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Speaker 1: The Around the League Podcast is as consistent as a

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Speaker 1: bread far retirement. Welcome back to another edition of the

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Speaker 1: Round the League Podcast. My name is Dan Hansus and

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Speaker 1: I'm joined by two heroes, Mark Seessler and Greg Rosenthal.

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Speaker 1: What up? Boys? Are we a little concerned about the

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Speaker 1: fourth hero at this point, he's gone radio silent as

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Speaker 1: far as I know, Chris Westling is this is the

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Speaker 1: fourth podcast he's missed. We should be nervous at this point.

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Speaker 1: I think he said he was gonna miss four, but

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Speaker 1: it's going to be more than that. Um, we might

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Speaker 1: never see him again. Greg. Mark is supposed to pick

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Speaker 1: him up from the airport. I believe on Thanksgiving it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a nerve racking moment. A lot of things

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Speaker 1: are supposed to happen. It's like I feel like he's

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Speaker 1: he's went him on Bradshaw honus to got just a family?

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Speaker 1: I thought we had. One of our intros was the

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Speaker 1: Round League Podcast, will not pick you up from the Airport?

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Speaker 1: One of my favorite Well, you know, he's my friends.

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Speaker 1: We do it thre We do things like that for friends.

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Speaker 1: We do it for each other, not for anyone else.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's fair? And Mark you are now, your

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Speaker 1: family has gone to San Francisco for Thanksgiving. You have

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Speaker 1: the home to yourself. I understand you've got a nice

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Speaker 1: bit of rest last night. Well, someone any any listener

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Speaker 1: or Greg knows, anyone that has kids under the age

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Speaker 1: of three. The concept of two of two of them,

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Speaker 1: it's a one two punch. The concept of a night

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Speaker 1: of uninterrupted sleep much less. Just if I clean the

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Speaker 1: night and it's still untouched versus a certain like a

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Speaker 1: tornado hid it, it's unusual and I am in that

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Speaker 1: place right now. Would you say this is one of

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Speaker 1: fifteen years? No, because I mean, in a perfect world,

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Speaker 1: I would love to be with my family. You are

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Speaker 1: loving this sleep. It's I feel rested. Yeah, well it's

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Speaker 1: for the first time since I've known. Somebody update Sessler's

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Speaker 1: Wikipedia Wikipedia page to say he feels rested on November.

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Speaker 1: It's the one two punch of your kids plus having

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Speaker 1: it's that's a perfect storm of me feeling about ten

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Speaker 1: years older than I hand. All right, so let's let's

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Speaker 1: get into it. We figured, you know, people, people get

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Speaker 1: excited about this. This the the Fork Committee when the

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Speaker 1: Fourth Committee gathers. So we figured, why not start the podcast.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the fork who got forked? This week?

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Speaker 1: Nine teams have been forked. I hate to say it,

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Speaker 1: two more were forks. So why don't we get into

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Speaker 1: it right now? Here lies the New York Giants, a

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Speaker 1: deeply crappy team that's strung together the single least impressive

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Speaker 1: four game winning streak in football history. The Eli Manning

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Speaker 1: sad face has never been this sad. We had to

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Speaker 1: do it. We did it too late. Remember, I wanted

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Speaker 1: you basically, for an entire Cities football team, you could

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Speaker 1: care less. And by the way, we're talking to a

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure I would have forked the Giants either,

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Speaker 1: because I fully expect Dallas to crumble. But you have

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Speaker 1: doing anything else but coaching. It was It's like red

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Speaker 1: and Shoshank Redemption where he leaves prison and then like

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Speaker 1: He could go away very easily. I think if he ever,

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of people that would want this job

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Speaker 1: kiffn there's no but there's no worse match or more

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Speaker 1: Look you talk about we went as far as we

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Speaker 1: This never die, No, he will not. And honestly, they

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Speaker 1: the first time the season there's been multiple Jaguars picks

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Speaker 1: had certainly the toughest defense they've played. Listen to the

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Speaker 1: defenses that they've played during this little run here, Oakland,

426
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Speaker 1: the Giants, Dallas, Washington. Not a not a lot of

427
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Speaker 1: good offensive, not a good defense. Not a lot of

428
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Speaker 1: good teams period the best. This is the toughest game

429
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Speaker 1: they've had since Week four at Denver. I think the

430
00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:06,440
Speaker 1: Cardinals defense is gonna slow down Nick Foles role just

431
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Speaker 1: a little bit. But obviously I'm a non suspenseful announcement

432
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Speaker 1: because I'd be stunned, outside of injury if Vick played

433
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Speaker 1: another snap for the Eagles ever again. He's done? Is

434
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Speaker 1: he going to be a starter ever? Again? I could

435
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Speaker 1: see a team thinking that we're gonna we've got a

436
00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:25,119
Speaker 1: couple of guys that we want to look at a quarterback.

437
00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:28,320
Speaker 1: He's in the play. But but honestly, if you really

438
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Speaker 1: want to build something as a team, it's tough. It's

439
00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:33,320
Speaker 1: Vicks a tough sell because he he does not play

440
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Speaker 1: more than eight or ten games this season, why not

441
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Speaker 1: stay in Philly? I could see it sure if and

442
00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:40,160
Speaker 1: he you know what, he actually to Vix credit. Finally,

443
00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:42,119
Speaker 1: because I thought, oh, when this thing goes south and

444
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Speaker 1: Folds starts to assume we're gonna get all these posts

445
00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:48,920
Speaker 1: we have to write about Michael Vick being cantankerous, he

446
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Speaker 1: has been great about it. He basically said, Folds is

447
00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:53,840
Speaker 1: the guy. I'm cool with it. I mean, he's done.

448
00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:56,480
Speaker 1: He's got to know it's at the end. Potentially, Yeah,

449
00:22:56,600 --> 00:23:01,960
Speaker 1: he's I'm not saying that, and he's know this particular situation. Well,

450
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Speaker 1: I hope he stays with the Eagles, but if he

451
00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:06,359
Speaker 1: doesn't think about what another team is getting, they might

452
00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:08,439
Speaker 1: not get a starting quarterback, but they're going to get

453
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Speaker 1: a quarterback who very who's very knowledgeable and can spread

454
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Speaker 1: it knowledge to someone who's younger. He's so going to

455
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Speaker 1: the Jets. I could see Chip Kelly bringing him back.

456
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Speaker 1: I think Vick might be at the point where he

457
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Speaker 1: doesn't mind being a backup too much, especially on such

458
00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:24,720
Speaker 1: a good offense where you look good when you come in.

459
00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:27,720
Speaker 1: Jip Kelly doesn't care about the normal NFL rules. I

460
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Speaker 1: could see them drafting another guy in the first or

461
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Speaker 1: second round, definitely having him go against falls, keeping Vic

462
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Speaker 1: there and just see what happened. Sure, anything else in

463
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Speaker 1: the news care rich Alright, guys, last up, Golden's hate

464
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Speaker 1: he's calling his Seahawks made selfish for their suspensions. Well,

465
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Speaker 1: this is unfortunate for the Seahawks. You have two guys,

466
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Speaker 1: uh suspended for substance abuse Browner. Uh. They're saying it's

467
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Speaker 1: going to be for a year, Thurm. And it's gonna

468
00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:57,800
Speaker 1: be uh four games starting immediately, and it puts a

469
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Speaker 1: strain on the team. And it also kind of hang

470
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Speaker 1: almost that there's a scarlet letter attached and the Golden

471
00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:05,760
Speaker 1: Tade isn't happy about it. And and I know Mike

472
00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:08,600
Speaker 1: Silver wrote or reported earlier this week that there was

473
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Speaker 1: a team meeting where this was also explained. You know,

474
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Speaker 1: if you want to do this stuff, go ahead, do it,

475
00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:14,800
Speaker 1: but you're not gonna be coming with us to the

476
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl. I understand why Golden Tate is frustrated. I

477
00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:19,960
Speaker 1: would be too if I was playing clean. It's tough

478
00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,680
Speaker 1: when you have injuries or suspensions at the same position.

479
00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:26,240
Speaker 1: They're known for their secondary, and that's two of their

480
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Speaker 1: top three cornerback. So it's a significant loss just on

481
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Speaker 1: the football and forget all the you know who's being selfish,

482
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Speaker 1: who isn't. That's supposed to be the backbone of their

483
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Speaker 1: team and they're losing two of their top three guys.

484
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Speaker 1: Thurman was playing well this year. Browner, who had made

485
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Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl before I was not having a great

486
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Speaker 1: year and is injured right now. Anyways, don't think that's

487
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Speaker 1: a huge loss. Yeah, I think Thurman's the bigger immediate

488
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Speaker 1: loss for the team. And I guess, you know, you

489
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Speaker 1: can say, oh, you know, Seattle leads the league and

490
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Speaker 1: these uh you know, slap on the wrist from the

491
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Speaker 1: league and it's it's been a lot under Carol. But

492
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Speaker 1: at the same time, you know, they got through this

493
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Speaker 1: last year where they they lost a bunch of secondary

494
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Speaker 1: guys and they actually went on actually when they got

495
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Speaker 1: hot in the end of the regular season. I don't

496
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Speaker 1: see it derailing Seattle. There's a lot a lot of

497
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Speaker 1: teams only have one or two good players in the secondary.

498
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Speaker 1: Monday Night is going to be a great test. That'll

499
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Speaker 1: be interesting, and they'll probably have to play the Saints

500
00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:19,879
Speaker 1: again to make the Super Bowl. That's to me, that's

501
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,360
Speaker 1: where the NFC who goes to the Super bowls? Who

502
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:25,080
Speaker 1: gets home field advantage there between those two teams. The

503
00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:27,159
Speaker 1: more I think about it, I still have my do

504
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Speaker 1: The Saints have the most intriguing stretch schedule. They've got

505
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Speaker 1: Carolina twice, they got Seattle, and they have to go

506
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Speaker 1: to St. Louis, which is interesting going on there. Uh,

507
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Speaker 1: thank you for the news, k Rich. Before we go,

508
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Speaker 1: we wanted to talk about one more topic, and that is, Uh,

509
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Speaker 1: I don't know, how do we want to put this?

510
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Speaker 1: It's Thanksgiving, and you know we don't. We don't want

511
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Speaker 1: to say what are we thankful for? Because that's really cheesy?

512
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Speaker 1: But why don't we just say, like, what has been

513
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Speaker 1: kind of a pleasant surprise? I like that pleasant surprise,

514
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Speaker 1: pleasant surprise that happens to be around Thanksgiving. And I'll

515
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Speaker 1: throw it out there since we're already talking about uh,

516
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Speaker 1: like we're not just owning it that we have this

517
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:09,240
Speaker 1: cheesy device what we're thankful for? Um, I'll throw it

518
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Speaker 1: out there. The Carolina Panthers. I'm pleasantly surprised that they

519
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Speaker 1: put it all together this year, because you feel like

520
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 1: that every year there's especially in the ramp up towards

521
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:23,800
Speaker 1: the season, there are eighteen different teams that everything looks

522
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Speaker 1: like it's in line for them to put it together

523
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Speaker 1: and go from mediocrity to greatness. And uh, I think

524
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Speaker 1: the Panthers are the team that actually have pulled it off.

525
00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:35,680
Speaker 1: Not that they're necessarily one of the great teams ever,

526
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:37,880
Speaker 1: but they're one of the best teams at football. They've

527
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Speaker 1: proven it. Uh, obviously over the last couple of weeks

528
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Speaker 1: or three weeks, I am pleasantly surprised that the Panthers

529
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Speaker 1: are in Super Bowl contemp. You know, and in another

530
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:50,879
Speaker 1: angle there is it was so clear that that organization

531
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Speaker 1: reportedly in earlier in the season already had spoken to

532
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Speaker 1: a potential replacement for Ron Rivera, that it was are

533
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:02,080
Speaker 1: gonna be lost here. You know, Listen, it's not fun

534
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,399
Speaker 1: to report about guys getting the acts. It's kind of

535
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,119
Speaker 1: cool to see him save his job. And he was

536
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:10,400
Speaker 1: getting ripped shredded on our website by all sorts of people.

537
00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:13,960
Speaker 1: This this organization is lost, and they've proven everyone wrong.

538
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 1: Eminently watchable. They got Cam, They've got Steve Smith, who

539
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:22,119
Speaker 1: just keeps upping his postgame interview game. It's really an

540
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:25,000
Speaker 1: impressive thing. He's on the Dave Damna Check Football Program

541
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Speaker 1: this week with highly recommend checking out. He was really

542
00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:31,320
Speaker 1: funny on that did. Yeah, everything about the Panthers is great.

543
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:34,480
Speaker 1: Speaking of the Dave Damn Check Football Program, before I

544
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:37,320
Speaker 1: swing it to you, guys, my wife cooked a pie

545
00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:41,159
Speaker 1: uh bourbon pecan pie on this week's episode of The

546
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:45,399
Speaker 1: Check Show uh Pie competition, second annual hands. His family

547
00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 1: won it, so she's cooked a pie for another podcast,

548
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:52,879
Speaker 1: but not this one. Yes, basically, okay, I'm gonna just

549
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:55,760
Speaker 1: think about what about your wife? What can ignore that

550
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:58,280
Speaker 1: she's well when she cooks something that will be for

551
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Speaker 1: this podcast. I'm looking forward to that. Right. By the way,

552
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 1: I told my wife that kay Rich is going to

553
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:06,879
Speaker 1: be involved with the cooking of the softball pants should

554
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:10,720
Speaker 1: we need it. And uh, I think that another poor

555
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:13,359
Speaker 1: error and judgment by myself because once she heard that

556
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Speaker 1: and now I'm out, Yeah, that was not to think

557
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:21,639
Speaker 1: about it. Yeah, that was not well played. We may

558
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 1: never we we're not sure we're going to see give

559
00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:26,960
Speaker 1: a clear out. I don't know if there was a

560
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:30,719
Speaker 1: strategy that would have come, I might have been kind

561
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:33,960
Speaker 1: of like Gus Bradley devising a game plan for their

562
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:37,520
Speaker 1: Jaguars game against Sanford, says, you might have the best

563
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 1: plan and possible, it's not gonna matter. Let me give

564
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:43,440
Speaker 1: you something that I'm thankful, not thankful for, pleasantly surprised by,

565
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:47,640
Speaker 1: because we're not thankful for anything, are we. Um. I

566
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 1: was gonna go Robert Quinn here because honestly, I think

567
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:55,800
Speaker 1: he's become a dominant pass rusher. Interesting guy to watch,

568
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:57,800
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna go somewhere else with this. You can

569
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Speaker 1: do both. I didn't there, but I don't. There's no

570
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:03,120
Speaker 1: we got that. I think everyone agrees to some degree.

571
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Speaker 1: I'm happy. I'm happy start with Quinn and then move on.

572
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 1: I am moving on because this is what I started

573
00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 1: to think during the show. I'm happy that the read

574
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:16,280
Speaker 1: option has been snuffed out to some degree. I kind

575
00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 1: of thought it was cool last year, and it was

576
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 1: an interesting offseason topic. But in the end, the quarterbacks

577
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 1: that have made football, the skills that make a quarterback

578
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:29,200
Speaker 1: good all along, aren't just vanishing. For guys that can

579
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Speaker 1: run around, you're you're when you're young, you can run around,

580
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 1: and that's going to be an asset. But I'm kind

581
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:36,880
Speaker 1: of happy to see that, Like the pocket passer isn't vanishing.

582
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 1: Love a running quarterback though, I mean I loved it

583
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Speaker 1: as a kid. I love it too. I just didn't

584
00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:43,960
Speaker 1: want to suddenly we had, you know, Eli Manning run

585
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Speaker 1: that running the pistol and all this, forget that you

586
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:49,520
Speaker 1: gotta throw the football. That's kind of like a grouchy

587
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:54,280
Speaker 1: thing could be thankful for. I don't. Part of me

588
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 1: just feels I like the football all the way I've

589
00:29:57,600 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 1: always liked my football. I feel like you would have

590
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:03,680
Speaker 1: the had had Matt Flynn not signed with the Packers

591
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:05,520
Speaker 1: and performed well last week, you would have had some

592
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 1: something locked and loaded that you were thankful Matt Flynn's

593
00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:11,120
Speaker 1: career was terrible. No, that's been overstated. I just I

594
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:15,239
Speaker 1: find that that to be a rather uncreative decision by

595
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 1: the Packers. How about you, how about you raise up

596
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:18,880
Speaker 1: a new young quarter mark. What you're saying with the

597
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Speaker 1: read option is like you're really happy the NFL is

598
00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 1: still a place that guys like Carson Palmer I can

599
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:26,920
Speaker 1: still get it done. I like both. I didn't want

600
00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:29,360
Speaker 1: to see the read option take over the entire league.

601
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:33,520
Speaker 1: Quinn's great. I didn't know we only have to choose one.

602
00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:36,120
Speaker 1: I wrote down like six things. Well I chose to.

603
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 1: Apparently I was supposed to choose one, according to get

604
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Speaker 1: one six from Greg, all sorts of why don't we

605
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:47,000
Speaker 1: just go down the list of everything? There's so much

606
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:50,960
Speaker 1: there's like that they switch out the kicker ball and

607
00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:53,600
Speaker 1: you can't manipulate the ball before the kick. I'm very

608
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 1: thankful for that. Now, I have to I'm pleasantly surprised

609
00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 1: by so many things. Uh, keep in mind, Wheely have

610
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes left. I don't like you to

611
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Speaker 1: keep this to two. Actually, Alison Jeffrey, let's start with it.

612
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Speaker 1: He's been a lot of fun to watch, and he's

613
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 1: kind of emblematic of that entire Bears offense where it

614
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what the quarterback is. It's just it's not Cutler.

615
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 1: It's not my account, it's Tressman quarterback. That they're fun

616
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 1: to watch. Marshall, Jeffrey and Forte have to be the

617
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 1: most physical trio of skill position guys in the league.

618
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 1: So they've been fun. If I'm only getting two, and

619
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Speaker 1: how boring was that offense in the past, exactly? I

620
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 1: think that's part of it. Is there always on National TV.

621
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Speaker 1: It was sick of watching them. Now they're on and

622
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:42,640
Speaker 1: it's fun. I think I gotta go with the Chargers

623
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 1: in general. Lard Darius Green is the next big thing

624
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:48,440
Speaker 1: at tight end. He might be the fastest tight end

625
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 1: I've ever seen. Uh, Their rookie of the Year I

626
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 1: think is Keenan Allen. If if Eddie Lacy doesn't get it,

627
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:58,239
Speaker 1: it's Keenan Allen. Philip Rivers I've said a lot about him.

628
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Speaker 1: He's been a lot of fun. It's been so surprised, Eazy.

629
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Speaker 1: The only person in the country that said Ryan Matthews

630
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Speaker 1: was going to be good was was there, buddy Chris

631
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Speaker 1: westleyn And he's been a lot of fun too. So

632
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 1: I'm going to Chargers offense pours him out for Chris

633
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 1: Wesley wherever he is. I was gonna say no Shan

634
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Speaker 1: Morena too. That's three though. He's making people miss No

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Speaker 1: one gives no Shoan any credit he does. He does

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Speaker 1: some things. Do the Chargers pay Philip Rivers fourteen million

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Speaker 1: dollars next season? Yes? Whatever they need to pay him. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's only getting better. Alright. That's it for Wednesday's edition

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Speaker 1: of the Around the League podcast. If you have not

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Speaker 1: checked out our previous pod, we broke down all three

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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving games. I thought Mark gave a really incredible performance

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Speaker 1: during that podcast. So for nothing out there, think you

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Speaker 1: know I do remember doing that. You were there, so

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Speaker 1: check that out for a look ahead at all those games. Um.

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Speaker 1: Other than that, we will be back Friday. That what

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Speaker 1: that was an absolute backhanded compliment from Dan. Yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: I didn't really mean it for at all. So if

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Speaker 1: I would have complimented you like that too, it would

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Speaker 1: have been more more an insult. But yeah, no, I

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Speaker 1: think you do a great job. Thanks. I feel I

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Speaker 1: feel really good. Thank you. All Right, I gotta do

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Speaker 1: some healing with Mark after the show. Uh, and we

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Speaker 1: will be back on Friday. Greg, will you be with us?

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Speaker 1: I know Mark and I will be in the studio.

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Speaker 1: I'm questionable, but it was looking like it was doubtful earlier,

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Speaker 1: so we'll see. K Rich, will you be with us

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Speaker 1: after my big Thanksgiving feast and all that Black Friday

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Speaker 1: shopping and probably getting no sleep? Are you just sitting

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Speaker 1: on a mountain of money? No, that's why you go

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Speaker 1: Black Friday shopping. You save money. Interesting, So until Friday,

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Speaker 1: this is Dan Hansens signing up for the Sizzler the

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Speaker 1: boss k Rich behind the glass and lie all the

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Speaker 1: intern who will be working double time on Thanksgiving forget

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Speaker 1: him until Friday,