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Speaker 1: the double Door. Welcome to another edition of the Around

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Speaker 1: the NFL Podcast. My name is Dan Hansas, coming to

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Speaker 1: you from a room filled with heroes, Mark Sessler, Chris Westling,

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Speaker 1: and Greg Rosendolt. What is up, boys, Hey, Dan? Nice

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Speaker 1: best enjoy whatever is happening over here in January. You

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Speaker 1: start digging through the closet, bring out the big green best,

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Speaker 1: big green best. It's chili. People think, you know you

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Speaker 1: just hot all year round. Is it's like, you know,

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Speaker 1: my my lovely wife would say, well, what's the point

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Speaker 1: some evidence pointing to that hate strong. It's not a

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Speaker 1: huge fan. Um. We had a tragedy right before we

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Speaker 1: came upstairs. We taped an hour later last Thursday back

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Speaker 1: to our regular noontime Pacific which everyone on watching on

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Speaker 1: YouTube knows at this point. Uh, this Thursday show every

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Speaker 1: week you can catch on NFL dot com on YouTube.

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Speaker 1: I poor Greg. They did nice job at the commissary

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Speaker 1: at the huddle with with the Giro giro No only

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Speaker 1: I got mine a little bit earlier, knowing the twelve

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Speaker 1: Greg rose atal start takes takes his first giant fight

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Speaker 1: yetro were able to get down? Are you able to

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Speaker 1: salvage it? Did you put it in the fridge? Did

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Speaker 1: some shadowy League figures and the head of our news

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Speaker 1: know we had I had NFL now right before you know,

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Speaker 1: Last time Bomb shot it west with the last time

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Speaker 1: time I was here two days ago. I barely get

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Speaker 1: a home cooked meal at home, and I see Lakisha

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Speaker 1: running over these full newlywed meals, and it's like, damn,

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Speaker 1: I got my wife who does the cooking in my kitchen. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's fair. Well, wait till the child comes, many things

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Speaker 1: will change. I'm sure in your case us nothing will

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Speaker 1: change it all. Everything will stay static as it is today.

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Speaker 1: I am. I have never said that in order I

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Speaker 1: expect it. How exciting is it that we have reached

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Speaker 1: a visional round weekend famously the best weekend of the

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Speaker 1: football calendar for many, because you got rid of all

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Speaker 1: the floats them jet jetsam sometimes some years jets. Some

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Speaker 1: years you don't like the Mariota Titans two years ago

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Speaker 1: rid of Henry Titans and they're back for more. Right,

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Speaker 1: But that team was not winning any more. Games after

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Speaker 1: My point is, usually there's like one team that does

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Speaker 1: and remember, we gotta make locks. This is Greg. You

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Speaker 1: great all year and then suddenly it's like their seasons

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Speaker 1: over out of nowhere. I sort of hope I'm wrong.

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Speaker 1: Because they'd be a much I'm more fun. Yeah, they'd

430
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Speaker 1: be more that'd be a more fun super Bowl team

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Speaker 1: to cover. And the best Super Bowl possible I think

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Speaker 1: right now would include the forty Niners. All right, let's

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Speaker 1: move on to the late game on Saturday. It's an

434
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Speaker 1: eight fifteen Eastern kickoff the Tennessee Titans. Yes, fresh off

435
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Speaker 1: that huge win last week against the Patriots, ending the

436
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Speaker 1: dynasty in New England. It's over. Do we want to

437
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Speaker 1: talk about that? We've got We've got as much time

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Speaker 1: as we need, moving on, close the book, one of

439
00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:24,600
Speaker 1: the great runs and as you would say, can't hurt

440
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Speaker 1: me now. And it's so nice that to have a

441
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Speaker 1: weekend without the Patriots right now, it's kind of mind boggling.

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Speaker 1: Mark and I have had every January weekend without our

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Speaker 1: favorite teams for there um. All right, So the Titans,

444
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Speaker 1: after that huge win in New England, go on the

445
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Speaker 1: road and they get the best team in football, the

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Speaker 1: fourteen and two Baltimore Ravens, the first seed in the

447
00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:51,200
Speaker 1: a f c UH. They have not lost since September

448
00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:55,520
Speaker 1: twenty nine, two thousand and nineteen, winning and winning and winning.

449
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Speaker 1: What can stop the Ravens? Mark. What can stop the rave?

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Speaker 1: Is it the Titans? Well, I think the recipe would

451
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Speaker 1: need to be similar to what we saw last week,

452
00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:09,600
Speaker 1: where the Titans, similar to the Vikings, kind of just

453
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Speaker 1: feeling themselves right now, rolled right into New England and said,

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Speaker 1: we don't really care about the history here at Foxboro

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Speaker 1: or the fact that the greatest coach and the greatest

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Speaker 1: quarterback of our time are lining up against us and

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Speaker 1: now in Baltimore. You know, it's similar. You're dealing with

458
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Speaker 1: a force that is unlike any other team in the

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Speaker 1: league and you have to simply not care and go

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Speaker 1: do what you are. You can't change what you are

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Speaker 1: at this point, and it's not I wouldn't worry about

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Speaker 1: so much on defense because Greg, you pointed out in

463
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Speaker 1: your picks for this one that Cleveland kept Baltimore scoreless.

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Speaker 1: That you're at it like checking I like I like

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Speaker 1: checking out the work of my friends. That's how it works.

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Speaker 1: But you mentioned a good point that Cleveland went all

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Speaker 1: out to shut down Baltimore and kept them scoreless for

468
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Speaker 1: like almost the first half of that second time they

469
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Speaker 1: played each other, and you just then they found up

470
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Speaker 1: scoring like thirty three points. If you just cannot keep

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Speaker 1: Baltimore down. So the only antidote I would suggest would

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Speaker 1: be get I don't care if Derrick Henry had two

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Speaker 1: six rushing attempts last game. You do it again. You

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Speaker 1: do the best you can. This is your ticket out

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Speaker 1: of here, because I I look at the secondary and

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Speaker 1: don't know how a j. Smith's going to suddenly have

477
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Speaker 1: a big game against one of the better man coverage

478
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Speaker 1: secondaries in the league, something that Tannehill is specialized against.

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Speaker 1: But Marcus Peters and Jimmy Smith, good luck with that.

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Speaker 1: We'll see how that works. I think the doubts that

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Speaker 1: creep their way into the minds of otherwise uber confident

482
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Speaker 1: Ravens fans late at night take the form of Derrick

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Speaker 1: Henry's seventy five yard jugger not drive to close out

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Speaker 1: the first half against the Patriots. He I thought he

485
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Speaker 1: was as quick, explosive, um, big play oriented vision, everything,

486
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Speaker 1: as impressive as any power back I've ever seen in

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Speaker 1: my entire life. Last week. He was that good. And

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Speaker 1: he has what Priest Holmes and Levian Bell have referred

489
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Speaker 1: to the past as a flawless synchronicity with his offensive line,

490
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:06,280
Speaker 1: where his timing with his blockers, and the way his

491
00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:10,160
Speaker 1: blockers are playing is reaching that point where it's really

492
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Speaker 1: hard to stop, and nobody's really stopped it in two months.

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Speaker 1: It's just it's one of these rushing attacks you only

494
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Speaker 1: see come come along like once every three or four years.

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Speaker 1: And if you think of that raven secondary, he had

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Speaker 1: great and man coverage. I'd like to see Marcus Peters

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Speaker 1: try to tackle Derrick Henry or Jimmy Smith try to

498
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Speaker 1: tackle Derrick Henry. I the Patriots plan was to let Henry,

499
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Speaker 1: you know, run as much as he wanted and take

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Speaker 1: their chances that way. And the reason it didn't work

501
00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:39,240
Speaker 1: is because J. C. Jackson and and some of their

502
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Speaker 1: UH guys in the secondary couldn't get them to the ground.

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Speaker 1: So I think Henry does his best work outside and

504
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Speaker 1: that's what they're gonna want to do. Get him outside,

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Speaker 1: get him against that secondary. Even the linebackers for Baltimore,

506
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Speaker 1: you know, maybe aren't the greatest tacklers in the world,

507
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Speaker 1: and hope for the best that you can break some tackles.

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Speaker 1: I give credit to the Titans for because it's unorthodox

509
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Speaker 1: in the modern edif L to give a running back

510
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Speaker 1: back the ball almost seventy times over two weeks. But

511
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Speaker 1: it's like, we have something special here and we're not

512
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Speaker 1: gonna worry about running this guy into the ground because

513
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Speaker 1: he's one of the more special physical specimens that the

514
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Speaker 1: NFL has right now. I hope it's not a DeMarco

515
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Speaker 1: Murray situation, but that's also the reality of the business.

516
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Speaker 1: I would think they would want to stay in business

517
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Speaker 1: with a twenty six year old superstar coming off a

518
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:26,399
Speaker 1: rushing title, but you never know with this position, and UM,

519
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,360
Speaker 1: so good on them, and I expect that to happen more.

520
00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:31,880
Speaker 1: And you guys are saying Tannehill wasn't bad, and yes,

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Speaker 1: I mean it wasn't like he played poorly, just didn't

522
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Speaker 1: do much at all. I think the ticket for the

523
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Speaker 1: Titans here, they just gotta play their best game of

524
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Speaker 1: the season. They need to go on the road and

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Speaker 1: Tannehill has to be the guy that was shredding people.

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Speaker 1: He needs to make plays, and I think that Derrick

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Speaker 1: Henry has to have another huge game and then they

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Speaker 1: need a little help. On the other side. I think

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Speaker 1: that Ravens are that good where a lot of things

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Speaker 1: have to break Tennessee's way, and one of them is

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Speaker 1: here are the things. If you're a Ravens fan, also

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Speaker 1: you're worried about Derrick Henry. Obviously you're also maybe a

533
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Speaker 1: it'll nervous that this will be the first action of

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Speaker 1: consequence for the Ravens regulars. And twenty days when they

535
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Speaker 1: kick off. That's three weeks. It's good. We're just saying

536
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Speaker 1: it's great to have time off, but at what point

537
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Speaker 1: does rust that to the equation. The mark Ingram situation

538
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 1: is something to watch here. He practiced in full last

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Speaker 1: week during the bye week, then he has what seems

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Speaker 1: like a setback this week with a strange calf. He

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Speaker 1: did return to practice Thursday in a limited capacity, which

542
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:28,800
Speaker 1: obviously is trending in a good direction. Uh. And then

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Speaker 1: the last thing. I don't put much stock in this

544
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Speaker 1: at all, but it's worth saying that for three and

545
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Speaker 1: a half quarters last January and Lamar Jackson's only other

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Speaker 1: playoff game, uh, he was pretty bad. And and that

547
00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:42,480
Speaker 1: was against the Chargers. And that's ancient history now, But

548
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:44,960
Speaker 1: you know, maybe things linger in the mind in a

549
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:48,159
Speaker 1: in a big, huge playoff game. I still think the

550
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:50,880
Speaker 1: Ravens are going to win this game, but you could

551
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Speaker 1: squint and find ways to make this game something that

552
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,120
Speaker 1: people are not expecting, which is very close. I think

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Speaker 1: we would just need that. In that playoff loss last year,

554
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Speaker 1: and when the Ravens have been you know, damaged for

555
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 1: a half at a time or something, there's pressure on

556
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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, he's thrown off his element a little bit,

557
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,399
Speaker 1: or there's been mistakes. They just haven't made many mistakes

558
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 1: at all this year, but mark Ingram had a critical

559
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:14,240
Speaker 1: fumble in the Cleveland loss, and last year in that

560
00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 1: playoff game to Los Angeles, they were never he never

561
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Speaker 1: really gotten in rhythm. He kind of even did in

562
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:22,479
Speaker 1: the second just weren't I mean, they just weren't remotely

563
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Speaker 1: the same team. I mean this is the They ran

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Speaker 1: for more yard, not only than any team in end

565
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:28,680
Speaker 1: of history, they ran for more than they threw the ball.

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Speaker 1: I mean this, this running attack, This Ravens team is

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Speaker 1: so much different. They are a track team, and I

568
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:36,560
Speaker 1: think the only way to keep up with them is

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Speaker 1: the Titans are a bit of a track team too.

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Speaker 1: I mean Brown, Henry John new Smith, maybe Corey Davis.

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Speaker 1: Those are the guys they're gonna have to rip off

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Speaker 1: some fifty yard plays and I think win a game

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Speaker 1: that's in the thirties. There's no way this Titans defense

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Speaker 1: that has no pass rush is gonna keep the Ravens

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Speaker 1: under thirty. I think they just are gonna have to

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Speaker 1: somehow win a shootout. And you never know. Because Tannehill,

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Speaker 1: I think he had the top numbers in the league

578
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Speaker 1: against the Blitz twenty pass rating against Blitz. He had

579
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Speaker 1: some great throws against the Patriots against the Blitz, even

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Speaker 1: even though its numbers weren't great, he had three of

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Speaker 1: his top four throws in that game didn't count because

582
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Speaker 1: of either drops or penalty, but he made the throw.

583
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Speaker 1: But even like the third and nine that kind of

584
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:21,040
Speaker 1: clenched it in the in the touchdown, those were against pressure.

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Speaker 1: Uh and the Ravens Blitz more than anyone else makes

586
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:27,160
Speaker 1: them a little more vulnerable to a big play. Again,

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Speaker 1: We're coming up with all these reasons only because like

588
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 1: the Ravens are so good. I mean, there's everything I

589
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:34,960
Speaker 1: like about the Titans in this game. I like two

590
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:38,440
Speaker 1: things about the Ravens. I think Jeff Fisher put it

591
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Speaker 1: well in an interview this week. He said, when the

592
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Speaker 1: quarterback's got legs, you're a man short on d When

593
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:45,360
Speaker 1: he's got legs like Lamar Jackson, you're two men short.

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Speaker 1: You're basically playing nine on eleven when they've got Lamar

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Speaker 1: Jackson in the way he's played. But I do think

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Speaker 1: we've talked about Derrick Henry as one thing that Titans

597
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:56,320
Speaker 1: have for them, But it's not often that you see

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Speaker 1: a power back on a streak like this, with a

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Speaker 1: quarterback also on a streak like this. And Tannehill, like

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Speaker 1: Marcus said, like greg I said, his great numbers as

601
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Speaker 1: good as just about anybody league versus the blitz uh

602
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Speaker 1: and versus man demand coverage. Tannehill basically has great numbers

603
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:15,520
Speaker 1: versus everything this year. He's been that good, and they

604
00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 1: have the weapons to keep up. They Yeah, they just

605
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:21,360
Speaker 1: don't have the defense. I mean a Dorry Jackson being

606
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 1: back last week I think helps him a lot because

607
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:25,240
Speaker 1: they had such a big drop off from him. He

608
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:28,000
Speaker 1: didn't miss practice earlier. But it sounds like he's good

609
00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:31,120
Speaker 1: to go. You figure he's the guy guarding Marky's Brown.

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Speaker 1: The only defenses that had a little bit of success

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Speaker 1: against Baltimore made them one dimensional. They really shut down

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Speaker 1: the pass. I don't think you're gonna stop the run.

613
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Speaker 1: But but teams like the Bills and the forty nine

614
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Speaker 1: are shut down the past. At least they have kind

615
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Speaker 1: of a veteran coaching staff that I don't think. I

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Speaker 1: you don't know what they're gonna do. They change what

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00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:53,360
Speaker 1: they're like the Patriots and the Ravens and something. They

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Speaker 1: change who they are week to week. I think the

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Speaker 1: Patriots offense was shocked that the Titans came out last

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Speaker 1: week and they were They didn't do anything. They didn't

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Speaker 1: blitz them. They just said, hey, Tom Brady, beat us.

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Speaker 1: They didn't blitz I mean, they just sat back and

623
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:06,800
Speaker 1: they're like, we don't think you have the guys. We're

624
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,320
Speaker 1: not going to do anything. They didn't do anything exotic.

625
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 1: They just said beat us. You guys are trash, and

626
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 1: they're right. It's not gonna that that recipe feels less

627
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:17,960
Speaker 1: likely to succeed against That's what I mean. They're the

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00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 1: type of team that I think them could go the

629
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Speaker 1: total opposite way and get crazy this week. Whether that works.

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Speaker 1: I'm locking up the Ravens and I have it with

631
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:27,080
Speaker 1: no shame because I I am in a want a

632
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 1: little bit, because you already hinted earlier that I'm one

633
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:33,560
Speaker 1: game behind Greg, and like I I'm gonna have to

634
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,560
Speaker 1: go into showdown mode next week. I'm not. I'm not gonna.

635
00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 1: I think you could look in the mirror. But it's

636
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 1: just that was a bit of a tell when you

637
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 1: up anybody for this exact reason that they and you

638
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 1: already know what you're doing. You're trying to stir the pot.

639
00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 1: I could care less. I am taking them. They're gonna win,

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00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna next week and I have to figure

641
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 1: out what Greg doesn't You better hope the Ravens win too. Well.

642
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 1: If they lose them, I'm out and I that's the

643
00:31:56,320 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 1: way it goes. One thing that people sleep fun with

644
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 1: the Ravens is how great the defense has been. Because

645
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:06,800
Speaker 1: all this all this historic stuff going on on offense,

646
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 1: but this they finished West. You can help me out

647
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 1: with the d v o A on this, but they

648
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:13,840
Speaker 1: finished fourth in total defense, third in scoring. They didn't

649
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 1: get to the quarterback a ton, but they made big plays. Uh.

650
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 1: And they have not given up more than twenty points

651
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:21,200
Speaker 1: and we're just saying this needs to be a shootout

652
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:22,880
Speaker 1: for the Titans to win. They haven't given up more

653
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 1: than twenty points in a game since Week five. I

654
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:29,920
Speaker 1: mean they play on defense. I feel like they play outstanding,

655
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 1: complementary ball let Their aggressiveness on defense fits perfectly with

656
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:39,000
Speaker 1: what they do on offense. It's just it's awesome. I mean,

657
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 1: that's what That's what championships are usually made of. And

658
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:44,719
Speaker 1: and and beating them in Baltimore is going to take

659
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 1: a heroic Uh, let's pick it. Mark. You locked up

660
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 1: the Ravens. What's the score. I really admire what the

661
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:56,280
Speaker 1: Titans had done. But I'm gonna go thirty one twenty.

662
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:00,120
Speaker 1: I don't I think that it's going to not go

663
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:01,920
Speaker 1: the way it did last week for Tennessee on the

664
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:11,360
Speaker 1: ground West Ravens thirty eight, Titans thirty three, Ravens thirty seven,

665
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:18,320
Speaker 1: Titans twenty four. But Titans, hold your head high. You

666
00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 1: ended a dynasty. We're all proud of you. I mean

667
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 1: it was ending this week either way. Thirty five. All right,

668
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:31,160
Speaker 1: let's's head to the tunnel for halftime and do a

669
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 1: little bit of news. Keep pounding isn't just a slogan,

670
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 1: it's a way of life. That's what Matt rule sounds like.

671
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:47,240
Speaker 1: I mean, I thought this, this change of coaches was

672
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 1: maybe a chance to move on from from keep pounding.

673
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:53,480
Speaker 1: I mean, I know, Ricky, keep pounding is near, and

674
00:33:53,520 --> 00:34:00,680
Speaker 1: dear to your keep pounding sons. It's gonna be tough.

675
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 1: You might not think you're gonna get there, You're gonna

676
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:07,640
Speaker 1: be tired, but you got to. I mean, this is

677
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:11,800
Speaker 1: five years old now. It was cam like chopping wood,

678
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:14,359
Speaker 1: keep chopping wood. No, it's so different. It's like when

679
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:17,680
Speaker 1: when it is quite. Yeah, it's it. It could it

680
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:20,200
Speaker 1: could inspire our sound drop. You know, it could inspire

681
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:22,319
Speaker 1: orson wells. I think taking the Panthers all the way

682
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:26,479
Speaker 1: to Pound Town. Panthers signed that rule to that seven

683
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:30,279
Speaker 1: year deal. Seven years folks, and you would be uh

684
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:34,440
Speaker 1: speaking with a little pep as well at your press conference.

685
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 1: Any takeaways from the rule press or? I thought, he

686
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 1: you know, it's just what is winning a press conference? Mean,

687
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:44,440
Speaker 1: I don't know, but he reminded me of like a preacher.

688
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:48,839
Speaker 1: I mean, he's such an amazing public don't like, he's

689
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:51,960
Speaker 1: such a good public speaker. I think everyone watching that

690
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:55,840
Speaker 1: was just understood why he's he has them offering a

691
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:58,279
Speaker 1: seven year contract, and why every team that's met with

692
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:01,600
Speaker 1: him is wanted to do it, and and everything he said.

693
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:03,319
Speaker 1: I think is what you want to hear too, if

694
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 1: you were a player or a fan, like I don't

695
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 1: think he's he's walking in there saying my way or

696
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:12,360
Speaker 1: the highway. Uh yeah, it should be optimistic times in Carolin,

697
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 1: it seems like the kind of natural place to watch

698
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:19,439
Speaker 1: these pressers in our newsroom is one of cynicism, where

699
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 1: if anyone missteps or does anything that isn't appealing to

700
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:26,719
Speaker 1: everyone in the room, it's the guy is gonna get

701
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:29,880
Speaker 1: absolutely massacred inside the NFL Network newsroom. And a lot

702
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 1: of jokes and all that stuff, I get it, and

703
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 1: some of them have earned that because someone get up

704
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:35,319
Speaker 1: there and they don't seem prepared and they're spitting out

705
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 1: coach speak and mantras and philosophies. Rule hit me a

706
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:41,240
Speaker 1: totally different way. And we talked on Tuesday about how

707
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:44,280
Speaker 1: it was Temper the owner who went and really sold

708
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:47,359
Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers to rule. But I could easily see

709
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:51,160
Speaker 1: why any owner would be, you know, swayed immediately by

710
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:53,400
Speaker 1: this guy. He I don't think he's just a bunch

711
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:56,920
Speaker 1: of statements. Everywhere he's gone. He's transformed the program. And

712
00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:00,480
Speaker 1: does that happen in the pros totally different situation than college,

713
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 1: but a lot to like off of the first experience

714
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:06,799
Speaker 1: of seeing him. The recent history of college coaches with

715
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:11,560
Speaker 1: no NFL coordinator or head coaching experience is hideously ugly.

716
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:16,200
Speaker 1: It's that aside. I love the press conference and I am.

717
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 1: I think that Temper is the owner you want as

718
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:20,799
Speaker 1: a fan too. I think it's a great time to

719
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 1: be a Panthers fan. What do you think about? Temper

720
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:25,919
Speaker 1: tried to change the game in terms of the head

721
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:29,720
Speaker 1: coach introductory press conference. He went with lock up music

722
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:33,879
Speaker 1: for both him and Matt Rule, Um, which I thought

723
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 1: was fun for you know, for Tepper it was a

724
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:40,760
Speaker 1: magic Dragons Lightning in the thunder Matt Rule bringing Boom

725
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:42,800
Speaker 1: Boom by John Lee Hooker, one of the great blue

726
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 1: songs that was. That was a little better, but um,

727
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 1: when you were doing lightning in a thunder, it suddenly

728
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:50,799
Speaker 1: felt like it was like Silicon Valley and it's like

729
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:54,680
Speaker 1: that clip of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer like rocking

730
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:56,759
Speaker 1: out on the stage. I don't know if I needed that,

731
00:36:56,840 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 1: but that's by the way. Temper is a guy. You know,

732
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:02,560
Speaker 1: cool dad is the vibe I get off Temper, and

733
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:06,960
Speaker 1: it was like my my son's five and three, Imagine

734
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:09,920
Speaker 1: Dragons are the greatest, but they're the Beatles to my sons.

735
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 1: They think there's never been a better band than the

736
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:14,840
Speaker 1: Imagine Dragons. And then when they did that End of

737
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:19,439
Speaker 1: Decade all those retrospectives, like the four of the six

738
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:22,560
Speaker 1: biggest modern rock songs of the decade was Imagine Dragons.

739
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 1: So Temper probably crowdsourced this one from his people, and

740
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:28,239
Speaker 1: so we don't know, we'll connect me. I don't know.

741
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:32,279
Speaker 1: I think he's that, I think he's listening. I think

742
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:35,839
Speaker 1: he likes Imagine Dragons. Oh, he loves Imagine Dragons. Um.

743
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 1: All right. Then the press conference that really grabbed me. Yes,

744
00:37:40,719 --> 00:37:43,839
Speaker 1: it was Joe Judge. He is introduced by the New

745
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:46,960
Speaker 1: York Giants and you want to talk about winning a

746
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:49,680
Speaker 1: press conference. I'm not saying the jury could be out

747
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:51,279
Speaker 1: if you think he wanted it or not. But I've

748
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 1: never seen a guy that was more determined to win

749
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 1: a press conference, a man that clearly put in the work.

750
00:37:57,360 --> 00:37:59,680
Speaker 1: It's like West getting to the office early today and

751
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:03,960
Speaker 1: tape grinding. Uh tape dogg and uh. I couldn't believe it.

752
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:05,759
Speaker 1: It was basically a crack at dawn or West is

753
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:08,719
Speaker 1: at his desk just studying. Um, that's ever went to

754
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:11,719
Speaker 1: sleepless en. That's what I felt watching Joe Judge, who

755
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 1: who was intense, he never broke eye contact. It was

756
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 1: almost like if Bill Belichick could create like a protege

757
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:22,040
Speaker 1: head coach in a lab and then put it on

758
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 1: a stage and and have it talk and move, it

759
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:28,960
Speaker 1: would be Joe Judge. So did did I think it worked?

760
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I certainly I understood why people

761
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:33,359
Speaker 1: were impressed by it. Let's listen to a little bit

762
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:36,239
Speaker 1: of Joe Judge, who also did the great move of

763
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:39,000
Speaker 1: because the big thing around Joe Judge, of course, it's like,

764
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 1: who is this guy? Joe Judge? It's not about Well,

765
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:44,320
Speaker 1: maybe I can explain that a little bit better. But

766
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:46,359
Speaker 1: instead of saying who am I if by telling you

767
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:49,200
Speaker 1: what's relevant this conversation with being a coach New York Giants,

768
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:53,160
Speaker 1: what I'm about and what I'm about is an old

769
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 1: school physical mentality. It's a tough division in cities full

770
00:38:56,520 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 1: of tough people. People in this and they expect to

771
00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 1: see program, They expect to see a product that represents them.

772
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:05,720
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna do everything in my power every day

773
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:07,400
Speaker 1: to make sure the people of this city and this

774
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:10,520
Speaker 1: area turn on the TV or sit in the stadium

775
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:12,880
Speaker 1: seats and are proud to say that we're there, New

776
00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:17,560
Speaker 1: York Shiants. This dude put up. I'll go through the

777
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 1: wall for Joe Judge. All rise, baby, you're you're, you're,

778
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 1: Your heart was a flat. This is what you wanted

779
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:26,480
Speaker 1: out of Adam Gaze is opening. There was the opposite

780
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 1: of the Adam Gates in fact that talking to a

781
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:32,279
Speaker 1: very respected Jets Beats Beat reporter Adam Gates, one of

782
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:34,320
Speaker 1: the things that that was a disaster about his presser

783
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,440
Speaker 1: wasn't just that he was looking all over the place

784
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:40,520
Speaker 1: and and just was flighty. He was unprepared. And what

785
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 1: Gates didn't get in Gaze's big problems that he doesn't

786
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:45,520
Speaker 1: get things, is what this guy did get. And coming

787
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:48,400
Speaker 1: from Bill Belichick, you you are a prepared person. He

788
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 1: made sure he wanted to make a good first impression,

789
00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 1: and I think he really did. I think within the building,

790
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 1: I think with certain members of the media, the fan

791
00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:00,120
Speaker 1: base I think is gonna be all about this press or.

792
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 1: It's kind of what the Giants needed after what I

793
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 1: got there early and shook every reporter's hand before it started.

794
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:10,160
Speaker 1: He seems very um. I could see why the people

795
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 1: who revere Tom Coughlin liked. My favorite line of his

796
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:16,960
Speaker 1: from a tweet, Jude Judge says he's not interested in

797
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:20,480
Speaker 1: some fancy in quotes guru scheme, kind of just blowing

798
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:22,839
Speaker 1: up everything that everyone thinks they're about these days. He's

799
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:24,680
Speaker 1: just like, I'm gonna come in here and coach the giants.

800
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:27,560
Speaker 1: You know. Dan Steinberger, the Washington poach, had had one

801
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 1: of my favorite tweets ever last week. Life is a

802
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:33,440
Speaker 1: never any succession of NFL teams adding ping pong tables

803
00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:36,239
Speaker 1: with stories about how they're finally coming together as a

804
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 1: family and enjoying each other's company, and NFL teams removing

805
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:42,239
Speaker 1: ping ping pong tables with a story about how they're

806
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 1: finally taking football seriously. And this is sort of a

807
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:48,839
Speaker 1: coral area of that. We're done pussy footing around with this,

808
00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:53,799
Speaker 1: with this fancy offense stuff. We're going defense, toughness, physicality,

809
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:58,319
Speaker 1: which marries up you can see what Dave Gentelman likes

810
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:01,759
Speaker 1: about it, so that I also go ahead, no, just

811
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:05,040
Speaker 1: gonna say. ESPN dot Com reports that Judge is expected

812
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:07,640
Speaker 1: to speak with former Brown's head coach Freddie Kitchens about

813
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:10,280
Speaker 1: being part of the team's offensive staff. They worked together

814
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:14,720
Speaker 1: for a long time in the past in some college stops.

815
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:19,280
Speaker 1: One point, Freddie Kitchens, when Judge was just uh younger

816
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 1: on the totem pole made I've never been on an airplane.

817
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:26,200
Speaker 1: Who's switched one saying that Freddie Kitchens, it's he's gone.

818
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:29,480
Speaker 1: I know, but that feels slightly. This is what it's

819
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:32,280
Speaker 1: what Dan and Damage used to say about me. Rights.

820
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:35,040
Speaker 1: It's gotta be a reality show, Freddie Freddy in the

821
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 1: big city like, uh so, this is Tom Square, down

822
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:44,520
Speaker 1: on his luck, coach tries to revive his career. It's

823
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 1: a big half had about of potential. Joe Judge down

824
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:50,239
Speaker 1: on his luck, making like six million a year to

825
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:55,680
Speaker 1: do nothing right. Joe Judge had an interesting back. He

826
00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 1: he used to be a kindergarten pe coach and you

827
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 1: could tote only imagine that that of him as a

828
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:05,800
Speaker 1: pe coach. And and if he dealt with the problems

829
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 1: in kindergarten, he could deal with them on the football field.

830
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:13,799
Speaker 1: What I learned coaching pe okay for three days in

831
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:19,759
Speaker 1: West Point School district, the patients you have with children, Okay,

832
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:21,880
Speaker 1: I mean I had kids, you know, dancing on the

833
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 1: window sills. I had kids, you know, peeing themselves. I

834
00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:28,239
Speaker 1: had kids doing everything. I just liked hearing them. A

835
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:34,640
Speaker 1: terrible substitute kids peeing. Introductory pressing, Um, alright, coach judge,

836
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:37,160
Speaker 1: and then Mike McCarthy and anybody have a takeaway from that.

837
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:41,080
Speaker 1: I regrettably missed the Mike McCarthy introductory press conference in Dallas.

838
00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:46,080
Speaker 1: I it was what you would expect, a lot of backslapping,

839
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 1: and you could you could tell him buying into the

840
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:53,759
Speaker 1: Cowboys mystique was sort of important. Like he talked about

841
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:58,760
Speaker 1: how he told the story of how Jerry Jones finished

842
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:01,200
Speaker 1: this long speech of out the history of the Cowboys,

843
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:03,200
Speaker 1: which he basically gave it the press conference too, and

844
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:05,400
Speaker 1: then he stood up and he said, and you're the

845
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 1: man to be the next Cowboys head coach. And then

846
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 1: you know, Mike McCarthy, you know, gave him a hug

847
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:12,719
Speaker 1: and he said, I knew at that moment I would

848
00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:14,759
Speaker 1: be telling that story for the rest of my life.

849
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:17,920
Speaker 1: Like he's you know, I think that's what Jerry wants.

850
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:20,719
Speaker 1: He wants someone who's gonna totally buy in. Doesn't mean

851
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:23,719
Speaker 1: he's gonna do a bad job of it at all.

852
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:27,680
Speaker 1: But he seemed perfectly comfortable up there, like making Suddenly,

853
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:30,000
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy is like cracking a lot of jokes about

854
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:36,279
Speaker 1: you know it's or whatever. Yeah. He also he told

855
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones that he diligently poured over tape of every

856
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:42,800
Speaker 1: single Cowboys game from last season. Then during the press

857
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:46,439
Speaker 1: conference oddly took that back and said that wasn't true,

858
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:49,359
Speaker 1: but he's glad. He told Jerry, yeah, that's right, he said. Yeah.

859
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:51,920
Speaker 1: They were like, oh, yes, he watched every Cowboys play,

860
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 1: you know, as you and he was like, wow, you

861
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:55,719
Speaker 1: know you say some things when you're in interviews to

862
00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:58,640
Speaker 1: get the job. Oh my god, I guess it is

863
00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 1: too late. They pen has gone to paper. Part of

864
00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:04,319
Speaker 1: the Cowboys mystique is real though, Like the facilities, there

865
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:08,799
Speaker 1: are more good talking about. The history is a little

866
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:11,279
Speaker 1: richer than some other. Player ratings are higher, and there's

867
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:13,319
Speaker 1: way more eyeballs on what you're doing. There's way more

868
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:16,080
Speaker 1: people who care about your team than most franchises. And

869
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:19,760
Speaker 1: and unlike you know, rule is going with these position.

870
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 1: Coaches are college coaches, at least as coordinator that have

871
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:24,480
Speaker 1: no experience that we don't know much about. You know,

872
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:27,319
Speaker 1: McCarthy's assembling kind of an all star calft and I

873
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:29,480
Speaker 1: think that's what he was getting, you know, hired for

874
00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:33,960
Speaker 1: bones fossil uh is coming from the Rams? How about that?

875
00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:36,279
Speaker 1: That's that I found to be one of the biggest news.

876
00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:38,680
Speaker 1: I don't know. Joey Phillips, I think is going to

877
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:41,360
Speaker 1: do the offensive line. So he is a guy that

878
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:43,000
Speaker 1: has a lot of connecting. He's been in the league.

879
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:45,920
Speaker 1: He has yet staff ready to go and killing the

880
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 1: Rams are losing bones and Wade Phillips. Okay, uh, Ricky,

881
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:51,840
Speaker 1: you you had to take away from the pressers to

882
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:53,560
Speaker 1: I just think we had a lot of great pressers,

883
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 1: but I feel like this was my most favorite moment.

884
00:44:56,560 --> 00:45:02,319
Speaker 1: And we're interviewing were going on in Marty Hernie, you know,

885
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:04,720
Speaker 1: so you know, Marty is going with this toughness is questions.

886
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:10,080
Speaker 1: That was cool, dad mocking funny to me. Like to

887
00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:13,360
Speaker 1: hear that on the TVs and it had like no contact.

888
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:16,200
Speaker 1: You know, years ago I could have translated that for you.

889
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:19,680
Speaker 1: Marty Hernie was still technically the GM of the Panthers. Right.

890
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:22,839
Speaker 1: It's funny. I was listening back to our great Peter

891
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:26,160
Speaker 1: Schreeger conversation, and Schreeger made a point like one of

892
00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:28,520
Speaker 1: the reasons why Panthers were able to seal the deal

893
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:32,320
Speaker 1: with rules like it was just one on one mano Imano,

894
00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:35,440
Speaker 1: and it was it was the owner Tepper straight to

895
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:38,160
Speaker 1: rule and the Giants had a four man army that

896
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:41,680
Speaker 1: needed to work things out. That was Marty heard even

897
00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:44,279
Speaker 1: like invited to any part of this process like this

898
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:47,720
Speaker 1: is worse than how he rosemen under. It's very similar.

899
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:50,360
Speaker 1: He would not be doing these little mocking voices of

900
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:53,919
Speaker 1: Hernie if Ernie was in the position of power party quit.

901
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:58,879
Speaker 1: No job's worth it. Hey, I keep your dignity, bro.

902
00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:02,960
Speaker 1: I disagreed. That's five. Whatever he's making to do, whatever

903
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:05,959
Speaker 1: he's doing, it's gonna be setting up the Hernie grandchildren

904
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:08,279
Speaker 1: for years. Just keep your mouth. Tepper is doing the

905
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:10,560
Speaker 1: total CEO thing. Whenever you take over a company, you

906
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:13,120
Speaker 1: spend the first year or two making it very clear

907
00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:15,200
Speaker 1: that you're the dude and no one else will challenge

908
00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:17,480
Speaker 1: you on any level. And he's has some experience all

909
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:22,239
Speaker 1: these yellow toxic Martyn has never been to a southern state.

910
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:24,920
Speaker 1: Apparently like this is like the eighth person he's slashing

911
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:27,840
Speaker 1: through based on dialect. He's from New York. We know

912
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:31,640
Speaker 1: what he thinks about. That's not true. It is entirely true.

913
00:46:32,080 --> 00:46:35,160
Speaker 1: So you can't see, you can't go. Dan only loves America.

914
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:37,520
Speaker 1: And now you're gonna narrow me down further. Yes, we

915
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:41,600
Speaker 1: can do that the entire continental United States. Alaska, I

916
00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:43,880
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know about Alaska. I love Alaska,

917
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:47,239
Speaker 1: all right, I'm in Alaska to love. Did my honeymoon there?

918
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:51,480
Speaker 1: Give me all fifty All right, let's get back to it.

919
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:55,720
Speaker 1: That's what's happening. America now feeling so much better about itself. Uh,

920
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:58,879
Speaker 1: let's go with the Sunday games starting three oh five

921
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:03,280
Speaker 1: Eastern kick off the Houston Texans at the Kansas City Chiefs.

922
00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:06,000
Speaker 1: So of course the Chiefs coming off the bye and

923
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:09,799
Speaker 1: they are ready to roll. They got some demons. We

924
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:14,400
Speaker 1: know that the divisional round Arrowhead Stadium. Some bad stuff

925
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:18,080
Speaker 1: has happened there in the last years. But this is

926
00:47:18,120 --> 00:47:20,960
Speaker 1: a fresh start, and they get the Texans greg Um

927
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:24,759
Speaker 1: who obviously had that great comeback against the Bills. But

928
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:27,120
Speaker 1: also if you're the Chiefs, You could watch that game

929
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:29,960
Speaker 1: last Saturday and be like, oh, we got this, we

930
00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:33,360
Speaker 1: got this right. If yeah, if they play that way again,

931
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:37,480
Speaker 1: if the offensive line doesn't show up. That was the

932
00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:41,120
Speaker 1: takeaway I had after having a really good season overall

933
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:44,160
Speaker 1: protecting Deshaun Watson, they were a total mess. And I

934
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:47,120
Speaker 1: would say that that really continued in the fourth quarter,

935
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:50,120
Speaker 1: that this was a game where re watching it, it

936
00:47:50,239 --> 00:47:53,319
Speaker 1: really made me appreciate everything Deshaun Watson did. I think

937
00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:56,000
Speaker 1: West hit the nail on the head when he said

938
00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:58,880
Speaker 1: star players kind of stepping up in the fourth quarter

939
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:01,759
Speaker 1: and taking over because Watson wasn't getting a ton of help.

940
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:04,800
Speaker 1: Hopkins made plays on his own. Every time Duke Johnson

941
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:07,759
Speaker 1: touched the ball. What a great game. Look he he

942
00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:10,920
Speaker 1: made a huge play, six touches, almost all of them,

943
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 1: he made a huge play, merciless ended three drives in

944
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:16,279
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter alone with big plays. And we've talked

945
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:19,120
Speaker 1: about J. J. Watt. This was the players and the

946
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:21,880
Speaker 1: takeaway I would have if I'm watching Kansas City, I'm

947
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:25,880
Speaker 1: Steve Spagnola's They could not identify where the pressure was

948
00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:28,440
Speaker 1: coming from. And this is kind of an old Texans

949
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:32,080
Speaker 1: problem and whatever it is that McDermott was doing in

950
00:48:32,160 --> 00:48:36,960
Speaker 1: terms of how he was sending people the offensive line, Watson,

951
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:40,799
Speaker 1: the coaching staff. I didn't know what to do. There

952
00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:43,080
Speaker 1: were so many times in that game where they max

953
00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:47,960
Speaker 1: protected like six seven players to block four, and there

954
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:50,440
Speaker 1: was a free rusher where two guys are Garden to

955
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:52,920
Speaker 1: another two guys are Garden two, and then up the

956
00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:55,239
Speaker 1: like and then there's a free rush and you just can't, like,

957
00:48:55,400 --> 00:48:57,960
Speaker 1: you just cannot win. And who is great greater at

958
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:00,560
Speaker 1: doing that than Steve Spagnolo. He's done a great job

959
00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:03,400
Speaker 1: with that all year, and he's got the players, Chris Jones,

960
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:06,280
Speaker 1: Frank Clark. The last time we saw them, they were bawling.

961
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:11,360
Speaker 1: And I just think that's a mismatch that that the Texans.

962
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:13,359
Speaker 1: There's no part of their team to me that gives

963
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:16,040
Speaker 1: the Chiefs as big of a mismatch as that could be.

964
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:20,320
Speaker 1: I think it's heartwarming how much you've warmed to Steve

965
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:22,600
Speaker 1: Spagnolo and have credited him all year. It's had a

966
00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:24,560
Speaker 1: good year, and I think you mentioned what they've got

967
00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:27,720
Speaker 1: going up front. This is the third time now in

968
00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:30,160
Speaker 1: in Honey Badger's career where we've seen him reach all

969
00:49:30,200 --> 00:49:33,160
Speaker 1: pro level and sustain it for months at a time.

970
00:49:33,719 --> 00:49:37,080
Speaker 1: And they've been I believe, the number one defense in

971
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:40,480
Speaker 1: the NFL since Week eleven, also the number one passer

972
00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:45,600
Speaker 1: rating against since Week eleven, stingiest past defense in the league.

973
00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:48,280
Speaker 1: This is a transformed defense, and I think it starts

974
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:50,760
Speaker 1: with Honey Badger, and I know they lost one Thornhill,

975
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:53,359
Speaker 1: but they've got an experienced guy and Daniel Sorenson who

976
00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:55,560
Speaker 1: steps right in and they don't lose much there. That's

977
00:49:55,600 --> 00:49:58,640
Speaker 1: why I throw out the Week six result largely where

978
00:49:58,760 --> 00:50:01,520
Speaker 1: they put up thirty one point on Kansas City. And

979
00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:04,319
Speaker 1: you know, you can look at what Seattle did and say, well,

980
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:06,399
Speaker 1: you dealt with Josh mccount. Of course, so we don't.

981
00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:07,920
Speaker 1: We don't want to see what they go when they

982
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:10,640
Speaker 1: go to deal with the real opponent. But I the

983
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:13,560
Speaker 1: Texans game, to me, the Bills learned a lot, I

984
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:15,840
Speaker 1: hope as an organization because they came in with zero

985
00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:18,320
Speaker 1: game plan in the second half, showed no ability. You

986
00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:20,759
Speaker 1: can talk about the Texans not scheming well for certain things.

987
00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:23,960
Speaker 1: I mean they faced a team that just completely fell apart,

988
00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:25,480
Speaker 1: and the Chiefs are not going to do that With

989
00:50:25,560 --> 00:50:27,880
Speaker 1: Andy Reid. I understand that any read in the playoffs

990
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:30,520
Speaker 1: has been a different experience. But that's not Patrick Mahomes

991
00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:33,279
Speaker 1: and Andy Reid and there are another team. They've been

992
00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:35,399
Speaker 1: gone for a bit. You can kind of forget about him.

993
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:39,439
Speaker 1: But Travis Keltzy, I mean Tyreek Hill, Patrick Mahomes, I

994
00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:42,160
Speaker 1: don't see any problem with knocking out of Texas team

995
00:50:42,239 --> 00:50:44,880
Speaker 1: that you know you traded for Laramy Tunsil and you

996
00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:48,320
Speaker 1: know he was a penalty machine last weekend. What was

997
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:50,400
Speaker 1: going on there and getting protect either. I think he

998
00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:53,520
Speaker 1: had his worst game of the season. And and that's

999
00:50:53,880 --> 00:50:56,080
Speaker 1: partly why this Chief's team is different. That the Texans

1000
00:50:56,120 --> 00:50:59,320
Speaker 1: are different too, because of especially if will Fuller plays

1001
00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:01,359
Speaker 1: and and why is himself, Well, he's not gonna drop

1002
00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:04,520
Speaker 1: three touchdown passes again like he did in Week six, right, um,

1003
00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:08,080
Speaker 1: But the Chiefs kind of rarely had all their guys together.

1004
00:51:08,520 --> 00:51:11,279
Speaker 1: And now you've got McCole, Hardman, Damian Williams. I think

1005
00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:14,280
Speaker 1: adds a lot compared to what else they were rolling

1006
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:16,960
Speaker 1: out there. Frank Clark wasn't really healthy for much of

1007
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:18,880
Speaker 1: the year, but finnished very strong, so they're they're a

1008
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:21,560
Speaker 1: healthier team than they used to be. Clark had seven sacks,

1009
00:51:21,719 --> 00:51:25,000
Speaker 1: eleven QB hits, nine tackles for loss, three passes knocked

1010
00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:27,480
Speaker 1: down in the last eight games. That's what this game

1011
00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:31,600
Speaker 1: comes down to for me, is after that Neil Hunter production. Yeah,

1012
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:35,600
Speaker 1: after that terrible and after that terrible performance by Tunsil

1013
00:51:35,640 --> 00:51:38,759
Speaker 1: and the Texans. If they if they deliver that type

1014
00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:41,279
Speaker 1: of performance again, this game is gonna be ugly. It's

1015
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:44,360
Speaker 1: gonna be one of those Bill O'Brien losses that you

1016
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:51,120
Speaker 1: know Wesselby dancing in his cubicle over. But I'm telling

1017
00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:53,319
Speaker 1: you that that this game, this is the game team

1018
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:56,240
Speaker 1: that is most likely to end up in a grizzly manner.

1019
00:51:56,360 --> 00:51:58,439
Speaker 1: And that's why I'm locking up the Chiefs this week.

1020
00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:01,040
Speaker 1: I'm also locking up the Chiefs this week. Okay, good?

1021
00:52:01,160 --> 00:52:03,680
Speaker 1: So am I Wow, we're all together? You're locking him up.

1022
00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:07,160
Speaker 1: I I adore this. I mean, I'm not exactly because

1023
00:52:07,160 --> 00:52:10,680
Speaker 1: there is another scenario where Shaun Watson just special strange

1024
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:13,879
Speaker 1: things and everything goes weird. Absolutely. I think I think

1025
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:16,280
Speaker 1: there's a route for every one of these underdog teams

1026
00:52:16,280 --> 00:52:18,560
Speaker 1: to win, But this one I just felt slightly better.

1027
00:52:18,840 --> 00:52:23,400
Speaker 1: I'm Gonta only because I need to make up ground

1028
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:27,160
Speaker 1: here is this the Ryan paceball? The Ryan paceball? Yes? What?

1029
00:52:27,160 --> 00:52:30,080
Speaker 1: Why is it the Ryan paceball? He bypassed both of

1030
00:52:30,120 --> 00:52:34,879
Speaker 1: these quarterbacks to bowl? Is the right? Right? That would

1031
00:52:34,880 --> 00:52:37,719
Speaker 1: be the concern because Watson, I think played really well

1032
00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:40,920
Speaker 1: last week. You wonder if they they'll make him running

1033
00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:43,800
Speaker 1: a little bigger part of the game plan, like going

1034
00:52:43,840 --> 00:52:46,359
Speaker 1: into it. He ran more last week than he did

1035
00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:50,560
Speaker 1: all season. He's he's run less and less every year

1036
00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:53,799
Speaker 1: of his career in terms of times per game. And

1037
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:58,040
Speaker 1: yet it's such a big weapon and if guys, if

1038
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:00,799
Speaker 1: ever you're gonna break it out, it feels like this

1039
00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:03,840
Speaker 1: would be the week. He's to me so close to

1040
00:53:03,920 --> 00:53:07,359
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson to where you you gotta drive a stake

1041
00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:09,520
Speaker 1: through Russell Wilson's heart to kill him, to make him

1042
00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:13,480
Speaker 1: stop coming back. And Deshaun Watson is the same way.

1043
00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:15,719
Speaker 1: They both make pretty good decisions with the I mean

1044
00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:17,920
Speaker 1: great decisions with the ball in their hands. They're not

1045
00:53:17,960 --> 00:53:21,239
Speaker 1: just runners, they're great decisions. I mean, Dan, you know

1046
00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:24,200
Speaker 1: in those like the the old films about being out

1047
00:53:24,200 --> 00:53:27,040
Speaker 1: in the jungle and they'd be traveling through and then

1048
00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:28,799
Speaker 1: you'd fall under one of those traps where it's a

1049
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:30,560
Speaker 1: bunch of sticks and leaves and there's just a big

1050
00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:32,520
Speaker 1: west and Greg just went right in that hole. You

1051
00:53:32,680 --> 00:53:38,840
Speaker 1: just you just saved yourself if I waited till the

1052
00:53:38,920 --> 00:53:40,840
Speaker 1: end of the segment and then then you would have

1053
00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:43,080
Speaker 1: just been stuck. Like someone throws a vine. I pulled

1054
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:45,480
Speaker 1: up and there's Mark and he looks so hot, just

1055
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:48,359
Speaker 1: like he's wearing like a Safari outfit and a little

1056
00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:50,840
Speaker 1: bit of sweat, but a little bit of dirt. But

1057
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:55,000
Speaker 1: also just like I've never seen his body looks so great. Yeh,

1058
00:53:55,080 --> 00:53:59,760
Speaker 1: keep pounding. Um, I'm not concerned about that cartoon scenario.

1059
00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:03,839
Speaker 1: You it out there, don't be about it on Sunday night. Yeah,

1060
00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:07,520
Speaker 1: concerned about your Let me let me say the people

1061
00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:11,520
Speaker 1: should kind of check themselves a little bit, as like

1062
00:54:11,560 --> 00:54:13,759
Speaker 1: with playing the will Fuller's back so the Texans will

1063
00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:17,440
Speaker 1: be back with their offense. Um, because how do we

1064
00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:19,239
Speaker 1: know if this guy's got any if he's got more

1065
00:54:19,280 --> 00:54:21,000
Speaker 1: than three series? And I guess you could say the

1066
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:23,479
Speaker 1: same thing last week about j J. J. J Watt

1067
00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:29,520
Speaker 1: a superhuman running three and J. J. Watt frankly did

1068
00:54:29,520 --> 00:54:31,520
Speaker 1: not you know. I think if they look at last

1069
00:54:31,520 --> 00:54:34,000
Speaker 1: week's game, he'll probably be stronger this week, but they

1070
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:36,239
Speaker 1: struggled on some of those runs to the outside, a

1071
00:54:36,320 --> 00:54:39,239
Speaker 1: lot of the misdirection. He had kind of a on J. J.

1072
00:54:39,360 --> 00:54:42,040
Speaker 1: Watt game. As as a run defender, well, he wasn't

1073
00:54:42,040 --> 00:54:44,359
Speaker 1: even on the field for run players early, which is why,

1074
00:54:44,440 --> 00:54:46,480
Speaker 1: which is why I think they kept him off was

1075
00:54:46,560 --> 00:54:49,200
Speaker 1: maybe that wasn't gonna be his m O right coming

1076
00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:50,680
Speaker 1: right off to bed and maybe he'll be better. But

1077
00:54:50,719 --> 00:54:54,919
Speaker 1: if you think about they're like speed at linebacker and

1078
00:54:55,440 --> 00:54:58,319
Speaker 1: just the things that Kansas City can do in terms

1079
00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:02,600
Speaker 1: of running, whether it's hard Aman or Hill or Williams

1080
00:55:02,600 --> 00:55:05,120
Speaker 1: on these end a rounds. I mean, man, Andy Reid

1081
00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:07,600
Speaker 1: with a couple of weeks off, he just he's gonna

1082
00:55:07,640 --> 00:55:09,720
Speaker 1: throw a lot at you and test like the edges.

1083
00:55:09,760 --> 00:55:12,799
Speaker 1: It's the defense I think Watson might play right, and

1084
00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:15,440
Speaker 1: it's just the defense. I can't imagine for Houston to

1085
00:55:15,920 --> 00:55:18,600
Speaker 1: Hill against these cornerbacks. I mean, I just had visions

1086
00:55:18,640 --> 00:55:20,640
Speaker 1: of that Steve Smith game against the Bears where he's

1087
00:55:20,680 --> 00:55:23,279
Speaker 1: just going bonkers for two yards. All right, let's pick it.

1088
00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:33,640
Speaker 1: Mark Um Kansas City thirty two, Texans, Chiefs thirty four,

1089
00:55:33,880 --> 00:55:39,600
Speaker 1: Texans eighteen. I got Chiefs forty Texans ten. Has any

1090
00:55:39,680 --> 00:55:46,400
Speaker 1: humans ever tracked these Chiefs not locking it up? No,

1091
00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:47,920
Speaker 1: I did lock him up, but I had to pull

1092
00:55:47,960 --> 00:55:50,720
Speaker 1: out for them down two games, so I gotta go

1093
00:55:50,719 --> 00:55:54,520
Speaker 1: go back in that trap. I have the Chiefs thirty seven,

1094
00:55:55,600 --> 00:55:59,800
Speaker 1: the Texans seven. Watch out for this guy, Rashad Fenton.

1095
00:56:00,120 --> 00:56:04,080
Speaker 1: They suddenly played him in week seventeen last and yeah,

1096
00:56:04,120 --> 00:56:06,479
Speaker 1: he's a cornerback for the Chiefs and he bawled out

1097
00:56:06,520 --> 00:56:08,640
Speaker 1: and he might be who knows. I wouldn't be surprised

1098
00:56:08,640 --> 00:56:11,040
Speaker 1: if he's starting this game. The final game of Divisional

1099
00:56:11,160 --> 00:56:15,799
Speaker 1: Round weekend is a six forty pm kickoff Eastern Seahawks

1100
00:56:15,960 --> 00:56:22,200
Speaker 1: at Packers. Seahawks survive the Eagles see squad last week.

1101
00:56:22,719 --> 00:56:24,960
Speaker 1: UH need to be better to beat the Packers, but

1102
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:29,399
Speaker 1: we also don't know quite what to expect, greg from

1103
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:33,160
Speaker 1: the Packers, who coming off of bye week and their

1104
00:56:33,239 --> 00:56:35,920
Speaker 1: last here's a here's a number of very interesting. Actually

1105
00:56:35,960 --> 00:56:37,759
Speaker 1: I didn't even notice this, but their last four weeks

1106
00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:40,960
Speaker 1: of the season twenty points, one points, twenty three points,

1107
00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:43,760
Speaker 1: twenty three points. They just don't score a lot of points,

1108
00:56:43,760 --> 00:56:46,720
Speaker 1: and that removes margin of era for any team, especially

1109
00:56:46,800 --> 00:56:51,880
Speaker 1: a top seed. It's unbelievable to enter a Packers playoff

1110
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:56,200
Speaker 1: game where they're at a disadvantage at quarterback and think,

1111
00:56:56,520 --> 00:56:59,359
Speaker 1: I mean it's not arguable. I mean, who knows. Maybe

1112
00:56:59,440 --> 00:57:01,919
Speaker 1: Rogers play is great, but he wasn't. Would find people

1113
00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:04,839
Speaker 1: that would argue, but he wouldn't. He wasn't in the

1114
00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:08,040
Speaker 1: class of Russell Wilson throughout the season and certainly not

1115
00:57:08,280 --> 00:57:11,960
Speaker 1: you know in December how Rogers was playing. I mean

1116
00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:14,319
Speaker 1: it's probably back who was their quarterback the last time

1117
00:57:14,360 --> 00:57:17,200
Speaker 1: they would have had a disadvantage. Did Don mccowski ever

1118
00:57:17,240 --> 00:57:19,200
Speaker 1: make the playoffs? I don't think he ever did. Yes

1119
00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:21,480
Speaker 1: he did. I mean he didn't get the nickname magic

1120
00:57:21,520 --> 00:57:26,320
Speaker 1: Man for nothing. Greg And hopefully hopefully UM Seattle recognizes

1121
00:57:26,400 --> 00:57:29,480
Speaker 1: that and they let Russ eat, you know, let him

1122
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:33,640
Speaker 1: cook Russ versus the world, bombs away, throw on early downs,

1123
00:57:33,680 --> 00:57:36,480
Speaker 1: don't wait till third intend. If you're Mike Patton and

1124
00:57:36,520 --> 00:57:38,960
Speaker 1: you saw what happened last game with the Seahawks, you're like, yeah,

1125
00:57:39,040 --> 00:57:42,760
Speaker 1: please run Travis Homer between the tackles against Clinic Clark.

1126
00:57:43,280 --> 00:57:44,959
Speaker 1: So what I'm kind of saying, same thing with Brian

1127
00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:47,200
Speaker 1: Schattenheimer is the same thing with Bill O'Brien in the

1128
00:57:47,280 --> 00:57:50,840
Speaker 1: last game week talk. You know, watch this game film,

1129
00:57:50,880 --> 00:57:52,960
Speaker 1: see what didn't work last week, and you know, lean

1130
00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:55,600
Speaker 1: on what works and do what Russell Wilson does best,

1131
00:57:55,600 --> 00:57:59,200
Speaker 1: which is bombing teams into oblivion, making plays with his legs,

1132
00:57:59,240 --> 00:58:01,960
Speaker 1: just like the Sean Wauson shouldn't be waiting until the

1133
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:04,240
Speaker 1: third quarter to be using his legs to make the

1134
00:58:04,280 --> 00:58:07,840
Speaker 1: offense move. Uh. Schottenheimer is always a guy that's a

1135
00:58:07,840 --> 00:58:10,280
Speaker 1: figure that you study and say, oh, is he part

1136
00:58:10,280 --> 00:58:12,919
Speaker 1: of the solution or the problem? Um? But I don't

1137
00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:15,760
Speaker 1: think this is a game where you need a monster

1138
00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:18,800
Speaker 1: performance from the Seattle offense. It just doesn't seem like

1139
00:58:18,840 --> 00:58:21,880
Speaker 1: why not why not go for one? Well, I mean

1140
00:58:21,880 --> 00:58:24,440
Speaker 1: sure they'll try. I mean they also feel like a

1141
00:58:24,480 --> 00:58:26,919
Speaker 1: car where like running out of gas. I mean you

1142
00:58:26,920 --> 00:58:29,440
Speaker 1: you're you don't have your top three running backs. We

1143
00:58:29,480 --> 00:58:31,920
Speaker 1: don't know what's happening with Dwayne Brown. There's whispered cities

1144
00:58:31,960 --> 00:58:33,760
Speaker 1: might that he might play. But Pete Carroll kind of

1145
00:58:33,800 --> 00:58:37,600
Speaker 1: famously kind of over those situations ons he pumps up

1146
00:58:37,600 --> 00:58:40,960
Speaker 1: with the available. I think they had four offensive lineman

1147
00:58:40,960 --> 00:58:45,240
Speaker 1: miss four practice. Iggyanza will distly has been gone forever

1148
00:58:45,320 --> 00:58:47,400
Speaker 1: Michael Kendricks went to our I mean, this is a roster.

1149
00:58:47,800 --> 00:58:49,880
Speaker 1: You know, we're talking about the the Niners and the

1150
00:58:49,960 --> 00:58:52,720
Speaker 1: Vikings and other teams getting healthy. These guys it is.

1151
00:58:52,840 --> 00:58:54,880
Speaker 1: It is smoke and mirrors right now. And I couldn't

1152
00:58:54,920 --> 00:58:57,320
Speaker 1: have any more admiration for the Seahawks, but I could

1153
00:58:57,360 --> 00:58:59,919
Speaker 1: see it coming to an end. Uh in a game

1154
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:02,120
Speaker 1: where it's meant to be about twenty degrees and that

1155
00:59:02,160 --> 00:59:05,200
Speaker 1: does not count the blustery winds. Well, that's a difference

1156
00:59:05,200 --> 00:59:07,520
Speaker 1: between the two quarterbacks. And and that's kind of the

1157
00:59:07,520 --> 00:59:11,840
Speaker 1: equalizer that Aaron Rodgers has played thirty one games below

1158
00:59:11,920 --> 00:59:15,120
Speaker 1: freezing and his numbers in those games are better than

1159
00:59:15,160 --> 00:59:18,040
Speaker 1: his career numbers. He's a better quarterback in bad weather

1160
00:59:18,080 --> 00:59:21,360
Speaker 1: and Russell Wilson's the worst quarterback in bad weather. In

1161
00:59:21,480 --> 00:59:25,680
Speaker 1: the the matchups for Seattle, like for the most part,

1162
00:59:25,920 --> 00:59:31,360
Speaker 1: are terrible. Um, but they did I thought stay pretty

1163
00:59:31,360 --> 00:59:34,120
Speaker 1: aggressive after they got in that two minute situation against

1164
00:59:34,160 --> 00:59:38,160
Speaker 1: Philadelphia late in the first half. I was encouraged that

1165
00:59:38,240 --> 00:59:41,160
Speaker 1: they kept going bombs away, not just to finish off

1166
00:59:41,200 --> 00:59:43,560
Speaker 1: the game on that third and ten, but like the

1167
00:59:43,600 --> 00:59:46,480
Speaker 1: first play after they hit Metcalf for that long touchdown.

1168
00:59:46,520 --> 00:59:48,920
Speaker 1: The next first down they have, they go long and

1169
00:59:49,480 --> 00:59:55,560
Speaker 1: those receivers lock it and metcalf, especially against these Packers cornerbacks,

1170
00:59:56,040 --> 00:59:58,800
Speaker 1: I don't know that that's that's your route, I think,

1171
00:59:58,800 --> 01:00:00,520
Speaker 1: And you're hoping that Pat and s the house and

1172
01:00:00,560 --> 01:00:03,480
Speaker 1: you get some some man coverage and Russell just makes

1173
01:00:03,480 --> 01:00:07,000
Speaker 1: you look bad by evading free rushers and goes deep. Well,

1174
01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:09,480
Speaker 1: there's a flip side to that, and Russell Wilson is

1175
01:00:09,480 --> 01:00:11,440
Speaker 1: one of the worst quarterbacks in the league versus pressure.

1176
01:00:11,480 --> 01:00:14,440
Speaker 1: This year he has been has been less than what

1177
01:00:14,480 --> 01:00:16,200
Speaker 1: he's been in years past when it comes to pressure,

1178
01:00:16,200 --> 01:00:18,240
Speaker 1: and part of that is because their offensive line is

1179
01:00:18,280 --> 01:00:20,560
Speaker 1: a little bit worse than it was last year, worse

1180
01:00:20,680 --> 01:00:23,200
Speaker 1: I think. And the Packers have the um they had

1181
01:00:23,240 --> 01:00:26,120
Speaker 1: the highest pressure rate in the NFL all year. Is

1182
01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:28,760
Speaker 1: it Arias Smith, Preston Smith, and Kenny Clark all bringing

1183
01:00:29,080 --> 01:00:30,840
Speaker 1: there was There was a lot of similar places with

1184
01:00:30,880 --> 01:00:33,960
Speaker 1: their offensive line to where they left in seven players.

1185
01:00:34,720 --> 01:00:36,600
Speaker 1: I'm thinking of one of their big play that the

1186
01:00:36,720 --> 01:00:39,480
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson twenty two yard run where they had seven

1187
01:00:39,640 --> 01:00:42,360
Speaker 1: guys into block four and they still got pressure on

1188
01:00:42,440 --> 01:00:44,440
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson and he had to run to kind of

1189
01:00:44,920 --> 01:00:47,480
Speaker 1: save the day and like the matchup the old you

1190
01:00:47,480 --> 01:00:50,040
Speaker 1: know truisms, like you win football in the trenches. It's

1191
01:00:50,080 --> 01:00:55,080
Speaker 1: like the Packers trenches, well trash the Seahawks trenches voice

1192
01:00:55,160 --> 01:00:57,920
Speaker 1: on both on both sides of the ball, like the

1193
01:00:57,960 --> 01:01:02,160
Speaker 1: defensive line Kenny Clark and and Zadarius and the offensive line.

1194
01:01:02,560 --> 01:01:06,720
Speaker 1: Your clowney was okay last week, um, but he goes

1195
01:01:06,840 --> 01:01:08,840
Speaker 1: for so many big plays that he gives up some

1196
01:01:08,920 --> 01:01:11,280
Speaker 1: big plays too in the running game, and that that's

1197
01:01:11,320 --> 01:01:13,040
Speaker 1: tough against. I know it feels I know, it feels

1198
01:01:13,080 --> 01:01:15,400
Speaker 1: like twenty years ago, but that first half against the

1199
01:01:15,400 --> 01:01:19,440
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions raise some just genuine concerns about the Packers

1200
01:01:19,520 --> 01:01:22,400
Speaker 1: ability to go through, you know, multiple games in the

1201
01:01:22,480 --> 01:01:24,640
Speaker 1: NFC and score points when they need to. I think

1202
01:01:24,680 --> 01:01:26,560
Speaker 1: outside of Davante Adams is just like who can you

1203
01:01:26,640 --> 01:01:30,240
Speaker 1: count on. Part of Aaron Rodgers struggling is and I know,

1204
01:01:30,320 --> 01:01:32,600
Speaker 1: you know, other other quarterbacks don't have a flurry of

1205
01:01:32,600 --> 01:01:34,960
Speaker 1: weapons around them either, but he's just there's not a

1206
01:01:35,000 --> 01:01:37,080
Speaker 1: lot of guys in the passing game that Aaron Rodgers

1207
01:01:37,080 --> 01:01:39,720
Speaker 1: can make can consistently make plays with. Here's the thing

1208
01:01:40,240 --> 01:01:43,320
Speaker 1: We've been very patient with you Aaron Rodgers. It is

1209
01:01:43,400 --> 01:01:47,000
Speaker 1: time for you to be Aaron Rodgers again. So and

1210
01:01:47,080 --> 01:01:50,280
Speaker 1: if you're not, let us know, be terrible in this game.

1211
01:01:50,400 --> 01:01:53,880
Speaker 1: Lose to the Seahawks at home in the divisional rounds,

1212
01:01:53,880 --> 01:01:57,600
Speaker 1: so we can officially recalibrate who you are because you

1213
01:01:57,680 --> 01:02:01,120
Speaker 1: look at what he's facing. This is a Seahawks team

1214
01:02:01,440 --> 01:02:04,760
Speaker 1: that can't stop the pass, that can't rush the quarterback.

1215
01:02:05,800 --> 01:02:10,360
Speaker 1: They're beat up. You're in your building. You've had two

1216
01:02:10,360 --> 01:02:14,840
Speaker 1: weeks to prepare, to prepare till you put up thirty points.

1217
01:02:14,880 --> 01:02:17,600
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, will you go in a football game? Dude?

1218
01:02:17,640 --> 01:02:20,200
Speaker 1: Do we need to sweat out twenty to seventeen here?

1219
01:02:20,800 --> 01:02:23,640
Speaker 1: Can we win a game? And I'll lock up the

1220
01:02:23,680 --> 01:02:26,720
Speaker 1: Packers because I I'll be on the Rodgers hill for

1221
01:02:26,760 --> 01:02:29,120
Speaker 1: this game and I've been waiting for two years for

1222
01:02:29,240 --> 01:02:30,840
Speaker 1: him to get back to being Aaron Rodgers. But if

1223
01:02:30,840 --> 01:02:33,200
Speaker 1: he if they fail again and they put up seventeen

1224
01:02:33,240 --> 01:02:36,040
Speaker 1: points and they let Russell Wilson do something Russell Wilson

1225
01:02:36,080 --> 01:02:38,400
Speaker 1: like and get beat at home, the whole thing, you

1226
01:02:38,480 --> 01:02:41,600
Speaker 1: gotta take a closer look at this entire operation, starting

1227
01:02:41,600 --> 01:02:44,120
Speaker 1: at the QB position. He's not going anywhere he's not

1228
01:02:44,200 --> 01:02:46,480
Speaker 1: going anywhere, and you have disappointed Dan, which I think

1229
01:02:46,480 --> 01:02:51,919
Speaker 1: would be. But this idea, this idea that we've always said, well,

1230
01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:54,160
Speaker 1: the only problem with the Packers offense is they don't

1231
01:02:54,200 --> 01:02:56,000
Speaker 1: have enough weapons around him or they can't get in

1232
01:02:56,080 --> 01:02:59,080
Speaker 1: sinc Well, let's see Aaron Rodgers rise above it. Let

1233
01:02:59,080 --> 01:03:01,280
Speaker 1: me drop my corn hole theory on you. Yes, so

1234
01:03:01,440 --> 01:03:03,240
Speaker 1: you've gotten to the point now where you're pretty good

1235
01:03:03,240 --> 01:03:05,120
Speaker 1: in Cornal. You think you can hit the hole pretty

1236
01:03:05,160 --> 01:03:07,240
Speaker 1: much whenever you want, no matter where the other guy's

1237
01:03:07,240 --> 01:03:09,920
Speaker 1: bags are. After a couple of tu Yeah, so you

1238
01:03:09,960 --> 01:03:11,360
Speaker 1: get to the point. I think a lot of good

1239
01:03:11,400 --> 01:03:13,479
Speaker 1: Cornal players get to the point where they stop worrying

1240
01:03:13,480 --> 01:03:15,360
Speaker 1: about the other guy's bag and just go for the whole.

1241
01:03:15,880 --> 01:03:18,320
Speaker 1: No matter what the situation calls for. They're still going

1242
01:03:18,360 --> 01:03:20,000
Speaker 1: for that whole because they know they can do it.

1243
01:03:21,160 --> 01:03:23,840
Speaker 1: You want the challenge. That's how Aaron Rodgers plays quarterback

1244
01:03:23,840 --> 01:03:25,880
Speaker 1: the last few years. I'm going for the hole every time.

1245
01:03:25,880 --> 01:03:27,800
Speaker 1: I'm not going to take the check down, I'm not

1246
01:03:27,840 --> 01:03:30,760
Speaker 1: gonna take the slant. I'm going deep down the field

1247
01:03:31,240 --> 01:03:33,919
Speaker 1: all of these Oh, he just barely missed a throw

1248
01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:38,040
Speaker 1: with perfect loft, perfect trajectory, perfect timing. He wants the

1249
01:03:38,040 --> 01:03:41,080
Speaker 1: big ones because the guy's it's a hard throw. You're

1250
01:03:41,120 --> 01:03:43,360
Speaker 1: you're putting it into a keyhole every time. To extend

1251
01:03:43,360 --> 01:03:45,880
Speaker 1: this analogy further, let's say you and I are throwing corn,

1252
01:03:45,960 --> 01:03:48,680
Speaker 1: we're throwing bags. I throw first, alright, your on or

1253
01:03:48,720 --> 01:03:50,600
Speaker 1: your honor. I put it not in the hole, but

1254
01:03:50,760 --> 01:03:52,640
Speaker 1: right in front of the hole. And your famous line

1255
01:03:52,640 --> 01:03:54,960
Speaker 1: when that happens is what I think, son of a biscuit,

1256
01:03:55,000 --> 01:04:01,160
Speaker 1: you might say, uh, because that yeah, that jack's up

1257
01:04:01,200 --> 01:04:05,040
Speaker 1: the round because you have a blockade rogers, instead of

1258
01:04:05,200 --> 01:04:08,280
Speaker 1: playing a more strategic game and taking what the board gives,

1259
01:04:08,280 --> 01:04:11,480
Speaker 1: still going for the whole, start just trying to points.

1260
01:04:11,760 --> 01:04:14,200
Speaker 1: It's but there's a thing. When you are good enough

1261
01:04:14,240 --> 01:04:16,120
Speaker 1: to hit that whole, than you're the best. And I

1262
01:04:16,160 --> 01:04:19,160
Speaker 1: think when he when he thinks about how to play quarterback,

1263
01:04:19,280 --> 01:04:22,320
Speaker 1: it's like the best quarterback has to make the best throws,

1264
01:04:22,320 --> 01:04:25,240
Speaker 1: Whereas I think Brady and Breeze think the best quarterback

1265
01:04:25,240 --> 01:04:27,040
Speaker 1: has to make the right throws. And he could do it,

1266
01:04:27,080 --> 01:04:29,240
Speaker 1: but he throws the ball. He also throws the ball away.

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Speaker 1: More interception, all right. But to extend the corner an alogy,

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Speaker 1: so he's always going for the whole. He's going for

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Speaker 1: the airmail. He's putting it over the back, taking what

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Speaker 1: the board gives him. What defense is more suited or

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Speaker 1: more known for kind of giving you the easier throws,

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Speaker 1: but not the tough ones than the Seattle Seak. I

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01:04:51,760 --> 01:04:54,080
Speaker 1: mean when I think Pete Carroll's defense, that's what I

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Speaker 1: think they're gonna make you. They're not the most talented

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Speaker 1: Seahawks even, but they're gonna make you work down the

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Speaker 1: field and is Rodgers is good enough, he's good enough

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Speaker 1: to do. They're not a defense that gives up big

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Speaker 1: plays there there. Okay, if you can go down and

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01:05:08,960 --> 01:05:11,400
Speaker 1: tend plays and beat us and do everything right, go

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Speaker 1: for it. What's Every quarterback has a style they play with.

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Speaker 1: What's his style? I would argue that it's that sideline

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01:05:16,760 --> 01:05:19,440
Speaker 1: throw to Jared Cook. I'm gonna make the most difficult

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01:05:19,440 --> 01:05:21,480
Speaker 1: throw and I'm the only one who can pull it off.

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01:05:21,520 --> 01:05:24,480
Speaker 1: That's as playing stuff little Bragg. I think that might

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01:05:24,480 --> 01:05:27,280
Speaker 1: be his personality. To win in cornhole, you gotta win,

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01:05:27,560 --> 01:05:29,960
Speaker 1: you gotta get twenty one. I don't want twenty one.

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Speaker 1: This is where the analogy ends. I want thirty plus points.

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Speaker 1: It's and I want I want thirty to fourteen and

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Speaker 1: go win a ballgame and coast into a championship Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Locking up, GiB, I don't know what you're doing to

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Speaker 1: day with that one, but you're just con Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's right for you. I mean, that was always a

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01:05:51,720 --> 01:05:56,040
Speaker 1: manufactured joke. It's not you're lacking against them, No, it

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01:05:56,080 --> 01:05:58,280
Speaker 1: has enough. It's never being on Seahawk corner to me

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01:05:58,360 --> 01:06:00,480
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that I root for them. I root for

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01:06:00,480 --> 01:06:02,680
Speaker 1: the Jets. It means they're a fun team. They're not.

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Speaker 1: You read the tea leaves and properly in August and said, oh,

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01:06:07,920 --> 01:06:09,960
Speaker 1: they're not gonna be good this year. And I said, Greg,

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Speaker 1: this team figures it out. I'm going on this corner

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Speaker 1: while you bail. So. But I don't think it's a

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Speaker 1: super Bowl team, and I just and I don't think

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01:06:16,600 --> 01:06:18,720
Speaker 1: quite frankly, the Packers are either. But I think this

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01:06:18,760 --> 01:06:20,920
Speaker 1: is a good draw for Green Bay, who might be

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01:06:20,920 --> 01:06:23,600
Speaker 1: a little vulnerable. But I think the Seattle Seahawks are

1305
01:06:23,640 --> 01:06:26,880
Speaker 1: the worst batterally disappointing to lose this game. If you're

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01:06:26,880 --> 01:06:28,560
Speaker 1: a Green Bay I get that they're not the same.

1307
01:06:28,600 --> 01:06:32,120
Speaker 1: Thirteen and three teams that you know that ers or something.

1308
01:06:32,160 --> 01:06:34,840
Speaker 1: But give me a break if you don't. They're talented.

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01:06:34,920 --> 01:06:37,520
Speaker 1: They you know, they've had their moments. And defense is

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01:06:37,520 --> 01:06:40,120
Speaker 1: playing great lately, right I don't know if Aaron Rodgers

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01:06:40,160 --> 01:06:42,240
Speaker 1: needs to have that big game. The Seahawks have given

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01:06:42,320 --> 01:06:45,880
Speaker 1: up a hundred and sixty two yards per game on

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01:06:45,920 --> 01:06:48,360
Speaker 1: the ground over the last five per I mean, they

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01:06:48,360 --> 01:06:50,080
Speaker 1: were one of the you know, we were talking about

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Speaker 1: their lack of a pass rush that that's one of

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01:06:52,320 --> 01:06:55,160
Speaker 1: the worst rush defenses in the league. Even the Eagles

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01:06:55,640 --> 01:06:59,000
Speaker 1: with Josh McCown and in Boston Scott had a pretty

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Speaker 1: good day running the ball against them. They have not

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01:07:02,000 --> 01:07:05,320
Speaker 1: been able to just slow down opponents. And so it's

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Speaker 1: you know, Aaron Jones I think could be the one

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Speaker 1: who ends up. You know, why not have that be

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01:07:09,800 --> 01:07:12,480
Speaker 1: your plan? I mean, like spend the first half trying

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01:07:12,520 --> 01:07:14,520
Speaker 1: just to maul them with the run. And by the way,

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01:07:14,560 --> 01:07:16,840
Speaker 1: Don mccowski went ten and six with Packers but did

1325
01:07:16,840 --> 01:07:18,960
Speaker 1: not play a playoff game, but he did play a

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Speaker 1: playoff game with the Lions. For any Packers fans trying

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Speaker 1: to construct a tweet, right now, delete it. Pick so

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Speaker 1: Lynn Dickey was the last Packers quarterback that might have

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Speaker 1: had a disadvantage in a playoff Gamelyn Dicky, Um pick

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Speaker 1: the game, Mark Um, I think green Bay will win

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01:07:36,280 --> 01:07:41,400
Speaker 1: this game. I'm gonna go Seattle. Seattle wins the whole time.

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Speaker 1: You are gonna pick green Bay. But now that no

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01:07:44,560 --> 01:07:46,960
Speaker 1: Seahawks corner two. And as much as you can describe

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01:07:46,960 --> 01:07:49,000
Speaker 1: it as you think it's a sham or something, I

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01:07:49,120 --> 01:07:51,480
Speaker 1: genuinely find them fun in the playoffs and would like

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Speaker 1: to see them advance. That game was very fun, Josh McCown.

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Speaker 1: And you know suddenly dk metcal Metcalf takes off into

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Speaker 1: the sky. I'll set the Seattle West Packers Seahawks, says

1339
01:08:06,040 --> 01:08:10,480
Speaker 1: the guy on Seahawks coring well till August umty seventeen.

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Speaker 1: That that's my my pick. Wow, give me five touchdowns.

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01:08:14,160 --> 01:08:18,280
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, let's go. I do have the Packers winning

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01:08:18,520 --> 01:08:25,320
Speaker 1: as well. Okay, good stuff. Uh. We we'll be back

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Speaker 1: on Sunday night recapping all the games we just previewed,

1344
01:08:28,400 --> 01:08:30,920
Speaker 1: so make sure you checked that out. And a reminder

1345
01:08:31,400 --> 01:08:35,000
Speaker 1: that the Around the NFL broadcast our television program in

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01:08:35,040 --> 01:08:38,960
Speaker 1: a limited run on NFL Networked will air Friday, six

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01:08:39,040 --> 01:08:43,679
Speaker 1: pm Eastern, three pm Pacific with Rias in the early

1348
01:08:43,760 --> 01:08:47,960
Speaker 1: morning on Saturday. So please support it, check us out

1349
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Speaker 1: and we did. Mark was right, um what he said

1350
01:08:50,360 --> 01:08:53,360
Speaker 1: on our last show that we got good, good numbers.

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01:08:53,439 --> 01:08:55,479
Speaker 1: People what turned out and turned on the TV and

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01:08:55,479 --> 01:08:57,639
Speaker 1: watched our show and that was awesome to hear. So

1353
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Speaker 1: please keep supporting the show. We love you and um

1354
01:09:02,160 --> 01:09:03,840
Speaker 1: they do say in TV the whole thing like we

1355
01:09:04,160 --> 01:09:07,080
Speaker 1: got we rallied everyone to watch last week, but people

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Speaker 1: in general, don't you know, they have other things to

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Speaker 1: do come week two. If suddenly we were the eighth

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Speaker 1: or ninth show out of eight or nine, don't existance.

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Speaker 1: Well no, I mean we're going to rock the ratings,

1360
01:09:16,640 --> 01:09:19,720
Speaker 1: but that requires people that we're getting the game, like

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Speaker 1: lead in, we just gotta roll? Is it? Is this

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Speaker 1: still done with like people a little machine Nielsen rating

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Speaker 1: box on top of someone's like television, TVR DVRs are

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Speaker 1: part of it. Feel like we need a physical box

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Speaker 1: on top. Let's works. Dan handsOn signing off for Quiet Storm,

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Speaker 1: The mail Man, the Old Boss, the whole gang behind

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Speaker 1: the Glass Still Sun. There s