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Speaker 1: This game over. Pack it up, boys, we're going home.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to week two of the NFL season. Lines have

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Speaker 2: another rematch of the playoffs against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

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Speaker 2: I'm really happy to welcome in. Eric Woodyard does a

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Speaker 2: great job with ESPN covering the Detroit Lions.

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Speaker 3: Eric.

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Speaker 2: Before we start, though, I have to give it off,

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Speaker 2: shout out to my son Connor twenty men turned seventeen

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Speaker 2: this week. Your son Ethan, you bring him around. He

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Speaker 2: comes around during training camp and stuff. Holds Ethan ten. Now,

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Speaker 2: I was a travel hockey dad, travel baseball dad.

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Speaker 4: He just started football. So yeah, shout out to Connor

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Speaker 4: our happy birthday. Well, yeah, want son, man, he doing

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Speaker 2: That's a fun age, man. That's when they're starting to

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Speaker 2: kind of get into their own right. It is all right, Well,

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Speaker 2: let's get into this matchup because it's a good one.

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Speaker 2: And look Eric, you had a great statistic about just

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Speaker 2: how difficult this Lion's schedule was to start.

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Speaker 1: Obviously, had the Week.

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Speaker 2: One rematch of the Wildcard playoffs with the Rams, get

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Speaker 2: an overtime win there, Now you run it right back,

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Speaker 2: you get a Division round rematch against the Bucks.

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Speaker 1: Had you had a crazy sting.

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Speaker 4: So I was doing my research, you know, and definitely

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Speaker 4: it's kind of rare for teams to have these early

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Speaker 4: It's only been you know, three other teams in NFL

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Speaker 4: So this is rare territory, you know, for them to

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Speaker 4: know it's been Super Bowl, Super Bowl, and Dan Campbell

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Speaker 1: It was a big win Week one.

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Speaker 2: You know, obviously overtime, tough opponent, that's a team I

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Speaker 2: You get another one this week. Let's get into three

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Speaker 2: big keys about this week's matchup. First, to me, it's

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Speaker 2: it's I thought Baker Mayfield and that offense looked terrific.

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Speaker 1: Now, that passing game was great, Baker, I.

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Speaker 4: So funny story, I mean, Baker, I picked him up

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Speaker 4: You know, Carlton Davis got experience those guys six seasons.

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Speaker 2: We always see sloppier play, a little bit more inconsistent

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Speaker 4: To be cleaned up a little more, right. I mean

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Speaker 4: I don't think. But you have to factor that aspect

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Speaker 2: You're exciting Lions fans here, I know, because it's a

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Speaker 6: I think the coolest part to me was to be

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Speaker 6: He's getting he's over he's just turned thirteen months.

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Speaker 2: I'll age myself here, Frank, you know how crazy it is.

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Speaker 6: For sure? It's a blessing to be able to lean

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Speaker 2: All right, let's get to football. How rewarding was that

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Speaker 6: I'm gonna have my hands full extremely large, extremely strong,

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Speaker 6: extremely athletic, very talented players, so got to bring in

440
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Speaker 6: every snap.

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Speaker 1: You look forward to matchups like that too.

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Speaker 2: I know we've talked in the past, like before you're

443
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Speaker 2: playing the Rams and getting like an Aaron Donald type

444
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Speaker 2: when you get those elite type players, do you look

445
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Speaker 2: forward to to those matchups.

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Speaker 6: Part of it? Yeah, Like there's there's some parts you're

447
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Speaker 6: like not looking forward to that, but like, to be

448
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Speaker 6: able to compete against the best is only going to

449
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Speaker 6: bring out your best.

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Speaker 1: I feel like, does he rank up there?

451
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Speaker 2: Like do you have like a top three like currently playing?

452
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Speaker 2: I know Aaron Donald retires, so he's probably off that

453
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Speaker 2: list current current like list of the top three guys

454
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Speaker 2: that you're.

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Speaker 6: Like like true noses. Yeah, him and Dexter are right

456
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Speaker 6: up there. Yeah, those two are like true nose guards.

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Speaker 1: Those are the best, and you just know every play

458
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Speaker 1: they're going to be right across from You've got to

459
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Speaker 1: do your job. Here we go, here, we go. I

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Speaker 1: love it.

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Speaker 2: Here we go again at Ford Field. What a great

462
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Speaker 2: atmosphere that was obviously all playoffs last year, but week

463
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Speaker 2: won as well.

464
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Speaker 1: You expect the same thing.

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Speaker 2: How much, Frank, is that becoming a home field advantage

466
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Speaker 2: for you and one of the best ones.

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Speaker 5: In the league. Yeah.

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Speaker 6: I don't think people realize how special it is and

469
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Speaker 6: how hard it is as an offense to operate on

470
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Speaker 6: the road when your crowd is absurd, like for me

471
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Speaker 6: as a center going on the road when it is

472
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Speaker 6: when you can't hear yourself, the communication and everything is

473
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Speaker 6: so much harder, and that really will frazzle on offense.

474
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Speaker 6: So the lotter we can be and we are so loud,

475
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Speaker 6: it is a huge advantage for us on defense.

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Speaker 2: That's gonna be a crazy environment. I think the Tigers

477
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Speaker 2: are going on next door.

478
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Speaker 1: Obviously it's going to be crazy in there.

479
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Speaker 2: You get another NFC playoff rematch, an important game in

480
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Speaker 2: the NFC because at the end, you know those tie

481
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Speaker 2: breakers and things like that are gonna matter.

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Speaker 1: It should be a fun one. What's the vibe in

483
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Speaker 1: the locker room going into this one? What's the feeling.

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Speaker 6: I think we're excited, we know we're going to have

485
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Speaker 6: our hands full. We know there's very talented team on

486
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Speaker 6: offense and defense, and it's going to be a great

487
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Speaker 6: test for us.

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Speaker 2: Well, it should be a really fun game. He is

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Speaker 2: frank right now, all pro center, one of the best

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Speaker 2: in the business. Thanks for joining the twenty in the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you for sure.

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Speaker 2: You welcome back to the twenty then the Huddle podcast,

493
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Speaker 2: and I'm very happy to welcome Scott Smith, the senior

494
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Speaker 2: writer editor over at Buccaneers dot com. He does a

495
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Speaker 2: great job covering everything Bucks and Scott. I feel like

496
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Speaker 2: a little bit of deja vous. I had Jordan Redriek

497
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Speaker 2: from the Rams here last week, and now I've got you.

498
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Speaker 1: It's like a playoff do over here to start the

499
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Speaker 1: regular season.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and we talked last year last year, and I

501
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Speaker 5: enjoyed that quite a bit. Didn't enjoy the outcome of

502
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Speaker 5: the games all that much, although that playoff game up

503
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Speaker 5: in Detroit was it was a pretty good game. It

504
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Speaker 5: was tied going into the fourth quarter, so disappointed in

505
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Speaker 5: how it ended, but we certainly felt like we played

506
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Speaker 5: well well.

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Speaker 2: I have to ask you to start obviously a big

508
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Speaker 2: win for the books week one, you know, really took

509
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Speaker 2: care of business against Washington. But are you being signed

510
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Speaker 2: to play cornerback for the Buccaneers this Sunday? Because, boy,

511
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Speaker 2: that that was really an issue coming out of that game.

512
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Speaker 2: Where do you guys stand in terms of the cornerback

513
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Speaker 2: position in your health in the secondary.

514
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Speaker 5: Well, we haven't got our injury report for the day yet,

515
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Speaker 5: so there's nothing official, but coach did tell us that

516
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Speaker 5: Zion McCollum, who was the starter opposite Jamel Dean and

517
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Speaker 5: then suffered a concussion, he did practice in a limited

518
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Speaker 5: fashion today. Coach bowl says he needs to see a

519
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Speaker 5: lot more before the week is done, and obviously he

520
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Speaker 5: has to clear the concussion protocol, but there's a chance

521
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Speaker 5: he'll be back. We had to put Bryce Hall on

522
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Speaker 5: injury reserve. He's the guy who came in for Zion

523
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Speaker 5: McCollum because he hurt his ankle, and then the next

524
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Speaker 5: man in would have been Josh Hayes, as second year

525
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Speaker 5: player we drafted last year, but he heard his ankle

526
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Speaker 5: on a special teams play, so we were down to

527
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Speaker 5: no corner. We only have four active corners that day,

528
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Speaker 5: and so one of our second year safety who played

529
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Speaker 5: slot corner last year came in to play outside corner,

530
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Speaker 5: a position a position he hadn't take a snap at

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Speaker 5: since he was a sophomore in high school Christian Izzian,

532
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Speaker 5: and he actually did a really good job. However, he's

533
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Speaker 5: probably not going to play there this week because Antoine

534
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Speaker 5: Winfield Junior is probably not gonna play due to a

535
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Speaker 5: foot injury, and they want to play Christian isy In

536
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Speaker 5: at safety now at pre safety. So uh, that's probably

537
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Speaker 5: how it'll shake out. We see, we'll see how some

538
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Speaker 5: of these injuries go. We also have an undrafted rookie

539
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Speaker 5: they like named Tyree Funderberg, and we resent a guy

540
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Speaker 5: who was on our practice squad last last year named

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Speaker 5: Keenan Isaac, so we have options there. It's the same

542
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Speaker 5: thing the coaches always say, next man up, So we'll

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Speaker 5: see how it goes.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of moving parts obviously there with with

546
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Speaker 2: with the secretary going into an important game because you

547
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Speaker 2: know this is obviously two teams that face each other

548
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Speaker 2: in the playoffs last year, face each other in the

549
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Speaker 2: regular season. That Week six game was you know, important

550
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Speaker 2: for seeding and stuff like that. You don't know where

551
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Speaker 2: that's going to end up. You know, at the at

552
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Speaker 2: the end of the year here with two teams that

553
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Speaker 2: are expected to be in the mix in the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: But Scott, what was your impression of the win last

555
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Speaker 2: week against Washington? What was your biggest takeaway from from

556
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Speaker 2: from that match up?

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Speaker 5: In that win, Well, I think it's how efficient and

558
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Speaker 5: productive the offense was right out of the gate. As

559
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Speaker 5: you know, shorter preseasons and more teams like we didn't

560
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Speaker 5: are not playing their starters a lot in the preseason.

561
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Speaker 5: RS only got one drive and so it would have

562
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Speaker 5: not been surprising for both teams to kind of come

563
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Speaker 5: out and be a little bit rusty on offense. But

564
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Speaker 5: the Bucks scored on their first five drives, then punted once,

565
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Speaker 5: and then scored three more times before a kneel down.

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Speaker 5: So seven scores in eight possessions is pretty darn good.

567
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Speaker 5: And it was really sort of a nice test run

568
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Speaker 5: for Liam Cohen and his new offense, and there was

569
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Speaker 5: a lot to like about it. There was a lot

570
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Speaker 5: to like about a running game that looks a little

571
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Speaker 5: bit better and now has two contributors in Rashad White

572
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Speaker 5: and Bucky Irving, and just I think the key to

573
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Speaker 5: me was we were nine to thirteen on third downs,

574
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Speaker 5: And what Liam Cohen said a lot during press conferences

575
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Speaker 5: leading up to the season was he wants this offense

576
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Speaker 5: and Baker in particular, to have answers. So when they

577
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Speaker 5: go out there and maybe they were thinking they were

578
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Speaker 5: going to see zone and then it looks like, man,

579
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Speaker 5: they have answers for that or vice versa. And they

580
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Speaker 5: have a lot a variety of run plays, and I

581
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Speaker 5: think the answers showed up on third downs nine of thirteen.

582
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Speaker 5: Is was the best of any team did this weekend.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they were really good on third down, and really

584
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Speaker 2: the passing game in general was really good. Baker makingfil

585
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Speaker 2: was efficient. Obviously, Mike Evans is Mike Evans, ten straight

586
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Speaker 2: years with one thousand receiving yards. He's always an issue.

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Speaker 2: I think that'll be one of the really interesting matchups

588
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Speaker 2: in this one comes Sunday. Is is that passing attack,

589
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Speaker 2: those weapons on the outside against really a very new

590
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Speaker 2: look Detroit secondary led by a guy that you guys

591
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Speaker 2: are pretty familiar with over there, Carlton Davis third.

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Speaker 1: Just we saw week one what he can do. A

593
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Speaker 1: veteran guy.

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Speaker 2: But you know what did he show you over you know,

595
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Speaker 2: six years in Tampa Bay? What kind of player is

596
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Speaker 2: Detroit getting and how much can maybe that help maybe

597
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Speaker 2: both sides, because those are gonna be two guys very

598
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Speaker 2: familiar with each other. Mike Evans is gonna be familiar

599
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Speaker 2: with Carlton vice versa. And how might that dynamic work

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Speaker 2: Sunday as well.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that last point is a good one

602
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Speaker 5: and it will be interesting, interesting to see who that

603
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Speaker 5: gives the advantage to, offensive player or defender. I don't

604
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Speaker 5: know yet, but yeah, Carlton really had a nice I

605
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Speaker 5: think six years here when he was definitely when he

606
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Speaker 5: was fully healthy and when he was playing in his peak,

607
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Speaker 5: he was I think he was a very underrated corner

608
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Speaker 5: for many of those years. For some stretch he had

609
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Speaker 5: a whole lot of pass breakups. I think he led

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Speaker 5: the league over a course of two season span at

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Speaker 5: one point, and he just he was a guy. He

612
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Speaker 5: was the only guy that we've really had in recent

613
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Speaker 5: years that there were certain games where you would take

614
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Speaker 5: him and have him shadow one specific receiver and he

615
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Speaker 5: did that really well on a couple occasions. So you

616
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Speaker 5: guys obviously got a very good player and you saw

617
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Speaker 5: that in Week one. The familiarity factor is going to

618
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Speaker 5: be interesting though, and.

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Speaker 2: It'll be interesting to those veteran receivers. Now on the

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Speaker 2: other side is Terry and Arnold a rookie. He's only

621
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Speaker 2: played one game, look pretty good against the Rams, but

622
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Speaker 2: he'll obviously be tested. That should be one of the

623
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Speaker 2: fun matchups. Yeah, I heard that Baker Mayfield talk and

624
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Speaker 2: when the schedule came out that this was maybe one

625
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Speaker 2: of those games that some of those guys had had,

626
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Speaker 2: you know, circle when the schedule comes out, just because

627
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Speaker 2: of the way obviously last year ended in Detroit in

628
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Speaker 2: a playoff loss, and now you get to go back

629
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Speaker 2: there so early this week. Is that one that that

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Speaker 2: guys have been looking forward to once the schedule came

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Speaker 2: out maybe a little bit.

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Speaker 1: The chance of redemption in Detroit.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, definitely one hundred percent. And just today Baker Mayfield said,

634
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Speaker 5: I think another big part of this is that the

635
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Speaker 5: Buccaneers considered playing the Lions a great measuring stick. So

636
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Speaker 5: you said it earlier. It's early in the season. We

637
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Speaker 5: don't know how this outcome will affect playoff seedings or

638
00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:35,360
Speaker 5: who wins divisions and so on. But no matter who

639
00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:37,399
Speaker 5: wins the game, if the Buccaneers feel like they're on

640
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Speaker 5: an equal footing with the Lions this weekend, especially up

641
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Speaker 5: there in that Rockets environment, they will consider that a

642
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Speaker 5: good measuring stick, and that's you know, there's I guess

643
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Speaker 5: I would put it this way. There aren't high national

644
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:52,520
Speaker 5: expectations for the Bucks yet again this year, despite three

645
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Speaker 5: straight division titles and us pretty much keeping everybody we

646
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Speaker 5: had last year. There's a lot more obviously expectations internally.

647
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Speaker 5: But beating Washington in the first week after they you know,

648
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:04,200
Speaker 5: pretty much struggled last year and have a rookie quarterback

649
00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:07,800
Speaker 5: isn't something that gave the Nashville media a whole lot

650
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Speaker 5: of reason to move us up a power ranking or whatever. Now,

651
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Speaker 5: if the Buccaneers look like they're on equal footing with

652
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Speaker 5: the Lions, especially in Detroit, that could change some people's minds.

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Speaker 2: Well, I can tell you this, Dan Campbell and everybody

654
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Speaker 2: at the Meer Performance Center isn't taking the isn't overlooking

655
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Speaker 2: the Bucks. They know that's a darn good football team.

656
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Speaker 2: It took everything that they needed to do to beat

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Speaker 2: that team in the division playoffs. Obviously came down to

658
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Speaker 2: the last minute, the last drive there. So you know,

659
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Speaker 2: they're certainly not being overlooked here, especially if you look

660
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Speaker 2: at the way Baker Mayfield that offense played last week.

661
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Speaker 2: I think Detroit's defense has their work cut out for him.

662
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Speaker 2: But Scott, maybe one or two keys for you and

663
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Speaker 2: for the bucks for in this matchup in Detroit, one

664
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Speaker 2: or two things they really have to do well to

665
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Speaker 2: walk out of Detroit with a victory.

666
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Speaker 5: Well, I'll start with the obvious cliche one, but I

667
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Speaker 5: think it's particularly true here. In the two losses to

668
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Speaker 5: Detroit last year, I believe the combined turn over margin

669
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 5: was three to zero in your favor. And it's hard,

670
00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:06,479
Speaker 5: really really hard on the road, especially in that environment

671
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 5: in Ford Field, especially if you do it early and

672
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:11,040
Speaker 5: allow that whole building and the team to gain some

673
00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:15,680
Speaker 5: early momentum by turning the ball over early. You really

674
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:17,840
Speaker 5: have to avoid that. It is really hard to win

675
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,440
Speaker 5: on the road when you turn the ball over. So

676
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,199
Speaker 5: we didn't have any takeaways, we didn't have any turnovers

677
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Speaker 5: in our first game. I think that could swing it

678
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Speaker 5: a little bit. And I think you've talked about it

679
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Speaker 5: a lot here, But how well will Baker and our

680
00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:35,119
Speaker 5: great offensive pass catching weapons fare against this new looking

681
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:38,639
Speaker 5: Detroit secondary, Because I mean Baker threw the ball to

682
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Speaker 5: our top three targets pretty much obviously are Mike Evans,

683
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,159
Speaker 5: Chris Godwin, and the running back were Sean White. He

684
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 5: threw twenty passes in their direction in that game and

685
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Speaker 5: completed nineteen of them. I mean, that's an unbelievable efficiency rate.

686
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Speaker 5: The only one that wasn't complete was a scrambling overthrow

687
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Speaker 5: in the end zone to Mike Evans. So if they

688
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Speaker 5: can do that kind of efficiency and can get guys

689
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Speaker 5: open in the secondary, that would because this could end

690
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Speaker 5: up being a shootout with all of the injury players

691
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Speaker 5: we have on defense. We also have some injury problems

692
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Speaker 5: up front on the defensive line, So injuries at the

693
00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:12,280
Speaker 5: front and the back is going to make it even

694
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:14,360
Speaker 5: harder to stop that great Detroit defense. So I think

695
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:17,280
Speaker 5: the Buccaneers have to be able to score to keep up,

696
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 5: and how Baker and his targets do against those new

697
00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:21,600
Speaker 5: guys in the secondary is probably the key.

698
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, you've been around Mike Evans for a

699
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Speaker 2: long time.

700
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Speaker 1: You know him. Does he even marvel you?

701
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Speaker 2: Because from the outside looking in, you look at ten

702
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,080
Speaker 2: straight one thousand yard seasons, you just look at the

703
00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:35,119
Speaker 2: consistency with him, the size and the speed, the ability

704
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Speaker 2: to catch fifty fifty balls. I love the comment that

705
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Speaker 2: Baker made. I think it was earlier today that that, yeah,

706
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Speaker 2: it's not really a fifty to fifty ball when it's

707
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Speaker 2: up to Mike Evans. I think that's advantage mister Evans.

708
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:49,040
Speaker 2: He said, but do you marvel at that guy's just

709
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Speaker 2: consistent talent weekend week out, year in year out.

710
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Speaker 5: I guess we've come to expect it now, but it

711
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:58,160
Speaker 5: is pretty amazing. And two touchdowns in his first game. Uh,

712
00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:00,520
Speaker 5: he looks just the same. Last year, he looked like

713
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:03,719
Speaker 5: he was in twenty seventeen form. He looks just as

714
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Speaker 5: good now. I don't know if did you happen to

715
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Speaker 5: see Kyle Brants peace on him today?

716
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Speaker 1: I didn't know.

717
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Speaker 5: He had teased that he had a hot take on Twitter.

718
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:14,640
Speaker 5: He had teased that he had a hot take about Mike,

719
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Speaker 5: but then he didn't share it for like a day,

720
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Speaker 5: And today he came out and he said, Mike Evans

721
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Speaker 5: is the greatest player in Buccaneers history. Now, he did

722
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 5: acknowledge that he meant the word greatest, not necessarily best,

723
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:29,200
Speaker 5: because we have five guys in the Hall of Fame.

724
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Speaker 5: They're all on the defensive side. But Kyle's argument was,

725
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 5: he's been so consistent for so long, and he's a

726
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 5: great guy in the locker room, he's a team leader,

727
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:43,720
Speaker 5: he's just a great dude first of all. And to

728
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Speaker 5: have all those together, and Kyle's opinion makes him the

729
00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:48,120
Speaker 5: greatest buccaneer ever. I'd probably have to do a little

730
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:50,040
Speaker 5: thinking to see if I agree or not, but he's

731
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 5: definitely up there, and you said it yourself. He's just

732
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:56,040
Speaker 5: so consistent, year after year, game after game. He's never

733
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Speaker 5: played fewer than thirteen games in a season. As you know,

734
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Speaker 5: he's he's at ninety six touchdowns now, which is twelfth

735
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Speaker 5: all time, and he's four away from becoming the eleventh

736
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Speaker 5: player in NFL history to get one hundred touchdown catches.

737
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Speaker 5: He is, he's been a joy to be around for

738
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Speaker 5: more than a decade now and he's still going strong.

739
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Speaker 2: Well that the Lions will certainly have their hands full

740
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 2: with him, and he's obviously been a guy that has

741
00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 2: been around. The Lions know him very well. But maybe

742
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Speaker 2: who's a guy who's maybe new to this year or

743
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Speaker 2: maybe has an increased role. Maybe it wasn't a big

744
00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 2: part of that Week six game, wasn't a big part

745
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 2: of the division game. But maybe who could be a

746
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Speaker 2: factor Sunday afternoon here in Detroit for the Bucks.

747
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll go with our rookie center, Graham Barton, who

748
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 5: we drafted him out of Duke. He primarily played tackle

749
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 5: of Duke, but the plan all long was to move

750
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Speaker 5: him to center, and he did win a competition for

751
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:48,160
Speaker 5: that job, and in the preseason and then in this

752
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:51,560
Speaker 5: first game, he has really graded out very highly with

753
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:54,440
Speaker 5: the coaches. He's he's a guy that's very athletic. You

754
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:56,400
Speaker 5: could see on tape him and our right guard Cody

755
00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:59,240
Speaker 5: malk Mauk, they have good speed for that position. I mean,

756
00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:01,120
Speaker 5: you guys have penned Penney Suel, so you know what

757
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 5: I'm talking about. He can get all over the field.

758
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 5: He can get downfield twenty thirty yards on the screen

759
00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:08,960
Speaker 5: and he's just moving guys at the line of scrimmage.

760
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 5: And our run game last year was not very good.

761
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 5: It was a little better at the end of season.

762
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Speaker 5: I don't remember how he did in the playoff game

763
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:19,040
Speaker 5: up there, but that was a huge point of emphasis

764
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Speaker 5: and we needed to get better in the interior line

765
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:23,720
Speaker 5: because the tackle's played pretty well. So we got a

766
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Speaker 5: new center in Graham Barton. We got Ben Brettison and

767
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 5: he's played very well from the Giants. And then our

768
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:30,840
Speaker 5: second year guy, Cody Mauk, a second round pick a

769
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 5: year ago, really put on a lot of strength and

770
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 5: size in the offseason because that was really his main

771
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:38,760
Speaker 5: deficiency as a rookie. He's very good technically and very athletic,

772
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Speaker 5: but he just was having a little trouble with some

773
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Speaker 5: of the more bigger, more powerful guys. So you've got

774
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Speaker 5: those guys now actually moving guys and creating lanes and

775
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 5: cutback lanes for our running backs, and it's the running

776
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 5: game has completely revitalized so far, and that could be

777
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:57,720
Speaker 5: a major difference between this team now and the last

778
00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:58,880
Speaker 5: time you guys saw it.

779
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Graham Barton was a guy that I loved in

780
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:03,120
Speaker 2: the draft. I was kind of hoping he would he

781
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,640
Speaker 2: would fall to Detroit. Uh, it worked out with him

782
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,120
Speaker 2: getting obviously Terry and Arnold, But but he's a guy

783
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:08,719
Speaker 2: that I really love.

784
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Speaker 1: Fits what they do.

785
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Speaker 2: When you talk about the wrong game, I can see

786
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 2: that having watched his tape at Duke and the way

787
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 2: that he can move people. I can see how that's

788
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:18,800
Speaker 2: an instant upgrade. But you guys played in Detroit in

789
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:21,280
Speaker 2: the playoffs obviously last year. You know the atmosphere. You

790
00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:23,840
Speaker 2: can expect a similar thing. If it's anything like last week,

791
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 2: those guys were, those people in that same were turned

792
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:30,120
Speaker 2: up and it's going to be loud. Do anything different

793
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Speaker 2: to prepare for that? Or does it help that you

794
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:33,560
Speaker 2: were just there, you know, at the end of last

795
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 2: year and probably its most frenzy environment. Does it help

796
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Speaker 2: that they know what they're in for.

797
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think so, And I feel like they felt

798
00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 5: like they handled that pretty well. And really a lot

799
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 5: of our guys after that game and this week before

800
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 5: this game, I've talked about how much they really enjoyed

801
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 5: playing in that atmosphere. It just gets them pumped up too.

802
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:54,560
Speaker 5: But it is obviously a challenge, and if you saw

803
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 5: us in our practice practice field, like any team that's

804
00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:59,760
Speaker 5: coming up to play there, you're practicing the things you

805
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:02,520
Speaker 5: do in order to be able to communicate. That doesn't

806
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 5: mean it'll be easy, but they do feel like they

807
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 5: did a pretty good job of communicating last year, and

808
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:08,960
Speaker 5: so that probably gives them confidence that they're going into

809
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 5: this game that they can do it again.

810
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 2: Well, it should be a really fun atmosphere, Scott. It's

811
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:14,880
Speaker 2: two really good teams that everything are going to be

812
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 2: right there in the end in the playoff picture in

813
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:19,520
Speaker 2: the NFC. So it's a big two week two matchup.

814
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 2: You gotta love those in the NFL. It's fun you, sir,

815
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Speaker 2: have a safe trip up here. I will make sure

816
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 2: I come and say hello and thank you. As always,

817
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 2: always great stuff from you from a Bucks perspective. I

818
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 2: appreciate you taking the time. Scott Smith, senior writer and

819
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Speaker 2: editor for Buccaneers dot Com.

820
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Speaker 5: Thanks a lot, Tim, I really enjoyed it.

821
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the twenty minute Huddle Podcast.

822
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Speaker 2: And I am very excited you guys and gals out

823
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 2: there because I have absolutely one of the best in

824
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Speaker 2: the business, Stacey Dales, who just got promoted to senior

825
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:53,040
Speaker 2: national reporter.

826
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Speaker 1: Very well deserved.

827
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 2: Stacey has her hand on everything in the NFL. She

828
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 2: got a pulse on everything. Great information here. We're gonna

829
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 2: get into lines, we're gonna get into the NFC North

830
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:05,880
Speaker 2: a little bit.

831
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Speaker 1: Stacey, thank you so much for joining me. Welcome to

832
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Speaker 1: the twenty Huddle Podcast. How you been.

833
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 3: Hey, what's up, Tim? Thanks for the intro. That was

834
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:16,120
Speaker 3: super cool. I've been good.

835
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:20,839
Speaker 7: I've been ready for football for so long, and we

836
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 7: had an interesting Week one and here we're on to

837
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Speaker 7: Week two, and fortunately I am headed to Detroit because

838
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Speaker 7: I get the Bucks and Lions in Week two.

839
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Speaker 3: Can't wait.

840
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:30,600
Speaker 1: Oh that's perfect.

841
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 2: We usually talk, you know, obviously before the season, we

842
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:36,759
Speaker 2: give kind of a preview of of of the NFC North.

843
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 2: But I love the fact that we get to talk

844
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:41,439
Speaker 2: after week one because now some stuff has happened here,

845
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:43,439
Speaker 2: We've got kind of an idea of who these teams

846
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:45,919
Speaker 2: are starting to be. Well, let's start in Detroit, since

847
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:50,200
Speaker 2: you are doing Detroit and and Tampa. Obviously a great

848
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 2: Week one win over you know, a team we I

849
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 2: think we both expect to be right in the mix

850
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,439
Speaker 2: in the playoff picture in the NFC in the Rams.

851
00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 2: What was your biggest takeaway from from that Week one

852
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:00,840
Speaker 2: win for Detroit.

853
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 7: I think my biggest takeaway was the overtime drive, right,

854
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 7: I mean, it was impressive, you know, going back and

855
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:10,279
Speaker 7: looking at you first of all, it was just such

856
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 7: an exciting atmosphere. Matthew Stafford through the ball of kazillion times,

857
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:17,120
Speaker 7: as you know, Tim, But I found the resolve of

858
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 7: the Lions to show up, like, let's carry this thing

859
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:23,399
Speaker 7: over from the NFC Championship and show why we were

860
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:26,320
Speaker 7: in that game and why we're you know, trying to

861
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:30,359
Speaker 7: play for Super Bowl this season once again. First overtime

862
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:34,919
Speaker 7: victory since twenty sixteen for the Detroit Lions. So when

863
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 7: you could finish a game in that fashion and on

864
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 7: the ground, by the way, with that drive it was

865
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:42,480
Speaker 7: what was an eight place seven yard touchdown drive to

866
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:46,439
Speaker 7: win it. Just the resolve, the conviction in the play

867
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:50,279
Speaker 7: calling right and to see demo scorer at the end

868
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Speaker 7: of that drive and just close out the deal at home.

869
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 7: To me, that's the mark of tried and tested football team.

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Speaker 7: And it's only Week one, so I think that bodes well.

871
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 2: No, that's a good line, and I think how I

872
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:04,480
Speaker 2: wrote it or how I described it after the game

873
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 2: is good football teams in this league win games when

874
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 2: they don't play their best football. And that's I think

875
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:13,080
Speaker 2: one takeaway from Detroit is you didn't play they didn't

876
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 2: play their best football, but they still found a way.

877
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:17,919
Speaker 2: You talked about that drive and look, I'm on Roth

878
00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:21,720
Speaker 2: Saint Brown three catches thirteen yards and you still produce

879
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:24,400
Speaker 2: enough points to win a game like that. So you know,

880
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:28,520
Speaker 2: other guys step up. Jamison Williams and you know obviously Demo,

881
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:31,959
Speaker 2: who you talked about when you I think we both

882
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,920
Speaker 2: stays can expect this offense to be pretty good. We

883
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 2: expect Saint Brown to get rolling in this passing it

884
00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:39,279
Speaker 2: to get rolling a little bit. But to me, it's

885
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:42,360
Speaker 2: always been how far this Lion's team will go? Is

886
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 2: how far this kind of revamp, new look defense can

887
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 2: take them?

888
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 1: Do you agree?

889
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:51,279
Speaker 7: I do. I felt, like you know, I have just

890
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:54,800
Speaker 7: notorious flashbacks of the second half against the San Francisco

891
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 7: forty nine ers in.

892
00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 3: That game, a game that I was at, and it

893
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:00,040
Speaker 3: was just sitting in them.

894
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,839
Speaker 7: Press box and watching that thing unfold and watching Brock

895
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:04,359
Speaker 7: Purty just go off.

896
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:07,680
Speaker 3: Not to bring it back, because the past is the past.

897
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:11,319
Speaker 7: In history is history, but uh, there's a reason that

898
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:15,239
Speaker 7: the Detroit Lions retooled that defense in the fashion that

899
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:17,480
Speaker 7: they did. I can't wait to see the growth of

900
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:21,319
Speaker 7: Terry and Arnold and you know Ennis Rakestraw, and I

901
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:24,279
Speaker 7: obviously love the addition of Carlton Davis, who hopefully will

902
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 7: give a few nuggets to his team on his former team,

903
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:32,840
Speaker 7: the Tampa Bay Bucks this week. But I just I'm

904
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:35,360
Speaker 7: just so anxious to see what Like Brad Holmes is

905
00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:37,879
Speaker 7: one of the best gms in the business and has

906
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:41,040
Speaker 7: put together this roster over the last few seasons, and

907
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:43,680
Speaker 7: I'm just really fascinated to see where this defense can go.

908
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:49,880
Speaker 7: Kirby Joseph does he have Matthew Stafford's.

909
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 3: Number or.

910
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 2: I think it might Well, you know, you know the

911
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 2: little quarrel between them last week obviously when he had

912
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:57,759
Speaker 2: the hit you know that took out what was the

913
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 2: tight ends name Higbee Ye, he'd be took him out,

914
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:03,279
Speaker 2: you know, obviously, and he had had the hit on

915
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:05,759
Speaker 2: TG hockets and so you know him and Stafford get

916
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:08,799
Speaker 2: after him. I thought about that incident right away when

917
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:12,279
Speaker 2: Matthew through that interception to Kirby, like, oh, that had

918
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:13,800
Speaker 2: to feel so great for Kirby.

919
00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:14,399
Speaker 3: Yeah.

920
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:17,000
Speaker 7: Well, we had him on in the off season on

921
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:19,920
Speaker 7: some of our programming on NFL Network and he has

922
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 7: no shame in anything.

923
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:21,360
Speaker 5: He is.

924
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:24,360
Speaker 3: That guy has conviction. But you know, that's kind of

925
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 3: the roster they've built.

926
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:27,600
Speaker 7: And that's where Terry and Arnold A guy like that

927
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:30,799
Speaker 7: comes in and adds that attitude. But you're right, Tim,

928
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:34,080
Speaker 7: if this defense can take a step this season, the

929
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:35,280
Speaker 7: offense is all there.

930
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:37,400
Speaker 3: I'm okay with am and Ra's performance.

931
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:39,480
Speaker 7: Actually, I mean you want more out of him because

932
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:42,160
Speaker 7: he's an all Pro type receiver. But you know, see

933
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:46,040
Speaker 7: Jamison Williams kind of take off and have the performance

934
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:50,359
Speaker 7: that he did a career high. If he can do that,

935
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:54,000
Speaker 7: almon Roe, Saint Brown's going to find more opportunities.

936
00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:55,759
Speaker 3: I mean, as you know, he is the.

937
00:38:55,840 --> 00:39:00,200
Speaker 7: Number one, you know, sort of chess piece that the

938
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:02,840
Speaker 7: opposing defenses are trying to take away. Outside of the

939
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 7: run game, you're pleased if you if you ran the

940
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:06,959
Speaker 7: ball the way you did.

941
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 3: I think, you know, if you listen to.

942
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:12,399
Speaker 7: Todd Bowles, like he acknowledged this week when he talked

943
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 7: about the Lions, they can beat you in every way,

944
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 7: and I think the.

945
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:17,839
Speaker 3: Bucks are also a team that can do that.

946
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:20,359
Speaker 7: This is going to be a slug fest, I think

947
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:23,319
Speaker 7: on Sunday between these two football teams, right Tim, Like

948
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:28,360
Speaker 7: Baker Mayfield to me was the highest performing quarterback in

949
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 7: Week one of all the QBS with his you know,

950
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:34,720
Speaker 7: four touchdown performance, and you see a healthy Chris Godwin

951
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:36,240
Speaker 7: opposite Mike Evans.

952
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:38,960
Speaker 3: This offense can is and can.

953
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:41,480
Speaker 7: Be very explosive, but mostly they were efficient and the

954
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:42,840
Speaker 7: offensive line did a good job.

955
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:44,920
Speaker 3: So this will be a fun game on Sunday.

956
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:45,600
Speaker 1: Yeah.

957
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 2: One addition to that Detroit defense too, that'll be big.

958
00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:52,719
Speaker 2: This week's stace is DJ Reader, he big free agent acquisition. Yeah,

959
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:54,560
Speaker 2: and I just talked to him in the locker room

960
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 2: on Wednesday and he's excited about kind of making his

961
00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:01,880
Speaker 2: you know, the Lions debut, hutch A, Lee McNeil, DJ

962
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:04,720
Speaker 2: Reader And we'll see if market is Davenport. He played

963
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:07,439
Speaker 2: really well there too, So it should be fun. And

964
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:09,320
Speaker 2: I agree that it could be a slugout too, especially

965
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:11,920
Speaker 2: when you think about all the injuries that Tampa is

966
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:13,879
Speaker 2: dealing with in their secondary. I think me and you

967
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:15,800
Speaker 2: might have a chance to play corner for the Tampa

968
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:20,800
Speaker 2: Bay Buccaneers Nars on Sunday. They're so down on guys,

969
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 2: so I could see this being high scoring, kind of

970
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:27,080
Speaker 2: a shootout and really fun. All right, let's let's flip

971
00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:30,400
Speaker 2: over to Chicago a little bit. Now you live in Chicago,

972
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:36,239
Speaker 2: you are very familiar with the Chicago Bears. Is this

973
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 2: basically just kind of a love You love to see

974
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:43,040
Speaker 2: them win a football game, right when with special teams

975
00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:46,080
Speaker 2: and defense. But how concerned are you with the way

976
00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:49,080
Speaker 2: Caleb Williams played. I think we all maybe were a

977
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:51,319
Speaker 2: little spoiled last year with how c J. Shroud came

978
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:54,200
Speaker 2: in and we think maybe that's something that that you

979
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:57,360
Speaker 2: should do. But that's a very rare case. Guys struggle.

980
00:40:57,400 --> 00:41:00,560
Speaker 2: It takes some time. How concerned are they in Chicago

981
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:03,160
Speaker 2: about the way Caleb Williams and that offense played or

982
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:05,520
Speaker 2: are they just happy that they you know, it was

983
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:06,879
Speaker 2: a full team effort to get that win.

984
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:07,759
Speaker 3: Yeah.

985
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:09,480
Speaker 7: Well I was at the game that was my first

986
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:15,240
Speaker 7: game this season Chicago Tennessee, and you're right. The offense

987
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:18,440
Speaker 7: just was paltry at best on Sunday. But that's what

988
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:20,840
Speaker 7: you expect from a rookie quarterback. If I recall, and

989
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:23,399
Speaker 7: going back in our research notes, CJ. Stroud's first game

990
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:27,120
Speaker 7: with the Houston Texans wasn't great statistically, but his second

991
00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:30,640
Speaker 7: week was much better. So like Bobby Slowick and him

992
00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:34,560
Speaker 7: are going into year two and ironically they faced the

993
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:37,279
Speaker 7: Bears in week two the Houston Texans, so.

994
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:39,920
Speaker 3: That'll be fun to watch how they adjust.

995
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 7: I just think for Caleb Williams, we knew and we

996
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:45,839
Speaker 7: know the Bears defense is going to be really good,

997
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:50,080
Speaker 7: right Their secondary is elite, absolutely elite. To see what

998
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:54,480
Speaker 7: Tyreek Stevenson and Jalen Johnson did against Tennessee and then

999
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:58,680
Speaker 7: the turnovers, the takeaways, I think you clearly see why

1000
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:01,080
Speaker 7: Matt Eberflus is one of the best defensive play callers

1001
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:03,840
Speaker 7: in the National Football League. When you get a pressure

1002
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:07,240
Speaker 7: in the you know, I think it was the fourth quarter, Yeah,

1003
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:10,320
Speaker 7: and you get a pressure from DeMarcus Walker that leads

1004
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:12,920
Speaker 7: to a pick six by Tyreek Stevenson off of a

1005
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:16,839
Speaker 7: brilliant play call. That should excite Bears fans, but it's

1006
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:20,440
Speaker 7: going to take time. I just think we expect like

1007
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:25,799
Speaker 7: immediate results now from these rookies. Can you imagine, Tim,

1008
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:27,920
Speaker 7: I don't profess to know what it's like to have

1009
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 7: four two hundred and fifty plus to three point fifty

1010
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:35,880
Speaker 7: or three hundred pound defensive lineman coming at me in

1011
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:38,640
Speaker 7: a pocket as a rookie quarterback in the NFL. I mean,

1012
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:41,919
Speaker 7: it's just it's hard for veteran quarterbacks at times like it.

1013
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:45,560
Speaker 3: I just think you got to be patient.

1014
00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:48,000
Speaker 7: But I also think that, like Chicago needs to find

1015
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:51,000
Speaker 7: a run game, I think that, you know, rookie quarterbacks

1016
00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:52,960
Speaker 7: need to take the check down, like when I go

1017
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:56,239
Speaker 7: back and watch Monday Night Football and Brock Party. Rock

1018
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:58,600
Speaker 7: Party is a great processor of the game. We saw

1019
00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:00,359
Speaker 7: that in his rookie campaign last year.

1020
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:02,239
Speaker 3: But he just makes the easy throw.

1021
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:05,439
Speaker 7: Like you know, you see Jared Goff make the easy throw,

1022
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 7: You'll see Baker do the same thing. I just think,

1023
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 7: you know, make the easy throw. Get the tight ends involved.

1024
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:13,680
Speaker 7: I don't think Cole Kmett was involved enough on Sunday

1025
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 7: in the past game maybe pass Pro because their offensive

1026
00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:20,160
Speaker 7: line struggled with some of the looks that Dinnard Wilson

1027
00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 7: threw at the rookie quarterback. But he's going to see

1028
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:26,279
Speaker 7: a whole lot more of those looks here to come.

1029
00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:29,759
Speaker 7: So patience is really a virtue for young quarterbacks and

1030
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:33,839
Speaker 7: offenses to start any NFL season. So defense is there, right,

1031
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:36,320
Speaker 7: But I think it's going to take time for any offense,

1032
00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:38,320
Speaker 7: let alone a rookie quarterback led offense.

1033
00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:40,239
Speaker 2: No, I think it's a great point by you, because

1034
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:44,080
Speaker 2: what's the quarterback's best friend, right, that slot receiver, right

1035
00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 2: that that tight end over them, all those short easy

1036
00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:50,920
Speaker 2: throws first read, it's not there swinging out to a back.

1037
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:53,160
Speaker 2: They've got a pretty good one there that can catch

1038
00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:55,400
Speaker 2: the football out of the backfield. And so I agree

1039
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:57,239
Speaker 2: with you one hundred percent, and just make the game

1040
00:43:57,320 --> 00:44:00,239
Speaker 2: easier for him, make it simpler for him. I know

1041
00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:01,879
Speaker 2: you want to make the big place and he's got

1042
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 2: a big arm and he can scramble and look down

1043
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 2: the field. But those are hard plays. Those are hard

1044
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 2: plays for veteran quarterbacks to make. Make the easy ones.

1045
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:11,520
Speaker 2: And then if you get that look or the play

1046
00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:14,840
Speaker 2: breaks down, use his natural athleticism. Make a play, but

1047
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:16,680
Speaker 2: don't make it be a big part of the offense.

1048
00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:20,239
Speaker 2: Simple easy, get it out of his hands, then open

1049
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:21,400
Speaker 2: it up for the big play. I think it's a

1050
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:22,120
Speaker 2: great point by you.

1051
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:23,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no question.

1052
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:25,560
Speaker 7: And even like when I look at Monday Night Football

1053
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:29,560
Speaker 7: with Aaron Rodgers, you know, I just think Aaron Rodgers

1054
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 7: plays the quarterback position brilliantly like I always have. I've

1055
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:36,759
Speaker 7: watched him do things that like there's no way he

1056
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:40,760
Speaker 7: could have done that, but he did, like manufacture comebacks

1057
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:42,520
Speaker 7: in his career the way he has. There's a reason

1058
00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:44,560
Speaker 7: he's a four time MVP. But like, did he use

1059
00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:47,600
Speaker 7: a tight end against the San Francisco forty nine ers? No,

1060
00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:52,000
Speaker 7: And I just think you become so vast. And Shane

1061
00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:54,759
Speaker 7: Waldron is a coach that we know historically has loved

1062
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:56,600
Speaker 7: the use of tight end, so I'll be interested to

1063
00:44:56,600 --> 00:44:59,960
Speaker 7: see how he incorporates them this week. But by and large,

1064
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:03,320
Speaker 7: what a win week one win for the NFC North.

1065
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:07,960
Speaker 7: I mean, the Vikings to you know, dismantle the Giants

1066
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:13,720
Speaker 7: and then to see obviously Chicago win a game that last.

1067
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:15,080
Speaker 3: Year they probably would have lost.

1068
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:17,640
Speaker 7: Tim, I don't know if you agree, but like they

1069
00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:20,799
Speaker 7: closed out a game, and then the Lions showed why

1070
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:23,080
Speaker 7: they were the best team in the North last season

1071
00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 7: against a really good Rams squad and a quarterback who's

1072
00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:28,320
Speaker 7: going to be in the Hall of Fame, like in

1073
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:29,360
Speaker 7: Matthew Stafford.

1074
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 3: So I just think it was a successful weekend.

1075
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:34,600
Speaker 7: And we'll have to see what happens to the Packers

1076
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:36,920
Speaker 7: with Malik will will Willis at QB.

1077
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:39,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, you brought it up, and that was the next

1078
00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:40,400
Speaker 2: one I was going to get to. Is is this

1079
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:44,000
Speaker 2: in Green Bays? It just about surviving with Malik, you know,

1080
00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:47,600
Speaker 2: Willis not getting too far behind. We don't know how

1081
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:50,000
Speaker 2: long Jordan Love is going to be out, like three

1082
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:53,040
Speaker 2: to four weeks, three to five you hear, it'll depend,

1083
00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:55,239
Speaker 2: But is it? Is it just really they've got enough,

1084
00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:57,160
Speaker 2: good enough, good enough team over there to win and

1085
00:45:57,400 --> 00:45:59,479
Speaker 2: to compete in the NFC, and some have even said

1086
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:00,720
Speaker 2: to be a super favorite.

1087
00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:03,520
Speaker 1: But if you get too far behind, now you've you've

1088
00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:05,040
Speaker 1: got to play behind the chase. Is it?

1089
00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:07,200
Speaker 2: Is it literally for the next half you know month?

1090
00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:09,919
Speaker 2: Is it just don't get too far behind without Jordan Love?

1091
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think when I think about Malik Willis and

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00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:18,760
Speaker 7: we don't like plung Years ago, I had a strained mcl,

1093
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:22,520
Speaker 7: a sprain mcl from basketball, and like, you have to

1094
00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:22,879
Speaker 7: let it.

1095
00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:25,279
Speaker 2: He Stacey's a heck of a basketball player, by the way,

1096
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:26,399
Speaker 2: a long time ago.

1097
00:46:26,719 --> 00:46:31,400
Speaker 8: Broken My pieces are all broken now. But you have

1098
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:33,840
Speaker 8: to let it heal, and then you have to get

1099
00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:38,160
Speaker 8: confident again on it that you're not at a you know,

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00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:44,840
Speaker 8: a place of like mentally concern and overly cautious, I

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00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:47,880
Speaker 8: would say, especially for a quarterback in the NFL, who

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00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:50,360
Speaker 8: you know, Jordan Love is a pocket passer.

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00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:53,239
Speaker 3: I mean he you know, when I look at him.

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00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:56,120
Speaker 7: He's really learned how to climb the pocket really well,

1105
00:46:56,280 --> 00:46:59,600
Speaker 7: and an incredible throw against the Eagles in Brazil that

1106
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:00,360
Speaker 7: I can recall.

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00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:02,120
Speaker 3: I can't remember when it was in the game, but.

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00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:07,799
Speaker 7: You know, he wants to throw from the pocket, and

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00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:10,200
Speaker 7: I just think he's going to have to get that

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Speaker 7: confidence when he comes back.

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Speaker 3: But for Malik Willis, who is he right tim?

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Speaker 7: We know he's a quarterback with a huge arm and

1113
00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 7: you know obviously played in Tennessee as a backup. He's

1114
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:26,080
Speaker 7: incredibly athletic, and so I think Matt Lafleur is underrated

1115
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:29,080
Speaker 7: in terms of putting the skill set of his quarterback

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Speaker 7: in the operation to succeed.

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00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:34,279
Speaker 3: And I think that he will do that get those

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00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:34,960
Speaker 3: legs going.

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00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:39,000
Speaker 7: But Josh Jacobs is going to be extremely important, and

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Speaker 7: you know, without aj Dillon in the lineup due to injury,

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00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:45,919
Speaker 7: he's got to become the man like we've seen Aaron

1122
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:50,360
Speaker 7: Jones be it obviously is now in Minnesota. But like they,

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Speaker 7: I just think they're going to need to figure out

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00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:54,960
Speaker 7: ways to run the ball, get those legs going. By

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Speaker 7: Malik Willis and again another quarterback, because he'll have to

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00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:01,600
Speaker 7: learn very quickly get the ball out of his hands

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00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 7: quickly to those that array of playmakers that.

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Speaker 1: The Packers have, and there's a lot of them there,

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00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:07,840
Speaker 1: so many.

1130
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Speaker 2: How strange was it to see the four to three

1131
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:12,520
Speaker 2: verse three four Jeff Hafley, the new defensive coordinator that

1132
00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:14,839
Speaker 2: I mean, it's been how long, Stacy that we've seen

1133
00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:18,719
Speaker 2: this kind of defense that we knew, you knew Green

1134
00:48:18,719 --> 00:48:20,440
Speaker 2: Bay was going to come with that three four and

1135
00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:22,680
Speaker 2: now it's just that that four to three look is

1136
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:24,920
Speaker 2: a little bit weird to me. But that's a good

1137
00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:27,359
Speaker 2: that's a good defensive unit that I think can help

1138
00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:28,040
Speaker 2: stem the.

1139
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:29,279
Speaker 1: Loss of Jordan Love too.

1140
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:31,560
Speaker 2: They've got some playmakers on that side of the ball

1141
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:34,000
Speaker 2: and and you know, I think that's going to be

1142
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:35,439
Speaker 2: a big key part of it as well.

1143
00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:39,479
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was kind of foreign watching them because they've

1144
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:41,720
Speaker 7: they've been in the Joe Barry thing for so long,

1145
00:48:41,840 --> 00:48:44,680
Speaker 7: right and with all that shell and underneath type stuff

1146
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:46,239
Speaker 7: that they would just kind of hate. We're going to

1147
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:47,600
Speaker 7: give you that, but we're not going to give you

1148
00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:51,080
Speaker 7: the big play. And I'll vividly remember you know, the

1149
00:48:51,239 --> 00:48:55,440
Speaker 7: the JayR Alexander you know, touch and go with aj Brown,

1150
00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:58,799
Speaker 7: and Brown just blasts them off across the middle for

1151
00:48:58,880 --> 00:49:03,960
Speaker 7: a huge play. And you know, I think the players

1152
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:06,080
Speaker 7: are getting used to it a little bit, having the freedom,

1153
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:09,080
Speaker 7: a little bit more press and like a little bit

1154
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:11,600
Speaker 7: more one on one, and I think you're going to

1155
00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:14,120
Speaker 7: see maybe some of those playmakers kind of come alive

1156
00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:16,200
Speaker 7: for the Packers, like jay r Alexander.

1157
00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:20,040
Speaker 3: But as my dogs anoint.

1158
00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:22,279
Speaker 2: The show, I like, and the one got the one

1159
00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:24,680
Speaker 2: perked up there behind you he or the other one.

1160
00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:29,880
Speaker 7: Yeah, my old, my old sugarfish Ruby. My landscapers are outside.

1161
00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:34,200
Speaker 7: But yeah, I it's gonna be an interesting season, Tim

1162
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:37,719
Speaker 7: like with this division because I think it's extremely competitive,

1163
00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:42,840
Speaker 7: and uh, you know, every team has some good quarterback play.

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Speaker 3: I would give.

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00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:45,960
Speaker 7: I would sort of, you know, tip my cap to

1166
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:49,840
Speaker 7: the Vikings and Sam Darnold and yeah, he complete his

1167
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:53,480
Speaker 7: first twelve or fourteen balls against the Giants like that

1168
00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:57,239
Speaker 7: is Kevin O'Connell. And so you know, Kirk Cousins really

1169
00:49:57,320 --> 00:49:59,760
Speaker 7: enjoyed some Kevin O'Connell and those play calls.

1170
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:02,840
Speaker 2: Well we find out if if and I know everybody's

1171
00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:04,600
Speaker 2: going to say, well it was the New York Giants,

1172
00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:07,080
Speaker 2: all right, come on that that doesn't count, right, And no,

1173
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:09,440
Speaker 2: offense to the New York Giants fans out there, but

1174
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Speaker 2: the team strong lan at the moment. They play San

1175
00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:16,040
Speaker 2: Francisco this week. Is this now okay, Minnesota's for real.

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00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:17,399
Speaker 2: We'll know that after Week two.

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Speaker 3: Well, I liked their defense last year.

1178
00:50:20,200 --> 00:50:22,839
Speaker 7: I think Brian Flores is very aggressive, the players love

1179
00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:26,919
Speaker 7: to play in it. San Francisco is really damn good.

1180
00:50:27,040 --> 00:50:32,600
Speaker 7: I'm here Monday night football. I was beyond and pressed.

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00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:37,640
Speaker 3: I mean, Trent Williams walks in like off the.

1182
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:40,120
Speaker 7: Street because he, you know, he was in his sort

1183
00:50:40,160 --> 00:50:43,800
Speaker 7: of holdout thing whatever. Brandon Auk looked a little rusty

1184
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:47,799
Speaker 7: to me, but I mean Rock Purty looks like a

1185
00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:52,160
Speaker 7: ten year veteran. And for Christian McCaffrey too, and probably

1186
00:50:52,160 --> 00:50:54,560
Speaker 7: we'll sit out again this week for him to not play.

1187
00:50:54,840 --> 00:50:57,880
Speaker 7: And Mason comes in and runs for all almost one

1188
00:50:58,040 --> 00:50:59,879
Speaker 7: fifty on the ground like.

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00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:04,360
Speaker 3: Against a New York Jets. Defense is good.

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00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:08,680
Speaker 2: They're just a machine. They're a machine offensively.

1191
00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:10,600
Speaker 3: They are a machine. And I sit here on a

1192
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:11,640
Speaker 3: liance pod.

1193
00:51:11,440 --> 00:51:15,120
Speaker 7: With you, as you know, we look at last year

1194
00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:18,680
Speaker 7: the way it ended like, I mean, that's how good

1195
00:51:18,719 --> 00:51:21,719
Speaker 7: Detroit was last season. Because it doesn't get a whole

1196
00:51:21,719 --> 00:51:24,840
Speaker 7: lot better than what Kyle Shanahan has done with those Niners.

1197
00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:27,520
Speaker 2: Well, I know Lions fans here are wanting to see

1198
00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:32,120
Speaker 2: a rematch of that contest again, hopefully here in Detroit

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Speaker 2: where maybe it's a little bit different, different outcome. But

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Speaker 2: the NFC, I agree with you, the NFC North that

1201
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:41,600
Speaker 2: I think is very underrated across the league.

1202
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:42,319
Speaker 1: It should be fun.

1203
00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:44,040
Speaker 2: There's some good teams there, some teams I got to

1204
00:51:44,080 --> 00:51:47,040
Speaker 2: survive a little bit with some injury stuff. Detroit is still,

1205
00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:48,799
Speaker 2: in my opinion, the head of the class, but it's

1206
00:51:48,840 --> 00:51:51,000
Speaker 2: a lot closer than people think. It should be a

1207
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:51,760
Speaker 2: fun division.

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00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:53,280
Speaker 1: The stays.

1209
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:55,640
Speaker 2: I really appreciate you taking the time. You are my

1210
00:51:55,760 --> 00:52:01,000
Speaker 2: go to for anything NFC North. I appreciate you. Congratulations

1211
00:52:01,120 --> 00:52:04,200
Speaker 2: on the promotion, very well deserved, and we will all

1212
00:52:04,239 --> 00:52:06,040
Speaker 2: be watching you all year long for sure.

1213
00:52:06,280 --> 00:52:07,239
Speaker 3: Thank you for having me.

1214
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:09,359
Speaker 7: Can't wait to see you get a big hug on

1215
00:52:09,480 --> 00:52:12,799
Speaker 7: Sunday at Ford Field, and I expect the decibels to

1216
00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:14,720
Speaker 7: blow my ear drums.

1217
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:16,880
Speaker 3: I always make sure I pack my.

1218
00:52:18,920 --> 00:52:21,440
Speaker 1: Ear plugs, little ear protectors. You're gonna need it.

1219
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:24,240
Speaker 7: I do because it's an open press box. Everyone knows,

1220
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:27,439
Speaker 7: but it's so loud in there, like your deaf. It's

1221
00:52:27,440 --> 00:52:29,399
Speaker 7: like you leave a concert and your ears are ringing.

1222
00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:31,720
Speaker 7: That's what it's like at ford Field. I expect nothing

1223
00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:36,160
Speaker 7: less at noon kickoff or I guess one o'clock kickoff

1224
00:52:36,160 --> 00:52:36,520
Speaker 7: on Sunday.

1225
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:38,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be crazy down there too. The Tigers are

1226
00:52:38,520 --> 00:52:41,359
Speaker 2: at home this weekend too, so there'll be lots going

1227
00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:44,240
Speaker 2: on across the street and there. Detroit will be fun.

1228
00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:45,279
Speaker 1: Stay.

1229
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:47,720
Speaker 2: Thanks so much for joining me. I will say hello

1230
00:52:47,719 --> 00:52:51,920
Speaker 2: on Sunday for sure. Enjoy the trip across across the

1231
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:54,879
Speaker 2: way here to Detroit. Safe travels, and we will see

1232
00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:55,919
Speaker 2: you Sunday. Thanks so much.

1233
00:52:56,080 --> 00:52:57,000
Speaker 3: Thanks my friend

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00:53:01,239 --> 00:53:01,479
Speaker 7: Sie,