texas team that uh that at

1797
01:30:28,200 --> 01:30:31,080
Speaker 1: eleven and five division champion against the thirteen and three

1798
01:30:31,160 --> 01:30:33,240
Speaker 1: division champion. I mean, if this wasn't Monday Night, I

1799
01:30:33,280 --> 01:30:35,240
Speaker 1: would have taken well. And I'm grabbing him in the

1800
01:30:35,320 --> 01:30:39,719
Speaker 1: twentieth round. Will be real about this like this would

1801
01:30:39,760 --> 01:30:41,840
Speaker 1: suggest and with these Sunday games, which if you look

1802
01:30:41,880 --> 01:30:43,880
Speaker 1: at it, we each actually have the same amount of

1803
01:30:43,920 --> 01:30:47,320
Speaker 1: Sunday games in theory, Greg is not watching my Sunday

1804
01:30:47,360 --> 01:30:50,000
Speaker 1: game very closely or at all. But are you suggesting

1805
01:30:50,040 --> 01:30:52,280
Speaker 1: that we're going to turn our televisions off because you're

1806
01:30:52,400 --> 01:30:55,760
Speaker 1: covering the Monday night game? I'm suggesting that you will

1807
01:30:56,280 --> 01:30:59,040
Speaker 1: take that suggesting. What I've suggesting is that you all

1808
01:30:59,120 --> 01:31:01,960
Speaker 1: be rooting your gonna be rooting very hard against the

1809
01:31:02,040 --> 01:31:05,200
Speaker 1: road team, which is the Texans who have a they

1810
01:31:05,280 --> 01:31:08,400
Speaker 1: have a Am I wrong? That would be honest? Am

1811
01:31:08,479 --> 01:31:12,120
Speaker 1: I wrong? I mean? I I will go along with

1812
01:31:12,400 --> 01:31:16,479
Speaker 1: whatever you're like fireworks show right here. It's it's a

1813
01:31:16,560 --> 01:31:19,599
Speaker 1: fun matchup. It's the Texans that obviously we're in the news,

1814
01:31:20,320 --> 01:31:23,639
Speaker 1: uh for the Clowney trade and getting the left tackle

1815
01:31:23,840 --> 01:31:27,599
Speaker 1: and uh Sean Payton for what it's worth today, maybe

1816
01:31:27,680 --> 01:31:30,400
Speaker 1: a butter up job. So that Tunsil is like one

1817
01:31:30,439 --> 01:31:33,680
Speaker 1: of the great left tackles in football. So as much

1818
01:31:33,720 --> 01:31:37,280
Speaker 1: as you want to say, um, you know the Texans

1819
01:31:37,400 --> 01:31:39,960
Speaker 1: botched last weekend, the number one thing we were all

1820
01:31:40,040 --> 01:31:43,080
Speaker 1: on fire about, um was how could you not have

1821
01:31:43,160 --> 01:31:46,280
Speaker 1: a left tackle? And now they do and that's gonna

1822
01:31:46,360 --> 01:31:49,120
Speaker 1: change things potentially for their offense. Now, going to New

1823
01:31:49,240 --> 01:31:53,479
Speaker 1: Orleans to face the Saints, absolutely, I imagine. Although they've

1824
01:31:53,479 --> 01:31:56,880
Speaker 1: done a good job, it's been the anti Mattnege situation

1825
01:31:57,080 --> 01:31:59,479
Speaker 1: in New Orleans where n can't get over what happened

1826
01:31:59,479 --> 01:32:01,640
Speaker 1: in the playoff. It seems like the Saints, as a

1827
01:32:01,720 --> 01:32:07,000
Speaker 1: veteran team led by h Drew Brees, have processed the screwjob,

1828
01:32:07,439 --> 01:32:09,720
Speaker 1: the New Orleans screw job of last January in the

1829
01:32:09,840 --> 01:32:12,320
Speaker 1: NFC title game and have moved on. I love the

1830
01:32:12,439 --> 01:32:15,680
Speaker 1: Saints team. I think they are gonna again be in

1831
01:32:15,760 --> 01:32:19,120
Speaker 1: that twelve win thirteen one win territory and for that

1832
01:32:19,200 --> 01:32:21,240
Speaker 1: reason alone. And I know, yes, we just talked about

1833
01:32:21,280 --> 01:32:24,040
Speaker 1: the Bucks went to the Superdome and beat up on

1834
01:32:24,120 --> 01:32:26,160
Speaker 1: the Saints last year in Week one. Anything could happen.

1835
01:32:26,400 --> 01:32:27,800
Speaker 1: But I just love the Saints in this game. And

1836
01:32:27,840 --> 01:32:30,760
Speaker 1: I think the Texans, uh will get right next week

1837
01:32:30,760 --> 01:32:33,679
Speaker 1: against the Jaguars. But I think the Saints gonna cruise

1838
01:32:33,720 --> 01:32:38,360
Speaker 1: here the Gulf of Mexico. We're gonna lock up your

1839
01:32:39,360 --> 01:32:42,720
Speaker 1: against your team. But you already you already, No, I

1840
01:32:43,000 --> 01:32:46,679
Speaker 1: don't know. I am with you. There's not really logical

1841
01:32:46,760 --> 01:32:49,320
Speaker 1: reasons to pick against the Saints in general this year.

1842
01:32:49,479 --> 01:32:53,439
Speaker 1: They're all just kind of illogical ones. Just hey, it's football,

1843
01:32:53,760 --> 01:32:56,519
Speaker 1: because the rosters just about perfect. I don't love Hey,

1844
01:32:56,560 --> 01:32:58,320
Speaker 1: it's football as a reason right now. I think that

1845
01:32:58,520 --> 01:33:00,400
Speaker 1: is a reason. But that's what I mean, it's a

1846
01:33:00,439 --> 01:33:04,280
Speaker 1: good reason. And like, hey, maybe the regular season doesn't

1847
01:33:04,320 --> 01:33:06,400
Speaker 1: matter to them anymore. Are they gonna be able to

1848
01:33:06,439 --> 01:33:07,920
Speaker 1: get up? But I I have I think that's a

1849
01:33:08,000 --> 01:33:10,400
Speaker 1: fan thing. I don't think that's a players thing, that

1850
01:33:10,520 --> 01:33:13,639
Speaker 1: they're not gonna be properly motivated. I think Saints fans

1851
01:33:13,680 --> 01:33:16,720
Speaker 1: are heartbroken from the last couple of years. It's I

1852
01:33:16,720 --> 01:33:18,320
Speaker 1: don't know if that's under the radar. I mean that

1853
01:33:18,479 --> 01:33:20,920
Speaker 1: they should be. They're heartbroken, and I think a lot

1854
01:33:20,960 --> 01:33:23,080
Speaker 1: of them want to give up football or like none

1855
01:33:23,120 --> 01:33:25,080
Speaker 1: of this matter. I think they're gonna like nothing matters

1856
01:33:25,120 --> 01:33:27,040
Speaker 1: for this Saints teams from a fan perspective on some

1857
01:33:27,280 --> 01:33:29,639
Speaker 1: level until the playoffs, They've done it all under shun

1858
01:33:29,960 --> 01:33:32,760
Speaker 1: Sean Payne. They've done it now for this could be

1859
01:33:32,800 --> 01:33:34,920
Speaker 1: their third straight year in this window where they're really

1860
01:33:34,960 --> 01:33:37,240
Speaker 1: really good. So it's just a build up and anything

1861
01:33:37,360 --> 01:33:39,680
Speaker 1: less than a playoff run is a huge disappointment. But

1862
01:33:39,720 --> 01:33:41,720
Speaker 1: I don't think it affects their players. They're loaded. I

1863
01:33:41,760 --> 01:33:44,160
Speaker 1: don't think the players even think the way that we're talking.

1864
01:33:45,560 --> 01:33:48,080
Speaker 1: And also, you like, let's be real, you've got a

1865
01:33:48,200 --> 01:33:50,400
Speaker 1: year or two left with Drew Brees based on how

1866
01:33:50,479 --> 01:33:54,000
Speaker 1: things go, and why even think about the past. You're

1867
01:33:54,040 --> 01:33:56,880
Speaker 1: here again and the regular season. You don't take it off.

1868
01:33:56,960 --> 01:33:59,479
Speaker 1: It matters entirely. And the reason Dan that I'm not

1869
01:33:59,640 --> 01:34:03,599
Speaker 1: rooting against the Texans is that I give Bill O'Brien credit.

1870
01:34:03,960 --> 01:34:08,479
Speaker 1: He has made them for me totally fascinating. I think

1871
01:34:08,560 --> 01:34:10,760
Speaker 1: that he has he is embracing I don't think that.

1872
01:34:10,800 --> 01:34:13,880
Speaker 1: He probably sees himself as a human villain, but he

1873
01:34:14,040 --> 01:34:16,360
Speaker 1: is in a role that he is playing well right now,

1874
01:34:16,479 --> 01:34:18,360
Speaker 1: and I think the NFL needs five or six of

1875
01:34:18,439 --> 01:34:21,040
Speaker 1: those at every turn, and I like it k QT

1876
01:34:21,200 --> 01:34:23,400
Speaker 1: might be ready for this game if he is. Here's

1877
01:34:23,439 --> 01:34:28,880
Speaker 1: Sue Watson's throwing too, Hopkins, will Fuller, Kenny Stills, QT,

1878
01:34:29,560 --> 01:34:33,120
Speaker 1: and uh Duke Johnson. At times last year, only one

1879
01:34:33,200 --> 01:34:36,639
Speaker 1: of those guys was available to just SHN Watson. That's

1880
01:34:36,680 --> 01:34:38,640
Speaker 1: a pretty big difference where they could just I think

1881
01:34:38,720 --> 01:34:41,479
Speaker 1: this game is a perfect Monday Night double Hadder starter

1882
01:34:41,600 --> 01:34:44,800
Speaker 1: where it's forty two to thirty seven and it's just bonkers.

1883
01:34:44,920 --> 01:34:47,679
Speaker 1: That is a fair point, and I would I would

1884
01:34:47,720 --> 01:34:50,560
Speaker 1: just say that the difference between these two teams is

1885
01:34:50,640 --> 01:34:52,600
Speaker 1: that the Saints have one of the deepest secondaries in

1886
01:34:52,640 --> 01:34:56,479
Speaker 1: the NFL and the Texans secondary. I say, they keep

1887
01:34:56,520 --> 01:34:59,160
Speaker 1: kidding themselves about the holes on the roster. Their secondary

1888
01:34:59,320 --> 01:35:01,000
Speaker 1: is not good. It's just flat out and not good.

1889
01:35:01,280 --> 01:35:03,320
Speaker 1: And whenever J. J. Watton Clowney didn't get to the

1890
01:35:03,360 --> 01:35:05,439
Speaker 1: past or last year, they were exposed. I just like

1891
01:35:05,560 --> 01:35:10,040
Speaker 1: it's Michael Thomas, it's DeAndre Hopkins. Hopkins last year a

1892
01:35:10,160 --> 01:35:14,280
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty receptions without a drop. It's two totally

1893
01:35:14,439 --> 01:35:18,920
Speaker 1: unstoppable wide receivers going at each other. Um, Chris westling.

1894
01:35:19,000 --> 01:35:22,360
Speaker 1: By the way, as we tape this on NFL network,

1895
01:35:22,800 --> 01:35:27,920
Speaker 1: Erica tamp posse as part of her Fantasy one program

1896
01:35:28,240 --> 01:35:32,240
Speaker 1: League on League one, she is on television wearing makeup.

1897
01:35:32,880 --> 01:35:36,160
Speaker 1: Wait really, I missed it. Yeah that's pretty cool. You

1898
01:35:36,240 --> 01:35:40,439
Speaker 1: look beautiful. Thank you? Just in there now too, really

1899
01:35:40,479 --> 01:35:46,200
Speaker 1: good on the TV. Look really good. Um, no, you're

1900
01:35:46,200 --> 01:35:50,519
Speaker 1: always beautiful. Now it's getting weird all right now, the

1901
01:35:51,320 --> 01:35:55,719
Speaker 1: Week one equivalent of Mr Irrelevant, West's realized I'm getting

1902
01:35:55,760 --> 01:36:00,720
Speaker 1: banged with three four o'clock games. It's a trial and error.

1903
01:36:00,720 --> 01:36:03,200
Speaker 1: You guys are killing my strategy, which is just a dream.

1904
01:36:03,240 --> 01:36:07,479
Speaker 1: I'll be out ordering pizza at that point. Is beautiful.

1905
01:36:07,600 --> 01:36:09,679
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like Week one. A lot of mistakes

1906
01:36:09,720 --> 01:36:14,840
Speaker 1: are made people. I'm cleaning up. Greg tweeted early this week,

1907
01:36:15,080 --> 01:36:18,280
Speaker 1: or maybe it was yesterday. Jimmy g and Jamis Winston

1908
01:36:18,360 --> 01:36:21,720
Speaker 1: are in a similar boat this year as quarterbacks who

1909
01:36:21,760 --> 01:36:25,000
Speaker 1: need to win to keep their jobs. And I kind

1910
01:36:25,000 --> 01:36:27,600
Speaker 1: of think that Jamis Winston's in his own boat and

1911
01:36:27,680 --> 01:36:30,880
Speaker 1: Jimmy G's keeping that job no matter what. But I

1912
01:36:31,080 --> 01:36:33,360
Speaker 1: I see your point that both of these offenses are

1913
01:36:33,439 --> 01:36:36,400
Speaker 1: huge question marks this year. And I think with the

1914
01:36:36,479 --> 01:36:39,439
Speaker 1: Bucks it starts with their coaching staff too, bringing in

1915
01:36:39,520 --> 01:36:41,479
Speaker 1: a new system. Bruce Arians not calling to plays. I

1916
01:36:41,520 --> 01:36:43,800
Speaker 1: know I keep bringing that up, but how will this

1917
01:36:43,960 --> 01:36:48,840
Speaker 1: offense work without the quarterback whisper running the show? It's

1918
01:36:48,880 --> 01:36:51,240
Speaker 1: a big that's a big question. I mean that he

1919
01:36:51,439 --> 01:36:53,519
Speaker 1: came back. It sounds like in part because he loved

1920
01:36:54,120 --> 01:36:56,680
Speaker 1: all the staff members that he's hired and wanted to

1921
01:36:56,720 --> 01:36:59,040
Speaker 1: get them work. I listened to an interview with him

1922
01:36:59,120 --> 01:37:02,599
Speaker 1: this week, he admitted I wasn't pining to coach again.

1923
01:37:03,560 --> 01:37:06,400
Speaker 1: I wasn't pining, but I got my staff together. When

1924
01:37:06,479 --> 01:37:08,880
Speaker 1: Bulls was available, he was like, all right, I got

1925
01:37:08,960 --> 01:37:10,640
Speaker 1: I got the band back together. Let's do this. You

1926
01:37:10,680 --> 01:37:15,559
Speaker 1: get the sense Arians is perfect scenario would be two

1927
01:37:15,680 --> 01:37:18,760
Speaker 1: seasons with the Bucks, maybe even one and they're both

1928
01:37:18,840 --> 01:37:20,680
Speaker 1: in the playoffs and then he like hands it off

1929
01:37:20,720 --> 01:37:23,799
Speaker 1: the Byron Leftwich how like that would be his ideal scenario.

1930
01:37:24,320 --> 01:37:25,960
Speaker 1: I think you're dead on. I think that it's about

1931
01:37:25,960 --> 01:37:28,960
Speaker 1: a two year map with an you know, continue and

1932
01:37:29,040 --> 01:37:30,560
Speaker 1: c planned to hand it off to someone that he

1933
01:37:30,600 --> 01:37:33,560
Speaker 1: trusts and someone that the way he has three he

1934
01:37:33,640 --> 01:37:37,559
Speaker 1: has three coordinators of ethnicity and he has two females

1935
01:37:37,600 --> 01:37:39,479
Speaker 1: on his coaching stuff. I think that is his legacy.

1936
01:37:39,560 --> 01:37:42,160
Speaker 1: That's been something he's done in Arizona and here, and

1937
01:37:42,360 --> 01:37:44,439
Speaker 1: I don't think he's planning to hang around for five years.

1938
01:37:44,720 --> 01:37:46,920
Speaker 1: That said, if you're a Bucks fan, you don't want

1939
01:37:46,920 --> 01:37:49,479
Speaker 1: to really hear that from your head coach. If they

1940
01:37:49,560 --> 01:37:51,840
Speaker 1: if they actually do get to the playoffs, then it's fine,

1941
01:37:52,120 --> 01:37:54,720
Speaker 1: you know, if if it's if it's how he envisions it,

1942
01:37:54,960 --> 01:37:56,880
Speaker 1: and I think it's a nice Week one matchup. I

1943
01:37:56,920 --> 01:38:00,040
Speaker 1: mean there's two mystery teams, really, I mean four of

1944
01:38:00,120 --> 01:38:02,360
Speaker 1: the buck take the defenses out. Which offense do you

1945
01:38:02,400 --> 01:38:08,720
Speaker 1: trust more? Well, I think that they It sounds take

1946
01:38:08,800 --> 01:38:12,200
Speaker 1: Jamis Winston over Jimmy g right now. Well, I don't

1947
01:38:12,200 --> 01:38:13,960
Speaker 1: know about that, but I think that the Chris Godwin

1948
01:38:14,080 --> 01:38:17,080
Speaker 1: hype is real based on what has happened two players

1949
01:38:17,160 --> 01:38:20,160
Speaker 1: playing that position in the Bruce Arians offense in the past.

1950
01:38:20,560 --> 01:38:23,360
Speaker 1: He's a good player regardless of that. I just think Jimmy,

1951
01:38:24,160 --> 01:38:27,599
Speaker 1: Jimmy started ten games, and I just think sometimes when

1952
01:38:27,640 --> 01:38:29,200
Speaker 1: you haven't seen a body of work. We give a

1953
01:38:29,240 --> 01:38:31,479
Speaker 1: little too much credit to what could be. I mean,

1954
01:38:31,520 --> 01:38:33,680
Speaker 1: he's two years older than Jamis Winston. Give me the

1955
01:38:33,720 --> 01:38:37,479
Speaker 1: guy who's played fifty five games already and has done

1956
01:38:37,520 --> 01:38:40,280
Speaker 1: some good things, and it's with a good coach. He's

1957
01:38:40,360 --> 01:38:43,640
Speaker 1: turning the ball over at a pace touched only by

1958
01:38:43,720 --> 01:38:45,719
Speaker 1: Blake Bortles. I think that that is a big issue

1959
01:38:45,760 --> 01:38:48,360
Speaker 1: in the NFL. And he's not shaking that his team

1960
01:38:48,400 --> 01:38:53,400
Speaker 1: has been irrelevant for his entire career. Alright, boys, nice

1961
01:38:53,520 --> 01:38:56,320
Speaker 1: preview work, West. I will take it, will still be

1962
01:38:56,439 --> 01:38:58,400
Speaker 1: your game in record. But you guys like me to

1963
01:38:58,479 --> 01:39:01,479
Speaker 1: take one of those four pms lash one. We have

1964
01:39:01,640 --> 01:39:03,760
Speaker 1: to work out a trade because it just doesn't work

1965
01:39:03,880 --> 01:39:05,600
Speaker 1: that way. It can't work. We have to We'll have

1966
01:39:05,680 --> 01:39:07,560
Speaker 1: to figure out. Do you see what happened here? My

1967
01:39:07,720 --> 01:39:10,360
Speaker 1: strategy was so sound that I'm reducing people to have

1968
01:39:10,520 --> 01:39:12,960
Speaker 1: to not even can keep their own commitments. Sure, I'll

1969
01:39:13,000 --> 01:39:18,040
Speaker 1: trade you for the Browns Titans go away, all right?

1970
01:39:18,080 --> 01:39:22,120
Speaker 1: Before we go, I want Super Bowl picks, yes, final

1971
01:39:22,240 --> 01:39:26,240
Speaker 1: and the score Mark Sessler score. I'm this is the

1972
01:39:26,320 --> 01:39:28,720
Speaker 1: real thing. This is the real thing. Well, you made

1973
01:39:28,760 --> 01:39:31,040
Speaker 1: it on NFL Dot com You gotta stay consistent, right.

1974
01:39:31,320 --> 01:39:33,400
Speaker 1: I don't remember who I picked on on this from

1975
01:39:33,439 --> 01:39:35,600
Speaker 1: the NFC side. I know who I picked from the

1976
01:39:35,600 --> 01:39:37,200
Speaker 1: a f C. And you can call me a fool,

1977
01:39:37,240 --> 01:39:39,479
Speaker 1: but I'm just gonna dream. I picked the Browns to

1978
01:39:39,520 --> 01:39:41,360
Speaker 1: go to the Super Bowl as a wild card team.

1979
01:39:41,920 --> 01:39:44,040
Speaker 1: They're going to score twenty one points in the Super

1980
01:39:44,080 --> 01:39:46,880
Speaker 1: Bowl and it's going to be against the quarterback. Everyone

1981
01:39:47,000 --> 01:39:51,599
Speaker 1: killed them for years for not picking Carson Wentz, Baker

1982
01:39:51,640 --> 01:39:54,519
Speaker 1: Mayfield and the Browns over the Eagles. You're one of

1983
01:39:54,640 --> 01:39:56,479
Speaker 1: three people to vote for the Browns to win the

1984
01:39:56,520 --> 01:39:58,160
Speaker 1: Super Well, look with two of the others were the

1985
01:39:58,240 --> 01:40:01,000
Speaker 1: same amount of people voted for the Patriots, but look

1986
01:40:01,040 --> 01:40:02,920
Speaker 1: at the other more than the Eagles. The other two

1987
01:40:03,040 --> 01:40:05,320
Speaker 1: people to pick for the Browns were Tom Blair, who

1988
01:40:05,400 --> 01:40:07,000
Speaker 1: was one of our editors who was a Browns fan.

1989
01:40:07,320 --> 01:40:11,920
Speaker 1: The third was NFL media new higher Joe Thomas. So

1990
01:40:12,160 --> 01:40:14,680
Speaker 1: there may be some some feelings, as you would say,

1991
01:40:14,680 --> 01:40:17,879
Speaker 1: attached to the West. Let's take this back to the seventies,

1992
01:40:17,920 --> 01:40:21,840
Speaker 1: where I'm much more comfortable a man out of time.

1993
01:40:22,560 --> 01:40:27,479
Speaker 1: We're going with the Dallas Cowboys over the Pittsburgh Steelers. Oh,

1994
01:40:27,680 --> 01:40:31,800
Speaker 1: I like that I'll go Kansas City Chiefs over the

1995
01:40:31,920 --> 01:40:38,360
Speaker 1: Hump thirties seven over the Eagles. I I gotta stay consistent.

1996
01:40:38,439 --> 01:40:41,000
Speaker 1: I went Steelers to win it over the Eagles. No

1997
01:40:41,080 --> 01:40:43,000
Speaker 1: one picked the Patriots. That means they're gonna I think

1998
01:40:43,000 --> 01:40:44,519
Speaker 1: it was just doing one of those things, is like,

1999
01:40:44,680 --> 01:40:46,360
Speaker 1: which are the four or five teams that I think

2000
01:40:46,400 --> 01:40:48,519
Speaker 1: have the best chance? Is no one picking on NFL

2001
01:40:48,560 --> 01:40:52,800
Speaker 1: dot Com take the Steelers? Alright. I didn't ask for

2002
01:40:52,880 --> 01:40:57,639
Speaker 1: a score, but I'm gonna go twenty nine to great game. Finally,

2003
01:40:57,800 --> 01:41:00,680
Speaker 1: Ricky behind the glass, I'm not gonna pay the Patriots.

2004
01:41:00,800 --> 01:41:05,559
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't just because every time I always

2005
01:41:05,600 --> 01:41:07,439
Speaker 1: have to keep my head down and pray and close

2006
01:41:07,520 --> 01:41:09,120
Speaker 1: my eyes and not think about it. I'm not going

2007
01:41:09,160 --> 01:41:11,599
Speaker 1: to say them out of principle. Plus, you're on TV now,

2008
01:41:11,680 --> 01:41:13,280
Speaker 1: so they would crush you if they don't win there.

2009
01:41:15,720 --> 01:41:18,240
Speaker 1: I don't know. There's so many great teams in the NFC.

2010
01:41:18,360 --> 01:41:22,240
Speaker 1: You're on television now, we need it. I think the

2011
01:41:22,320 --> 01:41:26,160
Speaker 1: Browns will get there, alright. Alright, just gonna go out

2012
01:41:26,200 --> 01:41:28,400
Speaker 1: on a limb, all right, I just say that, say

2013
01:41:28,479 --> 01:41:30,920
Speaker 1: that they will, and you know what a lot of

2014
01:41:30,960 --> 01:41:33,120
Speaker 1: weight on that limb. There's there's a lot of weight

2015
01:41:33,160 --> 01:41:35,400
Speaker 1: on that limb, and I feel like, I don't know

2016
01:41:35,520 --> 01:41:41,840
Speaker 1: it might be might be the Bears. Bears Brown's final

2017
01:41:41,920 --> 01:41:49,799
Speaker 1: score twenty six to seventeen. Who wins? It's like Bears?

2018
01:41:50,200 --> 01:41:52,800
Speaker 1: What I love? I love that you turn it back

2019
01:41:52,840 --> 01:41:54,920
Speaker 1: to the forties. The seventies weren't back for enough for

2020
01:41:55,000 --> 01:41:59,080
Speaker 1: you Browns and Bears. Alright, exactly, Well, alright, guys, nice

2021
01:41:59,120 --> 01:42:01,760
Speaker 1: tight show today. She's a fantasy analyst. She's not really

2022
01:42:01,800 --> 01:42:04,680
Speaker 1: into the whole Next next time you hear from us,

2023
01:42:05,000 --> 01:42:07,560
Speaker 1: we'll be recapping all the games we just previewed, So

2024
01:42:07,680 --> 01:42:10,000
Speaker 1: make sure you check that on Sunday night. And it

2025
01:42:10,160 --> 01:42:12,240
Speaker 1: is also for the first time, it will be streaming

2026
01:42:12,760 --> 01:42:16,480
Speaker 1: on NFL dot Com. The show will also be streamed

2027
01:42:16,640 --> 01:42:19,720
Speaker 1: live on YouTube. How about that? So if you want

2028
01:42:19,720 --> 01:42:23,560
Speaker 1: to watch our gorgeous mugs talk about these games, you

2029
01:42:23,640 --> 01:42:26,839
Speaker 1: can do it. Uh. It will go, you know, shortly

2030
01:42:26,920 --> 01:42:30,519
Speaker 1: after the Sunday night game wraps up will be Um,

2031
01:42:30,640 --> 01:42:32,559
Speaker 1: the video will be out and then the audio version,

2032
01:42:32,600 --> 01:42:34,640
Speaker 1: of course, will be out, hopefully in time for your

2033
01:42:34,640 --> 01:42:38,880
Speaker 1: morning commute. So um, idea for the people upstairs, put

2034
01:42:38,960 --> 01:42:42,639
Speaker 1: that on our television station. Oh I like that. Let's

2035
01:42:42,640 --> 01:42:44,920
Speaker 1: take Let's go to the third floor right after today

2036
01:42:45,200 --> 01:42:46,880
Speaker 1: and do that. Let's do it right now, al right, everybody,

2037
01:42:46,920 --> 01:42:49,960
Speaker 1: it's time to get into the season. There's glory in

2038
01:42:50,040 --> 01:42:54,120
Speaker 1: the legends of this hard muscle life, and there's poetry,

2039
01:42:54,240 --> 01:42:58,479
Speaker 1: and each season made of swept and strife. But now

2040
01:42:58,640 --> 01:43:01,080
Speaker 1: is the time to work and strain and a sport

2041
01:43:01,160 --> 01:43:05,599
Speaker 1: but tests the spirit and challenges the brain lets.