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Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast is the Lebron James of

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Speaker 1: NFL podcast. True. Welcome to another edition of the Around

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Speaker 1: the NFL Podcast. I'm your host, Colleen Wolf, and I'm

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Speaker 1: joined by a room filled with heroes. We got Patrick

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Speaker 1: Clavn in the house, we want Chris Wesling, and we

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Speaker 1: got Greg Rosenthal. Yeah. So Mark Sessler is doing his

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Speaker 1: civic duty today. Um, he got roped into jury duty.

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Speaker 1: So we have no idea when we will ever see

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Speaker 1: him again. Well, according to Mark, the trial it goes

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Speaker 1: through May eleven. He thought he was going to get

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Speaker 1: out of it entirely when we last spoke to him,

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Speaker 1: and then he found out he is on it and

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Speaker 1: it goes through May eleven. So I guess he's out

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Speaker 1: all of next week. How didn't he try to bomb

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Speaker 1: the interview portion of this. There's got to be at

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Speaker 1: least of Mark that wants to be on jury. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I completely believe that a man of high character, he's

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Speaker 1: not gonna he's not gonna lie on the on the

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Speaker 1: jury thing. Plus they don't really exactly okay, they don't

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Speaker 1: I thought in my head, maybe I'll try to subtenly

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Speaker 1: do it, and they never never really even was possible.

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Speaker 1: I actively tried to get picked and they were like, nah,

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Speaker 1: it's not I didn't have that similar experience. We don't

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Speaker 1: want this guy. Well, Colleen, Uh, it all started back

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Speaker 1: in alright, So, um, Dan hands is he's off. I

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Speaker 1: don't know where where is Dan? Nobody? I think he's

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Speaker 1: pepper Mill. I could be wrong. I think that's where

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Speaker 1: he's going. All right, So Dan and pepper Mill in

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Speaker 1: the desert. That's cool. I'm sure they'll have some great

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Speaker 1: stories about that. But as you guys heard earlier this week,

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Speaker 1: we did around the a f C and forty eight minutes,

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Speaker 1: So that means today is around the NFC in forty

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Speaker 1: eight minutes. But um, we also have some news we

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Speaker 1: with Matt Ryan first getting paid, and he agreed to

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Speaker 1: a new five year, one fifty million dollar deal that

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Speaker 1: quarterback Tom Pelicero. First report at this, we knew it

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Speaker 1: was coming, but now it's official. Greg, there's not much

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Speaker 1: to say with these quarterback contracts as they get updated.

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of tired of making my same argument each time,

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Speaker 1: which is that they're all worth it, and that they're

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Speaker 1: all underpaid relative to other positions in the NFL, and

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Speaker 1: especially with Matt Ryan compared to some of the other

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Speaker 1: guys who have gotten on a much smaller resume recently,

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Speaker 1: like Derek Carr Jimmy Garoppolo. Ryan's so safe to me.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he followed up an MVP season with a

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Speaker 1: it's kind of a no brainer. It's just it's the

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Speaker 1: cost of doing business. And Aaron Rodgers will pass him

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Speaker 1: as the next hundred million dollar man in in a

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Speaker 1: that search for him consumes you. That's what it means

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Speaker 1: never any chance that the Falcons were gonna let him

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Speaker 1: his his cash earnings throughout the years, it's crazy the jump.

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Speaker 1: A guy that was making fifteen million dollars a year

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Speaker 1: That's a good cost, it's great. That's great for Matt Ryan.

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Speaker 1: I wonder about income disparity eventually becoming an issue in

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Speaker 1: the National Football League. It's official, guys, Jason Witten, He's

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Speaker 1: I think of Witten, I think of him as kind

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Speaker 1: not all all the Ducks aren't completely in a road

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Speaker 1: that you forget about it because it was the first round,

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00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:49,280
Speaker 1: first down play. It's like if that is on the money,

428
00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:51,240
Speaker 1: I think they score there and it's on Nick Foles

429
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Speaker 1: to go try to win a game winning drive. Although

430
00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:56,560
Speaker 1: you know the way Nick Foles is, he probably would

431
00:21:56,560 --> 00:21:59,879
Speaker 1: have done it. I mean, he was pretty unlivable. I

432
00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:04,000
Speaker 1: don't know, but honestly, that division is only getting better too.

433
00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:07,200
Speaker 1: So I mean the Panthers and Freud, we're going to

434
00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:09,000
Speaker 1: talk about them, and I want to see if they're

435
00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:11,760
Speaker 1: defense that we saw late in the season keeps up,

436
00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:16,720
Speaker 1: because if it does, then they are Well let's get

437
00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:20,520
Speaker 1: into the Panthers because their next in alphabetical order, and

438
00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:23,840
Speaker 1: I have them. Okay. So for me, the Panthers free agency,

439
00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:27,280
Speaker 1: it wasn't crazy or anything. They added Tory Smith and

440
00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:30,760
Speaker 1: Ontarry po but I thought their draft was awesome, drafting

441
00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:33,399
Speaker 1: DJ more. For me, they really needed to replace Steve

442
00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:36,000
Speaker 1: Smith and he kind of reminds me a little bit

443
00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:39,280
Speaker 1: of Steve Smith. So hopefully they have Curtis Samuel to

444
00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:42,520
Speaker 1: get right. And um, they added some pieces to the secondary.

445
00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:45,160
Speaker 1: But what I want to know is where the Panthers

446
00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:47,800
Speaker 1: sort of fall in the rankings of that division in

447
00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:51,520
Speaker 1: the NFC South, Well, I put the Falcons in the

448
00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:55,600
Speaker 1: Saints just naturally as the top two because I trust

449
00:22:55,640 --> 00:23:00,240
Speaker 1: their offenses more like I trust I just trust. I

450
00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:02,879
Speaker 1: think year a year, the passing attacks, I'm going to

451
00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:06,240
Speaker 1: take them. I mean the record that Ron Rivera has

452
00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:09,720
Speaker 1: I think five playoff teams in six years speaks to

453
00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:12,760
Speaker 1: that they that they shouldn't be forgotten. But I I

454
00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:17,119
Speaker 1: don't trust them nearly as much. I trust the Turner

455
00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:21,160
Speaker 1: family too. That's most of the coach, just the entire

456
00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:25,560
Speaker 1: Turner family to get UM players in a position to

457
00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:29,560
Speaker 1: get open um and so we d J. Moore in

458
00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:34,080
Speaker 1: terms of Steve Smith, Matt Harmon, who follows wide receivers

459
00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:37,120
Speaker 1: you know, closer than almost anybody in the world. Um,

460
00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:40,119
Speaker 1: everybody feels great about the pick. I I want to

461
00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:43,080
Speaker 1: see Cam in an offense where just people are getting

462
00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:45,840
Speaker 1: open and he has a chance, like non Greg Olsen,

463
00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:47,399
Speaker 1: people are getting open and he has a chance to

464
00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:50,640
Speaker 1: get them the ball. UM. They were really hurting with

465
00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:54,439
Speaker 1: no Ted again last year. I think they got better. UM.

466
00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:59,400
Speaker 1: In terms of the South, I'm not really taking any

467
00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:00,960
Speaker 1: of those teams over the other ones. I think they're

468
00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:02,880
Speaker 1: gonna be three really good teams are gonna beat each

469
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:05,880
Speaker 1: other up, and it's gonna come down down to the stretch.

470
00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:09,359
Speaker 1: I don't feel like Tampa Bay belongs in that discussion yet,

471
00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:13,480
Speaker 1: So it's just it's just gonna be how the coin lands. Yeah,

472
00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:17,920
Speaker 1: the Panthers a tier below the Falcons and Saints because

473
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Speaker 1: I think they have more questions they have to answer,

474
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Speaker 1: starting with who's their power back. Certainly it can't be

475
00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:27,439
Speaker 1: on Cameron artists paint and that's fair. He's great in

476
00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:31,320
Speaker 1: short yarded situations, but you're gonna need a power back

477
00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:34,399
Speaker 1: in that offense. Christian McCaffrey is not running successfully between

478
00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:38,120
Speaker 1: the tackles. On paper, their defensive line after adding Poe,

479
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:42,199
Speaker 1: it's pretty strong like, but it didn't really play to

480
00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:45,200
Speaker 1: that level last year. If you if Keithley is healthy,

481
00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:47,479
Speaker 1: like they're supposed to be a defense first team. I

482
00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:49,720
Speaker 1: definitely put him a tier below because the Saints beat

483
00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:52,840
Speaker 1: him three times and they were pretty I don't know

484
00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:55,000
Speaker 1: if I would say they were all convincing, but they were.

485
00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:57,280
Speaker 1: They were. They looked like the better team three times,

486
00:24:57,280 --> 00:24:59,080
Speaker 1: and I guess since I went to two those games,

487
00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:01,600
Speaker 1: like that's in my head that like that they're gonna

488
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:03,439
Speaker 1: be a tough team to stop, and I think losing

489
00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:06,520
Speaker 1: their left guard Andrew Norwell. I wonder how big of

490
00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:10,360
Speaker 1: a part that will play and how they do this year. Anyway,

491
00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:16,720
Speaker 1: let's move on to Chicago. Oh, I love that. Uh.

492
00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:19,280
Speaker 1: We all seem to like the Chicago Bears in this

493
00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:23,199
Speaker 1: room at least West and I guess Colleen and have

494
00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:26,280
Speaker 1: not been in this room quite as often. Uh this offseason,

495
00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:30,359
Speaker 1: like good looking defense, nice continuity that they kept Vic Fangio.

496
00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:33,480
Speaker 1: We like everything they added on offense. My question for

497
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:36,399
Speaker 1: the room is now, after adding Anthony Miller and Taylor

498
00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:41,119
Speaker 1: Gabriel and Allen Robinson, uh In and everything that Pat

499
00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:43,760
Speaker 1: Trey Burton I knew us forgetting someone, what are our

500
00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:47,280
Speaker 1: expectations for Mitchell Trabisky because he's kind of been almost

501
00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:50,360
Speaker 1: forgotten and all this, Like what do we think we

502
00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:53,760
Speaker 1: get out of two thousand eighteen Mitchell Traubinsky Because it

503
00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:56,719
Speaker 1: was only about a year ago that everyone was kind

504
00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:59,800
Speaker 1: of clowning their pick of this is not a player,

505
00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:02,320
Speaker 1: car mp. I'm not making a straight up player because

506
00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:06,840
Speaker 1: most player comps are dumb. Remember the reaction to peak

507
00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:10,960
Speaker 1: Bortles hype, like Blake Bortles is ascending, He's becoming this

508
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:18,200
Speaker 1: other thing. Good job, Um, I think we could see

509
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,720
Speaker 1: that from the way we react to Mitchell Robisky. After

510
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:24,520
Speaker 1: this season, I think people will say this is promise,

511
00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 1: this is something that can go forward. Who knows how

512
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:28,560
Speaker 1: long term it can be, but I think he can

513
00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:31,800
Speaker 1: have that that type of success. I'm an unambashed Mitchell

514
00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:35,280
Speaker 1: Robinsky fan. I didn't like how last season went for him,

515
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:38,360
Speaker 1: but he had nothing on offense. The offensive line wasn't good,

516
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:41,399
Speaker 1: the wide receivers were maybe the worst in the league. Um.

517
00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:44,040
Speaker 1: The play calling left a lot to be desired. The

518
00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:46,200
Speaker 1: way the head coach handled him left a lot to

519
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 1: be desired. Um. But at his best, I see some

520
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:54,639
Speaker 1: flashes of Brett Farve, and again not a straight up comparison,

521
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:58,119
Speaker 1: I just see flashes of the way he moves, his

522
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:03,479
Speaker 1: improvisational skills. UM. I'm excited by this team, and I

523
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:06,520
Speaker 1: do expect Mitchell Robinsky to have like a Jared Goff type,

524
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 1: not quite thinking about numbers, like what what sort of number?

525
00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:13,479
Speaker 1: Like Jared Goff he doesn't have, we don't know yet,

526
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:16,400
Speaker 1: But he doesn't have Sean McVeigh, who's to me right

527
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:18,479
Speaker 1: there as the best offensive mind in football. I think

528
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:21,280
Speaker 1: they're trying to be this year's Rams. The expectations are

529
00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:23,600
Speaker 1: so high now because of all the moves they've made

530
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:25,960
Speaker 1: and because of all the players they've added around Drabinsky.

531
00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 1: I think that if he delivers, that's great, but if

532
00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:31,200
Speaker 1: he doesn't, then there's even more pressure on him because

533
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:33,360
Speaker 1: of all of the resources they've brought in for him.

534
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:34,840
Speaker 1: I want to go back and watch kind of the

535
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,720
Speaker 1: end of his season because I think it got It

536
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:40,080
Speaker 1: was under the radar. No one was watching the Bears anymore,

537
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:43,000
Speaker 1: and I think that he showed some signs in the

538
00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:46,400
Speaker 1: last month that he looked better in the last three

539
00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:48,640
Speaker 1: three games or so than he did really before that.

540
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 1: They moved him around in the pocket a lot earlier.

541
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,200
Speaker 1: They had a role throwing on bootlegs a lot, which

542
00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:55,720
Speaker 1: he's great. Yeah, he's really good at and to your

543
00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:59,400
Speaker 1: varve comp the release. Yeah, the more I think about it,

544
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,159
Speaker 1: it does kind of visually remind me of that. But

545
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:04,440
Speaker 1: they opened it up for him. There were some rookie mistakes.

546
00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:06,119
Speaker 1: It's just a question of, you know, how much of

547
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:08,800
Speaker 1: that was rookie and how much of that was right.

548
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:12,680
Speaker 1: The best thing they can do is and that's a

549
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:14,960
Speaker 1: problem because pass rusher, I think is still an issue.

550
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:17,520
Speaker 1: But Hey, time's up. So we move on to Dallas

551
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:19,880
Speaker 1: where we've talked to them, talked about them a little

552
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 1: bit so far. But does anybody ever call you bond? Bond?

553
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 1: There's only so many variations by Clay Face was probably

554
00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:34,120
Speaker 1: one of my um. So, Jason Wittman is gone. Uh,

555
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:37,800
Speaker 1: Edward urs a little shrine. The candle goes out, big Americans.

556
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 1: So that's that's over. Uh, Connor Williams. They get the

557
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:46,520
Speaker 1: depth at tackle because last year we saw, you know,

558
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,440
Speaker 1: Tyrn Smith went out and everything just went to crap.

559
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:53,000
Speaker 1: Just the whole thing was just booty. So they get him.

560
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:56,760
Speaker 1: He was DJ seventeenth overall player. Um. I think that's

561
00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:58,600
Speaker 1: a huge value there. So they get better there. My

562
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 1: question is, we saw Jason Garrett um emotional today. We

563
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 1: know he's the Jerry whisperer. That being said, what is

564
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,760
Speaker 1: the wind total? Where we wonder if the whispers aren't

565
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 1: to Jerry and they're from Jerry about Jason Garrett, what

566
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:21,640
Speaker 1: wind total makes that conversation start? Great question. I think

567
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:28,080
Speaker 1: I think eight and below. I'm gonna say five or six.

568
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:31,200
Speaker 1: I think it's been a while, it's been a minute,

569
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:36,720
Speaker 1: and I think there are I ask everyone who wants,

570
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:38,240
Speaker 1: you know, who's into this sort of thing, go watch

571
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:40,880
Speaker 1: All or Nothing Cowboys. It's I've only I haven't gotten

572
00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:43,560
Speaker 1: all the way through yet, but it's the most compelling

573
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:45,320
Speaker 1: I think of of the All or nothings, and I

574
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 1: like the other ones. And part of it is because

575
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:52,720
Speaker 1: after certain moments, Jerry talks to Jason Garrett like like, uh,

576
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:55,600
Speaker 1: an executive producer is talking to a you know, p

577
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:58,920
Speaker 1: a on you know, Total Access or something. I mean,

578
00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:02,000
Speaker 1: I don't know, like realize how much have you unpacked

579
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:04,840
Speaker 1: that one for? Sorry, I don't know. I'm just saying

580
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 1: a moment, if I'm Jason Garrett, I don't I don't

581
00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:09,480
Speaker 1: want some of these conversations where Jerry's not too happy

582
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 1: about a blowout last one, he says, I don't want

583
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 1: that in the Do you talk to anybody like that

584
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:16,200
Speaker 1: here at NFL Media? I think I used to be

585
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:19,560
Speaker 1: like that at Rhodo World when people had bad posts,

586
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 1: it was all instant message. Oh. I think I only

587
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:26,840
Speaker 1: got this side of Greg when I didn't show up

588
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:32,000
Speaker 1: for work. Yeah, that's a problem. Uh, but you look

589
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:35,080
Speaker 1: at their tight end position. I mean, now, yikes, I

590
00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:37,440
Speaker 1: know they love Rico Gathers. I feel like he's been

591
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:40,360
Speaker 1: there for a while and nothing has really happened with him.

592
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:44,400
Speaker 1: But the past catchers or Terrence Williams, Michael Gallup who

593
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:46,640
Speaker 1: they just drafted, Cole Beasley. I know they brought in

594
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 1: Alan Hearns, but this is a really different looking group. Yeah.

595
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:54,400
Speaker 1: Often when when big names leave, people are shocked at

596
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 1: the production stays relatively similar. I think in this case

597
00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:01,640
Speaker 1: they're gonna end up missing what's gone because of all,

598
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 1: none of the guys they have are taken double teams.

599
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:06,920
Speaker 1: They're not even attracting double teams much as beating. Yeah,

600
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:10,360
Speaker 1: and if they start, uh like with a lot of losses,

601
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 1: I feel like, I think it's six. If it's six,

602
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 1: is a round, right. Every time the subject has come up,

603
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 1: Jerry has said, I've got so much invested in him. Yes,

604
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:31,800
Speaker 1: but all right, let's go to Detroit. Was the offense

605
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 1: comes back and it's almost identical. They switch centers and

606
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 1: then they bring in a couple of running backs and

607
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 1: mcgarrett Blunt and carry On. I'm just gonna call him

608
00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 1: carry On because I love that name. Um. Is this

609
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 1: the year that the Lions finally have a running game? Mhmm, yes,

610
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 1: I think so. I feel like they invested so much

611
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 1: in the run game. Just on during the draft here,

612
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 1: Frank rag Now and carry on Johnson. Drafting those two,

613
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:05,960
Speaker 1: plus you bring in Lagarrett Blunt, I mean a mir Abdullah.

614
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:08,840
Speaker 1: I feel like that experiment is over at this point.

615
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 1: Just see, like, to me, carry on Johnson is just

616
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 1: the new meer Abdulah, Like he's just a Shini or

617
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 1: newer a Mierabdula might very well be a better player

618
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 1: than carry on Jim. We'll find out. I mean, I

619
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 1: think he's more of an inside guy that they think

620
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 1: can be outside. They also have Blunt. But you're right,

621
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 1: you have to be right on the pick. Everyone at

622
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:27,600
Speaker 1: this time of year always thinks like, Okay, we're just

623
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 1: gonna slide in that second round pick. But it's like, no,

624
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 1: they're not all going to work out another running back

625
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:36,040
Speaker 1: from the state of Alabama, by the way, But it's um,

626
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 1: Jim Bob Right, Jim Bob stays in place because you've

627
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 1: been there, he's been there. They they weren't running the

628
00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:46,200
Speaker 1: ball with Jim Bob before. It's fair. I just don't

629
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:48,760
Speaker 1: know how much has changed that's gonna make me believe that.

630
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 1: Now you know you sub in which a Mir's problem

631
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:54,640
Speaker 1: was staying on the field, right, so you get carry

632
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 1: On if carry On can be on the field, if

633
00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:02,560
Speaker 1: we know Laic can can stay and play. But that

634
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:05,720
Speaker 1: the the means to which they're going to try to

635
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 1: run the ball. I don't know how much they're going

636
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:10,440
Speaker 1: to change. Right, they're a top ten offense. If they

637
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:12,840
Speaker 1: have a running game, it's it's the line. And they

638
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:15,240
Speaker 1: do get Taylor Decker back healthy he missed, you know,

639
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 1: big chunk of the season. You get another first round

640
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:22,560
Speaker 1: pick on the offensive line. People love their fifth round pick.

641
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're right or not. Tyrell Crosby

642
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:28,680
Speaker 1: like this is Bob Quinn who has now been there

643
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:30,320
Speaker 1: this their GM has been there for three years. Like

644
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 1: he's put so much into their offensive line. T J. Lang,

645
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:36,280
Speaker 1: Rickey Wagner that it's on it's on them, and on paper,

646
00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 1: they should be able to do it. I think that

647
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:40,240
Speaker 1: was their focus going into the draft, just based on

648
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:43,040
Speaker 1: their choices. I think they wanted to address the offensive

649
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 1: line and the running game because those were the two

650
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:48,840
Speaker 1: biggest weaknesses on the offense. And for me, it's almost

651
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 1: like the defense is more of a question mark because

652
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:54,959
Speaker 1: the pass rushers, I mean, Sigynsa is the only consistent

653
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 1: pass rusher they have. Yeah, they have a good secondary,

654
00:33:57,720 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 1: but outside of that, the front seven leaves a lot

655
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:02,160
Speaker 1: to be desired. I do think that they could have

656
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 1: a top ten offense. This could be a more fun

657
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 1: team to watch this year. And what's Matt Patricia going

658
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 1: to be like as a head coach? Like I love

659
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:12,279
Speaker 1: his press conferences, I love his like m O. Now

660
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:15,439
Speaker 1: suddenly like I'm feeling the Matt Patricia. It's all fun

661
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:17,840
Speaker 1: right now you're drinking the juice. Well, he's just like

662
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:20,799
Speaker 1: a totally different person than I expected. It's like the

663
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 1: substitute teachers running the class. Now you know, he's outside

664
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,520
Speaker 1: of He's not under Belichick's thumb anymore. He's got a personality.

665
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 1: He's wearing fun shirts, which didn't he had a personality before. Right,

666
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:35,160
Speaker 1: we just we're not allowed to see that stuff though

667
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 1: assistant coaches aren't allowed to talk to the press. But

668
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:42,640
Speaker 1: like we could do the most. He could show us

669
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 1: as a pencil, right, and we were like a long

670
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 1: shaggy beer. All right, let's stay in the division and

671
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:53,880
Speaker 1: go to Green Bay. Obviously, getting Aaron Rodgers back is huge.

672
00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:56,160
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a little weird to see him without

673
00:34:56,320 --> 00:35:00,239
Speaker 1: Jordy Nelson there. But I like what Brian Gouda Hunts

674
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 1: did now that he's the show. Yeah, they were actually

675
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:06,359
Speaker 1: participating in free agency this year, which was cool. They

676
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:09,959
Speaker 1: brought in Jimmy Graham and Mal Wilkerson, and I think

677
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:13,360
Speaker 1: for Green Bay like just the way that they have

678
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 1: gone after cornerbacks the last few years. They drafted Kevin

679
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 1: King last year in the first round, and then this

680
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:22,320
Speaker 1: year they picked they drafted Jay r Alexander and Josh Jackson.

681
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:25,479
Speaker 1: That's one of their their biggest things that they need

682
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:29,480
Speaker 1: to address. But the pass rushing situation here, I want

683
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:32,600
Speaker 1: to know how Mike Petton is going to generate a

684
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:35,759
Speaker 1: pass rush there in Green Bay. What do he used

685
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:39,839
Speaker 1: to call it? That's a that's a Mike pettan is um,

686
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:43,400
Speaker 1: that's what he calls he calls pass rushers. Why that,

687
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:45,319
Speaker 1: I don't know. Mark Mark wrote about it a couple

688
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:47,319
Speaker 1: of years ago, but yeah, that's I think that was

689
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:51,040
Speaker 1: inclusion low crossers. It was about the the old Jets

690
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:52,759
Speaker 1: team with Petton. Petton, to me was one of the

691
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 1: biggest signings of the off season, and maybe we'll prove

692
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Speaker 1: to absolutely. I think he's a really good coordinator. Not

693
00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:01,439
Speaker 1: only that, I think you want to be the guy

694
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:05,320
Speaker 1: who's replacing Dom Capers. It's like you don't want to

695
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:08,120
Speaker 1: be the guy who's replacing Mike Princessa or whatever in

696
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 1: New York, like on the air, you want to be

697
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:12,880
Speaker 1: the guy replacing Dom Capers. I think whoever is in

698
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,719
Speaker 1: there people are going to be excited about. I think, yeah,

699
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:18,760
Speaker 1: half of Green Bay would have kidnapped Tom Capers eventually

700
00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:22,919
Speaker 1: sent him outside of state borders. His name would trend

701
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:25,560
Speaker 1: every touch through. That's actually where Mark Sessler is right now.

702
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:28,280
Speaker 1: You you asked about the pass rush, you know Nick Perry.

703
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 1: I thought that was a big need for them, and

704
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:32,880
Speaker 1: they didn't have it last year. Nick Perry and Clay Matthews.

705
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 1: I mean, there are definitely teams with with worse outside rushers.

706
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:39,520
Speaker 1: Perry was injured most of last year and just never

707
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 1: I was disappointed in the pass pass rush last year.

708
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:44,960
Speaker 1: It just disappeared. And you think on paper that Matthews

709
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 1: and Perry should do it, and the guys behind them,

710
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 1: the Chiral Kyler fact rolls and Vince Beagles and all

711
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:54,799
Speaker 1: these guys are aren't getting it done. Wilkerson is an

712
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:57,359
Speaker 1: X factor if they get because he's not that old.

713
00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:01,400
Speaker 1: Like if they get of old Mohammed Wilkerson, that that

714
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:03,279
Speaker 1: would be huge. I'm looking at this team. I mean,

715
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 1: they gotta be up in that tier of teams that

716
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:07,280
Speaker 1: can win the Super Bowl. Absolutely too, Like Aaron Rodgers

717
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:09,400
Speaker 1: is due for a season where he just shreds the

718
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:11,279
Speaker 1: rest of the earth. One thing that that will help

719
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:13,799
Speaker 1: the pass rushes when the coverage gets a little bit better.

720
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Speaker 1: Then we saw them improve that in the draft. I

721
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:21,279
Speaker 1: was shocked that Josh Jackson lasted. I like their I

722
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 1: like their secondary. Now it's it's not nearly as bad

723
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:26,759
Speaker 1: as it was before. I mean that was it was

724
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:29,040
Speaker 1: so hard to watch when they had a safety playing

725
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 1: corner who didn't want to play corner, and then afterwards

726
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:34,960
Speaker 1: they admitted that they shouldn't play corner. No, yeah, they

727
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:38,080
Speaker 1: in you know, two seasons ago, they they had a

728
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:39,600
Speaker 1: team that could have gone to the Super Bowl if

729
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:41,359
Speaker 1: it wasn't for the secondary. I mean, they took out

730
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:44,279
Speaker 1: a one seed on the road despite that secondary, and

731
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:49,919
Speaker 1: then they basically just got dog walked in yeah. Okay, well, Greg,

732
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 1: while you're talking here, let's money continue talk. All right,

733
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Speaker 1: We're probably they were last year, the Philadelphia the Rams,

734
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:02,279
Speaker 1: right are Angelis Rams? Okay, I'm bad with the whole

735
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 1: alphabel Los Angeles Rams. They're not the Super Bowl favorites

736
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 1: when you got the Eagles in the conference, right. But

737
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 1: I look at everything that is going on on their

738
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:15,360
Speaker 1: team and it's hard to find like a huge weakness

739
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 1: to it. This is very similar to what I was

740
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:20,560
Speaker 1: thinking about Chicago. But I after seeing what they added

741
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 1: on offense, uh, in terms of Brandon Cooks, but for

742
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 1: the most part, the rest of the offense is just back, like,

743
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:28,799
Speaker 1: what are we expecting out of Jared Goff this year?

744
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:30,920
Speaker 1: Do we think Jared Goff can avoid kind of the

745
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:36,160
Speaker 1: next year malaise that took down Derek Carr a little bit,

746
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:39,759
Speaker 1: took down Dak Prescott. They had their breakout years. I

747
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:42,080
Speaker 1: think it's hard to sometimes do the follow up to that.

748
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:45,480
Speaker 1: I have trouble answering that question because I haven't figured

749
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:48,279
Speaker 1: out just how valuable Sean McVeigh is yet and just

750
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:51,200
Speaker 1: how valuable it is what Sean mcveigh's doin and Jared

751
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:54,239
Speaker 1: Goff's helmet for those first thirty seconds, he's allowed to

752
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:57,600
Speaker 1: speak to Jared Goff, dissect the way the defense is

753
00:38:57,640 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 1: set up, and then tell him which play to run,

754
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 1: hich player to target. That seems like a huge, huge

755
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:06,320
Speaker 1: competitive advantage to me, and I think that explains Jared

756
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 1: Goff's season last year. I just don't know if there's

757
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:10,800
Speaker 1: any way defenses can catch up to that and thwart

758
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:13,279
Speaker 1: it or not. But I think Jared Goff is a

759
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:15,719
Speaker 1: perfectly fine quarterback. I don't think he's as good as

760
00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:19,479
Speaker 1: his numbers were last year. He's also twenty three years old.

761
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:23,080
Speaker 1: I believe he is Baker Mayfield's age, so I think

762
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:25,960
Speaker 1: that should be That's part of why I'm I'm asking

763
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:28,239
Speaker 1: this person because I don't know, Like, I just don't

764
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 1: know what to think about him yet. And that's fine.

765
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:33,000
Speaker 1: He's easy. He's twenty three year old player. Jared Goff

766
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:35,719
Speaker 1: is the reason that I don't I didn't really lean

767
00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:39,359
Speaker 1: too hard on a Mitch Trubisky evaluation because it's just

768
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:43,120
Speaker 1: from the difference from twenty one year old Jared Goff.

769
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:45,840
Speaker 1: It's twenty two year old Jared Goff was so vast,

770
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:50,479
Speaker 1: so insane. How how much of it was as West said,

771
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 1: how much is that is a new coach? How much

772
00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:56,279
Speaker 1: of that was Jeff Fisher and everything involved with that.

773
00:39:56,440 --> 00:40:00,160
Speaker 1: I UM, I think Jared Goff is gonna have a

774
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:02,480
Speaker 1: solid season to say he's gonna have the season he

775
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:04,719
Speaker 1: had a year ago, I don't necessarily think that's going

776
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:06,960
Speaker 1: to happen. I feel like it wasn't just a fluke

777
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:09,480
Speaker 1: like he It's not like he just flashed last year.

778
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:13,360
Speaker 1: Jared Golf played really well consistently throughout the entire season.

779
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 1: And with what they did, um, they added some depth

780
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:18,719
Speaker 1: to the offensive line to that help that was kind

781
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:21,200
Speaker 1: of their one big weaknesses. They were very thin on

782
00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:24,600
Speaker 1: the oil and right. Yeah, because you look at the

783
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:27,640
Speaker 1: ages on that offensive line. Andrew Whitworth, He's gone like

784
00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 1: when the season starts, he's going to be thirty six,

785
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:32,239
Speaker 1: Roger Staffold's going to be thirty. John Sullivan's gonna be

786
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:34,600
Speaker 1: thirty two. I mean, it's not a young line. And

787
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:36,640
Speaker 1: I think a lot of that a lot of the

788
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Speaker 1: at least last year, bringing in Whitworth, that was one

789
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:41,560
Speaker 1: of the things that really helped Jared Golf take that

790
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:44,600
Speaker 1: next step. And so I think drafting that depth is

791
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:47,160
Speaker 1: really important for them just in case something were to happen.

792
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:49,040
Speaker 1: And I don't think the offense needs to be as

793
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:50,839
Speaker 1: good as it was last year. I think that's part

794
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:53,600
Speaker 1: of the hope. You're right, that that the defense can

795
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:55,400
Speaker 1: carry more and they're not gonna have to be as

796
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:59,040
Speaker 1: as I also wonder if less Need purposefully is trying

797
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:01,479
Speaker 1: to like money by all the draft by getting ten

798
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 1: day three picks. Maybe that's a new thing. They're so

799
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:10,920
Speaker 1: cheap to get he drafted. So the Rams super Bowl favorites,

800
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 1: so the Eagles can remain underdogs forever. Okay, let's go

801
00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 1: to Minneapolis, all right, So it's all Kirk all the time. Right.

802
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:22,240
Speaker 1: The team is better on offense, and the first five rounds,

803
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:25,359
Speaker 1: the only guy they took on defense was Homes out

804
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 1: of Ohio State. They feel good enough that they take

805
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 1: Daniel Carlson, a kicker who would be perfect for my

806
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 1: kickoff system, in the fifth round. Um, everything's in place,

807
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:38,560
Speaker 1: and that's why Kirk went there in the first place,

808
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:41,800
Speaker 1: just like when Peyton Manning went to the Broncos. My question,

809
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:44,840
Speaker 1: are you more confident or as confident in the Vikings

810
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:49,320
Speaker 1: success with Kirk Cousins as you were with the Broncos

811
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:54,040
Speaker 1: and Peyton Manning when he went there. No, I wouldn't

812
00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:59,319
Speaker 1: put it in anywhere close because because ultimately I know

813
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 1: the Vikings defense is is great, but I don't trust

814
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:05,880
Speaker 1: it to be difference making great. In fact, it got

815
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:09,160
Speaker 1: you know, crushed in the playoffs last year. And when

816
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:12,200
Speaker 1: you're comparing Kirk Cousins even to Peyton Manning at the

817
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 1: latter stages of his career, I don't think there's any comparison.

818
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:17,000
Speaker 1: I feel like when Peyton Manning went to Denver, we

819
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:20,920
Speaker 1: were all warned by the right people, medical people, coaches,

820
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:24,800
Speaker 1: analysts that Peyton Manning might never be the same quarterback,

821
00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:27,200
Speaker 1: but none of us believed it. We all believed he

822
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 1: was still gonna be Peyton Manning. And and Peyton Manning

823
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:32,800
Speaker 1: is always gonna have much higher expectations than Kirk Cousins.

824
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:36,200
Speaker 1: So no, I as great as the Vikings are with

825
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:39,560
Speaker 1: surrounding talent offense and defense, I don't have hopes that

826
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:42,000
Speaker 1: are as high as as the Broncos with Peyton. What

827
00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:44,799
Speaker 1: if we just grade the surrounding talent as far as

828
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:49,800
Speaker 1: the choice of the quarterback made to go to that team,

829
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:52,400
Speaker 1: I feel like the expectations were still higher with Peyton

830
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:54,400
Speaker 1: Manning because it was Peyton Manning. You just look at

831
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:57,160
Speaker 1: those two names too. I mean, but in terms of

832
00:42:57,239 --> 00:43:00,560
Speaker 1: the surrounding talent, like Greg you said that the defense

833
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:02,600
Speaker 1: got crushed in the playoffs, but it was really only

834
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 1: the game against the Eagles. I feel like that that

835
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:07,760
Speaker 1: vikings Lap gave up a big lead to the Saints

836
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:09,400
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. That would have been the lasting

837
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:12,280
Speaker 1: memory that we had if not for the Minnesota miracle.

838
00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 1: I just trust offense more. But they have Dalvin Cook,

839
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:17,680
Speaker 1: he chose well. They have Dalvin Cook, they have Stefan Digs,

840
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:20,440
Speaker 1: they have Adam Feland. It's an amazing looking offense. It is.

841
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:24,319
Speaker 1: It is the worry folds based because if it's Drew

842
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:28,400
Speaker 1: Brees making a fourth quarter run that insured it's like, Okay,

843
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:31,759
Speaker 1: you know Breeze has got us. But does the fact

844
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:34,239
Speaker 1: that it was Nick Foles does that impact how you

845
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 1: feel about Minnesota a little bit? No, It's more that

846
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:41,280
Speaker 1: the NFC is so loaded and we could be wrong,

847
00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:44,279
Speaker 1: but it's just on on paper. I can't remember a

848
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:47,080
Speaker 1: conference having so many teams that looked so good going

849
00:43:47,120 --> 00:43:49,160
Speaker 1: into a season. There's like six or seven of them.

850
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:51,920
Speaker 1: Is there something about Mike Zimmer's defense that makes you

851
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:55,520
Speaker 1: think they're more susceptible to really good teams, and that's

852
00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 1: why they got exposed in the second half versus the

853
00:43:57,600 --> 00:44:00,760
Speaker 1: Saints and against the Eagles. I also think that just coaching.

854
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:02,920
Speaker 1: I also think of the two thousand sixteen season when

855
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:04,560
Speaker 1: we thought they were going to be like you know,

856
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 1: the Purple People leaders, and they were just like fine,

857
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:09,920
Speaker 1: they wouldn't where they started out on fire and then

858
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 1: they're back broken. Had to carry too much of the

859
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:14,880
Speaker 1: load for the offense. But yeah, I think it's so

860
00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:17,479
Speaker 1: hard for a defense to be special week after week

861
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:20,520
Speaker 1: and athlete it's just geared towards offenses. Yeah, well that's

862
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:24,560
Speaker 1: on the other side of that Minnesota miracle you had

863
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:29,280
Speaker 1: New Orleans West. I'm in the middle of this project

864
00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:31,720
Speaker 1: where I'm ranking the top ten offenses in the NFL.

865
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:38,480
Speaker 1: I mean, it's an assignment. I have a job. I

866
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:42,040
Speaker 1: didn't have much of a choice, So I'm going through

867
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:47,360
Speaker 1: a fisition by position, and not not as much as

868
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:52,359
Speaker 1: this offseason. So I'm going through the Saints and I'm

869
00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:56,080
Speaker 1: looking at their quarterback, backfield, receiving, core, offensive line. There's

870
00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:59,760
Speaker 1: no weakness. What is the weakness with the Saints offense

871
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:02,400
Speaker 1: because they're as good as any group in the NFL.

872
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:05,400
Speaker 1: I just about every position. They have the best backfield,

873
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 1: their quarterback is top three or four, the offensive line

874
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:12,800
Speaker 1: might be the best. The receiving corps. You add Cameron

875
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:16,680
Speaker 1: Meredith and Ben Watson to what they had to me.

876
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:19,160
Speaker 1: I guess the receiving corps. I gave him a B plus,

877
00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:22,080
Speaker 1: maybe an A minus. But everywhere else they're a straight A.

878
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:23,880
Speaker 1: That's the only spot I would say, like maybe the

879
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:28,920
Speaker 1: tight end position. But yeah, they're so stacked, they're so solid.

880
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:30,640
Speaker 1: They have to be the favorites to be the top

881
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:33,040
Speaker 1: offense in the NFL this year. The only weakness I

882
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:36,440
Speaker 1: see is the division. Yeah, in terms of the you

883
00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:39,480
Speaker 1: put them in the A f C East, it's like, oh,

884
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 1: there's your automatic Super Bowl favorite. But things things changed.

885
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:48,120
Speaker 1: You put them in the East, and it's like, oh,

886
00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:51,200
Speaker 1: because they were a top two or three offense so

887
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:54,319
Speaker 1: often when they weren't even winning that many games, Like,

888
00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:56,759
Speaker 1: it's not like their offense really dipped much in the

889
00:45:56,840 --> 00:46:00,359
Speaker 1: years that they weren't making the playoffs. Michael Thomas kind

890
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:02,479
Speaker 1: of deserves to be mentioned now in that upper rational

891
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:05,120
Speaker 1: the top seven or eight wide receivers, so even that

892
00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 1: position is loaded, I guess the only concern, but it's

893
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:11,880
Speaker 1: their only concerns around defense. You're right, man, I was

894
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:15,480
Speaker 1: so shocked when they traded up for Marcus Davenport. I

895
00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:18,560
Speaker 1: thought for sure they were going to get Lamar Jackson

896
00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:22,120
Speaker 1: or just a quarterback in general. That's that's a lot

897
00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:24,160
Speaker 1: to give up for him, But I kind of like

898
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:27,760
Speaker 1: it across from cam Jordan's. Plus, you have Alex oklf

899
00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:30,680
Speaker 1: coming off that Achilles injury. But Cam Jordan had such

900
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:33,560
Speaker 1: a year last year. It was he was so good

901
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:36,799
Speaker 1: and that should make him even better. And they bring

902
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:40,080
Speaker 1: in Kurt Coleman, Patrick Robinson, de Mario Davis. They brought

903
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:42,640
Speaker 1: in some guys. I don't know why it is, but

904
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 1: for some reason, I just don't quite trust the Saints

905
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:48,040
Speaker 1: defense well because they were the worst. They were, you know,

906
00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:51,080
Speaker 1: the worst defense on the league in on balance and

907
00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:53,520
Speaker 1: over a five year stretch until last. They have new

908
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:56,480
Speaker 1: personnel now and they pretty well last year. I just

909
00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:59,160
Speaker 1: there's something about them. I just I always consider them

910
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:01,359
Speaker 1: sort of like the the Falcons used to be, where

911
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:04,839
Speaker 1: there's no backbone there on up to the minute we

912
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 1: did Charlie Castley's breakdown of you know, keys to the game,

913
00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:11,880
Speaker 1: and every single week they for the opposing team was

914
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:15,359
Speaker 1: stop Cam Jordans like that one, and team after team,

915
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:17,200
Speaker 1: week after week, they couldn't do it. So he's finally

916
00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:20,400
Speaker 1: got some help, you know, considering the capital they invested

917
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:24,480
Speaker 1: in Marcus Davenport. If that works out, the secondary is awesome.

918
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:30,600
Speaker 1: It's loaded Lattimore alright, one team that who knows what

919
00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:33,920
Speaker 1: they're going to be like this year? The Giants, for me,

920
00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:38,360
Speaker 1: Dave Gentleman, he made some moves for them. They finally

921
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:41,719
Speaker 1: addressed the offensive line. They signed Nate Solder, they drafted

922
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:45,200
Speaker 1: Will Hernandez in the interior there, and of course they

923
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:47,799
Speaker 1: got probably the best player in the entire draft with

924
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:50,799
Speaker 1: se Kwon Barkley, like he hit, you have se Kwon

925
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:54,560
Speaker 1: Barkley and Odell Beckham Jr. Coming back. This is loaded.

926
00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:56,439
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't like it for the Eagles They're

927
00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:58,799
Speaker 1: going to have to defend that twice a year. But

928
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:02,480
Speaker 1: they have a new coaching staff there. They added alec Ogletree.

929
00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:05,560
Speaker 1: I mean, they did a lot here. So will the

930
00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:09,200
Speaker 1: Giants have the biggest turnaround from last year to this year,

931
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:13,800
Speaker 1: will they be this year's l A Rams No Wow

932
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:16,200
Speaker 1: or last year's l A Rams. And I always say it, Wait,

933
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:19,960
Speaker 1: I think the Browns are going to improve so much

934
00:48:20,040 --> 00:48:22,479
Speaker 1: after not winning a single football game that it's gonna

935
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:25,280
Speaker 1: be tough for them to to make the biggest jump.

936
00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:29,080
Speaker 1: But I do think you know, it can be comparable,

937
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:31,920
Speaker 1: uh to what the Rams did, right, because if you

938
00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:35,839
Speaker 1: get to ten wins, that's a seven win jump. And

939
00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:39,279
Speaker 1: I love the upgrade. Everything you said made a lot

940
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:42,279
Speaker 1: of sense. I love Evan Ingram and Sterling Shepard, Like

941
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:44,680
Speaker 1: those are two guys I think you can absolutely build around,

942
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:47,040
Speaker 1: especially when they're going to be role players in this offense.

943
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:50,200
Speaker 1: You upgraded your offensive mind, I think a lot with

944
00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:53,240
Speaker 1: Shermer over McAdoo. And I think you upgraded your defense

945
00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:56,440
Speaker 1: side of the ball. In terms of the coach with

946
00:48:56,520 --> 00:48:59,279
Speaker 1: James betcher We I don't even want to bring up

947
00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:01,319
Speaker 1: Eli manning him on this podcast at some point, but

948
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:03,360
Speaker 1: he's kind of the question like is he gonna hold

949
00:49:03,560 --> 00:49:07,279
Speaker 1: them back? Because if because if he's not holding them back,

950
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:09,880
Speaker 1: you're right they should be a candidate to do that.

951
00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:11,879
Speaker 1: That's what this is about, is making the playoffs this year.

952
00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:15,800
Speaker 1: They they are expecting to. I believe there is a chance.

953
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:18,839
Speaker 1: I don't know what the percentages if Odell Beckham comes

954
00:49:18,840 --> 00:49:21,120
Speaker 1: back and is what he was, that they have the

955
00:49:21,160 --> 00:49:24,560
Speaker 1: most dynamic running back and wide receiver combo in in

956
00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:27,279
Speaker 1: the I guess Levy on Bell and Antonio Brown is

957
00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 1: hard to beat. But as far as pure dynamic athleticism,

958
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:34,400
Speaker 1: se Kwon Barkley and Odell Beckham, you don't see combinations

959
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:36,479
Speaker 1: like that and what it's gonna do for Eli, even

960
00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:38,600
Speaker 1: if even on the downside of his career, it wouldn't

961
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:42,200
Speaker 1: surprise me if Eli has some life breathed into his career. Yeah,

962
00:49:42,360 --> 00:49:46,040
Speaker 1: And and I'm not like Shepherd and Ingram to me

963
00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:50,000
Speaker 1: could be almost a one too in another city that

964
00:49:50,080 --> 00:49:52,479
Speaker 1: wasn't It wasn't like a city that that you don't

965
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:55,040
Speaker 1: want them to be your one to. But Ingram he

966
00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:56,840
Speaker 1: was so impressive to me, I think he could have

967
00:49:56,840 --> 00:49:58,480
Speaker 1: been a Rookie of the Year type of guy. And

968
00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:02,240
Speaker 1: Shepherd is like the the custom made sort of number

969
00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:05,640
Speaker 1: two three slot type of guy. Like to have them,

970
00:50:05,840 --> 00:50:08,320
Speaker 1: You're right, I mean it should help like it almost

971
00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:11,279
Speaker 1: feels like a like it can't miss offense. And I

972
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:15,200
Speaker 1: think a lot of the Gettleman criticism was on the

973
00:50:15,280 --> 00:50:19,080
Speaker 1: down slope from the from the numbers folks, who you know,

974
00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:21,920
Speaker 1: he he wrinkled them a bit, taking taking shots at

975
00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:24,399
Speaker 1: the criticism of taking a running back at number two.

976
00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:27,560
Speaker 1: But as as West has said for the past couple

977
00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:29,880
Speaker 1: of years, you gotta have a you gotta have a

978
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:34,640
Speaker 1: plan after ELI and so you gotta look longer. If

979
00:50:34,640 --> 00:50:38,120
Speaker 1: they don't make the playoffs this year, then absolutely it

980
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:42,040
Speaker 1: was a mistake to see the Giants with a running

981
00:50:42,040 --> 00:50:44,399
Speaker 1: game like I remember last year just seeing Orleans Dark

982
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:49,640
Speaker 1: One run well like one game was like, whoa, I mean,

983
00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:52,279
Speaker 1: you gotta go back to Tiki right when it was

984
00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:59,160
Speaker 1: last relevant. Yeah. Probably, we just love talking about the Giants.

985
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:03,560
Speaker 1: Let's go to the about Philadelphia Eagles, and they weren't

986
00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:06,600
Speaker 1: a team that was overly active on draft weekend. They

987
00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:09,960
Speaker 1: trade up to get Dallas Goddard, who has got to

988
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:12,080
Speaker 1: help them out in in terms of a backup to end.

989
00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:13,600
Speaker 1: But you know you're in good shape when you're like

990
00:51:13,719 --> 00:51:16,560
Speaker 1: moving up for a backup tight end on draft weekend

991
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:18,800
Speaker 1: and you just kind of look at their too deep

992
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:22,239
Speaker 1: depth chart and my question for everyone here is just

993
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:25,600
Speaker 1: where is their weakness? Like if if anything goes wrong

994
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:30,080
Speaker 1: for the Eagles, Like, what's the weakness because this team,

995
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:33,080
Speaker 1: on paper, to me is is about as loaded as

996
00:51:33,120 --> 00:51:35,920
Speaker 1: you'd want to be. There's no more bigger flex for

997
00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:39,080
Speaker 1: a GM or a franchise than winning a Super Bowl

998
00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:41,280
Speaker 1: with a backup quarterback. And that's just what they did

999
00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:45,280
Speaker 1: that I think could be the biggest weakness. If Carson

1000
00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:47,280
Speaker 1: Wentz is not ready for the start of the season,

1001
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:49,319
Speaker 1: that for me is the only thing that I'm kind

1002
00:51:49,320 --> 00:51:51,560
Speaker 1: of worrying about. But they have Nick Foles there like

1003
00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:55,640
Speaker 1: not ready, not playing or not ready like not himself, right, yeah,

1004
00:51:56,960 --> 00:51:58,799
Speaker 1: him back to where he was. I mean, he said

1005
00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:01,000
Speaker 1: he's not going to change his playing style. He's still

1006
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:02,719
Speaker 1: going to do the things that he did before. But

1007
00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:04,879
Speaker 1: I just don't I wonder how he's going to look

1008
00:52:04,880 --> 00:52:06,520
Speaker 1: out there, right, not just an a c L but

1009
00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:09,960
Speaker 1: also in L c L tear, not your typical, you know,

1010
00:52:10,040 --> 00:52:12,680
Speaker 1: clean a c L tear. So it wouldn't surprise me.

1011
00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:15,680
Speaker 1: Like Colleen said, I if he's out there because he

1012
00:52:15,719 --> 00:52:18,640
Speaker 1: says he can playing because the medical team deems he's ready,

1013
00:52:19,040 --> 00:52:21,560
Speaker 1: but his confidence isn't the same and he's not playing

1014
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:25,160
Speaker 1: at the same level and physically, honestly, he's not going

1015
00:52:25,200 --> 00:52:27,440
Speaker 1: to be the same for quite some time. This is

1016
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:31,880
Speaker 1: a substantially sized human being who is big and fast

1017
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:34,520
Speaker 1: and just looking at the play where he scores a

1018
00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:36,279
Speaker 1: touchdown and tears his a c L. I mean, that's

1019
00:52:36,719 --> 00:52:38,759
Speaker 1: that's the type of athlete that he is. So it's

1020
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:40,600
Speaker 1: gonna take a while to be back. My pick for

1021
00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:43,239
Speaker 1: their biggest weakness is now the head coach of the

1022
00:52:43,239 --> 00:52:47,400
Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts. I think when we consider the play calling

1023
00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:49,719
Speaker 1: and how big that was down the stretch and how

1024
00:52:49,719 --> 00:52:52,680
Speaker 1: they were able to dismantle the vikings going and win

1025
00:52:52,719 --> 00:52:55,080
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl against New England, I think when you

1026
00:52:55,160 --> 00:52:58,480
Speaker 1: lose a brain that was a part of that process,

1027
00:52:58,520 --> 00:53:01,759
Speaker 1: I think it's gotta also a guy in the same

1028
00:53:01,840 --> 00:53:04,759
Speaker 1: room with him in those game planning meetings. The quarterback coach,

1029
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:07,600
Speaker 1: John d. Flippo is in Minnesota. And also, yeah, that

1030
00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:10,799
Speaker 1: coaching staff is really different now, and they were. They

1031
00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:13,239
Speaker 1: were the most impressive coaching staff in the league last year.

1032
00:53:13,280 --> 00:53:16,120
Speaker 1: So you lose two of those really important guys. Peterson

1033
00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:18,520
Speaker 1: got an option of price. The option in his contract

1034
00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:21,200
Speaker 1: picked up Thursday. How about that for a little while

1035
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:23,600
Speaker 1: we're on here, but if you guys are basically saying,

1036
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:26,080
Speaker 1: like Carson Wentz might not quite be an m VP candidate.

1037
00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:28,360
Speaker 1: And they lost a couple of coaches but not the

1038
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:31,640
Speaker 1: head coach, who's an offensive guy. It's like, if that's

1039
00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:34,319
Speaker 1: her biggest weakness, that's not that bad. I mean, they

1040
00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:36,040
Speaker 1: were the Super Bowl champions. Then they went out and

1041
00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:40,480
Speaker 1: got Michael Bennett for nothing, signed a loading Nada, stole

1042
00:53:40,560 --> 00:53:43,760
Speaker 1: Dallas Goddard away from Dallas, and then signed Mike Wallace

1043
00:53:43,840 --> 00:53:46,440
Speaker 1: as an upgrade over Tory Smith. Yeah, they're they're improved,

1044
00:53:46,480 --> 00:53:49,120
Speaker 1: and knew in there hoping Sydney Jones. I guess if

1045
00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:51,960
Speaker 1: if I was going to pick a weakness cornerback, maybe

1046
00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:54,920
Speaker 1: could be one. But they were thinking Sidney Jones, who

1047
00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:56,839
Speaker 1: was their second round pick a year ago and wasn't

1048
00:53:56,880 --> 00:53:58,600
Speaker 1: able to play, is going to come and be a

1049
00:53:58,640 --> 00:54:01,600
Speaker 1: big difference. Was a little worried about the tight end position.

1050
00:54:01,680 --> 00:54:07,120
Speaker 1: Just losing Trey Burton and Dallas Goddard's super bowler. Your

1051
00:54:07,160 --> 00:54:12,600
Speaker 1: total disappointment, that's right, San Francisco, All right, So they're

1052
00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:16,080
Speaker 1: able to get Mike lcglinchey in the first round. Um,

1053
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:18,600
Speaker 1: it's kind of a part of this protect Jimmy at

1054
00:54:18,600 --> 00:54:23,120
Speaker 1: All Costs initiative goes with Western rich Burg. Um, they're

1055
00:54:23,120 --> 00:54:25,200
Speaker 1: able to get Dante Pettis, who can flat out fly

1056
00:54:25,680 --> 00:54:29,960
Speaker 1: out of Washington. So more shanahanigans there. Um. My question

1057
00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:34,440
Speaker 1: quarterback and coach pairings across the league. Is there anybody

1058
00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:38,279
Speaker 1: that you're taking over Jimmy and Kyle? Projecting out the

1059
00:54:38,320 --> 00:54:45,480
Speaker 1: next five years? Okay, five years? This requires thinking. Sorry,

1060
00:54:46,719 --> 00:54:49,960
Speaker 1: it's a it's a really good question. This should be

1061
00:54:50,080 --> 00:54:53,480
Speaker 1: too good. Yeah, can you just write this because if not,

1062
00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:56,360
Speaker 1: we'll just take this. This is the best article, the

1063
00:54:56,360 --> 00:55:02,920
Speaker 1: best offensive mind. Kyle Shanahan, Sean McVeigh, John McDaniels, Sean Payton,

1064
00:55:03,160 --> 00:55:05,239
Speaker 1: Andy Reid. That would be the top five off the

1065
00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:08,000
Speaker 1: top of my head. Read homes sneaky, sneaky good. But

1066
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:11,360
Speaker 1: we we don't. You know, we haven't seen Pat except

1067
00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:13,520
Speaker 1: that one game, which, as Greg has pointed out, has

1068
00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:16,600
Speaker 1: been spectacular about you know, Belichick, Brady. Obviously you can't

1069
00:55:16,600 --> 00:55:23,400
Speaker 1: just ignore it. But Brady is I've said this jokingly,

1070
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:25,200
Speaker 1: he's literally in his prime. The guy just won the

1071
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:28,640
Speaker 1: MVP fancing second in the MVP race the year before that,

1072
00:55:28,760 --> 00:55:33,399
Speaker 1: and through yards in the Super Bowl. That said I'm

1073
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:37,160
Speaker 1: gonna take Aaron just out of out of loyalty and principle.

1074
00:55:37,239 --> 00:55:40,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take Aaron Rodgers and whoever, and I don't.

1075
00:55:40,280 --> 00:55:42,560
Speaker 1: I don't like it because you can't stand McCarthy. You've

1076
00:55:42,560 --> 00:55:46,319
Speaker 1: been trying to get I know, but I'm i as

1077
00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:48,920
Speaker 1: much as I am excited to watch Jimmy Garoppolo, and

1078
00:55:48,920 --> 00:55:52,200
Speaker 1: I have total faith in Kyle Shanahan, Like I think

1079
00:55:52,200 --> 00:55:54,279
Speaker 1: it's fair to just say Aaron Rodgers has been the

1080
00:55:54,280 --> 00:55:56,879
Speaker 1: best quarterback I've ever seen just about and I want

1081
00:55:56,880 --> 00:55:59,120
Speaker 1: to see Jimmy Garoppolo play more before I give him

1082
00:55:59,160 --> 00:56:01,319
Speaker 1: a nod over him. So yes, I'll take that. You

1083
00:56:01,360 --> 00:56:10,040
Speaker 1: guys are really missing out on Brian Schottenheimer here, Ron Shotenheimer,

1084
00:56:10,120 --> 00:56:15,719
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, Andrew Luck. Frank Reich. Yeah, that's that's that's

1085
00:56:15,719 --> 00:56:17,680
Speaker 1: an underdog. I kind of like taking the odds on

1086
00:56:17,719 --> 00:56:19,840
Speaker 1: that because no one's thinking about that, right, Lafleur and

1087
00:56:19,840 --> 00:56:24,600
Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota will have to we're gonna if we're gonna

1088
00:56:24,640 --> 00:56:32,479
Speaker 1: go to Luck there, Jamis and Derk Cutter at Ryan

1089
00:56:32,520 --> 00:56:34,879
Speaker 1: and Sarksian, Wow, you're really throwing us for a loose.

1090
00:56:35,400 --> 00:56:37,279
Speaker 1: I think he might be right, on that one. This

1091
00:56:37,360 --> 00:56:40,480
Speaker 1: is fun question, though I didn't like we're spinning trying

1092
00:56:40,520 --> 00:56:42,279
Speaker 1: to come up with it. I should have extended it

1093
00:56:42,280 --> 00:56:45,799
Speaker 1: out more to leave Roger's out. Honestly, I should have gone, okay,

1094
00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:48,640
Speaker 1: should go ten years. That's this is something I feel

1095
00:56:48,640 --> 00:56:51,440
Speaker 1: like we need to unpack more. I think our struggle

1096
00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:56,040
Speaker 1: with it. Ultimately, I'm gonna have to get Yeah, you

1097
00:56:56,080 --> 00:56:59,240
Speaker 1: can't have a ten year question on anything in the US.

1098
00:56:59,360 --> 00:57:02,560
Speaker 1: You already bent and Brian Schottenheimer, let's get into see

1099
00:57:02,880 --> 00:57:07,480
Speaker 1: I wasn't even planning to bring up My question with

1100
00:57:07,520 --> 00:57:10,960
Speaker 1: the Seahawks is great they got Rashad Tenny that that

1101
00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:14,160
Speaker 1: gives them a running back. What did you do to

1102
00:57:14,239 --> 00:57:17,720
Speaker 1: fix your offensive line? They had people throughout the season

1103
00:57:17,800 --> 00:57:22,400
Speaker 1: constantly quoting what percentage of Seattle's offense Russell Wilson was doing.

1104
00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:24,800
Speaker 1: On his own, it was always between eighty two and

1105
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:29,520
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson was the offense. Why should we believe that

1106
00:57:29,640 --> 00:57:33,360
Speaker 1: anything it's fixed on their offensive line? I believe here's

1107
00:57:33,400 --> 00:57:36,720
Speaker 1: what I think their answer would be. They fired Tom Cable,

1108
00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:42,320
Speaker 1: they changed their offensive coordinator, and that they're coaching staff

1109
00:57:42,680 --> 00:57:46,040
Speaker 1: is going to coach Russell Wilson too. And the line

1110
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:49,160
Speaker 1: in a way that will improve that situation. Because that's

1111
00:57:49,160 --> 00:57:51,480
Speaker 1: their that's their plan. You're gonna coach that out of

1112
00:57:51,560 --> 00:57:56,320
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. Not the entire way. But I think last season,

1113
00:57:56,400 --> 00:57:59,439
Speaker 1: even more than other seasons, he was a bigger part

1114
00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:02,680
Speaker 1: of the problem m and I don't think that's everybody

1115
00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:04,680
Speaker 1: had them at the top five MVP guy through Week

1116
00:58:04,720 --> 00:58:07,680
Speaker 1: twelve or something. I think he was a bigger part

1117
00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:11,240
Speaker 1: of the problem last year. But just in just in

1118
00:58:11,400 --> 00:58:15,960
Speaker 1: terms of just talking about happens protect Okay, just in

1119
00:58:16,040 --> 00:58:19,280
Speaker 1: terms of protecting himself. Yeah, in terms of walking into

1120
00:58:19,320 --> 00:58:21,880
Speaker 1: some of that some of the the issues. Maybe he

1121
00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:24,080
Speaker 1: got just so used to it over time. But I

1122
00:58:24,080 --> 00:58:25,920
Speaker 1: really I'm kind of joking about the time Gable thing,

1123
00:58:25,960 --> 00:58:29,160
Speaker 1: but I really think that is their answer. Yeah. The

1124
00:58:29,200 --> 00:58:31,800
Speaker 1: only thing they did was really add d J. Fluker

1125
00:58:32,200 --> 00:58:34,560
Speaker 1: in free agency, and they didn't draft anybody until the

1126
00:58:34,560 --> 00:58:38,640
Speaker 1: fifth round. Sometimes teams don't have answers. I mean, look

1127
00:58:39,080 --> 00:58:40,840
Speaker 1: what the Bengals win in the last season with us

1128
00:58:40,840 --> 00:58:42,520
Speaker 1: their offensive and they just threw up their hands in

1129
00:58:42,560 --> 00:58:45,200
Speaker 1: the gay point. We got no alternatives. We just don't

1130
00:58:45,200 --> 00:58:47,600
Speaker 1: have an answer. This is what we're rolling out. That's

1131
00:58:47,640 --> 00:58:50,480
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. But it seemed like intent on Seattle's part,

1132
00:58:50,760 --> 00:58:52,640
Speaker 1: where it's like, all right, well we got we got

1133
00:58:52,680 --> 00:58:57,040
Speaker 1: Tom Cable, we got these guys. You know, George Phant's bladly,

1134
00:58:57,160 --> 00:58:58,560
Speaker 1: you know, we can make him work. And then it

1135
00:58:58,680 --> 00:59:01,440
Speaker 1: just it didn't work. It is an abject failure. And

1136
00:59:01,480 --> 00:59:04,040
Speaker 1: so you think the idea would be, well, let's figure

1137
00:59:04,040 --> 00:59:07,320
Speaker 1: out what went wrong there and let's rectify it. But

1138
00:59:07,640 --> 00:59:09,520
Speaker 1: I don't feel like that's happened. Well, they gave up

1139
00:59:09,520 --> 00:59:12,360
Speaker 1: a lot to get Dwayne Brown, who played very well

1140
00:59:12,440 --> 00:59:15,240
Speaker 1: for them, So that is a huge difference. So that's

1141
00:59:15,280 --> 00:59:17,000
Speaker 1: part of what they did. They happen to do that

1142
00:59:17,040 --> 00:59:21,120
Speaker 1: in October November, but that's they were worse as an

1143
00:59:21,120 --> 00:59:23,200
Speaker 1: offensive line. They were as bad down the stretch. Look

1144
00:59:23,200 --> 00:59:25,560
Speaker 1: at that game. He played really well. And the one

1145
00:59:25,560 --> 00:59:27,160
Speaker 1: thing people are always like, well, they got to invest

1146
00:59:27,200 --> 00:59:29,480
Speaker 1: more in the offensive line. That's not been that's I've

1147
00:59:29,480 --> 00:59:31,360
Speaker 1: been a problem. They have a second round pick at

1148
00:59:31,400 --> 00:59:33,800
Speaker 1: left guard, second round pick at center, a first round

1149
00:59:33,840 --> 00:59:36,280
Speaker 1: pick at right tackle. Uh, some third round pick on

1150
00:59:36,280 --> 00:59:38,560
Speaker 1: the bench. They've invested about as much as any team. Yes,

1151
00:59:39,320 --> 00:59:42,200
Speaker 1: this is a team that has major, major questions on

1152
00:59:42,280 --> 00:59:44,760
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball. That that offensive line, the

1153
00:59:44,840 --> 00:59:47,400
Speaker 1: running game, and then we don't even know of Cliff

1154
00:59:47,440 --> 00:59:49,760
Speaker 1: Avril and Cam Chances are going to play next season.

1155
00:59:50,160 --> 00:59:54,160
Speaker 1: That entire secondary. I mean, who knows what this team

1156
00:59:54,200 --> 00:59:56,480
Speaker 1: is going to look like. Plus the that offensive coordinator

1157
00:59:56,560 --> 00:59:59,720
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator editions. I just don't know. Ye I forgot

1158
00:59:59,760 --> 01:00:02,400
Speaker 1: about the Avriel Chancellor things. Yeah, hang, but I'm not

1159
01:00:02,440 --> 01:00:06,000
Speaker 1: doubting any team with Russell Wilson and Bobby Wagner true

1160
01:00:07,800 --> 01:00:11,920
Speaker 1: Thomas Tampa Bay. All right, So they worked on their

1161
01:00:11,960 --> 01:00:15,240
Speaker 1: offensive line and defensive line in the off season, But

1162
01:00:15,720 --> 01:00:19,959
Speaker 1: for me, the defense in general was a complete tragedy

1163
01:00:20,120 --> 01:00:22,480
Speaker 1: last year. It was so awful, like they were dead

1164
01:00:22,560 --> 01:00:24,680
Speaker 1: last in d v o A and yards for play

1165
01:00:24,760 --> 01:00:27,640
Speaker 1: and sacks. I mean in almost every category they were

1166
01:00:27,680 --> 01:00:31,000
Speaker 1: in the bottom of the league. And on offense you

1167
01:00:31,040 --> 01:00:35,040
Speaker 1: saw Jamis Winston and the DeShawn Jackson connection that was

1168
01:00:35,280 --> 01:00:38,520
Speaker 1: so highly touted and everybody had such high expectations for

1169
01:00:38,560 --> 01:00:40,960
Speaker 1: it really never panned out. But I want to know

1170
01:00:41,720 --> 01:00:45,280
Speaker 1: on that defense, have they done enough to improve it?

1171
01:00:45,680 --> 01:00:50,240
Speaker 1: In general? Yeah? I mean that that killed them last year. Yes,

1172
01:00:50,840 --> 01:00:53,320
Speaker 1: I think when I look at the state their roster

1173
01:00:53,480 --> 01:00:55,280
Speaker 1: was in in December. In the state it's in now,

1174
01:00:55,320 --> 01:00:57,920
Speaker 1: it might be the most improved in the NFL. That

1175
01:00:58,080 --> 01:01:00,480
Speaker 1: front seven is almost as loaded as the Eagles. It

1176
01:01:00,600 --> 01:01:02,640
Speaker 1: is incredible what they've done. Have a couple of Eagles

1177
01:01:02,680 --> 01:01:05,360
Speaker 1: on it now. They bring in Vinny Curry, Jason Pierre,

1178
01:01:05,360 --> 01:01:09,000
Speaker 1: Paul vita, Vea, Mitch un Rhyme bo Allen, and they

1179
01:01:09,040 --> 01:01:13,600
Speaker 1: already had Pro bowlers and Gerald McCoy, Lavonte David. They

1180
01:01:13,600 --> 01:01:16,440
Speaker 1: have a good middle linebacker and Quad Alexander. They're loaded

1181
01:01:16,520 --> 01:01:19,800
Speaker 1: up front, and the secondary has question marks throughout it.

1182
01:01:19,840 --> 01:01:22,360
Speaker 1: But I do think that they've brought into talent a

1183
01:01:22,360 --> 01:01:25,120
Speaker 1: couple of second round picks at cornerback this year, a

1184
01:01:25,160 --> 01:01:27,760
Speaker 1: fourth round pick at safety. They've added some some young

1185
01:01:27,760 --> 01:01:30,160
Speaker 1: blood there and it shows with such a glaring need

1186
01:01:30,160 --> 01:01:33,200
Speaker 1: in the secondary, how they feel about vita As as

1187
01:01:33,240 --> 01:01:35,760
Speaker 1: a player and what he can bring considering the depth

1188
01:01:35,760 --> 01:01:38,840
Speaker 1: that they already had through free agency and having Gerald

1189
01:01:38,880 --> 01:01:43,200
Speaker 1: McCoy there, So it's obviously better. UM Is it enough

1190
01:01:43,240 --> 01:01:45,520
Speaker 1: to make me feel better about their chance in the

1191
01:01:45,560 --> 01:01:48,160
Speaker 1: South Now? I think it's the toughest division in football,

1192
01:01:48,200 --> 01:01:52,520
Speaker 1: but they're definitely better. UM is dirt Cutter is this

1193
01:01:52,520 --> 01:01:55,840
Speaker 1: this dirt cutter worthy of this rocket? That's my biggest question,

1194
01:01:56,160 --> 01:01:59,400
Speaker 1: Jason Light. If they can't make the jump this year,

1195
01:02:00,240 --> 01:02:03,560
Speaker 1: they're in trouble there. Their offense was better than people think.

1196
01:02:03,600 --> 01:02:06,520
Speaker 1: If you look at the metrics. I was studying this yesterday,

1197
01:02:06,520 --> 01:02:09,360
Speaker 1: they were better than the Rams offense in most categories.

1198
01:02:10,720 --> 01:02:13,640
Speaker 1: They were a top ten offense in nearly every metric.

1199
01:02:13,720 --> 01:02:16,160
Speaker 1: It felt. It felt like a lot of like coming

1200
01:02:16,240 --> 01:02:19,320
Speaker 1: back when you're down and stuff. A lot of turnovers,

1201
01:02:19,600 --> 01:02:21,640
Speaker 1: awful in the red zone. And if you remember in

1202
01:02:21,680 --> 01:02:24,160
Speaker 1: the year, they were cutting kickers all the time. Chris

1203
01:02:24,840 --> 01:02:28,160
Speaker 1: Chris Godwin is a really good player and he's gonna

1204
01:02:28,160 --> 01:02:30,000
Speaker 1: have a hard time getting on the field because they're

1205
01:02:30,040 --> 01:02:34,400
Speaker 1: so deep at receiver. We'll see they they definitely copied

1206
01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:36,920
Speaker 1: the Eagles. I mean that was the approach Curry and

1207
01:02:37,040 --> 01:02:39,360
Speaker 1: JPP have to come through. I don't think it's a

1208
01:02:39,560 --> 01:02:43,040
Speaker 1: it's a it's a certainty that that happens. But if

1209
01:02:43,080 --> 01:02:45,400
Speaker 1: it does, I think this division is so loaded, and

1210
01:02:45,400 --> 01:02:47,479
Speaker 1: they did try to improve the secondary. They took two

1211
01:02:47,880 --> 01:02:50,439
Speaker 1: players m J. Stewart and Carlton Davis in the second round.

1212
01:02:50,480 --> 01:02:53,360
Speaker 1: Both players maybe a little bit of surprise to some people,

1213
01:02:53,360 --> 01:02:55,360
Speaker 1: but they were second round picks at cornerback, so they

1214
01:02:55,880 --> 01:02:57,880
Speaker 1: tried to do it there. I think Jason Light had

1215
01:02:57,880 --> 01:03:01,760
Speaker 1: an awesome offseason. Yes, the team looks a lot better.

1216
01:03:01,840 --> 01:03:06,160
Speaker 1: I like, uh, Ronald Jones to replace Doug Martin. I

1217
01:03:06,200 --> 01:03:09,560
Speaker 1: think that Rojoe little Rojoe action there, and that's that's

1218
01:03:09,600 --> 01:03:12,280
Speaker 1: what we're going. That's his nickname, like that in the

1219
01:03:12,360 --> 01:03:20,000
Speaker 1: Texas Tesla. Wow. Yeah, much more than us. Okay, final team,

1220
01:03:20,200 --> 01:03:22,880
Speaker 1: this is guys. Oh, we've made it. We made it

1221
01:03:22,920 --> 01:03:31,600
Speaker 1: into the end. The Washington Redskins. Uh, they lost Kirk Cousins.

1222
01:03:31,640 --> 01:03:34,200
Speaker 1: You would think losing you know, the highest priced you know,

1223
01:03:34,240 --> 01:03:37,320
Speaker 1: free agent NFL history would be a bad thing. But

1224
01:03:37,360 --> 01:03:41,320
Speaker 1: my question is after adding Alex Smith, Darius Guice, and

1225
01:03:41,360 --> 01:03:43,760
Speaker 1: Paul Richards into an offense that'd already had Dots and

1226
01:03:43,920 --> 01:03:47,240
Speaker 1: Crowder and hopefully healthy Jordan read, aren't you more excited

1227
01:03:47,280 --> 01:03:50,320
Speaker 1: to watch the two thousand eighteen Washington Redskins offense than

1228
01:03:50,360 --> 01:03:54,760
Speaker 1: you were to watch last seasons? Only because everybody's healthy

1229
01:03:54,880 --> 01:03:57,480
Speaker 1: and everybody was injured last year. Remember that offensive line?

1230
01:03:57,520 --> 01:04:00,720
Speaker 1: How many injuries they have? It was, it was unbelievable.

1231
01:04:00,760 --> 01:04:03,800
Speaker 1: Then Jordan Reid who's the best offensive player was out

1232
01:04:03,840 --> 01:04:05,920
Speaker 1: almost the entire year. Every time they had a starting

1233
01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:08,360
Speaker 1: running back, that running back got injured. Every time they

1234
01:04:08,400 --> 01:04:11,760
Speaker 1: had a number one receiver, that receiver got injured. Well,

1235
01:04:11,800 --> 01:04:15,000
Speaker 1: I think Dotson showed enough last year that now we're

1236
01:04:15,040 --> 01:04:19,120
Speaker 1: actually I'm I think he showed enough last year where

1237
01:04:19,160 --> 01:04:22,400
Speaker 1: I'm more excited about him legitimately, where I've now seen

1238
01:04:22,520 --> 01:04:24,440
Speaker 1: that he can be a difference maker when he's out.

1239
01:04:24,480 --> 01:04:26,880
Speaker 1: I'm genuinely curious what did he what did he show

1240
01:04:26,880 --> 01:04:29,880
Speaker 1: other than he's a jump ball specialist. He I think

1241
01:04:29,880 --> 01:04:33,640
Speaker 1: he's great uncontested catches, and that's what I'm streamely athletic,

1242
01:04:34,000 --> 01:04:36,960
Speaker 1: and and that's the flash, right, The flash was his

1243
01:04:37,040 --> 01:04:40,000
Speaker 1: jump ball ability, and we saw Kirk start to trust

1244
01:04:40,040 --> 01:04:42,560
Speaker 1: him a little bit more. Is Alex Smith going to

1245
01:04:42,960 --> 01:04:45,960
Speaker 1: be the guy that takes those chances with Josh Dotson?

1246
01:04:46,000 --> 01:04:48,640
Speaker 1: I mean that's the biggest question for his success. Is

1247
01:04:49,080 --> 01:04:51,520
Speaker 1: that going to be an opportunity for him? And is

1248
01:04:51,600 --> 01:04:55,200
Speaker 1: Gus you know, Geiss on paper is an upgrade huge

1249
01:04:55,200 --> 01:05:00,480
Speaker 1: talent wise, and I'm not ruling out that Alex is

1250
01:05:00,520 --> 01:05:03,960
Speaker 1: an upgrade on Cousins. I think it's probably Cousins is

1251
01:05:04,000 --> 01:05:06,880
Speaker 1: definitely a safer Like if he was still in Washington,

1252
01:05:07,000 --> 01:05:09,280
Speaker 1: I would trust it, but like it wouldn't surprise me

1253
01:05:09,640 --> 01:05:12,320
Speaker 1: a ton if Alex Smith has the similar numbers to

1254
01:05:12,360 --> 01:05:15,760
Speaker 1: what Kirk Cousins had in Washington. The run defense was

1255
01:05:15,800 --> 01:05:18,400
Speaker 1: a major problem last year, and I think that they

1256
01:05:18,520 --> 01:05:21,720
Speaker 1: addressed that really well in the draft, pairing Ron Payne

1257
01:05:21,760 --> 01:05:26,760
Speaker 1: with Jonathan Allen that that will definitely help. Yeah, yeah,

1258
01:05:27,080 --> 01:05:29,440
Speaker 1: you don't think. I don't know. I don't trust Bruce that.

1259
01:05:29,560 --> 01:05:33,240
Speaker 1: I don't trust their front office. I don't like they've

1260
01:05:33,280 --> 01:05:35,720
Speaker 1: they've brought it. They've brought in a ton of defensive

1261
01:05:35,720 --> 01:05:38,640
Speaker 1: lineman over the last four or five years, and everyone

1262
01:05:38,720 --> 01:05:40,600
Speaker 1: thinks that that year that they solved it, and then

1263
01:05:40,600 --> 01:05:42,800
Speaker 1: it never gets solved. And Jonathan Allen didn't really show

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Speaker 1: a lot last year, not that he's a bust or anything.

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Speaker 1: He was just hurt. Yeah, I thought he looked good

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Speaker 1: before he got injured. I like that personnel in the

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Speaker 1: front seven. But then you lose one of your best

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Speaker 1: cornerbacks in the in the trade that got you Alex Smith,

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Speaker 1: because he got sent to Kansas City. So the secondary

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Speaker 1: to me is a of a question mark, no more

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Speaker 1: D'Angelo hall. It's weird to look at a redskin sectary

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Speaker 1: with no d Hall. I just saw him down in

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Speaker 1: a meeting room at nine thirty in the morning. You know,

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Speaker 1: life comes at you fast. You're at a total access

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Speaker 1: prep meeting at ninth theory. But things can change, you know.

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Speaker 1: We we saw Matt Shaw walking through here a couple

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Speaker 1: of years ago, thinking oh yeah, and then he's been

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Speaker 1: on the falcons Ristmas. Yeah. Are you sure that wasn't

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Speaker 1: just like Steve from a county a ton of money.

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Speaker 1: If we were betting weather, Matt Shop would still be

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Speaker 1: in the league at two eighteen. That's amazing. Thanks change

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Speaker 1: quick well. We had ended with the only way it

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Speaker 1: could with Match Shop. Right. That's how we know. Good show,

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Speaker 1: Good show, good show. Um, when are we back? When

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Speaker 1: are you guys back? Monday, Wednesday, Friday. We're back to

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Speaker 1: that schedule. Uh, I believe through at least most of

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Speaker 1: the Mini Campo ti A season. Okay, so Dan, we'll

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Speaker 1: be back, Uh probably not us Laria May eleventh, he's

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Speaker 1: coming back. I guess I'm not sure how that all works.

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Speaker 1: I think he's just out of commission. Okay, He's just

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Speaker 1: like out of what if he gets sequestered? Dude, That's

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Speaker 1: exactly what I was thinking. I was like Mark Sessler

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Speaker 1: on like some double murder that I can't wait to

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Speaker 1: read the book, the success book. Yeah, it be like

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Speaker 1: The Juror by Mark Sessler, One Man's Battle with Conscience

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Speaker 1: and Crime or something like that. Oh, it's gonna get

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Speaker 1: weirder than that. Great. I kind of love this whole thing. Um,

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Speaker 1: all right, well that's it. That does it for us,

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Speaker 1: for Bond, Bond, the Mailman, the Boss, Lindsay Bolton by

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Speaker 1: the Glass, wait for it. So Monday